The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 22, 1899

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r J' IL LAST EDITION MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MAY 22, 1899. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. 3 p. DAWSONJN RUINS Fire Breaks Out In the Klon dike Metropolis. Destroys the Entire Business Portion of the City. LOSS OF $1. 000,000. People "Were Unable to Save Anything of Value. No Building Material to Repair the Damage. Victoria. B. C May 22. An extra' edition of the Skaguay Alaskan. receiv ed by the steamer Lees, contains the following report, wired from Bennett to Skaguay just previous to the sailing of the steamer: "Another disastrous fire has visited Dawson City, this time fairly wiping out the entire business center of the town, creating losses that will aggre gate $1,000,000, with not a dollar's worth of insurance. The news was telegraph ed from Bennett by the special corres pondent of the Daily Alaskan, who re ceived it from a man named Tokales, who had just reached Bennett from a long and perilous trip out from Daw son over broken trails, open rivers and dangerous lakes." Air. Tokales reports that the fire oc curred on April 21, in the very heart of the business center of the city, com mencing near the opera house, on the water front, and spreading with unus ual rapidity, driven by a strong wind, destroying everything in its way on that street down to and including Dorr ahue Smith's establishment, and tak ing in all of the water front buildings abreast of the same blocks. The fire crossed the street, burned through the spread over to Second street, covering the principal business portion of Dawson, leaving it all in ashes with the firemen helpless and powerinss to do anything. The fire consumed everything from the Sim mons Royal cafe liown to and opposite the Fairview hotel. 11 the buildings burned like tinder, due to the fact that they had been standing for nearly two years and the logs were as dry as pow der. The tire spread with such rapid ity that the people were unable to save anything in the way of furniture, goods and clothing, so that the losses when footed up promise to be even greater than at first estimated. Among the prominent firms burned out were: The Royal cafe. Donohue Smith. McLellan McFly. J'arsoT.s Produee company. Aurora saloon. Bode ga saloon. Madmen house. Hotel Vic toria. McDonald block. Bank of British North America and scores of smaller firms and business houses. This fire came at a time when the mills and dealers in building materials had exhausted their winter supply and were waiting the opening of navigation to replenish their stocks. The results are that there is a famine in all kinds of building material and furniture, such as sash, doors, locks, hinges, etc. The f,-w articles still remaining out side of the burned district have qua drupled in price. Doors are selling for each, doorlocks $S each, and every thing in proportion. The town is para lyzed, because nothing can be done un til the opening of navigation, which will not be for several weeks. STARTED BY A LAMP. Victoria. B. C, May 22. No further details of the Dawson fire have been received. The only accident known to have occurred befell a fireman who was severely hurt about the head by a blaz ing log which was blown from a burn ing building. It is stated that the wo man who upset the lamp which caused the catastrophe and other inmates and occupants of the house have been ar rested and may be severely dealt with. A report is also current here that only the Bank of British North America of the chartered financial institutions was destroyed, not both it and the Bank of Commerce. Riley Tokales and Hume, the men who br. jqht out the news of the fire are reported to have collected hundreds and even thousand of dollars as private mail carriers for the prompt delivery of the communications of which they were bearers. One of these was addressed to the ins!etor of the Bank of British North America and considerably re duces the amount of the bank's loss by the tire, it is understood the record of the bank notes consumed was destroy ed with them, bui it is nevertheless quite possible that this will not mean lost money. MUCH DUST LOST By the Burning of Banks and Busi ness Souses. S.vn Francisco. Mav 22 Referring to the rush estimate plated on the loss bv the laws,.u fir-. L. r. Ful.laa. manager of the Alaska Kxploration companv. who re Cc"'.'.y returned from that citv.'savs: "1 :ie batiks and business house's have much gold dust and currencv on hand. It represents their accumulation for the winter which they would ship down as soon as the roads open for spring. Paper money circulates verv extensively in that country, as it is the handiest. None of trie stores, hotels or saloons are provided with sates or strong boxes, and that fact -...oe iiiul account tor a tremendous loss of ready cash. There is hardlv anv doubt that the bank of Rritish North America :ias had a great amount of gold dust on hand and the bank may have been caught Well lurs,; amount of paper money as f,-T.h" f"an:,(Iian Bank of Commerce is 'he south from the burned district .1',8i'ti, umonS 'he government building, auu nas most likely escaped the lire The wareuouses of the Alaska kxploration company are some distance from the cen r.rn'., ""business part and remote from ho.w v ganger of tire. The new ware S" "f a" Alilsk'1 Commercial com ?r1 ahM"'t nve blocks to the east Sv were the tire raged and have cer the fire 'ai"'- Th locality in which house f ".VK,natv'1 .,bak f thp 'er logs ner?i y Iuilt lm with cabins of gamblers n V whlrh are occupied by gamblers and women of ill repute." WHITE HOUSE DINNER To Be Given Tonight ia Honor of St Clair McKelway. Washington. May 2Z -The President and Mrs. McKinley will give a dinner Savofl,r- t';d Mrs- St" c,air Mc wi'l be the Broovn- The other guests Ire in ,h Tremt'" of the cabinet who are in the tuy and their ladies. GOING BACK TO NEW YORK. Perry Belmont and Wife Leave Ken tucky Today. Lexington. Ky.. May 22. Perry Bel mont and "wife will 'start for New York today. They have spent more than two weeks here and have visited every stock farm of. importance in this section. They have gone fishing, have managed their own housekeeping affairs and have had a season of free and easy en joyment. Shortly after his arrival, Mr. Belmont bought a camera. He has used up sev eral rolls of film in taking snap shots of his wife, pictures of his horses and other objects that happened to strike his fancy. When he brought in his first roll of films to be developed, he said: "I know I have a dozen good pictures here, for I made all the exposures my self." As is usually the case with a beginner, he did not get a picture. Out of his next roll he secured two or- three poor negatives, and after many attempts he has less than a dozen inferior pic tures to show for his work and money. But he has learned' something of ama teur photography. He and his wife are pleased with their visit to the Bluegrass country and they expect to come out every spring. WILL NEVER DO. GoTernment Flans to Muster Out Troops at San Francisco. Effort Will Be Made to Have Other Arrangements Made. The Twentieth Kansas will be mus tered out at San Francisco according to present plans. An effort will be made to have the governrrient make a change in accordance with' the universal desire of the people of Kansas so that the regiment may be mustered out in To peka. The intention of the government was made known today by a letter which Governor Stanley received from Russell A. Alger, secretary of war, in response to a question from Mr. Stanley, con cerning the plans of the department: The letter follows: Washington, May -19. I have your letter of May 15. The plans for mus tering out the troops in the Philippines is to land them in San Francisco, where they will be placed in camp to turn over their arms and muster out. This will give each of the soldiers travel pay from San Francisco to Kan sas a large sum to each man which could not be given these soldiers under the law if they were sent direct to Kansas tt be mustered out. They will, therefore, go to Kansas as private fc-itizens. 1 hope, however.that this gallant reg iment will keep together and go home in a body in order that Kansas may give it a reception so richly deserved. Very truly yours, R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War. Governor Stanley gave the letter to a reporter and then said: "Wichita is the only good place to give the Kansans the reception to which Mr. Alger refers." "Wichita belongs in the Tndian Ter ritory," said the reporter, "and has no right to seek honors at the hands of Kansas' fighting men." "What's that?" exclaimed the gover nor. "You're mistaken there. The In dian Territory belongs to Wichita." "You are helping the Seventh dis trict act the hog again," said the re .porter. "That's right." said the governor with a hearty laugh, "and I hope the soldiers will come to Wichita and get the kind of a reception they deserve." "Why don't you suggest Hutchinson or Topeka as a place for the recep tion "Topeka doesn't appreciate those things and Hutchinson isn't in it with Wichita on such things." The governor might have added that Wichita is the only place on earth with cheek enough to propose that the sold iers should swim a river as a sideshow attraction. "Seriously speaking." said the gover nor. "I doubt jf the boysV will come home together. They will probably stop off to see the sights at Salt Lake City and at other' points of interest on the way home and those who live in the western part of the state will stop at home and not come east." KEEP RIGHT ON. The committee in charge of the recep tion to the Twentieth Kansas are not at all disheartened by the letter re ceived by Governor Stanley from Sec retary of War Alger. The committee will keep right on do ing their utmost to bring about the re ception and to make it the grandest af fair Kansas has ever known. The chair man. P. I. Bonebrake, is never dis heartened by any such small obstacles as letters from departments at Wash ington. "What we wish to do," he said, "is to give that regiment a magnificent reception and we shall keep right on. The people of Kansas want to come to Topeka to see the regiment. We shall be prepared to entertain the regiment and all the people who come." "The committee will meet Tuesday night," said Chairman D. J. Green wald, "and several committees will make their reports. We will discuss several matters, at that meeting." FOUND 9,000 STAMPS. Supposed to Have Been Stolen From Cheney Postoffice. Wichita. May 22. The 9.000 1-cent stamps, which were stolen from the Cheney postoffice a week or so ago, were found yesterday in Wichita. Mr. Carl Gore found the stamps buried in a manure pile at the home of Mr. Joe Girty, on South Topeka avenue, yester day morning. He took the stamps to the postoffice and turned them over to Assistant Post master Jewett. Mr. Jewett and Mr. Mc Coy counted the stamps and found that there were 9.000 of them, arranged as they came from the department in sheets of 1.000 each. About half of them were spoiled so that it will be impossi ble to use them. No Rates For Students. Chicago, May 22. All the western roads have replied to inquiries sent out by the chairman of the Western Pas senger association notifying him they wiil not make any reduced rates for students returning to their homes for th summer vacations. DISINTEGRATION. Filipino Forces Are Steadily Going to Pieces. Lawton's Tictorious Army Goes Marching On DOWN THE K 10 GKANDE Request For an Armistice Has Been Denied. Gunboat and Troops to Be Sent to Negros Island. Washington, May 22. The war de partment has received the following cablegram from Gen. Otis: "Manila, May 22. Adjutant General, Washington: Conditions as follows: In Bulucan province, troops maintained at Quinga. Balinag, San Miguel: Law ton proceeding down Rio Grande from San Isldro. Has driven enemy west ward from San Antonio. Cariao and Arayat, where he was joined yesterday by Kobbe's column; will reach San Ana and Candaba today. "MacArthur still at San Fernando and will occupy cities south and westward; insurgent forces disintegrating daily. Luna's force at Taltac much dimin ished; has destroyed several miles rail way in his front; number of officers of rank have deserted Luna, and a few have entered Manila for protection; in Pampanga and Bulucan inhabitants re turning to homes; only fear insurgent troops south of Manila; insurgent disin tegration progressing, though large force, still maintained; conditions im proving daily: send battalion troops troops and gunboat to Negros tomorrow to allay excitement in southern portion of igland and west coast of Cebu. Have denied request of Aguinaldo's commis sioners for armistice. OTIS." MORE TROOPS ARRIVE. Washington, May 22. The war de partment has received the following cablegram from Gen. Otis: "Manila. May 21. Adjutant General. Washington: Transport Warren ar rived ISth inst. no casualties. "OTIS." The Warren sailed from San Fran cisco April 20. with headquarters, Bat teries B, D, E, F, G, H, L and M. Sixth artillery, and detachment recruits; to tal, 25 officers and 1,205 enlisted men, under command of Gen. E. B. Williston. FORM OF GOVERNMENT OF FERED. Manila, May 22.-3:20 p. m. The U. S. Philippine commission submitted to the Filipino commissioners a draft of the form of government the president is prepared to establish. According to this plan, a governor general will be appointed for the island by the presi dent; as will also be a cabinet, and later an advisory council will b elected by the people. FILIPINOS GIVEN A SURPRISE. Manila, May 22. In spite of the pres ence of the Filipino commissioners in Manila, the military operations continue with unabated vigor. The visitors were apparently ignorant of the true condition of affairs here. ITpon their arrival they were immed iately inundated with invitations cover ing both day and night and express sur prise at the condition of affairs within our lines. They had been led to believe that everything was chaotic, and are delighted at the reception accorded them. Reports received from persons who have arrived from the interior show that no troops are left in the northern provinces. They were ail drafted south after the outbreak of the war. The villages on the west coast are almost deserted and theIlocanos especially are desirous of joining the Americans, if only for the purpose of crushing the Tagals. Many natives of Benguot and Ilocos said that if the Americans had not ar rived civil war would necessarily have ensued owing to the friction between the Tagals and the inhabitants of other provinces. It is added that the only Filipino troops now left are 7,000 men under Gen. Luna at Tarlac and about four thou sand under Gen. Pio Del Pilar. Even these are demoralized and short of arms and supplies. Many of their rifles are disabled and the Filipinos are un able to repair them owing to the lack of mechanics and materials for so do ing. A coasting steamer which has arrived here reports that the Spanish garrison at Zamboanga. island of Mindanao, is held by the rebels in much the same manner the Americans held them while they were in the vicinity of Manila. Every night the Spaniards are subject ed to an ineffectual-fusillade and if they are not soon relieved they will be re duced to the condition of the Spanish garrison at Hoilo just previous to its evacuation of that place. HOSPITAL REPORT. Washington. May 22. Gen. Otis re ports the following deaths: Dysentary. May 7. Stephen Burdell, private, company M. First California. May 13, William Fahrenwald. private, company C, First South Dakota, ty phoid fever. May 14. John Bilcott, private, com pany C, Twelfth infantry. John Corbett, private, company A. Twenty-second infantry, company C, diphtheria. May 16. Herbert L. Jeler. private, company C, Thirteenth Minnesota, nephritis. Wm. C. Hast, corporal, company H, Fourth infantry, suicide. May 17, Christof Lost, company G, Twentieth infantry, erysipelas. Frank Massaurek, second lieutenant, company K. Seventeenth infantry, 9:45 p. m., May 19, at Manila. M'KINLEYS OFFER. Tells the Filipinos What He Is Will ing to Do Manila, May 22.-3:15 p. m. Prof. Schurman, head of the I'nited States Philippine commission has submitted the following written propositions to the Filipinos: "While the final decision as to the form of government is in the hands of the congress, the president under his military powers pending the action of congress stands ready to offer the fol lowing form of government: "A governor general, to be appointed by the president; a cabinet, to be ap pointed by the governor general; all the judges to be appointed by the president; the heads of departments and judges to be either Americans or Filipinos, or both: and also a general advisory coun cil, its members to be chosen by the people by a form of suffrage to be here after carefully determined upon. "The president earnestly desires that bloodshed cease, and the people of the Philippines at an early date enjoy the largest measure of self-government compatible with peace and order." The United States commission pre pared the scheme and the president cabled his approval of the form of the document. The Filipinos have made no definite proposition except for a cessa tion of hostilities until they can pre sent the question of peace to the peo ple. Prof. Schurman told the Filipinos they had no- means of gathering the people together, as the Americans con trol most' of the ports. He also re minded them that a liberal form of gov ernment was offered them and pointed out that it was better than the condi tions existing under Spanish rule. Gozaga, president of the Filipino com mission, replied that nothing could be worse than Spanish rule and admitted that the form of government proposed was liberal. The civilian members of the Filipino commission have declined to co-operate with the other members of that com mission, as the former consider Aguin aldo's latest demand to be preposterous, after Major General Otis' refusal of an armistice, referring to his wish for time in order to consult the Filipino con gress. After a conference tomorrow with the United States commissioners, the Filipino commissioners will lunch with Prof. Schurman and will afterwards visit the vessels composing the Ameri can fleet. GEN. OTIS TO BE IT." Ha Is Slated as First Governor Gen eral of the Philippines. Washington, May 22 The report from Manila that a form of government has been proposed to the Filipinos including a governor general. cabinet and advisory council is confirmed at the state de partment where it is said this is the general line of action on which the au thorities here and at Manila are pro ceeding. The plan is the outgrowth of numerous cables and mail exchanges between President Schurman of the Philippine commission and Secretary Hay as well as advices from Gen. Otis and Admiral Dewey. The proposition to have a governor general and cabinet appointed by the president is substantially the same as the system now in operation in Cuba. Like the Cuban system, the administra tion would be military in character, for the time being at least while condi tions are unsettled. The authorities here are acting on the theory that as in the case of Porto Rico, it will be for con gress to establish the permanent form of government for the islands. It was understood at the time Major General Lawton went to Manila that Gen. Oti9 would become governor general while Gen. Lawton assumed active direction of military affairs. It is not improbable that this plan might be carried out if the Filipinos accept the plan now pro posed, thus making Gen. Otis the first governor general with Gen. Lawton and lien. MacArthur occupying positions similar to those of Generals Ludlow and Wood in Cuba. The proposed advisory council is also similar to that of Cuba, where Governor General Brooke has the advice of a native council as well as that of the military officers under him. The main idea of the system proposed in the Philippines is to carry out the assurances given in the proclamation issued some time ago to maintain the sovereignty of the United States over the island, and at the same time give the natives the largest measure of home rule. PARIS IN GOOD SHAPE. Attempt to Float Her Will Be Made on "Wednesday. Coverack. Cornwall, May 22. The cargo of the American line steamer Paris, which ran on the rocks off "Low lands Point, not far from here at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, while on her way from Southampton by way of Cherbourg to New York is being rapid ly discharged from the two forward hatches. It Is high water in this vicin ity at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Salvage tugs from Liverpool will ar rive at the scene of the wreck tonight. It is believed the attempt to tioat the Paris will be made on Wednesday. Everything at present seems favorable to success. The weather remains beautifully fine, the wind is off shore and the sea is smooth. WILL TAKE THE KAISER WILHELM. Falmouth. May 22. The North Ger man Lloyd steamer Bremen which left Southampton on Saturday, arrived here this morning under instructions to em bark for New York the saloon passen sengers of the Paris, which is ashore near Coverack. But the passengers are not ready to proceed on their voyage, many of them still suffering from shock so the Bremen continued on her pas sage westward. Quite a fleet of excur sion steamers are taking holiday mak ers from this port and Plymouth to see the wreck. Many passengers of the Paris took the train for Southampton where they will await the sailing of the North Ger man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse which is scheduled to sail from Bremen for New York on May 23, touching at Southampton on the fol lowing day. REDUCES PRICES. Official State Paper Iff ust Accept 25 Cents Per Square. Attorney General Godard todav render ed an opinion, upon request of Georsre A. Clark, secretary of state, holding that the Topeka Capital, as the official state paper, is entitled to collect only 25 cents per square for the publication of supreme court syllabi and new laws. The Capital asks for 50 cents per square straight upon all official publications. This amount will be paid on all matter so printed except that specified above. May Cut Rates in Two. Chicago. May 22. Owing to the fight in progress among the transcontinental roads over the steamer rates for the National Educational association con vention in Los Angeles, it is said the rates to Colorado points will be cut in two and that the affair will probably bring about an extensive western rate war. PEOPLEHAVE WON Effort to Foist Justice Courts on the City Fails. New City Court is a Legal Judi cial Organization. JUDGE HAZEN FIRM Says That There is No Doubt on the Question. Will Be No Return to Fee Grab