The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 11, 1900

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LAST EDITION. AY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL. 11, 1900. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. BRITISHJEFEAT, Reports of Another Terrible Re verse Beach London. Emanating From Boer Sources They Are Doubted. GEN. ROBERTS' CABLE Makes No Mention of the En gagement. British Loss Reported at 600 Killed and Wounded. Besides 800 Captured by the Boer Army. New York, April 11. A Tribune dis patch from London says: The seventh month of the war in Bouth Africa opens with reports from Boer sources of another British disaster. If the news ran be trusted a terrible reverse has been inflicted upon the British arms. According to an official announcement in Pretoria, telegraphed by the News correspondent, a battle has been fought south of Hrandfort in which the British suffered a loss of 600 killed und wounded, in addition to S00 cap tured by the Boers. This intelligence is amply continued by the Mail's corre Fpondent on the Boer side, who reports from Brandfortnhat General IJe Wet on Saturday defeated the British for the third time within a week, the scene of this last engagement being Meerkats f ont.in. No confirmation has been received from British sources of the reverse, and it would be advisable not at once to give these statements of British losses their face value. The present announcement may. after all. be merely a rehash of the Boer version of Sannas Post and Reddersburg, although it should certainly be borne in mind that the Mail's telegram speaks distinctly of a third British defeat. KOBKKTS DOT-:SN'T MF.NT1GN IT. London, April 11. Lord Roberts wires 1o the war ollice from Blcemfontein, inder date of Tuesday, April 10, as fol lows: 'The enemy have been very active during the past few days, tine com mando is now on the north bank of the 'ran ire river, not far from Aliwal Xorth, while another is attacking Wep ener. The Karris'. n there is holding: out bravely and inflicting serious loss on the Boers. Major Springe of the Cape mounted rifles was killed. No other casualties have been reported as yet. The troops are being moved up rap Idly. A patrol of six men of the Sev enth dragoon guards, under Lieut. 'Wet herly. w hich had been reported missing since April 7, has returned, sat-ly." As the foregoing dispatch does not mention the alleged reverse on Satur day at Meerkatsl'ontein. the Boer tele grams are not credited at the war office and they are further discredited on ac count of the discrepancies in the dis patches, us Meerkatsfontein in one message is located near Brandfort and In another it is located southeast of Bloemfontein, the places being 100 miles apart. General CJatacre's recall is accepted as being in the nature of a recall, though no reason is given for it, and it tv ill be associated in the public mind ".vith his lack of success. Lord Rob erta criticised his management of the Stormberg attack, and possibly Oat ncie having arrived an hour and a half too late to rescue the Reddersburg force may have decided his return. General Bundle, seemingly, succeeds General Gatacie. and according to a dispatch from Bloemfontein the com manders of several brigades are about to be changed. MORIS BRITISH ARRIVING. London, April 11. The Reuter Tele gram company's correspondent at Ali wal North wiring at 9:30 this morning, "There is no further news from Wepe ner. Too cloudy to heliograph. More British troops are arriving." HOLDING THEIR OWN. Aliwal North. April 10. The British loss in the fighting at Wepener yester day was 11 killed and 41 wounded. Fighting was resumed todav. The British are holding their own well. BOKRS WARN PORTUGAL. London, April 11. It is learned that the Boer governments have formally no tified Portugal that they consider the shipping of British troops and muni tions of war to Rhodesia by way of Ileira. Portuguese East Africa t i tantamount to hostile action. This Jiowever, will not stop Gen. Sir Freder ick Carrington's force from entering Rhodesia. Whether or not the Boers will make reprisals upon Portugal re mains to he seen, though the best in formed opinion here inclines to the be lief that the Boers are not likely to back up their protest with action that would bring them into hostilities with Btill another power. BOERS SHELL BRITISH CAMP. Ladysniith, Tuesday, April 10. The Boers opened tire this morning earlv Fending shells into the British camp at J-., amis, angle from three positions wide ly separated. The .shells did no dam age, .the troops moved out to recon noitre and found the Boers in strong force and well fortified. One naval 4 7 inch guu replied to the Boers, who have again placed a Long Tom in position jmrni.iL. law e-KOCLAIMFD Colesburg. Cape Colonv, April 11 In view- of the state of unrest across the border. Lord Roberts has proclaimed a warning to the Cape Colonists that fur ther acts of hostility will hp treated with the utmost rigor of martial law GATACRE SENT HOME Bloemfontein, Tuesday, April 10 Gen Ctataore (the commander of the Third division) is about to return to England Gen. Pele-Carew has been appointed to ihe command of the Eleventh divis ion. Several changes are lik'.y to be made in the brigide commands. STRATHCONA HORSE ARRIVES Montreal, April 11. A cablegram re ceived this morning announces the ar rival at Cape Town of the transport Monterey with the Strathcona horse Al Ion board were well. One hundred and sixty-three horses died on the voy age. ALL TO ST. HELENA. Simor.stown, April 11. Owing to the unfavorable conditions for keeping the Boer prisoners here the authorities have decided to ship them all to St. Helena with the least possible delav. -The sick ness among the captured "burghers is abating. FIRED 100 POUND SHELLS I-adi'smith, Tuesday, April 10. JEven- inf? when the Boers commenced shell ing tho British were drilling, and one private was killed and another was wounded before the soldiers were with drawn from the range. Then the naval brigade opened fire and drew a heavy Boer fusillade and two of the armored cruiser Philomel's gunners were killed. The naval men stuck to their positions, however, and the Boers unmasked six guns, including a 100-pounder and sheila fell in all the British camps. After three hours' bombardment the British fire slackened and the burghers cleared from a kopje on the right when a British shell lit on the spot occupied by their gun. Another commando was seen moving toward the British left probably with the intention of flanking but the British shells forced them to re tire. The British advance pickets were continually sniped, but few casualties have been reported. In the afternoon the naval brigade again fired a few shells. It is rumored that a body of Boers has gathered south west of Elandslaagte with the apparent intention of cutting the British line of communications. Gen. Clery directed to day's operations. Gen. Buller visited Klandslaagte to day. BRITISH LOSSES. The war office issued this afternoon a return of the total British casualties up to April 7. It was as follows: Killed In action, 211 officers and 1.960 men; died of wounds, 42 officers and 465 men; missing and prisoners, 16S officers and a. til men: died or disease, 4i officers and 1,485 men; accidental deaths, 3 offi cers and 34 men; repatriated invalids, 288 officers and 4,934 men; total, 13.365, exclusive of the sick and wounded now in hospital. oTwtaeh 1 vd Lbe mm lim mmm To the war office returns of casualties must be added the losses of the last week and the wounded, aggregating about 10,000 men, making a grand total of upwards of 23,000 officers and men put out of action. MERELY PAUSING. When Koberts Gets Ready He "Will Go Ahead. New York, April 11. A dispatch to the tribune trora London, says: By the grace of the censor the mill tary situation is confusing, but it is not an unintelligible maze. The British inaction in the Free State and Natal is not caused by an Impasse like that re sulting at Chieveley, Modder river and Stormberg from the reverse of Decem ber. It is a halt rendered necessary by a systematic preparation tor an irre sistible movement into the Transvaal. Lord Roberts and Sir Redvers Buller w ill advance when transport and equip ment are in readiness and they will op erate simultaneously and not be divert ed from their goals by attempts of Boer raiders to scatter their forces. This is the view, of close observers in touch with the war office, who assert that the British communications are not in danger and that the offensive operations against the railway lines are not serious. They add that Lord Rob erts will pay as little heed to the raider in the southern and eastern districts of the Free State as he did to the Dutch operations around Colesberg at the op ening of his campaign, but will strike northward toward his own objective point with the certainty that the field south of Bloemfontein will be cleared by his own advance. They also affirm that some fresh surprise will be plann ed by which Gen. Warren's division will be brought into the Free State over the mountains in co-operation with Gen. French's cavalry brigades.but they neg lect to give practical evidence in sup port of their conjectures. Press dispatches make it clear that there has been fighting for two davs at Wepener, where Gen. Brabant, with the colonial forces, has been attacked by three Boer commados with several guns. The result of Monday's artillery practice was favorable to the colonial troops, but yesterday's attack was more severe and determined. Gen. Brabant's forces are reported to be well supplied w ith provisions and ammunition and in occupation of a strong position. Trie Basutos are greatly excited by the Boer operations on the edge of their terri tory, and it is most difficult for the British agent to hold them under re straint. The nearest point garrisoned by British troops is Aliwalnorth, but Wepener is apparently isolated and completely surrounded bv the Boers. There is no confirmation of the report that a large Boer force is marching to- warel Snnngfontein and there is no proof that the railway or telegraphic communi cation has been broken south of Bloem- loruem. hir Henry Rnndell and the advance guard of the Eighth division are now re ported to lie heading for Springfontein in stead of Kimocrlev. If this be true. Ma feknig will be compelled to shift for It- sen until lioro KuDerts compels the con cent ration of the Boer forces bv an in vasion of the Transvaal, although the latest dispatches show that thp mrrknii is convinced that a relief column is on the way irom ivimoeriev. I he towns of the Free State, through which general elements recently march ed. are showing signs of uneasiness and revolt, but the alarmists are not justified in tneir asse. nons that Lord Roberts' army is in danger of being cut off from its base of supplies. The inventions with which the papers are filled are based upon the absurd exaggeration of the strength of the Boer raiders. Heavy cannonading is reported from Elandslaagte and Sunday river, but there is no decisive news from TJatal. The Boer nenee commission Vina nt-riverl in Europe, where it will be cooilv received at every continental capital. Whatever popular sympathy there may be for the Dutch cause, no European government is prepared to rteiare war on Great Britain, nor to undertake to dispatch an armv of several hundred thousand men to South Africa, Those are the onlv conditions under which intervention would serve any practical purpose, after the explicit warnings given by the British govern ment. It is expected in diplomatic circles that Messrs. Fischer, Wolmarines and Wessels will make a. short stav on the continent and will cross the Atlantic in hone of drawing the Americans, with the help of politicians, into some kind of am buscade. Spiritualists in Session. Chicago, April 11. Spiritualists from all parts of the country met here today, for the third annual mass convention under the joint auspices of the National Spiritualists' association and the Illi nois State Spiritualists' association. No formal programme will be carried out during the three days' sessions, as the convention is purely a fraternal and social gathering, but many prominent lecturers in the field of Spiritualism are present and will speak. Mrs. Cora V. L. Richmond delivered the address of wel come at the opening of the session this afternoon and National President H. D. Barrett of Boston and State Vice Presi dent James Freeman responded. Mansfield Is Up Again. Cleveland, April 11. The condition of Richard Mansfield the actor, who has been ill since his arrival here last Sun day has improved sufficiently to permit him to appear tonigbt. Mr. Mansfield has been suffering from acute laryngi tis. Weather Indications. Chicago, April 11. For" Kansas: Fair tonight and Thursday; continued cool tonight; warmer Thursday; northerly winds becoming variable. END ISJEACIIED. Final Struggle Over the Porto Eican Bill. Chester I.Long the Busiest Man iii Washington. RALLYING HIS FORCES. For the Supreme Test of Party Strength. Scarcely a Chance For Defeat of the Measure. Washington, April 11. Intense Inter est was manifested in the house of rep resentatives today In the final contest over the Porto Rican bill. At 11 o'clock th3 committee on rules assembled in Speaker Henderson's private office and settled the day's programme, fixing the final vote for 5 p. m. today. The special rule provided for the occasion, allowed 20 minutes on each side to debate the rule, and on its adoption a debate on the bill until 5 o'clock. It was expected that this arrangement would bring a test vote on the rule early in the day as it was arranged that the rule should be brought in immediately after the reading of the journal. The speaker and Messrs. Dalzell and Grosvenor voted for the special rule and Mr. Richardson, the Democratic member of the committee voted against it. Early in the day the party managers were exerjing their utmost endeavors to assemble a full vote. The measures adopted were almost unprecedented in their thoroughness. On the Republican side there were 25 or 30 absentees but Representative Long, the Republican "whip" was in telegraphic communica tion with every one of these and it was known on what train each would ar rive. Mr. Long summed up his work by saying that every Republican would be present or paired with a single ex ception, Boutelle of Maine and it was hoped to pair him later. It is impossible to guard against sickness, flood or disaster," said Mr. Long, "but barring unforeseen mishaps. I look for the passage of the bill as it came from the senate by a majority of from three to nine." Representative Richardson, the Dem ocratic floor leader would not venture a prediction, saying that with such a nar row margin one unexpected mishap might turn the tide. Mr.Enderwood.the Democratic "whip" counted on not more than five Demo cratic absentees, three of them being sick men. But the Republican estimates of Dem ocrats unpaired ran up to nine, viz: Bailey of Texas; Stailings of Alabama: Fox of Mississippi ;Cochran of Missouri: Crowley of Idinois; Ridgeley of Kansas ana Itobertson, Davey and Meyer of Louisiana. The sick list included Robertson, Crowley and Ridgeley. It was expected however that Mr. Ridgeley might venture out for the vote and Mr.Fox was expected by train. The Democratic managers also claimed that a pair had been arranged for Mr. Bailey which would have to be accepted. The half score of Republican mem bers who oppose the bill held a confer ence at the eapitol shortly before noon. Eight members were present and the reports presented showed that a total of nine Republican votes against the bill could be relied upon. Mr. McCall of Massachusetts summed up the situa tion from that standpoint as follows: "We have nine Republican votes. Be yond that all depends upon the presence of Democratic members and that is an unknown quantity to us. But the vote will be close." THE CLOSING STRUGGLE. The closing struggle over the Porto Rico tariff bill in the house attracted great crowds to the galleries, and all the preparations indicated a field day replete with exciting incidents. Excitement was at a high pitch when the speaker's gavel fell at noon. As soon as the reading of the journal was concluded Mr. Dalzell (Penn.), one of the leaders of the majority and a mem ber of the committee on rules, present ed the special order under which the house was to operate, as follows: Resolved, That immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the com mittee of the whole house on the state of the union shall be discharged from the consideration of H. R. 8245 (the Porto Rico bill) and the senate amend ments thereto; that the same shall be considered in the house until 5 p. m., Wednesday, April 11. 1900, w hen without delay or other motion a vote shall be taken on the motion to concur in the said senate amendments en gross, and all members shall have leave to print on the subject of said bill and amend ments for ten days from the adoption of this rule." THE PREVIOUS QUESTION. Upon the conclusion of the reading of the rule, upon demand of Mr. Dal zell the previous question on its adoption was ordered. This gave 20 minute3 for debate on each side under the rules. Mr. Dalzell said he would discuss the rule briefly. On February 28 the house sent to the senate the Porto Rico tariff bill. The amendments attached by the senate furnished a civil govern ment for the island. It was the opinion of the majority, he said, that those amendments should be concurred in. There had been enough discussion on the subject, he said. What the coun try desired was not debate, but ac tion. Mr. Richardson, the minority leader, called attention to the fact that the rule would permit the house to vote only upon a single proposition. If it had been possible for the senate to add to the iniquity of the original bill, levying 15 per cent, of the Dingley du ties on goods going into Porto Rico, he said he had done so in the so-called civil government amendment. Under the guise of a civil government, he said, the senate had Imposed an im perialistic government upon the people of the island. He asserted that it was never the intention of the Republicans of the house in the first instance to enact any such measure. He quoted President McKinley, Secretary Root, ex-President Harrison, ex-Speaker Reed and other Republicans of na tional reputation in favor of free trade with the islands, and drew a salvo of applause from his Democratic col leagues by characterizing the presi dent in the language of ex-Speaker Reed as "the emperor of expediency." MAGOON'S OPINION. Proceeding he expressed his regret that the secretary of war had not seen fit to furnish the opinion of Judge Chas. A. Magoon, the attorney of the insular bureau, to the effect that the constitu tion extended propria vigore to our new possessions upon which he said the orig inal recommendations of the president and the secretary of war were based. He read some extracts from this al leged suppressed opinion which had been printed in a New York newspaper. The reading was frequently punctuated with applause. "Why," Mr. Richardson ask ed, "had the president, the secretary of war and the Republican party changed front upon this whole question?" For reply he read the statement of Prof. Schurman, of the Philippine commission, that the "trusts had gone down to Washington and had grasped the Re publican party by the throat." He also recalled the statement printed a short time ago in a local newspaper that a Republican member of the house had said that in return for the passage of the bill, a large contribution was to be made to the Republican campaign fund. Mr. Richardson created some thing of a sensation by giving the name of the newspaper man who had written the interview saying he was a reputa ble correspondent worthy of credence. Mr. De Armond said that the rule was evidence that those who had decided to impress intellect, chain the will and stifle the conscience, realized that they must do their work quickly. He com mended those who had the manhood to stand out for the right and warned the majority that the Republicans would have the country to reckon with. Mr. Babcock (Wis.), chairman of the Republican congressional campaign committee, to whom Mr. Dalzell yielded a minute and a half, indignantly resent ed the charge of Mr. Richardson that the Republican campaign committee had received a money consideration for the Poro Rico tariff bill. As a member' of that committee he desired to de nounce it as absolutely without founda tion and he challenged any one to name the Republican who was responsible for such a charge. PIERCE JUMPS UP. Jumping to his feet, Mr. Pierce (Tenn.) tried to interrupt Mr. Babcock, but the latter waved him aside. "He withdraws his challenge," shout ed a voice on the Democratic side.amid a howel of derision. Mr. Babcock paid no attention to it. The shoe was on the other foot, he con tinued. The tobacco trust and the sugar trust, he said, had started the free trade agitation. This statement produced more derisive cries from the opposition, which, however, were drowned in Re publican cheers. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) followed with a speech that kept his side in almost con tinuous applause. It was a glorious thing, he said, to witness the anxiety of the Democratic party and the mug wump press, lest the Republican party should destroy itself. He had witnessed it before, but he had never seen it so zealous as now to avert from the painty the odium and curse of an outraged public sentiment. (Republican cheers). He referred sarcastically to an editorial this morning, in "one of these indepen dent papers which would probably sup port Brvan," appealing to the Republi cans for God's sake not to do themselves injury. It gave the "brand of hypocrisy" to the whole "outfit," he said. Mr. Grosvenor said he honored the Democratic party for making opposition to this bill, the test of Democracy and those Democrats who had previously voted for the tariff--lll who ruow placed allegiance to party above consistency. GROSVENOR CRIES LIAR. Allegiance to this bill was now he said the shibboleth of Republicanism. He hurled back in Mr. Richardson's teeth the charge of bribery. Did the gentleman from Tennessee, he asked, think he could be a hypocrite every where? He himself did not believe it. If he believed any Republican had made such a statement why had he not in vestigated it? "We do not believe it," cried Mr. Grosvenor. "We know it is a lie. (Republican applause). "I do not say no man made the state men. But if he did he is a liar. (Dem ocratic jeers). Let the gentleman from Tennessee bring in a resolution and it will be adopted In 15 minutes." "I did not make the statement my self," interrupted Mr. Richardson. "Oh, no," retorted Mr. Grosvenor. "That is like the shining slippery char acter of the gentleman." (Republican applause). At this juncture Mr. Grosvenor's time expired and Mr. Dalzell concluded the debate on the rule. Reverting to Mr. Richardson's characterization of the rule as an "outrage," he recalled the rule brought in when the Democrats concurred in the senate amendments to the Wilson tariff bill, evoking frequent applause during the recital. "Scribes, Pharises and hypocrites!" he denomina ted the Democrats for prating, of the change of base made by the Republi cans. When the Porto Rico tariff bill was originally presented, he said, it had been advocated and opposed with the time honored traditions of the- respec tive parties. The Democrats had found their law in the Dred Scott decision, their politics in the philosophy of John C. Calhoun. The Republicans had found their law in the speeches of Daniel Webster, their politics in the platform upon which Abraham Lincoln had been elected. ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY. The majority upon whose shoulders the responsibility rested he said were ready to assume it and he predicted, in conclusion, that the day was not far distant when the masses of the people of the country would recognize their course as wise and beneficent for the people of Porto Rico. Mr. Richardson was on his feet as Mr. Dalzell closed with a motion to recom mit the rule with instructions to report a new rule and a substitute bill pro viding: "First For free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. "Second A civil government for the territory of Porto Rico, Republican in form." The speaker ruled that as the pre vious question had been ordered on the rule ,Mr. Richardson's motion was not in order. "Vote! Vote!" cam from many quarters and the speaker beat a lively tattoo to secure order while the vote was taken. The viva voce was indecisive and to save time a yea and nay vote was ta ken on the adoption of the rule. The vote was followed with intense interest. The "whips" Long and Un derwood, hovered about the desk, see that every possible vote was recorded. RULE IS ADOPTED. The announcement of the adoption of the rule, ayes 158; noes 142 present and not voting, 11. was greeted with salvos of applause on the Republican side. The large majority was a general surprise. It was regarded as a test vote. It to decided that the time remaining, three and a half hours should be equally di vided between the two sides. Mr. Pavne and Mr. Richardson to control the time on their respective s'd"". Mr. Payne yielded to Mr. Watson (Indiana) who opened the debate. Mr. Jones (Va.) followed Mr. Watson. He devoted himself principally to an argument against the civil government f?ature of the bill. Mr. Maddox (Ga.) and Mr. W'illiams (111.) also opposed the bill. The lattr charged that the majority had aDdi cated to the sugar trust. Mr. H. C. Smith (Mich.) and Mr. War- STILL JNJ.ACE. Admiral Dewey Declares He Has Kot Withdrawn And Has Expressed Xo Intention of Doing So. N. T. "WORLD SAID SO. Paper Which Brought Him Out Printed the Story And Claimed That It Was Based on Good Authority. Washington, April 11. Admiral Dewey said today that the report pub lished in a New York afternoon news paper to the effect that he intended to withdraw his candidacy for the presi dency was all a mistake; that he had never given any one whatever any such information. The report alluded to by the admiral was as follows: New York. April 10. A Washington special to the Evening World says: "It is asserted this afternoon on what seems to be good authority that Admiral Dewey has decided to withdraw as a candidate for the presidency and that within a few days he will formally an nounee his decision. His brother-in- law, John R. McLean, is alleged to be responsible for this latest move. Within forty-eight hours Admiral Dewey has been in consultation with Democratic leaders and others antag onistic to President McKinley and the opinions then expressed, together with unfavorable or noncommital views voiced by the newspapers, decided him, it is asserted, to withdraw from the contest." FUNSTON'S RECORD. Courtmartial Has Been Sitting Since March 5. Washinjton, April 11. Major General Otis has taken measures to investigate the charge made several months ago against Brigadier General Frederick Funston and Colonel W. S. Metcalf who commanded the Twentieth Kansas volunteer infantry. This action is in accordance with in structions sent by the war department as shown by the official order issued by General Otis, dated March 1, a copy of which has Just been received: A board of officers is appointed to meet in Angeles, province of Pampan ga, Luzon. -on Monday, March 5, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m., or as soon thereafter as practicable, to investigate so much of certain allegations affecting the offi cial conduct of Brigadier General Fred erick Funston, U. S. V., while colonel of the Twentieth Kansas volunteer m fantry, and of Wilder S, Metcalf, while a major in the same regiment, as indi cated in a letter from headquarters of the army, adjutant general's office, dated January 19. 1900, addressed to the commanding general of the department which letter incloses a communication dated January 9, 1900, wherein the said allegations are set forth at length. The papers referred to the board for investigation include charges and counter-charges preferred by General Funston against officers and men of the Kansas regiment and by the ofh cers and men of the regiment agains General Funston and Colonel Metcalf. There is no doubt that there was gravi lack of harmony in the regiment. The department seemed to support General Funston when it gave instructions to him to return to Manila, The Funston court martial is still sitting and doubtless will investigate the more recent charge that General, Funston caused to be hanged without trial several Filipinos who had mal treated American prisoners. CARRIES $7,457,756. District of Columbia Appropriation Bill Taken Up. "Washington, April 11. When the sen ate convened today Mr. Money reported from the committee on agriculture a bill setting apart a portion of the Arlington estate for an experimental farm to be operated under the direction of the sec retary of agriculture and it was passed. A resolution was adopted calling upon the president, if not incompatible with public interest, to inform the senate whether any persons have been executed by garrote in Porto Rico since the United States authorities have b i in control of the island, and if so why the system of execution was employed. A bill to establish a fish hatching- and fish station in West Virginia was passed. The resolution relating to the Quay case was laid before the senate and Mr. Burrows (Michigan) rose to address him self to it. Mr. Allison (Iowa') requested Mr. Bur rows to vield so that the senate might take up the District of Columbia appro priation bill. This request was agreed to, it being understood that Mr. Burrows should proceed tomorrow with his speech. After Mr. Penrose (Penn.) had protest ed that the appropriation bills should not interfere with consideration of the Quay case, the District of Columbia appropria tion bill was formally taken up. The bill as reported to the senate carries $7,457,753. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of O. Halterman, who died Tuesday at his home, 1707 Lane st-eet, will be held Thursday at 2:30 o'clock from his late residence. The Street Fair. The street fair executive and sub committees met Tuesday evening in the Commercial club rooms to consider the progress the fair is making. There is now no opposition to the proposed site for the fair, which will be located on Fifth street and on Quincy between Fifth and Fourth. A committee. Dr. C. D. Gray. T. P. Paxton. C. L. Wood and P. L. Wise, was appointed to ask City Attorney Bird to draw up an or dinance authorizing the street fair to be held on those streets. Mr. Bird pre pared the ordinance today. ner (111.) both opposed the bill, on the ground that it was a breach of good faith which the people would not tol crate. The Republicans -who voted against the rule were: Crumpacker of Indiana; Heatwole of Minnesota; "Lane of Iowa; Littlefield of Maine; Lorimer of Illinois: McCall of Massachusetts: H. C.Smith of Michigan: Warner of Illinois. The only Democrat voting for the rule was Sibley or Pennsylvania. SOT ENOUGH STAMPS. Plug Cut Tobacco Seized Becauaa of Overweight San Francisco, April 11. Five hun dred pounds of plug cut tobacco have been seized in various local stores by internal revenue agents because the packages were insufficiently stamped. This tobacco manufactured by a St. Louis firm, has been put up in packages weighing from an ounce and three- quarters to two ounces and the pack ages had been unifromly stamped as weighing an ounce and two-thirds. Collector Thomas who made the dis covery of this revenue law violation says that the fraud has evidently been carried on very extensively and he es timated that the cost to the govern ment has been fully $50,000 a year. A general search for understamped pack ages has been begun and all tobacco found to exceed the weight indicated by the stamps will be confiscated. SNOW IN KANSAS. Western and Central Portion Gets a Heavy Blanket of the Beautiful. The coldest April weather since 1S87 was experienced in Kansas Tuesday and Tues day nignt last, 'Ihe thermometer fell to ireezing point and all over the western portion of the state and so far east as Emporia a heavy snowstorm r acred dur ing the aiternoon and early night. Emporia, April 11. A heavy snow fell here all the afternon and evening. Con- siaeraoie anxiety is Deing1 expressed re gardine: the fruit crop, peaches. tears. apricots, plums etc., mostly being in full Diossom. AT GREAT BEND. Great Bend. April 11. Four inches of snow now covers the ground here as a result of the blizzard. Preceding the snow there was two inches of rain and hail. Considerable harm has undoubtedly been done to stock, but wheat raisers pro claim uie wet weatner a great help to crops. AT LARNED. learned. April Ti. A snow storm, unnre cedented in the history of this part of the country at this season of the year. has- raged here all day and the greater portion of the night. Ten or twelve inches of snow has fallen, country roads are blockaded and business completely sus pended. A cold wind, filled with sleet and snow, blew from the northeast, and the thermometer dropped below freezing, and fears are expressed that all kinds of fruit will be kilied, and man" trees are in leaf and the fruit buds juit readv to burst. The wheat crop is not t-ndangered, as the snow covers it so deep tnat it would, take an extra nam treeze w fcurt it. AT CHERR.VALE. Cherryvale, April 11. Tuesday occasion al showers fell here a?l day. Last night the thermometer dropped Tapidlv and re ports from Frederick to Ellsworth, on the 'Frisco line, say that heavy snow fell. Vegetation needed moisture badly and this is the first in n earlv six weeks. AT ATCHISON. Atchison, April 11. A heavy enow storm prevailed west of Dotns in Northwest ern Kansas Tuesday afternoon. The snow fell so rapidly that the Missouri Paclnc ordered snow plows along" the north and south Solomon branches.. A high wind is blowing, and the snow Kas drifting badly, -AT .ELLIS. Ellis. April 11. Six hours of rain has been followed by a he-vy snowfall here. Wheat is greatly benefited. AT COTTONWOOD ALT. Cottonwood Falls. April 11. It com menced snowing about 3 o'clock and Is about three inches deep todav. AT GREAT BEND. Great Bend, April 11. Near 8 oclock Tuesday morning a brisk rain began, near noon it turned to snow with north east wind. Several inches has fallen, with thermometer near to freezing. Hor ticulturists think there will be no injury to fruit, AT HERINGTON. Herington, April 11. A heavy snow and sleet fell here yesterday and last night. Fruit men and early gardeners are very anxious as to the effect on their crops. RAIN, BAIN, RAIN. Weather Man Gives Up at Xast and Predicts Fair Weather. Rain, rain, rain, I've been singing, oh clouds to thee. Oh that my tongue could utter The conditions that are to be. Oh well for the prophet that hits It, But woe to the one that's wrong, I've heard a murmur of feathers Since first I started my sons. The stately clonds go on. To shower on another plain. Oh for a trace in the bucket. For only a drop of rain! Kain, rain, rain. it s a torecast. tnat Drougnt me woe, I'll try the system of warmer And watch for a fall of snow. Tuesday nierht's snow amounted to three-hundredths of an Inch. The mini mum temperature was 31. A small amount ot snow clung to the trees ana iruit may suiter. Mr. Cox has flopped. He did not give ud the system of forecasting rain until he lost his good rating with the chief of the weather bureau and now he will try a new forecast. Today he sends out the forecast lor fair tonight and Thursday. Warmer Thursday. Continued cold tonight." Not a. word about rain, in defense or tne forecast the weather map cites the fact that there has been rain and snow in Ari zona, Utah, Idaho, the Dakotas, Montana, yoming. Colorado. -New Mexico, ise braska, Missouri. Oklahoma and a good rain in western Kansas. The map shows a precipitation in the eastern part of the state. The snow fall last night amounted to three-hundredths of an Inch. The wind is northwest, 12 miles an hour. "There is a high barometer near Win nepeg. Canada, and the center of a low in Texas," said Observer Jennings. "Sat urday the center of the storm was in Nevada, on Monday it had moved to a point between Dodge City and Pueblo and Tuesday it was near Fort Worth. The storm will probably move along the At lantic coast eastward. The high barom eter gave Kansas colder weather and the low forced out a meagre precipitation in eastern Kansas. The high is moving southeast. A falling barometer with warm weather is coming in behind." CARLE BILL PASSED. "Washington, April 11. The senate has passed the Pacific cable bill intrdduced by Mr. Hale. The cable is to be under the control of the navy department and $300,000 is appropriated to begin the work. DEFAULTS BIG CONTRACT. The Star Construction Company Can. not Complete a Chicago Sewer. Chicago, April 11. The Star Construc tion company, contractors for the Thirty-ninth street interception sewer noti fied the city authorities today of its in ability to complete the contract and notice was at once sent to the National Surety company, on the bond of the Construction company that the city would expect the sureties to complete the work left undone. The defaulting of the contract by the Construction com pany, however, will, it is feared, cause much delay and additional expense. The bonds of the surety company amount to $400,000, while at the present cost rer foot, it will take $512,000 to complete the tunhel. The Star Construction company is one of the largest firms in its line in the city. GALLEDJO TlulE. Police Officers Refore Mayor and Council Committee. Chief Ramsey Most Enforce Or dinances or Quit. JOISTS TO BE CLOSED. Mr. Drew "Will Address Police Force Tonight. All Members Will Re Given Their Choice. MAY RESIGN PLACES. Lively Session in Council Chamber Last Night. Will Himself Quit if He Cannot Close Joints. Mayor Drew has given it out that tha joints, gambling houses and disorderly resorts in Topeka must be closed, and that immediately. If the present police force can not close them a new force will be given a chance to try. The mayor will meet the policemen at the police headquarters at o'clock this evening, when the night and day forces change, and tell them so. Complaints have been made to Mayor Drew that the police department has not been trying to close the joints, and the removal of Chief Ramsey has been demanded. Onlv a few days ago A. H. Vance and H. I. Hilton called on Mayor Drew and told him that practically no effort was being made by the police de partment to enforce the nuisance or dinance against the joints ano disorder ly houses. Mr. Hilton is the editor of the "Good Citizen." which made charges against Chief Ramsey a month ago for which Ramsey threatened to bring suit for libel against Hilton. The removal of Chief Ramsey was demanded by Mr. Vance and Mr. Hilton. Mayor Drew told them that he thought the chief of police could only be re moved after a trial by the council, and that if they would prove their charges against Chief Ramsey before the coun-j cil he ought to be, and -would be, r.e moved. Mr. Vance said that the entire povKf of removal of any member of the.pqi'e department lay in the hands or. tne mayor alone. Mayor Drew said that it this were so he would himself take ac tion, but he would like to have Mr. Vance and Mr. Hilton meet Chief Ram sey and the other city officers i" whose hands the enforcement ot the law lay, ar.d h -Appointed ttejr,- t!i"-' for las' evening. In tne meantime Mayor Drew asked City Attorney Bird for an opinion as to his power to remove Chief Ramsey if he deemed it necessary, and Mr. Bird corroborated the opinion of Mr. Vance. At the conference last night there were present besides Mayor Drew, the members of the police department com mittee of the council, consisting of Fred Roundtree, W. F. Weber. S. A. Swend son and S. C. Miller; Chief Ramsey, Sergeants Donovan and Belts, and De tective Gilmore, of the police force; Po lice Judge Magaw, City Attorney Bird and his assistant. D. T. Gregg, who looks after the police court cases; and A H. Vance, H R. Hilton, W. H. Cowles, J. B. McAfee, Frank Foster, C. P. Bolmar and Dr. Stewart. Mayor Drew said that he was satis fied that there were a large number of joints running in Topeka. and that as soon as they are "pulled" and their stock confiscated, a beer wagon drives around to their back door and stocks them up again. He said he had asked the citizens who were complaining of the inactivity of the police department to meet the officers of the police force and give them suggestions concerning the enforcement of the law. In the discussion which followed Mr. Vance said that he thought the police men ought to go right into the joints arid secure the names of people who were there. This the policemen have not beer, doing under orders, because it was tried several months ago, and the temperance people lodged com plaint after complaint with Mayor Drew because police officers were seen "frequenting joints." At one rune wm. summer Mayor Drew gave ordets for the policemen to visit a certain noto rious joint and secure the names of the parties who were inside, and inside of two hours after the officors went into the place the mayor's telephone began ringing, and all day people telephoned in complaints against those two officers. On this account Mayor Drew told the policemen to keep out of the joints. City Attorney Bird said that the city had undertaken a laborious task to en force the entire prohibitory law. when the legislature clearly intended that the county officers should do it, but as the county attorney would do nothing, it re mained for the city to enforce the nuis ance ordinance against joints, gambling houses and disorderly places. "This idea that a policeman ought ta keep out of the joints is all rot. A po liceman's place is where there is crime, or where crime is apt to be committed. The police ought to go into these places and drink if necessary to get evidence againt them. Since the county officers are doing nothing toward enforcing the prohibitory law it might be a good idea for the policemen to leave the other state laws to the sheriff and look after the nuisance ordinance especially. On the docket of the next term of the dis trict court there are 29 city cases ap pealed from the police court. All but 7 of them are liquor cases. On the same docket are 15 state criminal cases, and only one of them is a whisky case. It is harder to secure a conviction in the district court on an appeal from the po' lice court than it does in a state case, and it takes more evidence to convict in a liquor case than it does in a murder CaChief Ramsey had little to say be yond asking a few questions of Mr. Vance. ..it.i chief Ramsev asked. 1 111. L J "hasa policeofficertogo into a plaeeana raid it simply upon seeing the para phernalia there, without a warrant "I do not think," Mr. Vance replied, "that a place could be raided without a warrant simply because tne stuff was there, but if anyone one was ui '"'"1 or it there was any w uiui-" a sale had been made the officer would be empowered to arrest the parties ana confiscate the liquors without a. war rant. Then he could get his warrant and secure the other paraphernalia ar- IContinued on Sixth jPage.

