The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 31, 1899

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i i LAST EDITION THURSDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 31, 1899. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. t i V, h i

1 L AN ALLEGED CONFESSION Made by Capt. Dreyfus Riddled lu Court. Through Cross Examination by Counsel Labori. TV 11 AT ACCUSED MEANT "When He Placed a Three Years Limit On His Incarceration, Explain ed by Himself. r.ennes, Aug. SI. The fourth session tof the fourth week of the second trial iy court martial or Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the artillery charged with treason, opened behind closed doors in the Lycee today so continuing until 9:13 a. m. Majors Hartman and Ducros and General de Loye, all of the artillery, were present. The court discussed the secret documents relating to the artil lery subjects of the bordereau. The public was admitted to the court Bt 9:30 a. m. The first witness called after the pub lic session began was Captain Lebrun Renault, of the Republican guard, who reiterated his testimony given before the court of cassation, repeating the terms of the alleged confession of Dreyfus: I am innocent. In three years they will recognize my innocence. The minister knows it. If I delivered docu ments to Germany, it was to have more Important ones in return." The witness' explanation that he did not refer to the confession of Dreyfus during his interview with President Casimir-Ferier. because he overheard a conversation during the course of which he was called "traitor." "canaille," and "cur," came as a surprise, for he did not mention this in his evidence before the court of cassation, as M. Labori, leading counsel for the defense pointed out. M. Labori also laid stress on the fact that Captain Lebrun Renault should have kept his note book, in which he asserts he made a note of his conver sations with Dreyfus for four years and had destroyed it on the very morrow the matter was brought up in debate in the chamber of deputies. The captain' s reply that he looked upon the copy made by M. Cavaignac, then minister of war as being sufficient vas considered rather lame. Captain Lebrun Renault is a well built man of medium height, broad nhoulJered and wearing a well trimmed mustache. He has Queer eyes. He spoke in a loud clear voice. DREYFUS REPLIES. Dreyfus, replying to the witness, be pran bv calmly declaring that Captain Lebrun Renault's statement that a cer tain Caption Dattel was present during his conversation with Captain Lebrun Renault was inaccurate. The witness, however, maintained that Captain Dattel was present where upon Dreyfus said that if he was pres ent the prisoner did not speak to him. Dreyfus then raised his voice excited ly and accompanying his words with Fliort, emphatic gestures of the right hand and quivering with emotion, pro tested that Captain Lebrun Renault should "nave repeated to his chiefs his titteranee which began with a protesta 1 ion of innocence, without asking him to explain his words. "Those are manoeuvers." cried the prisoner, "which must fill all honest men with indignation." This declaration of the prisoner made a deep impression on the audience. Dreyfus spoke the last words through iiis teeth and wes evidently laboring under the greatest excitement and in dignation. The audience broke into liiavos." which the gendarmes immed iately suppressed. Captain Anterne followed and repeat ed what Captain Dattel had said con firming the confession. Dreyfus replied that he had not spoken to Captain Dat tel. On being recalled. Captain Lebrun Renault said this was true, t but he lidded that Captain Dattel was present and could have overheard the conver sation. M. Labori here pointed out that Capt. Dattel had not spoken to his chiefs on this subject. Gen. Mercier like all the military witnesses, followed the pro ceedings today with the keenest atten tion, and he admitted that this was correct. Col. Jouaust told Dreyfus that he had not explained why he mentioned the term of three years to which Drey fus replied: "I did not give three years as the term. I only said I hoped that in the course of two or three years my innocence would be recognized and 1 wish to state my colonel that as my letters to Gen. Gonse show, my words did not have the sense evil minds have sought to give them." GEN. GOXSE CALLED. M. Labori then had Gen. Gonse called to the bar and asked him if he had not used the alleged confession of Dreyfus in opposing Picquarfs arguments in favor of a revision. Gen. Gonse replied that he had not, whereupon. M. Labori asked that the letters exchanged between Gen. Gonse and Col. Fiequart should be read. The clerk of the court began to read a let ter beginning: "My Dear Piequart when Gen Gonse interrupted him and asked that Col. Piequart's previous let ter be read first but as the letter was not available for the moment the read ing of all the letters was adjourned un til tomorrow. Major Forzinetti. who was governor of the Cherche Midi prison during the time Dreyfus was imprisoned there and who testified in behalf of Dreyfus, declaring he had never heard of the confession Dreyfus is said to have made, was the next witness called He repeated his testimony before the court of cassation, adding that he frequently met Capt. Lebrun-Renault and Capt Dattel and that neither of them ever alluded to the alleged confession The witness declared that he once taxed C apt. Lebrun-Renault before Gen Gonse and other witnesses with saving tie had spoken to the witness (Major I-orzinetti) of the confession and that Capt. Lebrun-Renault did not reply "Whereupon," Major Forzinetti said 1 seized his arm and cried: 'If the words repeated as yours are true, you are an infamous liar." Major Forzinetti then declared that on visiting Gen. De Boisdeffre to ex press fears about the health of the prisoner, the general asked him his opinion of Dreyfus and the major re plied: "My general had you not put that question to me I would have kept my counsel. But since you ask my opinion, I declare I believe he is innocent." DE CLAM'S DEVICES. The witness then recounted Colonel Du Paty de Clam's theatrical devices to surprise Dreyfus, to which Forzinet ti declined to be a party and the major also said that on one occasion when Dreyfus was in a crisis of despair, he the witness remained with the prisoner, consoling him, until Z o'clock in the morning. Col. Jouaust asked Major Forzinetti if Dreyfus ever had ideas of suicide, and the witness replied that Dreyfus had asked him for a weapon and that also after his condemnation was read to him he was with difficulty prevented from dashing his head against the wall. After the last visit of Du Paty de Clam to Dreyfus, continued Major Forzinetti the prisoner wrote to the minister of war a letter which conclud ed with the words: "When I am gone let them seek the culprit." At the conclusion of Major Forzinet ti's evidence, Dreyfus on Col. Juuaust's invitation and after reference to last interview with Paty de Clam said look ing with gratitude at the major: "There is a matter which Major Forzinetti has just recalled, which has greatly moved me and which I wish to recall, for I wish to say to whom I owe the fact, that I have done my duty and to whom I owe. having done it for five years af ter my condemnation. 1 had determin ed to kill myself. I had made up my mind not to undergo the frightful tor ture of a soldier from whom they wish ed to tear the insignia of honor. Well then. let me say this: that if I went to that torture. I can say here that it was, thanks to Madame Dreyfus, who show ed me my duty and who told me that if I was innocent 1 ought to go to it for the sake of her and our children. If I am here, it is to her I owe it my col onel." Here Major Forzinetti said: "It is quite true. In his last inter view with me Dreyfus said: 'For her and for my children, I will undergo the torture of tomorrow.' TEARS COME TO DREYFUSr The declaration of Dreyfus that his life was due to his wife deeply stirred all his hearers. He spoke in a broken voice with emphatic gestures, swaying to and fro with emotion and when he had finished he sat down abruptly, evi dently to conceal his discomposed fea tures from the gaze of the spectators in court, who. when he is seated, are only able to see the back of his seat. Teas were glistening in his eyes and he was clearly suppressing an outburst of sob bing. The session concluded with the con frontations of Capt. Lebrun Renault and Gen. De Boisdeffre, the former ex plaining that he did not speak to Major Forzinetti of the Dreyfus confession because he had received instructions to keep silent. Gen. De Boisdeffre denied that Ma jor Forzinetti had expressed to him hi3 conviction that Dreyfus was innocent. PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. Following are the proceedings in de tail: When the public session of the Drey fus court martial was resumed at 9:30 this morning there was a stir in the audience and considerable curiosity was manifested as the name of Capt. Lebrun-Renault of the republican guard, the recipient of the so-called confession of Dreyfus, was called, and the officer walked smartly to the wit ness box, saluted the court and threw his kepi on the table. He then stood at attention awaiting questions. The president of the court, Col. Jouaust. said: "On January 5. 1S93, the day of the prisoner's degradation, you were en trusted with the task of conducting him from the Cherche Midi prison to the military school where he remained some time in your charge. Tell the court what passed between you and him at that time." Capt. Lebrun-Renault On Saturday, January 5, 1SU5, I was ordered with my squad to proceed to the Cherche Midi prison and take charge of Dreyfus. who was to be degraded at 9 o'clock in one of the court yards of the military school. Starting at 7:15 I arrived at the place indicated at 7:45. The office of the garrison adjutant was pointed out to me as the place to keep the prisoner until the hour of the degrada tion parade. He began to protest his innocence and to say that with consid erable means at his disposal and a bright future in store for him. he could have no motive in being guilty of trea son. He said: THE CONFESSION. "I am innocent. In three years my innocence will be acknowledged. The minister knows it well. He told Du Paty de Clam to tell me so some days ago in my cell. He knows that if I communicated documents to Germany they were of no importance and it was to obtain more serious and more im portant documents." The witness added that Captain Dat tel was present when the statement was made. Continuing, Captain Lebrun-Renault said that as soon as four artillery men, commanded by a corporal, came to take the prisoner to the court yard for the ceremony of degradation, he (witness), left the office and was immediately sur rounded by several officers to whom he repeated Dreyfus' remarks. He also repeated them at the captain's mess of the republican guard. Referring to articles in the newspa pers in regard to the confession, Capt. Lebrun-Renault said: "Gen. Mercier said to me: "Go to the Elysee and repeat to the president of the republic what you have told me.' "While I was in the ante-room I heard some one make remarks about me in very discourteous terms. M. Dupuy ushered me before the presi dent, who said: 'You have had rela tions with journalists and have been indiscreet. Certain articles have ap peared in he newspapers." "I replied that perhaps journalists were among the persons I had seen, but I said I had not spoken directly to journalists. No mention was made of the confession and I left after having received a lecture from the president. "M. Dupuy took me into another room and drew up a semi-official note to the effect that I had no relations with the press." One of the judges asked the witness if he did not remember hearing Dreyfus say that the documents delivered were only copies, to w hich Capt. Lebrun Renault replied: "I do not recollect. I do not remember that phrase. But he may have said it. I talked with Drey fus for a quarter of an hour. The sen tence I have quoted was that which I jotted down in my note book." A judge What did Gen. Mercier tell you when you mentioned the confes sion to him? (Continued on Sixth Page. HE ISJNSANE. Frank JlcCluskeylteleased From Asylum to Plague Officers. Was Pronounced Cured by the Authorities. HAUNTS STATE HOUSE. Makes Life Miserable For Treasurer Grimes. Public Should BeProtectedEyen If Political Favorites Suffer. The affairs of the state treasurer have been running smoothly until with in the past few weeks when life be came a burden to Frank Grimes owing to the persistence with which Frank McCluskey has pursued him. demand ing the removal of Thomas Kelly from the position of assistant treasurer. Kelly's enemy has been in the insane asylum in this city and was recently released. Since that time he has been in Topeka and is making a life work of the effort to get Kelly out of office. McClusky is the man who claims that the state authorities, he does not say who, robbed him of a fortune. He de clares that he had $25,000 or ?50,000 be fore leaving Paola but since he has been in the asylum it has all disappear ed. He charges that the state has taken the money and applied it to some unselfish philanthropy for which he re ceives no credit and no interest. When he lived in Paola McCluskey was one of the most successful men in the town. He was a lawyer and a polished gentleman but his mind be came unbalanced and he was sent to the asylum. A few weeks ago this man went to the home of Mr. Grimes and startled the family by his actions. He called the treasurer off into a secluded spot in the yard and said: "You must get rid of Kelly." "What do you mean?" asked Grimes who was considerably alarmed at the strange conduct of the man. "He is a dangerous character," re plied McCluskey. The calm demeanor of the visitor sur prised Mr. Grimes who could not make up his mind as to whether he was crazy. "Kelly will ruin you if you keep him," continued McCluskey. "What's the matter with Kelly?" in quired Grimes. Then the visitor pronounced Kelly a gigantic fraud. He applied a large number of choice epithets to the assist ant treasurer and renewed the warning and suggested to Mr. Grimes the im propriety of housing in the office such a dangerous character. The visitor then disappeared and the treasurer paid no more attention to the incident. Later McCluskey appeared at the office of the governor and de manded the return of the thousands which he claimed had been taken from him by the authority of the state and the connivance of the officials with whom he had come In contact while absent from home and spending his time in the asylum. The force in the executive office was not employed to oust insane men but there was a time when the subject of calling for police protection was considered but it was abandoned until some future time, be cause the cause of the excitement dis appeared. No more was heard from him and his visits ceased and now he is making the campaign against Kelly. McCluskey would probably never have thought of Kelly had he not met him on the street one day. Then the desire for revenge against a citizen of the town in which the probate judge had pronounced him insane came upon McCluskey and he has been after Mr. Grimes ever since. His visits to the home of the state treasurer have be come annoying and unless they cease Mr. Grimes will be compelled to ask the officers to take charge of McClus key. The unfortunate man has taken a new tack in his efforts to get the money which he claims is due him and has sent the following letter to the state treasurer: Topeka. Kansas. Aug. 2(1. 1839. Mr. Grimes, State Treasurer, Topeka, Kansas. Kindly inform me if either through supreme court or governor you have been instructed to pay to Hon. F. P. f ISM Mr. C R. Hudson, of Topeka, Who Will Eecomc Geueral Freight and Passenger Agent of the Mexican Central October 1st. McCluskey the sum of twenty-five thousand or fifty thousand.. If so In structed kindly inform HON. FRANK McCLUSKEY, 523 Van Buren Street, Topeka, Kan. YOUNG DEMOCRATS. They Will Have Their Conference Friday. Tomorrow is the day fixed for the convention of young Democrats in Hutchinson and the promoters of the scheme claim that 1,000 members of the party will be in attendance. The Hutchinson people do not antici pate a large crowd and the hotels ex pect to be able ta take care of all the visitors without extra preparations. One of the Democrats who expects to go from the eastern part of the state said last night: "I believe there will be less than 200 present and it is my opinion that the convention will be a frost. It should be. The man who got it; up should be suppressed." EARLY IN THE FIELD. Representative Jackson Will Be Can didate For Senator. Sam Jackson of Comanche county has his eye on the nomination for sen ator in the Fortieth district. He is a member of the house, having served his district for several terms In that capacity. Mr. Jackson is now making a canvass of the district, informally, to see what condition the senatorial fences are in. Should he be favorably impressed with the outlook for his success in securing the nomination he will enter the race. He is the first man in the district to announce his aspirations. 20TH SURELY COMING. Will Leare Manila on the Tar tar Sept. 5. San Francisco. Aug. 31. There are now quite a number of transports in port which will be dispatched as rapid ly as possible to the Philippines with troops and horses. The hospital ship Relief will sail on September 13, with surgeons and hospital nurses. There are on the way to Manila the ship Ta coma with horses, which sailed from here July 27, the steamer Morgan City sailed" August 10, Senator sailed Aug ust 15, City of Sidney sailed August IS. Siam sailed (with horses) August 19, City of Puebla sailed August 29, and St. Paul. which sailed from Seattle on Aug ust 19 with members of the Fourth cav alry and horses. On the way from Manila are the Sheridan, now out 21 days.and the Zea landia and Valencia. In Manila Bay are the Pennsylvania, Wyefield, City of Para, Connemaugh, Tartar, Ohio, Newport and Indiana. The Pennsylva nia has been to Cebu, lloilo and other places in the Philippines and only got back to Manila on the 24th instant, and the Tartar is to sail on September 5 via Hong Kong, with the Twentieth Kansas volunteers. FEWER PENSIONS But More Money Paid Than Eyer Before. Washington. Aug. 31. The annual re port of H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, shows that during the year there were added to the pension roll 40,229 names and 4.1, 1S6 were dropped, 34,345 of thse by reason of death. There was expended for pensions $138,355,052. The annual value of the entire pension roll amounts to S141.617.961 being J649, 496 more than it ever was. due to the higher average annual value of pen sions. The roll is made up of 753.431 surviv ing soldiers. 237,415 widows and de pendent relatives, and 653 nurses. The total number of original appli cations filed during the year including those on account of the war with Spain was 4S.7C5. The number of original claims al lowed was 37.077. Durinar the year 107,919 claims of all classes were re jected, a large percentage of these be ing claims for increase. The report will state that the delay in the adjudication of claims is in nearly every case the fault of the claimants, or tneir attor neys. In order that the present complex system of pensioning may be simplified, and to secure a more uniform practice in the future appointment of a com mission on the revision of the law rules and regulations is recommended. FIGUEROJUITS. President of San Domingo Lays Down His Office. The Revolutionists Are Tri umphant Eyerywhere. A NEW GOVERNMENT Has Been Set Up at Santiago With the Assassin Of President 11 eureaux as Min ister of War. "Santo Domingo. Aug. 31. President Figuero has resigned. The ministers will continue at the head of their var ious departments until a provisional government has been formed after which the elections for president and vice president will take place. This city is quiet today, but business is at a standstill. The Dominican gun- j boat Restauraccon is ashore on the I rocks at the entrance to the harbor of Macoris. Efforts are being made to i get her off. The United States cruiser N;w Or leans and the French cruiser Cecille are still in port. The barometer is falling and the wind is blowing from E. N. E. NEW GOVERNMENT SET DP. Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Aug. 31. The Revolutionists have established a provisional government in the city of Santiago, with General Horacio Vas qnez as president, and General Ramon Caceres as minister of war. WAITING FOR JIMINEZ. Cape Haytien, Aug. 31. Advices re ceived from the city of Santiago and Puerto Plata, in Santo Domingo, say that both have proclaimed in favor of General Juan Isidro Jiminez, the revo lutionary aspirant to the presidency. A provisional government has been estab lished at Santiago, where the presence of General Jiminez is demanded with enthusiasm by the people. ASSASSIN A LEADER. New York. Aug. 31. J. H. Baleh, an electrical engineer, in the employ of the Santo Domingo Improvement com pany and who has been in the Domini can republic for several years, has just arrived in New York, having left Porto Plata August 21. "On Wednesday, August 16." said Mr. Balch. "the gov ernor of San Francisco de Macoris, a town sixty miles from Santiago, in the interior, surrendered the town to the insurgent chief. General Ramon Ca ceres, the assassin who killed President Heureaux and who has not been cap tured since the murder. Caceres had but 300 men with him. The governor of San Francisco de Macoris had a gar rison of only fifty infantry men armed with Remington rifles. "The governor offered no opposition, consequently there was no fighting and no blood-shed. Upon the surrender. General Caceras at once telegraphed to the governors of other important cities :n Santo Domingo who were appointed by the president that Caceres was then in supreme command at San Francisco de Macoris, adding with a fine sarcasm, that he held himself at their command. This message was a subtle defiance for them to come and take him. His invi tation was not accepted by any of them. He then marched toward Porto Plata, of which General Emilio Cordero was governor and I see the papers state that Governor Cordero surren dered Porto Plata. I think it is quite likely that all the larger towns of San Domingo, and finally the capital itself, San Domingo city, will surrender. I say this because a state of great dissatis faction exists in such cities as Santiago, Levega, Moca, Dajabon, Mao and Savanetta and the seaports of San Domingo, Porto Plata. San Pedro de Macoris, Sanchez, Damana and Monte Cristi. "The chief cause of dissatisfaction and uprising in San Domingo is the currency question. A man who has prestig" and who can obtain loans is the man the natives are looking for as president. Jiminez is hardly the man. He is well known in New York, Hamburg, London and Paris, where his banking houses have suspended. "Notwithstanding the present insur- rection. commerce is not affected. San Domingo was never so prosperous as at the present time. The present genera tion does not inherit the revolutionary propensities of the hist and former gen erations. The country people do not want to fight either for the government or against it. and not infrequently in order to avoid military service they take to the bush." JIMINEZ ARRIVES. San Domingo. Aug. 31. Juan Isidro Jiminez has arrived at Sanchez on board the French steamer Gorge Cro ise. Santiago. Moca. Lavega, Porto Plata. San Francisco de Macoris and Bani have declared in favor of the rev olution. Santiago was taken after a strong fight. It is expected that all the other places will submit to the revolution without any more fighting principally owing to the fact that the president has resigned. This town remains quiet. RESIGNATION CONFIRMED. Washington, Aug. 31. The navy de partment has received official confirm ation of the Associated Press dispatch es announcing the resignation of Presi dent Figuereo of Santo Domingo in the following cablegram from Capt. Long necker of the New Orleans: "Presi dent Figuereo resigned at 4 o'clock yes terday." IN FAVOR OF JIMINEZ. Cape Haytien. Hayti. Aug. 31. News' just received here confirms the report that President Figuereo of the Pominic:ii re public has abdicated. It is said that he abdicted in favor of Jiminez. BIG SUIT SETTLED. Case of J. E. Greer vs. Featherston Involving a Fortune. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 31 The suit in the federal court of J. E. Greer of Chicago vs. William Featherston of Clay county has been settled. The suit was for dissolution, of co-partnership and receiver. By the terms of settlement Greer buys out Featherston's half interest, paying $6.50 per acre for 14.000 acres of land. The co-partnership cattle num bered 1.400 head and the price was $17 for yearlings and $25 per head for twos. The total property involved was a quarter of a million. STRANGE SKIN DISEASE. Illinois State Board of Health Orders an Investigation. Springfield, 111., Aug. 31. A socalled mysterious skin disease has been re ported to the state board of health as existing at Downs, McLean county, by J. R. Carlyle, supervisor and chairman of the town board of health of that town. Mr. Carlyle states that the township board of health has acted, but the people are not satisfied; that the doctors disagree as to the nature of the. disease and the people are scared. He asks Secretary Egan, of the state board of health, to send pro per officers to investigate and make rules as to quarantine. Dr. Egan wired to Downs that he would send an in spector at once, and he promptly hail Dr. C. S. Nelson, state health inspector, proceed to Downs and examine what ever cases he could and to take what ever measures he might find necessary. The secretary ordered him, if the dis ease were of an infectious or contag ious character, to call the attention of the township board of health to the section of the revised statutes of Illi nois which makes provision for means to check the spread of the disease. The "mysterious skin disease" has broken out in a number of places in II- I linois. Accounts of it have appeared in the newspapers, and It is attracting considerable attention in the medical profession, but this is the first time the I appearance of the disease has been offi cially communicated to the state board of health. FRANK IVES DEAD. Champion Billiard Player Dies In Mexico. Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 31. A tel egram received by Dr. J. D. Peters, father-in-law of Frank Ives, the cham pion billiard player. announces the lat ter's death which occurred at Progres so, Mexico. Consumption was the cause of death. Ives' remains will be brought to Flainville. Mich., at which place he was born in 1866. PARSONS NOT TO BUY. Proposition to Own the Water Works Defeated by a Large Majority. Parsons, Aug.' 31.- The special elec tion on the proposition to vote bonds to the amount of $185,000 for the pur chase of the waterworks plant drew out the heaviest vote that has ever been polled at a bond election in the city. The total vote cast in the city was 757, of which number 114 were for the pro position and 643 against. ICEBERGS FOR 80 MILES. More Than a Hundred Now In the Straits of Belle Isle. Queenstown, Aug. 31. Eighty miles of icebergs are floating down the American coast of the Straits of Belie Isle. They are reported by the steam er Ikbal, from Montreal, which counted more than 100 huge bergs. TOPEKA BOY DROWNED. Fred Durham Reported to Have Jumped From a Transport. The Fred Durham, hospital steward who was reported in an Associated Press dispatch in the State Journal to have jumped overboard from the trans port Grant while insane, is believed to have been a Topeka boy. Fred Durham enlisted in the regular army four years ago and was assigned as a hospital steward in Manila about a year ago. His relatives In Topeka had not heard that he was insane nor that he was en route home. His mother, Mrs. T. W. Durham, lives at 1115 Taylor street. CORNER ON EGGS. Stocks 39 Per Cent Above Last Year Yet Price is Higher. Chicago. Aug. 31. The Daily Trade Bul letin today issued its fifth annual report of the stocks of butter and egsrs in cold storage in the principal cities of the United States on August 1. Aggregate stocks of butter sn2.00f tubs; against SI6.000 in IS'.iS and Sj.SK. 000 in 1XH7. Stocks of eg-gs, 2.3fl5.lX0 cases a-jainst l.ila.000 in 1S9S and 1.702.0OO in 1X97. Compared with one vear ago there is an increase of 5 per cent in the stocks of but ter and 39 per cent in supplies of eggs. W.E. MONTGOMERY RESIGNS Engineer of City Electric Light Plant Will Enter the Navy. W. E. Montgomery has resigned his position as engineer of the City Electric Dight plant. He will enlist in the navy. His successor has not been named. Sloan Again Winning. London, Aug. 31. At the third day of the derby September meeting today the race for the Quarndon selling plate of 106 sovereigns for year olds was won by H. Barnato's chestnut colt Swears, ridden by Tod Sloan, the American jockey. Five horses ran. The betting was 13 to 8 on Swears. The Keddleston plate of 200 sovereigns wos won by J. Porter's 3 year old chestnut filly Crow Borough, Martin, the American jockey, had the mount on Chaffinch who finish ed second. Three horses ran. Burn Gumbo For Ballast. Oklahoma City, Ok., Aug. 31. The American Ballast company has leased a half section of land near this place for the purpose of burning ballast out of gumbo soil. The ballast will be used by the Choctaw. Oklahoma Gulf and the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railroads. About 100 men will be em ployed. Gain of Three Months. San Francisco. Aug. 31. The Call states that the Kosmos line of steam ers that is to connect Antwerp, Ham burg, London and South and Central American ports in a monthly service with this city as its western terminus, will carry California products to Eur ope nearly three months quicker than they can be transported by sailing ves sels. It is not the intention of the company to do any rate cutting in Cen tral American trade. Weather Indications. Chicago, Aug. 31. For Kansas: Gen erally fair tonight and Friday; var iable winds. REBELDRIVIHG. American Troops In Cebu Mate a Sally. Find the Enemy Entrenched and Force iiim BACK INTO THE HILLS. Preparations For Attack on Imus Cease. Kansans Likely to Come on the Pennsylvania. Manila, Aug. 31 5:30 p. m. Dispatch es just received from Cebu announce that the American troops under Col. Bayless, with two field pieces, sallieil on Monday into the hills against a ban i of natives who recently ambushed four of our soldiers and who have been gen erally troublesome. The American, force found the natives entrenched and drove them from their trenches fur ther into the hills. There were no casualties on the American side thougl there were some heat prostrations. The native loss is not known. The TJ. S. cruiser Charleston landed men, w ho guarded the city during the absence of the troops. The Fourth infantry having pre pared to give the insurgents a warm reception the latter have ceased their" preparations for an attack on Imus. RETURN OF VOLUNTEERS. Washington, Aug. 31. Gen. Otis to day informed the war department of the departure from Manila of the trans port Para in the following dispatch: "Para sailed today, 14 officers, 41 en listed and 924 discharged men; six civilians." Another dispatch from Gen. Otis gives the dates of the sailing of th-; transports at Manila and which will bring all the state volunteers in the Philippines to this country. The cabl- says: "Tartar sails Sept. 3. Pennsyl vania Sept. 5, Newport and Ohio Sept. 7." The state volunteers yet remaining in the Philippines in the order in which they left San Francisco for Manila are: First Washington, Twentieth Kansas, Third Tennessee, Fifty-first Iowa, troop Nevada cavalry. First Wyoming battery. Jt is the policy of the war de partment to have the troops return in the order in which they sailed and these volunteers probably will comeon the shins above named in the same order. FRISCO NEVER TIRES. In Welcomingtbe Home Coming' Yolunteers. San Francisco, Aug. 31. At 9 o'clock this morning the 1,388 officers and men of ihe Idaho, First North Dakota and First Wyoming regiments of volunteer infantry and a battalion of the Wyom ing light artillery who arrived yester day from Manila disembarked from the transport Grant at the Folsom street wharf and marched in triumphant pro cession through the city to the Presidi where they wil remain in camp until mustered out of the service. The re ception accorded the returning volun teers was hearty and noisy, bombs be ing fired at regular intervals over the heads of the cheering crowds which thronged the streets, from the roofs of the tallest buildings as the column marched past. The returning men were escorted by the First California volunteers and five batteries of the Third artillery who formed on Market street to receive the troops and w heeled into line after they had marched past. At the head of each column rode the governors of their re spective states and their staffs. who subsequently fell out of the column at the junction of Bush street and Van ness avenue for the purpose of review ing their respective organizations at the stands erected for that purpose. The men, who wore the regulation Kharki uniform were decorated with laurel wreaths and a bunch of flower:! was Inserted into the muzzle of each ri fle. Elevator Company Wants Charter. The Whitewater Mill and Elevator company has applied for a charter to do business in Kansas. The capital stock is $20,000. The directors named in the charter for the first year are as fol lows: R. II. and M. J. Farr, Newton: Representative J. B. Adams of E! Dorado: B. Colcolough. Newton, ami E. T. Burns of Whitewater. The char ter board will meet in a few days and pass upon a large list of applications filed by the promoters of prospective new business enterprises. Lovelorn Girl's Hard Luck. Muncie, Ind.. Aug. 31. The Fourth attempt of Miss Lizzie Harris, a pret ty 16-year-old girl to wed Harry Moore, resulted in her apprehension and arrest by the authorities at El wood. The cirl achieved considerable notoriety som; time ago by being disappointed at the altar three time by Moore, who woul 1 always fail to materialize. The parents of Miss Harris then resolved that their daughter should not marry the man of whom she was enamored. Yesterday she ray away with Moore, but was ar rested on her arrival at Elwood. Mr. Barnes Goes East. William H. Barnes, secretary of hor ticulture, left this afternoon to attend the biennial meeting of the American Pomological society at Philadelphia, He intends interviewing the fruit ship pers of the east and visit the agricul tural department at Washington be fore returning. Kansas Grapes. W. H. Barnes, secretary of the State Horticultural society, has placed on exhibition in the society's rooms thir teen varieties of Kansas grapes front the vineyard of A. H. Buekman. of Mission township, Shawnee counts. These grapes are chemically prepare and on exhibition in glass jars, making a valuable display.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1899. iLErrn to i3. nrauH so. 94,398! "lam so grateful to yon for what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has done for me that I feel as though I must tell about it. A year ago I was taken very sick. Doctorseould do me no good only to deaden the pain which I had almost con stantly. I got some of your Compound and took one bottle Women Would Sure iy Try fcTrs Pinklinm'a F.IssEIoisto If TIzey Only lsmw, Says f.Trsm King and received benefit from it at once. I have taken it ever since and now have no backache, no pain in my Bide and my stomach and bowels are perfectly well. I can honestly say that there is rothing like it. If I could only tell every woman how much good your medicine has done me, they would surely try it." MabtiiA M. KZSQ, Js OEXH Attleboko, Mass. The way women trifle with health shows a degree of indifference that is pastunderstanding. Happiness and use fulness depend on physical health so does a good disposition. Disease makes women nervous, irritable and snap pish. The very effort of ailing women to be good-natured makes them ner vous. Write to Mrs. Pinkham, she will help yon to health and happiness. It costs nothing togetMrs. Pinkham's advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass. R I? pi V7 F? W 0HORTD0T LIME. COLORADO FLYER. THE NEWEST TIES. From the Boston Post. J The Ascot, that is not more than a smart bandanna silk handkerchief ar ranged to draw into a tidy four-in-hand, undoubtedly leads the way, but a rising star is the automobile of black satin, powdered with crimson sparks and drawn at the necK in a four-in-hand knot, again at the bust in a sail or knot, and then it secures its two long ends in the wearer's belt. Only when on exercise bent does the shirt waist clad woman wear a pique. cheviot or gingham stock. If purely pastoral or passive pleasures call her forth she circles her pretty throat with a stiff neckband overlaid with organdie or chiffon in tucks and ruches and a snowy jabot, in the form of a com plicated bow or a series of overlapping flounces depending like the ruffs of a pouter pigeon upon her breast. Some where in this maze of prettiness she places her pearl necktie pin. Three pearls, set like a three-leafed clover, one gem pink, one yellow and one ash gray or white, is the rule, and since pretty imitation pearls serve as well as the true ones, this as a fashion es sentially within the reach of the ma jority. $19.00. Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Return Via the Great Rock Island Route. Tickets on sale September 6, 7 and 8, good returning September SOth. The Burlington Route a Good Bail road. East-bound from the Missouri River to St. Louis. Chicago, it runs the finest trains, wide-vestibuled. Pintsch lighted throughout, with the Burlington's cele brated free chair ara, dining cars, Pullman sleepers. North-bound: two daily trains, per fectly equipped, to Omaha, Sioux City, St. Paul. Northwest: from fifty to five hundred miles saved from the Missouri River to the Northwest by the great time saver the Billings Route. "West: from the Missouri River to Colorado and beyond, two great trains daily. 7,600 miles of standard railroad. The pioneer in courteous treatment of travelers. The main traveled road every ticket agent has tickets reading over the Great Burlington Route. J. C. BRAMHALL T. P. A., 823 Main Street. Kansas Citv, Mo. L. W. WAKELET, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. Mo. HOWARD ELLIOTT. General Manager. St. Joseph, Mo. Eodly pain loses its terror, if you've a bottle of Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil in the house. Instant relief in cases of burns, cut, sprains, accidents of any sort. 2 I Z Does Coffee Agree with You? k If not, drink Grain-O made from W pure grains. A lady writes: "The first time I made Grain-O I did not Q like it but after using it for one J week nothing would induce me to A and feeds the system. The children I can drink it freely with great bene- u tit. it is the strenguientng sub- 2 stance of pure grains. Get a pack- 7 the directions in making it and you y will have a delicious and healthful table beverage for old and young. J 15c. and 25c. z Insist that yonr grocer give you GRAIN-O Accept no imitation. 2 JOHNSONJS "IT." Kansas Man to Manage Demo cratic Campaign. Made Chairman of National Executire Committee. 3IE31BEII OF OTHERS. Altgeld Is Shelved and Devlin Will Follow. John It. McLean Heads Ways and Means Committee. St. Louis, Aug. 31. John R. McLean, Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio, is now head of the ways and means committee of the Democratic national committee. His appointment was announced by W. J. Stone today. It being one of the features of the re organization plan decided upon at the Chicago meeting July 20. Another feature is the elimination of John P. Altgeld from the national councils of his party. His resignation from the ways and means committee is accepted and his friend Devlin. who has had charge of the press bureau will soon follow him into retirement, it is predicted. Still another feature Is the elevation into great prominence of J. G. Johnson of Kansas, he being made chairman of the executive committee and also hav ing a seat on each of the other two bodies affected by the reorganization plan. The new members of the committees were announced by Vice Chairman Stone upon receipt of a letter sent by Chairman Jones, who is now in Great Britain. They are as follows, the first one named in each case being the chairman: Executive J. G. Johnson, of Kansas; W. J. Stone, of Missouri; Daniel J. Campau, of Michigan; John G. Shank lin, of Pennsylvania; Thomas Gahan, of Illinois; James M. Head, of Tennes see; Henry D. Clayton, of Alabama: W. H. Thompson, of Nebraska; G. Fred Williams, of Massachusetts; T. D. O'Brien, of Minnesota. "Ways and means John R. McLean, of Ohio; Urey Woodson, of Kentucky; Adair Wilson, of Colorado; J. J. Dwyer, of California; Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina: Frank Campbell, of New York: J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. Press Clark Howell, of Georgia; Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina; Alexander Troup, of Connecticut; Chas. A. Walsh, of Iowa; J. G. Johnson, of Kansas. The former members of the ways and means committee, J. P. Altgeld, former Senator William V. Allen, Senator Henry M. Teller and Mr. Stone resigned and requested Chairman Jones to name their successors. Chairman Jones will be ex-officio chairman of all the sub-committees. The new committees will meet with in ten days in Chicago and organize for the campaign. WHOOP FOIt BARKER. Iowa Middle of the Boaders Nominate a Ticket Des Moines. Iowa, Aug. 31 The People's party state convention met here yester day with aaout 100 delegates present, and named a state licket as follows: Governor Charles A. Lloyd, Muscatine county. Lieutenant Govcrnor--S. M. Karvey, Polk county. Judge Supreme court L. H. Weller, Chickasaw county. Superintendent of Public Instruction C. Wonh. Benton county. Railroad Commissioner Robert L. Dun ning. "Wapelk county. The convention declared against fusion ana indorsed Wharton Barker, of Penn sylvania and Ignatius Donnelly of Minne sota for president and vice president in The convention was addressed during the day by Chairman W. C. Weeks, Pro fessor George IX Herron of Iowa college, Grinnell, and Joseph Parker, national or ganizer of Kentucky. T1CT1M OF WHISKY. Attack of Dilirium Tremens Prevents a Minister's Temperance Lecture. New Tork, Aug. 31. Charles Grandi son, a regularly ordained minister of the African Methodist church, north, walked into Bellevue hospital this af ternoon suffering from delirium tre mens. The interesting thing about the case is that Rev. Mr. Grandison was to lec ture in Providence. R. I., tomorrow on the subject, "The Evils of Liquor Traf fic." He says that he was the first colored man to be chosen president of Bennett college, an institution of learn ing for colored students at Greensboro, N. C. While president of this institu tion he became addicted to the use of bromides for insomnia. He became a victim of