bing, System. The city court has come to stay. Judge Hazen so decided this morning, and his decision was so positive that it is not probable that an appeal will be taken to the supreme court. The opinion was rendered on the ap plication for a writ of habeas corpus for the relase of John Craig, who is in jail on a warrant issued out of the city court. The application was made on the ground that the law creating the city court is not valid for several reasons. In giving his decision Judge Hazen called attention to the fact that several of the questions brought up by the at torneys who were opposing the city court have already been settled by the supreme court, and are no longer open for trial courts to pass upon. The opposition to the city court grows out of the fact that it takes away all of the business of the justices of the peace in Topeka, thereby rendering those offices worthless which is just what the people wanted. The justices of the peace have been doing everything possible to have the law declared void and the city court knocked out. In rendering his decision Judge Hazen said: "It is claimed that the law is uncon stitutional because it limits the juris diction of justices of the peace to $1 and thereby virtually destroys those offices. This is not an open question be cause it has already been passed upon by the supreme court in a similar case from Kansas City, Kansas, where there exists a court similar to this city court. The supreme court held that the legis lature has the right to limit the juris diction of justices of the peace. "It is also claimed that the law is unconstitutional because it is special legislation, instead of general, but the supreme court has also settled that point in the Kansas City case in favor of the law. "It is urged, too, that the law cre ates a township office, and is therefore unconstitutional. I don't understand it that way. The bill all the way through shows that it was not intended to make a township office. It is worded in that respect like the Kansas City law. and that has stood the test of the supreme court. The word 'township' is used in the title, but it appears to me to be a misnomer. "The principal contention is that the bill was never legally enacted and is therefore not law. The journals of both houses were presented to the court to prove this. It is shown that the bill originated in the senate and was known as senate bill No. 7. It created two city courts instead of one. The senate jour nal shows that the bill passed the sen ate and was messaged to the house. The house journal shows that a substitute fo senate bill No. 7 was passed and messaged back to the senate. From that time on the only record concerning it is a report from the committees on en rolled bills showing that the substitute was properly enrolled. The senate jour nal is silent as to the passage of this bill, and because it shows no vote it is claimed that the bill was not passed. But the bill was properly signed by all the officers necessary, and the question is whether the absence of any evidence in the journal can overthrow this other evidence. "In my opinion it makes no difference whether the senate journal gives any record concerning it, as long as it is shown that it passed the house, was messaged to the senate, enrolled" in the senate, and properly signed by the offi cers." Judge Hazen then read from an opin ion written by Chief Justice Doster. in which Judge Duster says that the jour nals of the legislative bodies are often very improperly kept, and deciding that if a bill is properly signed by all the officers it is conclusive evidence that it was legally passed, unless the journals show plainly to the contrary. "It seems to me in this case," con tinued Judge Hazen. "that the journals do not show that this bill did not pass. "Oral testimony was taken in this case, not to overthrow the law. but to explain the methods of legislation, and from the explanation of these methods it is a wonder to me that more trouble of this character does not arise, on ac count of the loose manner in which leg islative business is transacted. "The mere silence of the journal on the enactment of the law is not suffi cient for the court to overthrow the law. In my opinion it was legally enacted." A RECEPTI0NT0 SCHLEY Is Tendered by the Commercial Club of Omaha. Omaha, May 22. Admiral Schlev was tendered a reception by the Commercial club today from 11 to 12 at which was present practically all of the men who represent the great commercial and in dustrial interests of the city. The re ception was of an informal character. There was a jam at the rooms during the hour. This evening he will be en tertained at the Omaha club. GREAT PEACH CROP. Trees About St. Joseph, Mich., Are Overweighted With Fruit St. Joseph, Mich.. May 22. Although reports have been received from various points throughout the fruit belt to the effect that many peaches have been winter killed at the roots, the St. Jo seph district, which is the district known as the lake shore peach district, six miles long, boasts that they have the largest uninjured district in the United States. In fact, from the pres ent indications, they will produce the largest crop in their history. Willis Marble and many large grow ers are now having the orchards thinned as it would be impossible for the trees to hold up their burden of fruit if left until developed. Hear Blind Boone Tonight at the Third Christian church. FILIPINOS SIDE. Their Version of the War From Their Official Organ. The state historical society has re ceived from Theophilus Little copies of the "Republica Filipina" printed in Spanish and Tagalog. A partial trans lation of the Spanish edition has been made and some of th published state ments are. to say the least, startling. The papers were sent by Lieutenant Colonel E. C. Little with the request that they be turned over to the soci ety. The following translations of the Spanish edition were made by Robert C. Alexander of Abilene: "After 16 hours of very hard and continuous fighting along the whole line at Tuliahan which our enemies at tacked at daybreak of yesterday, they were unable to reduce our positions and had to retreat. The battle of Tuliahan thus was gained by our troops, showing its importance and the great loss of our enemy by what we suffered on our own part. "The troops under Gen. Pantalion Garcia, have ably sustained the Philip pine flag, the Manila battalion having especially distinguished itself by ex treme heroism, as also did the forces under Gen. Salvador Estrella which, at Marikina, obliged the enemy to aban don the field of action. "At Paranaki also, our troops suc ceeded in defeating the enemy, killing more than a hundred, the guns and equipment of them remaining in our possession as also a large war booty, consisting of all the Americans carried in their train. "Official notice has just been received of another battle this morning at day break in which the troops of Gen. Pio de Pilar occupied the town of Pasig and are besieging the enemy's troops in the convent." It says that in one engagement 6.000 American troops were defeated by two companies of insurgents with great loss. It estimates the number of Amer ican troops in another engagement at 25,000, "splendidly equipped." Filipinos are said to have captured great stores of supplies from the enemy and inflict ed severe losses. Otis and Dewey are heartily abused and the Americans and Chinese are stated to be great friends, "alike in customs, habits and tastes." An interesting piece of news that reads as though it were in an anti-expansion paper of the United States is that the European powers have served no tice on McKinley to stop oppressing the Filipino patriots and get out of the is lands in two weeks. ROOSEVELT'S VIEWS On Taxing Franchises as Em bodied In His Extra Ses sion Message. Albany, N. Y., May 22. Governor Roosevelt's message to the state legis lature which meets in extra session this evening, gives his views upon the Ford taxation bill and suggests lines of im provement. Concerning the equity of the proposal to tax corporations, the governor will say: "At present the farmers, the market gardeners and the mechanics and tradesmen havinx small holdings are paying an improper and excessive por tion of the general taxes, while at the same time many of the efforts to rem edy this state of affairs, notably in the direction of taxing securities are not only unwise but inefficient and often serve merely to put a premium upon dishonesty. "There 'is evident injustice in the light taxation of corporations. I have not the slightest sympathy with the outcry against corporations as such or against prosperous men of business. To drive out of a community the men of tneans and the men who take the lead in business enterprises would pro bably entail, as one of its first results, the starvation of a considerable por tion of the remainder of the popula tion." "But while I freely admit all this, it yet remains true that a corporation which derives its power from the state should pay to the state a just percent age of its earnings as return for the privileges it enjoys. This should be especially true for the franchises be stowed upon gas companies, street rail ways and the like." Relative to the proposition to place the determination of the tax in the hands of the state board, the governor says: "I deem it wise that the power of laying and assessing the tax on fran chises should be left with the state au thorities, not the local authorities, this being in my view desirable both for the sake of providing against dishonest favoritism, or of discrimination against corporations by the local authorities and also for the sake of working equity as between franchises in different local ities. The governor believes he can count on the help of the corporations in seeing the bill put into proper form, instead of as heretofore counting upon the opposi tion of some among them to any and every scheme for making them pay their just share of taxation. The message as drafted calls for the enactment of the law to take effect the 1st day of October, 1899. but it is un derstood when the governor returns to Albany tonight he will change it to read January 1. 1900, in conformity with the latest bill drawn. It is learned on good authority that the Ford bill incorpor ated in the proposed new bill Is to be changed so that the bill will read that special franchises shall be taxed as well as local, the governor believing that under the term local franchises some corporations might technically escape the tax. NO PLACE FOR ELLIOTT. Effort to Get Appointment in Begular Army Fails. Governor Stanley recently recom mended that John D. Elliott, son of the late Capt. D. S. Elliott of Coffey ville. be appointed a second lieutenant in the regular army. The governor today re ceived a letter from the secretary of war saying that it is now impossible tc make such promotion. Elliott is now in the Twentieth Kansas. The secretary of war explains that Kansas is enti.tled to two lieutenancies, both of which are filled, one by the ap pointment of Major Chase Doster. the other by the appointment of Fred Bu chan, wh is now ordered to Leaven worth for examination. W heather Indications. Chicago, May 22. Partly cloudy.wlth probably showers in east portion to night and in extreme east portion Tues day; easterly winds. Snow in England. London, May 22. The weather today is much colder in England, snow has fallen in the north at Yorkshire and the Westmoreland hills are covered with snow. STARGHAT HOWIE Commercial Club Negotiating For New Plant in Topeka. Cincinnati Man Wants to Open a Factory Here. OXE REQUIREMENT Proprietor Must Keep Out of Starch Trust. Secretary Anderson Says Kan sas People Are Excited. The agitation which the Commercial club has started with regard to the re fusal of the starch trust to operate the Topeka starch plant, may result In bringing another plant here. Secretary Anderson, of the Commercial club. Is in receipt of a letter from A. E. Gat chell ,of Cincinnati, who states that he is looking for a location for a "new process" starch factory. He wants to know if Topeka wants a factory, and if so, what it can offer. By the "new process" it is claimed) that starch can be made from corn in only nine days, whereas it requires 48 days by the old process. It is als claimed that more starch can be ex tracted from a 'given amount of corn, and that it will be of a better quality: than that manufactured by the old pro cess. Secretary Anderson will write to Mr. Gatchell to ascertain if his factory will stay out of the starch trust, and also to ask for fuller particulars regarding it. If it seems to be desirable the matter will be brought before the next meet ing of the Commercial club for invest igation. SecretaryAnderson believes that soma concerted action ought to be taken by: all the commercial bodies of Kansas with relations to trusts. He thinks n. meeting of delegates from the different: commercial organizations in the towns of Kansas ought to be called to formu late plans to keep the trusts from throttling the industries which have al ready been built up in Kansas, and to encourage other industries to come into the state. "The time is ripe for action." said Major Anderson today. "People are talking against the trusts all over the state. Wherever I have been with the asylum committee, even the fellows who are trying to talk asylum to us are willing to stop anfl talk about the trusts or Funston. We may take the matter of calling a conference up at the next meeting of the club. "One suggestion that has been mails to me regarding the right way to deal with the trusts, and one that strikes me" favorably, is to put an occupation tax on the goods they manufacture. City councils can levy an occupation tax on anything. For instance, sup pose some article manufactured by a trust was being sold here in competi tion with the product of a factory not in the trust, and the trust put the price of their product down below cost for the purpose of running the anti-trust factory out of existence, the city coun cil could step in and put an occupation tax on selling the article manufactured! by the trust. Of course we would have to be careful and not put a tax on some necessary article that could be pro cured only through a trust, because that would not be hurting the trust any, and it would be piling the cost on to the consumer." EUGENIE DYING. Hopes For Empress' Recovery Ars No Longer Entertained. Paris, May 22. It is reported that the ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of Louis Napoleon, once emperor of France, is seriously ill and her death is expected at almost any time. Some weeks ago she had a serious at tack of weakness, and it was hardly thought she could recover, but she did so, and began taking the open air again; but within the last few days age has told on her, and the end is probably near. At her age, 75 years. ic can not be expected that she shall have retained much of her old time consti tution. SCHLEY'S QUIET SABBATH. Rear Admiral Attended Church, Ser vices in the Morning-. Omaha. Neb.. May 22. Rear Admiral W. S. Schley and Mrs. Schley passed a quiet Sunday. In company with General and Mrs. Manderson they attended morninff services at Trinity cathedral, which was crowded with people who came not alon to worship but to improve an opportunity to see Omaha's distingushed )?uest. After the services they were driven hack to th Manderson residence and thence to Happy Hollow, where they were entertained at dinner by Mr. and Mrs. J. H. N. Patrick. A short drive occupied the remainder of the afternoon and the evening was .spent quietly at the Manderson residence. OIL NEAR CLEVELAND. Thirteen Promising Wells Opened ia a Field Formerly Abandoned. Elyria. O., May 22. Several good oil wells have been opened at Eharte, thirty miles from Cleveland. There are. thir teen wells there, all turning out a good flow. They are close together. There is also a fine field of lubricating oil near Grafton, six miles from where the light oil is. A syndicate of well known Ohio men. has a lease of 6.000 acres of land, and will push the drilling as fast as pos sible. Twenty years ago oil was pro duced in this locality, but wells were abandoned as oil gave out. KIPLING GAINS 20 POUNDS. The Author Greatly Pleased With. Stockton's Home. New York, May 22. Rudyard Kip ling, who is now with his wife and chil dren at Fair Holme, Morristown, N. J., and who sails for Europe on the White Star line steamship Cymric, has been resting and gaining strength in Morris town and has quite fallen in love with the place. To Frank II. Stockton, who paid him a visit a few days ago, Mr. Kipling said: I can not understand why you wane to sell your place here. Why, I have gained twenty pounds since leaving England." "You are not so English, after all," said Stockton. A new and popular edition of Kip ling's works is in press and will be ready for the public by July 1. It is ia fifteen volumes. 4

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For gentlemen and ladies with hair a little gray, streaked gray, entirely gray and with BALD HEADS, it is especial ly recommended. Our special price S9c. Mme. YALE'S Health and Complexion Specialist Yale Temple of Beauty, Chicago. HAIR-CLIPPER IS DEAD. John "W. Jorgenson Expires After Shooting Himself 'With a Rifle. Chicago, May 22. School girl9 who wear their tresses in braids will have nothing hereafter to fear from "Jack the Clipper." John W. Jorgenson of 48S West North avenue, whose mania it was to clip the hair of girls, died yes terday afternoon as the result of a self-inflicted rifle wound received last Tuesday. His death occurred at Pas savant Memorial hospital, 192 Superior street, to which he had been removed Wednesday night in the hope that an operation might be successful. It was the intention to have the operation per formed the next morning by Dr. Chris tian Fenger. but peritonitis set in and it was found the operation could do no good. Dr. Charles R. Moore of 1315 Mil waukee avenue, who was one of Jor genson's attending surgeons, said last night: "The case of Jorgenson was a pecul iar one from a medical point ,pf view, and I am greatly interested inA,the re sult of the post mortem examination to be held tomorrow at the hospital. The condition of the brain will be the most important thing. I am inclined to think that Jorgenson was an epileptic, and that a part of his trouble was her editary." The ancients believed that rheuma tism was the work of a demon within a man. Any one who has had an attack of sciatic or Inflammatory rheumatism will agree that the inflic tion is demoniac enough to warrant the belief. It has never been claimed that Chamberlain's Pain Palm would cast out demons, but it will cure rheuma tism, and hundreds bear testimony to the truth of this statement- One ap plication relieves the pain, and this quick relief which it affords is alone worth many times Its cost. For sale by all druggists. 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I regained say lost wfaigat, became Stronger, and my ap petite sjreatly improved. 1 was soon entirely WU, and my skin as clear as a piece of class. H. L. MTBB9, WO Mulberry St., Newark, 2. J. Don't destroy all possible chance of a cure by taking the doctor's treatment of mercury and potash. These minerals cause the hair to fall out. and will wreck the entire system. ?.ThsUlUUU is prRLT tkctuli, and is the only blood remedy guaranteed to contain no potash, mercury, or other mineral. Books on the disease and its treat ment mailed free by Swift Specific Com (any, Atl&aU, Georgia. ON THE ROCKS: American Liner City of Paris Goes Aground Just After Starting on Her Homeward Voyage. EVERYBODY IS SAFE- The 380 Passengers on Board Safely Taken Off. Accident Occurred Near Scene of Mohegan Disaster. Falmouth. May 22. The American line steamer Paris, Captain Watklns, from Southampton and Cherbourg, for New York, struck on an outlying ridge of the Manacles early yesterday morn ing at a point half a mile from where the wrecked Atlantic transport liner Mohegan lies, and rive miles from Fal mouth. The Paris, which sailed from Southampton Saturday, called at Cher bourg and picked up fifty passengers. She left Cherbourg at 6 o'clock. Soon after 1 o'clock Sunday morning, at high tide and in a dense fog, she ran ashore. From the first there was no danger. Lifeboats and tugs were soon literally swarming around the vessel to render assistance. A majority of the passen gers, who numbered 3S0, were brought to Falmouth where they obtained lodg ings for the night. Captain Watkins reported that his ship was lying comfortably in smooth water and that there was no occasion for any alarmist reports. He reported the passengers and crew all well. The first intimation of the vessel's striking the rocks was a slight grating sound which was followed by a second and more pronounced shock. The look out shouted that there was something looming ahead, but before there was time to reverse the engines, the ship had gone on the rocks, 200 yards from the shore. Assistance was summoned by means of rockets, and the coast guards promptly telephoned to the life saving station for boats. A majority of the passengers were not aware that an accident had hap pened until they were called up by the stewards. On reaching the deck they found the ship's boats in perfect readi ness for their reception. The sea was perfectly calm, and the only discomfort that the passengers experienced was caused by the slight rain that was fall ing at the time. Owing to the calm ness of the sea. the boats could be man aged with entire safety. Perfect order prevailed aboard the vessel. Captain Watkins stood on the bridge giving or ders, and his perfect self-possession and calmness of demeanor had a reassuring effect upon the passengers. In accord ance with the instructions of the cap tain, the women and children were the first to be taken off the ship. Such perfect order was maintained that a passenger described the scene as simply a slow procession of women and chil dren walking in single file to the boats. At daybreak, the position of the ves sel could be better discerned. The bril liant Saint Anthony light at the en trance of Falmouth harbor could be dis tinguished .plainly through the misty rain and the still standing masts of the ill-fated Mohegan could be seen near by. It Is said that a Falmouth pilot show ed a warning sign to the Paris, telling the captain that he would put the ves sel on top of the Mohegan if he did not alter the course of the ship. The warn ing, however, came too late and the Paris struck on a ridge to the west ward of the Manacles. It is suggested that as this is only their second trip from Cherbourg, the officers of the Paris were not familial with the course. It is believed that the steamer has a large rent in her bottom in the forward part of the ship. Further aetaiis or tne disaster snow that when the vesse struck, the crew was summoned on deck. The passen gers upon appearing were met in the companionway with comforting words and assurances of their safety. Excep tional coolness was shown on all sides, the stewards distributing coffee and stimulants to all who desired them. Captain Watkins had his gig lowered and rowed ashore in order to ascertain his whereabouts and to telegraph to Falmouth for tugs to assist his ship. In the meantime, rockets were sent up and signal guns were fired. When dawn broke, everyone on board was relieved to find the shore on one t home IM Time. For. HERBTrthDay I 1 H F''""L!J CROSSiNC- VJlTS IH THCi J -J 'W i jj?! I ou'vtn- AA Sttv 'nTtRisTsj contest for peace-. J. L V 5?ie center, of n- side and lifeboats lying near by on the other. The vessel lay with her head to the southwest, the reversing of her en gines having put her broadside onto the rocks. Happily, the sea was smooth and there was no wind. Otherwise there would probably have been a different tale to tell. The dangers of the vicinity were strik ingly brought home to the passengers and crew by the masts of the wrecked steamer Mohegan, which are sticking out of the water, and by a miserable bell buoy.whieh tolls almost constantly as though sound ing a death knell. When Captain Watkins returned from his trip ashore he learned that there was already considerable water in the hold, and the tuss which had arrived stood by in readiness for any emergency. All the passengers were transferred to the Dragon, but, beyond the clothes they wore, they took nochlng with them. They were landed at Falmouth shortly after 7 o'clock, the local agents of the American line meeting them and providing them with every care and quartering them at the various hotels and the Sailors" home. When the Paris struck the tide was within an hour of the flood, and this proved insufficient to raise her off the rocks. Hundreds of people visited the scene during the day. The passengers are lavish in their praise of the admirable behavior of the officers and crew, and declare that it was due to their self-possession that no accident oc curred to anyone. Perfect discipline, they sav, was maintained throughout. It is stafed that those in charge of the Paris were so perfectly confident that thev 'were xursuing the proper course that the vessel was steaming eighteen or nine teen knots an hour when it struck. Thomas Allen of London, a passenger on the Paris on- his way to New York, said: T was in bed when the accident hap pened. I heard a grating sound, and then several hard thumps on the rocks shook the ship. The vessel then seemed to stop dead. Afew minutes later I heard someone calling. 