The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 20, 1899

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3 LAST EDITION MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. V FORGEDBACK. California Troops at Manila Re tire From a Position "Which Thej Occupied at the Church of Guadalupe. SHELLS OF GUNBOATS Fail to Dislodge the Insurgents Along the Pasig. Americans Suffer Intensely From the Heat. Manila, Feb. 20. The California vol unteers abandoned Guadalupe church at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, which has since been set on fire, and retired to San PwJro Macati. The insurgents still hold the country in the vicinity of Guadalupe, Pasig and Patero, despite the efforts of the gunboats to dislodge them from the jungle on both sides of the river. The heat is intense, and is increasing perceptibly daily. Cnder present condi tions it is impossible to provide shade for the troops in certain parts of the line, particularly McArthur's division. King's brigade is also exposed from San Pedro Macati to Culiculi, where it Joins Ovenshine's brigade. Mr. Higgins, the manager of the Manila-Daguapan railroad, is believed to be safe at Bayambang, although no communication has been received from him since February 9. He was then housed at Mr. Clark's place, with his wife and family and about six other Englishmen, some of whom are accom panied by their wives. While it is un likely that the natives of the locality will harm them, it is feared that others from distant provinces might wreak vengeance at their expense. In view of the fact that the enemy had concentrated on the American right flank, preparations were made to give them a warm reception in the event of attack. Gen. Ovenshine's line, consist ing originally of the North Dakota vol unteers. Fourteenth infantry and two troops of the Fourth cavalry, stretch ing from the beach at Camp Dewey to Gen. King's right, was reinforced by two battalions of Oregon volunteers and three troops of the Fourth cavalry as infantry. The Buffalo's searchlight discovered the Filipinos unusually ac tive about 10 o'clock in the evening and signaled the flagship for permission to fire upon them: and, this being granted, bombarded the enemy's trenches for twenty minutes. The only effect of the fire apparently was to drive the insur gents farther inland. Beyond a few ineffectual volleys from the trenches, which were returned with interest, the enemy made no demonstration, and all is quiet along the rest of the line. Scouts claim to have seen General Pio del Pinar, who commanded the Filipi nos at Paco, with his arm in a sling di recting the troops. Gen. Montenegro, the Insurgent commander-in-chief,is re ported to be personally conducting the movements in front of Gen. King's line at San Pedro hospital. The signal corps is arranging signals for the navy for future operations on the left. With the exception of the port of Iloilo, trade with the Philippine ports is still block aded. DISEASE AND WOUNDS Carries Off a Number of American Soldiers at Manila. "Washington, Feb. 20. Major General Otis reports to the war department the following deaths in his command: Since last weekly report, February 5. Privates Daniel F. White, C, Bighteenth infan try, Iloilo, malarial fever and pneu monia. 11th, Damian Crossman, C, First Washington, chronic diarrhoea; 14th, Commissary Sergeant Arthur J. Smith, TJ. S. R., retired, heart failure; 15th, Corporal Wilson M. Osborne, F, First South Dakota, variola; 17th, Private Jacob Stassen,H,Twenty-third infantry, heart failure, under chloroform. Died of wounds received in action 12th, Privates Clarence C. Briggs. band. First Montana; Bruno L. Putzker. K, Third artillery; 13th, William B. Meyer sick. I. First Montana; 16th; John J. Campbell, M. First Montana. General Otis also reports the follow ing additional casualties: Sergeants Reno D. Hoppe, slight; Le roy L. Chields, company L, moderate; Corporal Edward D. Smith, Private Howard S. Dyer, Wagoner Henry C. Mullen, company C, injured slightly.ex plosion Springfield rifle on 17th instant. First Nebraska, wounded loth. Mu sician William H. Disbrow, company H, severe, right thigh: Lieutenant Bert D. Whedon, First Nebraska, doing well. DEATH OF A CHAPLAIN. Washington, Feb.20. General Otis ca bled as follows today from Manila un der date of February Chaplain John R. Thompson, First Washington infan try died in hospital this city at 5:20 p. m., February 19, acute enterocolitis." GEN. KING'S HEADQUARTERS Receives Volley After Volley of the Enemy's Fire. Manila, Feb. 20. The enemv have ap- fiarently realized the hopelessness of at aoklng the American position and are oc cupied chipflj- by occasional sharpshoot ing from the jungle- whenever feasible Fortunately their isnorance of the use of fights minimizes the effect of their guer illa tactics. The retirement of General King's ad vance posts upon San -Pedro Macati has evidently been construed bv the insurgents as a sign of weakness, as thev pressed forward along both sides of the fiver, per sistently harassing the occupants of the town. Last night the insurgents poured volley after volley into San Pedro Macati from the brush on the adjacent ridge, but for tunately without effect. General King's headquarters, in the center of the town was the target for scores of Remington and Mauser bullets. The Filipinos are Jising smokeless powder and it is extreme ly difficult to locate individual marksmen. Shea Convicted of Murder. Wichita, Feb. 20. Paddy Shea, a well Known pugilist in the west, was con victed of murder in the second degree late Saturday night. He shot a man named Dawson at his saloon in this city. Shea was previously convicted of assault with intent to kill and he se cured a new trial. Afterward Dawson died and the charge was changed to murder. His attorney. Representative Adams of this city, has tried to secure legislation that will prevent a higher charge at a second trial. Grip Lead3 to TJxorcide. Omaha, Feb.. 20. A Bee special from Perry, la., says: While insane as n result of the grip, Frank A. Liddell, an engineer who has been pulling the Milwaukee fiver from here to Omaha, killed hia wife with a cleaver. SENATORIAL BALLOTING. Harrlsburg, Feb. 20. The twenty ninth ballot for senator resulted: Quay 9, Jenkins 4, Grow 1; paired 200. No quorum. NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 20. When the joint assembly of the legislature met today to ballot for senator one of the Populist members introduced a resolu tion to declare the joint assembly ad journed sine die without proceeding to take a ballot. The reason alleged was that the senate was in session Satur day and had no official knowledge that the house was not in session and as no ballot was taken on that day the right to hold a joint session to ballot for sen ator had lapsed. The lieutenant governor declined to rule on the point previous to taking a ballot and after that was done a motion to adjourn cut off any opportunity. There was no change In the refcrtive vote for the different candidates.though a large number of absentees cut down the total vote. DELAWARE3. Dover, Del., Feb. 20. Sixtieth and sixty-first ballots for senators: Gray 15, Addicks 18, Richardson 10, Saulsbury 4; absent 5. Total 47. Necessary tc a choice 24. Blakely, Ewing and Frizzell, regular Republicans, voted for Addicks. UTAH. Salt Lake, Feb. 20. The joint assem bly took one ballot today and adjourn ed until tomorrow. The result was: King 3, McCune 24, Powers 1, Neleker 9, Rideout 2; all Democrats; Cannon 7, Sutherland R, 10. Absent 7. BLISS GOES OUT. Mr. Hitchcock Installed as Secretary of the Interior. Washington, Feb. 20. Mr. Ethan Allen Hitchcock of Missouri, recently United States ambassador to Russia, today took the prescribed oath and entered upon his duties as secretary of the in terior. WANTED MONEY BACK. Chicago Theater Audience Became Riotous When the Play Failed to Materialize. Chicago, Feb. 20. A riot In which 2.000 men, women and children took part occurred Sunday afternoon in the Star theater, Sedgwick and Division streets, and before the police arrived the interior of the theater had been badly damaged. Scenery which was to have been used in the presentation of a play had been tied up by legal proceedings, and after the audience had waited until 4:30 p. m. for the curtain to go up, many be gan to clamor for the return of their money. They were refused at the box office, and two minutes afterward chairs were broken in pieces and hurled at the stage, chandeliers were broken, car pets were torn up and the theater and sidewalk outside was one mass of fight ing, yelling humanity. The clanging of the patrol wagon bells scattered the crowd in a hurry, however. Later in the afternoon the money was refunded to those who presented their coupons. HEIR TO A THRONE. A Son Is Born to the Khedive of Egypt 'Alexandria, Feb. 20. The khediva has given birth to a son at Montazat. There is great rejoicing at the fact that the khedive now has an heir to the throne. The birth of three daughters in suc cession to the khedive was a source of great disappointment to both Abbas and the people of Egypt, and there was talk of deposing the khedive in favor of his only brother, Mohamed Alt. COMES FROM. DENMARK. Pretty Mormon Girl Not Excluded by Immigration Officials. New Tork, Feb. 20. Annie Peterson, a pretty girl, who belongs to the Mor mon church, arrived here on the An choria from Denmark, on her way to visit a friend in Brinton, Utah. She was detained, and she told the board of special inquiry in the barge office her story. Her father was dead and she lived with her mother, who is a Mormon. She, was accompanied on the trip by an elder of the church named Brand, who had been -making converts in Denmark for two years, and was returning to Utah with his family. She expected to get a position, she said. She had a railroad ticket and $30. She confessed that she believed in polygamy, "because it is the Bible," but she declared that she would not marry a man who had a wife. Deputy Commissioner of Immigration McSweeney decided that he could not exclude a person who merely believed in polygamy, and she was allowed to proceed. EVANS, GUEST OF HONOR. Former Commander of the Iowa to Attend a Banquet at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Feb. 20. Commodore Rob ley D. Evans will be the guest of honor at the banquet of the Stamina Republi can club here on Washington's birth day. He will leave Washington with Con gressman Bromwell on Tuesday and be met by a committee at the depot here Wednesday morning. He will be ten dered a public reception at the Burnet house during the forenoon, and a recep tion at the Queen City club in the after noon. At noon he will be escorted to the chamber of commerce. Governor Bushnell, Lieutenant Governor Cole, members of the Loyal Legion and oth ers will be guests at the banquet Wed nesday night. SCANDAL PURSUES HIM Stories Afloat Regarding President Faure and Actress Sorel Paris, Feb. 20. The breath of gossip and tongue of scandal respect the dead no more than the living, and Felix Faure's case is no exception. Stories have been afloat concerning the chief magistrate and Actress Borel. One of the rumors was to the effect that the charming artist had made such an im pression upon the president that he had aided her with his influence in many instances. Now it is related, that Faure spent the afternoon preceding the night he died at the actress' house. A 20 PER CENT DIVIDEND Declared in Favor of the Emporia National Creditors. Washington, Feb. 20. The controller of the currency has declared a first divi dend of 20 per cent in favor of the cred itors of the First National .bank of Em poria, Kan., and 15 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Mutual National bank of New Orleans, La. STATEJJONTROL Of the Movement of Trains on Railroads Is Affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. IN THE OHIO CASE Conrt Holds That the Common wealth May Legislate In the Interest of Its People as Against the General Public. Washington, Feb. 20. In the United States supreme court today a. decision was handed down by Justice Harlan, construing the constitutionality of the state law of Ohio regulating the stop page of through trains at stations in the state. The law requires that any railroad company in the state shall have at least three trains a day if so many are run, to stop at any station on its line containing not less than 3,000 population. The action was begun against the Lake Shore company because of its re fusal to obey the law by having as many as three of its trains stop at the town of West Cleveland. The railroad company contended that the statute was antagonistic to the federal consti tution in that it interfered with com merce between the states. The court held this contention to be unfounded, saying that the question involved was only that of subserving the public con venience and that the state had a right to legislate to that end. The judgment of the supreme court of Ohio was there fore affirmed. Justices Brewer, Shiras, White and Peckham dissented and Jus tices Shiras and AVhite delivered dis senting opinions. Justice White based his dissent on the ground of discrimina tion against through trains. Justice Shiras contended that trains running from one state to another car rying mails, etc., were subject to the control of congress and not to the con trol of state legislatures. The question was. he said, one of con venience of the entire public and not that of the local public alone. FURNITURE FACTORY Senator Lrpfer Wants One Es tablished at the State Pen itentiary. Since the binding twine proposition proved so successful and was received with so much favor, other methods of turning the convict labor to profitable account have been suggested, and Sen ator Lupfer today introduced a bill to establish a furniture factory at the penitentiary. The factory Is to engage in the manu facture of school furniture only, and for such furniture as may be used at the state house and in state institutions. The bill carries an appropriation of $20,000 for the purpose of erecting and maintaining the factory. The directors shall fix the price of furniture and make monthly reports to the state auditor. SIMMONS SUCCEEDS CASE. Political Change to Take Place at the Hutchinson Reformatory. The new board of managers of the Hutchinson reformatory will meet at Hutchinson tomorrow and install John S. Simmons of Dighton as superintend ent of the institution to succeed Sam Case of Ottawa. Simmons was a candidate for state senator three years ago but was defeat ed by Senator Lupfer. The new super intendent comes from the Seventh con gressional district. The place will pay him $1,500 per year. NO UNCERTAIN TONE. First Ward Kass Sleeting Declares Unequivocally for Mr. Drew. 'A political meeting was held at the St. Marks A. M. E. church in the First ward Saturday evening at which speeches were made by T. F. Doran and nearly all the candidates. The meeting was a large one, the church being crowded to the doors. The speakers were frequently applauded and after all had spoken the following resolution was adopted amid the great est enthusiasm: "Whereas, We believe it is to the best Interest of the citizens of Topeka to have as chief executive a man who un equivocally favors municipal owner ship of the water supply of the city; therefore, be it "Resolved, That we, the Republicans of the First ward, in mass meeting as sembled endorse the candidacy of C. J. Drew and hereby pledge him our undi vided support at the ensuing primary." NOTED BOY INVALID DEAD. Clifford Edward Wehry of Clarence, Iowa, Is No More. Clarence, la., Feb. 20. Clifford Ed ward Wehry, the famous boy invalid, whose "chain letters" made his name known in all parts of this country and Canada, died last week after four and a half years of great suffering. Clifford was shot by accident when he was 9 years old. The bullet struck his neck and the shock to the spinal cord was such that his body was totally par alyzed below the wound. In his head alone he could feel and he was power less to move any of the muscles of the body below the neck. Medical treatment of the best was se cured for him, but without avail. His chain letters brought him in considera ble money and some of the most noted specialists in America saw the case, but could do nothing for the sufferer. Strap ped to a wheel chair the little fellow lived nearly five years. Friends from far off places sent him books and mag azines to read, and in that way he pass ed much of his time pleasantly. His body, cut off from communication with the brain, slowly withered, and he was. at last set free from his prison by death. Agoncillo Off for Europe. Saratoga, N. T., Feb. 20. Agoncillo and Marti of the Filipino junta, who left Montreal this evening, passed through Saratoga at 1:30 o'clock this morning enroute to New York, whence they will Bail for Europe. BILL TO PAY SPAIN Ordered Reported to the House by the Committee. Washington, Feb. 20. The house com mittee on appropriations today ordered a favorable report on the bill to pav Spain $20,000,000 for the Philippines. An amend ment declaring the policy of the govern ment toward the Philippines was defeated by a party vote. Chairman Cannon was directed to call up the bill today under suspension of the rules. A special meeting of the committee was held at 11:30 to pass on the twenty million appropriation. A bill by Mr. Cannon provided this ap propriation without condition. Another bill by Mr. Gillett of Mass, added a pro viso declaring the policy of the govern ment toward the Philippines. The Gillett bill was not acted on. Mr. Dockery of Missouri offered an amendment combining features of the McEnery resolution passed by the senate and the Gillett resolution. It disclaimed any disposition or intention by the United States "to exercise perma nent sovereignty, jurisdiction or control" over the Philippines, and asserted the purpose of setting up a stable form of local government and then leaving it for the Filipinos to administer. The Dockery amendment was defeated by a party vote, the Democrats ard Bell. Populist, supporting and the Republicans opposing. After the defeat of the amendment Mr. Dockery stated that the contest would be carried to the floor of the house and an effort made to add the declaration of pol icy. A BANK CLOSED UP By Commissioner Breidenthal For Refusing to Permit Examination. Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has revoked the authority of the Leon. Ex change Bank, a private bank at Leon, Butler countyl Mr. Breidenthal sent one of his examiners, Frank Osborn, down there to make the annual examination of the bank, and the cashier, G. H. Kenoyer, refused to allow the examina tion to be made. Mr. Osborn at once notified Bank Commissioner Breidenthal and the latter revoked the authority of the bank by wire. This 'was one of the very few banks of the state which has been slow about complying with the banking laws, and appearances indicated that there might be something crooked with regard to its management. The banking law says that "whenever any officer of any bank shall refuse to submit the books, papers and concerns of such bank to the inspection of the commissioner, deputy, or examiner ap pointed as aforesaid, or shall in any manner obstruct or interfere with him in the discharge of his duty, or refuse to be examined on oath touching the concerns of the bank, the commissioner may revoke the authority of such bank to transact a banking business, and may, with the concurrence of the attor ney general, institute proceedings for the appointment of a receiver for such bank to wind up its business." Mr. Breidenthal has notified Attorney General Godard of his action, and steps will be taken to wind up the affairs of the bank. If the bank transacts any further bus iness after its authority is revoked its owners are criminally liable and will be prosecuted under the state laws. 30 FAMILIES HOMELESS. As the Result of a Fire at Port Wash ington, Wis. Port Washington, Wis., Feb. 20. Fire last night totally destroyed the plant of the Wisconsin Chair company, covering three blocks and laid waste three addi tional squares. The loss to the chair company will be about $300,000; fully covered by Insurance. The loss to other property will amount to about $50,000: partly covered by insurance. The small losses were sustained by about 30 or 40 individuals. The chair company gave employment to about 600 men. The fire started in the veneering department and spread rapidly. The lumber yards and warehouses adjoining were well stocked and furnished good food for the flames. About thirty families were made homeless by the fire. The territory burned includes Frank lin street to the lake, a distance of two blocks, and from Pierce to Wiscon sin street, three blocks. The block bounded by Washington and Pierce, from Franklin to the lake, was badly scorched. The losses include Dartin and Western Plow Works, $10,000. Engineer Kuckie of the chair com pany is missing and it is feared was burned to death. DEAN OF BARNARD To Marry a Member of the Firm of Putnam Sons. New Tork, Feb. 20. It is announced that Miss Emily James Smith, dean of Barnard college, will in a few weeks become Mrs. George Haven Putnam. She has requested leave of absence from the board of trustees and will soon marry the head of the publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mr. Putnam said that Miss Smith, who has been in poor health lately, has just sailed for Bermuda. The wedding, it is said, will take place in the spring, but it will not necessarily result in Miss Smith's sev ering her connection with the college. 160 ARRESTS. Made in Paris on Account of Saturday Night's Disturbance. Paris, Feb. 20. The city is calm today and stringent precautions have been taken to maintain order. About 160 persons were arrested yes terday for taking part in the disturb ances. Of this number, sixty were de tained in custody. Balding Bros.' Fire. New Tork, Feb. 20. Fire today did damage estimated at $100,000 in the buildings in Broadway, occupied by the Spool Silk Manufacturing firm of Beld- Ing Bros. Co.; Hamburger Hohman cigars; the Postal lelegraph company; Blum's railroad ticket office, and Guge inger Co., silk manufacturers. Both of the silk firms naa large stocks on hand, most of which is said to have been damaged by the smoke. An Italian Bark Wrecked. Nassau. N. P., Feb. 20. The Italian bark Barbara Luigi. Capt. Scotto, from Pensacola on February 1 for Genoa, went ashore on February 4 on the Little Bahama bank and proved a total loss. The captain and eight of the crew of the bark have arrived nere. Three of the crew were drowned and two died as the result of exposure to the weather. GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS. Court of Inquiry Appointed to Find Out Whether or Not Gen. Told the Truth Miles ASSEMBLES TODAY. All Members Appear in Full Dress Uniform. They Call in a Body on the President, Miles and Alger. Gen. Miles is the First W itness Placed on the Stand. Washington, Feb. 20. The court uf inquiry to inquire into the beef contro versy assembled at the Lemon building shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, preparatory to its first formal session. Brigadier General George W. Davis and Colonel George L. Gillespie, members of the court and Colonel George B. Davis, recorder and judge advocate were first to arrive. Major General James F. Wade, president of the court came later and at 10:35 the court In full dress uni form proceeded to the White House where it paid its respects to the presi dent and then to the war department, where it called upon Secretary Alger and Major General Miles. Meantime representatives of the press, who were accorded places in the court room, had assembled and outside were many oth er correspondents and a number of ar tists specially detailed to attend the in quiry. During the morning several army of ficers who are in the city as witnesses reported to Col. Davis, the recorder, but remained only a few moments at the rooms of the court. The court returned at 12:05 from its visit of courtesy and after two photog raphers had made pictures of the court, Col. Davis announced readiness to pro ceed and read the orders convening the court and its instructions. Following the reading of the order, which has been published already, Col. Davis read a letter from Adjutant Gen eral Corbin, in response to a letter from Gen. Wade, president of the court, ex plaining more specifically the lines along which the court was expected to investigate. MILES ON THE STAND. The court was then sworn and Maj. Gen. Nelson A Miles was presented as the first witness. He appeared in fa tigue uniform and was sworn. After stating his rank and office, he was asked about his statement before the war commission. He said he made one and upon Col. Davis submitting a printed report of that statement Gen. Miles examined and approved it. Then he was asked about an alleged interview which appeared in the New Tork Jour nal of December 23, whether it repre sented completely or in part what he said. General Miles read it and said: "I do not recall anything in that interview that had not been given in my testi mony, or transmitted in my reports. Tou will observe it contains a number of my declinations to name officers, or my authorities and refusals to answer. It must therefore be incorrect in its representation." He then commented upon the general slight inaccuracy of newspaper inter views owing to the dependency of writ ers upon their memories. Hardly a day In six months had passed that an inter viewer had not applied and because of the kindness of the press to the army and especially the enlisted men, he had endeavored to give them such informa tion as he thought wise and safe but never he said, with a view to prejudic ing any one against any persons, or de partment. Finally Gen. Miles said he did not think the Journal interview rep resented correctly what was said, be cause its contents should be taken in connection with all that was said, his silence upon sonfe points and speech upon others. DENIES INTERVIEWS. Then being asked about an interview from the New Tork Herald of Feb ruary 1, he said: "I have a letter from the gentleman, who I understand wrote this, in which he says he is willing to swear that on that date I declined to be interviewed, and that, thinking something had been given out, he had proceeded to write what he knew were the facts." He then pointed out that the inter view was erroneous where it represent ed him as saying that he had over whelming evidence that the refriger ated beef was treated with chemicals. The fact was that his only evidence was what was contained in the reports of officers and statements of men who claimed that the beef had the odor of an embalmed body; that they had seen fluid injected into the beef and other in dications of 'chemical treatment. He declared the interview an erroneous presentation of what he could possibly have said. Col. Davis, recurring to the statement of Gen. Miles before the war commis sion, asked him what his idea as to the beef supply of the army was when the war broke out. Replying, Gen. Miles said while his attention was oc cupied with weightier matters of mobil ization, he felt confident that the usage of a hundred years would be followed and cattle herds would be shipped to the army in the tropics and killed there, just as they were during the civil war in the south, in Arizona, Texas and in Mexico, where it was so hot that a soldier could not sit upon the rocks. He understood Cuba and Porto Rico were excellent grass countries and cat tle could be shipped and kept in prime condition. He reviewed his action in cabling the department to send no more refrigerated beef to Porto Rico, while he was there, finding it possible to use beef on the hoof. FAVORS HOOF BEEF. General Miles said that he understood that our troops in Porto Rico were still being supplied with a form of refrigera tor beef although the country was as good a grass country as any in the world and the cattle there plenty and Spanish troops drew all their meat sup ply from this source. Col. Davis asked if Gen. Miles knew whether Porto Rico exported any cat tle. Witness said it did to the number of several thousand and they were fine" cattle. Still he understood that our troops were not only receiving refriger ated beef at the coast but it was being sent into the interior. The situation now he said, was different from that during the war. Now there were ice machines on shore. Then there was not ice enough for the hospitals. Recurring to the expediency of feed ing the troops hoof beef in Porto Rico, Gen. Miles said he was much in favor of it. He said native beef killed at night could be very well fed the men the next day. "Do you think," continued Colonel Davis, "that the native beef would keep as well as the refrigerated beef in the absence of cooling apparatus on shore?" "I am quite sure it would unless the refrigerated beef was chemically treat ed with preservatives. If it was treat ed so as to keep for 72 hours after com ing out of the coolers, of course it had the advantage of native beef, so far as keeping goes." BOOTH-TUCKER ILL. Fears Felt for the Life of the Com mander of the Salvation Army. New Tork. Feb. 20. Commander Freder ick Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army is seriously ill, and great anxiety is felt at headquarters over his attack. It was while arranging for the immediate relief work now being carried on by the army the commander caught a cold that has brought him to his present condition. He is at the Garrison in Thirteenth street, to which he has been confined for ten days. Dr. Westgate would not permit Mr. Booth-Tucker to attend services on Sunday, although several officers were to be com missioned. Mrs. Booth-Tucker, though almost r ros trated, refuses to leave her husband's bedside. All engagements for her to speak have been canceled, and she ill take part in no meetings while the commander remains so ill. A NIGHT OF RIOTS. The Paris Mob Indulges in Its Favorite Pastime. Paris.Feb.20. Police measures for the maintenance of order have been taken on an extensive scale, and the city is, reasonably quiet, although there were disturbances all Saturday evening. M. Loubet did not quit his residence at the Luxembourg until 6 o'clock. Toward 7 o'clock demonstrations oc curred in front of the office of Sebas tian Faure's anarchist paper, the Jour nal du Peuple, on the Boulevard Mont martre, for and against Loubet. There was a collision between the rival fac tions and several persons were injured. The partisans of the newly elected pres ident were worsted in the conflict and moved off to the Cafe Brebant, where they were again attacked and dispersed by their opponents. Many arrests were made. Similar encounters occurred at about 9 o'clock at the offices of the Libre Parole, and more serious disorders at the Brasserie Maxeville. on the Boule vard Montmartre, where several women were trampled upon and injured. In the course of the demonstrations, the Dreyfusards attempted to invade the offices of the Petite Journal. Find ing the doors barred against them, they smashed the windows. At the Hall of a Thousand Columns, 700 Bonapartists met to protest against the election of M. Loubet. Speeches were made by Baron le Couy and M. Cunee d'Ornano. Several persons who interrupted the proceedings were eject ed. When the meeting broke up, there were some slight disorders and several arrests were made. A fracas took place at the Cafe de Spanoramas, where blows were freely exchanged. In both places the police intervened energetically, arresting many. At 11 o'clock, an enormous crowd was demonstrating in favor of M. Zola, Toward midnight crowds broke the windows of the Rothschilds' offices, in the Rue La Fitte, and another group Wrecked the offices of the Anti-Juif. Minor disturbances took place in var ious parts of the city, but the crowds gradually dispersed, and at midnight quietude had been almost restored. Today M. Dupuy, the premier, will ask the chamber of deputies to vote 6,400 pounds for the obsequies to M. Faure. This was the amount voted for Presi dent Carnot's funeral. President Loubet following the precedent set by Presi dent Casimir-Perier, will attend the obsequies. M. Loubet will preside at the first cabinet council of the new administra tion on Tuesday. M. Loubet is receiving a host of con gratulatory telegrams. The Temps re joices in his election as "the best possi ble choice." The Journal des Debats, which is more guarded, will wait to see him actually at work. The Liberts ex horts him to relieve the impression that he was elected in the interest of Drey fus. A PAIR OF CAINS. Thomas O'Neil Hacked to Pieces by His Brothers. St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. 20. Thomas O'Neil, a butcher, employed at Swift's packing house in St. Joe, was literally cut to pieces last night by his two younber brothers, Edward and Jack. The men live together, Thomas being mar ried. They had a dispute over money matters, when Edward and Jack at tacked Thomas with butcher knives. The dead man was stabbed twice in the heart. His head was badly cut and his body is covered with knife wounds. Edward was badly cut in the head. Jack O'Neil is a one-legged man and has no fingers on one hand. He says he did the killing in self-defense. Both brothers are under arrest. NEW TOWN OF TAKU. It Is to Be the Ocean Terminus of Klondike Railroad. Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 20. Engineer J. T. Jones has returned to Juneau from a surveying trip over the Taku trail to the Atlin district. He surveyed the site of a new town, which will be called Taku. It is advantageously located on Taku bay, four miles above the mouth of the Taku river, about twenty-five miles from Juneau, and is expected to become the ocean terminus of a rail road in which eastern capitalists are interested. This road is to traverse the Atlin "mining district and will extend to Teslin on the route to the Klondike country. Overcome by J oy and Dies. St. Louis, Feb. 20. In the happiness of her son's return, Mrs. Mary Helhurn be came insane and leaped from a window at the poor house and killed herself. Her son William returned from Cuba, where he had been as a private in the United States armv. When she saw her boy ap proaching the institution she became wild with jov, and in her anxiety to meet him she leaped to her death. SPEAKER REED DECLARES WAR. He Publicly Announces His In tention to Fight All Administration Measures From Now On. HAS GROWN BITTER. It Was His Influence Which De feated the Canal Bill And the Bill Appropriating 20,000,000 to Pay Spain And He Will Kill the Army Bill if He Can. New Tork, Feb. 20. A Washington special to the Mail and Express says: "The remaining two weeks of this session of congress will be chiefly de voted to a fight between Speaker Reedi and the administration. It is a contest as to how many bills favored by tha administration Speaker Reed can kill. "For some time past the speaker has let it be known that he is opposed to almost every measure favored by the administration, from bills carrying out the policy of expansion to measures ap propriating money for the actual run ning expenses of the government. Speaker Reed has gone into the fight with the determination of humiliating the administration, of showing his ab solute control over the house and vent ing his bitter disappointment at his failure to get the presidential nomina tion in 1896. "As the session has progressed Mr. Reed seems to have grown more bitter until he has now arrayed himself against the president. He won his first victory on the Nicaragua canal bill, when he whipped a sufficient number of Republicans into line to defeat it as an amendment to the sundry civil bill. He has avowed that he will kill the army reorganization bill if he has a chance and his course toward paying the $20, 000,000 appropriation to pay Spain under the treaty is another instance of his de termination. "These would be strong assertions were they not borne out by statements made by Mr. Reed himself within the last fortnight, and made at a place and on an occasion when he knew they would be conveyed directly to the presi dent. It was not thought, -however, that he would go so far as to attack a treaty obligation. The occasion referred to was a dinner at which a cabinet member was a guest of honor and Mr. Reed one of the invited guests-who sat' around the table. "The speaker gave vent to his feel ings in a remarkably candid and em phatic manner, and his words startled those who heard him. Mr. Reed has been careful about accepting social in vitations this season and his appearance on the night referred to was remarked. It was evident he came for a purpose, and that was to notify the president through the cabinet member of his in tended programme. "During the evening Mr. Reed pub licly denounced the president's policy of expansion, of army reorganization and the campaign in the Philippines. He declared that the necessary appropria tions to carry out these policies were extravagant and that the house he evidently considering himself a majori ty would never consent to the adop tion of measures-looking to the carrying out of these plans. "He is rapidly carrying out his threats. The house, under the speaker's leadership, has defeated the Nicaragua canal bill, Reed is doing his best to pre vent the passage of bills for public buildings, is on record against carrying out the treaty obligations, and is doing everything in his power to prevent the passage of the army reorganization bill. He laughingly announces that he has only started his fight, and that he in tends to continue it until March 4, and hopes to have many more administra tion scalps hanging at his belt. "All of this has started a new topic discussion in congressional circles. This is nothing less than opposition to the re-election of Mr. Reed as speaker of the next house. Of course, if an extra session is called, there will not be much time to organize such opposition, but if congress does not assemble until next December it is safe to predict that Mr. Reed will not be elected speaker with out a struggle. The administration is not directly a party to this move, but the administration leaders on the floor of the house are taking the matter up and are questioning the policy of elect ing a man speaker of the house and putting such power in his hands as the speaker holds when that man is opposed; to everything the administration advo cates. "Mr. Reed holds his present power by the worst sort of,tyranny. He threatens and bulldozes members by declaring that he will not recognize them on the floor or consider them in other ways if they oppose his bidding. Then, being under the ban of the speaker is not desired by members who have favors to ask or measures to pass, and they, therefore, bend to his wish at the criti cal time. Tet there is a smothered re volt, and if a leader comes up before congress meets again, the opposition to Mr. Reed will be formidable. General Grosvenor gave a hint of this in his speech on the Nicaragua canal bill on Wednesday, and since then he has had many members come to him offering their support should he need it," CHOKED BY A TOOTH. Ohio Citizen Strangled by Swallowing a Loose Molar. Toledo, O., Feb. 20. H. J. Ferguson, a prominent resident of East Toledo, choked to death today on a tooth. Last night one of his teeth became loosened and he tried to pull it. He was not suc cessful. This morning while eating the tooth became loose and dropped into his throat, causing him to choke. His ef forts to extricate it made the situation worse. Before medical attendance could be secured he was dead from strangulation. Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 20. For Kansas: Fair tonight and, Tuesday; brisk westerly winds. A