the drug. In order to kill this desire he drifted into the whisky habit. WHERE WE COME IN. China Kegards United States as Her Only Friend. San Francisco, Aug. 31. The project of certain moneyed men to organize a United States and China trading com pany to control the bulk of the trade of China has excited much comment among the commercial people of this city, some of whom give the scheme formulated by Ho Yow, the Chinese consul general, their unqualified ap proval. A move has been made to organize the company which it is understood is liberally backed by the Chinese gov ernment, although the consul general is acting in his individual capacity. In brief the proposition is that if a com pany is formed here with from five to ten million dollars capital, it can se cure from the Chinese government about every trading, contracting and commercial concession that it sees fit to ask for. To prevent total annihilation as a na tion, the kingdom is obliged to secure a commercial alliance with some other strong nation, and the only friendly government has proved to be the Un ited States. The Manufacturers and Producers' association has appointed its president. A. S. Barbaro, to act in the matter and i at a meeting of capitalists and business men. it has been decided to prepare an address to be sent to every commer cial body in the union setting forth the advantages of accepting the offer made virtually by the Chinese government. During the civil war, a well as in our late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. In many instances it became chronic and the old soldiers still Buffer from it. Jur. JJavld layior or Wind Kidge. Greene Co.. Pa., is one of these. He uses Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and says hrc never found anything that woud give him such quick relief. It is for sale by ail drug- IMMENSE CONSOLIDATION. It is Announced Por Exhibition in This City at an Early Date. A wiseacre of a remote past once re marked that no person or thing was so great but that his or its place could be filled, an epigram that serves well in the present instance. The Barnum and Bailey circus has for time immem orial been conceded first place in the affections of the people of the eastern country. But the Barnum and Bailey circus has sailed across the Atlantic and is now startling the people of the Queen with an exhibition of American ingenuity. It will perhaps remain a fixed British institution. Now comes the great Adam Fore paugh and Sells Brothers' combined circuses and menageries, to fill the ach ing void. A casual glance at the names of the operators and directors of this colossal enterprise should and will be proof positive of the justice of the claims made for it. They are James A. Bailey, sole owner of the Barnum and Bailey circus; Lewis and Peter Sells, the acknowledged leading amuse ment caterers west of the Alleghenies, and W. W. Cole, who has again taken up the reins of management in this country after a long period of circus exploitation in Berlin, Paris and Vien na. In the Forepaugh and Sells Broth ers' Combined Shows is found the out come of the combination of the brains and fortunes of these the greatest cir cus impresarios of a generation. The Adam Forepaugh show, shortly after the death of its owner and foun der, was purchased by James A. Bailey. Its prestige and place is circusdom are sufficiently well known to make ex tended reference unnecessary. Suffice it that its wild animal collection was unequalled by any other show while Its arenic performances were always regarded as par excellence. The Sells Brothers' Circus has, for twenty years, been "the" circus west of the Allegheny mountains. It has toured the west successfully for a score of years, and has extended the field of its operations to Australia and the East Indies. With the departure of the Barnum and Bailey show for Europe the idea of the consolidation of these two insti tutions was conceived and consum mated. Need more be said that this consolidation is a reality that the two great circuses, menageries and hippo dromes will be seen as one exhibit ing in this city "Wednesday, September 13th. JEFFRIES-SH AliliEY MILL. Lenox and Coney Island Cluba Talk of Big Purses For the Bout. New York. Aug. 31. Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey will battle for the world's heavy-weig"ht championship before one of the local boxing clubs. This is as good as settled. Both principals are anxious to adjust their difference In this section, and, in view of the fact that the battleground will be located here, Sharkey has secured training quarters in this city. William A. Brady and Tom O'Kourke will meet on Fri day to make a final agreement upon the arena for the fight. To date only one outside bid has been made for the fight. A syndicate headed by a number of San Francisco sport ing men has hung up a purse of $60,000 to pull off the mill in California. No action has yet been taken on the of fer. According to the fighters and the managers there are only two clubs competent to decide such contest with out interference, the Lenox Athletic club and the Coney Island and Sporting club. William A. Brady has already offered a purse of $50,000 for the bout to take place at Coney Island, but the offer was refused by Tom O'Kourke, who believes that the Lenox club can give better in ducements. Just what O'Rourke is pre pared to offer is not known, but he has often stated that the contest will draw about $100,000 gate money. If this be the case it would not be surprising if the championship purse reached the enormous sum of $75,000. When Brady offered $50,000 he stated that his club was prepared to go still higher if necessary. As pictures of the fight will be taken, the Coney Island club will have the advantage of O'Rourke's organization, as the former can without any great difficulty re move the roof from its present struc ture and so permit the kinetoscope to operate. Tom Sharkey, who arrived In town today from Saratoga, had decided to start training the latter part of the week. He has secured quarters at Je rome avenue and 169th street, where Dixon and Kennedy are preparing for their coming fights. Jeffries, who is now in London, will go to Paris on Friday. He will leave for America next week, arriving home about September 14. Immediately upon his arrival here he will go into training- at Asbury park. TV All PROLONGED By Incompetence of Otis Says Eev. MacQueen. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 31. Rev. Peter MacQueen, pastor of the Day Street Congregational church, Boston, who went to the Philippines on a tour of investigation, with credentials from McKinley and the war department and a letter from Roosevelt to Dewey, says the war should have been ended long ago; that Otis is incompetent, and time and again let Agulnaldo escape when the troops had him cornered. He says the dual civil and military position is too big for Otis. MacQueen speaks after personal contact with Lawton, MacArthur and other com manders. FAftUEKS' WIVES PRAISED. Mrs. Felton Startled Georgia Agricul turists by Her Condemnation. Atlanta, Ga Aug. 31. Mrs. W. H. Felton, the Georgia woman who holds well known and pronounced views on lynching, dealt some hard knocks to the planters in a speech made before the Farmers' Institute in Telfair county. Mrs. Felton declared that the farmer's wife often was the victim of tyranny, her husband complaining about the small things unaccomplished, when as a matter of fact, his wife was working herself into -an early grave without the gratitude which her labor deserved. She said it was a habit with many Georgia farmers to come to town and boast of "my" fine crops, etc., when the poor, overworked wife at home was responsible for the profits of harvest. She said that the farmers should make a more liberal allowance for their wives and children, and not force them to lead secluded, monotonous lives. Mrs. Felton startled her audience by declaring that three-fourths of the wo men inmates of the State Asylum for the Insane were farmers' wives, made so from excessive labor with no com pensating recreation. "Our baby was sick for a month with severe cough and catarrhal fever. Al though we tried many remedies she kept getting worse until we used One Minute Cough Cure. It relieved at once and cured her in a few days." B. L. Nance. Prin. High school. Bluftdale. Texas. Geo. W Stansfield, W. H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PITTSBURG. Score by innings: R H E Pittsburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 i 8 i Brooklyn 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0:', 8 2 Batteries Pittsburg, Chesbro tnd Schri ver; Brooklyn, Kennedy and McGuire. AT CINCINNATI. Score bv innlnirs: R. IT B Cincinnati 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0, 4 14 6 I Baltimore 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 7 1 I Batteries Cincinnati, Hahn and Wood; .Baltimore, .Howell ana Kooinson. AT CLEVELAND. Score by innings: R. T T E Cleveland 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 15 10' i Boston 2 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 S 15 1 Batteries Cleveland, Bates and Dan can; Boston, Lewis and Bergen. AT LOUISVILLE. Score by Innings: R. TT E Louisville -.10101210 i 6 Philadelphia 1 0001000 02 4 Batteries Louisville. Cunningham and Zimmer; Philadelphia, Donahue and Mc Farland, Douglass. AT CHICAGO. Score by Innings: Chicago 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 3 9 4 New York 1 0001000 02 9 2 Batteries Chicago, Taylor and Chance; New York, Doheny and Wilson. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. I Won. Lost. P. .a. j Brooklyn To 3S Boston 70 42 I Philadelphia 71 45 i Baltimore 66 44 Cincinnati 62 50 St. Louis t4 S3 Chicago 58 57 i Pittsburg 56 5S New York 50 ti'3 Louisville 50 3 67G 625 612 .600 554 547 ,504 41 .446 ,446 .34(4 .161 Washington 3d 73 Cleveland 19 9S WESTERN LEAGUE. AT KANSAS CITY. Score by innings: R H B Grand Rap. ..0 000100000000 23' 8 2 Kan. City ...0 00 01 00000 000 01 7 2 Batteries Jones and Buckley; Patten Schmidt and Cionding. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Score by innings: It H E Minneapolis 0 3020010 6' 9 2 .Detroit 0 0010001 02 4 o Batteries Friend and Fisher; Thomas and Buelow. AT MILWAUKEE. Score by innings: rs. ii. e. Milwaukee 1 1000000 02 8 5 Bunalo 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 03 7 1 Batteries Rettger and Spear; Gray and Diggins. Second game: Score by innings: RUE Milwaukee 0 0000021 0 3 6 6 Buffalo 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 04 5 2 Batteries Reidy and Spear; Kearns and Disgins. AT ST. PAUL. Score by Innings: St. Paul 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 03 7 4 Indianapolis 2 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 a 10 5 Batteries Pattersan and Spies; Fore mand and Heydon. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Won. Lost. P.C. Indianapolis 68 40 .630 Minneapolis 71 43 .623 Detroit 57 54 .514 Grand Rapids 57 54 .511 St. Paul 51 62 .4ol Milwaukee 48 60 444 Buffalo 47 65 .420 Kansas City 45 6fi .405 BASEBALL NOTES. The New Torks played three errorless games last week. McCann of the Detroits is another prom ising pitcher. He is a graduate of the Canadian league. Mike Gradv of the New Yorks has been called to Philadelphia by the death of his brother. Dungan of Detroits is the heaviest hit ter in the Western league. He is batting in the neighborhood of .370. Demontreville has batted near the .400 mark since he Joined the Baltimores. When he was with Chicago his average was in the vicinity of .250. Warner is not with the New Torks on their present trip. His broken finger will not allow him to play for several weeks. Seybold plays a better game in right than he did in left. He still requires time to make up his mind where to throw the ball. Both Seymour and Doheny of the New Torks broke into the big league without any intermediate minor league experience. Seymour did farm duty for a while in Springtield after joining the Giants. Catcher Buelow of the Detroit club now is spoken of as a Cincinnati possibility. President Bush Is said to have an option on him. The Washingtons made a season's rec ord in the matter of errors Saturday, no less than eight misplays being charged up against them. McGann. Stafford and Roach were the players that escaped. As a wild-pitch hitter, Willie Keister of the Orioles is as erratic as M. Lajoie, who prefers the wide ones to the plate cutters. Followers of the Brooklyn team are wondering how the New Yorks will play against trie Boston when they meet. That Meekin transfer has done the game no good. Pittsburg may try Jackson, a second baseman, who now is plaving with the Atlantic City team. He is a practicing dentist in Pittsburg during the winter months. The New Torks want to play the Brook lyns a series of five games after the close of the season for a side bet of $5,600. The series may be arranged. George Van Haltren of the New Yorks will take a team to San Francisco next fall. The players will be selected from the New York and Brooklyn teams. Barrett, the outrielder, said to have been purchased from Detroit by Cincinnati, is getting from two to four hits per game these days. He looks as if he might do. Bernard, Garvin, Knepper and Philip pi are among the twirling finds of the season. The quartet will figure among the stars of the pitcher's rubber next season. It is estimated that the McGraw-Rob-inson Oriole combination will pay the stockholders. Von Der Horst and Hanlon, a clean profit of at least $18,000 on the season. Pitcher Gettig of the New Yorks was fined $20 by Captain Gleason Sun lay for refusing to assist in carrying the bat bags to the 'bus after the game. Gleason evi dently does not believe in allowing the players to ride over him. It is known that Frank Selee's contract with the Boston management expires this year and speculation is rife as to what he will do. Many think that he will again direct the campaign of the Bostons, but it would not be any suprise if he did not. Boston Advertiser. What with Tenney and Lewis of the Bostons, Lauder. Goeckel and Thomas of the Phillies, Fultz of the Baltimores, Mc Bride of St. Louis and Foster of New York, the collegians are making their presence felt on the diamond these days. And there are men just as good in the colleges who do not plav professionai ball. The impression that Watkins will man age the Cincinnatis next year will not down. It has assumed such proportions that Watkins is said to be preparing to trade Pink Hawley back to Pittsburg. There is talk of Beaumont going to the Ohio metropolis, but it doesn't seem likely that Pittsburg would let such a fine young player get away. It is announced that the Brooklyn club has succeeded in overcoming the opposi tion of Boston and New York to the trans ferring to Washington park of the games scheduled to be plaved bv Brooklyn in Cleveland. Two games will therefore be played across the bridge on Thursday af ternoon and one on Friday. Killed by Carbolic Acid. Wausau. Wis., Aug. 31. Three patients at Marathon countv asvlnm while work- j ing in a silo today were overcome with -.aibolic acid fumes and were dead before they could be rescued. Superintendent j Head of asylum was overcome w:hile at tempting to rescue the men and was dragged out almost dead. The dead men j are: Frank Crosdale, Gustave Gunderson, J William Radtke. A PREACHER SHOT Negro Evangelist Is Killed by an Officer While Attempting to Escape at Maryille, Mo.j HE MADE A GUN PLAY. Thought the Crowd Intended to Lynch Him. And Preferred to Die In His Own Way. Maryville, Mo., Aug. 31. Rev. W. L. Johnston, former pastor of the African Baptist church of Maryville and evan gelist of the colored Baptist church of Kansas and Missouri, was killed at 6 o'clock last evening by Officer John Wallace, while resisting an attempt to take him to Jail. Johnston was convicted of having made indecent proposals on Monday to Mrs. Alice Barton, a respectable white woman, and sentenced to nine months in the Nodaway county jail. He made a gun play on Constable Noah Jen nings yesterday morning while trying to get away, and was disarmed. It de veloped that he had another gun, how ever. There was some talk of lynching him last night and he was scared and desperate. When he came down stairs from court a curious crowd was standing at the bottom of the stairs. On reaching the bottom of the stairway he began to back away from the officers with his hand on his pistol pocket, declaring that he would rather die right then than go to jail and be lynched. Officer Wallace presented his pistol and told him he must come. The negro drew his pistol so far from his pocket that it caught in his belt and the officer immediately fired. John ston started to run and Contable Jen nings fired after him. The negro suc ceeded in getting hold of his pistol and he turned and fired twice on his pur suers. He started to run again, but fell dead in front of the Real Estate bank. Johnston is the colored man who created much comment by saying a short time ago, at a meeting of negro preachers in Leavenworth, Kan., that the negroes must organize, and kill those who lynch their brethren. Officer rallace has not been arrested. Maryville negroes are very bitter and threaten to get revenge. SIX LIVES LOST. In a 'Big l ire at Yuma, Arizona Pro perty Loss $150,000. Yuma, Ariz., Aug. 31. The most dis astrous fire in the history of Tuma broke out at 3 o'clock this morning in the second story of E. F. Saginett's merchandise establishment resulting in the loss of six lives and a total destruc tion of the store building and stock of goods. The fire department, which responded promptly, was unable to cope with the flames, owing to lack of apparatus. A crowd of men were car rying goods from the building when the second floor fell upon them, killing six and more or less injuring many more. The list of dead are: CITY COUNCILMAN H. E. NEAHR. RODOLPH WILSON. JAMES T API AH. JULIAN PRECIADO. R. RIVORA. RICHARD WILSON. The loss is estimated at $150,000; in surance $50,000. CROWDING 11LSSIA. Japan Is Shoving Her Oat of Korea. Lordon, Aug. 31. The Shanghai corres- Sondent of the Times who recently visited !!orea telegraphs that he has found Rus sian ascendancy completely supplanted by Japanese, and he does not believe that the new influence will easily be displaced. The correspondent says: "The Japanese in Korea encourage re forms. They meet every Russian move by a counter move, and multiply Japanese interests in every direction with enormous rapidity. The American gold mining concession, which is being worked by numerous Americans, is remarkably successful." Traveling Men Should always carry a bottle of Begg3' Diarrhoea Balsam with them. Safe and sure. Squires' Pharmacy, 732 Kansas Ave. Death Sometime Spares. A rjathetic storv of k fact is told by an ei- Contederate soldier of one dark night on the skirmish line during the war. When on the instant that his musket was aimed to kill a Union pick et the latter, suddenly inspired with a sense of his own defenceless condition, began to sing those beautiful words: Cov er my defenceless head with the shadow of thy wingr. The Confederate withheld his hand. He could not fire. The picket's life was saved. Death sometimes spares the one who seems marked to be his victim. Let no one despair, even in the darkest hour. Many a man who seemed picked out for death by consumption has found respite and safety through the use of that wonder ful Golden Medical Discovery," which Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., invented thirty years ago, and which has brought new life and hope to almost countless thousands of men and women. Every day brings a multitude of letters to Dr. "Pierce, telling gratefully what his medicines and his advice have done to restore health and happiness to homes where hitherto sicknesd and misery had reigned supreme. A gentleman living ia Stillwater, Washington County. Minnesota, Mr. C. J. H?Naney, writes In the spring of 18S4, I was taken ill with consumption, and after trying everything 1 could hear of and doctoring: all summer my ?hysician said I had consumption, and that my eft lung was nearly gone, end that I could live but a short time. About twelve bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discoverv brought me out all right, and I cured myselfof two non attacks of the same trouble. I am .satisfied tha. the 'Golden Medical Discovery will cure con sumption if taken in time. I consider it tht best medicine in the world for the diseases for which it is recommended." Remington gillingandabulatin Attachment to the Remington Standard Typewriter Is a wonder. WONDERFULLY QUICK, WONDERFULLY SIMPLE, WONDERFULLY USEFUL, WONDERFULLY ACCURATE At a touch the carriage jumps from the In the next column, and over i,oao,aoo.oa mm FOR SALE BY ALL REMINGTON TYPEWRITER DEALERS J. F. MYERS, Local Dealer, Wyckoff, Seamans Benedict, 105 W. "he Popular FOR ALL ESTER W DENVER, SALT LAKE. The Only Direct Route. The Fastest Route. For Time Tables. Folders, Illustrated Books, Pamphlets, descriptive of the terri tory traversed, call on t-. A. OS J. C. FULTON, Depot ALL KINDS ALL TIMES ALL PRICES "A HANDFUL OF DIRT MAY BE A HOUSE FUL OF SHAME." CLEAN HOUSE WITH Bookkeeping, Shorthand. Telegraphy, Penmanship. Phone 31. 52I.S23 Quincy St BARK LEY, Undertaker and Embalmer. The largest assortment of fine goods In tna city at reasonable prices. FIRST-CLASS AMBULANCE. 