The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 15, 1901

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I r ft- r, 1 i 1 s i U i Si I'll 5 1 J II! m I LAST EDIIIOl FIUBAT EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS. FEBKUA11Y 15, 1001. FRIDAY EVENING. T WO CENTS. m i n V i 0, i I i Ut BRIGHT JO MEET Local Bar Banquets the Su lreme Court Judges. Enjjeno Uagan Acts as Toast-master. :in. II F. WARE SPEAKS Toet-LaMjer Delivers Address oa Tbe Supreme Court." Besponses Hade by Chief Justice Doster and Judge Ellis. The lai t-st gathering of the Topeka lar for1 several years occurred at the Copeland hotel last night when the local bar gave a banquet complimentary to the members of the supreme court. Seventy-live lawyers were present, which is really a remarkable gathering of legal lights for Topeka. It was 2 o'clock before the last speech was made and the members went home, but even if the time was long it was thoroughly enjoyed by every one. Eugene Hapn was the toast master of the occasion, and when he arose after the banquet he was greeted with ap plause, and there was nothing to drink but water. He opened his remarks as soon as the applause died out by say ing: "I presided over a banquet many years ago and it was the last time un til the present one. It was a Democratic banquet and was during the life of the Democratic party. At that banquet a man was applauded for anything he could say; he was applauded even if he was able to stand erect. This applause now reminds me of the story of the man who saw a large snake and re marked 'That is the largest snake I ever saw without the aid of liquor.' and this is the greatest applause I ever re ceived without the aid of liquor. A fw weeks am the members of the Shawnee county bar were telling the governor there were no good men for the supreme bench outside of Topeka, and now we are telling him what good men h apfrointed. "Every man has a chance to become famous." Ijist winter I went to Hot Fprings and registered at a hotel. In the morning the landlord approached me and said:- 'Are you not the Kan fas poet IronquiU?' -es; I replied. Are you the celebrated poet?' 'Yes.' Well, sir, you must pay your board bill in advance.' -That night we got Into a poker game and the hands had gone around but a few times when I got three kings. The landlord was dealing, and I know the s .uiherners' way of working suckers. so when the bet came to me I passed. The landlord looked at me, and then said: 'You are no poet; you are too I tinart for a poet." "V He then introduced Kugene Ware, who said "The supreme court of Kansas has always been a great and good court. I have" known all the mem hers of the court. They have performed their duties -with fidelity and ability. Not everything I can say of 'he court is good. 1 hey are the most ill favored looking men I ever saw. You have seen the pictures in toe court room, and I assure you they are good likenesses. The members of the supreme court have been great men; the present members are great men, and I know you Join ma in hoping the courts which may come will be as great and good." In introducing Judge Doster .Mr. Ha fran s?id: "Judge loster was in the state house when no Republican could get in. He kept them out." Then turn ing to the other members of the court present, Mr. Hasan said: "Gentlemen, there are now six of you against him. 'Feed fat that ancient grudge, I charge von.' Judge Doster said: "T hardly know what to say to you tonight as I have very titite experience in making address es at banquets. You will pardon me if I recite a little personal reminescence. I my boytKM-d I first named to be a railroad engineer. I then wanted to tv a soldier, then I decided I would like to be an actor. After these all I decided I wanted to be a lawyer and so T was. I have mver regretted my decision. At that time I came to Kansas, My wife followed in a short time- with a new baby. I brought about a dozen law books with me and that stock has not in creased. When I passed through Topeka the papers were publishing a supreme court decision regarding railroads. I have seen the court glow since then ann I have known every judge of the court since then." He then spoke of the chief justices uf the court. Ewing. Cobb. Bail ey, staffer and spoke very highly of them as men and jurists. Judge Kingman he termed the father of all the lawyers. The hardest working, the most painstak ing member of the supreme court of the stat was Justice Valentine. "Some years ago I determined to do the supreme court of this state up. I submitted to an interview about them. I spoke of their lack of originality of thought, but I qualified by saying that Justice Valentine had a mind of his own. 'T look for the greatest decision of re- cent years to come from Justice Brewer upon the case which is now pending which is of move importance than any cas since the Dred Scott case." He pro bably referred to the Philippine case He then spoke a few words of the present bench and closed by telling a story of how a congressman who went to Wash ington could not understand how he happened to be there. nvkn I look at the members of this cant and think or the men who have treen members of this court I fee mucn the same as the con. liTha?" tUrDinS l JudSe 1- j,,"1 t"Uet th-; jUdge ePlain how lie got on the bench." Judge KliLs had been selected bv th new members of the court to answer the toast to the new members. He first an swered the remarks by Judge Doster tnl !-t;lniind teI!ir hmv 1 happened I iH e? s"preme 'K-b."8aiJ Judge J-ilis. it was done in this way. I came r tn( governor in roraH caturecl hj at the old Sne-pbers of the court, he said iitw o U,s wft can V,,c naa a ta k with hiir lie -emed to have objections to ap points g me because he hinted that 1 Place "';l4;"rr h of a iawyer Place. I sa.d to him. 'See here, governor. c.r'ir-V a,'!H"nt o this court ac and dr most heartily indorse all the good things said by the attorney for the plaintiff upon this sentiment so far as the same relate to the history of the su preme court, its record and its standing, and so far as his remarks refer aione to the justices of the court w ho were mem bers before the recent deluge." He then referred to the high record of the su preme court of the state made since its establishment in KSG0. "It is a high honor to become a part of a court which has been graced by a Ewing, a Kingman, a liorton, a Valen tine, an Allen, a Martin, a Doster.a John ston, a Smith and by others who witii them form a galaxy of celebrated jurists and gentlemen. "As to the new members this may be said with safety. They will give to the work a patient and faithful application with the view of utilizing fuily such abilities as they possess. They will not, out of a preconceived notion of what ought to have been, attempt to disturb and unsettle the jurisprudence of this state, upon the stability of which such diversified and important interests de pend. They will endeavor to profit by the lessons which they will learn from their elders whose wisdom and experi ence will doubtless guide them past many snares and pitfalls. And these new members of the court will also look to the bar for sympathy, for forbear ance, and for intelligent aid. They are from you and of you, and a just meas ure of responsibility for their success or failure will rest on your shoulders." H. T. Chase, of the Capital, responded to the toast "A, Layman's View." He made a few remarks regarding the man ner in which he had been placed on the programme, and closed with a short paper with general reference to the law and the courts. "To the lay mind the creation of su preme courts as a sort of limitation on the versatility of the legal profession in their view of the law, is one of the most jngenious and beneficent of inven tions," he declared. "It is manifest that without our supreme court our laws would mean nothing more than they ap pear to signify to the ordinary intelli gence. With nobody to decide what the laws mean, there could be no lawing; with no lawing, there couid be no pro cess of arriving at justice; and justice we all demand with the strenuousness of the man who was bound to have peace if he -had to right for it. "The people from time to time be cause of some great agitation appealing to their moral nature experience a spasm of virtue and high purpose. Laws are then and there enacted expressing the purpose to the community. In the course of time the excitement subsides and the community relapsea into its or dinary frame of mind But the law still stands despite the opinions of some, not all laymen, that the law is above the capacity of the people. If the principle that when the ardor of the people cools the law should be repealed had not been scouted out of court years ago, there would have been no progress." Judge S. H. Alien responded to the toast "Presumptions." He spoke of the early history of the world when there was no law but might, and of the evo lution of rhe law and of the knowledge of the law which judges were supposed to have from .justices of the peace to justices of the supreme, court, and closed with a tribute to the present su preme court. "The honored gruests of this evening are conclusively presumed to know all the laws of our state and to correctly apply them in all controversies which they decide. Only in matters relating to the constitution or laws of the United States is it possible for them to err, and this error may only be declared by the supreme court of the United States, which on those questions is alone en dowed with infallibility. "We all have reason to congratulate ourselves that the final determination of all our causes in this state rests in the hand3 of gentlemen whose past records The Kansas Supreme Court jVj rc, "s ius rc S furnish a safe and sure presumption that all their decisions will be just and wise, and such as will meet the approval of the consciences arid judgments of the members of the bar and the people of the state at large." D. R. Hite, in the course of his re marks on "The Dignity of Justice," rec ommended that the supreme court adopt the robe of office which is the surest guarantee of diginty and uniformity. "I cannot conceive of any more inspiring sight, one more calculated to compel re spect, and inspire awe, than the full bench of Kansas supreme court, attend ed by their eloquent bailiff and robed in the ancient garb of judicial office." The following letters was read by the toastmaster from Justice David J.Brew er, "of the United States supreme court, a former Kansan: Supreme Court or the United States, Washington, Feb. 11, 1901. Hon. James A. Troutman, Topeka, Kan. Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt from the Shawnee county bar of an invitation to attend a complimen tary reception and banquet to the su preme court of the state on February 14. I regret that other engagements prevent me coming west and being with you that evening. You ask, in case of my inability to at tend, a letter appropriate to the occasion. It is not an easy task to frame such a letter. A word of compliment to the court might seem a word of praise to myself in view of my long connection with it. And yet I think 1 do not tres pass the limits of modesty when I say that the decisions of the supreme court of Kansas have commended themselves to the considerate judgment of the pro fession throughout the nation. Without further words in that direc tion I may appropriately and with ut most truthfulness say that during the many years with which 1 was connect ed with the court or intimately familiar with its history there was a delightful personal affection subsisting between all its members. Among the rich memories of life are the cordial and sincere friend ships formed while on the supreme bench of Kansas with those associated with me therein. The sweet music of the song of friendship was never broken bv a discordant note. While we differed, as Independent men will, on many questions of law, the mere intellectual discord nev er introduced an inharmonious note into that music which gives to life its su premest joys. I have no time to say more. God bless the supreme court of Kansas,-and may it through the long years of its exist ence, the personal character of its mem bers, their judicial learning and wisdom, their independence of conviction and their loyalty to the high thoughts of truth and justice, ever commend itself to the affections and confidence of the peo ple of Kansas. I am, with great respect, very truly yours, DAVID J. BREWER. An interesting communication was read from the venerable Judge Samuel A. Kingman of this city. Judge King man, by reason of his advanced years and failing health, was unable to be present. Smallpox on the Oldenburg. New York, Feb. 15. There was a smallpox patient on board the North German Lloyd steamer Oldenburg, which reached this port last night from Bremen. The sic man, who traveled steerage, will be removed to the re ception hospital and the steamer was disinfected and all her passengers vac cinated before she was permitted to come up to the city. Death of Gilbert A. Pierce. Chicago, Feb. 15. Gilbert A. Fierce, formerly United States senator from North Dakota, and in 1S83 territorial governor of Dakota, died today at his apartments in the Lexington hotel after a long illness. Mr. Fierce was formerly a newspaper man. Since That Tribunal Uas Ceen mbers Are Justices Pol'cck, .5 f uyuiiaLLioi f a r oes. HAT President of the V. C. T. U. Gives Her Approval To the Course Pursued by the Kansas Joint Smasher. HER TRIP TO CHICAGO. It Shook Up the Temperance People and the Churches. Union Signal Ordered to Print Good Things About Her. Chicago, Feb. 15. The Record today says: Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president of the W. C. T. U., has sent the following mes sage from her. heme in Maine to Mrs. Caroline Grow and Mrs. Chapin, editors of the Union Signal, the official organ: "Print as many good things as yo:i can of Mrs. Carrie Nation; she certainly has accomplished much." It was the first indorsement that has been given Mrs. Nation by the W. C. T. U.'s officers. Mrs. Nation wears a white ribbon, but she said at Willard hall Wednesday night: "I haven't much use for the white ribbon and not so very much for the W. C. T. U. They wouldn't help n:e along with my work. They're too slow." "The indorsement, if we interpret it that way, was given cautiously," said Mrs. Grow, "as Mrs. Stevens is studying Mrs. Nation and her methods. Truly her work in Kansas is remarkable and the entire W. C. T. U. is now recognizing it." "Do you think Miss Willard would have approved of Mrs. Nation?" "By all means she would have liked her work in Kansas." "I think the W. C. T. U. irNChicago is being shaken up by Mrs. Nation, so are the church people," says Airs. Chapin. "We are all apathetic. I doubt if ther2 will be any bands of Home Defenders formed here but surely the women will be quickened by the Mrs. Nation spirit." URGED TO JOIN. Old Soldiers Appealed to by Com mander of the G. A. R Chicago. Feb. la. Commander-in-Chief Leo Bassieur of the Grand Army of the Republic has issued aa address to veter ans in which he urges those who fought in the civil war, but who are at present outside the ranks of the Grand Army of the. Republic, to join the organisation. The commander-in-chief has tlso an nounced the appointment of the follow ing special committees, authorized by the last national encampment: Sons of Veterans Wm. H. Armstrong, Indiana; F. M. Lennon. Iowa P. H. Coney, Kansas: Aaron I. Bliss, Michigan; W. JD. Wickersham. Alabama. To petition congress for passage of bill creating a national holiday to be known as Flag day V. C. Johnson. Ohio; John P. S. Gobin. Pennsylvania; Allen C. Bake well, New York. To go to Washington to urge passage of bill setting aside Camp Supply in Okla homa and Fort .Sherman in Idaho as Ka- Enlarged From Three to Seven Cunningham, Fills end Greene. tional Soldiers' homes Charles P. Lin coin. Washington; R- B. Sott, Spokane, Wn. J. M. Daizell. Caldwell, O.; John N. Kerman, St. Louis; Marion I. Anderson, Washington, D. C. Charles A. Clark, Boise City, Idaho; C. M. Barnes, Guthrie, O. T. The following have been chosen mem bers of the national council to fill vacan cies: George W. Cook, from Wyoming and Colorado, to succeed H. O. Dodge, re signed: Thomas A. Morrison, from Penn sylvaniar, to succeed