The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 6, 1899

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-"""ht LAST EDITION lOXDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 6,1899. MONDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. T n A Fierce One Fought Between the Insurgents and Gen Otis' Army. Americans Are Victorious and Rout the Enemy, Driving Him Back QUO LOSS PLACED AT 54; 125 WOUNDED While That of the Filipinos Will Run Into the Thousands. Fight Lasted 24 Hours and Otis Controls the Situation Kansas Troofft Aided Right Three Members of the Twentieth Kansas Are Reported Killed Manila, Feb. 6. The Filipinos attack ed the American line from Calvoacan to Santa Mesa Saturday evening:. There was heavy fusillade on both sides, and the artillery was used. The United States cruiser Charleston and the gunboat Concord bombarded the enemy. The Americans, after magnificent charges, captured several of the ene my's positions. The Americans lost twenty killed and 115 wounded. The Filipinos lost heavily. The clash came at 8:30 in the evening, when three daring Filipinos darted past the Nebraska regiment's pickets at San ta Mesa, but retired when challenged. They repeated the experiment without drawing the sentries' fire, but the third time Corporal Greely challenged the Filipinos and then fired, killing one of them and wounding another. MILIO AGCIHALD SThe Insurgent leader who is responsible lor the new trouble In the Philippines. Almost Immediately afterward the Filipino line, from Calvoacan to Santa Mesa, commenced a fusillade which was Ineffectual. The Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota outposts replied vigorously, and held their ground until reinforcements arrived. The Filipinos, in the meantime, con centrated at three points, Calvoacan, Gagalangiii ana Santa Mesa. in Forcing the Enemyts Flank. At about 1 o'clock the Filipinos opened a hot fire from all places simul taneously. This was supplemented by the fire of two siege guns at Balik-Balik and by advancing their skirmishers from Paco and Fandacan. The Americans responded with a ter rific fire, but, owing to the darkness, they were unable to determine lt3 ef fect. The Utah light artillery finally suc ceeded in silencing the native battery. The Third artillery also did good work on the extreme left. The engagement lasted over an, hour. Navy Takes a Hand. The United States cruiser Charleston and the gunboat Concord, stationed off Malabona, opened fire from their sec ondary batteries on the Filipinos' posi tion at Calvoacan and kept it up vigor ously. At 2:45 there was another fusillade along the entire line, and the United States sea-going, double-turreted moni tor Monadnock opened fire on the ene my from oft Malate. "With daylight the Americans ad vanced. The California and Washing ton regiments made a splendid charge and drove the Filipinos from the vil lages of Paco and Santa Mesa. The Nebraska regiment also dis tinguished itseir, capturing several prisoners and one Howitzer and a very strong position at the reservoir, which Is connected with the water works. The Kansas and Dakota regiments compelled the enemy's right flank to retire to Calvoacan. There was intermittent firing at var ious points all day long. The losses of the Filipinos can not be estimated at present, but they are known to be con siderable. The American losses are estimated at 20 men killed and 125 wounded. The Ygorates, armed with bows and arrows, made a very determined stand in the face of a hot artillery fire, and left many dead on the field. Several attempts were made in this city to assassinate American officers. Dewey Cables. Washington, Feb. 6. Admiral Dewey cabled the navy department that hos tilities had begun between the Ameri can army and naval forces in and about Manila and the Philippine insur gents. The insurgents, he said, had been the aggressors and had been re pulsed. The following message was received this morning: .To the Secretary of tle Navy, Wash ington: Insurgents here inaugurated general engagement yesterday night which has continued today. The American army and navy is generally successful. In surgents have been driven back and our line advanced. No casualties to navy. DEWEY. To General Greely, Chief Signal officer. Action continues since early morning; losses quite heavy; everything favorable to our arms. THOMPSON. Colonel Thompson is' the chief signal officer on the staff of General Otis. The following dispatch from General Otis has been made public: To the Adjutant General. Insurgents in large force opened at tack on our outer lines at 8:45 p. m. last evening, Kenewed attack several times during the night. At 4 o'clock this morning entire line engaged. All at tacks repulsed. At daybreak advanced against insurgents and have driven them beyond the lines they formerly occupied, capturing several villages and their defense works; insurgent loss in dead and wounded large; our own casu alties thus far estimated at 175, very few fatal. Troops enthusiastic and act ing fearlessly. Navy did splendid execu tion on flanks of enemy; city held In check and absolute quiet prevails; in surgents have secured good many Mauser rifles, a few field -pieces and quick firing, guns, with ammunition, during the last month. OTIS. Otis in Control. New York, Feb. 6. The Evening World today prints the following dis patch: "Manila, Feb. 6. To the World, New York: We control situation. Engage ment which continued for the twenty four hours ending last evening was sat isfactory. (Signed.) OTIS." A Shock at Washington. Washington, Feb. 6. The news of the fighting at Manila came like a shock, for the administration which, though apprised that an ugly situation prevail ed in the Philippines, had clung steadily to the hope that by patience, actual fighting might be averted, for even those public men who felt hostilities would follow should the treaty be rati fied and the United States attempt to occupy the islands, believed Aguinaldo would not force the fighting wnen the treaty of peace was in its most critical stage. Some sensational opponents of ratification of the treaty adhere to that position but general opinion in Wash ington is that the news from Manila in sures ratification of the treaty. The situation is regarded here as rather anomalous from a diplomatic standpoint. Legally the Filipinos are still Spanish subjects. Therefore if op erations continue outside of the limits of Manila, as laid down in the protocol, it will amount to a resumption of war with Spain, at least technically. Officials noted one little flaw In Dewey's dispatch, in which he spoke of the American army and navy as "gen erally successful," conveying just the least intimation, that at some points results were not as satisfactory as at others. It is inferred here that this might mean a development of weakness at some of more exposed points on the American lines, which might be easily explained by the fact that the attack was made at night, perhaps in places where the insurgents could creep close up to the shelter of the tropical jungle that grows nearly into the town of Ma nila. Every confidence, however, is felt that Otis is master of the situation. Fine Body of Troops. These troops with those in Cuba rep resent the cream of the American army according to General Corbin. It is true that only about 3,000 of General Otis' soldiers and regulars, but his volunteer soldiers have been under thorough dis--cipline and training for months, some as much as eight months and many participated in the engagements attend ing the capture of Manila and are prac tically as good as the regulars. No one here knows the real strength of the insurgents opposed to General Otis. The accounts of their number are conflicting and none of them comes from reliable sources. Still the best belief of the authorities at the war de partment is that they number about 30,000 men but they are not comparable to the American forces in personnel, discipline or quality of arms. It is known they have some Mausers, some Remingtons and a variety of other fire arms and it is suspected thev have been quite plentifully supplied with am munition from outside sources. Taken as a whole this armament is decidedly inferior to that of the American troops. Then with inexperienced officers, in many cases even the colonels of regi ments being not more than 21 years of age, and their lack of knowledge of tac tics, they are at a great disadvantage. Their strong point is their knowledge of the country and a certain fanatical bravery in onslaught that would be formidable to a volunteer not well trained. No Fear for Otis. Washington, Feb. fi. The war depart ment officials have not the slightest doubt of Gen. Otis' ability to hold his position indefinitely and the cause for apprehension is the fear that by tak ing to the interior of the country, prac tically impassable for American troops in the approaching rainy season, a pro longed Indian fighting style of cam paign may follow. Besides his soldiers. Gen. Otis has at his back in Manila bay, commanding the city, a veritable rock of Gibraltar in Dewey's fleet. With the vessels he has now and those about to join him, Dewey will have twenty-one warships of various types. Of full-fledged war ships he has nine, as follows: The flagship Olympia, Boston, Balti more, Charleston, Concord, Monadnock, Monterey. Petrel and the Buffalo. He also has three armed supply ships which are just as effective as a warship in attacking troops outside fortifications and in maintaining the blockade. They are the Culgoa, the Nanshan and the Zeafiro. The vessels on the way to join Dewey are the gunboat Helena, now at Col ombo: the Castine, at Gibraltar; the Princeton, due at Port Said Tuesday; the Bennington, the Brutus and the Yorktown, probably at Guam, on their way to Manila; the battleship Oregon and the waterboat Iris at Honolulu. The Solace is about to start from Norfolk for Manila. This leaves out of account the army transports under Otis' command which would be made of great service. The fleet can not operate against troops in the interior, but undoubtedly Dewey immediately will draw a tight cordon of blockading vessels around the island of Luzon and make special effort abso lutely to cut off the insurgents from the supplies and ammunition which they must have to carry on the war. Washington Losses. Spokane, Wash., Feb. 6. The names of the members of the Washington regi ment killed in the Manila fight are as follows: First Lieutenant Edward K. Erwin, Company A, First Washington volunteers. Privates John Klein and James Greeb, Company A, of Tacema, Admiral George Dewey, Who Says He Will Reduce M anila to Mortar and Stone if Necessary. Private Oscar Howard, Company S, enlisted at San Francisco. Privates Wm. E. Fair and Richard McClain. California Dead and Wounded. San Francisco, Feb. 6. The following is a ist of the members of the First regiment volunteers who were killed or wounded in the battle of Manila: DEAD. PRIVATE CHARLES C. BAL LINGER, Company L. WOUNDED. Lieutenant Charles Hogan. Sergeant Wm. Wall. Private A. T. Scherod, Company G. Private Joseph Mater, Company H. It is not certain that the above list Is complete but no other names had been received at a late hour. Nebraskan Fired First Shot. Omaha, Feb. 6. Corporal Greely who fired the first shot in the battle of Ma nila was not with the First Nebraska regiment when it left Lincoln for the east. He joined the regiment while it was at San Francisco, his residence be ing in Madison county, the home of Senator Allen. Charles R. Keck1tiy, one of -the killed, is a son of ex-State Senator Keckley, a former political lieutenant of the late Senator Van Wick. Charles O. Ballinger was formerly watchman of the Omaha club, and re sided on North Twenty-first street. Nothing is known here concerning the personality of the other men killed, though all the names but Eggen appear on the muster roll. Filipinos Cry Politics. Hong Kong, Feb. 6. The Filipino junta here has issued a statement set ting forth that the fighting at Manila was only an outpost skirmish designed to influence the vote in the United States senate today on the peace treaty. British See Mistakes. London, Feb. 6. The afternoon news papers here agree that the Filipinos have made a fatal error and they are convinced the Americans will not allow the trouble to influence their policy. The Pall Mall Gazette says: "Aguinaldo and his merry men have not displayed a clear conception of the American character. We take it for granted that there will be no looking back now until America has plowed a Philippine furrow right through, al though the job is likely to be long and troublesome." The Globe says: "America's mistake has been in attempting to perform a big job with small means. Now that this has led to the customary consequences, it may be safely assumed that the United States will put such an over powering force in the field as to beat down any opposition." Boston Goes to Iloilo. Washington, Feb. 6. Admiral Dewey cabled the navy department today as follows: Manila, Feb. 6. Secretary Navy, Washington: Insurgents have attacked General Elwell S. Otis, the American Commander of Military Forces at Manila on Whom All Eyes Arefttrned Today. Manila. The Boston leaves today for Iloilo to relieve the Baltimore which will return to Manila. Two men wound ed yesterday on board Monadnock, one seriously. DEWEY. Coloradoans Who Fell. Denver, Feb. 6. The published list of the soldiers killed in the battle with the insurgents at Manila contains the name of Private Elmer U. Doran of Company I, First Colorado regiment. The name Doran does not appear on the muster rolls. It is presumed that the man killed is Elmer F. Dean, who hailed from Martinsburg, Ind., and whose nearest relative is Henry Bartlett of Clayton, 111. Lieutenant Charles S. Haughwout of Company F, First Colorado, who is re ported wounded, was a clerk in the First National bank of Denver, and a prom inent member of the Denver Athletic club. His mother, Mrs. E. S. Haugh wout, lives at Minneapolis. LIST OF CASUALTIES In Saturday's Battle on Outskirts of Manila. London, Feb. 6. The following Is a partial list of the killed and wounded In Saturday's action at Manila:' Killed. First Idaho infantry: MAJ. EDWARD M'CONVILLE. CORPORAL FRANK CALDWELL, Company B. First Nebraska infantry: PRIVATE DAVIS LAGGER, Com pany I. PRIVATE LOUIS BIGLER, Com pany I. PRIVATE CHARLES O. BALLIN GER. Company L. First California infantry: PRIVATE J. J. DEWAR, Company K. First Colorado infantrv: PRIVATE ELMER V. DEAN. First Wyoming infantry: SERGT. GEORGE ROGERS, shot by sharpshooter while sitting at his win dow. Fourteenth U. S. infantry: Four men not yet identified. Sixth artillery: PRIVATE NAT GOODMAN. First Tennessee infantry: COL. WM. C. SMITH, died of apo plexy during the firing. Seriously Wounded. Following are the Americans serious ly wounded and taken to the hospital: Third artillery: Lieut. Robert S. Abernathy. First California infantry: Lieut. Charles Hogan. Sergt. Wm Hall. Private A. F. Scheren, Company 3. Private Joseph Maher, Company M. First Colorado infantry: Lieut. Charles S. Haughawout, Com pany F. First Idaho Infantry: Private James C. Henson, Company A. Private Ernest Scott, Company B. Private George Hall, Company B First Nebraska infantry: Musician John Pierce. Private Charles Kalsey, Company 'iA. Sergt. O. T. Curtis, Company C. Private Harry Hull, Company A. First Washington Infantry: Lieut. Edward K. Erwin, Company Private John Klein, Company A. Private Wm. E. Ruit, Company A!. Private R. R. McClain, Company A. Private Oscar Howard, Company A. OTIS' REPORT. Official List of Killed and Wounded at Manila. Washington, Feb. 6. The following report from Gen. Otis has been received at the war department: Manila, Feb. 6. Adjutant General, Washington: Following casualties in First brigade. First division: TENTH PENNSYLVANIA. Maj. E. Brierer, flesh wound, arm, Albert J. Buttermore, flesh wound, slight. Sergt. Joseph Sheldon, Company H, elight flesh wound, thigh. Private Thomas Conger, Company H, abdomen penetrated, serious. Private Edward Caldwell, Company D, lung penetrated, serious. Private Debalt, Company C, flesh wound, back, slight. FIRST MONTANA. Private Reynolds, Company H, slight wound in ears. Private Charles Rummels, flesh wound In leg, slight. Corporal Hayes, Company H, missing, probably killed. Private John Sorenson, Company L, head wounded, probably dead. Private Mayersick, Company I, lungs penetrated, serious. Corporal I. Skinner, Company L, slight wound. FIRST COLORADO. Private Orton Tever, wounded, left thigh. Private Charles B. Morrison, Com pany B, wounded, left hand. Private Maurice Parkhurst, Company B, wounded in pubes. Private C. D. White, Company J, missing, supposed to be drowned. Private Elmer F. Doran, Company I, killed, shot in chest. Corporal Wm. H. Erie, company I, wounded in left cheek and arm. Private Charles Carbon, Company L, shot in head, killed. Private Charles B. Boyce, Company L, flesh wound in left knee. FIRST SOUTH DAKOTA. Private Horace J. McCracken, Com pany H, killed. Private Fred E. Green, Company I, killed. Private Wm. Z. Lewis, Company I, killed. Private Benjamin Phelps, wounded, right thigh. Corporal Eugene E. Stevens, wound ed, right thigh. Private Frank F. McClain, Company G, wounded in right hip. Private Hiram Fay, Company I, wounded in right knee. Corporal Carl H. Osgood, Company F, sprained knee. Private A. Haskell, slight Wound n neck. THIRD ARTILLERY. Sergt Bernard Sharp, Company L-, flesh wound, right leg, slight. Private Orian Ryan, Company L, shot in head, serious. Private Edward Lundstrum, Com pany L, shot through hand, slight. Private James Gleason, Company L, flesh wound, thigh, slight. Further reports will follow. (Signed.) OTIS. The officials of the war department say that this report haa been delayed owing to the extreme care which Gen. Otis exercised in dealing with such a matter. The details furnished by Gen. Otis, they say, can be relied upon in every particular. A Second Report. Washington, D. C, Feb. 6 The second bulletin received from General Otis con tained the list of casualties in the Ma nila fight. The general seems to have abandoned the style of report he adopt ed in the first bulletin and instead of giving a statement of casualties by brigades, he appears to have sum marized all of the killed in the second bulletin In addition to the eight men tioned as killed in the first bulletin along with the wounded. The second bulletin contains a list of forty-six dead, making in addition to the previous bul letin a total of fifty-four killed in the battle of Saturday night and Sunday. The second list is as follows: Manila, Feb. 6, 1899. Adjutant Gen eral, Washington: Additional casual ties killed in action: FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. Corporal Guy B. Soden, E, and Henry F. Thompson, M. Privates Jesse A. Hale, A. Simauris, L. Seaman, A.; Louis V. Deitz, D; Jas. Harvey Knight, Charles W. Douglas, Frank H. Issinghausen, Charles A. Seitz and Alphonzo Donner, M, and Peter N. Stormont, I. SIXTH ARTILLERY. Private W. A. Goodman, D. FIRST IDAHO. Major Edward McConnville, Corporal Frank R. Calwert, B; Private James Frazer, C. FIRST CALIFORNIA. Privates J. J. Dewar, K; Tom Bryan, H and Joseph Maher, M. FIRST WASHINGTON. Corporal George W. McGowan, A; Privates Ralph W. Simonds, A; Geo. B. Reichart, Frank Smith, Mattias, H; Cherry, E; Sherman Harding, Edward H. Perry, I; Walter N. Hanson, L; and Arno H. Moickel, H. Wounded in Action. FOURTEENTH INFANTRY. Sergeant Samuel E. Boakler, I; Cor poral James Neary, M; Musician Joseph W. Osberger, M; Private Dixon, A; Everrett, A; Michael Kennedy, Augus tin Berry, F; James A. Harbour, Hugh P. McClellan, Herman Steinbagen, O. J. Wright, I; Wm. Sloan, K; Arthur L. Osleurn, Richard Hughes and Albert E. Barth, M. DIED OF WOUNDS. Lieutenant James W. Mitchell, Four teenth infantry, at 2:05 p. n., February 6; Private George W. Hall, G, First Idaho. Col. Wm. C. Smith, First Tennessee, died of apoplexy at head of his com mand on firing line February 5. (Signed), OTIS, KAN8ANS KILLED. The Twentieth. Kansas Lost Three Men in the Battle. The following list of Kansas soldiers killed in the battle at Manila has been received at the office of the adjutant general: Isaac C. Cooper, artificer, Company B. Corporal Fred Maxwell, Company K. Private Snodgrass, Company B. Isaac C. Cooper, enlisted from Bazine, Kan. His name appears on the rolls (Continued on Third Page.) RATIFIED The Treaty of Peace Passes the U. 8. Senate Bj Barely a Tote of Three More Than the NECESSARY NUMBER. All Through the Morning Hour It Was in Doubt. Southern Democratic Senators Saved the Day. Washington, Teb. 6. The treaty of peace is ratified by 3 majority. Washington, Feb. 6. Before the sen ate convened today the leaders on both sides of the peace treaty manifested great anxiety and all seemed to be very much in doubt as to the final result, the ratification or rejection seeming to depend upon several doubtful votes. It was known Saturday night that the treaty could muster but 58 votes. Whether any other men have come over, Influenced by the battle at Man ila, remained unknown to those who are managing the treaty, but the hope was expressed that additional votes had been obtained. One thing was apparent, the leaders of the opposition to the treaty were standing as firm as ever and were urging all who might waver to stand with them. The friends of the treaty were great ly worried over a statement that reached them that one man upon whom they had been counting would be on, the other side and the list was carefully scanned to see who might be meant. Efforts were made to reach Senator Stewart to see if he had made any ar rangement regarding his pair which might have given rise to the report of doubt as to his position. Mr. Stewart has been confidently counted on for the treaty, and in all calculations so far made the opponents have not considered him with them. An early view of the situation would indicate that the result is in doubt, but in favor of ratification. SENATORS LINE UP. Several senators who were on the doubtful list of the friends of the treaty lined up soon after the session opened today. Senators Roach of North Da kota, Rawlins of Utah and Turner of Washington said that the battle at Manila had not changed their views and they would .vote against the treaty. It was supposed by some that those senators might be influenced by reason of the fact that the troops from their state were in the recent fight, but they said this would make no difference with) them. At 12:30 p. m., with the 58 sure, the friends of the treaty were expecting that Jones of Nevada, McEnery of Louisiana and McLaurin of South Caro lina would vote for ratification. At 1:45 the situation was almost un changed, the treaty having 58 votes, with these considered doubtful: Jones of Nevada, McEnery of Louisiana, and McLaurin of South Carolina. Senator Stewart of Nevada arrived and his position in favor of the treaty soon became known. He had a close consultation with his colleague, Sen ator Jones. DEMOCRATS SAVED IT. Just as the senate went into execu tive session it was learned that Jones of Nevada was surely against it and Mr. Heitfeld, of Idaho, also said ha could not vote for it. This was Bome what discouraging to the friends of the treaty.their hopes now being based upon the probable action of Senators Mc Enery and McLaurin. It was reported that Senator Mc Laurin will vote for the treaty giving 59 and that one other senator was ex pected to make the number 60 and! enough. THE BELL RINGS. At 3:05 p. m. the bell rung for a vote on an amendment to the treaty. The amendment was to make the Philippine article of the treaty like that relating to Cuba. THE NEWS OF BATTLE The Intense Interest About the State Journal Bulletins Sunday. The first news of the Saturday night and Sunday morning battle at Manila showing the victory of the American, army, but coupled with 20 killed and 123 wounded was given to Topeka people Sunday noon in an Associated Press bulletin of about 200 words posted on the front of the State Journal build ing. A crowd was at once attracted and all through the afternoon and evening knots of people were gathered about the bulletins as they were on similar oceo sions last spring and summer through the exciting times of the war. There was a constant string of people stopping to read the news. Carriages drove up with occupants eager to know what had happened. The news spread rapidly and was soon known all over the city. Topeka People at Washington. The following appears in a batch of society items wired from Washington, D. C to the Globe-Democrat: Assistant Secretary of Interior and Mrs. Ryan are to entertain a house party this week. Miss Emily King, daughter of Mr. J. L. King of Topeka, and one of the social favorites of the Kansas capi tal, will arrive tomorrow to spend sev eral weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Ryan. Miss Redden, another Topeka girl, who has been spending several months in Germany, will arrive a day or so later, as will also Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cahoon, Of Elmira, N. .Y.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 6. 1899. SEXTONJS DEAD. Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic GOLD DUST Passes Away at Washington After a Frotr acted Illness. 2 END OF A LONG CAREER Of Public SerTice,Both Military aud CiTil. Was a Member of the War In Testigation Commission. Washington, Feb. 6. Col. James A. Bexton, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at 3:15 yesterday morning at Garfield .faosr pltaL In this city. CoL James A. Sexton was born in Chicago, January 5, 1844. He enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Illinois, April 19, 1861, and after three months service re-enlisted in the Sixty-Seventh Illinois volunteers, being1 commissioned as first lieutenant of Company F. He was subsequently transferred to the Seventy-second Illinois and was made captain of Company D. He served In Ransome's brigade, McArthur's division of the Seventeenth army corps. Army of the Tennessee, and participated in near ly all of its campaigns, sieges and bat tles. He was commander of the regi ment in the battles of Columbia, Duck tUver, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nash ville and throughout the Nashville cam paign. In 1865 he was assigned to duty on the staff of Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith, commander of the Sixteenth army corps, and remained with Smith until the close of the war, being honorably discharged in August, 1865. At the capture of the Spanish fort at Mobile, Ala., April 8, 1865, Col. Sex ton had his left leg broken below the knee by a piece of shell. He was also slightlv wounded at the battle of Franklin and painfully wounded at the battle of Nashville. He remained two years in Alabama after the war, work ing a plantation which he had pur chased near Montgomery. In 1867 he returned to Chicago, and entered busi ness, founding the firm of J. A. T. S. Sexton. He was appointed postmaster of Chicago by President Harrison in 18S9, and was retained by President Cleveland until he resigned, January 1, 1895. Col. Sexton was an active worker in the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other soldier and army societies. He was past commander of the Department ef Illinois, G. A. R., and has been a presidential elector, park commissioner and colonel in the Illinois national guard. At the last meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic he was elected commander-in-chief and held this posi tion, as well as that of a member of the commissioners appointed by the president to investigate the conduct of the Spanish war. Foatoffice Inspectors for Cuba. Washington, Feb. 6. The postmaster general has ordered Postoffice Inspec tors Erwin of California, Sullivan of St. Louis and Leatherman of Ohio to pro ceed to Cuba to assist Director of Posts Rathbun. Three other inspectors, It is understood, also will be dispatched to the island with the view of assigning one to each of the six provinces. Annual Sleeting. The annual meeting of the committee of fifteen, Fall Festival association, for the election of a board of directors, will be held at the Commercial club rooms, 627 Kansas avenue, Topeka, on Thurs day evening, February 16, 1899, at 8 O'clock. T. J. ANDERSON, C A. MAGAW, President Secretary. Business Picks Up in Havana Havana, Feb. 6. Values on the local bourse and general business confidence were revived by the news of Gen. Maxi mo Gomez's acceptance of the proposi tion of Mr. Robert P. Porter, President McKinley's special commissioner, for the payment of the Cuban army. CATARRH OF STOMACH A Pleasant, Simple, but Safe and Ef fectual Cure for It. Catarrh of the stomach has long been considered the next thing to incurable. The usual symptoms are a full or bloat ing sensation after eating, accompanied sometimes with sour or watery risings, m. formation of gases causing pressure on the heart and lungs and difficult breathing; headaches, fickle appetite, nervousness and a general played out, languid feeling. There is often a foul taste In the mouth, coated tongue, and if the inter ior of the stomach could be seen it would show a slimy, inflamed condition. The cure of this common and obstin ate trouble is found in a treatment which causes the food to be readily, thoroughly digested before it has time to ferment and Irritate the delicate mu cous surfaces of the stomach. To se cure a prompt and healthy digestion is the one necessary thing to do and when normal digestion is secured the catarrh al condition will have disappeared. According to Dr. Harlanson the safest and best treatment is to use after each meal a tablet, composed of Dlatase, Aseptic Pepsin, a little Nux, Golden Seal and fruit acids. These tablets can now be found at all drug stores under the name of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets and not being a patent medicine can be used with perfect safety and assurance that healthy appetite and thorough di gestion will follow their regular use after meals. Mr. N. J. Booher of 2710 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111., writes: "Catarrh is a local condition resulting from neglected cold In the head, whereby the lining membrane of the nose becomes inflamed and the poisonous discharge therefrom passing backward into the throat reaches the stomach, thus producing catarrh of the stomach. Medical author ities prescribed for me for three years for catarrh of stomach without cure, but today I am the happiest man after using only one box of Stuart's Dyspep sia Tablets. I can not find appropriate words to express my good feeling. I have found flesh, appetite and sound rest from their use." Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Is the safest preparation as well as the sim plest and most convenient remedy for any form of Indigestion, catarrh of etomach, biliousness, sour stomach, heartburn and bloating after meals. Send for little book, mailed free, on stomach troubles, by addressing Rtuart Co., Marshall, Mich. The tablets caa tie found at all drug stores flOMlLES &RLAK5THE WlcoN6il- jS jf Dgpf NF'm "'"N5 f3 HOW KIPLING LANDED. New Tork Special to the Chicago Tribune. Rudyard Kipling, who went out to India on a P. O. steamer years ago, and took to writing books and things, set out one week ago to return to the states. So he and the Mem Sahib and the little Kiplings and their ayahs bought passage on the liner Majestic twin screws, two-stacked, wall-sided and heavy-powered. It can knock out twenty-one points five on Welsh coal any day on the summer course. More over, it is English from the outward end of the tailshaft forward to the last rivet on its forefoot, which is the front part of a liner, as almost everyone knows. Being English, Kipling naturally bought passage on the Majestic, and sat at table with the liner's janitor, who knows everything about steam and coal and all that sort of thing on an ocean liner. But before Kipling got away one of the half-tamed emissaries of that un couth people laid aboard of Kipling. This emissary had a pencil and a note book and was prepared to take down in the argot these people call English everything that Kipling would say, in tending to cable which. "But two words," pleaded the emis sary, "just two words a couple of shil lings" worth." Only the emissary said "two bits' worth," this being the strangeness of their tongue. "Nope," said Kipling, "not a sylla ble." Then he fled aboard the Majestic, and the liner said "toot, toot," and went away, leaving the emissary on the string-piece calling down the wrath of his strange gods upon the head of Kip ling. QUOTES KIPLING HIS WORKS. One week later, which was today, Kipling came with the Majestic into port. Outside a half-tamed pilot in a steam sampan came aboard, and, seeing Kipling's face staring down from the rail like a sun-baked gourd of Gobi, sought to do honor by quoting Kipling his works: "By sport of winter weather We're watty strained and scarred From the kentledge on the kelson To the slings upon the yard, The ocean's had her will of us, To carry all away." Then he added: "Hurray for Mul vaney and Oretheris and the boys of Lungtungpen." "Mad," said Kipling, "certainly mad." Which he was. At quarantine a revenue dhow ran alongside the Majestic, the barbaric practice of these people being to make you pay again for anything you have paid for in civilized communities. Also came aboard a half dozen of the un tamed emissaries, each with a cote book. "Five foot Eeven," said one of these emissaries, noting Kipling's' height. "Blue sack coat and trousers," said another. "Blue eyes," said a third. "They match his clothes, don't they." "Fourteen trunks, I hear," murmured a fourth. "He's got 'K' in red on each. I s'pose that 'K' stands for Kipling. I'll make a note of it, anyhow." "Those are his children," commented another. "Miss Josephine, Miss Elsie and Master John. Those two women with them are the Ayahs, maybe." "I dunno," said the sixth; "I'll ask. How is it with you, O, beauteous maid en?" "Go along wit' yez," said the Ayahs in a breath. Then did the six send an emissary to overhaul Kipling. "Not a word, not a word," cried Kip ling, and the emissary went away. And it came to pass that another of the Bix went up against him and would have had speech with him! "Hoot!" said Kipling, still smiling; "not a word." Also went away the second, and came a third. "I haven't a. word to say," said Kip ling, going elsewhere. But also came a fourth and a fifth and a sixth, these emissaries being of a hopeful nature and leaning toward knowledge, which they have not. But to each one Kipling said him nay, and the six retreated, singing softly: We've met with many men from over seas,x An some of 'era was shy, an some was not. The Frenchman, and the German, and Chinese, But Kipling was the hardest of the lot. Some of 'em talked in English, an" the rest Would talk from early winter to the fall. But the Mowgll-man we found the greatest pest. For the bloomin sod wouldn't talk fetaU. Still, 'ere's to you, Rudyard Kipling, you escape our anger's ban, Tou're a cold, concentered Briton, but a first-class writin' man, Although you need to thaw a bit, to you we must be fair, Tou are the master writer, thou you didn't treat us square. EMISSARIES LEARN A LITTLE. Then to Kipling came the baggage master, an important person who sends your trunks to Harlem and the Battery and all p'-ces within the city walls an nexed district extra. He would know where the trunks go. To the Grenoble. Here also appeared Robert McClure of McClure's Magazine, with an appeal from the emissaries. Would the Honor able Sahib speak but a few words? Nope, not a word, and a great sadness fell upon the half-savage peoples. "But," said the Sahib McClure, "he will tarry within the gates ten days or two weeks. Then he will go to Brattle boro, Vt., where his bungalow is." Also elsewhere did the emissaries learn that Kipling would journey down into the southwest, and after that Mex ico. Then upon the pier saw Kipling a cou ple namely, Mr. and Mrs.Lockwood De Forest, 7 East Tenth street, for whom Kipling had a great love. And said words of much good greeting with him. the Mem Sahib Kipling and the three little Kiplings. Whereupon Kipling arose up, and, af ter fighting madly with the customs of ficers, went away. A Fair Anarchist. Miss Josephine Baird, the Dodge City young lady who won first prize for the best contralto solo at the Hutchinson musical jubilee last year, and is now with the Dorothy Morton Opera com pany, is an anarchist. To use her own expression, she "admits it unblushing ly." She states her views tersely but convincingly: "I believe that it is bet ter that might should be right than that money should be right. As it is now, right simply means money. I would like to see might overthrow money." Sundays Count Washington, Feb. 6. The comptroller of the treasury has held that Sundays and holidays occurring during the time in which leave has been granted to gov ernment employes must be counted as part of the leave. In some of the de partments it has been the custom to deduct Sundays and holidays in making up the time on leaving. Not a Candidate. Mr. Dolph Whitmer, who has been spoken of for the position of city treas urer, wishes it announced that he is not a candidate for the place and will not be a candidate. A number of Mr. Whitmer's friends have urged him to be a candidate, but he says he doesn't want it. Net Earnings Increase $542,255. New Tork, Feb. 6. The Chronicle makes Chicago Northwestern railway net earnings for the year $13,038,433 and surplus $3,017,205 after all charges, against $2,279,000 in 1897 and $807,525 in 1896. The Northwestern statement for the calendar year shows an increase in net earnings of $542,255 over last year. u iiiimiiiii uuuiiuu ii nniiuu iminiin; u 1 Human Lives mm mm H often depend on phy- s sician's prescriptions; s H hence, a doctor cannot 5 write a prescription 5 j without a sense of per- H sonal responsibility for his patient's welfare. The number of promi- U nent and successful physicians who. daily j prescribe Mem Etmsz i and the uniform sue- f cess derived from its 1 use, are fitting test!- E monials to its efficacy. S 3 gg At all drat (teres. j MRS. BOTKIN'S SENTENCE. The California Borgia Must Go to Prison for Life. San Francisco, Feb. 6. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin has been sentenced to serve the term of her natural life in the San Quen tin penitentiary for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning of Dover. Del., whom she killed by means of a box of poisoned candy, sent through the mails as a gift from a friend and unsuspectingly eaten by Mrs. Dunning and some of her friends. Her sister, Mrs. Joshua P. Deane, also died from the effects of the arsenic with which the candies were Ioadeu. Judge Cook, who pronounced the sen tence, refused to grant the appeal for a new trial made by Mrs. Botkin's attor neys, who held that this state had no jur isdiction in the matter. In a compre hensive review of the case Judge Cook showed that this state did have jurisdic tion in the matter. Mrs. Botkin, when asked if she wished to say anything in her own defense, stated that she was innocent of the horrible crime. Her attorneys gave notice that they would apply for a writ of probable cause. A LACK OF HARMONY Is Apparent Among C. A. People Regarding the Sale of the Road. Chicago, Feb. 6. T. B. Blackstone, pres ident of the Chicago and Alton road, has issued a circular to the stockholders which is likely to create a sensation in railroad and financial circles. The circular will accompany that sent out by J. J. Mitch ell, submitting to the vote of the stock holders the proposition to sell the road to a syndicate at $175 a share for the com mon and $200 for the preferred stock. While no positive advice is tendered the stockholders in Mr. Biackstone's circular, no one can read it without being con vinced that the writer is bitterly opposed to the adoption of the proposition. From the beginning, the negotiations, it is said, have been carried on in opposition to Mr. Biackstone's wishes. It was Mr. Biackstone's veto that pre 'ented the sale of the Chicago and Alton to the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road. The present proposition may be more favorable from several view points, but it apparently still falls short of be ing what, in Mr. Biackstone's ODinion, would be fair to all the stockholders of the Chicago and Alton. NOT IN ITS LIN E. St Louis Lexow Committee Is Not Closing Saloons on Sunday. St. Louis, Feb. 6. Mrs. Ingalls, a leader in local W. C T. U. circles, called on the senate's "Lexow" committee and pro tested strenuously against the non-enforcement of the Sunday law. She in formed the members of the committee that it was a notorious fact that all the saloons in the city are kept open on Sun day, contrary to law. Mrs. Ingalls said the police would do nothing to close them. Acting Chairman Matthews announced that the committee's mission was to rec ommend needed laws to the legislature, not to enforce existtag ones. An expert accountant has been appoint ed to examine the books of Excise Com missioner Higgins, the investigation of whose office was resumed today. THE "BLACK DIAMOND" To Be the Greatest Railroad in the World. Cleveland. O.. Feb. 6. Albert E. Boone, the railroad promoter, stated in an inter view here concerning the proposed "Black Diamond" road from Columbus, O., to Port Royal, S. C, that the contracts for building the different divisions of the line were all signed and it would surely ba constructed. An Knglish syndicate is be hind the enterprise. "We will have one of the greatest rail oads in the world." said Colonel Boone. "It will cost $50,000,000 to construct it. It will be double-tracked the entire length. The line will pass through some of the richest mineral districts in the world. Our grades willbe very slight." BALTIMORE COMBINE. Syndicate Will Control Street Kail ways and Lighting Plants. Baltimore, Feb. 6. The plan for finan cing the United Railways and Electric Light company, which will control all the street railwavs and electric lighting Slants of Baltimore, was made public to ay by Alexander Brown Sons, the fis cal agents of the syndicate which has ac quired a controlling interest in these prop There will be a total capitalization of $76,000,000 in stocks and bonds. Of this amount $38,000,000 will be 4 per cent fifty year gold bonds, $14,000,000 preferred cumu lative 4 per cent stock and $34,000,000 com mon stock. A syndicate composed largely of Balti moreans will underwrite the securities. The organization of the company which will operate the 350 miles of railway in and about Baltimore will be completed in a week or two. The electric Hghting companies, which have also been acquired by Mr. Brown and his syndicate, will be managed, and Oper ated by a separate company. The com panies are the Brush, Northern and Edi son and the price agreed upon is some thing over $3,000,000. to be paid, in cash. ground Hog pay A I WEATHER A MATTER OP EGGS. From the New Tork Sun. Men. exist who will go into a restaur ant even a high class restaurant, where the waiters have feelings of pro fessional pride and say: "Bring me some eggs. Any kind will do." Imagine the astonishment of such a person if the waiter should reply: "We have 600 ways of preparing eggs, sir. Will you kindly choose one of them?" In this statement the waiter would be well within the truth, if his chef were up-to-date, for there is no longer any excuse for ignorance in the matter of eggs. Any chef may have at his command 500 ways or more, by a study of a book recently published by Adolphe Meyer, the chef of the Union club, and a member of the Cooking association of London, which gives him the proud privilege of appending the letters M. C. A. to his signature, a privilege of which he avails himself on the title page of his book. The volume is enti tled "Eggs and How to Use Them." WHEN SLEEPER WAKES. The announcement of a new novel by the far-famed author of "The War of the Worlds" will be of interest to a large por tion of the reading world that took pleas ure in that eccentric, fantastic and de lightfully impossible night of fancy. The Wf- ,"-V H. G. Wells (By Courtesy of Harper Brothm) publication of "The War of the Worlds" rapidly won Mr. Wells his fame and placed him in the front rank of novelists of his kind. He stands on a plane with Jules Verne. This new novel is entitled "When the Sleeper Wakes" and is to ap pear as a serial in Harper's Weekly dur ing 1899. Still Deal in Slaves. Dr. Krause, a German traveler in Afri ca, has caused a sensation in Berlin by his memorial addressed to the reichstag charg ing the Imperial officers managing the German colony of Togo, southwest Africa, with conniving at slave-dealing on the coast. In three days, he says, he saw more than 15,000 slaves sold In the town of Kete alone. These sensational charges lie mainly against Governor Jesko von Puttmaker, who has been involved in other colonial scandals. Chicago Record. Death of Alice Atherton. New Tork, Feb. 6. Alice Atherton, the burlesque actress, is dead in this city, after a week's illness from pneu monia. TWO LIVES. Upon the strength and condition of an expectant moth er depend not only her own life but the life and perfection of her child. i MOTHER'S FRIEND will overcome all ills peculiar to the period preceding childbirth, and will pre pare the delicate organism directly in volved for the final ordeal. Mother's Friend is not as internal cure-all, but a scientific liniment approved by medical authority and established by years of saeceasf ul use. Sold by drngrgists for $1. Valuable book. Before Baby is Bora," sent free m application. THE UAQFIKLO REGULATOR CO. AU&aia. fia. her least, whose leisure time is greatest, how she manages. The chances are ten to one she will answer: I do all my cleaning with Sold by all grocers. Largest package greatest economy. THE rv. FAIHBANK Chicago. BU Louis. New York. a Special Furniture Sale This Week, j BOON FOB POOB GIRLS. Chicago Hotel to Oivs Board and Lodging at a Low Rate. Chicago, Feb. 6. Philanthropists have established at 6231 and 6233 Lexington avenue the Hotel Edwards for girl em ployes who have no homes and whose wages are small. The cost for board and room will range from 2 to $2.50 a week. The rate of board mentioned includes lodgings and breakfast and dinner, with bath and kindred privileges. If the girls wish to take lunches from the ho tel these will be provided at 3 cents a day. Plans are under way for endow ments, so that respectable girls may be cared for without charge until they find employment. Fatti and Her Prayers. Mme. Adelina Pattl says that the first thing she remembers doing was saying her prayers at night, and she adds: "In all the years that have in tervened since those days or, rather, nigtUa of my early memories, I have never missed saying my prayers before going to bed. Madrid was. my birth place, and my mother was a well known singer, Catherine Cheisa.who at 15 years of age married her teacher, M. Barilli. Her second marriage was with my father, Salvatore Patti, a member of one of the first families in Catania, Sicily. It has erroneously and constant ly been stated that my father was a professional singer by tradition and en vironment. As a matter of fact, his connection with the profession of music was quite accidental; the possession of a very beautiful voice drewhim.through the persuasion of his friends, to the stage, with which, however, no other member of his family had had any as sociation. In this respect his case was much the same as that of Mario." N. Y. Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. New Form of Telephone Service. M. Mongeot, under secretary of state for posts and telegraphs, has matured a plan for the extension of the tele phone service. This plan contemplates the notification of any person, whether renting a telephone or not, that some one wishes to talk with him at a given public telephone booth. Within a radius of twenty-five kilometers the charge will be 5 cents, and must be paid by the sender of the message. The charge will be increased for any distance over twenty-five kilometers, but will in no case exceed 10 cents. The message will be a regular form, somewhat as fol lows: "You are notified that Mr. X., living at requests that you will come to the telephone booth No. at o'clock." Each message will be numbered in the order of its receipt, and the number will entitle the recipient to the use of the booth at the time spec ified. Paris Letter to the Electrical World. N. Y. Models for Boston Wax Figures. The best wax figures in the world are made in New York. One firm here has two to show in its store. Each of these figures cost $200. They are made en tirely of wax, and are the exact coun terparts of two famous New York mod els. The first figure was sculptured af ter a French girl. Almost the only dif ference between the little French model and the polite, dainty figure in wax is that the girl of flesh and blood has dark hair and the hair of the wax figure is yellow. The second figure is that of an American woman. Her figure and the soft pink flush of the skin seem almost perfect. The woman who stood for the model of this one was said to have the best American figure in New York. Boston Journal. They Don't Like Sol Smith KusselL A year ago Mr. Sol Smith Russell played here. He had been here before, but the verdict was against him. When he came last year the house was cold. Gradually it warmed. It was a long siege, and finally the critics informed the public that Mr. Russell had "at last succeeded in New York." This year Mr. Sol Smith Russell played in Brooklyn and Philadelphia and Washington. He did not play in New York, notwith standing his "success" last year. And one of the reasons is that Mr. Russell is by nature a lovable man, and he knew he would have to fight again for recognition if he came. The success of one season is no guaranty for the next. New York Letter in Chicago Record, Farthest North for Wheat. Wheat has this year been grown fur ther north than ever before. At Fort Providence, on the Mackenzie river, Just above the sixty-second parallel of latitude, there is a Roman Catholic mis sion, and at this institution a very fine crop of wheat has been grown this year. The crop was grown and harvested in ninety days. The latitude of Fort Prov idence is 200 miles further north than Sitka. Alaska, and is about the same as that of "'Greenland's icy mountains." Land Agent's Records I 'II COMPANY, Boston. Philadelphia. SMi.uu inamoer mis. iw.vv $45.00 Chamber Suits. $25.00 Extension Tables $15.00 Conches $3.50 Fine Cotton Top Mattress $8.00 Fine Cotton Mattress S0.00 15.00 10.00 2.50 5.00 J. M. KNIGHT, 1 714 Kansas Avenue. IN A MEXICAN JAIL An American Locomotive Fireman is Incarcerated. Nogales, Ariz., Feb. 4. John McFadden, a fireman on the Sonora railway, la tha latest American to be lnoarcerated in a Mexican jail. On the train leaving Nogales southward last Saturday morning a Mexican boy named Lopez fell and received a plight scalp wound. On Tuesday a complaint was lodged against McFadden, alleging that he had caused the injured lad to jump off from the forward end of the mail car by turning upon him a stream of water from the locomotive injector. Mc Fadden was arrested and locked up, bail being refused. United States Consul Daj niUl la investigating the case. IT COST 24,000 For St. Louis Brewery Workmen to Win a Contest With Employers. St. Louis. Feb. 4. The contest between English syndicate brewery managers and their employes, in effect since 18S3, over the method of hiring help, has been set tled at a conference of representatives of both parties. As a result the boycott made by the brewery workmen's unions against the breweries will be raised, the employers having given in. Manasers of the English syndicate brew eries objected to hiring men as presented by an employment bureau in the interest of the brewery workmen, without regard to their qualifications. A strike and boy rott resulted, and since the trouble be gan the brewery workers are said to have spent $24,000 in carrying on the fight, aside from the loss of wages. The employers also lost heavily by reason of the boycott. Washburn Day Celebrated. Yesterday was observed at Wash burn college as "Washburn Day," the opening of the second term. Addresses were made by A. B. Whiting, Dr. Pe ter McVicar, Robert Stone, Judge L. S. Dolman and J. W. Lawson. Paul Tor rington. Miss Leland and the glee club sang. A. V. Coville, a He ugh Rider and a graduate of Washburn made an ad dress and Mr. Whiting read a brief his tory of the college. Weekly Bank Statement. New York, Feb. 4. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decreased $1,779,350; loans, increased $15,154,400; specie, in creased $3,722,900; legal tenders, de creased $904,000; deposits, increased $18, 385,000; circulation, decreased $98,400. The banks now hold $38,452,675 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent rule. To Relieve Choking. "Raising the left arm as high as you can will relieve choking much more rapidly than be being thumped in the back," explained a well known resident of Georgetown to a reporter. "And it Is well that every one should know it, for often a person gets choked while eating when there is no one near to thump him. Very frequently at meals and when they are at play children get choked while eating, and the customary manner of relieving them Is to slap them sharply in the back. The effect of this is to set the obstruction free, so that it can be swallowed. The same thing can be brought about by raising the left hand of the child as high as possible, and the relief comes much more rapidly." Washington Star. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, tfEltoTTATCT 0, 1899. 8 THE BATTLE AT MANILA IContlnued from First Paee-J piving his age as 42, and he has a wife living at Bazine. Corporal Fred Maxwell was 25 years old and he enlisted from Richview, Kan. His father, 10. N. Maxwell, lives at that rlace. The name "Snodgrass" does not ap pear on the rolls of Company B in the adjutant general's office. He is sup posed to be a recruit who enlisted about a month before the regiment left San Francisco. More Fighting Looked For. Manila, Feb. 6. The Filipinos have apparently reached the conclusion that the Americans mean business, now that the barriers are removed, as there were no further hostilities last night and no attempt was made to recover the lost ground. It is possible, however, thatjhey are following the tactics they employed against the Spaniards and will merely lie off a few days to recup erate their forces before returning to the attack. It is impossible to ascertain as yet how the news has been received at Malolos, the seat of the insurgent gov ernment, but the Filipinos in Manila ex press the opinion that the movement for independence has received its death blow and that annexation will soon be welcomed generally. Col. Smith's Death. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 6. Colonel William C. Smith, comamnding the First Tennessee volunteers, reported to have died yesterday from apoplexy at Manila, was a native of Virginia and served with distinction in the confed erate army in a Virginia regiment. He was about 60 years of age and leaves a wife and several children who are now with relatives in Virginia. Colonel Smith was an architect of note and many important structures in this city were constructed by him, including the Parthenon at the Centennial exposition. He had always taken a lively interest In the building up of the state guard. The Solace Held Back. Chicago, Feb. 6. A special to the Record from Norfolk, says: The United States transport Solace, which was to have sailed for Manila to day at noon, did not get away from Hampton Roads. Just why she was held is not definitely known, but it is believed by navy officers that the de velopments in the Philippines since her original orders were issued have prompted the navy department to hold the ship here until additional supplies are received for transportation to Ma nila. No Cause for Alarm. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. G. The fol lowing message has been received by Oovernor Lind from Col. Fred Ames of the Thirteenth Minnesota: Thirteenth Minnesota: "Lind, Oovernor: The regiment Is etill acting as provost guard. There is no occasion for alarm. No casualties. City quiet. (Signed.) AMES, 'Colonel Thirteenth Minnesota." Waiting to Hear From Otis Washington, Feb. 6. No fresh dis patch has been received from Gen. Otis. He has promised the department a cas ualty list from Manila as soon as it can be made up and this is awaited with interest. The Dewey dispatch received this morning stated that two men had been seriously injured on the Monad nock, raising the total list of wounded for the navy to the insignificant number of eleven for the entire war in the far east. The dispatch is taken by the of ficials to indicate a continuation of the first day's fighting at Manila, or else a renewal of the attack, as Dewey's first dispatch stated that there were no cas ualties in the navy. Two Opinions. Washington, Feb. 6. Army officers believe Dewey's dispatch received today a belated cablegram, while naval of ficers believe just the opposite, that it refers to a second engagement. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. The Firing Extended a Distance of 17 Miles. Manila, Feb. 6. Owing to the area embraced in the scene of Sunday's en gagement, a semi-circle of fully 17 miles details regarding fighting have been extremely difficult to obtain. So far as can be gathered the brush commenced at 8:45 on Saturday even ing, by the firing of a Nebraska sentry at Santa Mesa, upon Filipinos who were deliberately crossing the line, after re peated warnings, with the evident pur pose of drawing our fire. The first shot from theAmerican sentry was evidently accepted as a pre-arranged signal for It was followed almost immediately by a terrific fusillade along the entire Fili pino line on the north side of the Pasig river. The American outposts returned the fire with such vigor that the Filipino fire was checked until the arrival of reinforcements. All the troops in the vicinity were hur ried out and the Filipinos ceased firing for half an hour, while their own rein forcements came up. At 10 o'clock the firing was resumed, the American firing line consisting of the Third artillery, the Kansas and Montana regiments, the Minnesota reg iment, the Pennsylvania, the Nebras kans, the Utah battery, the Idahos, the Washingtons. the Californians, the Fourth cavalry. North Dakotas, Sixth artillery and Fourteenth infantry. The Filipinos concentrated their for ces at three points, Calcanan, Santa Mesa and Galingalan and maintained an intermittent fusilladefor some hours They brought artillery into action at Galingalan at 10:30 but only one gun annoyed the Americans to any appreci able extent. Enemy's Battery Silenced. The third artillery silenced the Galingalan batetry by firnig two guns simultaneously, which was followed im mediately by volleys from the infantrv. At about midnight there was a lull In the firing lasting until about 3:45 a. m., when the whole Filipino line re opened fire. The Americans poured a terrific fire into the darkness for twen ty minutes and then there was another lull until daylight when the Americans generally advanced. During the night In response to Ad miral Dewey's signals flashed across from Cavite. the United States cruiser Charleston and gunboat Concord, at Malabon, poured a deadly fire from their secondary batteries into the Fili pino trenches at Calocan. After daylight the United States double turret sea-going monitor Mon adnock opened fire off Ma late and kept shelling the Filipinos' left flank while the other vessels shelled the right flank for several hours. By l o'clock the 'Americans had ap parently completely routed the enemy and had taken the villagesof Palawpong Santa Mesa, Paco, Santana, San Pedro! Macorte Pandocan and Pasai and had destroyed hundreds of native huts and had secured possession of the water ThlT.S ver six mTles T"" eeans joined the firing line ".clock Sunday morning and as sisted m capturing Santa Mesa? Hot Fighting at a Church. One of the most notable events or Sunday's' work was driving the Filipi nos out of their stronghold at Paco by the reserve, a few companies of Cali fornians, commanded by Col. Duboce. The main road to the village was lined by huts full of Filipino sharp shoot ers. After they had been firing upon Gen. King and his staff, killing a driver and firing on an ambulance of the Red Cross society. Col. Duboce ordered the huts to be cleared and burned. The Fil ipinos concentrated. in Paco church and convent where they made a determined stand in the upper stories. A platoon of Californians stationed on a neighboring bridge maintained a hot fire on the Filipinos, but was un able to dislodge them. In the face of a terrific fusillade Col. Duboce and a few followers dashed into the church, scat tered coal oil inside of it, eet fire to the oil and retired. In the meantime Capt. Dyer's battery of the Sixth artillery bombarded the church, dropping a dozen shells into the tower and roof. Company 1 and part of Company C of the Californians charged into the church, but were una ble to ascend the single flight of steps leading to the story above. After the incendiaries had retired, a company of the Idahoes and the Washington guard, stationed on either side of the building, picked off the Filipinos as they were smoked out. Many of the insurgents, however, escaped into the brush in the rear of the church. The Americans cap tured 53 of the Filipinos and during the fisrhtins about the church, 20 of the rebels were killed. Some 2,500 women, children and non combatants were allowed to enter the American lines, after promising to go to the houses of friends and remain there. AS CABLED TO LONDON. Morning Post .Reports Great Slaughter of Insurgents. London, Feb. 6. The Morning Post pub lishes the following account of the fighting at Manila: The immediate cause of the attack was the advance by two Filipinos to the Ne braska outpost on the northeast of the city. When ordered to halt they refused, and the sentry fired. An insurgent signal gun was fired from blockhouse 7, and an attack was immediately begun on the Ne braska regiment. The fighting soon spread on both sides until firing was in progress on all outposts around the city. The American troops responded vigorously. the insurgent fire be ing heavy and the attack evidently hur riedly planned. Firing continued throughout the night with an occasional cessation of from half an hour to an hour at a time. At daybreak the warships Charleston and Callao began shelling the north side of the city. Their fire was followed later by that of the Monadnock on the south side, the in surgent positions having been previously accurately located. The Filipino loss is reported to have been heavy. The wounded on the Ameri can side are now estimated at 200. Few Americans were killed. The Americans began a vigorous ad vance all along the line this morning (Sun day) and were soon pressing back the in surgents in every direction, maintaining steadily their advanced positions and cap turing the villages of San Juan del Monte, Santa Ana, San Pedro, Macati, Santa Mesa and Lomin. The splendid police system prevented a general outbreak in the city, though sev eral soldiers were attacked by natives in the streets. Lieutenant Charles Hogai1 and Sergeant Wall were shot by three ratives the former beirrg seriously wounded and the latter slightly. Lieutenant Colton was attacked by a native with a sword while riding in a car riage to the front. He killed his assail ant with his revolver. A sharpshooter within the American lines shot and killed a sergeant while he was sitting at a window of the second re serve hospital. Colonel William C. Smith died of apo plexy. Many of the insurgents were driven into the Pasig river and drowned. Several hun dred were taken prisoners. In a subsequent teleeram the following statements are made: Last nights (Saturday) and today's (Sunday) engagements have proved a ver itable slaughter for the Filipinos, their killed being reported as amounting to thousands. The American forces could scarcely have been better disposed. It is now known that the attack was fully ex pected and that every preparation had been made to meet the contingency. Firing slackened at noon (Sunday), the. enemy being apparently demoralized. The American troops, however, are fully equipped to meet a possible attack tonight. Aguraarao s private secretary nas Been arrested as a spy in Manila: Perfect quiet now reigns in the city. More than a hun dred wounded Filipinos taken from the trenches are being cared for in the Ameri ican hospitals. STRONG REINFORCEMENTS For Both. Army and Navy at Manila Are Contemplated. New York, Feb. 6. A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: Serious consideration has been given by the president today to the advisabil ity of strongly reinforcing the land and naval forces at Manila, The battleship Oregon, accompanied by the collier Scindia and distilling ship Iris, is about due at Honolulu and after coaling she will continue on her voyage to Manila. The battleship Iowa and the collier Justin are at Magdalena bay. on their way to Mare Island navy yard, where the machinery of the battleship will be repaired as rapidly as possible and she will proceed to Honolulu. At that point she will be available for ser vice on the Asiatic station and will, it is now expected, be directed to join Rear Admiral Dewey's command. Re inforced by these two vessels. Rear Ad miral Dewey will have a squadron vast ly superior to that of Germany and only a little below in strength to that of Great Britain in eastern waters. Any regiments sent will be those of the regular army, and the Sixth in fantry, stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, has been spoken of as one of the regi ments likely to go should more troops be needed by Gen. Otis. There are eight other regular infantry regiments in the United States available for service in the Philippines the Seventh, which is divided among Fts. Wayne and Snell ing. Camp Thomas and Jefferson bar racks; Ninth infantry, stationed at Madison barracks, N. T. Twelfth in fantry, at Jefferson barracks. Mo., and Ft. Riley, Kan.: Thirteenth infantry, at Fts. Porter, Niagara and Columbus; Sixteenth infantry, at Huntsville, Ala., Ft. Crook, Neb., and Jefferson bar racks; Twenty-first infantry, Platts burg barracks, N. T Twenty-fourth infantry, Fts. Douglass, Utah, and" D. A. Russell, Wyo., and Twenty-fifth in fantry, which is distributed at points in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. DEWEY IS ON DECK. Told Insurgents if They Took Manila Be Would Batter It Down. Hong Kong, Feb. 6. The following dispatch was received here from Ma nila before the outbreak there occurred: Rear Admiral Dewey in an interview, said the Monadnock is guarding one end of the city, the Monterey and the army protects the rear. He added that he had sent word to Aguinaldo that if, accidentally, the insurgents entered Manila, he would reduce it to mortar and stone. The insurgents are an armed mob.the dispatch adds, incapable of government and are angry with Admiral Dewey for seizing vessels flying Filipino flags. The admiral, the correspondent says is not favorable to annexation, but he believes in the gradual withdrawal of the Uni ted States troops. He also says the United States is morally bound to es- government in the CRTJSH THE FILIPINOS. Otia Ordered to Follow TJp His Vic tory. Chicago, Feb.