The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
November 7, 1899

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LAST EDITION TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. TUESDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. STATE ELECTIONS HeaTy Tote Is Being Polled In Eastern States. Fierce Contest Is Being Waged In Ohio. PARTISANS AT SEA. Toledo Jones Still Has Them Guessing. Eettinj 4 to 1 on Democrats In Maryland. Columbus, O., Nov. 7. Election open ed bright and clear and despite the fact that the morning air was decidedly crisp, reports from the various polling place's indicate that the liveliest in terest is being taken in the contest. Balloting during the early morning hours was unusually heavy and all in dications seem to point to a heavy vote. Sunshine placed the spirits of the Re publicans in the ascendant. Dayton, O., Nov. 7. A perfect day, intense interest and a heavy vote are the conditions here. The Jones vote is big and both parties claim the other will surfer by it most. The Jones com mittee, however, assert their strength lies heaviest with the Republicans Cleveland, Nov. 7. Klection day dawned clear and cool. The vote cast during the early hours of the morning w as very heavy. At many polling boot lis it was stated that nearly every ballot deposited was scratched. This, o course, means that there will be much delay in counting the votes tonight. The total registration in this city this fall was 64.h07. This is about b.WO less than the registration for the last presidential election. "When Bushnell ran for a second term two years ago the total registration was GO.Ss-t. Toledo, O.. Nov. 7. This is the home of "Golden Rule" Jones and the voting began with a rush, especially in the workingmen's wards. In many pre cincts one quarter of the vote was cast in the first hour, with long lines of voters waiting their turn. The weather is perfect and tile deepest interest is shown by all classes. Youngstown, O., Nov. 7. At 9 o clock the ballots were coming in fast and in dications pointed to a good sized vote being pulled. The weather is clear and tool. Cincinnati, Nov. 7. The condition could not be better for bringing out a full vote. A white frost followed by clear sunshine gives a tine crisp air. Voters flocked to the polling booths be fore 6 o'clock, the time for opening and votes were cast at the rate of one a minute at each of the precincts. This portends a heavy vote. The interest is intense, but feeling is not bitter and so far under the admirable provisions of the Ohio election law, there has been no disorder. Canton. O., Nov. 7. At 7:30 o'clock some precincts had polled one-fourth of the registration which nearly equals that of 1S95. Weather cool and clear. Columbus, O., Nov. 7. There is a live ly interest in the election in Ohio today, as manifested in the manner in which the voting is proceeding. The weather is magnificent and a full vote is being gotten out. The election is passing off in a quiet and orderly manner. At the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic committees, little is being done and those remaining on duty to day make quiet but confident claims of success. The Jones vote continues to be the uncertain feature of the contest and while the regular parties insist that the independent candidate has no show of election, it is apparent that the par ty from whose ranks his strength is drawn must go down in defeat. Judge Nash, Republican candidate for gover nor, voted here this morning. John R. McLean, the Democratic candidate cast his vote in Cincinnati and immediately took a train for Columbus, where he will receive the returns tonight. Cincinnati. O., Nov. 7. The rush of voters continued all over the city at noon, indicating that almost the entire registered vote will be polled. Much scratching was indicated and in some of the precincts it was apparent that Jones was receiving many votes. There was no disorder and only a very few ar rests for attempted illegal voting. Cleveland. Nov. 7 So steadily did the voting progress that by noon it was be lieved that fully two-thirds of the en tire votes had been cast. Reports from all parts of the city show that an un usual amount of scratching is being done. i Senator Hanna voted early and took but a moment to prepare his ballot. Reports indicate that a big vote is being polled in the surrounding towns and country districts. Columbus. Nov. 7. By noon it was estimated that two-thirds of the votes in the city had been cast. There had been nothing to mark the balloting as unusual and all precincts reported that the voting was still heavy. The indica tions are that Jones, Independent can didate for governor, is running well among the railroad and shopmen. There has been plenty of scratching. IOWA. Des Moines, la.. Nov. 7. -The weather promises to be fair for election day. The opening this morning was cloudy but there is no rain though tnere were showers during the night. The indica tions point to a light vote in this city, the registration being the lightest in ten years. Sioux City, la., Nov. 7. The early at tendance at the polls was light and it was thought the vote will not be heavy as the interest is not great. Rain is threatened. Burlington. la., Nov. 7. The weather here is fair and warm with an outlook for a bright day. The usual off year interest is being taken in the election. The interest is largely centered in the local contests. Ottumwa, la.. Nov. 7. The weather is warm and the sky slightly cloudy. The campaign has been quiet but both parties are hustling and the prospects are that a big vote will be polled. Cedar Rapids, la., Nov. 7. The weather is clear. The voting from the opening of the polls indicates that a large number of ballots will be cast. The interest however seems to be prin cipally on the county officers and the legislative candidates. Keokuk, Nov. 7. The weather is fair and little interest is shown in the elec tion. Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 7. The weather is pleasant and an average vote for an off year is being polled. The principal interest centers on the local ticket, particularly the legislative por tion of it. Davenport, la., Nov. 7. The weather is mild. Much interest is shown in the election, both parties working hard to get out a full vote. A heavy vote will be polled. Des Moines. Nov. 7. Reports received up to 1 o'clock from various sections of the state indicate that the vote will be larger than at first anticipated although not so large as a year ago. The con tinuation of rainy and cloudy weather has had the effect of bringing the farm ers out. The only disquieting report to the Republicans is from Davenport to the effect that the Germans aie voting the Democratic ticket on account of expansion. Chairman Weaver of the Republican state central committee states that his prediction of 45,000 ma jority for Shaw is too small and that the farmers will make it larger. The cities all report a fair vote but interest is lacking. Sioux Falls, Nov. 7. It is an ideal election day throughout the state. Dis patches from twenty counties indicate that a good vote is being polled in the towns but in the country precincts the vote is light. Marshalltown, Nov. 7. Rain retarded the voting and not more than one-third of the city poll had been cast up to noon. The interest is intense, however, and is especially centered on the elec tion of sheriff. It is reported that a riot occurred at Legrande over the al leged voting by non-resident railroad laborers. PENNSYLVANIA. Philadelphia, Nov. 7. Election day in the state of Pennsylvania opened under excellent weather conditions which promised to continue all day. The polls opened at 7 o'clock and will close at 7 "o'clock tonight. During the early vot ing hours in this city, a light vote gen erally was polled and but little interest was manifest in the election. Through out the state where Lieut. Col. Barnett, the Republican candidate for state treasurer, and Wm. T. Creasy, his Dem ocratic opponent, have made their strongest bid for support, considerable interest was shown. In Philadelphia citizens are voting also on the question of authorizing a $12,000,000 loan for the improvement of the water supply. The indications are that the loan will be authorized. The city of Lancaster is also voting on a loan of $1,32,000 for a similar purpose. Philadelphia. Nov. 7. The election at noon was progressing quietly and re ports received from various sections of the state showed that a light vote was being polled. In a few of the counties where there are contests for local of ficers, a heavier vote was cast. With respect to the real state issue, the elec tion of a state treasurer, some cutting of Barnett. Republican, was reported. To what extent this is going on can not be learned owing to the secret bal lot. In Philadelphia the vote cast up to noon was exceedingly light. In some instances there was a falling off of 50 per cent compared with last year. There has been no disorder, although charges of attempts at repeating and coloniza tion followed by- the appointment of overseers to watch the conduct of the election in the various precincts was expected to lead to some disturbances. Jt is reported that an almost solid vote is being cast in favor of the loan bill. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 7. The heaviest fog of the year operated against the early voter and the morning vote was lighter than usual. Very little interest was manifested in the state election and it seemed to be a foregone con clusion, that the Republican ticket would have the regular off year major ity in Allegheny county. NEW YORK. New York. Nov. 7. The weather in Greater New York today could not have been finer. The sky in the early morn ing was clear the air was pleasantly cool and the result was that voting ail over the city was at a pretty rapid rate considering that only local officers and assemblymen were to be elected. The polls opened at 6 o'clock and will close at 5 p. m. At Harlem, where there are several close assembly districts the early vot ing was so heavy as to surprise the old time politicians. In the Kighteenth election district of the Thirty-first as sembly district. 45 votes out of a regis tration of 270 had been polled at 7:40 o'clock. In the Nineteenth election dis trict of the same assembly district, 56 votes out of 302 had been cast at 7:55 o'clock. In the Ninth election district of the Thirty-fourth assembly district S6 votes out of 3C2 registered had been cast at 8:10 o'clock. The registration was light this year and it is probable that the poll will be 10 to 15 per cent below that of last year when a governor and other state officers were elected. Dispatches to the Associated Press from interior cities and towns in the state report good weather and good roads, insuring a vote up to the average of an off year in politics. There were the usual number of ar rests during the morning for alleged il legal registration of voters. The var ious magistrates disposed of the first cases as quickly as possible. A man who was registered from a house in Park Row as Johr Ray, was arrested but his landlord apneared and testified that the man had lived for some time at the address he had given and Mr. Ray was discharged. It was probably the name more than anything else that caused his arrest. There was some trouble in the Eigh teenth assembly district when it was known that Superintendent McCul lagh's deputies had secured warrants for the arrest of a number of men reg istered from the city lodging house in First avenue. The first of these men v Iw tried to vote was Jeremiah O'Keefe. The state deputies tried to arrest him. but the police interfered, saying that the man had a right to vote before the warrant could be served on him. Superintendent McCullagh went to the scene of the trouble and arrested O'Keefe himself aft.r a bitter talk with Police Captain Masslachter, whose attitude was at one time so threatening that McCullagh exclaimed: "Don't put your hands on :ne, Mass lacher." A large crowd hostile to the state deputies gathered and for n time it looked as though there would be a riot. The police. however, surrendered O'Keefe and McCullagh drove away with his prisoner in a cab. In the Nineteenth assemby district of this city where a strong effort was made to prevent the re-election of Rob ert Mazet, a Republican, 24 arrests for illegal registration had been made at 9:30 o'clock. The arrests were made on warrants secured by State Superintend ent McCullagh. The prisoners all gave bail for examination tomorrow. Those of the prisoners who had not voted immediately left the court room and expressed their intention of going back to the polls to vote. An noon Mr. Croker said: "Everything points to a sweeping Democratic victory in the city. It w ill be a clean sweep all around. In the Continued on Seventh Page.) VOTINGJNKANSAS Election of County Officers Is Progressing Throughout the Sunflower State Today. FAVORABLE WEATUEU Little Interest is Reported From the Cities. Kansas City Reports Some Ac tivity Existing. Voting for the election of county of ficers is in progress throughout Kansas today. Reports from over the state in dicate that the weather though un pleasant at some points, is not such as to interfere with the attendance at the polls of any who desire to cast his ballot. The Associated Press sends out the following bulletins: KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, Nov. 7. The weather is cold and damp. Considerable activity is displayed although the election is only for county officers. LEAVENWORTH. Leavenworth, Nov. 7. The weather is cool and cloudy. The attendance at the polls is light. County officers only are being voted for. WICHITA. Wichita, Nov. 7. The election in this city is for county officials only and not much interest appears. The day is warm and favorable for the voters. HIS DIVORCED WIFE. Fatally Shoots August Wisch man and Her Riral. Chicago, Nov. 7. August Wischman, a well known saloonkeeper and his wife. Rose, were shot and dangerously wounded at 1:30 this morning, by Mrs. Leona J. Lay, Wischman's divorced wife. The shooting occurred at Thirty- fourth street and Cottage Grove avenue i as Wischman and his wife wi re on their way to their home. As they passed the corner their assailant stepped from the shadow of a building and fired two shots. One of the bullets entered Wischman's left breast above the heart and the other penetrated the right breast of his wile. As her two victims fell the murderess fled but was cap tured later by the police. Mr. and Mrs. Wischman were taken to Mercy hospital, where it was found that Wischman is fatally injured. Hopes for the recovery of his wife are entertained. Mrs. Lay was taken to the police station by her captors where she admitted the shooting. She declares she is the former wife of Wischman and that she was prompted to the act by jealousy. She said she married Wisch man in Taylorville. 111. Wischman is 35 years of age and married Rose a week ago. She is 26 years old. Five years before the man and the woman who shot him were divorced. It is said she was jealous of him and before had attacked him with a knife because he was attentive to the woman whom he married last week. She wounded him in several places at that time, it is said, but he disarmed her after a strug gle. He refused to prosecute her. Last night Mrs. Lay went to Wisch man's home, but finding the place dark stationed herself at the corner of Thir ty-fourth street and Cottage Grove ave- nue, know that they would pass there on their way home. She stood at the corner nearly two hours before she was rewarded by seeing her intended vic tims approach in company with Dr. Dunwoody and his wife, Wischman was walking ahead with Dunwoody and as he reached the corner Mrs. Lay rushed out and pressed the revolver against his breast. Before a hand could be raised in interference the bullet pene trated his body. Darting to her second victim the murderess fired the second shot and then fled. Dr. Dunwoody turned his attention to his wounded friends while his wife screamed for help. Mrs. Lay made a feeble resist-" ance when overtaken by the police, who had been attracted by the shooting. She at first denied having committed the crime, but finally broke down and con fessed. IV INS A FORTUNE. Jeffries' Share of the Receipts For the Fight Is $33,423. New York. Nov. 7. According to an official of the Coney Island Sporting club, the total receipts of the fight were $6fi.k4. Of this amount the fight ers battled for two-thirds, or $44,064. As the winner, Jeffries, received three quarters of that, amounting to $33,423. Sharkey's share was $11,141. Jeffries victory, although netting him a small fortune, means many more thousands of dollars for him in the theatrical en gagements. For showing at Koster Rial's this week, he will receive $2,500. Sharkey, who also appears at the same place, will receive $1,000 a week. Jeff ries' shares of the receipts is the larg est in actual cash ever received by a prize fighter for winning a battle. WINS AN OLD SLIT. Don M. Dickinson the Victor in a Law Contest of 12 Years Standing. Detroit. Mich., Nov. 7. Ex-Postmaster Don M. Dickinson won a suit of 12 years' standing from the interior de partments in the Macomb county cir cuit court today. In 1SS5 Congress at tempted to dedica.te Stromness island, located at the mouth of the St. Clair river, to which Mr. Dickinson held a ti tle by inheritance to use as a national park. Mr. Dickinson made a presentation of facts to congress and defeated the at tempt. In lST the interior department began proceedings to obtain possession of the island under the provisions of the state's swamp land act of 1S70. The case has been in litigation ever since until today when Judge Eldridge up held Mr. Dickinson's title and rendered a decision in his favor. Weather Indications. Chicago. Nov. 7. For Kansas: Fair tonight and Wednesday; variable winds. TO TOW CANAL BOATS. An Automobile Is Being Built For That Purpose. New- York, Nov. .7 A special to the Tribune from New Haven, Conn., says: The Columbia Automobile company of Hartford, has just begun work on an automobile which is designed to take the place of the present motive power on the Erie canal and which is to be used to tow the canal boats. The au tomobile will be the largest and strongest ever made and will cost about $3,000. If the experiment is a success other automobiles will follow. The idea is credited to a New York syndicate, who have offered to supply the automo biles to the canal company. The ma chines will be worked by gasoline and will have a tremendous horsepower, sufficient to tow several canal boats. The Columbia Automobile company now controls all of the old Pope Manu facturing company automobile busi ness. LOST HIS VOTE. Governor Stanley Neglected Register After Change of Residence. to Wichita, Kan., Nov. 7. Although the governor of the state of Kansas has the reputation of being a well read lawyer, as well as astute politician, he is hav ing an experience with the technicali ties of the ballot laws of the state. Governor Stanley forsook his official duties at Topeka Saturday night, just to come down to Wichita to cast his ballot. But he was careless in the mat ter of registration and now the chief executive of Kansas may be unable to evercise his prerogative as a voter. When Governor Stanley registered, just before the spring election this year he was a resident of Riverside, and lived in the Second precinct of the Sec ond ward. About six weeks ago, how ever, the governor's household furni ture was removed from Riverside to 317 North Topeka avenue. This is in the First precinct of the Third ward. When he visited the city in fair week, he called up the city clerk and asked if he was registered all right. The clerk told hirn he was in the Second precinct of the Second ward. Governor Stanley says he intended for the clerk to change him to the First precinct of the Third ward, and he sup posed it had been done. This leaves the governor in a very awkward predicament. Either he thought a mere hint over the telephone was enough to induce the city clerk to violate the law in his favor, or the law yer and governor was ignorant of that feature w hich requires a voter to regis ter in person. MEANS M'KINLEY'S DEFEAT Election of McLean Would Retire Sim From Presidency Says Mr. EreidenthaL John WT. Breidenthal. bank commis sioner and former chairman of the Pop ulist state committee, has been watch ing the Ohio campaign closely because of its national importance. He predicts the election of McLean because of the fair weather condition existing there today. "The Republican opposition in Ohio consists of fair weather voters the same as it does in Kansas," said he today. "With good weather there the Demo crats and Populists will get out in full force to McLean's support and I believe he will carry the state. Jones will draw from the Republicans almost exclus ively, because the cities where his boom is the strongest are Republican. "The election of McLean means a candidate other than McKinley for the presidency on the Republican ticket next year. This is because the cam paign in Ohio has been conducted wholly on national issues. A Democrat ic victory in Ohio will be the signal for Mr. McKinloy's disappearance from the presidential race." FIG I1T1XG STOPPED. Ladysmith Has Been Quiet Since Friday. London, Nov. 7. An official dispatch from Ladysmith dated Monday, Novem ber 6, says: "There has been a cessation of hos tilities since Friday. Only one Kaffir was killed by the Boer bombardment. The total British loss was eight killed, including Captain Knapp and Lieuten ant Brabant, and twenty wounded in Thursday's and Friday's engagements. The town is well provisioned and is be lieved to be entirely safe." COST OF ARMY Aa Reported by Paymaster General Bates. Washington, Nov. 7. The report of Paymaster General Bates of the army shows the following main items of ex penditure during the last fiscal year: Regular army, $34,141,225; volunteer army, $35,877,177; disbandment of Cuban army. $905,100; extra pay to volunteers, war with Spain. $443,932: extra pay, regulars, war with Spain, $202,592. Gen. Bates says that some of the new paymasters while evincing great zeal and intelligence have been too old to withstand the hardships of service and he recommends that "under no circum stances should men be appointed to this office who are over 40 years of age, nor unless they have passed an examina tion as to their physical, moral and mental fitness for the position." DESIRE RECOGNITION. Street Railway Employes' Union at Springfield Are Active. Springfield, 111., Nov. 7. Last night a committee from the Federation of Labor waited upon General Manager C. K. Minary, of the Springfield Con solidated Street Railway company and requested him to recognize the Street Railway Employes union recently or ganized in this city, and now a factor of the Federation of Labor. Mr. Minary rejected the propositions submitted and refused to recognize the union. The committee wiil report to the Fed eration of Labor the action of Mr. Minary at the special meeting Thurs day night and further steps will be ta ken to strengthen the Car Mens' union and to secure recognition. Terminal at Sioux City. Chicago, Nov. 7. J. A. Monroe, general freight traffic manager of the Union Pa cinc road, announced today that it was the intention of his road to make Sioux City a terminal to the north, such as Kansas City is to the south of Omaha- He added that the office force in Sioux City would be housed in more commodious quarters in the near future. BADLY JICARED. Yery Light Tote In Topeka Cause of Much Worry. Both Sides Frightened at the Situation Presented. LESS THAN ONE THIRD Per Cent of Registration Vot ing Will Re Small. Situation In the Various Wards Today. There is an election in Topeka today but it is, if anything, less interesting than was anticipated. The supporters of ex-Sheriff Kepley are not making as much stir as was an ticipated and neither are the Cook workers and there is no enthusiasm in the air. At the polling places the judges and clerks are navlng an enjoy able time and good story tellers are in demand. The public servants are not being overworked and it will not keep them very late to count out the votes that will be cast. It is doubtful if the vote will be one third of the registration in the city. There is always a late rush but the vote was so light in the early part of the day that it is not likely that the effect of the late vote will make a per ceptible showing. There are few carriages and those that are in use are driven lazily back and forth in an aimless way which in dicates that the drivers do not care much whether they take any one to the polls or not. The friends of ex-Sheriff Kepley said before today that their hope was in securing a large vote but some of the Republican leaders are very much frightened because the vote is so small. They say that the Kepley supporters are voting. But Mr. Kepley's hope for a large vote was surely based upon a careful canvass of the situation and it would appear that he will suffer more than Sheriff Cook by the very light vote. A few bets were made that Sheriff Cook would have more than 500 majori ty but there was very little betting of any kind Ione by the followers of either man. Chairman Chaney of the Republican county committee said this afternoon that he feels perfectly confident of the result. He predicts the election of Sheriff Cook by about 1.000 majority. There is much more interest being taken in the Ohio election than those in Kansas and the Republican commit tee has put in a special wire and an operator to receive returns at the old court house. They have also put in a telephone. No. 809, and will be prepared to furnish information from the city as well as the nation at large. The voting in the First ward. North Topeka. is light. There is httle inter est manifested It was thought that the contest be tween Higginbotham, fusicnist. and Haines-, Republican, for commissioner, would be closely contested, but it is conceded that Haines will carry all the three precincts by a good majority. Peter Cook, for sheriff, is certain of every precinct. Councilman Blossom, a Democrat, concedes that Cook will car ry tne ward. T7p to 11 o'clock the vote in the first precinct was 58 votes polled out of a few over 500 registered. In the second precinct 46 votes polled out of 4S2 reg istered. In the third precinct 40 votes polled out of 524 registered. The elec tion is quiet. The judges and clerks spend the greater part of their time chatting. There is practically no interest mani fest in any of the precincts south of the river. At 1:30 o'clock only a small frac tion over 20 per cent of the registered vote had been cast. The po.ling placas are very quiet. The judges und clerks sit around with nothing to do, while a policeman dozes outside and this too an ideal day for an election. John K. Wright, county clerk and candidate for re-election, sail: "It looks to me as though more in proportion of the Kepley men are getting out than of Republicans. The way the vote is go ing it will greatly cut down the ma jorities. We have been counting on 2.500 majority for Cook, but it will be cut down to 1,000 if people don't get out and vote faster than they have been so far." United States Marshal W. E. Sterne says that the apathy is common to both sides. "The vote in my precinct is strongly Republican," he said. "I do not believe Kepley men are getting out any more than our men are." In the fifth precinct of the Second ward at 1:15 o'clock there had been only 9S votes cast out of a registration of 540, a trifle over IS per cent. This is the largest precinct in the city, too. In the First precinct of the Third ward at 1:30. 23 per cent of the regis tered vote had been cast, 80 votes out of a registration of 335. The Second precinct of the same ward did better than any of the others. Exactly one third of the vote had been cast at 1:30 125 votes out of a registration of 375. Down in the Fourth ward the vote ran about as it did in the Second. The First precinct has a registration of 33fi, and 87 votes had been cast at 1:15 o'clock, over 25 per cent. The Second precinct with a registration of 395 had exactly the same vote, 87 a per centage of 22. At 1 o'clock the Third precinct of the Fourth ward had cast 64 votes out of a registration of 368, a little over 17 per cent. The Fifth and Sixth wards are run ning about like the others, and no in terest is manifest in any of the pre cincts. In the First precinct of the Fifth ward 71 votes had been cast at 2 p. m. AFTER FORTY-TWO YEARS. Chief of the Chicago Fire Department Will Retire December 3. Chicago, Nov. 7. Denis J. Swenie, who has been chief of the Chicago fire depart ment since 1S57, has hanued in his resig nation to Mayor Harrison to take effect December 3, the fiftieth anniversary of joining the department. Cars For France and Portugal. Philadelphia, Nov. 7. The J. B. Brill Car company of this city is now en gaged in building a large cumber of double deck trolley cars for the Gen eral Traction Co., of Paris, which will operate street tramways during the ex position in 1S00. In addition to the French contract, the company has one for 150 trolley cars for Lisbon, Portugal. CAPTURED RY CANNIBALS. Probable Fate of the Crew of the Madeline. Philadelphia. Nov. 7. Captain Little hales, of the British steamship Kurdis tan, which has arrived here from the west coast of Africa, brings informa tion regarding the probable late of the missing .French steamship Madeline, which sailed from Valpariaso last Aug ust for Havre and disappeared com pletely. From information gathered at the Kurdistan's stopping points there appears to be little doubt that the Mad eline was wrecked near the Pacific side of the entrance to the Straits of Ma gellan and that her crew was captured by the Patagonia cannibals. From lights seen burning at night. Captain Littlehales thinks the crew sought refuge at Otter Point, a short distance outside of the straits en trance and where the Kurdistan an chored on the night of September 14. on her way to Philadelphia. Whether they were signal lights for assistance. Cap tain Littlehales could not tell, as he did not know of the loss of the vessel until he had passed that point. While the Kurdistan was at Valpariaso an Amer ican sailor named Stetson boarded the vessel and stated that he had left the Madeline because of her unseaworthi ness. FINDS $50,000. A Hunter's Lucky Discorery In the Mississippi Swamps. Jackson, Miss, Nov. 7. Hunter John son, a white citizen of Jackson, while hunting in Pearl river swamp, east of the city several days ago, discovered a box containing nearly $50,000. The money was encased in an iron case and is in gold pieces, nearly all of the $20 denomination. It is thought the money is a war treasure. All of the coins bear date prior to 1850. INTEREST INCREASES. Thirteen Tables of Whist Players At tend the Second Night's Play. At the whist meeting last night it was clearly shown that the playing this winter will be much more spirited than it has heretofore. The attendance exceeded that of the opening night and it looks now as if the race for the "pennant" would be a hot one. The following teams won last night: Scott ami Armstrong. Thrapp and Ivorn, Keeler and Ivnowles, Da vies and an V al kenburg. Sibley and Hurrie. Cole and Freeman, Mason and Troutman. Payne and O'Neill. Putnam and (.Jilelspie. Hey tlen and Wolf. Parker and Kobbms. Wash burn and Greenwood. Shakeshut't and Shakeshaft, Munn and Ashby, Conners and Murphy. The score in detail was as follows: North and south Scott and Armstrong. I'.W: Huling and Carr. 185: Thrapp and Korn V.i'l: Keeler and Knowles. v.i.',; Da vies and Van Valkenbtirg. 2ju: McKirahan and Xess. 187; Marshall and Pennekemp. 1S1: Merrick and Jolly. ITS: Copeland and West ISO; Siblev ami Hurrie. V.: Cole and Freeman. 2u3: Mason and Troutman, lfe; Pavne and O'Neill, 192. Kast and West Putnam and Gillespie. 151: llevden and Wolf. 157: Koontz ana Drummj 143: Parker and Robbins. 14s: Ry der and Lowrv, 145: Warner and Holland. 141: Washburn and Greenwood. Hi; Gill and Alston. 144: Allen and Noble. 141; Shakeshatt and Shakeshaft, 147: Munn and Ashby, 150: Williams and Herrick, 110; Conners and Murphy, 147. The first game in the ladies' tournament will take place tomorrow night and a big turn out is already assured. A WEST POINTER Who Is a Colonel in the Transvaal Army. New York, Nov. 7. The Herald says: Ex-Lieutenant John Y. Filmore Blake of the Sixth United States cavalry, a graduate of West Point, now holds the rank of colonel in the Transvaal army, commanding a regiment of 500 Ameri can and Irish rough riders, most of whom have had military experience. Blake is a daring man of the cowboy type.' He was appointed" to the mili tary academy from Arkansas, and one of his classmates recalled today that when he first appeared at the military academy he afforded a great deal of amusement to the other cadets by rea son of his wild western appearance and mannerisms. He graduated in 1876, standing high in his class and was assigned to the Sixth cavalry, then serving in Texas. When his regiment was ordered north he found army life too tame for his adventurous spirit and after about eight years' service resigned and went west. He subsequently entered busi ness in Detroit, where he married. He left there four or five years ago for the Transvaal and at last accounts was making considerable money in mining. AGLINALDO'S ESCAPE Is Feared by the Authorities at Washington. New Tork, Nov. 7. A special to the Herald from Washington, says: Considerable disappointment is ex pressed by officials of the war depart ment at Gen. Otis' report that General Wheaton's expedition will not reach the Gulf of Lingayen until tomorrow. Without waiting for Gen. Wheaton to reach his designation Gen. MacArthur has commenced his advance, w hile Gen. Lawton has been compelled to remain inactive because of the fact that the heavy rains have submerged the coun try. The effect of the delay in Gen.Wheat on's movement and the advance begun by Gen. MacArthur will be, the offi cials fear, that Aguinaldo will again es cape from the cul-de-sac in which it was hoped to corner him. SENT TO VKISON. End of the Mining Troubles in Id ah a Mopcow, Idaho, Xov. 7. The culminat ing scene in the Ion drawn out labor troubles in the Coeur D'Aleno mining: reg ion was enacted in the federal court here this afternoon when the ten men found puiltv of interfering with the I'nited States mails near Gardner during the riots of April 29, were sentenced by Jude Keatty to each serve twenty-two months in the United States prison at San Quen tin, Cal.. and pay a fine of $1. with the exception of Iennis O'Rourke, who on account of his youth, pets off with twenty months and a fine of $1,'"0. Motions in arrest and suspension of judgment were previously overruled bv Judge 33eatty. The prisoners will start for San Quentin as soon as the term of court ends. To Stop "Tipping." Chicago. Nov. 7. The Record will sn.y that George H. Ianiels. general passen ger agent of the New York Central rail way is at the head of a movement to abolish the practice of "tipping" on dining and sleeping cars. The movement already has found hearty approval and backing among officials of several o the trunk lines. THE WH1P FALLS. W.M.Wallace punished For Dar ing to Oppose Chester Long. Dismissed From Fosition as Deputj Revenue Collector. II E WAS DULY WARNED Mike Sutton Notified Him What Would Happen. Kingman Man Continues to Make Things Warm For Bosses. W. M. Wallace, of Kingman, has been removed from his position as deputy collector of internal revenue. Mr. Wallace has incurred the dis pleasure" of the bosses. lie has dared to become a candidate for congress against Chester I Long, the Chester fieldian statesman from Medjine Lodge. Mr. Wallace's candidacy is a constant source of annoyance to Mr. Long and his friends because his boom is growing in strength every day. When Mr. Long found that Mr. Wal lace was in earnest lie flew to his friend, Senator Baker, and told him that something would have to be done at once to suppress Wallace. He held a petty government position under Rev enue Collector Mike Sutton and Sena tor Baker assured Mr. Long that he would "fix things." Mr. Sutton had been a close friend of Mr. Wallace and he was requested to call him down by threats if necessary. The threats were duly made but Mr. Wallace would not be frightened off the track. He was obdurate enough to de cide to stay in the race in defiance of the bosses and his removal followed. Following is his letter of dismissal: Leavenworth. Kan.. Oct. 30, 199. W. M. Wallace, Deputy Collector.King- inan, Kansas. Dear Sir: Your employment as dep uty collector of internal revenue under me, terminates at the close of business on October 31. 