The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 13, 1899
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I I V r .1 LAST EDITION MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. f'-S i V A DULLTHUD. Mercury Struck Bottom in the Kansas Record On Sunday, Going to 25 Below Zero IS U. S. THERMOMETER While Thermometers Along the Streets Marked 26 and 28. This Exceeds Cold Weather History in Kansas. The coldest point reached by the gov ernment thermometer at the weather bureau office was 25 below Sunday morning between five and seven o'clock. At noon yesterday it had worked up to about zero and has been gradually getting warmer since. At nine o'clock this morning it was six above and the indications are that it will not grow materially colder than it was yester day afternoon and this morning but will likely moderate. A thermometer near the reform school registered 33 below and several in town SOfE SUNDAY PEDESTRIANS. went as low as 28 and 29. The fact that there was no wind yesterday morning caused the weather, as cold as it was, to be more bearable than Saturday when IS was the lowest point reached. Atchison, Kan., Feb. 12. Farmers in this section were wholly unprepared for the intense cold which, has prevailed the past few days. Many had. turned their stock into the fields, which were covered with snow, and it was impossible to get to them. A number have perished from the storm, and those that survived are in bad condition. The apple crop is as yet all right, and the prospects are favorable to an im mense crop this season. The only fruit to suffer is the peach crop, and it is conceded that the crop is damaged be yond compass, in fact it is conceded by fruit raisers that the peach crop will be comparatively nothing the coming season. Abilene, Kan., Feb. 12. AH records were broken by a temperature of 29 degrees below zero last night by the signal service thermometer. No reports have yet come in of any large losses among cattle. Farmers having only their natural farm stock were generally veil prepared. Feeders of Texas cattle will lose considerably because of the long continued cold and the lack of JACK FROST. THE DOMINANT IN SURGENT. shelter in many instances. Hard work day and night has been necessary by such feeders. No uneasiness is felt con cerning the wheat unless it may be the late sown fields. The fields are cohered by three inches of snow, drifted some what, which protects them. Actual con Si not be ermined """1 the giound thaws out. Fort Scott, Kan.TFeb. 12. -Much in quiry here leads to the belief that cattle losses this section, excepting as to ZnSn?hVe8' 13 ligrht- Large dealers and shippers state that the losses of hee wU1 be considerable It?? Ult ra,sers and parties best posted are not agreed as to damage to fruit crop, aside from peaches, it being conceded that the peach crop is rufned nd generally believed that other crops re damaged, bat if weather now md rates a fair crop of apples is expected. Z for Ml Government thermometers registered 24 degrees below zero this morning. Garden City, Kan., Feb. 12. For the past fourteen days it has been the cold est ever known in this section, running below zero every night and seldom reaching above 12 or 15 in the day time. About half the night it has reached 15 to 18 below and last night reached the unprecedented low mark of 32 degrees below, by the official gov ernment thermometer. Stock has suffer ed greatly, the greatest loss being in herds poorly fed and improperly shelter ed, some herds reaching a loss of 20 per cent. Among cattle well fed and sheltered the loss will not be so great. Fruit is probably all killed. But little wheat was sown in the county, but it is probably badly damaged. The ground is covered with three inches of snow. The thermometer stands 8 degrees be low zero tonight. TWO WOMEN FROZEN And Two Mail Carriers Believed to Have Perished in New York. New York, Feb. 13. Mary Goodwvn of Brooklyn, aged 33 years, was frozen to death on Sunday. An unidentified woman was found frozen to death in a hallway on Forty-seventh street in this city Sun day morning. She was thinly clad and had evidently sought shelter from the storm. Fears are entertained that Mai! Carriers Palmer and Hawkins of the New York of fice have .beon drowned. The two men left Hart's island for Citv island on Thurs day morning to deliver the mails. Thev were in a small boat and the high wind that was blowing and the floating ice made it impossible for them to control their craft. Six men in a larger boat who at tempted to rescue them were unable to do so, and it Is feared that the light boat was carried off into the sound and perhaps crushed or overturned. SNOWING IN PENNSYLVANIA, With the Mercury Five Degrees Below Zero. Fottsville, Pa., Feb. 13. The coal re gion is snowbound to the depth of sev eral feet. The snow drifted in a man ner never equalled before. Railroad traffic is suspended except for a few mail trains that are being forced through the drifts, hours behind time. Electric railways are completely tied up, and mails to suburban points are being transported on sleighs. Yester day and today the snowfall at times has been several inches an hour. The worst difficulty is threatened through scarcity of water due to the freezing of streams and reservoirs. Thermometer 5 degrees below zero. BLIZZARD IN CONNECTICUT. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 13. During last night the snowstorm which pre vailed intermittently during Saturday night and Sunday developed into one which- had many characteristics of a blizzard and today practically the whole state of Connecticut is suffering from a blinding snowstorm. BUFFALO LEFT BEHIND. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb., 13. The weather has moderated somewhat. At 8 a. m. the thermometer at the weather bureau registered zero, having risen from 2 below since 8 o'clock last night, A light snow is falling. STORM RAGING AT NEWBIIRQ. Newburg, N. Y., Feb. 13. A foot of snow fell here Sunday and a fierce storm still rages today. SNOWING AT AUBURN, N. Y. Auburn, N. Y., Feb. 13. The mercury at 8 o'clock this morning was 5 below zero and 9 o'clock hovered around the zero mark. A light snow is falling. THE READING GIVES UP. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 13. The Read ing railroad at noon today issued offi cial announcement of the entire aban donment of its train service until fur ther notice. The Pennsylvania railroad is moving about half of the regular scheduled passenger trains but has abandoned freight and coal trains. A SPECIAL BULLETIN Issued by the Weather Bureau at Washington. Washington, Feb. 13. The weather bu reau today issued the following special weather bulletin: United States Weather Bureau, Washington, Feb. 13. By far the most important feature of the weather this morning is the extreme j ii"i wt-rtintri Willi II pica tills iuuuf;i lilts Gulf states and Tennessee. The zero line extends through central Louisiana, south ern Mississippi and Central Georgia. At New Orleans the minimum temperature was 6 degrees, which was 9 degrees lower than any previous record. At Vicksburg the minimum temperature was 1 degree below zero: at Montgomery. 4 degrees be low zero: at Atlanta. degrees below zero and at Savannah 8 degrees above zero. In fact, throughout the whole Gulf region the temperatures were from 3 degrees to 9 degrees below any previous record, except possibly in Florida, from (which state re ports this morning are missing. It is evi dent, however, from an inspection of the prevailing conditions to the northward, that the line of freezing temperature ex tends into central Florida. Advisory messages were sent to Florida as early as Saturday night, and this in formation was supplemented on Sunday morning by warnings that the freezing temperature would extend as far smirh as Tampa by Monday morning. Special bul letins were also issued during Sunday in the west Gulf states. Another remarkable feature of this weather was the heavy enow whien has extended through the whole Atlantic coast district almost to Florida, particu larly heavy snows having fallen in the Po tomac valley and upper Chesapeake re gion. The heavy snows also extended in to New England. The storm on the At lantic coast which has caused the snowfall is moving rapidly to the north east, and clearing weather may be ex pected generally by tonight in the tntire Atlantic coast region, accompanied by colder weather in the middle districts. It will remain cold in the south, with most probably more freezing temperatures in northern and central Florida. Thirteen inches of snow has fallen at Washington since Saturday night. TEMPERATURE RECORD Of the Twelve Hours Ending at N oon Sunday. The following is the temperature record commencing at midnight Saturday, in Topeka: 12 m. 18 below zero. 1 a. m. 19 below. 2 a. m. 20 below. 3 a. m. 21 below. 4 a. m. 22 below. 5 a. m. 23 below. 6 a. m. 25 below. 7 a. m. 25 belcw. 8 a. m. 23 below. 9 a. m. 21 below. 10 a. m. 20 below. 11 a. m. 18 below. 12 noon 14 below. THE SOUTH SHIVERS. Temperature of 15 Below Zero at Anniston, Ala. Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 13. The south shivered today in a temperature of un precedented severity. From the gulf of Mexico, northward and from the Atlan tic coast to the west boundaries of Texas the cold wave has told heavily on the country and produces lowest temperatures ever known. Anniston, Ala., reported the lowest temperature, 15 below at 7 o'clock this (Continued on Sixth Page.) CRUSHED BY AN AVALANCHE. A Mass of Snow Near George town, Col., Breaks Loose And Travels Two Miles Down the Mountain Side. TREES AND BOULDERS Carried Along to the Valley Be low. Italian Miners and Their Fami- lies In Cottages Are Overwhelmed and a Number of Lives Lost. Georgetown, Colo., Feb. 13. The most terrible and disastrous snow slide ever known in Clear Creek county occurred at Silver Plume, four miles from here, at 8 o'clock Sunday morning. The slide started two miles away and came with terrific force, carrying along hugh boul ders and immense trees. A short distance from the starting point the avalanche parted, one section coming down Chiroke Gulch, taking with it two cabins occupied by Italians, and the shaft house of the Cary City mine. The other slide came down Willi han Gulch, between the Pelican and the Seven Thirty mines. The latter did the most damage. Settlements of miners.mostly Italians, were situated in both gulches. For a week or more the inhabitants have moved from place to place to escape threatened disaster, should the moun tains of snow start down the moun tain side. Some lingered in their homes and were carried away in the slide. It is estimated that thirteen bodies are still beneath the piles of snow in the two gulches. EIGHT BODIES RECOVERED. Denver, Colo., Feb. 13. A Times spec ial from Silver Plume, Colo., says: Many people living in cabins on the mountain sides are moving today in order to avoid possible death in snow slides such as that which swept down Cheyenne canon yesterday, killing at least ten persons. Much heavier masses of snow than that which came down yesterday still cling to the mountain sides and are liable to become dislodged at any mo ment. The bodies of the missing men who were carried away in the avalanche of yesterday are still being hunted. So far eight bodies have been-recovered. Three men who were caught in the slide were taken out with only slight bruises, and they will recover. It is known that thirteen persons were in the slide and that two are missing. Possibly a dozen more were caught by the slide but the Italians who lived in the canon are averse to giving information. The men who were saved say that it was by a miracle for they were unable to get out of the way of the moving mass of snow. The known dead are: DOMINIC DESTEFNO, HIS WIFE, HIS SON AND HIS DAUGHTER. JOSEPH, JOHN and PETER TON DEN I. JEROME GUIANZI. JOHN BIETTO. ENRIC NAVARIA. INJURED. Tony Negretto, arm broken. Joseph Concono, head cut. Tonv Maloni. leg broken. The bodies of Destef no and of Joseph Tondeni have not been recovered. AVALANCHE 300 FEET WIDE. Where the slide finally stopped the drift is 300 feet across and from 50 to 75 feet in depth. It is fully 1,500 feet in length. The drift is filled with timbers and boulders and the rescue party found it almost impossible at present to to dig in the hard mass. The rescue party was made up of the mining and business men of this place and George town and they worked in relays. Ropes were used and sometimes 75 men would be hauling away on them to get a big log out of the snow. From within ten minutes after the slide had come down the gulch until late into the night men were working in the drift to rescue the missing ones and then it was only skimmed over. At Destefno's cabin no trace of the man could be fouttd. The roof of the cabin was taken off and the sides were crush ed in. On the floor sat the body of the wife. On one side was the boy as if kneeling in prayer, while directly in front of the mother was the little girl of two years in the same supplicating attitude. The mother was leaning over the little girl as if giving her protec tion. All three were dead. The snow was packed solidly around them. The ore houses of the Pelican and Cary City mines swept away and it is estimated that $50,000 worth of ore was carried into the basin between the mountains and lost. ALONG THE COAST The Wind is Blowing at the Hate of 60 Miles an Hour. Lewes, Del., Feb. 13. A terrible bliz zard is ranging along the coast. At Cape Henry the velocity of the wind is 60 miles an hour and at noon the speed was 15 miles an hour below that. Breakwater harbor is full of heavy ice, blown in by the northeast gale. This is likely to cause damage to the ship ping anchored here when it moves out. The United States collier Sterling is lying dangerously near the breakwater and will be damaged unless the gale soon abates. The schooner Elihu Bail ey is aground near the point of Cape Henlopen in a bad condition. The surf men attached to the life saving station have been forced o abandon for the present their patrol, of the coast. The storm is equally as severe as the bliz zard of 1888, which wrought such awful damage along the coast. SPREADS OVER, DELAWARE. Railroad Traffic is Effectually Blocked Throughout the State. Wilmington, Del., Feb. 13. The bliz zard of last night and this morning ef fectually blockaded railroad travel in Delaware. On the Delaware railroad, which traverses the length of the state, the track clearing crews are assembled at the various stations awaiting orders, it having been decided that it was use less to attempt to open the tracks until the snow should abate. The north bound Norfolk express.due in Wilming ton at 4:15 a. m., was reported at 3 o'clock at Delmar, the last station on the road 97 miles below Wilmington, completely stalled and likely to remain so indefinitely. The passengers were cared for at the hotel and boarding houses. The couth bound Norfolk ex press which left New York at 8:30 o'clock last night managed to reach Wilmington today, but no attempt will be made to send it down the Delaware road until there is some assurance that it will get through. All the peninsular branch railroads are blocked, with no trains running. STREETS IMPASSABLE As the Result of Snow Drifts in Phila delphia, Philadelphia, Feb. 13. The storm in this vicinity has assumed the propor tions of a blizzard. This has had the effect of piling the light, dry snow up in drifts until some streets become im passable to the trolley cars. Railroads are all seriously affected by the bliz zard. Trains are late and In some in stances schedules have been abandoned. Shipping remains at a standstill on the Delaware river. A coal famine is imminent in ports that depend on Phila delphia for a supply of anthracite. HEAVY SNOW AT BOSTON. Boston, Feb. 13. The heavy snow storm which began here on Saturday in creased in force during the night and this morning a high northeast wind, was driving the snow into big drifts and covering the railroad tracks with a mass of snow that soon began to delay traffic in spite of all efforts to keep open the lines. The thermometer is 12 degrees above zero. ENCASED IN ICE. The Fuerst Bismarck Arrives After Tempestuous Passage. New York, Feb. 13. The Hamburg American line steamer Fuerst Bismarck arrived Saturday from Genoa after the longest passage the steamer ever made across the Atlantic and one of the roughest in the experience of her offi cers. The voyage from Gibraltar to New York was made in twelve days and seven hours. Terrific gales were encoun tered from February 1 to 7, enormous seas frequently sweeping over the ves sel smashing rails, doors and other woodwork. Several ventilators were swept overboard and two boats were carried from their chocks. On February 3, Otto Lohse, a sailor, was washed over board and lost. For five days the great steamer rolled violently and labored heavily until the decks were flooded and many of the passengers were violently ill. On approaching the coast intensely cold weather was met and the spray froze as it fell, covering the hull, boats and rigging far up the masts with a heavy coating of ice. The Fuerst Bismarck appeared like a veritable iceberg. The outer gangways were so laden witlilce that they appear ed like tunnels though some ice cave with enormous ieiies hanging from the decks above. The bulwarks and rails were swelled to enormous proportions, while the bridges were one solid mass. The crew had to break the ice from the decks and gangways in order to land the passengers. "DON'T NEED THEM." That is What Lieutenant Colonel Little Says of the Philippines. Abilene, Feb. 13. Mr. and Mrs. T. Little received a letter last evening from their son Ed. who is lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Kansas. It was written from La Rosa barracks, Manila, and dated Christmas. Colonel Little savs the weather at that time was ideal warm in the davtime and cool in the evening. with nights most beau tiful. He says it seems much like Cairo. He sent with the letter some pictures of several of the "W of Manila. They don't look much like the same "quality" in Ab ilene. The women, he says, wear slippers but no stockings. They also go bareheaded, while the little girls wear huge hats. He thinks it is hardly the country for Americans and ventures the opinion that we are big enough already and can get along without the islands. OIL INSPECTION STEAL. Inspector Spencer Who Wants to Hold the Job Says Names Are All Right. Since it was charged in the recent state labor society convention that some of the names upon the endorsements presented by S. O. Spencer to further his candidacy for state oil inspector were bogus he has issued a "deft" and offers $500 as a reward for proof that a single name is not bona fide. Mr. Spencer has been appointed oil inspector and is ready to take the of fice. The charge that some of the names were bogus was made by C. J. Ruhland, an engineer from Osawatomie, and a member of the Brotherhood. Spencer says: "Ruhland is a Pop and is sore and that is the reason why he has been attempting to make a fight on me." THIS $5,000 NEEDED In Order to Put State Historical So ciety in Good Shape. House bill No. 275, now in the hands of the ways and means committee, pro vides for an appropriation of $5,000 for furnishing the new rooms of the state historical society. This is a modest sum for shelving a library of 100,000 volumes, 20,000 volumes of which are newspapers and magazines. The 21,000 volumes of books will probably go into the old shelves of the state library when that goes out. The appropriation of $5,000 will go for shelving newspaper files, and fitting up a museum for the 20 years accumulation of relics, pictures, etc. Of the newspapers, 13,700 are bound vol umes of Kansas newspapers, represent ing every county and community in the state. This is the most valuable and useful part of the library. The library of the state historical society is of in estimable value to the people of the state, and it will grow in value and in terest for all time to come. Its proper housing should no longer be neglected. Ante-Nuptial Contracts. The supreme court has decided that ante-nuptial contracts in which the wife stipulates that she shall retain her personal property to devise or will as she pleases and then dies in testate the property is inherited by her husband. The decision was rendered in a case from Atchison county in which John Ernst is the defendant. Warmer at Omaha. Omaha, Feb. 13. The lowest recorded temperature during the night was 9 de grees below zero. The wind has shifted to the south and the local forecaster of the weather bureau says the indications are for a gradual and eteady rise of temperature. A NIGHTATTACK. Filipinos Opened Fire on Amer ican Lines Last Night Firing at Long Range and Without Effect. THEY GOT NO KEPLT And Soon Desisted and Settled Down. Otis Cables List of Deaths From Disease and Wounds. Sergeant Sheldon and Private Howard Among Them. Manila, Feb. 13. 10:35 a. m. Pursuing their customary tactics, the insurgents on the extreme left" of the line opened fire at long range on the American troops last night, maintaining their fire for a few minutes, before settling down. None of their shots took effect, bow ever, and the Americans did not reply. THE FILIPINO FLAG. All was quiet along the rest of the line. The Concord is now lying off Par anaque. The weather at night now Is cool and showers are frequent. Private Meisick of the Montana regi ment died in the hospital yesterday. DEATHS IN HOSPITAL. Washington, Feb. 13 General Otis to day cabled the war department as fol lows: Adjutant General, "Washington: Fol lowing deaths since last report not in cluding those killed in action: Feb. 4. Victor E. Schofield, private. Company A, First South Dakota, Variola. Feb. 6. Michael P. Crowley, private. Company D, Second Oregon, dysentery; John Marion, private. Company K, Third artillery, suppurative tonsolitis; James Garvey, private. Company A, First Tennessee, variola. Feb. 8. Daniel Kyger, private. Com pany I, First Washington, typhoid fever. Feb. 10. Charles Lillie, private. Com pany I, First Colorado, acute diarrhoea from gun shot wounds in action. Feb. 8. Jay Sheldon, sergeant, Cora- INSURGENT COURIER WITH A DIS PATCH FOR AGUINALDO. pany I, Twentieth Kansas; W. Chop wood, private, Company D, First Wash ington. Feb. 11. I. J. Howard, private, Com pany B, Twentieth Kansas. OTIS. Manila, Feb. 13. Adjutant General. Washington: Everything quiet this morning; business in city resuming former activity. OTIS. A CORRECTION. Washington, Feb. 13. General Otis to day cabled: Manila, Feb. 13. Adjutant General, Washington: No Dolph Miller in Fifty first Iowa. Randolph Miller, Company A, that regiment, sick in Honolulu. OTIS. MANILAJ1A1LS. When Steamers Will Arrive at Frisco And Depart For the Philippine Isles. Regular mails from Philippine Islands arrive at San Francisco: February 18, Pekin; Feb. 28, Gaelic. March 7, Hong Kong Maru, March 17, China; March 25, Doric. April 1, Nippon Maru; April 11, Rio de Janeiro; April 18, Coptic; April 23, America Maru. May 6, Pekin; May 13, Gaelic; May 23, Hong Kong Maru; May 30, China. June 9, Doric; June 17, Nippon Maru; June 24, Rio de Janeiro. July 4, Coptic; July ll.America Maru; July 21, Pekin; July 29, Gaelic. August 5, Hong Kong Maru; August 15, China; August 22, Doric. September 1, Nippon Maru. Regular mails to Philippine Island3 leave San Francisco on the following dates: Feb. 21, America Maru. March 1, Pekin; March 9, Gaelic; March 17, Hong Kong Maru; March 25, China. April 4, Doric; April 12, Nippon Maru; April 20, Rio de Janeiro; April 28, Cop tic. May 6, America Maru; May 16,Pekin; May 24, Gaelic. June 1, Hong Kong Maru; June 9, Doric; June 27, Nippon Maru. DODGING THE ISSUE. Friends of the Waterworks Show Their Hands in the Mayor Fight. The opposition to Mr. Drew Is trying its best to divert the issue from the water works question to something else. Mr. Brooks has been nicely treat ed by his opponents. He has been given credit for being a very nice sort of a gentleman; but he certainly has been on both sides of the water works ques tion the past month. What the Journal said on this subject was substantiated by a well known citizen whose name was given and the statement was sim ply unanswerable. The Journal fails to see why the op position to Mr. Drew should attack the present city administration. There is only one reason for it and that is that the present mayor and council have been practically a unit on the subject of securing the city ownership of the water works plant and in efforts to pro vide the people with water, plenty of it and at reasonable rates. Mr. Fellows' conduct of the office of mayor in co-operation with his council has made a good record for Topeka. One of the best ever made. Why it should be attacked now is certainly without cause, unless it be through fear that the influence of the present administration will carry out the plans of the present city authorities. Whatever abuse may be heaped upon the Journal the Journal can probably stand, inasmuch as it knows it is right on this water works question, and there is no reason why it should express itself in favor of Mr. Drew when so good a man as he is a candidate for the office. The Issue in this campaign is the water works one, and no amount of abuse of the Journal or reflection on Mr. Drew and the present city admin istration should divert the voters. Mr. Drew may be unfortunate in not having the support of the morning paper, but when the fact is considered that he has been a partisan of citv ownership of the water works and his vote as a member of the city council has always been cast in opposition to the water company and for the people of Topeka, it is not difficult to under stand the motive for the opposition to Mr. Drew. The owner of that paper managed the water works bond election for the water company and that he failed was no fault of his. The people should be wide awake. A hundred different plans will be put in operation to divert their attention to other issues. But the effort to arouse partisanship is one of the most absurd yet attempted. Mr. Drew has been one of the staunch Republicans of Topeka for, twenty-five years. He has never wavered in his loyalty, and his position on the water works question does not affect his standing as a Republican with the people of Topeka, though it may with the friends of the water com pany. Councilman Drew has never held a fat office. He worked with his trowel while Frank Brooks enjoyed the fruits of po litical preferment in the remunerative position of register of deeds He has served four years as a member of the city council when the compensation was trifling and has always stood for the best interests of the city. He has been thoroughly tried and the people know that the administration of the affairs of the city will be safe in his hands. FITZ WILL BE FAVORITE. About 10 to 8 Will Be the Odds on His Match With Jeffries. New York, Feb. 13. The business-like way in which the FItzsimmons-Jeffries match was made was favorably comment ed upon by the sporting fraternity. Fitzsimmons will rule favorite when the men come together. Joe Vendig, one of the heaviest bettors on sporting events, remarked after the men had been matched that the champion should carry the odds at about 10 to 8 or 10 to 7. The articles of agreement provide that neither of the fighters shall wear bandages on the hands; that the gloves shall weigh not less than five ounces each; that the winner shall take the entire purse and that the referee is to be agreed upon when the men sign articles with the club offer ing the purse. The articles of agreement provide: That the contest shall be to a finish if such contest can be arranged, and not less than 25 rounds if contest is to tako place in a state where only limited round bouts are permitted. That the principals agree to accept the largest purse offered before midnignt, Feb ruary 24, 18S9. That neither principal shall engage in a glove contest with other than a sparring partner between this date and the diy of the contest, and that the man violating this clause forfeit the $2,500 now deposited with the New York Journal. That the contest shall take place be tween the 24th day of April and the 2Cth day of Alay, inclusive. BYE WHISKY TRUST Will Take in Eastern Distilleries with Capital of $60,000,000. New York, Feb. 13. Following the re cent combination of Kentucky or'Bour bon" whisky distillers come the an nouncement that the distillers of rye whisky in this section of the country are about to form a similar trust. It is understood the American Spirits Manufacturing company will be the prime movers in effecting the consolida tion, which, report has it, will include among others these distilleries: J. A. Daugherty of Philadelphia; Monticello Distilling company, Ullman-Goldsbor-ough company, Melvate Distilling com pany and the Gottschalk company, all of Baltimore; Joseph Finch Sons and Philip Hamburger company, of Pitts burg; Thompson Distilling company, of West Brownsville, Pa.; S. Dillinger Sons, Ruffsdale, Pa.; A. Overhott Co., Broad Ford, Pa.; Wilson Distil lery company, Highspire, Pa.; Moore Sinnott, Gibsontown, Pa.; Foyst Distil lery, Glen Rock, Pa.; James Clark, Dis tilling company .Cumberland, Md.; Sher wood Distilling company, Cockeysville, Md.,and the Hannis Distilling company, Martinsville, W. Va. The capitalization of the united com panies is estimated at about $60,000,000. IN SIBERIAN PRISONS May Be Found the Crew of the Lost Sealer E. E. Webster. San Francisco Feb. 13. A late report to the effect that a number of American prisoners whose names are unknown, are confined in a certain Siberian prison undergoing penal punishment has aroused a hope that among these men may be found the crew of the lost seal ing schooner E. E. Webster which was last heard from in Bering sea waters in April, 1896. It is thought the Web ster either drifted into Asiatic waters or was purposely sailed across the straits by her captain, Mr. I. Lieber of this city, the owner of the Webster, however, says that there is little or no doubt that the vessel went down dur ing a severe storm and that all on board were lost. M'CLURG GO. BURNED OUT. The Store of Chicago's Noted Book Dealers Is Completely Destroyed by Fire With Its Contents. A LOSS OF 6650,000. They Carried the Largest Num ber of Old Books And Manuscripts in the Country Outside the Libraries. Chicago, Feb. 13. The five-story brick building at the northwest corner of Wa bash avenue and Madison street, occu pied by the book and stationery firm of A. C. McClurg Co., was, with its con tents, totally destroyed by fire Sunday, entailing a loss of nearly $650,000, of which $500,000 was on the stock. Mc Clurg Co. carried one of the largest stocks of rare old books and manuscripts outside of the great libraries, including many volumes which can not be re placed. All these were lost. The fire was started by an explosion of gas which leaked from a pipe on the third floor and spread with amazing rapidity. Before the first engine arrived, flames were pouring from the second, third and fourth story windows, and in a very short time the floors commenced to fall in and the walls to bulge. The firemen from the first had no hope of saving the building and directed their efforts to preventing the flames spreading to Mandel Bros.' dry goods store, across the alley. Considerable difficulty was experienced by them at first on account of the low water pres sure, many of the hydrants being partly frozen up, and it was nearly twenty minutes after the fire broke out before the pressure was great enough to carry the streams to the third story. To add to the difficulty of the situation, the temperature was several degrees below zero and a bitter north wind was blow ing. Many of the firemen were severe ly frost-bitten. About two hours after the fire started the Madison street wall fell out, tons of red hot bricks crashing into the street, and breaking many large plate glass windows on the opposite side. Several of the firemen had nar row escapes from being caught. Mandel. Bros, suffered a loss of about $10,000, chiefly from water, their base ment being flooded. Other losses, con sst ins of. broken plate glass and dam age by smoke and water, will probably ammint to $2,500. McCIurg's stock was insured for about $350,000. FIRES IN NEW YORK. Two Aggregate a Loss of a Quarter Million. New York, Feb. 13. The factory building of the Manhattan Brass com pany, on East Twenty-eighth street, was destroyed by fire today, together with a large quantity of valuable finished material and machinery. The estimated loss is $250,000. There was almost a panic in several big tenement houses adjoining, but the flames were confined to the factory building by the firemen although hampered by the piercing cold and many frozen hydrants. Fire early this morning did $40,000 damage to Nilsson hall. East Fifteenth, street, and eight firemen had a narrow escape from death. The men were work ing on the roof when it collapsed, pre cipitating them to the floor inside, ai distance of thirty feet. LIVE STOCK STARVING. Thousands of Head Perishing in Eastern Oregon. Long Creek, Ore., Feb. 13. Thousands of range horses are said to be starving to death in eastern Oregon. Cattle and sheep buyers who have recently visited this city and who have also been in the counties of Crook, Gilliam, Morrow, Baker, Wallowa, Union, Umatilla, Har ney and Malheur, say that in every sec tion they have visited with very few exceptions the owners of both horses and cattle have despaired of saving more than a. small percentage of their stock. KING JOINS IN CARNIVAL. Merry Masque raders Fill the Streets of Venice. Venice, Feb. 13. Jeudi Gras In Venice was marked by the usual gayettes of the waning carnival, by the participation of royalty in a public function and also by the paying of municipal honors at the funeral of the noted sculptor, Au gusto Benvenuti. The plaza illumination was a brilliant feature of the evening, the battle of the flowers having given excitement to the day's proceedings, while masquer ading knew neither day nor night. The event in which his majesty was con cerned was the opening of a lottery in stituted by King Humbert for the bene fit of the children's hospital. BIG BRIDGE SHRINKS. The Brooklyn Edifice Under goes Contraction of 14 1-2 Feet. New York, Feb. 13. On Saturday when the thermometer was 3 degrees below zero, measurements of the Brook lyn bridge were taken of the trusses and other parts to find out how much the rnntraptinn had been. In comparing these figures with those taken last July when the thermometer was su degrees above it was found that the difference was fourteen feet and a half. Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 13. For Kansas: Gen erally fair tonight and Tuesday;warmeB tnniirht- warmer in east portion Tues day; southerly winds.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,; MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. always make the I e Standard Typewriter and its operator better friends. IIIttOFF, SEAMS BENEDICT, J. F. MYEKS, Local STUDY OF AGU1NALDO. 