The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 12, 1899

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i BAKER STOCK UP. Looks as Though He "Would Defeat Barton Easily. Has an Excellent Organization In Eyerj County. FEDERAL PATRONAGE. That Seems to HaTe GiTen Him an Advantage. Some Friends of Abilene 31an Would Hare Him Withdraw. The political friends of Senator Lucien Baker are jubilant over the prospects for the re-election of Mr. Baker to the senate next year. They claim that with in the past few months conditions have so adjusted themselves that there is now no doubt about Mr. Baker's suc cess in that direction. Then the declaration by Mr. Ingall3 that Mr. Baker deserves and is entitled to a second term in the senate has had considerable influence in the matter. The principal reason Mr. Baker's friends are so jubilant is found in the fact that he has a large and completely organized working force in every- county in the state. In many of the congressional dis tricts some of Mr. Burton's strongest workers have gone into the Baker camp and the Abilene gentleman finds him self under the necessity of perfecting a new organization throughout the state. In manv counties Mr. Burton's influence is dominant. There he will have no fences to repair, but in the larger con gressional districts he has lost many of his friends. There is another new feature in the contest which Mr. Burton does not con sider but some of his friends suggest that it would be wise or him next year to refrain from making a bitter light, such as he is organizing, against Mr. Baker.. One of his strongest friends taid to a Journal reporter today: "The chances are now that Mr. Baker will have an easy victory next year. The defeat of Mr. Burton in that con test means defeat forever. If he loses again he will not in the future be re garded even as a possibility for the senate. My idea of the situation is that Burton had better wait until the term of Senator Harris expires then try for that. This vacancy will occur in two years. Then Mr. Burton could enter the contest with advantages superior to those of any other candidate. Then he would have the additional advantage of having the support of the politicians who are now against him by reason of the fact that they are in honor bound to support Mr. Baker because he has conferred important political favors -upon them." Mr. Burton only laughs at this sug gestion, but it is a fact that some of his friends advise it. They claim that if the golden rule has any place in Kan sas politics the leaders of the party are in honor bound to support Mr. Baker. This claim is based upon the fact that he has rewarded all of the leaders with appointments. Mr. Baker recommended Cy Leland for pension agent. It is claimed that Mr. Leland would have landed the j' b under any circumstances, but on the other hand it is said that if Senator Baker had opposed his appointment it would have failej. Other men who have profited through the patronaee con ferred by Mr. Baker are as follows: Morton Albaugh, receiver of the Cross bank. Mike Sutton, internal revenue collec tor. T. T. Kelly, assistant state treasurer, receiver of a bank at Paola. Ike Lambert, United States attorney for Kansas. W. E. Sterne, fnited States marshal. Charles S. Jobes, national bank ex aminer. J. L. Bristow who is mentioned as a candidate for senator, was also nHnr.i,i by Senator Baker. Of course Mr. Bris- i iov owes n;s appointment largely to the influence o John P. Smithnow. formerly librarian in Ohio and MeKinley's closest friend at the time he was governor of Ohio. Smithnow and Bristow enjoved a close friendship and the president tik a fancy to Bristow when he made a tour through the state, accompanied by Bris tow. at the time secretarv of the state committee. Had Senator Baker opposed Mr. Uristow's appointment he would have made it difficult for the fourth as sistant postmaster general to land the i'lace. Frank L. Brown, secretarv of the Re publican state committee, owes his ap pointment as clerk of the circuit court to Mr. Baker. This is an undisputed fact because Sam Feters and y Leland had a quarrel which broke the iriend ship between them because Peters .would not in exchange for Leland' sup port of his candidacv for jud"e to suc ceed the late c. (i. Foster agree to mak Brown clerk of the court. Then Leland and Peters had the row which was men tioned in the Journal at the tim. Both J.eiand and Peters denied having had it They each submitted to interviews in a Republican paper branding the story as untrue. et, it was true. Judge Peters has since said so many times and now to his political friends admits it So does Leland for that matter. This quar rel was responsible for the fusti.m by Peters that Leland vacate and give bis job to Fred Fur.ston. Mr. Brown and the long nt of other workers in the party, it is claimed bv Baker s friends, must in honor support him for re-election. With these in fluences in his favor and the large num ber of men thereby brought into th contest to the aid of Mr. Baker his friends are confident of success. One of "Baker's short grass country friends said to a Journal reporter to day: "If the poiden rule- and the decalogue have a place in politics in Kansas- if the men who owe Baker political debts Incurred by reason of the appointments he has given them: if the federal office Holders have a sense of political honor and stand by their friend when he needs their help. Mr. Baker will win in a walk He has the organization and the men who can deliver the goods. Nothing but rank treachery will defeat him." The man who uttered these words was four years ago one of J. R. Burton's strongest supporters. He was indefat igable in his efforts to aid the can didacy of the Abilene man, but he now for Mr. Baker. This is true of many Burton workers In the last campaign. Mr. Baker has gathered into his fold some of the strongest men In the state. He has a complete organization. A similar con dition" is claimed for Mr. Burton. The election of a successor to Mr. Baker other than himself, would be an un precedented action in the party and this idea of following- precedent is strong. For this reason Burton is at a disad vantage at the outset. Senator Baker's friends insist that Burton should wait. Burton insists that he should go to the senate at once. FIRST HEARING. Court of Visitation Actually Com mences Business. The court of visitation had its first hearing Tuesday afternoon, concluding the case at a late hour, and taking it under advisement. The hearing was upon the application of the citizens of Corliss Junction, near Hoiliday, to compel the Santa Fe to maintain an agent at the station there. This is in the midst of an extensive po tato growing country, but only a short distance from other stations. The Santa Fe attorneys submitted the question of the constitutionality of the law creating the court in this case. Mr. A. A. Hurd claims that the law violates section 16 of article 2 of the constitution which provides that no more than one subject shall be found under one title in legislative measures. That is, the text of the bill must conform to the title. ONE ON GOV. KICHTER. State Printer Morgan Has a Story Which Is Too Good to Keep. "Billy, I have a friend in Leavenworth who wants to get a place in the state printing office. I hope you will be able to bring this about when you have a vacancy or a place in which you can put him. He is a good printer." "Is he a union man?" asked Morgan. "Xo, he was too young to join the army, but bis father served with the union forces," was the reply Richter made, according to Mr. Morgan. Mr. Richter claims that he did not thus display his ignorance. "What I did say was this." he said: "That my man is a Republican and all Republicans are union men." STILL INCREASING. Kansas Banks Overflowing With Money. Reports received by Bank Commis sioner Breidenthal from the banks un der his jurisdiction indicate that the de posits will exceed those reported in March by one and one-half million dol lars. This is the largest ratio of increase in Kansas deposits in the history of the state in a corresponding period. These reports are from the state and private banks, of which there are 367 in this state. TO GIVE A WAT. Gov Stanley Has an Art Scholarship For a Worthy GirL Governor Stanley has a free scholar ship worth 53lj for the course year in the school of industrial art and tech nical design for women in New York, to be conferred on some deserving Kansas Sirl- Garfield said once: "The most valua ble gift that can be bestowed on women is something to do which they can do w ell and w orthily and thereby maintain themselves." Florence Elizabeth Cory is president of the school. The directors recently held a meeting and decided that the governor of each state should be given a scholarship to be conferred upon some young woman who has talent but not the means to attend a school of art. The governor of Kansas has received the scholarship and is ready to hear or receive applications for it. DEWEY AT SUEZ. The Olympia ArriTes at the Canal Entrance. Suez. July 12. The Fnited States cruiser Olympia from Colombo, Ceylon, June 28. has arrived here. Admiral Dewey on arrival here on board the Olympia said he was in very good health. He appeared to be in ex cellent condition, which was also the case with his officers and men. Most of them have suffered from malarial fever, but have now quite recovered. Tha Olympia has been quarantined, no di rect communication with the shore be ing allowed. Consequently the repre sentative here of the Associated Press was only able to converse with the ad miral from a launch alongside the cruis er. After passing through the canal the Olympia will call at Trieste. Thereafter the admiral's plans are uncertain. Pos sibly he will go to Gibraltar, and thence to New York. GEN. WOOD'S WAL His Manner of Handling Yellow Fev er at Santiago. Santiago de Cuba, July 12. General Leonard Wood in command of the de partment of Santiago issued general or der No. 34 today, establishing absolute quarantine. All officers of the govern ment and employes are forbidden to en ter the city, with the exception of those belonging to the department. Major Carr and Surgeons Mendosa and Munez are detailed to take charge of the fever patients in the city which is placed under strict regulations. Oth er oiiicers will have charge of the yel low fever hospital on the island. The mayor is directed to close all American hotels and saloons, to forbid other li quor dealers to sell intoxicants to Americans and to arrest all intoxicated Americans or loiterers in saloons. The principal hotels and saloons are desig nated by name. The pack trains have been ordered to establish camps outside the city and all the troops will be moved to Songo, ex cept one company at Morro Castle. The headquarters of all the depart ments were moved today to Crysto and the railroad and steamship lines are forbidden to bring Americans into the city. Xo ship are permitted to touch at the wharves. The strictest regula tions have been established for protec tion from fever of the company of sol diers at Morro Castle. Supplies are to be left at a road depot and will be ta ken to the soldiers by teams from the camp. No travelers will be permitted to leave here without having under gone five days detention in camp. Gen. Wood proposes to adopt heroic measures to stamp out the fever. Weather Indications. Chicago, July 12. For Kansas: Show ers and thunder storms this afternoon and tonight: Thursday probably fair southerly winds. BOSSJULED Each of the Political Parties In Kentucky Appears to Be Under Control of One Man. TAYLOR 1IAS A GRIP On the Republican Organization That Is as Tight As That of Goebel on the Democracy. Lexington, Ky., July 12. After two days of skirmishing the delegates to the Republican state convention to-lay met for business. District meetings were held during the forenoon. After all the preliminary canvassing and conferences the lines of Attorney General "W. S. Taylor, candidate for governor remain ed unbroken. The opposition is devoted to attacks that are intended to make the nomination undesirable for Taylor under the circumstances. But it is con ceded that the Deboe-Taylor machine can do as it sees fit. The Taylor men secured the tempor ary organization of the convention and all other preliminary points at the meet ing of the state central committee last night and started off on the assembling of the convention with everything in their hands. liARD AT WORK. Teachers Have Settled Sown to Busi ness at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal., July 12. Today the N. E. A. convention has settled down to steady, hard work, there being eleven departments holding sessions in the af ternoon in addition to general sessions both morning and evening. Mrs. Helen Grenfell, state superin tendent of public instruction of Colora do, read a paper in the general session bearing the suggestive title of "Quo Vadimus." which bore upon relations existing and which ought to exist be tween the school and the home. L. D. Harvey, superintendent of pub lic instruction of Wisconsin, in dealing with "Fundamentals in teaching" struck a respondent note in outlining how far the individual freedom of the teacher is bounded by the organization of the school curriculum. In the several departments sessions almost the entire gamut of education was discussed, from child study through the kindergarten and grammar grades, the polytechnic and art branches to the ultimate points of a business college curriculum on the one hand and the uni versity course on the other. In the initial stage of what in its en tirety was a prolonged discussion of ex isting nethods. child study was taken up as the missing link between the home and the school, and at the other end of the continuous line. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford univer sity, and Dr. Nicholas M. Butler of Columbia university, engaged in a dis cussion on the practicability of a nat ional university a question of the greatest interest and importance to ed ucators as well as cultured people throughout the country. In addition to these various phases of educational effort, the highly specialized form of education adapted to the needs of the deaf, blind and feeble minded has been under consideration; the physical education has not been neglected and a patriotic tinge has been given to the entire proceedings by a discussion be fore the Herbert society of the "Signifi cance of the frontier in American history'-" NOT FOR SALE. Reply to a Proposition to Buy Captured Spanish War Ships. Washington, July 12. An offer from a prominent firm of shipbrokers doing a large foreign business to purchase the Reina Mercedes and any and all of the other war craft captured during the late war has aroused a suspicion that Spain is trying in this indirect manner to ob tain possession of the vessels and thus remove the offence to Spanish pride caused by the floating of the American flag over her ships. The offer mention ed no figures, but simply requested that the navy department name its price for the Mercedes and the remainder of the captured Spanish ships. The navy de partment will not sell any of these ves sels and that answer will be returned to the writer of the letter. Secretary Long has decided that it would not pay to attempt to renovate the Mercedes and use her as a warship. The cost would be no less than half a million dollat-3 and the ship would, when re paired, be of old type and not up to the requirements of a modern naval ship. Therefore the repairs to be made on hr will be confined to a little painting, cleaning and patching and the Mercedes will be left as a show ship like the old Constitution, to gratify the patriotism of the American people. ATTORNEY SUES. A. H. Case Will Try to Collect $495 From Eli G. Nadeau. A. H. Case has filed a suit in the dis trict court against Eli G. Nadeau, ask ing for judgment for J495 for attorney's fees. Mr. Case's original claim was $500, but he says Mr. Nadeau has paid him J5. The case in which Mr. Cace claims to have rendered Nadeau $".00 worth of lawyer's services was the suit brought against Mr. Nadeau by David Laugh ton in 1S94. It was a hard fought suit, being carried through various courts until it reached the United States su preme court in 1897, where it is still pending. Bonds Purchased. Thestate school fund commissioners have invested in the following bonds: JO.") in Jeweli county. $sCN) in McPherson coun ty. Sl.OuO in Riley county. $2,500 in Leaven worth county. These are school district bonds ana bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. Alger Will Go to Long Branch. Washington. July 12. Secretary and Mrs. Aiger will leave Washington next Friday to spend Saturdav and Sunday at Long Branch with Vice President Hobart. The secretary was a guest of the vice president last summer for a day or two and was so well pleased with his enter tainment by- the vice president, who is his intimate friend, that he wiil repeat the trip. FOR SHOOTING PIGEONS A. B. Daniels and J. A. B. Elliott Ar rested on Charge of Denver Humane Society. Denver, Colo., July 12. Alvin B. Dan iels, of Denver, and J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, were arrested last night on warrants issued by Justice Nichols, of Golden, on complaint of the Humane pociety, on a charge of killing pigeons. The Colorado laws permits the shooting of pigeons at the trap, but the Humane society claims it is invalid. Daniels, who is a milionaire, will test the law in the highest courts. This is the result of the recent match between Elliott and Daniels. VOLUNTARY PRISONER. Dr. II. Z. Gill Allows Himself to Be Locked In a Room at State House. Dr. H. Z. Gill made another rally late Tuesday afternoon to get back his place as secretary of the stste board of health. He went to the office with his lunch in a basket and declined to leave when the time came to close the office last night. Dr. Swan locked the office and left Dr. Gill a prisoner, because the latter de clined to vacate. Dr. Gill spent the night in the ofiice sleeping on a pile of carpet in one corner of the room. The doctor declined to vacate at noon today and was again locked in. He says he proposes to take up permanent head quarters in the office until such time as he regains possession of the job. Dr. Gill takes his meals in the office from a basket which he carried into the office last night. He slept with the windows closed last night and thereby had a real Turkish bath. Today a job was put up on Gill. A note was sent to him telling of three cases of smallpox. He replied by say ing: "I am unable to leave the ofiice to look you up because I would be locked out by one "W. B. Swan who claims to be secretary and carries the key to the ofiice." Later a telephone call was sent to Dr. Gill, but he replied by telling the mes senger that he was too busy to leave the ofiice. He explains that he is locked in the office during a greater part of the time and is unable to attend to the business of the department. Gill will be enjoined from interfering with the department. SURGEONS ASSIGNED To the New Regiment of Volunteers (Being Becruited. "Washington, July 12. Volunteer of ficers of the medical department have been assigned as follows: To the 26th infantry, U. S. V.. headquarters Platts burg Barracks, N. Y., Major Charles K. Mason, surgeon. Capt. Frederick Washington, jr., as sistant surgeon: First Lieutenant John E. Boyd, assistant surgeon. Tc the 27th infantry, U. S. V.. head quarters. Camp Meade, Pa.: Major Og den Rafferty, surgeon: Captain James H. Hepburn, assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Leonard K. Graves, assis tant surgeon. To the 28th infantry. IT. S. V., head quarters. Camp Meade, Pa.: Major Thomas C. Chalmers, surgeon; Captain S. Chase De Krafft. assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Allen J. Black, assis tant surgeon. To the 2Uth infantry. TJ. S. V., head quarters. Fort McPherson: Major Charles G. L. Anderson, surgeon; Cap tain James C. Miner, assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Lomax S. Anderson, assistant surgeon. To the 3fth infantry. TJ. S. V., head quarters Fort Sheridan, Ills.: Major John K. McDill. surgeon: Captain James J. Erwin. assistant surgeon; First Lieu tenant Albert H. Eber, assistant sur geon. To the Thirty-first infantry. TJ. P. V.. headquarters Fort Thomas. Ky., Major John Henry, surgeon; Captain Abram L. Haines, assistant surgeon: First Lieutenant Ralph S. Porter, assostant surgeon. To the Thirty-second infantry, TJ. S. V., headquarters Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Maj ir Frank C. Armstrong, sur geon: Captain John W. Hereford, assist ant surgeon: First Lieutenant Wm. H. Cook, assistant sttrgeon. To the Thirty-third infantry, TJ. S. V., headquarters Fort Sam Houston. Texas, Major B. Albert Lieberman. surgeon: Captain W. E. Parker, assistant sur geon. To the Thirty-fourth infantry, IT. P. V., headquarters Fort Logan. Colo., Major James E. SheUenberger, surgeon: Captain Frank W. Foxworthy. assistant sursreon: First Lieutenant Patrick J. McKenna. assistant surgeon. To the Thirty-fifth infantry IT. S. V.. headquarters Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Major Julius A. Schuelke. sur geon: Captain L. N. Gandy, assistant surgeon; Lieutenant Metzger, assistant surgeon. F0 R ANNEXATIO N. Cuban Property Holders Said to Be Unanimous. Washington. July 12. Brigadier General Roser. who has .iust reache-1 Washing ton from Cuba, called at the White House today. General Rosier has been mustered out and is on his way home to Virginia. When asked about Ciibfin affairs he said: "Many things are moving along smooth ly, but there is almost universal com plaint about the enforcement of tariff rules and laws at Havana. The trouble, of course, is that military men hive not been trained in these matters. The dif ferent officials fix different duties on gO'-Hi." When asked about the senMment for an nexation General Rosser said: "No man on the island with a dollar's worth of propertv ever wants to se th Cnited States flag pulled iown. They know it woul.i mean anarchy, chaos and oppres sion." New Rich Diggings Victoria. B. C, July 12. The steamer "Willap brought news this morning of the discovery of rich beach diggings at Wreck Bay, five miles from TJcluctet on the west coast cf Vancouver island. W ith the crudest appliances. S9 a day i3 being washed out. One prospector took a pan to the beach and washed out $2.50. Great excitement prevails and farmers are abandoning their farms to engage in gold washing. Trade With Brazil Declines. Washington, July 12. Contrary to common belief the trade between the United States and Brazil last year showed a falling off, both in exports and imports. The figures quoted in a repcrt to the state department by T'nited States Consul Hill at Santos show that while the exports to Brazil decreased half a million dollars in the past year the imports fell off no less than twelve million dollars. FEE $000,000 For Floating the Mexican Sew Gold Loan. J. P. Morgan Co., Will Trans act the Business. BOOKS OPEX TODAY In New York and Various European Capitals. Bonds Offered Amount to $110, 095,000 o Per Cents. New Tork July 12. J. P. Morgan Co. announce today the terms of the Mexican gold loan of 1S99, amounting to $110,095,000 in American gold, 22.700, 000 pounds in the English equivalent and 463,080,000 German marks. This is the largest financial scheme ever under taken by the Morgan houses and it is presumed their fee will be largely in excess of $1,000,000 which was their fee in several railroad reorganizations. The issue will be made simultaneously in Berlin, Frankfort, Amsterdam, Lon don and New York. The subscription books will be opened at 10 o'clock this morning and will re main open until September 1 and the bonds will be made out to "bearer" and will bear 5 per cent interest. The principal and interest of the bonds are payable in gold, free from all present and future Mexican taxes. The bonds are to be issued at SSVb per cent of their par value together with in terest accrued from July 1. 1SS9. to time of payment, that is J65.15 and interest 1 per bond of $9iO or 200 pounds. In announcing the loan J. P. Morgan Co. say: "The bonds or their proceeds, are in tended exclusively to retire the exist ing foreign loans of the United States, of Mexico, viz.: the 6 per cent loans of 1S88, 1S.40 and 1893, and the 5 per cent Tehuantepec loan heretofore issued in London and Berlin." AMERICAN BOATS And American Cars to Operate at Paris Exposition. Washington, July 12. Commander Baker w ho is chief assistant in the engi neer's department of the American conij mission to Paris has arrived in Washing ton. He says that the new landing place on the Seine, which has been se cured by Mr. Peck, will be located di rectly in front of the American build ings. The purpose is to run a line of steamers carrying the American flag from the American buildings to Charen ton, a distance of about seven miles. A model American street railway will run from Charenton to Brussels so that passengers may travel by either water or rail on American lines. AN ILL WIND, ETC. Rain That Ruined Texas Cotton In One Place Helped It In Another. Austin, Tex., July 12. The cotton ex change in this city has completed today the work of carefully tabulating the losses in the cotton crop attendant upon the Brazos river flood. They rind that the loss in the Brazos bottom will be 200.000 bales of cotton, representing $5,000,000. They also find that the heavy rains which produced the floods and ruined the crops in the bottom have benefited cotton growing on the upper lands proportionately, so that by far the best corn harvested in years will be produced from theuplands thrs season, and they predict that the floods will have little effect on the cotton yield of Texas. 1IIS WIFE IS RICH. But Albert Crosby Has Nothing But His Clothes. New Tork. July 12. Albert Crosby of Brewster, Mass.. and formerly rich and prominent in Chicago, where he owned Crosby's opera house and the Mavoy Brewing company, was examined in bankruptcy proceedings here today. In his petition he described his assets as consisting of a few old clothes. He lives in a handsome home on Cape Cod. Mrs. Crosby testified today that she owns the estate at Brewster, has $160,000 cash in bank, mortgages for $160,000 more, real estate valued at $50,000 and furniture and paintings valued at $12,000, besides her claim for $50,000 against Mr. Crosby for advances made by her to him from time to time. Mr. Crosby said he had owned noth ing since 1875, when he gave his all to his wife. Since then he has lived by borrowing from her. he asserts. They usually spend the winters abroad and the summers at Brewster. The city of Chicago holds a Judgment of $500,000 against Crosby, who was a surety on the bond of David A. Gage, when the latter, as city treasurer of Chicago, defaulted in a very large sum. Crosby is also heavily involved in In diana.. TOWNSHIP FAIR. Mission Center Farmers Will Try the Experiment. The people of Mission township have reached an advanced position. No com munity of farmers devotes more time to the study of practical subjects and their advancement is attracting atten tion all over Kansas. Their latest scheme is to hold a town ship fair. An association has been or ganized with H. H. Wallace as presi dent and the fair will be held on Sep tember 21 and 22. The fact that the people of Mission Center are interested insures the success of the venture. One of the few Grange organizations which has survi'ed the test of time is Oak Grange at Mission Center and this lodge is still the moving power in the township. The members are now en gaged in arranging for the fair. It is in this community that the Far mers' Institute originated. This insti tution has been transplanted to many counties in the state. It is a kind of post graduate course for the farmer and continues about a week. College professors and other learned men deliver lectures and the farmers have experience meetings. The fair which will be held in Septem ber will be a practical illustration of the results of the improved method of farm ing. Among the most prominent of the pro moters are John B. Sims, A. H. Buck man. Bradford Miller and Thomas Buckman. GENTRI'S FAST MILE. Kansas Horse Faced the Distance In 2:02 3-4. Detroit, Mich., July 12. John R. Gen try's mile in 2:02 was the feature of yesterday's harness race at Highland park. He went against the track record of 2:02 and while he failed to beat it, paced a magnificent mile. His time by quarters was: 0:31Vi. 1:01, 1:33, 2:024.. It was the fast mile of the year. Driver Schuyler was fined $25 for pulling La verna in the first heat of the 2:15 pace. Results: 2:24 trot Lady Wellington won in straight heats. Time 2:26, 2:15, 2:18. 2:15 pace Roan Dick won in straight heats. Time 2:14. 2:16, 2:14. 2:35 trot Dan Wilkes won the second third and fourth heats. Time 2:16, 2:1S, 2:1S. Chain Shot won the first heat in 2:1S. EIGHT KANSAS MEN Will Hold Commissions In the Jiew Volunteer Regiments. Eight Kansas soldiers will hold com missions in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh volunteer regiments now being organized in the Philippines. Frederick R. Dodge, formerly of To peka, will be a captain. He is now second lieutenant of I company of the Twentieth Kansas. Dodge started in with the regiment as sergeant major. He had served an enlistment in the reg ular army before joining the volunteer regiment and to his knowledge of army life is due to a large part the efficiency of the non-commissioned officers of the regiment. It was apparent from the first that he would rise but he was re peatedly recommended for promotion before he was recognized. He is one of the few to rise from the ranks. Daniel F. Craig, of Garnett, now lieu tenant of E company. Twentieth Kan sas, will be a captain. When Captain Charles M. Christy resigned the cap taincy of the company the men were desirous of having Craig made captain but Gen. Funston recommended an other. W. H. Bishop of Salina, formerly cap tain of M company. Twentieth Kansas from Salina, won the junior major's straps when the officers of the regiment were advanced on account of Colonel Funston's promotion. He will be a ma jor. Henry B. Orwig, of Girard, and cap tain of D company. Twentieth Kansas, will be a major in the new regiment. E. L. Glasgow, of Salina, captain of M company. Twentieth Kansas, was a lieutenant when he left here and was presented with a handsome sword by friends. He succeeded Bishop as cap tain and will now be a captain in one of the new regiments.- Thomas B. Hayson, of Burlingame, who was captain of G company of the Twenty-first Kansas, will be a cap tain. Charles A. Phillips, of Holton, who was captain of D company of the Twenty-second Kansas, will be a cap tain, and George R. Crawford of Man hattan, and first lieutenant in M com pany of the Twenty-second, will be a second lieutenant. OFF THE KOCKS. The Steamer Paris Has Seen Floated. London, July 12. The salvagers have moved the American line steamer Paris for a distance of 150 yards and have shift ed the vessel's position slightly to the eastward. They hope to be able to get the after stoke hold tires alight. The Paris is now clear of the rocks. The intention of the salvagers was simply to slew the stern of the liner so as to facilitate the operations of the div ers, but it was found that she moved more freely than was expected.. Three salvage boats alone practically removed her from a critical position unaided. She still has a distinct list to the starboard and can not be assumed out of danger. The tugs are preparing to tow her to Falmouth harbor. J. G. JOHNSON IN CHICAGO. Democratic Leader Will Attend Meet ing of Executive Committee. J. G. Johnson of Peabody was in town today and left for home on the after noon train. Mr. Johnson is a member of the executive committee of the Xat ional Democratic committee which meets in Chicago the latter part of July. This meeting will be a preliminary one to talk over plans for the regular meet ing of the committee which will take place later in the year. At the meeting in Chicago some ac tion may be taken In regard to the at tempt of Kansas City in having the next convention held there. Kansas City has already raised $40,000 for this purpose. Bad Man Hatfield Surrenders. Chicago July 12. A special to the Record from Louisville. Ky., says: Elliso Hatfield, the noted desperado and son of "Devil Anse" Hatfield, leader of the Hattield-McCoy feud that cost 141 lives, has surrendered to Governor Atkinson, of West Virginia, in person. Hatfield shot Deputy Sheriff Ellis a week ago and has been holding off a posse in the Kentucky mountains. He sent word that he would surrender to Governor Atkinson only. Championship Tennis Tournament. Chicago, July 12. Rain retarded the progress of the western championship tennis tournament at Kenwood yester day. A heavy downpour at 1 o'clock soaked the courts and left them too soft for use until late in the afternoon. Flay was begun at 5 o'clock, but was confined to the matches in doubles. The be.st tennis of the tournament was seen In the few team matches plaved. Bond and Coiiins appeared for the first contest together and displayed champion ship form. They were obhared to p!ay their best to win against Street and Car ter. Champion Collins was given the brunt of the playing by Street and Car ter and he lid his work well. Haekett and Allen, the Yale men. ap peared in doubles and made a eood im pression. They played two matches and won both with great ease, one without dropping a game. MacQuiston Bros, found no difficulty in their match with Peters and Bailey. Sum maries: Lioubles Preliminary round. Patten and McConneil defeated Magee and Ba ker. 6-L 4-i. T-5. 