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. Annual Sales over 8,000,000 Boxes roa bilious aitd hebvoub mbohdess euch as Wind and Pain In the Stomach. Giddiness, Fulness after meals. Head aoha. Dizziness, Drowsiness. Flushings of rioat. Loss of Appetite. Costiveness. Blotches on the Skin. Cold Chills. Dis turbed Sleep, frightful Dreams and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE BELIEF m TWEHTT HIKuTE?. Every sufferer Will acknowledge them to be A WONDERFUL MEDICINE. BEICHAM'S PILLS, taken as direct ed, will quickly restore Females to com. jplete health. They promptly remott "obstructions or irrecularities of the sys tem and cure Mick Headache. For a Weak Stomach Impaired Digestion Disordered Liver IN MEN. WOMEN OR CHILDREN Beecham's Pill3 are Without a Rival And hmrm thm LARCEST SALE fmny Patent Medicine In the World. 25c at all Droit Stores. Lowest Rates Best... Accommodations ..VIA.. ...For all Points in...' Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Pacific Coast and Puget Sound. Pullman Palace Sleepers Pullman Tourist Sleepers From Kansas City every Thursday. Free Reclining chair Cara Dining- Cars For time tables, folder,. Illustrated Books, .pamphlets descriptive ef the territory traversed call on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent r J. C FULTON. Depot Agent. W. R. WEIBLE, Carpenter. Repairing Promptly Attended to. 117 East 7th St. Dr. C. H. GUIBOR HAS REMOVED TO 706 Kansas Avenue. DISEASES OF THE Nose, Throat, and Longs. KAISER AND EGYPTOLOGY. The German Emperor tias shown the keen interest he takes In the promotion of the study of Egyptology by granting funds for the publication of a dictionary of trie Egyptian language, to .comprise all -words preserved in texts written in hieroglyph lea, while references to Demotic and Cop tic texts will be introduced as essential to the elucidation of words found in the hieroglyphics. This great undertaking is to be carried out under the conduct of a committee appointed by the Royal Acad emy of Sciences at Be-rlin and three other leading learned societies in Germany, and It is estimated that the work will be fin ished in about eleven years. The co-operation of the Administration of Antiqui ties in Egypt, of foreign museums ad cwwn -of private collections, without whose aid the proposed work could only be very imperfect, is being sought, and In most cases, I learn, readily granted. This assistance is specially requested in the form of copies, squeezes and photo graphs of texts newly discovered or other wise unknown. Communications of this kind will, of course, be regarded by the committee as confidential, and would be made use of only for the purpose of the dictionary. London News. You are making a great mistake In not sending for a 10 cent trial size of Ely's Cream Balm. It is a specific for catarrh and cold in the bead. We mail It, or the BO cent size. Druggists all keep It. Ely Brothers. 56 Warren Street. New York. Catarrh caused difficulty In speaking and to a great extent loss of hearing. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm drop ping of mucus has ceased, voice and hearing have greatly Improved. J. W. Davidson, Att'y at Law, Monmouth, 111. "Would Have Paid $100.01) Per Box," Says He. For what why Morrow's Kld-ne-old, They are only 60 cents a box and may be had at every first class drug store. Titer Is no- doubt but what they are worth It but can. the public afford to pay It? William Nobleman Is a well known groceryman, of Topeka, 11S Kan sas avenue, says this: "I have suffered with a creat deal of pain in my back In the region of the kidneys: pain while urinating; nervousness; and a general "aH broke up" mentally and physi cally condttion. I lost much time from business, and at one time was confined to the bed far two -weeks on account of my disease. My trouble commenced aesvt two years ago and kept getting werse axxd worse all the time. I read f the remarkable cures Morrow's Kid-ne-otas were performing so I got a box -t the Swift A Holiday Drug Co. Four si os os fi.v me relief and one box has completely cured me. If the price of Moii.ii', Kid-ne-otds were $100.0 per box, knowing what I sow know Z would feave paid It." Say mere If you can. Hid-ne-olds always cure, Drugrists 9 cents. Manufactured by John A. -Vvt hm-pt, f Pri"fffl"i'A' 41 righingold: Stockholder of the Isabella Mine Talks of It. Is Amazingly Stocked Precious Metals With OF A HIGH GRADE. Net Profit of Two Cars of Ore Was $88,629. Earning 100,000 a Month and $2,000,000 in Sight. Chicago, Feb. 20. Ralph C. Otis of this city was one of the fortunate in vestors In stock of the Isabella mine shortly before the great find of gold was made last December. Mr. Otis fa as returned from Cripple Creek, in the neighborhood of which he has spent several weeks, and reports that the Isa bella mine is fully as rich, as it has been reported. The Isabella properties, according to Mr. Otis' account, cover 163 acres, and are In the northeastern part of the Crip ple Creek district, about a mile away from Stratton's Independence mine. They include sixteen or more claims. The original workings were in a shaft in the Buena Vista claim, from which the first dividends were paid. After the ore chute here gave out a number of other shafts were sunk, and low grade ore giving small profits is still being taken from as many as twenty different shafts. It was on the claim known aa Lee, however, that the rich ore has been found. Here work was begun four years ago, and many miles of drifts Were followed. Plenty of ore was open ed up here, but it was all of low grade. Still the shaft was sunk deeper until it had reached a depth of 800 feet. On the ninth level it was that the first very rich find was made. Working on a cross level 600 to 800 feet from the Lee shaft, the miners struck a vein parallel to the old one which had formerly paid well on the Buena Vista claim. The ore promised well, and almost before they knew it they found the bonanza ore, as it is called. The next step was to run cross tun nels from other levels toward this same vein. This was done from the fifth and from the seventh levels, and work on a cross tunnel from a still lower level, the tenth, is now under way. The figures which Mr. Otis gives of the quality and amount of the ore at the different levels are as follows: On the ninth level 800 feet below the sur face the ore deposit was 400 feet long and abont six feet wide. The richest part of it was about 150 feet long .and one and one-half feet wide. The general run of the deposit was worth about $100 a ton, but large sections of it were worth from $2,000 to $20,000 a ton. Ore bearing as high as 2,000 ounces of gold to the ton was found. The ore on the bottom of this level assayed 40 to 60 ounces, indicating that the deposit con tinued rich below. On the seventh, level the vein was about six feet wide. From 12 to 18 inch es of it assayed ten ounces of gold to the ton t$200), and the rest assayed three and one-half to four ounces. On the fifth level values were seen to be continuous In much the same propor tion. Work on the tenth level is now going on. This description indicates that there is an immense roughly concealed body of very rich ore in the mine, and that it is at least 400 feet high by from 100 to 4) feet wide and six feet thick. It may be much larger than this. If It grows richer the deeper it goes the fortune of the mine owners cannot be estimated. Already there is ore enough, in sight for several years' work. What the ore Is wor'h can be shown by the profits from the first two car loads shipped out, and they did not contain the richest ore ty any means. one car, snip ped December 24, contained 111,525 pounds, and the gold averaged 40 ounces to the ton. Another car, with 109.000 pounds, averaged 61 ounces. The total expense of the two cars was $529 and the net profit was $X 629. The ore was so rich that the sample people took fright and ran it through a second time to be sure that they were right in their valuation. Speaking of the mine Mr. Otis said: 'A conservative estimate of the gold in sight is $2.01X1.000. In places it will run from $100,000 to $200,000 to the ton. but of course such values are not found in car load lots. If the tests on the tenth level prove as rich as those higher up there will be ore enough in sight to last three or four years' working, and the ore chute will be safely the richest ever found in America. The ore can be taken out easily, as it is so soft that picking is all that is necessary to do it. The ore is of a rich reddish yellow color, and for the most part is oxidized, despite its depth. The mine is now earning $400,000 a month net. It has declared a quarterly dividend for February of 6 per cent." KIPLING AS A REPORTER. (From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.) 'I see the naners are reviving the storv of Rudyard Kipling's San Francisco ex- porter who is familiar with the traditions of the coast, "but they have it all wrong. The facts were simply these: Kipling" struck 'Frisco when he was overburdened with neither money nor fame and applied, at one of the morning1 papers for a job. The city editor was not much impressed with his appearance, but he happened to need help and gave him a chance on the force. The first assignment he got was to write up a mercantile failure, which he did in his own peculiar style. He made ho reference to the assets or liabili ties or any of the other essential facts, but confined himself chiefly to a striking pen portrait of the bankrupt, whom he de picted aa an oleaginous rascal, ripe for the cell. When the editor read the copy he came near having a tit. 'Here, you man with spectacles!' he bawled, 'whoever told you you was a journalist must have been joking. Go and try shoemaking.' That was the way the creator of Mulvaney came to be tired, and I was never able to see exactly where the joke came in. There are plenty of great literary artists who wouldnt be worth their saJt on a daily paper, and Kipling belongs to that cate- fory. He was bounced, and ought to ave been bounded, and would be bounced again if he turned up 'incog.' and took a staff assignment. Robert Louis Stevenson had almost the same experience in San Francisco in his youthful days He sent some of his manuscript to one of the pa pers, and it was promptly turned down as unmitigated rot. He used to say after ward that the episode gave him great re spect for the sagacity of California ed itors." MURDERED WHILE ASLEEP Victim's Wife Awakes in Time to See Two Shots Fired. Chicago, Feb. 20. While asleep in his home, 823 North Clark street, John Sundstrom, a shoemaker, was shot and killed by Andrew Nelson, a boarder at the house. Nelson, who is a cousin of Sundstrom's wife entered and fired three shots into Sundstrom, killing him instantly. Mrs. Sundstrom awoke in time to see the last two shots fired at her husband. After killing Sundstrom, Nelson danced about the room shouting like a maniac. He was finally over powered by persons attracted by the shooting and taken to the police station. Jealousy is said to have prompted the A PROPOSAL BY PROXY. From the Boston Post.J My brother's trouble was summed up in these lines: I swear I adore her each morning I rise, Tet when I'm before her all my elo quence flies. 'All this he confessed to me, bis sis ter. To think of Jack being afraid of a girl was simply rich, and I could not help giving vent to my mirth. Jack, however, could see nothing funny in loving a girl and being completely tongue-tied in her presence, and left my room, slamming the door behind him in no gentle fashion. Later I went to my brother's room to put away his laundry. I patted ad miringly his clean "ducks."- I always wanted to be a man, but never so strongly as when I saw my brother in all the glory of white duck. A tempta tion came over me to put them on, and a few moments later found me trans formed into a stunning 'summer man. We were strikingly alike, my brother and I. In fact, when he borrowed my bicycling suit for his part as a "new woman" In at play, everyone thought it was I until he undeceived tfienT by at tempting to put his hands in his pockets in truly masculine style. A brilliant thought! My. brother had pone to the city, and would not return until midnight. Why not go and pro pose for Jack? I would whistle for Mar ian ,and wait under the old apple tree until she stole from under the eye of her father, who did not approve of Jack, and then propose in the most lover like manner. The difficulty lay in the prospect of being unceremoniously ejected by Mar ian's father. I now really appreciated the difficulties of a man forced to court surreptitiously. Love of adventure spurred me on, however, and, casting a last admiring glance at myself in the glass, I ran downstairs. I was much encouraged when auntie called to me: "Why, Jack, I thought you were in town." Everything went beautifully. I whis tled their private whistle, and was soon rewarded by the appearance of the lady, for the time being, of my heart. I have always thought what a perfect proposal I would make were I a man, and I think I did. I led up to it in the most approved manner, and at the proper place drew her head tenderly to my manly bosom and kissed her hair, her hands, her lips. She remarked that she had never no ticed how much alike my sister's voice and mine were, but was evidently un suspicous. I own I felt a little guilty: she was so loving, so glad that I loved her. I was enjoying my novel experience quite as much as Jack could possibly have done, and time flew rapidly as I made plans for our future. I have of ten wondered how Jack but that's an other matter. We were suddeny brought to earth by a noise a few feet away. In the direction of a hedge. She begged me to fly, and I needed little urging. Jokes concerning the popular methods used by fathers to dispose of unwelcome suitors flashed through my mind, and the "flesh" was "weak" enough to tremble as I pressed her to my heart in a last fond fare well. When I reached home a light was burning in my brother's room. Had Jack returned? Running hastily to my room, I let down my hair, slipped into a dressing gown, and surveyed rueful ly the once resplendent "ducks." Why hadn't I remembered that Jack always spread a handkerchief before he sat down, and that even a proposal would not make him so far forget himself as to lean against a tree. However, the deed was done. I went to Jack's room and peeked in. He was lying face down on the bed. "Is that you. Sis?" he called. I went in, and when I saw his face was thoroughly frightened. "Jack," I cried, "what is it?" After a few minutes he said: "I told you about Marian. Well.it was a dream. I came out on the nine, and went over, intending just to sit under the old ap ple tree where we always meet. I reach ed the hedge and saw her with her head on some lucky fellow's shoulder. Of course, she's not to blame, and I am not worthy of her, but oh, Sis, couldn't you have helped me?" I drew a deep breath and waded into my confession, not pausing until even the ruined clothes had been owned up to. I think he thought I was crazy; for he 6tared at me open-mouthed, and when I had finished his sole comment was: "Well, I'll be darned!" I can't say he was pleased, but my devotion touched him, and he refrained from any harsh remarks. He took "the goods the gods provid ed," and "they lived happily ever af ter," and it's a fact that she thinks the nicest proposal a girl ever had was the one under the old apple tree. KIPLING ASKED QUESTIONS From the Washington Post. "One bright morning a few autumns ago," said a young officer of the artil lery, now on war department duty, "I was strolling along the river walk at the arsenal I was attached to one of the heavy batteries there and Was of ficer of the day making a leisurely trip of it from the commanding officer's office to the guardhouse. About half way down the walk I saw a man sit ting on the stone coping, idly dangling his legs over the Potomac. He was tak ing a sun bath all by himself, and he looked perfectly contented with his own society. As I approached him he heard the crunching of the gravel under my boots, and he turned and looked at me with some interest. He was a plain looking man, of about thirty or around that, had a stubby mustache, much bit ten, a very square jaw and strong chin, and he wore gold-rimmed spectacles. "Morning, left'nant,' he said pleas antly enough, and by his way of han dling my military title I knew he was from the other side. 'Morning." I replied. 'Brilliant Weather, isn't it?' "He rose from his sitting posture on the coping, brushed off his trousers and looked down the river. 'Fine old stream this, eh?' he said. Teems with story and legend, too, I've Some Women Doubt Many women think the bearing of chil- dren is necessary period of great pain and distress. They doubt whether any medicine can relieve their sufferings. Well may they hesitate bout taking those injurious internal mixtures so widely sold. But they may place implicit faith in jt Jt jt jt jit MOTHER'S FRIEND j which is a softening, relaxing and sooth ing liniment for external use. Doubting women should get a bottle at the drug store for $1, and test it. There is no possibility of its doing harm, and there is every likelihood of its saving them many hours of pain. THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA. GA.- always heard first of the Injuns, after ward of the Johnny Rebs and the Yanks, eh? Yellowish water. Reminds me it's like what you'd fancy the Ganges to be in color.'. 1 'A fine old creek, the Potomac,' I said I wasn't in a hurry, and there was something sort o' drawing about this chap, and so I stood there idly talking with him. A lot has happened along its banks not a prosaic stream, at all." "I wondered where I'd seen the man's face, and I finally concluded that he looked like one of the enlisted men in my battery. He pulled out a queer looking cigar case and handed it to me. 'Well, not with my belt on, you know,' I said, taking one of the cigars, 'but later, when I get off in a corner I'll smoke it. "Just then one of the light batteries wheeled on to the parade ground for morning drill. The man I was talking with watched the battery's movements with interest through his half-closed eyes. 'Fine work, that,' he said, referring to a rather cleverly done 'on right into the line' that the battery executed with a rattle. I don't know where you're going to find light artillery to beat the American flying batteries.' 'That's about right," I said. 'That's the name we've got. I haven't seen any of the foreign batteries, but I've met some English officers that told me our light battery soldiering can't be beat. Now, the English Royal Horse artil lery 'Crack outfit, the Royal Horse,' in terrupted the man, 'but more ponder ous, more fancy, than your light bat teries. Not so alert, nor so snappy, quick, as yours, either.' 'Seen the Royal Horse, then, eh?" I inquired. 'Well, a few of the batteries," he re plied. 'In India. "Well, I became a bit expansive then and told him a deal about soldiering in general. He asked a lot of questions about the American service, and I was really garrulous told him ever so many things about the'life of the soldier, you know, and how he lives and eats and drinks and smokes, and has his being and all that. He listened quietly, only asking a question occasionally. Then we started together toward the gate he to go his way and I to make my visit to the guard. A reporter for one of the Washington papers, on his way to the adjutant's office to get some de tails of a big court martial case that was about to begin at the arsenal, pass ed us as we were about making our parting. 'Good day' salutations, and he looked at us curiously. The man I had been talking with took up a quick stride and was soon outside the gate. Then the reporter I knew him quite well walked up to me. 'D'je get some good talk out of him?' he asked me. 'Out of who?' I inquired. 'Man you were talking with as I passed you a few moments ago," he re plied. 'Oh, that chap,' I said. "Rather an interesting fellow, that. Englishman, I guess. Good talker in a way." 'Well, you don't say so!" said the reporter, and he grinned in my teeth. Startling, if true I D'ye know who he is?' 'Nope,' I said, 'though, come to think of it, his mug reminded me of somebody's. Why, is he anybody?" 'Oh, he'll do," Baid the reporter, stiu grinning. "Not a dead one altogether, y'know. He's talked to you a good deal In type, I dare say as he talks in type to all soldiers. He knows his book about soldiering as well as the next civilian, too, I guess. Rudyard Kipling, you know." FILIPINO SNAKE DANCE. (From the New York Press.) "There are some things in which the Filipinos resemble the American Indians disagreeably," savs Colonel F. C. Todd of St. Louis. Mr. Todd spent a number of vears in the Philippine islands, returning to this country just before the outbreak of the war. "I was exploring a portion of the Sulu group in search of a purchasable tract of teak, when my native guide invited me to see a snake dance at moonrise. We made our way through a tangled jungle till wa came suddenly upon a group of forty na tives squatted on the ground.perfectly mo tionless, as though carved out of marble. My guide had previously warned me not to speak or make a noise, as it would break the spell and incur the wrath of the medicine men, with serious and perhaps fatal results. "For many minutes there was no sound, then from behind a tree darted a hideous naked figure carrying in each hand a writhing serpent. It danced into the cen ter of the crowd, and others began to come out of the semi-darkness until there were twenty nude savages, each with from one to five twisting snakes of all sizes and kinds, and as they bent forward and back ward in contortions, snakes and men seemed blended into a writhing mass. The only sound was the angry hiss of the snakes. "The ceremony lasted for full half an hour, then, though no word had been spoken, but by some preconcerted signal, each performer cast his snake to the ground and allowed it to escape. I was paralyzed with horror when I saw a huge reptile wiggling toward me, but it pressed into the jungle. My guide afterward told me that the ceremonv is performed twice a year, and the snakes are always allow ed to escape. In the recollection of the oldest native, neither performer nor spec tator had ever been bitten by the serpents at the celebration." ONE SIDED. American Goods Shipped Through, Canada and Vice Versa, Washington, Feb. 20. A statement has been prepared at the treasury de partment which shows that during the calendar year 1898 the number of cars loaded with goods shipped through the United States from one point in Canada to another was 10,966. the contents of which weighed 209,000 tons. The records of the department show that during the calendar year 1897 (the figures for 1898 not being available) the number of cars loaded with American goods shipped through Canada from one point in the United States to another was 460,269, the contents of which weighed 5,637,173 tons. It thus appears that the quantity of American goods hauled by Canadian roads was about twenty-seven times greater than the quantity of Canadian goods hauled by American roads. C. P. GIVES ITS NOTES. To the Government For $58,821,- 215. Washington, Feb. 20. The settlement of the obligations of the Central Pacific railroad to the government has been completed. United States Treasurer Roberts was given the notes of the com pany for $58,821,215. The notes are twenty in number, payable semi-an nually and are each for $2,940,635, bear ing interest at 3 per cent. Waterworks for Dawson. Los Angeles, Cala., Feb. 20. J. A. Acklen of this city has been granted the privilege of maintaining a water works at Dawson City by the Canadian government. He will tap the Klondike river, tour miles above Dawson. Deed Carries $2,600 Stamps. Los Angeles. Cala,. Feb. 20. A deed of trust has been filed with the county recorder here from the Los Angeles Railway company to the Union Trust company of San Francisco for $5,000,000. as security for a bond issue of similar amount on the principal street railways of Los Angeles city. The deed carries revenue, stamps aggregating; $2,500. HERE AREflGURES Thfly Show That Topeka is Pay ing Too Much For Water Municipal Ownership the Only Panacea For the Trouble. POSITION OF MR. DREW His 'Stand Admits of No Pos 8ible Question. Ue is a Man Who Has Been Thoroughly Tried. The people of Topeka are now having good cause to think about the water works question. Those who have used water know in an indefinite sort of a way that they have been oppressed by the water company, but there are few who have taken the trouble to study the question and make a comparison of figures to see what is the condition that prevails in other cities. The voters of Topeka know that next Saturday's primary election will be a test of the strength of the water com pany. Every friend of the waterworks is arrayed on one side of the fight. Every energy is being used and politi cal jobbery of the worst kind is being resorted to. Stories that have no foun dation in fact are being circulated among the voters to prejudice them against the candidate who has made a record in the city council as a champion of the interests of the people as against the grasping power of a New Jersey corporation. Councilman Drew stands like a wall of adamant against all these attacks. He has been a citizen of Topeka for thirty years and he has been tried in the crucible of public opinion the water company expects no quarter from him. The story of the wrongs that Topeka has suffered at the hands of the water company is a long one. When the ques tion of voting bonds for a new water plant to be owned by the city came up the Commercial club took up the mat ter and a committee was appointed to make a thorough investigation. That research developed the fact that To peka is paying too much money to the New Jersey corporation which has had the temerity to call itself "The Topeka Water company." The report of the committee resulted in an almost unanimous endorsement of the waterworks bond proposition by the Commercial club. The document was an interesting one and was carefully prepared. It was submitted by S. H. Downs, one of the oldest citizens of Topeka. Figures were collected showing a comparison of the water tolls in To peka with cities which own their own water plants and the following figures are taken from the report of the com mittee: Popu lation. Topeka, Kan 31,000 Manchester, N. H 44.000 Brockton. Mass 27.000 Total Cost. $22.50 15 50 17. 50 Holyoke, Mass. 35,000 9.00 11.75 I 19.00 I New Bedford, Mass. 41,000 Salem, Mass 31,0(0 Springfield, Mass. 44.00U Bil.ghamton. N. Y 35.000 Dayton, 0 61.000 Springfield. 0 32,009 Youngstown, O. 33.000 Fort Wayne, Ind 35.000 Rockford, 111 23,000 Springfield, 111. 25,000 La Crosse, Wis 2o.O Winona, Minn 18,000 St. Paul, Minn 183.000 Lincoln, Neb 66.000 GmDoria. Kan. 8.000 17.00 14.00 9.(0 16.00 15.0J 13.00 13.50 9.00 12 00 12.50 9.00 13.00 9.50 These figures are on the basis of a family occupying a house of from five to eight rooms which include modern conveniences, a horse and carriage and hose to sprinkle one lot. It does not take a great deal of dis crimination to see that Topeka people should have some relief and they should not expect it from the people who have always upheld the cause of the water company and fought its battles in the courts. The committee included in its report the following extract from the Ameri can Waterworks Manual: "Of the 3,196 complete works in the United States, 1,660 or more than half are owned by municipalities, which they supply, and 1.4S9 by private companies. One of the most significant things re garding ownership is the strong ten dency to public control in the larger cities. Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, only nine are now de pendent upon private ownership. About 200 cities and villages have changed from private to public ownership, and only one-tenth of the number from pub lic to private. Massachusetts takes the lead of the states in changes from private to public ownership. Thirty j companies located In different cities, have given away to public ownership generally through purchase." These things show that municipal ownership of waterworks systems is recognized everywhere as desirable. The old plan of allowingg a corporation to control the supply to the people of one of the essential elements of physical existence is falling into disuse. One by one these corporations are passing un der the ban of public sentiment and the people step in and take charge. Experts say that a 20 year water franchise in Topeka is worth $1,000,000. It is not surprising that the corporation managers would not let a plum like that escape if they can help it. It would be strange if they did not try to blind the people to the true issues so that they may dictate the election of the men who will have charge of the city affairs during the next two or three years. They are playing for big stakes. The citizens who believe in the tri umph of the people over the corpora tions should not forget to vote next Saturday. The women are as much interested in this question as the men. No woman who wants to see green lawns and beautiful parkings can afford to stay at home. The waterworks ques tion is one which affects every man and woman in Topeka. GOULD AS A COLONEL. He Will Be Urged to Head the Sev enth New Jersey. Y. Bamford, who has placed his rMigna be urged to accept the colonelcy of the Seventh regiment of the New Jersey na tional guard, to succeed Colonel Charles Y. Bambord, who has placed his resigna tion in the hands of Adjutant General Stry ker. It is probable that Colonel Bamford will be retired with the rank of brigadier general. The acceptance of the resignation of General Plume as commander will be fol lowed bv- a reorganization of the New Jer sey national guard. General Seward.com mander of the Second brigade, will be pro moted to general command. 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Odd Fellows' Building, 523 Quincy St. Undertakers Finest Ambulance in the west FREE to the public day and night Our Prices are Reasonable. De Moss PHONE 192. Ill mil i n n n riav anH PJitrht Fine Funeral Cars and Hearses. Palace ypen uayana mgnt. coacte8 and drivers m livery m attend. ance. Free rubber-tire Ambulance or night, wny pay exorbitant prices ot outer firms when O YOU Adult cloth Caskets for 815.00 4 T CAN Adult cloth Caskets with textile handles for 25. OO O 2 BUY Children's Caskets for 2.00 X O FINE HACKS furnished for weddings, operas and parties. Hacks V heated with Lehman heaters. 