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TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAI WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1900. SPQRTIilGJiElVS. Tommy White Faces the Hard est Battle of His Life In His Coming Bout With Terry McGovern. GIVEN EIGHT POUNDS More Than 100 Fistic Contests Credited to the Chicagoan. White's Fights Hare Been Ex ceptionally Long. Chicago, April 11. After eleven years of fistic work In the ring. Tommy .White, the local 126-pound boxer, is elated April 17 to meet the hardest man of his class the world has ever seen, Terry McGov ern, the wonderful Brooklyn feather weight. McGovern will go out of hia class for tha first time to meet White. He has apreed to allow the Chlcagoan to get into the ring at ISO pounds, which is fully lent pounds more than the champion has ever granted any tighter. It goes to show that Mi'llovcrn in getting tired or the feather-weight claws and is elghlng for Bonie of the bigger men to whip. White luus iuid a wondert'ul career in the ring. He is three months older than 20 yeurs. and was born in Fox LaJte. 111. Ills parents moved to Chicago when Tom my wan but four years old and the bov was given his schooling at the Fourteenth Ftreet ami Foster schools. When sixteen years old he started to make his own living and found employment with a board of trade tirni. with which he re mained until ho took up fighting profes sionally. Boston Tom Chandler was running a gymnasium in the Imperial building in those days and While was attracted to the place because of his natural love of athletic sports. Being a lively young fel low he soon got to be pretty clever with the giuves and was advised to follow the name and go out after some of the medals tfiat were then being offered by the ath letic clubs of the city for competition. White became well known iocallv among the amateurs and in 1SS9 won the medal emblematic of the state champion ship of the 115-pound class, beating Billy Manning, once a pupil of George Siler, tlio referee. The contest was a hot af fair, decided In the armory then in Jack son street. He won a number of other contests before and after and became so well known that when Tommy Morgan, a hardy fighter from the stock yards dis trict, found trouble in finding matches, White's friends matched them. It was Tommy's tirst professional bat tle. It was at Hammond. Ind.. with skin-tight gloves, and White won after a battle lasting tifty-four rounds, the sheriff breaking up the bout. White then started as a full-fledged pugilist and some of his earlier ficrhts became tislic history. He fought Dan "Daly, one of the notorious St. Iuis family of that name, a draw of ninety-one rounds, the longest feather weight tight on record. White afterward defeated Daly at the Triangle club of Chicago in a six-round battle, breaking Daly .law. Most of White's earlier fights were exceptionally long and in his record are to be found Torty-nme rounds with Billv Brennan. Itrooklyn lightweight, who was afterward fatally hurt by a fall in the ring; battles or torcy-one ana rorty-nme rounds with "Kid" Piddons and of thirtv-three rounds with "Australian" Murphy on the Pacific coast. In Ids entire career White can figure up 107 regular fights, exclusive of exhibi tions and bouts in which he undertook to stop men In four or six rounds. These fiirhts foot up a total of 1.3J5 rounds. White has' received but half a dozen de feats in his eleven years of fighting. The men successful over him were Billy nrennan, tieorge nmons, George Dixon, rien Jordan ot England and loung Ma honey. White seldom has been knocked down Rnd claims that he was never knocked out in a regular light, although it is on record that "Australian" Murphy put him out at a local t neater one night when the local 'man went on for an exhibition bout. White never has been credited with be ing a punishing hitter. He is so clever, nowever. tnat ne has been able to win from and get draws with some of the high- st class fighters of his weight and some in the class alnve him. lie has to his credit two long draws with George Dixon and other with Ike Weir, Griff o. Art Slmms. "Spike Sullivan, when the lat ter was fighting in the feather-weight ciiiss. and Solly wmith. lie never has re fused a fight on the score of weight, when ids prospective opponent was "some where near" the right figure. Most of the good judges of the ring accredit him with being by far the gamest man in the ring louay. A POOLROOM RAID. Over a Hundred Turf Spectators Ar rested at Detroit. Detroit, Mich.. April 11. Over 100 of the members of the local sporting fra ternity had the pleasure of being hauled in patrol wagons to central police sta tion yesterday, as the result of a police raid upon poolroom owner Rivard's sa loon, at llti Woodward avenue. Four of the members placed under arrest, and the names of the others are now in tne register of the police. If caught again they will also be charged with being disorderly persons. This .outburst is the direct result of orders given by Superintendent Martin of the police, and Captain Spillane, of the central precinct. Both are determ ined to drive the poolroom from the city and for this purpose a squad of officers was selected to make the raid and cap ture every person in the place inclusive of the proprietors and the patrons. Much indignation was expressed by the latter class, but their protests were in vain Among the number brought in by the police was one Methodist minister and an ex-minister of the gospel. The for mer's name was not registered and he was allowed to depart. When arrested In the poolroom he became agreeably excited. "My God, young man," he exclaimed to the officer, "surely you will have mercy on me. Think of my disgrace." "That was for you to think of," re eponded the officer as he piled the fellow Into the wagon. JEFFRIES AT "WORK. The Champion Begins Training Today For His Fight With Corbett. New York, April 11. Jim Jeffries begins training today ut AUenhurst, N J., for his fight with Jim Corbett which Is scheduled to take place on May 11. The heavyweight champion arrived in town Saturday night "COLDS" Radway's Ready Relief cures and pre vents. Colds. Coughs, Sore Throat. Influ enza. P-ronchitls. Pneumonia, Swelling of the Joints, Lumbago, Inflammation. Rheu matism, Neuralgia, Headache, Toothache, Asthma. Dillirult Breathing. It is a Sure Cure for Every Pain Sprains, Bruises. Pains in the Back, Chest or Limbs. It Instantly stops the most excru ciating pains. field by Urugeists. RAD WAY CO.. New from -Detroit. In air Interview Jeffries said: "Well, here I am back In New XorK again ready for business. I will go to Al- lennurst today ana at once oegm active preparations for my tight with Jim Cor bett. Nothing suits me better than train ing life and I will lose no time in getting down to the exercises that go to make up a working schedule. 1 am in pretty gooa snape w miu m the West I did not neglect to keep my self in the best of condition. At Hot Springs I did several weeks' hard work with Tommy Ryan. To tell the truth, I believe I am in better form to undergo a. severe course of training than ever be fore. "What will I do after I am through with Corbett? 1 will take on Sharkey. Mc Coy and any other fighter in the world. No one is barred. If Fitzsimmons is ready to agree to my terms he can have the preference, but until he accepts my prop osition 1 will not consider a match with him. As regards McCoy's fighting lor tne championship, I will maJie a match witn him for a fight to take place immediately after mv coming battle. I intend to meet all comers after my fight with Corbett. COURSING AT MANKAT0. Eighty Dogs Run in First Day's Rabbit Chasing. Mankato. Kan.. April 11. Hundreds of people witnessed the sport of the cours ing races here Tuesday, .tigniy ran, making forty heats. There were sixteen kills and twenty-four escapes. The following shows the result ot eacn heat, the matched dogs being nameu ltogether, the winner s name in eacn instance being first and the loser second: Lord Stuart. Vinlove: Hill ot expense; Sailor; Lady Erwin, Topsy; Van Natta, Jack, Turquoise; Pat Tracy, Dash Out Onea; Phillipsburg, Dallas rceu; mes Metrites, Texas Cross; Queen, Nellie C. Tiger Hill,' Star Pointer; Jim Crow, Stone Henge; Slow Go, Northern Sur prise; Larking, Yerva; Lacy Dewey, Fleeta; Glen kAaer. Jessamy; i.om Tanglefoot, Cotton Queen; Freeze Out Johnnie. White Prince: Huerfano Lad, Nacaret; Black Beauty, Reefer ;Okabana Girl, McDermott's Maid: Skippie Ken, Tom C Sir Lee, Royal Blue; Peruvian Bark, Moody's Pride; Surprise, Texas White; Bellamy, Benshi, Hobo Slocum; Pearl Trent, Queen Regent; Lord Van dyke, Dupont: No Show, Brownie;Hugo, Punch: Van Nye, Hector; Red Diamond, Nellie Topham;Phillip, Blue Rock; Lead Red, Speedway; Cliff Dare, Max O'Rell; Gretchen, Minnetonka. The winning dogs are from the Man kato, Kan.; Lawrence, Kan.; Honey Grove. Tex.; Sherman, Tex.; Colorado, California, Nebraska, Minnesota and Indiana kennels. The winners will be matched in pairs in the order named, and run twenty races tomorrow. MPTON'S AGENT COMING. Major J.E. Jameson Expected to Bring Yachting Message. New York, April 11. Major J. Eustace Jameson, who spent some time in tliis country last summer with Sir Thomas Lipton, is a passenger on the White Star liner Oceanic, which is due here today. It is said in yachting circles that Major Jameson is bringing a special communi cation to the New York Yacht club from the owner of the Shamrock touching upon his contemplated challenge next year. COMISKEY SIGNS STJGDEN. National League Player Last Year J oins the American. Chicago, April 11. Joe Sugden, catch er, who played with St. Louis and Cleveland last year, has been signed by Manager Comiskey of the Chicago American, league team. He is now in Pittsburg, but will join the team as soon as it returns from the Champaign trip. A telegram received yesterday from Padden, second baseman and cap tain, contained the information that the player would report this morning for work. Races at Memphis. Memphis, Tenn., April 11. The Tennes see Oaks, for 3-year-old fillies, at one mile, was won at Montgomery park by J. J. McCafferty's Belle of Orleans, by Long-street-West Anna, in easiest sort of fash Ion, from Barrisa, Brownie Anderson finished third. Rain began falling during the early morning and the track was very heavy as a result. When the first race was called a perfect torrent deluged the grand stand and the 2.000 persons present sought' refuge in the betting ring. The Oaks was the first race on the pro gram and seven of the eight carded to start accepted the issue. Belle of Orleans was always the favorite. although a strong play on Brownie Anderson at the end forced her price at less than 2. fet tle can be said of the race itself. With a good start. Belle of Orleans, raced to the front, and, staying there to the end, won in a gallop by a dozen lengths from I. C. Cahn's Barrica, who beat Brownie Anderson a length for the place. The Mc Cafferty brothers burned the ring up an the favorite, backing her from twos to less than even money. Results: First Six furlongs, selling: Blaze won; Shillingburn, second; Free Hand, third. Time, 1:20. Second One mile and 70 yards, selling: The Roman won: Chopin, second; Imp, third. Time, 1:5. Third Four and one-half furlongs, sell ing: Harry Pulllam won; The Elk, sec ond; Penman Thompson, third. Time, :58. Fourth The Tennessee Oaks, one mile: Belle of Orleans won: Barrico, second; Brownie Anderson, third. Time. 51:47. Fifth One-half mile, purse: The Mecca won; Lady Schorr, second; Madam Gene, third. Time, :58. Sixth Six furlongs, selling: Braw Lad won; Tlldy Ann, second; Alpaca, third. Time, 1:19. Results at Tanforan. San Francisco, April 11. Tanforan results. Weather cloudy; track fast: First race Half mile, maidens, purse, 2 year old fillies: Sacharoid, 111, 25 to 1, won; Sublime, 103, iY2 to 1, second; Aphrodis, 103, 6 to 1, third. Time, :49Vi. Second race Five-eighths o a mile, purse: True Blue, 111, 10 to 1, won; St. Caslmir, 106, 8 to 5. second; Ella Boland, 94, 8 to 1, third. Time, 1:00. Third daceOne mile, selling: Catas trophe, 102, even, won: Potente. 112, 4 to 3, second; Orian, 107, 30 to 1, third. Time l:41Vi. Fourth race Three-quarters of a mile selling;. Isaline, 100, 10 to 1, won; Fidel Youlin, 102, 8 to S.seeond; Proclamation, Ktf 5 to 1. third. Time. 1:14. Fifth race Mile and an eighth:Rosin ante, 103, 6 to 1, won; Flamora. 89, 6 to 5, second; Chimura, 99, 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:544. Sixth race One mile, purse: Croker. 98, 5 to 1, won; Fashion Plate, 105, 2 to i, second: Be Happy, 103, 6 to L third. Time, 1:43ft. At Bennings. Washington, April 11. Results at Ben nings: irst Three-year-olds and upwards, poie six luriongs: ainney L,uca won; First Whip, second; Rough Rider, third. Time, 1:14. Second Mount Vernon purse for fillies, Z-year-olds, half mile: Anecdote won: In- lainoie, second; screech, third. Time, Third Handicap steeple chase for year-olds and upwards, about two miles ana a nan: tsiack Jimmy won; St. Sam uel, second; Baby Bill, third. Time, .Fourth Selling, 2-year-olds and upward seven furlongs: Hold Up won: Sir Fltz- nugn, second; Mouseltoff, third. Time, 1 :31. Fifth Selling, for 4-year-olds and Ho ward, 1 1-16 miles: Tony Honig won: The jenerson. secona; uouDle uummy, third. i line, j. Hahn a Valuable Man. New York, April 11. "If there ever wis a pitcher who was worth good money that man is Hahn," said Selbach. "I don't know what the Cincinnati club would have done without him last year. Hawley was out of form; so was Breitenstein, and the only man. to relieve Phillips was Hahn. He got in game af ter game and pulled them out when we were not doing much hitting. Before the "season everybody had been roasting him. When he began to win they patted him on the back." Vardon Defeats Dunn. New York, April 11. Harry Vardon, the open champion golfer of Great Brit ain, had an easy task set him when he met Willie Dunn, a former open champion of the United States, in a Gfi hole open exhibition match Tuesday. The game was played over the links of the Scarsdale golf club, Hartsdale, N. Y., and Vardon won by 12 up, with ten to play. The men played out the bye holes and at the end of the thirty-sixth the Englishman was just up. Brooklyn 9, Georgetown 3. Washington, D. C, April 11. Brooklyn found it an easy task to defeat George town Tuesday by a score of 9 to 3. Mc Kay's nine bases on balls, coupled with timely hitting by the visitors and rag ged fielding by the home team was re sponsible for the champions' victory. Moore Easy For "Walcott. Baltimore, April 11. Joe Walcott, the "Barbadoes Wonder," knocked out Dick Moore of St. Paul in four rounds before the Eureka Athletic club in this city last night. Moore had to be assisted to his dressing room and several minutes elapsed before he fully recovered his fac ulties. HIS SECOND LECTURE. Mr.Cleveland Again Addresses Prince ton Students. Princeton, N. J., April 11. Ex-President Cleveland delivered his second lecture in Alexander hall last night be fore a large number of students, mem bers of the faculty, their families, and many others. At 8 o'clock President Patton and Mr. Cleveland came onto the rostrum, and were greeted with prolonged applause. Throughout the lecture the ex-president was frequently interrupted by applause, and at its close the big hall rang with cheers of en thusiastic students and others. Dr. Patton expressed the thanks of the university to Mr. Cleveland for deliv ering the lectures, and surprised the au dience by announcing that Mr. Cleve land would deliver the Stafford Little lectures again next year and. he hoped. for as many years as the ex-president would have strength to deliver them. Mrs. Cleveland was at the lecture. and sat beside the venerable Stafford Little, who was escorted to the hall by Professor West. GOMEZ GOES HOME. Announces That He "Will Soon Re turn to Cuba. Havana. April 11. General Maximo Gomez sailed today for Santo Domingo. Betore leaving he addressed a letter to the president of the national party. saying that he was Very grateful for the recent demonstration in his honor, and that he would soon return to Cuba. In the course of an interview he de nied that he had any intention of at tempting to become the president of Santo Domingo, as had been intimated a Havana paper. A farewell banquet was given last night to Brigadier General William Ludlow, the retiring military governor of the late department of Havana. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS The sale of seats for the engage ment of Mr. James O'Neill in "The Musketeers" at the Grand opera house. Saturday night, opened this morning at the Flad Grubbs drug store. When Mr. O'Neill appeared in the pro duction in New York city the oldest critics put themselves on record as saying that not in fifty years had Gotham seen a piece of romantic act- to compare in dash, fervor, inten sity of feeling and soundness of senti ment with Mr. O'Neill's impersonation of the fiery Gascon. It was also agreed upon that of all the different adapta tions of Dumas' story seen, none could approach Sydney Grundy's version for cohesiveness of purpose, interesting dramatic effects and profusion of love stories. Mr. Grundy was praised for having broken away from traditions, and by applying modern ideas to the old tory, making a play that was in touch with the taste of the times. This production of "The Musketeers" pos sesses also the merit of a good. cast. James O'Neill's name at the head is an example of its excellence. The sale of seats for the opera "La Fiesta de San Xavier" will open at the .Rowley Snow drug store Saturday morning, it will be put on here Wednesday and Thursday nights of next week, and arrangements are be ing made to present it in Lawrence. Ottawa, Emporia, Newton and Wich ita. The following is the cast of the opera: Celeste Mips Lucia Wyatt. Chiquita Miss Gertrude WTyatt. Josepha Miss Pearlade Prescotr, Bernardo Mr. Harry Pribble. faylvfstre Mr. H. L. Robinson. Wood B. Everill Mr. Julius Weidling. Father Anselmo Mr. Clark Dailev. Bishop Mr. John T. Fleming. Oregon Prohibitionists. Portland, Ore., April 11. The prohi bition state convention nominated a ticket headed by J. C. Bright of Sher man county for supreme judge. The platform arraigns the Republican party for its attitude on the liquor question, on Cuba, on Porto Rico, on the Phil ippines and President McKinley is crit icized for not prohibiting the army can teen. The Democratic party is accused of being insincere regarding the traffic. Beauty is cniy Skin Deep and if one has features ever so at tractive it goes for little if accom panied with a bad skin. To be fine in texture, fresh and beautiful, a skin must be healthy, and a healthy skin is only found on a healthy body. All the waste matter of the system and the amount in 24 hours is enormous must be removed by the excretory organs kidneys, bowels and sweat glands. If any one of them strikes work, it lays an additional burden on the others and renders them more liable to disease. The secret of health is to maintain every part of the body in its normal state, and this is done by the use of plain, wholesome food, out-door exercise and frequent bathing. When for any cause the equilibrium is upset, then the immediate resort to some tried and estab lished remedy which will speedily remove the difficulty is the only sensible course. MUM lidneyj is a reiredy of this nature which has lone passed its experimental stage, and its use wiu be found all-sufficient. Sold everywhere. Prepared only bj The Dr.J.H. McL can Medicine Co., St. Doing, Mo. (AflSAOEVS. A "Wellington Girl Discoyers-She Has a Brother. Never Knew of Him Until a Few Weeks Ago. SUNDERED FAR APART. Parents of Both Died Eighteen Tears Ago in Kentucky. Children Sent to Orphan Asylum and Adopted Out. Wellington, April 11. Miss Florence Penick of Wellington, is an adopted daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Thos. W. Penick. She never knew until a few weeks ago that she had a living relative. Monday her brother, James C. Jackson, of Ethel, Tex., arrived in Wellington, and the meeting between brother1 and sister was an affectionate one. Seventeen or eighteen years ago the parents of Florence Penick and James C. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cain, died of typhoid fever in Grayson county. Kentucky. Both deaths occurred witnin a year. The children, five in Dumber, were sent to an orphans' home in Louis ville. Rev. and .Mrs. PenicK aaopceu Florence and gave her their name. They were never able to learn anything of the child's relatives, except that sne came of an excellent family. Florence was two years of age at the time of her adoption, seventeen years ago, and as she grew up, could never recall that she had any brothers or sis ters. A few weeks ago Rev. Penick re ceived a letter from Jas. C. Jackson of Ethel, Tex., inquiring about a lost sis ter. The correspondence was kept up, photographs exchanged, and the ques tion of identity finally established upon the part of both beyond a doubt. Ar rangements were then made for a meet ing of the brother and sister, and the brother arrived from Texas Monday on the Santa Fe. The brother was adopted from the orphans' home about the time Rev. and Mrs. Penick adopted Florence. He was adopted by Di. Jackson, a prominent citizen of that part of Kentucky where the children were born, and given the name of Jackson. The Jacksons after ward femoved to Ethel, Tex., where the doctor died in 1892. The boy remained with Mrs. Jackson until her death last February, w-hen he commenced to prose cute his search for his lost sister with renewed vigor and determination. MXAIN'S EMBEZZLEMENT Now Amount to $17,000 and One of the Partners Ruined. Parsons, April 11. -The amount of the MeLain embezzlement from the Na tional Mill and Elevator company con tinues to grow. At first It was placed at less than $1,000, but now It is admitted to be fully $17,000. McLain, while nom inally a salesman and collector for the company, was allowed to run the busi ness f the firm about as he pleased. To cover his defalcations he made false entries on the books and forged the notes of customers. Numerous car loads of flour and other millstuffs shipped out on pretended or ders and consigned to regular customers of the company were rebilled by him to commission houses and sold for cash to get ready money to take care of the forged paper he had put in circulation and to account for money misappropri ated. Collections from one source were credited to another to cover previous defalcations, until finally his dishonest transactions became so numerous and involved that he lost track of them and exposure followed. McLain admits the charges against him and is here under guard, assisting his former employer to straighten out the almost inextricable tangle in their accounts What McLain did with the money is a mystery. The only state ment he will make in regard to the mat ter is that he "don't know what became of It." All that can be accounted for is a few hundred dollars sunk in a small general store at Savonburg, Kan., and $1,000 or $2,000 paid or loaned to his brothers. He had no bad habits, lived quietly and economically, and during the period of his stealings his wife was working as an operator in the local telegraph office. His Savonburg stock was turned over by him to the mill company and has been partly sold by them. H. H. Brown, manager of the mill and a partner in the business, loses in the crash everything but his home. The other partner, H. D. Mirick. of Washington, D. C, is a man of large means and can easily bear his share of the losses. "WANT A FREE LIBRARY. Hutchinson Citizens Forgot to Vote To Call Another Election. Hutchinson, April 11. The defeat of the public library proposition at the city election was not a fair test. Three-fourths of the votes cast upon the question were in favor of the library. But the law provides that such a pro nosition must received a majority of all the votes cast at the election, and half the people who voted were so excited over marshal or street commissioner that they neglected to vote at all on the library. Petitions should be circulated at once asking the mayor and council to call a special election for another vote on the library proposition. FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Chapman Citizen Arrested Under a Serious Charge, Chapman. April 11. Peter Dowling of this town will be tried tomorrow on the charge of embezzlement. The charge was made by Geo. Hidlebrant, agent for the Deering Harvester company. Mr. Dowlirig Is a hardware and im plement dealer and was handling the Deering machinery. It is claimed that he sold machinery to the amount of $1,640 and converted the proceeds to his own use. He gave bond in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance for the pre liminary hearing. CONVICTS ESCAPE. Five Prisoners Break Out From the Guard House at Ft. Leavenworth. Leavenworth, April 11. Five military convicts escaped from the guard house at Ft. Leavenworth Tuesday. They were in a cell or cage together, and cut their way through the board ceiling over the cage first, and afterwards through a sheet of iron roof of the guard house. They slipped down from the roof by means of a heavy wash line rope. Those who escaped are: John Casey, formerly sergeant in company B Thirty-second United States infantry, with a year and a half to serve; Ber nard Murry.attached to a cavalry squa dron at West Point, under sentence for refusing to obey orders, with two years to serve; John Reardon. company A, These unwelcome visitors usually appear in the spring or summer, when the Boiio Mr. R. M. Pratt, Cave, S. C writes "For twenty years I was sorely afflicted with boils aud carbuncles caused by impure blood. It is impos sible to describe my suffering part of the time being unable to work or sleep. Several doctors treated me, and I tried all the so-called blood remedies, but nothing seemed to do me any good. During the summer of isfcS I was per suaded to try S. S. S., and after taking several bottles was entirely cured, and have had no return of these painful pests op to the present time.', and any information or advice wanted will whatever for this service. Send for our Sixteenth Infantry, under sentence for desertion, with a year and one month to serve; Charles A. Herbert, company B, Twelfth infantry, under sentence for desertion, with nine months to serve; John M. Oery, troop C, First cavalry, under sentence for desertion, with seven months to serve. The prisoners discarded their convict clothing in a bunch of brush west of the guard house and put on citizens' clothing. The clothing was put in a convenient place for them. THE MESSIAH RENDERED. A Chorus of 386 Trained Voices at Lindsborg. Lindsborg, April 11. The first day of the Messiah was a success. It rained, hailed and snowed for hours. The at tendance was large, but only half as large as if the blizzard had not oc curred. The art exhibit elicited praise, and the visiting musical friends were loud in their good opinions of the piano recital by Professor Laurin. The climax was the Messiah proper, in the evening. The chorus of 386 voices, the orchestra of forty instru ments and the grand organ produced effects difficult of description. This was the twenty-seventh rendition of the Messiah by the Bethany chorus, and it is safe to say that it was the best so far. ATCHISON SMALLPOX. A Newly Discovered Case in a Col ored Family. Atchison, April 11. There Is a newly discovered case of smallpox in a colored family named Wilson, living in a two- room shack on Eighth street, just south of the Wrhite Clay creek foot bridge. There are eight in the family, but four have had the disease and another was almost well when the disease was dis covered. The house stands within six feet of the sidewalk, and Dr. Brown, county health officer, recommends that the use of that street be dispensed witn while the quarantine is being main tained. FIRE AT AXTELL. A Steam Mill Burned Involving Eoss of $2,300. Axtell, April 11. Fire broke out in the second story of the Axtell steam mill at 10 o'clock last night and burned down. Total loss $3,000: insurance $700. The mill property was sold the day before. The fire owners are at a loss to know how fire originated. Failures at Abilene. Salina, April 11. John D. Pike of Ab ilene has filed papers of voluntary bankruptcy with Referee Z. C. Milliken. His liabilities amount to about $16,000 and he has no assets. R. Seeds of Abi lene is Pike's attorney and the first meeting of the cerditors will be held in the referee's office here. April 27. Anna Pike of the same place has also filed bankruptcy papers. Her liabilities were $15,000 and the assets, which are house hold goods, amount to $225. Big Shorthorn Sale. Abilene, April 11. The dispersion sale by the executors of the estate of the late John Taylor closed after $21,000 worth of stock had been disposed of. It was the largest sale of Shorthorns ever held in the state, and the prices both for thoroughbred and grade stock were high. Most of the stock remains in the countv. The estate amounts to over $500,000. Conviction Ends His Suit. Hutchinson, April 11. Bill Little and Jack Burrell were convicted In the dis trict court of robbery in the first de gree. They were accused of robbing old man O'Laughlin in a Joint in this city last December. Burrell has a suit for $15,000 against the Santa Fe railroad for personal injuries. He claims to have been pushed back by a brakeman while trying to board a train, and was run over and had one arm and all the fing ers of the other hand cut off. The sen tence to the penitentiary will end the suit against the railroad. McKinley's Kansas Cousin Dead. Paola, Kas., April 11. Daniel Mc Kinley, a second cousin of President William McKinley, for a number of years a resident of Paola, died last Friday in his 90th year. He was an ardent Republican and had hoped to live to cast his vote for his relative for president again this year. The body was shipped to Liberty, Mo., this morn ing. Shot by Unknown Parties. Paola, Kas., April 11. Emma Greg ory was shot by an unknown person some time yesterday, who emptied a double-barreled shotgun at her as she stepped out of the door to investigate a noise. The shot. No. 20, took effect in the side, hip and leg. The wounds are serious, but perhaps not fatal. Offi cers are investigating. Presbyterians at Emporia. Emporia, April 11. The presbytery of Emporia.embracing nearly all of central Kansas, convened in annual session here in the First Presbyterian church this evening. About 50 pastors were present at the opening meeting. Many more are expected tomorrow. Rev. G E. Brant, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Wichita, who is moderator, preached the sermon open ing the session. Tourists Delayed by Flood. Parsons, April 11. A tourist car, with a party destined to southern California, which left Chicago Friday, was side tracked here Sunday and is being held nseii trom tne many impurities tnat nave accumulated during tne winter months. Carbuncles, which are more painful and dangerous, come most frequently on the back of the neck, eating