6-2. First round Hacket and Allen defeated Levalley and Kellogg. 6-2 6-2, li-l. Bond and Coiiins defeated Street and Carttr. 6-3. 6-3. t-7. Mundv and McKeever defeated Condee and Paulson, 6-4. 6-2, 3-6. 6-3. McQuiston Bros, defeated Peters and BaLey. 6-0. 6-2. 6-3. Second round Haekett and Allen defeat ed Bridges and Fox. 6-0. 6-0, S-r. Doubles Roche and Xeely aeainst Pat ten and McConneil. 6-3, 9-7, unfinished. One match singles w&d played, Corrs beating Brooks, 6-3, 6-0. TRAINJIELD UP. Four Men Stop the Colorado Southern Express. CoTer the Crew AVith Guns and Blow Open the Car. DIDN'T GET A CENT. Passengers and Mall Car Were Not Molested. There Was Much Money In tha Express Safe. Trinidad, Colo., July 12. Southbound passenger train No. 1, on the Colorado 8s Southern railway, was robbed by four men at a point five miles south of Fol som, X. M. The hold up occurred at 10:30 o'clock last night at the same point at which the passenger train was held up laat September. After the train had been brought to a standstill, and the crew had been intimi dated by guns, the robbers used dyna mite with good effect, blowing open tha sides of the express car. Superintendent Webb and the Wells Fargo express agent. Glover, both state positively that nothing was secured by the robbers. Superintendent Webb left for the scena of the hold up on a special train, accom panied by officers with horses. He Is confident he will be able to overtake tha robbers. There were but few passengers in tha train and they were not molested. As soon as the robbers had searched the express car they mounted horses, which were hitched near by and tiring a few shots to alarm trainmen and pas sengers, fled without any attempt to go through the mail car. Parties here who claim to know say that there was a large amount of money in the express safe, as well as vaiuabla express matter. PAUL JONES' BONES. Dug Up and Thrown Into Pot ter's Field. "Washington, July 12. Inquiry was re cently made at the state department in regard to the grave of John Paul Jones, the great naval hero of revolutionary days, who died in Paris July 18, 1782. He was buriecT'there with the highest hon ors by the French government but it appears that the present location of his grave is not known. The secretary of state recently addressed a letter to Mr. Henry Vignaud of the United States embassy in Paris asking whether- the grave of John Paul Jones in Paris is known. He has received a reply from Mr. Vigaud saying that although he hasi made earnest and frequent inquiries of city authorities in regard to the matter, he has been unable to discover the; whereabouts of the grave. One thins established by his inquiries, however, he says, is that John Paul Jones waa not buried in the cemetery where tha remains of Lafayette lie, as has been supposed by some people. In another quarter it is intimated that owing to a custom prevailing in Parts1 the remains of John Paul Jones were deposited in a rented grave for a term of years and that upon the expiration of the lease a great many years ago tha bones of this distinguished American, partiot were thrown into the potter's held. tm. BIRD WILL ANSWER. Decides on the Method of Pro cedure In Citj Hall In junction Suit. City Attorney Bird has not filed a de murrer to the petition in tho auditorium injunction suit, nor will he do so. On. the contrary he is preparing an answer to the petition this afternoon, and it will probably be filed tomorrow morning; in time to give the obstructionists time to prepare for it by Friday morning, tha time set by Judge Hazeii for the hear ing. I would have filed a demurrer," said Mr. Bird this afternoon, "had it not been for one allegation in the petition which could not be admitted. That was tha allegation that the purpose for which the city wishes to erect the auditorium is to let it for hire for political conven tions, entertainments, and gatherings of different kinds. The answer which I shall tile, however, will be in such form that the other side can demur to it, if they wish to have the question coma up on a demurrer." in the answer which Mr. Bird is pre paring in behalf of the city he will ad mit practically everything in the peti tion of the obstructionists, except that allegation which says the auditorium is to be built for rental purposes for po litical and other gatherings. This allega tion he will deny. The answer will further set forth tha fact that the auditorium bonds have al ready been sold to Dennison, Pryor Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, and a copy of th contract will be appended. Mr. Bird will make the claim that the purchasers1 of the bonds wiil necessarily have to ba made parties to the suit to make it hold good. Another allegation, and one which even persons who never saw the inside of a law book can readily, grasp, is that the state of Kansas has no interest in the suit whatever, and that the county attorney has no right to prosecute or maintain the action in the name of tha state. HEADED OFF AUAIX. No Chance for American Beef to Enter Germany. Washington. July 12. Acting Scrotary Brig ham of the agricultural iVi-artment hinA a conference wit h the prcMnt i his morning-. Both the agricultural an-1 stce ilpdrtrnents have rfCivtM in formal ion, that Belgium has removM som of the restrictions as to the importat ion oC American beef cattle and beef. Th- agri cultural department has been informe'l that Germany, upon learning of action, immediately issued a decree un favorable to beef products from B-isium. Secretary Hay said this morning that tha state department had not yet revived ad vices as to Germany' a taking the actiua

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, WEDNESDAY EVEXIXG, JULY 12, 1899. DEPEWJtf HOME. New York Statesman Says the Tariff Wall Must FalL Returns From Europe CnTinced Frotectioa is Orerdone. TYE CAX'T COMPETE. The Senator Formerlj Strong est of Tariff Advocates. Peace Conference a Farce and Amounts to Naught. New York, July 12. Chauncey M. De pew, accompanied by bis son, cams borne on the Campania Senator Depew was the one all-eclipsing detail of the Campania. The voyage will live in Cunard line annals as the "Depew trip." Fourth oT July came at sea, and If such a thing as a lack of patriotic fervor ex isted among: the cabin passengers Depew was there to supply it. When at the dinner on the night of the Fourth the Karl of Donoughmore, K. C. M.. stumbied through a long speech up to the point of proposing: the health of Presi dent McKiniey, the New York senator eprangr to his feet and, returning the com pliment in a characteristically efferves cent burst, cried: "Let us drink to her majesty, the Queen of Great Britain and impress of India," At the usual mid-ocean corcert, too, on last "Wednesday evening he made a speech appealing equally to Knglish and Ameri can auditors. lie told how England was our friend during our war with Spain, how Englishmen loved Americans, and how Americans reciprocated in kind. The speech mavie a hit. EVERYONE TALKS OF IT. Everyone on board was still talking about "it when the New York Central's little tugboat Despatch came alongside the Campania at Quarantine. A number of railroad officials were on "board the Despatch. They greeted their "piiairmiin" with a cheer, and carried him off in triumph to the foot of East Forty second street, where his carriage was waiting. The senator and his son were driven to his residence. No. 27 West Fifty fourth street. There Dr. Depew received his Interviewer. In his terse, positive, epigrammatic way Senator Depew went over a range of sub jects that began with the Philippines and ended with the Boston Albany. "Wo will be the laughing stock of the whole world if we don't keep what we have got in the Philippines," he began. "On the continent they have in a way taken it for granted that we are going to stay there, and they have stopped wor rying about us, but in England they still manifest great curiosity to see how we are going 10 come out in the first wrestle with 'The White Man's Burden.' "A prominent Englishman expressed the universal sentiment of his country when he said to me, the other day: 'You Americans will learn by and by that you have to deal with the Filipinos as we deal with the East Indians. Square the leaders. Ask Aguinaldo and a few of his generals how much of a money inducement it would take to make them live in Hong Kong for awhile, then take the arms away from their followers and put a strong garrison in every town.' "Europe will derive no practical result from the peace conference now in prog ress at The Hague, although it is trans parent that a discussion of the possibili ties of universal peace has a tendency to ultimately bring it about, because it makes the nations more familiar with the subject and gradually overcomes their prejudices against it. "Germany and Turkey do not submit to arbitration. The positions of the kaiser and the saltan are Identical on this sub ject. "They both believe they are always di vinely right in everything, consequently they cannot be wrong when they want to make war. To question that right by re eort to arbitration would be an infringe ment of the primary privilege of king ahip. "The United States and Great Britain both favor arbitration, and France in the mam agrees with them. "Nations which do not have lar?re navies advocate a decrease In the sea armament f the world, while governments with small armies are strong advocates of land disarmament. "The whole conference reminds me of a Yankee horse trade, where the horse own ers sit under a shed and whittle all day, each hoping that the other will get the worst of the bargain. "They are much worried on the other Bide just now over the large sales which American manufactured products are hav ing everywhere. In some cases driving English goods practically out of the mar ket. "The newspapers abound In all sorts of theories as to the reason. "They say it is because English work Jngmen don't eat the right kind of food and a lot of other stunt equally foolish. The real reason is apparent to every American. "As I told my English friends. wepro duce more per man than they do. They work under a lot of old hi'le-bound rules, which prevent their producing the results we do. With 25 per cent higher wages in this country, the average workingman turns out 33 1-3 per cent more product of a better quality, than the English rival. "The individual workingman is more in telligent than che Englishman. He eats better food and drinks less. "This successful American competition Is having one curious effect on English men. It leads them to infer that we. like themselves, are after foreign markets, and that consequently we shall be with them in forcing Anglo-American products through the 'open door" of China." Then Senator Depew, one of the strong est advocates that high tariff has ever had, said a rather strange thing. It was this: "The competition of our products In Eu ropean markets proves that the time is coming when a great many protected ar ticles must be put on the free list. If they can be sold cheaper and better than foreign manufactures, our tariff wall must be gradually taken, down to meet the changed conditions, "What impressed me most In this last visit to Europe was the stability and per manency of English and American insti tuUons as compared with those of other nations. Take France, for example. Just see what an awful mess they aro In with three parties in the chamber of deputies, each with the openly avowed oblect of overthrowing the government. Fortun ately they violently disagree as to meth ods, so that it is nor. likelv anv one of them will ever succeed. The desire to make the exposition oi VKto a success is the chief Influence that deters the French people from bringing about a reign of chaos in the Republic- "Anti-semitism is rampant. Its exist- affety MOTHER'S FRIEND (the teraal liniment), is a true safe guard for expect ant mothers. It helps them thro" the early stages without morning sickness, and as the critical hour approaches it relaxes and relieves the overstrained muscles. Labor is shortened and robbed of nearly all pain. Safe delivery is assured, and the danger of rising or swelled breasts entirely avoided. Quick recovery and strong offspring are certain. Druggists sell It for $1 a bottl. Send for our free illnetrated book oa tha aubj set. TUB 13JLBTXt9 IXSULATCK CO, Atlanta, 6S ence Is due only to the fact that thehigher class Frenchmen, not being educated to business, do not make money and succeed as well as the Jews. '"How do you manage to get along with the Jews in America?' a Frenchman asked me. T don't get along with them as Jews, at all." I replied. 'I deal with them simply as men and human beings. We have a good many Jews in New York, but there are a few Gentiles, too, and somehow or other the Gentiles manage to make a liv ing.' The senator said that Secretary of "War Alger was "a much abused man. and suf fering the pounding and unpopularity that are only incidental to his position." "The absorption of the Boston Al bany," he added, "was one of the best things the New York Central ever did. For years It has been our gateway to New England. It is a splendid road. The re lations between us were so necessary to both of us that we simply determined to make them permanent by buying it." "And how about the Pennsylvania?" was the last question. "The Central and the Pennsylvania rail road," was the reply, "are of necessity tremendous rivals, but they have got to remain on the most friendly terms. It is a misuse of terms to say they have form ed an alliance, but they have come to a better understanding than ever before." THE PLAIN TKLTII Told About the Philippine 'War by a Hong Kong Newspaper. From the Hong Kong Telegraph. There can be no possible room for doubt that the Americans will ulti mately gain the day In the Philippines but the present attitude of the Filipinos leads one to believe that it will only be gained by a war of extermination. And the question naturally arises as to whether the establishment of American rule throughout the islands is worth such an expensive war and also wheth er the ends to be gained would Justify the means. The United States, we are told. Is now busily bringing the blessings of a free and republican government to the Fil ipinos. At least that is supposed to be the reason for subduing the Philippines. But the Filipinos apparently do not want to be liberated any more than they have been, and are quite ready and willing to look after themselves and to dispense with the aid of the United States except as a protecting power. If all that the Americans aim at Is the establishment of an independent government under the protection of the United States, it does not appear to us that it Is worth while to waste such a large amount of money and such hun dreds of lives in fighting the people whom they are apparently so anxious to befriend. It would be far cheaper, and we be lieve far more satisfactory to a very large proportion of the people of the United States, were honorable terms arranged with the Filipinos, and this war, which can certainly bring no glory to the American nation, brought to a satisfactory close. As we have frequently pointed out, the whole blame for the present situa tion in the Philippines is attributable to the total lack of policy displayed by the Americans from the first. They did not know their own minds and allowed the Filipinos to see this plainly. What wonder then that the Filipinos should mistrust them now? First, Aguinaldo was to be treated as the trusted ally of the Americans, and he was so treated. Then arrived the American troops, and the Filipinos were ignored. Next the Filipinos were not offered any opportunity of express ing their views on the future of their country prior to the ratification of the peace treaty with Spain, and of all that followed we are only too well aware. The Americans have all along made the mistake of looking upon the Fili pinos as savages and treating them as such, and now it is too late to mend matters. At the commencement of the Spanish American war the Americans had the trust and respect of the Filipinos, and a very small modicum of consideration and diplomacy would have enabled them to have retained those friendly feelings and to have been today in peaceful occupation of the country. It must not be thought that we are antagonistic to the American cause. Such is not the case; but we must say, and eay plainly, that we are sorry to see that instead of the Filipinos being introduced to the benefits of peace and a just and civilized form of government, they are now likely to be cursed by a war of extermination, and all on- ac count of the bungling and mismanage ment of certain officials of the United States. Had matters been left in the hands of Admiral Dewey we do not for a mo ment believe that things would have come to such a pass. His upright sail or's nature would have guided him aright. But when matters are dealt with by consuls and diplomatists who are far from the scene of action and have no knowledge of the country or people to be dealt with, then disaster is only too frequently the result, as af fairs in the Philippines have shown. TO ALASKA'S WILDS. Mrs. Harrington Mason Follows Con gressman Sulzer. New York, July 12. Friends of Con gressman William Sulzer were interest ed today in a story that Mr. Sulzer, on his way to Alaska on a fishing trip, has been pursued from New York by "Mrs. Harrington,"who declared that she was the fiancee of the representative. According to the story, Mr. Sulzer and a New York friend arrived at Van couver, B. C, on Wednesday, and on the following day Mrs. Harrington put in an appearance, evidently to the dis comfiture of Mr. Sulzer, who early on Friday morning slipped quietly away from his hotel and boarded a steamer bound for Alaska. It was said that he did not succeed in eluding the vigilance of Mrs. Harrington, who obtained pas sage on the same vessel. In political circles today it was said that the woman was probably Mrs. Dorothy Harrington Mason, who took a conspicuous part in the local Demo cratic campaign of 1897. Mrs. Mason, who is a handsome woman of the bru nette type, is said to have come origi nally from the upper part of this state and to have been the widow of a Brit ish army officer. During the campaign she was constant in attendance at the Democratic headquarters in the Hotel Bartholdi, where she made the ac quaintance of many prominent politic ians. At her suggestion a big Demo cratic meeting for women was held in the Lenox Lyceum, at which Mrs. Ma son delivered an eloquent address. She was often seen at this time in the company of Congressman Sulzer, to whom she said she was engaged to be married. It is also said that she was frequently seen with the representative in Washington during the session of congress last winter. When in New York Mrs. Mason lived on East Twenty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue. Superior Indemnity. Fire, tornado, plate glass steam boiler, employes' liability, life and ac cident insurance of highest grade and at lowest rates can be had at the agency atGossett Blakeley (successors to M. W. "Van Valkenburg) Dudley's bank, 619 Kansas avenue. Telephone 530, KaczynskL for charcoal. JONES WILL STAY The Arkansas Man Not to Re sign Ilia Position As Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. COMING IIOME SOON. Ex-Gorernor Stone Interviewed In New York. Declares Brjan Will Be the Next Nominee. New York, July 12. Former Governor William J. Stone of Missouri stated to day that there is no truth in the report that Senator Jones of Arkansas is to re sign as chairman of the Democratic national committee. He added that no change is contemplated in the personnel of the committee, and that all he knew of the rivalry between himself and Sen ator Martin of Virginia for the chair manship, was derived from, the news papers. Mr. Stone explained that he did not come to New York on a political mis sion, but on personal business, and his statement was borne out later in the day when he went down to Long Branch to confer with Colonel Wetmore, who, according to report, is working on a scheme to organize a company to buck the Tobacco Trust. Good progress is said to have been made by Colonel Wetmore in his undertaking, and the understand ing fcere is that his plans have so far matured that he desired the advice of Mr. Stone, who is his counsel, on the legal aspects of the enterprise. Before journeying to Long Branch, Mr. Stone was seen at the Hoffman House. "1 have just received a letter from Senator Jones," he said, "and he tells me that his health is now good. He is stopping in London, or rather in a quiet suburb of the English metropolis, and he writes that he will remain there during the summer. I expect to see him back home about September 1, and I am in a position to make the positive state ment that he will remain at the head of the Democratic national committee and will lose no time in getting to work af ter his return." Governor Stone did not take much stock in the report that a division of the national committee would occur at the Chicago conference on July 20 on the question of abrogating the two-thirds rule. "I never heard of a contest or of any such movement to abrogate the two thirds rule." he said, "until the New York newspaper men sounded me on the subject. It is all news to me.. I am here on personal business and not to fix up any programme for the Chi cago conference. I do not know what will take place at that conference, ex cept that the situation will be can vassed at some length and the members of the national committee will exchange views. "As to 1900, all I can say is that the Chicago platform will be reaffirmed, and that Bryan will be elected president of the United States." Mr. Stone has had several talks with former Governor Hogg of Texas, and the big Texan evinced considerable de light in relating his experience at Tam many Hall on the Fourth of July. Every time Mr. Stone comes to New York he is invited to meet the Tammany leaders at the Democratic club, but he has con sistently declined all such invitations. He met Judge Augustus Van Wyck on his last visit and took dinner with that gentleman at the Lawyers' club, but that is aa near as the silent leader from The Much-discussed Kissing; There is a report that the "kissing bug" has reached Topeka and as a re sult a Harrison street young lady sends word to her callers that she "Is indis posed and can not been seen" but in re ality she is disposed and disposed to be very, very angry because that horried old "kissing bug" stole a kiss from her lips last night and today she has a face that !s more mouth than countenance. In Boston the bug is known as "the melanolestes picipes," in Texas it is known as the "great big bedbug" and in Kansas and the central west it is the "kissing bug." A New York scien tist call3 it the "specie Hemiptra," Greek for half winged and nicknames it the "osculating bug." The bug is sort of a cross between a New Jersey mosquito and a Texas tar Missouri has ever come to mingling with the Tammany crowd. He had an invitation today to dine with Judge Van Wyck, but was -compelled to decline it because of his busi ness with Colonel Wetmore at Long Branch. Mr. Hogg, however, saw both the judge and his brother, the mayor, during the day. In his open-handed, frank way. he told both that there would be only one candidate of any con sequence before the Democratic national convention of 1900. He advised Judge Augustus Van Wyck to pull for the vice presidential nomination or to emulate Bre'r Rabbit until 1904. Mr. Hogg has had much experience with rabbits especially of the Texas Jack brand and he is a pretty good judge. No promises were made today. Everybody just smiled, the Texan's good humor being infectious, and let it go at that. Mr. Hogg is on very friendly terms with all of the Tammany men and can talk to them like a Dutch uncle, with out arousing their ire. AMERICAN ACTORS ABROAD They Are Flooding London Like an Invading Army. London, July 12. The Invasion of London by the American actor shows no signs of slackening. Already two new figures are prominently announced for the opening of next season. The first is Miss Suzanne Sheldon, a New York girl, who came to London three years ago and made her -debut with Irving's company. She has made such progress in her art that her en gagement is announced as the leading lady at the Adelphi theater. Miss Shel don is a tall, handsome girl, with a wealth of hair, natural Titian red. The other American girl who steps into prominence is little Helen Mac Beth, who came to London about a year ago with her husband. Frank Mills, and played a small part In "The Heart of Maryland." She is now en gaged to play the role of Mrs. Potter s Hebrew rival in "The Ghetto," a part second in importance only to the he roine's. Meanwhile Fay Davis and Julie Opp will play leading parts in Alexander's company next year. It is definitely set tled that Nat Goodwin and Maxine F.l liott will open at the Duke of York's in the autumn for six weeks, with "The American Citizen," before returning to America. DeWolf Hopper opens Mon day at the Lyric with "El Capitan." Broadhurst's serious play, "The Last Chapter," which was so unsuccessful in New York, will be tried at the Strand theater in the autumn, and London pa pers announce Mrs. Fiske's coming to London next spring to play "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," under Herbert Sleath's management, at the Adelphi. The latest arrivals are Viola Allen, John Drew, Mf.urice Farrymore, Robert Hilliard, James K. Hackett and Miss Mary Mannering. Hackett's new play for the coming season in America is to be "The Pride of Jennico," dramatized by Abby Sage Richardson and Grace Furness. Mary Mannering's first part at the Lyceum will be Jane in "Maneuvers." Mrs. Langtry's return to the stage is fixed for August 31. She has surround ed herself with a strong company.head ed by Charles Hawtrey, Lily Hanbury, Ferdinand Gottschalk and George Grossmith Jr. Sarah Bernhardt has arranged to play "Prelleas et Melisande" on her next London visit. Owing to the shock of Augustin Daly's death, Ada Rehan will be unable to undertake the leading part in the Drury Lane drama espec ially written for her by Cecil Raleigh. It is hoped, however, that Miss Rehan will be able to appear at Drury Lane next spring. Years of suffering relieved in a night. Iitching piles yield at once to" the cura tive properties of Doan's Ointment. Never fails. At any drug store, &0 cents. J. W. Priddy can tell you how the Oxygenor enabled him to be at his book store again. Quick, good work, American Steam Laundry, 112 West Seventh street. Tele phone 341. Bugf," Greatly Magnified. antula. It gets in its work while the sleeper sleeps and leaves its sting or kiss on the lips. The next morning the unfortunate girl, for men are not often visited by the kissing bug, finds her lips and mouth greatly swollen. She looks in the glass and falls back in horror. The sting is very painful. Kisses are not. so why the name? Who ever heard of a girl's lips swelling up when she is properly kissed one of those famous May Irwin kisses for instance. There is only one kissing bug in town so far and he will not be able to make the rounds this week. Most of the bugs have been at the C. E. meeting in De troit and are expected here any day. Meantime the young lady on Harrison street is afraid to look in the glass. "MARRIAGE "Under the Kentucky Law Like Buying a Cow," Says Judge S. B. Toney to the New fork Journal. DIV01ICE LAW FAULT. "If You Are Satisfied Keep Her If Not, Ueal is Off." Thinks the Judiciary is Some what to Blame. New York, July 12. The Journal, which has been advocating a national divorce law has been interviewing legal lights in Lexington, Ky. who are quoted in the Journal as follows: Judge Sterling B. Toney of the Law ant: Equity court, says: "Taking a woman in marriage in Ken tucky is like buying a cow. If you like her you can keep her. If you are not pleased you call off the deal." Judge Miller of the common pleas court says: "The matrimonial system in Kentucky is outrageous." Judge Field of the chancery court says: "Reform is needed." The fault is ascribed to the divorce laws. "The divorce laws should be amended. There are too many reasons accepted. Abandonment is the favorite one. The husband or the wife quits the home, and it seems impossible to refuse a decree. Two-thirds of those who obtain one or are punished by one, go across the river to Jeffersonville, Ind., and marry there," says Judge Field. But Judge Toney says that the laws about divorce are what people make them. He says: "The fault is in imag ining that marriage is an every day business. It is not. It is a contract for life. It should be broken only for an extraordinary cause, strong as death. Let men and women be persuaded of that: let them not enter into a marriage alliance lighthearteaiy, let the courts re fuse to relieve them when they complain of misery that they have attracted to themselves deliberately." He thinks the law need not be chang ed. He has passed upon a celebrated case in accordance with his theory. Smith j wanted a divorce because or his wire s habitual drunkenness. He had been a widower for less than four months when he married her. Ten neighbors testified against her. All the relatives of Smith testified against her. Judge Toney re fused a decree. He wrote: "Such pre cipitancy in marriage implies a want of ordinary care in making a proper selec tion of a wife. It is an evidence of con tributory negligence on his part. If he had been injured or disappointed the reason is that he has lacked prudence. "Marriage is not an experiment. It is a solemn, sacred compact, to be entered into soberly, discreetly, in the fear of God. It is a contract for better or for worse." A widower who had four children and a widow who had four children were married. A year after she sued for di vorce, alleging cruelty. Judge Toney wrote: "The plaintiff is not entitled to the relief that she seeks. There Is in compatibility of temper between the parties. i he aversion that exists ap parently is on the part of the plaintiff for her husband. The evidence shows him to be a petitioner for reconciliation while she resists and resents all over tures tending in that drection. These parties cannot plead youth and indis cretion in entering into the marriage contract. There has been no valid cause of disagreement between them." CALLS THE31 LIARS. Plain Talk by Gen. Anderson Regard ing Two Lecturers. Chicago, July 12. Gen. Anderson, de partment of the lakes, says some of the utterances in the lectures delivered by Fritz Andrea, a former sergeant, and William H. Reeves, a former private of the army at Manila, at All Soul s Church on Sunday evening, were Incen diary, untrue and likely to create a false impression in the public mind re garding the situation in the Philippines. 1 don t Know who these men are," he said, "but they deserve to be pun ished for their talk. They should be put in jail until they are able to tell the truth. Their statements in regard to the spirit of our troops on the island are totally at variance with truth. The fact that over 1.000 volunteers whose term of enlistment had expired have just signified their intention of serving for another period shows that they are perfectly satisfied and that their hearts are In the work. These lecturers, if they know anything, know that the charges they made are unfounded. They are simply lying when they say that our soldiers fight the Filipinos reluctantly. Such talk is outrageous and should not be permitted. I know of no way to reach them now, as they have been mustered out of the army, but I know what would be done with them if they were in the Philippines. The American soldier would be the first to resent ut terances of the kind." Gen. Anderson was In command of the first army expedition sent to the Philippines, and when he was ordered to return home after organizing the first division he came with great re luctance, as he was anxious to finish the work he had begun. "I would like to go back today and see the thing through," be said. "Noth ing would please me more than to re turn and assist in restoring peace. I think there is a great future for the is lands and the Filipinos. They will make good citizens when they understand that we intend to give them the liberty they have been fighting to secure for so long." 