1S99. Mr. William J. Parett has been ap pointed a deputy collector by me, has duly qualified and will enter upon the discharge of the duties of the office on November 1, 1899. He will receive from and receipt to you for all the supplies, moneys and property in your hands by virtue of your office belonging to the United States government. Very respectfully vours, M. W. SUTTON. Collector. Mr. Wallace was evidently surprised as the following reply to his letter of dismissal proves: Kingman. Kan., Nov. 4. IS'jO. Hon. M. W. Sutton, Collector, Leaven worth, Kansas. Sir: I am just in receipt of your let ter dated October 30, notifying me that I urn no longer to be kept in the reve nue service under you. For this you assign no reason but the reason is not only well known to you and me but it seems to lie well known generally. Jt is the penalty I have to pay for presuming to be a can didate for congress in the Seventh dis trict. Had my candidacy been distasteful to you I would not have thought of making the race and at the same time holding a position under you, but 1 con sulted with you on the matter in the month of January ami you advised me to make the race. I knew nothing dif ferent until I met you at Hutchinson by your telegraphic instructions on Aug ust 27 and was there told that if I made the race it would cost me my Job; that Mr. Lnns and his friends were com plaining bitterly to Senator Baker with whom they had formed a combination and that he had requested you to see me and say "he did not think I ought to be a candidate for congress against Long and hold my position as deputy." I told you then that you could hava my resignation but that my word was out, my manhood was at stake and that I intended to make the race. You said you U'dn't want my resig nation then, but for me to think it over for 90 days and then if I still intended to make the race to send you my resig nation and that you would labor with Senator Baker to have him nut accept it. The 90 days are not yet up and I am summarily dismissed. However, then? would have been no change in my mind at the end of 90 days. I will be a candidate for congress be fore the next convention, just as I toM you, and hope you may have the pleas ure of voting for me as the next nomi nee for congress in this district. Respectfully, W. M. WALLACE. M'KlfiLEY EN ROUTE Passes Pittsburg on Ilis Way Home to Tote. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 7. President McKinley passed through Pittsburg this morning on his way home to vote. The train was delayed by the heavy fog. It arrived here at 8:15 a. m. and left at 8:45 a. m. for Canton. The pres ident could not be seen, but Secretary Cortelyou said he felt quite certain that Nash would have a good majority In Ohio. Mrs. McKinley, who accompanied the president, experienced no ill effects from the journey and was feeling quite well. ASTOU 18 IiUDE. Wm. Waldorf Calls a Brother Editor a Liar. London, Nov. 7. The Pall Mall Ga zette, owned by Wm. Waldorf Astor. prominently prints the following today: "The paragraph published by the Economist to the effect that the ad vance in sterling exchange rates is due to the sale by Mr. Astor of large hold ings of American shares including 5. 000,000 of Chicago North western is a deliberate lie. printed for stock brok ing purposes in New York and was there contradicted some days ago." Sloan Wins a Race. London. Nov. 7. At the second day at the Lincoln autumn meeting, the Blaney Nursery stakes were won by Lucania, ridden by Sloan. The betting was 85 to 40 against Lucani.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOTJRNAIa, TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 7, 1899. Mrs. PinRham's Advice Saved Mrs. Hayes From an Operation. LETTER TO MES. riKCEAX NO. 64,283 DeabMp.s. Piskdam Words cannot express my thanks to you for your kind advice to me in regard to my health, I had been running- down in health for about seven years. I had doctored with good doctors and taken a great many patent medicines. My trouble beg-an when my first child was born. I had a very bard time and after its birth would have severe flooding- spells. "After my second child I had very pood health until last winter when I again became preg-naut and suffered very much and miscarried. I came very near dying, and the doctor said I must have an operation, which fright ened me very much, and concluded to write to you for your advice, and take your medicine. Was troubled with the whites, great pain in back and hips, sometimes when lying down or sitting was unable to get up. Would have fiuch pain in groins could hardly walk. I can 6ay I have never seen any thing so wonderful as Lydia E. Pink lam's Vegetable Compound and Sana tive Wash. Your remedies have done wonders for me. Hoping that many of my Buffering sisters may be led to take your medicine from reading this letter, I remain, sincerely yours, Mas. Mast Hates, Habdlssburo, Kt." Letters like the foregoing should convince everyone that Mrs. Pinkha.ro Advice ia certain help. CHEAP RENT could often be obtained by small manu facturers, and others, using machinery. In most advantageously located rooms, if some means of driving their shafting were available. Low rents in buildings equipped with steam engines !Pi nroma m r ii utdiriAOLi: situations are scarce. The use of the electric motor obvi ates this difficulty. It is reliable, always ready to be started, and by using it you have to jjay for only what power you actually use about your own work. Why don't you look up new LOCATIONS nearer the business center and more on the line of travel? 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WIXSLOW'S SOOTHINTt SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY YEAK3 BY MILLIONS OF MOTHKRS for their CHILDHKN WHILE TKB'.THINli. with PERFECT SI'COKSS. It SOOTHES the OHJl.n. SOFTENS the Ul'MS. ALLAYS nil PAIN. CURE S WIND CoLIC and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Ee sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Sweet Restful Sleep Use Woodbury's Facial Soap follows a bath with WOODBURY'S Facial Boap, and the face. neck, arms and hands rendered beautifully white, soft and smooth with WOODBUKi'S Facial Cream. For Ml every wtiut, fey 'ov rp pp h7 yy y is Liii SPORTING NEWS. Is Jeffries the Champion lleayy weight Pugilist? ilany of the Sporting Fraternity Contend Contrariwise. SHOULD FIGHT AGAIN And Dispel the Cloud Hanging Orer 11 is Title. A Complete Knockout of Shar key the Thing Required. Many of the best sporting men of the country are dissatisfied with the outcome of the Jeffries-Sharkey mill Friday night as rendered by Referee Siler and claim that the former tighter did nut establish a clean title to the heavweight cham pionship. J In many ways the outcome of the bat tle was unsatisfactory and should be fought again to a finish between the two men. Some of the best journals take this position. The Chicago Chronicle best illustrates the idea in the following article. It says: "Jeffries and Sharkey will have to light again. The heavyweight championship is not to be settled on points. One man or the other must win completely and decis ively in order to settle the supremacy. A contest which does not go on to a tinish is a mere boxing match interest ing enough, but not decisive of any thing. "That Jeffries had the better of Friday nlsht's tight is maintained by the ma jority and denied bv the minority, l'eo ple who had money on Jeffries regard the decision of the referee as a rmhteous one. So. likewise, do many people who had no bets on either man. .Most of the bisers entertain a contrary opinion for the judg ment and the pocKetoook are connected bv subtle bonds of sympathy. The fight b'v rounds indicates that Jeffries reany w'as the stronger at the end of the final round that he had Inflicted the greater punishment and that if the fight had been carried to a tiiiisii he would have knocked Sharkev out. -But that settles nothing. The hypo thesis is conditional. Jeffries might have beaten Sharkev in the end. but it is not possible to affirm that Sharkey might not have beaten Jeffries. When it comes to supposition one guess is as good as another. We saw that Sharkey was twice knocked (limn in the second round tak ing eight seconds, in one instance to re sume the contest. Yet in the next round he was the aggressor and had the hetter of the milling. Is there anything to dis prove the assumption that he might have repeated the proceeding in the twenty sixth round if there had been a twenty sixth round and ttiat he might eventu al lv have won out? "The championship Is not securely held bv Jeffries. There is a cloud upon the title, and the cloud will rest upon it until he shall have beaten Sharkey to a stand still rendered him incapable of coming to the scratch at the call of time. And, speaking of clouds upon the title, there is a circumstance which, under a strict con struction of the pugilistic statutes, vests the heavyweight championship not in Jeffries or Fi tzsimmons or Corb-tt. but in John L. Sullivan, who won it from l'addy Ryan with bare knuckles under London prize ring rules the only way in which it can be won. Jeffries may be (Jueensberry champion or boxing cham pion but he is not champion heavyweight pugilist. The title is not to be won with gloves. "This point, however, will not seriously be considered bv the modern champions, who light for gate receipts rather than for glory. But even in contests for the glove championship there must be a fight to a finish in order to fix the title. Jef fries will have to meet Sharkey and keep meeting him until one man or the other throws up the sponge. Decisions on puints clou t 'go.' AN AMUSING ACCOUNT. Sent Out From New York of a Scone In Sharkey's Sick Room. New Tork, Nov. 7. When the nurses and attendants upon Thomas J. Sharkey had got the pugilist together surii ciently to permit of his speaking, he unbosomed himself freely. Without secrecy or subterfuge he told exactly what he thought of Mr. Jeffries. "What!" he exclaimed, "that stiff fight? Why, he doesn't know the first thing about fighting. A 10-year-old could lick him in a round." Just then eight physicians and four surgeons came into the room in single file, followed by a plasterer with a hod ful of plaster of Paris. "We've come to patch up your broken ribs," they said, and they set to work with energy. "As 1 was remarking when these gen tlemen interrupted me," continued the pugilist, "it makes me very weary to hear that a chap like Jeffries is com pared to me even by the uninitiated. Any one who saw the fight must have realized that that fellow was merely a baby in my hands, and to be robbed of my victory by a fat-headed referee is simply maddening. Who's that?" he inquired, as the bell rang and his valet appeared. "It's the professor who paints out black eyes." said the valet. "He's ready for you whenever you say." "Tell him to wait," cried Sharkey, testily. "Can't you see that every front foot of me is being taken up by these doctors and things?" "Do you know what I'm going to do to Jeffries the first time I see him?" continued Sharkey. "Why, I'll simply go up to him. even if it's on the street, and knock him out in one punch. I'm tired of having people talk of that guy as if he's a fighter. He is not in my class. A couple of good stiff thumps would make him look like two and half cents." "Please, sir," said a trainer, entering the room, "there's a man downstairs wants to measure you for a pair of crutches." "Measure me for crutches, when I won't be able to stand for a month!" yelled the fighter. "Tell him to call next Tuesday week." "Let's see," he went on to the re porter, "how far did I get? Oh, I know, I was telling you about that chump Jeffries having the gall to stand up against me, and. after the ridiculous bluffs he made, claiming the champion ship. "Ouch!" he yelled, as the eight doc tors tugged at his rib and got it into position, and the plasterer began build ing a cement wail to hold it in place. "Hullo!" he cried, as a man in black entered, "who the deuce are you?" "I'm the dentist," said the man in black. "I've brought my machines along to straighten out your teeth." "All right," sighed the undaunted fighter. "Wait till these doctor guys get through with me. I've had a dermatologist here all the morning sew ing up my face, and I'm getting tired of being operated on." Bob Armstrong, the sparring partner, ambled in next with a large bundle. "I've brought half a mile more stick ing plaster," he exclaimed, "and I've ordered a barrel of arnica just now. Did you see the rot in the papers this morning about Jeffries being a fighter? Ha! Ha!" "Ha! Ha!" laughed Sharkev. "Wasn't that funny? That chap might fight a 2-year-old kid. but the idea of him com paring himself to a grown man would make a mummy smile. "Say, Bob. won't you rub a little lo l dine on, niy solar plexus? Did that f el- low come with the lip salve? I think some chloroform liniment rubbed on my jaw would make it a bit easier, and if you'll have those fellows carry me over to the lounge, where the light is, I'll tell this reporter man what a great big chump that Jeffries really is." And, groaning with pain, the hero was borne across the room. Propped up on pillows, with his broken rib rest ing in a bed of plaster, he continued to explain why he had reached the con clusion that Jeffries did not know how to tight. parts with: delanet. Jeffries Clashes With His Chief Trainer "Will Substitute Eyan. New Tork, Nov. 7. Tommy Ryan will probably be installed as chief trainer to Jim Jeffries. The latter is very sore about "Billy" Delaney's assertion that he was not in condition, and when he returned from Philadelphia today said: "That was a nice thing for him to say, wasi-'t it. I would never have believed it of him. "Why, it looks as if he wanted to see me licked. Had there been any ground for such remarks, which he knows in his heart and soul that there was not, he ought to have kept it to himself, as it was merely a professional secret. When he admitted that it was so; that he said I was unfit to right, I was umazed. I said: 'Hilly, do you mean that? How could you, after the manner I have treated you?' He went away in an angry mood, and that was the last I saw or heard of him since. "Well, I might as well say right here that he and Hyan don't pull very well together. He is sore because I engaged Ryan. Well, what was I to do. Ryan is a fast, clever fellow, and I have learned a lot from him. If I had taken Deluney's advice I would never have known as much about the game as I do. "If Delaney says I was not fit he is telling an untruth. You can gamble that if I thought I was wrong I would not have entered the ring. Well, it is all over, and I am sorry for Delaney. He had a good thing and did not know how to appreciate it. He received $100 a week and got several thousand dollars from me when I won. I am going to have a talk with my manager, "Billy" Brady, and will have more to say on the subject later in the week." Hyan, when questioned about the con troversy, said: "Holaney is jealous of me and Jim did not like it. Jeffries followed my advice throughout the training, and never con sulted Delaney. This angered 'Billy,' and he never spoke a word to any of us for weeks past. When he says that Jeffries did not weigh more than 204 pounds he Is 'kidding' himself. Jeffries entered the ring at 215 pounds and when the battle was over he only tipped the beam at 206 pounds." Jeffries and Sharkey are booked to appear at Koster and Bial's this week under Brady's management. a. BASEBALL GOSSIP. Boston Club Prospects For 1900 McGraw's Big Saloon Interests. New York, Nov. 7. Humane does not believe that the Boston club will release or trade off any of its players this fall except Billy Hamilton and Martie Bergen; Long, hethinks, will not be on the market. The Boston man takes very little stock in the rumored change in the official head of the Na tional League. As Murnane is pretty close to the owners of the Boston club, and as the Boston club cuts a big fig ure in the workings of the league, he should know what he is talking about. "I'll bet a suit of clothes that there will be no change in the presidency of the league for at least two years," said Murnane. "When the present agree ment will be at an end then President Young may be dropped. If he is I'll make the prediction that nobody who has yet teen mentioned in connection with the place will be his successor. I think President Young will be a league official just as long as he wants to be. His successor, if he ever has one, will be some one outside of the league some prominent business man." "Do you think the league will be re duced to eight clubs?" was asked. "Not if the magnates have to pay a dollar to bring about the reduction," was the emphatic reply. "I know the Boston club will not give a dollar to buy out any of the clubs. The league may reduce to ten clubs, this season, but I hardly think it i3 likely." If such a move is made I ex pect the Brooklyn players to be moved over to New York. If the Baltimore club is dropped I think McGraw will go to the Washington. I don't think he would go to any other city outside of Baltimore except Washington." "Why not?" "On account of bis business in Balti more," was the reply. "I got it straight that he is making more money out of his business than he is playing ball. A man who ought to know told me that Robinson and McGraw divided $16,t)n0 between them as the profits of their business for one year. Do you think he would leave such a good thing? He could play in Washington, and still run his business in Baltimore. It is only an hour's run to that city. He could go to Washington every morning and get back to Baltimore after the game every evening." A few hours after this conversation jtcGraw was met. The hustling mana ger of the Baltimores was among the National League people who saw the fight. McGraw came out to the club house with his partner, Billy Robinson, and Aleck Smith. Major Fulton, the Baltimore rooter, was there, and so was John T. Brush, president of the Cincinnati club. Lajoie and Delehanty of the rhiladelphla.also saw the world's championship decided, as well as Win Mercer, of the Washingtons. Last, but not least, the erratic "Dad" Clarke was on hand. "Any chance of your coming to Cin cinnati next year?" was asked. "Oh, I don't know," was the reply. I have not thought of making any change." "Would you leave your business in Baltimore?" "I have never given the matter a thought," said the Baltimore man. "Kobbie and myself are doing pretty I Try Grain0! I Try Grain0! J Ask you Grocer to-day to Bhow yon fa package of GEAEf-O, the new food drink thct takes the place of coffee. J The children may drink it without Injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GEAIK-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, i but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it X without distress. the price of coffee. Q 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Sold by all grocers. Tastes like Coffeo g Looks like Coffee O Inawt that yonr grocer gfrBi yoa GRAIN-O 5 Accept no Imitation. Km well, I think, with our liquid empori um." "How about this sixteen thousand dollar story?" "What sixteen thousand dollar story?" "The story that you and Robinson split up $10,000 out of your saloon bus iness last year. Pretty stiff figures." "Not one bit stiffer than our profits," said McGraw. "Yes, we cleared $16,000 in our business last year, and will do better the coming year." OBJECTS TO STARTING GATE. "Pittsburg Phil" Threatens to Retire If It is'Retained. From the Globe-Democrat. J "Pittsburg Phil" has come out in an ultimatum. He declares that unless the starting gate is abandoned in this coun try, he will dispose of his turf interests here and go to England. This, he thinks, will mean the loss of six or sev en books on the eastern circuit, and he seems to think that this possibility will so work upon the feelings of the Jockey club that they will immediately order the abandonment of the offending gate. This, of course, is all nonsense, but Smith will not get away from the gate by fleeing to England. The Jockey club over there recently announced that hereafter the starting gate would be used for all 2-year-olds, the intention being that if reasonable success attends the departure, it will be used next year for all races for 2 and 3-year-olds, the next year for 2, 3 and 4-year-olds, and thereafter in all races. The intention is to have the gate used only in races in which the starting horses have exper ienced no other method of being sent away from the post. The "plunger," however, should not feel so unkindly to the turf of his native land, inasmuch as by taking advantage of its possibili ties he has acquired a fortune which he could have attained in no other possible way. The American race tracks have treated Mr. Smith well, and because, during the past year, he has been un lucky in the starts given horses owned by him or on which he happened to be betting, he should not blame the gate. There were bad starts before the gate was heard of more than there are now and there are other men who, the sea son through, could never get anything but the worst of it in the matter of a start: but those things all even them selves up in the course of time, and the average luck of one man is much the same as that of another. It is super ior judgment and hard and careful study of the capabilities of the contend ing horses more than good luck that en ables one man to prosper on the turf while another loses. INDIANS DEFEATED. Haskell Loses to the Warrensburg Normal Eleven. Warrensburg, Mo., Nov. 7. The Has kell Indian team from Lawrence, Kan., was defeated by the Warrensburg nor mal eleven here Monday by a score of 17 to 5. The game was the best ever witnessed in this city and several thou sand spectators attended. The game was not finished, as dark ness prevented and the umpire decided to call it some time before the second half was ended. The Indians played well, but were outclassed by the nor mals. The latter played well from start to finish and their line bucking was terrific. The Indians attempted many end runs but their Interference was bad. The lineup: Normals. Positions. Haskell Grossenbacher Center Switch Pigg Right guard.. ..Augusta Hays Left "guard DuBois Clay Right tackle Kittoo Spicer Left tackle Miquel Campbell, Capt. Right end..Archiquette H. Boisseau Left, end Felix Stone Quarterback. .Harris. Capt. Hollister Right halfback ....Greville Ferguson ....Left halfback Perry A. Boisseau Fullback..... ..Mitcheil For Thanksgiving Game. Kansas City, Nov. 7. Messrs. Adams and Elliott of Kansas university and Rothwell. of Missouri university, were here yesterday representing the two football teams that will battle for su premacy in Convention hall on Thanks giving day. The gentlemen visited Convention hall and measured the arena floor with a view toward making the revision of the rules that will be necessary on account of the small field. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS The Twentieth Kansas band, the musi cal organization that accompanied the fighting Kansas soldiers to the Philippines was with them in camp and on the tiring line, will be at the Grand opera house for a conc-ert Wednesday night. The band is made up to a great extent of former members of the Md-Continent band, and all the members ore accomplished musicians. In the programme the band boys will be assisted by Miss Nina Thom as and Mr. Frank Weightman. Topoka people will undoubtedly do what they should, till the theater for the concert. Tn a.ll the range of romantic heroism known to the American stage, there is in all probability no one character that stands out so boldly as that of Paul Kau var, in which Mr. E. R. Spencer will be seen at the Crawford theater Saturday afternoon and night. The brilliant auth or of this great play, the late Mr. Steele Maekaye. in portraying this hero, outdid all his former efforts. Probably there is not in all history a period more stormy, a time so full of exciting incidents, an era of such remarkable occurrences, as that of the? French revolution, and among all the names whose owners figured in that time of strife and carnage, Mr. Maekaye could not haveselc cted any more dignified: tender, noble and heroic than yomtir Paul Kauver the youth whose place in history has no parallel, who loved his country, his honor and his Diane better than his life. It Is said that Mr. Spencer gives an admirable interpretation of this great character, and that the Diane of Miss Isa bel Pengra. his leading support, is perfect in every way. At the Grand opera house next Saturday niirht L-abadie's spectacular production of "Faust'' will be the attraction. It is an nounced that a complete scenic equipment is carried, and that in electrical and me chanical effects the production rivals that of Morrison and Griffith. Chamberlain's Pain Balm Cures Oth ers, Why Not You. My wife ha.s been using Chamberlain's Pain Balm, with good results, for a lame shoulder that has pained her continually for nine years. We have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors without receiv ing any benefit from any of them. One day we saw an advertisement of this med icine and thought of trying it. which we did with the best of satisfaction. She has used only one bottle and her shoulder is almost well. Adolph L. Millett. Man chester, N. H. For sale by all druggists. The Aristocratic Refinement Of the furnishings of the Santa Fe's California Limited will commend itself to those who appreciate the luxuries and conveniences of a perfectly ap pointed fast train. The limited will be composed exclusively of Pullman sleep ers, Buffet-Smoking car, Observation car and Dining car. It will leave To peka at 11:12 a. m. every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday begin ning November 8. For tickets and reservations apply to T. L. King, Agent, Depot. J. D. Bridges. Editor. Democrat, Lan caster. N. H.. says: "One Minute Cough Cure Is the best remedy for croup I ever used." Immediately relieves and cures coughs, colds, croup, asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, grippe and all throat and lung troubles. It prevents consumption. At all drug stores. NEGROSJTARTS. Makes a Beginning In the Way of Self Government. Regularly Elected Officers Are Installed. INAUGURATION DAY la Celebrated With Religious Rites and Horse Racing. A Grand Ball Is Giren la the Evening. Manila, Nov. 7. At Bacolod, in the island of Negros, the autonomous gov ernment of the Filipinos was establish ed yesterday. Gen. Smith, governor of the island of Negros, administered the oath of office to the judge of the su preme court, who in turn swore In the governor, three judges, 12 eouncilmen, the auditor and the secretary of the in terior. The natives of the entire island attended the ceremony. The officers from Iloilo, were also present. Three days feasting will follow, in celebration of the new government and the first an niversary of the surrender of the Span iards to the Negros revolutionists, ending with a ball in the government house. American flags are displayed in the village. The celebration consist ed of horse racing and other sports, music, religious functions and an il lumination. The ball attracted tha wives of the wealthy planters, and there was a great display of rich cos tumes and costly jewels, such as would be seen at a similar affair in America or Europe. Elections were held October 2, the number of votes cast being 5,4S. There were 4U candidates for the various of fices. Melectio Reverino was elected gov ernor, receiving 1,350 votes. Senor Gaime received 1,277 votes. Suffrage was determine by property qualifica tion and ability to read and write. Col. Miner welcomed the officials on behalf of the United States. In the course of his remarks he said: "Negros leads in the van of civil government in the Philippines. Your honor lies in adding a new star to Free dom's flag." Gen. Smith, during a speech which he delivered, said: "Your future promises as brightly as Japan's, who today Is recognized as among the civilized nations of the world." Senor Reverino, in replying said that the best thing for the future of Negros was the continuance of close relations with the United States. Gen. Smith then announced the grant ing of freedom to the political prisoners in commemoration of the event. Gen. Hughes, in command at Iloilo, tendered a congratulatory speech over the eastern cable from that place. Gen. Smith, in an interview remark ed that it was of the utmost import ance that the Filipinos should be taught to recognize the sovereignty of the United States. "The greatest danger," he added, "threatening a peaceful administration is intrigue among the insular politic ians," and he declared that the United States government must for years keep control of the Philippines in order to prevent such conditions from existing. The members of the Sixth infantry, which is divided into three garrisons throughout the island of Negros, are undergoing great hardships. A recently organized revolution has been discovered in northern Negros and the leaders have been forced to with draw to Panay. A number of bandits, under the leadership of Faoa Isio, a religious charlatan, have been driven into the mountains, but it is expected that they will give more trouble. A force of 250 native soldiers, armed with Springfield rifles, are helping the Amer icans and are found to be valuable as scouts. Gen. Lawton's operations have been temporarily suspended owing to heavy rains. The country around Cabana- tuan is flooded. The river, however, has oegun railing rapiuty ana probably the country in that section will soon re sume its normal condition. EXPLAINED HIS POSITION. From the Washington Star The stranger, who was traveling on horseback through a rather unproductive though picturesque stretch of territory paused to look at an especially pleasing view. A man with pale blue eves and straw-colored whiskers turned out of a lane into the road, and after the genial manner of the country, bade the stranger good evening. "Do you live in this part of the coun try?" "I don't look like no summer boarder, do I?" was the blue-eyed man's reply. "It's fine scenery around here." ."So I am told." "I this your farm?" "I dunr.o." "But you ought to know whether you're the proprietor or not. "Well, I guess I'm him. But I don't see no use o' you strayin' around to tell me of it. I've got responsibilities connected with this place an' I'm reminded of 'em frequent enough without vour mixin' In. V hen you call me proprietor, though, I don't want you to get the idea of some body who goes around bein' monarch of all he surveys an' givin' directions with a lordly wave of his hand. If I want any thing done I get my wife to give the or der. The children and the hired man will pay some attention to what she says. There's two mortgages on the place an' the assessor is the feller that used to spark my wife before I married her, so he don't bear me no good will nohow. Everybody says the place would go to pot ef my wife wasn't such a superior wo man an' my oldest boy wasn't so indus trious an' ef my daughter wasn't so smart an' energetic. Narv one o' them 13 the proprietors. Thev get the credit, though, every time the taxes is paid or we have meat an' canned goods on the table fer dinner. But when anvthing goes wrong an' there's anybody to be stood up an' sessed an' threatened with the law, why I'm the feller." Homeaeekers' Excursion via Santa Fe Route. On Nov. 7th and 21st will sell tickets to points in Arkansas, Arizona, Louisi ana, New Mexico, and Texas at one fare plus $2.00 for round trip. Bismarck's Iron Nerve. Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach. Liver, Kid neys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Only 25 cents at Waggoner's drug store, 731 Kansas avenue. Strickrott Has Moved. John F. Strickrott, the well known view photographer, has moved his studio to 515 Kansas avenue. He is pre pared to furnish first-class work on short notice. He will also continue to finish work for amateurs and has a free dark room at the disposal of customers. OA Am use of your Formaldehyde Inhaler I was day I first heard of Dr." Geo. Leininaer's r- mend it to all sufferers from Asthma. rre. 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"Well, the most I ever opened for anyDody myself was fifteen dozen and a half, for two when I was working on Koyal street. One gentleman eat eight dozen and a half and the other gentleman eat seven dozen." "Eight and a half!" said the young man, enviously. "Holy snakes! That's 102 oysters!" "They was large oysters, too," continued the opener, "and that makes all the difference in the world. A dozen such oysters is equal to three dozen small culls, and you want to bear that in mind when you hear fellows blowing about records. Five dozen, though, is nothing out of CATARRH cured, scrofula, early consumption, bronchitis, asthma, pleu risy, cough, chronic throat disease, blood and skin diseases, heart disease, pains and palpatation of the heart, liver, kidney and bladder troubles, dia betes. 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"Well, they say a man ate sev enteen dozen, medium size, at a pl.tce here last season. He came from Xew Iberia and he wasn't a very big man to look at. either, but he sure had a capacity. The shells filled a barrel." "Yes. that's straight." spoke up a cus tomer from the other end of the bar. "I was there when he did it, but pshaw! that wasn't anything. I claim the championship myself. I won it about six years ago, eating a barrel of oys ters in a wholesale house here, opening them myself as I went along. 1 adm.t they were not very big. but the score was 306 and up to date I haven't heard of anybody who has beaten it." The speaker was a well-known resident 1 f Xew Orleans and several bystande. s confirmed the statement. The young man with the four dozen record changed the subject. It will not be a surprise to any who ar3 at all familiur with the riol quali'it-s of Chamberlain's C'ouh Rfmedv to kn.-w that people everywhere take rileasnre P'. relating their e. perient e ia the ne of that splendid medicine and in t'-liin of the benefit they have receive! from it. of bad colds it lias cured, of threatened at tacks of pneumonia It has aerted arid of the children it has saved from atta' of croup and whoopinj? cough. It is a prrand, good medicine. For sale by ull druggists. A Beacon Light to the Sick and the Right Path to Health, la the Treatment of DRS. JOHNSTON WALSH, America's Greatest Specialists, Permanently Located in Topeka, Kan. Dr. II. Austiv Johnston is a graduate of one of the finost Medical L'nlrersities In tile world, and has had great experience ia hospital and prlTate practice. Ijr. Edward Walsh, formerly Clilcafro'i lead ing specialist, is a graduate of Kush and Bennett Medical Colleges, and was formerly 1'resideut of Bt. Anthony's Hospital.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1899 The I Whole Truth There's nothing so bad for a cough as coughing. There's nothing so good for a cough as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. The 35 cent size is just right for n ordinary, everyday cold. The 50 cent size is better for the cough of bronchitis, croup, grip, and hoarseness. The dollar size is the best for chronic ccughs. as in consumption, chronic bron chitis, asthma, etc. A TRUST OF TRUSTS. Bicycle and Automobila Companies to Unite. Xew Tork, Nov. 7. The Times says: A $200,000,000 combine is projected. The Informal meeting to perfect this great organization will be held at the Wal dorf Astoria today. It is intended to combine all of the rubber, bicycle and automobile companies into one great concern which will control the produc tion of every article entering into the manufacture of a. bicycle or an auto mobile. in the proposed company it is said, all of the companies already formed "will be participants. Messrs. Studeba ker and K.iker who own numerous pat ents, are said to be parties to the ar rangement and they are also mentioned as largely interested in the automobile company corporate! at Wilmington on Saturday. GERMANY STAYED OUT. Would Have Nothing to Do With the Transvaal Trouble. Xew Tork, Nov. T. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says:: The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Morning Post throws light on the policy of the Kuropean powers. He states on authority that the govern ments of Russia, France and Spain dis cussed the question of intervention in the dispute between Kngland and the Transvaal and agreed on the dispatch of a joint note suggesting arbitration, but the condition of action was the co operation of Germany, which was re fused. MUNICIPAL PAWN SHOP Opena For Business in Chicago Under State Law. Chicago, Nov. 7. A. municipal pawn Fhop, operating umler a law passed by T he last legislature, was opened here today. The institution is operated un der a state charter and loans money at 1 per cent per month, instead of the customary 5 to 10 per cent and upwards charged by pawn brokers. The first and chief object of the society, as an nounced, is to protect poor people who borrow money on small chattels. The president of the society is J. V. Harwell Jr. Buys a Million Acres. Minneapolis. Minn., Xov. 7. A special to The Tribune- from Ashland, "Wis.. ;iy: Frederick We verba user of Chmpewu I-'alls, the greatest lumberman in Wiscon sin and Minnesota is just closing another tleal which more than clinches hi- title tis the most extensive manipulator in lumber and logs in the world. His latest and most stupendous deal is the purchase cf one million acres of lumber lans fmm the Northern Pacific company. This tim ber is located on the Pacific coast. The price paid fur this Umber is $t,mX'.iAo. crofu Those little kernels in the neck! Has your child ever had them? .You know some times they swell, become painful, soften, and end in a scar. Give such a child Scoili mutstcTL just as soon as the kernels appear. The little swell ings will grow less and less and soon will disappear alto gether. Continue the Emul sion until the child has good flesh and a healthy color. oc and $i.co, all druggists. SCOTT BOWKE, Cktmuti, New York. it's 8 RAILROAD NEWS. Santa Fe Directors AVill Likely Appoint a Comptroller. Succeed the Late J. P. "White head In New York. AT ANNUAL MEETING. Action Not Probable Until De cember Erent. General Auditor II. C. White head Mentioned For Place. It is probable that the Santa Fe di rectors will take no action toward naming- a successor to the late J. F Whitehead, as comptroller of the Santa Fe system, until the annual meeting- in this city in December. It is believed that a comptroller will then be named. At a meeting' in October the directors named an assistant comptroller to han dle the work of the oflice temporarily. This move practically gave otlicial de nial to the rumor that a successor to Mr. Whitehead would not be appointed, the work divided among the Santa Fe representatives in New York, and the ol!ice of comptroller abolished. Who will be named for the Xew- Tork ofiice is a tiucstion, as is true of all rail road appointments. Mr. II. C. White head, the present general auditor of the Santa Fe, has been mentioned in con nection with the place. Fnless the di rectors decide to pro outside of the Santa Fe ranks for a man to succeed Mr Whitehead, the present general auditor is thought to stand a good chance. In the event of Mir. Whitehead's ap pointment, the changes that would con sequently result in the Santa Fe ac counting department can only be sur mised. TO ABOLISH EXCURSIONS. An Event of the Future In Railroad Progress. Increased revenue from excursion busi ness was the suoject of a special com miMee report at the convention of the American Association of 'Genera! T'assen ger and Ticket agents. With reference to l:irin- national and state gatherings to which the rate is always as low as one fare for the round trip, and sometimes less, the committee reported as follows: "To some such gatherings large crowds ere carried, and no doubt the low rates tiring out a good many people who would not otherwise travel, but, on the other hand, large numbers who would other wise move at the regular rates are ob served to be planning their trips from time to time so as to take advantage of the reduced rates, with the result that on such occasions the travel is concentrated upon tile trains of a day or two. at a large extra expense to the carrying roads, re sulting in poor service, with certainly does not tend to increase regular traffic, to say nothing cf the serious and some what expensive interference with the movement of freight, at least in some parts of the country. There is grave doubt whether there is any real profit to the railroad in attempting to do business this way. particularly for distances ex ceeding 200 miles.' INSPECT A NEW LINE. Chief Engineer and Party of Kock Is land Officials at Enid. Mr. W. E. rauchy. formerly of To peka, but now chief engineer of the Itock Island with headquarters in Chi cago, came to Topeka Monday in pri vate car Xo. 500. l ie remain d here un til evening in consultation with several of the local officials, and left on the night train, accompanied by Mr. II. It. Irvine, general road master, Mr. li. "W. Day, division engineer. Mr. V. R. Can non, superintendent of the oridge and building department, and Mr. H. I. I'aub, superintendent of the water ser vice, of the lines west of the Missouri river, on a short inspection trip over the Rock Isia nd road, and especially ov-r the new line known as the Enid Tonwaka railroad, which the Rock Is land is building from Xorth Enid, out into Oklahoma territory about 40 miles. While in Topeka, Mr. Dauchy said: "The Rock Island road is in excellent shaoe. We are making changes and improvements, incident to the natural wear and tear, and are doing every thing to better the already excellent service of the road. Already we have put in several iron bridges in place of old wooden structures which have been taken out. We have also others in view, which will be changed as soon as we can get around to them. "We expect to visit the new line, the Kn id-Ton waka road, which the Rock Island is building in Oklahoma terri tory, and which we hope to have fin ished and the last station located by the latter part of this week. We shall in spect some of the new improvements and look over other places where we in tend to make changes. The trip will probably consume the better part of this week. We have no radical changes in view." NEW SANTA FE STATIONS. General Manager Frey Announces Their Establishment. General Manager Frey of the Santa Fe has issued a circular announcing the establishment of the following new sta itons along the line of the Santa Fe. Chicago division Fabius, Motter, Kl lison and Iiggs. all on tiie main line. Eastern division Amador and Ken ton, on the Emporia branch. Xew Mexican division Simpson and I'oso. both on the main line. Oklahoma division Salter, on the Augusta branch. Southern Kansas division Matoaka, Ochelata. Ramona, Vera, Collinsville and Owasso. all on the newly con structed Hartlesville branch. Panhandle division Sumter and Ilyner. both on the Kunnewell branch. Kio Grande division Hanover and Fierro. on the Hanover line. Hanover Junction, on the S. C. X. road. Tiie following changes in the name of stations is also announced in the circu lar. lionner. on the Leavenworth branch of the eastern division, will hereafter be known as Bonner Springs. I'.laekwell. on the main line of the Xew Mexico division, will hereafter be known as Ojita. Crystal, on the main line of the Pan handle division, will hereafter be known as Crystal Springs. BUILT THE ROCK ISLAND. Death of Cot Wm. F. Durant, the Millionaire Railroad Contractor. Chicago, Xov. 7. Colonel William F. Durant. a millionaire and former rail road contractor, who built a great por tion of the Hock Island and the Union Pacific railway systems, died at 6:40 o'clock Sunday night at the Auditorium hotel, which he had made his home for nearly eight years. Jjeath was due to pneumonia, contracted only a few days ago. Colonel Durant was one of the best known men in railroad circles in Chi cago, though he had not been engaged in active business for eighteen years. He was born in Lanesborough. Mass., April 11, 1823. of poor parents. He spent his early days in the east and worked as a clerk in a country store in New Fngland. In 1S48 when the craze ol gold sent hundreds of men to the west Mr. Durant came with the tide and set tled in Iowa. A few years later his brother, the late Dr. Durant, became vice president of the Chieasro, Kock Island and Pacific railroad and also a director in the Union Pacific railroad. Colonel Durant secured contracts for building a part of the Rock Island sys tem and constructed the greater part of the line through Iowa. After the completion of this work he was en gaged by the Union Pacific in purchas ing the right of way through western states and also in the construction of the road. TRAVEL TO CUBA, Island Will Rival California aa a Winter Resort. Chicago, Nov. 7. Southern railroad men claim to have every reason to believe that Cuba this winter will be a form-dable rival of California and Mexico as a resort for persons in search of health and those who wish to escape cold weather. I'y De cember, they say. thousands of northern ers will have become temporary residents of the rejuvenated island, which, largely through the spirit of American progres siveness is said to offer more inducements than formerly. Within the next two weeks 40a northern ers, nearly half of whom are Chlc-tgoans. will leave for Pubo. They will go from here to St. IJ(uis, thenee over the Mobile Sr Ohio railroad to Mobile, where thev will go to the port of Xetivitas on one of the steamers operated by that railroad. A short distance from Xeuvilas they will assume control of o.f' acres of land, and their settlement will be known its l.a (Gloria, The moving spirits of the party believe that I. a Oloria in time will be rec ognized as one of the most desirable win ter reports in the western hemisphere. In winter the climate of Cuba is said to be hiEfhly benehcial to persons afflicted with pulmonary troubles and to those wh .se general constitutions need strength ening. The finest magnesia springs in the world, it is snid. are to be found in trie provinces of Havana and Santa 'Mara. The steamer service between New Orleans and Mobile and the principal ports of the island lias been improved within the last few weeks. At the beginning of this month a line of vessels was estabiished Vict ween the most important of Cuban ports one branch between Havana and Santiago and another between Havana and Xeu vi; as. Many of the persons who will to Cuba in time to escape the cold will leave this countrv with the intention of remain ing permanently on the island. Railroads are carrying carloads of furniture, agri cultural implements and machinery to gulf ports for transportation to the island. These things are the property of persons who intend to accept the government of Cuba. The railroads of the south have ar ranged to offer the public a rate of about fine and a third fares for the round trip from American points to the islands. This rate entitles the passenger to meals and berth on the steamer. RECORD BREAKING MONTH. I October Equipment Orders Amounted j to 33,023 Cars and 323 Engines I Touring October there were placed ord- i ors for 33,0: cars of all kinds. t this j number 1.41 S were box, stock, furniture and coal cars; l.Teo were steel cars; iP) j were llat cars and o!4 were passenger and i street railroad cars. Iw of the latter be- ing ordered fur export. Ot the I.ul cars about 1.7'.j are to be built by railroads at their own shops. Orders for oiiS loeomo- j tives of all kinds were a I so noted, of which about thirty-eight were for export. The division of types of the locomo tives were approximately 242 freight lo comotives; 4U passenger and 35 switch lo comotives. Nearly 100 more locomotives were order ed than in September while about three times as manv curs were ordered in e- tuber as were noted in September. The I October orders amounted to 22 timet; as many as were ordered in August although the record for that month was a large one. The cars ordered during October al most eual in numbers those ordered in Jim?, July, August and September com bined. Some of the largest orders placed in October have been deferred for many weeks on account of high prices. MONSTER FREIGHT DEPOT. The New Burlington Structure In Kansas City to Be Opened. The Brulington's new freight depot at the foot of the Twelfth street decline, Kansas City, will be formally opened tibout November 20. It is one of the best freight depots in America and cost $HI0. Oaa, The building is 00 feet wide and lu0 feet long, including the platform. Burlington freight officials from all sec i tions of the country will be there to at- tend the celebration which will be given at the opening-. These gatherings of freigrht reprepentati es are occasionally held, and are familiarly called "family meetings." But on this occasion the rneet ing will be on a broader scale, and will inclut'e a number of invited piifsls. the leading shippers and business men of the city. 31. 3.. Harmon, general southwest agent, nas trie celebration in charge. TO BUY SANTA FE LINE. Burlington After the Road Between Leavenworth and Atchison. Leavenworth, Xov. 7. Xews comes from Atchison that the liurlington is figuring on the purchase of the Santa. Ke's Leav enworth. Northern and Southern line be tween this city and Atchison and will make it part of a direct line between this city and Preston. Neb., and a cut off on the route from Denver to Kansas City. The report says a party of engineers left yesterday to survey the new line to Atch ison, coining into Atchison from the west. This route will be used instead of the present B. Ac M., line out of Atchison, which follows the Missouri river and which costs a fortune -every year to keep out of the water. By purchasing the Pollywog the P.ur lington would jcet into Atchison from the west, but over the Santa Fe tracks. Whether or not the road is sold the re port says the engineers will survey a route between Atchison and Leavenworth. WILL INJURE HUTCHINSON. Wholesale Houses Will Not Be Com pleted Since Sale of H. S. Hutchinson. Xov. 7. The work on the wholesale business houses for Hutchin son, which was in progress, has been temporarily stopped by the sale of the Hutchinson Southern, but it is un derstood it will go ahead again at least next spring if not bt-fore. Two of the houses, the Central Mer cantile company and the Xave Mc Cord. are doing a big business out of Hutchinson. The Central Mercantile company has an immense stuck in its present quarters near the Kock Island. This company had a splendid structure planned for their future use. At pres ent they have no assurance that a switch can be secured and the building has been stopped. The company is ready to build at any moment and will push the work next spring if not before It is quite possible, however, that the location of the building will have to be changed. A SERIOUS CHARGE. A Santa Fe Station Agent Near Wel lington in Trouble. Wellington, Xov. 7. C. A. Woodward, the Santa Fe station agent at Dalton, six miles east of Wellington, who was arrested by Sheriff Heskett Saturday night on a warrant issued by County Attorney Ready charging him with as sault on a young girl was bailed ou( of jail today. The information was sworn to by Woodward's wife. The person he is charged with assaulting is their 14-year-old adopted daughter, Grace Hill, a sister of Mrs. J. S. Devaney of Well ington. According to the testimony of the girl. Woodward has been guilty of improper intimacy with her for four years, ever since the time of her adop tion. The arrest has caused a great sen sation at Dalton and in the surround ing neighborhood. Woodward has been the Santa Fe agent there for eight or ten years, and his character has al ways been above reproach. A delegation of Woodward's friends came to Well ington yesterday for the purpose of getting him out of jail, but were un able to find the authorities. They re turnd to Dalton and came to Welling ton again today and furnished a bond for $1,000 with J. C. Carson, W. CI. Whaley and Wm. Wilson, all well known citizens, as sureties, and Wood ward was released. His preliminary trial is set for two weeks from today, before Justice Bur-nelte. CALIFORNIA EXCURSION. First Raymond Wnitcomb Train of the Season Leaves Chicago Tonight. A Raymond "Whitcomb excursion train, bound for Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, will leave Chicago this even ing at 5 o'clock over the Santa Fe, and pass through Topeka at 11:40 Wednes day morning. The train consists of Pullman sleepers Occident, Orient and Tolva, Wagner sleeper Mariposa, a Harvey diner and a baggage car. and is the first of the winter excursion trains to start for California, A contract has been entered into be tween the Raymond Whitcomb peo ple and the Santa Fe by which all Ray mond Whitcomb trains will hereaf ter use the Santa Fe track from Chi cago to Kansas City as well as from Chicago to the Pacific coast. Death of Thos. B. Twombly. Thomas B. Twombly, sr., formerly for many years master mechanic of the Chi cago. Kock Island Pacific, died at his residence in Chicago on October 31, at the age of 75 years. He was born at Dover. N. H.. on January 7 ISiM. and entered rail way service on March 12. as machin ist with the Connecticut River railroad. He subsequently servol as locomotive en gineer on that road and other line-' until 3&5;. from which, date to March. 1S57, he was master mechanic of the Xewburyport Oeorgetown. He was then for one year locomotive engineer on the Mississippi fc Missouri, but returned to the Xewbury port Georgetown in February, So8, as master mechanic, which position he re signed In 1S51. From August, ist;i to July. 1m;7. he was foreman of the machine shops of the Mississippi fe Missouri, and during the latter vears was appointed master me chanic of the C. K. I. fe P.. at Chicago. He retired a number of years ago. Holiday Rate For Thanksgiving. The announcement of the Western Pas senger association that there would be no reduced rates for people desiring to pay a visit home on Thanksgiving may possibly be followed by another that the ugual holiday tariff will go into effect. The Chicago Alton has already taken the initiative and announced its intention of making a rate of a fare and one-third for the round trip for the occasion. This rate will be in effect between all points within 325 miles of each other November 2li and 30. Tickets will be good for re turn to December 1. This action of the' Alton will force all the western roads to pursue the same course. To Change Santa Fe By-Lawa. It is proposed to change the by-laws of the Santa Fe so that without previous ac tion by the stock holders the directors shall have authority to acquire or lease new mileage to an amount not exceeding 2uu miles in any one year. The call fur the annual meeting to be held December 14, in Topeka, has been issued. SANTA FE LOCALS. Milt Player, foreman of the round house, is in Chicago on business for a few days. Engine Xo. 510 was broken in today. Engine Xo. S14 is just out of the shop, and will be used on the passenger runs west out of Topeka. Engine Xo. 642 broke a piston rod and blew out a cylinder head near Sib ley, Mo., Monday. Wm. Bush is acting as round house foreman during the absence of Milt Player in Chicago. Engines Xo. 825, 826 and 827 have been sent to Raton for service. Wm. Smith, a Santa Fe machinist at Arkansas City, was a visitor at the shops here Monday. Gordon Pearce, of Lawrence, has ac cepted a position in the round house. Roy Daniels, of the Santa Fe store house, returned to work this morning after a week's vacation. RAILROAD NOTES. Glen Mettler is running an engine In Old Mexico. His run is over mountains with a 5 per cent grade. He is working with a Mexican wood passer and an engine w-hlch burns wood. Kl Dorado Times. General Agent W. M. Lampton of the Denver Rio Grande railroad, who has heretofore been stationed in Denver, has been appointed assistant general freight agent to take effect immediately. Frank Kingsberry, who has" had the Lawrence branch mail run lor 11 years has been transferred to the fast mail, running west from Topeka. Mr. Hoyt of Lawrence, takes the Lawrence run. J. W. Kennedy who has been H. E. Fox's assistant in the watch inspection department of the Santa Fe Pacific sends word to Mr. Fox that he has decided to stay in Brookline. Mass., this winter. Al buuuerque Citizen. The Hutchinson Southern aeents at Kingman. Rago. Harper, Blackwell and Cross will no doubt soon be sea.rching for new locations. At each of these points the Santa Fe has agents who will no doubt look after all of the local business. Five Ottawa hoys are at work for the California Southrn road at San P.erna dino. California. They are Max Kartmess, Tom Hood. Steve Moore. Henrv Moore and Jesse Parr. Mesdames Hood. Moore and Parr are with their husbands. Ot tawa Herald. Conductor E. B. Sill was down from Xickerson calling on old friends and also took occasion to remind the proper offic ials that he would resume work as soon as the limited is put on. The captain has been off duty several months. Xew ton Kansan. This morning twentv negroes were brought to this city from Guthrie and are at work in the material yard of the Eastern Oklahoma, loading and unloading material for the new road. This city has been made the headquarters for the new road and this will brini; a good many men here to work. Arkansas City Trav eler. FROM LAS VEGAS. Machinist Helper H. B. Johnson has taken the position of stationary engineer at the round house. Fireman banner is again able for duty. He has been off several days on account of an injured hand. Engine Inspector F. L. Cox has resumed IfOSTETTEFfs If you have reached the point where you think nothing can strengthen your stomach try Hostetter"s Stomach Bitters. It cures all Stomach, Liver and Kidney Ailments. Ihis Is a fact, not an experi ment. Try It. STOMACH work after spending several weeks in the east with relatives. Engineer Keen and Fireman Moore have been assigned to the third mountain en gine which is to be put on in a few days. Fireman Henry West went to Cerrillos to arrange to move his family to' this city where thev will reside in the future. G. W. Gulick and YV. G. Burr have been transferred to Raton from here, to work in the construction department. A. B. McGaffney who had been agent for the Santa Pacific at Holbrook. re signed and will engage in business in A.1 burque. On Monday the extra employes at the shops at San Mareial were let out and now the regular force consists of two boilermakers, two machinists, one painter, one tinsmith, one carpenter, and the nec essary number of hostlers, wipers, engine and car inspectors. POSTAL BUSINESS GROWTH Money Order Department Conducted at a Lioss. Washington, Xov. 7. The auditor for the postoflice department in his annual report shows that during: the last year the number of postofHces in the United States increased from 72,1)76, to 74.384; the number of domestic money orders issued increased from 27.79S.07S, repre senting $401,113,717, to 29,007.870, representing- $442.4S3,3r4, a net increase in number of 1,209,792, and in volume of $41,369,633. During the year the revenues of the postal service increased from $S9,012.61S to $95,021,384, and the expenditures from $117,850,407 to $01,C32.16O. a net increase in the receipts of $6,008. ,65. and in ex penditures of $3.77S.752. Upon this show ing the auditor asks for an increase of 30 clerks as a minimum requirement for the year 1900. Considerable space is devoted to the subject of money orders and a state ment is given which shows that during last year the system was conducted at an actual loss to the government of ap proximately $105,106, which fact, the auditor says, would suggest the exer cise of great care in legislating for the employment of new financial features in the postal service. The postal revenues for the year are shown to have been $95,021,384. and the expenditures $101,436,269. leaving a de ficit of $6,413. 8S5. Of this amount the treasury has advanced $6,000,000, the balance unpaid being $413,885. The amount of second class postage collect ed from publishers and news agents was $3,527,032, and the amount of stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers and postal cards sold was $87,280,654. The cost of mail transpor tation is given as $54,253,058, of which amount $1,629,749 was paid for the transportation of foreign mail. The auditor renews his recommendation of last year to the effect that life of money orders be limited to three months in stead of 12 months as now provided by law. REED'S OLD SHOES Will Ba Worn by His Former Private Secretary. Portland, Me., Xov. 7. Amos 1. Allen, Republican candidate for congress in the First Maine district, was elected yester day by a majority of more than 4,600 votes over L.uther F McKinney. the democratic candidate. With the town of Dayton in York county, to hear from, Mr. Allen's majority is 4.657. Dayton will doubtless reduce this, but not enotisi to brintf it below 4.G'X. The First Maine district was Speaker Reed's district last year and he had ex Congressman McKinney as his opponent. At that time Mr. Reed's plurality was 5.;2f over McKinney, but there was C. pro hibition candidate who polled 5j votes, thus reducing his majority to 4. (01. There were only to candidates this year, but it is evident from spoiled ballots that a considerable number of prohibi tion voters made the mark in the prohibi tion square on the official ballot although they had no candidate. Dast year the totaJ vote in the district was 23. 670. This year it amounts to less than 2o.(fj. Con pressman-elect Allen is known in national life as Speaker Reed's secretary IVir many years. Otherwise he was not a prominent hure, even in his own state and neighborhood. ELEVATOR FALLS A Distance of Fiva Stories While Filled With People. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 7. The ele vator in the Phoenix building, one of the largest structures in the city, fell live stories yesterday afternoon when filled with passengers. Ten persons were injured, several of them seriously. The injured are: C. B. Trafton. L. Armstrong. Garvev Donaldson. J. II. Talmadge Sr. W. H. Place. Arthur Fredenburg. Edwin I.indahl. Charles B. Marvin. J. H. Talmadge Jr. An unknown woman. The cause of the accident was the giving away of the cable in the socket attached to the car, and when the car riage dropped, the heavy weights, de tached from their fastenings at the eleventh story, fell on it, crushing the occupants of the cage in the basement. The most severe injuries are broken legs, and it is thought all the victim3 will recover. LINCOLN'S MONUMENT. The Contract Is Let For Its Res toration. Springfield, 111., Nov. 7. Governor Tanner, State Treasurer Whittemore and State Superintendent of Public In struction Bayliss, composing the board of commissioners of the National Linc oln monument, today let the contract for the restoration of the monument here to the Culver Construction com pany of Springfield, their bid being $94, 500. and the lowest. The Culver company will go to work at once on the restoration of the monu ment. It must be finished according to contract by November 1, 1900. A tem porary hall for the keeping of the Lin coln trophies now being kept in the monument will be built. Just what disposition will be made of the bodie3 of the president, his wife and son, Tod, Lincoln, has not been decided upon. Probably a temporary vault will be erected and a watchman employed to guard it. State Superintendent of Public In struction Bayliss, in speaking of the contract, said: "The monument, when completed, will be as near like the present one as possible. P-very piece cf material now in the monument found available will be used. The shaft will be about fifteen feet higher, which will be the only ma terial change." M. E. Visitation Plans. Philadelphia. Nov. 7. Among the busi ness transacted at the session of the board of Methodist Episcopal bishops' enference was the adotiun of the plan of Koiscopal visitations for the first haif of the yt-ar l:"o. The board chose In dianapolis as the seat of the next bish ops' conference, which will begin on the last Wednesday of April. lf-i. The plan of visitations includes the foliowintr con ferences to be presided over by the bish ops nam-d: Central Missouri. Marshall, Mo.. March 2s. Bishop Fitzgerald: Kansas. Kansas City. Kansa-s. March 21. Bishop Warren: Missouri. Kirksville. Mo.. March 14. Bishop Fitzgerald: Northwest Kansas. Concordia. Kansas. March 14. Bishop Warren: St. Bouis. Kansas City. Mo.. March 21. Bishop Fitzgerald: South Kan s's. Char.ute, Kansas, March 7. Bishop Vincent: Southwest Kansas. Wichita, Kansas, March 11, Bishop Vincent. j r I1 Tim JiVege table Preparaiionrar As similating tfccTood arvd&ei? uta ling iheJS toinsdis and-Bcareia of Eromotes "Dlgestien.CheerfuI iness and HestContalns neither Opium .Morphine nor HineraL Not Nahc otic. jinise Sceii fiirrn Seed -ii'sjpyroaa- flows Aperfecf Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour S tonttch.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions ,Feverish ncss andLoss OF SLEEP. facsimile Signature of TTEW "VORK. 4 EXACT COPT OF WEAPPEB. PRES. STEYN'S REASONS For Taking XJp Arms in tha Trans vaal's Cause. New Tork, Nov. 7. The consul gen eral of the Orange Free State in this city, gave out today the full text of President Steyn's proclamation calling on the Orange Free State Boers to sup port the Transvaal. The proclamation reads as follows: "Burghers of the Orange Free State: The time, which we had so much de sired to avoid, the moment when we as a nation are compelled with arms to oppose injustice and shameless violence, is at hand. Our sister republic to the north of the Vaal niver is about to be attacked by an unscrupulous enemy, who, for many years, has prepared himself and sought pretexts tor the violence of which he is now guilty, whose purpose it is to destroy the ex istence of the Afrikander race. "With our sister republic we are not only bound by ties of blood, of sym pathy and of common interests, but also by formal treaty, which has been necessitated by circumstances. This treaty demands of us that we aisslst her if she should be unjustly attacked, which we unfortunately for a long time have had too much reason to expect. We therefore can not passively look on while injustice is done her and while also our own dearly bought freedom is endangered, but are called as men to resist, trusting the Almighty, firmly be lieving that he will never permit in justice and unrighteousness to triumph. "Now, that we thus resist a powerful enemy, with whom it has always been our highest desire to live in friendship, notwithstanding injustice and wrong done by him to us in the past, we solemnly declare in the presence of Al mighty God that we are compelled thereto by the injustice done to our kinsmen and by the consciousness that the end of their independence will make our existence as an independent state of no significance and that their fate, should they be obliged to bend under an overwhelming power, will also soon after be our own fate. "Solemn treaties have riot protected our sister republic against annexation, against conspiracy, against the !aiin of an abolished suzerainty, against continuous oppression and interference and now against a renewed attack which aims only at her downfall. "Our own unfortunate experiences in the past have also made it sufficiently clear to us that we can not rely on the most solemn promises and agreement of Great Britain when she has at her helm a government pre pared to trample on treaties, to look for feigned pretexts for every violation of good faith by her committed. This is proved among other things by the un just and unlawful British intervention, after we had overcome an armed and barbarous black tribe on our eastern frontier, as also by the forcible appro priation of the dominion over part of our territory which the discovery of diamonds had caused the 'desire for this appropriation although contrary to existing treaties. The desire and inten tion to trample on our rights as an in dependent and sovereign nation, not withstanding a solemn convention ex isting between this state and Great Britain, have also more than once adopted and now again are shown bv the present government by giving ex pressions in public documents to an unfounded claim of paramouncy over the whole of South Africa and therefore over this state. "With regard to the South African republic. Great Britain has moreover refused until the present to allow her to regain her original position in re spect to foreign affairs.a position which she had lost in no sense by her own faults. The original intention of the conventions to which the republics had consented under pressure and circum stances has been preferred and contin ally been used by the present British administration as a means for the practice of tyranny and of injustice, and among other things for the sup port of revolutionary propaganda within the republic for Great Britain. "And while no redress has been of fered as justice demands for injustice done the South Aftican republic on the part of the British government and while no gratitude is exhibited for the magnanimity shown at the request of the British government to British sub jects who had forfeited under the laws of the republics their lives and property yet no feeling of shame has prevented the British government, now that the gold mines of immense value have been discovered in the country to make claims of the republic, in consequence w hich if allowed will be that those.who, or whose forefathers have saved the country from barbarism and have won it for civilization witb their blood and III 1pM i lltlyh For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature Always Bought. km 1 1 galiforn: The Land of Sunshine. There is co Climate like it on this Continent for a Winter Resort. fICT ur-- Fine Train Service via the Union Pacific. Falace Bleeping Cars, Dining Cara, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Buffet Smoking and Library Cars, Ordinary Sleeping Cars, Pintach Light, Steam Heat. Five Trains Daily from Missouri Klver. For Time Tables. Folders, Illustrated Hooks Pamphlets, descriptive of the territory tra versed, call on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent, or J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent. their t'ars. will lope their control over the interests of the country to which they are justly entitled according to divine and human laws. The conse quence of these claims would h more over, that the greater part of the pow er will be placed in the hands of those, who foreigners by birth, enjoy the priv ilege of depriving the country of its chief treasure while they have never shown any loyalty to a foreiKn govern ment. Besides, the inevitable conse quence of the accepta nee of t hee claims would be that I he independence of the country as a S"!f j?overnintc. in dependent sovereign republic would be irreparably lost. Kor years past Hritish troops in mvat numbers have been placed on th irontiers of our sister re public in order to compel her by fear to accede to the demands which wouM be pressed upon her and in order to encourage revolut ionary d ist ui ba ntva and the cunning plans of those whoso preed for gold is The cause of their shnmeless u ndertR k ins. "Those plans have now reached t heir climax in the npen violence to w hich tha pr,ent f irit ish govern m-nt now r-. nvt while we readily acknowledge the honor able character of thousands of Ki:t-dish-mn, who loathe such deeds of robbery and wrong, we can not but a bhor t h shameless breaking of treaties, tint feign ed pretexts for tiie transgression of law, the viol at ion of interim t iomi 1 la w and injustice and the numerous rli: ht -rendi ni deeds of the British statesmen who ft iil now force war upon the South African re- eublic. On their heads be the guilt of lood and may a. just providence reward all as they deserve. "liourghers of the Orange Free State rise a-s one man agai ns t the oppressor and the violator of rlirhts. "In the strife to which we are now driv en, have rare to commit no deed unworthy of a Christian arid of a Hurgher of the Orange Free State. Ket us look forwr-rd with conlidnce to a fortunate end of this conflict, t rusting to that higher power, without whose help human weapons are of no avail. "May He bles our arms. UnrVr His banner we advance to battle for liberty and f at herland. "M. T. STKYX, State President." Relief In Six Hours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease relieved in six hours by "New Great South American Kidney CurV Tt is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in biad-P-r. kidneys and back, in male or female. Jce iieves retention of water a3 most Pa med iately. If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by Sim Tru2T Co., 34 Kansas avenue, and Oeo W. Stansfield. W2, Kansas avenue, drug gists, Topeka, Kansas. Over Golden Rules Veto. Toledo, Xov. 7. The board of uhWmon la-t night passed over the veto of Mayor Jones tiie proposition to sell th city ir;n plant. The session was lull of interest and the question was debate- at time iu the most acrimonious manner. Tie; voti resulted in tiie proposition being carried over the veto by eleven to two. A Saving Wife. Ts she who keeps a bottle of Tggs Cherry Cough Svrup on hand. It saws the child's life and also saves doctor's bill Guaranteed for Croup, Coughs Knd Colds. K. W. Squires, Kansas avenue A Valuable Cargo. San Francisco, Nov. 7. The steamer roric which has arrived from the t-wient brought consignment o silk valued at W 111 You Have ISA

