The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 8, 1899
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LAST EDITION ESDAT EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 8,1899. "WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. NOT FIT FORJARTH. Jolin Gilbert, Who Murdered His Whole Family, A Weak Minded Brute Almost Irresponsible. A NATURE PROBABLY The Heritage of Generations of Ignorance and Imbecility. Talks In a Rambling Manner Incriminating Himself. Lacks the Sense to Tell a Con nected Story. John R. Gilbert, the Clay county mur derer, is still in the county jail. Sheriff Cooper feared to take him to Clay Center because of threatened mob vio lence. He takes things in a matter of fact way, but appears to realize fully everything that transpires. He con verses in a calm, even tone and becomes confused only when talking of the ter rible crime which he undoubtedly com mitted. Gilbert is five feet seven inches in height. His head is of the bullet kind and his reddish brown hair is thick and coarse. His complexion is what is called "sandy" and his short growth of beard chows yellowish red. He wears a thin, straggling mustache, which is almost white. His features are sharp, and his nose is rather long and pointed. He has no chin to speak of. His eyes are pale blue and they are surmounted by heavy white eyebrows. The voice that comes from between the lips is not unpleasant. Gilbert's hands very large and they are seared and hardened with work. Deep cracks extend acoss the fingers such as are found only on men who labor out of doors. It is evident that he has not been given to idleness, but the face is one of the lower order of hu manity. The brain fs small, and it is not difficult to see that its possessor would act from impulse. He would not be picked out as a murderer, but rather as a shiftless individual who has been knocked about from one place to an other, always working hard, but never accumulating anything. There is no doubt whatever that Gil bert killed his wife and four children, though he now says that he did not. In a. conversation of a, few minutes he will calmly discuss the manner of their death and will afterwards add: "That Js what I said to the people at Emporia, but it is not true." He wears a striped shirt which is bespattered with blood m the sleeves and body. He wore this shirt when he murdered his family. "How did you get that blood on your shirt?" was asked. He glanced at one of the wristbands of the shirt, which was red with blood stains, and a half startled look came into his eyes. "Oh, that is from my hands. Tou see they are cracked," said he. "Then I cut my hand going through a hedge. The blood is from that." He then seemed engrossed in thought for a moment, but an effort to draw his mind to some other subject failed. He was etill thinking of the bloodstains and evi dently concluded that his explanation was iame. "I killed some game, too," he said, looking up. "You had a gun then?" "Yes, I took a shotgun with me when I left home and I shot some rabbits as 1 went along." "What did you do with the gun?" "I laid it aside before I got on the train at Marion." The murderer abandoned his horse when he was less than ten miles from home and traveled the distance to Mar lon on foot, sleeping in the day time and "I MI ST HAVE BEEN CRAZY.' talking at night. Why he left his horse can be explained in but one way and that is that he feared to draw attention to himself. "I left my horse because it was mort gaged," said he. "I knew I ought not to take it out of the county and so I turned it loose. I got something to eat from farmers as I went along but I was pretty hungry most of the time. The cold night, Thursday, I slept with a farmer but I do not remember his name." "What time did you leave home?" "I left at ten o'clock Tuesday night. I remember that I got up and then I don't remember anything more until I was at the barn. X intended to go away because I had been worrying about my debts and I thought if I would stay away awhile I would feel better. I had been at home all day Tuesday. In the evening we played checkers. I remem ber that I went to bed and that the rest of the family went to bed but that is all." "Do you think that you might have killed your wife and children without knowing anything about it?" Gilbert gazed into vacancy for a. few seconds and then burst into tears. He rubbed his eyes with his hard hands while the tears trickled down his weath er baaten cheeks. He had discussed the details of the murder before without any show of emotion and he had now broken down for the first time since the murder. "I might have done it," he sobbed. "If I did do it I did not know what I was doing. It may have happened that way." His tears were dried almost as sud denly as they came. He was shown a paper which contained an interview in which he said that his wife had fought back. "That Is not what I said," he replied. "My wife died easy but one of the little girls, Beezie, seemed to die hard. That is what I said." onbert added the last words for he noticed that he was drift ing into a discussion of the manner in which the murder was committed. "I have had trouble with my wife." said Gilbert, "and I wanted to go away some time ago but she begged me not to. I told her that if she would give me J10 I would go away and not bother her any more but I never abused her. They said that I was drunk on Tuesday but that is not true. I can prove that I was not in town Tuesday." "Have you been drinking much re cently?" "No, I have not. About a month ago I went to town and got drunk. 1 was not able to unhitch the team when I got home and I gave my wife a dollar to unhitch it for me. That is the way I treated my wife. I am not mean when I am drunk. I feel good at such times." The Above Likeness of Gilbert, the Murderer, Is From a Photograph Taken by Strickrott For the State Journal. (Fac Simile of Gilbert's Signature.) "How much do you owe?" "About $300. I borrowed $100 to help pull me through, but it did not help. The rest of the money I owe for ma chinery and things of that kind." When asked about insanity in the family Gilbert said: "My mother was crazy and died in an asylum and I had one sister die of something they called hydrophobia but she was crazy. She got a gun and tried to kill herself several times." "Did you think of killing yourself?" "Yes, I thought of it and I intended to do it but I got started away and just kept on. But I wanted to kill myself. For a long time before I left I kept thinking that some one was trying to do me up. I could not help thinking that some one was after me all the time. I inquired about it and they told me that no one wanted to hurt me and that I was all right. It may have been that I was going crazy then. "When I left home Tuesday night I intended to go to Oklahoma where my brother and father live but I intended to go back to my family when I had visited there awhile, but I thought they would be happier without me. I did not know that my family had been killed until they put me in jail at Em poria and then they told me about it. I did not believe them at first but so many reliable men told me that I final ly believed it. "I don't deny that T confessed to these people at Emporia. The sheriff and two or three more people got around me and they talked to me until I thought I might just as well tell them what they wanted me to. I knew that they would be after me about that mortgaged pro perty and that I would have to go to the pen anyhow and I thought that I might as well tell them, but half the stuff that has been printed about me is not true." Gilbert says that he was born In No ble county, Ohio, and that he has lived in Kansas nearly all his life. He is 35 years old. He says that he was mar ried eight years ago. His oldest child, a boy of 7 was named Arthur Next was a girl. Ethel, then Beatrice and the youngest who was less than 2 nam ed Carrie. He prefers to not talk about his children. "When asked if he was fond of them he replied that he was and then changed the subject. The Gilbert home near Industry was a one room farm shanty which served for kitchen, dining and sleeping room. Mrs. Gilbert was a woman who had spent most of her life in town. There is no doubt that she was not contented with the hardships of country life on a rented farm. Her husband said that she frequently complained and this is pro bably correct. On the fatal Tuesday night there had undoubtedly been a quarrel. The ignorant and Impetuous man was enraged. He picked up a heavy blacksmith hammer which had been left at the place by thrashers and with this struck his wife on the head. The beast that was in the man was aroused and in an instant he had plung ed into the bloody abyss of insanity which has no doubt always existed in his nature, undetected. He struck the babe, Carrie who was barely able to toddle. Then he wound a sheet around the other children one by one and de spatched them in the same way. He said that he did not want them to suf fer. When he is asked now why he killed his children he can not tell. He said that he killed his wife because she nagged him but has offered no explan ation for murdering his children. After Gilbert had finished his mur derous work he stopped to change his clothes. He said: "I put on these clothes because I was going away, and left my old clothes hanging up." But the clothes were blood-spattered that he left behind. He must have been haunted by a fear that he would be cap tured, for he did not stop to change his shirt, which was aJso covered with the blood of his murdered family. While he murdered his family he says that he feared the law which forbids a person to take mortgaged property out of the state, and abandoned his horse for that reason. "I am not afraid to go back to Clay county," said Gilbert. "The people there know me. and I believe I can ex plain this affair all right. I can get a lawyer there who will help me. I did not kill my family, and I do not know who did." John Gilbert does not give a person the impression that he is insane now. He converses lucidly and never wan ders in his talk. He remembers perfect ly everything that has happened since he left home and one who sees and talks to him would say that he Is a person of weak intellect, and little or no sense of the enormity of his crime. CRIMINAL INSTINCT And Extreme Selfishness That Marks the Degenerate's Character, What Ails Gilbert Br. "W. S. Lindsay of this city, who in his work as a specialist on nervous diseases has made a thorough study of human nature, says that unquestion ably John Gilbert, the Clay county mur derer, belongs to the degenerate class. "From what I have read of the mur- Gilbert Pointing Out the Route He Fol lowed from Clay Center. der," said Dr. Lindsay today, "I see no reason to believe Gilbert insane ex cept as he is a defective human being. Criminal instinct and extreme selfish ness are the two principal features of the defective or degenerate class, and this man murdered his entire family from the