The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 12, 1900

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rf.. 'iTVp LAST EDITION. nDAT evening. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 12, 1900. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. n l I ft SHELDON CONFER Meets Newspaper Men and Tells Them What to Expect. Editorial Rooms Closed to Them at Their Suggestion. THE "REGULATIONS.' Correspondents "Will Receive Proofs After Approval. Employes of Capital Not lowed to Smoke. Al- Theatrical News and Advertis ing Not Admitted. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon -will on Tues day publish the first of six numbers of the Topeka Capital as he considers Jesus would. The experiment has attracted -wide attention and a large number of news paper correspondent are here to 'write tf the progress of the venture. The circulation of the paper will be enormous and as it -w ill be impossible to print the entire edition on the Cap ital press the matrices will be sent to New York and Chicago where the sup ply will be printed to meet the local de mands in those places and other eastern points. The editorial rooms of the Capital will be closed to all newspaper men during ISheldon week, except those, of course, connected with the paper. This ar rangement was made at a conference of all correspondents with Mr. Sheldon at F. O. Popenoe's office today. It was proposed, by the men themselves out of deference to Mr. Sheldon, although Mr. Sheldon extended an invitation to the correspondents to call on him at the Capital office. Mr. Sheldon, in return, will furnish advance proofs of much of the matter to be published in the Capital, the day be fore its publication. These proofs will be provided all correspondents at Mr. Popenoe's office, which will be head quarters for the correspondents during the week. There were present at the conference this morning the following: Fred Nye, New York World. E. L. Bfrtrand. Chicago Tribune. G. Willetts, Christian Herald, New York. K. E. Turpin, New York Journal. A. C Babize- Chicago Timen Herald, R. M. Haggles.' Kansas City World. Lafe Young-. Ijes Moines Capital. .Fas. Tj. Kin-, St. Louis Jlobe-Democrat, L. O. MoCray. St. Louis Republic. J. V. Jarrell, Topeka Capital. J. V. Leach, New York Evening Jour nal. Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka State Journal. H. Matron. Tnpeka State Journal. K. O. Pupenoe, Topeka Capital. John H. Raftery, Chicago Record. Nearly all of the newspaper men In terested were present when Mr. Shel don arrived, promptly at 10 o'clock. He shook hands with them all around, ex pressing his pleasure at meeting them, and then Mr. Popenoe called the meet ipg to order. Mr. Popenoe explained that he had asked Mr. Sheldon to meet with the correspondents in order to arrive at a definite understanding about giving out news, and he further invited the visitors to make his office their headquarters, In order to save the Capital office from being crowded. "I have asked Mr. Sheldon to send proofs of such matter as he Is willing to give out in advance to my office here, for the benefit of the correspond ents. I have also asked him to come here himself at some time during the day to meet you. Another sugges tion I have made is that a question box be instituted here in which you place any question you desire to ask Mr. Sheldon. They will be delivered to him, and I presume he will answer them when he gets time. "I don't know what Mr. Sheldon will say to these suggestions," continued Mr. Popenoe. "He has a way of fol lowing what he himself thinks is best, and I have noticed in the past that he doesn't follow suggestions unless he has made up his mind they are right." "I am willing to do all I can to aid you newspaper men," said Mr. Sheldon. "I am sure you would realize that if you were in my place it would be im possible for me to consent to indi vidual interviews by each man. Neither would it be right, because I have stead fastly refused to be interviewed by the local men. and I have given out no statement regarding my work, and any such statements purporting to come from me have not been genuine." "What time can we begin to get proofs?" asked Mr. Nye of the New York World. "I do not know exactly," said Mr. Sheldon. "Mr. Jarrell, can you tell?" "At 7 or 7:30," said Mr. Jarrell. "Is It not a fact that your editorial announcement is already in type?" ask ed D. O. McCray. "No. It has not been put in type or had not a short time ago." "Will there be any way in which we can get an idea of the matter you re ject?" asked Gilson Wlllets. "I do not see how that will be possi ble," replied Mr. Sheldon. "I have kept no track of it myself, and much of the news, local and telegraph, will not be in the office until a late hour." "That will be one of the best things for us to know," suggested Mr. Raftery, of the Chicago Record. "I don't see how I can do it until I Bee the news myself. The men will be on their regular beats and much of their news will not be in until a late hour." "When will you give your instructions to the men?" asked Mr. Willetts. "They nave already been given," said Mr. Sheldon, "I have asked the men not to give out anything without my consent, and for that reason I should be glad if you will come to me instead of the men. My instructions concerning theatrical reports will be covered in the matter itself. "In the editorial matter?" i "Yes." "Have you given any instructions re garding praying?" asked Mr. Willetts. "No, sir, we have done our praying before this," replied Mr. Sheldon with a smile. "My first editorial," continued Mr. Sheldon, "will set forth the scope of the paper, and will, I think, answer many of your questions. Many of these, oth er questions I will have to think over before I can answer. I want to be un derstood. This week means everything to me. It is serious work, not play. I don't want yon to feci that I am hold ing back anything out idscourtesy. I want the paper to speak for itself. I would rather be dumb myself and let the paper do ail the talking." "What, is your objection to submitting all of the matter?" asked Mr. Nye. REV. CHARLES CI X- .A By 'Courtesy of Advance Publishing Co. "WTio "Will Tomorrow Begin the Publication of a Daily Newspaper as He Considers Jesus Would. "I cannot tell as yet. I will have to consult Mr. Chase about some of it." Mr. McCray: "Mr. Sheldon speaking for the home correspondents of Topeka, I appreciate what you have said. We know you, and we know you have given out no interviews. Wre have written a great deal about this experiment, and the whole world is now watching it. I do not see why there should be any ob jection to giving out all of the matter to these gentlemen." Mr. Sheldon: "I am only thinking about fairness to the subscribers. The question in my mind is, suppose this matter should be all wired to some of the big eastern papers and should be printed in them, would it be fair to those who have subscribed for the pa per?" R. E. Turpin, of the New York Jour nal: "I think, Mr. Sheldon, that it would only add interest to the paper. I think the more you can disseminate this matter the better it will be for the Capital." Mr. Sheldon: "How much would you expect to use of the paper?" Mr. Nye of the World: "I have In structions to send 4,000 or 5,000 words today." Mr. Jarrell: "How much will that make in the World?" Mr. Nye: "Well, the way it will be displayed, I judge it will make six or seven columns." Mr. Popenoe: "About a page of the Capital then." A. C. Babize: "How much reading matter will there be in the Capital, Mr. Sheldon." Mr. Sheldon: "Thirty-six columns, and twenty columns of advertising. You will simply cull from the proofs, then, the matter which you wish to use?" continued Mr. Sheldon, turning to Mr. Nye. "Yes," said Mr. Nye. "I would proba bly use your editorial in full, and de scribe the other departments in detail, giving the headlines. but not using mucrj of the matter itself." Mr. Babize: "I would also like to know tonight how your first page is made up. That will probably give a good idea of the relative value you put on news." Mr. Sheldon agreed to furnish it if possible. It. M. Ruggles: "At what time do you meet the reporters to give them their final instructions?" Mr. Sheldon: "This afternoon." Mr. Ruggles: "The afternoon papers would like to have them if they are made out." Mr. Sheldon: "There are none made out." Mr. Young: "That gives the morning papers all the advantage." Mr. Popenoe: "Necessarily so, be cause the Capital itself is a morning paper." Mr. Sheldon: "I want to be as fair as possible, and after I confer with the reporters if I think I can give out the instructions this afternoon I will give them to Mr. Jarrell to give you." Just as Mr. Sheldon was about to leave, some one asked: "What instruc tions have you given as to office hab its?" "The only rule I have made," said Mr. Sheldon, "is that there sha.ll be no smoking in the editorial rooms." "Then you have not prohibited swear ing and drinking among all the em ployes?" said Mr. Ruggles. "No, I have said nothing about it. I have only made the one rule, and the men who are in the habit of smoking in the mechanical department will be al lowed to do so. I believe it has long been a rule that there shall be- no smoking in the business department." A majority of the newspaper men in the room were smoking and they smiled. "I have a rule that there shall be no smoking in my office, remarked Mr. Popenoe, but after Mr.Sheldon went out he opened a box of cigars and filled the pockets of the reporters, and during the day a fresh box has been opened as fast as one is emptied. "I don't believe you could run a. news paper more than a week without smok ing, Mr. Sheldon," remarked Mr. Wil- letts. But Mr. Sheldon smiled and shook his head. "We may have you smoking before the week is out," said Mr. Popenoe ban teringly. "I guess not," replied Mr. Sheldon. Mr. Sheldon invited the correspond ents to call and see him in his "sanc tum," but one of them suggested that it would be a kindness to him to keep away from the Capital office altogether, and they all entered into a compact not to go near the Capital office, except to the business department. After Mr. Sheldon had gone Mr. Pop enoe said: "I invited you to come here, gentle men, in order that you might fully un derstand Mr. Sheldon's situation. If each of you were to go to him individ ually he would not like to be discour- M. SHELDON, r i teous to you and it would hamper his work. I trust you will take all these things into consideration and deal as kindly with him in your reports as you can, taking note of the vast amount of work he has and the difficulties which he must meet." "I am sure," said Mr. Nye, of the New Y'ork World, "that we feel the ut most kindness towards Mr.Sheldon, and we do not wish to do anything that will any way hamper him in his work." RULES AND REGULATIONS." Instructions Mr. Sheldon Gives to His Reporters. Mr. Sheldon did not formally open his conference with Capital reporters with prayer when he gave them their general instructions today. It has been general ly surmised that he would do so, but he did not. He simply said, "Here we are," and started in. The instructions embody in a great measure Mr. Sheldon's idea of what ought to be published in a Christian daily newspaper, and what ought to be suppressed. They show his idea of how Jesus would conduct a newspaper were He an editor today. They settle the point concerning which there has been the greatest surmise and the most dis cussion in the press of the country dur ing the past few weeks what is Mr. Sheldon's conception of a Christian daily newspaper. The instructions axe as follows: 1. Avoid the use of slang in writing reports, both words and phrases. 2. Submit all interviews to the per sons interviewed. 3. If a reporter is assigned to inter view a person and the person does not wish to talk, do not insist upon it. Do not quote a man unwillingly. 4. No theatrical news of any kind is wanted. 5. Sporting news only clean sports are wanted. Athletic sports and clean sporting events will be covered. 6. In reporting crime go into the causes, but avoid the horrible details; find out if liquor or something else caused the criminal act. 7. Political stories must be non-partisan. 8. Scandals Avoid them, waste no time on them. They will not be printed. For tomorrow morning's Capital the reporters were told to simply cover their usual assignments, as the advance copy which Mr. Sheldon has been working on will fill much of the local spa ce. The reporters will write up their stories, turn them in to the city editor, who will lay them before Mr. Sheldon. A number of assignments have been given out concerning special matter which will appear in the paper during the week. The reporters were given to under stand that they must not use the word "Pop" in referring to a member of a certain political party. Mr. Sheldon will occupy Gen. Hud son's room. The request was made of reporters that they come to Mr. Popenoe's office at various intervals for information, proofs, etc.. and that they keep aloof from the editorial rooms of the Capital Air. Sheldon will run no patent medi cine advertisements or tobacco adver tisements. It is understood too that he will accept no amusement advertising and will not permit any dramatic crit icsim of any kind, good, bad or indif ferent. 21 Men Drowned. Halifax, X. S., March 12. A Tar mouth dispatch reports that the steamer off Sable island, and the captain and 21 Counte collided with another steamer men were drouned. MANY LISTENERS. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon Preach es to a Large Audience. Yisiting Newspaper Men At tended the Services. IT WAS JUST A SERMON Nothing Out of the Ordinary Was Said. Causes of DissatisfactionTheme of the Discourse. Central Congregational church was literally packed at the Sunday morning service. In addition to the usual con gregation, many people were present from other churches to hear the last sermon preached by Mr. Sheldon before he begins his editorial experiment. Not only was the seating capacity of the church taxed, but standing room was also at a premium. Many of the visitors were attracted by the hope that Mr. Sheldon would say something publicly concerning the ex periment, but in this they were disap pointed. He made no reference to it whatever, and the services were Ilka those of any other Sunday at Central church. The sermon, like all of Mr. Sheldon's, was very simple. There was no osten tation of any kind, or any attempt at oratory. In the congregation were some or the special correspondents of the metropolitan papers over the country, who have been sent to Topeka to write up the Howe-Sheldon week for their papers. Most of these last night wired a report of Mr.Sheluon's Sunday services to their various papers, and it is proba ble that the simple sermon deliver ed by Air. Sheldon yesterday morning v;as given a wider circulation than any ser mon ever delivered. Mr. Sheldon's text was the words of the Psalmist, "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." In his in troduction he explained that the pass age was sometimes applied to the fu ture life, but he did not apply it in that manner. He thought David meant that he would be satisfied every morning, when he awoke, with the likeness of the things God had placed around him. "There is a great deal of dissatisfac tion in the world," said the minister, "and it is well to consider the sources of this dissatisfaction. In the first place there is sickness. Ill health is the cause of a great deal of dissatisfaction. Yet it is not necessarily so. Many sick peo ple are satisfied satisfied not with the condition of sickness, but they have that within them which makes them happy-i "Another source of dissatisfaction is poverty. We are all acquainted with this. We meet it every day and most people have experienced it for them selves. People worry and fret because they have not the luxuries of life. There are mortgages to be lifted and interest payments