- 6. A special to the Times-Herald from Washington says: Instructions will be sent to Major Gen eral Otis directing him to follow up his victory over the insurgents and to crush the power of Aguinaldo in the Philippines. This was the decision reached at an important cabinet meeting held in the White House last night, attended by the President, Secretary Hay, Secretary Alger and General Griggs and Adjutant General Corbin. It was further decided now that Aguinaldo has thrown down the gaunt let that Iloilo shall be taken and the is lands of the archipelago occupied as rapidly and to the extent that General Otis' forces will permit. WHERE THE FIGHT TOOK PLACE Members of Filipino Junta Describe the Manila Battle Ground. Washington, Feb. 6. The members of the Filipino junta, who are in the city, were shown the Associate Press report from Manila and readily gave a descrip tion of the location of the places where the firing occurred. Dr. Juan Luna, a mem ber of the junta, said that the points named in the dispatch lie to the north and east of Manila, and that the insurgent army at that place is small; a much larger force, he says, is encamped to the south of the city, in the direction of Ma late. The American outposts are the ones for merly occupied by the Spaniards on the outposts of the city, while those held by the insurgents are about a mile away, to the north and east. The distance between Coloacan and Poco, the extreme points of the fighting, is six miles. Coloacan is the most northerly of the insurgents' outposts. This is the town spoken of in the Manila dispatch as having been bombarded by the Charleston and Concord. Dr. Luna claim ed thatJt was impossible for theAmerican shells to have done any damage there, as the place is protected from the bay by a range of hills. Furthermore, the American ships, he said, could not take up a posi tion close to the shore owing to shallow water i nthat vicinity. Balik-Baiik, where the Insurgents had two field pieces, lies to the east of Colo acan and much nearer to the American lines, being close to Pandacan and Poco. These two small towns are a very short distance from Tondo, the American out post, and almost directly west of Santa Mesa. They are on a road running west ward from Manila. The positions which the Americans held at the beginning of the fight, Dr. Lima claims, were formerly held by the Fili pinos. At the siege of Manila, he says, the natives drove the Spaniards from these positions and took possession of them, but finally gave them up at, the request of General Otis, falling back about a mile, where they established new defenses. Some of these were captured by the Amer icans yesterday. IT WAS VARIOLA Which Killed the Kansans, and Not Filipino Bullets. Manila, Feb. 6. Following deaths have occured since January 28 Royal E. Fletcher, private, company B, First Washington, typhoid fever, Jan. 29; Al bert W. Alson. private B, 13th Minne sota, variola; Walter Dugard, private G, 1st Idaho, typhoid fever; Jan. 30, Isaac Cooper, private B, 20th Kansas, variola; Feb. 1, Burgher R. Johns, pri vate F, 23rd, variola; Charles Snodgrass, private B, 20th Kan sas, variola; Frederick Maxwell, private K, Twentieth Kansas, variola; Feb. 3, James Owen, private L, Third artillery, variola; Miles E. Kyger, cor poral I, First Washington, typhoid fever; Chester W. Hubbard, private K, Third artillery, variola; Olavus T. Fel land, private, First South Dakota, var iola; Feb. 4, Pearl Doty, private B, Sec ond Oregon, variola. AWAY FROM TOWN. A Candidate for Mayor Giving His Friends Concern. Frank Brooks has been gone for a week and his family and friends are alarmed about him. Dave Mulvane today telegraphed to Rossville for information concerning Mr. Brooks' whereabouts but had re ceived no reply this afternoon. His po litical friends have been anxiously awaiting his return for nearly a week. It was understood that he toad gone to Rossville but it was supposed that he would return to look after his campaign not later than Saturday. Mrs. Brooks became alarmed when he did not return and the friends of her husband are now doing what they can to find him. He will doubtless turn up shortly. He is out of business in Topeka at present, having sold his feed store. It is under stood that he has business interests in neighboring towns and is doubtless looking after them. WHAT "WE" IS SATING. Why not let up talking about money power for awhile and say something about the liquor power. Clyde Herald. The appointment of Judge Hook to the federal bench means that Ringmas ter Leland punched Burton off the perch. Oswego Blade. The editor of this paper has paid two fines this week the first for cussing a fine gentleman Arthur McCray, and the second fine for landing a star-producer on hte optic of said McCray in police court. We got our money's worth and are satisfied. People can now rest assured that the Post-Register has a "fighting editor." Washington Post Register. It has been thoroughly demonstrated that alfalfa is very profitable in fatten ing cattle, and it necessarily follows that land where alfalfa and corn can be profitably raised will become es pecially valuable. Both of these crops are especially adapted to Jewell county soil, therefore land in this locality is certain to make a great advance in price within the next few years. It need not be feared that the market for alfalfa will be glutted for the reason that the area where it can be grown without ir rigation is very limited. East of Kan sas the clay subsoil is an unsurmounta ble barrier to its production, while in the west a lack of moisture prevents its growth without irrigation. Jewell County Monitor. Bucket Shop Bill Amended. The house committee of the whole has amended the anti-bucket shop law, mak ing it a felony to operate a shop, but only a misdemeanor to patronize one or to rent a building in which a bucket shop is oper ated. The bill was recommended for passage, subject to amendment and debate. tablish a stable Philippines. HOW THEY VOTED. .Washington, Feb. 6. The vote on the treaty in detail was as follows: Teas Aldrich, Allen, Allison, Baker, Burrows, Butler, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Clay, Cullom, Davis, DeBoe, El kins, Fairbanks, Faulkner, Foraker, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gray, Hanna, Hansbrough, Harris, Hawley, Jones (Nev.), Kenny, Kyle, Lindsay, Lodge, McBride, McEnery, McLaurin, McMil lin, Mantle, '-Mason, Morgan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Piatt (Conn.), Piatt (N. Y.), Pritchard, Quay, Ross, Sewell, Shoup, Simon, Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Teller, Thurston, Warren, Wellington, Wolcott 57. Nays Bacon, Bate, Berry, Caf fery. Chilton, Cockrell, Daniel, Gorman. Hale, Heitfeld, Hoar, Jones, (Arkansas), Mallory, Mar tin, Mills, Mitchell, Money, Murphy, Pasco, Pettigrew, Rawlins, Roach, Smith, Tillman, Turley, Turner, ;Vest 27. Absent and paired Messrs. Cannon and Wilson for; with White against, and Messrs Proctor and Wetmore for, with Mr. Turpie against. THE CITY ISSUE. It Is Closely Drawn Although Opposition to Drew Trying to Evade It. The issue in this city campaign 13 whether the people of Topeka will re main at the mercy of the waterworks company and its high charges neces sary to earn an income on three times its actual value or whether the will of the citizens of Topeka will be carried out in spirit and the waterworks sys tem be controlled by the people who live here. Great efforts will be made to evade this issue and it is now being stated that the contest between Mr. Drew and Mr. Brooks is a friendly one. Despite all the denials which may be made Mr. Drew stands with the people on this question and Mr. Brooks stands with the friends of the New Jersey cor poration which wishes, by hook or crook, to extend its franchise beyond the time when it expires two years hence. Mr. Frank Brooks will doubtless come out and say that he favors the mu nicipal ownership of the water plant, but this should not fool anybody. The line is strongly drawn between the two candidates and no kind of words or evasion put into Mr. Brooks' mouth can evade the issue, even if Mr. Brooks thinks he is with the people on this subject. PHARMACIST BILL To Make Pharmacists Without Com plying With the General Law. The special pharmacists' bill came up in committee of the whole this after noon. The public health committee pre sented 34 names to be made pharmacists. Mr. Moore of Marshall thought they might as well have included everyone who applied, and he moved to strike out the enacting clause. The committee vouched for every name it presented and Mr. Moore finally withdrew his mo tion after considerable debate, and the bill was recommended for passage. TOLSTOI MAY BE EXILED. fN. Y. Journal St. Petersburg Cable.! The report of the expulsion of Count Tolstoi in the near future will not down, despite the extremely cordial meeting which the great Russian idealist had with the czar recently. The report is founded principally on the fact that the count has made a host of enemies by the aid he has given to the emigrating Doukobors, or Russian Quakers, who are founding settlements in the Canadian Northwest. The czar is highly displeased at the action of Count Tolstoi's eldest son, who is making preparations to accom pany a large number of emigrants to America, where he will help them to ac quire homes, after which he will return under the parental roof. The Doukobors say they receive in spiration directly from heaven, without sacerdotal or biblical intervention. They disregard the priesthood and the sacra ments, reject the doctrine of the Trini ty, and refuse to take the path or to enlist in military service. This sect dates from the days of Pe ter the Great, when small communities were started all over the Russian em pire. They suffered great persecution under Catherine II. and Paul I. Al exander I.tolerated them.confining them however to the province of Taurien. In 1891 they were removed to the district of Anhalkalaki, in Trans-Caucasia. They are industrious and are excellent farmers and cattle raisers. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, Feb. 6. WHEAT Very favorable Argentina crop reports todav, together with a sharp decline at Liverpool, started wheat weak. May opened 5c lower at 71ffic, and as there seemed to be a pretty general disposition to cover shorts on the pre sumption that after an 8c break with prac tically no reaction some immediate rally was due, May advanced to 72c. Chicago received 84 cars, of which only 4 graded contract. Minneapolis and Duluth got 621 car loads as compared with 600 for the corresponding day a year ago. World's shipments last week. Including Australia, amounted to 9,250.000 bushels, compared with 7,150.000 bushels the previous week. The increase was chiefly from America and Argentine, while Russian and Indian shipments showed a marked decrease. There was considerable selling from the outside of May around 72Gc. but indi cations of a heavy export business at the Atlantic coast during the day caused suf ficient demand to hold the price at 72c. CORN Lower cables and favorable wea ther for heavy receipts were against corn at the start. Country acceptances, how ever, were small and caused heavy buy ing of futures on the part of receiving houses. Receipts were 743 cars. May open ed c lower at 36c and advanced to 37c. OATS An improvement in cash demand together with buying for the long account strengthened oats. Receipts, 251 cars. May started unchanged at 27e and ruled steady at 27a2c. PROVISIONS Libera shipments of meat and diminishing receipts of hogs strengthened provisions. Pork and ribs were lower at the start, but buying by outsiders through commission houses started an upturn. May pork opened 2 St-5c lower at $10.0210.05 and rose to $10.15 ffilO.17. May lard began 2c lower at $3.72 and advanced to $o.75&5.77. May ribs started 2c down at $5 and advanced to $5.07. BARLEY Cash, 4151c. RYE Cash, 55c: May, 57c. TIMOTHY February, $2.40; March, $2.47. FLAX Cash northwestern,$1.18; south western, $1.11; May, $1.18. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Feb. 6. HOGS Receipts. 38.000; left over, 3,627. Market fairly active, mostly Rc lower. Light, $3,604(3.65; mixed, $3,5543.80, heavy. S. Barnum rwAVINQ PURCHASED the business of S. Bar- 11 JL num firm are desirous of paying for same in one great lump, and to effect this end, will offer for the next 30 days merchandise at prices that have never had a parallel in this or any other community. All of the recent great efforts put forth by the former firm will be eclipsed by this one great offering. We point with pride to the magnificent condi tion of the present stocks. You could not find a cleaner nor more seasonable stock in any city in this country. The policy of inspiring the .most unbounded confidence in the minds of the purchasing public in their dealings with this firm will be rigidly ad- J hered to. Every purchase made herb is subject to J? giving absolute satisfaction-if for any cause it should prove otherwise, return goods, when the full amount of the purchase price will be refunded. a There is nothing that is so essential to a sue- cessful business career as confidence between buyer and seller It will be the guiding star in our dealings with the patrons of this house. I The S. Barnum Dry Goods Carpet Co. J Agents for Butterick Patters and Publications the Standard of the World. h i $3.50(33.85; rough, $3.503.60; yorkers, $3.60 3.65. CATTLE Receipts, 14,Euu. uooa sraues, steady, others weak. Beeves, $4'(ia.90; rnwa and heifers. $2(34.75: Texas steers. $3.50(54.80: stockers and feeders, S3.204.60. SHEKP Receipts, zu.uuu. oieauy w miouo lower. Natives, $34.25; lambs, $4&4.9b. Saturday's official: HOGS Receipts, 19,818: shipments, 4.94o. CATTLE Receipts, 128: shipments, 8P6. SHEEP Receipts, 18; shipments, none. Estimated receipts of hogs for tomor row, 32,000. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Feb. CATTLE Receipts. 4,000. Market steady to shade lower. Native steers, $3.905.5O: Texas steers, $2.504.80: Texas cows, $2 oO ff4 35- native cows and heifers, $2 ;.g4.10: stockers and feeders. $2.85&4.90; bulls, $2.50 REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No V,"t. Pr. 18 native steers J420 $5.50 47 Texas steers J 4.80 ia Tno ..nwa 1022 3.3o 24 native cows and heifers 839 4.10 38 stockers and leeoers (J 8 bulls 1929 .4.00 HOGS Receipts, 6,000. Market weak to Be lower. Bulk of sales, $3.50g3.65; heav ies, $3.533.75; packers, $3.503.70: mixed, $3 45S3.65; lights, $3.40(&3.50; yorkers, $3.4o 3-50: pigs, $3.1503.40. SHEEP Receipts, 3,000. Market steady. Lambs, $3.8oS5; muttons, $34.20. Bangs of Prices Furnished by E. M. Strawn Brokerage Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Telephone No. 637. Chicago. Feb. 6. Article. WHEAT- May July CORN May July OATS May July PORK May LARD May July RIBS May July Open H!gh Low Close Sat. 7174 69T4 36 37 2754 26 .10 07 5 72 5 82 5 02 5 17 72Mi 7114 72- 72-4 70 6934 70 7H4-4 37 3S 37M, 3634,- 37 37 37- 37 28 27 28 27T4 28- 25 26- 26 10 17 10 05 1015-17 10 07 6 77 5 70 5 77 5 70 6 85 5 82 5 85 5 07 5 03 5 07 5 02 5 17 5 12 5 17 5 12-15 Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, Feb. 6. WHEAT Steady. No. 2 hard, 4ie51c; No. 3, 61(.65e; No. 2 red. 73c; No. 3, 6&(&71c; No. 2 spring ,6S64c; No. 3. 60663c CORN c lower. No. 2 mixed, 32c; No. 2 white. 331333: No. 3, Sihic OATS Steady. No. 2 white, 29!g'c SmUITl and Carpet uOi SUCCESSORS TO Co., 619 Co., the proprietors of the present RTE Firm. No. 2, 54c. HAY Firm and unchanged. BUTTER Firm. Separator.163.18c; dairy, 15c EGGS Steady. Fresh, 15c. Receipts: "Wheat, 178 cars; corn, 90 cars; oats;' 11 cars; rye, 3 cars. New York Money Market. New York, Feb. 6. MONEY Money on call, 212!ti3 per cent; prime mercantile paper, 2'S314 per cent; sterling exchange easier, with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4.85 for de mand and at $4.83 for 60 days; posted rates, $4.84a4.84 and $4.864.86; commer cial bills, $4.824.83. SILVER Silver certificates, 5960c; bar silver, 69c; Mexican dollars, 47c. BONDS Government bonds strong. 3s, 107; new 4s, registered, 128; new 4s, cou pon, 128: 4s. 112; 4s. coupon, 112: 2s, 99; 5s, registered, 111; 5s, coupon, 111. Sugar Market. New York, Feb. 6. SUGAR Raw firm: fair refining, 3c; centrifugal 96 test, 4c; molasses sugar, 3e. Refined firm; crushed, 5c; pow dered, 6c; granulated, 5c Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by E. M. Strawn Broker age Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Telephone No. 637. Pew York. Feb. 6. Stocks. Sugar Am. Tobacco People's Gas Leather B. R. T. Rock Island C, B. Q. C, M. St- P. Atchison Atchison Pfd Manhattan Op'niHighl Low ICl'se iSat. 133 144 133! 144 132 139 "4 132 133 144 114 I 72 I 91 118 135 I 127 I 22 61 112 95 45 23 149 137' 4 40 113 72 91 117 13414 112 72 117 134l 126 21 60 111 94 45 22 14 135 49 113 73 92 117 134 127. 22 61V4 111 95 46 2 149 136 50 21 43 92 118 135 127 126' 22: 62: 60 1H1A 112 95 Western Union Mo., .Pacific Wabash C. N. W. N. Y. Central.. Federal Steel Reading T. C. I Union Pacific U. P. Pfd L. N 4s: 23 14S 45: 149 ltfi 50 21 50! 21-54 42 21 i 21'l 42: 42 47 41 46 79 46 79 65 47l 47 80 I 80 SI 66 38 17 52 65 37! 16 50 66 6' M..K. T. Pfd 37 37 37 16 51 C. G. W No. Pac No. Pac Pfd 50 9 I 80 '9; Market Gossip. Furnished by E. M. Strawn Broker age Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka. Kan. Telephone No. 637. Liverpool: Wheat, d lower; corn, "id lower. Kansas Ave. Receipts of hogs: Chicago. 36,000. steady; Kansas City, 5,000, steady; Omaha, 2,5o0, steady. Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 14,5n.steady; Kansas City, 4,000, steady; Omaha, 1,500, steady. Chicago: Estimated receipts of hogs for Tuesday, 32,000. Visible supply: Wheat, increase 401,000 bushels; corn, increase 1,069,000 bushels; oats, increase, 13.000 bushels. Chicago receipts: Wheat, 57 care; corn, 743 cars: oats, 25 cars. New York: The decline In the stock market following the publication of the weekly statement of averages of the New York associated banks on Saturday re flected the supersensitiveness of the aver age Wall street operator to the immediata technical bank showing, to which refer ence was made on Saturday in this col umn. Of more lasting importance to the stock speculation will be the result of tha vote to be taken with regard to the rati fication of the treaty with Spain, fixed for 3 o'clock today. Advices from Washing ton as to the prospect of ratification are very conflicting, and some doubt will lin ger In the minds of operators until tha actual vote is recorded. Frequent reac tions which took place last. week, and es pecially the sharp break about mid-day on Friday, have, it is agreed, taken a great deal of congestion out of specula tion. It is rare to find an intelligent ob server a bear on the stock market because of doubt as to the natural conditions. The principal argument advanced by those who believe that prices will decline Is that there are so many influential bulls who have taken profits that they will work to secure a lower level on which to recover what they have sold. This theory fail to take account of the constant growth of capital now going on in the United States. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FOR EXCHANGE; Tribune bicycle, good condition, for good young horses Address Bicycle, care Journal. WANTED Orders for silk embroidery and drawn work; lessons given in each of these branches of art. Call for particu lars at 1227 Monroe st. Fulmer Sisters. LOST One right hand fur gauntlet. Re ward for return to 124 West Eighth St. LOST White French poodle dog, answers to name "Dewey." Liberal reward for return to Mrs. Eugene Hagan, 12bo West Sixth. WANTED A good white girl for general housework. 703 Palk. WANTED County agents, make from $2 to $5 a day. Combination Wrench and Jack Co., Cleveland, O. Frank A. Carr, Gen'l State Agent, Box 117, TopeJo. 1

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOUHNAIi, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY G..1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAC LE.VNAN. VOLUME XXVI -No- 30 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. -Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 rents a week to any part of Tope lea or suburbs, or at the same price tn any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier By mail, one year 21 By mail, three months Weekly edition, oae year PERMANENT HOME. Teneka State Journal Building. WX ana 802 Kansas avenue, corner or Elgntn. KTTW TORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFTCT!. Stock Exchange BuUdiri. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. i I,ONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. 1ft, asmp-s Office Be 1 Phope 17 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 577 How quickly the millions made on paper disappear when the speculators try to realize. Robert P. Porter hangs on to office like a native born American and an Ohio man at that. It would be Interesting to know what kind of eggs David Hill has placed in tils political incubator. Three million dollars to Cuba, $20,000, 000 to Spain; walk up. gentlemen, and make your wants known. The man who started out to keep a record of the new trusts formed has probably given up' in despair. "When the Castellanes palace In Paris became too cold to live in why didn't Anna burn some of her money? One by one our idols are shattered. 'An eastern authority declares that whisky is not good for snake bites. It doesn't matter much whether the Cubans are paid J3.000.000 or $60,000,000. The Tankees will soon get it all back. From behind his entrenchments of embalmed and canned beef, General utiles continues to pour hot shot into the packers. 'A bill has been introduced In the New York legislature to prevent premature burials. It is suspected of being in the interest of David B. Hill. A Kansas City paper says the devil has a grip on that town. Dr. Parkhurst will be surprised to hear that fais old enemy has gone on a tour. During the year just past the treasury of New Jersey was enriched to the ex tent of $2,359,198, all from fees in con nection with the organization of foreign corporations. The agitation of the Nicaragua canal question seems to have been productive of one good result. It has caused the Panama people to go to work with in creased energy. Efforts to pass an antl-eleo bin have been made in lawyer legislatures and in farmer legislatures. Friends of the i measure should elect a dairy andcream ery legislature next time. With a horde of detectives at the Pennsylvania capital, watching for an opportunity to bag that $55,000 bribery fund it is not surprising that the sena torial deadlock continues in existence. Sioux City Tribune: John D. Rocke feller, in an address to young men, stated that he would pay a salary of $1,000,000 a year to any young man who will take charge of the business of the Standard Oil company and conduct it Intelligently. That is a pretty safe ofTer. Any young man who can con duct Rockefeller's business Intelligently Is capable of making more money than that in a year, because he would be able to use Rockefeller's methods. The 'Arkansas legislature has heen asked for an appropriation to fight the smallpox epidemic. Realizing, probably, that if they waited for legislative ac tion most of the inhabitants might be -dead, the people have established a Bhotgun quarantine about the infected district. The plan possesses the merit t)f rapidity and efficiency. If the legis lature is not above the average the dis ease will probably have been eradi cated before any bill for Its suppres sion becomes a law. Philadelphia Record: The pulp and paper trust, which was organized a year ago, has had such signal success, under cover of tariff discrimination, in maintaining high prices for news paper that another trust has been projected to similarly put up the prices of writ ing paper. The tribute exacted by these combinations is an especially odious form of taxation to which the federal government is an accessory be fore the fact without material benefit to the federal treasury. The high-handed attempt of the pulp and paper trust to dictate the terms of proposed re ciprocity between this country and Canada if It shall serve to arouse a suitable indignation may In the end effect a good result. The duties on pulp and paper can not be too soon repealed. GLOBE SIGHTS. rFrom the Atchison Globe. The more sympathy a man gets, the worse he feels. Tou can't get along with some peo ple unless you join their church. You should keep your inward feel ings secret, particularly silly ones. There are so many outrages in the world that no one man can worry about them all. I When a doctor gives a bride a wed ding present, people watch to see if he gets the future trade he -expects. When a woman is sick nothing pleases her more than for the doctor to say that he worried about her in the night. Some people are always excusing their deficiencies by saying that they don't do their best. Why don't they do their best? f 'A great distinction is claimed by an Atchison family: at a funeral of the husband and father a number of years ago, three of the women folks fainted. Every one longs for some one who understands him, not realizing that the cause of half the trouble in life is that a man's friends understand him too well. i At a recent dinner party in Atchison, seven different kinds of wine were served, apparently. There were seven different bottles, but the wine all come from a 50 cent jug of native claret. An Atchison woman discovered re cently that she had been slighted by failure to get an invitation to a party. In order to show that she entertains no hard feeling toward the hostess, she intends to go. anyway. PEOPLE YOHEAE OF. Miss Helen Gould has read law exten sively and did she so desire could prac tice in the courts of New York. Joel Chandler Harris is said to be the wealthiest newspaper writer in the Uni ted States. He is as devout and char itable as he is wealthy. Edward 33. Talcott, the young bro ker who has just retired from Wall street, after amassing a large fortune, is a base ball enthusiast and himself a pitcher of no mean ability. Hiram Walker, the Canadian distiller, who recently died. had a mania for mak ing wills. He divided his millions among his relatives two or three years ago, but reserved for himself an income of $30, 000 a year, and from this he built up a new fortune in a very short time. Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, who will be succeeded by N. B. Scott on March 4, will then return to tha practice of law, at which he formerly was successful. Several members of his family have been distinguished at the bar. His father was one of West Vir ginia's famous lawyers and was minis ter to Franca under President Buchan an. i Should it look like rain when Senator Cockrell starts forth in the morning the Missourian carries with him a ven erable cotton umbrella of vast propor tions. He is an absent-minded man and occasionally is seen walking under tha dome of the capitol with his umbrella still hoisted. Senator Turpie, equally absent-minded, sometimes does the same thing. Congressman Johnson of Indiana.who made such a sensational attack on the army bill, has a rapidity of utterance to which no powers of description would do justice. His average rate is 250 words a minute, about a tnira taster tnan me AAmrraaainnal t 't U H T" while l i maximum is fully 400 words. This is believed to be the limit of possible en unciation in English. He is never at a loss for a word, and never, like so many other congressmen, finds himself in an oratorical cul de sac. HOT TALK FOLLOWS. The Manila Situation Arouses the United State Senators. Washington, Feb. 6. Senator Allen of Nebraska made a speech in the senate, denying published statements that he would attack Senator Gorman for using the peace treaty as a means to defeat Bryan. He said he did not keep Mr. Bryan's conscience and he paid a warm tribute to that leader. He (Allen) was opposed to expansion, but our duty now was to ratify the treaty. There was weeping in Nebraska today and he con demned the Filipinos as bloodthirsty savages who had precipitated an attack upon us. Mr. Gorman spoke, replying particu larly to Mr. Wolcott's speech, saying that it was such an attack as he did not expect. He said that at three elections he had obtained the height of his am bition. He repudiated the idea that he had taken a position for personal ad vantage. If such had been the case, he could have secured more from his party when "thrift would follow fawn ing." He said he believed that the bat tle in Manila was but the beginning and if the treaty were ratified war would follow for years, costing lives and mil lions upon millions in money. Mr. Gorman referred to what had been done in China regarding immigra tion to those islands and said how eight years later we take Islands which will be but a stepping stone for the Chinese to the United States. He predicted that within four years the people would re sent the action. He said in connection with the Philippines it was proposed to increase the army to 100,000. He pro tested against it. AGONCILLO IS WATCHED. Secret Service Detectives Are On His Track. Montreal Feb. 6. AgoncIIIo and his secretary are being watched by two strangers supposed to be United States secret service men. One of them shadowed Marti, the secretary who went out for ad rive and the other re mained in the hotel to watch Agoncillo who busied himself with tearing up a number of documents. WON HIS SUIT. Sheriff Cook Wins a $1,200 Damage Case. The damage suit of Helen G. Pond against Sheriff Porter S. Cook termin ated today and the jury brought in a verdict for the defendant. Mrs. Pond attached the drug stock of Lee Jones several months ago and the sheriff refused to hold the stock unless an Indemnity bond was given. Sheriff Cook was then sued for $1,200, the amount of the judgment. Gov. Smith's Assailant Sentenced. Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 6. A. G. Brad ley, the old soldier who shot Governor Smith of the soldiers home at Santa Monica, and was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to two years in San Quentin today. To Entertain Judge Hook. The Topeka Bar association has ap pointed a committee to arrange for a reception for Judge W. C. Hook, the new federal judge, upon his arrival in Topeka. The committee Is composed of the following attorneys: J. G. Slon ecker, John W. Day, Howel Jones, J. J. Hitt and David Overmyer. Men are seldom as good as they pre tend to be or as bad as they are said to be. Nature is the mother and habit is the step-mother. KANSASJEWS:. Clyde Has a Sensation Possi ble Grare Robbery. A Young Doctor In Possession of a Headless Corpse. WHERE DID HE GET IT? It is at Present a Mystery and an Exciting One. The Case Will Be Investigated by the Officials. Clyde, Feb. 6. This, town came very near having a sensation, and may yet when the particulars become further known. A young man living here who desires gleaning all the knowledge he can in the science of medicine and the forma tion of the human body, came into posses sion of a corpse, or a portion of one, through some means not yet known to the public. He had it concealed in a bag in an ustairs room over one of our business houses, and different ones who have seen it said it was a part of a human body, headless and with flesh on it. The odor became unbearable, and the young man not giving out any of the par ticulars, the public insisted on notifying the county attorney and coroner, who are expected to unravel the mystery. As soon as it was found out. the young man in whose possession the corpse was found Immediately had the same spirited away and the matter rests for the time. Those who live in Clyde and who have peen the corpse demand a thorough in vestigation in the case and if possible get the facts as to where the corpse came from. Grave robbing is hinted at by some. D. R. ANTHONY SUES. Leavenworth Times Brings Action for Alleged Libel Against tha Standard. Leavenworth, Feb. 6. The filing of a libel suit for $5,000 damages against the Standard Publishing company by Col. D. R. Anthony in the district court Saturday evening, caused a commotion in local newspaper and political circles. Col. Anthony bases his suit on an ar ticle that appeared in the Standard Oc tober 10, asking him to explain about his receiving $25 from the late Charles Sherman, a well known policy gambler of Leavenworth and Kansas City. The article is insinuating, and does not make the charge direct. Col. Anthony states that he never received a dollar from a gambler in his life, that the ar ticle is an insinuation and false, ma licious and libelous. Ex-United States Marshal S. F. Neely Is said to have the management of the Standard, and a warm suit is prom ised. COURT HOUSE FOR MITCHELL. Glen Elder Citizens Offer a Unique Proposition to Beloit. Beloit, Feb. 6. Mitchell is about the only county in the state without a court house. Neither has the county a nor mal school. A representative body of citizens of Glen Elder met a like committee of Be loit people, and made ap roposition that if Beloit would work to secure for Glen Elder a normal her people in return would work to build a court house in Beloit. So far the county officers of Mitchell county can be found located in six separate buildings in Beloit and if a stranger should come to town to see all of them it would take a good day's work to walk around and hunt them up. It is said the Glen Elder proposition found but little sympathy among the Beloit people. COLDEST YEAR IN TWELVE. Fruit Still Safe in Western Kansas, and Stock Doing Well. Garden City, Feb. 6. This has been the coldest winter in southwest Kansas in 12 years not the stormiest or lowest thermometer but almost 4 months without a thaw. For the last few years farmers could plow sometime in every i month or the year except this. For a week it has been very cold and cloudy 10 below zero. Fruit is considered safe. Stock is coming through the winter with but little less, but requiring con stant feeding, which is greatly increas ing the expense. A great deal of land changing hands, mostly for cattle ranches; not much advance in price but increased sales. DEAD IN HIS STORE. Pittsburg Kan Thought to Have Taken His Own Life. Pittsburg, Feb. 6. Emil J. Israel, the senior partner of the firm of Israel Bros., dry goods department store of this city, was found dead in his store Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock, under circumstances which would indicate that he had taken his own life. He left his residence about 10 o'clock in the morning for the purpose of visit ing his violin instructor and taking a violin lesson. Not having returned at dinner time his wife became uneasy and at 3 o'clock she got her brother-in-law, Sam Israel, the junior partner of the firm, to go in search of him. On going to the store he was horrified to find his brother lying dead in front of a mirror in the clothing department, with a re volver lying near him. The police were called and took Dyspepsia Is Conquered By Hood's Sarsaparilla. "I have been a sufferer with dyspepsia. I could not eat anything without distress. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and after the use of a few bottles of this med icine I am able to eat anything I wish and my food does not diatresa me. Hood's Sarsaparilla has purified my blood and I believe it to be the best of medicines. I have felt better in every way since taking It." Eva Cbaio, Fort Scott, Kansas. "After trying many prescriptions for dyspepsia without benefit I got a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and found it gave me great relief. I continued taking it until I was cured." Mas. Sarah Cable, Durachen, Kansas. If you have decided to take Hood's Sar saparilla do not buy any other instead. Hood5 S parilla Is the One True Blood Purifier- All druggists. Price, $1 six for $5. Get only Hood's. are the best after-dinner tlOOU S PUIS puis, aid digestion, 26c. charge of the store, and excluded every" one until a coroner s jury was gathered. The coroner and jury viewed the body as it lay and after ascertaining the facts in the case adjourned until tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The evidence gathered from the posi tion of the body and revolver indicate that he had stood before a mirror and shot himself, a bullet wound being found in his right temple. The revolver was a five-chamber thirty-two caliber, one chamber being empty. The cause of the suicide is not accounted for, the affairs of the firm being ia good condi tion. Holdup at Baxter. Fort Scott, Feb. 6. Two men who had been allowed to warm by the stove in the waiting room in the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis railway station, at Baxter, held up and robbed the night men of the railway and Adams Express companies at 5 o'clock Saturday morn ing and secured about $100. Jointist Was Found Guilty. Miltonvale, Feb. 6. Peter Hammerly, the jointist who last fall shot into a company of temperance crusaders, who were entering his place, and severely wounding the editor of the Miltonvale Press, has been found guilty of assault. A new trial is being sought. More Wichita Convicts Caught. Eldorado, Feb. 6. Harry Alley, one of the prisoners who broke jail at Wichita this week, was captured at Potwin Saturday, was brought here and lodged in jail. A. Adams, another one of the prisoners, was captured at Augusta. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Feb. 6. Pensions have been granted as follows: Increase William S. Brown, Reams ville, $10 to $14; Ira S. Miller, Beloit, $6 to $8. Original wldows.etc. Amanda E.Sha han, Leeds, $8; Albertine Gosshopff, Twin Mound, $S. A Remarkable Fossil. Concordia, Feb. 6. While digging stone in a hill near town there was un earthed part of what mayp rove a re markable fossil. It appears to be the petrified skeleton of an elephant-like creature, nine and a half feet high and fourteen feet long. Geological experts will examine It to determine if it is actually a prehistoric relic. Has the Most Postoffices. Wellington, Feb. 6. Sumner county has another distinction, which Is called to the attention of the state: There are more postoffices in Sumner county than in any other county in Kansas. There are 33. 24 OF THEM. PromlnentAnti-ExpansionistsPetltion the Senate. New Tork, Feb. 6 The following peti tion, signed by 24 citizens of the United States and addressed "to the senate of the United States," has been made pub lic The signers are: Charles Francis Adams, Boston. Felix Adler. George S. Boutwell, ex-secretary of the treasury. John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of the treasury. Andrew Carnegie. Grover Cleveland. Theodore L. Cuyler. Charles H. Eliot, president of Harvard university. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. John P. Henderson, ex-United States senator from Missouri. William B. Hornblower. W. B. Palmer, president of the Rio Grande Western railway. Wheeler H. Peckham. Sherman S. Rogers, Buffalo. Carl Schurz, ex-secretary of the in terior. Edward Burritt Smith, Chicago. Mporefield Story, Boston. William G. Sumner, Yale university. Rev. Henry VanDyke. Herman von Hoist, University of Chi cago. William L. Wilson, ex-postmastet general, now president of Washington and Lee university, Virginia. Theodore S. Woolsey, Yale university. Henry C. Potter, bishop of New York. "To the Senate of the United States: "The undersigned respectfully sub mit that the treaty between the United States and the kingdom of Spain, now before your honorable body, ought not to be ratified until provisions shall be inserted, as part of its text, to the ef fect that the United States shall not annex the Philippine islands or Porto Rico, or permit' their inhabitants to be come citizens, or compel them to be come subjects of the United States without their free consent and the fur ther and express authority of congress. There seems to be no reason to doubt the entire willingness of Spain to mod ify the treaty in these respects or to suppose that the delay of its ratifica tion for this purpose involves the slight est renewal of hostilities. "We submit that every constitutional treaty when ratified becomes a part of the 'supreme law of the land' (constitu tion, article VI). If the United States accept absolute cession of the Philip pines and Porto Rico under the treaty, it will be claimed with a force irresist ible that the acceptance will, of Itself, make the territory ceded a part of the United States and to give to their in habitants (who shall not elect to retain Spanish citizenship) and to their de scendants the rights of American citi zens. "We submit that the treaty, unless mod ified, will introduce changes of a far reaching character into both the foreign and domestic policy of this republic. The late war was undertaken with our dis tinct assurance that we did not look to ward foreign conquest or the acquisition of territory. It was undertaken and thus we plighted the honor of the American nation in the cause of humanity and lib erty, and for no other purpose. "As a result of the war Cuba, Porto Rico and the many hundred islands near the coast of Asia known as the Philip pines have fallen more or less under the control of this country. Spain abandons her sovereignty over all of them. But in addition the treaty purposes that, as to the Philippines and Porto Rico, an abso lute cession shall be made to and accepted by the United States. Over the Philip pines and Porto Rico, therefore, should the treaty be confirmed, the United States will acquire precisely the sovereignty which Spain has enjoyed. The pres ident has on various occasions indi cated a disposition on the part of the ex ecutive to hold the Philippines and Porto Rico as a part of the United States and. as has been pointed out, that may well be the effect of the treaty in its present form. Such, at any rate, is the intention of most of those who are now crowding upon us the plan of 'expansion.' HE HAS OVER 300. Sim Bear Says He Has Received That Many Subscriptions for Telephone. S. J. Bear who Is making a canvass of the city in the interest of a new tele phone company, says that he has rea son to feel greatly encouraged over the pospect. "I already have over 300 subscribers on my list," said he, "and I do not pro pose to stop at 600 or even 700. I have not yet had an opportunity to make a thorough canvass and have not seen many of the business men. The ques tion of granting our company a fran chise will come up in Lawrence Monday night and I am satisfied that it will be granted.' A LITTLEFUNNY. Great "To Do" Made About Alleged Gambling In Bucketshops, While Members of the Legislature ARE PLAYING POKER Every Night in High-Up Rooms in Hotels. "Why Does n't the Legislature Go After Its Own Lawbreakers Before Plucking the Mote Out of Others' Eyes. The house went into committee of the whole at 11 o'clock this morning to con sider Beneflel's anti-bucket shop bill. Mr. Benefiel himself made the motion to consider the bill. As soon as the bill was before the house Adams of Sedgwick moved that the enacting clause be stricken out, and the motion was seconded by Hallett of Rush. Mr. Benefiel at once went to Mr. Adams and held a whispered conference with him, during which time the house waited. Some one suggested that the house better take a recess until the two got the matter adjusted, but Mr. Haines of Lyon, who was in the chair, ruled that the house would have to wait. Mr. Adams insisted on his motion and the discussion began. He was against the bill, he said, because he was op posed to "regulating" all the private affairs of men. Mr. Fairchild of Kingman supported the measure. "Out in my town," he said, "we had a young man in a bank. No one doubted his integrity and hon esty, but today he is a fugitive from justice, all because of a bucket shop, and the bank is short $42,000 on account of his operations. I am against bucket shops because they ruin young boys." Mr. Benefiel then took the floor and said: "I had not expected that this measure would meet with any opposi tion and I am surprised that it has done so. Bucket shops are sometimes referred to as gambling houses, but that is a mistake. They are not en titled to the dignity of gambling dens. If they were I might not be so strong ly opposed to them. The business is deliberate stealing. Out at Russell a bank has failed and the president is a fugitive from justice. A short time ago he was wealthy, and he can point to the bucket shop as the cause of the change. Only 3 per cent of the money invested in these bucket shops stays in Kansas. The rest all goes to Kansas City and Chicago." Mr. Grattan at this point asked a question concerning the wording of the bill, objecting to some of its provisions. In reply Mr. Benefiel said: "When this bill was introduced the Kansas City bucket shop decided to kill it in the courts, because they thought it was framed as the gentleman from McPher son suggests, but when they found just how it was, they set to work to kill it in this legislature." Mr. Babb also opposed the bilL "I was under the impression," he said, "that bucket shop operations were gambling, but it seems that they are not. In gambling there must be the el ement of chance, but it seems in bucket shops there is no chance except for the other fellow." Mr. Elder of Stafford spoke for the bill andMr.Adams made another speech against it. Mr.Johnston of Kearney asked:"Does the author, of this bill know that it will throw 1,200 telegraph operators out of work "No, I don't know any such thing," replied Mr. Benefiel, "but I do know that it will take $10,000 a year away from the Western Union Telegraph company, which refused to pay its war tax. and I don't care if it does." (Ap plause.) The motion to strike out the enacting clause was voted down by an over whelming vote, and the bill was taken up by sections. It provides that not only the bucket shop operator, but also the man who patronized them shall be guilty of a felony and sent to the peni tentiary for not less than five years. Adams of Sedgwick and Seaver of Ellsworth opposed the penalties and tried to make it a misdemeanor, but they were voted down. After several sections had been adopted Mr. Grattan opposed making the owner of a build ing where a bucket shop was operated, a felon, and Speaker Osborn also spoke along the same line. "I am in favor," he said, "of the law as applied to the men who run bucket shops to filch money from the pockets of people, but I don't believe a poor devil who goes into a bucket shop and loses ten dollars in it ought to be sent to the penitentiary for five years. If this law is to be enforced the evidence must come from this sort of people, and they will not testify if by so doing it will send them to prison." Mr. Grattan moved that the house adjourn and the motion prevailed with the understanding that the discussion will be taken up later. BREECH WIDER THAN EYER Mrs. Sloane to" Receive a Money Al lowance in Return for the Sur render of Her Daughters. New York, Feb. 6. Those friends of Mr. and Mrs. Henry T. Sloane who had hoped that the recent painful differ ences would be quietly settled, were amazed to learn today that the breach had been widened by the removal of the Misses Sloane from their mother's care. Further inquiry has served to reveal the fact that both Mr. Sloane and his daughters are at present the guests of Mrs. Sloane's sister, Mrs. Edmund Coffin. It is understood that the Misses Sloane will remain for some time under their aunt's care, and that Mrs. Coffin and Mr. Sloane will confer in regard to the important questions of their ed ucation and social training. Mrs. Sloane will not be permanently separated from her daughters, but will see them occasionally. It is rumored that the settlement includes a consider able money allowance to Mrs. Sloane. MAY IRWIN COMING. New York's Stage and Society Favor ite to Visit Topeka May Irwin, the New York favorite, has been booked for a performance of her new piece, "Kate Kip, Buyer," at the Crawford theater late in the present sea son. She is now at the Bijou theater in New York, and is enjoying phenomenal success. Flo Irwin, a sister of May, was here last season with "The Widow Jones." It is safe to say that an addition will have to be built to the opera house to get all the people in who will want to hear her. STATE MINERS. Men Who Dig the Coal Meet in Con vention in the State House. The first annual convention of the Kansas State Association of Mines as sembled at the state house this after noon. Labor Commissioner Johnson called the convention to order. Harry Bousfield of Mineral was chosen temporary chairman. R. T. Williamson, Fleming, secretary. The committee on credentials is com posed of Joseph Forsythe, Frontenac, Robert Gilmore, Scranton, John T. Pratt, Leavenworth. This meeting was addressed by G. C. Clemens, Senator Ryan, J. Fogle and Mine Inspector McGrath. Permanent organization will be effected tomorrow. The delegates to the state miners' convention are: E. C. Overman, Coal Valley. Robert Gilmore, Scammon. Thomas Siddele, Weir City. Henry Bousfield, Mineral. James McGeehan, Midway. John Halliday, Pittsburg. Joseph Forsyth. Frontenac Edward Keegan, Chicopee. W. M. McClusky, Yale, L. J. Love, Pittsburg. John T. Pratt, Leavenworth. P. J. O'Boyle, Miners of the Leaven worth Coal Company association, Leav enworth. Thomas Herzog, Isaiah Jones, Albert Stormquist, John O'Gren, Abe Harris, Robert Sennett, Osage City Miners' as sociation. Louis Matignon of Scranton. Daniil H. Williamson, I.eavenworth. J. J. Sullivan, Nelson. R. T. Williamson, Fleming. RESERVES IN GALLERY. Every Seat Gone to the Opera, and Gallery Seats Reserved Alice Neilsen, the most talked of light opera prima donna on the stage at the present time, is in town today. Her company is with her and the city is full of principals, chorus girls and musi cians. The company arrived from Kansas City in a special train of seven cars shortly after noon. It Includes an or chestra of 14 pieces. Little Miss Neilsen can't stand dissi pation. She was entertained by the press of Kansas City last night, and was up until 4 o'clock this morning. Consequently the first thing she did when she reached the hotel here was to go to bed. Before she retired her maid gave her an alcohol bath, and provided her with a cup of beef tea. Besides the maid who looks after her in the day time she has another whose duty it is to watch over her at night, and see especially that she doesn't throw the covers off in such a way as to expose her throat and render her li able to a cold. At noon today every seat in the par quet and balcony was sold for the per formance of "The Fortune Teller" to night. Reservations are being made in the first three rows in the gallery this afternoon. The audience tonight will be one of the largest that the Craw ford theater has held. DEFICIENCIES TO BE PAID. Full List of Those Whose Salaries He main Unpaid. State Auditor George E. Cole is at work on the list of deficiencies which the legis lature will be asked to replace by appro priations. The amounts asked for are for the remaining six months of the present fiscal year, which expires June 30, 1899. The deficiencies are as follows: Executive council, lights $2,000 Freight 200 Ice 50 Engineers 600 Janitors 600 Messengers 50 Water rent 150 Furniture and fixtures 1,0)0 Contingent fund WO Elevator conductor 300 Governor's private secretary 400 Assistant sftrivtflrv of state 2.50 Chief clerk secretary of state 200 Contingent fund secretary of state 150 Assistant auditor 20 Clerks auditor's office 300 Contingent fund (So cents overdrawn) 3W Clerk of railroad assessors 3"0 Clerks in treasurer's office 2U0 Guard in treasurer's office 50 Clerk attorney general Stenographer attorney general 3 Traveling expenses attorney general.. 100 Postage and telegraphing 125 Assistant state superintendent 200 Bond clerk state superintendent 20-3 Traveling fund, state superintendent 75 Copyright fund state superintendent 75 Adjutant general 100 Contingent fund for armories 400 Pay of militia in actual service 5.0t0 Three railroad commissioners 1,500 Secretary railroad commissioners 300 Clerk railroad commissioners 200 Postage Historical society 150 Postage and express 250 State mine inspector 500 Insurance superintendent 2to Assistant insurance superintendent... 3X Clerk hire 300 Postage and contingent 250 Live stock sanitary commission 400 Supreme court reporter 200 Arrested for Embezzlement. Sheriff Evans, from Clarke county, Mississippi, arrived in Topeka yester day looking for two men wanted for embezzlement. Sergeant Donovan, Chief Strauss and Sergeant Owens as sisted the sheriff In locating his men. Their names were S. F. Miller Sr., and S. F. Miller, Jr. They lived on a farm a mile and half west of Washburn col lege. The sheriff went to Wichita yes terday to have Governor Stanley sign the requisition papers and at 5 o'clock this morning Sheriff Cook, Chief Strauss and Sheriff Evans went to the Miller house and arrested the two men. They pleaded that they be allowed a habeas corpus trial here but Sheriff Evans said he had all the papers properly made out and he marched his men to the Santa Fe train at 7:30 and started for Mississippi. The Latest in Sleeping Cars. The up-to-date Idea of Improvement is shown in new Pullman drawing room sleeping cars running daily from St. Louis to the east over Vandalia-Pennsylvania short lines. These lines lead in introducing the newest and best traveling facilities. Travelers in quest of comfort should get acquainted with the new equipment. Inquiries on tha subject will be answered by J. M. Ches brough, A, G. P. Agt.. St, Louis. Home Seekers Excursion Via Santa Fe Route. Tickets to points In Arizona, Arkan sas. Indian Territory, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas at rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip, on gale February 7. For information, call on Santa Fe agent. Ladies, clean your kid gloves with Miller's Gloveine. For sale only by Crosby Bros., sole agents for the fam ous Reynier and P. L. kid gloves, all the desirable shades. Gloves fitted) and warranted. Tickets to points in Arizona, Arkan sas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas at rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip, on sale February 7. For information, call on Santa Fe agent. Tour linen left epotiess, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh. Telephone 341. POLICEMAN SHOOTS And Wounds a Coal Thief in the Heel Too Free With His Revolver. Patrolman Charles Smith, colored, caught "Chuck" Shields, colored, steal ing coal from the Rock Island yards last night about midnight. The officer arrested Shields and on the way to the station Shields broke away from the officer and ran. Smith drew, his revolver and shot him. The bullet struck Shields in the right heel and he stopped running. He was taken to the station and the wound dressed. It is not considered dangerous. The shooting of escaping prisoners by policemen, particularly if they are only petty criminals, is something that pub lic sentiment in Topeka has always dis couraged. Officer Smith ought to be reprimanded. Shields was arrested at one time by Sergeant Donovan for stealing hitch ing weights from wagons and buggies. The sergeant arrested him with a weight in his possession and started him, with the weight on his shoulder, toward the police station. There was a long strap on the weight and Shields suddenly dropped the weight from his shoulder and started to swing it around his head, holding one end of the strap. He let it go and it wound itself about the sergeant's legs, almost crippling him. Although Shields is a bad negro police officers do not have authority to shoot at him. The law provides that the po lice department shall only capture crim inals, not attempt to kill them. AGAINST ROBERTS. Topeka Ministers Adopt Resolutions Against Polygamy. The Topeka Ministerial union met this morning in the parlors of the Y. M. C. A. and after hearing a paper on "How Disease Comes," by Rev. A. M. Reynolds, the resolution was offered that "the Topeka Ministerial union, as the representatives of 10,000 people liv ing in Topeka, sign a petition against resubmitting the prohibitory amend ment to the people and that copies of the resolution be sent to the governor and the Shawnee representatives and senators." The following resolution was also adopted and copies ordered sent to ail the Kansas congressmen at Washing ton: "Whereas B. H. Roberts, an avow ed and practical polygamist has been elected to congress by and with the sanction of the Mormons; and Whereas, The state was admitted in to the Union with the public and posi tive avowal of said church authorities that polygamy was forever abandoned in compliance with the United States law; and Whereas, Now said Roberts has pub licly professed, admitted and labor iously defended his polygamous rela tions and life; and Whereas, President Lorenzo Snow, prophet, seer and revelator of said church, speaking for the whole body of Mormons not only in Utah but the whole world, does openly and defiantly defend said Roberts in his avowed po lygamous life: therefore. Resolved, Tnat we, members of the Ministerial Union of Topeka, memorial ize and petition the senators and rep resentatives from Kansas to oppose seating of said Roberts, as a member of congress, and so to arrange for the polygamists being ever barred from seats in the halls of the congress of the United States." ALICE NIELSON'S NATIVITY The Prima Donna's Father Was a Tailor at Warrensburg, Mo. Windsor, Mo., Feb. 6. Since Alice Nielson, the opera singer, has become famous,Kansas City has eagerly claim ed her. But the truth is, she Is more of a Warrensburg girl than a Kansas City girl. There are any number of old people here who remember old John Nelson, his wife and four daughters, when the father eked out a precarious existence as a tailor in Warrensburg. The father died there In 1876, and Is buried in the Warrensburg cemetery. Mary, the eldest girl, was always con sidered the singer of the family in those days. Since going on the stage the prima donna has changed the old fam ily name of Nelson to Nielson, but she is the same girl. COMMONWEALTH CLUB Assembles in the Adjutant General's Office Today. Twenty-two people assembled in one of the rooms of the adjutant general's office in the state house this morning for the opening of the Commonwealth institute, which is to continue all week. Edwin Taylor, who was on the pro gramme for a paper on "Plan of College Citizenship," failed to reach Topeka, and Mrs. Annie Diggs talked to the small group of progressive thinkers. Mrs. Diggs said at the start of her remarks that the Commonwealth move ment would never be a success if tied to any one political party. She said that the State Temperance union was unsuccessful simply because it was re garded, very unjustly, as a side issue of the Republican party. To get away from this she advised the selection of persons of different political beliefs for officers. In his paper Mr. Taylor is expected to offer a plan under which the Common wealth movement will be advanced. Arrangements for active work will be made before the institute closes next Saturday. CHOATE'S LONDON HOUSE. Said to Be Negotiating for Lady Cur zon's Property on Carlton House Terrace. London. Feb. 6. Newspapers here state that Mr. Joseph H. Choate. the newly appointed ambassador to Great Britain, is negotiating with the agents of Lord Curzon of Kedleston, viceroy of India, for a lease of No. 1 Carlton House Terrace, which was recently presented to Lady Curzon by her father, Mr. L. Z. Letter of Washington. New York, Feb. 6. Joseph H. Choate will sail from this country on February 22, on the American liner St. Paul, to take up his duties as ambassador to the Court of St. James. Mr. Choate re ceived his Instructions from the state department last week. He will be en tertained at several dinners In his honor, public and private, preious to his departure. One of the dinners will be given by the Union League club. While There is Life There is Hope. I was afflicted with catarrh; could neither taste nor smell and could hear but little. Ely's Cream Balm cured it. Marcus G. Shautz, Rahway, N. J. The Balm reached me safely and th effect is surprising. My son says the first application gave decided relief. Respectfully, Mrs. Franklin Freeman, Dover, N. H. A 10c trial size or the 50c size of Ely's Cream Balm will be mailed. Kept by druggists. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N. Y. Large or small bundles sent for.Amer ican Steam Laundry. Telephone 341. Frank Long, manager, Hotel Oxford and restaurant.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY G, 1899. 5 Absolutely Reliable Always?) New Models. WCKOFF, SEAMANS BENEDICT; 327 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. MCKOFF, &EAH.US BEXEDICT, 105 ff. 9th St., Kansas City, J. F. MYERS, Local Dealer, Topeka, Kansas. WHEN YOU BUY COAL Consider the qual ity inquire as to the results. Poor coal is expensive at any price. IT IS LP TO YOU TRY MARCEUXE Ths Southwestern Fnel Company 193eand144. 634 KANSAS AVE. PRINCESS IS IN AMERICA. Court Circles at Brussels Believe Louise of Saze-Coburg Is Domi ciled in This Country. Brussels, Feb. 6. The so-called rev elations of Le Matin on the alleged martyrdom of Princess Louise of Saxe Coburgr are received with, skepticism here. It Is asserted on ?ood authority that the king paid the princess' debts. As soon as the Nice scandal broke out his majesty also sent a messenger to Nice to attempt a reconciliation of the princess with her husband, but she dis appeared, probably going1 to America, where, it is believed in court circles, she Is still under an assumed name, despite the circumstantial reports of her seques tration in an Austrian asylum. The royal family is very silent on the subject when it is broached, and always says the princess is very ill. It does not allow any other allusion. Flunkeyism at the Capital It was nauseating to read in the pa pers of the many people who indulged in the obsequious act of kissing Mrs. McKinley's hand on New Year's day. Toadyism does not properly belong to a republic, although it is rather hard to know, nowadays, what our country is. If true, it is surprising that this kissing act was allowed by the lady of the White House. The Hobson kissing act is bad enough, but nothing in compari son, so far as significance is concerned, to this contemptible piece of flunkeyism on the part of American people. From the Hartford Times. Women's Skulls Cheapest A medical student is authority for the statement that women's skulls com mand a much lower price than those of men. "It is possible," he says, "to ob tain the skuil of a woman for $1.50. while that of a man can not be had for lss than 2. The reason why? Well, a woman's skull is, as a rule, consider ably smaller than a man's. It is said to be imperfectly developed: it is an in ferior specimen of the article and alto gether less useful to science; hence its lower market value." From the New York Evening Sun. A New Whooping-Cougb. Bacillus. An Italian investigator. Prof. Livio Vincenzi, at Sassari, claims to have dis covered the above. He found it. as stated in the "Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift." in the expectorations of children suffering from whooping rough, in some cases it being present in a very large quantity, while it was absent in other processes of sickness. Prof. Vincenzi ascertained by a series f researches the peculiar qualities of the little organism, but he did not suc- eed In causing by inoculation on ani rnals the same disease as in human be ings. It is, however, a well known fact that whooping cough never occurs in animals. From Public Opinion. Begg's German Salve Is an Invaluable remedy for cuts, 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. tPunc onart chcam or tta powock CREAM r i tt fj td M ti Awarded Highest honors, Worrd's Fair Gold Medal. Midwinter Fair mm THE WESTERN FLIERS. They Will Probably Be Abandoned by Chicaga Lines. Chicago, Feb. 6. Instead of putting on any more fast trains, it is now quite probable that the roads running west from Chicago will soon take off the flyers recently in service between this city and the Missouri river. The reason for the probable abandonment of the time annihilators is the trouble they have caused to the lines that are still adhering to the slower schedules. The ll-hour-and-50-minute Chicago-Omaha passenger and mail train of the Rock Island road was established to take off some of the glitter of the speedy mail trains of the Northwestern and Bur lington companies. The trains of the last named lines were exclusively mail affairs. The Rock Island went its neighbors one better and attached coaches and sleepers to its limited. This, of course, made the Iatter's the fastest passenger carried between the two citiies and stirred up the other roads to a point where the managers made all kinds of threats. The North western reduced its time to that of the Rock Island, and the Burlington people intimated that they would "cut things wide open" and eliminate several hours from the time cards governing the trains not only to Omaha, but to St. Paul and Denver, and the Santa Fe. Alton and other lines vowed they would slash the Chicago-Kansas City time. Under these conditions the only thing in sight for the original time-cutters was a speed war and a consequent demoralization in passenger rates. It is now said the Rock Island man agement is considering the taking off of the coaches and sleepers from its mail train or discontinuing the flyer al together. If this should be done, the Northwestern will lengthen the time of its 12-hour Omaha train, and the other lines will stop figuring on any further reductions. It is probable that the Rock Island will continue its Omaha mail train, minus the coaches and sleep ers, with its present schedule, as this company will have to protect its local mail business against the flying mail train of the Burlington. CHOICE OF BATTLEGROUND Sharkey la Disposed to Make Conces sions in Order to Fight. New York, Feb. 6. The choice of a battleground is the only obstacle to the big fight, and this seems likely to be surmounted by Sharkey's concessions. Fitzsimmons positively refuses to ap pear before either the Lenox Athletic club of New York or the National Athletic club of Frisco, This leaves Dan Stuart and two Gotham clubs in the field of bidders. The Broadway Athletic club