selfishness of not wanting to be bothered with them any longer. The murder was not the result of a rage, but done simply as a means of ridding himself of a burden. A study of his family history would undoubtedly be interesting as showing a gradual deter ioration of the stock.. "I consider Gilbert morally responsi ble for the murder because it was the result of degeneracy and not Insanity." Cable Company Dividend. New York, March 8. The directors of the Commercial Cable company have declared a quarterly dividend of. 1 per cent. AIR LIKESTEAM. Much Suffering- Among the Natives at Manila, Though the Temperature Is But 87 Degrees. FILIPINO TREACHERY. Fire on a Flag of Truce Which They Had Invited. Shells From Hawthorne's Bat tery Square Acconnts. Manila, March 8. The temperature today at 3 o'clock was 87 degreesi but the cloudy air was like steam and the troops were greatly inconvenienced on the line in spite of the temporary shade afforded by matting and bambods wher ever feasible. There were fewer pros trations, however, from the heat. The enemy is still in front of Gen. Wheaton'a line. Near San Pedro Macati they have been active attempting to make the positions of the Sixth artil ley on the hills untenable, their sharpshooters keeping up a constant fire all day. Private Lovejoy, Company C, Wash ington volunteers, was killed by a stray bullet. Maj. Bell, Seventh United States cavalry; Private Young, Com pany M, Twentieth infantry; Private Curran, Company H, Twentieth infan try, and Private Parks, Company I, First Wyoming volunteers, were wounded today. This morning the enemy in front ot Gen. Ovenshine's line sent out a flag of truce, but retired when Lieut. Koeh ler, with two men, advanced to meet it. This afternoon they again showed a white flag, and again two officers and an interpreter advanced. When the Americans were within 200 yards of the Insurgents the latter dragged rifles from behind their backs and opened fire upon them, but fortunately without effect. Hawthorne's battery fired two shells, killing several of the enemy. General Hale's brigade continued the work of driving out the insurgents from the country between the reservoir and the waterworks, a. distance of about three miles. The country is now clear on the left of the river, but the enemy is still in front of General Wheaton's line. In accordance with instructions to the land and naval forces a general order was issued today directing the United States troops to give particular atten tion to the specific duty of furnishing full protection to the lives and property of all German, Austrian, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese residents, and, with the co-operation of the resident German consul, to give aldnd assistance where ever necessary. LIST OF CASUALTIES. Washington, March 8. The following cablegram was received from General Otis today: Manila. March 8. Adjutant General. Washington. Casualties March 8. San Pedro Macati Wounded: First Wash ington, company C. Corporal Frank Johnson, breast, slight. March 6, wounded: Sixth artillery, battery D, blacksmith, Louis Hiebeck, leg, slight. First Washington, company K, Pri vate Frank L. Rose, chest, slight. Com pany H, Stolemon S. Ruffell, thigh, mod erate. Injured: First Washington, company M, Private Fred C. Thorry, foot crush ed on Marquina road. Wounded: First Nebraska, company F, Corporal Walter J. Huntington, chest, severe; company I, Private Charles I. Louis, hip, severe; John Trible, thigh, severe: Second Oregon, company G.Pri vate Harry L. Stanton, leg, moderate; Albert A. Eide. abdomen, severe. Hospital corps. Private Cornelius M. Monahan, leg, severe. March 7, near San Pedro Macati.First Washington, killed, company C, Private Frank A. Lovejoy. OTIS. ATTACKED ON THREE SIDES. Insurgents Are Driven Back With a Loss of 250. New York, March 8. A dispatch to the Herald from Manila says: General Hale determined this morning to clear away the enemy from the front of the right of his wing. The gunboat Laguna de Bay. under Major Grant, be gan shelling the enemy's position. Two companies of the Twentieth infantry and three companies of the First Nebraska under Colonel Stotzenburg, swung in from the road to the waterworks, driving the insurgents toward the Pasig river. The First Wyoming advanced directly on the insurgent position in front. Mean while the Laguna de Bay pounded the foe from the river. Thus taken on three sides the insurgents after some resistance were driven back. Captain J. T. O'Brien of the First Wy oming was shot in the wrist and Major Bell of the bureau of information was slightly wounded. Complete reports of the wounded are not yet in. General Hale estimates the enemy's loss at 250. At the time of sending this dispatch the Wyoming troops occupied an advanced position. The insurgents opened fire across the river from Guadaloupe. killing Private Lovejoy of company C. First Washington, and wounding two others. The insurgents have been concentrating to the east of the city and will probably try an attack from that side. Their prin cipal object is to cut off the water supply of Manila. The American positions are strong and the attempts will be futile. The insurgent losses have been severe the last few days. The Madrid authorities have offered Aguinaldo a ransom of $1,000 for each of ficer. $110 each for the privates and $Ti00 for each civil servant. They have not offered to ransom the priests. Aguinaldo declares that he has paid fil busters $700,000 and has received only 500 rifles and 2.000.000 rounds of ammunition. The filibusters say the rest have been cap tured, but probably they were never bought. A RTESIAN WELLS. For Irrigating Sugar Plantations in Hawaii. San Francisco, March 8. Advices from Honolulu to February 24 state that the United States cruiser Philadel phia sailed from that port for Samoa on February 23. The United States collier Scandia is having her boilers repaired and is put ting on 4,000 tons of coal to proceed to Samoa as soon as possible. To supply water for the irrigation of the new acreage which is being put un der cultivation on the Hawaiian com mercial and sugar company plantation new artesian wells have been bored which yield about 40 million gallons of water daily. TO EUROPE FOU 50. Further Cutting of Kates, But Not For a Very Long Period. New York, March 8. According to ad vices received this morning from its home office, the Holland-American line has made a cut in first and second class passenger rates. The minimum first class rate has been cut from $65 to $50. Second class accommodations have been reduced from $45 to $37. The new rates are to go into effect at once and continue during March and the first half of April. Rates are now reduced on all the large transatlantic steamship lines running out of this port, the Holland-American being the eleventh line to cut. The new rates of this line for the steamers Statendam and Rotterdam are: First cabin Winter rate, extend ing to April 16, $50, reduced from $67.50; spring rate, extending from April 16 to June 1, $57.50, reduced from $67.50 and $75; summer rate, extending from June 1 to July 14, $65, reduced from $75. Sec ond cabin (two seasons only) Winter rate, extending to May 15, $37, reduced from $40; summer rate, extending from May 15 to July 14, $42.50, reduced from $45. KAIULANI DYING. The Hawaiian Princess a Victim of Rheumatism of the Heart. Honolulu, March 1, via San Francisco, March 8. Princess Kaiulani is on her deathbed, and although she is still alive when the steamer Alameda left for San Francisco, she cannot survive another 24 hours. Rheumatism of the heart is the cause of her illness. It has been known for some weeks that Kaiulani was ill, but it was not expected that her ailment would take a serious turn. Today rheumatism has affected her heart and there is no hope for her recov ery. Several weeks ago Kaiulani went to one of the other islands against the advice of her physicians. While absent from this city she was taken ill and was brought back in a poor condition. She has since been confined to her home at Waikiki, two physicians being constantly in attendance. Today two additional medical men were called, in for consultation. The four men now agree that the young woman, who expected to be Que&n of .Hawaii, will not live 24 hours. Kaiulani is the daughter of the late Princess Likelike. A. S. Cleghorn, a Scotchman, was her father. lie is now living in Honolulu. She was born Octo ber 1G, 1875. After the death of Kalakau, when Liliuokalani ascended the throne, Kaiulani was declared heir apparent to the throne of Hawaii. This was on March 9, 1891. The princess was then in Kngland pursuing her studies. In the events that have transpired here during the past six years the fact that she was being edu cated in England worked against her chances of ever being queen. The Amer ican element here was always afraid that she would lean toward British interests as against American. On this account it is safe to say that Kaiulani would not have ascended the throne even had the monarchy lasted. Since the princess has been in Honolulu she has received very considerate treat ment from the government in power. When she took the oath of allegiance to the republic of Hawaii she was granted a liberal pension, and the last legislature re newed the allowance. Some weeks ago a paper was circulated among the business men praying the United States congress to make some provision for the young woman. The paper is now in Washing ton. ARISTOCRATIC DOGS. One Thousand of Them on Ex hibition in Chicago. Chicago, March 8. One thousand ar istocratic dogs from all parts of the country were on exhibition today at the opening of the Mascoutah Kennel club's annual exhibition. The show will con tinue throughout the week. Many east ern owners are in attendance including Frank Gould, who has Chantrel Prince, the pride of the Gould kennel entered in the St. Bernard class and other entries. Among the other entries is the bulldog Tramp.the mascot of Roosevelt's Rough Riders. The judges are James Mortimer of New Tork, J. J. Lynn of Port Huron, Mich., Arthur Kroemkling of Chicago and H. W. Lacille of Boston. COL. BRYAN IN TEXAS. Spoke at Fort Worth Last Night and "Will Address Legislature Today. Fort Worth, Tex., March 8. William Jennings Bryan spoke to and was en thusiastically received by 2,000 people here last night. Today he will address the Texas legislature. HIS BODY TURNED BLACK. A Han Sustains a Shock of 2,000 Volts of Electricity. New Tork, March 8. Joseph Hampel, an employe of the Lexington Avenue cable power house, while working at his switch board, received and survived an electric shock of about 2.000 volts. The man's body was burned black from head to foot; every stitch of clothes was torn from him and he fell senseless through o hole instantaneously burned in the floor by the terrific electrical power. The doctors who attended him say there is no case on record of a man withstanding a similar shock. The ac cident was caused through Hampel try ing to tighten a