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1899 it: t 1 U i I .J i I Ml FACTS ARE STUBBORN. If Topeka People are Not Con vinced fcy Local Testimony, They Differ From Other People. Facts are stubborn. Some may be disputed. None can be disproved. A fact is always hedged about with proof; Has to stand the test of Investigation Or it drifts to the realm of doubt. Investigate closely the following: The closer the scrutiny the more convincing- the results. A Topeka citizens speaks here: Speaks from experience and convic tion: Mr. H. Smith, of 14.18 Kast Sth street, carpenter at the Santa Fe R. R. shops, says: "I did r.ot feel well all the win ter of lif'S. along in the spring I be came much worse, was bothered with a constant, dull, miserable, oppressive feeling, had no ambition, was nervous and could not sleep nights. I was about to give up my work for a few days, when mv wife procured Doan'3 Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug etore. I commenced to take them and a few doses relieved me. On finishing the tr-aTr.er.t I felt like a different person. I give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for completely curing me." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N". Y., sole agents for the IT. S. Remember the jianie Doan's and. take no substitute. DIX WON AT DENVER. Defeated Tommy White For tlie Featherweight Championship. Denver. Col., July 12. George Dixon, featherweight champion of the world, was given the decision over Tommy VThite at the end of a twenty round tout before the Olympic club last night. DiJon led the fighting from the sixth round to the finish. George's left hand work was the comment of all. He wouid bring it from the ribs to the head and back again so quickly as to almost escape the eye. Tom O'Rourke sat in Dixon's corner and frequently cautioned Jttm when his over anxiousness wouid make him careless. Kid McCoy offici ated in the same capacity for White. Hat Masterson "-as referee. The attend ance numbered 2.500. Dixon weighed in thi afternoon at 12oL pounds and "White at 1-0 pounds. The betting was 10 to on Dixon and quite a bunch of money changed hands at these odds. In the last minute of the twentieth round George brought a hard left to Tommy's r.eck which caused him to waver. It l'x ked like the finish, but Tommy straightened out and put Dixon off until the gong sounded. when P.ef-ree Masterson announced that Dixon was the winner. APPEAL TO M'KISLEY. Temperance People Take Canteen Ruling to Headquarters. Washing'ton. Ju'y 12. A delegation eom-rose-i of Joshua 1. Bailey of Pnilatielphia, fre-sidem of the National Temperance so ciety; Hiram Frio of Washington.. Rev. R. I.. Foot of B ooklyn. Dr. James B. Dunn and C. R. Blackall of Phiia-le!-phia. Joshua Levering- of Baltimore. Wil l.am M. Smith of Prmsrhkeepsie, X. Y.: H I. Ames o "Vii:im.-rort. Pa., an-1 Colonel Kii Rittr r.f Ir.-ii:inapolis. rerreentlnr the. Xar:.nal Temperance s-Mety- and hr kiri r-vl oramzaiions c ilid uioti t h prsi I'-nt yes:r lay ai'iernoon to ask his cons:. Juration of ?me points in ref-r-r.ee to i he inttrpre ration g-iven by the Bf.iimt'y general to t:ie reo-tri act of con-gr'j-s a ffutini? t h-- army eantf en. The i.ieisration assrtl its dissent fr-"vm the opinion of the attorney general an i rreentei a iea-al opinion on trie subject l-rpared bv Cuior.ei Kii Ritter of Indian- I Mr. Bailey also read a paper FisnM by J Xat ionai Terr.j 'runee society, which em boU :ei the vir-ws of t he deietion and fnn:Taced the points -;pon which, thev dis-e-nted from t r.f inte-pretation givn th act by th. attorney -Heral. It mntenis that oonETMs --.uht to accomplish t he total abolition trie sa'.e of in-.)x:catintr liquor in th a-my. The interpretation, of tht artorny whi'h was to the iTer tnat rn a"t w; prohibitive only as To the sa of liquor In the cantons by onleer1 and men. the paper declarer, was a matter of am.iZrm?nt to the people of t he w hole country n .teres ted in the sub ject, and no class of persons, it is assert ed, wer morf surnrised than the members of conarpss prnt during the enactment of the legislation. The eU-Ur2-:i.ann represented that if the stafj;1 is what its anchor and the vast number of others in trsted as well a s opposed, thought it was. t:vn th inter-j-retation srivt-n by the attorney g-nrai is a rrvei"s:-vn of tn- law. Rf-rfnce is made t the r-'o-nt inquiries conducted bv the wnr department concerning: the sale of intox: ?a tinx liquors in the army can teen. The r-sponses rK-ivl. the naoer pays, only a-rr .1 v,i:3 thf public tviinir, lca'J. :irniv i:i. rs of the hi erne? t rank, of the largest exp-rirnce and the arratst p-r o m n n e as w r 1 i as t h os f of 1 o w r rank, have heret fore.when perfectly free, given the sirongst expression to exactly the reverse vie w of this business. The paper dclard that the agitation noon tais subject will not subside and the presi i.ryit is asktJ to gri'e a rehearing- upon the construction and interpretation of the law. The members of the delegation after thQir cad r ported the. president as say in? that th1 opinion of the attorney jr-m-ra! w.ts givc-n without anv previous knowl.'.i on his part that he did not know that an opinion hi-1 ben askd for by the secretary of w a r n e ithr did he know that such an opinion had been given until several (3 ivs afterward, an 1 that he w-u;d look into the matter personallv. and if the opinion of the attorney pneral was foun 1 to be correct it shou' 1 stand, but he a.i b-1 that all men were fallible, and that if the attorney general had made a mistake he had no doubt h a Or tlts woui-i be ri.ly to rectify it: that he was an able lawyer and. a. "man honest and courageous. MB. WARliEX A FADDIST. His Especial Fad Is Writing Letters to Foreign Lands. There is a youne man in the Santa Fe frlces who delights in doing odd things. His name is W J. Warren, and one "of his latest Ideas was to write to Jerusa lem for hotrl rates for a trip that he doesn't contemplate making-. He wrote the letter entirely in fun. but a few days aeo he received a r-p!y from K. L.. Kam initz Sjiis, proprietors of the Jerusalem tote.. In the letter Mr. Kamtnitz convevs the Information that he will he hap'."- to care for Mr. Warren and party for "sndHns a day for each person, or seven p unds ten per month. He says that his tt-rms are exceiirisly mrierate. that his hotel is surrounded by grardens and is in the heaith'st location in the oitv. He fur ther offers to reserve for Mr. "Warren and family apartments which wra occunje a few months a. by Baron KdnaM ,le Roths.-hiid of Paris. He savs that if t arren will inform a him a few weeks In advance of his probable arrival the hotei boat will meet him at Jafa. though Jicw a bat would pet from J.ffa to Jeru aaJem is something of a mystery. Beeders to Go Up. Chtcasro. Tl!.. July 12. Manirfacturers of drill anii seebr impiemenu me-t here to day and decided to make an advance of 15 per cent on the price of senders an 1 dribs. This action was taken, it is sai i on account of the iarsre advance that had frftvii tuaue ia iron and s;eei RAILR0AD HEWS. The Santa Fe and Pennsylrania Lines to Unite In a Transcontinental Boad From Coast to Coast. SO SAYS WALL STREET The Rumor Spreads With In creasing Persistence. Storj Published In the Reliable Xew York Tribune. Kew York, Juiy 12. The Tribunesays: One of the certainties of the not distant future in the opinion of Wall Street ia the establishment of a new Transcon tinental railway line. Rumors are beginnig to be heard with increasing1 persistence, that trite Penn sylvania like the Xew York Central is contemplating an extension of its line to the Pacific. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe is the road which report has it. will be combined with the Pennsyl vania to form a great transcontinental system. MIDDLE DIVISION PICNIC. Santa Fe Outing at Winfield Promises to Be Successful List of Prizes. Xewton, July 12. The annual picnic of the employes of the middle division prom ises to be the most successful ona ever hdd. Special trains will be run from Kmporia and as far west as Sterling. The t-mpioves of the Oklahoma division have also be-n invited to participate. The picnic will be held in Island park. Winfield, on Juiy 22. A part of tne games will be held there in the forenoon, and tne ball game between Kmporia shup and Newton shop and a part of the races wiil be hid at the lair ground in the after noon. The following games have been afanjr ed for and the prizes noted will be piven: Foot race, 1'Jo vards dash In charge of K. C. Oavitt. First prize, shaving- st-t. do nated by Frank Porter. Newton; second prize, box cisrars, donated by W. A. Far ranker. Winn eld third prize, necktie, do nated bv R. V. Herpich, WinfWid. Sack race In charge of T. U. Swain. First prize, set Christy bread and cuke knives, donated by W. H. Coftln, Win nVId; second prize.two woolen nigra t shirts, donated by Joe Smith, Winrield; third prize, pair child's shoes, donated by Pick u.r 1 V ikoff. Winfield. Three-Iegvd race In. charge of Martin Klabau. First prize, two boxes of ci Kars, donated by S. C. Black and St. James hotel, Winfield: second prize, two po,-ke;knives. donated by J. CJ. McOre.gor and S. G. Gary, Winrield: third prize, two bottles of perfumery, donated by W. If. Somermier and L. Clark Keily. Winrield. Potato race In charge of Milton How ard. First prize, one dollar's worth of i'e cream, donated by Doug. Bourdette, Winrield second prize, ball and bat, do nated by II. Goldsmith, Winrield third priZ'1, pair linen pants, donated by Mc Cullum. Cochran Sc Co., Winrield. Bicycle race In eh arse of Kobert Wyl lie. Slow race, first prize, umbrella, do nated by T. K. McManus. Newton; second prize, b'tevcie lamp, donated by V. H. Dav'3 Sons. Winrield. Fast rae. one half mile, first prize, dress pattern, do nated by Dauber Co., Winrield: second prize. pair bicycle shoes, donated by C. A. Power. Winfield: third prize, tine shirt, donated by Flrady Bros. fc Co., Winrield. Two mile handicap, first prize, wine set, donated by B. F. Davis. Win field sec ond prize, "cold scaxf pin, donated by L. K. Mogie. Winrield: third prize, half Jozt-n Japant-se- dishes, donated by Plasrnann boane. Winrield. One mile bicycle race for winners in above races, rirst prize, pair $7 pedals, and bell and lamp, donated by New t o n Book com pa n y N e w to n and J. S. Seimers. Winrield: second prize, pair 1 ice curtains, donated by Cyclone store. Winfiekl: third prize, pair ta.n slippers, donated by W. C. Root. Wir.ludd. Swimming' race In charge of Frank R!s ley. First prize, lap-robe, donated by K. F. Eastman, Winfield: se?onl prize, alarm ciock. donated by J. L. Kussed, V. mrield; third prize, one book, donated by M. L. Wort man. Winrield. Barrel race In charge of K. C. Morgan. First prize, shaving set. donate! bv S. H. Myton Hardware company. WintaM; Pr-cor, i prize, sailor hat, donated by Mrs. If ark-r, Winfb-td third prize, purse a nd hair brush, donaxed by Clark Keily, Winfield. Tub race In charge- of H. C Morgan. First prize, one galvanized iron washtnb. donated by Winrield Miller. Winrield second priz3-. one box cigars, donated by Peanut Beard. Winrield; third prizt. ink stand, donated by Brown Drug company, Winrield. Base ball game Emporia shop vs. New ton shop. Purse of $15 to the w'nninsr te,am and to the losing team. To the man in ach team making themost scores, each, two and one-half pounds of Star plug tobacco, donated by T. E. Wathan, WiiirVid. To the man in each team mak ing t he second hia best number of scores, each, a can of coffee, donate! bv Hanien c Co. and J. A. Hudson, Winfield. A NEW GULF SCALE. Santa Fo Determined to Withdraw Hates Now la Effect. The Santa Fe company in connection with the Morgan Sc Maiiory steamship line will withdraw the SO cent scale of rates to New York via tha Gulf and substitute in place thereof a $1.37 scale on July 20. By this action the Santa Fe has evidently decided to no longer meet the rates made by the other Gulf lines and it is said that its eastern agrents have already been notified of the intend ed change. Officials of the gulf road in reply to the question as to what effect the Santa Fe s action would have on the efforts of their road to secure a dif ferential said that they had not been notified that any such action had been taken, but that they had wired to New anrainiin nnisnnu miiinmi iraisnmm A LOVELY WOMAN Z is the fairest flower in the garden S of humanity. Every woman may SS 5 be lovely after her own style, with 5 5 sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks, S and with every line of beauty fully s S developed. Pabst Malt Extract, The Best" Tonic, will bring out her beauty, S S fill in the hollows, cover up the bones and angles, round out the S 'curves, and develop all her lines S ss of beauty. It is a flesh and tissue s EE builder that will maie any woman S plump and round and rosv, as she zs s was meant to be. Try it yourself s and your mirror wil) show you g S3 pleasant surprise. s EE At !1 druf atom. SK allUIUUUJUUUUUUUiUUIUlHIWUUWa Tork Tor information on the subject. It is reported that the Chicago com mercial interests have devised a new scheme to make the gulf lines withdraw their gnlf rates as at present in effect and cease all demand for the differen tials. It is proposed to ask the inter state commerce commission to compel the guif line to obey the long and short haul clause of the in terstate commerce law, which they claim has been ignored. Another wedge that is to be used is the charge that the Texas points are discriminated against in that the rates from some of the Texas points are higher than those in effect from points several hundred miles beyond. And that rather than re duce the Texas rate and materially re duce their revenue from their Texas traffic they would increase the gulf scale to an equitable basis. CARE IN ENGINE BTJILDINQ. Unusual Attention Given Ita New Locomotives by the Santa Fa. The Santa Fe road Is making a great improvement In the class of engines which they are putting on their passen ger service. They have always had the best class of engines, but now they are paying more attention to speed a3 well as first-class equipment. The railroads of today realize that speed is of more Importance than it used to be, and the builders of engines are working to that end. Xot only the engines that they have contracted for in the east, but those which the Santa Fe are building in their shops here are of the compound type and built for fast service. The two engines now being completed for their new Chicago-Denver train have drive wheels 77 inches in diameter. In the freight service many improve ments are likewise being made. The Player compound engines are already highly spoken of by engineers in all parts of the country. In the Railroad Gazette of June 16th, there is an ex tended article in regard to the tandem compound engine as improved by Mr. Player. These engines are revolutioniz ing the freight traffic end are proving to those who have always held other wise that it is an advantage to haul a train of heavy tonnage. Engine No. 997 came into the Topeka yards a few days ago with a load of 1.900 tons, and even that heavy load is much less than it can do if it should have to pull a heavier load. The maximum pullins power of these engines is an unknown quantity and as yet they have never coupled onto a load which they could not pull. A PROSPEROUS TRADE. Frisco President Is Well Satisfied "With Outlook In thf Southwest. Kansas City .July 12. D. B. Robinson, president of the St. Louis San Fran cisco road, is authority for the state ment that the wheat crop of Oklahoma, which is being harvested, will amount to 40.000.000 bushels, and that the cotton crop will aggregate 200. 000 bales. The winter wheat crop of Kansas he estimates at 35,000.000 bushels, and the partial failure of that crop will be more than covered by the increased acreage of corn, rye and other grains, which will be just as profitable for the railroads to carry. In Missouri the activity is greater than it ever has been. Prices have almost doubled for these products, and this has stimulated production. As a result the tonnage has greatly in creased. The west bound movement of harvesting machines is now unusual ly large, and altogether railroad inter ests in southwestern territory are in an exceedingly flourishing condition. LARGE STONE CONTRACT, Union Pacific Secures Wyoming Rock to Be Used In New Buildings. Cheyenne,"vTyo..July 12. R. W. Brad ley, owner of the extensive sandstone quarries at Iron Mountain, on the line of the Cheyenne Xorthem. north of Cheyenne, has closed a contract with the Union Pacific for 100 cars of stone for immediate delivery. The stone will be used in making the additions to the I'nion Pacific round house at Laramie; also in the con struction of the new roundhouse for the company at Rawlins. A large force of men was sent to the quarries yesterday to assist the men now at work there to get out the stone. USE STRAIGHT STACK. Union Pacific Fast Discarding the Diamond Stack on Engines. Cheyenne. Wyo.. July 12. General Manager Dickinson and a party of Un ion Pacific officials came here today on an inspection trip. The gentlemen sta ted that an increased amount of repair and rebuilding work is being done along the line of the road this year. The work of ballasting the lines in Nebras ka is progressing rapidly and will, in all probability, be completed not later than early next spring. The work on the new cutoffs west of Laramie, which were to be completed by October, will be ready for the steel at that time, but it is probable that the steel will not be laid until next spring. Recently a straight smokestack was placed on a Denver engine. No. 931. and was given a thorough test. The result has been so satisfactory that all loco motives on the Union Pacific will be equipped with the straight stack as fast as they can be taken to the shops. It is claimed the straight stack is much cheaper in the matter of fuel than the diamond stack, now in use on Union Pacific engines, and also that an engine will steam better with the straight stack. MISSOURI PACIFIC TO GALENA. The Company Will Extend Their Lines at Once From Joplin. Galena. July 12. It Is learned here that the Missouri Pacific railway has for some time been maturing its plans to extend its line from Joplin. Mo., to this point, at the same time tapping the zinc and lead fields in this locality. It is stated that the company has for some time had its agents in the field and that a secret survey has been made of the proposed route and the exact route has been determined upon. The intention is to let the contraots in the near future and to have a large portion of the road completed before the severe weather sets in. The company long considered this extension, and, now that the output of mineral has increas ed so materially as a result of higher prices, the line is to be built. To Consolidate Gould Roads. New Tork. July 12. Rumors are current in Wail street that the Goulds are about to consolidate their southwestern railway properties. The principal storv is to the effect that the first step will be the ab sorption of the Texas Pacific stock by the Missouri Pacific, to be followed by a similar merger of the Missouri Pacific with the Wabash road. The St. Louis Southwestern, it is said. Is to be annexed to the Missouri Pacific RAILROAD NOTES. Each train crew now is furnished with a chain and lock for use on the last car of train when there is no tail gate. These chains are stretched across the openings on the platforms, and are especially useful in keeping people from walking off of the train. The rate of one fare which was made for the Pilgrimage of Cryptic Masons to Colorado, from points west of the Missouri river, has been extended to include points east also. For the past two days the Rock Is land has been very busy taking care of its Colorado business. The rates to Col orado points went out of effect last night and there has been a rush of pas sengers to take advantage of the low rate. The Rock Island had on four ex tras Monday night and six extra cars to their Colorado trains on last night. Mr. H. H. Embry of the Rock Island leaves today for St. Louis, on business connected with the road. General Manager H. A. Parker, of the Rock Island, passed through Topeka yesterday on his way to Omaha on a trip of inspection in private car. Mr. W. E. Dauchy, superintendent of main tenance and construction west of Mis souri river accompanied him. A letter from Mr. Swank, who went with the Kansas special to California, as representative of the Santa Fe route, was received yesterday. It tells of their safe arrival at Los Angeles after a very delightful tripv Engines Nos. 4 and 5, new engines from the Dickson Locomotive works, passed through Topeka yesterday on their way to Albuquerque in charge of Traveling Engineer Flaherty. These engines are built for heavy work and will go into the mountain serivce. They are the first installment of an order for ten which the Santa Fe Pacific have contracted for and are similar to the consolidated engines which are being made in the shops in Topeka. Engine No. 906 will be tested today. John Stafford of the paint shop claims the medal for good gardening and especially for the largest potatoes this year, which are as big as teacups. His garden is located just east of the shops on East hill. Switch engine Xo. 2312. left for the west this morning. It will go into ser vice on the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe. Fireman Ed Smith Is running on No. 53 in place of Roger Williams. The Atchison train was late in start ing yesterday owing to No. 6 being late. Fireman John Collins, who has been sick, is now back at his old place again. The new chair cars being built at the shops will be double windowed, and equal to Pullman cars in all respects. The interchangeable mileage credit system which was to have gone into effect on the 15th of this month, will not become effective until August 1st. The delay is caused by the immense amount of work necessary to establish such an undertaking, and because of the lateness in sending out some of the supplies to the local agents. The Santa Fe will put in a new brick platform at its Wichita depot. HUS. BELL'S TROUBLES. She Ia Now Trying to Get Back Her Farm. Another chapter in the differences be tween Mrs. Margaret Boil and her sister, Mrs. Nancy J. McGrath. has been com menced in the district court. This time it is a suit to set aside a deed given by Mrs. Bell to Mrs. McGrath. In this petition Mrs. Bell tells the story of their difference. She says she is il literate and is not able to write, and that since the death of her husband she has been dependent upon the care of her sis ter, Mrs. McGrath. in matters where learn ing has been necessary. She says further that up to a fe.w months ago she was the owner of a farm west of the city, valued at $4,000: that, relying upon her sifter to look out for her inierests. she deeded the land to Mrs. McGrath. receiv ing 4.0uu. according to the deed, but in reality she received no compensation whatever: that her sister, instead of car ing for her. negieeted her to such an ex tent that she began a suit to set aside th ded. but upon the importunities of Mrs. MoGrath she dismissed the suit and Mrs. McGrath went before a notary and acknowledged her trust: that in doing so I Mrs. McGrath agreed to keep up the re i pairs and taxes on the farm, furnish Mrs. ueii room anil noara ana pay ncr iiai a year. Mrs. Bell goes on to say that Mrs. Mc Grath did none of these things except to pay a portion of the taxes: that in order irt have a rorm at Mrs. McGrath's house. 622 West Fifth street, she furnished it herself, but was afterwards told thit she was not wanted there at all. Then she started, to take her furniture and move it to fritnds in Wabaunsee county, but Mrs. M-?Grath refused to let her have it. That was about ten days ago, and she then brought the replevin suit, in which nbout 4"0 household articles and farm imple ments were named, as told in the State Journal at the time. She has gone to Wabaunsee county to her friends there, and now she brings suit to set aside the deed in trust on the ground tht her sis ter is not complying with the trust. Sick Allowance Cut Down. Washington. July 12. The orders Issued last summer which allowed 60 cents a day p r man for soldiers undergoing hospital treatment have been revoked and an order issued allowing 40 cents per day per man from the appropriation for subsistence of the army. Collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West Eighth street. r i r t t t i n fna. HRBS b.y 6 Cyjim fh... jff: rssM mil g f n n JORDAtrWANTED. Notorious Negro May Be One of llcFarland Murderers. Police and Deteetires Are Look in? For Him. DROPPED FROM SIGHT Officers Completely Baffled in Their Pursuit. Star Collins Witness Has An other Chapter to His Career. Johnson Jordan and "Bill" Collins are wanted in the McFarland murder case and officers are on their track. Johnson Jordan is the colored man who was such an important witness in the Collins' trial and Bill Collins is w-ell known to the police in Topeka. James Render, alias "Denver Kid" and Dick Williams, alias "Trilby," who are both held for the double murder at McFar land, have told different stories. Ren der connects Bill Collins with the crime and Williams saj-s that Johnson Jor dan knows more about it than he wish es to tell. Johnson Jordan has not been seen in Topeka since the news of the murder was printed. He was here during the races, June 20 to 24, and visited' his familiar haunts. McFarland, the scene of the murder, and Alma four miles from there, are familiar places to him as he has relatives living at the latter place and has visited there often. When Williams was resuscitated by the physicians after the attempted lynching at Alma on Sunday, the offi cers told him that he would be lynched before night and he confessed and be sides practically admitting his own con nection with the crime he implicated James Render, Bill Collins and Johnson Jordan. Render had implicated Jordan before that time. Johnson Jordan is supposed to be in Pueblo and Bill Collins is thought to be in Denver. Ex-Sheriff John M. Wilker son and Special Officer Fassler of the Rock Island are looking for the two men. The officers were told that they were in Kansas City and another officer was sent there to look for them. All four of the colored men suspected of the murder are well known to the police of Topeka and Denver and places between. During the Collins trial John son Jordan testified that John Collins gave him his geld watch to kill his father. A colored woman, who also holds a police record, pawned the watch. Since then both the woman and Jordan left Topeka. At one time they were arrested in Newton and the last heard of the woman, Edith Bivens, she and Jordan were run out of Hutchinson by the police and shortly afterward the Bivens woman was severely injured in a fight at Wichita. "The Big Four Hundred" club run by Crook Wright figured prominently in the Collins case and it is understood that all four of the colored men impli cated in the McFarland murder were there a few days before the murder. William McCarty, the white man who had the watch which belonged to Harry Tandy, one of the murdered men, ob tained possession of the watch in the resort the day after the murder. Render claims that he had no hand in the murder and knew nothing about it until Williams offered him the watch and said he "silenced" a man at Mc Farland to get it. The Wabaunsee county officers do not fear further mob violence at Alma because the citizens there have been given to understand that others besides the two negroes in custody are wanted to answer to the charge and that without the testimony of the two prisoners the case cannot be worked up. Dewey's Medal Sent to Him. Washington. July 12. The navy depart ment has dispatched to Admiral Dewey the medal awarded to him by act of con gress to commemorate the battle of Ma nila Bay. The admiral's mejal is identi cal with those sent to each man in the fleet, with the exception that hid own name is engraved upon the edge. Gen. King to Lecture Hudson. Wis., July 12. General Charles King, recently returned from Maniia, has offered to give a benefit lecture at some central Wisconsin city, the proceeds to be added to the New Richmond tornado re lief fund. He will take his recent war experiences in the Philippines as the theme for the lecture. The total relief fund to date is S?G. t72. Heinz's Ice Cream is the best. Phone 3&T 212 East Eighth street. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Will Forfeit $5,000 For Proof That She is Not the Author of "Solitude." Xew Tork. Julv 12. Through the New York Journal Ella Wheeler Wilcox offers to- give any worthy charity JS.wjO for convincing- proof that she is not the author of the poem entitle! "Solitude," in whica appear the lines: Lauh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone: For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth. But has trouble enough of its own. Mrs. Wilcox's claim to the authorship of this poem, which apoeared nrst in the New Tork Sun in February. 1SS3. was never disputed until 1sm. when a person known as Colonel John A. Jovce claimed that he had written and published the poem in 183. Xo trace has ever been found of the Joyce publication, and the "Colonel" is uncorrolxtratM in his statement. The verses bear Mrs. Wilcox's ear-m-irks and indicate her style, "Colonel' Joyce published a book of his career in the early '80s. called "A Check ered Life." but he made no claim at that time to the authorship of "Solitude." Sub sequently, however, in a later edition of his book, published late in the 'as, he claimed that he had published the poem under the title of "Love and Laughter." If such a poem was published, no copy" ot the publication has ever been produced. Friends of Mrs. Wilcox claim that "Colonel" Joyce, who once spent some time in an insane asylum, is not responsi ble for his statements, but to settle the matter once and for all, Mrs. Wilcox has offered to pay $.".000 on presentation of proof that she did not write "Solitude." ilia n-i 1 1 n df cntar intn o t r fiowsnariPF controversy with "Colonel" Joyce, even at I space rate. out lr tie cnuiKs be wrote tne poem, all he has to do is to submit the necessary proofs and he can collect $3,0u0. The poeiu is as follows: SOLITUDE. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of Its own. Sing-, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air: The echoes bound to a Joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice and men will seek you; Grieve and they turn and go. They want full measure of ail your pleas ure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad and you lose them all. There are none to decline your nectar'd wine. But alone you must drink life's gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast and the world goes by; Succeed and give, and it helps you Uve But no mam can help you die. There Is room in the halls of pleasure. For a large and lordly train. But one by one we must all file on. Through the narrow aisles of pain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PHILADELPHIA. Score by innings: R. IT. E. Cleveland 1 0000000 01 7 0 Philadelphia 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 5 11 0 Batteries Cleveland. Bates and Sugden; Philadelphia, Donahue and Douglas. AT NEW TORK. Score by innings: R IT E Pittsburg 2 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 9 3 New York 1 0420310 11 14 2 Batteries Pittsburg-, Tannehill, Leever, Sparks and Schriver; New York, ?leekint Coakley and Grady. AT BALTIMORE. Score by innings: R. TT E Baltimore 1 0011322 10 13' i Louisville 030030') 00 6 14 1 Batteries Baltimore. McGinnity, Howell and Robinson; Louisville. Dowling and Zimmer. AT WASHINGTON. Score by innings: R. IT E Washington 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 6 9 8 Cincinnati 10002232 10 13 4 Batteries Washington. Weyhin??, Mc Farland and McGuire; Cincinnati, Hahn and Wood. AT BOSTON. Score by innings: R. 1 1 E Chicago 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 510 13' 6 Boston 0 110100306 12 4 Batteries Chicago, Griffith and Dona hue; Boston, Willis, Nichols and Clarke AT BROOKLYN. Score by innings: R. II. E. St. Louis 1 0201022 210 12 4 Brooklyn 1 2 1 5 0 0 0 2 11 14 4 Batteries St. Louis. Young nnd O'Con nor; Brooklyn, Maul and Smith. WESTERN LEAGUE. AT ST. PAUL. Score by innings: St. Paul 0 0001000 23 3" 2 Indianapolis 3 0030000 6 5 3 Batteries McGill. Fricken and Spies; Doreen, Kelium, Scott and Kahoe. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Score by innings: R IT E. Minneapolis 2 00042100 09 lo' 3 Detroit 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0-S 9 3 Batteries Menefee. Parker. Hutchinson and Fisher; Thomas and Ryan. KANSAS CITY 14: TOLA 5. Iola. July 12. Nearlv 2.000 people here saw the Kansas City Blues defeat lola by the score of 14 to 5. The batteries were: Kansas City. Pardee and Boyle; lola.Free land and Porter. EMPORIA 14; ATCHISON 10. Emporia, July 12. The Atchison team recruited from the Texas league met the Emporia Yellow Kids and after one of the most interesting contests had here this year were defeated. The feature of the game was the excellent batting of both teams. Score: R IT E Emporia 0 3 3 4 1 2 0 1 14 5 Atchison 3 0 0 4 3 0 O 0 IS 7 Batteries Warner, Ingram and Walt; Davis, Bammert and Lorn an. EMPORIA'S ANNUAL SHOOT. Emporia, July 12. Final arrange men 1 3 havf been made by the Emporia Gun ciub to hold Us annual shoot in this city on July 2 and 27. Extra features and purses have been arranged and some of the best shots In the country will be here. Ten reg ular events have been provided for each day. shooting to commence at o'clock each morning. HAND BILL STAGE. Spiritualists' Trouble Has Progressed That Far. The war among- the Spiritualists of Topeka has not only rot into the courts, but it has also reached the fcandbill stage. It seem that E. E. Chesney, against whom Major H. B. Van Voorhis has filed charges of malpractice in the dis trict court, took occasion to say some severe thines aeainst the character of Major Van Voorhis in a recent sermon which he preached before his society of Spiritualists. Major Van Voorhis had some dodgers printed in which he quo ted a letter written by Mayor J. J. Morrison, of Dodge City, upholding his character. These dodgers Major Van Voorhis gave to each member of Mr. Chesney's congregation as they came out of service last Sunday, and he has been distributing them since to all per sons who might be interested in. the controversy. The charges against Mr. Chesney al leging mal-practice in his legal profes sion, will come up before the committee appointed by Judge Hazen next Mon day. The Chicago at the Cape. Washington. July 12. The cruiser Chl enpo has arrive! at Cape Town. Admiral Howison has remained inland and is now at Johannesburg, from where he will go to Cape Town, to join the cruiser. 0 FILING CP TESTIMONY. Nothing But Praise From Alt Sources. Stands Eigi in the Estimation Those 'Who Have Tasted Ita Merita. ol There Is no doubt whatever as to th merits of Morrow's Kld-ne-oids judging from the good results obtained right toere in Topeka. Morrow's Kld-ne-old3 are used daily by many Topeka citizens' and they all testify without any hesi tancy about the great good they have received by the use of this great kidney remedy. Kid-ne-oids will positively euro kidney, backache, dizziness, tleepleess-, ness, nervousneess, and all urinary dis orders arising from a disordered condi tion of the kidneys. Another citizen adds his testimony as follows: C. L. Wilson, No. 1029 Madison street, says: "After being treated right alone for kidney difficulty and getting no bet ter, I was advised to use Morrow's KH-ne-oids. I did so and was cured. For eight years I have been afflicted ami have used a number of so-called cures but they never gave me any relief. X am sure Kid-ne-oids will cure anyone afflicted as I was if they follow tha directions closely." Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills, but Yellow Tablets which is the scien tific form of preparing medicine and are put up in wooden boxes which oontair enough for about two weeks' treatment! and sell at fifty cents a box at Swift Holllday's drug store. Mailed on receipt of price. Manu factured by John Morrow Co., Chem- tsts, Springfield, Ohio- Garden City Cowboy Race Garden City, July 12. The cowboy races to be run during the Finney coun ty fair on September 14 and 15. have been changed from 3 to 5 miles and will require five horses in each string ani four entries to fill the race. Kntries must be made for each day's race by S o'clock p. m. Monday. September 11. 1S99. The purse for each day has been increased from J50 to $60. Horses that ever been in a race for money ara barred. Omaha Smelter Closes. Omaha, July 12. The big trust smel ter at this point is being shut down, the fires in several of the furnaces being out and otters are to follow. Tha shortage of coal is given as a reason, the miners in Iowa and other places which supply Omaha with the cheaper grades for manufacturing purposes be ing on a strike. Silver For Europe. New Tork, July 12. The steamship New York sailing for Europe today will take out 522,000 ounces of silver. See how J. D. Pattison, sanitary ser geant, is being cured by the Oxygenor. Telephone 530, Kaczynski, for char coal. Going on: Payne's. Bargain sale shoes. This week, bargain shoes. Payne's. WHEN You Get tired ot exper imenting with patent mediciues. try Br. THCliPSOirS VI U I 1!7 TOUC TABLETS J i The Greatest Tonia for the Blood, Skia m and Nerves. Not a patent medicine nor a cure all. but the prescription used by Dr. Isnac New ton Thompson during forty years of suc cess as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the Blood, Skin and Nerves. Put up ninety tablets in a box dayt treatment) for 50 cents. Money refunded, if not benefited. The tr. Thompson Medicine Co., sola proprietors. Chicago 111. If your druggist does not keep them, send 50 cents in stamps to F. P. Bobbins, Western Act, Topeka, Kans. FitzsifflffionsJeffries PRIZE FIGHT Reproduced by EDISON'S NEW IMPROVED VITASC0PE crawfordTopera house, Thursday Evening, July 13th. Yon won t be "so -warm" if you attend the reproduction of Fltzsimmona-Jeffriea Prize Fight by Edison, Co. with their new improved Vitascope, at Crawford s Opera House, Thursday tve., July 13th, for tha Company carry their own electric fans for cooling theaters. Eegular House Prices. Your Summer Outing. Unite health, rest, pleasure and comfort on the handsome, luxurious Steal Steamship MAN1T0U Exclusively for Passenger Service. Firs? Class Only. Triweekly Sailings. Btweca Chirac. CiarUioli. PrtMker, Hrb Sprlpc. Hut Macklaac lslsad. cte. Pteamore of oar L&ke Snperior IiTiion mu V?7 ailing betwMn Cblcao. fciault Marie. Marquette. Uucoek. u!th and tntermadiat po.nt. OeacripEive radinit matter. giTing particular, abou I til. Towage, terms and rmtervationa attt fma. JO. UEKOLZ1IE1M. H. P. A.. Xtk Stphlgaa snd i.ake Ksperlor 1 rau. C, link aad Kuu BU, CkUCAfcO. W. R. WEIBLE, Carpenter. Repairing Promptly Attended to. 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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1899 TOPEKA STATE J0D1NAL By FRANK PMAC 1ENNAN. VOLUME XXVI .No. 164 TFRVQ OC KfRSPRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a weelt to any part 01 iopekii ur suburbs, of at the same price In any Kan sas town where the yaper haa a carrier system. Irfy mail, one year i-y mail, three months Weekly edition, one year 50 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buiidins, 8"0 ana 02 lvuias avenue, corner of Eighth. NTCW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Blug.. A- Frank Rh.'haruson, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office Be'l 'Phone 10 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 0.7 Subscribers of the state Journal away during the summer may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any ad dress at the rate of thirty cents a month. No subscriptions taken for less than thirty cents. Address changed as often as desired. Oom Paul Is not slow when It comes to diplomacy. He is giving John Bull a good run for his money. Des Moines News: Mr. Peffer is not far from the door of the ir.ain tent. He is carrying water to the CI. O. P. ele phant. A Callfornian with money, has offered to take from the grape growers of the state their entire crop for seven years at $14 per ton. The fact that Mr. Hearst did not have a hand in the return of Dreyfus to France is exciting comment in the press or the country. Joe "Wheeler evidently Intends to fcreak the record for the number of Ttars engaged by one man as well as the one for holding on to two offices. The White Pass and Yukon railroad has been opened to Lake Bennett and a trip to Dawson will not be an un dertaking worth mentioning in the fu ture. The Omaha Bee seems to have con siderable trouble in connection with Its efforts to keep people from attending the exposition which is being held in its home town. The work which has been performed by Secretary "Wilson in the department of agriculture at "Washington proves that it is possible to find men for official positions, who are able and willing to earn their salaries. The heir apparent to the throne of Russia is subject to other contingencies besides death. But as long as the stork brings only girls to the Czar's palace, Michael is all right. Just when It was thought that the Populist organization was safely laid to rest beyond the hope of resurrection up jumps the Mohawks, a secret politi cal organization, to plague the politi cians of the old parties. England has learned a lesson from America and has been looking into the meat which the packers on this side have been furnishing for use by her navy, with the result that a large amount of it has just been condemned a unfit. The investigation of the pension bur eau as conducted by H. Clay Evans haa been begun by a committee from the Grand Army of the Republic. It is announced that whatever i3 found amiss will be reported to the organiza tion. Perhaps the people outside of the order who help to pay the pensions and vote to keep them going will also feel an interest in the matter. The Isle of Guam may be an insignifi cant little foothold for the American eagle, but, according to the Chicago Times-Herald, it aided In making Uncle Barn's recent Fourth of July forty-four hours long. Such was the distance paced by the small hand around the clock dial between sunrise on July 4 on Guam and eunset on July 4 at Honolulu. In this sense the importance of Independence day has truly been doubled. EEV. MR. SHELDON'S IDEA. The impression which Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon's idea of a Christian daily newspaper made on the Chicago Tribune Is shown by the following from its edi torial columns: The religious weeklies of the United States are today more ably managed and have a greater circulation and more extensive influence than ever before. Great as has been the advance in these respects in the past, there is good reason to believe the advance will be greater In the future. But religious journalism as it exists does not content the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, the author of "In His Steps." He wants to see a Chris tian daily paper established, with a backing of a million dollars. He would prefer to see it started in this city, either because he thinks its people have the greatest need of the ministrations of such a journal or because he is satis fied that a Christian daily can not thrive in the chilly, irreligious atmos phere of Boston or New York. There have been essays at religious journal ism in the latter city. They have all been sad failures. No better fortune can be expected for a. paper printed in Chicago, if managed on the lines laid down by the Rev. Mr. Sheldon. His ideal paper is one which '"shall print no news except that which will influence the minds and hearts of its readers to their noblest impulses." Then the news field of that paper will be greatly restricted. Of course it will contain nothing about murders. It will not mention wars, no matter how ser ious, unless they are wars for liberty. It will not print reports of cyclones, con flagrations, and deluges, unless it is as sumed that such events influence mor tal minds and hearts to their noblest impulses. It will not have much to say about politics, for that is not a soul inspiring theme. It will have nothing about sport," from baseball to yacht ing, for athletic pastimes do not appeal to "the noblest impulses." This ideal newspaper will report a gift of a thou sand dollars to a college or a missionary meeting, it will ignore a defalcation of a million or a lynching.. It will seek to present to its readers only the sweet, pleasing side of life. That kind of a paper will not succeed here or elsewhere. Chieagoans and Americans generally want to be amused as well as edified. They want to know something of the sufferings of men as well aa their rejoicings. They want, as a rule, that kind of news which the self respecting.reputable dailies of this coun try are giving them. The capitalists of the country are aware of this. Hence they will not in vest in a newspaper which, while pro fessing to give the news, tells only what the good men do. The Rev. Mr. Sheldon tella the Christian Endeavorers he is g-jing to search for capitalists who will back up his enterprise "until he loses all faith in the charity and courage of man." And yet he never will catch his millionaire. There are limits to the charity and courage of capitalists. If Mr. Sheldon's dream paper is started it will have a brief, harmless, con sumptive life and then will give up the ghost or pass into the hands of men who are not Utopians and who will make it a more worldly and more useful sheet. GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. If you have your own way, see that your way is right. It is hoped the Lord understands the boys: very few people in this world seem to. A woman may be a "good woman" in the church, and still be of no use to her home or husband. We have noticed that the praise for a horse comes from those who have no intention of buying any. When the wolf finally arrives at a man's door, the animal is not nearly so terrifying as was expected. Talk about sunsets and river scenery; neither one is in it with a pretty girl wearing a white dress and blue sash. Every unhappy woman takes pleas ure in thinking of the time when he will come back, and it will be Too Late. It takes a lot of hard knocks to rid some people of the foolish notion that it is wicked for a farmer to work in hia field on Sunday to save his crops. An Atchison woman is so extravagant with her household accounts that her friends will not be surprised at learning that she writes the letters to maga zines on how to keep a family of ten on $3 a week. Jesse James, son of the noted bandit, played baseball in Atchison yesterday, and when he went to bat. was cheered from the grand stand. The fact that James' father was a bandit, has been of great advantage to- him, though they say the father's sins are visited on the son. So many women have called at Mrs. Lysander John Appleton's to see Day sey Mayme's wedding lingerie, that the time of the family is entirely taken up with visitors, when more important matters need their attention. For this reason, Mrs. Appleton desires the Globe to announce that the lingerie will be on exhibition hereafter only on Thursdays, from 2 to 10 p. m. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. For disobedience the small boy fre quently takes the palm. The man who goes through life alone generally has poor company. You can't always tell the amount of gas the poet consumes by his meter. Children are like clocks; too much regulating is apt to make them go wrong. Many a man who seems dead to the world is only buried in thought. Paradoxical though it may seem, some officeholders are very much out of place. Flies seem to know that a red-nosed man is liable to make something with sugar in it at any moment. A man is always busy attending to his own affairs when, there is an unpaid piece of work to be performed. It is simply impossible for a minister with a boil on the back of his neck to preach an enthusiastic sermon. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Marriage is a brand which most men wear on their foreheads. Probably it never occurred to the Lord that Eve might refuse to marry Adam. Before a girl is married she thinks that every time a man says "my wife," it seems like a caress. It's different from what It used to be in the Garden of Eden. Nowadays the woman lays it onto some man, and the man blames the devil. Every girl starts out with the idea that after she has once got a man where she can tell him she loves him he has got to either propose to her or to com mit suicide. JAYHAWKER JOT& The mayor of St. John is allowed a contingent fund of $10. What is a mayor's contingent fund for? There is war among the barbers of "Wichita, and great bargains are offered in shaves at 5 cents. Old bones sell for $6 a ton out at Kiowa. Dave Leahy thinks If some body could rob the Kansas political graveyard a fortune could be dug up. Hiawatha has a Dewey flambeau club. A new telephone company is figuring on getting into Abilene. The Bell com pany is having trouble all over the state. Query: Why do all Methodist ex cursions run to Leavenworth? Hia watha Methodists ran an excursion there last week, and Ottawa Methodists are going next. The El Dorado city council has ap propriated $50 for new books for the city library a wise thing to do. There is no more popular institution in El Dorado than the city library. When a woman goes at a man in a de termined sort of way he generally does as she wants him to. Out at Ulysses the other day a woman ordered a Jolnt ist to quit, and he lost no time in quit ting. A Hutchinson man wanted to get married last Saturday, but as he is a barber he couldn't get away from his shop till after 11 o'clock. He hurried home and the ceremony was performed Just at midnight. To prove that there is nothing in a name the Walnut Valley Time3 says it knows a Mr. Barndollar who hasn't a barn or a dollar to his name. This seems paradoxical, when a mere glance shows that he has both. And now it appears that the mule which in a slow race at Arkansas City slipped up behind Editor Eckert and knocked him down, seriously injuring him. was named Mary Ellen Lease, and was so entered in the race. Just think of thatl. Famous Hewins Ranch of 1,000 Acres at Sedan. Its Park Once Filled With Buf falo and Deer. IS HIGHLY IMPROVED. To Be Sold For a Driving Park and Bace Grounds. Citizens of Cedar Vale Raising a Purse For Purchase. Sedan, July 12. There Is a movement on foot, headed by L. C. Adam, L. G. Bishop and James Stone, to purchase the old Hewins ranch now leased by Mr. Bishop. There are 1,600 acres of this ranch, once owned by Ed Hewins, at that time one of the most famous and successful cattle plungers in Kan sas. A great deal of this ranch is under cultivation, has several srood I houses on it and the pastures are well j watered by streams. At one time Hewins had a mortgage on the place i amounting to $42,000. The arrangement now talked of is that James Stone will buy that part of the ranch lying east of the main high way and that L. C. Adam and L. G. Bishop will purchase that portion lying west of the road, containing most of the improvements, the residence, barns and the park, which was one time tilled with deer and buffalo. Now, a scheme is on foot to sell to the citizens of Cedar Vale the park and enough ground west of it, for a race track. Thus giving to the town an elegant park and driving grounds and an opportunity to hold a driving association here once a year. An effort is being made to raise a stock company of $2,000, subscribed by citi zens of Cedar Vale and farmers from the surrounding country, to maintain such an association. The grounds would be easily accessible to town right in town in fact. IMPROVEMENTS AT GALENA. Car Lino Service to Bo Aided In Several Ways. Galena, July 12. The most expensive improvements ever attempted by any institution in the lead and zinc dietrict will soon be consummated by the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway company at a cost of $200,000, and the contracts for the Improvements have all been made. The power station at Lakeside will be discontinued, but there will be three substations one a short distance out of Carthage- one in Joplin and one in Galena and all three will be operated by power from the central station at Webb City. These substations will each employ two men day and night, and the machinery in them will be used to augment the current. An extension will also be built from Galena to the Rlceville mining district, southwest from Galena. A car shed will also be built at Galena in con junction with the subpower station to be placed there. As soon as the new power can be utilized additional cars can be run on the Galena end of the road and the Galena service will be improved in ev ery respect, new cars running at more frequent intervals, etc. Work on, the buildings will begin at once and the new system will be complete before the, first of the year. BIG MINING DEAL. Lease on 20 Acres of Mineral Land Sold Milling Plant to Be Erected. Galena, July 12. Quite art important mining deal has been consummated in this city. A company of gentlemen consisting of E. B. Schermerhorn. of this city, W. H. Nusbaum, state sena tor of Auburn, Ind., J. C. Armstrong and C. H. Nusbaum, of Ottawa, Kan., purchased from Mr. Schermerhorn the lease on 20 acres of mineral land lying southwest of town. This tract is thor oughly well developed, having five shafts down to ore, one of which has already produced about $10,000 worth of zinc. It is the intention of the company to immediately begin further develop ments thereon. Contracts will be let at once for two milling plants to be erected on these mines, and subleases on mining lots will be made to respon sible miners. WIFE TO THE RESCUE. Ellinwood Woman Drives Officers After Her Husband Away With a Shotgun. Ellinwood, July 12. Fred Metz. a prominent farmer near here is in serious trouble. Metz got a mortgage on S.000 bushels of wheat which he was sup posed to have in his possession. He mortgaged the wheat to the Citizens bank of Ellinwood for $2,300 and to the Bank of Ellinwood for VJ10. The wheat that was supposed to be in his posses sion had been sold before he obtained the mortgages, and he was preparing to leave the country. Marshal Logan went to his house last night and put Metz under arrest. His wife came to his assistance and beat the officer off with a shot gun. In the meantime Metz made his escape, and has not been seen since. He is about fifty years old and was a prosperous farmer of this vicinity. A reward of $100 is offered for his arrest. His wife and two sons who were implicated have been arrested and will have to stand trial. PASTOR IS ARRAIGNED. Aged Wichita Woman Says a Pro posed Bridegroom Is Her Husband. Wichita. July 12. Mrs. Fuller, an old lady 64 years old, states that the Rev. J. F. Vonherrich, rector of the Episco pal church here, whose marriage to Miss Tillie Hossfeld, a very handsome Wichita girl of 19. was to occur about July 20, was married about three years ago to Mrs. Fuller herself. Ever since it became known that the "A Gentle Wind of Western Birth ft Tells no sueeter story to humanity than the announcement thai the health-giver and health-bringer. Hood" s Sarsaparilla, tells of the birth of an era of good health. Ii is the one reliable specific for the cure of all blood, stomach and liver troubles. Rev. Vonherrich was to be married to Miss Hossfeld anonymous notes have been sent to the Episcopal vestrymen warning them that if Vonherrich was not dismissed he would be denounced from the congregation and the church, brought into open disgrace. Mrs. Fuller says the Rev. Vonherrich married her in her own house on North Emporia avenue here about three years ago and pronounced the ceremony him self and that they have been secretly living together since. Bishop Mills paugh arrived here last night and the case will be brought up for trial at the church today. It is thought by many of the best people that the scheme is purely blackmail or that Mrs. Fuller is crazy. DID IT INNOCENTLY. Oscar Dickinson Did Not Enow He Had a Raised Bill. Pittsburg. July 12. Oscar Dickinson la the son of a well-to-do atockdealer and general merchant at Nashville, Mo. On June 30 Dickinson called at the Pittsburg Gulf freight depot for some freight; the freight bill was $2.07, and in payment of this bill Mr. Dickinson gave theclerk a $2 bill, a 5 cent piece and two pennies. It was discovered by the cashier some time afterward that the $2 bill had been tampered with on one side. The attention of Deputy United States Marshal Mooney, who was in the city, was called to the matter, and caused IJu kinsun's arrest, charged with pass ing a counterfeit bill. Oscar Dickinson's father will not use his influence to have the prosecution dropped before trial. He courts the fullest investigation for his son. As a matter of fact, young Dick inson did not know he had a bill which had in any way been altered, and made no attempt to pass the bill for mora than its current worth. ATCHISON REPUBLICANS. County Ticket Resolutions) Indorse McKinley and Republicanism. Atchison, July 12. The Republican county convention, with 231 delegates present, met here and placed in nom ination a full county ticket. William Kipp, of Atchison, was chosen for sheriff; C. H. Linley, treasurer; A. J. Wilson, register of deeds; S. S. King, present incumbent, clerk. Linley has been for the past six years deputy treasurer, and Wilson is serving his sec ond term as register of deeds. The resolutions passed were: "Re solved, That we are in favor of William McKinley and of the Republican party, whose policies axe so identified with the history and progress of this nation as to require neither explanation nor apolo gy." Congressman-at-Large W. J. Bailey, by request, addressed the convention. John J. Ingalls was summoned, but his throat would not permit of his talking. Congressman Curtis was invited but did not arrive. BLEW UP THE DAM. A Miller Near Mound Valley Com pelled to Desert His Plant Mound Valley. July 12. Sunday night two charges of dynamite were put in and exploded in the Hall dam at Trad ing Post, probably by the same persons who blew out a portion of it before. The charges are thought to have loos ened it materially but did not do ap parently as much damage as was done by the former blast, though much heav ier, breaking a great number of panes of glass out of the mill. The sound was heard at Commissioner Gage's house seven and a half miles north. Mr. Hall Is moving his mill machine ry to Amoret, having given up his fight to maintain his dam, and is offer ing his mill property, an engine and a boiler for sale. It is understood he has said the dynamiters may practice on the dam now as much as they please, it being of no further use to him. DEFIES HER MOTHER. Runaway Girl Discovered at Chapman Refuses to Return Home. Chapman, July 12. Marie Leclaire of White City was found at a farmer's, near here today, by her mother who had been searching for her for two weeks. The girl refused to go home and will remain here. Marie left home with another young girl about two weeks ago. The two girls went out of town, hiding, it is supposed, in the bottom of a lumber wagon. Marie's Sunday clothes, jew elry, etc., were left in her room and for a time it was thought she had com mitted suicide by drowning. All the streams near by were dragged in vain. SISTER AGAINST BROTHER. Mrs. Cornelia Street Says She Will Testify Against Jester. Wichita, July 12. Mrs. Cornelia Street, who informed on her brother, Alexander Jester, as the murderer of Gilbert Gates, 28 years ago, has writ ten Sheriff Simmons here stating that she will testify against him. She says he will be convicted. She is afraid her aged brother would murder her if he had a chance. Orphans' Home Dcg. There are 118 boys at the Soldiers Orphans' home, and they had only one dog to go around among them, but he was equal to the demands made upon him. "Jack" was so popular among children and teachers that there was sincere grieving when he died the other day, and the boys held a public fun eral. They had read somewhere that Indians honored a chieftain by throw ing their choicest possessions Into his grave, and a procession was formed of the boys, each throwing some toy into the grave as he passed in line. One boy's grief was so sincere that he threw away a new jack-knife. There are many stories told of Jack, a favor ite one being that the boys coaxed the supervisor to put Jack's name on the rolls. When it was called out, a boy would pinch the dog's tail, and the dog would bark, which was considered his way of answering "Present." Atchison Globe. Harvest Hands Fight. Ellinwood. July 12. A drunken crowd of harvest hands and negroes engaged in a riot here last night. John Doff was robbed and badly beaten up by some of the gang. Fourteen were arrested by two officers and a number of citizens after an exciting chase. The money amounting to about $20, was also found on the person of a colored man. Resigns From Republican Ticket. Newton. July 12. W. E. Means, the present sheriff, who was renominated by the Harvey county Republicans at their convention in June, has resigned from the ticket. A meeting of the cen tral committee will be held on Satur day, July 15, to take action on the va cancy. It may be filled by the com mittee, or another convention may have to be called. He Takes Laudanum. Atchison, July 12. Lute Campbell, a Jourdan creek farmer, was found dead in a room at the Taylor restaurant last night. He was last seen Sunday night, when he went to his room. He took laudanum. The door was locked and he had probably been dead since Sunday night. He was 35 years old, a bachelor and resided with his mother in Doniphan county.. He had been drinking heavily. KANSAS IS REMEMBERED. Gen. Otis Recommends Members of thg Twentieth For Commissions In the Two Philippine Regiments. PRESIDENT APPOINTS. Commissions a Few More Jay hawkers on Uis Own Account. Major Bishop Will Hold Same Rank In the 36th. Washington, July 12. The President has confirmed and commissioned the officers recommended by General Otis for the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh volunteer regiments now being or ganized in the Philippines. They are as follows: Thirty-sixth regiment Colonel J. Franklin Bell, captain Seventh cavalry, and major A. A. G. volunteers; Lieut enant Colonel William R. Grove, major First Colorado. Majors William B. Bishop, major Twentieth Kansas; John Q. A. Braden, first lieutenant. First South Dakota; William Lugn, first lieutenant and ad jutant. First Washington. Major and surgeon H. F. Titus, act ing assistant surgeon. Captain and assistant surgeon George W. Matthews, acting assistant surgeon. Assistant surgeon Isaac H. Bower. Captains Robert S. Abernethy, first lieutenant Sixth United States artillery; Erving G. Booth, captain First Colora do; George B. Lamping, second lieuten ant First Washington; Charles W. Meade, first lieutenant First Montana; Charles French, first lieutenant First Montana; Henry Steere. captain First California artillery: Edward L. Glas gow, captain Twentieth Kansas; Daniel F. Craig, captain Twentieth Kansas; Harry A. Hegman, captain First South Dakota; Warren Hicks, captain Fifty first Iowa: Carl L. Stone, second lieu tenant Thirteenth Minnesota; Frederick R. Dodge, second lieutenant Twentieth Kansas; Harry B. Smith, K. Fitz- hugh, First lieutenants Wrill H. Point, first lieutenant Fifty-first Iowa; Cornelius F. O'Keefe, first lieutenant First Colorado; Loren Cheever, second lieutenant Wyo ming battalion; Fred E. Smith, second lieutenant First North Dakota; Benja min Lear, jr., second lieutenant First Colorado; Walter V. Calchett, Milo C. Carr, Alexander H. Davidson, A. J. Erikson, A. F. Jolhro, Winfield Harper, C. A. Bach, Roscoe Treadwell, Arthur M. Ferguson, Thomas B. Crockett, S. W. Widdlefield. Second lieutenant Edwin T. Mann. Thirty-seventh regiment Colonel Robert B. Wallace, lieutenant colonel First Montana; lieutenant colonel, Thomas R. Hamer, lieutenant colonel First Idaho. Majors B. Frank Cheatham, major First Tennessee; Charles T. Boyd, lieu tenant Fourth cavalry; Henry B. Or wig, captain Twentieth Kansas. Surgeon F. A. Winter. Assistant surgeon T. B. Anderson. Captains Nick K. Givens, captain I First Tennessee; Ham van J.eer, cap tain First Tennessee; David