The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 15, 1900

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J LAST EDITIOIT. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 15, 1900: MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. Li Hi 1. 1 Ml f f f A Hi I i r s E I. f It, i t 5 TIMELYWARNIflG. Interstate Commerce Commis sioii Notifies Congress That the Railroads Are Fast Forming a Combination TO DO AS TilEY PLEASE The Commission Is Powerless to Stop Them Without Aid In the Way of Additional Legislation. Washington, Jan. 15. The Interstate Commerce commission today made pub lic its thirteenth annual report. The feature of the report is the strong plea made that congress uphold the hands of the commission by amendments malting the interstate commerce law more effective. The report saya that the commission a year ago called at tention to the fact that in vital respects the present law has proved defective and inadequate and tnat until further legislation is provided the best efforts at regulation must be feeble and dis appointing. The requests of the commission for needful amendments have been sup ported by petitions and memorials from agricultural, manufacturing and com mercial interests throughout the coun try, yet says the report, not a line of the statute has been changed and none of the burdensome conditions which call for relief has been removed or modified. The existing situation and the develop ments of the past year, it is added, ren der more imperative than ever before, the necessity for speedy and suitable legislation. Nine-tenths of the people know that any railroad company can charge for its service whatever it pleases and as much as it pleases, with out any real power in this commission, or in any other tribunal or court to limit the amount of such charge, for the future w.hen complaint is made by an aggrieved shipper, and they are sub stantially of one mind in desiring that this and other defects in the statute be promptly remedied. Shippers gen erally also have been practically unan imous in favor of a single classification of freights, one that will be uniform for all roads and all sections of the country and reasonably stable when established. This general public dissatisfaction has been frequently expressed in reso lutions of various national organiza tions and at a conference- rn Chicago last November attended by representa tives from a number of national asso ciations of manufacturers, merchants and others, a bill embracing the more important amendments recommended by the commission was approved as the measure that would best meet the re quirements of business and commercial interests. This bill Senator Ctillom has introduced and the report signifi cantly suggests whether continued fail ure to perfect the regulating statute on reasonable lines will not soon result in an irresistible demand for the most radical and drastic legislation. Continuing, it adds: "It is a matter of common knowledge that vast schemes of railway control are now in process of consummation, and that the competition of rival lines is to be restrained by these combinations. While this movement has not .yet fourld full expression in the actual consolida tion of railroad corporations, enough has transpired to disclose a unification of financial interests which will dom inate the management and harmonize the operations of lines heretofore inde pendent and competitive. This is today the most noticeable and important fea ture of the railway situation. If the plans already foreshadowed are brought to effective results and others of sim ilar scope are carried to execution, there will be a vast centralization o railroad properties, with all the power Involved in such far reaching combina tions, yet uncontrolled by any public authority which can be effectively ex erted. The restraints of competition upon excessive and unjust rates will in this way be avoided and whatever evils may result will be remediless under ex isting laws." The increase in railroad business the past year has been so great the report says that many carriers found their equipment inadequate for the service required. Revenues increased greatly, while railway failures fell off. The rush of business "contributed to the improv ed observance of published rates and diminished the frequency of those prac tices which are made criminal misde meanors by the statute. "Coincident with those schemes of. unified control and while this excep tional movement of traffic continues. the carriers operating throughout an exten sive and important territory have re cently made substantial and in many cases very large increases in their scale of charges. These advances in rates have been mainly effected by concerted and agreed change in the classification of freight articles. It is not intended to intimate that these advanced rates are not lawful, no opinion is expressed as to their actual or relative reason ableness. But the fact that such ex tensive increases in railroad charges have been brought about by the meth od described must be of signifiecnt im port and furnish a weighty argument In favor of measures which will be ef fective to secure compliance with the primary requirements of the act." These changes were made -without hearing any protests of shippers and whatever may be the merits of the complaints the report urges that the law ought to be so amended as to in sure a determination wherever the rates are just and reasonable. Reference is made to the several con ferences had with high railway officials early in the year with a view to gaining from each promises to maintain their published rates and to the good effect of these conferences in checking the rate demoralization then prevailing. It is denied that the conference sought to secure agreements to maintain rates their only purpose being to secure good faith in the published tariffs. Fifteen cases are pending in federal courts to enforce orders of the commission and criminal cases are awaiting trial in Louisiana, Texas and Georgia. During the year 1S99, there was 199 employes killed and 5,339 injured upon 89 roads against 209 killed and 5,484 in jured in 1898 a. result attributed to the more general equipment of the roads with safety appliances. A review is made of judicial decis ions on interstate commerce affairs during the year. Concerning the refus al of the circuit court for northern Il linois to declare unreasonable the term inal charge of $2 per car made on live stock brought into Chicago, the report says: "The court seems to have overlooked what Is believed to be the dominant consideration in the case namely that if the through rate to Chicago was a reasonable rate before Janary 1, 1S94, it became an unreasonable rate when the $2 terminal charge was added on that date. To make a reasona ble through Jiate represent less ser vice than formerly and add on another charge for the part of the service for merly covered by the through rate plainly may make the total charge un reasonable and that," the commission says, "was true in this case." PEOPLE EXCITED. Fourth Street Pest House Must Be Mo Ted. There will be a meeting of the citi zens of the Second ward held at the Third Presbyterian church. Fourth and Branner, on Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, to protest against the location of a pest house on our principal busi ness street. M. HEERT, Li. D. EVEgSOLE. Committee. The above notice indicates briefly that there Is trouble in store for the city health officers. The pest house is at Fourth Avenue hotel on East Fourth street. The establishment of this pest house in this thickly settled neighbor hood, has caused the people living in that portion of the city, and those who have daily business to and from that part of town, to take the matter up among themselves, and determine if possible, whether anything can be done to compel the city to move the pest house to some other part of the city. The residents of the east side of town and nearly all of the business men loca ted there, as well as nearly all of the Santa Fe shopmen, have signed peti tions requesting the removal of the pest house at once. These petitions, which will contain the signatures of about 1,000 of the citizens of Topeka, will be presented to the city council at their meeting tonight, and a committee of citizens will accompany the petitions to present them to the council and see that they get fair play in the matter. Said a Santa Fe shopman this morn ing, who is instrumental in getting one of the petitions circulated and signed: "We do not intend to let this matter drop until we get the city council to move that chickenpox pest house to some other part of the city, which is not so thickly populated, or else have them move it outside the city limits where the pest house properly belong. This thing of having, a pest house for the quarantining of chickenpox cases, situated right in the heart of the city where there are residences all around it, and hundreds of working men and people passing the house every day, is not the right thing, as it is a continual menace to the health of the citizens o the city. "For several months past the people living in the west part .of town have been raising a continual cry about the location of the Salvation Army hospital. They have made so much noise about it that the city council took the matter up, and have requested the hospital moved. It did not move and the people have continued to complain. Not very long ago a case of chickenpox existed there and resulted fatally, and it is said that the case was not quarantined, and now the city council have taken the matter of the moving of the hospital in hand and have declared it a nuisance and are determined to move the institu tion outside the city limits." Mr. M. Heery says the people are very much in earnest and are determ ined that this pest house shall not be situated in a crowded portion of the city. ONE MORE WEEK. And Lake Michigan Water Will Flow Unimpeded to the Gulf. Chicago, Jan. 15. Connection between the main channel of the big drainage canal and the Chicago river was com pleted to-day by the dredging out of the dam at Western avenue and the water of the river was turned into the main canal for the first time. No for mal ceremonies marked the completion of the work. It is expected that the gates at Lockport will be finally raised Saturday, as the work in the canal be low that point and the formal inspec tion and approval will have been con pleted by that time and the waters of Lake Michigan will then flow unim peded toward the Mississippi. It is probable that from now until Satur day the current in the Chicago river will tend toward the lake again, and that until the locks are raised the drinking water of Chicago will be con taminated by sewage. RIGID QUARANTINE. Oklahoma People Must Seep Oat of Kansas. A quarantine against Oklahoma on account of smallpox is being establish ed today by W. B. Swan, secretary of the state board of health who was sum moned to Independence by a telegram last night. It js the intention of the authorities to make the quarantine a rigid one and to prevent people from the infected dis tricts in Oklahoma from entering the state at any point along the southern line. Secretary Swan has been informed by official communication that there afe 400 cases of genuine smallpox in the towns adjacent to the southern Kan sas line. Today the secretary is aiding in the establishment of a quarantine at Inde pendence and will go from there to Ar kansas City and other towns along the border of the state. It is extremely probable that a rigid quarantine will be established along the entire southern line of the state. It was the purpose of the v'klahoma authorities to establish a quarantine against all of the territory except Kay county, leaving this without the plea of the restrictions as an exit from the state without interference from the au thorities. Such quarantine as this would have enabled the smallpox patients or those who were convalescent to come and go into Kansas as they pleased, a condition which the Kansas authorities decline to permit to exist. A quarantine against Kansas City, Mo., is also being discussed as that town has more than 1,000 cases of small pox today. REESE RELEASED. Federal Judge Williams Re ceives a Severe Rebuke. Exceeded His Authority by Sending Miner to Jail. WAS NO INFRACTION. Order of Injunction Not Yiol&ted by Reese. Did Not Apply to the Official of Miners' Union. The opinion of Judge Thayer, of the United States court of appeals at St. Louis, in the habeas corpu3 action to release John P. Reese, who was com mitted to jail at Fort Scott by Federal Judge Williams for contempt of court in violating the injunction granted by Judge Williams against the striking miners some time ago, was received in Topeka today by George F. Sharitt, clerk of the federal court, and was de livered this afternoon by Judge Hook. The decision orders the release of Reese and is a victory for the miners. The contention of Reese's attorneys that the injunction under -which he was impris oned for addressing striking miners did not apply to him is upheld by Judge Thayer. Last October during the coal miners' strike in southeastern Kansas Judge Williams enjoined anyone from inter fering in any way with the men at work htfaftz mAA;Uk 1 Urn 'md-rjb iimm m ii John T". Reese, Imprisoned by Federal Judge Williams, and Ordered Released Today in the mines. Reese, who is a member of the executive committee of United Aline Workers of America, went to the scene of the strike from his home in Iowa, and was arrested for contempt for addressing a body of miners. An application for a writ of habeas corpus followed in the federal court of appeals, and W. H. Rossington and David Overmyer, of Topeka, and O. T. Boax, of Pittsburg, were employed by the mine workers to argue the case at St. Louis. J. H. Richards. W. C. Perry, E. M. Benton and Morris Cliggitt took the side of the coal companies in de fending the action of Judge Williams. In his opinion which releases Reese, Judge Thayer said: "This is a proceeding by habeas cor pus to secure the release of John P. Reese, who was committed for alleged contempt, in disobeying an order of injunction, that was issued by the cir cuit court of the United States for the district of Kansas, third division. By virtue of an oral agreement of counsel the case has been submitted for decis ion upon a written stipulation as to one issue of fact, also upon the petition for the writ, the return thereto and annex ed exhibits. By these pleadings and ex hibits the following facts are disclosed which are undisputed: On June 13, 1S99, the Western Coal Mining com pany, a corporation of Missouri, filed a complaint in the circuit court of the United States, for the district' of Kan sas, third division, which may be char acterized in a general phrase as a biil to enjoin the defendants therein named from resorting to threats; intimidation or scurrillous epithets for the purpose of preventing miners who so desired from taking service with the coal com pany and from resorting to the same means for the purpose of inducing per sons already in the coal company's em ploy to abandon such service. Forty six persons were made defendants to the bill by name, all of whom were al leged to be citizens and residents of the state of Kansas, and in addition thereto, other persons, as it is claimed, were made parties defendant to the bill by the following words of general descrip tion, in the caption of the complaint, towit 'And all members of the United Mine Workers, lodges or unions in Crawford or Cherokee counties in the state of Kansas, and all members of district number fourteen of the United Mine Workers of America, and all oth er, persons co-operating with them, be ing citizens of Kansas.' Reese contended that as he was a res ident of Iowa and not -within the juris diction of the court that he was not subject to prosecution for contempt even had he indulged in violation of the order of the court. Reese claimed he was innocent and that the power of the court bad been invoked against him without due legal process. Judge Thay-. er sustains this contention. "Inasmuch, however, as the-learned district Judge" says Judge Thayer in referring to Judge Williams, Dy wnom the order was is sued has evidently, construed and en forced it as reaching beyond the parties to the record and as embracing the pe titioner who was not a citizen of Kan sas nor subject to be sued by the com plainant in that state without his con sent the validity of the order may be determined upon the assumption that such was its true scope and effect." Judge Thayer closes bis opinion by say ing: "Viewed from the latter standpoint the court is of the opinion that the re straining order was void in so far as it concerned the petitioner and that it afforded no legal basis for the contempt proceedings which were subsequently inaugurated against him and against him alone, although there were it seems many other persons concerned in the acts constituting the alleged contempt. It is somewhat remarkable that no at tempt was made prior to the contempt proceedings' to make the petitioner a party to the suit in which the injunc tion was granted. If he had been made a party it may be that he would have waived his privilege of being sued else where and consented to litigate with the complaining company the various issues tendered by its bill of complaint. If he had refused to do so the case might nevertheless have proceeded against the other defendants by a sim ple dismissal as to the petitioner. But be this as it may, it can not be ad judged that upon the jk cate of facts heretofore recited the restraining order extended to and bound the petitioner. If it be assumed that Buch was its scope and purpose, then it was void in the sense that it was beyond the power of the court to make it. And, where one is imprisoned for the viola tion of an order which did not extend to him, or for the violation of an order which was in excess of the jurisdiction of the court, if it in terms extends to him, he is entitled to discharge by the writ of habeas corpus. "The result is in the language of the habeas corpus act that 'law and jus tice' as applied to the facts of the case. by Judge Thayer. require the petitioner's discharge, and it is so ordered." NEW TERM OF CODRT. Judga Eazsn Formally Opens Jan uary Session Today. The district court began the more im portant business of its January term today by commencing on the criminal docket. The jury for the term was summoned for the first time this morn ing. The first case called was that of the state against Hiram Hall, an as sault case appealed from the city court. The jury panel for the term is made up of the following: J. F. Folger, To peka; John Marsh, Mission township; James H. Leonard, Topeka: J. H. Pick ens, Topeka; H. A. Fiske, Topeka; F. B. Fritz; Mission township; Joshua Pierce, Soldier township; H. B. Firestone, Au burn township; J. M. Montgomery, To peka township; J. G. Moore, Mission township; Joel Huntoon, Topeka; J. M. Welch, Topeka. Before the docket was called Judge Hazen took occasion to give the Jury some instructions, and among other things he said: "Now, gentlemen of the dury, when you retire to the jury room to consider a case, see that you consider that and do not waste your time talking about other things. Do not discuss politics or religion. Bend your energies to the case you have in band until you are through with it." The criminal docket is short and there are few cases of any importance now assigned for hearing. The principal one will be the case against H. M.Wise for highway robbery, over which the jury disagreed at the last term. MIKE SUTTON'S PARTNERS: Thomas Scates and Edward Driacoll Members of the Firm. The appointment of Ed Madison to the judicial bench made a vacancy in the law firm which he and Mike Sut ton organized some years ago. A reorganization has been effected by the terms of which Thomas A. Scates and Edward Driscoll put their names on the shingle with that of Mr. Sut ton. Scates is the register of the United States land office. Driscoll has long been a stenographer in the office of Sutton and Madison, having been re cently admitted to the bar. Attention Arions. Grand Concert and Ball Wednesday Eve., Jan. 17th, 1900. All members cor dially invited. TRUSTEES. OVER THEJUGELA War Office Dispatch Says War ren Has Crossed. Fighting Is Supposed to Be In Progress. HE HAS 11,000 MEN. Both Flanks of the Boar Army Are Threatened. Fears That the Dutchmen Are "Playing Possum." London, Jan. 15. A special dispatch from Cape Town dated January 12 last evening announces that Gen. Warren has crossed the Tugela river. New York, Jan. 15 A Herald dis patch from London says: Although there is every reason to suppose that fighting is proceeding upon the line of the Tugela river, no report has been al lowed to come through since Gen. Bul ler's statement of his arrival at Pot gieters drift. In connection with this movement Gen.' Sir Charles Warren either on Thursday or Friday moved with about 11,000 men in the direction of Weenen, jvhich would give color to the view that both flanks of the Boer army are being threatened as a preliminary to a de termined, advance on Mount Inhlawe to the east. Colenso upon the southern bank of the Tugela must be cleared of the Boer force which' has been holding it since otherwise this force might be able to threaten the British line of communica tion, It is quite possible that Warren will "co-operate in the attack on this moun tain. Now that the Tugela is running at flood the. time is favorable as it will be difficult for the Boers to reinforce their position south of the river except by a pontoon bridge which is believed to; have been constructed. In the ab sence of any official news the war office is remaining obdurately silent. London was full of rumors Sunday. It was freelyreported that engagements had taken place at three different points along the extended Boer lines. As a matter of conjecture this may be correct, for there is reason to suppose that some movement was made against Colenso simultaneously with the seiz ure of Potgieters drift. 'It is quite pos sible that -an attempt to flank the tsoers may De at.temptea-on Dotn tne east and the west, buthe ground on the east is" more difficult than that toward Springfield, and to make a wide detour in the direction of Weenen would necessarily require a large amount of transport. If lighting really occurred at three points yesterday or Saturday they would most likely be Mount Hlaug wana, Colenso ond some spot north of Potgieters drift, making a step in that process of enveloping the Boers to which Gen. Buller is obviously com mitted. In this connection the dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Frere, dated Wednesday, in which Mr. Bennett Bur leigh looks forward to some decisive event, and is making preparation to take up a wagonload of luxuries for the troops at Ladysmith, clearly indicates at Frere it was understood that the British attempt to relieve Ladysmith was about to be made. The whole po sition of affairs on the Tugela is -enveloped in mystery, which can only be understood as implying that operations of critical importance are going on. The mystery is further deepened by a despatch from the Boer headquarters. which although issued on Thursday last, makes no mention of Gen. Buller's flanking movement in the direction of Potgieters drift. It is impossible that this movement could not have been known to the Boers, because it must have been in progress for two or three days and Gen. Buller himself states that the Boers were intrenched for four and a half miles north of his advanced position. The Boers are also probably "playing possum." There is a delight fully naive affectation of perplexity in the concluding statement of the dis patch that the object of the British ia conjectured but is by no means clear. HOPE FOR LADYSMITH. Believed That a Belief Movement ia Now Under Way. London, Jan. 15. Up to the present the reported crossing of the Tugela river by Gen. Warren's division remains but rumor. Nevertheless the whole tenor of such news as has dribbled in from South Africa during the last 4$ hours indicates that a combined forward movement of a comprehensive character is proceeding. It is not necessary to be lieve the unconfirmed stories of the Boers being in full retreat from Co lenso because it has been learned that a column is proceeding via Weenen to Helpmaakar, to cut off their retreat. But at the same time credible informa tion from many sources indisputably points to momentous changes in the disposition of the Republican forces. Advices from Maritzburg dated Sat urday, January 13, says that since their defeat on January 6 the J3oers have been removing their guns from the posi tions south of Ladysmith. The same dispatch confirms the report that the Thirteenth Hussars reached Groblersk loof without meeting the Boers. As the trenches at Groblerskloof were, perhaps, the strongest position held by the burghers their vacation has consider ably astonished the British. Merchants at Pietermaritzburg have received messages from Ladysmith say ing: "Bring up jam," etc., indicating that their Ladysmith agents antici pated an immediate opening of com munication while Ladysmith also helio graphed the belief prevalent there Jan uary 13 that the Boers were moving and concentrating their forces elsewhere. As corroborative of the British activity in the direction of the relief of Ladysmith a dispatch has been received in London from Gen. Buller to the effect that he expected all the dispositions for a synchronous movement of the various columns against the besiegers would be completed this morning. Under these circumstances it is considered quite probable that' the advance on the be leaguered town has commenced and that fighting is progressing. Optimists go so far as to say that it is expected that Ladysmith will be relieved tonight if all goes well." The military men are divided in opinion as to whether Gen. Buller ia at Springfield, or personally directing the flank movement from Weenen. The officials are inclined to credit the report that the British have crossed the Tugela river in that direc tion, although there is no confirmation of the report and altogether there is a more hopeful feeling in official circles. There is little news of importance from elsewhere. Gen. French's forces have succeeded in dragging a fifteen pounder to the summit of the steep, rocky Coles Kop, a thousand feet above the surrounding plain and January 12, they successfully routed aBoer camp on the plain three miles away from Stormstroom. An interesting item of news is that three hundred Boers escorting a party of reapers have successfully garnered all the crops within two miles of the colonial camp at Birds river, the British force being too weak to inter fere. A dispatch from Pretoria says the federal forces recommenced bombard ment of Mafeking during the morning of Friday, January 12. A partial development of the govern ment referred to in these dispatches January 12, but by no means the main objective hinted at can be recorded to day in the formation of a strong com mittee of South Africans and ex-officials with Lord Loch, the former gov ernor of Cape Colony and British high commissioner as president. The object is the remedying of the defects of the war office. When the war office sanc tioned the formation of a corps of. bouth Africans acquainted with the to pography of the country and the Dutch and5 Kaffir languages, the committee insisted that they must choose their own officers. The war office demurred, but the committee pointed out that the South Africans were cognizant of the dangers in the campaign and were not going out to be led to slaughter like sheep and the officials yielded. Conse quently prominent South Africans, crack shots and acquainted with every stream and kopje are flocking to join the contingent. As a prominent enlisted man said to the representative of the Associated Press: "We are not going to fight for promotion or the Victoria cross. We simply want to meet the Boers on their own ground and according to our own methods. Our object is to defeat the enemy and not splendid but useless risks." HURLEY CAN HAVE IT. New Mexico Superintendent May Succeed Chas. Dyer. The selection of a successor to Mr. Charles Dyer as superintendent of the western division of the Santa Fe has not yet been made. It will probably be several days before the matter will be settled. It is conceded that Superintendent Hurley, of the New Mexico and Rio Grande divisions, can have the place if he wants it. The western division is in point of importance second to the Chicago division, and under Mr. Dyer it has paid better than any other divi sion of the road. The appointment f a- successor to Mr. Dyer will probably result fn a rearrangement to some ex tent of the division heads of the Santa Fe. A WIDE SWATH. Gen. Otis' Men Sweeping Every thing Before Them. Washington, Jan. 15. The war de partment today received the following report from Gen. Otis: Manila, Jan. 15. Bolo men and arm ed insurgents .robbers from Zambeles mountains, attacked two companies, Twenty-fifth infantry.O'Neil command ing, at Iba, Jan. 14, driven and pursued with loss to them of fifty men; no cas ualties; Schwan's troops, east and south of Santo Tomas, Batanzas; yesterday Cheatham's battalion Thirty-seventh struck enemy Santo Tomas on San Pablo road, enemy left five dead on field, cavalry soon appearing pursued force eastward; no report of result. Cheat ham's casualties, one wounded, Ander son, Thirty-eighth, en route to Lipa yesterday struck insurgents a few miles south of Santo Tomas, drove them through Lipa to Rosario; enemy's loss twenty dead and wounded, sixty Span ish prisoners, twenty thousand dollars; Schwan has liberated about 200 Spanish prisoners now en route to Manila. An derson's casualties yesterday one man killed, two wounded; Wheaton's force actively operating in western Cavite and Pantanga provinces, all important towns held and constant patrolling; great many Filipinos returning to homes believed to be insurgent desert ers. OTIS. Gen. Otis' latest casualty list is as foil o ws Manila, Jan. 13. Casualties: Killed, action near Naic, January 9, Eleventh cavalry, I, Robert Napier; action at Comanzi, January 5. Twentieth infan try, B, Morgan Washington, corporal; prisoners killed near Comanzi upon ap proach of American troops January 5, Ninth infantry, B, Charles C. Cook, Alonzo Brown wounded, B, Joseph W. Cook, chest, severe, Twelfth infantry; Christian Peterson, commissary ser geant, thigh, severe; B, Edward E. Norval, groin, severe. Wounded in action, Barie de Lumu bara. January 7, Twenty-eighth infan try, H, Enos N. Williams, throat, mor tal; L, Fred C. McWood, first aergeant, thigh, severe; Robert Cuningham, back, severe; Alexander Riddet. shoulder, slight; James Goodrich, neck, severe; I, Harry D. Landault, knee, slight. Ba rie Puttol,. January 7, Twenty-eighth infantry, A, Martin Wentnik, hand, slight; Angus Edder, corporal, neck, slight Patrick McDonnell, elbow, slight; B, James Wareham. wrist, slight. Co manzi, January 5, Twenty-fifth infan try, L, James T. Quarles, ankle, severe; K, John W. Harvey, slight. OTIS. Killed His Lcndlaly. Bozeman, Mont., Jan. 15. At Bel grade, 12 miles west of here, Saturday night Frank Rogers, a merchant, shot and killed his landlady, Mrs. Etta Da vis and then killed himself. Jealousy and drink caused the deed. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 15. For Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tues day; northerly winds. Tbe Worm Turns. From the Chicago News. "Was the sermon interesting this morn ing. Henry?" asked Mrs. Peck, who had been unable to attend church. "Most interesting sermon our pastor ever preached." replied Henry. "Indeed!" said Mrs. P. "What was the text?" "I can't recall the exact language," an swered Henry, "but it was something about there being no marrying or giving in zuarriase in tbe other world." WAS NJfi FIXED. Director Merriam Resents In terference of Politicians. Insists Upon Allowing Congress mac Ridgely Some Prestige. ASA SMITH NOT NAMED His Appointment as Supervisor Fails of Ratification. Cy Leland and Senator Raker Cp In Arms. It is reported from Washington that Director Merriam of the census bureau has gained a victory over the Kansas politicians, including Senator Baker, who, with the aid of his friends r.oz long ago upset the plans of Mr. Mer riam. However, Mr. Merriam did not forget and seems at this time to hava defeated the Kansans.-' The particular victory which Mer riam seems to have gained at this tima is in securing the appointment of a. Democrat as -census supervisor in tho Third congressional district which is represented by Congressman Ridgley. When the time came for the selection of the supervisors it was understood that the Third should have a man se lected by the representative in con gress. The Republicans, headed by Mr. Leland and Mr. Baker made a fight to have all supervisors Republicans and. succeeded at the time in putting Mr. Ridgley, and Senator Harris and their candidates out of the race. The victory achieved by the Kansana was, of course, caused by a higher pow er overruling the authority of Mr. Mer riam, an affront which he did not for get. The supervisor for the Third as select ed by the Republicans was Asa Smith, of Parsons. He was recommended along with the other candidates by Senator Baker but? the appointment has beer held up. The report from Washington indicates that Smith has been fixed per manently so far as this place is con cerned and that Senator Harris and Mr. Ridgley have agreed upon J. H. Har locker of Girard who is to be commis sioned. The Republicans are greatly excited at the prospect of losing the patronage in the Third, furnished by the- census department and they will not give up without a fight. The influence fit the state administration, the Republican state committee.the national, committee and the Republican congressmen and senator has been, combined with a view of smashing the plans made by Direc tor Merriam. It has been the custom in the census department to accord to the opposition such patronage in the taking of the census as may be assigned to a district having a Democratic or Populist rep resentative in congress. This plan so far as-Kansas was concerned was once upset by the politicians but Merriam seems to have gotten the president's ear long enough to turn the upsetting against the plans of the Kansas politic ians. The result of the fight which the poli ticians will renew against Merriam will be watched with keen interest in all parties. PROHIBITION TICKET. Bov. M. N. Butler Suggetss Winfield Man For Governor. -Rev. M. N. Butler predicts that tha Prohibitionists will nominate the fol lowing ticket this year: For governor, Granville Lowther, oj Wrinfield. For lieutenant-governor, Frank Hol- singer, of Rosedale. For secretary of state, J.Willis Gleed, of Topeka. For state treasurer, H. F. Douthart. of Willis. For state auditor, G. B Kirkpatrick, of Topeka. For attorney-general, M. V. B. Ben nett, of Columbus. Superintendent of instruction, Carl Swensson, of Lindsborg. Congressman-at-large, James Kerr, of Scandia. Insurance superintendent, J. T. Merry, of Topeka. State printer, A. G. Carrutn, of Ton peka, LOKQ FOA SENATOR. More Evidence of a Deal in Fu ture. There is no longer any dotSBt that Senator Baker and Chester Long have formed an alliance in the Seventh dis trict, by the terms of which Long is to be supported for United States senator in 1903. The most convincing proof of this deal is found between the lines of an interview given out by M. W. Sutton at Leavenworth yesterday. Mr. Sutton said: "Governor Stanley and Chester L Long will be renominated without op position, but if the district remains the same, territorially, it will claim the senatorship in 1903. Then should the 'long grass' fellows do as they did be fore try to get both positions the hatchet will, no doubt, be dug up, and war paint will be in -"-mand. The 'short grass' man loves th 'ong grass" brother so long as he totes fair only." This deal was fixed up at the Cope land hotel some weeks ago, when Baker, Long, Leland, Richards, Sutton and others held a long conference. By this agreement Long's forces ara to support Baker this year for re-eleo-tion, the Baker people to return the compliment when the time comes to elect a. successor to Senator Harris, which the Republicans hope will be in 1903. Mr. Sutton, discussing the poli tics of the Seventh, said: "The Seventh congressional district, so far as it relates to the Republican party, is divided into two distinct parts. The 'short' and 'long grass' sections. During the time Sam R. Peters was in congress and up to the session of the legislature of 1393, this distinction did not exist. The 'short grass' counties that year elected Republican represen tatives and saved the house to the Re publicans, while the 'long grass' coun ties fell down and elected Populist rep resentative generally The short grassers' stood to a man by Joseph Ady, a 'long grass' man, for the caucus nom- (Continued on Sixth Page.)