'A writer in the American Review of Reviews gives a character sketch of Aguinaldo which presents that leader of the Philippines in a somewhat differ ent light from that in which he is re garded by most Americana. The follow ing is an abstract of the article in question: To understand Aguinaldo thoroughly one must understand the Philippines thoroughly. To do this with existing Information is exceedingly difficult. It is, therefore, more difficult to make a correct and. complete analysis of the man. In his features, face and skill Aguln aldo looks more like a European than a Malay. He is what would be called a handsome man, and might be compared with many young men in the province of Andalusia, Spain. If there be truth in phrenology, he Is a man above the common. The phrenologist would be borne out by the consensus of those who know him. Friends and enemies agree that he is intelligent, ambitious, far-sighted, brave, self-controlled, honest, moral, vindictive, and at times cruel. He pos sesses the quality which friends call wisdom and enemies call craft. Ac cording to those who like him, he is courteous, polished, thoughtful, and dignified; according to those who dis like him, he is insincere, pretentious, vain, and arrogant. Both admit him to be genial, generous, self-sacrificing, popular, and capable In the administra tion of affairs. Like all great men, he has had a very checkered career. He claims to have been born In the province of Ca vite, and at any rate, it was in this pro vince that he was first known as a lit tle boy. His friends say that he was the Bon of a Spanish general; his enemies at Manila that he was the offspring of a dissolute but learned Jesuit. At the age of 4 he was a houseboy in the home of a Jesuit priest in Cavite. A house boy in the Philippines, is In China.plays the part of a house-dog rather than, that of a domestic servant. If the head of the house is cruel he is kicked and cuffed by everybody and lives on short commons; if his master Is kind and affectionate he enjoys about the same attention as one of the child ren of the family. Aguinaldo's master was a very kind man and took a deep Interest in the welfare of his little pro tege. He dressed him well, so much so as to excite the notice and even the wrath of some neighbors. More import ant still, he gave the boy an education, which, though unequal to what every child receives in the United tSates, was a hundredfold better than what is be stowed upon the little Tagals in Luzon. About the year 1SSS Aguinaldo had some trouble with the authorities and went to Hong Kong, where he obtained his first knowledge of the great world outside the narrow Spanish civilization in which he had been brought up. He Joined the crew of a Chinese warship which had some European instructors, managed to gain a wide knowledge of military and naval warfare, and read many works upon strategy. During the past year he surprised many new ac quaintances by his knowledge of the fa mous battles of Europe and America. In the beginning of our trouble with Spain Aguinaldo showed remarkable foresight. He made contracts with ad venturers to deliver arms in the Phil ippines, and he displayed extraordinary activity in personally visiting American naval officers, consular representatives, merchants, sea captains, and private citizens. He also called upon the lead ing English papers there and tried in every way to arouse sympathy for his people and his cause. In this work he displayed a patriotism unmixed with selfishness. The man's shrewdness Is seen In the fact that, although he had the power, he did not have himself appointed pres ident or didtator of either of the islands the people, or Luzon itself. He was simply the president of the revolution ary government, and the revolutionary government consisted of the command ing officers of the revolutionary army. Practically he gave his army a civil and political phase and called it the government. He continued the tribal system in the provinces and villages, laid down a rough code f official eti quette, and closed the state paper with directions as to insignia of office. In this he prescribed for himself a collar of gold, a triangle badge of gold, a. whistle of gold, and a cane with head and tassels of gold. This barbaric style of ornamentation may seem funny to the American reader, but it is very quiet when compared with some of the official court dresses abroad. A simple uniform wouli have but little meaning to an eastern mind. The addition of KOHL'S RHEUMATIC CURE. This Is a sure cure for Rhea. rnatism, Goat, Lumbago, and all diseases caused by Impurities ot the Blood. PREPARED ONLY BT Charles W. Kohl, Ph. G., PHARMACIST, 223 Zaasaa Ave., Topeka, Zas. J Price $1.00. j.::..;H.,.-1. plfftr'i'ir TtriMl 1 1 I J mi io n 105 If. 9tb St., Kansas City, Mj. Dealer, Topeka, Kansas. silver and gold, of collars, badges, whis tles, and tassels would satisfy the ar tistic of barbaric instinct. For this rea son the proclamation may be regarded as well adapted to the existing circum stances, and to show Aguinaldo to pos sess a good knowledge of human na ture. BIG CANEFIELD FIRE. Heavy Loss Sustained on tho Makeo Hawaiian Plantation. Seattle, Wn., Feb. 13. A terible cane fire was raging In the fields of the Ma kee Sugar company, near Kaiuai, when the steamer James Makee left that point for Honolulu. All day the over seers had been working with all the men they could command to plow down the cane in front of the fire, and in this way check it. Up to the time the steam er left this had been absolutely without avail. The fire jumped the break every time. The valuable manufacturing buildings of the company full of machinery were in danger of destruction. Even if the fire was checked before the buildings were reached, the loss on the burned fields would be very great. The fire started in the lower or wainuinui fields. Manager Fairchilds was of the opinion that it was the work of a band of dis charged natives, who had previously been employed in the cane fields. They were found to be dishonest, and threat ened to destroy the plantation when they were discharged. MASSING AN ARMY. Bnssia is Pouring Troops Into Port Arthur. San Francisco, Feb. 13. Advices from the Orient state that the Russian gov ernment Is pouring troops into Port Arthur and Talien-Wan on the ground that the force now garrisoned at those places Is too small, in view of the ap parent discontent of the inhabitants of the Liao-Tung peninsula, who have within the last two months risen up against the Russians in 13 townships and districts. No less than 9,000 men have landed at Port Arthur within a month and it is intended to add 25,000 more before the end of the Chinese first moon, making a full army corps of some 36.000 in ad dition to the garrisons of 15.000 men for Port Arthur and 8.000 for Talien-Wan. GEORGIA PEACHES GONE. Half the Crop at Least Killed by the Cold. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 13. It is estimated that one-half of the Georgia peach crop has been killed and the other half greatly damaged as a result of the cold wave. From the Florida line as far north as Barnesville, the cold has brought great damage to the fruit trees In the great fruit district about Marshallville and Fort Valley it is said there are thousands of trees that are black and crisp from the freeze. From Barnesville northward the fruit has not been damaged. U. S. POSTAL LAWS Ar Made to Include the Entire Island of Cuba, "Washington, Feb. 13. The United States postal system has been adopted In its entirety on the island of Cuba by a decree promulgated by Director of Posts Rathbone at Havana. The action was urged by Director Rathbone and authorized by cable message of Post master General Smith after a full con sideration by the president and cabinet. It is a complete substitution of the Spanish postal scheme by the American system and applies to all money order and registry business and stamp sales. It reduces the letter postage rates to those in use in this country. ST. LOUIS CABLE ROAD SOLD Line formerly Property of Charles Green Sold for $500,000 to Satify a mortgage. St. Louis, Feb. 13. The People's rail way, which has been in the hands of a receiver for two years, was sold at auc tion today by the sheriff. August Gehner, representing himself, Charles Parsons, the banker; L. M. Rumsey, and other third mortgage bondholders, bought the road for 1500, 000. The People's railway, a. cable road, was formerly the property of Charles Green. The fight between Green, and the Rumsey-Gehner-Parsons faction has been carried through the courts for several years. The company will be re organized. SIX GIRL SPECULATORS Play the Cripple Creek Stock Ex change for Trip to Paris Expenses. Cripple Creek, Feb. 13. The members of the Paris club have closed their first deal. Saturday afternoon the club soldi 3,000 shares of Kimberly for that it bought last week at 6c and as both the buying and selling figures were net they made a profit of $30 on the trans action. The public knows little of the Paris club, but It has come to light that the company has a paid In capital of $200, and the members are six young ladies of the city. They intend to visit the, world's fair in Paris in 1909, and pro pose te procure the means by Investine la mining stocks. ORDERSABIC GUN Uncle Sam Makes a Contract With Inventor Gathmann For an 18 Inch Gun Which Fires Aeriai Torpedoes. THE STANCIIEST SHIP Can Be Sunk by One of Its 12 Inch Shells. The Neir Weapon For Use In Coast Defense. Chicago, Feb. 13. Louis Gathmann, the inventor of this cityi has Just re ceived an order from the government to construct a new 18-inch gun which shall fire his aerial torpedoes, one of which is said to be sufficient to sink a battle ship. The order comes after a series of experiments carried out at Sandy Hook, in which, the inventor demonstrated that by using shells con structed according to the Gathmann system the stanchest man-of-war afloat can be sunk by a small torpedo boat. In the tests made 12-inch shells have destroyed armor plates such as protect the best ships in the navy. So con vincing have been the experiments that Secretary Alger has directed Gath mann to construct a gun using his new 18-inch shells, which will be placed in the government service for coast de fense. Mr. Gathmann believes this order is only one of many that the government will give for his new torpedo guns. Their great success has attracted the atten tion of army and navy officials during the past three months and many sen ators and congressmen have been con vinced of their value by witnessing the experiments at Sandy Hook. When seen at his home, 46 Lincoln avenue, last night Mr. Gathmann talked freely of his new invention. "Armor will Blv"e no further protection to ships," he said, "as I have broken every kind of armor used by the government, from a plate five inches in thickness to one seven teen inches thick, the most of it being armor which the ordnance officers boasted was the best which could be made. Against the aerial torpedoes con structed according to the Gathmann system a vessel protected by armor will be no better than an unprotected cruiser. I have demonstrated that an 18-inch shell will destroy the largest battleship. "One of my aerial torpedo guns of the same cost and weight as a modern 12 inch gun has an efficiency equal to that of all the 12-inch guns of our navy combined, when tested at close range. At a range of more than 3.000 yards it would prove superior to the guns of a first-class battleship. My aerial tor pedoes can be fired at long range as well as short, and with perfect safety. If an 18-inch torpedo gun were placed in the bow of a Katahdin in place of the ram she would have practically a tele scopic or detachable ram reaching for miles. The chances for the modern battleship against such an opposing craft would be doubtful In the extreme. "Torpedo guns could be mounted on any man-of-war, but in constructing new battleships I would suggest that craft be built according to the plan of the Ericsson destroyer, having a tor pedo gun in the bow. The craft should be heavily armored, so that it would be practically proof against any of the present guns. Any battleship of the modern type would be destroyed in a duel with such an engine of warfare. As such torpedo boats may have a speed of twenty knots or more, it is hard to see how any of our men-of-war could escape destruction in a single handed fight. "The cost of construction of these craft would be about one-third that of a battleship or first-class protected cruiser." A model of the craft suggested by Gathmann is now in the possession of the naval board at Washington. The new gun ordered constructed will be completed within eight months. It will be built at the South Bethlehem Iron works at South Bethlehem, Pa., and will, when completed, be set up at Sandy Hook for use in coast defense. The shells fired by the new gun will contain 550 pounds, of guncotton and will be capable of splintering the largest warship. Mr. Gathmann is detained at his home by illness, but expects to leave for Washington in a few days to ar range the details of his new contract. BUST OF SCHLEY Presented to Congressman Berry by Kansas Admirers Through Sena- tor Harris. Washington, Feb. 13. Representative A. S. Berry was the recipient of a hand some bust of Admiral W. S. Schley this morning. The following letter Is self explanatory: "Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 30, 1899. Hon. W. A. Harris, United States Sen ator, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: We send by express today in your care a bust of Admiral Schley, a sample of Kansas art, executed by Mr. John Shaunessy of this city, and donated by him for the purpose of being presented to Hon. A. S. Berry, M, C, of Kentucky, champion in the house for Admiral Schley in his controvery as to whom shall be accredited the glory of the naval victory at Santiago de Cuba. "We have taken considerable pride In the manifestation of genius in our fel low townsman, and have prevailed upon him to allow us to send the bust to you, to present in the name of the artist, Mr. Shaunessy, and as a token of the western esteem for the intrepid commander. "Believing; as Kansana always be lieve, that honor should be to whom honor is due, we do not consider it a belittlement of any officer or man in the navy to thus express our satisfac tion with the acknowledged verdict of 75,000,000 people. It is in recognition of Mr. Berry as the champion of this ver dict that we desire this gift to be made to him. "After considering the matter among your friends here it was decided that the presentation of the bust should be made personally, and we came to the conclusion that no one would more wil lingly or could more appropriately do it than you. "Trusting that the spirit which ani mates us will meet with your approba tion.or if you can not consistently do so, will you kindly select some suitable Kansan to make the presentation, we remain, sincerely yours, "H. S. J3WINGLEY, "S. S. KING, "J. L. CARLISLE." The bust is a srlendid likeness of Ad miral Schley, and has been admirably executed. It Is about ten inches high and at the base of the pedestal is the inscription: THE HERO OF SANTIAGO BAT. Senator Harris presented the bust to Representative Berry, and the latter re sponded in fitting language, and after ward wrote the following to the donors: "Gentlemen: The very admirable bust of Commodore Schley, presented to me this morning by your distin guished Senator Harris, is highly ap preciated. "I am glad the American people are willing to do justice to the real hero of Santiago. "I know it is not so much intended as a compliment to me as an approval of the management of the great battle which crowned the American navy with imperishable glory. "I am very cordially yours, "A. S. BERRY." WANTS MORE REINDEER. W. T. Harris Desirous of Continuing the Experiments in Alaska. Washington, Feb. iS. An echo of the disastrous reindeer experiment of the government last winter, when a rein deer expedition was sent to the relief of the ice-bound whalers at Point Bar row, was heard in the house of repre sentatives today, when W. T. Harris, the commissioner of education, asked for an appropriation of $25,000 for con tinuing the experiment. One-half of this sum is to be used at the outset in buying reindeer in Siberia and transporting them to Bering Straits and Point Rodney to replace the rein deer borrowed by the government for the Point Barrow expedition. It is also proposed that the reindeer station in Alaska be maintained for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer for domestic purposes. Thi3 will cost $12,500 next year. A Falsehood Costs $5,000. Danville, 111., Feb. 13. Mrs. Mary Montgomery has secured a verdict for $5,000 against Attorney A. R. Hill of Danville for stating that he had obtain ed a divorce for her when he had not. She had married again before discover ing that she had been deceived. Th HROTS OF THE. CHAMPIONS AGONCILLO. Helen JH. Gougar Calls Him Patriotic and a Statesman. Layfayette, Ind., Feb. 13. Helen M. Gougar sends the following to a Chi cago paper: "Permit me to most respectfully en ter my protest to your unfair and flip pant treatment of Agoncillo the digni fied, scholarly, patriotic and statesman like representative of the government of the Philippines. No man, under the trying circumstances of his visit, could have conducted himself more consist ently or more statesmanlike than he has done. No one could have been treated in a more demagogish manner, more disgracefully or unjustly than he has been by the president, William Mc Kinley. It is enough to make every American hide his head in shame. "Again.your arraignment of the mem bers of the United States senate who voted against the ratification of a treaty that endangers the. life of popu lar government and violates the spirit of the constitution deserves rebuke. Not upon these honorable men, but upon the head of our unworthy president is the blood of every man who fell before the guns in the recent engagement at Ma nila. "It is high time that statesmanship should take the place of blind party zeal in the conduct of the press of the country. Dignity of discussion will be more tolerable to your readers than flippant comments on the grave situa tion confronting this nation under the administration of the weakest president that ever endangered the welfare of this government. Respectfully youVs for a government of and by the Cubans, Por to Ricans and Filipinos for Cubans, Porto Ricans and Filipinos, "HELEN M. GOUGAR." COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS. Walker Whiteside returns to this city tomorrow night in romantic drama. He will be seen at the Grand Opera House in the English version of the Parisian success, "Lion Amoureaux." The Eng lish version is called "The Red Cock ade" and Mr. Whiteside is the sole own er and producer. It is' a charming ro mantic comedy-drama with an Intense heart and love interest. Its comedy is delicious, and the dramatic situations convincing and forceful. The play is modern in tone and of the most correct construction; following as it does in a great measure the French original, Is proof sufficient of its excellence. It is one of the notable productions of the season. On Wednesday and Thursday even ings Marshall's band will be heard at the Crawford theater. Heretofore, the annual concerts of the band have been so well attended that standing room has been taken, and it was decided to di vide the concert this year between two evenings. The sale of seats opened this morning. Prof. Lewis Lindsay Dyche, of the state university, will lecture at the Crawford theater on life and conditions in the Arctic regions on Friday and Saturday evenings. His lectures will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Topeka people know what Prof.Dyche's lectures are. MENINGITIS YET EPIDEMIC All the Children in Morgantown, Ky., Are to Se Removed. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 13. A telephone message from Morgantown, Ky., last night says no deaths have resulted from spinal meningitis since Thursday. Up on orders from the state board of health every house in which a death has occurred was disinfected and it is believed the epidemic is under full con trol. The board has also ordered the removal from the town of all young people, they being more susceptible to the disease. A boat will reach Morgantown today and all the children will be removed to Bowling Green, where arrangements have been made to keep them until the worst has passed. Business remaini suspended, and it will be fully a week before the refugees return. There is sickness in one-third of the homes of the town and most cases will likely re sult fatally. The epidemic has broken out in the country districts about ten miles below Morgantown and there is much alarm. Several Bowling Green physicians have gone to Morgantown. 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. .I' la- TAMP MAlME M J j W GOLD Lars paefcace of the world's best cleanser for nickel. BtiU greater economy m 4-pound package. All grocers. Made onlj by THE N. K. FAIRBAUK COMPANY, Chicago. St. iMla, Hew York. Boston. Philadelphia. S i t& tn ft ifsrff? TJTyisST sKAi4kaiczL&J 1 flnpn (lav anH Nichf- Pine Funeral Cars and Hearses. Palace upen uayana wignt. coacnes and drivers Ln livery m attend ance. Free rubber-tire Ambulance to trains or any part of the city day or night Why pay exorbitant prices of other firms when YOTT Adult cloth Caskets for $15.00 CAN Adult cloth Caskets with textile handles for 25.O0 BUY Children's Caskets for 2.00 FINE HACKS furnished for weddings, operaa and parties. Hacks heated with Lehman heaters. NEGRO EDUCATION. Atlanta Cor. New Tork Post. The success of Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee, Ala., has given an impulse to industrial education for ne groes which is felt throughout the south. Two schools modeled after the Tuskegee institute have been estab lished in Georgia. Each is in a section where the colored population is very numerous, and where the facilities for the education of the colored children generally are very poor. One of these institutions, the Fort Valley industrial school. Is located in the center of the best cotton and fruit-growing region of the state, and is in a nourishing condi tion. J. W. Davidson, the principal, and the assistant principal, J. H. Tor bert, are highly educated colored men, and have had long experience as teach ers. They became convinced that the ordinary schools for their race in Geor gia were not well adapted to the ca pacity and needs of the negro, and sev eral years ago, with the aid of a num ber of white friends in Fort Valley and its vicinity, they established an indus trial school. It was started on a very small scale, but it has grown steadily until it has an attendance of nearly 500 students, a full corps of teachers, com fortable buildings and a very fair me chanical equipment. The work of this school has commend ed itself so highly to the people of the section in which it is located that they contribute more liberally to its support every year. The board of trustees is composed of prominent white citizens of South Georgia, J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury, Conn.: Samuel May, jr., of Boston, and F. W. Gans of Buchan an, Mich. Like the Tuskegee institute, the Fort Valley industrial school is open to colored students of both sexes. They are taught the usual high school studies and receive practical instruction in var ious departments. The boys are trained to be carpen ters, bricklayers, blacksmiths, plaster ers, etc., and are Instructed also in scientific farming. The girls are trained in dressmaking, cooking, fancy needle work, telegraphy, stenography, millin ery, typewriting, etc. A large proportion of the graduates of the school are spo ken tor before they finish their course, and go out at once to fill good posi tions. The state has recently granted the school $1,500 a year, and this will prob ably be increased. The negroes of the ThpTpaTY OF PC C I a BY The SEMTfi DUST ANTI-COMBIN-B 2 llnfi orf off or El 1 1 II 11 I I II .1111 406 Kansas Ave. Phone 52. Lowest Rates Best... Accommodations .VIA.. PICTO .For all Points ln. Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Pacific Coast and Puget Sound. Pullman Palace Sleepers Pullman Tourist Sleepers From Kansas City erory Thursday. Free Bediming Chair Cars S lulus Cars For time tables, folders. Illustrated kooks. pamphlets descriptive ef the territory traversed oail on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Ageat er J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent. Dr. C. H. GUIBOR HAS REMOVED TO 706 Kansas Avenue. DISEASES OF TUB Nose, Throat, and Lungs. county In which the institute Is located contribute very liberally to its support considering their financial condition. They have promised to raise $3,000 for it this year, and will doubtless do so. The county makes an appropriation for the school every year. It also receives contributions from many white friends in the vicinity and in other parts ot Georgia, and from some in the north. A similar school has recently been opened at Greensboro, in the eastern part of the state, and has every pros pect of success. The white people of Georgia are dis posed to encourage schools of this char acter, and would be glad to see them receive more aid from the state. There Is no thought in Georgia of adopting the policy of separating the school fund for the two races and leaving each to sup port its own schools. As the negroes pay only 5 per cent of the taxes In this state, such a law would leave their common schools in a pitiable condition. Try the Hotel Oxford for your meals. '1 Dave Hade a Discovery," Says C. L. Wilson, 1029 Madison Street, Topeka, Kan. "Tea, X have made a discovery," aya Mr. Wilson. "I presume I am not the first who baa made it, but I am as happy as if I were. If a publication of what I have discovered will help oth ers, I am glad to tell what it is, I am sure It will, so here is what I have found. After being treated right along for kidney trouble and ot getting any better, I was told to use Morrow's Kld-ne-olds. I got a box at the store of Swift Holllday Drug Co. They have 4one for me what I believe they will do for anyone, and that is to Cure. "For eight years I have been afflicted and used a great many of so called sure, sure cures but they never even helped me to say nothing of curing. The disease was surely but slowly get ting the best of me all the time. "Acting under the old maxium.'While there is life there ia hope,' I took Kid-ne-oids according to directions. In two er three days I began to be relieved. Today all former ailment has left me. This la my discovery." I am sure it will be yours If yen per severe and take as we direct. All druggists, 50 cents. Manufactured by John Morrow Ck Cdk. Chemist enrifisfleld. CUa.
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Chicago Medical Institute, Topeka, Kansas.- -RAILROAD NEWS. Pullman Cars at Much Lower Rates to the Public. Ordinary Sleepers to Form a Part of Future Equipment. BERTH RATES HALF. Last Spike in the Pecos Yallej Driren Saturday. Mrs. J. J. Hagerman Officiated With the Hammer. St. Louis. Feb. 13. The Pullman chops have recently constructed a num ber of sleeping cars for operation on different lines throughout the country which will be known as "ordinary sleep ing cars." to distinguish them from the standard cars. These cars ar- superior to the tourist car, being finished in the natural wood, instead of being painted and grained, and are equipped with wide vestibules, Pintsch gas lamps and other conveniences. It is the intention to accommodate in them a certain class of travel that does not care to take ad vantage of the accommodations pro vided by the standard cars. The berth rate In these cars will be one-half that charged in the standard cars. "The Baltimore Ohio will begin the use of the ordinary sleepers in con Junction with the regular sleepers next Monday," said Vice President T. H. Wickes of Pullman's company. "Six cars will go into operation at once. We have Just completed twenty of the new sleepers and are working on twenty more. We believe the introduction of these cars on the Baltimore Ohio will lead to their general adoption on all the leading railroads of the country. The 'ordinary' is nothing more or less than an improved tourist sleeper, which has been in use on the western lines for ten years. "Of course, these cars are not as finely- finished as the standard sleeDers, but they contain everything necessary for comfort. The seats are rattan in stead of plush, and the decorations are not so extensive. But the sleeping berths are all that can be wished." PECOS VALLEY ROAD. XAst Spike, a Golden One, Driven by Mrs. J. J. Hagerman Satur day Afternoon. Roswell, X. M., Feb. 13 The east was connected with the Pecos valley at 4 o'clock Saturday, the last spike on the Pecos Valley Xortheastern road be ing driven fifteen miles east of Ros well. A large party of railroad officials attended, among whom were J. J. Ha german. president of the road: W. A. Otis. C. W. Otis and a large delegation of prominent people from Roswell. Mrs. J. J. Hagnnan drove the last spike of gold and W. A. Otis a silver spike. The Roswell Commercial club ten dered Mr. Hagerman's party a reception at night PRESENT FOK COM. PHILIP Sword and Bible Will Be Given Him at Galveston, February 15. T3FlJTt ""r.th' Tex.: Feb. 13,-Attorney W. fiofl- Sk to?ay received official notice le JaoTv.,for the Presentation of the sword and Bible to Commodore Philip has been changed to February The battle ship Texas will be in Galveston until Fw3ar 1S" v. Tlffany- ho is making the 5 ,rd?,as been so advised. Mr. Pad dock win present the Bible on behalf of the Sunday school children of the state. BECOMING A MOTHER. A Sore Way ts Avoid Danger. Every true woman wsnts to be a mother. A baby is the dream of her life the crowning glory of womanhood true happiness can never be known without the blessings a child brings. Yet the ordeal through which all mothers most pass is so full of pain, anxiety and fear, that many a young life is sacrificed because of the inability to undergo the struggle of childbirth. It is not necessary to suffer in bring ing new life into the world. By the ue of "Mother's Friend," the suffer ing and danger can be avoided, and the hour robbed of itsldread and pain. This remedy is praised by thousands who have tested it. Every woman is anxious to learn how to avoid the pain and suffering which may be in store for her. The little book, "Before Baby is Born," will be sent free to any address upon application to the Brad 14 Regulator Co., Atlanta, Georgia. LAY IS FATAL CONSULT AT ONCE DRS. JOHNSTON WALSH, America's Oreatest Specialists. rennanently Located in Topeka, Kansas Dr. H. Austin Johnston is a graduate of one of the finest Medical Universities la the world, and has had great experience in hospital and private practice. Dr. Edward Walsh, formerly Chicago's leading specialist, is a graduate of Bush and Bennett Medical Colleges, and was formerly President of St Anthony's Hospital. SCORES M'KINLEI. Henry George Does Not Believe in the President's Kind of Liberty. Xew York. Feb. 13. Henry George has sent tie following" letter to President Grout of the Borough of Brooklyn, de clining an invitation to act on a committee to arrange for the Maine memorial serv ices: "I have deep sympathy with all who lost their dear ones on the vessel and would be glad to subscribe to the limit of my means toward an assistance fund, but 1 do not wish to participate in any public ceremony that shall even remotely seem to approve the policy of the administra tion at Washington. "I believe in liberty libertv of the Jef fersonvan kind, that would give absolute freedom of action to the individual with out infringing the rights of others, and I would at the outset have our government recognize the right of the Cubans to be free, whatever complications might have resulted with Spain as a consequence. But I do not believe in the kind of liberty that President MeKinley is dealing in. "The freedom that is given under a mili tary despotism must be as rotten as the horrible meat that was given to our citizen soldiers in the recent Cuban war. Men who came to official power by use of the most gigantic corruption fund that was ever seen in politics, who have since rioted in public expenditure at Washington who have added enormously to the common man's burdens for the benefit of rings and special interests, and who have killed more soldiers with bad food and bad treatment than were slain by Spanish bullets, are not to be implicitly trusted when it comes to conferring liberty upon other people." JAPS PROGRESSIVE IDEAS. To Train Young Americans for Busi ness in the Orient. Seattle, "Wash.. Feb. IX S. Odagik!. rep resenting the Mitsui Bussan Kaisna and the other Interests of the Mitsui family in Japan, is in Seattle for the purpose of securing- a number of bright American boys to be sent to Japan and China and educated in Oriental business methods. The Mitsui family is the richest in Japan, and their various interests are capitalized at over $50,000,000. "We realize that the Americans liave wonderful business talent," said he, "and we want to utilize it. The trade with this country is growing1 to such larsre pro portions that we find it necessary to have employed superintendents and agents who are more accustomed to American man ners and customs than Japanese can ever hone to become. We expect that the trade with the United States, which is just be ginning, will, within six or seven years, assume such proportions that we will find it necesasry to have men familiar with American methods. "In consequence of this the Japanese managers have arrived at the conclusion that the best way to meet these future demands of the business is to train young Americans. They have not yet arranged the details, but it is very likely that I shall try to find suitable young men who may be sent to Japan for this purpose. I suppose that the boys whom we shall need will be bright, educated youngsters, between 15 and 20 years of age. THREE AMERICAN WOMEN. They Aro Entered in the Interna tional Beauty Show. Paris. Feb. 13. The United States will have several representatives at the inter national beauty show which is to be held here at the end of March. The secre tary of the show says that three Ameri can women Mrs. De La Mar, Mrs. George Law of New York and Mrs. Collins of Boston have accepted invitations to com pete for the beauty prize. Mrs. De La Mar was considered among the handsomest women in America, when she married the venerable western million aire, who recently obtained a divorce from her. She is only 22 yeas of age now, and Is admired for a willowy, delicate style of beauty. Mrs. Collins is more matronly, but beautiful. Mrs. Law is a brunette, vivacious, fascinating and quite young. As the jury contains painters, sculptors. goets and dress designers, with Sarah emhardt as president, the verdict ought to do justice to the different types of beau ty. Bernhardt said today: "The contest cannot in any sense be called an exhibition. It is somewhat of a glorification of women. Though each na tion has its own idea, of beauty, the un derlying principles are acknowledged by all civilized peoples. Lines of beauty strike even an eye that has received no artist's training. Social position will cut no figure in the contest. "A peasant girl will have the same chance of winning the 6,000 francs prize as a patrician. "There wil be nothing vulgar about the competition, and there is nothing undigni fied in having aspirations for the prize, Distinguished people will constitute the jury. It is not to be a contest in the domain of mere, physical beauty, for a poet like Catulle Mendes must see the soul speaking through the lines of femi nine loveliness, otherwise he would not consent to be a juryman. Never was there such a varied jury to decide what constitutes beauty in women. I am glad that American women are to contest." CREATED A SENSATION. The Electric Lamp Invented by ProC Walter Nernst. London, Feb. 13. A young German. Wal ter Nernst. a professor in the Goettin gen university, has invented an electric lamp which does not require an. enclosure in vacuum, as is the case with the pres ent glow lamp. The Nernst light is emit ted by a rod composed of rare earths. Bim ilar to those used in the manufacture of certain gaslight mantles. These rods do not conduct electricity when cold. but only when heated. They give out a mild, yellowish light, and work equally well at any pressure, and with consequent econ omy in copper. The invention was discussed by the So ciety of arts last evening. Messrs. Swin burne and Ayrton, the celebrated chem ists, declared it to be the greatest discov ery In many years. The invention creat ed a sensation among the members of the society. NEWSPAPERS INMANILA. A Kansas Boy Sends Home a Copy of "The American." Extracts From It of Interest in This Country. SELLS TOR TEX CENTS Largely Devoted to the Doings of the Soldiers. John Steele, of Lawrence, on the Staff. George M. Hammel has received a copy of "The American," published at Manila, P. I., and dated December 25. The paper was sent by his son, Seth Hammel, who Is with the hospital corps of the Twentieth Kansas. The title page bears the picture of the American eagle spreading Its wings over the harbor of Manila. The issue is vol ume 1. No. 61, and the subscription is $1-60 per month in Mexican money.single copies 10 cents. The first page is .devoted to dispatches, special to The American, and marked "republication prohibited," also Associated Press reports from New Tork and Washington relative to the Philip pine situation. Other dispatches are from London, Philadelphia and other places. The editor Is Franklin Brooks. A full page advertisement of a United States brewing company appears on the last page. On the editorial page appears an editorial saying that many of the Span ish and native employes of the ofnce wish to quit and join the American army, and another editorial reads as follows: "Uncle Sam: Discharge your soldiers here all who desire to remain. They will build up your new territory and Americanize it for you. It Is to your interests, as much as to the Individual soldier, to have good, patriotic Americans the pioneers of your new land., Reward them as they have re warded you." J. M. Steele is the repre sentative of the paper for the Kansas regi ment. Th foiiniriTi? nnpm annears on the same ge, by captain a. jumax-, eu li ucu -a. ight on Luneta." How sweet on Luneta at evening to stray: The breath of the ocean comes soft o'er the bay. The sun in Its night robe or glory Is dressed, And grand is the music that plays it to rest. How varied and vast is that gay moving throng, Now walking, now resting, now moving along; The lights of Luneta gleam brightly on high. And fleetly the tiny caballos speed by. The music has changed, and how grand ly it rolls. A song of Columbia is stirring our souls; The soldier in white turns his eyes to the foam. And, lives once again with bis loved ones at hornet The music has ceased and we leave the gay scene To waJk in the shadows of palms spread ing green: Black-eyed