loose screw on the switchboard and in some way creating a circuit. The enormous power of the shock may be judged from the fact that until the circuits were readjusted all the cars of the road were brought to a standstill. TOPEKA GIRL IN MANILA. Acting as a Missionary She Supports Herself by a Private School. Jewell City, March 8. Kansas has a young woman in the Philippine islands, the only white woman missionary there. She is Miss Alice Spradlin of Topeka and supports herself by a private Eng lish school. About a year ago she went to India under the auspices of the C. W. B. M., a missionary society of the Christian church, but left for Manila immediate ly after the navy and army had been called there. On first arrival she acted in the capacity of a nurse for Uncle Sam's boys. Negroes Off For Liberia. Guthrie, Okla., March 8. Two hun dred negroes will leave Oklahoma today for Liberia. They have joined the Li beria Colonization association, whose agents have been at work in the terri tory for two months. The negroes are furnished railroad 'fare. MEN FOR MANILA. Recruits For the Army Are Now Largely in Demand. Kansas City, March 8. A squad of 17 men left the United States army re cruiting station on the Nelson building yesterday afternoon for the Philippines. The men were newly recruited soldiers, who are being sent to Manila to Join regiments of the regular army stationed there. They left for San Francisco over the Union Pacific road at 2:30 o'clock and will take steamer there. Another squad will leave the station today for Manila, The threatening outlook in the Phil ippines has moved many Missouri and Kansas men to apply to Lieutenant John Taylor Haines, recruiting officer here, for enlistment in the army. The daily mail for the station comes in big bags. There are hundreds of letters from men all over the west who want to be soldiers. Lieut. Haines has found that he can not do all the enlisting alone and has applied to the adjutant general of the army at Washington for assistance. Two second lieutenants were ordered to report to him here. Yesterday Second Lieutenant Dean of the sixth cavalry arrived at the station and began work. He will be sent through Missouri on a recruiting trip. When the other lieutenant arrives he will be sent through Kansas on a like trip. "Officers will spend several weeks in each of the larger towns of Missouri and Kansas recruiting men," Lieuten ant Haines said yesterday: "This of fice will be headquarters, and as fast as the men are enlisted they will be sent here to be kept until we can send them to the different commands of the army." CHINA IS SQUEEZED. Between the Millstones of European Greed. Pekin, March 8. Sir Claude McDon ald, the British minister, has informed the officials of the Chinese foreign office that any attempt to repudiate the rail road contract will be regarded as a breach of faith, meriting retributive measures. At the same time the min ister recalled Lord Salisbury's assur ances of support for China if another power attempted to force her to repu diate the contract. LEAVENWORTH BEATEN. Sequel to an Effort to Get a Man Out of Office. A crowd of Leavenworth lawyers succeeded in having passed by the leg islature a law making Leavenworth county a new judicial district with the hope of getting rid of Judge Myers, who has made enemies among some of the leading lawyers of that county. The First judicial district was origin ally composed of Leavenworth, Jeffer son and Jackson counties. In the new plan Leavenworth was detached and made the First district and on this point Judge Myers won a complete victory over his enemies. Instead of remaining in the new Thirty-sixth district, he moved to Leavenworth, and is now the judge, as he was before, of the First district. This defeated the plan of the Leavenworth politicians in a manner totally unexpected. Senator Charles F. Johnson is a can didate for the appointment a3 judge of the district now composed of Jefferson and Jackson counties. The place will be filled by appointment from the gov ernor until the next regular election. BURGLAR ALARM WORKED. Resulting in the Wounding of Two Plunderers. Scranton, Pa., March 8. A gang o? burglars who were plundering the Dela ware Hudson depot at Peckville, near here, were surprised by the police au thorities early this morning and one of them who gave his name as John Shan non of Shamokin was so badly wounded that it is not thought that he can re cover. Another was shot but escaped. The depot is connected with the resi dence of the agent by an electric bur glar alarm. Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning the alarm sounded and Agent Broad dressed himself hurriedly and summoned Chief of Police Craig and an office Together the three men hurried to the station about a quarter of a mile distant. The burglars heard the men approaching and when they were a short distance from the depot opened fire on them. The three men surrounded the building and began firing. Several shots were exchanged when the robbers dashed from the depot. One of them fell with a bullet in his left side, near the heart. Another of the robbers was shot In the arm but managed to escape. The wounded man was brought to this city on a freight train. None of the Peckville men were wounded. The rob bers did not get any money. AVOIDS BAD PRECEDENTS. Governor Stanley Declines to Sign a Bill to Establish Such. The legislative measure appropriating $700 to reimburse Elk county for expenses incurred in the quarantining of Infected cattle will pass to a quiet death in the executive office, because the governor will neither sign nor veto the bill. The governor explains his position by saying that the enactment of such laws, should they become operative, would es tablish a dangerous precendent, a condi tion which he seeks to avoid, and in this instance will let the bill die. NEW CHEMISTRY BUILDING Governor Stanley Signs a University Improvement Measure. Just before noon today Governor Stanley signed the bill appropriating $55,000 for the new chemistry building at the state university. This is the only new building allowed by the legislature to the university. Prof. Dyche's museum building bill having died during the con troversy between the two houses over the Falloon-Stuart and other questions which produced the deadlock. The new chemistry building is the source of much congratulation among the friends of the institution. Quay Is 17 Short. Harrisburg, Pa., March 8. Congress man Galusha A. Grow and Col. James Huffy were the most conspicuous spec tators at today's session of the joint as sembly. The forty-third ballot showed no election and resulted as follows: Quay, 105; Jenks (D.) 81; Dalzell (R.) 17; Stewart 8; Irvin (R.) 5; Huff (R.) 5; Stone (R.) 4; Rice (R.) 2; Tubbs (R.) 2; Widener (R.) 3; Riter (R.) 2; Grow (R.) 3; Smith R.) 1- Total vote 242. Neces sary to a choice 122. Paired or not vot lns 11. HAYWARDCHOSEN Senatorial Deadlock in Ne braska Is Broken. The Republican Candidate For Gorernor Last Fall SELECTED BY CAUCUS To Succeed W. V. Allen in United States Senate. The End Is Brought About bj Senator Thurston. Lincoln, Neb., March 8. The Nebras ka senatorial deadlock was ended last night in a caucus when M. L. Haywari of Nebraska City was nominated on the second ballot taken. On the first ballot he received 44 votes, 50 being the number necessary to nominate. On the second ballot Webster withdrew and his delegation of ten went solid for Hay ward, whose nomination was then made unanimous. His election In the joint convention today will follow, the Republicans having a majority of 18 on joint ballot. In the joint convention yesterday he got but 38 votes and the additional votes Jt ST? M. L. IT AY WARD. The Man Who Will Succeed W. V. Allei. of Nebraska in the Senate. are generally ascribed to the influence of Senator Thurston, who arrived Monday evening in the state and im mediately started in to end the dead lock. -The contest has continued for seven weeks, Hayward being the leader from the start. The new senator is a New Yorker by birth, a veteran of the war and 58 years old. He has served ir minor official positions in the state, is a retired lawyer of wealth, and crime within a few thousand votes being elect ed governor of the state last fall. SKF.TCH OF THE MAX. Monroe Leland Hayward. nominated by the Republican caucus for l"nitet States senator to succeed William V. Allen, was born in Willsboro. Essex county, New York, December 22. 140. His ancestors came to this country 1m? fore the revolution. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in the Twenty second New York infantry and was afterwards transferred to the Fifh cavalry. He was discharged in Decem ber. 1S62, owing to disabilities arising from sickness. On returning home he entered Fort Edwards college institute, where he completed his education. Hia father had removed to Wisconsin an-i young Hayward followed. He studied law at Whitewater and came to Ne braska in 1HG7, settling at Nebraska City, where he has resided ever since, and practiced his profession. He never held any office except member of the state constitutional convention in 17.1, and a short term on the bench in lSiS. when he filled out the remainder of a term by appointment from the gov ernor. He was the Republican candi date for governor last fall, cutting the fusion majority down from 18,000 to 3.000. He has a wife, one daughter and two sons, one of whom, Edwin P., Is a surgeon in the United States army, and William 11. is a lawyer and was cap tain in the second Nebraska during the late war. He has accumulated a comfortable fortune. ELECTED. Lincoln, Neb., March 8. Tn Joint ses sion M. L. Hayward was elected United States senator to succeed Wm. V. Allen. He received 74 votes, the solid Republi can membership with the exception of one absent on account of sickness. Allen received 58, the full fusion strength. EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN Causes Loss of Life and Property. Yokohama, March 8. A severe earth quake shock was experienced here at 19 o'clock this morning, the disturbance visiting localities of the great shock of 1891, with some loss of life and property. On October 23, 1891, a very destructive earthquake visited Hondo, the principal island of the Japanese group, on which Yokohama is situated. About 84.000 houses, railways, bridges and the like were destroyed and 10.000 persons were killed and 300,000 rendered homeless. The loss of property was estimated at $10,000,000. M'KINLEY TO REST. Will Go to Thomasville, Qa., For Pew Says. Washington, March 8. The president has definitely decided to take a short trip south for rest, his destination being Thomasville, Ga., where he will be the guest of Senator Hanna. The president will be accompanied by Mrs. McKiniey and some of their relatives who are at present stopping at the White House. Christian Science Prohibited. Guthrie. O. T., March 8. Both housos of the legislature have passed a bill pro hibiting the practice of Christian scienc in Oklahoma. The governor. It is said, will sign the bill.