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S704 Lucas Aye., St. Louis, Mo. Don't expect local applications of soaps and salves to cure Eczema. They wAai-ih nnlw tka cmf oa V t i eease cornea from within. Swift's Specifics is the only cure and will reach the most obstinate case. It is far ahead of all similar remedies, because it cures cases which are beyond their reach. S. S. S. is purely vegetable, and is the only blood remedy guaranteed to contain no pot ash, mercury or other mineral. Books mailed free by Swift SpeciSa Company, Atlanta, Georgia. L2J LZ2 'itffii&ft SHORTEST LITIS. COLORADO FLYER. Coal, Charcoal, liioclllog. Telephone 530 Kaczynski. Fourth and Jackson. If you are hunting for the best assortment of Pocket Cutlery in the city come to our store. You'll not hunt any further. T. J. Coughlin Hardware Co. 702 Kansas Ave. SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. 5 CENT CIGAR. WE'LL DO YOUR HAULING RIGHT. Topeka Transfer Go. 509 Kansas Arenne. Office Tel. 320. House Tsl. 398. 1 F. P, BACON, Proprietor. rSTBEE ME ABOUT STORAGE. Rest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING STHTJP has been used for over FIFTY TEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS 6 11 PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC and is the best remedy lor DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing: Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five eacts a bottle. S.S.S.ie Blood SPORTING NEWS. Prominent Sportsmen Say Choynski Was Robbed. Fitz and John L. Declare He Coy Was Fairly Beaten. LEADINGPAPER'SVIESY New York Journal States That It Was Jobbery. ChoynskI Complains of Glores "Kid" Wore. the New York, Jan. 15. Wherever two or three men today discussed the Cho-ynski-McCoy robbery an indignation meeting was developed and informal resolutions denouncing the manage ment of the Broadway Athletic club were adopted unanimously. The apparent manipulation of the fight in order to give McCoy the de cision over Choynski and thus deprive 8,000 men of the right for which they had paid $15,000 to see a contest won on the merits of the men found none to defend or palliate it in any circle versed in pugilism. The result of the bout was no surprise to many who have seen other fights and questionable decisions at this club and were familiar with the manage ment of the place. John White, who acted as the referee Friday night. In the past has given critics who are devoted to honest sport in the ring opportunities to distrust his rulings. Tom O'Rourke, the moving spirit in the club, is a manager and backer of pugilists, and many sportsmen say his record has not placed him above the suspicion that his money interest in an encounter would lead him, if the situa tion tempted him, to overrule the strict principles that should govern boxing. A concentrated view of the whole af fair seems to indicate that it was a case of rattled officials, rattled principals and rattled spectators. Some have cried, "Fraud." Hardly so on the part of the principals, if any one. There was not sufficient money at stake to buy either of the principals, and it is not likely that either of the principals would ac cept any terms were they offered. The New York Journal, accepted as good sporting authority, says: "One man was robbed of a prize fight, and 8,000 men, mad with the fever of prize fighting, were robbed of $15,000 at the Broadway Athletic club. As a mat ter of fact. Kid McCoy was knocked out, according to the rules of the game, when the second round was two minutes old. The round should have gone three minutes. By as unfair an advantage as was ever taken of another fighter the management gave McCoy two min utes, instead of one he was entitled to, in which to recuperate. Just after the fight Eeferee White, Matchmaker Geo. Considine and other officials of the club went to Choynski's room. They were surprised over the indifference which Joe displayed regarding the outcome. 'I don't blame you, Johnny," said Joe. 'You are all right. But the time keeper was wrong. According to the ethics and rules of the rintr I should have been declared the victor then and there. If ever a man was licked McCoy was. He had no chance after he got that punch on the jaw. Had I not been so anxious I would have surely finished him. But what's the use of crying over spilled milk, anyway? I don't remem ber striking McCoy after the gong. But I know he nailed me after time was up. I was partly dazed, and was about to go to my corner when he copped me. I suppose my seconds did right when they threw up the sponge. I'll admit I could not have toed the scratch on time, for the last punch I received put me out of it.' Matchmaker Considine felt pleased over this statement, and asked Cho ynski if he would meet the Kid again. Joe was only too glad to get another chance to show his prowess, and sign ed articles to fight McCoy before the same club on February 20. McCoy signed afterward, and in com pany with Billy Muldoon left for White Plains. The Kid was still in a dazed condition, and seemed ill at ease. His nose was bruised slightly and both of his eyes were cut. Today Choynski is out in a statement in which he. savs! "I had no chance. I Knew tnat wnen i irot into the rinfr and saw the eloves. They were made to McCoy's order. Gloves HKe tnat naa never Deen seen in ine Broadway Athletic club before- They were made long and slim, with thumbs heavily padded, so that McCoy could use that long swing ot his and use that padded thumb like a club. What was the use of kick ing? I never wanted anything the best of it. and said nothing. When I knocked McCoy down in the second round he staved down 18 seconds. How do I know? Well, -this is the way the referee counted: "One. two. Now go away. You'll lose this fight: three four. Will you go away? Do you want to lose? Five, six. I tell you to keep away, if you don't want to lose. Seven, eight," and so on to the end of the count ten. Can a referee accur ately count ten seconds that way? In the fourth knock-down McCoy was down 12 seconds. My timekeeper said to the offi cial timekeeper: "Joe, it's all up." "That's right," said Dunne, and he rap ped the bell hard to signify that the fight was over. He did not think there was any question about it. "Then McCoy was carried to his corner, and then the referee haggled with the timekeeper until one minute and thirty seconds had elapsed, when he called us together again. That gave McCoy plenty of time to recover. "As to the foul blow it was deliberate. I am hard of hearing, but I heard the bell and dropped my hands. McCoy swung on me hard. He must have heard the bell. I have left $500 forfeit for an other fight. I am disgusted with the game. I cancelled three fights this morning. If McCoy will not fight me against I am done for good." John L. Sullivan, in discussing the de cision today, said: "The fight should have been awarded to Joe Choynski, and it was a shame he should have been cheated out of it. I say this in spite of the fact that I like McCoy personally, and as a boxer. He was my choice be fore the battle, and the little money I put up was on him, but he was licked in the second round, and no fair-minded man can get around that fact." Robert Fitzsimmons. discussing the Mc-Coy-Choynski bout, said today: "To deprive Choynski of the fight, af ter he had scored a clean knockout, was nothing short of theft. The fact that the decision was given to McCoy is an out rage. Although I favored McCoy, be cause I thought he would win, I am sat. lstied that he was whipped fairly before the end of the second round. "FITZ" CALLS IT AN "OUTRAGE." '"This kind of work is an outrage on the fighters and the spectators, and if allowed it means the death of fighting. When referees are permitted to defraud a man of his victory, as was the case Friday night, then it is time for the game to shut down. It is not surpris ing under the present conditions that there is a movement on foot to repeal the law that makes scientific boxing a possibility in this state." Referee White was seen today and asked for an explanation of the differ ence of opinion between himself and the timekeeper as to how long McCoy had been down in the second round. He said: "I counted nine seconds, at which time McCoy got up. He was on his feet before the tenth second elapsed. The referee, and not the time-keeper, counts a man out. I have been going to fights in this city and its vicinity for 15 years, and have acted as referee for several years. In no contest have I ever seen a person other than the referee count the fighter out. When a pugilist is knocked down he watches the referee "covnt the seconds and not the timekeeper. I know of no case on record where the bell has been rung, except at "the end of the round. I do not want- to criticise Dunn, but his action in ringing the bell when he did, not only misled the principals and myself, but everybody else. When Mc Coy and Choynski heard the bell they went to their corners under the impres sion that the round had ended." WILL TRAIN AT LAKE WOOD. Corbett Will Begin Active Training For His Fight With Jeffries. New York, Jan. 15. James J. Corbett has begun active preparations at Lake wood, N. J., for his championship battle with Jim Jeffries, which is scheduled to take place on March 15, next. The ex-champion ha3 been in search for suitable training quarters for some ime, and after visiting several places irom which he received several offers he de cided to prepare for the contest at the New Jersey winter resort. Corbett has been doing his advance work in the city and is in pretty fair shape to undergo a severe course of train ing. Corbett is fond of city training, but he believes that the change of air will do him good. He realizes that he will have to be in great shape when he meets his former sparring partner, and if he were to remain in the city he does not think he could do himself justice. Gus Ruhlin will probably assist Corbett in his trafekig. Billy Madden has con sented to allow his protege to spar with Corbett, and the Akron giant will no doubt be of great assistance. Corbett has secured a cottage and will have it fitted up with all the necessary equipment. Today he punched the bag for some time, and sparred ten three minute rounds. One of the features of Corbett' s training is handball. He plays a number of games every day at a local court. BLUE'S BALL TEAM. Kunsas. City Signs Four New Men Who Are Promising Flayers. Kansas City, Jan. 15. Four new play ers promising ones, too have been sign ed by Manager Manning for the Kansas City Blues of 1900. The four new men are: Eli Cates, pitcher, of the Toledo club of the Interstate league. John Farrel, outfielder, of the Newcastle club of the Interstate league. H. Iberg, pitcher, of the San Francisco club of the California league. John Sullivan, catcher and first base man, of the San Francisco clnH f th Interstate league. The Kansas City team, as far as it can be announced now, will contain these players: Pitchers Gear, Schmidt, Pardee, Strick lett, Cates, Iberg, Sparger, Hamilton, Lee, Simmons, Patten. (jaicners tiondmg, Sullivan. Innelders ftnnipl rnvroo,. Ti,irna Coughlin, Thiel. Outfielders Hall I ran. T5arvl TCo erl nl Green. Louisville Stakes. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 15. The new Louis ville Jockey club announces that the fol lowing stakes for the spring meeting of 1900 will close on January 15: Debutante stakes for 2-venr-nM filHeo value $1,300, 4 furlongs. vvenonan stakes, for z-year-old colts and geldings, value $1,300. 4t furlongs. juvc-niie Bia.tt.es, a, selling sweepstaKes for 2-Vear-Olds. Value SI K furlnnM Those entered to be sold for $2,500 to car ry weight for age. Bluegrass stakes for 3-year-olds that have not won a sweepstake or two. races Prior to the Plnsine- nf thi atalrm valtiA $1,300, furlongs. iviauemoiseue stake, a selling sweep stakes for 3-VPa.l-.nM flllftta valim tl 9Sn Z?,u?lonSS- Those entered to be sold 'for $3,000 to carry weight for age. slaves lor s-year-oids, value $1,300, 1 mile. Frank Fehr stakes, a selling sweep ftakes for 3-year-olds and upwards, value $1,300. Those entered not to be sold to carry five pounds extra; if for $3,000, weight for age: 1 mile. ine .run congress handicap, for 3-vear-olds and UDwards S? mm sut.i ai nnn the club and $1,000 by the Turf congress), of which $300 to second; $150 to third, and ?o00 to be apportioned as follows: 40 per cent, 20 per cent and 10 per cent to tho iimners ui me nrst, second and third horses respectively, and 15 ner pent in per cent and 5 per cent respectively to the jockeys riding them; weights to ap pear three days prior to the day of the race; 1 1-16 miles. me following stakes (closed in 1898) will Iso be run: Kentucky Oaks. 3-vm?.i ento t miles. Clark stakes, 3-year-olds. 1 miles. Kentucky Derby, 3-year-olds, 14 miles. They Want the Big Fight Indianapolis, Jan. 15. The Alexandria Athletic club has decided to make a strong effort to have the big ficht for March Id between James J. Corbett and Champion Jeffries pulled off under its auspices. Governor Mount was inform ed of the intention of the Alexandria peo ple. He said there would be no prize fight in Indiana if he could prevent it. He says he will keep posted on the ef forts of the Alexandria Athletic club, and will instruct the attorney general to en force the law. Lenny After McGovern. Philadelphia, Jan. 15. Eddie Lenny, the featherweight champion of Canada, has already issued a challenge to fight Terrv McGovern. Lenny since his meeting with 1VC1D tw,.-5uii:u uty i;a.Il iilllU llie COV- eted title of champion featherweight of the World. Tift r-ansion V,i l string of victories to his credit and has met nearly every boy of prominence in the -country. Among his notable fights was one with Joe Bernstein for twenty round, in which the decision was a dra.w. for Vi Nhrvni ,Qt,. a verdict. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Do you know, dear," remarked Mrs. Homer as her liege lord stumbled up stairs, "that I've been awake for hours waiting for you to come home from the club?" "That's just like a woman." growled Homer. "Here I've been at the club for hours waiting for you to go to sleep." Chicago News. Here the heroine fell upon her knees at the feet of the villain. "Oh, why do you leave repentance until the eleventh nour? she implored. "If," replied the villain, at once, "one is to be a star, one must need sin till late." In the drama it will be recalled there is often difficulty in drawing the line between villiany and comedy. Detroit Journal. .vLlttJ? Phyllis was visiting her grandma the other day and gave herself up to ser ious considerations. After she had for several misutes been looking very earn estly at her grandmother she asked- "Are you going to die pretty soon?" "Yes," her grandmother answered. "I suppose I am. "And am I, too?" "Oh, no; I hope ?"0Pafn?,tBoi'1 to dte for a long time y i j "..Ttlie httIe one emphatically exclaimed, "I don't want to die even when it is yet Chicago Times-Herald. "That photographer is a brave, heroic man. Clara." 'What do you mean, David?" Tvhy, he told wou to look pleasant and I never dare to." Detroit Free Press. Smith (angrily) I understand vou said my face would stop an automobile. f SE6! certainly never said anything or tfi Kind. Smith Then, I must have been misin formed. Jones That's what you have. Instead of stopping at sight of your face any reputable automobile would increase Its speed. Chicago News. "Papa, is it what is your politics, or what are? "That depends. If you are a Democrat LJf& B&y: What aure your Politics?" Mr. Erdnuss (reading tho newspaper) Der baber says dose smart boys in der teatrical plzeness hef found anudder play to git money from der Christians." Mrs. E. "What is it?" "Quo Vadis." "So. XTnd what actor hef dey got to Clay Quo Vadis?" Life. KANSAS NEWS; Lieut. J. F. Hall Again Attacks Gen. Metcalf. Protests Against Commander of the Famous 20th. GIVING ITS HISTORY At the Meeting of the State Historical Society. Says It Would Be an Insult to the Regiment. Lawrence, Jan. 15. Lieut. J. F. Hall has written the following open letter to Geo. W. Martin, secretary of the State Historical Society, protesting against the prominence given Gen. Wil der S. Metcalf at the twenty-fourth an nual meeting to be held Tuesday in To peka, Mr. Hall says: According to to-day's papers, Col. Wilder S. Metcalf is going to read a paper entitled 'History of the Twen tieth Kansas. I wish to enter a pro test against Metcalf being given so im portant a duty to perform. Metcalf is a narrow-minded parti san. He has never been able to eradi cate himself from his prejudices. I am sure that a paper read by him before your society will be highly colored with his prejudices and favoritism, and will contain, little, if anything-, of historic value. Metcalf was in fewer battles than any other officer of the Twentieth Kan sas. He got hit in the toe early in the morning of March 29, Just after we be gan our advance north from Ma-rloa. His battalion was in support, and was fully 1,000 yards in the rear of the firing line. Although his wound was omy slight, yet he took the first train back to Manila and managed to play the 'cripple act' for more than two months. He joined our regiment at San Fer nando and took up the most comfort able Quarters in town,. As long as there was nothing to do but play tin soldier Metcalf managed to go about camp, walking as well as any of the rest of the officers of our regiment. But as soon as there were a half dozen shots fired on our outpost Metcalf'a toe began to give him trouble and he at once became too lame to walk. Lieut. Col. Little or Major. Whitmtn would then be asked to take command of our regiment and lead it into action. Metcalf knows nothing about the bat tle of the Guiginto, fought late in the evening of March 29, for which he was breveted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious conduct in charging a bottle of champagne in Manila, fully twenty miles away from the battlefield. He knows nothing about entering Malo los and our campaign against San Fer nando. He was not at the Bagbag river or at the Rio Grande. He did not take part in the battles of Apalit and Santo Tomas. In fact, there is not a single member of the Twentieth Kan sas so thoroughly disqualified to write the history of our regiment as Col. Met calf. Metcalf will tell you nothing about his experience with the British. As we were leaving Manila bay the crew of an Knglish war vessel gave us three cheers and its band played the "Star Spangled Banner." Metcalf replied by ordering our band to play "Hot Time." A greater breach of international courtesy could not have taken place. After we put to sea, the only order we received was to have setting up ex ercises twice a day. Col. Metcalf did not bother himself about the comfort of our men or the condition of the boat. The consequences were, that when, we reached Hong Kong, that our boat was in such filthy condition that the British authorities positively refused to grant us clearance papers until the boat was cleaned up. That disgrace could have been avoided had a man with a little executive ability been in command of our regiment. You are no doubt aware of the fact that Metcalf is charged with the most heinous crime of modern times. 'With out just cause or provocation, he shot and killed with his own hand pistol an unarmed prisoner of war in the battle of Caloocan, February 10, 1899. To have such a man read before the State Historical society, the history of our regiment is an outrage against common decency and an insult to every respectable member of the Twentieth Kansas. Very respeetfull v, JOHN F. HALL, Late First Lieut, 20th Kansas. SOLDIERS' HOME QUARANTINE The 3,0 OO Veterans at Leavenworth Will Be Frotected From Smallpox. Leavenworth, Jan. 15. The officers of the national soldiers' home have de cided to establish a strict .quarantine over the entire reservation owing to the breaking out of several cases of small pox in the southern part of this city. The quarantine will go into effect Wed-, nesday morning and the delay until that time is to allow veterans time to attend to personal matters in the city. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD The Information Contained in This Gtizen's Statement is Invalu able to Topeka People. When a resident of Topeka whose statement appears below, who has no monetary or other interest in the article which he endorses, who is anxious to do his acquaintances and fellow residents a good turn,' who publishes in this pa per his experience with Doan's Kidney Pills that citizen must have good and sufficient reason for doing so. The fol lowing should dispel any doubts which might have existed In the reader's mind on this subject: Mr. M. L. Torrence of 819 East 6th street, carpenter, says: "I had kidney complaint for three or four years and had to give up the grocery business on account of my health. My kidneys troubled me severely in the winter of 1898, causing severe pain in my back, very severe nights, and the too frequent action of the kidneys bothered me day and night. I procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug store. It gave such good satisfaction that I con tinued the treatment." After completing the second box, I felt they had made a permanent cure. There has not been the slightest return of the trouble Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Fos-ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no substi tute. There are 3,000 veterans at the sold iers' home, and none of them will be allowed to leave unless he accepts a pass for 30 days. While the quarantine lasts, none, will-be allowed to go in and out of 'the soldiers' home gates unless he is connected with the mails or to bring supplies. Most of the- veterans are old men and many object to vacci nation, and a close quarantine was' de cided on as the best method to prevent a smallpox epidemic. EDITORIAL EXCURSION. Eighth Annual to Be Held at Fort Scott, Jan. 22-23. Smith Center, Kan., Jan. 15. The eighth annual meeting of the Kansas State Editorial association will be held at Fort Scott, Kansas, January 22 and 23, 1900. Headquarters will be at the Hotel Goodlander, corner Wail street and National avenue. The meetings will be held at Davidson's opera house, cor ner Main and Wall streets. The first regular meeting will be held at 3:30 o'clock p. m., Monday, January 22. All applicants for membership should then be present and present their names. At this meeting the programme will be taken up. In the evening an informal reception will be given the editors. This will be a public meeting and will be participated in by the people of Fort Scott. Tuesday forenoon the programme will be again taken up. After it is completed a business session will be held. In the afternoon Fort Scott people will have charge of the party. In the evening, as the guests of Fort Scott, the editors will compose a theater party and will see "Hamlet" produced by a strong company. r The programme has not yet been com pleted but several papers will be read by prominent Kansas editors. A ques tion box will be conducted by Mr. B. B. Herbert, editor of the National Printer Journalist. What Kansas editors will do about providing a suitable monu ment for the grave of Judge Adams and the proposition to establish a Kan sas magazine will be discussed. Wednesday morning at an early hour the party will leave on the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis for Galena where that day and evening will be spent. The party will give a large part of the following day to Joplin. The party will return in a body in the afternoon or evening to Fojt Scott and there break up and go home. If the road on which you are located does not run into Fort Scott and you have no contract with any road which does, write at once to the passenger agent of the most direct line connecting with your road asking for a trip pass to Fort Scott and return to point of starting on that line "to annual meetin- of the Kansas Editorial as sociation (Fort Scott, Kansas,) January 22-3, good to return January 25, in ex change for advertising." The secre tary will attend to transportation for the excursion. J. W. MORPHY, Secretary. SENATOR INGALLS IMPROVES Mrs. Ingalls Says the Atchison Man's Health Grows Better. Atchison, Jan. 15. Mrs. John J. In galls says that there is no truth in the report that Mr. Ingalls has tuberculosis of the throat. She said that before Mr. Ingalls went to New Mexico, he was ex amined by physicians in Kansas City who told him his trouble was not tuber cular. Since that time he has not con sulted a physician, as the Kansas City doctors told him all he needed was a warm, dry climate, and plenty of out door exercise. Mr. Ingalls w-rites that his health is constantly improving and that he finds the people there as de lightful as the climate. The following is from the Tucson Daily Star of a recent date: ""Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls who is sojourning in our city with a view to recuperating his health, is improving under the in fluence of Tucson climate and perpetual sunshine. This will be welcome intel ligence to the friends of Senator Ingalls throughout the western states, and they are legion." A PARADISE PROMISED. Colony of El Dorado People Going to a Land of "Milk and Honey." El Dorado, Jan. 15. John H. Ful linwider will be in El Dorado soon to form a colony of people to go with him to the San Luis Valley, where the land subirrigates, where you never miss a crop, where wheat makes 50 bushels to the acre, oats 100, barley 75 and pota toes 400; where cattle cost $1 a head annually to feed them; where hogs never have the cholera; where sheep live the year round on the range with out feeding; where the miners dig out of the earth sixty millions of gold and silver aniAially. Notes From Baker. Baldwin, Jan. 15. The literary soci eties have closed one of the most suc cessful term's work in their history. All have taken in a large number of members, and the quality of work be ing done by both new and old is best judged by the splendid programs which are being rendered. The following are the presidents and vice-presidents elected for the ensuing term: Athe nian President, G. Ebright; vice-president, H. Hoch. Biblical President, C. L. King; vice-president, E. H. Knepp. Clioman President, Cora Walter; vice president, Ella Clark. Aeolian Presi dent, Daisy Bell; vice-president, Nora Ames. Messrs. Emery, Garrison, Schlegel, Myce, Colkins and Kline are again in school this term. C. J. Gibson, a member of the Twen tieth Kansas, visited with Mr. Turner the last part of tho week Mr. C. Keve preached at Abilene du ring the holidays. The local oratorical contest will be held January 31. Several orators will appear at this time from whom a mem ber will be chosen as Baker's represen tative to the Inter-collegiate Oratorical to be held at Emporia. Salvation For Emporia. Emporia Gazette: The Salvation Army band of ten pieces under the leadership of Captain Bolton came in from Junction City, where they secured over 100 converts. Besides this, they snatched the cornet soloist of the Junc tion City band from the burning. Last evening the Baptist church people granted them the use of the Baptist church during their stay in Emporia and beginning with to-night meetings will be held there each evening. The band will parade the streets daily and give a concert in front of the church each evening. His Broom Corn Paid. Seneca. Tribune: George W. Brum mett raised on eleven acres of land this year three and one-half tons of broom corn. He has sold it for $440, or at a rate of $120 per ton. The purchaser ac cepted it in. its storage, and did not re quire Mr. Brummett to handle it fur ther. It will be seen that the latter cleaned up a good piece of money. Sev eral years ago broom corn was worth about $40 per ton. Whatever has forced up the price of the commodity has also pushed some coin up the hairy legs of the farmer into his pocket. Increased Postoffice Receipts. Lawrence, Jan. 15. The postoffice re ceipts here for last year are larger FRESH Tpp blwli I Tttei lliiillli Not llsaium, Sut First-Class. To Winter in Has become a fad, and never did fashion set seal on practice more wholesome, because the South Pacific Coast Is the most delightful of resorts. The fad of the Santa Fe Route is to convince every man, woman and child going to Califorjiia that it renders the most satisfactory service in every detail. Let us unite our fads. -te

i t T. L. KING, Agent, The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Ry.f TOPEKA, KANSAS. HAKRY E. GA.VTTT, Miwqeh. TELEPHONE No. 89. W. W. GAV1TT PRINTING H PUBLISHING CO., Printing Department One of the Largest Exclusive TJR FACILITIES enable us to turn out aelves. When you are in need of anything in oar line, send us samples by mail, or call us up by telephone, and our man will call on you and quote prices that's his business. We can save you money on your printing. 49- GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER. AAn.u.MA 00 f 601-603 E. Fourth St., 1 Telephone 99. i400.40a.404 Adams st. Topeka, Kans. than ever before, the year's business done in 1899 amounting to $30,025.13, as against $28,860.21 for 1898, showing an increase of $1,164.82. If the receipts of the office continue as large for the next three months Postmaster E. F. Cald well will receive an additional $100 to his salary. Death of Zach Hayes. Paola, Jan. 15. Zach Hayes, chair man of the board of county commis sioners, and for years prominent in business and political circles, died at his home here Saturday night. He leaves a wife and two daughters, the elder being the wife of Rev. Mr. Lee Howard of Kansas City. Galena Official Dead. Galena, Jan. 15. City Clerk J. E. Pasley, who was not considered criti cally "ill until within the past few days, quietly passed away Saturday. This was his second term of office as city clerk, -and at the election held last spring he received an overwhelming majority. The funeral services will be held at the M. E. church tomorrow at 2:30 o'clock and will be attended by the city officials in a body. Bloodhounds For Lawrence. Lawrence, Jan. 15. Owing to the fre quent burglaries which have occurred here the last few days the city authori ties ordered two blood hounds purchas ed to be used in trailing these burglars. The dogs arrived here Saturday evening and have been put on the trail of the robbers who robbed the home of Dr. Cordley last Tuesday night. These dogs are said to be unusually good in track ing and were successfully used in the capture of three train robbers a few weeks ago. Coffeyville Wants a Quarantine. Independence, Jan. 15. Coffeyville has applied to Dr. Davis, county health officer, to quarantine that place against Indian Territory on account of small pox. Secretary W. B. Swan of the state board of health will be here today and the quarantine will be established. Slumber Robes For Ingalls. John J. Ingalls" mother, Mrs. Eliza Chase Ingalls, is eighty-nine years old, and yesterday she sent three slumber robes to the Ingalls family in Atchison, which she had knitted herself. She re sides in Boston, and is still active and industrious. Atchison Globe. Free From Smallpox. Junction City, Jan. 15. The smallpox scare has so far abated that the quar antine established at Fort Riley ha3 been raised. The city has had only six cases and only one of the patients has been confined to his bed. The cases are exceedirgly light. No further cases are anticipated. May Have to Close the School. Clay Center, Jan. 15 Dr. Bert, di rector of school district No. 75, wired County Attorney Russell asking what to do in regard to closing the school, as there was a well developed case of smallpox In the district. Monarch over pain. Burns, cuts, sprains, stings. Instant relief. Dr. Thomas' Ecleetric Oil. At any drug store. HAS NO EQUAL Borden's n If 222p J AS AM y Infant food. Asi your grocer for them. H California

X-X- X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- X-X- of W. W. Gavitt Medical Co. Job Printing Offices in the City. work In many cases the same day received. Five HUMOR OF THE DAY. The cashier Is about to default. "I can divert suspcion for a long time by falsifying my books," he Is saying to himself, "and after that fails I can give up my class in the Sabbath school!" In its higher reaches grand larceny is not the difficult thing it Is vulgarly sup posed to lie; requiring chiefly tact and an understanding of human nature. Detroit Journal. "Madam, you can't carry your umbrel la, that baby and a bandbox and hold your dress up. Let me assist you by car rying your bandbox." "No; that's got my new hat in it; you carry the baby." Chicago Record. Landladv "Well, Mr. McGInnis, I hope you had something you liked for break fast this morning' Boarder "Yes, indeed, Mrs. Irons. I had a magnificent appetite." Chicago Tribune. "Think! Think! Oh, if you could only think!" The proud girl in the large checked skirt turned a calcium glare of scorn on the chrvsanthemum-leckel youth. Then she continued: "But every time you try to think you foozle!" And yet they say the golf dialect serves no purpose, Baltimore American. Mrs. Nobbs "What a funny name that nurse of the young archduke of Austria has." Nobbs "What is it?" Mrs. Nobbs "Her name is Wowse." Nobbs "Well, every nursery Is full of 'wows' at times. Isn't it? Baltimore American. Mendicant "Can you giveme something to eat. sir? I'm half starved." Philosopher "How long has it taken you to become half starved?" Mendicant "A week, sir." Philosopher "Well, you ought to be satisfied man: at that rate it will be an other week before vou are entirely starv ed. Brace up!" Ohio State Journal. "I gave that tramp a whole mince pie." "Well?" "He said a real lady would have added some Rocquefort cheese." Indianapolis Journal. "Yes sir, I promised my wife that I would s-swear off on th-th first of Jan. wary, eight'n ninety-nine th' beginln' of new century, you know?"- "I suppose you'll do it?" "No. I d-don't think I will. I ain't at all sure that th cen-century begins then, an' I'm going to give myself th' b-beneflt of the doubu" Cleveland Plain Dealer. ."I'd lay mv life down for you," pro tested the poetical lover. "Yes," argued the practical maiden, "but would you lay down the carpets?" PhUadelphia Record. Cannibal chief Is the missionary about fat enough for the pot, slave? Chef No. your imperial majesty, the fellow simply will not fatten. Do you know I believe he is secretly worrying about something. Fidele Blatter. "Didn't you misspell a word in your let ter?" asked the friend. "You mean the letter I wrote by hand?" asked Senator Sorghum. "Yes." "I suppose so. I don't mind spelling one or two long words wrong under those cir cumstances. A man as busy as I am, you know, is supposed to have people hired to do his spelling for him.1' Washington Star. First Explorer We are in terrible straits. The supply of champagne is re duced, to thirteen cases, the cigars are nearly gone and the mineralogist is half dead with gout. "Cheer up, old man, the third relief party is due this month." Life. ITEM CON BEWSED f11LIv SEND FOft"eABS''A BOOKFONOrffJtS. Condensed Milk Co., New York