0 K0000C-0000 SPKEEWALD HAIR MARKET From the New York Herald.J In the lower German Spreewald there is a famous market for women's hair, supplied almost entirely by peasant girls, especially those between the ages of 12 and 13. The industry is carried on chiefly by old women, who secure orders from wealthy patrons, and, with a sam nl nf the sort desired, set out among the Spreewald peasants and tempt the girls, or, rather, their parents, to give them what they seek. Their reason for the selection of girls of the age men tioned is that they are young enough to have perhaps a second or even a third "crop" of hair to reward other journeys into the region. The sum usu ally paid for a "crop" ranges from $4.50 to $7.50, according to color, thickness and length. There is an unaerstanaing among me women in the nature of a "trust" to keep down prices among the peasants as much as possible. These women go to a town or village and stop at the chief tavern, whence the news of their arrival quickly spreads, and girls soon appear In long lines, under the care of mothers or other relatives. Brides are the easiest victims, for the sum received is a very material aid In the establishment of a new peasant household. When the bargaining time comes the buyers are not above the use of influ ence of the baser sort. They usually supply some strong drinks, and the "hospitality" thus offered is not with out its influence In securing some pretty hard bargains from the unlucky girls, or, rather, from their parents, who are the ones to profit in the great majority of instances. Two Ships for Alaskan Trade. New York, Feb. 20. H. Mantland Kersey, now of the Yukon Steamship company, was a passenger on the leu- DUST. y u ii DELAY IE FATAL CONSULT AT ONCE DRS. JOHNSTOiN WALSH, America's Greatest Specialists. Permanently Located in Topeka, Kansas Dr. H. Austin Johnston is a graduate of one of the finest Medical Universities in the world, and has had great experience in hospital and private praotice. Dr. Edward Walsh, formerly Chicago's leading specialist, is a graduate of Rush and Bdnnatt TVTarMt.l r!nll.. ...rl formerly President of St. Anthony's Hos pital. X M. PETTOTEXL. i Penwell, i 523 QUINOX STREET. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. Absolutely Reliable Always. THE FOyjEtDTFJElBI New Models. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS BENEDICT, 327 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. ffYCKOFF, SEAM.tfS 15EAEDICT, 105 W. 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. J. F. MYERS, Local Dealer, Topeka, Kansas. A FIXE OF $1,000 Each Assessed Against a Lot of Fool Boom Operators. St. I.ouis, Feb. 20 At Clayton, St. Louis county, the circuit court today assessed a fine of $1,000 each against Charles Mason, Richard Burke, Edward Fitzgerald, Isaac Cohen, Joseph Cohen, Charlie Brett, Fred Khelor and How ard Ellis, pool room operators, who had been arrested at Wellston, just outside the city limits of St. Louis. They were charged with conducting pool rooms contrary to law, and pleaded in defense that they were not conduct ing a pool room, but doing a legitimate telegraph business, under the name of a telegraph company. A motion for a new trial was made and overruled, but a motion for an ap peal to the supreme court was granted. WHAT ONE FARMER DID. Cleared $150,000 Tilling the Soil and Exhibited His Profits in Cash. Kokomo, Ind., Feb. 20. George Car ter, an aged Clinton county farmer, created a stir in the streets here with all his pockets bulging out with gold pieces and rolls of greenbacks, having on his person $150,000, all of which he "dug up out of the ground." raising corn, hogs and cattle on his farm. He was surrounded by covetous eyes all day, but he allowed no one to get close to him. He tantalized the crowd by holding out a peck of gold in one hand, twirling a revolver in the other. Toward evening he put the cash in the bank and went home, having shown the city people what a "John Farmer" could do when he wanted to "show off." Kansas City and Return, $2.00 Via the Santa Fe. Account opening of the convention hall. Tickets on sale February 21 and morning trains of 22nd, good returning February 23. GROCERY. J. S. SPR0AT, Prop. Tele. 252. 112 East 6th St WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Tuesday onlyf sale 25 cases 3-lb California Peaches 10 cents a can. They are worth 12X cents. And this is a bargain. We sold J,500 lbs. WHITE HOUSE Floor Saturday, and that convinces us White House Flour pleases our customers. It is worth 50-lb. sack $J.OO 25-lb. sack .50 Straight Patent Flour 50-lb. sack ,90c Every pound of Meat you buy from us is guaranteed. You run no risk when you buy it here. Sugar Cured Hams, per lb 74 Sugar Cured Cal. Hams, per lb bVz Dry Salt Bacon, per lb 4V5. Armour's White Lard, per lb 05 Breakfast Bacon, per lb 08 Canned goods less than wholesale price. 2 cans Kaw ValleyEarly June Peas .13 3 lb. can standard eastern pack To matoes. 2 cans 15 4 cans String Beans 4 cans Lima Beans "io Archer's brand Corn, per can.. 05 2 cans Blue Vinton Corn '15 Puritan fancy Maine Corn, per can l0 3 lb. cans Boston Baked Beans 2 cans 15 4 cans Marrowfat Peas"" 11X111 '.25 -3 lb. cans Pumpkin, 4 cans 25 12 cans Oil Sardines '35 1 lb. cans Columbia River Salmon"" per can 10 1 lb. cans Alaska Salmon,' 2" cans! I15 5 lb. cans Pie Peaches, 2 cans 15 2 lb. cans Blackberries, per can.... "05 California Table Grapes, per can.. 10 Cal. Table Green Gages, per can.. '.10 2 lb. cans Standard Tomatoes, per can q5 Fresh crisp Soda Crackers, per lb by box 05 10 lbs. hand picked Navy Beans 25 10 lbs. bulk Scotch Oats 25 2 quarts fancy Cranberries 15 Sweet Navel Oranges, per doz 10 Fancy Minnesota Potatoes, per bu .60 8 lbs. guaranteed pure Buckwheat Flour 25 Naban Ceylor Tea, per ib'."'.'.'.'.'. '.65 3 large fat Mackerel 25 10 lb. pall No. 1 White Fish 45 1 lb. package Boneless Codfish 10 1 lb. can Van Houten's Cocoa 75 4 lbs. Silver Prunes 25 Genuine Wood Fibre Pail, that will last for years 20 Out-of-Town Orders filled from this List this Week. The Star LOUDET EATS GARLIC And Spits on the Floor, Says the Gaulois. New York, Feb. 20. A dispatch to the Tribune from Paris says: Never before has a president of the French republic been confronted from the very hour of his election with such hostile demonstrations nor persecuted by such an abusive press. Loubet, like Casimir-Perier, was the nominee not of a mere coalition and has the support 0 almost the entire Republican party. But, like Casimir-Perier, he is of a sen sitive temperament and reads the news papers containing gross libels on his character, emphasized by exhortations to violence. The ferocity of the nation alist and the anti-Semitic press today almost justifies M. Cornely's article in Figaro, in which the French political arena is compared by the faeetious roy alist to a "den of hyenas, tigers and jackals." This morning the president's first Im pulse was one of discouragement, but in spite of the noisy shouts of De Rou ledes and Millevoyes, professional pa triots, which continue as merrily as yes terday, it becomes hourly more appar ent that the masses of the people be lieve in Loubet and in the republic The serious papers, like the Temps and Journal des Debats and the Liberte, come out strongly in his behalf, and this is also the position taken by an overwhelming majority of the news papers throughout the country, especi ally in the south. Loubet enjoys the enormous advantage of never having expressed any opinion on the Dreyfus revision and his views on this point are still unknown to his closest friends. The conviction of those in the presi dent's confidence is that, come what may, there will be no flinching from responsibility, as was the case with Casimir-Perier. Millevoye's Patrie, Brumont's Libre Parole, the Echo de Paris and the Eclair contain the most violent articles that have yet appeared against the head of the state. Even the fashionable Gaulois indulges in sneers at the president's humble or igin and rusty habits and draws the following picture of Loubet's home life: "It is true that Loubet did not wear his pedant's wooden sabots at his apart ment in the Luxemborg palace, where he resided as the president o the senate, but when he came home he always took off his shoes and put on a pair of felt slippers which he wore even during meals. While eating he tucks a corner of his r.npkin in his shirt collar. His wife, who also comes from the little town of Montr limar, near the Rhine, midway between Lyons and Marseilles, is a good cook and knows how to stew a rabbit better than any one. A strong: dose of garlic Invariably perfumes the dishes in the Loubet house hold, and to remedy this Loubet, who. In the dialect of the country, is called Lou bette by his wife, is in the habit of taking from the rack one of his well colored pipes and while smoking it expectorates freely on the lloor. no matter what the quality of the carpet may be. Mrs. Loubet is a loquacious woman and a good house keeper. She speak3 with a stron-j south ern accent. "The new president will be a difficult pupil for M. Crosier, the chief of protocol, Loubet does not ride horseback, so that Nont Jarret. the chief of the presidential stables, will be disappointed. "The ambassadors and especially the ambassadors' wives will not be bored at the entertainments at Elysee with the president's rural frankness and Mme, Lou bet's expansive humor. Above nil, what a treat this will be for the sovereigns, the imperial and roval princes and princesses who may come to the exhibition of 1900. All Europe at Elysee. How happy the good folks of Montelimar will be." Such is a fair sample of the exasperat ing articles which fill page after page of the Nationalist reactionary pres. The Matin publishes a detailed biography of the president and calls attention to lou bet being the first president of the repub lic, except Thiers, who came from south ern France. The Matin adds that Loubet has a marked southern accent and tnat his mother, a venerable woman of 84. lives on a farm near Montelimar and always wears a peasant's headgear. Loubet is not -wealthv. His fortune consists of only $70,000 or $SMKKJ. Th pub lic feels convinced that Loubet's honesty and integrity are unimpeachable, notwith standing Quesnay de Heaurepaire's accu sations of complicity in protecting some of his friends from prosecution in the Pan ama affair, which is the only thing in his long caretr which his bitterest enemies have been able to rake up against him. NO PLACE FOR OTIS Until Next Year Though the Presi dent "Wants to Promote Sim. New York, Feb. 20. A special to the Herald from Washington says: President McKinley has determined to reward several general officers for gal lantry during the Cuban and Philippine operations. Upon the retirement of Brigadier Gen eral M. P. Miller on March 16 Colonel F. K. Sumner, now brigadier general of volunteers, will be appointed brigadier general in the regular army. No reward can be given to Major Gen eral Otis until after June 16, 1900, unless the army reorganization bill shall pass. General Otis holds only the rank of brigadier general in the regular service. He will be appointed a major general upon the retirement June 16, 1900 of Major General Wesley Merritt, but the president would like to confer promotion upon him sooner should he have the opportunity to do so. General Otis will be the next major general of the regu lar service appointed. Although Brigadier General D. W. Flagler does not retire until June 24, the gossips in the war department are already talking of his successor. It seems to be generally conceded that Colonel J. M. Whittmore will receive the appointment of chief of ordnance. Kansas City and Return, $2.00 Via the Santa Fe, Account opening of the convention hall. Tickets on sale February 21 and morning trains ol 2;!nd, good returning February 23. THERE IS TROUBLE AHEAD Scheme to Defeat Councilman Sound tree Starts Colored People on the Warpath. There is a revolt among the colored voters of Topeka who have been sup porting Frank Brooks for mayor be cause of what they consider a scheme of the Brooks people to defeat Council man Roundtree of the Fifth ward who is the only representative of the colored race who has ever occupied a. seat in the city council. Councilman Roundtree has made an excellent record and he has not been a friend of the water company. He has established a reputation for integrity and good judgment with his fellow members in the city council and he should have been returned without op position. But the waterworks people were not satisfied with Mr. Roundtree's independence and ever since the cam paign opened they have been looking for an opposing candidate. Saturday afternoon there was a meet ing in the office of a lawyer who has frequently represented the water com pany. There were four citizens of the Fifth ward with him and one of the four men went from that office to the secretary of the Republican city central committee and entered the name of J. B. Mills as a candidate against Mr. Roundtree. It is due Mr. Mills to say that he was not at this conference and it is also understood that he has not encouraged the plan to force him into the race. That he is indifferent on the subject is shown from the fact that his assessment was paid by some one else without his knowledge. Today the friends of Mr. Brooks are endeavoring to explain the appearance of Mr. Mills in the field. They are mak ing all sorts of wild claims and some of them have even tried to mislead the colored voters by claiming that friends of Mr. Drew brought out the opposing candidate. It is a well known fact that Mr. Roundtree has been a supporter of Mr. Drew and there is no danger that the people will not place the blame where it belongs. "CAVENDISH" IS DEAD. He Was Regarded as the World's Authority on Whist. London, Feb. 20. Henry Jones, the famous whist expert, widely known un der the nom de plume of "Cavendish," is dead. He was born In London on November 2, 1831. His "Laws and Principles of Whist Stated and Explained," which appeared in 1862, was a revelation to whist lov ers, as it was recognized as the first great step toward the consolidation of the rules and development of the mod ern game. The book was, indeed, strongly at tacked by some authorities, at first, but the result of the controversy was a general recognition of the logical clear ness and value of "Cavendish's" rules and conclusions. From that time "Cav endish" has been looked upon, on both sides of the Atlantic, as the greatest authority on whist. Henry Jones, "Cavendish," attended the whist congress at the Chicago World's fair, and visited New York in June, 1S96, to attend the sixth annual American whist congress at Manhat tan Beach. He said that the average American whist player was superior to the Eng lish, and said this was because the Americans were progressive and con stantly studying new possibilities, while the British were apt to play the game as their grandfathers did before them. NORTH TOPEKA. The Union Pacific pay car came in this morning. Major and Mrs. R. W. Jenkins spent Sunday in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Betts are back from their visit to Lawrence. Wallace E. Taggart of Meriden visi ted Topeka friends Sunday. Mrs. Faus left Sunday for Iowa to be with her aunt who is seriously ill. Mrs. J. L. Osborn left Sunday to visit her parents in Bloomingdale, Wis. G. W. Petro left today for a week's business trip in the northwestern part of the state. Go to C. B. Lyon, D. D. S., for fine dental work at popular prices. Office 511 Kansas avenue. Tel. 656. R. E. Jones went to Willard today to attend the funeral of his nephew. Lean der Jones. James Smith of Falrview, who has been ill for the past year, is reported as being somewhat better. The Violet club will meet this even ing with Miss Bertha Rowley at her home, 929 Quincy street. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Ryder have re turned from Lawrence where they went to attend the Fraternal Aid conven tion. The ladies of the Needle Ten will en tertain their husbands Thursday even ing at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Lyon. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Stark died Saturday at their home, 1328 Van Buren street. The remains were taken to Perry yesterday for burial. The special Christian Endeavor prayer meeting of the Christian church will be held Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Mattie Sherburne, corner of Polk and Monroe streets. J. E. D. Williamson of Louisville.Kan. was the guest yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. William Finch of 1113 Monroe street. Miss Margaret Casey, w-ho Is study ing law at the Lawrence university, was the guest yesterday of her parents. Charles Schilling came up from Pine Bluff, Ark., Saturday, where he is en gaged in the lumber business, and will visit his parents for a week. The Ladies' Aid society of the Second Presbyterian church will meet Wednes day afternoon at the home of Mrs. J as. Campbell, corner of Gordon and Jack son streets. The 4-year-old son of Mr. James Dereney died Saturday at the family home near Meriden. The funeral was held today and the burial was in the Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Mitchell died suddenly Saturday at 1 o'clock at her home on Holman street, Holman's addition. The deceas ed was in her usual health Friday and partook of a hearty supper that even ing but taken seriously ill in the night. She leaves one child, a son who is now in Colorado. No arrangements for the funeral have as yet been made. A team from the reform school crea ted some excitement on the avenue about i o'clock yesterday by running away. They started when near Lacey's drug store and ran to the Union Pacific depot. One horse was injured and it was necessary to procure a horse from a livery barn for the trip home. Exalted Ruler J. C. Payne, of the To peka lodge of Elks, has announced that out of the respect for Eugene Wolfe, who died last night, the social session to have been held Wednesday night at the lodge rooms will be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Wolfe was a prominent member of the lodge. A RACE FOR A BIG STAKE. American and European Syndicates Rivals for the Control of Cu ban Tobacco. New York, Feb. 20. The Herald says: A fortnight will probably determine whether the controlling power for sup plying the demand for Havana tobacco is to rest in American hands or in those of European capitalists. Several rumors have reached New York from time to time of a syndicate which was forming to buy up the tobacco lands in Cuba. These have had to do principally with a combination in which American cap italists were concerned. It was reported a day or two ago in a Havana newspa per that a second American syndicate was in process of formation and it was leaimed that prior to the appearance of the American operators a foreign syndicate had secured an option on a number of factories with tobacco bear ing lands. The present indications are that it will now resolve itself into a race between the two syndicates as to which will se cure the valuable properties necessary to make the operations of a syndicate successful. From what was learned, the Americans are now in a safe posi tion. to get all they want, the only fur ther thing necessary being a speedy culmination of their plans and a posi tive forming of the syndicate. Although the matter has been in con templation for some time as indicated in Havana dispatches, and although there is every indication that the syndi cate will be formed it can be positively asserted that up to the present time the final steps have not been taken. The present plan is to consummate the deal if possible, within the next two weeks and unless this is done the options will be lost. Hugo G. A. von Reizenstein is the man who at present represents the syndicate in Cuba and he has already secured enough options to assure the success of the project. Among the bet ter known factories which are secure to the American syndicate at present are those of Perico Murias, Flor de Cuba and Manuel Carria- The options on these factories include large areas of valuable tobacco land. The three factories named have an aggregate" output of three hundred mil lions of cigars a year. In addition, op tions have been secured on many small er factories, most of which have some land attached. M. Garcia, who Is now in this city, said to a Tribune reporter: "I think the syndicate is as good as formed. If it is formed, it will certainly be one of the biggest things of the century and in eight or ten years it will control all of the tobacco in Cuba, If all the avail able land is used the annual crop will amount to between $35,000,000 and $40, 000,000. The intention is to begin with about $10,000,000 enough to control three-quarters of this crop, besides the factories. The only persons who might lose by such a combination are the farmers and the cigarmakers. A profit will certainly result to those who make the investment. If the syndicate is formed I will manage its Cuban busi ness. "Options have already been obtained on twelve or fourteen of the best fac tories in Havana. The idea is to buy these factories for about what they are worth and for the time being to buy tobacco enough to supply their needs. As time goes on more land will be bought. The coming crop will be re markably fine in quality, though con siderably below the normal quantity. "I have made a careful survey of the farming regions and estimate the crop will be between 80,000 and 100,000 bales of vultas, between 12,000 and 15,000 bales of parlielos, and between 25,000 and 30,t 000 bales of Santa Clara. The entire crop this year will be less than one fourth of an ordinary crop." MORGUE OVERFLOWING. In New York Owing to Inability to Reach the Cemetery. New York, Feb. 20. With 161 of the city's unclaimed dead on board, the big steam 'lighter Columbia for more than six hours made heroic efforts to reach the city burial ground at Hart island. Block ice, packing the sound from shore to shore, shook the big lighter, tore her stem out and at one time threatened to crush and sink her with her freight of dead. The Columbia could not get within six miles of Hart's island, and only with great difficulty freed herself and returned to her dock. The bodies on board were returned to the morgue. They represent an accumu lation of two weeks, and a state of con gestion prevails at the morgue, where there are 110 additional bodies. CUBANS WANT MORE MONEY Will Ask United States to Sanction an Issue of Bonds. Washington, Feb. 20. Efforts are mak ing, with every prospect of success, to reconcile the radical element amonsr the Cubans to the proposition of the United States government to pay the soldiers of the Cuban cause $3,000,000. This is ex pected to be accomplished through a rather sweeping authorization by the United States government for tbe incur ment of a considerable loan to m?.ke good the deficiency between the sum the United States agrees to pay to the troops and the sum the Cuban leaders believe to be the smallest that can be paid with benefit and due regard to justice. So far, the propo sition has not taken official shaoe here, but the administration has been quietly sounded by the Cuban contingent, who have expressed gratification at the pros pects. General Gomez himself Is expect ed to broach the plan formally when he begins his conference with General Brooke in Havana. Gomez arrived today at Matanzas, mak ing his way very slowly towards the cap ital. What Is proposed is that the United States shall sanction the floating of bonds bv the Cuban municipalities to the amount of $7,000,000, which sum is to be paid over to the Cuban troops in addition to the -0O0.OUO to be paid by the United States. The municipalities are to set aside a certain proportion from the receipts from customs and other sources of taxation to meet the bonds. In addition to this the United Estates gov ernment is to be asked to sanction the re demption out of the customs receipts of the Honda issued in aid of the Cuban re bellion to the amount of $2,500,000. Data, it is stated here, will be produced by the Cuban assembly to show that every cent of this sum was expended in legiti mate war expenses. McKinley Congratulates Loubet Washington, Feb. 20. The secretary of state has sent the following cable gram to our ambassador at Paris: "You will appropriately convey to President Loubet the president's most cordial con gratulations on his elevation to the chief magistracy of the French republic and the sincere wishes of the govern ment and people of the United States for the continued welfare of the French nation." State Oratorical Contest at Ottawa. The Santa Fe has made a rate of one fare $1.59 for the round trip for the contest Feb. 24, good returning until the 25th. We will wash your colored shirts am guarantee colon from fading. Peerles Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 W. 8th. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun dry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. .4 NEW MODEL, j "THE BUSY CORNER." j NEW MODEL; This Week there DON T Dry Goods Department. FOR TUESDAY, 3 BIG SPECIALS. Kid Gloves. 2-clasp Ladies' Kid Gloves, In all colors, the $1.00 quality sale price 79c Perfect-fitting 3-clasp, In all the latest colorings, 1 1. 25 value sale price 98c RIBBONS. i-in. Fancy Ribbon, 7c quality, 5c yd. 13-ln. Fancy Ribbon, 10c quality, 7c yd. One lot No. 60 Fancy Stripes and Checks, regular 39c quality, 29c yd. Embroideries. 5c quality 3c yd izc quality 7fc yd 35c quality 15c yd Shoe Department. We will put on sale Tomorrow AND TOMORROW 72 pairs of Ladies' Fine Kid Lace Shoes, coin toe, stock cloth or leather top not a lot of old shop worn and out or date shoes but iresh, new goods just from the factory. These shoes are well worth $2.50 but you can buy them tomorrow for REMEMBER TUESDAY ONLY. 2 Clothing Specials for Tuesday Only. we will make a big run on a couple of them which will be sold at these prices on TUESDAY ONLY. Thee are extra big values even at our regular price. on them. Mea's All Wool Fast Color Black Clay Worsted Suits, in round or square cut styles, Italian cloth lined, lmtiflsfimplTT fmisripfl nprfpet -firfinor rmi romilar price $9.85 Tuesday Men's Dark or Black Cheviot Pants, every pair warranted not to rip, splendid wearers, all sizes, our regular price $1.50. I Remember The People's Store. Kemper MRS. DANIEL MANNING Opens the Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington, Feb. 20. The first ses sion of the eighth continental congress of the national society of the Daughters of the American Revolution began at the Grand Opera House today. The at tendance of delegates from subordinate chapters throughout the United States was larger than at- any previous time, the opera house being filled to its full capacity. Mrs. Daniel Manning, president gen eral of the society opened the regular proceedings with her annual address. It dwelt especially on the aid the so ciety had given to the soldiers and sailors of the Union during the war with Spain, saying that as a result of its labors one thousand thoroughly trained women became nurses and over $300,000 in money and supplies was furnished. JIM REDMOND CAUGHT. He Is Charged With, Complicity in the Schumacher Murder. Kansas City, Feb. 20. A man answer ing the description of "Jim" Redmond, wanted for complicity in the murder In this city of Miss Emma Schumacher, Is under arrest at Quincy, 111., for bur glary, according to a telegram from the chief of detectives of Chicago received today by Chief of Police Hayes. Miss Schumacher was shot and killed by one of two men who robbed her grocery store. John Kennedy, now under ar rest at Springfield. Mo., for complicity in a hold-up at Macomb, Mo., and Red mond have been indicted for the crime. Redmond served through the Santiago campaign with the "Rough Riders" and after returning to this country was lo cated in the east, but eluded capture. Is tiie one you have been waiting for. No matter what you need, one of our big departments con tains something of interest to you; something at a price that has been cut all to pieces, which you can just as well get this week as to wait and pay more for later. This will be a CUT PRICE WEEK. We are remodeling almost the entire store, and the less we have to move the more you buy, even if is no profit in it to us helps us just that much. FAIL TO COME IN FOR WEDNESDAY, Lace Curtains. Our 65c quality will be 49c pr Our 98c quality will be 75c pr Our $1.25 quality will be... 98c pr Our $1.50 quality will be.. 1.25 pr Our $2.00 quality will be.. $1.50 pr Our f 6.00 quality will be. $4.65 pr Linens. 54-inch Bleached Damask 23c yd 72-Inch Cream Table Damask 45c yd 72-inch nice Bleached our 65c quality 59c yd One lot of odds and ends in Towels at absolute cost. Bed 8jc quality 5c yd 15c quality 10c yd 10 dozen of a full size, hemmed ready for use, Marseilles pattern special 59c Don't miss them at the price only at luesday These prices are for TUESDAY them on Wednesday but at the The New Model Supply Paxtons. Sixth and DECLARED NOT A CITY. All Officers Ousted From Control of Garland, Kan. Fort Scott, Feb. 20. The municipal government of the city of Garland has been dissolved by Judge Simons of the district court, who ousted from office every officer of the city, from mayor to marshal, on the ground that the town was illegally incorporated as a city of the third class a number of years ago. The ousted officers are Mayor E. E. Anderson, Police Judge W. A. Anderson, Councilmen A. J. Ogle, George Million, A. Hamm. J. F. Million, J. W. Golden and Amos Morgan and Marshal Goss. In 1896 Garland boomed, and some of her citizens insisted on incorporating the town as a third class city. Much outside property was taken in against the will of the owners, and after a hard fight before the county commis sioners the boomers won and the town was declared a city. The remonstrators appealed to the state courts, but as the peculiar cir cumstances of the case had no precedent in the jurisprudence of the state, they had difficulty in getting into court. Finally, in the name of the county, they instituted quo warranto proceedings against the city officers of the town, and Judge Simons sustained them by ousting the officers and dissolving the city organization on the ground that the commissioners had no authority to incorporate property outside of the platted town. M If RON REED MEMORIAL In Denver Will Take the Form of a Large Building. Denver, Feb. 20. The Denver Trades and Labor assembly has decided to act with the Colorado Art club in the erec EARLY. 3 BIG SPECIALS. Spreads. ONLY tip, brocaded I.90 we have put jj only at ONLY. You cannot regular price. The People's Store. Store. Quincy. tion of a memorial to the late Rev. Myron W. Reed. Their proposition in to build a labor temple a large build ing to be used as a sort of national headquarters by labor associations connected with which there will be a free art gallery, library and reading room. The preliminary work will be begun Immediately by a committee ap pointed for that purpose. ALL VOLUNTEERS In the United States Discharged bjr the Latest Order. Washington, Feb. 20. The war de partment today issued the following statement Orders have been given for the mus ter out of the following volunteer regi ments: At Savannah, Ga. Third Georgia, Batteries A, B, C and D of the Maine artillerv, and the Two Hundred and Second New Tork volunteers. At the present camps at Augusta, Ga., and Greenville, S. C. Third Alabama, Third Connecticut, Fifth Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Michigan, Fifteenth Minne sota, Fourth New Jersey, Two Hundred and First New York, Two Hundred and Third New York, Tenth Ohio, First Rhode Island, and Second West Vir ginia. This order discharges all the volun teers remaining in the United States. Pavonia Out of Danger. Ponta del Gada, Azore Islands, Feb. 20. The weather has become calm and the Cunard line steamer Pavonia, which became disabled while on the passage from 'Liverpool for Boston and was towed Into St. Michaels on Saturday by the steamer Wolvifton, is now out at danger and will enter the harbor today. 95 il $1 .00 get