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TOPEKA STATE JOTJIlNAli, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH" S, 1899. THE CVER SINCE SATURDAY MORNING our Store has been crowded with eager purchasers of those Water-Damaged Goods. On'y Three More Days I and the best opportunity you ever had to buy Books, Pictures, Photogravures, Games, Sta- z tionery, etc., will be gone. We can truthfully say that we are making prices during this Sale on these Goods that we never dreamed of. Did you ever buy a $45 Engraving for $15.00 Did you ever buy $2, $1.75, $1.50 standard Books for 50c Did you ever buy $1.85 and $1.25 Books for 35c Did you ever buy a Box of Stationery for 5c No we don't think you have. But that's the way we have Been selling these Goods ever since Saturday morning. Ask your neighbors if this is n't so. They surely have been purchasers, if you have n't. Bear in mind that after Saturday Night of this week your opportunity is lost. Such an opportunity to get a Good Library at a little cost, is gone. o FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF THE LATE FIRE GielS 25 Per Cent. Discount on Everything Else in the Store During this Sale. BRESLAU'S STREETS How the German City's Thoroughfares Are Kept Clean. Washington, March 8. Americans may gain some new ideas about the proper care of asphalt streets from a report made by Consul Erdraan at Breslau: "One man," Mr. Erdman -writes to the department of state,"has charge of four squares in front of the consulate. His tools for keeping the streets clean are as follows: An iron hopper wheelbar row, a shovel, a broom, and a rubber scraper about three and one-half feet long. The rubber is fastened In a vice like wooden clamp and is about four inches wide, one-quarter of an inch thick and very stiff. This man during the day is continually going over his four squares, taking up the litter and keeping the streets thoroughly clean. Early in the morning, alter having cleaned the street, he takes his wheel barrow, loaded with very fine, sharp sand and scatters the same with his hands or a small shovel lightly over the streets, to prevent slipping. Should it be a rainy day he repeats this process several times during the day. Once a week two sprinkling cars are sent out alongside of each other, so that they cover the whole street at one time with water, washing the same thoroughly. Immediately following the sprinkling cars come four one-horse roller brush sweepers, about two feet In diameter, sweeping the water, slime, etc., into the gutter, when the same is piled up and carried away. Then the man who has charge of those streets comes along with his wheelbarrow and sprinkles sand all over the street. In spring or autumn, when the streets are often slop py or wet, the washing is done several times during the week. "I am informed the washing is done for the purpose of removing the slime, which the asphalt seems to leave, and to keep the street from being slippery, also for the preservation and hardening of the asphalt. The man who has Deadly Cancer Cured at Last! Do Not Give Up in De spair There Is Hope I Tor sges it has been thought that Caneer is incurable, and tboae bo unfortanate as to have this dreadful affliction have con sidered themselves beyond hope of recovery. The doctors are ab solutely unable to afford any re lief, and the poor sufferer might well consider himself on the way to an early grave. It is now easy to see why the doctors have failed to cure Cancer. Their theories have been all wrong, and hence their treatment mis directed. They have made the mistake of thinking that by cut ting oat the sore or nicer, known as Cancer, the disease would be gotten rid of, and the patient re stored to health. But the eruel knife accomplishes nothing,, for the Caaoer promptly returns, and is always mors virulent than before. It ha been demonstrated, beyond deoat. tk.t Cancer is a blood ommm, aad caa aoi be eared by she swreon's knife booaoso th bitii emm mat k tut "Several years age nj wife bed an uloer ea her tongoe, wbiea, tboogh an- aoytag, wee pot regaretod acnooaly at It ref oaed te heal aad began to (pvtag kev snack pts- The doc- ooua a out v sum charge of the asphalt streets is paid 5 cents per hour. Ordinarily street hands are also paid per hour and receive four cents. All streets are kept In excellent condition, the shopkeepers or tenants not being permitted to put sweepings on the pavement or street. These must be taken up and put in a box kept for that purpose. The city ha3 wire bask ets fastened on lamp posts, against houses, fences or trees, in which the public may throw waste paper while walking along. It is very rare to see any waste paper on the streets, as the citizens in general take pride in keeping the streets clean. The householders have to sweep the streets to the center of the street rgularly very morning be fore 6 o'clock. The litter is piled up and carted away by the city teams." DAN GODFREY'S BAND. It Flays at the White House as a Starter. Washington, March 8. Lieutenant Dan Godfrey and his British Guards band, which arrived in New York on the Lucania last Saturday, gave a concert yesterday afternoon in the east room of the White House in the presence of the President and Mrs. McKinley and ladles of the cabinet. This was the in auguration of the first general tour of the United States that has yet been un dertaken by an English military band. Sold to the Trust Cleveland, March 8. The Sauntry iron mine on the Mesaba. range has Just been sold to the American Steel Wire company. The price expressed in the deed of transfer is $50,000 and other valuable considerations but it said the actual figure is $500,000. The mine cov ers five forties and lies one-half north of Virginia. The ore is of a mixed character about the same as the Olive mine. The bulk of it is non-bessemer, but there are spots that contain good bessemer ore. were UD&ble te do her any good, and finally proooaneed it Cancer of a most malignant type. We were greatly alarmed and gave her every remedy raeoDMn ended, bat they did not seem to reach the disease, and it continued to spread and grow. TJpoa the advice of a friend she began to take 6. S. 8., aad after a few bottles had been used a decided improvement was noticed, and eontinHiag the remedy she was eared completely aad the permanence of the care has been proved, as no sign or toe disease has returned though tea years have elapsed, H. I. MmouBKOou. Sparta, Ga." The cures made by S. 8. S. are perma nent. It is the only blood remedy which ean euro obstinate deep-seated blood because it the oaiy one which acta ea the princiole of foreiBg out the poison aod ridding the system of it forever. S. 8. 8. never faife te ewre the worst eases of Cancer, 8erofeia, Catarrh, Eccema.CoetagiocM BloodPoison. Rheu matism, old sores, oleers, etc., it mat ters not what other remedies have beea used in vaia. it is the eajy blood remedy gaaraateed Purely Vegetable and contains set a partiole of mercury, ameoie er ether minerals. Valuable books on Caneer and Blood Diseases will be mailed free to any ad dress by Swift flgsoiflc Co., Atlanta, Ga. v- As t INSULTED! China's Treatment of Italy's Demand For San Mun Bay Is Likely to Lead to a Break In Diplomatic Relations. IUJSSIA PROTESTING Against the British Railroad Loan In Order to Pick a Quarrel With the Celestials. Pekln, March 8. The Italian minister here, regards as an insult the manner in which the Tsung Li Tamen, or Chi nese foreign office has treated Italy's demand for a coaling station at San Mun bay and a rupture of diplomatic relations between Italy and China is probable. It is believed Russia has re iterated her protest against the British railroad loan in order to make the con tract ground for complaint against the Chinese and thus seek compensation territorial or otherwise. $1,000 A VOTE Offered For the Support of the McCarrell Bill at Ilarrisburg. Harrisburg, Pa., March 8. A meeting of the committee to inquire into the charges of bribery in connection with the passage of the McCarrell Jury bill in the house was held last evening and developed some sensational testimony. The first witness called was Colonel George McCain, staff correspondent at Harrisburg, of the Philadelphia Press. Mr. McCain said that Peter J. Crlste, representative from Northumberland county, told him that he was approach ed by an Individual and told that it would be worth $1,000 to vote for the reconsideration of the bill. Subsequent ly he admitted to the witness that It was ex-Representative Thomas Moylea, of Wilkesbarre, who said he wanted the bill to become a law as it would help him out in a case of Luzerne county in which he was a defendant. John P. Dyer, also of the Press, testi fied that Representative John Engler, of Lycoming county, told him that he met Michael J. Costello, a former resi dent of Williamsport, and escorted him to the Bolton House, Harrisburg, where they met ex-Senator John J. Coyle, of Schuylkill county. Mr. Coyle told Eng ler that he understood he was a Roman Catholic and asked him to vote for the bill because Archbishop Ryan wanted it to become a law. Witness said Coyle told Engler he would pay him $500 to vote for the bill and put his hand in his pocket and said he would give him $200 at once. Coyle said he used to do this when he was a member of the legisla ture and that if Engler would go along on this bill he would "put him in" on several other bills and that he could make more on the outside than his sal ary as a member of the house. Mr. Engler refused to accept the money and left Coyle. Mr. Engler testified that Costello met him at the Bolton House and took him to a room at the Lochiel hotel and in troduced him to ex-Senator Coyle. Coyle said he used to be in the legislature and that he took everything that came his way. Engler corroborated Dyer's testi mony as to Coyle" s offer of $200 to vote for the bill and to pay the balance when the witness voted and that if Engler would go along on this bill he would take him in on five or six other bills. Mr. Crlste says he knew Moyles and was a member of the house in 1S93. Movies told witness that there were "three" in it if he would vote for the bill. Moyles saw the witness subse quently and asked him to vote for the reconsideration of the bill. Moyles was under indictment in Luzerne county for conspiracy and said he was anxious to have the bill passed. About this time ex-Senator Coyle came in and said to witness: "Tou vote for the McCarrell bill and leave the rest to me." An hour later Moyles called Criste out into the hallway and urged him to move for the reconsideration of the McCar rell bill. Moyles told Criste what to say when he made the motion and promised if he made the motion there would lie $1,000 in it for the witness. Criste told Moyles to write out what he wished him to say when he made the motion, and while he was doing so the bill came up and Criste went into the house and voted to adjourn to pre vent a reconsideration of the bill. Mr. Criste said that after adjournment coyle came to mm ana tola mm ne made a mistake in not voting for the bill: that the "fellows over there" (pointing to the "insurgents"), the wit ness said, "were being taken care of." This remark created general laughter, ter. Mr. Vorhees of the committee asked that the names of Messrs. Coyle, Cos tello and Moyles be called and that they be given a chance to testify in their behalf. Chairman Fow said these men could not testify before the committee and that they would be given a chance if the matter was taken into the courts. OFFICIAL BLUNDERING. Is Making Serious Trouble in Santiago Province. Santiago de Cuba, March 8. Colonel Hood cables from Holguin that Intense excitement prevails there owing to the cessation of public works and that a mass meeting has been held, at which the action of the United States military authorities at Havana was condemned as "false economy" and as the "result or centralization." Owing to the pressing necessity of the case, Colonel Hood says he has issued Indigent rations to 3,000 heads of fam ilies suddenly thrown out of employ ment. He fears there will be a large In crease in the criminal classes of his dis trict. Practically the same news from all the other districts of Santiago province has reached here. Meanwhile money enough is lying idle in bank to pay all that la due and to keep the men at work. Allen Law Wiped Out. Springfield. 