great holes in the flesh, exhaust the strength and often prove fatal. oils are regarded by some people as blessings, and they patiently and uncomplainingly endure the pain and inconvenience under the mistaken idea that their health is being benefitted, that their blood is too thick anyway, and this is Kature's plan of thinning it. The blood is not too rich or too thick, but is diseased is full of poison and unless relieved the entire system will suffer. The boil or carbuncle gives warning of serious internal troubles, which are only waiting for a favorable opportunity to develop. Miany an old sore, running ulcer, eveu waucer, is me result, oi a nejnecxea Keep the blood pure, and it will keep the skin clear of all the irritating impurities that cause these painful, disfiguring diseases. S. S. S. cures boils and carbuncles easily and permanently by reinforcinff'-Durifvinp and building up the blood and ridding the system of all accumulated waste matter. S. S. S. is made of roots and herbs which act directly on the blood, and all poisons, no matter how deep-seated, are soon overcome and driven out by this powerful purely vegetable medicine. to. to. to. is not a new, untried remedy, but for fifty years has been curing all kinds of blood and skin diseases. It has cured thousands, and will cure you. It is a pleasant tonic as well as blood purifier im proves the appetite and digestion, builds up your general health and keeps your blood in order. Our physicians have made blood and skin dis eases a life study write them fullv about vour case. be cheerfully given. We make no charge book on Blood and Skin Diseases free. Address, The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. here on account of the Texas floods, which prevents connection with the Southern Pacific. They will probably be routed over another line. Masons at Fort Scott. Fort Scott. April 11. The Masons of eastern Kansas are holding their regu lar semi-annual conclave here today and the. initiation of a class of about 40 into the higher degrees of Masonry has begun. It is probable that a handsome Masonic temple will be erected in this city very soon. To Rebuild 'Phone System Wellington, April 11 The M. K. Telephone company will soon have a gang of men in Wellington at work re building the entire city system. The line will be extended to El Reno, when Wel lington will have connection with King fisher and other important towns in Ok lahoma. A metallic system will be put in to Kingfisher. A Queer Coincidence. Over 30 years ago, back in Illinois, a dentist filled a tooth for Mrs. B. F. Othick. The other day Mr. Othick, in looking over some old papers, came across the receipted bill for the work, and the next day the doctor who did did work stepped into Mr. Othick's of fice and shook hands with him. Fort Scott Tribune. Republican Editors to Meet. Hutchinson, April 11. The annual meeting of the Republican Editorial as sociation of the Seventh congressional district has been called for April 17, in this city. The annual election of offi cers and other important matters are to be considered. COAL FAMINE. Germany and Russia Suffering Fro 2 a Shortage. Washington. April 11. Information has been furnished the state department rela tive to the existence of serious coal fa mines in Russia and Germany. Consul General Guenther at Frankfort, writes that never before in the history of Germany has there been such a de mand upon the coal production of the country as at present. Notwithstanding the fact that last year's output was four million Ions in excess of the preceeding year's supply. the amount on hand is entirely inadequate to meet the ever increasing demand. The minister of commerce has sent an inquiry to the coal mine owner of upper Silesia, asking whether the coal production could be increased by establishing a greater number of shafts at the mines and as suring them of state aid if such be the case. In Russia about the same conditions ex ist as to the scarcity of coal, the supply being enormously large, but still not large enough. The extension of the rail ways and the increased industrial activity in Russia account in large measure for the condition but the undeveloped state of the coal mining industry itself, also plays an important part in the situation. The abolition of duties on foreign coal and coke has been urged as a remedy but this the authorities declare toie out of the question. American coal Is very much in demand in Austria, Prance, Japan, the Nether lands and in Russia, and our consuls at various points in these countries are be sieged with inquiries looking to the ex tensive importation of the American orp duct. MODELS DAMAGED. In Course of Transportation to Paris Exposition. New Tork, April 11. A Herald special from Washington says: Rear Admiral Hichborn, chief naval constructor, has been informed that eleven valuable models of American warships were ser iously Injured during their transporta tion from New York to Havre on the converted cruiser Prairie. All the models shipped are valued at $100,000. The model which suffered the great est damage was that of the Olympia. To make the needed repairs it looked as though it would be necessary to send to this country to get workmen, but the French government offered the use of the French ship yard at Cherbourg which was accepted. The repairs will probably be of a temporary character. It Is intended by Rear Admiral Hichborn when the models are returned to Washington to have permanent repairs made at the Wash ington navy yard. BOARD OF HEALTH. Governor Stanley Appoints Three Physicians to Places. GovernorStanley has made the follow ing appointments on the state board of health: Dr. J. M. Minich of Wichita, homeop athist, term of three years. Dr. G. E. Locke of Holton, eclectic, term of three years. Dr. A. S. Gish of Abilene, eclectic, term of three years. Fined $30,000. New Tork, April 11. A dispatch to the Herald from Puerto Plata. San Do mingo, says: Perico Pipin, who recently iea a small uprising against the govern ment of Santo Domingo has been sen tenced to twenty years' imprisonment ana to pay a nne or 30,uw In. gold. SMS BMRTH can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother's Frieno," a scientific liniment of priceless value to all women. Soldby all druggists at one dollar per fJJgfYIHlIZR'S l uuuiLici, giving ui acuus, win oe sent free by Bradfield Regulator Company, Atlanta, Ga. blood is making an extra effort to free ooii.. GarEszsnoiQG Fortune Smiles.... on those who buy their Wall Paper of us. They're lucky in being able to select from such a reliable stock of new and beautiful patterns they're lucky, too, in getting the services of our skilled workmen, for WE DO THE BEST WORK. H. L. LARSH&C0. 116 W. Eighth St. Patronize Home Industry. The hot weather soon will be here, and the busy housewife will be wor rying what to get extra for dinner or supper that will be tempting to the tired husband. Try a dish of Gelatine flavored with our Red Raspberry or Strawberry Extract; it is of-fche Triple Strength and guaranteed to give you satisfac tion. For sale by all Dealers. Made by OTTO KUEBNE CO. SHORTEST LITIS. COLORADO FLYER WE'LL DO YOUR HAL'LINQ RIGHT. Topeka Transfer Go. 509 Kansas Avenue. Office Tel. 820. House Tel. 393. F. P, BACON Proprietor., tSEB MB ABOUT STORAGE. Rest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY YEAR3 BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILiS TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCES3. It SOOTHES tha CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES W IND COLIC and U the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. "Wlnslow's Sooth ing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Oklahoma Populists Por Bryan. Enid, O. T., April 1L The Populist territorial convention held here to elect delegates to the Sioux Falls convention resulted In a split. Twenty-three dele gates, representing four counties, bolted and held a separate convention, at which they nominated delegates to the Cincinnati convention. The bolters took this action after having failed to in duce a majority of the delegates to adopt a middle-of-the-road policy. The convention proper endorsed W. J. Bryan for president. 1 The latest Improved 'rubber tires put on. E. G. Kinley, successor to Kinley Lannan, 424-426 Jackson.' If ijllUllB S Is looked forward to with expectations of joy and gladness. The ordeal of bringing the little one into the world, however, is a critical one for the mother-to-be, and her anticipations of the coming event are shadowed with gloom. Half the nain and all the dannr of child-hirtH

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TOPEKA STATE JOTTnyAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRTL 11, 1900. 3 V s i RAILROADNEWS. Santa Fe Changing Electric Lighting System. Axle Process With Belt Con trivance a Failure. FOR BETTER SERVICE. Belting is Being Replaced With Friction Plates. New System Is Proving Gener ally Satisfactory. The belt system of axle electric light ing, inaugurated on the Santa Fe over year a?o, has proven a failure. The tars equipped with the belt contrivances are being ?ent to the Axle company f hups .in this city as rapidly as possible v. h-re a force of nin is engaged replac ing the belting with friction plates. The Axle electric lighting process, by which power for the car lights is fur r.ihed Ly the revolution of the axles, is the nioitt economical system of electric car lighting in use. but with the belt equipment failures have been constant. The failures wer'e some time a?o respon sible for the id. a of friction i-iates. and the service resulting has been so much superior to that of the belt system that the equipment jn ail cars is being tiiansr-d. While failures occur on cars equipped with fri. n..n t.!at-s. the system is givirg Reneril sati-r'uctioti. and the Santa Fe comp.ir.y will pr-'babiy continue replac ing gas and oil illumination in cars with ofri2 iight. The pUf-s are arranged in tiers in such a way that the revolu tions of the axics creates power by fric- JXJDGE GHOSSCUP'S ACT. Establishes the Fact That a Corpora tion Has a Soul in a Peculiar Way. '"'hicasrn, April 11. The 1. rur standing 1 ija of the abs'-n- e of soul in corpora tions was cor.trov-rted by the action i f tine attorney for the chieazo. ilil-wauii-e it St. 1'aul railroad y-.-et-r.iay b-f ore Ju-liT" Uri-up in the t'nited Htales circuit court. The suseestion of in- act of c-haroy came from Jude iros.-, up. and foil .win his idea a poor chi: w.'.o made the bene-fi.dary of a fund of IS), the principal and interest to b" pa; 1 the boy when he reaches the lie ,,f 21 y-ais Juie iroscup took the case away from the jury, an i the action of the at torney. C. B. Keeler. was purely volun tary. He said he had no objection to the rrantini? of the fund so lor. as the company was not h. Id responsible for the injury to the child. The plaintiff in the ease, was Walter Auker. years old. living at N Artesian avenue. Last June while playir.e on the tracks of the S.t. Paul company on Bloorringdale road he was run over by a train and lost his left leg-. In his Fiiit he asked SlrtujO damages. After the evidence of the plaintiff was in Juise ;rosscup took the case from the Jury. He then talked to the artorney for the road and recommended that the company set aside a fund of J-Jo.) for the boy which could be used in starting him in life. Jude Grosscup was careful to state that his action could not be taken as a precedent by other plaintiffs who fail i to secure a verdict. He said the Auker boy was ur.usua.ly orient, and he thought he should be iven a chance to make a start in life tnat wouid in a measure repay him for the loss of his limb. Attorn-y Keeler said it was the brst time such a request had been made of the company, but he offered no ob jection. FB.021 CHICAGO TO FRISCO. Santa Fe Route to the Coast is 2,500 Miles Long. In talkin? of the San Francisco San .Toaqum Valley hne and the new Chi cago. San Francis -o p.ut, Paul Morton, second vice president of the Santa Fel sa it "The new route from Chicago to San Francisco w ill be a little more thaji 2.3-) mile lone. From Kansas City it wiii be auout the same as that formed by f.'her Chicago lines and their Southern Panric connection in the matter of lemrrh. For a Ions time our company has b-en c-ttme a.'Mitional equipment tncludms new freisht and pass-rer cars and engines. The companv withm tr.e iast y...ir or so has spent a great amount of money in imnruvinur the en tire sys-.m, a noticeable portion of it r-emg use.l in b-tterinir the roadbed conditions in the far west." NEW V. P. TRAIN. Early Mail and Passenger Service to Be Established Out of Kansas City. It is quite probable that the Union I acne wad put ..n an early morning mail and pa.-ser.g-r train Wft frr.m Kansas City ab. ut the mid d'e of th'S m..nrh. The otlndal of the "road at Omaha are at present considering the matter, one r-asoti for this expected move I? that at times, when the pas fencer trarfic is larger than usual the service is inadequate. It has been known for some time that plans for the inauguration of this train have be-n un ir a ivisernent. Tne rneetms of the officials at Omaha this week is to discuss plans and de fc.e tne number of caches necessary a so to d-tei-mmo upon a schedu'e The new tram will be known en the time V.r. A',7 anJ It will leave Klr''b -"v lat- enoueh to arrv t any morning dailies, and the run will be made M. Pherson The rlt-,r .--rno'n"-"'..1"3'- u':1 tn the "r" K-rtmg into Kansas Oty quite late m the ever.ir.a-. F. A. FLEISCH PROMOTED. Succeeds Fred leaking as Rocklslanp Solicitor in St. Joe. .rt.F- A F,fi'''h-.nt" has bn hold ing th- p siti.-.n of rate clerk in the r-isrht orlK.s ..f the F,-,.k is!aniic this city, has been trar?r-d a Joe. where he tekcs the position of city freiiin solictor. He has already en tered upon his new duties Fred t.. Feakins. who formerly that position in St. Joe. resigned to tVk a better jlace with the tviora-i,-, v,V land. I'- ia n.vw a travel;- t'-t BCent with headquarters at Salt 'Lake Mr. Feakins' rise has been quite rapid Iiavmg been in thf railroad freight busi tiess only about two years. BIG CONTRACT LET. Union Pacific Will Spend $2,500,000 in Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo.. April 11 It is defl. rdtely known that JIcArthur Brothers, of Chicago, and Kilpatrick Brothers and Couins, of Lincoln, set the contract for building the Union Pacific cut-off from Bufford to Larimie. a 1.500 fcot tunnel through the crest of Sherman hill, and a rock causeway over Liale creek. The work wiil require a large force of men two years' time to complete. The contract call3 for a double track, with tunnel double-track width. The project will necessitate th expenditure of about JiaOO.'XIO. It is announced that operations will be commenced about May 1. Mrs. Webb Withdraws Claim. Atchison, April 11. Mrs. Belli? Webb of Kansas City, who recently brought suit here for the estate of the late Thomas Giiiiam, the engineer killed in the Missouri Pacific wreck at Paul, Neb., on the ground that she was his common law wife, withdrew her claim yesterday, and it is understood that she settled for a comparatively smail con sideration. William Bound, an engineer on the Missouri Pacific, will receive J2.000 from Gilliam's estate, and the Kansas state school fund will receive JiOov. Giiiiam had no known relatives. Santa Fe Watchman. Jacob Brown, who for a long time has filled the position as special policeman in and around the Santa Fe shops and yards, has retired. The vacancy has been filled by the appointment of A. H. Tiilotson. Mr. Tillotson has been for a number of years in the employ of the Santa Fe. and was promoted from the water service to his present position. Firemen's Meeting Tonight A special meeting of Flower of the West lodge ."o. 205, Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen, will be held tonight at the rooms of the T. M. C. A. at 7:30 p. m. J. J. Hannahan will be present to address the meeting, and it is de sired that as large a. number as possible be present. FROM HERINGTON. Will Agnew, an old-time Herington engineer, who has recently been on the Colorado division, is in town visiting his many friends. Ed Henders. n, of Caldwell. Is renew ing acquaintances among his old asso ciates at Herimrton. Fngineer McCloud is laying off on account of illness. Tom Nash, a "rip" track man, -who had his hand badly pinched six weeks ago. is ready to resume work again. John Dodds. until recently a fireman out of here, is now proprietor of the lunch counter. Tw-o piie-drivers, 2. cars of piljng, and probably 30 or 40 days' work are necessary to replace the damaged track and roadbed at Arkalon and TerraJ, oc casioned by the washouts. Ciark Ware and his gang have been doubling up and working night and day to supply the necessary piling and ma terial for the washouts, Baga-ageman Huey spent last Sunday with his mother at Topeka. Herington station is the banner holder for March shipments of eggs. Forty car loads, of 4v'.0Xi dozen total con tents, for New York. Boston and Chi cago markets, were shipped during March. The Rock Island special Tuesday from Topeka for Undsborg made a good run and connected w-ith the Mis souri Pacific train. Nine coaches handled the crowd. Officers Hamilton and Keller, of the P.ock Island special police force, had an interesting three-cornered duel wdth a drunken bum with a big gun last week. Xo Injuries resulted. Express Agent L. R. Ely went to his home at Davenport. Iowa. Tuesday very ill. Ole Patterson is relieving him. H- M. Payton, assistant route agent of the United States Express company en the C. M. St. P. railway lines, is in the city viSiting rels-tives. Jas. A. King, the bill clerk at the freight house, left for Topeka Tuesday evening to spend a few days with friend. FROM NEWTON. Fireman George Cad well is at present firing an engine out of Great Bend. Conductor Ed Andrews has been as signed to one cf the preferred runs be tween Newton and Dodge City. He was formerly on the local run between New ton and Emporia. Tom Neubert. a son cf the master mechanic, has enteral the shops here as an apprentice. He was transferred from Arkansas City here, having al ready served a portion of the time at that plac. Frank HeffTebower. who was severely injured several months ago while at work around the turntable, was here from Topeka yesterday calling on his old friends. He says that for several weeks it was "very much guesswork" where it would be possible for the sur eeon to save the lea-, and for a short time his life was dispaired of. He will remain in the hosnitai another month. The w-ork on the new lighting appa ratus of the Santa Fe is being rapidly t ushed to completion. The poles are nearly all up. and it will be but a short time until the wiring of the different buildings is finished. As soon as the blue prints arrive work will be com menced on the foundations for the ma chinery. It is safe to say that w-ithin two months, his aiioted time. Mr. Over ton will have the plant ready to turn over to the company. FROM WELLINGTON. Engineer Pryor and Fireman Withers have been assigned a pooL They had been on the extra board. Engineer La Sonde and Fireman Dice have been asslsrned to the II. s. run between Blackwell and Pc.nca City. Relief Agent W. S. .Ingham came up from Clyde, O. T., ?i turday night to visit his parents. He returned last night. A stock extra came In from the west la.it msht. and a double-header extra was sent west this morning. The rush will soon be on now. Chi f Clerk G. W. Puett. who has bee.n riUite sick for several days, is re ported much better and' will be able to report for duty m a dav or two. Er.21r.eer Tnfer. w-ho has been on the Blackwell local, will go back to the middle division, and will take an en srme on a trrave! train. Engineer Cos tedo has been assigned to the Black well run. The improved service on the west end of the Santa Fe is due directlv to the vigorous efforts of Supt. W. D. Nel-iic-an. Passenger trains now run dailv frorn Woodward to Amariilo and make good time. SANTA FE LOCALS James S'.-eper ha.s resigned his position in the coach department.' t rank Russell, of the blacksmith depart ment, was struck in the eve by asma!l riece of riving steel Tuesday. He was moved. 1 hospital where it was re- rvei"1- fa-o". from La Junta, is in To gieV" came here with a dea.d" en- AleMKlr Erickson and Chas. Toates, ootn ot tne coach trimming deoartment, were laying off Friday and Saturdav. James Harris, of the coach paint shop. -s "een laymsr off on account of sick ne.v.,. it ,s quice probable that he will r hi," v" an operation performed. Kuoert -iluchell, of the coach paint shop, is laying off. James McXeal. of the coach repair shop, nas returned to work after being oft a snort white. Chair car Xo. 1.404. postal car Xo. l,Tn. acu uay coaca No. 123, were turned out of the shops Tuesday afternoon, rebuilt. The windows which were blown out by the explosion of the 'Midget." in the round house some time ago, have been re placed by wire glass. This is a very thick plate with wire netting molded in the center. Besides being very strong, the glass will not fly and scatter when it is broken. REAL LIFE ROMANCE. Girl Secures a Pardon for Her Betray er and Marries Trim. Jefferson City, Mo., April 11. A mar riage was performed At the executive mansion of Missouri at 11:30 this morn ing in which was involved the elements of a romance. It was the story of a wo man betrayed; her lover sent to the penitentiary for a long term; her un swerving devotion and loyalty to him, and a successful fight on her part for his liberty. All mankind loves a lover, but when a woman wins a. hard fight for the man she loves, all mankind, and womankind, too, for that matter, are happy withrher. or ought to be. The man In the case is George Wilson who was sent to the prison from Clay county in June, lSil, under sentence of five years for criminal assault. He en ticed Miss Maude Malatt, who was un der the lawful age cf consent, away from her home. This is a grave offense under the laws of Missouri, and her father, after he was apprehended, pros ecuted him vigorously, with the result as above stated. The girl loved Wilson and he was no sooner incarcerated here than she beean a fighr for a pardon for him. Her efforts were unceasing. Her father objected strenuously to executive clemency, but her devotion and her ef forts never wavered or ceased. She made trip after trip to the state capital to see the governor, and she procured a big petition from Clay county citizens, asking for the pardon. Finally she won her father over, and yesterday came to the capital with a letter from him to the governor, saying that he withdrew all objections. Governor Stephens this morning concluded that he would grant the pardon, and whn he announced his determination to the girl she nearly fainted. The governor included in his announcement an invitation from Mrs. Stephens for Wilson and Miss Malatt to be married at the executive mansion. Tiiis invitation was accepted, and at lliliO Wiison and the girl were united in marriage in the big reception hail of the mansion by Rev. Dr. Pike, chaplain of the penitentiary. Only the governor and Mrs. Stephens were present. The couple left for Kansas City this afternoon. NICARAGUA INVADERS. Force Entering Colombia Numbers But 200 Men. New York. April 11. A Herald dis patch from Kingston, Jamaica, says: Tour correspondent has interviewed persons arriving on a packet from Colon regarding the military expedition which it is reported landed on Colombian soil on March 31. They say that the expede tion started from some central Ameri can port and went ashore near David, a town in a border land territory claimed by both Costa Rica and Colombia. The report says that the expedition march ed inland toward David, which it is be lieved was taken wdthout much resist ance, as the garrison there consisted of only 50 men. The expedition started under General Herrera. It is composed of 20S men. It has six small mountain guns. 500 extra rifle3 and considerable ammunition. The United States cruiser Philadel phia sighted the vessel which carried the expedition to Colombia, off the Xic araguan coast and followed the craft to Punta Arenas. DEWEY'S CLAIM. Bounty Case Being Argued in Supreme Court. "Washington, April 11. Argument has been begun in the United States su preme court in the case of Admiral Dewey and his men. The case grows out of their claim for bounty due for the destruction of the Spanish fleet at Manila and comes to the supreme court on appeal from the decision of tfte court of claims. The court awarded the men $100 and the admiral $9,750. They claim double that amount in all cases on the grounds that the enemy's force was su perior to the American fleet, Messrs. Wiliiam D. King and Benja min McCou and former Secretary Her bert represent the claimants and As sistant Attorney General Pradt the government. CALDWELL WON'T HATE IT Would Not Eon For Vice-President Under Any Circumstances. Washington. April 11. Judge Henry C. Caldwell, of Arkansas, who has been ex tensively spoken of as a candidate for vice president, and who has received a grea.t numoer of letters urging him to agree to accept that position in case it should be tendered him. has written a letter to Senator Jones (Ark.), who is his personal friend, saying that he can not consent to such use of his name and that his resolution in this matter is absolutely irrevocable. In speaking of the judge's attitude. Sen ator Jones said: 'Judge Caldwell's tastes are all judicial. He has never had any active connection with politics, and with a modesty which has aiways characterized him, he thinks his field of usefulness is on the bench and not in a political position. He is a man of fine character and a firm believer in the principles which the supporters of Mr. Eran. Populists, silver Republicans and Democrats, believe in." POLICE MAKE RAIDS. Fines Aggregating Nearly $300 As sessed in Police Court Although the word had been sent out that ail resorts in Topeka were closed some time ago still the police managed on Tuesday to gather in a few law breakers. The express wagon was kept busy hauling the bar fixtures and liquor seized in Jim Riley's and Jim Sheas ley's joints. Their trials were set for April 17 and 19. Three disorderlv houses were raided. Jennie Cline was fined $-".0 for maintaining suii a place and two inmates were fined $25. Vera Knowdes paid the same amount and May Stanton was fined $50 and one in mate $-5, a total of $i75. DEMOCRATIC GAIN. Court of Appeals Recognizes Breckin ridge as Attorney-General. Frankfort. Ky., April 11. Again has the court of appeals decided in favor of a Ijemocratie contest for a state office. An order was issued by this court today rec ognizing Robert J. Breckinridge as attor ney general and directing that he be em powered to attend to the commonwealth's business to the appellate court and the Franklin circuit court- Several cases are pending in this court, and no steps could be taken with twf claimants for the of fice of attorney general. LOVED -WHITE MAN BEST. Death, of a Negro Woman lOO Years Old Who Had Much Eixperience in Matrimony. Perry, O. T.. April 11. Auntie Roger-. colored, who was 100 years old and hH be-en married six times, fell dead yester day. She married four negroes, one In dian ajid one white man. She said of all her husbands she loved the last the white inaa the best. B. 1 m r ui "ttt r -v.. r w m no. i i ,v r WW For years I was a misery to myself and every one around me. I never laid my aching head upon my pillow without wishing I could die. I suffered terrible pain in my back, head, and right side, was very ner vous, and would cry for hours. Menses would appear sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three or four months. I was so tired and weak, could not sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my heart that would almost cause me to falL I was so poor and white that my folks thought I was going to die. "My mother told me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I had no faith in it, but to please her I did so. The first bottle helped me so much that I continued its use. I am now well and weigh more than I ever did in my life." Hbs. "Wdofked Axxsndeb, Farm ington, ILL Parfosfa nnd BnaknaZso, Dear Mr3. Pixkham Nobody knows how I have suffered every month at time of menstruation. I have wished for death many and many a time. The pains were so hard that I would have to go to bed and have hot irons at my feet, hot applications to my right side, and take hot drinks. I have been troubled in this way for three years, also suffered severely with backache and had a discharge of whites. Now at monthly periods I can do my work and suffer no pain. I am like a new woman, and entirely through the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I feel that I owe your medicine a debt I can never repay.' Mrs. N. L. Dallard, 45 13th St., "Wheeling, W. Va. F7iZ2. Asian is ourad cf Girarizzn trouble End avoids an operation. "Dear Mrs. Pixkham I wish you to publish my letter stating the grand effect Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has had on my health. I was suffering to such an extent from ovarian trouble that my physician thought an operation would be necessary. Your medicine hav ing been recommended to me, I decided to try it. After using several bottles I found that I was cured. My system was toned up and I suffered no more with my ovaries. Your medicine is the greatest boon on earth to suffering women.'' Mrs. Anna Aston, Eox 13, Troy, Mo. FflrOm Gorusn strengthened before birth of baby. Dxar Mrs. Pinkham Since writing to you I have taken several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and can recommend it very highly, for it has done me a great deal of good. During the time before baby was born I was so weak I could hardly do anything. I was told by a friend to take Mrs. Pinkham's medicine, which I did, and it strengthened me so that I was able to do my work and I now have a fine healthy baby. When nine months old he weighed thirty -one pounds. I hope that all women troubled as I was will take your Vegetable Com pound." Mrs. I. D. Cortjm, 834 N. Alma St., Austin, ILL iWrSm Hobie helped threzjgh the Qhano of Life Dear Mrs. Pinkham I was "a very sick woman. Change of life was working upon me. I suffered with hot flushes and fainting spells. I got so that I was afraid to go out on the street. My head troubled me so much sometimes that I thought I would go mad. Had pain in my back and could not eat. I began the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and in a short time the flushes of heat and fainting spells had all left me. I felt better than 1 ever did before. I recommend your Vegetable Compound to all who suffer from female weakness." Mrs. Jexxis Noble, 5016 Keyser St, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. Tho sure help for siak and suffering women Is Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Letters from hundreds cf grateful women prove this. Read their letters as they appear In this paper, if you are ill, write to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. Hor address Is Lynn, Mass V -0 rv t .SJ!KS5 A--'- '1. 'J V 'M 4- 4 I Has made more absolute cures of Female Troubles than any other medicine. Makes the menses painless and natural. Overcomes Backache and Kidney Troubles, Womb and Ovarian Diseases, Barrenness. Dissolves and expels Tumors. Suldues Faintness, Hysteria, Exhaustion, and Nervou sness. Helps women through childbirth, change of life, luid all natural crises. N -v AEB0R DAY, APS1L 19. Governor Stanley Calls Upon People to Plant Trees. Governor Stanley has designated Thurs day. April 13 as Arbor Day. The official I proclamationfollows: j It is my privilege to again call the at- tention of the citizens of Kansas to the 1 time-honored custom of setting apart a day for the planting of trees, shrubs and i vines. The benefits of this custom are evidenced not only to the ever increasing beauty of our parks and avenues, but are taking in the promotion of forest frrowth and culture wherever it is prac ticable. "The observance of Arbor day In our school.-! should be marked by appropriate exercise? to the erui that th yvuta mav be impressed with, the importance of cultivating and jr-srvinc pivcSJ ae tres that will bea-.uc.fy our staie in ru ture years, and arifl cmfort an convea. iaince to it3 Inhn'nita Bt"

