The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 20, 1900

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ff?m irtnr sir! LAST EDITION. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 20, 1900. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. 11 i r BOOK ISJLOSED. Mortal Remains of John J. Ingalls Laid to Best. Atchison Was Offended and Funeral Was Small. ONLY 300 WERE THERE. People Staid Away Because They Were Not Wanted. Brief Episcopal Service Used In the Church. Only Members of Family Fol lowed Body to Grave. Special to the State Journal. Atchison, Aug. 20. Only 300 people, a dozen from out of the city, were present at the funeral service of John James Ingalls in Trinity Episcopal church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The lack of attendance at the church was due to offense, real or imaginary, taken by the citizens of the town, espe cially by the old families, at the fre quently published and 'often empha sized wish of the family, that there be us little publicity at the funeral as pos sible. This was in all the papers and when inquiries were made by telephone, concerning the last hours of Mr. In stalls, it was again repeated. These in quiries rose from sympathy for the family, for Mr. Ingalls had lived among the people here forty-one years; he was Ingalls' Last i w i vb 3s This photograph was taken in Atchison two years ago. It is made from the only negative which Mr. Ingalls personally approved. He has said of this pho tograph: "I think it 'looks like me'." The copies of this photograph are also the favorites among the members of the family mourned here; all his children were born here, and the people followed his career since he went to the senate with the most sincere admiration. The peo ple of the county, regardless of politics, never have failed to support Mr. In galls for re-election. Once, even a Ienioeratie member of the legislature voted for him. It was the custom, every year, upon the adjournment of congress and the return of Mr. Ingalls to his people, for his postmaster here to arrange a public reception at the In galls home. These receptions were the wish of Mr. Ingalls, and members of the family participated in the arrange ments for them. There was always an expense bill for fireworks and carriages which the richer people of the town paid by subscription; and at the ap pointed hour were in the doorvard of the senator, to tiear him speak from his balcony and afterwards to be received personally by him and members of his family. It was natural, therefore, when Mr. Ingalls was reported to be dying for the citizens to be interested in his welfare. There are 1,400 telephones here owing to the cheap rates of 75 cents per month, and the wires were kept busy with messages of sympathy, both be rare and after the death. All inquiries were sharply cut-off with a few words and the wish emphasized bv members oi the family that nobodv was expected to attend at the house or at the grave but that they were privileged to attend at the church. This did not set well among the people who had done so much to honor Mr. Ingalls in his life time, and when the matrons of the town the mothers of the old families began to receive such emphatic notices that they were not expected to attend or lend their sympathy at the house, or follow the dead man to the grave, they woman-like took offense, which spread to the men folks, and so it became the settled purpose of the older families of the town to stay away from the fu neral. THE FUNERAL, SERVICE. A few moments before 2 o'clock the funeral train, consisting of the car. pall bearers and members of the family in closed carriages, appr6ached the Tiinity EiiscOiaI church. Rev. J. F. Sulger, of Terra Haute, Ind., emerged from a side entrance to the edifice and walked around to the front preceded by the symbol of the church in the hands of a young man. At the front, the mintsier turned into the church, followed by the body of the famous Kansan in a plain, black broadcloth casket, borne by J. M. Challis. F. G. Crowell, C. H. Holbert, James Morrison, W. P. Waggener and J. w. Blair, followed by the family. To the music of a dirge, the party wended its way down the central isle of the church. Unlike the ordinary church ser vice, the casket was placed as it had been carried into the church, the body occupying the same relative position to the spectators. The head was farthest from the altar, from which rose in relief the image if the Christ. After a scriptural reading the boy choir sang the hymn "From Every Stormy Wind That Blows." A respon sive Kpiscopal reading and a recitation of the Kpiscopal creed, and the singing of '"Nearer My God to Thee," consti tuted the service. The hymns were those old fashioned songs, so unlike the peculiar chant of the high church music that they were noticeable features of the service. There was a single wreath of lavender flowers tied with lavender ribbon at the head of the casket. In the center were red roses in a cluster. At the foot were sprays of fern tied with violet ribbon. Two floral pieces, "At Rest,"- and a mantle of flowers were left in the church vestibule. The members of the party were: Mrs. Ingalls, her sons, Kllsworth and Shef neld, daughters, Mrs. E. G. Blair, and Marion and Muriel, Andrew Hughes, a railroad man of Denver, who married a sister of Mrs. Ingalls: Miss Abbie Scofleld, and Miss Lucy Van Hoeson of Atchison, who is betrothed to Sheffield Ingalls. The ushers at the church were: J. E. Rank, J. G. Day, R. A. Park and Mayor W. T. F. Donald. There were no hon orary pall bearers. Only the members of the family went to the cemetery. The minister who administered the church rites was formerly in charge of the church here, which boasts its mem bership is the aristocracy of Atchison. By a strange coincident Rev. Sulger performed the same rites over Senator Voorhees, who was first in the United Photograph. States senate to be humiliated by Ingalls' invectives. The Ingalls girls, Marion and Muriel, are regular attend ants of the Catholic church here. They were educated in a convent. The service including the time consumed entering and leaving the church, occupied exact ly 40 minutes. The family desired Bishop Frank R. Millspaugh for the ser vice, but he was unavailable owing to his absence from the state. The family went to the cemetery, while those who had been at the church dispersed in little groups to condemn the policy which had kept Atchison away from the funeral. AT THE CEMETERY. The Ingalls family and their friends made particular announcement that the burial would be private, and this privacy was not disturbed, beyond the xact that many people seemed to have a sudden fascination for the cemetery and under the pretext of visiting other graves, viewed, from a respectable dis tance, the final ceremonies. Near the summit of a gentle slope, at a point overlooking the surrounding country, is the Ingalls burial plot. Until recent years the Ingalls dead were buried in another cemetery, but Mount Vernon is nearer the present Ingalls home and the senator purchased this lot, af terwards removing thereto, the bodies of his dead children. The simplicity which characterized the funeral, is very marked in the Ingalls burial lot. No attempt at display was made. Hundreds of monuments, much more elaborate and expensive.than those in the Ingalls lot, indicate the resting place of men and women who were in life not know n beyond the limits of Atchison county. Simple, white marble headstones here indicate the graves of four Ingalls child ren and one grandchild, the latter the in fant of Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Blair of Kan sas City. Brief inscriptions tell the visi tor, that the mound rising just back of the underground vault prepared for Mr. Ingalls, covers the grave of Ruth, born July 30, 1867: deceased February 15. 1874. Next to this is the grave of Addison; born February 17, 1872; died October 22. 1876. The third grave Is that of Faith, born May 2a, 1877, dying the same day. The fourth is that of Louisa, born April CContinued on Seventh Page.) READY FOR BRYAN Details of Notification 'Have Been Completed. Committee Will Meet Distin guished Guest at Atchison. BEGIN AT 3 O'CLOCK. Notification Ceremony Opened By David Overmyer. Chief Justice Doster to Follow in 30-Minute Speech. 'All the details for the Bryan notifica tion meeting have been arranged and ev ery committee has got its share of the business in good working order. A special committee composed of ex Governors John W. Leedy, L. D. Lewel ling and John P. St. John, Judge S. H. Allen, John W. Breidenthal, John Mad den, Senator W. A. Harris, Col. E. C. Little, O. T. Boaz and Jerry Simpson will meet Mr. Bryan in Atchison at 6:30 the morning of the 23d, they will take breakfast there with him and will ac company him to Topeka. The local reception committee will meet the party at the depot and with the Topeka City Troop will escort them to the National hotel where Mr. Bryan will meet the notification committee.the com mittee representing Topeka and the present state officers. All other com mittees including the general state com mittee will meet Mr. Bryan at the Craw ford Opera House. This has been so ar ranged because the hotel parlors will not accommodate the large general commit tee which includes 250 members. The committee on programme has de cided to begin the notification ceremony at 3 o'clock at the stand in the northwest corner of the state house grounds which will be decorated according to designs furnished by Otto Langhanke of Crosby Bros. The meeting) will be called to or der by Chairman Ridgely of the Populist state committee, and an address of wel come will be delivered by David Over myer. Judge Doster will deliver a 30 minute speech in which he will deal with the constitutional questions arising from the attitude of the Republicans in deal ing with our new island possessions. Marion Butler, permanent chairman of the ceremonies will be introduced and will take charge of the notification ex ercises proper. Mr. T. M. Patterson, chairman of the notification committee will then deliver the notification address which will be followed by the reply of Mr. Bryan. An informal reception will be held at the speakers stand after Mr. Bryan's address, but the time devoted to that will be necessarily short as Mr. Bryan will have to get supper and take the Union Pasifis west at 8 o'clock. In the evening there will be two meet ings, one at Garfield park and one in the state house grounds. The meetings will be addressed by T. M. Patterson, editor of the Rocky Mountain News, Webster Davis, Cyclone Davis, J. B. Weaver and other prominent speakers. A great many letters and telephone messages have been received at the Pop ulist headquarters which go to show that an enormous crowd will be here. A special train will come from Nortonville following the train which carries Mr. Bryan and the committee. Special trains will also come from Ottawa, Garnett, Lawrence and Emporia. There will be others but these places have already notified the committee of their inten tion. The committee on decorations will be gin their work Wednesday and expect to have their work well under way by Thursday morning. The local reception committee will meet Wednesday evening at 706 Kansas avenue where their head quarters have been established. John A. Atwood and several other prominent Kansas speakers will accom pany Mr. Bryan when he leaves Topeka and will assist in the meetings in (Man hattan and Marysville which will be held on the 24th. They will also speak in several Nebraska towns. Senator Mar ion Butler, chairman of the Populist na tional committee, and J. H. Edmiston. vice chairman of that committee will probably remain in Topeka the evening of the 23d and assist at the meeting. The local reception committee was completed Saturday night and consist of the following: J. S. Ensminger, T. J. Anderson, P. I. Bonebrake, L. M. Penwell, George W. -Clark, T. M. James, John M. Brown, J. A. Davis, C. A. Fellows, L. A. Steb bins. T. M. Hanley, W. C. Stephenson, Hugh Lawler, D. H. Morgan. F. M. Newland, Albert Griffin, W. I. Miller, Robert Stone, N. I. Dalton. W. E. Atch ison, Will S. Fulton, F. S. Stevens, R. L. Cofran, J. S. Coe, Otis S. Allen. R. B. Kepley, Dan Clements, E. S. Hunter, P. J. Monaghan. James Warner, Dr. H. A. Warner, C. S. Eagle, C. B. Samson, B. P. Colville, John Schmidt. W. R. Hazen, F. H. Webster, Joe. McLatchy, E. Whipple, W. F. Schoch, T. H. Lesch er, H. C. Fraser, E. E. Randolph, W. W. Alkire, George B. Payne, D. Ammel, F. W. Leech, F. B. Chase, C. L. Wood, A. S. Huling, A. Hirbour, Charles Vander pool, James Mitchell. E. C. Arnold, W. H. Whitmore, L. G. Beal, P. C. Thomas, W. C. Reyton, Samuel Parr, H. O. Gar vey, C. K. Holliday, R. C. Wallace, Dr. L. Y. Grubbs, J. J. O'Connor, John Dyal, M. Heerey. R. H. Herrington, D. R. Coe, J. R. McKeever, O. F. Olm stead. Eng. Latimer, J. M. Senter, F. Collins, J. O. Brintnall, H. C. Root. O. C. Neiswender, F. H. Foster. A. B. Ben son, Frank Zinghein, H. C. Rushmore, J. H. Oberly, Barney Leah, C. D. Small, David Ward, J. B. Jeffers, J. P. Berry, A. M. Petro, D. T. Gregg, A. S. Kane, S. Kimes, W. M. Spear, A. C. Wallace, Fred Krauss, J. I.Cromwell, E. Gaume. This committee is requested to meet at 706 Kansas avenue Wednesday even ing. One Flop Today. The Republicans of the Second ward of Salina have organized a Republican club and elected R. H. Bishop president. Four years ago Bishop supported Brv an. He is the father of Major W. H. Bishop who went to the Philippines with the Twentieth Kansas and re-enlisted there when the regiment came home. German Banks Prosperous. Berlin. Aug. 20. An association of the largest Berlin banks has resolved to con fine its brokerage business to firms and persons registered in the bourse register. A dividend of 16 per cent upon a capital of 15.000,000 marks has been declared' by the Hoesch company against a 15 per cent dividend on 9.000,000 marks capita last year. The Hasper firm declares a 40 per cent dividend against one of 22 per cent last year. POWERS IS DEFIANT. Convicted Ex Kentucky Official Is sues a Statement. Georgetown, Ky., Aug. 20 Caleb Pow ers issued a statement last evening as follows: "To the Public: "I am asked my opinion concerning my trial and the verdict of the jury. Could I have but one opinion? Can any fair minded man or woman of this state have but one? That one of the greatest ju dicial farces known to history has been acted here in my trial, under the forms of law, no well informed man can doubt. Innocence is no shield with $100,000 and the methods of Camblellism against you. The rectitude of one's past life counts for naught. They say Taylor was guilty because he was at his office, and that I am guilty because I was away from mine. This has been a political trial throughout for political purposes, and no greater mistake has been made by the Democratic party since they rob bed us of the offices to which we were fairly elected by the people. There are good men and noble women in the Dem ocratic party, and many of them. They are not all bad, far from it. A great many of them do not Indorse this mock ery of a trial, this proposition of the courts of justice for certain ends.' From the beginning of the campaign until now I have stood with what little of merit I have had for the rights and liberties of the people. That is my crime. That is the only offense I have committed. This is the only thing proven against me. I swore to that myself in my testi mony. I have never had, and I now have, no apology to make for. being true to the trust imposed upon me by a ma jority of the voters of this state. His tory will draw its dark lines around those who have outraged me and dis graced the judiciary and blackened the history of the state. I am, very respect fully, CALEB POWERS." NEGRO POET ROBBED. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Loses His Watch and Money. New York, Aug. 20. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet, reported to the police last night that he had beeen druuged and robbed recently. Dunbar said he had been working hard during the early part of the night try ing to pacify the negroes, who had been agitated about the west side riots, and was very tired. About midnight he met a negro named William Ricks, who in vited him into a saloon and advised him against going through West Thirty seventh street, as, he said, it was dan gerous. This is all he remembers until 3 o'clock the following afternoon when he awoke on the top floor of a building on West Thirty-seventh street. Dun bur then found he had been robbed of his gold watch and chain and some money. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is known as a writer in magazines and as a poet. He has published several books of poems. IMPORTANT FIND. American Physician Finds Cause of Bright's Disease. London, Aug. 20. The Pall Mall Ga zette publishes a dispatch from Rome which declares that an important medi cal discovery concerning the cause of BrigAVs disease has been made by Dr. Ovid Brown, formerly of New York, and now of Rome. CHEAP COAL. Endless Chain Plan. Can the endless chain principal be ap plied to selling a commodity like coal with absolute fairness to all? A Journal representative had a talk this morning with Mr. Webster of the Webster-Tul-loch Coal Co.. and he thinks it can. After listening to his talk we are in clined to think he is right. To begin with no one is persuaded into buying what they do not need. Then the Webster-Tulloch people propose to allow parties to pay out when the coupons they have sold are not returned and books taken out for them. Judging by the number of books they already have issued it looks as though it would make quite a boom in coal. We figure it out that quite a lot of people will get a ton of coal for 15c. Then another and probably much small er lot of people will get one ton for 15c and the price of the one coupon from the book that did not come in which is 75c, making 90c for the ton of coal. Still an other class will have a coupons that will not be returned and their ton will cost them two 75c pieces and 15c or $1.65 and so on to the unfortunate individual who has none of his coupons returned. He in order to save his 15c would have to pay $3.75 more, making his ton of coal cost $3.90, a trifle high priced today but if the coal dealers generally are cor rect the time is almost at hand when it would be quite cheap for at least some of the coals in the list. To sum it up it looks like a very good chance for every body. Who is willing to do a little rustling to sell coupons to be either fairly well or mighty well paid for this work? KILLED BY A BURGLAR. Young Woman Murdered and Her Brother Severely Beaten. Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 20. Miss May Fosburg, the 24-year-old daughter of R. L. Fosburg, a contractor of Buffalo, N. Y., was shot and killed early this morning by a burglar. Her brother, E. F. Fosburg, was bad ly beaten by one of the men whom he tried to capture. There were three of the burglars and all escaped. Mr. Fos burg is living in this city while en gaged on some work for an electrical company. If ew Turkish Minister. Constantitnople.Aug. 20. Schekib Bey, head of the cipher bureau of the foreign office, has been appointed Turkish min ister to the United tSates in place of All Ferroh Bey. recalled. Weather Indications. Chicago, Aug. 20. Forecast for Kan sas: Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday; fresh southerly winds. BEGS FORTEACE. Chinese Government Has Had Enough Fighting. Li Hung Chang Requests That Conger Be Named. OTHER REQUESTS MADE All Governments Interested Re ceive Similar Petitions. Japanese Troops Pursue the Chinese Court. WORD FROM REMEY. Seven American Marines Killed in Chinese Capital. J. Wr. Tutcher, of Topeka, in the List. Washington, Aug. 20. The Chinese government through Li Hung Chang has made application to the United States for the appointment of Minister Conger or some other American, official with authority to open negotiations for the establishment of peace and for fix ing definite terms for the settlement of the present trouble. The application came to the Chinese minister today and was taken by him to the state- depart ment. Li Hung Chang's application for the; appointment of a peace commissioner expresses willingness to conduct the negotiations at a point desired by the powers and it is expected that this will be Pekin or Tien Tsin. A similar appli cation has been made by Earl Li to all of the powers interested. His suggestion of Minister Conger as the American commissioner is based on the idea that, as Minister Conger has been rescued he has now the opportunity to proceed to the point where negotiations willTie held and conduct' them. The application does not suggest any particular terms nor does it ask for the withdrawal of troops. It requests that the negotiations shall be for the purpose of bringing about a cessation of hostilities. Washington, Aug. 20. The bureau of navigation this morning received the following cablegram from Admiral Remey "Taku, Aug. 19. Authentic report from Pekin August 15 from Lieutenant Latimer. Troops moving on imperial city. Clearing out Tartar City. All Americans who remained in Pekin are well except one child. Captain Myers recovered from wound; has typhoid crisis passed and now convalescing. As sistant Surgeon Lippett was wounded upper left leg, bone fractured. Leg saved, now recovering. The following killed during siege in Pekin: Sergeant J. F. Fanning, Privates C. B. King, J. W. Tutcher, J. Kennedy, R. E. Thomas, A. Turner and H. Fisher. Wounded: Private J. Schroder, elbow, severe, now dangerously ill from fever; Seaman J. Mitchell, upper arm, severe, now recovering. "AH other wounded and sick returned to duty. Casualties Major Biddle's com mand, attack Tan Tating: First Lieu tenant Butler, chest; Private Green, wrist; Private Warrel, right temple; all slight. Reported from Chinese sources thafthe royal family have escaped and are en route to Sian Fu. "REMEY." J. W. Tutcher Is from Topeka and his parents live south of the city. His three sisters live at 518 West Seventh street. Berlin, Aug. 20. The foreign office has received a dispatch from the German consul at Che Foo under today's date, saying the dowager empress was be lieved to be inside the palace at Pekin and that the allies were still bombard ing the fortifications. New York, Aug. 20. A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: President McKinley is considering the advisability of proposing to the powers First Published Photograph First National Guard Regiments For This is a. fine nhotoeranh of Col. nois Infantry, who was among the first National Guard. the organization of an international congress, which shall sit in China and recommend to the several governments represented a permanent solution of pending questions. The president recognizes that the duties which Minister Conger will be called upon to perform will be so exact ing and arduous that it will be unfair to ask him to take the additional burden of discussing a method of settlement of the matters in controversy, that Special Commissioner Rockhill will be too bus ily employed in obtaining information and in communicating with high Chi nese officials to give time to them and that direct negotiations between the powers is likely -to prove unsatisfactory and give rise to complications which might otherwise be avoided. Talks with diplomats here indicate that their governments would be willing to join in a congress for the settlement of the Chinese question and Baron von Sternberg, the German charge d'affaires in Washington, has been suggested as the representative of Germany. New York, Aug. 20. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Shanghai says: Kang Yi, former assistant grand sec retary of the empire and General Fu Siang are heading an army that is ad vancing from Pekin to the southeast with the object of diverting the allies from pursuit of the emperor and the dowager empress. On Saturday, August 11, the imperial household left Pekin. Prince Tuan led the march with his troops, taking the emperor, the dowager empress, and all the 'Manchu nobles. Their destination is believed to be Signan Fu, in Shen Si province. With, them left all the element hostile to foreigners. Prince Cheng was left in comamnd at Pekin, and he welcomed the allies, in a friendly manner. These reports are, from Chinese sources. The empress dow-ager beheaded twelve, of the imperial clansmen who refused to leave the capital and were suspected of favoring the foreigners. The personal property, which the em press dowager sent away filled sixty carts. Her retinue went on foot, owing to the hurried advance of the allies. Yu Ster., governor of Shen Si, has gone to the frontier of his province to meet the empress. The Chinese report heavy losses in the fighting between Tien Tsin and Pekin. General Li Yueng Hang was wounded at Pelt Sang and died the next day. General Mah was dangerous ly wounded at Tung Chou where Gen erals Chent Zqlen and Chang Cheng Fu, commanding Wung Lu's vanguard, were killed. The Chinese are also cir culating a story that the legation guards, owing to cartridges giving out, fired silver bullets the last few days. London, Aug. 20. The Japanese caval ry has left Pekin in pursuit of the dow ager empress and her court, according to telegrams from the north received at Shanghai by Chinese officials. These dis patches aver that the empress and her treasure train protected by 30.000 troops, have already arrived at Wu Tai San, in Shan Si province. The field telegraph north of Yang Tsun is interrupted and nothing under Pekin date appears to have reached Yang Tsun since August 17. Heavy rains have been falling in the province of Pe Chi Li. The landing of the British troops at Shanghai is not causing excitement among the natives. A detachment of 100 French marines landed there today. A customs cruiser is reported to have gone to Tien Tsin to take away the foreigners rescued from Pekin. Many influential Chinese have Inter ested themselves in the fate of a China man sentenced by an English court at Hong Kong to six months imprisonment at hard labor because he was a member of the Triad society. MORE TROOPS FOR CHINA. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 20. The transport Sherman will sail today for Taku by way of Nagasaki. The second battalion of the Second infantry from Fort Thomas, Ky., and a battalion of the Eighth infantry, from Fort Snelling, Minn., which, with the Fifth infantry, have been ordered to sail on the Sherman, arrived late last night and marched at once to the transport dock. Companies A and B of the First In fantry, commanded by Captain F. E. Lacey and Lieutenant E. E. Carroll, from Fort Riley, Kan., have arrived at the Presidio, where they will await sail ing orders. Today 720 horses will be put on board the transport Strathgly which will prob ably sail for the Orient tomorrow. The Thyra has been chartered by the government and will come here direct from Honolulu. A detail of chronic and incurable cases has been selected by Lieutenant C. C. Collins at the general (Continued on Seventh Page.) of Col. J. S. Culner, One of the Colonels Offering Their Service in China. J. S. Culner. commanding the Fifth 111! volunteers for Chinese service from the WORK OTA FIEND Dr. Arrington, of Leavenworth, Starts on Career of Murder. Shoots James Wallace, Wealthy Farmer, and Wife. WOUNDS THE SHERIFF. Is Then Shot Through the Heart by Officer. Attempted to Escape With 11 x 11' jauguier in tfugun. Leavenworth, Aug. 20. Dr. Arring ton, in Platte county, Ma, near East Leavenworth, today shot and killed James Wallace, a wealthy farmer. In a quarrel over a line fence, and then go ing to the home of his mother-in-law, the widow of William Wallace, deliber ately shot tier to death. Arrington es caped in" a wagon with his young daughter, but was pursued by Sheriff Dillingham and a posse. The posse came up with Arrington in a road near Farley about 10 o'clock and shots were exchanged. The murderer opened fire, wounding Dillingham in the breast ami producing a fatal wound. As he fell Dillingham shot Arrington through the heart. Leavenworth. Kan.. Aug.20. The mur ders were committed in the most colli blooded manner. Wallace and Arrington who were neighbors had been at "outs" for some time. Wallace was greasing his buggy this morning when Arrington ap proached and without a word fired two shots, one taking effect in Wallace's head and the other in the breast, killing him almost instantly. Arrington then drove across the river to Leavenwortli taking his daughter with him, purchased 250 cartridges and returned to the home of Mrs. William Wallace. Arrington en tered the woman's house unbidden ami shot her to death before she could make an outcry. His second crime committed, Arrington climbed into his wagon andr drove off. Saturday night Arrington drove hia wife away from their home by threaten ing to kill her. She slept in a corn held and is still in hiding. LOST $25,000. Adams Express Company Misses a Valuable Package. New York, Aug. 20. President C. L. Weir of the Adams Express company today confirmed the statement that a package containing $25,000 which the Adams Express company was carrying from Chicago to Burlington for the Chi cago, Burlington Quincy agent, had been lost. President' Weir said that he did not know any of the particulars. DYKES YS, REEDER. Challenge for Joint Debates in the Sixth. The Populist congressional committee in the. Sixth, district has challenged the Republicans to a series of joint debates. The documents in evidence follow: Smith Center, Kan., Aug. 14, 1900. John Q. Royce, Chairman Republican Congressional Committee.Phillipsburg, Kan. Dear Sir: In view of the fact that the fight in this congressional district is be tween Mr. Reeder and Dr. Dykes and as they are fair representatives of the two great-political issues in this campaign, the undersigned hereby challenge your committee to arrange suitable dates for a series of joint discussions between the two gentlemen named, the number ot dates and the places of meeting to be agreed upon later between yourself, or any other representative of Mr. Reeder, and the undersigned. We would suggest Friday, August 24, as a suitable date for a meeting at Phil lipsburg between the parties named for the purpose of making proper arrange ments of the details for the proposed, meetings. Trusting that it will be possible to ar range these dates, we are yours respect fully, F. R. FORREST. Chairman. J. W. MORPHY, Sec'y. CATTLEMAN SHOT. Assassinated in Oklahoma on Ac count of Herd Law. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 20. Mr. -Huff, cattleman and farmer, was shot dead lr his own home in Custer county, Okla., Friday night by some one who fired through an open window. The herd law there is said to be the cause of the crime and more trouble is feared. NEGRO MOBBED IN LINCOLN. Knocked a Policeman Down and Was Almost Lynched. Lincoln, Neb.. Aug. 20. The closing of the state reunion of the G. A. R. here was marked by a riot and the attempted lynching of a negro by a mob. Charles Gafit, the object of the wrath of the mob, created a disturbance on the grounds and Officer Howe reprimanded him. Grant wrested a billiard cue from a boy, and sneaking up behind Howe, felled him to the ground with a blow over the head. He ran with a squad of officers and a hundred or more angry white men in pursuit. Gant was over taken after a chase of more than a mile. He was standing in a swamp, the water up to his waist. The prisoner was brought back to the grounds, where a mob of several hundred whites formed and charged the police in an endeavor to get possession of the negro. A rope was taken from one of the re union tents and cries -of "Lynch him," "Kill the nigger," displayed plainly the mob's intention. The police surrounded the prisoner and beat back the mob with their clubs. Gant was finally hurried out of the. grounds and taken to jail. Officer Howe s head was severely cut. He was uncon scious from the effects of Gant's blow until this morning. Gant was charged with assault with Intent to kill. W

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOTJRNAIj, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1900. SPORTING NEWS. Ben Jordan, English Feather Weight Champion, Crosses the Ocean to Fight Terry McGorera. WONDERFUL BATTLE This Match Will Create Surpass ing Interest. Sharkey-Fitz Date Changed Back to August 24. New York, Aug. 20. Another fistic unatch. In adidtion to those already ar ranged, will probably be decided here 'before September 1. The principals will 'English featherweight champion. Jor dan arrived here from Liverpool on the 'Lucania. He was met at the pier by fMartin Dowling, who will act as his 'manager. The little Englishman Is fairly con- DUJIirU Willi H 111 i VI 1 J laurels, and came over for the express purpose of fighting the Brooklyn lad here before the Horton law goes out of effect on September 1. Jordan said: "I am very much disappointed to learn on my arirval here that iicGovern is to be come an actor. I came over to fight him, and will take no notice of any induce ments to fisht any one else. I will agree to meet McGovern at 122 pounds, weigh in at 3 o'clock on the day of the con test, and will agree to fight before the club offering the most money. "The National Athletic club of Lon don, Ja greatly Interested in my visit here; in fact, several of its members are responsible for my coming. I am at present in. good condition. I had a. very pleasant voyage and had every oppor tunity to go through a daily course of training aboardship. I punched the bag, took daily runs of five miles around the decks and sparred with my brother Sam, who came over with me." Sam Harris, manager of McGovern, was not seen today, so arrangements for the match were not completed. It is likely, though, that if Terry's theat rical engagements can be altered a match will be speedily clinched. Har ris has said he would be only too will ing to let McGovern fight the English man. CORBETT THE DUDE. Pugilist Has Special "Ladies' Day" and is Very Polite. New York, Aug. 20. Unlike most of the other prize fighters James J. Corbett is willing and even anxious that crowds come to his training quarters every day for the purpose of watching him work, and he does not charge them anything, either. For this he has earned the repu tation of being a most accommodating fighter. He is at Hath beach and every day his quarters are tilled with onlook ers, consisting for the most part of wo men and children. His small gymnasium on the pier at Avoca villa was today filled with mem bers of the fair sex, and to say that thev were pleased far from expresses the impression he made on them. He gave a regular show and all that was missing when he began his work was a. couple of violins and a few other musical in struments that go to make up an or chestra. He was applauded liberally when he appeared, and, smiling as only Jim can, he said: "Thank you, ladles." He was well attired for the occasion and his gar ments caused, perhaps, a greater flutter than he did himself. He wore a oink ehirt that was sleeveless and stockings that were the color of the sky, only a tri fle darker. Corbett began operations by hitting the punching bag with such force that the cord which held it was almost bro ken. There were little feninine shrieks at this burst of savagery, when Jim turn Ki to his admirers and said: "Don't get frightened, ladies: it was only one of the kind of jolts I mean blows, I beg par don that I am going to carry to the anatomy of my worthy adversary." "My," exclaimed a south Brooklyn belle, "ain't he a dandy talker? He's a peach at spieling and the goils down at de island wouldn't do a ting wid him as escort." For a long time the agile pugilist hop ped about the stage feinting at an im aginary foe, and when he began to soak v""-"i"5 uag evtrjoouy oecame very much interested. Then he wrestled for ten minutes with Pardelle, winning a fall, when he advanced to the edge of the platform and said: "Ladies, that is all for this afternoon." Many of the young women stopped to thank Corbett and he did not seem to be a bit bored. Hereafter at Bath Beach he will be known as the"pugilistic dude." He has left orders with the hotel clerk that all flowers consigned to him be sent to his room at once. JOCKEY TOD SLOAN Will Not Divulge the Name of Sis Mount in the Futurity. New York, Aug. 20. Wrapped In. se crecy and a neat-fitting blue serge suit Tod Sloan arrived here from England on the Lueania. The noted jockey came for the sole purpose of riding in the Futurity next Saturday. He refused to divulge the name of the horse that he will ride, or that of its owner. "I am under a promise," said Sloan, "not to tell at present the horse I am to ride." Sloan still bore traces of the bad fall he had from a horse a few weeks ago when his right ear was torn off. Before landing today, the little fellow removed the bandages and cotton from the ear, which is almost well. His hearing was not affected. "I shall only ride one race," said the jockey, and will return to Hngland a week from next Wednesday." OSPHAKS HARDEST HITTERS. Lead Teams in National League with the Willow. New Yo-k. Aug. 20. According to the latest records, compiled up to last Thursday, ChicRgo is now the chief slugging club of the National League, the Orphans having rolled up 518 extra bases to bO.1 for Cincinnati and 502 for Pittsburg. The champion Brooklvns are fifth in totals, and the tail-end New Yorks are also tail-enders in this par ticular. Chicago's lead is explained by the shape of the Chicago grounds, where a hit to the left or right field bounds, off the bleacher wall and re sults in a two-bagger. The Orphans lead in sacrifices, the Brooklyns in Btolen, bases. New York second, while Pittsburg, Boston and Cincinnati seem to be in a special class for slowness in thievery. New York leads in double plays, Cinncinnati second. 1 1 till vvagner iooks saie xo leaa in Individual sluggers, with 123 extra bases to his credit, as against 102 for, Flick and 95 for Sam Crawford. ShAck ard leads the base runners, Mertes sec ond, Doyle third all the records being pitifully poor as compared with the days of years ago. McGinnity holds his rank as the league's kingpin pitcher, Tannehill sec ond. Of the men who have been in for fifteen games or more McGinnity shows best for Brooklyn, Tannehill for Pittsburg, Dineen for Boston, Bernhard for the Quakers, Carrick for New York, Griffith for Chicago, Scott for Cincin nati and Young for St. Louis. Carrick winning .577 per cent of his games for the tail-enders ought to have a special medal. ETHELBEKT IS LAME. Trainer Fears the Great Son of Eothen Maori Is Out of It Saratoga, N. Y.. Aug. 20. Perry Bel mont's great colt, Ethelbert, the king of the all-aged division, pulled up in his work this morning quite lajne, and it is feared by his trainer that he has run his last race of the year, if not for ever. The great son of Eothen-Maori has had an unfortunate season, his victory in the special sweepstakes over Jean Beraud, his record-breaking perform ance in the Brighton Cup race, and his clever victory in the Metropolitan Handicap being the only occasions in which he scored brackets. Still, in the opinion of nearly all the turf experts, he is regarded as the horse of the year, and they lay his three de feats by Kinley Mack in the Brooklyn, the Suburban and here at Saratoga to hard luck, and the bad starts he re ceived. The injury to his foot it is believed he picked up a stone may not be as serious as Trainer Joyner thinks, but it will cause him to be thrown out of training for some time. BALLYHOD BEY'S GREAT WORK Foxball Keene Afraid the Colt Will Beat His Entries in the Futurity. Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 20. Foxhall P. Keene is not as confident of winning the Futurity with Cap and Bells or Olympian as he was a week ago. The opponent he fears is W. C. Whitney's colt Ballyhoo Bey, whose work here has been simply phennmenrl, he having worked five furlongs in bS1 seconds, a feat with which no horse in training has ever before been credited. Ballyhoo Bey will be ridden in the Futurity by Turner, while Spencer will have the mount on Cap and Bells: Mc Cue will be on The Parader; Odom will ride Klkhorn: Ransch, Olympian; Mitchell, Helen O'C; Littlefield. Sweet Lavender: O'Connor. Lamp O'Lee; Mc Joynt, Smile: Builman, either Golden Age or Kenil worth; Clawson. All Green: Shaw, Longshoreman, and Har ry Lewis, Magnus Troll. MAHER GOING TO ENGLAND. Premier American Jockey Will Ac company Pierre Lorillard's Stable. New York, Aug. 20. When Tod Sloan returns to England after a few weeks' visit here he will be accompanied by Danny Maher, the game little jockey who has been riding for Pierre Loril lard. Maher will ride for Loriliard, who is about to send another stable across the water. David Carrick will probably be among those shipped. Maher has not had the trouble with the stewards this year that he experi enced last, but the success of Sloan and the other Americans in England stirred the present premier of Ameri can jockeys and he, too, hopes to win more fame and fortune over there than can be attained here. Maher ranks first In the list this season and many expect to see him equal Sloan's record in Great Britain. FIGHTING DATE CHANGED. Fitz and Sharky Will Meet Friday Night, August 25. New York, Aug. 20. The manage ment of the Seaside Athletic club has again changed the date of the Fitz-simmons-Sharkey fight. The date or iginally set for the contest was August 25, but on account of the great crowd that would be drawn to the island on the 25th to see the futurity run at the Sheepshead bay race track, the man agement with a view of obtaining an increased attendance made the date of the bout Saturday, August 25. Tom O'Rourke, acting for the Seaside Athletic club, announces that in com pliance with a general request the fight will take place on the original date, Friday, Augnst 24. "PATSY" TEBEATT IS OUT. McGraw is Made Manager of the St. Louis Team. St. Loui3, Aug. 20. Oliver (Pat) Te beau, manager of the St. Louis Nation al League base ball club, tendered his resignation to President DeHaas Rob inson today. Mr. Robinson Immediately appointed John McGraw to succeed Tebeau. Te beau has been connected with the old Cleveland, now the St. Louis team, for eleven years. Loftus Signs New Pitchers. Chicago, Aug. 20. Manager Loftus is angling for pitchers. With the largest staff of high-grade twirlers in the coun try already under contract, the Chicago manager has lines out with tempting bait on the hook to catch more promis ing throwers, and declares he will take all the good ones he can find. Heimerk, a southpaw, signed a short time ago, and now Miller, the crack boxman of the De troit club, is claimed. Loftus expects to have the Detroit man before the season closes, together with a few more of the younger twirlers who have long careers before them and show promise. Champions of Osage County. Carbondale, Aug. 20. Carbondale de feated Scranton on the home grounds in a one-sided game of ball by the score of IS to 5. Carbondale claims the cham pionship of Osage county, having beaten Summer Complaints, DYSENTERY, DIARRHGEA, CHOLERA MORBUS. Taking Radway's Ready Relief in water will in a few moments cure Cramp?, Spasms. Sour Stomach, Nausea. Heart burn, Malarial Fevers, Sick Headache, Colic. Flatulency and all Internal Pains. Externally for Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises, Mosquito Bites, Stings of Insects. Sunburns, Burns, Toothache. Headache, Pains in the Back, the application of to the part or parts affected will In stantly relieve and soon cure the suf ferer of these complaints. Sold by all druggists. RADWAY CO., New York. OTP Lyndon, Burlingame, Scranton and other teams, not having lost a game this sea son. Battery for Carbondale, Gather cole, O'Donnell, and Luman. Ryan Arrives on the Coast. San Francisco, Aug. 20. Tommy Ryan, who is to fight Jack Moffatt here in Sep tember, arrived today with Jack Jeffries, brother of the champion, Ryan says: "I will be well trained by the time I enter the ring, for I know Moffatt is a man no one can take any chances with. I would be willing to back him against Root at 158 pounds if Root would fight at that weight. As soon as I have fought Moffatt I am going to try to get another match with Root." Ferns and Jackson to Meet. Cleveland, Aug. 20. Articles have been signed for a fight on September 11 between Rube Ferns of Buffalo, and young Peter Jackson of Denver, for the welterweight championship. The men are to weigh in at 140 pounds at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the fight. Saturday Ball Games. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnati, 3; Philadelphia, 0. New York, 5; Chicago, 2. Pittsburg. 8: Brooklyn, 4. Boston, 9: St. Louis, 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Kansas City, 4: Minneapolis, 3. Chicago, 1-1; Milwaukee, 0-0. Detroit, D; Cleveland. 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT ST. LOUIS. Listlesa fielding in the early part of the game was responsible for St. Louis' de feat. Powell was hit hard. Attendance, ;iuu. Score: S:. Louis 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 25 Cincinnati 3 0 1 2 1 U 1 0 08 AT CHICAGO. The visitors out-baited Chicago, but were unable to connect with Garvin with men on baes. The long pitcher surprised everybody by making a clean hit in the fourth, scoring What proved to be the win ning run. Attendance, 3,2M). The sore: Chicago 1 II (1 1 0 I) u 2 New York 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 01 NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. Games Games Per Won. Lost. Cent Brooklvn 57 35 .fi-'O Plttsbur 54 .557 Philadelphia 47 4 .5i3 l'hi,-sgi, AS 4 .ED J Boston 47 4S .4!V Cincinnati 44 51 .4t3 St. louis 42 50 .457 New York 36 54 .400 AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT CHICAGO. Milwaukee turned the tables on Chicago by winning the first game after a desper ate struggle for seventeen innings and scoring a shutout in the second. Wad dell was the hero of both contests and it was due to his work that the visitors won. He established a record by pitching twenty-two consecutive innings. a feat never before witnessed in this city. The work of the home team was excellent, but was entirely overshadowed by that of Waddell. Attendance, lu.Suo. The score: First game Chicago 0 000100010000000 02 Milwaukee ..0 110000000000000 13 Second game Chicago 0 0 0 0 00 Milwaukee 0 0 0 1 01 AT BUFFALO. Buffalo shut out Indianapolis in the first game by hitting Barnes hard and repeat edly, the score being 14 to 0. Ruffulo's errors iost it the second game, which was cut down to seven innings on account of the late hour. Threatening weather kept the attendance down. Score: First game B.ifTalo 4 0 0 3 0 6 1 0 014 Indianapolis 0 000000000 Second game Buffalo 2 0 2 0 0 0 04 Indianapolis 3 10 13 0 8 AT DETROIT. Baker's wildness in the first Inning was responsible for Detroit's victory. He hit the first man and passed the second. A bunt hit filled the ba-ses and another pass to first forced in a run. An out at first scored the next tally. Rain fell in tor rents after the first inning, but it sub sided in half an hour. The score: Detroit 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 Cleveland 1 cl 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 AT KANSAS CITY. One of the largest crowds which has gathered in Exposition park in many a day saw the Blues and Millers break even Sunday. The first game was easy for the visitors, while the Blues went after the second at the start and walked away with it. The first was lost through the inability of the locals to connect with the curves Bailey dealt out, and the second won by their success in hitting Harvey. The score. First game Kansas City 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 03 Minneapolis 2 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 07 Second game Kansas City 3 2 2 2 0 110 Minneapolis 0 3 0 0 0 1 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. Games Games Per Won. Lost Cent. Chicago C) 40 .eon Indianapolis 51 45 .540 Milwaukee 57 60 533 Detroit 56 4 .533 Kansas City 53 55 4H1 Cleveland 49 51 .4l"0 Buffalo 45 02 .421 Minneapolis 43 63 .46 WESTERN LEAGUE. AT PUEBLO. Score by innings: P. FT P5 Pueblo 0 0061000 7 7 4 St. Joseph 0 00001 1 2 04 13 4 Batteries Pueblo, Yerkes and Graham; St. Joseph, Gibson and Kling. AT DES MOINES. Score by innings: R TT 13 Des Moines 3 0410000 1 9 1 1 Sioux City 2 4 000400 0 l'J 11 2 Batteries Des Moines, Mauck, Weimer and Loman; Sioux City, McDonald, Fer guson and Cote. AT DENVER. Score by innings: R E Denver 2 0 4 1 1 1 0 1 010 11 4 Omaha 1 o 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 7 4 Batteries Denver, AlcNeely and Buelow; Omaha, Roach, Thompson and Lauzon. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Games Games Per Won. Lost. Cent. Denver 56 3 .609 Des Moines 43 41 .512 St. Joseph 46 47 495 Omaha 44 48 .47S Sioux City 38 45 45s Pueblo 38 46 452 Pittsburg 10; Winfield 4. Pittsburg. Kan.. Aug. 20. Pittsburg de feated Winfield here by a score of lu to 4. Batteries Milton and Parks; Howell and Moor& Coffeyville 16; Fredonia 5. Coffeyville, Kan., Aug. 20. The Fredonia and Coffeyville baseball teams played here Sunday afternoon. Coffeyville won easily by a score of 16 to 5. Fredonia was never in the game. Memphis Route Fast Train. The Southeastern limited leaving Kan sas City daily at 6:30 p. m. enables pas sengers to reach Memphis at 8 a. m.., Birmingham 4:30 p. m., Chatanooga 8:45 p. m., Atlanta 10:35 p. m., New Or leans 7:35 p. m. next day, Jacksonville, Fla., 8:30 second morning. Correspond ing time to all points in the southeast. Entire train, with reclining chair car and palace buffet sleeping car runs through to Birmingham, stopping only at important local stations, as Olathe, Paola, Pleasanton, Fort Scott, T""ftr and Springfield. Leave Topeka 3:00 p. m., arrive Chi cago 7:40 a. m., via the Santa Fe Short line. KANSAS NEWS, A Native of Honolulu Tisits Manhattan. Accompanied by Wife, Niece and daughter. TELLS OF THE ISLAND. Says Chances For Young Ameri cans Are Good. Well Acquainted With "Rose of Hilo," Topeka Queen. Manhattan, Kan., Aug. 20. William R. Castle of Honolulu stopped In Man hattan a few days on a visit to bis uncle, William Castle, one of the oldest inhabitants of this city. He was accom panied by his wife and daughter and niece, all of whom have been visiting in the east for some time. They left Sunday evening for San Francisco where they will take ship immediately for the Sandwich Islands. Mr. William R. Castle is a lawyer of Honolulu and has been closely identified with the struggle of the islands for re publican form of government and an nexation to the United States. He was prominent in the establishment of the Dole government and during the trouble with Queen Lil in her effort to get the United States to place her back on the throne, during President Cleveland's last administration, he was minister of the republic at Washington urging that the United States take the islands under its wings. The effort at that time was unsuccessful, but Queen Lil received so much encouragement from the admin istration that a native revolution was narrowly averted. Mr. Castle was born in the Sandwich Islands, his father being one of the early missionaries who carried the Bible to the simple natives. When a boy he was sent to Ohio and received a college ed ucation there, graduating from Oberlin college. He has seen all the changes which have taken place in those islands and has been a part of them. He talked very entertainingly of his island home, and besides being an interesting talker adds something of the smooth, liquid Kanaka pronunciation to his English which gives it a special charm. That he is proud of his Islands, and thinks that the United States should be alive to the importance of the valuable acquisition is evident in the enthusiasm with which he tells of their products. Sugar cane is the principal crop, and the yield per acre there is the highest in the world. Great advancement in the cultivation of the cane has been made during the past few years. Irrigation has been used with great success and is becoming very general among the large planters. With the improved cultiva tion a yield of from ten to fifteen tons of sugar per acre is possible. Without irrigation from six to eight tons is an average. The water for irrigating is lifted by huge pumps sometimes from a depth of over two hundred feet. It takes sixteen months to mature a crop. Besides the sugar cane they have nearly all the tropical fruits. Oranges, lemons, limes and bananas and an abun dance of wild fruit. Indeed, the abun dance of fruits and vegetable food makes a living so easy that the native Kanaka fails to see the necessity for exerting himself to any great extent so long as he has enough to eat. When asked as to the climate, Mr. Castle smiled as he waved a fan back and forth in the vain effort to coax a refreshing breath out of our Kansas breeze. "Isn't this Kansas weather ter rible," he said. "I just received a let ter from Honolulu saying that the high est temperature there this year is 90, which is the highest in four or five years. Last year the highest was 87, and that for only one day." "What are the chances for a young man in Hawaii? Well, judging from the number who have already succeeded there I should say they were very good. Since the annexation we have been re ceiving a large number from the states, a number from Kansas." Mr. Castle is acquainted with Mr. Case of Topeka, who is now in the islands. He is also personally acquainted with Miss Anna Rose, "The Rose of Hilo," who was Topeka's Carnival Queen in 1898. He spoke very highly of Miss Rose and of Topeka's enterprise in sending so far for a queen from among the inhabitants of our new possessions. CUDAHY TAKES IT. Will Operate the Wbittaker Packing Plant at Wichita. Wichita,, Aug. 20. The Cudahy Pack ing company has entered into an agree ment to operate the Whittaker plant in this city and from present prospects will o killing hqgs to the full capacity be fore winter. John Cudahy was here some weeks ago and inspected the plant. He was more than satisfied with it. Wichita First Portrait Published in America of the New Japanese Minister at Washington, Mr. K. Takohira. Here is the first portrait published new Japanese Minister to Washington. men obtained control of the property and Mr. Cudahy has entered into an agreement to operate the plant at full capacity throughout the year. A citi zen's meeting will be held in the city council chambers Tuesday evening for the purpose of arranging some matters, which have to be looked after previous to the opening of the plant, FUNERAL OP A SOLDIER. Body of Fred Lemon, Drowned at St. Louis, Interred at Olathe. Olathe, Aug. 20. The remains of Fred Lemon, who was accidentally drowned while in bathing at St. Louis last Tues day, reached this city at 11 o'clock Sun day, and his funeral was held in the af ternoon from the First Methodist church. Rev. Mr. Buckner preached the funeral sermon, assisted by Rev. Mr. Steiner. C. S. Weaver recited an original poem to the memory of the dead soldier boy. The deceased was 26 years old and th2 son of Dr. W. H. Lemon, of this city. He enlisted in the Spanish-American war at the beginning of trouble, entering in the navy, and displayed unexcelled bravery on many different occasions while on the battleship Hawk. He was wounded fci the battle at Santiago. He was honorably discharged one year ago, and until recently has been with his parents in this city, going to St. Louis a few months ago for a short stay. PARIS TRIP COST $465. Wichita Man Sees Europe and Re turns Cheaper Than Expected. Wichita. Aug. 20. Mr. W. F. Puckett, the West Douglas avenue seed merchant, who left here last June for a tour through Europe, has returned. The trip outlined by Mr. Puckett when leaving here was a very complete one and was carried out in every detail. After return ing Mr. Puckett closely estimated the entire cost of the trip and found it was to be $465, a much smaller sum than had been anticipated by him. Mr. Puckett sailed from New York June 30 and on the return voyage left Europe August 2, reaching New York ten days after that date, having had a very stormy voyage on the way over. BIG WHEAT LOSS. Four Thousand Bushels Destroyed by Fire Near Wichita. Wichita, Aug. 20. Will Smith, who lives two miles northwest of the city, lost by fire a large barn and granary night before last. Both buildings were entirely consumed, together with 4,000 bushels of wheat, which represented the accumulation of the crops of two years. A portion of the property was insured for $1,600, but there will be a large loss, as the barn contained harness and farm ing implements. All of the family were away from home at the time of the fire and it is supposed to have been the work of in cendiaries. The two buildings were situated sev eral hundred yards distant from each other and the one on the north burned first, although the wind was in the south. After the north building was enveloped in flames the south building was discov ered on fire. The neighbors did all that was possible, but the buildings could not be saved. REMARKABLE FRUIT YIELD. One Hundred and Two Bushels of Apples From Seven Trees. From the Wichita Eagle.J John Clayton and John McGowan have a farm of 160 acres six miles from Col wich that has an excellent crop of corn despite the drouth, in fact it always pro duces a big crop of corn. But the most remarkable thing about the productive farm is the prolific apple yield every year. Mr. Clayton recently made a trip to the farm and sold a lot of apples to a buyer who agreed to pick the fruit him self and pay 40 cents a bushel, an equiv alent of nearly 50 cents a bushel. The fruit from seven trees which the buyer picked amounted to 102 bushel?. The apples from these seven trees paid the taxes on the entire farm, the insur ance on the buildings and left $1.10 over. OLD SETTLERS' OF GRAHAM. To Hold Twenty-Third Annual Re union Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Hill City. Aug. 20 The old settlera of Graham county will have their twenty third annual reunion two days this year, August 31 and September X. The exer cises will occur in Knouf's grove, eight miles from Hill City, which is one of the most attractive spots in Graham county. Governor Stanley, John S. Davidson of Topeka, Jerry Simpson, and other speak ers are advertised to be present. Base ball and a balloon ascension are adver tised to take place. OLD SOLDIERS OF NORTON To Hold Reunion Three Days Com mencing Aug. 22d. Norton, Aug. 20. The old soldiers' re union of Norton county commences the 22d and continues three days. Senator Baker, J. R. Burton, Col. L, G. Parker, Col. C. D. Jones, and other speakers are. on the programme. Camp fires will be gMC W in this country of Mr. K. Takohira, the

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The purses range from $5 for the mule race to $125 for the free for all trot or pacing race. Pensions for Kansans. The following pension claims have been adjudicated through the efforts of Senator Lucien. Baker during the past week: Original Geo. H. Howell, National Military home. $6; Elihu Maupin.Green wich. $S and $8; Jas. Kirby, Wichita, $12 and $14: W. W. Ware, National Military home, $8; Chas. Slagle, Cecil, $12; Wm. H. Gibbs, Leavenworth, $8. Increase Lyman B. Simon, National Military home, $12; Wm. Hause, Caney, $10; Hardy Jackson, Kansas City, Kan., $8; John W. Dooien, Chetopa, $10; Lewis Loupe, $8 and $12; S. J. Bartlett, Fre donia, $12; Wm. J. Wible. Ottawa, $8; Christopher Fry Bogle, Earlton, $12. Reissue Wm.Burch, Buhler, $6 and $8; John Thonhoff, Brazilton, $14 and $16. Supplemental Philip D. Bank, Blue Mound, $2 per month from April 23, 1887, and $4 per month from January 13, 1892, and ending March 1892 by reason of higher allowance under act June 27, 1890. Widows Lydia Martin, Havensville, $S; Sylva L. Miller, Dighton, $8 and $3 each for three minor children and Mary J. Hiltabidle, McCracken, $8. Rich Drinking Water. From the Arkansas City Traveller. For the past few days the citizens who are so very unfortunate as to be com pelled to use the city water for drinking purposes, have been getting their share of mud. The springs have demonstrated the fact that they are unable to supply the city with enough water and have gone dry. The canal, which is conveni ently near the pump-house, has been tapped and now the citizens are drinking a mixture of very poor water.mixed with a quantity of mud. The water is bad, but jt is drinkable at this time of the year, when anything that is wet Is a welcome change from the dust which ac cumulates in one's mouth. In color, the water we now drink re sembles a muckle dunn, over which a thin coat of whitewash has been slap ped. To the taste it is bad and drinking it is like taking medicine. Everyone who raises a glass of the mixture to their lips absent-mindedly takes a look to see if any wigglers, tad poles or frog moss has strayed therein. If none of these are found the thirsty person gulps it down and feels relieved to think it is over. The days of the pioneers who have often told us of drinking from buffalo tracks are brought to mind. This trouble will pro bably be remedied as soon as the city has the settling basin completed. Killed a Harvest Hand. Wililamsburg, Aug. 20. Chas. Roberts, of this place, who killed a harvester in western Kansas by beating him with a pitchfork, was arrested and taken to Ot tawa. Roberts engaged in a quarrel while working with the thresher. He severely beat the harvester but did not instantly kill him. He came to this place at once fearing mob violence if he re mained. His victim died since and the sheriff of this county was notified. Thrown From Horse and Killed. Wichita, Aug. 20. Peter S. Conway of Shelbyville, 111., while visiting friends in Kingman county was thrown from a horse Saturday and instantly killed. He was en route to the station to take the train for home when the fatality oc curred. N otes From Harveyville. Harveyville, Aug. 20. Ray, the 8 year old son of C. A. Cripps, broke both bones of his forearm by a slight fall Friday evening. In an interesting game of baseball here Saturday, Eskridge was defeated by Harvyville in a score of 6 to 5. Herington'a Fall Festival. Herington, Aug. 20. Herir.gton's fall festival promises to be an unusually suc cessful entertainment. Three days have been decided upon and a complete pro gramme, comprising band contests, flow er parades, competitive drills and ath letic sports will occupy the time. Re duced rates on the railroads will doubt less makeHerington'sfirst festival a suc cess. Best Prescription For Malaria, Chills and Fever is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure no pay. Price, 50c Three Fast Trains to Chicago via Santa Fe Route. Modern and comfortable equipment. Quicker time than via any other line or combination of lines. Trains leave To peka at convenient hours, reaching Chi cago the same day or early next morn ing. Tickets, folders, reservations, etc., by applying to T. L. King, Agent, To peka depot. CHICAGO AND RETURN, 14.00 Via "Great Rock Island Route." Tickets on sale Aug. 24th to 27th. Final return limit 5ept. 30. For tickets and reservations in Sleepers, see A. M. Fuller. Leave Topeka 4:40 p. m., arrive Chi cago 9:30 a. m., via the Santa Fe Short line. Colors guaranteed. Topeka Laundry Co, o lest Coal -AT- LOWEST PRICES G. Of Annual Reunion CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 27th-Sept 1st One Fare For the Eotml Trip VIA THE UNION PACIFIC. Tickets on sale from KANSAS AITS NE2HASSA August 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th. For limit on tickets, time tables and full information, call on F. A. LEWIS. CityTicket Agent, or J. C FULTON, Depot Agent. 4.W ti PvJTt. Two Fast Trains Daily FROM KANSAS POINTS TO Denver, Salt Lake, San Fran cisco, Portland, AND ALL POINTS WEST. Throngh Palace Sleepers, Chair Cars, Pullman Ordinary Sleepers, Dining Cars, Meals a la Carte. Only 71 Hours to Portion! From Kansas City. 2To Other Line Does It. For tickets and full information call on F. A. LEWIS, City Ticket Agent. Or 3. C FULTON, Depot Agent. Best Dining Car Service. Only Depot in Chicago on the Elevated Loo SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. 6 CENT CIGAR. Rest and Health, to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING STKUP has been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILiC TI2ETHINO, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC and Is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. BoH by Drug-gists In every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing- Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1900. 3 J Small CO T 1 To QefBtfor? TI5t People in thf Most DircT W&y Use the Columns of the StTxtt Journal. IF o o Fix have Lost or Found any thing make it known through 7 Stats Journal. IF F Want to Buy or SeU any thing. Sent m Room or Toko Boarders, try m Small Adver. tiseutent in Tho Stats Journal. IF o T JFHf Sanation and If tad Assistant, a Small Advertise. enent mill ha Inserted for thro days Without Charge, IF Ton Want to Hire a Man, a Boy or a Woman, an Adver tits, ment in This Paper mill bring you so many applications that yon can have your pick of tho besK IF Ton have property to Rent or For Sola, the easiest, simplest and cheapest way to bring it before tho public is to put a little Advertisement in The State Journal. It mill be read everywhere in tho State of IF Ton have anything to Trade, whether a is a Bicycle, a Stove or a Piano, tell the people about it in This Paper, and you will get e.Qutomer. IF Tom have a Stock of Goods to sell, a bittle ag.cent Advertise, wont may bring yon trade worth ten times the cos. IF Tm have Removed Tour Place of Business, if you have new foods or have made any change in your business, telM. Tell it at the rate of so cento per meek if yam don't want to invest IF Money be carefully invested in 2 Advertising it mm pay big re- tmrrno. A "Small Advertise. I ment" in The State Journal ooeU semis a Hue a day. RAILROADNEWS, Rumor of Santa Fe-Southern Paeilic Consolidation. Chicago Paper Says Such a More Is Not 1? nlikelj. HUXTIXGTON'S PLAN. Dead Magnate Said to JJave Urged the Combination. Many Santa Fe People Look Upon the Rumor as Ridiculous. It Is not unlikely that a consolidation of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads will be effected, says the Chicago Chronicle. The late Collis P. Huntington, president of the latter company, favored a com bination of the two great systems, and it is said he made several propositions to the directors of the Santa Fe system looking to this end. It is further re ported that before his death he recom mended to the directors and large stock holders of the Southern Pacific road that an amalgamation of the two sys tems be effected if possible. Officers of the Santa Fe, however, are not optimistic regarding a financial combination. They say that it was a pet idea of Mr. Huntington to get the two systems under one control, more particularly since the Santa Fe got its line into San Francisco. The Southern Pacific has never had any compettiion. and they do not take kindly to the San ta Fe entrance into its territory. One of the high officials of the latter says that while the question has been consid ered the two companies are no nearer an amalgamation today than they were a year ago, and he says the prospects of such a deal are about as bright as a complete union of the United States and Great Britain under one ruler. Officers of other roads, who have been watch ing the policies of the two systems, are 01 a umei-eiic opinion anu iirmiy oeiieve that the lines will soon be brought to gether. The Santa Fe and Southern Pcaific were not paralleling competitors for all California business. So long as the Santa Fe's line and traffic was confined to Southern California the Southern Pa cific people did not worry much, but since the former invaded San Francisco and northern California, the pet field of tne latter road, the southern Pacific folks have been greatly perturbed. If a consolidation were effected it would placeCalifornia where it was be fore the Santa Fe entered the state that Is, at the mercy of the Southern Pacific. The deal would bring together two systems with a total mileage of nearly 11,000 miles, and would make the amal gamated company master of the trans portation situation of California, UNION PACIFIC IN LINE. Record System of Discipline to Bo Inaugurated Sept. 1. Omaha, Aug. 20. An important In novation for operating employes of the Union Pacific Railroad company will be inaugurated on September 1. It will be the introduction of the system of dis cipline by record, and, after its opera tion begins, the suspension of employes from duty, with consequent loss of time, will be discontinued. Instead of this practice, which has been in vogue for years on the Union Pacific system, dis cipline will be maintained by repri mand, book suspension or dismissal from the service. Under the system of discipline by rec ord, these suspensions wil lbe done away with and "lay offs" by the oper ating employes will be either voluntary on their part, or else, if directed by the officials will be of indefinite length. On September 1 In the office of every divi sion superintendent on the Union Pa cific a record book will be opened, and every employe in the transportation de partment will have an individual ac count. For every case of neglect of duty or improper conduct or violation of the rules a reprimand or suspension for a certain number of days will be 'noted against the record of the em ploye. If it be a suspension, actual service will not be required. The suspension will remain on the book charged up to the employe, but he will be permitted to continue at work drawiijg his salary without interruption. The cancellation of these black marks on the record is provided for. Good judgment in emergencies, acts of hero ism, loyalty to the service and other meritorious conduct will be made a matter of record, and given full consid eration in determining the standing of the employe. The record will also be taken into account when thequestion of promotion in the service is under con sideration. An accumulation of reprimands and suspensions upon the record of any em ploye will be considered sufficient evi dence that he is an undesirable man for the service and dismissal will follow. As heretofore, certain acts on the part of employes will subject them to sum mary dismissal. EXPECT A LOWER RATE. Believed That Western Veterans May Yet Ride for One Cent Per Mile. Chicago, Aug. 20. There is a prevail ing opinion in local railroad circles that the roads west of Chicago will before the Grand Army of the Republic business starts to move reduce their rates to 1 cent per mile, or to the basis that will be in affect over the roads east of this city. The rate agreed upon by the western roads is one and one third fare for the round trip outside a radius of 100 miles of Chicago. Members of the Grand Army throughout the west are protesting strongly at the apparent discrimination between the territory west and that east of this city. Officers of several of the big western roads are already manifest ing signs of uneasiness over the rate and it would not surprise transportation peo ple to see the charge cut to 1 cent per mile. BARS WOMEN OPERATORS. Female Telegraphers Have No Longer Place on Pennsylvania Lines. Chicago, Aug. 20. A ban has been placed on women telegraphers by the Pennsylvania Railroad company. In a circular notice just issued by the execu tive officers of this road employment of the gentler sex to handle the lightning tickers is positively prohibited. Officers of the system say that while women do their work well and may perhaps be de- i pended upon better than men, they are j not as available for all kinds of positions I as their male competitors. 