which they cannot meet, and yet poverty is not necessarily a cause for dissatisfaction. Many poor people are satisfied and happy. "Strange as it may be, another cause of dissatisfaction is exactly the oppo site of poverty riches. To many rich people their wealth is simply a source of worry. Many of you have perhaps read Corelli's book, "The Sorrows of Satan." You remember how it starts out with a young author struggling along in an attic, seeking for wealth and distinction. At length he secures it. He becomes very rich, marries the girl of his choice, and has every luxury that money can purchase, and yet he is not happy. If possible he i more dWsutir fied than he was when he was strug gling along in poverty in his little at tic, and '.t w!is only after a sudden fin ancial reverse takes his riches from h!m and leaves him in comparative rtsnt, that he discovers the true source of sat isfaction. "Pessimism is another cause of dis satisfaction. The man who sees nothing that is good or worthy of commenda tion in the world is not happy. He criti cises everything in the universe, and dares even to believe that if he had cre ated the world he could have done it better than God did. He thinks God made a mistake in everything. The man who slurs the virtue of women and says every man has his price is a curse to hhnself and to those around him. It is impossible for a pessimist to be satis fied. "Still another source of dissatisfac tion is envy. People are constantly wishing they were in some one else's place, or they break the commandants by wishing they had what somebody else has. You perhaps remember vne story of the poor woman who was one day walking along the street with her two beautiful children, when she saw a rich woman drive by in her elegant carriage. And the poor woman was envious of the rich woman and tnought if she only possessed such riches she should be happy. And the rich woman saw the poor woman with her children and she wished the children were hers to take the place of two who had been taken from her, and she would have been perfectly willing to trade places with the poor woman if it would have given her the children. Thus each was envious of the other, and neither was happy and satisfied. "But let us see what will give satis faction. The text says, 'I shall be satis fied,' comma, 'when I awake,' comma, 'with thy likeness.' I shall be satisfied each morning, when I awake, with the likeness of the things around me. "In the first place the consciousness of redemption gives satisfaction. The knowledge of sins forgiven and that one is a son of God is satisfying. "Another thing which gives satislac tion is an intelligent optimism. Not a blind optimism, but one which looks around in the world, take recognizance of the existence of sin and of evil, gives its influence due weight, and then sees the good that there is and has faith in the future. This is God's world and not the devil's. The world is growing better and not worse. It is better today than it was in the time of Christ. Why? Because there are more good people in it. There were doubtless many good people then, scattered over the world among the heathen, people who lived up to the light they had men like Socrates and Plato, who would doubt less have accepted Christ if they had known Him but there are many more good people today. "Another source of satisfaction is the habit of giving. I wonder that men da not give more, for the satisfaction there is in it. I do not see why rich men hoard up their money until they die and leave it tor their relatives to (Continued on Sixth Paie.1 FRANK BROWN ARRESTED. Appears in Topeka, and Is Soon at His Old Tricks. The notorious Frank Brown Is again tinder arrest for forgery. Saturday he passed a check on a Mrs. Ray, who keeps a grocery store in North Topeka. The check was for $9, and he took $4 in groceries. The name signed to the check was "John Jones," and Mrs. Ray soon found it to be worthless. Mrs. Ray took the check to Brown's mother and she cashed it. Last night the police heard that Prank Brown was at his home on Curtis street. The house was surrounded. The offi cers were told that Frank had not been there for a week. The house was searched and Brown was found hiding in the cellar. Brown was at one time assistant city attorney. He has been arrested many times for forgery and other offenses, but each time has suc ceeded in escaping serious punishment. One time he was declared insane, and another time lie joined the army to escape. CALLS fOR HELP. Oom Paul Asks For Interven- tion of European Powers. The Hague, March 12. It is learned from a reliable source that President Kruger, through the consuls at Pre toria, has appealed for the intervention of the great powers in the Transvaal war, and has also appealed to the gov ernments of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. ALLEN WANTS TO KNOW Whether or Not McKinley Has Been Asked to Mediate. Washington, March 12. Under spe cial order the senate convened at 10 a. m. today, the hours before the regular hour of meeting to be consumed in the reading of the Alaskan civil code bill. During the greater part of the two hours devoted to the reading only two or three senators were in the chamber. The clerks in the two houses read 123 pages of the bill. Mr. Allen (Nebraska) offered the fol lowing resolution which was adopted: "That the president be required if not incompatible with the public interest to inform the senate whether or not any communication has been received by this government from its consular representative at Pretoria embodying the request of -the presidents of. the South African republics for mediation or intervention with a view .to ending the war now in progress between these republics and Omt Britain as reported in the public press and if not incom patible with the public interest he fur nish the senate with the copies of such communication or communications." Routine business having been con cluded, Mr. Rawlins (Utah) addressed the senate on our relations with the Philippines. He had read the bill of Mr. Spooner conferring authority upon the president to govern the Philippines un til congress otherwise provides. "That bill," said he, "is but the pro logue of the swelling act in the im perial theme." He had read the act of 1S03, conferring upon the president power to govern thj territory of Louisiana, Mr. Rawlins read some opinions of Kent .and other English publicists as a basis for his ar gument. PEACEMAKER. Uncle Sam Said to Be Taking That Attitude. Washington, March 12. There Is rea son to believe that the United States government is using its good offices to restore peace between Great Britain and the South African republics. This has not taken the shape of a proffer of mediation. That would be distinctly repugnant to Great Britain and accord ing to the rule of international law which has without exception governed the state department in the past could not be volunteered by us until it was known to be acceptable, to both parties to the war. But the United States might very properly serve as an inter mediary to transmit an appeal for peace and the terms upon which peace can be secured. The United States has successfully served in this capacity in the past no tably in the termination of the China Japanese war and it is believed its good offices in this line are now being ex tended. If this belief is well founded, then Adelbert Hay, United States con sul to Pretoria has been the instrument for transmitting to the British govern ment through the double intervention of the state department and Ambassa dor Choate an application from Presi dents Kruger and Stepn to be informed as to the terms upon which the war can be ended. The facts in the case will be fully developed in a day or two. AT A BOER C AMP. A Judge of the Supreme Court Un hitches Horses and Greases "Wagons. New York. March 12. A correspon dent of the Times, writing from Lorenzo Marques, says: A Dutchman gives an interesting account of a visit he recent ly paid to the Boer camp at Colenso. He made a short stay at the tent of Gen. Joubert, who at the time was engaged with his secretary and the telegraph wires, while close at hand and under the same canvas his sturdy spouse was placidly peeling potatoes as if no fatal issues were hanging in the balance. The rites of her hospitality were observed by the commandant geenral ordering the native woman Eva, who has accom panied him and his good spouse through many a fierce campaign, to bring the national beverage, coffee. At the camp an Irish fusilier, who had lust fallen into the hands of the n "remarked in conversation: "Sure, all the Boers oi've met have been Irish men." Certainly the collection waa a most cosmopolitan one. There were a few Afrikanders among them, but the majority were either Americana, Ital ians or Greeks. In the near neighbor hood Judge Kock and the general were cracking whips and stimulating lazy mules into activity, hitching and un hitching harness, greasing wheels and notching disselbooms as if such were the regular occupations of the chair man of the Volksraad and the judge of the supreme court. IT IS PLAGUE No Longer Douht That San Francisco Has It. Animals Inoculated With Tirus From the Body OF DEAD CHINAMAN. All Die With Plague Symptoms But the Monkey. Board of Health Decides It Is the Real Thing. San Francisco, March 12. At a special meeting of the board of health held to consider the plague situation, there were present besides the members, Dr. K.ln youn, federal quarantine officer; Dr. Gas saway of the United States Marine Hos pital Service, and Prof. Armstrong of the University of California. Dr. Kinyoun reported that all of the animals at the quarantine station on Angel island, which were inoculated with virus from the body of the Chinese who expired a few days ago under suspicious circumstances, had died, with the exception of the monkey, and it -was in a dying condition. An au topsy on- the rat and guinea pig showed that they had 'developed symptoms of the genuine bubonic plague. After discussing the matter the board decided that the Chinese who died at 101 Dupont street had been afflicted with the plague, A request was made for 100 vol unteers from among the members of the medical profession to make a house to house examination and aid the board is thoroughly fumigating and disinfecting the entire quarter. A quarantine was not declared, but the board adjourned at an early hour this morning to meet at noon today, when it is predicted that such ac tion will bo taken. The board of health has agreed that the work of inspecting Chinatown with a view to improving its sanitary condi tion shall begin at once. The section w-ill be districted and every day until every danger is passed, every house will be vis ited and every occupant inspected. Re liable Chinese will be detailed to accom pany the physicians and the police will render what assistance they can. These Chinese will be supplied for the work by the six companies. Until another case of plague develops, Chinatown will re main free from quarantine, but people are required to have as little communi cation as possible with the suspected dis trict. When the Chinese learned of the action of the board of health, there was an exo dus Irom Chinatown of those who are employed outside of the district, which may again be quarantined. Dr. J. M. Williamson, president of the board of health says: "Regarding the case in question, there is no cause for panic. It may be sporadic and no others may develop, but if sub sequent investigations show that new cases follow the one mentioned, I have every reason to believe the inspection just inaugurated by the department, will minimize the danger to such an extent the disease will not succeed in getting a foothold in the city." No alarm is felt by physicians who discuss the matter and some doubt is yet expressed as to the nature of the disease from which the Chinese died. Consul General Ho Yow says: "I believe that this is nothing more nor less than a ruse on the part of the board of health to prevent the liability to dam age suits which have frequently been threatened on account of the outrageous acts of last week in quarantining the Chinese a na.rterss- There nevi- w nnv I bubonic plague in Chinatown, but if there was l wouia De tne nrst person to assist in protecting the health of San Francisco. "The case in question was made the subject of a thorough examination by my self, and I will not hesitate to say that the public need not be alarmed. The man was sick for some time, and died of an ailment which is common, though not contagious. "If any more attempts are made to blockade the Chinese quarters we are prepared to procure injunctions from the courts and will protect the rights of our people as far as possible." Washington, March 12. The state de partment has been informed by the United States minister at Buenos Ayres that the bubonic plague has made its appearance at that important commer cial port. ON THERUN. Kentucky Republicans Fleeing From Impending Arrest. Frankfort, Ky., March 12. The war scare here has again apparently flat tened, though leaders on both sides still express grave fears as to the ultimate outcome. Belief among the Republicans that attempts will be made to arrest Republican legislators In connection with the assassination of Gov. Goebel has resulted in several members leav ing town. Democratic officials refuse either to confirm or deny the reports that such warrants have been issued al though it is admitted that more arrests will take place within a few days. It is asserted that Gov. Taylor is be ing urged to move the executive offices to London, where he will be safe from possible arrest, but that so far he has refused to ent rtain the idea. Both houses of the legislature met in the state house this morning. In anticipa tion of a possible attempt by the state troops to prevent the meeting quite a crowd gathered around the state house square at the hour of meeting but the members of the legislature were allowed to meet without molestation. The squad of militia under Lieutenant Pea-ke who started for London as an escort for Secretary of State Powers and Captain Davis, returned to Frank fort this morning. Outside of this, how ever, no reinforcements arrived and it is stated now that no more are expected. Adjutant General Collier arrived here from Louisville and immediately held a short conference with Governor Tay lor. Gen. Collier said afterward that Gov. Taylor had no intention of leaving Frankfort or of bringing any more troops here at present. Shortly after Gen. Collier's arrival at the state house grounds Sheriff Suter appeared and as sured Gen. Collier that no warrant for his arrest has been issued. Gen. Col Her smilingly assured Sheriff "Suter that he would be easily found In case a warrant is issued. Adjutant General John B. Castlemart arrived at 10 o'clock today and has been in conference with Governor Beckham and other leaders since that hour. The organization of the new state guard; under Beckham and Castleman is pro ceeding. Several companies in the state guard as originally constituted have gone over to Beckham, and it ia understood that the new company or ganized here yesterday and the com panies enlisted at Louisville and other points in the state will be mustered in at once. The plans for the organiza tion of the state guard are being car ried out in anticipation of the passage) of the Triplett resolution in the house tomorrow authorizing General Castle man to arm and equip a militia recog nizing Beckham as governor and carry ing the special appropriation of $100,000 to put It into effect. PLACED IN LOUISVILLE JAIL. Louisville, Ky., March 12. Secretary of Stp.te Powers and Captain Davis were brought here from Lexington it custody this morning and placed in the county jail. The prisoners were driven from Lexington to Lawrenceburg, where they took a Louisville Southern train for this city. 15 LIVEUGSL Deadly Tenement House Fire in Newark, N. J. Started hy Incendiary While Occupants Were