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENSAN. .VOLUME XXVI No- 265 Official Paper of the City of Topeaa. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 30 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any "-an; sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mall, one year oo By mail, three months Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. -Topeka State Journal Building. K ana 802 Kansas avenue, corner of i-igm-o. NFJW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, MKT. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Blag. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court. Fleet Street. Business o Reporters' Room Bell Phone 0'' No Balaklava business for the Mis eouri mule. Every time Otis gets ready to smash 'Aguinaldo it rains. Mark Hanna is getting ready to be thankful that it was no worse. Just a little bit of a plurality for Nash, will satisfy Senator Hanna. Thanksgiving might be more general ly observed if it came before election, instead of after it. The British should be able to escape from Ladysmith if they have enough of those mules left. Sharkey is as hungry for more fight ing as those nations which sent dele gates to the conference at The Hague. Keep your eye on Golden Rule Jones, the man who is running for governor of Ohio without a platform and without a ticket. The issue in Nebraska this year is Bryan, in Ohio it is McKinley, in Ken tucky Goebel, in Pennsylvania Quay and in Delaware Gus Addicks as usual. "What else could be expected from mules reared in a state where the anti expansion is as strong as it is in Mis souri. Perhaps the British didn't think of that. While other nations are busily en gaged in expanding their territory, Russia is employed in extending her railways, ghe is now preparing to con struct a line to a port on the Persian gulf. Fifteen hundred of Dewey's relatives are reported to be about to swoop down on him in his new home in Washington. No wonder he refuses to be president. Think what it would be to provide offi ces for all those Deweys. General White would prove a valu able man in the capacity of reporter on a daily newspaper. He puts his news In the first line of his story. "I have to report a disaster," he said in his communication to the war office and then he told how it happened. His im partiality was shown in the fact that he shared the blame himself equally with the mules. A NEW EXPLOSIVE. Lyddite, the new and powerful ex plosive against the use of which Gen. Joubert commander of the Boer forces, is said to have protested to Gen. White, the British commander at Ladysmith, is made by treating carbolic with nitric acid. It is therefore picric acid. But picric acid is so enormously explosive In Its impulses as to be incapable of use or even of safe handling. In the manu facture of lyddite picric acid is sub jected to a secret process which ren ders it as safe to handle as ordinary gunpowder without in the least im pairing its terrific explosive force. Lyddite is the most destructive ex plosive that can be handled with safety by its user. Ounce for ounce it is from five to seven times more destructive than, nitro-glyeerine and from forty to fifty-six times more powerful than the best gunpowder. It is safe to handle, and no other high explosive is. It gives off no sickening fumes. It can be fired from ordinary guns without danger of explosion from concussion. A shell full of lyddite thrown into a regiment produces the same effect as dynamite exploded in a stream full of fish plus blood and mangling and the sounds of creatures in anguish. THE OHIO SITUATION. On the eve of the election in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which has re frained from supporting any and all of the candidates for governor in the Buckeye state this year, sums up the situation as follows: The campaign is almost ended and by this time the great majority of voters have probably decided what they will do, at least in regard to the leading candidates. I"nless all indications are deceptive there will be a breaking over party fences in all directions. The dissatis faction in the ranks of both the leading parties is great, in the one case be cause of the influences supposed to be behind the head of the ticket, and in the other because of the candidate him self, his political record and what his candidacy represents in his own person. In both cases the dissatisfaction and disgust among the honest masses of the parties are seconded by the bitter an tagonism of some active leaders to the head of their respective tickets. Tho knife and the hostile iencil will be ac tively employed next Tuesday. Money is being lavishly used to counteract the widespread disaffection, but there is always danger that the money may be taken and the votes then cast in another direction. The purchas able voter is an unreliable voter, and without doubt many will take boodle from both barrels and then throw away their votes on a candidate that has no barrel and whose platform is an irri descent dream." The objection of many Republicans to their candidate, Nash, is that he is be lieved to represent Hannaism, a phase cX Republicanism that has become hateful in their eyes and which they hold to be inimical to the future wel fare of the party. Their objection is not to the candidate himself, but to the influence that, it is claimed, dictated his nomination. The Democratic objection to the can didate who forced himself on the head of the ticket is that he is in no sense a representative of the Democracy of Ohio: that he is practically, if not tech nically an alien from the state; that he has been a bitter assailant of leaders representing genuine Democratic prin ciples and who had the esteem and con fidence of the true Democracy of the state; that his candidacy represents his own selfish ambition and not the sen timent of the Democratic party; that his methods in politics are demoraliz ing, and that his election would be dis astrous to the best interests of the party whose name he has perverted to his own selfish ends. What w ill the dissatisfied Republicans do? Where will the disgusted Demo crats go? That is the question which each voter must decide for himself and the answer will determine the re sult of the election. The votes given for Jones will ac complish nothing beyond marking the dissatisfaction in the two parties with their leading candidates and what they are supposed to represent. His election is out of the question. The platform on w hieh he has placed himself is imprac ticable. His promises are incapable of fulfillment, even if his election were a possibility. The principal danger of voting for him lies in the possibility of a large Jones vote serving to secure the election of the very candidate the voter most desired to defeat. KAN SANS TO THE LIMIT. From the Chicago N-W3. Topeka gave General Funston and the Fighting Twentieth Kansas a magnifi cent greeting on their return home. Flags flew everywhere and the rail roads seemed to empty the population of all the surrounding count;y into To peka to see and cheer Kansas' popular hero and his brave men. The Kansans are like Funston in one respect they never do things by halves. Thursday's welcome proved the enthusiasm of the Sunflower state and its admiration for men who have served their country no bly at the front. FUNSTON AND TOPEKA ALL RIGHT. From the N. Y. Mail and Express. Topeka has done herself proud. She couldn't capture Dewey on his return, but she has her Funston and has done the thing up with all the enthusiasm and hurrah of a seaboard city includ ing Chicago. Funston is all right, of course but so Is Topeka. GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. It is surprising how dumb the aver age man is about figures. Weather strips are of far more Im portance now than war bulletins. The first hint a preacher receives that he is unpopular, is connected with non-payment of salary. When a man fusses, his wife doesn't care so much that he is displeased as she fears that the neighbor's will hear him. You can always tell which one of two rivals is getting the worst of it: the one getting the worst of it is most abusive. You are always justified in suspecting a man who offers to pay you a dollar interest for the use of two dollars for a week or so. It always makes a church woman mad because the men will not take as much interest In revivals as they do in prize fights. A woman, providing she has relatives at her destination, will start on a five hundred mile trip with a return ticket and thirty cents, and feel perfectly satisfied. A married man attracts no more at tention than a baseball player in win ter, but let his wife die, and he will attract as much attention as a good third baseman at the beginning of the season. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Form the Chicago News. The bulldog is a typical open-faced watch. The well-read man Isn't always the pink of perfection. Perhaps the good die young because the young always die good. Too many people perform their work after the style of machines. If you can't get what you want be satisfied with what you can get. A soft heart and a hard head make a combination that is hard to beat. Clothes do not make the man, but they sometimes make a monkey of him. Politicians are sometimes called dark horses because of their shady rec ords. Pluck usually wins. A man's success aften depends upon his ability to pluck others. The man who doesn't recognize the world's greatness nor his own littleness is apt to be a cynic. A cyclist may ride down hill with a tireless air, but he can't make much progress up hill with an airless tire. The reform movement that doesn't interfere with the rights of a number of people usually dies in its infancy. An epigram is a lot of words fitted together in such a peculiar manner that their lack of meaning is conceal ed by the brilliant effect produced. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. There would be a lot less trouble in the world if men could be born mar ried and get old-bachelored. Every man at times gets a sore spot in his heart that needs one woman to kiss it and make it well. When we begin to feel that we no longer understand the young we our selves are beginning to grow old. When Gabriel blows his trumpet on Judgment Day all the women will hur ry out under the impression that it is an auction. When women are talking with each other about clothes they never say much about the old things they wear around the house rainy days. Hats trimmed free at Mrs. Kimball's this week, 633 Kansas avenue. JAYHAWKER JOTS. The Brown county bar docket is the largest that it has been in years. The registration at Fort Scott this j year was eAttcLiy vtuai. il wiia two j-ecu ago. John Meyers, a Jewell county corn husker, claims that he can bring in 150 bushels a day. Half of the Kansas weekly papers this week reprinted Joe Waters' poem, "They're Coming Home." Walter Darlington, the Concordia cat tle feeder, recently marketed 91 head of steers, which averaged 1,435 pounds, at $6.15. Ex-Attorney General Boyle came back into Kansas long enough to make a Populist speech at Fort Scott last night. Kearney county away out in the shortest part of she short grass country will have a fine fruit exhibit at the Paris exposition. Ten car loads of steel rails were dis tributed along the north branch of the Central Branch last week to take the place of the old iron ones. I'p in Osborne county one school dis trict has built a barn at the school house, so that those pupils who drive to school can "put up" their horses. The Eagle claims that. Leandro Cam panari, who is coming to America from Milan, Italy, with an orchestra of 40 pieces, used to be a Wichita boy. Funston and the Twentieth Kansas are responsible for the large stock of original poetry which is piled up In every newspaper office in the state. Ewing Herbert has unearthed a case of attempted bribery up in Brown county. One man offered another a basket of turnips if he would support his candidate. The Downs Times man springs this joke and is still at large: Many a man who knows nothing about the tariff would get on a tariff he could stand the bar-tender off. The printed instructions of the Jewell City Telephone company prohibit swearing over the telephone. Thus are the liberties of mankind abridged by soulless corporations. A lot of office-seekers wish they would come as near being struck by political lightning as the Osborne coun ty man did by the real thing: His bed was set on fire by a thunderbolt. It has been currently reported that the Transvaal war has put up the price of diamonds, but a whole lot of Kan sas papers go ahead advertising them for a dollar apiece, just the same. Ex-Attorney General Dawes has not missed closing the campaign the night before election in Clay county in many years. He went out from Leavenworth and made a speech there last night. A Hiawatha man has laid in a wagon load of potatoes to give to the needy this winter, and the recording angel has given him a long credit mark and ordered an extra polish put on bis crown. A belligerent Hartland mother at tempted to whip a school teacher for punishing her boy. A. state warrant was issued for her arrest, but before it could be served she fled across the state line into Colorado. An Abilene man tried to walk across the street with his foot asleep, and found trouble in maintaining his equi librium. The town gossip saw him and reported his strange movements to his wife. The same evening business kept him out late and he has not been able to convince his wife since that there wasn't something wrong with him. Gomer Davies missed the opportunity of a life-time the other day because he was married. In speaking of Helen Gould's recent visit to Concordia, he said: "The Kansan would like very much to see Miss Gould get married and settle down happily in Concordia. AVe are sure she would enjoy life in this city to its fullest degree. We are hav ing a good time here; we can not see any good reason why she might not also." When Miss Gould was shown the article she laughed and said: "If thai, fellow was not married. I might be tempted to take him, wooden leg and all." Wherever a Kansas man strays you can depend on his corraling a good, fat office for himself, if there is one in sight. A Kansas man tak?s to office holding like a duck does to water. Al bert R. Greene, who now holds a fed eral position which takes him all over the United States, and who is some thing of an office-holder himself, in a recent letter to Governor Riddle, says along this line: "The office-holding ca pacity of the Kansas man is not only illustrated at home. but in otiier state as well. While he wanders he may, as In galls says, still yearn for home, but he does not let his anguish deter him from holding a good job if it is in sight. In Nebraska 1 found a register of a land office who used to teach school in Grantville; another who used to prac tice in Oberlin; at Broken Bow a former legislator of Kansas who is preparing a history of the Sunflower state and in cidentally holding onto a revenue of fice; at another point a register who served in a Kansas regiment in the civil war and calls our state 'home;' in an other office a register and in another a receiver who were old Kansas men and seemed to think more of it than they did of Nebraska, although they had been away for fifteen years. On the Pacific coast it is the same. There are Kansas men holding government posi tions at Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Coeur d'Alene and San Francisco. Two or three of the best positions in Utah are held by Kansas men, and Arizona and New Mexico have a Kansas col ony which takes good care of the land offices and other positions. The re markable thing about it is, that true to Ingalls' and Prentis' statements, they are all Kansas men still. They are referred to in the papers and when introduced socially, as 'Kansas men' and introducer and introduced seem to think it is the hiehest honor, a position which no true Kansan will for a mo ment dispute." BURIES W II 0 N GM A N. Illinois Woman Recsives Letter From Husband Supposed to Be Dead. La Salle, 111., Nov. 7. The body of a man was found in a pasture north of Peru about ten days ago and identified by Mrs. John Roberts as her husband. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of death from exposure and exhaus tion. The body was interred by Mrs. Roberts in the family burying ground. Roberts' insurance in the Metropolitan Life Insurance company was collected by Mrs. Roberts. Today she received a letter from her husband, who, it appears, is in the county poor house at Ottawa, where he had been sent by the supervisors. The affair has created a sensation here. The authorities are investigating the case. 35th Reaches Manila. Washington, Nov. 7 Gen. Otis cabled today that the transports Rio, Sikh and Valencia arrived today. Private Patrick Cleary, G. Thirty-fifth infan try, died October 26. of ptomaine pois oning. The Rio and Sikh sailed October 5. from Portland, Ore., with the Thirty fifth volunteers. The Valencia sailed from San Francisco October 3, with recruits. KANSASJ1EWS. The National Salt Company Raids Hutchinson. Secures Control of the Packing Company's Plant. INVOICE BEING TAKEN. There Is Some Mystery Con nected With the Deal. Whether It Is Outright Pur chase or Lease Not Known. Hutchinson, Nov. 7. It is said here today that a change of considerable im portance is being made among the salt plants of Hutchinson. Last evening the report was started that Joy Morton had purchased the Hutchinson Packing company's Interests in the salt indus try here for the National Salt company and that the Packing house plants will be operated in the future in connection with the Morton salt plant. The fact that an invoice is being taken at the Packing house offices today seems to bear out the report that a deal has been made. It is thought by employes that the Packing company's plants have only been leased for a term of years, but the general belief is that a purchase has been made. This will mean a consolidation of the salt works of this city. Some call It a combine or trust. OAS FOR SOLOMON. Wells to Be Started in the Sand Hills This Month Solomon, Nov. 7. A gentleman who is interested in the proposed prospect wells which are to be put down in the sand hills east of Solomon, says that work on the first well will commence within the next thirty days. The capi talists who are advancing the necessary money have required leases of the min ing privileges on 5,000 acres of land and nearly the requisite acreage is now un der lease. The first shaft will probably be on J. A. McNaull's farm, six miles east of Solomon indications there pointing to large quantities of coal or gas. This land lies adjacent to the Red Bud ranch on which the Abilene Land Cattle company put down a weK some ten years ago. Gas was found ir. this well and is still there, but it will hardly be practical to re-open it. AT RAFTER'S HOME. The Citizens of Hoiton Give the Major a Generous Welcome. Hoiton, Nov. 7. Major John A. Raf ter, surgeon of the Twentieth Kansas, was given a rousing welcome on his ar rival here Saturday night. This is Ma jor Rafter's home town, and he is popu lar with his fellow townsmen. When he stepped from the afternoon Rock Is land train he was met by a delegation of citizens and 700 school children and university students who had marched to the station, headed by a drum corps. The crowd surged down on the major and there was a general scramble to get to grasp the hand of Holton's repre sentative in the Twentieth. Eli Grubb, a Hoiton man who has been with the Eighteenth regulars in the Philippines, returned on the same train. In the evening an informal reception was held at the home of Judge E. E. Rafter, and many of the major's friends and acquaintances called to welcome him home again. ZINC AT TONGANOXIE. An Important Discovery Reported on the O'Dea Farm. Leavenworth. Nov. 7. Many people around Tonganoxie are firmly convinced that lead and zinc in paying quantities exist in that part of the county, and despite failure so far to find it in pay ing quantities, there are many prospec tors in the field. A promising discovery is reported on the farm of Dennis O'Dea, five miles southwest of Tonganoxie, just over the line in Reno township. Two fine speci mens were brought in and are now be ing assayed. The mineral bearing rock was broken off a ledge four feet in thickness which comes to an abrupt termination on Pony creek. The ledge is in a steep bluff and the same stratum was found in a well on Mr. O'Dea's premises. The discovery was made by Bide Plummer, a miner who has much experience in the southeastern Kansas ore fields. The mineral is very easy to get at and the mine could be worked at a very small expense. Until the assayer's report is received no further steps will be taken. NO GRAND JURY. Montgomery County Judge Denies a Presented Petition. Independence. Nov. 7. Judge Skid more has notified the clerk of the dis trict court that after fully considering the petition for a grand jury filed with him. and the law governing the matter he has decided not to order a grand jury drawn. The law is somewhat uncertain and contradictory and many attorneys hold that if a petition for a grand jury, by one hundred or more tax payers of the county, is presented to the judge be tween twelve and thirty days previous to the first day of court, the judge has no discretion in the matter and must order the jury drawn. Judge Skidmore discusses the question at considerable length, pointing out the contradictions in the law, and concludes that he is not deprived of his discretion in the matter, by the time of the filing of the petition. A PAINFUL ACCIDENT. Wellington Boy's Leg Broken by the Romping of a Cow. Wellington. Nov. 7. Monroe Abell.the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Abell of Perth, met with an accident yester day which may cost him his life. He was leading a milch cow with a long rope, when the cow commenced romp ing and caught his right foot in the rope, and in some manner broke his leg just above the ankle. The flesh was stripped entirely from the bones nearly to his knee, and the foot was left dang ling by a slender cord. LIGHTS FOR PARSONS FREE. A Concern Which Desires a City Con tract Grows Liberal. Parsons. Nov. 7. Ths Welshbach Street Lighting company of America have been corresponding with the city council, endeavoring to secure a con tract to light the streets ot Parsons with their improved natural gas street light. In order to demonstrate the effi ciency of the light in comparison with are electric lights they offered to put in a number of lights free of expense to the city so that the council could see what they were offering. They have acocrdingly sent here twelve lamp posts w hich they have ar ranged with the Parsons Natural Gas company to put in position and con nect with their gas mains. These posts hav been set on Central, Forest and Johnson avenues and Eighteenth street and will be ready to' light the first of this week when the council will be en abled to compare the cost and results obtained from lighting streets with gas or electricity. FROM THE PHILIPPINES. Captain Boltwood Brines Home Many Curios. From the Ottawa Herald. A reporter visited Captain Boltwood at his home today. A visit to Captain Boltwood's home is like a visit to a museum. The captain brought home whole boxes full of curios. As you enter you see a curious looking flag, which the captain proudly shows as a captured Filipino flag. The reporter's visit was for the pur pose of getting the captain's story of the cannon and plow at the Ottawa Hardware Co.'s store. The cannon the captain purchased of the Spanisn com mission at Manila. It is a fae simile of the kind of pieces the Kansans cap tured at the Kio Grande river. The captain had to go through a lot of red tape to get this gun. The plow is a sample of the best plows in use in the Philippines. He purchased this one of a native near San J; ernandu. YOUNG GIRL MISSING. High School Pupil of Kansas City Kas., Left Home Last Thursday. Kansas City, Kan., Nov. 7. Miss Jen nie Griest, the 16-year-old daughter of D. J. Griest, a prominent lumber man, has suddenly disappeared and the po lice are unable to get the slightest clue to her whereabouts. Last Thursday Miss Griest got per mission of her parents to visit the daughters of the Rev. Blakemore of Edgerton Place, and she has not been seen since. The girl was a pupil of the high school and had been in love with An drew Fawcett, also a high school pupil. The boy claims to know nothing of the girl's sudden and mysterious disap pearance, and as the young sweethearts had been interfered with in their love making, it is believed by some that the girl has resorted to self-destruction. Her parents are almost distracted over the affair. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Conway Springs Young Girl Swallows Carbolic Acid. The Conway Springs Star tells of the attempted suicide of Miss Dora Wise. 16 years of age. living near Ewell. She is a daughter of Daniel Wise. The girl swallowed a tablespoonf ul of carbolic acid, but will recover. The Star says: "From what we can learn, the reason for her rash act was about as follows: She went to a dance with some young fellow Monday night and did not get home until early Tuesday morning. Her mother, who was in bed sick, reproved her for being out all night. The girl stepped to an other room, got the carbolic acid, came to the door with in in a spoon and said to her mother, 'I am going to take this,' and she did." SECOND APPLE CROP. A Wellington Man Has a Remarka bly Fruitful Orchard. From the Wellington Journal. The papers over the state have been bragging about the apple trees in some localities blooming for the second time this year. Elmer Layne's apple trees have not only bloomed the second time this year, but are growing their second crop of apples. The trees are loaded with little apple about half an inch in diameter. So far as is known, this breaks the record. Mr. Layne has a branch of one of his apple trees on exhibition at Coverdale's cloth ing store, for the purpose of "showing" the doubtful people. Pensions For Kannans. Washington, Nov. 7. Pensions have been granted as follows: Restoration and increase Alexander Hanna, dead. Oberlin, $8 to $14; Austin J. Harman, Carbondale, $S to $17. Increase Stephen H. Wills, St. Fran cis, $12 to $17; James M. Brewer, Solo mon City. $6 to $8; Solomon Hisey, Olathe. $12 to $17: Martin Keever, Oak vale, $12 to $17; Thomas McConnell. To peka. $6 to $S: Hiram J. Ward, Far mington, $6 to $S; John Crawford, Gem, $12 to $17; George Coy, Chetopa, $10 to $17. Original widows, etc. Sarah A. Han na, Oberlin, $S; Minerva J. Spencer, Garland, $8. Must Go to Prison. Hutchinson, Nov. 7. Diamond Dicks will probably be taken to Lansing this week. It is understood that no further attempt will be made for a new trial and that Dicks himself is satisfied with his sentence of ten years in the peniten tiary. Before he can be taken to Lan ing a special order will have to be made by Judge Simpson, as the term of court has been adjourned to give Clark's lawyers time to prepare a bill of exceptions, and the term consequent ly is not ended. Leavenworth's Electric Line. Leavenworth, Nov. 7. Tracklaying will be commenced tomorrow morning connecting the Kansas City-Leaven- j worth trolley line with the south end i of the Soldiers' Home and Lansing line I at Lansing. There is only about half i a mile of track to be built and it is ex pected it will be completed and that cars will be running between Kansas City and Leavenworth within two weeks. His Conscience Eased. J. N. Burton, the Abilene actioneer, had a surprise yesterday that came near causing an attack of heart failure. A former employe, now in Pennsyl vania, sent him a dollar to pay for some corn stolen by him from Mr. Burton's farm many years ago. The remitter has recently found religion and sent the dollar to relieve his conscience, be lieving that amount would cover the value of the corn and intert st and se cure forgiveness for the sin. Salina Republican-Journal. Honors For Mr. Mustard. Abilene. Nov. 7. J. H. Mustard, one of Dickinson county's bright scholars and most successful teachers, has been offered a chair in the department of bi oloey in the University of West Vir ginia. The offer came through the Uni versity of Chicago in the medical de partment, of which he has been doing work for the past two years. Is it a burn? Use Dr. Thomas" Eclec tric Oil. A cut? Use Dr. Thomas' Ec lectric OiL At your druggists. WOUNDED BURGLAR. He Shows Jail Officials What It Is to Have Nerve. A man giving his name as Charles Martin, and who is suspected of being an all-round crook, lies in the county jail with a bullet somewhere in his foot. The bullet has been there for a week, but during most of that time the man has been hiding up in the northern part of Jewell county. The first part of last week the post master at North Branch, a country postoffice north of Mankato, who sleeps in his office, was awakened by some one breaking into his office. Rising in bed he saw the form of a man crouching on the floor. His revolver was handy and he shot at the intruder. The burglar jumped and ran, and that was the last thing seen of him at the time, although he left blood stains behind him. The latter part of the week a stranger limped up to a farm house in an out-of-the-way part of the county several miles from the scene of the robbery. He said he had been shot by a brakeman near Courtland while trying to steal a ride on a Rock Island train, and was nearly famished for something to eat. His wound was still undressed. The family had just heard of the at tempted robbery of the North Branch postoffice, and while the wounded man was eating a member of the family started for an officer. He was arersted and brought to Mankato, and last even ing he was brought to Topeka by United States Deputy Marshal Prescott to stand trial under the federal laws. He sticks to his story about being shot by a brakeman, and is a man of unflinching nerve. Today United States Marshal Sterne took a surgeon to his cell to probe for the bullet. The wound was inflamed and quite painful. The surgeon inserted his probe and got hold of a hard substance. He pulled with all his might, but the only result was to straighten out his probe. "It feels like you had hold of a bone," remarked the wounded man, but he never let a muscle quiver. He will have an examination before United States Commissioner Clark. IN BOMB PROOFS. British at Ladysmith Seek Escape From Boer Shells. London, Nov. 7. The following is the text of a dispatch from Gen. Buller, from Cape Town, dated Nov. 7, 12:55 p. m. "The following dispatch has been re ceived from the general commanding at Eastcourt, dated November 6: 'Since Friday there has been a cessation of hostilities. A note was sent that day to Gen. Joubert by Gen. White, at the request of the mayor asking per mission for the non-combatants, sick and wounded to go south. 'Gen. Joubert refused the request and agreed to allow them to go to a special camp four miles from Lady smith. The towns people refused to ac cept this offer. The sick and wounded and a few of the inhabitants were moved yesterday. A few shots were ex changed yesterday at the outposts. Fri day's bombardment was heavy. Shells fell in, the hospital and one burst in a hotel during luncheon. No one w injured. The only casualty in the town from the shells thus far is a Kaffir killed. 'There was a smart action Fridav towards Dewdrop. The troops under General Brocklehurst, drove the Boers back a considerable distance and dis abled a gun. 'There was also fighting near Bulu- wana. Our loss altogether is eight kill ed and about twenty wounded. Ninetv eight Dundee wounded have arrived. They were sent here Saturday. All are doing well. 'The position here is now believed to be entirely safe. 'It has been greatly strengthened during the last 24 hours. The people have deserted their dwellings and are living in bomb proof places safe from shell fire. There is plenty of good stores ot all kinds. 'Captain Knapp and Lieutenant Brabant were killed in Friday's action. "The foregoing is an actual copy of a press censor telegram, brought here by a ivanir runner, inere is no other of ficial news. MR. BROOKS NAMED. One of the Proprietors of Capitol Iron Works Given Important Position. Mr. Harry K. Brooks, a well known Topeka man, has been appointed me chanical engineer of the Axle Electric Light company. For the pesent he will have charge of the mechanical work of the compiny, and all inspectors will re port to him. Mr. G. K. Wheeler still retains the management in Topeka, but Mr.Brooks' supervision will probably soon be ex tended to cover the general manage ment of the entire western operations of the company. The company now has a shop located in the old Santa Fe roundhouse at Sixth street, and is engaged in equip ping Santa Fe passenger cars with the axle light apparatus. In addition to the axle lighting system, the company has a patent for a refrigerating process by which railroads will be able to carry fruit from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast in perfect condition without the use of a pound of ice. The process will be operated from power derived from the car axles, and is similar to refriger ating process now employed on steam ships. The first car equipped with the process will leave Chicago tonight for the east, and if it proves successful, it will prob ably be a bigger thing for the company than the axle electric lighting system. If the Santa Fe decides to have its refrigerator cars equipped with the re frigerating process the Axle company will build a shop in this city and the machfn- i ery used in experimenting work in the east will be moved here. In this event the working force of the companv in To peka would be materially Increased. Mr. Brooks will retire from active par j ticipation in the Capitol Iron works, I which he now owns .lointlv with his broth 1 er. G. W. Brooks, but will for the present retain a financial interest in the concern "Curly" Harrison of Ottawa, Mr. Brooks' father-in-ia w. will come to Topeka and associate himseif with Mr. G. W. Brooks in the management of the Capitol works. The Axle Kleotric I.isht company was recently organized with several million capital and is now backed by W. C. Whit ney. TRAIL OF BLOOD. Policeman Pounds a Man With His Ciub. Officer Carpenter arrested John Car roll and Frank Drew at about 3 o'clock this afternoon for stealing an overcoat, and after a struggle took his two pris oners to jail. The arrest was made at the corner of Sixth and Qui icy streets. i Both are vagrants who were arrested and turned loose a few days ago. Car roll resisted and Carpenter struck him on the head several times. inflicting deep scalp wounds. The man bled free ly and left a trail of blood from Sixth and Quincy streets to the police station. Jointists Arrested. Al Hayslip and Larry Sheehan were arrested this afternoon for selling Uiiuor. Both gave bond. i HAND OPERA HOUSE I One Night Only Sat, Nov. 11. Labadle's Grand Scenic. Spectacular and Mechanical production ot the Immortal Mr. Hubert Labadie. as Mary Von Tromp Labadie Mephisto J3.. Marguerite The entire stace cleared for this sumo- tuous production. Every piece of scenery (over 20.000 square feetl required for the plav, carried by the company. Jrteserveo seat saie win uegin on inurs dav morning at Fladd Grubbs' drue store. Prices: 75, 60, 35 and 25 cents. NOW A CHOCOLATE BROWN. Singular Passion That Caused Change in Victim's Complexion. Buffalo. N. Y.. Nov. 7. The arrest of Kaiser Pynoski on the charge of petty larceny brought to light a most pecu liar mania from which the 'man was suffering and which physicians who have examined him say is without a parallel in medical annals. Pynoski was arrested for stealing eight pounds of chocolate from a wagon. When he was caught, two hours after tho theft. he had just finished eating the iast or the chocolate. Questioned as to the reason for the theft, Pynoski said that from the time he was 7 years old he had an insatiable appetite for chocolate. His parents hu mored htm and he became a confirmed chocolate fiend. He could not go more than two or three days without his fa vorite food, which he would devour in great quantities whenever he could get it. When he has work he buys it. hen out of work he steals it. Several bur glaries of grocery stores have occurred recently, in which the only thing stolen was chocolate, and the police believe Pynoski is the thief. Upon removing the prisoner's cloth ing it was found that his skin was as dark as that of a mulatto, although he has light blue eyes like most Poles. Pynoski told the physicians that his skin was formerly as fair as anyone's, but that several years ago it began to get dark and had been getting darker ever since. Sometimes, he said, when he had not been able to get any choco late for some time, it would get lighter. The doctors say the chocolate has af fected the pigment of the skin. BRYAN IS CONFIDENT. Says Nebraska Will Give an Increased Majority For Fusion. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7. W. J. Bryan on his return from Omaha said he be lieved Nebraska would give an in creased majority for the fusion ticket. He did not care to give a forecast of the results in other states where he had made speeches. Mr. Bryan voted shortly after noon. He had not regis tered and his vote was sworn in. The election is quiet; there is nothing to indicate the outcome. Only one dis patch, and that a partisan one, has come from the Sixth district where a congressman is to be elected to fill a vacancy. This dispatch said there was a landslide to Judge Kincaid, the Re publican candidate. The normal fusion majority in the Sixth district is 5,000 but many Democrats, it is claimed, are voting for Kincaid. BOTH PARTIES LOSE. Heavy Decline in the Vote of Massa chusetts Town. Boston, Nov 7. Results from six towns in the state give Crane, Republi can, 866; Paine, Democrat, 25.'. Same towns in 1S8 gave Wolcott, Re publican, 1,185; Bruce, Democrat, 353. This shows a Republican loss of 20 per cent, Democratic loss of 28 per cent. M'LEAN'S CLAIM. Says Hamilton County Will Go Dem ocratic, Big. Columbus, O., Nov. 7. Mr. McLean arrived from Cincinnati at 1 p. m. and was driven at once to his Broad street residence where he will receive the re turns tonight. He stated to the Asso ciated Press soon after his arrival that his advices from over the state were all good. "You can say without any pull back to it, that Hamilton county wil.1 go Democratic big." Judge Nash will receive the returns at the Neil House with a party of per sonal friends. There was no one at either of the state headquarters who would make a statement regarding th nntlfinlf in 1 hp Klalp ji 1 1 hnilt? h fnn fi Unr in the outcome was maintained, the committee rooms being almost desert ed. IN HONOR OF SCHLEY. Birmingham, Ala., Gets Up a Military Parade of 8,000 Men. Birmingham. Ala.. Nov. 7. A military display of 5.000 men vas the feature of the celebration here today in honor of Admiral Schley. The procession con sisted of part of the National Guards of Alabama and Mississippi, the cadets corps from five colleges in this state, the Confederate veterans, the veterans of the Spanish war, the Sons of Vet erans, the Grand Army and numerous civic organizations. At the state fair grounds Admiral Schley reviewed the parade and took part in the formal opening of the fair. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. D. B. Mulholland to W. B. Spiar, $C00, tract in North Topeka. J. W. Gleed and wife to Mary Senft, $375, lots 1. 2 and 3, block 12, The Drive, Auburndale. F. S. Davis to R. H. Garrett, $600, lots 704 and 706, Lane street, Martin Den nis' addition. C. K. Holliday Jr.. et al., to F. O. Popenoe, sheriff's deed. $300, lot 685, Martin Dennis" addition. C. R. McDowell et al.. to C. B. Mer riam, sheriff's deed, $5i, lots 442 and 441, Grand avenue, John Norton's addition. W. M. Mitchner and wife to Bank of Topeka, $1,250, west half northeast quarter 1-10-13. Christian Roof and wife to David U. Hoyt, $600, lot 244 Chestnut street.Mets ker's third addition. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. Wr. O. Baker died last night at her home, 1133 Kansas avenue. Her hus band and four children survive her. Her children are Mrs. Carrie Randolph, Mrs. Charles Reisner of Atchison, Frank Ba ker of San Francisco and Ernest Baker of Barberton, Ohio. The funeral of Zachariah Bright, aged 69, who died Sunday at his home 823 North Tyler street, was held Monday afternoon from his home. Parker F. Carr, representative from Stafford county in 1897. died at his home in Douglass township, Monday, October 30. Mr. Carr was born in Cop ton county, Canada, March 2, 1853. He lived in Stafford county since 1877. Disappointed. Are they who fail to get Repgs' German Salve for Eczema, Tetter, Scald Head and Old Sores. Cures Piles. R. W. Sg.uires, 72 K.nsag avenue.