Wm. F. Stewart, de ceased; Jere T. Dew, from Missouri, to succeed Frank M. Sterrett, resigned. LOSS OF PUGILISTS, Managers Out 1 8,000 and 1 0V 000 Bespectively. Cineirinati, Feb. 15. The majesty of the law Is certainly forcibly seen in Cin cinnati today. A ten-round bout be tween Childs and Martin for the colored championship of the world and a twenty-round bout between Jeffries and Ruhlirl for the heavyweight champion ship of the world had been scheduled for Saengerfest hall tonight. That huge hall stands alone and deserted on the com mons adjoining the zoological gardens. The Saengerfest board that lost ?67,000 originally in the structure recently ex pended about $50,000 in remodeling the hall for the proposed boxing contests. They put in twenty large stoves and many arc lights. In the remodeling pro vision was made for over 2,000 people in private boxes. These with the addi tional seating capacity for over 15,000 others are likely to remain empty until the wrecking company removes them elsewhere. The regulation ring remains in the pit of the great amphitheater also as a memento of previous announcements and present failures. The telegraph companies had strung dozens of wires to the building. As late as this morn ing there were rumors of troops swarm ing into this suburban section, but no soldiers or citizens can be seen about that great empty structure today. While no such scenes of desolation are observed at the training quarters of either Jeffries or of Ruhlin, yet it is evi dent that they are discouraged and are preparing to break camp. Jeffries will join his company at Columbus tomorrow and Ruhlin will spar with Denver Ed Martin at Marietta tomorrow night, after which both will fill engagements for which they have been scheduled by their managers for the rest of the sea son. But the most disconsolate parties of all are to be found "down town" at the conferences of the Saengerfest 'Athletic association with their counsel. Managers Brady, Madden, Cook and others. They held informal conferences in sections during the forenoon and expect to hold a joint conference after business hours late this afternoon. It is not a question of settling up after the performance with them so much as after the injunc tion. They are settling on a basis of largely increased expenses instead of paying off their deficits. In addition to remodelling the hall and thousands of dollars of other expenses'they have now a forfeit of $2,500 each with the contest ants to adjust. They are also consider ing the propriety of carrying the in junction case to the circuit and supreme courts. They have six leading law firms engaged on their side and have al ready expended large sums of money for counsel in the litigation and the question of additional expense in this line is entering largely into the question of carrying the case to the higher courts. The Saengerfest Athletic associ ation is not the only loser. Manager Brady cancelled profitable dates for many weeks for Jeffries and his com pany so that he could go into training and has been at an expense in maintain ing his training quarters. His loss is Members The Four sw estimated at about $18,000. Manager Madden has had a similar experience in taking Ruhlin off the road and support ing the large force at his training quar ters and he estimates his losses at al most $10,000. The End Came to Maurice Thompson This Morning. He Passed Away FeacefullySur rounded by His Family. Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 15. Sur rounded by his family, Maurice Thomp son, the author, died at 3:25 this morn ing after an illness of many weeks. He had been kept alive for several days by the use of stimulants. About 9:30 o'clock last night he became uncon scious and there was no sign of pain when the end came. The. funeral will probably be held here Monday. Maurice Thompson was born In Fair field, Ind., in 1844, and in early life re moved with his parents to the southern part of Kentucky, and from that state to the northern part of Georgia, where he first attempted to describe life as he knew it from observation. He entered the confederate army when a mere boy, and obtained distinction as a scout and for his well known feats of horsemanship and his many hair breadth escapes. After the war the young hero of the southern cause devoted some time to magazine articles, most of which were published in the south, all of them be ing strongly sectional and exceptionally well written. Shortly after the cessation of hostili ties Thompson took up the profession of civil engineer, and it was following this THE LATE MAURICE THOMPSON. vocation that ha first met Alice Lee, a charming girl of 16, who afterward became Mrs. Maurice Thompson, the bond of marriage being sealed shortly after they became acquainted. Soon after his marriage the profession of engineering was forsaken for the lit erary field, with the practice of law as a side issue. This was in 1867, and it was about that time that his poem on Home Life" appeared. After settling at Crawfordsville with his young wife Mr. Thompson devoted his time almost exclusively to writing, and it was from here that his first book of poems was issued. Mr. Thompson's first volume, "Hoosier Mosaics," appeared in 1875. It was a slight effort, and gave but faint prom ise of the delightful romances and ex quisite poems that were to follow. His seporid book. "The Witchery of Arch ery," was more successful, and gave him at least w ide notoriety. Archery clubs were formed everywhere, and the exciting and healthful fad endured for several seasons. Mr. Thompson was himself an expert with the bow and arrows, and in the woods could bag al most as much game as any of his com panions armed with rifles. About this time he made several trips back to his sunny southland, and they brought forth fruit. His eyes began to note the changes that were taking place in the social and political life and he embodied his studies in several romances "A Tal lahassee Oirl," "His Second Campaign," and "At Love's Extremes." The at mosphere in all these is purely south ern. He was the first to recognize the south aa a rich field for romance. He endeavored to put the southerner with his environment on canvas, to give a true picture of southern men and wo men and life before the conditions under which they existed had utterly passed awav. A later and stronger novel w-as "A Banker of Bankersville." a vivid, wholesome picture of life in Indiana. Among his other more notable works are "A Fortnight of Folly' (1888), "A Story of Louisiana (1888), "The Ocala Boy" (1895) and "Two Old Boys." a de lightful serial published first in the Cen tury in 1S83. But Mr. Thompson is no more widely known, perhaps, than for his love of nature and his artistic inter pretation of it. Some of his papers have been collected in two volumes, whose very titles are refreshing, "Byways and Bird-notes" and "Sylvan Secrets." In his keen observance of nature, thoueht seemed to come to him always under the laws of form and glowing with color. His earliest efforts were published under the title "Songs of the Weather." In ISM a new edition of these songs, slightly en larged, was published under the simple title "Poems." Again and again in his poems, as well as his writings, is revealed his deep love for the south. His war poems are resonant, and of all "L.ineoln'3 Grave" is perhaps his master piece. It was read before the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard in 14. Fam ous writers seldom attain great wealth, and Mr. Thompson was no exception to the rule. His income from hi works justified a comfortable, though not ex travagant living. From a financial stand point he climaxed his life work with his late popular novel. "Alice of Old Vin cennes." This charming story, the longest he had ever written, was issued but a few months ago. and its sale has been something phenomenal. During the holi days it had the best sale of any book on the market, and of course yielded the au thor handsome returns. During tbe late war with Spain Mr. Thompson wrote a number of poems bearing on that 'con flict, which attracted widespread atten tion. His last literary efforls were sketches from his life in the south. The are in the hands of the publishers, and will soon be out under the title "In My Winter Garden." Weather Indications. Chicago, Feb. 15. Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight; westerly winds, -'"V A tvei hi I; "XM W SLATEJSjjADL New Railroad Hoard Pratieiilly Arranged For. J.3I. Simpson and Postlethwaiie Are Included. CRAWFORD THE OTIIEIl Kansas City Conductor is Also in the List. Measure to He Changed Hcfare it Becomes a Law. The Republicans are holding a caui'iifl this afternoon in the house to decide upon the railroad bill. The question of whether the members of the board shaii be appointed or elected has nut bet n fully settled and will be one of trie points discussed in the caucus. There are other point's to be discussed as it, seems a majority of the Repuljlieaiis do riot agree with the bill as reported tj the joint committee. If the caures decides that the commis sioners shall he appointed by I lie ex. cn tive council it is reported bv men on te inside that the commissioners w ill i J. M. Simpson, J. C. I'ostlethwaite ai( Z. J. Crawford. Craw ford wiil be t h man if the petitions of Hie different railroad organizations are coiisirfere-i and a railroad man is pur on the Ito ii i. He lives at Argentine and is a conducior on the Union Pacific. Wil'.arn Iteezl-y has the inside track for the posh ion ms Clerk of the commil tee. Be sley li vs Kinsley and is now cierk of the Judicial committee of the senate. The stock shippers will make an effort to get the bill a little more to their liking and the question of how best to enforce the orders of the commission will be gone over. It is doubtless an oversight in section 20 that babes in arms are not exempted from paying fare. A half-fare is pro vided for children under twelve your of age but no minimum age on the half fare, descending to free transportation for very small children, is provided. This will probably be placed at the ages of five or six years. The railroads are said to be dissatis fied with the power vested in the com mission to go jnto the supreme court: and enforce its orders by mandamus proceedings. There would lie little use of having a railroad commission and hav" its hands tied by inability to carry out its decisions, so it in evident that this provision must stay or the law would be of little effect. CONVICTS MUST WORK Bill to Stop Contract Plan Is Report ed Unfavorably. The state of Kansas does not know what to do with its penitentiary con victs unless they are kept at work on manufactures under contract to outside firms and corporations. The convicts in the penitentiary make shoes and manu facture furniture, and the dealers that take the product pay the state 50 cent a day for the labor of each convict working on the Job. Representative Spurlock introduced a, bill in behalf of free labor, to prohibit; the hiring of convict labor to private manufacturers. The house committee on penal insti tutions made an adverse report on the bill this morning, hecauss, as Chair man J. B Adams, of Butler, put it. "The state cannot afford to keep its convicts in idleness, and at present it has no other work on hand for them to do." Representative Watkins' bill revislnc the law governing the Hutchinson re formatory is recommended for jmssaK". The bill provides that his civil Tight are restored to an inmate upon his dis charge, and makes it an institution solely for male prisoners, correcting a defect in the old law. REED'S RULES RATHER RIGID. Cash Road Tax Law Was Killed Just the Same. In killing the proposition to make rou 1 taxes payable in cash, the committee of the whole house was in the midst of more or less turbulence. J. B. Adams, of Butler, was in the chair, itnd he pound ed the head of the gavel off trying t'f keep the lobbies quiet. The chairman had his hands full when everybody wanted to talk at one-, and it was the desire of all to cxpeiiiif business. An amendment to make it permissive instead of mandatory to p;t y cash was declared carried, ami Nichols, the author of the bill, bewildered by 1 1 unpopularil y of the measure and rapid recital of the motion to strike out the enacting clause, as h" struggle J to get recognition, remarked: "Mr. Chairman, your Reed rules are rather rigid." There was no saving the bill. On the general question of changiiiK: the system from working out road tax to paying cash the bill ft it down. Representative Lincard summed up the situation when he said t!i farmers objected because when cash it paid the roads would be Improved around the villages, while nut nionir their farm properties no work womd re done unless the farmers went out an l did it themselves. PRICE RAID CLAIBX3. House Ways and Meant Committer Reports Unfavorably. The house ways and means committer this morning made an unfavorable re port upon the appropriation liiils to pay the Brice raid claims. Si hlyer's bid to establish a branch normal school and agricultural experiment station on the Fort Hays reserval ion. ju-t accepted bv the senate from the United States gov ernment was recommended for p:i.-.-e Kighteen thousand dollars iti api-i'i:i-tions are carried by tiie latter .j!, Of 10 for the normal school and J'i.ii'O f..r the experiment station. If the appro priation passes the lesislatute uud ire comes a law, the education of wwiPtti Kansas young people to become pirtil e school teachers can be taken up next fall. Penitentiary Deficiency $10,000. Chairman John Francis, of the hotis ways and means committee, introdteed the state penitentiary deficiency iippt'e. priation bill this morning; Sl'Ui'r'l is tlt sum appropriated. Lottery Bill Defeated. Carson City, Nev.. Feb. IS. I it th ss' senate a concurrent. reeiT et known the lottery bill, wh.c'n p;e-..,; 0' e n e.r-- two years ago, Was U' -a r i. J era aaini r I I