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOUHNAX., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1900. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BT FRANK P. MAC LEXXAX IS 'OK' iiaxx awmoA Official Paper of the City of Topeka. TERM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 CPnts a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan tan town whero the paper baa a carrier Fystem. ly mail, one year 13.80 l:y mall, three months Weekly edition, one year W PKRMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Building, 800 and 102 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE!. Temple Court Bldgf. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICTC. Stock Lxchanse Bldg. A. I rani Richardson, Mgr. t-ONDON OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone B77 The weather we have been having Is the kind brewed at Medicine Hat. Dewey having decided to retire the way is now clear- for General Miles. Dewey was behind time. He should have announced his candidacy before iila marriage and before the house epi sode. Perhaps Mr. Hanna might be Induced to loan Philadelphia enough money to make up the fund promised hia com mittee. You who have horses to sell prepare to sell them now. England is about to purchase 10.000 head for the use of her army in Africa. Mrs. Dewey has changed her religion since marriage, and the admiral is ac cused of changing his politics. Per haps it was a trade. Secretary Cage's estimates of govern ment expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, show a decline of J2.000.000 in the interest payment. The British guns In Africa appear to be mostly of the disappearing kind. Once having disappeared they rarely return to gladden the British eye. The senate seems inclined to attempt to square Itself on the Porto Rican In famy, by unseating Clark of Montana. Th?n too, perhaps it Is getting ready to let Quay In. It is reported that Chauncey M. De pew has been selected to present Mr. MoKinley's name to the Philadelphia convention. The president's managers should have a care. It was Depew who nominated Harrison in 1S02. The voting was disastrous. Admiral Dewey can hardly hope to carry on a campaign for an office of such importance single handed, and no body seemed inclined to lend a helping hand. Whatever friends he may have had, or thought he had, when he an nounced his candidacy appear to have forsaken him. Evea the members of his own family disclaimed sympathy with his ambition. The whole proceed ing is pitiable rather than ridiculous. It is better perhaps that he should learn the truth early In the garni, than be subjected to a more bitter dis appointment later. The farce will re mind Kansans of the Stringfleld boom of the old days, though it has not been carried so far. Chicago Inter-Ocean: The Republi can majority in tne f ifty-sixth con gress, which in the belief of the Ameri can people and from the standpoint of the statesmen of the old world was to grapple with and dispose of the great est questions that had come before any congress In the last 30 years, has idled away its time; has done worse. It has not grappled with the Porto Rico ques tion or any other related to it in a wa; to satisfy even the most Indifferent Re publican. "While the politicians of the Democratic party are gleeful and ela ted the rank and file of the Republican party are depressed and irritated. "While the public men of Europe are smiling at the spectacle presented in congress the Porto Ricans are In dismay and the Republicans of this country are shame faced and discouraged. The situation is unlike any other ever presented in a Republican congress. It should be end ed as soon as possible. The fact that the senate committee on privileges and elections has decided that the seat occupied by Mr. Clark of Montana should be declared vacant makes it reasonable to suppose that their conclusion has been warranted by the evidence brought out at the Inves tigation. The testimony showed a dis graceful state of things to have pre vailed in connection with Montana poli tics, and it seems improbable than any body could have been connected with It and remained wholly undefiled. It may seem hard that Mr. Clark alone should be made to suffer for a sin par ticipated in by so many of both his friends and his opponents, but he Is the only man who is in a position to be reached by the condemnation to which the whole crowd of Montana politicians is entitled. He can afford to suff r martyrdom In the interest of the state's purification and as a horrible example to his brother senators, some of whom, probably, are little better than he. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.l A man with whiskers, and a girl wearing glasses, should keep off a bl cycle. If a woman is a good cook, she owes the world no apology if she ioes not show off well in society. Prices are generally higher: the ten cent circuses are charging twenty-five cents admission this season. Times are so good that it is becoming. safr every nay to trust a man with the treasury affairs of bis lodge. When a young man doesn't take girl any nearer to her home than the next corner, the gossips are very quick to notice It. A Sir! feel that ah ba.i absolute control of herself if she can bow pleas antly to the other girl her steady some times calls on. 'Why not nominate Bryan for vice president on the Dewey ticket?" asks a correspondent. Because Mayme Bry an and Mildred Dewey could never get along. A new song is entitled. "Just a "Word for Father." It's time. For thonsands of years the old man has been abused unjustly, unnecessarily, and foolishly, and it is time a word waa spoken In his favor. "You did that man an Injustice," said a man to a Globe reporter this morn ins, referring to a family affair that had been aired in the papers. l es, said the reporter, "I know I did; I wronged the man out of fear of the wo man." Here is a funny story, and it Is true: A North Atchison woman concluded to take a roomer, at two dollars a week. In congratulating herself that she was making money of her own, she spent J39 foolishly in one week that her hus band afterwards had to pay, as her roomer left after two weeks. TONIGHT'S MEETING. Commercial Club to Consider Santa Fo Shop Matter This Evening. The most important subject which has come before the Topeka Commer clal club since the organization of that excellent body of business men, is the special order for the meeting tonight. The addition to the Santa Fe shops for which the company has already ap propriated over $100,000 and which, will be increased in another year if we se cure the present addition, will be dis cussed this evening. Several committees which have been at work, will report. Tjpon the action taken tonight may depend the welfare and progress of To peka. It is of the greatest Importance that every member of the club attend and be prepared to talk business. The fall festival movements. the great reception to the Twentieth Kansas, the street fair, and even the movement to relieve the famine stricken Hindoos good as they all were are really insig nificant in their bearing on the future growth and prosperity of Topeka, com pared to the securing of these initial Santa Fe shops which precede the erec tion of the great locomotive shops to follow. FiTKINLEY WILL SPEAK On Foreign Missions Before Protestant Ecumenical Council. "Washington, April 11. President Mc Kinley is goin.sr to New York on April 21 to deliver an address before the Protestant Ecumenical conference on foreign missions. This cfistinguished body of the Protestant churches of the world meets in Carnegie hall on that date and at S o'clock In the evening will 1 s en to an address by the president and representatives of the state and city of New York. The honorary president of the conference is former President Ben jamin Harrison. President McKinley will remain in New York over Sunday. Early next month and possibly the last of this the president intends going to Canton for a few days to look over the repairs that are being made to his resi dence. Henry L. West, president of the Grid iron club of this city, and Gen. H. V. Boynton, its former president, called at the White House today and invited the president to attend the dinner of the club on the 23th instant. The presi dent said it would give him great pleas ure to attend if he found it possible to do so. ANOTHER DREYFUS CASE. Frenchman Caught Selling Informa tion to Germany. Paris, April 11. Regarding the case of Leon Gaget, who was arrested on Sunday charged with having relations with Germany, it now appears that Gaget was a clerk in a big banking establishment and that the specific charge on which he was arrested was offering to communicate to the German war office a number of important mili tary documents. He was discovered through the return of one of his letters on account of insufficient postage. Its contents were thus ascertained and tne letter was forwarded to the ministry or the interior where a trap was laid, into wriieh Gaget fell. A search of his apart ments revealed a statement or tne amounts of money which he had received from Germany, totalling SjO marks. The prisoner claims he intended simply to make money out of the German govern ment by communicating bogus docu ments. SUIT TO GET TAXES. Fight Against Water Company to Be Argued Tonight. Judge Hook will hold a special session of the circuit court tonight for the pur pose of hearing arguments in the case of the city and the board of education against the water company for back taxes to the amount of $13,000. Several years ago the water company by its attorneys appeared before the board of equalization and had the valu ation of the plant reduced from $153,000 to $1J5,000. After that was done the company succeeded in inducing the county commissioners to place the prop erty of the company in Topeka township so that county -taxes instead of city taxes would be paid. Some time after the legislature passed a law that coun ty clerks could collect taxes on all prop erty that had escaped taxation. The water company brought suit to enjoin the countv clerk from collecting the taxes on the ground that a new com pany owns the plant and that the com pany knew nothing of the lien when the plant was bought, it tne taxes are coi lected about $7,000 will go to the city and about $6,000 to the board of educa tion. The water company is represented by Rossington, Smith Histed and the city and board of education by R. B. Welch. PLACE FOlTcOOLEY. The Topeka Ball Player Slated For Manager of the Athletics. Philadelphia, April 11. Dick Cooley is now slated tor the management of the Athletics, the Philadelphia member of the Atlantic league. Dick Hariey. Mor gan Murphy and George Schoch are also after the position, but Cooley is said to be the league's choice. Seybold Store Burned. J. H. Sevbold received a telegram to day announcing that the shoe store own ed bv him and hi brothers at Ponca City, Oklahoma, had been burned with all its contents. The stock was valued at about K.5"0. and was insured, but there was no insurance on the buiidinjj;. LEASING BILL. live Stock Committee Meets and Ad journs Without Action. Denver, April 11. The special com mittee appointed by the National Live stock association to draft a leasing bill to be presented to congress, met in Den ver yesterday afternoon. Colorado, Ok lahoma, Kansas, California, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico were represented at the meet ing, members from other states being unable to be present. Owing to the ill ness of the chairman, Ralph Talbot, President John W. Springer of the Na tional association presided. The com mittee considered a large number of bills that had been prepared by members and some that had been introduced in con gress, but could agree upon none of them. After much discussion it was the general opinion that, owing to the differ ent conditions that prevail in various localities throughout the west a law that would be acceptable to the stock men should contain such provisions as would enable them to adopt it, or reject it, according to the conditions that ex isted In each locality. A proposition was made that any bill prepared should con tain a provision that before the law be came operative in any county or in any state in the west, the stockmen and far mers txpress a desire for such law. The committee adopted the following resolu tion and adjourned to meet in Salt Lake City for further consideration of the measures next August: Whereas, It Is apparent that congress will await the crystalization of public sentiment upon some policy protective of the grazing lands on the public do main west of the 99th meridian; and Whereas, It is the determined purpose of those who favor the leasing of the grazing lands that any legislation for" that purpose must reserve and protect all the rights of the agricultural owner, of the homesteader and future agricul tural settler, the mineral prospector and all stock owners, large and small, now in actual use of. the ranges; and Whereas, The ample time to prepare a bill for such a law, furnished by the waiting attitude of congress, affords the opportunity for this committee to be confirmed in every element of the prob lem; therefore Resolved, That this committee pro ceed to gather all infortnation upon the subject and put the same into a bill which will faithfully embody the prin ciples set forth in the preamble hereto and whose provisions shall not apply anywhere except in counties where far mers and stockmen ask for the same and have such a bill ready for presenta tion to congress at the next session, for action by that body; and be it further Resolved, That the chairman of this committee be authorized to appoint spe cial committees on the following sub jects: 1. Driveways between summer and winter ranges. 2. On accommodating leasehold boun daries to the common use of available water on the public domain. 3. On reserving and protecting the ngnts ot agricultural settlers, of home steaders, mineral prospectors and of all actual owners of stock, now using the ranges. 4. On a provision in the bill that shall make it inoperative except where its provisions are accepted by the ranchers and stockmen in any. county in the area covered by the law. FOUKD IN A CISTERN. What an Investigation by One Man Revealed. Topeka people are having their cisterns cleaned and the contents of some of them are really worth more than passing no tice. One cleaned near Washburn col lege one day last week produced the fol lowing result: Sixteen tad poles, two snakes, four old cans, three frogs, one water rat, stick and stones innumerable, a piece of an old rake, a hat full of small pieces of wood. There were also other representatives of the animal kingdom in an advanced stage or aecay. Increase Continues. The gross earnings of thirty-eight roads for the fourth week in March were $9,871,067, against $8,163,881 for the fourth week in March, 18&9, an increase of $1,707,7S6. Thirty-four roads show increases and four decreases. Since January 1 the roads referred to above earned $78,357,352, an increase of $10,- 491,324 over the $67,866,128 reported for the corresponding period of 1899. For the longer period thrity-six show la- creases and two decreases. Death of Mrs. Kitchell. Died, In this city, of paralysis on the 11th inst., Mrs. Mary J, Kitchell, widow of the late Alfred ititchell, or Illinois, aged 75 years. 3 months, and 5 days, t un- e-ral services will be held at the residence of Mr. John E. Frost, 835 Western ave nue, at i. :30 p. m., Thursday. Mr. Claude Geiger, a student of the Northwestern University School of Phar macy, is in Topeka visiting hia friend. Mac rescotu See the mahogany cases and counters in Mills Dry Goods store. Why go out of Topeka to get your cabinet work- Call J. Thomas Planing Mill; Telephone 4223 rings. 44 Great Oaks From 'Little Acorns Grow. A single microbe contains the germ of the most malig nant maladies. The blood is the means by 'which microbes are sent on their deadly mis sion. Small at first, the mi crobe soon becomes a giant. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the arch enemy of all germs of 'whatever nature. Its small doses master these microbes by dissolving and passing them off as refuse of the system. Female Weakness" have had ferrule "weakness all my life and suffered day and night from headache. I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla and am nov. strong again. Mrs. Gertie Landon, Harlem, Mo. Rheumatism have a touch of rheumatism, I take Hood's Sarsaparilla and it soon cures me. It is the best rem edy lknovj of for that trouble." H. W. Hutchinson, Newark Valley, N. Y. Neuralgia I took Hood's Sarsapa rilla for neuralgia and in less than om month Itvas perfectly cured." Annie M. Luck, Benfer, Pa. Hood'i Plll core 11tt ilU: tlm non-lrrltn'inR am only cathartic to take with flood's Sarsapariila HOW HE WAS SHOT. Policeman Lucas Tells His Story on Witness Stand. The preliminary hearing of Cale Gil key for shooting Officer Lucas with in tent to kill was commenced before Judge McCabe in the city court this morning. Special Humane Officer King testified to what he saw of the trouble. He said: "I was driving north on Kansas avenue and near the bridge met Giikey driving. I stopped him and looked at his horse. 1 found that the animal was not in con dition to be worked and told him he would have to go to the station with me. He struck me with his whip, re sisted arrest and drove away. I follow ed him and blew my police whistle. Offi cer Lucas answered and we followed Giikey. and overtook him at his house. We told him he had to go with us. He swore at us and threatened to kill us both and made a move to attack me. Lucas grabbed him and told him he must stop making troublg.Gilkey reach ed for rus revolver. Lucas drew his re volver and told him not to draw his re volver. Giikey struck Lucas and knock ed him down. A crowd had gathered. I went for help. And when about two blocks away looked back. I saw Lucas fall and heard Ave shots in quick suc cession. Officer Lucas testified to the same events up to the time he was struck. He said Giikey struck him with his flat and dazed him. "I had hold of him," said Lucas. "I fell into a wagon box. He fell with me. He had hold of my revolver and was trying to point it at me. 1 let go of him and used both hands to point the revolver at him. I fired once. He struck me again. I was dazed and tried to shoot again. I don't know whether I did or not. I don t know how many times he shot at me but I knew that I was shot twice. When I got up Giikey was moving away and Mrs. Giikey had my revolver and his in her hands. During the trial Mrs. Giikey, who one of the defendants, sat with the spectators. Constable Stonestreet placed a chair tor her beside Attorney Jami son. Why, what did you do that for?1 asked Jamison. "She is your client," said Stonestreet. "Yes, but her eleven children have the chickenpox and I don't care about hav ing her so close, said the lawyer. The woman moved back to the seat In the crowd and many of the specta tors were suddenly called away. CAN FIX WATER RATES. Question of Importance to To peka Decided by Federal Court. Mayor Drew and the members of the city council who are conversant with the waterworks situation are rejoicing over a decision which has just been ren dered by federal Judge Shiras in the United States court at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The suit was almost parallel to now pending in the federal court here against the city of Topeka to pre vent the city from enforcing the new water rate ordinance. In the Iowa case the city council of Cedar Rapids passed an ordinance low ering the water rates, and David P. Kimball, a millionaire stockholder of the Cedar Rapids Water company. living in Boston, brought an injunction suit against the city to keep the city officers from publishing the new rate ordinance. On all points involved Judge Shiras held for the city and against Kimball, ruling that the city not only had the right to fix the rates, but also had the right to grant another franchise or build a plant of its own, as it pleased. There is now pending before Judge Hook in the federal court here an in junction suit brought against the city by the Topeka ater company to keep the city from putting new rates into effect, and the decision of Judge Shiras seems also to virtually decide the To peka case. This decision will be a great advan tage to us in our trouble with the waterworks," said Mayor Drew today, 'because we can now fix our water rates, and If the water company will not sell out. it cannot hinder us from going ahead and building a plant of our own. If that is what we conclude to do." The dispatch announcing the decision Is as follows: 'Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 10. In the federal court here Judge Shiras heard the injunction suit of David P. Kimball, of Boston, a millionaire stockholder in the Cedar Rapids Water company, against the city to restrain the puoli cation of an ordinance fixing new rates, the company's franchise having expire d. On all points tnvolved the court held againat Kimball, ruling that the city had the right to fix the rates and also had the right to award another fran chise or build a plant." WILL VISIT THE SHRINE. Father Hayden's Congregation to Send Him to France. The congregation of the Church of the Assumption will tender Very Rev. Francis M. Hayden a trip to the famous shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, at Lourdes, France, in the hope that his eyesight may be benefited by the re puted miraculous surroundings. The trip will be in the nature of a testimo nial on the occasion of the celebration of his silver jubilee as a Catholic priest. On May D next Father Hayden will have been for 25 years a minister of the Roman Catholic church. The jubilee celebration in this city will be one of the most important events in Catholic church circles in the state. An executive committee, of which Mr. M. Heery is chairman, is arranging for the testimonial. Father Hayden will probably decide to make the trip to the shrine this year. For several years Father Hayden s sight has been seriously impaired, and the best specialists in the country have failed In their efforts to afford him relief. Montana Pops Instruct For Bryan Helena. Mont.. April 11. The Populist state convention here yesterday selected ten delegates and alternates to thefeioux Falls convention. The delegates were instructed for Bryan for president. Two New Insurance Companies. Two more insurance companies have made proper application and will be ad mitted to do business m Kansas ty v. V. Church, superintendent of insurance. They are: The Fid4ity Mutual Life of Philadelphia and the Franklin iaie or Springfield, 111. Accidents come with distressing fre quency on the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings, sprains. Dr. Williams Eclectrlc Oil relieves the pain Instantly. JNever safe without it SNOW STORM AT PEORIA. Peoria, 111., April 11. A mixed snow and rain storm with a driving wind from the north and northwest struck Peoria at 5 o'clock this morning. The thermometer stands at 34 above one degree lower than at 6 o'clock this morning. i' Sole Agents KNOX HATS. M'KINLEY ENDORSED But Delegates Are Left Free in Maine. Lewiston, Me., April 11 The Republicans of Maine in state convention here today elected delegates to the national conven tion at Philadelphia and adopted a plat form, endorsing the administration of and pledging support to President McKinley. The delegates were not pledged, but the platform in this state is deemed sufficient instruction. Mention of the name of John D. X.ong for vice president as well as that of Theodore Roosevelt called forth applause. The resolutions reaffirmed the principles of the St. Louis platform and expressed commendation of the "wise, patriotic and progressive administration of President McKinley, to whom it promised renewed allegiance and support. It endorsed the work of the senators and representatives of Maine in congress and with reference to national issues, favors the gold stand ard, the Frye shipping bill and the lay ing of a Pacific cable and the construc tion of the Nicaragua canal. LNTO A DITCH "Went Northern Pacific Train Bearing President J. J. Hill None Injured. Butte, Mont., April 11. President James J. Hill of the Great Northern, at tended by a party of officials of his road, arrived in the city today after an exciting experience. Early this morn ing his special train was ditched on the Northern Pacific track in Silver Bow canyon, about six miles west of Silver Bow Junction. The engine and baggage car were overturned, and al though the members of the party were badly shaken up none were Injured. The Northern Pacific sent out a spe cial train which brought the railroad magnate and his friends to the city. Mr. Hill and his party went east this fternoon. New- steel was being laid In the can yon where the accident occurred, and several rails had been torn up. Mr. Hill's train was traveling at a high rate of speed, and although flagged the engineer could not stop his engine in time to prevent the accident. MRS. THORP'S SURPRISE. Friends of the Police Matron Furnish Her Office. Police Matron Thorpe was pTesented with a handsome writing de.sk and a brus sels rug for her office at the police sta tion today. While she was at dinner, the room was furnished. Mrs. J. T. Johnson and Mrs. T. E. Sheard were instrumental in securing the presents for her as a token of the regard of those who have worked with her in a philanthropic manner. Against Contract System. Buffalo, N. Y., April 11. The conven tion of lake freight handlers in session at Erie, Pa., has finished its work. A memorandum of conditions and scale of wages for 1900 was adopted. The agreement declares for the abolition of the contract system at the ports of Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Richmond and Toledo, even to disapproving of local unions holding contracts hereafter, and pledges all the unions to do everything in their power to bring about its com plete abolition. Ten hours will consti tute a day's work. J. B. Kellogg Sentenced. New Tork, April 11. James B. Kel logg, the' head of the E. S. Dean com pany, was today sentenced to seven years and six months in state prison. J. Thomas Planing Mill is proud of its work In the Millinery Department Mills Dry Goods Btore. LOCAL MENTION. Th progTam for Unity club :Friday niglit Is as follows: Reading, W. H. Cowles; vocal solo, Mrs. Frank Foster; paper, "The Rose and Her Relatives," Mrs. Theodore Wilkie; paper, "Written Constitutions," L. A, Stebbins. Mrs. Milton "White, of Harrisburg, Pa., formerly Miss Jennie Haley, has arrived in Topeka to spend the summer with her parents at 316 Jefferson street- "I have been troubled a great deal CTitlm a torpid liver, which produces constipa tion. I found CASCARETS to be all you claim lor them, and secured Buch relief the Urst trial, that I purchased another supply and wa. com pletely cured. I shall only be too glad to rec ommend Cascareta whenever the opportunity Is presented." J. A. Smith. 2S20 Susquehanna Aye., Philadelphia, Pa. Pleatant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Sever Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 36c. SOc CURE CONSTIPATION. BUrllaf RMcdy Ceapaar, CMe..., Kaatreal, flew T.rk. 920 tl Tft Sola bd(1 maramd tt all drag- Is J I U'UrtW giw to C'CJtK Tobacco Habit. UX fw mil LazvliuGr 9 ft Lt L CATHARTIC yt "CORRECT Beautiful Effects in Correct Neckwear r.vv. Exquisite harmony of color and design. Dainty and fascinating patterns. Rich and luxuriant Silks and Satins. Positively the most brilliant array of exclusive Scarfery shown in Kansas. The most desirable creations of the cravat makers craft. Unusually rich stuffs at unusually low prices. Our inimitable line of Handkerchief Neckscarfs for Men and Women has set a new standard of Scarf beauty 5Qc $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 Have you seen "The Milford Grays' The Really New Easter Shade ...I, i i -1, 1 1 mi -win nmmmai "wwam 631 Kansas Avenua CRAWFORD MATINEE 2:30 SATURDAY sTs "QUO The Sensation of the Age. An Intensely Thrilling Story of the DA'WN OF CEFwISTXANITY ani the COLLAPSE 07 PACA1TXSM. POPULAR PRICES. Right, 25c, 50c, 75c. Matinee, 25c, 50e. A BISHOP ARRAIGNED. Saints Conference at Lamoni Takes Spirited Action. Lamoni, la., April 11c The chief item of interest in the Saints' conference to day was the report of the committee to audit the books of the church. It ar raigned severely the methods employed in the office of the bishop, and recom mended radical changes therein. The bishop made a lengthy statement in his own defense, to which the chairman of the committee made an explanatory re ply. Elder Heman C. Smith of a com mittee appointed by the twelve on the same matter, also made a statement of the work of his committee and the quorum of twelve. The consideration of the report was deferred till unursaay afternoon. Millionaire in Jail. New York, April 11. George "W. Hull the reputed millionaire and mine owner of Arizona who was arrested yesterday on a telegram from Providence, R. I., was again arraigned today. On request of detectives, the prisoner was remand ed until next B'riday to give the officers of Providence an opportunity to reach this city and take the prisoner. Hull had no sooner been placed in the jail attached to Jefferson Market court when his counsel served a writ of ha beas corpus on the jailer returnable at 11:30 before Judge Fitzgerald of the su preme court. SEWS BRIEFS. FUNERAL OF MRS. CHRISMAN. The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Chrisman. was held this afternoon from the First M. E. church. The body was taken to London, Ohio, her old home, for burial. KENNEDY NOMINATED. J. M. Kennedy, of Burlington, waa today nominated for senator in the Franklin-Coffey county district by the Republicans. PLACE FOR YOUNG GRIDL.EY. Washington, April 11. The president to day sent the following nominations to the senate: War Artillery To be captain, Pirst Lieutenant I. N. Lewis, Seventh. To be first lieutenant. Second Lieutenant S. F Bottoms, Sixth. Infantry To be first lieutenant. Second Lieutenant Wm. K. McCuo. First. Navy To be second lieutenant in marine corps, John P. V. Gridley, of Pennsylvania. SOLID FOR BRYAN. Columbus, O-.April 11. The sentiment of the state convention of the league of Democratic clubs which met here today is solidly for Bryan, although Presi dent A. C. Buchtel, of Akron, in his annual address referred only indirectly to the Nebraskan and ignored silver en tirely. It is expected that there will be a big fight in the committee on resolu tions over the silver question. CONNECTICUT CITY ELECTION. New Britain, Conn.. April 11. At the city election Samuel Bassatt (Dem.)was elected mayor by a majority of 300 over Ira B. Hicks (Rep.). Eight Republican councilmen and two Republican alder men were elected, with, half that num ber of Democrats. WEBB HAYES OUT. Washing-ton, April 11 Lieut. Col. Webb C. Hayes of the Thirty-first In fantry, son of the late President Hayes, has been honorably discharged from the United States army at his, own request. He has been serving in the Philippines with Col. Petit, but is now on his way to San Francisco. No reason is assign ed at the war department for hia retire ment from the military service. RETURN OF THE POWERFUL. Lof.don, April It. The British first class cruiser Powerful whose brigade did such splendid service in the defense nf T.dvsmith arrived at Portsmouth this afternoon and was received with ereat enthusiasm by thousands of peo ple. The whole town appeared to be in the neighborhood of the water side which was lavishly decorated with bunt insr while the fortifications and other points of vantage were thronged with cheering crowds waving nags. vtriYIRTi KEPT IN BY WEATHER. Dublin. April 11. Owing to the incle ment weather. Queen Victoria was com pelled today to abandon her usual morn ing drive. DRESS FOR MEN. I Sole Agents Benjamin Clothes. THEATER VADLS" FOR SEASON OF 1900. Over J 00 New MacGregor Clubs came in Saturday. Willie V. Hoare, Long Drive Champion of the United States, uses our Persimmon Socket Driver. Prices of Clubs: $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 52.50 GOLF BALLS RE-MADE. Book and Stationery Co., 603 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kansas. POLICE WERE POWERLESS. Rioting Coal Miners Refuse to Allow Officers to Make Arrests. Washington, Ind., April 11. Many of the coal miners left last night for their homes after Inducing most of the non union men to become union men. Sev eral hundred are still here and say they will stay until every non-union man joins their ranks. There waa nearly a riot when the police arrested a man who had beaten a non-union man, and the miners rescued him from the police. The miners refused to allow the sheriff or the police to make any arrests. Most of the presidential bees that get into men's bonnets buzz in vain. TALK No. 87. Discouraged. The other day a gentleman came into my office and said that he was discouraged. He had been trying ten or a dozen specialists, but could not get glasses that would do him any good. He had about given up, but thought he would try just once more and so he had come to see what I could do. I gave him glasses that he could se clearly and easily with. They are perfect ly satisfactory in every way. He is delighted and is doing me a great deal of good. Somehow I always like to have the discouraged peo ple come in. I like to work on cases that take quite a little time and skill to tit correctly. I like it when I can satisfy a patron upon whom "others have failed." If you have bad eves, come and see me bout them." Let me show you just what I can do and tell you what ought to be done. I do not charge for consultation. My exclusive attention is given to fitting glasses. CHAS. BENNETT, OPTICIAN. 730 Kansas Avenue. Established 1879. M O E