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 20, 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. IVOLUME XXVI No- 42 Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 rents a ween to any pan ""-v? suburbs, or at the same price in any Kjn eas town where this paper has a carrier f ystem. Hv mall. n mr. By mall, three months Tepeka State Journal Building. and WZ lianaaa avenue, corner ui. NT-TW YORK OFFTCH. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. Stork Exchange Bulld!nr. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. U Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. PuMnPSS Office !....ReH "Phone 1? ReDorters" Room Bell "Phone 577 Stories of floods are now almost due. Tf Altrej-'a rtInder had been In "Wash tngton last week they might have been of some use. Schley's worst offense seems to be that he got between Sampson and the prize money. Reasons for an extra session are ac cumulating. There is the possible one of the river and harbor bill. 'Al -warrior who carries a bath tub about with him could not reasonably be expected to tolerate embalmed beef- Tom Johnson's single tax campaign probably will be a novelty in reform agitation made so by the absence of a collection. Carnegie says he still has $2,000,000 left to devote to public libraries. To peka should be able to get $25,000 out of so large a sum. The Louisiana plan for suppressing the negro vote has proven so successful that the North Carolina legislature has decided to try it in that state. That Missouri legislator -who Intro duced a bill prohibiting the placing of eemi-nude pictures on the billboards must be wholly devoid of modesty. "When there appeared to be no longer any way of escape left the Central Pacific walked up to the desk and gave its notes for what it owes the govern ment. If the Nicaragua canal amendment to the river and harbor bill shall result in defeating the entire measure Senator Morgan's work will not have been in vain. As the agents of Aguinaldo and those of the United States are just now trav eling in opposite directions it will necessarily be some time before they can meet, The new National Farmers party must include in its principles the ad vocacy of anti-oleomargarine legisla tion before it can hope to gain a foot bold in Kansas. That Central Pacific money Is half enough to build the Nicaragua canal, but it would be extremely anonying to Mr. Huntington to see it devoted to that purpose. With nearly $59,000,000 coming in from the Central Pacific, most of which it is said will be paid in. a short time to save interest, it looks as though the government might wiggle along a while without being compelled to issue bonds. A' Philadelphia soap manufacturer gives the following as his experience with canned beef: He secures his sup ply of fat from the wastes of certain Philadelphia butchers. For the last five years he has noticed that the fat will not unite entirely with the lye, a failure he found due to the presence of some chemical in the fat. Upon investigation recently he learned from the butchers that the surface of the beef had been washed with salicylic acid, and that the beef was purchased from the Chicago packers involved in the beef contro versy. The law makers in Austria and France are paid $5 a day; in Greece the senators get $100 a month and the depu ties $50; in Germany members of both houses receive about $2.50 a day; in Denmark the members of the "lands thing" each receive about $3 a day; in Belgium each member of the chamber of representatives gets $85 a month; in Portugal the peers and commons are paid the same sum, which is about $355 a year; in Spain the members of the cortes are not paid for their services, but enjoy many advantages and im munities; in Switzerland the members of the national council get $2.50 a day, and the council of states, the lower house, $1.50; in Italy the senators and deputies are not paid at all, but are allowed traveling expenses and certain other privileges. England is the only country where members of the parlia ment are not only unpaid, but have no special rights or privileges. HOW THEY ADVANCE WAGES. From the Boston Transcript.! Closely following the announcement of an advance in the wages of the American Steel and Wire company em ployes comes the report of higher prices for wire and wire nails made by that concern. This latest move of the trust was confirmed by a representative of the company in an interview with the Transcript, so that it would seem as though the public is expected to make up for any seeming generosity that the management may see fit to indulge In and that the dividends are to be kept intact, regardless of any extra cost of manufacture or government. The new prices call for $2 per ton advance, mak ing the cost of wire $1.45 per 100 pound base at mills, and of wire nails $1.60 per hundred. It was asserted at the time that the consolidation of the dif ferent steel and wire plants into the American company would, by the dis missal or 200 traveling salesmen, make a saving of $1,000,000 a year in salaries aai commissions. Other economies were also outlined, through which the cost of production would be materially decreased. The way in which the pub lic is being benefited does not appear. The (act that while competition has been stifled in one direction, that ex istent in the already overcrowded labor market has been increased by the ap pearance in it of ten score capable and intelligent men is not pleasing to contemplate.- Again, the knowledge that nearly every piece of carpentry work done henceforward must cost more than it did previous to the formation of the trust, and every piece of wire fencing that is strung must represent a larger outlay by the farmer or landowner, while it may not retard building or fence making, will certainly not en courage them. But it is as an obstacle to an enlarged export business that the trust experiment will work the greatest injury, according to the judgment of those familiar with our export com merce. "IRONQ UILLnYeV YORK. New York World Says America Is Just Finding Him Out. New Tork, Feb. 20. The New York World gives a Topeka man a great send off, publishes his picture and says after printing the Dewey and other poems: How many of us know that Eugene Ware has written a whole volume of humorous verses? That it has passed through nine editions? How many know that it has created a sensation in London and that an edi tion has been issued there with copious annotations designed to enlighten the British intelligence as to the subtleties of American jocularity? That of itself is smile provoking here. A great many people must have bought the book otherwise it would not be In its ninth edition. But here its author has not been in any public way recognized as a humorist or poet of Importance. In London his name is celebrated and his humor everywhere talked about. Just as London discovered Joaquin Miller for us and taught us to appreciate, so it has now discovered "Ironquill," and given us a new lesson in the literature of our own land. The review is signed by George Cary Eggleston. TO FIGHT WHISKY TRUST. Wholesale and Retail Liquor Sealers to Organize a Company. New York,Feb.20. Wholesale and re tail whisky dealers are preparing to fight the trust. In order to carry out their purpose they will soon organize a company with $1,000,000 stock and $1,- 500,000 bonds for the purpose of ac quiring the plants of wholesalers. If it is deemed advisable they will also buy or build an independent distillery.which will be untrammeled by the restrictions of either trust. Back of the corporation, which is to be known as the Wine and Whisky Trading company, is a committee of or ganization consisting of Henry E. Luy- ties, John H. W. Meyer. Albert W. Lemk, Henry von Minden, Christopher J). JJode, Henry Ivroeger, Henry Well brock, Diedrich Knabe, John Seisen- weber and J. P. Friedhoff. Five mem bers of the committee are wholesale dealers and the other five retailers. According to the plan the stock of the new company will be sold only to deal ers, and it will be. fully paid up. No dealer will be permitted to take less than $500 nor more than $25,000 In shares. The subscriptions are to be ef fective when $700,000 has been sub scribed. A circular issued today says that there will not be $1 of "watered" stock, no bad accounts and no debts. MRS. ZACH CHANDLER DEAD Widow of the Famous Michigan Statesman Passes Away. Detroit, Feb. 20. Mrs. Zachariah Chandler, widow of the famous Michi gan statesman, died Sunday afternoon. She had been a sufferer tor several months from various infirmities incident to old age, to which she finally suc cumbed. Mrs. Chandler's maiden name was Le- titia Douglas. She was a native of Bal timore, but previous to her marriage lived in New York. During Senator Chandler's career in Washington Mrs. Chandler passed the winters in Wash ington, where she was noted as a so cial entertainer. Much of her time in later years was spent at Ellsworth, Me., with her only child, who is the wife of Senator Eugene Hale of Maine. Mrs. Chandler was of gentle and kind ly disposition and much beloved. WOMEN INTERESTED. City Campaign Will Be Discussed at a Mass Meeting. There will be a women's mass meetine at 722 Kansas avenue in the rooms former ly used bv Prof. W. von Dahlen. at 3 r. m. tomorrow to discuss the issues of the city campaign. The women are takinc more interest in the coming Republican primary than they ever nave in me nisiory or ropeKa. i no reason is mat a prat question in wnicn the women are vitally interested is the issue. The meeting- tomorrow afternoon Is for the purpose of completing an or ganization for campaign work. POTOMAC RISING RAPIDLY. Farts of Washington May Be Flooded If the Ice Breaks up Suddenly. Washington, Feb. 20. The indications are that parts of the city will shortly be inundated as a result of the breaking up of ice in the Potomac river. Much snow has accumulated in the mountains and at the headwaters of the Potomac This is melting, and al ready there Is a rise of about a foot in the river. It is thought the ice, should it break up suddenly,- will jam at Long bridge. This structure connects the District and Virginia, and is the only railway communication between the north and southeast of the Blue Ridge mountains. River men say a flood can hardly be averted if the rain continues. UNDER CHARGE OF FRAUD. A Prominent Chetopa, Kans., Citizen Is Arrested in Chicago. Chicago. Feb. 20. Robert Simons, who was president of the Neosho Valley In vestment company at Chetopa, Kan., was arrested here today on the request of Sheriff Disch of Oswego county, Kan sas. Fraudulent transactions in real estate are charged. Sheriff Disch will return to Kansas tonight with his prisoner. Ex-Got. Fletcher Stricken. Washington, Feb. 20. Ex-Gov. Thos. C. Fletcher of Missouri suffered a stroke of apoplexy in Willard's hotel today and now lies at the Emergency hospital in a serious condition on account of his age, having celebrated his 71st birthday January 27 last. The chances for his recovery are regarded as small. He has been in bad health for some time past. Armour Gives $750,000 More. Chicago, Feb. 20. Mr. Philip D. Armour has given $750,000 more to the endowment fund of the Armour Institute of this citv. This makes his total gift to the institute $2,250,000. KANSASJEWS. Robbers at the Andoyer Post office in Luck. Gire the Combination Safe Knob a Few Twirls AND IT DROPS OPEN. Much Surprised BurglarDoesn't Need Dynamite. Seneca Has a Smallpox Case Which May Spread. Wichita, Feb. 20. Word has reached this city of the transactions of some unusually lucky robbers who rifled the postoirlce at Andover, just east of this city, on the Frisco, early Friday morn ing. These robbers actually worked the combination of the safe. The safe is a small one, about three feet square and four feet high, but the combination lock on it Is just as intri cate and supposed to be just as trust worthy as any other. Thursday evening Postmaster Ra ver's son-in-law, who usually closes the postoflice at night, was out to a dinner party and Postmaster Rever himself had charge of the postoflice. He care fully locked the office up, locked all the doors and put the lock on the safe listening for the tumblers to fall and to assure himself that the safe was closed. The robbers, as was discovered next morning, forced the front door. Once inside, the robber, with safe-breaking tools ready, performed a wonderful feat. Probably more in a spirit of levity than anything else, he gave the combination knobs a couple of twirls, pulled the door and it opened! Probably a more astonished burglar never lived. There are thousands of combinations on a safe door, and this burglar might have taken an algebra and experimented ten years and not hit the lucky numbers. But he did it, and proceeded to dump the contents of the safe on the floor. Among other things he ran across some stamped envelopes printed "Return to Andover, Kansas, and he threw them by. The safe door was left standing open and the floor littered. What he got was 1, 2 and 5 cent stamps, valued in all at $56.78. Dr. Re ver has been postmaster since Septem ber, 1897. SUES FOR 10,000. Wichita Man Brings Action Against the Burton Car Company. Wichita, Feb. 20. Saturday there was filed in the district court a petition In a $10,000 damage suit brought by John W. Cason against the Burton Stock Car company. The suit Is brought through the law firm of Amidon Conly, and the peti tion cites that the injury came to the plaintiff, John Cason, from a fall through the rcof of one of the tall buildings owned by the defendant com pany. The accident occurred on the 6th day of January last, while the plain tiff was carrying lumber across the roof of the building. The petition further alleges that he was a person sound in body and health, a mechanic and la borer and followed the occupation of carpenter; that J. Duff employed the plaintiff, Cason, during the fall of 1898 to work for the said defendant company in repairing and rebuilding the shops, and while in the act of performing his duties was caused to meet with an ac cident, through negligence of defend ants, whereby he was seriously injured, and asks damasres in the sum of $10,000 and doctor's bill, besides $18 for medi cine and hospital fees. CLOSED WITH A BANQUET. Week of Kansas Masonic Meetings at Leavenworth. Ended Satur day Night. Leavenworth, Feb. 20. The week of Masonic meetings was brought to a close Saturday night with the ceremon ial and banquet session of Abdullah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. The ses sion was held by special dispensation from Imperial Potentate, Illustrious Noble Ethelbert F. Allen. Novices were conducted across the hot desert sands to the oasis, where the sheik and the tribe of Abdullah, had as sembled. There were also a number of visiting nobles present from other temples. Novices were instructed to place im plicit confidence in anything a wearer of the Red Fez might say, as some of it might be true, and were also warned against having any dynamite loose in their clothes. After the close of the session, which lasted well into the night, the weary nobles (there were no novices then), re paired to the National hotel, the car avansary at which the banquet for the hungry and thirsty sons of the desert was served. The official divan of the temple for 1899 is: John H. Atwood, illustrious potentate; Clarence C. Goddard, illus trious chief rabban; E. W. Waynant, illustrious assistant rabban; Edward W. Osgood, illustrious high priest and prophet; Harry A. Rose, illustrious treausrer; Peter J. Freeling, illustrious recorder; Henry Seller, illustrious first ceremonial master; S. J. Renz, illus trious second ceremonial master; Renz.illustrlous second ceremonial mas ter; Nathan E. Van Tuyl, illustrious first director; James W. Sexton, illus trious second director; N. B. Perry, il lustrious marshal; Edward Jobson, il lustrious captain of the guard; Rudolph Jost, illustrious outer guard; John D. Edmond, chief of Arab patrol; John C. Ketcheson, emir; Charles F. Rebsamen, alchemist; J. L. Schiffer, as sistant alchemist: Dr. Alfred F. Yohe. court physician; T. F. Kerns.electrician; Peter Strauss, executioner; Professor F. N. Hair, organist and musical director; Julius Meincke, M. Lee Frasier, William A. Doughty, Russell H. Fenn, William N. Todd, James M. Allen, Henry Mus sett, chanters al koran. K. S. XJ. FOOTBALL TEAM. Will Be Managed This Season by Fearl D. Decker. Lawrence, Feb. 20. One of the most interesting fraternal fights ever wit nessed in Kansas university terminated here in the election of Pearl D. Decker as football manager for the next year. The fight was started more than a month ago. J. C. Buttermore and F; R. Moulton were the rival candidates. Mr. Buttermore was supported by most of the fraternities, whiie Moulton had the support of most of the Barb politicians. Each man placed his ticket for athletic board which elects the manager in the field and a vigorous campaign was made. The Moulton forces won out. Mr. Moulton withdrew and the board unanimously elected Mr. Decker. Mr. Decker is well known in college circles and will make an excellent man for the piace. He is a graduate of Park college, was .winner of the interstate oratorical contest in '96 and was leader in the Kansas-Nebraska debate of last year. EKCAM WANTED IN ATCHISON Grocery Company Would Have Him Explain a Few Things. Atchison, Feb. 20. A charge of ob taining goods under false pretenses will be brought against H. B. Ekcam in Atchison county. It will be brought by the Symns Grocery company of Atchi son, which was one of Ekeam's victims to the extent of several thousand dol lars. Excam, who was formerly in business at Reserve, Kan., got away to Mexico two or three years ago with a large amount of ill-gotten money and was re cently arrested there and returned to Holton, Kan., where he is now awaiting trial. If he escapes there he will be compelled to face the Atchison charge. AXLINE LEASES THE CRESSET. Otis Jj. Iiorton of, Mound City, to Run the Leading Medicine Lodge Paper. Medicine Lodge. Feb. 20 L. M. Axline, proprietor and editor of the Medicine Lodge Cresset, has leased his paper to Otis La. Lorton, who comes from Mound City, and who formerly was connected with the Cresset with Axline. It la rumored that Axline expects some fed eral position, and his friends in the Seventh district hope he will get it. Axline was secretary of the Seventh dstrict Republican central committee, which conducted Chester I. Long's suc cessful campaign last fall. The Cresset was formerly published by Tom Mc Neal, now of the Mail and Breeze, at Topeka. HUSBANDS FAIL TO APPEAR. Two Kansas Women Find Themselves in a Sorry Predicament. Kansas City, Feb. 20. Mrs. William Snyder and Mrs. Thomas Carleton of Pittsburg, Kan., are considerably wor ried about their husbands, whom they confidently expected to find when they arrived at the union depot Saturday morning, and who had not put in an appearance at a late hour last night. In the meantime the two women are without funds and are being cared for by the depot authorities while the search for their missing liege lords is being prosecuted vigorously by the po lice. Snyder and Carleton came to Kansas City from Pittsburg a few days ago in search of employment. They wrote to their wives the latter part of last week that they had secured positions in a packing house and requested them to sell their effects and come at once to Kansas City. They did so, sending ahead letters notifying their husbands that they would arrive on the Missouri Pacific train early Saturday morning. They arrived, but no husbands came. They went to the postoflice and found that their letters had not been delivered. They took an inventory of the cash on hand and found that their combined capital was 20 cents. KICKED HIS WIFE. A Brutal Husband Taken From Solo mon to Escape Bodily Injury. From the Abilene Chronicle. Marshal Butcher was in town from Solomon, having in charge one Alfred Keakle, whom he brought here to es cape bodily injury at the hands of irate citizens. He is charged with having kicked and beaten his wife until she was nearly dead. M. W. A. BANQUET. Norton Camp Celebrates an Annual Event. Norton, Feb. 20. The annual social and banquet given by Norton camp. M. W. A., was one of the most pleasing events of the kind that has ever taken place here. The programme consisted of short talks by several of the members, reci tations, music and singing. After the conclusion of the programme supper was served, long tables having been provided, at which several hundred Woodmen and their wives and visitors sat dawn. The Modern Woodmen camp of Nor- America'a Greatest Medicine is Hood s Saraapanlla, becauae it was origi nated and is still pre pared by jompe- tent, expe rienced and edncted pharmacists from the best known alterative, diureticanti-bilioua remedies and atom ach tonics, by jLacom bination, propor al m H tion and process nn known to other reme aies ana giving tcy Hood's Sar- saparilla me rit peculiar to itself. It haja record of cures unequlled in the history of medi cine. It bas many marXvel ous cure when all o t h e r medicines failed, and even when cure-seemed impos sible, and""reaUy was impossi ble by any other medicine than Hood's 9. Sarsaparilla. It t L bas effected wonderful cures of ecrofula,' salt rheum, psoriasis, blood po isoning, boils, pimples, rheumatism ca tarrh and other troubles originat ing in or promot fed by impure Btate or low condition Sol the blood. Ithas cured thousandsof cases of dyspepV Bia m. aigey stion. nervous dyspepsia, gastritis, catarrh in the W stomach and other kindred troubles. It has given nerve, brain and mental strength in cases of nervous prostration and ner vous debility, cured that tired feeling and loss of appetite, ton numbers about 120 members. They report a gain of fifty during the year 1898, with the best prospects for increas ing its membership in 1899 since the or ganization of the camp. SAVING THEIR MONEY. Members of Co. M, 20th Kansas Send $2,200 Home. From the Russell Reformer.! J. C. Ruppenthal received a letter Wednesday morning written under date of January 7, from his brother. Corporal H. C. Ruppenthal, who is with the Twentieth Kansas at Manila He writC3 that he is recovering slowly from the effects of fever, but is not able to do duty. Among the matters of general interest, he mentions the fact that his company, M, deposited with the pay master, for the purpose of having It sent to the states, $2,200, this being a part of the November and December pay. Mr. Ruppenthal himself sends home $50 to be kept for him. SMALLPOX AT SENECA. Physician Uses His Son as Driver When Calling on Patients. Seneca, Feb. 20. Eton Troughton, the 18 year old son of Dr. W. F. Troughton of this city, is down with the smallpox at their house in this city. The resi dence has been quarantined, but is sit uated in a popular residence portion of the city and many are apprehensive. Dr. Troughton is attending physician on several cases of smallpox in Adams township, about eleven miles southeast of this city. The son has been driving his father to the country to see these patients and has been exposed to the infectious disease. The patient will be removed tomorrow to the house in Adams township where the other small pox patients are being treated. Young Troughton has been associating freely with all the young people of his ac quaintance up to the time he was sick and it is feared that the disease may become epidemic in this city. GALENA MINE OWNER DEAD. J. S. Graham Leaves a Large Estate With No Known Relatives. Galena, Feb. 20. J. S. Graham, who has become wealthy from investments in mines within the past three years, died after a brief sickness Sunday at the Alta hotel. He owned a three- eighths interest in the Silver Plume, one of the biggest producing mines in North Empire. Also a fourth interest in a good mine on the Galena Lead and Zinc company's ground. He leaves a large bank account. He did not make a will and has no known relatives. The only information that can be ob tained is that he came to this place about five years ago from Colorado, where he had owned an interest in the Silver Plume mine there, the mine at this place being named after it. At the same time he was engaged in the lum ber business at that place. Negro Child Burned to Death. Salfna, Feb. 20. The S-year-old son of Mrs. Fred Holton (negro) was burned to death last week. Mrs. Hol ton had gone to a neighbor's on an errand and left the child alone in the house. In some unknown manner the child set fire to its clothing, and was dead when its mother returned. Fred Holton, father of the child, is a member of the Twenty-third Kansas infantry, which left Santiago a few days ago for Leavenworth. Leavenworth Pioneer Gone. Leavenworth, Feb. 20. W. J. Shoe maker, member of the firm of Dods worth Co., bookbinders and stationers, died here Sunday after a long illness. He leaves a wife and three children, two girls and one boy. Mr. Shoemaker was born March 26, 1S45, and would have been 54 years of age next month. He came to Kansas with his parents in the early 50a and had resided here since. Banks Refuse Deposits. McPherson, Feb. 20. Part of the county money has been deposited at Salina on account of the refusal of the McPherson banks to accept it. Twenty thousand dollars have been deposited with the Farmers' National bank at Salina, $20,206 with the Farmers' and Merchants' of this place and $15,771 with the Marquette State bank. Death of Hiram Williams. Ohcoln Center, Feb. 20. Hiram Wil liams, one of the pioneers of this city, was buried Saturday. He was a victim of la grippe after a short illness. TROOPS MUST STAY. Withdrawal From Cuba Postponed at Gen. Brooke's Request. New Tork, Feb. 20. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Upon the recommendation of Major General Brooke the withdrawal of American troops from Cuba has been postponed. General Brooke was recently directed to consult with his department command ers in regard to the number of men to be retained in each department to assist the Cubans In preserving peace and order. His reply shows that he believes troops should be continued in the island at least until the Cuban army has disbanded. General Brooke's recommendation will be heeded by the authorities, but they are extremely anxious to get as many of the regiments north as possible before the rainy Beason sets in. In any event it will be necessary to withdraw the volunteer regiments, among which is the Two Hun dred and Second New York, upon the rat ification of the peace treaty by the cortes. General Sternberg said that he had re ceived no reports from Cuba relative to the health conditions, other than those al ready made public, but he is anxious that as many troops as possible shall be brought north at an early date. TICTORIA'S NEW YACHT. Vessel Soon to Be Turned Out of the Dockyard Is 420 Feet Long. London, Feb. 20. Queen Victoria has been satisfied heretofore with a very ordinary pair of yachts, which have done little other service than carry her from the mainland over to the Isle of Wight upon the occasion of her trips to Osborne castle. It may be that the eplendor of the Ger-nan emperor's yacht Hohenzollern prompted her majesty to go into yacht building, but at any rate there will soon come from the ways at the Pembroke dockyard a new yacht of 423 tons greater displace ment than that of Emperor William's. The British vessel will have a total displacement of 4,600 tons, will be 420 feet long and 50 feet beam. It will be the first of thejoyal vessels propelled by screws, the old yachts being side wheeled affairs. It will also differ from these old craft, the newest of which, the Osborne, was built in 1870, in that it is being built of steel, whereas they are of wood. The new royal yacht will be a graceful craft, with three funnels and three masts and fitted out sumptu ously and artistically. f P i i a trapht will Ko Vl tH t n Y J n n II of the royal princesses, and will prob- j ably be called the iincfiantress, al though that name is vigorously criti cised and may be cast aside for the Britannia. The launching will occur early in the spring and the yacht will be ready for the queen about midsummer. HJlTiHrQcIlfu s FOR THREE (BEFORE hoes at Cost! FOR SPOT CASH. MONDAY we sell LADIES' FOR CASH. TUESDAY we sell MEN'S and BOYS' SHOES ONLY AT COST FOR CASH. WEDNESDAY we sell ALL KINDS OF FOOTWEAR AT COST FOR CASH. The J. M. Shoe excepted only. Oar goods are marked in plain figures (regular price) cost means an actual saving cf 20 per cent, to the customer. 628 Kansas Avenue, TO EXPOSE GILLETT. I Troxel Said to Have Fallen Out With the Cattle King and Coming North. Kansas City,Feb.20. The creditors of Grant C. Gillett, the Kansas brass band cattle king, who disappeared several months ago and who is now living in Old Mexico, heard today that Gillett and C. K. Troxel, his attorney and com panion, had engaged in a quarrel about a week ago which came very near end ing fatally for Gillett. According to Gillett's friends in Abi lene, all has not been pleasant between Troxel and the fugitive since they went to the Southern Republic together. The strained relations were broken altogeth er a few days ago. During the alterca tion a pistol was a prominent feature, and it, the story says, was in the hands of Gillett's companion. Troxel, it is reported, left Chihuahua in great rage and was expected to ar rive in Kansas City yesterday. Several stock yard men who were interested in the case tried to find him at the hotels, but failed. Many ugly stories are afloat in Abi lene, which connect others with Gillett who, it is declared, received a good share of the plunder. These men are uneasy, and, according to rumor, have made every preparation to light Troxel and the stories he may tell, by retaining some of the best legal talent in that city.One story that has gone the rounds the last few days, is to the effect that the whole Gillett deal was a gigantic conspiracy, and that $50,000 was recent ly given to one man to distribute among those interested; that instead of doing so, he pocketed the entire sum, and the conspirators are urging him to settle. There are men at the stock yards here who know a great deal more than they will tell and there are some who are telling much that is not the whole truth regarding the Gillett case. In discussing this with a reporter a live stock dealer said: "The Gillett case Is boiling, and it will not be long before it bubbles over. I wish I might tell certain things I know, which will develop later. My hands are tied at present, and I am compelled to look on and say nothing in the hope that certain innocent parties who are interested will not suffer financially when the explosion occurs." NEW PROHIBITION LAW Which Has Passed the Senate Is Recommended in the House. The new prohibitory bill, which passed the senate a few days ago, has already been recommended for passage in the house by the committee on temperance. The bill onlv came over from the senate on Friday and was referred to the com mittee on Saturday. As a general rule, a CLHIJ fill Lire acepa a. "but in this case it was recommenced back jne pi mtjitieii Acciniic w... it gives the county attorney power to sum- 1UUU IIC1CU1IO u.. LV and question them concerning their knowl- tended to remedy the law which gave county attorneys authority to compel per sons to testify before himself. That law j .itu..inctitniinn!.l Vi;i 11 ce it gave the county attorney both Judicial and executive powers. This bill differs in the fact that tne neanng ihrm ia uwu--. 4..ti r.f tVio ntnrF Instead of before the county attorney alone. THE BARBER BILL. What Was Done With It This After noon. The barber bill came up again in the bouse committee of the whole this af ternooi. The bill as it passed the sen ate was substituted for the house bill, but objection was made to passing on it until it was printed as the senate amended it. Mr. Dawes moved to recommend It back to the house with recommendation that it be passed. Mr. Stanley offered another substi tute for the entire bill, authorizing the state board of health to Inspect barber shops, bnt he was ruled out of order because there had already been one sub stitute made. Mr. Jaquins at length got a motion through recommending the bill for passage subject to amendment and de bate, with instructions that it be printed. A Pension of 6,000. Representative Johnston of Kearny county has introduced a bill ir-.o the house to give $6.(K) to Wm. J. Roth, a bricklaver, who feU a distance or eO ieet from the scaffolding of the state house dome in 1SSS. He has been paralyzed ever since. Mr. Roth resides now at Ker.dall, Kearny county. He at one time received $tk0 from the state. W. Q. GRESHAM'S NEPHEW St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 20 A St. Peter; Minn., special to the Dispatch says: A daring attempt was made early to day to burglarize the St. Peters post office, but it was frustrated by the bravery of W. H. Gresham, head clerk in the postoflice. Gresham sleeps in the office and was awakened by some one entering a window. When discovered the burglar fired five shots, all whizzing close by Gresham's head. Gresham fired twice, the last time striking the bur glar and knocking him down, but not seriously wounding him. Gresham then overpowered the "burglar and marched him off to the jail, being joined on the way by the night policeman. The pris oner gave his name as Charles Valen tine. He had a complete safe-cracking outfit. Young Gresham is a nephew of the late Secretary of State Walter Q. Gresham. 9 No Sale Goods Exchanged or Money Refunded. DAYS' ONLY, INVENTORY.) and CHILDREN'S SHOES AT COST