senoritas, all beauteously pale. Speak soft to their gallants, for love Is their tale. The lights in the bay gleam against the dark sky To tell that, the grim ships of Dewey are nigh; "We think of our hero's grand triumph) again. That gave these fair Islands to Freedom's domain. Oh, long may the sons of Columbia be fired By songs of our country that Freedom in spired; And Ions by the palms under night's starry dome May love tales be whispered In Freedom's new home. Under the head of "Christmas Day In Manila, P. I.," the following announce ments appear: "Lieutenant Bruckart of company M. Thirteenth Minnesota infantry.formerly of the editorial staff of the Minneapolis Trib une, will give a Christmas dinner to a party of friends, nearly all of whom are old time newspaper men, at tne cxoiuen Judge Early of Arizona, Major Stour of Washington. T. C. Colonel James Sher wood of Honolulu, formerly with the Star of that city: A. J. Singer of Honolulu and formerly with the Star of that city, Mr. Scholes of Tacoma, Captain John B. Jef frey, formerly of the Chicago Journal; Will J. Mathews, city editor of The American and representative of the Den ver Post and Colorado Springs Gazette: Harry W. McCauley. representative of the Denver News; H. F. Seymour, assistant editor of The American and representative of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and Ar thur P. Johnson, correspondent Rocky Mountain News." "The John B. Wetland Brewing company of San Francisco has cabled Its agents here to furnish the egg-nogg for the Christmas dinner to the officers and men of First California infantry and California artillery." "The members of company M, First Col orado volunteers, secured eleven turkeys about Thanksgiving time, which they have been fattening ever since. They have been killed and will grace the company's tables today. If they finish this 'eleven' they won't feel like going on outpost duty to night." "All Sir Knights .sojourning In Manila, are requested to meet at the Grand Hotel Luneta. No. 7 Calle Real. Ermita. at noon on Christmas day, to join in a toast to the grand master of the Knights Templar of CumulatiYe Evidence A proof of merit in any article is the amount of free advertising it receives. The universal success of Pabst Malt Extract, The "Best" Tonic, ia largely due to one person's telling another of the benifits derived from its use. It is sold in almost every city and town in the United States. It3 purity and efficacy have sriven it the immense popularity it has attained. It is indorsed by thou j sands of physicians and patients. It makes strength, it gives vigor and health when every avenue of hope seems to be closed. When you ask for Pabst Malt Extract, The "Best" Tonic, do not be led into Duving something else. Many imita tions have recently appeared. Mmem- tertnat racist wait ExtractThe 'Best' Tonic, was the only malt preparation declared perfect by the judges at the World's Fair, and alone marked with 100 points of perfection. The way to obtain the greatest amount of benefit for the least amount of money is to nave your oruggist deliver you a I dozen bottles at a time. the United States, the "Very Eminent Sir Reuben H. Lloyd of San Francisco. CaL R. K. SIR FRANK M. FOOT K. "P. G. C. Wwoming. "SIR VICTOR D. DUBOCK, "California. "The English hotel has prepared a spe cial bill of fare for lunch and dinner to day. Lunch will be served from 12 to 3 p. m. with the following bill of fare: Cream of Chicken. Fried Soles. Sauce Ton Ton. Roast Suckling Pig. Apple Sauce Saute of Chicken Espanol. Boiled Ox Tongue. Green Peas. Boiled Ham and Cabbage. Brown Potatoes. Cauliflower en Cream Stewed Tomatoes. Shrimp Salad. Plum Pudding. Brandy Sauce. Assorted Cakes. Cheese Cafa Noir. "The menu for dinner, which will be served from 6 to 8:30 p. m.. Is as follows: Tomato Soup Adalousia. Caviar on Toast. Roast Leg of Mutton, Caper Sauce. Baked Chicken, Sago Dressing. Cold Ox Tongue. Mashed Potatoes. Green Peas. Chicken Currie. Vanilla Ice Cream. Assorted Cakes. Cheese Cafe Noir. "The following Is the programme to be rendered tomorrow evening by the Minne sota band: March "Camp Dewey" Adams Selection "The Serenade". Victor Herbert Cornet solo "Culver Polka". .Steinhauser A. W. Richter. Selection "El Capitan" Sousa Medley "Tone Pictures of the South" Couleron "There were over 600 in attendance at the meeting of the Development club at the English hotel Friday night. Speeches were made by Major Sternberger and Con sul Williams. The object was to discuss, in an informal way, the desirabiiitv of soldiers remaining in the Philippines after their regiments have been called home. Those present at the meeting have avowed their intentions of doing so. and the num ber is being daily increased by persons who signify their intentions of embarking in business here, where the opportunities are very promising." Besides scores of liquor saloon adver tisements the paper contains an advertise ment of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. A CRISIS IN AVHISKY. Scotland Has Accumulated a Surplus of 137,000,000 Gallons. Washington, Feb. 13. Consul Flem ing from Edinburg reports to the state department a serious crisis in the whisky trade in Scotland. This is at tributed to the immense over produc tion which has by gradual accumula tion placed a surplus stock of over 137, 000,000 gallons of whisky In the bonded warehouses of the United Kingdom. Tears ago the large distilleries proved enormously remunerative and this tempted the "promoter" Into the field Within a. few years the number of dis tilleries In the United Kingdom has reached 1S4, of which 143 are in Scot land. The new distilleries are nearly all immense concerns and production has been pushed to the utmost, consequent ly the supply on hand has been far ahead of home consumption and the export trade combined. To cheapen the product the Introduc tion of American Indian corn has been resorted to, grain spirits being produc ed at from 28 to 30 cents a gallon against 70 cents for malt whisky. The blends have kept up to the standard price, averaging $1 a gallon in bond. Under the impression that the market would expand with production, the dis tilleries have been kept running at full capacity but the immense surplus has been more than the trade could carry and there has br.t-n a sharp break in wholesale prices while immense finan cial Interests have been invoked to pre vent a panic in the trade. The chief American interest at stake is in the in crease in the importation of American corn involved in the reduction of out put in the Scotch distilleries. ASHES OF BANK NOTES. Treasury Department Reissues New Bills for Mutilated Money. Washington, Feb. 13. Congressman Joy received recently from Alex. Garesche of St. Louis a little box con taining the ashes of what is claimed to have been $54 in bank notes. This rep resented the savings of a servant, who had heard of the government redeeming mutilated bills. These notes were more than mutilated. They had been through a fire, and the largest scraps left were less than half an inch square. Congressman Joy sent the box of remnants to the treasury department, and the experts went to work to discover what could be allowed. The result was that evidence enough was secured in the ashes to justify the treasurer In reissuing new bills to the amount of $40. which, under the cir cumstances, seems to be a large propor tion of the amount lost. The money will be forwarded to the loser in due time. PRINCESS MARIE'S BURIAL. Immense Throng Attends the Body of the Princess to the Tomb. Sofia, Feb. 13. The funeral of Prin cess Marie Louise of Bulgaria was marked by great pomp and was marred by no untoward incident. The procession which formed to ac company the remains of her royal high ness from the palace to their tempor ary resting place in the Roman Catholic church of St. Joseph stretched for two miles without a break. After the ser vices Prince Ferdinand offered a dinner of ceremony to all the representatives of foreign powers and to the deputa tions from the army and from the Bul garian cities It took place at 2 o'clock, and at 6 p. m. the foreign envoys de parted on a special train provided by the prince. Sultan Abdul Hamid, as Prince Fer dinand's suzerain, was represented by an extraordinary envoy in the person of Aide-de-Camp General Cbakir Pasha. COAL TRUST INDICTED For Violation of the Sherman Anti Trust Law. Cincinnati, O., Feb. 13. The following named coal companies and coal dealers were today- indicted by the United States grand jury for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, which forbids combinations in restraint of trade or commerce: St. Clair county. West Virginia; Ches apeake Ohio Fuel Co., Black Band Coal Co., Charimoore Coal Co., Great Kanawha Coal Co., Carver Eros., Mont gomery Coal Co., W. R. Johnson, W. T. Davis, Mecca Coal Co., Chesapeake Mining Co., Kanawha Splint Co., Rob inson Coal Co., Alburg-Collier Co. and Lens Creek Coal Co. Big Fire at Van Wert, O. VanWert O., Feb. 13. The biggest fire in the history of Van Wert occurred yesterday. The four-story stone block of Humphreys Hughes, wholesale grocers, is in ruins. Three walls mark all that is left of one of the largest es tablishments in northwestern Ohio. The United States postoffice, Evers Co. (insurance), the Natural Gas office, business college, law office of Capt. Matthias (Second Ohio), are all a total loss: Sible Co.. furniture and Modern Brothers of America lodge badly dam aged. Total loss, $175,000; insurance, $50,000. Origin, unknown. NO GREAT LOSS To the Cattle Trade if No Oleo margarine Were Made. Figures by the National Dairy Association SHOWING THAT 27 CTS. Per Head is All That "Oleo" Adds to Market Prices Hanna Criticized as a False Friend of Creamery Interests. The defeat of anti-oleomargarine leg islation in the Kansas house of repre sentatives, has attracted attention In the east, and the National Dairy as sociation with headquarters at Chicago, Chas. T. Knight, secretary, has taken a hand by sending an open letter to the members of the Kansas legislature. Members of the house opposed the bill alleging that It would injure the cattle business. To this argument the Na tional association replies by declaring this proposition an absurdity, and says: "The manufacture of oleomargarine in Kansas City. Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, aggregated a total of 15,077,008 pounds for both points. "Oleo oil, made from beef fat, com prises only about 27 per cent of the fin ished product, the remainder being: Neutral lard, 34 per cent; cottonseed oil, 12 per cent; and the remainder wa ter, casein from skim milk and salt. This would require for 15,077,008 pounds of the finished article 5,025,662 pounds of oleo oil for a year's product of the heaviest year these factories have ever had. "The latest quotation In Chicago gives oleo oil per pound as about 9c. Then the 5, 055. 662 pounds of oleo oil would figure $454,995. "The official figures give the receipts of cattle in Kansas City for 1898 at 1, 757,964 head. From this 1,757,964 head was used in your oleomargarine factor ies $454,99C- worth of material for oleo margarine, amounting in round num bers to 27e per head for cattle marketed in Kansas City. "Admitting the oleo side of the argu ment that every pound of oleo oil now going into oleomargarine were actually thrown into the Missouri river because of the absolute worthlessness of the prdduct on account of the passage of the law and the actual loss would be but 27c for each head of cattle market ed in Kansas City. "Three-fourths of the oleo oil taken from cattle is exported to foreign coun tries, to be used there, and if your oleo margarine factories were to shut down tomorrow the price of oleo oil would not be affected to the extent of one cent per head for your cattle. "This law does not close your factor ies. They keep on using the beef fat for their outside trade. At the close of 18SS there were in the United States 4,403 retailers of oleomargarine, who sold an aggregate of 57,516,136 pounds of oleo margarine, or an average of 13,045 pounds per dealer. Of this number 10S were licensed to sell in Kansas and. if they sold the full average, their aggre gate sales would have been 1,408,860 pounds, or less than 10 per cent of the output of your factories. Now, if ev ery pound of the oleo oil sold in the fin ished product to be consumed in Kan sas were to be thrown into the Missouri river and destroyed the cost to each head of cattle marketed at Kansas City would amount to little more than a 2 cent postage stamp; to be exact, 2.7c. "The bill which we hear is to be pre sented by Senator Hanna as a substi tute for the new measure introduced in the senate is condemned by every well informed dairyman in the United States and you will find that such laws have never been worth the paper they were written upon. Were Senator Hanna in the employ of the oleomargarine manu facturers themselves he could not be doing them any greater good, and we are at a loss to account for his attitude upon this question. "If your stock interests are really op posing this measure, they are certainly pursuing a very short-sighted policy, as the present demoralized condition of the butter business is driving the dairymen who formerly sold milk into raising steers for the markets, and they will find if butter doesn't do better in the next few years that the supply of steers from the dairy sections will demoralize the market for cattle. The dairymen are rapidly going into the live stock business because dairying doesn't pay at present low prices of butter." BUILDING AND LOAN Associations to Be Regulated and a Diversity of Interests. The building and loan association ques tion bids fair to become one of the promi nent issues of this session of the legisla ture. While the state has been strug gling with the Crossan bill the house has been steadily referring all bills relating to the regulation of these associations to the committee on banks and banking, but the committee has not been able to find one to suit it. It so announced a few davs ago and today Mr. Geissler. chair man of the committee, introduced a com mittee bill, which was substituted for all the others which have been introduced, and its passage is recommended. This bill places all associations of this character under the supervision of the bank commissioner, and they are subject ed to strict regulation similar to that of state banks in many particulars. They must procure authority from the bank commissioner to do business, make an annual report to him, and be subject to an examination whenever the bank com missioner thinks necessary, or whenever twenty stockholders demand it. Companies which are organized under the laws of any other state will be com pelled to deposit SlOO.COOin cash or securities with the state treasurer before they are permitted to do business in Kansas. It is said that this provision will practically shut out new companies organized in other states and small companies whose Kan sas business will not furnish them suffi cient securities to make the deposit. There have been three different influ ences at work since the legislature con vened trying to shape legislation along this subject. One is the home companies which want to be "regulated" in such a way that they will have an advantage over outside companies. This is partially given them by the committee bill in the house, but they object to being placed under the supervision of the bank com missioner, and this Is also one of the pro visions of the committee bill. Another lobby which has been working hard is the one sent here by the Missouri building and loan associations. There are several of these which do a big business in Kansas, having their headquarters at Kansas City or St. Joseph. They are willing to make reports, but they do not want to be shut out of the state, and they are opposed to the bank commissioner hav ing too strict supervision over them. The big" companies whose main business lies In Kansas do not especially object to the deposit of $100,OOQ.because it will give them an advantage over the lesser ones whom it will shut out. and they have plenty of securities to deposit. There are several lobbyists here from Missouri, working in. the interests of these associations, and it is said they favor the passage of the Crossan bill, which is now before the sen ate The third lobbv which Is at work Is from South Dakota. In that state asso ciations -are under strict supervision and are compelled to make all kinds of re ports. Notwithstanding this, some com panies have built up a big business there and have extended it to Kansas. They are not on an -equal footing with- the as sociations of other states, and they are working to have Kansas pass a law simi lar to too South Dakota law, so that they will be on an equal footing. They are also interested, of course, in seeing that they are not entirely shut out of the state. MAY LOOK FOR TROUBLE. Great Destruction of Cattle Will Make Much Cattle Paper Worthless. 3. G. McCoy of Kansas City, live stock inspector, says that the cold weather and the conditions which accompany it will be responsible for a demoralization of the cattle business during the com ing summer. Mr. McCoy has been in Topeka several days watching the doings of the legislature. He says: ""In 1884 there was a remarkable boom In cattle. There was a bi craze for ranges. Easterners were caught in it and bought land with the cattle on it almost without an inspection. The boom got over to England and Scotland and they couldn't get ranches too quick The capitalists over there wouldn't wait for the mails, but cabled money to this country to buy cattle. The winter fol lowing the craze was like this one. It was the worst the cow country had ever seen. All the northwest was covered with snow, and so deep that the cattle couldn't get at the grass, and either starved or froze to death. Griscow of Austin lost $700,000 in Montana cattle. Of course, the cattle boom was broken. It took two years to recover, for near ly three-fourths of the cattle in the west were lost. "Now compare that time witb the conditions today. Last summer there was a craze for cattle paper. People lost their heads over it. The loans on real estate hardly ever exceed one-third of the values, but some of this cattle paper was issued for 90 per cent of the value of the live stock. Gillett, of course, caused something of a slump, but there is still a lot of cattle paper out at high valuation. Reports from the Panhandle say that the enow is from two to five feet deep. All the Colorado, Indian Territory and the northwest ranges are covered and it is safe to say where there is no shelter the losses will be more than 50 per cent. Those who are holding cattle paper are bound to suffer. How much the market will be affected it is hard to say now, but there is bound to be a demoralization in cattle inter ests." WANTED IMMERSION With the Thermometer Marking 25 Below Zero. Dr. E. I Thorpe, pastor of the First M. E. church, spoke to the inmates of the insane asylum yesterday afternoon. After the service, as he was passing through the corridor in one of the buildings, he and the gentleman who was with him met an inmate of the in stitution a woman who is mildly in sane, but perfectly harmless. She stopped and looked at Dr. Thorpe a mo ment, and then said: "Are you a minister?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Dr. Thorpe. "Do you baptise people?" "Yes, ma'am." "Well. I want to be immersed. Will you Immerse me?" "Think," said Dr. Thorpe, telling of the incident, "of a minister being asked to immerse anyone when the thermom eter had just been down to twenty-five degrees below zero." An attendant at that moment at tracted the woman's attention to other matters, and the subject of immersion was dropped. NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Bell Company Has a Rate-Cutting Rival at the Indiana Capital. Indianapolis. Feb. 13. Within a few weeks two telephone companies will be operating in this city. The Independent company, known officially as "the new company, is now putting its switchboard In position and expects to have its system in operation before March 1. In antici pation of the opening of the new system the old company, known as the Bell com pany, has made a sliding scale of rates under which service may be had for from $12 to $75 a vear. The new company will start in with about 3.M subscribers al most as many as has the old company. The rates of the new company are $24 a year for residence instruments and $40 a year for instruments in business houses. Every contract signed with the new com pany is for Ave years. The fight between the two companies is not to be confined to this city by any means. Within the last three vears in dependent companies have been formed in every part of the state in opposition to the Bell company. The Bell company has always been able to prevent these inde pendent companies' connecting with any wires of the old companies. It is now pro posed to connect all these independent companies with the new company here and thus form a toll system extending all over the state. WINS NEW HONORS. Composer Jan Blocky to Conduct a Musical Festival for Wilhelmina. Antwerp, Feb. 13. Jan Blocky's new opera. "La Princesse d'Auberge,"' has won the Antwerpian composer new honors. Its premier at Brussels in De cember was attended by Queen Marie of Belgium, and now it is to be played before Queen Wilhelmina at The Hague February IS. On the following day her majesty will attend a musical festival, consisting of Blocky's masterpiece, con ducted by himself. She will probably confer a decoration upon the composer. Blocky is a pupil of the renowned Peter Benoit. The illness of the latter, it is feared, may prevent the comple tion of his Van Dyck cantata in time for the great tercentenary celebration of the anniversary of the painter's birth, which is fixed for August. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Topeka Academy of Medicine meets tonight at 634 Kansas avenue. Rev. Orello Cone of Lawrence preached yesterday morning at Unity church. Chief Strauss' little boy has scarlet fever and the chief is quarantined from home. Play in the second tournament of the Topeka whist club begins this evening. Siloam lodge No. 225. A. F. and A. M. Held the annual past master's rite Satur day night. The patrol wagon Is kept busy collect ing the contributions of clothing and food for the poor. An old colored man walked up Kansas avenue in the blizzard Saturday balancing a large bundle on his head and swinging his arms to keep warm. Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. MacLennan left yesterday for New York city. Mr. Mac Lennan goes to attend the annual zneet ine of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' association at the Waldorf-Astoria. The last meeting of the Commonwealth Intitute was held Saturday afternoon. The only paper on the programme was one by Carl Vroomin of Parsons on "A Citizen of New Zealand." The institute formally closed with Prof. Herron's lec ture. "The Finding of the New in the Old," in the new library rooms Saturday night. "And were you homesick in Porto Rico, my son?" asked the Chicago father of his solcKer son. "No. father, 1 was not. As soon as I heard the island had been annexed to the United States I felt as if it were already a suburb of Chicago." Yenkers Statesman. ALICE NIELSEN'S PALM. The "Fortune Teller" Has Her Fortune Told by Prof. Jofin stone. "More than this the palm is destined to move in the atmosphere of nobility. "My! but isn't that just splendid! Will they come to hear me sing?" And Alice Nlelson searched anxiously Paul Alexander Johnstone's gay blue eyes. The palmist and thought reader continued in a careless unemotional monotone: "This line of Sun rising from the up per plains and breaking abruptly at this line of Intuition, bespeaks of a bril liancy that may rise to recognition from even those of high descent." The winsome prima donna was sit ting as still as a mouse now; her soul hanging on tenter hooks. "These broken conditions in this line of Head and struggling as they are, to cross Luna warn you to guard well your health your nerve structure." A shadow crossed the singer's face and the intended interrogation of her maid was abruptly interrupted by Miss Nielsen archly laying the forefinger of her disengaged hand upon her lips. "You are threatened to act and sing with your nerves whereas yonr song like your intuition should come fromt within; untrammeled and free." Prof. Johnstone rose to his full height; then bending again above the child-like hand, spoke quietly and at some length, upon affairs of privacy. "No matter where I go," said Miss Nielsen, I can never be grateful enough to my own country for what it has done for me. Even if as you say. ALICE NIELSEN'S PALM. Prof. Johnstone, I shall reach these honors, I can never be sufficiently thankful to my friends and the people right here in Kansas City." Those who desire to have their palms read at a. distance may address Prof. Paul Alexander Johnstone, Kansas City, Mo., and by enclosing return post age full instructions will be given how imprints may be taken. Also all in quiries as regards Prof. Johnstone's great nerve remedy may addressed as above. This remedy has given most remarkable results in cases of nervous debility; physical or mental exhaustion; bladder, kidney or stomach complaints, and by it the most obstinate cases have been cured. PINGREE CHECKS THEM. Gives an Account of Expenditures to People Who Elected Him. Lansing. Mich., Feb. 13. The senate hav ing appointed a committee to investigate the expenditures of the executive office. Governor Pingree forestalled the commit tee's action last night by issuing an ad dress to the people of the state in which, he sets forth in detail all the expenditures, as taken from the books of the board of state auditors. He says he Is accountable only to the people who elected him, and as most of the money was spent in having printed and mailed to them his messages, as they asked for them, he makes this accounting direct. These items amounted to about $11,000 for the past two years. The governor significantly calls attention to the constitutional provision which; makes It his duty to investigate the acta of any public officer and empowers him to remove officials for malfeasance or mis feasance, and says that if it is an Investi gation his enemies want he may taice a notion to do a little himself. PECULIAR POISONS. GENERATED IN THE HUMAN BODY. The Result of Imperfect Digestion of Food. Every living thing, plant or animal, contains within itself the germs of cer tain decay and death. In the human body these germs of death (called by scientists Ptomaines) are usually the result of imperfect di gestion of food, the result of Indiges tion or dyspepsia. The stomach, from abuse, weakens, does not promptly and thoroughly di gest the food. The result is a heavy, sodden mass which ferments (the first process of decay), poisoning the blood, making It thin, weak and lacking in red corpuscles: poisoning the brain, caus ing headaches, pain in the eyes. Bad digestion weakens the heart, causing palpitation and finally bringing on disease of this very important organ. Poor digestion poisons the kidneys, causing Bright's disease and diabetes. And thi3 is so because every organ, every nerve, depends upon the stomach alone for nourishment and renewal, and weak digestion shows itself not only in loss of appetite and flesh, but in weak nerves and muddy complexion. The great English scientist. Huxlev. said the best start in life is a sound stomach. Weak stomachs fail to digest food properly, because they lack the proper quantity of digestive acids (lac tic and hydrochloric) and peptogenio products: the most sensible remedy in all cases of indigestion is to take after each meal one or two of Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets, because they supply in a pleasant, harmless form all the ele ments that weak stomachs lack. The regular use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will cure any form of stomach trouble exceot cancer of the stomach. They increase flesh, insure pure bloud, strong nerves, bright eye and clear complexion, because all these result only from wholesome food well digested. Nearly all druggists sell Stuart'3 Dyspepsia Tablets at 50 cents full sizedi package or by mail by enclosing price to Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich, but asl your druggist first. A little book on stomach diseases mailed free. Address Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich,
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAC LENKAN. .VOLUME XXVI No. 36 nro sirm OTTDOPorPTTflN. Pally edition, delivered by carrier.- 1 cents a weeK to any part ui "I''yi euburbs. or at the same prtea In any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier 13.60 j iaii, vne year By mail, three months Tl PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building, 8TO ana KB Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. KTTW YORK OFFTCH. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. chicaoo offtct;. Stock Exchange Building. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFTCTI. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. ntiMness Office Bell ;JOT15 j! Reporters- Room Bell 'Phone 577 The colored troops ran nobly. At present, the white man's burden Is mostly a hod of coal. Apparently. It never gets so cold that it can not become colder. The yellow man stands no show when It comes to fighting with the white man. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, though only an editor, fights as well as a special correspondent. A pipe line for an exchange of air with the Philippine islands would do a good business just now. The beef having been embalmed, the government Is now preparing to hold an inquest over the remains. "Aguinaldo must be crushed," says the Worcester Spy. It will, of course, be necessary to catch him first. TJnterrifled by the fate of Andree, a man has announced his Intention of starting across the Pacific in an open boat. One advantage attaching to a war 7.000 miles away is that It is likely to be over before the magazine writers can get to it. Sir. Wanamaker Is keeping careful watch, that Quay doesn't slip In during the excitement over the war in the Philippines. The men mentioned for the office of librarian of congress are running about an even race with those who stood on the bridge with Dewey. Gen. Charles King appears to be too busy with other matters at present to permit of his writing any stories, but just wait till he gets back. If Thomas Jefferson had foreseen the varied constructions which would be placed upon his utterances it is probable lie would have prepared a key. The introduction of horseless car riages into many cities of this country and Europe has again revived refer ences to Mother Shipton's famous prophecy. The gold standard which Gen. John M. Palmer battled for so nobly in 1S96 seems to have come too late to benefit him. He is said to be absolutely with out means and has just been voted a government pension of $50 a month. It seems Improbable that the wealth of Mr. Clark, the newly elected senator from Montana, has been exaggerated. He still has left enough to warrant the announcement that he will build for himself a palace In New York. Omaha Bee: Now that Judge Hazen has knocked the contentions of the un constitutionality of the extra session of the Kansas legislature into a cocked hat, the attorney general should lose no time In declaring Judge Hazen un constitutional. Anyone who does not know that there are two generals at Manila named Otis is liable to get mixed up in reading the dispatches regarding the war opera tions. Maj. Gen. Elwell S. Otis is the officer in command of the entire army. Brig. Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, is in com mand of the brigade which includes the Twentieth Kansas, the Third artillery and a Montana regiment. It was this brigade which successfully stormed the Filipinos" entrenchments at Caloocan. The Railway Engineer describes an automobile freight truck that is in suc cessful use in Chicago in doing heavy teaming about the city for a prom inent firm. The net weight of the truck is 9,000 pounds and its carrying capacity five tons. It is operated by an electric motor driven by a current generated by an eight-horse power gasoline engine and a dynamo. Surplus energy goes to a storage battery of forty-four cells, which assists the generator at starting and up heavy grades. The speed of the truck, as now geared, is six miles an hour. The compressed air company claim that their truck, to be operated by compressed air. will be much lighter and more economical. BLASTS FROM THE RAITS HORN A hog has no use for the moral law. Burden-sharing is cross-bearing. Nights of sorrow bring out the stars of promise. I Chasing spray we tread diamonds un der our feet. The infidel is coolly inviting us all back to the savage. i Some critics cut the meat out of the Bible and then complain that it is all bones. They only who live for others are alive to themselves. The height of knowledge is t know what you do not know. Atheistic arguments are but whimUcg ot cowards in the dark. the I KANSAS NEWS. Shorthorn Breeders of Kansas and Missouri To Meet in Annual Contention, at Kansas City. TO BEGIN WEDNESDAY An Interesting Programme lias Been Prepared. Senator Harris and Ex-Goyer-nor Glick to II are Papers. Kansas City, Feb. 13. The Missouri and Kansas Shorthorn Breeders' associ ation will hold its annual convention this week at the Midland hotel, begin ning Wednesday afternoon. ne lollowing will be the programme for the convention: Welcome address, John C. McCoy, president Kansas City Live Stock ex change. Response Ex-Governor Georce W. Glick, Atchison, Kan.; "What the Shorthorns Accomnlished Durinc 1S9S." J. H. Pickerel!, secretary American bnonnorn jHerd Rook association, Springfield, 111.: "The Future of the Bates Shorthorn." George W. Glick. Atchison, Kan.; "The Scotch Shorthorn, and the Good He has Done for the Breed," H. C. Duncan, Osborn. Mo.; The Booth Shorthorn, and His Value on Other Families," W. P. Hamed, Bunceton, Mo.; "My Experience With Shorthorn Cattle," Col. W. A. Harris, Linwood Kan.; "Should the Color of the Shorthorn Add to or Detract From His Value?" C. E. Leonard, Bellair, Mo.; "What Is the future Outlook of the Shorthorn Breeder?" B. O. Cowan, New Point, Mo.; "What Have the Short horns Won In the Past in Competition With Other Breeds?" George P. Bel lows, Maryville, Mo.; "Care and Man agement of the Breeding Herd," John McDairmid, Kansas City. Mo,; "Fitting for the Show Ring; Feed and Manage ment," A. A. Wallace, Bunceton, Mo.; "First Twelve Months of the Calf's Life," John McCoy, Sabetha, Kan.; "Private and Public Sales Compared Which Is the Better for the Breeder?" Col. S. A. Sawyer, Manhattan, Kan.; "My Impressions Among the Shorthorn Herds in North England and Scotland Last Tear," George Bothwell, Nettleton, Mo.; "How Best Fit Cattle to Get the Better Prices in the Sale Ring," Col. James W. Parks, Marshall, Mo.; "Hrredity." O. O. Wolf. Ottawa, Kan.; "Should the Use of Grade Bulls Be Encouraged?" N. H. Gentry, Se dalia. Mo. All subjects or papers will be taken up and discussed. "Texas Fever," Albert Dean, United States bureau of animal industry, Kan sas City, Mo. "What I Saw of Shorthorns in Great Britain in 1893," S. C. Hanna, Howard, Kan. Special question for discussion: First Shipping rates in less than car lots. Second Should contagious diseases and their extermination be solely under the direction of a state veterinarian or a special board of experts? Third Is it advisable to hold a public exhibition and combination sale of Shorthorns at some convenient place this coming fall? Fourth If $20 expended in extra care and ration of the calf during its first twelve months will add to its value, will it recompense the Shorthorn breed er to do so? Fifth How best proceed. Individually and collectively, to bring, the once-was reputation of the Shorthorn up to that standard that we believe he is entitled to in the estimation of the general beef breeding public? The officers of the association are: President N. H. Gentry, Sedalia. Mo. First vice president George W. Glick, Atchison, Kan. Second vice president B. O. Cowan, New Point, Mo. Secretary W. P. Brush, Station A, Kansas City, Mo. Treasurer T. K. Tomson, Dover, Kan. Executive committee N. H. Gentry, B. O. Cowan, George W. Glick, T. K. Tomson and W. P. Brush, secretary. EUHN BUYS THE CHAMPION. Atchison Daily Newspaper Will Here after Be Democratic. Atchison, Feb. 13. This evening the Atchison Champion, which has been a daily newspaper since 1855, will appear as an afternoon Democratic newspaper, with H. Kuhn, formerly of the Marion Times, as editor, and James G. Kuhn, son of the editor, as business manager. The Atchison Champion was for years the leading Republican dally newspaper in Kansas. John Martin, deceased, ex governor of the state, was for years its editor, and later Lieutenant Governor Andrew Felt purchased it. It has always been a pronounced Re publican organ. A CRUEL PRACTICAL JOKE. Eight Bold Infantry Officers Held Up and Robbed by Bogus Bandits. Junction City. Feb. 13. The best prac tical joke in official circles at Fort Riley that has been played in many years u 'i u nprnptratM Fridav nicht x'hefl a. tniiph f llViierH lift In Kansaq" wan i given the infantry officers, who left at G o'clock Saturday evening for Manila. A party of eight officers in the wag onette was held up three-quarters of a mile from the post by Lieutenant Mar shall, Lieutenant Short and Cy Rodgers, a civilian. The eight men pulled out and turned over $750, several gold watches and sundry articles. They, with the driver, were sent back to the post, barehanded, through the snow.and the three bandits took the ambulance and drove to the city, to have the joke reach the climax. The joke was enjoy ed as long by the officers left at the post as was practicable, and the snap given away when the clouds had rolled away and they had become thawed out. No one enjoyed the joke more than the officers held up. The officers spent the night in a jollification farewell for the infantrymen who went to Manila. WITH ANOTHER MAN. George C. Searles, of Chicago, Finds His Wife in Wichita. Wichita, Feb. 13. George C. Searles, a resident of Chicago, arrived in this city Saturday night in search of his wife, Lou, whom he found at a hotel living as the wife of a traveling op tician by the name of Nichols. When they met in the hotel, Nichols drew a revolver and threatened to kill the al ready much abused husband. He was arrested and held over night at the po lice station, and rearrested on serious charges made by the husband. A war rant was also issued for the woman's arrest, but when an officer went to the hotel where the runaway couple had been stopping, he learned that the wo- man had gone, and left a message for Nichols that she would see him later. Searles is a traveling man, and is connected with a well known engraving house in Chicago. Nichols is a married man, and has a wife and daughter, who are at present residing in Detroit, Mich. HOW IOLA GROWS. Population of That City Increasing at 10O Citizens Per Month. From the Iola Record.! We are increasing the population of Iola in spite of the fact that no atten tion is paid to the matter any more. In the past few years the town has grown at the rate of a little over a hundred people a month. Since the first of January we have grown more than a hundred people and the increase is going on faster as the spring comes on. Take this week for instance. Less than three days of the week is past and we have gained 23 in population. This is no fairy story. Here are the names: Davis Wolf has five In his family, Warner McCarty has three in his family, S. A. Howard has nine in his family, J. D. Howard has two in his family and H. Elgerte has five in his family. Of course there are others who have come in this week but these are the ones we have noticed. PLANT CUTTINGS. Many of Them Should Be Rooted During February and March. The cuttings of many of the plants to be used in the flower garden should be rooted during the months of February or March. Geraniums made during these months should be covered with blooms during the summer months if they are given proper care. Other plants that add greatly to the beauty of the garden, and which may be propagated by cuttings, are the col eus, iresine. althermanthera, and cen taura. These plants all root readily from cuttings; they can be started in a cutting box in the window, which should be as long and wide as desired, for the limited space, and about four or five inches deep. It should be filled with clean river sand. When the cut tings are first made they should be shaded during the heat of the day and sprinkled several times a day until the cuttings become thoroughly established. The sand should always be kept moist but never wet. Cuttings are often rooted in a deep plate filled with moist sand. There are various contrivances used for rooting cuttings, but in each case the rooting medium is clean, moist Band. Soil is apt to become soggy. W. H. Moore of the State Agricultural college. BIG WHEAT CROP. Ellis County Shipped Out Last Year 1,680,800 Bushels. Hays City, Feb. 13. There were 1,815 cars of wheat shipped from Ellis county for the year ending January 1, 1899.. Counting 800 bushels of wheat to the car means 1,432,000 bushels of wheat shipped from the county. Add to this the 2S6 car loads of flour shipped from Hays and you have.count ing 800 btishels of whe-tt to a car of flour, 228,800 bushels more of wheat.Ad rting this to the 1,815 cars of wheat and you have a grand total of 1,680.000 bushels of wheat shipped from Ellis county. Pensions For Kansans. Washington, Feb. 13. Pensions have been granted as follows: Additional Jacob Hoffman, Osborne. $6 to $8; William P. Calkin, Parsons, $8 to $8. Supplemental John E. Jackson, La Cygne, $10. Restoration John M. Collins, Wln field, $6. Increase William H. Kimple, Cold water. $6 to $8; Horatio S. Wines, Guelph. $8 to $12; Jacob Leffler, Eaton, $12 to $14. Mexican war widows Charlotte Goodin, Williamstown, $8. Fort Scott Railway Sold. Fort Scott, Feb. 13. The Citizens' Street Railway company of this city, which a year ago purchased from a Davenport, la., company the electric street railway plant here, has sold the plant to the Davenport company and some local men. The new company will be known by the same name. W. C. Perry is president and J. H. Crane sec retary. Chancellor Snow's Record. Lawrence, Feb. 13. The weather con tinues to break records. At the uni versity Sunday morning the thermom eter went down to 2414 degrees below zero, the lowest point reached since 1873. Saturday was the coldest day on Chancellor Snow's thirty-two years' record. The thermometer's low est point was 19 degrees helow, but the average for the entire day was lower than ever known here. Newton Wants the Asylum. Newton, Feb. 13. Newton will enter the contest for the location of a branch insane asylum in this city. The Com mercial club has taken up the matter and has appointed a committee which will go to Topeka today to look over the situation and determine what steps should be taken. The committee will urge the central location of Newton and its excellent railroad connections. Hutchinson Dentist Drops Dead. Hutchinson, Feb. 13. Dr. G. Fred Tucker, one of the oldest settlers of Hutchinson, dropped dead on the street here Saturday from heart trouble. He was one of the best known dentists in Kansas and was high in the Masonic order. His partner, Dr. Robinson, an other old settler, fell dead on the street here about two months ago from the same cause. To Purchase an Electric Plant. Leavenworth, Feb. 13. Ed Weath erby, representing a number of eastern capitalists and now employed in New York, arrived in this city today to make an inspection of the Leavenworth Light and Heating company's plant, with a view to its purchase by the syndicate who onus a number of western plants, including that of St. Joseph. Kingman Child Burned to Death. Kingman, Feb. 13. The 3-year-old daughter of William Glenn, a farmer near this city, was horribly burned by her clothes catching fire from a stove. She lived only a few hours. Church Burned at Chetopa. Chetopa, Feb. 13. The Presbyterian church was burned yesterday after noon. It caught fire from the flue. It has just been enlarged and remodeled. The loss is partly covered by insurance. Lawrence Residence Burned. Lawrence, Feb. 13. The new resi dence of Dr. Charles E. Esterley burned Sunday noon from a defective flue. The contents were saved, but the house was nearly a total loss. Damage about $2, 500. Two Kansans in Washington. Washington, Feb. 13. D. R. Anthony and ex-Marshal L F. Neely of Leaven worth axe here. 17 BURNED ALIVE Fire Breaks Out in a Women's Ward Of the State Insane Asylum at Yankton. HOLDING 50 INMATES All But 17 Escape in Night Clothes in the Snow With the Mercury at 23 De grees Below Zero. Yankton, S. D., Feb. 13. One of the most horrifying fires in the history of Yankton occurred yesterday morning at 2 o'clock, at the state insane asylum, when one of the cottages took fire in the basement, completely destroying the building and causing the loss of lives of seventeen inmates confined there. The names of those missing and the counties from where the came are; Augusta Boers, Lake county. Julia Erickson, Meade. Ella Lokken, Codington. Margaret Lynch, Union. Josina Olsen, Hamlin. Martenia Tennyson, Pennington. Elizabeth Stolpe, Davison. Mrs. Kampani, Brown. Maggie Flynn, Hamlin. Lucina Gossage, Hamlin. Adelina Hurley, Potter. Christina Johnston, Codington. Jennie Kronig, Pennington. Lusia Keene, Codington. Caroline Lyndburg, Brown. Katie Plavitz, Bonhomme. Gaini Swanson, Kingsbury. The cottage was erected of stone and granite walls, with wooden interior, and intended for laundry purposes, but ow ing to the crowded condition of the main building forty of the female patients were placed here, with the laundry in the basement- The exact cause of the fire is not known except that it originated in the dry room of the laundry. Here there is a coil of steam pipes and the theory la that either fine particles similar to lint settled on the pipes which ignited, or that clothes which were thickly hung here dropped on the pipes and were fired. The fighting of fire was greatly hindered by loss of power. The burned cottage stood some 300 feet in the rear of the main building, the water tank which is for fire protection standing 100 feet in the rear of the cottage. The steam pipes used for pumping run from the boiler room of the main building through the cottage for heating and then to the artesian well or tank. The Intense heat in the burning build ing caused the pipes to burst shortly after the fighting of the fire began. thus leaving them without power and depending entirely upon direct pressure from the tank, which was in no way sufficient to quench the fierce flames. Two streams of water were thrown on the building, but did little good. With the thermometer standing at 23 degrees below zero it was a heart-rending sight to witness those escaping coming down the narrow flight of stairs in their night clothing and bare feet into the bitter cold, and had it not been for the near ness of shelter the suffering and prob able loss of life from freezing would have been much worse. The building was three stories high, with an attic and two entrances, one east and one west. There was one stairway from the second and third floors which led into the main halls to these entrances. thus giving but one egress for those in the second and third floors and attic. Fifty-two persons were in the burning building, forty patients and twelve fe male attendants. The attendants escaped, as did the others who were saved, with none of their personal effects, many losing all that they pos sessed. Portions of charred remains can be seen in the debris at the bottom of the basement which appear to be nearly in a pile near the northeast wall. The four walls of huge stone will stand black and grim, and will make the work of removal dangerous, as a total collapse is liable to occur without a moment's warning. Competent labor will be employed for the removal of the walls, debris and remains. The asylum, in 1882, then a frame building, was destroyed and only six lives lost except for loss of property. It was in no sense an instance to this morning's fire. Total loss on building and machinery Is estimated to be $18, 000. No insurance whatever. Mattress Maker Bankrupt. St. Louis, Feb. 13 Francis W. Bergen. one of the largest mattress manufactur ers in the west, filed a. bankruptcy peti tion in the United States district court to day. His liabilities aggregate $34,600. Of this amount $22,917 is secured by assets said to be valued at $30,100. The remain ing $11,093. apportioned among 60 creditors, is unsecured. Suicide at the Great Northern. Chicago, Feb. 13. On unknown man about 30 years of age shot himself in the right temple in the corridor of the Great Northern hotel. The deed was evidently premeditated, as the greatest care was taken by the victim of self-destruction to place his hat out of danger before he fired the fatal shot. Strong, steady nerves Are needed for success Everywhere. Nerves Depend simply, solely, Upon the blood. Pure, rich, nourishing Blood feeds the nerves And makes them strong. The great nerve tonic is Hood's Sarsaparilla, Because it makes The blood rich and Pure, giving it power To feed the nerves. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures nervousness, Dyspepsia, rheumatism. Catarrh, scrofula, And all forms of Impure blood. RUMOR OF FATALITY. Story of a Farmer Freezing to Death on a Load of Hay Can't Be Verified. There was a rumor In Topeka today that a man had been frozen to death while driving north from town early Saturday morning. It was reported that he was a farmer living 16 miles northwest of the city, who had been here with a load of hay. Failing to sell the hay he started home late Friday night and was frozen on the way. The story said his body was discovered on the load of hay when the team reached home. The rumor, however, can not be veri fied. None of the Topeka undertakers have been called upon to care for the remains of a victim of the storm. Men at the haymarket say that sev eral men left for their homes Friday night. Among the men at the market today there were none from the country northwest of Topeka. WHEATON MADE COLONEL. A Number of Army Promotions Sent to the Senate. Washington. Feb. 13. The president today sent these nominations to the senate: War Regular army Infantry arm: Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd Wheaton.Sec ond Infantry, to be colonel; Major A. W. Corliss, Seventh infantry, to be lieu tenant colonel; Captain W. V. Richards, Sixteenth infantry, to be major; First Lieutenant C. L. Beckurts, Sixth infan try, to be captain; Second Lieutenant C. B. Boltes, Eighteenth infantry, to be first lieutenant. Cavalry Second Lieutenant Fitzhugh Lee, Twenty-first infantry, to be second lieutenant cavalry. Second regiment volunteer engineers Second Lieutenant J. E. Lawton, to be first lieutenant; Sergeant W. Dougall, to be second lieutenant. AUTHORITY ON HOGS. That is. Secretary Coburn's Reputa tion in New Zealand. When Secretary Pobuni nt the Statn Board of Agriculture opened his mall this morning ne louna a letter irom wm. Mc Ilwraith. editor of the Mornine- Eulletin and of the Capricornian of Roekhampton, Queensland, Australia. It was dated De cember 30 and was an acknowledgment of the receipt of Secretary Coburn's report on "Pork Production." In the letter the writer asks if there Is a publication on "The Wonderful Hen." Mr. Coburn will send him a copy of his treatise on this noted Kansas fowl. The same batch of letters contained one from Victor Granville, a merchant of Waitara. New Zealand, who said he had seen it stated in a British agricultural journal that Mr. Coburn was the greatest authority on hogs in America, and he wanted a copy of his works on the hog. These are but samples of letter that Secretary Coburn is frequently receiving from the far away places of the earth, where the fame of his reports has pene trated. WOMEN TURN OUT To the Meeting of the National Coun cil in Spite of the Storm. Washington, Feb. 13. A blinding snow storm did not prevent the meet ing of the National Council of Women at the Church of Our Father today though the members were late in arriv ing. About 50 ladies were present. It was decided on account of the weather to hold a continuous session instead of adjourning and meeting again at three o'clock as provided. The session was devoted exclusively to business matters, the report of the president, Mrs. Wright Sewall being the principal feature of the day's work. The programme has been changed so that the address of Mrs. Gates on "The Women of Hawaii," will be delivered on Friday instead of today. PAYNE WAS FROM TOPEKA. Ira Payne of Company A. who was wounded in last night's skirmish at Manila, is a Topeka boy, and up to the time the Twentieth Kansas regiment left San Francisco acted as head cook for the company. When in Topeka he had a place as cook at the Hotel Throop and at different local restaurants at various times. QUITE A SNOWFALL. As Much as Six Inches Reported to Have Fallen. The snow fall of Friday night and Saturday measured six inches but was drifted so by the wind that the six inch measurement is only approximately correct. The prediction for Kansas is "gener ally fair tonight and Tuesday. Warmer tonight and in east portion tonight." According to the weather maps a warm wave from the Gulf or from the Pacific slope should start across the country and moderate the weather here within the week but unless such a warm wave comes the cold will continue for some time although not aa cold as during the past 48 hours. MR. JENNINGS CHOSEN. Leavenworth, Feb.13. T. B. Jennings, United States weather observer at To peka, Kan., was today elected grand master of the Masonic grand lodge. W. M. Shaver of Topeka was chosen grand recorder. NOW MISSOURI PACIFIC. That Company Purchases the Central Branch West of Waterville. Atchison, Kan., Feb. 13. It is officially announced here that the Missouri Pacific Railway company has purchased the Cen tral Branch lines west of Waterville. There has been considerable talk that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company had bought the property. The Missouri Pacific has been operating the lines for 18 years under lease. Representative Short's Condition. Representative W. T. Short of Cloud county, who has been very sick for sev eral weeks, is recovering slowly, but it will probably be two weeks before he will be able to again take his place In the house- He was taken down with a se vere attack of erysipelas during the sec ond week of the session, and has not been out of his bed since. So sudden was his attack that he could not be taken to his home at Concordia, but has been confined to his room at 311 West Seventh street. For a few days his recovery was doubtful. Meanwhile the bills which he Introduced into the house are passed by from time to time awaiting his recovery. Lancaster is Snowbound. Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 13. Lancaster is almost isolated this morning. No trains arrived here on the Pennsylvania rail road from the west since 2 a, m. The Philadelphia Reading road is entire ly tied up. Ohio is Shaken. Chilllcothe, O.. Feb. 13. Earthquake shocks were perceptible here at 3:30 a. m. The tempearture is 15 to 20 below Wool Boots for .Worainginen at Fur-man's. -BICYCLES. Columbia Chainless Bicycles, $65.00 and $75.00 w.ighthst Topeka Cycle Co. IT IS GETTING WARMER. Sunny Kansas Is Making a Mighty Struggle to Recover. The temperature throughout the state has experienced a material rise in the last 12 hours. Reports received at the Santa Fe and Rock Island offices here this afternoon show the tempera ture to be from 20 to 40 degrees above zero. The state generally is enjoying sunshine this afternoon and the indica tions are that the cold spell is broken. AH interference to traffic in the way of drifts of snow and sand has been cleared away, and all trains are report ed on time today. RICHMOND IS PARALYZED. Not a Car Wheel is Turning in the Virginia Capital. Richmond, Va., Feb: 13. The blizzard ragei here today In full force and vigor. It has snowed incessantly since Saturday afternoon; the thermometer registered only 6 above zero this after noon. The snow has drifted five or six feet in places and the suffering is in tense. No street cars or railroad trains are moving at all either in or out of Richmond and business is at a stand still. There is great fear of a fuel famine and the dealers can scarcely de liver the most urgent orders. HUNTERS FROZEN IN THE MOUN TAINS. Washington, Feb. 13. A Cumberland, Md., special to the Evening Star says: Snow has fallen incessantly since Sat urday evening and there is no sign of abatement. Temperature hovers about zero. Railroad traffic is demoralized. The country is blocked. Dealers are out of coal and a famine is threatened. Joseph and Amos Collins, hunters, are believed to be frozen to death in the mountains near Romney. W HARF ICE BOUN D At Memphis Navigation Stopped From Greenville to Cairo. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 13. The pres ent cold snap is a record breaker for west Tennessee, Arkansas and Missis sippi. The effect of the weather has been to cause a complete suspension of naviga tion on the Mississippi from Greenville, Miss., north to Cairo. The wharf at Memphis is ice bound. Early bearing fruit trees in Missis sippi have been withered by the intense cold and the early fruit crop will be seriously impaired. MAIL CARRIER FREEZES TO DEATH. Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 13. The ther mometer last night reached zero and the weather is very cold today. An old negro mail carrier named Bro zier, who for many years has carried the mail between Little Rock and Fourchdam, in Pulaski county, was found frozen to death today. COAL SCARCE AT NASHVILLE. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 13. The weath er here today is the coldest on record. There is much suffering on account of lack of coal, but the coal trains are being sent as rapidly as possible. STOPPED THE MARDI GRAB. Celebration at Birmingham Called Off Owing to Cold. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 13. Owing to the intensely cold weatner, tne tner mometer being 10 degrees below zero, the Birmingham Carnival society has called off the Mardi Gras celebration, which was to have been held today and tomorrow. The town is full of visitors. The present blizzard is the worst on record. WARMER IN KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, Feb. 13. From a tem perature of 22 degrees below zero at 7 o'clock Sunday morning, which is with out a parallel on the weather records for this section, the local official ther mometer at the same time today reg istered 6 below. A continued modera tion is predicted. SVEN HEDIN'S JOURNEY. TFrom Harper's Weekly. Another desert, the 'famous one of Gobi, or the dried-up sea, with whose name we are so familiar on the maps, remained to be traversed. While travel ing to Lop Nor, the author passed through a region which, though vastly higher altitude. Is not historically un like Yucatan or Cambodia in its arch aeological interest and abundance of relies. Here Buddhism and civilization or.ce flourished and evidently from quite respectably ancient times. This part of the book will delight the scholar, for the relics collected by Mr. Hedin show that even Greek taste and principles of art had penetrated this region. The beauty of the human faces and the lion and other figures on the toys.the terra cotta ornaments and the tiles is strik ing. None the less so Is the abundance of Buddhist relics. Here, too are mighty forests, reed swamps and wild camels, asses and yaks. In one instance the author expected himself and his horse to be tossed into the air. but fort unately got a bullet in the right place at the exact second. Great indeed were the wonders and thrilling were the ad ventures of the author's desert Journey. At one time he was robbed, but fortu nately met with a resolute energy and quick sense of justice in protecting the interests of the European, which are not unusual qualities in a Chinese man darin. Once more from Khotan he push ed toward the rising sun, through north ern Tibet and Tsaidam. Over the dunes and passes and down through a valley, which seemed little more than a chain of lakes, he reached inhabited regions again. With vigilance he passed the Tungut robbers scathless. Then, study ing the Mongols, he passed Kokonor. Buddhist temples by the thousands and images by the millions were seen. Then he moved eastward until he reached Pekin. We will wash your colored shirts anr guarantee colois from fading. Peerles Bteam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. 8th. Warm Overshoes at Furman's. TELEGRAPHERS' TROUBLE With the Union Pacifio to Be Settled March 1. Omaha, Feb. 13. The grievance com mittee of the Union Pacific telegraph ers which has been in session in this city for two weeks had a short confer ence with General Manager Dickinson this morning. They have formulated a scale of wages and regulations for hours and terms of employment which has been submitted to the company. General Manager Dickinson asked to have the settlement of the matter de ferred to March 1 on account of press ing business and to this the men acced ed. At that time the whole matter will be taken up and both the men and com pany officials express the belief that it will be settled satisfactorily to all con cerned. A SOCIALISTIC COLONY. George Wickline, of Nashville, 111, to Establish One. Nashville, 111., Feb. 13. Geo. Wickline of this city is completing all necessary arrangements for the establishment of a socialistic colony in Randolph county. Mr. Wickline has secured the option on 1,000 acres of rich farming land under laid with a 7-foot vein of coal, along the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, where the coioniy will be located. The organization will be similar to the Ruskin colony, of Tennessee, several of Wickline's co-workers having been lo cated at Ruskin for some time. Agriculture and mining and the estab lishment of good schools and factories are included in the scheme, and the law of brotherly love is to be the rule for conduct. AH of the most modern implements of production are to be in troduced and pauperism is to be un known, as work and profits are to be shared alike. The promoter is well known throughout Illinois, having been allied with the Populist party for years, and having run for congress and edited several newspapers. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. We have noticed that when we are busy some one insists on telling us a "joke." When people get a notion that a man is making money fast they will throw money at him. It takes a woman as long to select a seat at the theater as it does for the average man to pick out a new suit of clothes. "I have tried all sorts of fun, but have found nothing equal to going to bed at half past eight and sleeping until six the next morning." Drake Watson. When a woman's company arrives to visit her, her husband goes around look ing as he did when he was little and was shut out from the parlor. What a terrible shock It is: the wom en in the Philippines have four thous and husbands, brothers and lovers to go in mourning over, but as they wear no clothes, they can't do it. What could Ruth Ashmore advise in such a predica ment? REFLECTION S OF A BACHELOR From the New York Press. Man seeks; woman searches. After a girl finds she is in love with a man. she is generally a lot less con ceited about the way she loves the Lord. Women are all right as long as they have plenty of clothes and their own way; a man is all right aa long as he has plenty to eat. Of all women who go wrong, half do so because they are better than the men, and half because the men are worse than they are. No girl has any right to get married till she knows nine ways to use up stale bread and how to fold a dress-suit so when a man wants to wear it ha won't have to pay a dollar to get the wrinkles pressed out of it. Burlington Smallpox Scare. Burlington, Feb. 13. There was a smallpox scare at Glenwood, a school house east of here, yesterday, and the school was closed. Charlie Hanes escaped from the county jail a few days ago and has been near Glenwood. There is a supposed case of smallpox in the jail and Hanes had been exposed. The farmers near there sent word to Sheriff Green to go after Hanes or they would mob him. Hanes was sent for and is now in jail. Four Aged Newtonians Die. Newton, Feb. 13. Four deaths were reported this morning, grip figuring in each one. All were old citizens; Mrs. W. A. Dotson, widow of a prominent Methodist minister, who died twenty years ago; "Father" C. H. Tangeman, aged 78; Mrs. Joseph Billick, aged 60, and Mrs. Nannie Burwell, aged 78. A. O. XT. W. Lodge Expels Jointlsts. The A. O. U. W. lodge of this city ex pelled six Jointlsts who were members, from the organization at their last meeting. This was in accordance with the orders of the Grand Lodge. Con cordia Empire. Cattle Dying on the Range. Conductor Daughtry of the Rock Is land reports that cattle hides are being shipped along the route between here and Liberal at the rate of about 75 a day. Many who have shipped in cattle from Texas are losing in large numbers. Jt is difficult to get these range cattle to eat and the climate is too severe for them. Pratt County Union. Woodward, O. T., and return, one fare via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sale Feb. 12 and 13, account live stock association. Tickets good for seven days. See Santa Fe agent. Ladles' and Children's Legging at Furman's.
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TOPEKA STATE JOUENAli MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 13, 1899. 5 FROSTY FIRE CALLS MARSHALL'S BAND CONCERT Social Calendar. MONDAY The Federated clubs are giving a reception at Library hall this afternoon for the wives of the senator?, representatives and the state officers. Mrs. Charles Blood Smith is entertaining the D. D. club this afternoon. TUESDAY The Bachelor club will dance at Hudson's hall. THURSDAY The O. N. O. club will dance at Wetherell's hall In the even ing. FRIDAY The Imeprlal club will dance at Hudson's hall. The Helianthus club will give their regular party at Harmony hall. SATURDAY The Douze whist club will be entertained by Miss Mabel Wilson. "Sorosis Night" Supper. Lincoln's birthday has been chosen as "Sorosis Night," and as it came on Sunday this year the celebration was held on Saturday evening. The mem bers of the club entertained their hus bands at a delightful supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Turner. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. McCarter assisted Mr. and Mrs. Turner in receiving the guests. After all had assembled, each one was given a picture of Lincoln, on the back of which was the programme for the evening. Partners were found for supper in quite an unique manner; lit tle slips of paper were given the ladies, containing a sentence, descriptive of the gentlemen present, each word begin ning with the letter of the name to which they referred. By guessing to whom her slip referred, the ladies found their partners. The descriptions were as follows: Made Military Mark stood for Col. M. M. Miller; Justifies Written Sermons, the Rev. J. W. Sykes; Where are we A-T, Mr. Avery Turner; Learning How to Charm, Mr. L. H. Crandell; Gets Af ter Humbugs, Judge G. A. Huron; Jolntists All Tremble. Mr. James A. Troutman; Eager For War, Mr. Eu gene F. Ware; Paper Company Combi nation. Mr. P. C. Chamberlain; Can Furnish Medicine, Dr. F. Mennlnger; Can't Justify Expansion, Mr. C. J. Ev ans; Judges Divorce Matters Fairly, Mr. J. T. McFarland: Above Zero. Mr. A. Zahner; Would Manage Diplomats, Air. W. jjavmaun; v ui h.3 a, j uu& lng. Judge W. A. Johnston; Talks For Gain, Judge T. F. Garver; Leaves Dur ing Lent, ex-Governor L. D. Lewelling; Wears A Mild Countenance, Dr. W. A. McCarter; Jurists Win Benefits, Mr. J. W. Butterfield: Old Land Company.Mr. O. L. Clark; An Active Rustler, Mr. A. A. Rodgers: Has Written Rhymes, Dr. H. W. Roby. The supper was served In courses; the table was prettily decorated with bowla of red roses, as red is the color and the rose the flower of the club. Great bowls of the fragrant blossoms were used through all the rooms. Mrs. McCarter was the toast mistress and the following toasts were given: Sorosis," Col. M. M. Miller; "Our Mot to" and "Our Husbands," which were responded to by Mrs. Huron and Mrs. McFarland. were both, original poems. "Our Wives" was responded to by Judge T. F. Garver; "Our Teachers,' Mrs. C. J. Evans; "Our Homes," Mr. I H. Crandell; "Our Guests," Miss Effie Graham; "Our Critics," Mr. A. A. God- ard; "Newspapers and Clubs," Mr. P. C. Chamberlain. Dr. H. W. Roby read an excellent original poem on Abraham Lincoln. The guests of the club were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ware, General and Mrs. J. K. Hudson, Judge and Mrs. W. A. Johnston, Dean and Mrs. J. W. Syke3, Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Embree, Professor and Mrs. William Davidson, ex-Governor and Mrs. L. D. Lewelling, Professor and Mrs. Hyde and Miss Davidson. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Lillian Whitelock will entertain the Bachelor Girls' club Tuesday after noon at 2:30. Miss May Davis has returned from a several days' visit with friends In Kan sas City. Miss Julia Whitmer will entertain Friday evening at her home on West Sixth street. In the corner of the in vitation is the inscription, "Come and search for the end of the rainbow." Miss Whitmer will also entertain in the afternoon. Mr. Dell Kelzer left Sunday for New York city; Mrs. Keizer accompanied him as far as St. Louis, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. W. C. Smith. Miss Ho Harris of Ottawa has been spending a few days with Miss Ann Crane at Bethany and Miss Roberta Wasson. Rev. F. E. Brant of Walnut, Kan., Is in the city on business; while in the city Miss Brant will be the guest of Mrs. L. A. Fisher..on East Sixth street, Mr. and Mrs. George Welsh of Okla homa are in the city and expect to make their home here. Miss May Haskins will give a Val entine party Tuesday evening. Mr. Joe Ramsey has issued invitations for a card party Friday evening. Mr. R. T. Herrick has gone to Omaha and Des Moines on a business trip. The Unity club will give a Valentine cocial Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Willa Tomllnson, at 200 Woodlawn avenue, Potwin. Mr. and Mrs. Will Rigby will enter tain at cards this evening. J. D. Small of Atchison spent yester day in Topeka visiting his daughter, Mrs. Walter Noble, and his brother, Mr. E. D. Small. FACE AND HEAD COVERED WITH SCALES Shed a Tabie.poonful at Night. Hair Full of White Scales. Offers $100 for Cure. Tries CUTICURA, Is Cured. Lut Bummer I bad company, a man and him wife. The man's hands and face had dry, scaly sores on them, and his head was covered, his hair being fall of whit scales. His wife said, borne mornings she would find a tableapoonful to the bed I asked him. Why don't ySoenre yourself?" He said, I would ive a hundred aoiiars to be cored. I have paid out a lot of money, but don't set cnred.-'l told him. "I would cure him for leas than that," and told him Jo get Concern remedies. I did not see him lor some time after, and then he fairly snouted 1 am cured. CcTicrRA has dune it." alii. BAR AH K. attX&B. Lincoln, VU eniati ?V&nrr erlfl the Wood and ctr-KaSSl?