111.. March 8. Governor Tanner has signed the Ailing street rail way bill. The Ailing bill repeals the Allen law passed two years ago which provided for 50 year franchise exten sions and re-enacts the old horse and dummy act, with amendment making it applicable to electric or cable roads. Under the Ailing bill no franchise or extension for more than 29 years can i ee granisa. FAMOUS FORUER DEAD. Austin Bidwell Who Beat the Bank of England Out of $5,000,000. Butte, Mont., March 8. Austin Bid well, one of the men who became fam ous through the Bank of England forgeries, died here last night in his room in the Mantle, block. The cause of his death was given as grippe He was 52 years of age, and a native of Chicago, to which place his body will be taken for burial. Austin Bidwell and his hrother, Geo. Bidwell, came here about two weeks ago. They said they expected to start in business here, having backing In the east to engage in mining. He was taken sick about a week ago. The story of the Bidwells is pretty well known. By means of forged se curities in 1875 they got $5,000,000 from the Bank of England, after victimizing other banks in Europe by means of forged letters of credit. Their idea was to get fifty millions and then compro mise with the bank. In the big deal they failed and fled. George Bidwell was caught In Prance and Austin Bidwell in Cuba. They were tried and began life sentences with their two confederates. After twenty years xney w ere released. DEEP WATER SOON. Port Arthur Canal Will Be Completed In a Few Says. Port Arthur, Tex., March 8. The Port Arthur ship canal will be practically completed about the 20th inst. when it is proposed to celebrate the event In a fitting manner. The canal was designed and constructed by Mr. Robert Gilham, general- manager and chief engineer of the Kansas City, Pittsburg Gulf rail road. Mr. A. E. Stillwell, president of the road, first suggested the canal and interested Mr. J. de Goeijen, jr., of Am sterdam, Holland, a large foreign holder of the road's securities. The plans pre pared by Mr. Gilham were approved by foreign engineering experts and the work was begun during the spring of 1896. The canal is designed to extend deep water from the Sabine pass to Port Ar thur, the former having a depth of 25 feet over the bar. The dimensions are the same as those of the Suez canal 1S3 feet wide and with a depth of 25 feet. It Is seven and a half miles long. The excavations were made by hydraul ic dredges, the work involving the dredging of 14,000,000 yards of clay, etc. Extensive ship basins, slips, docks, warehouses and a large grain elevator are in course of construction. Consid erable export business has already been done at Port Arthur and when the canal is completed additional steamship lines will be established. The harbor is land locked and an excellent one. ARMS FOR PRISONERS Threatened With Lynching Proposed by a Missouri Legislator. Jefferson City, Mo... March 8. The most original plan ever presented to a. legislature to discourage lynching has been proposed in the house of repre sentatives by Mr. Nicholas, the Populist member from Nodaway county. His measure would have the sheriff arm prisoners who are threatened with lynching. Any sheriff or deputy failing to protect such prisoner shall be fined not less than $500 or more than $1,000 and shall be dismissed. MORGAN IN COFFINS. Pierpont is Engineering the Casket Trust. Upper Sandusky, O., March 8. It is learned on the most reliable authority that the capital stock of the new cas ket combine will be $8,000,000 and that J. Pierpont Morgan of New "York will float the bonds. The trust will include 113 casket companies and casket hard ware factories, one-third of which will be shut down as soon as the trust is incorporated, which will be done in New Jersey. Two months may see the com bine completed. We Publish the Story of Another Wonderful Cure of Kidney Backache For the Benefit of Topeka People. Morrow's Kid-ne-olds received the highest possible praise from an Elk hart, Indiana, business man. If Mor row's Kid-ne-oids were not a worthy remedy, or the remedy we claim them to be, it would be impossible to get people living in Elkhart to praise them. Geo. Towman, the barber at Main and Franklin streets has much to say for them, and stronger language could not be used. Here is what he says word for word: "I doubt very much if there are many people living who have suf fered worse with kidney complaint and lived, than I have. Mv conditions had I gradually been growing worse for years, notwithstanding the fact that I have used much "patent medicine' as well as being; treated by physicians which has cost me lots of money. Only two months ago I paid a large doctor bill for which I had received not one particle of bene fit. My condition has been so bad at times I have had to quit work for a week or more. The pain through the small of my back was so intense that It seemed to me as if I were dying by inches. This condition made me so nervous that by spells I was unable to hold a razor steady. The kidney secre tions were highly discolored and accom panied by a scalding pain in Its pas sage. This showed an excessiveness of uric acid. No one could blame me for being completely discouraged. I had begun to believe that my condition was a hopeless one, until hope took the place of despair through reading the many cures affected by Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. I could no more than fail (which I had been doing right along although taking treatment from physicians and paying doctor bills) if I gave the Kid-ne-oids a trial. I bought two boxes to start with, it seems almost Incredible when I say that I began to feel better (n 24 hours but such was the case. In Bide of a week my condition was more Improved that it had been for years from other treatment. Today, my back ache has entirely disappeared.my nerves have grown steady and strong and I am perfectly free from urinary dis turbances notwithstanding the fact that I work hard all day. I am so elated over my present healthful condition that I suppose I have told and recom mended Kid-ne-oids to over thrity of my customers. I make this statement for publication with the hope that those who read it will not delay one moment but stop their suffering at once, by us ing Kid-ne-oids, for I positively be lieve them to be the only cure for this disease to be had." The people of Topeka and surround ing country should be convinced at once through this statement and lose no time from being cured. Kid-ne-olds are Tel low Tablets (not pills) and are for sale by all druggists and at Bwixt iioui day's drug store at f cents a box. John Morrow Co., Chemists, Serins tuia, ujuo. A WIRE TO DAWSON. Telegraph Line to Be Established at Once by Canada. Ottawa, Ont., March 8. Th govern ment has decided to construct a tele graph line to the Klondike territory. The plan is to build a line between Lake Bennett and Dawson City at once. At the same time surveyors will leave to examine the country northward from Quesnelle, B. C, which is the terminus of the present government system and see how to connect with the line to Dawson. The government will retain the line In its own possession, having decided that it is too valuable and too important from the standpoint of the national safety to be allowed to go into any other hands. INDIVIDUALLY. The Santa Fe Will Make Raises For Special Operators. Nothing definite has been done In ref erence to the question of an increase in the wages of Santa Fe operators. The grievance committee was told by Genr eral Superintendent Mudge yesterday evening that the company would not accede to an Increase of 22 per cent and an increase in the minimum salary from $45 to $55 per month. He stated, how ever, that the company was willing to increase salaries in individual cases where it was shown an increase was deserved. A second conference between the com mittee and. Mr. Mudge and Mr. Sholes opened this morning at 10 o'clock, but the salary question was dropped tem porarily and the minor details of the proposed new schedule discussed. It will be again taken up some time this afternoon, and some definite conclusion arrived at before the conference closes. While the members of the grievance committee will not state as much, it is believed that they will not insist on their demands, and will be willing to settle the controversy amicably. The company is willing to make some con cessions to the operators, and if the committee is disposed to recede in its demands and accept them, no trouble will result. READ LAW WITH LINCOLN. General Milton Smith Littlefield is Dead. New York, March 8. General Milton Smith Littlefield is dead at his home in this city of apoplexy, aged 66 years. He studied law In Abraham Lincoln's office in Springfield, 111., and for some time practiced in the eame office. When the civil war broke out. Gen. Littlefield became captain of company F, Four teenth Illinois volunteers, which was commanded by Gen. John M. Palmer, who was then colonel. Gen.Littlefield went through the cam paign of 1862, as Gen. Sherman's pro vost marshal and was stationed at Memphis, Tenn. Later he was trans ferred to the department of the south, with headquarters at Hilton Head, S. C. He also, served in the siege of Charleston. He was for some time on the staff of Gen. J. C. Gilmore and was afterward inspector general of colored troops and was prominent in organiz ing colored regiments. In June, 1866, Gen. Littlefield was honorably discharged from the army. Since that time he had been Interested in railroads in the south