The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 10, 1899

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LAST EDITION FKEDAT EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. FRIDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. Die for lif; Citizens of LeadTille, Volunteer Their Service To Help the Railroads UncoTer Their Tracks. 1,000 SNOW SHOVELS Are Today Plied by Men With a Desperation Born of Impending Disaster to the City. Leadville, Colo., Feb. 10. Two feet of fresh snow has fallen in this vicinity yesterday and today. The people realize that the camp Is facing a desperate sit uation. The ordinary consumption of coal in the camp is six hundred tons a day. There were today but few car loads left and the railroads were block aded on both sides of the city. The big rotary snow plow on the Denver Rio Grande was out of service, being caught between two trains, surrounded by snow slides, neap Red Cliffe. It was evident that,, unless the Rio Grande or the Midland road could be quickly opened not only must the smelters and mines be closed down but the pumps at the down town mines must stopwork, causing irreparable loss. A meeting of mine and smelter man agers waS hastily called yesterday to consider measures of relief. Colonel George W. Cook, appealed to the man agers to come to the aid of the railroads, not for the purpose of enabling passen ger trains to move, but in order to bring In supplies of coal. He said if the smelters closed down and the water flooded the downtown mines it meant a year's work would be lost to Leadville. The response was prompt. In less than ten minutes 600 men had been furnished. This morning Colonel Cook will go out at the head of 1,000 shovelers to clear the Rio Grande tracks to Malta where a train of loaded cars is stalled. It will probably take two days to clear the tracks to Malta, a distance of five miles. When that is finished the ser vices of the shovelera will be tendered to the Midland. T;e little coal on hand will be dis tributed sparingly among the properties working pumps. It is realized that if fuel be not secured much suffering and possibly loss of life will result.. On this the sixteenth day of the snow storm the air was so dense that it was impossible to distinguish objects at a distance of ti'ir fc-et. iCOAL FOR BUT ONE DAT. Leadville, Feb.10. One thousand men with picks and shovels, started out this morningUo clear the snow and ice off from the Denver Rio Grande track3 below, this city, so that coal may be brought in Jo enable the smelters and mines to continue work, or at least to keep the mine pumps in operation. The Leadville pimping association which is unwatering the down town mines that have been flooded since the big strike has only enough coal' to "last 24 hours. The stoppage of the pumps just on the eve of completing the important work which has been in progress for the past elx months would be a Berious blow to Leadville rhfnirig interests. So the mine and smelter managers decided to aid the railway companies in opening up their lines and the shovelers sent up by them today will receive the same wages as when working in the mines and smelters. Many business men have also gone out, as volunteers to shovel snow. Col. George W. Cook Is in command of the shoveling brigade and among his assistants, who are superintending op erations are ex-Mayor Samuel D. Nich olson, G. B. Lee, superintendent of the Arkansas Valley smelter; W. H. Nut ting, superintendent of the Bimetallic smelter; James W. Newell, manager of the Northern Mining company; E. J. McCarty, one of the owners of the Ex celsior iron works, and other mine man agers. After the Rio Grande tracks are cleared the snow shovelers will go to the aid of the Colorado Midland rail way. The enow storm which has been con tinuous with brief intermission for 16 days stopped last night and the tem MANILA'S WATER AQUEDUCT, CAPTURED BY OUR TROOPS. From One result of the past week's battles was that the Americans secured pos ssion of the mains which supply the city with water from a lake and res ervoir six miles ast of the city. With te perature has risen, but the Indications are for more snow. Aspen is entirely Isolated, the rail roads being blockaded and wires down. The Midland people hope to have their line open to the west within 48 hours. The Rio Grande tracks in the Grand river canon are buried under great piles of snow which have fallen from the al most perpendicular mountain sides. MODERATINcTaT OMAHA. Omaha, Feb. 10. The temperature has moderated materially. The coldest record by the weather bureau during the night was 6 below zero and at 8 o'clock it -was 3 below with a prospect of a further rise during the day. A fine snow commenced falling early this morning and Is still coming down rap idly. Local conditions are favorable to a heavy snow. With the milder temper ature and absence of wind it is not like ly to greatly inconvenience the railroads or street cars, or to be dangerous to live stock interests. Should the cold wave now spreading over the far north west reach here, however, on top of a heavy snowfall, results might be ser ious. Up to date Nebraska stock has not suffered. STORM IS TERRIFIC. Denver, Feb. 10. "The storm is ter rific between Leadville, Buena Vista and Tennessee pass," read a message reaching the Rio Grande. The situation Is as follows: Train No. 1 of yesterday Is stalled near Gordon and orders have been giv en to supply the passengers with hot coffee and meals. Two delayed passen ger trains are still at Malta and No. 4, eastbound, remains at Leadville. Laborers were working as early as 3 o'clock this morning. A bad snowslide was reported from Rock Creek canon west of Minturn, and the rotary snow plow was ordered from that point to clear it. The crews were ordered out of Minturn to assist it and all the men that could be gathered were rushed to the place. The heaviest storm is between Buena Vista and the west side of Tennessee pass. Trains No. 2 and 4, due, are held at Glenwood Springs, while train No. 3 out of Denver is at Salida. Every possible effort is being made to open the line, and the chances are, if no more snowslides interfere, now that the big slides in the Grand canon have been surmounted, the rotary and plows will get through quickly when the storm subsides. Dispatches from Leadville indicate a serious state of affairs if the storm continues. The city is completly with out train service this morning, as the Rio Grande and Midland roads are blocked. The Midland train is at Snowden and the Rio Grande road in that section is but a mile away. Great snow drifts are packed so sol idly that the snow has to be dug out with shovels. The wind has full sweep in that valley which is entirely unpro tected by mountains. Both roads have 400 men at work trying to clear the tracks. At midnight a relief train was sent out on both roads to try and dig out the snow-bound trains at Snowden. The Midland crew worked most of the night, but made little progress. The Rio Grande crew got their engine off the track and it was not until this morning that they could get shovelers to the place where the train was stalled. RIO GRANDE DIGS OUT. "Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, the Rio Grande, which had succeeded in opening its road west of Leadville, started a train out carrying all the passengers of its own and the Midland, bound for the west. This train was to connect with the train due at Malta from Denver at 6 o'clock. These pas sengers had been lying at Malta all night, waiting for No. 1, which is the train blocked between Snowden and Gordon, to get in. The present plan Is to bring all the passengers to Leadville, where they can secure something to eat and then start them westward. The Rio Grande states that their line is open to the west, but the heavy snow storm now on is likely to cause further trouble. The most serious part of the situation for Leadville is the shortage of coke for the smelters. If the Rio Grande fails to keep its tracks clear to the west, no coke can be brought in and delay and damage will ensue. It began to snow at Leadville late yesterday afternoon and at midnight a blizzard set in. This continued until daylight, when the wind ceased some what, but the snow continued to fall. Between Leaville and Malta the Rio Grande has three engines off the track. A number of the passengers who were brought to the city by the Rio Grande from Glenwood yesterday have remain ed in Leadville. PINEAPPLES ARE SAFE. Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 10. The ee- Continued on Sixth Pace.) a photograph by F. Laureno, Manila.l the aqueduct in possession of the insur gents as it was they might at any time have cut off the water supply and caused great distress in the city, if not ventual capitulation. The picture SIFTING. Inrestigation of the Mysterious New York Murder Begins. Coroner's Inquiry Into the Death of Mrs. Adams. A SCANDAL BURIED. Under the Murder Which In Tolres Members Of the N. T. Knickerbocker Athletic Club. New Tork, Feb. 10. The Inquiry into the death of Mrs. Kate J. Adams, who died after taking bromo seltzer con taining cyanide of mercury, which had been sent through the mails to Harry S. Cornish, physical director of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, has begun by Coroner Hart. Crowds of people who gathered early in the corridors of the criminal court building were refus ed admission to the coroner's court, where there were present only those intimately connected with the case or interested in a public capacity. The taking of the testimony of Harry Cornish occupied the greater part of the day. According to District Attorney Gardner, who was himself present at the inquiry for a brief period and who was represented by Assistant District Attorney Osborne, the testimony given by Cornish was not satisfactory, nor the district attorney asserted, was it as complete as had been expected. Roland B. Molineux's name was brought into the case at the start and Cornish's rela tions with Molineux were gone into thoroughly. During the early part of the exam ination Cornish was very self possessed New Tork Chief of Police William Devery, Who Is Ferreting Out the Mys terious New York Murders. and gave his answers with much delib eration and sometimes after a careful consideration. Mrs. Kate J. Adams died from poison on December 28. The most generally accepted theory has been that some person or persons with a secret to hide had attempted to dispose of those hav ing knowledge of the secret and Henry C. Barnet, a former member of the Knickerbocker Athletic club who died November 10 has fallen a victim to poison sent to him anonymously in the mails. Harry Cornish was the first witness. Mr. Cornish told of receiving the bottle of medicine and silver bottle holder at the Knickerbocker club on December 24 and of preserving the wrapper and of subsequently taking the articles to the flat where he lived with Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Rogers. He narrated the cir cumstances leading to the preparation of a dose of the drug for Mrs. Adams, who after drinking remarked that it was very bitter. Cornish said he drank what was left In the glass and said: "That's all right." Then he sat down to read but was star tled by a call from Mrs. Rogers. "Come and hold mamma." He found Mrs. Adams apparently very ill in the bath room. He hurried the hall boy for a doctor and ran to a drug store for in structlons.The druggist gave him sweet spirits of ammonia for her. No doctor having arrived, Cornish ran for Dr. shows the aqueduct where it passes through the town of San Juan del Monte, three miles back of Manila. It was in the engagement to capture the aqueduct that the Kansas troops were involved. s Hitchcock and later at Dr. Hitchcock's request fetched Dr. Potter. Mrs. Adams died and the doctors told him the case must be reported to the coroner. The witness said he went to Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre, his person al friend, and asked him to expedite the action of the coroner. CORNISH WAS ALSO ILL. All this while, witness said, he was 111. He went to the club about 4 o'clock p. m. (Mrs. Adams death occurred during the forenoon) and there was taken ill. Dr. Philips gave him treatment for over an hour, using a stomach pump. Wit ness could suggest no motive for the poisoning; he had no quarrel with any one and so far as he knew had no ene mies. Subsequently he modified this statement and admitted that he had had "differences." one being about 18 months ago. Mr. Cornish was questioned about the illness and death of H. C. Barnet, the questioning bringing out the fact that the two men had not been on the best of terms. Cornish's information re garding Barnet's illness was obtained through Dr. Philips who attended him. Near the end Dr. Douglas was called in. "Your attention was not called to the Barnet case until after the Adams case?" "No," replied Mr. Cornish. "Did Dr. Philips say your symptoms wre similar to Barnet's?" "No." "Dr. Philips told you Barnet was taken with terrible vomiting?" "Yes." "And you were?" "Yes." "How long was it after Mrs. Adams' death before he told you about Bar net's death?" "I don't know." "Your symptoms were similar to Bar net's? You got your dose in a bottle sent anonymously, as also did Barnet. You say Dr. Philips did not say to you that your cases were alike?" "No." "When you learned Barnet had been poisoned in a similar way, did you go down and tell the police?" "No, I think I told the police in my room." "Did you tell Mr. Mclntyre?" "I think not." Mr. Cornish could not recollect the date on which he made a statement to Captain McCluskey of the police bureau. HAD NO PERSONAL QUARREL. Mr. Cornish said that he never had any personal quarrel with any members of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, but twice charges had been preferred against him. He was accused, he said, of saying things about two members of the club to a third member. The charges were made by C. C. Hughes, and the names of the two members in volved in the quarrel were Roland B. Molineux and H. C. Barnet. That was two years ago and the witness could not remember further details. Mr. Cornish said he was employed by J. Herbert Ballantyne, president of the corporation that conducts the Knicker bocker Athletic club. That corporation, said the witness, is the Pequa club as sociation. "What did Hughes say to you- of Molineux and Barnet?" asked Mr. Os borne, the assistant district attorney. "He said that I said that Molineux had made his money -by the improper use of house propeyty.'e owned in New ark. He said I accused Barnet of im proper practices with women." "Did that mean that Molineux let his house for purposes of prostitution?" "That and his gambling, I should think, was what I meant. The charges were dismissed." Mr. Cornish was asked if he was ac cused of saying that a member of the Knickerbocker Athletic club was in the habit of sending women to a disorderly house kept by a Mrs. Stern, in Forty seventh street. He said he had heard it said. He knew there was such a place and such a woman. He had visit ed the house once. He denied again and again that there was any truth In the charges preferred against him. He said he understood that at a conference held after a dinner at the Union League club, Mr. Molineux had declared that he would leave the Knickerbocker Ath letic club unless he (Cornish) was dis charged from its employ. Mr. Osborn's cross-examination was merciless, and Mr. Cornish got mixed up in his dates. First he said he knew nothing of the informal charges against him by Molineux until after December 28, and then he said he knew of Mol ineux's statement just after the Union League club dinner. Mr. Cornish fully explained that he did not consider that Mr. Molineux's statement could be called charges. He said that either Mr. Ballantyne, Mr. Sears or Mr. Adams told him of Molin eux's statement. "Did you have any idea who sent you that box?" asked Mr. Osborn suddenly. "I have no idea. I was not in a posi tion to know." "Did you not tell Capt. McClusky," reading from a typewritten statement, "It came over me in an instant when I thought of Molineux that's just the fellow who sent that box to me?" IT WAS HIS IMPRESSION. Cornish replied that that must have been his impression when he made the statement to Mr. McCluskey. He could not think of any other man on earth with whom he had had any kind of a quarrel that could leave a feeling of vindictiveness. Molineux had tried to cause him to lose his posi tion. When witness heard about the handwriting it struck him that the writ ing on the wrapper was like the writing of Molineux. He had not the original of the wrapper, but the fac simile in the newspapers reminded him of Molineux's writing. Adams was really the first man to put the thought into his mind. Witness did not know of any disagreement between Molineux and Adams. Witness had never had a quar rel with Molineux in his life. "Then the only points you had against Molineux," said Mr. Osborn, "were that he demanded your discharge from the Knickerbocker Athletic club, and that Mr. Adams suggested that his hand writing was like that published in the newspapers?" "That Is true." "Well, before you made the charge?" "I did not make any charge." "Don't you think it was a charge when you told the chief of detectives of New York that the only man in the world who could have done it was Mol ineux?" "No, I made no charge. Anything I said to McCluskey was made as a sug gestion to aid him In his work." Cornish said he had heard that Mol ineux, since he left the Knickerbocker club, had written a letter about him. In answer to Coroner Hart, Cornish ac knowledged that he had said that Dr. Philips told him Barnet was poisoned. Witness knew of no one who had a common cause of enmity toward him self and Barnet. He knew Barnet very slightly. During Barnet's illness he had heard that the patient was not being properly cared for. Mr. Weeks produced a letter and Mr. Cornish read it and said it was the letter he had referred to. The letter was writ ten by Molineux to W. W. Schieweler. It suggested that Cornish be disciplined and enclosed a letter from Cornish to Bernard J. Weafers, the sprinter. Cornish acknowledged that that let ter was the origin of his trouble with Molineux. The letter accused '"Weeks" of "dirty dealing" and declared the writer "had it in for Weeks" and would never let up until he got even. "Weeks" is Barlow S. Weeks, presi dent of the New York Athletic club. Molineux's contention was that Corn ish had no right to refer so disrespect fully to the president of another club and should be discharged. Cornish said he was told that Molineux accused him of calling him a vile name. He could not remember who told him, but it might have been John D. Adams. "And it was John D. Adams who sug gested that the handwriting on the wrapper was Molineux's?" asked one of the jurors. Cornish did not reply and Mr. Osborn said: "Adams was your 6trong man In the club, wasn't he?" 1 "I don't know," Cornish answered. "You are one of those men who do not know where his pull is," said Mr. Os born. "Mr.Adams was only one of the board of governors in the club," replied Corn ish. At this point Coroner Hart adjourned the inaulry. I It was said after the adjournment that it was not at all sure that either Mr. or Mrs. Molineux would be called to testify. After the adjournment District Gardner expressed dissatisfaction of Cornish's evasion of questions and said: "The fact that Cornish gave Mrs. Adams the poison is in evidence, and it behooves him to clear his own skirts. Under the law his admission of giving the poison makes it possible to secure his indictment for murder. Whether or not this will be done remains, of course, at the discretion of this officer." BILLIARD HALL JOHNNIES. Who Have No Visible Msans of Sup port Are to Be Arrested. In speaking of the arrests recently made for vagrancy. Chief Strauss said today that the charge would be pre ferred against the habitual loafers of the billiard halls, streets and joints who have no legitimate means of making a living. Chief Strauss said: "I am going to arrest the members of this tough gang who hang around the street corners in sulting women and are found in billiard halls and joints until 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. "This practice must be broken up. Some of these young men have respect able parents. Outside of this class the city is fairly clean of the bad element. This sort of fellows are forever caus ing trouble and they will be arrested Scene in Caloocan Taken by Our Troops Today and Where Lieut. Alford Was Killed. From a photograph by F. Laureano, taken eighteen months ago for La Ilustra cion Espanola y Americana. for vagrancy. One young man who was arrested on this charge has already left town. If he comes back he will have a ten day sentence to serve out, but he promises to stay away." DRIFTING MINES. Four of Them Float Ashore From Boston Harbor. Boston, Feb. 10. Four mines placed in the harbor for its protection against hostile attack during the war with Spain were torn from their moorings by the storm and drifted about the harbor until the waves finally cast them upon the beach at the Marine park in South Boston. Each of the mines was charged with 200 pounds of gun cotton and if exploded would have blown any vessel unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity to pieces. Luckily, there was no such collision with the drifting terrors. HELPING THE POOR. Contributions Sent to Sirs. Thorpe by Thoughtful People. Many donations have been received by Mrs. Thorpe since noon yesterday and she has" been enabled to -relieve a gTeat deal of suffering, but as long as the extremely cold weather continues she will have to continue to aid the desti tute families, and contributions are. neeOed. Mrs. Thorpe supplied fifteen families with coal yesterday from the donation of twenty tons made by G. G. Gage, but found some trouble in having it de livered fast enough. Among the con tributions received are a case of shoes from B. M. Payne; Mrs. J. J. Frey, a $5 grocery order; Mrs. F. C. Gay, a J5 grocery order; a lawyer -who wishes to be known as "a friend," gave $15; Mrs. P. I. Bonebrake, bedding. A letter was received from Garnett enclosing $1. There are two families in Low man Hill, several in North Topeka and a number in Parkdale that are in need. To Consider Stanley's Appointees. At 4 o'clock February 16 the senate will consider the confirmation of Governor Stanley's appointees, such a decision hav ing having been reached by a vote of 19 to 11. The committees to which these nominations were referred have been or dered to report to the senate, at the time mentioned. DRIVEN OUT. Filipinos Forced to Retire From Caloocan With Heavy Loss by the United States Forces. KANSAS BOYS CHEER As They Charge the Enemy Under a Heavy Fire. The Filipino Are Mowed Down Like Grass. SHORT AND DECISIVE. The Americans Made Work of It. Quick Precautions Against an Upris ing in Manila. Manila, Feb. 10. 7:30 p. m. The United States forces attacked and car ried Caloocan this afternoon. The ac tion was short and decisive, the enemy being driven out with great loss. At a signal from the tower of the De Lome church the United States double turreted monitor Monadnock opened fire from the bay with the big guns of her fore turret on the earthworks with great effect. Soon afterward the Utah battery bombarded the place from the land side. The insurgents reserved their fire Tin til the bombardment ceased, when they fired volleys of musketry at the Mon tana regiment advancing on the jungle. The Kansas regiment, on the extreme left, with the Third artillery deployed to the right, charged across the open and carried the earthworks, cheering under a heavy fire. Supported by the artillery at the church, the troops fur ther advanced, driving the enemy, fight ing every foot, right into the town line, and penetrated to the residences and lowered the Filipino flag at 5:30 p. m. The enemy's sharpshooters in the jun gle on the right fired at long range on the Pennsylvania regiment, but the in surgents were soon silenced by shrapnel shells and the Pennsylvanians remained in the trenches. As the Americans advanced they burned the native huts. The Filipinos were mowed down like grass, but the American loss was slight. At UPRISING THREATENED. Manila, Feb. 10. 3:40 p. m. In antici pation of a native uprising in this city, unusual precautions were taken here last night by the American military au thorities. The steps taken proved un necessary. The Filipinos are evidently convinced that an uprising would prove suicidal to them. The Vizayan commissioners arrested on board the Uranus sailed for Iloilo yesterday with the Tennessee regiment on board the U. S. transport St. Paul. No vessels have cleared from Manila for Philippine ports since Saturday, con sequently no news has yet reached out side points. The Uranus cleared for Iloilo on Sat urday, but instead of sailing on Sunday she was detained by the American au thorities. The American line today Is the same as on Wednesday. On the right General Owenshine's brigade Jt tends to the beach- two miles lorth of Camp Dewey and to the Pasig river, Lieutenant Colonel Treumann with the North Dakota volunteers has establish ed his headquarters on the beach, whence he is in signal communication with the American fleet. The second battalion- of the Dakota regiment ex tends along the front and all of the Fourteenth infantry with the exception of Companies M and K, is stationed at the Pasig river and extends thence to San Pedro and Malate in a complete line. SWIM THE RIVER. Scouting parties from the Dakota regiment yesterday surprised some Fili pino scouts at the bridge across the Paranaque river. The enemy retired hurriedly, swimming the stream in or der to reach the main body of the rebels entrenched opposite troop K, of the Fourth cavalry. A few rebels have concentrated at Paranaque. While they are entrenched they are fully exposed from the water front. General King's headquarters ar now at the village of Pasig, which sur rendered yesterday without opposition. Many of the rebels are coming in hoping to be allowed to enter Manila, but they have been refused the necessary per. mission and are now afraid to return t the enemy's ranks. The California regiment, whose mem bers are in excellent spirits, is now oc cupying the villages of Pasig, Malate and Santa Ana. Since the Wyoming regiment relieved the Twenty-third reg iment at the water works there has been no change In Gen. Hale's position. The Nebraska regiment, Colorado reg iment. South Dakota regiment and Utah! artillery are now occupying the sama posts. On the left Gen. Otis' hrlgade, con sisting of the Twentieth Kansas regi ment, eight companies of the Pennsyl vania regiment, the Montana regiment and four batteries of the Third artillery stretches back near Caloocan to tha Chinese cemetery, where there is an ex cellent signal station on a hill where, from a church tower the signal men can communicate with the fleet. The monitor Monadnock moved up to Slngport today. All was quiet at 3 o'clock this after noon. AN EARLIER DISPATCH. Manila, Feb. 10, 10 a. m. The rebels have apparently selected Ma la bo n as their base of operations in the next encounter with the Americans, as they are concentrating in considerable force there and at Caloocan. Many small bodies of scattered troops are straggling in from the right and others are un doubtedly arriving from the northern provinces. Aguinaldo Is reported to have established headquarters at Mala bon for the purpose of rallying his forces for a decisive blow. In order to cover their movements the rebels again opened fire upon the Kansas outposts last night from the jungle. The firing was continued for twenty minutes buc without effect. The Americans reserved fire until a detachment of the enemy emerged from the bamboos when a well directed volley made the rebels scuttle back to their covert like rabbits. Beyond this everything is quiet along the entire line. The Fourteenth infantry has un earthed several tons of Spanish sheila which had evidently been stolen from the Cavite arsenal and cached by the rebels in the vicinity of Faranaqu Fifteen cart loads of them have been brought into the city as has also a modern naval gun and a part of its mount. There is no doubt that the gun was stolen by the insurgents or removed; from one of the sunken warships. THREE CABLES FROM OTIS. Washington, Feb.10. Three telegrams were received by the war department this morning from Gen. Otis at Manila. In the first he said in .answer to in quiries of the war department that the body of Cass White, coimpviny B, First Colorado, had been recovered from the river. White had been ahot Jn the head. The second dispatch said: Corporal George B. Wardlaw, Utah artillery, had been slightly wounded in the ieft ankle; condition good. The third dispatch timed Manila, 11 a. m., February 10, referred entirely to the purchase of some horses and other supplies and made no reference to the engagement with the insurgents. BOMBARDING ILOILO. Orders Were Issued to Begin at Nino O'clock This Morning. Chicago, Feb. 10. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: "Iloilo is now being bombarded by a portion of Admiral Dewey's fleet unless the natives have surrendered on the de mand made by General Miller who is in command there. "Gen. Otis advised Secretary Alger he had sent the First Tennessee Infantry to reinforce Gen. Miller and the com manding officer of that organization carried instructions to him to demand the evacuation of Iloilo by 9 o'clock this morning. "If this demand was not complied with Immediately the instructions were to begin the bombardment of Iloilo and continue it until the rebels ran up the white flag. "The navy will, of course, co-operate with-the army, which will simplify to a considerable degree the work now laid out for the two branches of the service and it will cover the landing of the troops. "The Boston, Baltimore and Petrel are now at Iloilo and if the rebels are indiscreet enough to refuse to lay down their arms the heavy guns of these ships will be turned upon them and fol lowed up by the troops, who have been lying in the harbor for some time past. "In view of the success which attend ed the action of the American forces at Manila last Saturday and Sunday, Gen. Otis decided to reduce Iloilo at once and have the unpleasant duty over. "Army officers here say he is pur suing the proper course in following up his victory at the beginning of the week to keep the Insurgents in Manila and Hollo on the run and in this way drive all thoughts of renewing the conflict from their heads."