E. Lyle. first lieutenant Eighteenth United States infantry; Henry Richmond, cap tain First Tennessee; H. B. Myers, captain First Tennessee; James M. Croft, second lieutenant First Montana; Michael Flaherty, William B. Hanna, first lieutenant First Montana; Benjamin M. Koehler, second lieutenant Sixth United States artillery. First lieutenants John Patton, first lieutenant First Tennessee; Ernest Van D'Murphy, second lieutenant First Mon tana; Robert Q. Eagsdale, first lieuten ant First Tennessee; R. B. Clark, Albert J. Bright, first lieutenant First Tennessee: Granville L. Chapman, first lieutenant First Tennessee; C. M. Les ter, Charles H. Sloper, first lieuten ant First Colorado; W. T. Vaughn, sec ond lieutenant First Tennessee. Second lieutenants Joe Cocke, first lieutenant First Tennessee; Alvin K. Baskette, second lieutenant First Ten nessee; Winston Pitcher, first lieutenant First Tennessee. Colonel Bell of the Thirty-sixth had been named as one of the lieutenant colonels of the regiments being raised in this country. Colonel Wallace is a captain in the regular army. He has been severely wounded while fighting with the Mon tana regiment in the Philippines. The president has announced the fol lowing additional appointments to the volunteer army: To be majors: Hunter Liggett, form erly captain Fifth United States infan try; William A. Shunk, formerly cap tain Eighth cavalry. To be captains: Alfred Q. Kenneth, formerly Missouri volunteers; Harry T. Matthews, formerly captain Company D, Seventh California; George E. Lovell. formerly captain Company B, First Florida: Milton J. Foreman, form erly quartermaster First Illinois cav alry: Frank H. Burton, formerly Thirty third Michigan volunteer infantry; Cor nelius B. Brownwell, formerly First Vermont volunteer, infantry Cleveland Wilcoxson, formerly Second Georgia volunteers; Owen T, Keanen, formerly First Georgia volunteers; Howard At kinson, formerly Second West Virginia volunteer infantry: Thomas R. Hayson, formerly Twenty-first Kansas; William E. Cabell, formerly Second Kentucky; William E. Adam, formerly First U. S. V. cavalry. To be first lieutenants: Walter K. Wheatley, formerly Third United States infantry; John L. Hughes, formerly Third Illinois volunteer infantry; Frank D. Buckingham, formerly Thirty-fifth Michigan volunteer infantry; A. M. Mason, formerly First Vermont volun teers ;Blanton Winship. formerly Second Georgia volunteers; Zean F. Coilette, formerly First West Virginia volun teers: Charles A. Phillips, formerly Twenty-second Kansas; Logan Feland, formerly Third Kentucky: Sherrard Coleman. formerly First U. S.V. cavalry; Maximillian Luna, formerly First U. S. V. cavalry: Greenville D. Montgomery, formerly Pennsylvania artillery; Roland Fortescue. formerly First U. S. V. cavalry; Richard Day, formerly United States cavalry; Henry M. Aldman, formerly Second Georgia volunteers; Frank M. Chapin, formerly Sixty-fifth New York volunteers; James R. Good all, formerly First New York volun teers; Charles Grant McDonald, Matthew Leepere, volunteer army as sistant surgeon: Madison M. Wilson, formerly First Florida volunteers. To be second lieutenants: Lyle H. Pedlar, William E. Pack, formerly i Thirty-fourth Michigan volunteer in fantry: Sanford E. W'orthir.gton. form erly First Vermont volunteers; William H. Monroe, formerly Fourth TJ. S. V. in- fantry; George R. Crawford, formerly Twenty-second Kansas: Watson Lind sey. formerly First Kentucky: Roland S. Pike, formerly Sixth cavalry. Gambrill and go in wagons to the White mountains, nearly a hundred miles dis tant. They will return to Wellington about the first of September, or later. The young people composing the party are: Misses Mary Wolz, Laura Botkin, Alta Carnes, Maude Winters, Armetta Morgan, Myrna Gambrill, Emma Barn dollar. Wellington Journal. CRAWFORD A BANKRUPT. Opera House Owner's Liabili ties Are Nearly $450,000. L. M. Crawford filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States dis trict court at 3 o'clock this afternoon. His unsecured liabilities amount to $388,730, and those on which there is security amount to $59,450 more, mak ing a total of $448,183. There are a large number of creditors whose claims are unsecured, and their claims run from $100 up to $25,000. The Topeka people who are on the list are as follows: A. T. S. F". Railway company, $L 650 for railroad tickets. Central National bank, $4,000. H. H. Mills Co., $1,200. Swift Holliday, $400. W. A. I j. Thompson Hardware com pany, $350. R. L. Cofran, $350. Topeka State Journal, $100. Topeka Daily Capital, $100. George Lescher, $150. A. B. Gorman, $500. Frank L. Thomas, $130. Topeka Gas company, $1,200. Edison Electric Light company, $300. Among the larger creditors who do not reside in Topeka are the following: First National Bank of Leaven worth, $5,000. L. B. Kendall, of Denver, $15,500. Lewis Sells, Columbus, Ohio, $22,000. P. V. Healy and wife, and O. C Daisy and wife, of Wichita, $25,0oi. The claims which are secured entirely or in part are the following: Bank of Topeka, two claims, one of $16,400, and the other of $2,400. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company of Milwaukee, two claims, one of $25,000, and the other of $7,000. Topeka Savings bank, $1,150. Tiffin Sinks of Leavenworth, $7,500. Mr. Crawford claims the following property as exempt: Homestead at 1201 Clay street, valued at $12,000 and house hold goods. SEEMS A CLEAR CASE. Witnesses Produce Galiinger's "Come On" Circulars In Court. Concord, N. H., July 12. The hearing in connection with charges of violating civil service laws against Senator Ja cob H. Gallinger, preferred by former Governor Charles A. Busiel was con tinued today. Only two witnesses re sponded to the invitation of the com missioners to be present at today's ses sion. They were Postmasters Henry Robinson of Concord, and H. A. Spald ing of Nashua. Their testimony was to the effect that campaign circulars ask ing for assessments for campaign pur poses had been sent out as alleged in the charges. Before any witnesses were heard. Senator Gallinger asked permission to make a personal statement in which he called attention to alleged untruthful statements made in the editorials of a Concord paper and in dispatches from Concord to a NewYork paper.Following this the witnesses were called. Post master Robinson stated that he received one of the assessment circulars. He produced the circular and gave it to the commissioners who filed this away. This incident caused considerable surprise. Mr. Robinson then said that he had mentioned the fact of receiving the cir cular to Senator Chandler and upon the advice of that gentleman had sealed it up and he had shown it to no one until this time. He was asked to contribute $100, he said, and he wrote to the civil service commission asking them as to his ability to contribute under the law. He was" informed that he could not contribute. Copies of the correspond ence between Mr. Robinson and the commission were introduced as part of the evidence and Mr. Robinson closed his testimony by stating that he did not contribute. Postmaster Spalding was chairman of the Republican state committee in 1896. He stated that he received one of the circulars on which the charges in this case are based, but that he did not con tribute. When chairman of the state committee, he said, he personally signed the assessment circulars which were sent out, but none was sent to federal office holders except to senators, con gressmen and Judges of the federal courts. At the conclusion of Mr. Spald ing's testimony a recess was taken. APPEALS TO M'KINLEI. The President Requested to Investi gate Rock Island Arsenal Rock Island, III., July 12. The Tricity Labor congress has entered protest against an alleged discrimination at Rock Island arsenal since the settlement of the machinists' strike there, against union men, and has addressed a com- munication to President McKinley ap- pealing to him to look into the matter and remedy the wrong that it is claim ed is being worked to organized labor. The address states for the first time in the history of the country union labor is in a position to deal personally with the chief executive of the nation, inasmuch as Its efforts with the war de partment have failed to bring about the adjustment. It also calls for a decision at the hands of the president and asks the co-operation of trades and labor assemblies throughout the country to that end. Must Pay For the Paris. London, July 12. The salvage asso ciation says no specific sum has been agreed upon for salvage of the Ameri can Line steamer Paris, but that the wrecking companies will receive a stip ulated percentage of the value of the steamer when placed in dry dock, the underwriters, of course paying the bill. Mayer's Hearing Postponed. The preliminary hearing of Philip Mayer for assaulting Geonte Peyton with intent to kill on July 4 came up this morning in the city court and was postponed until July 22. Mayer was in the court room wiih his arm b:inila3. Peyton wis able to leave the hospital- Tuesday and re turn to his home. The fight occurred in the Clipper restaurant on East Sixth street about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. LOCAL MENTION. The city council has formally ap proved the report of the appraisers for the opening of Garfield street in North Topeka. The city council has passed an ordi nance levying an assessment on Quincy street property to pay for a strip of paving eight feet wide from Sixth to Eighth street. The paving tax had been omitted by mistake. The city council has refused to re lease Jointist Andy Dupree from the city jail and has requested that the poor I commissioner ass'st his family. ling team composed of Y. M. C. A. mem bers was formed Tuesday evening at the home of James Kerr. Harry Wolf was elected captain. ECHO OF SEELEY DINNER. Captain Chapman Presents a Claim of $11,600. New York, July 12. Police Captain Chapman, who was placed on trial by the police commissioners a couple of years ago in connection with the See ley dinner raid at Sherry's, has present ed a claim to the city for $11,500 for ex penses incurred in defending his action in making the raid. The claim of Capt. Chapman is one of 20 that has been filed with the controller under the Ahearn law, a recently adopted measure which provides for the reimbursement of pub lic officials who are tried for malfeas ance and are not found guilty. These 20 claims aggregate $114,000, and it is said that when the Mazet committee claims are all in the Ahearn law will coat the state of New York not less than $500,000, to say nothing of the ex penses of the Mazet committee, which will aggregate about $150,000. Inasmuch as the Mazet committee failed to prove anything definitely that was not already known this expense of about $650,000 is likely to cause con siderable heart-burning among the tax payers. Meanwhile the controller of New York city Is preparing to contest the validity of the Ahearn bill. Senator Ahearn, the father of the measure, said that he introduced the indemnification bill in the interest of an old friend. Police Captain Killaiea. He bad been convinc ed that Captain Killaiea was innocent of the charges preferred against him by the Lexow committee some years ago and had pushed the relief measure through the legislature as a matter of justice and equity. The senator, how ever, is not quite satisfied with the sit uation. He did not intend to open up a way for scores of accused officials to mulct the city and state, and he may act in conjunction with the controller in having the measure declared invalid. In that case he will introduce a special measure in the next legislature for the relief of Captain Killaiea. It is unlikely however that any change in the exist ing law will be sanctioned by the Re publican majority, and, unless Control ler Coler can have the Ahearn law set aside, the city will be the loser by sev eral hundred thousand dollars. FEAR OF MR. HEARST. Why Dreyfus Was Shut Up In a Cage. Paris, July 12. M. Lebon, the former minister of the colonies has addressed a long letter to the government in re ply to the charges of Louis Havet, member of the French institute, who accompanied Mme. Dreyfus to Rennen, who alleges that Dreyfus was cruell.--treated in his island prison. The former minister says no one in 18i6 questioned the justice of the verdict of the Drey fus court martial: that in September. 1S96, it was reported that an American vessel was about to rescue the prisoner and there was some talk among the warders as to the possibility of his es cape, hence M. Lebon became solicitous for the safety of the prisoner and or dered Dreyfus to be confined in his hut with double-locked doors, but with a sentinel inside until the hut was sur rounded by a palisade, when the hut might be opened. The building of the palisade occupied longer than was ex pected but no harm to the health of the prisoner was reported. M. Lebon denies tampering with the correspondence of Dreyfus. MEXICAN GOLD MINING. Reports of Fabulous Wealth Come From the West Coast. Hermosillo, Mex., July 12. The min ing industry is more active throughout Sonoro than ever before. From Guay mas during the past three month3 have been sent to the United States gold and silver to the value of $500,000 and cop per of nearly the same value. Several new strikes have been made and are already producing. One is near Sagua Grande, where from a quartz ledge 2 feet wide a single Mexican within a few hours pounded out thirty-five ounces of gold. In the Sibuchicarl mine near Matape in the Ures district have been developed rich deposits. Claims are made that the entire mountain is prac tically ore that runs from $40 to $250 per ton in gold, the main owners are J. W. Bryan of Washington, and Marshall P, Wright of Kansas City. At Guaymas much interest is being taken in the new Santa Clara gold dig gings, on the peninsula of Lower Cali fornia. A large number of prospectors are leaving the port every week, equip ped for exploring the gold bearing re gion. So great is the demand for burros that they are now held at $40 a piece and must be purchased on this side of the gulf. The new diggings are 120 miles northwest of Santa Rosalia, which is directly across the gulf. COMBINE IN GRANITE. Price of Monuments and Tombstones Will Now Advance. Portland, Me., July 12. James G. Bat terson. Jr., vice president of the New England Granite works, confirms the re port that a combination of various east ern quarries is under way. There are about 15 properties which will be Included in the combine, which will represent some $12,000,000 capital. All the work in the consolidation move ment is being done by the owners them selves and not a share of stock will be offered to the public. In explaining why the consolidation was necessary. Mr. Batterson said that the high grade granite Industry In New Eng land had been to some, extent injured by the large quantity of poor quality granite which had been ptaced on the market dur ing the past few years. It is understood that John Pierce, one of the largest own ers of granite quarries in this section, to gether wita Booth Bros., who own the Hurricane isle Oranite Works in Maine, are supporting the movement. FELL FROM A TRAIN. One Man Killed and Another is Injured. Chicago, July 12. While a Monon ex cursion train heavily loaded was going round a curve near Seventy-ninth street two men were thrown to the ground. John Kane, Gano, 111., was killed and Thomas Newell, Chicago, was injured internally. The train was filled with passengers on their way to a picnic. WADE WATTS WINS. Victor In a Prize Fight at Galena, Over Toronto Ed Raner. Joplin, July 12. Wade Watts, the Topeka pugilist, stopped Toronto Ed Raner last night in a 16 round contest near Galena. Patsy Hogan was behind Watts. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. J. L. Axtell. aged 44 years, died Sunday after a long illness. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon and the interment was in Foster cemetery. Mr. Axtell was a clerk in Warner Potter's store and was a State Journal carrier for many years. Perfection Starch the best cold starch on the market. There is none better than Perfection gtarch few as good.

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1 1 Iff I to receive visitors in our New Wall Paper Store at U6 West Eighth Street. All our friends are invited to calL And please bear in mind that we still do the very best of work in Paper Hanging and Painting at remarkably reasonable prices. We can easily prove this, if you will let as figure on your job. 11. L. LARSH CO., No. 116 West Eigbtb Street FORMERLY 7aa KANSAS AVENUE. t He COUNTYJINANCE. Tax Lery Is Again Up to the Limit. Something Seems Wrong With System of Taxation. NOT REVENUE ENOUGH lias Been a Continued Shortage In County Expenses. Effort Being Made to Adjust the Machinery. Tfto county tax levy for general revenue in Shawnee county for the coming- year will be 5 mills, the same as last year, and the limit allowed by law. The total as sessed valuation of all taxable property In the county amounts to $15.33.0S5, and on this valuation a 5 mill levy will raise a general revenue fund of $76,195.43. This is a little more than $500 above the general revenue fund of last year. One of the bad features of the present pystem of taxation is shown by th f.icc that it the county had no other revenue than that derived from taxation it would have run in debt more than $20,000 last year Just for current expenses, a!rnouirh the levy was up to the limit. The ex penditures for the tiscal year ending June 30, as shown by the annual report of W. E. Fapran, county auditor, which has just been hie-1 with the countv clrk. amount ed to $K7. 207.39, while the income from tax ation was only $,5.tC2.&:. leaving a deficit of $J1.57wj.lO. Last year this deficit was made up by Income from interest on bank deposits, money paid the county by the state fur caring' for the poor, and other sources which turn money into the gen eral revenue fund. There are some years, however, when this Income wiil not make up the deti- cit-ncy in taxes, and that is the reason that outstanding warrants have accumu lated asj-inst the county to the amount of $70.0'-". to pav whit h a refunding bond issue of $."K).fAI ha.s just been made. The reason why the seneral revenue taxes cannot be made to cover the ex penses of the county Is because of the fact that so much property is assessed at far below its actual value. The law con templates that property shall be assessed at actual value and the 5 mill limit is fixed with that object In view. When the val uation is placed so low, the rate is put up to the top notch, and still It does not cover running- expenses. This coming- year the county will prob ably fare even better in the matter of outside income than it did last year. It will receive $24,000 from the 9ite for the care of the insane, whereas last year it received only $.000. Auditor Fapran has placed the estimated expenditures at $s, SU4. so that at the end ai next vear the general revenue fund will probably show a good balance on hand to assist In pay ing off the indebtedness. Auditor Faxan's report presents some interesting- details. It shows that the Justices' courts of the county cost $2.SG5.61 during the fiscal year just closed, a sav ing of $1,248.56 over the year before. This saving was made largely by the estab lishment of th city court. There was spent during the last year lT,,brMSes $4.s2.S. ,1. an increase of $2 -..S.6.: for the burial of Union soldiers. $5 -f41..-0. an increase of $1,640.97: for the in jJif?"1 Poor. $7.3X2.68. an increase of $1 -z"b.Si: for coroner's inquests. $Mi9.77 a de crease of $214.76: to keep up the-jail and fee-ling prisoners. S4.354.2S. a dt-cree of 11.34: for the probate court, $2,500.15 a decrease of J.SU1.9S. The expense of runnlnsr the district court during the year was $12.755. P4 anin crease of $1.20.15 over the preceding vear. The big item in the district court' ex penses is the pay of juries, which amount ed to Jr.,0,3.20. The trial of John Collins made this larger than usual. There was spent on the fair grounds during the last year $4,737.56. which is $4 -641'rxi more than the vear before. List year a house was built for the superin tendent of the grounds, and several of the bun.lings had extensive improvements made on them. The county paid no taxes last vear but the year before it had to pay $316.03 to the city for social taxes, such as pavement ana sewer taxes. BUCHANAN TO RESIGN. And Start a Bank With His Present of $100,000. Kew Tork. July 12. A dispatch fo the Herald from Buenos Avres. says Mr. W. I. Buchanan, United States minister, has sailed for Montevideo where he -will remain two davs. He will g-o then, to Rio Jeneiro and embark there on the steamer Buffin for New Tork. It is stated that Minister Buchanan Intends to resign his position and start e banking house with a branch office in Argentina. Mr. Buchanan has signed the com mercial treaty between Argentina and the United States. Card of Thanks. J. V?. Brewster and son wish to ex press their thanks to the friends and neighbors for the help and sympathy they manifested in our last affliction and bereavement, in the loss of a be loved wife and mother. Lowest prices on rubber tires. Rehk opf's Carriage works, 207-209 W. Sixth. pound cake Plain Baker's Choco late, 15c. TVhittelsey Mer. Co., Grocers. CASTOR I For Infants and Children. Tha Kind Yen Ka?s Always Bought Bears the Signature of SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS J. J. Falls has a light attack of fever. Congressman Chester I. Long is in town. Senator "W. A. Harris has returned home to Linwood. J. C. Mohler has gone to Salt Lake city on a vacation trip. Chas. H. Ridgway and "W. X. Morgan are in Leavenworth today. The dates for the G. A. R. reunion this year are from September 25 to 30th. A large area of country between Lawrence and Kansas City- is under water. Mr. H. "W. Karnsworth, clerk of the board of education, is quite ill at his home. Ralph Valentine is back from Costa Rica. He has been down there for the past 15 months. Pictures of the Jeff ries-Fitzsimmons fight will be shown at the Crawford to morrow night. There are people In town who climb to the state house dome during the present weather. The colored "400" had a dance at Vinewood last night. Steinberg's orches tra furnished the music. The newsboys are In a state of ex citement over their prospective picnic at Lawrence next Tuesday. Oscar Swayze is willing to acknowl edge that there are some good Populists. This is great concession for him. The Ottawa Chautauqua assembly be gins next Monday. A good many Topeka people will attend. It will last through July 28. Dr. Reynolds of Horton, returned to his home today on the afternoon train. He was operated on a short time ago tor appendicitis. Kx-Attorney General Boyle denies that he is going to Galena to enter the law business. He is now in Colorado on a vacation. Topeka fans are pleased because the Kansas City baseball club is getting into shape and the percentage of games won is increasing. An excursion over the Santa Fe from Ottawa to the soldiers' home and Fort Leavenworth today carried 600 people, so an Ottawa man says. Hutchinson News: Topeka has a site for an auditorium and the money to erect one. Now Mr. Gabriel can get out his horn any time he chooses. People seek the shady side of the street nowadays with remarkable unan imity. A few months ago they were only too glad to get in a little sunshine. Harry Wolf stands first on ten pins on Y. M. C. A. alleys with a score of 214. Bruce Wallace, second; score 208, and Andy Martin, third; score 207. Mrs. Flora Roys, living southeast of town was operated on at Stormont hos pital yesterday for severe abdominal trouble. Mrs. Roys is improving rapid ly. People complained more of the heat yesterday than they have any day yet this summer. From now on every hot day will be "the very hottest" with some people. Walter Thompson of Thompson Bros., has gone to Grand Rapids to attend the semi-annual furniture exposition of all the leading manufacturers of the United States. It is likely that the Kaw may stay up for some time yet. Reports from further west say that the Smoky and the other streams which feed the Kaw are on the rampage. The farmers on the rural delivery route are putting up their mail boxes faster since they have learned that the carriers will not bring their mail to them until they have boxes. The old soldiers ought to call their camp at the reunion this fall Camp Funston. Last year it was called Camp Dewey, but Funston should have the honor of the name this year. The street fair seems to have secured a strong hold in Kansas this year. Sa lina and Newton are both making elab orate preparations for one, and now Emporia and Abilene have joined the list. Mr. Alva Nutt, traveling agent for the Piano Harvester Co., is in the city visiting his family. Mr. Nutt will leave today for the Dakota wheat fields where he will operate his machines during the coming harvest. Geo. Peyton, the man who was hurt in a drunken fight on Fourth of July, has left the hospital and returned to his home apparently a well man. His skull was trephined on the night after he was injured. E. H. Crosby, William Connors and W. M. Quinon will leave Thursday for Grand Rapids, Mich., on business In connection with Crosby Brothers furni ture department to be opened in the fall. This department will be in immediate charge of Mr. Quinon, formerly with Reed Tomlinson. Mr. E. J. Smith, special traveling agent. Rock Island, had a part of a needle removed from his foot yesterday at Stormont hospital. About three weeks ago Mr. Smith stuck a needle in to his foot while getting into a Pullman car, but had what he supposed was all of it removed. An X-ray examination a few days ago showed part of it still imbed ded in the heel bone and an operation was necessary. Sheldon's, i'ln His Steps" 15c. Ben nett's Book store, 730 Kan. Ave. For forty years Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry has been curing summer complaint, dysentery, diar rhoea, bloody flux, pain in the stomach, and it has never yet failed to do every thing claimed for it. Payne's Clearance Sale, summer tan shoes. The children seem to have a monopoly on society this summer for they are the only ones who are doing anything in a social way. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. D. P. Paxton entertained about twenty little people in honor of her daughter Joy's sixth birth day. For awhile it looked as though the rain would spoil it but the sun came out so bright and warm that the lawn was thoroughly dried before the guests arrived. There were hammocks and swings and everything to make them have a good time. At the close of the afternoon refreshments were served; there was a birthday cake with the name Joy on top, surrounded by six candles. As a souvenir each guest was given a water color card on which was a picture of the little hostess. Mrs. Paxton was assisted by Miss Lena McCray. The guests were Louise Culver, Eliz abeth Culver, Lois Lindsay, Bessie Wil bur, Mary MacLennan, Helen Dick, Irene Mitchell. Helen Mitchell, Francis McCUntock, Mary Helen Shire r, Jose phine McKee, Esther Copley, Elizabeth Mills, Louise Burris, Marian Menninger, Eleanor Keizer, Amos Poole, Richard Righter, Carl Menninger, Charlie Wil bur, Theodore Smith, Notes and Personal Mention. nr- and TVfrs Horace Hall and son. and Mrs. Willard Hall and children left today for Bear Lake, Mich., to spend the summer. Miss Margaret Bulwer of St. Joe spent Sunday in Topeka with her sister, Mrs. H. E. Ray. Mrs. J. Thompson has returned to her home in Illinois after a few weeks' visit with her mother, Mrs. S. A. Stults. Mrs. O. S. Morrow left today for a two or three weeks' visit in Creston, Iowa. Mrs. 13. .E. Pitts will leave Saturday for a three months' visit in New York. Mr. and Mrs. A. T.. Rjan of Black foot, Idaho, arrivd today to visit Mrs. George Crawford for a few days on their way east. Mrs. B. E. Sells of Winfield is visiting Miss Edna Crane. Mrs. Sells was form erly Miss Nora McCarthy of Lamed. Miss Hortense Street of Lawrence is in Topeka visiting her cousin, Mrs. W. Wr. Wick. Mrs. W. J. HeaJy and daughter Bere nice left today for Green Mountain Falls, Colo., to spend two months. Misses Alice and Lulu Healy who are visiting in Lakin, Kan., will accompany them. Mr. Healy will go later in the summer and return home with them. The first bathing party of the season will go to Gage lake this evening. Mrs. G. C. Clemens left today for a month's visit with friends at White Horn, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Quinton and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Crane, Mrs. Allen and Miss Kiblinger of Webster Grove, Mo., went to Lake View Tuesday to spend the remainder of the week. Mr. Howard Knowles has returned from a short visit in Wichita. Mr. George Crawford and Mr. Charles Thomas left Tuesday for a two weeks' fishing trip at Grand Lake, Colo. Mrs. E. E. Horton and Mrs. E. E. Hammond will go to Herington Sunday for a two weeks' visit Miss Bloodlong of Kansas City is In Topeka the guest of Miss Mabel Knowles. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Wheeler will leave Friday for Manitou where Mrs. Wheeler will spend the summer. Dr. Henry and wife left Tuesday for the east after spending a few days with the families of J. H. McLaughlin and W. W. Mills. Dr. Henry has had charge of a hospital at Asyat, Egypt, and Is home on a two years' furlough. Mrs. F. C. Gay accompanied by her son and daughter wiil leave Saturday for Cascade, Colo., to spend the sum mer. Miss Susie Gay and Miss Ger trude Devereux will leave the same day for Lake Mlnnetonka to Join a house party. Miss Jeannette Ware will go to Ot tawa Monday to visit Miss Ethel Har rison. The engagement is announced of Miss Cecil L. England of Topeka to Mr. Mor ris Moskowitz of Newark, N. J., chief electrician of the National Electric Car Lighting company of New York. The wedding will take place at Kansas City Mo., Monday, July 17, after which they will leave for their future home in New- a Mr. and Mrs. D. O. McCray and daughter Lena retui-ned the first of the week from a few days in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. J. August and daughter Emma have gone east and will spend the summer at the different summer re sorts. Miss Scroggin of Wichita is In the city visiting Mrs. Hale Ritchie. Mr. and Mrs. Shaner and daughter of Chicago are visiting Mr. and Mrs. ,W. F. Evans. Mrs. T. E. Davis of 725 Topeka avenue who has recently had an operation per formed at Stormont hospital, has re covered sufficiently to be taken to her home. Miss Emma Banks will leave this week for Lebanon. Mo. where she will Join her father; they expect to take a two weeks' driving trip through the Ozark mountains. E. J. White left today for New Mexico where he has accepted a position. RU SUES IT AL0N G. Attorney General Grigg-s Refers a Point to Secretary Alger. Washington, July 12. Attorney Gen eral Griggs has rendered an opinion in the matter of the construction of a sys tem of sewers and the paving of the streets of Havana by a contract made with Michael J. Dady Co., pursuant to the provisions of the old Spanish law. The attorney general says he Is un able to definitely state whether Dady Co., have any rights under the pro ceedings of the authorities in Havana relating to the matter of constructing works according to plans prepared by said corporation and alleged to have been adopted by the municipality. "If Dady Co.," he adds, "at the time the treaty of Paris was signed, had any rights under their alleged con tract which could properly be called vested rights, those rights are undoubt edly preserved by the terms of the treaty. The practical question for the military authorities in Havana is whsther it is advisable, as a public mstter, and having in mind solely the public interests, to permit a contract, which is eoncededly inchoate, which in volves the expenditure of as much as $13,000,000. and which involves the tear ing up and disturbance of streets of the city in a manner which may great- ly endanger the public health, to be carried on at the present time. If the authorities were convinced that Dady Co. had a vested right or a complete contract, it would be within their law ful province to suspend Its execution if they thought the public health or other interests required. Of course such an interference with the exercise of a vest ed contract right would involve the payment hereafter, in legal damages but the public good would be a higher law and would justify the interference. This matter as now presented, seems to be one for administrative decision by the war department." The attorney general, in concluding, recommends that the commander :n Cuba be directed to refer the subject to the civil authorities of Havana with directions to investigate the status -of the Dady claim to determine whether it is for the interests of the city that the improvements be carried out in the immediate future or whet her the project should be abandoned. When the facts and the opinion of the civil authorities are obtained, the war department could direct such action as then might seem advisable. TOPEKA PAVING. City Council Rushing Prelim inary Arrangements. The paving season in Topeka is draw ing to a close so far as the ordering of new paving by the city council is con cerned. One or two more petitions may be received at the next meeting which will put an end to further action this year. At the meeting Tuesday evening the following petitions for paving were re ported favorably by the committee on streets and walks, and the reports were formally approved by the council: Topeka avenue from Tenth avenue to Eleventh street, repair space occupied by street railway track. King street from Western avenue to Fillmore street. Fillmore street from Tenth avenue to Eleventh street. Fillmore street from Eleventh street to Huntoon street. Thirteenth street from Clay street to Buchanan street. Topeka avenue from Eleventh street to Twelfth street, space occupied by street car track. Topeka avenue from Thirteenth street to Huntoon street, space occupied by street car track. Topeka avenue from Thirteenth street to Fourteenth street, space occupied by street car track. Formal resolutions declaring it neces sary to pave the streets reported by the committee were adopted and ordered spread upon the records. An allowance of 20 days is now given for protests or remonstrances to be filed. A resolution was adopted instructing the city clerk to advertise for bids for paving Greenwood avenue. Willow ave nue, Buchanan street from Thirteenth street to Willow avenue and the alley between Huntoon and Twelfth streets and Western avenue and Fillmore street. Mayor Drew appointed the following appraisers for paving of Greenwood avenue; alley between Twelfth and Huntoon streets and Western avenue and Fillmore street and Buchanan street between Thirteenth street and Williams avenue: I. T. Lockhard, L. T. Gage and T. L. Ross. Opening Fillmore street F. M. Bone brake, P. H. Forbes and G. W. Green wood. The contract was awarded for paving West street from Sixth avenue to Fifth street. John Ritchie will do the paving at $1.23 per square yard and the curb ing at 48 cents per lineal foot. M. F. Wall will do the grading for 2SV4 cents per cubic yard. The only other bid was 55 cents for curbing by P. H. Gill. John Ritchie filed a bond of $29,220 signed by the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., to guarantee that he will carry out his paving contracts. The bond was approved. H. I. Cook filed a bond for $8,800 signed by L. Blackman and J. M. Knight to guarantee his paving con tracts. The bond was approved. Salyer Nystrom filed a bond for $815 to guarantee their grading con tracts. The bond was approved. EXPECT TO JOIN US. Central America Looks to Union With United States. New York, July 12. Martin Roberts, financial representative of the govern ment of Guatemala, is in the city trying to sell a railroad that has been built in that little republic by American capital. He says that his republic and most of the other republics making up the Cen tral American states look forward to the day when they will be a part of the United States. Besides the agitation there for annex ation, Mr. Roberts says there is a pro nounced feeling against the silver stand ard. The fault found with silver is that it fluctuates with the crops. "The stories from San Francisco," said Mr. Roberts, "regarding an Im pending revolution in Guatemala are all nonsense. One of the 'prominent' men who reached that city and assisted in sending out the alarming report, is a grocery man. The others are about equally important. You see it is easy to start either a story or a 'revolution' in Guatemala. All that is necessary is a half dozen hungry men and some thing to eat. When the men try to get something to eat without paying for it there is your 'revolution.' "The immediate trouble just now is about the debasement of silver. That metal is the standard there and it fluctuates tvith the price of coffee. There was a tremendous crop of coffee this year and even now more is growing there than ever before. The result is that the price has fallen to a degree never known before and somehow the silver follows it. There is no use in de nying that the metal is greatly debased in Guatemala and that fact has brought about the present bad finan cial and business conditions. But to talk of a 'revolution on that account is nonsense." NEBRASKA HOT WAVE. The Thermometer Registers In the 90 For Two Days Fast. Omaha, Neb., July 12. Nebraska is in the throes of a hot wave, the thermo meter registering in the nineties the past two days. The maximum at Omaha yesterday was 96, and today 92. Louis Gunnell, a laborer, at the Union Pacific shops, was prostrated by the heat today while on his way to work. His condition is critical. Get our prices before you have rubber tires put on j-our vehicle. Rehkopf's Carriage factory, 207-209 .W. 6th SU "When it comes to making Low Prices on High-Class Merchandise, we stand without a peer. We will occupy our new building in a few weeks, and we are determined to unload our present stock. HERE ARE SOME OF THE PRICES: Men's Clothing. Men's Business Suits, all pure wool Blue Serge, Black Cheviots neat brown and grey effects in Tweeds and Cassimeres not a suit worth less than f lO Bemoval price..., $5-95 Over 200 Men's Pine Suits, all sizes one or two of a kind all $15 ie Suits, all sizes ft kind all $15 $8.85 Suits in one grand lot Bemoval price. Men's Good Office Coats, worth 65c and 75c Eemoval price Men's $1.25 and $1.50 Alpaca Coats Bemoval price 6OC Men's Crash and Duck Pants worth -$1.25- l)3C Bemoval price. ...vvw Men's SllK-faced D. B. $5 Blue Serge if 5 0 Coats- 00.03 Removal price, Men's $4 and SB Crash Bnita ef 45 Bemoval price.. Pi"v Cor. 7th MORE ABOUT FRUIT. Horticultural Society Issues an Ad ditional Report. The following additional report on tha condition of Kansas fruit has been is sued by Secretary William H. Barnes of the state horticultural society: Barber county: Apples 90 per cent, Missouri Pippin and Geniton. 100 per cent, Wihesap and Ben Davis, 90 per cent; pears: Keifer and Buerre Bosc 100 per cent, Bartlett and Seckel, 80 per cent; young trees less. Peaches, 90 per cent Alexander, Rivers and Old Mixon cling, 80 to 100 per cent, Elberts, Crosby and Cream 25 per cent. Plums, 90 per cent; all trees in good order; best spring and summer for fruit in 15 years. Johnson count: Apples 20 per cent. Maidens Blush, Missouri Pippin, Tork Imperial and Willow Twig doing best. Pears 10 per cent. Peaches, none. Plums, Wild Goose. Grapes, 100 per cent. Con cord best. Trees in fair condition. Mc-Pherson county: Apples 5 per cent, Missouri Pippin and Maidens Blush. Plums 2 per cent. Grapes, Concord 90 per cent; trees in good order. Riley county: Apples 30 per cent. Maidens Blush and Missouri Pippin 100 per cent. Plums 50 per cent. Grapes, Concord 30 per cent; trees in good condi tion, excepting old apple trees. Newly planted apple trees a poor stand. Peach stock scarce. Grapes on bottom are killed to the ground. Pratt county: Apples 25 per cent, Missouri Pippin. Pears 75 per cent. Peaches 95 per cent. Early varieties best. Plums 75 per cent. Grapes 75 per cent; Concord best. All trees doing fairly excepting old apple, old peach and old plum trees. Trees planted this spring are doing well, many seemed to be dead when planted out. Washington county: Apples 10 per per cent, but Missouri Pippin which will go 75 per cent. Trees doing well excepting peach trees which were most ly killed. Wilson county: Apples 70 per cent; Maidens Blush 70 per cent, Jonathan 80 per cent, Ben Davis 90 per cent, Winesap 80 per cent. Pears average 20 per cent, Bartlett 20 per cent, Keifer 25 per cent, Duchess 20 per cent, Jersey 15 per cent. Plums. Wild Goose. Grapes 100 per cent. Concord and Niag ara. Condition of trees fine. Wyandotte county: Apples 15 per cent; early harvest. Maidens Blush, Do monie, Ben Davis, York Imperial and Winesap are the best. Pears and Peach es, none. Plums 5 per cent. Wild Goose, Japanese failed. Grapes, Concord 90 per cent; all failed by Concord, Worden, and Elvira; trees, old in poor condition, young and newly set, very poor. END OF A FEUD. Two Mississippi Men Shoot Each Other to Death. Columbus, Miss., July 11. At Craw ford, Miss., today two men. Shields Ir vin and F. A. Tarleton, were shot to death. Bad blood had existed between the men for some months and when they met today, after ti.e exchange of only a few words they drew their pistols and began firing at each other. Tarleton was almost instantly killed, while Irvin lived until this afternoon. TAMMANY NOT PLEASED. At the New Civil Service Lawi Pass ed For Their Benefit. Albany. N. Y., July 12. The state civil service commission last niprht a1optei the civil service rules to govern New York city. They now go into effect. The rules, with slight changes, are the same that the board framed a. few weeks ago and which Mayor Van Wyck returned without his approval. Tn the finance department there are now 60 exemptions, instead of J8. as formerly. In the law department where there were formerly 100 exemptions, the list has bpen reduced to 71. The po sitions of superintendents of ho.spitals. almshouses, asvlums and training schools in the department of public charities are made competitive. All other city depart ments have been subjected to similar changes. The new rules also take from the ap pointing powpr the right to set aside per sons heading the eligible list an-1 then substitute others. They require cases for removal to be filed and sworn certitication that any officeholder has actually done the work for which a salary is drawn. BLUE BOOK OUT. It Is a Veritable Galaxy of Political Beauties. Themost creditable blue book yet Issued after the close of the legislative session has made its appearance with the request that the patrons "do not shoot the fiddles, because they have done the best they could." The book is Yery complete and contains Cool Clothes For Little People. Blouse Suits, worth 60c, w Bemoval Price liCr Blouse Suits, crash and duck over alls. Sold for $1.00. Bemoval Price..., 45"' Boys' Overalls, ages 4 to 10. Removal Price 18c Boys' Extra Black Stockings, usu ally sold for 25 c. Removal Price I2L SPECIAL. 300 pairs of Men's fine all wool pants, one or two of a kind, worth $4, $5 and $6. J? a f Bemoval Price. STRAW HATS AT HALF PRICE. and Kan. Ave. AITEBBACH Sc. excellent cuts of the state officers and members of the legislature. The publication was issued by R. M. Ruggles, Charles Sessions and I. N. Ury. It was printed by Crane Co. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. Southampton, July 12. The cup chal lenger Shamrock will sail only one race with the Prince of Wales' cutter Bri tannia and will then proceed to the Clyde, to be fitted out for her voyage across the Atlantic. She is still in dock with her so-called "petticoats" on. London, July 12. The British govern ment replying to the offer of the gov ernment of Queensland to send 250 vol unteers and a machine gun to South Africa in the event of war between Great Britain and the Transvaal has expressed the hope that the occasion will not arise, adding that if it does, the government will gladly avail itself of this patriotic offer. WTashingtoi, July 12. The adjutant general today received a dispatch from Col. Combs at Boniago, near Santiago, announcing the death from yellow fever last night of Captain Thomas M. Wood ruff, adjutant of the Fifth infantry. Captain Woodruff was a West Point graduate, appointed from District of Columbia, Holstein, Neb., July 12. Two children named Jacobus, aged 5 and 7 years, while playing along Cottonwood1 creek last evening, fell in and we: e drowned. Trenton, N. J., July 12. Ezekiel T. Cooper of Dover, Del., who was serv ing an 18-months sentence in the state prison for the abstraction of funds from the First National bank of Dover, died in the prison last night of cramps and hiccoughs. Cooper had been a promi nent politician and was formerly regis ter of wills. Baltimore, July 12. Circuit Judge Stockbridge handed down an opinion today in the case of Amelia E. Myers, against the Order of the Golden Chain, to the effect that the organization is Insolvent and announcing that he would sign a decree appointing receivers. New York, July 12. Seven persons already have died in and near New York from lockjaw by Fourth of 'July pistol accidents and others are in a pre carious condition. Washington, July 12. The president today appointed Col. Alfred E. Bates, paymaster general of the army to suc ceed Gen. Asa B. Carey retired. Lille, France, July 12. Serious riot ing has followed the acquittal of Father Flamidion, of the school of the Chris tian Brothers here who was charged with murdering a boy in that institu tion. Thousands of persons paraded the streets shouting "Down with the Jesuits" and smashing windows. MOTHER AND SON UNITED. F. C Getchell, Kidnaped 25 Years Ago, Found After Persistent Search. Cleveland, O., July 12. F. C. Getchell, an insurance agent living here, who was kidnaped when an infant, 25 years ago, and his mother were reunited last night. The mother, Mrs. Emma Smith, came from Birmingham, Ala., where she was' located after a long search and was met at the train by her son. The story Mrs. Smith tells of the kidnaping is to the effect that the infant was ta ken by a relative to. New Orleans and there placed in an orphan asylum. The boy remained there until he was 15 years of age, when he came north, and after living in various places he came to this city. Pierce's Granddaughter Wed. New York, July 12. The wedding is announced in this city of Miss Harriet Pierce Graham, daughter of Brigadier General William Montrose Graham, U. S. A., retired and great granddaughter on her mother's side of President Pierce to Lieutenant Archibald Henderson Scales of Greensboro, N. C, instructor in mathematics at Annapolis. At Get tysburg, during the civil war, the brig ade commanded by General Graham was opposed by confederate troops in command of Major General A. M. Scales, an. uncle of Lieutenant Scales. Notice to E!ks- A special meeting will be held Sat urday night, July 15, for initiation and other business. J. F. McManus, E. R. 18 pounds Best Gran. Sugar Jl. Whit telsey Mer Co., Grocers. X Furnishings. Turkey Bed and Blue Hand- 1 kerchiefs. Bemoval Price 12 2 W TJnlaundried Shirts, linen bosom, reinforced back, open back or front, 75 c values. rC Bemoval Price Men's Le.undried Negligee Shirt, 2 collars and cuffs, worth 75c Bemoval Price.... j2 Men's best $1.25 Negligee !85c Shirt; Bemoval Price. All 50c Neckwear. Bemoval Price 35C Boys' 50C to 6BC 81iirt Waists aVC Bemoval price.... Men's 10c Linen Collars Removal price... 7c Regular 25c Linen 1 1 Cuffs- C Bemoval price X GUETTEL. Excursion Rales. This list contains a few of the more Important points to which unusually low rates have been made. For infor mation about other points or occasions as well as particulars regarding train service, sleeping car reservations, etc.. Call on or address the undersigned. Pueblo, Colorado Spring's or Denver and return, $24.00. Indiapolis, Ind., and return, $17.50; July 18 to 20, inclusive. Pittsburg, Pa., and return, $25.40, July 31 and August 1, inclusive. The Santa Fe offers unusual attrac tions to persons who desire to travel in comfort and luxury and on fast trains. The tracks are rock-ballasted; the bridges are of steel or stone or both; grade crossings are minimized; the cars are lighted by electricity while the dining rooms, dining cars and lunch counters are under the management of Mr. Fred Harvey, and are not equalled any where. Passengers on the Santa Fe find there's comfort in every turn of the wheels. T. L. King, Agent, A. T. S. F. Ry Topeka, Kansas. ra P JZ2 111 itrrrUilt-Hlrfrti ..MB mini SHORTEST LiriE. COLORADO F LYE C Garfield Park Tonight. KLINE'S LUMEIiE CINEMATOGRAPH Admission, 10 Cents. Casino Free. WI1 Do Your Hauling Right TOPEKA TRANSFER CO., 5 09 KANSAS AVENUE. Office Telephone 320. House Telephone 395. F. P. BACON, Prop. So. m. about Storage. Sest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW9 SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHINU, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES th CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. AL LAYS all PAIN, CURES WIXIJ COLIO and Is the best remedy for WARRHOLA. Kold by Lruscfrists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. V, in elow's Soothine Syrup." and take no othe kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. TO KEEP MEMBERS COOL. Commercial Club Booms Will Have Electric Fans. Secretary T. J. Anderson of the Com mercial club says that he has arranged ta have electric fans in the rooms tonight, so that those who attend may be perfectly comfortable. He hopes that there may be a lax& audience. ?MlN H 1 Lt 11 in

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TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAL. r--v 4 Aw. Yt V. xi-x u LORD ROBERTS. ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED COMMANDERS OF GREAT BRITAIN'S AK.MT. THE RETIREMENT OF ENGLAND'S ROARING LION. Gallant Lord Wolseley to Lay Down His Burden as Head of the English Army and Lord Roberts to Take it up. From our London Correspondent.) London, July 1. England is prepar ing" to bid farewell to her oldest and best soldier. To go further, one might Bay that the United Kingdom will soon lose the best head its army ev-r had. This is with due apologies to the Duke of Cambridge, who was a good man, renowned, first, for his cousinship to the Queen; and, second, for his great conservatism. Cambridge was blamed for deeds which bore the stamp of the old fogy, but Cambridge kne.v a good fighter when he saw one, and to him belongs the merit of establishing the British army in a permanent way. England's present marvelous suprem acy on land and sea is largely due to the old man who preceded the present head of the army. Garnet Joseph Wolseley. after forty years of hard fighting in India, the Crimea, Canada, Africa and the Medit erranean, was appointed chief of the British army November 1, 1893. He had for a long time been acting head of the army, but the actual title and the im mense emolument for the position did not become his until that year. Pre vious to this he had been In command of the troops in Dublin; and before that he had commanded the British forces in every quarter of the earth owned by her Majesty. HIS CANADIAN CAREER. The period most of interest to us on this side of the Atlantic is that between 1860-70, during which time Lord Wolse ley was stationed in Canada. Contrary to the course of most British generals in Canada, he interested himself in the affairs of the United States, and for the ten years during and following the civil war his name was as well known in the United States as that of any of its own generals. The way in-which Wolseley, who was then colonel, came to Canada is inter esting. He had been fighting in China and had accompanied the advance on Pekin. He had had a narrow escape from capture by the Tartars, and was prominent at the destruction of the fa mous Summer Palace of Pekin. On re turning to England, early in 1861, Col. Wolseley received a promotion and -was given a lengthened leave of absence. Packing his grip, he started for Cork, where he had promised himself some great hueting in his native woods, for he was born in Ireland. Scarcely had he loaded his gun when he was suddenly recalled to active serv ice. Commodore Wilkes in the "San Jacinto" had perpetrated the "Trent outrage," and the British government immediately sent for Wolseley In order to insist on reparation. In the dead of winter he took passage with a brigade of guards on the steam ers Parana and Adriatic, and, accom panied by a couple of batteries of artil lery, he came over to Canada, In those days the ocean passage was slow, and by the time Wolseley had reached his allotted post on the St. Lawrence matters had quieted down; so that General Rumley, who was dis patching relays of sleigh loads from St. Johns into the interior, was ordered to slacken up his haste. The United States had liberated Messrs. Mason and Slidel. and there was an amicable set tlement in sight. In the next year, 1S62, Wolseley made himself the best beloved and the most hated man in America. As a Britisher, neutral, and entitled to courtesies, ha secured leave from the government to visit the Confederate capital, and ac- stranger In a foreign land. But If Wolseley had been less polite to his host, less earnest in his speeches re garding him, he would have escaped the deluge of unfavorable public com ment which was heaped upon him in the North. Whatever may have been Wolseley's sentiment at that time he "squared" himself North years after at the funeral of General Grant, who was the soldier of the North, as Lee was the soldier of the South. Unable to leave his post, he sent his regrets and wrote a very hearty letter of admiration for the man who had fought so bravely. These two incidents illustrate better than could be done in any other way the peculiar characteristics of Eng land's hardest fighter. Wolseley is ab solutely without fear. Oblivious to public opinion, devoted to his country and anxious to serve his Queen in all capacities, he has lived a life with no other object in view. According to English courtesy, there is no exact retiring point for the head of the army. It was supposed that Wolseley would retire in five years, as he had nearly reached the age limit of M Ill t- .inr-iaVif. k,w -if. 4W AST E3m i.w, LflP.D WOLSELEY, HEAD OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S FIGHTING FORCES. cordingly he sailed up the Potomac and visited Richmond, where he met Gen eral Lee and enjoyed a very pleasant visit with him. Then the news became spread abroad throughout the United States that Wolseley had allied himself with the South, and the North was bitter against him and against England. After he returned to Canada Lord Wolseley expressed himself openly in approval of General Lee's personal characteristics. He declared him to be one of the most cultured men he had ever met, and he told several private friends in an open way that he consid ered it one of the great privileges of his life to have met General Robert E. Lee. In the licrht of later events this act of Wolseley, and these words of his, meant nothing from a political stand point; they were merely the gentle manly expressions of an Englishman who had been courteously treated by a activity in the field, which is generally conceded to be sixty-five, although the United States retires her generals ear lier. Lord Wolseley, it is expected, will re tire next year, and he is to be succeed ed by Lord Roberts, a soldier of no less ability. Probably Wolseley's enduring fame will rest chiefly on the Ashantee expe dition which followed his Canadian campaign. It was in Egypt in 1S82 that Wolseley fought the Mahdi's troops, and two years later he made his fa mous attempt at the rescue of Charles Gordon from the deviltry of the Mahdl at Khartoum. In Alexandria he put in practice the famous ruse which was the cardinal feature of the campaign; and, finally, he fought the decisive battle on the very spot which he had specified before leaving England. Wolseley's march across the desert to within striking dis- AS A STATISTICIAN LORD WOLSELEY HAS DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF, PARTICULARLY ALONG THE LINES OF ATTACK. THE ABOVE IS ONE OF THE CAMP PLANS WHICH HE HAS RECENTLY DESIGNED. tance of Arabi's entrenchment, which offered the most favorable opportunity for the assault, was the greatest known triumph of military skill. Off the field for Wolseley has not fought every minute of his life he has proved himself an author by writing many books. These include the follow ing well-known works: "Narrative of the War with China, etc.," "The Soldier Pocket Book for Field Service," "The System of Field Manoeuvres," and an exhaustive biography of the Duke of Marlborough. As an after-dinner speaker. Lord Wolseley has become famed. He has a loud, clear voice, a sharp, concise de livery and magnetism. These qualities are unusual in a general. General Grant was the "The Silent Orator." He could only stand up, smile and mumble, but he always got wild applause from his audience. CHINESE NOBTLTTY SHOWN BY BUTTONS. Buttons play an important part in the dress of Chinese mandarins. Those of the first and second ciass wear a button of coral red, suggested, perhaps, by a cock's comb, since the cock is the bird that adorns their breast. The third class are gorgeous with a robe on which a peacock is emblazoned, while from the center of the red fringe of silk upon the hat rises a sapphire button. The button of the fourth class is an opaque, dark purple stone, and the bird depicted on the robe is the pelican. A silver pheasant on the robe and a clear crystal button on the hat are the rank of the fifth class. The sixth class are entitled to wear an embroidered stork and a jadestone button; the sev enth a partridge and an embossed gold button. In the eighth the partridge 13 reduced to a quail and the gold button becomes plain, while the ninth class mandarin has to be content with a common sparrow for his emblem, and with silver for his button. IN THE FIERY HELL OF AN OCEAN STEAMER. My Lady and Her Companion who Promenade the Deck Know Little of the Aw ful Tragedy Below. The German Emperor, noted for his humanity to workingmen if not to aristocrats, says that the stokers in the modern steamship perish from the effects of the heat they are forced to endure because the shipbuilders con struct the stoke-holes too small. The Emperor on his yacht Hohenzollern has remedied this fault, and the men feeding the boilers of his ship are al lowed more fresh air than any of their colleagues employed on a vessel of equal engine power. Many of the swiftest of the ocean greyhounds have fifty-six engines, every one of which can be made to work independently of all others, if necessity should make it desirable. Of these the two engines driving the screws are the most powerful. Passen gers can observe their workings from the upper deck through a glass roof surmounting the engine house. Take a trip in imagination down to th stoker's hole of a modern steam ship. When you enter the latter by a small door you are nearly knocked off your feet by the sudden gust of burn ing hot air striking you. In the iron floor is a hole which leads to the lower regions. An iron ladder is the medium of descending, and the act is accomplished in a backward fashion, while you hold on for dear life on the side railings. After two or three minutes you land on a narrow long bridge. Semi-dark ness now holds you in Its embrace: the heat seems to increase and the jioise is deafening. All around you are parts of the towering engines moving Incessant ly, some of them slowly, others so quickly that the eye could not follow them. If the ship is at that moment running "full steam ahea.d," at the rate of nineteen to twenty miles per hour, you will see the machinery during its busiest hours. Her screw measures twenty-two feet in diameter and makes eighty-six rotations per minute, or 5,160 per hour. Each rotation drives the vessel twenty-eight feet ahead. She covers In one minute 2,408 feet. You hear these figures, leaning heavily against the Iron wall. Then you proceed further along the, bridge, and suddenly, through an opening in the transverse wall, find yourself oppo site the sister engine, which is in full motion. There is the most interesting spot in the whole ship. The pale man at the switchboard, if he chose to dis obey orders telegraphed to him from the commander's bridge, could hurl you into eternity almost at any moment. Further down into the interior of the mighty ocean monster! Is it possible that the heat could still increase? One hundred and ten degrees you now count on the thermometer. As you proceed the engine men become more numerous and more herculean in build. The greater the heat the greater the power of resistance and endurance required of those forced to stand it. "At the present time ninety-seven steam cylinders are active," the guide will tell you. You crawl down another story, on a ladder narrower even and hotter than the other. You are in hell's mouth. Darkness all around you; only here' and there a small electric flame to show you the way. You are just 'twenty-five feet below the water line; the officers on the bridge are ninety feet above you. Presently you reach the very bottom of the ship and face the fiery eyes of the long row of furnaces, each "eye" three feet in diameter and emitting un bearable heat. The small space be tween the iron wall and the mouths of the furnaces is enlivened by a hundred men or more swinging mighty shovels and irons. They are the stokers and trimmers. Clad only in fragments of trousers and a woolen shirt, these Pariahs of the steamship world work with clocklike precision. Their faces, breasts, hands and arms are covered with soot a quarter of an inch thick so thick that the perspiration, running from their heads in streams, leaves no marks. Every half minute each furnace must be fed, which means a temporary in crease of the prevailing heat by about eighty degrees; and the normal tem perature in which these poor beings breathe is a hundred and ..twenty-two degrees, sometimes more; less only un der extraordinary circumstances! But that is not all. Daylight never shines into the stokers' quarters, and the ventilation, though of superior quality in the new ships, is necessarily inadequate. Think of the dust pro duced by handling the immense quanti ties of fire material. The ship, most likely, swallows 120 carloads of coal on each trip. The furnaces are placed side by side, like so many tuns, each meas uring three and a half by ten and a half feet. When a furnace Is opened the current of air finding an outlet often ap proaches two hundred degrees in tem perature. Still the stokers have to stand it and work in this infernal at mosphere eight hours per day, if not longer. The mortality among this class of workers is greater than that in any other sort of employment: heat strokes are very frequent in the furnace rooms and many a stowaway, discovered after the ship left harbor, has died after un dergoing coal shoveler's duties only a few days or hours. SIR THOMAS LIFTON ON THE COMING RAGE. He Tells a Reporter of This Newspaper Why the Shamrock Will Surely Garry Back America's Gup in the Fall. (From our London Correspondent.) It was the day of the sensational launching of the Shamrock. As secret ly as though she was a warship, steal ing a surprise upon the enemy, attend ed by none save her godmother. Lady Russell, of Killowen, who christened her, and by Fife, who made her, and by Captain Hogarth and her owner, sha had glided down her slips and reached the sea with not more than ten persons near enough to hear the splash. On board stood Sir Thomas Lipton, pale with excitement and expectation. "She is the finest yacht that ever sailed the English waters," said he, after the ceremony, to our correspond- 000 feet In sail, but I am not going to tell any more about her. Time will show! company the Shamrock and will take charge of her during her races. I would not do that unless I expected to will bring to English yachtsmen. "I was reported to have stated that I would not allow the Prince of Wales or c 1 fmfMc, It UVkyxJLi'-N y THE FIRST AUTHENTIC DIAGRAM OF THE CROSS SECTIONS OF THE UfeJttetiS5 'A'SVi'5to KEW CUP DEFEXDER ASP ITU CONTESTANT, THE SHAMROCK. SIR THOMAS LIPTON EXPECTS TO SAIL FOR THE UNITED STATES ON THE SHAMROCK ABOUT THE FIRST OF AUGUST. ent, "and If you are betting or know anybody who wants to bet, you can give this advice: put all your money on the Shamrock. "I have seen every fine yacht on this side the Atlantic and a great many of the cracks on the other side; and I have no hesitation in saying that the Sham rock beats them all. She has over 10,- "The Shamrock hoists her racing colors and will soon be ready to race. She will test her speed from the Solent to Bangor, thence to the Clyde. That will give her trial enough. There will be a month's hard work. ATLANTIC TRIP. "The 1st of August we sail for the other side of the Atlantic. I shall ac- wrin. "This much I will say," and Sir Thomas Lipton pointed his finger at our reporter, "if the Shamrock does not bring back America's Cup no other yacht need try to do so. Not at pres ent, at least, until there are discoveries of new metals and new racing possibili ties. "The Shamrock from end to end is the best-built boat in the world. They have been busy for days polishing her Outside to give her the smoothness of glass and making her perfect in every respect. Neither time nor money has been spared upon her. If I desired I could have hurried the work at Mill wall faster, but I preferred to allow the builders to take their time, and they have given me a beauty. "The cost of the Shamrock? That Is difficult to say, if you want it exactly. She has cost fully $600,000. But she will repay it in the honor which she the Queen of England to be present at the launching of the Shamrock, but that was a figure of speech to denote the great secrecy which I think best tc maintain regarding her. "My trip to America? Oh, I have the most pleasant anticipations regarding it. Only I shall want to bring back the Cup with me on the fleet little Sham rock." And Sir Thomas Lipton turned away to consult with a yacht owner who de sired to race his yacht with the Sham rock on the Clyde. It is said that Sir Thomas has been very generous in the matter of applicants for the honor of racing the Shamrock. He has accepted a great number of offers; and this sum mer to owif"a yacht that was a trial horse for the Shamrock" will be the ambition of every English yacht owner, and the pride of all who were accorded the honor. .'71 ;45f if-:.' i V. 4 '5-' v J. I t IN V r -f, J- rt V--; 'Mm mm r w if- A CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE STOKER'S HOLE; OWING TO THE GREAT HEAT IT IS NECESSARY TO KEEP HOSE CONSTANTLY ON HAND TO PUT OUT THE FIRE WHICH MAY ARISE FROM THE INTENSE HEAT. K