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TOPEKA STATE JOUliNAX FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15. 1931. Jimmy Ilyan, Chicago's Veteran Eight Field. Player, Will Be CiTea Release to Go With St. Paul. HAS A GOOD OFFER. Has Been on the Diamond Erer Since 1882. lias Always Ranked .High in Ratting Arerages. Chicago, Feb. 13. When "Warhorse" Tammy Buna -wanted to leave the Chi cago National League club some years ago he asked President Hart, to make come disposal or him. Hart at once re plied that 13 years of faithful and con scientious work on the diamond merited more than a mere exchange for some younger men, and the veteran was given i unconditional release. Now another one of the old-time stara of the club i m ho honored the same way. This time it is Captain Jimmy Ryan, who has been a member of the Chicago team for IS vears. While P.van has r.ot asked Hart for his release, it became known yesterday that last year's captain had been in con f erenr-e with George Iennon of St. Paul, who holds a franchise in the Western league. That Ryan practically accepted terms offered is also known, and the on ly obstacle to Ryan's going to St. Paul wi',1 be brushed away when the veteran calls on President Hart. "I will out sell or exchange Ryan." Hart said; "nor will I accept any man from the St. Paul team, a reported. If believes he can do better there, and I have every faith in his ability, he will be given a pod-speed from me, and there wiil be no s'irntg' attached to his release. When Ryan was discussing' the question of opening a saloon I asked him to call on me, and at that interview I told him that the future held out more to him as manager of a minor league club than In business in this city. He has appar ently profited by my advice." Ryan has a long career on the dia mond. He began playing ball In lso2 and for the next three years grew into major league caliber, so that when he was tried by the Chicago team in 1SS5 he found no difficulty in holding his po sition. At that time he played in center field, but was soon moved to right, where he was a fixture for many years. In. l!s'J0 Ryan Joined the brotherhood, but the following year was glad to l'c- turn to the fold and has been a loyal member of the Chicago team einee.From lSitt to the time when Lange came he piayed in the middle garden, from where he was shifted to right, and in 189S to left, where he played for two years, only to go bark to right last season. Up to last year he ranked high both as a batter Bud fielder, but last year he wan often willing to warm the bench, prefer ring to have his younger men in the fWd. His plays were often criticised by other members of the team, and for this reason, he would hesitate to go out. Fans have for some seasons been looking for the time when Ryan would go to a mi nor league club, where he would be able to rule without interference. His years of playing have mads him a valuable coach and at the head of a team he should be able to demonstrate his execu tive ability. Ryan will be manager of the St. Paul team and will probably play a position in the field. Any promising material in the team should be developed rapidly under his tutelage and the prospects for the Kt, Paul club look bright. Ryan has saved considerable money in years past and will be able to purchase some of the stock in the club. He owns some valu able property on the west eide. AMEBICAK LEAGUE AVERAGES Slues Led in Club Batting With an Average of .274. Chicago. Feb. 15. In the American Laiue baseball averages for last year, issued by President Ban Johnson, First Baseman Ganzel, who played with the Kansas City team until the middle of the season, when he was traded to the Chicago National league club, heads the batting list, with an average of 3sl. Yeager, of Milwaukee, was a close sec ond, with an average of 3S7. Buelow, of Cleveland, came third, with 353. Fore man, of Buffalo, gets fourth place, with 840. TamMt, of Cleveland, is last on the list, with but 141. The Chicago team, which won the championship.- is at the bottom of the list in club batting, with 137. Kansas City secured first place, with, 274. In club fielding. Milwaukee takea the lead, with S47. with Chicago second, 945, and Indianapolis is last, with 829 per cent. Waddell, of Milwaukee, heads the list of winning pitchers, with an average of 5: Patterson, of Chicaeo, second. 739; Miller, Detroit, third. 731. and Ehret, Minneapolis, last, with 314. Broderick. of Buffalo, has the best rec ord as a shortstop, with an average of 41. In the list of first basemen, Clark, of Milwaukee, gets the honors, with an average of 1,(Hh. First places In the oth er positions were secured by the follow ing players: Second basemen, Hallman, Buffalo, with an average of 940; third basemen, Coughlin, Kansas City, 9'0; outfielders. McAleer, Cleveland, 92 catchers, Ryan. Detroit, 978. TEBEATJ'S NEW FLA YE S3. Em Twenty-tare Player Signed For Kansas City. TCansas City, Feb. 15. Manager Geo. Tcfcwau, of the Kansas City Western l"asue twin, returned yesterday, after a player hunting trip of several weeks. In that time he bagged the stars of the Interstate League and several other ex perienced m-m and a batch of young sters. In all, he has about 21 players who will war the blue. Pitcher Henry Schmidt and Catcher Fullivan, both ex-Biues. are among the liHil pennant winners. Schmidt was the star twirler of the Denver club last year and fuliy capable of pitching winning ball if he will keep himself in condition. Manning bought him from Wilke Bane, season before last, and the remainder of that year the little German was a star twirler and great things were expected of him last year, but he couldn't keep away frrim the boeze and Manning re leased him. He signed with Denver, braced up and pitched the ball he should have pitched here. Tebeau kept him under control and got good work out of him. Catcher Pull. van. the California back stop, also began the season here in 10-0 snd made a very favorable impression. 1 was a good hitter and showed him sr'f to be a heady player at all times". The fans will be glad to Bee "Sully" back and it is hoped that he will remain tilts time. Among the other players is J. J. O'Brien, captain of the Scranton, Pa., tua lst year, the peasant .winners of the Atlantic Leagt played at second National league te on ground bails a: will moat likely b shingt on strong r ide capta itter. team. Rubert Ewing, one of the pitchers, was the star twirler of last year's Toledo club and Tebeau expects him to be one of his standbys. He is a right-handed twirler. Another good slab artist is Wil liam Woolf, of the Anderson, Ind., club. He did effective work last year and was wanted by several teams. Clyde Robinson, also of the Anderson team, is a hard hitting shortstop. He is a small, stocky buiit player, and fast on his feet. Tebeau thinks he will be one of the legue's crack innelders. As a sec ond backstop Mont Beville has been se cured from Toledo. Beville is known as a sure thrower and a heady catcher. He was without a doubt the star catcher of the Interstate League and a good man with his stick. K. L. Bradley is a rightfielder who played with Columbus and Anderson last season. Among the others there are F. J. Kearns, Harry Esteb, Ike Butler, William Barr and J. F. Feeney. WRITING TO ZIMMEE. Players' Association President Has Letters from Hart and Others. Cleveland, O., Feb. 15. Afraid that they have lost a number of star players to the American league, and fearful that they may lose more, the National league magnates are writing to Presi dent Zimmer of the Players' Protective association asking what bis association will do for the National league if that organization accedes to the demands of the players. 1 Zimmer has received three letters. The first two were from James Hart, presi dent of the Chicago ciub, and Rogers, of the Philadelphia club. The former was desirous of Knowing whether Zim mer would attend the National league meeting alone or would he be accom panied by Attorney Taylor. Iate this afternoon Zimmer received a letter from President Ebbets of the Brooklyn club. It was brief and to the point. "What will the Players' Protective association do to those players that have lumped the National league and joined forces with the American league if the Na tional league accedes to the demands of the players?" i Zimmer will answer in a couple of days. In discussing the subject he said: "We can not stop those players that join with the American league, although it is a violation of the rules of the asso ciation. But those that do so forfeit their right to membership. Once for feited they can never join again and must suffer the consequences. Of course, we can not agree to make all players sign National league contracts, even if this organization accedes to our demands, but it is our purpose to pro tect the National league the best we know how. This is given to all organi zations acceding to our demands and it is our duty to protect them, but as I say, it is impossible to malce all players Join their own organizations unless they are willing to do so. The penalty of failing to live up to the agreement is expulsion, and those deserting will be treated in that manner. We instructed all American league players under con tract at thai end of the season of 1900 to sign contracts with that organization. All others who have signed contracts will suffer the consequences," II' GEE MAY HAVE TO EXPLAIN Worcester Pitcher May Be Responsi ble For Betraying Secrets. Boston, Feb. 15. Ball players are ex pecting the Players' Protective associa tion will make it hot for Pitcher Mc Gee of the Worcester club, who was pre viously with Philadelphia, Washington and Louisville, unless he satisfies them that he was not the man who gave out the letter issued several weeks ago by Harry Taylor, attorney of the Players' association. At the Cleveland meeting' of the association MoGee was charged with having given the letter to the press, and a. Worcester paper with the letter in full was produced as evidence. The reason McGee was suspected was that a few days previous an interview with him appeared in a Worcester paper, in which McGee was quoted as saying things detrimental to the Play ers' association and intimating that it was the belief among Kastern league players that the organization was only organized for the purpose of taking care of the older players. The interview also stated that he was satisfied the Eastern league players would sign contracts as soon as they got a. chance. McGee la JEFFRIES he PHYSICAL -COMPARISON -jjS-Ji JL$ i&tia vj not saying anything about the matter, but his friends intimate that he will be ready with his defense when the proper time comes. There is every reason to believe the Boston baseball mystery has been solved and that the wonder that the Boston leagueclubhas purchased is none other than Gene Demontreville of the Brooklyn club. Brooklyn is amply sup piled with utility material, while Boston is most deficient of that article. Bos ton has been eager to secure a man ever since it failed to secure Padden of the American league Chicago team. Although Jimmy Collins has wired here from Buffalo that as far as he knows he has no intention of playing with any other club than the National league team next season, there is a strong belief that he is tied up with the American league cause in some way. The officials of the Boston league club laugh at the idea of Collins playing else where than here. GOSSIP OP THE FIGHTERS. Daley's Victory in England a Surprise Tommy White's Show. George Siler, in Chicago Inter-Ocean. 1 Pat Daley, who defeated Johnny Hughes, lightweight champion of Eng land, at the National Sporting club of London last Monday night, is either a high-class fighter or Hughes is a poor excusa for a champion. Daley is a Bos tonian and a few years ago drifted into New York city and by tall hustling managed to get on in a few prelimi nary bouts. His work was crude and he was put down as a poor fighter. Daley had an exalted opinion of him self as a fighter and did his utmost to convince eastern fight promoters that he was made of the right sort of stuff. He offered his services, regardless of the size of the purse, to the numerous fight ing clubs in New York, none of which accepted him seriously. He admitted his showing in the several preliminary bouts was not up to the standard and that he would like to get a chance to re deem himself. This, of course, was re fused and, finding himself broke and with no chance for a fight, he con cluded to take a trip to England by the MASCOT. i i i u H A i V I i.W'"., j i 'J 4 OF 'JEFFRIES 'ANB RUKIL1N. r.V .A s UU UP-ST cattle boat route. Once on the other side of the Atlantic he began seeking a Job at fighting, met and defeated a number of second and third raters. Still he was not considered a fighter of any merit, and was matched with Hughes merely to give the latter a chance to pick up- a little easy money. The easy money, however, happened to drop into the American's pockets, and the Daley who oould not get on in a preliminary in New York several years ago is today the lightweight champion of England, which makes him either a cracking good fighter or Hughes a cheap "pre lim" boy. Harry Harris is the next American to show his fistic abilities in England, and if he can win over Pedlar Palmer, with whom he is matched, as handily as Da ley did over Hughes, England will have to raise a new crop of fighters or de clare itself out of the game. Local boxers were enthusiastic yes terday when they heard of the new box ing club at Lyons. Tommy White, matchmaker of the new club, Was be sieged with scrappers, good, bad, and indifferent, offering their services to take part in the opening night. White, however, has arranged his card, which will consist of two preliminaries and a ten-round windup between Billy Rotch ford and Clarence Forbes. Tommy will not make any efforts with regard to securing talent for the second entertain ment until after the first, as he wishes to see his way clear before he arranges any more matches. White does not an ticipate any trouble from the state au thorities if he runs clean boxing con tests and avoids brutality and suspi cious looking bouts. MILWAUKEE CHAMPIONSHIP. Efforts Being Made to Bring League and Association Teams Together. Milwaukee.Wls., Feb. 15. There Is every prospect that the rival teams in Milwau kee.representing the American league and American association, will meet In a clas next spring before the opening of the championship season in a series of games to settle which of the two is entitled to the championship of Milwaukee. Presi dent Killilea of the American league club said this afternoon that he would be glad to plav a series of games with the Amer ican association team for the champion ship of the city and for $1,000 a side, and as the backers of the new association have been making extraordinary claims relative to the players they have 1n sight, there is every prospect of an exciting con test. When Informed this afternoon of the offer of the American league club, Sec retary Havener of the association club said that he was not prepared at the pres ent time to indicate a definite reply to the challenge, but would take it under ad visement. "It Is rather sudden," he said, "and I should like to ascertain the terms of the challenge before committing my self." When apprised of the American league's challenge. A. If. Koch, who is backing the American association club in Detroit, said that It would be impossible to play against the American league teams, as they were outlaws, so far as the national agreement was concerned. With the Ball Players. The Chicago Inter Ocean declares that Jimmy Callahan, Clark Griffith and Jack Taylor, the star pitching trio of Jim Hart's chib. have all agreed to play with the American league this season. The story has not been verified, but the Inter Ocean states that the rumor is strongly backed and Is reearded as straight, Fred Buelow, who wound up the season of 19w as a member of George Tebeau's Denver club, which has been transferred to Kansas City, is wanted by "White Wings" and the veteran chieftain will do everything- in his power to induce the Messrs. Robison to let the young back stop continue with Is aggregation. Jt is thought very likely that Tebeau has al ready made arrangements to secure Bue low again for this season. Buelow has a reputation as a backstop that is known to every "fan" in the country. The deal is said to have been worked through Te beau's brother. Patsy. Buelow's transfer to a Western league team is said to hava had a good effect upon his ability last year In fact so good that St. Louis is very loath to let him go again. The u V y ycvf 5 2 n A Louis papers all account Schreckongost and Buelow as good as Robinson, who has deserted the National league and the S? Lufs team for the honors of a mag- .i. imaritn league, ana Koii- ,;i,Urprl as among the top- no'tchers. Tebeau has not given out the Samel of any o his next year s t earn good'in'gso8. Ju!thnow K" nusfling TlthoughU Is pretty -well I settled that he has already decided upon the make-up of his team. "Heine" Peitz. a graduate of Goose Hill'' and one of the cleverest all-round backstops who ever donned the big nut, has been living in Cincinnati the past sev- i i tf Vifls been in the ,,f,I h,(r,e.u with "Still Bill" Hill. The place was known as "The Battery, and was effective for awhile. But lately the cash register hasn't been punched very often and Monday of the present week thev decided to shut up shop. Watkins, like the majority of those who have been turned adrift by Johnson Pn.. does not think the American league will be much of a success the coming season. He declares that base ball has to be conducted on a Dusmess-iiKe oasis -,vii,-.h mcana tbp rpsnectinsr of all terri torial rights and the reserve rule, and an organization that ignores these funda mental principles will have hard sledding. "The meanest trick ever played in base hail j th wav Watkins characterizes his freeze-out in the American league to a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter. He safs he had $25,000 invested in the Indianapolis plant, but was left high and dry when expansion was decided on. W atkms claims that his club cleared $9,000 last year. Worcester, Mass.,' has parted company with Magee, the little twirier, who looked like a sure comer when he was with T-iilsvillp a. few summers aero. St. Louis came close to landing James nplphunt v. thf Worcester innelder. whom the Chicago club recently corraled. Frank Roblson had commissioned Jesse Burkett who winters in the Massachusetts city, to offer Hughey and Buelow a cash con sideration in exchange for young "Del." An hour before Burkett called on Presi dent Hurley the latter came to an agree ment with Hart over the long distance 'phone whereby the youngster would be come an Anarchist. Ed McKean. the ancient, is trying to se cure a job with the Washington associa tion club. Pulling oft prize fights and managing wrestlers hasn't paid Ed very well, and he wants to again don the spangles. i Trotters Bring Fair Prices. New York. Feb. 15. What has become known as "the 400" horse sale began in Madison Square Garden yesterday. There are iust 400 horses to be sold, all consign ments above that number having been refused bv the Fasig-Tioton company which is conducting the sale. The more important sales are as follows: Allie Tinker, trotter, b. ro.. 1896. Alco- lyte-Lady Onward: J. B. Rhodes, New Bedford. Mass.. $o25. Highland Baron. trotter, b. h., 1896, Baron vvliKes-lrma; n. Gray, Boston, jl, 600. Keen Baron, trotter, rn. g., 1898. Baron Review-Lady McKinney; J. B. Rhodes, New Bedford, Mass.. s:)to. Baron Review, trotter, rn. h., 1895, Baron wiiKes-spamsn -M.aiu.en; John .McCarthy, .tsrooKiyn, i.suu. Powers Bays Outlook Is Brigbt Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 15. President C. B. Powers of the new American association, the .National league s base ball ally, re turned to BittshurEr tndav from the east. He was in Washington and Baltimore, and says the outlook is remarkably Dngnt. "Everything Is now in excellent shaoe." said President Powers. "All arrangements have been completed in Washington and Baltimore, and the prospects could not be brighter. In every Dart of the circuit matters axe in splendid shape, but in the east, particularly, great progress nas Deen made. "The association is on a sound footing ana rapia progress will te made. T.ie clubs will commence signing players at once.