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1900. 3 A. These prices are for Spot Cash. ii ylLiiliil BEFORE ANNUAL INVENTORY. At prices that bring them close to the manufacturers' cost. 4 No such bargains in GOOD SHOES were ever offered in this city. Good Shoes Hi f I T'Y -Hly -Bk. rHfk ood Sho ?SaQ 628 Kansas Avenue. RA1LR0AD NEWS. TVhat Last Half Centurj Shows la Railroad Building. Practically Entire System of Roads Built in That Time. VAST STEEL NETWORK Line Slileage Alone Amounts to Nearly. 200,000. Additional Tracks and Sidings Make a Total of 254,000. The vest railway system of the Uni ted States now- represented by over 191,000 miles of lines and some 63,000 miles of additional tracks and sidings has been practically the work of the last 50 years, says the Railway Ago. Previous to 1S30 there had been a little over 7,000 miles of track laid down, on numerous short roads, chiefly in the eastern states, with a few hundred miles on the South Atlantic coast and a still smaller mileage in what is now the middle west. In the preceding 20 years, commencing with the opening of a ehort section of the Baltimore Ohio in 1S30, the new construction had aver aged only about 365 miles a year a mile of track a day throughout the entire continent. Compared with the modern railway the 7,000 miles with which the last half century opened are hardly to be counted with their strap or light iron rails, single tracks and new sidings, pigmy engines, short, 4-wheeled cars, wooden bridges and flimsy station buildings; while such adjuncts as the telegraph, mechanical signals, air brakes, automatic couplers,, sleeping cars, gas and electric light, steam heat, dining cars and other necessities of modern railroading were undreamed of. A few important lines had com menced operations previous to 1850. such as the Camden Amboy, between Phil adelphia and New York harbor, in 1837; Boston Albany in 1S42; New York Central, between Albany and Buf falo, in 1842; New York New Haven, connecting New York with Boston, in 1848, and Baltimore Ohio, then well on its way toward the Ohio river. But it was not until 1851 that the Erie rail road was opened from the Hudson river to Lake Erie, dating the real com mencement of long distance transporta tion by rail, the New York Central hav ing been built and previously operated a.s a mere adjurlct to the Erie Canal. In the first half of the century the hopos of the country were directed to the de velopment of waterways and wagon roads. The last 50 years have been pre eminently the railway era. In. 1S51 the Hudson River road was opened from New York to Albany, in 152 the Michigan Central reached Chi cago from Lake Erie, followed in 1853 by the Lake Shore railroad; in 1854 the Pennsylvania Central was opened to Pittsburg and the Chicago Rock Is land reached the Mississippi; in 1S55 the Chicago Alton was opened; in 1856 the Illinois Central had been pushed down to Cairo, the Chicago, Purrington Quincy had touched the Mississippi, the first transcontinental railway was under construction and a railway building boom was on through out the entire country. Between the commencement of 1850 and the end of the panic year 1857 over 17,000 miles of road were built, an average of about 2, 100 miles a year, against 365 miles an nually in the 20 preceding years. But this was slow work compared with the rush of construction after good times again returned. In the last 40 years more than 162,000 miles have been built; in the decade 1880-1890 nearly 75,000 miles were added, and in two years 1882 and 1S87 nearly 25,000 miles of track were laid down. Had construction during the last de cade continued at the rate shown by the first five years, the total mileage of the country on January 1, 1900. would be very near 200,000 miles. But the four years 1895-1898 showed the surprising ly low average of 1.848 miles, and upset all calculations. The rapid recovery to 4,500 miles the construction record of 1839 indicates that a new era of rail way building has already commenced. The next 50 years are not likely to equal the half century just closing in the construction of steam railways, but there are vast possibilities for the ex Ocooming a Poilicr fiacn on. of women have found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnan cy robs confinement of all pain and danper, and insures afety to mother and child. This scientific liniment is a rodsend to all women at the time of their most critical ordeal. Not only does Mother's Friend carry woman safely through the perils of child-birth, but its use gently prepares the svstezn for the coming event, prevents 41 morning sickness," and other discomforts of this period. Sold by ail druggists at $1.00 per bottle. Send for free booklet to Ths &Airiki.x K-EvjUAXoa. Co., tfUIanta, Gorai The J. M. Shoes the best in America, worth $6.00 in all the large cities. Sale $4.5o a pair. TO THE LADIES With small feet that good shoes during tension of local railway service by the application, of electricity. SANTA FE CHANGE. K B. Montgomery Resign as Com mercial Agent at Kansas City. Kansas City, Jan. 15. Frank B. Mont gomery, commercial agent for the San ta Fe at Kansas City, has resigned and on February 1 will assume the duties of traffic manager for the McCormick Harvesting Machine company at Chi cago. He will have entire charge of the traffic, reporting to the president of the concern. The matter has been under advisement for some days and on Fri day Mr. Montgomery decided to accept and his resignation was forwarded to Chicago. Mr. Montgomery first became known in Kansas City as the traveling repre sentative of the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis railroad. His ability as a traffic man soon became apparent to those with whom he had business rela tions. The packers at that time were a source of much solicitation and dur ing one of his periodical visits George Fowler Sons' Packing company of fered him the traffic managership ot that company, and in May, 1892, he as sumed the direction of the freight af fairs of the concern,, succeeding U. S. Epperson, who had been promoted. He continued to handle the freight affairs of the Fowler company until January, 1897, when he became commercial agent for the Santa Fe, with headquarters in Kansas City, which he relinquishes on February 1. Upon whom the mantle of Mr. Mont gomery will fall is a matter of con jecture, but the long service with the Kansas City territory and its shippers eminently fits W. T. Treleven for the position, and it is believed that his name will be considered. Mr. Treleven has been with the company for a num ber of years and has never been found wanting in his zeal for the good of the Santa Fe road. He started as a clerk and was afterwards a solicitor, and in the latter position his work attracted much attention, his popularity among the shippers was phenomenal, and he was a hard nut for hia competitors. He was afterwards taken into the office and made chief clerk, which position he has filled with consummate intelligence and skill, and as the successor of F. B. Montgomery he would be acceptable to the shippers and receivers of freight. MB. EIPLEY'S DENIAL. Santa Fe President Expresses Elm self on Reported Increase In Wages. President Ripley of the Santa Fe cor roborates General Manager Mudge con cerning the reputed increase In train men's wages, in the following state ment: "The statement that the Santa Fe has raised the wages of its trainmen 15 per cent, or any other per cent, is not true. The committee representing the trainmen has been in session with our officers for two weeks, during which many details of the schedule have ieen discussed and amicably arranged. Some of these details relate to hours of work, and we have granted some al lowances for extra work, because it seemed just to do so, but there is no advance in the wage schedule, which is now and has been as high as we can afford to pay, and as high as paid by other roads in our neighborhood and competing with us. Wa are trying to get a little higher rates, but it seems impossible to get advance enough to half make good what we shall have to pay in the way of enhanced prices for material, and there will be nothing left toward increasing the income either of the men or the company. The men rea lize this, and they remember, too, that unlike other labor, their pay was not reduced in the hard times from 1893 to 1897, when the owners of the property got little or no return." THAT TITUS ROAD. Kansas Senator Maps Out Proposed Route Connections. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 15. Senator A. J. Titus, of Anthony, Kas., the presi dent of the Denver Oklahoma rail road, says the line will run in a due southerly course from Kiowa, Kas., where it will connect with the Pan handle division of the Santa Fe and the Kiowa branch of the Missouri Pacific. It is probable that from Kiowa the line will follow the Medicine river val ley for a. distance, crossing the Rock Island at Greensburg, and thence to Dodge City. The line from Kiowa south is now in course of construction toward the south line of Woods county, O. T. From there its projectors hope eventually to push the line to Kingfisher, and there making connection with tae present line of the Santa Fe and Rock Island, FURMAN'S I an ordeal which all women approach with Indescribable fear, for nothing can compare with the horrors of child-birth. The thought of the suffering and danger in store for her, robs the expectant mother of all pleasant anticipation of the coming event, and caMs over her a shadow of gloom that canaot be inousanas c ITS f Friend The Lilly-Brackett Shoes the old reliable, worth $5.00 the world over. Sale price $4.00 a pair. can wear sizes 2, 2, 3, 3 and this sale at one-half the actual which is to be built from Kingfisher to Guthrie. Another project which is be ing considered very seriously by the company is to extend the line in a due southerly course from the south line of Woods county through Blaine county and connect with the Choctaw Gulf railway. BIG JUDGMENT SECURED. Wichita Kan Recovers $15,000 From Pecos Valley Road. "Wichita, Jan. 15. J. H. Reveley, of this city, received a telegram from the court at Amarillo.Texas. informing him that he had been granted a judgment of $15,000 against the Pecos Valley rail road. The trial was before the district court of Potter county, Texas, in ses sion at Amarillo. Mr. Reveley sued the Pecos Valley Railroad company for $30,000 for injur ies received from a fall into a pit which the company left unguarded. Several attempts were made to compromise the claim, but the railroad company re fused to make a satisfactory concession and stood trial. At the time of the accident, which oc curred the night of May 15, 1899, Mr. Reveley was traveling for the Fowler Packing company of Kansas City, Mo. WILL SCALPERS GOP Commission Agreement of Railroads Said to Be Their Death Blow. Chicago, Jan. 15. All the offices now occupied by ticket scalpers throughout the country will soon be for rent for other purposes. The agreement of prac tically all the railroads nGt to pay com missions on sales of tickets by anybody will drive all brokers out of business more quickly and surely than any law that could be passed by congress. In fact, this agreement renders an anti-sca-lping law unnecessary. Nobody knows so well as railroad offi cials that they have always been the real supporters of ticket scalpers. In fact, some railroads have really owned scalp ing offices, starting them for the purpose of beating rival roads which they knew were regularly furnishing other brokers with tickets and paying them big com missions on sales. There have been oases when the brokers were obliged to divide their commissions with railroad officials. It is well known that the agreement of the leading officials of all railwavs not to pay commissions to ticket agents will also decrease the income of some general passenger agents. In some cities the com missions of ticket agents amounted in the pa.st to several hundred dollars a week, and the ticket agent was compelled in certain cases to divide the commissions with those above him. If he refused to do so which rarely happened another ticket agent was appointed. That kind of business will not be done on the rail roads in the future. KATY WILL EXTEND. Work to Be Commenced on San An tonio Connection at Once, Austin, Texas. Jan. 15. The report that the Missouri, Kansas Texas Railwav company had decided to reject the bill passed by the last legislature, authoriz ing ft to purchase and operate the Sher man, Shreveport Southern railroad, provided it built extensions from Jeffer son to Waskom and from San Marcos to San Antonio, was disproven today by the arrival at San Marcos of a corps of the company surveyors, who will immed iately make the final survey of the route to San Antonio. It will run through New Braunsfel, a thriving German town of a few thousand inhabitants. The work of constructing the Waskom extension is already in progress, and material will begin arriving at San Mar cos in a few days to be used in the San Antonio extension. MAT AT LEAST TALK. Western Lines Will Give Shipper a Hearing. St. Louis, Jan. 15. The joint commit tee of Western and Eastern lines on re adjustment of grain rates to the Atlantic seaboard, met and agreed upon a r'siiort to be submitted for the approval ol the respective traffic associations. The Western trunk lines have decided to give a hearing, on the 8th of Febru ary, to all shippers and representatives of merchants' traffic bureaus who desire to be heard on the question of proposed changes in freight classification for the Western trunk line territory, tender the resolution adopted at the New York con ference of the executive officers on Tues day, there will be no change in freight rates until March 1. The shippers are to be given every opportunity to ventilate their objections at the February meeting. INDIAN TERRITORY LINES. Bill Authorizing Consolidation Intro duced In Congress. Washington, Jan. 15. Senator Jones of Arkansas has introduced a bill authoriz ing railroad lines in the Indian Territory to lease or consolidate continuous lines under certain circumstances. It provides that it shall be lawful for any railroad company created or exist ing under the laws of the United States and operating a line of railroad either wholly or partially in the Indian terri tory to purchase the railroad and other property of, or to consolidate with, any other railroad incorporated under the laws of any state or territory of the Un ited States whose lines may now or here after form a continuous line of railroad, either directly or by means of an inter vening railroad, with that of the com pany so purchasing, upon complying with the regulations and requirements of the laws of the state or territorv in which such road is located, applicable to such purchase or consolidation. Models of Engine Building. Engines No. 844 and 845, two more new Baldwin ten-wheel locomotives ar rived at the Santa Fe shops today, and will be set up and tested, and put in first-class running order. There are still two more locomotives of this class The Geo. E. Keith Shoes the best $3.50 Shoe ever put on the market. Sale price $3.00 a pair. TO 4, we offer cost. due on the order of five placed with this firm, and word has been received that the last two have been shipped from the Baldwin Locomotive works and should arrive in Topeka in a few days. These locomotives are large, equipped with all late appliances, in cluding electric headlights. Missouri Pacific Improvement. Tji first thing- in the spring, seventy five Vound steel will be laid from Leav enworth to Atchison on the Missouri Pacific. All the men that can be se cured will be hired to ballast the track with Webb City gravel. The Atchison shops will also be improved this sum mer. Our authority for this statement is W. B. Doddridge. Mr. Doddridge stated in fhe Globe office that the Atchison shops would be improved in 1900, as a matter of necessity, and not to oblige Atchison. Superintendent Rathburn was present, and heard Mr. Doddridge make the statement. Atehi ,son Globe. Santa Fe Money at Argentine. Kansas City, Jan. 15. The Santa Fe pay car will make its Sifini-monthly visit to Argentine to-day and a larger amount of money will be distributed among the employes of tho road than at any time for some months. The railroad is employing a very large number of men at present, and all of them are putting in full time. The pay roll has increased at the rate of 10 per cent, a month since early in the fall. In December 15 per cent, more money was paid out than the same month in 1898. Record Breaking Load. Kansas City, Jan. 15. The largest load of bran ever put on a freight car was yesterday delivered by the Bur rough McEwen Grain and Bran com pany to the Nelson Grain company, in this city. The bran was loaded at the Rex mills, on the west side of the city, and delivered at its destination on the eas,t side of the city. The car belonged to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe company, and weighed, with its load, an even 100,000 pounds. It held 1,000 bags. FROM GOODLAND. Conductor J. T. Joyce left for a trip east last week. Train Dispatcher C. F. Smith was a visitor at Denver last week. Fireman J. F. McMillian has quit and will look for greener fields. Brakeman George Copley returned last week from a visit in eastern Kan Bas. Conductor Joe Lustig is on his car again. He was on 5 and 6 for about two weeks. Engineer George Ameck, of Trenton, Mo., is learning the road on this divi sion preparatory to going to work. Engineer James and Fireman Robert son brought their engine here from the Pueblo run for repairs. Engineer Jim Griffin has returned to the Denver run with engine 576. which received some light repairs while here. The 895, of the passenger service. En gineer Ryan's favorite, was sent to the Chicago shops for a general overhaul ing. Engineer W. S. Agnew has given up the 545 on the steam shovel and will run out of Goodland. Engineer Pat Brown succeeds Agnew on the uo. The pile driver came in from the east Sunday and was sent to the west end to do some work on several bridges. Engineer Dave Pringle with the 510 is pulling the train which is in charge of Conductor Thomas. FROM LAS VEGAS. Fireman Miller has been transferred from Las Vegas to Raton. Frank Meyers has relieved Engineer Holman on the Rincon pusher. The mother of Engineer John Mc Lean, of Raton, died recently ini Omaha. Engineer A. F. Eames is still quite a sick man, at the home of his daugh ter, Mrs. Sam Smith. Engineer P. W. Montgomery secured a sixty-dajrs' leave of absence and left Raton for California. Freight trains going south carry an average of about 570 tons; those going north usually haul 770 tons. Conductor Chet Clark and wife have returned to Raton from a visit to Mrs. Clark's parents in St. Louis. Engineer J. A. Baker has been trans ferred from Raton to Trinidad for mountain service on that side of the hill. Helper Snyder, of the blacksmith shop, who has been in the hospital at Topeka, undergoing treatment for his ears, has returned to the city. Kansas City and Return $2.00 Via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-r6-17th, final limit Jan. 20th; six trains a day in each direction. Bari ti Tha Kind You Have Alvravs Basjjf O XL. 3 TT O X. X A. Esars tk Tfi8 Kind You rlave Always BoojS Sean tha y Kind You Kara Always Eatint 'Signature of C3 The Armstrong Ladies' Shoes, the most popular in the city. The best grade has a $5.00 val ue everywhere. Sale price $3.50 a pair. THE WORKINGMEN That need coarse Shoes, that will wear, we have them at very low prices. HOU TWO SOCIALISTS. Massachusetts Elects Jlayors on Socialist Ticket. Both Brockton and HaTerhill Hare Such Executives. DISTINCT ISSUE MADE. People No Longer Afraid of the Sound of the Word. What Kansas Has Accomplished Under Other Names. The east has much to say about the people of Kansas being socialists, but it remained for staid old Massachusetts to show the first tangible evidence of the socialistic movement by the elec tion of two mayors on a straight so cialist platform. Brockton has just installed its social ist executive, Charles H. Coulter, and Haverhill has for the second time elected John C. Chase on a socialist platform. Mayor Chase, the first socialist mayor ever elected in America, in his second Inaugural address said: "Capitalism, with all its attending evils, is sweeping on, maiming and crushing millions of defenceless beings JOHN C. CHASE. in its relentless course. But its doom is sealed. Through its own develop ment capitalism will fall and be super seded by collectivism. It is the next great step in the evolutionary progress of civilization. "The people should operate every de partment of the municipal government. "I believe that these things should be incorporated in our charter: The ini tiative and referendum; proportional representation; the imperative man date, or the right of recall of officials by their constituents; the right to own and operate all public utilities; the election of the superintendent of high ways by the people." The mayor recommends the munici pal ownership of public utilities, de claring that corruption under this sys tem is minimized. He believes that the control of the water should be under the city council, as well as the fur nishing of gas and electric light. In speaking of the fact that many chil dren cannot attend public schools owing to lack of clothing, the mayor recommends that in all such cases clothing should be furnished by the city. He further urges the abolishment of contract labor in the city depart ments. A free reading room for working peo ple is one of the recommendations in the inaugural, and it is also urged that municipal conduits for wires be laid under ground. In recommending a new ciry charter the mayor's socialistic ideas are given prominence in the fol lowing: "I am one of those who believe that every city should have absolute home rule in all matters which do not conflict with the rights of other cities, and that the limitations placed upon cities by the legislature should be re moved as far as possible." "For the first time in the history of American politics," he said, "the polit ical contest here was one between the old and the new theory of government, for the first time the question of social ism was the issue. "That it was not defeated was be cause of certain conditions in our in dustrial life which make socialism nec essary conditions which have yet to be met and remedied, and which can be remedied only by the application of socialism. Mayor Coulter of Haverhill in his in augural address said: "In the presence of these and many other facts incident to present indus trial conditions the Social Democratic party asserts its aims to be the social ft "WW ff The Gray Brothers' Ladies' fine Shoes, known the world over for their wearing qualities. Good value at $3.50. Sale price $2.75 a pair. or collective ownership and operation of the tools the means of production and distribution the establishment of the co-operative commonwealth. "In support of its position it points to the social nature of these tools; that they are the product of the combined social genius and not of the individual, that they require the co-operative ef fort of the social, energy for their con create production, preservation and op eration. It is proposed to demonstrate the merit of social ownership, that such social ownership is necessary to estab lish the right to work, and the right of the worker to enjoy the results of his labor; that it would result in certainty of employment, security of subsistence, abolition of human poverty and the ele vation of the race above the brute struggle for material needs forced upon man by our present industrial system. OWNERSHIP OF UTILITIES. "As I have said before, the power of the municipality is limited, but muni cipal ownership of the street railways, gas and electric lighting plants has long since passed from the experimen tal to the practical stage, as can be demonstrated by a careful study of the conditions prevailing in those munici palities which have adopted this sys tem. Every citizen who has the welfare of the city at heart should take especial care, that every obstacle is removed from the path of legislation that is looking to the advancement of the own ership of these utilities. "Municipal franchises have been granted in the past without any regard for the people's rights, and I would urge upon you the importance of care ful consideration of this matter in the future. There should be no franchises granted to any corporation whatever, until the people's interests have been carefully safeguarded, and a proper re turn made for the valuable privileges extended,, and under no ciret mstances should a. franchise be granted to a street railway corporation until proper assurances have been given that its cars will be run to suit the comfort and convenience of the people. "It has been demonstrated very very clearly in this and every other city that the abolition of the contract system by some of the departments is sound business policV, and I would urge you to carefully consider our present method of constructing public build ings. I believe the city should con struct its own public buildings just as successfully as it repairs them at pres ent, after the contractors have left them half constructed. I believe, also, that it could construct a better building and at less cost than is obtained by the pres ent methods. This is worthy of careful consideration in view of the large num ber of public buildings which are being constructed each year. "I recognize the importance of the trades union movement.and realize that it is and has been an important factor in the education and advancement of the workingmen of our city, state and nation, and I urge that union labor be employed on city work as far as possi ble, and that the city printing bear the union label." These inaugural addresses show that Massachusetts is not so far ahead of Kansas only that here the people of all political parties accept these theories when applied to municipalities and To peka's present mayor is a staunch ad vocate of the ownership of public util ities by the municipality. Topeka has owned its lighting plant for more than ten years. Women Pull Plows. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. Hitching women to plows and using them as beasts in the fields is a new wrinkle in the napkin of civilization. In civilized America the custom is es tablished in all its literal details women are being formed into teams and harness ed to heavy plows, which a surly son of ease in the shape of a man tranquilly drives through his fields as most of us have seen horses and mules driven on American farms. The place in America where women are used as draught animals is next door to the United States up here in the north west territories, in and around Manitoba. The women are of the Russian peasan try, imported into Canada by the Cana dian immigration bureau to furnish labor for the Manitoba farming districts. They are of that class of Russians known as Doukhobors. About 4.000 Doukhobors. male and fe male, have been invited into Canada by the immigration agents in Russia. They form a big settlement in the northwest territories, and naturally are inclined to be clannish. They form communities and settlements of their own and carry on life in pretty much the same fashion they followed in semi-barbaric Russia. They bring many of. the most primitive of the old world traditions and customs with them, among them being the mas culine notion that the female is made to work and be useful at whatever task her lord and master shall give to her. The hitching of women to plows is one of the many instances of his adoption of this comfortable error. Wooden yokes are used, and to these yokes a span of women are harnessed. There may be six or eight women to one plow. These Doukhobors use oxen and horses on an equal footing with their women, when they have any of the former. If a man is rich enough to afford an ox he is likely to harness, it in the same team with five or six women. He is willing to exchange a woman for an ox or a horse and trades of that nature are not un common among the tribe, even here in Manitoba, civilized America. And the women never think of complain ing. They see nothing wrong in their de gradation. They have known no other life, and it has not occurred to them to demand any other. They are back a few centuries in the progress of civilization.. Western Russia has been too dark and too slow for them to see or learn the rapid strides their sisters have taken elsewhere in the world. To obey their big, heavy-fisted, dull-browed lords has 628 Kansas Avenue. JEW CRAWFORD 0Paa 1 Friday, January 12th. Tuesday Eve., Jan. 16. The Ever-Winning Favorites. WILLIAMS WALKER, And Their Oon Gigantic Company 50 People in "THE POLICY PLAYERS," Introducing WILLIAMS AXD WALK EH (the Two Real Coons) Miss Mattie Wilkes, Mai lory Bros Brooks, Reese Bros. Sa Douglas: The Williams Walker Quar tette; Messrs. Elkins, Thomas, Williams and Orme: Overton Hallidas, the Greac Catlin, Ed Harris, Wiliiaras Walker's Military Brass Band. Miss Mamie Em erson, Miss Lottie Thompson, Richard, Connors and a grand chorus of thirty trained voices. A show full of new ant bright original features and surprises. Ai car load of special scenery and electrical effects. PRICE 25c, 35c; 50c, and 75 centa. fielmaiKFaylor Exhibit Of 500 Pictures For the benefit of the Public Schoola of the city at LIBRARY HALL. Open Jan. 13, at 7:30 P. M. January i5, 16, 17, 18, 19, at 10 A. M. to 10 P. frl. General Admission, Childr3n, 10c 60 OTHERS I YOU t J t J Can Be Cubed by Using I KOHL'S J

i Rheumatic Cure. I Tbt a Bottle. Ail Drnggists. Price, U.0H H. C. BOWMAN, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Room 38, Columbian Building TOPEKA, KANSAS. been the only thing they knew in all tho centuries. It wais on account of their simple, eco nomic ways that the Doukhobors wer invited here by the Canadian authorities They were deemed desirable because they seemed to have no .ambition beyond hard labor. Social ambition is unknown to them. They live to work, even as they work to live. The Canadians picked them out, accordingly as the best material pos sible for pioneers upon western Canada's vast, unsettled agricultural lands. Just what the dominion government thinks of them remains a mystery as yet. It is morally certain that sooner or later some official action will be demanded by the daughters of civilization in neighbor ly communities regarding' the prostitution of their Russian sisters to slavery and drudgery in the harvest fields. The government can not ignore this de mand when it comes. It will be interest ing to watch the official hand of civiliza tion fall upon the simple-minded Russians and strive to break them of their racial characteristics, the growth of thousands of years. 'You must not harness women ta plows," the government will say. "Why not?'1 will reply tho Doukhobors, In stupid surprise. "They are good. ablo. beasts." "But they are something more than that. They are women, mothers of your children. They have souls and minds as good as yours. They have the same right to independence and more right to an easy life, since they are the weaker of the sexes. Take care bf them and work for them. Let them stay in the houso and maks you comfortable there." For the National Live Stock Associa tion, Fb Worth, Texas, January 16 to ia The Eock Island will sell tickets at one fare ($14.50r for the round trip. Tickets on sale Jan. 14th to loth, final return limit Jan. 27th, for tickets. res- ervations, and full information, see A. M. FULLER, C. P. T. A. Early to Bed. Karlv to rise and a Beggs' Little Giant Pill will make you healthy, wealthy and wise. Safe, Pleasant and Kffectiver R. "W, Squires, pharmacist, 732 Kansas avenue. Subscribe tor the Journal.