-2?of Hr" nd thus removes aid.fi. T,"m CUTiosaa Boat Jf" J"V? ""olnunga WHO Ccticvu (ointment) suiay itching aad iaasmmatlon. soothe and heaL aJ!?SS!?e?,,fcrt- romiD.inc.Coir. -unttCiIteTiiuir.''h SAVE YOUR HAIH Mpoaa W It i ft DESPERADOES AT CHURCH. Draw Revolver and Conduct Services to Salt Themselves. Decatur, Ind., Feb. 13. At Monroe last night Charles Bumbi and Ed Kna vel entered a church during service and commanded a. minister to "cease his harangue," and proceeded to conduct the meeting to suit themselves. When the frightened ladies attempted to leave the intruders presented revol vers, and all were compelled to remain in their seats. The congregation was commanded to rise and sing, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing," when a rush was made and the two toughs overpowered. A telephone message soon brought the sheriff and deputies from this city, and both Bumbi and Knavel were arrested. Bumbi was a short time ago released from the peni tentiary, where he had been committed for murder several years ago. Only a few weeks ago they broke up a. revival meeting at Monroe it Is alleged and have been terrorizing that community for some time. JESSE JAMES TRIAL. Both Sides Are Ready and the Case Will Be Called Tuesday. Kansas City Feb. 13. Tuesday Is the date set for the trial of Jesse James Jr., for alleged complicity in the Missouri Pacific train robbery at Leeds on the night of October 23 last. It is not ex pected that any more continuances will be asked, two having already been se cured by the state. One delay was oc casioned by the defense swearing Judge Wofford off the bench, when Judge Dorsey W. Shackleford of Boon ville was called in to preside at the trial. According to the confession of W. W. Lowe, an ex-railroad man, he and five others participated in the hold-up, and those five others were Jesse James, An dy Ryan, Chas. W. Polk, Caleb Stone and a man named Evans, who turned out to be none other than Bill Kyan of the old James garg. "We are ready for trial, and have been ever since Judge Shackleford was called into the case,"said Frank Walsh, one of the lawyers for James, Saturday. "If the case Is continued It will be at the request of the state.' The Indications are that the prosecu tion will be ready this time. The real trial will probably not be gin before Monday, the 20th, as the se lection of a Jury will doubtless not be completed before Saturday. OF IOLA AND FORT SCOTT. -will McGrew Wounded In Manila Well-Known in Two Kansas Towns. Fort Scott, Feb. 13. Will McGrew. the Iola young man who was reported by Gen. Otis to have been wounded in the Manila battle Monday, Is a brother of Mrs. E. O. Cross, of B19 Lowman street, this city. Young McGrew was working in the smelters at Iola when the volunteer army was recruited and he enlisted there. His parents. Rev. Mr. McGrew and wife, recently left this city for Howe, Texas, where they now live. DEWEY WEARY OF WAR. In a Letter Written to New Orleans School Children on Christmas Day. New Orleans. Feb. 13. The children of MeDonogh public school of this ciiy wrote Admiral Dewey a letter a short time ago. and were delighted to receive the follow ing letter from him today: "Flagship Olympia. "Manila, P. I.. Dec. 25, im. "Miss Dian E. Jacquet. Lelia Zanders and Others: "My Dear Little Friends: I have receiv ed your very nice letter. It gave rae much pleasure to know that you are my friends and admirers. On this day of "good will and peace on earth' I hope we may have no more wars: but if wo should, may your patriotism inspire our men to sreater deeds of heroism. Very sincerely, "GEORGE DEWEY." A LINCOLN MONUMENT. A Movement Started in Chicago to Erect a Fitting Memorial. Chicago, Feb. 13. A movement to erect a national memorial in honor of Abraham Lincoln has been started by the Lincoln club- of Chicago. Resolu tions have been adopted favoring the organization of a national Lincoln me morial association, and a committee, which includes Senator Mason and Con gressman Lorimer. appointed to secure funds for the purpose. The resolutions I call attention to the condition of the Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., and say that "it is a disgrace to the nation that the great war president has no recognition in a national monument to bis memory. A HITCH OYER SKAGUAY In the Proceedings of the Joint High Commission. Chicago, Feb. 13. A special to the Trib une from Washington says: "It is stated here that there is a serious hitch in the work of the Anglo-Amer'can commission. The obstacle is believed to be the demand made by the Canadian commission for the cession of the town of Skaguay, Alaska. The American com missioners nave oenmteiy refused. SKag uay is the natural" gateway to the Klon dike. Unless an amicable adjustment can be reached within a few days there is a possibility the negotiations for a new treaty between the United States and Canada may be broken oft." IS HE MORSE? Soldier Wounded at Manila Thought to Be a Sergeant. The records in the office of the ad jutant general do not contain the name of John O. Morsebery who was in the list of wounded last week. The Kansas City Journal thinks that It has discov ered his identity and has printed the following: The "John O. Morsebery," of com pany K, Twentieth Kansas volunteers, whose name appears in the list of wounded in Friday's battle, is thought to be John O. Morse, sergeant of that company, the last syllable of the name having, it is believed, been changed from "serg." written as an abbrevia tion, for "sergeant." No such name as Morsebery appears on the roll of the company kept in Topeka. John O. Morse enlisted from Mound City under the first call but was re jected on examination, only to enlist again under the third call. He was ac cepted, and joined the regiment at San Francisco. Morse was a graduate of the Kansas state agricultural college, at Manhattan and is a brother of T. W. Morse of the Journal staff, and of S. T. Morse, with the People's Gas Sav ing association. Mrs. Hollenbach and the Ladies' Quartette will assist Marshall's Band at their annual concert Wednesday and xnursdajr evenings. i Bat No Serious Damage Why Hatch en Ranges Blow Up. The fire department had four calls Saturday night and Sunday with the thermometer from 18 to 25 degrees below zero but none of the firemen were more seriously frozen than frosted ears and noses. A telephone alarm at 8:20 Saturday night called the department to Hodgins cafe on Eighth street. Some gasoline had been spilled on the floor and mopped up. Afterwards a match was dropped on the floor and the gasoline that had soaked into the wood burst into flames. It was put out with but little damage. At 8:35 Sunday morning a telephone alarm called the department to 1128 Tyler street to the home of F. S. Savage. The water pipes between the range and the hot water tank had frozen and when the fire was started In the range it blew up, wrecking the kitchen and blow ing parts of the range into the yard. The loss by fire was small. Several ranges have blown up since the very cold weather and it has been from the same cause in all cases. "The reason for these accidents," said Frank Edson, "is that the connection between the water back In the range and the hot water boiler is frozen up shutting off the connection. The 'water back' is the tank in the range where the water Is heated and the steam from there goes into the boiler. A quick, hot fire is started and the steam in the 'water back can not get out any way but through the pipe connection to the boil er. The connection is frozen, the steam becomes superheated and the result is that 200 or 300 pounds of steam blows up the range." Just as the department returned from the fire at the home of the Savages they were called by telephone to 230 Topeka avenue to the house occupied by E. L. Epps. A gasoline tank caught fire and was carried out by the Bre men, when they arrived, with little dam age. At 12:15 the department was called by telephone to Col. W. H. Rossington's house, 914 Monroe, where ashes from the grate had started a small fire in the cellar which was put out with very little damage. Col. Rossington's house seems fated as the department was called there last summer and again on January 19. Each time the fires were extinguished with slight damage. HA VANA'S NEW POLICE. The City Will Be Patrolled by Cubans in Uniform. Havana, Feb. IS. There have ben no new cases of yellow fever reported from Guanajay. Liuetenant Colonel O'Reilly, chief surgeon of the department cf Cuba, has accepted the report of the autopsy made by Major Kneedler, the surgeon there, in the case of a soldier who was supposed to have died from the fever. Ma jor Kneedler"s report shows that the death in this case was not due to yellow fever, but to pernicious malarial fever. Several of the members of the new po lice in uniform and with their batons were seen on the streets yesterday. The men were not on duty, but appeared in uni form in order to accustom them to their new dress and to familiarize the inhabi tants with their appearance. The uni forms are natty and becoming and the new force will present a good appearance. Revolvers will be supplied to the men tomorrow, but they will not take up their duties before February 20. Soon after that date the American soldiers now on duty policing the city will be removed, with exception of a few who will be re tained to control disorderly soldiers and sailors. The bishop of Havana has published a warning to heads of families not t en trust the education of their children to other than Catholic teachers. This, the bishop saysfl has always been the duty of Catholics, but there is greater danger now owing to the advent of many protestants and new liberties in the matter of creeds and worships. The attendance of chil dren at non-sectarian schools is not ad vised except in cases of schools where no religion is taught. Jose Arrate, one of the best and moct ef ficient men of the detective force of Ha vana, was shot and killed Saturday nl?ht while attempting to arrest a negro. The detective's companions then kil'ed the negro after a violent affray, in which several persons were wounded. General Ludlow, military eovernor of the department of Havana, has not yet taken up the case of Michael Dady'a con tract, which is still in the hands of Mayor Lacoste. who will refer the case to Gen eral Ludlow today. General Ludlow has eight days in which to act on the case, and can refer it, if he desires to do so. to Gov ernor General Brooke, who will have a similar period in which to act. If Gen erals Ludlow and Brooke decide adversely to Dady, the latter, it Is said, will appeal to the Cuban courts. Everyone who is a Kansan should up hold Kansas by buying Kansas manu factured goods. By so doing you will help home industries to grow; help build up factories and cities, and In the end help yourselves. The further a dol lar goes away from home the longer it will take It to come back. Be wise and call for the "Silver Leaf brand of goods. All made at home and every grocer carries them. Frank Long, manager, and restaurant. Hotel Oxford PBAN0S Strictly first-class; araaranteei in all respects. MARSHALL WEADALL Pianos have "been soil "by us in Topeka for 23 years, aa.1 vro refer to each and every one of them for their durability, sveetness of tone and. perfect action. STORY CLARK PLUGS. These ara surely the AUTIS TIC PIANOS of the day, and most scientifically constructed. PLEASE CALL and see the new styles and let us show you tbeir many points of superiority. Terms easy. Prices the lowest for first-class instruments. We Eavc fine, new Pianos for rent at $4.00 to $5.00 per month. THE E. B. Guild Music Co. Musical Entertainment Two Nights at Craford's, Feb. 15 and 16. Marshall's Military band will give a concert at the Crawford opera house on the nights of February 15 and 16. It will be rendered in their best style. The programme is as follows: 1 Overture The Italian in Algiers.. Rossini 2 Descriptive The Evening Call Reeves 3 Elizabeth's Prayer from Tann- hauser ..Wagner Mrs. Glenna Dwight Hollenboch. 4 The Legend Ladies' quartette S. Mohring Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Ferry. 6 Grand selection from Simon Bae cauegra Verdi 6 Grand Fantasia Old Chestnut in New Burrs Bendix 7 (a) A Dream Bartlett b) Still as the Night Bohm Mrs. Glenna Dwight Hollenboch. 8 Robin Adair Ladies' quartette.... Dudley Buck Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Foster, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Ferry. 9 Descriptive The Ship Wreck W. Moore Synopsis On the eve of departure, the boatswain's whistle is heard calling all hands to weigh anchor. The anchor's weigh'd. Good-bye, sweetheart, good bye. The calm of night is suddenly dis- Crash! the ship is on the rocks. Signals of distress. Man the lifeboat. Saved Visions of home. 10 Reveries A Summer Evening Rasewig 11 Star Spangled Banner Key STILL LOOK TO US. London Views New York as the Lead er of the Financial World. New Tork, Feb. 17. The Times' London financial correspondent cables: Superficially, our money market seems in an anomalous position. All the week, until Thursday, loans were offering at from one-half of 1 per cent to 1, ard at the same time discount houses have striven to keep the rate of bank bills as near as possible to 2 per cent. In this effort the banks helped them by refusing to buy bills for them at less than ls per cent: rather than work for less they were ready to lend at 1 per cent for the week. Why was this? Because the whole money market had two fears before its ey'fi. It feared another squeeze at Friday's Stock Exchange settlement, similar to tl'e one a fortnight back, a fear justified by the events, for pressure was tremendous be cause the stock clearing house broke down. It also always dreads the effect of the revenue collections a little later in the Quarter. But the result of any appre hension of dearness to come always makes the holders of banking credits reluctant to part with them for more than a few days, and therefore the present condi tion of our market seems to encourage the expectation that the present low rates will soon give place to higher ones. I am by no means sure of this and lean rather to the opinion that cheapness must last for some time unless the calm is dis turbed by unforeseen eauses. The government deiosits in the TlanW of England are still 4.000.000 below the total or a year ago and are little likely to reach last year's fitfure at anv time between now and April. And next week we should receive several millions from you in payment for the stock you import ed a fortnight back. So, for the present, our market will simdv be eoreed with credits. Even the gold movements cease to Inter est us when such an abundance prevails, but unless you want it we shall possi bly retain a Dart at least of these imimrts of metal for the next few weeks. We only get the African supply, it is true. Tndia and yourselves are taking the Australian output, but a little goes a long way in soothing us in our present mood. This mood is one of increasing hopefulness, leading to more vigorous speculation. Our trade returns in January indicate that business is waking up in the far cast and to some extent with our possession?. Even continental nations are displaying larger buying power, and lust as will han- pen with you, the millions disbursed to tho iron manutacturers by the admiralty till the land with a sense of prosperity to the banks with their deposits seeking" em ployment. I nave been askinsr the stock lirokeTB where their clients are puttine s'.l this money. The answer still is into home in- austnes ana Kainr mines. Hut specu lation, yet very modest, is steadily swelling- by the flow of small orders. Tt will take a month or two of itparpr mnnov he fore the daring mood that permits of free speculation on a larger scale becomes dominant. Should this mood seize lis then T ffxnnv we will begin again to buy back many of i iic ciiaies it i Hi uunaa we sold you. i come across no "bears" to speak of, but "bulls" on your rails, in a small wav, are already numerous. We have done" 'ittle during the last fortnight because vou let prices down and because we feared dearer money at settlement. But just ynu set the ball rolling again and see if we do not follow your lead. The gamblers f.lone will buy first, and therefore a moderate slump must alternate with each advance. Hut the speculative investor will succeed the gambler and the srentleman who buys Eries to lay aside for his children will come pounding in last of all. There cannot be a silver lining without a cloud. Our present cloud is the threat ened strike of the cotton operatives. The men seem determined, and as the trade has been very profitable lately I shoutd not be surprised if the masters give way. 1 ney nave no stocks unon hand to fall back upon, and will hardlv decide to shut down in the face of profitable orders. But ml ine moment tne two siaes are squar ing up at each other as if they meant to fight t it out. OPPOSED TO EMPTY TITLES Roosevelt Does Wot I.ike"Your Exsel- lency" or "Executive Mansion." Albany, N. T.. Feb. 13. Governor Roose velt does not think the governor of New York. or. In fact, of any state, should be addressed with the title "Your Excel lency." "Governor" Is his official designation and expresses all there is to the office, tie believes the same rule applies to the president of the United States. Executive mansion," the term by which the residence of the governor in this city Is known, is an expression which ii at variance with his ideas. "Governor's inJlts Pmion. Is the proper designation. t he governor today, in expressing him self on superfluous titles, told a story of an experience he had in Washington at a reception, when a lady was introduced as Mrs. ex-Third Assistant Deputy Secretirv of Agriculture. THESE TWINS CRIED And Tbeir Little Brother Mixed Them Some Foicon That Quieted Them Forever. Reading; Pa.. Feb. 13. To stop the cries or his baby twin brothers today 3-year-old James Hughes mixed them some medicine as he had seen his moth er do, but innocently put in some arsenic and laudanum, which killed both the infants within a few hours. They were the children of Mrs. Mary Grace Hughes. The twins, John and Joseph, were born last September, and little James assisted his mother in their care. He had seen her give them "mother's drops" on several occasions when they were sick, and when they cried today he concluded to doctor them himself. He found the deadly drugs in a closet, and mixed them with some milk, and sugar in a baking' powder box. Hear Marshall's Band in their Fif teenth Annual Concert, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Ladies' and Furman's. Children's Legglns at We will wash your colored shirts and guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. Stn. lenre The "Cold Long Cruel Winter" Not Over Yet We are selling Cent Below Costs x Blankets 45c, 69c, 75c, $1.00, $1.48, $1.98, $2.19 pair Heavy Underwear 15c, 19c, 29c, 39c, 59c, 75c each Ladies' Black Cat Hose, 10c quality 2 pair 15c Misses' All Wool Hose, 19c quality 10c pair Children's Shoes... 19c, 25c, 35c, 39c, 49c, 59c, 69c pair Ladies' Shoes ..98, $1.25, $1.48, $1.89 pair Men's Shoes $1.29, $1.49, $1.89 pair New York Mer. Co,, 110 EAST SIXTH STREET, LAST OF CLASSIC DRAMA. End of the Engagements of tho Well known Stars at Both Opera Houses. Considering the extreme cold weather the attendance at the Crawford theater and Grand Opera House at the matinee and evening performances Saturday was all that could be expected. The attendance at the matinee performance of "La Tosca" was better than the at tendance at the performance of "Romeo and Juliet", but in the evening the au diences at "Fedora" and "Othello" were about equal. "I don't blame people for not turning out this kind of weather," said Mr. Charles B. Hanford Saturday afternoon. "For my part, I wouldn't go across the street to see the original cast in the Lord's Supper." From "Floria Tosca", Sardou's 'wom an of love and impulse, Blanche Walsh passed to his masterful creation, the "Princess Fedora", at the Crawford theater Saturday night. Her audience of the evening was as appreciative as the audience of the afternoon and the night preceding, and she was called be fore the curtain twice, after the second and third acts. What was said of Miss Walsh's por trayal of "La Tosca" is also true of her "Princess Fedora". In the quiet pas sages of the play her reading of the part was at times admirable, but in the intensely emotional scenes she failed to keep wholly clear of overdoing. Mr. MacDowell's "Loris Ipanoff" was not equal to his "Baron Scarpla". While he made the character interest ing, he was "stagey"at times, and his work, especially in the love scenes, un finished. "Fedora" gives the supporting com pany much more opportunity than -"La Tosca". As the "Countess jiga miss Constance Williams, who was seen here last year with W. S. Hart, proved her self particularly capable. Arthur El liott's "Jean DeSireaux" was better than his "Cavaradossi". and the re mainder of the company was satisfac tory in the less important parts. Each of the members of the new Shakespearean triumvirate appeared to excellent advantage at the Grand Opera House Saturday. In the afternoon Miss Tyler proved her "Juliet" the strongest of her characters, and in the evening Mr. R. D. MacLean proved his "Othello" the same. Both in the afternoon and evening Mr. Charles B. Hanford showed his easy handling of Shakespearean roles in "Mercutio" and "Iago". Miss Tyler's "Juliet" was especially pleasing among the characterizations of the two tragedies. She gave to the role the childishness and innocence which made it natural. She both looked and acted the part. She was unaffected during the trying scenes. The small audience that saw "Romeo and Juliet" appreciated her work and tendered her several curtain calls. The "Othello" of Mr. MacLean went considerably ahead of both his "Shy lock" and "Romeo". It was his best work. He gave to the part dignity and power. His portrayal was free -from ranting. His "Othello" especially proved that the Shakespearean drama has been benefited by his return to the stage. There is a great difference between the "Mercutio" of "Romeo and Juliet" and the "Iago" of "Othello", but both received excellent treatment in the hands of Mr. Charles B. Hanford. His "Iag-o" was more the "honest Iago" than the insidious, insinuating friend. His work with Mr. MacLean was re peatedly applauded. To say that Miss Tyler's "Desde mona" compelled the sympathy of her audience is sufficient praise. Her work in the part but served to increase the favor which her "Portia" and "Juliet" created. IT. S. AMBASSADOR'S BALL. Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer Among the Guests Present Rome, Feb. 13. The event of carnival week in Rome was United States Ambas sador Draper s ball. The Italian guests were the most prominent members of the Roman aristocracy and diplomatic fami lies. I Among the Americans present were Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer. Mr. and ,Mrsi. Winston, Miss Grant, Consul General Os- borne and General Porter. 1 the Ides of Blankets and-Heavy Underwear at Ten Per Now is the time to Only a Few Doors From Kansas Avenue on East Sixth Street. CULTER RETORTS. Goes After Grain Sealers' Association for Resolving" That His De partment is Worthless. W. W. Culver, state grain inspector, is after the State Grain Dealers' asso ciation. At its last meeting, in a series of "whereases" and resolves", the grain dealers' association declared that the present system of gTain Inspection Is faulty and that it ought to be taken out of the hands of the state and placed In the hands of the association. They de clared that they had discovered this after trying their check-weight bureau for two months. A bill has been introduced into the present legislature to turn the entire grain inspection over to the grain deal ers" association by allowing the associa tion to elect the chief inspector and all the deputy inspectors, forty or fifty in number. This, it is claimed, is on a par with allowing the state board of agriculture to elect its secretary, or allowing the miners to elect the mine inspector. The difference between these associa tions is that the grain dealers restrict their membership and do not allow all shippers to become a part of the asso ciation. A year ago the association went so far as to take steps to have the railroads refuse to furnish cars to track shippers and to farmers who wished to ship their own grajn. It is also against the policy of the association to allow its members to bid against one another for wheat, and the members of the as sociation who are competitors are in structed to form pools to keep from running up prices when buying from farmers. For these reasons there is opposition to putting the grain inspection depart ment into the hands of the association. In an open letter to the president of the association concerning the resolu tions. State Inspector Culver says: "After two months' trial it is 'where ased' that we are 'it'; and resolved to get rid of the bonded and commissioned state weigher, then incorporate and em ploy checkmen who can do no more than the state weigher has already done. It is also "whereased' that the present system is wrong, yet you pro pose nothing better for your corporation or checkmen. Twice you condemn it; yet it is your purpose to continue It under the supervision of an interested irresponsible checkman, who Is to sup plant the disinterested responsible state's weigher. I am right with you in condemning the present system, In so far as the weighing facilities are concerned. I am dead against you in your scheme to place this important work back in the hands of a corporation such as the present law supplanted; and that is what this resolution means. It further means a money making and salary paying snpp, beneficial only to the ones who have the 'pull' on the 'plum tree". You can not hope to do any bet ter than is being done now wherever the Kansas law has Jurisdiction. 'Crim inal carelessness' is charged to the Kansas state weighmasters. I have de manded of you in writing the name or names of the careless ones and the lo cation of its commitment. Two weeks have passed without reply to my de mand, save in private conversation you admit that you can not. Why these un derhanded methods? Have not the of ficers of the Kansas Grain Dealers' as sociation done enough for the grain dealers to warrant them in confidently and boldly making known their plans? Have not the state weighers faced your enemy, withstood his gibes and curses, and saved you dollars enough to war rant you in openly counseling with him to the betterment of the service? Has his services warranted the slanderous thrust in the back and in the darkness of your closed meeting when he was not by to make defense? I have always en Joyed your preaching honesty. I was In hopes to enjoy its practice." THREE SENTENCED. Burglar Given Ten Years and a Coal Thief One Year. Judge Haxen sentenced three crimi nals today. Joe Coats, the negro who burglarised the Gay home and whose sentence was set aside to hear arguments on a mo tion for a new trial, was resentenced EM S X X x X buy and the place is 7 TOPEKA, KAN. J Only the Purest Drags Arc good enoagh for Sick People. They cant afford to experiment. Poor or stale drugs are worse than none. You may safely entrust your prescriptions to us. Nothing but the highest quality of Drugs; ex pert pharmacy. Squibb's and Merck's Chemicals. Parke, Davis Co.'s Fluid Extracts. Our stock is RIGHT, work is BIGHT, Prices are RIGHT as low as is consistent with the very highest standard of strictly legiti mate pharmacy. R. W. SQUIRES, 732 Kansas Avenue. Next door to Epicurean Restaurant. after the motion for a new trial had He was given ten been overruled. years. Sam Wood row, a colored man who was convicted of stealing coal was sen tenced to one year. Henry Bell, who was an accessory of Woodrow, was sentenced to the state reformatory. FROZEN EARS. Jack Prost Nips Topeka People, and Swollen Ears Result. The force In State Superintendent Nelson's office suffered severely from the cold Saturday night. Mr. A. V. Lin dell, bond clerk in the office, stepped out of his house to get a bucket of water along in the evening, and although he was out In the cold less than three minutes, when he got in again he dis covered that his ears had been frozen stiff. He made the discovery in time to thaw them out before he went near the fire. Miss Luella Rudolph, Superintendent Nelson's stenographer, was not so fort unate. She froze her ears severely and did not find it out until they had thaw ed and began to become swollen. Dozens of people had their ears and noses nipped more or less, but most of them were careful to thaw them out with snow or cold water before the fire got a chance at them. Miss Annie Hobson Alio Heroic. Miss Annie Hobson of Greensboro, Ala., sister of Lieutenant Hobson of Merrimac fame, who is visiting in Jackson. Miss., was riding a fiery Kentucky tnoroughbr-d down street when the horse became fright ened and, fretting the bit between his teeth, dashed away at a terrible speed. The plucky ladv realized her danger and held onto the reins with a death-like ?rip. at the same time trying to stop the frighten ed animal. Her escort, Joseph Porter, was in close pursuit. The race continued for seven block and several corners were turned that would have unseated an or dinary horsewoman. The horse was finally stopped near the city hall. Miss Hobson is now a heroine second only to her fam ous brother. Atlanta Constitution. Commercial Club Meeting. A special meeting of the Commercial club will be held on Wednesday even ing, Feb. 15, to consider the best meth od of printing and distributing the Sta tistical Review for 1898. Every mem ber should be present. T. J. ANDERSON, Secretary, mm
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G TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. ALGER SATS "IF' The Beef Packers Are Gailty, They Ought to Be Brought to Book. New York, Feb. If!. Secretary of War 'Alger, being interviewed here, said that the war department desired and ex pected a full investigation of the charge that unwholesome beef had been sup plied to the army under contract with the government Gen. Alger expressed no opinion as to the character of the verdict by the board of inquiry Into Gen. Miles charges, but he said he be lieved that it would be conclusive. "The war department is being Inves tigated," said Secretary Alger. "We want to give the investigators a free hand. If there is anything wrong the department wants to know it. If any thing was sold to government which Fhould not have been sold, it should be found out. If the beef packers are guilty, they ought to be brought to book. "I have no late news' from Manila," continued the secretary, in answer to questions, "'hut if there had been any thing important I should have heard cf it. 'Gen. Otis is entirely free to do what he likes. No instructions have been pent to him, as he is fully competent to deal with the situation. He did not xpect the attack by the natives. He had reported unrest and uneasiness among them, but when the outbreak finally came it was a surprise to him. "I can not tell how long the trouble there will last, but I think the present force of troops will be sufficient. Gen. Otis has not asked for any more men. "I can not tell about the general dis position of the natives. Gen. Otis mere ly says that they have been showing signs of uneasiness for some time. 'It depends upon circumstances whether the regular troops now on the way to Manila will relieve an equal number of volunteers. That was the Intention when the regulars were sent, but it is impossible to say whether the plan can be carried out immediately. I have not teen able to ascertain whether the army bill will pass at the present session of congress. I under stand that Senator Cockrell, who is a member of the military committee of the senate, is opposed to it. but how much he will be able to accomplish I can not say." "Will there be an extra session if the bill does not pass?" was asked. "We must have an army," replied Oen. Alger. "The 27,000 men we have now are not enough. "Everything in Cuba and Porto Rico Is going on satisfactorily," he con tinued. "There was not any idea of making Gen. Wood commanding gen eral in Cuba. His rank is not high enough and the grade of major general Is now full. The trouble about the cus toms receipts in Santiago has been set tled. I think it arose from a misappre hension. They thought that the goods would have to be landed elsewhere. Of course, all the receipts from the tariff must pass through Gen. Brooke's hands. "I shall go to Cuba and Porto Rico in March, if everything is all right then. I never had any idea of going until con gress adjourned. I have never been in Cuba and I thought I would like to see for myself if I could do so before the bad season began. I expect to inspect ali the posts there." j EXTRA SESSION THREAT. Secretary Gaga Says There "Will Be One If Army Bill Be Not Passed. Chicago, Feb. 13. Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage and Mrs. Gage were in Chicago Sunday to attend the funeral of Dr. J. H. Etheridge. Before leaving for Washington today Secretary Gage said: "Financial reform is neither dead nor asleep. The extraordinary prosperity of the government finances and of the busi ness of the country has combined with the glut of important business in congress to delay it. But the delay only adds to the ffnse of its importance and makes it c learer every day what legislation is need ed. I do not look for action at the pres ent session of congress, but I have no doubt that the next session will eive effect to the recommendations of the pres-'dent and the secretary of the treasury n re gard to the retirement of the greenbacks. Will there be an extra session of congress? That depends on the fate of the army bill. If congress does not pass that bill at the present session there will certainly be an extra session. "The situation in the Philippines does not give us any uneasiness. The opposi tion to the American occupation is entire ly the effect of manipulation. The lead ers have temporarily misled the people. But the strife will soon be over, and as poon as the natives have become quiet, so s to listen to reason, we have no fear that they will not acquiesce in all that we pro pose to do there. As to the islands being a heavy tax on this country, that is all moonshine. The revenues of the Philip pines will at all times be ample to defray all possible expenses of government. "We feel even more hopeful in regard to Cuba, Industries are reviving. There Is a growing spirit of co-operation and the island will in the near future bo more ftrosperous than its people ever expected t could be. "Our trade relations with Canada seem to be difficult to adjust to the satisfaction f both countries. Mr. Charlton would weep away the national frontier, and make business intercourse as untrammeled between the two countries as it is be tween two of our states. But I think the day is a good wav off when such re ciprocity as that will be regarded with fa vor in this country." TILLMAN ON PENSIONS. Takes a Vigorous Shot at Former Pensioners Who Served in the Spanish War. Washington, Feb. 13. Senator Till man never loses an opportunity to get In a shot against pensions. Saturday he hit the target and made the bell ring. Senator Gallinger had asked the pas sage of a bill renewing the pensions of the soldiers and sailors who had gone into the war with Spain. "I would like to know-," asked Mr. Tillman, "how it is that men who were in the army 35 years ago and received pensions for physical disability were able to serve In the war with Spain?" There was a peal of laughter in the senate, and Senator Gallinger avoided a. direct reply. INTEST1GATE TAMMANY. Gov. Roosevelt Receives Many Com plaints from New York. New York, Feb. 13. Governor Roose velt may have a hand-to-hand struggle with Richard Croker's pet tiger soon. New Yorkers are pleading with him to Investigate Tammany. He may act. If he does he says the inquiry wiil be en ergetic and the friends of the rough rider think that his record so indicates. He has received many complaints lately of Tammany misrule In the city, and appeals are constantly being made to him to check or punish this or that abuse. Finder of a Purse Given S3S5. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 13. Miss Em ma L. Elkington, a professional nurse, received $355 reward isaturday for find ing a purse containing $710. S. M. Griffith, a business man lost the purse and advertised that he would divide equally with the finder of the money if it was returned to him. The young woman found the money in a drug store, where she had stopped to make a. purchase. She returned, it and re ceived, the $355.' Unity Valentine social will be held to morrow night with Mrs. J. T. Barkley, 613 Harrison street. NORTH TOPEKA. Call for premium stamps at Costley Sr. Post's. Mrs. T. B. Reynolds who has been ill for several days, is improving. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Ryder aro spend ing a few days in Lawrence. Mr. Spillman of Illinois is visiting his son, Mr. Al Spillman near Menoken. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Russell was buried yesterday. Mrs. Clark of Thompsonville is visit ing her sister, Mrs. Hurah of Harrison street. W. P. Harkness has moved here from White City and is living at 1304 Mon roe street. E. H. Rudy came in from Davenport, la., Saturday and visited bis family yesterday. I. S. Irwin was called to Geneva, Kan., Saturday by the serious illness of his mother. Henry Lafontaln has returned to hi3 home in Wamego after a visit to Mr. George Martin. Come and get last closing bargains in hats at Mrs. Courtney's. Miss Alice Rudy will entertain at thimbles Thursday afternoon at her home, 1108 Monroe street. Dr. C ,B. Lyon has purchased the Hoover farm and the same will be oc cupied by C. E. Dennison. Go to C. B. Lyon, D. D. B., for fine dental work at popular prices. Office 511 Kansas avenue. Tel. 656. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter read a paper on Abraham Lincoln in the Kan sas Avenue M. E. church last evening. Philip Danielson is back at his old stand in the Blue Front selling shoes, and will be glad to see his customers. Mrs. Stevenson of Belleville, Kan., is visiting her uncle and aunt, Maj. and Mrs. R. W. Jenkins, at the Union Pa cific hotel. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hathaway have moved into their handsome new home, on Jackson street between Park and Morse streets. Mr. and Mrs. John Schulze of 917 Jackson street spent Sunday in Perry, the guests of Mrs. Schulze's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grinter. Harry Small came up from Delavan Park Saturday and returned yesterday. Miss Mabel King will entertain the Violet club this evening. On account of the intense cold the funeral of Mrs. Jane Priddy was not held yesterday, but will probably take place tomorrow. Miss Eva Watts has returned from a visit to her cousin. Miss Eura Ault, of Meriden. She was accompanied by her cousin, who will be her guest for sev eral days. J. M. Shellabarger is one of the Fra ternal Aid members who has gone to Lawrence to attend the trial of Ed. Rousell, formerly general secretary of the order. The marriage of Mr. Benjamin Smith to Miss May Ward will be solemnized Tuesday at the home of the bride's par ents, four miles this side of Silver Lake. Miss Ward was graduated from the To peka high school two years ago, and Mr. Smith formerly lived on this side, but is now connected with the Coffey- ville Mercantile Co., in which city the young people will make their home. George Saunders was given a very pleasant surprise party Tuesday even ing at his home on Polk street, the oc casion being the fourteenth anniversary of his birthday. Those present were Misses Gertrude and Ina Gallaway, Grace Hunter, Harriet and Laura Mor gan, May Tillinghast, Nellie Blossom, Stella Hackford, Cicely Johnson, Jessie and Anna Myers, Ida Waldman, Maud and Neala Chipman, Messrs. Charles Strouse. Thomas and Art Owens, Har vey Hackford, Asher Hunter, Cornelius Coovert, Fred Deppe, Thursday afternoon from 2 o'clock until after 10 o'clock at night a bay team hitched to a farm wagon was left standing on the avenue near Laurent street. Many people noticed the shiv ering horses and finally one man more humane than the rest notified an offi cer who said it was not in his beat, but he would tell the right man. What was done with the animals is not known but at a late hour at night they were still there exposed to the severe cold. In the wagon there was a large box, a churn and an overcoat. The mails Friday brought many let ters from Manila and among them was the following for Mr. J. B. Jeffers: Manila, P. I., Dec. 26, 1898. Mr. J. B. Jeffers. Dear Sir: I take pleasure In ac knowledging the receipt of your letter informing me that you had named the finest boy in the country "Dewey" in compliment to me.and I wish to express my great appreciation of your kindness in so honoring me. From the photo graph you enclosed he is indeed a fine boy, and I hope to have his future be fore me. With the best wishes for my namesake. Yours very truly, GEORGE DEWEY. EXPLODING RANGES. Three of Them Fly to Pieces Because Water Pipes Freeze. Mrs. K. C. Thompson of 620 Polk street was hurt bv the kitchen ranee exnlodins Sunday morning and the kitchen was par tially wrecKea. Mr. Thompson is paying teller in the Central National bank and he and Mrs. Thompson attended the play at Craw ford's theater Saturday night. After go ing nome tney gave no special attention to the kitchen fire and in the mornina after the tire had been started in the kitchen range and while Mrs. Thompson was in the kitchen the stove exploded with a loud report. Mrs. Thompson was struck on the forehead by a piece of the metal and her head was cut. It was at first fpared that her sight had been injured. The ceiling of the room was badly dam aged. The range in the home of Dr. A. S. Era brce at Fifth and Lincoln streets explod ed in much the same manner, but it hap pened that there was no one in the room at the time, A piece of the stove went through a panel of the back door and the room was otherwise damaged. T. F. Doran's range, in his home at 125 Western avenue, exploded. The servant, who was preparing hreakfast.was slightly injured and the breaking of the nipes flooded the kitchen. All these explosions resulted in homes where there were hot water attachments on the ranges for bath purposes. All the stoves contained the coil throuerh which the water runs in the fire box of the stoves and the water in this coil was frozen iu all cases. IN OVERCOATS. Judge Hazen Tries to Hold Court But Is Compelled to Adjourn. Judge Hazen was compelled to adjourn the district court this forenoon on account of the cold. The court room temperature was so frigid that judge and jurv sat en veloped in heavy overcoats vainlv trying to fasten their minds on the evidence. Stenographer Ralph Gaw, who wore a heavy overcoat, was frequently compelled to stop proceedings while he warmed his benumbed ringers. Judge Hazen announced that he had done all he could to encourage a proper heating of the building, and he asked the attorneys present to demand that the court house be kept warm. From an idea of economy, or because the county commissioners do not employ help enough, the building is allowed to cool during the night. On Sunday plants in the upper rooms froze. There is no good reason why the building should not be properly heated. The heating plant is one of the best in the city. .Boy s iieatner ieggins at Furman's. A DULL THUD. Continued From First Page.) morning. Atlanta comes next 8 be low recorded officially. This is the low est ever known here, the low mark be ing broken by six degrees. Street ther mometers recorded 10 to 12 below and this temperature, accompanied by a wind which reached a velocity of 15 miles an hour made the cold almost unbearable. Great suffering was reported to the police early in the day and prompt measures were taken for relief. The Atlanca Journal and Atlanta Constitution company operated with the police and furnished coal and pro visions to hundreds of families. A large number of people with frost bitten hands, faces, ears and noses were cared for early in the morning and ten cases were sent to the Grady hospital. One week ago the temperature here was 72. Street cars traffic is demoralized, no cars having been run on some lines since Saturday night. Four inches of snow covers the ground. Superintend ent Stephens of the Western Union Tel egraph company, reports telegraph fa cilities badly demoralized. There is no connection with New Orleans or Jack sonville, Fla., and many wires in every directions snapped. The storm in the vicinity of Mobile has wrecked all wires to New Orleans and a large crew of linemen left Mobile early in the day in an effort to restore communication. Among the temperatures reported to the weather bureau are the following all below zero: Nashville 12; Knoxville 10; Selma, Ala., 6: Birmingham 5; Col umbus. Ga., 4; Mobile, Ala., 1; Mont gomery; Ala., 4, and many others hov ering near the zero mark. SNOWING AT WASHINGTON. All Records Smashed at the National Capital. Washington, Feb. 13. The phenome nal weather of the last week culmin ated in a blizzard-like snowstorm to day which broke all records and left no room for the oldest inhabitant to say the winters were no longer as severe as when he was a boy. The temperature record was smashed last week when the thermometer went to 15 below zero and a snow record was established when the heavy fall of the past week, 13 inches, was added to from Saturday night up to 10 o'clock today. At the hour when the weather bureau made this observation the snow was falling as fast as at any time since it began and a high wind was piling it in huge drifts. At noon there had been no let-up at all in the snowfall and the sky gave no indication of immediate relief, though the weather bureau held out an indefinite promise that the storm would pass over either this afternoon or tonight. The one favorable element in the storm situation was the compara tively moderate temperature. Behind the snowstorm is a cold wave, so that when the snow abates zero and below is likely to add to the suffering. Business is practically suspended. Street cars were running infrequently. Business in the departments was al most at a standstill, less than half the force reporting. At noon the treasury department dismissed the clerks and other employes for the day, and other departments, it was expected, would follow suit. The paralysis to all kinds of business was the worst since the blizzard of March, 18S8. The telegraph wires were in better working order than then, but aside from better com munication with the outside world the conditions then were not comparable to those of today in this vicinity. Railroad traffic was almost abandoned today, the only train up to noon being a local from Baltimore. POTOMAC IS FROZEN. The Potomac is frozen over with six inches of ice and unless broken a flood is quite probable that will inundate the lower sections of the city. The snow fall in this city and conditions in the surrounding country have been about the same for the whole storm since it began, as officially registered by the weather bureau up to this morning at 11 o'clock, has been 27 1-10 inches in depth. Practically none of this has melted away, so that the depth that covers the ground is about 27 inches. At Alexandria, Va., the snowfall is heavy and has resulted in almost com pletely isolatins that place from the outside world. River navigation is sus pended. The Norfolk Western steam er from Norfolk left Norfolk last night for Washington, but turned back. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal is frozen solid and many coal barges are ice bound and their crews in a helpless condition. This forenoon the storm cen ter was off Cape Henry. It had come up the Atlantic coast from the gulf, leaving a heavy white trail in its wake, and was working its way up the coast gradually, so that its severest effects are likely to be felt in New York and New England today and tomorrow. STORM REACHES NEW YORK. Upper and Lower Bay Are a Mass of Ice. New York, Feb. 13. The fearful storm which prevailed all day yester day and last night has increased in vio lence and together with the snow which has drifted in many places has almost paralyzed traffic. Surface cars are al most entirely stalled, the elevated trains are running without regard to schedule, and ferry boats make a few trips as best they can. The upper and lower bay is one mass of ice. There are very few people on the streets today and it being a holiday even the main streets of New York look like those of a little town. The people living in the suburbs have in some in stances been unable to reach the city owing to stalling of the surface cars. Trains on all the steam railroads have been delayed four or five hours by the storm. Through trains from the west are from one to three hours be hind time. MILLS KEPT RUNNING To Prevent Their Freezing Up, at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Feb. 13. The mercury con tinues to hover about zero. Last night it dropped to 6 degrees below and today it is one degree below. Yesterday and last night many of' the large mills were kept in- operation to prevent the. ma chinery from freezing. There is a con tinued stagnation of river navigation but no- further damage to boat and other craft is reported. There is much ice in the Ohio and upper rivers re main frozen tight. The rivers are still falling and the greatest danger feared by river men Is that craft will suffer when the break up comes. MARYLAND EELS FAST In the Grip of the Storm Since Sat urday Night. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 13. Snow has been falling in this city without inter mission since 9 o'clock Saturday night, and the wind has been blowing a gale from the northwest, with the result that the street car lines and all the steamboat lines leading into the city are at a standstill. J show the same condition of things and much suffering, both among the farmers and the poor. All trains are behind time, owing to snowdrifts on all lines. Baltimore Ohio engine 818 on train No. 10, from Washington, while backing, side-wiped train No. 105, standing still at the time. The corner of one Pullman car was damaged and a car repairer was injured. REED SENDS WORD To the House to Adjourn Till After the Storm Washington, Feb. 13. Speaker Reed was not at the capitol today and sent word to one of bjs lieutenants bethought it advisable to adjourn on account of the storm. Less than a hundred mem bers were present and those who braved the storm refused to adjourn and went on with consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. SILVER PLUME SEEMS DOOMED By Another Avalanche Which is Im pending. Denver, Feb. 13. The Times corre spondent at Silver Plume has just re turned from a trip over the gulches through which the slide came. There is little doubt that if the slide had con tinued a few hundred feet more, many of the inhabitants of Silver Plumewould have been swept away by the avalanche. Only a portion of the snow broke away from the top of the divide and fully two-thirds remain there now. If this should break the town of Silver Plume Is doomed. Nothing can possibly pre vent it from being swept out of exist ence with terrible loss of life. EXTENDS TO ENGLAND. Terrific Gales Are Sweeping All the Coasts. London, Feb. 13. Terrific gales are again prevailing on the coasts of the British isles. Many ports have suffered serious damage from the waves, espla nades being washed away in many cases. Shipping has been battered severely and several minor wrecks, with some loss of life are reported. BUT HALF THE TRAINS On the Pennsylvania Railroad Are Able to Move. Philadelphia, Feb. 13. The blockad ed condition of the railroads is becom ing worse as the day advances. The Pennsylvania railroad is making heroic efforts to move its passenger trains and thus far has succeeded in moving about 50 per cent of the regular scheduled passenger service. The through western trains reach here from five to eight hours behind time. On the Baltimore Ohio and other roads, similar conditions of delay pre vail and schedules are curtailed to the minimum. Snow Blockade is Lifted. Denver, Feb. 13. The entire Denver Rio Grande system with the excep tion of the Blue river branch, from Leadville to Dillon, is open today. Traf fic has been resumed In all departments and no fear of any further delay is felt, as the storm has abated. The Colorado Midland is also open to Leadville and is rushing coal into that camp. CAPT. CHRISTY WOUNDED. Additional List of Casualties in the Philippines. Washington, Feb. 13, 3 p. m. The ad jutant general today received the fol lowing casualty list from Gen. Otis: Manila, Feb. 13. Additional casual ties, engagement at Caloocan, Febru ary 10: TWENTIETH KANSAS. Wounded Capt. Charles M. Christy, Company E; Privates James Kershner, Company A; Charles Bennett, Com pany M. FIRST MONTANA. Wounded Sergt. George W. Lowman, Company D; Private Adolph Charette, Company A. Following casualties in trenches at Malabon night of 12thi and morning of 13th: FIRST MONTANA. Wounded Privates Steve Stevens, company G; Charles Brittan, company B; Joseph Callahan, company M. UTAH ARTILLERY. Wounded Second Lieutenant George A. Seaman, battery B. TWENTIETH KANSAS. Wounded Private Ira Payne, com pany A. FIRST CALIFORNIA. Wounded Feb. 6. Private Edward O'Neil, company E; Moresnberg, Twen tieth Kansas reported Feb. 11 should read Morse. All foregoing slightly wounded. OTIS. DRAGGING HER ANCHOR The U. S. Steam Collier Sterl ing Flying Signals of Distress. Lewes, Del., Feb. 13. The United States steam collier Sterling is flying signals of distress. She Is dragging her anchor and it is feared she may strike against the breakwater. No assistance can be rendered the collier owing to the drift ice. AN OCEAN LINER IN TROUBLE. Swampscott, Mass., Feb. 13. A big steamer, apparently an ocean liner was sighted off Dredge Ledge in Swamp scott bay this afternoon in the midst of the storm. She was apparently at anchor and was blowing her whistle continually, but whether as a distress signal or a warning on account of the thick weather could not be determined from shore. She apparently had a black hull, was about 300 feet long and had a red band around her smokestack. She stood in the water and was badly iced up. The life saving crew was prevented from going to her assistance on ac count of the ice. THE BULGARIA ALL RIGHT. London, Feb. 13. The Hamburg American Line Steamship company has issued an assuring statement regarding the company's steamer Bulgaria, re ported in a dispatch from Ponta del Gada, Azores, yesterday as drifting helDlessly 800 miles from the Azores with her 25 passengers, women and children, were taken from her by the tank steamer Weehawken and landed at Ponta del Gada. The company's statement is to the effect that they have been advised that the Bulgaria's rudder was injured, but that her commander. Captain Schmidt, one of the oldest and most efficient shipmasters evidently considered the situation so little dan gerous that he declined the Wee hawken's offer to take the Bulgaria in tow. Governor -Stanley Still Sick. Governor Stanley is still confined to his room with the grip. He is recovering slowlv. and he hones to be able to eet out I again when the weather moderates. A SERIOUS FAULT With the Muster Roll of Kansas Vol unteers Which Leaves 300 Names Out. The roll of Kansas volunteers which the senate ordered printed is incomplete and would be worthless as a book of reference for those who are interested in the Kansas boys now fighting with the Twentieth at Manila. The reason why this roll Is of no value as a complete book of reference is because it does not contain a single one of the names of the 300 men who were recruited after the regiment was stationed at San Francisco. As a result the friends of the recruits are complaining that an injustice will be done if this be printed. The record which is ordered printed is a part of the biennial report of the adjutant gen eral. Another objection has been raised to the method of keeping the records of that department as there is not a scratch of a pen anywhere to indicate who the recruits are, where they were from, nor is there any information on file in the adjutant general's office which would enable identification of a single one of the 300 recruits were such a demand made. It is explained by the adjutant gen eral that the original roll has been sent to Washington, and that no copy was retained in the office here. Every day during the fighting now going on at Manila some one calls to procure in formation concerning some of the Kan sas boys. The record of the original regiment roll is complete, but the re cruits are not mentioned by the records of the state for which they are so loyal ly fighting. The friends of the recruits have been complaining about this ap parent neglect on the part of some one, but now that it is proposed to publish and circulate an alleged roll of the Twentieth with 300 men not mentioned therein, there is a complaint going up from all parts of the state which should not be ignored. The recruits are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the original volunteers and their friends are anxious that their names should appear in the roll of Kansas troops which is to be published. For that reason an effort is being made to withhold the publication of the roll until it is complete, although it will cause the expenditure of probably $150 to procure it from Washington. This roll of recruits, military men say.should by all means be on file in the office of the adjutant general, because it was a Kansas regiment which went to the front and as Kansans they have a right to expect that the "roll of honor" should be correct. BALTIMORE-BROOKLYN. The Biggest Baseball Deal in Many 'Years Is Finally Accomplished. New York, Feb. 13. The final con ference between the Baltimore and Brooklyn base ball magnates was held Saturday afternoon and the deal put through. Duplicate stock is to be issued in the Byrne estate by the Brooklyn club and then it will be turned over to F. A. Abell for $10,000 cash. Mr. Byrne will have to give suitable bond in order to protect the Brooklyn club should the missing stock be pro duced by any outsider at a future date. Charles H. Ebbitts is to be president of the new organization; F. A. Abell is to be vice president and treasurer; Harry Von Der Horst, secretary, and Edward Hanlon, manager. Mr. Hanlon is at present manager of the Baltimore club, but will probably retire from that position within the next week or ten days. He left for Baltimore Saturday night and will go south next week to select training quarters for the Grooms and Orioles. CHARITY IS GENERAL. Contributions to Matron Thorpe's Store of Supplies Continue Numerous. The donations for the poor have been arriving at the police station steadily during the last three days and the needy poor who have applied for assist ance have received coal, clothing and food sufficient to keep them from suffer ing. This morning James W. O'Neil sent 100 25-pound sacks of flour as a dona tion from the Topeka Water company and a donation that would do more good could not be received. Rev. G. D. Olden handed Mrs. Thorpe a check for $15 as a donation from the First African Baptist church. Many donations have been received where the names of the donors are not known. Mrs. Thorpe said today: "The story of the 'fraud widow' and that I was giving food and supplies to a woman who was not worthy is totally false and such stories should not be started when they are untrue, for the fact that per sons may not feel like donating to the poor, if the idea is given out that the donations are not properly used. A record of every person who receives help is kept and every person who re ceives help is looked up and I know that they are worthy before they re ceive help. The story that people are coming again and again is also untrue in every respct. I require poor people who are well to carry things to poor poeple who are sick and that accounts for some coming so often to the sta tion." SENATORIAL BALLOTING. Harrishurg, Pa.. Feb. 13. The joint bal lot for United States senator today re sulted; Quay, 12: Dalzell. IS; Jenks, 1. NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 13. There was an unusually large number of absentees when the twenty-second joint ballot for senator was taken. The only change was the casting of one vote for Peter Jansen. UTAH. Salt Lake. Feb. 13. The joint assembly took one ballot for senator and adjourned until tomorrow. The result was: King (Dem.). 8; (McCune (Dem.). 24; Pow ers (Deui.), 2; Nebeker (Dem.), 1; Canon, 12: Sutherland (Rep.), 11; absent, 3; not voting, 2. Rantoul Postoffiee Burns. Kankakee, 111., Feb. 13. A fire at Rantoul today, cause unknown, de stroyed the Commercial hotel, postof fiee, express office, a livery stable and other buildings. The fire department from Champagne and Paxton, assisted in putting out the fire. Fire at New Holland. Lincoln, 111., Feb. 13. Fire at New Holland last night destroyed half a block of business houses and rendered several families homeless. Senate Passes Admiral Bill. Washington, Feb. 13. The senate has passed a bill creating the office of ad miral of the navy. Rear Admiral Dew ey, it is understood, will be named for the office. LOCAL MENTION. The Elks desire all who are to take chorus parts in "Romeo and Juliet" to be present at rehearsal tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, as costumes will be ordered at that time and measurements for the same will be taken. The choir of Grace cathedral will ren der Stainer"s "Crucifixion" next Sunday evening. There will be two more re hearsals tomorrow and Friday evening at 7:39, BIG CATFISH IN THE HOSE Firemen at Alton Catch a 3-Pound Fish While Fighting a Fire. St. Louis, Feb. 13 Some of the fire men at Alton had fish for their break fast without buying it. There was a fire at Fourth and Mar ket streets and the Alton department turned out clad in ear muffs and ail the clothing they could carry. Suddenly the nozzle of one line of hose choked and the stream stopped. One fireman said the water must have frozen in the hose. "How in the name of Chilkoot Pass can water traveling that fast freeze?" said the other pipeman. "Well, she's stopped anyhow. Hand me the spanner." The pipe was taken from the hose, there was a jet of water and a catfish 14 inches long and weighing three pounds was thrown into the air. Its head was so large it couldn't get into the nozzle and had choked the hose. The firemen were so surprised that they nearly forgot about the fire. They picked up the fish, which was as live as any fish could be expected to be in such a temperature, and put it carefully to one side to serve as the basis for a breakfast. PORTER GOING TO ENGLAND Said to Be Intrusted With Another Mission by McKinley. New York, Feb. 13. Among the pas sengers who sailed for England on the St. Louis was Robert P. Porter, ac companied by his wife and daughter. He is said to have been entrusted with another mission by President McKin ley. Mr. Porter's name did not appear on the passenger list. When he was told that the fact might lead people to suppose that he was sud denly going on an important diplomatic mission he said: "Just say I am going abroad for a short visit and expect to be back in six weeks. I expect to visit London and Berlin in connection with commercial matters. More than this I can not say at present. We may have a good story to tell the newspapers in a few weeks." SAVED FROM THE ICE. A Party Cut Off From Shore Rescued With Difficulty. Chicago, Feb. 13. Five of the six per sons who were thought to have been lost on the ice last night were rescued this morning. They were: Elmer D. Brothers of 4351 North Ashland avenue. Orel Manney, his niece, same resi dence. Chauncey Manney, bis nephew, same residence. George Malloy, 18 years old. Lake Forest. J. W. Carous, 18 years old, Lake Forest. Arthur Fletcher of Ravenswood Park, who was reported missing, was found at his home this morning. Both of his feet were -frozen. Fletcher says that about six o'clock last evening he and three others were skating on the lake near Calvary cemetery when they saw Brothers and his party. The latter were cut off from shore by a crack in the ice that in places was 100 feet wide. He told Brothers he would go to shore and get a boat which he did. WThen he re turned, however. Brothers was not in sight. Fletcher searched nearly all night for him and his companions. Fletcher fell in the water twice during his wanderings in the dark and it was with great difficulty that he finally reached shore with both of his feet frozen. SEES KIPLING FOR $50,000 Brother-in-Law of the Author Alleges False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution. Brattleboro, Vt., Feb. 13 Seattle Balestier, a brother of Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, left here for New York Satur day with the avowed purpose of bring ing suit against his famous brother-in-law, claiming damages of $50,000 for alleged malicious prosecution and false arrest in 1896. About two years .ago Balestier and Kipling met on a high way near Brattleboro and had an alter cation. Kipling caused the arrest of Balestier and claimed under oath in court a few days later that his brother-in-law had threatened to take his life. Young Balestier was bound over to the grand jury and put under bonds to keep the peace. The case was to have been tried at the September term of that year. Mr. Kipling, however, sailed for England in August, and the case was dropped. Young Balestier claims that he has had no opportunity to tell his story, and toe now seeks justice in bringing suit. WIRE ACROSS AFRICA. Congo Free State and Cape Colony Will Agree on a Route For the Proposed Telegraph Line. Brussels, Feb. 13. The only result of Cecil Rhodes' interview with King Leo pold that has been made public and his only errand, as it is made to appear is given in the announcement that the Congo Free State and the Cape Colony will agree on a route for the proposed telegraph line connecting Cape Town with Cairo. There is already a line north from Cape Town as far as Fort Salisbury, and another from Cairo well down Into the Sudan. With Congo Free State's permission to run a wire over its territory near the western shore of Lake Tanganyika it will become possi ble for the British government to con nect these lines and that permission, it is understood, will be granted. GOING TO SEE MARY. Mrs. L. Z. Leiter and Her Daughters Sail For Calcutta. New York. Feb. 13. Mrs. L. Z. Lieter. mother of Lady Curzon, and her two daughters, Nancy and Daisy Leiter, sailed for Europe on the Lucania. They are bound for Calcutta, where she who was Mary Leiter now receives honor as the wife of the viceroy of India. Mr. Leiter will remain in this country. Mrs. Leiter intends to return here be fore the hot season in India sets in. The girls will most likely stay in Calcutta. Killed For a Liquor Bill. Cleveland, Feb. 13. John Visocke, a Slav, was shot and almost' instantly killed in a saloon and dance hall at the corner of Hill and Cross streets late last night by the saloon keeper, John Skintick. The killing was the result of a quarrel over a liquor bill which it is alleged Visocke owed the saloon keeper. Skintick disappeared from the place before the arrival of the police but was captured early today. Your patronage is solicited to Mar shall's Band Annual Concert, Wednes day and Thursday evenings. Marshall's Band Annual Concert, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, February 15th and 16th. Warm Lined Shoes at Furman's. JOINS FARMER SMITH. Sam Benedict, of Wilson County, Gets Mad at Stanley. Because he was not given a fair show to see the governor last week, Sam Benedict of Wilson county, one of the wheel horses in the Republican party in Kansas, is now "ag'in the government" and declares that he will be able to live without Stanley. Because he was not appointed insur ance commissioner. Farmer Smith of McPherson is on the warpath and pro poses to do all in his power to defeat Stanley for a renomination. Benedict may be regarded as a recruit to Smith's reconcentrados. Benedict enjoys the distinction of being named "the watch dog of the state treasury" during the Morrill administration. He called to see Stanley a few days ago and was told to wait. While waiting with other men in the office, the political manageis filed into Stanley's office, all of which Benedict regards as undemocratic and got mad and went home. BANKS GOT OFF EASY. Gillett, the Plunger, Borrowed Only $28,500 From Kansas Institutions. According to the sworn statements by the officers of the state and private banks, received by Bank Commissioner John W. Breidenthal, for the quarter ending December 31, only three of them held paper signed by Gillett, the cattle plunger, at the time of his collapse. One had $22,000 upon which $15,000 had been realized. Another had $5,000 and another had $1,500. The last two real ized upon the full amount of the paper. To get at this matter, accompanying, the last call for a statement Commis sioner Breidenthal sent out an addi tional blank calling upon the state and private bankers for information con cerning the cattle paper held by them. A CRAZE FOR THE STAGE. Duchess of Sutherland's Daughter is Playing With Barrett. London, Feb. 13. Miss Irene Blair, daughter of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland by her first marriage, has the society craze for acting. She has joined Wilson Barret's com pany and appeared under an assumed name this week at Eastbourne. She has a large fortune and the. duchess tried to dissuade her from go ing on the stage, but finally assented to it reluctantly. Like her mother, Irene is tall, dark, rather good looking, decidedly clever and extremely headstrong. The duchess hopes that realities of stage life will quickly cure her. SALISBURY A CYCLIST. The British Premier Takes Up the Sport Just After It Goes Out of Fashion. London, Feb. 13. Lord Salisbury has become a cyclist. He learned the art of wheeling In the privacy of a riding school attached to his historic residence in Hatfield, and now ventures on the paths through his park. He rides a bicycle specially construct ed for him, his weight being 240 pounds. Arthur Balfour, the government leader in the house of commons, still cycles. But wheeling is no longer a fashionable craze in England. TO PUT THEM ON RECORD. Pullman Bill to Be Brought TJp in Open Senate by Its Author. The bill to reduce Pullman fares in Kansas has been officially killed by the senate committee on railroads. Senators voting to kill the bill were: Battey (Rep.), Marion county. Johnson (Rep), Jefferson county. Lewelling (Pop.), Sedgwick county. Stone (Pop.), Leavenworth county. Senators voting for the bill were: Jumper (Pop.), Osage county. King (Pop.), Cowley county. Householder (Pop.), Cherokee county. Senator Helmick (Pop.), Chautauqua county, did not vote Senator Farrelly (Dem.) was not pres ent at the meeting of the committee when the bill was killed. The men who killed this bill will be put on record in the open senate as Senator Young, the author of the bill, will make a motion that the unfavor able report of the committee be not adopted, but that the bill be favorably considered and placed in general orders for consideration by the senate. Then a roll call will be forced. OLDEST BACHELOR DEAD. Wilson's Life of Single Blesaedne Lasted 92 Years. Greenup. Til.. Feb. 13. William C. Win son, the oldest bachelor in Illinois, died yesterday, aged S2 years. His grandfather was of the Engl'sh no bility. The deceased was born in Carroll county, Ohio. In 1837 he came to Illinois and bought 160 acres of land. Of late years he has lived in Greenup, and his business has been loaning money. He never married, and an unmarried sister made her home with him. until lsirti, when she died, aged 77 years. An Earthquake in Tennessee. Knoxville, Tenn, Feb. 13. An earthquake shock of from 5 to 10 seconds' duration passed through east Tennessee this morn ing at 3:30. It was felt mostly In the upper end of the state, not reaching as far west as this city. No damage was done. "It seems we were all mistaken about old Croesus and his pretty young wife." "How so?" "Why, everyone said he bought her, you know." "And didn't he?" "Apparently not. It seems to have been a lease. They're in the divorce court already." Chicago Even ing Post. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago. Feb. 13. HOGS Estimated receipts of hogs to day, 27,000; left over, 1.957. Estimated re ceipts for tomorrow, 22,000; market active, 5-JilOe higher. Light, $3.703.95: mixed. $3.70fi4: heavv. $4.70i4.O5: rough, $3.,0fi3.i;.. CATTLE Receipts, 13,000. Market strong to 10c higher. Beeves, $4.HXH6; cows and heifers, $2.254r4.SO; Texans. $3.iof4.(5; stockers and feeders, $3.504j4.63. SHEEP Receipts, 14,000. Market strong to higher. Saturday's official: HOGS Receipts. 16,102: shipments. 4,4.i2. CATTLE Receipts. 152: shipments, 146. SHEEP Receipts, 618; shipments, none. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City. Feb. 13. CATTLE Receipts, 2.500. Market active, strong to 10c higher. Native steers, $4. 2T.fi! 5 50: Texas steers, $3.15f4.75; Texas cows, $2.60Ji3.55: native cows and heifers, $2 80; stockers and feeders, $2.704.85; bulla, $3.1 15 REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 18 native steers $5.50 18 Texas steers ...V!2 4.7t 38 Texas cows 3 17 native cows and heifers .......ll9 4.80 46 stockers and feeders 4'1 4.S5 6 bulls ....2050 4.0.) HOGS Receipts, 2.500. Market 5fil0c higher, active. Bulk of sales, $."..05,f''3.SO; heavies. $3.67M.S3.85; packers, $3.603.80; mixed. S3.5ora3.77V4: lights. $3.453.G5; york ers. $3.SOl3.65: pigs, 3.10i?3.45. SHEEP Receipts, 6. 000. Market stronger, active. Lambs, $3i&4.90; muttons, $2.ioy 5.25. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. LOST Note-book. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. MASSING. Filipinos Are Gathering In Force North of Manila. Fighting Has Now Degenerated to Bushwhacking ON FILIPINO SIDE. Private Alexander M. Mitchell, of Companj B. Twentieth Kansas, Added to List of Wounded. Washington, Feb. 13. The following cablegrams have been received at the iwar department: Manila. Feb. 12. Adjutant General. "Washington. It is reported that the insurgent rep resentative at Washington telegraphed Aruinaldo to drive out the Americans before the arrival of reinforcements. The dispatch was received at Hong Kon? and mailed to Malolos.which decided on the attack to be made about the 7th in stant. The eagerness of the insurgent troops for the engagement precipitated the battle. It is very quiet today on the lines from Caloocan on the north to ransay on the south. Yesterday a small reconnoitering party 12 miles south of the city fired on two men. who were slightly wounded. Two insurgents with arms were captured. The affair of 10th, Mac-Arthur's division, was very suc cessful Enemy's loss was considerable: have collected TO dead bodies: more not yet discovered. Insurgents reported to be gathering in force 12 miles north on the railway, but are evidently perplex ed. Additional casualties Fourteenth in fantry Wounded: privates Bernhart Hensel, Wm. Ransom, company F. First Idaho Wounded; Private Kose kella. company F. Utah artillery Killed; Private Chas. S. Hills, Battery P. Third artillery Killed; Private Theo dore Good. Battery K. Thirteenth Minnesota WoundedtPrl vates James Hartley, Wm. C. Fitch, companv P. First Montana Wounded; Private Mallory Thomas, company K. First California Killed; Private Anth ony Neilson Packard, company C. Fourth cavalry Wounded; Private James Thorson, troop F. Twentieth Kansas Wounded :Private Alexander M. Mitchell, company B. Private Frank Cott, company I. First Montana, reported missing yesterday, reported to his company commander. OTIS. A GUERILLA WAB. Filipinos Have Now Adopted the Bushwhacking Style of Fighting'. Manila. Feb. 12, 4:50 p. m. Along the entire line nothing has happened up to this hour to disturb the peace of Sun day. In Manila the inhabitants have generally recovered from the alarm oc casioned by the fear of a native up rising and are resuming their ordin ary business. The shipping interests are naturally suffering, since there have been no clearances for Philippine ports for a week, but on the other hand for eign shipping has increased, especially from Hong Kong, every steamer bound thither beigg crowded with timid ref ugees. Despite this quietude, however, many are asking whether the problem is not still far from solution. A week ago those who took an optimistic view pre dicted that the terrible punishment Just administered to the rebels would settle the Filipino independence. But this prediction has not been fulfilled. As a matter of fact, the rebels are now scat tered throughout the country bush whacking, except at Malabon, where they are gathering in force. Even there their methods savor more of guerilla than of civilized warfare, every bush, clump of trees and tree furnishing cover for sharpshooters. Unfortunately, for miles around the land Is studded with bamboo jungle and open spaces are few and far between. This affords the natives, who fight bet ter under cover, a distinct advantage. Uider such conditions it is remarka ble that the American casualties should be so few, while the number of dead na tives found in the brush after every skirmish testifies to the precision of our Are. Last week there was not a single day without fighting, but the Americans steadily advanced, carrying everything before them. It is now known that the Filipino loss Is fully 2.500 killed, with wounded vast ly in excess of that number, and thous ands are held prisoners. All this has been achieved at the cost of sixty-five Americans killed and 276 wounded. There were twenty-five Americans missing and unaccounted for. No fewer than ten of the natie villages have surrendered or been captured. Several have been destroyed because their houses harbored men, frequently dis guised in female attire, who shot from windows and roofs at the Americans. Many rifles and tons of ammunition have been seized. As might be ex pected, there has been looting In the outskirts, but it has not been general and has been done in direct violation of orders. The only incident that has broken the quiet of the day followed the arrival of the German first class cruiser Kaiserln Augusta. When she saluted Admiral Dewey this afternoon a report spread rapidly that the American warships were bombarding Malabon. Today crowds have visitsd the scenes ef last week's fighting. All the roads from the city were thronged with ve hicles. But beyond burned villages and new mounds in the fields there was lit tle to be seen. Inspection showed that most of the enemy's dead had remained at their posts to the last, as the bodies were usually surrounded by emptv cart ridges, while in the trenches, wherever there were no dead, there was little and often no ammunition. Among the distinguished prisoners captured in Manila since tho outbreak of hostilities are Capt. A. C. Escamillo, Aguinaldo's private secretary; Capt E R. Herajruth, Col. Martin De Los Reves and Senor Thoma3 del Rosario, a mem ber of the so-called Filipino congress in session at Malolos. Other Filipino officers are also in cus tody. A gm In "The Heart of Maryland" the ether night said something to which every woman in the house agreed. She had accused her lover of acting cool toward her, and asked if there was an other woman in the case. He said no vorse than that There could be nothing worse than that, she argued. He said thatthere could be; that he was going r 0tu 13 that aU 8he lauihed d ooner Sive you up to your fflaZ- njr thAa to mother HOBOS GIVE A FUNCTION. Menu Consists of Macaroni, Beef Fie and Lager Beer. New Tork, Feb. 13. The first fort nightly banquet of the Hobo club was held Saturday night in the banqueting rooms of P. C. Volta Son. 25 Mul berry street. Thirty hobos of the vicin ity were there and did justice to a menu of baked macaroni, roast beef with mashed potatoes, pie and beer. The beer was served in schooners holding a quart and the supply was unlimited. When the president. Captain "Dutch Baker, took his seat at the head of the table he had thirty distinguished per sons before him. The secretary. "Crooked-Face" Hisgins, sat on his left. To his right was "Strong-arm Murphy, sergeant-at-arms. Arranged along were the members, including "Stale Bread." "Red Nose," "Dutch Mike," "Brooklyn Joe" Evans, "Blind Mahoney." "Buster," "Warm Gravy." "Jimmy-de-Bum." "Grafter." "Black-and-Tan Aleck." and "Waltz-to-de-Bar." After the dinner "Brooklyn Joe," who had combed his hair in honor of the occasion, was introduced. He called at tention to the two American flags draped over the table and the tomato can suspended beneath them. He said the can was the Insignia of the order. "Dog Dodger Dan" started to recite "The Raven." He got as far as the second stanza, when some one shouted "You're drunk." "So was the man who wrote it." he retorted. "He was as dopy as me or you." Xt in nMr,rlr the mipetq "Had arranged loans from the reporters present. The Hobo club was organized two weeks ago. Each day for thirteen days the members paid two cents each into the general fund, and when each had paid 26 cents the banquet was prepared. A DEACONESS RELENTS. Former Senator In galls' Daughter Will Take a Bridal Tour to Bermuda, Kansas City. Mo., Feb. 13. Mrs. Ed ward Giles Blair of this city announces the engagement of her sister. Miss Con stance Ingalls, to Mr. Robert Porter Schick or Reading. Pa. Miss Ingalls is now in Washington, having been called there by the very serious illness of her father, former Senator John J. Ingalls. The marriage will take place in April, and the young people will leave at once for a wedding trip to Bermuda. This announcement carries with it the usual interest that must attach to the coming back into worldly life of an interesting young woman, clever both in art and journalistic attainment. Two years ago Miss Ingalls gave up society and the pleasures of a lively home to enter the Deaconess School in Philadelphia, and by austere and exact ing training fit herself for work among the poor. Last spring, in search of rest, after close attention to the routine du ties of the school, the young deaconess went to Reading. Pa., to spend her va cation with friends, and there met Mr. Schick.who seems to have been eloquent in his pleading, for their engagement soon followed. Former Senator Ingalls and family are living at the Cairo. Washington, and the marriage will probably take place there. Miss Ingalls has left the Deaconess' Home, and will be in Washington until the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Blair will go on for the ceremony. GEESE FLYING NORTH. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The greatest flight of wild geese known for years in the vicinity of St. Louis is now on. For several days past these harbingers of spring have been massing on the big prairies eastward in Illinois as far as the Okaw river, where they rest at night and spread out over the green fields to feed in the day time. From the bluffs at Alton, on the east side, geese are seen in thou sands. The farmers are up in arms, and the local hunters are out with arms of all kinds, making fat bags of the big game birds. Jim Doyle, the old-time hunter, came in Sunday with geese galore. He says he simply got weary of shooting. "I was out in Illinois for several days, and I never saw anything like the big flocks of geese that came inwhile I was there." says Doyle. "I crossed the country from Mitchell Station to a point opposite the mouth of the Missouri and camped along the grain fields that look as green as though it was April instead of Jan uary. I have hunted for years and years within twenty-five miles of St. Louis, but never saw anything like the number of geese here before. Saturday night great flocks were on the wing as long as the moon shone. I went out to a grain field and killed nine af ter 10 o'clock. In the early evening for a week past I have seen a continuous flight of geese going up the Mississippi and the Missouri, but Saturday night was a record-breaker. "I heard from people on the train I came in on and from hunters I met that miles of country are covered with honkers. So eager are they for food that it takes a good deal of shooting to move the big mass of birds. I hear the same condition exists awav ud the Illi nois river. I have had a great deal of experience with the geese, but this beats all for this locality-at this time of year." On the Dardenne Prairie, the Culvre grounds. Horseshoe Lake grounds, the Lemp preserve, and all along the prairie clear up to Dameron, there are count less numbers of geese. In St. Charles county, along the Mississippi, for forty miles up, the grain fields are the feeding grounds just now for thousands more. "This is a strange phenomenon," says an old-timer, Henry Mueller, who is weatjjer-wise among the "oldest inhab itant" class. "Don't understand, but guess I don't have to. I know the geese are here, 'cause I saw more'n a train could draw when I came in from St. Charles Sunday morning." Out in the county, in the vicinity of Creve Coeur lake, both wild geese and sprig-tail ducks were everywhere to be seen. Walter Brueggeman. who arrived from Creve Coeur lake Sunday after noon, says the noise of the geese Sat urday night was deafening at that point. "Early Sunday morning I was out. intending to fish, but the great big flocks of geese got me rattled," said Brueggeman. "I tried to count what I saw in one grain field, and it made me dizzy. Everybody who had a gun was banging away, and as I had none I came home. Fishing was too tame un der the circumstances." Suck Hunting in the Northwest. Two jovial skippers of German ships now in port were anxious to enjoy the sport of duck-shooting. So a German doctor and a man who doctors ships made up a party and took the skippers out to a place on the Columbia Slough, where they were promised a good time. The party left here In the afternoon and 6p?nt the nieht with a hospitable farmer. Be sides the solid ammunition they took along for the guns, they carried pientv of liquid ammunition, and they passed a jolly even ing piaying caras ana telling tales oi ad ventures at sea. Before going to bed a lot of wheat was thrown out to attract the ducks for shooting in the morning, but they slept so soundly that they did not wake up until the ducks had eaten all the wheat and were hammering on the doors with their bills for more. The whole party rushed out and banged away at the duck, and succeeded in bringing down, one." Aiornlng Oregoniaa. PEOPLE YOU HEAB OF. Senator White of California and Sen ator Mallory of Florida are cousins. A gold nugget about as big as a hick ory nut is a characteristically loud dec oration of the watch chain of Senator Hanna. It is a Klondike product and was given to the Republican boss by some church people in Cleveland. General Draper, American ambassa dor to Italy, has purchased a magnif icent room in the famous Borghesi pal ace in Rome. His purchase includes not only the tapestries and furniture in it, but the floor, ceiling, wall, doors, win dow casements, chandelier and fire place. Professor Horatio W. Parker, head of the musical department at Yale, has i raised a storm of discussion by a pa per he read in Boston in which he said i that much of the music in the Episco l palian hymn book was light and frivo lous and unsuited for the purpose lor which it was intended. Dr. James R. Cocke of Boston, who stands in the front rank of the medical profession there, has been blind since childhood. Strange as it may seem, he is an expert surgeon, and is regarded as an authority on hypnotism. He has written a number of medical and other scientific books. Helen Kellar. the famous deaf, blind and dumb girl who has been so highly educated, visited the Boston museum art room a few days ago and "saw" the statues. By passing her wonderfully sensitive fingers over the figures she was able to get a correct idea of their proportions and discoursed most Inter estingly of her experience. The large sale of Zola's works in 1897-8 was due considerably to the de mand from abroad. But though his gross income was thereby increased, his net income was never smaller at any time during the last 20 years. This is due to the fact that his expenses in con nection with the Dreyfus affair amount ed on November 30 last to $31,500. Richard Croker has withdrawn from the North American Life Insurance company, presumably to give greater attention to the affairs or tne auto truck company in which he is inter ested. The insurance company was founded by a number of New York Democratic politicians and business men so recently that its organization is not yet entirely perfected. Nevertheless, the referendum is in use all over this country in varying forms, and nobodv is seriously iniured by it. We do not know whether constitutional amendments are submitted to the peo ple of Missouri or not. They are in many of the states, the operation con stituting a practical application of the referendum, with results which on the whole have been good. The trouble about the initiative and referendum project is chiefly in the names, which are appalling to people who have a dread of long words. The thing itself is simple and not half the radical depart ure from existing methods that most people appear to consider it. In the broad sense, both the initiative and the referendum are put into operation every time there is an election. The late Ruth Ashmore was never so much at home in her work in the Home Journal as when advising women on how to manage a husband. Ruth had been a widow many, many years, and any one oft the stage can always give directions to those who are on. The women should insist that their next guide through the w-ilderness not only have a husband, but a very cross, mean one at that. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Political clubs are sometimes trumps. Fine feathers do not make fine birds for a potpie. The epicure dislikes to waste his hun ger on poor vituals. The cat may have nine lives, but for tunately it has no biographers. Children are like jellies; as they are molded so they will turn out. America has no antiquities worth mentioning with the exception of her jokes. Help a man out of trouble and he will remember you when he gets in trouble again. One little trouble may make us forget a dozen things we ought to be thankful for. A capital idea for a writer is to have money enough in bank to enable him to write checks. It is well to know thyself, and it is also well to know that the commercial agencies speak well of you. 1 The poor have but little show in this world. Some editors reject poems for no other reason than that they are poor. A physician says that as a rule wo men live longer than men. We have frequently noticed that widows live longer than the men whose wives they were. TO SATE FOUR DATS. In the Transmission of Mail to Aus tralia. San FTancisco, Feb. 13. Postmaster Montague with the sanction of the postofflce department has perfected a plan which in certain cases will save four days time in the transmission of mail from this city to Australia and New Zealand. At present the mails are sent alternately from San Francisco and Vancouver. It takes four days for mail matter to reach Vancouver from here. The loss of time is to be obviated by arranging for the transfer of mails at Honolulu. Mail will hereafter be sent from here by any outgoing steam er that can catch the vessel from Van couver at Honolulu, the time to that port being one day less than from the northern city. The government may secure a dock for transfer purposes at Honolulu. FEET FROZEN IN SCHOOL. What Pupils Have Had to Endure in Abilene School Rooms This Week. From the Abilene Chronicle. It looks like an improbable statement to say that any child suffers from fro zen feet sustained in an Abilene school room, but it is reported to the Chronicle as a fact. The little daughter of S. C. Barr. who attends the Garfield school, had her feet so badly frost-bitten while in school yesterday morning that she is now compelled to remain at home. This morning the building was so cold that several of the rooms had to be dis missed. It is said that the highest tempera ture to be obtained yesterday or today in some rooms was 50 degrees, but how much less was registered is not stated. Colored shirts and waists laundered o that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West XUffbtb street. OUTRAN A FILIPINO. Private Heusted of Co. BE Won a Foot race in Manila. The following item is taken from the "American Soldier," a paper published in Manila: "The other evening one of the native sprinters of the district who was an ex ceptionally well built man, for his race, offered to bet a dollar that he could out run any soldier. Private Heusted of the Twentieth Kansas, Company M, who is a small man, and does not ap pear to be much of a sprinter, accepted the challenge. The Filipino was very much tickled by the appearance of things, and offered to bet largely on himself. But no one believed Heusted could beat him, or even run as fast and iso one would take him up. The first trial resulted in a tie and the native be gan to look sober as he realized that he was up against the real thing. In the second heat Heusted beat him by ten feet and the boys were wild with enthusiasm. Heusted deserves great credit for his pluck in running against such odds and in defeating one of Luzon's swiftest runners. "Fortune favors the brave." FOUNTAIN FOR WICHITA. Mtyor Boss Makes a Unique Gift to the School Children. Wichita, Feb. 13. The boy fountain, the beautiful gift to the children of Wichita by Mayor Finlay Ross, reached the city yesterday. The fountain was made in New York and purchased by Mr. Ross, and as soon as it is set up it Vill be presented by him to the children of the city. Its erection will be accomplished as soon as the weather moderates and ce ment can be handled. It will stand in the northwestern part of the park, just west of the big cannon from Philadel phia, and where the road leading from the west Into the park forks. The fountain is unique. It is a boy a good, strong, happy boy of the farm who has gone wading in a pair of big boots. The boots are not all they should be. for he is shown with one boot off and one boot on. The boot that is off he has in his hand examining it, and as he has been wading the water is pouring out of a dozen holes. That makes the fountain, and a beauty it is. It will be set on a pedestal and sur rounded by a twelve-foot basin, into which the water from the dilapidated boot will sparkle, to be carried away to the river near by. The boy with the holey boot, through which the water will ever trickle, will become one of the scenes of the city and a handsome addition to the park. Surrounded by green trees and near the broad sheet of water with gliding boats upon it. It is sure to be a popular spot for strollers and thirsty children. MASONS TO MEET. To Hold a Five Days' Session at Leav enworth, Feb. 13-18. Leavenworth, Feb. 13. The grand lodge, the council and the chapter of the Masonic order, jurisdiction of the state of Kansas, will hold a five days' session in this city commencing Mon day, February 13. It will be the first time since 1892 that the state Masonic convention has been held in Leavenworth. About six hundred Masons will attend and nu merically it will be the best convention held as the order is on the increase and at present has more members in its three branches than ever before. The programme fdr the five days is as follows: MONDAY. Grand council will convene at 9 o'clock a. m., and continue in session until 3 o'clock p. m. Grand chapter will convene at 3 o'clock p. m.. and continue in session till Tuesday night. Grand chapter will exemplify the chapter degree Monday night. TUESDAY. The High Priesthood degree will be conferred upon all the eligibles Tuesday night. The King Solomon lodge No. 10 will exemplify the third degree Tuesday night. WEDNESDAY. The Grand Lodge will meet in con vention to continue till Thursday even ing. The Grand Lodge will exemplfy the work Wednesday evening. FRIDAY. The Abdallah Temple will hold its an nual ceremonial session Friday night. THE LOAVES AND FISHES Cause the Republican Editors of the Sixth District to Organize. Oakley, Feb. 13. C. V. Kinney, editor of the Graphic, and president of the Northwest Kansas Editorial associa tion, has issued a circular letter, and sent it to every Republican newspa per in the Sixth congressional district requesting them to attend the state meeting in Topeka, February 21 and 22. and then and there talk the matter over of organizing a Republican district edi torial association, similar to the one in the Seventh district. There are many newspaper fellows in the Sixth district who don't think the district is getting its quota of political places, and it is believed a thorough organization of Re publican editors will be the means of securing more places in the future. PRIZE FIGHT AT COLBY. Interest Centered In a "Glove Con test" on February 13. Colby. Feb. 13. Interest out here now is mostly centered on the glove contest getween "Spider" Kelly of Kansas City and "Zuke" Johnson of Oberlin. the champion lightweight of northwest Kansas, to be fought in Selden, Feb ruary 13. for a purse of $100, the gate receipts to go to the winner. Delegations of sporting people will be present from Colby, Goodland, Norton. Denver, Kansas City, Oberlin, Atwood, Hill City, Hoxle.and many other towns. To Start a Cat Farm. Marion. Feb. 13. A man at Durham announces that he will start a cat farm. He claims he can breed and feed cats so that their furs will be as fine as sable or seal. Much cat fur is already used in the manufacture of fashionable furs of various kinds and some of them, after exDert manipulation, are difficult to distinguish from the genuine furs of which they are such clever counter feits. New Bank for Troy. Troy, Feb. 13. Hagenbach and Castle, merchants of Troy, will open a new bank as soon as a building can be fitted with a vault and necessary furniture. It is expected the bank will be in run ning order by the first of March. Big Parsons Real Estate Deal. Parsons. Feb. 13. A big real estate deal has been consummated in this city. E. B. Stevens and W. N. Barrows have purchased the real estate holdings of the late R. S. Stevens in Parsons. This interest embraces over four hundred residence and business lots and about four hundred acres of land in the west ern part of the city, and the heaviest transfer of realty ever made in Par sons. MISTAKES OF WOMEN. (From the New York Sun. "The Mistakes of Women' was the title of a lecture delivered by Mrs. Augusta Ravmorrl Kidder last evening at the home of Mrs. "W iHinm Curtis Demorest,& West Sixty-sixth street. Mrs. Kidder called her talk a "leoturttte." Probably this was because it neemed out of proportion to the size' of her subject. One man remarked condescendingly at the end of her lecture that she had made a good bejfinning. which he would like to finish up some time. He was not encour aged by the women present. According to Mrs. Kidder, the first mis take a woman ever made was responsible for the introduction of the cradle. Some of the later ones, however, have not turn ed out so well. One of these latter-day ones is the way they go to work to dem onstrate their equality with men. "Women seem to think that the way to gain their own ground is to pull the ground out from under man and topole him over. Still it must be admitted that women are rot fairly treated. There's booking Backward,1 for instance. Bel lamy did it. He was a man and got fame and fortune by it. It seems as if it was adding insult to injury to turn her into the cheapest commodity in the market. If it had been sugar we could have appreci ated the obvious compliment to the sex. Still it is some comfort that, even in her disgrace, she was something indispensable. "Another mistake of women is loving too much. Of course, love is beautifu. di vine, and all that, when it is deserved. But our sex is not prone to investigate. It is another of our mistakes that we trust too much. Thefe is plenty of counterfeit money afloat in the kingdom of love, and, anyway, even if the coin were genuine, it is a feminine mistake to give ten dollars in change for a one dollar bill. According to Commercson, one of woman's mistakes is that they distrust men too much in gen eras and not enough in particular. "A fatal mistake of woman is her ten dency to self-effacement. Did I hear any gentleman smile?" asked the speaker(after the derisive laughter which followed after her remark had died away. "He need not, for it is true that for ages women have been content to inspire. They have been more than willing to bask in the reflected glory of those they 1ovhJ. I'd like to par aphrase one of Longfellow's verses: Wives of great men oft remind us That they make those men sublime; That, if husbands couldn't find us, They'd be failures half the time. "Another mistake of women is that they do not allow themselves to rest. What women do not know that eating and rest ing has built 10.000 hospitals. Another of women's mistakes is not knowing how to eat. Consider the ways of men in this re spect and be wise. Another mistake is worrying. Some women remind me of children who plant seeds in the gacden and dig them up the next day to see how they are prospering. We all remember the old woman who said: 'Yes, dearie, I've had an awful lot of trouble in my life, and most of it never happened.' "Is one of our mistakes talking too much? I fear it is. And another is not having enough fun. Nearly every wo man is a miser of jollity. Men are willing to catch pleasure as it flies. But women must have everything just so before they can abandon themselves to enjoyment, and then they are usually too tired to take it. This goes beyond being mistake. It's a disease, but fortunately not incurable. Women say it it is easy to talk this way, but that one can't be laughing when one is hurried and worried. All I can say is that you might be as hurried, but "you wouldn't be as worried if you did laugh. I happened once to speak of my husband to a little girl, and she said: 'Why, I didn't think you were mar ried.' 'Whyr I asked. 'Oh. 'cause "Cause why?' "Cause you laugh so much "Wasn't that a commentary on matri mony! And now, a word about marriage, which is never a mistake, though wed dings often are. for every wedding is not a marriage. In this connection let me speak about jealous woman. It is a large subject, but a few words about it are as good as many, for people with that disease seldom listen to advice. The conclusion I come to is that jealousy under anv cir cumstances is useless. The only thing to be done, when one thinks one has grounds for the feeling, is the last thing thev are likely to do that is. to be so charming and altogether lovely that the rival will be routed as an entirely inferior person. Some women, however, think they are jealous when they are really only selfish. With a case where there is real cause for this mental anguish I should, of course, be unable to cope. Martyrdom or a clergy man and the family lawyer would be the remedy. I suppose. But I recommend a little wholesome introspection to rind out whether, after all, it may be only another mistake." DISGRACEFUL SCENES Enacted at the Interment of Gen. Garcia's Remains. Havana, Feb. 13. Maj. McCandaJ who was one of the members of the staff of the late Gen. Garcia and is now an employe in the postal service, was the only officer to assist in carry ing the coffin of the late commander at his funeral on Sunday. The other bear ers were chiefly obscure negroes, and this fact has caused a feeling of indig nation against the generals who were interested in formulating the progTam for the obsequies. The police arrangements for control ling the crowds were absolutely inade quate. At the cemetery the rabble in vaded the chapel, and Governor General Brooke. Gen. Chaffee, of the governor general's staff, and the other American officers were obliged to" force their way In behind the casket. Afterward, when the coffin was borne from the chapel to the grave, a strug gling crowd of dirty, ragged negroes impeded the progress of the bearers, and Gen. Brooke and his staff and the other guests of honor of the city, and the American generals were roughly buffeted and jostled. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. Quick, good work, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh street. Tele phone 34L SHORTEST LINE. COLORADO FLYER. Well Do Tour Hauling Right! TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephone S20 Office. 509 Kansas Are. 835 H F. P. BACOIT, Prop. fySesi me about etorase. w Is f 101 ANNOUNCEMENTS. A. I. ROBBINS is a candidate for city treasurer, subject to the Republican pri maries February- 25, 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, 1SS9. S. S. McFADDEN Is a candidate for re election to the office of city clerk ly G. BEAL is a candidate for city treas urer subject to Republican primaries. J. H. SQUIRES. Candidate for City Clerk. Subject to Republican primary. W. A. S. BIRD is a candidate for re-election to the office of city attorney, sub ject to the Republican primaries. CHAS. E. GAULT is a candidate for city attorney, subject to Republican pri maries. WANTED HEXP. WANTED A place by a young German girl to assist with housework. Call at 313 Elm st. WANTED Work by an elderly woman; experienced in housework. Address "L. K" care Journal. WANTED Situation as seamstress.by the day or week. Address AL 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 voung man of experience; satisfac tion guaranteed. Call or address 816 N. Harrison St. WANTED By white woman, washing; can give first class reference. Address X. V., care Journal. WANTED MALE EEL?. WANTED Men to learn barber trade. We positively guarantee GG monthlv after onlv eierht weeks nractice: snrinar rush j soon: students from distance assisted with transportation; tools presented; write at once. Moler Barber College, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED SALESMEN. SALESMEN Cigars, $125 and expenses; position permanent; experience unneces sary. N. M. Fowler, 3342 State St., Chicago. WANTED Salesman salary paid week ly erperience unnecessary; permanent. Brown Bros. Co.. Chicago. WANTED Salesmen visitmg retail trade to carry as a side line the Ledge re tte bill file, for keeping in systematic and convenient order ail ticket charges. Al most every retailer who hasn't a similar device buys one. Sells for J 2. 25. Good profit. Address the manufacturer, Wca. R. Adams, 711 Kansas ave., Topeka. WANTED AGENTS. JACK RABBITS A fortune in Jack rab bits. Agents wanted. Send 10c silver for particulars. Address J. F. Fagfen. St. Joseph. Mich., Box 2M. WANTED County agents, make from $2 to $5 a day. Combination Wrench and Jack Co.. Cleveland. O. Frank A. Carr, Gen'l State Agent, Box 117, Topeka. Kan. JTANTED-MISCEIiANEOU WANTED-To buy horses and mules. 626 Quincy. Tel. 170. WANTED To buy house to move on va cant lot. Will pay cash. Atchison Candy Co., 102 East Sixth St. WANTED You to order original stove repairs of all kinds through us. Caii '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 fn re plying to an advertisement which reads to address "Care Journal" the reply must be made in writing and sent through the mail postpaid, or left at this office. It will then be placed in one of the boxes set aside for replies to classified advertise ments. FOB. SENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 8 room house, 1348 Mulvane ave. cistern, well. barn. Other houses for rent. J. Thomas Lumber Co., 614 Van Buren st. FOR RENT 9 room house, 919 Monroe St., March 1. FOR RENT Fine large residence on West Tsnth. W. R. Hazen. 11a West Fifth. FOR SENT ROOMS. FOR RENT One-half or part of store, 723 Kansas ave. Sullivan Delanoyde. FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms, first floor. ll&H West 6th sC FOR RENT Very pleasant downstairs furnished front room. 421 Quincy st. FOJSALE--MTSELLAJJGUaL FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Small I steam grist mill. Butler county. Kan., I iw. v. I. v.anl.K A .4.1 tJ. 1., care journal. FOR SALE Good driving horse. L. A. Goerke, Quinton Heights. FOR SALE Cheap, a set of tinner's tools and machines. Box 15, Strong City.Kan. FOR SALE Cutter, street. Inquire 626 Quincy FOR SALE Ten RI.P.A.N.'S for cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. E. BOWMAN CO. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE 10 acre tract near town. Call 304 East Crane St. for sale two six room houses, good location on Polk st.. $1,XJ0 each, easy payments, by W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE A good SO acre farm. also one of 320 acres, for sale cheap, or will exchange for good residence property. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Several houses to sell on payment plan or exchange for good farm: also. Several good business properties cheap. There Is no better investment than good Topeka property at present prices. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Lots In Douthitt Place. Law office of H. C. Root, 116 West 6th st. JOSTAJPOJONr LOST Last Friday evening.between Cope land hotel and transfer station, seal skin collarette. Suitable reward for re turn to 614 West Tenth st. LOST Lady's watch chain, between 4th and Lawrence and 7th and Quincy. Re turn for reward to 3 JO Lawrence. FOUND Where watches or clocks sre cleaned for 60c. Si3 Kansas ave.. upstairs. FRESCO WORK. W. W. GILLESPIE. Fresco Painter. De signs and estimates furnished on all classes of work. 1714 West Fifteenth, To peka. Kan. Refers to his work in Stat Journal building. MISCEIXAiraOTJS. UNDERGRADUATE doctors. dentists. pharmacists, lawyers, practicing; soon graduated home. Box 196, Chicago. NOTICE To Whom It May Concern: Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shawnee county. Kansas, asking for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 803 Kansas ave nue, irt the Third ward, in the ci'.y of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of tha same is set for Saturday, 9 a. m., the 11th day of March, 1S&9. O. A. KEENE. Topeka. Kan.. Feb. 11, 18s. FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, is open daily except Sunday, from 1 to i p. m. E. M. Brockets 11. D. COUTH ITT PLACE Has been opened. Your choice of lots, J 150 to 8450. Eugene Wolfe. S17 Kansas ave. WANTED TO RENT. WANTED To rent house or cottage, about 5 rooms, walking distance from transfer station.. Address D.. care Journal. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. L. A. RYDER. M. Z. OFFICE and residence, comet Gordon and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the BrinkerholT system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, fish ore. ul ceratlon. etc S. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 710 Kaa. ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 73! Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. tc II a. m., and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone E98 residence and li office. DR. J. SPRINGHORK. 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 11 a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m. MONET. WANTED You to call on W. M. Forbes if you want to borrow or loan money on best first mortgage securities. 116 W. 6th ave. MONEY TO LOAN on farms; 10 years' time. SCOTT ft CO.. 615 Kansas ave. SEE US FOR LOANS. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO.. 'Phone 262. 113 W. Fifth st. $30,000,000 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. X. E. BOWMAN CO.. Columbian Building. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles. guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe. 123 Kansas ave. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Topeka Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to US West Eighth, st. BICYCLES. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th st Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tandems for rent: repairing of all kinds. BTAMPSTSBAXS AND BTENCIXST 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 plana and harmony, 407 Greenwood ave..Potwin. NURSE. ANYONE needing the services of a pro fessional nurse.call at 510 Lane st. Prices reasonable. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HATDKN, Jeweler and Op tician. Complete stock of watches, dia. roonds. silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fltted- FRED C. FAGERCRANS. Jeweler. 720 Kansas ave. Repairing of fine and com plicated watches a specialty. Artistic monogram and letter engraving. ATCHMAOB WATCHES cleaned. 73c: clocks, 60c: mainsprings. 75c; crystals. 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old Jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up. see Uncle Sam. bl2 Kan. ave. STORAGE. STORAGE The Topeka Storage fn4 Warehouse Co. (formerly Topeka Stor age Co., 305 Kas. ave.) store stoves, house hold goods, etc. On June 1 removed to new fire-proof stone building. 212 and H4 Kas. ave. C. D. Skinner. Prop. FLORISTB MRS. J. R. HAGUE.Florlst. successor to R. J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone 602. REPORT OF THE COX DITIOJT OF THB First National Bank, At Topeka, In the Btate of Kansas, at th close of business, February 4, 1899. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts I Overdrafts, secured and unse cured U. S. bonds to secure circulation Stocks, bonds and securities Banking house, furniture and fix tures Other real estate and mortgages owned Due from approved re serve agents $255,702.08 Exchanges for clear ing house 12.S44.38 Notes of other Nation al banks 47.350.00 Nickels and pennies 50.50 Specie 78,004.75 I.egal tender notes 10,000 Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer 534,326.92 120.82 E0.000.O4 5.3SO-22 135,450.00 29,553.29 403.951.71 2.2SO.0O Total Jl.181.037.67 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 300.000.00 Surplus fund 22,ls8.W Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid 9.123 31 National bank notes outstanding 45,0u0.u Due to other National banks 8 1, 27 Due to state banks and bankers 44, 57 Dividends unpaid 120.00 Individual deposits subject to check 641,267.20 Demand certificates of df-posit 117,135.3 Certified checks 250.00 S04.724.37 Total 11.181,037.17 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. Ctishler. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of February. 1S99. WM. WADSWORTH. Notary Public CMy commission expires July 23d. 13a3. Correct Attest: F. E. HOLLIDAY, WM. SIMS. M. 8NATTINGER, (Seal.) Ilrttara,