'All hands on deck.' I roused my chum. 'who was still asleep, and we went on deck. We were told to secure our life belts and we went below and got them. We we're'not allowed to return to the deck at that time. All were kept waiting below. At the first sum mons a few ef the passengers appeared in their night clothes, but as soon as they discovered that there was no danger they returned to their rooms and made them selves ready to leave the ship. "The passengers ail behaved in the best possible manner. There was no scream ing on the part of the women and the most perfect order was maintained. We were kept waiting below for an hour. Cof fee and biscuits were served and then we entered the ship's boats. Steam tugs brought us to Falmouth." Among the passengers were many poor female emigrants, mostly foreigners. All have been safely housed in the Sailors' home here. One of the women describes her experi ence as follows: "I was awake when the vessel struck. I heard a dragging sound and felt ashock. then the engines topied. I went upstairs to find out what the matter was. I could see tipe land quite plainly. I thought the ship had stopped to take on passengers. I did not think there was anything wrong and I returned to bed and stayed there half an hour. Then a steward told me to get up. I said: 'There's my baby, don't wake him.' The steward replied: 'if you want to save your baby, get up.' I got up and dressed myself and the baby and went on -deck. We were much fright ened, but there was no confusion. They treated us in the kindliest manner, and finally brought us here on a tug." Mrs. Batcheler. a sister of United States Senator Vest of Missouri, who embarked at Cherbourg, says the weather was wet and nasty when they left port. She re tired early, and about 1 o'clock was awak ened by a tremendous crash, which at first seemed to arise from the machinery. Then everything became so quiet that she did not leave her berth. Soon afterwards, however, she was aroused by a steward, who urged the passengers to dress and go on dock immediately. Putting on a few things Mrs. Batcheler hurried above and found hundreds of half-dressed passengers there before her. The officers were busily engaged in pre paring the boats for launching and calm ing the passengers. though there was com paratively little excitement, as it was evi dent that the ship was not sinking, and at daybreak all were assured by glimpses of the shore. Mrs. Batcheler said that some of the passengers asserted that thev heard Cap tain Watkins say: "I am unable to under stand how this happened." There was no fog when Mrs. Batcheler went on deck. Oldest "Woman in the World. One of the oldest tribes that once in habited southern California was the Tanche. Today the remnant of the thousands they tjnee could raise are a miserable five, who squat, tolerated, but not invited, upon the land their forefathers had owned. Yet these five would possess a distinction if their case were only known, for the oldest is the oldest woman in the world, and the youngest is almost a marvel of longev ity. The grandmother is now 145 years of age. her oldest child is 120, and her grandchild, the youngest of1 the quin tet, is 98. Their united ages are consid erably over 600, a record equaled by no one family on record. The old grand mother, whom courtesy denominates living, is sleeping out her second cen tury. She wakes only to take nourish ment. Her hair is as white as carded wool, and her flesh has wasted away, from inactivity, until nothing but the skin and bone remain. They have to lead her when she walks, her appear ance reminding the stranger of the sor ceress "She" after she came out of the fatal fire. San Francisco Call. V v 1 II Mill i WiyVL"V"T fu I Vtt ST V JT S I ll H J c ri vx "VciiUai ik. til i h-v .St u'KmriHP jvzzai 'Lift CtLt&RftTiON. not hlP Dt&TRitUTE WOMEN AND THE WHEEL". Not Detrimental to Good Morals Says High New York Authority. New York, May 22. Chief of Police Devery does not agree with Capt. Luke Colleran, chief of Chicago's detective department, in the latter"s assertion that the adoption of the bicycle by women is detrimental to the advance ment of morality. After reading Capt. Colleran's letter criticising bicycling. Chief Devery said: "I do not agree with the criticisms of Chicago's detective chief. There is no law, of course, to prevent immoral women riding wheels, and we have never made any particular crusade against them, but most of the women are respectable, well behaved people who are in search of better health and strength. You will find Immoral people everywhere, but I am sure the bicycle has had no bad effect on the morals of the community." Mrs. Elizabeth Grannls said: "Non sense. You will find moral and im moral women in every pursuit. Teas can result in immorality just as well as bicycling. You may walk down by Dr. Parkhurst's church or walk in Gra mercy square any night and see rough girls on wheels. Far from resulting in immorality, where would these girls be if they were not in the open street? Surely to be In the open light is far better than to be in secret places. What is true of New York applies to Chi cago." MILLIONAIRES' HOMES. Three to Be Built in New York This Season. New York, May 22. The news that William K. Vanderbilt, jr., would build a home for his bride, and that houses would be built for James A. Burden, jr., and John Henry Hammond, all in up per Fifth avenue, has been confirmed. Andrew Carnegie has sold the block fronting on Fifth avenue between Ninety-first and Ninety-second streets and an additional plot on Ninety-first street to William K. Vanderbilt, jr. The price paid for the Fifth avenue plot was $800,000; that for the Ninety-first street plot is not given. Young Vanderbilt will erect a $2,000, 000 mansion. Adjoining it, it is understood, Mr. Sloane will build twin houses for his daughters, Mrs. James A. Burden, jr., and Mrs. John Henry Hammond, cous ins of young Vanderbilt. TICTORIA VEUY FEEBLE. Medical Attendants Burdened With Anxiety as to Her Condition. London, May 22. Despite the fact that Lord Salisbury went out of his way in the banquet last week to assure his hearers that the queen was in the rarest good health and In the best possi ble spirits, it comes from a well in formed source that her majesty is giv ing grave cause for anxiety to her med ical attendants. Her complexion is colorless, her countenance expression less. She is feeble, and was -with diffi culty assisted into her carriage. She has not been sleeping well lately, owing to the fact that her nerves are over strained by the amount of work she has insisted on doing lately. FELL AMONG CROCODILES. Thrilling Adventure of a New York Actress at Electrical Show. New York, May 22. Margaret Quinn, a vaudeville actress, played the star part Saturday night in a thrilling spectacle at the Electrical show. Among the features of the show is a glaFS tank 14 feet high and 23 feet square, combining the attrac tions of a dozen man-eating crocodiles and an electric diving bell. Miss Quinn. who was accompanied by Miss Davidson, another actress, mounted the ladder by which the top of the tank is reached and amused herself looking at a three-foot saurian that was lazily float ing on the surface. Suddenly her hat slipped down over her face and in endeav oring to catch it she knocked it Into the water. She clutched at it a second time, lost her balance and in a second was de scending through the water, toward the nose of an eleven-foot crocodile lying on the bottom. Her screams as she fell into the tank attracted the attention of everybody, and visitors to the show had an unobstructed view of the occurrence through the sides of the glass. The girl aroused the croc odile, and as she arose it went toward the surface, too. Her hat was floating on the top and the saurian's nose came in contact with it. He opened his cavern ous jaws and Frank Hoover, the keeper of the crocodiles, jumped into the tank. The splash frightened the man-eater, which scurried toward the bottom and Hoover seized Miss Quinn, who was go ing -down a second time. She was fished out of the tank.and after a Bellevue ambulance surgeon had work ed over her for half an hour she regained consciousness sufficiently to declare that she had been bitten on the arm. She was taken to Bellevue hospital. cash to tE CwB ArmL WAS A WOODEN HORSE. Funny Mishap of a Fireman Who Tried to Do His Duty. New York, May 22. Brave and fear less are the firemen of New York. Their first efforts are directed toward saving life, and after that, property. But there was an amusing instance yesterday when property was saved when it was thought to be a life. John Balmford had a big stable at No. 1944 Amsterdam avenue. It was filled with horses when flames were dis covered issuing from the building. The firemen were soon at the scene. Into the building they rushed, and thirty horses were driven out. All were sup posed to have been liberated, when one of the firemen, m a rift in the clouds of smoke, discovered a beautiful iron gray standing there, stately, in full harness, and apparently unconcerned. At him the fireman went, seized the bridle and tugged and shouted in his efforts to make the animal move. But he only stood there and stared out of glassy eyes. Then the fireman secured a blanket, which he threw over the horse's head, having decided to try that well known remedy to make the animal move. But still it stood and stared. "Bring in a line of hose," the fireman yelled above the din, "this horse won't budge." The flames in the immediate vicinity were drowned out, and then, in a light flash that broke through the smoke, it was discovered that the horse was made of wood, had served an hon orable term in front of a harness maker's establishment, and was then relegated to the stable to be out of the way. The fireman who tried to get It to walk out will spend his month's salary for cigars for his companions. SAGE GIVES $50,000. Rich New Yorker Aids the Woman's Hospital. New York, May 22. Russell Sage has given $50,000 to the Woman's hospital. It was rumored today that Mrs. Russell Sage had made the gift. "Mr. Sage gave the money voluntar ily," said Mrs. Sage, and she empha sized the "voluntarily." "I had nothing to do with it. Mr. Sage never gets credit for anything, and many people doubt his philanthropy; but when he wants to give he gives. He always has been interested in the Woman's hospi tal, and we are both glad that the new building is to be erected on the site of the present hospital. The $50,000 is given to the new building fund." Mrs. Sage smiled. "You see," she continued, "that Mr. Evans (referring to the Rev. Anthony H. Evans, pastor of the West Presbyterian church) was wrong. He said it was Impossible to get money from the rich men of his congregation. I guess if Mr. Evans had been more spiritualistic his rich men would have given more freely. This $50,000 isn't all Mr. Sage will give to the hospital. I know he intends to give more, though I can not say how much." The new building for the Woman's hospital will be erected at Forty-ninth street and Lexington avenue, where the present hospital building is. It will cost S400.000. Already $300,000 has been sub scribed, Russell Sage and Mrs. F. F. Thompson, who is the treasurer of the organization, heading the list with $50, 000 each. TO RELEGATE SILYEH. Some Other Question to Be Made the Issue in the Coming Campaign. Washington, May 22. It is becoming apparent to politicians here that free silver will not be a prominent plank in the next Democratic platform. The party will "not forsake the doctrine, but will make it a secondary issue, giving prominence as the principal issue to op position to trusts or anti-imperialism, according to circumstances. It is point ed out that it will be absurd for the Democrats to go before the country at the next presidential election with free silver as the main issue. Should their candidate be elected on such a platform he would be helpless to influence free silver legislation, for the reason that the senate for the next six years is overwhelmingly in favor of a gold standard. 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Evenings 7 to 9. Sunday moraine from 10 to 12:30. Office 60S Kansas Avenue, Over Huh Clothing? Store. Chicago Medical Institute, Topeka, Kansas. sions improves during the next year to the extent of adding strength to the expansion policy of the administration, opposition to the trusts will be starred for first position on the Democratic programme and anti-expansion and free silver will be relegated to second and third places. At any rate, it is declared by many that all signs point to the abandonment of free silver as the car dinal principle of Democracy. WASHINGTON'S JUBILEE. Three Says and Nights of Festivities Beginning Tomorrow. Washington. May 22. Atlanta, Chi cago, and Philadelphia have had their peace Jubilees, but it has remained for Washington, the nation's capital, to await the signing and delivery of the treaty re-establishing peace between the United States and Spain before celebrating the victories of our army and navy over those of that monarchy, by which have been extended the as surance of liberty and enlightenment to millions of suffering peoples. This celebration so appropriate In ev ery way will take place May 23, 24 and 25. The army and navy will be repre sented by all the forces available, and the volunteer soldiery from all over the country will participate. Governors and their staffs from far off Oregon and Utah and nearby Delaware and Vir ginia will meet those of intervening and neighboring states, and for those three days the nation's capital will be the host, and a hospital one, of the nation's people. The opening day will be ushered in with a national salute from the guns at Fort Meyer, Washington Barracks, and the Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh. Dol phin and other naval vessels. At noon a salute po the Union of 45 guns will be fired, and at 2 o'clock there will be a parade of military and naval organiza tions, which will be reviewed by Presi dent McKinley, the members Fof his cabinet, the district commissioners and a host of the distinguished Americana from a reviewing stand occupying the center of a richly decorated court of honor which will occupy the plaza fronting the executive mansion, the state war and navy building, the treas ury building and the department of justice between Fifteenth and Seven teenth streets on Pennsylvania avenue. The decorations of this court of honor will be beautiful and the entrances to it artistic to a superlative degree. At night President McKinley will .hold a public reception at the White House, and upon the grounds south of the latter surrounding the monument erected to the Father of the Country which has grown so great, will be giv en a stupendous spectacular and aerial display by the Pain Fireworks com pany. The features of this display will be numerous and novel. Portraits of the president and famous heroes of the Spanish-American war will be shown: an American flag 300 feet long and 65 feet wide will be hung at an altitude of 1,000 feet by balloons and on an arti ficial lake now being constructed for the Duroose will be reproduced the stirring scenes of the victory of Ad miral Dewey in Manila Bay on May 1, a year ago. There will be concerts by the United States Marine band and Haley's Wash ington band, an equally effective or ganization at the capitol and the treas ury building, and they will be given both of the nights following. The second day, will be equally re plete with interesting features. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon there wll! be a parade of flower-decorated private equipages. People of wealth and leis- jemirigton Topeka, Kansas. 9th St., Kansas City, Mo. LAY IE FATAL CONSULT AT ONCE DRS. JOHNSTON WALSH, America's Greatest Specialists. Permanently Located in Topeka, Kansas Dr. H. Austin Johnston is a graduate of one of the finest Medical Universities la the world, and has had great experience in hospital and private. practice. Xr. Edward Walsh, formerly Chicago's leading specialist, is a graduate of Bush and .Bennett Medical Colleges, and was formerly President of St. Anthony's Hospital. 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 BY Charles W. Kolil, Ph. 0., PHARMACIST, 228 Kansas Ave., Topelca, Zas. I Price Sl.UU. W. R. WEIBLE, Carpenter. Repairing Promptly Attended to. 117 East 7 th St. Tela. 781 ure are preparing to make this event a most notable one, and it will probably surpass anything of the kind ever giv en in this country, and rival strongly the annual flower fete at Nice. Follow ing the floral parade will be a parade of civic organizations followed by flow er decorated conveyances, floral, patri otic, fraternal and tradesmen's tableau floats, business exhibits and public school children with floats showing the courses in manual training and domes tic pursuits. The spectacular and aerial fireworks at the monument grounda will be equally as novel as those of the night before, and upon the lake the de struction of Cervera's fleet will be re produced. The celebration will culminate on May 25 with memorable features. At 2 o'clock p. m., a historical pageant will move through the'Tity. There will be 13 divisions, each of which will be ap propriate to the epoch and the event which It Is intended to represent. One Fare For the round trip, via the Union Pa cific, to San Francisco, Cal., for Na tional Baptist societies' anniversaries. May 25, 1899. For dates on which tick ets will be sold, limits, and full informa tion, call on F. A. Lewis, city ticket agent, or J. C. Fulton, depot agent. We mend and sew on buttons frea. American Steam Laundry. Tele. 341. I A For Infants and CMldren. The Kind You Have Always Bought