Fianraiao 9 Give us Your Order And begin your Payments now and an 1899 Bicycle Can be bought at its cash price on the installment plan Chainless Machines S65 and $7 Chain Jlaeliines $40 and $50 Hartford Bicycles $33 Vedette Bicycles $25 and $26 112 W. Eighth St. SEEKS GRAND LODGE. A. O. IT. W. Will Be Asked to Come to Topeka. .An effort will be made to secure the next year's meeting of the A. O. 17. W. ifrand lodge for Topeka. The question wil! be decided next week at Pittsburg, where the session of the grand lodge is to be held, and the Topeka delegation will make an effort to capture it. The Topeka Commercial, club will take up the matter at a special meeting which will be held Friday evening and the or IfHnization will do what it can to enable the delegation to give the grand lodge all the necessary assurances in reference to entertainment. SAM JONES SCORES. Nearly Two Hundred Kentucky Whis ky Sellers Indicted. HopkinsvlIIe, Ky.; Feb. 20. Evange list Sam Jones has just closed a re vival, in which he said he was driving the devil out of Hopkinsville. As a re sult, the grand jury has created a sensa tion by returning nearly 200 indictments against persons for running blind tiger3 and selling whisky without a license. This is the largest number of persons ever indicted at one time for a single offense in the state of Kentucky. High Joints Give It Tip. Washington, Feb. 20. The high Joint commission has decided to adjourn to day until mid-summer when it will re assemble to seek to agree finally on the pending questions of difference be tween the United States and Canada. Agreement on several of the most im portant issues pending is apparently impossible at this time. Sir Wilfred Laurier, the head of the Canadian com mission, will leave for Ottawa tonight. Amalgamation of Huntington Roads. London, Feb. 20. A general meeting of the shareholders of the Central Pa cific railroad, summoned by the Lon don committee, has approved the amal gamation of the road with the Southern Pacific and has instructed the commit tee to take immediate steps to carry it out.- There was only one dissenting vote. Kansas City and Return $2.00. Via Rock Island Route. Tanner Indictment Dropped. St. Louis. Feb. 29. A ppecial to the Post Dispatch from Carlinvlile, 111., says: The state's attorney today nolle prossed the three indictments found against Governor Tanner by the rrand jury which investi gated the Virden coal miners' strike. No explanation was made for this action. Kansas City and Return $2.00. Via Rock Island Route. SEND .TJS YOUR Navajo Rugs and Blankets, Art Squares, Ingrain and Ra; Carpets. We smooth the rough edges of collars and cuffs. Our family washing pleases. TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY 'Phone 153. Topeka Cycle Co.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVEXIXGr, FEBRUARY 20. 1899. Xha Mills-Adams Co. MONDAY, Feb. 20th. IN THE SALE OF LACES That started here thi3 morning we want to call your particular attention to the splendid stock of VALENCIENNES LACES. This lace, so popular last season is destined to be Doubly so this season Yal laces will be used lavishly, on all kinds of material. To meet this demand we have made ample provision. Our purchases are Three Times Larger than any previ ous season. Therefore the assortment of patterns is Larger and the prices VERY MUCH LOWER. Beginning at 10, 15, 19, 25, 30, 35, 45, 60, 75, 85, 90 and upward, per dozen. As an idea of assortment will say we will show Sixteen Different Patterns at 25c doz. We'd like you to see these laces. NEW BLACK CEEP0NS. We placed on sale thi3 morning an entire new lot, straight from the fashion capitals of Europe. .Beau tiful new blisters of glossy mohair silhoutted on black ground of Plain, Poplin or Bengaline Grounds. Unfamiliar Designs. NEW SILKS FOR WAISTS. NEW PRINTED FOULARDS. THE MILLS ADAMS CO. OYER THE ICE. A Thirty-Room Hotel la Being Moved Two Miles. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 20. A remarka ble feat in engineering- i3 being per formed at Lake Wawasee. where the Lakevlew hotel is being moved two miles across the ice on the lake. The hotel has thirty rooms and was erected at a promising point on the shore of the lake. Subsequently the trend of cottage building and resorters was to another quarter. It was found impracticable to move the hotel along the bank, and the severe cold of last week solved the dif ficulty. Two feet of ice covered the lake. Immediately the hotel was started on its travels, and, though there are now signs of a break-up, the Immense build ing will be off the ice before it comes. A Sunday Fire. The fire department was called at 2:55 yesterday afternoon by an alarm from box 27 at the corner of Tenth street and the Sac and Fox road. The one story frame dwelling belonging to John Weid ner, at 131S Washington street burned to the ground. The house was not near enough to a fire hydrant to make a con nection ana all the fire department could do was to save the adjoining houses. The ins.urar.ce on the building was 450 and J150 on the contents. Arrested for an Old Offense. John Hooks was arrested by Patrol man Maze for a robberv he committed in Ottawa in 1S96. Rooks confided his story about the robbery to a man by the name of McDonald and that led to his arrest. McDonald communicated with the authorities at Ottawa and found that Rooks' story tallied with the one of the robbery and the arrest fol lowed. Rooks denies that he is guilty. Mormon Elder Speaks. Boaton, Mass., Feb. 20. Elder Whit aker, a prominent Mormon elder is visiting in Worcester, and in an inter view today declares that Congressman elect Roberts, whose polygamy views have been the subject of mueh agitation must be seated. He says his church is ready and anxious to take up a discus sion of the question at issue. 0) ill SHORTEST LINE. COLORADO FLYER. ff mm JESSE CONFIDENT Reiterates Innocence and Hopes to Prore It. Trial of Toung James to Be a Legal Struggle. ARMY OF WITNESSES This Case IVill Serve as a Test For All Those Charged With Complicity in the Leeds Train Robbery. Recapitulation of the Star At traction in Court Today. Kansas City, Feb. 20. Probably no legal contest ever held in the west is anticipated with more wide-spread in terest than that of the Jesse James case beginning today. Young Jesse has been regarded as a shining exception to the rule of "like father, like son," and when he was made a party to the Leeds crime by the confession, true or false, of W. W". Lowe, there was a. marked sensation. The boy had since early childhood en joyed the patronage and protection of T. T. Crittenden Jr., and other promi nent public and business men, and his habits and character were believed to be above reproach. Jesse James was arrested on October 11 last on charges made against him by W. W. Lowe, in his confession. Accord ing to Lowe's statement, James was one of the foremost spirits in the planning and commission of the Leeds robbery, and took an active hand from its incep tion. He was said to have gone to Leeds several times previous to the robbery for the purpose of observing the exact point at which trains stopped at the belt line crossing, Lowe accom panying him on these excursions. He is also said to have hired a buggy at Self's livery stable in which he and others of the robbers rode to Leeds on the night of the robbery. September 23, furnished the dynamite and masks used in the robbery, and was said by the confessor to have been the first man in side the mail car. Lowe was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the robbery October 1, and made his statement to the police ten days later. He named as members of the party besides James, Andy Ryan, Caleb Stone, Charles W. Polk, a man named only as Evans, and a man char acterized as "the big fellow." Ryan was arrested at the Armour Packing company's plant, where he was em ployed. Stone, who is an old man and the proprietor of a boarding house, and Polk were arrested on the same day at 1712 Harrison street- Stone's home. The train robbery at Macomb, Mo., on January 3, resulted in the arrest of John Kennedy and a man who said his name was William Jennings. Soon after the police developed a theory that Jennlng3 was Bill Ryan, a member of the old Quantrell gang, and that he was the man Evans named by Lowe in his con fession, and of whom no trace had been found. Immediately after his arrest Jesse James was taken to the circuit court, where his release was secured on the ground that he was illegally held by the police. After his indictment by the grand jury he was released on bond of $3,000. Pending his trial, which has been delayed several times from one cause and another, he has continued to nn,l his cie-ar stand in the court house without exhibiting any worry as to the outcome of his troubles. Should Lowe's confession be proven false, and a mighty effort will be made by the defense to show that the state ment is a fabrication, there will be small chance of convicting any one of those under indictment. Lowe in his confession makes James one of the fore most Darticipants in the crime, and if an alibi is proven by Jesse the foundation will be knocked from under the state's case against all of the alleged train rob bers. Jesse James seems more inclined to be elated than depressed with the re alization that the charges against him are to be brought to a test. He has abandoned his cigar stand in the court house for the time being, and is with his lawyers most of the time. Some giving his case into the hands of his attorneys he has maintained an abso lute silence concerning the charges against him, but he so far relaxed yes terday as to comment upon the coming trial. When asked what he anticipated as a result of the hearing he said: "So far as my expectations are con cerned I can only say. as I have said from the moment I first heard my name mentioned in connection with the crime, I am innocent. I know that a trial will demonstrate that fact to the world. There is nothing more I could say." Enlisted in the defense are Attorneys Robert L. Yeager, Frank Walsh, F. C. Farr and Milton J. Oldham, a formid able quartet. They have spent a great deal of time and energy on the case and profess the utmost confidence in their ability to clear Jesse. The defense does not believe that a panel of forty-seven Jurors can be se cured from the 150 names drawn from the jury wheel. One possible juryman out of each four drawn, they say, would be a fair estimate of what to expect. It is expected that 150 more names will have to- be drawn before the required panel can be secured. The trial will, in all probability, be a record breaker in length. The defense has at least seventy-five witnesses. and there are said to be more than 100 for the state that are to testify solely with a view to breaking down the defend ant's alibi. It is not unlikely that the selection of a, jury will occupy all of one week, RAILROAD NOTES. Frank Gibson, lineman for the Santa Fe Pacific, has returned to Gallup after putting up a private telephone line con necting the telegraph office at the sta tion with the round house office at Albuquerque. Boilermaker Apprentice Bert Powers, says the Albuquerque Journal, has de cided that the altitude of Albuquerque Is too high for his health and will leave in a few days for Topeka, Kan. Rough Rider Whitehead, who has charge of the switch engine in the Albu querque yards, and Roy Fugate, who holds a similar job at San Marcial.hava exchanged places. The Santa Fe is planning the building of several short lines in Oklahoma ter ritory in districts which at present have no railway facilities. These lines will form connections with the Santa Fe main line and add materially to the local business of the company in that section. T. J. Smith, for a. number of years machinist in the Goodland shops and a j member of the city council, has resigned nis position with the Midland road at Colorado City where he has been em ployed since leaving Goodland. He has purchased land near Grand Junction and will raise fruit. Mr. Mcllroy, of Las Vegas, formerly a fireman on the Santa Fe, will move his family to Albuquerque for future residence. The increase in business on the Santa Fe has made it necessary to put on a third pusher engine on the Glorieta mountain. C. E. Elliott, who has so long filled the position of roundhouse foreman at Las Vegas, has been transferred to Ra ton to fill a like position there. ine tL.i Paso Northeastern railroad company has 100 men and Geo. S. Good Co. fifty men now at work on the ex tension above Alamocordo toward White Oaks, and 150 rock workmen will be put on at tne saiido coal fields, who will work southward. The first of the Judah damage cases against the Santa Fe, is on trial in the Atchison district court. It will be re membered that Jennings Judah and his two aaugnters, Fannie M., age 23. and Nannie, age 15. were killed in an acci dent at the Omaha junction crossing on January 8. 1898. They were going to their home near Cumanings in a sDrine wagon, and were struck on the crossing aoove mentioned Dy the Santa Fe pas senger train due in Atchison at 6 p. m. Mrs. Judah sued the company for $10, 000 damages in each case, alleging that the passenger train was running at an excessive speed, and the engine whistle was not blown, etc. The case of the younger daughter was taken up first, and is now on trial. The railroad charges carelessness and contributory negligence, especially on the part of Jennings Judah, who was driving the team. From time to time rumors have been going the rounds concerning the new steamship line which will be established between Southern California and Mexi co. The latest is that the Santa Fe, as officials of that road, are behind the deal. A gentleman well Dosted on traffic deals says that freight carried by the Santa Fe from western Mexico has to be then transferred to the Southern Pa cific, thus causing them (the Santa Fe) to lose a large income. Now shippers object to having their goods handled by two roads and if the Santa Fe had its own steamship line it could send these goods through to destination by trans ferring them on to ships at San Diego or San Pedro. Then again, at Santa Rosalia, Lower California, there are fine copper mines and smelters, the products of which are sent to France, where the owners reside. Now the Southern Pa cific has a contract to take this copper from Guaymas to Galveston, Tex., where it is loaded on ships for France, but the Southern Pacific is not making anything out of the deal, as their freight cars are all hauled back empty. Now if the Santa Fe had a steamship line which would take the cepper on board at the docks, near the mines, and carrv it to San Pedro or San Diego, where it would be shipped on board the Santa Fe cars, it would save the expense of ferry ing the ore across the gulf of California to Guaymas. as is done now to reach the Southern Pacific. HANDCUFFS HIMSELF. Dennis Dumford Assisted the Officers Who Were Nervous. Constable Thornburg and a deputy constable from Justice Nagle's court in Oakland came to Topeka to arrest one Dennis Dumford for disturbing the peace. They found Dumford in the Royal bil liard hall and the constable started to read the warrant. Dumford comes from a fighting family and has served time in the Hutchinson reformatory. He snatched the warrant from the con stable, tore it up and threw the pieces in the constable's face. When the of ficers tried to hold him he used his fists to such advantage that both the officers were held at bay. The officers were much larger men than Dumford, but his bluff worked. When Policeman Hen dricks, who heard the disturbance, ar rived at the scene of the encounter, he found the two constables receiving se vere punishment at the hands of Dum ford. "Come along to the station." said the policeman, and Dumford contented and made no trouble. He was booked there for assault. "We want to take him over to the county jail," said one of the Oakland officers. "AH right," said Jailer Hopkins. "Well, have you a pair of handcuffs?" "No." "Will you keep him here until I get a pair from the Jail?" The police officers agreed and the constable soon returned with the irons. He, with the assistance of the deputy, tried to put them on Dumford. They were nervous and their hands shook so they could not put them on. "Here, let me have them," said Dum ford. "You fellows don't know any thing about handcuffs. I'll put them on myself." And he did. He is waiting in the county jail for his trial. He Straggled to Die. Yp!lanti. Mich.. Feb. 30. After a ter rible struggle in his front vard with his eldest daughter, who is a mute.Wm. Corv, a veteran and pensioner, suicided today bv gashing his throat. The girl wrenched the razor from her father and threw it as far as she could, but he raced ahead of her. got the weapon and quickly sank dead. Ill health had affected Cory's mind. Prof. Stephens' Sentence. Easton, Pa.. Feb. 20. Pror. Stephens, who was convicted on Sunday of setting fire to Pardee hall. Lafayette college, was today sentenced by Judge Scott to serve nine years in prison. Mission Society to Meet. The Woman's Foreign Missionary so ciety of the First M. E. church will meet at the parlors of the church on Wednesday afternoon. Brooks Meeting. There will be a Brooks meeting at Zane's hall, 17th and Clay Sts., tomor row night. Otis Hungate and Brooks will speak. Colored shirts and waists laundered so that the colors will not fade. Peer less Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West Eighth, street. Miss Lee Redden, who sailed from Hamburg on the steamer Pretoria Jan uary 29. has had quite a remarkable ex perience. For fifteen days there was a terrible storm, and on February 15 the steamer was compelled to go into port at Plymouth, England. Miss Redden's relatives in Topeka were anxious about her and telegraphed the steamship company, who replied that all were safe, and Miss Redden would complete her voyage on the Pennsylvania, which it was expected would arrive at Ply mouth on Saturday from Hamburg. Miss Redden will spend a month or two in the east before returning to Topeka. The Chautauqua Programme. Owing to the concert this evening the N!nde Chautauqua will meet at 7 o'clock and the following programme will be given: Responses to roll call will be quota tions from Hudibras. From Chaucer to Tennyson, chapter V, Miss Stewart. Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century, book V, Miss Walker. The Stedman Club Programme. Responses to roll call, "My Favorite Poem," in fifty words, prose or poetry. Essay B. B. Smythe Review Dr. Mary EL Stewart Poem Mrs. Atchison Story Mrs. Wood Poem Mrs. Hargreaves Paper L. H. Crandell Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. Avery Turner has returned from a few days' visit in Kansas City. Miss Elizabeth Davidson spent Sat urday shopping in Kansas City. Miss Katherine Mills has returned from a visit with friends in Nebraska. Mrs. C. W. Kouns returned Saturday from a week's visit with her sister in St. Louis. Miss Nellie Clough spent Sunday with her mother in Leavenworth. Miss Katherine Jones has returned to her home in Denver, after a few weeks' visit with Topeka friends. The Las Vegas Optic contains the fol lowing item of interest to Topeka peo ple: Yesterday's No. 17 brought in a distinguished party from Topeka, Kan., composed of Mrs. J. J. Frey, J. J. Frey, Jr., and Henrietta Frey, the family of General Manager Frey of the Santa Fe, and Miss Lou Barnes, an intimate friend of the family. Mrs. C. C. Hall, a sister of Mrs. Frey, came home with the party. They are all registered at the Castaneda. It is understood that Mrs. Frey and party will make Las Vegas their headquarters for the next two months or more. The Spalding Reading Circle will meet Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. D. A. Clements. Mr. C. Kersey of Newton is in the city visiting his family. Mrs. George L. Reid of Tribune, ac companied by her little son. is in the city visiting her husband. Representa tive Reid. Miss Herrick has returned to her home in Kansas City after a week's visit with Miss Clyde Hornaday. The Q. D. club will be entertained this evening by Miss Katherine Ernich. Miss Susie Gay, Miss Gertrude Dever eux. Miss Florence Rossington and Miss Helen Thompson spent Saturday in Kansas City. Mrs. George P. Ashton will entertain at thimbles Tuesday afternoon; this is the third of the series. Mr. Joe Ramsey entertained six tables at a delightful progressive high five party last Thursday evening. The first prizes were won by Miss Etta Beck and Mr. Earl Graham, while the consolation prize v.as awarded to Mr. Victor Mar tin. The latter part of the evening was spent in dancing and refreshments were served. Mr. Clark who is attending the uni versity at Lawrence was the guest Sat urday and Sunday of A. J. Maxwell of Lowman Hill. Mrs. P. M. Sheafor left today for Pueblo where she was called by the illness of Mrs. Floyd Baker's little son. Miss Kate Riggs has returned to her home in Lawrence after a short visit with Miss Edith Davis. The Tuesday Evening Whist club will meet Tuesday evening with Miss Helen Moon. Miss Moon will have two or three guest tables, complimentary to her sister, Mrs. Charles Haines of Sa betha. The Aloho Whist club will meet this evening with Mrs. John Kleinhans. Mrs. George Melvin of Washington Court House, Ohio, is in the city visit ing her mother, Mrs. Saxton at 721 Quincy street. Mrs. C. C. Bowes who has been spend ing several weeks with relatives in Topeka, left this morning for her home in Springfield, 111. Mrs. James Rowley returned last week from Chicago where she has been study ing art. Mrs. Charles Burkey of Rossville was in Topeka a while last week. Miss Anna Patterson of Lawrence spent last Friday in Topeka with Miss Julia Chute. Miss Emma Naylor of Rossville is vis iting her parents in the city. Miss Herman of Pueblo, who has been visiting in the east, arrived Sunday to visit Miss Birdie King. Charlie Schilling of Draughon, Ark., is spending a few days in the city with friends. Miss Jessie Cooper of Lawrence spent Sunday in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Giles are the parents of a daughter, born Saturday, the 13th. QUININE AND ITS ROMANCE Jesuit Attempt to Corner the Market by a Papal BulL From Leisure Hour. J Of the Peruvian bark only a fiftieth comes from Peru, our chief source being Madras, Ceylon holding second place, the two together sending us more than all the rest of the world put to gether. Forty years ago our quinine bark all came from the slopes of the Andes, most of it, as a little does now. packed in hides, carried by hand and on mules and boats and rafts for thous ands of miles down the Amazon. Known for ages to the natives only in one lo cality, and so distrusted by them that it was never carried in the wallets of their itinerant doctors so that it is said with some truth that Peru is the only country where Peruvian bark is not used it first came into notice in J 63$. when the Countess Chinchon, wife of the viceroy of Peru, lay ill at Lima of a tertian fever. The corregidor of Loxa, hearing of her illness, and know ing of the reputed virtues of the quina bark, sent her a rarcel of one of its varieties, which, administered by her physician, brought about a rapid and complete cure. The variety of bark, however, was one that abounds in cinchonidine, and it was probably this alkaloid, and no quinine, that cured the countess. Two years afterward the woman returned to Spain, bringing with her a supply of the precious quina for the use of the sick on her husband's estates, and its repu tation gradually spread under the name of countess' powder. In 1670 the Jesuits sent some parcels of the powdered bark to Rome to be distributed by Cardinal de Lugo, whence it became known as the cardinal's powder and Jesuit's bark, with the ridiculous result that no Prot estants would have anything to do with it. PROHIBIT TIGHT LACING. Wisconsin Legislator From Bear Creek Introduces Resolution to That Effect. Madison. Wis., Feb. 20. Mr. Daggett of Bear Creek introduced in the assem bly today a joint resolution looking to the protection of the health of women, young, old and married, in the state of Wisconsin by making a law to prohibit tight lacing. He proposes a commission to be made up of three members of the assembly and one of the senate to draft and introduce a bill prohibiting tight lacing. Mr. Daggett says he is serious about the matter, and intends to push it to a successful end. He says, further, that he believes tight lacing is a menace to the health of posterity, and that the custom imperatively requires remedial legislation. It is understood that one of the bach elor members of the legislature will In troduce a bill prohibiting the wearing of tight skirts just now coming into style. 30 CUBAN POSTOFFICES Are Now Under Control of American Officials. Havana, Feb. 20. The United States transport Manitoba arrived here last evening and the steamer Saratoga came into port this afternoon. Following the order of Major J. C. Rathbone, issued February 10, the Ameri canization of the Cuban postal system ia proceeding. Thirty offices, including those of Sagua, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos. Cardenas and Matanzas, are now in con trol of American postmasters. The former Spanish postmasters are acting assistants to the new officials and are being in structed in American methods. The money order and registered letter system will be introduced tomorrow. A corps of trained American inspectors began traveling through the island this week, instructing the officials in the new methods. The construction of the new custom house in Havana is again being agitated. The merchants desire the appropriation of JHiO.iaw of the customs receipts as a nu cleus of the necessary fund and the addi tion of W-z per cent to the duty on im ports to obtain the remainder of the sum needed. The merchants voluntarily agree to the imposition of this new tax. Colonel T. H. Bliss has not given the matter active con sideration. The five yellow fever suspects in the Two Hundred and Second New York reg iment at Guanajay have all recovered. The disease in each case has been diagnosticat ed as not yellow fever. CAUGHT IN THE BIG STORM. Crew of the British Steamer Cardinal Abandon Her. Ealtimore, Feb. 20. The Lord line steamer Lord Charlemont, Captain Mc Vickar, from Ardrossan, which arrived here this morning, had aboard the crew of the British steamer Cardinal of New castle, which was abandoned February 15 in latitude 40 north, longitude 60 west. The Cardinal sailed from Fensacola for Antwerp February 1, with a cargo of lum ber and timber on deck. She coaled at Norfolk February 8 and sailed the next day. Soon after getting to sea she en countered terrific gales and seas swept over her, carrving away her bulwarks and flooding her hold. T. ntil Monday, Feb ruary 14. her crew endured great hard ships from cold and hunger, and on the morning of the 15th. when the Lord Charle mont hoi'e in sight, it was decided to abandon her. Captain Charles Kemp, the Cardinal's commander, and his crew launched two of their boats and reached the Charlemont in safety, after which the boats were abandoned. FOR CURE OF INEBRIATES. Germany Has a Curious Law in Oper ation Now. From the New York Times. J Germany's inebriates, after one more year of such carefully mitigated lib erty as the dear kaiser's subjects are permitted to enjoy, will enter upon a period of restraint calculated to fill them with mingled horror and indigna tion. With the beginning of 1900 there will go into effect a truly remarkable law a law which places every habitual drunkard under an interdict involving complete submission to the will of a duly appointed "curator." This person will be empowered to put the person whom he regards as a dipsomaniac anywhere he pleases, there to undergo treatment for the malady as long as the "curator" pleases. And the new law formulates a fine, broad definition in telling what a habitual drunkard is. It says that the term Includes everybody "who, in consequence of inebriety, can not provide for his affairs, or endangers the safety for others." This measure was first advocated in Germany 35 years ago, but hitherto its enactment has been prevented by in fluences not difficult to understand. How the regulation will work remains to be seen. That it may effect good results is obvious, and equally evident is the possibility that it may lead to tyranny such as would be utterly un endurable anywhere out of Prussia, LOCAL MENTION. David Overmyer will speak before the Kansas Democratic flambeau club on Washington's birthday, the 22d on "Im perialism." Mr. S. H. Griffiths, depot agent of Wells Fargo Co.'s express of this city, has resigned his position to accept one as superintendent of the Express Railway Employes' Horticultural asso ciation at Grand Junction, Col. W. L, Griffiths of Kansas City will succeed him as depot agent. Notice to Elks. A special meeting of the lodge is called for 8 o'clock this evening for the pur pose of taking action on the funeral of Bro. Eugene Wolfe. JNO. C. PAYNE, E. R. GEO. WAGNER. Secretary. Homeseekers' Excursion Via the San ta Fe Route, On February 21 the Santa Fe will sell tickets te points in Arkansas. Arizona, Indian Territory, Louisiana, New Mex ico, Oklahoma and Texas at one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip. See Santa fe agent fer informaiioD, Our New Shoe Department Open Soon Toe KANSAS AVE. AUERBACH A GUCTTEL- THE LAST WILL BE MEMORABLE BATS FOR THE GIGANTIC $15, $16.50, $18 Winter Suits and Overcoats for $10. See our Window I The reason for this remark able offer is we are deter mined not to carry over any fine heavy-weight Suit or Overcoat if a low price will sell them. Every garment in this sale is of highest grade fabrics, linings and make. We are bound to sell them. There fore pick one out for THE OLD AND NEW WOMAN. Suggestion Made to Put Aside the Golf Stick for the Skillet. tFrom the New Tork World. Accustomed as the world is now to radical ideas about woman and"wom an's sphere," it will receive a distinct shock from the utterances of Mrs. Wil liam G. Shailer at the last meeting of Sorosis. And as a climax of astonish ment not a word of rebuke or even dissent was uttered either during or after her address. Mrs. Shatter's theory Is fairly pre sented in these sentences from ier speech "Housework brings into play a wider range of muscle and brain when prop erly done than any other work. It is a magnificent education. To apply sys tem in the home requires judgment, quickness and accuracy." It is hardly necessary to comment upon the dangers of such radicalism. There is an insinuating air of common sense about it that makes it particu larly alluring. Suppose it should take root and grow? Suppose that women should out to the kitchen instead of the gclf field for exercise, should put aside the racquet and the golf-sticks for the washboard and the kne&ding-pan, should substitute for social and politi cal economics household economics? The suggestion is really revolutionary and points to one of the revolutions that never go backward. The mothers, grandmothers, or at the most the great grandmothers of the girls who are now "in for athletics," developed their beau tiful arms and put useful knowledge into their heads in the manner suggest ed at the meeting of Sorosis. But it is, we fear, quite too "common" and 'bourgeois" a fashion to be revived in even the outer fringes of "society." MUMMIES WHO WERE NUDE In Catacombs of Mexico Have Been Provided With Clothing. From Modern Mexico. One of the sights that has always in terested tourist3 vvho stopped over at the delightfully unmodernized city of Guanajuato is the catacombs beneath the cemetery. Vaults In the thick wall of the panteon are sold for a term of years, and if at the end of the period the lease is not renewed, the bones of the departed are thrown into the com mon heap in the underground corridors. The dry. rare air of Guanajuato has, during the last 100 years, mummified the remains of many, and instead con signing these to the general pile, they have been stood up against the walls of the passages, grim sentinels of death in death's abode. Many people visit the place out of curiosity, and the authorities recently decided that these mummies were an immoral sight. They have accordingly had white gowns made for them and the watchers now keep their silent vigils modestly attired. PEKIN SOT SO BA D. There Are Odors But They Are Few Compared With Bombay or Singapore. Pekin Correspondence Chicago Record The dust of the streets of Pekin. or, as it may be, the mud, is pretty bad, but, like most things, it is not so bad as one is told. As for odors, well, there are odors, but the wonder is that the odors are so few when one recollects that the city is practically without municipal regulations. Bombay. Calcutta, Singa nore are governed with all the machine ry of English administration, and you smell them in the by-Btreets pretty much as you do Pekin that is to say, you smell a bad odor occasionally. But, as compared with the customary Chi nese town, as compared with Canton, as compared with the native city at Shanghai, Pekin is clean. Knock down the walls, pave the roads, remove the refuse and you would make it a fine city. It has much the same advantages that London has obtained from being a city of royal residence. The forbidden city has its parallel In the open spaces that begin in Kensington Gardens and extend to Charing Cross by way of Hyde Park, St. James' and the Mall. In close these parks with a high wall and you would make the West End of Lon don topographically like the Manchu district of Pekin. Make the forbidden city into public parks and you convert the Manchu district of Pekin into a new "West End." Somebody will do It some day. The question is whether that some body will be Mongolian, Anglo-Saxon or Slavonic. TAKES CARE OF HOUSES. A New York Woman Looks After Res idences of Out of Town Visitors. From the New "Fork Tribune. Mrs. Ledyard Stevens, who manages the Bureau of Social Requirements in this city, has added a new feature to her already unique establishment. Sev eral society people who wanted to go south for the winter and others who wanted to go for a month or so called at her office and asked her advice and help, so she agreed to take care of their houses during their absence for a small sum. If servants are left she pays a daily visit to the house, directs them in their duties, and reports to the ab sent mistress by letter. She provides servants also, and if the house is to be EXPA S O SALE. vsrl fl UlJU literally "shut up" she takes the key. and has a burglar alarm put up that connects with her house and office. "But it is the responsibility I assume that owners of houses prize most," said Mrs. Stevens yesterday, "though few society women ever realize what that is. I open houses for people who are abroad, and close others for those who desire to remain there, and I direct en tertainments, prepare menus, give let ters of advice and introduction, and engage housekeepers, governesses, com panions, secretaries and household servants. I have blanks in which all applicants for positions are required to state their occupation, nationality.creed, wages required, and whether they ara married or single, as well as the ques tions about character and references that mistresses would ask for. I think the time Is coming when every bureau, of this kind will insist upon having art applicant's handwriting and photo graph, for these are the best indexes to a person's character." PASSING OF THE COAL AGE. Electricity to Relieve TJs of Our De pendence on Coal FueL From the New Tork Journal. The development of electrical powef from the forces of nature has quieteJ one apprehension that worried a good many people a few years ago. The fact that the world's coal supply was rapid ly disappearing was often held to por tend an early return to barbarism, if not an extinction of the human race. Mr. Proctor, for instance, thought it quite useless to disturb ourselves about the probable decline of the sun's heat, which had bothered some astronomers with a knack of borrowing trouble, since long before that could have any percep tible effect the exhaustion of our stores of coal would reduce humanity to ai condition in which the subsequent pro ceedings would interest it no more. Nothing more is heard of these dire ful predictions. It is true that the ma terial basis of our civilization will soon undergo a radical change. We are ex hausting our coal fields at a rate that will soon make them a memory. Every day we destroy the accumulations of a century. The child is born that will see the manufacturing importance of England at an end, or based on some other foundation than coal. But there is nothing alarming in this. The carbonipyrous age, so to speak, ia only an episode in human history, an 1 an exceedingly brief one. We were liv ing modestly and contentedly on our income, when we suddenly came into a legacy. We are spending that legacy as fast as we can, and when it is gone we shall live on our income again, but richer by the knowledge and experience we have bought with our unexpected wind-fall. The coal Incident has had its uses. It we had never had It we should hardly have had that tremendous development of natural science which has given us the power to master greater forces than those of the mine. The coai supply has taught us how to do without it. Electricity drawn from streams has already begun to relieve us of our de pendence upon the stores of latent pow er piled up for us In the coal beds through millions of sluggish ages. But that is merely the most readily availa ble source of energy, not the most abundant. CHARMS OF AN EX-EMPRESS Mrs. Senator Davis Speaks of Her Meeting With Ex-Empress Eugenie. From the Philadelphia Times. Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, who has just returned from Paris with her husband, speaks with great pleasure of her meet ing with ex-Empress Eugenie. "The ex-empress," she says, "resided in tl.e same hotel with us, and I sent her my card. It was a surprise and a pleasure to be invited to call upon. her. It was also a great pleasure to find that mis fortune, trials and bereavements have not deprived her of that beauty for which she was once so famous. When she was queen of France she was also queen of fashion, and although she does not now occupy a throne, the women of the world might well continue to follow her in fashion and decorum. She is graceful, beautiful, and her taste in dress is manifest in every cr.stume. "One who meets with the lovely lady will always remember with pathet c tenderness the unostentatious remind er of her woes in the pictures of hfr lost husband and son, near the couch and upon her bureau, each of them per fumed with freh violets in delicate cut glass vases. The ex-empress speaks English with proficiency and fluency, using the choicest of words to express the exact shades of her meaning. I shall ever remember her with kindness and with a degree of pathetic affection because I so deeply sympathize with her in her gTeat afflictions." HIS TONGUE CUT OFF. So a Calf's Tongue Will Be Engrafted as a Substitute. Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 20. Algernon Sunde lost his tongue in a stabbing affray with Herbert Ressegieu last night. The injury resulted from a kni'e thrust through both cheeks. The vic tim is terribly mutilated, and will be unable to talk distinctly. Ictors say they may be able to restore the injurecj organ by engrafting the top of a calf's tongue on the stump. It is supposed Sunde swallowed th-s portion of his tongue which was severe, The nen were rivals in love.