Asleep. Newark.N. J., March 12. Fifteen per sons, a majority of whom were, child ren, were burned to death at a tene ment house at Morris and Fourteenth avenues about 5 o'clock this morning. Thirteen bodies were recovered from, the ruins within three hours after the flames had been extinguished. The building was a three story frame structure formerly used as a church, but transformed into a tenement housa with small rooms scarcely eight by ten feet in dimensions, opening into a nar row hallway on both the second and third floors, forming a veritable fire trap. This is right in the heart of the Italian district and the greatest ex citement prevailed. This feeling has been greatly intensi fied since 7 o'clock when it first became known that the fire was of Incendiary origin and within 15 minutes of the time when this report was first circula ted. Men and women well nigh crazed by grief ran tearing around the streets looking for the man who was responsi ble for the frightful tragedy, and threat ening: all sorts of vengeance. Three or four minutes after 5 o'clock tills morning the fiVe was discovered, but 4ong before -the fire apparatus reached the scene, the interior of the burning tenement was peopled with wild Italians running hither and thith er, unable to find means of escape. Ev ery room emptied its occupants into those narrow little halls and there waa no escape for the frightened tenants be cause of the jam and they could not get out. There were at least 12 fami lies in the place, 60 persons in all, of whom perhaps 50 were children' unabla to care for themselves. Four men jumped from a front win dow and several were hurt. The flames spread with frightful rapidity and tha wind sent the sparks southeast threat ening all the frame tenements in that direction. The place was like a roaring caldron when the firemen reached the place. The ladders were quickly put In position and then began the work of: rescue. One after another the women and! then the men were taken down while other firemen devoted their attention to drowning out the flames. This they suc ceeded in doing in less than an hour but during that hour a frightful sacri fice had been offered. Nearly every room in the house con tained its victim. Few were really burned to death. Most of them were smothered. The bodies were carried out by the firemen. PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD. TONY PALMISONO, 31 years, la borer. MRS. PALMISONO, his wife. PALMISONO. child. MRS. EUGENE CASILLO. CASILLO, child. CASILLO, child. CASILLO, child. CASILLO, child. MRS. NUNCIATA BALDI, 30 years, BALDI. girl 6 viars. MRS. GAETANI PALMISONO. BODIES PINNED DOWN. In different places in the ruins, hu man bodies may be seen pinned down by heavy timbers. The resourers are clearing away debris in the hope that some yet may be rescued alive.but there is little chance of any one now In the ruins being alive. Two victims have been taken to the hsspitaj. One of them is severely burned. The other was in jured by jumping from the second story of the burned tenement. Vito Credavo is locked up on suspicion of having set fire to the building. Cra davo, with his wife and two children, occupied the rear portion of one of the upper stories. He was arrested on a statement made by Virginia Di Prula, who was a boarder in the -house. Di Prula told Capt. Edwards that when he was awakened by the smoke he found Credavo and his family fully dressed and ready to leave the burning building. When Credavo was taken to the sta tion house he became much excited but denied that he had set fire to the build ing or had any knowledge as to the origin of the fire. ATTACKED BY TAGALS. Eight Americans Wounded in a Fight at Aparri. Manila, March 12, 5 p. m. Advices re ceived from Aparri, province of Ca gayan,'. say that while Major Ward and a company of the Sixteenth regiment was leaving that place they were at tacked at the landing on the river bank opposite the town. A persistent fight followed, resulting in eight Americans, including Major Ward, being wounded. The natives in the Ca gay an valley presumably insti tuted the attack. The dispatch adds that the Tagals are harassing the Ame leans.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, MONDAY EVENING, MAECn 12, 1900. Eczema! The Only Cure. Eczema is more than a skin disease, and no skin remedies can cure it. The doctors are unable to effect a cure, and their mineral mixtures are damaging to the most powerful constitution. The whole trouble is in the blood, and Bwift's Specific is the only remedy which can reach such deep-seated blood diseases. Eczema teaks sat on my daughter, sad con tinued to sprMd until her he&d was entirely coTered. She was treated by seyeral good doctors, but grew worse, and the UiSt areaaiui disease spreaa to her face. She was taken to two celebrated J... bealth springs, bat re- Cfived no benefit. Many patent medicines were taken, but without re fill t. until we decided to try S. S. S..and bv the time tne first bottle wan finished, her head be frfin to heai. A doxen bottles cored her com pletely and left her skin perfectly smooth, She now sixteen years old, and has a magnificent growth of hair. 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Telephone 606. 702 Kansas Ave. anger Of contracting Sickness, If you use ure Mater That's the kind fur nished by the TonokaWatorCo. Telephone 122. Qnincy Street. C2J (3 Sf6r Olrl UiUUU "(J 'f x f f pi 3 No D SPORTINGNEWS. Bright Outlook For Spring Rac ing at Memphis. Jockey Club Announces Dates For Fixed Events. A SEASON OF 20 DAYS. The Fast Filly Sofala Contin ues to Win at Oakland. The Chicago Clnh Offers $10,- 000 For Player McGraw. Memphis, Tenn., March 12. Racing at Montgomery park will be resumed on April 5 for the annual spring meeting, which will be of twenty days' dura tion, and It will mark the twentieth annual meeting given at the historic old course. The Tennessee perby will be run on April 16. Secretary Macfarlan of the New Memphis Jockey club has given out the fixed dates for the stake events, and it Is an important an nouncement for horsemen. They will now have a line on when the various stakes are to be decided and can pre pare their candidates accordingly. The Montgomery handicap will, as in for mer years, be run on the opening day. The Tennessee Oaks will be decided on the fifth day and the Tennessee Derby will be the attraction on the tenth day of the meeting. These are the most Important stake features of the twenty days' racing season. LIST OF STAKE EVENTS. The schedule of the stakes is as fol lows: Montgomery handicap, April 5. Gaston hotel stakes, April 7. Tennessee Oaks, April 10. Ardelle stakes, April 12. Tennessee Brewing stakes. April 14. Tennessee Derby, April 16. Lumberman's stakes, April 14. Cofton Steeplechase stakes, April 21. Turf Congress stakes, April 23. Memphis stakes, April 25. Peabody hotel stakes, April 27. Steeplechasin? will be made a prom inent feature of the meeting and from present indications there will be plenty of spectacular sport in store for the jumpers to figure in at the coming meeting. There have been some changes in the conditions of the various events, which have been made with a view of making the stakes of more value to horsemen. The club this year has abandoned all guaranteed stakes and nothing but added-money stakes are scheduled for decision. BEND OR AN RAN AHEAD. Defeated Imperious at Oakland So fala Continues to "Win. San Francisco, Cal., March 12. The Palace hotel stakes, at a mile and a furlong, was the feature of the card at Oakland Saturday afternoon. "Walter Jennings' great horse, Bendoran, car rying 124 pounds, won by a length from the fast closing Imperious. It was a procession all the way. Spencer got Bendoran oft in front and opened up a gap of three lengths at the quarter. Pat Morrissey and Impe rious raced abreast in second place to the half, where Morrissey gave it up. On the far turn the bunch closed in on Bendoran and it looked as if he were beaten, but he had plenty left. When Spencer urged him he opened a gap of two lengths in the next quarter. When they hit the stretch Imperious began closing but Spencer never moved. Bendoran was tiring, but Spencer kept his head up and landed him a winner by a DOd length. Storm K.mg. Rosinante and Topmast finished heads apart, three lengths back of Imperious. The latter carried ten pounds more than in the Burns han dicap and demonstrated he has more class than generally credited with. Barney Schreiber's great baby, So fala, took up 11S pounds in the 2-year-old race and made some of the best youngsters in California look cheap. The track was stickey, but the little chestnut covered four furlongs in :50, winning pulled up by two lengths. Sofala has started eleven times, won nine races and has been second twice. She is regarded here as a marvel. Other winners wer? Durward, Andrissa, and Cormorant. KANSAS CITY BALL CLUB. Nearly All of the Blues Have Put Their Names to Contracts. Kansas City, March 12. AH the ball players whom President Manning had reserved for the coming year, with th3 exception of Hulen, Slymer and Iburg, have put their names to contracts and they will report in Kansas City March 28, two weeks from next Wednesday. The men who will be called to report on that date are: Pitchers Patten, Cates, Schmidt, Gear, Hamilton, Simmons, Sparger, Lee. Catchers Gonding and Sullivan. Infielders Ganzel, Wagoner, Coue-h-lin, Hulen, Clymer, ThieL Gurheen, Schaeffer, Burns. Outfielders Halligan, Nagle, Furren, Green. In this list there are eight pitchers, two catchers, nine infielders and four outfielders, a total of twenty-three men. Of course it is impossible for so many players to remain members of the club and it is likely that President Manning will allow some of them to ko to minor league clubs. From the eight pitchers at least four good ones can be selected, and indeed there are three twirlers. Gear, Patten and Schmidt, who have been tried and have not been found wanting. BALL SYNDICATES. New York Paper Enumerates the Ex tent of the Evil In the League. The New York Sun enumerates the following facts in regard to syndicate ownership in the National baseball league: John T. Brush owns the Cincinnati club of the National league, the In dianapolis club of the American league, holds stock in the New York club, and has been accused of being Robison's backer in the St. Louis club. A. H. Soden owns a third of the Boston club, is the principal minority stockholder in the New York club, and is said to be the real owner of the Wor chester club of the Eastern league, which is ostensibly controlled by So den s manager. Frank Selee. F. A. Abell holds 40 per cent, of the stock in the Brooklyn and Baltimore clubs, is also a minority stockholder in the New York club, thereby being financially interested in three National league clubs at the same time. Frank De Haas Robison holds a ma jority at stock in the SU Louis club, Weak, Nervous People. 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Used in Dr. Hallock's private practice 50 years, and never known to fail. $1 per box, or six boxes sufficient to cure the most obstinate cases, $5. For sale by all drug stores. Rowely Snow, 600 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas, or sent direct from laboratory, prepaid, on receipt of price. Advice on all diseases from specialists. Free. Address Hallock Drug Co., 110 Court St., Boston, Mass. Established 1S48. Trade supplied by John W. Park Sons Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. and is also the owner of the Cleveland club, both of the National league. H. R. "Van der Horst owns 40 per cent, of the. stock in the Brooklyn and Baltimore clubs. Edward Hanlon and C. H. Ebbets each hold 10 per cent, of the stock in the Brooklyn and Baltimore clubs. A. G. Spalding owns a big block of Chicago club stock, and is befeved to still hold a few shares of New York club stock. BOSTON'S LATE TRAINING. Men "Will Not Leave For the South Until Early In April. Boston, March 12. The Boston team will be almost the last of the league aggregations to take up its spring practice. The men will not go south until April 3. The location of training quarters has not been selected, but will probably be at Greensboro, N. C, w here the team has been several times be fore. So many of the team's members are with the eastern college nines this sea son that quite a portion of the team will not need much hard practice to get into fine form. Others have been bowl ing and playing basket ball all winter, and they are fit to don uniforms now. The Boston management has 35 men un der reserve at this time, but only 18 will be taken south, and later this number will be cut down to 16, who will con stitute the playing force. Manager Selee says he has no doubt he can round hia nine into form very quickly, but nevertheless he favors dating contracts in future from March 1, so that he can have full control of the men earlier in the season. CHICAGO MAY HAVE M'GRAW. President Hart Bids $10,000 For the Baltimore Player. New York, March 12. McGraw. one of the Baltimore players, may be seen at Chicago's third bade the coming sea son. President Hart of the Chicago club offered S10.000 for him, but it was refused. It is assumed he will get the player at some price. Mr. Abell of the Brooklyn club wants McGraw to play in Brooklyn, and it will take a big bunch of money to secure him. Entries For Chicago Races. Chicago, 111., March 12. Secretary Nathanson of the Harlem Jockey club announces that in number of entries the seven spring stakes of the Harlem Jockey club, which closed March 1, broke all records for even those of sim ilar conditions. For the seven stakes Secretary Nathanson received 773 en tries, or an average of 110 per stake, the 2-year-old stakes securing an average of 123 each. Among the crack horses engaged are: Imp, Warrenton, Brisk, All Gold. Han O'Or, Raffaello, Richard J.. San Cecilia, Installator, Lieutenant Gibson, Rosinante, Algol, Whaterlou, Carnero, Belle of Memphis, Mozpah, Lieber Karl and many others. The five Lakeside Jockey club stakes received a total of 341 entries, so that for the twelve stakes Secretary Nathanson se cured an entry of 1,114 horses, a grand average of 93. These entries represent 222 stables. Comiskey and McGill Quarrel. Chicago, March 12. For some time there has been considerable feeling be tween Pitcher Willie McGill and Mag nate Comiskey, of the Chicago Ameri can league club. McGill says Comis key's offer of J160 a month is not suffi cient for him to make a living out of baseball and wants his release from reservation. Comiskey blames McGill for having criticised him through cer tain newspapers. Saturday McGill and Comiskey met in the Fisher building and Comiskey, it is claimed, threatened the pitcher with personal violence if he came to his office again. McGill said: "I am held under reserve by Comiskey and am therefore unable to sign with other ball clubs; yet when-1 go to him to ask about it he threaten to choke me if I ever come to him again. That's baseball justice for you. Baseball Berth For Sullivan. Helena, Mont., March 12. The Rocky. Mountain baseball league will be launched this season. It will be a four-club affair, with a ninety-six game season. The members are Salt Lake, Ogden, Butte and Helena. The two Utah teams nave been organized and at a meeting held here last night a stock company with 1,000 shares, at $a per share, non-assessable, was or ganized to father the Helena club. Ted Sullivan, the veteran ball manager and player, will manage the Bait Lake team: Gimlin, the Ogdens; W. H. Lucas.Butte, and VV. -fci. .Phillips, Helena. Hamilton May Join Giants. Boston, March 12. It is rumored here that Billy Hamilton will be sold to the New York club, and that Buck Freeman will play center field here this year. Freedman has been after Messrs. Soden, Billings and Conant for some time to give him the fleet footed Hamilton In the event of an eight club league. It is said here on good aur thority that the Boston club owners finally agreed to the