417 Kansas Ave. Teicpbooe 28-7. MAKING CORSETS. tFrom the New York Times. Women have no hand in shaping the corset which she and her sisters are to wear. A rough draft of it is put on the model, and the man designer indicates the length and the curves by marks. When it fits to his satisfaction a plaster cast is made of her figure with the corset on. From this cast iron "forms" are made. A pressure of 6U0 pounds is brought to bear upon the corsets which are fitted to the "forms." This enables them to mold the forms of their wearers to prevailing fash ions and leaves not a trace of a chance for personal idiosyncracies. The sheath fitting skirts are responsible for several devices for obtaining snugness at the hips. Corsets are rather longer than last year, but still easy above the waist. The Russian minister of education Is said to have prohibited the use of corsets before the age of confirmation. The manufacturers receive a great many appMcations from fine-lookins giris who desire positions as models for fitting and photographing, but they find it difficult to secure girls who are willing to have their faces photographed for advertise ments. This accounts for the advertise ment pictures which have gauze spread before the face, the face turned away, hidden in the arm or concealed by a fan. Manv of these girls pose for artists. Dealers pay from $25 to $100 for the priv ilege of fitting and photographing, in ad dition to the usual time rates paid by ar tists. AMother Telia How She Saved Her Little Daughter's Life. I am the mother of eight children and have had a great deal of experience with medicines. Last summer my little daugh ter had the dysentery in its worst form. We thought sne would die. I tried every thing I could think of. but nothing seem ed to do her any good. I saw by an ad vertisement in our paper that Chamber lain's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy was highly recommended and sent and got a bottle at once. It proved to be one of the very best medicines we eier had in the house. It saved my little daugh ter's life. I am anxious for every mother to know what an excellent medicine it is. Had I known it at first it would have saved me a great deal of anxiety and my little daughter mucn surrerm?. i ours truly. Mrs. Geo. F". Burdick, Liberty, H. I. For sale by all druggists. Miss Grant's Fiance Sails. New Tork, Aug. 31. Among the pas sengers on the steamer Kaiser Wil helra Der Grosse, which, sailed today from Cherbourg for New Tork, are Princess Hatzfeld, Prince Cantacuzene, last character written to the exact place any number of columns, thus too.aoo.oarms- -oa Topeka, Kansas. 9th St, Kansas City, Mo. oute PO SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND. The Best Equipped Route. The Safest Route. LfcWiJs, uty licket Agent. Agent. OUTHWESTERfJ FUEL GO. Tel. 193. 634 Kansas Av. I UP-TO-DATE SHOPS are being very largely equipped with electric motors, especially if they are not large enough to warrant operating their own steam engines. Under present extreme competition of trade no one can afford to maintain the heavy line shafts, pulleys and belts used for the distribution of power in the ordinary manner. This you always have to do in operating an engine. Close economies ARE NECESSARY everywhere, and in the power and rent question particularly. Engine driven buildings commonly waste as much as one-third of all the power generated, in distribution; by modern equipment you save this waste. Have a motor of your own. Pay for what power you actually use, by metre, and the savings will help you TO MAKE A PROFIT. Get a clean, light room in the path of travel, where people can't help seeing you. and let us make you an attractive proposition to furnish a motor and power to drive it. EDISON ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO. Motors and Power for All Purposes. We'll Do Your Hauling Right TOPEKA TRANSFER CO., S09 KANSAS AVENUE. Office Telephone 320. House Telephone 895. F. P. BACON, Prop. XW Bee me about Storage. Congressman George E. Foss, F. 'W. Hons. Congressman Richard Bartholdt and Sir Rupert Jerningham, command ing governor of Trinidad. o

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY' EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1899. MUNYON'S INHALER CURES CATARRH Colds, Coughs, Hay Fever, Broil 's. r-Uitia Acthmfl W f Ml and all Diseases 'S-i of the Throat and Oonrls of Medicated Vapnr re Inhaled through the mouth and emitted from the nos trils, cleaning and vaporizing all the Inflamed and diseased parts which rannot be reached tT medicine taken into the atotuaeb. It reaches the sore spots It heals the raw rtlaresIt noes to the lent nf disease It acts as a balm and tonic to the whole intern fl. 00 at ttruaaists orsent by mail. UOi A.rch it., Fhtla- Dr. ANDREW WA the eminent successful Chinese Physician, 13 years practice, has moved to 805 Kansas Ave., (Topeka, Kas.,) where he has more room for his large practice. All sufferers from Chronic and Prime 1 VooVnAaa pflntispnr. t 1 prl hv use nf thA HerhR. Roots. Flowers. Ber ries and Barks which were Imported from China. No surgical operation, and no In curable patient taken. Cures Guaranteed. Consultation and examination free. Office Hours from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. Daily. o 33rd National Encampment o o and Reunion, G. A. R. Philadelphia, September 4-9, 1S99. Round-Trip Tickets, $30.55 via Santa Fe Route. On Sale Sept. 1. 2 and 3. Note Privileges of stopover and se lection of different route returning ac corded on tickets sold at slightly higher rale. T. L. KING, Agent TOPEKA. o o o o LOW FARE TO PHILADELPHIA AND RETURN VIA THE Lehigh Valley RAILROAD. on account of the Fncampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, September 4th to 9th, i8qo. Stop-over at Niagara. Falls aud Mauch Chunk. Through the Lake region ot New York state, the Wyoming and Susquehanna Valieys, and the Mountains of rennyivania. (the ".Switzer land of America.") lor particulars, addiess C A. Parkek. Jsorthwestern Passenger Aent, 2!8 So. Clark street. Chicago, in., or A. A. Hkard, Western Pass. Agent, Buffalo. N. Y. GETTING RICH Ts easy enough if you begin rightly. Save some portion of your earn ings every month; invest in the shares of our association where it will be per fectly secure and can be drawn when wanted. If left it will accumulate by earn ing interest with surprising rapidity. S6.75 per month equals $500 la 5 years. THE CAPITOL BUILDING and LOAN ASSOCIATION, FORMERLY The Savings and Loan Association, 534 KANSAS AVENUE. o I Aztec o o o o o enoar Fend 25 cents to T. L. King, 3 agent A. T. S. F. E'y. To- o o peka. Kas., for copy of Aztec O Calendar, July to December. Contains six separate repro- O ductions in color (gxtl inch- 9 q es) of Eurbank's Pueblo In- dian portraits the season's O art sensation. Also en- graved cover representlns 0 ancient Aztec calendar stone. P A handsome and unique sou- 3 venir; edition limited; order early. P o iH.st and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLfjWS SOOTHING SYRUP lias been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. AL LAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC ind is the" best remedy for DIARRHOEA old by Drutrsrists in every part of th. world. Be sure and ask for ''Mrs. Win low's Soothing Syrup." and take no other kind. Twenty-uv cent a botU. Ii. C. BOWMAN, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Room 38. Columbian Building, TOPEKA, KANSAS. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures dyspepsia because its ingredients are such that it can't help doing so. "The public can rely upon it as a master remedy for all dis orders ansine: from imperfect digestion James M. Thomas. M. D.. in American Journal cf Health. N. Y. Geo. W. Stans field, y H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co. RAILR0AD HEWS. Santa Fe Adopts a New Method Marking Coaches. All Cars of the Various Lines Branded "Santa Fe" EFFECTIVE AT ONCE Initials of the Koad Painted Under the Number. Will Instantly Show to Which System It Belongs. 'A new order has been promulgated by the Santa Fe road in regard to the let tering and numbering of their locomo tives and coaches. This order is effec tive at once and will be complied with as soon, as possible. The provisions of the order are briefly as follows: Hereafter all coaches belonging to the Santa Fe system, which includes the following roads, the A. T. S. F. proper, the Santa Fe Pacific. the South ern Kansas, the Gulf, Colorado San ta Fe. the Southern California, the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley, and the Rio Grande and El Paso railroads will be lettered Santa Fe on the letter board of the coach, while on the side of the coach underneath the number will be placed the initial of the road to which the coach belongs. On the locomotives wiil be placed the initial of the road to which the engine belongs, on the panel of the cab, in stead of being placed on the collar of the tank as has been the case before. The numbering of the engines will be as before. THE MODOCS' TRAIN. Jolly Crowd of Singers to Leave Over the Rock Island Saturday For the Reunion. The Modocs are about the busiest people town just at present. They are getv'ng ready to go to the G. A. K. reunion at Philadelphia and they start on Saturday afternoon, September 2, at three o'clock over the Rock Island. Several new songs have been written especially for this occasion and these together with their repertoire of other catchy songs will be sprung on the un suspecting public on all possible oc casions. Major T. J. Anderson will head the Modoc delegation and he said yester day: "We expect to have the hottest time on record, and have got enough songs all ready for instant use to keep them going continuously from the time that we leave Topeka until we get back. We shall take our several com posers along with us and will have songs written while we pass by." The Grand Army members have al ready made application to the Rock Island for reservations enough to war rant the road in putting on two trains, one of which will be in charge of Capt. A. M. Fuller, assisted by C. E. Bascom of Hutchinson, and the second section in charge of A. M. Duncan, and W. O. Nevill, assisted by C. H. Duxbury. It is also said that P. H. Coney has been secured to make speeches replying to the welcome extended to Kansas vet erans. INTO FRISCO JANUARY 1. President Ripley Gives Date of Santa Fe's First Coast Train. President Ripley of the Santa Fe, who has just returned from an inspec tion of the San Joaquin Valley road, states that the Santa Fe will probably not enter San Francisco before January 1. It was at first thought that the road would be completed by September 1. and later November and December 1 were named respectively as the datea of the Santa Fe entrance. But Mr.Rip ley says there is much work to be done yet, and it is his opinion that the Santa Fe will not be running trains from Chi cago to the Pacific coast over its own tracks before the first of the year. The completion of the new road will be made a matter of ceremony, and President Ripley will be present to drive the last spike. Mr. Kipley affirmed the statements already printed that an additional train would be provided as soon as the new iine was opened. He said this would not interfere with the limited train service inaugurated three years ago. and that the limited trains would be run as often each week as the travel demanded. ROCK ISLAND REFUSES. "Will Not Observe the Restraining Order Against the Gulf Road. Kansas City, Aug. 31. All of the rail roads that proposed to boycott the Kansas City, Pittsburg Gulf railway have observed the restraining order of the federal court thus far except the Rosk Island road. The Rock Island refused to transfer three cars of freight to the Pittsburg Gulf. The matter has been referred to the legal department of the Gulf road and if the Rock Island maintains its atti tude some of its officers and agents may be arrested for contempt of the order of Judge Thayer. RAILROAD MEN TO MEET. A Union Meeting Will Be Held at Emporia, September 8. Emporia, Aug. 31. On Friday after noon, September 8, there will be a union meeting of engineers, firemen, brake men, switchmen, telegraphers and oth er railroad men held in the Wigwam. Third Vice Grand Master Maeir. of the E. L. F., will be present and deliver an address. There will be addresses by other labor leaders, whose names have not yet been decided upon. In the evening will take place a free entertainment, consisting of the show ing of kinetoscope pictures, stereopti con views, music, addresses, etc. This will be-an Interesting occasion for rail road men, and all railroad men and their friends are urged to be present. Engine Inspector W. N. Breen has charge. TO REMAIN IN TOPEKA. Headquarters of the Santa Fe General Freight Agent to Be Retained In Kansas. Paul Morton, second vice president of the Santa Fe.is authority for the state ment that Mr. J. E. Gorman, the newly appointed general freight agent of the Santa Fe. will spend as much of his time in Topeka as in Chicago, and that Topeka will continue to be known as a headquarters of the general' freight agent, although the Chicago office will be a headquarters as well. It was at first announced that the general freight office would be moved from Topeka to Chicago. Mr. Morton also stated that an as sistant general freight agent would be appointed to succeed Mr. Gorman, but said that neither his successor or n, successor to Air. C. R. Hudson had been decided upon. SANTA FE EARNINGS. The July Statement is Most Satis factory to Officials. The July statement of the Santa Fe road shows a half million increase in the net income from operation. Contrary to a current report, there was a decrease in operating expenses for the month. This fact is one of the minor encouraging fea tures of the first month's business of the fiscal year, and is all the more remarkable because of the large evpenditures tor bet terment which have been charged to oper ation. The statement follows: Julv. lw. July. 1?9S. Inc. Gross earnings $3,213,171 $2,7tS.&!)S $43ii,172 Operating expens". 3.225.058 2,287. 3"5 ti2,247 iset earnings a.iu 4iy.bii 4i,-io Taxes and rentals. 143.12 147.3::5 '4.153 Income from opera S34.930 332.357 502,573 Av. opera, mileage 7,108 6,915 103 Decrease. Bouquets For C. R- Hudson. Second Vice President Paul Morton of the Santa Fe, while in this city Wednesday afternoon, took occasion to compliment Mr. C. R. Hudson, who re signs as assistant general freight agent of the road October 1. "Mr. Hudson ia thoroughly able and we are very sorry to lose him from the Santa Fe," said he. "In addition to being able he is popular, and has made a great many friends all over the country." RAILROAD NOTES. Engine No. 157 was sent to Welling ton last night. Engineer Chas. Jones is back to work again. Engineer Andy Smith has returned from a four days' trip to Kinsley, where he went to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law. A. C. Goodrich, traveling agent of the B. O. railroad was in town yester day on business connected with his road. Clay Lambert, railroad contractor for the Ringling Bros, shows was in To peka yesterday, making arrangements with the Rock Island to carry the show over their line to several points in Kan sas and Nebraska. Beeler broke in three engines yester day. One in the morning and a double header in the afternoon. These engines have been rushed through the shops, as the increased traffic demands all the available engines and cars which can be procured. The freight business is something enormous along the Santa Fe just now and is crowding the road to furnish enough cars to properly han dle it. This is also true of the passen ger traffic, and nearly every day some passenger train is brought in made up of two sections. The Rounders and the Boilermakers will cross bats in a friendly but prob ably exciting game of baseball on next Saturday afternoon at Athletic park. The game will probably be called at 3:30 o'clock. QUAINT OLD BARCLAY. Just Now It is the Mecca For Buyers of Images. New York. Aug. 31. In many of the Catholic churches of New York at the Sunday meetings the clergy made refer ence to St. Vincent de Paul. The saint who founded the order of the Sisters of Charity, and who is held in particular reverence by Catholics everywhere, is to be kept particularly in remembrance in this city by the placing of his statue in every Catholic schoolroom in the metro polis. A very large proportion of all Catholic supplies, from the most valurtble statu ary to wax candles is sold In Barclay street one of the cross streets from Broadway to the North river, and busi ness has been rushing there in tha statu ary line lately. All the statues of St. Vincent de Paul that are to be used in the schools come through these wholesale houses in Barclay street, and the unus ual number of orders has kept the makers of the images busy. Some of the statues on exhibition in the windows of the stores are very large and all are of a striking character. There is usually a group of curious spectators in front of the Catho lic repositories, looking at the statues and admiring the rich vestments, the gold and silver altar vessels, the pictures and other furnishings that will eventually find their way into cathedrals and churches. Bar clay street is one of the most interesting streets in the downtown district, and there is no other Just like it in the whole city. WAGER FATAL TO BOTH. Two Cotton Pickers Work In the Field on a Texas Prairie Till Death Overcomes Them. Paris, Texas. Aug. 31. On Craig's prai rie, in Delta county, two cotton pickers made a wager, each claiming that he could pick more cotton in one day than the other. In the afternoon both were found dead in adjacent furrows. Both had become overheated and death appeared to have come simultaneously. ADULTERATED OIL. It Causes the Arrest of a Cleveland, Ohio, Business Man. Cleveland. O., Aug. 31. William A. TTar phjiw, president of the Harshaw, Fuller Goodwin company, was arrested today on a warrant sworn out by Chief Xairy and Food Inspector Cowen. Harshaw was charged with selling adulterated lin seed oil. The case was set for hearing on September Jl. Cowen has discovered that a great deal of adulterated oil is being produced in Cleveland. It Is probable that other ar rests will be made. NO OUTSIDERS. Topeka Bicycle Races Limited to Entries From This City. Three Salina bicycle riders wanted to enter the races to be held here this week but wTere prohibited from doing so by the fact that it is a closed meet and open only to Topeka riders. Kirk Knowles, who is a new wonder, rode a half in one minute flat last night while establishing a track record of 2.09. The track is fast and is in good condition for the races. A Collie's Big Litter. Highland Falls. N. Y.. Aug. 31. Robert Armstrong, the keeper of J. Pierpont Alor gan's Cragston kennels, was the most sur prised man north of Mott Haven when, in making the rounds of his charge's quar ters he found twenty-seven puppies lying beside an old prize collie in one of the pens, which were not there when ho clos ed the kennels the night before. He pick ed them up carefully, one at a time, and laid them down in another place, and then counted them a second time back into the original place to be sure of the number. There were twenty-seven of them, all sturdy and likely to live. Enjoy Dewey Day In New York. Excursion tickets will be sold at rnnnri trin T-C 1 1 of 41 ftri frnm St Tiiia "NIiTV "VfT-lf via "V'a nrti li -a -Pon tiqvI varia short lines September 1st. 2d, 3d and 4th, will be good to leave New Y'ork. returning on night trains of Sep tember 30th, the date of the big Dewey celebration. For details, address J. M. Chesbrough, A. G. P. agent, St. Louis, Mo. All weak places in your system effectu ally closed against disease by DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They cleanse the bowels, promptly cure chronic constipa tion, regulate the liver, and fill you with new life and vigor. Small, pleasant; never gripe. Geo. W. Sransrield. W. H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold Son, A. J. Kane Co. FOUGHT AT LAST. Topeka Prize Fighters Have a Brief, Bloodless Encounter. After two unsuccessful attempts the fight between Billy Teller, known as Black Griff o,"and Tommy Sears.claim ing the 126 pound championship of Eng land, was pulled off last night and Sears was declared the winner. The ring was located on the first floor of a large barn near Wabash and Indiana avenues, half a block from the car line in Oakland and about 25 en thusiasts made up the crowd. The crowd left the city at 8:43 and as soon as the barn was reached the ring was pitched and the fighters stripped. Two gasoline torches lighted the ring. The principals were ordered to make things lively from the beginning and lose no time as the officers were expected at any time. It was 9:45 when Sears stepped Into the ring followed by his second, Wade Watts. Teller followed with Dick Fen Ion -in his corner. S. Kline, the referee, announced "an exhibition," and when time was called the two went at it with four ounce gloves. It was lively from the first. In the first clinch Teller fouled Sears below the belt and the referee was ready to declare Sears the winner but he refused and kept on fighting. Sears was the aggressor and forced the negro to the ropes several times. Teller played for Sears' wind when Sears staggered him with a hook on the jaw. Sears was the best man from the beginning and again sent his opponent reeling with a blow in the chin. Teller was weakening. "How's the time." he cried and the two kept on fighting. Again he called to know if it was not time for the round to close. Sears followed up several body blows with a right over the colored man's heart and a left counter on his jaw and Teller went to his knees close to the ropes. The referee commenced to count and Teller attempted to rise. Again he tried to rise and just as he was counted out he fell in a heap and rolled outside the ropes just as time was called. Teller was carried to a bench and watered and rubbed while Sears was dressing in another corner. The time keeper had been so interested in the fight that he forgot to keep track of the time and the two men probably fought four minutes and a half before time was called. Many of those present claimed the fight a "fake" because it was short and claimed that the colored man lay down and failed to rise to avoid fighting longer. Others were satisfied that it was a clean knock out and the colored man was certain he had enough. The car that carried the crowd back to town met a car bearing Sheriff Cook and Officers Bundy and Grubbs who were on their way to stop the fight. Sears is trying to arrange for a fight with Joe Fiederling to be held on Klondike Island" at St. Marys Sun day, September 10. If the fight is pulled off an excursion will be run from Topeka, JOE WATERS AT CLYDE. Makes a Speech Today at the Water melon Town. Capt. J. G. Waters is in Clyde today and will speak at the watermelon car nival which is the fall celebration of the prosperity of the people in Cloud county. Mr. Waters started to Clyde on a belated train last night and was compelled to go from McFarland, a dis tance of. 97 miles, on a freight train. While waiting for the train last night Mr. Waters was thinking of his speech. He composed a piece of poetry.the clos ing part of which follows: "We must get old Aguinaldo But like the watermelon, He must first be plugged." "How's that for a watermelon carni val speech?" he said. G. A. R. Philadelphia, Pa., September 4th-9th. For the annual encampment of the G. A. R. at Philadelphia, in September, the Union Pacific will sell tickets at greatly reduced rates for the round trip. Greatly reduced rates to New York City on same dates and conditions, have also been made by the Union Pacific. For full information call on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent. Chicago to New York and Return $18.45. Via Lake Shore Michigan Southern railway. Tickets on sale September 1st to 4th inclusive. Return limit Sept 12th, or by deposit of ticket and pay ment of 50 cents, may be extended to Sept. 30th. Stop-over allowed at Ni agara Falls and Chautauqua, also priv ilege of Hudson River day line boats betweejn Albany and New York in either direction. For sleeping car reservations, which should be made early, or any additional information, address B. P. Humphrey, T. P. A., Kan sas City, Mo., or F. M. Byron, G. W. A., Chicago, A. J. Smith, G. P. A., Cleve land. The soothing and healing properties cf Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, its pleas ant taste and prompt and permanent cures have made it a great favorite with the people everywhere. For sale by all druggists. Samples of Kansas Corn From the Farm of Geo. M. Yo'ungf, Two Miles South of Eskridjje. JOE PATCHEN WON. Black Horse Captures the First Two Minute Pace Ever Scheduled. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 31. The big event of the grand circuit meeting at Charter Oak park Wednesday was the first two minute pace ever scheduled. There were five starters, John R. Gen try drawing out after a contest in which there was a dispute between the park management and the owner of the horse. The trouble arose over a misun derstanding as to whether the event was a two-in-three or a three-in-five. It was a three-in-five and Gentry drew his horse, the management protesting and leaving the matter in the hands of the judges. The starters were Joe Patchen, Ana conda, Chehalis, Frank Bogash and Searchlight. Searchlight was very un steady, breaking badly, and was never in any hopes of winning a heat. Ana conda, the favorite, 100 to 65 for Patch en, 50 for Searchlight, led until the stretch in the first heat, when Joe Patchen came in, and under the whip and a hard push took the mile in 2:04. The second heat was Patchen's all the way, and the final heat, which took the race in 2:03, equalled the track record made In 1S97 by Star Pointer in an exhibition race with Gentry. There was the greatest enthusiasm. After the first heat Joe Patchen sold 3 to 1, with Bogash 4 to 3 that he would get inside of the money. MAINE'S BIRCH TREES. Norway (Maine) Cor. New York Times. Since the paper makers commenced to build big sulphite mills in the Maine woods the price of spruce timber lands has doubled, and in some cases trebled. Next to spruce, the timber in greatest de mand is clean and thrifty white birch, which is sawed into bars and sent by the shipload to Scotland to be used for thread spools. Nearly all the factories in the United States and more than half of those in Great Britain, obtain their spool stock from Maine. According to A. A. Burleigh of Houlton, Maine, who has spent the best part of hi3 life in the woods as a lumber operator. Maine's birch trees are due to the spiteful conduct of two employes of the Maine land office. Some French Canadians in lb20 squatted on state land near the Pen obscot river and defied all efforts to eject them. Finally, in 1S25, two special consta bles were sent to the place from the land office in Augusta, with instructions to make a clean job of evicting the French men. The constables, after turning the families out. set fire to the houses and haystacks. Twelve hours later the French village was a smoking mass of ashes and the biggest forest tire ever known in the state was sweeping north, burning off more than 50 townships of old-growth pine and doing more than $10,000,000 damage to the state lands. Many square miles of hackmatack tim ber were also burned over, the fire eating 10 feet into the black peat logs that had been accumulating for years and years. It is a tradition that, after crossing Aroo stook county the fire leaped the St. John river and swept over New Brunswick ter minating in the destruction of Miramichi, where 120 persons perished. The survivors were forced to flee into the Gulf of St. Lawrence where they stood neck deep in water for two days and a night, while deer, caribou, moose, bears and wolves swam around them, seeming to seek pro tection from their enemies. After the fire had burned itself out and the land had absorbed the alkali of the ashes, about 5.0(.K.000 acres came up to wild cherry and white birch saplings. For more than ten years the two species struggled for control of the territory. Then the black knot, which had been im ported from Europe, killed off the wild cherry trees, giving the birches the right of way. About 50.000.000 board feet of spool bars are now shipped out of Maine every year, and the supply is still large. Fun In the Philippines. Manila Cor. Leslie's Weekly.! A typical Yankee trick was played or! the enemy over at Paombong the other day. There is a church over there, which is just across a narrow stream from the house occupied by our extreme left outpost of twenty-eight men from battery H, Third United States artillery, who are serving here as infantry. The sentry on duty on the church side of the river conceived the idea of tying a long rope to the clapper of the bell in the belfry, carry ing the rope over to his post in the road. Just as had been anticipated, the Fiilpinos came sneaking down close to the church the other morning an hour or so before daylight. The sentry heard them coming and promptly rang the bell. In a twinkling the Filipinos opened on the belfry, and that and the church are now well dented by bullets. The outpost refrained from answering the fire, which was doing no harm, but after every volley at the belfry the sentry with the rope gave the bell two or three frantic peals. Believing the outpost to be still in the belfry and sorely pressed, the insurrectos crept nearer and poured in, as they thought, a still more deadly fire. All this time the men of the outpost kept quiet, not ing just where the enemy were. At daylight our soldiers opened so briskly that sixty or seventy Filipinos found their error and hit the road briskly back to their own outpost, carrying several wounded men with them. The handy rope has been extended to reach across the river. Enjoy Life. How we all desire to enjoy good health; to enjoy life as our neighbors do; to laugh I and have bright. Sparkling Eyes; to be free from pain. It wiii cost you One Dol- lar. 5eggs isiooa runner makes pure, rich Blood. Squires' Pharmacy, 732 Kan sas avenue. IT''!, I. (tun- liilff M'KINLEY SERENADED. He Again Speaks From the Porch of a Canton House. Canton, Aug. 31. A large crowd sur rounded the Barber house last night when the Canton soldiers, who served in the war with Spain, including three companies of the "President's own," the Eighth Ohio, and hundreds of oth ers, filed on the lawn to tender Presi dent McKinley a serenade by Thayer's band. The president appeared on the porch and addressed the volunteers briefly. In the course of his speech he said: "You have won and earned the na tion's gratitude and praise. You did your full duty in front of Santiago and no higher honor can be paid to the sol dier of any country than to say of him that he did his whole duty. You were more fortunate than many of your comrades. You got to the seat of hos tilities, but every one of the two hun dred and fifty thousand splendid young men who volunteered for that war was anxious to get to the front and at the place of greatest danger." MILLS AT CRIPPLE CLOSE. Are qua the Last One to Shut Down on Account of Dispute. Cripple Creek, Col., Aug. 31. To day there Is not one custom mill oper ating in the district. The employes of the Arequa mill went out this after noon and consequently this, the only mill which lately has been running, was closed down. At the time the smelters closed, Man ager Milliken made a temporary ar rangement with his employes for an 8-hour day. Until the supreme court decided against the eight-hour legisla tion, and the other mills increased the number of hours of labor of their em ployes. Manager Milliken found that he was unable to grant the request of his men,, and compete with the valley mills. Affairs came to a climax today by the men walking out. W. B. Milli ken is now out of the camp, and it is generally thought an agreement will be arrived at on his return. The Brodie mill and the Gillett, the remaining district custom plants, are still closed. COLORADO COAL DEAL. Two Thousand Acres of Valuable Tract Leased to the Midland Railroad. Glenwood Springs, Col., Aug. 31. Thomas L. Davis has secured a lease on -the South Canon coal veins. The tract comprises 2.000 acres, in within two miles of the Midland railroad, and six miles below here. The property is a portion of the Lord Day estate, and is now supposed to have been leased from Colonel Lock wood, administrator, for the Midland railroad. The various veins, eight in number, have been partially developed and in the early days supplied coal by wagon to the first settlers here. They vary from a few feet to 36 feet in width. This means the opening of a new coal field, and an extremely important one, if well worked. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Mary W. Doran and husband to T. S. Cafferty and wife, $500, lot 5, Paramore street, Ewart's subdivision, and lots 270, 272, 274, 276, 278 and 2S0, Jefferson street, Loekhart's addition. T. S. Cafferty and wife to Mary W. Doran, $1,300, lot 95, Jefferson street. George W. Moss to Margaret States, $1,650. lot 371, Jackson street. Mary E. Hale and husband to Jesse C. Kistler, $100, tract on Quincy and Fairchild streets in North Topeka. H. K. Tefft and wife to Madge J. Hagar, $3,000, lots 43, 45 and 47, Tenth avenue west. H. C. Bowman and wife to Alice A. Wallace, $635, lot 405 and east half of lot 403. Seventeenth street, Keith's third subdivision. Heirs of H. B. Claflin to Augustus T. Daniels. $1, northeast quarter, section2, range 10, and township 15. Financial association to Reuben A. Scott. $1,000, lot 518, 520 and 522 Buchan an street, Martin and Dennis' subdivi sion. Millie K. Nichols and husband to Mrs. Annie Shelton, $625, lots 61. 63 and 65, .Branner street, north Klein's addition. Irene F. Horner to Julia E. Pen noyer, $1,400, lots 33 and 35 Eighth ave nue, west. E. Martin and wife to Thos. H. Bain and wife, $2,000, lots 365 and south half 363 Polk street, and lot 516 Taylor street, Gould's addition, and 36 and north half 35 Anderson's addition. Albert Capley and wife to J. B. Kun gle, $3,000, part northeast quarter sec tion 1, range 12, township 15. J. IT. Hunt, et al., to David N. Beach, trustee, $1. lot 241 Locust street, Park dale addition. Same to same, $1, lot 423 and part 421 and 425 Polk street, Higginbotham's ad dition. Same to same, $1, part southwest quarter section 30, range 11, township 16. J. B. McAfee, administrator, to O. P. j WilVlS. 1.TOU, SUULII UU IttJI. lOL O XViCTcll- land Ecks' addition, on Central ave nue, North Topeka. J. H. Hunt, et al., to David N. Beach, Tr., $1. lots 7 and 8, Twelfth street, Brady's subdivision. Mary Nina Reed and husband to Chas. S. Tappan, $1, lot 477, Washington avenue, Reed's subdivision. Jno. R. Mulvane and wife to David N. Beach, Tr., $1, same. SALMON CATCH GOOD. Big Cargo Brought Down From Bris tol Bay. San Francisco, Aug. 31. The barken tine Garden City has arrived from Bristol. Bay bringing with her 5,500 bar rels of salt salmon. She and the bark entine Willie R. Hume which arrived on Tuesday report that the run of fish at Bristol Bay this season has never been exceeded in the past. The Hume brought down 25.000 cases of canned and 1,800 barrels of salted salmon. Five thousand cases of the lot were of thn king salmon which is far larger than any shipment of those big early fish that has been brought in this year from any of the fisheries. Her cargo weighs 1,230 tons. NEGROES ARE BEATEN. Trouble In the Laborers' Camp on the Illinois Central. Rockford, 111., Aug. 31. Two weeks ago 100 negroes were imported here from Brookhaven, Miss., by W. M. Fortner Son, railroad contractors, to work on improvements on the Illinois Central track between here and Du buque. There has been trouble in the camp and today two of the negroes were found west of the city with in juries that will prove fatal. Twenty-five of the imported crews, who were discharged, came to town to day stranded and are being fed by the police and firemen until they can be re turned south. Overproduction "There is one thing, at least, that the trusts have cheapen ed." said the man with the wearied air. "What is it?" roared the man with the tangled hair. "Talk." Indianapolis Journal. ILIUM A Home Treatment "for Eruptions, Ulcers, Ecze ma, Scrofula, Old Sores, Cancers, Olood Im purities. If you have tried sarsaparilla, patent medicines, and doctored, ,and still have old, persistent sores, pimples, distress ing eruptions of the skin, painful sores on the hands, arms or legs, itching sen sation, irritating skin troub'es, eczema, scales, scabs, scrofula, ulcers, conta gious blood poison, fever sores, rheuma tism, catarrh, boils, face covered with) little sores, cancer or any blood taint, then give B. B. B. a trial, because B. B. B. Botanic Blood Balm is made for just such cases, and it cures to stay cured, those stubborn, persistent, deep seated blood diseases that other milder medicines fail even to benefit. All above named troubles are evidence of bad, diseased blood in the body, and Bo tanic Blood Balm cures because it forces all the poison or impurity or blood humors out of the body, bones and entire system. The above is a picture (from photo) of eczema on child's face cured by Bo tanic Blood Balm. The child of J. I Humphrey, of Congersville, Tenn., had sores all over his body, yet cured by Botanic Blood Balm. We have abso solute faith in Botanic Blood Balm, hence we will send to any Fufferer a sample bottle of B. B. B. absolutely iree. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) is an old. well-tried remedy, hence we know that it cures to stay cured, for the peo ple cured by B. B. B. years ago are well today, and free from all blood impuri ties. If you are satisfied that Blood Balm is what you need you will find large bottles for sale by Swift Holliday Drug Co.,, 523 Kansas avenue,, and Rowley Snow, 600 Kansas avenue, Topeka, and all druggists for $1.00, or 6 bottles (full treatment) $5.00 For sample bottles address Blood Balm Co., 87 Mitchell St., Atlanta, ,Ga., and trial bottle and medical book will be sent, all charges prepaid. Describe your trou ble and we will include free medical ad vice. M ELESJNT TOILET LUXURY. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. FOSSIL HUNTERS RETURN. Another Railroad Will Send Out a Party Next Year. Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 31 The expedi tion organized by the LTnion Pacifio railroad has been rich in results. Prof. Knight and the remaining members ot the party, known as the forty-day men. reached this point last nisht. having come directly from Bates' Hole. The success of this undertaking hai led the Chicago Northwestern rail road to plan a similar one for next sea son from the western terminus at Cas par, Wyo. Photographs were taken of Upper Platte canon and of Bates' Hole for the first time, these localities having never before been visited by trained observers. The field was new to the geologists of the party and the first mineral specimens to come from that district are now on exhibition. Several carloads of fossil remains and geological specimens are being loaded for shipment to eastern institutions. Noted Sculptor Insane. Chicago, Aug. 31. A Tribune special from Mount Vernon, 111., says: The de mented stranger who was recently ar rested here for insanity has been iden tified as Jno. B. Leoni. an Italian sculp tor and has been sent to the insane asylun at Jacksonville. Leoni made much of the heroic statuary of the W'orld's fair. More Trouble For China. Pekin, Aug. 31. Owing to the spirit of opposition and evasion shown by the Chinese foreign office in the negotia tions now progressing between China and Italy the Italian squadron in Chi nese waters will be immediately rein forced by two torpedo boat destroyers. Dyspeptic People should try .Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Don't expect one spoonful to cure you. but give it a chance to get at your overworked stomach, lazy liver and im pure blood. After a while you'll find your nerves strong and your digestion perfect. Use it faithfully, be you mav or woman, and it will surely cure you. See that a PRIVATE REVENUE! STAMP covers the neck of the Bottle. Don't Expect a Substitute to Help you Hostetter's Stomach. Hitters rr BfB Lyon s PERFECT iOOm V