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TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. .AVE MONEY! Cut A HE Fire Insurance THE Continental Fire Insurance Co., of New York, Having been attacked by a combination of Insurance Companies, has decided as a WAR MEASURE, and in RETALIATION, To Cut Fire Insurance Rates in the City of Topeka. Kansas. Desirable dwelling risks accepted at One Dollar per Thousand per Annum. Desirable store buildings of ordinary size accepted at from 1.50 to 52.59 per Thousand per Annum SPECIAL LOW RATES ON OTHER PROPERTY. THE CONTINENTAL is one of the strongest companies in the country; has paid over Forty-one Million Dollars for Losses, and has over JSine Million Dollars Cash Assets. Assets July i, 1899. IT ISSUES Reserve for Insurance in force, -$3,8-59,040.90 SAFETY FUND Reserve for losses and all claims, 513,409.84 tirI irinc Reserve for Contingencies, 300,000.00 PULlVxIfciJ. Capital paid in in Cash, 1,000,000.00 Net Surplus, 3,577,202.23 No policies issued will be can- celed because of rates Total Gross Assets, 9,249,652.97 being restored. It will pay you to see us about your insurance at once. It is likely that you can have your present policy canceled, secure a new one that will cost you nothing, and possibly get some money back. What it Means A Tremendous Cut. The average person can scarcely comprehend the enormous reduction in rates, and the immense saving to the insured. In figures it is as follows: Our Rate. Trust Rate. Dwellings, per thousand, 1 year $1.00 $4.00 Dwellings, per thousand, 2 years 2.00 8.00 Dwellings, per thousand, 3 3ears 3.00 12.00 t,.,, i -it i $1.50 10.00 JJrick business buildings, to to V per thousand, 1 year, j 2-0 j j i5oo People holding policies on their property should not forget that they have the right under the law at any time to cancel their policy and draw back from the company the unearned premium. With this they can at these low rates buy a policy of us for probably one-fifth of the money returned and put four fifths back in their pocket. Bring in your policy and take advantage of the situation. Delay in taking advantage of this rate war may cost you money. FRANK S. THOMAS, Agent, Telephone 80. 501 Kansas Avenue. "A Skin of Bauty Is a Jot Forever. DR. T. FELIX GCtJRAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM. OR MaQICAL BEAUTIFIES. Purifies as well as 1'eautlfles the Skin No other cosmetic will do u. RraoTas Taa, Pimpies, Kreck les.Moth Patch, s. Rash and bkia diseases, anU every blem ish ou beau it. and defies de tection, it haa stood the test of BO years, and is so harmless we taste It to be sure it Is prop, eriy made. Ac cept no counter feit of similar Dames. J r. L. A. Payre ald to a lady of the haut-tou (a pa tient): "As you ladies will use them, I recom mend G uriud's ream' as the least harmu'l of alt sKln preparations." I'or saie by a I Drucgis s and Fancy lioods Dealers la the U. Caoalas, and Kurope. VLKD. T. HOPKINS. Prop'r. 7 Or ei Jones Bt. N. T. AID MANUAL TRAINING. School Board Makes a $100 Appro priation. The board of education is paying special attention to manual training and at the meeting last night appro priated J100 to be used in buying- ma terial for Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's Manual Training school in Tennessee town. Rev. Mr. Sheldon secured a church and the scholars from the colored school go there and weave baskets. At last night's meeting each member of the board was presented a basket with the name of the child that made it. The children rangred from 8 to 11 years old. Lorcy A. Halbert is the instructor. The Central Congregational church pays him a salary. With the manual train ing room In the new Branner building and the encouragement of Rev. Mr. Sheldon's idea, the board is gradually taking up the idea of manual training. Notice. 'All members of the executive com mittee are urgently requested to be present at a meeting to be neld Wed nesday evening at the Commercial club room at 7 o'clock sharp. All persons liaving claims of any kind against the executive committee on account of the reception of last Thursday are earnest ly requested to present them to the auditing committee at the Commercial club room, not later than Wednesday noon. It is the wish, of the committee to close up all the business Wednesday evening between 7 and 8 o'clock and make a final report to the Commercial club at its regular meeting Wednesday night. J. K. HUDSON, Chairman. Editor Sees Wonders. Editor W. V. Barry of Lexington. Tenn., In exploring Mammoth Cave contracted a severe case of Piles. His quick cure through using Bucklen's Arrica Salve convinced him it is another world's won der. Cures files. Injuries. Inflammation and all Bodily Eruptions. Only 25c at Waggoner's. 731 Kansas avenue. William Dean Howells at the high school Wednesday evening in the To peka Union Lecture course. LaOrippe. with its after effects, an nually destroys thousands of people. It may be quickly cured by One Minute Cough Cure, the only remedv that pro duces immediate results in coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia and throat and lung troubles. It will prevent con sumption. At aii drug stores. FOUNDED A. 0. U. W. Wm. Smith, One of the Original 13 Visits Topeka. The visit of Mr. William Smith to Topeka on Monday afternoon, calls to mind the fact that he is one of the original thirteen founders of the A. O. TT. W. fraternal organization, which was brought into existence over thirty years ago, and today is probably the strong est order of this kind in the world. Mr. Smith is at present employed by the Santa Fe road at Arkansas City as machinist in the shops there. It was at Meadville, Pa., that the original lodge of the A. O. IT. W. was founded, and J. J. Upchurch, now dead, was the originator of the order. Mr. Upchurch was at that time the master mechanic of the Atlantic and Oreat Western railroad shops, and to gether with twelve of the mechanics under his supervision, one of whom was Mr. Smith, a meeting was held and the result of this meeting was the begin ning of the order which is today fore most of the fraternal organizations of the world. It was at the close of the civil war that the necessity of making provision for the families of those who had been killed in battle was brought forcibly to the mind of Mr. Upchurch, and the formation of the A. O. U. W. was a di rect result of this much needed want. Mr. Smith is 55 years of age. and has been working at the machinists trade for many years, in fact almost continuously since he first joined the order. He is still an active worker in the A. O. U. W. So far as known, there is only one other surviver of the orig inal thirteen founders. Mr. Smith vis ited with several of the members of the order during his short stay in the city. Made Young Again. "One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each night for two wet;ks has put me in my "teens' again." writes L. H. Turner of Iicmpspytown. Pa., They're the best in the world for Liver, Stomach and Bowels Purely vegetable. Xever gripe. Onlv Eoc at aggoner's drug store, 731 Kansas avenue. Union Lecture Course. The lecture by William Dean Howells of New York tomorrow night wiil be one of the greatest literary attractions ever brought to Topeka. It is safe to say that every seat in the high school auditorium will be occupied and stand ing room will be in demand. Mr. Howells' subject will be "Novels and Novel Writing." Little But Sure. Are Beggs' Little Giants, a friend in need, pleasant to take, do not grip or gripe. An after-dinner Pill. R. w. Squires, 732 Ivansas avenue. Homeseekers' Excursion via Santa Fe Route. On Nov. 7th and 21st will sell tickets to points in Arkansas. Arizona, Louisi ana, New Mexico, and Texas at one fare plus $2.00 for round trip. You never know what form of blood poi son will follow constipation. K.eep the liver clean by using L'eWitt's Little Ear ly Risers and you will avoid trouble. They are famous little pills for constipation and liver and bowel troubles. At ail drug stores. Miss Nellie Lincoln will give an en tertainment at Lincoln Post hall, Wed nesday. November 8. under the auspices of the lodge D of H. No. 61. A. O. U. W. The small sum of 20 cents will be charged at the door. Refreshments free. CITY HALL HEAT. Council Considers llovr Building Shall Be Heated. Edison Company Submits a Proposal. NO ACTION IS TAKEN. Will Be Necessary to Decide Question Soon. Other' Business Transacted l)j the Topeka City Fathers. It is expected that the plans in de tail for the new city building will be in readiness to be presented to the city council at a special meeting to be held next Monday evening, and at that time the council will be called upon to decide as to how the building shall be heated, whether by a heating plant of its own or by heat supplied by the Edison com pany. C. R. Maunsell, superintendent of the Edison plant, was present at the meet ing of the council last night and gave a general idea of how much it would cost to heat the building by contract. He said the heating contracts were gen erally based upon the number of square feet of radiation in the building, but that it could also be done on the meter system. In the city hall wing of the building there will be 2,000 feet of radiation, and in the auditorium 3,000 feet. If this was in constant use the price for heating the entire building would be from $1,200 to $1,500 a year. The auditorium, how ever, will be in use only part of the time. Mr. Maunsell suggested that the c ity hall might be heated on the surface system and the auditorium on the meter system. The price for heating the city hall alone will be $500 a year. If the council decides to heat the building by contract it will save the trouble and expense of putting in boil ers for heating purposes, and no fire man will have to be employed or coal purchased. On the other hand, if a contract is made with the Edison company, it will cost $2,500 to lay the mains from the Edison plant to the city building, and part of this expense the company will ask the city to advance, as it will have to go to still further expense in enlarg ing its plant, and it has already spent several thousand dollars on improve ments within the past few months. The method of heating will have to be decided soon, is it will make a dif ference in the plans for the building and in the letting of the contracts. DEAD ANIMAL NUISANCE. Again Comes Up Sor Its Weekly Threshing. The perennial dead animal question came up at the council meeting last night as usual. Two bids were sub mitted for disposing of the city's re fuse, one by Dr. Geo. H. Hapgood and the other by the Topeka Crematory company. Hapgood agreed to haul away dead horses and other large animals for 50 cents each, dogs and cats for 20 cents each, and to cart away the city's refuse tor $24 per month. The other bid was to haul away and cremate dead horses and other large animals at fi each, dogs and cats at 25 cents each, garbage at 40 cents per barrel, and the city's refuse at $0 per month. Councilman Benson moved that the bid of the crematory be accepted, but several councilmen objected to doing so because of the disparity between the two bids. Other councilmen said they would not vote to give the contract to Iiapgood under any considerations, because he did not properly dispose of the refuse and the city had always had trouble with him. Doth propositions were at length re ferred to the ways and means commit tee. UNION LABOR. Topeka Organizations Want City to Make Specification in Contracts. The trades unions of Topeka are ask ing that union labor be employed on the new city building as far as possible. The following resolution from the build ing laborer's union was presented to the council last night: Whereas, We are informed that the work now being done on the Auditorium site in this city is being done by non union labor, at a less wage than the union scale for similar work, and. Whereas, The Building Laborers' un ion, as well as other labor organizations of this city, were solicited to support the auditorium bond proposition under the impression that all the work done on said building was to be performed by home labor at the standard wages of I Rfionlvwl That we memVers of the Building Laborers' International union No. 2 of Topeka. hereby, through our regularly constituted committee, pre sent to you. our urgent request, that so far as lies in your power, you use your influence to secure the remainder of the work on said building to union men at the union scale of wages. Accompanying the resolution was a petition asking that it be specified in the contracts that eight hours should constitute a day's work, that union labor should be used as far as practic able, that the union scale of wages should be paid, and that workmen hold ing working cards should be given the preference. The petition was endorsed by the Building Laborers' union, the Carpen ters and Joiners, the Retail Clerks, the Journeymen Barbers, the Steam Engi neers and the Topeka Waiters' alliance. It was referred to the building commit tee. City Hospital Needed. A bill presented to the city council last night by the officers of Stormont hospital called forth considerable dis cussion. The bill was for taking care of Joseph Hayden, who had his feet cut off by a train in North Topeka last summer. The unfortunate man had no place to go. the Salvation Army hos pital was full, and after he had lain down in the police station and suffered for some time. Chief Ramsey ordered him taken to Stormont hospital, where he was to be cared for for one dollar a day. The bill amounted to $5S, but several of the councilmen objected to the city paying it. because the statutes provide that the county shall pay such bills. The county authorities were scored be cause they shirk all such cases possible on to the city, when the city is not authorized to care for them. There are several other bills of like nature pending against the city, and they were all referred to the ways and means committee with instructions that the county authorities be consulted with regard to their payment. Four Ordinances Passed. There were four ordinances passed by the council last night. One authorized the issuance of $60,000 auditorium bonds to run twenty years, and to be dated January 1, 1S00; another vacates a strip five feet wide on the west side of Fillmore street along lots 523 to 529, Throop's addition, and lots 531 to 547, Storr's addition, to make the street 75 feet wide; a third ordinance was to pay for new sidewalks, and the fourth was the monthly appropriation ordinance. Minor Matters. The bond of Piatt L. Wise, the new city engineer, was approved, it is for $1,000 and is signed by the American Bonding and Trust company of Balti more. The bond of Police Judge Magaw was presented, but as it was lacking a reve nue stamp it could not be approved. Robert Stone addressed the council in behalf of the property owners on Quincy street between Sixth and Eighth avenues. A levy has been made against this property to pay for paving a strip in the middle of the street that was paved twelve years ago. At that time a street railway company had a fran chsie for a line down Quincy street, and the paving was to be done by the company, but it was finally paved by the Barber Asphalt company and charged up against the property own ers, part of whom have paid for it. Mr. Stone said that the bill of the company was outlawed long ago, and it was using the council as a catspavv to collect it; that most of the property had changed hands, and the present owners bad purchased it supposing all back taxes paid, and they did not like to be held liable for this paving tax now. City Attorney Bird said that the asphalt company brought suit against the city for the amount long ago, but it had been dismissed with the under standing that the city should levy the tax and the company would defend any litigation which might arise. The mat ter was referred to the judiciary com mittee. A bill presented by ex-City Engineer Barnes for $108.51 for the expense of keeping his horse from June 1, 1S98, to November 1. 1S99, was laid over after it had been discussed at length. Mr. Barnes thought as long as the city furnishes other departments with transportation it should also do so for the city engineer. II. I. Cook was granted an extension of time to January 1 in which to com plete the Madison and Monroe street paving. The appraisement for the extension of Fillmore street between Thirteenth and Douthitt streets, was approved. and the dirt which will be removed in grad ing was ordered used to fill in the new park at Thirteenth and Clay streets. A petition was presented asking that Topeka avenue be paved from Four teenth street to the south limits of the city. It was signed by C. D. Purdon, Thos. E. Hurd. Mrs. Carrie L. McCray and N. I. Dalton. The new license ordinance will be considered by the committee on Thurs day evening, and the whole council was invited to be present at its discussion. Another meeting of the council will be held next Monday evening. BUILDING AND LOAN KULE. Bank Commissioner Makes Ruling Concerning Agents'. Fees. Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is preparing a letter to be sent out to the building and loan associations in the state. In it he will impose the require ment that hereafter all agents' fees must be paid out of the interest charges. Under the present system, agents are allowed a fee by the building and loan associations which is paid by the per son buying stock. In some cases Mr. Breidenthal states, misrepresentations have been made by agents, and after taking stock the purchaser has found the proposition less profitable than rep resented, and declined to pay in fur ther. In these cases the agents' fees represents lost money. Commissioner Breidenthal holds that agents' fees are a part of the principal, and no part of the principal can be lawfully used for expenses. Mr. Howell's Lecture. The second number of the lecture course will be the lecture by William Dean Howells tomorrow, Wednesday, evening. There is still a limited num ber of seats available and a few more season tickets will be sold. Chart at Rowley Snow's. To Arbitrate Samoan Claims. "Washington, Nov. 7 Assistant Secre tary Hill for the United States. Mr. Tower for Grea't Britain and Mr. Mumm Von Schwarzenstein on the part of Ger many, today at the state department signed a convention providing for the adjustment by arbitration of claims of inhabitants of Samoa for damages re sulting from the naval and military operations there last spring. HAVE YOD TEIED THE HEW CURE For All Forms of Dyspepsia More Relief Experienced in One Day's Treatment Than by a Month's Use of Old Remedies. Did you ever before hear of a dyspep sia cure in which the manufacturers had enough confidence to allow a free test to everyone before purchasing? Did you ever btfore know of a dys pepsia cure where the manufacturers refunded the money in case it failed to cure? This is the first time in the his tory of medicine that it has ever been done, and all persons afflicted should profit by the lesson taught; for no mat ter what you read or hear, it is a self evident fact that the manufacturers of Hyomei Dyspepsia Cure have a confi dence in their remedy that others have not. CAN YOU AFFORD TO EXPER IMENT? Hyomei Dyspepsia Cnre Is guaranteed because it contains the only germicide that will destroy the bacilli which cause intestinal indiges tion, the most dangerous form of dys pepsia. It is guaranteed because it treats ev ery phase of dyspepsia separately, and permits the use of remedies required to cure each case, which cannot be given in combination, as they counteract the effect of each other. Ask your druggists for free treat ment, or send to us direct. If it affords relief, purchase a box, and we will re fund the money if it fails to cure. Sold by all druggists, or sent postage paid. Price, 50c. THE R. T. BOOTH CO., Ithaca, N. "ST. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Miss Blanche McPike of Atchison was the guest of honor at a delightful high five party given by Miss Maud Bates last Saturday afternoon at her home on Western avenue. Luxuriant palms decked the reception hall; fluffy chrys anthemums nodded from mantle and piano in the north parlor and American Beauty roses graced the south parlor. The score cards were pretty affairs on which were small pencil sketches done by the hostess. Refreshments were served by Miss Louise Kellam, Miss Agnes Gunther and Miss Bessie Bates. The guests present were Miss Blanche McPike and Miss Jean McPike of Atch ison. Miss Daisy Lakin, Miss Louise Smith, Miss Florence Rossington, Miss Emily King, Miss Bessie Hayden, Miss Helen Goddard. Miss Edith Goddard, Miss Ruth McClintock. Miss Mary Walker, Miss Helen Walker, Miss Kate Gunther, Miss Edna Crane, Miss Edna McClintock, Miss Lee Redden, Miss Mary Harrison, Miss Kittie Harrison, Miss Charlotte Parkhurst, Miss Wheel er, Miss Hila Hinckley, Miss Susie Sweet, Miss Amy Overmyer, Miss Lydia Bolmar, Miss Adelaide Bolmar, Miss Roberta Wasson, Miss Berdena Cran dell. Miss Irene Horner, Miss Sarah Horner. The H. H. Party. The H. H. club gave its second danc ing party of the series Saturday even ing at Hudson's hall. The evening was a delightful affair, music was furnished by Steinberg's orchestra. A number of out of town guests were present, also one of the members of the Twentieth Kansans just returned. Those present were Miss Aimee Cran dell, Miss Bernice Ott, Miss Ethel Had ley. Miss Winnifred Prescott, Miss Alice Vanderpool, Miss Margaret Perkins of Lawrence, Misses Maud and Daisy Bannister of St. Marys, Miss Myrtle Wellman, Miss Sarah Schreiber, Miss Bea Hayes, Miss Octavia Greenwood, Miss Erol Buckmaster, Miss Geneva Giles, Miss May Irwin, Miss Mabel Tussleman of Atchison, Miss Fannie Funk, Miss Ella Ramsey, Miss Marie Wilson, Miss Mae DeClercq, Miss Nellie Nevill, Miss Ethel Jewell, Miss May VanHorn, Miss Eleanor Colcord, Miss Florence VanTassel, Miss Margaret Perkins of Lawrence, Mr. Aurel Rid ings, Mr. Ora Hubbard. Mr.Frank Dud ley, Mr. Louis Wingert, Mr.Frank Hun gate, Mr. Will LeBaron, Mr. Joe John son, Mr. Otis Perkins of Lawrence, Mr. Frank Barkley. Mr. Ralph Babcock, Mr. Bob Stout, Mr. Harry Lyddane, Mr. Joe Ramsey, Mr. Fred Brown, Mr. Frank Bevelle, Mr. Victor Martin, Mr. Herbert Miller, Mr. Earl Shook, Mr. Earl Graham, Mr. Harry Butterly. Mr. John Hendietta, Mr. Charles Nelson, Mr. Will Shehan. Mr. Ross Heller, Mr. Carl Sawin, Mr. Rob Irwin and Mr. Ray Lyddane. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. D. F. Longenecker returned to her home in Emporia Monday after a few days' visit with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Eastman. Mrs. Alberger arrived Monday from San Francisco and will spend several weeks in Topeka the guest of Mrs. G. O. Wiimarth. Miss Alice Prescott returned from Chicago Sunday where she has been visiting for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. James Crumrine and daughter Dorothy of Chicago passed through Topeka Sunday on their way to Los Angeles where they will make their home. Miss Rachel Baldwin of Ottawa, who has been visiting Miss Margaret Jones for a few days, returned to her home Monday. Dr. Will Bowen arrived Monday from an extended stay in Costa Rica. Mrs. E. B. Foulks has returned to Emporia after visiting for a few days with her daughter. Miss Grace Foulks. Miss Dollie Martin entertained in formally Saturday evening complimen tary to Mrs. Kirschner of Montana. Aliss Grace Haywood of Fredonia, N. Y., who is visiting in Kansas City, is expected up this week for a few days' visit with Miss Alice Prescott. Miss May McAdams of Severy, Kan., who came up for the reception to the Twentieth, spent Sunday with her cousin, Mrs. H. E. Hanna; she returned Monday. W. M. Stewart of Arkansas City was in Topeka Sunday to attend the fun eral of W. S. Bush. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Patton left Mon day for a week's trip to St. Louis and Cleveland, O. Mr. Charles McCabe of Kansas City is visiting in Topeka. Mrs. J. L. Vanllouten went to St. Joe Sunday for a several weeks' visit with her daughter, Mrs. C. U. Philley. The Woman's Foreign Missionary So ciety of the First Methodist church will give a tea Friday evening, November 10, at the home of Mr. T. B. Sweet. All ladies of the congregation who are in terested in the work of the society are cordially invited to be present with their husbands. P. H. Adams is in New Mexico on business. Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell of St. Joe were in Topeka last week the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Vanllouten. A new afternoon card club is com posed of Miss Blanche Bear, Miss Ruth Trapp, Miss Ida Tinker, Miss Etta Beck, Miss Sadie Shull. Miss Maud Van Houten, Miss Erol Buckmaster, Miss Pearl Burdge, Miss Lizzie Gavitt, Miss Winnifred Prescott, Miss Margaret Gil fillan. The name of the club has not been decided upon. The first meeting will be held Friday afternoon at the home of Miss Blanche Bear. Miss Harvey, who has been visiting Miss Mabel Hayes for a few days, has returned to her home in Kansas City. Mrs. Henry Booth of Larned, is in the city stopping at 1122 West Second street. Mrs. Burton Axtell of Plevna is in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Donnell. Miss Mary Cross returned to Em poria Sunday after spending a few days in Topeka the guest of Mrs. Harry Horton. Miss Effie Graham of the high school will entertain at dinner Thursday even ing in honor of Norman Ramsev and Walter Vance, the two high school boys who returned with the Twentieth. The Research club met Monday after noon with Mrs. W. N. West. Thqe marriage of Miss Stella Raburn and Mr. Fred Anderson wiil take place Wednesday evening, November 8, at the home of Mr. Anderson's mother at 212 East Eighth street. J. H. Hattan of Emporia spent Sun day with Topeka friends. Louie Felt will leave Wednesday for Chicago where he has accepted a posi tion. The "Rag Time" club will meet Sat urday afternoon at the home of MiS3 Bessie Bates. Mrs. Arthur Murphy entertained the D. D. club Monday afternoon. Miss Katherine Mills will go to Eur eka Friday for a several weeks' visit. Mrs. Irene Safford of Glencoe, 111., is visiting Judge J. T. Clark in Pot win. Dr. TT. H. Haden. Summit, Ala., says: 4'I think Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a splen did medicine. I prescribe it and my con fidence in it grows with continued use." It digests what you eat and Quickly cures dyspepsia and indigestion. At ail drug stores. Are you positively kind? If so your head tells it.722 Kansas avenue tonight. 4 V are our styles are and needs no mtroducton. The Suits are made in square excellently lined i stvle the trreatest of Our price for these Suits Tomorrow is only T f f j are made in fashion long or i ne u vercoats ?,rtTveiet um didlv lined laD seams raw edges an elegant garment for gentlemen of quiet taste uur price tor them tomorrow NEVER in the history Of Topeka have they been sold for less than $15.00 except by us Last season we offered them special c A nrt at $13.75 Tomorrow at ijl"vv SNAP SIIOTS A T HOME NEWS Arthur Massey has a new running horse. The rain last evening- didnt do much harm, or much good. The streets are in a normal condition again without bunting. Six divorce suits in the district court were dismissed yesterday. Judge Horton has gone to "Washington, D. C, and will lose his vote. If this weather keeps up. the open street cars will be called out again. "Cap" Curtis is a Republican, but is against Porter Cook for sheriff. The federal court will open its Novem ber term in Topeka on November 27. There are now 51 men in the state peni tentiary under the sentence of death. Judge Hook has begun to crowd the Hillmon trial by holding court at night. Mrs. Mary E. Myers has applied for a divorce from her husband, J. D. Myers. L. A. Stebbins has just returned from a short business trip to Olympia, Wash. Mrs. Luella Watts has sued for a di vorce from her husband, William Watts. The work on the North Topeka sewer is completed four blocks from its mouth. The majority of the reception decora tions are stili In place in the state of fices. The regular November meeting of the Commercial club will be held tomorrow evening. A display window full of red neck ties is almost as good as a stove these cool mornings. A new carpet has been put down in the I. O. O. F". rooms, corner .Fifth, and Quin cy streets. Judge Postlethwaiteof thecourtof visita tion, leaves tomorrow for a trip to New York city. J. W. Robinson of Robinson, Mahshall Co., has gone to Chicago to purchase new goods. Several Lawrence people will come up to Topeka tomorrow evening to hear Wm. Dean Howells. Bishop Crowdrv will hold services this week between Twelfth and Thirteenth on Chandler street. It takes 22,000 ballots to conduct an election in Shawnee county, but only half of them are used. Topeka scores again: James E. Larimer has been appointed a notary public by Grovernor Stanley. Paul Gilmore in "The Musketeers" will be the attraction at the Crawford theater next Monday night. The Degree of Honor will hold their union meeting tonight at the hall No. 311 East Seventh street. Mr. W. F. Dauchy of Chicago, but for merly of Topeka. was in the city yester day for a few hours. The ballots this year are quite respec table in size. Next year they will be reg ular "blanket sheets." The stores report a good business on Thursday of last week, reception day to the Twentieth Kansas. John Wood has riled an action in the district court asking for a divorce from his wife, Minnie Wood. A Topeka man today offered to bet that John Chancy would be elected senator. He is the only candidate. The ministerial union has decided to start a series of evangelistic meetings commencing November lo. The Y. M. C. A. mechanical electrical classes were started last night under the instruction of Paul Battey. A motion for a new trial has been filed by the plaintiff in the suit of Mrs. Martha Welsh against the Santa Fe. The fees turned into the county treas ury by the city court for the month of October amounted to J166.S5. Bishop Vincent will preside ower the South Kansas and the Southwest Kansas M. E. conferences next spring. The Frank Long divorce case ha.s been continued and will not come up for trial at this term of the district court. Del Valentine will take up the duties of clerk of the supreme court at the opening of the November session Wednesday. Dick Aklen is in Hutchinson doirrjfr work for the Santa Fe in connection wiith the transler of the Hutchinson Houthto-n. The suits pending in Justice Wright's court against the Ancient Unlyr of Pyra mids have been continued to November 21. This week's number f the Ram's Horn, contains the opening of Charles M. Shel don's new story, "John Kings Question Class." The Kansas M. E. conference, which embraces the northeastern part of the state, will be held Mar ft 21 in ICansas City, Kansas. W. S. McClintock has been authorized bv the county commissioners to collect back personal taxes on a contingent fee of 25 per cent. Miss Pearlade Prescott will assist in the concert to be given by the Twentieth Kansas band at the Grand opera house Wednesday night. Attorney General Godard has gone to Washington to be present at the hearing of the stock yards case in the United States supreme court. Drop letters which go out on rural delivery routes require only a one-cent stamp, whili those delivered by city car riers require two cents. Many of the Twentieth Kansas' boys brought home packages of Manila ci gars. They are much larger than the American "coffin nails.' The small white bandages worn by the Twentieth Kansas soldiers are badges of the Eighth army corps. They are in the shape of a solid figure 8. The large crane on exhibition in a Kan sas avenue window was shot in western Kansas by Dr. H. W. Koby. The bird was mounted by Frank Forbes. Mr. H. L. Harris, lately window trim mer for the Nebraska Clothing store at Kansas City, is now with the Continental Clothing store of this city. A Topeka man is making a fuss because laborers are so scarce that he can get no one to put up his stove for him and he wiil have to do it himself. Fred Colver, the former Topeka bov who managed the tour of the Lambardl Opera company from Los Angeles to Kansas City, is visiting here. James Dustan, father of Harvev Dustan who was found dead on his bed at his i home No. i nestnut street, last night, was city marshal of Topeka in 1875. Governor Stanley will name J. R. Eur- 1 709 Kansas Ave. Auerbach Guettel. Men of Taste and Individuality best patrons they know our; risrht our prices are right. See these Great Bargains Tomorrow Genuine $15.09 Auborn Melton Suits and Overcoats, 3 f This fabric is known the world over for its reliability, i and double-breasted sack styles inch stitching lap seams cut in wearers known is ton and W. F. Sapp as delegates to the International Mining congress which meets in Milwaukee November 20 to 2-i. J. W. White of the Santa Fe offices goes to Hutchinson Thursday to adjust the accounts of the Hutchinson South ern before the Santa Fe takes i-karge. The Topeka poult rv fanciers will hold their monthly meeting in the Commercial club rooms tonight. The state chicken show will be htld here in about two months. "For the last time." says Geo. Harri son, "I have had a change of heart, and from now on I will be a Republican." It is rumored that he has since become a prohibitionist. Three state riormal students. A. R. Jones. Max Jeungling and a young man named Richards, came up from Emporia yesterday to enlist in the Fourth United States cavalry. A session of the federal court was set for next week at Fort Scott, but Judge Hook had to postpone it n week because h will not be through with the Hillmon trial by that time. When Chas. M. Sheldon, the editor of the Missouri Valley Farmer, goes east 1m is at once taken for the Topeka author, and delegations of m? nist ers call on him to get him to iill their pulpit. The postoffiee department ha.s made a ruling that patrons of the rural delivery service may call at the postotTice from which their mail is sent, out and receive it whenever they wish to do so. Trwin lodge No. 2t. A. O. F. W.. will give their annual ball on Thanksgiving evening at Metropolitan hall. This year's ball is the eighth annual ball which this lodge has given on Thanksgiving. The Famil v club expect s to move Into the Foster residence about the lfth of November. Severn 1 changes and improve ments will be made, one ot t hese im provement s being a bowling alley. George B. Harrison has Hopped again. This time he has gone over to the He publicans. He has mad." application fr membership in the RepubHca n tiam bea u club and has resigned as president of the Good Citizenship Federation. The nine men pardoned from the state penitentiary on parole by Governor Stan ley have reported for t he niont h of e to'ber. All are at work and doing well. The paroled men are required to report to the governor each month. E. S. Mitchell, managing editor of the New York Sun. who wit h M rs. Mitfh-M. lias been attending their son Edward dur ing his illness at Stormont hospital, re turns to New York today. Their son has far recovered as to accompany them. Judge Hazen has denied the application of Norris L. Gage for an in ju net ion to keep Mrs. Mary Kaezynski from erecting a two-story building by the side of a similar building that lie owns, therebv shutting off the light and air from his building. The grocers and butchers will meet to night at Weber's hall to take final action on the banquet whieh they gave to i ho Twentieth Kansa-s. The varoius bills will be audit ed a nd approved and such ot her business transneted hs will come beforo t he meeti ng. It is important that every member will he present as there is much work to be done. State Labor Commissioner Lee John son hn-s issued an address to the manu facturers, contractors and employes of labor in the state asking them to lind em ployment for all the returning volunteers of the Twentieth Kansas who were seek ing work. He has opened a register (u his office In the state house where sold iers can register for employment. Carl Dryer, sna ro d ri i m rn or of the Twentieth Kansas band has presented Mr. John Marshall, lender of Marshall's band with a baton, which is made from a pt-ee of the mast of the Riena Christina bat tleship, which was sunk in the 1 'ay of Manila. The Twentieth band aWo pre sented Marshall's band with a pict ure of themselves taken aboard this vessel. It is urged by the grocers and butehcrs that all outstanding bills against the as sociation, incurred by t he gi i ng of t i jo banquet be presented to Thos. Flanley. chairman of the aud it i ng corn in it te, or to Wm. Dranslield, seeretary of tne as sociation, not liMer than today, as tho grocers and butehers hold a meeting to night to audit and pass upon all bills. Charles Jett has filed a cross petition in the divorce suit brought ugaiiet him by his wife. Lillian Jet t. in which h makes all sorts of counter charges, ani'1114 others that he was compelled to do house work and scrubbing and that M rs. Jet t would not let him sit by the fire because she claimed to have paid for the fuel, and as a consequence he had to stay i n a cold bedroom with hia "overcoat and furs" on. Among the companies of the National guard attending the reception was Co. il of the Ser-ond regiment located c Wellington. The ci'izens of Weiiiriirtori having a pride in their home company, raised sufficient money by sulei-lpt noi to send them here. The officers v;-r Sumner Garver. captain; Frank Clay, tirst lieutenant Ie W it t I ey second lieu! en ant. Several of its members are tx-regu-lars and ex-volunteers. Walter Swartz, a corporal in Co. A, Twentieth Kansas, has a novelty in :h: way of a watch charm. It is a Remington bullet that was intended for him. He was standing with his (.run in front, of bin.. The buJh t struck the gun barrel and iil to the ground in front of him. it was flattened and dented out of sh:;p-. lie. had it gold plated and wears it for a watch charm. If it had struck him in stead of his gun barrel he would nut need a watch charm. I Calumet V GRADE J laldog o 1 Pfl,ffp V cood J ruuuui 1