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENTXG, APRIL 11, 1900. 5 TOPEKA SOCIETY. A r f28 P35 ff fp338 p WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD HAT 15 IT IS IT IS IT The Handsomest 66 Punlaps -AND- "JOHN B. STETSONS." BURG. L ZEOS.' UU una 1 iua You can't find any other I: itiri quite equal to the BRAND. South Dakota Stock Growers. Rapid City. S. D., April 1L. The Western South Dakota Stockgrowers' association besan its annual session here today. C. K. Howi was re-i-cte-1 president and p. M. Stuart secre tary and treasurer. A resolution was passed asking the census bur-nu to make a classified census of all stock oviTih cy the association. The annual report of the secretary shows a marked advance in the price of cattle on the rar.?e during the year. About luO cat t.enien. are in attendance. A Naval Demonstration. Berlin. April 11. The Berliner Tag blatt iearr.s from Kiel that an inter national naval demonstration will take place at Taku. The German squadron consisting of the cruisers Hertha.Gefion. Irene and the Kaiserin Augusta and the gunboats Jaeuan and Itiis. under Ad miral Bendemann, is at present station ed conveniently so that within a few days the ships can be concentrated in the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li. The Origin of "Maundy." "Maundy Thursday" is the day before 0d Friday. The word maundy is the mediaeval Kntlish word "maundee." a command. The word is used with spe cial refr-r.ee t the XIII chapter of St. John's euspel. vws-i 34. man. latum novum, a "new commandment, that ye love one another.' Tne eld English word "maunde" is a synonym f -r the "Fr-m-h word "mande," and that again is derived from the Iatin "mandatum." An abrideement of Keat's note on Maundy. MAURICE J. BY WAT Eli. Houston, Texas, and Return $23.95 Via the Santa Fe. Account Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress. Tii kets on sale April 13 and 14. Final limit 21 days from date of sale. Excellent service. Both chair cars and sleep-rs. For particulars see agent A. T. S. F. P.. P kirk una CAPITA How Many Lumps Said the waiter as she stood holding the service readv to sweeten the boarder's coffee. "Three." said the hungry man: ""special to day. 1.S0." She screamed, dropped the sugar set. threw up her hands and fled in terror from the dining-room and the presence of a crazy man. I HE FINISHED HIS DINNER Hurriedly, walked mechanically from the room and took the ele vator or let the elevator take him. "What floor?" said the ele vator boy. "5," answered the machine-like man; "choice now for 3 .95." Whereupon the elevator boy declared the man insane and turned him over to an officer to be tried. V. TO THE JUDGE He explained that he w-ork-d in a modem clothing store, where tney all have the inflation craze so seriousJv that if a customer asks tne t:me of day he is likely to be told that "it is now 12-f-O. reduced to 9 S5"; or that "it is 10 o'clock, special today for 8.39." WHAT IS YOUR NAME -tt

Asked the jud a--. "Four Floors Foursman."sald the man; "special tooay 3 4-s. w hat is your age?" "25 regular, but on the bargain counter today only 14 SV "Where do you live?" "At Coat-steen hundred and esiwo street, but I have forgotten the special adver tised figure for t-.-dav." THE JUDGE ACQUITTED HIM, And said, in very svninat ob.iged to work in the average clothing store, run "on the modern regulation advertising plan, has a perfect right to be insane. He advised hint to rs,zn and get employment with some stoie tiiej oo uumui'-s ijn a ii i-uic a uoi:ar s worth for $1. $2 ot io, anu iy suits tor 310; Wakh thea Grow. Watch their business methods wia. Robinson, Marshall Co. Security Building. 703 Kansas Ave. O STYLE COLOR QUALITY p5 Easter Hats, 99 DAZZLED THE TENDERLOIN Massachusetts Man Makes a Record 800 Bottles of Champagne in Six Days. Xew Tork, April 11. Horace Childs, 50 years old, a Massachusetts boot and shoe manufacturer, was one of the patients discharged from Bellevue yes terday. Mr. Childs came to New York on March 27. For nearly a week he daz zled Broadway and made things in the Tenderloin 'w hirl. On April 4 he ar rived in a cab at Bellevue. There he told of having created a new record of 3t bottles of champagne in six days. When his brain cooled Mr. Childs sent a telegram to his bank to stop payment on a few checks payable to Xew York women. Mr. Childs only had $4 when he ar rived at the hospital, but in an inside pocket the nurses found a certified check for $1.0v0. STOLE FROM THE MINT. Employe at San Francisco Branch Is Arrested. San Francisco, April 11. B. C. Berg-In, an assayer in the branch mint of the United States in this city has been ar rested on suspicion of having stolen small amounts of gold daily for months past. When taken into custody J 10 worth of gold clippings was found on his person. He is said to have virtually a dmitted his guilt to the detectives. His father, an attorney of Oakland, suffered a severe attack of heart failure when told of his son't arrest. Superintendent Leach- says he thinks that from $15 to filO a w-eek has been stolen from the mint for some time. Montreal After Grain Trade. Duluth, Minn., April 11. The six big steamers recently contracted for by a mysterious company of which A. B. Wolvin is the only member named, are now understood to be part of the Con nors scheme for diverting the grain trade to Montreal. The ships will be built on sait water lines so as to be available for ocean traffic during the closed season on the lakes. A line of 16 ships is now under negotiation for ser v'ee between Lake Superior and the east via the Canadian canals. "Voted a $500,000 Fee. Chicago, April 11. The directors of the Republic Construction company today voted a fee of JViO.OOO to Levy Mayer for his work in selling the Ogden Gas company. After the meeting of the Republic directors it was said the board was unanimous in voting the fee. Ostheim's Body Taken Home. Chicago. April 11. The body of Cap tain Louis Ostheim, who was found dead in bed at the Auditorium Annex on Sunoay night, was taken to Philadel phia last night in the care of his broth er. Isaac Os'heim, who arrived here from Philadelphia. The brother was unable to throw any light on the matter.

heric wat- ti-af onr Tr-lin l ousinss basis. like the Imperial; 75 Little Captain suits while the people Novel Entertainment by Sr. and Mrs. McFarland. Book Party Delights a Number of Young Folks. CALIDOREAS'S CLOSE. Xary, Queen of Scots, Discussed by 3Irs. Small. News of Personal and Nature. Social Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McFarland gave a delightful "book party" Tuesday ev ening at their home on Fillmore street, in honor of the birthdays of Mr. McFar land and his cousin. Miss Pearl McFar land. A "book party" is an aDpropriate en tertainment for Mr. McFarland to give as he possesses a very fine library and his thirty-five hundred choice volumes could not help being an inspiration for an affair of this kind. Each guest rep resented some well known book and Mrs. Carl Neilis was given a copy of Mary Johnson's"To Have and to Hold," for guessing the greatest number cor rectly. The guests present and the books they represented were as follows: Miss Ja nette Lord, with a picture of a fly pinned to her gown represented "The Gadfly;" Miss Viola White as Kenii worth, earrid a spray of Keniiworth ivy; Mrs. McFarland, "Two Years Ago," by means of a calendar for 1S9S; Mrs. Medlicott, as "Little Men." wore a pic ture of Lord Roberts. Napoleon and Funston; Miss Lillian McFarland as "Vanity Fair" carried a curling iron and a nickel: Miss Lida Bergen repre sentea imp hummer, by means of a picture of a little girl adding a column of figures; Miss Pearl McFarland. as "Paradise Lost," carried a card on which were three dice and places for Te; 10 Have and to Hold was rep- resentea oy .Mrs. carl INellis with a picture of her baby; "In His Steps" was represented by Miss Emily Eliott; Miss Grace v eiss wore two new side comb3 with the tags still on, which represent ed "The Newcomes;" Mr. Rolland Med licott carried a picture of Mr. MrFar land as "Our Mutual Friend ;"Mr.Frank famith as Middlemarch, wore a rib- Don Deanng the words, "March 15: roul Play" was represented by the host, w-earing a card, containing the word "Sapho;" Mr. Stanley Medlicott wore tnree bits of broken china, repre senting "The Breaking Up of China:' Mr. A. M. Bunten, as "To Have and to Hold, displayed a political cartoon Air. carl relus earned pictures of Bis marck, Grant and Shafter. representing k.-ujmria iuct:, v e x o, was a pair of doll boots carried by Mr. Lee Forbes; Mr. H. G. Larimer as "Hard Cash." carried two pennies: Dr. Charles Stillman of Morganviiie, Kan., was a guest but did not represent a book. The latter part of the evening was spent in playing progressive high five and Mr. Stanley Medlicott won the prize, a silver paper cutter. Refresh ments were served and the evening was an enjoyable aEair. The Calidorean Club. The Calidorean club held its last reg ular meeting Monday afternoon with Mrs. G. A. Herrick at Washburn col lege. Roll-call was responded to with quotations from French authors. Mrs. Dan Small gave a sketch of the life of Mary', queen of Scots. Mrs. Worth ington, Mrs. Moore and Miss Brett were appointed programme committee for the enesuing year. The members of the club are: Mrs. George W. Crane, Mrs. Dan Small. Mrs. A. W. Lacey, Mrs. William Wadsworth, Mrs. A. W. Parks. Miss Eva Brett, Mrs. Worthington, Mrs. George D. Hale, Mrs. James Moore, Mrs. W. C. Trapp, Mrs. G. A. Herrick and Mrs. John Brad ley. Refreshments were served, after which the club adjourned to meet Monday- afternoon, April 30, at the home of Mrs. Wadsworth, when a social session will be held. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. T. A. Beck and Mrs. Willis Ed son have issued invitations for a recep tion Wednesday afternoon, April IS. at the home of Mrs. Beck, on Quincy street- The Ideal club is planning to give a "Cranford tea" next Wednesday after noon, at the home of Miss Margaret Weiss, from 3 until 6 o'clock. The young ladies will all be dressed in Cran ford costumes. Mr. Jacob Smith and grand-daughter. Miss Helen Thompson, returned Tues day from Excelsior Springs, where they have been spending the past ten days tor the Denent of Mr. Smith s health. Mrs. W. W. Twist, of Toluca, 111., is visiting her niece. Miss Edna Millice, on her way home from Ddge City. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Dillon have re turned from a short stay at Excelsior Springs. The Woman's Home Missionary so ciety of the First MethoOst church will meet Thursday afternoon, instead of Wednesday, at the residence of Mrs. McEntire, 141ij West Sixth avenue, at 3 o'clock. The change was made on account of the funeral of Mrs. Chris man, which will be held Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Charles Stillman returned to Mor ganviiie. Kas., today after a few days' visit with Topeka friends. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hall, of Kan sas City, are in Topeka,' the guests of Miss Bessie Hayden. Miss May Kellam, of Richland, is spending a few days with Mrs. A. D. Gray, at her home in Potwin. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hagan will go to Excelsior Spring3 Thursday for a short stay. The marriaee of Miss Leona Gertrude Day, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Day. and Mr. Oscar Grismore. of Pan dora. Ohio, will take place this even ing at the home of the bride's parents at 510 Taylor street, at 8 o'clock. C. W. Jones, of Horton, division su perintendent of the Rock Island, spent Tuesday in the city. Miss Nellie Morrison has gone to Atchison to attend the marriage of her brother. Miss Harriet Jenkins, of Hutchinson, is spending a few days with relatives in Topeka on her way to Kansas City. Miss Matie Johnson left this morning for a several weeks' visit in Arkansas City. TILE DEWEY BALL. Decorations of Chicago Auditorium to Be of Blue and Gold. Chicago. April 11. Details of the dec orations of the Auditorium in which the ball will be given the night of April 30 in honor of Admiral Dewey were de cided on today. The affair will be one of the mcst unique and elaborate of its kind ever given in the west. The scheme has been adopted of covering the entire Auditorium with a covering of white, blue and gold, entirely con- WHOLESALE AND A CHANGE. I wish to announce to my friends and patrons and the public generally that I have sold the Star Grocery to Mr. E. Montgomery, of Farmington, HI., who will take charge at once; and I take this opportunity to thank all icy old customers, whose influ ence, patronage and money have en abled me to build up a business that for many years has been the object of my pride, and which today is the largest retail cash grocery house in Kansas. Mr. Montgomery comes to Topeka well endorsed, and I take pleasure in recommending the Star Grocery, with its new proprietor, to the public generally in the future, just as I have done in the past. Very truly, J. S. SPR0AT. Having purchased the Star Gro. eery of Mr, J. S. S pro at, I shall take great pleasure in continuing to serve the public in the future as this store has done in the past It will con tinue to sell more and better goods for the money than any other gro cery in the west Mr. Sproat will remain with the house for an indefi nite period, as will also the rest of the force; so you may feel at home when you come here to boy. Noth ing will be left undone to keep the store, the goods and the service up to its present high standard. Yours for acquaintance and busi ness, L MONTGOMERY. cealing the outlines of the big theater, and these delicate colors will be re lieved by the brilliant hues of Turkish rugs swung from the second tier of boxes. It is proposed to enlist the seiv lces of the regular naval crews sta tioned at Chicago at that time to man the ships represented in the series of prows stationed every few feet along the ballroom floor, a man in regulation uniform standing at the point of each. From each prow will rise a Venetian mast from which the festoons of elec tric lights will swing, and above all will extend the draperies forming the enor mous canopy. Five thousand invita tions will be Issued for the ball. BURGLARS RICH HAUL. Chicago Porch Climber Secures Jewels Worth $20,000. Chicago, April 11. Some estimates place the amount the porch climbers secured at the home of Orrin W. Potter, the multi-millionaire and ex-president of the Illinois Steel company, as high as J40.000. The plunder, the most val uable secured by thieves in Chicago in years, consisted of diamonds, jewelry, and silverware. The home of Mr. Potter is a great mansion at the corner of Burton Place and Lakeshore drive. It is supposed the thieves climbed up the marble pillars of the porch on the Bur ton Place side and forced open the bal cony windows. The family were at din ner when the robbery was committed. They had no intimation of the theft un til Miss Potter went upstairs soon after dinner. She at once missed a Jeweled brooch and a hurried investigation showed that robbers had been at work. Miss Potter at once notified her father and in fifteen minutes it was found that the second floor of the house had been ransacked. It was found that more than $20,000 worth of jewel3 was missing. The fam ily decided rot to make known their loss for a while, at least, or to notify the police, having the hope that the thieves might make a proposition to return the jewels for a ransom. Some of the jewels are of such de sign and appearance that for the thieves to attempt to dispose of them in the ordinary way would only invite cap ture. A diamond necklace belonging to Mrs. Potter is the most valuable single article that was taken. Some Marquise rings were also in the booty. At the residence the following state ment was made: "It was between 7 and 8 o'clock when the robbery oc curred. All who were in the house at the time were at dinner, and the serv ants were busy in the kitchen and dining room. The burglars entered an upstairs window in front of the house. They scaled the porch and pried open the window without making enough noise to be heard below. They were in the house probably not more than fif teen minutes, but in that time they went through all the upstairs rooms. The manner in which they had gone through places where jewelry might be kept would indicate they were accus tomed to the work. There was no money in the house, but there was a large amount of jewelry. The amount taken is not above $20,000." This is the third big burglary within a week on the fashionable LaKeshore drive. The police are of the opinion that one gang has done all the work, and the character of the operations shows the members to be experts in their line. All efforts to get any clue to them have been fruitless, although the btst detective ability has been cen tered on the cases. The police believe that the booty secured by the burglars is shipped to other cities and disposed of, for although the pawnshops in Chi cago have been carefully watched none of the stolen property has been recov ered. Impending Strike Settled. Minneapolis. April H. The impending trouble between the master builders and the carpenters' union has been amicably settled by arbitration. The finding of the arbitrators is for 31M; cents an hour, one cent less than the union asked and one cent more than the builders offered. The differences as to rules of w-ork. pay for overtime, etc., were readily settled. E. MONTGOMERY, Proprietor. RETAIL. Bring in Your Blue or Green Premium Stamps and Get Cash or Groceries for Them. Were it not for this store the people of Topeka would be paying high prices for their Groceries on account of Premium Stamps. You can rest assured that when you buy a bill of Groceries here and get stamps, you are not paying for the stamps. 19 lbs finest Granulated Sugar.. ..1.00 15 bars good Laundry Soap .25 50 lbs Straight Patent Flour .65 can Price's Baking Powder.... .SSI -tb can Walter Baker's Breakfast Cocoa .25 12 lbs Scotch Oats 3 pkgs. Pearline 6 lbs Hand-picked Navy Beans.. .25 .10 3 lbs new Lima Beans. .25 2 pkgs. Macaroni 15 Cream Cheese, per tb .15 New York Full Cream Cheese, per Tb .18 New York Brick Cheese, per lb.... .18 2 lbs pure Vermont Maple Sugar.... .25 Sweet Chocolate, per cake .04 Premium Chocolate, per Tb. .30 6 pkg3. Corn Starch. .-3 03 .15 .10 Ralston and Yeast Foam, pkg...... 24 boxes Parlor Matches 1 doz. Fresh Country Egg3 Primrose Creamery Butter, tb..... Best Butterine, per lb Soda End Oyster Crackers, per lb, by box 4 lbs fresh baked Ginger Snaps..... 3 1-rb pkgs. Graham Crackers 3 1-tb pkgs. Oat Meal Crackers.... Ivory Soap, per bar 5-lb bucket Apple Butter..... 5-tb bucket Jelly Quart can Maple Syrup 3-lb can Fancy Table Syrup 1 gallon Honey Drip Syrup 2 dozen Sweet Navel Oranges....... Fancy Lemons, per dozen Jar Sweet Pickels 13 Its Sal Soda 7 lbs Lump Starch Kansas Potatoes, per bu Good Parlor Brooms Larg pkg. Postum Cereal 1 gallon jug Catsup .15 .05 .25 .25 .04 .10 .10 .23 .25 .15 .25 .25 .25 .20 .25 .20 .45 MAIL ORDERS BOTH MUST GO. Successors For Chairman Albaugh and Secretary Brown Discussed. That Morton Albaugh, chairman, and Frank Brown, secretary, of the Repub lican state committee, will not again be chosen for these positions is practically a foregone conclusion. The Republicans throughout the state have taken up this fight in earnest, and even the most sanguine supporters of Albaugh and Brown admit that their re-election is an impossibility. Under these circumstances it is said that Albaugh and Brown will effect a graceful escape from the inevitable by declining, at the proper time, to per mit the use of their names in connec tion with the places. Tom Kelly, assistant state treasurer, i3 being talked of for Brown's place. In fact, Mr. Kelly is the only man at this time mentioned In connection with this place. The realization of the fact that a new chairman will be chosen has come upon the politicians so suddenly that few men have been discussed. Dave Mulvane was honored with quite a boom for the place, but he has announced that under no circumstances would he accept the position. At this time there is no available man in sight. E. B. Jewett, of Wichita, has been talked of because he is close to the governor and the state administra tion. Whether the place will be given to the Seventh district is also a ques tion. It is customary for the state offi cers to select the chairman, and the Seventh district officers could capture it if they stood together. Charles Lobdell has also been men tioned for chairman. Lobdell is now at work in the headquarters at the Cope land. Roy Richey, one of the state headquarters veterans, is also at work there. The two men are in charge of the headquarters and are planning for the state campaign this year. They are now getting up maps and charts containing political information con cerning Kansas and showing too the votes of the respective parties, the plat forms of the past. In fact, these men are outlining the work just the same as if they were the state committee. Mr. Albaugh and Mr. Brown, realiz ing that they must vacate, do not at the present time care to go into the committee headquarters and perform a great amount of work which they will be compelled to turn over to their suc cessors. For these reasons they have pleaded a press of other business, and the committee is in new hands. The state committee is paying Miss Lucy Shull for work she is doing in the office of the state treasurer while Mr. Richey of that office serves the state committee. SO JUKET THIS YEAR. Board of Railroad Assessors Will Not Take Trip Over State. The state board of railroad assessors will have the first preliminary meeting of the year Thursday in the office of the state auditor to plan the work of assessment this year. The law provides that the assessors shall make once in two years at least a trip over the railroad lines of the state for the purpose of Inspecting the property ard looking for improvements w hich the companies do not return. The Republican board made a trip over the lines last spring and will not repeat the junket this year. The as sessment will be made up in the office of the auditor from the company's re turns. The members of this board are as fol lows: Lieutenant governor, state audi tor, treasurer, secretary of state, and attorney general. LOST HIS JOB. Julius Siatek, 17 Years Old, Promptly Killed Himself. Chicago. April 11. Julius N. Sistek. 17 years of age, after writing letters to his parents in whl.-h he said he had had his photograph taken that they might have something to remember him by, and leaving a farewell for his sweetheart, committed suicide by shooting last night. Sistek was discharged from his em ployment yesterday and this he gave as the reason for his act. The body when found was badly burned, the bed hav ing been set on fire by the discharge of the pistol. 112 EAST 1 gallon jug Mustard 45 7 cans Eagle Milk 1.00 3 pkgs. Toothpicks 10 6 lbs good clean Rice .25 2 pkgs. Scotch Oats .15 Battle Ax Oats, per pkg .05 25-Ib cloth sack Corn Meal 5 Columbia River Salmon, per lb.. 12H Large White Fish, per lb 124 Fat Mackerel .10 Canned Goods. 3-lb cans California Table Peaches. .15 3-Ib cans California Table Apricots, 2 for 25 3-Ib cans California Table Grapes.. .10 3-lb cans California Table Cherries. .15 3-lb cans California Table Pears 20 3-tt cans Plum Butter .10 3-tb cans Peach Butter 10 3-tb cans Quince Butter .10 3-Ib cans Apple Butter .10 3-tb cans Raspberries, 2 for 2j 3 cans Blackberries .25 3 cans Gooseberries .25 3 cans Cherries Grated Pineapple, per can.. Lilac Corn, per can Lilac Succotash, per can... .10 .10 .10 cans White Wax Beans. .15 2 cans Red Kidney Beans .15 4 cans Early June Peas .25 2 cans Chipped Beef -jo 5 cans Potted Ham .-J 6 cans Potted Tongue 25 C cans Boston Baked Beans 2 3-lb can Pie Pumpkin Warren's Al Salmon, per can la 2 cans Red Salmon 2d 6 cans Oil Sardines -25 3 cans Oysters 2a SHIPPED PROMPTLY AT S0RTH TOPEKA. Items intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany. 835 Kansas avenue. Ladies call for the New Idea Fashion sheets. They are free. Costley Post. J. Christman of Menoken township left this morning for Jamestown, Da kota. The crossing on the west side of the avenue at N orris street is being re paired. Mr. Harley Hamilton of Kansas City will visit Mr. Malcolm James Easter Sunday. A. M. Petro and W. D. Woodford went to St. Joseph this afternoon to spend two days. The Rochester Reading circle will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Caldwell. Mr. Benj. York came down from Meri den today to attend the funeral of his brother, John E. York. Have your sewer connected and your plumbing done by A. Allen, practical plumber, 925 North Topeka avenue. Little Jessie Miller, daughter of Mr and Mrs. DeWitt Miller of 800 Monroe street, i3 able to be out again after a severe sick spelL 100 doz. Shirt Waists for Easter; all style and color and prices. Ladies' Trimmed Hats from $1.00 up. COSTLEY POST. Mr. Charles M. Smith of 1101 Monroe street met with quite a painful accident yesterday by running a rusty nail in nis foot, which has confined him to his home. James Coughlin. W. H. Curtis and Ernest Wyncoop are making great im provements on their property in the Santa Fe addition. S. R. Hogaboom who has been in Port Arthur looking after property interests is the guest for a few days of his brother, W. A. Hogaboom. He is en route to his home in C res ton, Iowa. A lecture by Mr. George Cole on the "Cliff Dwellers" was given last evening at the Baptist church for the benefit of the Grant school picture fund. The at tendance was good. Mrs. C. H. Rhodes is quite 111 with neuralgia of the stomach at her home. 925 Quincy street. Her mother, airs. A. Ryder, and her sister. Mrs. A. P. Goodhue, arrived today from Emporia to be with her. There will be a celebration of the Holy Eucharist at the Church of the Good Shepherd, corner of Laurent and Quincy tomorrow (Maundy Thursday) evening at 8 o'clock, in commemoration of the institution of the Lord's Supper. Rev. Canon Bywater will celebrate. The Temperance Commission club met last evening in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church. Mr. Swaptz is the president of the club and Guy Houghtelin. secretary. Addresses were made by Mr. F. A. Powell of the Christian church. Rev. T. J. Peaison of the Congregational church and Rev. Mr. Mooney, a Presbyterian minister. There will be an entertainment at the Rochester school house this evening, the proceeds of which will be sent to the famine sufferers in India. Music will be furnished by a quartet" e composed of Misses Oral and Eleanor Caldwell, and Messi-3. Charles Berry and J. F. Cecil. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter will de Liver an address on Longfellow. Just across Soldier Creek on the Rochester road there is camped a family of movers. The man is sick In the wagon with pneumonia and for a night or two the children have been sleeping out doors under the wagon. They seem to be having a hard time and charitably disposed people might do a good deed by assisting them. Several of the neigh bors in this locality have helped them. Rubber tires $27.00,Rehkoprs Carriage Factory, 207. 20$ Wrest Sixth street. rmm BorderTa 0 o- SIXTH STREET. Coffee. Lion and Levering's Cvffee. pkg. Arbuckle's Coffee, per pkg Fancy Santos Coffee, per lb .ii .15 Java Biend Coffee, per lb .20 Java and Mocha Coffee, per lb 23 White House Coffee, per lb can 35 Victor Coffee, per" lb can 33 3-Ib can Old Glory Coffee 73 1-Ib can Star Java and Mocha 30 Dried Fnits. 6 Its California Prunes 3 lbs fancy Silver Prunes 3 lbs California Raisins 1 lb Pitted Cherries.: .20 1 Tb Raspberries IS 3 lbs Blackberries 23 3 1-Ib pkgs. Currants 1-Tb pkg. Seeded Raisins 3 lbs California Peaches 3 Tbs Ring Evaporated Apples.... 1 Tb fancy Pears 3 1-tb pkgs- Figs 1 Tb fancy Apricots 3 lbs extra large Prunes 3 lbs fancy Dates .-a .10 .15 15 Meats and Lard. 4 lbs Armour's White Lard 3 lbs Wolff s O. K. Lard Fancy California Hams, per lb Wolff's Capital Hams, per tb Salt Bacon, per Tb Sugar cured Breakfast Bacon, tb.. .I'" .12 06' 2 .10 THESE PRICES. anger Of contracting Sickness, if you use Pure Mater That's the kind fur nished by the fakaWaterCo. Telephone 122. 625 Quincy Street. GRAND OPERA HOUSE Saturday Evening, April 14- "ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE" The Realization of Romance! Mr. James O'Neill In Liebler Co.'s Stupendously Stunning Spectacular and Scenic Production of Sydney Grundy's ver sion of Alexander Dumas' story "THE MUSKETEERS." Ten Tale-Telling Tableaux Throbbing With Thrilling Adventures. Prices: $1.50. $1.00. 75c and 25c. Reserved seat sale begins on Wednesday at Flad Grubbs' drug store. The Burlngiton Route the Best lane West: Kansas City and St. Joseph to Nebraska. Denver, Utah. Pacific Coast Two Trains Daily. Weekly California Excursions. Northwest: to Black Hills, Montana, Washington, Puget Sound, via the short Billings Route, the time saver 60 to 500 miles saved. Tourist Sleepers Tuesdays and Thursdays, Kansas City and St. Joseph to Seattle. East: unquestionably the best trains via Chicago or St. Louis. North: to St. Paul, Minneapolis and the Northwest region. Homeseekers Excursions to tha West and Northwest- 7500 Miles of Standard Railroad. The Main Traveled Road in the Louisiana Purchase. Wide-Vestibuled. Pintsch-Iighted.com-plete trains of chair cars (seats free), Pullman sleepers. Ail Ticket Agents can ticket via tha Great Burlington Route. .Writs L. W. WAKELET. Gen'I Passenger Agt, St. Louis, Mo. HOWARD ELLIOTT. General Manager, St. Joseph, Mo. for NURSING AND GENERAL COOKING. &END FOR A book ron JVOTHaS- MIL.K. .Am Condensed. Milk Co.. New York .No'D