- j t Indianapolis Gun Shoot. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 15. Twenty- eight men were entered in the different events of the Limited Gun club's mid winter shoot Thursday 16 shooting through the 14 events. W. R. Crosby, of O'Fallon, 111., was again high gun. Pie secured 204 out of a possible 210, and this makes but nine misses out of 420 targets in two days. Jack Fanning, of San Francisco, was second high gun with 199, and A. B. Conner, of Pekin, 111., was third, with a total of 19S. The Grand Central handicap live bird event occurs today. Somers Goes to Boston. Cleveland, O., Feb. 15. Vice President C. W. Somers of the American Base Ball league has left for Boston, where he wiil close a contract for the construction of stands to be erected in the base ball park secured by his organization in that city. Mr. Somers will be joined by President Ban Johnson in the east, and together they will visit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington in the interest of the American league. Racing at Tanforan. San Francisco, Feb. 15. Silurian, a 15 .to 1 shot, finished first in the mile hand icap at Tanforan today, but was dis qualified for fouling Advance Guard and the latter was given the race. The pair finished heads apart. Burns rode three winners. O'Connor put two over. GIVING OUT. Tbe Struggle Discourages flany a Citizen of Topeka. Around all day with an aching back. Can't rest at night. Enough to make any one "give out." Doan's Kidney Pills will give renewed life- They will cure the backeche; Cure every kidney ill. Here is Topeka proof that this i3 so: Mr. V. C. Hay, No. 317 Locust street says: "In August, 1893, I was taken sick and was unable to work all winter. My sickness left me with kidney trouble and the pain in my back was something awful. I could not sit or recline without the aching becoming unbearable. The secretions from the kidneys were. dis colored and offensive. I was in bed when I learned of Doan's Kidney Pills and I sent to Rowley Snow's drug store, corner Sixth street and Kansas Ave., 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." For sale by all dealers- Foster-Mil-burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute, t A Case Settled by the Cloud County Court And Afterwards Afilrmed by Supreme Court. JOISTS HAVE RIGHTS. Property Must Not Be Destroyed by Smashing Raids Without Interrention of Law Even If Unlawfully Engaged. Concordia, Feb. 15. The smashing of sa loons by Mrs. Nation and others is claim ed to be legally right and that property connected with the operation of a Joint has no rights at law. But lawyers differ on this subject. This very question came up in a case tried in this county at the January, 1S99, term, the case of the State of Kansas, plaintiff, vs. Peter Hammerll, defendant, llammerli kept a Joint in Miitonvale.in this countv. Some of the ladies of that place, forerunners of Mrs. Nation, formed a "hatchet brigade" and proceeded to the joint of Hammerll, as they testified, for the purpose of destroying the intoxicat ing liquors, the bottles and vessels in which they were kept, as well as bar fix tures and other property used in keeping the Joint and selling the liquor. The saloonkeeper, Hammerll, barred his door, and on the attempt of the brigade to break in he fired a loaded shotgun into the crowd, hitting one In the ht-ad and putting out an eye. He was tried and convicted on the ground, not that he had no right to defend his property, though a Joint, but that he had no right to go fur ther or use more force than to him was reasonably necessary; that the force he used was, under the circumstances, un reasonable and unnecessary and he there fore was found guilty of the offense .charged. I On the trial the state claimed, as Mrs. Nation does, that the ladles and their friends had the right to go to the joint and forcibly destroy it and the property used in carrying it on, and that defend ant had no right to prevent or defend, at least to the same extent as other prop erty, i The Instruction asked by the state at the request of the county attorney, Mr. Culver, and his associate, Mr. Harkness, was as follows: "The jury is instructed that all places in this state where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, sold, bartered, or given away, contrary to law, are com mon or public nuisances, and the law will not protect the same, and the keep er thereof can not be justified in using a deadly weapon in defense against a person, or assemblage of persons, who are threatening or attempting to forc ibly destroy the same. Therefore, in this case, if the jury find that the de fendant was the keeper of such a pub lic or common nuisance, and that at the time the door to his place was broken by Cora Squires and others, he knew, or had reasonable grounds to believe. lhat the only purpose of the persons bo breaking in said door was to destroy the liquors by him so unlawfully kept in said place for sale, and to break and destroy the vessels in which the liquor was contained, and that they did not intend to do him any personal or bodily injury, then in such case the defendant had no legal right to use a deadly weapon to prevent said persons from entering said place. This instruction the court refused to give, and instead gave the following: "In this case, the fact. If fact it is, that the defendant was a joint keeper and his habitation a joint, if it was and his property therein liquor and fixtures used in disposing of same, if such is the case, can make no difference. The mere fact that some are engaged in unlawful business does not give oth ers any lawful right to destroy the prop erty or injure the person of those so en gaged, without intervention of law." This case was taken to the supreme court and decision affirmed by that court October, 1S99. STERLING CLEANS HOUSE. Temperance People Exterminate Ev erything Except One Druggist Sterling, Feb.15. A mass meeting was held in the opera house Tuesday evening to take up the matter of closing the joints in this city. The meeting was well attended by the leading citizens, and when a call for a hatchet brigade was made there were nearly 100 volunteers, including merchants, bankers, preachers and farmers. A resolution was passed demanding the closing of all places in the city where liquor was sod. The jointists were given until noon Thursday to quit business, and at that time the crusaders started out to clean up the town. Very little liquor was found on the raid and no resistance was met with until the drug store of G. R. Bassett Co. was reached. Mr. Bassett informed the committee that unless they had a search warrant he would not al low them to search his store. The com mittee then sent to Lyons for the pros ecuting attorney to come here and issue the warrant. The prosecuting attorney is here, but the wan-ant has not as yet been issued. There was a large crowd out but everything passed off without any riots. A STRENUOUS INMAN WOMAN Threw a Liquor Selling Tenant Down Stairs and Smashed the Bar. McPherson, Kan., Feb. 15. Mrs. Chris tina Aschman, the owner cf a building In Inman, the upper floor of which was rented for a billiard hall, became suspi cious that liquor was being sold there and demanded admission. It was refused and she smashed the door in with an ax. The proprietor attempted Interierence. and Mrs. Aschman threw him downstairs. then proceeded to smash the contents of the room in true Nation style. HAD TO PAY LIVERY BILL. Society Youth of Wichita Contested a Claim in Court. Wichita, Kan., Feb. 15. Is livery hire one of the necessary expenses that must be incurred by a member of the 4J.0? Judge Kirk of the city court, in decuimg a case against one of Wichita's society men to day said that it is. DeLos Woods Was sued bv Tavlor Sturgeon for a livery bill of $50 incurred nearly three years ago. The contention of the defendant was that at the time the indebtedness was contracted he was minor and conseauentlv not responsible.. Judge Shattuck, the attorney for the plaintiff, set up the plea that livery hire is an absolute necessity to maintain so cial standing and when this fact is con sidered age does not enter into the ques tion, he said. An array of society young men, friends of the defendant. were forced to testify against him upon this question. The case was fought in the district court for the past two days and today the de cision in favor of the liverymen was ren dered. Sued the Wrong Company. Abilene, Feb. 15. An unusual case was decided by Judge Moore, of the district court, last evening in Skaggs vs. the KocK island railway. Sometime last summer the bridges washed out on the Rock Island road between liere and Salina and the Rock Island ran its train over the Union Pacific- track. Juwt t.iin side of Solomon the plaintiff's t ran under one of the cars of the Roc k Isl land train. Kkaggs brouaht suit against the Rock Island for the value of the colt, claiming the right to recover on the ground that the Union Pacific Ivl no fence along its rlirht cf way. Iha court decided that the Rock Inland could not be responsible for the failure of the Union Pacific to fence the tracii. Pensions For Kansans. Washington, I. C Feb. 15. Pennons have been granted to Kansans aa fol lows: Original George M. Jones, Colony, $10. Restoration, reissue and increase Commodore Perry Newell, dead. Gay lord, $12. i Increase John L. Vhitley, Luray, J10; Smith Thompson. Wichita, $12; John W. Lakey, National Military home, Leavenworth, $10; Addison H. Harington, Douglas, IS; Jesse Campbell, Yates Center, $4; Daniel P. Witters, Westmoreland, $v. Cager Lucas. Maple ton, $S; Henry H. Higbee, Burden. BDecial act, February 1 Martin is. Winkler, Caney, $:iit; special February 1 John D. Fazel, Wichita, $17. Original widows, etc. Martha A. New ell Gaylord. $S; special act February 2 Ann Catherine Kuhn, Topeka, War with Spain (widows, etc.) Anna L. Smith, mother, Abilene, $12. To Recover Treasures. Lawyer Isaac Xilgby reports that he has just been employed by a man who left Virginia during the civil war. He owned some land in the mountainous country there which he thought was of no value and Just pulled out and left it. Recently there has been two larea oil wells with an abundance of good oil discovered on the abandoned land. The old man, after about 3S years, has awoke from his slumber, like Rip Van Winkle, and is now seeking, through his attor ney, to recover values for his hidden treasures. Concordia Press, i Parole Reformatory Inmates. Wichita, Feb. 15. Thirteen Inmates have been. paroled from the Hut hins..-t reformatory as follows: Andy Brot h. I Burlingame, Geo. St. Clair, Ray Cove. John Delaney, Will Duncan, G -i Vice, Ned Hunter, H. Edwards, S. t Wilson, Robert Egan, W. F. Llttel an C. Cloyd. Andy Broch was the leader of a crowd that wrecked a Reno county, preacher's home two years ago. Paving Tax Enjoined. Independence, Feb. 15. Two- snlts against the street paving were tiled in the district court yesterday, entitled I.. C. Mason, George T. Guernsey, -et ai versus the City of Independ.-nce. Th'3 object of the suits Is to prevent the pay ing for the street paving which has Ju-it been completed on the business streets of tola city. i t Scalded by Boiler Explosion. Parsons, Kan., Feb. 15 A bollrr ex plosion at the elevator of the J. K. David son Commission company wrecked the engine room and probnbly fatally scalded William Olin, the engineer, and badly In jured his assistant. Fire broke out. but was extinguished before gaining headway. The firm haa headquarters in Kansas City. i Medals For Soldier Boys. Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 15. Members of company II, the Lawrence company of the Kansas National guard, have receiv ed their medals won in the state contest of marksmanship. Fifty-eight medals were won by sixty members of the com pany. They are as follows: One gold sharpshooter, six silver exjert, six bronze marksman, thirty-six bronze riflemen, nine bronze first class. New Paper at Galena. Galena, Kan., Feb. 15. The Galena News, a dally Republican paper, made lis first appearance last evening. A. C. Ari glemeyer is business manager and M. jr. Gardner editor. Mr. A nkriemeyer has been engaged in the newspaper business in Ga lena for the past two years and Mr. Gard ner has been In this county for the pust quarter of a century. Fire at Ottawa. Ottawa, Feb. 15 The Centennial hotel, the best hotel in the city, was destroye l by fire Thursday. Part of the lower story remains, but It can not be repair ed. The loss was $8,000, of which $5,000 la covered by insurance. New Rural Route. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. Rural frei delivery service will be established on March 1 as follows in Kansas: Cawker City. Mitchell county, one carrier, pop ulation served, foo. Number of houses on route, 112. Carrier, O. W. Norton. New Kansas Postmasters. Washington, D. C, Feb. 15. The fol lowing fourth class postmasters were ap pointed today for Kansas: Lyle, Deca tur county, D. S. Andrews, vice li. I,, Andrews, resigned: Saint 1'eter, Graham, county, J. G. Riedel, vice P. A. Knoll, re signed. Chicago, Feb. 14. Ida E. Russell, wife of Elbridge Kajssell. has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Her debts aggregate $63,500. DAD DLC CD, The skin is the set of an almost end less variety of diseases. They are knewn by various names, but are all due to the same cause, acid and other poisons in the blood that irritate and interfere witii the proper action of the skin. To have a smooth, soft skin, free from all eruptions, the blood must be kept pure and healthy. The many preparations of arsenic and potash and the large number of face powders and lotions generally used in this class of( diseases cover up for a short time, biit cannot remove per manently the ugly blotches and the red, disfiguring pimples. of a beautiful oomgtl&xioin when such remedies are relied on. Mr. H. T. Shobr. 3704 I.uc-as Aroue Rt lLotil, Mo.. ays: "My daus;hlr was tt ti far Ver with a disfiguring eruption 011 her face whi h resisted ail treatment. bhe wu takeu'to two celebrated healih ;,riuim. but rec-eivrj no bene fit. Manymedidocs were i,rr--nlH wtt result, until we decided to try S M. B end i,r Ih.tim.lli. finOu.uu... c...; j. r u"cu cue er upt ion fresran to diatter. A dozen ttl 5 completely and left her L.m perfectly ncxih. 'w years l.i l, una n-.I t tf the embarrassing disease ha ever returned." b. fa. fa. is a positive, unfailing cure fnr the worst forms of skin troubles. It is the greatest of all biood purifiers, and the only one guaranteed purely vegetable. Jbaa Dlooa makes bad complexions.