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15,1900. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENSAK. VOLUME XXVII No. 13 Official Paper of the City of Topefca. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail, one vear nn By mail, three months Weekly edition, one year w PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building. 800 and 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW TORK OFFICE. Temple Court BIdg. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Bide. 'A. Frank Richardson. MST- LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell hone JS? Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 577 The Parisians are making money hand over fiat by daily marking up the price of rooms to exposition visitors. Whenever Aguinaldo feels that he is carrying too much excess baggage in his wild flight he tips a female relative overboard. Lord Roberts should note the fate of Lawton and change his white steed for one of a less conspicuous color. The Boera are excellent marksmen. One of the difficulties which England is called upon to meet in the Transvaal is that the Boer army appears to grow as rapidly as does that of the Queen. Mr. Cleveland has gone on a hunting trip. This is probably intended aa a re minder to the Democracy that he is still alive and ready for business should he be needed. If Lord Roberts should have as much difficulty in entering the Transvaal as Brigham H. Roberts has in his efforts to enter Congress there is a long, hard road before him. Since certain members of the opposi tion to Goebel have been indicted by a Kentucky grand jury on a charge of attempted bribery we, hear less of the falsifying of returns by the regulars. At York, Pa., the other day a man that voted three times in one election was convicted and sentenced. It served him right. A Pennsylvanian who would stop at voting merely three times could expect nothing better. One class af articles which has not advanced in price with the return of prosperity is West Indian islands. Those belonging to Denmark were held a few years ago at $7,000,000. They are now marked down to $3,0000,000. With the shipping subsidy bill calling for $100,000,000 and the Nicaragua canal bill calling for $140,000,000 it is not surprising that it has been decided to give up the customary river and harbor appropriations for this session of Congress. In explaining his action with relation to the deposit of public funds in na tional banks. Secretary Gage has laid the foundation for a very large amount of additional explanation which his party's campaign orator will be called upon to make during the year 1900. Through all the history of the world, empires have arisen, flourished and fallen. Why should Great Britain be any exception to the rule? The decline must begin somewhere. Perhaps the Boer war is the commencement of the disintegration of another mighty na tion. If Colonel Bryan continues on the course which he is now traveling he may develop into a fairly good expan sionist before the campaign has ended. By evincing an ability to change his mind he has added one mniv to his Hat of qualifications for the high office to which he aspires. THE SHIPPING BILL. From the St. Paul Dispatch. The east has not yet learned that there is a west. With a near-sighted vision bounded by the sky line of the Atlantic, it has only vaguely known that there is a Pacific. It has -placed that ocean on the other side of the globe and not realized that the Pacific washes the west coast line of the con tinent, that the Pacific is the ocean of the future, that the west is to be America. For this limitation of vision the east should pay the penalty of losing the legislation embodied in the Hanna Payne shipping bill. The discussion of the provisions of this bill bv James J. Hill before the state agricultural so ciety is, in every consideration, worthy of the attention of every farmer of the country whether he be a wheat farmer of the Northwest and farthest west, a cattle farmer of the west, or a cotton farmer of the south. The representa tives from these sections have been making it known in Washington during the past week that the west will not stand by the east in passing this meas ure unless the east stands by the west in so shaping the bill that it guan's the interests of the American people and not the interests of a few Atlantic ship builders. This shipping bill provides for the payment of $9,000,000 annually in sub sidies, for a period of ten vears to American vessels, sailing to and from foreign ports. The subsidv is to he nairt on a basis of rate of speed and tonnage measurements. For ships of fourteen knots speed, the bonus is one cent a ton for each 100 miles; for ships of 21 knots, i. cents a ton. The promoters seek to give it a plausible appearance in the eyes of those who consider what the ship carries, and not its speed, by saying that without paying cargoes' the shipowners could not make the voyage; that a cargo is indispensable. Granted it is, there is yet not restriction as to whether people or pork should be car ried to achieve a profit. Another pro vision is that the ships built and used for these purposes should be capable of naval use in time of need and could be taken at any time by the United States for that purpsoe. In other worda this fleet of vessels is to be an auxiliary fleet of cruisers; and the American navy never tolerates a slow boat. Wit ness her building of cruisers and aban donment of battleship building. Wbat will result? A fleet of passen- ger steamships crossing the Atlantic, carrying the tourists and bleeding the farmers of the west of $9,000,000, while their wheat rots in the granaries. There will be twenty-one knot vessels and nothing else. Forty ships might each abstract $200,000 a piece from the Amer ican treasury, and never carry a pound of America's real treasure. Vessels of large freight capacity and slow speed will be left just where they are not built. The future of the American merchant marine is the future of America's com merce, but that commerce is not to be carried on Atlantic waters. It is to be shipped from Portland, Seattle, San Franciso, to Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and to Callao and Valparaiso. Liverpool is no longer to tell our far mers that their wheat is worth only 50 cents a hushel, when 400,000,000 people in one country alone are pining in their palates for flour food, and but a third of the world knows the taste. That was a persuasive reckoning of Mr. Hill's when he suggested that if the trade with China amounted to one cop per cent per capita for each day of the year, it would amount to $4,000,000 a day and $1,500,000,000 a year. But if the Chinaman once gets a taste for our wares he will eagerly work to show his penny. The more wrong in the Simple Simons who can not see the course of commercial empire. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. It is a great bore to receive a "beau tiful'" letter. We don't suppose the man ever lived who was as popular with the women aa chocolates are. When a man engages In politics, he will wrong a friend as qtdckly as a man who is trying to sell stock in a mine. There is some complaint expressed that conversation has become a lost art. There should be no regret; the people talk too much. The farmers, having nothing else to complain about, are complaining be cause they are now eating up what they raised last summer. A great many tragedies have resulted from young girls going to men for "fatherly" advice, when the men were not old enough to be fatherly. It was lately said of a certain Atchi son girl that she joined a certain Atchi son church to get married. It turns out that her real purpose was to get a loh. Some one writes to ask what is a masterpiece. We can think of nothing just now to name as an example -of a masterpiece except a sixteen-year-old girl. When you call either a lawyer or a doctor, it is a sign that you are in trouble; a trouble that might have been avoided in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. One of the advantages of joining a Don't Worry club is that the members don't hunt up other people to relate a string of troubles. The confidences poured out in a moment of worry and distress result in half the mischief caused in the world. A Don't Worry member doesn't worry, and conse quently doesn't find herself pouring out things which should be kept secret. The people are too much given to heart to heart talk anyway; if the Don't Worry club accomplishes nothing more than the abolishment of so much secret-telling, it will have earned the right to an honorable existence. BACHELOR BUTTON'S. From the New York Press. The day before a woman eroes to stay all night with another woman she scratches out the number of her shoes. A woman's mouth, when it is in re pose, shows her character; when it isn't it is generally showing some other wo man's. If everybody really felt as nice and kind to everybody they meet on Christ mas as they pretend to there wouldn't be any use in having any Christmas. A woman never feels really Intimate with another woman till she has slept with her and they have told each other how nice they think each other's hus band is till it's most morning. C L A li K S 0 NR EJ EC TED. Platt Informs Him He Can Not Be Secretary of the Senate. Washington, Jan. 15. Senator Piatt, of New York, today Informed J. S. Clark- son. candidate tor secretary or the sen ate', "that his election to that office was impossible. The objections raised to Clarkson by leading Republican senators were insuperable. Clarkson received the news with much surprise, as he assumed that the pledges obtained for him before the meeting of Congress would insure his selection. In deciding against Clarkson the sen ate caucus did not go further the other aay man to recommend that senator Piatt should offer another candidate from his state. The announcement, therefore, that Chairman B. V. Odell was elected by the caucus is untrue. Senator Piatt wired Chairman Odell to see if he would accept the iiosition, and Mr. Odell has declined. The senate has no knowledge of Odell except through Senator Piatt's recommendation, and as New York has been granted the secretarvship It will be Senator Piatt's business to find a candi date acceptable to the senate. Mr. Odell would no doubt have been elected unani mously had he signified his willincness to serve, but the senate is not electing offi- una unuic niiuwiiig men wisiies. sen ator Piatt could not tell this morninz- what name he would recommend to the caucus, wnicn is to meet on the 19th Inst., but he does not expect any trouble in picKing out me rigm man. ANOTHER ADDITION Otto Kuehne Continues to Enlarge His Vinegar Plant. Work has been commenced on an ad dition to the Topeka Vinegar and Pre serving Works which will increase the vinegar capacity 100 barrels. The pres ent capacity of the plant is 50 barrels. The addition will cose several thousand dollars. Mr. Otto Kuehne, proprietor of the works, argues that as products can be purchased cheaper in this territory, vinegar should be shipped from the west to the east, and not vice versa. The enlargement of the capacity of the plant will provide additional work, and Mr. Kuehne intends to push the sale of his vinegar in the east. A Miller a Suicide. Mound City, Jan. 15. J. W. Egloff, owner and proprietor of the Linn coun ty roller mills, of this city, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home here Saturday evening. Mr. Egloff came here from Granberry, Tex., about two years ago and bought the milling plant, which he remodeled and has been running ever since. No cause is given. He leaves a widow and one son, Harry, about 20 years old. Paul Lovewell Buys a Paper. Paul Lovewell, of the Capital local force, has purchased the Eureka Herald in conjunction with a young man named Hodge of that place. The new proprie tory will take charge at once :tnd the pa perwlll remain Republican in politics. JANUARY MAGAZINES. North American Review: "England and the Transvaal," by the Right Hon. Earl Grey. 'England and the Euro pean. Powers," by Prof. Hans Del bruck. "Great Britain on the War path," by Vindimir Holmstrem and Prince Ookhtomsky. "Some Boer Char acteristics," by George Lacy. "A Fil ipino Appeal to tne American People," by Apolinario Mabini, formerly prime minister in Aguinaldo's cabinet. "Con gress and Parliament: A Contrast," by Sydney Brooks. "The Census of 1900,'" by W. R. Merrlam; etc Cosmopolitan: "The Delights of Try ing to be Somebody Else." by Edgar Saltus. "Fossil Hunting in Wyoming," by Howard W. Bell. "Some Types of Egyptian Women," by Alexander Har vey. "Letters to a Lady on the Home Care of the Sick," by John S. Fulton. Some Impressions of Berlin, oy Charles De Kay, former consul general for the United States. "The Theatri cal Advance Agent," by Kirke La Shelle. "Modern Education: Encourag ing the Mental Powers of Young Child ren," by M. V. O'Shea. Stories, poems. etc. International Magazine: "Santo Do mingo: A Tropical Eden," by Lulu Deonell "Wills. "A Summer in Norway," by Thina M. Biorn. "The Queen's Gar den: The Petit Trianon." by J. E. Van de Sande. Foreign letters, travel notes, stage folk, current words, dook review, stories, etc. New England Magazine: "Faneull Hall." Illustrated, and with portrait of Peter Faneuil, by Abram English Brown: "Horace Greeley's Early New England Rome," by Ralph S. Cushman; "France and England in Nortn Amer ica," by Caroline B. Shaw; "Northamp ton." by S. E. Bridgman: "Ellen John son and the Sherborn Prison," by Isabel C. Barrows. Stories, poems, etc. Gunton's Magazine: "Our Duty in the Philiutunes." bv J. G. Schurman, president of Cornell University."Hawaii and Porto Rico as Colonies," by George L. Bolen. "The New Currency Bill," "Social Education Congress at Paris,' England's Serious Reverses," "Death of Vice President Hobart," "Pursuing Aguinaldo,""Is England's Cause Just?" "Learned Professions in State Univer sities," by W. F. Edwards, etc. The Critic: "The Late Grant Allen," by Clement K. Shorter. "The Early Polish Drama," by Helena Modjeska. "English Literature of the Nineteenth Century," by Lewis E. Gates. "How Not to Read," by Gelett Burgess. "The Drama," by J. Ranken Towse. "The American Language," by Carolyn Ship man. "Paderewski's Return;" etc. Brush and Pencil: "Daniel Chester French. Sculptor," by Lorado Taft. "The Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Society of Western Artists." by Ed mund H. Wuepel. "A Note on the Jap anese Method of Acquiring Absolute Knowledge in Art," by G. C. Teall. "Notes on Bookbindings" (illustrated), by Ellen, G. Starr; etc. Donahoe's Magazine: "Catholic Girls as Wives," by Rev. D. A. Hanley. "Othello," by Rev. J. H. Cotter. "From Canterbury to Rome," "People in Print," by William Hopkins. "General Funston in the Philippines," "Achieved Courage," by Walter M. Egglnton. Stories, poems, etc. House Beautiful: "The Rohlfs Furn iture," by Charlotte Moffitt. "Vines for the Living Room in Winter," by Ida D. Bennett. "Colonial Houses in Mary land," by Alfred H. Granger. "The Surroundings of a Country House," bv O. C. Simonds. "A Collection of Copper and Brass," by Pauline King. "Roses: Past, Present, and Future," by Dean Hole; etc Book Buyer: Marshall's portraits of Fletcher, Milton and Herrick, from "Rare Prints.""01d and New Masters," (a review), by Will H. Low. "Book Re views (with illustrations), by Fitzroy Carrington. M. A. De Wolfe Howe, Carolyn, Shipman, Elizabeth L. Carey, F. J. Gregg, and others. What to Eat: "The Popular Sweet Sandwich," by Mary Dawson. "A Dozen Dyspeptics at Lunch," by F. A. Weav er. "Mexican Curried Shrimp, "by Max ine Olcott. "Seasonable Menus," by Elizabeth O. Hiller. "Old Kentucky Corn Dishes," by Sarah Bell Hackley. "Choice RecipeB," by E. C Hazzard; etc Table Ttalk: "Raised Biscuits or Light Rolls," "The Belgian Hare," "The Business Woman Versus Helpmate and Homemaker," "Twelfth Day: Old Christmas and its Observances," "New Menus for January," "When Peggy Goes to Market," "Children in France," "Recipes; etc. Harper's Weekly for January 6 has an illustrated article by Franklin Mat thews on Henry W. Lawton, "The Sold ier and the Man." A full page lllustra tion called "Communicating with Kim berley by Searchlight." The burial of the Maine victims at Arlington is fully illustrated, and there are pictures of the buildings under construction for the Buffalo Pan-American Exhibition. The double page represents Aguinaldo, his generals, wife and other relatives, his carriage, etc. Collier's Weekly for January 6 has an interesting illustrated article on "The Artillery of the South African War," by Lieut. G. L. Carden. Other features are pictures of the battle-fields around Ladysmith and scenes of interest in. the vicinity. "Puerto Rico's First Ameri can Election," "One Hundred Years of the American Navy," "The Captured "No Eye Like the Master's Eye." You are master of your health, and if you do not attend to duty, the blame is easily located. If your blood is out of order. Hood's Sar saparilla ivill purify it. It is the specific remedy for trouble! of the blood, kidneys, bowels or liver. Kidneys My kidneys troubled me, and on advice took Hood's Sarsaparilla which gave prompt relief, better appetite. My sleep is refreshing. It cured my wif also." Michajx Boils, 3473 Denny Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Scrofulous Humor" Iwas in terrible condition Irom the itching and burning of scrofulous hun. or. Grew worse under treatment of several doctors. Took Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills. These cured me thoroughly." J. J. Ltttlk, Fulton, N. Y. Z&odfi SaUafxa'ul Hood'B 1H11 care liTer ilia tha Bon-irritating anA .air cathartic to taka with Hood's Sarsaparilla Irish Fusileers at Pretoria," and "The Funeral of Lieut. Brumby." The new magazine which the Mac- millan company issued on January 1 is called the International Monthly.. Ed ward Rod leads with an article on La ter Evolution in French Criticism;" Prof. N. S. Shaler follows with "The Influence of the Sun Upon the Founda tion of the Earth's Surface;" Prof. John Trowbridge on "Recent Advance in Physical Science;" Norman .nap good on "The Theatrical Syndicate;" Charles de Kay on "The Association of American Artists." A famous picture by Titian is pre served in a remote Mexican monastery. How a party of tourists went in a "dug out" In search for it is told in a char acteristic manner by Charles, Dudley Warner In an article which he has written for the Youth's Companion. Scribner's Magazine: Oliver Crom well: "The Times and the Man," by Theodore Roosevelt; "Tommy and Gri- zel," three chapters, by J. M. Barrle; "White Man and Brown in the Philip pines," by Frederick Palmer; "The Walk Dp-town," by Jesse Lynch Wil liams, illustrated from photographs by Dwight L. Elmendorf and others; "The Poetic Cabarets of Paris," by Eliot Gregory; "The Great Good Place," by Henry James, etc. Ainslee's Magazine for January shows a pronounced American flavor. "The Mormon Richelieu," by Arthur -I. Street, is a character study of George Q. Cannon, the master mind of the Mormon church. There is art article by Mary Holland Kinkaid on "The Wo men Legislators of Colorado," and one on the subject of "Cotton," by John Gilmer Speed. Other articles are: "Just What South Africa Is," by Allan San gree, and "Communistic Experiments in the United States." Short stories, etc. The January Century contains a po em by Rudyard Kipling, "In the Mat ter of One Compass." Dr. Mitchell's story, "The Autobiography of a Quack," ends in that Issue, but another serial by Dr. Mitchell will begin in the March number. It is called "Dr. North and His Friends," and one who has read the manuscript calls it "an epitome of the science, culture and common sense of the nineteenth century." The January number oi. McClure's Magazine contains something in the way of color printing surpassing any thing yet achieved by magazines. In illustration of the first chapter of "The Life of the Master," by Dr. John Wat son (Ian Maclaren), eight brilliant paintings by C. K. Linson are reproduc ed full page, in all the colors of the or iginals. The titles of these paintings are "The Annunciation to Mary," "A Nazareth Street Scene," "Fountain Scene at Nazareth," "The Way Up to Bethlehem," "The Flight Into Egypt," "The Birthplace of John the Baptist," "Rachel's Tomb," and "Jesus Laboring at Home With Joseuh and Mary." An article by Lieutenant Peary describes his visits last summer to Greeley's old headquarters at Fort Conger, the most northerly house in the world, and his conversion of it into a headquarters for himself. Mak Twain appears in the new character of a poet. His poem is addresesd to Howells, Aldrich, Cable, Stockton and other of his fellow-authors, and is prefaced by a typical Mark Twain story in which these friends of his have a part. The contribution is accompanied by a recent unpublished portrait of Mark Twain. CURTIS-BAILEY FIGHT. How the Atchison Globe Views the Congressional Contest. rFrom the Atchison Globe. The Curtis men have a new argument against Cy Leland. He runs a little old country store at Troy, and they say he buys all his goods in Missouri; that he buys nothing whatever in Kansas. o The Curtis-Bailey excitement in Atchi son' is becoming more ridiculous every day. Here are two outsiders who ex pect Atchison people to quarrel over them and organize "Bailey" and "Curtis" clubs. Why not a club that amounts to something: a Don't Worry club? A great many people believe the bitter fight In this congressional district is foolish and unnecessary. Already charges of blackmail are being made: before the campaign ends, half the voters in the district will be accused of something by somebody, and be thoroughly mad, which will not do them any good. All this to please a Topeka man, and a man from Baileyville. o The Globe's position on the Curtis Bailey fight is that it is ridiculous for Atchison people to get each other by the ears over two outsiders, and that an Atchison man ought to spring up, and beat them both out of the nomination. If John J. Ingalls were in good health, nothing could prevent his nomination for congress from this district. o A man approached a Second ward voter, today, and said: "Can we afford to let Curtis run this town? Why don't the voters of the Second ward come out to the Bailey meeting tonight, and show their disapproval?" In a few moments the voter met a Curtis man, who said it was a shame that the Bailey bosses should run things, and that every one in the Second ward should turn out to the Curtis meeting tonight, and help down tne ring." Atcnison people are beginning to glare at each other over Curtis and Bailey, and it is very foolish. It does not make the slightest difference to Atchison people whether Curtis or Bailey is the next congressman. Is it not foolish to hurrah around, and have a lot of arguments and fights about two men in whom Acchison has not the slight est interest me proper tning would De to spring an Atchison candidate for con gress, if a fight is inevitable. An Atchi son man could make it, owing to the enmity of Curtla and Bailey. Must we go to Topeka or Baileyville for a con gressman? We can point out Ave hun dred Atchison men who are as smart as either Curtis or Ijalley. and as deserv ing of a term in congress. SUES HIS SISTER-IN-LAW. The Original McKinley Man Asks $100,000 Damages. Chicago. 111., Jan. 15. MasBW Antonlus Hess, "the original McKinley man," ha3 filed suit for $100,000 damages against his sister-in-law. Mrs. Annie Wolf, for break ing up his home. Mr. Hess declares that Mrs. Wolf in duced his wife to bring divorce proceed ings against him in 1S97, and that the worry eaused by the case caused him to lose large sums of money in business transactions. In speaking of the case Mr. Hess said today: "This woman. Annie Wolf, has been the cause of all mv misfortunes. Mv wife and I had been living together for thirteen years when Annie woir came around and wanted me to sign my prop erty over to my wife. This I refused to do, saying that as long as I lived my nrooertv should be In my name. Then she told my wife she was abused. She said her husband had signed his propertvj over to her. She told my wife she ought i i:..-.. mi,,.. lo pi oceeuiug. Aina was Inez thirteenth year, and that seems to be my unlucky number. I think she knew thia and took advantage of me. "It was also the year I worked so hard for McKinley and got nothing but let ters of congratulation for what I did." Coal in Geary County. Chapman, Jan. 15. William Wallace of Geary county has been exhibiting specimens of coal this week that were found in a bluff on his farm on Hum boldt creek. The vein shows promising results and Mr. Wallace will continue his digging. The coal was tested and I found to be of a fair quality. STUDETOGUEST Col. Bryan Addresses Scholars at Colombia. He Has Faith In Oar Educa tional Institutions. PENDING PROBLEMS. Has the Same Tiews on the Tariff Question. Denies the "Wool Story" That Is Being Circulated. Columbia, Jan. 15. William Jennings Bryan addressed the students of Mis souri university here Saturday night in the college chapel before an audience that taxed the auditorium to its utmost capacity. This was the third visit of Bryan to Columbia. His first address, when he was comparatively unknown to fame, and before he was even considered as a presidential possibility, was delivered at Music hall. The university authori ties declined to permit him to speak in the chapel, on the grounds that they did not wish the building to be used for political purposes. His second ad dress, which occurred shortly after the last presidential election, under the au spices of the Century club, a local or ganization, was 'delivered in the uni versity chapel by special invitation of the university authorities. The speaker of the Occasion contributed a large part or the proceeds for an annual prize to be known as the Bryan medal, to be awarded to the writer of the best po litical essay by a student of Missouri university. The address Saturday night was un der the auspices of the University Sa vitor, an annual student publication. The speaker was introduced by E. W. Stephens. Mr. Bryan spoke on "Pend ing Problems," and his address covered a broad field of political topics. In his preliminary remarks he took occasion to express his faith in the power and in fluence of the educational institutions of America and expressed the belief that they come in closer contact with the people than any other institutions. The speaker predicted a brilliant fu ture for Missouri university. He said in regard to his subject that he wished to be" as non-partisan as possible. His remarks showed clearly that he main tained all his former views on the sub ject discussed by him to-night. He gave special emphasis regarding the advantages of an income tax and spoke hopefully of the enforcement of such a law. He spoke on the power ot tne A.m- encan higher courts and said that it was far less difficult for them to chauge their constitution than for the people to do so. In reply to the assertion of Republi can organs that the money question was dead and buried, the speaker de voted a considerable part of his dis cussion and took occasion to say in their regard that he believed that the Republicans would rather attend a fu neral than a debate. The money ques tion, he said, was still very much, alive and he gave his hearers to understand that his views on this subject were still unchanged, and that he took a very hopeful view of the prospects of the Democratic free silver party in 1900. After the address Mr. Bryan was ter dered a banquet at the Powers house, in which several hundred of the most prominet Democrats of Columbia and Boone county participated. Mr. Bryan, was in excellent health and spirits and expressed himself quite willing to answer all questions of news paper import. When asked regarding the recent reports to the effect that he had changed his Views on the matter of free wool Importation and had as serted that in behalf of western dealers and manufacturers he would, if elected president, favor a tariff on wool, Mr. Bryan stated most emphatically that he wished to deny all such reports and that he made no statement whatever to the effect that he had changed his former views on the question. "The gold bugs, who are not true Democrats, will vote the Republican ticket, while the real Democrats will support the Democratic platform in cluding the free silver proposition. "The greatest difficulty I have expe rienced of late is the matter of phy sical endurance, and I at times find it very hard to endure the strain necessi tated by so many banquets and similar demonstrations." BTJLLEK DEFEATED. London, Jan. 15. A telegram from Newport, Wales, says Rutherford Har ris, formerly resident director in South Africa of the British South African company has received a cablegram to the effect that Gen. Buller has suffered another reverse. The war office has no information to enable it to confirm or deny the dis patch said to have been received by Mr. Rutherford Harris. t)FF FOR THE WAR. London, Jan. 15. The Duke of Marl borough who volunteered for services in South Africa will sail for Cape Town Saturday next. KELLAfTS 711 Kansas Ave. Are agents for the "SEMSHO" Typewriter. They also carry the very best Typewriter supplies and up-to-date Office Specialties. Kellam Book and Sta. Co. r 711 Kansas Ave. J '"Mm First Come, First Served, Is our policy. The 15 Days' Sale is proving a success in everyway. The Cloaks are going, the Underwear is going in fact, the general reduction proves a money-saving sale. Don't forget that this sale continues till February 1st, so every day will be the same as far as bargains are concerned. 100 full-sized White Quilts, hemmed ready for use, were 75c 100 extra size White Quilts, better finish, were $1.25 4 pieces Unbleached Damask, 70 in. wide, AQ( extra value, was 69c ttO' 5 pieces Turkey Red Damask, 52 in. wide, I rtXr good value at 20c j VlS& 5 pieces Extra Fancy Damask, 58 in., Blue, Brown and Green, at 39c The line of Cloaks is somewhat broken, "1 but think of the prices $5.00 gar ments for $2.50; $10.00 garments for $5.00. It will pay you to see this line. The Millinery Line is almost gone, still a few $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 i Hats at 25c $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 Hats at $1.50 J A snap in wide Sheeting, prices that will not be made again this year we are sure 9-4 brown, 13c 9- 4 bleached, 15c; 10-4 brown, 15c; 10- 4 bleached, 16c 500 pairs of Rubbers Childs', Boys' and Ladies', at OPEN TONIGHT.. WILL BE M'LELLAN. Topeka Man Slated For Superinten dent of Western Division of Santa Fe. It Is announced here this afternoon that Mr. H. E. Hurley, superintendent of the New Mexico and Rio Grande divisions of the Santa Fe, has refused the place of superintendent of the western division to succeed Mr. Charles Dyer, and that C. T. McLellan, now superintendent of the east ern division with headquarters in To peka, will, be appointed. In the event Mr. McClellan is named, several changes will probably take place as a result. Mr. R. J. Parker, superin tendent of the middle Qivision, will likely come to Topeka to succeed Mr. McClellan, Mr. T. F. Dolan, superintendent of the Oklahoma division, will succeed Mr. Par ker, and Mr. D. D. Bailey, superintendent of the Panhandle division will take Air. Dolan's place. Mr. McLellan has been superintendent of the eastern division of the Santa Fe for a number of years. His tnaf- the western division would be a promo tion. CLOTHING NEEDED. Police Matron Thorpe Makes an Ap peal For Stricken Families. Police Matron Thorpe announces that many Topeka families in which cases of "Cuban chickenpox" exist are badly in need of clothing and bedding. Several sick people, she states, are actually suf fering for want of bed coverings. All means at hand for the relief of such dis tress have been exhausted, and the mat ter now rests entirely with the people of ToDeka. Mrs. Thorpe asks that clothing and bed ding be sent to her rooms at the city jail. All supplies received will be im mediately distributed. New Kansas Postmasters. Washington, Jan. 15. The following changes of fourth-class postmasters have been made for Kansas: Bonita, Johnson county, C. J. Temple, vice C. S. Giffee, resigned; Drury, Sumner county, Jacob Rhoads.vice W. B. Hicks, resigned; Centropolis, Franklin county, I. A. Wellman, vice C. B. Gasskill, re moved; Perry, Jefferson county, Walter Kirby, vice T. Kirby, dead; Shields, Lane county, W. O. Ross, vice P. C. Stinson, dead; Welcome, Geary county, J. D. Zieber, vice J. S. Clark, resigned. Revival Services. The revival services at the First Christian church began yesterday and large audiences greeted the Rev. Em erson both morning and evening. The sermons were of deep interest and were much appreciated. The singing of Prof. Ridenour is excellent. He is as sisted by a large choir. There were two additions to the church yesterday, one by letter and one by confession. The meetings will continue during the week. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mr. Albert Latham, who for more than 20 years has been the traveling representative in this state of the Sim mons Hardware company, of St. Louis, died at his home on Van Buren street, this city, Sunday morning, January 14, of Bright's disease. Mr. -Latham was one of the most widely known and pop ular traveling men in Kansas, and dur ing his long and faithful service gained a host of friends throughout the state, who will learn of his death with the ut most regret. The funeral services, will be held at his late residence. No. 1014 Van Buren street, on Wednesday morning, January 17, at 11 o'clock. Subscribe for the Journal. 59c 98c t .25c $5.00 FOR $2.50 10.00 $5.00 25c $1.50 15c 15c ioc HOc Grain Letter. Chicago, Jan. 15. WHEAT has again registered new prices, selling down one cent from previous close under continued liquidation on the part of longs. Liver pool cables showed a decline of penny In face of our steady markets on Satur day and much to the surprise of many the amount of wheat on passage increas ed about a million bushels. The fact that one elevator containing 1,100,000 had been withdrawn from the regular houses help ed to give us a decrease In our visible supply of 1,359,000, but did not aid in strengthening values. Cash wheat was in poor request and sold at 39ic discount un der May. Exports small, although the seaboard were reported buyers of options. Reports of growing crop are unanimous in that it is in a satisfactory condition with the weather in the winter wheat country all that could be desired. The decline in prices has not brought any support to market in way of new specu lative buying and lower values should result. CORN has been easv and larerelv be cause of the expectation that the ap proaching final government crop figures will raise the corn yield considerably above two billion bushels. There has been today and there was Saturday, con siderable liquidation in fear of this. Liv erpool was oft 4d. Clearances, 716.000. The visible Increased 271,000. The best long interest here added to their holding on the dips. Weather continues very bad for movement. OATS were easier. There has been some selling of May by elevator people. The demand was scattered. Receipts, 219 cars. Oats have felt the corn decline and there is the feeling that the final government figures will be Increased. PROVISIONS The local trade went home short from Saturday. Although hogs were 5c higher, buying orders were not very plentiful and the hammering soon worked off the opening rally. When, however, shorts wanted their stuff back again, market was bare of offerings and the closing bulge came quickly. From ev ery side of the supply and demand situ ation, the market gives evidence of strength and we still feel confident of much higher prices. J. F. HARRIS. Kansas City and Return $2.00 Via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th, final limit Jan. 20th; six trains a day in each direction. TALK No. 61. Once a Year, If a man owns a fine watch he is particular to keep it in fine order. He wants it to keep accurate time for years to come. He is anxious to protect it from Injury and to have everv part work with deli cate precision. If he is sensible he selects a skillful watch maker and leaves the care of the watch to him. At least once a year he has him make a careful inspection of it. He does not wait until some thing breaks or the watch stop?, but has It examined often to avoid such injuries. I wonder why peo ple are not just as particular about their eyes. No watch in the world has such delicate mechanism. The finest chronometer never worked with such exact precision. If the eyes could be carefully examined once a year a great deal of perma nent injury could be averted. I will gladly do this for anyone at any time without charge. By discov ering and correcting slight defects in time, the necessity for wearing glasses constantly may be avoided. My exclusive attention is given to fitting glasses. CHAS. BENNETT, OPTICIAN. 730 Kansas Avenue. Established 179.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1900. 5 11 TO nil"- Li U FOR- The Place to Buy your Groceries. T3EMEMBER, we give you two Blue V. Premium Stamps instead of one on all Groceries. We do not exclude the articles in our line which bring you the most stamps. J, F. GUCK, Prop., 108 E. Sixth St 'Phone 425. 19 rbs Best Granulated Sugar.. .?1.00 20 tts .Whitest C Sugar l.OO DRIED FRUITS. 1 tt American candied Citron..... ,15 1 rb American candied Lemon Peel 15 1 lb American, candied Orange Peel 15 1 It) pkg. Fancy Figs .15 3 rbs new Dates .25 2 pkgs. fancy seeded Raisins..... .25 1 lt fancy Evap. Apricots .15 lb fancy Evap. Raspberries. .15 1 rb fancy Evap. Peaches........ .10 2 rbs fancy Nectarines .25 1 tt Raisin Cured Prunes .05 3 lbs large Silver Prunes .25 3 pkgs. cleaned Currants .25 MEATS AND LARD. Svgar cured Hams, per rb .10 Sugar cured Breakfast Bacon... .10 Sugar cured Cal. Hams 07' Dry Salt Bacon, per rb .06 Good Lard, per rb .06 3 rbs Country Lard .25 Fresh meats of all kinds. SOAPS. 10 bars Silk Soap .25 10 bars Lenox Soap .25 10 bars White Russian Soap 25 10 bars Clairette Soap .25 15 bars Monday Morning Soap... .25 24 cakes Cocoa Oil Soap .35 CANNED GOODS. 1 can 3-tb Green Gage Plumbs... .10 1 can 3-Ib Pears .10 1 can 3-Ib Table Peaches .15 2 cans 3-Ib Cal. Table Cherries., .25 1 can 3-lb Cal. Table Apricots.... .15 1 can 1 gallon Apricots 40 1 can 1 gallon Peaches .40 1 can 1 gallon Apples .25 4 cans Corn .25 2 cans Gem of Maine Corn .15 2 cans String Beans .15 2 cans White Wax Beans .15 3 cans Hart brand E. J. Peas..... .25 1 can 2-tb Tomatoes .OS 2 cans 3-lb Standard Tomatoes.. .15 3 cans 1-Ib Oysters .25 1 can good Salmon .10 1 can "Warren's Al Salmon .15 3 eans -lb Warren's Al Sar dines .25 3 cans Mustard Sardines .25 6 cans Am. i-lb Sardines .25 4-tb package Gold Dust .25 9 pkgs. Pearline 25 20 lbs Sal Soda 25 8 lbs Bulk Starch .25 1 quart bottle Blueing .10 1 lb Sweet Chocolate .20 1 lb Premium Chocolate......... .30 3 lbs fancy Mince Meat .25 10 lbs bulk Oats .25 1 pkg. Oats .05 7 lbs Beans .25 1 tb Java Rice .05 4 lbs Ginger Snaps .25 4 lbs Soda Crackers .25 Soda Crackers, by box, per lb.... .05 3 lbs Lemon Cream Crackers..... .25 3 pkgs. Aunt Jem. Pancake .25 3 pkgs. Ralston Health Pancake. .25 3 lbs Ralston Health Buckwheat. .25 6 lbs pure Buckwheat 25 1 Tb can Pure Food Baking Pow der 20 1 can 25 oz. Kansas City Baking "awder 20 1 can 16 oz. Royal Baking Powder .40 1 can 18 oz. Price's Baking Pow der 40 1 can 16 oz. Gypsy Queen Baking Powder .15 1 gal. Sour Pickles .15 1 doz. Dill Pickles .10 1 quart Kraut .05 COFEEES. 2 lbs Fancy Santos................ .25 1 lb good Rio Coffee .10 1 lb Mocha and Java Coffee .20 1 lb Java Blend Coffee .15 2 pigs. Postum Cereal .25 2 pkgs. Graino .25 1 lb American Health Coffee.... .15 1 graL can fancy Table Syrup. .30 1 quart can fancy Table Syrup. ..25 Pay Pay AT THE IPIT TOPEKASOCIETY. Social Calendar For This Week Is a Large One. Ilelman-Tajlor Art Exhibit Opened at Library Hall. HIGH SCHOOL PARTY. Mr. George Bates Entertains at High Fire. News Personal and Otherwise of a Social Nature. Social Calendar For the Week. MONDAY. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Ware will en tertain at dinner this evening for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hudson of the City of Mexico. The Monday Whist club is meeting this afternoon with Mrs. E. H. Crosby. Dr. and Mrs. George A. Esterly will be guests of honor at a dinner party given by Miss Edna. Crane this even ing. Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Menninger will entertain this evening in celebration of their fifteenth wedding anniversary. TUESDAY. The Imperial Club will dance at Hud son's hall. Mrs. J. S. Hobson will entertain at an informal thimble party Tuesday after noon in honor of Mrs. Paul Hudson. Judge and Mrs. William Smith give a dinner in the evening for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hudson. WEDNESDAY. A literary entertainment will be given at the Elmwood Club Wednesday even ing. THURSDAY. The Commisceo Club will give its reg ular dancing party Thursday evening at Hudson's hall. Mrs. C. A. Wilbur will entertain at thimbles in the afternoon. FRIDAY. The Misses Davis will give a large card party in the evening at their home on Topeka avenue. The informal thimble party at the Elmwood Club. Mrs. C. A. Wilbur will entertain at a second thimble party in the after noon. The Croma Club will meet in the af ternoon with Miss Octavia Greenwood. High-five at the Elmwood Club. The Viennese Club dance at Harmony hall. SATURDAY. Whist at the Elmwood Club Satur day evening. The Art Exhibit The Helman-Taylor art exhibit has been looked forward to with much in terest for several weeks, and the open ing at Library hall Saturday evening more than fulfilled expectations. The Occidental Club and the Friends in Council were in charge, and a different club will be in attendance each morn ing, afternoon and evening while the exhibit is open. The walls, the front of the stage and a partition down the center are lined with pictures, all cop ies of works by the old masters. Judg ing by the enthusiasm shown Saturday evening the interest will keep up all week. A mandolin club stationed on the stage played during the evening, and added much to the pleasure of the occasion. A Class Party. The young ladies of the high school class of 1902 gave a delighful party Friday evening at the home of Mis3 Isabel VanSant, at 1012 West Sixth av enue. The boys of the class were the guests. The entertainment was of quite an unique character; the girls had organ ized the society on the plan of the Royal Court, and the party was given for the purpose of crowning the queen. Miss Isabel VanSant. The court ladies were Miss Zo Norris, Miss Cora Clough, Miss Belle Cook, Miss Alma Gobrecht, Miss Mattie Spuriock, Miss Gertrude Hope, Miss Flora Fisher, Miss Flossie Burdge. The queen wore a rich white satin robe and the court ladies were all gowned in white. Miss Belle Cook made the coronation speech, and Miss Alma Gobrecht presented the sceptre. Speeches were made by Sir Knights Oliver, Gardner, May, Whitson, O'Don ovan, in which tiiey ail vowed allegi ance to their sovereign. After the coro nation ceremonies refreshments were served. There were about fifty guests present. A High Five Party. Mr. George Bates entertained at a very pleasant progressive high-five party last Friday evening at his home in Auburndale. Miss Carrol Baker and Mr. Charles Guibor won the first prizes, while the consolation prizes were awarded to Miss Hazel Wolff and Mr. Earl Ewart. The guests present were: Miss Louise Allison, Miss Reita Updegraff, Miss Louise Wood, Miss Helen Quinton, Miss Fay Quinton, Miss Ethel Davis, Miss Jessie Myers, Miss Grace Frost, Miss Bertha Beal, Miss JeannetteWare, Miss Daisy Neil, Miss Olive Gundry, Miss Agnes Burdge, Miss Nellie Baker, Miss Hazel Wolff, Miss Florence Bailey, Miss Eleanor Thompson, MiS3 Carrol Baker, Mr. Charles Guibor, Mr. Ea.il Ewart. Mr. Arthur McClintock, Mr. Glen Davis, Mr. Harley Rcisman, Mr. Harry Rigby, Mr. Howard Guild, Mr. Lester Davis, Mr. Ted Holliday, Mr. Charles Hinckley. Mr. Marlin Poin dexter, Mr. Ora Garvin, Mr. Charles Ost, Mr. Ben Curtis, Mr. Proctor Foucht, Mr. Howard Patton, Mr. Sta cey Hadley, and Mr. Ed. Garvey. The H. H. Party. The H. H. dancing club gave its first party of the second series Saturday evening at Hudson's hall. Music was furnished by Steinberg's orchestra, and the e,vening was enjoyed by the follow ing quests: Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Law rence, Mrs. E. R. Ridings, Miss Nellie Graham, Miss Marie Wilson, Miss Ethelyn Jewell, Miss Mae DeClercq, Miss Octavia Greenwood, Miss Eleanor Coicord, Miss Alice Vanderpool, Miss Loraine Kinney, Miss Myrta Wellman, Miss May VanHorn, Miss ..imee Cran dell. Miss Mary Irwin, Miss Edna Proc tor. Mifs Wilda Heap, Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Alice Haskins. .Miss Flor ence VanTassel, Miss Sarah Schreiber, Miss Edith Stolpe, Miss Winnifred Presrott. Miss Margaret Gilfillan, Miss Bessie Rickets, Mr. Joe Johnson, Mr. Earl Graham, Mr. Victor Martin, Mr. Fred Wilson, Mr. Ray Lvddane, Mr. Louis Wingert, Mr. Charles Nelson, Mr. Will Shehan, Mr. Aurel Ridings, Mr. Earl Shook, Mr. Ross Heller, Mr. Joe Ramsey, Mr. Frank Hungate, Mr. Carl Sawin, Mr. Beamer Nelson, Mr. Ora Hubbard, Mr. Frank Sturges, Mr. Harry Lyddane, Mr. Ch&riea Ramsey, Mr. Roland Turner, and Mr. Frank Be velle. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ohmer re turned Saturday from Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Dell Keizer and Mrs. Paul Hudson spent Saturday and Sun day in Kansas City. There will be a business meeting of the Superba Club this evening at 7:30 at the home of Howard Guild at 515 To peka avenue. Miss Louie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrington Smith, of 1411 West Sixth avenue, and Mr. Royster Waring were married Saturday at high noon, at the deanery of Grace ca thedral, Dean Sykes officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Waring will be at home after February 1 at 1411 West Sixth avenue. Mrs. Charles McCabe has returned to her home in Kansas City after a visit in Topeka with her parents. Colonel Metcalf and wife will come up from Lawrence Tuesday to attend the meeting of the State Historical Society. They will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Foster. Mrs. Frank Edson has returned from a week's visit with Mrs. Marshall War ren in Emporia. Mrs. J. D. M. Hamilton left to-day for a short trip to Denver. Mrs. R. K. Jamison went to St. Louis Sunday to bring home her little daughter Marie who has been visiting there since Christmas. Mrs. Sam Renz and Miss Madge Mc Kee of Leavenworth spent Sunday in Topeka with Mrs. Henry Keeler. Miss Verda Ross returned to her home in Burr Oak, Kansas, Sunday after a two months' stay in Topeka. The Helianthus Club held its regular meeting Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. H. Millard. The Battle of Gettysburg was the subject of a dra matic sketch by Miss Lenna Prouty, A selection from Lowell was read by Mrs. Sherer and a humorous sketch by Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Millard of Ohio was a guest of the club. Refreshments were served and a social hour closed a de lightful afternoon. The next meeting of the club will be held January 26 with Mrs. F. A. Sherer, at 190 Kellam avenue, Oakland. To arouse an interest In artistic sing ing, Mr. von Dalen will accept pupils for the rest of this season for $1 a les son. Studio 620 Kansas avenue. PLACE FOR CUKT1S. Kansas Congressman Heir to Position Soon to Be Vacant. I Washington, X. C, Jan. 15. Repre sentative James Schoolcraft Sherman of Utica, N. Y., it is claimed by the Herald has accepted the position of sec retary of the United States senate. The salary is $5,300 a year. General James S. Clarkson was among the men mentioned for the place. Representative Sherman was the choice of the New York delegation for speaker of the house, and was a strong candidate for that office. The office ior which Mr. Sherman has been chosen has been much sought after by Republicans, and several prominent members of the party were mentioned as likely to get it before a decision was reached by the Republi can senators. Mr. Sherman's acceptance of this new position means his immediate resigna tion as a member of the house This in turn means that Representative Charley Curtis of Topeka, at present ranking Republican representative on the committee of Indian affairs, will be promoted to the chairmanship to be made vacant when Mr. Sherman re signs. JJERVi: CHICAGO WOMAN. Protected a Colored Man From a Slob With a Bread Knife. Chicago, Jan. 15. Mrs. Edward Rieck blocked the doorway of her husband's restaurant at 582 West Lake street Sun day and by threateningly swinging a long bread knife kept at bay a crowd of angry men who wanted to lay violent hands on a negro who had taken refuge in the restaurant. The negro, Amos Moore, is employed by an express company. He was pass ing under the elevated structure at Ashland avenue and Lake street when he says he was attacked by seven white men, who beat and kicked him without provocation until he broke away and ran for his life. He did not stop until he came to Rieck's restaurant. Mrs. Reick was alone in the place and Moore excitedly told her he was pursued by a mob of men who would kill him. Seizing a huge bread knife, Mrs. Rieck reached the door just as the negro's pursuers came up. The leader was already in the entrance, but she forced him back with the point of the long knife at his throat. Then standing in the doorway she rasied the improvised weapon and dared the men to enter. At this point engine company No. 17 with its headquarters but a few doors away, returned from a fire. Mrs. Rieck called the firemen for help and in less than a minute several of the fire fight ers were pursuing Moore's assailants in different directions. All of them escap ed. Moore then proceeded on his way unmolested. CONVENTION OF GOVERNORS To Discuss Arid Lands and Irrigation Is Postponed. Chicago, Jan. 15. The convention of governors of the arid states which was to consider the irrigation problem Jan uary 17, has been postponed indefi nitely. GovernorRichards of Wyoming, who arrived in the city last night, de clared he was much disappointed by the action. "There has been some apathy shown by the governors," he said, "and I am disappointed because we could not meet and take some action. Governor Thomas, of Colorado, would have been at the convention, but Governors Otero of New Mexico and Murphy of Arizona are busy with matters of state. The question of statehood Is occupying their time. "It is necessary that something should be done for those great stretches of land, but there will be con siderable opposition in Congress to any appropriation asked by the arid states. The farmers in Iowa, Nebraska and other western states will strongly op pose the expenditure of money for a purpose which would create a new com petitor for them by growing more wheat, more corn and more cereals than is now raised by them. But we must do something with our land. We have to prepare it years ahead before it can be made to yield support for the men who intend to settle on it." Grip Epidemic. Barcelona, Jan. 15. An epidemic of grip has seized the town and the mal ady has increased. Half the popula tion is bedfast, and in the stores and workshops only a quarter of the usual number of employes is working. "It was almost a miracle. Burdock Blood Bittetrs cured me of a terrible breaking out all over the body. I am very grateful." Miss Julia Filbridge, Wast Cornwell, Conn. The Genuine and Annual StockReducing SALE. Prices Reduced lO to 40 Per Cent. IF YOU WANT ANY CLOTHING, Buy It Now, It Will $2.45 Sj fl f f or TiUU all f0 Cn for VDO.UU Ulsters- f(ow Is the $1.45 $1.95 $2.95 $3.95 $4.95 50o 35o for All Wool 75c Knee Pants. for Boys' Caps that were 50c. for 50c Mother's Friend Waists 39: 39o fof Wright's 50c Boys' fleece-lined SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS It is time to agitate the street sprinkler question. There were 3,500 paid admissions to the poultry show. The city council meets tonight in ad journed session. Chainless bicycles are becoming com monplace in Topeka. The trial of the criminal docket in the district court began today. The new telephone cable which was put up Saturday, contains 104 wires. Everyone who could get a horse and carriage Sunday was out driving. There is a case of measles in the fam ily of E. H. Anderson at 1101 Tyler. People traveling in Drairie schooners are almost a daily sight these warm days. The State Historical society meets to morrow afternoon in representative hall. The buds on some of the trees are be ginning to swell because of the open win ter. Judge Hook went over to Leavenworth Saturday evening to spend Sunday at home. There is quite a supply of wood on sale on the market, owing to the high price of coal. Twenty whist players gathered at the Topeka Whist club rooms for a game Saturday night. Superintendent Nelson addressed the Shawnee County Teachers' association Saturday afternoon. Joseph Badura and Mary Hejmanek, of Rossville, were maried by Judge Dol man Saturday afternoon. The first eleven days of January the Mission township rural delivery route handled 10,128 pieces of mail. The number of horses to be worked out for speed on the fair grounds track this spring will soon be increased. The policemen who are holding' down the night beats, do not complain of the weather of the past few weeks. The federal court jury has been ex cused until February 13. It may not be calied back to Topeka at all. A marriage license was issued Satur day evening to Royster Waring and Miss Louie Smith, both of Topeka. The race for the Republican nomina tion for county commissioner next fall promises to be a sort of free-for-all. The man who bought a hard coal stove for this winter is the one who wants to attach himself to a kicking machine. The cut of J. W. Robinson, which ap peared in Saturday's State Journal was made from a photograph by Snyder. The Foresters of Sunflower camp No. 536 will give a social dance tomorrow evening at 704 and 706 Kansas avenue. The poultry show held in Topeka last week, was the largest ever held west of Viv 1 V Dr. B. J. Alexander, of Hiawatha, President of tte State Board of Health. Dr. Alexander Is one of the pioneers in the practice of medicine in Kansas. He is a representative of the Eclectic school of medicine, a branch of the practice which has never before been recognized by an election of one of its exponents to an official position on the board of health. 709 KaTiin Avenna. Pay Tou Well. for Men's $3, $3.50, $4 Pants left over from fine suits it's a bonanza $1 flfl for Men's wo1 Cass. Pants I UU these are reduced from $1.50. for Men's $7.50 and $8 Winter Overcoats and Suits all wool. SI f for $12.50, $13.50 Winter Suits, in I U allstyles $12.50, $13.50 Overcoats, $9.75. for $15, $16.50, and some $18 Finest Suits and Finest Overcoats. Elegant values. $6.95 Black Frieze Ulsters, wool, storm collars. $11.50 Black Irish Frieze elegant value, only few left. Time to Bay Boys' Wear. for $2.50 all-wool Boys' Suits, ages 4 to 14, plain and fancy. for $3 Boys' Suits and Reefers, ages 4 to 16, best makes, a great snap. for $4 Boys' Suits, Reefers, Overcoats, all ages, splendid values. for $5, $6 Boys' Suits, Reefers, Overcoats most stylish and best. for $7.50 and $8 Young Men's Suits ages J 4 to 19, nobbiest styles. Si for $1.25, $1.50 Boys' Long Pants 19o for 35c Boys' Flannel Waists. 15o for Boys' 35c, 25c Winter Caps Underwear Boys' Shirts reduced the Missouri river. There were 1,154 en tries. The chicken and net fifoclc fannlara oro already looking forward to the big show which will be held in the auditorium next year. Sheriff Cook spent Sunday at Dover with his brother, who is recovering from injuries received in a runaway some time The men who sell natural ice are now making an effosl to arrange contracts for the manufactured product for next The EDWorth lpneUA of th Flrct T 17! church will give a social Friday evening at the home of Miss Belle Swearingen on Tyler street. The prize money offered by the Com mercial club in the recent corn contest nas Deen sent to the winners by Secre tary Anderson. The Leach trial furnished a splendid lesson for the State Temperance union to point to last week, but the union seems to nave overiooKea it. Kansas can put up as enjoyable a brand of winter weather as any country in the world when it tries. For instance, wit ness the past few days. The new tubular boiler locomotive which has been built at the Santa Fe shops, will be used for switching pur poses in the yards here. Before going home the officers of the state board of agriculture called on the state officers and urged them to give bet ter quarters to Secretary Coburn. The street force was out this morning, cleaning the streets, but the only way to cleanse your system of that bad cold is to buy a bottle of Weighlman's cough cure. The difference between the week night and Sunday night performances of a hyp notist is that one on Sunday nie;ht is a "lecture" while the others are just plain shows. The little chickens which were hatched out by the incubator at the poultry show, w-ere all given away by a local poultry journal: one to each new subscriber. The chickens did not last very long. The name of W. E. McCarter Son was omitted from the list of poultry awards, published Saturday. The form was awarded first on pullet and second on hen and pullet for black minorcas. The Topeka delegates to the National Retail Grocers' association which meets at Cleveland this week, leave this after noon over the Rock Island road, to at tend the meeting. They hope to get this meeting for Topeka next year. L. L. Kiene and T. F. Doran played golf with the Lawrence men at Law rence Saturday afternoon. The record of the links was 4 and it was lowered by each of the Topeka men. Mr. Doran made a new record of 50; Mr. Kiene finished in 51. It Is a little late, but the importance of f-.'. W V -.7- Auerhach G-nettel. Snpply yoar $1.09 35c For Black Vici $2.50 $1.10 the announcement permits its publication at this time. After two days consider ation, the executive council ordered the state house elevator to run at night dur ing the meetings in representative hall last weeK. Capitol lodge No. 5S, Order of Select Friends, has re-elected the following offi cers: jniei protector, jvirs. Teresa Shultz: vice protector. Mrs. Patsy Dixon; secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Flora snearer; marsnai, Airs. Francis MlsDky inside guard, Mrs. Rosen. General J. W. F. Hughes has been very kindly remembered the past two years by the State Poultry Association. At the poultry show of 1S99 he was presented with a solid crold watch chain, which he now wears, and this year the association gave mm a nanasome writing desk ana oooKcase. DUDLEY CALLED DOWN State Auditor Cole Rebukes the Po litical Oracle. Among other things John Dudley, cus todian of the state house and grounds, is charged with the responsibility of see ing that the janitors keep the building clean. In the opinion of some of the state officers, Mr. Dudley has failed to do this. He has been reminded of his duty but not until Saturday was he given a calling down. State Auditor Cole and Dudley came together, because Mr. Cole believed Mr. Dudley was permitting can vassers and solicitors to annoy the state officers by introducing such men around the building. Mr. Cole was busy examining bonds presented to the office for registration a tew days ago when Mr. Dudley came in and without further ado introduced a stranger "from Massachusetts" who Mr. Dudley said had business with the audi tor. Mr. Cole left off his work and invited the stranger into his private office; gave him a chair and inquired politely what service he could render the visitor. The visitor was voluble; he was press ing and the auditor was staggered for a moment, when he realized that he was in the clutches of an insurance agent. "Do I understand you to sav that you are an insurance agent?" inquired Mr. Cole. "Yes. sir; with the finest invest "Hold on; hold on!" exclaimed Mr. Cole. "I have no time to talk to you. I won't hear you. That's all. Good day." Mr. Cole arose from his chair and left the office. After the insurance agent had gathered his remains together and departed Mr. Cole sent for Dudley. "Did you know that man was an in surance agent?" es. sir. "AVhv did VOU run hfm in nn mA with the pretension of business when you tvijt-vv ueiLi'r: saia ivir. tjoie. "These fellows came into the building and asked me to do this." "Do what?" interrupted Mr. Cole. "Introduce them to the state officers," replied Dudley. "Do you know," said Mr. Cole, "that we employ a custodian or head janitor to keep the building and grounds clean and not to act as chief usher." i "The building demands all of vour at tention, Mr. Dudley," continued the audi tor, "and so far as I am concerned I hope you wiil not again forget yourself as you have in this instance. So far as I am concerned I have too much work to look after to spend my time listening to solici tors. I think your energies should be directed towards visiting the offices and seeing to it that the janitors perform their duties." Mr. Dudley explained that the jani tors were a good class of fellows and he said: "I hale to be after them all the time." "If you do not like the job," said Mr. Cole, "we will see what can be done to wards getting some one in the place who will perform the duty. Another infrac tion," said Mr. Cole, "and I will take this matter up with the executive council. The janitor service is worse now than it ever was, anyhow," added the auditor. Mr. Dudley aspires to be a political leader and his rise has been rapid. He came to Topeka as a trainer of race horses three or four years ago and now before anyone dares to become a candi date for office he "must see John Dud ley." Auditor Cole should think of this and accord to his head janitor the dis tinction which belongs to a "born leader." "HONORS FOR T0J1 Jl'NEAL. Western Editor Suggests Him For Congreasman-at-lrarge. W. E. Ward, editor of the Sharon Springs Times has nominated Tom Mc Neal of Topeka for congressman-at-large. In doing this Mr. Ward has stirred up a hornet's nest in the Sixth dis trict among the Republican papers. These papers claim that it is possible for the Sixth district, which has no representative on the state ticket, to secure this place, and the various ed itors are appealing to the Sixth district people to combine on a candidate for this office. Every article reduced as advertised. No win ter goods carried over if price will move them. wants in Fnrnishings. is reduced price an all $1.50 Fancy Man hattan Shirts. AQ 'or 1'00 Fanev Colored Shirts Wilson, Eclipse Utt. and Stanley makes. QRm for excellent White Unlaundried Shirts, with OJv set-in Linen bosoms, -worth 60c, JZr for Odd Lots of Best 50c AQr for choice of $1.00 Flat Underwear. U7C Underwear. CI flfl For $1. SO Underwear, J7r For extra quality Snspen- pi.uu nil kinds included. tiers, all style were 25c and sc iZr For Warm Cashmere ftr For 2Cc Japonetee Hand- IJv iise Half iiose. lvw keuliiefs. boil as silk. gay Yonr Hat and Cap Now. all 50c and 65c Winter Caps. 50c Fc 1,0, 85c and 750 Winter SI 0 K Fr 32 Derby and Fedora Hats I fcU in latest this season's styles. SI 7C For $2.50 and $3 Hats in Der lilU by and Fedora, except Young's. BIG CUT IN SHOES. ftC For $5 Men's Winter Tan, 4 JLU Box Calf, Willow Calf and Shoes. For $3 and $3.50 Men's Pat ent Leather, black and tan Shoes. 0ur 3-sl Washburn shoes excepted. SI CD For Men's $2 and $2.50 I ivU Shoes. A great bargain. For Boys' $1.50 Shoes. Are first-class Shoes. IIEW CRAWFORD JAs. 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 18th. The Great Russian Pianist. Priee: $1.00 to all parts ol the Louse. Chart opens at Rowley Snow's Monday a. m. at 8 o'clock. Numbers given out at 7. G HAND OPEilA HOUSE AnaCAlM VJnntr .Commencing Uliw UllU IT WW A Monday, Jan. 15. MAMTTAA STOCK CO. In a Kepertoir of Standard Plays Brass Band and Orchestra, Bloving Pictures and Vaudeville. Ladies' Free Tickets Monday and Tuesday Prices: 10, 20 and 30 cents. Reserved seats on sale at Flad Urubb's drug store. Bargain matinee Saturday after- noon, with a gift to each child. A prize of $15 in gold, Saturday night. FRENCH ARE VICTORIOUS. Seiza Chinese Villages and Hold Offi cials as Hostages. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 15. The steamer Elm Branch brings news from Shanghai that French warships have taken pos session of Kwong Chau Wan bay .where a boundary dispute has been pending for several months. The French commenced operations by seizing two Chinese gunboats, destroy ing their guns and ammunition and taking: the officers aboard the French ship as prisoners. The warships then shelled twenty Chinese villages, com pelling the Chinese troops to move back. A four hours' battle took place at "Vegluoc, in which the French lost four killed and twenty-eight wounded. The Chinese loss was heavier. After the Chinese retreated the French forces were divided into four expeditions, which uillaged and burned many vil lages on their march back to the sea shore. Several mandarins surrendered to prevent the burning of their towns. They are held as hostages to prevent retaliation by the natives. Subscribe for the Journal. 00000 ooooooooooooooooooooo WE Will give you an es- g timate on what it will g cost you to paper those rooms if you will come in and select your paper. o This season's designs are by far the prettiest yet. o H. L LAHSfl CO., I 118 West 8th. g OO OOCK0000000-00000-0 o 000