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G TOPEKA STATE JOURNAIi, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRTJAIIY 20, 1899. STOPSUTEAL Senate Railroads a Dangerous Bill Through in an Omnibus. Makes 15 Cent Bonds Worth 100 Cents on the Dollar, BILL IS RECALLED. Senators Titus, Field and Lamb Ask Stanley to Kill It. Offers of a Reward For Passage of Another Similar Bill. What the members of the senate pro nounce a steal of $25,000 was railroaded through the senate last week in an omnibus, carrying what was supposed to be only local bills, but In reality one of them was a very dangerous measure which Governor Stanley will veto If the bill can not be recalled. The bill, upon its face, Is one of the most innocent instruments which has been enacted into law in many years. Jt pertains solely to Haskell county, but the senators see in it a plan to burden the state school fund with bonds worth no more than 15 or 20 cents on the dol lar at the full par value of 100 cents. The bill authorized the county com missioners of Haskell county to issue bonds in the sum of $25,000 to pay out standing indebtedness and created no suspicion until section 4 was carefully examined, after the bill had passed the senate and had been reported back to the house where it originated and pass ed some days ago. When the bill reach ed the house it was immediately en rolled and sent to Governor Stanley. The objectionable section follows: "That on the 1st day of July. A. D. 1S90. if the parties holding orders, al lowed accounts and warrants against said county fail to exchange said orders, allowed accounts and warrants for bonds, then the board of county com missioners and clerk shall issue bonds to cover the balance of the indebted ness of said county, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, which may be sold for cash at not less than par, or they shall be taken by the commission ers of the permanent school fund of the state at par, and the moneys derived from such sale shall be paid over to the county treasurer, to be by him dis bursed in payments of the outstanding allowed accounts or warrant aforesaid, or any judgment obtained thereon, but for no other purpose." When Senator Titus read this section he called Senator Field and said: "This will never do. Here is a plan to unload a lot more of those bad west ern bonds on the state school fund at par." "What is the bill?" inquired Field. "It's a steal," remarked two or three senators who had become interested by this time. "That is a dangerous measure," re marked Senator Lamb as his legal apt ness construed the provisions of section 4. "When was it passed?" asked a half dozen men. "It was railroaded through in that omnibus of local bills." was the reply. The senate was busy considering the coal oil bill but Mr. Titus asked unan imous consent to introduce a resolution which was granted and the senate adopted the resolution to recall the bill from the house, requesting, if the bill had gone out of the jurisdiction of the house by being sent to the governor, that the house recall it from the gover nor's hands. Senators Lamb. Titus and Field then hurried to Mr. Stanley's office and ex plained the situation and asked him to veto the bill if it was not recalled. This arrangement perfected the senators re turned and disposed of the oil bill. NEW OIL BILL PASSED. Senate Measure Has Been Permitted to Start in Life. The senate has passed and sent to the house the bill substituted by the com mittee on state affairs for Senator Ful ton's bill regulating the inspection of oil. This bill as it came from the com mittee was no better than the preser.t law but several surprises which were sprung during the consideration of the measure made it much better but it does not now appear in such a shape that the chances for blackmailing and stealing are entirely removed. On motion of Senator Farrelly a new section was added to the bill providing severe penalties for deputies who re port oil as having passed a certain test without looking at it or making the tests required by law. This will do away with much of the crookedness which has been connected with this of fice for several years. During the debate on the bill three red-faced gentlemen representing the Standard Oil company sat in the gal lery each intently watching every sena tor as he rose to his feet to discuss pro posed amendments or to offer some sug gestion concerning the bill. The three sets of rosy cheeks were joyous at th s outset, but when the senate got through with the bill these three gentlemen made a hurried exit from the gallery and went down town declaring that they were beaten at every turn. When the bill was first brought up in the senate it was considered section by section and but little was done towards amending it until it was almost com pleted. Then Senator Farrelly offered the new section mentioned and the trouble for the oil trust really com menced. Then the three gentlemen who were watching the senate from the gal lery became alarmed. Later they be came gloomy and later they departed. Senator Field said if the bill contem plated the inspection of gasoline it should say so and his amendment to that effect was adopted. Then Senator Forney suggested that in testing gaso line for heating or burning the wori illuminating" should be placed in the bill and it was. Section 20 was as follows: "Gas or vapor from petroleum or any of the products of petroleum may be used for llumlnating purposes in gas-generating hydrocarbon lamps, or when the oils from which said gas or vapor is gen erated are contained in close reservoirs outside the building lighted by said ga3 or vapor. Any person or persons vio lating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemea nor, and shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding $300; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to the use in street lamps of the lighter products of petroleum, such as gasoline, benzine, benzone, and naphtha; provided, how ever, the provisions of this act shall pot apply to the use of natural gas." There is a new kind of gasoline lamo on the market and Mr. Young asked Senator Fulton if this section prohibi ted the use of gasoline in such lamps. "I guess it does," was the reply. "I move that section 20 be stricken out of the bill," said Toung and the mo tion was adopted. This section had been put in because the low test prescribed would not admit the quality of gasoline which would be needed in such lamps and the motion to strike out helped the bill. It is believed this measure will be killed in the house. The proposed law fixes the salaries of local and deputy Inspectors at $1,200 per year. "This is a substantial reduction," said Senator Fulton, "because these fellow3 have been In the habit of talcing every thing they collected. I remember that Col. Taylor collected $13,000 or $15,000 per year and turned none of it into tho state. This bill makes the inspectors turn all moneys collected into the state treasury and then they draw their salaries." MAJORITY WILL RULE. Senate Calendar Will Be Revised in Open Session. The senate calendar 'will be revised and bills advanced only upon a vote of 21 members In favor of the proposition. The senate discussed the appointment of a committee to revise the calendar. but declined to provide for one and vo ted that bills shall be advanced here after only under a majority vote. NO WATERING OF STOCK. A .Minority Report of a Committee Made in the House. For the first time during the present session a minority report of a. commit tee has been made in the house. It was on the senate bill to prohibit the water ing of stock of private corporations. The bill provides that no private cor poration shall issue bonds or mortgage its property for more than it is worth, and the assessment rolls shall be taken as evidence of its value. This would prohibit a railroad from bonding Itself for more than its assessed valuation. It passed the senate by a vote of 23 to 6 and came over to the house on February 8 and was referred to the committee on private corporations, which today reported adversely on it. Three members, Willits, Tenny and Harris, signed this report, but Mr. Wheeler submitted a minority report recommending the bill for passage. Mr. Wheeler moved to have the bill printed and placed on the calendar, but the motion laid over till tomorrow. SHAWNEE SALARIES. Senator Anderson Introduces a New Bill in the Senate Senator Anderson Introduced a bill in the senate today to fix the salaries of the treasurer, clerk of the court and sheriff of Shawnee county. The salary of the treasurer is fixed at $2,500; that of the clerk, fees to the amount of $3,000; the sheriff, not to ex ceed $3,500. Among other bills introduced today is one by Senator Campbell making it a misdemeanor for notaries to refuse to attach their signatures and the date of the expiration of their commissions to any instrument. The fine is $100. FOR PUBLIC REFRIGERATORS. Senator Young Wants Cities to Main tain Ice Plants. Senator Toung has a scheme to permit cities of the second class to engage in a new enterprise, that of manufacturing ice. He introduced a bill in the senate today authorizing all cities of this class to maintain such ice plants and in con nection therewith public refrigerators. It is believed that the cold storage idea in this bill will be made strictly ap plicable to its provisions when it reaches the committee, and that the bill will repose in peace. A FEW HOURS' GRACE Given to the Introduction of Bills in the House. The house has extended the time for the introduction of bills until noon to morrow. The senate concurrent resolu tion was to shut off the bills at 6 o'clock tonight, Mr. Geissler moved to make the limit 12 o'clock tomorrow. Mr. Keifer called attention to the fact that the house had already shut off the in troduction of bills, but Speaker Osborn ruled that if the senate resolution was concurred in, it would have the effect of extending the time whether it was so stated or not. Mr. Geissler said several of the mem bers had not yet returned from their homes, and they would probably be loaded with bills when they came back tonight or tomorrow morning. The resolution was tabled at one time on motion of Mr. Fairchild, but Mr. Ravenscraft succeeded in getting it from the table again and it was passed. There are already several hundred more bills In the house that will never be considered, and it is not probable that any bill introduced at this time will get through even the committee of the whole in one house. CHARGE ONLY $10 PER DAY. Senator Lupfer Wants to Regulate Fees for Insurance Company Examiners. Senator Forney introduced a bill in the senate today to fix the fee to be charged by representatives of the Kan sas insurance department in examining non-resident companies at their home offices, at $10 per day. The existing rate is the same as charged by representatives of the com panies themselves, $25 per day and ex penses. Mr. Forney's bill provides that the ex penses of such trips, for example from Kansas to New York, shall be shared proportionately by all companies ex amined in that city. If ten companies were examined by representatives of the Kansas department, each company would pay its proportion of the expense of making the trip and $10 per day for the examination. NEW POLITICAL SCHEME. Senator Young Has a Plan for Official County Papers. Senator Young Introduced a bill in the senate this morning, which is designed to cut down the fees of the official coun ty papers. He wants the price fixed at 40 cents per square for the first publica tion and 20 cents per square of 250 ems for all publications on behalf of the county. It is also a new scheme to reward party papers, as the bill provides that the commissioners shall designate as the official paper the paper representing the party which cast the largest vote at the last election. This means that in co-unties where the Populists cast the largest vote, yet with a board of Re publican commissioners they would be equired to give the printing to a Popu list paper. Medical College Commencement. Chancellor F. H. Snow of the state university will deliver the commence ment address at the commencement ex ercises of the Kansas Medical college this year. The exercises will be held in Library hall on Friday evening. March 24. Dr. D. D. Wilson of Nortonville will deliver the address on the part of the faculty. The class address will be made by Mr. Charles Hendricks. The com mencement this year will be the tenth the college has held since its organiza tion. Xwenty-six students, the largest class in its history, will be graduated. After the exercises at Library hall the factulty will tender the graduating class a banquet. A Few More Bills Get in. 'Although the house passed a resolu tion several days ago, prohibiting the introduction of all bills, except appro priation bills, after last Saturday, the resolution was forgotten this morning and a batch of eight bills was intro duced. When Speaker Osborn's atten tion was called to the matter he ruled that as the bills were already in they could not be shut out. This brings the total number of bills which have been introduced, into the house up to 876. Beaton's Bill Recommended. The house in committee of the whole this morning recommended only one bill for passage. It was Seaton's bill pro viding for the sale of perishable prop erty and live stock by carriers and warehousemen when they are not called for by their consignees within a certain time. It is intended to allow railroads and express companies to dispose of fruit and other perishable freight when it seems likely to perish on their hands. PAY FOR FROZEN WATER. Wisconsin Legislator Proposes a Tax on Ice Shipped From the State Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 20. Senator John Harrison of Elkhorn proposes to make the Knickerbocker Ice company pay about $200,000 a year for the priv ilege of cutting Ice from the Wisconsin lakes and shipping it to Chicago. He has introduced a bill in the legislature to have all who cut ice from the mean dering lakes of Wisconsin and ship it out of the state to pay a tax of 15 cents a ton. Mor than 1.000,000 tons of ice are shipped out of Wisconsin every year. The state owns the beds of all of the meandering lakes, and the proposed tax is merely a charge to outsiders for the privilege of cutting the ice. It is pro posed to have the money paid into the school fund. ARABIAN REVOLT Is Dae to Fleecing of Pilgrims by the Sultan's Officers. London, Feb. 20. It is a question of money rather than of faith or politics that is responsible for the terrible in surrection now raging in Arabia around the holy cities of Islam, and which may possibly result in the repudi ation by the chiefs of the Mohamme dan church at Mecca of any further temporal allegiance to the sultan, whose connection, with the family of theprophet Mohammed is mythical, whereas that of the. grand sheik at Mecca is authen tic. Ever since the plague has been rag ing in India, the Turkish authorities have established so-called quarantine camps at the various ports of debark ation on the Arabian coast, under the pretext of preventing the plague from reaching Mecca, although the latter, by reason of its complete absence of sani tation, its appalling filth, and its enor mous concourse of pilgrims, is a verit able hot-bed of cholera, smallpox.typhus and of other epidemic maladies. In these quarantine stations on the coast the Turkish authorities fleeece the pilgrims to such an extent that they are practically penniless when they reach Mecca and Medina. In this way the ecclesiastical authorities at Mecca find themselves deprived of the chief source of their revenue, and as remon strances at Constantinople have proved useless, the grand sheik at Mecca has used his vast religious influence over the fanatic tribes of Arabs that conn stitute the population of the Yemen province, to rise against the sultan. As there is absolutely no European supervision of the Turkish quarantine stations on the coast, the Ottoman offi cials have a free hand in extorting money from the wealthy pilgrims, de taining them there not merely weeks, but actually months, until they have extorted every penny that they posses sed, part of the proceeds being remitted to the sultan at Constantinople. England has always maintained very friendly relations with the grand cherif of Mecca, who. on his side, finding, that Queen Victoria's Mohammedan subjects were the largest contributors to his revenues, and that the Moham medan faith prospered beneath her rule more than under that of the sultan, has reciprocated these friendly senti ments. Under the circumstances it is not sur prising that an impression should pre vail, both at Constantinople and at Paris, to the effect that England is fos tering the rebellion against Turkish rule in the Yemen with the view to punishing the sultan for the intense animosity that he has manifested dur ing the last two years toward every thing English. Rock Island Flyer. Kansas City and return $2.00 Tickets good returning February 23. arEW Tronic HATS Correct Spring Shapes Ready, Quality the VEEY BEST. Hand-Made Derby Hats, Best In the World.' SOFT FELT HATS. In Blacks and New Colors. j 1 1, SOLE AGENTS. 631 Kansas Ave. mm EUGENE WOLFE DEAD. Wellknown and Popular Young Lawyer of Topeka Passes Away. Eugene Wolfe died last night at"9:40 at his home, 311 West Thirteenth street. Mr. Wolfe, who had been in ill health for a year, was operated on at Stor tnont hospital four weeks ago yesterday and the operation revealed that he was suffering from cancer of the intestines. He was taken from the hospital to his home on Thursday and on Friday he was feeling so much better that he felt certain he was going to get well and said he would be able to go down town on Monday. He grew worse Saturday and nearly all of Sunday was in intense agony. He was conscious to the last, recognizing those about him. Mr. Wolfe was born at Canal Lewis ville, Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1864. He attended the schools at Coshocton and spent a year at Oberlin college af terwards teaching school for six years and studying law with the prosecuting attorney of the county. Eugene Mr. Wolfe came to Kansas in 1887 and commenced the practice of law. He was married in 1891 to Miss Louise Douthitt, daughter of the late Wm. P. Douthitt, and leaves besides his wife two children, William Douthitt Wolfe and a baby, Eugene, one year old. He was appointed assistant postmas ter by Postmaster A. J. Arnold and held the position for four years until the change of administration when he re tired and formed a law partnership with his father-in-law, the late Judge Douthitt. Since Judge Douthitt's death. Mr. Wolfe had been engaged in improv ing the Douthitt tract and placing it on sale as an addition to Topeka. Mr. Wolfe was known as one of To peka's brightest young men and was one of the founders of the Emersonian club which was merged into the Satur day night club. He was a member of the Topeka lodge of Elks. A year ago Mr. Wolfe was seriously sick. The malady grew and four weeks ago it was decided that an operation might bring relief. An examination was made and it was found that the opera tion could only be to prolong life and that death was certain. An autopsy was held this morning and it was found that the decision that the operation could only be extended far enough to prolong his life was right and that nothing could have been done to save him from the ravages of the dis ease. The time of the funeral has not been announced. Mr. O. Wolfe, a brother of Eugene, has been here since the opera tion and left a few days ago for his home intending to return at once. He has been telegraphed for. GLASS PAVEMENTS Have Been Laid in Lyons, France, and Are a Success. Washington, Feb. 20. Consul John C. Covert has written from Lyons to the state department an interesting letter upon the new uses of glass. In It he tells of pavements of ceramic stone or devitrified glass which have been laid on principal street thoroughfares in Lyons and which under heavy and con tinuous traffic for several months, have shown no greater deterioration than marks the similar life of stone pave ments. He says glass is being made into a material known as "Ceramo crystal" and is being widely used for buildings and interior decorations.much as cut stone. The new material possesses all the In trinsic qualities, physical and chemical, of glass, except the transparency and at the same time is made to resist crushing frost, heavy shocks and to stand usage. A proposition to erect glass houses, or a luminous palace at the Paris exposition next year will likely be pushed and the building will present completely the possibilities of glass as a structural material. MILLER THE TICTOR. Wins the Six-Day Bicycle Race End ed Last Night at San Francisco. San Francisco, Feb. 20. When the greatest six day bicycle race ever run ended at Mechanics" Pavilion last night Charles W. Miller, the Chicago gripman maintained his position as the long dis tance champion of the world. The finish of the contest which has caused much excitement in athletic cir cles was comparatively tame. No less than six of the riders beat all previous records and more miles might have been reeled off had there been any in centive to do so. But as all of the men, excepting Gimm and Hale were separa ted by distances too great to be over come in a few hours, the management decided to end the race ahead of the scheduled time, which however was ever an hour longer than that of any rrevious six day contest. The famous event in Madison Square Garden, New York, was only 142 hours, while the rid ers at the Mechanics' Pavilion contin ued their struggle for supremacy for 143 hours and 21 minutes. THEATRICAL FUT CRE t For Topeka, Has Some Good Things Though the List is Not Long. The closing days of the theatrical season in this city will not be marked by a mad rush of attractions. The gait will be much easier than that offered theater goers several particular weeks since the houses here opened last fall. But nine attractions are contracted for by the management of the Crawford theater for the month of March, and but four for April and one for May. The attractions secured by the management of the Grand Opera House from this time on will be altogether chance book ings. While the present theatrical outlook Is not one of the brightest, the season so far has been altogether satisfactory. More attractions of the kind that To peka theater goers patronize have been brought hare than has been true for several past seasons. It is possible that the list for the next three weeks will be materially bettered by the bookings of several high class attractions which are now touring west and will reach this territory before the end of the sea son. Among these are Olga Nethersole, DeWolf Hopper in his latest comic opera "The Charlatan," William H. Crane and Jefferson DeAngelia in "The Jolly Musketeers." Wolfe. The engagement of Sol Smith Russell is probably the most popular offering of Manager Crawford's present list. He will be seen here in March 6 in "Hon. John Grigsby," his latest play, and one in which he is said to appear to excel lent advantage. Roland Reed will prob ably come to this city on April 7, al though Manager Crawford is not yet absolutely sure of securing the come dian. Robert Mantell is booked for two nights, April 21 and 22, and Eugenie Blair one night, April 26. Miss Blair is playing "A Lady of Quality," and has a production identical with that of Julia Arthur. The "Bostonians" will visit To peka after an absence of several years on May 22. Prominent among the attractions for next month is Clay Clement in his new play, "A Southern Gentleman," on March 17. Mr. Clement has twice dem onstrated his ability as an actor here in "The New Dominion." "Shore Acres" without its chief attraction, Mr. James A. Heme, is the booking for March 11. Mr. Heme is now engaged in showing the unique position he holds on the American stage at the Herald Square theater in New York city in "Rev. Grif fith Davenport." Hoyt's "A Day and a Night," which followed his big success, "A Stranger in New York," and pre ceded his first failure, "A Dog in a Man ger," will be the attraction on March 30. Other attractions booked for next month are the following: Bobby Gaylor in "McSorley's Twins," March 7; "A Boy Wanted," March 10: Forest's ITncle Tom's Cabin company, March 20; "Dev il's Auction," March 24; "Coon Hollow," March 25. "Under the Dome," one of Lincoln J. Carter's productions, is booked for the Crawford theater February 28. It is probable that the Merrie Bell Opera company, which was here last May, will fill the evenings of March 1 and 2. SPAIN BUYS OUR WHEAT. Discriminating Duty Does Not Pre vent Importations at Valencia. Washingtonfi Feb. 20. The lack of a commercial treaty with Spain, the for mer treaty having terminated with the war, is not altogether preventing trade between the two countries, although American products are handicapped by an additional 20 per cent duty in Span ish ports, owing to the lack of a treaty. Still even under these conditions, United States Consular Agent Mertens at Valencia reports to the state de partment that there is a great demand for American wheat. A cargo of 4,000 tons of red winter wheat which had just arrived there proved entirely satis factory and importers were willing to receive more. The consular agent says: "The price seems to compare favora bly with that of Russian wheat (the kind generally imported here when there is a demand for foreign wheat), al though American wheat pays 20 per cent higher duties than grains from countries which have a commercial treaty with Spain. This is the first di rect shipment from the United States to this port since the war." CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Word was received in this city today of the death of Mrs. E. M. Venable in Kansas City early this morning. Mrs. Venable formerly lived in this city and was .the mother of Mrs. E. IH. Bradbury, who died just a week ago today. The death of both the mother and daughter was due to pneumonia. They will tie tiere Thursday. Our Eastern buyer telegraphed us that he succeeded in obtaining at his own figures a full line of the newest things in Carpets, Lace Curtains, and Wash Fabrics. It will pay every citizen of Topeka to call and see the line before purchasing elsewhere. We bought them cheap, and sell them the same way. We also this day received by express- Velvet Ribbon, in black and colors. $1.00 Kid Gloves in all the late shades. New Satins. So IS annum DRY G00DS dl I1UI11 AND CARPET 619 KANSAS AVENUE. AN EYE OPENER. Fifth Ward Home Destroyed Because of No Water Mains The burning of the home of John Wid ener in the Fifth ward Sunday was a se vere object lesson. The fire company re sponded propmtly and all the available hose was pressed into service, but the best that could be done still left the nozzle of the hose within 50 feet of the Are and the firemen were compelled to do what they could without the use of water from the city hvdrants. Mr. Widener lives on Washington street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and he has paid taxes to help support the water company like other citi zens of Topeka, but his home was destroy ed before his eyes because the water com pany mains have not been extended so as to give him fire protection. When the city owns the water plant this thing cannot happen and the people of the Fifth ward should remember that Mr. Drew represents that idea at the primary next Saturday. IAN MAC LAIIEN COMING. Author of the Bonnie Brier Bush at Topeka March 28. Rev. Ian Maclaren, author of "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush," will probably lecture at the Crawford theater in this city on the evening of March 28. His manager has asked option on this date. Petition in Bankruptcy. A petition praying for the voluntary bankruptcy of Canard Vickers, dry goods and grocery merchants of Seneca, Kan., has been filed in the federal court. The petition is by the McCord Rubber company of St. Joseph and the Worces ter Corset company of Worcester, Mass. Papers were served on the members of the firm today by Deputy United States Marshal A. E. Frescott. The stock of the firm was taken in charge by a re ceiver several months ago, and the par ties to the petition for involuntary bankruptcy declare that there have been preferred creditors. They state by reason of this fact they and other cred itors as well have been slighted. A Veterinary Congress Called. Washington, Feb. 20. The German ambassador at Washington has notified the state department that an interna tional veterinary congress will be held at Baden August 9-14, 1899. The subjects to be discussed include the treatment for and prevention of various diseases in animals. Sock Island Flyer. Kansas City and return $2.00 Tickets good returning February 23. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, Feb. 20. WHEAT Steadiness at Liverpool and the continental markets today, together with some unfavorable crop news, gave wheat a strong start. May opered e higher at 72''ac, but met considerable liquidation on account of large receipts in th northwest and slipped off slowly to 72c. The market proved rather stub born, however, as there was a lare short interest which seemed disposed tc cover at the decline to secure profits while sev eral traders were inclined to make another venture for the long account, and May recovered quickly to 726c. M''nneap olis and ruluth received 660 car leads, as compared with 386 for the corresponding day a year ago. Chicago got 90 cars of which 26 graded contract. World s ship ments for last week were placed at 5.600, 000 bushels and the amount on passage de creased 77S.iX)0 bushels. CORN Liquidation was the feature in corn. Receipts were large and storks ac cumulating fast with the shipping demand at a standstill. May opened a shade hitrher at 35fac, sold sparingly at 35! c. dropped to 35c. then reacted to 35ITc on covering by shorts with profits. OATS Oats followed corn closely. May opened a shade higher at 27'Jj'i.c. sold off to 27Vsc then improved to 27c on shorts covering. PROVISIONS-Heavy Iiqu:dation through commission houses, resulting from the large receipts of hogs and declining prices at the yards oppressed provisions. May pork opened 10c lower at $9.60. sold at $9.62, slid off to $9.35, then firmed up to $9.47. May lard began 5c down at $5.40 and declined to $5.30. Mav ribs started 5c off at $4.77fi4.SO, sold off to $4.65. then re covered to J4.67Hfa4.70. BARLEY-Cash, 41-S50C RYE Cash, 55e: May. 57c TIMOTHY-March. $2.47. FLAX Cash northwestern. $1.19; cash southwestern, $1.15: May, $1.19. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Feb. 20. HOGS Estimated receipts of hoes for today. 40.0CO; tomorrow, 35.000; left over, 2 678. Market weak. 50 10c lower. Mixed and butchers', $3.45a.3.75: good heavy, $3.65 tu3.75: rough heavy, $3.453.55; light. $3.45 (&3.70. CATTLE Receipts, 19.000. Market 15c lower. Beeves, $3.7595.85; cows a. id heif ers, $1.75j4.75: Texas steers, not quoted; stockers and feeders, $3.50S4.7O. SHEEP Receipts, 20.000. Market lower. Natives. $2.SOfi4.40: lambs, $465. Saturdav's official: HOGS Receipts, 18.200: shipments, 2,964. CATTLE Receipts. 366: shipments. 139. SHEEP Receipts, 912; shipments, 677. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City. Feb. 20. CATTLE Receipts. 4.000. Market steady to shade lower. Native steers, $3.90'S5.4O: Texas steers, $3.201-4.90: Texas cows, $2.50 if-3.25: native cows and heifers, $1. 754.15; stackers and feeders, $3.2o&5; bulls, $2.90 (f4.40. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 18 native steers 1323 $5.40 IS Texas steers 1252 4.90 IS Texas cows 1020 3.25 20 native cows and heifers 1076 4.15 38 stockers and feeders 458 5.00 6 bulls 1S29 4.40 HOQS Receipts. 9,500. .Market 5-alOc lower, slow. Bulk of sales, $3.50-S3.65; heavies, $3.5533.7u; packers and mixed. Co. $3,451-13.65: lights. $3.35(23.55; yorkers, $3.50 I&3.55: pigs. $2.25(ff3.35. SHEEP Receipts. 4.000. Market steady. Lambs, $2.50-54.90; muttons, $3.5Of4.40. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, Fob. 20. WHEAT Higher. No. 2 hard, 6ca:67c; No. 3, 63'aS5c; No. 2 red. 72&73c; No. 3. 6 &72c: No. 2 spring, 63-a65c; No. 3, G2S64C. CORN Firm. No." 2 mixed, 32&c; No. 2 white, 33c: No. 3, 32c. OATS Firm. No. 2 white, 30g-30V4c. RYE Firm. No. 2, 55c. HAY Steady. Choice timothy, $7S7.50; choice prairie. $6.75rfi7. BUTTER Steady." Separator, lG-g21e; dairy. 17c. EGGS-Higher. Fresh. 18o Receipts of wheat 106 cars. New York Money Market. New York. Feb. 20. MONEY Money on call, nominally 2 per cent; prime mercantile paper. 2&3 percent; sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.86ri $4.S0 for demand and at $4.8&4.S44 for 60 da vs. Posted rates. $4.84rj4.85 and $4.S6'3 4.87: commercial bills, $4.83'i4.S3. SILVER Silver certificates, nominally, 59-(i60c; bar silver, 59c; Mexican dol lars, 47c BONDS Government bonds firm. 3s. 107VS; new 4s, registered, 127: new is. cou pon, 127; 4s. 112: 4s. coupon. 112; 2s, 99; 5s, registered, 11194 coupon, 111. Sugar Market. New York. Feb. 20. SUGAR Raw. firm; fair refining.3 13-16c; centrifugal 96 test, 4 9-16c; molasses sugar, 4c; refined firm, held higher: crushed, 6fcc; powdered, 5V4c; granulated. 5c. Cotton Market. New York, Feb. 20. COTTON Spot closed dull at l-Kc lower. Sales, none. Market Gossip. Furnished by E. M. Strawn Broker age Co., Room 3 Central Nation Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Liverpool cable: Wheat unchanged, corn d lower. Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 19.000, lower; Kansas City, 2,500, lower; Omaha, 800, steadv. Chicago receipts: Wheat, 96 cars; corn. 903 cars: oats. 49 cars. Northwestern receipts: Today.Euluth 113 cars: a year ago, Minneapolis 266 cars, Duluth 64 cars. New York: The surplus reserve of the New York city banks has fallen about five millions since the close of January, but they are double the amount in existence about the middle of December. The rn eign money markets are sharing case with us. It is expected that an official an nouncement of the "Q." refunding plnn will be made this week. The settlement of Government claims against the Central Pacific railway will become a fact, thus ln trudcing a new feature in the railroad sit uation, encouraging to the maintenance of values. The completion of the Chicago and Alton deal is also likely to be effected for the resistance of the minority stock holders to the syndicate proposition is hardly to be expected. Among the prom ises of the future may be considered the rehabilitation of the companies engaged in the production and transportation of both hard and soft coal. Range of Prices. Furnished by E. M. Strawn Broker age Co.. Room 3 Central National Panic Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Chicago, Feb. 20. Article. Open R!gh Low Close Sat WHEAT May 72 73 72 73 72- July 70- 71 70- 71 70 CORN May 35- 36 35- 35 25 Julv 36 36 3594, 36 S6 OATS May 27i,4- 27 27 27 27 Julv 25 254 25 25 25 PORK Mav 9 60 9 62 9 35 9 35 9 70 LARD May 5 40 5 40 5 30 5 30 5 45 July 5 50 5 52 5 42 5 42 5 55 -RIBS Mav 4 80 4 80 4 65 4 67 4 82-83 July 4 90 4 90 4 80-82 4 S0-S2 4 97 Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by E. M. Strawn P.roker age Co., Room 3 Central National Bank Bldg., Seventh and Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. New York. Feb. 20. Stocks. Sugar Am. Tobacco Leather People's Gas B. R. T Rock Island C, B. Q. C. M. St. P. Atchison Atchison Pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash C. N. W. N. Y. Central.. Federal Steel Reading T. C. I Union Pacific U. P. Pfd L. N I M..K. T. Pfd C. G. W No. Pac No. Pac. Pfd On'nlHIuhl Low ICl'se ISat. 136 140 136 1389il354 161 72'. 