and the Coney Island club will each bid heavily for the champion ship battle and may wrest it from Stuart. The Coney Island club has been re vived especially to bid for the big fight. SOUVENIR SPOONS. From Harper's Bazar. The fad of the souvenir spoon has ap parently had its day. and young women no longer care to make collections of spoons with architectural emblazonry in the bowls and the figures of states men or Indian warriors carved in relief work on the handles. Yet there are souvenir spoons which are very quaint and interesting, particularly when they are dainty in form and design, and have some historic association of memorial significance. Just an ordinary teaspoon -which has been in one's family for several gener ations surpasses in interest and value all the spoons of the market place, be the market place the ends of the earth. This queer, thin, plain, little spoon, with the initials of the great grandmother when she was a bride engraved on the top of the handle what a history it has had, what incidents it has seen, what sentiments it inspires! Births and marriages and deaths, fortunes won and lost, careers splendid and on the wane, family festivals, family sorrows all have been connected somehow with the little spoon and the set to which it belonged. Family silver In daily use through passing generations grows precious with that worth which is measured in no banker's account. Famous Old Stone Mill. There is one thing in Newport that the blizzard couldn't stir the old stone mill. The fact seems to be that this old Norseman relic grows more solid, stolid and fixed the longer it is exposed to the elements. Assail it ever so fur iously, from the north, from the south, from the east or from the west, the storms of years make no impression on It. except, mayhap, to press its ever lasting foundations firmer in their bed. Generations of Newporters come and go. but the old mill goes on forever. Drenching rains can not soften its sides, heaving frosts can rot stir Its arches, freezing snows can not split its parts it is indestructible. Forty cen turies pretty soon will look down on the old structure, with the same smile of approval that they favored the pyra mids of Kgypt with when the great Na poleon stood at their base. If ever mu tilation or destruction comes to the old mill it will come not from the elements, but from the same iconoclastic hand that "for military purposes" is now em ployed in annihilating the old historic dumplings across the bay. Newport Herald. Death of Judge Elliott Denver. Feb. 6. Judge Victor A. Elli ott died suddenly of an attack of cerebral hemorrhage. He was born near Mans field. Pa., and was eO years old. He en listed as a private in the civil war anil was mustered out with the rank of major. He was elected to the supreme court in lS. serving until 195. Ho ws a prom inent member of the G. A. R. and the Loyal Legion. A ROW ON At the Crawford Opera Ilonse Saturday Night Preyeuted the Performance of "The Beggar Student" From Starting ou Time and It Yexed the Audience. BOX OFFICE IlECEIPTS Attached For Failure of the Company to Appear At the Oliver Theater at Lin coln, Nebraska. "I'll go before the curtain myself and tell the people Just how it is. I'll tell them' to go to the box office and get their money back, and there'll be no more performance tonight than there is ice in the infernal regions. I'll show them who I am." It was Miss Dorothy Morton talking and fcer manager was the individual to whom the remarks were addressed. She was standing threateningly near the curtain on the stage of the Crawford theater a few minutes before 9 o'clock Saturday night, and it was necessary to look at her a second time to know that she was not in the best of humor. The curtain had not yet been raised on the first act of "The Beggar Stu dent."' "But my dear Miss Morton began the manager. "I'm not anybody's dear Miss Mor ton." she interrupted. "It wouldn't be the wise thing to do to dismiss the audience," went on the manager. "It might hurt our reputa tion." "I don't care what it hurts," said the angry star starting to beatatattoo with one foot on the stage floor. "I think the whole thing is a mean trick and I want to tell the people about it." "But if you wait a few minutes longer I think the trouble can be adjusted," said the manager. "I've now waited an hour," snapped Miss Morton. "Wait just ten minues longer and let me see w hat can be done," persisted the manager. Miss Morton kept on beating a tattoo with her foot and looked about the stage a few moments without answer ing Then she said: "I'll wait just ten minutes and no longer. If this thing is not settled in that time I go before the curtain and dismiss the audience." The manager hurried from the stage and made his way to the front of the house. Miss Morton walked Into her dressing room, sat down in front of the mirror and picking out a rose from a bouquet started to slowly pull it to pieces. Just 12 minutes later the curtain was rung up on the first act of "The Beggar Student." Saturday night was a night of trou ble for the Dorothy Morton Opera com pany. It wps a night of tiresome waits for the audience assembled to see the performance. It was all due to an at tachment of the box office receipts for the evening. Late in the evening suit was filed against the company and Scott Turner, advance agent, in one o the justice courts, by the management of the Oli ver theater in Lincoln. Neb. This amounted to Manager Crawford filing the suit as the Oliver is the theater he lately acquired. The petition recited that the company failed to show at the house, after the engagement was ad vertised and seats sold, and asked dam ages to the extent of $117. In accord ance with the petition attachment pa pers were issued and served at the box office about the time the performance was scheduled to commence. Then the trouble began. Manager Emmerson of the company sent word back to the stage manager to hold the curtain, and called County Attorney Aaron Jetmore from the audience to handle his side of the controversy. Tom King, Santa Fe agent, who had an order on the box office for payment of trans portation amounting to about $30 was called in for the opportunity of pro tecting hi3 interests, and the discussion was declared open. It continued without any satisfactory arrangement resulting and inside the audience waited impatiently for the performance to commence. The minutes went by, the lawyers and managers argued, and the audience waited. Short ly before 9 o'clock Manager Emmerson received word that he was war ted on the stage. Then it was that Miss Morton threat ened to dismiss the audience. When Emmerson returned to the front of the house he made a proposition to allow the attachment suit to stand tempor arily. King taking an order on Wichita, Did Your 117 J Tk I water npes Freeze WE CAN FIX IDEM PROMPTLY.... EA.01ANEY 117 East 6th St. PHONE 54. WE MOVE to 623 Kansas Avenue February 15th. where the company appears tonight, for the amount of transportation. He said he was willing to pay what expense was incurred in expectancy of the company t plaving the Oliver theater, but declared that tne amount asKea was too large. His proposition of allowing the attach ment to stand temporarily was taken, and the curtain was rung up. While the first act was on a second controversy started, and again Manager Emmerson held the curtain. This caused a long wait between the first and second acts, but another under standing was finally arrived at, and the performance was continued. It was after 11 o'clock before the curtain was rung down on "The Beggar Student." Mist) Morton was very much worked up over the affair. She said that it was impossible to keep the Lincoln engage ment, and that she was williner the company should bear whatever expense I the management or tne house was un der as a result. However, she declared, like her manager, that $117 was entirely too much. The audience that waited and saw "The Beggar Student" waa no larger than the audience that sav.' "Oirohe Girofla" in the afternoon. Miss Morton is clever herself, but she lacks the sup port she should have. The chorus is weak, and but little praise can be be stowed on the principals in general. Hubert Wilkie is a dramatic singer, but his baritone is by no means exceptional. Miss Morton was suffering from a se vere cold, and had difficulty in singing at alL A MARVEL TO SURGEONS. With a Crushed Spinal Column and Sis Body Half Paralyzed This Man laves. Wilmington, O., Feb. 6. One of the most unusual and pitiable scenes ever witnessed in the court room occurred when George Savage, a young- man from Bianches ter, this county, was carried into the hall of justice on a stretcher to give his testi mony and be in attendance in a suit in which he is plaintiff against the Balti more and Ohio Southwestern Railway company for $T.0 damages for injuries received while in the employ of the com pany. He was injured while endeavoring- to make a flying switch. He was struck, in the middle of the back by the car. When hlp reached him it was thought he was dying1. An examination revealed the fact that seven sections of the spinal column were dislocated. The surgeons said that he would live only a few hours. His body and lower extremities from the injury downward at once became para lyzed. Contrary to all the medical theories he began to recover from his injuries, and within three months he was removed to the house of his parents. Though bed ridden he has enjoyed exceptionally good health for one in hi scondition. His mind is clear and he has full control of his arms, head and body above the injury, and apparently suffers no pain. He can rot sit up. but assists those caring for him in being moved. CRASH OF FA$r IV? AILS. Two Come Together With Fatal Results on the Grand Trunk. Imlay City. Mich., Feb. 6 Chicago Grand Trunk passenger train No. 1 west bound, plunged full speed into passenger train No. 6. east bound while the latter was standing at the station here today. The results of the crash were fatal and otherwise disastrous. The following were killed: ENGINEER FAIRBANKS, of the west bound train. EDWARD REID. of Lenox, Mich., mail clerk of west bound train. THOMAS STUART, of Lansing, mail clerk, east bound. The injured: Engineer Mahan of the east bound train, several ribs broken. Burns, of Lapeer, passenger on east bound train, leg broken. Ripley White, of Lapeer, passenger, east bound train, ankle bruised. English, Stratroy, Ont., slightly bruised. Both trains were fast mail trains. The eastbound was standing near the sta tion, waiting for the coming train to pass in accordance to custom. The lat ter instead of slackening and stopping, crashed into No. 6. The employes of the westbound train and the passengers of the eastbound suffered the most. The locomotives were both badly wrecked and the mail cars are jammed across1 the tracks. All the passenger coaches remain on the tracks. Why the west bound train failed to stop is yet un known. A R. R. CLEARING HOUSE To Bo Established in New York For Vanderbilt Lines. New Tork, Feb. 6. A dispatch to the Herald from Niagara Falls, says: It is reported that th3 proposed con solidation of the Central and West Shore railroads is a forerunner of changes in operations which are expect ed to result in saving $100,000 annuaily. This is to be effected by establishing a clearing house in New York city for the New York Central. West Shore. Lake Shore, Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg, Michigan Central and Nickel Plate roads, all of which are to be operated under one system. The ob ject of the clearing house will be to proportion the earnings of each road. It will also result in the roads adopt ing the audit office system of settle ment in place of junction point settle ments. At present the rates, extensions and divisions are verified several times by each road, but under the new sys tem one person will do all the work. AROUND-UP OF CHINESE To Be Made In Every City in the Country. Chicago, Feb. 6 The Record's Omaha, Neb., special says: There is trouble in sight for all the Chinese in the United States, resulting from the total disappearance of the Chinese who were admitted to the coun try in order to take part in the Trans mississippi exposition. Inspector James Stone, of the government service, is in Omaha investigating the situation. He say3 the government has determned, as the only means of locating the Omaha fugitives, to round up the Chinese in every city In the country and those that can not produce their certificates of residence will be deported. Kipling's Hard Luck. Mr. Kipling has had a piece of hard luck. He wrote the story of the burning of the Sarah Sands for a London news paper, and must have thought that he was safe, as it happened 41 years ago. The commander of tne vessel at the time is, however, still alive, and has written a letter finding fault with many details in Mr. Kipling's story. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Weather Indications. Chicago. Feb. 6. For Kansas: Part ly cloudy and continued cold tonight and Tuesday; with possibly snow in south portion Tuesday; brisk northerly winds. We will wash your colored shirts and guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Try the Hotel Oxford for your meals. CHURCH MADE A SALOON. The Chancel Becomes a Bar, and a Stage Takes the Place of the Altar. Milwaukee. Feb. 6. Captain Fred Pabst has done many things anent his great brewery to cause comment, but his latest move in buying one of the oldest churches in the city and trans forming the house of worship into a sa loon, the likeness of which does not exist in this country, surpasses all his previous exploits. The First German Methodist church was established half a century ago. It adjoins his brewery, and has for a long time been greatly desired by the brewer so he paid a handsome price for it, and the congregation moved into another home. The building is now being trans formed into a saloon. In the basement, where Sunday school was formerly held, a beer vault will be established, the old chancel being used as the bar. In the auditorium of the church proper a banquet hall is being fitted out, and where the altar was there is now being erected a stage for the entertainment of the guests who may meet there. The beer vault will be fitted out In old Teutonian style with historic battle axes and furs for decorations. The whole building will be made as unique as possible, and will be remodeled at big expense. The church spire will be transformed Into an observatory. WHAT BAILElf PLANNED. He Probably Has Elected a Demo cratic Senator From West Virginia. Washingon, Feb. 6. Great interest at taches to the decision of the judiciary committee of the house as to the mem bers who served in the army violating their commission, because it is to be used as a precedent in the attempt to prevent the seating of Nathan B. Scott as United States senator from West Virginia, to succeed Senator Faulkner. Scott was elected by the Republicans by one majority. To secure this one majority, the Republicans retained in the legislature two members who served in the volunteer army during the war with Spain. Mr. Scott's election will no doubt be contested, now that the house committee on judiciary has established a precedent. In any event the action will not affect General Wheeler's seat in the Fifty-sixth congress, which he will take on March 4. This was Mr. Bailey's idea from the first, it now ap pears, and he probably has succeeded in electing a Democratic United States senator from West Virginia. WO LYES KILLING CATTLE. Indians Paid $5 for Each 'Varmint" They Slaughter. Deadwood, S. D.. Feb. 6. The agents at the different Indian agencies between the Black Hills and the Missouri river are encouraging the farmers to hunt the wolves which are increasing in such an alarming manner on the cattle ranges. This winter the animals seem to be more ferocious than ever before, and they are killing the young cattle at an alarming rate. One rancher, who came to Belle Fourche from the Slim Butte range, reported having seen a large number of carcasses of cattle along the trail which had been killed by wolves. The Indian agents are paying S5 for every wolf brought in. One Indian spent a week hunting on the Cheyenne and he returned to the agency at Standing Rock with a wagon load of wolves. READY TO HIRE A HALL. Divine Healer Schlatter Seems Anx ious to Cross Arguments With Col. IngersolL New York. Feb. 6. Chas. McLean, M.D.. called Schlatter," wants to debase with Colonel IngersolL He says he is prepared to hire the hail and bear ail expanses. He also offers to put up $100 as evidence of g-n.nl faith. "Schlatter" says that as soon as he has met Colonel Ingersoil in debate he is wil ling to be buried alive, provided a legal permit can be obtained. BOOH IN WHISKY. The Largest Sales Ever Known Re ported in Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Feb. 6. The closing of the combine of the Kentucky distilleries and warehouses has strengthened the whisky market in Cincinnati. Advances of cents and 5 cents a gallon have been noted on large transactions made today, due to the combine and the probability of the passage of the out age bill in congress. There was Saturday one sale of 3,500 barrels of Kentucky bourbon at an ad vance of 2X cents per gallon. The larg est purchases ever known here prevail ed. D. K. Wickopf returned from Lou isville after purchasing the entire "95" crop of Waterfill and Fra zier. There was such excitement among the brokers and dealers at the close of business that all the Cincinnati dealers telegraphed instructions to their trav eling men not to take any more orders until they were notified. Some of the firms called in their traveling men. SEXTON'S SUCCESSOR To Be Chosen Soon By a Called Meet ing of the National Council. Cincinnati, Feb. 6. Senior Vive Com mander W. C. Jackson, national G. A. R., when seen in his home at Norwood, said that a meeting of the national council of administration of the G. A. R. would be called soon to select a suc cessor to Commander Sexton. The meeting will probably be held in Cincin nati. Meantime Captain Johnson will officiate as commander-in-chief. Cap tain Johnson began to use the wire to night to arrange for the G. A. R. at tendance at the funeral. Colored shirts and waists laundered so that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Eighth street. ON BABY'S FACE Mother Ashamed to Take Him OirL Everything Failed to Cure. CUTI CURA Cured in Three Day. I have had my baby sick with his face full of finjworm, and tried everything and failed. X was ashamed to take Mm out, for every one woald lock at him. I was told to get C CTree ra. I got it on Wednesday, and by Saturday his fact waa ail dried op. Now lean take him every wher. If people only knew about how his face looked a week ago, and see it to-day, they would never he without it. Urs. J. POTTER, 304 So. First 8t Brooklyn, 5". T. "Warm baths with CrncriA Soap aai frentl anointings with Cttticttra (ointment), constitute the purest, sweetest, and most effective fa am or treatment ever compounded, and appeals with Irresistible force to mothers, nurses, and all bav ins; the care of children amicted with akin, scalp, and blood fa amors, with loss of hair. Sold throcrhont the wrkl. Pornn D. vnC.CF Sol Prop-, Boston. Mow to Cure Juwwrf Humor." rae- FADE HUMORS 'JSIEST- TOO KANSAS AVE. t COME TO THE GIGANTIC Expansion Sale j SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT ARE REAL. BARGAINS. Men's $8, Sio, Even $.2 Suits :For a Five-Dollar Bill, An astonishing fact the very best 18, $10 and X even $ia values that you have ever seen 50 dif- J ferent patterns strictly all wool tailored in strictly high class manner linings, buttons and 4 inside linings the very best new up-to-date styles every one we sell makes us a customer Now on Sale at Only Rattl ing Good Overcoat We don't want to carry them over $7.50 Men's Kersey Overcoats $4-75 an wool 4 SDaaes. a si0 Men's Fine overcoat s Sir e J finest Kersey aU colors 3 A TYPICAL KANSAS GIRL. Hiss Moore, of Bucyrus, Has a Claim Near Mena, Ark. Mena. Ark., Feb. 6. To the young man. and his name is legion. who is lying around like the inimitable Micawber waiting for something to turn up this story of a young woman who didn't wait, but got out and rustled, may be of interest. While the former has been wearing out shoe leather and his latest, and last, suit of clothes in The ffnrr ro e-eT something just suited to his dignity and station in life, the young woman m question, wnn wnat m roici aUv onnoeriea to be a woman's levelhead edness, took the flrst thing that came to hand and went to wotk. Tr is a storv of Miss Xellie Tj. Moore of Bucyrus, Kan., a stepdaughter of Colo nel crawroru, wno neia tne position tL weighmaster during Governor Lewelling's term of otnee. Miss Moore 18 a graduate or tsetnany college, Topeka. After completing her course there she spent some time in New York, Philadelphia ana umcago. wnicn she devoted zealously to perfecting her self in music. Oood results followed her industry, and when she returned later to her home in nucyrus it was as an ac complished musician. The opportunities. However, in a small town ior a taieiaeu vniirn? wnman are not manv. But Miss Moore, being versatile as well as talented, did not sit down and fold her hands until the career that seemed most suitable for one of her inclinations and training should fall into her way. Instead. sue oegan loos ing around to see in what other ways she might bend her energies. In lSSts Polk county, in and around the little town of Mena. was even less settled and civilized than it Is today. There were around it then acres upon acres of dense forests where white men had never set feet and there were bears and other wild animals. This fact, however, did not pre vent this western girl of true western pluck from going down there and staking out a claim of 1 acres tive miles outside of the town. She built a neat little cabin upon her claim and made it as homelike as possible. Here the plucky mistress of the ranch lived and still lives part of the time and fulfills the conditions necessary for the establishment of her right to this slice of L'nele Sam's domain. Her claim is one of the best in the section. It has tine pasture land and is well wooded and will some day yield quite a revenue to its owner. There were, of course, some hard ships, but she bravely met them and she is all the happier for her exertion. Miss Moore likes the free out-of-door life of the woman who lives on a ranch. She is a good phot and finds her gun a good companion when going for a tramp. Working her claim, however, is not Miss Moore's only profession. Her love for music and her accomplishment in that line rind expression in the large and successful classes in music that she has established in Mena. Miss Moore is but another in stance of the western girl who shows not or.lv her independence of foolish conserv atism, but her ability, as well, in taking up the work that comes to hand and mak ing a success of it. TO BREAK ON COPPEK That Is Where the Boom is to Be Finally Wrecked. Xew Tork, Feb. 6. The Times' Lon don financial correspondent cables: No sooner have we got a 3 per cent bank rate that we begin to talk of 2V per cent. There can be no question that we are gorged with bankers' money and are rich in credit though poor in cash. It is all your fault. First you sold us at high rrices unusual quantities of food, and then, instead of taking cash as payment, you kindly bought from us your own securities, with the result that we seem richer than ever, even after paying your bill, probably on the balance between exports and imports of forty mUlic.n pounds, which is much larger than the average of recent years. The chairman of one of our greatest city banks the other day estimated the income of the nation from foreign in vestments to be less by 3,000,000 now than it was a year ago, solely because of the splendid vigor with which you had bought your own railroaj securities formerly held here. This is an exagger ation, because for the first few months we sold only non-dividend paying se curities. But now America is taking away our Pennsylvania, New TorkCen trals. etc.. In tens of thousands a week, and we nre becoming poorer in revenue with every month that passes. But many individuals are richer in free capital. Therefore we are getting more and more into the mood for a colossal gamble. That gamble is already in full swing, but not in your railroad securities. The Kaffir magnates have forestalled Wall street and our simple tons are selling Americans to buy South African shares. Paris is doing likewise, although it would fain take a hand in your railroad stocks if it knew how. The copper gamble has brought the bourse and the American market into more intimate contact than ever before. That may be the only good result that this gamble will yield. Past experience has taught us to look for a smash at the end of every attempt to corner the supply of this metal, because it Is one of the commonest and most easily mined in the world, and because the manufacturers alwsys fall back aa much as possible on scrap copper when the new supplies are restricted. So our speculating public is taking little share in the copper hoist. Those who hold Rio Tintos, Anaconda and Cape copper shares are likely to sell out, and thus both the metal and the shares find their way more and more into the hands of the wealthy few controlling the maneu ver. The cool heads on our stock exchange are already beginning to look around for a Paris bank or two to smash, and when that event occurs it may bring revolution in its train. What will hap pen to the American people then we can not yet attempt to guess, but our minds are fully made up that losses to be ulti mately realized on the copper "rig" AUCRBACM A. GUETTEU- Bargains so they go at almost half price $12 Men's fine Melton Overcoats C pn. Auburn Melton Y-5U, 16.50. Sis finest ana best Over- C e coats choice now Po are bound to be stupendous on both sides of the Atlantic. The same opinion is held about tin, but that is a com paratively small affair and a mere cor ollary to the bigger gamble. CARING FOK THE COACHMEN Washington Spec. Chicago Record.! A very commendable practice prevails in New Tork this season of serving hot coffee and sandwiches to the coachmen of the guests at dinner parties, recep tions and balls. The idea was suggest ed last winter by Bishop Potter, after an accident caused by the drunkenness of a coachman who carried a bottle of whisky in his pocket to keep his blood warm, and declared that he could not prevent numbness in his arms and legs without taking something warm inside cf him. This set people thinking, and Mrs. Levi P. 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c TOPEKA STATE JOURNAIi, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 6, 1899. Im? cL IF Social Calendar. MONDAY-Mrs. D. P. Paxton is enter taining at thimbles this afternoon. (TUESDAY Mrs. James B. Hayden will give a thimble party at her home on Van Buren street. WEDNESDAY The Library hall party, one of the largest social affairs of the season will take plare Wednesday evening. Mrs. J. F. Daniels will en tertain at thimbles at her rooms in the Veale block, complimentary to Miss Ross of Evanston, 111. THURSDAY Mrs. A. A. Godard will entertain at cards In the afternoon. Mrs. Daniels will give a second thim ble party complimentary to Miss Ross. The Informal club dance wtlf take place Thursday evening1 instead of Friday. FRIDAY Mrs. C. R. Hudson and Mrs. W. J. Black are arranging for a. thim ble party at the home of Mrs. Hudson. The Viennese club will dance in the evening. Dr. and Mrs. West Entertain. Dr. and Mrs. "W. N. West entertained et a delightful seven handed euchre party Saturday evening. The prizes, a copy of Cyrano de Bergerac and a sil ver paper cutter were won by Miss Margaret Dudley and Mr. Lew Bron fon. Dr. and Mrs. West expect to entertain et cards one evening this week. The invited guests were Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Quinton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mr. and Mrs. George Crawford, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jarrell. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hammatt. Mr. and Mrs. Her bert Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 3-Uack, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Noble, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ashby, Miss Dudley, Miss Iiossington, Miss O'Connor, Miss Ham Meton, Miss Mary Hambleton. Miss Nellie McClintock, Dr. Esterly, Mr. Harry Weaver, Mr. Archie Williams, lUr. Ralph Peterson, Mr. Lew Bronson and Mr. John Boston. The Douze W hist Club. The Douze Whist club was pleasantly entertained Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Harrison Morgan. Mrs. David Palmer substituted for Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Nichols for Miss Arlie Ewart, Miss Priscilla Alexander for Mrs. Stoddard, Miss Caro Penrield for Mrs. J. B. Furry end Miss Bessie West for Miss Mabel Wilson. At the guest table were Miss Myrtle Jetmore, Miss Ranney, Miss Lotta Ran ney and Miss Irene Horner. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. J. K. Hudson left Sunday for Salem. Ohio, to attend the golden wed ding of her aunt and uncle. Miss Lillie Mitchell of Eskridge who lias been visiting Topeka friends, re turned to her home Saturday. Mrs. J. S. McLellan of Denver ia in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. S. ilattingly at 1711 Lincoln street. Mrs. Howel Jones and daughter Har riett returned last week from a several weeks' visit with. Miss Annie Jones in Chicago. Miss Josephine Colby, who has been visiting friends in Topeka for sev eral weeks left Sunday for her bom" in St. Louis. Miss Lottie Steinberg returned Sun day evening fiom a visit in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Tice will leave Tuesday for a five or six weeks trip through Mexico. The Spalding Reading Circle will meet Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. D. A. Clements. Mrs. L. H. Crandell will give a talk on art. Grant Mead of Horton spent Satur day in Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black have re turned from a short trip to Chicago. Miss Mabel Bailey of Chanute and Miss Eva Brown of Lawrence are the guests of Mrs. N. P. Garretson. Mrs. O. O. Brown returned to her tiome in Wichita Sunday after a several weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. T. P. Culley. Mrs. John Small of Atchison is spend ing a few weeks in Topeka with Mrs. Walter Noble. Mrs. Elizabeth Ewing and the Rev. Mr. Waddelle left Saturday for Knox ville, 111., after a few days' visit with he family of J. Weiss. Mrs. Waddelle is an aunt of Mrs. Weiss. Mrs. Charles Blood Smith is enter taining the Monday club this after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Conway Holmes ar rived from Kansas City today to visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith. The Ladies' Music club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Miss Mabel Martin at 403 Greenwood avenue. Mr. and Mrs. William Connors are the parents of a son, born Sunday. January 29. They have named him Charles Nelson. The West Side Reading Circle will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Clement Smith at her home, 721 Polk etreet. Miss Marian Harris spent Sunday with friends in Kansas City. ROCKEFELLER MAKES GOOD Report is That Ea Has Paid $900,000, 1 Real Money, in Compromis ing a Suit Cleveland, O.. Feb. 6. It is said that JTohn D. Rockefeller has offered $900,000 In cash to James Corrigan of this city rather than contest the civil suit filed against him by Corrigan. If the com promise is accepted it will probably be the largest sum ever paid in settlement of a personal civil suit out of court in this county. Corrigan alleges that the Standard Oil magnate took advantage of him and in duced him to dispose of 2.500 shares of Standard Oil stock with a loss to him of $1,500,000 as a result of inability to receive the benefits of dividends and appreciated value of oil. The case has Tbeen before arbitrators in New York for several days. A number of years ago James and John Corrigan, brothers, conducted a Email business in Cleveland as refiners of oil. The Standard bought their busi ness, partial payment being made in Standard stock. James Corrigan bor rowed considerable money from John D. Rockefeller, putting up as collateral 2,500 shares of Standard Oil stock. Some time afterward, when a settle ment of the loan was being arranged, Corrigan turned over his stock at 162, this transaction serving, of course, to liquidate the obligation standing against Corrigan. Corrigan later sued Rockefeller, claiming that he, as officer of the com pany, kept from him knowledge of the enormous dividends about to be de clared. Since sale dividends of 94 per cent have been paid", and the stock has gone to $450 per share. When the attorney general of Ohio be gan his investigation of the Standard Oil company Mr. Rockefeller, it is said, proposed to compromise. THE NEW FARMERS' PARTY A Chicago Paper Hears It is Being Organized in Kansas. Chicago, Feb. 6. The Record says: Farmers in Connecticut, New York.New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, South Dakota, Wyoming, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Arkansas and California are forming state branches of the proposed new national farmers' party, and are preparing to send representatives to the national executive committee's meeting which is shortly to be called by the projectors of the new party movement at Avon, this state. The meeting will probably be held in Chicago. ENGINE MAKERS COMBINE. The Corliss Plant Becomes the Nu cleus of the Combination. New York, Feb. 6. The Times says: The transfer of the Corliss. Steam Engine Works at Providence, R. I., to a syndi cate of capitalists was the first step in the formation of a combination that will take in all the great engine making con cerns in this country. The Corliss works were not. however, secured directly by the Air Power company, as stated, although several members of the latter are inter ested in the new venture and the Air Power company may join the new com bination. J. H. Hoadley said that the syndicate which purchased the Corliss works is composed of several bankers and business men in this city, Boston and Philadelphia, and that the Cramps hold the largest in terest in it. He "admitted that both ltichurd Croker and himself were largely interested in the venture. "The property was lought outright." said he. "The mortgage of the Corliss heirs was cleared and they have nothing more to do with the works. The acquisi tion of the latter represents an invest ment of about $1,600,000. The deal is the commencement of a combination of the steam engine builders throughout the United States. There are twelve concerns which by combining can control the en gine making business in this country and, to a large extent, abroad also. Of these eight have already practically agreed to join, and it therefore does not make very much difference whether the others join or not. but the probability is that every manufactory will come in. "The president of the new company will be Colonel D. M. Thompson of Providence. The directors will be Edwin S. Cramp, the shipbuilder, who is president of the Green and Wheeler Steam Engine companies: Lewis Nixon. W. H. Knight, former chief engineer of the General Electric company, now chief engineer of the American Air Power company. and Charles A. Lieb, owner of the Washington. D. C, railways and electric lighting plants. Each of the companies joining the combination will also have a. representative on the board. The ultimate capital will of course de pend upon the value of each concern that comes in, but it probably will approximate $25,000,000. Extensive manufacturing works will be constructed either in New York or New Jersey, but the location has not yet been definitely decided uiK)n. "Meanwhile we can make a good start with the Corliss works and the Greene and Wheelock factories will probablv soon be running in conjunction with the Provi dence plant. The Corliss works are the largest in. the world and employ about l,So men. The company has just secured a contract from the Boston Elevated Rail way company for the biggest steam en gine ever built. It will weigh about S00 tons and its horse-power will be 7.r.00. Some idea of the size of it can be gnthered when it is remembered that the famous Corliss Centennial engine, which is now being operated at the Pullman car works at Pullman. 