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Ey FRANK PMAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXVI No- OfficiaLPaper of the City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by earner. 3 cents a week to any part of T," Fuburbs. or at the same pnee in n-Y Jl eas town where th paper baa a. carrier system. 12.60 By mail, one year 90 By mail, three months g "Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOMK. Topeka Btate Journal rluil.lir,?. 8T0 ana $02 Kansas avenue, corner of fc-isntn- NEW YORK OFFICE. Tempi? Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. CHICAHO OFFICE. Stock F.xrhanpe Bid.. A. Frank itiehardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFTCT5. 12 Red Hon Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Busings Office Be Phone 1J7 Reporters' Room Bell Phone S.7 Fubscribers of the State Journal way during the Bummer may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any ad dress at the rate of thirty cents a month. No subBcriptlons taken, for less than thirty cents. Address changed as ouen as desired. The news from Manila indicates that Aguinaldo is itching for another whip ping. The Ohio Democratic platform de mands a reduction of salaries. Does this apply to the Sultan of Sulu? Returns from the E'ghth Missouri district indicate that though Richard P. Eland is dead, his soul goes march ing on. Just as FYance had M. Guerin al most starved out. Providence interfered and sent a rain, renewing his supply of water. The proceedings of the Dreyfus cou-t martial resemble those of a district school debating society more than any thing else. Oom Paul will try firing psalms at Great Britain first and if that don't succeed he may follow it up with pow der and ball. One of the disappointments in con nection with the Guerin farce in Paris is that there is no Victor Hugo to write about It. North Dakota should now advertise its divorce industry in the dominions of the Sultan of Sulu, if business is to follow the flag. Perhaps the reason that the French officials have not turned the hose on M. Guerin lies in the fact that water is what he has needed most. Santa Fe stocks advanced one cent yesterday on the New Tork exchange. The prosperity of the road and of Kan sas continue to go hand in hand. The Tacoma Ledger has discovered an honest Democrat. He is Robert E. Pattlson of Pennsylvania. Of course Mr. Pattison is not a candidate for any office. A perusal of the Nebraska and Ohio Democratic platforms, indicates that those who killed and buried the free silver issue will be compelled to do it all over again. 'A mon who would Journey all the way from his home in Washington to make the race for the governorship of Ohio, doubtless sees something unusually en couraging in the outlook. Ohio will witness such a battle of barrels and bosses this year, as she has not seen in a long time. In John R. McLean, Mark Harnia will find a foe man in many ways his equal. Since it was definitely ascertained that Dewey will under no circumstan ces become a candidate for the presi dency, state conventions show no hesi tation in expressing their preferences. Whether Toledo Golden Rule Jones make the race for governor of Ohio or not he has succeeded in giving both the Republican and Democratic parties a bad scare. The Populists have shown no signs of alarm. About the only thing omitted from the Ohio Democratic platform was a reference to the harem of the sultan of Sulu. Perhaps this was done out of respect for Brigham H. Roberts, who Is himself a Democrat. Pension Commissioner Evans has presented the unusual record of mak ing the appropriation for his depart ment hold out. Instead of a deficit he has over a million dollars left to turn back into the treasury. GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. 'A girl of sixteen should remember how soon twenty-six is reached, and be more considerate. An Atchison man will write a book entitled: '"The Black Truth, Com pared With White Lies." Before resigning your position, re member that for every unoccupied hole, there are twenty pegs trying to get in. After a woman has visited another as long as two weeks, there is a coolness between them afterwards without ap parent cause. When a woman quotes her doctor as saying she must not work too hard, she looks very keenly at those around to see if they are properly impressed. Everything old fashioned comes back except the style of pining away and dying for a love affair, and that of hav ing a weeping willow engraved on the tombstone. Somehow we do not think it would be pleasant to be the sweetheart of a girl who sings coon songs about "I love mv baby," and "Take your clothes back home. Though every one has a secret horror of a destitute old age. and realizes ev ery day how difficult it is to lay aside something for it, the people, as a rule, do not take any steps to lessen this fear. A man has a family to provide for, and his expenses are always great er than he calculates. He is called up on for every charity, and a good deal of the money he should set aside for his own old age. Is consumed in providing for the old and destitute around him. The son provides and cares for his par ents, and has no opportunity to pro vide for his own old age. Those lookinir for reforms will find a wide field in de vising some plan to assure the hard working a home in their last days. What has become of the old fash ioned woman who made the children stay out of the house and walk on tip toes in the yard whenever she had a cake in the oven. Trouble seems to do people good: the oldest lookit g woman of her age in Atchison, has never had any trou- ble, while the youngest looking worn- j an in town of her age, has had chil dren, a cross husband, kin and other 1 kinds of trouble. A woman was on the streets this morning wearing a dressing sacque. A dressing sacque is a Mother Hubbard, cut oft! at the waist. POINTED PAEAGSAPE3, From the Chicago News. Success is apt to destroy a man's be lief in luck. Love may be blind, but self-love is nearly all I's. The closer you get to a great man the smaller he appears. Every man thinks he cuts a lot ol lea when he gets a "skate" on. All is fair in love and war that is to say, before and after marriage. A word to the wise may be sufficient, but it depends upon who speaks the. word. When you hear a man say "business is business" he has just cheated some body. If you value a man's friendship never agree with him when he calls himself a fool. It is easier to hurry a small boy off on an errand than it is to make him hasten back. The man who shakes your hand the hardest may be trying to get his other one into your pocket. Some people worry because they are deep in debt and others worry because they can't get deeper. A man imagines he has perfect con trol over his wife when he wants her to do something that she wants to do. Some men are so busy telling wh.it they would do if they had an opportun ity that the opportunity passes by un observed. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New Tork Press. The only poor relations we like are those we don't know. Either marriage makes a man selfish or it makes his wife unselfish or there is trouble. It never occurs to some women that they wear clothes for any other reason except to be in the fashion. When a man's wife's sister gets mar ried he is never sure whether he ought to be glad for her or sorry for her hus band. When a drinking man can't afford to buy his baby a pair of new shoes lor sixty-five cents he spends a dollar and a quarter in his favorite bar, sympa thizing with himself. JAYEAWKER JOTS. The McPherson Freeman is the latest paper to adopt the magazine size. The last weekly Issue of the Hia watha World was a 64-page paper. G. M. Dewey has sold a half interest in the Chanute Tribune to J. M. Cava ness. The Lincoln Beacon runs more obit uary poetry than any other paper in the- state. This is the time of year that thresh ing machines begin to burn up out in central Kansas. George W. Adams, of Osborne coun ty, farms 2,000 acres of land. He har vested 500 acres of wheat this summer. Charley Finch has a new theory of the fall of man. It is that Adam was a colored man and the forbidden fruit a watermelon. It is doubtful if the Twentieth Kan sas boys get home in time to vote next fall, but some of them may be elected to office Just the same. Vic Murdock: There is a ridiculous story out that Cy Leland's power is so absolute In Troy that an order to the Joints not to sell to Populists is strict ly obeyed. Society note from the Glen Elder In dependent: Miss Alaud Amis has been doing the cooking for John Mark the past week. Maud knows how to cook a steak in fine shape. Vernon Klnter. a Salina boy who is in the Twentieth Kansas, writes home j that he will not return with the regi- ment. because he has purchased a newspaper and intends to remain I there. I Ed Hoch: Captain Bolt wood says the j proper place for a colonel of a regiment when in action, as all military men know, is the rear of the regiment. That was our understanding when we were trying to raise a regiment of fat men, a year or so ago. A correspondent of the Kinsley Mer cury says as late as 1880 there were herds of wild horses in Kiowa county, and a favorite Joke of the frontiersman was to persuade a tenderfoot that by Just walking after a wild horse he could tire the animal into surrender. Captain Hardy, of the Twentieth Kansas, has had several flattering offers made him if he would re-enlist in one of the new volunteer regiments, but he writes home, "I would rather be captain of Company M of the Twen tieth than major in any other regiment here." The contract for building the new court house for Lincoln county has been let at last. The old one was burned last winter, and an emergency bill was rushed through the legislature so as to permit the county to rebuild it at once, Dut the matter has been de layed for eight months. Two tramps broke into the house of a farmer near Harlan, in Smith county, the other day during the absence of the family. The farmer came home and caught them while they were in the house, but he let them go on the promise that they would go to camp meeting with him and reform. It seems to be somewhat damp over in Manila just now. E. A. Nelson, of the hospital corps of the Twentieth' in fantry, writes his father, W. H. Nelson, of the Smith Center Pioneer, The rain fall for yesterday was over eight inch s and today it has been as much more." Sixteen inches is as much as falls in a year up at Smith Center. BOY THAT WON'T COME BACK. I have jest been readin', neighbor, an' I see the papers say That the boys will soon be startin' out of or Manila Bay; An' I see that you're rejolcln' and a-get- tin' sort o' spry, Lookin' forrard to the corain' of our sold iers by an' by; But I can't look at it. neighbor. In the way you seem to do, An' I can't feel like rejoicin', that I know thet I ort to. For there will be somethin' lackln' when the boys come marchin' back Theie will be a soldier missin', an' it will be my son. Jack. Don't think thet I blame ye, neighbor, 'cause you show a little Joy That you'll soon be reunited once more with your soldier bov, But, I tell ye, that it s kinder tough on my ol' wife an' me When we have to give our youngest boy to die acrost the sea. So you mustn't think we're sulkln' and not loyal to the iiag If we're kinder sort o- silent when you mention the Bar-Bae. 'Cause we can not help a-thlnkin" what ine regiment 11 lack When it come a-marchln' home again without our own boy. Jack. Why, neighbor, seems as If 'twns only jest a few short days ago When he volunteered to fight against his country's ev'ry foe. We thought then that our boys would go to help make Cuba free, An' fifiht the battle brave men fight, for human liberty; An 1bfit ol" Morfo's walls thev'd storm, pertaps through leaden rain. A-killin' Spaniards right an' left, re- inemberin' the Maine; An' in too foremost of the fight, a-never hangin' back. We 1 fctured my ol' wife an' me our soldier boy, our Jack. How well do I remember, pard, that day so cold and damp, When they marched off to Topeky an' there went into camp! An" then again on Dewey Day, for the Giwior to review. They i.iurclied up past the capitol, and Kansas Avenoo! My! Wa'n't we proud ol' eodjers then! We fcwelied wny up with pride. For your boy Jim an' my boy Jack were rut-renin' side by side. I little thought that when they come a- marehin' home again, Thet we would be compelled to count our Jack among the slain. How terrible it was that day when we heard that he was dead Slain by a Mauser rifle ball, the Evening Journal said! His mother has his room all fixed as tho' he's (omin back She's gettin' thinner ev'ry day, a-grievin' for our Jack. She's never said so very much about him since that dav. But ev'ry night she goes into that room of his to pray. I'm ieard that Mauser ball will cost more than Jest my son, An' that there'll be another grave to match that in Luzon. We'll never see our boy again on tlii- side of the tomb; We will not hear his ringin' laugh when the olher bovs come home; But, 6til. it's cornfortin' to know he like soluiei died. An' he sleeps beneath the Stars an' Stripes on that Philippine hillside. So, neiphbor, do not blame if I do not git real gay When the Tartar comes a-sallln' into San Francisco Bay; For ny boy made an entry Into harbor three months back He sailed up into Heaven, an' it's there we li meet our Jack. C. H. M. BIG MINING DEAL. Joplin Lease Sells For $150,000 and Eighty Acres of Land For $40,000. Joplin, Mo., Aug. 31. Ex-Governor W. C. Renfrow today purchased for his company, the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting company, the Center Valley company's lease on 200 acres of min eral land, containing five big producing mines, and the fee In 80 acres adjoin ing, known as the Hockaday tract. The price paid was $150,000 for the Center Valley lease and $40,000 for the Hockaday tract. This makes $1,200,000 invested by the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting company in Missouri zinc properties within the past three months. Several new mining plants are being constructed on the Center Val ley lease, and the American company will make extensive new Improvements. M'LEAN AT THE HEAD. Ticket Nominated by the Ohio Demo crats. Zanesville, O., Aug. 31. The ticket nominated by the Democratic state convention is as follows: Governor John R. McLean, of Ham ilton. Lieutenant governor A. W. Patrick, of Tuscarawas. Supreme judge Dewitt C. Badger, of Madison. Attorney general J. W. Dore, of Seneca. Auditor George W. Sigafoos, of Darke. Treasurer James I.Gorman, of Law rence. Member of the board of public works Fletcher D. Malin, of Lake. EMPLOYERS' UNION. Organized at Spokane to Fight the Labor Union. Spokane, Wn., Aug. 31. The employ ers association representing from seven to nine millions of local capital, has been organized in Spokane to resist any demand of organized labor in the city which its members may regard as un just. The lumber mills, breweries, flour mills, street car companies, electric light company, gas company, water power company, factories, contractors, merchants and moneyed men are all named as representatives in the asso ciation which is said to number over 50 of the most prominent companies and business men in Spokane. Dies of a Broken Heart. Webb City, Mo., Aug. 31. The widow of Henry Gilbert, who was killed in the recent powder explosion here, died yes terday of a broken heart. She leaves three children orphans. Hamilton Ciark ot Chauncey, Ga., says he suffered with irchingpiles twenty years before trying DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve two boxes of which completely cured him. Beware of worthless and dangerous coun terfeits. Geo. W. Stansfleld, W. It. Wil son, A. J. Arnold Son. A. J. Kane Co. HEADACHE DR. RADWAY CO.. New Tork: It gives me great pleasure to voluntarily state that your Pills are much superior to others I have tried. Being greatly troubled with headache and costiveness I find that they give me instant relief, which other Pills could not do. PETER KIEFER 2030 North 2d St.. Philadelphia, Pa. roadway's Pills Purely vegetable, mild and reliable Cause Perfect Iiest!on. complete absorp tion and healthful rcjrularity. For the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Boweis Kidneys, Bladder. Nervous .Diseases Piles' tolCK HEADACHE "fcs. and all disorders of the Liver Price. 25 cts. per box. Sold bv all drug grists, or sent by mail on receipt of nrire ii-VXnVAY CO., J.m st.. New York. KANSASiiEWS. A Jury Trying a Jointiat In Crawford County Is Freely Supplied With Beer Through the Night. DISAGREES AS RESULT The Eridence Was Plain as to the Man's Guilt. But the Jointist Furnished Drinks With Good Results. Girard. Aug. 31. The prohibition town of Walnut, this county, has Just furnished an odd spectacle in the pro ceedings In the case of a man tried for running a joint, or Illicit saloon. The case against the Jointist was clearly proven. When the case was given to the Jury a constable was placed in charge of the twelve men. After sup per the constable took the Jury to a room and brought them a. bucket of beer. During the night the jury kept bal loting and drinking, and drinking and j balloting, the constable bringing them 1 plenty of beer. In the morning the I jury reported they could not reach a I verdict. During the whole of the night the ballot stood nine beer drinkers for acquittal to three abstainers for con viction. GREAT DAY AT BAXTER. Thirty Thousand People at the Re union Yesterday, and 60,000 Expected Today. Baxter Springs, Aug. 31. Wednesday was the banner day in the history of the Baxter Springs interstate reunion. All the former seventeen reunions held here have been big. but the one now in progress Is the largest and best of all. Never before were there so many peo ple or as good orators on the third day. The crowd was estimated at not less than 30,000 people and today it will be swelled to 45,000 or 50.000. In the fore noon Rev. Mr. S. N. French, of Green field, Mo., held an audience for three quarters of an hour on the subject, "Our Country; Its Opportunities and Responsibilities." and received hearty cheering from beginning to end. Rev. Mr. S. S. Martin, of Fort Scott, also made a speech in the forenoon. In the afternoon. General J. K. Hudson occu pied the entire time of the eampfire. He was at his best and his talk was full of patriotism. He could have held his crowd of 5,000 listeners as long again had he continued to talk. A. H. Skidmore. Judge of the Eleventh Judi cial district, addressed the large as semblage at night. The principal speak ers for today are: J. R. Burton and E. K. Ridgley. REPUBLICANS COMPLAIN. Rank and File of Mitchell County Say Beloit Wants All the Spoils. Cawker City, Aug. 31. There are murmurings of discontent in portions of Mitchell county because the Repub licans of Beloit want everything. Not satisfied with a Republican coun ty clerk who lives in the city of Beloit, and a county attorney whose home is in that city, and a county treasurer who lives a mile and a half from town, they are now asking for sheriff, who, if nominated, is a resident of Beloit and the register of deeds, if nominated, he, too, lives in Beloit. What will Cawker City, Glen Elder, Scottsvllle, and other places in Mitch ell county outside of Beloit do if one place gets the whole ticket. On two or more occasions Republican nominees for county offices in Glen El der and Cawker City have been beaten. The scramble for the nomination for sheriff is an exciting one. The con vention will be held about the middle of September, Frank McGrath appears to have the pull so far. This will be food for our present sheriff, Charley Lambertz, w ho says openly that he will leave no stone unturned, and that he will camp on the picket line and mingle with the boys in camp from the time the nomination is made until the votes are counted to beat McGrath if nom inated. ROW IN PRATT COUNTY. Results In the Killing of Oscar Robertson by Farmer Joe Fletcher. Pratt, Aug. 31. Joe Fletcher, a far mer living near Iuka, shot and killed Oscar Robertson yesterday evening. No one but Fletcher's boy witnessed the shooting, and it is hard to get partic ulars. 1 The men who came in for the warrant state that Fletcher is staying by the dead man's body, and will give himself up to the sheriff. The trouble arose when Fletcher ordered Robertson off the place. Robertson was hunting on Fletcher's place, and Fletcher ordered him off. There was a scuffle over a gun and Fletcher says that Robertson was accidentally shot in the -scuffle. The boy says that Robertson drew the gun on his father. WRECK AT ATCHISON. Missouri Pacific Freight Runs Into an Open Switch. Atchison, Aug. 31. Train No. 129, Missouri Pacific, Omaha fast freight, which left Kansas City at 6:40 last night, ran into an open switch in the upper yards here at 9 o'clock. Several cars were reduced to splinters and a number of cattle were killed or badly mangled. The cattle belonged to W. D. Harman, of Palmer, Washington county, and John McAlister, of Rice station. They were purchased at Kan sas City and were being shipped out to feed. ORDERED TO THE FRONT, Thirty-second Volunteer Infantry at Leavenworth to Sail Sept. 20. Leavenworth, Aug. 31. Colonel Craig of the Thirty-second volunteer infantry has received a telegram from the war department informing him that his reg iment would sail from San Francisco for the Philippines on September 20. The regiment will probably leave on the 14th, which would give it ample time to arrive at that post and get Its baggage transferred to the transport. Each company will have about 10.000 pounds of baggage, which includes the tents and everything the regiment will need in its campaigning with Otis. SALINA'S PIPE ORGAN. Will Weigh Three Tons and Has Nine Hundred Pipes. Salina, Aug. 31. The work of un packing and erecting the new pipe organ to be placed in the Masonic Temple has commenced and is in charge of George T. Foot of Denver and Prof. Packard. Adam Daum is do ing the carpenter work. The organ is a large and handsome instrument and cost $2,000. It will take ten days to put the various parts together. The parts number several thousand and were shipped In forty-five different packages. The organ weighs three tons, has 900 pipes, and will occupy a floor space of 12x12 feet. It will be blown by water power. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS, "Will Hold Campmeeting In Riverside Park. Wichita, Aug. 31. The Seventh Day Advents are already preparing for their big campmeeting in Riverside park the 7th of next month. They expect to have 150 tents on the ground and they have already begun to deliver ma terial for that purpose. This denom ination has some very able ministers and it is predicted that the camp meet ing next month will be the greatest ever held In the park. Some of their ablest ministers in the "United States are expected to be pres ent to assist in the services. BASEBALL TOURNAMENT. Four Teams to Contest For Prizes Sept. 12. Cawker City, Aug. 31. Four of the best baseball teams In northwest Kan sas will hold a tournament in Cawker City, September 1 and 2, for purses ag gregating $150. The clubs to participate In the tourn ament are Cawker City, Lebanon.Man kato and Gaylord, who now wear the belts with the big "4" dangling to them. Two games will be played each day. The baseball sports will be followed by a shooting tournament September 4, open to all clubs, for which good, prizes and big purses have been do nated. The members of the Cawker City Gun and Baseball clubs promise their visitors a royal entertainment. OFP TO PHILADELPHIA. Car L oad of Cawker City Soldiers, Wives and Friends Going to the Encampment. Cawker City, Aug. 31. A carload of soldiers, their wives and visitors will leave Cawker City on September 1, via the Missouri Pacific road, for Philadel- phia and other eastern points, who are taking advantage of the cheap rates on account of the G. A. R. encampment. Mrs. Emma B. Alrich, past depart ment president of the Women's Relief corps, associate editor of the Cawker City Record, and assistant postmistress and Chas. H. Hawkins have charge of the excursion. SWELL EMPORIA WEDDING. Miss Mezzie Eskridge United In Mar riage toKL Bernard of California. Emporia, Aug. 31. One of the most elaborate weddings that ever occurred in Emporia was that of Miss Mezzie Eskridge and Kenneth L. Bernard, which was solemnized at noon Wednes day, at the bride's home in this city. Miss Eskridge is the daughter of C. V. Eskridge, ex-lieutenant governor of this state, and now editor of the Dally Republican. Mr. Bernard is from Bag dad, Cal. He Is a railroad man. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard left after the ceremony for a trip to Niagara Falls and other points in .the east. In six weeks they will return to this place and then go direct to Bagdad, their future home. Cloud County Republicans. Concordia, Aug. 31. The Republicans of Cloud county have nominated the following ticket: Sheriff B. R. Bearsfield. Clerk A. R. Moore. Register of Deeds Dave Harkman. Treasurer A. Linsey. Coroner Dr. A. J. Weaver. W. W. Caldwell was elected chairman of the central committee. Harkman was with the Twentieth Kansas at Manila. Stanley at Washington. Washington, Aug. 31. The annual reunion of the Washington county sol- dlers and sailors opened auspiciously. Governor Stanley was the speaker of the day. He was enthusiastically re ceived and for an hour held the undi vided attention of the large crowd. His description of Kansas patriotism and its achievements were applauded to the echo. He also turned his attention to Pension Commissioner Evans, and in a few well chosen words scored him. Finney County Fair. Garden City, Aug. 31. The Finney County Fair association offers a purse of $200 to the two teams playing the best ball on their grounds during the four days fair, September 12-15 inclu sive. For particulars, address the sec retary of the Finney County Fair as sociation. WISE HELD. He Must Answer For Robbing J. E. McKson. W. N. WIso had his preliminary hearing this morning- in the city court for robbing J. E. MeKeon of $758. He was bound over on a bond of $2,000 to stand trial in the district court. The testimony in the preliminary hearing was quite damaging to Wise who had said before to the police that he was intoxicated and did not know what he was doing at the time of the robbery. WILL SELL KAILS. W. K. Winner Continues to Talk About His Electric Line. Willnrrf K. Winner, the Kansas Citv man who has secured control of the bonds of the old Carbondale road and proposes I to build an electric line from Lawrence to Topeka has applied to Judg-e Hook at Leavenworth for an order permitting him to inirchase the mortEracred property of the road. This is a modification of the order made for the sale of the entire road and is for the purpose of allowing Winner to ell the rails. He has arrang-ed with a Cincinnati firm to take the rails and their sale will bring him about $30,000. He will still own th rifjnt of way. which is to be used as far as Belvoir. 12 miles west of Lawrence, for the proposed electric line. Winner holds that the old rails can not be satisfactorily used for the electric line and believes he enn make more by selling: them. The application was taken under advisement by Judge Hook. He an nounced in Topeka that the fld rails could be used on the proposed electric line between Topeka and Lawrence. It begins to look as if Mr. Winner's venture consists principally of gas. $19.00. Denver, Colorado Springs, Jueblo and Return Via the Great Rock Island Route. Tickets on sale September 6, 7 and 8, good returning September 30th. Irritating stings, bites, scratches, wounds and cuts soothed and healed by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, a sure and safe application for tortjired fiesh. Bewae of counterfeits. Geo. M. Stans fleld, W. H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold Son. A. J. Kane Co. SILVER FOll A GUNBOAT. Will Be Presented to the Marietta by Gov. Bushnell, of Ohio. Boston, Mass., Aug. 31. At 11 o'clock Friday morning Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, will formally present the fam ous little gunboat Marietta with the silver service, which is the gift of the citizens of Marietta, the oldest settle ment in Ohio, and for which the craft is named. The ceremony will be with a full dress parade of the officers and crew. Rear Admiral Picking and the officers and women folks of the Charleston navy yard will be present, and the navy band, in their dress red coats, etc., will add further picturesqueness to the occasion. The little gunboat, the companion of the battleship Oregon in the trip around Cape Horn, is in the dry dock and the ceremonies will take place aboard her there. At first it was intended that she be floated for the occasion, partly in the interest of safety, and also because it was thought that it would be more fitting that she be in her native ele ment for such an important event, lather than perched up on a mass of cradle blocks and shores in a dry dock, with both propellers unshipped and about half of her internal arrange ments in a state of overturn. But this has been found impossible, by reason of the amount of work that is required upon the ship, and addition al shores and blocks will be put in so that the craft can accommodate any number of persons with absolute safe ty to herself and them. The Marietta, like all boats of her class, has very long propeller shafts, and it has been found that this makes them a powerful magnet and the gal vanic action eats or wears off the end so that they require attention at inter vals. The Marietta has beert in com mission two years, and now it ts found that her shafts will have to be repair- ed, and also a new set forged for her, which will be installed the next time she is dry docked, within a year or so. Governor Bushnell and a delegation of citizens of Marietta are expected to i arrive here Thursday. THREE MEN CRUSHED In a Wreck on tlio Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Danville, 111., Aug. 31. This morning at 2 o'clock a south bound freight on the Chicago Eastern Illinois struck some box cars,, standing on the main track at Rossville and wrecked the en- I gine and a number of cars. Engineer j Tiiton, Fireman Hollis and Inspector t Kellogg, who were on the engine were crushed beyond recognition. The three men resided in this city. DEWEY OFF FOR GIBRALTAR Ville Franche, France, Aug. 31. The U. S. cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey on board sailed for Gibraltar this afternoon. BOOKS ADOPTED. Astronomy and Zoology Text Books Selected. The state school text book commis sion today adopted the following books for use in Kansas schools: Comstock's astronomy by a professor in the Wisconsin university. Zoology by David Starr Jordan, presi- I dent of Deland Stanford university. j Both publications are sold by Apple ton. I The Macy chart was readopted in its revised form. EVIDENCE AGAINST JESTER Important Point Developed In the Wichita Inquiry. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 31. At the re quest of Wm. Forrest, an attorney of Chicago, employed by John W. Gates in prosecuting Alexander Jester for the alleged murder of Gilbert Gates, Regis ter of Deeds Carnahan of this (Sedg wick) county is conducting an Investi gation which has already produced im portant legal points against Jester. The man now in jail in Missouri claims that he was not in Kansas in 1871, but at that time lived in Texas. The register show's that he gave a quickclaim deed to a quarter section of land on Jester creek in 1871 and receiv ed $1,000 for it. This is the first bona fide evidence secured against the ac cused. At that time Jester said he was unmarried, which is untrue. DIRECTLY WINS In 25,000 Pace at Nutwood Park, Dubuque. Nutwood Race Track, Dubuque, la., Aug. 31. The principal event on today's card was a special purse of $25,000 for pacers. Three horses started Directly (2:03); Borough Park (2:04) and Ananias (2:05). Second heat Directly won; Borough Park second; Ananaias third. Time 2:08. In the 2:07 pace, unfinished from yesterday, Giles Noyes won fifth and sixth heats and race. Sally Toller took second money. Time 2:06; 2:074. EL ECTIONEEUING WIN D. Is What the London Globe Calls Ohio Democratic Platform. London, Aug. 81. Commenting on the paragraph in the platform adopted yes terday at the Ohio state Democratic convention denouncing "the secret and vicious alliance now in evidence be tween England and the Republican ad ministration," the Globe todays says that no such alliance is ever likely to come to pass. The paper belittles the effect of such an utterance upon the Americans and savs: "The more cordial friendship which has latterly grown uo between the great English speaking nations has struck too deep roots on both sides of the Atlantic to be blown away by a puff of electioneering wind. ATTEMPT ON JUDGE'S LIFE. Infernal Machine Sent to Him by Ex press Ex-Convict Suspected. Salt Lake City. Utah. Aug. 31. Judge Orlando W. Powers, formerly of Michi gan, received by express today a box con taining about live pounds of dynamite and giant powder. The box was so arranged with matches, sandpaper and caps that if an attempt had been made to open it in the ordinary way an explosion would have occurred. The Judge, made suspic ious by the appearance of the box, handed it to the police who discovered its na ture. A similar box containing dynamite was afterward found in the express of fice. This one was addressed to the war den of the state prison. The packages came from the 'mining camp of Eureka, south of Salt Lake and are supposed to have been sent by a man who was tried before Judge Powers ten vears aeo and sentenced to riine year.V imprisonment for train robbery. He has J not yet been arresteu. r fit V rime. Yale's HAIR TONIC Iadiea and Gentlemen: It affords me great pleasure to call the attention of the public to the Excelsior Hair Tonic, which Is the first and only remedy known to chemistry which positively turns gray hair back to its original color without ye. It has gone on record that nriE. YALE, wonderful woman chemist has made this most valuable of all chemical discoveries. Mme. Yale personally endorses the action and gives the public her solemn guarantee that it has been tested in every conee'v able way, and has proved itself to be the only Hair Specific. It stops hair filling immediately and creates a luxurious growth. Contains no injurious ingredient. Physicians and chemists invited to an alyze it. It is not sticky or greasy on the contrary, it makes the hair sof:. youthful, fluffy, and keeps it in curl. For gentle men and ladies with hair a little gray, streaked grav. entirely gray anl with BALD HEADS, it is especially recom mended. Price $1.00. Our special price 89 cents. FOR SALE BT The Topeka Casli Dry Goods Co. FEW riiESEST At the Annual Coaferance of Inter national Law Association. Buffalo, N. T., Aug. 31. The 18th an nual conference of the International Law association opened today with scarcely a score of delegates present. In the audience were the wives and daughters of a number of the British lawyers. The conference was called to order by Joseph G. Alexander, Q. C of London. Sir Wm. S. Kennedy presided at the meeting. Senator Charles F. Manderson acted in the capacity of honorary president. Sherman S. Rogers delivered the ad dress of welcome. ST. PAUL FALLS IN LINE And the Threatened Rate War Is Averted. Chicago. Aug. 31. The threatened rate war between western roads will not take place officials of the various roads reaching an agreement here today to cancel all no tices relating to the payment of excessive commissions and binding themselves to adhere strictly to the authorized basis of commissions. The Milwaukee St. Paul whose "red circular called forth retaliatory action on the part of the C, B. Q., is a party to the agreement. M'KINLEY PUTS FLOWERS On the Graves of Dead In the Canton Cemetery. Canton, O., Aug. 31 The president today with Mrs. McKinley, her sister and niece, drove to West Lawn ceme tery where he visited the graves of his family, covering them with flowers. Many letters and telegrams awaited him "here, congratulating him on his Pittsburg address RECKLESS RIDING. Fred Muncie Hurt by Being Thrown From His Bicycle. Fred Muncie, n. boy employed in the auditor of freipht receipts office of the Santa Fe. was thrown from hi-? bicycle at Fourth and Quincy at noon today and painfully injured. He was rendered un conscious by the fall and was carried Into a drug store at the corner and given med ical attention. His right hand and arm were badly crippled and his head and bodv bruised. Young Muncie was riding down the Quincv street hill at breakneok speed, and the wheel struck a pile of sand on the street railway track anil overturned. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS James B. Mackie and his company will be seen at a matinee and evening performance of "Grimes' Cellar Door" at the Crawford theater Monday, La bor Day. The farce comedy is well sprinkled with vaudeville features, all of which are said to be entertaining. Root Goes to Sandy Hook. New Tork, August 31. Secretary of War Root went to Sandy Hook today to witness tests of cannon and shells at the proving grounds there. The secre tary was accompanied by Major Gen eral Miles, Major Butler, president of the ordnance board and other military officers. Dividends Paid In Stock. New York, Aug. 31. The directors of the Rio Grande Western railroad have declared a dividend of 1 per cent pay able September 30 in preferred stock of the company at par to the common stockholders of record of September 15. The first dividend on the common stock 2 per cent in preferred stock at par, was paid September 28 1SS8. Look Here i Wait, Buy Groceries Saturday FROM X McCoy Mercantile Co., J Tenth and Kansas Ave. J On all cash purchtss at our store Saturday, September 2nd, we will give 2 premium stamps instaad of 1 on each ten cent in value purchased. J Also, on Forbas' Goods we will, for that day only, double the T quantity of s,tamp3 contained in their packages. Twenty-one Stamps with 500 can Rex, Moca and Java. X Twenty-;wo stamps with 25c can splen- X did Uaking f'owiier. X Three Siamps with loc bottle splendid Vanilla. -fc Three Stamps with 10c can Forbes' Fepper. ttc. tAAAAAAAAA

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJKNTAL, THTJESDAT EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1899. 5 OK0OKaOOOOOOO l innouncemenf Extraordinary x We take great pleasure in announcing that we have secured the Sole Agency of the justly celebrated o i o o o o "Ounlap Hats The Fall Shapes are here. BURG. Come in and see them. vie: 602 KANSAS AVENUE. ELS, CROSBJMWAYO. Marriage of Prominent Topeka Couple Celebrated Today. Miss Flora Majo Becomes Wife of Warren M. Crosby. PRIVATE CEREMONY. Only Intimate Friends and Rel atives Present. Will Be At Home After Oct. 15 at 820 Polk Street. ENCOURAGED. Registration Books Close With Satisfactory Results. Nearly 8,000 People Can Tote For City Hall. LARGEST IN IIISTORY. Never Before Hare People Tak en Such Interest. Enterprising German Gives Good Advice to Shop Men. The friends of progress are well pleased with the showing made by the registration books for the city hall election, although the registration fell a little short of what they had hoped. There were 7,901 names on the books when the office of the commissioner of elections closed last night. During the afternoon and evening 400 men con cluded that they might want to vote after all, and they rushed up to the commissioner's office to register. As many more called to make corrections in their registrations or to see that they were on the books all right. This shows that the people are awakening to the importance of this election, to the city of Topeka. It shows that they are beginning to re alize that if Topeka is to retain her position in the state she must merit it by building a modern city hall in which state meetings can be held: she must show that she is a live, progres sive city, and not go backward as the opponents of progress would have her do. The registration Is within 99 names of the number that the friends of the city hall project thought ought to be regis tered. It Is an extremely large regis tration considering that there is no state election on and no candidates to be voted for. It is an increase of about 1.200 over the registration of last spring and within 275 of the registration last fall when every political party was striving its utmost to get out a full vote and when a stateelection increased the interest. '"I think," said Deputy Commissioner Oeorge Wagner today, "that this is the largest registration ever had in Topeka when there was not a state or national election to get the voters out." It will be several days yet before the exact registration by wards will be known, as the names have to be trans ferred from the stubs in the receipt books to the rolls of the various pre cincts. Is'ow that the registration is con cluded the duty devolves upon every citizen of Topeka who wishes to se-. the city grow, who wishes to see it progressive, to say a good word to his friends for the city hall proposition, in order that Toptka may take her proper place among the convention cities of the United States. A capital city with out a convention hall would be the laughingstock of all other cities. .Vote for Progress! A few days ago a well-known German citizen of Topeka was talking with a number of his friends, who are em ployed in the Santa Fe shops. They had been made to believe that if the city hall proposition carries, their taxes would be increased and they will get no benefit from the city hall anyway: that the only meetings that will be held in it will be meetings of people from over the state, in which thev will liave no possible interest: and that they ougnt to De against the Commercial club on general principles. Their German friend found out their sentiments, and he said: "Shentlemen, if I vos vorking for a railrnat gombany I vould see if dis broposition would ingrease der pizness of dot road and so ingrease my vork. As I see it. if dot broposition garries it means dot the railroats will pring many more beople to Topeka to attend ler pig meetings. Der roats will haf to haf der cars to haul der people. Der shopmen vill get shoost dot much more vork In building and rebairing cars and engines. Der ingrease in der amound of vork will mooch more than offset der little Ingrease in der taxes you vill haf to pay. Shentlemen. I should be for der broposition." His hearers saw the point and will Vote for the city hall proposition. Vote for Progress! There are some people in Topeka who will still have the Idea that the new I city nan will be used only two or three times a year, when it will be rented to political parties for state conventions. This is a very erroneous idea. It will not be for rental purposes at all, be cause the city has no right to put up a public hall to be rented out, but it will be free for all public gatherings. It is probable that no hall in Topeka will see so much use as the city hall. In Boston the old historic Fanuell hall is used for this purpose. Any citizen who wishes to hold a public meeting for any purpose whatever has a right to the use of that hall without being charged a cent of rent. The same thing will be true of the new city hall which Topeka will build. It will be for the use of all citizens of Topeka, for state gatherings, lodge meetings, polit ical conventions, and the like. Vote for Progress! Ceo. W. StansticM, J 1 s PRESCRIPTION 2 DRUGGIST,