1 "The position of a telegraph operator on a railway embraces many features that are unpleasant to women," said a representative of the Pennsylavnia lines. "Until an operator reaches the height of a train dispatcher his work is rather migratory that is, he is liable to be sent from one station to another an exigencies require. Sometimes he must pick up and get to another station on very short no tice. He must go into any sort of an of fice. By this I mean night yard offices ana others frequented by men in all de partments of the road. Such a life is not pleasant for a woman and officers of a railroad hesitate to untilize her as they oo men. RESPECT FOR HUNTINGTON. Great Southern Pacific System Ceased Operation During His Burial. Chicago, Aug. 20. Every wheel and stroke of commerce throughout the great Southern Pacific system of rail roads and steamshiD lines was stonned for seven minutes during the burial of Collis P. Huntington in New York. At the exact moment when the clock struck 11 in New York every hammer in ail tne shops ceased clanging; en gines paused upon the rails and steam ships floated lifelesslv UDon the water. In Chicago the offices remained closed all the morning and no tickets were sold or other business transacted until after the remains of the great railroad magnate were laid to rest. During the snort suspension of business 50,000 men in all sections of the United States re mained idle. Many of the employes bared their heads in deference to him who was once the ruler of it all. The Chicago offices were draped with crepe that is to remain for thirty days. Careful attention had been given to the difference of time between San Francisco and New York in order that the observances of respect at each place might take place at exactly the same time. When the funeral started it was 11 o'clock in New York, 10 o'clock in Chicago, New Orleans and Houston, 9 o'clock at El Paso and 8 o'clock at San Francisco. At each of these places the employes carrjpd out the previously ar ranged plans for showing marks of re spect to the memory of their late presi dent. VETERAN ENGINEER IS DEAD. Charles Stickles, Dean of the Craft in America, Dies in New York. Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 20. Charles Stickles, the oldest active engineer in the United States, is dead at his home in Oneonta. He was born at Hudson, N. Y., November 26, 1822, and studied medicine, but gave it up to devote his energies to steam, mastering every de tail of the steam engine. His first trip on a locomotive as engi neer was on the Hudson and Berkshire, July 9, 1848. A year afterward he was employed on an Iowa road, now a branch of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. In order to hold its charter the train had to run from Davenport to Iowa City on a certain date. The road was only half sompleteed at the time, but ties were hurriedly placed on top of the ground, on which rails were loosely spiked. Over these Stickles run his train, arriving on time, but stepping from his engine in a fainting condition. He was carried from the depot on the shoulders of the crowd, for the road's charter had been saved, and the run has become historic COLORADO SCORES AGAIN. Tickets to Coast Points Will Carry Stopover Privileges. Denver, Aug. 20. Beginning Septem ber 1, all round-trip tickets for Cali fornia by way of Colorado will be good for a stopover of 30 days at any point in Colorado. Heretofore tickets reading through Colorado for points in the state. Utah or California have Deen contin uous, permitting no stopover in Colo rado. Efforts have been made by the Colorado roads to secure an arrange ment by which tourists could stop in Colorado if they desired, but the efforts until now have been unavailing, ine tickets will be made out with paster contract and the Colorado roads are now working on this patser to have it ready by September 1. The new order will have tne effect, it is believed, of diverting much travel through Colorado which has heretofore gone over the union Pacinc or tne Southern Pacific and Santa Fe lines. It is believed that a large number of persons will spend the fall in Colorado, going on through to California when the weather becomes cold. No Telephones on Burlington. Denver. Aug. 20. C. E. Yates, super intendent of telegraph for the Burling ton is in the city, from Lincoln, Neb. In sneaking of the experiments witn long distance telephones for train dis patching he said this morning: "The telephone is impracticable for train dis patching because it is Inaccurate ana could not be used for anything but gen eral business, there being no check on messages delivered. The Baltimore Ohio and Pennsylvania Central are not using the phone for train dispatching strictly, but only for general business. I do not think it will ever supersede the telegraph in this country certainly not on the Burlington." Santa Fe Appointments. M. A. Barmann has been appointed resident engineer of the San Francisco San Joaquin Valley, with headquar ters at Stockton, Cal. Mr. George C. Dillard, city passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe at New York, has been appointed acting general eastern passenger agent of that road, with headquarters at New ork, in place of Mr. E. F. Barnett, resigned. FROM HERINGTON. Saturday was pay day $17,000 was distributed here. J. W. Vance, an ex-Rock Island con ductor, is now running out of Junction City on the Union Pacific. F. J. McLean, the south end conduc tor, has returned to Herington to take 31 and 32 out of here. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck passenger train No. 3 at the east yard switch last Friday. The guard rails had been removed, but the slow speed prevented a serious derail ment. Several more crews are to be put on in the chain gang. Present rush of business promises to continue and more crews are necessary to handle it. Baggageman T. E. Collins on 19 and 20. was seriously crippled last week at McFarland. The baggage car was de railed and wrecked and in attempting to jump Collins strained his ankle joint very badly, necessitating its being placed in a plaster parts cast. Six weeks will be necessary to repair the damage. O. H. Pattison Is on 19 and 20 during Tom Collins' absence. Conductor B. L. Alexander recently returned from his .wedding trip south and will soon report for service on 61 and 62. Cashier Slaymaker, wife and son spent a few days last week at Peabody visiting relatives and friends. Passenger business continues very heavy. An extra coach is put on No. 1 here each day to handle the local traffic. Tonnage Clerk Richards of Superin tendent Abbott's Office, is enjoying a visit from his mother from Chicago. MR. GLEED OX INGALLS. Topeka Man's Estimate of the Fa mous Kansan. The following is taken from an article written by Charles S. Gleed in January-, 1S91: There prevails a rank and vicious meth od of estimating public men. All good or all bad is the usual verdict, and one is as apt to be wrong as the other. Given a public man's party affiliations and his employers, the people, at once range themselves like opposing counsel, one sido exploiting all the good, the other all the bad, and both sides forgetting that in stead of being opposing counsel, they are themselves the jurymen. This criticism of public men is wholly undiscriminating, wholly unfair and whol ly unsatisfactory. It is illogical and hurt ful in a radical and all-prevailing way. It trains the people to unfair thinking and to a loss of confidence in their public servants, and It trains the public servants to a deep disrespect for their constituents and to a feeling of absolutism from all allegiance to them To condemn and execute a public man because he has faults implies that there may be public men without faults. There are none. The true method is to keep a debit and a credit column, and by a care ful system of balances accord each man his proper place. Of course this is a dif ficult thing to do faultlessly, but that It can be far more nearly accomplished than it usually Is, by the average man, no one will deny. In writing of John James Ingalls, I shall try to do so in the bookkeeping spirit of which I have spoken. His faults and his virtues are alike many and a gen erous number of each will be found enum erated in the brief and fragmentary para graphs following. His virtues have won for him a wide- applause and a host of admirers, while his faults have aggra vated and fatigued, at times, even his warmest supporters. Surely such a man ought not to be cast aside carelessly, or, on the other hand, accepted without some protest. Let us see: Mr. Ingalls was born in Middleton, Es sex county, Mass., December 2y. 1S33. He is therefore 6S years of age. His father is spoken of as a shoe manufacturer, hon orable and of good ability; and his mother as an exceptionally bright woman. He graduated from Williams college in 1855 and was made a LI D. by that institu tion in 18S4. He was admitted to the bar in 1(57 and came to Kansas in 1S58. After holding various political positions, such as the secretaryship of the state senate, he was chosen a senator of the United States in 1873, to succeed Samuel C. Pomeroy, whose sudden banishment from public life by the York exposure was a political tragedy of the first magnitude. Since lt73 ho has represented Kansas in the high of fice named. Mr. Ingall's personal appearance is re markable. His height is over six feet, and his weight perhaps 140 pounds. He is as gracefully straight as a sunflower stalk, and as conspicuous among men as a sun flower amomng dandelions. He looks old, yet is strong and lusty, having never in youth "applied hot and rebellious liquors to his blood." His head ia high behind and deep from forehead to back, giving the impression of great length from the chin upward. Below his forelock of wire silver is a face dark and angular, sug gesting Spanish blood, and his audacious moustache and the impudent tuft on his under lip do not belie the suggestion. His eyes may be "red, white and blue," like his neckties, for all anybody knows. They are hidden behind the most brilliant eye glasses that ever disconcerted an interlo cutor. His hands are bony, and when his long-jointed fingers twine about his pen the only result to be expected is the ex traordinary beautiful manuscript which he always turns out. He could not well spare a single ounce of flesh, and his body has the lithe, firm looseness of a profes sional contortionist. Lean as he is, his clothing always seems to fit perfectly and is always graceful. THE SENATOR'S VOICE. His voice is a polished ramrod of sound, without fur or feathers, traversing space as swiftly as light, without a whir or a flutter, as if shot by an explosive of incon ceivable power. The man who is hit has no doubt about the explosive. "The plain description of the southern outrages and the southern episodes, in the Ingalls voice and manner, caused the audience to shud der," wrote a New York reporter who had not shuddered for so long that he hardly knew how. On this occasion tne ram voice hit Senator George and the reporter goes on to describe the "half-defiant, half startled glare" which the stricken sena tor, with the ramrod through his soul, aimed at the author of his misery. It is this vocal endowment that helps make Mr. Ingalls as competent a presiding officer as any deliberate body in the world ever had. The voice is only part, but It is import ant. Other factors are namable. His mind works with the quickness, force and per ception of a steel trap and, I may add, with the loud report and fatal effect there of. He is like the rifle once exhibited to me by an enthusiastic plainsman who ex plained? "The trisrerer Dulls itself at sight of an Indian and by the time the trigger Is pulled the Indian is aeaa. This nuickness. this simultaneousness, so to speak, is characteristic of the man in all respects. When he was secretary of the state senate (as old-timers tell me). he was noted for being able to read at sie-ht anv manuscript sent to the desk. provided it was written for the purpose of conveying thought. He seems to have o TMsvchlcnl insight as to the intent and purpose of the worst penman an insight HKe tnat or tne so-caueu mum-ieauei. Rut nil his ouiekness has an automatic character which should be distinguished from the quickness or men wno rise to met omprtrenries. Mr. Ingalls meets emergencies without rising to them, or not at all. He works like the lock of a money vault when the rings and slots are in proper conjunction, sonieuuiis uiujia just right. Until that conjunction is rear-hen nnthinEr haoDens. except profan ity on the part of the manipulator. HIS UNIQUE ljNUOl-JliJNL-H;. TTii lp-irla to the suggestion that Mr. In galls is. in at least one sense, an indo lent man. He does a vast number of things, but he doe3 nothing that is not automatically easy. He presides over the senate as easily as the average man sleeps under senatorial speeches, and far John E. Frost, Elected President MSB? ml fy'-? more easily than the average man does ordinary business. Like a skilled machin ist, he touches the proper wheels and lev ers to make the machine go, while his thoughts are making merry with the gods and goddesses of Olympus or swapping lies with the catfish aristocrats of the Missouri valley. If Mr. Ingalls were not indolent in his own peculiar way he might, it seems, by this time, have gained a reputation world wide instead of merely national. His indolence shows in his comparative ly few and spasmodic speeches and other literary productions and in the repetition of his own phrases and forms. It shows also in his carelessness of appointments, his reluctance about going among the people in the fashion of Blaine and Glad stone or "old Jim Lane." and his antip athy for doing the usual drudgery of his position either in absorbing great bodies of important facts pertaining to the affairs of state, or in doing errands for constituents. It is due to this indolence (the indolence of genius it may be) that he has made no particular record as an introducer of important bills or an inven tor of ways and means, or a pioneer in any branch of economics, or a champion of any particular reforms. He has not been conspicuous in the great party con ventions and he is little relied on in the party councils. .He is an ex-officio statesman. This is not meant to be a slur. It is simply meant to convey the idea that his char acteristics are not those of the typical statesman who devises ways and means for running the government and assumes the responsibility of pushing great re forms. He takes almost exclusively the negative position of the critic. He lets other people paint the picture and himself assumes only to point out their faults. No one can say truthfully that this is not a great and legitimate field for use fulness. Neither can one deny that it Is a dan gerous and difficult field to occupy. It is so much easier to criticise than to create: and the critic so readily wins ap plause from the jealous, carping. unchar itable and ungenerous side of the world that his temptation to become a pirate is well nigh irresistible. Mr. Ingalls is almost exclusively a critic, and hence I say he is' an ex-officio statesman. His office and his nature are divergent. He cares as much about party platforms as a cannibal chief about the Nioene Creed. In such matters he is neither hampered by conscience nor hin dered by conviction. He nearly always votes right, but his votes do not follow a "prayerful consideration" of the subject in hand. In negation only is Mr. Ingalls active: "I am something of a kicker, myself," said he in his Topeka speech, "but I am a Republican, such that, had I not been born one, I should wish to be born again." And yet he has quarreled with the leaders of his party always, and has shown as much willingness to kick as any Mug wump in Massachusetts. In fact, he is probably the highest, hardest kicker on or off the variety stage of American poli tics. The Mugwumps ought to love him for this. But they do not. HIS SPARKLING INCONSISTENCY. Mr. Ingalls has another Mugwump char acteristic indicated by his compound of castiron Republicanism and reckless recal citrance. He is no mean slave of consis tency. He goes as he pleases, and is therefore a pigs-in-the-clover puzzle to those who do not happen to either love or hate him. Thousands regard him with feelings mingled and uncertain. The best of editors are for him one week and against him the next. Those who applaud him and those who hiss him are about equally divided. Some pronounce him the greatest of our senators and others call him a fraud and fling him away as a Jug glers' gimcrack which makes them tired. Of those who applaud him, the majority could scarcely tell why they do so, and of those who hiss him. few are able to give adequate reasons for so doing. But this much Is certain: He is a conspicuous and remarkable man, and can command the attention of a nation out of the sen ate as1 well as in it many think better. Of how many men can this be truthfully said? Mr. Ingalls may be a puzzle, but he Is not a fraud. A fraud is one who pre tends to be what he is not. Ingalls only pretends to be Ingalls. For instance, he is not a churchman. In fact he is impious. He takes not stock in religious stocK companies, lie scons, ana talks agnosticism, and is profane, and in such ways arrogates to himself a large badness. This is all wrong, of course, but that which should follow does not seem to. Among his most ardent friends in Kan sas and elsewhere are men like the Rev. Dr. Fisher and the Rev. Bernard Kelly, of the Methodist church, and others, who are among the most devout, punctilious and respected of ecclesiastics. They can not stand Ingersoll, but Ingalls passes muster. They can not be thought of as voting for Ingersoll for any place except the bottomless pit, but for Ingalls no place Is too good. Now, this is not because Ingalls is a fraud and pretends to be pious, when he is wild and woolly. It is because Ingalls in this matter as in all others does as Daniel did in the lions' den. By not seeming to care a cent for the lions he gains their re spect, their roaring, rampant respect. In this connection let me say that I do not in the least doubt that the Rev. Frank T. Ingalls, the senator's charming, eloquent and devout brother, in Spring field, feels that he has his brother's pro foundest sympathy, respect and admira tion in the noble work he is doing as presi dent of Drury college. Indeed, one of the heaviest possible counterbalances to tne senator's assumed desperateness of char acter is the fact that in his deepest, quiet est life he demonstrates that he is no fraud by his manifest hatred of frauds and by his love for the best things. Mr. Ingalls is a jocular critic. He rare lv exercises his critical functions unless there is to be real sport in the perform ance. He is scarcely Neronic The cruel ties of Nero are not so much in his line as the antics of Mephistopheles. Had he been in Eve's place he would have had the serpent tied up in a double bow knot in about five minutes. I am also glad to believe that had he been in Adam's place when called to ac count he never would have shamefully put the blame all on Eve. No man who must have a joke is quite fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. The senator must have a joke. He is said to have given a large amount of firewood to the poor of Atchison. In- of Kansas Exposition Company. Investigate Look up the time via any route and, compare it with the Wabash Fast Mail it won't take long and it will save you half a day if you are going to New York. Wabash Fast Mail, Kansas City 6.15 p. m., New York 7.30 a. m., is the quickest train. We have figured every known route before making this statement. You get on at Kansas City and get off at New York without having set foot off the train not so via any other route. Wabash Fast Mail Leaves Kansas City... .Wabash 6.15 ..every evening. Arrives Detroit Wabash... .......11.35 ..next morning. Arrives Niagara Palls.. Wabash 6.55 ..same evening. Arrives Buffalo Wabash 7.50 ..same evening. Arrives NewYork D. I. W 7.30 second morning. Arrives Boston H. T. Cent, and B A 1.. 10.34 same morning. We can give quicker and better service to almost any eastern city or town than any other line run ning east from Kansas City. Tell us where you want to go. We will point out your best time and connections, tell you all about the service, quot you rates which you will find to be the lowest. H. N. GAELAND, Western Passenger Agent, WabashTicketOffice, 9th 1 6. A. R. EWPiDT, j Chicago, III., August 27th to Sept 1st i Great bogi isiai Boule i Will sell tickets at one fare ($14.00) for the round trip. Tickets on sale August 24th to 27th, with return limit September 2d. Ex tensions will be granted up to and including September 30th, by depositing tickets with Joint Agent at Chicago on or before Sep tember 2d. For full information and O. A. R. POCKET SOUVENIR, call on your nearest ROCK ISLAND AGENT, or write to J0H1T SEBASTIAN, a. P. SS T. A., CMca?o, Z1L E. -W. THOMPSON, A. Q. V. 7. A., Topeka, Eas. vestlgatlon showed the wood to be so lo cated that it could not be got to the poor short of $25 per cord. This may not have happened, but it does not carry internal evidences of untruth. "When asked by a newspaper symposium man if a politician could be a good Chris tian, his answer came quickly: "All things are possible with God." When his house burned he congratulated his neighbors on saving his well. .tie got on dangerous ground when he remarked of prohibition in Kansas that It worked to a charm because temperance people had their prohibition and drinkers naa tneir whiskey. The real eltect or this remark was out of line with his convic tions, but he could not resist. This mirthfulness of his makes him de cidedly companionable. No good thing in speech is ever lost on him and he knows a good thing when he hears it. The gro tesque, the ridiculous, the quaint, the cur ious, all appeal to his love of variety. In this he is Shakespearean. HIS FREB-LANCTNG. An ancient rulpr once cut short his dog's tail that his subjects might have some thing to talk about. Mr. Ingalls has much of this ruler's disposition. He does not ex actly despite his fellowmen, hut he has an utter disrespect for their foibles and their inefficiencies. His respect is confined to those of unusual intellectual power. He seems to think it a crime to be a fool; and yet, had he "met a fool i' the forest, a motley fool," he would have had fun with him. He has no patience with medi ocrity. He has no compassion on incapac ity. He was born a critic, and he has de veloped his critical powers unceasingly. His critical tendencies are not much amel iorated by ties of friendship, party affilia tions, are conditions of kinship. His bene factors are not safe from his jibes and flings. He is the most democratic of all full blooded aristicrats. He excuses himself from the ordinary obligations to society in general and to parties and factions tn particular. He hates snobbery and prig gishness, which may account for the fact that people who are superfiicially most like him love his least. He does not feel obligated to be mora useful than a Japanese juggler, nor more conventionally conscientious than Fagan or Jesse James. He is irreligious and athe istic, yet among his companions (so far as he can be said to have companions out side of his charming family circle) are pastors of churches and exemplars of re ligion generally; and the Christian con fession of faith is nowhere better stated than in some of his brilliant phrases. He announces that the Decalogue Is not given much place in politics yet, for his part, the undoubted potency of some of his best speeches lies in his application of the Decalogue to practical affairs. He writes a grave magazine article say ing that a scholar is out of place in poll tics, yet he is a scholar himself, a lover of books, and owes most of his success to his literary skill: and he has privately admitted that his article waa groundless, having been prodi d in an unfortunate hurry for magazine purposes. He is superficially supercilious. "His nose comes down ever his moustache, and his moustache goes up under his nose." as with Blandoise; and his antagonist in the forum gets no more mercy than Quilp would show in digging out his wife's eyes with a rusty nail. He is thrifty, but not purse proud. He wants the advantages of money, but dreads its advantages. He is rich, as riches go in the west, and yet he passes as a man who neecs the price of his con tributions to the periodical literature of the day. He is not burdened with friendships. He prefers acquaintances to friends. He con siders life too short and his remuneration too small to warrant him in rewarding many friends or placating many enemies except, it may be, on rare occasions about six years apart. HIS POWER WITH WORDS. He Is an oratorical word artist. He can be an animated stiletto or an infuriated hedgehog; a cooing dove or an Aeolian harp. His words whizz from his lips like hornets disturbed or flutter off like rose leaves kissed loose by summer breezes. They issue on cruelty bent, like the red ants of. darkest Africa, torturing where thev touch: or they come like drops of honey filtered through lilies. Tr. Installs and his irony ramble merri- "ly. arm in arm, through the intellectual Wildwood, unrestraineu oy tne murantji a chart and unembarrassed by the logician's compass. His chief mission in his rambling Is to stir up the animals. He does not fail in his mission. The ani mals get stirred up, and any listener who will applv his ear to the earth may hear them roar, all the way from an ex-president to the man In California who wrote ew York IL C SHIELDS, Traveling Passenger Agent. and Delaware (Junction).KansasCity FOR