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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1899. Read the Price Tickets In the Big South Window STYLISH JACKETS WORTH UP TO $12.50 EACH, Marked $5.00 Ea. STYLISH JACKETS WORTH UP TO $20.00 EACH, Marked $7.50 Ea. INDIGNITY TO A DIPLOMAT Portuguese Minister Snowballed by Boys in Washington. Washington. Feb. 13. The minister from Portugal has been snowballed by email beys on the streets of Washing ton and has complained to the state de partment. The chief of police has is sued the following g-eneral circular to patrolmen on the subject: "Report comes from the state depart ment again to the effect that members of a foreign legation have received In dignities at the hands of boys. In this instance the boys snowballed the min ister from Portugal in the vicinity of Connecticut avenue and M street. Of course, boys do not select subjects for this work, but do their snowballing in discriminately. Attention is called to a previous circular on this subject." The people of Washington by long association with travelers from foreign lands have become familiar with un usual dress and manners and are gen erally respectful and polite to all strangers. The members of the Chinese legation, who wear the peculiar native gowns, have occasionally been Insulted, but such an occurrence is unusual. The secretary of state has offered apologies to the minister from Portugal, and has assured him that inasmuch as he wore nothing to indicate his rank the boys could have meant no indignity to bis official position. JOHN G. OTIS TOSSED. It Was Heads or Tails With a Ball and Mr. Otis Won. Ex-Congressman J. G. Otis had a narrow escape Saturday afternoon from being gored to death by an infuriated Jersey bull. Mr.Otis had just returned to his home on Fifteenth street near the Shunga nunga, and was heavily bundled up. A red muffler around his neck attracted the attention of the animal in the barn yard that Mr.Otis was passing through. The bull began pawing the ground. Mr. Otis noticed him and ran for the fence, but before he reached it the animal had caught up with him and tossed him in the air. Mr. Otis crawled along on the ground towards the fence, the bull repeatedly trying to gore him with his horns. Mr. Otis' heavy clothing probably saved him from more serious injury. He finally managed to climb the fence and make his way to the house. The infuriated animal nearly .wrecked the fence. Mr.Otis was badly bruised and a large black and blue spot under his left eye shows how close the animal's horns came putting his eye out. Today he is able to be around as usual and suffers no inconvenience from his encounter. TURNED BACK. Battalion of the 17th, Infantry Re called After Starting to Embark for Manila. Columbus. O., Feb. 13. The third battalion of the Seventeenth infantry which left here Sunday afternoon for Manila, only got as far as Mount Ver non, O., -when orders were received from the war department turning the regi ment back to the barracks, the reason being that the transport on which they were to sail was not ready, work hav ing been delayed on account of the ex treme cold. The men spent the night in the train in the railroad yards here, the headquarters at the barracks hav ing been left cold and comfortless when they made their start for the far east yesterday. Future movements oX the regiment are uncertain. DR. NANSEN DOUBTS That the Bodies of Andree's Party Have Been Found. London, Feb. 13. According to a dis patch to the Standard from Stockholm, Dr. Nansen and Dr. Nordenskjold, the explorers, refuse to give any credit to the story cabled from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, that a tribe of Tunguses, in habiting the Timur peninsula, north Siberia, found on January 7 last, be tween Komo and Pit, in the province of Teniseisk, the bodies of three men lying near a cabin constructed of cloth and cordage, apparently belonging to a balloon. In any event, neither believes that the bodies were those of Andree and his fellow aeronauts. Convention of Old Maids. Avon, N. T., Feb. 13. A novel assem blage will convene here tomorrow in the Opera hall. The gathering will be an old maids' convention, and the dele gates will be spinsters from different places in Livingston county. They will discuss the causes and conditions of single blessedness and some of the bolder ones may suggest remedies. Committees will be appointed and the deliberations will proceed in a business like way, according to parliamentary usage, with malice toward none and charity for all. An Old Landmark Burns. Chicago, Feb. 13. The United States hotel, an old landmark at the southeast corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-first street, was destroyed by Are to day. During Its palmy days, long be fore the civil war. the hotel was a favor ite resort of prominent political men, among whom were General U. S. Grant and Stephen A. Douglas. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Bifinatnre of ALFORD TABLET MONEY. Old Soldiers Hay Contribute to the Fund. Colonel Tom Jackson, copy clerk in the house, who represented Harvey county in the last legislature, has be come interested in Eugene Ware's pro position to erect a tablet to the mem ory of Lieutenant Alford In the state university, as published in the State Journal and today he started a fund among the old soldiers who are mem bers or employes of the legislature.eith er house or senate, to add to the fund proposed by Mr. Ware. He will ask each one to contribute one dollar toward the fund. "Lieutenant Alford,"he said in speak ing of the project, "is the first one of our Kansas boys to fall in battle. He represents the sons of us old fellows who fought in the other war, and we want a hand in erecting this tablet to his memory. The city of Lawrence and the lawyers of the state can each con tribute $2.50 if they want, but we old soldiers want a chance to add to it." ROW AT GARCIA'S FUNERAL Kicked Up by the Cuban Generals Over a Question of Precedence. Havana, Feb. 13. The feeling which existed among the Cubans toward Gov ernor General Brooke over the question of precedence in the line of the funeral procession of Gen. Calixto Garcia on Saturday has moderated very greatly, owing to the explanations that have been made, and most of the ill humor now Is directed against the Cuban gen erals, who hastily took offense where none was intended and ordered the Cu ban soldiers to leave and themselves re tired. The other generals are disposed to blame Gen. Andrade for ordering the soldiers not to march. The leading generals and the mem bers of the Cuban assembly, which is composed of military men, held a meet ing: and debated the subject until 2 o'clock Sunday morning. A number of strong speeches were made against the Americans and it was decided to ap point a commission to investigate the occurrence and determine whether or not the conduct of the governor general constituted a ground of offense. The commission will report on Tuesday next. Senor Lanuza, secretary of justice and public instruction in Gen. Brooke's advisory council, Senor Domingo Men dez Capote, secretary of government in the council, and Gen. Mario Menocal, chief of police of Havana, who were present at the meeting, talked of re signing their positions, and finally de cided not to do so then, because it would be unpolitie and unpatriotic to suddenly break off their relations with the United States military authorities. Gen. Brooke was not informed by the Washington authorities of the honors he was to render to Gen. Garcia until Fridav, when, in response to an inquiry cabled by him on the day before, he was instructed to give the remains full military funeral. As the mayor and city council had already arranged and advertised an elaborate programme, it seemed to the military authorities unwise to destroy the Cuban arrangements and make an other programme conforming to the United States regulations. Consequent ly, as the Cubans had provided for ample representation of the AmeriCESa military. General Brooke made no sug gestions concerning his own place in the procession, except at the palace, where, instead of taking the first carriage af ter the casket, as proposed by the Cu ban committee, he suggested that the sons of Garcia should take the first car riage and he the second, which arrange ment was agreed to. The Cuban generals who, according to the council's programme, were to fol low the American military, inquired of General Lee, through Senor Lanuza. if he had any objection to their going ahead of him. General Lee said he had no objection and the generals then tried to get between the governor general and his staff and were crowded out. This occurred a half hour after the pro cession started, though only four or five blocks from the palace, owing to the frequent stops that were made. Senors Lanuza and Capote stayed to argue with the generals and were left behind, but the secretaries of General Brooke's council, Senors Desperines and Yanez were in the second carriage after Gen eral Brooke. Then came the mounted staff. LIQUOR BILLS INTRODUCED Measures in Michigan Affecting Drug gists and Spirit Dealers. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 13. Bills affect ing the liquor traffic were introduced in the state legislature today. Senator Flood has a measure to compel drug gists who sell liquor to pay the same license demanded by the state from re tail liquor dealers, and Representative Chamberlain has introduced a bill to fix the license of liquor dealers as fol lows: Brewers $1,000: distillers, $1,800; re tailers. $1,500. The present rates are $65, $800 and $500, respectively. Bills to permit saloons to remain open on certain holidays of the year will be introduced later, and when the taxation bills are out of the way there will be a lively fight over the liquor measures. Doukhobors Beady to Land. Halifax, N. S.. Feb. 13. The steamer Lake Superior, which brought the last lot of Dorkhobors, was disinfected yes terday and all the passengers have been inspected and baggage fumigated. Only one case of sickness has developed among the exiles since they were quar antined a fortnight ago. That was an attack of pneumonia. The Doukhobors will leave Friday for the northwest. Bulled in Her Own Home. Providence, R. I., Feb. 13. Mrs. Amos Palmer of Edgewood, R. I., was shot and almost instantly killed last night in her homo and her husband has been ar rested charged with her murder. Palmer was at one time confined in an insane asylum. THE FILIPINO VERSION. Of the Recent Fighting in the Archi pelago. Hong Kong, Feb. 11. The Filipino junta has issued the following statement: A Manila steamer has arrived here with American censorship, giving a version of the recent fight which is utterly false. The Americans commenced firing heavily, and by the treachery of General Otis, si multaneously by land and sea. Aguinaldo possesses a signed guarantee from the American commissioners that there would he no hostility on their part. Hence the Filipino troops were resting and many of the Filipino officers were at the theater on aaturuay nignt ana were arrescea shortly before the outbreak. The bombardment of the defenseless towns of Malate. Paco, Santa Ana and Malabon caused frightful slaughter among the women and children. It is estimated that 4,000 of them were killed. The Filipino troops, whose loss was com paratively small, tenaciously held their positions. The conduct of the Americans in the suburbs was outrageous. They compelled the inhabitants to leave their houses and then shot them down regardless of sex. There is a reign of terror at Manila. Civilians are shot in the streets without being challenged. The Iloilo commission ers arrived at Manila at the invitation of the Americans and when they were start ing to return th American soldiers were looting and pillaging. Aguinaldo sent commissioners to inquire of General Otis the reason for the hostili ties, offering summary punishment if the Filipinos were found to be at fault. He received no satisfaction. The Americans are apparently determin ed on a war of extermination, similar to their doings in Carolina in November, vio lating the rights of mankind and of civil ized warfare and committing a monstrous outrage on civilization. There is no doubt that the action of Gen eral Otis was a political move to influence the vote of the United States senate, fear ing .an exposure of the corruptions at Ma nila. Four vessels are leaving Manila to bom bard Iloilo. CAMP'S HOME BURNED. Priceless Athletic Records and Tro phies Were Destroyed. New Haven, Conn., Keb. 11. The home of Walter Camp, football coach and writer, at Savin Rock, was destroyed by fire last evening1. In the house were all Mr. Camp's athletic records, his trophies and the athletic relics of years. All these thing's, which to Mr. Camp were priceless, were destroyed. The loss not onry falls upon Mr. Camp, but also upon Yale, for Mr. Camp's ath letic collections contained much that was intimatelv connected with the historv of sport at the university. Mr. Camp, for two vears. has lived at Savin Rock in a house known as the Morgan cottage. l ne residence caught hre about a o ciock in tne atternoon. The house was a frame structure and stood on the shore of the sound. A fierce in-shore wind was blowing and the flames were fanned by it. There is only a bucket brigade at Savin Rock, and it took this organization nair an nour to turn out. ny mat time the house was in ashes. Mrs. Camo saved a few nieces of hrln-a- brac. The house was valued at $10,000, but iui uue& nut uitiuuo ivi i iamp a lOaa M. W. DUNHAM DEAD. Most Extensive Breeder of Pure Blood Horses in the World. Chicago, Feb. 11. Mark Wentworth Dunham, owner of the famous Oak Lawn farm at Wayne, 111., and the most extensive breeder of pure bred horses in the world, died at Mercy hos pital today from a complication of dis eases. It was thirty years ago that Mr. Dunham began with the importa tion of Percheron horses from France. His operations as a breeder and im porter assumed gigantic proportions. He subsequently took up the Importa tion of the French coach horse and col lected In France a lot of mares and stal lions that as a whole is conceded to be superior to any similar collection in France. He won with his horses more champion prizes In the show ring than any other breeder has ever won in the history of the show yard in America. Mr. Dunham was born in 1842. Bishop Millspaugh's Visitations. Bishop Millspaugh makes his visita tions this week as follows: Coffeyville Ash Wednesday. Sedan Thursday. Cedarvale Friday. Winfield Sunday forenoon. Arkansas City Sunday afternoon. Augusta Monday. After which he goes to Chicago as one of the presentors at the consecration of Rev. Dr. Morrison as Bishop of Iowa. Your linen left spotless, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh, Telephone 341. Have you tried the "Silver Leaf" brand of catsup, sweet India chow and celery relish; if not, try it. Ask your grocer for it. Every bottle guaranteed. Large or small bundles sent for.Amer ican Steam Laundry. Telephone 341. tPURI QRAPC CREAM OP TARTAR POWDCR 3 CREAM Awarded Highest honors. World's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair 3T KENTUCKY BLOOD Is Likely to Be Spilled Through an 1 Army Row. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 13. A special from Anniston, Ala., says: A big row is on between Col. David Colson and Lieut. Ed. Scott of the Fourth Kentucky, which Is to be mus tered out here. When and how it start ed can not be ascertained, but it has been on for some time and has been growing until now it has reached ser ious proportions. Lieut. Scott has fig ured in two court martials, and was also re-examined recently as to his ability, efficiency and fitness to hold office by a board which recommended his dismiss al. He went to Washington, however, and had the finding overruled. Lieut. Scott ascribes his trouble to Col. Col son. Lieut. Scott on yesterday filed charges against Col. Colson with the military authorities here and sent copies to Col. Colson and to the war department, al leging that Col. Colson embezzled gov ernment funds, incited the men of the regiment to riot, lawlessness and dis order against the people of Anniston, when they were mustered out, with drunkenness on duty and with failing to stop an orgie of commissioned offi cers of the regiment in camp in which firearms were freely used and when he was present. These charges have caused a great deal of excitement in the regiment, especially among: the friends of the two men. Col. Colson is out in a two-column card making very serious charges against Scott, among them that he is "accustomed to telling stories in bar rooms for drink, and that his asso ciates are almost entirely among the vicious and criminal classes." Scott will have a card in the morning paper charging Col. Colson with being a congressional nonentity and with ma liciously falsifying. Both men are known to be fearless and serious trou ble is anticipated. Colson is a congress man from the Eleventh Kentucky dis trict and Scott is a prominent young at torney of Lexington and a nephew of Governor Bradley. A HUGE SWINDLE. Has Just Been Brought to Light in New York. New Tork, Feb. 11. Two women, a mother and daughter, and a man have been arrested here by United States mar shals, who say that the prisoners have been eneaced in an ineenious and ex tensive scheme for obtaining money by one or the most alluring advertisements ever known to the authorities. The pris oners are William r SKinner, manager or the Sawyer Publishing company of Water ville. Me., who has an office in the Temple Court building: Mrs. Viola H. Rae. the i proprietress of the Helen Marke company, i which advertises to remove suttrfluous hair, and Mrs. Angle H. Wing. Mrs. Kae s daughter. The Helen Marke company has offices in the Presbyterian building. The arrests were made on indictments found by the federal grand jury in Maine. The authorities sav the prisoners formed the Fairfield Floral company of Maine witn an aiiegeo capital stocK or ihiu.uuu. Thev advertised extensively for persons who wished an education for nothing to send two two-cent stamps. Then follow ed an elaborate system of plucking those who answered the advertisement. Outfits to make artificial flowers were sent them. For a consideration material was sold them which the company agreed to buy back when it was made into flowers. Some victims, it is said, were let in for $110. A man employed by the prisoners told the postoftice authorities that the company nan receivea zoo.wv letters. The three were held in J2.000 each. Mrs Wine got bail, the others were locked ud. They will have a hearing today before Commissioner snieias. STOP THE WAR. Anti-Imperialist League Passes More Resolutions. Boston, Feb. 13. At a general meet ing of the anti-Imperialist league held here, Governor Boutwell presided and made a stirring address. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: First The anti-Imperialist league demands that immediate suspension of hostilities in the Philippines. Second The league insists that it is the duty of congress to tender an offi cial assurance to the country and to the inhabitants of the Philippines that the United States will encourage the organ ization of such a government as may be agreeable to the people of the islands, and that upon its organization the Uni ted States will, in accordance with its traditional and prescriptive policy in such cases recognize it as an inde pendent and equal state among nations. BRUTAL LITTLE DEL. Smallest State in the Union and the Meanest Also. Wilmington. Del.. Feb.13. With ther mometer standing at zero three culprits were placed in the pillory for an hour at the New Castle jail yard tnis morn ing. On account of the intense cold the men were well covered with blankets but when released they were so benumbed that they could scarcely stand. Upon being thawed out two of the three, together with six others, were sent to the whipping post. One man convicted of murderous assault, re ceived forty lashes, and twenty and six others fifteen lashes. The back of the nan who received the forty lashes was badly cut, blood trickling from the wounds. FREEDOM FOR YOUNGERS. Embodied in a Bill Introduced at St PauL St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 13. Senator Wilson has introduced a bill in the sen ate which will practically effect the pardoning of the Younger brothers, if it becomes a law. It is to amend the parole law of the state so that prisoners sentenced for life and who have served over twenty years in prison with a good prison rec ord may be granted by the prison man agers a parole, limitless as to geograph ical restrictions. The ordinary parole requires the pris oner to remain within the boundaries of the state. Weekly Bank Statement. New York. Feb. 11. The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, decreased $1,940.85(1; loans. Increased J8.516.70O: specie, increased. $1. 2W3.500; legal tenders, decreased $1,225,200; deposits, increased SS.036.600: circulation, decreased $68,000. The banks now hold $36,551,825 In excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent rule Poet Lampman Is Dead. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 11. Archibald Lampman, the poet, died here today of pneumonia. Mr. Lampman had been a contributor to the leading American and English magazines for many years. Hutchinson Pioneer Dead. Hutchinson. Kan., Feb. 11. Dr. V. G. Tucker, a pioneer Kansan and prominent Mason, died at his home here today of apoplexy. A lady was surprised the other day to hear from her grocer that those little sweet pickles were a home product, and said they were as nice as they could be, and that she would ask for no other than the "Silver Leaf" brand hereafter. We mend and sew on buttons free. American Steam Laundry. Tele. 341. Victim Left in a most Serious Condition by that Nerve Destroying Disease. Cured by Dr. In these days when so many ordinary preparations are advertised, it is signif icant that Dr. Miles' Restorative Ner vine stands alone as the one remedy of all others that never fails to benefit the weak, weary, nerve-shattered, tired and worn out victim of wasted vitality. In every city in business offices counting rooms and banks, in the homes of all liberally educated men and women wherever the friction of worry is wear ing out the nerves and reducing the vi tality of the body, Dr. Miles Nervine is received with open arms. Physicians use it, and to clergymen, lawyers and school teachers it is of untold value. It invariably insures sound sleep, and gives the overstrung nerves their nat ural rest. It puts new life into the worn out body, brings springiness back1 to the step, brightness to the eyes, cheer fulness to the mind. It should find its way into every family where some member needs a general building up of the body, a purifying of the blood and a strengthening of tired nerves, ted Brenthren Church at Brazil, Ind., ted Brenthern Church at Brazil, Ind., sends the following letter describing his illness, and telling how he was cured: STABBED TO THE HEART. A Fireman Found Murdered in the Boiler Room. Cleveland, Feb. 13. Jacob Gerbrandt, nirht fireman at the Hunt Stamping Works on Hickox street, was found dead in the boiler room of the plant early today, hav ing been stabbed through the heart. The case is shrouded in mystery. The motive for the crime was evidently not burglary. For Gerbrandt's money and watch were found on his body. Appearances indicated that the murder ed man made a valiant struggle for life. The only clue found was a woman's knit fascinator which was lying near the bodv. The theory is advanced by the police that Gerbrandt may have been holding clan destine meetings with the woman and that a lover or husband witnessed the meeting and then killed Gerbrandt. The murdered man was 40 years old and had a wife and three children. ONLY SIXTEEN MORE DAYS Of the Legislative Session, and Most of the Bills Won't Pass. It -was after 10 o'clock when the house waa called to order this morning by Speaker Pro Tern Benefiel, but the roll call developed the fact that there were only 61 members present, two less than a quorum. Instead of sending" out and petting two absentees, who covld undoubtedly have been found about the building-, the house speedily voted in favor of a. recess until this afternoon. There have been thus far introduced into the house T.3 bills, and each day is adding to the number. In addition to thee, a large number of bills will come over from the senate for action. There are now 35 bills on the house calendar pending third reading or ready for a final vote to be taken on them. There are 162 more ready for consideration in committee of the whole, and all but six of them are preneral bills, whose consideration will require con siderable time. During the 34 days that the house has been in session it has passed 80 bills, of which 57 were local bills which have been railroaded through. Probably 250 hills have been turned down by committees. There are only 16 more legislative days of this session. NOT A SHIP IN. Whole Fleet of Atlantic Liners Dae and Unheard Of. New York, Feb. 13. None of the At lantic passenger liners from Great Brit ain and the continent that regularly ax rive here at the end of the week has yet been sighted. The passenger liners due are the American Liner Paris, nine days out from Southampton; which was due on Friday, the Cunarder Etruria, eight days from Queenstown; the French Liner La Bretagne, 9 days out from Havre; the Anchor Line Anchoria, 16 days out from Glasgow; the Holland American Liner Pottsdam, 18 days from Rotterdam; the Hamburg-American Liner Pretoria, 15 days out from Ham burg; the North German Lloyd Liner Gera, 13 days out from Bremen; the White Star Liners Nomadic, (a freight er) 13 days out and the Cymric 10 days out from Liverpool. Freight steamers, whose voyages are growing uncomfortably long are the Eastern Prince 24 days out from Shields;' Dike Rickmers 25 days out from Havre; Salerno 16 days out from Newcastle, Eng., and the Catania 18 days out from St. Michael. The Almida 58 days out from Shields has about been given up as lost with all on board. No doubt a large fleet of steamers has arrived in the vicinity of Sandy Hook bar and Is waiting outside for the bliz zard to pass. The marine observer la conically reports: "Nothing but bliz zard." LOVES BEAUTIFUL SNOW. Lunatic Who Likes to Lie in a Drift Until Half Frozen, Sent to Bellevue. New York, Feb. IS. James F. Sheehy, 40 years old. no home, was committed to BellevuehospitalSaturday for examination as to his sanitv. He had been found aim lessly wandering around in the snow at One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street and Amsterdam avenue. One of the court po liceman told the magistrate that Sheehy always wandered about the streets in a snowstorm. He would lie in the snow until almost frozen, then go homo and stretch himself on the floor before the stove until his clothes were dry. "Yes, your honor." said Sheehy. "T love the beautiful snow." He continued to ramble about it until the policeman re moved him. T WO DAYS APA RT A Columbus Woman Gave Birth to Three Healthy Children. Columbus, O., Feb. 13. Mrs. Mary Swan eon, wife of a saloonist. living on West Cherry street, has surprised the Columbus medical profession by a most wonderful case of maternity, giving birth to triplets, each two davs apart. Saturday the first was born. Monday the second and Wednesday the third. All are boys and well developed. She has surviv ed the unusual ordeal and all are doing as well as could be expected. of La Grippe. Miles Nerv "I suffered severely from nervous pros tration, brought on me by two succes sive attacks of La Grippe. My appe tite failed me; I grew paie and thin. I was exceedingly nervous and suffered greatly. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine was recommended to me by one of my brother clergymen who had received great benefit from its use. I decided to give it a trial, and to my great satisfac tion I found myself improving after taking the first few doses. My health was speedily restored, and I have never lost an opportunity to speak a good word in praise of Dr. Miles' Nervine." "In 1892 I had a severe attack of La Grippe followed by nervous prostration which left me a physical wreck. I suf fered from intense pains in my head; was restless, irritable and so nervous that I could not be quiet for a minute at a time. It was almost impossible for me to get any sleep or rest at night, and when I did sleep I was disturbed with horrid dreams and morbid fears. My appetite failed; nothing that I ate seemed to give me any strength and I wasted in flesh. After doctor's medicine failed, I tried almost every remedy rec ommended as nerve tonic, but nothing The only Theater lighted, heated, cooled an! WEDNESDAY-Feb. 15, 16 THURSDAY Fifteenth Annual Concert Harshall's Band, ASSISTFD BY Mrs. B. HOLLENBECK, Soprano, Of Kansas City, and TOPEKA LADIES' QUARTETTE. Admission, 25 and 50 Cents. Sale of Seats at Kowley Snow's, Monday. 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 Tiro Lectures Free. AH Lectures Illustrated by Lime-Light Views, including many of Art and Scenery aud the famous X-rays. 100 views each lecture. DIFFERENT LECTURES AND VIEWS DAILY. FIRST CAUCUS. Friends of C. J. Drew Discuss a Plan of Campaign. There was a meeting Saturday night of twenty-five of the friends of Coun cilman Drew to discuss wavs and means for carrying on his campaign for the mayoralty nomination. Frank Snyder, who lives In the dry district of the Fifth ward, was elected chairman of the meeting and Rev. H. H. Lucas of the First ward was sec retary. Mr. Snyder said as he took charge of the meeting: "This fight has already opened and we should not underesti mate the strength of the opposition. The water works company will spend thousands of dollars, if necessary, to de feat Mr. Drew, and money is already flowing into the wards like water. We will have to make this fight against odds, for we have little money. Our candidate is not rich and he has no wealthy corporation behind him. But I believe that he will win. I don't believe there is enough money in the United States to carry this election in favor of the water company, but we must be alert and watchful. We must work like Trojans for the success of Mr. Drew in this fight. If the people understand the issue, and we must see that they do, we will win the battle." The meeting then resolved itself into a conference to discuss plans of or ganization. It was agreed that a care ful organization is necessary and a strong central organization was fa vored. Another meeting will be held in a few days to further discuss plans. FROM NEWTON, KANSAS. A Victim of Narcotics in an East St Louis Hospital. St. Louis, Feb. 13. Oscar F. Anderson, aged 27, a victim of the morphine and co caine habit, was sent from East St. Irfiuis to the St. Clair county hospital by Super visor of the Poor Wheeler yesterd.iy. Anderson says he formerly lived in New ton. Kan., where his father was a mer chant. His parents died when he was quite young, he says, and left him penni less. He drifted into Iowa as a railway news agent, where he became affioted with rheumatism five years apo. His ihy sician prescribed morphine and cocaine to relieve rheumatic pains, and now Ander son says he is satisfied with nothing less than 20 grains of morphine and 10 to 15 grains of cocaine daily. He was arrested at the relay depot Friday while in the act of selling his last stitch of underwear to a negro for a 2o-cent "stake" for more "dope." "Oh, I haven't the nerve to kill myself, or I would have been dead long atro. said Anderson, as he left the police station for Belleville. TRUSTEE WINS THE SUIT Brought by the Society of Economites For a Distribution of Funds. Pittsburg. Pa., Feb. 13. The long-ponding suit against John Duss. trustee of the famous Society of Economites, brouaht by heirs of the former members for the pur pose of securing the dissolution of the so ciety and an accounting and distribution of the funds, was decided in favor of Trustee Duss today by Judge Acheson of the United States circuit court. The suit involved many millions of dollars. Less than a dozen of the Economites are still living, and with two er three excep tions they are nonagenarians. The Kind You Have Always Bought Beantiw Signature of Bears the BignatsTC of The Kind You Have Always BougS acne. did me any good until I began taking Dr. Miles' Nervine. The first night I rested so nicely, and I began feeling better from that time on. Dr. Miles' Nervine cured me and I cannot speak too highly of it." MRS. KLIZABETH MADISON, Kennard, Ind. La Grippe shows no favor in the se lection of its victims. When it finds the vitality of the system lowered.the nerve force weakened and the resistive power destroyed It gains an entrance into the system. Keep It out by increasing the vital strength and building up the nerv ous energy with the only truly great re storative, medicine, Dr. Miles' Nervine. Sample Treatment Free. A trial package of Dr. Miles' favorite treatment for La Grippe, consisting of Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine. Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills and Dr. Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills, will be sent ab solutely free of cost to any person who will send name and address on a postal card, requesting the samples, and mem tioning the name of this paper. Address DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. ventilated without a fire or boiler In tlie building. February 17th and 18th. LEWIS LINDSAY DYCHE In his illustrated lectures on life aud conditions in Greenland, the Arctic Regions, Alaska, and his experiences with the Wild Animals of North America. Fricks Gallery, 15c; Balcony, 25c and 83c First floor, 35c and 50c. Q 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 "THERfcD COCKADE," A Romantic Comedy Drama of the Na poleonic Era, an adaptation from the French of "Lion Amuoreaux," by M. Pon sard. NOTE The Minuet, as Introduced in the second act, arranged and conducted by Mme. Malv-ina, of Augustln Daly's Thea ter, New York. Pricej J1.U0, 75c, 50c, 25c. Reserved seats on sale at Sim's Drug Store, Saturday, Feb. 11th. A NEW YEAR'S TRAGEDY'. Chinese Opium Den Catches Fire From Firecrackers. San Francisco, Feb. 13. The celebra tion of the Chintse New Year in this city has resulted in a tragedy. While fireworks were being exploded from a window of the employment agency of Jue Bun, at 724 Commercial street, a lot of firecrackers in the house were ac cidentally lighted and the room was soon in flames. A number of Chinese were smoking opium in the place at the time. Five who were rescued told of others remaining in a stupor and a vigorous search by the police resulted in the discovery of the drugged Mon golians. Quong Duck was burned to death and his charred remains were taken to the morgue. Tu Mow, Jim Shu and Chan Wo were all badly burned and thair recovery is doubtful. Very little damage was done to the building. NOT ALLOWED TO LAND. Negro Steerage Passengers Are Driven Off at San J uan. San Juan de Porto Rico, Feb. 13. Captain Buchanan, collector of customs at San Juan, has refused permission to land, under the new customs regula tions, to 50 negro steerage passengers who arrived here on the British steam er Esk from St. Thomas and Barbadoes and other Windward ports. Many steamers are bringing English-speaking negroes from these places. Stop-Overs at Washington and at Philadelphia. Tickets to New York allowing ten days' stop-over at Washington and Philadelphia do not cost any more than tickets over Vandalia-Pennsylvania di rect line from St. Louis. Daily trains leave St. Louis union station for the east over this short route across Illi nois, Indiana and Ohio. For time, fares and further information address J. M. Chesbrough, A. G. P. Agt., St. Louis. On Feb. 12 and 13 the Santa Fe will sell tickets to Winfield, Kan., and re turn at one fare for the round trip; tickets good seven days. Leavenworth and return $1.67 via the Santa Fe, account annual meeting grand lodge A. F. A. M. Tickets on sale Feb. 11. 12. 13, 14 and. 15, good re turning until Feb. 18. Special services to parties. Hotel Ox ford. Seantha 9 Km iouiiawways Tha Kind You Haw Always Bought