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. SIR KEDVERS BULLER ON HIS vW; .Insgaig "T V C-XM A v-.:' THE SPECIAL WORK OF MAJOR GENERAL RTJLLER WILL BE TO KEEP THE BOERS FROM OCCUPYING REENAN'S PASS AND THE ADJACENT MOUNTAINS WHICH WOULD CUT OFF SUPPLIES FROM THE BRITISH IN THE INTERIOR. MAJOR GENERAL SIR REDYERS HENRY BULLER, G.G.B., Y.G. Her He Commands "And may God bless you!" So spoke Her Royal Highness Vic toria, Queen of Great Britain and Ire land and Empress of India, as, in her royal chair of cushioned red, she bade farewell to Major-General Buller, who had journeyed to Baimoral to say good bye to her Majesty before departing upon his mission in South Africa, and to receive such commands as her Ma jesty should fdve him upon his con duct in the great Boer war. Sir Redvers Henry Buller. Major-Gem-al of the troops in the Transvaal and leader of all the British forces in South Africa south of the Soudan, is not a boy in years nor a novice In war fare. And her Majesty understood this when she appointed him to the trying position w hich he has set out to occupy in one of the most remote regions in which England has ever waged war fare. Going: to the end of the world, even as Admiral Dewey went to Its antipo des, Major-General Buller realizes as did Dewey, that he must win out and come back wearing the laurels of vic tory: or must fail and enjoy forever more the dismal delight of a com mander who did his best and failed. BULLER S MISSION. When the Queen summoned Sir Bul ler to Balmoral to say good-bye. she re quested him to brin. with him a dia gram of the Transvaal and a statement of the forces there installed. She wished to know what were the British troops there employed, and what were the troops that were to be transported. Her Majesty also desired to know the strength of the Boers so that, hating war though she way, she can still in dulge In hopeful thoug-hts for a vic torious termination even while regret ting that the war should ever have oc curred. t; iir .'JUl.'tlm t.r I' i t 1 A I 1 H 1 v. ICENE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTRY CLUB SANDS. AND MISS BEATRIX HOII WERE CONTESTING HORSE "GAMBLER," THE WAR HORSE WHICH WAS TESTED BY ALL COULD BE t r r V'-. 1, 4 Z 5- Majesty's Forces in "Butcher Kitchener had Lis day in the Soudan and is still enjoying new measures of success as his efforts, diplomatic and military, are rewarded by his steady advances southward, or the advances made by the troops whom he left be hind him. But now it is Sir Buller's day and he goes to take command of the most formidable force which Eng land has placed m the field against a white nation in many a day. Her In dian campaigners are fierce and almost gorilla-like. Her Egyptian battles are fought against men of another color and blood. But in the South African campaign England tights the Dutch, who have been her neighbors and who, though separated by space and genera tions of life, are still of her own caliore. And the campaign becomes of interest to civilization and Christianity and the powers of the old world and the new. In selecting Major-General Buller the Queen picked out one of her oldest warriors: for he was born sixty years ago, and for forty-one years he has fought desperately in the various wars in which England has been engaged. He was only nineteen years old when he entered the tioth Rilles in 1X5S and went to China to fight. He was made a lieutenant-general in 1S60, and was at the time the youngest and most capa ble warrior in England's service. In lbVO we find Lieutenant Buller In the Red River expedition, and in 1S74 he was In Ashanti. Nor was he in ignorance of desperate warfare in those years, for he fought the Kaffirs in 1S78 and the Zulus in 1S79. In 1S3 he was made deputy adjutant general: and, having fought so long and so bravely, he was placed in the posi tion of Under Secretary for Ireland in 1SS7, and was made the adjutant-general In ISM. When Sir Buller arrives in South Af i Si 'J- K A, if 'wo. V A 4.1..: 7 .'.Tfc I 1 i:VM .!.s h r i 'I J lili MADE. South Africa and Buller." rica he w ill find that he has a little Ire land gathered around him. Most of his associates are also Irish. Sir George White, who is Irish, will command in Natal. General Butler, who recently resigned his appointment as Com mander of the Forces in South Africa because he is of the opinion that it is immoral and criminal to make war on the Boers, is also an Irishman. Finally, the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Woles ley, belongs to the same martial race. THE MAN. Major-General Buller was born the son of the late J. XV. Buller. His mother was the daughter of the Mar quis of Townshend, and as a child the boy was associated with diplomats and people who were interested in the af fairs of the country, military and civil. He early began to take an interest in her Majesty's welfare abroad and when still a lad he manifested a desire to enter military service. This was speed ily gratified, and while still a beardless youth he took part in the most vigor ous campaign England ever waged in the Orient. An estimate of the great number of troops which Sir Buller will have under him has been made by a British mili tary expert, who shows that within a very few days after his arrival Lieu-tenant-General Sir George White, V. C, who, with his staff, sailed for Natal two weeks ago. will have at least 21,000 British fighting troops under his com mand. This number includes the forces already in South Africa, those which are now en route from Great Britain, the Mediterranean, and India, and also Lieutenant-Colonel Hall's brigade di vision of Royal Field Artillery, which sailed from Southampton the last of September. This total does not, however, include the number o officers and men of the I 1 V in

i r '1 V- 11 1 WHEN MISS UNDERHILL, MISS FOR THE C HAMPIONSHIP. THE NOISE AND SMOKE THAT Jf rrofrw the Boers Gall him Army Service Corps and Army Ord nance Corps, or other departmental troops, which are far in excess of im mediate requirements, or yet the gar rison companies of Royal Artillery. There will be about this numDer Officers Horses and Men. Cavalry 4.215 Royal Artillery.:... 1,590 Royal Engineers 624 Infantry 15,150 and Mules. 3,790 1,227 13S 61G 21.579 5,771 The concentration of the force is tak ing place in Natal, but its actual field organization is for obvious reasons not to be made public for the present. Ar rangements have been made under which a naval brigade could be put ashore in South Africa for land service at a few hours' notice. The local forces in Cape Colony con sist of permanent troops the Cape Mounted Rifles, with field guns and unpaid volunteers who draw a small capitation grant. The latter include the Mounted Frontier Rifles, in which are comprised the Diamond Fields Horse of six companies and a battery of guns, garrison artillery, engineers, and field artillery. Of infantry the volunteers have seventeen corps of forty-one companies in all. There are also two companies of medical staff. Bechuancland has a permanent force of five troops of military police, about 450 strong. In Natal the permanent local troops are the mounted police and a body of partially-paid volunteers, who are organized somewhat similarly to the partially-paid forces of the Aus tralian colonies. They consist of naval volunteers, mounted rifles, field artil lery, and riflemen. At Bulawayo Colo nel Baden-Powell and Colonel Plumer WITH GARTER IN THE S MILITARY PRISON The Very Strict Life Which Un cle Sam's Employees Must Lead if They Have Violated His Rules. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The sen tence and degredation of former Cap tain Oberlin M. Carter of the engin eering corps, U. S. A., and the horror of the naval expert, brilliant scholar, man of the world and butterfly when he was informed of the details of his im prisonment, can serve as a warnir-3 to all those ia positions of governmental trust. Let no ;..an in the employ of Uncle Sam think that he can offend his em ployer without suffering for his offence. The military prisons of the United States are the most severe in the coun try, and though no cruelties are prac ticed there is the strictest discipline enforced; and a man, from the time he enters the gates until his service ex pires, is made to realize each minute of the day and every hour of the night, when the dismal calls of the guards wa' him, that he is a prisoner! From the time a man enters Fort Leavenworth his name is lost; he is ticketed with a number upon the prison books, and he becomes a number to the guards. To distinguish him this num ber is stencilled upon the broad of his back and upon his right thigh. It is also marked upon the calf of each leg; and thus, branded like cattle, the for mer trusted servants of Uncle Sam say to each other and to their keepers: "Behold me! I who was trusted, am untrustworthy! Look at me. I am no longer a man. but a number." HIS NEW LIFE. And so Carter, who was the Beau Brummel of the Army and who has been found guilty of embezzling and spending nearly two mi-ions of dol lars, goes to a place where he could not in nine lifetimes spend a tenth or a tithe of that sum, for the prison fare is of the coarsest and creature comforts are engaged in raising a spe ial service corps, the strength ot which advices Btate to be 450 men but it is believed to be considerably greater, are hot to be had. The work which falls to the share of almost all new arrivals is with the pick and blasting drill in the quarries two miles from the prison. The stone is for use in the construction of the new peni tentiary. Carter will come in for this back-breaking, hand-blistering experi ence unless influence or luck shall come to his assistance. In that event the criminal may get something easy a clerkship in the prison hospital, for example, where his soft hands will be safe from the harder forms of labor. Fort Leavenworth Prison has a set of very severe rules, all rigidly en forced. Should Carter grow disobe dient, his prison allowance of tobacco will be shut off, he will be denied the privilege of writing or receiving let ters, his diet may be restricted to bread and water and in the event of per sistent misconduct he wrould be hand cuffed day and night to the bars of his cell. Every Saturday afternoon Carter will be compelled not only to give himself a cold-water bath with common brown soap accompaniment, but he will be forced to wash and scrub his cell. Every Sunday morning the effects of the prisoners are carefully inspected, and woe betide the offender whose kit shows uncleanliness or carelessness. Sunday afternoon is the one breathing time of the week when Carter and his fellow-criminals will be allowed the freedom of the prison yard for two hours. Then the prisoners may talk to each other, but throughout the long, dreary week, at work and at meals, strict silence is the unalterable rule. Armed guards are everywhere, and an attempt to escape means quick death to the offender. "Shoot at the first move," is the standing order to the prison guards who will for the next four years watch over Carter. Carter may escape the stone quarries and yet miss one of the easy convict clerkships. In that event he w ill work ten long, hard hours every day as a brickmaker or a stone mason or a garden-truck farmer. The men who will work beside him under the eye of armed guards are the off-scourings of the nations criminals of every degree. representing almost every offense in the calendar of villainy. A sinster com panv, in vivid contrast to the gilded circle with which Carter has been so long surrounded. There will be a hor ror for the degraded officer in every instant of contact with his prison mates mere numbers, not men, in the eyes of offended justice. AWFUL ROUTINE. He will sleep in a regulation prison cell behind a steel-barred door, watched by a guard armed with a shotgun. It is needless to say that the rare carpets and priceless tapestries which have contributed to his comfort up to this time will not figure in his Fort Leaven worth cell. His daily routine will be as follows: 6 o'clock A. M. Get up. 6.30 A. M. Breakfast (beef stew and bread). 7 A. M. To work in rock quarry. 12 M. Dinner (pork and beans, bread, coffee). 12.30 P. M. To work in rock quarry. 6 P. M. Supper (.stewed prunes, bread and tea). 9 P. M. In bed: lights out. This bill of fare is subject to slight changes, sausages occasionally taking the place of beef stew and pork and beans sometimes giving away to cod fish. Captain Carter was court-martialled Nov. 20. 1897. On May 12, 1S9S, the trial was ended, the captain found guilty of four charges, and the following sentence passed Dismissal from army. Imprisonment for five years. $5,000 fine. Publication of his crime and "disgrace in the newspapers of his home town for a period of one year. The injunction not to hit a man when he is down may be employed here. And there are those who think Captain Car ter innocent. Foolish he may have been, improvident of his own resources, careless of government money, but not guilty of intentionally spending the million and more which the govern ment placed in his hands for coast im provements. The cry, "An American Dreyfus," la heard. But the majority of persons who have followed the case, shake their heads dubiously and say "No!" CAPTAIN CARTER TOLD MUCH IPt III r r Unless Captain Cate-h' P3SMr -x t CAPTAIN U3RTTR ;.v?s mads a clebkatthb lltSSijh0! BEFORE DEGRADED. MMZ S 0 'ri II r'IT AS-HE-WILL-APPEA'R 3- S V IN -PRISON -GA RB. Lwm, ft Miff tMHVA fl.-ittfn'-?fiH:sm 'If IN THE LAND OF "PUT AND TEE." It is a Rough Country With Hills and Ditches but Pleasant at This Time of Year. Have you played golf? If not, you may know that there is for you an un discovered country, full of fascination and mystery, charming, satisfying and attractive. Now this it not a technical descrip tion of golf. It may prove to be a lit tle story by one v. ho has tried his hand on the links. For an American reporter to describe golf would be as ridiculous as an Englishman trying to tell us the fine points of baseball. Your friend will take you out and say, as if outlining the game: "Here's the teeing ground. Here's your driver. There are eleven holes in the course. You had better tee off first." Perhaps you can recall the sensation you had when you were a small boy and your father took you out beyond your head in the water, threw you in, and then said, "Swim." The links, we will say, are as diversi fied as the average ones. You step upon this sacred bit ot earth as gin gerly as a ballet girl steps out behind the footlights for the first time. For spectators you have the "caddies," who are making poor efforts to conceal their smiles, and several friends, who have come down to bid you a godspeed, as though you were about to start on an ocean voyage. The caddy places a ball, light yet firm, larger than an English walnut, smaller than an American peach, on a tiny mound of dirt on the teeing ground. He passes you the "driver." It is like the hockey stick of old, only the head of the driver is thicker and heavier. Far ahead of you, 271 yards away, a round disc on a metal pole maiks the spot of the first hole. Your friend tells you to drive to that hole. You stanu in front of the ball, your legs spread like a Colossus of Rhodes. You whirl the driver with might and main, and you expect to see it send the ball right up to the next hole. Unhappy man! Though you can play billiards and tennis, your hand shows no cunning here at this tantalizing game. The ball goes bounding off to the left, and there is nothing for you to do now but to watch your opponent's beauti ful drive when the ball rises slightly, and flies like an arrow toward the first hole. As your ball Is not so far ahead, you are permitted to play first. It has dropped down behind a sod, and seems nestled away out of harm's reach. You, a strong man, are exasperated by such a bit of hard luck. The caddy pulls out a lofting iron from the col lection of sticks carried in the bag slung over his shoulder. The iron seems just fitted for lilting or lofting the ball and carrying it along on its journey. You hit it as though it were an enemy, and, stung by the blow, the stupid ball seems to take-revenge by going straight toward a one-storied stable in the course and crashes through a window. When it is carried out of the stable three sticklengths away, then dropped over your shoulder as you face the hole, you are anxious to say something not pretty to see in print. With the "cleek" comes new iron. To the novice the "cleek" is little unlike the lofting iron. Its metal face is not laid back at quite such an angle. By this time the hole is within reasonable distance, not more than thirty yards away, and you are about to make your "approach" shot. After that shot is finished you have no doubt the ball will be within a few inches of the hole on the put ting green. But disappointments are common in golf. This time you are too strong. The ball goes over the green and beyond a pile of fence boards and posts. The "caddies" hunt faithfully for the ball, but it is irretrievably lost. Much humiliated, you see a new ball thrown in as you pay a penalty of a stroke for your bit of hard luck. The putting green is near you now. For a space of thirty square feet the grass is green and velvety. It is like an oasis in a desert of parched, brown, rainless field. In the center of the green is a circular hole four and one half inches in diameter and a few inches deep. So, at last, you are near the putting green. My dear boy, be careful to pro nounce it as if it were rhymed with butting. That is very important. If A FRIEND THAT IT WAS NOT THE WORK WHICH AS THE AWFUL SUIT WHICH HE MUST WEAR. you say "put" just ordinary put, as though it were rhymed with foot, you could never, never be forgiven. An easy stroke sends you on to the green. Oh joy, oh, rapture! You are about to make your first hole but are you? The putter is handed to you. Tho iron on the putter is flat, and at right angles to the stick. The ball lies a mere yard from the hole. You cannot miss it. You grasp the stick and hit the sphere, oh, so gently! The ball has wings. It flies to the hole, circles about it, toying with your disposition, then rolls away six feet the other side. Your partner, from a distance of five or six yards, has put his ball into the hole without a murmur, and you are be ginning to appreciate the dexterity and finesse of the putter. The next teeing ground is a few yardi away. The tiny mound Is made again by the caddie, the ball is placed for the drive, and you are ready for the mo mentous trip to the next hole. It is 154 yards away. It is a terror to the nov ice; a valley of desolation to the old golfer. It is full of hazards, and nat ural ones. Before you the ground drops like the crater of a volcano. In the crater are clumps of bushes, sand, streams. Beyond the crater a stone wall and annoying bushes and trees are in wait to throw your hopes to the winds, and force you to coin new words to express wrath and indignation. The third hole, called the "far," with the hiils in the distance, is hard to reach. It is farthest away from the clubhouse. Most of the course between these two holes is over a field. But, again, there is a stream less than mid way. The ball is too apt to drop there, and the caddy must needs go down on hands and knees and fish about for the spheroid. A triangular shape hazard in the shape of an artificial sand bunker is in the way, too. The green should be reached in three strokes, and the hole has been done in four. The novice did it In eleven, and he thought he was lucky. The fourth. 1G4 yards,, the brook hoi.--, down hill, all on the field. If the ball does not ffo into the brook, the hole may be done in four. The fifth, road hole, short and per haps the easiest of the links, 167 yards. Seven is not a bad score for a novice. The long hole comes next. Three hundred and seventeen yards over stream, sand, bunker and field. The brook, being distant 105 yards, is just right to catch the drive. If the brook is successfully "carried" the only diffi culty is the sand bunker, which may be played over or the ball may be played to the right to avoid it alto gether. The course is doubling now. You are returning toward the clubhouse. Bv the time you are ready for your drive to the "hill" hole, 275 yards, your en thusiasm for coif is unlimited and last ing. You find it much harder sending thi ball up the hill than running a mile or playing a set at tennis. It positively will not go. It bounds T)ack. It hits trees. It falls behind clumps of grass. Or, perhaps it will lose itself forever in the bushes. The course is nearly one and one-half miles long. I.'ow, add to that the de viations from the course and reckon the distance you walked to suit "ad lib." according to sun's rays and wear and tear on disposition. It was live miles for the novice if it was an inch, in 9:1 strokes, and that wasn't half bad for a beginner. The patient reader may be able now to appreciate some of the records. AT MONTE CARLO. The Prince of Monaco seldom visits the Monte Carlo Casino. It is simpiy his piece of property, which he rents, and to which he lays no claim beyond tKtt of visitor. He dwells part of the year in a magnificent castle built on the highest point in Monaco; and when it comes time to close the Castle, whi'-h is generally in summer, when the breezes blow warm, he gees to Paris with his family. Here he takes part in Paris life; and it was here that he had his famous disagreement with Count Castellane last spring, which re sulted in a challenge, which the Princa declined to accept. HE MINDED SO

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVEXIXG, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. If I STATE ELECTIONS. (Continued from First Page.) Nineteenth assembly district Mr. Sex ton advises me that Mr. Stewart will pi t a bigger majority than Mr. Mazet v 111 get votes." In Brooklyn a grood vote was rolled up before noon. The activity of both parties caused by a belief that the county oflicers might be won or lost by narrow margins encouraged the work ers to get every man they could to the polls. The Brooklyn voting up to noon was quiet, and there were few arrests in that borough. Reports from Buffalo. Rochester. Al bany and other up-state cities, show that a determined fight was made by both sides to capture assemblymen. In Buffalo and Rochester, voting machines were used and it was expected that the count of the vote would be known very early in those places. KENTUCKY. Louisville, Ky Nov. 7. Election day opened with clear and pleasant weath er. The polls opened at 7 a. m. and wiil remain open till 4 o'clock. The inter est in the contest is intense and it is thought that there will be but little scratching. The armory of the Louisville legion was alive with blue coats at an early hour, while at the city hall scores of policemen were in readiness for any emergency. There was little excite ment about the early morning ballot ing. Frankfort, Ky.. Not. 7. The weather is clear and crisp and all the precincts were crowded with voters when the polls opened this morning. Paduoah, Ky., Nov. 7. Weather clear and crisp. A large vote is being polled. There is no excitement of any kind. Owensboro, Ky., Nov. 7. The indica tions are that one of the largest votes ever polled in this city will be cast. Perfect quiet prevails around the polls. "Weather cloudy and cool. Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 7. The election is passing off quietly in Kentucky to day and despite the predicted trouble at the polls over the contemplated dis placement of election officers, there has been an entire absence of any serious disturbance up to 11 o'clock. An average vote is being polled throughout the state but the indica tions are that it will fall 00. k- short of the vote polled in the presidential election. Some complaints have been made at Republican headquarters from several border counties that the reg ular Republican election officers were displaced at the last minute and not permitted to serve. No trouble has re sulted however. Frankfort, Nov. 7. Sam J. Shackle ford, in charge of the Democratic state headquarters, said at 11 o'clock that all reports received by the state commit tee indicate that the election is quiet and orderly in all parts of the state. "We are satisfied." said he, "with the way the vote is coming out. A big vote is being polled everywhere and this is favorable to Goebel. Deputy United States Marshal Mc Carthy accompanied Republican lead ers in buggies to several precincts but took no hand in the way the election was conducted. Louisville, Nov. 7. The voting in Louisville continued uninterruptedly until noon, indicating more than an average vote in the city. The election throughout the city has been character ized by a quiet almost precedented, there being an entire absence of the customary streets fights. Governor Bradley is here and the legion is under arms and awaiting orders. Nearly 300 extra police have been sworn in for special service and are under command of General Castleman, who commanded the Kentucky troops in Porto Rico. Judge Toney of the law and equity di vision of the circuit court, granted a mandamus shortly before noon to the Brown people, allowing them an inspec tor at the close of the polls to witness the counting. It is directed to the mayor, the chief of police and the offi cers of election. Frankfort. Ky.. Nov. 7. At 1 o'clock the Goebel campaign committee claimed that all reports received are encourag ing from Democratic standpoints. Big Goebel majorities are claimed at Lex ington, Covington and in this city. No figures are given as to Louisville. It is claimed reports from all ton r.a indicate a big gain over the Democratic vote of Mi. and fully up to that of 1SS7, when the Democrats carried the state by ls, 0. If country vote comes up equally Mr. Shackelford of the campaign com mittee thinks Goebel's majority will reach 23,000. MANY ARRESTS. Louisville. Nov. 7. Aside from the re rort from Covington, no disturbances of any consequences have been report ed from any part of the state. Weather conditions all over the state arc fav orably and a fair vote will be polled. Complaints continue to come in at the Btate Republicans headquarters of the removal of election officers and the substitution of officers unfavorable to the Republican candidates. It is a se cret ballot, but both Republicans and Democrats are satisfied with the situa tion from reports received a headquar ters. The Honest Rlectlon League, repre senting the anti-Goebel interests will have Inspectors at the polls to witness the count. A. Times special says the Republicans threw out the Goebel election officers at Bryan Station, and then arrested Chair man Wm. Viley of the Fayette county Democratic committee, alleging that he was interfering with the election. At precinct II., of Lexington, chal lengers had Goebel election officers ar rested. Their friends had the challen gers arrested. All gave bond. Voting was suspended there an hour and a half. This is ,W. C. P. Breckenridges precinct. MARYLAND. Baltimore, Nov. 7. Clear skle3 and a cool crisp atmosphere prevail all over the state this morning. In Baltimore the polls opened at 6 o'clock and both parties exerted themselves to get out a full vote during the early hours with the result that at least one-third of the total vote of the city was cast before 9 o'clock. In the country the polls were not opened until 8 o'clock, but reports from all quarters indicate a heavy vote. Both sides con tinue to claim everything but odds of 4 to 1 on the success of the Democratic ticket are being offered .with but fe.w takers. The voting continued to be heavv un til 10 o'clock, when it fell off some what. At noon it wes estimated that more than half the probable vote in the city had been cast and both sides pro fessed to be satisfied with the o itlook. No disturbances of any kind have been reportad, although several arrests have been made in cases where attempts to buy votes were alleged. Both parties seem to be well supplied with money and the workers for both tickets are loud In their accusations of bribery and corruption by the otner side. Reports from the counties of Mary land indicate there is a heavy vote be ing cast but there is little excitement or enthusiasm. Governor Lowndes cast hia vote early in Annapolis while his opponent. Colonel John Walter Smith, deposited his ballot shortly before 9 'olocic at hia home in Snow Hill, Wor- cestershire county. In the latter coun ty predictions are freely made that Smith will have not less than a thous and votes the best of it and in Alle gheny county, the home of Governor Lowndes, a claim of a similar majority for the Republican candidates is made. In Howard county, the homo of form er Inited States Senator Arthur P. Oor man the early vote has been heavy and indications are Faid to point to Demo cratic success. It is now thought that -io less than 90 per cent of the regis tered vote of the state will be cast and many predictions as to the result must necessarily be guess work a3 the new election law insures the absolute se crecy of the ballot. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, Nov. 7. The polling places in the city of Boston were opened at 6 o'clock this morning, but in the early hours voting was light, except in some of the wards where the working people are numerous. The election was con ducted quietly by both Republicans and Democrats. The party workers were out early but owing to the comparative ly few close contests:, for the legisla ture there was practically no excite ment. Trie indications are that Robert Treat Paine, jr.. Democratic candidate for governor, will carry the city. Notwithstanding the excellent weath er, the reports which came to the elec tion commissioners at noon indicated that voting throughout the city during the forenoon had been only moderate. In western Massachusetts the vote is light. V". Murray Crane, the Republi can nominee for governor appears to be running ahead of his ticket, many Democrats scratching in his favor. The social Democrats in Haverhill and Brockton, shoe manufacturing centers, are making a strong fight for seats in the legislature. At noon a light vote in the state was anticipated and early returns seem probable as the law now provides for the beginning of the count in towns and cities outside of Boston soon after 2 o'clock, if the polling officials deem it expedient. The count can begin un der the law before the closing of the poiis. lioston, Nov. 7. Mansfield was the first town today to count the vote for governor. The result: Crane, R., ISO; Paine, D., 30. The vote last year was: ,Volcott, K., 23G; Bruce, D 31. MICHIGAN. Detroit. Mich., Nov. 7. The weather is perfect today and all indications point to an average vote being cast at the municipal election. The campaign has been quiet but earnest and every effort is being made to get out the full strength of the parties. Both sides ap pear to be confident but the Democrats are making the more extravagant claims. COLORADO. Denver. Nov. 7. The weather is fair, but the vote in this state generally will be comparatively light as only county officers are elected. In Denver the tax payers are voting on a proposition to issue $4,700, 000 bonds for the purchase or construction of waterworks. Alore interest is taken in this matter than in the choice of county officers, VIRGINIA. Richmond, Va., Nov. 7 There Is noth ing to change the forecast that there would be a comparatively light vote in Virginia. The election which is for members of general assembly only full house and half the senate is pro gressing quietly throughout the state as far as heard from and the Democrats will control the body by a large ma jority. The weather is clear. LOUISIANA. New Orleans. Nov. 7. A full munici pal ticket will be voted for today. The weather is clear and pleasant and there is every prospect of a large vote being polled. Kspecial interest attaches to today's election on account of its future bearing on the politics of the state and the campaign has been an unusually bit ter one. There are three tickets in the field, the Jackson and Citizens' League whose candidates are the same and the regular Democratic ticket. Should the Jacksonian ticket be successful, the party will organize throughout the state. MISSISSIPPI. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 7. The polling precincts throughout Mississippi open ed at 9 o'clock this morning. The weather is fair. The greatest interest is being manifested in the Noel judic iary amendment. Jackson. Nov. 7. Tieportr, from var ious points in the state reports a gen eral lateness in opening the polls, some of the precincts not getting ready to re ceive ballots until after 10 o'clock. A very good vote, however, is being polled although a general quietness is preva lent. Vicksburg, Nov. 7. Very little Inter est is being manifested here today for state, county and district offices. The polls opened at- 9 o'clock and the vote Is very light. The weather is clear and balmy. SOUTH DAKOTA. Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 7. The weather is warm and it is cloudy, rain threatening. The voting la light. CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, Nov. 7. The sky was overcast this morning and showers pre dicted. An unusually light vote is be ing cast for the early hours, contrary to usual custom. San Franciscans hereto fore casting their ballots eariy. As a rule a light early morning ballot in this city would indicate a Republican vic tory, but the action of large labor em ployers in allowing their men two hours for voting may be the reason for the scarcity of early voters in this city. UTAH. Salt Lake, ttah, Nov. 7. Municipal election day is passing off quietly in this city. Beautiful weather prevails and is expected to bring out the full vote, lp to noon an unusually heavy vote has been cast, although very few women had visited the polls. The ladies will cast their votes this afternoon and are expected to cut an important figure in this election, which, is apparently very close. NEW JERSEY. Newark, N. J., Nov. 7. Reports re ceived at the headquarters of both par ties in this city during the forenoon were to the effect that the election was progressing quietly and the vote was comparatively light outside of Newark and other large cities in the state. The Republicans expect to elect a majority of the sixty assemblymen, but may lose one or two senators. The indica tions were that a strong Republican vote was being polled in Essex county, while the prospects were the Democrats would sweep everything in Hudson county. Republican leaders in the state claim the Republicans will control both the senate and the house. The Demo crats, however, do not concede this and say they have a fighting chance. During the forenoon the election pro gressed quietly. At 10:30 it was esti mated that about one-quarter of the registered vote had been cast in Jersey City. The leaders on both sides in Jersey City expressed themselves as satisfied with the way things were go ing. NEBRASKA. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7. The weather locally is fair. The respective party workers are interesting themselves in getting out the voters, many of whom failed to register and whose votes must be sworn in. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7. The few tele- grams received from over the state at either political headquarteis indicate that the vote will equal if not exceed that of last year. This is particularly i true of the larger towns. buL the farm- ing districts are an unknown quantity. 1 The vote of today will be compared 1 with that of a year ago and estimates will be made by precincts. The count will not begin until 6 o'clock, when the polls close. The local contests for county officers in many counties exceed j the interest in the general result. There i have been no reports of disorder and I none is expected. The bulk of the vote in railroad towns, it is believed, will be cast before noon. Lincoln, Neb.. Nov. 7. In this city Reese, Republican, for supreme judge seems to be running slightly ahead of his ticket. Reports from Beatrice, in Gage county, say that a bitter fight is being made on the Republican county ticket. Many men of that party are voting the fusion ticket straight, but supporting the Republican state nomi nees. The result, however, it is thought, will be to cut down the Republican ma jority in that county. Prohibitionists, almost to a man, are voting for Hol comb Fusionist for supreme judge, and supporting their own candidates for regents of the state univeisity. BALLOT No. 191 Cast by President McKinley at Canton. Canton, O., Nov. 7. President Mc Kinley cast his ballot just as the noon hour struck. He was scheduled to reach the city at 10:15 but the train waa an hour and twenty minutes late. With him came Mrs. McKinley, As sistant Secretary Cortelyou and Dr. Rixey. Respecting the president's desire for simplicity in exercising the right of franchise, Cantonians organized no demonstration. But when the train steamed in there were on the platform nearly all the members of the reception committee of the 1S9G campaign, scores of old neighbors and close friends to gether with an immense crowd of citi zens. Lusty cheering began as the train appeared and continued until the party in carriages disappeared. The party went direct to the Barber home to be the guests of Mrs. McKinley's sister. Soon as greetings were ex changed and Mrs. McKinley comforta bly established the president started for his polling place B., of the First ward, in which is located his recent purchase the famous cottage of ".13. At the Barber steps he encountered an im promptu reception, a large crowd hav ing gathered to greet him. Old soldiers of the civil war and young soldiers of the Spanish war were conspicuous In meeting their old comrade and com mander in chief respectively. Shaking hands as he passed, the president walk ed to the polling place seven blocks awaj Here there were more greetings exchanged and he was handed ballot 191. He was back of the booth curtain only an instant and then handed his ballot to the judge. Many frierids call ed on the president. CLASH AT COVINGTON. Between United States and Local Authorities. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 7. A' clash be tween the United States and the local authorities in Covington, Ky., took place today. United States Commis sioner Finnell issued warrants for the arrest of Chief of Police Pugh, Lieuten ant Schwinefurth and five policeman on the charge of unlawfully ejecting from the polls, challengers and inspectors representing the interests of John Young Brown, the independent Demo cratic candidate for governor. Leading citizens of Covington, fearing violence, have asked Governor Bradley for troops, and they have been promised. A Times Star special says that at Bryan station, near Lexington, a Goe bel election officer was ejected from the voting booth, charged with attempting to violate the election law. At Athens. Ky., a ballot box contain ing 500 ballots was stolen last night. DEWEY GOES SHOTPING In Company With Mrs. Hazen, His Prospective Brida. New York, Nov. 7. Admiral Dewey ac companied Mrs. Mildred Hazen, to whom he is engaged to be married, on a shopping tour today. While walking on Fifth avenue the admiral saw a little boy in charge of a nurse with an admiral's Hag in his hands. "Hello." said the admiral. "I can not pnss that flag." He shook the little fel low by the hand and chatted with him for a few moments. The admiral and Mrs. Hazen walked to the Dewey arch. Here the admiral point ed out the figures to Mrs. Hazen and ex plained their significance. The admiral was recognized and a crowd collected. He was saluted by a number of persons and bowed pleasantly in return to their salu tations. Admiral Dewey was asked bv a reporter when he would return to Washington. "I have no plans." replied the admiral. "I shall return to the hotel this evening." Esterhazy Sentenced. Paris, Nov. 7. Major Count Esterhazy, the reputed author of the bordereau, which brought about the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus on the charge of treason, was sentenced to dav by default on his cousin Christian's charge of swind ling, to three years imprisonment and to pay a fine of fifty francs. He was also ordered to refund the 35,000 francs claim ed by Christian. No Exclusion There. San Francisco. Nov. 7. Six hundred and fifty Chinese were landed at Honolulu bv the steamer Doric which has arrived here from Chinese and Japanese ports. Died From a Stab Wound. Washington, Nov. 7. Gen. Davis re ports from Porto Rico that Private George D. Lee, Eleventh infantry, com pany B, died, November 4 from a stab wound. Geo. Xoland. Rockland. O., savs: "My wife had piles rortv years. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured her. It is the best salve in America." It heals everv thing and cures ail skin diseases. At all drug stores. $3,000 in Stamps Stolen. Dekalb, III., Nov. 7. The save and vault of the Dekalb postofnee was blown open with dynamite last night and S3, 000 taken, chiefly in postage stamps. There is no clue to the burg lars. Big cut in prices on all Millinery at Mrs. Kimball's. 633 Kansas avenue. Dyspepsia bane of human existence. Burdock Blood Bitters cures it.prompt ly, permanently. Regulates and tones the stomach. ENDED A DEBAUCH Santa Fe Shop Man Takes Poison and Dies. Harvey Dustan. a Santa Fe shopman, committed suicide Sunday by taking poison. His body was found Monday night. Dustan was a Santa Fe shopman and worked in the blacksmithing depart ment. He lived with his mother at SI 3 Chestnut street. Mrs. Dustan had not been at home for two days. She return ed Monday night and found the house locked. She called a neighbor by the name of Swanson. He got in the house through a back window and found Dus tan dead. He -was lying on a mattress on the floor of a second story room. He was partly undressed and was covered with the bed clothing. His head was I hanging back over the edge of the mattress. Dustan had been drinking heavily. He abused his mother and threatened her life. She was afraid to live in the house with him. She prepared his meals while he was away and did not even remain in the house while he was eat ing. Saturday he told her "this has gone far enough." She was afraid to stay in the house and went to the house of a friend. Dustan remained in the house alone. The body was removed to DeMoss Penwell's undertaking estao'lishment where an inquest was held this morn ing. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that Dustan committed suicide. THOUSANDS A HE IDLE. Bicycle Trust Throws Over 7,000 Out of Work. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. The bicycle trust that recently absorbed the In diana Bicycle company is carrying out its plans in respect to that industry, thousands of men are being dismissed. The Indiana company employed 6. 800 agents in the United States and for eign countries, all of whom have been dismissed, and with them nearly 400 men and women who were employed in the office of the company here, and who had charge of the various agencies. Beside this nearly all the employes who worked on bicycles have been dismissed and this branch of the manufacture will be either discontinued or very ma terially reduced. The entire rearrangement of the fac tory is contemplated and automobiles instead o bicycles will be manufac tured. PRIZES IT HIGHLY. The Beautiful Floral Piece Given Cot Little. To the Editor of the State Journal: Your issue of this date says that Col. Little's Turn Verein beautiful floral piece was stolen. I take great pleasure in saying that it was delivered at the National hotel by some kind friend of the colonel, and Mr. Wood called my at tention to it, but could not say who had left it there. We have it here and a thing of beauty it is. My son wishes to publicly thank the one who was so kind and wishes him to make himself known to him. It goes without saying that Col. Lit tle highly prizes this beautiful souve nir as much for the source from whence it came, as for its exquisite beauty. Very truly. THEOPHILUS LITTLE. Abilene, Kan., Nov. 6, 1899. CAN'T CROSS KARA SEA. Attempt to Send Steamships to North ern Siberia Abandoned. Bremen, Nov. 7. Representative steamship companies of Bremen, Ham burg and London have been forced to abandon the project they had on foot for the establishment of a regular line between the three ports named and points on the northerti coast of Siberia. The service was to have begun in the summer of 1900, but the five English steamers which this summer attempted to make the trip were compelled to re turn, owing to ice in Kara sea, between Nova Zembla and Siberia. One vessel, which succeeded in making its way, with a cargo of 80,000 pounds of tea, in to Kara sea, was crushed in the ice and sunk. The German companies having with drawn from the enterprise, the English companies will make no further at tempt in this direction. Mr. William Dean Howells will lec ture in the Union Lecture course at the high, school tomorrow, Wednesday evening. Tickets at Rowley Snow's. Half price Hat sale at Mrs. Kimball's, 633 Kansas avenue. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, Nov. 7. WHEAT Liverpool's response to the local improvement in wheat yesterday was disappointing today and wheat open ed unchanged to t8c lower. December at txNTV'7 o:e, and May at 7 2 7 'a 73 c. The pit was anything but animated. The export demand was dull and weather in the wheat regions seasonable. Trade was conlined mostly to scalpers with every small advance followed by a correspond ing loss on profit taking. Yesterday's buyers were sellers on the early bulge during which December advanced to ti:M8. The price eased off on the profit taking to opening figures, at which it held with little variation. Local receipts yere 1;2 cars, six of contract grade. Northwestern receipts were slightly large. Minneapolis and Diiluth receiving H83 cars as com pared with 90S cars a year ago. CORN opened unchanged from yester day influenced by unchanged cables. De cember at 31'S'T3)4C and May at 32!S'a 32a.tC bid, advancing sharply on continued cov ering by shorts, apparently not having fullv covered Saturday. December ad vanced to 31i'i310e. and May to 32c. The trade while steady was light. Re ceipts here were 31r' cars. OATS were a dull market opened un changed to 'sC lower influenced by dull ness of the other cereals, December at 22: 2c and May at 24c. Local receipts were 22: cars. PROVISIONS were firm and higher, helped by an advance in hog prices. Jan uary pork opened a shade higher at $.77l2 and sold at $H.2'2'(iy.i3. January lard opened unchanged at $o.27'i. January ribs opened a shade higher at j4.7' and sold at $4.97VQ5.00. FLAX Cash northwest $1.29: south west J1.2S.i2: December $1.2S"-4; May $1.2; November $1.27. RYE December ."214c: May 55c. 11ARI.KY-Cash 353 44c. TIMOTHY November $2.45. Chicago livestock Market. Chicago. Nov. 7. CATTLE Receipts Market shade higher. Reeves $4.30''i.S": cows and heif ers $1. Sum 4. 50: fancy heifers $5. 80: Texas grass steers $3.5V'4.15: fed Texans S4.5o4 5.D: stockers and feeders $3. 4. 50; can ners $l.S".Wi2.f: westerns $4.jj5.25. HOGS Receipts 3i.u: tomorrow 35.000: left over 1,443. Market strong to shade Correspondent: J.F. Harris. Chicaj, Member Chicago Board of Trada, Telephone 27s. J. C. GOINGS, Commission Merchant, GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Receiver and Shipper of Grain. 11a East Fifth Street. Leased private market and gossip wire to Chicago. Always in the market lor cash grain. Consignments of gvauo and correspondence solicit higher. Mixed and butchers $3. 95 ""-4. 30: good heavy $4.05'ii4.30; rough heavv f.i."' 3.M; light $3.95'u4.a0; bulk of sales $4.05'y) 4.20. SHEEP Receipts 15.000. Market bulk re ceipts lambs, sheep firm, lambs steady. Official receipts and shipments for yes terdav HOGS receipts 31.142: shipments 6.3s6. CATTLE receipts 15.S10: shipments 2.765. SHEEP receipts 19,631; shipments 261. Kansas City Livestock Karket. Kansas C!tv. Nov. 7. CATTLE Receipts 6."o0 natives, 2.000 Texans. Market steadv. Native steers J'.SivuG.OO: Texas steers $2.70'g 4.70: Texas cows $1. 50(63. 2u: native cows "ancl heifers $1.75fi4.00: stockera and feeders $3.CkXu 4.50; bulls $.'!.uofi4.75. HOGS Receipts 12.000. Market steady to strong. Hulk of sales $4.0tK(i4.O5: heavy $3.?7,-j'a4.07!: packers and vorkers $4. 00 4.05: mixed $4 .uo'u 4.02" light $3.95'a4.05; pigs $3.70'!J3.!'5. SHEEP Receipts 2.000. Market steady. Lambs $4.151i5.uo; muttons $3.004.30. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas Citv, Nov. 7. WHEAT December 63c: May 67sc. Cash: No. 2 hard '4';.c: No, 3, 5tKit3e; No. 2 red 70c: No. 3. 5'iSc. CORN December 2Sc: Mav Zfc. Cash: No. 2 mixed 2Sa4'(!20c; No. 2 white Siftc; No. 3. 2?4C. OATS No. 2 white 2525'ic. RYE No. 2. DO cents. HAY Choice timothy J.8.509.00; choice prairie J7.50raS.00. BUTTER Creamery 2CKg22c; dairy 18c. EGG? Fresh 15 cents. RECEIPTS Wheat 18 cars. Topeka Markets Today. CATTLE. COWS $2.50173.25. ST EE R S $3 50-rj 4 00. HEIFERS $3.00-5 3.40. HOGS. LIGHT $3. fin-ft 3.70. HEAVY AND MEDIl'M-$3.603.75. GRAIN. NO. 2. WHEAT 02 cents. NO. 2 CORN 241oC. NO. 2 OATS 24c. HAY $5.00&5.50. PRODUCE. EGGS 1 5c. CHICKENS $2.50 f?3. 00. BUTTER Creamery 24'ic; country ISc. Range ot Prices. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant. 112 East 6th St.. Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Article. Open Hlgn Low Close Yes. WHEAT Dec. 6S74 69U-1-; 6Si 69'4-Vi 69 May 72T8-73 73l-8 ""-i-i 73Va 72 CO KIN Nov. 31 ii 31 6 31'i -8f Dee. 3'Ms 31 31U, 3K, 3I"-4 May 32s- 33 32 32iB 82$, OATS Nov 22-s-4 22'i Dec. 22- 224 224-H 22-s 221 May ...24 24H 234-24 24-24V4 24' 4 PORK Nov S 15 S 10 Dec. 8 25 8 25 8 22 8 22 8 20 Jan. 9 77 9 85 9 75 9 75-77 9 75 LARD Dec. 5 10 5 10 5 02 5 07 5 10 Jan. 5 27 5 27 5 25 5 25-27 5 27 RIBS Dec. 4 92 4 92 4 92 4 92 4 90 Jan. 4 97 5 (10 4 97 4 97 4 95 KANSAS CITY: WHEAT Dec. 62-4 63 62i--4 63 62 Mav 67- 677-S-6S 67-?i G7vs 67 CORN Dec. 27i 28-2S4 Z7i 2S 27 May 29Vi 29 29V4 29 23 Cotton Market. Liverpool, Nov. 7. COTTON Spot fair, demand; prices higher; American middling 4 5-32d. Galveston, Nov. 7. COTTON Firm 7Uc. Market Gossip. Furnished by J. C. Gomes, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth St.. Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago: Contract stocks show for the week an increase in wheat of 319, 000, de crease in corn of 670,000, decrease in oats Liverpool: Wheat to d over yester day. On the late cables which were quoted V2 to Ttd higher, this crowd bought wad of wheat. The parties who bought the wheat yes terday are, ood sellers of wheat. The ca bles are a surprise. Wheat firm un buying by local traders, offerings light. C urn about steady with trade so far liprht, receipts small and cables unchang ed. Counsel ma ii sold a little. Provisions firm and higher, fair demand, for pork and ribs but little inquiry for lard. In corn trade is light, selling' has been mostly by Pacaud. Comstoek has sold some. Provisions firm on higher hog- market. Offerings light. Moderate buying would give us a rally. Liverpool: Wheat d higher, corn hi.eher. London: Wheat cargoes rather easier. Paris: Wheat steady. 5 centimes higher, flour steady. 10 centimes higher. Antwerp: Wheat unchanged. London Consuls uncha nged. San Francisco: Wheat on call had stronger tendency yesterday and specu lation was more active. Second cable: Wheat Vid higher, corn unchanged from yesterday. Cars received at Chicago: Wheat 132, graded 6: corn, Sid, graded 57; oats, graded 33. Chicago: Hogs 30.000. steady; cattle 5,500, steadv; sheep 12.0i0. steady. Kansas Citv: Hogs 11,0"0: cattle 7,000. Omaha: Hogs. 6.0W: cattle 3,500. Duluth 4.2; Minneapolis 4sl; last year holiday. Kansas City receipts: Wheat 18. last year 124; corn 28, last year 51; oats 6, last year 4. Outside wheat markets are relatively weak and don't respond to firmness here. This looks like a good spot to buy corn. Our best local bulls all trying to break it. Northwest selling wheat quite freely. Bartlett FYaziers' cable says no demand for cash although options are up. Been little selling for foreign account. London stock market opened H to higher than yesterday's close. Minneapolis wires: Cash wheat quite strong 1 to 2c over December. Elevators good buyers, mills not doing much. L'artlett Frazier seems to be buving corn today; they have been best sellers of late. Traders have sold wheat on theory that market is a scalping one and not likely to go very far in either direction without some reaction. Volume of trade small. Logan and Canby bought moderately. S. U. Co.. selling. Paris close: Wheat 10 to 20 centimes higher: flour 10 to 35 centimes higher. Liverpool close: Wheat 8 to T-sd higher than yesterday. St. Louis close: Wheat. December fific bid; Mav 74c: corn, December 3uHc: Mav W-xfiZVc: oats. December 2:114.0: May 24T. Puts December wheat fi calls ff--3-8?f691t.o; puts May corn Zl't'lZc; calls 33c. Curb December wheat f?.1? bid. Kansas City cash markets: No. 2 hard wheat 5 test G4c; No. 2 mixed corn 23c. Topeka cash markets. No. 2 hard wheat 59 test t2c; No. 2 mixed corn 24I-'a25c; oats 24c. Minneapolis close: Wheat, December C5 Gohic: May ClfiSc. Duluth close: Wheat, December 66c bid and May 70a4c bid. IT3 mi ID MSCELLAAEOIS ADS. WANTED HELP. WANTED Situation A moral young man. 22. eood penman, quick and accur ate in figures, trustworthy, diligent in business, with good recommendations, de sires a position where there is a chance for advancement. C. J., care Journal. WANTED A place in law office to Ftudy where I can do stenographic work about half the time; good reference. X. J. care Journal. WANTED B" a young ladv. situation as nurse girl or light housework: can give reference. M. C. station B, care G. C. Lockwood. 1 m m K.mm hi WANTED Inside work of any kind by young man of 2tf. Address, 'Work," 92tVz North Kansas avenue. WANTED Position as housekeeper for widower with uomfortable home by competent woman of 30. Y. Y., care Jour nal. WANTED By a young man a situation where he may work for his board while attending college. It is his graduating year and he must find some such position or else lf-ave college. Address Assistance, care Journal. CASH for acceptable Meas. State If pat ented. The Patent Record. Baltimore, ill WANTED Responsible general agents; must have small capital: good salary paid the right parties. Call between 10 and 4 at room A., the Copeland, corner ICansas avenue and mh street. WANTED Boy to drive delivery wagon. 4m) East &th street. WANTED At once 3 tailors. A. Hirbour, 115 W. 7 st. WANTED Boy with a wheel at T. T. M., 601 Kansas avenue. WANTED Men and boys at Topeka nur series. 3 blks east of Santa Fe shops. "WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Girl to work in candy store. 508 Kansas avenue. WANTED White girl for general house work at 511 West Sth st. Must have good reference. WANTED Girl to do general housework, reference required. HIS Topeka ave. "WANTED SALESMEN. SALESMAN to sell our full line of choice nursev stock. A printed guarantee that stock shall be true to name given to each customer. Write for terms. Mt. Hope Nurseries, Lawrence, Kansas. M. MANSON. 414 Kan. Ave., buys gentle men's clothing, shoes, hats, etc. Pay 12 to JS a suit. Dros me a card. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Factory building in or near Topeka on railroad. Write giving full particulars to W. O. Stoddard jr., care Journal. WANTED To buv 5 to 7 room house. $1,500 to $1,700. Ko agents. Cash, care Journal. WANTED You to call and see Mme. Zola. She gives truthful advice on busi ness and love: unites the separated, no matter what the cause or how far the distance. Fees. .Wc. Call at 21S East Fifth street, upstairs. WANTED To purchase 4 or 5 acres of cheap land, near city. Address Acres, care Journal. WANTED To sell coal yard, good loca tion, on switch, good reason for selling. Inquire by letter only. Address E, care Journal. WANTED Horses or cows to winter, $1 to $3 a month. Geo. Harrison, station B. WANTED Guns to trade or repair: ilg line. Golden Rule. S14 Kansas avenue. FOB RENT HOUSES FOR RENT A house on Lane street. Dr. D. Rogers, 811 Kansas avenue. FOR RENT Very desirable house, seven rooms at 807 Topeka ave. Call on or ad dress Chicago Lumber Co., Third and Jackson streets. FOR RENT A six room house with cis tern and hydrant water. Inquire at 920 Monroe street. FOE SENT BOOMS. FOR RENT Furnished room, modern conveniences, 2o7 Ea.st 10th st. FOR RENT To family without children, 3 unfurnished rooms, first floor, for light housekeeping. 312 East Eighth street. FOR RENT-3 furnished rooms for house keeping: also barn, 711 Quincy street. FOR RENT Nicely furnished rooms; modern at 1101 Van Buren st. FOR RENT Furnished room. steam heat. Inquire room 12, Thompson block. Quin cy street. FOR RENT Furnished rooms for light housekeeping: also roommate for lady. 713 Topeka avenue. FOR RENT Desirable furnished rooms. all modern conveniences. 1 block from business center. 2ty East Seventh st. FOR RENT Southwest corner 5th and Madison, furnished rooms, heat, batii and all conveniences. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board a 30s East bth street. FOB, SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE A fine Jersey cow at Ves per's bakery. 113 East 6th st. FOR SALE Square piano in good condi tion. Call mornings. 614 West Sth. FOR SALE 2,000 horseshoe tags.1700 Clay street. FOR SALE CHEAP Bed room set, (ex cept dresser.) Enquire at 720 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Fresh Jersey Telephone 275. cow, $1C'.00. FOR SALE Horse, harness and wagon. See Sam Bricker, 115 West Fifth st. FOR SALE 1 bed room suit, springs and mattress, 1 large sideboard, plate glass mirror, wal nut extension table, 1 hard coal basebur ner. 1 cook stove, soft coal. 1 small soft coal stove. 1 ice box, 1 gasoline tove, 1 set Haviland china. A large lot of car pets, lawn mower. 50 feet garden hose, kitchen utensils, dishes, etc. Also one good horse and phaeton wiil be sold very cheap. Call at No. 129 Buchanan street. FOR SALE OR TRADE Old established $1.00 a day hotel in good location: good business. S. S. Nomemaker, Council Grove. Kansas. FOR SALE CHEAP Hotel furniture and business. Carpenter Co., 5oi Kan. ave. LOST AND FOUND. STRAYED From 401 Tyler muley cow, speckled, red and white, rope around neck. Party informing Cope Co., phone 3, will be suitably rewarded. LOST Friday night between Crawford opera house and 10th and Quincy st.. pair gold and pearl opera glasses in black case. Please return to 115 Quincy st., aid receive liberal reward. LOST Treasurer's book. Reward for re turn to 119 East Sixth street. FOUND Where watches are cleaned for 75c: clocks 50c. S13 Kansas ave., up stairs. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vltnflea Brick and Paving Co. has been removed to 11& West Eighth uU FRESCO WORK. W. VT. GILLESPIE. Fresco Painter. De signs ana eatimatts furnlBhed on all cHsses of woik. 1714 West Fifteenth. To peka, Kan. Refers to hia worlt la Stat Journal building. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE A BARGAIN. On Buchanan st., near 4th, a new house of 7 rooms, cistern, celliu. etc.. no re pairs, ground 63xl50x2'.) fet: a payment down and balance monthlv. See us and see it and make an offer. We do not ex pect to have to offer this for sale very long: it is too good a thing. TOPEKA REALTY CO.. S34 Kan. ave., H. MACFEKRAN. Mgr. FOR SALE BY NICHOLS CARPEN ter 3'JO acres. 10 mil.-s from Topeka. good soil. 60 acres creek bottom, timber and water, well improved, only $').4: SO 7 miles out, good soil, fair improvements, $2.0o0: 80 acres Kaw bottom. 6 miles from Topeka. small house and orchard. $1 40 acres Kaw bottom, improved, beautiful location 5 miles out $'S"0: 35 acres. 2 mile out: all in tame grass, good soil, small house, $1,2"0: 10 acres. Kaw bottom. 2 miles out. $v,v': 9 acres Kaw bottom, email house $750; 160 acres 7 miles from Topeka, improved. 15 acres orchard, good soil. $1.?00: many other bargains in land- and city property. FOR SALE 7 room house, celler. sewer, well, cistern, large barn. 2 lots. V block to pavement. Price. $2,000; $,.i0 cash, bal ance $20 per month. 2 room house. 1 lot, $1W $23 cash, bal ance $5.00 per month. SCOTT CO.. C15 Kansas ave. FOR SALE CHEAP Lots and suburban homes. Smith, ooy Kansas avenue. KISCEjLLAJTja FOR TRADE Young horse for bicycle. 425 East 17th st. DO YOT WANT THE AGENCY for an Acetylene gas plant that will work suc cessfully: have overcome the disasreeablo features of most plants on the market: will light anything from an otTice to an ordinary town. if so. write the I'.rure Generator Co., Wel Seventh St., St. Paul, Minn., for their circulars und terms to agents. FOR RENT L'n furnished, the grand opera hotel. Syracuse. Kan. Best brick hotel building In western Kansas. 25 rooms, large sample room ami office. Only $2 house. Does splendid transient business, but bad health compels me to lease. Thomas Spence, Grand opera hotel. Syracuse. Kan. FOR RENT Chesterfield Simon Greenspan. Barber shop. NOTICE To Whom it mav concern: Bo It known that my petition is. on tile in the office of the probate court of Shaw nee county, Kansas, asking for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 404 Kansas avenue, in the Second ward, in the city of Topeka. Kansas, and the hearing of the same is set for Tuesday, the 2ath day of November, lsyy., at It a. m. F. H. WALLACE. Topeka, Kansas, October 26, lM'U. R-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for 5 cents at druggists. They banish pain and prolong life. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter one will do you good. 1PHTEI0TAN AND SUaOEONS. L. A. RYDER. M. D. OFFICII and reaidence corner Gordon f. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone D4. Uses the Brirkcihoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, nslula, tishure. ul ceration, etc IDA C. BARNES. M. D. Office TJ2 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Ofhce houia: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone lUS residence and 16 offlce. DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathlst. t2 Kansas ave. TeL. 402. B. E. SHELDON, M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, w!tb private hospital. Oflice No. 720 Kan. fcve. ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW. MILTON BROWN, lawyer. Practice In all state and federal cour.s. fcui:a 41, Craw ford bld.. TopeK. Kan. STORAGE TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOl.'SH! CO. Packs and ships household goods. Tel. 186. C. D. Skinner. 123 East Siila st. TIN SHOPS. J. M. BATRD. hot air furnaces, pumps ana tin rooting. 216 W. 6th. Tel. 3&. EDUCATIONAL LKCOT.E FRANCAISK KT ANGLAISH ile Mine. Ii. .binson. Rue de Folk mil deux cent vingt et un. FRENCH AND GKKMAN Taught either in clnss or private, terms reasonable. Mrs. Hannah Kihlberg, 1020 Tyler street. MONEY. $;oo.o'0.ono TO INVERT through Bankers, Brokers, Promoters: setid for circular. Investors' Directory, N. Y. MONEY to patent good ideas securer! through The Patent Record, Baltimore. ML LOANS on pianos, typewriters bicycles. guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal uroperty. L. Biscoe. 623 Kansas ave. HAIR GOODS. SWITCHES. CHAINS. Face treatments. Shampooing and hair dryed by hot air. Mrs. llatue Van Vleck. 220 East Fifth at. BICYLES TJ. S. CYCLE CO.. IIS E. 8th st. National and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 11 W. 8th st Bicvcie and sundries; bicycles and tandems tor i-ent: repairing of all kinds. CHEMIST. J. T. LOVE WELL, Ph. D., Analytical chemist and Assajer. 523 Kansas ave. SPECIALISTS. DR. P. H. OFIBOR. Diseases ot the No. Throat and Lungs. tub Kansas ave. JEWELERS. J A ME3 P. HAYDEN. Jeweler anfl Opti cian. Complete slock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fltted. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: dorks. We; mainsprings, 7rc; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guar anteed. Old .Jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam. L12 Kan. ave. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 7H KAN. AV. High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt worii. low price. Catalogue Frte. "Phone FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE. Florist, successor R J. Groves. b!7 Kansas ave. 'Phone 602. WE'LL DO YOUR HAUL1NQ RIGHT. Topeka Transfer Go. M)9 Kansas A?en as. Office TeL 320. House Tel. 395. F. P. BACON. Proprietor. tr SEE HE ABOUT STORAGE.