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. They fit tbe feet as Nature Intended." GOOD NEWS FOR WOMEN ISO news ever spread more rapidly l or created more universal inter Act than nnr annmtnamAnt that had secured Uie exclusive agency for famous "Jenness Miller" Hygienic Sboes for Women! They are the Quest, most comfortable, perfect-fitting, durable and graceful bhoea yet placed on the market. Jenness Miller Shoes are made from specially tanned Velvetta kid, which Is as soft and fine as Its name im plies. Shaped aa strictly scientific anatomi cal principles, and fit the feet as nature intended. Confined to 119 for this city. We un hesitatingly recommend them. Price. 3.50. 6. H. PAYNE CO. 705 Kansas Ave. 1 SEA SERPENT FROM KANSAS (From the Globe-Democrat.) Once there were genuine sea. serpents, or at least there were forms of reptile life that might have served every purpose of cea serpents could they have been perpet uated to the present time. Anyone who has doubts on the subjeict may have his doubts removed by visiting the museum of the University of low a, for the Daven port Alumni association has just present ed to this institution .ne of the most in teresting and complete; skeletons of these old fashioned lizard serpents no far dis covered. In times g-one by a shallow sea etood over western Kansas, and in this sea numberless lifhe-bodied eerpent-like creatures disported themselves or savage ly fought each other in the ever recurring conflicts that animals wage for food. The forms in qvestion had each the elon gated, flexible body and the forked pro trusible tongue, of the serpent. The body, furthermore, was covered with scales. But unlike serpents, these creatures had limbs. The limbs were too weak to be of use in terreetrial locomotion: but, being modified inrr paddles, they served effect ively as organs of propulsion in the seP. Mosasaurs is the name science gives to these strange reptiles. They are not ser- Fents. but are in reality lizards of snake ike proportions and gigantic size. The larger individuals measure 4i feet in length, large enough to satisfy the most imaginative dweller at our fashionable seaside summer resorts. The more com mon dimensions met with, however, range from IS to 38 feet. Very seldom are the skeletons perfect. They were usually dismembered, and the bones were more or less scattered by various agents before they were completely covered and pro tected by the accumulating ooze of the sea bottom. Kven after complete imbedding the bones were generally broken or dis torted by pressure of the superincumbent sediments. The specimen Just received at the University sf Iowa is unusually per fect. With the exception of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, everv bone is present and is practically free "from dis tortion or crushing. The vertebra! col umn, the head, the limb bones, the ribs, the pelvis all are present except as noted above, and all are practically in their nor mal positions and relations to each other. This most unique and valuable specimen, the most perfect probably that has ever been recovered from the hardened ooze of the cretaceous 3ea bottoms, indicates an Individual that, when alive, must have measured 25 feet in length. Mabel McKin ley's Singing. Miss Mabel McKInley Bang at the Metropolitan church this morning. The president i3 especially fond of the music, of her voice, and requested Bhe would Ring; for Dr. Bristol's congregation as she sang at St. Paul's Methodist church last Sunday. Since Miss McKInley has been visiting at the White House both the President and Mrs. McKinley have tiad a feast of the songs they most en joy. The president does not pretend to appreciate the semi-classical style of composition of the present day, where the accompaniment is a study to which the song is supplementary. A simple ballad like "Louisiana Lou" or "Daddy" Is more to his taste. In the afternoon when the most pressing duties of the day are over Miss McKinley and Miss Shields sing In the upstairs library, while the door is left open to the room where the president transacts execu tive business. Chicago Tribune. Be Prepared 'l ne bearing: of children is cot such a very se rious ordeal to tbe woman who is prepared. If Mother's FHand that wonderful ly soothing: and relaxing 1 i n i luent, bo faith fully used dur ing the period n f nrernancv. ioot wui l utuo morning sicjenesa or rervousness, the critical hour will be re lieved of much pain, and labor will be brief. Recuperation will be rapid, and all after-dangers will be avoided. Said y arugsists hrlli tattle. eew rou book ait m svs;acr. IS? IKASraLS 3tSBXAt C9.AUuta.Gs. BRANDY FOUND, NOT BUNS. Revenue Officers Investigate a Baker's Wagon. Illicit Distiller's Clever Trick Discovered. 50 MINCE PIES THERE. Unstamped Barrel of Liquor Found In Lieu of Cakes. Selling at 1.60 Where Each Gallon Was Worth $3.50. New York, Feb. 10. Perhaps if one were asked to name the conveyance with the most innocent reputation as far as any thing can be from association with ciime, the baker's wagon would be selected. Around it hovers an aroma of hot rolls, muffins and waffles, suggesting peace and happy domesticity. Therefore, it was, perhaps, that one of the cleverest gangs of illicit distillers ever discovered in this part of the country used a baker's wagon for the delivery of their product. When the inspectors of the in- .A-v.nl vn.TAnlia. AnirfltlOnt BDW t ll A 11911 il ally harmless vehicle emerging from the place which they had shadowed for weeks and finally had decided to descend upon, they were somewhat staggered and for a moment leariui mat a uig im La&c been made. But they recovered their presence of mind In time to hold up the ostensible purveyor of buns and mince pies, and found'inside a barrel of tine brandy with out the government stamp. The plant is in No. 2J Powell street, Brooklvn. Colonel Robert Williams, Jr., chief inspector of internal revenue for the department, had charge of the raid, and he pronounced the plant one of the most complete he had seen in recent years. In last November Joseph Schwarzmann was authorized by the authorities in Wash ington to open a distillery at No. 204 Pow ell street. It was registered duly, and op erations were begun. The plant is esti mated to have cost J18.00K. There was a copper Ftill with a capacity of 2j0 gallons, an alcohol column 2a feet high. 10 fer menting tubs and all other paraphernalia. The suspicions of the authorities were aroused bv the fact th:it one of the men slept in the distillery. Then Schwarzmann got behind in his tax. The place was watched and it was decided to make a raid on it. On last Friday night the place was surrounded. When the inspectors veie on the point of descending upon it. what should come creaking out of the yard but a homely baker's wagon! HALTED WITH A REVOLVER. The inspectors were nonplussed at first, and the driver whipped up his horses. But the raiders recovered their senses and the muzzle of a revolver flashed in the driver's face. That halted him. He was Benjamin Goldberg, and a man named Lippa. was with him. A barrel of brandy, unstamped, was in the wagon. Then the inspectors went into tbe dis tillery. There they found Isidore Acker man, said to be a partner of Schwarz mann. Yesterday the three men were held in heavy bail by United States Commissioner Morle. Colonel Williams said that the Slant was turning out a fine quality of randy, which should have sold for $3.50 a gallon, but which, by avoiding the reve nue tax, they were able to sell for S1.E0. LONDON'S COSTLY GUESTS. From Tit-Bits. J When the city entertains distin guished guests it lavishes its money with a profusion more befitting an east ern potentate than a. body of thrifty city men. It is, indeed, no uncommon thing for the city fathers to spend on the en tertainment of a guest much more than his weight in gold, a compliment surely of which even emperors might be proud. The city was never moved to more prodigious hospitality than in 1S76, when it entertained the Prince of Wales on his return from India. In honor of the "return of the wanderer" the lord mayor and corporation spent no less than $137,895, or sufficient sovereigns to outweigh two princes, even of his pres ent ample proportions. Nine years ear lier the city was almost equally lavish when it entertained the sultan at a cost of $123,06!. In 1893 it cost the corpora tion 552.035 to welcome the shah of Persia, although the following year the czar was brilliantly entertained at a cost of nearly $15,000 less. Thanksgiving day cost the city $65, 995, or almost as much as the czar's re ception; and the jubilee rejoicings of 1887 left the city poorer by $58,000. The Prince of Wales' wedding, thirty five years ago, was the signal for a great display of city hospitality. The amount spent in entertainments alone was $63,200, and in addition to this the corporation spent JoO.OOO on the diamond necklace and earrings presented to the princess. When the queen attended the lord mayor's banquet in 1837 the corporation spent $40,860 in entertaining her; and the outlay when she again honored the city, fourteen years later, was $28,770. Thus on nine entertainments alone the city has lavished no less than $669,055, or an average of $74,340 for each guest. In contrast to this regal entertain ment it is interesting to note that in 1727 George II was entertained at a cost of J1SS: King Victor Emanuel, in 1885, for $6,690, and Mr. Stanley, eight years ago, for $7,775. The marriage of the Duke and Duch ess of York cost the city $19,240; in 1891, the German emperor was entertained for $18,820; the shah, in 1889. for $10,240, and the King of Denmark, In 1893, for the very moderate sum of $8,825. It marks the unstable character of city hospitality that it cost to entertain an emperor, a shah and a king less than one-third the sum lavished on the sul tan in 1867. HAD 80 PAIRS OF TROUSERS From the New York Evening Sun. The question of the number of trousers possessed by some of our heroes and other distinguished men brings to mind the superiority of the West Pointer in j this respect. "Is it true," once asked a girl of a just-fledged lieutenant, "that no West Point man is considered as having any social status whatever un less he owns 40 pairs of trousers?" "Forty!" echoed the lieutenant. "I had 80 and was far behind some of the other fellows." He went on to explain that it was the white duck article that consti tuted this extensive trousers repertory, and that it was not the getting soiled nor crumpled, but the obliteration of the crease that demanded such an un limited supply. "The minute that that crease begins to disappear the trousers are changed," he said, "no matteF if it is within the hour. Many a time I've donned three pairs of white duck trousers in an hour. Of course, we soon learn to do it very rapidly; I doubt if Fregoli or any other lightning change artist could beat a West Pointer at get ting in and out of his white duck trousers. The winding of the sash about the waist is in Itself a. feat, yet it has to be done each time we change the trousers, and we become so practiced In it that we can accomplish it in no time. Experience baa taught ua that the best way is to tie one end of the sash to the bedpost. With, the other end about his waist, the man then goes to the extreme end of the corridor, just as far as the many yards of sash will permit him to go, and begins to wind. It isn't the sash but himself that gets the full benefit of the winding however. Round and round he turns as fast as a top can spin, and with, all the gravity and steadiness of a dancing dervish, the sash wrapping itself about his waist as silk or cotton thread is wrapped about a spool. In an inconceivably short time the cadet has twirled along the corridor and arrived at his bedpost as symmetrically and snugly sashed as a cadet could want to be. All he has then to do is to untie the end from the post and tuck it in the folds girdling his -Waist. Only the inexperienced make any mistakes in thus sashing themselves and have to repeat the process. With the seasoned West Pointer both the process and Its results are a triumph of technique, and he may change his trousers and wind his sash in less time than it takes the civilian simply to change his trousers." GREAT IRRIGATION WORK. From the Philadelphia Record. 1 Arizona will in the course of a few years have the greatest storage basin in the world. It Is proposed to impound the water of the Salt river during the spring and winter, and to draw on this supply in the summer for irrigation and other purposes. This will be located in the mountains sixty miles from Phoenix. The United States government has granted to the Hudson Reservoir and Canal company this basin, known as the "Tonto Basin," to be used as a storage reservoir. The company has completed all Its engineering work, and plans and specifications for the dam have Just been completed. It proposes to build a dam at the head of the can yon, where the river emerges from the basin, thus creating a lake, which will cover eighteen square miles to a depth of 100 to 200 feet. It will be necessary to build a dam 200 feet high and some 600 feet In length at the top, although the canyon is only 200 feet wide for the first 100 feet from the bottom. The territory of Arizona has granted the company the use of the channel of the Salt river in w hich to convey the waters thus stored to the valley below, and the stored waters will, therefore, be turned back into the channel as needed and conveyed through the canyon for a distance of thirty miles to the head of the valley, where the first diverting dam is found. To construct this great storage reser voir, which will be the largest in the world, will cost, it Is estimated, about $2,500,000, and the company is now ac tively at work obtaining the necesasry funds. It proposes to sell stored waters to the irrigating canal companies now doing business in the valley, and it is said these companies will be very will ing thus to augment the limited supply which they now have ready for sale to the farmers. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS. Blanche Walsh and Melbourne Mac Dowell, supported by the Melbourne MacDowell company, will be seen at the Crawford theater tonight in Fanny Da venport's production of Sardou's "La Tosca." The charm of "La Tosca" has held audiences spellbound. The passion ate, impulsive, fascinating woman, with her woman's jealousy of her lover, her woman's devotion to her lover, and the tragic end of that love, has the power to thrill and charm the coldest. It is in characters like these which afford strong contrasts that both Mr. Mac Dowell and Miss Walsh exceL The scene in the room of Baron Scarpia is one of the most dramatic stage pictures ever presented. "La Tosca" will be re peated tomorrow afternoon and "Fe dora" presented Saturday night Tonight at the Grand Opera House the new triple alliance, R. D. Mac Lean, Odette Tyler and Chas. B. Hanford, will be seen for the first time in this city in "The Merchant of Venice." Tomor row afternoon "Romeo and Juliet" will be presented, and "Othello" tomorrow night. Mr. Hanford and Mr. MacLean are both veterans in the classic drama. Miss Tyler, while she had won great prominence as an actress, had never before met the test which the portrayal of Shakespeare's feminine roles repre sents. She has astonished even those whose devoted admiration she won in the lighter characters she had assumed in the legitimate drama by the deli cate, forceful and intelllectual interpre tations which she gives. Walker Whiteside, the young actor who has been seen here in "Hamlet" and "The Merchant of Venice," will re turn to the city next Tuesday and pre sent at the Grand Opera House a new romantic drama, "The Red Cockade." This is the English version of the Par isian success, "Lion Amoureaux." and Mr. Whiteside has been highly compli mented on his work in the piece. The sale of seats for the engagement opens tomorrow at the Sim Drug Co. store. A PHILANTHROPIST. Sr. Edward Murphy's Munificent Gift to the Town of New Harmony. New Harmony, Ind,, Feb, Is. Seventy-three yeara ago a poor orphan boy aged 13 came to this place with a worn suit on and sixpence in his pock et, an utter stranger to everybody, friendless and a lone. Today at the age of S6 years, the same boy and man called together the trustees of the New Harmony Library association and said: "I am now an old man, and lifes' ten ure Is uncertain. To dispose of my pro perty without the intervention of courts and juries has been one of the objects of my life. I give to you gentlemen as the trustees of the New Harmony Li brary association $42,000 for the benefit of said library," and, suiting the action to the word, handed over to the trus tees the above amount in mortgage notes fully secured by liens on real es tate. This splendid gift by the good old doctor is supplementary to a former gift to the same library of a. beautiful and most substantial building in which the library has been kept for several years past, making in all a free gift to the town of New Harmony of not less than $75,000. ALVAREZ SCORES A SUCCESS jQreat Tenor Appears aa Borneo With, tbe Ellia Opera Company. Boston, Feb. 10. Alvarez, the great tenor, last night made his debut in America in "Romeo et Juliette" at the Boston theater with the Ellis Opera company. The other soloists were Mel ba, Mattfeld, Van Cauteren, Devrles, Boudouresque, Stehmann, Rains, Van Hoose, Del Sol, Viviani and Cass. Alvarez has not been over-praised In any respect. He sang In superb form and greatly pleased the immense audi ence. His voice is singularly clear and powerful, and, with the excellent sup port it had, was heard to great advant age. Alvarez will be a regular member of the troupe hereafter, and will be beard in Chicago next week. Your linen left epotiess, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh. Telephone 41. COLORUNE. Fight Comes Up In the New York Schools. Negro Woman Asks Court to Uphold Her Contention. NOT PUBLIC SCHOOLS Are Separate Schools White Children. For Wants Her Granddaughter to Attend "White UniTersity." New York, Feb. 10. That color line fight at Jamaica, L. I., came up yester day in an unexpected form when Mrs. Annie Robinson, colored, made an ap plication to the supreme court for an order permitting her granddaughter to attend the "white school" 'In that town. In objecting to the order Assistant Corporation Counsel Mayo of Queens cited the case of a New Orleans street car company which runs two sets of cars, one for white and the other for colored passengers. There have been many troubles) In that same line In Jamaica, but this is the first time the old question has con fronted New York city since Jamaica has become a part of the Borough of Queens. In that town there are two separate schools, one for white children and the other for colored. Owing to numerous differences and complaints from par ents, the board of education of the old town had ordered that the children be separated in that way. Parents of col ored children refused to send them to the school set apart for them, and sev eral were arrested under the compul sory education law. One of the women placed under arrest was Mrs. Annie Robinson, who would not send her granddaughter.Mary Frances Van Dorn to the school for colored children. She was paroled, and yesterday forced the fight from her side by applying to Justice Garretson, in Long Island City, for an order compelling the Queens Borough board to receive the child in the "white school." Mrs. Robinson was represented by B. J. Humphreys of Jamaica. He argued that the school for colored children was not a public school such as directed by law. It was a special school, he said, the same as a training or night school. He did not believe that attendance at such a school was compulsory, and con tended that the arrest of Mrs. Robinson was illegal, as she had tried to have the child sent to the public school which white children attended, but waa un successful. In behalf of the Borough school board Assistant Corporation Counsel Mayo defended the propriety and legality of the color line. He cited the decision in the court of appeals in the case of Te resa V. King of Brooklyn against a school principal who had refused to permit "her daughter, who was colored, to attend a public school. The court sustained the school principal. Mr. Mayo also referred to the case of the New Orleans Horse Car company, which operates two sets of cars, one for white and the ot!er for colored children. The United Stares Supreme court up held the railroad company In this. Justice Garretson took the papers In the case and reserved decision. MRS. SLOANE TOGO ABROAD New York Society Woman Gives XTp Her City Residence. New York, Feb. 10. The magnificent house of Mrs. Henry Sloane is believed to be on the market, and dumor has It, that after she has disposed of it she will go to Europe for a short visit and take a smaller house on her return. There was a rumor that Mrs. Sloane intended to remain permanently abroad but her friends deny this. They say that she no longer feels inclined to give the splendid entertainments for which the Sloane mansion is famous, and, therefore, does not care to keep up an establishment costing $500,000 a year. This, rumor says, is her only reason for giving up the Seventy-second street house. CATARRH OF STOMACH A Pleaaant, Simple, bat 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, a 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. 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To her hor ror she felt the hand of an intruder.She sprang from the bed, closed the outside door, shouted for help and then at tempted to grapple with the burglar. The latter glided around the room in search of an outlet with Mrs. Coxe a closed second. She seized him once or twice, but he shook her off. At last she grasped him by the neck. He seized her by the waist and threw her to the floor. As the burglar attempted to slip by she caught his foot and upset him. Arising she seized a heavy pitcher and flung It at him with such good aim that she felled him, but he was up at once and getting near the door opened it and sped down the street, followed by Mrs. Coxe. She flung another pitcher at him but it missed his head by an Inch. The servants flocked up, but too late to catch the thief. A search revealed the fact that over $4,000 worth of jewels had been stolen. On the bedroom floor were other more valuable gems that her struggle had forced tha thief to drop. BACTERIA IN THE 'PHONES Board of Health, Inspectors Examine Into the Blatter in New York. New York, Feb. 10. Ten Inspectors of the board of health have been detailed to find whether or not pathogenic bac teria, the bacteria which are the cause of disease, are communicated from the transmitters of public telephones.These inspectors this morning examined the transmitters of several public tele phones, and will continue their investi gations until all the public telephones in the city have been examined. The inspectors collect all the dirt which has gathered In the transmitters by means of absorbent cotton, which is rubbed in the receivers. The cotton is then placed In vials, which are turned over to the bacteriologists for examina tion. President Murphy said this morning that there was a general impression that diphtheria and other diseases of the respiratory organs were likely to be disseminated through the public tel ephones unless care was taken to keep them clean. The investigation was be gun for the purpose of ascertaining what grounds there was for such fear. PERHAPS DINED ON WAGER Ate a $14.65 Ileal in the Waldorf Astoria Said He Couldn't Pay. New York, Feb. 10. George Sevadjian dined at the Waldorf-Astoria last night and dined well, too. He sat in an easy seat in the Fifth avenue restaurant, ate terrapin and drank champagne and won the heart of his waiter by his easy manners and veiled suggestions that his tip would be a liberal one. When the waiter brought his check, the guest looked at the figures $14.65 waa the total and demanded to see the head waiter. To him he remarked that the dinner was very good, but he had no money to pay for it. One of the hotel detectives was called and Sevadjian was taken to the West Thirtieth street station and locked up. He said he was 25 years old and a wait er. He gave his address as No. 65 West Forty-sixth street. Manager Thomas said the man first came into the hotel a week ago and was quite pompous in his manner and made himself much at home. He Is a hand some man, talks nicely and dresses well, but the only articles of value in his possession were his gold link cuff buttons. There was a suspicion that a wager was at the bottom of his extraordinarily cool proceeding. LADY GODITA OUTDONE. This Grip Patient Ran Through Mf Vernon's Crowded Streets. New York, Feb. 10. A woman, devoid of clothing, had a long run through the Btreets of Mount Vernon yesterday morn ing. She dashed through a. crowd of com muters in the New Haven railroad station shouting, "It's 8 o'clock; the world is end ing!" She was Hannah Isabella, a domestic for a family in Lincoln avenue, who had been (jVn t n ih. fniint Vernan hosnital on Friday suffering from grip. ne nad act ed strangely constantly. Baying to the nurse, "It's 9 o'clock." At 7 o'clock yes terday morning she Jumped out of the window of the hospital. 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A Fine Buck Keeps Ahead of a Train on the Fort Jervis and Monti oello Road. Montlcello, N. Y Feb. 10. Engineer Tom Darby of the Port Jervis and Monti cello railroad has, perhaps, had more live ly races with wild deer than, has any of his brethren. Todav occurred the most exciting race in all hts experience. While the train was in the vicinity of Rose's Point a fin. buck stepped upon the track from the wilder ness which lines the road on either side and watched the train as it approached. It stamped its feet and wiggled its tall until the train was within 60 feet of it, and then skipped away down the track. Darby fiut on all steam and the deer increased ts pace. For a good mile the race was continued. At one time. Darby avers, the train was so close to the deer that had he been on the cowcatcher he could easily have touched it. The deer increas ed its speed and then attempted to Jump the wire fence, but in doing so caught its fore feet in the wires and turned a com plete somersault. It was stunned for a few seconds, and then Jumped into a lake close by the track and swam for the op posite shores COUNT OF CHAMBRUN DEAD. Noted Philanthropist and Author Passes Away at Nice. Nice, Feb. 10. The Count of Chambrun, a farmer senator of France, celebrated for his generous charities and as the founder of the Musee Social,died at Nice last even ing. The count was born in 1821. He made his entry into political life aa under-pre-fect of Toulon in 1850. Thence he passed to the under-prefecture of St. Etlenne and to the prefecture of the Jura- In 1857 he entered the chamber of deputies and in 1876 he was elected to the senate. The count was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and an author of note. HIGHEST SOUTHERN PEAK. Sir William Martin Conway Tells of His Discoveries in the Andes. Liverpool, Feb. 10. 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That Is the expression of many who have had their gray hairs restored to natural color and their bald spot covered with hair after using one bottle of Dr. Keep Looking Young. X UAI'B HAIR HEALTH. It Does Not Stain Bcalp Or linen. Is not a greasy or sticky flye: does not rub ofT. Never soils anything. Is made from absolutely pure ingredients and may be safely used ty old or young. Hair Health is an exceedingly clean, creamy dressing, delicately perfumed ana highly desirable In every way. IX used occasionally you will bare No More Harsh. Gray or Faded Hair Should you live to an advanced aged. It Is a vital Hair Food and acts on the roots, giving them the actual nourishment re quired. The secret of the great success and Increasing sales of DR. HAY'S HAIR HEALTH Is simply this: All who use it And it excels anything they ever tried for making their hair STRONG, HEALTHY. ABUNDANT AND BEAUTIFUL, and recommend it to their friends. IP YOUR IT NOW. LARGE BOTTLE. THE STRONGEST COAL IN THE MARKET, Sale This Week. $80.00 Chamber Snits. $50.00 $45.00 Chamber Snits. S0.00 $25.00 Extension Tables. 15.00 $15.00 Conches 10.00 1 $3.50 Fine Cotton Top Mattress 2.50 i $8.00 Fine Cotton Mattress 5.00 J. M. KNIGHT, 714 Kansas Avenue. peaks of the Himalayas and explored the interior of Spitsbergen, returned to Liver pool today from an eight months explora tion of the Andes. The principal abject of the Journey Just ended was the explor ation of the chain of the Andes running for 100 miles through Bolivia. He comes back with new and important geographi cal data. Including valuable maps and views. Sir William says that ha has estsbHshed the fact that Mount Sorata, or Illampu, north of La Fas, Bolivia, is the highest South American mountain peak. Ha says it is 1.000 feet higher than Mount Aconca gua, in Chile, which is nearly 24.000 feet high. He is the first to climb to the sum mit. There he found a snow cons 400 feet deep. The glaciers In the Sorata region are of Immense thickness and the aoansry is most magnificent. DECIDES TO BE HONEST. Grssn Goods King McNally Sees the Error of His Ways. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 10. Here is a once rascal turned preacher. He is James Mc Nally, once the acknowledged green goods king of the country, who has been here to visit his brother. "I'm going to begin life over Bgain." he said. "I have served the penalty for toe ing crooked, and I am through. In my life I have made $3,000,000, and where Is it now? Gone on wine and women and every other line of dissipation that Is known. I have made three fortunes In my life, every one of them by unlawful methods. I made it fast and it went away fast. "The lesson my life has taught me la that it does not pay to be crooked. I hava had J300.000 to my credit three times In my life more than I ever expect to have again but these were ill-gotten gains. Now I shall be content to make an honest living and lead a respectable life the rest of my days. "My advice to young men about to start in life is to get in legitimate business and work up from the bottom. I hope my lile lesson will be a benefit to young men who are tempted to stray from legitimate paths of business. Honesty is the best policy. CHILE-BOLIVIA CLASH. 3 Situation in the Latter Country Be comes More Complicated. Lima, Peru. Feb. .-The Bolivian situa tion is now doubly complicated. There is fear of a serious clash between Bolivia and Chile, and the Bolivian Indians have risen in revolt against the whites. Ad vices from La. Paz confirm the report that President Alonso has been forced to re treat, and add that General Pando of tha revolutionists Is in hot pursuit of the na tional army, which has retired to Oruro, in western Bolivia, south of La Pa and nearer the Chilean border. The Indians in southern Bolivia have plundered a Chilean mining establishment at Corocoro, south of La Pax. The man ager a Norwegian, finding that he could not escape the savages, killed his wife snd committed suicide. It Is feared that the Chilean government will make the inci dent the occasion far interference.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNA1V FRIDAY EVEXESTG, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. 3 BROOKEJERVY. Does Not Represent the City of The Opening Sale of Spring Fashions Now in Progress. Topeka Bat Presumes to Meddle iu Citj Affairs A B Thursday morning at eight o'clock sharp the Annual Sale of Spring Silks began. We have been preparing for this for months. We have made large purchases from the biggest and best manufacturers and importers in the world. There is not an article here published nor one in the still greater assortment unpublished which has not a specific claim upon your immediate attention, an urgent claim upon your appreciation and a satisfying claim upon your estimation of its high value and bargain price. Enor mous quantities of these Silks were purchased in the regular way, but will be sold much under their actual retail value. Many special bargains were bought at prices much un der what it cost to produce them. No shop-worn Silks in this sale, but all clean, fresh, Spring styles for 1899 such that you want and will be interested in. The big demand for new Silks will make it advisable for you to buy early for the first choice. $1.25 for 58c One of the best bargains to b offered in this sale is a large line of Colored Silk aad Satin Striped Tissues, in dark ana light grrounds, beautiful for ouse dresses and waists. Also the prettiest summer dress that you can buy. These Grenadines have been sold all over the country for 91.23, RQ. but la sals t-dy, yard vOU Lining Taffetas. Hundred of pieces of Plaia and Changeable Taffetas, for linings, in all staple colors and aH the new shadings that have been brought out this spring season. Remarkable Talues at these prices, a yard. 7Se, 85s, 98c The New Shade of Heliotrope. Among some of the new Silks for spring Is the new shade of heliotrope ground, scattered over with printed warpdesigns, with a cluster of bayadere oords running across. This is one of the extreme novelties for the aeasoo; prioe, a yard Si 1.88 Beautiful Black Silk. Black Groa Grain, Bteok Brocaded Gros Graia and Bteck Brocaded Sotia. war la Toe, tor, a yard 39e Black Moire Bayadare, Black Me-ire Bro eade. Blaok Satim Brooade aad Black Gros Uraia Bvomdo, wocua U.K, an, yaed. 7 We Something New for a Black Dress. Plain Black. All Silk Foulards. This is the same cloth as the Printed Foulards, and nothing will make a mors serviceable dress; It is IM Isohcs wide and sells for 98c a Yard. Black China Silks. r incoea wiae, yard. 49c 27 inches wide, yard. 68r 80 inches wide, yard. 9- M inohes wide, yard. I.OO White China Silks. rs incnes wide, yard. 35c 84 inohes wide. yard. 480 incoea wiae, yara. 58o it incnes wiae, yard.. 75c S6 inches wide, yard. 85o 27 laches wide. yard.