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TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, MOXDAT EVENING, MAT 22, 1899. 3 RAILROAD NEWS. A Sale of Oakland Bonds to the Amount of 1,000,000 Is Made in Boston in Interest of the Santa Fe YAltD FACILITIES. More Room For the lload Into 'Frisco Desired. Traffic Manager Bissell Pro fesses Ignorance. San Francisco, May 22. The Exami ner says: A sale has been made In Boston of nearly the entire issue of bonds of the Oakland Transit company amounting to Jl.uoO.OOO, the transfer being made at about face value. The sale in itself is important, but is doubly so from the general belief that the transit company has been absorbed in the interests of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe rail road for terminal facilities in Oakland. The transit company controls all of the etreet car lines in Oakland except those on Pablo and Telegraph avenues. Dur ing the week ihe bonds have advanced nearly 20 points. The report that the Santa Fe railroad is interested in the Boston transfer is denied by Traffic Manager Bissell, who declares that the Santa Fe has no plans for entering Oakland at present, or in the near future. To Use the Weed Burner. The Santa Fe started out its patent weed burner from Topeka Saturday. Its first trip will be to the M. M. branch. "When this branch is finished, the burner will be taken to the Bazaar branch, next to the Strong City branch, then to the fc'alina and after that to the Barnard branches. The ground to be reached is mostly in pasture country. This burner was tried last year. It is used to des troy the growth of wild grass and weeds and saves hiring mowers. O'TOOLE IS IN TEXAS. Wife Returns to Fort Scott and Ad mits That He Is Not Dead, But Is in JaiL Fort Sontt. Kan., May 22 Mrs. Thomas O'Toole. wife of the patent medicine manufacturer who was re ported to have died of the smallpox in Texas, returned to Fort Scott yesterday and admitted that she knew that her husband was not dead, but claims she only learned this fact yesterday morn ing. Mrs. O'Toole now says she kept the dues on his life insurance paid up with out his knowledge and claims that neither she nor her husband had any intention of defrauding the fraternal orders to which he belonged. She denies having knowledge of the cause of her husband's action in having a telegram sent her stating that he had died and also states that she does not know what the charge is against him on account of which he is confined in jail in Texas. DIES RIDING A WHEEL. Newport Lawyer 13 Striken With Heart Disease. Newport, li. I., May 22. Charles lActcn Ives, a lawyer of this city, died of heart disease late yesterday after noon while riding a bicycle. He was coming down Lee avenue to Thames street, and when near the foot of the hill it was seen that he had lost control of his wheel. Immediately upon reaching Thames street he pitched headlong against the opposite curb stone, striking his head against a hy drant. He was dead when the body was picked up. Big Fire in Siberian Capital. Moscow, May 22. One-half of the city of Tobolsk, capital of the Siberian gov ernment of the same name, has been wiped out by fire. The loss will run into the rniliions. Tobolsk, which is a town of 21.000 inhabitants, was formerly an administrative center for Siberian exiles. "We" and Our Tour Economic" is the title of a very charming and en tertainingly written story which has just been issued in book form by the passenger department of the Lake Shore fe Michigan Southern railway. The in tending summer tourist will find it not only interesting but instructive. It will be sent free to any address on appli cation to F. M. Byron. G. W. A.. Chi cago, or B. p. Humohrev. T. P. A., Kansas City, Mo., or A. J. Smith, O. P. A., Cleveland. Ordered to Idaho. Omaha. May 20. Two troops of the First cavalry. A and L, now stationed at Fort Robinson, Neb., have been or dered to Wallace, Idaho, pursuant to a request of Gen. Merriam. Thev are loading today and the expected to get away tonight. I consider it not only a pleasure but a duty I owe to my neighbors to tell about the wonderful cure effected in my case by the timely use of Chamber lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I was taken very badly with flux and procured a bottle of this rem edy. A few doses of it effected a per manent cure. I take pleasure in rec ommending it to others suffering from that dreadful disease. J. W. Lvnch, Dorr. v. Va. This remedy is soid by all druggists. If your watch ever kept time It will cu it again, if you have it fixed at Campbell s, 625 Kansas avenue. JisThis Picture tells a story that thousands of women will re cognizea story ot monthly sul ferinir iust be- fore and story of aches, darting pains, torture in back, head, limbs and abdomen. BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR will cure these sufferers regulate their menses and drive out all "fe male troubles." Druggists sell it for $1 a bottle. THE BRAD FIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlfint, S. SOT ALLOWED TO SHINE. Black Diamond Ejected From Garfield Park. There was excitement at Garfield park Sunday not announced on the pro gramme. 'Black Diamond," the negro with the very large mouth, silk hat and check ered trousers and who puts four billiard balls, cigar boxes and other equally dainty articles into his mouth, was on hand to give an impromptu exhibition. A week ago he amused the crowd with his feats of expansion and incidentally did a cake walk. The officials of the band did not approve of the exhibition and when he commenced to unpack his email telescope Sunday and make ready for the "big show," the officials of the band objected. Someone must put him out. The band did not want any counter attrac tion, but who would do it? Nobody wanted to. They might be swallowed. Finally one bandman volunteered and Informed Mr. "Black Diamond" that he must leave. Mr. B. Diamond refused. A crowd gathered. The question was argued and at last, after the concert had been delayed. Mr. Diamond con sented to go outside the park to give his exhibition. He invited the crowd to follow and quite A number went. Then the concert programme was resumed. HAULEM TRACK RUINED. Fire Breaks Out in the Grand Stand Incendiarism Suspected. Chicago, May 22. The Harlem race track was almost completely destroyed by fire early today. Flames broke out in the grandstand shortly before 3 o'clock and they soon spread to the stables where between 30 and 40 horses were quartered in readiness for the I Decoration Day meet, which was to have marked the formal opening of the track for the season. The Cicero fire department was the only force on hand to cope with the ffsmes. Incendiarism is given as the origin of the tire and this theory is em phasized by the recent destruction of the Roby track under mysterious cir cumstances. Most of the horses at the Harlem track were rescued. The track is owned by a party of Chicagoans of which Richard Fitzger ald is at the head. The buildings on the track were valued at $60,000. ONLY ONE SATED. Spanish Cruiser Reina Mercedes Drops Anchor in Hampton Roads. Newport News. Va., May 22. The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes arrived in Hampton Roads yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in tow of the Merritt Wrecking company's tugs I. 'J. Merritt and Rescue and accompanied by the steamer S. T. Morgan. She is now at anchor two miles off Old Point Com fort, where she will be held in quaran tine for five days. National Quarantine Officer Pettus boarded the vessel in the afternoon, but no one from the cruiser has come ashore. It was not deemed necessary to detain the cruiser at Fish erman's island. Large crowds from Newport News. Norfolk and Hampton w ent to Old Point to see the cruiser and hundreds went out to the vessel in 1 launches. Excursion rates will be made bv local transportation companies which w"ill attract thousands of visitors to Old Point while the vessel is there. The i ivierceues lerc c?annago a ween, agu nu reached Hampton itoaas mucn sooner than was expected. When she is re leased from quarantine she will go to Portsmouth navy yard for repairs. LOUIE FELTS BRA YERY. Young Man Stops a Runaway Team Under Difficulties. Just as the crowd was leaving the band concert Sunday, and while the avenue was crowded with carriages on their way home, a team hitched to a trap containing four people and driven by Roger Van Hook was frightened by another team and ran away. The horses ran south on Kansas ave nue, barely missing other vehicles as they went. They turned across the street car track and Van Hook was thrown over the dashboard and between the horses. He hung on to the reins and was dragged several feet before he was forced to let go. Louie Felt was in the rear seat. He climbed over to the front seat and out on the singletrees of the trap, secured the reins and climbed back. The two young ladies. Miss Bertie Griffith and Miss Grace Lemon, helped him in pulling on the reins, and as the fire station was reached the team was under control. Mr. Van Hook was not seriously hurt, but was cut on the shoulder by the horse's heels striking him. INSULT TO WILMINGTON. Has Been Made the Subject of Repre sentations to Brazil. New York, May 22. A Herald spec ial from Washington says: Commercial jealousies between the cities on the river Ambon are responsi ble for the insults offered the gunboat Wilmington and the stoning of the American consulate at Manoas by a Brazilian mob. Reports received by the state and navy departments present, the facts which have been made the basis of proper representation to the Brazilian government. No doubt is felt in official circles that the Brazilian government will make a prompt investigation of the discourtesy offered to the Wilmington and that speedy action will be taken. The auth orities sincerely regret that the inci dent should have arisen because of the undoubted friendship of the Brazilian government for the I'nited States and they are satisfied that all proper amends will be made. ADMIRE MISS LEITER. The Young Woman's Accomplishments as a Whip Are the Wonder of All Who See. Simla, India, May 22. Miss Daisy Leiter's accomplishments as a whip are the admiration of Simla. The driving accommodations on the steep hillside roads hereabouts are very limited, and it requires, high proficiency to tool a pair around their sharp curves. No one is allowed to drive in Simla except the viceroy and the commander-in-chief, but Miss Daisy is accorded the priv ilege in view of her relationship to the vicereine. Ladv Curzon is to lighten up the staid official atmosphere of Simla by holding a. drawing room. This is a complete innovation, which has been received with delight by the ladies at this viceregal summer retreat. Lord Curzon's staff has sent home for a pack of fox hounds to hunt next sea son. Altogether the Curzons are making Simla a very different place from what It was under the preceding viceroys. COLUMBUS, OHIO, And Return, $22.00, Via the Santa Fe Tickets on sale June 1, 2-4; limited June 16 on account National Medical association. See T. King, agent, for particulars- WORSE THAN SALOONS. Cigarettes Are Declared Responsible For Many Youthful Criminals. Cincinnati, May 22. The 26th national conference of charities and corrections, which began here last Wednesday, will close tomorrow night. Ir. H. C. Rutter, superintendent of the Ohio asylum for ep ileptics at Oallipolis, opened the general session today with an address on "Expert Testimony in Insanitv Trials." I. F. Mack, editor of the Sandusky register and trustee of Ohio institutions, delivered an address on "What Shall We Do With the Insane?" A general discussion on Insanity follow ed. The section on organization of charity, the discussion on loan agencies, chattel mortgages, pawnshops, installment buy ing, etc., was opened by Miss Mary i. Birtwell of Cambridge. Mass., Prof. W. R. Patterson of Iowa City and Alfred Crozier of Grand Rapids. "Finances and Charitable Agencies" was discussed by Frank Tucker of New Tork, John M. Glenn of Baltimore, Robert W. Hebberd of Albany and others. The sections on county and municipal charities and insanity, in joint session, heard a paper from F. S. Sanborn of Con cord. Mass., read by Chairman J. P. By era on "The Relation of Local and County Authorities of the State in Regard to the Custody and Care of the Insane." A gen eral discussion followed. The section on organization of charity discussed a paper from Dr. Jules Morel of Belgium on "The After Care of the In sane." Dr. Morel is an honorary member of the American association. He was un able to attend the conference this year and sent his paper. The section on re formatories and industrial schools was addressed by George Torrence of Pontiac, III., superintendent of the Illinois state reformatory. "On the Relation of the Cig arette to Crime." After recking hiji ex perience with boys coming to his institu tion, Mr. Torrence said: 'I am sure cigraettes are destroving and making criminals of more of them than the saloons. 'In my reformatory now there are 2TS boys, among 63 of whom averaging 12 years of age, there are 5S cigarette sThok ers. Of VAX, averaging 14 years of age, 125 are cigarette smokers. Of 82. aver aging 15 years, 73 are cigarette smokers. This demonstrates that &2 per cent of the whole number were cigarette fiends at the time of committing crimes for which they were committed to the reformatory." The general discussion developed a sim ilar experience with others connected with, reformatories for boys. ECCENTRIC GIVER. Frenchman Gives All His Property to Aid Students in Agriculture. Charles Silly is a Frenchman who came to Kansas in 1874, about the time De Boissiere founded the Silkville farm, now known as the I. O. O. F. Orphans' home. He owned about 240 acres of fine, well improved land in Franklin and Coffey counties, valued by him at $5,000. He was somewhat eccentric, living' a solitary life, and cpring for no one's society. He was always at home, ex cept when he went for the mail or to make purchases. His only associates were his three horses and two cats. He never sat for a photograph. He had money in the bank, more property in France than in America, and he was especially noted for attend ing to his own affairs and making ail promises good. He had no use for the scheming ways of the American Yan kee. About noon of the 1st of April he sent a neighbor's boy to ask F. L. Wil liams, manager of the Buckeye agency, Agricola. Kan., to come over, as he wished to see him. The Silly farms join the Williams farm on the north and west. The dwellings are about eighty rods apart. Silly and Williams were not intimate, as Mr. Williams never called on his twelve times in his life. He, Williams, found his neighbor suf fering from rheumatism, and called a Waverly doctor by wire. On the 5th of April he took Mr. Silly to the Beth any hospital at Kansas City. Kan., where he remained three weeks till cured, and then he left for California, where he will purchase a small home in a more suitable climate. He gave all his property in America, except the buried treasures, to F. L. Williams, in trust for worthy white male students to aid them in securing an education at the state agricultural college at Manhattan, Kan. Mr. Silly said: "It isn't much, but it will help a little, and I think the bovs will make better citizens if they can go to school at the agricultural college." He knew that Mr. Williams borrowed money in 1882 to attend the National Normal university at Lebanon, Ohio, for ten weeks, and that he was bor rowing money to aid a friend while at tending the agricultural college at Man hattan, Kan. When Mr. Williams asked the ques tion if he. Silly, understood that Wil liams would have the power to act the rascal, he replied: "Yes, but I do not think you will. You have worked hard, attended to your own business, and I have full confidence in you. I often see a light in your window as late as 10 or 12 o'clock at night when you are attending to your correspondence." "The plan is to aid those who actually need the help and who could hardly get it elsewhere. It is to be hoped that all who are helped by the fund will live such lives as are worthy of the aid. The buried treasures consisted of two gold watches costing over $100 each; fine gold chain, gold-lined silver box, which comes from the Castalinne fam ily, value over $100; some gold earrings, rings and quite a number of 10 and 20 franc pieces in gold coin. As to their disposition, he said to Mr. Williams: "These you dig up and have them for yourself." They were buried in a glass case. 21 Meals $3.25. Hotel Oxford and Restaurant. FRANK LONG, Manager. K. L. WILLIAMS. SUES DRESSER FOR 25,000 Martin White Wants Some ol the Profits of "On the Banks of the Wabash" and Other Songs. Chicago, May 22. Martin White of the Martin White detective agency has begun a. suit for $25,000 in the superior court against Paul Dresser, composer of "On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away" and other popular songs for the recovery of money alleged to be due him on a con tract. Several years ago. when Dresser had received neither prominence in his line nor property he agreed to give White half the receipts from any songs iie might publish in return for financial aid given him then. It is charge in Mr. White's bill that Mr. Dreser has realized between $2UO,000 and $300,000 from the publication of his many songs, and to have failed to render account to White according to the contract. Service was had on Mr. Dresser at the Auditorium hotel, where he has been for some time. Mr. Dresser said last night: "I did make that contract with Martin White twelve or more years ago, when I needed some money to get a start. "The Letter That Never Came. my first song, netted me scarcely anything, as I was robbed of my legitimate profits. Then I came to Chi cago, and Martin White helped me by paying $40 for the first 1.000 copies of the song, 'I Uelieve It, for My Mother Told Me So. Altogether he advanced me about $100. and to my certain knowledge he got between $5,000 and $t,000 from it, several times more than I got. "Next I wote a couple of songs that didn't take. Then Martin, who was will ing to put up when he was getting sev eral thousand per cent profits, suggested it would be better for me to go to New York and get someone there to publish them on royalty. I said to him he was backing out of his contract, but he did not put up any more money. Now, after ail these years, when some of my later songs, such as 'On the aBnks of the Wa bash' and Just Tell Them That You Saw Me.' are big successes, and when he thinks I have money To burn. White tries to hold me up. That is what it is. Well, I'll give him the biggest kind of a fight. But I haven't any money for him to get. I have been a good liver, and it is gone." WHY AST0R LEFT. William Waldorf's Seasons Por "Abandoning America." New York, May 22. William Waldorf A st or, in a biographical sketch on his great grandfather, which has just appear ed in the Pall Mall Gazette, tells why he "abandoned America." He says: "In America my great grand father's life and character have been dis torted and caricatured until only an odd travesty survives. By the press in par ticular, with the exception of a few seri ous journals, he has been continually de rided and reviled with that spirit of pure malignity which pursues the successful man. It is not democratic to climb so high. I remember when I was a lad hearing my father say to some of the more virulent of these attacks, 'It is enough to make one want to abandon such a country.' Mr. Vanderbilt evidently cherishes the most material views possible of wealth. He denies that there was ever any semi sentimental traditions in the Astor fam ily against the selling of its landed pos sessions. "So silly and narrow-minded a rule," he says, "could only be imagined by very silly and narrow-minded people." JlUHLBACIIEIi SALE ENDED. Sixty Thousand Francs Paid by M. Wildenstein For a Small Ivory. Paris. May 22. The Muhlbaeher sale was concluded with the dispersal of miniatures, which sold well. The sensation of the day was the price of 60,000 francs paid by M. Wildenstein for a rectangular miniature on ivory by Pierre Adolphe Hall, representing- a young woman on a balustrade, with landscape In the background. Its dimensions are (;-s inches by 5'4. in frame of the period. The other pood prices, all for miniatures on ivory, were: "Portrait of a Lady," "bv Laorcince, bought by Baron Dettheil, 14,500 franchs. "Potrait of a Boy." by Krangonard, bought by Baron Dettheil, 14."i00 francs. "Le Bain," by Raudoin, 10,100 francs. "Portrait of a Bov." bv Frangonard, 10.R50 francs, and another 9.000 francs. Two small marble- groups, busts only, Houdon. "Le Batscr Bonne" and "Le Baiser Recu." 61.000 francs. The grand total of the sale is 1.726.7O0 francs, which, it is estimated, is 50 per cent above what M. Muuhlbacher paid for the collection. FROM A 50-YEAR SLEEP. Veteran of Mexican War Recovers Consciousness Through Accident. Columbus. O.. May 22. The story of Rip Van Winkle was outdone today, accord ing to a special from F'ostoria. Fifty three years ago Matthias Steingruber.then a soldier in the Mexican war, was found wounded in the head on the battlefield. He recovered, but his mind was so af fected that he seemed to have no sense of the lapse of time. To himself he re mained just as he was then, almost 21 years old. and kept saying he was going to vote for General Kxilor for president at the next election. While helping to saw wood on his nephew's farm today he was struck by a flying piece of wood and knocked sense less. When he recovered he seemed to wake from a sleep and realized his true condition and surroundings for the first time since he was wounded in Mexico. Told of the wonderful inventions in re cent years and the resulting conveniences to life, which he could not appreciate or understand before, he said: "Well. 1 guess this world has got too far ahead of me to catch up." LEAVING TOWN. Disorderly Resorts Ars Being Closed and Inmates Leave the City. "I have received orders from Mayor Drew to close the disorderly houses and force the inmates to leave town," said Chief of Police James Ramsey, "and 1 am carrying: out those orders as fast as possible. "I think that at least one-fourth of all the disorderly women have left town and more are going. Two left town yesterday and more have promised to go. The disorderly houses are pretty well closed up and evidence is being secured against others. It takes time to do all this and the end can not be accomplished at once. Those whcTper sist in running are being fined and will be forced to go." TO LET THE HOUSES REST. Orphans' Home Superintendent Makes a Minister Walk Atchison, May 22. Rev. W. IT. H. Young, the new superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' home, is not having very smooth sailing. Rev. W. S. Priest, pastor of the Atchison Christian church, is chaplain of the institution, and it has been a practice of the management of the home to send the hack after the chaplain on Sunday. This practice was discontinued after Rev. Mr. Young as sumed control. lie said the horses needed rest and conducted the service himself. The Christian minister has since walked out to the home, and also conducted services. Edward Snyder, a member of the state board of charities, was in Atchi son today, and it is understood that his visit will result in home hack being sent for the Christian minister as usual. Sears the B !ntl You Hat9 lways BoUgM Bear, tiw 1,18 K'"d Hava Alwas Bought Signature T Bear the I Kind You Have Always Bougtf Signature of HOME PRODUCTION. School Books by Kansas Authors Be ing Adopted. The state text book commission has adopted two books by Kansas authors. One is Noble Prentis history and the other a primer written and arranged by Miss Lizzie E. Wooster. The author ofNthis primer is a Topeka woman, 'who is recognized as an author ity on primary education. She was for eight years connected with the public schools at Salina and the Salina Nor mal university, and gained an enviable reputation for inventing advanced methods of instructing little folks. Her methods met with such favor among the teachers who became acquainted with them that she was called upon to establish the teachers' training depart ment in the Oklahoma Normal school at Edmond, O. T., and also to do spec ial work in the schools of Kansas City, Mo. In one summer she spoke in thir- -if: MISS LIZZIE E. WOOSTER. ty-six institutes. A year ago she came to Topeka to work on her books, and has since resided here. This primer is not Miss "Wooster's first publication. She has already given to the teachers' profession a reading chart and a set of reading cards which are in use in many public schools. She also has two other books in preparation. Miss Wooster has done considerable literary work aside from that along ed ucational lines. She has written and reviewed manuscripts for a. New York publication, and also corrected and graded school book manuscripts for Chicago publishing houses. The Wooster primer combines with reading the studies of writing, lan guage, arithmetic and drawing. It car ries kindergarten work a step higher. There are colored plates in the baok which add greatly to