transfer of Ham ilton. Friends of the outfielder claim that he is as good as ever and will put up a grand game for the Giants. Quinn Attaches Maher's Money. Youngstown, O., March 12. Peter Maher, though suffering from the foul administer by Conroy, left Saturday night for vVestchester, N. Y accom panied by his manager. Peter Lowry He will be joined there by Mrs. Maher. Money due Maher from the athletic club here was attached by John Quinn of Pittsburg on a claim of J1.000 for ser vices while manager. Lenny to Meet McGovern. Philadelphia, Pa., March 12 E. G. Barrow, manager of Industrial hall.has signed Terry McGovern and Eddy Lenny for a six-round go at that hall Thursday evening. Dougherty, the manager of Lenny, last night made an even money bet that Lenny would stay the limit and was willing to bet more the same way. Comiskey Wants Fisher. Richmond, Ind., March 12.' Chauneey Fisher, pitcher for the old St. Paul baseball club, now a member .of the local polo team, has received an offer from the new Chicago team, which will be a member of the American league. Fisher has served with the St. Joseph (Mo.), Brooklyn, Cincinnati and St. Paul clubs. COMING DRAMATIC EYENTS. The Clare Mathes Stock company will open an engagement of three nights at the Crawford theater with "The Shadows of a Great City" tonight. Popular prices will prevail and ladies will be admitted free tonight. "Under the Red Robe," which made so pronounced a success at the Empire theater, New York city, running for the entire season, wHl be the attraction at Crawford theater Thursday night. This now famous plav was adapted for the stage by Kdward Rose from the pages of Stanley Weyman's fascinating hovel. "Under the Red Robe" has been one of the most successful plays seen in New York for many years. The cast, scenery and appointments, which characterized the play throughout the country, will be given here in every detail. Mr. Paul Crazeneuve, who created so many admir able and important roles at the first class theaters in New York, will enact the role of the hero, "Gil de Berault," and Miss Amelia Gardner will be seen as "Itenee de Cocheforet," the heroine. "A Breezy Time," one of the annual visitors, will be the attraction at the Crawford theater Saturday afternoon and night. Augustus Thomas' "Arizona" will be at the Crawford theater next Monday night. UNCOMFORTABLE OUTLOOK. British Financiers Have a Hard Row to Hoe. New York, March 12. The Times' financial correspondent cables: "The British money market last week has been all budget and war loan. In stead of credits becoming cheaper, they have been dearer; first because the rush to clear tea, tobacco and spirits swept fully 2,000,000 pounds extra away from the money lenders, and secondly, be cause the commercial demands on the market are increasing. "The consequence has been that the market was never able to release itself from the power of the Bank of Eng land which lent and latterly discounted heavily daily at its minimum. "So poor did the open discount mar ket become that during the last three days it also quoted 4 per cent., thereby insuring to the bank a heavier share of business. Furthermore discrimination has begun to be exercised in regard to that class of bills drawn by the conti nental chiefly German banks and ac cepted by their own branches here, be cause the Bank of England refuses to accept these as security for loans or for discount. Some houses have been uecnniiiK lo Ld h.e iw uii Luis ciana Ui paper, others have bought sparingly at 44 per cent, discount. Crowds are flocking into the bank to lodge applications for the national war loan which was issued Saturday. It is already appl'ed for twice over in London alone, and I should not be sur prised were it applied for a dozen times over if the lists are kept ODen until Tuesday night. The quotation for scrip is 2 premium. Only 3 per cent. in cash is required to accompany the application, but a ten-fold application would mean the temporary locking up of 9,000,000 pounds even on this basis. and the market simply has not the money. Already it owes the bank about 5,000,000 pounds, and it must borrow more today. "The outlook is thus far from com fortable for those who speculated three weeks ago on the basis of a 3 per cent, discount rate in March and discontent is expressed regarding the dilatory ac tion of the treasury in releasing the tax accumulation. It might easily dis burse five or six millions, it is contend ed, and so make up all difference be tween adverse and favorable rates on money. "One banker asked the chancellor of the exchequer if the treasury would ac cept deposits of consols, scrip or float ers, in lieu of cash with the applica tions, and was referred to the Bank of England. This meant that cash alone would be received, a part of which must be borrowed at 4 per cent, to secure allotments of a loan yield ing barely 3 per cent. All of the 30, 000.000 may be paid up in full after April. 9, but the existing state of the market forbids the expectation that th's liberty will be freely embraced, and the prospect rather is that monthly recur rent pinches will occur in the market as the successive installments of three or four and a half millions become pay able. "Much depends upon the liability of the government to ship bullion abroad, which is quite an unknown factor. Big wars usually do involve this danger, and the mere dread that such will be the case i3 sure to maintain our mar kets in a rather fevered state. Easy money is short and may be put out of sight for this spring and summer. "The curious fact is that all the mil itary successes in South Africa have failed to bring animation back to the stock exchange. It is curious, but ex plainable. The markets both here and in Paris rave manipulated prices until they now stand well above all rea sonable limits not only for Kaffirs, but for copper mine shares and for all sorts of industrials, and even British rail way issues. The last named indeed have been bought on the assumption that money was going to be cheap, so now ft is all drag, drag, with efforts to sell whenever the news looks fav orable. "Stock exchange bears have no ap pearance of being overloaded, but the market bosses unquestionably are, as are also their dupes among the public. No Transvaal mine dividends either are coming in to -help to pay from 6 to 10 per cent, interest charged to carry time bargains or pawned stock move ments." An Aged Mason Dead. Abilene, March 12. Aaron Dresser, of Solomon, aged SI years, the oldest Ma son. In Kansas, died after a brief ill ness. He has been faithful to Masonry since young manhood, and was widely known In central Kansas. Independence Wins. Independence, March 12.. In the dis trict court Judge Skidmore gave a de cision in the street paving case in fa vor of the city. This permits the city to pave with brick as originally in tended, unless an appeal is taken, as will probably be done. KANSASNEWS. For Refusing to Eat a Slice of Gooseberry Pie After Being Made to Masticate a Pint of Candy and a Cake AN UNRULY URCHIN Is So Severely Whipped by a Teacher, It Is Said, That the Child Is Confined to a Sick Room. Queer Cause of a Suit Brought at "Wellington. fWellington, March 12. Judge J. A. Ray, a prominent citizen and state politician, today filed charges with the board of education against Miss Utie Kirk, teacher in the First ward school, for cruelty. The charges allege that on last Wednesday, Miss Kirk caught Clifford Ray, the 12-year-old son of Judge and Mrs. Ray, eating candy In school. She called him to her desk, made him empty his pockets, containing about a pint of red candy, and compelled him to stand before the school ana eat It all. She then compelled him to eat a quantity of old cake, and next attempted to compel him to eat a piece of gooseberry pie. The boy rebelled at this, when it is alleged he was cruelly whipped by the teacher, from the effects of which he is now and has for three days been in bed and under the care of a physician. Judge Ray asks the school board to in vestigate the charges, and, if they are found to be true, to discharge the teacher. It is understood that the teacher claims she was justified in whipping the child, and had instructions to do so from Prof. Bear. ROBERTS MAY EDIT A PAPER. Ex-Representative Mormon Is Ten dered a Vehicle For His Defense. Paola, March 12. B. J. Sheridan, one of the most widely quoted Democratic editors and a politician of state promi nece, announces today in his paper, the Western Spirit of Paola, that he has tendered that paper to ex-Congressman Roberts of Utah for a month, during which period Mr. Roberts is to edit it as a Mormon would run it. The idea is to give Roberts an oppor tunity to argue the matter of his recent expulsion from congress and to give publicity to the principles of Mormon ism, which cost him his seat in con gress. Mr. Sheridan says negotiations are pending with Mr. Roberts to this end, and that he expects to announce the date soon. SHE MADE HIM DANCE. Atchison Man Tells the Court Why He Wants a Divorce. Atchison, March 12. B. F. Fletcher has brought suit in the district court against Martha Fletcher for divorce, alleging that she has been guilty of ex treme cruelty. She insisted that he take her to dances and social enter tainments almost nightly, no matter what the state of his health might be, and, that when for the sake of peace he yielded, shel would neglect him and dance with other men. to his great dis tress of mind, also that for the past year she has so conducted herself as to make life a burden to him, and finally brought matters to a crisis by insisting upon a sale of the furniture, which was done, and thereupon she departed for St. Joseph, where she now resides. GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. Prof. F. O. Marvin of K ansas TJniver sity Delivers an Address. Lawrence, March 12. The first good roads convention ever held in Douglas county took place here Saturday in re sponse to the call from the board of county commissioners to the road dis trict overseers of the county. The meet ing was called to order by B. F. Hock inson. aMyor Gould made the opening address of welcome. Prof. F. O. Mar vin of Kansas university delivered an able address on improvement of district roads. The principal address was made by E. G. Harrison of the agricultural department at Washington. The Com mercial club of Lawrence entertained the convention at dinner in its rooms. A good road association of Douglas county was organized at night. TWO DEATHS IN A MINE. While Working at the Bottom of a Shaft Miners Loosen Timber. Galena, March 12. Two fatal acci dents occurred Saturday at the Pilot mine. Webb Sewall and Don Fisher were the victims. They were at the bot tom of the mine repairing the pump and in moving it, caused a timber used as a brace at the top, to work loose and fall a distance of 130 feet. It strnck each of them on the head and killed them instantly. Fisher's neck was broken and Sewell's head was mashed into a pulp. Sew ell was married and leaves a fam ily. Fisher is about 28 years of age and has been in Galena only a short time. A LUCKY BURGLAR. Got a Gold Brick That Proved to Be Genuine. Lebanon, March 12. The house of Ernest T. Derge was entered by a bur glar, through a window, last night, and a $60 diamond pin taken from his scarf, a small gold brick worth about $S0 and two pocketbooks, containing $30 or $40, taken from his clothes. FOOT CAUGHT IN THE STIRRUP Nephew of Dave Leahy Killed by a Runaway Horse. Wichita, Kas., March 12. Willie Wright, a nephew of David B. Leahy, was killed at Corbin, Sumner county. He fell from a horse and his foot caught in the stirrup, the animal dragging him several hundred yards. He was years old and was returning home from school "when the fatality occurred. FROM LUZON ISLE. The Remains of Charles Britenstine Arrive at El Dorado For Burial. El Dorado, March 12, The body of the late Charles Britenstine, hospital steward of the Thirty-second volunteer infantry, arrived here today from Ma nila. He died of illness at Angeles, Philippine islands, November 22, 1S99. 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DENTAL PARLORS, 511 KANSAS AVE., Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Over W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Co. Chickamauga, during the Spanish American war. The funeral will be held at El Dorado, Sunday, March 18, 1900. A number of the Twenty-first Kansas will attend and he will be given a military burial. AN INSANE FARMER. McPherson County Man Sets Fire to His Hous and Burns It Down. McPherson, March 12. Henry Han son of New Gotland township, set tire to his house Friday night, and then guarded the burning building with a shot gun. After the house had burned he still continued to walk about the premises carrying the gun on his shoul der. It is thought that he is insane and Sheriff Seitz went out and arrested him. Hanson lived on a farm by himself. Several days ago, he left home with a team and buggy and returned on foot a short time before setting fire to the house. THE GOVERNMENT SETTLES. Pittsburg Man Allowed an Old Claim For Stolen Horses by Ind ians. Pittsburg, March 12; E. L. Ross, the administrator of the estate of Melvin Ross, deceased, received a check yester day from the government for $7,610, amount of a claim for a drove of horses stolen by the Crow Indians in 1869 in Montana, where Ross lived at that time. The claim has been pending for seven years before the government, owing to the red tape precautions, and its final allowance is a source of great benefit to the heirs. FIRE AT HAYS. Destroys Grain Elevator and 5,000 Bushels of Wheat. Hays City, March 12. This town has had another big fire. About midnight Saturday, Cox's large frame elevator was discovered on fire and burned to the ground, with several thousand bushels of wheat. The fire was confined to that building, all adjoining being saved, Ellis fire department coming to our assistance. Loss about $9,000, in sured $2,000 on building, $1,500 on ma chinery, $1,000 on grain. A PHILIPPINE HERO. Body of Eli Goodreau Reaches Strong City Where Services Are Held. Strong City, March 12. The remains of Eli Goodreau, a private of Company D, Fourteenth United States infantry arrived here Sunday from the Philip pines. Memorial services were held at the Methodist church, conducted by Rev. J. B. Baker. The funeral party left early this morning for Miltonvale where the in terment will take place. Pensions For Kansans. Washington, March 12. Pensions have been granted as follows: Original Ralph Boyer, Keelville, $6; Corvine Patterson, Kansas City, $6. Increase Thomas Jefferson Melvin, Kansas City, $8 to $10; William H. Moore, Maxon, 8 to $12; George S. An derson, Parsons, $6 to $12; Peter Arley, National Military Home, Leavenworth, $6 to $8; John M. Peterson, Attica, $6 to Robert W. Burns, McPherson, $16 to $17; Albert Stewart, Clay Center, $14 to $17. Original widows, special accd. Feb. 24. Anna P. Nider, Waterville, $8; Mary S. Kilgore, El Dorado, $S. Republicans Won in Washington. Washington, Kan., March 12. The contest court granted a recounting of the ballots in the Duston-FoSter con test case for county treasurer. This re duced Mr. Duston's majority from 36 to 2. The court has refused a recount. Duston is the Republican treasurer elect and he has the same majority now that was first announced. Foster's attorneys claim they will carry the case to a higher court. Methodists at Chanute. Chanute, March 12. The South Kan sas M. E. conference is fast closing up its business and little remains now but the reading of the appointments today. The session has been the largest in the history of the district. Eureka was cho sen over Chetopa and Paola as the place for holding the next conference. Rev. Dr. Harry F. Ward closed his ser ies of lectures with a brilliant address on "The New Task of Methodism.' A Postmaster Arrested. Wichita,' March 12. Postmaster Grice of Gage, was arrested Saturday on the charge of buying goods with postage stamps, which resulted in the discovery of a shortage in his accounts. Grice is a prominent local politician In King man county and is known largely over southern Kansas. "The Creation'' at Newton. Newton, March 12. The oratorio of "The Creation" was given by the Ora torio society of Bethel colege in place of the usual annual concert. The chorus had 50 voices under the direction of Professor B. F. Welty, dean of the music department. There were seven soloists, who, with the chorus, did ex cellent work. The oratorio will be re peated on March 31. Trainload of Sheep Shipped. Solomon, March 12. A train load of sheep from the yards here, where 10,000 head have been fed during the winter, was shipped out, the scarcity of feed making such action necessary. Most of them will be taken to eastern Kansas. 