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G TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRDLi 11, 1900. CHARLES ADAMS CO. (THE WOMAN'S STORE.) THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY -WILL o)Oi!ivEnisr EVERY PURCHASER OF ONE DOLLAR or more will be presented with a novelty Japanese Candy Box appropriate to this Easter time. Our store will be made as attractive as possible in APPEARANCE, MER CHANDISE and PRICES. Kid Gloves for Easter. No toilet will be Complete without a new pair of Gloves. We are able to supply that demand to your complete satisfaction. No Glove Department in the city has grown .in popularity as quickly as this one. The reason is, we have the right kinds at the right prices. We sell no Gloves but what ARE GUARANTEED. Our stock is complete in sizes, staple colors, and Novelties. Extra help has been engaged, and you'll be waited on promptly. Easter Neckwear. We are told almost daily that we have the prettiest Neckwear in the city. That being acknowledged, you should not fail to see the EASTER DIS PLAY. We can't begin to describe it. Prices from 25 c to $15.00 each. Handkerchiefs for We are showing a New Novelty in All-Linen Handkerchiefs, with Hand Drawn-Work designs. It's THE Handkerchief novelty of the season, and confined to us exclusively. We will show them in two grades: 25c, 60c ea. Novelties in Belts. Novelties in Ribbon Pulley Belts, including our own design, the Roy." Hand -made Harness Belts, with gold plated buckles. Beits large variety, and the Nethersole Cinch Belt. Hosiery for Easter. A beautiful line of Fancy Hosiery in styles exclusively our own. Beautiful all black Lisle Hose, in new Lace Patterns, including the late novelty Crepon Hosiery. We also have the RED STOCKINQS for Misses and Children. YOUR INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED. We Sell the Henderson" Corset. CHARLES ADAMS CO., (THE WOMAN'S STORE.) RED RIVER BOOMING. Floods Are Threatened Eastern Texas. in Denison. Tex., April 11. High water Is reported at all points in the Red river territory. The lied river has risen ten feet within the past 24 hours. The Washita is on a big boom and overflow is threatened. Advices from Texarkana say that the Eed river has risen eight feet and is increasing eight inches an hour. The rise conies from the upper tributaries and will be augmented by the heavy water spouts of the past 24 hours in this pection. The Sulphur river and Little liver are also booming, the latter being out of its banks in the lower lands. EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED. San Antonio, Tex., April 11. The wa-tei-s are receding in the swollen rivers and streams of Texas and it it believed that the worst is over. The property damage by reason of the sudden rush of water will be very large while many lives have been lost. It is learned that eic;ht people out of a traveling party of composed of two families were drowned at the junction nf the Middle Concho river and the Kiowa creek in Iron county. The names of the fami lies are Queen and Wilson and they were from Voca, McCullough county, Texas. Of the eleven members of the Queen family, seven were drowned, the father, mother and five children, among the latter being an eight months' old baby. A boy of the "Wilson family was also swept away. The bodies of the un fortunate victims of the flood were found after a search of 30 hours. CORN AND COTTON DESTROYED. Rockdale, Tex., April 11. Thousands nf acres of corn and cotton have been destroyed in this country by the floods nf the past few days. Lower Little riv r was fv.ur miles wide this morning nnd lacked only eight inches of being as high as in June last. The engineering corps of the Santa T railway reports the rise as being one and a half feet higher than last year. Kan Oabriel river a.nd Brussey creek nave been out fiver the low lands but are receding. The Brazos is expected to overflow tonight. LETS GREENBACKS OCT. New Currency Bill Will Force Them Into Circulation. Washington, April 11. The comptrol ler of the currency in answer to in quiries today said: "Under authority of section 5193, U. S. R. S., national banks have heretofore been permitted to deposit with any as l istant treasurer of the United States lawful money in sums of not less than $10,000 and to receive therefor, a certi ficate of deposit, which certificates they were authorized to count as part of their lawful money reserve. "Section 8 of the act of March 14, 1900. known as the "currency bill' repeals this entire section of the revised statutes nd in consequence the banks will (hereafter be prohibited from counting puch certificates as part of their lawful reserve. "There are about fourteen and a half millions of these certificates now out standing which are held entirely by the tiaukn in the principal cities of the east iwlth the exception of two ;r three west ern cities and are indicated in their re ports as United States certificates of deposit. "The result of this repeal of section 6 rwlll be the reappearance in circulation of the legal tenders against which the certificates have been issued." Bond of $50,000 Given. Kansas City, April 11. A $30,000 bond lias been given by the Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing company of Minneapolis to Insure the erection of new convention hall in time for occupation by the Dem ocratic convention in July. The com pany agrees to have the ten immense fiteel trusses that will support the roof in place by June 15 under a penalty of $100 a day for each day it might be delaved beyond the time limit. If it. should appear to the architect and the liall directors that all the trusses will not be up by June lu, they will have the privilege of ordering the work stop ped and of calling upon the men and the steel company to aid in putting the building in temporary ahapefor the con Vntiti. BE DaySo Easter. "Rob Pulley We Sell the Dowager" Corset. SHOW PLOWS BUSY. Rock Island and Santa Fe Trains Delayed. Reports received at the Santa Fe and Rock Island offices in this city tell of a severe snow storm in western Kan sas and Colorado. On the Rock Island, at Dodge City, snow fell to the depth of a foot- From Dodge City the fall of snow ex tended south as far as Liberal and east as far as Pratt. East of Pratt quite a heavy fall of rain was re ported. Snow plows were kept busy all last night, and only a few trains were de layed on the southern division. The storm was most severe on the main line in the eastern part of Colo rado near the Kansas line. In the cuts near Bovina and Flagler. Colo., the snow was drifted to a depth of from two to eight feet. The train due in Topeka early this morning was annulled on this account. The snow plows are working east with passenger train No. 6, and a Raymond and Whitcomb special following close after. Although this has been one of the severest storms this year, owing to efficient work of the snow plows very few trains were delayed to exceed eight hours. On the Santa Fe trains were delayed from two to four hours. Men old in the railroad business say that it has been a great many years since a snow storm has troubled them this late in the year. MRS. DEWEY'S RELIGION. Gossip Concerning Her Leaving the Catholic Church. Washington, April 11. The announce ment that Mrs. Dewey has definitely severed her connection with the Roman Catholic church and will hereafter at tend the Episcopal church with the admiral, has today been the subject of general discussion in Washington. Those friends who were nearest to Mrs. Dewey have not been surprised; indeed, tney nave heen aware that such a step had been in contemplation for some time. But to the public generally it has proved a genuine surprise. Admiral Dewey, while admitting that his wife had given up her pew in St Paul's church and that the facts as stated were correct, said emphatically that the subject was one upon which he declined to be interviewed. "I am sorry," he said, "that this sub-' ject has been discussed in any public way. I dislike of all things to have my wife made the subject of news paper talk and gossip. Nothing could De more distasteful to her. "You would like a statement from my wife on the subject? That will be impossible, added the admiral in iiis most emphatic manner. The subject of Mrs. Dewey's Conver sion or renunciation has created an im mense amount of talk everywhere in the national capital. Mrs. Dewey has not attended the church the pastor of which married her since that interesting event. tne naa a new in St. Paul s Roman Catholic church, but it has not been rented by Mrs. Dewey since Janu ary, the beginning of the quarter year, which is the term for pew rentals. It is said that the admiral's wife has been attending the Episcopal pro-cathedral occasionally. Admiral Dewey is an Episcopalian, and his parish is the fashionable one of St. John's, which has been attended by presidents and distinguished people for nearly 100 years. To go to St. John's church Would have attracted immediate attention to Mrs. Dewey, so she has visited a church of her husband's faith out of the center of fashion. Noted Texas Hermit Dead. San Antonio, Texas, April 11. A dis patch to the Express announces the death of Col. J. H. Lifford. one of the most noted characters in Texas at his home near Beeville, aged over 80 years. Col. Lifford was a native of Illinois and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. He served through the civil war with the union forces and came to Texas at its close. He was probably the greatest colonizer Texas ever had. For years he had been living the life of a hermit on a little farm which he personally cultivated. MEN OFJHLLIONS Wealthy Chicago Plumbers Put on Overalls And Go to Work on the Marshall Field Building. TO BEAT THE UXIOX. Twelve of Them Enter the Place Under Guard. They Have Tolunteered to Take Places of Strikers. Chicago, April 11. Twelve men in overalls which were spotless and whose hands looked anything but accustomed to manual labor, today filed into the Marshall Field building against which the unions have called a strike and went to work. They were employing plum bers, whose aggregate wealth foots well up into the millions. In ordei" to fulfill E. Baggot Co.'s contract on the build ing they volunteered last night to step into the breach made by the strikers and with the aid of such skill as le mained to them after years spent in watching growing bank accounts, to finish the plumbing work in the struc ture. Among them were M. J. Corboy, who, as he placed his soldering iron in the coals, might have been preparing to buy the whole block, for he is rated a mil lionaire. And there was .Thomas Con lin whose wealth is estimated at half a million dollars. Paul Radieski, an other of the workmen, is worth $200,000. PVank Falk, Charles Herbert and ex Alderman Alexander Watson, all' cred ited with liberal fortunes, were others in the volunteer ranks now warring against the building trades council which they say must go. All .was quiet around the big business block, early today. The employers who forsook their -desks to take up the sol dering irons entered the building through a door guarded by a couple of special .policemen and were observed from, a safe distance, by the strikers whose places they took. v BOSSES DIDN'T WORK. Chicago, April 11. E. Baggott Co., who i.ave the plumbing contract for the Marshall Field building on which the unions have called a strike have an nounced that they will not avail them selves of the offer of several wealthy plumbing contractors to done overalls and take the place of tne striKing plum bers in order that the contract might be finished in time. It was stated at their offices early in the day that the men had actually gone to work on the build ing which was under a heavy guard of policemen and the names of the master1 plumbers alleged to be at work were given. Mr. Baggott, however, said later that it was impracticable to use a large force at present, but that when plumbers were wanted plenty were to be had. Guards at the entrances to the build ing prevented all outsiders from enter ing and it was not until after noon that the strikers and their pickets learned that the "bosses" .were not actually at work. GOVERNOR TO PREACH. Will Fill Pulpit of Seabrook Church iu Absence of Pastor. Governor Stanley will make an ad dress at the Seabrook Congregational church Sunday evening, May 6. He will fill the pulpit in absence of the pastor, Rev. Mr. Lee. There will be good music to make the service complete. PADEREWSKI REFUSED. Sacramento, Cal., Audience Too Small For the Famous Pianist. Sacramento. Cal., April 11. Pader- ewski refused to play in Sacramento last night because only 122 seats were sold, and of these seventy-two were pur chased by people from outside towns. When he decided not to play Manager Ficks of the opera house wouid not release his piano until the rent, $250, was paid. Later Paderewski's manager settled the bills and the instrument was removed. WAST 10,000 HOUSES. England's Agent Contracts For Kan sas and Missouri Animals. New Tork, April 11. An agent for Great Britain has contracted with St. Louis, Kansas City and Des Moines firms for 10,000 horses to be used in the Transvaal. They will be shipped from New Orleans as soon as secured. PLANS HIS OWN FUNERAL. Ohio Man Buys Coffin and Cemetery Lot For His Burial. Akron, Ohio, April 11. Capt. Josiah J. Wright, a civil war veteran, ha3 just made complete arrangements for his funeral. He is in excellent health, his 79 years considered, but he says he wishes to relieve friends of the trouble of planning his obsequies. He has bought a plain $27 casket and a lot in Glendale cemetery. He has engaged the Rev. J. L. Davies to preach the funeral sermon and outlined what he wishes him to say. PASTOR UNDER A CLOUD. Resigns His Pulpit After Being Charged With Improper Conduct. Louisville, Ky., April 11. A sensation came to light today when it became known that the Rev. E. 7vopsch, pastor of the Third German Methodist church of this city, had tendered his resigna tion and departed for Cincinnati with his family. Charges had been preferred against him, alleging improper conduct toward female members of his congregation. A trial was about to begin when he re signed. Mr. Kopsch came to Louisville from Greenville, Ohio, several years ago. His church is wealthy and influential and he stood high among the church folk of this city until recently, when stories of a damaging character began to go the rounds about him. Democratic Mayor in Newark. Newark, N. J., April 11. Major James A. Seymour, Democrat, was reelected in Newark by 2.500 plurality. The' Re publicans elected nine aldermen out of fifteen, taking from the Democrats the control of the common council. They al so elected eight school commissioners. breaking the tie and graining control of the board of education. The Republi cans carried the city by 1,000 plurality. taking the vote tor trustee of the city Home as a oasis. CALLED TO TIME. Continued from First Page. terwards. The liquor is under the ban of the law itself." "The great difficulty," Chief Ramsey said, "has been to get witnesses to tell the truth. I have in mind one man who has been seen repeatedly to go into a certain place with a bucket and bring it away, presumably with beer, in it, and yet when he was put on the stand he swore that he was never in the place in his life." Mr. Vance said this could be remedied by giving the policemen orders to go into the places an get the names of the people there, and if they then swore falsely the city would have proof of it. Mayor Drew said that he would give the police force orders to enter the joints and if the joints and all gambling houses and disorderly places are not closed within a reasonable time there will be a new police force. Detective (Silmore suggested that if the administration meant business it might be a good plan to begin on Tur nei hall today, but some of the others thought that it would be better to begin on the more notorious saloons and re sorts in the business part of the city, ond then if the Turners sell liquor to outsiders contrary to law, they also will be prosecuted. I am convinced. Mayor Drew said today, "that the law can be enforced and it is going to be enforced in To peka, I find that the mayor is entirely- responsible for its enforcement, and if the present police force cannot enforce it 1 will have a new force. II 1 can t get that I will get out of office myself and let some one else try it. "I am informed that the general opin ion prevails that the police force does not care whether the law is enforced or not. I do not believe this is true, and I am not inclined to especially censure the force, because.it has many difficul ties to contend with, but I do not be lieve some of the officers have been as active as they might have been. There has been no improvement in affairs for a long time. There seems to be just as many disorderly places and joints as there ever were. And recently a new- beer wagon has been brought to town. I am determined that this thing shall stop. T do not believe in the license sys tem. It does not pay financially even, although there are many people who think it does. It is the towns in Kan sas which have been under the license system for a long time that are bad off financially. Down at Kansas City, Kan sas, they make no pretense of restrain ing these places other than collecting a monthly fine from them. As a conse quence they have to keep patrolmen on the payroll and then crime is not sup pressed, and they have paid only one- half of. their city light bills for the past two years. Over at Leavenworth where they have a population of 20,000 they have 40 patrolmen, and the city finances are in a very bad shape. T have instructed Chief Ramsey to have all the policemen at the police sta tion when they make their change at 6 o'clock tonight and I will be there and tell them what I want. They will be given orders to go into the joints here after." HEERY OH THE STAND. Admits Resignation From Board of Public Works. The district court adjourned Tuesday without having finished the Parsons' asylum injunction case. The prosecution Introduced an affida vit, a synopsis of which was published in the State Journal, to show that John S.i(nn .i T, t TIT rtl U V. .1. ed from the board of public works. The ueiense aumittea tne statement. A statement concerning the second resig nation of Mr. Seaton was allowed to go in without opposition in the agreed statement of facts. Mr. Heery admitted on the stand that he had resigned in June, 1S97, in order that he might make contracts. "You have the records of the board of public works?" asked Mr. Coleman." Yes, answered Mr. Heery. 'You were secretary and kerjt those records?" "Yes, after the death of Mr. Miller." "Will you turn to the date of the last meeting previous to the meeting record ed for March 16, 1900?" "It was June 3, 18&7." "Were no meetings held between that time and March 16? None. "What work did the board transact?' "None." "Have you had any contracts with the state board of charities?" "Yes." "What 'were the last contracts you had?" "In 1S97 for buildings at the Topeka insane asylum and reform school.' R. Vincent, a member of the board of charities, was asked if the board had done any building lately. les, at the Topeka asylum, the re form school, the deaf and dumb school and other institutions." "Under whose supervision was the work done? The state board of charities." "Why did you not have the board of public works look after it?" V e did not know there was a board of public works. 'Has any of the work on institutions under the charge of your board been done under the supervision of a board or public works?" "No." E. B. Stevens was the onlv witness for the defense. He testified that he transferred part of the land condemned to Grant Hornaday, president of th board of charities. The arguments in the Parsons asylum case were concluded before Judge Hazen in the district court this afternoon. The defense is endeavoring to show that Michael Heery and John Seaton were in reality of the board of public works and that their action in condemning the ground at Parsons was legal. The prosecution cited cases to show that the action of the two members was not legal. The application is for" a tem porary injunction restraining Auditor Cole from issuing warrants on the state treasurer tor payment for the land. Briefs will be submitted and a decision will not be given for several days. ALL OVER THE WEST. llaia, Snow and Unusually Cold Weather Extends. Chicago, April 11. The whole west and southwest, including the states of Colorado, Wyoming. Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, is experiencing a series of rain and snow storms accompanied by temperatures ranging from 15 de gress below normal, with heavy frosts over a large section of the wheat belt. At Denver this morning thermometers registered 8 above, and at Dodge City, Kas., 18 above. According to the Unit ed States weather bureau the storms are a continuation of the recent cloud- bursts that caused the Austin, Texas, disaster, and swollen country streams are reported from all over the west. Several minor washouts have occurred, but so far the railroads have not ex perienced any serious trouble. Weather bureau officials say the frost line will extend tonight as far south, as the Ohio river at least. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, April 11. WHEAT The gov ernment report putting the wheat condi tion at S2.1 per cent was much lower than the talent on 'Change had expected. They believe also that this average does not include much damage of recent date. This combined with reports of cold weather in the southwest produced a strong market early. Mav wheat opened Wnc over yesterday at 67f&c and on covering by shorts -advanced sharply to 6Sc. The bulge met selling, however, and a reaction to 67! followed. At this point the market became steady. Local re ceipts were 52 cars, none of contract grade. Minneapolis and Duluth reported 310 cars, against 374 last week and 1SS a year ago. The market by a severe strain later in the session managed to reach the level of first figures, but there was plenty for sale on the bulge and the market reacted to 6ic, closing barely steadv. May a shade over yesterday at 67Sc. CORN The corn market was active and strong early, helped mostlv bv the wheat strength. Offerings were not' libera! and shorts were compelled to cover at some loss. May opened iic up at 40'iie and touched 40c. The bulge brought out pressure trom longs and a reaction took place which carried May back to 40-5c. One man was reported to have unloaded one million bushels. Receipts here 310 cars, 10 cars over the estimate. The pressure of long corn and the weakness of provisions later pulled May down to 39c and the close was weak, May iSe down at 39c. PROVISIONS Provisions were quiet and easier under the influence of liberal hog receipts and weaker prices at the yards. May pork opened 5 cents lower at 113.00 and sold off to $12.85: May lard 2e down at $6.9i. easing to $6.82 while May ribs opened 5c lower at $7.10tt7.12c, advanced to $7.15si7.17y.c and reacted to $7.05. Chicago Livestock Market Chicago, April 11. CATTLE Receipts, 18,000. Generally easier. Good to prime steers, $o.0ft65.80: poor to medium, $4 15J 4. SO; stockers and feeders. $3. 50ft 4. 90; cows. J3.0OT4.35: heifers. $3.1034.75: canners, $2.25 '2.80; bulls, $2.7554.25: calves. $4.20-36.50; Texas fed steers, $4.00(55.25; Texas bulls, $3.2513.75. HOGS Receipts todav, 32.000; tomorrow. 28.000; left over, 7,562. Active. 2 cents to 5 cents lower; top, $5.G5. Mixed and butch ers $o..it)'rro.bo; good to choice heavy, 5.5o !fi5.65; rough heavy, $5.35?5.45: light, $5.30 5.62: bulk of salesft $5,5015.5714. SHEEP Receipts. 18.000. Steadv: lambs easier to 10 cents lower. Good to choice wethers. $6.2otr6.o0: fair to choice mixed. $5.00&6.10: western sheep, $6.0166.50: year lings, jo.wflu.a; native lamDs, $o.oO(ai.oO; western lambs, $6.00w.50. Official receipts and shipments for ves- terday Receipts Cattle. 6.642: hogs. 26.515: sheet) 2,817. snipments Cattle. 1.329: hoes. 4.644: sheep, 2,720. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, April 11. CATTLE Re ceipts, 7,000. Market steadv to 10 cents lower. Native steers. $3.9055.50: Texas steers, $4.15ft4.80; Texas cows, $2.75ft4.25; native cows and heifers. S2.0Ofi5.O0: stock ers and feeders, $3.6Oii5.20; bulls, $3.O0fi4.50. HUUS Receipts. 14,000; market steady to shade lower. Bulk of sales. '$5. 35ft 5.45: heavy, $5.37(f;5.50; packers. $5.35'i5.47; mixed. $5.3of( 5. 45 light. $5.10g5.4O; yorkers, $5,3515.40: pigs. $4.0n-fi5.30. SH KEP Receipts, 3.000: market steady. Lambs, $6.00g7.75; muttons, $3.506.25. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. April 11. WHEAT May. G2c. Cash: No. 2 hard. 63c: No. 3, 59 62c; No. 2 red, 69c; No. 3. 6-tnSc. CORN May. 36'c. Cash: No. 2 mixed. 374fi c; No. 2 white, 3SV2c; No. 3, 38c. OATS No. 2 white, RYE No. 2, &lc. HAY Choice timothy $10. 0OS 10.50: choice prairie. $T.5(Ki7.75. iJU i-i JK. creamery, 1i&jlc; aairy, lc. EGGS Fresh, Grain Letter. WHEAT The government report yes terday afternoon showing' condition of winter wheat April 1st at 82.1 was a bull ish document, aa this is at least ten points lower than the trade in eeneral antici pated, not even the most sanguine bear expected it to be less than ftO. The bull ish feature of this report is the Ohio aver age 01 only A(. Bear traders point out the larg-e visible supply, but It must be remembered that there is a very small amount in farmers' hands, more than enough to offset the visible. Kansas shows an average of 99, which, barring serious crop damage, will give the state a good crop and make plenty of business for the grain dealers of the state. Farm ers will no doubt get a good fair price for their crop and will sell liberally. Ca bles came Vsd higher this morning and closed at the same quotation. Northwest receipts were larger than a year ago, but they were very light last year. Clearances vfere fairly good. Receipts at primary points were light, so were shipments. The big shorts were responsible for the break today. "We believe they are overplaying their hand in trying to make a market to cover on. AVe think wheat a purchase on soft spots. CORN Corn was dull and featureless today. Good investment buying appears on the' breaks. Corn is In a strong posi tion and will be held so until well along into the coming crop. Any crop scares will cause the market to boil. Clear ances were good, cash demand excellent. PROVISIONS Provisions were weaker, although the market showed no signs of genuine weakness. The advance has been rapid and set backs are only natural. J. C. GOINGS. Market Gossip. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain Chicago: Estimated receipts tomorrow Wheat, 25 cars; corn, 375 cars; oats, 175 cars. Total clearances: Wheat, 362,000; corn, 721. OttO. Primary receipts and shipments: Wheat, receipts 422.000, last year 2t2.000: shipments 270.000, last year 102.CKIO. Corn, receipts 578.000. last vear 3b5,000; shipments 4So,000, last year 51S.0O0. Chicago: Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow. 29,000 head. Puts: May wheat, 667c. Calls: Curb: Puts: Calls: Curb: May wheat, tti'c May wheat, 67-c. May corn, 3mbc. May corn, 40Jc. May corn, c bid. Sugar Market Tork, April 11. SUGAR Raw fair refining, 4c; centrifugal. SM New strong test, 414c molasses sugar, 3 13-lbc. Kenned strong. COFFEE Steady: No. 7, Rio, 7Tic Butter Market. New York, April 11. BUTTER Steady; western creamery, 7r&20c; factory, 15 lie. Cotton Market. Liverpool, April 11. COTTON Spot cot ton quiet; price lower; American middling, Galveston, Texas, April 11. COTTON Quiet, 9asC. New York, April 11. COTTON Spot cot ton closed steady. 1-18 higher; middling uplands 9 9-16c; middling guir, 10 l-lbe. Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, April 11. R9gl on Chicago and Boston Quota tions. The following are net prices paid in Topeka this weeK: GREEN SALT CURED 7c. NO. 1 TALLOW 4 Vic. GREEN SALT HALF CURED 7c GREEN UN SALTED 6c. Topeka Markets Today. Topeka, April 11. COWS S2. 5055 3.50. STEERS $3.503 4.00. HEIFERS JS.OOft 3.50. HOGS. LIGHT J4.70S4-S0. KE11PEK PAXTOSS. THE BIG ST0I1E. Easter Apparel. I There's not any about the Easter Suit i the Easter fixings in through and make your selection. The Millinery IS KcADY. We are making a big display of Easter Bonnets and Hats. 4 There is something' in this De ft partment that will please yQU. Granite Tea Kettle, 50o Granite Wash Cuspidores, lOc. No. 2 Lamp Coal Hods, 19c. Wash Boards, 15c. Bowl and Pitcher, 90 Ice Cream Freezer, $1.75 X 0 !AJarm Clocks, 75c. Garden Cotton Cloths Line, lOo 1 Ml X X Tumblers, Galvanized Pails, 18c r Razors, 75c. Mrs. Potts' Sad Irons, 98c. X Saws, Slop Pails, 25c. 2 qt. Mops, lOc. Curry Family Scales, $1.35 Potato Brackets, 8c pr. Cup and Saucer, 10c 4 Lantern, 48c. The New Model Kemper Paxtons. MEDIUM AND HEAVY $4.S0ao.l0. GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT 61c. NO. 2 CORN 32c. NO. 2 OATS 23c. HAY J5.00. PRODUCE. EGGS 11 cents. (THICKENS 6seii cents. BUTTER 17 cents. New York Money Market New York, April 11. MONEY Money on call easier at 3 per cent; prime mer cantile paper, 44 '5 5 per cent: sterling ex change firm with actual business in bank ers' bills at 4.87H'fi1i for demand and at Sl.SS for sixty days: posted rates, 4.M'bV and $4.88; commercial bills, $4.83fi; 4.83. SILVER Silver certificates. eOU'GWie: bar silver,. 5!Vc; Mexican dollars, 47c. BONDS Government bonds easier re funding 2s, when issued. 103: 2s, registered, 3s, registered. 1114; coupon. 110H' new 4s, registered, 133: coupon, 133; old 4s. registered, 114: coupon, 114?4; 5s, reg istered, 114; coupon, 114. Range of Prices. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago. April 11. Article. WHEAT April Mav Julv CORN April May July Sept OATS April May Julv PORK Open High Ljw Close Yam. 67 67 6714- 6714 68 6S'?i-: 67"s-; 6MV 6SH 6SVi 67 68?s 39 3914 3H 41 41-A 4(lW- 40W,- 40 41-42 42 41Vi 4Hi- 41 2i4 24 .21 24 24- 24- 2474-25 25 24Vi- 24 24i 24 April May ...13 00 July ...13 0a 12 67 12 67 12 60 13 05 13 05 13 la 13 00 13 07 12 70 12 80 t too much time to see the Easter, Hat and general. Come look The Tailored Suits t ARE READY. The Jackets and Capes are ready. The Neckwear and Clothing- are ready. The Shoes 4 are ready. Pan, 13c. Granite Tea and Coffee a Pot, 25c. J X Rolling Pin, 10c. Burners, lOo 2 Key Padlocks, 10c Lemon Squeezer, 10c. Garden Rake, 25c. Hoes, 19c. Chair Seats, 8c. each 3c Tacks, lc. 1 X X House Traps. 3c. Paint Brushes, 5 and 10c. 50c. Lamps, 25c V mm. Buckets, 80 Whips, lOc. Combs, lOo. Masher, 5c. Refrigerators, $8.95 Stepladders, 50o. Supply Store. Sixth and Quincy. LARD April Mav 5 85 7 00 6 85-87 7 00 6 95 7 10 (W 6 97 7 02-05 7 07 6 85 6 5 I July i RIBS I April Mav July 7 00 7 00 6 97 7 15 7 15-1? 7 10 7 15 7 17 7 00 7 07 7 07-10 6 95 KANSAS riTT. WHEAT May 6314 6314 624 July 64l,b 64Vi 63 62 63 62 63 bt 36 37 May 37H- 3714- 36 3; July 37vi 37T 378 37 Ranges of Price on Stocks. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street. TopeKa. New York, April 11. I 1