the interest of the little folks and assist in fixing the les sons in their memories. It is purely a home production, for the illustrations were made by George M. Stone, a To peka artist. GUNS BOOM; MEN CHEER Stirring Scenes Attend Dewey's Good-Bye to Bis Fleet. Manila, May 22. It was a magnificent scene in Manila harbor when the Olympia, with Admiral Dewey onboard, started on the long voyage home. Just as the Olympia started her jackies scrambled up the rigging, manning the yards and presenting a spectacle that made the blood tingle. As the Olympia passed the cruiser Baltimore, whose jackies were cheering frantically, an Admiral's salute was fired by the British cruiser Powerful, one of the largest of her class in the world, which was anchored just be yond. As the Olympia. with her homeward bound pennant flying rora the peak of the mainmast and her biggest ensign fluttering, passed the Powerful, the men of the Britisher manned the sides and cheered lustily while her band played the national anthem. Soon the ponder ous Oregon was passed. The crew's band of the battleship played "Home, Sweet Home," while the guns belched out the salute. With the crews of the Oregon and Olympia both cheering wildly the band plaj'ed a Sousa march, and as theOlym pia crept away the musicians struck up "Auld Lang Syne." At 10 o'clock Admiral Dewey returned the call paid him earlier in the morning by Gen. Otis, and while he was in Ma nila many friends took advantage of his presence to visit him and extend their best wishes for a pleasant voyage home. The weather all day had been excep tionally beautiful, the atmosphere be ing radiantly clear and bright. Early in the afternoon the Admiral returned to the Olympia, and at 4 o'clock, the hour previously set for sailing, the voyage for home was be gun. Before sailing Admiral Dewey said: "Now that I am going home after my 13 months here, this day is indeed a happy one for me. "When I reach home I shall go first to my brother's home at Montpelier, Vt.. where I was born and raised, and where I will be able to thoroughly rest. "I am sorry that I could not go direct to San Francisco and cross the con tinent, but I did not feel equal to the strain that such a journey would mean. If I were 20 years younger and had po litical ambition I would not miss that chance." Speaking of the situation. Admiral Dewey said: "I believe we are near the end. The insurgents are fast going to pieces. The sending of a third commis sion shows that they believe this com mission means business." National Baptist Societies Anniver saries, Portland, Ore., June i-5, 1899. One fare plus $2.00 for round trip via fnion Pacific. For dates on which tickets will be sold, limits, and full in formation, call on F. A. Lewis, city tick et agent, or J. C. Fulton, depot agent. An Epidemic of Whooping Cough Last winter during an epidemic of whooping cough my children contract ed the disease, having severe coughing spells. We had used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy very successfully for croup and naturally turned to it at that time and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure. John E. Clifford. Proprietor Norwood House! Norwood, N. Y. This remedy is for sale by all druggists. $32,50. $32.50. The above greatly reduced rate has been made by the Union Pacific to Cali fornia points. Through tourist sleepers, quicker time than any other line. For tickets and full information call on F. A. Lewis, city ticket agent, or J. C. Fulton, depot agent. No better equipped shop nor finer watchmakers than at Campbell's. 623 Kansas avenue. C-4 f VAjrvr 'ti SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The river is rising rapidly. Governor Stanley spent Sunday in "Wich ita. This is the last week of the Topeka schools. Chief Wilmarth has a new horse that he drives to his wagon. The heaviest rain of the season visited Topeka Saturday night. Gaitha Page has been electefl to fill a vacancy at Buchanan school. Captain O. H. Coulter will deliver the Memorial day address at Wellington. L. T. Gage has been chosen bv the school board to take the school census. It has been almost impossible to buy a good tennis racquet in Topeka this spring. Ex-County Treasurer Stahl says the corn southeast of the city is looking fine. The state house century plants, minus the lard buckets, have been brought out. Representative Charles Harris of Em poria has returned home after a visit in Topeka. Rev. "W. L. Hinshaw of Sterling filled the pulpit at the United Bethren church Sunday. Dr. George H. Gilbert of Chicago preach ed at the First Congregational church yesterday. There is an unsatisfied demand for seats for the Bostonians tonight at the Craw ford theater. Photograph buttons of Dan Godfrey, the British Guards band, are being worn by music lovers. The switchboard at the city railway car barn was burned out by lightning Satur day afternoon. The street cleaners are donning their white suits, but it is rather cool for them early in the mornings. The Phoneix Herald says "Funston's Furious Fighters" are even better than "Roosevelt's Rough Riders." Charles Foulks of Topeka, who is now in Emporia, expects to go to Houston, Tex., next month to work. Blind Boone, who gives a concert in To peka this week, attended church at St. John's A. M. E. church Sunday. The home of August Bjorklund, on Third and Branner streets, was struck by light ning Saturday, but no one was hurt. The Kaw is up higher than it has been before this year, and some men and boys are putting in their time catching drift wood. Next Saturday afternoon at Athletic park the state house and newspaper base ball teams will settle the question of su periority. Driver McLaughlin of the chemical en gine at headquarters hitched his team and made the run to the fire Saturday night alone. He was the first to arrive. The Topeka young men who are grad uates of the state university will go to Lawrence during commencement week and play a game of ball with the present university team. A Topeka man who was caught out in the hardest of the rain Saturday night thinks it never rained so hard before since the days of Noah's flood, and he has doubts about that time. A Topeka girl has invented another im itation of the silk skirt rustle. She sews newspapers up in the linings of her skirts, and the imitation rustle cannot be told from the real thing, except by experts. Terry Stafford went up the river against the heavy current in his gasoline launch Sunday and then came back at the rate of 12 miles an hour. That is sport if you have gasoline instead of elbow grease to take you up the river in the first place. A crowd of young girls went picnicking to Garfield park Saturday afternoon, not withstanding the rain. Of course they got soaked, but that just added to the fun of the thing, as long as they called it a picnic. Housekeepers are on the verge of dis traction these days. Cottonwood trees are shedding and it is impossible to keep the flying cotton out of the houses. Cot tonwood trees ought to be kept out of the city. With election nearly six months off there are already ten active candidates in the field for county offices in Wichita county, which has a population of only a little over a thousand people. This is the county State Treasurer Grimes started from. Sunday was a front porch day. The air was just right to keep people out of doors,, and those who didn't have a horse and buggy, or who thought it wicked to go buggy-riding on Sunday, sat on the front porch and watched other people go by. On the concert programme of Marshall's band, Godfrey's English band is advertised as "the greatest band in the world," The Topeka people will have to be shown, for Topeka people think that no-bod v but Sousa and his band can lay claim to that title. There will be no street lights in Topeka for the next two weeks while new founda tions are being laid under the dynamos and other repairs are being made. There will be bright moonlight most of the time, however, so that the lights will not be missed as much as they otherwise would. One-third of the lights have ben shut down for six weeks past, but they will all be started again as soon as the new boiler i in the plant. MANY NEW HOUSES. Some of Those Now in Course of Con struction. New houses are being- built In all parts of the town and carpenters and contractors are busy. Following: are some of those who are erecting new houses: Alonzo Irish, four room cottage at Seventh and Law rence streets. J. H. Clark, four room cottage at Third and Lake streets. H. D. Sheafor, house at Seventh and Lawrence streets. J. M. Bentley, six room cottage at Eighteenth and Clay streets. George L. Seeley, six room cottage at Eighteenth and Clay streets. C. P. Schaefor, six room cottage in Long's addition. J. H. Swanson, seven room cottage at 413 Taylor street. W. E. Atchison, four room cottage in Ritchie's addition. Robert Ford, two four room cottages on North Ash street. L. M. Jones, nine room dwelling at Topeka avenue and Fourteenth street. V. E. Trapp. a six room dwelling at Eighth and Fillmore streets. L. S. Ferry, residence at -Fifteenth street and Topeka avenue. PEFFEK WAS CORRECT. This Year's Gold Output Will Reach Over $340,000,000. "Washington, May 22. Ex-United States Senator Peffer's statement that the mines are prolific, there is an abundance of gold, is confirmed by Di rector of the Mint Roberts, whose ad vice indicates that the production of gold for 1899 will reach $340,000,000. Of ficial figures for 1898 show an increase of $50,000,000 over the 1S97 total, which was J234.504.S00. Predictions are made that the year 1S00 will see the gold production reach the stupendous figure of $400,000,000. Of this about $65,000,000 will he required for the arts, leaving $335,000,000 avail able for use as money. The gold production of 1S96 was $202, 6S2.30O. of which about $138,000,000 was available for monetary uses, and the silver production was $217,442,900, at the coining 'value of which about $175,000, 000 was available for monetary use. The amount of both metals available at that time, therefore, if the mints of the world generally had been opened to free coinage of silver, was about $313,000,000. AUTOMOBILES FOR GREELT Signal Officers Will Use Them in Testing Wireless Telegraphy. Washington. May 22. Gen. Greely, chief signal officer of the L'nited States army, is negotiating for three electric automobile field wagons to be used in connection with experiments with wire less telegraphy in the field. To render the use of wireless tel- VERY WORST KIND. A -Backache That Caused the Greatest Suffering. A Certain Cause Which Also Has a Certain Cure, as Proven by Experience. We ask you to believe what .we say about Morrow's Kid-ne-oids because we publish only facts.- We are honest in all pur statements and we prove our claims by respectable people. Mr. G. W. Ayers adds his testimony in favor of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids as follows: G. W. Ayers, 1030 Kansas Ave., North, Topeka, Kansas, says: "1 have been afflicted with kidney complaint for the past fifteen years. Backache, rheuma tism, urinary disturbances and nerv ousness are some of the symptoms which pained, annoyed and -disturbed me the most. I used a package of Mor row's Kid-ne-oids and it gave me great relief. I will continue to use Kid-ne-oids with the assurance of a complete and permanent cure." Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills, but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box at all drug stores and at Swift Holliday's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac tured by John Morrow Co., Chemists, Springfield, Ohio. egraphy more valuable to an army in, the field. Gen. Greely regards it as es sential that ready means of transpor tation be employed. But the practical use of this kind of vehicle will be dem onstrated while the value of the wire less system is being tested. Wagons with a capacity of 800 pounds each hava been advertised for. Should they not be found suited for the purpose now contemplated other use will be made of them by the signal corps NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT ST. LOUIS. Score by Innings: St. Louis 0 1 1 00000 2-4 New York 0 0021005 0 S Batteries St. Louis, Young and Criger; New York, Seymour and Gradv. Second game, called on account of dark ness Score by innings: St. Louis 0 4 2 3 09 New York 2 0 0 0 35 Batteries St. Louis. Powell and Criger; New York, Doheny and Grady. AT CHICAGO. Score by innings: Chicago 4 1010000 8 Baltimore 1 0000000 01 Batteries Chicago, Katoll and Donahue; Baltimore, McGinnity and Cresham. AT LOUISVILLE. Score by innings: Louisville 0 001 2000 0 S Cleveland 2 0 0 0 8 0 2 0 04 Batteries Louisville. Phillippi and Xitt redge; Cleveland, Hughey and Sugden. AT CINCINNATI. Score bv innings: Cincinnati 0 2000000 02 Brooklyn 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 s Batteries Cincinnati. Phillips and Wood; Brooklyn, Hughes and Farrell. WESTERN LEAGUE. AT KANSAS CITY. Score by innings: Kansas City 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 Indianapolis 2 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 010 Batteries Kansas City. Gear and Kyle; Indianapolis, Newton and Kahoe. AT MILWAUKEE. Score by innings: It TT E Milwaukee 1 2000000 01 4 4 Detroit II 0 U 1 0 4 0 0 0 5 8 2 Batteries Hart and Spencer; Cronln and Ryan. AT ST. PAUL. Score by innings: R. IT. E. St. Paul 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 s 12 5 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 35 7 4 Batteries McGill and Spies; Gray and McAuley. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Score by innings: R. H. E. Minneapolis ...:...0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 5 11 S Columbus 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2-i 10 3 Batteries McNeely and Kisher: Jones and Buckley. WOMAN TURNED RLACK. Miss Nellie Evans Says the Medicine Ot. Horton Administered Ruined Her Appearance. New Haven, Conn., May 22. Dr. Wil liam Horton, a well known sportsman, and yacht owner of this city, was to day sued by Miss Nellie M. Evans of Bristol for alleged malpractice. Miss Evans declared that the medicine Hor ton gave her caused her to turn black from head to foot, her teeth to rot andi her hair to fall out. She thinks that she was treated with a dangerous com pound of mercury. She says she re mained under treatment by Dr. Hor ton about two weeks. At the end of the time, she says, she was in such a ter rible condition that she went to the Massachusetts general hospital, where she has improved, but she asserts that she still is in a pitiable state. She is 25 years old, and was formerly regarded as one of the handsomest women in Bristol. Dr. Horton's yacht, "The Norman die," has been attached to cover the claim. -It is worth about $12,000. Dr. Horton is out of town, but is expected) home tomorrow. CONSCIENCE PAYMENT. Oregon Man Sends Money Which He Found Six Years Ago to the Owner. Wabash, Ind., May 22. A singular in stance of a quickened conscience is re lated by Mrs. John G. Smith of Koaim, this county. While returning from the World's fair in 1893 she left her pocketbook contain ing $17 and a certificate of deposit in a seat in an Erie railroad train. She never obtained a trace of it until to day, when she got a draft for the money, with six years interest, from. Richard Remmel of Salem. Ore., who explained that he had found the prop erty and kept it until his troubled con science induced him to return it. The certificate was never cashed. r HI Sold by Druggists. RADWAY CO., New York. Radway's Ready Rellpf lnstanly relieves and soon cures Coldx, Coughs, Sora Throat, "The Grip." Influenza, Bronchitis. Pneumonia. Swelling of the Joints, Lum bago, Inflammations. Congestions. Rheu matism, Neuralgia. Chilblains, Headache, Toothache. Asthma. Cures the worst pains in from one to twenty minutes. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF No matter how violent or excruciating the pain the Rheumatic, Bedridden. In firm, Crippled. Nervous. Neuralgic, or prostrated with disease may sutler. Rad way's Ready Relief will afford instanC ease. Fifty cents a bottle. Sold by all drug, gists. Be Sure to Get "Radway's."

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TOPER A STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 22 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK PMAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXVI No. 120 rr-T.'DMC! IU SfTfSfRIPTTON. Tailv edition, delivered by carrier. 10 rents. 'a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any ryn sas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mail, one year 2JI T v m;l thrpn months. -?y Weekly edition, one year 50 PKRMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building. W and 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICK. Temple Court Bidg., A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Building. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office gell igbrme 1"7 Reporters' Room Bell Phone 0.7 Atchison Globe: If Kansas City gets Fred Funston away from Topeka, it will be a plain case of kidnapping. Gen. Lawton appears to be the Te cumseh Sherman of the Philippine cam jaign. Gen. Lawton is gradually winning a place in public attention just by sheer hard fighting. Mr. Quay declined to become a can didate for state treasurer. Evidently he prefers to handle the funds from a distance and without giving: bond. Mr. Carnegie is a notable exponent of the brotherhood of man idea in one respect. He gives freely of his sub stance both in England and America. In namins his three boys Dewey, Sampson and Schley that New York parent appears to have laid the founda tion for future trouble between two of them. The Indianapolis News suggests that Mr. Terkes, the Chicago street car magnate who sold out for J15.O0O.OOO and is going to New York to live, will be eligible to admission into the 400, from the fact that he has been divorced and married agan. Th.'i t nothing is so small as not to be susceptible of division was demonstrated at Kansas City recently when the middle-of-the-road Populists again split, part of them repudiating the Barker Donnelly ticket which the party had nominated at Cincinnati. The English and the American appear to have secured control of the czar's peace congress and the deliberations will be along the line of international arbitration with disarmament rele gated to the back ground. The prospect of accomplishing something is thereby greatly enhanced. After all it is not Improbable that Admiral Dewey will refuse to live in that house which is to be built for him in "Washington. He is not a piece of public property to be located like an old cannon. He has a home and friends in Vermont and will no doubt choose to spend his declining years amid the scenes of his youth. Walnut Valley Times: Topeka is get ting ready to splurge when the Twen tieth Kansas returns home. That's right, give the boys the glad hand and all the plaudits they deserve, which will keep the people yelling for some days. Topeka is the proper place to receive the Twentieth, where they were mustered in and are to be mus tered out. TOPEKA'S GROWTH. The returns of the city assessor con vey the gratifying confirmation of To peka's progress. For several months people have known that the city was enjoying an era of prosperity but the information was general and lacked official promulgation. An Increase of 4.000 in population dur ing a single year is little less than phe nomenal when it is considered that the growth is healthy and permanent. There is no boom in Topeka. What the city has will not be lost by a backward turn of the wheels of progress. The capital city is the best town in Kansas and always will be. Its natural advantages are not excelled and no city in the United States has more beautiful streets or a better class of in habitants. Kansas people are slowly learning the lesson of home patronage and the time has gone when people con sidered it necessary to go to Missouri for everything needed even in the way of entertainment. Kansas has refused to enrich Kansas City by patronizing her "fall festivities" and the result was apparent the fes tivities are a failure. Topeka can furnish Kansas all that is needed. Topeka will continue to grow and will always be the best city in the best state in the universe. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Chaperons never go where they are needed. Drift: It Is just as pleasant down the river as up. When you hear fools abused, take some of it -to yourself. The smaller the town, the less kindly its people take to frills in a singer. It is not creditable for any girl to friave several young men "on the string." An Atchison man is looking for a piece of property for his father-in-law to purchase for him. It is awfully hard to admit the good looks and talent of some other man in your line of business. A woman is never so proud as when praise of her new spring hat leads her to confess that it is an old one she trimmed over. When two women meet on the streets, and talk a long time, it is a sign that one is telling the other how come man has been acting. The secret of an Atchison man's suc cess with the ladies Is out. Whenever he meets one he has not seen for sev eral days, he asks her if she hasn't been out of town. Women so love to be missed. No man can talk in a discouraged and despondent tone when he is eat ing. The next time you hear a man talk "blue," don't try words of en couragement; try pie. We say a good deal about the controlling influence of the heart, the soul, and the mind, but the stomach is more important. Some men never get drunk except when they go to a large town, but an Atchison man gives a very good reason for staying sober upon such an occa sion, and getting drunk at home. He says that you can have fun in a big town sober, but you can't have fun in a little town unless you are drunk. It is a wonder that some men do not wear out their hope. Within a year, a certain Atchison man has invested in four different schemes, all of which promised to make him rich. He be lieved that each one would make him rich, and now he is interested in the fifth, the other four having failed. Of course he has neglected his business, which would be very profitable if at tended to, to fool with these schemes. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. The only thing on earth that doesn't care whether it is laughed at or not ia Love. One of the queer things is how much unmarried men know about feminine lingerie and girls about babies. The harder a girl tries to marry a man the surer he is that he wants to marry some girl who won't have him. Children's questions aren't nearly so embarrassing as some of the ones that grownup people don't ask, but only think. After a man has caught his train with several minutes to spare, he knows how the engaged fellow feels, who wonders why he chased her so fast. MANILA WELL LIGHTED. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One of the first things noticed by American naval officers in the city of Manila was the excellence of the street lighting, which is fully up to the stand ard of American cities. It seems that in 1S95 an American firm made a twenty years' contract wiht the municipal council for lighting the city. It was to supply 140 2.000-candle power arc lamps and 1,000 20-candle power incandescent lamps for $60,250 (Mexican) per annum. The contract provided that the lamps should burn every night, and all night (i. e., from twenty minutes after sun set to twenty minutes after sunrise). The city lighting covers all streets on both sides of the Pasig river, except a few in several native quarters of the town. As might be expected, the pri vate lighting service has grown largely, and includes, besides many arcs, about 6.000 incandescents. Some of the city residences have as many as 200 lights each. Since the Ameiacans took pos session of the city the electric light company has been busy day and night. The barracks selected for the troops had to be lighted, and the churches, cock-pits and go-downs," or ware houses, appropriated as quarters for the soldiers, had to be wired and con nected with the lighting system. The Chinese merchants were very quick to see the advantage of having a flood of electric light in their stores, and in some of the business quarters there are over 2.000 incandescents in a space of about four blocks. The agent of the electric company happened to be in Yokohama when the news came that Dewey's fleet had sailed from Hong Kong for Manila. He was at once ap plied to for electric fans for the ships of the fleet, and managed to secure about twenty. Subsequently he brought back at a handsome premium fifty more that he had just delivered to a cus tomer, and the whole consignment was shipped immediately to Manila, where they were a godsend to officers aboard ship, who had already begun to exper ience the intense discomfort which is inseparable from living in cramped quarters in a tropical climate. "'Tis Worth a Bag of Gold ft This applies to nothing bet ter than the glorious Spring time that moves all verdure to life and brings around the day ivhen all humanity can have an opportunity to cleanse their blood and thus put into opera tion all the health and vigor that is possible. Everybody naturally turns to America's Greatest Spring Medicine, Hood 'a SarsapariUa, to prepare them selves for the joys and pleasures of sum mer. It never disappoints. Coltre For 42 years I had goitre or swellings on my neck, which was dis couraging and troublesome. Rheumatism also annoyed me. Hood's SarsapariUa cured me completely and the swelling has entirely disappeard. A lady in Michigan saw my previous testimonial and used Hood's and was entirely cured of the same trouble. She thanked me for recommend ing it." Mrs. Anna Sutherland, 406 Lovel Street, Kalamazoo, Mich. BlOOd Poison" I lived in a bed of fire for years owing to blood poisoning that fol lowed small pox. It broke out all over my body, itching intensely. Tried doctors and hospitals in vain. I tried Hood's Sarsapa riUa. It helped. I kept at it and was en tirely cured. I could go on the housetops and shout about it." Mis. J. T. Williams, Carbondale, Pa. Bad BlOOd" Although past 70 years of age i am thoroughly well. It was three bottles of Hood's SarsapariUa that made me so after spending over $60 in medical attendance. My trouble was a raw sore on my ankle." Mrs. Louisa Mason, Court Street, Lowell, Mass. Kidneys "My kidneys troubled me, and on advice took Hood's SarsapariUa which save prompt, relief, better appetite. My sleep is refreshing. It cured my wife also." Michael Boyle, 3473 Denny Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Rheumatism "My husband was obliged to give up work on account of rheu matism. No remedy helped until he used Hoods SarsapariUa, which permanently cured him. It cured my daughter of ca tarrh. I give it to the children with good results." Mrs. J. S. McMath, Stamford, Ct. Saidufmiil Hood' filU care liver ilia, the non -irritating n j only cathartic to take with Hood's SarsapariUa, KANSASJEWS. Big Wabaunsee County Ranch Changes Hands. Nine Thousand Acres of Land and 2,700 Cattle.' IS SOLD FOR $120,000. The Alien Law Compelled the Owner, Mr. Wiser, Who Lived in Canada, to Dis pose of the Property. Eskridge, May 22. J. Y. Waugh and George G. Waugh of this city and J. S. Mcintosh of Kansas City have pur chased the Wiser ranch, south of Esk ridge. There are 9,000 acres of land, with buildings that cost over $30,000, be sides the fences. There are fourteen miles of stone wall two and a half feet thick, five feet high with flag coping on top, besides miles and miles of wire fence. The deal also Includes 2,700 head of steers and 180 head of thoroughbred white face cows, about forty head of horses and mules and all the necessary articles for a ranch. The alien law compelled Mr. Wiser, who is a foreigner, living in Canada, to sell. The exact amount paid can not be learned, but it is something over J120, 000. AN EARLY CONVENTION-. Finney County Republicans Nomi nate Their Ticket. Garden City, May 22. The Republi cans of Finney county held their coun ty convention Saturday and nominated the following ticket: C. A. Sneider, county clerk: D. A. Mims, register of deeds; William Ford, treasurer; David Weeks, surveyor; A. R. Clark, coroner; A. R. Jessup, sheriff; G. L. Holmes, county commissioner. The only contest was over sheriff, and of four candidates Jessup was nominated on the ninth bal lot. THE STRIKE GROWS. Miners Gain in Recruits and Press Their Advantage. Pittsburg, May 22. The strike situa tion in this district begins now to show considerable gains for the strikers. The miners of the Central Coal and Coke company at Yale, who refused to come out at first, laid down their tools Sat urday, and will remain out until Wed nesday next, when there is a large mass meeting of the miners in Chero kee and Crawford counties to be held in this city. During that time the ex ecutive board of the United Mine Workers' association will have commit tees at work among the non-union min ers to try to get them to come out. The executive board held a meeting at Weir City Saturday. The result of the meet ing has not been made public, but it is rumored that a special fight against the Kansas and Texas Coal company is to be maintained in Missouri and Kansas. It begins to look now as if a general strike will soon be ordered. The exec utive board has been told by a large number of non-union miners that they would support such a strike on the bas is of eight hours work, 58 cents a ton for mine run coal fn the summer and 64 cents per ton in the winter. News From Haviland. Haviland, May 22. Wheat is needing rain. Rye stood the winter much bet ter than wheat and is looking fine. Most of it is headed out. Barley is looking well, and promises a good yield, as does corn. This town is enjoying a small boom. C. A. Taylor has opened a general store. Unoccupied residences have been bought, repaired and occu pied until there is not an empty busi ness house or residence in town. The Society of Friends have an academy here employing two teachers. Prof. E. E. Hadley of Iowa is principal and Miss Anna Hodgin is assistant. The Fells burg, Edwards county, base ball team played with Haviland Saturday after noon. The score was 28 to 48 in favor of Haviland. Geo. W. Winans delivered an educational lecture at Greensburg. Saturday evening, to the graduates and other students of the high school of that place. Funeral of Mrs. Fred Buchan. Lawrence. May 22. The funeral ser vice over the body of Mrs. Captain Fred Buchan, was held here Saturday after noon at Trinity Episcopal church, in the presence of a large number of sor rowing friends. The services were con ducted by Rev. D. W. W. Ayres. as sisted by Rev. Mr. C. Mendenhall, of Kansas City, Kan. The church was most beautifully decorated with palms and white flowers, the work of young girl friends of Mrs. Buchan. The uni versity faculty attended in a body, as did also Pi Beta Phi fraternity.of which Mrs. Buchan was a member, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, of which Captain Buchan was a member. The body wa3 escorted by cadets from Kansas City, Kan. .and the pallbearers were: Messrs. W. H. H. Piatt. A. B. Bates. Edward Meyer and Percy Hill, of Kansas City, Mo.; Maurice Alden, of Kansas City, Kan., and Luther Lewis, of Lawrence. Pensions For Kansans. Washington, May 22. Pensions have been granted as follows: Original Dias Vandike, Greeley, )6; Geo. Shemely, Sterling. $6. Restoration and reissue Joseph Thompson, dead, Morrill, JS. Increase John W. Woodside, Caney, $G to J8; James A. Snider, Conway Springs. $6 to $10: Francis M. Spangler, Sterling, J14 to $17: Weston W. Dow, Council Grove, $12 to $24: William A. Martin. Liberty, $12 to '$17; Elijah F. Kiser, Shawnee, $6 to $8; Robert E. Sweeney, Chanute. $6 to $8; Albert J. Weaver, Wichita, $14 to $17; John Tolle, Lvle, $8 to $10; Samuel Carson, Wichita, $S to $12. Reissue and Increase Edwin D. Cook. Edna. $6 to $S; Patrick J. Leary, Na tional Military home, Leavenworth, $6 to $10. Singers Welcomed Some. Ottawa, May 22. Ottawa's chorus re turned from the Hutchinson jubilee Saturday and were met at the depot by a band and 100 citizens. The procession went down Main street, which was decked with flags and bunting. A form al reception was given the victors at the Conservatory of Music. Mayor Het rick tendered Director Cravens the keys of the city, saying nothing was too good for him and his band of singers. Miner Has His Legs Cut Oft Pittsburg. May 22. Matt Bambow, an aged miner at Frontenac, was run over by the electric street car Saturday night and both his legs were cut off. He will die. FOOLED THE SANTA FE. (From the El Paso Herald.) Talk about railroads being properly worked," said a Santa Fe official to a Herald reporter yesterday. "One instance 1 will relate, even though it occurred some time ago. It will give you a fair idea how we have to watch our transac- ii. t V tne greatest care. it was in T, of the year, and the great races at frankfort, Ind.. had Just drawn to a successful close. Great interest was man ifested, and some of the best racing stock in the country was there. One. whom our agent at that point supposed to be one of the horsemen, made arrangements to send his horse to Los Angeles over the Santa I" e. He had the horse clipped and blanketd In fine shape and instructed the agent to issue his transportation and place the price against the horse, which would be paid when the destination was reached. His proposition was promptly accepted because the horse was supposed to be very valuable. He was given a car and transportation and his horse load ed with the greatest care. At St. Louis his car was transferred and headed for Los Angeles. He got his feed the same way he got his ticket and everything went smoothly. His wants along the line were looked after and the people who heard that he had a blooded horse on the train were very anxious to see the animal. Word had been sent ahead to the horse men in Los Angeles that one of the fast est racers east of the Mississippi was go ing to participate In the winter races and the arrival of the animal was watched for with great interest. "Imagine the surprise of all concerned when, upon looking into the car when it reached the Los Angeles vards, to find nothing there but an old. bonv horse. The would-be owner had disappeared with the feed and blanket and disclosed a pile of bones which could not used successfully on a slop wagon. Under the laws of California we could not sell the critter for 15 days and it would cost more than he was worth to keep him that long on hay at 5 cents a day. "I do not recollect just how the affair did terminate, but if I remember correct ly, the company paid a small boy for tak ing it away. So you see there are more ways than one to 'hold up' a railroad com pany. This nervy Individual saved the price of his fare between the two points, which was $50, and was extended every courtesy along the line." CHILD MUI1DEK. Horrible Crimes Committed by Wo men at Waimea. Seattle, Wash., May 22. The follow ing Honolulu advices have been re ceived by the British steamer Garone: With a view of restricting Japanese immigration into Hawaii, the executive counsel proposes to limit the number of permits issued so as to maintain on the respective plantations a force of that nationality not greater than the num ber of laborers of all other nationalities. This will go into effect in July. A horrible crime occurred at Waimea on May 2. The wife of a ranchman killed her little step-daughter by brutal ly beating her with a heavy stick. The crime was witnessed by a youngster who went to a neighboring house and told the story. So enraged was the woman of the house on hearing of the crime that she rushed to the other wo man's cabin bent on punishing the step mother. She did not attack the mur deress, but dashing through the door, caught up the woman's own child, also a little girl, and threw the little one head first against the wall, breaking her neck. The two women soon came to realize the enormity of their crimes and buried the children together. They swore the other child to secrecy, but it told other neighbors and the women were arrested. There is a great scarcity of meat on the islands, due to the fact that much pasturage land has been planted with sugar and the native herds have con sequently been much reduced. OUR ISLAND POSSESSIONS. President McEinley Makes Announce ment Relating to Their In ternal Affairs. Washington, May 22. President Mc Kinley, through Assistant Secretary of War. Meiklejohn, has made the follow ing important announcement relating to the internal affairs of the several islands under the military control of the United States: First Collectors of customs at the several ports under military jurisdiction are directed to perform the duties here tofore invested in United States con suls or consular officers in said terri tory as far as concerns seamen, vessels, clearances, etc. Second No vessel is to be allowed to clear from any port In Cuba or Porto Rico for another port until all her car go is landed or accounted for. Third Coopers' wares in shooks, also hoops and headings, are only required to pay 12 cents per 100 kilos into Porto Rico. Fourth The president directs that hereafter when the importation of beer takes place in barrels the receptacles shall be dutiable on 30 per cent of gross weights instead of 18 per cent as for merly. When the importation is ef fected in bottles or flasks packed in wooden cases or barrels, shippers will be relieved from the exaction of paying duty on the casks, bottles and Masks. Only the net weight of the liquid is compelled to pay duty and receptacles pay only according to the proper clas sification that they come under. Fifth This order affects the Philip pines as well as Cuba and Porto Rico. Hereafter for assessment of duty the currency of the invoices must be re duced to the money of account of the United States, upon the basis of the values of foreign coins, as proclaimed by the secretary of the treasury on the first days of January, April, July and October of each year. Fully de scriptive invoices must be made out hereafter. MRS. WARDALL PRESIDES. Theosophists Assemble in Convention in Chicago. Chicago, May 22. The thirteenth an nual convention of the American section of the Theosophical society was opened yesterday in the Athenaeum building by Alexander Fullerton of New York, general secretary. Mrs. M. E. Wardall of Topeka, Kan., was made temporary chairman. Miss Pauline Graham Kelly of Chicago was selected to serve as temporary and permanent secretary. The committee on credentials report ed that delegates from sixty-seven so cieties of the American section were en titled to vote. About fifty delegates from outside of Chicago are in attend ance at the convention. KANSAS PROSPEROUS. Maj. Anderson Says That the State Is Booming. Major Anderson has returned from the second trip with the committee to locate the insane asylum. On this trip the committee visited Fort Scott, Cha nute. Iola and Parsons. It will finish its work next week by going to Junc tion City on Monday, Salina on Tues day, Concordia on Wednesday and Clay Center on Thursday. "This trip has proven to me," said the major today, "that Kansas is right up and coming. All the towns we have visited are up-to-date. They all know how to go after things. Everybody is talking prosperity. "In southeastern Kansas, though, there are thousands of acres that have not been touched by the plow yet, be cause it is too wet. I don't believe I saw twenty fields of corn up and doing well. The wheat crop is short, too, ex cept in Wilson county." WORST NIGHT NOISE. tFrom the New York Sun. "I am an expert on night noises and their relative effect on the sleep wooer's system," said Mr. Keenstrung to the new boarder the other morning as he waited for his late breakfast to be pre pared. "I have kept watch in the heart of New York for thousands of nights and know exactly to what extent the creaking of boots, the shutting of a hat-box lid, the bang of a door or talk ing on the stairs damages and distances my chances of sleep. I have a regular gamut of nightly recurring sounds to go by, and can conjure the particular degree of hopelessness and aggravation evoked by each in turn, but to me the sound of sounds most calculated to set the nerves on edge is the 'Whop! whop! whop!' of a woman's skirts shaken out of an upper window at midnight or close on to midnight. "A householder over the way here Is given to striking up his full-toned par lor organ toward the small hours. An other neighbor makes it a practice to let out his house-bound dogs for exer cise around the block at the same un seasonable time. They are big dogs, and enjoy the chance. There is some times a great clatter when the maids next door get to shying tins and heavy objects at the cat that prowls in the area, and there is the usual number of whirring, gong-soundlng electric cabs and late scurrying hansoms in, this neighborhood. But no one of these sounds, or all put together, can com pare in efficacy with that clothes-shaking business. The half-muffled, domes tic sort of sound is as much more audi ble than any mere racket can be as a stage whisper carries further than talk conducted in an ordinary tone of voice. "The young woman who has the room next to mine shakes her skirts out of the window in this way every night without fail," he went on. "She is strong and vigorous, and flaps them in lively and germ-banishing fashion over and over again, while I listen on ten ter hooks for the alternate strokes of the whisk brush and other steps in the dirt-freeing process that I have learn ed to recognize. Trailing skirts are the mode now, so they gather much dirt. No matter how well I am getting on toward my coveted sleep haven, how soothed and tranquil my nerves, how deliciously elusive my sensations in that happy state preceding slumber, at the first throwing up of the sash and pre liminary flourish of those wide breadthed. garments I am as wide awake as though the hour was 12 noon instead of sleep time. 'Whop! whop! whop! scutter, scutter, scutter!' goes on the operation with now and again a pause while she picks off a fleck, re moves a thread or flattens the frock out on the sill for fresh onslaught. I know the whole programme by heart, and long after she has shut the window and settled down for the night, doubt less dreaming of her sweetheart or her new spring hat, I am tossing in ex asperation, mauling the bedclothes, and in between times trying to think out just why it is that things so excellent and admirable in themselves should work such discomfort and uncharitable ness to those they hit at random." ATKINSON TO BE AN EDITOR To Print "Tlie Anti-Imperialist" "Hell of War" to Be Used in Every Issue. Boston, May 22. Edward Atkinson an nounces that he is to become an editor. He has decided to issue a serial or weekly publication entitled, the Anti-Imperialist, "in which, week by week, for such a period as may be judicious," in formation corresponding- to that in the addenda to No. 3 of his series of pam phlets will be published, and in each weekly number the three articles, 1, 2 and 3, will be repeated. The articles referred to inckide "The Hell of War" and "Criminal Aggression." manifestos which the government prohib ited Mr. Atkinson from sending the sol diers in the Philippines. The "addenda" include fresh observations of the Atkin sonian brand on the same subject. ALGER IS STUBBORN. Determined to Have Volunteers Mastered Out In California. Washington, May 22. In anticipation of the prompt return of the volunteer troops in the Philippines the secretary of war today telegraphed instructions to Gen. Shafter, commanding the de partment of California at San Francisco to establish a model camp at the Presi dio for the accommodation of about 4,000 volunteers from Manila pending their muster out. Gen. Shafter is instructed particularly to make ample provision for water supply and sanitary features "to the end that the camp may be com fortable and healthful." He is informed that big sacks are to be furnished and floors laid if he thinks it advisable. The returning troops will leave their tents at Manila but. will bring their field ranges and cooking out fits. The quartermaster's department has been ordered to supply the neces sary tents to the camp at the Presidio. STORIES GET ABROAD. About Hitches in the Workings of the Peace Congress. The Hague. May 22. The chiefs of dele gations have had frequent conferences with the view of arriving at an n?ree ment in regard to the choice of officers of the committees. But apparently many difficulties have arisen, as nothing has ben finally settled. Many false and exaggerated reports have been circulated regarding these hitches. For instance, it has been said that Count Von Munster, the German am- a niiniiisu iiiiiiiiiui iiiiuimii niuiiinii u s TN a careful chemical ex- 5 E m. amination of the leading j 5 Malt Extracts of the world, S E 'the United States Govern- s ment Chemists found H i PsHSt i I Malt Extract I j was the only one of all that s was absolutely pure and per- j feet. Others cannot replace it I Si At all drug stores. E HUIHUICII! IIIIIIKUU UllUUiUllIIUUlUUi Knowledge Concentrated upon it, for even the courts do not question its state ments. You can secure the entire set, complete in thirty superb octavo volumes,, of the Encyclopedia Britannica for One Dollar Cash and the balance in small monthly payments. FOR SALE BY KELLAM 711 KANSAS AVENUE, T0FEKA, FURMAN'S FURMAN'S $1.50 are the bassador at Paris, and head of the Ger man delegation, would withdraw from the conference. Such stories must be receiv ed