13 the joy of the household, for with out it no' happiness can be complete. The ordeal through which the expec tant mother must pass, however, is so full of daneer and suffering that y i EXTRACTED WITHOUT PA!N. iM J MM Gold Fillings $1 up Silver Fillings, 50c to Si Extracting 25c With Odontunder EA. or Vitalized Air ..SUU The treatment of sensitive teeth cases as near as can be. B. LYON, D.D. S. SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. 5 CENT CIGAR. WE'LL DO YOUR HAULING RIGHT. Topeka Transfer Co. 509 Kansas Avenue. Office" Tel. 320. House Tel. 835. F. P, BACON, Proprietor. 8EE HE ABOUT STORAGE. BUY THE GENUINE YRUP QF FIGS MANUFACTURED BY CALIFORNIA FIQ SYRUP CO. XW VOTE THE NAME. MONEY TO LOAN. Monthly payments. Long or Short x line, x iiy ucgo aj x j Capitol Building and Loan Assoe'n, 534 KANSAS AVE. GEO. M. AOBLE CO., TOPEKA. KANSAS. Buy, Sell, and Manage Real Estate for owners'. Negotiate and collect mort gages and bonds for Eastern investors. Make settlements between Eastern investors and Western debtors. Thirty years' experience in the West. of many a room is marred by dingy, ancient Wall Pa per. What a change would be made by repapering with one of our handsome, artistic, and up-to-date patterns and it won't cost much, either. II. L. LARSB CO., 116 W. Eighth St. "We Do thelest Work" J E. O. DeMOaa. X M. VESWEIA, PENWELL Funeral Directors and Embalmers. First-Class Service at reason- T able Pricea. 4. L O. O. F. Building, 623 Qulaey X Topeka, Kanaaa. Tla. Its. Rest and Health, to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW8 SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY TEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILlS TEETHING, with PERFECT RTTCCES3. It SOOTKE9 tha CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Bold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twen-ty-flve cents a bottle. The girl who marries a title must ex pect to have her huaband lording it over her. 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B. a trial bottle will be given away free ti charge. B. B. B. for sale by druggists and Swift Holliday, 023 Kansas avenue, and Rowley te Snow, 600 Kansas avenue, Topeka. at $1 ppr large bottle, or six large bottles (full treatment), Com plete directions with each bottle. For trial bottle, address BLOOD BALM CO., KT Mitchell street, Atlanta, Ga. De scribe trouble and free, confidential medical advice gven. Why suffer the pangs of rheumatism when KOHL'S RHEUMATIC CURE gives quick relief and permanent cure. All Druggists. Price $1.00. The Finishing of Skirts. From Harper's Bazar. Velveteen continues to be regarded as the most wear-resisting skirt bind ing, but there is sufficient variety in the methods of applying it to warrant a word of description. The simplest plan is to line a bias strip of velveteen (two and three-quarters Inches wide) with stiff crinoline; apply to skirt from the right side, turn over and tack smoothly to the lining, employing the herringbone or feather stitch. Where the garment is of cloth a turned-up un lined hem is oil that is required, and the regulation width of such a finish is two Inches. Turned-up hems are not -approved of because of their bulkiness, but where there is a possibility of the material raveling its edge may be bound with lutestring. The novelty of the moment consists In the inlet cable-cord binding. This is done as follows: Select a heavy cable cord and baste it into a bias casing of silk, velveteen or corduroy, the exact hade of the material of the skirt. Now stitch the cable casing to the outside of the skirt, turn over, and hem the facing closely down to meet the cord. Where desired a row of machine stitching may be placed as close to the cable as pos sible, thus securing the cord still more firmly in place. The process is that known to needle women as "cording." This is an exceedingly useful method of fkirt binding, especially when applied to the renovation of gowns, since it counteracts the tendency to a shorten ing of the skirt usually observed after the garment has been rebound. Grand Army Coal. We have moved our office and yard to 511 East Fifth street, on west side Mo. P. depot, and we are still selling Osage City Shaft coal for $3.50 per ton, for spot cash, delivered. Call phone 150 and order your coal. $14,507 Pt Worth, Tex., and Return Via Sock Island Route. Tickets on sale March, 11 and 12, limi ted to March ISth. pacsways illi Pa Purely vegetable, mild and reliable. Regulate the Liver and Digestive organs. The safest and best medicine in the world for the CURE cf all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowels, Kidneys, Blauder. Nervous Dis eases, Loss of Appetite, Headache. Con stipation, Costiveness, Indigestion, Bil iousness, Fever, Inllarrimatiun of the Bow. elsf. Files and ail derangements of the In ternal Viscera. PKRFBCT DIGESTION will be accomplished by taking BAD WAY'S PILLS. Price 2;-ta. per box. Sold by all drug- flBts, or sent ov mail on receipt of price. LAD WAY CO.. to iUm street. New RAILROAD Mr. W. 0. Serin Replies to Claim Agent Richards. Rock Island Man Disagrees With Northwestern Official. EMPLOYMENT OF MEN. Present System Is All Eight Says Mr. Nerill. Contends That Discipline Is the Important Feature. In the late Issue of the Railway Age, Mr. W. O. Nevill, chief clerk to Super intendent W. H. Stilwell, of the Rock Island, in Topeka, replies to the re cent article of R. C. Richards, claim agent of the Chicago Northwestern j road, an extract of which was printed in the State Journal. Mr. Richards' article was on "The Systematic Selec tion of Employes," and was a plea for the establishment of a joint railroad employment agency in Chicago of com petent judges of human nature. In his reply Mr. Nevill says: "The article on The Systematic Se lection of Employes,' by Mr. Richards, which appeared in your issue of Feb ruary 23, was read with much inter est, and I must say frankly that I do not think the ideas he advanced are either theoretically or practically good. The responsibility of employing men has never been a part of my duties dur ing my fifteen years' experience in the operating department of a great rail way system. But during that time I have been closely allied with the em ployes necessary to properly conduct such a department, and in my experi ence in keeping a detailed record of men, I do not recall such a demoralized condition of the capabilities and char acters of the employes as Mr. Rich ards pictures, but quite the reverse. "As he fears that such grave respon sibility is too often left to a 'clerk or subordinate official,' I trust it would not be too presuming in the 'clerk' to make a few remarks, inasmuch as he seems to stand on a level with the claim agent, so far as employing men is con cerned. "It is quite evident that Mr. Richards has not thoroughly posted himself on the manner and customs of the vari ous railroads in the employment of men. Had he done so, he would not come forward asking the solution of a problem which has undergone a com plete revolution during the past few years. I dare say that none of the great questions that have come before railway managers in recent years has received a more earnest consideration than the employing and disciplining of their employes. I believe I can say, without exaggeration, that nine-tenths of the railways have adopted new and stringent rules bearing on thi3 sub ject, which leave little room for im provement. The 'old-timer" who a few years ago, could secure a position on any system and a3 often as he desired is today entirely barred. "The mental and physical condition of applicants on a majority of up-to-date systems is thoroughly probed by a re sponsible physician. There should be no fears from that direction. The morals and capabilities of the employe receive equally close attention by the heads of the departments employing them. Many systems have gone even farther and adopted an age limit, shut ting out the young and Inexperienced as well as the old and infirm. "I fear Mr. Richards' 'employing agent' would have responsibilities of immense proportions should he under take to employ ail the men necessary to run an operating department. He does not explain how he is to corral and hold the 'clean-cut, nervy and am bitious' young men, many samples of which class he would be compelled to hold in stock, pending a call to serv ice. I fear he would find that 'nerve and ambition' would not remain long on an uncertainty. The employment of men is best in the hands of that official who meets with the men in the daily performance of their duties, and in that way alone can he best judge their qualifications. A man's general char acter, family relations, recommenda tions, etc., all point favorably to his being a desirable man for efficient ser vice, but his employer is not confident until his mettle has been tested. "The importance of equipping a rail road with good, reliable, trustworthy men lies not so much in employing them, as in the proper discipline after once in tne service. I believe in civil service, all things being equal, and there is nothing that will bind the em ploye and employer more closely than to make the latter feel that he will re ceive due recognition and that there is no co-laborer with a 'pull' who will be given the preference, or that there will be no new man imported to receive the d( served promotion. I believe the Brown system of discipline will make greater strides in the direction that Mr. Rich ards wishes to accomplish than the theory he advances. Under this form of discipline, every employe stands on equal footing; he is credited for meri torious services and demerited for poor service. His standing is always be fore the eyes of his employer as well as himself. v ith such a system there can be no lunatics, lawbreakers, idiots, drug fiends or ignoramuses in the employ of an up-to-date railway system. SPLENDID IMPROVEMENTS. Santa Fe Will ErectHandsome Depot and Hotel at Albuquerque. Albuquerque, March 12. "While In this city Mr. J. E. Hurley, superintendent of the New Mexico and Rio Grande divisions of the Santa Fe, gave out the following information regarding the new depot and hotel to be built here this summer by the company: "The proposed new depot will oc cupy the ground now used by the ex press company at the depot and will extend out. as convenient, into the street toward the Armory building. The structure will be of modern de sign and large enough for purposes in dicating a city treble the present size of Albuquerque. "The hotel which will be constructed by the company will occupy the pres ent site of the M. P. Starara commis sion house, and extend south as far on Fifth street as the Armory hall. This piece of ground as designated will be occupied exclusively by a hotel building, as fine, if not better, than any new hotel erected for several years by the company along its yne of ranroaa. r rom tne Armory nail, aown to Coal avenue, and extending to within a few wards of the main track on the east, the present buildings will be, all Drunkenness Cored. It is jVow Within the Reaeh of Every Woman to Save the Drunkard. A Trial Package Mailed Free to All. By a new discovery which can be given in tea, coffee or food. It does its work so silently and surely that while the devoted wife, sister or daughter looks on, the drunkard is reclaimed even against his will and without his knowledge or co operation. Send your name and address to Dr. J. W. Haines, 1555 Glenn Bldg., Cin cinnati, Ohio, and he will mail enough of the remedy free to show how it is used In tea, coffee or food and that it will cure the dreaded habit quietly and per manently, also full directions how to use it. books and testimonials from hundreds who have been cured, and everything needed to aid vou in saving those near and dear to you from a life of degrada tion and ultimate poverty and disgrace. HOW TO QUIT TOBACCO. j A new discovery, odorless and tasteless, that ladies can give in coffee or any kind of food quickly' curing the patient with out his knowledge. Anyone can have a free trial package by addressing Rogers Drug Chemical Co., 737 Fifth and Race sts.. Cincinnati, Ohio, and easily drive foul tobacco smoke and dirty spittoons from the home. removed and the ground laid -out into a park and sodded or planted in blue grass." TRIAL, OF NICKEL, KAILS. Pennsylvania Road Has 300 Tons In Use. Philadelphia, Pa., March 12. The Pennsylvania Railroad company is now experimenting with nickel steel rails, and if they prove to meet all the re quirements it may cause these rails to be adopted on sections of the system where there are heavy grades or sharp curves. These rails are considerably harder than the ordinary steel ones, and they cost much more. The officials of the company have had this matter up for some time, and toward the latter part of last year it was agreed to give the manganese rail a test. Three hundred tons were bought and about four months ago these rails were put down. A few rails broke, but those in service now are being care fully watched. So far, it is said, the rails are giving satisfaction, and they show no signs of having had hard serv ice. "DOUBLE HEADER" HEARING. Texas Commission About to Take Ac tion in Regard to Practice. Austin, Tex., March 12. Acting on the complaints of railway employes, the railroad commission today gave notice that it would, on March 17, give an open hearing to consider the matter of double-headed trains as employed on certain railroads in Texas. It has been represented to the com mission by many persons that the use of two locomotives in drawing a single train has resulted in disastrous acci dents and injuries to the persons em ployed upon and required in the man agement of such trains, and that the continued use of such trains, entailing as it does for the persons employed on them extraordinary and constant haz ards which are not incident to a train drawn by a single engine, constitutes an abuse requiring immediate correc tion. In view of such conditions it is suggested to the commission that the practice of employing more than one engine in the movement of a single train over any railroad in Texas be prohibited. MEMPHIS DONATES TO Y. M. C. A. Co-operates With Missouri Pacific in Maintaining the Organization. Fort Scott, March 12. The Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis railroad has made a monthly appropriation for the support of the "ST. M. C. A. of this city equal to the Missouri Pacific, thus forming a triple combination with these two railroad systems and the city. This means a broader and more far- reaching work than ever before. The association is already earn ing on nine different departments of work and will add at least two more, namely, a room and apparatus for the work in ama teur photography and a dormitory for train men, with hrst class sleeping o rest rooms. The museum of curios will be increased in a great measure by ad ditions from Manila, also a collection ot stuffed birds and other things of in terest. FROM GOODLAND. The railroad will organize a baseball team. H. D. Farley has gone to Arkansas for a visit. Eleven cars of coffee went through here for Manila. The measurements for the new read ing building have been taken. Roswell goat No. 74 is here for re pairs. Pat Brown brought her in. Engineer Sam Class has the name of being the best checker player in rail road town. The speed recorders are a thing of the past. They were abolished March 1st. Engineer Agnew has severed "hi3 re lations with the Rock Island, and gone elsewhere to look for work. At a regular meeting of Goodland division No. 422, Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers the following officers were elected: J. 