115 94 121 14 S 132 liZ 161 I 71! 115 94 121 146l 132' 28 I 63 111 171V!171 72' 72 116 (115 96 I 94 121:120 14614 147 132 131 23 I 23v4 66 I 63 113 111 95 !5 47 I 46 23! 23 1t0 151 139 51 51 22 4-!! 43 72 11 97 121 133 2?.' 24 63 111 95 46 66 114-H 95 9.)Vi 46 23 150 139 51 22 48V, 23 151" 2.3 15114 139! 14 51 23 44 4!( 82 66 41'A 16 54 SO', 514 22 44 4314 48l 48 I 49 t 48 81 65 39 16' 54 80 81 82! Kl 65' C5 39 I 40l 39 16 I 16 5i 54 54l 7S S1 80 TOAJTEJT0LASSY WANTED In good Uve town in Kansas or Nebraska, a good livery stock. Write to Box 99, Hoiton, Kan. FOR RENT Nice 3 room cottage, 323 Klein St., $6. WANTED Wood choppers. Inquire at transfer station, afternoons. FOR RENT Stone barn, room for two horses. Close to avenue. Call at 119 E. Eighth st. FOR SALE 1 acres, 3 room house. Price $300. 2 acres river bottom, 2 small houses, etc Price $500. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. LOBBYISBUSY. Missouri Loan Associations Make Kansas Laws. Foreigners Work Directly Through Senator Crossan. KANSANS TURNED OUT Without Being Given a Hear ing in the Senate. Charged With Trying to Kill Ail Legislation When They Really Want Sew Laws Enacted. HOW IT IS MANAGED. Missouri Lobbyists Prompt Crossan to Defend the Bill. Senate Shows Scant Courtesy to Kansas Associations. The senate this week will resume the consideration of Senator Crossan's bill placing1 loan associations doing busi ness in Kansas under the supervision of the state bank commissioner and one which carries inestimable benefits to non-resident corporations of this char acter and.if passed, will work serious hardships "upon associations organized in Kansas. Paid lobbyists representing Missouri corporations sat beside Mr. Crossan during the consideration of this bill last week and worked in the amendments and provisions which carry the burdens for Kansas corporations. The bill pro posed by Crossan helps non-resident associations and injures Kansas corpor ations, but this is one of the freaks of legislation which the people may some time rise up and hurl from the high places. The Kansas associations have an nounced their willingness to abide by any reasonable legislation, but have la bored under the disadvantage of hav ing no active champion in the floor of the senate. Neither have they had an opportunity to participate in the ar rangement of the bill. The outsiders have prepared the bill and Senator Crossan. who introduced it, insists upon its passage as it was given to him. This condition has been responsible for a turning down of the representa tives of the Kansas associations. When they have made requests to be heard and asked for the privilege of proposing amendments to the bill they have been met with the statement that their pur pose is to drive the foreign associa tions out of the state, even in the face of the fact that the Kansana have stated repeatedly that they desire to have a law based upon reason passed. But the friends of the outsiders, doubt less influenced by the lobby, have de clined to give the Kansans a hearing upon any middle ground and seem de termined to pass a law which will bene fit the Missourians only. The latter have been represented In the lobby by M. H. Wood, secretary of the Mercantile Mutual of Kansas City, H. T. Blair, general agent of the Co operative Building and Loan associa tion of Sioux Falls. S. D.. and F. E. Carringer of the Midland Building and lxan association of Denver. The controversy has really been sole ly on the question of under what con ditions foreign associations should do business In Kansas. The domestic as sociations have rather insisted on the same provisions that Missouri has, re quiring a deposit of $100,000 In cash or bonds or in their own mortgages. It is probably not generally known that Kansas associations can not do any business whatever in Missouri, and the Kansas associations have thought that If Missouri desired to build a Chi nese wall around the state Kansas should treat them in the same manner. Deposits are required, however. In such states as Ohio, Illinois, New York and Wisconsin. The Crossan bill in the senate Is re garded as the bill of foreign associa tions for the reason that it allows them to come into the state upon a deposit of $50,000 in bonds or mortgages, or in lieu thereof to give a bond signed by three competent persona, or to give a guaranty bond. The most radical change in the senate bill has been to place building asso ciations under the usury laws, a thing that no other state has ever done. As sociations will also be subject to the most rigid inspection by the bank com missioner; In fact, he has been given almost autocratic power. All the complaints against building associations have been against those not founded in Kansas, and yet do mestic associations have had to bear the odium. House bill No. 730, as reported bv the banks and banking committee, has the approval of the domestic associations, this committee having given patient hearing to all interests. It seemed to be the idea of the committee to have- a bill that would be practical. They also treated the representatives of the as sociations of the state in a business like manner, believing that the men who have managed associations and not lost a dollar for their patrons are not only entitled to consideration, but that their experience ought to be very Valuable. In all probability. If the Crossan Mil passes the penate In its present form, It will be killed in the house, and the house bill, which does not seem to be a Missouri bill, substituted. CRITICISES MR. HOLMES. President Richter Wants Sergeants at Arms to Work Occasionally. President Richter got after the ser-geant-at-arms of the senate this fore noon and suggested that the time has arrived when order should be maintain ed during the deliberations of this body. Mr. Richter also suggested that the doorkeeper of the ladies' gallery should attend to his business, because the doors were being slammed and thereby created much confusion. This door keeper, R. W. Holmes of Miami county, has been spending most of his time sit ting In an easy chair on the floor of the senate. NEW ROAD LAW. Btata Roads Hot Opened in Ten Years Will Be Vacated. Senator Fulton has offered an amend ment to the general road law by a bill la the senate which provides that it a state road section line remains unop ened for ten years for public use it shall be vacated and the act creating it re pealed for non-use. BOSSVILLE BRIDGE BILL. Is ICaking: a Lot of Trouble for the Committee Which Has It In Charge. The Judiciary local committee in the house Is having a great deal of trouble over the Rossv-ille bridge bill. It has had several sittings on the bill and is still considering it. The bill authorizes the building of a bridge across the Kaw south of Ross ville and near the west line of the coun ty. The people in the neighborhood of Silver Lake and south of there, want the bridge near Silver Lake. They claim that If the bridge Is put farther west it will be of more benefit to Wa baunsee county people than it will to Shawnee county. County Commissioner Williams, how ver, is interested in the Rossville bridge, and it is claimed that he has threatened to hold up both the fair ground propo sition and the appropriation for a bridge across the river three miles be low the city. The Rossville bridge bill was Intro duced by Mr. Stephenson, because Mr. Brooke, who represents the country dis trict, did not wish to become mixed up in the fuss over the bridge. SENATE BILLS PASSED. Includes One Placing Private Asylums Under State Control. The senate has passed the following bills: By Stone Placing all private asylums under the supervision of the state board of charities and authorizing the board to contract with any private asy lum for the care and maintenance of insane persons not otherwise provided for, at a rate not to exceed $15 per month for each person. By Titus To amend section 7 of chap ter 243 of the session laws of 1897 re lating to the taxation of Judgments, fixing the situs for taxation of foreign and domestic Judgments, prescribing the manner in which they shall be listed for taxation and the means of collecting taxes thereon. By Householder To authorize the township board of Lola township, Cher okee county, to transfer funds In the general fund to the sinking fund for the payment of railroad bonds. VALUE OF JURORS In Justice Courts Estimated at a Low Figure by Legislature. The average juror in justices' courts does not seem to be held in very high repute by attorneys. The new fee and salary law leaves the fees of justices' jurors at 50 cents per day the same as they have been for years. When the matter was under discussion in the house committee of the whole some one suggested that 50 cents a day is not enough. Mr. MoKeever said: "I think this fee Is enough. We have always been able to get plenty of men to sit on juries at this price, and I don't know but what their guess on cases is about as good as the guesses of higher priced men." Mr. Burkholder, who is a banker, said: "I have sat on juries from 9 o'clock in the morning till nearly mid night without anything to eat for 50 cents, and have thrived on It. The court generally called us in fifteen min utes before twelve o'clock to keep us from getting pay for another day, too, but I think the fee is high enough." Mr. Loomis of Crawford came to the defense of the juror. "It's hard work settin' on a hard chair in a little jus tice's court room," he said, "and I think the wages orter be raised. I'm in favor of givin 'em 75 cents a day." There were no lobbyists for the jurors, however, and the fees remained just the same, although a man is compelled to serve as a juror when he is called, whether he wants to do so or not. A SHOT AT SPOTTERS. Senator Ryan's Drastic Measure Passed by the Senate. The senate has passed and sent to the house, Senator Ryan's bill against spot ters which Is as follows: Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation em ploying labor to discharge any person on the accusation or report of any de tective or person known as "spotters" or special agents, without giving to such discharged employe in writing, a copy of such accusation or report, with the name and postofflce address of such de tective, spotter or other person making the same. Sec. 2. If any person, firm or corpor ation shall violate the preceding section of this act, such discharged employe may maintain an action against such firm, person, or corporation, and In such action may recover all damages, pres ent or prospective, which he has sus tained, together with a reasonable at torney's fee, to be recovered in such action. POR FRATERNAL ORDERS. Senate Passes a Law Relating to Ownership of Real Estate. The senate has passed Senator Lamb's bill authorizing any or all sub ordinate lodges, of any order, to own buildings, buy or sell real estate. Many organizations own their own buildings and sub-let a part thereof, or rent halls and re-rent them, but such dealings have been completed without warrant of law. The bill legalizes the transactions of past years and confers authority to continue them in the fu ture. BENEFITS COURT REPORTERS. Salary Fized at $1,200; 8 Cents Per Folio for Copying. The senate has passed a bill intro duced by Senator Hart, fixing the sal aries of court reporters at $1,200 per year and allowing them eight cents per folio for transcripts. A stenographer's fee of $2 per day shall be taxed by the clerk of the dis trict court of each county as costs in each case for each day the official re porter shall be actually used in report ing said case; such fee, when collected by the district clerk to be paid into the state treasury in quarterly instalments. They Say He Was Drugged. San Francisco. Feb. 20. The trainer and other friends of Gimm, who finished fifth in the six-day bicycle race .after leading the procession of riders for over three days, claim that he must have been drug ged. They assert that his collapse was too sudden to have been due to natural causes. C3 fiaaxi the Btan the m tou na aiwaya Ihi Kind You Haw Always Bought A.SF03 ;Th Kind Y( 1 Bean th Signature f i Tin Kind Von Haw Always Bought TOniA. t Ihi Kind Yon Have Always BougS Bean the A o,000 MILES FOR $60. When the Siberian Railway is Com pleted. New York, Feb. 20. The newly appoint ed secretary of the interior, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who has just arrived in this country from Russia, says in regard to the Siberian railway; "The Siberian railway Is one of the greatest commercial enterprises of the century. The man who is building it told me a month ago that trains would be run ning from Irkutsk to Vladivostock in 1902. He told me the earth then could be cir cumnavigated in forty days. "This is four years earlier than was originally expected, but the Importance of the road has become so manifest that the utmost urgency has been enforced. It is wholly surveyed and the rails are going down as fast as they can be got to their places. It is quite possible to travel by rail now from Nijni-Novgorod, on the Volga, to Irkutsk, made familiar to the civilized world by Jules Verne in 'Michael Strogoff.'." '"W hat will be the first terminus on the Pacific?" "It has not been officially promulgated, but you can say that it will be Ta lien Wan, a fine harbor in Manchuria, which will be absolutely Russian. Port Arthur would not suit, though a branch line of raiway wil be run to that place. "Where they originally intended to run one train a day each way they are now running six. The towns among the Si berian steppes are quite populous. The rates of fare in Russia are much lower than in any part of the world. It is the intention of the Russian government to make a through rate from the Neva to the Pacitie of about $U0. The distance will be nearly 5.000 miles." "What was the sentiment in Russia re garding our war with Spain?" was asked.- "In official circles the victory of the United States was regarded as a foregone conclusion. The great masses of the Rus sian people knew little about the con flict. Newspapers are not read 4n Russia to any great extent. Information travel slowly. The feeling of steadfast friend ship for the American people that is found everywhere is explicit, and It could not be shaken by any diplomatic influence that any European power could exert. 'Toujor Fidel' is the phrase that every citizen of our country ought to write or utter when ever the name of Russia is seen or heard. "The people of the United States never should forget for a sinele Instant that.- ex pressed or unexpressed, the friendship of the Russian czar haS been and is with them. To doubt the undemonstrative fidelity of the czar and the imperial cabi net is unjust and thoughtless. Russia will be with us on the great day when we shall need her help In the far east." "Is she averse to our encroachments in the east?" "Not in the slightest. She has her own plans regarding China, but they are com mercial rather than imperial. She' will not express joy or annovance regarding the acquisition of the Philippines, but she will stand ready to indorse our course at the time moral support is needed." "Are any of the great powers unfriendly to our occupancy of the Philippines?" "I think not." was the cautious rejoin der. "I cannot say exactly what France's feelings were, but she is so torn by in ternal troubles that even if we knew her attitude to have been pro-Spanish we ought to overlook it for the sake of the past." COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS. The Mason to Temple Roof Garden at Night, the World's fair Court of Hohor during1 a night illumination, thfe Columbus fountain, three Chicago fire scenes show ing a section of Chicago before, during and after the fire, a panoramic view of the South side at night, and the much her alded approaching engine scene are the principal settings employed in the produc tion of Lincoln J. Carter's "Heart of Chi cago," which comes to the Crawford the ater tomorrow night. The piece has been seen here before, John Philip Sousa and his band will be at the Grand Opera House next Thursday evening. With the band will be Miss Maud Reese Iavies, a former To- eka girl, as soprano soloist, and Miss orothy Hoyle, violiniste. Sousa's popu larity and success are largely due to the fact that he plays popular music, and even his own most ambitious efforts have that quality that appeals to everyone. His marches are written in a form peculiarly his own; he broke away from all tradi tions in certain forms of composition, and the novelty was at once apparent to a music loving people. Whatever Sousa has written has vigor and melody. He is magnetic and imparts his meaning to his audience as well as to his superbly dis ciplined musicians. As a leader, music Feems to leap from his baton or sway in dreamy sensuousness in response to his graceful gestures. A programme that will be a happy blend of the classic and the popular is promised for the Sousa concert. The sale of seats opened at the Sim Drug company store this morning. Gllmore Leonard's farce, "Hogan'a Al ley." returns to the Crawford theater next Saturday night. A number of new fea tures are promised. At the Grand Opera House next Satur day night Mr. Max Bendix, violinist, as sisted by Miss Jenny Osborn, soprano, and Miss Jeanne Scott, pianiste, will open the splendid musicl course arranged by the Ladies music club of this city. Of Mr. Ben dix and his playing the Philadelphia Times recently had the following to sav: "His execution is marvelous, skillful and not only that, but he plays with manly grace and ease, a purity and richness of tone, life and feeling. The success of the so loist was pronounced. He was recalled again and again, and finally responded with a charmingly executed tarantella." OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE. Has Been In Session Forty Days and Passed Two Bills. Guthrie, O. T., Feb. 20. Saturday night ended the fortieth day of the fifth legis lative assembly of Oklahoma territory. Only twenty days remain. Nothing so far has been done. Only one insignificant bill has been signed by the governor, and he has vetoed one. While the two branches of the assembly are both disposed to do the proper thing, so far as it Knows what the proper thing is. ability and organiza tion are distressingly deficient. Then the territorial administration studies to throw obstacles in the way of the enactment of laws, especially those looking to the greater safeguards of the people's inter ests. There are two things the governor wants done, the first of which ts to he let alone, and the second is to secure the passage of the bill prepared by Judge Dale, and which is to be introduced in a few davs. providing for the building of the territorial institutions. He will, per haps, succeed in both. He has practically blocked anv further investigation of the affairs of the territorial departments and has almost enough members committed to the buildings proposition, to carry it through. Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION. Secretaries in Topeka Entertained at the B. B. Y. M. C. A. The secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association of Kansas were in session here last week. John Coldwell, of the R. R. T. M. C. A. department, of this city, was chair man, and Geo. Fuller, of Wichita, secre tary of the conference. The conference closed with a reception Friday night tendered the secretaries by the railroad department. The affair was very in formal; the entertainment included selections from the graphaphone, by Miss Margaret Garvey, daughter of W. C. Garvey, battery B. A display of the work done by the educational classes was made. Supper was served in the banquet room. International Secretary X. D. McDill, who has charge of the work on the Santa Fe system, left today to com mence the work of starting R. R. Y. M. C. A. rooms on the line of the Union Pacific. It was announced that Clarence J. Hicks, the New York secretary, was on his way to Russia where he will spend six months organizing a system of R. R. Y. M. C. A. rooms on the Russian railways. Russia owns its railroads and it is at the request of the govern ment that he takes up the work of or ganisation. i HAIR CLIPPING HIS MANIA. Jorgenson Freely Discusses His In firmity and Recites Its History. Chicago, Feb. 20. Whether John W. Jorgenson is a. monomaniac or simply a hair thief with well developed ideas as to the commercial value of the booty he pil fered is a problem still unsettled. As for Jorgenson himself, he asserts he i3 Insane. His friends and relatives, who knew noth ing of his propensity for giriish braids un til they were notified of his arrest, agreed mania could be the only excuse for it. lie was released from the Harrison street station on bonds furnished by his mother. "He was cruelly treated when he was a child." said his mother-in-law. Sirs. Jen nie Fierce Millard, "and it has occurred to me that he may have received some in jury of the skull which caused a pressure upon the brain, from which mental un hinging so often results. It must either be that or hereditary insanity." His mother, Mrs. Ella Jorgenson nodded her head at the statement. "I must be that way," she said, "for he does not do this for personal gain. I send him to school and give him an allowance. He is happy with this arrangement, for he Is learning to be a draughtsman, the profes sion he most longs to adopt." Many girls called during the day and identified the prisoner as the despoiler of what is sometimes said to be woman's crowning beauty. The "clipper" looked at them all with out a word. Then he said: "I began clipping hair four years ago after a spell of sickness. It seemed as if I couldn't see a luxuriant braid of hair without a desire to possess it coming over me. The passion was usually very great, yvt if I saw that I was in imminent dan ger of decteetion I could stop. "After one of my expeditions with the scissors it mie-ht be a. liav nr it TY,lWf K one or two weeks before I would start ent again, out start i would, despite res olutions to the contrary made in moments of anguish, and remorse, "I had often though of seeing a physi cian about what seemed to me a mania thfit was unconquerable, but of course mv affliction wS not known to me till after I had committed my first crime, and then I was afraid that tf I confided in a a doc tor I would be turned over to the officers. "Last July married Marian Turping ton, a New York girl. I loved her, but never would have taken her to be mv wife had she possessed an abundance of hair. I should. I felt, have snipped it from her ni-jaj in some insane moment and then she would know my. unfortunate secret. Her hair, however, was too short to tempt me. "It has grown since then down over her shoulders, but' whenever I caught myself looking at it with too much longinp- well, I went out again to lurk around some school or brush around in the crowd of pme department store." THE NEGRO'S FUTURE In the South From Secretary Wilson's Standpoint. Washlngtony, Feb., .20. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson today in discussing the productive possibilities of the south and the problem of negro labor made the following observations: "The pressing question is, what Is the laborer down south who has been grow ing cotton tind is not getting enough for his production going to do in the future to enabl him to live comfortably, not to speak of improvements in his condi tion, education and all that? The cot ton crop leaves very little that is val uable for domestic animals after the picking is done, thus differing from the corn crop of the northwest states. There is a by-product, the cotton seed, that is exceedingly valuable as a nutrient, and much good work is being done by scien tists at experiment stations to show how valuable cotton seed is for feeding purposes. The great cotton growing in dustry of the south is not up to date. The nitrogen contents is greater than any of the grains; it is richer in nitro genous matter than peas or beans, rich er than giutena, meal or oil cake. The northern feeder and the European feed er have been using, this by-product of the cotton fields with great advantage to. them, while the lo of its fertilizing qualities to the south has been very great- "The south has more marked advan tages over the north with regard to production. It has more heat and mois ture, the two great factors of produc tion, and if the cotton grower is to di versify his crops he must use those nat ural advantages. The dairy cow and mutton sheep would succeed admirably in the south, but something for them to eat must be provided first. The win ters In the south are mild; grasses and grains can be sown in the fall and grown abundantly through the winter, upon which the dairy cow and the mut ton sheep may thrive and produce. "From a fifth to a fourth of all the fat of all the milk on the farms of the United States is lost because people do not thoroughly understand when to churn cream. The churning process is an art having much more science under lying it. But the cotton grower of the south only needs to learn the way, while the man who teaches him can under stand the science. "Much yet remains to be discovered in the art of breeding animals, but enough is known to indicate to the in structor of the colored cotton grower of the south who is to be diverted into work of this kind to enable him to breed his herd intelligently. "The south can prepare the spring lamb much earlier than the north can. The southern land owner understands his situation. There is always a greater oemana for saddle- horses than is sup plied. The world wants carriage and draft horses and good roadsters. Karly spring chickens can be produced down there because they have milder winters and milder springs than we have and the northern market can be supplied. Should the market become oversupplied we can send this product abroad in the refrigerated compartments of our steamships. "There is a diversity of opinion in the south as to the ability of the col ored man to be used as a diversified laborer. The colored man is learning the trades at Tuskegee. He is mining coal and working the manufacture of iron at Birmingham. Some southern men whom you meet will say they have the best labor in the world and in some respects I am inclined to think they have. The south has reached the point that most of the states of the north west reached years ago. Section after section devoted itself to corn and wheat until the land refused to yield their crops and the farmer was driven to seek diversification. Prosperity came to the northwest through the diversifi cation of industries on the farm. I know of no other way through which it can come to the south. It seems to me that the necessities of the occasion are up to the intelligent land owner. He should Inform himself on these lines. He should have done it years ago. The sciences which relate to agriculture would stand him In good stead, while his diploma from a literary institution is worth very little to him. It is not too late. Improvement along these lines can not be expected to originate with the laboring men of the south; it must begin with the men of education." BRICE HOME ROBBED. Lima, O., Residence of the Late Mil lionaire Ransacked by Burglars. Lima, O., Feb. 20. Saturday night thieves ransacked the residence of the late Calvin S. Brice, in this city, to which it was supposed many valuables had been shipped from the Brice residence in New York. Mrs. Meilly, mother of Mrs. Brice, who occupied the home here, is visiting her daughter at Goshen, Ind., and Mrs. Brice is in New York, so that the amount of goods stolen is not known. Much dam age was done to the furnishings of the house by the thieves in their ruthless search. HEART DISEASE. SOME FACTS REGARDING THE RAPID INCREASE OF HEART TROUBLES. Do Not Bs Alarmsd, But Look For The Cause. Heart troubles, at least among the Americans, are certainly increasing and while this may be largely due to the ex citement and worry of American busi ness life. It Is more often the result of weak stomachs, of poor digestion. Real organic disease Is incurable; but not one case in a hundred of heart trou ble is organic. The close relation between heart trou ble and poor digestion is because both organs are controlled by the same great nerves, the Sympathetic and Pneumo gastric. In another way, also the heart Is ef fected by the form of poor digestion, which causes gas and fermentation from half digested food. There is a feeling of oppression and heaviness In the chest caused by pressure of the dis tended stomach on the heart and lungs, interfering with their action; hence arises palpitation and short breath. Poor digestion also poisons the blood, making it thin and watery, which Irri tates and weakens the heart. The most sensible treatment for heart trouble is to improve the digestion and to insure the prompt assimilation of food. This can be done by the regular use after meals of some safe, pleasant and effective digestive preparation, like Stu art's Dyspepsia Tablets, which may be found at most drug stores and which contain valuable, harmless digestive el ements in a pleasant, convenient form. It is safe to say that the regular per sistent use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets at meal time will cure any form of stomach trouble except cancer of the stomach. Full sized package of these tablets sold by druggists at 50 cents. Little book on stomach troubles mailed free. Address F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. 0RAT0RIAL CONTEST. Will Be Held at Ottawa February 24 Cheap Railroad Rates. The Kansas railroads have granted a rate of one fare for the round trip for the state oratorical contest at Ottawa next Friday evening, and the students of the various Kansas colleges can go and hear their respective orators spout for one-half the regular fare. If the number warrants It, a special train will be run from Topeka to Ottawa over the Santa Fe Friday afternoon, or otherwise special coaches will be attached to the train leaving here at 2 o'clock, which connects with the Ottawa train at Law rence. The Lawrence and Topeka students will be taken out of Ottawa in a special train after the contest Friday night. This will be the first time in years that the state contest has been held outside of Topeka. FROM NEWTON. Fireman Richard Jett received the in telligence Sunday morning that his wife had died at Alton, 111., and Mr. Jett left on No. 6 Sunday for that point. Mrs. Jett has been east for several months on account of her health, and Mr. Jett returned from there only a few days ago, where he had been called by her serious condition. When he returned home, her condition had improved to such an extent that he considered out of danger, and her death following so closely his return home, is a sad blow to him. Mrs. F. A. Scherer, mother of Fire man Walter J. Scherer, has been called to Litchfield, 111., by the serious illness of her sister. "Tony" Werries, formerly a Santa Fe brakeman, and who had one of his feet cut off by falling with his leg across a rail in front of a moving car, about one year ago, has accepted the position of night car clerk at this point. Gordon Griffith, son of Engineer John Griffith, has accepted position as en gine crew caller at Emporia. Admiral J. E. Speights has resumed work, after being off a month on ac count of sickness. Fireman James C. Campbell has been assigned to a local run between Hutch inson and Dodge City. FOUND A WOMA'S HAND. A Wellington Girl Hunting Eggs Makes a Startling Discovery. Wellington, Feb. 20. Mrs. Scott Miller and her children live in the third house north of W. R. Spicknall's on South Jefferson avenue. Last evening Emma, her daughter, was out gathering the eggs and crawled under the house hoping to find some. While scraping around under the house she found a cedar box securely fastened .and in nice shape. Pulling it out, or course she opened it. Inside she found a little me tallic box with a glass head and bot tom, which, she discovered upon open ing, contained a .woman's forearm and hand. Dr. Reid in passing the house this morning was called in to examine the find. He says the arm and hand have evidently been hid away a long time, but that they are not decomposed. How it got there was a mystery. HENRY ALLEN'S JOKE. Started His Newspaper Career With an April Fool Fake. Henry Allen, Governor Stanley's private secretar, is something of a practical joker. Mr. Allen began his newspaper career as a reporter on the Salina Republican for J. L. Brlstow in March, 1891. He was just out of Baker university and did not, know much about the newspaper business, but he enjoyed a good joke and did not hesitate to perpetrate one. The day before the first of April he wrote a "story," stating that on the next day at noon an air ship would pass over Salina on its way from Chicago to the Pacific coast. He said it was following the line of the Union Pacific railroad and would pass directly over the depot. He also gave a graphic description of the airship and told exactly who was on board of it. The following day at noon a large crowd assembled at the Union Pacific depot in Salina to see that airship. The streets around were crowded with car riages, all full of occupants. The ex citement was intense. For two hours the crowd waited for the ship. They tried to locate Mr. Allen, but he could not be found. Meanwhile rumors of all sorts were started concerning it. Final ly the crowd began to melt away, but many persons stayed until the afternoon train came through at four o'clock, and it was then learned that the air ship story was all a hoax. Mr. Allen was compelled to dodge an enraged populace for weeks before they could appreciate the joke. I. ANNOUNCEMENTS. W. F. SCHOCH Is a candidate for city attorney, subject to the Republican pri maries, February 25, 1S99. A. D. ROBBINS is a candidate for city treasurer, subject to the Republican pri maries February 25, 1S99. JOHN V. ABRAHAMS, candidate for city attorney, subject to Republican pri maries, February 25, 1899. S. S. McFADDEN Is a candidate for re election to the office of city clerk. J. H. SQUIRES. Candidate for City Clerk. Subject to Republican primary. L. G. BEAL Is a candidate for city treas urer subject to Republican primaries. 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 HELP. WANTED By a widow woman, house keeping in small family. Call at or ad dress 634 Lawrence St. M. A. P. WANTED A situation by an honest.com petent and industrious young man Of 20. Call or address A. H. S., 907 East 6th St.. upstairs. WANTED A place with plain people, to asist with light housework. Address. Light House Work, care Journal. WANTED .FEMALE HELP. WANTED A competent white girl for general housework. 1315 Topeka ave. WANTED A girl for light housework, no washing. Inquire at Vinegar Works. North Topeka. WANTED Competent nurse for baby 2 months old. Call 1633 College, ave. WANTED A good white girl for general housework. 1225 Clay St. WANTED Girl for general housework. Apply 716 Lane st. WANTED Competent white girl, good cook: no washing. Mrs. C. H. Guibor, 1015 Harrison st. WANTED SALESMEN. SALESMEN Three of good address, able to approach the best class of people. Thorough instructions will be given and a guaranteed salary and liberal commis sion will be given right parties. Address "S.,"' care Journal. WANTED Salesman: salary paid week ly; experience unnecessary: permanent. Brown Bros. Co.. Chicago. WANTED Salesmen visiting retail trade to carry as a side line the Ledgerette bill file, for keeping in systematic and convenient order all ticket charges. Al most every retailer who hasn't a similar device buys one. Sells for $2.25. Good Srofit. Address the manufacturer, Wiit, Adams, Til Kansas ave.. Topeka. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED A horse to drive for its feed, light work. Adress A. X., care Journal. WANTED A second hand roller-top desk. Address Desk, care Journal. WANTED To buy horsed and mules. 626 Quincy. Tel. 170. WANTED Tou 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 et. to a good tenant. WANTED Everyone to know that In 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. 1 FOB SENT BOOMS. FOR RENT 4 rooms. 1009 Monroe st. FOR RENT A part of the Pest business (corner) room i nthe city. From March 1. BARTHOLOMEW R. E. INV. COR.. 601 Kansas ave. (1st floor). FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms, first floor. 118 West 6th st: FOR RENT Very pleasant downstairs furnished front room. 421 Quincy st. FOB BENT HOUSES. FOR RENT Good modern house In Potwln Place. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR RENT 1268 Lincoln and 1111 West Twelfth st. Elder, 611 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Fine large residence on West Tenth. W. R. Hazen. 115 West Fifth. MISCELLANEOUS. SEE US before buying your seeds. We can save you money by giving you fresh seeds. 'Phone 339. 119 East 6th st. Alex ander Goodfellow. W. H. QUAKENBUSH. Penman. Reso lutions engrossed, cards and invitations written In engravers' script. 521 Quincy st. UNDERGRADUATE doctors, dentists, pharmacists, lawyers, practicing: soon graduated home. Box 196, Chicago. DOUTHITT PLACE Has been opened. Tour choice of lots. $150 to $450. Kugene Wolfe. 517 Kansas ave. STORAGE. STORAGE The Topeka Storage end Warehouse Co. (formerly Topeka Stor age Co., 305 Kas. ave.) store stoves, house hold goods, etc. On June 1 removed to new fire-proof stone building, 212 and 214 Kas. ave. C. D. Skinner, Prop. MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE To Wbmi 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, in the Third ward, in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing of the same is set for Saturday, 9 a. m., the lltn day of March, 1899. O. A. KEENK Topeka, Kan., Feb. 11, 1899. FREE DISPENSART of Kansas Medical College, corner of Twelfth and Tyler, la open dailv except Sunday, from 1 ta I u m. E. M. Brockets M D. FOB. SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Furniture fixtures and busi ness. Henry Isaacs, 426 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Heavy horse. 3 miles north of Grantville. W. H. Beeler. FOR SALE $8,000 bonds, good as govern ments. Simon Greenspan. FOR SALE A second hand Remington tvpewriter. No. 2, in fair condition. Call at Senate P. O. or address Box 393. Har per, Kan. FOR SALE A cow and calf or fresh cow. Call at 1030 Fillmore. FOR SALE Ohio House furniture and fixtures, corner Fifth and Jefferson. FOR SALE Ten R.I.P.A.N.'S tor cents at druggists; one gives relief. FOR SALE Choice eastern Kansas farm mortgages. T. EL BOWMAN CO. FOB SALE BEAL ESTATE. FOP. SALE Southwest corner Saywell and Quincy, 1 rooms, summer kitchen, barn, well, cis tern. 3 lots, cheap at $1,300. Locust st. near Third, 2 lots, t rooms, barn. $900. payments. TOPEKA REALTY CO., 534 Kan. ave. FOR SALE Clay near 32th, 8 rooms, well, cistern, barn, 2 lots, cost over $3,500 to build; will sell part cash, part first mortgage, part second mortgage, both payable monthly, TOPEKA REALTY CO.. 634 Kan. ave. FOR SALE One lot and half, west 6th st. ear line, 2 "lots between 3rd and 4th on Clay, SR50. TOPEKA REALTY CO., 534 Kan. ave.. FOR SALE 9 room house, hall, bath, 2 lots, barn, $2,100. 2i4 lots, $125. 5 room cottage, 14 lots, on pavement. North Topeka, payments. $1,000. 9 room house. 3 lots, barn, on east side, fine location. $3,500. 5 room house, 1 acre ground. 1 block to pavement, east, $550; $100 cash, balance payments. Nice cottage, 1 acre ground, with barn, well and fruit, to rent. SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. WE HAVE all kinds of field and garden seeds. Special attention given to mail orders for cane seed and Kaffir corn. All new crop seeds; no old stock. 'Phone 339, 119 East 6th st. Alexander Goodfellow. FOR SALE A good 80 acre farm, also one of 320 acres for sale cheap, or will exchange for good residence property. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Two six room houses, good location on Polk St., $1.0ii0 each, easv payments, bv W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. FOR SALE Three lots on First ave. near cornerKan sas ave., for $400 each, with cottase house. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th ave. m FOR BALK Several houses to sell on payment plan or will 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 Plice. Law office Of H. C. Root, ll West 6th St. BUSINESS CHANCES. MONEY furnished to patent your ideas. The Patent Record, Baltimore, Md. ACCOUNTANT. ACCOUNTANT EXPERT Books opened and closed, tangled accounts strighten ed; strictly confidential. Address George W. Bugbee. Suite 5, Office Block, East Fifth St.. Topeka. FOB BENT FABMS. FOR RENT 80 acre farm, 3 miles from center of city: cash rent, $150 per year. Inquire 508 Home st. FOR RENT Small farm, two miles from state house. 804 Kansas ave. LOST AND FOUND. FOUND Where watches or clocks are cleaned for 50c. 13 Kansas ave., upstairs. MUSICAL. MISS MABEL MARTIN, teacher of piano and harmony, 407 Greenwood ave., Potwln. PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEONS. Im A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence, correi Gordon t. and Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rec tal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, flshure. ul ceration, etc. S. E. SHELDON, M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES. M! D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours; 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 698 residence and 16 office. DR. J. SPRINGHORN. 627 Kansas ave. Ladies' Masseur and Osteopothist. Medi cated vapor baths. A Graduate of the Massage and Swedish Movement Institute. Stockholm, Sweden. Office hours: I toll a. m. and 1 to 6 p. m. MONEY. MONEY TO LOAN on farms; 10 years SCOTT CO., 615 Kansas ave. SEE US FOR LOANS. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO., Phone 262. 113 W. Fifth t- $50 000,000 CHEAP MONEY for Investment. Agents wanted. Investors lists for sale. Investors Directory. N. Y. WANTED We want to make good farm loans In eastern Kansas. Money on hand and every accommodation to bor rower. T. E. BOWMAN CO.. Columbian Building. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles, guns, watches, diamonds and any per. sonai property. L. Biscoe. 523 Kansas ave.. FBESCO 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 State Journal building. PA VINO. THE OFFICE of the Topeka Vltrifled Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 118 West Eighth, st. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. TnlTx'rrTirRLTNr High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue free. 'Phone 232. JEWELERS. jAflics xt. 1 1 tician. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted- FRED C. FAGERCRANS. Jeweler, 72 Kansas ave. Repairing of fine and com plicated watches a specialty. Artistic monogram and letter engraving. WATCHMAKER- nriTnuira lTiri ihc CIOCKS. oOCI 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. 613 Kan. ave. FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE.Florist, successor to R. J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone (02. Wll Do Tour Hauling Right 1 TOPEKA TRANSFER CO. Telephones' 509 Kansas Are. S20 Office. 895 F. P. BACON, Prop. pjrSe. xaa about torag

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1899. SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS t 6k 13k yard for 9-4 BLEiCHED SHEETING. Edward Wilder left for CMcaeo yester- 5c yard 12k yard 12k yard for 9-4 BROWN SHEETING. 10c yd for 1 case of Book-fold Percales, worth 12c rls v Will Trainer returned to his home in I

for 8Xs Cambric muslin, S3 in. wide. Chicago yesterday. for Short Lengths of UNBLEACHED MUSLIN SHEETING, worth. 6c. for 18-inch TURKISH TOWELING, worth. 18c yard. Senator Stone of Leavenworth county is a graduate of Yale. The thrifty suburban resident is betrin- ning to clean up a place for his garden. A voune man who is troubled with a stiffness in his shoulders calls it lumbago. fFIRE I SALE in S OF DRY GOODS. We have bought a big lot of the salvage of the Havens Geddes Wholesale Dry Goods Stock of Terre Haute, Indiana, recently damaged in the big fire there. Our purchase consists principally of Prints, Tickings, Shirtings, Towelings, Handkerchiefs, Em broideries, Laces, Ribbons, Table Linens, Domestics, Shirts, Cloaks, Skirts and Underwear. They are now under way here and we expect to put them on sale Friday Morning next. It will be the cheapest lot of merchandise ever offered in Topeka. The Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. 713 and 715 Kansas Avenue, WHEN YOU BUY COAL Consider the qual ity inquire as to the results. Poor coal is expensive at any price. IT IS LP TO YOU TRY The Southwestern Fuel Company Telephones 193 and 144. 634 KANSAS AVE. ORDERED TO JAIL. Oklahoma Senate Tries to Punish the Auditor for Contempt. Guthrie, O. T., Feb. 20. Auditor S. N. Hopkins was arrested by Sergeant-at-Arms Smith for contempt, and brought before the senate to answer to the charge. On refusing to obey the man date of the senate, toe was taken to the county jail, but before being locked up was released on a writ of habeas cor pus, and Hopkins is at liberty under 52,000 bond. Auditor Hopkins appeared before the Investigating committee and promised to bring any and all records, and to tes tify in the morning. However, he changed his mind, and when he took the stand he refused to comply with the request. Chairman Biddison questioned Auditor Hopkins as follows: "Mr. Hopkins, have you here the vouchers and warrant stubs connected iwith the military department of Okla homa which you have heretofore been requested to bring before this commit tee?" "No, sir." "For what reasons have you failed to comply, Mr. Hopkins?" "Last night a number of questions were asked me to which I made some inadvertent answers. Upon further thought and consideration, in view of the fact that I had received a letter from the senate, and as I have answer ed that letter, which requires action by the senate, 1 have not brought the Vouchers." Biddison then read the penalty for noncompliance, which is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. Continuing, he said: "The order of this committee has teen made to take the necessary steps Cor your punishment if you further de cline to answer questions. The pro ceedings will be taken to court. Is this committee to understand that you, at mint crapc cream or tartar powder 1 CUE EI? fhJILLA Awarded Highest Honors, World's Fair Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair this time, decline to produce the records in question?" "Tes, sir; I decline." The committee then went Into execu tive session. It was decided to bring Mr. Hopkins before the senate, and the necessary papers were drawn. GREAT RUSH OF PEOPLE. To the Klondike Is Not Justified by the Conditions. Washington, Feb. 20. Secretary Alger has transmitted to congress a complete report on the relief work of the war de partment in the Klondike country, un dertaken under act of congress as a re sult of reports that extreme distress among the miners followed the influx to the gold country during 1897-98. It embraces the detailed reports of Cap tain P. H. Ray and Lieutenant W. P. Richardson. Aside from details of the relief work, Captain Ray's last report dated May last contains the following interesting statement: "I deem it of the greatest importance for the development of the country that roads should be opened, so as toenable the people to enter the country not only from the Yukon to the open sea in our own country, which is of the greatest importance, but to enable miners and prospectors to get into the interior with their supplies. Under existing condi tions persons can enter the country only by the one great highway, the Yu kon river and they can not hope to be landed at any point in Alaska earlier than July 1. "The gold bearing districts are from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles back from the main stream. There are not any summer trails except foot trails and provisions and mining tools can only be transported on the backs of men. "I do not find anything either in Alas ka or Northwest territory to Justify the great rush of people to that country, or the enormous investment now being made in transportation, trading and mining companies. In Northwest terri tory no discoveries of extraordinary richness have been made since that of the Klondike and the claims are al most entirely confined to Bonanza, El dorado, uominlea, Honka and Sulphur, with a few claims on Bear creek. In this district all rich claims are well known and held at very high prices and while the whole country has been staked it has been done for speculative pur poses, and no work is being done ex cept such as is necessary to hold a title until they can be sold to the unwary newcomer, or disposed of in the states for corporation schemes. Captain Con stantine, of the Canadian Northwestern mounted police is my authority for de nouncing the movement as a fraud. "In the absence of any other industry, except cutting wood for the river boats. I do not see anything in the future for over ninety per cent of the people now nocKing to tnat country but disappoint ment and suffering. Even those who ob tain employment at one dollar and a half per hour find that after deducting me cost or 100a pacKing, candles, etc., they do not net to exceed $2 per day, and they tell me it is barely enough to tide them over the idle season. "Up to date no paying mineral leads of either gold or silver have been dis covered in North Alaska, so far as known. "I am now fully satisfied that in the near, future Alaska will be a source of great wealth, but the development will necessarily be slow, owing to the cli matic conditions. I recommend the early introduction of horses, mules and cat tle, and extra inducements should be held out for the development of agricul ture in the valley of the lower Yukon especially. Wild hay can be obtained there in great abundance, and oats, bar ley and spring wheat can be success fully cultivated as well as potatoes, tur nips and all the more hardy garden vegetables, all of which would be re quired for many years to meet the local demand and by reducing the cost of transportation of food render it possible to profitably work a large percentage of the mines now lying idle. "But few of the people now entering the northern part of the territory will ever become a factor in its permanent development. They must pass away before the time when the wealth of the country will become known and de veloped. To promote this I recommend that several well equipped parties be put in the field and a thorough geo graphical and geological exploration of the country be made so that men of orginary means will be able to engage in the work of prospecting and mining. At present it requires considerable cap ital to first explore the country for a practicable route to transport supplies before any work can be done in pros pecting. "The ruling rate of interest at Daw son is from 10 to 12 per cent per month, which is the best exemplification I can give of the speculating condition of the finances of that country." We will wash your colored shirts and guarantee colors from fading. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. SUu There are no contests for membership of the school board at the Republican pri mary. Postmaster John Guthrie is now the old est Masonic past grand master in the state. The unfortunate individual who is af flicted with laziness can now say it is spring fever. Mr. A. K Wilson has been re-elected grand secretary of the Masonic grand lodge of Kansas. Sneoial service will re "held every Fri day evening during Lent at the Church of tne Assumption. The Washburn base ball team will com mence practice this week with material for a strong team. A bisr man ridirwr a very small Shetland pony was one of the ludicrous sights on tne streets today. A close estimate places the number of applicants for positions on the T. A. A. base ball team at 200. Josenh Hanna. who was clerk in the sheriffs office and resigned February 1, has moved to his farm. Mrs. W. E. Ward, wife of Representa tive Ward of Wallace county, is seriously ill at Stormont hospital. This will be editors' week in Tooeka. The editors will come to Topeka to watch the legislature play horse. Cups and saucers with pictures of the bridge, state house and high school on them are the latest souvenirs. The Knights of Pythias hold their anni versary exercises tonieht in their castle at the corner of Sixth and Quiney. Almost every bankruptcy petition filed in the federal court is accomoanied by the request to "keep it out of the papers." The date for the appearance of Sol Smith Russell at the Crawford theater in "Hon. John Grigsby" is Monday, March 6. These big New York papers are printed in sui h a ridiculous way that you can't find the news on account of the type. Representative Campbell of Fort Scott will discuss woodcraft before the Wood men o the World at Lincoln Post hall to night. Walter Veale has filed a petition In bank ruptcy. He states that his assets consists of personal effects and shows that his lia bilities amount to several thousand dol lars. Mr. Fred Ware says the Dispatch band will run an excursion to Leavenworth when the Twenty-third Kansas returns from Cuba. The students and school children who came to Topeka on the excursion Satur day managed to have a good time, judging from appearances. "Cap" Curtis, who is regarded as one of the best political prophets in the state, says that Mr. Drew will be elected mayor by a big majority. The people who want the people to rule instead of the water company, a new Jer sey corporation, are flocking to the sup port of Mr. Drew. There is a large crowd of candidates for positions In tne state institutions nere ready to see the board of charities when it meets tomorrow. Fletcher Helm, the demitv sheriff who went wrong, was in Topeka Saturday, but he disappeared when he found the officers were looKing tor mm. The livervmen did a bitr business vester- day and are considerably richer today in consequence or win De wnen tney get their collections made. At the adjournment of the National Aid association, Alonzo Wardall, who has been president for 10 years, was given a vote ot thanks tor nis work. John Marshall is a personal friend of John Philip Sousa. Sousa once told the Topeka director that he had the best am ateur band in the country. James If. McClearv of this citv was called to Effingham, Kan., last week by the serious illness of his mother. She suf fered a paralytic stroke. Frank Brooks friends have wasted a great deal of ink discussing the water works question, which they claim is not an issue in the campaign. Governor Stanley has so far recovered from his recent relapse of the grip that he was able to attend the First M. E. church yesterday as usual. City Attorney W. A. S. Bird, who is past grand cnancenor 01 tne i.nignts 01 Jr"y thias. will speak at the anniversary exer cises of the order tonight. There is a large house on Topeka ave nue which has no door leading into it from the front veranda. Strangers in passing always wonaer wnat was tne ODject in building it that way. Revival services began at the First M. tu. cnurcn last evening. Jr. Thorpe is as sisted in them by Evangelist C. W. Gar lock of Sioux City, la. The Kansas division bicycle meet will be held in Topeka this year, and it promises to be bigger and more satisfactory to wheelmen than any previous meet. There is a man in Topeka who is the exact double of tho old pictures of John Brown the ones in which he had a long, bushy beard and pompadour hair. Prof. William Windsor will lecture on "Vitosophy, the Wisdom of Life," at the Crawford theater Wednesday and Thurs day evenings. The lectures will be free. If Councilman Drew had not taken such a positive stand against the water com pany would he have had any opposition from the faction that is now fighting him? Prof, and Mrs. T. W. Roach of Sallna visited Representative Ward of Wallace county over Sunday. Prof. Roach is man ager of the Kansas Wesleyan college at Salina. F. S. Savage, advertising manager of the Santa Fe in this city, will aecompanv the members of the Kansas Editorial associa tion on the excursion to Kansas City Wed nesday. The churches were all well attended yes terday. Probably people were grateful because the day was not like the Sunday previous and thought they had better show their gratitude. W. A. Evans of the Kansas City Star, who Is "doing" the Missouri legislature, spent Sunday with his family in the city. Wednesday is the birthday of the Father of His Countrj'. Prof. Dyche lectured to a large audience, composed mostly of school children, at the Crawford theater Saturday afternoon. He livered his last lecture to a small audi ence in the evening. Dr. A. K. De Blois. president of Shurt-lt-ff college at Upper Alton, 111., will speak UlUIHHIIIIHHIIHRIIiliaminillSliHHIie I "In The Blues" n is a common saying of a person 3 who exhibits low spirits, nerveless 2 SS action and a failure to enjoy even Es the most cheery surroundings. 5 Nine times out of ten this condj- S tion is accounted for by poor diges- s s tion, which affects the mind and EE nervous system, besides enfeebling EE s the body. E i Mall Exsmxl 1 IfoBesTfanic 1 is a complete remedy for the 'blues' s 5 and a promoter of good health and EE EE geod cheer, being a pure, nourish- s S ing, concentrated food of easy st S digestion and soothing action. S 53 I prescribe your Best Tonic In all S h cases where a pure and reliable malt extract SS m is indicated. It has given me the best satis- S3 faction. DR.W. B. PAYNE, Covington, Vs. 33 7k yd for Book-Fold Percales, worth 10c 25c yd for 60-inch Turkey Bed Table Damask. Past colors. 50c yd for Cream Linen Damask. 60 inches wide. 10c each or $1.00 dozen, for Turkish Towels. The popular size. EXTRA SPECIAL LACE DEPARTMENT. Handsome Effects In Taffetas Appliqued with with Chenille, Silk Ap pliques, and wide Silk Plaitings for Yokes, are shown at the Lace Counter. Machine-made Torchons and Insertings, up to 3 in. wide; Laces worth 6c and yn 8c Your choice for J A 50-piece general assortment of Laces includes Net Top Laces, wide Machine Torchons, heavy and Silk Inserting some worth fl- yl from J2c to 25c Your choice lvw J u NEW SILKS- IRS We have n't fig ured the yardage, but there looks to be about 30,000 yds. already crammed in the fixtures and on the counters. Stripes predominate. They call them Pekin Stripes, Satin Stripes, Candele Stripes, Ribbon Stripes, Straight Cords, Cross Cords, Melange Cords, Basket Stripes, Printed Foulards, Printed Warps, Polka Dots, and Poplins. 38c yd for 50c Cream Damask, 72 inches wide. 5k yd for 1 case of Soft-Finish 4-4 Bleached Muslin. 68c yd for 68-inch Pure Linen Damask. 8 different designs. 5c yd for 1 case of One-Half Linen Crash. t t QUILT SALE. Marseilles and Satin The story is this we bought them as seconds, away under price. Have opened up a few and find them all right, though others may show slight imperfections. Take them as a whole and they are a great purchase for us, and a great purchase for you. $1.48, $1.79 and $2.25 For the Marseilles, and $2.25 For the Satin. All worth from i to more SOFA PILLOWS. The uncovered kind at bargain prices 18 inch Pillows 29c 20 inch Pillows 39c 22 inch Pillows 4:9 C NEW SHOES. The greater part of our Spring Shoes are in. "Louie heels" are still growing in favor. We show them in patent leathers at $5.00, plain kid at 84.50 and $4.00, in brown and tan at $4.00. At the popular price of $3.00 our lines are particularly strong. "We show 20 different styles at this price in black and colors. NOTION DEPT. Embroidery Scissors, good steel, 25c pair. "Warner's Coraline for dress stays, the silesia and sateen covered, sold at 10c, for 5c yard. The satin and silk covered Cora line sold at 15c and 18c, for 10c yd. Genuine cocoanut oil soap, per dozen cakes, 18c. Our Queen Toilet Soap, sold at 5c per cake, 3c. NEW GINGHAMS. The largest and most varied line we have ever shown. Prices 10, 15, 18,25, 27, 35,40,50c. New Black Crepons, in 50 styles and eight prices $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50. Art Linen Dept. Battenburg Braids, 36 yard 22 pieces, for "Ov Pillow Tops, worth up to 50c Jr each, for -Jv Laundry Bags, were 35c, 40c IZr and 45c, for J v 7-inch all linen doilies new 2 patterns of stamping ioo Ladies' New TaiIormade Suits Received Saturday. In the First Baptist church on Thursday evening. His subject will be "Present Problems of Christianity." The new state house janitors have made some improvements in the appearance of the corriilors, but they have not yet suc ceeded in moving the four years' accum ulation of dust from some of the tran soms. Toprka will soon he full of colored sol diers. The Twenty-third Kansas regiment, which will shortly be mustered out at Leavenworth, numbers more enlisted men from Topeka than from any other city in the state. It is said that Senator Hanna of Clay countv is a distant relative of Mark's al though they are of opposite political faiths. The Kansas Hanna shows the same traits in politics, however, that the Oh:o man possesses. The thermometer yesterday presented a far more cheerful appearance than it did the Sunday before. One would not have recoernized it as the same low-spirited ar ticlewhich caused the world to shiver only a week before. Topeka tennis players are already talk ing of getting the tennis courts in order. The indications are that the game will be started early, and that more interest will be taken in It this year than for several years past. J. W. Morphy, secretary of the senate, is just now the busiest man in the state. He is also secretary of the Kansas Edi torial association, and is arranging an ex cursion for that body from Topeka to Kansas City Wednesday. If for no other reason. Sousa's hand will be heard to better advantage at the Grand Opera House next Thursday nirht than Marshall's band was at the Crawford theater last week, because of the dif ference in the size of the two houses. M. A. Carmichael. assistant chief clerk of the house of representatives, is worried because he is given as assistant stenogra pher in the legislative handbook. He is afraid his friends, who know that he is not a stenographer, will think he Is work ing the state. The flags which are kept floating over the east and west wings of the state house during the time the- legislature is in ses sion have become so blackened by the smoke and so soot-begrimed by the state house chimneys that it Is Impossible to tell their original color. SAENGEUFEST BUILDINGS. Ground to Be Broken for a Great Edi fice for the Organization. Cincinnati. Feb. 20. Ground will be broken for the great International Saensrerfest building today. The cen tennial of this great organization will be celebrated here next June. The contractors are under bond of $10,000 to complete the building by June 10. The stage is to be ready for re hearsals June 1. Chairman Schuler of the committee on reception announced that quarters had been secured already for 1,125 singers, most of them being from Germany. Most of the musical societies of this country will send rep resentatives here in person to secure quarters. Lost $8,800 of New Money. New York, Feb. 20. Some one lost a newspaper package containing $8,845 in nice new paper money while walking from the Johnston building at 30 Broad street to the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, 150 feet away. J. Anderson, who is the agent of the John ston building and has an office in room 140, offers a handsome reward for the recovery of the money. He says he did not lose the money, but will not tell who did '-r to whom it belonged, TOBACCO FACTORIES SOLD. A Syndicate Acquires Cuban Proper ties Worth $5,OOO,O00. Havana, Feb. 20. Hugog von Reitz enstein, representing a syndicate com posed of John C. Tomlinson, Senor Raffael Govin, former United States Senator Eustis and Senor Francisco Garcia and other prominent people, has consummated a deal for the purchase of a number of the largest tobacco fac tories in Havana and much tobacco land. The combined output of the fac tories is 100,000 cigars daily, besides a vast number of cigarettes. The proper ties already acquired are valued at $5, 000,000, and other purchases are con templated. Experts are examining ac counts of the businesses to be taken over in a few days. NO COMBINATION. An Effort to Unite Against Mr. Bird Falls Through There are rumors today of a com bination between W. F. Schoch and C. E. Gault, candidates for- city attorney, to the effect that Mr. Gault will with draw from the race and throw his strength to Mr. Schoch but the deal has fallen through and both men will stay on the track. Mr. Gault said today: "I will not withdraw, no matter what may happen. I am in this race to stay until the end for I believe it is my turn to run. Mr. Schoch can withdraw if he wants to." Dave Mulvane and J. G. Wood repre sented Mr. Gault at the conference and John VanVechten and John Rodgers of the Fourth ward represented Mr. Schoch. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Anniversary Exercises to Be Held at Castle Hall Tonight. Anniversary exercises will be held at the Castle Hall, corner of Sixth and Quincy streets, this evening, beginning at 8 o'clock. AH Knights and their fam ilies, and such friends as they may de sire to bring with them are cordially in vited. Also all Rathbone Sisters. W. A. S. Bird, past grand chancellor; John W. Aiton, grand vice chancellor; Hon. H. F. Mason and Hon. C. B. Griffith, and other prominent Knights will be present, and will deliver short addresses on special subjects. The exercises will be interspersed with vocal and instru mental music JOHN A. BRIGHT, Secretary Committee of Arrangements. NEW LINE TO KANSAS CITY. Electric Road Projectors Ask Legisla ture for Bridge Concessions. Last summer a company was organiz ed in Kansas City to build an electric railroad along the Kaw river bottom to Topeka, and ample assurances were at the time given that the road should be built. Some believed that it would; others had little faith in the enterprise, but a bill introduced in the senate by Mr. Zimmer is said to be the first ac tive step towards the construction of the proposed road. This bill is to authorize the construc tion of a bridge across the river in Kan sas City at Twenty-first street. The capital stock of the company is three million dollars, and its incorporators are Edward E. Holmes, James Haggart and A. N. Gossett of Kansas City, E. B. Purcell of Manhattan and Henry Mc Grew of Kansas City, Kan. The incorporators of the company say that the road will be built this year if the Kansas legislature empowers it to bridge the Kaw. The route of the pro posed road will bring it through Argen tine and Armourdale and across the Kansas river near the stock yards. The incorporators wish to make a traffic arrangement with the Metropolitan company by which it will be able to run its cars to the business center of Kansas City. If this falls through the company intends to build its own line from the Kaw river into Kansas City. The latter plan provides for a fran chise for an electric line on Baltimore avenue from West Ninth street, passing the new Baltimore hotel and turning west on Seventeenth or Twenty -first street and thence to West Kansas City by the most available route. Which ever route is chosen a viaduct will have to be built over the railroad tracks at the foot of the west bluff and several street grades will have to be overcome. The company says it Is thoroughly In earnest and that if the Metropolitan company will not lease its tracks it will build its own line into the business sec tion of Kansas City. C. L. Dobson, attorney for the electric company, says that the plans for the road are yet in embryo. If the bridge franchise is secured, however, he says that the road will enter Kansas city either over its own tracks or the rails of some company now in existence. The plans of the Kansas City,- Law rence Topeka Electric Railway and Power company are to erect large power houses for the purpose of fur nishing electricity for lighting and manufacturing in the terminal cities and the towns along the line of the railway. According to the belief of its projectors, who are men experienced in railway building, such a railway line operated by electricity for both freight and passenger traffic, would be a profit able investment, as the Kaw valley is not only thickly populated, but with proper facilities for handling its prod ucts it can easily be converted Into one vast garden extending from the limits of Kansas City to Topeka, ad as far up the 'alley as Junction City. John G. Johns of Houston, Tex., who was connected with the construction of the Houston Texas Central railroad and also with the construction of the government jetties at New Orleans, is one of the promoters of the enterprise. In fact, it was Mr. Johns who first con ceived the idea of constructing, such a line and since the organization of the company he, with others of the pro moters, has been at work interesting men of capital in the east in the enter prise. TO HEAR PROF. DYCHE. The Legislature WU1 Listen to Him Lecture as They Don't Have to Pay for It. On Wednesday evening Prof. Dyche will lecture before the legislature by Q RAND OPERA HOUSE EVENING ONLY-Thuruday, Feb. 23. THE MARCH KING IS COMING Sousa AND HIS Band. John Philip Sousa, Conductor. MAUD REESE DA VIES, Soprano. DOROTHY DOYLE, Violiniste. ARTHUR PHY0R, Trombone. Prices: 60c, 75c, $1.00, and $1.60. Sale opens Monday, Feb. 20, Sim's Drug Store. special invitation. A resolution extend ing the invitation to him has been pass ed by the house. It will be illustrated as usual with stereopticon vlews.and Prof. Dyche will tell the legislature a few things about the cold and frozen north. The resolution recites the fact that Prof. Dyche has offered to deliver the lecture free, and as it doesn't cost them .anything the members thought they might as well take advantage of it. Pocketbook Was Empty. The disorderly house of Mabel Cutler, at 518 Kansas avenue, was raided by the police yesterday and the keeper with two inmates.Cecil Wood and Grace Ellis, were locked up "in the city jail without bail. A man, who withheld his name, found on Sunday morning that he had been robbed of $160. He notified the police and the inmates were arrest ed. After they were taken to the po lice station an officer searched the place and found the empty pocketbook. CRAZY WITH ITCHING Eozema on Head. Got Into the Eyet, Doctor Institutes Could Not Cure. Cured in 2 Months by CUTICUBA. I had eczema on the top of my head over two yeara. It itched, something fierce. My doctor treated me for aiz months, with failure, ao I tried more doctors, and a New York institute for six months, bntcould not reach any farther than the rest. I had it worse than at the start, aa it commenced to get im mj eyes, and nearly got me crazy with itching. 1 noticed your advertisement In jjje N. Y. 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