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY EVENTXG, APRIL 11, 1900. KANSAS STANDS 99. XXGAX. N 1 t f I r i (J li 1

1 H A NEW METHOD OF SAVING HONEY. An Advaatajs Never Before Offered to the Citizens of Topeka. Read and Be Convinced. The Kansas Mutual Life Insurance Company has devised a new method of savins money in its splendid MONTHLY SAVINGS POLICY. These con tracts are strictly "old line." Each one, before delivery, is registered in the State Insurance- Department, and is guaranteed and supervised by the state. You can obtain these in any amount from 100 to 5,000, in the form of either Life, 20 Payment, or Endowment. The small cost is collected monthly at your home and yet you obtain the same conditions as though you bought a Million. This is distinctly a people's policy. True there is a system of weekly insurance, bub a comparison a3 below will instantly demonstrate the superiority of the Kansas Mutual in Cost, Plan and Protective Conditions. Comparison: $500 Policy; Whole Life; age 40, in each Company: WEEKLY COMPANY. KANSAS MUTUAL COST cents weekly or $28 annually. $1.67 monthly or $30.04 annually. EXTENTEO granted Policy lost in 4 weeka. Beginning- 3d year. 2 years and 9 INSURANCE months and more each subsequent year. PAID-UT? in a years. $73.50 in 5 years, and $30 less P' j L1C i"... paid in premiums. CASH in 20 years. S290.70 in 20 years, with difference E'JRPJiXDEH in premiums). DIVIDEND About S per cent, in 20 years. Estimated at SO per cent. la 2Q j years. fr-t'a Absolutely none. Each year, beginning with the thirdr i-.OA-Nd i amount printed "la policy. .-.t,,tt,q; i -l amount of policy for first 6 months: t""us j amount of policy for second 6 months; IMMEDIATE FULI. BENEFIT. I full only after 1 year. The above comparison applies in like proportion at all ages and amounts. As indicative of other advantages offered, please note that our 20 Payment Life Policy, under which all payments CEASE AFTER TWENTY YEARS, costs $24.43 a3 against 26.00 in Weekly Company, to be paid Every Year of Life. Call at our Home Office, TOO Kansas Avenue, and secure full descriptive literature, or drop us a postal card, which will receive immediate attention. have opening for a fw enerstic solicitors. California... THE LAND SUNSHINE. OF mm- s:rr.s satis ssrrssi P0I2TTS' PACiriC COAST BY TAKING TEE u:tio:t pacific. PitACs lbiptx rim. Fstii Ksi-LiNi.v.i i HAra Cars. il-viv.; ("ahs. SIivU a La AHTa. fl.1TSta LluUT. STIA.it Wood, Coal, Charcoal, Kindling. Telephone 530 Kaczynski. Fourth and Jackson. SMOKE KLAUER'5 GOLD BUG. 5 CEXT CIGAR. H. C. BOWMAN, Fire ssJ Tornado lasuraace. Room 33, Columbian BuilJInj, TOPEKA. KANSAS. BUY THE CEriUlTiE svnup OF FIGS MAs-rrFACTrraziJ bt CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. tTMTlTHSSHIE. Houatoa, Texas, and Return $23.93 Via tia Santa Fe. Account Tracs-Misaismppi Commercial Cong-.-sBa. Tirkers on sale April 13 and 14. F;nal limit 21 days from date of sale. Excellent service. Both chair cara and aiet-prs. For partiiiUiars see asnt A. X. a. F. R. P J. P. DAVIS, President. GOOD DRESSERS IN A FIX. Tailors' Stria in Ciucago Kills Off Many Easter Orders. Chicago. April 11. Eaater suits and new spring top coats will be worn by few of the fashionables of Chicago next Sunday. The tailors' strike, which has been on for several weeks, has crippled the makers of swell garments to such .in extent that they are unable to get cut the work usually demanded at this season of the year. Several Chicaaroans were turned away yesterday by tailors with whom they have dealt for years, because no prom ise could be given that the new suit or top coat wouid be r-rady fr Easter Sunday. Makers of fashionable men's apparel are loath to admit that the strike has interfered with their trade, but it is a fact nevertheless that work cannot be promised with any degree of certainty. But there will be a noticeable scarci ty of wll-groomed men in. this town next. Sunday. Some of the merchant tailors are distracted over their inabil ity to supply the demand for new work, although they pretend to pay little or no attention ro the strike. Ir.sread of I't.'M.1') new suits being worn in Chicago nxt Sunday, as in former years, th'-'-e will be less than l.Otto men wno will be clad in custom-made gar ments suirable to the day. The ready made suit, or "hand me down." as it is tactiousiy called, will be seen on many a mar., unless he frets his old garments cieaned up so as to look "respectable." LIKE THE IRISH. Eussia Colonists Who Have Settled in Canada. New York. April 11. At the Social Re form club last night. Arthur St John, who is now on his way to England from the DoukhoOor settlement in Canada, delivered an address upon the subject of the colonists. Ke said in part: "The northern colony in Canada is pretty well Settled, and, the thirteen dis tricts know each other. In the southern colony, which comprises three districts, they do not know much about each oth er, and I am sorry to say they are not altogether friendly to one another. The colonists have enough riour to last them 1 ur.tii J-ir.e, but practically nothing eise. The si..k must shift for themselves, as they have no doctors. It has been said that the Douknobors are hypocrites, but I ennridenriy hold a different view. They have a saving grace in their remarkable ser.e of humor. They resemble the Irish in their ability to make light of a try ing situation. It has been said that they are communists. That is true of the Douknobors in exile. The "Doukhobors were not communists, however. until they were forced to leave Russia. It remains to be seen whether their" vil lag"S wiil be run on the communist idea or not. Some, I am sure will not." Aft ?r defining what he termed civiliz ation. Mr. St. John said: i "I am almost ashamed to speak to you upon that subject, as I feel that we 1 Englishmen ought to hide our heads. I Isat I am consiiied by the fact that I rememoer that you are quite as bad." AT THE PLAY LAST MGHT. A large audience saw the first pro duction of -ijuo Vadis" in Topeka at the Crawford theater last night. The company presenting it is composed of six married coupi-s. and was organized in Kansas City. The first performance was given in Hoiton a week ago. Fred Hi.ey. the "Ursus" of the production has been untii recently engaged in ar ranging amateur "Damon and Pvthias" shows, and Ed Smith, who appears as "Caesar" was seen here several weeks .1 iro in the low comedy part of the "Elack Crook." The '-burning of Rome" was handled so carefully that no one in ciie house became excited. The audi ence was prepared for the spectacle by a "lurid ky" droo which was us?d from the beginning of the performance, a pri.ni some time in advance of the con nugraiion. The company will return to Topeka Saturday and give a matinee and ev ening performance. In announcing the return, Mr. Moreton Baker, who carries a wnt' h aid to have been presented him by Henry Irving and looks more at home on the stage than his associates. inanKei tne audience ior appreciating the company's efforts to "amuse." Houston, Texas, and Eeturn $2&B5 Via the Santa Fe. Account Trans-Mississippi Commercial CoogT"9. Tickets on sale April 13 and 14. Final limit 21 days from date of sale. Excellent service. Both chair car3 and sleepers. For particulars see agent A. T. S. F. R. R. TOPEKA STATS JOCR.SAL-30 cents per munLa, cy i 5 I J FRICK IT ILL SE1L OUT. Has STo Intention of Remaining in Carnegie Company. New York, April 11. A special to the Tribune from Pittsburg, says: "H. C. Prick will dispose of ail his holding's something over $16,000,000 in the Carnegie company just ad Soon as he cam" said a big stockholder of the Carnegie company. "He won what he contended for and will not remain to hamper Mr. Carnegie or his partners." It is said that Mr. Frick and Presi dent Schwab are not on pleasant terms and this has done much toward keep ing Messrs. Frick and Carnegie apart. Officials of the Carnegie company de ny that there is any truth in the report that the company will take in the Cramps concern, either in part or In whole, or that any selling- arrangement has been made whereby armor plates and structural material will be supplied the Cramps by the Carnegie company. They say that if such a projeet is on it is locked up in the obsoma of Messrs. Carnegie and Schwab. A rumor is current that Mr. Frick will buy otit the Cramps. No foundation can be found for it however. Mr. Frick refusing to discuss any of his projects; besides, he is interested in the concert? Mr. Morse, of Wilmington, promoted, and the plant is underway near Phila delphia. It might be that it and the Cramps will consolidate but nothing of it can be learned here. REFORM TAXATION. Capt. S. S. Longley Talks About a Gro-wtng Evil. Capt. S. S. Longley, who represented Washington county in the last session of the legislature, is in the city today. During his visit here Mr. Longley stated that he will not again be a can didate for legislative honom Longley has for many yeara been a county commissioner at home, and he is much interested in the reform of the methods of taxation. "The valuation should be raised and the levy lowered." said he today. "The present system I works many injustices, and should be changed at once. The legislatures have frequently talked about doing some good in this direction, but the two bodies have been dilatory until we have now a system of tax collecting which, is extremely unjust." JOHN J1AR.SHALLDAY. It "Will Be Celebrated at "Washington, February 4, 1901. New Orleans, April 11 Wm. Wirt Howe, chairman of the committee of the Amercan Bar association on John Marshall day. announces that the day will be celebrated on the 4th of Feb ruary. 1901, in the city of Washington, tn co-operation with the bar associa tion of the District of Columbia. There will be a public meeting at which the chief justice of the United States su preme court will preside, and at which the president of the United States ha3 promised to be present. The oration will be delivered by Wayne MacVeagh. formerly attorney general of the United States and minister to Italy. It is also expected that on the same day there will be local celebrations by the bar associations of the different states and territories. The bar association of Louisiana has already arranged to have, a celebration on the same day. Distinguished Arrivals. New York. April II. Among the.pas seneers who arrived here today on board the steamer Oceanic from Liver pool were Phiji Prasnidhi. the Siamese minister to Great Britain, Geoffry Drags, IL P.. a student of the labor question, the Earl of Warwick. Lord Herbert, and L. H. Vane-Tempest. Joe Jeffer3on a Guest. Canton, O.. April 11. Joe Jefferson was the uest of honor at a dinner giv rn last niiiht by former Secretary of State and Mrs. Day. Jefferson filled an eng-arement at the opera house. Wren last here he was entertained by Presi dent McKin ley's brother, Major McKia ley being a guest. CASTOR I A Tor Infanta and CMldrea. T!i3 Kini Ysa Ka?3 Always EsuiM Bears tha Sigaatnxa of Government Report on th Condition of "Winter WTieat Washing-ton, April 11. The April re port of the statistician of the depart ment of agriculture will shuw the av erage condition of winter wheat on April 1 to have been 82.1 against 77.9 on April 1, 1S9!. 8S.7 on April 1, 1S98. and a ten year average of 82.3. While the rav ages of the Hessian fly in Ohio, Michi gan and Indiana will probably result in not one of those three states producing half a crop, an exceptionally high con dition is reported from the winter wheat states west of the Mississippi river and from the Pacific coast. The principal averages are as follows: Pennsylvania, 72; Ohio, 48; Michigan.57; Indiana, 51; Illinois, 88; Missouri, Si; Kansas, 99; Texas, 101; Oklahoma. 99; Washing-ton, 10ti; Oregon, 1U0, and Cali fornia, 90. The average condition of winter rye is against 84.1 on April 1, 1S99. 92.1 on April 1, la'JS, and a ten year average of 89.1. The percentage of mortality among farm animals during the year ending March 31. 19u0, w as not only below that of last year, but was also below the ten and fifteen year averages. Of horses 1.8 per cent are reported as having died from disease, against 2.3 per cent the preceding year and ten year average of 1.9 per cent. Of cattle a mortality of 1.1 from win ter exposure and 3.20 per cent from dis ease is reported against 2.2 per cent from exposure and 2.03 per cent from disease the preceding year and 1.6 per cent from exposure and 1.8 per cent from disease the ten year averages. Of sheep the deaths from exposure amounted to 1.3 per cent and those from disease to 2 per cent against 3.5 per cent from exposure and 2.1 per cent from disease the preceding year and 2.6 per cent and 2.3 per cent the respective ten year averages. No estimate of the number of swine on January 1 last having been made by the department, the rate of mortality for the country at large cannot be de termined. Of the IT principal states, however, 12 report a mortality below that of last year. In Texas the rate is unchanged and only in Xorth Carolina, Georgia,Al abama and Arkansas is it even slightly higher than in 1898-99. Only in five states containing an aggregate of less than 1.000.000 head of swine, is the mor tality reported above the ten year av erage. As regards conditions on April 1, horses are reported at 97, cattle. 97.2. and sheep at 9!.9 as compared with 94.4. 92. n, and 92.4 respectively on April 1, 1899. HOW HE DID IT. Testimony Hegrarding 520 Miller's Business MetXaoda. New York, April It-Mow than flftv employes of Willia.ni F. Miller's ffpt rieli quick' syndicate testified against him in hi trial tinlay. Charles Schmidt, a youn? check writer. Identified a tejuram written bv Miller. November Miller directed him to send copies of the teieiTim to each subscriber collect. There were lt.tt00 n;tmes on the list and Miller jrave him to pay t.h teiesrapmc rnarses whenever tne person addressed failed to pay. The telegram read as follows and was senr out to imni intended victims: e have inside information of a bier deal which is to come off on Saturday or Monday. Bier profit. Send on your in vestment at once." The figures in Miller's books showed this entrv for one dav: "Guess work, Over a day was paid in commis sions to persona bringing in new custom er'. Rudolph Guenther. an. advertising- aent. testified that Miller called at hw ntTice and personally arranged with him for the publication of the a.Uurinir advertisements or tne ran Kim syndicate, m fifteen lead mar newspapers in New York. Boston. Philadelphia. Chicago and other leading: cities. These adverrispiTients promised 10 pr cent a wPk interest and a sure tninsr. The point of the testimony being- that Mil ler put out these tricks and devices" to catch trade. Guenther had Miller's advertisement in H" to 7't newspapers at one time and Miller paid him. from July 15, to Novem ber 2T. fc.DOO for advertising-. Employes of the syndicate testified that they never saw any collateral or securi ties or any evidence of business in the pface. i ne burliest day s receipts were itn.(i) m cash and in checks. The advertisements ail held out the pre tense that Miller was a leading- operator on Thansn. Counsel for the defendant admitted that the amount of surplus belonging to de positors of the syndicate and now in vested for their benefit and due them is $l.ifW.t7S. In other words Miller's lawyers admit that no matter how much interest he has paid to his depositors there is $1,154,073 of their money that has never been paid. JOIPED 230 TIMES. A Skipping Hope Contest Ends in Death. Chicago. April 11. A special to the Chronicle from Belleville, 111., says: A skipping rope contest haa caused the death of 11-year-old Freda Poignee and occasioned the serious illness of two other children. There was great rivalry among the thrpe children and others of the school they attended aa to who could jump the rope the most. One little girl estab lished a record of 150 times without rest, and her companions attempted to beat this record. This feat excited Freda, who had been the champion up to that time, and when she entered the ring to beat the record of the newcomer, auite a crowd gathered and applauded her efforts. With flushed face and Sashir.fr eyes she passed the 150 mark and kept right on till 230 jumps had been made, when she staargered from the rin and was led home dizzy by her companions. She became ill and died yesterday. The attending phy sician said the cause of death was heart disease caused by too violent ex ercise. NORMAL REGENTS MEET. Re-2ZIect OfScers and Let Contract for Emporia Gymnasium. Emporia. April 11. At the meeting of the normal board of regents, the officers of the board were ail reelected except the vice president. F. S. Larabee. of Stafford, is prsident: E. A.Ross, of Burr Oak. vice president; S. H. Dodge, of Be loit. treasurer: and John Madden, cf Emporia, secretary. E. 3. Sprague was given the contract for erecting the new gymnasium at $7,175. About J3.IXW will be used for equipping the building. Work on it will be commenced at once. Transportation Building Burned. Omaha, April 11. At an early hour this morning the transportation build ing on the transmississippi exposition grounds was entirely destroyed by fire. All the other large structures have been torn down by the wrecking company but this, the largest structure had been preserved to house the workmen who have been employed by the wreckers. No one appears to know how the fire started. Half the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach, makes indigestion impossible. TOPETCA STATE JOURNAL 30 cents per month, oy ronii. mm 1D MISCELLANEOUS ADS. AJJ-N OTJICE3IE3TTa I AM A CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER of the legislature from the city district (consisting of the Third. Fourth and Fifth wardsl. subject to the Republican primaries, April 14th, 1M0. A. K. WTLSON. I ANNOUNCE MYSELF A3 A CANDI date for the office of representative of the Thirty-eighth district, comprising the First ana Second wards of Topeka. the town of Oakland and the township of Te cumseh, Shawnee county, kansai, sub ject to the Republican primaries. ALV1N J. DODGE. I HEREBY ANNOUNOC MTSKTLF A candidate for county commissioner in the district comprising the Second, Third and Fourth ward. W. C. STEPHENSON. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR CLHtlK OF the district court for second term, sub ject to the Republican nomination. Pri maries Ayru j., ijw. A. JO.. AbLtAHA.N. Z. T. HAZEN ANNDTTNTES HIM3ELP l candidate for the ofrice of ludise of the Third Judicial district, subject to Re publican primaries April 14th. J. W. MERGAN. COUNCILMAN FROM the Second ward. Is a candidate far pro bate judgre, subject to the Republican pri maries April 14. THOMAS F. DO RAN 13 A CANDIDATE for county attorney, subject to th Re publican primaries. I HEREBY AXNNOraCE MYSELF A candidate for countv commissioner in the district comprising the Second. Third and Fourth wards. C. A. FELLOWS. 1 AM A CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY superintendent, subject to the Reoub- lican primary election, to be held on April 14, iauo. a: wkujht. I AM A CANDIDATE FfR PROBATE Judffe. subject to the Republican pri mary election, to be held on April 14, 1:00 W. E. ACrAN. I AM A CANDIDATE KOI: COTTJJTY superintendent of public instructi'-.n. subject to the Republican primaries, to be held April 14, WW). WILL VANOR3DOL. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF fice of county attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican pri mary, April 14th. GA1.EN NICHOLS. I HEREBY ANNOITNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for representative for the 37th district, comprising tr-e Sixth ward of Topeka, and all the townships in the county, exclusive of Tecumaeh and Oak land precinct. JOHN B. SIMS. I ANNOUNCE MY3ELFA3 A CANDI- date for county commissioner of the city district, composed of the Second. Third and Fourth wards, subject to Republican primaries. C. V. WOLF- I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF flee of county attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican pri maries, to ba held ADril 14, v.)a. CHAS. F. SPENCER. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR REPRESEN taiive In the S.sth district, comprising the First and Second wards. Oakland and Te cumseh townships, subject to the Repub lican primaries to b held April 14. H. C. SAFFORD. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF flce of state senator, subject to the Re publican primaries, tr be held April 14, 1300. JNO. T. CHANET. SILAS RAIN. candliT.iTe for ofice of county commissioner for the city district (Second, Third and Fourth wards). Sub ject to nomination by tha Republican pri mary eiection. I'PON THE EARNEST REQUEST OF a great number of otd soldiers, laborers and business men, I will be a candidate for state senator at the Republican pri maries in Shawnee county, April 14th, l:Ml. and if chosen tor that honorable and responsible position I pledge my best ser vices to the faithful performance of the duties of that office. T. W. HARRIgQN- I ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDI date 1'or the office of probate judge of Shawnee county. Kansas, subject to the Republican primaries. L. a DOLMAN. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A candidate for the office of probate judge of Shawnee county. Kansas, subject to the Republican primary, when heid this spring. H. J-. BEVF.T.T.F.. HELP. WANTED Situation a drusr clerk by young man, nine years experience; best of reference. Addresa ""Drug Clerk," care Journal. WANTED Situation as a first-class meat and pastry cook, in hotel, in or out of citv. Can pive reference. Address Cook, care Journal. WANTED Situation by middle-aged wo man a.s housekeeper, to take entire charge of house, any part of state. Address S. W caxe Journal, Topeka, Ka.n. WANTED Work by a younir man with good reference. Call or address S. 702 Eadt Seventh st. WANTED House-cleaning to do By a midule-aged man; good worker. Address H. G-.. Journal. WANTED So wing by a fashionable dress- maaer. bucbanan. WANTED Men. boys and teams at To peka nurseries, three blocks eaat of A.. l. a. a: snaps, i. ti. xayior Hons. WANTED twat.-b; HELP. WANTED Young man to work In tog store. 201 West Sixth st. WANTED Men to learn barber trade and represent us, can place oiKJ grad uates at $0 after only 8 weeks' experi ence, new field, no expense to learn if you work for us. can also supply positions on Pullman cars, hospitals, hotels, city and country shops. Special advantages to those from distance. Write today. Muler College, St. Louis. Mo. WANTED Good cheese maker. Address T. Z. Fitzgerald, Valencia. Kan. WAHTSD FE3IAUZ TTET.P. WANTED White girl to help with, work and children. 1115 Harrison st- WANTED Competent dressmaker: also apprentice. Mrs. Mercer. Crosby Bros. WANTED Girl wtth reference to take care of baby mornings. Enquire Cope land, room 45. WANTED White girl for general house work at 11M3 Topeka ave. WANTED White girl fur general house work. 1027 Van Buren Bt. WAJJTEX) AGE3T3. SPECIAL PLAN for 51 hustling agents to handle white and fancy rubber col lars, cuffa, neckties. Patented and guar anteed goods. No better line to sell: few as good. M. M. Mig. Co., Springfield, Mass. SPECIALISTS. DR. C. H. GUTBOR. Diseases of tha Hose, Throat and Lungs. Tutj Kansas avaaua. WAITED By elegant penman, envelopes to address or copying. Copyist, care Journal. WANTED To buy second-hand floor scale. 1101 Western avenue. WANTED Calves from one day to 3 months old. Bring- or address W. C. O'Brien. 151 Kansas ave. WANTED Second-hand printing mater ial. Address with description and price, spot eaalu D. G.. care Journal. WANTED Laee curtair.9 and portieres to clean. Mrs. Fosdick, 73S Quincy St. WANTED To rent 8 or 9 room house, April 1st. Addresa "Renter." care Journal. FOSDICK'S HARMOLA CARPET AND Lace Cleaning works. 908 Kansas ave.. firt building south of Copeiand hotel. Phone, i, J. H. Fosdick. carpets. Miss Jennie Fosdick, lace. WANTED (3aa or gasoline stoves clean ed and repaired; improved new burners fitted to any frame. Gasolins stove changed for gas. HULL STOVE REPAtP. CO, Tel. 313. ll(i East Eishth at FOR RENT Furnished room with board, at 7J4 West Eishth. FOR P.ENT Furnished rooms, with or without board. 504 Van Buren st. FOR RENT Furrished rooma for light housekeeping, tl Quincy. FOR RENT Five-room house. 1S9 Em mett street, with well, cistern, barn. shade and brick walks, CUU. See E. F. Fuller, ItiT Emmett- FOR RENT A partly modern seven room h-Mie. large barn. 707 Western ave. FOB. SAXE-MISCEULAITEOVa FOR SALE Two shares Aetna Building Loan association. Shares 44 months old. Address C. A. H., care Journal. FOR SALE A rood country newspaper. Address W. W. Randei, Lecompton, Kan. FOR SALE Broom corn seed. cane, kaffir corn, millett. clover, timothy, alfalfa. Kentucky blue grass, orchard grass. Eng lish blue grass, red top. A full line of field and garden seeds, all choice and fresh. ALEXANDER GOODFELLOW, 119 E. tith st.. Topeka. Kan. FOR SALE Guitar and "i4 West Eighth sr. lady's bicycle. FOR SALE One black boar, about 250 lbs. and one yearling bull. F. 3. Smith, Highland Park. FOR SALE Two extra good Jersey cows, giving milk. 1164 Lane st. FOR SALE Early Ohio potatoes, first year from the north. 3Uc per bu..at cel lar. 1213 Western ave.. North Topeka. FOR SALE Best paper route in business center of Kansas City, paying $12 week lv. Schooling advantages excellent. For particulars write J. W. Hook. Oakland. FOR SALE Young fresh cheap. 112H Quincy st. Jersey cow. FOR SALE l.'rt) feet wire cable ,in good condition. 121 West Sixth st. FOR SALE AT HALF-PRICE Tuition of fifty lor any less amount) instructions on violin by the most tnorougn ana suc cessful teachers in the city. For price, etc., call on or address. F. W. Swearin gen. Jeweler, 724 Kansas ave. FOR i?AL Good work tea.m. harness and wagon. Call at llu5 Locust st. FOR SALE St'luO shares Nancy Helen Co.. Cripple Creek mining stock. Three cents per share. Will seil in lots of l.fXW or more. Address B. D.. care Journal. FOB SALE 20.WW shares of Sun Flower. Crippie Creek, mining stock, three cents per share. Will sell in 1.0-jO low or more. Address C. E.. care Journal. FOB, SAXX HE AX, ESTATE. FOR SALE Auburmiale. 106 Winter st., S rooms. Is lots. $i5e.ijt. Terms easy. Clay, near ISth. rooms. 14 lots, pantry, cellar, ciprem, good repair, rent piX). Price. TOPEKA REALTY CO.. 524 Kan. ave., H. MACFERRAN, Mgr. IF YOU WANT YOUR HOUSE SOLD, list it with Scott Scott, 615 Kansas av. FOR SALE Blacksmith shop and cot tage, .1 lots, no opposition. L R. Wag goner. Grantvtlle. Kan. BUSCEIXANEOTS. SECOND-HAND LUMBER, doors win dows, cut stone, plate glass fronts, horse, wagon and harness. 1008 N. Van Buren. SEE US before vou buy your seeds. Alexander Goodfellow. 113 East 6th. REGISTERED AND RECORDER JER sey bull for service. Chester and At lanta sts.. Oakland. Geo. R. H ungate. FEATHERS RENOVATED. OLD MAT-tresse-4 made over as e-ood as. new. Work guaranteed. T. W. Pickett, Mattress Fac tory. 114 East Fourth st. FOR RENT We have a square piano for $1 per month: an upright piano for CiO. Merchants' Transfer Jfc Storage Co. R-I-P-A-N-9 10 for 5 cents at druggists. Thev banish pain and prolong Ufa. Ons gives 'relief. No matter wtiat's Ula mattsr one will do you socC STALLS IN GOOD BAiUf FCR &N7 at 4111 Quincy street.. t.03T Ayp yotniTX LOST Today, four lace curtains. Liberal reward for return to 725 Kansas avenue, third door. LOST Pair gold glasses, in case, near Seventh and Kansas ave. Reward at 208 East Eighth St. LOST Today, four lace curtains. Liberal reward for return to .25 Kansas avenue, third floor. LOST In North Topeka. a red-leather diarv. containing i-tS.OO. Please return to 315 Morse st-, and receive reward. ATrBESEANSPBIGS MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS In stock or made to order for Wooden or Iron Beds, Cots or Crib. Exceisior. Husk. Cellulose. Cotton. Wool or Hair Mattresses. V e ren ovate feathers, and warrant satisfaction in every particular. We also buy feath ers and make beds and piiiows to order. Write for prices and description. Can or send your order to D. Q.. DIVEN, Furni ture Dealer. 313 Kansas ave. ATTGB.3J EYJ-AT-LAW. CLAD HAMILTON. Lawyer. Central National Banic bidg., lopeaa, Kansas. MILTON" BROWN, lawyer, Practice In all state and federal courts. Suits 41, Craw ford bidg. opeKa, Kan. EDTJCATI02TAL. FRENCH AND GERMAN Taught either in class or private, terms reasonaoia. Mrs. tuooaa Klnlberg. 