632 Kansas Avenue. OPPOSITE J NATIONAL HOTEL. The laboring people of Topeka may think that they are not interested in having a new city hall in Topeka, but if they will consider the question they will see that they are vitally interested in it. A Topeka business man, who is in close touch with men who do manual labor, said today: "The working people make up the greater portion of any city's population and Topeka is a striking example of this rule rather than an exception. There is no city in the United States that can boast of a more intelligent class of workingmen than can Topeka, a class that in many cases is composed of men that have had good educational advantages and have availed them selves of their opportunities. The men of this class, and it In cludes almost the entire working popu lation of the city, are in favor of the city hall proposition, for they realize that it means work, if not work for themselves individually, work for their fellows, which in turn means less idle ness among working classes and in consequence a better market for their industry. "They are also in a large degree own ers of their own homes, many of which are being paid for from month to month through building and loan socie ties and they have a very real interest in the welfare and progress or the city and are heartily in favor of any meas ure that w ill increase the value of their property through a growth of the city. "Topeka has a good start in the right direction, there are comparatively few idle men in the city today, and with her present growth maintained will in a few years become a city of 75.000 people, and no class of people In To peka realize this more than the work ingmen, nor is there any class that will be more ready to further the city pro gress on election day than the workers of Topeka." Vote for Progress! Major Anderson says that he was In conversation with a member of the legis lature a few days ago who has been in the legislature several terms and expects to come back again some time. "He has always been a friend of Tope ka." said the Major, "and has always vot ed for all the appropriations Topeka has asked for. But he says if Topeka acts the dog in the manger and refuses to show enough public spirit to build a con vention hall where public gatherings can he held, and which will be for the city's own good, he thinks it is about time for the slate to stop building up Topeka and he won't go out of his way to vote for any more appropriations for Topeka. That is the way the people over the state feel toward us on this city hall matter, and they are watching it with a good deal of interest. If the city hall proposition is defeated the rest of the state will be down on us." Vote for Progress! There will be a public discussion of the city hall proposition tomorrow night at a joint meeting of the Flambeau club and me American Labor union to be held in the new hall of the Topeka Post at 111 Kast Seventh street. There will be a number of addresses and the Modocs will sing some new songs. James A. Trout man will speak on "The Importance of the City Hall to theGrowth and Progress of Topeka." Councilman Nettels will speak on "The Bonded Indebtedness of lopt-ka and What Additional Levy will be Necessary to Provide for the Proposed Bonds." L. T. Yount will speak on "The Importance to Laborers and Mechanics of Topeka in Promoting Public Improve ments." The general public Is invited to attend the meeting. Vote for Progxess! much vexed race problem will solve it self." Delegates are present from Maryland, the District of Columbia. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia. West Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina. DRY GOODS DAMAGED. New York Mercantile Company Suf fers a $2,000 Loss by Water. The stock of dry goods and notions belonging to the New York Mercantile company at No. 110 East Sixth avenue, was damaged to the extent of $2,000 last night, by water. The water had been left running into the sink in the rooms of the Moore Printing company, which are on the second floor, by some one connected with the printing office, and in some manner a rag had stopped up the outlet pipe causing the water to overflow and run out over the floor, and run down on to the stock beneath, flooding the store. When Mr. R. S. Johnson, manager of the New York Mercantile company opened up the store this morning, he found the water pouring down through the ceiling in torrents. The entire east side of the store was flooded and the water stood almost an inch deep on the floor. Hastening up stairs he found that the water had been closed off only a few minutes before by Mr. Moore, who had arrived and found it running full force. The water had evidently been running all night, from the time that the office had been closed up at 6 o'clock until closed off at 7 o'clock In the morning. The floor of the printing office was Hooded and the water was already running down the stairway. -Hastening down stairs, Mr. Johnson, assisted by the clerks who had by this time arrived, began to sort out the goods and take those which had not been damaged, to some other part of the store. Eyerything which was on the east side of the store was more or iess damaged. The goods which were entirely soaked, three express wagons full, were taken out to Mr. Johnson's residence and hung on the lines to dry. The remaining goods were sorted out and distributed about the store as well as possible under the circumstances. On the east side of the store was a balcony and this was piled full of new goods which had not all been opened and placed on the shelves. There were boxes of stockings, several cases of fall underwear, just arrived, and badly soaked and streaked by the coloring matter running out of the colored pa per in which they were wrapped, pack ages of yarn, heavy with water, and notions which were damaged beyond estimate. Beneath the balcony were the shelves along the wall on which were numerous colored goods and box es of muslin underwear, piles of tow els, quantities of black hosiery, and such other goods as are found in a mer cantile store of this kind. All these goods were badly soaked as the water had run down the wall and over the front of the balcony and through the goods to the floor. On the counter was the ribbon case, and this is almost a complete loss. The case was filled with all varieties of rib bon and hardly a bolt of it escaped be ing completely soaked. Towards The rear of the store is the shoe stock and the water played havoc with this. Some boxes escaped but the majority were in the path of the water and were wet and damaged. The entire east side of the store suffered and the stock will have to be sold at a loss of at least $2,000. Mr. Johnson said today: "We are at a loss to know how this water was left running. Mr. Moore of the printing house on the next floor says that he questioned everyone connected with his establishment and they all disclaim any knowledge of leaving the water running. We regret the occurrence very much, as it means a loss to us of at least $2,000 and a great deal of the dam Miss Flora B. Mayo and Mr. Warren M. Crosby were married this morning at nine o'clock at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Mayo, at 820 Polk street. The wedding was very small and in formal, but exquisite in every detail. The guests were received by the bride, who wore a pretty white organdy gown with a lace yoke, and trimmed with ruchings of the organdy; she carried an armful of white clematis, .with long trailing ends. As Miss Marie Norton began playing soft sweet music on her violin the bridal couple took their places in front of the mantel in the second parlor. The ring ceremony was performed by Rev. Linus Blakesley, assisted by Dr. Fiske. During the ceremony, the old favorite, "Annie Daurie," was exquisitely played by Miss Norton. The decorations were unusually pretty and were the work of a number of the friends of the bride. The large hall was trimmed with palms and bril liant hued nasturtiums. Asparagus played an important part in the two parlors; It was massed over the man tels, the pictures were draped with it, and an arch of asparagus was formed between the two rooms. The only flowers used in the first parlor were pink and white petunias and white clematis were used in the second par lor. After the ceremony a several course breakfast was served on small tables. Mr. Crosby and his bride are well known in Topeka. Mr. Crosby is one of the leading business men in the city and also holds an important position in society, while his bride is liked and respected by all who know her for her sweet womanly ways. Mr. and Mrs. Crosby left on the after noon train for a month's visit in the east; among the places they expect to visit are Boston, New York and Cape Cod. The bride's going away gown was a becoming brown tailor made costume. At home cards will be issued which read, at home after October 15 at 820 Polk street. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Alida Colwell, of Cripple Creek, is visiting Mrs. F. E. Fraser and family on her way home from the east. Mrs. J. W. Kirschner and daughter Hortense of Bozeman, Montana, are spending a few weeks in Topeka with Mrs. Kirschner's motner, Mrs. .E. J. Patterson, at 1247 Clay street. Miss Willa Tomlinson returned Wed nesday from a ten days' visit in Kan sas City. Mr. Thomas Cross and family will move the first of the week from 1116 Tyler street, to 516 West Tenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Burns will go to housekeeping in the house vacated by Mr. Cross and family. Mrs. V. M. Harshbarger and sister, Miss Butterworth, have returned to their home in Los Angeles after a month's visit with their aunt, Mrs. J. H. Ladd. Mr. and Mrs. James Hamrick and children left Wednesday for their home in Indiana after a short visit with relatives in Topeka. Mrs. C. S. Sutton left Wednesday for Philadelphia to spend the remainder of the summer. Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Jewell and daugh ter Suza will leave Saturday for New York city to spend two months. Captain S. Gunther and daughter, Miss Kate Gunther, returned Wednes day from a several weeks' trip In New Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Whitton and daughter Mary have returned from a short visit in Kansas City. Mrs. John Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Merriam returned the first of the week from Vermont where they have been spending the summer. Mr. John E. Moon and son Charles returned Wednesday from a several weeks' camping trip through Colorado. Mrs. Leon Tuttle and Mrs. C. H. Whitlock will spend Friday in Kansas City. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lang and sister, C JoMg.2li.tSOMCa' BURG. E. ZEIS, Hatter and Furnisher. O We are the only house in Topeka carrying the complete line of the justly celebrated "JOHN B. STETSON" HATS. Come in and see The Fall Shapes are here. o them. o o o kney knew what liquor was like. Sev eral of them testified that they had purchased liquor of Mrs. Haist, not only once, but many times. Commissioner Clark thought it safe to bind Mrs. Haist over to the next ses sion of the grand jury under a bond of $400, which she readily gave. KANSAS FRUIT AT PARIS. Arrangements Being Made to Have State Represented. Henry M. Dunlap of Champaign county, a state senator from Illinois, latelv ap pointed horticultural expert for the Pans exposition for all territory west of Ohio, was in the city Wednesday to consult with officers of the Ftate horticultural society in regard to Kansas fruit for the exposition. Kansas will make a good exhibit, at least a car load of the best apples will be put into cold storage to be ready when the exposition opens. April 15, next. A cold storage plant at Leavenworth has been chosen for this purpose. Every fruit grower should contribute. aged goods were new stock, just put in, j Miss" Lang of lit.' Pleasant, Iowa, SHOULD INVESTIGATE. People Would. Like to Enow Who Notifies Jointists of Raids. From all appearances there is some one who knows the movements of the police and who warns jointists of intended raids. This is apparent from the fact that the police have started out to make several raids lately and when they reached the places they found them closed and desert ed and the proprietors ready for them. When Wood s joint on Jefferson street was raided a tew days ago the police found the proprietor waiting for them. It is generally understood that he knew in the morning that the raid was coming and knew who the witnessess woul be. He moved his bar across the room so that it stood on another lot from the one nam ed in the search and seizure warrant. The question is how do the jointists know when the raids are coming. WHAT OF THE NEGRO and some of it not yet put on the shelves. We have been working hard all the morning trying to save what stock was not damaged and sorting over the damaged stock preparatory to closing it out at what it will bring.The store will open up at 2 o'clock, ready for business. We shall replace the damaged stock immediately, and In a few days everything will be running as smoothly as ever." Future of the Colored Man Being Dis cussed at Baltimore Convention. Baltimore, Aug. 31. The slatus of the colored race was discussed today at the second annual convention of the Dis trict Foreign Missionary society of the Colored Baptist church. The president. Rev. Dr. C. S. Brown, of Winston, N. C. sounded the keynote in his annual address, saying: "The greatest socio logical Question before the people of this country is what shall be done with the negro. Three alternatives have been suggested subjugation, emigra tion and extermination but the true solution has not been touched Chris tianization. Put backbone and grace in the pulpits; put moral power and cour age into the ministry, both white and biack. let them preach fearlessly the gospel of peace and universal brother hood. Ltt the people be tausht to fear God and keep his commandments; let all. both white and black, be trained to respect the majesty of the law and this DIMES WANTED. Demand For Fractional Currency at the Mints Unprecedented. New York, Aug. 31. A special to the Times from Washington, says: "Dimes, quarters and half dollars are being turned out by all the mints as rapidly as they can be produced," said an officer of the treasury today. "The demand for fraternal currency and sil ver dollars being unprecedented. The requests do not come from one section of the country, but from every section. As fast as the coin can be minted it is shipped to those who have called for it. Usually the demand for this currency does not begin until the autumn, but this year orders for large quantities have been coming in for more than four weeks. It is estimated that the orders received at the treasury department will average over $60,000 in fractional currency a day." Treasurer Roberts said that the de mand was due to the activity in busi ness. An order issued to the California mint on August 1, he said, to turn out $150,000 worth of dimes, quarters and halves a month until further notice, on-, ly for the use of the Pacific coast. An other thing mentioned by Treasurer Roberts was the increased demand for pennies in the west and south where but comparatively few of these coins have previously been used. He attriD uted the increased use of pennies to the war revenue act which requires the use of internal revenue stamps on tele grams, checks, etc. The Weather. The weather today up to 2 o'clock had moderated considerably since yecterdav. The maximum was X.4 and at 2 o'clock KS. The minimum 67 and the humidity 'A with the wind making 9 miles an hour southeast. turned Tuesday from a trip to Colo rado. 1 Miss Lang will spend several weeks visiting in Topeka. Mrs. J. B. Case and daughter Clara of Abilene are expected In Topeka in a few days to visit Mrs. M. A. Low and Miss Vera. Miss Sadie Atchison came over from Leavenworth Tuesday evening; Wed nesday she left for Morgan, Texas, to take her little niece, Lucille Mills, to spend the winter with her father. Miss Atchison will return in a few days. Mr. W. II. Gunther and Miss May Black have joined Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gunther at the Coultis farm and will spend a week there. Mrs. H. S. Ohmer will entertain in formally at dinner this evening. Miss Davina Boyd has returned from a month's visit with her sister, Mrs. O. A. Boyd in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McMains of Pratt, Kansas, spent Wednesday in Topeka. Mrs. Lee Jones returned Wednesday from a short visit in Kansas City. Miss Frances McCarthy and sister Margaret who are visiting Miss Minnie Seiler will leave Friday for their home in Denver. Misses Ella' and Lulu Sowers left to day for their home in Denver after a several weeks' visit with Topeka friends. Mr. and Mrs. "William Knox left to day for the east Miss Rika Lang spent Sunday with relatives in Kansas City. W. D. Goodwin will leave the first of the week for a trip to New York. Dr. D. E. Esterly. eye and ear, has removed to 735 Kansas avenue. DEALS IN ZINC ORE. Ex-Governor St John Leases a Mine In Morgan County, Mo. Versailles, Mo., Aug. 31. Governor St John of Kansas, is in a Kansas company which has bought several tracts of mineral land in Morgan coun ty. This company has also leased the old Buffalo mine, ten miles southwest of Versailles, which was one of the big lead producers in the period of activity just after the civil war. This mine pro duced over $100,000 worth of lead with the shallow working and imperfect methods of those days. The Kansas company will bring in the best ma chinery ever seen in the county, will mine deep and will smelt the ore pro duced. If there is anything in indica tions the old record of the Buffalo was only a beginning of what is to come. The Kansas rather lead in the liking for this new mining camp of Missouri. The King Mining ocmpany of Galena, Kan., has purchased 560 acres of Mor gan county land, and as soon as the papers are perfected will commence development. Another Galena com pany, headed by J. H. MeCormick, has acquired 240 acres a mile ast of Bluff Springs, and is taking out both lead and zinc at a depth of from 40 to 60 feet. Galena is the center of the Kan sas zinc field. The interest which Ga lena mining men are manifesting in Morgan county prospects is the more significant. Mr. MeCormick has put down a drill 140 feet, stopping in good Zinc. Appeal to the Queen. London, Aug. 31. A petition from the Netherlands Woman's Disarmament league has been presented to the Queen, praying her, in the name of womanhod and motherhood, to avoid war with the Boers, and saying it would "cast a frightful blot upon your ma jesty's most glorious reign." WIRE THIEVES. Several Hundred Dollars Worth Taken From Poles. A series of the most bold and daring thefts ever known have been perpe trated in Topeka during the past two weeks and as a result the Edison Il luminating company has lost several hundred pounds of copper wire. The city railway company is also a loser. It is supposed that tramp linemen are the guilty persons, but though the offi cers and employes of the company have been looking for them for more than a week they have not found a clue which would justify arrests. About two weeks ago a medium sized man wearing dark whiskers stop ped in the vicinity of Tenth avenue and Fillmore street. He drove a team of horses hitched to a hevy wagon. He had all the equipment of a lineman and at once began work on the lines of wire. To the curios he gave the following explanation: "The company has decided to replace the smooth wire with insulated and I am going to change as much as possi ble." Afterward it was discovevred that in place of the smooth copper wire the man had put up only a small amount of insulated wire and that was very old and the rest was common iron or steel wire and even baling wire had been used. It is supposed that the same man or his confederates operated in North To- peka and in other portions of the city. They worked between the hours of two and five in the afternoon and in all cases the expensive copper wire was removed and cheap iron wire substitut ed. As the current was not interrupted, the thefts were not discovered for some time. The Edison company states that be tween $400 and $500 worth of copper wire has been replaced by worthless wire, and that the loss or current win greatly exceed this amount. The street railway company's loss is not so great as that of the Edison company, it be ing estimated that in the neighbor hood of $150 worth of wire has been taken. The Edison people say that the first wire was taken about six months ago, but little was taken at that time. Prac tically the entire loss has occurred within the last two weeks. Discoveries of the losses have been made from time to time by reports of dead wires, and complaints from con sumers of the dimness of lights. The street railway company discovered its losses by investigation after obtaining information from the Edison people that wire stealing was in progress. A ready market is found for scrap copper wire in almost any city, but it is believed that the bulk of the wire stolen here has been shipped away. "A Skin of Beauty a .Toy Forever. DR. T. FELIX GOURAtD'S 0RIEHTA1 CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIES. Purifies as well as Veautities the Skia-K other cosmetic will do U. Kemoves Tan, Pin) pies, j-' reg ies. Moth Paten, es. I;ah and hkin dispAjie. sad eTery blem isti on iwautT, and defies uo tectioo. It has stood the test of 50 years. and is so'iiarmiet we taste it to be sure it Is prop erly made. Ac cept bo counter feit of similar names. Jr. 1 A. Sayre said to a lady of the hunt-ton ca pa tient): "As you ladies will use them, 1 recom mend 'Gouraud's Cream' as the least harmful of all skin preparations." For sale by a 1 Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers in the U. b., Caaadas, and Europe. ELKD. T. HOPKINS. Prop'r. 87 Great Jones 8C. N. T. Make your Meat Man understand that you will have none but i i Prt mini Urt r.in t Made in Topeka by Wolff Packing Co. Some was found this week in a Topeka junk shop and the proprietor was ar rested for failing to keep a record. What was found is valued at about $25. IRRIGATION DELEGATES. Governor Stanley Appoints Repre sentatives to National Meeting. Governor Stanley has appointed the fol lowing delegates to represent Kansas at the National Irrigation congress at Mis soula, Montana, September 25. 26 and 27. E. R. Moses, Great Bend; E. B. Cowglll, Topeka; I. L. Diesem. Garden City; G. W. Watson, Kinsley: Secretary F. D. Coburn, Topeka; J. H. Churchill, Dodge City; J. B. Allen, Oberlin. vnmf n unit ft FLOODED lt.ll. uu Wednesday night, by a hydrant being left open on the second floor. $2,000 Damage in Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Men's Furnishings, Blankets, Ladies' Wool Skirts. Part of this means New Fall Goods, t but to clean this damaged stuff up on short notice, we will open the doors Friday Morning with prices that ought to move it all in one week. We will want the room for New Fall Goods arriving every day. In addition to the damaged goods, all Summer Stuff will go at One-Half the mark. OUR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN. ALL WATER-SOAKED. 25c 30c TOLD THE TROTH. Witnesses Admitted Buying Liquor and Woman Jointist Held. Mrs. Barbara Haist, of Holton, who was arrested by the federal authorities a short time ago on the charge of sell ing liquor to the Pottawatomie Indians, had her hearing before United States Commissioner Clark "Wednesday after noon. A number of Indians were sub poenaed as witnesses against Mrs. Haist, and for some reason or other the most of them departed from their usual custom of denying that they had ever purchased liquor, or that they 276 Men's White Shirts Worth 50c, at 300 Men's Colored Shirts Worth 75c, at In this lot of Shirts we have all sizas. They are very cheap, and the water damaged them very little. 50 pairs New Cotton Blankets, wet on one end, worth 75c, f-5C 23 Bed Comforts, worth $1.25, At 15 dozen Ladies' Winter Union Suit3, worth 35c, at All the Men's Winter Underwear that was damaged will be sold at One-. Half Price. You can afford to buy now. All Children's Underwear, One Half Off. 6c little mark 95c 1 5c ALL WATER-SOAKED. Ladies' Muslin Underwear, a little damaged, One-Third oil the price. 25 dozen Black Hose, only wet, worth 10c, for 5 dozen Turkish Towels, a soiled. One Fourth off the price. The Ribbons were badly damaged, so will be cut up and sold as remnants at One-Half price. Lace Curtains all got wet. To clean them up. at about Half Price. Ladies' Summer Vests, At Ladies' Summer Vests, At 500 skeins Imported Saxony Yarn, worth 10c a skein For 2c 5c REMEMBER THE PLACE: The New York MerB Co. East st.

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