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1900. TOPEKA STATE JOILML BT FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. .VOLUME XXVII... No. 199 TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. -Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the fame pries In any Kan sas town where the paper has a carr.er pystem. By mall, one year By mail, three months Weekly edition, one year au FERMANKNT HOME. ToTeka State Journal Building, 8QQ ana 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. KEW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg. A- Frank Richardson. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exrhange Bldg. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON" OFFICE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office..... Bell 'PaonelW Reporters' Room Bell' Phone 577 People who elope during this kind of weather must be very much In love. Nearly every paper In Kansas reprint ed Ingalls' Opportunity" last week. Wanted A politician who will admit that his party la going to be defeated. Robert Mantell. the actor, has again been married. This is only his third ven ture. The Chinese pie is ready for distribu tion. The first question to be settled Is Who will cut It. "While Charles F. Scott is out cam paigning, editorials in, his paper have been dispensed with. Henry J. O'Neil., the barley king, has become a bankrupt and he doesn't live la a prohibition state either. No matter whether Billy Morgan Is at home or not. the headlines in the Hutch inson News are just as numerous. If the walls of Topeka's auditorium get shaky, it should occasion no surprise they are being washed with stale beer. Mark 'Hanna has learned that next time he will think twice before he at tempts to call Mr. Roosevelt "up on the carpet." The conviction of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers of Kentucky is a warning that even politicians may go too far. One of the traditions of Kansas politics for ages to come will be the manner In which Ingalls refused to be bossed by the bosses. A negro was mobbed at a G. A. R. re union in Lincoln. Neb. "Please point that finger of scorn the other way," says North Carolina. The Kansas City firemen were barred from the competitions in France the foreigners realized that the westerners are in a class of their own. Mark Hanna does not care who writes the campaign songs; just so the fellow doesn't come around and try to read them to him. Chicago Record. A United States judge who found that no court room had been provided for him in Honolulu, seized one. Judges sometimes take everything in sight. The shirt-waist man no comfort knows To help his painful lot: For people stare where'er he goes, .Which keeps him very hot. Chicago Record. Bent Murdock is looking quite pros perous since he locked horns with an El Dorado bank. It would require the ef forts of several bankers to down a Kan sas editor. After all Count Waldersee's fuss and bluster he may find when he reaches China that all the work has been done. The men who fight instead of talk have completed the task. When Minister Wu heard officially that Pekin had fallen, he went to the beach and took a bath something terrible must happen to drive a Chinaman to such a rash act. A candidate for office down In Bourhon county killed himself because "people abused him." He should have taken a few lessons from Cyrus Leland who is till very much alive. One of the most salable fakes ever perpetrated In Kansas, is the one still running through eastern papers about the Kansas farmer wagering his daugh ter on the election; and it originated In Topeka, too. The Italians who came to the United States to kill President McKinley are probably suffering from chagrin because an ordinary New Jersey anarchist snatched King Humbert from under their noses. A prisoner in a Kansas City jail tried to kill himself because his wife wouldn't kiss him. Had he been a murderer in stead of a plain horsethief he need not have pined away, for there would have been dozens of women in Kansas City fairly scrambling for a chance to em brace him. IS KIPLING WEAKENING P A great deal is being said about Kip ling's recent productions and there are many critics who claim that this gifted author is losing his vigor. A Chicago paper comes to his rescue with the following: "Authors who ascend to fame like the rocket of tradition and come down like the stick thereof are by no means rare, but it is entirely too early in the day for the off-hand declarations, made by some critics in England and in the east, that Rudyard Kipling is of this class. Recently there have been many of these melancholy predictions as to Mr. Kip ling's future, the editor of a literary monthly offering a specimen prophecy by declaring that Mr. Kipling's wretched fizzling out is most painful and pathetic' The editor goes on to say that Kipling is now "selling mean ingless Action and insincere verses" and Is altogether an 'impotent mediocrity. It is true that 'The Absent-Minded Beggar" does not appeal to most in telligent critics, but the author of 'Sol diers Three' has no occasion to be ashamed of the author of 'The Day's Work.' It may be that Kipling will never do anything better than he has done already, but it is too early to be sure of even this. That gingery and wide-awake gentleman is likely to turn in and write another masterpiece at any moment just for spite." AN INGALLS INCIDENT. The following i taken from the Fort Scott Tribune: While here attending a picnic at Red field a few years ago, John J. Ingalls became engaged in a discussion of the wisdom of Providence and in connec tion therewith he related a most un usual incident in his life of which the newspapers that have published pages and pages about him have never heard. Mr. Ingalls was riding in from Red field on the train with Rev. Durboraw, then pastor of the First M. E. church, and a number of well known Fort Scott men. A prominent young woman who had lived an active Christian life and been a blessing to others had just died in Fort Scott and a little company in which Mr. Ingalls: and Rev. Dur boraw sat was wondering how it could be figured out that Providence had act ed wisely in taking her away in the midst of her good work. Senator Ingalls told of a bright little boy in Atchison, who, while playing ball in front of his home, had fallen under a street car and been mangled. He couldn't understand why, if Ood had decreed the child's death, He had willed to have so mangled the remains. Tlws talk suggested to Mr. Ingalls a re markable incident of which he had never before told. Recently, he said, he had received a letter purposting to have come from a friend who had been dead quite a year. The letter was ad dressed in heaven and told how happy the friend was there. Mr. Ingalls knew the friend's handwriting and especially his signature, as well as he knew his own, and the handwriting and signa ture of this letter were identical to his. He could not conceive of such a perfect counterfeit. The letter went on at some length and finally predicted Mr. Ingalls' death at a certain time and place. "Now cf course." said Mr. In galls, "I don't believe there is anything in it, but I will confess that under such apparently supernatural circumstances I will await with some anxiety the ar rival of the predicted date of my death. I always confide everything to my wife, but you may believe I have never told her of that letter." He did not state what time and place were given in the letter and since his death those who heard his story have a curiosity to know how nearly the pro phecy was fulfilled. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. A woman can always make her men folks believe that she is on the point of death. There is no rubbering more inexcusa ble than that which displays itself at funerals. As a man gets older, a fly can walk on his head longer without getting brushed off. It is every woman's private opinion that the first thing her husband will do when he gets to heaven, will be to find fault. When a woman takes a good deal of Interest in Christian Science, it is usually a sign that she is preparing to become a "healer." While women shed tears more freely, it can not be said of them that they feel sorrow worse than the man who blows his nose violently. It is customary in writing of a party to say that no expense was spared, though every one knows that the cost was considered from start to finish. After a woman has darned stockings for her husband and sons a half day a week, she begins to have a secret and growing admiration for Jerry Simpson. Whenever we see a girl wearing a waist with insertion in it. we wonder if the flies ever get brave enough to crawl through the holes of the em broidery. The -wedding of December and May is all right; May is young enough to see the grease spots on December's clothes, which a wife of hi3 own age would not notice. George Foote Is in town today. He says he is feeling twenty years younger than he really is. "Indeed," he said today, "I am feeling so young I can not remember the civil war, and recall the war with Spain with diffi culty." Look at a girl of seventeen who "runs with the boys" a great deal, and thinks of nothing else. Notice how old she looks. Then look at a girl of seventeen who goes to bed early, and does not go in "sassiety" so much that it becomes disgusting. Remark how young and girlish she looks, as compared with the girl who is boy-crazy. An Atchison boy is to be sent away to school, to avoid the attentions of the girls. The young man is honestly disposed, and tries to work, but the girls call him on the telephone so much that his employer is disgusted. His parents fear that the young man may be led into a marriage too early in life, therefore they will Bend him away, although his interests lie at home. Not only the girls chase him, but mothers as well: the mother lay all sorts of traps to get the boy to call on their daughters. Of course only a few girls and mothers pursue this course, but enough do it to cause the boy's parents to send him out of town, although he has good prospects at home, and would do well if let alone. POINTED PARAGRAPH 3 fFrom the Chicago News. Opposing candidates are naturally conflicting dates. Lots of people complain from a mere habit of complaining. There's a good bit off the top In the first row at the burlesque. Let go the handle-bars of love or a bicycle and it begins to wabble. If Noah ever called his wife an angel he undoubtedly meant an ark-angel. The sky is cheerful when it is the bluest, but it is different with a man. Never ask a young lady why her back hair doesn't match what she has in front. Many a young man dates his happi ness from his wedding day and many another doesn't. Many a man who imagines he could successfully manage the affairs of a na tion wouldn't even make a first-class book agent. UP GO SALARIES. County Officers Who Will Get More Money Under New Census. The population of Shawnee county according to the county agricultural census is 55,372 and the United States census will show that many or more. According to the new fee and salary bill passed by the last legislature the increase in the county population will cause an increase in the salaries of the county attorney, probate Judge and reg ister of deeds. The county attorney is allowed a salary of $1,800 in a county having a population of 45,000 and $2,500 for a county having 55,000 or more. The probate judges are allowed $2,500 for 45,000 population and $3,000 for a popula tion of 55.000. The register of deeds has his salary raised from $2,500 to $3,000 on the same increase in population. The population of Shawnee county in 1897 was 50,005, in 1898 50.5S2, in 1899 53,950 and this year goes just over the 65,000 mark by 32. HEROISM OF RUSSIANS. How They Saved Lives of For eigners in Tien Tsiii. Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 20. The follow ing letter was received last night from Mrs. Charles Denby, Jr., dated Tien Tsin, June 30: "On the night of June 15, enormous fires in the native city were started and e boxers began their attack on the settle ment; so we were all aroused at 4 o'clock and every one who lived in the extra con cession went either to friends on the Vic toria's road or to the town -hull. As it happened Mrs. Van Hamiekf i had asked us to come to her in case of iarm, so we escaped to the town hall. Th' re were per haps one hundred people who remained in their own homes. All the rest were huddled together in Gordon hall for ten days. "The Chinese troops were everywhere. Two days before the alarm 1.700 Russian troops arrived. They saved our lives. Had it not been for them all of us would have been slaughtered. On that Monday they fought 5,0otf Chinese foreign-drilled troops for twelve hours. At one time tht-y thought they could not hold them at bay, but in the evening the Russians still maintained their position. How the Rus sians fought and suffered! I can not de scribe their courage. For three days they lav in the open, exposed to a terrible fire, without being able to fight back. The Chinese were behind trenches so the Rus sians could not afford to waste ammuni tion. "All these days we were waiting and waiting for reinforcements. We could not believe the admirals would bombard the forts at Taku, plunge us into war and then leave us with only a few hundred troops. Such, however, was the case. No one knows where the fault lay. There were three dreadful days of fighting. But when the second additional troops were dispatched from Taku after the arrival of Jim Watts, the brave Russian rider, they were able with such a reinforcement to work their way through. Thus they all arrived on Saturday morning and we were saved." REFUSED PARDONS. An Even Dozen Turned Down by the Governor. The following applicants were refused pardons today by Governor Stanley: Joe Buzzard, Wabaunsee, serving a sentence of two years for stealing cat tle. Grant Cornish, Douglas county, one year, assault. George Ellis. Miami county, sentenced for life for murder in 1S96. This case ocmes before the governor each time he has a pardon day hearing. William Shive, Reno county, ten years for robbery. J. H. Baker, Cowley county, six years for burglary and arson. J. S. Rogers, Allen county, murder second degree. W. H. Hill, Pottawatomie, criminal assault. Harrison Wheat, the Shawnee county burglar. Richard Bloomfield.Wyandotte county William Bickford, Sedgwick county. S O.O Shelton, Wilson county. E. G. Crump, Elk county. FIGHTERS RURNED UP. Two Men Upset a Lamp With a Dis astrous Result. Helena, Mont., Aug. 20. Tom Martin and Barney Kegan upset a lamp while righting in a room in the Hamilton House at Hamilton, Ravelli county and set fife to the building. They were burn ed to death. The hotel and three ad joining buildings were burned. Loss $20, 000; partially insured. DOLLIYER AND WOLCOTT. They Will Speak for Republicans in Topeka. Arrangements will be made to have at least two speakers of national fame to speak in the Auditorium this fall under the auspices of the Republican Etate central committee. The speakers will be Congressman J. P. Dolliver of Iowa, and Senator E. O. Woleott of Colorado. Each of the speakers will spend about a week in Kansas on a. speaking tour under the auspices of the state committee. GOVERNOR WOOD'S RIDE. Made 120 Miles of Convention Can vass in 20 Hours. Gibara, Province of Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 20. (iovernor General Wood's ride from Peurto Padre via Las Tunas and Holguin, on his convention canvass, was completed here last night. He cov ered 120 miles in twenty hours. Three Drowned at Cape May. Cape May, N. J., Aug. 20. Ellen Young, .Salina Newhouser and Albert J. Schwab, all of Philadelphia, were drowned in the surf at (.'ape May Point today. They were bathing and got be yond their depth. Schwab made a no ble effort to save his companions, hold ing their unconscious bodies above the water for some time. Just as a boat which went to their rescue reached his side he loosened his grasp on the wo men and sank out of sight. Kansas City Firemen Win. Paris. Aug. 20. The Kansas City fire men in a- class created at the exposition for paid firemen, won the world's profes sional championship cup. The officers re ceived gold and silver medals and the main prize. 600 francs, was divided among the officers and men. The minister of war. General Andre, presented the prizes to Captain Hale. Portugal won the volunteer championship. Chicago's Population. Chicago. Aug. 20. A dispatch from the census bureau at Washington received to day makes the population of this city 1.GW.775 people. This is an increase of 5HS.725 or 54.44 per cent over the 1S90 cen sus figures. SPECIAL SERYICE Via Santa Fe to Chicago for G. R. Encampment. Special sleepers standard and tourist and free chair cars for accommoda tion of members G. A. R. and their friends will leave Topeka via Santa Fe on special train Sunday, August 26. T. L. King, Agent, Topeka. IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. "Did you ever hear of a horse dying of oleander poisoning?" asked a travel ing man at the Fifth avenue while In conversation with a gentleman who Seemed to be posted on horses. "I heard of it for the first time out in Cali fornia last spring. I was told then that it was a common occurrence in southern California, Arizona and the southern states, in fact, it is quite an ordinary thing in all countries where the oleander is prolific. I was stopping with a friend in San Diego who o'wned a very fine horse which he thought a great deal of as it was not only a well bred animal but was a general pet with his family. One night the horse was taken sick and he sent for a veterinary who work ed hard to save the horse's life but was unsuccessful. He told us that the horse had been poisoned by eating Olender had been poisoned by eating oleander oleander tree and had eaten some of the leaves. The veterinary then ex plained that the leaves of the Oleander are poisonous and that he had many calls for similar cases. If remedies are administered in time the poison is easily counteracted, but if it is not handled promptly death always results. The effect of the poison is peculiar, but so distinct and characteristic that it can not be mistaken either in its symptoms or upon post mortem examination. The animal becomes stupid, its head hangs low, but it does not seem to be in any pain. The action of the poison immed iately paralysizes the stomach and ar rests digestion, for in all cases examined by the doctor, the contents of the stomach against which the leaves lay had turned black. There is no sign of poison in the outer wall of the stomach and there is no breaking of the tissue and none of the marks which usually accompany poisoning. A horse turned loose in a field where there are oleander trees will not eat them but when hitch ed near a tree where he can get nothing else green will frequently nibble the leaves. There is not much danger of a horse getting at oleander leaves in this state unless he should break into a con servatory, but in the south oleander trees are very common and the danger to horses is great." "I have noticed that this town has got the slot machine fever and has it bad," said a gentleman at the National. "I believe I have seen more slot ma chines during the past three days, the time I have been in the city, than I have in any other town in the west. I am told that every joint has two or three and I see them in every cigar store, drug store and a number of other places. I am a great hand to play the machines myself and that may be why I notice them so particularly. The penny in the slot gum machine is as fascinating as the Dewey machine where you may get two dollars for a nickel, but where you generally get nothing. I do not understand why peo ple will play these machines and I really don't know why I do It myself. Everyone must know that the machine is made to win for the house and that they are going up against a 'sure thing game. No one ever heard of a slot ma chine that didn't work in favor of the house, and no sane man would keep any other kind of a machine on his premises, but people will continue to play them Just the same. I think it is the gam bling instinct which is in every one to a greater or less extent. A great many people who would not take a hand in a poker game or bet on a horse race will play a slot machine or buy a chance in a raffle. They argue that it does nfct cost much and they are out very little if they lose and they may win. I believe that the gambling Instinct is stronger in women than in men and if the dry goods stores in this city Would put in a dozen machines they would be running all the time. Did you ever go into a drug store with a lady and drop a nickel in the slot machine that she did not be come instantly interested. If you have never noticed it just watch the first op portunity you get and you will see that it is true. Of course, if the store is filled with strangers she will not say much, but if there are only one or two present and she is acquainted with them the chances are that she will want to do the playing herself. Another thing which shows that women like to gamble is that they will buy tickets in a raffle at almost every opportunity. Do you re member how the first convention hall in Kansas City was built and the great raffle or lotttery they held there. Well, almost two-thirds of the tickets that were sent out were to women. A wo man will buy any old baking powder if there is a chance that there is a ticket in the can which will draw a bed room set or a dozen knives and forks. Enter prising manufactures have proven this over and over again. When some genius devises a slot machine that can be worked in a dry goods store, or, rather, finds some good excuse for having them there he will make more money in one day than he would in a week at a shirt waist sale." "I believe I heard the champion snake story of the year while I was coming in last night,"said a story telling travel ing man at the Copeland. "The man who told the story says he will vouch for it but I guess no one would vouch for him. He eaid that out in New Mex ico where he lived rattlesnakes were plentiful and that people paid very little attention to them. Occasionally, how ever, an exceptionally smart snake would take up its residence with a fam ily and would become a household pet. The people out there do not object to this because the snake is perfectly harmless after it becomes acquainted and drives away mice, rats and other snakes who would venture to intrude. In that respect the domesticated rattler resembles a good dog: he will allow no other dog to stay in his yard. He will also drive away Gila monsters, very poisonous reptiles that infest the south ern part of the territory. At his home there lived a big rattler which had been there for years and had become so well educated that it could do almost every thing but talk. It had been a very sociable snake and was always good tempered, but early this year it seemed at times to be very surly or dejectedd. The family tended it carefully and his snakeship seemed to brighten up, but again got morose. They noticed also that some days it would have 30 or 40 rattles or buttons on its tail and then again it would only have one or two. It was too much for the family and one day the owner decided to watch. In the morning the snake went away and he followed it. It went to an old aban doned barn and crawled in through a hole. After waiting a while he went to a window and looked in and there he saw a dozen rattlers which belonged to different families in the neighborhood, all playing poker and using their rat tles or buttons as chips. That explained the whole thing; when his rattler lost he came home dejected and when he won he was happy. I rather doubted the story, but when I remember that all the natives of that country do is play poker I don't see how