'YV. Pack, chief engi neer; P. J. McBride, first engineer; E. Carmichael, second engineer; George Kelly, first assistant engineer; W. Powers, second assistant engineer; E Greenman, third assistant engineer; S. lain; E. C. Wiley, insurance and Jour nal agent. FROM LAS VEGAS. Fireman Will Gauntlett resigned at Katon and lett for Topeka. John Frey, who is employed at Las Vegas, is visiting his relatives in Al buquerque. H .H. Fray, T. F. McCoy and W. L. If Ton haven't a regular, healthy movement of tbe ooweis every oay. ou re bicjc. or win De. Keep your bowels open, and be well. Force, in the shape of Y latent physic or pill poison, is dangerous. The smoothest, easiest, most perfect way o keeping Ul, Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or (iripe. 10c. 60c Write for free sample, and booklet on health. Address St-rii.j Reaied; topuj, Ckleas, Mntreil, to Tart. SUm. KEEP YOUR BLOOD CLEAN BST FOUTHE CANDY ZJs CATHARTIC TRADE MARK RCe7ZIHD Kelly, employes of the round house at Raton, have been promoted to firemen. Mrs. Nixon, mother of General Su perintendent W. C. Nixon, of the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe railroad, arrived in Albuquerque from Los Angeles to pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. A .E. W alker and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Bell. After a week there she will go to Gal veston to see her son. The newly elected officers of the G. I. A. to the B. of L. E. here are as fol lows: Mrs. Christal, past president; Mrs. Trainer, president; Mrs. Blevens, secretary; Mrs. Morse, vice president: Mrs. Milroy, treasurer; Mrs. Sam Smith, chaplain; Mrs. H. P. Smith, guide; Mrs. Hartley, sentinel. FROM BELLEVILLE. The Rock Island company is unload ing from 10 to a dozen cars a dav of 80- Ib steel rails to replace the 60-Tb rails now in use between Narka. 14 miles east of Belleville and Smith Center, about 60 miles west of here. The work of relay ing the rails will commence a3 soon as the frost is out of the ground. The company is preparing to resume work at the Montrose stone quarries. It is expected to commence the work of ballasting the roadbed from Lebanon west on or before the first of April. The Kock island company succeeded in storing away 3,000 tons of ice here, besides shipping 1.500 tons to other places on the system, cut off the lake in Belleville. The ice is from six to nine inches thick. The work of ornamenting the Rock Island park here with shrubbery, plants and trees will soon commence. The club house which was so conspicuous in the center of the park and which isn't a particle ornamental has already been moved to one corner. When this park is completed it will be the most attrac tive on the Rock Island system in Kan sas. TAYLOR TELLS WHY. Kentucky Governor Explains Issuance of Pardons in Advance. Louisville, Ky., March 12. According to a statement made by Governor W. S. Baylor to a representative of the Com mercial, he has granted a pardon to each of the persons for whom warrants have been issued charging them with being accessories to the assassination of Governor Goebel, including Secretary of State Caleb Powers and ex-Secretary of State Charles Finley. In his state ment. Governor Taylor recites the con ditions under which he claims to have been elected and charges the Democra tic contestants for state offices with conspiracy to secure control of the gov ernment. He continues: "Notwithstanding these conspirators were defeated at the polls as to th state offices, they succeeded in securing a majority in each of the two houses of the general assembly and in retaining in power the state canvassing and counting machine. "While many Democratic members were honestly elected, yet others were elected by the manipulation of dis honest precinct officers and county can vassing boards before and during elec tion, and then, after the election, by i system of counting in and counting out until the majority aforesaid was oDtain ed. As thus constituted, the general assembly and canvassing board have declared that the will of the people as expressed at the polls shall be set aside. It is needless to say that such con spiracies as this almost inevitably pro duce revolution, because a free people will not willingly be deprived of their right of suffrage or consent that the minority instead of the majority shall rule.. "Pending this unfortunate struggle, the Hon. William Goebel, the contestant for the office of governor, was assassi nated by some person whose identity is unknown. Thereupon a conspiracy was formed to fasten this heinous crime upon all or some of the state officers elected by the people, the purpose being to obscure and cover the political rob bery and to terrorize and destroy all opposition. In order to carry out this foul conspiracy, they procured an act appropriating $100,000, ostensibly for the purpose of detecting the criminals and have employed a lawyer whose course in the criminal practice in Cincinnati was so odious as to cause a riot, re sulting in the destruction of the court house and the loss of over forty lives. "Following this, an employe of the Cincinnati Enquirer has made affidavits charging that Hon. Caleb Powers, secretary of state; his brother, John Powers, a captain of a company of state militia; W. H. Culton, a clerk in tha auditor's office; Hon. Charles Finley, ex-secretary of state, and Captain John W. Davis, policeman of the state house grounds, conspired, aided and assisted in said assassination. Warrants were issued, and said W. H. Culton was dur ing the night of March 9, taken from his home, where his wife and child were sick, and incarcerated in the county jail without bail or being given an oppor tunity to secure bail. "On the day of said assassination, CHARLES f If) rt v- -Z' This is the man who says that wh ile he was United States Consul at Pre toria his official correspondence was opened by English postal authorities, and having been read, sealed again, with "V. R." on the envelope. Now he wants to know why. Holland Whittaker, -whose residence is in Butler county, Ky., was arrested and charged with said crime and assassina tion, and was placed in jail and kept confined without trial for over one month in defiance of the provisions of law, requiring a speedy examining trial and that a person charged with crime shall be brought out every two days. Upon the trial, he was held over with out bail, notwithstanding there was ab solutely no evidence introduced show ing his guilt. "For some cause, or without cause, our courts, composed almost entirely of Democratic judges, have become so partisan that it is practically, if not absolutely impossible for any one not of their persuasion to obtain a fair trial. As organized the courts are courts o conviction, instead of courts of trial. "Under this state of affairs, believing that each one of said persons is in nocent of any complicity in said crime, and further believing that the enormous reward will secure the conviction of these men, however innocent, I deemed it my solemn duty to issue pardons to them, in order that these political con spirators might not be enabled to de prive them of their liberty or life. The guilty men should be punished; but de signing men controlling the courts should not be enabled to shed the blood of innocent men, and, if it is in my power to prevent it, I pledge myself in the name of God and humanity that it shall not be done. WARRING TONGS. Prospects For a Treaty of Peace Among Chinese Factions. San Francisco, March 12. The Chron icle says: It is probable that the warring Chinese tongs will be brought together for the purpose of effecting a peaceable settlement of the difficulties which caused the death of three prominent. Chinese within the last two weeks. The Wah Ting and Sin Suey Ting tongs have been arrayed against the Suey Sing tongs and while the former orga nizations started the shooting the latter retaliated in a terrible way a week ago when two prominent members of the firstnamedtongvvereshot down In their places of business. Through the in fluence of the consul general, Dong Hung, the head of the Sin Suey Ying tong, will come to the city and meet the leaders of the other organizations and -try to effect a peace treaty. GRIEF FOR HUGO Prevents Mrs. Langtry From Giving a Function in St. Louis. St. Louis, March 12. Mrs. Hugo de Bath, better known as Mrs. Langtry, will not give the afternoon tea and con cert that had been proposed for the ben efit of wounded British soldiers in South Africa. Her business manager, C. E. Hamilton, states that her health will not permit the extra work that would be necessary to give such a function. Mr. Hamilton said: "All things being well, she would un doubtedly have given the function, but Mrs. De Bath is at present greatly wor ried over the condition of her husband, Captain Hugo de Bath, who is very ill of fever in the military hospital at Cane Town. Under these circumstances her personal manager, Mr. Edward Michael, has decided that it would be courting a break down of her health to permit her to take on herself any extra duties. AMERICANS SHUT OUT. Sixty Insurance Companies Barfed From Japan. Tacoma. Wash.. March 12. Oriental advices state that permission to do gen eral business in Japan has been refused sixty foreign insurance companies. most of them American. Japanese officials state that this results from the fact that their applications have failed to comply with the Japanese insurance laws. Though Corea has never formal ly assented, Russia regards as accepted her proposal of several months ago to loan Korea several million yen in re turn for exclusive mining privileges. The Russia and French cable and telegraph systems in Siberia, China and Indo-China are soon to be connected. Fight "With an Outlaw. Wichita, Kan., March 12. A special to the Beacon from Tecumseh, Okla., states that Roger Bruno, alias Jim the Tough, arrested for horse stealing and murder, attempted to escape from Sheriff Grace. The men had a fierce struggle but Grace succeeded in killing Bruno, but is himself seriously if not fatally injured. FttWorth and Return $14.50 Via the Santa Fe. Account Cattlemen's Association. Tickets on sale March 11-12. Final limit March 18th. Two through trains a day. Through sleepers and free chair cars. See T. L. King, Agent, Santa Fe for particulars. E. MACRIM. rf& v A Tit 'i t V S'P if

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The medicines are especially adapted for those who suffer from weak lungs, coughs, sore throat, catarrh, grip, con sumption, and other pulmonary trou bles. But they are also of wonderful effi cacy in the building up of weak sys tems. :n purifying the blood, making flesh, and restoring to weak, sallow people, rich and healthy constitutions and complexions. Female troubles and delicate chil dren's ailments are speedily relieved. THE FREE OFFER. To obtain from me these fourFREE do is to write, mentioning Topeka State tCLDr- T- i.S1cum' 96, and 98 tine address. The free medicine will then you good, you will recommend it to HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Do you think doctors ought to help an incurable patient to die?" "If he can't die without medical assistance, yes!" Detroit Journal. On the Tugela. Corporal "So you were taken off your guard?" Sentry (who allowed a Boer to rush the lines) "No, sor! I wuz takin' off my boots." Philadelphia Record. Love's Toung Dream "Wouldn't it be lovely, George, dear," murmured the romantic maid, as the sleigh started off and he tucked the robes about her, "if we could only go through life to the end in this manner?" "I'm not so sure about that," replied the matter-of-fact young man. "It wouldn't cost us much for coal, but just think of the livery bill." Chicago News. A Cure. "Somehow," said the highly respectable gentleman, "I can't ever get over my boyhood fear of a policeman." "Why don't you try running a saloon?" asked his friend. Indianapolis Press. THE FEAR OF HUMBUG. Prevents Many People From Trying a Good Medicine. Stomach troubles are so common and In most cases so obstinate to cure that people are apt to look with suspicion on any remedy claiming to be a radi cal, permanent cure for dyspepsia and indigestion. May such pride themselves on their acuteness in never being hum bugged, especially in medicines. The fear of being humbugged can be carried too far. so far. in fact, that many people suffer for years with weak digestion rather than risk a little time and money in faithfully testing the claims made of a preparation so reli able and universally used as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Now Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are vastly different in one important re spect from ordinary proprietary medi cines, for the reason that they are not a secret patent medicine, no secret is made of their ingredients, but analysis shows them to contain the natural di gestive ferments, pure aseptic pepsin, the digestive acids, Golden Seal, bis muth, hydrastis, and nux. They are not cathartic, neither do- they act powerfully on any organ, but they cure indigestion on the common sens plan of digesting the food eaten thoroughly before it has time to ferment, sour and cause the mischief. This is the only secret of their success. Cathartic pills never have and never can cure indigestion and stomach troubles, because they act entirely on the bowels, whereas the whole trouble is really in the stomach. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets taken after meals digest the food. That is all there is to it. Food not digested or half digested is poison as it creates gas, acidity, headaches, palpitation of the heart, loss of flesh and appetite and many otner troubles which are often called by some other name. They are sold by druggists every where at 50 cents per package. FOUR BOTTLES The mainstay of the entire system in a flesh-building, nerve and tissue-renewing food. Kvery sick person needs strength. This food gives it. Many people get the complete sys- tem for the sake of the food, which they! themselves need, and give away the other three preparations to their, friends. The second article is a tonic. It is good for weak, thin, dyspeptic, nervous people. For those who have no appe- tite, who need bracing up. Thousands take only the Food and the Tonic. The third preparation is a medicinal healing jelly, in a patent collapsible tube. It cures catarrh. It heals all ir ritation of the nose, throat and mucous membrane. It gives immediate relief. It is also a dafnty application for sore lips, chapped hands, etc. Perhaps a million people need this jelly without any of the other articles. The forth article is a cough cure. The most expensive cough cure (to make) on the market. The only one that can positively be relied upon. Contains no dangerous drugs, and is absolutely sate for children. Goes to the very root of the trouble, and not merely alleviates, but cures. The four together form a panoply; of strength against disease in what" ever shape it may attack you. invaluable preparations, all vou have to Journal in which you read this article New York giving your name and full be sent you, in the hope that if it dos your friends. Best Dining Car Service. Only Depot !n Chicago on tins Elevated Locp. California. THE: LAND OF SUNSHINE. J4A2TT E0TJHS SAVED BErWSSW KANSAS POINTS AND PACIFIC COAST BY TAKING THE UNION PACIFIC. Palach Slkepino Cars. Free Kecliniso Chaik Cabs. Dikiso C'aks, Meals a la Cartb. Fistsch Light. Stiam Heat. H. C. BOWMAN, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Room 38, Columbian Bulldiog, TOPEKA, KANSAS.