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY" 12, 1899. V it J v y y lie J. B. SPEOAT, Prop., Telephone 252. 1 12 East Sixth. Street WHOLESALE ANX RETAIL, There has never been a time since the establishment of our store when we have sold goods on so close a mar gin as we are now, every item is sold regularly every day on a wholesale basis. Those who buy of us know these statements are facts. Those who don't are perhaps doubtful on account of the markel difference between the prices we advertise and what they pay. Why not buy your groceries from a house that will save you money on everything you buy. 18 lbs. finest Standard Granulated Sugar $1.00 20 lbs. Granulated Sugar $1.00 on orders amounting to 4.00 22 lbs. Granulated Sugar, $1.00 on orders amounting to 9 00 19 lbs. White Extra C Sugar 100 21 lbs. Light Brown Sugar 1.00 SOAPS. Kirk's White Russian Soap, per box. $2.40. 10 bars .25 Peet Bros.'s Silk Soap, per box, $2.40 10 bars 25 Proctor Gambles' Lenox soap, per box, $2.40, 10 bars for 25 Fairbank's Clairette Soap, per box $2.35, 10 bars .25 "0 pounds Sal Soda 25 8 pounds Gloss Starch 25 2 cakes Morgan's Sapolio 15 3 packages Pearline .10 4 pound package Gold Dust 15 3 packages 9 O'clock Washing Tea.. .10 1 cake H. and H. soap 10 1 box, 3 cakes Buttermilk soap 05 6 cakes Mechanic's soap 25 Pint Bottle Best Bluing 05 Some low prices on canned goods to close them out to make room for new ones: 3 lb can Standard California Table Peaches 121-2 3 lb can California Table Green Gages 10 3 lb can CaliforniaTable Egg Plums .10 3 lb can California Table Apricots.. 12 3 lb can California Table Pears 10 3 lb can Eastern Table Pears 10 1 gallon can New York Apples .30 2 lb cans Blackberries, 4 cans 25 2 lb cans Cherries, 3 cans 25 2 lb cans Gooseberries, 3 cans 25 2 lb. cans Sliced Pine Apple 12 3 lb cans grated Pine Apple 10 2 lb cans. Raspberries, 2 cans 15 2 lb cans Strawberries, 2 cans 15 1 gallon cans California Peeled Peaches 35 1 gallon can California Apricots .40 3 lb. cans Standard Tomatoes, 2 for .15 Banquet Supar Corn, 85c doz. 2 cans .15 3 ib. can Pumpkin 05 Warren Al Salmon, New Pack, 2 cans 25 2 cans Chipped Beef 25 7 cans Eagle MUk 1.00 3 lb. cans Boston Baked Beans, 2 cans 15 3 cans Heinz' Boston Baked Beans .25 6 cans Potted Ham or Tongue 25 3 cans Anderson's Jam 25 MEATS AND LARD. Wolff's No. 1 Sugar Cured Hams, per pound .11 No. 1 Sugar Cured California Hams, per pound 07 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per pound 09 Dry Salt Bacon, per pound 04 Armour's White Lard, per pound .05 3 lb. can White Label Lard .23 P lb. can White Label Lard 35 10 lb. can White Label Lard 65 COFFEE. One pound Dwinell Wright Co.'s high grade coffee; will go as far as two pounds cheap coffee. 2 lb.s D. W. Co.'s Golden Rio 25 1 pound Straight Rio 18 1 pound Java Blend, 20c, 2 lbs. for .35 "We sell all brands of Xopeka Mills Flour at low prices Goods delivered to Oakland Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Mail orders packed and shipped promptly and goods guaranteed to be satisfactory. NOTHING BUT AIR Says Alger of Reports of His Retire ment From the Cabinet. "Washington, July 12. Secretary Alger today made to a representative of the Associated Press his first personal state ment concerning- the reports tha.t he is about to resign from the cabinet. When asked as to the truih of the rumors, the secretary said: "What 3o you mean, ex actly?" "I mean to ask whether or not the stories that you are to retire from the cabinet in the near future are true." "There is nothing- in these reports but lr." replied the secretary. "I shall not retire this year, certainly, and cannot say as the future. My private business anil the state of my health will govern my future course. "These constant assaults and repeated baseless reports are, of course, very an noying: to me and extremely distressing to my family, but I have never retired under fire yet and do not propose to do po now. Nothing1 that I have ever heard of, or have known of. has been so cruel as' the attacks on me. If my critics can j point to one thing in my official career 1 j. nit- uone mm j. ouijni not to nave done, or that I have not done that I should have done. I shall be very glad to surrender my present official duties." TO ViED IN SEPTEMBER Are Miss Julia Grant and the Prince With, the Unmentionable Name. Newport, R. I. ,Julv 12. Mrs. Potter Palmer Is authority for the statement that the marriage of her niece. Miss Julia Dent Oram, and Prince Cantacuzene. will be solemnized in Newport in September. The exact date has not been fixed. This will be settled upon after the arrival of the prince early In September. No definite plans have vet been deter mined upon and all the minor details will be left to the young people themselves to decide. Miss Grant has not yet announced who will be her bridesmaids or mail of honor. This will not be cone until some time in August. It is Certain, however, that Miss Clapp. daughter of Mrs. N. 13. Clapp, will be among" the numbr, Mrs. Clapp and Miss Clapp are now in Europe and are expected to arrive in New port the latter part of July or early in August. The wedding will take place in Beau Lieu. A HISS 0 LSI CONVICT, Bays Gilbert Gates, Whom Jester Is Accused of Killing:, Was Alive in '94. Mexico. Mo., July 12. James Lee. an Inmate of the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson. City, Mo., writes to a news paper heTV that Gilbert Gates, brother of John W. Gates of ChicRgo. and for whose murder 28 years ago Alexander Jester is under arrest, was alive in 1894. The letter in full follows: "I have noticed the publications in re rard to. the Jester case and will kindly ask you If a deposition from me will be sriven consideration, as I am well ac quainted with Gates and know that he was alive and well In August, 1894, and living In Arizona under tha name of Qearffe Dorse If you kill write to roc 1 pound Our Blend, 23c, 2 lbs for 1 lb. choice Java and Mocha, 30c, 2 pounds for .45 .55 1 lb. Tea Room Blend. 35c, 2 lbs for .65 3 pounds Revere Coffee 1.00 j Lion, Arbucklea, 4-X, Leverings, Mo- j kaska and Javanese coffee, per package 10c. TEA. We have Just received a full line of Gunpowder, Oolong. English, Break- fast, Sun Cured, Japan, Young Hyson and Uncolored Japan Teas and we are I going to retail them at wholesale prices. 35 cents per pound or 3 pounds for $1.00 SYRUP. 1 1 gallon bucket fancy Table Syrup. .30 3 ib. can fancy Table Syrup OS 1 gallon Honey Drip Syrup 20 1 gallon can fancy Sorghum 40 2 gallon pail Table Syrup .45 SNAPS FOR THIS WEEK. j Best Soda Crackers per lb. in any quantity .05 I Best Lemon Cream crackers, 2 lbs .15 1 -CieL VTiiier onaps, ios Zi Oat Meal and Graham Wafers, per pound 10 3 lb. package A. B. C. Crackers 20 Uneeda Biscuit, per package 04 New York Full Cream Cheese 2 lbs .25 Kansas Full Cream Cheese per lb.. .10 50-lb sack Straight Patent Flour.. .85 Yeast Foam and Ralston Yeast, per package 03 y2 can Royal or Prices' Baking Pow der 20 Baker's Premium Chocolate, per lb .30 Rockwood's Premium Chocolate per pound 30 Baker's Sweet Chocolate, per lb ..20 Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, per can .20 Ceylon Bulk Cocoanut, per lb 15 j 2 pgks. Postum Cereal or Grain-O .25 Hire s Root Beer, per pkg 15 i Juniper Ade. per package 20 Use Primrose Extracts, 2 oz. bottle .10 10 lbs. Hand Picked Navy Beans .25 3 pkgs. Quaker Oats 25 i 2 pkgs. Scotch Oats 15 1 pkg. Columbia Oats .05 j 11 lbs. Bulk Scotch Oats -.251 Pettijohn's Breakfast Food 10 2 packages Caramel Cereal 25 I 4 lbs. fancy Japan Rice 25 6 lbs. Clean Broken Rice .25 2 pkg.s Grape Nuts .25 j 7 No. 1 Lamp Chimneys .25 1 dozen cans Lye 33 1 gallon Cucumber Pickles 15 6 pkgs. Bird Seed .25' Pint Mason Fruit Jars 40 j Quart Mason Fruit Jars .45 xh gallon Mason fruit Jars .55 Mason Jar Tops, per dozen 20 Tanglefoot Fly Paper, per box 15 I Daisy Fly Killer, 2 for .25 1 gallon Jug Tomato Catsup 45 1 gallon Jug Best Mustard 45 6 pkg.s Church's .or Dwight's Soda .25 CALIFORNIA FRUITS. Fancy new 1899 Evaporated Apri cots, per pound .15 6 lbs. Sweet Black Prunes .25 3 pkgs. Recleaned Currants .25 2 pounds Peaches .25 2 pounds Evaporated Apples .25 PURE SPICES. Pepper, Allspice, Cloves, Cinnamon, Ginger and .Mustard, per package 5c Monahan Murphy, who run a general store in Needles, Cal., they will remem ber him, for we were mining- and pros pecting partners and often bought sup plies from them. If I can be of service in the case I will give you all the in formation I can. "Yours truly, JAMES LEE, "Box 47, Convict No. 14,388." Jester refused today to talk about the convict's letter. He is growing stronger every day and seems confident that he will be cleared of the charge, lie still denies that he is the man want ed. NEWSBOYS' OUTING. J. E. Nissley Says That He Can Ac commodate One Hundred. The newsboys of Topeka are in state of suppressed excitement over the pic nic which is promised them on Tuesday of next week by J. E. Nissley. of the Kansas Creamery company. That Mr. Nissley is the friend of the newsboys he has proven time and again. He is con tinually preparing a treat for' them. This time he chartered a car on the Union Pacific to run to Lawrence next Tuesday on the "plug," returning in the evening on the same train. When Mr. Nissley invited the boys to go to Lawrence for a day's outing, at the meeting of the newsboys' union Monday evening, he fairly took their breath away. Some of them have nev er been out of Topeka in their lives, and everything they have ever had they have been compelled to work for. That anyone should hire a special car to take them to a picnic was almost beyond their belief. However, they are hastily accepting the invitation. Already over 50 have called at Mr. Nissley's office and signed a register so that he can know how many to depend on. Mr. Nissley says he can take a hundred as well as not and he hopes that every newsboy in Topeka will go with him. The train will leave the Union Pacific depot at 8 o'clock in the morning. There is a switch at the park in Lawrence where the special car will be set out, and the boys will proceed at once to the park. Mr. Nissley has arranged for ball games among the boys, foot races, and other innocent pastimes.and about once an hour he will send up a balloon. At noon there will be a picnic luncheon and ice cold buttcTmilk. and in the af ternoon Majof Gould, of Lawrence, will address the boys. This sort of an outlook makes some older people wish that they were news boys themselves. Payne's Quick sale, summer bargain shoes. White Loaf Flour,' $1.00 per sack. Whittelsey Mer. Co.. Grocers. Heinz's Ice Cream delivered at your door. Phone 397. 212 East Eighth St. DISQUIETING REPORTS Brought From Guatemala by Return ing Americana. New Orleans, July 12. The Picayune prints the following: News of the greatest import from Guatemala was brought to this city by the passengers on the Snyder steamship Breakwater, which touched at four or five of the leading central American ports before putting in here. The re ports seem to be authentic in the main and come from sources that are of the highest order. "Just before sailing on the steamer for New Orleans," said one of the pas sengers, "I was informed by several persons that England and Germany would shortly make a naval demonstra tion on the two leading ports of the re public of Guatemala. I learned that a large amount of the government debt in the form of bonds issued by the gov ernment of Guatemala is held by Eng lish and German interests. These bonds have been practically repudiated, at least the bonds have sunk to nothing and the German and English holders have protested vigorously to their gov ernments. "Four warships are said to have been ordered to Guatemalan waters, two German and two English. One of each flag will proceed to Puerto Barrios and one of each nation will be sent to San Jose de Guatemala, which is on the Pacific side of the republic. "The point that most interests the United States is that if this seizure of the custom houses should result in a long holding of those ports in order that the amounts could be collected, it would be necessary for a protectorate to be established over the republic of Guatemala, while this was going on. In that case the natural course of af fairs would be to turn to either Mexico or the United States for that protector ate. The first proposition would hardly be probable because of the bad feeling existing between Guatemala and the re public of Mexico over the boundary dispute." UNDER WAY. Work of the National Edu cational Association Meet ing Begun. Los Angeles, Cal., July 12. Promptly at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the National Educational association was called to orded by F. Q. Story of the local executive committee. The pavil ion was crowded in every part and num bers of the visitors failed to gain ad mittance. After an invocation by Rev. C. Clark Pierce, the Woman's orches tra rendered the N. E. A. march, a rather unique piece of music composed for the occasion, and Governor Henry T. Gage was presented and bade the delegates a hearty welcome in behalf of the state. L. Kirk, state superintendent of pub lic instruction, in behalf of the edu cational interests of the state, followed. He told of the growth of secondary and higher education in the state. Including professional colleges located in San Francisco, the state university has now a total enrollment of 2,438. In 1889 there were but 62 high schools in the state, but today there are 125 and with an in crease of numbers the standard of work iias been raised. Dr. Elmer E. Brown of the University of California, on behalf of the manage ment, also welcomed the visiting edu cators and then Mayor Fred Eaton, on behalf of the municipality, in a few words told the visitors they had the freedom of the city during their stay. On behalf of the city schools. City Superintendent Foshay outlined the ed ucational system here and paid tribute to the educators of teachers in charge of the 28.000 children. Responses to the welcoming addresses were made by N. C. Dougherty, superin tendent of schools of Peoria, 111.; Dr. Emerson E. White, of Columbus, Ohio, and J. H. Phillips, superintendent of schools of Birmingham, Ala. After the orchestra had played Mo zart's overture to "Don Juan" President Eliphalet Oram Lyte, of Millersville, Pa. delivered his address. There was more music by the band and then the session of the convention was at an end. The evening session was as largely attended as had been the one in the af ternoon. In addition to the Woman's orchestra, the Aoedan club, under the direction of Mrs. G. B. Parsons, super intendent of music in the public schools ended the proceedings by rendering sev eral selections. Dr. W. T. Harris, United States commissioner of education, de livered a most appropriate and decided ly interesting address on the subject of "An Educational Jr-oacy ror our JNew Possessions." Henry S. Townsend, Inspector general of schools of Hawaii, made a thought fully conceived address upon the sub ject "The Educational Problem in Ha waii." "The environment and the temper of the children of Hawaii," said Dr. Town send, "are especially diversified. This is due largely to the diversity of races with all that it implies. The ends of the earth meet in Hawaii and no one race is predominant in numbers. Pres ent Indications are that the generation next to be borne in Hawaii will consist of white persons and Hawaiians in al most equal numbers, and a large num ber of Asiatics. These latter will not be assimilated with the elements of our future population and so form one peo ple, though it is possible that the whites and the Hawaiians will thus unite in spite of radical racial difference. The problem involves at least two races of men in nearly equal numbers, living side by side within our narrow bound aries without uniting. Our Hawaiian civilization should be based upon broad charity and universal good will." At the closing session of the national council of education Prof. Louis Soldan, St. Louis, was elected president for the following year. Prof. Elmer Brown, of California, vice president, and Miss Belle A. Dutton, Cleveland, O., was re-elected secretary. The report on the relations of public libraries to public schools that had been prepared by a committee com posed of J. C. Dana, A. Hutchins, C. A. McMurray, Sherman Williams and Miss M." Louise Jones, was presented and read. The annual meeting of the board of directors of the National Educational association was called to order by Presi dent Lyte at noon, the following officers being present: First Vice President J. G. Gregwood, Kansas City; Treasurer I. C. McNeill, West Superior, Wis.; Chair man of the Board of Trustees A. M. Lane, Chicago. The treasurer's report showed, a total amount during the year of $58,561.10, in cluding a cash balance of $2.201.. The expenditures amount to $26,010.92, in cluding $10,000 transferred to the per manent fund. The available cash on hand is $2,556.16. Treasurer McNeill also reported that between $8,000 and $10,000 in addition was available this year for transfer to the permanent fund.. The thirteenth annual report was pre sented and read. It showed the assets to be $74,000. the total investments on July 1, 1899, having been $67,500. By unanimous vote the directors passed a resolution directing the presi dent of the National Educational as sociation. Prof. L. D. Soldan, Prof, delegates to the peace conference at The Hague congratulations of the members of the organization. Another sharp discussion was brought about by the petition presented by Miss Estelle Reil, national superintendent of j the Indian department, and who is a member of the directorate, asking that the Indian institute be made a depart ment of the National Educational as osciation. Prof. L. D... Soldon, Prof. Taylor and others participated in the discussion, but no action was taken. SOUTH TOPEivA. Items Intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany. 835 Kansas avenue. Peter Holsmister of Elmont was in town today. Miss Annie Page left today for Colo rado Springs. Rev. E. S. Riley of Manhattan is vis iting friends in the city. Harry Graves went to Carbondale to day on a business trip. Patrick Montague of Newman spent the day on the North side. Clem Payne returned yesterday from a week's visit near Menoken. Mrs. Alice Sanders of Leavenworth Is visiting North side friends. The ladies of Asbury chapel will give a donkey social Friday evening. Mr. Goodrich of Atchison is visiting his brother-in-law, Charles Gertiesen, on Madison street. Earl Starbird and sister Nora went to Teeumseh yesterday. They made the trip on their bicycles.. Percy Ogden, who has been confined to his home suffering from an abscess, is able to be down town. Mrs. Hattie Bartel of Las Vegas was the guest of Miss Ollie Courtright for several days this week. The six-months-old infant of Deal Hemmel of Shorey died yesterday and was buried this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and son of Fair bury,,, Neb., were entertained yesterday by Mr. T. J. Parrish of 1319 Harrison street. Misses Bertha and Edna Kistler went to Silver Lake yesterday to spend a week with their cousin, Miss Gertrude Ashpole. Mr. Jacob! left today for San Jose 111., to visit his parents and attend the wed ding of his sister, which, will take place the last of the month. Porter Mitchell and family, Frank Carey and family and Miss Cora Priddy left yesterday for Dragoon lake for a five days' fishing trip. AV. S. Evans of Versailles, Mo., who is visiting on the North side, was the guest of honor at a supper given by the K. L. of S. at their hall last night. The horse driven by Miss Viola Trout man to the Epworth League picnic yes terday ran away, but was stopped be fore any damage was done. Mrs. J. N. Henry, Miss Annie Henry, MiS3 Emily Brummett and Miss Mary Brown attended the Epworth League picnic at Teeumseh yesterday. The ladies of the east section of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church will be en tertained on Friday afternoon by Mrs. A. S. Embree at her home in Potwin. Mr. Bishop of Menoken has sold his farm, parties from Perry being the purchasers. Possession will not be given until after crops are harvested. Miss Peterson and Miss Reyberry, who have been visiting the family of John Nystrom, left Monday for an ex tended trip through the western part of the state. The Sunday school of the North Tope kaBaptist church are picnicking this af ternoon in the Campdoras grove. It was postponed from last Wednesday on ac count of the rain. Mrs. G. F. Kimball and Miss Martha Kimball. 214 W. Gordon street left today for Holden, Mo., where they will be the guests of Mrs. Daniel Carmicheal and Miss Mary Terrill. Mr. Charles Felker entertained about fifty friends last evening at his home, two miles south of Hoyt. Aftr a musi cal programme refreshments of cake and ice cream were served. Mrs. Courtney, at 905 N. Kansas ave nue, also Courtney-Baxter at 716 South Kansas avenue, will sell you your hats at a price that will surprise you. All summer good3 must be sold to make room for a fine line of fall millinery. The Sunday school class of Mr. W. C. Steele enjoyed a picnic this afternoon and evening on Washburn campus. Mr. Steele has taught this class for the past nine years, and the annual picnic is a much anticipated event. The following compose the class: Alice Hale, Lizzie Rose, Delia Gilman, Grace Page, Maud and Nora Frye, Rena Ward, Ada Mun cie, Nellie Dolman, Nellie Skinner, Nellie Tonkers, Bertha Adams and Jessie Fowler. Mrs. Steele acted as chaperon, Mr. Steele coming out in the evening. A number of young people took dinner and supper and spent the day at the Epworth League picnic at Teeumseh yesterday. The following drove out in a dray, filled with benches and cushions: Pearl Nash, Mary Knox, Pearl Irwin, Ethel Allen, Kate Woodburn, Florence Musseen, Edith Faus, Etta Parsons. Miss Wilder, Miss Woodburn, Clarence Houghtelin. Park Kimball, Clifford Lutes, Walter Graft, Harry Nash and David Wilder. "LITTLE LOIS" IN TROUBLE. Again Arrested For Being the Fro prietor of a Joint. Julius Larson and "Little" lion Townsend are both in trouble for the old offense of selling liquor. On Tuesday Larson, the bar keeper of the place under the Pacific Express office was arrested and today the pro prietor, Townsend, was arrested in time to be tried with Larson at 4 o'clock. CHANGED THE BALLOTS. Nebraska State House Janitor Tells a Sensational Story. Lincoln, Neb., July 12. The senate committee selected by the last legis lature to make an investigation of state officers and alleged ballot frauds of 1897 began Its hearings today, first taking up the ballot recount. The purpose of this recount was to show that the con stitutional amendment permitting two more supreme court justices, both Popu lists, had carried. L. Simmon, a state house janitor in 1S97, testified that he, with State Oil Inspector Edmisten, G. W. Blake and another janitor, secured the ballots from a vault late in the night and changed the markings in favor of the amendment. Many blank ballots, he said, were used and the names of the election judges forged. Simmon's testimony was sensational and was in a measure corroborated by other witnesses. We mend and sew on buttons free. American Steam Laundry. Tele. 34L A fine selection of high grade Ther mometers just received at Bennett's Optical store, 730 Kansas avenue. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, July 12. WHEAT Wheat opened strong today and before 11 o'clock had advanced c. Reports of excessively heavy weather and too much rain stimulated buying. A big drop in receipts at the northwest in com parison with last week added to the strength. September opened c higher at 73c and advanced to i3c, the can price. Selling against these privileges chocked the advance for a time. Opening cables were Arm. Northwestern receipts were 413 cars, compared with 1,378 last week and 38 the same day a year ago. Chi cago received 85 cars, 7 of contract grade. CORN Corn was fairly active and strong in sympathy with wheat. Septem ber opened unchanged at 33c and ad vanced Bteadiiy to 34e. Receipts at Chi cago were 502 cars. Crop reports were generally favorable. OATS Oats ruled strong on fair trade. September opened unchanged at 20o and advanced to 20c. Receipts here were 218 cars. PROVISIONS Provisions ruled strong and packers and outsiders good buyers. September pork opened 10c higher at $9 and advanced to $u.07. September ribs opened 2fi5c higher at $5.174 and ad vanced to $5.2.ti5.27. September lard opened 2:5c higher at $5.42 and sold up to o.. iracie was uroauer than lor several months. BARLEY Cash, 3S342c. RYE July, Stic; September, 54c. TIMOTHY August. $2.60: September. $2.55; October, $2.52. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, July 12. HOGS Estimated receipts of hotrs to day, 26.000; tomorrow. 30.000; left over, 2,- BjS. AiarKet iuny owiuc nigner, su sell ing. Mixed and butchers. $4.1Otr4.20: good heavy, $4.20T?4.25; rough heavy, $4.05'a.4.15; light. $4.10-64.25. CATTLE Receipts, 1S.000. Market weak, i Beeves. 54.blAn n.N,-, cows and belters, 4.90. Texas steers, $4i5.10; stockers and leeders. S3. t mi 4. So. SHEEP Receipts. 15.000. Market steady. Sheep. $3.50&4.50: lambs, J4.25& 6.90. utnciai ror -yesterday: HOGS Receipts, 1S.0S8: shipments, 2,984. CATTLE Receipts, 3,458; shipments, 1, 174. SHEEP Receipts, 9,134; shipments, 310. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, July 12. CATTLE Receipts, 5.500 natives, 2.000 Texans. Best steadv, others weak. Na tive steers, $4.2C5.50; Texas steers, $4fS 4.t5; Texas cows, $2.95fi4.to; native cows and heifers. $2.2o'S5.45; stockers and feed ers. $3..WS4.50; bulls, $3.Wg4.35. HOGS Receipts. 10,000. Market 510e higher, active. Bulk of sales. $4.05ti4.15; heavv, J4.10fl4.30: packers. $4. 0564. 20: mix el. $4'4.071,i: lisht, $3.904.10; yorkers, $4.05 64.10: pigs, $3.70ff4. SHEEP Receipts, 3,000. Market steady. Lambs, $3 506; muttons, $3.304.35. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, July 12. WHEAT Close, September, 67c: Decem ber, 6Sc. Cash: No. 2 hard, 69c; No. 3, 65V.fo'Wc: No. 2 red, 7UQ71c; No. 3, 67((i69c. CORN September.GlV-jc: December.30Hc; Cash: No. 2 mixed, 32c. No. 2 white, 32c: No. 3, 32c. OATS No. 2 white, 2Sc. RYE No. 2. 57c. HAY Choice timothy, J7.50Q7.75; choice prairie. $6.50a7. BUTTER Creamery, 14160; dairy, 13c. EGGS Fresh, 10c. Topeka Markets Today. CATTLE. COW S $2. 505 3.75. VEAL CALVES $3.504.75. STEERS $44.50. HEIFERS $3&4.25. HOGS. LIGHT $3.603.75. PIGS $3.15''" 3.60. MEDIUM $3.70 3.90. GRAIN. NO. 2. WHEAT 65c. NO. 2 CORN 30c. NO. 2 OATS 25 27c HAY $01 6.50. PRODUCE. EGGS 10c. SPRING CHICKENS From $2.50 to $3 per dozen. HENS 670 perpound. COUNTRY BUTTER 1213c New York Money Market New York. July 12. MONEY Money on call easier at 4'a5 per cent; prime mercantile paper, ?T4 per cent: sterling exchange steady, with act ual business in bankers' bills at $187:y4.87 for demand and $4.84-ii for 60 days; posted rates. $4.85'a4.86 and $4.884.88; commercial bills. $4.84. SILVER Silver certificates, 60ffP1c; bar silver. 60c: Mexican dollars,, 47c. BONDS Government bonds steady. U. S. 2s. registered, 101; 3s. registered. 108; coupon. 109; new 4s, registered, 130; cou pon, 130; old 4s. registered, 112: coupon, 112; 5s, registered, 112; coupon, 112. Sugar Market. New York, July 12. SUGAR Raw barelv steady: fair refin ing. 3 29-32c: centrifulgal 96 test. 4 7-16c; molasses sugar. 3 25-32. Refined quiet; crushed, 6c; powdered, 5c; granulated, 5c. COFFEE Dull and nominal. No. 7, 6c. Market Gossip. Liverpool. 3:15 p. m.: Wheat d lower than yesterday; corn unchanged to d lower. Paris close: Wheat 15C20 centimes higher; flour 20f730 centimes higher. Chicago: Privileges good next week: Puts September wheat 70c, calls 76c; puts September corn 33c. calls 34c. Liverpool opening cable: Wheat and corn unchanged. London: Wheat cargoes slow, weather sultry, options d up. Chicago receipts: Wheat 85 cars, graded 7 cars: com 502 cars, graded 48 cars; oats 218 cars, graded 28 cars. Chicago: Estimated receipts of hogs for tomorrow, 30,000 head. Duluth receipts, 212 cars; Minneapolis, 205 cars:. last year. Minneapolis 45 cars. Weekly crop bulletin: This has been another favorable week for corn In the principal corn states. Winter wheat har vesting nearly finished. Some delav by rains in portions of Wisconsin and Michi gan. In Kansas and Texas some damage has resulted from sprouting in shock. No unfavorable reports respecting spring wheat except from central and eastern portions of South Dakota, where it has been materially injured by drought. Chicago: Washington crop report for week favorable for wheat. Oklahoma crop largest on record. Liverpool close: Wheat d higher to d lower. Topeka cash market. 11 a. m.: No. 2 hard wheat. 59 test. 64565e; No. 2 mixed corn, 30c; No. 2 mixed oats, 25c. New York: Earnings Southern railway first week July increase $43,700. Kansas City receipts: Wheat 2S cars, last year 27 cars: corn 12 cars, last year 60 cars: oats 6 cars, last year 11 cars. Privileges good next week: Wheat puts 70c, calls 77c: corn puts 33e, calls 34c. Chicago: Estimated receipts for tomor row: Wheat 77 cars, corn 625 cars, oats 190 cars, hogs 30.000 head. New York: Northern Pacific directors meet at 2 p. m. to declare the regular quarterly dividend of 1 per cent on pre ferred stock. It is improbable that any. other action will be taken. New York: Atchison preferred looks very strong. London has sold. Some good buying recently by commission houses. Puts September wheat 73fffc, calls 74 5c; puts September corn 34c. calls 34c; curb September wheat 74c; curb Septem ber corn 34ftc. Total clearances wheat and Sour 797,000 bushels: corn, 614.000 bushels. New York reports 20 loads wheat and 40 loads of corn taken for export. Joseph's Tips. New York. July 12. Foreign houses have scattering buying orders and will take moderate amounts of L. N. The cap italistic forces are arrayed on the bull side of the market and higher prices seem inevitable. Bears will feel dismayed at the approach of the biggest campaign that Wall street has ever witnessed- Missouri Pacific. Wabash, Atchison preferred and St. Paul will do better. Specialties will unquestionably be the feature of the Im mediate present, but eventually these stocks will loom into considerable promi nence and will reach better records than have yet been made. A working alliance, if not something more, between the Northern Pacific. the C. R. Q. and the B. O. railways will be an accomplished fact inside of a few weeks. N. P. preferred Is as sound and safe a 4 per cent stock as may be found on the list. J. ARTHUR JOSEPH. Range of Price. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth street. Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago, July 12. Article. Open High Low Closa Yes. July 71 72 71 72 71 Sept 73 73 734, 73' .3 Dec 74 753- 74 7a- 74- CORN May 33 34V4 33 34 33- Sept 33 34 33 34-H 33 Dec 33 33 33 33- 32-33 OATS s 24 20 21 22 23 21U4 Sept 20 20 20 Dec 2o 21 2034 May 22 22 22 POKK July Sept 9 00 9 32 8 97 LARD July Sept 5 42 5 50 5 42 RIBS July Sept 5 17-20 5 27 E 17 KANSAS CITY WHEAT Sept 66 67 66 9 07 8 75 9 20-22 8 90 E 37 5 47 E 27 5 S7-40 B 17 S 05 5 22-25 5 12-15 67 Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street. Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Stocks. Sugar People's Gas lOp'n Highl Low 157l 15!" j 157Vi Uise Yes. 118 97 56 115H: 71 81 136 117 131 i 62 118 117; 97 I 55 115 71: 59 I 81 j 136 1 117 131 20 61 118 90 47 77' 43 lf 138 58 61 118 69 77 5't 48 71 52 1171,!!! Am. Tobacco A. S. W B. R. T Leather Federal Steel Fed. Steel Pfd. C. B. Q Rock Island St. Paul Atchison Atchison Pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific U. P. Pfd Union Pacific C. N. W N. Y. Central.. C c c Reading" Pfd"..! Jersey Central. T. C. I No. Pac. Pfd No. Pacific Pacific Mail L. N S. J 98: 5 118 71 61 81 Mi1 137: 118 132 20 62 i 121) 91 4X' 7! 44 97 I 97 55 i 56 115 115 71 60 I 59 Vi SI' 4 1 81 137 136 117 117 132 131 2' 20 62 I 61 11S 119 9lll 47: 77 I 77 43! 43 160 161 139 137 58' 57 61I 16 llOVi 91 47 771 43: 16'li- 161 13N-V 1411 5! 62 118 71 77 50- 4V 72 521 225 76 5SH: 61V8 118 70i 77 118 116' 70 70 77 I 50: 4S: 72l 7. 4!) 46 71 50! 4S: 71 52tj 224 75 52' "1 Met. Street Ry. Denver Pfd 223 22:1: 223 75 7t WANTED HELP. WANTED Place by a young German girl, in small family. Call in afternoon at 924 North Kansas ave. WANTED Young man with fair educa tion and knowledge of stenography, with one year's experience in general office work, desires steady work of any kind; best of references. Address A. B., care Journal. WANTED Position in gents' furnishing store: experienced: best of reference. F. A. Long, Mayetta, Kan. WANTED MALE HELP CASH for acceptable Ideas. State If pat ented. The Patent Record, Baltimore, Md. WANTED FEMALE KELP. WANTED An experienced nurse would line a posiuoii, tjei ja.v. to WANTED Dining room and kitchen girls, also chambermaid. Southeast corner Sth and Quincy sts. WANTED AGENTS. AGENTS MAKE $10 DAILY SELLING Neely's thrilling photographs of actual battle scenes "Fighting in the Philip pines," 160 vivid half-tone photographs from Manila; 5x8 inches. "Our New Pos sessions," the best collection of 160 photo graphs of the Uewev islands. Porto Rico and Cuba. Outfit of either album, includ ing complete copy, free for 12 cents, coin or Ftanips; both albums for 20 cents. Order quick .avoiding unnecessary correspond ence: money refunded if not satisfactory; albums must be seen to be appreciated. Six million books issued yearly Cata logue free. Authors' manuscripts promptly exam- ltl TENNYSON NEELY, PUBLISHER, 90 Wabash av., Chicago; 114 Fifth av., New York. WANTED TO BUY. I WILL BUY government land clalmsnow available to old soldiers who homesteart ed less than 160 acres prior to June 22. 1874. Henry J. Adams, Attorney, 628 Kansas av. Topeka. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To sell or trade, one saddle pony with 3-months-old colt, by Heir loom; also, white Cochin chickens. Ad dress 824 North Quincy st. WANTED Use of horse and buggy in exchange for use of tandem. 120 E. Sth. WANTED A good work horse for his keep: light work; good care and best feed guaranteed. D. A. Wise, Crosby Roller Mill. FOEENT-EOOMa FOR RENT Five room cottage In good repair, at 1267 Polk St. Inquire at 1313 Clay St. FOR RENT A furnished room. 1201 Jack son st. FOR RENT Furnished room with board. 900 Topeka ave. FOR RENT 5 rooms, unfurnished, 2nd floor, modern, barn, $11. 313 E. 11th. FOR RENT Four rooms, light house keeping upper floor. 606 West 6th. FOR RENT Very desirable furnished rooms, all modern conveniences, 1 block from business center. 209 East 7th. FOR RENT Pleasant furnished upstairs room. 421 Quincy st. FOR. RENT Large, pleasant furnished rooms. 1113 Monroe st. FOR RENT 2 unfurnished rooms, first floor. 215 East 10th st. FOB BENT HOUSES FOR RENT Good dwelling. Prospect St., The Smith Agency, 609 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 5 room house, S31 Monroe St. Inquire at 635 Monroe St. FOR RENT House 1131 Tyler st.. modern improvements. Inquire 610 W. 12th st. FOR RENT North east corner 6th and Lincoln sts.. newly painted 7 room cot tage with every modern convenience, $25 per month. Address E. B. A., care Journal. MONET. BROKERS promoters, mortgage deal ers, wanting eastern money write for circular. Investors Directory, New York. MONEY to patent good Ideas secured through The Patent Record, Baltimore, Md. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles. guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe. 523 Kansas ave. MACHINE SHOPS. MADE IN TOPEKA Established 187. Machines of all kinds at the Capital Iron Works, East 7th st. and Santa Fe tracks. Large foundry. Improved ma chinery. Moderate prices. Estimates cheerfully given. H. K. Brooks and G. W. Brooks, proprietors. LAWN MOWERS sharpened, 76c; razors and clippers. Golden Rule, 514 Kan. ave. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE Clay st. near end of street car, 3 room cottage. 4 lots, 2o0 barrel cistern, well, fruit, etc., $550. Morris av. near 7th, nice 7 room house, 2 lots, collar, well, etc., $1,200. Make an offer. TOPEKA REALTY CO.. 534 Kan. ave. H. MACFERRAN. Mgr. IP YOU WANT at 16 to 18 per cent in vestment for your money, see Pavne Thompson, quick. A Bnap. 627 Kansas av. FOR SALE Desirable building site on corner near Washburn coilege: side walks, well, cistern, large barn, founda tion shade trees. A snap. Intiuire 1607 West st. or Henry J. Adams, 628 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Farms. ranches. garden tracts, fruit farms,- poultry farms, city prop erty, some business property or anything you want in the wav of real estate: also money to loan on good real estate secur ity: houses for rent: also all kinds of no tary work neatly done. J. E. Shaffer, Chief Hotel. 323 Kansas ave. FOB SALE MISCELXAN'EOTrS. FOR SALE Cow and calf, part Jersey. 1 spring wagon. Second house north Seabrook school house. FOR SALE Second hand carriage, sur revs. bugsries and harness, newlv paint ed and repaired; will take horses or old buggies in trade. Hearick fc Rea, 627 Quiney st. FOR SALE Horse, buggy, harness; a!ao household gojds, at a great sucririce. Call 1124 Taylor. FOR SALE A 5-year-old Durham cow and heifef calf. 219 Western ave. FOR SALE Lady's bicycle. W. C. Steele, shoe store. North Topeka. FOR SALE Best dressmaking business in Topeka. best location, best equipment, best trade. Write me. Mrs. E. A. O'ISrien, 723 Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. A DRUG STORE for sale at snap price. Will take one thousand dollars less than It Is worth if sold at once. A. B. WOOLVERTON. 834 Kansas ave.. Topeka, Kan. FOR SALE Newspaper and complete printing plant, large circulation and profitable local busi ness, long established; location, county seat in central Kansas. J. E. IURKI.NGTUN, 111 W. 6th Ft., Topeka, Kan. FOR SALE Or trade for city property west of avenue, grocery stock and lix tures. 1303 Kansas avenue. FOR SALE OR RENT Bargains in Oak land properties. P. C. Moore, 420 Kan. a v. MISCELLANEOUS. FOR EXCHANGE For a good business building in Topeka, well locate!, a room cottage, 10 acres adjoining city, in alfalfa, a good hog ranch, or for garden ing, well improved. water and timber, with or without stock: a per month job goes in the trade. (""all on or address I. S. Brundage. Kerington, Kan. TO TRADE Western Kansas land, unin cumbered, for house or lots in Topeka. Address F. F., care Journal. WjLL do noBe painting for v:.cnnt lots, lumber or bicycle, "fainter, box 168. city. K-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for 5 cents at drupgists. They banish pain and prolong life. One gives relief. No mater what's the mat ter one will do you good. TIN SHOPS. J M. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps and tin roofing. 216 W. 6th. Tel. 359. FRESCO WORK. to w ntt.T.FsPlR. Fresco Pairter. De signs and estimates furnished on all cHsses of work. 1714 West Fifteenth. To peka, Kan. Refers to his work in State Journal building. ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW. MILTON BROWN, lawyer. Practice in all state and federal courts. Suite 41, Craw ford bldg., Topeka. Kan. STORAGE TOPEKA STORAGE AND WARF.HOUSR CO A-'acKs ana snips nousenom kooum. Tel. 186. C. D. Skinner, 123 East Sixth st. STOVE REPAIP-S. STOVE RE PAT R S 7o r i g i n a fc a st n ST"? or cook stoves and heaters, gas and gaso line stoves. 'Phone 313. Hull Stove and Repair Co., US E. 8th st. TURKISH BATHS. turkirha'ndminT the Topeka Mineral Wells. Experienced attendants. 316 Harrison st- WATCHMAKEH. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks, 0c; mainsprings. 75c; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for nuw. If hard up, see Uncle Sam. 512 Kan. ave. SPECIALISTS. DR. J. ALBERT BERRY. 631 Kan. ave. Tel. 765. Stomacn, jnteKunes anu xvctiuui. DR C. H. GU1BOR. Diseases of the Nosa. Throat and Lungs. 706 Kansas ave. JEWELERS. JAME3 B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. BICYCLES. U. 5 CYCLE CO.. lis K. Sih st. National and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. Sth St. Btcyeies and sundries: bicycles and tandem lor rent; repairing of all kinds. FLORISTS. MRS J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R- J. Groves. 817 Kansas ave. 'Phone 602. STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AV. High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work, low price. Catalogue Pres. 'Phone 292. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS. L. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence corner Gordon sr. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 214 Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, fistula, iishure, ul ceration, etc. DR EVA HARDING. Homecpathlst, 62 Kansas ave. TeL. 402. S. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Ciay. Office hours: 9 a. m. te 11 a. m., and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 698 residence and 16 office. PA VINO. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 118 West Eighth mU

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TOPEKA STATE JOtTRXAE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUET 12, 1899. NO RESTRICTIONS Architects Allowed Latitude la Citj Kail Plans. II a j Arrange Buildings as Suits Their Fancy. X E W INSTRUCTIONS. City Council Adopts New Eules For Competition. 53 8 General Terms Remain as Orig inally Accepted. The biiildins committee of the city council has made an amended report Inviting architects to submit plana for the new city building. The report which was adopted at the meeting Tuesday evening after it had been amended in several important particulars is as fol lows: Topeka, July 11th, 1S99. The mayor and council of the city of Topeka hereby invite architects to sub mit to them at their meeting on August 7th, 1899, competitive preliminary floor plans, elevations, perspectives and ap proximate estimates of cost of a build ing or connected buildings for fire de partment headquarters, municipal of fices and auditorium, to be located on the three fractional and nine full lots on the southeast corner of Seventh and Quincy streets, the municipal offices to consist of approximately twenty-five rooms and to contain approximately 10, 000 square feet of floor space. The aud itorium to contain suitable committee and other rooms and conveniences, and to seat from four to five thousand peo ple. The floor plans of the fire department headquarters to be furnished by the fire marshal. Said building or buildings to cost not to exceed the approximate sum of $i5, 000. From the meritorious plans submitted the mayor and council will select three, if so many there be, and for the best of the three, will pay the sum of three hundred dollars; for the second best the sum of two hundred dollars, and for the third best the sum of one hundred dol Jars. The winner of the first prize in the competition may be employed to as sist the city engineer in the preparation of final plans and specifications for, and in the supervision of the construction of euch building or buildings, so far as his services may be needed or desired in that behaif; his compensation, ir so em ployed, to be determined by agreement between the mayor and council and him self. All prize winning plans shall become and remain the property of the city of Topeka, and such use may be made thereof as the mayor and council may desire. The mayor and council reserve the right to reject any and all pians. After Chairman Xettels had read the report he said that the instructions be fore adopted were considered too in definite and it was considered best to submit another report. Councilman Warner thought that the council should allow the architects lat itude in making their plans. Councilman .Elliott said he thought the money should all be paid to one architect instead of three. Councilman Willard said: "I consid er it a good plaA to leave that as it is. i"e may want to use ideas from all the plans but I think that we should allow the architects the greatest possible lati tude. It is possible that some plan will be devised that will suit us better than that already suggested. Let us allow the architects to make their own ar rangement." Councilman Nettels This is simply advisory. Councilman Willard But it seems to me if we express a preference the arch Jtects may consider that they have to follow our suggestion in order to have their plans accepted. Councilman Mergan thought that the cost named, $S5.000 was too much. Mayor Drew said he believed that the architects should be allowed to follow their own wishes. Councilman Nettels said it was nece3 eary to have some instructions. Councilman Willard thought they might find out by inquiry what is wanted. Councilman Nettels replied that there was too much diversity of opinion among the members of the council which would result in unlimited con fulon. The report was adopted after the number of rooms for the city hall pro per was placed at 25 instead of 32 and other changes to make the instructions less specific were made. MR. S CROAT'S PLAN. Has Inaugurated a System of Check ing Which Is an Innovation. A new system of checking has been Inaugurated in Topeka by Mr. J. S. SS proat, proprietor of the Star grocery. Hereafter every purchase will be weigh ed and checked up before the purchaser leaves the store. This system will re quire the services of one and perhaps two extra clerks but will be a great deal more satisfactory than the old way of doing. This system is In practice in many of the larger stores of Kansas City and the east and is proving very satisfactory as well as saving to the stores. By it, all overweight and underweight will be remedied and no opportunity for people to slip out, forgetting to pay their checks, as has been done at various times. Mr. Sproat has had this move under consideration for some time and will now give it a fair trial and if suit able will adopt it permanently. A CDP FOR BRYAN. Hade of Silver and Gold Sixteen to One. Denver, July 12. Wm. JT. Bryan passed through Denver this morning- en route to Boulder, where he delivers hi& lecture on "Present Problems" this afternoon be fore the Texas-Colorado Chautauqua. Me "was met at the depot by Governor Thomas and Mayor Johnson and escorted to Boulder. At Cripple Creek Mr. Bryan was presented with a loving cup made of liver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. A DAINTY DISH. 'With the Delicate Sweet of Grape Sugar. The meat eater1 and the vegetarian alike are charmed with the new food, Grape-Nuts. They have a crisp taste, with the delicate flavor of grape-sugar, and are entirely ready for the table without any necessity for cooking whatever. Made by Foetum Co., Bat tle Creek, Mich. Grape-Nuts furnish one of the dan tleat diahea ever placed on a breakfast 'a r TTf V 1 1 M 5 5 i i. a1 AVegetablePreparationfor As similating theloodandRegula-' ling the Stamarfis and Bowels of Promotes'Digcstion.Cheerful nessartdRest.Contains neither Opium.Morptiirie nor Mineral. Not Narcotic. 1! Him Seed A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEJER Tac Simile Signature ot "NEW YORK. EXACT COPY" OF WRAPPEB. KEPLT TO OAGE. Secretary of Civil Service League Writes an Open Letter. New York, July 12. The National Civil Service Reform league on June 6, issued a criticism of President Mc Kinley's civil service order, declaring that "a backward step of the most rrn nounced character had been taken and later Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury, gave an authorized interview in which he declared that some of the statements of the league were "malic ious representations." "absolute false hoods," or "false interpretations hav ing basis only in the wish to find something- in the action, of the president to condemn." George McAneny, secretary of the league, has sent a long open letter to Secretary Gage, In which the following appeared "Since the opening of the war with Spain the number of appointments in the Washington offices of the treasury department, through competition, under the civil service rules, has been insig nificant. The number of appointments through other means chiefly under the war acts has been very large. When the urgent deficiency bill was passed by congress in June, 1S9S, a clause was inserted permitting the employment of certain clerks in the war and treasury departments, for a period of not to ex ceed one year, 'without compliance with the conditions of the civil service act. "In response to questions from vari ous members the chairman of the ap propriations committee, Mr. Cannon stated that a few only of such clerks would be needed and that he had been assured by officers of the treasury de partment that in the emergency exist ing "it would not be practicable to get them under the civil service act' (con gressional record June 21, p. 6, ISO). This was the beginning. When the number of emergency employes grew and the same argument was used to se cure further exemptions, I addressed a letter of inquiry on the subject to the civil service commission. The commis sion in its reply dated October 22 last, declared that the representations of the treasury officials, as repeated by Mr. Cannon, were utterly without founda tion: that when the deficiency bill was passed the registers of eligibles con tained the names of 6.834 persons. whose fitness has been tested by examination and from among whom the clerical em ployes required might have been secur ed at the shortest notice and that the facts were so reported to congress at the time. It was pointed out that in 1890 three hundred clerks had been ap pointed in one day for the increased work of the pension office and that on many other occasions in the past emer gency forces had been organized with the same expedition. These statements were widely published. Nevertheless every subsequent act passed by con gress authorizing increases of force the same exempting clause was insert ed and both the war and the treasury departments, failing1 to correct the er roneous statements of the treasury of ficials, continued to make their ap pointment without resort to the civil service commission. I find, on examin ing these acts, that the 'few' clerks mentioned by Mr. Cannon have become many hundreds and that the appropria tions made within the year for addition al 'additional' service in the civil branch amount approximately to $2,200,000." Mr. McAneny recalls the pledge made by Mr. Gage when he took office to up hold the civil service law. "You found the internal revenue ser vice wholly subject to the civil service rule,' says Mr. McAneny. "With the exception of the principal deputyshipa one in each of the sixty-three districts all of the subordinate offices in. that highly important branch were to be i filled, when vacancies occurred, only The Kind You Have has borne the signature of xjiJm ait Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Consti pation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. GENUINE Have through competitive examinations or by promotion. "Following the incoming of the new administration, however, there was sweeping changes in the force of agents and clerks known commonly as deputy collectors, in many districts. The new appointments were nade generally in open disregard of the civil service law and in most cases for political reasons. "Finally, in September, 1SD7, when the practice of violation had become almost general, all effort to enforce the law within the department was abandoned. Although this was twenty months be fore the signing of the recent order ex cepting all deputies, the force was there after treated as though actually outside of the classified service." Collectors of internal revenue, Mr. Mc Aneny declares, have openly violated the law with the approval of Mr. Gage. Mr. McAneny says that "Worthington C. Ford was dismissed from the office of the chief of the bureau of statistics, so that it might be made to furnish campaign material." "Laborers," he as serts, "have been placed in positions which should have been filled only after examination." Collectors of customs have dismissed men on trumped up charges to make room for a political ad herent. For all these things Mr. Mc Aneny says Mr. Gage is responsible. McAneny says: "Of the total of 10. 019 positions affected by McKinley's or der those hitherto subject to competitive examination and now withdrawn, are as follows: "Treasury department, 1,644; interior department, 1,033; department of justice, 31S; postoffice department, 447; depart ment of agriculture, 81; war department, 58; navy department, 50; all depart ments, 62. Total, 3,693. "In the war department the following places are placed at the absolute dis posal of Secretary Alger: Quartermas ter's department at large, 622; medical department at large, 2X; ordnance de partment at large, 4,2.7; engineer de partment at large, 1.389. Total, 6.416." Mr. McAneny says: "The failure of the administration as yet to redeem its pledges to enforce the law thoroughly and honestly, and to extend its applica tion, wherever practicable, is more than ever grave and manifest and the future welfare and integrity of the merit ejs tem, as well as simple good faith, de mand that the recent order, in the main, be revoked." CLEVELAND CAIl KIOT. Crowd of 4,000 Throw Stones Through Car Windows and Assault a Conductor. Cleveland. O., July 12. The first car which the big consolidated street railway company tried to run with a non-union crew around the Union street loop in the south end iron works district met with trouble last night. At the Erie railway on Union street obstructions were on the tracks, and when the conductor. George Welsh of Grand Rapids, Mich., got off to remove them a crowd threw stones at him. He regained his car and it went on. but stones came crashing through the windows, -one of them hitting a woman passenger. When Harvard street was reached three cars were found blockade.!, the tracks havtng been obstructed. IVo violence was offered the union crews on them by the 4.O0 men and boys assem bled, but when Welsh came along he was hauled off his car and brutally kicked and beaten. His life might have been taken had not the police arrived, their appearance re sulting in the scattering of the mob. Welsh was taken to a hospital. Methodists on a Picnic. A very enjoyable picnic excursion was held yesterday by the Methodist Sunday school of Ottawa- They chartered 25 cars, making up two trains, and took a trip to Leavenworth and Lansing over the Santa Fe route. Visits were made to the penitentiary and Soldiers' home, the train returning to Ottawa late In the evening. We mend and Few on buttons free American Steam Laundry. Tele. ZiH. Always Bought and and Bears the Always Bought. In LOCAL MENTION. The ladies of the Westminister Pres byterian church will hold their mission ary meeting on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. DaJe, No. 1311 Clay street. After a rain the walks on the south of the state house are usually sub merged, all but a small path in the cen ter. A walk of this kind is not much better than no walk at all. The flambeau club is already agitat ing the matter of going to Washington in 1901 to McKinley's socend inaugura tion. Secretary Swayze is asking for 300 active members of the club to help the project along. The Petunia bed on the south of the state house is being remodeled and a new design made. The petunias which were nlantel there this year ware a partial failure and rather than have a bare spot another attempt will be made. The dining room at the Santa' Fe de pot is being cleaned up and the excess of furnishings taken out. It was opened during the heavy travel to California of the past two weeks. The lunch counter is adequate to take care of all the busi ness here except on excursion occasions. W. N. West, E. L. Copeland, J. F. Scott and Will Ccnners, members of the Topeka Whist club left today for Chi cago to attend the tournament of the American Whist league, which is being held at the Auditorium hotel. On Bast Fourth street just In front of the Santa Fe freight house there is a large puddle of water after every rain. Attempts have been made to fiv this but have been unsuccessful and the only way to remedy it will be to pave the street. There will be no meeting of the flam beau club tonight, although this is the regular date for a meeting. During July and August, while the weather is hot. the first meeting of each month will be dispensed with. This makes the next meeting come on July 26. Some of the newsboys who expect to go to Lawrence on the newsboys' picnic next week have never been out of Tope k in their lives, so it is no wonder that they are excited over the prospect. There are about one hundred members of the newsboys union in Topeka. A Topeka man gets mad because his yard is littered up every day with hand bills, and he has just cause to be mad, too. Merchants who advertise in that manner don't always know how their bills are distributed. Most boys throw from five to ten bills in each yard any way to get rid of them. in J lip 1 1 iMU by warm shampoos with Cuticura Soap, fol lowed by light dressings with Ccticlra, pur est of emollients and greatest of skin cures. This treatment will clear the scalp and hair of crusts, scales, and dandrufT, soothe irri tated, itching surfaces, stimulate the hair follicles, supply the roots with energy and nourishment, and produce luxuriant lustrous hair with clean, wholesome scalp. Fold everywhere. Pottkr JD.awdC, Corp Sole Prp, Hvkqsu bJT How to ft oduc LuxurUat iu." fra. If'l M which has been in use has been made under vision since its infancy. Allow no one to de ceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. Signature of CRANE AND CO. TO MOVE. Will Occupy the Thacher Block on Bast Eighth Street. Crane Co. will probably soon move from their present buikiiny on Kansas avenue between Eighth ani Ninth streets to more commodious quarters. The company has been looking- for bet ter quarters for some time and it is like ly the business will be removed to the Thacher building: on East Eighth street, formerly occupied by the Hall O'Dnn ald company. The building is controlled by Mrs. T. D. Thacher, who now Uves in Philadelphia. A prominent business? man whose name has not been given out. is talking of erecting a building- especially for the com pany. Mr. George W. Crane is out o? town. If the Thacher building- is occu pied many improvements will he made. One of the north walls was cracked dur ing an earthquake several years ago and will have to be rebuilt. FELL FIIOH A CHE11HY TREE Wellington Woman Falls on a Sharp Picket and May Die as a Result. Wellington, July 12. A report has reached "ellin?tLn to the eftect that a young lady of Walton township was seri ously and perhaps fatally injured while picking cherries from the top of a tree yesterday. The limb on which she was sta.nding- broke, leuine: her fall heavily on a wire "fence. One of the sharp pointed pickets penetrated her body near the stomach to a depth of two inches. She hung- there screaming- until assistance roukl be secured. She Is s years of aire. She is seriously injured and will probably die. After Commissioner Evans. Abilene. Julv 12. H. Clay Evans, pen sion commissioner, was thg subject of some redhot resolutions adopted by A. R. post No. 63 last night. The resolu tions condemn ins treatment of o!d sol diers and demand his removal by the president. There was little opposition to tne aaoptiqn ot uie beveic tiuaiBiu"c"L. Edward "W. Bemis, One of the Dismissed Agricultural College Pro fessors Who Has Accepted a Position in the New Socialist College. for over 30 years, his personal super Use for Over HIDE ON WALKS. Cyclists Organizing to Secure Con cessions From the City Council. Topeka cyclists are organizing for their fight for permission to use the sidewalks. The following call has been issued for a meeting: "We, the undersigned citizens, tax pay ers and wheelmen, unite in a call for a meeting to discuss and formulate an or dinance to permit the riding of Dieyeles on the sidewalks adjacent to unpaved streets, to be presented to the city coun cil for their consideration. The meeting will be held at the T. A. A. rooms in the Masonic building on Jackson street this evening at 8 o'clock. All wheelmen interested are earnestly requested to be present. J. "W. Thurston, Frank Bonebrake, J. B. Mills, W. C. F. Reichenbach, H. E. Hickerson, J. B. Doncyson. C. B. Win gett, W. E. Swift, H. L. Robinson, W. A. Seiler, Walter T. Noble, Arthur Cap per. H. V. Abrahams, Frank Foster, N. II. Wolfe, J. W. Robinson, L. B.Wyman, W. R. Fish, T. D. Humphreys, H. M. Ives, Dr. H. C. Miner, E. C. L,aeey, A. Marburg. F. L. Evarts, T. A. Wilkie, Alva Robinson. Candy Kakers Out Frontenac, N. Y.. July 12. The annual convention of the National Confec tioners' association commenced here to day. About 100 wholesale confectioners, from all parts of the United States and Canada, were present. Reports for the past year were read and the enactment of pure candy laws in all states was vigorously recommended. The work of the executive committee in furthering the passage of such laws was warmly endorsed. I. ml.-,' A E I I k' IT- y Kiraj TWr. Age tabic Prep aration for As -similating the Food andRegula ting the Stomachs and Bowels of PromotesDigestion.Cheerful nessandRest.Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor rlineral. Not Nahcotic. KtapeafOldn-SAMUELPirCEEa jtLx.Senna Jioch.llt Sola -slru.rr Seec Jhpptmtmt -J't CarboMltSeJm fiimSttd -ClartAmd Sugar A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoca Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COPY OF WRAFFtH. 30 Years. J,, lit. 11 naiw 1 UllU USE RAISED THEIR SALARIES. Work of the Regents at Manhattan College Pleasing to Employes. Manhattan, July 12. The college re gents are in session' here now. Their work of yesterday was raising the sal aries of many of the employes. Miss Stoner, professor of domestic econ omy, was raised from J1.2.".0 to ?1.4".0; Miss Cle'mmons' salary as secretary was fixed at $1.00o; Miss Howell, instructor in sew ing, was raised from $yW to Mr. House of the carpenter shops, from $7-0 to SiX: Mr. Lund, engineer, from $T2U "tew $?00: Mr. Sissons. salary as associate pro fessor in veterinary science, was fixed at $1,400. while Prof. Hrown. music, wad given an additional $250 per year. The plans for the new dairy school made by J. C. Holland of Toeka were accepted and directions given to at once advertise for bids. The new building will be on the old sit of the president's house. In Trouble Again. Rome. July 12. General Giletta Dl San Guiseppe, the Italian officer re leased from prison, who was sentenced at Nice June 26, for espionage to five years' imprisonment and to pay a line of 5.000 francs and afterwards pardoned by the French government, vas arrssted on his arrival at Jiiacenza by order of the minister of war, Lieutenant General Mirri. Lightning Starts a Bad Fire. Jamestown, N. Y., July 12. Lightning caused the destruction today of half the business portion of Frewsourg, near this city; loss $20,000. The villuge has no apparatus for fighting fires. Closing Out Sale. Having made up my mind to discon tinue the sale of dishes, glassware and china, I will close out my line regard less of cost. IJo not miss this sale on dishes. You can get one piece or as many as you want. Come quick as they will not last long. E. W. HUGHES, 423 Kan. Ave. Helnz's Ice Cream made from pure cream. Phone 397. Oxygenors at room 50. Columbian Bid. Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum- Altim baking powdets arc the greatest menacers to health of the present day. roym. Binw wwttn co. New romc.