-. 98a inohes wide, yard.. Sl.OO Black Rhadame Satin Silks M-lnch Rhadame Satin Silks, yard 7So --urcu nniwxfflB aaun aaiiKs. yara 9SO 4 -Inch Rhadame Satin Silks, yard, enl. Sl.OO 84-to eh Rhadame Satin Silks, yard. nr si.as Black Faille Francais Silks. -lnch Faille Franeals Silks, yard. 79a 80-inth Faille Fmneais Silka. yard. 8S0 U-iacfc Faille Francais Silks, yard. 8a M taafc IfaiUa Fraaoaia Silks, yard SI. as J 5 I f m Out-of-town customers can order by the mail any of these Silks. jYllll 1 j jP CI G S Send for samples. We prepay express or deliver these Silks to your home express office free of charge as follows: When orders amount to 5.00 or more, we will pay express or mail charges, to any express or postoffice in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indian Territory, or Oklahoma Territory. When orders amount to 10.00 or more we will pay express or mail charges to any express or postoffice in the states named in above list and also Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. For prepay orders in other states see our catalogue. Walnut GrrwdAvc SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS TTnity club -will meet this evening: at T-mty church. The next meeting: of the Commercial club will be on March 8. There are eleven applications for admis sion to the T. A. A. The county assessors will begin their work the. first of March. The graduating class of the Kansas Med ical college will number 26. The Good Citizenship leaeue will start a paper called "The Good Citizen." The bill posters have to keep a fire un der their paste buckets these days. In police court the witnesses in referring to a joint speak of it as '"a restaurant." A new candidate for city treasurer has appeared in the field. He is A. D. Rob bins. Silas Rain was the policeman thit raid ed the first "Joint" in Topekr., 30 years ago. The policemen on duty at night are com pelled to keep moving in order to keep warm. The Modern Woodmen are makiner spe cial effort to increase the membership in Topeka. JJ'he old court house has been mmed The Armory" by the Republican Flam beau club. General J. K. Hudson will deliver an ad dress at Landsborg college on Lincoln's birthday. A Topeka man says he has not had the nerve to lock his coal house during this cold weather. It seldom snows when the mercury stands below zero, but it did in Topeka this morning. f t.vtTal men who WIlt to San Francisco W1U Uis Kansas regiment axe now sorry Tsswa r v mm m mm Mm v rilliant Spectacle! $1.25 for 75c Lrftrre assortment of beautiful Figured Taffetas, many different styles, plaids, checks, printed wrapt, eta the most beau tiful line of goods for the money we have ever altered; wortb U.25, for. a yard. 75C New Foulards for Spring. The newest patterns sod colorings in Im' ported and Domestio Foulards the present style of dressing will make Foulards the most popwlar material for spring and summer dresses: we have exclusive styles and will show them to-day. Cheney Bros.' Best Foulards, nothing but sew patterns and new colors and exclusive styles, a yard.... Sl.OO Cheney Bros Surah Twills, best patterns that have been brought out this season, a yard. 79c 1 lot of Foulards, made to sell for Si.se, for, yard. 75c An Imported Foulard, in blue and white, black and white and a few choice oolorings, worth G&c for, a yard 39c Imported Foulards, sU new patterns, this season's style, staple and fancy colorings, worth aOc, for, a yard.. 35o One lot of extra wide Printed China Silk, last season's styles, all good colorings, me dium designs, always sold by us at 75c and tec, min he in this sale, a yard 8o Novelty Spring Silks. All the sew styles in the latest patterns, new designs, rich color ings, brilliant shades aad mingied with the mild ones; contrasting colors, beautiful plaids, stripes and novelties of all kinds per yard 75c, 89c, 98c, $1.10 and $1.25. Black Silks. 19- 20- 23 21- 22- 41 29-lnon Duchess Satin Silks, yard ..8c 21- ineh Duchess Satin Silka, yard 7 5.1 20-inch Duchess Satin Silks, yard 79c '2-inch Duchess Satiu Silks, yard 9 80 2-iaoh Duchess Satin Silka, yard, only SI. IO 22- in oh Duchess Satis Silks, yard, only SI. 25 23- ineh Duchess Satin Silks, yard, only SI. 38 24-In oh Duchess Satin Silks, yard, snly SI. SO Black Gros Grain Silks. 19- inch Gros Grain Silk, yard 4 29-lnch Gros Grain Silk, yard 75c 20- inch Gros Grain Silk, yard 85c 20-inch Gros Grain Silk, yard 89c 22- inch Gros Grain Silk, yard 8o 24-inch Gros Grain Si He, yard Sl.OO 23- inoh Gros Grain Silk, yard SI .85 24- inohGres Grain Silk, yard SI. 38 24-inoh Gros Grain Silk, yard Sl.so 35 boo rX-noh Gros Grain Silk, yard S1.6S Black Armure Silks. n-lnch Royal Armure Silk, yard. Sl.OO 22-Inch Royal Armure SUks. yard. S1.S5 22-insh Beyal Armure SUks, yard. SI. SO day they did not remain, so as to see fighting at Manila. "Sweet Margery," by a Topeka author, will soon be among the popular music publications. If unpaid personal taxes are not paid by February 20. sheriff's fees for collection will be added. The street cars were unable to run on time this morning until the tracks were cleared of snow. Passe partout is the latest style for fram ing plioloKnijihs. The photographs are bound on glares. Hot soda water has suddenly become quite popular. It is about as nasty as anything could be. Poor Commissioner Hale issues brown sugar, hominy, beans, rice, corn meal and salt pork to the poor. Last nisht was the beginning of the Chi nese New Year. There was one China man in Topeka to begin it. The Topeka T. M. C. A. basket ball team plays a game with the state uni versity team at Lawrence today. The costumes to be used in the Klks production of "Romeo and Juliet" will be furnished by a Chicago costumer. Prof. George V. Herron will deliver an address before the Young People's Feder ation at the First Christian church to night. The Kansas Society of Maccabees will meet in Topeka March 17. Ex-Congressman I. D. Aitken will deliver the princi pal address. Several carpenters, who have been build ing a church, worked steadily until yes terday before they gave up on account of the cold. The photographs of the national officers of the Woodmen have been grourjed and framed and presented to Sunflower camp of Topeka. Captain P. H. Coney led a fight on To W(f(M to l UUCNE. MOORC, EMERY CO. JF 01072X1110. $1.00 for 58c Figured Taffetas, in checks, tripes, etc. Big variety of atyes and colorings, made t seU for IX 00, to-day, a yard. 58c. A Combination of the Blue and Brown. Another novelty for spring Is a eomMma tion of blue and brown silk for Shirt Waists satin and tufted stripes of brown shading into tan. colors separated by a raised white satin oord, with, several combinations of colors, a yard MlSS Beauty and Grace Combined. A novelty that will e the craze of the season will be the White Ground Taffeta, with pompadour stripes of light dItm satin, soattered over with moas rosebads in Ameri can Beauty shades, a most exouislto piece for spring wear, a yard. SU .98 Black Feau de Soie Silk. 21-inch Peau de Soie Silks, yard. 9e 21- inch Peau de Soie silks, yard........ 98c 22- lnoh Peau de Soie Silks, yard. al io 3-loon Peau de Soia Silks, yard.. 4VL.25 23-inch Peau da Soto Silks, yasd. Black Taffeta Silks. inch wide, yard. inch wide, yard lach wide, yard. inch wide, yard.......... inoh wide, yard. inoh wide, yard 48 680 eso 750 8e ..Sl.OO Black Figured Taffetas. SWiseh wide, yard. 75s i3-incfc wide, yard. 98 Special Silks for Linings. One of the best bargains for Linings will be cue fiain. coiorea ana Changeable xanetaa. If you will need linings, be sure to see these; they are the ones we sold for S&o and 41.00, and will be on sale to-day for, a yard. ....69o Natural Pongees. quality for, yard Quality for, yard ,19e o Corded Wash Ki Ki Silks. A new line of Corded Wash Ki Ki Silks, in plaids, stripes and checks, all of them new patterns aad new goods; will bo an. sale to at, a yard Walnut, Grand lie. peka saloons in the early days of prohibi tion and he was once assaulted and nearly killed by a bartender. The report comes that babies three years old smoke cigarettes in Manila. Some people in this country who smoke cigar ettes act as if they were about throe. A cocking main at Leavenworth last night was won by Topeka birds pitted against fowls from Kansas City. Topeka won four out of seven battles and The skating rink that was spoken of for Atnie-tie park nas not oeen starreu. 1 ne present weather would certainly assure the proprietor of ice but not of skaters. The men of the fire department have reason to dread this cold weather, for a run to a tire with the thermometer at zero or 17 below would be rather c-jol. The first Topeka fireman to use a Pom pier belt was Lieutenant Rhodes. He hooked himself to a ladder and chopped a hole in the side of a house in South To peka. The order for breakfast at the city jail recently read "five breakfasts and three bums." The total was eight breakfasts, but "bums" are not classified with first class criminals. Two of the most popular songs in "The Fortune Teller" were not sung here. They were "The Power of the Human Kye" by Joe Cawthorne and "The Champagne Song" by Marguerite Sylvia. Leaves Newton Schools. Newton, Feb. 10. Miss Ola Bowman, who for six years was assistant prin cipal of the high, school at Newton, has accepted a position as assistant In the high school at Kewanee, 111. Large or small bundles sent for.Amer ican Steam Laundry. Telephone 341. BY WORKING AGAINST The Abolition of the Useless Office of Commissioner Of Elections Which Is Just as Indefensible As Metropolitan Police Sjstem Which Had to Go. The only ripple that occurred In. the house yesterday was when the bill abol ishing the office of election commission er In cities of the first class was brought up ror passage, at which time the Mc-Keever-Brooke difficulty was "ad justed." Under the rules of the houses aTtpT a. bill has been through the committee of tne whole it is not subject to amend ment or debate unless so recommended by the committee. Mr. Brooke, however, wished to debate it. and he did so until called to order by Mr. Fairchild. Mr. Kutz moved to susrjend the rules to allow Mr. Brooke to debate the bill, but Mr. Brooke said he fairness and did not wish that the house should give him any special privileges. Mr. McKeever then rose to a question of personal privilege, in order to explain intimations from Mr. Brooke that he had not acted fairly in the matter. "1 introduced this bill two vears aim." said Mr. McKeever, "but the Populists did not pass it, and as soon as I had a chance to introduce it at a session where I thought it would be nassed T did so. I introduced this bill at the in stance of my constituents here in the city of Topeka. I am stopped at every block and asked to push the bill through because the taxpayers of Topeka do not want to pay for it any longer when It does no sood. The deputy does all the work tnere is to be done, and the com missioner draws the salary. "1 Will confess that there was a mis understanding on my part concerning Mr. Brooke's action with regard to this bill. It was first referred to the com mittee on elections and by it rerjorted favorably. Mr. Brooke came to me and said that he intended to try to have it referred to another committee. The next tning i knew of the bill it had been re ferred to the judiciary committee, of which I am chairman. At the time I supposed Mr. Brooke had the reference made, but I have since learned that it was an accident on the cart of the speaker. My committee made the same recommendation as the elections com mittee made, and when it came up in committee of the whole the bill was passed in regular order. I noticed that Mr. Brooke was absent at the time and 1 sent the clerk of the judiciary com mittee out to find him, but he could not De round. 'I Make this explanation to this house to show that the insinuations that I have acted in a two-faced manner in re gard to this are untrue. My colleague. Mr. SteDhenson. anrl myself represent the city of Topeka, wnne air. Brooke represents Shawnee county. This bill refers to the city alone, and all we ask is that Mr. Brooke allow us to represent the city and we will allow him to represent the county. If I have ill-treated him in any way I apologize to this house for it." When the roll was called Mr. Brooke replied to Mr. McKeever by explaining iiis vote. I have no personal feeline-s toward my colleague In this matter," he said, "but Topeka is my citv as well as it fa these other gentlemen's. I have petitions nere, noiaing up a handful of papers, protesting against tne passage of this bill. Among the signatures are those of the chairmen of both the Renuhlican city and county central committees, and nve out or ten or tne city councilmen. Through this office we have had fair politics. The present incumbent, al though a Populist, has conducted the office fairly and impartially and has re ceived many compliments from Repub- 'I acknowledge that I have an inter est in the defeat of this measure. A personal friend of mine is a deputy In that office and he is not able to do a day's manual labor, but he is able and competent to fill his office, and I would be a poor friend if I did not try to do what I could to keep him from being thrown out of his place." Mr. Lawrence, chairman of the eliv- tlons committee, said: "When this bill came up before my committee we were informed that Mr. Brooke's opposition to it came from the fact that he had a relative in the office I have not a relative In Toneka." in terrupted Mr. Brooke. There were 6G votes for the bill anrl 2 against it. The negative votes were cast by Anderson of ireenwood. Brooke. Burkholder. Francis, oniianie Grattan, Kutz, Poison, Reser, Rodgers, dcou ui i'.ik, emoemaicer. There is no personal feeling between Mr. McKeever and myself over the mat ter," sard Mr. Brooke afterward. "It was simply a difference of opLnion re garding this bill and we got a little tangled up over it." LABELLING OLEOMAEGAEINK Bill Providing for it Passed by the Sonata. There was a brief quarrel In the sen ate Thursday afternoon during the dis cussion of Senator LuDfer"s bill, defin ing butter, and requiring all butter and oleomargarine to be labelled, so consum ers can see "by the sign" what they are eating If they can not otherwise discern the difference between butter and oleo margarine. Senator Jumper had stated that but terine is being used at the state institu tions, and by way of diversion related the incident in which members of the legislature recently figured. They were visiting the Osawatomie asylum, and were shown samples of -butter and but terine. "They could not distinguish the difference ar,d when told, said they pre ferred the butterine." "Then," said Senator George Hanna, "the inmates of these institutions are being imposed upon. I have understood that the president of the board of char ities (Jumper) is a better judge of li quids than of butters." "Well," said Jumper, "that charge would not be against the senator from Clay (Hanna) because it is said that it requires brains large brains to pass judgment upon liquids." Jumper said "yes, and the campaign charge had been made that I have been on a con tinuous spree for 13 months." "Fifteen months," interrupted Mr. Richter. "Yes, that's right," said Jumper with a ernile, "but I have been also able to WHS You Be In Need of a New Overcoat Next Fall? IP If so, why not purchase, now, thereby saving from $3.00 to $5.00. You 3 on money invested. WE WOULD RATHER SACRIFICE THAN CARRY THEM OVER. We don't advertise a $J2.00 coat or suit for $5.00 because this would be ficticious advertising; not truthful advertising;. No store in Topeka can afford to gfive you a $12.00 garment, up-to-date, new, not shelf-worn, for $5.00. We will allow you to compare any overcoat or suit you buy here for $5.00 with those of other stores at same price and if our garment is not fully as good we tm will refund money. MEN'S ODD PANTS. Worth from $4.00 to $5.00, all wool, good styles, left over from suits Tomorrow for One lot worth from $3 to $3.50, good wearing, dress pants Tomorrow for do business Jn my official capacity dur ing all this time." "Yes," retorted Hanna, "from what I have heard of a car of potatoes at Be loit, you were able to do business." "But I want to say here," returned Jumper, "that if any senator makes the old charge against me, I will make him prove it before the bar of the senate." This ended the controversy. A few moments later an amendment to this bill was offered, to prohibit the use of oleomargarine at the state institutions, but was promptly killed, the following senators voting against it: Braddock. Caldwell, Campbell, Cooke, Crossan, Field, Forney, Hart, Helm, Helmick, Jumper, King, Lamb, Lupfer, Matthews, Pritchard, Peser.Ryan, Shaf fer, Sheldon, Stocks, Stone.Titus, Young, Zimmer. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 28 to 5. Senators voting against the bill were Hanna, Helm, Lewelling.Mor row, Zimmer. FAILED TO SANDBAG. So tho Anti-Bucket Shop Bill Goes Through the House. Benefiel's anti-bucket shop bill was passed by the house without debate at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mr. Benefiel was in the chair at the time. but when the bill came up he called Speaker Osborn to take his place so that if any opposition to the bill arose he could be ready to nght. There was none, however, although the bill was subject to amendment and debate. The vote on the final passage of the bill stood 84 for and 2 against it. Campbell of Bourbon and El wood of Grant and Stanton cast the negative votes. Speaker Pro Tern Benefiel, by the way, is said to have congressional as pirations. It is currently talked among the members of the house that he ex pects to make a record for himself dur ing this session of the legislature that will give him a good start in the con gressional race against Congressman Ridgely, down in the third district, next year. For that reason he went into the race for the speakership, and then com promised on speaker pro tern In order to avoid making enemies wno mignt hurt him in the future. For the same reason, it Is said, he is fathering a batch of "reform" measures, because they give him a chance to make a "rec ord." A certain big commission firm In Kan sas City which has a number of branches In Ivansas was approached a week or two ago and asked for $1,000 to $1,500 "to beat the bucket shop bill" in the Kansas legislature. Whether those who approached him were repre sentatives of certain parties in the leg islature or not is a question. The com mission man refused to be sandbagged and it will be noticed that the bill goes through. No doubt scores of perfectly innocent representatives voted for the bill, unconscious of the fact that they are playing into other men's hands, FOBTY NEW PHARMACISTS. The House Pharmacist Mill Finally Grinds Out Its Grist. The special pharmacists bill, by 'the provisions of which a lot of alleged druggists are authorized to compound poisons for innocent purchasers, has passed the house, but it did not have many votes to spare. The vote stood 68 for the bill to 22 against it. It re quires 63 to pass a bill. Six names were added to the bill by the committee on public health when it came up for final passage, making a total of forty drug gists who are given the special priv ilege allowed pharmacists, without first proving that they are qualified to deal in drues by passing an examination before the state board of pharmacy. The committee on hygiene and public health, which recommended the pas sage of the bill, stated that each man on the list was "vouched for" by the representative who proposed his name. On the list were the names of two mem bers of the house, M. K. Marks of Jef ferson county and George W. Gabriel of Labette county, both of whom are practicing physicians. Dawes Mining Bill Passes. The bill to limit the output of the penitentiary coal mines to the needs of the state institutions, and which caused considerable discussion in the house committee of the whole a few days ago, has been passed by the house by a vote of 74 to 14. It was the policy of the Populists to vote against the- bill be cause it was a Republican measure, but five of them voted for it. They were Loomis, who has a large mining con stituency. Prather, Rodgers, Wright of Lyon and DeBard. Four Republicans, Longley, Remington, Scott of Wichita, and Welch, voted with tha Populists against the bill. Knee pant suits that were sold at $4.50, only a few sizes left Tomorrow for $2.95 Boys' all wool long pant suits, ages 12 to 19, worth $7.00 Tomorrow for SI QC worth $7.00 qjf nc I mUO Tomorrow for U4".4tO THE OILSTEAL. Perfect Idiocy and Rascality of the Oil Inspection Law Shown Up So That the Dullest CAN UNDERSTAND IT. Got. Stanley Lends His Aid to the Farce By Recently Appointing an "Oil Inspector." Why Appoint Anyone to an Of fice Like This? Joplin, Mo., Feb. 9. 1899. To the Editor of tho Topeka State Journal: I notice an article in your paper of the 8th, headed "Working on a Bad Job," which states that thesenate took up the matter pertaining to the inspec tion of oils. I notice that the bill was so amended that in case it became a law it would do away with the deputy inspectors and provide district inspec tors. Now, after spending ten years in the oil business in your state, I assure you that district inspectors in each and every district where there are oil dis tributing stations is the only system of inspection whereby the oil can all be inspected. An inspector at each point where there is an oil distributing station on a commission basis, is under bond to re port to the governor, also to the auditor of the county in which he is located, the inspection of all oils that are in spected in his district. There should also be a restriction whereby they would be compelled to inspect local lots as well as car lots that may arrive in the territory. For example, as the law now stands, In case the merchant in any town should buy a barrel of oil from parties located outside the Btate, after It was received by him he would be compelled to hold that barrel until an inspector would pass upon it, and as there are only three of them in number, they could compel him to hold that package thirty days, if they so desired, on the ground that they were Inspect ing oils at other points in the state. Again, the fee for inspecting on a single barrel is 40 cents, while on larger quan tities it is 10 cents. In this way the merchant who might ship in, larger quantities would get his oils inspected for 10 cents a barrel, while the dealer buying single barrels or in a small way would have to pay 40 cents a barrel. As to the law that now exists in that state on inspection, it has been a great protection to the oil dealers in the state who desire to sell low grade oils, as the requirements in it, even though the oils are tested, did not signify anything as to its quality, as the lowest oils pro duced would very often pass the re quirements of the law much easier than the highest grades. Of course it states the amount of heat the oils will stand before exploding, but as to the im purities it has no restriction. As to the manner oils have been inspected in the past, will say that with one In spector and two deputies, they could by traveling every day in the week visit all the distributing points about once a month, while at a great many points there are cars of oil being unloaded daily. A great many of the deputies would call, say, once a month, and ask the oil company's agent to get him a sample of oil, which he would do, or have some employe do, and the inspec tor would depart with the sample as though he himself had taken it from the car or container, and that would often be the last seen of them for thirty days. Again, they would often request a sam ple left at some frequent stopping place of theirs, where they might get it when they were in. Yet in every case I assure you that the parties offering their oils for sale always added one-quarter of a cent to their selling price for inspection, and the consumer paid it, for the great protection he was getting through an oil inspector. Then, at the end of the month, the inspector would either call or write to know the number of cars re BOYS' SUITS. $2.95 ceived during the month, and ask for hla inspection fees as though he had in spected every barrel of it. Now, thisi is law protection to the people, and, strange to say there are always a great number of politicians scrambling to get to be oil inspector, whereby they may be able to protect the lives of the people of the state from the danger of their burning poor oil. Yours very truly, E. M. .WILHOIT. PICKING OUT A.N ASYLUM. Duties of the Legislative Committee Are Pointed Out The duties of the legislative commit tee to be selected to locate the new asy lum are defined in the bill passed yes terday as follows: "First To visit the various places and localities in the state which for any reason would be desirable localities for the location of said institution. "Second To carefully consider the geographical location with reference to population; to ascertain whether there is an abundant water supply; whether there are proper railway facilities; whether a suitable site adapted to the needs of such an institution can be pro cured; and having thoroughly consid ered all the advantages and disad vantages. Including cost of maintaining said institution, of the various points, finally to proceed to determine such lo cation by ballot. "Third The decision of a majority of said committee shall be the decision! of the committee as tc location of sakl institution, and said decision shall be reached prior to the 30th day of June, 1899, and said committee shall report their findings to the governor. "Fourth Such action of said commit tee shall be deemed final and conclusive and said asylum shall be declared to be located by the action of a majority of such committee, and said asylum shall be built pursuant to the provisions of this act and of law governing the con- struction of such institutions. "Fifth Said committee shall receive three dollars per day for their services and their actual and necessary ex penses." SPECIAL SESSION CASE Argued in the Supreme Court Decis ion Expected Next Week. The Farrelly special session case was argued before the supreme court yester day afternoon. It is similar to the suit which has just been decided in the dis trict court by Judge Hazen, the issues being exactly the same, bo that the case was to a great extent a re-trial of that case. Senator Hugh Farrelly is the plaintiff in the case and applies for a writ of mandamus to compel Auditor Cole to audit special session warrants. G. C. Clemens, ex-Lieutenant Govern or Harvey and Otis Hungate were the attorneys for the plaintiff, but Mr. Clemens made the only argument for the plaintiff. Attorney General Godardi was assisted in defending Mr. Cole and in trying to prove that the special ses sion was invalid by D. R. Hite, who also assisted him in the district court, and by Judge Horton. Judge Horton voluntarily offered his services to Mr, Godard and they were accepted. The attorneys are allowed until next Tuesday to submit briefs in the case, and it is likely a decision will be an nounced by the latter part of the week. An opinion will be handed down about the first of March. Auditor, Cole is of the opinion that the session was valid, but he has beer, compelled to accept the opinion of At torney General Godard, as the legal ad viser of the state officers. r Speaker Osborn Goes Home-EI As soon as the anti-bucket shop bill had passed yesterday afternoon Speak er Osborn called Speaker Pro Tern Ben efiel to the chair and asked to be ex cused till Monday. He left last evening for his home at Salina, having been called there by a telegram on, important business. The Governor Signs Two Bills. Governor Stanley signed two new laws yesterday. One legalizes the ab stract of county records destroyed by fire in Sheridan county. The other au thorizes Osage City to levy a tax for the support of the city schools. Canada Comes Down. Skaguay. Alaska, Feb. 6, via Seattle. Wash., Feb. lO.The ultimatum issued by United States Deputy Collector of Cus toms Andrews to the Canadian officials at Log Cabin, who arrested two of his con voys, has brought the Canadians to terms. Andrews received word yesterday that the embargo would be removed and that th boundary line would not be claimed to be at the summit until the question had bee settled by the joint high commission.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FKIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAG LENNAN. TOLUJIE XXVI No- 81 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered, by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of TopeKa or suburbs, or at the sam price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier ystem. y mall, one year 3-5 By mail, three months Weekly edition, oa year M PERMANENT HOME. Tooeka State Journal Bulldin?. WJ9 and KS Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NKW TORK OFTTCE. Temnle Court Bids-.. A. Frank Richardson. Mt. CHICAOO OFFim. Stork Exrhanfte BulldjTis;. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LON'WN OFFTC7E. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street- TELEPHONES. fnMne-s Office Bell Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone S77 'Atruinaldo must not disturb the eagla on his perch. It must cause a feeling o Badness to creep over Dewey when he reflects that the Filipinos have no navy. The Cubans are getting an oppor tunity to see how It works at Manila before trying It themselves. But, suppose Gomez should prove to Ise like Aguinaldo and some members of etate legislatures and not stay bought. Aguinaldo Is but 30 years of age. Perhaps he will know more when he is older with Otis and Dewey to teach him. It Is not unlikely that if It was to do over again Gomez would take less than J3.0O0.00O since hearing from the Philip pines." Judging by the persistency with which Speaker Reed is saying nothing, tie must be accumulating a large pile of wood. It may be that the Filipinos are not incapable of self government but ap parently they are Incapable of winning a fight. If the Filipinos could be brought In range of Eagan's mouth the whole trouble might be settled without fur ther bloodshed. The Tacoma Ledger mentions with satisfaction the fact that two ocean steamers have been loaded at that port with flour consigned to Siberia- The beef controversy has not been wholly devoid of advantages to General Alger. It has served to make the public forget those reindeer. What an amount of time was wasted In discussing the peace treaty, when everybody knew that sooner or later it must be ratified. Thera was no other way. Mr. Robert P. Porter's capacity for striking a bargain would make him a formidable candidate for United States senator should he ever conclude to enter the field. Dewey again took up the white man's burden yesterday and ordered the Fili pinos to get out of San Roque, where they had become Inimical to the march of progress. If the matter were properly presented to Mr. Andrew Carnegie possibly he would supply the $25,000 which the library association needs to wipe out its indebtedness. A member of New York "society" has issued Invitations to a "reversed gar ment" dance. Just think of a man ap pearing in a cotillion with his trousers on up-end down. The Cincinnati Times-Star appears to have a grudge against Congressman Burton since it placed almost the en tire responsibility for the passage of the river and harbor bill upon bis shoulders. The Indiana legislature has passed a bill to prevent the Importation of de pendent children from other states. It provides that no such children shall be brought in unless their care has been previously arranged for. The number of extra fees paid to law yers for attending to state cases seem to Indicate a necessity for two or more attorney generals. Why not elect enough to take care of all the business while we are about It? GLOBE BIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. When what women call "dainty" re freshments are served the men present never get enough to eat. i You must fix up your own good ad vice: so much that others give you is not applicable in your case. A man registered at The Byram to day whose first name was "Reginald." What a pretty name to go with curly hair I I It is said that a certain Atchison min ister earned his title of "Dr." by preaching sermons that were sure cures for insomnia. When a man wants a women to take a particular interest in him he tells her' hat Some Day he will tell her the fTrue Story of His Life. An Atchison girls feels that she alone 1-nows what true suffering is. Her lover is an actor, and every time she vees him acting the hero it is with an other woman in his arms. There are lots of women In Atchison nvhose idea of a giddy time Is to go to Kansas City, gaze in the dry goods -windows, eat a dinner that costs 50 cents at a restaurant and coma home. A doctor was called to see a sick man. "How do you feel?" he asked. "I never felt so mean in my life," the sick man answered. "That settles it," the doctor aid promptly, "you have the grip."