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1900. LEACH WILL LIVE. Soldier Murderer Escapes the Hangman's Noose. Jury Finds Him Guilty "With out Capital Punishment." IN PKISON FOR LIFE. Sentence Must He For ltest of His Existence. Insanity Dodge Disproved by Sir. Lambert's Cleverness. 'At the age of 24 years Joseph S. Leach will enter the walls of the federal peni tentiary at Fort Leavenworth to serve the balance of his life at hard labor to expiate the crime which he committed when he murdered Thomas B. Fennell 'at Fort Riley. The jury which tried him in the fed eral court last week returned a verdict of "guilty as charged," at 5:30 Saturday t-vening, after being out a little over five hours. The death penalty was sus pended, however, so that Leach will not be hanged but will be imprisoned for life Instead. When the case was submitted to the Jury shortly after noon Saturday the jury was at once locked in the jury room to organize, but after this was done the jurors were taken to dinner before they began balloting on a ver dict, so that the time actually consum ed in reaching a verdict was less than four hours. At 3 o'clock they asked to -fcO STEAMS, 4: fa! Joseph S. Leach, Convicted of be allowed to hear the instructions of i -the court again, and at 5:20 they an nounced that they had reached a ver dict. The prisoner had been kept in the court room ail the afternoon, and ten minutes later he heard the words read which sealed his fate for life. As the jurors took their places in the Jury box Leach hastily scanned their faces. Then in his accustomed atti tude, his right elbow resting on the ta ble and his hand supporting his chin, he watched George F. Sharitt, clerk of the court, as the verdict was read. Oth erwise he manifested the same spirit of Indifference that has characterized him throughout the entire triai. Near him sat Mrs. Bessie Earhart, a distant relative, who has sympathized with him during the trial more than anyone else. It was she whom Leach once tried to kill, and twice he had at tempted to kill her babe. She has shown a sisterly solicitude for him throughout the trial, and was more af fected by the verdict than the prisoner himself. Immediately after the verdict and the adjournment of court Leach was taken back to the county jail by Bailiff D. F. Wyatt, and Mrs. Earhart accompanied xnem. on tne way to tne jail she could scarcely restrain her feelings. ''Don't make a scene," said the pris oner. "There will be a motion made for a new trial." This remark shows that no matter how crazy Leach may have been at times past, he is sane enough now. During the afternoon while waiting for the verdict Leach sat with a num ber of his friends inside the railing in the court room, talking and laughing with them. He appeared to be the most lighthearted of the group, although he was very pale. This, however, may have been due to his long confinement in the county jail. To show his Indifference as to which way the trial went he told Bailiff Wyatt on one of the trips to and from the jail toward the close of the trial, that he did not care whether he was convicted or turned loose. The testimony which convicted Leach was the admissions of the physicians who were placed on the stand as experts, when they said that no person who exer cised memory was in an epileptic state. This, coupled with the circumstances of Leach's going back for his gloves after he left the saloon, asking the hack driver to help him rind his knife which he had lost in the fight, and referring to the tight in Junction City immediately after he clubbed Fennell at the fort, led the jury to believe that he was sane at the time and that he acted purely from a motive of revenge. It is said that the principal thing which kept the Jury out so long was a difference of opinion as to whether the law should be permitted to take its course and Leach should be hanged, or whether the death penalty should be suspended and lie should be imprisoned for life. The sentiment against capital punishment at last prevailed and the death sen tence was suspended. Some of those who have followed the trial closely claim that the verdict was not only just, but that it was the most merciful one that could have been ren dered as well. If Leach is a degenerate and epileptic it is urged that he Is bet ter off confined in a penitentiary tht he would be In an asylum. If he had been freed he could not have bee" sent to an asylum until he had another out break, which is claimed would only be a question of time. The attack which he made In the county jail on a Ger- m&n prisoner last spring is pointed toj 1 -.'H- 7 V-? Ill 7 H as evidence of this. That was not com mitted in a fit of epilepsy, because he knew all about it afterwards. If he had been given his liberty it would have lasced no longer than his next out break, after which the present trial would either have been duplicated or he would have been committted to an asylum, where he would have to be under constant guard. For this reason, it is argued, it is better both for the protection of the public and the prison er himself that he should be confined. Before the trial began United States District Attorney Lambert gave Leach every chance pcssible to fight for his life. The prisoner was in the United States army at the time he committed the crime, and he had practically no money of his own with which to fight the case, and his relatives either could not, or else were not disposed, to help him. For this reason the government paid the expense of all the witnesses the defense wished to subpoena, in creasing the expense of the trial nearly $2,000. In fact, all of Leach's friends who came from Baltimore made money out of the trial,-for they received mile age at the rate of 10 cents a mile one way, while their car fare was only $'10 for the round trip. When the defense asked for a commission to examine into Leach's sanity, also at the expense of the government, Mr. Lambert, through his assistant, H. J. Bone, joined in the request. When Leach announced his determination to plead guilty last spring Mr. Bone persuaded him not to do so, as in that case the court would have been compelled to give him the death sentence. But when the trial was begun it was stubbornly contested at every step. The defense was planned by Eugene Hagan, and Captain J. G. Waters was called in for the trial on account of his reputation as a trial lawyer. Every point in the defense showed that it had been carefully planned, but it was promptly met by Mr. Lambert for the prosecution. The cross-examination of the witnesses for the defense was pointed and brought out the weak places in their testimony. This culmi nated when the experts were placed on the stand by the defense to prove that Leach was insane when he committed i,x --.v J- m2M ilk 4 r F 1 Mr 0 1 l I Murder in the First Degree. the crime, and Mr. Lambert turned their evidence completely against the d.efense by showing by his questioning that Leach acted from memory when he killed Fennell and therefore could not have been insane. The Leach trial was the first case of great importance that has been tried in the federal court since Mr. Lambert has been United States district attor ney, but he has added to his previous splendid reputation as a trial lawyer. In his argument to the jury which closed the case, the manner in which he summed up the evidence and brought out the strong points for the prosecution was convincing in the greatest degree. II EM OK OF THE DAY. "What kind of a man is Blokes?" "He's the kind of a man who would fill the candy bags on a Christmas tree with cough drops." Chicago Record. Mrs. Newcome (her first football game) Oh! isn't it awful? Horrible! Why, they will kill that man underneath! Her daughter (an enthusiast) Oh! he doesn't mind it, mother. He's unconscious oy tins time: ruck. Hix Weeks seems to have a lot of faith in Homeopathy, doesn't he? rix Never saw anvthins- to wiual it. Why, last summer when he had an at- tacK or hav tever he married a. rras widow. Chicago News. As the westbound train dashed In the young hopeful in the Pullman gazed out upon the animated platform. "What do you see, Frankie?" inquired the stately woman Dy his side. "Oh. mummv!" he shouted. "T rpp tht Chicago platform, but I don't see Bryan." She "I'm one of her oldest friends." He "You look it." Yonkers Statesman. The difference between a wit and a hu morist is that a wit savs things and a humorist writes them. Fuck. Mr. Northside "Who was that friend you had with you this afternoon?" Mr. Shadyside "That wasn't a friend. That was my father-in-law." Pittsburg Chron icle, A Theory Isaacs "I sea vere a man vent undt bought his tombstone. 1 don't understandt vot anybody vants to do dot for." Cohenstein "Maybe, he fought luuiusiuiiwt vus gOltl up. ruCK. "Did you know that Miss Bjones was going to marry young Smith?" "I knew it. nut 1 can not understand how a girl as intelligent as she is can consent to marry a man stupid enough, to want to many lier. iiariem Ijlle. Notice, Persons hold our premiuum cards or tickets are hereby notified that same must be presented (filled) bv March 1 lfoo, otherwise they will not be honored. we are now giving trading stamos. THE S. BARNUM D. G. CPT. CO. Excelsior Lodge D. of H. Social. If you wish a genuine treat for 10 cents, attend the social to be given by .excelsior j,odge iNo. 61 D. of H., at Lin coin Post hall, 120 E. 6th Ave., Wednes day evening, Jan. 17th. Attention Arions. Grand Concert and Ball Wednesday Eve., Jan. 17th, 1900. All members cor dially invited. TRUSTEES, Subscribe for the Journal. Iff! I tr-A. WAS NOT FIXED. (Continued from First Page.) ination for senator and were his main stay in that struggle. "By that fight the 'short grassers came to realize their strength for the first time. They learned that while they were short in the congressional convention, they were long in senatorial caucuses. At the election following that session the 'long grassers' had a can didate for United States senator in the person of Joseph Ady, and a can didate for congress in the person of Chester I. Long. The 'short grass' fel lows wanted the congressman and were willing in return to support Ady for senator, but Ady and his 'long grass' fellows could not see it that way, and the 'short grass' man went down and out, and then came the breach. When the fall election was over and the re turns In, it was found that the 'short grass' counties had elected 18 members of the house, out of the 27 elected from the district by the Republicans. These representatives cast their votes for J. R. Burton and Mr. Ady's senatorial as pirations went glimmering." TROUBLE IN ATCHISON. Curtis and Bailey Forces Clash at a Meeting. The congressional campaign in. Atch ison county is the first in the state where a representative of an opposition crowd attempted to make a. speech in the interests of the man against whom the meeting was called to organize a fight. C. D. Walker is a Bailey man, when he is not running for congress himself, but he attempted to make a speech in a Curtis meeting Saturday night. The Curtis forces called a meeting and organized a Curtis club. Some of the Curtis men made short speeches after which Mr. Walker, without recog nition from the chairman of the meet ing walked to the front part of the hall and opened up for Mr. Bailey. Interrup tions were frequent until Walker referr ed to ex-Governor Morrill as a Bailey man. Mayor Donald interrupted, say ing that E. N. Morrill was a Curtis man. Mr. Walker insisted that Mr. Morrill had a short time before told him that he was for Bailey. Mayor Dofiald spoke much louder, saying Morrill was a Curtis man. As things got to looking a little rough. President Bereman said he thought the regular business should proceed, and Mr. Walker" readily ac quiesced, and soon after left the hall with several others. Wonderful Growth. The twelfth annual meeting of the Farmers' Alliance Insurance company of Mcpherson was held at McPherson a few days ago. Over 6.000 votes and proxies were cast for directors. Leading mutual insurance men were present from all over the state. Judge E. M. Coffin of Lincoln, Ne braska, vice president, and W. B. Lynch, secretary of the National Mu tual Insurance Association are in at tendance and made addresses which were heartily applauded; indicating that what they said went to the center of the object of the meeting. Among the home speakers were Hon. J. D. Mil liken, who responded to the subject, "What Mutual Insurance has Done fof Kansas." S. G. Mead spoke on the sub ject, "What Kind of Risks a Mutual Should Write." II. W. Ruble of Green wich. Kan., spoke on patronizing home institutions, and thereby check the How eastward of $1,600,000 annually in prem iums. The following otlicers were elect ed: I. F. Talbott, president; J. W. Walker, vice president; C. F. Mingen back, secretary; Wm. McCarty, treas urer; John D. Milliken, counsel. The company commenced business twelve years ago, and its first report to the superintendent of insurance Feb ruary 28, '80, shows it to have been in the following condition: Membership 120 Amount at risk 105.37S.OO Resources 1,784.61 Income 425. '0 Eleven years later the report of the secretary, C. F. Mingenback, to the superintendent of insurance shows: Membership 16,470 Amount at-risk $13,779, Gac.88 Resources 158,563.91 Income during the year 66,145.51 lne above figures show what this in stitution means in business and in sav ing to the patrons of the company. A note for the full amount of premium tor 5 years is taken, and only 1-5 is paid in, casn, the balance being subject to assessment during the life of the policy. in tnis way the money is lett in the hands of the people. The report shows the company to be in a healthy finan.T cial condition with all losses paid. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS Williams and Walker, and their com pany, closed a very successful weak at tne orpneum in Kansas City Saturday night, and will be seen in the new musi cal farce. "The Policy Blavers." at the Crawford theater Tuesday evening. Will iams and alker are probably the two cleverest colored men on the stae. and their company is said to contain several ciever people. The Manhattan Stock comnany will onen a week's engagement at the Grand Opera house tonight. Popular prices will prevail, anu tne usual rule in regard to the admittance of ladies free will be ob served. The company includes a band ana orcnestra- An advance notice savs of "Too Much Money," which will be at the Crawford theater Saturday: "Its plot is ingenious anu original. its lun DuoDles spontan eously out of its situations. These are never strained, but grow naturallv out of tne story ana are always vivid and lire like. Its tone is absolutely clean and wholesome. Its production demonstrates that literary merit does not nrevenL a play from being excruciatingly funny. l ne tneme is absolutely new and the characters are fresh with the novelty of a newly found theatrical personage in the sect of Dur.kanls. whose antiaue manners, unique beliefs and odd customs have never before been presented on the stage, strange as it may seem, tnis re markable people have never before en gaged the attention of dramatist or nov elist." Concerning the great pianist, who will be at Crawford's ooera house. Thursday. January lsth. under the ausniees of the Ladies' Music club, a writer in the Met- 9 wife bad pimples onherfnee, but "no oesu mxin c'asuakjsts ana tney bave all disappeared. I had been troubled with constipation for some time, but after tak ing the first Cascaret I liavo had no trouble with this ailment. We cannot speak too hlgh- S03 German town Are.. Philadelphia, Pa. Plfiatant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do uuoa. eir sicKan. weaken. or bnpe, 10c. e.5UO. CURE CONSTIPATION. lerll.r Bind; Ctnpa.r. klc.ro, HMml, T.rt. 5I litis to Cl'-Ki: 'lobacco alabit. candy ropolitan magazine for January says: "Le rachmann won fjune as the greatest living interpreter of Chopin. He quetry, his fits of reverie. But Be Pach mann himself lays claim to no specialty. 'I love Schumann,' he says, 'and Weber. Ah, Weber is a god, the healthiest of all musicians. Kjne aDsoros iresn me irom him. as though inhaling ereat draughts of mountain air.' "When M. de Pachmann is asked his nationality, he redies with a mischevious smile: 'I claim none. The creation is my home; all men are my brethren, for nature is our mother." And if he is ask ed to give a record of his studies and teachers, he will reply, according to his philosophy: Each man is his own teacher.' He will even repudiate the title of pianist. 'No man is of so great im portance or so little as he thinks,' he says. 'The piano, it is a sort of speech with me, a mode of expression; but it is nothing if I am not in touch with all creation, if I am not a man.' "But. as a matw r,f fart. Vladimir rt Pachmann was born at Odessa. His father was a doctor of philosophy In the Lm versity of Odessa and a violinist o? tal ent, a man who loved and consorted with musicians. In his youth he heard Beetho ven play the Moonlight Sonata: he was one of the pall bearers of Haydn, in whose orchestra he played for seven years." SCRAMBLE FOR SEATS. Do Pachmann Sale Unprecedented In the History of Topeka Amusements. An immense audience 'will hear Vladimir de Pachmann, the great Po- nsn pianist, at the Crawford theater Thursday night. At noon to-day the entire lower floor, except a few seats in tne extreme rear, and all the bal cony seats with the exception of the three rows in the rear, had been sold out, and the sale in addition included many front seats in the gallery. The gallery seats have been numbered for the purpose of reservation, and it is be lieved that practically the entire house will be sold for the concert. There were 100 people in line at Row ley Snow's drug store when the sale of seats opened at 8 o'clock this morn- r. The first of this number arrived about 6 o'clock and waited in the chill morning air for two hours. Many of the first reserved as high as ten tick ets, and an hour after the sale opened every seat in the parquette, exclusive of the two short rows in the rear cor ners, was sold. The big audience that will hear De Pachmann will be in the nature of a compliment to the Ladies' Music Club, the organization that is responsible for the engagement of the eminent pianist here. Messrs. Rowley Snow state that the sale this morning was the most re markable they have had to deal with since handling the Crawford theater charts. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Jan. 15. WHEAT Large world shinments. the increa:; on passage and easier cables, formed a combination which had a depressing effect on the wheat market today. May opened sc under Saturday at UiV'i c ana Derore n o'clock declined to Gti'H 7c. At the de cline the market steadied on buying i-gainst uuts. which constituted almost the sole demand. Receipts here were 71 cars, one of contract grade. Minneapolis and Duluth reported 757 cars against S06 last week and 7s6 a year ago. The struggle against further depression was swept away later by the large pri mary receipts, small clearances, lavor- aoie crop reports ana tne Liverpool caDies that Argentine wheat was beintr offered in the Lnsrlish market cheaper than American. May closed weak 1 cent under Saturday at 60c. CORN The weakness of wheat was felt by corn. At the decline the market was steady. Local receipts were 447 curs. Of- Terings trom first hands were again small. May opened c under Saturday at 33Vi s-sc Vp to 11 o'clock trade was light. jom closed steady in view ot tne wneat weakness. May H'UVic down at 3:40. OA 1 a telt the easiness ot the other grain markets, but trade was featureless. Receipts here were 27H cars. May opened at Z4c ana sola lor some time a snade lower. PROVISIONS were active and firm on receipts of hogs under the estimate and stronger prices at the yards. A. slightly easier tone developed later on selling of product by packers and some profit-taking by longs. May pork opened a shade up at su.t'o'ali.u,1-" and eased orr to jil.w ol1.02ti: May lard, cents better at $6.10, selling off to $t.05 and Mav ribs unchang ed at r.R, easing off to $5.S2,. FLAX Cash, N. W., $1.50; S. W., $1.50; Mav. $1.4'.'. iilE-Jlav. 5241 Kie. BARLEY Cash; 543c. TIMOTHY January. S2.50: February. $2.55; March, ?2.0o. Chicago Livestock IWarkei. Chicatro. Jan. 15. CATTLE Receipts. 17.000. Choice steady; others shade lower. Cow market and tanners weak: stockers and feeders auiet; beeves, $4.0Ofi 6.40: cows, .uiXi4.65: heifers, 3. 4045.00; canners, $2.25 w.ou; stockers and teeders, $.J.2o,ti5.i0: Texas grass steers, Texas fed beeves. $4.255.25. nous Receiots todav. 3i.000: tomorrow. 32.000: left over. 2.2!5. Active, shade higher: top, $4.75. Mixed and butchers. $4.5iffr4.75: good to choice, heavv, $4.6o'rf 4.75; rough heavv. $4.4:V?5.fin; light, $i.40 4.65: bulk of sales. $4.55i4.70. SHEiit'-Keceints. zj.ooo: steady to 10 cents tower: native wetners, 4.4U'a4.'.o: western wethers, $4.25i4.75. Lambs steady to 10 cents lower. Native, $4.50.fiG.2a'; wt"ieiii, u.-o'uo.iu. Official receipts and shipments for Sat urday Cattle Receipts, 225; shipments. 525. Hosts Receipts. 24. "23; shipments. 9.1(3. Sheep Receipts, 1G2; shipments, 234. Kansas City Produce BEarkss Kansas City. Jan. 15. WHEAT Mav. 634c. Cash. No. 2 hard. 6: No. 3, 5)s,g uic; io. z red, wt iuc: rso. a. bifoc. CORN'-May 30c. Cash, No. 2 mixed, 20c: No. 2 white. 30Ufti4e: No. 3, 30c. OATS No. 2 white, 24&c. RYE No. 2. 50c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.0009 50; choice prairie, ft.owa ito. BUTTER Creamery, 2023c: dairy, ISc, EGGS Fresh, 14c. Topeka Karket3 Today. CATTLE. COWS $2.50'ff3.50. STEERS- $3.50'(i4.00. HEIFERS $3. 00&3.75. HOGS. LIGHT $4.0034.20. HEAVY AND MEDIUM $4.0004.30. GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT 5tfV:i60c NO. 2 CORN 24t2c. NO. 2 OATS 24 cents. HA Y $5 50O6 00. PRODUCE. EGGS 15 cents. CH1CKENS-SS61 cents. BUTTER Country 17 cents. Kansas City Poultry Market Kansas City, Jan. 15. TURKEYS G(a7 cents. CHICKENS 67 cents. EGGS 14 cents. BUTTER 15ij17 cents. Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Jan. 13. Based on Chieaao and Boston quota tions. The following are net prices paid in 1'opeKa tnis wee: GREEN SALT CURED 9H Cents. GREEN SALT HALF CURED S4c GREEN UNSALTED S cents. NO. 1 TALLOW 4 cents. Cotton Market. Liverpool, Jan. 15 COTTON Spot, de mand fair; prices lower, American mid- uung, ?zd. New York Money Market. New York. .Tan 15. MONEY Money on call easier at 4 per cent. Prime mercan tile paper, 5-atJ per cent. Sterling ex change, steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.86'&4.S7 for demand and at 4.S3cili for w) days: posted rates, Zi.tVaVz and $4.87V'g4.SS; commercial bills, $4.S2A. SILVER Silver certificates. 58V,(fr59ti. Bar silver, S&Hc. Mexican dollars, 47UC. BONDS Government bonds strong; 23, Annual Inventory Sale 619 Kansas Ave. In accordance with our custom previous to taking inventory we inaugurate our Great Bargain Week, a week eagerly awaited by hundreds of economical buyers in this vicinity to obtain seasonable merchan dise at prices far below their actual value. Remember, we are determined not to carry over one single gar ment, yard or piece of winter goods, if low prices will sell them. As an indication of the great reductions, we ask you to read the Notions. Pearl Buttons worth 6c reduced to 3MjC Pins were 3c now go at lc Dressing Combs worth 10c, in this sale at 5c Metal Buttons were 35c to 50c, they go now at 10c doz. Machine Oil worth 5c a bottle, reduced to 3c Dress Stays were 10c set, during this sale c Wool Soap, box ot 3 cakes, at per box 10c A Bow of Prices Extraordinary Low. Needles, per package 3c .Holyoke Thread (as firm as Coats or Clark's) 3c Rockford Hose (slightly imperfect) per pair 5c 5-4 Oil Cloth square 48c Horn Combs 3c $1.25 Tennis Gowns 89c 98c Tennis Gowns 59c Best quality Shirting Prints.jer yard 4c limit, 5 yards. THE GREAT MID-WINTER SALE JACKETS, CAPES, SKIRTS AND Children's Long Coats, warm weather leaves a large stock on hand, we there fore offer you the choice of any number at prices far below absolute first cost. Choice of our entire line of Ladies' Woolen Shirt Waists, some plain, some braided, all made of excellent material, were $2.25, $2.50 and $3.50, choice at $1.75 Tonight and Tomorrow. Bookfold Percale, extra quality.. 5c yd. Limit, one dress pattern. registered. 102H: 3s, registered, 1: cou pon, liuvs; new i 1 pon, 133: old 4s, registered. 114; coupon, 111; 5s, registered 113; coupon, 113. Butter Market. -rr 1 T IK TTTfT'R SfpadV at decline: June creamery, 2ug23i4, do western, 22&25c; factory, l522c Sugar Market. 14 onlip T?ow iNew x orK, Jan. it. .i u strong; fair refining, 3 bid; centrifugal, 96 test. 4 5-16 bid: molasses sugar, ifaC Did. .Kenneu rum. -i iit., dered. $5.15; granulated, '-U?- Joseph's Tips. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topena, Kan., receiver and shipper of gTain. ftew iorK, jan. ja.-rwioKii uu. Eracticallv wunoui oius unt lht uy L. N. and B. O. on balance mod erately. J nere is a. ukuuctiij ing and the impression prevails and 13 participated in even by some of the form er bear leaders that stocks will tempo- standard issues is particularly good and there are good reasons why these should be taken hold of. It is known that in addition to earning the full dividend on B O. preferred, the company is mak ing sums variously estimated at from five to ten per cent on the common stock so that it can be only a question of a r d pontnm txrill tit snort time wiuic i :v action on dividend on both of these prop- erties. u. x excellent oroDertv and it is cheap, excellent propK AKTHUR JOSKPH. New Torlc TTp-Town Gossip. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth street. Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. New York, Jan. 15 The opposing fac tions in the stock market are defending their positions with all the energy at their command and each side is confident of ultimate success. The bull continent. Is indulging in the most extravagant chu -as and predictions but what is puzzling to the outsider is the failure of the bulls to make any headway'. This very fact leads many to the conclusion that those wno, are the most persistent in advising the purchases of stocks are actuated by selt ish motives only. There will be no per manent relief from nresent conditions un til the professional element is routed. Favorable factors will come into the sit uation now and then but their influence will be Insignificant unless the volume of outside speculation increases very ma terially. Wall street is more deeply in tertested in the South African war than in its own affairs and every bit of news from Ladysmith is awaited with as much anxiety as if the fate of this nation de pended upon it. The Englishmen will not buv Americans to hold until the war is over which will not be for many months. The local monetary situation has great ly improved during the last couple of weeks and there Is no longer cause for uneasiness in that direction but money appears to have ceased to be a factor in the market and little attention is paid to the rate of interest. Susar, B. R. L, and Tobacco are being traded in on a large scale, in fact speculative interest seems to be centered upon them because ot their wide fluctuations. All three are evidently under the control of manipulators who make such prices as will best suit their purpose. B. R. T. on account of its not being a dividend payer, has less merit than Sugar or Tobacco and is therefore more of a favorite with short sellers. Sales of the high priced railway stocks At BARNUM S following: Flannels and Eiderdowns. 300 yards regular 10c Tennis, reduced to close out 8 l-3c 250 yards remnants of best quality Ten nis Flennel, plain blue only, and sold for 15c yard, inventory price, per yard 9c 5 pieces of all wool French Flannel, ex tra quality and soft finish, previous price 35c, now at 28c 5 pieces of White Shaker's Flannel, was 6!j4c yard, now 4c Best quality all Wool Eiderdowne ,ia various colors, regular price 35c yard, now 27c UNDERWEAR. A delayed shipment of Ladies' Ribbed Union Suits, fleeced and a 35c value, a great bargain at 25c each Men's fine all Wool Shirts and Drawers, in broken sizes only, reduced from $1.25 to 8Sc Men's 40c Random Shirts and Draw ers 19c Our sale of Children's Underwear has been unparelled. This meant heavy or ders and lines of broken sizes. Every garment has been marked down one fourth previous to taking inventory. Purchases from us at these prices mean a great saving to you. OF- Balance of our Capes, plain, cloth plush, boucle and golf, have been re duced to prices that will close them out at once. W e will soon have cold weath er and there is no more opportune time than the present to buy a $7.50 garment for $4.50 or a $5.00 one for $2.75. Reduc tions on the higher priced numbers in even greater proportion. are recommended on the bulges on the ground that the enormous increase In the operating expenses will eat up the net earnings. Important news will undoubt edly be received from South Africa in the course of a day or two, as both arm ies are now lined up for a decisive bat tle. The result of this will be awaited with much interest. In the meantime, the traders will be inclined to keep pretty close to shore. R. N. HUDSON. Market Gosa p. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago: Estimated cars Wheat, 45; corn, 510: oats. 320. St. Louis close: Wh,eat. January, 6i-sc; May, -tiSVs'n V bid: July. 66c asked. Corn, January, SO'jc; May. 32c: July, 32c. Oats, Januarv, 24c: May, 2Wi'ac asked. Tooeka cash markets: No. 2 hard wheat, 5: test, ffrW tuc No. 2 mixed corn, 25c: No. 2 mixed oats, 21c. Uuluth close: Wheat May, 6GUC bid; July, 67Vic bid. Minneapolis close: Wheat, May o4Vsc; Julv. BBVjC asked. Privileges tomorrow: Puts, May wheat. e-KVaVxc: calls. 