11L, is only 1.400 horse-power. "The motive which has prompted the commnation oi tne engine builders is the success of compressed air as a motor power." CARDS SAVED HIS LIFE. Man Morphine Poisoned Kept Awake by the Game. Lockport, Feb. 6. Six members of Spalding Hose company played a game of cards Saturday night under grew some and novel circumstances. Ed Bronson. a member of the company, who bunks at the house, was discovered in a semi-conscious state about 9 p. m. Dr. Cosford was called and discovered that he was suffering from morphine. having taken 30 eighth-grain tablets. Bronson was suffering from grip, and says he took the morphine instead of quinine, by mistake. The doctor told Bronson's fellow members that the only hope of saving his life was to keep him awake. A game of cards was started, after it was found impossible to keep the patient on his feet. Blood spurted from his nos trils and mouth, dyeing the cards, but the game continued for six long hours. Bronson relapsed into sleep several times, and, being aroused, would re sume the game. Nothing except cards could attract his interest, and the two doctors present assert that the game saved his life. A curious psychological phenomenon was the fact that, in the midst of a story, Bronson would fall asleep, and upon being aroused, would take it up where he had left off. apparently un aware of any interruption. Drs. Baker and Cosford pronounce it a remarkable case. CONTRACTS OF $6,000,000. The Carnegie Company Makes Steel Car Building an Important Branch of Business. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 6. The Carnegie Steel company has booked contracts for steel freight cars amounting to about J6.000.000. One order from the Baltimore Ohio railroad was for 2,000 steel hop per and gondola cars. The Baltimore Ohio contract is worth almost $2,000,000. The orders show the remarkable change from wood to the metal car as a freight carrier. That the day of the wooden car is passing railroad men say is evident from the action of the lead ing trunk lines in specifying that all new hopper, gondola and fiat cars for mineral traffic shall be of steel con struction. The Pennsylvania. Ohio. West Virginia and Illinois lines have been the first to adopt the steel car for coal and ore. The new industry is so promising that the Carnegie company has decided to make steel car building one of the prin cipal branches of its business, and -will invest millions in additional steel works, rolling mills and shops. The demand for the steel cars is such that orders have been given to the Carnegie com pany before its plant is in operation. $20,000,000 FOR SPAIN Is Carried by the Completed Sundry Civil BilL. Washington, Feb. 6. The sundry civil appropriation bill, completed this noon by the house committee on appropriations, carries $20,000,000 "to carry out the obliga tions of the treaty between the United States and Spain." Outside of this the bill appropriated 142,927.301. New pupils will be received into the Kindergarten Training School. Apply to Mrs. T. E. Bowman, 221 W. 10th ave. LABOR ASSEMBLES To Name Its Own Labor Commissioner. Convention of Delegates From Kansas Labor Unions IX SESSION IN TOPEKA All Organized Trades Thor oughly Represented, Particularly Railroad and Pack ing House Industries. The first annual convention of the State Society of Labor and Industry, assembled at Library hall in the state house at 9 o'clock this morning. This convention is held under the provisions of the law passed by the special session of the legislature called by Governor Leedy, creating the society, its com ponent parts being the representatives of the labor organizations, selected in the capacity of delegates. Permanent organization of the society will be effected tomorrow afternoon, by the election of officers, the principal one being state labor commissioner, the office now being held by Lee Johnson. It is generally believed that Mr. John son will be re-elected to this position. Mr. Johnson called the convention to order today. Governor Stanley deliver ed the address of welcome. Mr. Stanley said: "I am pleased to meet you in this convention; I am glad to have the honor of welcoming you to the capitol. "I can not conceive how we can esti mate the value of labor to Kansas. It has builded all our lines of transporta tion. Constructed all our buildings. Our agr'culturai interest the greatest of all interests is directed by the hand of labor. I am now pleased to know that the hand of labor has been joined with the brain that thinks. (Applause.) "The solution of the labor problem, as well as other great problems, has been in the hands of the politicians and I may say in the hands of the dema gogue, but the time is coming when we must get closer together. We must gat out of our economics the question of 'capital against labor.' Neither can get along without the other. If capital at tempted anything alone it would rust in the vault. Without labor it could do nothing. Yet we want such a condi tion that labor will receive from capital the just recompense which is due. (Ap plause.) We want broad gauged men to do this work. I hope you will have a great meeting. If I can, during my offi cial term, do anything which will bring these elements closer together, I will have done all that I could desire to do. I hope this start which you are making here today will mark the beginning of a new era in our history which will de velop and improve the conditions with which we all have to contend." Lee Johnson, labor commissioner, and the author of the new law which crea ted this convention, responded to the address of welcome. He congratulated the delegates upon the promise of a good meeting. He referred to the fact that Kansas is a pioneer in the labor movement, "which now prevails all over our land and is now progressing rapidly under the direction of men of intelligence and men who have the in terests of laboring men at heart." Mr. Johnson discussed the various phases of industrial conditions which the new society of labor in Kansas will attempt to meet.and mentioned the fact that the department has been "hob bling along" for years, but is now, ow ing to the new law, ready to engage in a work, the importance of which can not at this time be accurately estima ted. Mr. Stanley, after Mr. Johnson's ad dress, extended to the individual dele gates an invitation to visit the execu tive office. Ex-Representative James Cassin who introduced the bill in the house creating the society, made a short speech, in which he was frequently applauded, as he told of the history of the passage of this new law. The convention effected a temporary organization by electing the following officers: President Joseph McGrath, Kansas City. Secretary K. IT. Whitted, Topeka. The committee on credentials was then named as follows: W. S. MeCauley, Kansas City. L. Voss, Leavenworth. C. J. Ruhland. Osawatomie. J. K. Paul, Kansas City. W. J. Blaine, Hutchinson. The convention then adjourned until after dinner. Tonight at Representative hall there will be addresses by Edward W. Bemis, professor of Economics and Sociology, Kansas state agricultural college. Sub ject, "The Possibilities of the Bureau of Labor and Industry under the New Law;" also by George D. Herron, pro fessor of Economics and Sociology, Iowa college, Grinnell, Iowa. Subject: "The Ethics of the Labor Movement." The following delegates are in at tendance: John McMahon, B. of L. E.. Ellis. W. Hcrriman, B. of L. E.. Pittsburg. II. E. Hansen. B. of L. E., Wellington. W. B. Cary. B. of L. E Arkansas City. James Thomas, B. of L. E.. Topeka. Geo. Kipp. B. of L. F., Herington. J. A. Jones. B. of L. P., Topeka. N. O. Harris. B. of L. F.. Kansas City. C. J. Rhuland. B. of L. E.. Osawatomie. W. A. Thomson, B. of L. E.. El Dorado. C. M. Hoss, O. R. C, Winlield. L. M. Allen, O. R. C, Fort Scott. A. Anderson. O. R. C Wichita. J. E. Enright. B. of R. T., Atchison. Wm. MoKinnev. B. of R. T., Goodland. R. S. Thompson. B. of R. T.. Newton. Boyd T. Scott, B. of R. T., Junction City. W. it. Travis. B. of R. T., Chanute. James McCarrick, I. T. U., Kansas City. Robert Tompkins. I. T. U.. Atchison. E. F. Caton, I. T. U.. Wichita. K. U. Whitted, I. T. U., Topeka. W. G. Bird. I. of A. M.. Kansas City. F. X. Shoemaker, Leather Workers, Atchison. P. J. Roth. ElectricalWorkers, Atchison. W. J. Clark, Painters and Decorators, Leavenworth. Louis Horacek, C. M. I. IT., Topeka. Geo. Herberger, C. M. I. 1J-, Wichita. Louis Voss. C. M. I. U., Leavenworth. Henry Kinsla, Tailors' union, Leaven worth. J. S. Heisey, Coopers' union, Kansas City. Kan. Samuel S. Snyder, Musicians' union, To peka. Wm. Davis, Horseshoers' association, Leavenworth. James W. Tapp, Amalgamated Butcher Workmen. Wichita. J. A. Marshall, Amalgamated Butcher Workmen. Kansas City. Walter S. MeCauley, Beef Butchers' union. Kansas City. J. Gibson, Pork Butchers' union, Kan sas City. John Dailey. Amalgamated Butcher Workmen. Kansas City. Josoph Brownrigg. Tallow Trimmers' union. Kansas Citv. Martin Ward, Oleo Workers' union, Kan sas City. James McGeehan, United Mine Workers, Mid wav. Thomas Siddle, United Mine Workers, Weir City. Joseph Forsyth, United Mine Workers, Frontenac W. H. McCluskey, United Mine Workers, Yale. Edward Keegan, United Mine Workers, Chicopee. John ilaliday. United Mine Workers, Pittsburg. L. J. Love. K. of L. Miners. Pittsburg. A. B. Blue, J. B. I. U. of A.. Kansas City. L. H. Wagner, J. B. I. U., Leavenworth. E. D. Willcox, J. B. I. U., Topeka. N. B. McCannon, Barbers' association, Hutchinson. H. Wolf. Barbers' association. Topeka. Bruce Barnes, Barbers' association, W ichita. R. Davis, F. L. tj Leavenworth. Robert Oilmen, U. M. W. of A., Scran ton. E. C. Overman, U. M. W. of A., Coal Valley. Harry Bonsfield, U. M. W. of A., Min eral. J. J. Sullivan, U. M. W. of A.. Nelson. John Sloeum, I. B. of B., Kansas City. O. Coleman, Carpenters and Joiners, Leavenworth. S. B. Weaver, Carpenters and Joiners, Topeka. A. T. Holland, Trades' assembly, Kan sas City. H. P. Miller, Trades and Labor assem bly, Topeka. Sol Summerfield, Trades and Labor council, Leavenworth. Cooper M. Long. Bricklayers' and Ma sons' union. Topeka. W. L. Holcomb, Building Laborers' union. Topeka. W. J. Blaine. W. L. A. Johnson. John E. Hughes, Salt Workers' union, Hutch inson. J. K. Paul. S. I. Meseraul. Joseph Ma grath. F. L. IT., Kansas City. James R. Perkins, Retail Clerks' union, Leavenworth. Roy Otts, Retail Clerks' union, Kansas City. P. E. Cook and II. R. Jones, A. R. U., Topeka. W. J. Wright, Amalgamated Tinners' association. Kansas City. P. J. Boyle. Miners, Leavenworth. Dan'l H. Williamson, Enterprising asso ciation (miners). R. T. Williamson, U. M. W. of A., Leavenworth. HOUSE SPURRED UP. To Get to Work Earlier in the Week. When the house adjourned Saturday afternoon it decided to break its usual rule and meet at 10 o'clock this morn ing. It has been the custom to adjourn early on Saturday and not meet again till 4 o'clock on Monday afternoon in order to allow the members to spend Sunday at home, but as the house has accomplished practically nothing thus far the house decided it ought to get to work. When Speaker Osborn called the house to order this morning, however, there were almost as many empty chairs as there were members present in fact the roll call showed a bare quorum. The most of the members who were present were from the short grass country who lived too far from Toieka to go home over Sunday. There were very few bills or petitions introduced into the house this morn ing. What petitions there were dealt with several different petitions. There were the old stand-bys protests against resubmission and barber bill petitions, and in addition there were petitions asking for the passage of the bill compelling the appointment of a woman on the board of charities, for the traveling library bill, and for the Quindaro industrial school bill. THE BANKING BILL Is to Be Remodeled by the House Committee. The Burkholder bank bill will not get out of the banking committee, at least not in the form in which Mr. Burk holder introduced it. A bill will be sub mitted to the house by the coramittej some time this week, but it will be rad- ically different from the Burkholder bill. Its alleged object will be to pro- tect depositors, but an attempt will be made to strike out the features to which some of the bankers of the state object. "If we can't get a whole loaf, we will take half a loaf," said Mr. Burkholder, the author of the bill. "I am interested in the banking business myself, and I think bankers who oppose a bill to se- cure their depositors make a grave I mistake. If depositors are not secured we will have postal savings banks to contend against, and they will take away a great deal of the business of banks. If depositors are absolutely sure of their money they would patronize bankers instead of postal savings banks, because deposits made in the latter are all concentrated in some i large city, and the money is thus taken out of the community that deposits it. As the president of two banks I am in favor of making depositors absolutely safe, but the majority of the committee seem to have been convinced that some of the features of my bill will work an injustice to some banks, and I expect a compromise bill will be presented." A different set of bankers have been lobbying against the Burkholder bill from those who caused the defeat of the Breidenthal bill during the special session. The Kansas City National Bank of Commerce, which has more correspondents among Kansas banks than all other Kansas City banks com bined, and which brought to bear all the influence it had to defeat the Breid enthal bill, is paying no attention to the Burkholder bill, but bankers from dif ferent parts of the state are protesting against it. The Kansas bankers who are oppos ed to the bill are headed by ex-Governor Morrill, who has argued the bill at length before the committee. The prin ciple objection urged by the bankers is that the bill makes good banks pay for the failures of poor ones, and that it therefore encourages wild-cat bank ing. "A measure which will absolutely protect depositors must necessarily be framed on tne principle ui muiuai in surance," said Mr. Burkholder. "The some objections apply to mutual insur- ance as the bankers have applied to this bill, but nevertheless mutual insur- ance is a success." It is probable that the compromise bill will either provide for a direct tax of one-eighth of one per cent on the average deposits of the banks, or it will make it optional with the banks wheth er or not they take advantage of the provisions of the act. A provision may also be inserted providing that bankers may deposit guaranty bonds to cover their deposits instead of making a cash deposit with the state treasurer. Colde t of the Winter. Denver, Feb.6. This morning was the coldest of the winter in Denver. The weather bureau's thermometer at 7:30 a. m. registered 21 degrees below zero. Cheyenne, Wryo., reported 28 below zero. The weather is fair, but there are no indications of a decided change in tem- i perature. Liberal Party's New Leader. London. Feb. 6. At a meeting of the Lib eral members of parliament at the Reform club, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell RMnnfrman. formerly chief secretary for Ireland and later secretary of state for; war. was elec ted to succeed eir ernon Ilarcourt as leader of the Liberal party. Be Comfortable... Let us put a VELVET EDGE on your COLLARS AND CUFFS TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY 'Phone 153 AGONCILLO FLED And is Now Safe in Montreal, Canada. Montreal, Feb. 6. Agoncillo, the Fil ipino representative arrived here at 7:45 this morning. Agoncillo says that he has been un able to communicate with Aguinaldo, owing to the strict censorship exercised by the United States authorities and thinks that it is his duty, under the circumstances, to place himself beyond its jurisdiction so that he will be able to communicate with his home people. He condemns the action of the United States government in refusing him per mission to communicate with his home government. He says he is not here for the purpose of avoiding arrest. "I heard about Saturday's affair be fore leaving New York last night," Agoncillo said, "and it surprised me greatly. I had no idea that affairs at Manila had reached such a critical stage; in fact, I considered that they were perhaps getting a trifle better. But I had no news from the Philippines." "And you expect to receive it here?" he was asked. "I do; the Washington authorities 'would not allow me to receive any cable DON FELIPE AGONCILLO, The Filipino representative at Washing ton, who apparently fled to Canada, but says he will return to New York. messages. There is a censor at Manila and the use of codes is forbidden. I was completely in the dark save for the ad vices I received by mail and what I learned from the newspapers. And the Philippines is a long way off, you know, so that the mails are almost useless. Therefore we have come to Montreal, where we will be enabled to receive the news we desire by cable. When I re ceive it I expect to return to Wash ington and continue my efforts to ful fill my mission to the United States. "As to the affair of Saturday and Sunday, I do not regard it as ending the usefulness of my mission. From the bulletins received by the officials in Washington and from the Associated Press dispatches I gather that the fight ing began very suddenly and unexpect edly. I think that the Filipinos were goaded to come into it by some act of the Americans. For months they have been doing their best to drive the Fili pinos into revolt. Gen. Otis has sent men to search private residences and the property of our people has been turned inside out in the search insti tuted by his orders. Acts like this have kept the spirit of the Filipinos at fever heat and made such affairs as that of Saturday and Sunday possible." "A Washington dispatch states that you left that city because you knew there would be fighting at Manila on Saturday or Saturday evening." Agoncillo smiled broadly. "No," he answered, "I only learned of it after I had left New York last evening from a gentleman who got on between here and New York. If my cable service was so good that I could learn in advance when there were to be any develop ments I should be in Washington. I came to Montreal in order to receive the news which was not allowed to reach me in Washington. When I receive it I do not know how soon or how long I may have to wait it is my present in tention to return to New York." "Do you think the United States sen ate will ratify the treaty today?" "1 can not say. When I left Wash ington, I knew that the friends of the treaty lacked two votes of the number necessary to ratify the treaty." "One reason why he affair of Satur day surprised me is that I had sent the news to my people that the people of the United States were favorable to us in our desire for independence. The more I look at it, the more I am con vinced that the affair of Saturday was not the fault of the Filipinos." "Do you consider that the fighting will result in securing the ratification of the treaty?" "I can not say. The Filipinos I am sure did not start it. I do not say that the Americans did so with the inten tion of influencing the vote in the sen ate. It may have started accidentally in the dark. I trust that it will not be as reported. TO FOLLOW AGONCILLO. Other Members of Filipino Junta to Oo to Canada. Washington, Feb. 6. The remaining members of the Filipino junta Sixto Lopez, Agoncillo's secretary, and Juan Luna and Jose Losada it is believed here will be enroute for Montreal to join Agoncillo before the day is over. This forenoon they were making prep arations for departure. Agoncillo's room at the Arlington hotel was finally given up by the Junta today, but at that time Lopez gave no intimation when he and his associates would vacate their quar ters. Lopez today sought to evade in terviews and said there was nothing that could be said at this time. "I have every confidence." said he, "in the justice of the American senate as to our rights. According to your laws, the laws of the United States, the Philippine islands can not be annexed. The military occupancy must be re leased." THE GRIP AT COURT. German Court Ball Nearly Broken Up by It. Berlin, Feb. 6. Influenza is epidemic here and many of the public officials are suffering from the disease, includ ing Baron "Von Buelow, the minister of foreign affairs. The chief states attorney. Von Moos, is dead. Prince George of Prussia is recovering. Half of the guests invited to the last court ball were unable to atetnd ow ing to the fact that they were suffering from influenza. fek jkn Is? NEW CRAWFORD THEATER. ONE NIGHT ONLY-MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. The most important musical engagement of ALICE NIELSEN OPERA CO. By Victor Herbert and Harry B. Smith. Drum Corps, Baud of Trumpeters and Orchestra of 'JO under the leadership of Faul steindortf. Eugene Cowles, Richard Golden, Joseph Herbert. Josepii Cawthorn. Krauk Kushworth. Paul Nicholson. V. y. ftochester. Marguerita Wednesday,- February 8. The SMYTH RICE COMEDIANS Presenting DuSouchet's Frisky Farce My Friend From India, A great sidetracking, jaw tiring laugh. 200 nights to packed houses at Hoyt's The atre. New York, and has since disturbed the risibles of multitudes of people ia every large city in the world. A Word to the Wise. Get your seats in ad vance. First floor, 75c and $1. Balcony, 60c Gallery. 35cy. FRIDAY SATURDAY February 10 and II. The Season's Dramatic Event 1 BLANCHE WALSH and MELBOURNE MACDOWELL In of FRID A F NIGHT, SATURDAY MATINEE, 'JLa Tosca, Night Prices, $1.50. $1.00, 75c. 50e, Special Matinee Prices, $1.00, 75c, Beats on sale Wednesday, 8 a.m. NORTH TOPEKA. Mr. Fred Faus is on the sick list. Call for premium stamps at Costley Post's. Mrs. Daub is ill at her home on Cen tral avenue. Special Muslin Underwear Sale at Costley Post. Mr. Herbert Green is suffering from an attack of grippe. Mr. and Mrs. Peabody have taken rooms at 927 Kansas avenue. Fred Morns is nursing a bruised leg, the result of a kick from his horse. Rev. H. H. Fowler of Lynn, Kan., is visiting his father-in-law, J. N. Henry and family. Go to C. B. Lyon, D. D. S., for fine dental work at popular prices. Office 511 Kansas avenue. Miss Ada Branscomb of Meriden vis ited Miss Eleanor Holliday of 825 Madi son street over Sunday. Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Faus will go to Horton today to attend the funeral oi Mrs. Samuel Fisher. The young people of the Baptist church will give a reception Wednesday evening in the church. If you want a pair of Shoes, come in and look over our bargain counter, $3.00 Shoes for $1.75, $4.00 for $1.98. COSTLEY POST. The W. T. K. club will meet Tuesday afternoon, February 7, at the home of Mrs. V. B. Kistler, 1117 Van Buren street. Philip Danielson is back at his old stand in the Blue Front selling shoes, and will be glad to see his customers. Mr B. B. Bowen arrived yesterday from Cleveland, Ohio, and is visiting his brother, H. C. Bowen and family, of 1019 Quincy street. William Green left yesterday after noon for Dayton, Wis., in response to a telegram announcing the death of his mother at that place. Miss Eva Watts went to Meriden this morning where she will be the guest of Miss Eura Ault for several days. The regular monthly meeting of the Sunday school board of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church will be held this evening in the church parlors. Mrs. Cromwell of Menoken is the guest of her son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. John Cromwell of 814 Jackson t rG g t The special Endeavor prayer meeting of the Christian church- will be held to morrow evening at the home of Mrs. Bronson, 115 East Laurent street. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Kennedy died yesterday morning at their home, corner of Saywell and Madison streets. The funeral was held this afternoon and the interment was in Rochester cemetery. Miss Clara Shavlo, who has been very ill at her home on Laurent street for the past two weeks, is now much better. The Ladies' Aid society of the Chris tian church and the C. W. B. M. will meet next Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Stovall, 1227 Van Buren street. H. C. Safford was able to be at his law office Saturday for the first time since his fall the previous Monday when his shoulder was so badly dislocated. Mrs. Harry Safford was obliged to re call her invitations to her coffee for last Saturday afternoon on account of the illness of her daughter. Miss Alice. Miss Lou Dell McMaster has issued invitations for an informal afternoon Friday, at which Miss Warner of Wil mington, 111., will be the guest of honor. Mrs. E. D. Small was the hostess at a delightful high five party Saturday evening, the guest of honor being her niece. Miss Jessie Warner. The ladies' prize, a dainty chocolate cup, was won by Miss Lou Dell McMaster. Mr. Jor dan and Mr. King cut for the gentle men's prize, Mr. Jordan receiving a coffee cup. After the refreshments were served the time was spent in dancing. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jordan, Misses Lou Dell McMaster, Mamie Baird, Mabel King, Bertha Row ley, Laura and Grace Houghtellin, Messrs James Bonham, Merle King, Paul Roehr, Isaac Sheetz. Edgar Arnold, John Green, Harry Small. Closing Out Our China. To close this department entirely we will give one-third off on these goods. C. H. MORRISON, 505 Kan. Ave. Rev. V. P. Welch of Chicago will preach at the Divine Healing mission, corner Fourth and Jackson, Wednesday afternoon at 3 p. m. and in the evening at 7:30. Notice, Democrats. There will be a meeting of the Demo cratic city central committee Tuesday evening. Feb. 7, at 7:30 p. m., at Dem ocratic Flambeau hall, to make ar rangements for spring elections. LEE JONES, Chairman. G. MAX CLAUDY, Secretary. Card of Thanks. In behalf of my mother and myself I desire to express our gratitude to our many friends who so kindly assisted us and also to those who so generously offered their help and sympathy during my father's illness and at the time of his funeral. Very gratefully. FRANK T. OAKLEY. Mrs. W. "W. Gavitts Funeral. The funeral of Mrs. W. W. Gavitt will be held at the family residence. 310 East Fifth street, Tuesday at 2:30 p. m. All friends are Invited. We mend and sew on buttons free. American Steam Laundry. Tele. 341. the year. FRANK L. PERLEY presents the in THE FORTUNE TELLER." Sylva. Jennie Hawley. Billie Norton, May BoleT and Alice Nielsen, with chorus and ensembl0 of over luu people. Prices: First floor and box seats, $1.50; bal cony, $1.00 and 7Sc:t gallery, 25c. gala of Mat opens Thursday. February 2d. s a.m. Thursday, February 9. Royal return of the great triumph of last August, "At Gay Coney Island." The same extravagant production, with added features. A HERD OF PRETTY GIRLS. Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, and SI. MATINEE SATURDAY Fanny Davenport's production Sakdoo's Great Plays 99 SATURDAY NIGHT, it Fedora. 99 and 25c. Box seats, $2.00 and Si. 5a 50c, and 25u. Box seats, $1.50 and $1.03 INTEREST IS LOW. Over $200,000 OOO Idle in Banks and Vaults o New York. New York, Feb. 6. Over $200,000,000 lies idle in the banks and trust com pany vaults of New York. Saturday's bank statement showed that the re serve in the associated banks amounts to $37,452,675, while the actual reserve is $257,458,300. The deposits are $880, 022,500, the largest in New York's bank ing history. An increase of $18,385,000 within a week .while the loans have in creased only $15,154,400. If this state of things continues, bankers predict that the rate will be 1 per cent before May 10. In the meantime millions of dollars which in former times were tied up in real estate mortgages, savings banks, safe bonds and stocks have been with drawing because of the reduction of in terest and the refunding schemes of the railroads, municipalities and indusrial enterprises. This money is going into speculative enterprises whereby the risk is greater, but the possibility of ampler return is seen. This Condition has caused the speculative fever now possessing the country. CROWD TO SEE HIM. Prof. Johnstone Performing Cures in Kansas City, Kan. Prof. Paul Alexander Johnstone's business rooms, which are located in Kansas City, Kansas, for the time be ing, are crowded day and night by pa tients who seek the celebrated enigma in order that they may have their health restored them. Nervous wrecks, people suffering from insomnia, and victims of nervous prostration, phvsi cal or mental debility, restlessness, dys pepsia, weaknesses in either sex, habit ual constipation, nervousness, kidney and bladder difficulties, and similar dis eases, wherein the nerve structure is involved, throng to him throughout the day and even into the night. The fame of Prof. Johnstone's great nerve treatment has spread throughout the state, and almost in every instance his patients have tried every treatment and remedy available, without obtain ing more than temporary relief. Soma have traveled, some have visited the springs, and others have been under the care of competent specialists. The greatest mystery prevails how It ii Prof. Johnstone really accomplishes his marvelous, cures. It is a well known fact that the ingredients used by him cannot be obtained in the apothecary establishments, and it is also well known that some of the ingredients used by him are manufactured espec ially for him. The treatment may be taken at home and just as specific results obtained as though a personal interview were to be had. For information as regards the great nerve remedy all letters of in quiry should be addressed to Prof. Paul Alexander Johnstone, Topeka, Kansas, Box 156, and they should contain re turn postage, else they are very apt in deed to find the waste basket, for Prof. Johnstone's mail is very voluminous. We will wash your colored shirts anr guarantee colois from fading. Peerlea Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. 8th. Lowest Rates Best... Accommodations VIA... ...For all Points in... Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Pacific Coast and Puget Sound. Pullman Palace Sleepers Pullman Tourist Sleepers From Kansas City every Thursday. Free Reclining Chair Cars Dining Cars For time tables, folders, illustrated books, pamphlets descriptive of the territory traversed call on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent or J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent.