'Another Atchison woman who was known here as a shining light In society has found since her removal to another town that, shine aa hard as she can, Bhe can't attract any more, attention than a glow worm. WATER WORKS CAUCUS. The New Jersey Corporation Calls Its Topeka Cohorts Together. Dave Mulvane marshaled his forces for the first time last night to prepare to organize for the mayor fight. About 35 men, white and black, assembled in the office of C. S. Elliott to discuss the city campaign. The blinds were care fully drawn and the proceedings were supposed to be secret. The invitations were sent only to those who could be trusted. They were type written and were signed by C. S. Elliott. But before the meeting was called to order Mr. Elliott left and Dave Mulvane was given charge of the reins. He had Matt Weightman elected chair man and Fred Jewell secretary. Mr. Mulvane made a speech in which he urged the importance of organiza tions in the different wards. He in sisted that the old Seaton organization should be maintained so far as possible and that the organization of the pri mary election boards should be looked after. Frank Ellison made a speech in which he said that he had looked the ground over and that things wera all right for Brooks. John Gardiner made similar state ments. Pimon Hoe, one of the colored workers in the Fifth ward insisted that "everything is all right" and that ha would be ready to line up when the time came. Otis Hungate said that the fight could be won if it was handled in the right way. The opposition would not be al lowed to make the waterworks the is sue if he could help it. John Dudley looked wise and said nothing until the meeting adjourned when he passed among those present and slapped them on the back. It was decided that the organization of each ward should be left to the rep resentatives from the wards, but that before anything definite is done there should be another meeting at which the details will be arranged for "allowing" the neople to vote their way. Mr. Mulvane avoided any reference to the water works question. He said nothing about his candidate having ex perienced a change of heart on the water works issue. The water works question is to be pushed into the back ground if the people will allow it to be done and after the election more can bo said on that important question. Dave Woodall and W. T. McKnight, colored workers of the third ward, were in the meeting. McKnight served as deputy sheriff under the Kepley admin istration, but now holds a position at the state house. John Allen, who was on the sanitary force, and Hatch Etherly, who was given a place at the state house, were there from the second ward. Frank Beach, the colored work er, who held a position under Sheriff Cook until the Fletcher Helm scandal, represented the first ward at the meet ing. Among the others who weie present were men of more or less prominence in local politics. John Ritchie was at the meeting but sawed wood and said noth ing. There was a sentiment existing that while oneof the Topeka dailies was rather slow in coming out "into the open" on the New Jersey meadows, so to speak, it was generally understood to be "all right" and could be depended on later. The next meeting will be held Monday evening of next week when the plans for completing the precinct organiza tions are expected to- be perfected. TO MAKE BINDING TWINE. Legislative Committee Sent to Still water Ret urn 3 and Reports Favorably. The legislative committee which in spected the twine manufacturing plant in the state penitentiary at Stillwater Minn., returned to Topeka today and made a favorable report to the legis lature this afternoon. Senator Hessin was chairman of the committee and made the report. The members of the committee are glad to get back to Kansas, as the ther mometer registered 42 below when they left Stillwater so they say. The committee makes the following recommendations: That ap lant for the manufacture of binding twine be established at the Kansas penitentiary with a capacity of 10,000 pounds daily, working ten hours, to employ 75 men. That an appropriation of $25,000 be made to purchase the machinery. That an appropriation of $150,000 be made for the purchase of raw material to be used in making the twine. The minimum profit to the state from the Stillwater plant is $10,000. The max imum is $S7,000. The profits for 1897 were $43,000. In addition to this profit there has been covered into the treasury for the maintenance of the institution 50 cents per day for each prisoner employed In making twine. The plant produced 500, 000 pounds of twine in 1898. When binding twine went up last summer during the war, the farmers of Minnesota sent 1,200 orders to the pen itentiary in a single day. The institution first sold twine direct to consumer, but now disposes of the product, through local dealers. The warden of the Minnesota peniten tiary recommends the plan of working through local dealers, as the farmer thereby is not compelled to pay cash, as he is when dealing with, the peniten tiary, KISSED IN THE SNOW. Blanche Walsh and Odette Tyler Sa lute Each Other. Blanche Walsh and Odette Tyler stood in the snow in front of the Throop hotel this afternon and kissed each other. One actress was going into the hotel and the other was leaving it. Almost collid ing they recognized each other. "Xear old girl." said Mias Walsh. "My dear Flam-he." said Miss Tyler. Their arms encircled each other's neck for a moment and their lips met. Both Blanche Walsh and Odette Tyler were members of William Gillett's "Se cret Service" company and both accom panied Gillett to England. Their meeting today was the first since Miss Ty'er left the company to retire from the stage with her husband, Mr. R. D. MacLean. Miss Walsh will be seen tonight at the Crawford theater as "La Tosca." Miss Tyler will be seen at the Grand Opera House as "Portia" in "The Merchant of Venice." Miss Walsh is widely known as the young lady selected to take the place on the American stage left vacant ny the death of Fanny Davenport. Miss Tyler is as widely known as the voung lady who jilted Howard Gould and his millions. Both are good looking and accomplish ed. Both will undoubtedly please To peka theatergoers. Taxing Inheritances. Senator Young's proposed bill taxing inheritances and legacies has been made a special order in the senate for 2:30 p. m. next Tuesday. Cur all lirer ills, bilious ness, headache, sour atora ack, Indigestion, ooastipa tl.a. Th.T set wully, with out pais or tTipe. S.ld by all 4rurr1t- 3ft cents. Xas aif HUM to wu Mood Mood's KANSASJEWS. Lyon County Holds 31. K. T. Bonds or Stock To the Amount of $200,000 Which Will Be Sold Cheap. COURT 1I0USE WANTED And Preferred Stock of the M. K. T. Road Is Now Worth About 40 Cents A Peculiar Deal. Emporia, Feb. 10. The latest scheme to secure a court house for Lyon county is to sell the M. K. T. bonds or stock owned by the county and with. the funds received build a court house with out taxing the people a cent. W. S. Jay, who has locked the matter up, claims that the so-called M. K. T. bonds are worth more than is gen erally believed. He says: "The Union Pacific Southern Branch company, the stock of which Lyon coun ty holds to the amount of $200,000, had stock liabilities aggregating $2,225,000 and assets consisting of 1,400,000 acres of government land, valued at $2.50 per acre, or $3,500,000, and $600,000 in the bonds of Davis, (now Geary), Morris and Lyon counties. It also had the right of way along the Neosho valley and be yond, from Junction City to the state line, also franchises and right of way through the Cherokee Strip. Said fran chises said to be worth a million and a half. These assets were conditional upon the construction of a railroad along this line. The Union Pacific South ern Branch company then made a con tract with a construction company, claiming to be incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania and thereby hangs a tale to build a railway along the line indicated, for the aforesaid U. P. S. B. company, for the land grant and the county bonds before mentioned and possibly for some of the stoclcwhich about this time was increased from the one million dollars originally authorized to the sum mentioned above. The M. K. T., I am informed, derives all its rights from this so-called Land Grant, Railway and Trust company. In fact, so far as this branch road is concerned, is this bogus concern under another name. "Another phase of this matter is this: The law, which authorized the exchange of U. P. S. B. stock never carried out by Lyon county for M. K. T. stock, specified preferred stock, not common, the equivalent. This preferred stock is worth now about 40 cents and was guaranteed by the M. T. company at SO cents." COFFETVILLB WON OUT. Its Pressed Brick Proved Superior to St. Louis Brick In a Test. Coffeyviile, Feb. 10. "W. A. Myrick of Coffeyville, has just returned from Springfield, Mo., where he has finished up a street paving contract. He has just obtained for the Coffeyville Brick and Tile company a contract to furnish 500.000 building brick to be used at Springfield in building a fine hospital for the Frisco Railway company. Ho had as a sharp competitor the St Louis Dry Pressed Brick company and the bids for the brick were the same. The St. Louis man proposed that the bricks be submitted to the crushine: test and the best brick to take the t contract. Mr. Myrick agreed and the result was that while the St. Louis brick sustained an average pressure of about 50 tons, the CofCeyville brick sus tained a pressure of over 100 tona. May Buy the Champion. Atchison, Feb. 10. It is understood that the late deal by whioh Frank Whltewell of Lawrence, was to pur chase the Champion, has fallen through. J. G. Kuhn, one of the publishers of the Marion (Kan.) Times, is in Atchison to day looking over the Champion proper ty with a view of purchasing it. It ia understood that if Kuhn buys the Champion, it will be converted into a Democratic paper. Death, of Mrs. A. D. Fulton. Atchison. Feb. 10. A. D. Fulton, ft Missouri Pacific freight conductor, re ceived a telegram today announcing the death of his wife at Phoenix. Ariz., where she was spending the winter for her health. The remains will be con veyed to Topeka for burial. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Fulton resided at Kansas City until last fall, when they removed to Atchison. NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT James W. Powell Made Postmaster at the Soldiers' Home Washington, Feb. 10. The president today sent these nominations to the senate: Justice Clinton F. Irvln of Illinois, to be associate justice of the supreme court of Oklahoma; Frank L. Coombs, of California, to be United States at torney for the northern district of Cal ifornia. State To be third secretaries of em bassies of the United States at London, I Eng., Spencer F. Eddy of Illinois: at Paris, France, Samuel Morrill, of Mas I sachusetts; at Berlin, Germany.H. Per- clval Dodge of Massachusetts, j Interior Wm. A. Richards of Wyom ing, to be assistant commissioner of the I general land office; James McLaughlin of North Dakota, to be Indian inspec tors. Postmasters Kansas Jas. W. Pow ell, National Military home. To Make It a Rider. Washington, Feb. 10. Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the committee on inter state and foreign commerce gave no tice in the house this afternoon, that at the proper time, he would offer the Nicaragua canal bill as an amendment to the sundry civil bill. The statement was greeted with applause. Union Lecture Course. Mr. S. H. Clark, dramatic reader, of the University of Chicago, will give the sixth entertainment of the union course on Wednesday evening, Feb. 15. The chart will be open at Rowley Snow's to the holders of season tickets on Sat urday, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock a. m. Num bers will be given out at 7 o'clock. Each person may reserve five seats. County Buildings for Lawrence. Senator Charles F. Johnson introduced a bill in the senate today to authorize the commissioners of Douglas county to levy a tax of not more than five mills for the construction of permanent county build ings. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. J. Early, this afternoon, a boy. sniiiiiiuHiiniiHiiiiiiziiiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiniiiiiHiiHHiiisiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiHisiiiii jj TSJERVES need rest and toning up J H when they have been worn out by H H overwork or strain. This rest they get H from a pure tonic like UpBcsTToiuc made from malt, the H concentrated food, in E a soluble form, and U hops, the gentle nerve 3 tonic. "I have taken time to give Pabst Malt Ex S tract. The "Rest' Ej Tonic, a proper ex- amination, and am E5 pleased to inform you that I think it is the EE cleanest, chemically E the purest, and in 5 sickness the best I g ever used. JOHN T. SIMPSON, M. D., 25 Preet. I nternitioiuj Medical S3 Parliament, Paris. H Pabst Malt Extract builds up the nerv- ff s ous and the physical system; cures H U nervousness, indigestion, and makes' g jj you hearty and strong. At sll drug stares. C5 II!III!HIIIHnill!!iiniI!Iin!!!lllllll!llllllll!lli!llirHini(ninlliniI!li!I!H!nillllllffH THREEAS ONE. Bryan, Cleveland and Carnegie of One Mind On the Question of Territorial Expansion APPEARING TOGETHER In a Symposium in Hoke Smith's Paper. Cleveland Expresses Faith in the "Decent" Press. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10. The Semi Weekly Journal, an agricultural paper run in connection with the Atlanta Journal by Hoke Smith, will, in this week's issue, publish views on the Phil ippine question from ex-President Cleveland, W. J. Bryan and Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Cleveland says: "If there is anything that can arrest the attention or challenge the thought of our people in their mad rush toward yawning disaster, it is more likely to be the earnest, well informed and pa triotic warnings of the decent press than anything else. Yours truly, "GROVER CLEVELAND." Mr. Bryan says: "I have confidence that the American people, when they have a chance to speak, will reject imperialism and mili tarism and remain true to the doctrine of self-government. (Signed.) "W. J. BRYAN." In expressing his views Mr. Carnegie says: "The influence of a superior race upon an inferior race in the tropics is in jurious, demoralising and never ele vating. "Imperialism is the craze of the hour.' Thorough Americanism, such as the south now stands for,is for all time. "I congratulate the south upon Its adherence to the principles of Wash ington and Jefferson, whioh are bound to prevail. (Signed.) "ANDREW CARNEGIE." NORTH TOPEKA. Call for premium stamps at Costley Post's. Come and get last closing bargains in hats at Mrs. Courtney's. James Bartel is slowly recovlng from a month's siege with grippe. Mrs. Ogee and family have moved from 915 Van Buren street to the Arnold property on Jackson street. Go to C. B. Lyon, D. D. S., for fine dental work at popular prices. Office 611 Kansas avenue. 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 left today for his home in Cleveland, O.. after a week's visit to his brother, Mr. H. C. Bowen. A LIBRARIAN CHOSEN. Washington, Feb. 10. Apparently authentic information was received to day by the -Massachusetts members in congress that Representative Barrows of Massachusetts had been offered the office of librarian in congress and had accepted. Union Lecture Course. Mr. S. H. Clark, dramatic reader, of the University of Chicago, will give the sixth entertainment of the union course on Wednesday evening, Feb. 15. The chart will be open at Rowley Snow's to the holders of season tickets on Sat urday, Feb. 11, at 8 o'clock a. m. Num bers will be given out at 7 o'clock. Each person may reserve five seats.. We mend and sew on buttons free. American Steam Laundry. Tele, 341. 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. Mrs. A. J. Can-, mother of Mrs. B. F. McGiffin. died yesterday at the home of her daughter, 521 Polk street. The funeral will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow. IT'S TOO G0L1 to do Family Washing at home. Try us 3 to 6c per lb. Woolens soft as new. Let us put a velvet edge on rough collars and cuffs. Work received by 9 a. m. Saturdays finished same day. Topeka Steam Lanndry. PHONE 153. REPORT OP THE CONDITIO Jf OF THE First National Bank, At Topeka, In the State of Kansas, at the close of business, February 4, 1899. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 554, 326.92 Overdrafts, secured and unse cured TJ. S. bonds to secure circulation 60, Stocks, bonds and securities S, Banking house,furniture and fix tures 125, Other real estate and mortgages owned 29, Due from approved re serve agents $255,702.08 Exchanges for clear ing house 12,844.38 Notes of other Nation al banks 47,350.00 Nickels and pennies 60.50 Specie 78,004.75 Legal tender notes 10,000 403, Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer 2, 120.82 .000.00 380.22 ,450.00 558.20 951.71 250.00 Total $1,181,037.87 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 300,000.00 Surplus fund 22,188.19 "Undivided profits less expenses and taxes Daid 9.125.S1 National bank notes outstanding 45,0u0.0O Due to otner JNatlonal banks 1,015.27 Due to state banks and bankers 44,998.57 Dividends unpaid 120.00 Individual deposits subject to check 641,267.20 Demand certificates of di nosit 117.135.33 Certified checks 250.00 ?04,724.37 Total ..$1.1S1.037.87 State of Kansas, County of Shawnee, ss: I. William Henderson, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. WM. HENDERSON, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of February, 1S99. WM.. WADSWOIiTH, Notary Public. (My commission expires July 23d, 1399.) Correct Attest F. E. HOLLIDAT, WM. SIMS, M. SNATTINGER, (Seal.) Directors. lecial Notice! I have a few uncalled) for Overcoats and Ulsters that were 20 and 24 dol lars. I will sell them this week For 12.50 Each. N. H. WOLFF. 429 Kansas Avenue. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought Bears the T gVzT" Signature of 0V5; 24&6&Z This Weathei Is hard on the poor, afford to buy OTTER CLOTHING and UNDERWEAR At the prices we are selling for. All Stock removed from our old Store will be sold regard less of cost, as we don't want to carry over One Dollar's worth of Winter Stock. NEW Spot 6asn Qrooeru Successors to Davis Glick. 108 East Sixth Street. DO you want to save JO per cent, on your Grocery Bills IF YOU DO; leave your orders with the Spot Cash Grocery. They give you more goods, better goods and prompter delivery for your money than any Store in the city. GOODS SOLD IT WHOLESALE ME RETAIL 19 lbs best Granulated Sugar $1.00 20 lbs White C Sugar 1.00 4 cans 3-lb Tomatoes 35c 1 can a-lb Tomatoes 05c 4 cans 3-lb Standard Pumpkin 25c 4 cans String Beans 25c 1 gal. nice Sour Pickles 15c 1 doz. Dill Pickles 10c 3 nice, fat. Fancy Mackerel 25c 1 lb fancy Chuck Halibut 15c 10-lb pall White Fish 40c 1 keg Milker Holland Herring 90c 1 keg best white hoop Holland Herring 80c 1 box Dried Herring 20c 2 large Smoked Bloaters 05c 1 doz. Nice Oranges 10c 1 doz. Extra Fancy Lemons 15c 5-lb pail Pure Fruit Preserves... U....... 4oc 5-lb pail Pure Cider Apple Butter 30c 20-lb. pail Pure Cider Apple Butter fi-iS Best No. 1 Sugar Cured Hams 08c Best No. Sugar Cured Cal. Hams 5c Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon 08c lb Lard 05c 1 package Rico Flour 05c I package Potato Flour 05c 8 bars Fairbank's Brown Soap 25c 10 bars French Laundry Soap 25c II bars Silk Soap 25c 11 bars Clairette Soap 25c io bars White Russian Soap 25c 10 bars Lenox Soap 25c 1 gal. milk crocks 05c 1 galvanized-iron tub 40c 1 oak-grained tub 40c 1 willow laundry basket 40c 1 washboard 10c 1 Western washer 2-50 1 lb. Lion Coffee 10c 1 lb. Arbuckle's Coffee 11c 1 lb. Qona Mocha and Java 20c 1 lb. Chase Sanborn Old Homestead Coffee 30c 3 lbs. Chase Sanborn fancy Mocha and Java Coffee $1.00 2 lbs. fancy Santos Coffee 25c 7 lbs. Raisin Cured Prunes 25c 5 lbs. Raisins 25c 3 pkgs Currants 25c 3 pkgs Seeded Raisins 25c 3 lbs. Cooking Figs 25c 1 lb. Evaporated Raspberries 15c 1 bu. Fancy Wisconsin Burbank Potatoes 60c 10 lbs. Pure Buckwheat Flour 25c 10 lbs. Bulk Rolled Oats 3 pkgs Ralston Pancake Flour 3 pkgs Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour Soda Crackers, by the box Remember Us on Flour. SPOT CASH GROCERY, J. F. GLICE. Proprietor. i Columbia Chainless Bicyles, $65.00 and $75.00 W. Eighth St. Topeka Cycle Co. Disposition of Atchison Co. Funds. Atchison, Feb. 10. The Atchison Na tional bank will be the depository for the first fifty thousand dollars of coun ty funds for another year from date, at its bid of 3 per cent on balances. The bids were opened by the county commissioners today and were as fol lows on the first apportionment: Atch ison National, 3; Atchison Savings, 3; Exchange National, 2. Under the law, not more than fifty thousand dollars but the rich and the poor can jfi STORE. Telephone 425. 25c 23c 25c 5c Mail Orders Shipped Promptly. BICYCLES. can be kept in any one bank. The First National did not bid. The Atchison Savings was made the depository for the second fifty thousand at Its bid of 134 per cent, and the Exchange Nation al the depository for the third fifty thousand at its bid of one-half of one per cent. The Atchison National had the first fifty thousand last year at 4Vi per cent. William Ritter of Cairo, Kan., has been in Topeka this week attending tha Woodman's convention.

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TOPEKA STATE JOUENAli, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899." 5 0000X0X0000KX00000X oooooooooooooooooooooooooo 9 THE MILLS-ADAMS CO. SPECIAL SALE OF Kid Gloves TOMORROW "PERRINS" $1.25 Kid Gloves FOR 98c PAIR 3-CLASP GTTSSETED FINGERS, EMBROIDERED BACKS, in the following Assorted BBOWS, OBEEN, BLUE and RED SHADES. A A on LINED KID GLOVES and MITTENS 1 1 "7 and SILK and WOOL MITTENS. ha For a Warm, Dressy Hand Covering, try our Silk-Iiined Castor Gloves Brown, Gray, or Black. CORSET SALE Four broken lot of 50c Corsets for 35c Pr. Thompson's R-H .$1.00 quality Thompson's E J.B. No. 12 W. O. O. No. 470 W. C. O. No. 492 W. CO., Misses'. .$1.75 quality .$1.00 quality .$1.00 quality .$1.00 quality .$1.00 quality Your Choice of any of the above, 75c Each. 1-4 off of Winter Underwear. THE MILLS-ADAMS CO. 0XCK0M&000CK0 CKKKXKKK0OOKOO0KKXK 1 A charming thimble party was given Thursday afternoon by Mrs. George P. Ashton at her home on Topeka avenue. The guests of honor were Mrs. Ismond of Hamilton, Mo., and Mrs. Brown of Newcomerstowc, Ohio. Mrs. Ashton always thinks of some thing original for her guests to do; when issuing her invitations she re quested every one to bring their work, done up in packages. When all had as sembled she collected the packages, and after telling to whom they belonged, had every one guess what they con tained. Mrs. Parker and Miss Lena McCray guessed the greatest number correctly and cut for the prize. Mrs. Parker was the fortunate one and re ceived a pretty cup and saucer. The room were decorated with frag rant blossoms and an elaborate lunch eon was served. The invited guests were Mrs. Ismond, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. I. L. Lakin, Mrs. I. S. Lauck, Mrs. A. L. Williams ,Mrs. Harry Williams, Mrs. I,. M. Crawford, Mrs. David Mulvane, Mrs. Albert Par ker, Mrs. D. O. McCray. Mrs. D. P. Paxton, Mrs. A. Bergen, Mrs.J. P. Dav is, Mrs. J. M. Patton. Mrs. G. N. Elliott, Mrs. A. L. Kedden, Mrs. S. S. Ott, Mrs. E. Bennett, Mrs. W. W. Manspeaker, Mrs. W. H. Johnston, Mrs. W. C. Squires, Mrs. H. S. Ohmer, Mrs. E. J. Covlll, Mrs. Wm. Wadsworth, Mrs. Geo. B. Palmer, Mrs. Vogenitz, Mrs. E. M. Carpenter, Mrs. K. MacLennan, Mrs. P. P. MacLennan, Mrs. W. S. Charles.Mrs. N. P. Garretson, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Gui bor, Mrs. West, Mrs. A. B. Jetmore, Mrs. Henry Keeler, Mrs. Morse, Mrs. Frank, Mrs. Jacques, Mrs. Nathan Price, Mrs. Paul Hudson, Mrs. Wm. Smith.Miss E. M. Thompson, Miss Edna Carpenter, Miss Keim of Johnstown, Pa., Miss Florence Horn, Miss Peacock, Miss Winifred Wagner, Miss Lena Mc Cray. The hostess was assisted by Miss Horn, Miss McCray and Miss Keim. This is the first of a series of parties to be given by Mrs. Ashton. Mrs. Godard's Party. Mrs. A. A. Godard was the hostess at a delightful card party Thursday after noon at her home on Taylor street. It was in honor of the legislators' wives now in Topeka. Progressive high five was the game of the afternoon; the pri ses which were pretty gift books were won by Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Handy and Mrs. Robinson. The decorations through the rooms consisted of carnations and smilax. Dainty refreshments were served. The invited guests were Mrs. Chas. Harris of Emporia, Mrs. W. A Coy of Oskaloosa, Mrs. H. F. Mason of Gar den City, Mrs. Chas. Johnson of Oska loosa, Mrs. P. E. Gregory of Lyndon. Mrs. E. R. Burkholder of Hillsboro, Mrs. H. F. Geissler of Oakley, Mrs. H. L. Coleman of Centralia, Mrs. Wheat ley of Galena, Mrs. Allen of Ottawa, Mrs. Shelton of Grand Rapids, Mich., Mrs. Joerger of Leavenworth, Mrs N F. Handy, Mrs. W. W. Kitchell, Mrs". F. P. MacLennan, Mrs. Wall, Mrs. W E. Swift, Mrs. D. A. Clements, Mrs. C. C. Funnell. Mrs. H. L. Shirer, Mrs. A. Marburg. Mrs. P. C. Chamberlain, Mrs. Frank Willard, Mrs. O. L. Clark, Mrs. Avery Turner, Mrs. Walter Bates. Mrs. A. F. Robinson, Mrs. F. E. Nipps, Mrs. Geo. Smith. Miss Belle Thompson and Miss Ruth Smith. Mrs. Godard expects to give another card narty next month. An Informal Party. Mrs. A. B. Quinton entertained In formally Wednesday afternoon for Miss r.a?.e,Su,nton of Denmark, Iowa, who is visiting her uncles, A. B. and E. S. Orchard. Ky. Ml8S Helm DCk f Crab -JllK.atTno?n was Pleasantly spent jr the following young ladies: Miss Helen Thompson, Miss Metta Robinson, Miss Nellie McCIintock, Miss Edna Mc Clintock, Miss Willa Rogers, Miss Mar garet Bear, Miss Grace Jilson, Miss Ed ith Thacher of Philadelphia, Miss Susie Gay, Miss Gertrude Devereux, Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Caro Fenneld, Miss Mabel Wilson. Miss Myrtle Davis and Miss Ivah Davis.. The Informal Club Party. The Informal club enjoyed their regular dancing party Thursday even ing at Hudson's hall. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Doolittle, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Eastman, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Ewan, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Freeman, Mr.and Mrs. C. R. Hud son, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Korn, Mr. and Mrs. James L. King, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Lingafelt, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Nich ols, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Webb, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Wear, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Cros by, Mr. and Mrs. F. A Lewis.Miss Mat tie Jones of Leavenworth, Miss Bessie Trout of Wamego, Miss Watklns of Kansas City, Mrs. j. E. Crockett, Mrs. Leon Tuttle, Mrs. C. R. Krauthoff, Miss Helen Bond of Sallna, Miss Margaret Bear, Miss Harriet Jones, Mrs. Conway Holmes of Kansas City, Mrs. A. F. Flory of St. Louis, Mr. Dick Alden, Mr. Charlie Barnes, Mr. E. J. White, Mr. W F. Evans, Mr. J. W. Leland of Kan sas City and Mr. Charles W. Styles ot Atchison. Mrs. Daniels' Party. Miss Jane Ross was the guest of hon or at a second thimble party given by Mrs. J. F. Daniels Thursday afternoon at her rooms in the Veale block. She was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Edwin Knowles, Mrs. D. L. Lakin, Miss Mabel Knowles and Miss Ross. The rooms were cheery and bright and the afternoon was a pleasant affair. The invited guests were Mrs. Edwin Knowles, Mrs. Knowles, Mrs. T. W. Harrison, Mrs. Ross Burns, Mrs. L. B. Brett, Mrs. John Rogers, Mrs. L. O. Case. Mrs. A. Benton, Mrs. Geo. Wll marth, Mrs. Walter Bates, Mrs. Porter Smith, Mrs. Silas Rain, Mrs. Byron Davis, Mrs. Alkire, Mrs. L. Blakesley, Mrs. J. S. Slie, Mrs. R. L. Cofran, Mrs. J. C. Cooper, Mrs. J. Newton, Mrs. Al bert Parker, Mrs. Carl Weldling, Mrs. G. B. Kirk, Mrs. J. P. Howe. Mrs. C. S. Baker, Mrs. T. L. King, Mrs. T. B. Mayo, Mrs. Mary Perine, Mrs. T. O. Crane, Miss Anna Crane, Miss Mabel Knowles.Mlss Mildred Scott, Miss Ross and Miss Kate Gunther. Notes and Personal Mention. Cards have been received In the city announcing the marriage of Miss Carrie Louise Wade and Mr. James T. Jetton of Murfreesboro. Tenn.. Tuesday, Feb ruary 7. Miss Wade Is a cousin of Mr. H. C. Speer and lived in Topeka for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Criswell are the parents of a daughter, born Thursday. She has been named Julia Elizabeth. Mrs. Joerger of Leavenworth is in the city, the guest of Mrs. D. A. Clements. The marriage of Miss Mamie Jarrell and Mr. Fred Lawless of Atchison, took place Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, in St. Benedict's Cathedral: Father Law rence officiated. The bride is a sister of J. F. Jarrell of this city. D. A. Clements has returned from a business trip to New Tork. Mr. Ernest L. Zeis of Boston, spent a day this week in Topeka with his brother. Mrs. Longshore-Potts, M. D., will be a guest at the Throop during her stay in Topeka. She is a little black-haired, black-eyed woman, with a face striking not only from its intellectuality.but also from its kindness of expression. She does not think attractiveness of attire need be sacrificed to health, and she herself appears in gowns by Worth. She has been much lionized by St. Louis and Kansas City society recently. TruxtoB Beale's Gift. San Francisco, Feb. 19. Truxton Beale has donated to the board of trus tees of Bakersfield, Cal., a building and grounds for a free public library which he will erect In memory of his father, the late Gen. F. F. Beale, who held many positions under the government. Including that of minister to Austria. LOVEVS. SELF-INTEREST. The Theme Before the Common wealth Club. Prof. Herron Says Christ Was Crucified by Politicians. ST. JOHN'S SENSATION. Denounces the Action of the United States In Shooting Down Filipino Mothers Fighting For Liberty. Says Our Philippine Campaign Is a Damning Shame. In the new library rooms last night, Prof. George D. Herron of Grinnell, la., the eminent Christian socialist, deliver ed his lecture "The Conflict of Christ With Civilization" to a good sized audience. In this lecture Prof. Herron advanced ideas probably more radical ly at variance with accepted theories than any brought out in his previous expressions and indulged in many start ling assertions. Prof. Herron said: "We axe in the habit of saying that Jesus had nothing to do with institu tions or with politics; that He went about appealing to individuals to 'be saved." We have a fatal way of view ing Jesus apart from His history and social perspective; apart from human facts which form the setting of His career. It is absurd to suppose that Jesus was put po death for going about healing sick people and appealing to in dividuals to "be saved' or to 'be good, as we understand these terms. He was crucified for disturbing the existing; na tional order of things; crucified as a na tional menace, because He was aiming at the wrong at the heart of the nation. His death was brought about by poli ticians. The chief actors in the drama of the crucifixion were such as we call good people' or 'judiciously progres sive" whose plans Jesus spoiled, and to whom He seemeu uiuii:iu uuo.u, able to reason. "We have only to read the gospels, with even a little historic sense, to see that the career of Jesus was as certain ly political, in relation to His time, as the career of Joseph Mazzini in Italy or that of