with caution, as persons hostile to the aims of the conference have been busilv engaged in spreading distrust. The story about Count Von Munster probably arose from the fact that his name does not ap pear as a member of any of the commit tees, while the other chiefs of dedications have joined one or more committees. But delegates, although not members of a committee, are privileged to attend its sessions and participate in the, discus sions. MAYOR'S CONFERENCE. He Asks For Ideas on Enforcement of Law. Mayor Drew has invited those people who do not think that the officers are do ing all they can to enforce the law at present to meet the chief of police and the police judge at the mayor's office this afternoon and point out the particulars in which the police service can be ren dered more efficient. On Saturday afternoon a delegation of young men called on Mayor Drew and made complaint of the manner in which the law is being enforced, and the mayor then invited them to meet with the two officers named any time they saw fit to talk the matter over. They accepted the invitation and set the time for this aft ernoon. At the churches yesterday no tices were read extending the invitation to all men who are interested in the en forcement of the law. Mayor Drew did not know whether the delegation which called on him was au thorized by any organization or not. ONE LONE PASSENGER Is Responsible For the Story of Trou ble at Bluefields. Colon, Colombia, May 22, via Galves ton, Tex. A passenger who arrived here from Bocas del Torro is alone re sponsible for the rumor that the Niear aguan gun vessel San Jacinto has been sunk by the United States cruiser De troit after the former had fired upon the American war ship. He says the report was generally discredited at Bocas del Torro and that it probably came from Bluefields where the Detroit and San Jacinto are supposed to be. The officials of the American consu late here are without news of any such event as the sinking of the San Jacinto by the Detroit. W H ITE IS HOl'EF U L. Looks For Good Results From the Peace Congress. The Hague. May 22. Andrew D. White, the United States ambassador at Berlin and head of the American dele gation, in an interview here with a representative of the Associated Press said he regarded the situation as prom ising and that the first work of organiz ation will be well done. He added: "I am hopeful that it will be possible to reach a practical conclusion. The scepticism of the first few days must yield to serious hopes without at the same time indulging in exaggerted ex pectations." Advance All Along the lane. Detroit. May 22. The committee of the amalgamated association have in hand the wage schedule in the matter of the heating slabs, scraping and shingling scale made its report today and the recommendations contained therein were vigorously discussed. It was agreed to ask for an advance all along the line equivalent with advances asked in the other subordinate scales. Misuse of Excursion Tickets. Suppose a man buys an excursion ticket at a reduction of $5, on condi tion that he will not transfer the ticket to anybody else. That is equivalent to making a contract with the company that in consideration of J5, value re ceived, he will do or not do certain things. What moral right has he to violate that contract? By selling the ticket he commits a deliberate fraud upon the company, which in effect paid him not to sell it. It is as if a man rented a house and grounds, and in consideration of getting cheaper rent, agreed not to keep animals or poultry on the place. He has not bought any absolute right to do as he pleases on the premises, but merely the right to live there under certain restrictions. Because he ac cepts those conditions he gets a cheap er rent. If he wants the absolute right to do as he will with the place, he must pay more rent, or buy it outright. Or, It is as if a man hires a saddle horso for the season, and by agreeing not to use it for carriage driving gets it for considerably less money. It is just as reasonable to argue that he has the absolute right to use the horse for car riage driving as It is to say that a boiled down, pressed to gether is what you get in the New Werner Edition of the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNIC A The facts contained therein are reli able, the statements author itative. The index which accompanies each set of books enables you to find the information you want quicklv. and vou can relv S a $5.00 Gentleman's Shoes are the best that money can buy. Ladies Walking Shoes best offered for the price man has a rigilt to use a limited ticket which he has agreed. In consideration of reduced fare, not to sell. Gunton's Magazine. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY. The Republicans of Shawnee county will hold a primary election under the Craw ford county Australian ballot system on Saturday, the 27th day of May, 18SS, be tween the hours of 12 noon and 6 o'clock p. m., in the city of Topeka, and from 2 o'clock p. m. to 6 p. m. in all country precincts south of the river, and from 1 p. m. to 7 p. m. in all country precincts north of the river, except Muddy pre cinct, which shall be from 1 p. m. to 6 p. m., in accordance with the law govern ing primary elections and the Australian ballot system, to select candidates for the offices of county treasurer, county sur veyor, sheriff, county coroner, and mem bers of the county central committee for the various precincts of the county. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast for the respective offices will be declared the nominees for the said offices to be voted for at the com ing November election. Any person desiring to have his name printed on the ticket shall, on or before the 20th day of May, lnua, at 6 o'clock p. m., notify the secretary of the Republican county central committee in writing of the office for which he desires to become a candidate. No person's name shall be printed on said ticket unless he gives such notice and pays his assessment as made by the executive committee on or before the 20th day of May. The county central committee will meet on Thursday, the 1st day of June, at 2 o'clock p. m., at the old court house, to canvass the returns- The ballots must all be counted and the result announced before the election boards leave the polling places. Under a resolution of tne county central committee, the judges are Instructed to allow no one to vote but known Republi cans. The supervisors hereinafter named will take charge of the polls and make their returns to the secretary at the old court house, immediately after the counting of the ballots, with a certified poll sheet showing the names of persons receiving votes and the number received by each, together with the sealed ballots cast at said election and the defective and unused ballots for said precinct. The following is the name and location of each voting precinct, and the name of the supervisor: Rossivlle township, city building-, John Fritz. Silver Lake township, Hollister's office, William Vanorsdol. Menoken township, township hall, John Ostrand. Soldier precinct (Central avenue divid ing line), west precinct. Travis building. T. T. Wright: east precinct, Kaw Valley school house, Robert Turner. Muddy precinct. Boles school house, A. A. Rice. Highland Park precinct. Highland Park school house, George Fisher. Oakland precinct. Squire Whitmore's of fice. Charles Morse. Nickel Plate precinct. Nickel Plate school house. J. 11. Evans. Shunganunga precinct, Baughman's hall, J. R. Taylor. Tecumseh precinct, postofflce, G. K. Bunee. Linn Creek precinct, Disney school house. J. G. Baker. Monmouth precinct, Lyon school house. Robert Reed. Richland precinct, G. A. R. hall, C. W. Wright. North Williamsport preclnct.Tlee school house. J. S. Banks. South Williamsport precinct, school house district No. 3, C. W. Smith. Auburn township, Padgett's store.A. W. Padgett. Kaw precinct, Valencia school house, J. E. Croasdale. Dover precinct, Dover postofflce, John Thompson. Willard precinct, Willard school house, E. G. Gibson. North Mission, West End hotel, C. N. Houghton. South Mission, Grange hall. J. E. Maus. FIRST WARD Kansas ave. dividing line.) First precinct, 1012 Kansas avenue, E. C. Stoncr. Second precinct. Marshall's shop, Lau rent street, David Gregg. SECOND WARD. West precinct (all west of railroad), Fourth and Madison. Fred Stonestreet. East precinct (all east of railroad) 1110 East Fourth street. Sherman Williams. THIRD WARD. West precinct (all west of Western ave nue), corner King and Clay streets. A. Jordan. East precinct (all east of Western ave nue), 928 Kansas avenue. H. F. JBird. FOURTH WARD. West precinct (all west of Tyler street), corner Sixth and Western avenue), John Rogers. East precinct (all east of Tyler street). Rain's barn, M. E. Stoker. FIFTH WARD. First precinct. Shepard's store. Seven teenth and Topeka avenue. J. F. Snyder. Second precinct, Hoffman House, A. Hardy. SIXTH WARD (Potwln). Allen's barn, A. Bunker. By order of the Republican county cen tral committee. JOHN T. CHANEY, Chairman. H. F. BIRD. Secretary. Topeka, May 6, 1899. Steamer Danube Ashore. Victoria, B. C, May 22. The steam er Danube, running from Seattle to Dyea is ashore at Cape Mudge, J

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TOPEKA STATE JOUILN'AIV MONDAY, EVENESTG-. MAT 22, 1899. BHuiSJUtl MCOlClNtt Seedless Strawberries would be tempting morsels, seven days a week. Our soda is really liquid fruit, served in the most delicious manner possi ble to man. Soda Water as we have made it is made to touch the thirsty spot In a yery delightful way. J. R. W. SQUIRES, PHARMACIST. Telephone No. 743. 732 Kansas Ave. NORTH TOPEKA. j Miss Mary Petro is visiting in Hutch inson. Ten dozen ladies' handkerchiefs worth 10c, for 5c. Costley Post. Mr. Mullen of Newton is the guest of Mr. BenjT Thomas of 1316 Logan street. Miss Gardiner came home Saturday from a visit of several days to Hutch inson. Mrs. Feabody has returned from a visit to Kansas City. Mrs. G. W. Petro has gone to Fair field. Neb., to make an extended visit to relatives. The closing exercises of Grant school will be held Thursday afternoon at the Baptist church. Go to C. B. Lyon, E. D. S.. for fine dental work at popular prices. OfBce 611 Kansas avenue. Tel. 656. The Bostonians came in from the west this morning at 7 o'clock on a special over the Union Pacific road. Choice poplar box timber at Forbes Bros., North Topeka. Misses May Knox and Emily Brum mitt went to Baldwin today to remain -'until after the commencement at Baker university. Twenty dozen ladies handkerchiefs for Monday and Tuesday worth 20c each, for 9c each. Mrs Matthews of 927 Kansas avenue, returned Saturday from Meriden, where she has been to visit her mother who has been quite ill. The special Endeavor prayer meeting of the Christian church, will be held Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Myrtle Palmer of Central avenue.north of Soldier creek. Get our prices on berry box timber. Forbes Bros., North Topeka. tVlnsted Fuller has taken a position as traveling salesman for the Nave McCord Grocery company of St. Joe. His territory will Include St. Joe, Atch ison and Leavenworth. Mrs. Brainard has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Wallace at San Marciel. N. M. She was accom panied home by Mrs. Wallace and daughters. Vera and Mamie who will be her guests for sometime. The T. M. C. A. Glee club and Mr. S. S. French's choir will give the Brave Boys' club a concert at the Kansas Avenue M. E. church Tuesday evening. May 23. at 8 .p'clock. All the boys of the Quincy school are invited. The members of the club will meet at the home of Mrs. Keagle promptly at 7:30 p. m. The boys respectfully invite their parents to be present. The programme will include a solo by Mr. Mussen. TOOK LIFE EASY. Aristocratic Farm Hand Who Husked Corn in Arm Chair Lose His Wages. Plainfield, N. J., May 22. As a result of a tell-tale kodak snap-shot picture showing him to be seated in a big arm- 4-, chair in the middle of a field, husking corn, Joseph Hastings of Newark has lost his suit for the collection of $196 wages which he alleges that Mrs. Phebe Osborn of North Plainfield owes to him for labor done on her farm last year. Hastings says that he was entitled to the money and when Mrs. Osborn re fused to pay it to him he brought suit in a Justice's court. A lawyer of this city, representing the defondant, sprung --.the kodak picture on the jury at the trial, and the verdict allowed only $3 to the plaintiff. His lawyer decided to appeal the case to the Somerset county court. The matter was argued before Judge Bartine. and the plaintiffs counsel again exhibited the photograph, with the result that the judge today dis missed the previous verdict and de clared that Hastings had no cause for action against Mrs. Osborn. The picture was taken by a friend of Mrs. Osborns last fall, and when he heard of the action brought forth the tell-tale picture and allowed Mrs. Os orn to use it to show how shiftless Hastings was in his work. Card of Thanks. We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the friends who assisted us during our late bereavement JOE GR1LEY AND FAMILY. Teamsters 'n1 at Weber's hall, 431 Kan. Ave., Tuesday evening. 7:30 p. m., to organ ize a teamster's union. BY ORDER COMMITTEE. Comfortable and Economical. The tourist sleepers that leave Topeka Cally for California via Santa Fe. We have usedSalarine for three years to polish bicycles in our store. Price 10c per can. Topeka Cycle Co. Butte.Mont, $55.85, via Santa Fe Route. J u.have Piles, cure them. No use undergoing horrible operations that simply remove the results of the dls l,tnout disturbing the disease it i. i?Ce y.ur confidence in De Witt's WUch Hazel Salve. It has never Jailed to cure others: it will not fail to cure you. Geo. w. StansHeld. W. H. Wilson, .u,u oc duu, jt.. j. saue Co.

Califarni 135.50. via Santa Fe Route. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Charlotte Parkhurst entertained informally Saturday afternoon in honor of her guest. Miss Augusta Dewey of Abilene. High five was the game of the afternoon, and the prize, a dozen roses, was won by Miss Roberta Was son. Punch was served all afternoon, and at the close other refreshments were served. Another pleasant feature of the afternoon was music by Mrs. Parkhurst, Miss Helen Thompson and Miss Park hurst. Those present were Miss Dewey, Miss Jeannette Lord, Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Roberta Wasson, Miss Harriet Jones, Miss Margaret Jones, Miss Pearl Burdge, Miss Hila Hinckley, Miss Helen Walker and Miss Lena McCray. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Fulton and son Darrah of Kansas City spent Sunday in Topeka with. Mrs B. T. Payne and family. The W. T. K. club held a pleasant meeting Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. W. Cheney. Miss Troutman gave an instructive talk on French history, and Mrs. Harry Saf ford's account of the meeting at Junc tion City was much enjoyed. The last meeting of the club for the year will be held tomorrow at Mrs. M. M. Hale's, 423 Park street. Miss Louise Sharp will return to her home in Kansas City Tuesday aftex a visit with Miss Birdie King at her home on Monroe street. Mrs. W. J. Morse is in Atchison visit ing her cousin, Mrs. Ed. Small. Mrs. D. A. Clements and Mrs. John Nowers spent Sunday in Leavenworth with Mrs. Joerger. Mrs. Frank R. Millspaugh spent last Friday in Manhattan; Tuesday she will go to Leavenworth to attend a meeting of the Ladies' auxiliary andthe ladies of the diocese. Miss Kate Thacher arrived today from Philadelphia to visit Miss Mar garet Dudley. Prof. Irving Stringham of Berkeley university, Berkeley. Cal., and family, who have been spending a few days in Topeka with Prof. Stringham's sister, Mrs. B. F. McGiffin, left Sunday en route for Paris. Miss Katherine Whitley returned to her home in Emporia Saturday, after a week's visit with Miss Gussie Fuller. Mrs. James B. Hayden and daughter Bessie left Sunday for Columbus, O. Miss Olive Lewis came up from the university Friday and remained until Sunday with her parents. Miss Mary Hambleton will entertain at a thimble party Thursday afternoon, complimentary to her guests. Miss Towne and Miss Wilson of Minneap olis, Minn. The ladies of the Vignette club will entertain the gentlemen at a 7 o'clock dinner Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Willis Norton. Mrs. A. H. Thompson, president of the city federa tion, and Miss Sallie Crosby will be guests of the club. On Thursday Mrs. Robert Pierce and Mrs. F. G. Willard will entertain the club at Lake View. Mrs. L. S. Seers left Saturday for Texarkana, Tex., for a two weeks' visit. Miss Mame Bailey of Lawrence is the guest of Mrs. N. P. Garretson at her home, 1101 Harrison street. Mr. and Mrs. Court Flower and little daughter will leave Thursday for Carth age, Mo., where they will make their home. Mr. Flower has accepted a posi tion as traveling salesman for a cloak house in St. Louis. Mrs. I. W. Doolittle left Sunday for the east to spend the summer. The Parole club will meet Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Camp bell at their home in Tecumseh. The members will enjoy a picnic supper on the lawn. Mr. and Mrs, Eugene Quinton spent a few days last week in St. Paul, Minn. Miss Grace Weiss entertained Miss Towne and Miss Wilson of Minneapolis, Minn., and Miss Mary Hambleton at dinner Saturday evening. Mrs. H. M. Hadley has returned from a month's visit in Oklahoma. Mr. A. Fassler and daughter Hazel returned Saturday from Detroit, Mich., where Miss Fassler has been attending school. Mr. Charles Otis spent Sunday in To peka with his family. Mrs. L. Swayze of Pana, 111., is In the city visiting her daughters, Mrs. J. E. Maxwell and Mrs. E. S. Leistike. D. W. Millard of Hutchinson is spend ing a few days with his family In To peka. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Fox have re turned from Cedar Rapids, la., and will make their home in Topeka. Mrs. L. Barret of Wamego spent last week in Topeka with her sister, Mrs. M. S. Hoover. Miss Lillie Tork has returned to Rossville after a week's visit in Topeka with her sister. Miss Mary York. Mr. S. E. Borne of Newton is in the city visiting his brother, who is ill at the Santa Fe hospital. Miss Carol Edwards entertained a number of her little friends last Thurs day afternoon in honor of her cousin, Eula Edwards, of Larned. Mrs. Ed. Zimmerman returned to her home in Hiawatha today, after a week's visit with Mrs. W. J. Wetherholt. Mr. Dick Rodgers was up from the university spending Sunday with his parents. M. S. Hoover of St. Marys spent Sun day in Topeka. Mr. Roy Fletcher will come over from Atchison Tuesday to visit Topeka friends. A number of the society young people will enjoy a picnic Wednesday evening at Martin's Hill. The Ralston club will meet with Mrs. Henry Hull Tuesday evening. May 23, at her home, 216 West Eighth street. A cablegrom was received today from F. O. Popenoe, at Costa Rica, stating that the members of the Topeka party are all well. The meeting of the Ladles' Aid so ciety of the First Congregational church, which was announced for Wednesday afternoon of this week, has been postponed one week. Mrs. Blanche L. Mitchell of Kansas City, the leading figure painter in the west, will give a two weeks' course in china painting and water color at the studio of Miss Marie Witwer, 118 West Eighth street. FUNERAL NOTICE. To Members of Topeka Lodge No. 17, A. F. and A. M. The funeral of Bro. G. G. Gage will be held at his former residence. No. 407 Van Buren street, Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All members of this lodje and other brethren in the city are re quested to meet at Masonic hall at 2 p. m. sharp. By order of the Worshipful Master. CARL W. N ELLIS, Sec'y. Attention, Royal -Neighbors, No. 148 The funeral services of Neishbor Emma Huston will be held at her res idence, 328 Ash St., at 5 p. m., this Monday evening. Please meet at the residence. MINNIE WEAVER, Oracle. MINNIE C. PLUMER, Recorder. Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist. Chas. R. Young, Veteriniarian, of Western Veterinary college, Kansas City, Mo., treats all diseases, and per forms surgical operations upon all ani mals. Phone 608, barn, 109 East Second street. NOT AFRAID TO TALK. Color Line Question Comes TJp at Minneapolis. Minneapolis, May 22. At today's ses sion of the Presbyterian assembly Dr. W. H. Franklin, a colored minister of Rogerville, Tenn., read an extract from a local paper which said that no color ed member of the assembly had yet spoken in the debates on account of the fear inspired by the recent outrages in the south, not knowing but what they might be held to painful account when they return. Mr. Franklin stated that the article was without foundation and that in justice to the colored members, to the assembly and the people of Presbyteries which had returned colored commis sioners, there should be a public denial. Dr. Franklin explained that in the Pres byteries of Holston and French Broad, from which he comes, there are 24 white and five colored ministers and 6.000 white and 1.000 colored communicants, yet this overwhelming white majority had sent him as one of the two minis ters who represent them. Dr. Franklin offered resolutions refut ing the newspaper's statement and ex plaining that the colored commissioners were not restrained from debate toe cause of fear. Synodical committees were announced and the report of the committee on Freedmen was read. OLD COUPLE SUICIDE. Boston Newspaper Man and His Wife Found Dead in Bed. Boston, May 22. W. T. W. Ball, a well known newspaper marx and his wife were found dead in bed today in a room filled with the fumes of illum inating gas. Letters written by Mr. Ball, which were lying open on a table disclosed the fact that it was a case of suicide. Despondency on account of ill health was given as the reason for the act. He was 66 years of age and his wife was 73. Mr. Ball, who was an Englishman, came to Boston about 35 years ago. For many years he was the dramatic critic of the Traveler and subsequently of the Boston Herald and other dailies. He was a noted Shakes pearian commentator and was a man of recognized culture and learning. He had done little newspaper work in the past ten years. BOUND TO BURN. Topeka Residence Set on Fire in Five Different Places. The fire department was called Sat urday evening to the house at -307 East Eighth street occupied by Mrs. Julia H. Storms and her son and daughter. When the firemen arrived they found the house on fire in five places. One fire was in the front hall on the first floor, the second in the front room up stairs, the third in the back room on the second floor, the fourth in the hall way on the second floor leading to the front bedroom and the fifth in the par lor on the first floor. In the parlor and bedroom the fires were started in the bods and the oth ers were in some sort of rubbish that was burned by the time the firemen ar rived. Mrs. Storms left the house but a few moments before the fire was dis covered. She could give no explanation of the causes of the fires. Chief Wil marth said the fires were undoubtedly of incendiary origin and that whoever started them was well acquainted with the house but he has no clue as to the persons who set them. He ought to find a clue. BERNHARDT IN DANGER. Some Scenery Nearly Fell on Her While She Was Rehearsing Hamlet" Paris. May 22. Sarah Bernhardt had a narrow escape from what might have been a fatal accident today. She was rehearsing Hamlet," which she will produce tomorrow, with herself as the Prince, when some of the scenery fell. The shouts of her fellow actors warned her of her danger, and she jumped out of the way just in time to escape being crushed. ARCHIE BARNES HURT. Thrown From His Bicycle on Fifth Street Pavement. A. S. Barnes, clerk at the Santa Fe de pot office of the Wells-Fargo Express company was painfully injured about 10 o'clock this forenoon by being thrown from his bicycle. Mr. Barnes was riding down Fifth street and it is supposed that his wheel struck a stone. He fell and his head struek on the pavement and he was picked up uncon scious by pedestrians. It was feared that he Had sustained a fracture of the skull, but with the assist ance of physicians was revived and taken to his home on Monroe street. His face and head are badly cut and bruistd, but it is believed that the injuries will not result seriously. MADE A FOOL OF HIMSELF. Governor Stanley Will Not Imitate Governor Tanner in Dealing With Strikes. The promoters of the strike now in prog ress at Pittsburg and in the coal mining districts of southeastern Kansas address ed a letter to Governor Stanley asking him if he proposed to follow the example of Governor Tanner of Illinois and Gover nor Jones of Arkansas and take the part of the men in the strike and against the corporations. The governor replied to the letter today and said that he would not order out the militia unless It became necessary for the protection of life and property of the peo ple in the strike district. 