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJIINAX, MOXDIZ E.VEXIXG, MARCH 12. 19.00. 4- TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL ET FRANK P. MAC LENXAK, VOLUME XXVII No. 61 Official Paper of the city of TopeKa. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. i Daily 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 earner system. Kv mail, one vear I)v mail, three months Weekly edition, one year PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building, S00 ana 802 Kansas avenue, corner of Eignui. SEW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. SUock Exchange Bldg. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bell Phone 577 Oom Paul Is reported aa seeking a compromise. Diplomacy la an art in war as well as In peace. Queen Victoria has not yet announced an intention of visiting her South Af rican colonies of the Transvaal and Or ange. A way to reduce the number of state officers in Kentucky has finally been discovered. It consists in placing one set in jail. Eugene Debs boldly announces that lie is in favor of the trusts and yet it is open to doubt that the trusts will support him for president. That actions dictated by policy are a compromise with wrong was never more clearly demonstrated than In the passage of the Porto Rican bill. The senate still tarries in the Quay case. But little cares the silent states man from Pennsylvania, Florida fish ing improves as the days lengthen. The Democrats and Populists are not saying much about the Porto Rican bill. They don't need to. The opposi tion is fighting their battle for them. It is fortunate indeed for the be sieged citizens of Mafeking that the automobile had not become a fad in South Africa. The horse has proved most useful as an article of food. General Funston writes from Luzon that he is busily engaged in "beating swords into ploughshares." Of course the one presented by Kansas isn't in cluded with the weapons of the Fili pinos. Everything is favorable for an old time westward movement of emigration this year. States north of us are mak ing extensive preparations for captur ing a large share of it. Kansas is a good advertiser but something in the way of direct and united effort is a great help in securing whatever is de eirable. St. Paul Dispatch: This is the season f the year when a cool head and an even temper are more to be desired than great riches and better for the health than much medicine. Passions ate running high and partisans are saying harsh things about other partisans.and the rule of common sense threatens to be temporarily suspended. Grant died, and the United States still live and grow greater; Bismarck was gathered to his fathers, and Germany still holl3 her sway; Gladstone is no more, and Britannia still rules the waves. Your candidate may not be nominated, but the bank clearings will continue to bo reported and the government buildin-; Btill grow at the rate of a stone a day. Pass the bromides, gentlemen, and keep cool. THE LOBBY CRACKS THE WHIP From the Chicago Inter Ocean. What caused congress and the ad ministration to face about on the Porto Rico tariff bill? Numerous excuses fo;' this lightning change have been p it forth, but each has been abandoned, a.1 most as soon as offered. Not one of them has had any influence with the people. Not one has been an adequate explanation. Not one has borne the stamp of sincerity. Not one has told the truth, namely, that it was the lobby. In June last W. W. Mount declared in a high tariff magazine that the American sugar growers looked with disfavor on Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines. Mr. Mount assumed that the administration policy toward these lands would be fatal to the sugar in terests of this country. To prevent free trade in sugar with our island passes Bions, he said, "sugar producers all over the United States, with a vast con tingent of foundrymen, railroad sys terns, commission men, and banks whose capital floats as it were largely in molasses, had prepared to make a strong fight in congress for the protec tion of this industry." The pertinence of these remarks to the act of infamy perpetrated in wash ington on Feb. 28 is pointed by the fact that the head of the lobby which went to Washington to fight against the people's policy of free trade with Porto Rico was Henry Oxnard, the ad mitted champion of the sugar interests in the United States, as well as the con fessed antagonist of the expansion policy brought about by our war with Spain. Mr. Oxnard's activity In secur ing the 15 per cent tariff from the ways and means committee has beeu pub lished repeatedly in the correspondence of every newspaper man who sends in telligence from Washington to this city- This support which he received from the tobacco interests of the east is also a notorious fact. Hence, despite excuses and pretexts put forth by the men who support the Porto Rico monstrosity, the public is forced to the conclusion that the majority of the Republicans in. the house of representatives were com pelled to repudiate their own convic tions and to violate the convictions of the American people under the pressure exerted by the sugar interests, accord ing to Mr. Mount's plan.and re-enforced by the tobacco men of the east. Without doubt this was a powerful organization. It certainly -was powerful enough to bend the authorities In Wash ington to its ends. Nevertheless we be lieve Its power will prove as nothing against the convictions and purposes of the American people. ED HOWE'S GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. The people who bathe only once in two weeks, are in the majority. By the term "society leader" Is meant a woman who invents schemes to keep people out of bed who would otherwise retire, early. If a man has solved the problem of heating his entire house at small ex pense, he has as great claims to a place among the proposed forty immortals as anybody. We have noticed that when a man is deeply interested In politics, most of his children are boys, and there is no prospect that his line of politicians will run out. Parents should remember that their children are fearfully tired of hearing stories of their youth, which they have heard hundreds of times, and complain to other children. It often happens that a pretty girl imagines that the men who look at her are admiring her, when in reality they are wondering where she got such an ugly hat. The new school buildings in New York city have free shower baths for the pupils. They already had kitchens conducted on sanitary plans. It is get ting to be so that any one can fare bet ter anywhere else than at home. Who said there was nothing new un der the syn,? An Associated Press de scription of a swell Washington wed ding says that the interior of the church resembled the "corolla of a huge flower." This la the only new thing in the society line of descriptions since "banked with flowers" came in at Mrs. Noah's receptions. In most neighborhoods there Is a wo man who seems to have nothing to do but stop busy people who are passing her house, and insist upon detaining them for a few moments' conversation. We are told that children should go to Sunday school, to learn religious truths. iet the day schools teach evolution, which is directly opposed to the relig ious truths taught in the Sunday schools. "It is surprising how many mistakes you find in the newspapers,"said a wise man yesterday. "Here is the word 'cotillion' in the Globe spelled 'cotillon.' It is a wonder the editor did not know that there was no such word as 'cotil lon.' Then one of his children went to the dictionary, and found that "cotil lon" was the correct word. "I take this means," writes Daysey Rickseeker-Appleton to the Globe, "of thanking the kind friends who so grac iously assisted me in getting engaged to be married by inviting the young man to take me to call on them in the evenings. Without their assistance, it is possible that he may have gotten away." Mrs. Lysander John Appleton sends a statement to this office to prove that she keeps house for a family of five, on $6 a week, "including everything." The expense list is itemized, and coal, water tax, gas bills, clothing, meat, flour, milk and butter do not appear. Still, it is probably as correct as any similar claims of women's economy, and we herewith point to Mrs. Lysander John with pride. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Practice sometimes makes a perfect nuisance. A remarkable natural curiosity is that of a woman. The mother-of-pearl would make a jewel of a mother-in-law. It's an easy matter to ignore an in sult aimed at somebody else. If a man has pluck and action he will always find the means and ways. Exeprience comes high, but you needn't tell your neighbors what it cost. Washington Notes. Washington, D. C, March 12. Mike Schmidt, of Junction City, Kas., has been appointed an engineer at Fort Riley. Kas. James E. Bronson has been appointed a substitute letter carrier at Winfield. Kas. Bids were opened yesterday at the Indian office for buildings at Kiowa agency, Oklahoma. The bidders were: H. C. Neelay, of El Reno. $13,653; Spich nail Mitchell, of Wellington, Kas. $12,964; J. B. Betts, of North Topeka, Kas., $13,247; George H. Jewett, $13,450. From Vlm&hington How a Little Boy Was Saved. "Washington, D. C. "When our boy was about 16 months old he broke out with a rash which was thought to be measles. In a few days he had a swelling on the left side of his neck and it was decided to be mumps. He was given medical attendance for about three weeks when the doctor said it was scrofula and ordered a salve. He wanted to lance the sore, but I would not let him and continued giving him medicine for about four months when the bunch broke in two places and became a running sore. Three doctors said it was scrofula and each ordered a blood medicine. A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy and in a short while his health improved and his neck healed so nicely that I stopped giving him the medicine. The sore broke out again, however, whereupon I again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a com plete cure. I do not think there will be even a scar left. I cannot speak too highly of Hood's Sarsaparilla and I rec ommend it everywhere I get a chance." Mks. Nettie Chase, 47 K St., N. E. Like Magic. A complication of troubles, dys pepsia, chronic catarrh and inflam mation of the stomach, rheumatism, etc., made me miserable. Had no appetite until I took Hood's Sarsapa rilla, which acted like magic. I am thoroughly cured." N. B. Seeley, 1874 West 14th Ave., Denver, Col. If you have failed to get relief from other remedies try Hood's Sarsapa rilla. It cures when all others fail, because it is Peculiar to Itself. BUTLER'S BOOK. Writes of Leayen worth and Out rages Committed There. Scores Officials For the Condi tions Which Now Exist. HE COMPARES TOPEKA. Calls Attention to' Conditions in Capital City. Discusses Robbery of Old Sol diers In Klondike. "The- Kansas Klondike and Leaven worth Inferno," is the title of a little book which has just been published by M. N. Butler. It is a history of the in famous dens adjoining the Leavenworth Soldiers' home. It also contains informa tion concerning the luO or more saloons in the city of Leavenworth; the Tim Burk, Pat Noonan, Donald McPhail and John Boyer letters from the Klondike to the State Journal, which created so much comment a few months ago, and editor ials from various papers on the subject of the Klondike. In his introduction Mr. Butler says: "The notorious Klondike is just outside the National Military Home, twenty-two miles north of Kansas City. One mile south is the village of Lansing, with the frowning walls of the Kansas State Prison, and about a thousand convicts. To the north three miles is Leavenworth City with its twenty thousand people, and still farther north two miles is the Mili tary Fort with its soldiery and their monthly pay roll, and the Federal Prison where Is confined hundreds of counter feiters, moonshiners, mall robbers, and the most dangerous characters in the west. Criminals, their relatives, friends and associates gamblers, toughs and thugs, are constantly coming ana goiner. besides discharged ex-con victs that settle here to raise familtps nd xnawn their offsDrinfTS on the community. Some three thousand old soldiers, the unfortunates of the late civil war, are inmates of the beautiful Soldiers' home. Their pension roll Is nearly one hundred thousand dollars quarterly, and the childish old Vets are the easy prey of knaves and scoundrels. Kxpert confidence men and the slickest rf The. demimonde, from far and near. swarm like buzzards, to fleece these aged warriors ana tne regulars at tne uotl. Esrteeiallv is Delaware township and the Klondike the center of this maelstrom of viciousness and depravity. A score of trustys. spectres of crime in striped suits. range the hills and confront one at every turn and cross roads. Squads of hard ened beings under escort 01 aeaniy weap ons and armed guards parade the high ways to and from the quarries and other works. The unearthly screech of the prison whistle every morning reminds one of the arch Demon as it echoes and re echoes over the cliffs and hills, calling the sable minions to their daily tasKs All these environments, conditions and surroundings combine, and the very at mosphere seems filled with black angels and taiien spirits 'Of clanking fetters, low mysterious groans. Blood crusted daggers, and uncofflned bones Pale, gliding ghosts, with fingers dripping gore, And blue flames dancing round a dungeon door.' "With these introductory remarks we now present the most astounding evi dences and facts, proving conclusively that in the state of Kansas at this mo ment is a cesspool of wickedness, worse tnan tne bowery, five foints or jvtui berry district m New York city, more dangerous than Tombstone or Leadville. where murder stalks at noonday and pan demonium reigns at midnight. For months the Dress has teemed with ac counts of this modern Sodom, and yet the half has never been told." In his chapter on "The Leavenworth Inferno," Mr. Butler says: "From the preceding pages, it will be seen tnat when tne .Klondike is wiped out forever the work of protecting the old soldiers will be only besnn. From the home to Leavenworth, the aged vet erans must run the gauntlet of ten awful road houses to get to an 'Inferno' of over two hundred saloons and murder mills in the city. The demoralizing in fluence of this plutonian aggregation is state wide. They are leading the rebell ion. They are as illegal and unlawful uoionel uan Antnony to tne contrary not withstanding as the Klondike. This cow er for evil and crime is as much