Joan of Arc in France. His words reveal Him in closest touch with the political situation and the economic and social facts of His day. The first public act of His ministry was to go up to Jerusalem and clean out the Cap itol This action has a significance which we have too long evaded. The Jewish temple, which Jesus purged, was the political capitol of the nation. He did precisely what one or us wouiu do if we should go to Washington and suddenly drive from the senate chamber the lobbyists.the chief of whom are our elected senators, elected to represent corporations for which they are paid attorneys. Jesus was finally put to death by the supreme court of His na tion on the ground that He endangered the nation's existence by doing the things He was doing and saying the things he was saying. The Judges of this court had often personally enjoined Jesus from saying the things that He said, and He had as often refused to obey the injunctions. "I can never understand the bald and persistent statement that Jesus had nothing to do with politics or economies, except on the ground that we are anx ious to keep Him out of politics and economics. It is only an apostate Chris tianity that asserts that Christ had nothing to do with politics. The reign of Christ will never be unless it comes as a political reign. The notion that it can come otherwise Is the accursed fruit of that worst and blackest of all heresies, the heresy that religion is one thing and life another. The kingdoms of this world belong to Christ, and the Chris tianity that says that the preachings of Christ must be kept separate from politics and economics is simply the be trayer of Christ into the hands of Hi3 enemies. The price paid for this treason is the money of the political and eco nomic self-interests, as it ever has been and ever will be, until we have the re vival that shall show forth Christ a3 the giver of economic and political law. "The history of Christianity is the book of an unresisting conflict between Christ and civilization; between an ideal and the political supports of the ma teral things which civilization takes to be realities. Edward Carpenter is right in declaring that civilization has always hated Christ, as it has always hated the communism which it forever seeks to destroy, yet which it blindly builds. The conflict between Christ and civilization still goes on. It must go on, untl Carl Marx's idea of a perpetually fluid civ ilization is realized by the universal ac ceptance of the love of Christ as the sole human law and liberty. Christ and civilization are building up two entirely opposing principles; the war between them is the war of love against self interest as the governing principle of mankind. It Is the law of self-interest which makes civilization the antithesis of all that the name of Christ rightly stands for. "Organized money menaces the Integ rity and perpetuity of every existing government. It is causing the peoples international to question, as never be fore, the utility of government; they are beginning to distinguish between government and the nation, between legalism and law, between power and liberty. It is time for the Christian apostles to plainly examine and chal lenge the social right of great possessors of wealth to their possessions. Of this wealth, the possessors are neither the creators or the rightful owners; it was created by the people and to the people it belongs. To say this may be danger ous, but there is infinitely greater dan ger in leaving it unsaid. "If the teachings of Christ are danger ous and destructive, if He spake im practicable things which He did not understand, if His words are the cries of an over-wrought enthusiast, then let us quit worshipping Him and put an end to this colossal thing we call Chris tianity. If Jesus is the Son of God and Redeemer of man, if He is the true teacher of practicable teachings, then while it is yet day, before dreadful judg ment comes on, let us begin to preach what he taught, and to divinely enforce His Justice of love." In spite of the cold the largest daily audience of the week gathered to hear ex-Governor St. John on the "Disarma ment of the Nations" yesterday after noon in the State Library hall. Governor St. John said that he had been surprised that the czar's peace proposition did not meet with more hearty response. "War is a relic of barbarism," he said. "It has always been cruel and has nev-sr settled a wrong of any kind. We claim that God la on the side of the victor but victory VVfE'RE making Customers, not Profits, these days. DON'T FAIL TO COME TOO KANSAS AVE. AUKRBACM eV aUCTTEU VyE'RE Remodeling our Building: you are responsible for our continual growth. LET IT EVER BE THUS. We're after Business Tomorrow f We know by experience the way to get it is to make the Prices and give the Values. Sere's the proof self-inter est necessitates your Comings IZZ GIGANTIC EXPANSION SALE Men's $8, $10 and $12 Suits SiO EVERY SUIT STRICTLY ALL WOOL. Linings, Sewings, Trimmings of the best. Men's $8, $10, and $12 SUITS "OVERCOATS Men's 8.50, 10 and $12 Overcoats WE ALWAYS DO AS WE ADVERTISE. See these Grand Values. x x x Rattling Sale of Trousers. ark patterns, $1.00 MEN'S TROUSERS Neat, dark patterns, part wool some would call them all wool worth fa Tomorrow MEN'S TROUSERS Strictly all wool, in neat dark and fancy light patterns worth S3 Tomorrow on sale at MEN'S TROUSERS of finest Worsteds, finest Cassimeres, finest Cheviots all $4.50, f 5, and $6 kinds on special sale Tomorrow $i-75 ralVYlWfcA $3.45 ROUSINQ BARGAINS IN BOYS CLOTHING. BOYS' $3. 3-50 All- d? Wool Suits, all sizes 4 f C Tomorrow e7 BOYS $2.00 Reefers dj ages 4, 5, and 6 4) I.OO Tomorrow at wv BOYS' $5, t6, $7.50 d best Suits, 4 to 16 yr.P "2 fl C Tomorrow at 3 xJ BOYS' $5 Best Ulsters f On sale tomorrow at....2.05 BOYS' Heavy Rib Black Cat w Stockings Tomorrow I2G RipRoaring Bargains in Furnishings 35C 50c Night Shirts fancy fronts 1 omorro w at 50c White Unlaundried Shirts Tomorrow at ...-35 75C.-85C, f 1 Lined Work- ing Gloves Tomorrow. gv)W 5c, 75c Heavy Underwear, all kinds Tomorrow.... 35 $1.35, f 1. 50 finest all Wool Underwear Tomorrow, 7gv flen's 35c Canton Flannel Drawers I .SC Men's 25c Seamless Hose, Black Cat Brand 10c x does not always settle the righteousness of war. War demoralizes government, corrupts society, and has not a single redeeming feature. Take the late Span ish war for example. We declared that was was not for the acquisition of terri tory but to free a deserving people. Had our soldiers known that the war was a pretext for acquiring territory, there would have been no enlistments. We have said that a just government de rives its power from the consent of the governed, but against our wishes it sends our boys ten thousand miles to shoot down fellow creatures who are struggling to achieve liberty as we struggled to achieve It a hundred years ago. The most pathetic thing is the thought of those Filipino mothers dying on the battlefield to save their country. It is a black and damning shame on this country who so far, so soon, for gets the principles on. which it is founded. "If we had been on a peace basis would we have had war with Spain? What does a peace basis mean? When ever trouble arises between two coun tries they should submit their troubles to an international court and after full and impartial trial this court should, render judgment which should be final. Had we such a court Cuba might have appealed to it and the court would have set Cuba free. We should have no standing army no army in Manila! You talk about Christian men building shir, twelve more ships, to fight the Filipinos. Shame on such Christianity! There is no such Christianity. Talk about civilizing the savages! We are civilizing them with 13-inch guns! Shooting civilization Into them! WThen we took Manila they had one saloon; now they have one hundred and twenty five! We are filling them with 'spirit ual Influence. I don't wonder that mothers die on the battlefield to beat back such civilization! "We may need an army for patrol duty, an international patrol on the high seas to protect all nations. We might then believe in the falsehood of God, the brotherhood of man. Why should we hate the Filipinos, the Cu bans, the Spaniards? Why should two nations, two neighbors fall out? Wouldn't that be a high state of civiliz ation if we set them to fighting? If we must fight let us pick an enemy of. our own size, not pitch on our grandmother and pound her into submission. The kingdom of Christ can never come till we destroy our warships and throw away our Mauser and Springfield rifles. Why should there be an alliance be tween the United States and England? Why not between United States and Cuba or Mexico? Because England is strong and Cuba and Mexico are weak. If we make an alliance with England we can whip the other nations. We can obtain commercial supremacy. "Let us rather send a corps of teach ers to the Filipinos. Let us say to them, We were once a little band struggling for freedom; we are free; we will help you.' Let us say to Cuba, 'We got you from Spain; we will contrive to help you, if she tries to reassert her power; call on us and we will lick them again.' This government should have spurned compensation for having struck a blow for liberty. Americans are lovers of liberty, but when the government turns its 13-inch guns on a weak nation we don't know how soon it will impose itself on us here at home. Guns, ships, armies are in the hands of our masters. Our hope lies in disbanding our army in knowing that whatever injures our brother injures us. God hasten the day when universal peace shall prevail." Governor St. John's speech made a profound impression on his hearers, and on Mrs. St. John asking what ought to be done by the Commonwealth club for the cause of peace, considerable discus sion prevailed. President Will of the Agricultural col lege We might have a new literature which should not so exalt the martial spirit. Mrs. Lewis We might taboo such poems as Kipling's Recessional with its invocation to the Lord God of Battles. Mr. Hoffman The state exacts mil itary drill at the Agricultural college, which tends of course to keep up war fervor. Mrs. Troudner Explain to your Sun day scholars that the battles of the Bible are conflicts between spiritual powers of good and evil. Mrs. Herrington I have taught my children that only bulldogs and ruffians fight, and I believe war will never be popular with them. Mr. Harland, pastor of the Christian church, felt that the colleges which had demanded from him a knowledge of Greek and Roman classics,, those chronicles of blood and murder, In order to grant him a diploma, were greatly to blame, and demanded that if we do not throw down the statues of war heroes, we should at least place the great philanthropists by their side. At the close of the meetingan invitation of the club to hold its Friday evening meeting at the Christian church on To peka avenue, when Prof. Herron will speak on the "Social Sacrifice of Con science," was unanimously accepted. HE HAS A PRICE. NEW CRAWFORD THEATER. WEDNESDAY- Feb. 15, 1 6 THURSDAY. Fifteenth Annual Concert flarshall's Band, -ASSISTKD BY- Mrs. B. HOLLENBECK, Soprano, Of Kansas City, and TOPEKA. LADIES' QUARTETTE. Admission, 26 and 50 Cents. Sale of Seats at Kowley Snow's. Monday. February ISth and 19th. LEWIS LINDSAY DYCHE la his Illustrated lectures on Ufa and conditions in Greenland, the Arctic Regions, Alaska, and his experiences with the Wild Animals of North America. Pricks Gallery, isc; Balcony, 26o and 850: First floor, Sic and 50c. Lieutenant Howard Says Aguinaldo Wants Money to Quit. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 10. Lieut. Howard, who was on the Boston all the summer at Manila, has arrived here on a visit. He says: "I met Agulnaldo and talked with him frequently through an interpreter. He is a mercenary and made no secret of his real motives. The policy of the United States to crush him promptly is the correct one. It should have been put into operation sooner. "Half of the residents of the Philip pines and all who have any property are eager for the United States to as sume full control. The rest are influ enced in some political manner by Aguinaldo but this week's fighting will leave him without support." When "At Gay Coney Island" was here at the opening of the season the performance was not as entertaining as the audience expected. The man agement then explained that the com pany was newly organized, and the peo ple hardly "up" in their parts. It was also said that some changes would be made. The company returned to the Crawford theater last night and gave a second performance no more entertain ing than the first. Several changes were noted in the personnel of the com pany, but it was not noted that the changes gave the organization any more beauty or cleverness. The rather small aud'ence was scarcely well pleased. The three features of the performance which brought the audience to the point of applause were the dancing of little Miss Mattie Lockette, the whistling of Alf Holt, and the lightning change turns of the Le Page sisters. There is some fairly good dialogue in the piece, but much more that is not. The theater was cold last night, and those who had the persistence to stay until the end of the performance were thoroughly chilled. If they had a warm atmosDhere to work in the members of the company might have been mora satisfactory in their parts. FRIDAY SATURDAY February 10 and II. The Season's Dramatic Event I MATINEB SATURDAY BLANCHE WALSH and MELBOURNE MACDOWELL, In Fanny Davenport's production of Sakdou's Great Flays FRIDAY NIGHT, SATURDAY rATURDAY MATINEE. NIGHT, tii m ii La Tosca," Fedora." Night Prices, $1.50, SJ.00. 75c. 50c, and SSe. Box seats. S2.03 and $1.50. Special Matinee Prices, $1.00. 75c, 50c, and 25c. Box saaU, 41. 5J and 1.01 MRS. LONGSHORE-POTTS, M. D., The famous Quakeress of the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia, Lectures on "HEALTH AND DISEASE." Monday night, Feb. 13, at 8 to both sexes. Feb. 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 at 3 o'clock to women only. Admission to First Two Lectures Free. Doors open at 2:39 All Lectures Illustrated by Lime-Light Views, including many of Art and Scenery and t'ae famous X-rays. 100 views each lecture. DIFFERENT LECTURES AND VIEWS DAILY. HATEMEYEB ON A J CRY. Millionaire Clubman and Sugar King Earns $2. New York, Feb. 10. Theodore A. Havemeyer, millionaire, clubman, and sugar king, earned $2 yesterday by act ing as juror in part 1 of the court of general sessions from 10:30 a. m. until 5:15 p. m. He was Juror No. 12 in a case against Dr. Charles RoJgers of 134 r 1 mi-: ,..tl. rV .i i renaant is charged witn practicing aeu tistry without a license. The first case called for trial in the court of general sessions yesterday was that of Annie Carroll. She was con victed of grand larceny and sentenced to five years in the Auburn state prison for women. Lawyer Coleman was anxious to have Mr. Havemeyer on the jury. He got rid of twenty peremptory challenges,' but failed to impanel the millionaire. Be fore passing sentence on Annie Carroll Recorder Goff severely lectured Cole man. "I apprehend from your manner of getting the jury," said the recorder, "you were actuated by a purpose other than to serve .your client. I want you to know that any gentleman (and here Recorder Goff looked in the direction of Mr. Havemeyer) who comes here should not be made a mere subject of sport. I severely censure you for your conduct." Salvation Hospital in Need. A. G. Lowe, superintendent of the Salvation Army hospital, said today: "We have strained every means to care for as many sick and suffering as we can. We have fifteen patients now. Several of our nurses are sick with grip and I find it hard to solicit enough to keep us in coal. In order to keep the hospital warm we must have coke or coal. Clothing would be acceptable also." In Dick Turpin Style. Santa Barbara, Cal., Feb. 10. The stage running into this place was held up by a lone highwayman who was concealed behind a fallen tree. He was armed with a shotgun and made his es cape after relieving J. W. Armstrong and W. A. Paddock, commercial travel ers, of $40, The stage carried no treas ure. Lowest Rates Best... Accommodations ...VIA.. PICTO ...For all points In.., Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Pacific Coast and Puget Sound. Pullman Palace Sleepers Pullman Tonrlst Sleepers Fr.m Kansas City every Thursday. Free Kecllning Chair Cars Dining Cars For time tablM, fold.rs. Illustrated okt, pamphlets descriptors the territccy traversed eaii ea F. A. LEWIS. City Ticket Ajent r J. C FULTON. Depot Agent. Well Do Tour Hauling: Eight! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephones 609 Kansas Aye. j o mco. F. P. XXAOOH Prs tarSe in about storaff.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. Annual Sal.. o 6,000,00V Bom FOR BILIOUS 1SD HEEV0U3 DISOBDEBS eueh as Wind and Pain in the Stomach. Giddiness. Fulness after meal". Head ache. Dizziness. Drowsiness. Flashings of rieat. Loss ot Appetite. Costiveness. BlotcheH on the Skin. Cold Chills, Dis turbed Sleep. Frightful Dreams and all Kervous and Trembling Sensations. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE BELIE? IS TWENTY KIKUTEB. Ev.ry suffere Will acknowledge them to be A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. BEECHAJI'S niXS. taken as direct ed, will quickly restore Females to com plete health. They promptly remov ebstruotionsor irregularities of the sys tem and cure Kick Headache. For a Weak Stomach Impaired Digestion Disordered Liver IN MEN, WOMEN OR CHILDREN Beecham's Pills are Without a Rival And biw tb LARGEST SALE tmny Patent Medicine In the World 25c. at all Drug Stores. Grand opera house Special Engagement of the Great Tri-Star Alliance, MR. R. D. MacLEAN, MISS ODETTE TYLER, MR. CHAS. B. HANFORD. PRESEXTINO Friday Eve., "Merchant of Venice." Saturday Mat., "Romeo and Juliet." Saturday Evening, "Othello." Each play a Production. Great Com pany, Elaborate Costumes. Prices Nig-ht, $1.50. $1, 75 and 23 cents. Matinee. $1. 75. 50 and 25 cents. Sale of seats opens Wednesday morning at Sim's Drug Store. (First published in the Topeka State Journal February 10th, 1899.) SENATE BILL NO. 334. An Act making appropriation for state printing for the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any mc.ney in the state treasury not otherwise appropri ated, for the purposes hereinafter stated: For the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 199. for legislative printing, in cluding the enrolling of bills, for supreme and appellate court reports, session laws, and all reports, documents, circulars and blanks, blank books and binding, that mav be required by any state officer, in cluding the state board of agriculture, fish commission, horticultural society, forestry stations, the state historical society.and all charitable, educational, penal and reform atory institutions of the state, and all publications required to be done in news papers, the sum of forty-live thousand dollars: for paper and binding stock, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Section 2. All printing done under the provisions of this act shall first have been submitted to and approved by the secre tary of state, who is hereby made the eole authority to issue requisitions upon the state printer for printing required by any officer or any institution of the state of Kansas, subject to the approval of the atlorney general. All printing, book making and binding required by any state officer, institution, board or commission, shall be done by the state printer; pro vided, that no printing shall be d"ne ex cept such as in the judgment of the sec retary of state, attorney general md state treasurer, are necessary for general in formation: provided further, a majority of said persons may decide as to what ehall be printed. The binding and print ing provided for under this section, not otherwise specifically provided for, shall be construed to mean plain pamphlet work of such quality and style as shall conform to the demands of sound business economy, and shall be done according to specifications furnished by the secretary of state, by and with the advice and con sent of the attorney general: provided, that the secretary of state shall not con sider any requisition for printing unless the same is signed by the head or first as sistant of the department, board, or com mission from which such requisition shall Issue. Section 3. The auditor of state is hereby authorized to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of state for the purpose and Amounts specified in section one of this act, or so much thereof as may be neces sary to liquidate such amounts as may be presented to him: provided, that no nmount shall be audited or allowed unless it first be itemized and sworn to by the person to -whom it is due; and that said amount is approved by the secretary of Ftate; and provided further.that no money Fhall be drawn from the treasury, except tipon Itemized vouchers sworn to by the ftate printer, or by the publisher or the authorized representative of the newspa per, where the voucher is to pay for the publications in the newspaper, and no money shall be drawn from the stock fund unless an itemized statement is sworn to by the person or his authorized represent ative who furnished the paper or binding etock. Section 4. That in all cases in which by the provisions of this act appropriations re made for the specific purpose named or stated, the officer or person having charge of said appropriation shall not in any case, by contract, act or proceeding, obligate the state at any time to pay a larger sum than herein specifically appro priated; and that in no case shall the amount paid exceed the amount provided by law. Section 5. The secretary of state in his biennial report shall classify under depart ment and state institution heads the print ing done by the state, giving the date, when and by whom ordered, when deliv ered and to whom, and the aggregate amount of each order: provided, that this section shall not relieve the secretary of Ftate from keeping the account with the treasurer of stata in the manner now pro vided by law. Section 6. This act shall take effect and pe in force from and after its publication in the Topeka State Journal. I hereby certify that the above bill orig inated in the senate, and passed that body Februray 8. 1899. H. E. RICHTER. President of the Senate. J. W. MORPHY. Secretary of the Senate. Passed the house February 9th. 1899 F. M. BENEFIEL. Speaker of the House Pro Tern. CHAS. E. LOBDELL. Chief Clerk f the House. Approved February 10th, 1S99. W. B. STANLEY. Governor. I. Geo. A. Clark, secretary of state of the Slate of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office. In testimony whereof. I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed mv offi cial seal this 10th day of February,. 1899. (Seal) GEO. A. CLARK. Secretary of State. By HILL P. WILSON. Assistant Secretary of State. Anti-Spotter BilL The senate committee on manufactures and industrial pursuits has recommended for passage Senator Ryan's bill to protect employes from unjust accusations by de tectives or spotters. We da mending and sew on buttons free -of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eights street. DIG FOR LIFE (Continued from First Page.) verest cold wave of the season covered Florida last night and today. In the northern part of the orange belt the range of the mercury waa from 26 to 34 degrees. Only the young spring growth on the orange trees was Injured and "drone" or useless bloom made to fall. Pineapples were not hurt. PEACHES AND PLUMS SUFFER. Macon, Ga., Feb. 10. Advices received from the peach growing centers in south Georgia indicated that the peach and plum crops have been cut off at least a third and may be a balf by the present cold snap. CATTLE DYING IN TEXAS. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 10. The heav iest snow known in northern Texas fell today. Street car traffic Is suspended. Reports from northwest Texas says cattle are dying in large numbers from the severe weather. PEACHES KILLED IN KENTUCKY. Lexington, Ky., Feb. 10. At Lexing ton the thermometer at 8 o'clock regis tered 18 degrees below zero and during the entire day the highest temperature was 5 below. The peach crop is re ported entirely killed YOUNGSTOWN'S COLDEST NIGHT. Youngstown, O., Feb. 10. The weath er last night was the coldest since rec ords have been kept. This morning thermometers stood at 23 below zero. COLDER AT ZANESVILLE. Zanesville. O., Feb. 10. Last night brought the coldest weather known in Muskingum vallley. Reliable thermom eters marked 20 to 30 degrees below zero, according to location. This was 10 to 20 degrees colder than the night before. 8 BELOW AT WASHINGTON. Washington, Feb. 10. The cold wave gained added strength last night and early this morning it was 8 degrees be low zero in the weather bureau ther mometer, located on top of the bureau building, and was 4 to 6 degrees lower nearer the ground. The record for Washington is 14 degrees below zero in 1881. Up to 10 o'clock the sun, which shone bright and clear, had added only a half of degree of warmth to the shel tered thermometer, but it was several degrees warmer in the streets. CLEVELAND STRIKES OUR MARK. Cleveland, O., Feb. 10. Sixteen de grees below zero was indicated by the government thermometer early today. The local forecaster reports that dur ing yesterday the mercury touched 17 below. This is the lowest point reached In the history of the Cleveland weather bureau office, which was established about twenty-eight years ago. Many private thermometers registered from 20 to 22 below early today. All the railroads report trains late as a result of the intense cold. 50 BELOW IN MICHIGAN. Detroit, Feb. 10. Thirteen degrees be low zero was still the temperature in Detroit at 9 o'clock today. All other places in Michigan were considerably colder. Republic took the palm with a record of 50 below zero, and 10 to 25 below continuously for three weeks past. The Sault reports 37 below at 8 o'clock this morning. Petosky's temperature waa 26 below. Although the temperature in Detroit is less severe, it beats former records, both for severity and continu ity. Boats experience much difficulty in crossing the Detroit river. FROZEN IN HIS SLEIGH. Buffalo. N. Y., Feb. 10 John Weith. aged 73 years, a carpenter, was found last night frozen to death in his sleigh, in the suburbs of the city. The ther mometer in the weather bureau regis tered 8 degrees below zero at 8 o'clock this morning. SCHOOLS CLOSE IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Feb. 10. The crest of the cold wave has passed here. At 6 a. m. the thermometer registered 18 below, but from that point gradual moderation set in and the prospects are that by nightfall the mercury will be about the zero mark. A large number of dis tressing cases of frost bites were re ported by the police, but so far only one death has resulted from the severe cold. Several of the schools have been closed until Monday. HUDSON RIVER FROZEN. A Fireman Freezes to Death on North. Blver Pier. New York. Feb. 19. The temperature here took another drop today, the ther mometer registering 7 degrees below zero at 7 o'clock this morning. A. N. Nolan of Brooklyn, a tug boat fireman was found frozen to death on North fiver pier. The British steamer Daniel Is frozen in the ice of lower bay. Sandy Hook thermometers showed from 5 to 10 degrees below zero. Dispatches to the Associated Press from points in the interior of the state report in every instance the lowest tem perature of the season. In Rockland county the thermometers indicate 15 to 20 degrees below zero, and in Orange county from 14 to 22 degrees below. The Hudson river, between Nyack and Tar rytown where it is three miles wide, is frozen over a very rare occurrence. Railway traffic Is delayed. WARMER IN SOUTHWEST. Kansas City.Feb.10 A rise in temper ature of from 10 to 15 degrees has ta ken place in the southwest since yester day. Local thermometers at 8 o'clock recorded five degrees below zero against 20 below at the same time Thursday. A similar rise has been experienced throughout western Missouri and Kan sas. A light fall of snow is general to day, but as the wind is not especially strong, no severe delay to trains is like ly. No decided change is predicted for this section before the middle of next week. DEATHS FROM COLD. Three Persona Freeze to Death in New Jersey. New York, Feb. 10. Three deaths from cold are reported. John Fields. 17 years old, a truckman, was found frozen to death on the seat of his truck in Paterson. N. J. Fields was driving along the river road and must have slowly frozen. Peter Matthews. 74 years old, who lived in "Valley Road. West Orange. N. J., was found nearly frozen in the little hut he called his home. He was removed to the Orange Memorial hospital, where he died. William Doland. 19 years old. was found freezing on the steps of his sister's house in Paterson. N. J. He was taken in and restoratives seemed to revive him. An hour later he was found dead on the floor, having fallen from his chair beside the stova. MANY PERSONS FROZEN. Wheat is Killed and Livestock is Per ishing in th Panhandle. Houston, Tex., Feb. 10. A special from Dallas to the post says: Deputy Sheriff Davis returned to Dal las last night from the Panhandle along the line of the Forth Worth Denver railway. He says the storm caused dis tress and desolation which is indescrib able. At Texline the snow is five feet deep In the level. At Clarendon It was two feet deep and snowing hard. The mercury was 15 degrees below zero. The loss of cattle along the line of the railway is something terrible. The cattle had practically no shelter, and. in addition to this hardship, there is no grass or water to be had, and their thirst and starvation hastened their death, caused primarily by the bitter cold. Most of the trains on the Forth Worth Denver road have been abandoned. Extra engines and snowpiows had to be I employed to get the train he was on from Clarendon to Fort Worth, and it arrived eight hours late. Axes, picks and crowbars had to be used at water tanks to cut holes through the ice and then the engines had to be supplied with water by the use of buckets. Farmers in the Panhandle wheat belt say that the wheat has been killed. The loss to grain and cattle, Mr. Davis says, will reach an enormous sum. There were reports at stations of terrible distress among the inhabitants of sparsely set tled districts and it is regarded as a cer tainty that many persons have frozen to death. FLOAT HELPLESSLY. Boats With Millions of Bushels of Coal in the Ohio. Pomeroy, O., Feb. 10. The govern ment thermometer registered 27 below zero last night. The river Is full of ice and the Pittsburg boats are floating helplessly with millions of bushels of coal, half of which will surely be lost. The Fred Watson sank 20 miles above here together with a big tow and the Stella Moran as she floated by today at noon asked that help be telephoned for at Point Pleasant as she would sink in a short time unless aided. A SCHOOL BOY FREEZES. Columbus, O., Feb.10. Specials to the Dispatch from various points in the state say temperatures from 15 to 25 be low zero prevail. At Hamilton an 8-year-old boy named Long was badly frozen while returning from school. He is in a critical condition. At Alliance a Pennsylvania locomo tive froze while working in the yards. Fred Ralston was taken from his en gine almost dead. PROMOTIONS ASKED. Death of Lieut Alford Makes Way for Others in the 20th. Governor Stanley today received a cable gram from Colonel Funston recommend ing Lieutenant Showalter to be first lieu tenant of company B, to succeed Lieuten ant Alford, who was killed in the battle at Manila a few days ago. Lieutenant Showalter is now second lieutenant of the same company. Colonel Funston also recommends Ser geant Whlshner for second lieutenant, to take Lieutenant Showalter's place. He Is at present first duty sergeant of com pany B. THE DEFICIENCY BILL. Passes the Senate; It Is to Pay Em ployes and Others. The senate has passed the deficiency bill J to pay state officers and employes the amounts cut from their salaries by the Populist legislature in 1897. The cuts were made through the efforts of Senator Jumper, who pushed through, at the closing hours of the session, the appropriation bill, which did not carry suf ficient amounts to pay the salaries fixed bv law. The appropriations made by this bill are as follows: Governor's private secretary 800.00 Governor's stenographer 600.00 Governor's typewriter (WiO.OO Adjutant general 200.00 Assistant secretary of state yoo.Otf Chief clerk secretary of state 4O0.00 Commission clerk secretary of state 200.00 Assistant auditor 5"0.W Appropriation clerk 400.00 Land -clerk 400.00 Bond clerk 400.00 Chief clerk treasurer's office 400.00 Guard treasurer's office 200.00 Chief clerk attorney general 400.0) Stenographer attorney general 6U0.00 Assistant state superintendent tK.00 Bond clerk state superintendent 400.00 Three railroad commissioner, $500 each 1,500.00 Secretary railroad commissioners.. 