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j TOPEKA STATE JOtTRNAI,, MONDAY E VEXING, FEBRUARY 0, 1899. 7 MORE FAT JOBS. Legislature Wants Four New Supreme Court Judges.. Flan to Abolish the Six Appel. late Judgeships ALREADY AGREED OX. Proposition to Restore Salaries of County Officers Bj Repealing Law of 1897 Re ceires Fayorable Consideration The last annual meeting of the State Bar association held in Topeka in Jan uary a resolution was adopted, on mo tion of T. F. Garver, declaring In favor of Increasing the number of Kansas supreme court judges from three to seven, thereby doing away with the ap pellate courts. The house and senate have been con sidering this proposition and it has been before the judiciary committees of the two bodies in joint session. It is un derstood that the committees have agreed to recommend that this change be made. Should the proposition be acceptable to the legislators it will be submitted to a vote of the people as it will be nec essary to change the constitution. TO INCREASE SALARIES. The General Law of 1897 to Be Re pealed If Possible. The new fee and salary bill prepared by a sub-committee of the house com mittee on fees and salaries, which will make its appearance in the legislature today or tomorrow, will be considered as a substitute for all local bills of this character now pending. Both house "cal endars are loaded up with bills to regu late discrepancies existing in the law passed by the legislature of 1897 and this proposed bill will increase the sal aries of county officers throughout the state, as compared with the amounts allowed under the existing law. A copy of this bill has been sent to the senate committee and it is hoped by those in charge of it in the house that the senate will accept it and that it may be enacted into law without dis agreement. The bill as formulated raises the sal aries of all county officers to practically the schedule in force prior to 1897, with the exception of register of deeds and county superintendents. There is no change in the salaries of registers of deeds except in counties having over 55.000 population. The salary there is raised $500. This applies only to Wy andotte county. The bill hits county superintendents a severe blow. While restoring the sal aries of all the rest of the officers, it makes only a slight raise in their sal aries. Under the schedule the salaries of the superintendents range from $450 to a maximum of $1,200 a year, and pro vision is made whereby the superin tendents in manv of the big Kansas counties must ride night and day the I year round or be docked. This makes the superintendents the poorest paid of all county officials. The schedule of salaries in the new bill follows: County treasurers In counties under 1,500 population, $700; from 1.500 to 5,000 population, $900: from 5,000 to 10.000, $1,000: from 10,000 to 15.000, $1,200: from 15.000 to 20,000, $1,400: from 20.000 to 25. 000. $1,600: from 25,000 to 30.000. $l.SO0: from 30,000 to 35,000, $2,000: from 35,000 to 40.000. $2,200; from 40,000 to 45,000, $2,400; above 45.000. $2,500. County treasurers are allowed clerk hire as follows: From 5.000 to 10.000 population, $400; from 10,000 to 15.000, $500; from 15,000 to 20.000, 600; from 20,000 to 25.000. $900; from 25,000 to 30.000, $1,200; from 30,000 to 35.000, $1,500; from S5.000 to 40,000, $l.S0O: from 40,000 to 45, 000. $2,000; above 45.000. $2,500. County clerks Under 1,500, $700; from 1.5 to 6.000. $800; from 6,000 to 10,000, $900: from 10.000 to 15.000, $1,000; ftom 15.000 to 20.000, $1,200: from 20.000 to 25, 000, $1,400: from 25.000 to 30,000, $1,500; from 30.000 to 35.000, $1.S00; from 35,000 to 50.000, $2,000; over 50,000. $2,400. County clerks are allowed clerk hire as follows: Under 6.000, $150; from 6.000 to 10,000, $200; from 10.000 to 15.000, $200; from 15.000 to 20,000. $300; frcm 20,000 to 25,000, $600; from 25,000 to 30,000, $700; from 30,000 to 45,000, $1,500; ever 45,000, $2,000. County superintendents Less than 1,000. $450; from 1,000 to 1,200. $500; from 1,200 to 1.500, $700; more than 1,500. $700 a year, with $20 additional for each 100 additional school population, salary not to exceed $1,000. In determining sal aries in counties the population of cities of the first and second class are not in cluded. In counties where there are more than 120 teachers employed in the county schools the commissioners may give the superintendent $1,200 salary. The superintendent is expected to visit each school one hour In a year, and for failure to do bo the commissioners shall dock the superintendent $5 for each school. County attorneys Under 2.000 popu lation. $400; from 2.000 to 5.000, $500; from 5.000 to 9,000, $550; from 9.000 to 12.000, $650; from 12.000 to 15.000, $S00: from 15.000 to 20.000, $900: from 20.000 to 25,000, $1,100; from 25.000 to 45.000. $1,200; from 45.000 to 55,000. $1,800; over 65.000. $2,000. In counties containing cities of the first class the commission ers shall allow $900 for a deputy, and the county attorney in ail counties is permitted to keep all fees. District clerks Fees up to the following amounts: Up to n.on) population. $3X; fmm 6 to 10.01X1. $x00: from 10.1100 to 15 from 15. to 20.00u;. si.o; frnrn ?mi( to 25.000, $t.: from is.ooo to 3.ouo. t 4-)-from SO.Oiio to 35.000. $l.t0: from Bwi to 40.000, $2,0'; more than 45.000. $3,000. Kach clerk shall retain one-half the fees col lected over the amounts allowed for sal aries find turn the rest to the treasurer Sheriffs Under B.000 population .-ill fees collected: from 5.ii0 to lO.OuO. SI 400- from 10.0W to 15.(Kj. tl.tiuO: from 1. to' Jt $1,800: from 2l.000 to 25.0i(. $2,000- from "5 IkiO to 30.W). $2,250; from 30.000 to 35.000 500 from 35.0k to 4O.00O. S2.DO0: from 40 0 to $45.0"O. $3,000; over 45.0O0. $3,500. Ore-third of the excess fees shall be retained bv the sheriff and the remainder turned in to the treasurer. .-Sroiilte ludges Up to K.ono population. SSi.1?"1- BM0 to SIO.OOO. $00: from l.ooo to r,.0O0. $900: from 15.01)0 to 20.0O0. $1,000; from ?U to S3-0- $1,200: from 25.000 to 30.000. ckFV "U'-0"0 to 35.000. $1.6oo: from 35.-i0,4000"1- ,-900: from 4O.O"0 to 43.000. iVrtj ,rr,m "Y0"0' S2-50,: over 55. ouo. $3,000. One-half the excess fees shall be turned into the treasurer. rJSes,'ster ?Ldeeds-v tn 5000 Population. ?s5L tS,m V00 to,-1?W- W: from 10.000 to Jo.ooo. $900: from 15.000 to 20.000, $1 000- from ii-tt0 from 25oSZ-So &:,r??n3?'0 to OJO- from fttM m4o'K? l,2 55 000- over 55.: iS?'-!?-w "ne-na'f of the excess fees are to go into the county treasury. nla?ta.n t5rr?nmlssloners Up to 2.000 pop- Bono ?o-inii 'I??1 I0"0 to 5 00- sw: from 5.000 to IOjOOO, $12o: from 10.000 to 15 000 1150 m 'to 20.W0 $300; froin xSooto: m, 1300; from 36,000 to 30,000. $400; from CoL James A. Sexton, Commander Sunday 30.000 to 35.000. $500; from $35,000 to 45.000, $T0u: from 46,000 to 55,000, $Ji00; vore uo.two, $1,000. TO KILL PENSION BILLS. Senate Likely to Follow the Example Set by the House. There are pending before the two houses of the legislature bills to pen sion various persons, in the sum total of $50,000. The house has killed all such bills before it and the indications are that the senate committee will follow this example. There is much opposition to this plan of pensioning persons but it is a custom which has grown into an evil in recent years and this legislature seems dis posed to put an end to it. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS A slight snow fell last night. The school board meets tonight. Valentines have made their appear ance. Some of the gas pipes in houses freeze this cold weather. Sleighs are selling for $10 and up. Cheap even in snowy weather. The street force commenced early this morning to clean the crossings. The Shawnee county teachers asso ciation met Saturday afternoon. Dry goods boxes have gone up In price since kindling became scarce. Some of the candidates for city offi ces conduct their campaigns on Sun day. A Topeka man has made enough out of bucket shop trading to start In busi ness. Major Inman Is writing a. new book and George M. Stone will do the illus trating. A Topeka teacher has discovered that Gladstone was not such a great man after all. The regular meeting of the city coun cil will be held tonight and the pay rolls will be allowed. The May Burnett perjury case will probably be taken to Jackson county on a change of venue. State Treasurer Frank Grimes Is a persistent theater goer and seldom misses a performance. A sheriff In Shawnee county usually has to fight a half dozen damage suits during his term of office. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Sun day contains pictures of Mrs. W. H. Johnston and Miss Lillian Tefft. Moses Sarbach and Pick Smith will be partners in the "Dance of the Fair ies" in the Elks' production of "Romeo and Juliet." Councilman Skinner says that he will introduce a resolution at the council meeting tonight to raise the salary of Chief Strauss. The restaurants have already com menced to figure that there are only three months with "r's" left In which to sell oysters. So many people have died of "opera tions" at a certain Topeka hospital that the neighbors have nicknamed It "the slaughter-house." W. S. White, who served In the Sixth, cavalry during the Spanish war, has been discharged and has gone to his home at Reading. W. T. Short, representative from Cloud county, who has been dangerous ly sick at 311 West Seventh street, is slowly Improving. It is rumored that the question of the legality of the special session of the leg islature will ultimately be taken to the United States supreme court. P. S. Withers has several Interesting documents which he prizes highly. One is a land grant made in 1831 and signed by Andrew Jackson. Another is made In ISIS and is signed by James Monroe and the third was made in 1812 and signed by James Madison. COMING HUAMATIC EVENTS Tonight the Alice Netlsen Opera com pany will put on "The Fortune Teller" at the Crawford theater. While satis factory seats can yet be secured, it is probable that standing room will be sold before the curtain goes up tonight. Manager Crawford has decided to re serve the first three rows in the gal lery, and 50 cents will be charged for seats there. The engagement of the company Is one of the notable events of the theatrical season. Du Souchet's successful farce, "My Friend from India," will be given its second presentation in this city at the Crawford theater Wednesday evening. There are probably as many laughs in this piece as any farce of the American stage. The sale of seats opened this morning. "At Gay Coney Island," the farce comedy which opened the season at the Crawford theater last August, will re turn to that house on Thursday evening. The Blanche "Walsh-Melbourne Mc Dowell company, with, all the scenery of the G. A. Who Died Early Morning'. and properties used by the late Fanny Davenport, will be seen at the Crawford theater Friday evening in "La Tosca." The same play will be put on at a -matinee Saturday afternoon and "Fedora" will be presented Saturday night. R. D. McLean, Odette Tyler and Charles B. Hanford, with a strong sup porting company, will open an engage ment at the Grand opera house next Friday night. "Othello" -will be the opening bill, and will be followed by Romeo and Juliet" Saturday after noon and "Julius Caesar'1 Saturday night. DU. GUNSAULUS CALLED To Occupy the Fuljait Vacated by Dr. Dwight Hillis. Chicago, Feb. 6. The Rev. Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, president of Armour In stitute and pastor of Plymouth Congre gational church, will succeed the Rev. N. D. Hillis as minister of Central church if the trustees of Plymouth church will consent to his retirement from their organization. It is under stood this permission will be granted, but reluctantly. A decision will be reached at a formal meeting of the trustees called for tomorrow night. Dr. Hillis recently accepted the pastorate of the Plymouth church, Brooklyn. THIS SETTLES IT. Little Doubt of Ratification of the Treaty Now. Washington, Feb. 6. Senator Spoon er expressed the belief that the situa tion at Manila would convince the sen ate of the necessity for prompt action. "This attack clears the situation," he said. "We are holding Manila as the result of our effort to expel the Spanish and maintain order in a community where there was danger that the re sentment growing out of the war might bring on disorder and bloodshed, for which the world would hold the United States responsible. The ratifica tion of the treaty will make complete our duty to insist upon order, even by force. "To have retired voluntarily from Ma nila might have been conceivable a month ago. but the idea of being driven from the Philippines by the people for whose benefit our fight against Spain was made will, in my estimation, be re garded as intolerable. We are not fighting the Filipinos. We are only maintaining our right to preserve or der." Senator Piatt of Connecticut said: "The senate ought not to neglect, or re fuse to do a thing that will save the lives of our soldiers or make clear their right to fight back If they are in dan ger of being massacred while their hands are tied by our failure to do a plain and necessary duty." WILL BE S. BARN I'M. The Co." Will No Longer Be a Part of the Firm. Saturday evening the firm of S. Bar num Co. formally dissolved partnership. The business will be continued by Mr. Barnum. It was announced last December that the firm would dissolve, but the question as to which should succeed to the business was not settled until Saturday evening. The two partners, S. Barnum and M. Snattlnger, each made a bid for the busi ness. Mr. Barnum overbid his partner, so that the business fell to him. The firm has been in existence 30 years. CANADIAN CADETS En Route' to Military Convention at Tampa. St. Louis, Feb. .6 The Toronto high school cadets of Toronto.Canada.in charge of S. W. Burns and James S. Hughes, school officials of that city, arrived here today over the Illinois Central railroad from Chicago. Xhey are on their way to Tampa, Fla., to attend the national mili tary convention to be held there on Feb ruary 8. During their stay in the city today the Toronto party was entertained by F. L. Harris, general manager of Mobile and Ohio railroad. Today the special Pullman sleepers in which the party is traveling will be attached to the "West India Fiver," on the Mobile and Ohio. They will be carried to Montgomery, Ala., by that road and from there the Plant sys tem will take them to their destination. More Anti-Resubmission Protests. The anti-resubmlssion petition from Leavenworth, presented by Senator Stone, is not the only one from that locality. Sev eral others were included in the First dis trict petition of 1,600 signatures, present ed by Mr. Brooke, also others from the State Temperance union. The W. C. T. IT. alone has an average of 1.200 names from each of the seven congressional dis tricts. A lady was surprised the other day to hear from her grocer that those little sweet pickles were a home product, and said they were as nice as they could be, and that she would ask for no other than the "Silver Leaf" brand hereafter. Quick, good work. American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh street. Tele phone 311. MANYPLOTS Appear to Have Been Working Simultaneously to Kill James. S. Collins, If Testimony of the Defense CAN BE RELIED UPOX. Another Witness Turns Up Who Heard Murder Planned. A Host of People Apparently Thirsted For His Blood. Motion For New Trial May Not Be Argued For Some Time. The affidavits upon which the motion for a new trial in the Collins case will stand were filed late Saturday even ing by Attorney Charles Hayden. There is only one affidavit which does not relate to the misconduct of jurors and that Is made by a man named James Nello who claims to live in Den ver. His affidavit is along the same line as the testimony of the man who heard a plot to kill J. S. Collins while under a box car at Burlington. His affidavit is as follows "About the fifth, sixth or seventh day of May, 1898, I was in Topeka. At that time I knew Johnson Jordan by sight, having known him on my former trips to Topeka. On the evening in question, either the fifth, sixth or seventh of May, I was in Topeka and was at a house a short distance west of the Santa Fe round house; was sitting on the porch talking to a young lady. Johnson Jor dan came along in company with some colored man he called Jess. "They stopped almost in front of the house where I was sitting on the porch and 1 heard the colored man who was with him say to Jordan: "How are you going to do it, Jordan?" Jordan replied: "You d fool man, I ain't a going to do it. Jolly is going to fix him." The colored man who was with him then asked if he could depend on Jolly. Jordan replied: "Yes, Jolly and I have been mixed up before." Jordan then said: "I told him old man Collins always carried it with him. Jolly prom ised me he would do the job." The color ed man called Jess, then asked Jordan if he was sure on Jolly. Jordan said: 'Yes, Ben Is going with us. Edith knows Jolly well.' Jess then said 'd it, what do you want to let that wench in on it for?' Jordan said: 'Edith is all right, I can trust her.' The colored man then asked Jordan what he was going to do about the watch. Jordan said: "I'm not going to do anything about it.' The colored man then said: 'The kid is raising h about the watch.' Jordan said: 'Let him go to h I am going to keep it.' He then said: 'Ben will go with us. Jolly will go into the alley with the buggy. I will go to the front of the house and if any noise is made, will run across the street, and you look out for yourself, as I can make my get away; you know I am hot-footed.' He also said that he and Edith would 'go out tomorrow evening,' and that he would probably not see him till the night they would do the job. At this time he gave the colored man whom he called Jess some money. I could not tell how much, but I heard the silver jingle, and then Jess said: 'Well, if you are sure of Jolly, it all goes." He also told Jordan he would meet him at 'Mac's place.' I am satisfied that from my position, sitting as I was back in the porch, they did not see me during the time they were having this conversa tion. The porch is in front of the L part of the house and the main part of the house extends out nearer the street than the place on the porch where I was sitting." "The next day after this conversation I went to Kansas City and did not know of the fact of Mr. Collins being killed or of John Collins being charged and tried for the murder of his father until I happened to notice an account of it in a Kansas City paper about Christmas eve. I think it was on Christ mas eve when I saw an account of It in a Kansas City paper which contain ed a picture of Johnson Jordan. In a few days after last Christmas eve I wrote to Mr. A. A. Godard, one of the attorneys for the defendant in regard to what I knew of the matter, but not re ceiving any reply from him until this 24th day of January. 1899. I did not have any interview with him; but to day I came to Topeka and stated to hint all I knew in regard to the conver sation which I heard in the early part of last May between Johnson Jordan and the colored man he called Jess as stated la the above and foregoing affi davit. "I am not acquainted with John Col lins, the defendant or with any mem bers of his family, and have no Interest in the result of this trial, but make the above affidavit of the facts known to me simply because they are true and in order that justice may be done." M. Council, the contractor and his wife, make affidavits concerning a con versation between R. S. Butner and John Dickey, both jurors In the Collins trial. Mr. Council says that he heard John Dickey mention portions of the evidence during the progress of the trial and that he said he did not think it would take long to agree upon a ver dict. He said the evidence was "one sided." Mrs. Council affirms what her husband says and says that Dickey referred to John Collins as "a dude" during the progress of the trial. Both say that Mr. Dickey read the State Journal while the trial was in pro gress. There are two affidavits concerning Juror John A. Miller. T. F. Ricken backer says that he heard Miller dis cuss the evidence while the trial was in progress. Mrs. Victoria Griffiths sup ports what Mr. Rickenbacker says in the following affidavit: "Said Juror Miller called at the resi dence of my mother two or three differ ent times and on one cocasion while said trial was in progress and before the close of the testimony offered on the trial, this affiant and the said Juror Miller, and Mrs. Carruthers, affiant's mother, had a conversation In regard to the trial, in which I stated to Miller that I did not see how a jury of farm ers were in a position to Judge of a fel low of town, that they were in different classes altogether. Mr. Miller replied that they could judge about it as well as anyone or words to that effect. Dur ing the same evening we were talking about the differences between town boys and country boys and Mr. Miller said that town boys thought too much about dress and spending money, and not enough about work, and that the town boys thought too much about go ing with girls and spending money for them. From what he said about town boys and country boys I Inferred and came to the conclusion In my own mind that he was prejudiced against town boys In a class." James F. McCabe, A. A. Townsend, A. K. Fulford, P. M. Croll and George R. Brindle made affidavits that Juror Charles Stevens was intoxicated during the trial and that he frequently drank intoxicating liquor. O. K. Swayze made affidavit that lie saw John Dickey reading a report of the trial while he was serving as a juror. An affidavit concerning Juror William Keck is made by A. K. Fulford as fol lows: "In the course of said conversation I asked him how the Collins trial was getting along. He told me very slow ly. William Humbert then mentioned the fact that said William Keck was a juror in the Collins case, and said Wil liam Keck then stated that he was a juror in that case, and that he could not talk about it. The said William Keck and I continued our conversation for some time and in the course of the conversation he stated to me in an un dertone that the Collins case was as hard a case as the Nevels case. 'But,' he added in a low tone and very earn estly, 'Collins is guilty." This conver sation took place after the jury had been impaneled In the above entitled case, and before the verdict was ren dered." The county attorney will file counter affidavits and the motion for a new trial may not argued for two or three weeks. DEATH OF CAPRIVI. He Was Formerly Chancellor of the German Empire. Frankfort, Feb. 6. General Count von Caprivi. the former chancellor of the Ger man empire, died this morning at Skyren. near Cressen, 32 miles from here. STORM ALL THE WAY. Tempestuous Voyage of the Cunarder Lucania. New York, Feb. 6. The Cunard line steamer Lucania arrived this morning from Liverpool and Queenstown after a most tempestuous passage lasting 7 days and 19 hours. From the time the Lucania left the Irish coast until she arrived on the American coast she experienced a suc cession of terrific west gales and high seas. On February 2 the wind blew with hurrlcan force, accompanied by heavy snow squalls and mountainous seas, in which the big liner was compelled to lay to for 1V. hours, when the storm settled into a strong gale with fierce squalls and high seas, gradually moderating on near ing Nantucket. The Lucania roiie the storm in splended shape and received no damage. SANTA FE GATES. XL D. Mills, of Atchison, Secures Con tract to Manufacture For the System. Atchison, Feb. 6. F!. D. Mills of Atchi son has been given the contract to furnish grttes for the entire Santa Fe system. The Santa Fe uses several thousand gates every vear and the contract means the employment of a dozen men in Atch ison. The gates will be manufactured here. Even the castings will be made in Atchison. A Prophet of Action. Mr. Kipling is not correctly styled a Jingo or a Chauvinist. He does not provoke war, or underestimate its afflic tions, but he preaches forever on our ears, "Be ready!" He marshals us by land and sea, he brings outlying kins folk up into line with us, he questions us incessantly as to the state of our sinews and of our guns. The influence of this one young civilian, without ex ternal prestige of any kind to help him, has been simply prodigious. His breath has stirred the, veins, not of hundreds of men, nor of thousands, but of a clus ter of nations. The peculiar gravity of Mr. Kipling's appeal to the English speaking races for even America is surely not unaffected by his voice has been met In Great Britain by the inevit able chorus of imitators. Every song writer, every leader writer, every story teller has a little touch of his magic today, a little strain of what the Ger mans might call Kiplingismus. Ed mund Gosse on Kipling. How the Eskimos Do Washing. There are no tables in the houses of the Eskimos, and the women are there fore in the habit of placing everything on the floor. This causes them to do so much stooping that they would rather stoop than not; as to which Dr. Nansen, the Greenland explorer, tells an amus ing story. A Danish lady had employed several Eskimo women to do some washing. Entering the washhouse she saw them all bending over the wash tubs that stood on the floor. To make them more comfortable she had some stools fetched and placed the tubs upon them. By and by she looked in to see how they were getting on, and to her astonishment discovered the women standing on the stools and stocping still more laboriously over the tubs, which still remained on the floor. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Woman Slayer of Big Game. Mrs. Crofts of Cork, Ireland, can boast of a record of big game which, many a sportsman might envy. During a recent stay in India Mrs. Crofts had keen sport in the jungles of the Ma- harav of Kotah and the Maharajah of Thallawar, in Rajputana, a tiger shot a few yards from the tree where Sir Ed ward Bradford was mauled and had his arm taken off by a tiger a panther, four black bears, a wild boar, four stags, two antelopes, a small red deer, a hyena and a lynx falling to her gun. In all Mrs. Crofts has seen seventeen tigers killed, and innumerable panthers, bears and crocodiles. One of her unique experiences was the shooting of two large tigers out of a steam launch In the Cambal river, Kotah. Mrs. Crofts is as well an accomplished tennis and golf player, and has won many prizes in tournaments Chicago Times-Herald. Queen's Physician Always Busy. The late Sir William Jenner, the queen's physician, with an income of $75,000 a year, once said to a group of friends: "My amusement Is pathologi cal anatomy." He seems to have work ed all the time except when he was eating or sleeping. He received patients at his house from 9 in the morning until 1:45, allowing fifteen minutes or less to each. About 2 o'clock, after a light lunch, he started out in his carriage on his round of visits, and sometimes stayed out until 10 o'clock. His only recreation in the years in which he was busiest was reading shilling novels on his railway journeys. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mosquito Bars for Army. evading. Pa. Feb. 6. A Philadelphia company has placed a large order with a Reading iron plant for the manufacture of mosquito bars. The Philadelphia con cern has a contract with the government to provide the bars, which will be used to support nettings for the soldiers doing garrison duty in the new island posses sions. The orders for the bars are placed in 17,000 lots at a time. Have you tried the "Silver Leaf" brand of catsup, sweet India chow and celery relish; if not, try it. Ask your grocer for it. Every bottle guaranteed. "Hot Time" Does Duty as a Dirge. Harry T. Montgomery, a private In the Thirteenth Minnesota, now station ed at Manila in a letter received by his uncle. W. E. Montgomery, today, re lates a curious incident there. A mer chant of the well-to-do class came to the camp one -day and told of the death of a friend. He said his friend's last request was that a certain one of those "beautiful American tunes" be played during the march to the cemetery. The messenger did not know the name of the piece, and the leader of the regi ment band played a few notes from dif ferent selections until he struck "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The native clapped his hands and said that was the identical tune his dead friend wanted. It seemed a trifle odd to play that rollicking air at a funeral and the musician endeavored to point out the incongruity of it, but it was no use "A Hot Time In the Old Town" was wanted and nothing else. The obse quies were a big thing and the mem bers of the band did their best to keep straight faces as they slowly headed the procession down the streets, grind ing out as solemnly as they could our "new national anthem." It was prob ably the first occasion where "A Hot Time in the Old Town" did duty as a dirge. Kansas City Times. ANNOUNCEMENTS. S. S. McFADDEN is a candidate for re election to the office of city clerk. L. G. BEAL is a candidate for city treas urer subject to Republican primaries. J. H. SQUIRES, Candidate for City Clerk. Subject to Republican primary. W. A S. BIRD is a candidate for re-election to the office of city attorney, sub ject to the Republican primaries. CHAS. E. GAULT Is a candidate for city attorney, suoject to itepuDiican pri maries. WANT E D H E LP. WANTED Situation as short order cook by young man of experience; satisfac tion guaranteed. Call or address 816 N. Harrison st. WANTED By white woman, washing: can give first class reference. Address X. V., care Journal. WANTED SALESMEN. WANTED Salesman; salary paid weak ly; erperlence unnecessary; permanent. Brown Bros. Co.. Chicago. WANTED Salesmen visiting retail trade to carry as a side line the Ledgerette bill file, for keeping in systematic and convenient order all ticket charges. Al most every retailer who hasn't a similar device buys one. Sells for $2.25. Good profit. Address the manufacturer, Wm. R. Adams, 711 Kansas ave.. Topeka. WANTD EMALEHEI WANTED Girl for general housework. Apply 716 Lane st. WANTED Competent girl for general housework: good wages. 634 Clay st. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED Wood-choppers at once at my farm near Valencia. W. F. Kassebaum. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED You to order original stove reDairs of all kinds throueh us. Can 'phone 313. Hull Stove Repair Co.. 116 East .fciigntn st. WANTED To rent the barn at 421 Quincy St. to a guuu tenant. WANTED Everyone to know that fn re plying to an advertisement which reads to address "Care Journal" the reply must be made in writing and sent through the liiu.il pusiuaiu, ui leu til HUB ULllce. 11 will then be placed in one of the boxes set aside for replies to classified advertise ments. FOB, RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT A fine cottage home 8 rooms for rent, furnished, by W. M. FORBES. 116 W. 6th ave. FOR RENT 5 room house, 1263 Lincoln; good order. Elder. 611 Kansas ave. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT Two cottages, one three room and one seven room. Inquire 634 Clay. FOR RENT Fine large residence on West Tnth. W. R. Hazen, 115 West Fifth. FOB, RENT BOOMS. FOR RENT Desirable furnished room. 811 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Room with board: all mod ern conveniences. 521 Van Buren. FOR RENT 5 second floor rooms, 112 West 7th st. F. J. Brown, 17 Columbian Bldg. FOR RENT One-half or part of store, 722 Kansas ave. Sullivan Delahoyde. FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms, first floor. West 6th st: FOR RENT Very pleasant aownstalra furnished front room. 421 Quincy st. FOB, SALE -REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE 4 room house, 1 lot, $600. 7 room house, lots, $900. 7 room house, 2 lots, $500. 8 room house, 1 lots. $2,800. 40 acres finely improved, near city, $4,000. 5 room house, lfe lots, bam, $1,000. 7 room house, 1 lots. barn. $1,300. 6 room house, 1 lot, barn, $1,600. 7 room house, H4 lots. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Finely located 5 room house. 1 lot, barn, city water, etc, all clear of incumbrance; will exchange for larger house and as sume, or pay cash difference. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Three lots on First ave. near corner Kansas ave. for $400 each, with cottage house. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE House 6 rooms, cistern, sink, 1012W'est St., monthly payments. 6 room cottage, 1208 Clay St., 2 lots, cis tern, sink. 3H acres garden land, east side, pay ments. 8 tine lots Washburn car line, $150 each. Set of bank fixtures, cheap. 7 room house for rent, 1035 Madison st. F. J. BROWN, 17 Columbian Bldg. FOR SALE A good 80 acre farm, also one of 320 acres, for sale cheap, or will exchange for good residence property. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE A good location for lumber and coal yard, very cheap; also Several houses to sell on payment plan or exchange for good farm; also. Several good business properties cheap. There is no better investment than good Topeka property at present prices. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Lots In Douthltt Pltce. Law office of H. C. Root, 116 West 6th st FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. "Phone 602. FOR RENT 6 r n house. 234 Tyler st Inquire at 231 Tupeka ave. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR BALE Small hotel in a prosperous county seat town, in first class repair. Will sell for one-ha'.f cash, balance to suit purchaser. Address James Cunningham, Belleville. Kan. FOR SALE A young fresh milk cow. Chester ave., Oakland. H. Facklam. FOR SALE Cutter. Inquire 626 Quincy street. FOR SALE Graphophone outfit, or ex change for camera. Box 32, Oakland, Kan. FOR SALE 25 pounds live geese feathers. 620 Harrison. FOR SALE 1 good milk cow, 1 fat cow, 1 Jersey heifer 3 months old, 1 finest bred Jersey bull calf In Shawnee, lis Holman St., North Topeka. FOR SALE Ten R.I.P.A.N.'S for fi cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. a. m. buwman CO. MISCELLANEOUS. THE REGULAR MEETING of the Com mercial club will occur on Wednesday evening, February 8, at 8 o'clock. The statistical reDort for 1S9S will be present ed and the best means of placing the same Deiore tne puDiie oeterminca. ine annual banquet will be discussed and reports of committees on important matters receiv ed and acted upon. A full meeting of tae ciud is desired. ine puonc invited. T. J. ANDERSON, Secretary. NOTICE REAL ESTATE I have sold mv real estate and rental business to Emmett E. Roudebush. 115 West 6lh avenue. I cheerfully recommend Mr. Iioudebush to my former and present customers. He has a list of all my proper ty ana win gladly complete any aeai wnicn you may wish to make. Jan. 30, 1899. J. W. FERGUSON. WE HAVE COBS at $1.25 per load. Alex ander Goodfellow, 119 East Sixth st. Phone 339. WE HAVE THE BEST OATS in the city, hay that is free from weeds and dam aged hay. Alexander Ar Goodfellow, 119 East Sixth st. 'Phone 339. IF YOU WANT just what you pay for. go to Alexander Goodfellow, 119 East Sixth St. 'Phone 339. IF YOU WANT to save money, buy your feed from Alexander Goodfellow, 119 East Sixth st. 'Phone Xa. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Med.cal Coilece, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, la open daily except Sunday, from 1 to 1 i m. E. M. Brocket t. M. D. UNDERGRADUATE doctors. dentists. pharmacists, lawyers, practicing: soon graduated home. Box 196, Chicago. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitri fied Brick and Paving Co. has been re moved to 118 West Eighth St. DOUTHITT PLACE Has been opened. Your choice of lots. $150 to $450. Eugene Wolfe, 517 Kansas ave. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT SO acre farm near Dover. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. OJITANDFOTJNB FOUND Where watches or clocks re cleaned for 50c. 13 Kansas ave., upstairs. PHYSICIAN AND SUitGEONS. I j. A. RYDER. M. D. OFFICE and residence, cornel Gordon t. and Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone 214 Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, fiahure. ul ceration. etc. K TTL SHELDON. M. D. Surgery ana aiseases or women, private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan wltH Kan. T6l 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. tn. to 5 p. m. Telephone 698 residence and 16 office. DR. J. SPRING HORN. 627 Kansas ave. Ladies', Masseur and Osteopothist. Medi cated vapor baths. A Graduate of the Massage and Swedish Movement Institute. Stockholm. Sweden. Office hours: 9 to 11 a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m. MONEY. MONEY TO LOAN on farms; 10 years' time. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. SEE US FOR LOANS. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO.. 'Phone 262. 113 W. Fifth st. $50,000,000 CHEAP MONEY for investment. Agents wanted. Investors lists for sale. Investors Directory, N. Y. 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. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles, guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kansas ave. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Topeka Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 118 West Eighth st. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted- FRED C: FAGERCRANS, Jeweler, 729 Kansas ave. Repairing of fine and com plicated watches a specialty. Artlstlo monogram and letter engraving. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned. 75c: clocks, BOc; 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. 612 Kan. ave. STORAGE. STORAGE The Topeka Storage and 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 $14 Kas. ave. C. D. Skinner. Prop. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AV. High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue free. 'Phone 292. MUSICAL. ir'l A IN w. prgun b'6 taught: lessons 25c and oOc Studio open every day and evening. Mrs. C M. Smiley, 620 Kansas ave. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of plane and harmony, 407 Greenwood ave..Potwin. FRESCO WORK. W. W. GILLESPIE. Fresco Painter. De signs and estimates furnished on all classes of work. 1714 West Fifteenth, To peka, Kan. Refers to hla work In State Journal building. f