'I hope the controversies now In prog ress will be settled amicably. I will not interfere unless it become absolutely nec essary to do so for the protection of the lives and property of the people. Then I will know no man as an individual. I will simply administer the law to all alike. There shall be neither favoritism nor par tisanship." Speaking of the matter the governor said: "I think Mr. Twiner made a fool of himself, and I shall certainly not follow his example." CAT AND DOG CEMETERY. Has an Office in Wall Street and the Directors Think They Have a Good Thing. New York. May 22. There is a new cem etery at Coxsackie devoted to the burial of pet animals. The Dellwood National cemetery, the place is called. It com mands a view of the Hudson and has an office in Wall street. The cemeterv con tains 110 acres, which are being plotted in circular lots, each a foot or more higher than grade level at the center and eac-t surrounded by a three-foot gravel walk. The directors held a meeting today and were enthusiastic over their scheme. About twenty lots have already .been sold. pur Axes and Saws in Tasmania. London, May 22. Tasmania is stimulat ing British trade in axes and saws, the trade in these implements having lately been monopolized by Americans. It is now the intention to carry on internation al contests between teams of axmen and sawyers using British and American tools, with the object of proving which country manufactures the better implements. A WOMAN COXEY. Miss Rella C. Harber an Evangelist of Good Roads. Chicago, May 22. Miss Rella C. Har ber, secretary of. the State and Inter state Good Roads and Public Improve ment association, who is traveling through Illinois arranging a number of district good roads conventions and a state convention to be held at Spring field in the fall, has arrived in Chicago. Said Miss Harber: "We-intend to have all these conven tions come off in rapid succession in August and September and to conclude with a state convention in Springfield, to which delegates will be elected by the district conventions. I have been very successful so far in enlisting the co-operation of commercial bodies in the different towns, and they seem really interested in the work as soon as they understand it. "I have some trouble, however, in explaining that our association is work ing not for hard roads, but for good roads. Farmers easily become fright ened at the hard roads proposition, for they think of macadam and know that that would mean increased taxation. All we want is to make good soft roads, that in years to come will furnish foun dations for good hard roads, and we re gard our work as educational. "We do not intend to increase taxa tion one bit, for we know that the $4, 000.000 annually expended in Illinois is sufficient to build good roads every where. But we want the farmer to let the state do the work and not work out their poll tax by pretending to build good roads. Not that they do not mean to do the best they know how, but they have not the faculties for the work and can not do it as it should be done. Our idea is to make a good road at less money than it now costs. We want, if possible, to see the poll tax reduced to a dollar, but want the farmer to pay that dollar into the treasury, instead of working it out as is now the case, and we expect to show him how it will be to his advantage to do it." The association represented by Miss Harber embraces twenty-two states and is the outgrowth of a state convention in Missouri in 1897, at which 700 dele gates were present. A committee of seven, consisting of Miss Harber and six men, was appointed to organize county associations. At the end of a year, when an interstate convention, at tended by 2,500 delegates, was held in St. Louis, seventy-two counties had been organized, and as Miss Harber had organized sixty-six she was unanimous ly named as secretary and organizer. BABY KIDNAPED. Newly Hired Nurse Runs Away With It. New Tork, May 22. What appeared to be a bold case of the kidnapping of a child was reported to the police today and a score of detectives were at once sent out in an endeavor to arrest the offenders. The missing child is Marion, the 18-months-old daughter of Arthur Clark, an employe of a publishing firm. She was taken, the police say, by a nurse named Carrie Jones who was hired last week by the Clarks through an advertisement. The whole thing seems to have been a cleverly laid plot. The child was taken out yesterday afternoon by the nurse and the empty baby carriage was found by the police in Central Park. Soon afterwards Mrs. Clark received this letter: "Mrs. Clark Do not look for your nurse and baby. They are safe in our possession where they will remain for the present. If the matter is kept out of the hands of the police and news papers you will get your baby back safe and sound. If, instead, you make a big time about it and publish it all over, we will see to it that you never see her alive again. We are driven to this by the fact that we can not get work and one of us has a child dying, through want of proper treatment and nourish ment. Tour baby is safe and in good hands. The nurse girl is still with her. If everything is quiet you will hear from, us Monday or Tuesday. (Signed), "THREE." There is evidence to show that the nurse girl wrote this letter. Mrs. Clark is in a serious condition and the sus pense may cause her death. PATENT LEATHER TRUST. Third Combine Forming in Material For Footwear. New Tork, May 22. Newark, N. J., patent leather manufacturers have agreed to a combination, which will be in effect a national patent leather trust, as 95 per cent of the patent leather manufactured in the United States is produced in Newark. It is probable that manufactories elsewhere in the country will be included in the deal. They have been, or will be, invited to join the combination. A man prominent in the patent leath er industry is former United States Sen ator James Smith. He is believed to be a prime mover in the new combination. Other local firms said to be working to have the deal consummated are F. P. Howell Co., Blanchard Bros. Lane, and S. Halsey's Sons. Economy in manufacture is the chief reason given for the consolidation. It also is believed that more equable ad justment of prices, which competition has caused to fluctuate and differ among firms, particularly as concerns carriage leather, would be desirable. Not in any way, it is said, is the con solidation in patent leather connected with the National Leather company, which is a combination of sole leather BRITISH MEMBERS n FEME, 0 manufacturers, or with the "upper" leather combine. .New Yorkers, who are said to have been endeavoring to in terest themselves in the scheme, will not be included, it is said. A patent leather combine has been talked of for ten years or more, but not until the present time has any definite and favorable project shaped itself. Now, it is said, the execution of the plan is a question of but a few weeks at the most. The capitalization of the new trust, it is said, will be between $10, 000,000 and $15,000,000. ON ITS LAST LEGS. Strike at Buffalo About to Come to an End. Buffalo, N. T.. May 22. The situa tion today indicates an early ending of the dock troubles. All of the elevators on the dock at which boats were moored or had work to do were at work today with full complements of monthly men (machinists, etc., in charge of ma chinery). All monthly men who began a sym pathetic strike last week went back to work today. The strikers at the North ern elevators were refused work but may be taken on later. About 75 imported men were sent back to New York today. The state board of mediation and arbitration resumed its sessions today without the new member, John S. Gil bert, of Syracuse, who succeeds Chair man Johnson, whose term expired on Saturday. Considerable work was being done at the Lackawanna, Erie Central docks by imported labor. The situation on the coal and ore docks is unchanged, only a very small number of men being at work. When the state board of mediation and arbitration met today it was an nounced that O'Connor who represented the contractors was out of town. Daniel Lockwood was present to represent the contractors and? asked for an adjourn ment. President Keefe of the International Longshoremen's union said that the representatives of the strikers would be busy today and tomorrow and that the work they would be engaged in would be of more Importance to the board than any evidence that could be adduced by the board. The board then adjourned until Wednesday morning. Mr. Keefe's statement was taken as an evidence that the strike was nearing an end. Contractor Connors was asked1 his view of the situation today and re sponded: "I have nine elevators at work and the monthly men have returned. The strike is on its last legs. I have plenty of men but I could use lots more." The imported men who returned to New York today were from the Lehigh Valley freight docks. BOARD OF TRADE RESCINDS. Chicago. May 22. The directors of the board of trade today rescinded the resolutions adopted by the board last week condemning the Connors grain contract at Buffalo. The following reso lution was adopted: Resolved, That it appears clear that the best interests of the business of the lakes and of the working men employed in such business will be conserved by a settlement on the lines and in the plan proposed by the lake carriers associa tion with the safeguards thrown about the administration of dock work under the supervision of Bishop Quigley and the inspector appointed by him. GRAND TRUNK STRIKE. The Section Men Demand $1.25 a Day. Tbronto, May 22. The section men on the Grand Trunk railroad recently asked for an increase in wages which was refused, and today the men, about 800 in number, went on strike. The men claim that under the present con ditions they could not make more than 85 to 98 cents a day, and asked that the minimum be $1.25. The Grand Trunk authorities say that unless the men re sume work by tomorrow they will be discharged and new men will bfr taken on. In the latter event, the Brother hood of Railway Trackmen will take up the matter in behalf of the men. The strike affects the system from Sar nia, Ont., to Portland, Me. MOTHER MUST WAIT. Cannot Get Body of Son Who Fell in Battle. Governor Stanley, at the request of Mrs. D. McTaggart, wrote to R. A. Alger, secretary of war, making a special request for the return from the Philippines of the body of her son, Lieut. McTaggart, who was killed. Mr. Alger has replied, saying that owing to the vigorous protests made by Gen. Otis, no bodies will be returned until the winter season. No Trouble at Bluefielris. Washington, May 22. The navy de partment has had no report from the captain of the Detroit, of any difficulty with the Nicaraguan officials, or of any collision with the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto, rumors of which reached here last night. The Detroit arrived at Bluefields May 11 and since that date no report has come from her. She was to take aboard1 the body of the late Gen. McAuley for transportation to the United States. Wages Raised in Colorado. Denver, May 22. Notice was given today of a general increase of 10 per cent in wages at the Bessemer Steel Works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo. About 1,700 men are benefited. f i rVrVi tVi iVt wwwwwww www wwwwwww. Elegant Prompt Family Washings CXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXD Topeka Steam Laundry, Phone 153. 625 Jackson St. mm fwmmwm twmtmm wwwwww CIIDM AM'Q Children's Shoes are of the best rUniwIHIi O wearing, at low prices. Mackerel Scared by Warships. From the Bangor Commercial.! Of late years mackerel have not been seen off the eastern coast of Maine. One explanation was given Monday by a prominent fisherman of Southwest Harbor, who was in Bangor on that day, who said: "We used to catch mackerel by the thousands down our way years ago, but the warships scared them away. Tou know they run in schools, and once they get seared from a certain lo cality they never again run that way. That's the only reason I can find as to why they don't come our way nowa days." Less is known about mackerel than of any other of our common food fish. It is known that the fish migrate northward in the spring and southward in the autumn, and that they came from some unknown place that is se cret to all of our experts. In May an enormous school strikes the coast of Yarmouth, N. S. This school evidently is separate from the southern army that advances from the southern coast. From the size and gen eral character of the mackerel off the Yarmouth coast it is believed that, as they have no connection whatever with the great schools from the south, they must come from out of the deep sea to the east. When the southern schools ha-ve advanced as far as Nantucket they suddenly disappear, leaving no trace behind them. Then the veteran mack erel fishermen pick up their traps and repair to the bays indenting the Massa chusetts coast, for it is there that the mackerel will next appear, where they stay in more or less numbers until well into August. The roving habit of the mackerel is thus shown. Besides these general movements, they have certain erratic habits that confound the fishermen and experts. They disappear from one place and reappear in the strangest manner. There is no accounting for these move ments any more than there is in ex plaining their migrations. Old fisher men who have grown gray in the work say that the mackerel are the most mystifying of all our salt water fish. They have learned to read the signs of their coming and going, but they can not explain them, nor can they account for their habits. They pursue them with a sort of intuition. One may be a good fisherman of other denizens of the deep in a short time, but to capture mackerel large experience is Required. NOT THE SAME. Telephone Companies Cannot Pre sume on Rights of Telegraph Companies. Washington, May 22. In the United States Supreme court an opinion was rendered today in the case of the City of Richmond vs. the Southern Bell Telephone company. The controversy involved the right of the telephone company to locate its poles and wires in the streets and alleys, regardless of the protests of the local municipal au thorities, the claim of the telephone company being made under the act of congress of 1866 granting such right generally to telegraph companies. The decision was favorable to the con tention of the city and adverse to the telephone company, the court holding that the concession to telegraph cora Danies could not be made to include telephone companies. The opinion was handed down by justice Harlan. No More Reduced Rates. Chicago, May 22. Western roads have agreed to cease making any reductions from the Missouri river to California for the transportation of volunteers re turning to their homes. This agree ment will go into effect June 1. At the same time it is expected the Southern Pacific will put into effect the same arrangement from New Orleans. Your linen left epotiess, American Steam Laundry. J12 West Seventh. Telephone 341. Work I Service Bundle Work EXPLORING WITH CASKS. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. A British geographical society Is about to make a departure in investi gating the poles. Some years ago Capt. George Melnoote, the famous explorer, was wrecked on an ice floe somewhere in the Arctic sea. His ship fell to pieces under the pounding of the bil- lows, but he and the crew escaped in a boat. The fragments of his craft were never found, yet on pulling away a strong current toward the pole was en countered. This set the explorer to thinking. If the pieces of his ship were carried off into the unknown seas, why might human agencies be not? So far the only reason for sending out expeditions northward has been mainly for the purpose of observing a daily record of events, such as latitude, longitude, soundings, daily drift, find ing the Arctic ocean's bottom where possible, and so forth, with the possibil ity of discovering the north pole. A far-seeing geographer asks: "Why undergo this human risk when It can be obviated with the use of oak casks?" It is never too late to adopt a good idea, and so, acting on the suggestion, the society in question is about to set afloat 100 specially made casks on arctic waters. These casks are to be made on the principle of a spindle, conical shaped at each end, of twenty gallons capacity, and iron hooped. They are to be set afloat in Bering Strait, and it is thought that at the end of four or five years they may be expected to turn up at Spitzbergen and Greenland, during which period they will have traveled round the pole. Should present geographical deductions be correct, these casks may demonstrate the exist ence of a current far enough to the north and west to meet the polar drifts which run southward along the east coast of Greenland, whence it turns to the westward, thence to the southward, where, as part of the Labrador pack, it eventually finds its way into the Atlan tic ocean. You can trace this route in the arctic regions on any good map of the world. So far as regards the stability of the casks to stand the great strain they are sure to be subjected to on their novel voyage, they will be made of heavy oak staves one and a quarter inches thick, bound round with heavy iron hoops three-sixteenths of an inch thick and two inches wide. Coated with a solu tion of pitch and resin, the casks will be placed on the heavy floe pieces that they may drift with the ice. Each cask is to contain a number of records, -printed in the principal languages of the world, these requesting the finder of any one cask to preserve the latter, but to send the records to the hydrographic office of his own country, such office in turn to send to all other important countries the other records found with in the cask, stating the latitude and longitude where found. GROWING MUSHROOMS. From the Meehan's Monthly. A Philadelphia correspondent desires to have mushrooms grow among the grass on his lawn, and asks how to go about "sowing the seed." The mush room "seed' is the fine black dust that is expelled from a ripening mushroom. It takes profound gardening skill to get these to grow, and it is only at tempted by those who make virgin spawn a business. Spawn is the mush room plant of which the mushroom it self is the inflorescence. This is the cob-like material that gives the mush room odor to the earth in which the mushrooms grow. It is not destroyed by dessication; but will live for years in a condition of absolute dryness. In this state the plant is sold by seedsmen in the form of mushroom bricks the plant having been made to grow thor oughly through the brick material, be fore entirely dried. These bricks are broken in pieces about the size of wal nuts and planted by those who culti vate mushrooms. Broken in pieces and planted in the lawn, the correspondent could have mushrooms. But, a little gardening knowledge is necessary. If planted at the wrong time the spawn would rot away. It will only start to grow under a temperature of 60 de grees and should be planted pnly when the soil is in a condition for the spawn's growth. The proper course to take is to test the earth by athermometer about midsummer, and. when the earth is found to be about this temperature set out the brick pieces between one or two inches deep, treading the, loosened earth compactly after the planting. Old grassy lawns are better than young ones, for it is believed that the fungus on dead grass roots favors the devel opment of the mushroom fungus. Cleaning Store Windows. A correspondent advises ns in regard to a method of cleaning windows which experience has taught him is far ahead of the window brush and rubber idea. The plan ts to put into a cheese cloth sack about one-half pound of whiting. A clean cloth wet enough to hold in the hand without dripping water and a clean old muslin cloth are the other re quirements. The whiting bag is drawn over the window, followed by the damp cloth, when the window is polished with the clean cloth. The description of the three applicantions may leave the irti pression, he remarks, that it will take a long time to clean the windows, but his experience has been that the ordinary boy who requires from one to two hours for cleaning a pair of windows with a brush and rubber can do the same job by the above method in from 20 minutes to half an hour. Iron Age. Your linen left spotless. American Steam Laundry. 112 West Seventh, Telephone 311.

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