67&c. Puts, May corn, 3314c: "calls, 3SHC Curb, 6,c. Chicago: There was between 1,000,000 and l,2ui,000 bushels wheat in the eleva tor that withdrew and caused the de crease in our visible, so it's quite appar ent we are reducing our stocks very slowly. New York reports 35 or 40 loads wheat for export. Chicago: Everything considered, corn acting strong, local bulls pretty generally sold out. Cudahy interests continue to buv. Chicago: According to board's advices, exports of wheat last week were 1.S0S.O0O from Argentine, Russia, Danube and Australia. Primarv receipts: Wheat, 790,000: last vear, 917,000. Corn, 723,000, last year, 1,209, 000. Primarv shipments: Wheat, 1S7.000; last vear, 275,000. Corn, 316,000; last year, 442, 000. Visible supplies: Wheat. decreased 1,359,000; corn, increased 271,000; oats, de creased, 184.000. Total clearances: Wheat and flour, 13S, 000: corn, 366.000. Total visible supply: Wheat, 56,533,000; corn. 12,984,000; oats, 4.86S.000. Total -visible: Wheat, 66,533,000; corn, 12.5S4.000; oats. 5.O67.0HO. Chicago stocks: Wheat, 15,670,000; corn, 4.0S1.000; oats, 1,436.000. New York, Jan. 15. COTTON Spot, closed quiet, 1-16 lower; Mid. Uplands, 5; do Gulf. 7. Galveston, Jan. 15. COTTON Steady, 7 5-1G. Liverpool: Wheat d lower; corn, d lower than Saturday. London: Wheat cargoes dull, easier, options V.d lower. Wheat afloat to U. K. increase 640.000, to continent, increase 480, 000. Corn afloat, decrease 760,000. Chicago: Hogs, 37.UO0. open strong to 5c higher: cattle, 17.000, steady;, sheep, 23.000, steadv. Kansas City: Hogs, 7,500; cattle, 6,500. Omaha: Hogs, 4.5U0; cattle, 1,500. London: Mild wet weather continues propitious for growing crops. Attendance of buyers at the grain markets has been very thin. Business in all directions makes slow headway as buyers show no disposition to make engagements beyond actual necessities. Arrivals have been moderate. Chicago: Car lots Wheat, 71, graded 1; corn, 447, graded 0: oats; 219: graded, 31. London: Believed here that General Warren has crossed the Tugela. Chicago: Corn is easy influenced by the decline in wheat. There is also some selling by local bulls. Country offerings sjjow no increase. Crowd, however, are Annual Inventory Sale I k o OUR GREAT DRESS GOODS OFFERING. A full Dress Pattern, the choice of an extensive line, excellent novelty, Che viot homespun and covert Dress Goods, values up to 85c yard, price lor entire pattern only ....$2.68 See north window. CARPETS We give you the opportunity this week to buy all the best all wool extra Su per Carpets, sewing free, at 59c yd. Similar reductions on Brussels, Vel vets and the cheaper number of In grains. HOSIERY. Ladies' aod Misses Heavy Fleeced Hose, some slightly imperfect but all 25c value, at le Choice of a large line of Men's Fancy Half Hose, reduced from 20, 25 and 35c, to 14o The famous Boy's Hose, the Ironclad, none better made and sold elsewhere at 25c and 30c, all sizes during our in ventory sale only, at 19c Ladies' 10c Black Cotton Hose, at.l 7o The fine all wool Cashmere Hose, noth ing made in softer yarn, a 40c article everywhere at the astonishing price of 2&c COLLARETTES. Our sale of Ladies' and Misses Jack ets has been phenomenal. Their style and fit has been praised by everyone. We today put prices on them that we absolutely guarantee to be the lowest made.. This mild winter has had its effect on the sale of fur goods. We don't in tend to carry ours over. Come and see what low prices we are making on them. Collarettes, Boas, Muffs, etc etc. rather fearful of a bearish set of crop figures from the government this week. Ivondon close: Wheat cargoes inactive, weak, options further one-quarter lower. Liverpool close: Wheat, d lower. Estimated hogs, tomorrow, 32.000. World's shipments: Wheat, -this week, 0,057,000; corn, 5,1)2.000. Minneapolis: Receipts, 709; last year, 617. Duluth: Receipts, 48; last year, 176. Chicago: Provisions are a shade higher on the advance in hogs, but buying has not been large. Looks as if would react a little. Paris: Wheat closed unchanged to 5c higher, flour 5c higher to 5c lower. Privileges good this week: Puts, May wheat. 6UK: calls, 6S&. Puts, May corn,, 33: calls. 33i. Kansas City cash markets: No. 2 hard wheat, 59 test 62c; No. 2 mixed corn, 2bc. Ran?e o: Prices. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth sttreet, Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago, Jan. 15. Articles. Open High Low Close Sat 3H 6354 63 S- 6-i'i Mav UT'i 67.i-?4 64 66-M C7 July 67;- 67Ts 67- 67- 6S: Jan".".. 304 S034 30' 3n"s 30 Mav 3Vi 33i- 33' s 334 3! July 34 34 333- 3i-3i S4', C ii,A'- Jan 22'i 22 Mav 24 24 23 Zi7 24 July ...SShi 23 23 23-V4 I'Oi.Lv Jan 10 90 10 75 May ..11 05-07 11 17 10 97 11 12-15 11 00 July 1122 LAiiO Jan 6 09 May 6 07 6 15 6 05 6 15 6 07 July 6 15 622 615 622 Jan 77 6 May 5 S5 5 90 5 SO 6 S7-90 6 &2 KANSAS CITY: WHEAT- Mav 64 64 63'i 3U G- 63 63 63 64 July 63 Jan. 29 May 30 29 29 20 30 30 Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. C. Goipgs. Commission Merchant. 112 East Fiftn St.. Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain- New York, Jan. 15. Stocks. Sugar People's Gas Am. Tobacco A. S. W B. R. T. Lea.ther Federal Steel C. B. and Q. Rock Island St. Paul Atchison Atchison Pfd Atchison Adj Manhattan I Op'niliifrD' Low 1 CTsei Sat. 619 Kansas Ave. 116U!6 103il03 96I100 46 I 48 68 I 68 74 74 50! 51 120 121 105.1S 116ill7 19.1 l: 5'tl 60 79 79 92 94 S7 87 3! 40 74i 74 46 46 11! 11 37! 37 Western Union Mo. Pacific U. Pac. Pfd Union Pacific... So. Pacific So. Pac. Pfd C. C. C Wabash Reading Pfd T. C. I 60 I 0" 20 20 51 S4 73 51 49' No. Pac. Pfd No. Pacific L. N 79 I 80 63 64 12 U So. Railway C. G. W. 117 117 113?4 104 14 10214, 97 97M; UCi 47 47 45 68 69 6t 74 74 74 51 51 4'. 121 121 ll'J'i ltxj 106 1044 117V, 117 116-is 19 19 1S 60 60 59 79 79 79 1 t 94 92 S7 87 I S7 40 40l 3'l 74 74 74 46 46 45 lit 11 11 37 37 37 61 61 60 I 20 20 20 I 51 61 49 Hi 84 2 "61 "51 "61 S( 80 7 6K 53 53 1244 12 12,

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAE,MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1900. NEW MODEL. 'THE LOWEST PRICED STORE IN TOPEKA." 1 Attractions Open Tonight Let Us SPECIAL. Ladies' Jackets, this season's garments, One-Fourth Off. SPECIAL Advance Sale, new Spring Percales, "White Star" brand, 36 inches wide, elegant styles, fast colorings Tonight and To- 11 if morrow, per yard 12 SPECIAL Tonight and Tomorrow AII-Wool White Blankets at ABSOLUTE COST. x "Khyber Fleece." A printed and fleeced wrap- per fabric, good styles and fast colors worth Ci 10c. Tonight and tomorrow, per yard 500 yards Brown Twilled Cotton fast edges, regular 5c values. Tonight and to morrow, per yard 800 yards Remnants of best Standard Dress Styles in colors, Ql A worth from 6c to 7e Tonight and Ladies' all-wool Novelty ready lined and Velveteen faced, worth from Choice tonight and tomorrow Ladies' full fashioned fast black, fleece lined Hose number, sizes 8 to 10. Tonight and tomorrow, pair Misses' and Children's ribbed 5 to 9 our 20c and 25c qualities. Tonight and tomorrow, any size, IIILLINEXIY. A line of Children's Sailors, for 25c, now sold .13c Ladies' Volunteer Hats, sold for 75c, now 25c Ladies' Cloth Crown and Stitched Brim Walking Hats, sold for $1.00, now 50c Ladies' Felt Walking Hats,, sold for $1.75, now 75o Ladies', Misses' and Children's large Felt Flat Hats, sold for J1.00, now 75c Misses' Navy Cloth Tamoshanters, were 75c, now 50c Fancy Feathers, sold for $1.25, now GOo Bunch Tips in Colors, sold for 50c, now ..25o Black Curled Quills only 3c Lous Black Quills only 4c Trimmed Hats, sold for S3.on, now $1.50 Wash Veils, sold for 50c, now. ..35c Birds in. colors, sold for $1.00, now 50c A line of Birds in colors, sold for $2.00, now 75c X SHOES. $1.49 Ladies' Kid Lace Shoes, neat coin toe, foxed quarters, all silk fitted, beaded edges throughout. Good value at $2.00 55o Child's good Kid Button Shoes, made of perfectly solid leather throughout. Would be good value at 75c. CLOTHING Special Flo. I Men's fine all-wool Black Kersey Overcoats, well made, good linings. In sizes 34 to 37 only. .Were $S.95. During this sale $6.95 Special No. 2 To a Ann all-wnnl Melton Overcoat. beautifully made and lined. A mag nificent coat at $10.00. During this sale it will be $8.45 Special No. 3 Ta a veir fine all-wool Kersey 6vercoat, handsomely made and finish ed. A $15.00 overcoat at other stores. Regular price $12.50. During this sale $10.00 Special No. 4 Is an extra, quality of pure wool black Cheviot. Good fitter and well made. Our $10 value. While they last we will sell them at $8.45 The New Model Kemper Paxtons. X. FORT SCOTT WANTS ONE. Bourbon County Fusioniits Desire a State Convention. The Democratic and Populist politi cians of Fort Scott have fused in an effort to secure for that city the state conventions of the Demooratis and Populists which are expected to name a complete fusion ticket. Fort Scott wants the conventions which nominate the state officers and presidential electors. Committees have bea appointed and delegations named NEW MODEL. re Pay till io o'clock. Cash Your Checks SPECIAL Ladies' Jackets, last season's garments, SPECIAL Travelers' Sample Line, all bristle, solid back t MIR BRUSHES twenty dif-.J. ferent styles, represent- ing values from 50c to 31.50 Tonight and 2Er I Tomorrow, choice. SPECIAL Ladies' plain and em' 1 1 TIT 1 ("fl broiaered vv ooi onirr a Waists, Cashmere, Serge, Flannel and Venetian f Cloth I At Two-Thirds Regular Price. Tnvnalinrf Y Tomorrow, choice yd uaw I lined, inter- made Dress Skirts, 3.00 to 4.50 2.48 J 18c J seamless Cashmere Hose, size9 pair ioc; FURNITURE 0 CARPETS 1 115.00 Oak Bed Room Suits... $18.00 Oak Bed Room Suits... $19.00 Oak Bed Room Suits... $12.0 $16.0 $17.00 Remnants We have some nice, clean remnants of Ingrain Carpets, and a quantity of small pieces of going to sell at a great reduction. A Get our prices on Oil Cloths and Linoleums. SHOES. $1.19 Men's good solid Satin Calf Shoes, Lace or Congress, all sizes except size 7. Good value at $1.75. fl.lO Misses' neat Kid Lace or Button Shoes, coin toe, stock tip, solid throughout, all sizes. Regular Shoe stores will charge you $1.35 for no better shoe. SPECIALS. Special No. 5 This is an excellent all-wool Sack Suit in dark brown check. Well made and trimmed. Special sale price $6.95 X Special No. 6 Is broken sizes in our $15.00 lines one of our biggest sellers this sea son. What we have left we will close out at $12.50 Special No. 7 Is an excellent worsted Pant the famous Crown brand. Our $3.50 quality. During this sale $2.95 Special No. 8 Will be a line of Boys' Vestee Suits that sold at $2.95. During this sale they will be marked at $2.45 Special No. 9 fs 20 dozen Boys' Knee Pants. Marked down from 39c to 29c X Supply Store, Sixth and Quincy. to visit Topeka February G when the Populist committee meets to fix the date and place for this convention. CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children, Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of MET IS MISSOURI. Kansas St Louis Fair Committee Fills Vacancies. The Kansas commiittee named by Governor Leedy just before he retired from office to arrange for an exhibit of Kansas products at the St. Louis expo sition hadi the bad taste to hold the first meeting in behalf of the enterprise In Kansas City, Mo., for which there is no excuse. The committee, however, transacted some business which is of interest. The committee selected men to fill the places of the members who have resign ed from the committee. There were W. C. Perry, and Lyman Naugle, of the general commitiee, and W. C. Perry, of the executive committee. Those elect ed yesterday were E. L. Shaffer, Coun cil Grove; Claude Duvall. of Hutchin son, both of whom will fill the vacan cies on the general committee, and J. C. Slonecker resigned from the general committee to take the place on the ex ecutive committee made vacant by the resignation W, C. Perry. The Kansas committee Is composed of the following- men: Frank W. Elliott, chairman, of Troy; Dr. S. F. Neely, of Leavenworth; A. J. Tullock, Leaven worth; W. H. Kuhn, Marion; W. C. Perry, late of Fort Scott; J. G. Slon ecker. Topeka; Lyman Naugle, Welling ton; T. W. Harrison, Topeka; Benjamin Hennessey, Great Bend; O. F. Sawyer, Topeka; Abe Stineberger, Topeka. "The Kansas exhibit at St. Louis," said Mr. Elliott, "will be the finest the state has ever made in all its history. The people all over the state are taking a personal interest in the matter, and the responses that will be made to the request of the people to the legislature, are sure to be liberal. The stale will put forth its very best efforts to make the Kansas part of the fair the finest in the west, and the Kansas exhibit will exeell anything else at the fair. The legislature will respond readily to the demand to make a liberal appropriation for the purpose;$200,000 will probably be the amount appropriated, and I am of the opinion that will be enough, as there will be many individual exhibits. "The individual exhibitors all over the state are taking great interest in the matter of making special exhibits, and of making them on a grand scale, for they all realize that now is the time for the state to come to the front, and show the world what sort of a state Kansas is and the immense resources at her command. "The cattle interests of the state will, of course, make their own exhibit, and if the promises and sighs of good will among the cattle and other live stock men over the state are of value in the computation of the amount of money to be spent by them, then we are safe in saying that the exhibit of the live stock interests, will be the finest the state has ever seen. "Besides the live stock interests.there will be many other interests in the state that will make their own exhibits. Among them will be the min ing interests, the agricultural, the fruit, and many others. Take, for instance, the agricultural interests of the state of Kansas, those that have surprised the whole world; just think of the im mense exhibit the farmers can make. And so will it be all along the line. Of course, the state's duty will be to fur nish the building, and take the care of it and the entire Kansas exhibit, and then the duty of the state will have been accomplished. The individuals who are making their exhibits will fur nish the funds for their displays. The amount represented in the Kansas ex hibit will be about $2,000,000, and per haps more." MANY PETTY THIEVES. Police Gather In Seven on Charges of Larceny. The police officers this morning had seven culprits to turn over to the state, all ofw horn had been gathered into the clutches of the law Saturday night, and all ofw hom were arrested for stealing. The evidence against most of. them is direct, but three may escape arrest on a state warrant on a tech nicality. These three are Will Cooper, Tom Cooper and Gilbert Upson. They range in age IS, 17 and 16 years respectively. The first two are' white and Upson is colored. They are arrested for breaking into Dr. Hamilton's barn, and Sergeant Betts attempted to secure a warrant for burglary, but right there the technical ity comes in. The boys did not literallr "break" in to the barn. They unlocked a door and walked in. They did not steal anything in the barn, so they can not be prose cuted for larceny on that account. They had a lot of old keys and they discov ered that one of them fitted the lock on Dr. Hamilton's barn, and they used it as a hiding place for plunder which they secured from other sources. The boys were discovered in the barn and were arrested for breaking into it. They keys were found in the pocket of one of the Cooper boys. After their ar rest the Upson boy took the officers around to the bare and showed where their plunder wa hidden and told all about it. The officers found three quills and other things which had been stolen from farm wagons, besides some cop per which the boys were preparing to pound up and sell. When Sergeant Betts went to swear out a state warrant. Assistant County Attorney Guy told him that the bur glary law provided that when a build ing is broken Into it must be with the intent of stealing something to consti tute burglary. There seemed to be no such intention on the part of the boys. If they are not arrested on a state war rant they will be held for petit larceny in the police court. James McClery was arrested for breaking into Henry's hardware store in North Topeka Saturday night and stealing a quantity of cutlery. He con fessed to ine theft, but claimed he only took 13 knives and 3 razors, but Mr. Henry thinks he has lost $40 or $50 worth of stuff, and the police believe McClery had an accomplice, but he de nies it. He gained entrance through a back window, and Mr. Henry thinks he fixed the window during the day so that he could easily open, it at night. William Larson and Frank Murphy were arrested for stealing chickens from the chicken house in connection with a butcher shop belonging ta R. B. Cathers at oFurth and Lake streets. It Is claim ed that they pried the house open with a hatchet and secured a number of chickens, and they are charged with burglary and larceny. Charles Downey is charged with stealing brass from the Santa Fe some time ago, but before he was arrested he suddenly left town. Saturday even ing he came in on a late train, and soon after he got off the car a police man took him in charge, and he, oo was booked at the police station for larceny, and will be turned over to the state. NORTH TOPEKA. Items intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany, 835 Kansas avenue. Be sure and attend Mrs. Courtney's sale this week. Mrs. Warner of 1104 Van Buren street is spending a few days near .Meriden visiting her son. Miss Laura McCormick of Carthage, Mo., arrived Saturday to visit Miss Nellie Wetherholt of Jackson street. Mrs. W. H. Kellar, of 120 East Lau- RHEUMATSin CATARRH, ARE BLOOD DISEASES CURED BY B. B. B. Bottle Free to Sufferers. It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B. B. B. Botanic Blood Balm) cures. It mat ters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. al ways promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drivesfrom the bones. Joints, mucuous membrane, and entire system the specific poison in the blood that causes Rheumatism and Catarrh. B. B. B. is the only remedy strong enough to do this and cure and so there can never be a return to the symp toms. Don't give up hope, but try B. B. B. (Bonta.nie Blood Bairn) or 3 Bs. For sale by druggists and Swift Holliday's and Rowley Snow in To peka at $1 per large bottle, or 6 large bottles (full treatment) $5. To prove our faith in B. B. B. we will send a Trial Bottle Free to sufferers, so they may test the remedy at our expense. Address BLOOD BALM CO., 87 Mitch ell Street, Atlanta, Ga. rent street, left Friday afternoon for an extended visit to her mother and sister in Minneapolis, Minn. The captain of the degree staff of Harmony Kebekah lodge requests that every member of the team report at the hall this evening for drill. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hart left yester day for their home in Malta, 111., after a visit of several weeks to Mrs. Hart's mother, Mrs. Schcrmerhorn, of Hoyt, and North side friends. Miss Johanna Coughlin, who has been cashier for the Dibble Grocery Com pany for the past two years, has re signed her position on account of the continued illness of her brother. The Young Ladies Foreign Mission ary Society of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church will meet this evening with the Misses Myers, at their home, 813 Kansas avenue. All young ladies are invited. Miss Adella Brown, stenographer and bookkeeper for B. B. Colburne, assist ant superintendent of the International Correspondence School, will leave the first of next week for St. Joseph, Mo., where she will accept a similar posi- The funeral of Mrs. Dora Brainard Wallace was held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock from the Kansas avenue M. E. church, and the building was crowded with, the friends of the de ceased. The service was conducted by Rev. A. J. Coe, of Oakland, formerly pastor of the Kansas avenue church. It was during Rev. Mr. Coe's pastorate that Mrs. Wallace united with the church, and he also performed the mar riage ceremony for her. A quartett composed of Mrs. Lillie Bryan. Miss Florence Mussen, Mr. Shirley French and Mr. Swartz sang "Abide with Me," "Nearer My God to Thee," and Asleep in Jesus." The floral offerings were unusually beautiful, the casket being almost covered with many fragrant blossoms. The pall bearers were from Victor Council No. 4, K. and L. of S. The interment was in Rochester cem etery. "Wrong Righted. To the Editor of the State Journal: The Sunday Capital, under caption "He's Quarantined Now," does me and my family a great injustice. There has not been a case of demonstrated ehick enpox in our family this winter, nor has our family called a physician this winter, save within the past week, nor has any physician pronounced any ail ment in our home this winter chicken pox, nor has ahy physician been promptly dismissed for so pronouncing; to the one charge of the Capital that we doctor our own children, we must plead guilty. We have done this for all minor ailments for twenty years and expect to do so in the future. I did not attend any of the Correction and Char ities meetings held in Topeka Saturday, Sabbath and Monday a week ago, ex cept one select meeting of a few invited friends of the cause on Saturday. There was no doctor who happened to see me the day I took sick, with whom such reported interview was held, nor have I in any way expressed myself averse to being quarantined. When we dis covered that I had the chickenpox, we immediately practically quarantined ourselves, by forbidding all callers to enter the house and by sending our chil dren away from home to live with friends in the city. We have cheerfully consented to quarantine regulations when asked to do so by City Physician Peers. Dr. Peers did not find me in bed with a bad case of chickenpox. I have not been confined to my bed at all, nor did he' see me when he called. Mrs. Morrow freely gave him all the informa tion wanted, and we all heartily co operate with him in the restriction im posed. By kindly publishing this state ment you will greatly oblige a friend who Is compelled to come to you to have an intentional wrong righted. REV. O. S. MORROW AND FAMILY. Premium Stamp Humbug. The Wichita Eagle says: "Lawrence, Topeka and other towns whose mer chants bit at the premium stamp scheme, are now sick of it. It Is a per fect craze at Topeka. It was first at tempted on the business community of Wichita, but the Eagle squared up against it and knocked it out in the first round. But comparatively few merchants could be coaxed into a scheme which was to provide a living for outside manipulators. The Eagle was abused by the parties interested, as also by some who thought they saw something in it, but all the same there was nothing in it for the community nor for any one save its promoters. In some of the towns where it is worked the average woman buyer becomes a stamp fiend and the stamp crank'comes to be dreaded by dealers. The one who doesn't buy stamps or who is not af flicted with the frenzy simply is made to put up the stake for the crowd bent on this species of gambling. It should be tabooed as a device to get something for nothing." "Judging from that fellow's splendid shoulder and chest development I should say that he was an eminent athlete." "That's Herr Spitznoodle, who conducts the orchestra in Wagnerian opera." Chi cago Record. HEADACHE! DR. RADWAT CO.. New York: It gives me great pleasure to voluntarily state that your Pills are much superior to others 1 have tried. Being greatly troubled with headache and costiveness I find that they give me instant relief, which other fins eouin not do. i-ti iL.ti K.ii'r tK. 2530 North 2d St., Philadelphia, Pa. ad way's Pills Purelv vee-etable. mild and reliable. Cause Perfect Digestion, complete absorp tion and healthful regularity. For the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder. Nervous Diseases. Piles, SICK HEADACHE! and all disorders of the Liver. Price. 25 cts. per box. Sold by all drug gists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. RADWAY CO.. 55 Elm St.. New Yoi JAPAN'S QUAINT FOXES. From the New York Herald. In Japan, with its quaint, gentle peo ple and its quainter, gentler beliefs, even the foxes are not the same as they are in other countries. Here a fox is a plaything, a creature to be harried and torn to pieces by dogs for sport. In Japan it is well to address a fox by the most honorable titles.to treat him kind ly, place food for him and be very glad when he goes. For in Japan foxes have great power, and it is not well to of fend thqm. Many are the tales the lit tle people whisper whisper for fear the foxes will hear and take offense about the deeds of Inari, the fox. They are popularly supposed to take up their abode with those whom they fancy and, alas! also with thpse whom they do not fancy. And sometimes it is hard to decide which is the happier. For the foxes must be fed. And as there are always many in a family and they do not visit singly much rice must be consumed for them. Good luck comes from their arrival, however, but it is liable to be changed into the direst ill fortune at any moment. For the foxes are exceedingly sensitive, and a word carelessly spoken, nay, even a thought sometimes, will serve to send them off in a huff, and then all sorts of misfor tunes will follow. When a man is seized with a fit in Japan they say: "He is aiilicted with foxes" or "He has made an enemy of the foxes." Only half of the good done by foxes is genuine, lhe story is told of a wo man who kept a little shop where rice was sold. Every night a tall woman entered the shop, bought some rice, laid two coins down upon the counter ana left without saying a word. The wo man would place the coins in a drawer and think no more of them. One day the woman entered the shop, bought her rice, but as she turned her back the shopkeeper saw a long white tail hanging below her dress. She cried out, and the woman disappeared. Rushing to the drawer where she had placed her money, she found some coins and some dried leaves. Half of the money she had received was good, the other half had been bewitched and had turned back to dry leaves. Sometimes houses will be shunned by the villagers because it is supposed that foxes have taken up their abodes there in. Families supposed to be afflicted with the friendship of the foxes are rather left alone by the rest of the peasants, as it Is never certain when the unwelcome guests will transfer their affections and their presence to oth ers. And the villagers do not care to place temptation in their way. Families not having foxes are not allowed to marry into those having them, as when the foxes attach themselves to a family it includes in its affections all members, even to those most remote. One of the most famous families in Japan claims its supremacy to be due to the good influence of the foxes who have taken up their abode in that family. All over Japan you will see images of the foxes old gray foxes, with their noses chipped and their ears broken off; older foxes still, with a growth of moss on their backs; sly, alert foxes, with noses perked smartly in air; great foxes and little foxes, sages and clowns, all kinds and degrees showing the prevalence of this belief in the land of the wistaria and the fan, and also showing in what respect the fox is held. It is curious to note that in all coun tries the fox above all other animals has been considered to exert great in fluence and power. All nations have legends of which the cunning and in telligence of the fox is the theme. Stood Beside His Own Grave. From the Indianapolis Press. Dr John W. Sage, who was buried here yesterday, saw his grave and head stone while he was yet living, but the grave had been dug and the stone had been carved without the authority or knowledge of himself or friends. Dr. Sage was a member of one of the In diana regiments that fought in the bat tie of Chickamauga. and he was wound ed there. When he came out of the hos pital he was transferred to the reserve corps, where he remained until the end of the war. Last year, the doctor, in company with a party of excursionists visited the southern battle fields over which he once marched. He saw the old tree under which he slept one night after a day's terrific engagement, in which he was badly wounded. It was on this night that he threw away hisknapsack and canteen and lay down to die alone. While making tour of the battlefield of Chickamauga he came upon what pur ported to be his own grave. There could be no mistake, as the epitaph on the tombstone read: "John W. Sage, company F, Seventy-fiif th regiment.In diana volunteers." It gave him quite a shock when he saw it there. He never learned the cor rect name of the soldier buried there, although he made a thorough investi gation. The doctor received a communication from Dr. C. S. Arthur of Portland, Ind.. who during the war was on duty in a hospital Arthur writes that on Satur day, September 19, 1S63, Sage came to the hospital for treatment, after which he returned to his regiment. On the following Sunday afternoon a man was brought to Arthur's hospital, near Crawford Springs, Ga., mortally wound ed. The dying man resembled Sage so closely that he was given the name of Sage of company F, Seventy-fifth reg iment, Indiana volunteers. The man was attired in a cavalry man's uniform, but nothing was thought of this, as some of the members of the Seventy-fifth were compelled to care for themselves as best they could, and Arthur naturally concluded that Sage had appropriated a dead cavalryman's clothes. He thereby made a mistake, which afterward proved very embar rassing to Sage and his relatives. Arthur afterward met Sage in Win chester, Ind., where, after explanations were made, Sage told Arthur that on going into battle on that Saturday he laid aside his knapsack, fn which was .1 testament, diary and some letters from Winchester, Ind. The knapsack was ta ken by the cavalryman resembling him and thus became the cause of further complications. The supposed John W. Sage was buried by Dr. Arthur, Dr. John McCurdy and Dr. C. W. Fowler of Youngstown. Ohio; Dr. Frank Morris- of the Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. A. H. Shaffer of Huntington, Ind., and O. I. Herrick of the Thirty fourth Illinois .volunteer infantry. Dr. Sage left his tombstone on the battlefield of Chickamauga unmolested. Convict Minstrel Show. From the New York Journal. A troupe of 24 talented forgers, porch climbers, confidence men. bigamists, strongarm operators and lesser lights in the firmament of crime put on burnt cork, satin suits and black wigs and made Christmas merry for the benefit of 1,UU0 men in stripes. So far as is known the performance was the first of the character ever given by convicts without any outside assistance in arranging the preliminaries. A convict orchestra of 14 pieces furnished the mu sic, convicts designed and manufactured the oostumes. a convict staged .the show, convicts painted the scenery, wrote the gags, arranged the drops, manipulated the lights and acted as supes. And they put up a gooa snow. According to the announcement of the interlocutor, an intelligent-looking man wearing eye-glasses and enunciating with a Fifth avenue accent, the show was giv en by "Sawdust Pete's Striped Minstrels in the Connaughton opera house." The information was volunteered that most of the performers had signed contracts running for many years. The costumes were gorgeous satin crea tions in the colonial style. Boxes, in which were seated Warden Johnson's guests, flanked the prettily decorated stage. Here are a few of the "gags" that found favor with the audience: "When I came back last time," said one of the end men (at which there was great applause) "I had brain fever, but they couldn't find it' in the hospital, so they sent me to the head keeper. He asked me what was the matter, and I told him my brain felt like a fried egg. So he sent me to the summer resort." "The summer resort?" queried the In terlocutor, "what's that?" "Why the cooler." was the reply. The shout that greeted this hit put out some of the lights. "I went to a Chinese funeral." volun teered one of the end men. "and saw them put $100 on the coffin. Why did they do that?" "The money," said the Interlocutor, "was intended to pay the Chinaman's ferriage over the River Jordan." r'Well," was the replv, "that Chinaman had to swim. I swiped" the hundred, or I wouldn't be in this show." "We have a gun in England.'' said the interlocutor, "that it takes G0 men to load, and when it Is fired off you can hear the sound for three hours. Its trajectory is "I don't notice you using that gun with the Boers none," interrupted an end man. The second part of the minstrel per formance was given over to specialties. One McOami, known by name to every, convict in the audience, save an imita tion of Jimmy Russell of the famous Irish servant girl team that was scream ingly funny. A female impersonator, known as Hai-ry Fisher, who. live years ago. was a performer on the Bowery took part in a sketch written by the editor of the Star of Hope, the prison paper, that was full of prison "gags" appreciated hugely by the convict audience. At the conclusion of the minstrel show professional vaudeville performers who had been secured from the outside by Mr. Wm. R. Gray entertained the men in stripes. Kitty Gilmore, the singer, made such a hit that the audience "was with difficulty repelled from mobbing the stage and stealing her. This clever little woman struck the first note of the pa thetic in a little song she rendered and the men who had been but a moment before shouting with laughter were weeping. Then she danced. Kansas City and Return $2.00 Via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th, final limit Jan. 20th; six trains a day in each direction. "I can highly recommend Begs Hair Renewer as a pleasing restorative appli cation for the hair and a sure cure for all scalp diseases."