si J f 1 purines and invio v I "O I rates the old and 0 V wakes new, rich Hood J tnat nourishes the --j" oouy ana ceer,. skin active and healthy and in "proper condition to perform its part towards carrying off the impurities from the bo.i v. 11 you have Lczema, Tetter, Acne, Salt Rheum, Psoriasis, or your nkiti is rru-;-h Lin psiupiy, seiiu ior our nook on Flood and Skin Diseases and write our r,h,d. cians about your case. No chart'e what ever for this service. SWIFT SftXlf lC COMPANY, ATl7A, fc.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 15. 1001. A POOR BREAKFAST. Very Few People Eat a Good Breakfast "All I want for breakfast is a roll and a cup of coffee." This remark Is heard not only in hoteis, restaurants and lunch rooms but Jt is the usual breakfast order in the home circie as well. After a tweHe hours fat it would seem that the nrst in-al of the day should be a hearty, substantial one. and if we all Jled nat ural, unarlfficiai lives, it would be so, but none of us do, fcence breakfast is a. mere pretence. Savs a latter dav philosopher: During manv years of active business lite, 1 never remember having eaten a good substantial breakfast but purposed it was of no importance until I began to loe appetite for lunch and dinner. My phvsiclan toid me I was a victim of nervous dvspepsia and must take rest end recreation as no medicine would reach the trouble, but this advice I could not follow as my business affairs would not permit it. and to pet relief J resorted to medicines and tierscriptions end it was purely accidental that I hit upon one remedy which did the busi iicw While in a drug store one evening 1 noticed a number of people buying: mart's Dyspepsia Tablets, a widely nrivertised preparation for stomach ,..hics onri the force of example was too much for me and I bought a fifty cent package. I took a tablet or two after each .al, and in a ween my appetite jmc-h- i v.,-.,,.,, fjt.! Ttir ,tIH flmhiTinn U Up, J. VT'nii ivj for work returning and could eat a good lireaKtast oecaue ji wiiinr-w u'ensia Tablets as regularly as I take K T or,,, my meais. not wau i,vj-v na trouble with my stomach, but because I don't want to have. A fiftv-cent box of Stuart's Tablets will last'me a month and keep my diges tion In good order, and 1 know of no better investment a business man can make. Of contracting Sickness, II you uss Pure Wale That's the kind fur nished by the TopekaWatapCo. TlLEPHOXH 12X 625 Quincy Street. "The Overland Route 99 The ONLY DIRECT kOUTE to and from the Pacific Coast UNION PACIFIC Two trains daily from Topeka to Denver and C jlorado points. Two trains daily from Topeka to Ban Francisco and California points. Two trains daily from Topeka to Salt Lake City and Utah points. Two trains daily from Topeka to Portland ana North Pacifio Coast points, with direct connections fop Tacoma and Seattle. Buffet Smoking and library Cars, with Barber Shops and Pleasant Read ing Rooms. Double Drawing Room Palace Sleepers, Dining Care, Mefrla a la Carte, Pintsch Light. F. A. LEWIS. City Ticket Agont. J. O. FULTON, Depot Agon SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. "WE'LL Do Y0IT2, ra T.izz.7 I ofekh Transfer Go. 5,09 KaA3 Avenue. Office Tel. 820. House Tel. 395. P- P- Bacon, Proa. Rest and Health to Mother and Child hSr'IuV2i'0,W'S SOOTHING SYRUP BY Ml LA iSv rt overFIKTY YEAK3 CHILDKFN Wulr MuTHKRS for their No Danger CE?7r CIGAR. Chairman of Santa Fe Directors Writes About Combinations. Aldace F. Walker Sajs Federal Legislation Is Responsible. IT CUTS OFF REVENUE ETila of Absolute Combinations Are Terj Great. Combination May le Cheeked by Reversal, of Legislation. Aldace F1. Walker, chairman of the board of directors for the Santa Fe, has also taken the stand that railroad com binations are the result of laws against pooling. With him on this proposition besides a. great many railroad men may be numbered Paul Morton, third vice president of the Santa Fe. Mr. Walker lately contributed an article to a maga zine upon this topic, part of which reads thus: 'Federal legislation is chiefly respon sible for the present movement In the direction of railway combinations. To be specific, associations of title and of interest among competing railways axe compelled by two federal laws; one, the anti-pooling provision of the interstate commerce law, and the other, the anti association provision of the anti-trust law; both. In their operation being In consistent with any conceivable scheme of statutory regulation, "Kailways pools as heretofore em ployed in this country and as still cus tomary in other countries afford an in ternal regulation of the competitive ex travagances; they were forbidden in the United States by an unfortunate and in consistent section in the interstate com merce law. Thereupon railway associa tions were devised as a less effective form of similar internal regulation. These also were forbidden by the anti trust law as construed by the supreme court, which conceived that extreme competition between railways was the legislative demand. Eut uncontrolled railway competition means the extin guishment of railway revenue. Legis lative conditions have thus become such that railroad values can not be pre served, and railroad service can not be performed under the federal laws ap plicable to the business of ralroad transportation; hence 'railway combina tions' become the only recourse. "In view of present conditions it Is impossible to resist the feeling that it would have been far more consistent with the interests of the general public to establish laws that would have per mitted competing railways to maintain their independence under arrangements suitably framed for the restraint of competitive excess. Legislation has played into the hands of capitalists by affording a logical reason for railway combinations. Even now the combina tion movement may be checked by a re versal of the legislative attitude; that is, by authorizing measures under which the individual existence of competing railways may be preserved. Undoubt edly this should be done, and the inter state commerce commission makes this recommendation. The potential evils of absolute combinations are undoubt edly greater than the potential evil3 of pools and associations." CONDUCTORS PROSPEROUS. Biennial Report Shows Gains in Mem bership and Insurance. The biennial period, 1S99-1900 was a prosperous one for the Order of Railway Conductors. On December 31, 1898, the order had 3SS subordinate divisions, containing 21.850 members. On De cember Si, 1901. it had 407 subordinate divisions, containing 25,644 mebers. On December 31, 1S&8, the mutual benefit department of the order had 16.403 mem bers carrying insurance aggregating $K4.S17,000. tin December 31, 1900, this department had 30,415 members carry ing insurance amounting to $39,881,000. During the years 18!'9 and 1900 the ben efit department paid insurance claims as follows: 1S1 claims of J1.000 each. $181. 0"0; 121 claims of $2,000 each. $242,000; 176 claims of $3,000 each. $528,000: 16 claims of $4,000 each, $68,000. two claims of $5,000 each, $10,000. Total $1,025,000. GOULD SYNDICATE CONTROLS. Combination Is to Control Southwest ern Lines. Chicago, Feb. 14. The Tribune today says: Although President Jefl'ery does not confirm the report, the Tribune can state upon the best of authority that George Gould and other parties con nected with the Harriman syndicate are today in full control of the Denver Rio Grande railroad. Gould and hia as sociates will be made directors at the next annual meeting. Gould, Harriman, Rockefeller and company will undoubt edly before long also secure control of the Rio Grande Western and Colorado Southern. It is also' known they are buying stock of the St. Louis San Fran cisco road with a view of controlling this property. With these acquisitions the Gould-Harriman-Rockefeller combi nation will control all the principal roads in the southwest. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO EXTEND Kay Build 400 Miles of Extension in Mexico. San Francisco. Feb. 15. The Exam iner says: It has leaked out that one of the objects of the visit of President C. M. Hays, of the Southern Pacific, to New York is to consult with the di rectors regarding the proposed exten sions in Mexico. The company owns the New Mexico, Arizona Sonora railway. It runs from Benson, a station on the "Sunset" route, southwest via Sonora to Guaymas. on the Gulf of California. It is now proposed to build two exten sions on the mad. One Is to be 90 miles long and will tap vast beds of coal in the state of Sonora.- The other exten sion is to start from Oritz and run to Mazatlan, 340 miles to the southwest. It Is expected that this road will greatly develop mining camps and agricultural districts in many sections of northwest ern Mexico. NO B ACS. WARD STEP. Capital Punishment Effectually Buried in the House. Capital punishment, made sure, ex cept by executive clemency instead of executive inaction, received a fatal blow in the house yesterday. The senate had defeated it the day previously by a nar row margin, but the house killed it de cisively. Hallett's bill, in which it said the governor "shall," not "may" sign the death warrant, came up in the reg ular order. Mason, chairman of the judiciary committee, spoke a few words, saying only that the house need not be guided entirely by the senate's action. Grattan, of McPherson, was the only man that really made a speech on the bill, and he struck out from the shoulder at that. He said the memories of Kan sas governors who had refused till now to sign death warrants should be blessed, that hanging is brutal, and as long as men are human and liable to err in their judgments the death pen alty for murder is dangerous. The house voted sweepingly to kill the bill, nervous and as if glad the or deal waa over, while but three or four scattering "noes" were heard. THAT MORTGAGE LAW. It is Not Having Clear Sailing in the House. Senator Smith's substitute for the deed of trust bill had a hard time on its first hearing in the house Thursday in committee of the whole. Minority mem bers said they would prefer the original deed of trust bill, which gives a year to eighteen months redemption than Smith's bill, which reduces the redemp tion period with an additional six months if the interest is paid. Nichols wanted the proceeds of a forced sale to be full satisfaction for a mortgage also. No progress had been made at time of adjournment, but the opposition, which was not on party lines altogether, com pelled a party vote to be taken in order to let the matter go over. GOULD ELECTED ADIRECTOR. Becomes a Member of the Denver Rio Grande Road. New York, Feb. 15. At a meeting of the directors of the Denver Rio Grande railroad company, held today, George J. Gould was elected a member of .the board. SANTA FE LOCALS. Depot Master Sherman is still off duty on account of the serious illness of his wife. Conductor Plunkett of the Lawrence Ottawa passenger run is in the hospital. Fireman Charles Roush of Emporia, who has been here on sick leave for 80 days, has returned to work in Emporia. Rev. Frank Mallory of the Third Chris tian church conducted a meeting at the coach shop yesterday. He urged the men to take a determined stand as regards the matter of temperance. When he closed the one hundred and seventy-five men attending cheered wildly. Firemen Shepherd, Clark and Mauck of the Cottonwood division have been examined for engineers and have been promoted to that position. They will go into service on the Santa Fe Pacific. Oliver Tarrant, who was yesterday ap pointed local watch inspector for the Santa Fe, will open his headquarters on East Fourth street, nearly opposite the present office of H. S. Montgomery, gen eral watch inspector. The number of engines repaired this week in Topeka shops will iun as high as eight. This is an unusual number considering the work that ia done upon the engines. RAILROAD NOTES The "Santa Fe," the monthly publica tion of the railroad T M. C. A. is out for February. It ia an excellent number, and especially Important from the fact that it contains a list of the new offl- cers and committees, and a schedule of the entertainments given each Friday night during the winter. The secretary's report for January shows that an aver age of 40 baths were given each day. and 112 cups of coffee were served daily to the shop men. The financial report shows a balance on hand of $110.38. James Collinson. master mechanic for the GulfColorado Santa Fe at Cleburn, Tex., was in town yesterday. FROM NEWTON. Machinist Earl Kirk has resumed work. He was. off duty a couple of days. Charles Tatinger has begun work for the Santa Fe. He is an employe of the back shop. Robert Gracy was in Ellinwood the other day making some repairs on an engine assigned to branch service. Wallace Condit ia working in the roundhouse. Machinist Ira Ditlow has been assign ed to the night shift of mechanics for the present, to assist in the rush of bus iness. Mrs. G. D. Woods, wife of the fore man of the repair yards, is reported quite ill. She is said to be a victim of the grip. Harry Fisher put in a 36 hour stretch on the wheel lathes a few days ago. P. V. engine No. 8 has gone to Arkan sas City for service on the Oklahoma division of the Santa Fe. It was given standard repairs in the Newton shops, which insures it being in good condition. "One cow killed," was the communi cation which every engineer on the Ok lahoma division received. The bovine gave up her life near Seward, and no one seems to be able to tell how she was killed. Wallace and Smith are the names of two machinists who began, work here this morning. I FROM EMPORIA. Fireman Gunn has gone to Topeka for passenger service at that place. Fireman Cloud has. secured a passen ger run out of Topeka. Fireman Hamilton has gone on the cutoff division for passenger service. Firemen have been advertised for" trains 307 and 308 out of Strong City. There Is a vacancy for a fireman be tween Newton and Topeka. HIS FIRST DINNER. Since He Had the Grip is Given by the Feb. 15. President and Mrs. McKinley gave a dinner at the White House last night in honor of the members of the diplomatice corps. It was the first social function given by the president since his convalescence of the attack of the grip. To accom modate the large number of guests the table was set in the long corridor. Its centerpiece was of orchids, while scat tered over the table were a number of smaller mounds mainly In prime roses of the color of orchids. An orchestra from the Marine band furnished the music. The president escorted Senora De Aspiroz, wife of the ambassador from Mexico, to the table, and the Ger man ambassador escorted Mra McKin ley. Ater the dinner a number of specially invited guests assembled and enjoyed a programme of music and dancing, the state dining room being used for the latter purpose. i cs ja. m 3E o x. x js. Br th l !iB w nave mm uoi'jyi cf OASVOZIXA. Bean tie Tha Kir.il You Ha8 Alwavs BjLSli OABTOaSAi Beam tie Ihs Kind Yen Haw Amavs Eoi'gS sat oonn upon. Seaate Eefases to Pass Two Temperance Bills. County Attorney Inqnisition Bill in Effect Defeated. N0FTZGER EXCITED. Resents Insinuations That He Is Cowardly. Vote to Strike Out Enacting Clause Prevails. Both of Senator Hurrel's prohibition measures came up in the senate on a committee of the whole and were turn ed down, at least temporarily. The sen ate seemed to think that the bill passed yesterday was all the prohibitory legis lation necessary. The first one of the bills to come up was the one concerning the abatement of common nuisances by injunction. The Din provides that any one may main tain an action in the name of the state to abate and perpetually enjoin the same. It also provides that if any lessee or sublessee on any building or property snail Keep or maintain any common nuisance within or upon any such build ing his lease shall immediately become void. It also provides that the court shall compel full and truthful answers to interrogatories by any appropriate methods and that no person shall be excused from answering any of the in terrogatories because such answers shall tend to incriminate the person making the same. Publication in a newspaper is all the notice necessary according to tfle Din. The motion was made by Senator Noftzger that the bill be referred to the judiciary committee; it originally went to the temperance committee at the re quest of Senator Hurrel who is chairman of the committee. Senators Hurrel and Codding both ob ject to the bill being referred to the com mittee and charged that the motion was made with the sole intent of killing the bill. They both made temperance speeches and said that it was cowardly to attempt to dodge the bill by referring it to the committee where it would re main until after the legislature had ad journed. Senator Smith took exceptions to their remarks as he is chairman of the ju diciary committee. He said that his committee had passed on 130 bills and none of them had been held up. He characterized the bill as viciou3 and said that it revolutionized the law in regard to nuisances. "The nuisance law we now have is a good one," he said, "and this one certainly does not improve it." Senator Noftzger got the floor and said: "The senators from Jackson and Pottawatomie have insinuated that I am afraid to state my views on the temper ance question, and I want to tell them that their insinuations are false. This bill is vicious; it covers other things than prohibition; it covers hog pens, and to say ihat you can publish a notice in a paper and then take the hog pen is absurd. In regard to such" bills as this I want to say that prohibition has been Injured more by fool fanatics who favor it than by men who oppose it." Senator Codding followed with a talk in which he said that he was in favor of prohibition and that the proper thing to do was to pass the bill because he be lieved it was constitutional. He said the Republicans had to pass the bill be cause they did not dare to dodge it. He got very warm at the remarks of Sen ator Noftzger and again insinuated