and north and in other business affairs. A KAFFIR SNARE STORY. From the London Spectator. A road party, comprising the usual gang of from fifty to sixty Kaffirs, with a. white man as superintendent, was employed on the construction of a road in Tugela Valley, Natal, about thirty or more years ago. In the course of their work they came to a huge stone which It was necessary to remove, but beneath it was the home of a large black mamba, well known to the neighboring inhabit ants as being old, and, therefore, very venomous. The mamba is the most deadly of the South African snakes, and the superintendent anticipated some trouble over that rock. He offered a bribe for the snake's skin and the gang "wow'd!" and sat down to "beraa gwi" (take snuff). But a slim youth saun tered forward, and, amid the jeers and protestations of the rest, declared him self equal to the task. He took from his neck what looked like a bit of shriveled stick, chewed it, swallowed some of it, spat out the rest on his hands, and proceeded to rub his glisten ing brown body and limbs all over. Then, taking up his stick and chanting a. song of defiance, he advanced with great confidence and swagger to the bowlder. There he roused up the mam ba, who. In great fury at being disturb ed, bit him in the lip. The boy took no notice of the bite, but broke the snake's back with his stick, and, bringing it to his master, asked for the reward, ob taining which he went back to his work, and the bite of the reptile had no effect on him whatever. No bribe, not even that of a cow (bet ter than any gold in the eyes of a Kaffir) would induce this native to disclose the secret of his antidote, which, he said, had been handed down In his family for generations. The snake was a very long one, and so old that it had a mane. It is a well known fact that certain of the Zulus have antidotes for the more dead ly snake poisons, which they preserve as a secret within their own families. CENTRAL PARK HOTEL. New Tork Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.l Central park is to be faced by another magnificent hotel, which will greatly en hance the appearance of this beautiful section of Gotham. Judge P. Henry Dugro and John J. Gibbons, who own the Hotel Savoy, Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, are about to begin its construction on the west side. It will be on the block fronting Central park west between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets, or on the block fronting the same avenue between Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets, which they own. The hotel will be fourteen stories high, and will cover a plot of 200 feet front by 100 feet in two streets. It w-ill be fireproof throughout and of steel skeleton construction. The cost of the new structure. It is estimated, will be at least $500,000, which will b spent in the construction of the building alone. ELECTRIC AMBULANCE. Trolley Car Pitted Up With Cots For Sick Soldiers. Savannah, Ga., March 8. The army win ter hospital at this place. 47 buildings. 1. OOO cots, was opened for patients today. The first shipment of Invalid soldiers from Cuba was received Thursday by the hos- fiital ship Missouri, which sailed with 200 nvalida. A trolley car with a double row of suspended cots, accommodating 14 in valids, will be used as an ambulance. Highest Price Since 1890. Pittsburg. March 8. Steel billets took another jump upward today and sold at $34 ton, th hie heat price since 1SP0. Sev 1 deals were made at that price. GOLD a Maud!" is the cry of women -whose housework is beyond their physical powers. Such women need, to know that all cleaning is raaoe easy by toil Washing Powder It's as good as an extra pair of hands in the household. It saves time and worry. Largest package greatest economy. THE N. K.. FAIR BANK. COMPANY, Chicago. St. Louis. Maw York. Boston. Philadelphia. pWWWMMUWWWMMMMWWWMAMWWMAl MILLIONS PAID THEATERS. Huge Sums Paid by Amusement Lovers During an Ordinary Theatrical Season. New Tork. March 8. That the dra matic season of 1898-99 is one of the most successful on record goes without saying, but it is doubtful if anyone realizes the large sum total that is being paid by the public for its theatrical amusements. When one talks about r.O00.000 being taken in by the theaters during the cur rent season it may seem like drawing tha long bow. hut the sum total of the season s receipts throughout the country will more than equal that amount, says a local pa per. The following figures are given to represent the sums paid to theaters in various cities: The larger cities during the period from September 1 to May 1 next will have paid to their theaters and for their opera sea son about $16,950,000, in the following pro- New York S6.OiO.noo Chicago 2,o,X.0'X) Koston ,I100.() iphia"::::::::::::::::::::::::: PhilBde Washington aitimore 450.OK) niMi.ono Cleveland Pittsburg St. Louis 7o0. Cincinnati San Francisco S-n'Iv New Orleans SH'Sn Providence i'Ss Newark, N. J 30n Buffalo 3O0.OO These fifteen cities alone nearly make up the $30,000,000. Cities and towns not given in the estimate would easily bring the fig ures up to that. It will be seen that New York pays out more for theatrical amusements than any other city. This is probably because it has a larger leisure class and more thpa ters. The business done by some of the successful plava is interesting to examine Miss Maude Adams and "The Little Min ister" are a case in point. Her manager, Mr. Charles Frohman, has given aH per formances this season up to last night, the aggregate receipts being VilO.OiJO The largest receipts of any one performance were $2.i05, at the Saturday matinee, Feb ruary 4, in Philadelphia. Up to last Wednesday Miss Viola Allen had given 186 performances of "The Chris tian, the total receipts of which were $20 976 Iri a single week at the Knickerbocker theater the receipts reached the enorm ous sum of $15.0;.. The theatrical habitue has paid to Mr. Manefield for 135 performances $359,679. the extraordinary average of $1,924. a perform ance. The flftv-six performances at the Gar den theater brought in nearly $1Oo,j0. Mrs. Leslie Carter in "Zaza" is another of the phenomenal successes of the sea son. Seventy-three performances st the Garrtck theater have taken in close on $90,000. For grand opera It is estimated that $700,000 has been paid. Dr. Henry Patrick, InfideL (From the Kansas City Journal.) Dr. Henry Patrick, a well known char acter who has resided in Concordia for many years, died one day last week and was burled in the local cemetery. Dr. Vnrrirli was ftn infidel, and when it ap peared to him that he was about to die he wrote an address with a request that Editor J. M. Hagaman of the Concordia Blade should read it by the side of his open grave. His wishes were scrupulously obeyed. the funeral being conducted by Ed itor Hagaman in the presence of numer ous mends. we extract a lew senientca fmm thp sininilaj- document left by the doctor as a legacy to those who remained behind: "Tou are gathered here to place my body in the silent peaceful grave. By your presence here you place friends who sur vive you unoer oDiigaxioiis m u .vuu a similar favor. In this act you but fulfill the humane duty owed the helpless dead. Smiles of friendship and words of grateful thanks would reach you could I now ex press them. But as It cannot be so. your silent reflections can be your only reward. "Death seems to me to be but the be ginning or continuance of a state of eter nal unconsciousness. Our bodies will change, atom and molecule at a time., in to new and useful forms. Again, as be fore, we are to be floating elementary fluids, lignites or solids. "In this silent way we pay the debt we owe to nature for the previous forms ot matter which we displaced, or that were displaced and used in our organization. We were not consulted nor advised with before we came into existence: nor will we be superstitiously admonished or consulted before we cease. Human form end mo tion as an eternal existence of the individ ual has no foundation in demonstrable fact. Only atom forms are immortal. The motions which result from organization is life, and it is all we know xr life, and when the motion ceases that is death. "Our thoughts seem only brain motions and depend entirely upon the existence of brain form. Where there is no brain there is no thought. Then what is there to hope for, or fear, after the brain form and its thought motion have ceased? "While you live and love, memories are all you can expect to keep of me. When there is neither form nor thought I am not. I ajn not conscious of your pres ence here by the side of my open grave. Some day you will come to rest with me; to rest in the onlv abode where strife. care, pain, grief cannot disturb the stillness the grave, the avenue which leads to no where. "I now and thus express the words I most desire you to hear. In memory of me speak of me during your remaining davs as you would have others speak of you after you are dead and helpless as you now see me. Tou now leave me on the threshold of the door that leads to the unknown, while you return to your homes to struggle on to gain your mental free dom and the good of your last days. We bury our hopes and fears with our bodies and willingly accept the inevitable. With out hope or fear we came into existence, and just as peacefully should we meet the last painless change. Farewell, forever." 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 head. We mail it, or the 50 cent size. Druggists alt 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. Quick, good work, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh street. Tele phone 34L You never can tell until you Investi gate. There was more salvage saved from the Palace Clothing company's reecnt big fire than was first reported. See for yourself. Sale begins Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at 507 Kansas ave nue, west side of street, between Fifth and Sixth. Don't forget. o'clock. DUST. tffrT W MX" I 1 1 1 1 1 M 1 Best Dining Car Service. Only Depot In Chicago on the Elevated Loop. KOHL'S RHEUMATIC CURE. This is a sure' cure for Rheu matism, Gout, Lumbago, and all diseases caused by Impurities ot the Blood. PREPARED ONLY BT Charles W. Kohl, Ph. G., PHARMACIST, 226 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kas. Price $1.00. Inaugurated BT TBS A line of. PTJ1AHA2T TOURIST SLESPZ23 FROM lvLSiS CITY TO rORTLASD WITHOUT CHANGE, HSAS CITY TO m FRAKISC0 WITHOUT CHANGE OF TRAM. 7a Hours to Portland. 74 Hours to Saa Francisco. These Tourist Cars leavs Kansas City very Thursday :40 p. m. For full information call on F. A. LZWI3, City Ticket Agent. Or J.C. FULTON, Depot Agent W. R. WEIBLE, Carpenter. Repairing Promptly Attended to. 117 East 7th St. Tela. 781 WcTl Do Your Hauling Right. TOPEKA TRANSFER CO., 609 KANSAS AVENUE. Office Telephone 320. Hoiut Telephone 394. F. P. BACON, Prop. Sea me about storage. BUT ONE ISSUE. Tha Initiative and Referendum Tor Georgia Populists. Atlanta, Ga.. March 8 A meeting of the state executive committee of the Pop ulist party was held hero today. Twenty of the committeemen were present. The principal business of the day was the se lection of a chairman to succeed W. F. Carter. It is likely that the Issue of the party will be simplified by the elimination o fall planks but one the initiative and referendum. For the past two years Peo ple's party leaders and newspaper, all over the south and west have been urging that this plank be riven the first place, saying that it means true democracy. -In- the rule ot the people.