greater as is their numerical strength. Like the Klondikers, they come up every month and plead guilty to violating the consti tutional prohibitory law of tne state, and tiav the officials for their connivance. Those officials and records are ample evidence ana aDsoiute proor or open or ganized teason. The saloon fixtures and paraphernalia are as self-evident as counterfeiting apparatus, and. with the liquor in tneir possession, and men get ting drunk, should send the proprietors to prison as surely as to find counterfeit er's molds and bogus money in a man's possession. "During" the soldier's reunion, fn Tn- peka, Officer McElroy suspicioned that a joint was running just outside the grounds, tie telephoned Chief Kamsey, and received orders, over the telephone, to pull it. "But I have no warrant," saia tne onicer. "iou aon t neea one. Just pull it," said the chief. And thev pulled it, and confiscated kegs of beer and bottles of whiskey. This is the way mey ao Dusiness m tne capital, and F. R. Millspaugh, Episcopal Bishop of Karu sas. says: "For instance. Topeka is a citv of fiftv thousand inhabitants so that it is quite a town. You can walk the whole length ui -runsas avenue, me principal street or the city, and not see a single saloon on either side.' "Compare this with the rub-ridden city of Leavenworth, with its filthy, stinking gin-mills, blear-eved denizens, and drunken orgies. Topeka gives the literary and religious world a Charles M. Sheldon; Leavenworth a William Page, who wanted a special hell set apart for the saloons, dives and blind tigers. v "An old soldier was limping along on two canes on one of the principal streets of Leavenworth, passing a joint, when a female rushed out and grabbed him by an arm, and faced him toward the sa loon door. He hesitated and another fal len ang-el took him by the other arm. He still held back and a third denizen of the place in calico pushed him from behind off the sidewalk inside the dive. Thev argued that being a large pensioner he must have some cash about him. "Tim Burk. in a letter to the Topeka State Journal, October 19th, 1S.M9, says: "Voluminous proceedings have been in stituted against some of the 'small frv,' while the real principals and proprietors are unmolested. Before the grand raid, the other day. to pull nine stool pigeons, "due and timely notice was given," and only a few bottles of innocent soda water was found. Then, to leave thirteen Klon dikers and ten roads houses doing an immense traffic that ought to come to Leavenworth. is adding insult to In jury. As soon as the sheriff's back was turned, everything was in place again, and running as usual.' "And this was the way the Klondike was closed. Nine dummies were pulled, four cited for trial, and, at the last mo ment, the prosecution backed square down, compromised, ana turned the noted outlaws free to prey on socieiv. Nobody punished and none of the real criminals disturbed. Simply changing barkeepers, putting up the signs 'restaurant,' "eating house.' 'lunch room.' and displaying a few pies, bologna sausages, cheese and cookies, does not change the deadly char acter of the Klondike. What a roaring farce, from start to finish, an eternal disgrace to the annals of Kansas. An il lustrated article on Klondike, in the To peka State Journal, fully sustains the foregoing. "The ten road houses are not in the Klondike, and nearly every one carries a bloody Tecord from one to three awful murders, while the unwritten history of the saloons in the "City of Transgres sors" would cause the flesh of a canni bal to crawl with very horror. Their doings are too revolting for publication. Business men go armed, for their lives, not only a.erainst the floating rabble, but to protect themselves from official bullies, from mavor to iustice of the oeace and I common 'cop." tm SOD? gQ2 you are free from Headache, Dizziness, or General Languor. You must preserve your health to insure happiness. If you have children, you owe it to them; if you have parents, you owe it to them; if you have neither, you owe it to yourself to take Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It is easy to take. Yon will like it both in taste and results. It is put up in loc (ten doses ioc), 50c and $1 bottles. SOLD BY ALL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUOOISTS. Pepsin Syrup Company, flonticello, Illinois, U. 5. A. RAILROADS PERSIST. Urge Democrats to Change Date of Their Convention. Kansas City.March 12. The sub-committee of the national Democratic com mittee appointed at Washington to make arrangements for the national convention in July arrived here today and after Inspecting convention hall went into executive session. The mem bers here are Messrs. Stone of Missouri, Johnson of Kansas, Wilson of Colorado, Campau of Michigan, and Walsh of Iowa, secretary of the national com mittee. A committee of the local pas senger agents met the committee this afternoon and argued for a change of date for the convention pleading that if held on July 4 as planned the rail ways will not be able to offer proper facilities because of the usual excur sion business on that date. They urge that the date be changed to July 3. IT WILL COME DOWN. Copy of Mr. Sheldon's Alleged Letter to a New York Paper. In a recent conversation a represen tative of this paper ascertained, direct from Mr. Sheldon himself, a number of interesting things which have not here tofore been printed. In submitting to Mr. Sheldon as an advertisement an ar ticle which had appeared in this paper, Mr. Sheldon said that certain matter attributed to him had never been given out by him. "Why," said the reporter, "I took this myself from the Chicago Record, one of the most reliable newspapers of this country." "I cannot help it," said Mr. Sheldon, "I did not say it." "The State Journal,' continued the re porter, "would certainly have omitted this matter had it been known that this was not yours as it pretended to be." This conversation lead Mr. Sheldon to say, in substance: "Do you know that the New York' Journal some time ago published what purported to be a for mal letter from me, wherein I am rep resented as addressing the editor of the New York Journal? At the close of the alleged letter is my own signature. I wrote no such letter." "That," continued the reporter, "is what injures the newspaper business. Such misrepresentations on the part of one paper or correspondent are like bad preachers in the pulpit they hurt the business or the profession." "Somebody told me the other day," continued Mr. Sheldon, "that you 'bad it in for me,' to use an expression the party himself used to me." "There is nothing in it, Mr. Sheldon." "I did not believe there was; the most cordial relations have existed between us." "That is true, Mr. Sheldon, and those relations still continue." Walking down to the business office in company with Mr. Sheldon, who had in his hand copy for a State Journal ad, which he had accepted, and was about to turn over-to the advertising manager, the reporter noticed upon the west wall of the Capital business of fice, a page taken from the Topeka Capital itself containing the identical alleged letter to which Mr. Sheldon had just referred. "I presume," said the Journal man, "that this page will come down, from that wall on Tuesday." "It will," said Mr. Sheldon, smiling. It is to be noted in this connection that this letter alleged to have been written by Mr. Sheldon, but not written by him at all .appeared originally in the New York Journal, as part of an entire page devoted to the Capital, with a facsimile of the paper's heading, etc., etc. The matrix of the page was obtained from the. New York Journal and the P 4)71 jNE trial on your might print here. Pensin. If vour stomach same thing reprinted in the Topeka Captal about a month ago. The "souv enir" on the wall was this particular printed page. THE HOWE "LAY SERMONS" First One of the Series of Six "Will Ap pear Tuesday Evening. The first one of the six "Lay Sermons" by E. W. Howe, editor of the Atchison Daily Globe and author of "The Story of a Country Town," which "Sermons" have- been written for the Topeka State Journal and which will be copyrighted will appear in this paper Tuesday even ing. One will appear each day for six issues. There has been an enormous demand for these "sermons" and seven or eight metropolitan papers asked for them and secured them. It was not thought until the last few days that the demand for them would be so great. As stated in Saturday's paper, the circulation which will be given Mr. Howe's signed articles will be more than 600,000, above the large circulation of this paper. EXPECTS WAR TO LAST. England Counts on a Year Yet, at Least. London, March 12. At the commence ment of the debate in the house of com mons today on the army estimates the parliamentary secretary for the war office, Mr. Wyndham, declared that re cent events did not Justify at the pres ent time any diminution in the provi sion for the further conduct of the campaign in South Africa. The finan cial cost of the .war, he declared, was not immediately altered by fluctuations of failure or success. It would be rash at present to think that the number of months the British army would remain in South Africa was likely to be mate rially shortened. So the government estimates included that was believed to be enough money to continue the efforts at full pressure for another six months and at half pressure for six months thereafter. LOCAL MENTION. The trustees of WTashburn college will give a supper at the Elmwood club Friday evening for Topeka business men. The six-year-old son of Mr. J. W. Robbins. Santa Fe trainmaster in this city, was operated on for suppurating pleurisy at the Stormont hospital this morning. The child is seriously ill, but the indications are favorable to his re covery. Noon meetings will be conducted this week at the Y. M. C. A. Wallace D. Struble of Chicago spoke today. Fol lowing is the programme for three suc ceeding days of the week: Tuesday, Dr. D. M. Fisk; Wednesday, Dr. Chas. M. Sheldon; Thursday, A. C. Rankin of Chicago. Santa Fe west bound passenger trains 5 and 1 were two hours late in reaching Topeka today. The delay was due to the flooding of a portion of the Santa Fe track just east of Chillicothe, 111., by the overflowing of Coal creek, a branch of the Illinois river. The ice in the stream carried away wagon bridges and piled them on the Santa Fe line, while the water submerged the track several feet. All traffic was blocked from 2 until 10 o'clock this morning. The passenger trains were sent around the flooded track over another road, and in this way were delayed only a couple of hours. part will do more to convince you of its merits than anything we You need no remedy to keep your stomach in order except Dr. Caldwell's Syrup is in order, vour bowels are Generally resrular, and if your bowels are regular. JNMEWJSRAW Three Nights, Commencing Monday, March 12th. CLARA MATHES COMEDY COMPANY. All Special Scenery. A Brilliant Repertoire of High Class Plays, and Refined Specialty Entertainers. MONDAY EVENING. MARCH lath, will, be presented the powerful Comedy Drama, "SHADOWS OF A GREAT CITY." Big Bargain Matinee Wednesday. Popular Prices, 10c, 20c, 30 c. Ladies will be admitted Free Monday night when accompanied by a person holding a paid 30c ticket. THURSDAY, MARCH 15 The Big Dramatic Spectacle, "UNDER THE RED ROBE" The Brilliant Romance of the Days of Cardinal Richelieu. Two car-loads of Massive Scenery Effects. Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, 1.00. Beats on sale at Rowley Snow's. iWWWWWW WWkWi WWW WWWWWWft 9 tieiiam s 3 Don't buy a book until our big CLEARANCE SALE, g which commences one week from today, Mon- g day, March 19, and lasts for one solid week, a Watch the papers for prices, and come and see 3 for yourself. 711 Kansas Avenue. Kellam Book and Stationery Co. SEW DUTCH MINISTER Presents His Credentials But Doesn't Mention the "War. Washington, March 12. Baron Gov erns, the newly arrived minister from the Netherlands, presented his creden tials to President McKinley today. He came first to the state department, and was escorted by Secretary Hay to the White House and introduced to the president. The usual complimentary speeches were exchanged, and notwith standing a suggstion that had been thrown out to the effect that the Dutch minister might have something to say about mediation between Great Britain and the South African republics, the addresses contained no references to that subject. Died in a Low Resort Dick Hearst, a gambler died suddenly last night at a disorderly house on Kansas avenue, between Second and Third streets. Hearst had been living there for some time. He went to bed last night about 1 o'clock in apparent ly good health. He intended going to Wichita today. This morning he was found dead in bed. It was thought at first that he had committed suicide by taking poison but there was nothing to show that he had done so. His death is thought to have been caused by heart disease. Bishop of Verona Is Bead. Verona, Italy, March 12. Cardinal L. De Canossa, bishop of Verona is dead. He was the oldest member of the Sa cred, college and was Austria's candi date in the conclave which elected Pope Leo. CONSTIPATION INDIGESTION STOMACH TROUEUlANH SSOUtAMCJffi Book Sale TWO MEN FAINTED. Much Excitement at the Rankin Meeting Results. George Woods, a young man who is subject to attacks of epilepsy, fell to the floor in a fit at the First Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon during the progress of the Rankin meeting. George Badders, another young man, fainted when he saw Woods in convulsions. The occurrences caused considerable excite ment for several minutes. The church was packed at the meet ing, and the oppressive atmosphere was responsible for the epileptic attack and the faint. The two young men were car ried out of the church and revived. A BLOW FROM JEFFRIES Results in the Death of an Italian Boxer in Paris. New Tork, March 12. An Evening Telegram special cablegram from Paris says: The Italian boxer Guydo who con fronted James Jeffries in Paris, Bevera! months ago, died yesterday in the hos pital Boucicault as the result of a blow received in the chest. Guydo began to split blood immedi ately after the contest and also took a cold. Complications set In and the pugilist became very weak and thin as a skele ton. He was buried today in the church Saint Cecils near the hospital where he died. Ball Team For Columbus. Columbus, O., March 12. John Riley, of Columbus, has secured the Interstate league franchise for Columbus, insuring the Buckeye capital a baseball team the coming season. V

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