that he lacked nerve. Senator Fitzpatrick spoke in favor of referring the bill to the judiciary com mittee. "I think the bill needs consid eration," he said. "I do not think it is good law." In regard to Codding's threat that the Republicans must pass the bill he said: "The senate is here to do its duty and not to be bulldozed or scared into voting for any measure without due considera tion.' This bill has been rushed in and now an attempt is being made to rush it through. I do not think this senate should allow an entire brigade of wo men with hatchets to frighten us into passing legislation without due consider ation." The motion to refer the bill to the ju diciary committee was then put and was carried. It is to be returned by the com mittee for consideration next Tuesday at 11 o'clock. When the nuisance bill was disposed of the bill providing for the preliminary in vestigation of criminal offenses by coun ty attorneys came up. This is the same as the inquisition bill which was passed by the house. Senator Allen moved to strike out the enacting clause and that started the de bate. Senator Codding made another speech in which he again stated that he was a prohibitionist and again excepted to being called a crank. He was fol lowed by Senator Pestana who favored the bill and made a strong speech in which he stated that the bill would aid In the prosecution of liquor cases. The motion to strike out the enacting clause was carried by a vote of 19 to 17. This virtually kills the Inquisition bill as it will have to be passed upon by the committee and then take its place at the foot of the calendar. It will probably remain there as it requires 21 votes to take it up and the friends of the bill could only secure 17 votes on the Hurrel bill which is virtually the same thing. No Hitch, in Sight New Tork, Feb. 14. The evening Post savs: Judge Gary of the Federal Steel. Max Pam of the Steel and Wire and Francis Lynde Stetson, representing J. f ierpont Morgan, have been in conference most of the day upon the matter of steel arrangement. John W. Gates, according to Wall Street news, says there is no hitch in the deal, that everything is going on smoothly. Mr. Clifford, director of the Steel arid Wire, is not sure whether his company will be merged. Some of the companies which have been mentioned in reports of the merger are. It was said to day, likely to be outside of the deal when the great deal has been consummated. King Edward Going to Germany. London, Feb. 15. A dispatch from Portsmouth says the royal yacht Vic toria and Albert has been commanded to take King Edward and Queen Alex andra to Germany, and It is expected the channel squadron will form the es cort. "King Edward is expected to arrive in Flushing Sunday night on his way to Cronberg," says the Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mail. "Ex traordinary police precautions will be taken to insure his safety. A Burst of Flame. Charleston, S. C, Feb. 15. After the Clyde steamer Comanche left New Tork and when she was off Fenwick island, Wednesday morning, a burst of flames issued from the engine room. After two hours hard work the fire was got un der control, but not until after eight or ten persons had been slightly burned and bruised. There were 121 first-class passengers on board. The Comanche sailed for Jacksonville today. H0TEL SET AFIRE Incendiaries Attempt to Burn Four Chicago Hosteiries. Chicago, Feb. 15. Fires were set sim ultaneously on four floors of the Palmer House last evening and 35 minutes later fires were discovered on two floors of the Great Northern hotel. Two men suppos ed to be hotel thieves were seen to run from the Palmer House. During the ex citement $500 worth of jewelry was sto len from one of the rooms of the Great Northern. About the same time a blaze was dis covered in. the Sherman House. Another hotel fire of suspicious origin had been discovered only 24 hours be fore. The four fires convince the police that an organized gang of incendiaries is operating in Chicago. Good descrip tions have been secured of the two men who were seen running from the Palm er House and a number qJ detectives are at work on the case. The four fires, with time of discovery and attending incidents, were: Palmer House Four fires set simul taneously in baskets of linen on differ ent floors. Towels saturated with kero sene found. Fire extinguished by guests and employes. Two suspects seen, but allowed to escape. Damage nominal. Great Northern hotel Simultaneous fires discovered on H and J floors. Odor of kerosene on H floor. J. H. Frist of New York, reported that J500 worth of jewelry had been stolen from his room. Damage of $1,500 by fire and small pan ic among the guests. Hotel Grace Fire of suspicious origin discovered in linen closet. Damage nom inal, i Sherman House The blaze was on an upper floor and was attended with little commotion. Damage $100. The most dangerous fire in the Palmer House was on the fifth floor. It was ex tinguished at personal risk by John Mc Williams, Jr., a senior at Princeton un iversity. The police agreed that all the fires were incendiary and every important down town hostelry was guarded by a detail of officers in plain clothes watch ing for the men suspected of having started the Area These officers, as well as the hotel managers, adopted the the ory that each blaze was started by some discharged hotel employe who wished to satisfy his grudge and was able to do so through his intimate knowledge of op portunities. A telephone message was received at the Palmer House when the second fire at the Great Northern was in progress: "How is your blaze coming on?" was asked. "The Great Northern is burning finely." "Who are you?" asked .Head Clerk Grant, but the inquirer laughed and rang off. LEGISLATIVE SNAP SHOTS. W. N. Smelser of Emporia visited the senate yesterday. E. A. Rqps, editor of the Burr Oak Her ald, visited the senate Thursday. At the senate meeting last night a large number of local bills were omnibused through. Judge Buck of Emporia came up yes terday to see how his contest case was getting along. Every bill that has been introduced in the legislature so far concerning a change in the text book law has been in favor of the book trust. The lobby got so noisy yesterday that Lieutenant Governor Richter was obliged to threaten to have them removed unless they quieted down. General election days will he legal holi days to compel time being given laboring men to vote, if the election committee's latest house bill parses. County Superintendent Kelly of Wood son county, wants to get on the state text book commission and is here pushing his candidacy for that position. A petition has been presented to the senate asking that a bill be passed giv ing threshers a lien upon grain threshed. A law of that kind is in effect in the Da kotas. Representative Joseph Butler's bill al lowing county attorneys in counties of over 50,000 population to appoint an assist ant was killed by the house Judiciary com mittee. The bill introduced by Senator Smith relating to contempt of court proceed ings was passed Thursday afternoon. The bill does away with Jury trials in con tempt cases. The house ways and means committee has killed bills to establish a state fish hatchery, with an appropriation of $5,000, and Short's bill to establish a branch nor. mal school at Concordia. The lobby of the senate was crowded yesterday when the bills by Senator Hur rel were discussed. A majority of the lobby were prohibitionists who were anx ious regarding the fate of the bills. In the count of the Land-Caldwell case, which has been completed. Caldwell has 50 majority. There are yet questions of illegal voting to be decided. It is a pretty safe proposition that Caldwell will be un seated. Governor Stanley has refused to sign the bills which passed the legislature ad mitting A. H. Malcolm and R. H. Mc Canse to the Soldiers' home at Dodge City. He says that he does not think it right to go over the directors' decision. Senators who have been advancing bills on the calendar simply because the' had a personal Interest in the bills, will not do it again, for Senator Carpenter pro poses to make bills take their regular place until the revision committee is ap pointed. The senate committee on assessment and taxation introduced a bill Thursday providing that the township and city as sessors shall assess all property at actual cash value. The bill also provides that the county commissioners shall meet the second Monday in January and fix a basis of valuation. The bill ia calculated to take the place of the present law until the bill shall be presented two years hence which will be drawn up by the committee appointed for that purpose by the legislature. The Luling bill. which has already passed the house, gerrymandering the boundaries of commissioner districts in Sedgwick county, affects the boundaries of dis tricts in Leavenworth, Shawnee and Wy andotte also. The rule, if the bill be comes a law, will be that commissioner districts shall conform to legislative dis tricts in counties that have three repre sentafives. Immediate results will obtain in Sedgwick county only, however, where two Republican commissioners will be se cured instead of one, as now. The ob ject is to secure county printing and other patronage that follows partisan changes. T. K. Richey of Pittsburg, reading cleric of the house, aspires to an appointment as a second lieutenant in the regular army under new army bill just passed. Richey was a second lieutenant in the Twentieth Kansas, resigning about three weeks before orders were received by his regiment to go to the Philippines, to enter politics. He came back from Sari Kran cisco and was elected superintendent of schools in Crawford county. Lieutenant Richey is eligible to a commission under the new bill and the house has endorsed his candidacy, having adopted a memorial to Kansas congressmen and senators to have Lieutenant Richey's name placed on the list to be selected. i Philippine Judgeships. Washington, Feb. 15. C. A. Williard, of Milwaukee, and J. A. Comper, of Fort Worth, Tex., have accepted posi tions as judges of the supreme- court of the Philippine islands. Henry C." Bates St. Johnsberry, Vt.; Fletcher Ladd, Lancaster, N. H.; F. F. Johnston, Ann Arbor, Mich.; L. H. Wifley, St.. Louis, and A. F. Odlin, San Juan, Porto Rico, have accepted positions as judges of the court of first instance of the Philippine islands. It is understood these gentle men will all sail for Manila about April 1, 1901. r"i fT tv -9j y. j ft n m ifm F wy f i." 4r", "X323r 03-61 RIBBONS! Nevv Ribbons Opened Yesterday. New Pillow Ribbons at 25o atK New Fancy Ribbons at 15c 25 CO" 35 50a 153 Black Velvet Ribbons every width all prices. No. 2. Satin and Gros Grain Ribbons, all the staple colors, special at 25 piaco. L.A1.1 felAfx. I New Imperials, new Windsors, new Vinl-clCi-8S PteCICWCcir soretten, new Flowing End Four-in- newClub Strings .f.9.'. 25C 35C nJ OOO French Embroidered Collars, 25c regular, very special at iOo SoflO SoGCial I Tor Saturday and Ilonday l l "Flemish" Oat Meal, "Flemish" Glycerin;?, and "Forest Boqnet," 3 cakes in box less than half price, 103 box. Olive Oil Castile Soap, white, green and mottled, 2i lb. bars 23o Ijar- liiff G!flVP5 For Eatnrday and Honday- vnvyc? Ladies' "Gant Pique" reds, blues, QO greens, few tans, all sizes, our regular $1.50 quality for JJ l Note Paper "5VJLi.:.!??.?.?!r. 0c Ih. Come in and look over Catalogue for Spring March Designers and Standard Patterns are Ready. GRAND OPEHA HOITSe! SATURDAY, February 16, Matinee and ITisht. Richard Golden his Great pia7 Old Jed Prouty Reserved Beats on sale at Flad Grubbs' Drug Store. Night prices: $1.00, 75c, 60c and 25c. Matinee prices: 75c and 50c. Children, 2oc. One Solid Week, Beginning Monday, Febrxiary IStli. Robert Sherman Comedy Co. ,n rr t'spL.au !e, Opening bill: "-riy Friend From Arkansas." Popular prices all week 10c, 20c, and 30c. Ladies free Monday night. Reserved seat sale begins Friday morning at Flad Grubbs. Bargain riatlnee, Saturday, ioc. A TROUT DECOY. From the Chicago Chronicle. There is one fish owned by the state of Colorado which will in all probabil ity never dangle at the end of a line to make sport for some angler. Instead it will subsist peacefully on ground liver and be petted and cared for at the Brighton fish hatchery, of which E. I Hager is superintendent. For this fish is the guiding spirit among all the small fry and leads them not only In the paths of righteousness, but into the pools where Mr. Hager desires that they should stay. The fish at the hatcheries are kept in several small pools in order that they may be separated, according to their kind and cared for properly. Occasion ally it was desired to clean these pools or make some alteration in them. This used to cause a great deal of trouble for the superintendent. It was almost impossible to get all the fish out of the pools without killing many of them. They were so small that they could eas ily slip through the meshes of an ordi nary net, and many of them were crushed in the net. Unless the pool was cleaned ever so often the fish would die. During Mr. Hagers superintendency he has made an especial pet of one of the largest trout in the fisheries. Whenever he fed the fish this trout was always among the first to come to him, and finally grew so daring that it would snap at pieces of the liver which' he held in his hand. Whenever he appeared on the walks surrounding the pool this trout would always come to him, and as he walked around the pool it would follow him. The other fish in the pool learned that the big trout always got most of the good things to eat, and consequently grew to a good-sized procession whenever the big trout assumed the role of leader. Finally Mr. Hager had an inspiration. One day when he wanted to cleaji the pool which was the big trout's home he opened the inlet leading into another pool and got his procession started by holding out a handful of ground liver toward the big trout, which thereupon was willing to follow him anywhere. In this way Mr. Hager conducted all the fish into the other pool without the slightest difficulty and without losing any of them. Since then whenever he has wished to clean any of the pools he has first secured the big trout and then, with it for a leader, he has had no dif ficulty In getting the rest of the finny population out of the way. Wholesale Extermination. From the London Chronicle. The giraffe is now one of the rarest of quadrupeds, a fact due to the per sistence with which it has been hunted, and but for the care with which the In dian elephant has been domesticated and bred, it too might have declined as a race, a fate that may soon overtake its African compeer. One of the most typical illustrations which we have of the short and sharp extermination of an animal race is that of a big un wieldly animal called the rhytina, a near relative of the sea cow, one spe cies of which, the manatee, is not un common in zoological collections. These animals have no hind limbs; their fore limbs exist as flippers and their tail is set horizontally, as in the whale. The rhytina was discovered about the mid dle of the eighteenth century on a small island off the Kamtchatkan coast, called Bering's island. It was here Ber ing himself was wrecked, and Stellor, who was naturalist to the expedition, described the rhytina, the specific name of which, accordingly, is (or was) stel leri. The animals were easily killed, and afforded good eating, the latter an all-sufficient reason for their slaughter. The last of thi3 race dates from the year. 176S. As for birds, and especially heavy-bodied ones, we have a long list of extinctions as the result of man's in terference. Not to speak of the great auk, we have tha dodo and the solitaire. The second named was found in Mau ritius; It was killed off at the end of the seventeenth century. The solitaire inhabited Rodriquez. Its extinction dates from the middle of the eighteenth century. No man can cure consumption. Tou can prevent it thousrh. Ir. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, sore throat. Never fails. 1 the New Standard Fashion and Summer. (CMmiimH.-, THE BEST PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS Run via thr GREAT HOCK ISLAHC ROUT LI Leave Tooeka via .Scenic Route through Colorado acid Utah WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. Via Southern koute through Oklahoma end Tai EVERY WEDNESDAY. For tninrtrstion and "Tourist IMctionary address Id. W. Thompson, A. U. P. A., To peka, Kaa. I Lent I begins February 20th arrange your bill-of- fare during then with the following Salt SmoKcd Fish Smoked Salmon, -X Smoked Halibut, Smoked White Fish, (in cans) Russian Caviar, Imported Sardines, Boston Beauty Mackeral, Salt Herrir.x, k Salt Codfish, Finnan Haddies. Also all varieties of Fresh Fish obtainable. Fresh Meat, Poultry-aod game (in season) of a kinds always on band. Leave your order at j F. P. ZIMMERMAN, M Phone 138. 70S Kansas Ave. BUY TllZ CaHsIUmL. r-a f" r f, u u '-fa J MANTTFACTUHFr) IT CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. mr-jfOTB T1IK us Am v.. Better Than a Recorded Deed. From the Washington Post. When the Virginian w ho liv 1 In the wretched lop cabin with a family of seven had told me that 40 acres of his land was a solid coal bed, 1 asked him if his deed was all right. "Never had no deed, ah," he rather proudly replied. "But have you no papers at all?" "No paper 'tall. sah. I jest squattel down on this yere land SO years ago, and hev been yere ever since." "But if you have no pa.per9 won't th'j owner come along some day and bounce you out." "Not akassly, fah not skasKly. That Is to say. sah. that the real owner ha come alons? three different thrive an I tried it, and every time he e'it kiiie l an I had to give it up. Deeds and Rich t!;lr:2 are all rigrht 'nuff in their way. but my old gun, with a bar'l seven feet long, ia a. heap better right around yere." Et Paul and Return $13.05 via Santa Fe Route. Tickets on sale Feb. 17th and lsih. Limited to i'tb. 2itu.