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TOTEKA STATE JOURNAL. A NEW SIGHT IK OUR OWN COUNTET. EX-PRESIDENT DOLE OF HAWAII. WHO MAT HAVE THE HONOR OF BE ING THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND. THE WORK OF THE D.S.FISH COMMISSION It Is Busy Dredging the Warm Waters of Our Coast for New and Peculiar Species of Fish Life. i 1 til 0 f i 4 "j -n ii ii i mi mi a in i in 1 1 mrt Ir....l- g -V ""hti'tti IT ii j a -2. ;"p?iiiiiiiif The most fascinating -work Is that which relates to the deep sea. Men who have been on the United States Fish Com mission for years say that they are al ways interested in the products which are hauled from the depths of the ocean. No matter how often they have seen the dredge come up to the surface, they are always watching and waiting for the next haul, sure that it will show them some thing interesting. f The old saying that there are as good nsn in tne sea as ever were caught is true in every sense, for not a year passes but something new and strange is brought out of the ocean. Last year no less than sixty new kinds of fish were brought up from the deep sea depths to be named and class ified in the hsh products of the United States. WORKING THE DREDGE. At these wonderful depths and amid the strangest life now known to man, the dredge of the Fish Commission is operated day and night when the ship is at sea. This dredge is nothing more nor less than a big scoop which is dragged along the surface of the ocean floor. So fascinating is this work that even the old est seamen aboard the ship, men who have seen this dredge hoisted from the sea depths thousands of times, are always as eager to see its contents the last time that it comes to the surface as they were many years ago. This fascination Is experienced by the officers as well as by the men. And it is not wonderful that this is so. The tales that the seamen tell of strange finds are sufficient to stimulate intense mental speculation. THIS QUEER FISH, WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE "FOUR-EYED FISH," SWIMS 2.000 FEET UNDER WATER FOR FEAR OF MEETING A MIRROR. NEW YORK'S SKY-LINE BILL. TEfl ARMS OF HAWAII. THIS BEAUTIFUL HOUSE WILL PROBABLY BE THE HOME OF THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. The famous SRy-Line Dili is again De fore the Legislature of New York State. This bill regulates the height of tall buildings, familiarly known as sky-scrapers, and preserves New York's sky-line .-1- 1 ,1 nf vanishini' into the clouds. "The Cloud bill' it was facetiously called. When the first settlers chose Manhat tan Island for a residence, they little knew what they did. They littie foresaw the emDarrassment mat wouiu ue .auo their act. How could they foretell that, in i i i v. -ill icifinn would be wholly inadequate for the people wno wanted to dwell upon it. How could they foresee the great crush and jam tnat would ensue when four million people tus sled with each other for a place of busi ness and a dwelling upon an island that could accommodate comfortably, on its ground floor, less than one million. It has been estimated that, if New Yorkers were to live comfortably m homes, instead of on upper floors, that nine families out of every ten would have to move away and leave the space for the remaining tenth family. To obviate the difficulty and make room for everybody. New York has resort- royiii Awi Hi murveloiislv o tne tjivy i itv high building which lifts ts head from a slender body to the very clouds and which fi So tall that, like the leaning tower oi Pisa, ii necessarily slants and s opes to accommodate itself to the gravitation and SrSf the earth. Scientists now tind that Pisa did not lean; it only inciiiieu. S WitARCeHlTyEt uPRAL FEATS. At first it was great fun for the archi tects. ?his designing of tall bpu''rtk'ncs; when pl hotel opposite Central fam ac commodatld guests with quarters upon ?hm?orteenth floor, all the town won dered and laughed. Then a newspaper chose to erect a sky-scraper and to edit ill Sheet upon the seventeenth floor Then rose other buildings, taller and daily growing in altitude. Eigh teen etSries rew quickly to twenty and now, it is not impossible to hire an office upon the twenty-fourth floor of a building opposite the Postoffice. To reach your office, you take not the regular elevators, but one that makes no stSp until it reaches the fifteenth floor. When you go to lunch you go down to the street, enter another tall building, rise to tne sixteenth floor. Then you take a extra floors to the restaurant, under th sKy, Hum which you iook down uoon tun men in the street as pigmies. Another tall building, forty stories this time, is in, course of construction. This was plenty of fun for the builders and real estate owners at first, but one foggy day New Yorkers got awakened to the fact that their light was gone and that the sky-scrapers had shut out, not only the sunshine, but the air. The streets seemed always to be damp and the wagons moved as through alleyways, while oa each side towered the sky-scrapers. It is late, but never too late, to mend, and now New Yorkers are protesting against the tall building and using argu ment and power to carry through the Sky-Line bill, which regulates the height of these buildings and gives New Yorkers a chance once more to see the light of day. WANT LOW BUILDLVUS. The people who are now working fo the Sky-Line bill are the architects, who want a chance to build handsome build ings again, instead of tall narrow ones. The fire insurance companies, because of the certain destruction of the sky scraper in case of fire for they cannot get water up so high. The elevator firms and other mechani cal companies, because of the great risk they run in carrying out and guarantee ing tneir contracts. The tenants, because of the fact that, unless they are immensely wealthv. thev must rise to the clouds to get office room. The public, because its streets are ever damp and its air ever confined and unpleasant. So, New York hns become the victim of its own greed until the Legislature had to be called in to control it. New Yorkers claim that the skv-llne !s ever changing. Patriotic city dwellers nay that, after an absence of six months, they cannot detect the familiar outlines of their own city. Those who stay at home shudder at sound of the builders for fear that another square yard of their narrow sky-line is to be cut off. The Sky-Line bill, on the other hand, has thousands of opponents, many of whom claim that New York should shelter and protect its business interests; and that it should send its dwellers over to Brooklyn to sleep, or lodse them on New Jersey's beautiful shore, or along the lovely banks of the Hudson, where so many millionaires now spend their rime. THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF HAWAII. Under the New United States Laws the Lovely Islands Will Undergo Their First Vigorous Campaign. To the average man or woman almost every place on the earth's surface arouses come definite Impressions at the mentior. or the sight of its name, and it is com monplace that the picture presented to our mental vision is invariably that associated with the early history of such a country or such a locality. When we speak of Egypt we rarely think of it as the land of Gordon and Kitchener; rather do we recall the country of the Bible stories, of the Ptolomies, of Cleopatra; the country of the Pyramids, the fephmi. the sluggish Nile. To speaK i of Rome is to recall the glory of the I Caesars. And "India" causes to pass in memory's panorama a succession of pic-1 tures of tropical jungles, crowded market places all the wild and barbarous beauty of Oriental life. I Among all the new territory that has recently come into the possession, or un der the government, of the United States, there is no place that gives play for such j fantastic feats of imagination, among those who have never traveled in the' South Seas, as the Hawaiian Islands. We all know they are a part of the United I States, have a regular government, lines of steamers, and, in short, all the ap- i pendages of our modern civilization. I Notwithstanding all this, however, i there still hangs over the place the at-! mosphere of the languorous life of the i South Seas. And when he speak of them our thoughts are tilled with pictures of a semi-savage race, but gentle withal, i leading a careless existence under the tropical sky; of palm-thatched huts before' which the fires burn brightly after night fall, and the chocolate-colored natives go through weird dances, their bodies fes tooned with ropes of brilliantly colored flowers gleaming in thj light of the flames. With these pictures before us it comes as a kind of shock to run across a para graph in a newspaper that President Dole, of Hawaii, is about to begin a "vigorous i campaign for the Governorship of that I territory," and that "he has a formidable I rival for the post in the person of ex-Min- ister Harold Sewall." This paragraph also i states that "Dole and Sewall own the two leading newspapers in Honolulu, and nei-j ther hesitates to use the columns of his own laoer to further his own Interests That is the kind of a paragraph that brushes all the phantasies about languor ous life in the South Seas out of one's head and arouses thoughts of the yearly electioneering, when the stump-speaker never ceases from troubling and the can didates know no rest. For that it will be a vigorous cam paign no one who is even slightly fa miliar with the careers of the two men who are electioneering for the governor ship will have the slightest doubt. Presi dent Dole has been constantly in the pub lic eye during the last few years and while ex-AIinister Sewall lias been less conspicuous he has established a reputa tion for being a "good tighter" in any cause he has undertaken. This first of Hawaii's campaigns under the customs that prevail in the United States prom ises to be very exciting and is long to be remembered from a number of very apparent reasons. There are lew men who know the characteristics of the native Hawaiian so well as does ex-President Dole. In an interview not long since he said of them; "The native Hawaiian Is by no means a low order of man. I cannot compare him with the negro, because I am not well enough informed regarding the abilities and capabilities of the negro. But I do know that the Hawaiians are a teachable race and make brilliant' scholars, especial ly in mathematics. "I have not only seen them in school, but have been to school with them, and I have never noted any especial limitation in their capacity for acquiring knowledge. If. however, there is any limitation. I should say it would be in regard to ab stract and philosophical studies. They are richly endowed with a sense of the dramatic and excel in the study of Eng lish literature. 