the snakes could help but learn it." Died From Sunstroke. Leavenworth, Aug. 20. J. C. Lehner, an express wagon driver, died at the hospital today from the effects of a sunstroke suffered Saturday. His pa rents reside at Ackerville, Wis. The heat today is intense. Half the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion. Burdock Blood Bitters strengthens and tones the stomach; makes indigestion impossible. SHOT HISJRIENO. R. E. Tansant Seriously Wound ed by Mark Phillips. Two Men Were Looking For Chicken Thieves. BOTH CALLED "HALT." Phillips Fired and the Bullet Struck Vans ant. Condition of Wounded Man is Serious. R. B. Vansant, who lives at 300 Green Street, Oakland, was mistaken for a chicken thief early Sunday morning: and was shot by Mark Phillips. Vansant is lying at the Santa Fe hos pital with a bullet wound through his face from side to side and in a serious condition. The physicians say that it is impossible to say what the result of the wound will be. -Vansant is a clerk in the office of C. M. Atwood, auditor of passenger receipts of the Santa Fe and a member of the Republican county central committee. Vansant and Phillips are in the chicken business together in Oakland and live near each other. They have been troubled for some time with chicken thieves and determined to watch for the marauders. Late Sunday night Frank Jordan reported to Vansant and Phillips that he had seen a suspic ious character in the neighborhood of their chicken coops. Vansant and Phillips armed themselves with revolvers and started in search of the supposed chicken thieves. They watched the coops for a while and about three o'clock in the morning determined to make a wide detour and meet again and see if any one was loafing in the neighborhood. They went through the grape arbor together and separated. Phillips went around one side of the orchard and Vansant went around the other. They walked in toward the same point. Vansant saw a man approaching in the darkness. "Halt," shouted Vansant, He supposed the man was the chicken thief. It was Phillips. Phillips thought Vansant was the chicken thief calling to him to stop. Phillips raised his revolver and fired When Vansant called to him to halt. The bullet entered Vansant's right cheek and lodged in his left cheek. He was removed to the Santa Fe hospital and the bullet removed and the wound dressed. Vansant is resting as comfort ably as could be expected and is not thought to be in any Immediate danger but the physicians say they can not state what the outcome will be. Phillips, who did the shooting, was frantic when he found what he had done. RODGERS KNOCKED DOWN. Stepped Outside Sis Bakery and is Felled to the Ground. Last night as C. E. Rogers-, rthe baker at 607 Jackson street, went out to the rear of his place of business to get wood for starting a fire in the oven, he was struck on the head by an unknown assailant. The blow rendered him unconsicious and he remained there over an hour be fore he regained his senses. A deep gash was cut in the had, but the wound is not serious and he is at work today. Mr. Rodgers has no idea who his as sailant was nor why the assault was made as nothing was taken from his person nor from the bakery. He did not consider the affair of sufficient impor tnace to report to the police, so no effort has been made to find who made the at tack. The bakery is only a short dis tance from the police station and a prompt report might have led to some clue. MARSHALL'S UNIFORMS. Meeting Will Be Held Tonight to Send for Them. Marshall's band will meet tonight with a committee appointed by the Knight Templars' lodge of this city in the band rooms at the corner of Third street and Kansas avenue to make ar rangements for the ordering of the new uniforms. About 55 uniforms will be required. The band is the official band of the Knights Templars' lodge and the lodge is arranging for the purchase of the uni forms. The coats will be of red with black trimmings and the trousers will be of black with red stripes. They will not get helmet3 but will wear the regulation band cap. Descriptive Literature. The Frisco line has recently issued for free distribution a T.umber of pam phlets containing carefully selected photo-engravings of scenery together with reliable and up-to-date informa tion concerning the resources and great Iiossibilities of the country traversed by the Frisco line. Write for a copy of any of the following publications: "Feath ers and Fins on the Frisco." "The Top of the Ozarks," "The Missouri and Ar kansas Farmer and Fruitman," "Fruit Farming Along the Frisco," "Oklaho ma," "The Ozark Uplift." or the "Frisco Line Magazine." They can be obtained upon application to W. C. Melville, N. W. P. A., Kansas City, Mo. We wish to thank Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Fonken and other friends who were so kind to us during the burial of our beloved one. MRS. JANIE ANDREWS AND DAUGHTER, 300 Leland avenue. $19.00. Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Return via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sale Aug. 21. Good return ing until October 31st. Stopover allow ed on going trip after reaching Pueblo. COLORADO FLYER. Via "Great Rock Island Route." Leaes Topeka 8:10 p. m., arriving Colorado Springs 10:35, Denver 11:00 o'clock next a. m. Arizona Drouth Broken. Phoenx, Ariz., Aug. 20. An extraor dinarily heavy flood of water continues to come down from northern central Arizona and the Salt river is s,till ris ing. There is a foot of water running over the great dam at the Arizona canal head and all irrigation canals are full. The rise is worth many hundred thousands of dollars in the Verde and Salt valleys. Take the Santa Fe fast train for Chi cago. Short line. SICK IN TOPEKA. Millionaire California Woman is Taken Ill Mrs. Emily C. Danford, widow of Col. Danford, a millionaire of San Jose, Cat., is dangerously 111 at the home of her sis ter, Mrs. Amanda Miller, at Ninth and Monroe streets in this city. Mrs. Dan ford has been suffering from nevous prostration for some time, and recently typhoid fever developed. Mrs. Danford was on her way to her nome at Ban jose alter a trip around the world when she was taken ill. She trav eled through the Orient.continental Eur ope and the British Isles, returned to the United States via New York. Her rea son for stopping in Topeka wasithe fact or her sister living here. She is im mensely wealthy, her estate being worth several million dollars. M'KINLEY IN CHICAGO. President Will Be Protected During Stay in Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 20. As yet Chief of De tectives Colloran has not appointed a body guard for President McKinley during the latter's presence here at the G. A. R. encampment. "I do not expect any attempt on the part of anarchists or anybody else to molest the president," said he today, "but all the distingushed guests will be amply protected." GO ON FRIDAY. Washington, Aug. 20. President and Mrs. McKinley will leave Washington Friday afternoon for Chicago to attend the annual encampment of the O. A. R. They will go in a special ca.r attached to a regular train on the Pennsylvania railway and will arrive in Chicago on Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock. They will remain in Chicago until late Wednesday afternoon of next week. On Sunday the president will attend two union services in Chicago, one of Sunday schools in the forenoon and one of the churches in the afternoon. On Monday and Tuesday he will review pa rades, and on Wednesday he will go to Ft. Sheridan. He will be present at a number of banquets during his stay. Late Wednesday the party will return to Canton where the president and Mrs. McKinley will remain until September 11, when they will go to Somerset, Pa., to attend the marriage of their niece. Miss Mabel McKinley and Dr. Hannan E. Bauers. The marriage will be sol emnized on September 12, at the house of Abner McKinley. JACKSON'S RAND CONCERT. Will Flay Tomorrow Night on Nation al Hotel Veranda. Jackson's Military band will give a concert on the veranda over the Kan sas avenue entrance to the National hotel tomorrow evening. Following is the programme: 1. Star Spangled Banner. 2. Yorktown Centennial March Sousa. 3. Serenade, Pleasant Dreams Rip ley. 4. Ma' Rag Time Baby Stone. 5. Memorial march. General Lawton, as played by the United States Marine band. 6. Calantha waltzes Hltzman. 7. Regimental march to Colonel Beck Thunder Sousa. 8. Pollyphonia overture Pette. LOCAL MENTION. The Walnut Grove Sunday school will picnic in Vinewood park Wednesday. The Santa Fe Curtis clubs will meet Tuesday night at the old court house. The last of the annexation ordinances will be considered by the city council to night. Two gangs of the street department will be in North Topeka this week grad ing for sidewalks. The city clerk has received several let ters from Kansas towns asking for cop ies of the garbage ordinance. The Old Soldiers' McKinley and Roose velt club met Saturday afternoon at the old court house and listened to political speeches. The street department began this morning on the removal of the city scales to the new location north of the city prison. James Harrigan from Cheyenne, Wyo, has bought a house on Hancock street, between Seventh and Eighth and will make his home in Topeka hereafter. Capt. A. M. Fuller has ordered the To peka City Troop to meet on the west side of the state house grounds Thursday at 9:30 a, m. They will go from there to the depot and act as escort to the Bryan party. Two cases of smallpox were reported to the sanitary department today. Both cases are In North Topeka and are in colored families. The daughter of Rev. Mr. Barker at 905 North Taylor, is one case and the other case is in the same neighborhood. Mr. II. J. Ormsley and Geo. Olson, both of Wisconsin, are here and will fill the place made vacant by the transfer of Special Agent Rising. Their stay will be temporary as both gentlemen have other territory, but they will remain un til the arrival of Mr. John B. Jefferv. of California, who will take the place per manently. Mr. Rising will leave here Tuesday and report to the chief of the free rural delivery at Indianapolis where he will get his instructions as to his fu ture work. "Cute" Herman, John Darling and Jennie Beaver were arrested today for assaulting Geo. Shearman. The Beaver woman, who is frequently in police court, got drunk Saturday night and stood in front of Mr. Sherman's house and made night hideous. He requested her to move on but received only abuse as a reply. He went out to make her move when he was attacked by Darling and Herman who beat him badly. The Beaver woman pleaded guilty this morning and was fined $25. The men will be tried this af ternoon. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. W.-WHEAT-September, 02Hc: December, WW- Cash: No. 2 hard. 3,(iifi4,c: No. 3. 62ii63c; No. 2 red. fjSfr GflHc No. 3. 66?tr7c. CORN September 35"sc; December 22Tc. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 36V-c; No. 2 white, 37Ii!c: No. 3. 37c. OATS No. 2 white, 23HS24C RYK No. 2. 46c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.50; choice prairie. $8.50. BUTTER Creamery 15518c; fancy dairy 15c. EGGS Fresh, 12c. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Clarence Andrews, aged 20 years, of 300 Leland street, died Saturday after noon of typhoid fever. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Burial was in Topeka cemetery. .Verlee Bradley died at her home, 631 Madison street, this morning at the age of 11 months. The burial was this af ternoon at the Foster cemetery. Waldersee Off for China. Berlin, Aug. 20. Field Marshal Count von Waldersee.accompanied by his staff, left Berlin this morning en route for china. NORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany. 835 Kansas avenue. Jeffers James give the blue pre mium stamps. I. T. Peyton went to Cuba, Kan., yes terday. Clyde Swartz is sueffring from an at tack of malarial fever. Coal, feed, sewer pipe, seeds. Bee. See. Nicholson, 1009 North Kansas avenue. F. P. Baker of the New Era is taking a two weeks' vacation. J. H. Foucht has gone to Excelsior Springs to spend two weeks. Miss Belle Sewell of Beloit, Kan., is visiting Miss May Cromwell of Me noken. C. S. Gillespie returned yesterday from a three weeks' visit with his par ents at Edwardsville, 111. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stovall left this afternoon to attend the state convention of the Christian church at Ottawa Miss Ida Farris, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Cutberth of Silver Lake, left today for her home in Williams burg, Ky. Well, you will have to get to the store early tomorrow morning' if you get any of those shirt waists at 25 and 39 cents. Costley Post. Those that appreciate bargains in shoes, dry goods and furnishing goods will come tomorrow to make room sale. Costley Post. Amity lodge No, 231, K. of P., will this evening confer the rank of page on one candidate, and charge three esquir9 with the rank of knight. Miss Ada Sells of Abilpne, en route to St. Louis, will arrive this afternoon to visit her cousin, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Courtney, of 813 Quincy street. Mrs. Courtney will close all sailor's walking hats and all untrimmed hats from 25 to 50 cents each and a fct at 15 cents. 603 South, and 905 North. George Kuss, who has been with the Arnold Drug Co. for the past year. leaves tonight for St. Joseph, Mo., to take a position with the Smith Drug company. Fire department No. 1 was called out at 12:50 Saturday night to put out a slight blaze in the feed store of B. W. Andrews, 924 Kansas avenue damage fifty dollars. Miss Ira Baker, colored, died yester day morning at her home 1321 Railroad Street. The funeral will be held from the house this afternoon at 2 o'clock, in terment in Rochester cemetery. Miss Lauia Beverly of Monroe street with her aunt, Mrs. E. P. Griffith, of Solomon City, will leave shortly for Portland and other points In Oregon; on the return trip they will stop some time in Colorado. While J. M. Smith was working on Mr. Cooper's house at Menoken, the scaffold gave way and Mr. Smith fell about 25 feet, spraining his left knee and bruising himself considerably, it will be several weeks before he will be able to be about. Blue Post No. 250, G. A. R., Is to bo congratulated inasmuch as its great growth of from 39 to over 100 members since last January, has resulted in Post Commander J. W. Priddy being select ed as one of the two aids-de-camp on the staff of Commander-in-Chief A. D. Shaw. They will be furnished transpor tation, and will be entertained at na tional headquarters during the Chicago encampment. Air. Priddy served nearly two years in Company A, Thirteenth Indiana cavalry, being nineteen years old at the close of the war in 1S65. Misses Elizabeth and Mayce Anderson gave a lawn party at their home one mile north of town Saturday evening, August 18. The evening was spent in plays and games, after which refresh ments were served. Those present were: Misses Mable Brooks, Zora Reed, Bessie Roter of Parsons, Eva Roter, Bessie Campbell, Blanche Reynolds, Maud Sleeper, Ethel Sheldon, Grace Woods, Estella Croll, Elizabeth and Mayce An derson, Messrs. Fred Reed, Milton Crol, Arthur Sheldon, Jay Sleeper, Robert Sheldon, Jamie Johnson, Malcolm Mui holland. Hallie Reed, Louis Mulholland and Irving Reynolds. N 0T A PARDON DAY. Friends of Willie Sell Thought Gover nor in Wrong Mood. Representatives of Willie Sell ap peared at the office of Governor Stanley this forenoon and heard the governor refuse several applications for pardons. Presumably, anticipating that this was not a good day for pardons those rep resentatives retired and the case was not presented. There is not the slightest prospect for a pardon for Sell. He has written the governor a letter denying that he seeks a conditional pardon. tie wants an absolute pardon and expresses that idea by saying in the letter to the governor: "I should positively resent any ana ail misrepresentation that we were peti tioning for clemency. Our plea is for the undoing of the Injustice which I am suffering by the exercise of that execu tive power which the law of our state vests in the governor." Sell then explains that he has made an earnest effort to apprehend the real murderer of his family, and suggests that recently discovered evidence indi cates that he is innocent. DISTRICT COURT ADJOURNS April Term at Last Comes to an End. The district court has adjourned until Saturday, September 1, the last day of the April term. The September term will commence Tuesday. September 4, and the first week will be spent in court work. The civil jury will be called first and when the civil cases are disposed of the crim inal jury will go to work. Judge Hazen is now busy preparing his decision in the Atchison case which he heard for Judge Bland. It is an old case between almost everybody in Atchison and the Atchison Savings bank. Leave Topeka 4:40 p. m.. arrive Chi cago 9:30 a. m., via the Santa Fe Short line. Shredded Wheat Biscuit. R TOTHING BUT WHOLE l Wheat- boiled, shredded. and baked. Ready for use. fveeps indefinitely. T GROCEES'.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1900. 5 E. MONTGOMERY, Prop., (Successor to J. S. Sprost.) Telephone 252. "2 East Sixth Street. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY. OUR THOUGHTS FOR I -pint bottle Olives 25c Deviled Olives, per bottle 5c I -gallon jug Catsup 45c I -gallon jug Mustard ....45c Chipped Beef, per can 15c Vienna Sausage, per can 15c Corned Beef, per can 13c Macaroni and Cheese, per can. 13c Chicken Tamales, per can 15c Boneless Herring, per can 10c Star package Coffee 9c 2 lbs. Bulk Coffee 25c Fancy Santos Coffee, per lb. ..15c Java Blend Coffee, per lb 20c TOPEKA'S GAIN. Increase of 14-7 in Population Last Year. The state board of agriculture has completed the compilation of assessors' end county clerks' returns for 1900, and among other things they show that Kansas has 111 cities and towns with 1.000 inhabitants or more. Seventy-two municipalities belonging to this list, have increased during' the year 22,9u6, Oalena leading by far with a gain of 6.3GS, more than -doubling last year's population and changing the position of iier rank from twentieth to ninth place; thirty-six others lost a total of 5.947. Ellis with a gain of 245, Lyndon 1S:(, fmith Center l'.i4. Downs 87, tioodland 41 and Lacygne 24, have become eligible to this list during the past twelve months, while Medicine Lodge, Strong City, Wilson and Oskaloosa. have fallen below the 1.000 mark. Next to Oalena Jonie of the cities making the larerest gains are lola 2.041. Wichita 1.760, Kan sas City 1.645, Topeka 1.417 and Inde pendence 1.126. lola has jumped from twenty-third to seventeenth place; Ar gentine dropped from sixteenth to nine teenth place: Independence passes Wel lington, Coft'eyville and Chanute, Cof feyvlUe falling from eighteenth to twenty-second place. Dodge City Jumps from fifty-fifth to forty-fourth; Kingman fifty-eighth to fifty-thrid; Scammon seventy-fourth to sixty-first. Sabetha seventy-third to sixty-second; Frontenac seventy-fifth to sixty-fifth. Holton drops from twenty-fifth to thirty-second place; Weir City from thirtieth to thirty-seventh; Oreat Bend fortieth to forty-second, and Empire thrity-fifth to forty-tighth. Salina now precedes Newton; Cherry vale takes twenty-ninth instead of thrity-fourth place; Fredonia sixty-seventh instead rf seventy-sixth; Oarden City seventy fourth instead of seventy-seventh. Pleasanton now ranks eighty-fust in stead of ninety-second: Augusta eighty-sixth Instead of one hundred, and Baldwin ninety-fourth instead of one liur.dred and ninth. Scranton falls from eighty-first to one hundredth; St. Paul ninety-fourth to one hundred andninth; and Frankfort eighty-second to nineti eth. Cherokee goes from eigthy-third to ninety-seventh: Rosedale forty fourth to forty-first; McPherson thirty-eighth to thirty-sixth: Osawatomie thirty-seventh to thirty-fourth, and lie loit fiftieth to forty-seventh. Eureka rises from fiftv-second to fiftieth; Belle ville fifty-seventh to fifty-fifth, and Columbus forty-seventh to forty-fifth. Newton now ranks sixteenth instead of fourteenth; Larned seventy-third in stead of sixty-fifth: Burlingame seventy-fifth instead of sixty-ninth, and Chetopu falls from forty-sixth to fifty eixth. THE CLIMATE OF JULY. The Rainfall Was 38 Hundredths of an Inch Below Normal. The following is the climate and crop service report of the weather bureau for the Kansas section for July: The first half of the month was warm and dry. the temperature ranging above the normal almost continuously, while WEAK NERVES MADESTRONGI Specks Before the Eyes Dizziness Xenous Exhaustion. From overwork, worry or other causes men and women use themselves up, strength and energy are all gone, the nerves are weak and a complete col lapse takes place. It is Tor just such t-ases as this that old Dr. Halloek's Wonderful Electric Pills are made. Thi v ore the most obstinate cases of nervous prostration, nervous exhaustion, specks before the eyes, trembling, nervous in wmiiiia. nervous headache, fluttering of i he heart, nervous spells in which you .vurely think you are going to die. para lysis, sciatica, St. Vitus' dance. a tired in the morning as when vou went to bed. and all nerve troubles. Old Dr Hallock's Wonderful Electric Pills fnr eak. Worn-out. Nervous people restore the nerve centers, and make new, rich b ood giving a rosy cheek for the pale bloodless face, stimulate the ambition and restore the confidence in one's self Sold at drug stores. Jl per box- i boxes, sufficient to cure most obstinate cases, J; and by Rowley Snow, 600 Kansas avenue. Topeka, Kan.; or sent S or?r?ce!ab0ral0ri"- PrePaiJ' a FREE TREATMENT. To prove the merits of our remedies we will send by mail a five davs- treat ment, with medical advice.free of charge on receipt of 10 cents to pay postafe and expense. Send for trial treatment today. Address H ALLOC K 'DRUGCO 110 Court St., Boston, MassT CO" YOUR INTERESTS. Java and Mocha Coffee, per lb., 25c Bucket Jelly 25c Anderson Jams, per can 10c 12 lbs. Rolled Oats ...25c 12 boxes Parlor Matches 5c 8 lbs. Laundry Starch 25c 9 bars Silk Soap 25c 12 bars good Laundry Soap. ..25c White Fish, per kit 45c Crackers by the box, per lb... 5c Farlor Brooms 20c Young Hyson Tea, per lb 35c Imperial Tea, per lb 35c Gunpowder Tea, per lb 35c the total precipitation for the first fif teen days averaged 0.80 of an inch; with the 16th day of the month a decided change occurred, the temperature drop ped considerably below the normal and heavy rains were general, averaging 0.97 of an inch i'or the state, exceeding the total rainfill of the first fifteen days by 0.17 of an inch; the temperature, with a few exceptions, remained below normal the rest of the month, and the average precipitation was more than thrice that of the first fifteen days. While the mean temperature for the state of 77.9 degees, is 0.1 degrees below the normal, yet in that portion of the state lying between Cheyenne, Wichita and Kearney coun ties on the west and Marshall, Riley, Shawnee and Chase on the east, the mean of the month is above normal, reaching an excess of nearly 3 degrees in Phillips and Trego; it is also slightly above normal at Kansas City and Cool idge; over the rest of the state it is de ficient, the greatest deficiency occurring in the extreme southeastern counties. The mean temperature for the state, in July, was 80 degrees or above in 1887, JS!X, isyo and lt-97, the warmest being 83.1 degrees in 1SH0. The coolest July in' the preceding 13 years occurred in 1891, with a mean of 74.0 degrees. The precipitation was as unevenly dis tributed over the state as it was through the month, the greatest falling in the northeastern counties and the least In Barton: it was heavy from the southern part of Sumner across the cen tral portion of Cowley into the southern part of Jreen wood, and light in Mitchell, the northern part of Lincoln and central portion of Ottawa. Ttie average of 3.46 inches for the state is 0.38 of an inch below the July normal. The rainfall is above normal in Dickinson, the two northern tiers of counties east of Repub lic and Cloud, and the two eastern tiers of counties south of Cherokee and La bette, in the larger part of Sumner, in Cowley, Elk and