31t ttamun sc JAME3 B. HATDET Jeweler- and Opti cian, complete stoctt or watches, dia- moBus. silverware, etc.. .hives ?TJTlinft1 ana spectacles properly ntteU- (First published in the Topeka State Jour nal April i, 1as). NOTICE. At a meeting of the city crmr.cfl of To peka. held April i lino, the following waa adopted by the mayor and councilmen of the city of Topeka: Resolved, That the mayor and council of the city of Topeka deem it necessary for the best Interests of said city that owliawn avenue from the nnrrh line nf -Willow avenue to south line of Pirlt street be srraded and paved feet wide with vitrified brick on sand foundation and curbed with Fort cott sand tne. J. W. F. HITCHES. I hereby certify that the above la a true copy of the original resolution now on ftia In my office. It Witness Whereof. I have hereunto- net my hand and official seal this ach day of April, lauu. at Topeka. Kansas. J. H. SQUIRES. fSeal.) City Clem. (First published in the Topeka State Jour nal April ti, NOTICE. At ft meeting of the city council eff To peka. held April 2. the following was ad-ipted bv ihe mayor iid council of the city of Topeka: Pwesoived.. That in order tn promote tha health, comfort iind welfare of the city of Topeka. and its inhabitant it is hereby declared necessary ti grade, curb with Fort fet'ott sandHUine and pare with vitri fied brick on sand foundation, "'T et wide. Monro street, from the south line of Sixth ave., to the nt rxh iirre oC Tenth, ave., in the city of Tone it a. W. S. CTTAXET. I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of th original resolution now on file in my effrce. In Witness Wherof. I have hfrunto set mv hand and official wai this nth day of April. iiWtt. J. H. Sgl'IRES, leai.) ucy Cierlt. (First published in the Topeka Slate Jour nal April t, liwO.) NOTICE. At a metin cf the city ennnett of T peka, heid April 2. the foUnwina- waa adopted by the mayor and council oi th city of Topeka: Resolved. That the mayor and council of the city of Topeka deem it necessary for the best interests of aid city that Third street from the east line of Quincy street to the wt line of Minrrf street, be graded and paved flfty-six ft wide, with vitriried brick on sand foundation and curbed with Colorado red sandt me. A. P. BENSON. I hereby certify that the above is a truv copy of the original resolution now on file in my office. In Witness "Whereof. I have hprpunto set my hand and ofrr, ia.1 seal this 5th day of April, lwO. at Topeka. Kansu. J. H. SQi'IRFS. (Seal.) City Circle (First published in the Topeka State Jour nal April 3, IJ0.) Bids For Boilers. Bids will be received at the office of the city clerk. Topeka. Kansas. up to 5 o'clock p. m., of April 3. lm. for two So H. P. boilers, on two plans as per plans and speeirioarions now on rile in The .rf'.ee of the city engineer. One plan f:r tubu lar boiler set in brick work and one plan fiir Scotch Marine tubular boilers. At the opening of the bids the citV council will decide upon the type to b made, and let contract to the lowest and bet bidder. The mavor and council re serve the right to reject any or all bi ts. atONEY. LOANS' on pianos, typewriter", blcye'es. K-uns. watches, diamonds ana any per sonal property. L. Blscoe. 523 Kansas ave. CHABLE3 C. BRADLEY. M. P. Pbona 673. Office ana residence, ivas. .ave. Henry W, Roby M D 730 Kansas Avenue. Residence. Twenty- first st. and Kansas ave. 1 opeka, Kan. A. HWER. M. D. OFFICE and residence corner Gordon st. and central ave.. .-'ji iu n ha. rnunt 2t4 Uses the Brinkerhoff pynem of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treat ment ior piles, nstuia. xnsnure. ulceration. etc. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. 0(T1c 732 fCansas ave. Reslflence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 1 a. tn.. to n a m.. and 3 o. m.. to 5 D. xn. Ttsiephona aiift residence and Itf office. F. H. MARTIN. M. p.. 404 KANSAS avenue, over vvaiiace-s aruic store. Phones: 47a, residence. 635 office. DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathist. Ct Kansas ave. leiepnone J- B E. SHELDON. M. D. flnr-werv and dlsenses of TTnmen. Wll prlvata hospitaL Of ice No. 720 Kan. ave. arcsic. ALBERT SHUTT. Teacher of Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar, lenna moderate. S33 Kansas ave. STAMPS, SEALS A3TD BTEJCTXS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. Ave. Rubber stamps. bras and aluminum trada checks. Prices loir. Catalogue free. T.el. 2U2. OSTEOPATH. I3T. STEPHEN C. WOODHULL. Osteopath iau Hours: 9-12; 2-4. Thurs-. 9-12. 627 Ks. Av. PAVijra THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vrtrtfle-i Brick and t'avtm? Co.. nas ueen ranuvwi to IH West. Elgntn street. WATCH JHAJiJJ a. WATCE3 cleaned. 75c: clocks, 50c: mara springs, 75c: crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. AH work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanged f.-r new. If hard up. sea Unci Sam, 512 Kansas avenoa. BICYCLES. U S CYCLE CO.. IIS E. h St. National and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs. TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. 8th St. Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tan dems for rent; repairing of ail kinds. BOIXE3 KEPAIB.3. THOS. RILEY. STEAM BOILERS OS all kinds repaired. 2U Madison St. Tei. 164. JX0BJ3TS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE. Florist, successor to R. J. Groves. &17 Kansas ave. Phone CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at Hayes', iili West Eighth sc 'Phona ina. STORAGE. TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE Co. Packs and ships household goods. Tel. IMS. C D. Skinner. 123 East Sixta sc.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 11, 1900. DHY CiOOBS Tailored Suits. iack or Blue Cheviot Suit, hort Jacket, fly front, box plaited Ekirt $10.00 Homespun Suit3 in gray, tan, blue Und black Eton Jacket, silk-faced At $15.00 Jackets Venetian Cloth Jacket, castor color, silk lined throughout, seams finished with stitch ed straps. Special.. $5.00 Light Spring Jackets, in Coverts, Broadcloths, &c. ..$8, $10, $12, $14 DreSS Black Homespun Skirts, x-. applique down side Skirts. Special $3.98 Black Cheviot Skirts, with Taffeta applique $6.00 Handsome Black Cheviot Broadcloth or Crepon Skirts, with overskirts and aceordeon-plaited flounces For $10, $15 and $18 Fine Skirts, made of Silk Taffeta, With Overskirt trimmed in silk fringe. Silk New effects in Embroid- clou unifc 1 "J J 1 VVaiStS. lined, high stock collar, With tie to match all shades $15 See our Shirt Waists at $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 FREE! FREE! FREE! eein extracted jVfT.,. free from 8 to 10 f pv o'clock a.m., to in- hTf)1 mm Painless Methods to the public. OUR PRICES FOR 15 DAYS $10.00 Set of Teeth 5.09 $15.00 Set of Best Teeth $8.00 Gold Crowns (22k) $5.00 Gold Fillings 1.00 up Silver Fillings 50c Tip All Work Guaranteed 10 Years. AMERICAN DENTAL PARLORS, Dr. E. 0. Hostetler, Mgr. 713 Kansas Ave. Gasoline Stoves, Refrigerators, Ice Cream Freezers, and Hammocks At Lowest Prices T. J. Coughlin Hardware Co 702 Kansas Avenue. HE rULLED THE TOOTH. XJew Yorker Vindicates His Courage and Ends His Misery. Tsew York. April 11. Walter Smith of l"51oomville has been suffering from toothache. In vain he tried to extract the molar with a pincers and string. Then his anger rose, and when his wife taunted him with not having a par ticle of sand he resolved upon desperate measures. Procuring a yard of stove pipe wire, he fastened one end of It firmly around the deeplv rooted tooth In such a man ner that it could not pull loose, and the other end he wound around a ramrod. Taking down his shotgun he placed nn extra charge of powder in the barrel, rammed the rod home, and, stepping, to the dnor, he cocked the gun, opened his mouth and fired skyward. There was a loud explosion and tooth and ramrod sailed away skyward. Bmtth has not since been troubled with, toothache. EXPORT FIGURES. Breadstuffs Decline While Cotton Shows Big Increase. Washington, April 11. The monthly Statement of the export of domestic products, issued by the bureau of sta tistics, shows exports during March as follows: Breadstuffs $16,868,270. decrease as Compared with March, 18?. $3,000,000- Cattle and hogs $2,171,016, decrease 5500,000. Provisions $13,366,535. decrease $1,000.- coo. Cotton $33,096,758, increase $22,000,000. Mineral oils $6,494,981, Increase $1,200, B00. During the last nine months the in crease or decrease in the exports of these articles as compared with the same months in 1899 ore given as fol lows: 1 Food Cure Most Diseases are caused fey improper iood, Quit and OS I GrapeNtfts Food f and., Postum Food Coffee, Sold by all Grocers and made J by the Postum Cereal Food Fac- toriea at Battle Creek, Mich. 613-615 HANS. AVE. Easter and Kid Gloves. And what woman ever thought of going out on Easter morning without a new pair of Gloves Our Easter Glove Sale is the most important sale of its kind that takes place in this store in a twelve month. Loaded for it again. TrefOUSSe" Suedes, 3 -clasp modes and tans only ten dozen of them opened yes terday. $2.00 quality for... $1.00 pr. Tampa 2-clasp, dressed all the popular colors self and contrasting stitching. A very satisfactory glove for $1.00 pr. "Queen Louise," 2-ciasp a new P. K. Glove in the best shades $1.25 pr. "Dorothy "3-clasp real kid new embroidery. We can't say too much for this Glove it cannot be beat at this price $1.50 pr. Easter Novelties, delicate colors and fancy embroidery $1.75 pr. A few dozen of Foster's "William" at 79c pr., and Foster's "Fowler" at $1.19 pr. "Parisienne." A new, 9lo7 offered for the first time yesterday. Colors are tans and browns has 3 pearl clasps, which match either color of glove or con trasting stitching. An Easter novelty at a very popular price $1.00 pr. Breadstuffs, decrease $29,700,000. Cattle and hogs, decrease $8,200,000. Provisions, increase $5,000,000. Cotton, increase $13,000,000. Mineral oils, increase $1,400,000. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. New York, April 11. At the RenubH can convention held at Amityville, L. I., for the election of delegates to the state convention, there was a rotv during which former State Senator Richard Higbee. the leading Republican of the east end of Long Island, became greatly excited. He was one of those elected delegates and after the convention he returned -home and was stricken with heart disease, dying within a few min utes. Houston, Tex., April 11. An attempt was made today to wreck the Interna tional and Great Northern train near Taylor. An extra' freight was ditched instead. Foreman Lyons was killed and Engineer Akerman and Brakeman Jacobs each had a leg broken. The sheriff is after the wreckers. Lima, Peru, April 11. Mr. Cuthbert Jones has filed at the United States legation, a claim against the Peruvian government for five million sols. The claim is said to grow out of a refusal of mining rights founded upon, the ex press letter of the law. Accra, Gold Coast Colony, West Africa, April 11. Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, governor of the colony, sends a dispatch from Kumassie announcing that his efforts to effect a peaceful set tlement of the difficulty between the British officials and the Kumassie tribes men have not succeeded. Paris, April 11. Le Petite Parisien says today: "Another episionage case has arisen, which is surrounded by deep mystery. On Sunday the police arrested M. Leon Gaget, who is charged with having relations with Germany." Berlin, April 11. The imperial court of appeals has reversed the decision of the court below in the Club Des Harm losen gambling case, tried last October, and has rendered a new trial. McKinnville, Ore., April 11. The Re publicans of the First congressional dis trict renominated Thomas H. Tongue for congressman. George A. Sleet of Clackamas county and J. B. Davis of Yamhill county were elected to the national Philadelphia convention and Were instructed to vote for the nomination or President McKinley. Los Angeles, Cal., April 11. W. J. uryan addressed a large crowd last night. Ex-United States Senator S. G. White presided over the meeting. Mr. tsryan will attend a meeting of the sil ver Republican state committee today. Kingston, N. Y., April 11. J. Albert jwerntt, aged 46, one of the most sue cessful dry goods merchants in this city, in a fit of temporary insanity to day shot his mother through the head ar.a men snot himself, dving instantly. It is thought Mrs. Merritt will die. New York. April 11. A snecial of the chamber of commerce, in honor of Hugh H. Hanna, was held today at the chamber's rooms. Several addresses were made, complimenting Mr. Hanna upon fiis work at the Indianapolis mon etary convention, and Mr. Hanna made a brief speech acknowledging the honor aone rum. Berlin. Artrll 11 Wmrmm trnun. tins finallv nnnrnirpil ViQ r.lr.-nn ,i restoration of the ancient Roman castle near lesoaaen, canea "The Saale burg." After the building is restored it will be used as a museum for Roman antiquities. Auburn, Maine, April 11. The Repub :icana 01 ine econa Maine congres sional district renominated Charles tsouteue as a candidate tor represen tative. Rnn nflcfrt Atm.11 11 A .1... holders' meeting of the Central Pacific iauiau company today tne rollowing were elected a board of directors: W. F. Herrin, J. C. Stubbs, J. Krutchsnitt R. P. Schwerm, Wilcutt and J. M Hanford. Washington, April 11. Senator Bard from the committee on public lands, has reported favorably the bill recently passed by the house making it a mis demeanor to set fire to forests on the public domain and in forest reserves. Washington, April 11. Acting Secre tary Allen has ordered a change in the command or the naval station at Ha vana. Capt. James G. Green, now ii command, will be relieved by Lieut Commander Lucien Young, at present captain or tne port at Havana. Capt. tireen is relieved at his own request. Raft Boats Burned. Peoria, 111., April 11. A special to the Journal from Rock Island, 111., says fire in Calke's boat yard at an early hour this morning destroyed three raft boats. iioss estimated at $o0,000. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The poll tax season is at hand. The Topeka club house needs repaint ing. The Scottish Rite session will last till Friday. This snow storm Is not expected to bring sleighing. Joseph Griley is a member of the fed eral court grand jury. The farmers are keeping the implement dealers busy thee days. Byron Roberts is in the western part of the state on business. The sale of seats for the James O'Neill engagement opened this morning. A "Quo Vadis" company has been booked for the Grand Opera house in May. J. T. Barkley is in Wichita attending the meeting of the Kansas Funeral Directors. Trainmaster Sutherland, of the Rock Island, at Morton, was in Topeka Tues day. This Is the dull season at the court house. It will revive after Saturday's primary. "Three of a Kind." a vaudeville farce, will be the attraction at the Crawford theater April30. The bronze tablet to the memory of Reseil Manahan will be unveiled at the High school April 26 Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Johnson have moved into the new G. B. Gallagher house, at 1016 West Kighth avenue. Judge McCabe has taken the Chamber lain case utider advisement and will hand down his decision Friday. Father Dowling, S. J., of St. Mary's college, will preach the Easter sermon at the Church of the Assumption. Judge A. H. Horton. who has been ser iously ill with pneumonia, will leave in a few days for Excelsior Springs. James Sheasley and Ed Ryan settled a dispute- with fists and in police court they paid $3 Tuesday for the privilege. General Superintendent Resseguie, of the Santa Fe, has returned after an in spection trip over the Panhandle division. The Bartel farm, four miles south of Topeka, has been sold to David O. Orr, of Manhattan, lor $6,000. This is about $37.50 an acre. John A. Bright, grand master, I. O. O. F.. has gone to Vinita, Indian Territory, to attend a meeting of the grand lodge of Odd Fellows there. George L. Cole, an explorer and lecturer, is in Tooeka for the Dumose of interest ing people in a trip to the Grand Canon gt tne Colorado river. All business nv who are in any way interested in the feanta Fe shop extension should attend the meeting of the Commer cial club this evening. Bishop Millspaugh will preach at the morning services at Grace Cathedral Fri day at 10 o'clock and Dean Sykes has the three hour service trom 1Z to 3. Commissioners of Elections Yount is preparing plats of the various precincts as they will be at the coming primaries, for the use of candidate and instruction of voters. The Federation of Women's clubs has given a bust of Shakespeare and copies of Tadema's "Reading from Homer," and the "Sistine Madonna, and others to the High school. The baccalaureate sermon before the high school graduating class will be preached on the attemoon of aunuay, May 5. It will ba given by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon. The prevailing color in men's Easter hats, neckwear and gloves is gray. The Clements company is showing a very handsome solid window display ol tnis popular shade. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon will deliver an address before the Good Citizenship fed eration at the First Presbyterian church on Friday evening. His subject will be. The Ideal City." There are a number of siens in front of Kansas avenue business houses which need repainting. They are old and weather beaten and hurt the appearance of the rest of the building. There will be a mass meeting of col ored people at the old court house Thurs day night to resent charges made by cer tain colored men a-gainst the teachers of the colored public schools. Rev. Father Kokenee. S. J., professor of philosophy in St. Mary's college, will preach the Good Friday sermon at the Church of the Assumption. His text will be "The fassion ot uur i,ord. The Burtonian." of Tekamah. Nebras ka, announces that Martin O'Donneil has been divorced trom nis wite. uiara u fon nell. Mr. O'Donnell formerly lived in To peka and was employed in various drug stores. The bie bell of the Church of the As sumption will not be heard from Thurs day morning until Saturday morning. A rubric of the church prescribes that no bells shall be rung during this period of Holy Week, MILLER WANTS IT. Candidate For Fusion Nomins tion in First District. A fusion candidate for congress In the First district has appeared. His name is E. L. Miller and he lives at Seneca. This nomination has been chasing W. F. Evans of Topeka but he has shown so much spirit in eluding it that the chase will probably be given up before the convention meets to select a candi date to make the race against Charles Curtis. Running for congress on the fusion ticket in the First district is very much like trying to catch a sun beam. Mr. Miller is a Democrat with a good record behind him. He is chairman of the Nemaha county Democratic central committee and -has held the position of city attorney and councilman in Seneca and was a candidate in the Eighteenth senatorial district in 1896 on the fusion ticket, giving his opponent a close con test by reducing the normal majority of from 800 to 1,500 in past years to less than 200. He now has 1,700 acres of fine Nemaha county land, and has 100 acres in apple, peach and cherry orchards. He is president of the Nemaha Horti cultural Society and Farmers Institute, and assists in any enterprise for furth erance of education along the line of production of agricultural wealth. He is a man of a family and has three chil dren; is a good speaker and strong campaigner. WEALTH. IN JAK RABBITS. California Boys Sell Them at High Prices For Belgian Hares. Oakland, Cal., April 11. The original ity of a swindle conducted by two San Joaquin county farm hands entitles them to distinction. Taking advantage of the Belgian hare craze, the thrifty youths procured a cheap team of horses, a covered wagon, and a stock of jack rabbits from the plains of their home country. They painted on the sides of the wagon the words, "The Piute Rab bitry," and set out to supply the grow ing demand for Belgian hares of the choicest breed. The young men represented that they were overstocked, and were forced to sell at any price. They disposed of many pairs of jack rabbits as Belgian hares, at prices ranging from $5 to $25 a pair, and were doing a landofHce business. In dividing the proceeds of the day's sales recently there was a misunder standing, and a fight followed. The one who was worsted in the fight told a sympathizer of the hare fraud. Before any action could be taken the two had patched up their differences and depart ed for pastures new. B. C. Legislature Dissolved.- Victoria. B. C April 11. The legisla ture of British Columbia has been dis solved and a new election ordered on or .about June 6. The cases and tables second floor City Library were made by J. Thomas Plan ing Mill. Telephone 422 3 rings. V,. W7 Fought Dyspepsia 25 Years. Found Relief at Last in Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Bloomlngdale, Ind.. Fob. 20, 1S99. Pepsin Syrup Co., Gentlemen After having given the Pep sin Syrup a fair trial in my family, I un hesitatingly pronounce it a great boon to all suffering from indigestion, constipation and dyspepsia in all their forms with all their train of evil consequences. I have fought dyspepsia and constipation of a se vere character for 25 years, have employed the most skilled physicians that I could reach, have spent hundrede of dollars, and now I find more relief in thi pleasant rem edy than I have found in anything else. To all persons of sedentary occupations in life I wish to say, buy it and use it. I have spent 12 years at the postmaster's desk, averaging 14 hours per day. and I know now if I had had this remedy years ago It would have saved me much suffering. Re spectfully yours, W. M. MeCOY. P. M., Bloomingdale, Ind. From One of the Boys in Blue. Decatur, Ill.i Jan. 24, 1898. Messrs. I received fe. gunshot wound in '64 while In the army, which caused a par tial paralysis of the bowels, and from that time to the present I have had to use a laxative. I have tried a great many kinds of medicines in that time, but have never found any as effective or that has been as near natural aa Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, Yours truly, JOHN ARMSTRONGS R. W. Squires, 732 Kansas Swift HoIIiday Drug Co., 523 Kansas Avenue. A. S. Kane Co., Family Drug Store, 832 N. Kas. Ave. PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY, MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS, j. s. a. BIG TOBACCO FIRE. Over 1,000,000 Pounds of Fine Goods Destroyed at Petersburg, Va. Petersburg, Va., April 11. The large leaf tobacco factory of W. G. Dunning ton Co., In this city, containing over 1,000,000 pounds of fine tobacco, pur chased recently for the Austrian gov ernment, was, with its contents, totally destroyed by fire last -night. The loss is estimated at $100,000. Several small houses in the vicinity were also destroy ed. The fire originated in the boiler room. LIBRARY FOR MANILA. Efforts of Promoters Have Been Most Successful. New York, April 11. The movement begun by the wife of Chief Surgeon Greenleaf, U. S. N.. of the department of the Pacific, to establish a Circulating library In Manila for the benefit of the soldiers, has been most successful. Ma jor Putnam Bradlee Strong, who has heartily co-operated in the movement, and who is an officer of the Interna tional Express company, said: "The undertaking has been a remarkable success, and the American soldiers in the Philippines are receiving an abund ance of entertaining reading matter. By an arrangement with our company each outgoing ship agrees to carry, free of charge, two tons of reading matter in the form books, magazine and papers. Last Saturday we had more than four tons of such material, and, rather than hold the additional two-tons here, our company paid the freight charges on the extra matter. We still have several large cases to ship." He Was Lincoln's Friend. New York, April 11. Eliphalet Wood, who was a trusted friend of Abraham Lincoln, is dead at his home in Irving- ton, N. T., aged 81 years. He gained a fortune from large lumber mills in Michigan. Mr. Wood was in Chicago during the civil war, and worked ac tively to secure and eauip volunteers. being a member of a committee which advanced nearly $1,000,000 for this pur pose. Disagreement Over Wages. Cincinnati, April 11. Representatives of the National Iron Founders' associa tion and of the International Iron Mold ers' union after a two days' conference here have disagreed on the subject of a wage scale. The demand of the men was for an advance of 25 cents a day on the minimum wages of J2.T5, and for other concessions. The outcome will depend now on the action of local unions throughout the country and may result in a combination to enforce the demand. Remember This. do we suggest their con- tents. We will pay $500.00 to any one who, by corresponding with any of the parties, can discover either that we have used the name of a fictitious person, or a letter which was not written and sent to us through the regular course of the mails by the parties purporting to have written them. V17p A -I. to consider the merit of these letters V V W I OH of praise. We ask you is not some one of the same complaints bothering you as has been so thoroughly cured by the use of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin? Are we asking too much of you when we ask you to try this great Remedy? Dr. Caldwell will be glad to answer any questions or give you a diagnosis of your case if you will write full particulars, enclosing stamp for a reply. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., HONTICELLO ILL. f if Wis' JslS3 DR MONTICELLO, I L-L-. Formulator of CALDWELL'S SYRUP PEPSIN DR. Whose Name and Face are fast becoming familiar to exery household in the land. SOLD BY AL.li WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. Avenue. A SHORT-LITED BOOM. Jones, of Arkansas, Speaks of Dewey's Candidacy. New York, April 11. Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic national committee, came to the city from Washington last night for a brief visit. While he is here on a business session primarily, he will in all likelihood meet and talk with promi nent Democrats, but no conferences have as yet been arranged. James S. Oliver, sergeant-at-arms of the national Democratic convention, met Senator Jones. After a short talk Mr. Oliver announced that he and Mr. Jones would go to Washington tomorrow and that active arrangements for the convention would begin at once. Senator Jones said that the expressed purpose of Admiral Dewey to run for president had not unduly excited him or any other Democrats. In fact, he thought the Dewey boom would be short lived, and that under no circum stances could it interfere with Mr. Bryan's candidacy. When asked what he thought of the anti-Bryan senti ment which was said to be growing, especially among the Democrats of the east, Chairman Jones said: "I have heard something of anti Bryan conferences and such things, but I doubt if there is anything to it. It is my belief that Mr. Bryan will be nomi nated on the first ballot, and that there will be no opposition of any weight to him in the convention." Mr. Jones expressed himself as being extremely well satisfied with the pros pects for Democratic success. So long as he remains chairman of the national committee, he said, headquarters wou'd be maintained in Chicago, but he said that the convention might make a change in the programme by substitut ing Washington for the western city. He did not believe, he said, that head quarters would be opened in this city, though such a thing was possible. When asked what the convention would do as regards the platform, Chairman Jones said that the Kansas City convention would not recede from any position heretofore assumed, though it was a matter of conjecture as to what addition or changes might be made. OASTOHIA. Bean tie y 8 Kind You Haw Always Boug of C A. 3 T C3 1" X A. Bears the 8 'n(l 00 HawAlways Boog!a Signature of O AQTORI A. Sean the Kind You Havs Always Bought Signature of We don't write these Let ters ot Testimony, neither CALDWELL, A. O. Rosser, corner 1 0th and ARE NOW Better Prepared Than ever to do vour Dental Work, at a price Lower than the Lowest, for First Class Work. Dr. Lvon. seeine he could no longer hancile his extensive business alone, decided to sell a half interest to Dr. Heatherly, of St. Louis. years. Our prices to suit the times. WE Y Y SPECIAL PRICES TCTIL. APRIL lath 01TLT. Set of Teeth $5-00 Best Set (S. S. White 8 OO Bridge Teeth 3 50 Porcelain Crowns 4 00 22-K Gold Crowns 5-00 All work guaranteed. A new name, but an old firm. Open evenings till 8 o'clock. DRS. LYON KEATHERLY. Dental Parlors, 511 Kansas Ave., over W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Co. I The Star u AND RENTAL J DO YOU WANT: A Man, A Girl in fact, do you want a position or help of any kind, call 'Phone 824. Furnishing help to contrac- tors a specialty. Help furnished on short notice with a guarantee. Houses and Rooms of all kinds for rent. Property owners out of the city write us for terms. Your interests looked after, and satisfac J tion guaranteed. 114 West Eighth Street, Topeka, Kansas. IT ATJRV E. QAVITT, MiXAOIK. V. V. GAVITT FRMTMG PUBLISHING CO., Printing Department of W. W. Garitt Medical Co. One of the La.rget Exclusive TJR FACILITIES enable ns to turn out Presses, all the Latest Styles of Type, and experienced tmou wuor, speaic lormra elves. When you are in need of anything in our line, send us samples by mail, or call us up by telephone, ana our man will call We can save you money on your printing. f 601-603 E. Telephone t400.402.404 EVERYBODY READS DR. LUELLA DAY VNDERHILI Words of Praise From Working Woman's Home, Chiccgo, III. Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, 111. Gentlemen:- In- reply to your inquiry ct to the result of our experience with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, will say that we have been using it In the ''Working Wom an's Home" for some time and find that it meets a long felt want. As a laxative and remedy for all ailments of the stomach and bowels we have found nothing that works so well. In an institu tion similar to ours such a medicine is ab solutely necessary, and we feel confident that it only needs a trial to convince one of the real merits of the remedy. We have found it invaluable in cases of sick head ache and can heartily recommend it to all sufferers from such. Yours very truly, DR. LUELLA DAY UNDERHILL, Medical Supt. From a Methodist Preacher. Clay City, Ind., Jan. 13, 1899. Pepsin Syrup Co., Monticello, 111. Gentlemen: It affords me pleasure to speak in praise of your most excellent med icine. I have suffered quite a great deal from sick headache, the result of sedentary habits and sluggish liver and bowels. Your remedy corrects these troubles and my headaches are stopped. J. C. BOONE, Pastor M. E. Church. Topeka Avenue. Teeth without Office established in Topeka ten Why pay more Gold Fillings J np Silver Fillings 50c to $1 Extracting 25c With Odontunder or Vital- Cft ized Air DUG Employment AGENCY. TELEPHONE No. Ba. 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