'iiuding the English classics especially attractive. v "Being interested In their studies and their work I understand them to be close students and faithful worKmen. They have a respect fcr law and a love for or der. There is no prejudice against them on the islands, an 1 they fill otiiees in al most every department of the govern ment: In Senate and House, on the bench of the Circuit and Magistrate Courts, and with few exceptions, compose the entire police department." It would seem that a man who had observed them as closely as these remarks indicate would not be a lad man to govern them. In npp-aran.e Sanford B. Dole Is a truly striking man. He is tall, is always dressed in most pcriec taste and his snow-white hair, mustache and long beard would give him a truly patriarchal appearance if it were not for his erect car ciage. tile youthful appearance of his complexion and his brilliant eyes. He is exceedingly well-bred in his manner, which suggests that of an English dule.' one of the proper kind out of a novel; and there is very little about him to sug gest the politician and diplomat that he has proven himself to be in his adminis tration of the affairs of the Hawaiian Republic, the troubles with Queen Lili uokalani and Japan. The next striking thing about the ex president is the extraordinary calmness that pervades all his actions. A resident of Washington, after Dole's first visit to that city in his official capacity, remarked that "outside of the Supreme Bench there was nothing in the U.iited States as calm as President Dole." He has never been iviiovvii ij ,auii. thouen i.e iu,,es oc casionally, always throwing his head back as he does so with a queer little shake. To talk with or to the ex-president is a very trying experience to the average man or woman. As he sits by his desk and listens to his visitor the absolute repose of his whole frame is impressive. He never displays any evidence of having any nerves whatever. And when the caller leaves it is with the sense that he has gotten absolutely nothing from the ex-president, while the latter has seemed to nave drawn from him everything he wanted to tell and a lot of things he didn't. Oti the occasion of that now memor able visit, Mrs. Dole also showed she was possessed ot that same quality of repose which so distinguisned her husband. Mrs. Dole who was a Miss Anna P. Cate. of Massachusetts made her first appearance in socia, life of Washington at one of the White House receptions in February of last year. She was more simply dressed tiian any woman of the receiving party, her frock being of black velvet and white lace, made in that stereotyped style which seems to be the accepted idea of a proper costume for feminine rulers. She wore no jewels and in contrast to the bril liancy of the other members of the partv wnu.d have seemed almost shabbily drassed if it were not for her admiraole. manner, which will always make her marked among women in any assemblage. Ex-President Dole is the type of man who would make hi.s mark in anv com munity. His father and mother were mis sionaries who went to Hawaii in 1x44, Stan ford B. being born there the same year His early education he received in Puba han College in Honolulu, and while there decided to become a lawyer. This necessi tated earning enough money to support himself while preparing for the bar, and it was to be expected of a man of the ex-President's calibre that this need was no bar to his ambitions. He earned sulncient money to come to "the States,'' where he entered Williams College. Then he entered the law office of a Boston lirm and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. As soon as this for mality was over with young Dole returned to Hawaii with his wife, to whom he was married in lxTo, and began the practice of his profession. He became interested in politics at once, was elected to the Legis lature, then to the Supreme Bench of the kingdom, and when the monarchy was overthrown he became Chief of the Pro visional Government. He was installed President of the Hawaiian Republic on July 4. 1S94. Ex-President and Mrs. Dole reside in a picturesque cottage embowered in terns, palms and evergreens. Here they head their Friday afternoon receptions, which for a long time were a marked feature of social life in Honolulu. These receptions were most Informal, but were always maiKed with the most charming hospi tality. Ex-Minister Harold Sewall first be came a figure in National affairs in 1896, when he proved that while he was his father's son he was no son of his father at least-s far as politics were concerned. Harold Sewall is the second son of Arthur Sewall. of Bath. Me., who ran as Vice President on the Democratic ticket in the campaign of 1X6. He showed then that he had no political affiliations with his father and by his dignified attitude in the matter won many friends and admirers. His interest in Hawaiian affairs has al ways been of the keenest and he has a large following among all classes in the islands. THE GREATEST STEAMSHIP. The Oceanic, a New Ocean Gray hound of England, Is the Monster of the Seas. The Oceanic, which was launched at Belfast January 14 is the greatest steam ship ever built, in point of size and prob able speed. She was on the quays of Harland Wolff a year and a half ago. The Oceanic is 7u4 feet in length, 13 feet longer than the Great Eastern, which has heretofore held the record in marine construction. She will sail between Liverpool and New York for the White Star line, carrying as many passengers as can be seated in the great Metropoli tan Opera House. She is not built for speed so much as for comfort and convenience, yet she will make the trip in six days, both summer and winter. Her tonnage is 17,040 gross register, her beam 65 feet, her depth 44 feet. In general construction, appearance and interior arrangements the Oceanic will be practically an enlarged duplicate of the Teutonic and Majestic. She will be fitted with quadruple expansion en gines of not less than 30,000 horse power. Compared with other great ocean grayhounds the Oceanic loads by a wide margin. The St. Louis and St. Paul are each 555 feet over all, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 650 feet, 54 feet shorter than I the new leviathan. When seen in the open sea even the largest vessel falls to impress the ordi nary observer with the importance of her dimensions. Half her great bulk is out of sight beneath the water, and there is no familiar object near with which to com pare her. But if placed on shore one i could fully appreciate just what a mon j ster the modern steamship is. rSt limn Mm 1 i griff sZZ. 47 I.. :.if JI'm.,1-' Via... I mi m ii t i i k-Mkn vw mmm ARCHITECTS, FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ARE TRYING- TO PUT THROUGH A BILL. TO REGULATE TH& HEIGHT OF THE TALL BUILDINGS OF NEW YORK CITY. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN JUS T BEFORE THE LAUNCHING OF THE GREAT OCEANIC, THE LARGEST OCEAN VESSEL EVER BUILT. Not only does the dredge bring up liv- email elevator which whisks you up three ing things, but also things believed to re- j i nrrr,, mtti-rc of imuort- i ittie iu uj Bine o..- t ance to anthropologists, geologists, ana others, who learn trom the records em- I bedded in the earth's crust many lessons that to-day shed a most powerful ng"1 on the past, not only concerning manKina, but also ot tne annual auu kingdoms from almost the beginning ot life The dynamic force of the ocean is the greatest known. It wears away con Th nulverization gradually find a place on the lowest levels of the ocean Here they are found by the dredge of the fish boat. EDIBLE FISH. Many of these fish are extremely pretty, rivalling the speckled trout and the picturesque salmon. Others are only od dities. tnoueht that many new edible fish can be added to our list of things to eat by these recent discoveries, and so tne fish commission will have an utilitarian mission, as well as a scientific one. BYRON A FAVORITE. Cubans I'refer Poetry to Prose Every Day in the Week. NoTAmerican poets appear In the stores of Havana, but Byron's popularity lsshown by the multitude of his works on sale. "Don Juan" seems to be the favorite, partly no doubt, because of its Spanish subject and partly because of its literary pangencv a favorite quality among Spanish-Americans, as among the Spanish themselves. Of course, the larger part of the stock on the book shelves is made up of the work of Spanish writers, classic and modern. The people read Cervantes with as much avidity as if he were satiriz ing the weaknesses of others instead of their own. The style of literature preferred by people so near our own door is at first a shock to us, but we soon get used to it. Any kind of poetry sells in Cuba, while prose works go begging. The people have a natural tendency toward singing, music, and dancing. Tow ard the beautiful things in life. Toward the Ideal, rather than the real. A NORWEGIAN ACHINE. A Sailor "Who Has Got Tired of til Seas Has Decided to Try the Air. John Christian Jonasson. a Norwegian sailor, in whose brain the flying ma chine idea tided for some years, recently came out with a model which he claimed would fly. Here is his description ot ma invention "There are two wings, eacn sixteen feet long. They are oval in shape, and it is my intention to innate mem wun gas. The lifting power of these wings wiil, I calculate, be sufficient to support my weight and the weight of the car. The wings follow the curve of the boat on the inner side and are attached to a mechan ical device of my own invention which will enable me to move the wings as rapidly as I like. The rudder is built upon the plan of the tall of a bird and is ten feet long and eight feet in diameter at the outer edge. Between the rudder and the body of the boat is a large canvas pro peller having four blades, and there Is an auxiliary propeller in the bow of the boat as large as the one in the stern, which can be used to propel the boat in one direction or can be worked against each other in case the rudder should be disabled. PRINCE JAMIE'S MARRIAGE. The latest rumor about this Interesting voung man is that the Pope, with the consent of the Queen Regent, was en deavoring to bring about a marriage of Princess Mary of Austria with Don Jaime, with a view to avoiding bloodshed In Spain. This programme, it has heretofore been stated, contemplates the abdication of King Alphonso and the accession to the throne of Spain of Don Carlos's son, Don Jaime. OUR NEW 15-INCH SHELL AS COMPARED TO THE SIZE AND HEIGHT ,OF FULL-GROWN MAN.
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