60O.OO Clerk railroad commissioners 400.00 Clerk bank commissioner 200.0 Stenographer bank commissioner... 200.00 Clerk labor commissioner -HM.00 Secretary board of agriculture 400.00 Chief clerk board of agriculture... 200.00 Assistant clerk board of agriculture 400.00 Secretary Historical society 600.00 Cataloguer Historical society 240.00 Accession clerk Historical society 360.00 State mine inspector 1.009.00 Superintendent of insurance 400.00 Assistant superintendent of insur ance 600.00 Clerkpsuperintendent of insurance.. 200.00 Supreme court reporter 400.00 Three assistant court reporters, $200 each 600.00 Three stenographers for justices. $400 each 1.200.00 Six stenographers court of appeals 1,200.00 Chief clerk penitentiary 200.03 Assistant clerk penitentiary 200.00 Physician penitentiary 400.00 Chaplain penitentiary 400.00 Engineer penitentiary 40.00 First assistant engineer penitentiary 200.00 Second assistant engineer peniten tiary 240.00 Superintendent mines penitentiary.. 1.000.0 Engineer of mines penitentiary 400.00 Assistant engineer of mines 400.00 Weigh clerk penitentiary 40.o0 Shipping clerk penitentiary 4O0.K Pit boss penitentiary 240.OJ Top officer penitentiary 40.00 Bottom officer penitentiary 40.00 Five fire bosses penitentiary, $120 each 1.200.00 Fourteen officers, $100 each 1,400.0,) Geo. A. Clark, board of charities 127.67 W, L. Brown, board of charities.... 513.73 P. H. Dolan. board of charities 505.67 S. C. Wheeler, board of charities.. 51S.12 H. G. Jumper, board of charities.. 523.79 B. F. Shane, board of charities 734.06 W. D. Street, board of charities 277.33 Senator Jumper made a speech favoring the deficiency and voted for the bill. Senators voting against the passage of the bill were: Campbell. Cooke, Hart. Hel mick. King. Shaffer, Sheldon. Young. This bill has been sent to the house for consideration. The amounts indicated are for 1S98 and 1S99, being divided equally. Part of the money goes to the present Republican of ficeholders for the six months of the pres ent fiscal year, the deficiency for the Pop ulists being for eighteen months. HOUSE BILLS PASSED. The house passed the following general bills: Campbell's bill to prohibit dummy in surance. Harris' bill to prohibit officers end em ployes of state institutions from holding municipal offices. MrKeever's modified bill abolishing the office of commissioner of elections. Geissler's bill relating to fire guards. Geissler s bill relating to the payment of poll taxes in cities of the second class. Swlnehart's bill to permit inmates of the State Soldiers' home to vote at Fort Dodge. Henley's bill relating to the government of cities of the second class having a pop ulation of more than 10,000. Benefiel's anti-bucket shop bill. The special pharmacist bill. Dawes' penitentiary coal bill. Bailey's bill giving cities the right to condemn a right of way for sewers out side of city limits. Ward's bill providing for a general bounty on coyote and wolf scalps. Wise's bill concerning instructions to juries. BILLS PASSED BY SENATE. The senate this morning passed and sent to the house the following bills: By Senator Johnson To authorize the trustee, clerk and treasurer of Kaw township, Jefferson county, to levy a sufficient tax for the purpose of build ing a wagon bridge across the Kaw river. By Senator Ward To compel all railroads in this state to employ at least one brakeman or porter on every train carrying passengers. By Senator Farrelly A general bill removing all political disabilities from ex-confederates. By Senator Helm Appropriating $7. 000 for the Mother Bickerdyke home at Ellsworth. KELIC OF THE PAST. Suit for Damages for the Destruction of the Ninth Street Viaduct. The final struggle of the city with the old Vinewood park railway waa commenced in the district court today. Superintendent Van Orsdal is trying to recover $20,000 from the city for the de- j struction of the viaduct. For years the Ninth street viaduct over the Santa Fe railroad tracks stood after the trains had ceased running. The Santa Fe company urged the city to take down the structure on the ground that it was unsafe and might at any time fall on their tracks. Noth ing was done for some time, but nnallly Street Commissioner Ramsey waa in structed to take down the viaduct. A Switch engine was impressed into service and the work commenced under the supervision of Mr. Ramsey. In three hours nothing was left but a pile of half decayed timber. The company at once commenced art action against the city for damages. The suit has been pending a long time, but has finally come to trial. The con dition of the viaduct forms a disputed Question in the case. The fact tha.t the road had not been operated for some time also enters into the case. The city claims that the company for feited the franchise by not operating the road. There is much expert evidence to be taken, and the trial will probably con sume two days of the time of the dis trict court. M'KINLEY MESSAGES Congress on the Subject of a Pacific Cable. Washington, Feb. 10. The president sent a message to congress today call ing attention to the urgent necessity for the construction of a cable across the Pacific ocean. It did not make any specific recommendation as to the mode by which the cable shall be secured, the main point being that it is impera tively necessary a cable should be laid. HAS ELECTED OFFICERS. The Commonwealth Club Elects Mrs. Cora Lewis of Kinsley, President. The Commonwealth club has elected the following officers: President Mrs. Cora Lewis, Kinsley. Vice President Mrs. John P. St, John, Olathe. Secretary Carl Vrooman, Parsons. Treasurer Mrs. Bina Otis, Topeka. The executive committee, composed of representatives from each congression al district, will be named tomorrow. Some discussion was indulged in this morning on a plan for forming a "Col lege of Citizenship." Before the insti tute closes a board of directors will be named, composed of men of all political faiths, to work for the organization of those interested in good citizenship. The Commonwealth institute will close with Prof. Herron's lecture, "The Finding of the New in the Old," to morrow night. This morning Frank Foster of this city read a paper on "Party Fealty vs. Patriotism," and Carl Vrooman is on the programme for a pa per on "A Citizen of New Zealand" this afternoon. WEBSTER GROVE AFIRE. St. Louis, Feb. 10. A telephone mes sage just received from Webster Grove, the fashionable residence suburb of St. Louis, says a fire that has been raging there for an hour threatens to destroy the whole business section of the town. The Allen building and several adjoin ing stores have been destroyed and the flames are spreading, as no Water can be secured by the firemen. COLD WATE PROMISED. High Northerly Winds and Another Drop in Temperature Predicted. A norther is predicted for Kansas to night and instead of the cold weather decreasing it may become even worse. The prediction is: "Snow and norther tonight and Saturday colder. Winds shifting to high northerly." The mint mum temperature for last night and this morning was 6 below. At 7, 8 and 9 this morning the thermometer stood at 5 below. At 10 it was 2 below and at 11 o'clock zero. SIGNS THE TREATY. Washington, Feb. 10. The treaty of peace was signed by the president at 2:35 this afternoon. SNOWING IN KANSAS. The Fall Extends Over the Entire State. It is snowing in all parts of the state today, according to reports received at the Santa Fe and Rock Island offices here. The fall is about the same as it is In To peka, and up to this afternoon had not in terfered with railroad traffic. It is also reported to be snowing in Oklahoma, Colo rado and the Panhandle of Texas. The heavy snow In Colorado, which has tied up the Colorado Midland and Denver and Rio Grande roads, has not resulted in blocking either the Santa Fe or Rock Island lines. A Filipino $5 BilL Gforee M. Hammel received today from Seth Hammond, hospital steward under Major Metcalf in tne JLwer.tietn Kansas volunteers at Manila, a piece of paper which represents $5 in the "coin of the realm." It is a silver certificate, the same as is used In Mexico. It is printed t on yellow paper and is covered with Span- 1 ish names and characters. The bill is marked "5 Cinco" and bears the marks of considerable usage. Tn the same mail Mr. Hammel also received a number of silver and copper coins. Saloon Fines Paid. Will McMahan was arrested last night for selling intoxicating liquors at the Milwaukee restaurant on Kansas ave nue between Fourth and Fifth streets. He deposited $100. Roll Wilson, a bar tender at the old "Bachelor club" resort on Kansas avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets, was arrested on the same charge and deposited $100. Neither of these two places were visited by the police last month. The latter place was raided in December. Turners Celebrate Tonight The society of the Topeka Turn Vereln will hold its thirty-third annual anniver sary at the hall this evening. Special drills and dancing will be given. Relief in Six Hours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis ease relieved In six hours by "New Great South American Kidney Cure." It is a great surprise on account Of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and back, in male or female. Relieves retention almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by Geo. W. Stansfleld, 632 Kansas avenue, and the Sim Drug Co., 607 Kansas ave nue, druggists, Topeka, Kan. Try the Hotel Oxford for your meals. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, Feb. 10. WHEAT Increasing Argentine ship ments and unexpected lower cables start ed wheat weak. May opened 54c down at 7273c and as receipts both here and in the northwest showed a decided falling off the price touched 73c At that point, however, extensive selling set in by weak hearted holders and May declined to 72 ?c. At the decline the market became very active, with commission houses buy ing freely, and as the indications pointed toward a small decrease in the visible sup ply May suddenly jumped to 73Ac. Re ceipts here were 71 cars, of which only 7 graded contract. Minneapolis and Duluth received 275 cars as compared with 3S5 for the corresponding day a year ago. Ar gentine shipments were 872,000 bushels, compared with 624,000 bushels last week. Advices from New York that the export demand was very slack started renewed selling and May eased oft to 734c. CORN Corn opened weak in sympathy with wheat, but firmed up on light re ceipts and lack of offerings from the coun try. Receiving houses bought freelv. Re ceipts were 441 cars. May opened c lower at 36S?ic and rose to 36c OATS Lacked independent features and followed corn. May began i&Ho lower at 28HWc and firmed up to 2Sir-.-; PROVISIONS Provisions ruled dull and weak. The demand was poor and moder ate selling by packers worked a decline all around. May pork opened 2e higher at S10.10, rose to $10.02, then declined to $10 May lard started a shade lower at $5.70 and sold off to $5.6Ta5.67M. Mav ribs began a trifle higher at $5.05 and declined to $iW'5.024. BARLEY Cash, 42350c. RYE Cash, 55c: Mav. 56Hc TIMOTHY March, t2A2ry2AT'i. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Feb. 10. HOGS Receipts, 18.000; left over, 4,771. Mostly 5c higher. Trains nearly all back. Estimated receipts tomorrow. 12.000. Mixed and butchers', $3.7Ca4: good heavy, $3.9OT0 4.05: rough heavy. $3.6S&3.&0; light, $3.65 3.92V,. CATTLE Receipts, 1,500. Market steady. Beeves, $4'fffi.05: cows and heifers, $1.80'u 4.75: stockers and feeders, $3fd4.70. SHEEP Receipts, 6.000. Market steady. Sheep, $3554.45: lambs, $li(5. Official yesterday: HOGS Receipts, 25,256: shipments, 6,381. CATTLE Receipts, 7,292; shipments, 2,- "SHEEP Receipts, 17,447; shipments, 2, 550. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Feb. 10. CATTLE Receipts, 4,51. Market strong. Native steers, $3,7555.65: Texas steers, $2.75 (fi4.75: Texas cows. $2.50S4: native cows and heifers. $3fi4.25: stockers and feeders, I3.10ffir4.70; bulls, $2.5014.50. HOGS Receipts, 8.000. Market active, strong. Bulk of sales. $3.60ri3.80; heavies, $3.604i 3.85: packers and mixed. S3. 603. 75; lights, $3.453.67'4; yorkers, $3.603.75; pigs, $3.2M3.45. SHEEP Receipts. 2,000. Market firm. Lambs. $.T&5.05: muttons, $3ft4.20. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 18 native steers 1449 $5.63 88 Texas steers 1224 4.75 49 Texas cows 1072 4.00 19 native cows and heifers 12 S 4.25 20 stockers and feeders lOtl 4.70 1 bulls 1S42 4.50 Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, Feb. 10. WHEAT Steady. No. 1 hard, 67c: No. 2, 65i4ffi67c: No. 3, 63650; No. 2 red, 73c; No. 3. 69fe71c; No. 2 spring, 6g66c; No. 3, ciiaesc. CORN Firmer. No. 2 mixed, 32c; No. 2 white, 33c; No. 3, 32e. OATS Firm. No. 2 white, 30c. RYE-Steady. No. 2. 54c HAY Steady. Choice timothy, $77.50; choice prairie, $7'Q7.2o. BUTTER Steady. Separator, 1620c; dairy. 15c. EGGS Higher. Fresh, 18c Receipts: Wheat, 34 cars; corn, 34 cars; oats, 6 cars; rye, 1 car. Ransjo of Prices Furnished by E. M. Strawn Broker age Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Telephone No. 637. Article. Open High Ixw Close Yea Chicago, Feb. 10. WHEAT Mav 7S 7314 72Mj 72- 73V. July 71 72 71Vi 71 72- CORN May 36 37'i 36- 36-37 36- July 3714 37 37U 37- 37 OATS May 2S 2S 2S 2S- 28 July 26 26 26 26 26 PORK May ...10 10 10 13 10 00 10 00-2 10 07 LAKD Mav 5 70 5 70 5 65 5 65 5 70-72 July 5 77 6 77-80 5 77 5 77 5 82 RIBS May ...5 05 5 05 5 00 5 00 5 02-05 July 5 15 6 15 5 10-12 5 10-12 5 15 New York Money Market. New York. Feb. 10. MONEY Money on call, nominally 2 per cent: prime mercantile paper. 2-iffi::1i per cent: sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.85 (fi for demand and at $4.835 for sixty davs: posted rates, $4.84C4.84 and $4.S6?0 4.86; commercial bills, $4.82S4.83. SILVER Silver certificates. nom:nally, 59i60c; bar silver, 59c; Mexican dol lars. 47?sC. BONDS Government bonds irregular. 3s, 107; new 4s, registered, 128; new 4s, cou pon. 12S: 4s, 112: 4s. coupon, 112: 2s, 99; 5s, registered, 111; 6s, coupon, 111. Sugar Market. New York, Feb. 10. SUGAR Raw steady; fair refining, 3 13-16c; centrifugal 96 test, 4 5-16e; molasses sugar, 3 9-16c. Refined steady; crushed, 5c; powdered, 5c; granulated, 5c. Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by E. M. Strawn Brokerage Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., (seventh and Kansas ave.. Topeka, Kan. Telephone No. 637. New York. Feb. 10. Stocks. Sugar fOpenlHighl Low ICl'se IVes. 129 131 139 113 72 12S 131129 Am. Tobacco People's Gas Leather B. R. T Rick Island C, B. Q. C, M. St. P. Atchison Atchison Pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash C. N. W N. Y. Central.. Federal Steel Reading T. C. I. Union Pacific U. P. Pfd L. N M.,K. T. Pfd C. G. W No. Pac No. Pac. Pfd 138 I 112 i.il i:-ri:ijy 112l 113 1112 71! 72 71 91 92 I 91 115'. ;;.7115 91 92 I 115l 11 14 'A 138 1343j 137 1134- 12-:1125 ?1V, 21 61 60 111;111 94 V. 95 44! 44 22 149 fl4S 13C136 4Xii, 48 22 22 42 I 42 46 I 4i 79j 79 65 64 39 i 3S 16! 16 52 51 7S 7854 125 126 I 125 21V, 60 111 94 44 21 21 60 111 94 44 22 61! 112 94 45 22 149 137 48 22 42 46 U 79 65 39 16 52 78 21 148 148i i:f6 136 47 21 41 4SI 21 4-2 46 46, 79 64 38 79 64V 38 16 51 16 51 78 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 cable: Wheat d lower, corn d lower. Receipts of hogs: Chfbago, 26,000, 5c higher: Kansas City. 8.000. strong and higher: Omaha, 4.000. steady. Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 2,500, steady; Kansas City, 3.500, steady. Chicago receipts: Wheat, 61 cars; corn, 454 cars; oats, 186 cars. Northwestern receipts: This year, Min neapolis 198 ears, Duluth 92 cars; a year ago, Minneapolis 92 cars, Duluth 44 cars. Liverpool, second cable: Wheat d lower. TJ)0I;AJJCJLASSJF WANTED Roll-top desk, standing desk, typewriter desk (roll-top), letter press and stand, office chairs, ail cherry or oak. Address B. J. Adamson, care Journal. WANTED-Horses and mules. 620 Quin cy st. FOR RENT 9 room house, 913 Monroe St., March 1. FOR SALE tA good second hand bicycle, nearly new. Inquire at 112 W. Sth st. New flodel. THE PEOPLE'S STORE. It will pay you To Come Down Town Tomorrow, if only to see the Values we will offer in these Five Specials Specially Low Prices on Ladies' Muslin Un derwear., All Blankets and Comforts at Absolute Cost. Ladies' and Children's Capes and Jackets Lower than ever. Special Cut Prices on New Styles in Lace Curtains. Great Attractions in Prices at the White GodCujTitejr What about these Can't you use some at the prices Dry Goods Department. Double Fold Serge 5c yd 15c quality of Madras Cloth, in light colors, stripes and checks, new styles 10c yd Spring styles Zephyr Gingham, 15c quality, for 8c yd Davis Menthol Cough Drops lc pkg Cold? Well No. am wear"inS a Suit I got "at the New Model, and one of their Overcoats they are selling so cheap. The low price I paid, and the high grade quality I received, keeps me warm when I think of it. We will offer tomorrow your pick of 100 Men's Suits, in pure all-wool Cheviots, Cassimeres, Scotch and English Tweeds made up in elegant style, perfect fitting, a great variety of patterns to select from Suits that are worth from $8.50' (n QC to $10.00 your choice tomorrow CPUaUU Our Finest Imported English and French Wor steds, made up in the latest style Sacks the best of workmanship put in these garments, the style and fit are simply perfect, the patterns neat dark Greys or Browns Suits that sold at j I O $15 and $16.50 your choice tomorrow, VP I U e Boys' Suits. The Ready Rough" Recommended by the ma kers for its substantial ma terial and thorough workmanship. Trade-Mark 1898. I Boys' Long Pant Suits. X An extra quality of All-Wool Cassimeres, made up in elegant style, perfect fitting flfl X just in Your choice tomorrow at U)UiUU I Overcoats. X Not many left, but what there is you can have X 5 Shoe Department. Misses' Kangaroo Calf School Shoes, wide toe, patent tip, formerly sold at $1,48, now 98c. Misses' Kangaroo Calf, Lace or Button School Shoes, coin toe, worth $1.50, now $1.25 Child's Kangaroo Calf. Lace or Button School Shoes, coin toe. worth $1.25, now 98c. A few of those Ladies' Vesting Top Lace Shoes left they are a bar gain at 1.B; Drop in and see our new line of Ladies' Shoes, Just in. Neat, ser viceable Shoe $2.25 We have a nice, neat, coin toe, lace Shoe in Misses' sizes, 12 to 2, that we are selling at 98c. A Child's Solid Leather Shoe, coin toe .patent tip, lace, ought to be cheap at 75c. Don't miss seeing our Boys' and Youths Strong Hold Shoes. Wo are headquarters on Rubber Goods of all kinds and styles Did you know that with every $5.00 in goods purchased you can obtain one of those beautiful paintings now on exhibition in our Dry Goods De partment Ask for a coupon ticket, and have all your sales recorded. The New Model Kemper Paxtons. New -flodel. i X Suit A special value in a hard-wearing All Wool Boys' Knee Pant Suit, made in Double Breasted style double seat and knees, in a big variety of pat terns Your choice to morrow $2.95 i Youths' 12 to 2 J J -25 Boys' 3 to 5 $1.75 Our Man's Full Stock Calf Shoe that we are selling at $1.95 can't be duplicated. Drop in and see them. Nice line of Men's Calf Skin and Vici Kid Shoes just in. Welt sewed, neat, stylish lasts price $2.98 Tomorrow we will sell our cele brated Calf, welt sewed Sunflower Shoes at $2.75 Well worth $3.50. Our little Solid Leather Child's Shoe, in sizes 5 to 8, is a quick seller. Price only 49c. Job lot of Men's Rubbers to close out most all sizes price very low .15c. A few of those 7-button Over gaiters left at 15c. a pair. Ladies' Jersey Leggings at ..S5c. i Worth $1.00. x Supply Store. I Sixth and Quincy. t

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L TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. GOLD It ?5 Brooms and Brushes must be cleaned often, else they lectors. Hair brushes demand point of both health and cleanliness, iney can De Cleaned quickly and thoroughly by washing in a weak suds made from iUM roivoor Gold Dust cleans everything n (ft JEM and saves both time and worry. THE H. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, 1 i x Chicago. St. Louis. Isew York. Boston. BEET INDUSTRY SPREADS. Indiana Farmers Report Good Re sults, and Sugar Factories Are to Be Built. New Albany, Ind.. Feb. 10. The ef forts being made In Indiana, to grow su gar beets at a profit are attracting widespread attention, and the report of Prof. C. 8. Plumb of the government experiment station at Purdue university is Interesting. Last year's reports are not satisfactory as to results, but In so far as the number of counties in which the farmers are making tests Is con-es-ned, the reports are favorable. The Indiana weather was decidedly against the proper growth. The severe frr,sts following closely on mild weather killed all vegetables. Despite these facts a number of splendid results have been reported to Prof. Plumb. The growers are now convinced that If they can do as well as they did last year, with the elements against them, a de cided success can be made of the in dustry. A large per cent of the growers re porting to Prof. Plumb say that they can raise beets at a profit of $4 a ton. This being true, there seems no reason to doubt that there is money in it. The tests conducted at the plants in Rome and Binghafriton, N. T.. show that it requires ten tons of beets to procure one ton of finished product. The manufac turers of sugar require a beet with 12.6 per cent of sugar. Especially in north ern Indiana is the prospect favorable, and large sugar beet factories will soon be erected. W lUTNEY'S RES1D ENCE Not to Be Completed This Winter Owing to a Labor Strike. New Tork, Feb. 10. William C. Whit ney has ordered a suspension of work on the residence he is erecting at Sixty eighth street and Fifth avenue. The structure is locked up and work will not be resumed until spring. Mr. Whit ney's action was brought about by a general strike of building workers who objected to the employment ot non union marble cutters. Plumbers, gas and steam fitters, electricians, and car penters went out in a body. The Building Trades Council instruct ed all the union marble workers to go on strike also. Some of the men de murred, but the council notified them that their unions would be suspended from the council if they refused to strike. The board of representatives of the Building Trades Council sent a commit tee to Mr. Whitney. The committee re ported that he refused to interfere in the dispute. Mr. Whitney then notified the contractors and workmen that he had postponed the completion of the building until the spring. STAMPS FOR CUBA. Four Designs Already Have Been De cided Upon. Washington. Feb. 10. Within a short time work will be-commenced upon the new seTies of stamps to be Issued for use ir. Cuba. Four designs have already been decided upon, and Superintendent Joi.r.son of the bureau of engraving and printing is now having these designs drawn. The 1-centavo stamp will represent a statue of Columbus, the one now lo cated in the patio of the captain gen eral's residence at Havana. The color of this stamp will be green. The 2-centavo stamp will show the allegorical statue of Cuba known among the Cubans as "La Cubania," and now located on the plaza at Havana. Its color will be red. The 3-centavo stamp will represent commerce and depict a merchant ship. The color of this stamp has not been selected. The 5-centavo stamp will show an ag ricultural scene, with tobacco plants, towering palms and a sugar mill In the perspective. This stamp will be dark blue. LOST SENSE OF FEELING. A Man "With Artery Walla That No Blood Can Flow From Any Wound. Chicago, Feb. 10. The peculiarities which have brought Mr. Pierce of She boygan, Wis., to Chicago to consult Dr. Nicholas Senn and other leading medi cal authorities have been puzzling the doctors of his home for three years.. He Is what might be called a "burglar proof" man. His sensory nerves are so dull that no "touch" affects him, and his artery walls ere so elastic than no blood can be mads to flow from his body. "Nearly three years ago," he says, "I ran a nail into my hand while I was working. To my surprise I felt no pain from it. No blood came from the wound, which closed up at once. I began to be alarmed and made experiments. I found that I could hardly feel anything at all. I could taste, see, hear and smell as well as ever, if not better, but X could not feel." A Bishop in a Fine Coffin. Mlddletown, Conn.. Feb. 10. Although the will of the late Bishop John Williams rns not been made public, it is known that he left little or no estate. The greater fiart of his salary, $3,000. was given away n charity. One provision of the will was that his body should be buried in a pine corfin, and this will be carried out. He will not be buried In the robes of his of fice, but will wear a plain black suit with the addition- of a bishop's apron. mtU rs the i ni mm tou mve Always f Thi Kind You Have Always Bought XI. T.. Bean ti Ths Kind Yon Havt Alwavs BowM in una ton Haw Ktnn af .BTOH.I, Sean tli 9 The Kind You Hart Always Boug af S Htt: K l.i.llll'i.' DUST become dangerous germ col special attention irom me aimna- quickly, cheaply, thoroughly, Philadelphia. WORSE THAN RHEUMATISM Remedy Prescribed Blot Salt Water Bath, Skin Rnbbed Off With Sand. Wilkesbarre, Feb. 10. Peter Cox, who underwent novel and heroic treatment for rheumatism, is now in the city hos pital in a serious condition, and Dr. Weise, who prescribed for him, is in Jail charged with practicing without a license. The arrest was made on complaint of the injured man's wife. Cox, she says, was put into a large barrel filled with hot water. The doctor kept throwing hot bricks into the water and poured a peck of sand over the suffering man, which was rubbed vigorously into him until his skin was half off. Then two quarts of salt followed, and after this the patient had to drink a lot of vinegar seasoned with red ants and salt. This internal and external pickling lasted over an hour, and when Cox was lifted out of the barrel he was so weak that he could not stand. He was then placed in bed for the second part of the cure. This consisted of dressing with four shirts, two pairs of drawers, two pairs of trousers and covering him snugly with two blankets, two quilts and two comforters. Mrs. Cox stated that this treatment was continued three nights In succes sion, and that Dr. Weise had smeared his patient all over with a certain kind of grease mixed with little chips, and had given him two bottles of whisky to drink. Peter was to take half a wine glassful of the liquor three times a day. Even this last dose could not induce Cox to submit to the treatment more than five Weeks, and when his serious illness became so apparent that he had to be sent to the hospital his wife had Dr. Weise arrested. BAD FOR CHINA'S EMPEROR Russian Aggression and Domestic Rebellion Cloud His Future. Moscow, Feb. 10. The outlook for the emperor of China grows blacker daily. What Russia thinks of the general sit uation may be gathered from the fact that 15 of the czar's battleships are now on the Asiatic station. Advices from Chinese correspondents say that Em peror Kuang-Hsu is almost a prisoner, being absolutely shut off from commun ication with his friends. The empress dowager has ordered summary proceed ings aginst all .persons suspected of be longing to the reform party and many have been arrested. Meanwhile the revolution In the central and southern provinces Is spreading. The sultan of Turkey Is pressing for ward with the work of armament. The fortifying of Adrianople, his most im portant strategic point on the Black sea is being pushed with all haste. Staff officers of the army are supervising the work. HIDDEN MONEY IN A CLOCK. Rolls of Bills Found by Instructor of Warren, I1L Academy. Warren, 111., Feb. 10. An old clock three feet in height recently was given to Warren academy for the use of the class in physics in demonstrating the laws of the pendulum. When set up in the laboratory the clock refused to keep time. Miss Mary E. Gloss, an instructor, in vestigated the cause and found a roll of bank notes aggregating $242 tucked away in the clock's works. The outer bill had been rusted through and was of the issue authorized by the act of 1882. It has been sent to Washington to be redeemed. The clock had been a long time stowed away as a. useless piece of furniture. JENKINS FAVORS GOWNS. Milwaukee's Federal Jurist Says the Public Must Be "Impressed." Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 10. Judge James G. Jenkins of the federal court today announced himself in favor of judges wearing silk gowns while on the bench. His main reason for taking this stand is that "the average mind yet needs mental crutches." He says: "I favor the custom of the judge upon the bench wearing a silk gown. It lends dignity to the administration of justice. AH things connected with the courts should be done in an orderly, deliberate and impressive manner. "The average mind yet needs mental crutches. These are found in ceremon ial dress, giving solemnity and impress ing the Imagination. Such formality can well be dispensed with when the millennium arrives, but that day, I fear, is far oft." GIRL TURNING INTO BONE. Ossification Begins on Cheek and Spreads Over Bier Face. BInghamton, Feb. 10. A case of ossi fication, the first in this section, Is puzzling the medical fraternity. The victim is Miss Otilla Hornung of Au burn, and it is thought possible that she may be cured, ir this Is effected it will be the first case of the kind on record. The girl is 16 years old. Some time ago she noticed that a spet on her cheek had become hard. Soon the hardening process spread rapidly to her face and neck. The lips were spared, but the features assumed a. bonelike expression. There was no pain or discomfort accom panying the transformation. Dr. Glasgow says he has discovered the cause of the disease and the rem edy. Meanwhile the girl is rapidly turning to bone. CZAR'S GIFT TO THE POOR. Adds 1,000,000 Roubles to His Pri vate Fund for the Suffering Peasants. St. Petersburg, Feb. 10. The czar, who recently gave 500,000 roubles from his private purse for the relief of the peasantry who are suffering from fam ine, has now given 1,000,000 more rou bles for the same purpose. Special services to parties. Hotel Oxford. RAILR0AD NEWS. Refrigerating Business of the Santa Fe Increasing. Largest Houses on the Line at La Junta and Las Yegas. HOLD 6,000 TONS EACH, Of Ice, Cut From Hot Caiijon Springs Lakes. Cost of Icing a Car Ranges From $25 to $50. The refrigerating business on the Santa Fe is no small item of expense and is an excellent criterion upon which to base estimates of the amount of fruit and beef shipped over the line. The largest refrigerating points on the line are on the New Mexico and Rio Grande divisions and all refrig erator cars going east or west are iced either at La Junta or Las "Vegas. A new system of furnishing ice and icing cars has been adopted by the Santa Fe. The Aqua Pura company or. Las Vegas has a five year contract for furnishing ice and icing the refrigerat ing cars on the Santa Fe. The ice is cut on five lakes in the Hot Springs canyon near Las Vegas. This winter 30.000 tons has been harvested and shipped to different points where it is stored. New houses have been built at Las Vegas, La Junta and Albuquerque. The Las Vegas and La Junta houses hold 6,000 tons and the Albuquerque house 1,000. The balance is stored In smaller houses at different points be tween El Paso, Deming and La Junta, The contract calls for the ice to be paid for at the points where it is used and when it is used, thus relieving the Santa Fe of a great amount of loss on ice stored from winter through the sum mer. The main part of the Southern Cali fornia business will be iced at La Junta as will the Rio Grande business. Last year 20,000 tons of ice were used where 30,000 is estimated will be required for the present year's business. The California fruit shipment is ex pected to be much larger than last year and the shipments of meat from Kansas City west as well as small fruits from Missouri and Texas to western and eastern points have been increasing steadily for some time and will make a decided advance this year. The principle point east of New Mex ico for refrigerating is Argentine where 10,000 cars are handled during the year. Refrigerating is quite an item. Between California, Kansas City, Chicago and New Tork the cost of Icing a car ranges from $25 to $50. The cost a day for icing the refrigerator cars at Argentine is about $1,000. The orange shipments are lightest in July, August, September and October. The lightest months In the fruit busi ness are November, December, January and February. The heaviest Icing busi ness comes during the fruit shipping season but between the different fruit crops of California, the melon shipments from Rocky Ford, the small fruits from Texas and Missouri and the meats from eastern markets the refrigerating busi ness is steady and a potent factor in railroad business. POSTAL, CLERKS INCREASE. Four Added to the Route Between La Junta and Albuquerque. La" Junta, Feb. 10. Four new men have been recently added to the force of postal clerk3 in service between La Junta and Albuquerque, making fourteen now em- ploved. The eastern paper mail for California Is now handled between La Junta and Albu querque instead of between La Junta and Kansas Citv, which accounts for the in crease in trie number of men. La. Junta has been made the pay office for ti-e four new men. the balance of them receiving their monthly salaries at Albuquerque. It is thought that It will be but a short time now until the La Junta postoffice is made a United States depository for several towns in "the Arkansas valley and the pay office for all the postal clerks running in to the city. KANSAS RAILROAD NOTES. A new standard clock, similar to the one In the stone depot, will shortly be placed in the yard office. This will save the men lots of trouble who, Instead of going to the passenger depot, can regulate their watches where they register. Em poria Gazette. W. Lee is conductor on Leonard's car on the Arkansas City local. BrakemanBlack, the regular man, took aick at Lmporia with lung fever. Judge McFie of the United States dis trict court has discharged for the New Mexico part of the Santa Fe system, out side of the old Atlantic and Pacific, Re ceivers Aldace F. Walker and John J. McCook and released their bondsmen. The receivers have been practically out for the last two years. President J. J. Hagerman of the Pecos Valley railroad and wife, Percy Hager man, President W. A. Otis of the Lily Mining company of Colorado Springs. C. A. Otis of the Otis Steel Works of Cleve land and others will go from Colorado Springs today in Mr. Hagerman's car to Amarillo Junction in Texas, and thence over the new Roswell extension of the Pecos Valley road, formally opening the new line for business. The Cerrillos Railroad company has just settled with the estates of John Earthome and Marion and William Ellingsworth for $1,000 each for their deaths in tha White Ash mine explosion in 1895. The Santa Fe yards at Oarden City, un der the supervision of Section Foreman Buekls, are being fixed up in good shape. The yards and right of way in the city are being filled in with cinders. Engineer Conroe, with the 290. made a remarkably good run from Dodge yester day, considering the condition or the rails. The train was four hours late and made up sixteen minutes of tha time. Newton Knnsan. The Junction City Union says that two bad accidents occurred on the Union Paci fic in the past few days. Engineer John Larson fell from the water tank at Brook ville and sustained a broken arm. Jack Gleason fell from the tank at Ellis, also sustaining a broken arm. Engine OlS.whieh has been In the shops at Fort Scott for the past five months, un dergoing a thorough repairing, has been taken to El Dorado. She falls to the lot of George Durham, who is exceedingly proud of her. His old engine, the 916, has gone to the shops to be overhauled. D. B. Burke, formerly in the Santa Fe offices at Emporia and lately a dispatcher in Topeka. has been ordered back to Em poria. He will take the place of A. R. Class, who will go to the general yards office and relieve George Morris. Mr. Morris has not yet been assigned. S. J. Pinkerton, division roadmaster of the Missouri Pacific, has been given charge of the following territory: D.. M. A. division, from Coffeyville to Win field; Grouse Creek division, from Dexter to Arkansas City; I C. V. A. L. di vision, from Roper to Peru Junction. His headquarters will now be at Wlnfield in stead of at Conway Springs. It is authoritatively stated that twenty new freight crews have been put on the Santa Fe between Albuquerque and La Junta and that eight of the crews run between Albuquerque and Las Vegas. The oldest man in the B. B. depart ment is G. W. Butcher. He assisted in the construction of the Fort Scott, Wich ita and Western road, seventeen years ago, and has been with it ever since. He be gan as a workman in the bridge gang. Tha Santa Fe ia about to offer induce ments toward building up the local pas senger traffic on the road, especially over the Santa Fe Pacific, and to do this has decided to reduce its passenger rates be tween San Bernardino and Barstow and all along the Santa Fe Pacific between Mojave and Albuquerque. The reduction between San Bernardino and Barstow will be 1 2-3 per cent and between Mojave and Needles 33 1-3 per ce'nt. and between Nee dles and Albuquerque 16 2-3 per cent. XL a IN COURT, Suit Brought by an Ohio Man for a Receiver for the Road. Hutchinson, Feb. 10. R. N. Archer, a citizen of Cincinnati, O., by his attor neys, Z. L. Wise and John E. Hessin, has brought suit in the district court for a receiver for the Hutchinson Southern railroad, a line running from Hutchinson to Blackwell, Ok.,a distance of 115 miles. The Hutchinson Southern road has lately been operated by L. E. Walker and W. A. Bradford, who came into possession of the property when the re ceivership was wound up. Archer, the defendant, was at one time vice presi dent and general manager of the road. He claims to have purchased one-tenth of the capital stock of the company, and afterwards was"frozen" out by Walker, Bradford and others. He claims that Walker and Bradford have no right to the road, hence the suit. The Hutchinson Southern has been in the courts a good part of the time since it was built in 1SS9 and 1890. Last summer. Judge Williams, at Newton, was asked to appoint a receiver for the road, but a compromise was effected with the plaintiffs, and the case dis missed. The allegations made by the parties last summer were similar to those made by Archer. FROM NEWTON. Riley Rathbun, of the blacksmith shop, will leave the service of the com pany on the 15th of the present month, and will engage in farming near Ray mond. Robert McQuiddy has accepted a po sition as machinist helper, in place of Bert Clino, who will look after his fath er's farm, near Raymond. Master Machanic Gavitt and Sperln tendent Parker have each received one of the pictures of General Manager Frey and staff. Arthur Roberts, son of the crossing watchman at Emporia, has accepted a position as boilermaker apprentice in the shop at that point. Fireman B. A. Wooden has been as signed to a run on the Hutchinson branch, in place of L. D. Reynolds. Frank J. Whitney Is a new employe at Newton, in the capacity of locomo tive fireman. WATCH THIS TEAM. Make-up of the Brooklyn Ball Club as Announced by H anion. New Tork, Feb. 10. Manager Ned Hanlon of the reconstructed Brooklyn team has announced that he would take all the players of last year's Baltimore and Brooklyn teams south on March 20. He has selected the team that will rep resent Brooklyn on the diamond next season. Clarke, now of Baltimore, will do most of the catching, with a couple of catchers selected from Grim, Ryan, Aleck Smith, and Haydon to help him out. Maul and Kennedy are expected to be the stars of the pitching, staff, with McJames, Hughes and Dunn to help out. If Joe Corbett concludes to play ball next season he will also twirl for Brooklyn. Joe JCelley will cover first base, Tom Daly seeond.Bill Dahlen third, and Hughey Jennings shortstop. With this infield Hainlon thinks every thing will be properly attended to that cuts the daisies inside the chalk lines. Fielder Jones will take care of left field, Mike Griffin of center, and the only Billy Keeler will do bis best in right field. THE STRIKE GOES ON. Attempt at a Settlement at Panama Fails. Colon, Colombia. Feb. 10. The visit of the railway officials to Panama has proven fruitless. The strikers have again refused to accept two dollars cur rency as wages and insist upon $2.50. The railway today issued a notice saying that, relying upon the govern ment's protection they intended to re sume work at the docks and yards and at La Boca immediately with Fortune Island laborers and others from Colon. This, however, is considered imprac ticable, owing to the Insufficiency of men here and the inadequacy of the po lice protection at Panama. WHIPS WITH A COWHIDE Jealous Men in New York Fall Out About a Girl. New Tork, Feb. 10. A Jealous young man lashing another amazed the tenants of 10 Murray street this morning. And while the whipping continued she. who was the cause of the affray looked on in a quiver of fear and admiration. The whipper was James Higglns of Jer sey City. The whipped was George Nich olls, a draughtsman of Brooklyn. The one who was the cause of the whipping was Mary Greene of Jersey City. Miss Greene and Nicholla are employed in the Murray street building, but on different floors. Hlggins has been attentive to the girl for some time and' has been regarded as her suitor. He thought Nicholls, although a married man, was paying too much atten tion to Miss Greene. MEXICO'S TRADE GROWING. Imports Increase $2,000,000 and Ex ports $8,000,000. City of Mexico, Feb. 10. According to the statistics of the treasury department for the first half of the present fiscal year, the imports for the six months end eded December 31 amounted to $22,000,000 gold, or an increase of $2,000,00 over the same period last year. The exports for the same period amount to $72,000,000 silver, an increase of $9,000,000 over the same period in 1897. Of the im ports, SO per cent came from the United States: of the exports, 70 per cent went to the United States. SWORD FOR GEN. HUNTER. Scotch Officer of the English Army in Egypt is Honored. Glasgow, Feb. 10. In the presence of the leading members of the aristocracy of west Scotland, Major General Sir Archi bald Hunter of the army of Egypt today received a sword of honor valued at 250. Replying to the presentation speech, General Hunter said he was proud of his Scotch blood, and that this gift from his fellow-countrymen would serve to remind him of his soldierly duty to the empire and to nerve him to greater effort. RUSSIA FAVORS THE JEWS. Czar Assumes a More Tolerant Atti tude Toward Sis Hebrew Subjects. Stockholm, Feb. 10. There are Indica tions that Russia is changing its atti tude toward the Hebrew race. Through the governor of Finland the czar has advised the landtag of that country to pass laws more favorable to the Jews than those now in force, so that they may no longer be debarred from citi zenship or from service in the army or navy. The czar also suggests the removal of the prohibition against intermarriage between Finns and Jews. MOREJHJNOS. Mr. Cannon, Chairman of House Appropriation Committee, Points Out the Probability of a Future Issue. FIGURES OUT DEFICIT For the Current Tear of $159, 000,000. Exclusive of the $20,000,000 to Be Paid to Spain. Sees No Possible Show for the Nicaragua Canal. Washington, Feb. 10. Chairman Can non of the appropriations committee of the house. In the course of the general debate on the sundry civil bill, sounded a note of warning against extravagant j appropriations and practically served lionets mat utriLiitrr liic ami buubiuj u nor the Nicaragua canal bill could be passed at this session. Although he specifically disclaimed speaking for any one but himself, the statement he made, coming from the chairman of the appropriations committee, caused great interest. Mr. Cannon made a general statement of the revenues and expenditures for the present fiscal year, increasing Sec rptnrv rja p-ps 5timntp of the deficiency i in the revenues from $112,000,000 to $159,- 000,000, exclusive of the $20,000,000 to be paid to Spain under the provisions of the treaty of Paris. Mr. Grosvenor (O.), Mr. Hepburn (Ia.) and Mr. W. A. Smith (Mich.), although they did not enter into any lengthy dis cussion, took issue with Mr. Cannon; but he maintained that our revenues might be sufficient to meet our expendi tures for the next two years if no new lines of expenditure were entered upon. But he indicated that It would be a close margin and that new expeditions might mean a bond issue. Mr. Can non's speech was in every way a nota ble one and doubtless will furnish the text for a good deal of discussion during the remainder of the session. The secretary of the treasury In Octo ber last, Mr. Cannon said, had estimated the deficiency of the revenues for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1899, to be $112,000,000, or a monthly average of $9,333,000. In his judgment, in the light of the receipts and expenditures for the first seven months thus estimated, the deficiency was much too low. The ac tual deficiency up to February 1, 1899, was $93,151,000, an average of $13,307000 per month. At this rate the deficiency for the fiscal year would be $159,000,000. But this would not include the $20,000,000 provided by the bill to carry out the provisions of the Paris treaty. The cash balance in the treasury on February 1, including the $100,000,000 gold reserve, was $274,000,000. Two hundred millions of that had been put in the revenues by the war loan. Deducting the monthly estimated deficiency for the next five months, there would, he said, be in the treasury July 1, $208,000,000. This was a conservative estimate. There would be, therefore, $108,000,000 to meet the or dinary expenses of the government on that date. These figures, he continued, took no account of the sinking fund. To care for it would require $53,000,000 additional. As Mr. Cannon proceeded the most in tense interest was manifested in his statement. The secretary of the treas ury estimated the expenditures for the next fiscal year, exclusive of the sink ing fund, he said, at $641,000,000 and the revenues at $610,000,000, or a deficiency of $31,000,000. Tet, Mr. Cannon, continued, Secretary Gage could not possibly have foreseen in his estimates for 1900 the changed conditions which followed the negotia tion of the peace treaty, the expendi tures which naturally follow our occu pation of the Philippines and the obli gations which we assumed in the peace treaty to discharge the claims against Spain, which claims, he understood, al ready reached $25,000,000. Neither did the secretary's estimate, he said, take into consideration the increase in the navy. It estimated only Jor the ordin ary maintenance of the navy. But the naval committee would report in Its bill provision for from twelve to fifteen battleships and cruisers. He did not complain. It was a logical sequence. The army must be increased; it was, therefore, the part of wisdom and com mon prudence to fully realize the con dition which confronted us. With these enormous expenditures upon us, Mr. Cannon said we must plant our foot steps with care and see that no dollar goes out of the treasury except for ef ficient public service. WARSHIP UP THE ORINOCO. United States Gunboat Wilmington Explores the Great River. Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 10. The New Tork Journal correspondent ca bles that the United States gunboat Wilmington, with J. B. Loomis, the United States minister to Venezuela, on board, touched at Ciudad Bolivar, and has gone far up the Orinoco on her long journey of commercial exploration up that river. January 21 the Wilmington left Trinidad, and two days later she crossed the bar at the river mouth, stopping first at Catalina, and arriving at Ciudad Bolivar, capital of the state of that name, January 21. The recep tions of the Americans there was wildly enthusiastic. After spending several days at Ciu dad Bolivar the Wilmington weighed anchor and proceeded up the great river, penetrating Into the heart of Ven ezuela. She will go as far as the rapids, the head of navigation, and then return. Minister Loomis expects that much commercial advantage will result from this first visit of a United States war vessel up the Orinoco for a quarter of a century. Zinc Makes a Jump. Joplin, Mo., Feb. 10. Zinc ora took a sudden jump today at this point. Galena. Kan., and Webb City. Mo., and sold at $45 a ton, the highest price ever known, and $3.50 above yesterday's best price. A heavy, foreign demand is said to be the. underly ing cause for the steady advance since last fall, when ore was selling for less than $30. The unprecedented cold wea ther has caused several mines o shut down, reducing the supply and thus In creasing the demand. Farewell to Charlemagne. Vienna, Feb. 10. Emperor Francis Jo seph today accorded a farewell audience to Charlemagne Tower, the Unite! States minister, who presented his letters of re call. Marblehead Goes to Havana. Boston, Feb. 10. The United States cruiser Marblehead has left the Charles town navy yard for Havana. THEY WANT FREE TICKETS Janesville Aldermen Insist on Their Prerogatives as Lawmakers. Janesville, Wis., Feb. 10. Peter L. Myers, manager of the local opera house here, has been summoned to appear be fore the court Thursday morning to an swer to the charge of violating the city ordinance relative to paying an opera house license. Manager Myers has been accustomed to distribute tickets for each performance to the mayor and al dermen. To do this requires about fif teen free tickets. Last' week a 10-cent show and an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company struck town, and through some oversight Manager- Myers forgot to Bend the city fath ers their tickets. A warrant was sworn out for Mana ger Myers' appearance in court. Man ager Myers says he is willing to pay an annual license fee into the city treas ury on the same basis that the opera houses are run In most of the cities through the state, but that the alder men refuse to listen to this proposition, preferring free tickets. Boy's Narrow Escape. Atchison, Feb. 10. On Tuesday even ing last, a young man named Martin, on horseback, attempted to cross the Santa Fe track near Highbridge, while the Pollywog train was coming toward Atchison at thirty miles an hour. The horse became dazed at sight of the headlight, and refused to move from the track. The boy sprang out just in time to save his life. The horse went under the engine, and the train men were three hours cutting him out. Convocation of Wichita Deanery. Newton, Feb. 10. The convocation of the Wichita deanery of the Episcopal church will be held in this city on March 14, 15 and 10, the Rev. J. K. Krum be ing dean of the convocation. Among the notables expected to be present are Bishop Millspaugh, Mrs. Mlllspaugh and Dean Sykes, of Topeka, and Arch deacon Watkins, of Salina. 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. Seats, Situations, Real Estate, Auction Sales, AND OTHER Classified Advertisements. ANNOUNCEMENTS. C. C. NICHOLSON is a candidate for a member of the school board, subject to the action of the Republican primaries. JOHN V. ABRAHAMS, candidate for city attorney, subject to Republican pri maries, February 25, 1899. S. S. MoFADDEN 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. GATJLT is a candidate for city attorney, subject to Republican pri maries. WANTED HELP. WANTED Situation as seamstress, by the day or week. Address M. B., care Journal. WANTED Situation by a German girl in small family. Call at 924 North Kansas ave. WANTED Place to assist with house work Inquire at 2112 Lincoln st. WANTED Situation as short order cook by young man of experience; satisfac tion guaranteed. Call or address SIS N. Harrison st. WANTED By white woman, washing; can give first class reference. Address X. V., care Journal. WANTED SALESMEN. SALESMEN WANTED To call on doe tors only on behalf of the leading firm In the trade. Position permanent. Applicant must be intelligent, indefatigable and of food appearance. State experience. Ad ress P. O. Box 1552. Philadelphia. WANTED Salesman: salary paid week ly; erperience 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 S2.25. Good profit. Address the manufacturer, Wu. R. Adams, 711 Kansas ave., Topeka. WANTED TO RENT. FOR RENT Bottom farm, 135 acres, 18 acres alfalfa, 15 in clover; cash rent. J. H. Squires, 715 Kansas ave. WANTED To rent house or cottage.about 5 rooms, walking distance from transfer station. Address D., care Journal. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy house to move on va cant lot. Will pay cash. Atchison Candy Co., 102 East Sixth St. WANTED Tou to order original stove repairs of all kinds through us. Call 'phone 313. Hull Stove Repair Co., 116 East Eighth st. WANTED To rent the barn at 421 Quincy st. to a good tenant. WANTED Everyone to know that n re plying to an advertisement which reads to address "Care Journal" the reply must be made in writing and sent through tha mail postpaid, or left at this office. It will then be placed in one of the boxes set aside for replies to classified advertise ments. FOR RENT HOUSES. Finely located S room house, 1 lot, barn, city water, etc., all clear of Incumbrance; will exchange for larger house and assume or pay cash difference. SCOTT CO., 616 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Fine large residence on West Tenth. W. R. Hazen, 115 West Fifth. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT One-half or part of store, 722 Kansas ave. Sullivan Delahoyde. FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms, flrsl floor. 118V4 West Sth st: FOR RENT Very pleasant aownstair furnished front rtom. 421 Quincy t. WANTED AGENTS. WANTED County agents, make from $3 .to 15 i day. Combination Wrench and Jack Co., Cleveland, O. Frank A. Carr, Gen'l State Agent, Box 117, Topeka, Kan. FOR SALE REAI. ESTATE. FOR SALE By Scott Co., 615 Kansas ave. 9 room house, mantel, hot and cold hath. 2 lots, large barn, IVi blocks from higii school. $3,;X. 9 room house. 2 mantels, bath, 2 lots, large barn, $2,100. Business house on East Eighth between Kansas ave. and Quincy, $4,000. 9 room house. 3 lots, large barn, good location, 2 blck east of avenue, $3,500. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 10 acre tract near town. Call 304 East Crane st, FOR SALE House 6 rooms, cistern, sink. 1012West st., monthly payments. 6 room cottage, 1208 Clay St., 2 lots, cistern,- sink. 3 acres garden land, east side, pay ments. 8 fine lots Washburn car line, $150 each. Set of bank fixtures, cheap. 7 reom house for rent, 1035 Madison St. F. J. BRpVVN. 17 Columbian Bidg. FOR SALE Lots In Douthltt Place. Law office of H. C. Root, 116 West 6th st. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Small hotel in a prosperous county seat town, in first class repair. Will sell for one-half cash, balance to suit purchaser. Address James Cunningham, Belleville, Kau. FOR SALE Cutter, street. Inquire 626 Quincy FOR SALE Ten R.I.P.A.N.'S for a cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN fc CO. MISCELLANEOUS. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, ia open daily except Sunday, from 1 to p. m. E. M. Brockett. 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 113 West Eighth st. DOUTHITT PLACE Has been opened. Tour choice of lota, $150 to $150. Eugeoa Wolfe, 617 Kansas ave. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Pug dog. leather collar on with panlocK attached. Reward If returned to 301 East Tenth St. FOUND Where watches or clocks are cleaned tor 50c. 13 Kansas ave.. upstairs. XORISTS MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone 602. FRESCO WORK. W. W. GILLESPIE. Fresco Painter. De rigns and estimates furnished on all classes of work. 1714 West Fifteenth. To- Seka. Kan. Refers to his work in State ournal building. PHYSICIAN AND STJRQEONB. I,. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence, cornel Gordon nt. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoft system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment fur piles, fistula, nah lire, ui cera tion. etc 8. E. SHELDON, M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. to ll a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 608 residence and 16 office. DR. J. SPRINGHORN, 627 Kansas ave. Ladies' Masseur and Osteopothist. Medi cated vapor baths. A Graduate of the Massage and Swedish Movement Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Office hours: to 12 a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m. JMOiNET MONEY TO LOAN on farms; M 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 sona: 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 Sth St. Bicycles and sundries; bicycles and tandems for rent: repairing of all kinds. 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. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of plane and harmony, Mil urecawooa avc..-oiwin. NURSE. ANYONE needing the services of s pro fessional nurse.call at 510 Lane St. Prices reasonable. 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, 720 Kansas ave. Repairing of fine and com plicated watches a specialty. Artlstio monogram and letter engraving. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c; clocks, S0c: mainaprings, 75c; crystals 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old Jewelry exchanged for new. If bard up. see Uncle Bam. 612 Kan. ave. STCRAG1 STORAGE The Topeka Storage end Warehouse Co. (formerly Topeka Stor age Co., 305 Kas. ave.) store stoves, house hold good, etc On June 1 removed to new fire-proof atone building, 212 and 21 Kas. ave. C. Z. Skinner, Prop.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. jThe Star-: Grocery J. S. SPEOAT, Prop., Telephone 252. WHOLESALE Read this List for Every Item I dozen good Bananas fOc 1 doz Sweet Mexican Oranges, 15c 19 lbs Standard fine Gran. Sugar. .$1.00 20 lbs white Extra C Sugar 1.00 HI lbs light Brown Sugar 1.00 Columbia Oats, per package .05 4 packages Scotch Oats .25 A packages Quail Oats .25 30 lbs bulk Scotch Oats 25 Salisbury's "Vitos, per package .12 3 packages American Table Food.. .25 5 packages Quaker Oats .25 6 lbs good clean Rice .25 5 lbs fancy Japan Rice .25 10 lbs fancy hand-picked Navy Beans .25 E lbs new Lima Beans .25 10 lbs new green Peas .25 7 lbs Pearl Barley .25 18 lbs Pearl Hominy 23 16 lbs Hominy Grits 25 12 lbs Hominy Flake 25 Pettijohn's Breakfast Food, pkg.. .10 Shredded Wheat Biscuit, pkg 10 2 packages Farina .25 8 packages self-rising Buckwheat Flour 25 8 packages Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour 25 3 packages Ralston Pancake Flour. .25 2 packages Postum Oereal .25 2 packages Graino .25 2 pkgs. Granola .25 2 pkgs. Caramel Cereal 25 2 pkgs. Granose Glakes .25 1 pkg Grape Nuts 15 2 qts. large fancy Cranberries.. .15 Fancy Codfish. 1 lb pkgs 10 1 gallon can Vermon Maple Syrup. .70 1 gallon Hor.ey Drip Syrup 20 3 3-lb cans fancy Table Syrup 25 3-lb can ?.ncy New Orleans Mo lasses v .10 3-lb can Taney Country Sorghum.. .12 Quart bfttle Tomato Catsup 10 Fancy Minnesota Potatoes, per bu. .60 J 2 bxes Parlor Matches 05 1 lb can Calumet Baking Powder.. .15 Briggs' bushel Baskets .20 2 boxes Shoe Blacking .05 Shoe Brushes 10 6 bottles Lemon or Vanila Extract. .25 Large wood pail Table Syrup. .45 5-lb pail pure Fruit Jelly .25 5-lb pail Cider Apple Butter 25 3 cans Anderson Jams .25 3 cans Campbell's Jams 25 7 pkgs. Baking Soda 25 3-lb can Raspberries .10 2-Ib can Blackberries .05 2-Ib can Standard Tomatoes .05 2 3-lb cans Standard Tomatoes .15 2 cans Iowa Sweet Corn .15 Lay in two or three sacks of FLOUR while you can buy it at Our Price. TO LOSE A BIG MEETING. f "We Can't Scar up a Hall Big Enough to Hold It In. The Democratic annual banquet may be held in Topeka and it may not. The ouestion is whether Topeka can furnish a hall that will seat 1.200 people. If that can be done the banquet will be held in Topeka. and if not it will go to Wichita. The executive committee of the Demo cratic state central committee, which met in Topeka last evening, decided to have a banquet March 30, and the list of speak ers includes the most eloquent Democrats in the United States. The committee de cided that all Democrats were to be in vited to the banquet, and that at least J. 200 would attend. An inquirv was made about Hamilton hall, but at that time it will be used for a buggy repository. S. B. Amidon of Wichita at once offered the use of the Wichita Auditorium, which he !aims will seat 2,500 people. The com mittee adopted a resolution that Mr. Ami don's offer would be accepted unions ac commodations could be found in Topeka for 1.200. and the matter rests in that sit uation. Jt was agreed that the banquet should be held March 30. which will be celebrated as the birthday of Thomas Jefferson.which falls on the following Sunday. The com mittee has received assurances that W. J. Hryan and Joseph Blackburn will be pres ent. George Fred Williams of Massachu setts. John P. Altgeld of Chicago, Charles A. Towne of Minnesota, Wm. J. Stone of Missouri and James K. Jones of Arkansas will also be urged to be present, and F. S. Thomas says that the committee is reas onably certain that all but one or two in the list will be present. An effort will be made to make the event the largest and most enthusiastic of the kind ever held in Kansas. There were 600 1n attendance at the banquet last year, end the committee expects no dif Acuity in doubling the number. RHODES' SUICIDE Is Followed Iiy That of His Fi ancee Who First Mur dered Her Son. Denver, Feb. 10. Henry P. Rhodes, a prominent young attorney of this city, who for eight years prior to 1897 was deputy district attorney here, died at St. Luke's hospital as the result of wounds inflicted by himself last Tues day afternoon. At 10 o'clock last night Mrs. Olga Lavrenius a young Russian itvidow.understood to have been Rhodes' financee shot and Instantly killed her 10 year old son and then sent a bullet through her own brain. The tragedies of Tuesday and last night both occurred at Arno, a fashionable hotel where Rhodes and Mrs. Lavrenius have board ed for several months. The cause of Jihodes' act Is not known. He was a bright attorney with good prospects tPUftt SHAPE C It CAM OP TARTAR PCWBER CHEAT! A rTTTTT! Awarded Highest Honors, Worfd's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair mm 112 East Sixth Street AKB RETAIL. Saturday. is a Honey Saver. 