- Mrs. J. Whertle, Omaha, Neb. A thoroughly reliable prep aration; endorsed by thousands: it will not disappoint.. R. W. Squires, pharma cist, 732 Kansas avenue. AXD MISCELLANEOUS ADS. WANTED HELP. WANTED A place to work for board while attending school. W. F. Trembly. 700 Jefferson street. WANTED Nursing by a skilful profes sional nurse, $1.00 per day, or $1.50 at night. 723 Lane street. WANTED Washing and ironing. 1209 Kansas avenue, Mrs. Lewis. WANTED Work by a man and also a boy of 17, both of them used to handling horses. Address P., -care Journal. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED A thoroughly competent wo man for general housekeeper. Must un derstand cooking .and all branches of housekeeping. Good wages. Apply with references. 115 Western avenue. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED Two canvassers. hustlers. household specialties on installments for Topeka and surrounding territory. Ad dress or call 114 West Eighth street, Hendershot. SOLICITORS wanted for the "Memoirs of Dwight L. Moody," written by his son and assisted by Ira D. Sankey. Pub lished with the authority of Mrs. Moody and family; only book authorized or auth entic. Demand enormous. Harvest-time for agents. Large profits. Credit given; freight paid. Address The Dominion com pany. Dept. L, Chicago. WANTED If you are a canvasser and can sell goods, call 123 West 7th st. WANTED AGENTS, WANTED Honest man or woman to travel for large house; salary $G5 month ly and expenses, with increase; position permanent: inclose self- addressed envel ope. Manager, 330 Caxton bldg., Chicago. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Stock to winter $1 per month. H. Chalmers, Tecumseh. WANTED To buy 40 acre farm; 2 to 4 miles out. Call or address 325 Kan. ave. WANTED Horses to winter.best of stab ling and care. H. W. McAfee. 616 Kan. avenue. WANTED Guns to trade or repair: big line. Golden Rule, 514 Kansas avenue. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE; Second-hand covered phae ton. Serviceable condition. 616 Harrison street. FOR SALE A good McGregor driving mare. Perfectly gentle and in good con dition. Also a good Columbus top bug gy and single harness. Will sell cheap for cash. J. E. Shaffer, 332 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Stove wood. $1.50 and $1.75 per rick delivered. Address Wood, care Journal. FOR SALE Grocery and meat market. 9 squares from Kansas avenue; will also sell or rent the building; good reasons for selling. Address P. O. box 134. FOR SENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Two newly furnished rooms, modern, in private family, 716 Topeka avenue. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with good board, $3 per week. 411 East 7th street. FOR RENT First floor room furnished or unfurnished at 217 E. 10th street. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, heat, bath at 5ul Madison street. FOR RENT Furnished rooms for light housekeeping; modern. 713 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Furnished room.1311 Polk st. FOR RENT Pleasant furnished room, furnace heat, electric light, bath. 1014 Tyler street. FOBJJENT-HOUSES FOR RENT 5 room house 1031 Madison. Inquire 635 Monroe street. FOR RENT A good store room, 24x50, 115 East 5th avenue, $3S.0O. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th St. FOR RENT House No. 624 Lane street. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. 6th st. FOR RENT Cottage 609 E. 6th St., rooms, etc., closets, pantry, well and cistern, barn, all fair order. See B. F. Golden, 212 East 9th., or S. M. Wood Co. FOR RENT 6 room house at 1108 Quincy street. Inquire at 11U6 Quincy street. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE 3 good business houses at a bargain. W. M. FORBKS, llfl W. Cth st. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Two resident properties in Kansas City, Kansas for Topeka city or farm property. W. M. FORBES, llti V. 6th St. FOR SALE 3 lots with cottage house. No. 310 E. 1st avenue, alley on two sides, a good loca tion for coal or '.umber yard, for $l,2im. W. M. FORBES, 116 W. Gth st. I WANTED To exchange some choice vacant lots or improved property for stone work and carpenter work. W. M. FORBES, US W. 6th st. MISCELLANEOUS. STANDARD SYSTEM OF DRESS CUT ting with Victor meas. 1024 Tyler st. R-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for S cents at druggists. They banish pain and troloug life. One gives relief. No matter what's the mutter one will do you ood. EDUCATIONAL. THE COLLEGE OF SOCIAL FCIENTCI- is reaching the people. It instructs by I correspondence. Its operation extend from MassachusetistoCalifornia ar.d from Oecrgia to Canada. Jls students represent I the home, the field, the shop, th:' ci'iinting room, the school r:om. tiie ci il service. the college chair, the medical profession, the editorial sanctum and the bench. It j is teaching the teachers and guiding the i future leaders. It maintains lieadouart ers in Boston. St. Louis :md Kansas, and may be reached through Thomas K. Wilt. I Manhattan, late of the Kansas State Ag j ricultural college. FRENCH AND GKKMAN Taught either in class or private, terms reasonable. Mrs. Hannah Kihlberg, 316 Harrison St. MONEY. MONEY 6 per cent loans on real estate, cash on hand. Can renew your loan on short notice. Manspeaker 11 enderson, 701 Kansas avenue, Topeka. WANTED Farm loans in eastern Kan sas and western Missouri, $5u0 and up- GEO. M. NOBLE CO., Crawford building, Topeka, Kan. $100,000,000 TO INVEST through Bankers, Brokers, Promoters: send lor circular. Investors' Directory, N. Y. LOANS on pianos, typewriters, bicycles, guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kansas ave. PHYSICIAN AND SUEOEOITB. L. A. RYDER, M. D. OFFICE and residence corner Oordon St.. and Central ave.. North Topeka. 'Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treat ment for piles, fistula, fishure, ulceration, etc. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m., to 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m., to 5 p. m. Telephona 598 residence and 10 office. p. H MARTIN. VI. D., 404 KANSAS avenue, over Wallace's drug store. Phones: 476, residence, 635 office. DR. EVA HARDING. Honaeopathlst, 623 Kansas ave. Telephone 4U2. B. E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgery and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. SPECIALISTS. DR. C. H. GUIBOR. Diseases of the Nosa, Throat and Lungs 706 Kansas avenue. OLIVE BRANCH WONDERFUL FE male remedy. One month one dollar. Treated at your home. Ten days free. 314 Quincy street. HAIR DRESSING. LADIES' HAIR DRESSING PARLOR and Hath Rooms. 700 Kansas ave.. un der Central National bank. Entrance East Seventh street. A skilled lady hair dress er in charge. BICYCLES. tl. S. CYCLE CO., 118 E. 8th st. National anu union oicycies. oununes, repair. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tan dems for rent: repairing of all kinds. PAVING. THE OFFICEof the Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving Co., has been removed to 118 West Eighth street. WATCHES cleaned. 75c; clocks, 50c: main springs, 75c: crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guaranteed. Old Jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam, i12 Kansas avenue. HAIR GOODS. SWITCHES. CHAINS, Face treatments. Shampooing and hair dryed by hot air. Mrs Hattle Van Vleck, 220 East Fifth U ETORAGK TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE! Co. Packs anil ships household goods. Tel. 1S6. C. D. Skinner. 123 East Sixth st. ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW. MILTON BROWN, lawyer. Practice fn all state and federal courts. Suite 41. Craw ford bldg. Topeka, Kan. CHEMIST. J. T. LOVEWELL, Ph. D.. Analytical chemist and assayer. 523 Kansas ave. FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, 817 Kansas ave. Phone 602. CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at Hayes'. 107 West Eighth St. 'Phone 6S9. CLEANER AND DYER. LITTEN'S STEAM DYE WORKS Does the finest work in city, fine prese lng, and repairing done; clothing called for and delivered. Drop me a card. 110 W. Et st. MUSICAL. MISS FRANCES GREGG. Guitar and mandolin. Studio Hi W. Sth St. room S. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AV. High Grade Rubber Stamps :prompt work, low price. Catalogue free. Phone 292. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and OptJ- Clan. Lomyieie aiuun ui v, mr-nds. silverware, etc.. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING,' JANUARY 15, 1900. 8 ii lie b'lBf wocery J. S. SPROAT, Prop., Telephone 252. 112 East Sixth Street. WHOLES AZX AND RETAIL, Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queensware and Tinware. We are selling good Kansas Potatoes at 35C bushel. Minnesota Potatoes at 6o cts. bushel. Fancy White Colorado Potatoes at 75 cts. bushel. Sugar is getting higher almost every day. ve sell the very finest and best Granulated, 19 lbs. for $i.oo. 20 lbs. White Extra C. for $i.oo. We have plenty of those 12k cts. Sugar Cured Hams that we are selling for io cts. per lb. Read This List Best Soda and Oyster Crackers, per rb by box "5 Yanila and Lemon Wafers, per lb.. 4 tbs fresh baked Ginger Snaps.... Good Japan Tea, per rb 1 gallon Honey Drip Table Syrup.. 1 gallon rark N. O. Molasses 1 gallon Maple Syrup Fancy Kraut, per fjuart 15 oz. can K. C. Baking Powder.... i lt can Dr. Price's Baking Powder 1 lb can Star Baking Powder BO rbs sack Straight Patent Flour... Best Butterine, per rb 10 rbs bulk Scotch Oats 1 rbs hand-picked Navy Beans 2 pkgs Parlor Matches Kew Lima Beans, 4 rbs T Walter Baker's Breakfast Cocoa, per can 2 pkgs Grape N.uts Pettijohn's Breakfast Food 8 pkgs Eagle Pancake Flour 5 pkgs Eagle Buckwheat Flour 3 pkgs Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour 1 Tbs pure New York Buckwheat Flour 8 oz bottle Lemon or Vanilla Ex tract 2 pkgs Quaker Pancake Flour Bhredded Wheat Biscuit, per pkg.. 2 lts pure Santos Coffee Lion Coffee, per pkg Arbuckle's Coffee, per pkg Java and Mocha Coffee, per lb Yeast Foam and Ralston Yeast, per .15 35 10 package 03 2 lbs fine Table Salt .05 CANNED GOODS. Solid pack Tomatoes 7"2 cents can, 85 cents dozen. Shenandoah. Corn, 4 cans 25 cents, 70 cents dozen. Early June Peas, 4 cans 25 cents, 70 cents dozen. Hart Brand Early June Peas, 3 cans 25 cents, $1.00 per dozen. S-lt cans California Table Peaches, per can 15 cents, $1.75 per dozen. 3-lb cans California Table Apricots, 15 cent3, $1.75 per dozen. You can buy goods here and get Premium Stamps without paying for them. Mail Orders Filled at These Prices. THE CHURCH WILL AID. Flan of Dr. W. S. Rainaford to Assist the Labor Movement. New York, Jan. 15. Rev. Dr. Wil liam S. Rainsford of St.George's church went before the Central Federated un ion today to invite the co-operation of the union in a series of lectures to workingmen which he is arranging for this winter in St. George's church. He said: "The great majority of men and women in the various departments of the Christian church today are willing and anxious to help the labor move ment but they do not know how. There lias been too much misunderstanding in the past and it is the duty of all good men to do what they can to bring these two moral forces closer together. "I mean to get up four or five lectures ty men of known ability and character on subjects not political, but that all good citizens should agree upon. The only way possible for any body of citi zens to achieve its purpose is to se cure the interest and intelligent co-op--ration. of other bodies in the commun ity. Labor leaders in England have long recognized this fact and some of those in this country are coming to a recognition of it. "Much of the weakness of the labor movement in the past has been due not to the injustice of its cause or to the lack of ability in those who presented it, but to the difficulty of getting the ear of other classes in the community. "You men have no idea what a cordial feeling toward you and your movement there is in the Christian church. The church people want to help you, but they do not know how to go about it. It is your duty to show them how and it is my hope that these lectures in St. George will be the means of bringing you a nttie closer to your friends. Dr. Rainsford said that the dates of the lectures had not been fixed. Among the speakers will be Dr. Herron and Washington Gladden. A LONE liANDlT. Holds Up Two Kansas City Restau rants Successfully and Escapes. Kansas City, Jan. 15 With true west ern abandon and a nerve that resem bled in every way that of the old-time border bandit, a lone highwayman, masked and armed, looted two res taurants which are situated in the very iheart of the city between 5 and 6 o'clock Bunday morning. Policemen were stationed all about this man and electric lights were ablaze wherever he dared tread, but he played his hand, held a dozen men at the points of two revolvers and escaped with the "swag" as neatly and as com pletely as if he had rehearsed his part lor many weeks. The restaurants which were visited by the lone highwayman were those of Robert McClintock, at 1125 Walnut etreet, and Lewis Bros., at 1210 Walnut street. McClintock's cash register yielded $H6 for the pains of the robber. In Lewis Bros." place the cash register was empty, the proprietor having just removed its contents and gone away. In both restaurants were from three to five men, yet, nothing daunted, the bandit went about his work with an evident knowledge of what he was doing that so completely overcame the men that they scarcely realized, until after it had all happened and the robber was gone.that they had been robbed. The man made no attempt whatever to rob the men in the restaurants. Only the cash registers received attention from him. Several suspects were arrested yester day, among them Hungwell. but Drys lale could not identify any of them. He Bays the robber was not over five feet four inches tall, and heavy set, with a reddish mustache which showed below the handkerchief. of Low Prices. 3-1d cans California Table Pears, 15 cents, $1.75 per dozen. 3-lh cans California Table Plums, 2 cans 25 cents, $1.45 per dozen. Warren's Al Salmon, per can 15 cents, $1.75 per dozen. Oil Sardines, 6 cans 25 cents, 45 cents per dozen. 3 cans Boston Baked Beans .2a rinllnn cans Peeled Peaches 40 Gallon cans California Apricots So Gallon cans Apples 3 cans 3 rb Apples 2- lt cans Tomatoes o White Wax Beans, 4 cans 25 3- rt cans California Table Grapes.. .10 DRIED FRUITS. Apples 3 rbs 25 Apricots, pr rb 1 Raspberries, per lb 15 Raisins, 3 lbs 2a Cleaned Currants. 3 lbs 25 Black Prunes, 6 tbs .25 Extra large Prunes, 3 rbs California Peaches, per It .10 Silver Prunes, 3 lbs SOAPS. 10 bars Silk Soap 25 10 bars Lenox Soap 2a 10 bars White Russian Soap 25 15 bars Monday Morning Soap 25 IS bars Dandy Soap 2a 4-Ib pkg Gold Dust 15 9 pkgs Pearline 25 2 cakes Sapolio 15 8 rbs Gloss Starch 25 20 rbs Sal Soda 25 3 pkgs Elastic Starch 2a 6 pkgs Faultless Starch 25 Ivory Soap per cake. 04 12 cakes Coacoa Oil Soap 25 3 cakes Sayman's Soap 25 MEATS AND LARD. Sugar Cured Hams, per lb 10 Sugar Cured Cal. Hams, per IT) 7 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per lb 10 Armour's White Lard, per lb 06 Dry Salt Bacon, per lb 06 We are selling all kinds of Fresh. Meats at low prices. BIG STRIKE LIKELY. Great Northern Trainmen Object to Switching Work at Terminals. Minot, N. D., Jan. 15. A strike of serious proportions is threatened by freight train operatives of the Great Northern. Last night at an informal meeting of trainmen held here it was decided to go out Tuesday unless a modification of the rule lately intro duced compelling freight crews to do switching at terminal points was grant ed. In case the men go out the entire system will be affected. THEORIES ABOUT FOOD. Also a Few Facts on the Same Subject We hear much nowadays about health foods and hygienic living, about vege tarianism and many other fads along the same line. Restaurants may be found in the larger cities where no meat, pastry or coffee is served and the food crank is in his glory, and arguments and the ories galore advanced to prove that meat was never intended for human stomachs, and almost make us believe that our sturdy ancestors who lived four score years in robust health on roast beef, pork and mutton must have been grossly ignorant of the laws of health. Our forefathers had other things to do than formulate theories about the food they ate. A warm welcome was extended to any kind from bacon to acorns. A healthy appetite and common sense are excellent guides to follow in matters of diet, and a mixed diet of grains, fruits and meats is undoubtedly the best. As compared with grains and vegeta bles, meat furnishes the most nutriment in a highly concentrated form and is digested and assimilated more quickly than vegetables and grains. Dr. Julius Remmson on this subject says: "Nervous persons, people run down in health and of low vitality should eat meat and plenty of it. If the digestion is too feeble at first it may be easily corrected by the regular use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal. Two of these excellent tablets taken after dinner will digest several tfiousand grains of meat, eggs or other animal food in three hours, and no mat ter how weak the stomach may be, no trouble will be experienced if a regular practice is made of using Stuart's Dys pepsia Tablets because they supply the pepsin and diastase necessary to perfect digestion, and every form of indigestion will be overcome by their use. That large class of people who come under the head of nervous dyspeptics should eat plenty of meat and insure its proper digestion by the daily use of a safe, harmless digestive medicine like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets composed of the natural digestive principles, pep sin, diastase, fruit acids and salts, which cactually perform the work of digestion. Cheap cathartic medicines, masquerading under the name of dys pepsia cures are useless for indigestion as they have absolutely no effect upon the actual digestion of food. Dyspepsia in all its many forms is simply a failure of the stomach to di- c-l auu Liie seusiuie way to solve the riddle and cure the dyspepsia is to make daily use at meal time of a pre paration like Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets, which is indorsed by the medical profession and known to contain active digestive principles. All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at 50c for full treatment. A little booklet on cause and cure of stomach trouble mailed free by ad dressing F. A. Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich. CHASE KANSAS RABBITS. Humans Society of Chicago Fails to Prevent a Coursing Match. Chicago, Jan. 15 Five hundred sports devoted to rabbit coursing encountered the opposition of the Humane society when they tried to bring off the biggest event of the season at Forty-seventh street and Western avenue Sunday af ternoon. They were compelled to leave the Inclosure at the warning of officers from the Brighton Park police station, but finally brought off the match just outside the city limits and in sight of the officers. Plans for the coursing were on a scale that would do credit to a Sunaay af ternoon affair in California. It had been widely advertised and promised to be a big betting' match. The purse was said to be the largest ever offered for a coursing event in Chicago. The rabbits were jacks of the Kansas variety, guar anteed to outrun a cyclone. It was the intention of the managers, it is said, to make the race the first of a long line of similar events, but at In stigation of the Humane society, the police were ordered to stop the affair. The managers, however, did not propose to be cheated out of the sport. The hounds, rabbits and the crowd were started to another spot, but the police followed. After two hours' traveling and a great deal of inconvenience they reached the city limits and decided to have the race in the open. The affair, however, was -unsatisfactory and no decision was rendered. The promoters announced that they would make another attempt to have the race and will invite members of the Humane society to witness the affair. They deny there is any brutality in the sport. HER EYELIDS MOVED. Narrow Escape From Burial of a Woman in a Trance. East St. Louis, 111., Jan. 15. Mrs. Christina Hirth emerged from a trance this morning to find herself under pro- cess of being embalmed and prepared for the grave. The discovery of life was the result of the merest accident and astounded the undertaker. A move ment of an eyelid saved the woman from death at the hands of the under taken or from burial alive. This morning, while her husband watched at her bedside at the hospital, she gave a deep sigh and then seemed to breathe no more. When, the county physician arrived he felt her pulse and made other tests and then pronounced her dead. The county undertaker was called and shortly afterward proceeded to embalm the body in the dead room. Mrs. Hirth was placed on the cooling board and the work of preparing her for burial began. The body was cleans ed and partially bleached. On each eye a weight was placed to hold down tha lids. Over the face a white cloth satu rated with bleaching fluid was spread. The undertaker heard something fall. When ready to remove the bleaching cloth he noticed that one of the weights had fallen off. In replacing it he though he detected a slight movement of the eyelash. There was no beat of pulse or sign of breath, however, so he set about preparing his instruments for the injection of the poisonous fluids used in embalming. While thus engaged he heard another noise. Again the weight had fallen. Again he noticed a faint quiver of the eyelid. Then he applied the most pow erful test known to undertakers and was rewarded with a faint sign of life. He summoned assistance and the body was removed to a bed in the hospital. The doctor was called and restoratives applied. Gradually the woman came out of her coma and was able to move her body. She was unable to discuss her experi ences, but made signs to indicate that she was conscious of all that had taken place. It is expected that she will re gain some of her strength and live for awhile at least. BAKER AND BAILEY. Working to Secure a Place For Sen ator Fulton's Daughter. Washington, D. C, Jan. 15. Inquiry at the Indian office discloses the fact that the stories recently published to the effect that Miss Margaret Fulton, daughter of Senator Fulton, of Brown county, had been appointed to a posi tion in the Indian service through the influence of Congressman Curtis are j erroneous. 1 Nearly a year ago Miss Fulton was j appointed superintendent of the Kick- apoo Indian school in Oklahoma Ter- I ritory without first taking the civil ser- vice examination. This fact was dis- I covered by a member of the senate j who was also hunting a place for one of his constituents, and he raised such j a howl about it that Miss Fulton was j dropped. Since that time Senator Ba- ker and Representative Bailey have been trying to secure her appointment j to another position in the Indian ser vice, and have hopes that they will I succeed in the near future. THE OCEAN'S DAMAGE. Heavy Seas Roll In Along tha Shores of Kockaway Beach. Kew York, Jan. 15. For the last week heavy seas have been rolling- In from the ocean along- the shores of Rockaway Beach and Jamaica bay. Great inroads have been made into the beach at Ar verne and Edgemore. A wide channel has been cut into the beach, opening up the old inlet at Kdg-emore. At this place the water has almost reached the railroad tracks, and it is feared the big" summer hotel may be damaged. The heavy bulk head which was built a year ago to pro tect the property has crumbled to pieces under the force of the breakers. At Arverne the seas are encroaching upon the board walk and at Seaside the foundations of a, big1 dancing- pavilion are so undermined that the building threatens to collapse. COY A CANDIDATE. Jefferson County Representative Wants to Return to the Legislature. Representative W. A. Coy of Jeffer son county has announced his can didacy for re-eleetion to the lower house of the legislature. He lives at Oska loosa. If Mr. McCoy is returned he will be a candidate for speaker and if the op position is too strong for that place he will be content with the chairmanship of the ways and means committee. Rep resentative Henley of Lawrence was chairman of the committee in the last house. What Director Merriam Wants. Washington, Jan. 15. Director of the Census Merriam suggests to the agri culturists of the country that they use some of their spare time between now and June next in thoroughly preparing themselves to answer promptly and ac curately the questions relative to the acreage, quantity and value of crops; the quantity and value of all farm pro ducts, animal and vegetable; the cost of farm labor, ana in fact all the items of farm operations for the calendar year 1SS9 which the census enumeratois by law are compelled to ascertain. This he says will result in a full and accu rate census. Prices Main Floor. Dress Goods Section. Silk Section. Ribbon Section. Lace Section. Underwear Section. Linen Section. 13 Of The price of a splendid assort ment of stamped linens, including dresser scarfs, lunch cloths, tray cloths, center pieces, splashers and doylies all will be J3 less than regular price. This lot fills one entire center table. lc A YARD For 5 c and 3c narrow braid dress trimmings; some gold mixed 7c A YARD For embroideries marked 8330, 10c and 12c. Certainly an em broidery bargain, end includes Nainsook, Swiss and Cambric em broideries. off The price of all Ice-Wool .Fascinators. 3c Each for small hand or stand mirrors. 10c a yard for fancy mouseline de soie and taffeta silk rufflings and plaitings; sold at 25c and 35c. 15c a pair for ladies' fancy side elastic hose supporters; all colors. COTTON CROP SHORTAGE. Will Ba Caused by Georgia Emigrant Agent Shipping Out Negroes. Madison, Ga. Jan. 15. W. A. Wil liams, the emigrant agent who during the past six we"eks has sent 2,500 ne groes out of Greene and Morgan coun ties into Mississippi. Texas and Arkan Cut for I eve WHERE TO LOOK FOR THEM. Second Floor. Suits, Cloaks and Furs. Skirts and Shirt Waists. Wrappers and Blankets. Third Floor. Carpets and Draperies. ANNEXFURNITURE. Smyrna Rugs. 75c for $1.50 Smyrna Rugs. $1.00 for 2.00 1.50 for 2.25 1.25 for 2.50 3.00 for 4.00 2.75 for 3.50 3.00 for 4.00 Moquette Rugs. 1.50 for 1.75 Axminster Rugs. 1.50 for 2.25 Willin Rugs. Knit Underskirts in red and white, blue and white, pink and white, and all white, ac tual value 25c, here tomorrow 15c. Limit 2 to a customer. Flannellette Gowns. 75c and 50c Flannellette Gowns can be had in this sale at 48c and 35c. FleeceLined Wrappers. Fleece-lined Wrappers have all been reduced in price to sell quick $1.75, $1.50 and $1.25 have all been reduced to $1.00. 68c for $1.00 fleece-lined Wrappers. French Flannel Waists. French Flannel Waists cut to $3.50. These are new and beau tifully made; had a good trade on them at $5.00, but we must turn them into money before invoicing, hence the low price, $3.50. Blankets and Comforts. Fancy Blankets at 79c and 98c. These are intended for the lounge, though they. are used for other purposes. They come in every imaginable color. Reduced from $1.50 and $1.25. All-Wool Plaid Blankets, made in Xenia, Ohio, and guaranteed by the makers to be all-wool. The price per pair will be $2.75 in stead of $3.75. Comforts will be cheap here to morrow. Those that were $1.00 will be 75c, and the $1.25 ones will be $1.00. Imported Satine Comforts will be $2.00 instead of $3.00, bur price Saturday. Plaid Skirts. Plain Skirts in wool mohair, silk and crepon. All marked down to quick selling prices before stock taking. sas, has been in jail here 24 hours as a measure of safety, a mob of farmers having threatened his life at Greens boro Saturday afternoon. Williams, who is known all over the south as "Peg Leg" Williams, had en gaged a number of negroes to leave Greensboro Saturday night for the west and was there arranging for their de parture. The negroes have been leav ing the farmers in large numbers of tee nto.ry Remnant Sale Wool Dress Our Silk Waists Were never so pretty and the as sortment is by far greater than ever before at this season you'll find the prices lower to make sell ing easy. We are offering our. $1.50 Eiderdown Dressing. Sacques at $1.00. Eiderdown Robes all marked down. Consignment of Fur Collar ettes just received at very low prices. Children's Cloaks and Jackets. 50 more Long Cloaks, very pretty designs, this season's style. One-third less than opening price. 75 Children's Jackets, this sea son's styles, good lines of colors and sizes. One-third less than opening price. Ladies' Jackets. 150 Ladies' stylish Jackets, in 7 Jots. Lot 1, $3.98; lot 2, $4.50; lot 3, $5.50; lot 4, $6.00; lot 5, $7.50; lot 6, $8.75 lot 7, $10.00. Prices were from $5.95 to $15. Ladies' Suits. High-grade man-tailored suits for dressy women. Silk lined and Percalene lined. Some of the prices have been cut $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, and some as much as $17.50. A grand opportunity to buy stylish suits before invoicing. We are offering our $1.50 Eider down Dressing Sacques at $1.00. Eiderdown robes all marked down. Furniture Dept. White enameled Center Stands, were $2.25. Now 1.00. White enameled Music were $2.89. Now $1.75. White enameled Paper were $3.50. Now $1.75. Oak Book Shelves, were Now $1.25. White enameled Tabourettes, were $1.48. Now 9Sc. Mahogany Tabourettes, $1.48. Now 9Sc. Gilt Jardinere Stands, $3.00. Now S1.50. Leather Ottomans, were Now $1.50. late and many farmers are entirely without help. Their exodus will materially reduce the cotton acreage for the present year, perhaps from 20 to 25 per cent. The farmers decided for their own protection to have Williams arrested. He was arrested on the charge of vio lating at county ordinance by interfer ing with contract labor, and taken to jail. The farmers, many of whom were 10c Goods For 25c arid 35c Jewelry. A large assortment of tie fastners, cuff buttons, waist sets, stick pins, belt buckles, chains, gold plated pins, waist sets, sterling silver thimbles, etc. 3c A yard for Satin Ribbon H inches wide. All silk and a good line of colors. 15c A Skein for 25c quality of Ger man Knitting Yarn. Colors gray, brown and blue. 25C Each For all of our solid gold and gold plated finger rings. 35c A box for Wedgewood Oriental rose and sage Wedge wood writing paper. Sold at 55 c a box. 25c For cabinets of writing paper that sold at 390 and 50c. One number contains 100 sheets of paper and 100 envelopes. Racks, Racks, $z.ou. 7c were A YARD For gold print draperies that sold at 10c and 11c. Nice for sash curtains, box coverings, etc. were $3.25. in town were threatening and the news of the arrest spread along the line of the Georgia railroad. Saturday night it was rumored that a mob of farmers was coming up from Covington to help deal with Williams and the sheriff de cided to remove the offender. This wal done, Williams being landed in Jail here. His preliminary hearing will be had to-day.