V llson, and the south ern portions of Greenwood and Butler; it is also above normal from the central portion of Kearney across the southern portions of Scott and lane, the central and northeastern parts of Ness, in Ellis, southwestern part of Rooks, across tlraham, the northeastern part of Sheri dan into the southeastern part of De catur; over the rest of the state it deficient, the deficiency reaching 2.00 inches in Barton, McPherson and Mor ton. The precipitation averaged 5.53 inches in July, 1895, and 5.32 inches in July, 1899, but was less than 2.00 inches in July, 1887, 1890 and 1894, the least be ing 1.28 inches in 1890. OPENING TONIGHT. Falk Veronee Company in "Lost Paradise" at the Crawford Theatre. The theatrical season in Topeka will open tonight with the Veronee FaJk Stock company, direct from Hopkin's theater in Chicago. The bill for this evening will be "Lost Paradise, 'lues day night, Nat C. Goodwin's famous success, "in Missouzie;' Wednesday night, "Pawn Ticket 210;" Thursday night, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," with charming Baby Lund in the title role. The company includes Miss Lillian Mor timer, late leading lady of Hopkin's theater in Chicago; Edward Boring, Jules Kusell and others. A notable fea ture at every performance will be the specialties between the acts by Baby Lund, Jules Kusell and John A. West. Electric fans have been put in the theater, w hich will make the house com fortable. The prices will be 10, 20 and 30 cents, and ladies free tonight only, when accompanied by a person holding a 30 cent paid ticket. NO RAIN PROMISE. People Look in Vain for Signs of Moisture. The rain map issued by the weather bureau to show last week's rains shows that all but a few counties drew blanks. The following rains are recorded: De catur county .30, Smith 2.60. Republic .2", Nemaha .12, Brown 6 inches. Doniphan 5.7:1, Jackson 3, Wallace .22, Ellis .50. Ri ley 1.38. Shawnee .18, Jeffeison .93, Leav enworth 2.04, Wyandotte 1, Jackson 2.03, Douglas 1.25, Osage .03, Franklin .89, Rush .36, Barton .83, Rice .48, Bourbon .49. The forecaster holds out no promise of rain. The forecast is "generally fair and continued warm tonight and Tues day." The maximum temperature Sun day was 96. The maximum today up to 11 o'clock was 88. Last night was hot, the lowest the thermometer recorded was 75. The wind today has been blow ing 14 miles an hour from the south west. ENGLISH GET TWO GUNS. They Were Captured at Oliphant's Neck, August 17. London, Aug. 20. The war office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: "lan Hamilton captured two Krupp guns at Oliphant's Nek August 17. Three British were wounded. "Hamilton engaged the Boers all day August 19, at Koodekopjes and Crocodile river. There were few casualties. "Rundle reports that 684 Boers surren dered in the Harrismtih district August 19." Missouri Editors Eastbound. Buffalo. N. Y., Aug. 20. The members of the Missouri Press association who are on a recreation trip reached Buffalo from the west during the night and left for Niagara Falls today. MUST BE G AUGHT. Bu rning of Barns Becomes Alto getlier Too Common. Incendairies Continue Their Work Uninterrupted. POLICE DO NOTHING No Effort Made to Capture the Tire Bugs. Four Buildings Destroyed Early Sunday Morning. "Jack the barn burner" Is again at work. Four fires occurred Sunday morning and two of them were undoubt edly of incendiary origin. It is time that the police make some effort to catch the fire bugs. The indica tions are that nearly all the incendiary fires have been set by the same party or parties. With the exception of a couple of vacant dwellings and a school house the fires have been in barns and have been started in the same manner. If one or two good officers were sent out to investigate after each incendiary fire some clues might be found that would lead to arrests. If no effort is made to catch the guilty parties it is quite cer tain that no one will be caught. The first alarm was turned in at No. 1 fire station in North Topeka for a lire in the two story building at 12:50 o'clock Sunday morning. The building is at JNo. 824 North Kansas avenue and is occu pied by Byron Andrews as. a hay and feed store. Quite a fire had started but was extinguished with a loss of about taO. The second alarm was from box 32 at two o'clock for a fire at 435 Western avenue. The story and a half frame barn belonging to H. C. Bowman and occupied by C. C. Gormley had been set on fire. The hose companies from sta tions No. 2 and 4 laid a line of hose each. The fire was extinguished with a loss of about $100. The tire was incen diary. The chemical engine started to return to headquarters and was part way back. the hose companies were taking up their lines of hose and the truck company from No. 3 was going back to quarters when the fire bell rang out the 'alarm for a fire in box No. 32 district. The companies turned immediately and re sponded to the alarm. The house at 700 Clay street was burning. The fire was of incendiary origin. The tire started in the one story kitchen part and would have spread quickly over the entire house. The house was moved there from Parkdale where it was bought during the Santa Fe house sale. It was rumored that people in the neighbor hood did not like the building and wish ed it destroyed. At 12:25 Sunday morning an alarm from box 19 called the department to Seventeenth and Kansas avenue where the two story frame house occupied by Mrs. Belle Ewing was on fire. Some children playing with matches in an up stairs bed room started a fire which burned up a bed, a wash stand and about gutted the room before it was ex tinguished. The loss was about $125. The following is the list of incendiary fires since the fiscal year, April 1, com menced. Many other fires with the cause given as "unknown" may have also been incendiary: April 4, barn at 1015 West Sixth street. April 11, barn at 815 Tyler street and another barn caught. April 13, barn at 715 Van Buren street and three barns caught. April 14, barn at 706 Fillmore street. April 14, barn at 713 Lincoln street. April 21, barn at 1519 West Fifteenth street. April 22, barn at 1119 Clay street. May 2. barn at 1221 Quincy. June 2, vacant dwelling at 835 Garfield avenue. June 23, bam at 425 Polk street. July 12, barn at Thirteenth and West ern avenues. July 18, Lowman Hill school house. July 29, bam at 910 North Kansas ave nue. August 14, bam 1300 West Tenth street. August 19, barn 435 Western avenue. August 19, vacant dwelling 700 Clay street. While Chief Wilmarth was returning home from the first fire Sunday morning in North Topeka the alarm for the sec ond fire waa turned In. He was several blocks from home. By counting the strokes on the big fire bell he knew Just where to go to the fire. When the alarm was turned In Sunday noon from box 19 a fireman from the hose company at Sufferers from this horrible malady nearly always inherit it not necessarily from the parents, but may be from tome remote ancestor, for Cancer often runs through several generations. This deadly poison may lay dormant in the blood for years, or until you reach middle life, then the first little sore or ulcer makes its ap pearance or a swollen gland in the breast, or some other part of the body, gives the first warning. To cure Cancer thoroughly and perma nently all the poisonous virus must be eliminated from the blood every vestage of it driven out. This S. S. S. does, and is the only medicine that can reach deep seated, obstinate blood troubles like this. When all the poison has been forced out of the system the Cancer heals, and the disease never returns. Cancer begins often in a small way, as the following letter from Mrs. Sbirer shows A smell pimple came on my jaw about an inch below the ear on the left side of my face. It gave me no pain or lnconvrn eince, and 1 should have forgotten about it bad it not begun to inflame and itch it would bleed a little, then scab over, but would not heal. This continued for sometime, when my jaw betran to swell, becoming very gan to eat ana spread, until it was as large as a half dollar.when I heard g j "'l of S. S. S. and determin- -b i and it was letnarkable -s-j-; what a wonderful effect w' it had from the very beginning the sore began to heal and after taking a few bottles disappeared entirely. This was two years ag there are still bo signs of the Cancer, and tay general heatlh continues rood. Mrs. R. Ehijlex. La Plata. Mo. ?31 19 the greatest of aU t blood -nurifiers anr trie only one guaranteed purely vegetable. Send for our free book on Cancer, containing valuable and interest ing information about this disease, and write our physicians about your case. We make no charge for medical advice. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA IS a 3 T .m V ifi v headquarters was on his way to dinner. He heard the big bell ring. He knew which way the companies would go and that they would pass within a half block of where he -was. He caught the hose wagon and helped just where he was needed at the fire. AMERICAN GOLD. It Reaches England in Tims to Pre vent a Panic. New York, Aug. 20. A dispatch to the Times from London says: Just In the nick of time your eold be came available and saved our market from a nasty jar. London stock brokers and others still grumble at the smart stroke played by the chancellor of the exchequer: but nad Be left the money market to its own devices, last week must have seen tne 5ank of England forced to put the rate up to 5 per cent. As it is, thanks to the lending of credit promptly on the shipped gold, we have been able to carry through the mid monthly stock exchange settlement, pay up tne major portion or our share of the exchequer bond issue, and meet other capital calls, not only without anv ad vance in market rates, but with an ever increasing ease. To further the help and make things comroriaoie me ireasury paia off 1, 000.000 of the tiuating debt in short bills falling due last Wednesday, and we now find ourselves at the end of an anxious week with the loan rates barely more man a per cent ana aiscount slipping oacK toward sv. No further advance has taken place in, the rates of German markets. The Bank or j-ranee continues to accumulate gold until now it possesses 12,000,000 more than at this date last year, and the nignest total ever seen. All this slirni fies that if we had no war outlays to 1'iwviup, luueuuiLe m extent, we would race the end off the year with equaniml ty. Even our stock markets begin to pluck up heart and talk of business. But the only interesting episode they gave us last ween was a Dear squeeze In tintos. Arbitragists estimate there are till sn 000 shares oversold in British markets.so me weaKer statistical position of the inetai may ao notning whatever to pre vent a further rise in, the price of shares All else is languid enough, and mil". way stocks continue to dwindle on the hints that the trade has begun to decline anu on tne nign working charges and onerous capital commitments. But we have got consols once more on the up 6ltt"c ii a. Aeeuie way. ana rnis weelr Jobbers tell me, discount on Khakis will ue oonieratea. FOREST FIRES RAGE. Many Herders and Sheep Danger in Wyoming. in Saratoga, Wyo., Aug. 20. The forest fires continues to rage In the mountains between Battle Lake and Oranrt Knenmr,. meat, and those towns and the numerous mlnina: camns unH imeaieneu witn oestruction. i ne neruers were Torced to drive their nocks high up in the mountains to get feed, owine to the Kcnrcifv twith and water on the plains below, and it Is feared that many of these herders have been surrounded with their flocks by the names. The timber Is as dry as tinder and burns fiercely. Nothing can prevent ..it ui me litunes, except a neavv rain. It is estimated that the loss thus far. exclusive of the millions of feet of fine timber will be over 2t uon MinrQ h.v. joined the forest rangers in the work of jisiiiuiB me nres. inair combined efforts, however, seem to be of no avail. AFFAIRS IN CHINA. Minister Wu Ting fang dives a "Very sensible Idea of the Situation. NeW York. Allf? X Hier.at.h fht Wu Ting Fang. Chinese minister to the Vnited btates, in an interview, made the 1 .Lin i rum rvasn nprnn wavw- louowing statements: 'China recognizes the emperor and em press dowager as her rulers. They are the government of China. I have no Idea that anv attemnt will K. maiin tha Chinese to overthrow them. An .'frir,iQi dispatch which I received yesterday from Li Hung Chang announcing the entrance of the allies Into Pekin and the safety of me legations, also stated that before the city was- attacked the court had mmp in the west." "Naturally. I am deenlv erleved he continued, "that condition shnnl.l hava arisen which have brought about a con flict between the Chinese and the allied forces, but I am hooet'ul that a full nl free discussion, such as will undoubtedly occur between Li Hung Chang and the representatives of the Dowers, will indi cate where the responsibility lies for what nas occurred, ana win result In the set tlement of all questions and the perma nent withdrawal of the foreign troops. ow mat the ministers and those under their protection have been rescued, and the emneror nml emnre Howa-nr- naira !tgnitied through Li Hung Chang their de sire to accomplish a complete restoration of friendly relations with the western world, 1 am contident that in the Interest of all the nations and their subjects, not to mention their commerce, a satisfactory termination of the trouble will be at tained. T have said from the first that China did not want war with the whole west ern world. She appreciates the immense strength which it would be able to hurl against her. Essentially a peaceful na tion, sne has always endeavored to main tain piLcinc relations with her sister na tions. "in all parts of China, except Taku and Pekin. there is. aside from a. few local disturbances, order, and the fact that it is anu has been maintained under most trying conditions, shows the strength of tne imperial government anu or Its ser vants. In Southern China, narticularlv. there has been no disturbance of any mo ment, the viceroys there preserving quiet to the satisfaction of foreigners as well as to that of the Chinese. 1 do not an ticipate, from the reports which 1 have at this moment, any outbreaks in these provinces, as the viceroys have the situa tion well in hand. "I presume from Li Hung Chang's dis patch, saying 'the court hud gone to the west.' both the emperor and empress dow ager are meant. 1 believe the report pub lished a few days :igo that the emperor and empress dowager had gone to Tsi-Na-Ku is probably correct. The mere fact that the emperor and empress dowager are not at Pekin does not change the gov erning power of China- yueen Victoria recently went to Ireland, but she still re mains queen of Great Britain. So with the emperor and empress dowager. I have told you that I do not fear an Inter nal revolt against them, and I sincerely trust that the powers will do nothing to remove the present ruler from the govern ment of China. "I am not Informed as to the terms which the powers will present, and 1 am equally uninformed as to the propositions, if any. which Li Hung Chang will sub mit. Whatever the wrong for which China may be responsible, she will rectify it, I am sure." HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Geo. R. Brindle and wife to Rebecca J. Gregory, $1,700, lot 140 Sixth avenue west. Job Goods and wife to the A. T. S. F. Railway company, $1,500, lots 31 and 3 Klein's add. ex. s. 2 feet lot 31. Frank Oibler and wife to same, $800, lot 8 Klein avenue. N. Klein's add Andrew J. Rhodes and wife to Laura P. Roudebush, $360, pt. blks. 11 and 12 Sixth avenue, Parkdale add. Ex Farm Co. to M. E. Ward. $400, lots 601 and 3 Lane street. Cross" add. S. A. Sells-Greenspan to Jas. E. Mooney, $1,000, lot 434 Clay street.King's add. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Wednesday evening, October 10, has been set as the date of the marriage or Miss Theresa Rosmngton and Dr. Russell Phillips of Leavenworth. The wedding will take place at Grace cathe dral and is to be one of the most elabor ate of the fall weddings with the larg est number of attendants. They will leave at once for a six weeks western trip, For Mrs. Branstrup. Mrs. Branstrup of Indianapolis, was the guest of honor at a dinner' given Saturday by her hostess, Mrs. George O. Wilmarth, at her home on West Eighth avenue. Mrs. Wilmarth's guests were, Mrs. C. J. Brown, Mrs. Willis Gleed, Mrs. John Sargent, Mrs. Emma Evarts, Mrs, J. S. Collins, Mrs. John Hodge, Mrs. M. A. Low and Mra. Ed ward Herbst. A Birthday Dinner, Mrs. John G. Howard entertained at an informal dinner Sunday in honor of her son Arthur s twenty-first birthday. The gusst3 invited for the occasion were, Miss Bessie Burdge, Miss Wini fred Clarke, Miss Florence VanTassel, Miss Bessie Ricketts. Mr. Leslie Ben nett, Mr. George Clark, Mr. Carl Sawin and Mr. Edgar Clark. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Henry William Smyth of St. Louis, have issued cards an nouncing the marriage of their daubh ter, Agnes Marquand, to Mr. George Holmes Knowles, which took place Tuesday, August 14. Mr. Knowles is a son of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Knowles of Topeka. Mrs. Matthew Weightman, who with two of her grandchildren, has been vis iting at the Stevenson ranch near Tu ron, returned Saturday and is quite ill at her home on Topeka avenue. Mrs. Anna L. Harrison and Mrs. Mamie Tuttle are visting their mother. Mrs. C. F. Lercher, who has been seri ously ill at her home at 811 West Elev enth street. Mrs. J. S. Tuttle and little son Wel come have arrived from Eureka Springs for a visit with relatives and friends in Topeka. Roy Ranney of Arkansas City, spent Sunday with Topeka friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Edson will break up housekeeping and take rooms at the Wiley the first of the month. Miss Edith Davis and Miss Perle Latham returned Saturday from a two weeks stay at the Black farm near Auburn. Miss Ethel Hadley goes to Kansas City Tuesday for a two weeks Visit with friends. Mrs. J. M. West and daughters. Blanche and Jennie, returned the last of the week from a four weeks visit in Chicago and Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Roehr ana daughter. Helen, returned Saturday from a three weeks outing. They made their headquarters in Chicago and took a number of lake trips from there. Charles Bauer will leave Satur day for a abusiness trip to California. Mrs. Bauer will accompany him as far as Denver, where she will visit her mother. Mrs. P. G. Noel spent Sunday in Atcn- lson. Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Esterly or Law rence spent Sunday in Topeka. Mrs. J. M. Miner spent Bunaay i Atchison. The members of the Elmwood CIUD will hold a meeting Wednesday evening to decide whether or not the club shall be discontinued. Mrs. O. P. M. McClintock are visiting relatives near Osage City. Miss Ethel Page will return to ner home in Leavenworth Tuesday after a visit with Miss Grace Wilcox. Miss Wil cox will accompany her for a ten days visit. Mrs. Charles McClintock was In Atcn- ison Sunday. Miss Kate Kessler has returned from a visit in the country. Miss Lou Groves leaves faaturday to visit friends in the east. Clarence Pitts of Kansas City Is spending a few days in Topeka with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C .fitts. Miss Mabel Morton went to Holton Saturday to spend the week with Mrs. Lee Gabler. The young people In Miss Alma George's Sunday school class of Grace Cathedral will enjoy a picnic at Garfield park Tuesday afternoon. Miss Julia Chute went to Lawrence to day for a short visit with friends. Mrs. John Coleman went to Herington Saturday to visit her son. Mrs. Ivy Frampton of Kansas City Is spending the week in Topeka with friends. Louis Balnter has returned from a two weeks' visit in Illinois. C. A. Roehr came up from Kansas I City today for a two or three weeks visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Stokes returned Saturday from a trip to Michigan. Ed Shultz went to Ottawa this after noon to spend a week's vacation. Mr. Charles Decker has resigned his position with the Warren M. Crosby Dry Goods company, and accepted a similar position with John Taylor In Kansas City. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. McKee of Holton are spending several weeks visiting rela tives in Topeka. John Buchanan has returned from a two weeks' outing in Colorado. Mi". Frank Bacon has returned from a trip to Chicago and northern points; his family will remain several weeks longer. Miss Lena r'unvance is visiting friends at Paxicci The subscription dance at Vinewood this evening promises to be one of the most pleasant affairs of the week. PROVE ALL THINGS. This Old, Old Command is Easy to Fulfill in Topeka. To win a wager, an English Marquis stood on London Bridge and offered for an hour British sovereigns ($5) for five shillings ($1.25). He could not find a customer. There are several good rea sons why the ordinary mortal could not be Induced to buy, but no reason can be given why Topeka people will not ac cept the following convincing proof about Doan's Kidney Pills. Read this: Mr. V. C. Hay, No. 317 Locust St., says: "In August, 1898, I was taken sick and was unable to work all winter. My sickness left me with kidney trou ble and the pain in my back was some thing awful. I could not sit or recline without the aching becoming unbeara ble. The secretions from the kidneys were discolored and offensive. I was in bed when I learned of Doan's Kidney Plils, and sent to Rowley Snow's drug store, corner Sixth St. and Kansas avenue and got a box. The third dose gave me relief and in a short time I was able to get up. The treatment rid me of the pain, the kidney secretions were corrected and my general health greatly Improved." Doan's Kidney Pills for safe by Row ley Snow and all other dealers. Mailed on receipt of price by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name, Doan's, and take no substitute. BTM fl cVc M!Y GOO CLOSING Fame Waslo Goods Tuesday Morning we place on sale all our Fine Wash Goods- Such as 39c. 35c and Dimities, French Novelties, Twills, Linens, Ginghams, Piques, Tissues, Satines, Etc.... All our $1.00, 75c and 50c Wash Goods, such as Foulardines, Mercerized Mulls, Silk Stripe Batistes, Persians, French Welts, Etc In making up these Fine Wash Goods, use only STANDARD PATTERNS. FARMER DELEGATES THERE National Congress Will Open Tomor row at Colorado Springs. Denevr Aug. 20. Several hundred delegates to the National Farmers' con- ress, w,ch will open in ColoraLa Springs tomorrrow, arrived here today and went on an excursion around the loop." B. F. Clayton, former sneaker of the house in Iowa, and a resident of In dianola, that state, is chairman of the committee which has done most of the work arranging for what iie thinks will be the most successful convention of the kind ever held. "It looks now as if there would be 2.000 delegates present," said Mr. Clay ton. "There will at any rate be more than 1,500 and that is a larger attend ance than there has ever been at a na tional farmers' congress. 'In addition to the subiect of pure food, which will very naturally be con sidered at length, there will be discus sions of interests on trusts, the Nica ragua canal and free rural mail deliv ery.. I have no doubt that the congress will take steps to urge that the rural free delivery system be spread as wide ly as possible. WHEAT A FAILURE. Crop in Indiana Hardly Big Enough for Seed. Chicago, Aug. 20. A special to the Times Herald from Wabash, Ind., says Reliable grain dealers from all parts of the state have collected statistics showing the total yield of wheat in In diana for the present year is the small est for many years, and not exceeding 8.000.000 bushels against from 25,000,000 to 40.000,000 for several years m succes sion prior to 1899. The crop Is a prac tical failure, there being but little more than enough grain raised for seeding, and leaving a shortage for bread and seed of at least 1,000,000 bushels. A LIVELY EARTHQUAKE. Mountain Split in Two by Shock la Alaska. Chicago, Aug. 20. A special to Uie Record from Vancouver, B. C says: The steamer Cutch -which ha arrived from Skagway brought news that an earthquake on August 10 shook Skag way for seventy seconds and was even more severely felt in Dawson. All the way down the river the shock was ap parent and at several places was par ticularly well defined. At Dawson two small government buildings in course of construction weer toppled over. Ar rivals from the Stewart river, balf way down the Tukon to Dawson, say the mountain there was split in two. One stream was dammed up partially by fallen rock and it turned Into the newly formed canon through the moun tain. Five miles of this stream and two miles of the second tributary of the Stewart were left dry. ROCK ISLAND RO UTE. Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, $19.00 for the Round Trip. Tickets on sale August 21, Sep tember 4 and 18, final return limit Oc tober 31. THE G. A. R. SPECIAL. FOR CHICAGO. Via "Oreat Bock Island Route. Will leave Rock Island depot, Sunday, Aug. 26th, 4:30 p. m.. arriving In Chi cago early Monday morning, Aug. 27th. This. train will be made up of Pullman Palace and Tourist Sleepers, Chair Cars and coaches. Personally conducted. For full particulars eee A. M. Fuller. THE OFFICIAL ROUTE To National Encampment G. A. R., Chicago, is the Santa Fe. Train with Department Commander and Staff will leave Kansas points August 28. Special equipment provided for Topeka passengers. Sleepers and free chair cars. T. L. King, Agent, depot, will reserve space, sell tickets and supply folders. If You're Going East and want to make early morning con nections at Chicago take Santa Fe train No. 2, leaving Topeka at 3 p. m. No hurry; no worry. Your troubles end when you get your ticket. Pullman pal ace and tourist sleepers and free chair cars. Dining cars. One fare to Chicago and return August 24-27. T. L. King, Agent Topeka depot, ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo $19.00 for the Round Trip. Tickets on sale August 21, Sep tember 4 and 18, final return limit Oc tober 31. iTClACr-f 1 613-615 HANS. AYE. OUT SALE OF 25c Foulards. 1 FOR YARD. EW CRAWFORD THEATER. Commencing Monlay, August 20th. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday. IERONEE U and FALK'S BIQ STOCK COMPANY. Direct from Hopkins Theatre, Chicago Prices lOc, 20c, 30a COLORADO In summer is the most desirable place in the world. An incom parable climate fittingly sup plements the grandeur of the scenery. NEARLY ALL of the best scenic features of the State, the health and pleasure places, the mining and commercial centres, are on or reached via the Colorado Southern RAILWAY. We have a beautifully illustrated book, "Picturesque Colorado," descriptive of this wonderful section, which will be mailed upon receipt of three cents in stamps to cover postage. T. E. FISHER, General fsftsenger Agent, Ubnvsh, Colo. DEATH CAME AT ONCE. San Diego Light Plant Engineer Oeta Powerful Shock. San Dlega, Aug. 20. W. E. McCurdy, assistant engineer of tha electric light plant here, waa found dead in the powerhouse. He received a shock of about 7,600 volts. His hat was lying by the dynamo and his body was twen ty feet away. A burned spot on hla hand showed where the had touched the pole, the shock throwing him over another machine standing near. In his fight through the air he apparently dis arranged the gearing, for the engine ran away and burned out the dynamo. Pullman Ordinary Sleeping Care Por Tourists are the most comfortable, commodiona means of travel for large parties. In tending settlers, homeseekers, bunting parties. These cars are run on the Union Pa cific daily from Kansas points to Cali fornia and Oregon points, and are fit ted up complete with mattresses, cur tains, blankets, pillows, etc., requiring nothing to be furnished by the pas sengers. Uniformed porters are in charge of these cars, who are required to keep them in good order, and look after the wants and comforts of pas sengers. These cars are new, of mod ern pattern, and are nearly as conveni ent and comfortable as first-class Pal ace Sleepers. For time of trains and full informa tion call on or address F. A. LEWIS. City Ticket. Agt Or J. C. FULTON, Depot Agent. G. A. R. Official Train to Chicago. Via Santa Fe Route. Department Commander Martin and staff have arranged with the Santa Ke Koute for a special train to carry the old soldiers and their friends to the Na tional Encampment at Chicago. This train will leave Kansas points Sunday, August 26, arriving Chicago early Mon day morning. For tickets, folders, space and information call on or write T. L. King, Agent, Depot, Topeka, Kan. COLORADO FLYER. Via "Great Rock Island Route." Leaves Topeka 8:10 p. m., arriving Colorado Springs 10:35, Denver 11:0 o'clock next a. m. 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TtfPEKA STATE J OURNAI T0 L 1 i. GEN. NIEH, ONE OF THE LEADING CHIEF OF THE HEADS OF THE CHINESE ARMY. Generals Who Have Won Distinction and the Strange Met'uods By Which They Achieved Greatness. By Charles Edward SchulL China has no Generals, if the title be applied as we apply It in this country, to men who have undergone a military training and have gradually risen in the service of their country to this high post. The Chinese are a peace loving peo ple. Every art of Europe has sprung from the Orientals; they excel in the making of fine goods and, before the standards of painting changed, their pictures were the finest in the world. But in war they were never con spicuous. The Chinese have a proverb: "No gocd man will ever be a soldier." Fighting is mentioned as a warning to the boys: they must never quarrel; and, so, except in thD case of family leuds which amount to nothing, the nation lives at peace with itself; re bellions are unknown and the art of fighting is neglected. Tears ago, when China was almost the whole of the East, it conquered a greater part of Europe but Europe was then at its weakest. Centuries have passed since then; and, in the refine ment of modern Chinese civilization, the art of warfare has fared badly compared to the other arts. Tet China has her Generals. The youngest of thera all is Tu Tsin, a war rior who came into prominence at the close of the Japanese war. He was present at the last battle and was one of the few who were not shot in the back; he ran too fast. When asked the reason of their defeat he said: "The Japanese came at us as though wild. We shot down those who were In front, but just as soon as a man fell in the front ranks some one from the next line would take his place. Tou can't fight people that way. When we ehot down those who took the others' places some one else would come and fill up the ranks, and on they would come. Tou can't do anything with people of that kind. They did not know when they were whipped. Somebody had to run, and as they would not, we did, and then they shot us in the back. Tet it must not be supposed that the Chinese are cowards. They fight bravely and when they are face to face with an enemy, armed with spears, they are the braver soldiers of the two. They fight desperately and to the death. They do not calculate on com ing out of a battle alive; and a Chinese eoldier invariably disposes of his estate and bids farewell to his family forever before going to war. He knows that he will fight until he is dead. The trouble with the Chinaman, in the battle of to-day, is that he does not understand modern weapons. He knows little of dynamite and nothing of lyddite; war balloons are novelties to him, high explosives barely a name; he Is not used to the Mauser and he has not calculated upon the tricky quali ties of the disappearing gun. -i ii -man m;i-ii 'ni AN IDEA FOR A 4 K r p ft CHINESE GENERALS, AND HIS STAFF. There is another difficulty under which the Chinaman labors. He does not love his flag. His country and his family he loves; and he may have a de votion to his cause; but that wild un reasoning love of flag is a stranger to him. The Rational flag does not figure in his home as it does in our country; it is not a part of his education; he does not sing about it; and rally around it. Still China has some faithful leaders upon whom she can depend. These military leaders came lately to a realizing sense of China's weakness in war and resolved to remedy it. It was under their instructions that the Chinese troops allowed themselves to be organized by the Germans and taught the arts of war. When the Germans took part of China for their own, and armed it, they selected native Chinamen for guards and, after arm ing them and uniforming them, they taught them how to fire the rifles and how to use the field guns. The Chi nese Generals meanwhile nodding ap proval. LEARNING TO FIGHT. Russia did the same thing in her own quarter of China, or the part which she claimed as her own; and France also. sent rifles and had her own native troops. The Chinese accepted the in structions and profited by them. The skill of the present is wholly due to the faithful lessons they have so faithfully learned the past few years. A few of the Chinese Generals have refused to become acquainted with modern methods, claiming that China had always excelled and always would excel in war. One of these Wo Tung Lang fought in the Corean war. When about to start for Corea somebody asked him if he did not think it would be a good thing to study the geography of Corea: "Geography of Corea!" said he. "What do I care about the geography of Corea! I will just go over there and have two or three engagements with them and that will be the end of i. There is no use of my bothering myself about the geography of the country." As a matter of fact, he went over and had the engagements, but the result was not what he had predicted. One of his soldiers who was laid up in a hospital after his return explained what happened. He and the others in most of the hospitals were shot in the back. A General prominent In past wars was General Teli. He was, however, suspected of stealing the government money and was removed. The direct cause of the removal was the fact that, though money was regularly sent him for the troops, little, if any of it, ever reached its destination. A man who will lead the troops Is General Nieh. He is a big fat, good natured man, artistic to the ends of his pointed fingers and as sentimental as a poet. It is difficult to picture General Nieh in battle. But he will go to war, mounted upon his horse, all gaily caparisoned, ready to vanquish the enemy. General Nieh is at present located at Lu Tal which is less than one hundred miles from Tien Tsin. He is the most popular of the Generals and has the greatest degree of control over the troops. A popular man !s General Tuan Shih-kai. He, too, is big and corpulent, standing higher and measuring broader SHORE BATTERY. v -L l 1 t v i than any man in his regiment. The General is fond of foreigners and one cannot think that he relishes the idea of exterminating the white races from the face of the earth, as the Chinese in his command feel positive he will do. He was in the Japanese war and, though he did not gain any particular glory, he escaped alive which has al ways been considered a considerable feat. The Chinese have for hundreds of years punished defeated Generals by beheading them. They carried out the practice through all the family leaving none of his name or blood alive. After the Japanese wp.r it -as decided to make an exception in the cases of the commanders of that campaign as owing to the peculiarity of the Japanese methods, it was impossible to win. General Tuan Shih-kai, therefore, es caped with his life and his family were not beheaded. General Tuan was the Chinese repre- fir imiA fefAj ei s JZ&tfrtrte .?f Ik

JT THE FAVORITE WITH THE REGULARS IN THE EASTERN PART OB! CHINA. sentative at the Corean capital when war broke out in Corea. When the first battle was fought the vessels were all taken off the line between Tien Tsin and Chemulpo, and all the for eigners, myself included, were stranded in Corea. But an offer came from the Captain of a British cruiser to carry all foreigners over to Chefoo, and Gen eral Tuan was included among this number. He is like General Nieh in his good nature, and like him in his general understanding of the power of Western' governments. When Tu Hslen, another General, was recalled General Tuan was appointed to take his place. He appointed his brother to take charge of his troops, and at once he began to put down the Boxer move ment; but no sooner had this been done than the brother was recalled by the Empress Dowager. This, of course, was proof positive that the Empress was in sympathy with the Boxers. Notwithstanding this. General Tuan has steadily gained control of things and is spoken of very highly by those who are in those disturbed regions. Rome of the leading missionaries write that 'it is evident that the military of ficials are doing all they can to put the movement down, but in this they are not very heartily seconded by the civil authorites." HATES FOREIGNERS. The most anti-foreign General and one who presents a direct contrast to LIGHT ARTILLERY RUN the two just described, is Tung Fuhsiang. This General won his repu tation in Kansu, the northwestern province, a few years ago in his bat tles with, the Mohammedans then in revolt. All his life he has been shut off from Intercourse with foreign governments and knows absolutely nothing about their power, the nature of their arms and the character of their fighting abil ity. Because his army was able to put down the Mohammedan rebellion, which was practically a war between two rabbles, he supposes that all this trouble with "foreign devils" is because of Christianty, and so he is not only anti-foreign but especially anti- Christian. His rabble incites fear among the natives, whether Christian or non-Christian, wherever he goes. Only a year or two ago when It was known that he was about to come down about the region of Peking there wa a general quaking among the country people and awful stories were told about the cruelty of his men and their disposition to loot, to rob and to out rage the women of the sections through which they passed. The difference be tween his rabble and the armies of Nieh and Tuan in an indication of the salutary influence their contact with foreign soldiers and the representation foreign governments has had upon them. There is one other General who has recently become prominent. This is Prince Tuan. who has charge of the Imperial Manchu troops at Peking. He is the father of the heir apparent, and the son of the Fifth Prince, as he has always been called. He is said to be f V r one of the most warlike of all the Im perial princes, if not the most warlike; but the stand he has taken with the conservative party, which, of course, was forced upon him by the fact that his son was chosen by the Empress Dowager as the successor of Kuans Hsu, has placed him in a very unfavor able light before the world. SYMPATHY WITH BOXERS. It la said that the large majority of his troops joined the Boxers in the neighborhood of Peking and it was this fact that made the Boxer move ment so strong and so successful In that neighborhood. There is no doubt that he was, like the Empress Dowager, in sympathy with them, and It was probably through his influence that General Nieh was rebuked when his soldiers killed BOO of the Boxers be tween Tien Tsin and Peking. His army sets the Manchu soldiers in a very bad light before the world. There are two other men who rank higher among China's military leaders than any or all the others put to gether. And yet they are not Generals. They are the two Viceroys. They ar Li Hung Chang, whom everybody knows, and Chang Chih-tung, who is almost unknown in America. It is somewhat singular that these two men should have the names they have. They are the Smith and Brown, or the Brown and Jones of China, aa indi- BY AUTOMOBILE POWER. cated by the following Chinese proverb. In the Chinese primer for girls they have this couplet: Have you ever learned the reason why your ears should punctured be? "Tis that you may never listen to the talk of Chang and Li. Now, as a matter of fact, if the Chi nese had listened to the advice of Chang Chih-tung and LI Hung Chang, China would be far on the road to progress at the present time. LI Hung Chang, as is well known, is the Viceroy of the two Kuangs, and Chang Chih tung is the Viceroy of Hupeh and Huan. It is the latter who is tele graphing to urge the powers not to send troops to China. mini i ,1111111, pi. AUTOMOBILE FORTS FOR THE BRITISH. Queen Victoria Is Having These Curi ous Structures Built for the Pur poses of a Coast Guard. The full possibilities of the automo bile have not as yet been discovered. Scarcely a week but brings news of a new machine to be run on the automo bile principle. It may be only a baby -carriage; it may be a van; or it may branch out into a hitherto unexplored field of usefulness. A travelling fortress capable of run ning at the speed of an express train over any kind of ground has been in vented by the head of a large syndi cate which is identified with the manu facture of high-speed automobiles. The British Government has placed with the Inventor's firm an order for a number of the machines. On a level road the automobile can easily make fifty miles an hour. The machine which was tried the other day carries armor-plate protec tion and two rapid-fire guns. Four men find plenty of working room with in the enclosure and are in no danger of being thrown out, even when the machine is moving at a high rate of speed. This war car, however, is but the smallest of the machines to which the motor has been applied. It is possible to build one big enough and strong enough to have the machine resemble a battleship on dry land. If the pis tons of the motor are enlarged to the required proportion there seems to be no reason at all why the armies of the future should not be equipped with a double-turreted land monitor which would be absolutely impregnable to or dinary attacks and which in warfare would be more mobile than even a cav alry force. Before the onslaught of such a ma chine ordinary land artillery would be powerless. It could -batter its way with its guns through an ordinary town and travel comfortably over a path made by its projectiles. Gasoline is the fuel used on the mo tor, and a very small amount of this liquid will run the machine a long distance. Electricity is and always will be a favorite power for use in city A HERO OF THE streets and on smooth roads, but for warfare and across rough country eith er the gasoline or the steam motor will be the one on which the most re liance must be placed. Gasoline is easi ly transported in the field, and water in sufficient quantities for the use of the machines can always be obtain ed. A motor which depends on storage batteries for its power would be hope lessly handicapped in active service, as the first rough shaking it received would entirely derange the storage batteries. One of these motor forts, for in stance, could be equipped with a dyna mite gun. Dashing from behind some shelter, it could approach the enemy at the speed of an express train, get within range, fire several of its deadly shells and get away, probably untouch ed, for it would be as hard to hit as a fast-flying bird. Fjr coast defence small travelling forts of this kind would be invaluable. They could travel along the beach or HERE YOU SEE AN AUTOMOBILE TU TSIN, THE YOUNGEST GENERAL IN THE CHINESE REGULAR ARMY. sand faster than trains, and could make things exceedingly warm for any parties of the enemy which were try ing to effect a landing. Of course, it must be remembered that such land ings are almost invariably made under the protection of a battleship, and that one big shell from a ship, properly aim ed, would put the automobile fort hope lessly out of business. That is where one of the big double turreted automobile forts would come into play. No sensible strategist would ever try to effect a landing under the guns of a fort, or, indeed, at any place he knew to be adequately protected by earthworks or other fortifications. If these automobile fortresses were in general use it would mean, practically, that every part of the coast line of the country would be protected, for if an enemy were seen to be approaching it would take, at the most, half an hour to get one of these fast-travelling forts JAPANESE WAR. to the threatened point. It Is, neces sarily, very much easier to take aim from land than from the deck of a ship, and while the battleship anl cruisers protecting the landing might be more powerful in armament, the ad vantage of accuracy and position would be on the side of the defence. The wheels are pneumatic, the out side tube being four inches thick. The centre of gravity of the machine lies so low and its wheel base is so broad that it Is practicably impossible to up set the machine, however swiftly it may be turned. The possibility of a "flying artillery' of light field guns mounted upon au tomobile carriages is being earnestly considered by officers. Lookingr-GlaM. One million eight hundred and fifty thousand square yards of looking glass is manufactured in Europe annually. FORT AS IT WILL TRAVEL ALONG WEAKEST POINT. MAN'S ENEMIES. By David Star Jordan, President of th Stanford University, California. There are four enemies that have stood in the path of man. These are aristocracy, militarism, slavery and imperialism. There are various other enemies, but those are the four arch enemies in the political sense. They all spring out of the idea that man be longs not to himself, but that he be longs, body and soul, to somebody or something else which owns him. These four enemies in a dangerous garb con front the United States to-day. Schiller says that the tyrants reach hands to each other that they reach to each other the hands. They stand together now. These four stand to gether. Wherever there is one the other is. Aristocracy, slavery, militar ism and imperialism. They reach each other's hand. They all have their fair, attractive side. They are defended sometimes at the fireside. Slavery was discussed and defended from many a pulpit in New England. Aristocracy has its fail side. The foundation of quality is aristoc racy, the foundation of our own liberty is rebellion against it the very thing we came here for. There is a fair side of slavery and a fair side of militarism. How clean the streets can be kept under military discipline and how free from noise! How easily people can be sent to bed at dark if it be desired! There is a fair side of imperialism. Tou will find that in many places nine tenths of the people believe it a good thing for the world. Maybe it is, but when we come to read history from the one side to the other we will find that the British people have been debauched by their course in India, and that the Hindoos have been cursed. You will find that the English people have been turned from being a strong, freedom loving people. Tou will find also that the heart's blood has gone out of Great Britain as it has gone out of all coun tries which have indulged in constant wars. We know how Napoleon depopulated France by his wars. We know of the murders of the nobility, the murders of the peasantry and the result in the France of to-day. In 1630, when the Philippine question was a burning one in Spain, La Puente, an Augustinian friar, expressed his opinion of the whole thing when he said: "Against the gain of redeemed souls I place the cost in the loss of armadas and of sol diers and of friars sent to the Philip pines, and these I count the chief loss, that while mines give silver and for ests give lumber, only Spain gives Spaniards, and shu shall give so many of them that some day she shall be left childless and forced to bring up strangers' children Instead of her own." The heresy of Imperialism Is the most dangerous that has arisen since the he resy of secession, and it must be fought as vigorously as the heresy of secession. If we admit as citizens any number of millions of people that are not ready for liberty, if we admit them with all the degradation which they must bring into our politics, we must fake the consequences. It is better that we should be lust and faithful to our own principle and to tne principles of God and that we should in our laws be no respecters of persons, Decause if in our laws we ar respecters of persons we must go the way or empire, as an empire has gone. THE COAST LOCATING AT THE

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