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. Examine the new oil cloth on the kitchen floor; its color and gloss are being destroyed and you may see where a cake of common soap fresh from the hot water in the scrubbing bucket has been laid on it for a moment, the free alkali having eaten an impression of the cake into the bright colors. A more careful examination will show small "pin holes" here and there where the alkali has cut through the surface to soak into and gradually weaken the whole floor covering. This is what cheap soaps do. Use Ivory Soap, it will not injure. copyright leas ay the Procter a gamble co. Cincinnati OUR PART OF CHINA. European Powers Anxious to Know What We Want. Kew York, Xov. 7. A special to the World from Washington, I). C, says: There is not lacking conclusive evi dence that there exists an understand ing between the United States and Great Britain regarding the share each shall have in the partition of the Chinese empire. Japan i3 expected to side with these two countries in. their demands. Confirmation of the statement that the continental nations that are plot ing for a slice of China will inquire in to the motives of the United States and Great Britain, came today in the shape of an admission by Count de C asim, the Russian ambassador, who came to Washington this morning. Count de Casini said: The statements in the newspapers that I have been charged with a mis sion to unite with my colleagues and Invite the United States to declare her policy in regard to China, either choos in a sphere of influence (a port to be under her jurisdiction) or declaring for the 'open door- policy. I must decline to affirm or deny. I have not as yet time to look around me. I must ascer tain the American news and sentiment before I give out statements on suen interesting and absorbing questions. Later I mav have something to say.' The "World correspondent learns that Count Casini will not present the views of his government to the United States until the arrival of the other continen tal ambassadors whose governments are Interested in the proposed dismem berment of China. From a high official authority the World correspondent has obtained this outline of the situation: 1 The United States demands that the open door policy be continued. 2 That none of its treaty rights shall in any manner be disturbed by foreign powers seizing Chinese territory. 3 That American trade and com merce shall be granted the same rights as the country owning a particular port enjoys. 4 That each power seizing territory Fhall furnish a written agreement to continue in force all treaty rights now existing between the Chinese empire and the United States. 5 Great Britain having always main tained open ports will co-operate with the United States in securing its de mands. 6 The demands once having been made must be enforced. 7 It is believed that all the demands of the United States will be granted. 8 It is hoped diplomacy will secure the concessions asked but in the event It fail3 other and more rigorous meth ods must be used. 9 Because of possible trouble the 'Asiatic squadron is being strengthened to its maximum. 10 It is not the purpose of the United Ftates to seize a Chinese port or a sphere of influence, it being the inten tion of the government to protect all United States interests in all ports and provinces of China. Our line of rubber goods is our pride. We guarantee every article, including hot water bottles. Likewise Begsrs' Cherry Cougrh Syrup, R. W. Squires, 732 Kansas avenue. The Absolutely Pure Made from Grape Cream of Tartar. Baking powders made from alum and other harsh, caustic acids are lower in price, but inferior in work and injurious to the stomach. J10YAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YGCKt n 1 SAPP NOT SAP IIEADED. Refuses to Be "Worked" Any Longer by "Young Democracy." A special to a Kansas City morning paper says: "The Sunflower State League, or ganized recently by one faction of the young Kansas Democracy, has seen its finish. It is now practically a thing of the past. It was born in tribulation. Its career was brief but stormy. It died without friends. "W. F. Sapp, the president, killed it today when he cut off the salaries of the district organizers. Sapp discover ed that he was being 'worked.' Or ganizers were very punctual in report ing to him the many local clubs they were organizing, and equally as punct ual in, notifying him that they had drawn on him for expense money. The drafts came on time, but Sapp never heard from the local clubs. None ap plied for charters from him. That was where he expected to play even. He was to get $1 for each charter. After going down in his pocket for about $4U0 to meet drafts from the organizers, he concluded not to play the sucker any longer and today he fired the whole out fit. This virtually 'busts' the concern. In discussing his action, Sapp said: "My name is Sapp, but I am not sap-headed enough to be sapped by a set of vam pires very long. Sapp has been sapped by the sappers all he proposes to be. The league is a dead duck.' JEFFIUES AKKESTED. Arrest Is Made For the Purpose of Testing an Anti Prize Fight Law. New York, Xov. 7. Jim Jeffries, the prize fighter and his brother John were arrested last night after they had fin ished a boxing exhibition on the stage of a theater in this city. Bail was fur nished, and the men were released pend ing a hearing of the case. It Is said that the arrest, at the con clusion of an exhibition of the recent fight with Sharkey at Coney Island, was made for the purpose of testing the Horton law. U. S. GRANT AT THE HEAD Of a Big Railway Enterprise at San Diego. San Diego, Cal., Nov. 7. A railway franchise, including a right, of way 100 feet wide along the Bay of San Diego has been granted by the common coun cil to U. S. Grant, George Marston, Geo. H. Ballou and M. A. Luce, four of this city's most influential residents. The purpose of granting the franchise is to facilitate the construction of a railway from the Bay of San Diego to the Colo rado river and thence eastward, to form a new transcontinental line. The gran tees of the franchise have until Janu ary 1, 1903, in which to carry out the undertaking. A proposed route via Salt Lake meets with favor here. THE OPENING GUX. A Kentucky Political Dispute Ends With a Probable Death. Cattlesburg, Ky Nov. 7. During a political engagement last evening, Wil liam Meek shot and probably fatally wounded John Marion. A stray bullet struck Arthur Inman. Meek escaped. WAKING UP. British Begin to Realize "What There Is Before Them. London, Xov. 7. Such scanty intel ligence as is filtering from the front is generally accepted here as reassuring although the letters agree that the fighting outside Ladysmith on Thurs day and Friday was much more severe than indicated by the official accounts. There is no longer such a disposition to jump at the conclusion that a crushing blow has been inflicted on the Boers as was hown before. British contempt for the burghers has been modified by de feat. The best informed are inclined to discount the stories of the cutting up of the Boers until further confirmation is received. But the mere fact that Gen. White was enabled to undertake a ser ies of successful reconnaissances is ta ken as an indication that the Boer in vestment has been relaxed by the with drawal of a portion of Gen. Joubert's force southward. While however the anxiety in regard to the immediate stress of Ladysmith is alleviated there is a widespread fear that the authori ties are badly blundering and discover ed too late that the main expedition will prove too weak to complete its task with safety and dispatch as the Natal force has already admittedly failed to perform what was expected of it. The confession, last evening of Gen. Lord Wolseley, the commander in chief that the Boers were more powerful and more numerous than had been anticipated sufficiently explains the present hap penings and the war office will here after have awkward questions to answer in regard to its apparent colossal ig norance of the Boer strength which both in numbers of men and excellence of artillery, is apparently a complete surprise to the British military author ities. Mail news from South Africa shows how inaccurate have been the estimates of the intelligence department and the government experts. It is gleaned therefrom that a fair estimate of the Boer forces is as follows: Around Ladysmith, 25,000: traversing Zululand, 4,0'0: advancing on Burgher lorn. G'OO; Colesburg, :).0i,0; Kimberley, 7,000: Ma rking, 4.300. and on the Northern Transvaal border, 2.000. "Exact informa tion about the Boer artillery is lacking but it is known that General Joubert's detachment before it was reinforced I consisted of lt Krupp field pieces ol the latest pattern and two heavy Creusot siege guns, which but for the oppor tune arrival of the ,'3ritish naval bri I gade, would have rendered Ladysmith Iun cenable. In connection with the naval guns, a most interesting and important experi I inert has beer, successfully carried out at Cape Town with a 4.7-inch gun, so serviceable at Ladysmith. One of the i British cruiser Terrible's gurs mount ed on a traveling carriage, was fired in the same way as a field gun with entire success. The Terrible, with a nu')ibr of guns thus mounted, is on her way to Durban and though the guns can not now reach Ladysmith, thev may be of great value in the de fence of Fietermartizbur:T, which it seems, will probably have tc stand a siepe. The arrival of the Terrible with the relief crews for China and other available men, must have placed in the 1 W i Jf ALBERT BROCKAWAT OF CO. M. ROBERT MAXWELL. OF CO B. Three Twentieth Kansas Soldier Globe Trotters Who neighborhood of 3,000 more men at the service of the military authorities. Interesting news come from the chan nel squadron at Gibraltar, showing pre cautions against all eventualities al most unknown in European waters in peace time. On the way to Gibraltar, the fleet spread out four miles apart and a sharp outlook was kept for sus picious craft. At Gibraltar extra sen tries are posted at night at different parts of the ships with ten rounds of ball cartridges each. The small guns on the upper deck and in the fighting tops are kept ready for immediate use, the ammunition being on deck; a few men sleep at the guns, but the search lights are kept working, all boats are hailed and not allowed to approach without permission of the officer of the watch. CHINA'S FEAK. Constantly Haunted With the Spectre of Losing Her Territory Plea to Uncle Sam. New York, Nov. 7. A special to the Herald from Washington, D. C, says: The United States was recently ap proached by Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister here, and requested to give China its moral support in opposition to the partitioning of the Chinese empire. This government declined to give any such assurance. It would not be surprising, in view of the request made by this government for written assurances by foreign pow ers respecting the freedom of American commerce if the Chinese minister should ask the United States for a writ ten guarantee that it will not occupy Chinese territory. A diplomat who is well acquainted with the Chinese ques tion, said the request of the United Slates might be construed either as favorable or unfavorable to the Fekin government. Wu Ting Fang regards the action as favorable, but the diplomat suggested that the foreign office at Fekin might regard it as simply binding this admin istration and future administrations, carrving out the expansion policy of President McKinley, might deem it proper in the interest of American trade to acquire territory in China It is appreciated that this adminis tration has no intention of acquiring a sphere of influence in China. Should the governments of Europe fail to give the written assurances as explicitly as the administration desires, tais govern ment might consider the advisability of securing a sphere of influence and the diplomat suggested that the European nations desirous of partitioning China might refuse, in order to bring the United States into the field, to give the assurances. From present indications, however, these powers will comply with the request. Great Britain's policy of "open door" is too well known for this government to seek anv uledge from her. France is the only power which may object to I making a positive written statement of I her future treatment of foreign trade j in her phere of influence in the south j of China. Russia may limit her guar antee to Talien-W'an and not agree to its extension over the whole of Man churia. The authorities are hopeful, however, that she will not limit her guarantee. Before requesting the powers to give written guarantees the government ob tained verbal assurances that the trea ties of the United States with China would be respected. The president simp ly desires that these assurances be J V., CHARLES placed in writing so that they may be binding in the future. The authorities are confident that the bare announcement of the attitude of this government that its commercial rights must be respected will have an excellent effect in the preservation of the integrity of China. The knowledge that Japan proposes to send a similar note to the powers makes it all the more certain that no restructions upon foreign trade will occur, especially as Great Britain stands for the same principle. Italy has for the present given up pressing China to cede to her San Mun Bay, although she has not withdrawn her demand and is now asking for rail road and other concessions in the vi cinity of that harbor. The Chinese gov ernment has steadily declined to grant any such concessions and purposes to persist in its declination, no matter what force Italy may bring into Asiatic waters. AT THE PLAi LAST NIGHT. A generous sprinkling of Twentieth Kansas soldiers in the audience at the Crawford theater Monday night was responsible for the members of the company presenting Lincoln J. Carter's "Chattanooga" receiving almost contin uous applause through the five acts, and a curtain call at the close of the third act. Every patriotic expression, and there are many gallery playing lines in "Chattanooga," eve? v triumph of the hero and every defeat of the villain, was greeted with applause that varied from hand-clapping to cheers, and individually or in chorus the re turned Kansas fighters at various lo cations in the audience were invariably responsible for starting it. "Chattanooga" is a badly constructed war play, with less in way of scenic effect than is true of other Carter pro ductions. Of course it is full of unreas onable situations, but in this it is no worse than other productions dealing with love and war. The company pre senting it is mediocre, and the accent assumed by the "southern" members is something at once astonishing and painful. It was particularly noticeable last night that it required an unusual number of "damns" to get the perform ance through in three hours. Practical ly every one of the company, with the exception of the three women, gave ex pression to a cuss word of one kind or another during the five acts, and "damn" seemed to be by long odds the favorite. It was also noticeable that after the juvenile Confederate soldier was wounded in one ankle in the third act, he changed his wound on every successive appearance, probably be cause limping on one leg all the time proved tiresome. The effect of a locomotive traveling at high speed, produced by the use of a cinematograph, was not bad, and the sound of galloping horses was better produced than is common. The play ends with arrival of the engine bearing the hero, the heroine and the villain, in General Hooker's headquarters, and there it drops them, all bale and hearty. This failure to dispose of the villain and unite the lovers is disturb ing to people who admire war plays, and should be changed. WATC li 1NJGEN GLAND. German Emperor Will Occupy a South Africa Station. Paris, Nov. 7. The Berlin correspon dent of the Figaro says Emperor Wil liam is resolved to occupy Tiger Bay, south of Angola, on the west coast of South Africa, if England occupies Del agoa Bay. IN CLOSE EMBRACE. Charred Bodies Found In New York Fire Ruins. New York, Nov. 7. The charred bodies of Engineer Michael Condone and Porter Charles Smith were found today in the ruins of the fire which destroyed the contents of the six story brick building at numbers 94, H6 and 9S Mott street on Friday afternoon and in which four men are supposed to have lost their lives. Smith's arms were around Condone's neck and it was evident that Condone had been trying to carry Smith out on his back at the time when both perished. Six Frightful Failures. Six terrible failures of six different doc tors nearly sent Wm. H. Mullen of Lock land, O.. to an early grave. All said he had a fatal lung trouble and that he must soon die. But he was urged to trv Dr. King's Xew Discovery for Consumption. After taking five bottles he was entirely cured. It is positively guaranteed to cure all diseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs including Coughs, Colds. La Grippe, Pneu monia, Bronchitis, Asthma, Hay Fever Croup. Whooping Cough. 50e and $1 00.' Trial bottles free at Waggoner's drug store, 731 Kansas avenue. Steamer Line to Cape Nome. Portland, Ore., Nov. 7. Arrange ments were completed today for a line of steamers between Portland and Cape Nome, Alaska, to be operated by the California and Oregon Coast Steamship company. RAMSEY OF CO A. Are Now In Rome, Italy. NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany. S35 Kansas avenue. Fouchts' Jewelry is selling like hot cakes. J. B. Betts left this evening for Col orado Springs. He will return Satur day. Dr. R. S. Plummer is quite ill with appendicitis at his home, 914 Quincy street. G. W. Petro left Sunday for a four weeks' business trip to the western part of the state. Will McLaughlin will leave shortly for Los Angeles to be with his mother who is quite ill. Dr. T. B. Reynolds lost a valuable colt yesterday, the death being caused by an accident. Mrs. Ella Campbell and children of Ohio are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rice of Morse street. Miss Lou Hutchinson left today for Minnesota where she will spend the winter visiting friends. Mr. A. O. Bush has resigned his posi tion as general foreman at the Topeka vinegar works and taken a place as packer. "Patient Continuance is Well Do ing'' will be the subject of Mr. Powell's sermon this evening at the Christian i church. Miss Fitcher and Miss Paddock re turned to their home in Manhattan Sat urday after a visit of a week to Mr. and Mrs. C. Kaser. The Fraternal Aid will give a social dance at their hall in the Barrett block Wednesdav evening. All are cordiallv i invited. Admission free, j Mr. and Mrs. George Stoker will leave on Wednesday for Los Angeles and other points in California where they j will spend the winter. I The Ladies' Aid society of the Kan- sas Avenue M. E. church will have an all day meeting tomorrow in the church jparlors. All members are asked to be present. R. W. Sandmyer, who since his re turn from Colorado where he spent the summer, has been the guest of his aunt, Mrs. J. B. Betts, has gone to his home in Nashville, 111. The young ladies of the Second Pres byterian church who are assisting with the Bazaar to be given shortly, will meet this evening at the home of Mrs. Buck on Jackson street. i Miss Caldwell and Mr. George Coulter were married Sunday at noon by Mr. F. A. Powell of the Christian church at the home of the bride's father, Mr. J. E. Caldwell, 615 St. John street. Mr. and Mrs. Coulter will make their home at 1525 Harrison street. The Ladies' Aid society of the Second Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. King on Gordon street on Wed nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock to com plete arrangements for the entertain ment they are to give shortly. All the committees are requested to report at this meeting. TAKE THE OATH. Imperial Guard Recruits Sworn in in Kaiser's Presence. Berlin, Xov. 7. The recruits of the Imperial Corps de Garde took the oath of allegiance today in the Custgarten in the presence of the emperor and his staff and the foreign officers. As each brigade was sworn, his majesty took his stand by its colors. Addressing them all in turn in a loud voice, the emperor reminded the guards of their oath, saying-: "A man's word is his bond." and ex horting: them to do their duty as "sol diers and Christians." Ilegarding the alleged scheme for ar bitrating the Transvaal question a semi-oflicial statement has been issued as follows: "Nothing whatever is known here of any common plan, of action upon the part of x russia, France, or Spain in the Transvaal question. In any case it may be most positively stated that no such plans have been brought to the knowledge of the German government from any quarter whatever and there fore it has never been, in the position to reject any such or similar proposals." VIEW TILE DITCH. Big Excursion From Chicago Along the Drainage Canal. Chicago, Nov. 7. Nearly 800 men prominent in public life, including Gov ernors Mount of Indiana, Scofield of i "Wisconsin and Tanner of Illinois; con j gressmen, state legislators, aldermen j and other guests of the trustees of the new drainage canal left Chicago today on a special train of 16 coaches over the Santa I e road for an informal inspec tion of the big sanitary ditch prior to the turning in of the water which will take place probably before January 1. The main purpose of the excursion to day was to acquaint legislators with the gigantic scale of the work now all but accomplished, and its objects. The congressmen and state legislators dis played great interest in the various fea tures of the canal and carefully studied the controlling works at Iockport and the length and depth of the stone and earth cuts. Every part of the big ditch was inspected by the excursionists. BUSHKIKK'S ESCAPE. American Nearly Burned at the Stake In Central America. Chicago. Nov. 7. A special to the Times-Herald from Bedford, Ind.. pays: George Buskirk, formerly of Stines ville. Ind., is said to be in trouble in Central America. Relatives at Stinesville have received word that Buskirk some time ago slew a native Central American and was captured by the native's friends, who tried to burn the American at thestake. Buskirk killed two of the captors and escaped into the woods. The adventurous Stinesville man was formerly a saloonkeeper in this county and ten years ago killed a man of the name of Easton. who was try ing to break into the saloon. Buskirk was tried for murder and acquitted. Buskirk then went to Central America, where he engaged in the lumber busi ness. Put in Irons. San Francisco, Nov. 7. Twenty-two East Indians employed as oilers, coal passers and firemen on the British ship Pathan, recently chartered by the TTnited States to carry troops to the Philippines, have been put in irons by order of Captain Butler because they objected to going to Manila. The East Indians shipped at Singapore in Sep tember for an eighteen months' voy age. They are afraid of the hostile Filipinos but the captain thinks he will soon force them to complete their con tracts. Denied by Huntington. New York, Nov. 7. A report that the new Japanese Hoyo Kaiser Kaisha steamship line has been absorbed by the Pacific Mail Steamship company has been denied by Collis P. Hunting ton, who said that he knew absolutely nothing of such a development. Both lines however are said to be working in harmony and maintaining a. common rate schedule. MJNYON'S INHALER CURES CATARRH Colds, Coughs Hay Fever, Dron- "Vchitis, Asthma and all Diseases ol the Throat and Lungs. Clouds of Medicated Vapnr tre Inhaled through the mouth and emitted from the nos trils, cleansing: and vaporizing all the lnrtamed and diseased parts which cannot be reached bj medicine taken Into the btomach. It reaches the strre spoli It heals the raxo places It goes to the teat of disease It acts as a balm anil tonic to the whole system $1.00 at druggist orient bymaiU 1505 Arch St., I'hila GRAND OPEKA HOUSE WEDNESDAY EVENING, Nov. 8tb. Special Concert by the 20th Kansas Band. MUSIC DIRECT FROM THE FIRING LINE By soiuo of Funstoa's Fighters, with the assist, ance of the best vocal talent In the city. Reserved Feat Sale at Flad Grubbs' Drug Store, beginning Tuesday morning. Prices 50 cents, 35 cents, and 25 cents. OUR NATIONAL AIR. Topeka Musician Says Filipinos Think It Is "A Hot Time." The Twentieth Kansas band played, in the trenches at Caloocan while the bullets were whizzing over them and the pop of the ritles mixed with the music. The band men were with their com panies in the trenches but they got to gether and played "The Star Spangled Banner." The men had orders to re main in the trenches but when the strains of the national air swelled above the din of battle they jumped to the top of the breast works, gave a cheer, removed their hats and stood at atten tion while the band played. "The Fili pinos are great imitators," said Erve Strickland, the leader of the band, "and when they saw the Americans stand ing there bareheaded in honor of the Hag they ceased firing and stood on their own trenches and removed their hats the same as our men did. When the band finished the piece both side3 got back in their trenches and resumed the tiring. "The Filipinos are good musicians. Many of them are educated in Kurope and are really accomplished musicians. They do not play by note. They read music but prefer to commit the music to memory. They play and sing some of the longest operas without looking at a note. When Consul General Wild man was to leave the islands he gave a farewell dinner and engaged a Fili pino orchestra to furnish the music. When the dinner was half over the con sul asked the leader of the orchestra if he could play the American national air. The leader said certainly, he would play it at ance. He raised his baton and the orchestra burst into the stir ring strains of "A Hot Time." II 0 BAIiT WEAKE K. Ha Did Not Pass a Restful Night. Paterson, N. J.. Nov. 7. Vice Presi dent Hobart is growing weaker. Dr. Newton did not give out any official bulletin this morning, but when asked regarding the condition of his patient about 8 o'clock, said: "The vice president's night was not a restful one. He did not get as much sleep as was hoped. His restlessness and lack of sleep during the critical hours of the night offset the good ef fect of the day yesterday, which was the best in a week." The d..ctor added that the vice president's heart waa growing weaker gradually. Dr. Newton said the vice president has taken very little nourishment, but his mind was in a fairly good condition. It was im possible to say how long Mr. Hobarl might last. BIG LIME TRUST. Organized to Control the Production In the United States. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 7. Primary arrangements have been completed in Montgomery for the formation of a lime trust, which aims to control the pro duction of lime in the southern states. Eastern capitalists are interested with Montgomery men and the capital will lie S2. Onii.OOd. The syndicate already has options on the principal works. Chicago Pioner Dead. New Tori:, Nov. 7. William L. Samp son of Chicago, died today at his sum mer home in Ocean Grove. He was seventy-six years of age and was one of the pioneers of Chicago and owned large tracts of land just outside the limits of that city. ABANDONED IT. For the Old Fashioned Coffee Was Killing. "I always drankcoffee with the rest of the family, for it seemed as if there was nothing for breakfast if we did not have it on the tabic. "I had been troubled some time with my heart, which did not feel right. This trouble, grew worse steadily. "Some times it would beat fast and at other times very slowly, so that I would hardly be able to do work for an hour or two after breakfast and if I walked up a hill, it gave me a severe pain. "I had no idea of what the troubla was until a friend suggested that per haps it might be caused by coffee drinking. I tried leaving off the coffee and be;an drinking Postum Cereal Food Coffee. The change came quickly. I am now glad to say that I am entire ly well ol the heart trouble and attri bute the cure to leaving off coffee and the use of Postum Cereal Food Coffee. "A number of my friends have aban doned the old fashioned coffee and have taken up with Postum, which they are using steadily. There are some people that make Postum very weak. and tasteless, but if it is boiled long enough according to directions, it is a very de licious beverage. We have never used any of the old fashioned coffee since It was first started in our house." Mrs. L. A. Smith, Blodgett Mills. Cortland Co.. N. X. V "f 7