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TOPEKA STATE MONDAY EVENING, TTEBTiTTAItY 0, 1899. MOTHERS! Help Your-Little Ones They Are Not to Blame. Every mother in Topeka should read this article. May. mothers blame their children for what they are not always able to prevent. The poor little ones suffer for their inability to do differ ently. Many children are born with weak kidneys. They wet the bed night after night because they really can't help it. Mothers scold, then whip and often shame the child but the accidents go on nightly. If two cents worth of forethought were used it would be seen that after whipping, scolding and sham ing the child, if it still continues this habit, that the child must certainly have weak kidneys or an Inflammation in its bladder. Morrow's Kid-ne-olds cure this trobule perfectly. They are easy to take as they are tablets (yel low) and not a nasty, nauseous pill. We want to give you the exeprienee of a Sterling. 111., mother, Mrs. C. A. Hewitt, of Wilson avenue and Tenth Bt., who says: "My little daughter Grade, who is six years old has been troubled all her life with weak kidneys. This was shown by her nightly wet ting the bed. Small as she is she com plained of pain in her back, which also convinced me It was her kidneys. Mor row's Kid-ne-oids have been the only remedy I have been able to get that would do her any good. They are all right and I heartily recommend them to motehrs with children who have weak kidneys and bothered this way." Write to Mrs.Hewitt.enclosing stamp, to confirm this statement for she is a grateful mother and will be glad to write you how much her little daughter was benefitted by the use of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. Do not confound Mor row's Kid-ne-oids with any kind of kid ney pills; they are not pills at all but iTellow Tablets and are put up in wood en boxes which sell at BO cents and are never sold in bulk. Morrow's Liver-Lax iwiU cure constipation and sells at 25 cents a box. Both of these remedies are for sale by all first-class druggists and at Swift Holliday's drug store, or will be mailed by the manufacturers on receipt of price. John Morrow Co.. Chemists, Springfield, Ohio, A SALOON ROW At Augusta, Gbl, Nearly Leads to a Battle With Troops. Augusta, Ga., Feb. 6. Much excite ment prevails here as the result of the killing in a saloon row of Dennis O'Con mell of the Fifteenth Minnesota by Brown Hadley, a barkeeper. Many of O'Connell's comrades swore vengeance, and, believing that the police had ar rested Hadley, planned to take him from the officers. Shortly after break fast about a hundred of the Minnesota boys, who had no cartridges for their rifles, stole pick axes from the regimen tal company store and breaking open the ammunition cases each took about fifty rounds of ammunition. The news soon reached the ears of Gen. S. S. Sumner, commander of the First division of the Second army corps, and he ordered out the Third cavalry, and Tenth Ohio and the Thirty-fifth Michigan regiments. The men were de ployed as skirmishers and the woods in the vicinity of the camp were scoured. The entire lot, fully armed, were finally rounded up and put under guard. Gen. Sumner ordered all passes confiscated and placed the ringleaders in irons. The military authorities refuse to make known the names of the men under ar rest. Hadley later surrendered and was taken outside of Atlanta for safe keep ing. TCOIIY-KAIN CASE ENDED Mgr. Martlnelli Decides in Favor of the St Louis Archbishop. Washington, Feb. 6. The case of Rev. John T. Tuohy, pastor of St. Patrick's church, St. Louis, against Archbishop Kain of that city, which has been pend ing for many months before the apos tolic delegate's court in this city, has been decided in favor of the archbishop. The official findings have been received by Archbishop Kain and will soon be promulgated in his diocesan organs. The verdict of Mgr. Martinelli has four subdivisions, two pertaining to Father Tuohy's sentence and the other two relating to his future treatment iy the archbishop of St. Louis. Father Tuohy is told to surrender uncondition ally to the archbishop all rights and properties pertaining to the pastorate of St. Patrick. He then is ordered to make submission to his superior and for penance to go into retreat for ten days. When Father Tuohy has complied with those requirements the archbishop Is ordered to restore him his priestly (acuities and to make some suitable provision for his future support in the archdiocese. This provision is subject to approval by the delegate's court here, and if the place given Father Tuohy is mot sufficiently lucrative or of dignified position the delegate reserves the right to ask the archbishop to make another provision. This decision ends one of the most famous ecclesiastical lawsuits ever tried by the papal delegate's court. The case has been in Rome and was re ferred here last summer for final re Vision. Everyone who is a Kansan should up hold Kansas by buying Kansas manu factured goods. By so doing you will help home industries to grow; help build up factories and cities, and In the end help yourselves. The further a dol lar goes away from home the longer It will take it to come back. Be wise and call for the "Silver Lear' brand of goods. All made at home and every grocer carries them. Special services to parties. Hotel Ox ford. nn nn m GHORTEOT LINE. COLORADO FLYER. 1 a t mm x "V- BLOOD OF 00R JBROTHERS Cries to Us From the Ad ulter ated and Monopolized Foods Says Prof. Geo. D. Herron. COMMONWEALTH CLUB Opened Its Institute in Repre sentative Hall Last Night With a Sermon Without Text. Probably for the first time in Its his tory a sermon was delivered in Repre sentative hall last night. The walls which are accustomed to look down the wrangling of politicians and would-be statesmen, and upon the "grafter" as he plies his trade, last night heard the principles of the Sermon on the Mount enunciated from the speaker's Btand. It was the opening of the Common wealth institute, and the sermon was delivered by Prof. George D. Herron, professor of applied Christianity in Iowa college at Grinnell, Iowa. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, who is at the head of the Commonwealth club movement, presided. She explained that the insti tute was held under the auspices of the Women's Commonwealth club of Kan sas, which had been planning for it for the past six months. "Our object," said Mrs. Diggs, "is to study sociological questions from an absolutely non-partisan standpoint, and I am glad to state that people of all party affiliations are taking an interest in it." Prof. Herron announced no text, but he drew frequent comparisons between the real teachings of Christ and the al leged civilization of the present day. "We live near the culmination of a social system," he said. "Over the chaos and strife which we call civiliza tion there broods the thought of love as law, changing the motives that make and remake the world. From the midst of the devouring industrial monsters rises the creative dream of equality and harmony. And this dream has already become a full-born, working ideal, grow ing in stature and favor with men." The social problem he defined as "a problem of how to so organize the world that all men may be equally se cure in the material means and social resources needful for a complete life." "Without regard to his conscience, our economic system involves a man in the moral and physical death of his brothers. Their blood cries to him from the adulterated and monopolized foods he eats: from the sweat shop clothes he wears.from his educational advantages, his special privileges, his social oppor tunities. Civilization denies to man that highest of all rights the right to live a guiltless life, the right to do right. "For Instance, I cannot come from Iowa college to this city to speak to you of Topeka, against the existing or der of things without riding upon a railway system, the capitalization of which is largely watered stock. Water ed stock is a method of high treason by which corporations forcibly tax the na tion for private profit, and by which they annually extort millions from American toilers and producers. Al though a large part of American indus try is organized by this system of wa tered stocks, and we consent to it tamely and ignorantly, it is yet the worst historic form of indirect usurpa tion and tyranny, and it renders our national wealth in large part purely fictitious. Again this railway system practically administers the government of the United States in all things that concern the system, and the govern ments of the several states of the Un ion as well. The majority of the Uni ted States senators recently elected have been its mere appointees and lob byists, and agents at the same time for other corporate interests. It took a shameless mob of 16 railway attorneys to elect a United States senator to rep resent the people of the state of which I am a citizen. "If I put sugar in my coffee I support a trust that practically administered the finances of the United States for personal profit; that threw the national government into the hands of a Wall street receiver, where it still remains; that presented, in its relations to the United States senate, one of the most awful and unconcealed spectacles of national debauchery in political his tory. "In order to send my children to the public school I must buy the books or dered by a private corporation that has forcibly assumed the function of admin istering the free school system of the United States as private property; that employs gangs of ruffians to go up and down these states and prepare school legislation for private profit; that ap points school superintendents, intimi dates school principals, throws out of employment and blacklists teachers who dare reject its publications. "I can no longer clothe myself, wheth er in good clothes or cheap, without the likelihood that my clothes are made un der sweat shop conditions, in which men and women and children toil to gether in hot air slave pens, fourteen to eighteen hours a day, for earnings that range from two to five dollars a week. "If I send my students to pursue fur ther study upon subjects to which I have introduced them, I must send them to receive the benefits of endow ments from the hands of a besotted philanthropy, drunken and sated with the wine of life, pressed from the crushed and exhausted millions who feed the modern industrial wine press. "By merely preaching the ethics of the sermon on the mount in their pul pits, I have been the means of depriving able and noble men of their positions and livelihoods, because of their eco nomic dependence upon the few rich men who control the organization of their churches. "In the early part of 1897, when meet ings for the relief of the famine in In dia were being -held in English and American cities, when contributions were being received from newsboys and washerwomen, scores of ships laden with wheat and carrying millions of money arrived in English ports as rents from the people in India for the priv ilege of living on the lands which the English had taken from them. "The recent forcible control of the American wheat market, which enabled one man to 'hold up' the earth by pre cisely the same ethics which the foot pad with the sandbag holds up his vic tim in the dark alley, occasioned the shooting down of hundreds of starving workmen in Italian cities, and may in directly cost more lives than some of the great wars. "The economic advantage which our Spanish, war has given to the controller j of the markets will probably result in the loss of more lives, by economic in direction, than there are people in the island of Cuba. The chivalry and pa triotism of the people furnish oppor tunity and prey for the speculators. 'Where the Spaniard has slain his tens,' says Mr. Lloyd, 'the American has slain his own by hundreds, by array contracts and pulls for incompetents and politi cians.' Sixty days before the Spanish war was declared the head of one of our railways placed in the hands of twelve other leading men of the country the outline of a plan whereby they were to make $30,000,000. They were to control a number of leading newspapers, and the scheme was a carefully designed plan whereby war was to be precipi tated and they were to clear that amount of money from army contracts. The plan was placed In my hands by one of the twelve men. Gen. Miles has probably found out the plan, and he has probably only hinted at all he knows." Dr. Herron will deliver an address each evening during the week. The series is the same as aroused so much comment in Chicago a short time ago, and as soon as he completes the course here he will return to Chicago by re quest to repeat it. He has been pro nounced the leader of Christian social ists, and steps have been taken to oust him from his professorship in Iowa col lege on account of his economic teach ings. GOMEZ IS SOUR. Will Take the Honey, But Continue to Kick. New Tork, Feb.S. A Herald dispatch from Havana says: Those who have been led to believe that Gen. Maximo Gomez was persuad ed by the president's commissioner, Robert P. Porter to look more kindly upon the continued American occupa tion of Cuba, may disabuse their minds. The grim old chieftain still clings fond ly to Cuba libre. He has abated no jot of his antagonism to foreign inter vention of nay sort, even though he ac cepts J3,000,000 for his warriors. In letters published with his authority, Gomez gives praise to his soldiers for their heroism and fortitude. Continu ing he says: "It is wonderful that any are left alive after such a horrible struggle and pains. We warn you that we may not yet have finished the strange destiny that presents this last trial and humil iation. We are strangers in our own country, still wet with our blood. "Forced guidance is hateful to us. It appears that the Americans are reim bursing themselves for their spontane ous intervention in our war of inde pendence. Their delay in that inter vention is still a shame upon them. The Americans instead of aiding, are ob structing the establishment of a free and independent republic. "This is our house. We are to live in It. We should furnish it to our own lik ing. I say to you there cannot be peace in Cuba, while there lasts that transi tory government, imposed by force and which is hateful in the eyes of our peo ple. "I had hoped to bid farewell to Spain's heroic soldiers, inviting them to return and join us as brothers in up building Cuba, but the Americans em bittered the joy of conquerers by the guidance they impose upon us. Em bittering us, they have also added grief to the conquered." "CONFESSIONAL" TROUBLE. Episcopal Church, of the Holy Cross Splits Over an Innovation. New Tork, Feb. 6. There is trouble in the Protestant Episcopal church of the Holy Cross, Jersey City, over the confessional, and many of the members threaten to resign if the innovation is made. The church is one of the leading Epis copal congregations in the city. It owns a handsome Gothic edifice, and during the last five years it' has been very prosperous. Previous to that time it was known as Christ Church and fol lowed the low form of worship. When the present rector. Rev. Augus tine Elmendorf. was installed, he start ed at once to change the existing order of things. By a vote of the congrega tion the name of the church was chang ed to "The Church of the Holy Cross," and the form of worship was changed to that known as "high church." Candles and incense were burned and the officiating priest changed his vest ments during the services, but with all the changes the confessional was not admitted. Almost from the time that Mr. Elmendorf took charge the church began to prosper, and it has rapidly become one of the strongest churches in the city. Pamphlets were distributed several days ago among the members of the church announcing that it was pur posed to introduce the confessional in to the service. The little document out lined the duties of the members under the new rule and prescribed the man ner in which they should conduct them selves while at the confessional. The copies of this pamphlet are being jeal ously guarded and it is difficult to get a glimpse at one. This intention to introduce the con fessional into the church aroused con siderable opposition among the con gregation, and the opponents of the movement are preparing a protest against the innovation to be presented to the rector and the vestry. Several members, it is said, have al ready resigned from the church and others have expressed their intention of doing so if the confessional is intro duced. HOW MONARCUS SLEEP. King: Leopold Is the Only OneWho Slumbers in the Daytime. Berlin, Feb. 6. The Zuericher Zei tung has collected facts of how mon archs sleep. Emperor William slumbers between silk sheets from 11 p. m. to 5 a. m. Leopold of Belgium retires at 4 a. m. and is lost to the world amid feathers and eiderdown quilts until 11 a. m. Queen Wilhelmina retires early, snores loudly and arises at 5 a. m. The czar has insomnia and woos sleep with chloral. Humbert of Italy affects a straw mat tress and woollen blankets, while Abdul Hamid luxuriates in silk sheets and a solid silver bedstead. Same Fares Via Washington. Tickets to Philadelphia and New York via Washington are sold over Vandalia Pennsylvania Short Lines at same fares as over direct route of this sys tem. Tickets via Washington are good for- ten days' stop-over at National Capital. Fares, time of through trains and full information free for the asking. Address J. M. Chesbrough, A. G. P. Agt., St. Louis. Sew the i Tm Kino You Haw Always Bought Signature f OA.ST Bear tin J19 Kind Von Have Always Bought Bignatu of OASTOniA. Bnntka ths Kind You Have Always 25 Discount y on Blankets -jE and Comforts. Z X Price This is 5 c a yard for New Outing Cloths, good styles. 5c a yard for new 36-inch Percales, worth 7ic. 75c yd. for dollar Taffetas, 27-in. wide. 50c for $1.25 Silk Velour, evening shades. 75c for 11.00 and $1.25 Silk Brocades and Silk Bayaderes. 75c for $1.25 and $1.39 Silk Plaids. 80c for 27-inch Black Satin Duchess. EMBROIDERIES. 1,000 pieces of New Embroideries will be on sale Tuesday morning. Four long center tables, in addi tion to our regular counter room, will be used for the display of these goods. The assortment is immense, and our lots at 5c, 7c, 10c, 15c, 20c and 25c will be a special attraction. RIBBON REMNANTS. All of the Ribbon Remnants that accumulated during our holiday sales will be put on sale this week at a great reduction. Each remnant will be marked the price of the piece, or two-thirds or one half its actual value. x x 25 Discount ...ON. Winter Underwear for MenWomen and Children RA1LR0AD NEWS. Rock Island Extension From Chickasha to Ft. Sill To Be Completed to Anadarko by February 12. EXCURSION TO BE HAD One of the Best Feeders Owned by the Boad. Government Business to the Fort a Factor. n.u -oir Toloni extension from Chickasha to Ft. Sill will be completed as. far as Anadarko by t'eoruary xi. wv.on the rnad is completed to that point an excursion will be run from Chickasha and other points. The ex tension will be built twenty-five miles southwest of Ft. SiU and will be a very important branch to the road, xnis win secure for the Rock Island the Ft. Sill business at that location instead of the Ions overland trip of thirty-eight miles to Rush Springs, from which point the business has been done heretofore. Besides the government business to the fort, the road will come in for an increased stock and merchandise busi ness from that locality. The Chickasha extension is probably one of the best feeders that has been built by the road for some time. MAIL CAR AFIRE. Mail Clerk on a Missouri Pacific Train Have a Stubborn Fight Kansas City, Feb. 6. A fire in the mail car was stubbornly eating- its way through the heavy flooring for four and a half hours -while the Missouri Pacific train was flying across the state at its schedule speed of forty miles an hour. The clerks in the mail carcontinued at their work after the discovery of the fire, as they could not extinguish it without stopping the train, and rather than cause a delay they took the risk, hoping to reach Kansas City before the fire might endanger the mail in the car. They reckoned on the slowness with which several inches of heavy oak burns, but they reckoned with a treacherous element, which was en couraged in its work by the current of air created by the rushing train. They endured the smoke that issued from the cracks in the floor for over three hours, during which the engineer and conductor of the train knew noth ing of what was transpiring. BRAVED TERRIBLE DANGER. Not until the flames were licking through into the car floor and threaten ing the tanks and pipes containing ex plosive Pintsch gas. did they "pull air on the engine." The car at that time was so full of smoke the clerks could not see the length of the car. They ran all the way from Jefferson City to within twenty-four miles of Kansas City, but further progress was out of the question. The fire was fought from inside and below the car for fifteen minutes at Canttiog After .Inventory. the way we make Business in the Dull Season. $10.00 Golf Capes for $20.00 Jackets for the first stop, near Lee's Summit. The train proceeded on its way but the fire made headway to such an extent the train had to be stopped at Independ ence, and at the Little Blue. When the train entered the union depot the car was still smoking from the fire conceal ed in its timbers. H. W. Wray was the mail clerk in charge. He was employed in the second baggage car, having detailed Mail Clerks Simpson and Whetton to the forward car. It is supposed sparks from the engine started the fire. Smoke was first detected by Clerk Simpson shortly after leaving Jefferson City. It was issuing from the openings around the steam pipes which pass through the floor. The clerks agreed to let the fire burn rather than delay the train, and they were not changed in their resolution even when the car became filled with smoke to the stifling point, and they realized the dan ger of the gas retorts exploding should the pipes of the tank become overheated. Only the appearance of flames near the center of the car moved them to stop the train by the air brake appliance. Then it was the train crew first learned of the danger. The train came to a standstill out in the hills east of Inde pendence. Mail Clerks Whetton and Simpson were assisted by all the employes in nshting the fire, which by this time had burned through the floor near the cen ter of the car and was threatening the valuable cargo of mail. Water was thrown on the flames, but it was found the fire had crept between the sections of flooring and was insidiously eating its way along at several other places. Axes were brought and the flooring cut open. The train resumed its journey and reach ed Independence when the fire again broke out, and some time was spent in subdu ing it. The train had not proceeded five minutes from the stop when the draft of the running train caused the fire to break out again, more fiercely than before. The mail agents fought it from inside the train for awhile, chopping into the floor and throwing out the burning boards, while the train flew on in an effort to make up part of the lost time. The openings, how ever, only gave the smouldering fire oxy gen and caused it to break forth worse than before. A third time the train was brought to a standstill, near the Little Blue, only a few miles outside the city, and nearly twenty minutes more were lost in fighting it. The burned car was brought Into the depot at Kansas City and cut out as soon as unloaded. It was taken across the river to the Missouri Pacific yards and flooded. Fire was still burning in the flooring when it was taken In charge by the yardmen. The mail clerks all belong to the St- Louis division and the matter will be reported to the department today. THEY WANTTKUESDALE. Directors of the D. L. "W. Desire the Bock Island Man for President. New Tork, Feb. 6. The Railway News will say tomorrow: W. H. Trues dale, .first vice president and general manager of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific, has been selected by the nom inating committee of the board of di rectors of the Delaware, Lackawanna Western Railroad company as their choice as the successor to Samuel Sloan, who retires from the presidency of that company an account of ad vanced years and failing health. ALONG THE ROCK ISLAND. Belleville, Feb. 6. The cold weather last week necessitated the Rock Island to run their Chicago trian with double headers between Omaha and Pbilips burg to make their time. Engineer "Dad" Mason will resume his rnn this week after a layoff of a month on account of injuries he receiv ed here. Conductors W. H. Ransom and A. E. Walker are on the sick list. Mrs. Parks, wife of Brakeman Wil liam Parks, Is dangerously ill. The Rock Island Belleville improve 15c for 9-4 Bleached Sheeting. 13sC for 9-4 Brown Sheeting. Jackets and Capes are being slaughtered. $1.00 for Children's $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 and -$2.25 Shoes. $1.50 for Youth's $2.00 and $2.25 Shoes. $3.50 for Ladies' $4.50 Patent Leather Shoes. VALENTINES. Visit our Valentine Booth for inexpensive nov elties in the Valentine line. Lace Valentines for Ic; Card Valentines for 3c; Satin Valentines for 10c; Celluloid novelties in Val entines for 25c; and better ones for better prices. ART LINEN DEPT. Fine Linen Center Pieces, size J 8x20 inches, sold at 15c, 20c, and 25c; your choice for 10c. Special values in Momie Linen Dresser and Side Board Scarfs; they are extra length and width; some drawn-work borders and ends they sold at 45c and 50c your choice 35c. Drawn-work Center Pieces, hemstitched and stamped size 16 fnch; for 15c. $I.t5 and $1.00 Linen Dresser Scarfs: some are Satin hemstitched and we will give you your choice for 75. S5.00 SI0.00 ments are at a standstill owing to the cold weather. The Rock Island depots have been supplied with the Adams pepsin tuttl frutti machines, which tell their pat rons to drop a penny in the slot, pull the lever, and get your money's worth. Division Road Master Sweeney, who operates between McFarland and Smith Center, has already distributed 12,000 renewal ties, and expects to use 40,000 more this spring. Trackmen are already relaying the 80 pound new steel rails between Belle ville and Lincoln, Neb. The old rails are being used in the building of a road in the Indian Territory, between Chick asha and Anadarka, a distance of 20 miles. Engineer James McQuaide on the lo cal between Belleville and McFarland. has resumed his run after a month's illness. During his sickness everything was done to make his home happy, friends visited him, and his excellent wife presented him with a bouncing engineer baby boy. The Montrose, Jewell county, stone crusher will resume work March 1st. The output of the crusher will be used to ballast the track between Mankato and Smith Center. Passenger engine No. 536, between McFarland and Phillipsburg Is at the Horton shops. Engineer C. M. Jones was called to Davenport on account of the serious illness of his father. The Rock Island intends their patrons to keep cool this summer. The company has put up 2,225 tons of ice at Horton, 1,000 tons at Topeka, 750 in McFarland, 1.050 in Belleville, 1,250 in Goodland, 600 tons in Phillipsburg, and 1,250 tons at their ice house in Bosswell, Col. Passenger Engineer James Gleason. between McFarland and Phillipsburg, is laying off on account of serious sick ness in his family. After a serious siege of the grippe Engineer Thomas Lane of No. 529, has resumed his run between Phillipsburg and McFarland. The Rock Island has completed their depot at Lebanon. The fire hardly had died out on the old one before work men were at work on the new depot. Charles Holz, the new Rock Island roundhouse foreman at Phillipsburg, is only 23 years old. He understands his job as if he was a veteran in his line. Rock Island division road master, D. Sweeney, of Belleville, was railroading on the New York Central when the civil -war broke out. He quit his job and enlisted in the Third New Tork for two years, serving with the regi ment his time, and re-enlisted, and was discharged in 1865. Roadmaster Sweeney, of the Rock Island, whose division is from Smith Center to McFarland, formerly filled a similar position with the Denver Rio Grande company. He remembers many Interesting reminiscences of railroading in the mountains. Mr. Sweeney has made a success of railroading. The interlocking switch at Courtland, occupied jointly by the Rock Island and Santa Fe roads, saved a Santa Fe train from plunging into a Rock Island pas senger, which doubtless would have been disastrous to both train and pas sengers had not the lookout threw the Santa Fe engine off the track. It cost the engineer his job. Otto Kuehne Co. were awarded first diploma and medal at the Trans mississippi and International exposition at Omaha for their sweet pickles, catsup and preserves. Colored shirts and waists laundered ao that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Eighth street. 25 Discount x on Flannelette I'ntun not X x x X X 50 Discount ...ON... WOOL DRESS GOODS REMNANTS. DAYS OF GRACE RETAINED Bill Abolishing Them Is Killed in the Indiana House.' Indianapolis, Feb. 6. The bill abolishing days of grace and making notes negotia ble in bank whether so designated or not has been killed in the house by striking out the enacting clause. Senator Hogate has offered a bill to make it lawful for railroad and other cor porations to organize and maintain volun tary relief associations. The labor unions are bitterly opposing it. The bill provides that when an employe is Injured or killed while a member of the relief department, he or his beneficiary may accept the bene fits from the relief fund in lieu and in bar of any damages resulting from such in jury or death, and his acceptance of bene fits from the relief fund shall be a valid defense to any action for damages result ing from injury or death. CUBANS REFUSE BEEF. Some of Last Summer's Stock Still on Hand. Havana, Feb. 6. Inspector General Breckenndge has discovered among tha army rations issued to the destitute in Ha vana hundreds of cases of spoiled beef and it is believed there are others, just how many only the inspection can determine. J tie marks on the cases show "Chicago. July. 198." They were bought by CaptSin Oskaloosa M. Smith of the subsistence department, of Armour and Libbey, Mr. Libbey, and were sent to Porto Kico. borne of the cans were given to the destitute, who refused to use the contents. GOMEZ BELITTLED. London Corespondent Do-sn't Think He Cuts Much Figure. London, Feb. 6. The Havana corre spondent of the Times in a letter dated January 6 pays tribute to the "wonderful cnange of attitude on the part of the Cu bans toward America." This is largely due, he thinks, to the admirable work and tact of Commis sioner Gould, now beloved and trusted from one end of Cuba to the other." The correspondent expresses the opinion which subsequent events have not sus tained that General Maximo Gomez will not exert an important influence in tha future upon Cuban affairs. WHOLE VILLAGE BURNED. Inhabitants Sun About the Streets in Flames. London, Feb. 6. The Daily Telegraph publishes the following dispatch from Vi enna: "Terrible scenes were witnessed in the conflagration last Tuesday night, which destroyed the whole village of Nagypro boez, in the Liptau district of Hungary. Twenty men, literally in flames, ran about the streets until they dropped Insensible. Many were trodden down by maddened animals. Others were frozen to death in the open fields. Twenty charred bodies have been recovered, and ninety of the survivors are suffering from dreadful burns, several being blinded." Average Railroad Earnings. New Tork, Feb. 6. The Chronicle says that for the third week in January 82 roads report earnings of 8-45 per cent over last year. Snowy Scenes in Mexico. Rarely have the volcanoes been more amply covered with snow, and the hills between are also white, the result of the recent damp weather. Tourists now here may witness a grand sight by going out on the Paseo in the morning and looking at the huge mountains. Even the top of Ajusco has a shading of white. The "rain waters," or aguas nieves," come every January, but this year were delayed and arrived when the bloom was on the fruit trees, the beginning of the early Mexican soring. Mexican Herald.