1 can Illinois Corn .10 1 can Puritan Corn 10 2 cans Kaw Valley Early June Peas .15 4 cans Wax Beans 25 Columbia River Salmon, per can.. .10 2 cans Vinton Corn 15 Best Soda Crackers, per lb by box. .J .05 4 lbs best Soda Crackers .25 2 lbs fresh baked Ginger Snaps .15 Mokana Coffee, per package .09 Lion Coffee, per package .10 Mokaska Coffee, per package .10 Leverings Coffee, per package .10 Arbuckle's Coffee, per package .11 Bulk fresh roasted Rio Coffee, per lb 10 Fancy Rio and Santos Coffee, per lb 12Vs Fancy Java and Mocha, per lb 25 Sugar Cured Cal. Hams, per lb.. J .054 Dry Salt Meat, per lb 04 Sugar Cured Hams, per lb .08 Breakfast Bacon, per lb .08 Good White Lard, per lb .05 3-lb can White Label Lard 25 5-lb can White Label Lard 35 10-1b can White Label Lard. 70 18 bars good Laundry Soap .25 11 bars Silk Soap. 25 11 bars Diamond C Soap 25 11 bars Clairette Soap 25 11 bars White Rose Soap 25 14 bars Monday Morning Soap .25 10 bars White Russian Soap .25 10 bars Lenox Soap .25 3 boxes genuine Buttermilk Soap.. .25 20 lbs Sal Soda 25 5 lbs Gloss Starch 25 German Washing Fluid, per bottle. .15 Quart bottle Blueing 10 3 pkgs Pearline 10 4 It pkg Gold Dust 18 Powdered Starch, same as elastic, per pkg .05 3 cans Lewis' Lye .25 4 cans Greenwich Lye .25 CALIFORNIA DRIED FRUITS. 7 lbs Raisin Cured Prunes .25 5 lbs Muscatel Raisins .25 6 lbs Dried Grapes 23 3 lbs Country Apples .25 Fancy Evaporated Apples, per lb.. .10 3 lbs Silver Prunes .25 2 lbs Pitted Plums .25 3 lbs Evaporated Blackberries .25 2 lbs Evaporated Raspberries .25 Pitted Cherries, per lb .15 Fancy Apricots, per lb .15 3 1-lb packages Currants 25 Fancy Peaches, per lb .10 2 lbs Pears 25 3 packages Seeded Raisins .25 and very popular. Tuesday afternoon he was found In his room by his friend, John S. Mosby Jr., son of the famous confederate general, rapidly sinking from loss of blood caused by a deep gash In each arm and each leg. He was taken to St. Luke's hospital where he lingered till morning, though always expressing the wish to die. Mrs. Lavrenius attended him at the hospital until his death which she took with seeming composure. Last night, after her little son was asleep in his bed she shot him through the head and then turned her weapon upon herself. Rhodes was a Kentuckian, belonging to one of the best families In that state. Mrs. Lavrenius was a beautiful wo man, 33 years old, and highly accomp lished. She was a Nihilist and with her husband was several years ago sentenc to life imprisonment in Siberia. Five or six years ago they were pardoned by the czar and came to this country, lo cating first In Chicago, but four years ago coming to Denver where Lavrenius became a student at the Denver Medi cal college. Two and a half years ago he died of Bright's disease. They are said to have belonged to a wealthy family and have always re ceived liberal remittances from Russia. It is believed by some of Rhodes' friends that his suicide and that of the woman were the result of the Nihilistic ideas with which the latter is said to have Imbued the young attorney. PAT DAY IN HAVANA. Is Productive of Many Complaint from Teachers and Others. Havana, Feb. 10. The first regular complete pay day which the civil em ployes in Havana have known for months, was characterized by innumer able complaints. The school teachers are protesting against the regular monthly discount on their salaries, which is applied to the sinking fund of their protective association. A storm of protests toas been raised over the non payment of salaries to some 74 former telegraph operators who worked half through January. Col. Donwoodie, chief signal officer, had obtained the money to pay them and deposited it in the telegraph office here. But no one called to collect. Now It appears that many of the claims were bought up at a big discount by a speculator who repre sented that the United States would not pay. The operators, now that they find the money ready, regret their ac tion and are aggrieved at being unable to collect. Bock Island Extension. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 10. There Is a rumor here that the Rock Island will build to Quanah. The grade and road bed have been completed to Anadarko, and the surveyors are still running the line toward Quanah. A letter has been received from a prominent railroad man in St. Louis in which it was stated that the Rock Island would be in Quanah within a year. Primary Supervisors. The Republican city central com mittee has named the supervisors for the city primary which will be held February 25. They are as follows: First ward, Geo. C. Stoker, E. C. Ston er; Second ward, Ed. Hawes, Leroy Currier; Third ward, O. K. Swayze, H. J. Bevelle; Fourth ward, E. L. Hopkins, L. S. Ferry; Fifth ward, T. C. Ewer, C. D. Moss. A Wealthy Elondiker. Weds. London, Feb. 10. Alexander McDonald of Dawson City, Canada, known as the "Gold King of the Klondike." and reputed to be worth from 25,000.000 to 30.000.000. was married to Miss Chisholm. daughter of Mr. Chisholm. superintendent of the Thames water police. Sahlgren's Granddaughter ts Wed. New Tork, Feb. 10. The engagement Is announced of Lispenard Stewart of this city and Miss Romola Dahlgren. grand daughter of the late Admiral Dahlgrcn. SELF SUPPORT. Senator Forney's Plan to Make State Institntions Pay Their Way by Manufactur ing Their 0W2f FURNITURE, ETC. Also Raising Their Own Sup plies of Vegetables. A Saring May Be Made to the State. Senator A. G. Forney is very anxious to have industrial departments estab lished in connection with all of the state penal institutions and has introduced a general bill contemplating such work. The bill not only proposes to establish various mechanical industries in con nection with these institutions but con templates the operation of an extensive farm in connection with the state peni tentiary and the reform school and re formatory. He said in discussing this bill: "Every time the legislature as sembles we are compelled to expend hundreds of dollars for furniture and other supplies of this character which could be made Just as well at some of these institutions. "I think industries of this kind should be established therein and the bill which I have introduced has that pur pose in view." The bill also has another feature which which if adopted it is claimed will save the state thousands of dollars an nually in the purchase of coal. Under the present law the mines at the state penitentiary furnish coal to the state institutions but the freight rates to some of the institutions exceed the cost of coal per ton in the open market in the city where the institution Is located. Mr. Forney proposes that the sale of coal to the Institutions under such cir cumstances shall be abandoned and the supply taken from the open market. This freight rate prohibition operates with especial force when the towns are at a great distance from the mines and Mr. Forney thinks a provision authoriz ing the purchase of coal in the open market would be advisable. In connection with the industrial de partments which it is proposed to estab lish Mr. Forney has in his bill a plan to divide the profits of such industries with the prisoners and thereby give them a small amount of money with which to make a new start in life when their terms of sentence expire. Upon mechanical products, such as furniture, or similar articles of necessity, the mar ket price is to be accepted as the basis. Then the cost of production will be fig ured in and the profits which will accrue as the result of state manufacture are to be divided upon some equitable basis between the convict and the state. Moneys arising from this source are to be turned into the state treasury. This bill has created considerable dis cussion among the members of the leg islature and Mr. Forney thinks it will be passed. He said further: "The state can raise sufficient sup plies for the state institutions, during the summer at least, upon the farms connected with the penal institutions. This will save a large sum of money. Then if the manufacture of furniture and other necessities of this character be conducted for the special benefit of the state, including the manufacture of twine, as is now proposed, thousands of dollars can be saved annually." A WOLF PACK'S ATTACK. Minnesota Log Scaler Narrowly Escapes Being Devoured. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 10. Halver Johnson, a log scaler, was brought in to Minneapolis this morning in a serious condition, as a result of an encounter with wolves near Lake Washburn. Had not a party of men, who heard the howl of wolves, gone to his assist ance just when they did, he would have been a victim. As it is his legs are covered with bites and tears, and there are some severe gashes in the upper parts of his body, which indicate that he must have en hard pressed when succor came. He says that there were from thirty to forty wolves in the pack. DAN HEWITT'S WOUND. Is ia the Thigh and Sis Condition Is Reported Good. Manila, Feb. 10. One of the Kansas heroes among the wounded in Daniel Hewitt of Topeka. Hewitt has a se vere flesh wound In the right thigh. His condition is reported by the surgeon to be very good. Stove Works Burn. Mansfield, O., Feb. 10. An explosion in the Japanning department of the Baxter Stove works caused a fire with a loss of $100,000 with only a fraction as much insurance. The fire burned with terrible severity and within an hour nothing but the walls remained. The sever'y of the weather added great ly to the difficulty of fighting the fire. Germany Prepares for Peace. Berlin, Feb. 10. 'The budget commit tee of the reichstag today by a vote of 11 to 10, agreed to increase the strength of the German artillery by 69 Howitzer batteries and also to increase the strength of the foot artillery. TETTER ON HANDS For Yeart. Sore All Over. Could Not Use Them. Physicians No Benefit Tried CUTICURA REMEDIES. Imme diate Relief. Permanent Cure. I had baen troubled with tetter for wnrd yaara. Attimeamyhanda would be aore all OTr. ao that 1 could Dot qm them at all, and wera mo tender that clear water, eTen, amarted like fire. It apread orer my arana, neck, and face. I had been treated by phyaiciaoa. without benefit. I began naiog Cuticdka remedies. I found re lief before I had taken thejtrst bottle. I need three or fonr bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, one cake of Cuticura Soar, and one box of Cuticdka (ointment), and it haa never troubled ELLA, tuiuun, tppingnam. Ail. CtmeslA Kuunn pariaea the bleed and ei rem itting nuidi of MCMoa Gaaaa, aad thu. remove, the com, while warm bath, with CtrricuaA Soap and gentle anointing, with Cvticdba (etatmant) eleaase the akin and aealp of era it. aad acalaa, altar itehln. burning, aad Inflammation, eoethe aad heal every form of akin humor. Bold threnrhenttke world. Pmrr D. awo C. Cojr Bale frog... fioaioa "liow to Cure verv Homor." free. SAVE YOUR SKIN Baada aad Hair by naing CTCWSkA Soar. TO NAME FRANK BROWN. For Clerk of the United States Dis trict Court. Frank Brown will be clerk of the United States district court and he will be named by Judge Hook In a short time. The au thority for this statement is no one else than Cy Leland. Frank Brown is secretary of the Repub lican state central committee, and since it became certain that the bill retiring Judge Foster would become a law he has been working the wires to secure the appointment of clerk to the new Judge. It has been reported that B. B. Cushman, secretary to Senator Baker, would be given the place and many supposed that he had the inside track, but all doubt about the appointment is removed by Mr. Iceland's announcement. The clerk of the district court does not succeed to a very fat position. In the old days when J. C. Wilson was clerk of the court the fees were large and the al lowance sometimes amounted to nearly $5,000 per annum, but those days have passed and it is doubtful if the pay of the clerk will average $1,200 a year. The best position in connection with the court is that of clerk of the United States circuit court, but that will not be affected by the change In judges, as the circuit judges, who live in St. Louis, make the appointment, and there is no danger that they will dispense with the services of Geo. F. Sharitt. Since J. C. Wilson re tired from the position of clerk of the district court Mr. Sharitt has held both positions. REBELLION CRUSHED. Japan Triumphs Oyer the In surrection in Formosa. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 10. News from official Japanese sources received by the steamer Empress of Japan is to the effect that the Formosa rebellion is practically ended. Seven chieftains sur rendered to the Japanese troops in Jan uary and two others were killed. Sev eral bodies of armed rebels laid down their arms on condition that they would be pardoned. In middle Formosa, Katetsu is the only rebel leader who survives. Chinaman Hatsu and other minor leaders have been killed. There has been severe fighting- in southern Formosa since January 7, with losses on both sides. The rebels were beaten, and many of them surrendered. A large number of rebels captured in northern Formosa have been imprison ed at Taipeh. Some were pardoned, having? agreed to recognize and uphold Japan's government. Early in January fifty-six rebels were taken out of prison and shot, all having refused to submit to the Japanese authorities. The plague has broken out in south ern Formosa, There have been several deaths in the city of Tainan, where it is spreading fast. Several Catholic priests and over 1,000 native Christians have reached Ichang from Chang Yang, and Llchuan where their chapels were burned down and the houses of native Christians attacked and destroyed. The perpetrators of these outrages carry the flag of the arch rebel Yumantze. In both Szechuen and Shansi provinces the Yumantze rebels have offered a reward of 120 taels for the head of every male foreigner who is killed and 100 taels for every woman or child. The British gunboat Esk is at Ichang. The viceroy is endeavoring to protect the Christian refugees who are there. The empress of China proposes to sur round Pekin with a quarter of a million foreign equipped troops, who are to oppose any invasion from Manchuria, or the gulf of Pecnili. The empress has named Shanhaikuan as headquarters for this vast force, which is to be mobi lized as rapidly as possible in corps of 20,000 men each. A RESERVOIR BURSTS Drowning Six People and De stroying Property. Auburn, Cala., Feb. 10. The reservoir at the Big Dipper mine in the Iowa Hill mining district has broken and carried away the entire mill, blacksmith shop and drying house. Five Chinese and one white man, Joseph Farber, were killed, and their bodies were found sev eral miles down the canyon. The loss of the mine is heavy and will reach upward of $20,000. The Big? Dipper ranks as one of the richest gravel mines in California, Owing to the past dry season there was not much water in the reservoir which is a mammoth one, extending nearly two miles in length. Had it been full the damage to property and the loss to life would have been greater than it was. Joseph Farber, the white man killed, was recently a resident of Oak land. MANY STAMPlSDES And But Few New Discoveries Re ported From the Klondike. Dawson City, Jan. 18, via Seattle, Wash., Feb. 10. There is little news from the Klondike claims as yet this year. Stam pedes to new districts are of frequent oc currence, but no Important discoveries are reported. Father Judge, who founded St. Mary's hospital here, is dead of pneumonia. Tom McFathrick. an old man, was found frozen in his cabin, December 22. Word comes from Circle City of the shooting of Joe Maranzi and the robbing of a saloon by two masked men. Ma ranzi may die. Manv river boats now fast in the Ice will probably be crushed when the thaw comes. "Will Funston Lecture P When Fred Funston returns to Kan sas, there will be no living with him, now that he has led a charge at Ma nila, and been mentioned in a dispatch from Gen. Otis. He will not only lecture on "How Me and Napoleon Disturbed the Peace of Europe," but will run for office, and crowd J. K. Burton out of his present position as First Gentleman In Waiting for United States Senator. Atchison Globe. A Mortgage for $20,000,000. Denver, Col., Feb. 10. A mortgage for $20,000,000, given to the Central Trust com pany of New York city by the Colorado and Southern railway, was filed ;n this countv todav. The revenue stamps used aggregated $3S.2SO. "Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 10. For Kansas: Snow and norther tonight and Saturday: colder Saturday; winds nhiftlng to high northerly. New Western Postmasters. Washington, Feb. 10. These postofflce appointments were made today: In Indian Territory Lenaph. Cherokee nation; Thomas J. Bradford; Strtngtown, Choctaw nation, Eliza M. Hudebon. In Kansas Kackley. Republic county, Robert L.undblade: Monmouth, Crawford county, Benjamin F. Collins; Union, Osage county, John T. James. In Oklahoma Kagle, Kingfisher county, John P. Morris. Read the Price Tickets In the Big STYLISH JACKETS STYLISH JACKETS WORKING FOR A TRAIN. Pittsburg Commercial Club Try to Se cure Train Service to Topeka, The people of Pittsburg and Fort Scott are still working to secure a passenger train on the Missouri Pacific between those places and Topeka. The following Is taken from a Pittsburg paper: "After the report of the standing com mittees the petitions signed by the citi zens of the several towns along the line of the Missouri Pacific railway asking for a train to Topeka were presented. Towns all along the line had signed the petitions most liberally and there is a general desire to have the train put on and a better service given at all points. The better ing of the mail service is desired by all the towns from here to Fort Scott. The secretary was instructed to write to the Missouri Pacific officials, send in the peti tions and ask for more favorable action on the same." The Topeka Commercial club is eriving the project hearty support, but little en couragement has been received up to this time from the Missouri Pacific officials. DIED AT THE OPERA. Effort of Pressing Through the Crowd Fatal to Mrs. Ethan Allen. New Tork, Feb. 10. Mrs. Ethan Allen, of high social standing in this city and con nected with distinguished families in the south, died at the Metropolitan Opera House last evening during a performance of "Lohengrin," which she had attended with her adopted daughter, Miss Alice Reid. She was stricken with heart failure, brought upon her, it Is supposed by the ex ertion of making her way to her seat. She was SO years old and had long suffered from heart trouble. None in the big au dience knew of the tragedy. Those who had been sitting near and saw Mrs. Allen carried from the auditorium supposed she had fainted. FITZ AND JEFFRIES SIGN. Por a Fight of 25 Rounds in the Spring. New York, Feb. 10. Bob Fitzs'.mmons and Jim Jeffries signed articles today for a fight sometime between April 4 and May 26, before the club offering the largest purse. The fight is to be for 25 rounds, or to a finish if that can be arranged. Marquis of Queensberry rules are to gov ern, with the exception that there is to be no hitting in the clinch or the break away. Stray Cats Prize Winners. "When the twin cats Felix and Skezix took first prize as domestic pets the other day few people knew the history of the two animals. If they had they would probably have looked upon them with still more interest.- The cats be long to Mrs. I. R. Ketcham and they obey her every command. Four years ago Mrs. Ketcham found them on the street, wild, frightened and being abused by a crowd of boys. The young sters, with characteristic dislike for cats, had caught these two. To the tail of Skezix they had tied a tin can. Felix was beaten with clubs. Mrs. Ketcham begged the lads to leave the cats alone, but they refused. Then she called a policeman. He rescued the twins and gave them to Mrs. Ketcham. She promptly took them to her home. There they have lived ever since, well fed, petted and made much of. In return they have learned many tricks with which they delight their mistress and her friends. They will stand on their hind feet and catch meat tossed to them, will kiss persons when told to, and will shake hands and jump through hoops. Each cat is 35 inches long from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, and Skezix weighs fifteen pounds, while Felix is two pounds lighter. Be sides these two cats, Mrs. Ketcham owns another. Prince, which took the first prize as the best Scotch-bred animal at the show. New York World. WHITE HOUSE GUESTS. Washington Special New York World. President and Mrs. McKinley have in augurated a dinner regime which will make the White House as famous so cially as it was in the days of Dolly Madison. The great corridor of the executive mansion is now the state dining room. The table placed in the center is a most elaborate affair, forty feet long. At this table about seventy guests are usually seated. The question of seats is one of paramount importance. Mrs. McKin ley prefers to sit at the right of the president. This is an innovation, and causes an entirely new placing of the guests. The task of seating the guests in their proper places devolves upon Assistant Secretary Pruden. He has a wooden model of the table and uses little pegs to represent the guests. Each seat is numbered on the model. When the list of the guests is In Mr. Pruden ascer tains the exact official standing of each person invited, and then begins his lit tle game with the pegs. Every man must be placed according to his offi cial rank. His wife must occupy a seat corresponding in honor, and his daugh ter must be placed among the daugh ters of those whose rank is equal to his. The president always carefully in spects the wooden model and pegs, and his approval must have been given be fore the cards bearing the names of the guests are laid at each plate. La Grippe is again epidemic. Every precaution should be taken to avoid it. Its specific cure is One Minute Cough Cure. A. J. Shepherd, Publisher, Agri cultural Journal and Advertiser, Elden, Mo., says: "No one will be disappoint ed in using One Minute Cough Cure for La Grippe." Pleasant to take, quick to act. Geo. W. Stansfleld, W. H. Wil son, A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co., druggists. We will wash your colored shirts and guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th. Frank Long, manager. Hotel Oxford and restaurant. South Window WORTH UP TO $12.50 EACH, Marked $5.00 Ea. WORTH UP TO $20.00 EACH, Marked $7.50 Ea. PLATERS FOR CUBA. Josephine Hall to Take a Vaudeville Company South. New York, Feb. 10. Miss Josephine Hall is to have the distinction of being the first American player to take a company into Cuba under the new regime. She said: "I have been in poor health ever since I left Koster Bial's this winter. I re marked the other day to a friend that I thought I would go to Cuba for a vaca tion, and this friend suggested that I do a little 'trouping' down there. So I have organized the 'Josephine Hall "Vaude ville company,' and we'll all sail for Cuba today, and will open there shortly at the Tacom theater, in Havana." Miss Hall's specialties will consist of character impersonations, during which she will sing her songs, "Mary Jane's Top Note," "She Just Walks On and Off," "Rag Time Liz," and a few others. FRANCHISES ARE SAFE. None Has Been Granted in Cuba or Porto Rica Washington, Feb. 10. The president has transmitted to the senate a state ment from the secretary of war and other papers in reply to a resolution in quiring whether any franchise or con cessions have been granted in Cuba since the military occupation of that island. The secretary says that none has been granted, and the executive or ders, dater December 22, 1898, bearing upon this subject have been communi cated to the commanding generals in Cuba and Porto Rico and that the de partment is advised that no conces sions have been made. The secretary Includes in the corres pondence a letter from President Mc Kinley to Gen. Wade, chairman of the evacuation commission, dated December 12, calling attention to the report that the local authorities were preparing to put up for auction franchises covering the right to construct railroads to the most important parts of the island of Cuba. In the course of his letter the President says: "It can not be permitted that the per sons nominally representing the rem nants of Spanish government there shall in this manner sell the franchises of the country and commit the future government of the island to obligations of such importance. The existing Span ish authority in Cuba is permitted to be considered by the United States merely as a matter of convenience. It is mere ly a violation of good faith for those officials to attempt under the guise of a sovereignty which they do not possess to commit acts so injurious to the peo ple of the islands. The president can conceive of no good reason why this long dormant power should need to be exercised at the present time and he conceives that its exercise is intended to be practically hostile and in defiance of the rights and authority of the United States." He then instructed Gen. Wade, If necessary to secure desistance from the project, to take over the full occupation of the city of Havana and nominallly of the whole island of Cuba even prior to December 29, the date set for that purpose. EARS DROPOFF Of Hogs Shipped in Cars to Pittsburg Stock Yards. Pittsburg, Feb. 10. All cold records for this section were broken today and a new record of 20 degrees below zero established by the weather bureau. Private thermometers registered from 7 to 10 degrees lower. Business is almost at a standstill and fewer people were on the streets than on any other week day in years. Schools were dismissed, out door laborers refused to work and every form of industry necessitating exposure to the weather was practically para lyzed. Many persons were severely nipped by Jack Frost but no fatalities have been reported. One grewsome phase of the blizzard is its effect on live stock shipped from surrounding towns' to the stock yards. The ears of many hogs dropped off. they being so badly frozen that the leapt touch caused them to fall to the ground. Cattle likewise suffered severely. The cold weather has seriously hampered the railroads and all trains are from one and a half to three hours late. Navigation on the Allegheny, Mononga hela and upper Ohio has closed and the two first named streams are frozen over. The indications are for slightly warmer weather. Was to Have Married Alford. Hutchinson. Feb. 10. Lieutenant A. C. Alford of company H. Twentieth Kansas volunteers, who was killed at Manila, was to have been married upon his return to Kansas to Miss Vesta McCurdy of this town. She is the daughter of J. P Mc Curdy, a wealthy man. Miss McCurdy left here yesterday and Is now with the Alford family at Lawrence. Miss Mc Curdv and Lieutenant Alford became ac quainted at the University of Kansas, from which Miss McCurdy was recently graduated. Rockefeller's First Picture. When John D. Rockefeller was a boy he had his first picture taken with his class at Oswego academy, Oswego, N. Y., in 1853. It was a daguerreotype, and when Rockefeller became rich he tried to buy it from his former teacher. William Smyth, who refused to sell at any price. Mr. Smyth died a short time ago, and his son has since sent the picture V the million aire. In the same class were General I. S. Catlin, Bishop George Worthington of Nebraska and Chas. R. Colburn, Pennsyl vania state superintendent of schools. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Colored shirts and waists laundered so that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 Wast Eighth street. Quick, good work, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh street. Tele phone 341. We will wash your colored shirts ani guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. 8th. RAND OPERA HOUSE A Special Dramatic Event. TUESDAY, FEB. 14. Mr. Walker Whiteside, Assisted by Miss Leila Wolstan and a se lected company of players, presenting "THE RfcD COCKADE,' A Romantic Comedy Drama of the Na poleonic Era, an adaptation from the French of "Lion Amuoreaur," by M. iPon- sard. NOTE The Minuet, as introduced in ie. second act, arranged and conducted by Mme. Malvina, of Augustin Daly's Thea. ter. New York. v Prices $1.00. 75c, 50c, 25c. Reserved seats on sale at Sim's Drug Store, Saturday, Feb. 11th. mm, MU3 1i Best Dining Car Service. Only Depot In Chicago on the Elevated Loop. KOHL'S RHEUMATIC t J This is a sure cure for Rheu- T matism, Gout, Lumbago, and all J X diseases caused by Impurities ot X the Blood. PREPARED ONLY BY J Charles W. .Kohl, Ph. G., I PHARMACIST, 223 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kas. 4 Price Sl.OO. I Dr. C. H. GUIBOR HAS REMOVED TO 706 Kansas Avenue. DISEASES OF THE Nose, Throat, and Lungs. Miss GouldVs Camp Lumber. "You know Camp Walworth is support ed largely by Miss Helen Gould's generos ity," said one of the young women in the office, "and really Miss Gould would be delighted could she know how grateful th soWiers are to her. One of the rough riders told me a little incident illustrating this. They were putting down some boarding in a tent at Camp Wikoff, and a man was sawin off some boards very carefully, so as to make them just fit tha space. 'What's the use of taking so much pains with them boards?' another man -asked. 'There's plenty more where they came from; they belong to the govern ment.' 'That's where you re way off. said the man with the saw. 'These boards belong to Helen Gould. She sent 'em down here, and there ain't going to be an inch of 'era wasted." Leslie's Weekly. Spain Won't Sell. Madrid, Feb. 10. The Spanish govern ment has decided not to sell the Carolin islands. SHE HAD KIDNEY COMPLAINT. Her Father Died With It Here is the Cure She Took. Mrs. Eliza "Woodruff, a lady living at 1020 Jackson St., this city says: "I have never ben obliged to use much of any medicine, or employ a physician until about a year and a half ago when I was suddenly attacked with pain in the small of my back over the kidneys. Shortly thereafter other symptoms de veloped which the dctor told me wai the effect of kidney disease. I was treated by the doctor and took 'kidney cures' without getting any relief. In fact the treatment seemed t aggra vate rather than allay the trouble. Some time ar I procured a box of your Morrow's Kid-neoids at th store of the Swift Holilday Drug Co. I took them according to directions receiving relief In two days. I kopt tafeing them right along until now I am happy to stato that I am perfectly cured, all traces of the old disease are gene. My father died of kidney disease and I feel rea sonably assured had he known of them In his day, he too would have been cured." Druggists W cents. Manuf&c tured by John Morrow Co., CUwalst, tJDringfield. Ohio. Q