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJRXAL, FRIDAY ETENINa FEBRUARY 1 5, 1901. rr rr axk p. mac; Lennan. VOLUME XXVIII ....SO. 40 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. riiiv edition, delivered bv carrier. 30 ct!'. "a week to any part of Topena or fuhurbs, or at the same price In any us town where the paper has a carrier s-'ftfm. v mall, one year Zi J v mail, three months r? V.'eekiy edition, ou year I'KRSIANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal buiidtnsr, SOO ana ?'-'2 Kansa? avenue, corner ot Juigutn. YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bdg. A, "rank. Kichardson, Mgr. rHTCAGO OFFICE, frock Kxfhanpe Bid. A. Frank Richardson. Mgr. LONDON OFFICE, 12 P.el Llun Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONE?- PucineM r if nee fell TIn m Reporters Room beil 'Phone 61I The exciting senatorial deadlocks are not in states where women vote. Since JJrs. Nation broke In the To rek a join'ists have put up the bars. Congre-si seems to have trouble In making I he supply of soldiers' homes meet the l-raand. Mrs. Nation, appeared before a Topeka bar yesterday without her hatchet. It was the lar of justice. The rc-ults of Mrs. Nation's lecture tour iri.U aK.t that the people prefer to I now hef through the newspapers. It is evident that the president didn't have his ear on the ground when, he ap pointed i ampson to a place ahead of iSchley. As soon as Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan can complete that little deal with Mr. And rew Cari.egie he will take a trip to the Mediterranean. Tks Mv.ines News: Morgan and Rock efeller a e watchinsr Tesla's efforts to communicate with Mars closely. They w ant thai planet. Whate' er goes amiss during the pres ent session, of congress probably will be charged to Fettigrew, by his enemies and be appears to have many of them. A perual of the account of the wed ding whl.'h took place at Madrid yester day, leads to the conclusion, that the Spaniard have never heart! of the 13 hoovloo. People who are Inclined to criticise Mr. Bryan ftT his persistent efforts to secure an offiet. should not forget that there are others. There la J. lid ward Addicks, (or instance. Probai ly the cleaning out of the entire royal far-iily of China and the placing of Minister W'u upon the throne, might not be a bad solution of the Chinese problem on the part of the powers. Perhat s if the truth were known, Del egate Wilcox, of Hawaii, has also been in confidential correspondence with Pat Crowe. .Mr. "Wilcox has acquired quite a reputation as a letter writer". There "Vill be some news for Col. Roose velt whi n he again reaches civilization. He has 'een officially declared elected to the offi..'" of vice president during his absence '.n the wilds of Colorado. The "United States might easily grant the Filii inos the kind of independence which it is proposed to grant to the Cu bans but it is not yet known that either would a-cept the brand willingly. The h 'athen perversity of the Chinese ha3 aga:n been exemplified by the re fusal of three prominent citizens, named by the ministers of the powers, to ac cept an invitation to commit suicide. How car, peace be brought about if par ties connected with the negotiations de termine to stand out on such, trifles? Pittsbirg- Dispatch: Possibly that halt in the confirmation of the army r.omlnaf.ons is due to an apprehension that wh n General Kunston finds out he has bee'i turned down to a lieutenancy, while ;her officers who have seen no fighting are to have generals' commis Fions, Jj may start at once to swim home afd find out why It is so. Evidences are accumulating-, -which tend to the conviction that there will be no reduction of war taxes by this con gress, in view of the enormous appro priation j voted and in prospect, perhaps it is as 'veil that it should be so. Besides the brev ets are the chief beneficiaries of the pending bill and the public Is not particularly anxious to have the beer tax reduced. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe A man dislikes attention until It is about t-- be taken away from him. No d. "Terence how short a woman's skirts aie, she will hold them up in go ing ovei a crossing. It Is t"ie easiest thing in the world for a man vbo.se wife is fund of him to get whatever he wants to eat. It is rard to tell these days if a girl didn't t-.ke time to comb her hair, or took th'. time to comb it in the latest fashion. It can usually be depended upon that those w'-io stay at home after the mar Muse could have well afforded a wed ding tru. A man feels a strange pans when re minded f an acquaintance, who is dead, I ut the an is net because he is missed eo much but that he is missed so little. So many questions are referred to the IjmcasiT Literary society that St is compell'-d to hold meetings every nlht and secret sessions every after tiooii. It may. therefore, be some time 1n getting around to this: Should a liome frirt who ha a steady give up the parlor every evening to a visiting girl An Atchieun girl hasn't seen her lover ti'son since lust November, because of a visitor t her house, and she Is be ginning to wonder If ah has any rights. A Be book for the children." which contains more sense than many of the new ones written for grown up people, is "Father Cioope's Khymes," by Frank Baum. The first jingle tells of Old Mother Goose flying off to join a wo men's club and leaving the children at home for Father Goose to care for. Father oose tells the children the truth about things. He takes up some of the wonderful tales which have been told children forever, and in rhyme, asks them if they ever saw anything of the kind, and then proves that they have not because such things simply could not happen. It has always been considered necessary, to tell children lies to interest them, but Father Goose tells the truth and his book is very popular. JAYHAWKEB JOTS. Blue Rapids is to have a stucco mill. Scarlet fever is responsible for a. holi day in the Liberal schools. Puzzle picture for "Committee of Safety": Find the jointist. "Jack the Kicker" has chased "Jack the Hugger" out of Burlington. No, gentle reader, Mrs. Nation's pic ture does not show her hatchet faced. Sixty-two coyotes have fallen victims to the trusty rifle of an Atwood hunter this winter. Notwithstanding a violent snowstorm the recent Pratt butterfly social was a. fluttering success. Just to be in fashion a Rawlins county man has unearthed an Indian grave and secured several rare hatchets. Glen. Elder has gotten far enough out of its swaddling clothes to vote bonds for a city hall and opera house. The green-eyed monster of jealousy has made two debating societies at Po mona, where formerly there was h.ut one. There is a great run on oyster stews at Manhattan since a citizen found a pearl in his soup three-eighths of an inch around. A smelling committee has been ap pointed to investigate what is going. on behind a boarded, up window building at Glen Eider. The funny story that the New York World offered and Fred Funston refused $10,000 a. year to report In South Africa, is floating around. What with her lecturing, taking Turkish baths and editing papers, isn't Mrs. Nation apt to forget What she left Medicine Lodge for? With the passing of the snow in Cherokee county a tramp appeared at a farm house and offered to shovel a path to the barn for his supper. The mission of the "Pink Pinafore People" on earth is to give Cimarron bright home talent show3 followed by doughnut lunches, all for 15 cents. There seems to be some doubt as to the value of a policeman. But Cherry vale has one in prime condition and good flesh weighing 286 pounds, six feet and three inches high, and warranted to have staying qualtities. A healthy looking tramp walked into a Pratt restaurant and stowed away four dozen raw oysters, a dozen soft boiled egsrs, twelve bananas and a dime's worth of peanut before vacating his seat at the lunch, counter. And. he had the price, too. SNAP SHOTS AT HUME 3EWS "Black Pattl" will b at the Crawford tonight. i R. B. Fureell, of Manhattan, -was in town yesterday. The beer wagons still drive around town but they are empty. Arthur Long will give a silent funny act at the Grand tonight. Jesse Middleton la seriously sick at his home on Harrison street. I The Republican Flambeau club's en tertainment will be given at the Grand tonight. Those who took part in the Elks' "A Night in Bohemia" danced and had a good time at the Elks' lodge zooms last night. F W. Strawn has resigned his position -with the Clements Clothing company and is now in the freight department of the Santa Fe. Judge Casey, of the city court of Atch ison, and W. D. Gilbert, of the same town, are here working against the bill which is pending in the legislature knocking out the city court at Atchison. Word haa reached Topeka that A. W. Smith has left Washington for Kansas. He spent three weeks camping on the trail of Leland's Job but has evidently found that Leland feas it nailed down. All little girls desiring to Join the drill for the grand Carnival, will meet Saturday afternoon 2:30 p. tn., at the Knisrhts and Ladies Security hall, 701 Kansas avenue. A few more little girls needed. An entertainment will be given at the Auditorium March 8 as a benefit for the Topeka Orphans' home. Rev. D. M. Fisk will lecture on "The Wonder Story of the Nineteenth Century." and his lecture will be illustrated by 150 views. A fine practice game of basket ball was held at the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium last night. The members of the firs', team are working hard to get into shape to defeat the Haskell Indians on March 8, w hen the second game between these two teams will be played in Topeka Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. ME. AUSTIN WITHDRAWS. Edwin A. Austin has decided to with draw from the race for city attorney. He says he believes that there are other candidates who are entirely capable of looking after the city's affairs. Mr. Austin is recognized aa one of the ablest lawyers in the state, and commands the respect of his fellow members of the bar and the public generally. Senate Pasaea Agricultural BilL Washington, Feb. 15. The senate passed the agricultural appropriation bill and took up the shipping bill. Mr. Perkins (Cal.) addressed the senate. He favored an amended bill but bad many objections to the bill as reported. An amendment to the agricultural bill in creasing the appropriation for seeds and seed distribution from $170,000 to ?270,0X was agreed to. For Appropriating Employer's Money Salt Lake. Feb. 15. Arthur J. Van kuran. ex-local treasurer of the Oregon Short Line, was arraigned before Jutigre lana Smith on complaint of Auditor Mills. His bond was rixd at $5.0u0. The charge against Vankuran is that of ap propriating to his own use the company's funds in business. Mother and Daughter Burned toBeath Circleville, O.. Feb. 15. Mrs. John H. Roop and her 8 year old daughter Delia were burned to death at their home in Wayne township today. The child was playing near the grate and her clothing causht fire. The mother attempted to extinguish the flames and her own cloth ins ignited" and both perished. Mrs.Roop was 35 years old. Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. IS. Delia Bu chanan of this citv has brought suit nsainst John McNamara. a wealthy firmer of Clav countv, Missouri, for Ji5. P"0 damages for breach of promise. Mrs. Buchanan alleges that McNamara- be came engaged to her In and refuses to live up to the promise. Memphis. Term.. Feb. 15 A slisrht earth quake shock, lasting about twenty sec ond, was felt here Inst evening. There are hundreds of cough medicines which relieve coughs, all coughs, except bad ones I The medicine which has been curing the worst of bad coughs for sixty years is Now you can get a trial bottle of Cherry Pectoral for 25 cents. Ask' your druggist. TMree sizes 25c, 50c, $1.00. If your druggist cannot supply yon, send us fi.oo and we will express a large bottle to you, all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us your nearest express office. J. C. Ayes. Co., Lowell Mass. ROBBED IN A PULLKIfi Woman Believed of Bag of Jew els Worn Around Her Seek. San Francisco, Feb. 15. Mrs. F. H. Os good, wife of the president and manager of the Seattle Benton railway, was robbed of Jewels said to be valued at OOO on the Oregon express north of Sac ramento while she was asleep In a crowd ed Pullman coach. The stolen jewels were enclosed in a small bag which Mrs. Os good wore about her neck. A negro, who made his escape, is thought to be guilty of the robbery, though a white lad who gave the name of Lawrence Hill is in custody at Sacramento on suspicion of complicity in the theft. A third party, a woman who occupied a berth on the train, also underwent examination on her ar rival in this citv, but as nuthing connect ing her with the crime was found on her person, she was dismissed. The negro and the white lad in custody at Sacra mento were found in hiding aboard -the train but the. niegro made a successful dash for liberty. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS About the most exciting terpsichorean diversion known to man is the cake walk. In all the world is there anything so laughter-provoking, anything so amusing? Who invented the Idea, where did It orig inate? Nobody knows. The negro has had his walks for the cake from time Immemorial. There will be an entire company of colored cake-walkers at the Crawford tonight and Saturday matinee and night with. "Black Patti." The following is what the Boston Tran script had to say of Richard Golden in "Old Jed Prouty," who comes to the Grand Saturday, matinee and night: 'Old Jed Prouty' long ago secured a prominent place among the popular bu colic melodramas of the day, and not withstanding its age, it shows no sign of growing- stale. "On the contrary. It seems to gain in richness. "There are six characters in the play which are perfect gems in their way Jed Prouty, the large-hearted, unsophisticated tavern-keeper; Zeb Hardy, the long-leased, awkward, good-natured teamster: Zaek Wilcox, the town crier, constable and tax gatherer; Joe Stover, a fine picture of the senile country storekeeper; John Todd, the village justice, grasping:, cold blooded and unscrupulous; and Tribula tion Prouty, Old Jed's maiden sister, as nice an old home body as one could wish to see. Another portrait, that of Martha Giddens, the belle of Eucksport. is also a good one, until Martha becomes Mrs. Beacon Hill, then she ceases to be In teresting. But the ix characters named are each of them so graphic and so hu morous without being caricatures, that it seems almost a pity all the others were not left out. These six are a complete album of the country life, a real host In themselves." Robert Sherman and his company will present "My Friend From Arkansas" at the Grand Opera house Monday night. Prices. 10, 20 and 30 cents. Ladies free. The company will play a week s engage ment. The Madison Square Theater company will begin a four nights' engagement at the Crawford Monday night in "Southern Rose" at 10, 20 and 30 cents. Ladies free. None to Tie the Knot. Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 15. With the ar rival of the militia from Birmingham and Gadsen. ordered to Huntersville by Gov ernor Samford, all attempts to Ivnch Berry Hall, a white schoolmaster for an alleged assault on a 13-year-old white girl, apparently have been abandoned. The soldiers are guarding the Jail. At the close of Hall's preliminary trial a mob burst in the door of the court room, se cured the prisoner and led him to the court house yard. A rope was thrown over a limb, but no one would volunteer to tie the rope around the victim's neck and at the critical time a deputy sheriff waiked up and with no resistance what ever on the part of the mob, led the pris oner to Jail. Harbor Slines at Port Orchard. Tacoma. Wn., Feb. IS. The work of laying mines and torpedoes about the en trance to the Port Orchard dry dock is soon to begin. A shipment of five cars of mushroom anchors has been received by the quartermaster's department, con signed to the I'nited States engineer by the ordnance department of the army. They are to be used to hold down the guncotton mines and torpedoes. Frozen to Death in California. San Bernardino, Cal., Feb. 15. John Itt has been frozen to death in the San Bernardino mountains, where for two weeks a blizzard has been racing. He was In the employ of the Arrowhead Res ervoir company and had started to a bouse six miles away to get the mall. He traveled on snow-shoes, but before he had traversed half the distance he became be numbed with the intense cold and lost his bearings. nrfe i ffi PILLS Rouse r the tor a pld liver, and cure biliousness, sick S headache, jaundice, nausea, indigeef tion, etc They are in valuable to prevent a cold or break up a fever. Mild, gentle, certain, they are worthy your confidence. Purely vegetable, they can be taken by children or delicate women. Price, 2,"c. at all medicine dealers or by mail of C. JL Hooo L Co., Lowell, Mass. IliDICTED FOB OURDEO. Grand Jury Finds a Trne Bill Against Mrs. Lulu Kennedy. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 13. Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy, who shot her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, contracting agent of the Merchants' Dispatch company, in this city on January 10, was today in dicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree. The shooting was the culmination of a sensational wedding, which Kennedy had brought suit to have set aside, asserting it had been forced. Friends of the dead man aided the prosecuting attorney in, -trying to prove that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. The grand Jury consid ered the indictment of the father and brother of Mrs. Kennedy, but took no action in. their cases. The prosecuting attorney will, however, it is stated, cause other arrests. Mm Kennedy, who is 20 years old, called her husband from his office in the new Ridg building, in the center of the city, and emptied four shots into his body, causing almost instant death. The couple were married in the district court on December 4. The father and brother accompanied the bride, and Kennedy's actions indicated he was not a willing party to the contract. In hia suit to have the marriage set aside Kennedy asserted that his life had been threatened if he refused to marry the woman. At the coroner's inquest Will Prince, a brother of the woman, ad mitted that he was present in the Ridge building at the time of the shooting, and that he had struck the murdered man's brother when the latter tried to disarm Mrs. Kennedy. A physician tes tified that Mrs. Kennedy, who had come to him for medical advice, had told him in November that she was the wife of Case Patten, a baseball pitcher. C W. Prince, father of Mrs. Kennedy, assert ed that Kennedy had broken off the en gagement with his daughter and was to have been married to Grand Rapids, Mich., woman. BY AID OF A SKELETON. ExpertsDemonstrate How Leon ard Day Met His Death. Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 15. The medical experts continued their testi mony today in the trial of Frank H. Hamilton on the charge of murder of Leonard Day. Dr. Trdman, professor of aiiatomy of the University of Minne sota, by the aid of an articulated skel eton, and also using one of the state's attorneys for illustration, showed how, in hia opinion, the fatal knife thrust was delivered from behind Day, and how with the sharp edge of the blade toward the back of the murdered man's bodv a piece of bone was chipped out of a rib. The state's attorney, aided by 'other medical experts, put him through a rigid cross-examination, but failed to shake him In his deductions. Dr. George T. Ricker testified as to the bruises on Hamilton's head after the affray, and said they might all have been caused by one blow with, some In strument. Paul Gyllstrom, a reporter, -who cov ered the affair for the Times testified that during all the time he was at the West hotel Hamilton made no confes sion, nor did he say anything about the matter. Dr. J. L. Stone, who attended Hamil ton at the jail, testified to the various contusions on the prisoner's head, and said they probably were all made by a cane or stick of some kind. Ray L. Evans, recalled, could not re member whether he had sent a, pair of trousers containing a bloody handker chief to a cleaning and repairing estab lishment. If so they were not those he had on that night at the West hotel. The court adjourned for the noon recess. VIGILANTS SATISFIED. Conditions at Noon Today Made Smashing Unnecessary. The committee appointed by the mass meeting at the Auditorium seems satis fied that the joints are closed and that nothing need be done by the committee at present. The jointists. were given until noon to day to remove their bars and close their places and they have complied with that request but not all hafe shipped their bars out of town, but have stored them. H. R. Hilton.a memberof thecommittee, said: "The committee feels satisfied that the joints are virtually closed and that only a little bootlegging is going on. We will meet this afternoon and talk the matter over but I do not look for anything to be done today. I imagine that the jointists think that this will blow over soon." EXCLUSIONS Via Kock Island Eoute. To points in Texas, $15 for the round trip, to Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, and Beaumont, Tuesday, February 19, good returning March 12. ON SAME DATE home-seekers' tick ets to all points in Arkansas, Arizona. Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas, one fare plus two dollars for the round trip. Return limit twenty-one days. ST. PATTL, MINN., $15.05. Tickets on sale February 17 and 18. Limited Feb ruary 25 for return. WICHITA, Kas., $4.62 for the round trip. Tickets on sale February 16 to 20, inclusive, good for return February 23. Also on Tuesday, February 19, colonist rates to San Francisco. Los Angeles and intermediate points, $25. PORTLAND, SEATTLE, and Inter mediates, $28. SAU LAKE CITY to BUTTE, and intermediates, $23. For full information see nearest Rock Island agents. A. M. FULLER, C. P. T. A. 'Phone 384. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Maxim Pasho, aged 87. died Wednes day night at Grand Haven. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock from the Church of the Assump tion. Buy one of those splendid suits for $5, worth double, at The Palace. Made Grand Master of Masons. London, Feb. 15. At a special meet ing of the grand lodge of Free Masons this afternoon the Duke of Connaught was unanimously elected grand master in place of King Edward. Buy one of those splendid suits for $5, worth double, at The Palace. Major Shreve has been drilling- the lit tle girls during the week. The special ties are all Al and will highly entertair the little ones and bis ones too I A 1 til Will WiUDlUli XJill ULllU Ifi We have picked out regard to cost, have put to give them away. Boys' 200 Men's Suit Worth From $7.50 to $12.50 for TOMORROW Boys' Reefers AT One-Half Price, 4.ii4..H.4.4.4.4Hi GREAT REACTION. Gen. MacArthur Cables News of "Important" Capture. Washington, Feb. 15. News of anoth er important surrender in the Philip pines is contained in the following dis Buys $18, $16.50 and $15.00 Suits. See our window. MM I". I s- I III

f 4 SsLiratsL it- Menu i I field for vour i -M-M-M-fv-M-f i nearly all our odds and ends them on our first table and go Suits cut in the same proportion See them. Black Irish ei or Frieze Ulsters e.nil worth 7 for N" Boy's Irish A A Frieze Ulsters, A. Si if worth $4, for Men's $10.00 Overcoata for All 15.00 Overcoats for All $20.00 Overcoats for AU $25.00 Overcoats for Boy's Reefers $3.00 down to Complete New Line of Hats and Caps on sale tomorrow. 4-fr-4"i"l"t"-H"H''H-H"l-4 5.C9 10.C3 12.50 15.GD 88c Dor tngf the past week of inclement weather we have teen daily re ceiving; by freight and express NEW TAILOR-HADE SUITS, AND SEPARATE SKIRTS. until we now have a stock: to supply any want. And although our Suit Department is considerably torn up on account MORE NEEDED ALTERATIONS (we are adding; more room to this department) made possible by your generous patronage, we will have it arranged for your comfort as much as possible. And Selling Will Commence In Earnest Tomorrow. We will not attempt a description simoly ask you to COME AND SEE THEM. Prices range S10 S15 316.50 21 822.50 and S25 each. The talk of the town is our Taffeta Silk Waist. Its equal in value has never been shown in this city. Made of the best Silk Taffeta. Cluster pin tucks and hemstiching ail over front, back and sleeves L'AIglon cuffs, hemsUehed collar note the colors it conies in Black, White, Cardinal, Old Ross, Helfatrope, Tan, Brown, Army BIus, Royal El ue id New Green- See them in our South Window at Separate Skirts In Wool or Silk. We will show to morrow the latest ideas and at reason able prices. Wool at 83.50 S5.00 S0.50 87.50 to 825.00 Tomorrow ruffle collar Royal Blue, Silk at 87.50 88.50 810. to 832.50 patch received at the war department from General MacArthur: "Manila, Feb. 15. Adjutant General, Washington: 112 rlfle3 and 1,500 rounds of ammunition surrendered at Ha ganey, February 13, mostly from supply secreted in contiguous awatnps. The in cident is important and indicates a great reaction favorable to American interests in region of Bulucan, hereto fore one of the worst in Luzon. The re sult is accomplished exclusively by the Q j Hj 3 l i t 1 D KlJ KlJ ee our window. BLACK CLAYS EXCEPTED. t C i A Lien's Suits. 1 iiiiu-L -J in Men's Suits without they have to, if vro have THIS WEEK SPECIALS All Underwear at Sacrifice Prices. Men's Undershirts Jfo 4 Men's heavy Random Underwear.. ..21e Men's heavy Fleece-lined Under- wear Men's 75o Wool-fleeced Underwear.. -too Men's Ail-Wool $1.25 Unde. w ear.. ..75e Men s heavy Blue Jersey Snlrtfl 2o Boys,' Union Underwear 21o in. iiecM-od Under-. T iJUjr, 2 SO wear V Men's and Boys' Flannel Night Men's and" Boys' Winter Caps 1 o Boys' Corduroy Pants i;2 iow ns Men's Corduroy Pants Men's and Boys' extra heavy Sweaters &u0 Men's and Boys' 4-ply Linen Col- lars 3 for zoo Men's' and Boys' fancy Percale j; Shirts 5 X i ft f i rzi it A Petticoat Bargain. we offer Five Dozen Petticoats made of Spun Glass. 9 in. accordian 89c Black. Red. Helio. and each New Neckwear. The Neckwear Store will show New L'AIg lon Collars, New Auto Ties with spike d ends, New Lace Collars and Reveres, and many new made-up creations. You can see them for the asking. long continued intelligent and perfifltent efforts of officers of the Third United States infantry. MAC AKTHUK." EOc fine Crown make suspenders for 3ac at The Palace tonight and tomorrow. The Twenty-third regiment band in ar ranging for a concert at the Auditorium. Buy one of those splendid suits for $"i. Worth double, at The Palace. enef it I Buys $18, $16.50 and $15.00 Suits. I :r7 h. 4. 4- HP X

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OTOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FlUDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1001. t f y r rt i t 1 li i i is r i M J ifU -i s, i m i- (4 n J lit i lit' I L J U um uU U u u uu y l J TVTi Ts rtl oct y vi T, TnwVi onHipinn" Trrill -foil 4-n f Via 1 r r4 i r 1 3 z z -1 1 ii a 4.1 4? 4-1 3 t. 1 liinuuits in xixt:ri;iiciuu.iiij.g wxxi iuii it lxiu iuv ui musu pruuuui, uuuuuiuiuai 'u ONLY A SHORT TIME, AND OUR pie who attend this Sale Tonight and all day Tomorrow OPEN TILL 10 P. M. TOI7IGIIT. 111 Suits for the price of One -Tomorrow i t li f f j Ml I 1 1 3 1 f li 1 1 r f! n. y H Ok WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST. Your Last Opportunity to Buy at These Prices. Men's 10c White Handkerchiefs 4c 10c Red and Blue Handkerchiefs 3c Silk Web Suspenders QC 75c Ribbed and Fleece-lined Underwear. 39c Camel's Hair Underwear ,s 19c 35c Lined Gloves 19c 40c and 35c Working Shirts 19c Heavy Sweaters 48c Scotch Caps 19c $2.25 Duck Coats, large velvet collars. .$1.50 2.25 All-Wool Tants 1.39 G.45 and 7.50 Suits 3.85 9.85 and S.75 Suits 5.25 11.25, 10.95 and 9.50 Suits 6.58 14.S5 Black and Gray Clay Worsted. 8.67 Irish Frieze Ulsters 3-85 Fine Kersey Overcoats, small sizes only At your own price $1.75 Satin Calf Shoes, all sizes $1.18 2.25 Wax Calf Shoes, warranted 1. 50 4. 00 Welt Yici Kid and Yelour Calf, Kid-lined Shoes 2.50 Ladies' Dong. Kid Lace or Button Shoes 98c French Kid Lace Shoes 1. 48 Arctics, Felt Boots, and Rubbers, At greatly reduced prices i t t J a a n m and CL0 1 1 8 East Sixth Street. XL MONTGOMERY, Prop.. (Successor to J. S. Sproat.) Telephone 252. (12 East Sixth Street WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY. We always save you money. 18 lbs. N. 0. Granulated Sugar 81.00 White Lard, per lb.. QG California Hama, per lb gc Parlor Brooms.... 15c OQc 25c 12 lbs. Scotch Oats 25c Salmon, per can 10c Maple Drips, per can 15c Pure N. 0. Molasses, per can. 10c Gal can Fancy Table Syrup. .30c Standard Sugar Corn, per can.... ,6c L'needa Biscuits, per pkg.. Bulk Cocoanut, per lb 15c 3 lbs. Evaporated Peaches 25c 4 lbs. Evaporated Pears 25c Choice Prunes, per lb I..... 5c Lima Beans, per lb .....5o Crackers by the box, per lb 5 -C sib can Guaranteed Baking Powder 65c Sauer Kraut, per ql 5c 2 pkgs. Mince Meat 15c 2 lbs. good bulk Coffee v25c Fancy Burbauk Potatoes, bo 70c 12 bars good Laundry Soap 25c MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Gounod's "Kedemption" Will Be Given in Topeka in May. A large meeting of the vocalists of the city was held at the Commecrlal club rooms last evening to meet Prof. Penny of the state university. Prof. Fenny eaid we had the material in Topeka for a aulendid chorus and that the Auditor ium was the best room in the entire west tor a musical entertainment. It was unanimously decided to form a permanent choral society for the pur pose of encouraging an annual festival and Gounod's "Redemption" will be giv en in Hay under the direction of Prof. Penny. AjommIUee on membership consisting of 66 members was appointed, who will PUOrrut names for membership W M ,anN,??sr John Brown. H. W. Jones", Jfre. lolet B. McCoy and Miss Gertrude W. af'fointed a committee to Bubir.it a plan of organization, nominate fflcers for the first year and outline the policy of the proposed organization and lLa, thu first "tarsal, which will the rooma at 620 Kansas ave rue on Tuesoay evening, February 26 at L?ttl 6hari- MmWa of the com miT,0" ,mf,?llb'rP are requested to V1 1T1St.of naraea M Boon as posui lo X-,J; Anderson, secretary of the Commercial club, in order that eVerv nTbTf,thV!?0s y iwS ?rr v m o fr th" ttrst hearsat. -,ir. i.. H. Crosby, chairman of the enter, tairimer.t committee of the Commercial club was sick and could not attend the Saet thVch-l- but 11 i3 "derstcd that tne club w id promote the chorus S&We? CaUSC ns tQ way IMPORTANT MEETING. Commercial Club to Meet on Santa Fe Bond Proposition. Every member of the Commercial club ought to attend the special meet ing' on Monday evesinsr, February IS. The entire question of submitting the Santa Fe bond proposition will be de termined. The special committee will report upon the legal status of the case and plans for the campaign will be laid out. Tor Shattered Nerves. A remedy that will soothe, build up the wasted tissues and enrich the blood is In dispensable. Lichty s Celery Nerve Com pound tins been wonderfully successful in cases of nervousness, as thousands of grateful people will testify. Sold by Geo. W. Stansiieid. 63 Kansas avenue; Mar shall .Bros., 115 Kansas avenue. Texas and Return $15.00 via Santa Fe Route, Tickets to Beaumont, Dallas, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, Port Ar thur, San Antonio. Waco, Lake Charles, at the extremely low rate of tlo for the Round Trip. On sale Tuesday, Feb ruary 19. Limited to March 1?. return ing. See T. L. King, agent, Topeka, for particulars. Men! You can buy $2.50 to J4 shoes for $1.85 at The Palace tonight and tomorrow. Evehryboy's liable to itching piles.R!ch and poor, old and young terrible the torture they suffer. Only one sure cure LVian's Ointment. Absolutely safe; can't fail. One of the very prettiest home wed dings ever seen in Topeka was that of Miss Alice May Prescott, daughter of Judge and Mrs. A. H. Horton, and Mr. Charles Lincoln Brown, of Arkansas City, which took place Thursday even ing at 6:30, at the residence at 909 Har rison street. Much time and thought was lavished on the decorations, and Uie result was more than satisfactory. When Mrs. Horton returned from Florida she brought with her a quantity of gray moss, and this was draped over the pic tures, massed on the chandeliers, fes tooned in the doorways and on the cur tains. In the first parlor were jars of spicy red carnations, and in the second parlor, where the ceremony was per formed, pink roses were used. The bridal party stood in front of the mantle which vaa banked to the ceiling with palms. In the midst of the palms were hung Miss Prescott's and Mr. Brown's pictures, draped with, the wedding veil of the bride's sister-in-law. Across the center of the room was a rope of smilax which separated the bridal party from the guests. It was caught at either end with a fluffy pink satin bow. Tall wicker vases of pink roses were also at either end of the smilax. The piano was in the hall, and as Miss Ollie O'Brien played Mendelssohn's wed ding march the bridal party entered and took their position in front of the mantle. They came In the following order: Miss Lotta Ranney and Miss Rosamond Horton, Miss Edna Crane and Miss Pearlade Presoott; then Miss Winnifred Prescott. the maid of honor, followed by little Miss Ruth Brown, the flower girl, and last the bride by her self. They were met down stairs by Mr. Brown and his best man, Mr. John Prescott, and Rev. P. W. Crannell, of the First Baptist church, who performed the Episcopal ring ceremony. The bride was given away by her mother. During the ceremony Miss Pearlade Prescott played "Simple Confession" very softly on her violin. The bride was charming in a pretty gown of white Paris mull. The low round neck was outlined with a hand some bertha of rose point lace. The long sleeves were tucked horizontally and finished at the wrist with dainty frills of rose point; the entire waist was ac cordion pleated. The skirt was cut with a demi-train and finished with deep Vandyke points, edged on either side with tiny ruchings. Her long lace edged veil was held in place with the groom's gift, a handsome pearl and diamond pin. She carried white hya cinths and violets. All four bridesmaids wore short veils of pink chiffon, lace edged, and fastened with a bit of the bride's bouquet. These veils were the gift of Miss Presoott. and were made in such a way that they may be used for evening scarfs. The maid of honor wore a pretty pink mercerized muslin, made with low neck and long sleeves. It was trimmed with pink velvet and embroidered chiffon. Her three-quarters length veil was caught with white hyacinths and violets nd he carried pink carnations. All four of the bridesmaids wore pretty rale pink gowns. Mrs. Walter Cust and Mrs. Fred Cole, who assisted during the cere mony, both wore white. IJttle Miss Brown, who held the bride's bouquet during the ceremony.wore a quaintKate Oreenaway frock; it was pink, low in the neck and long in the skirt. Her hair was caught up on top of her head with a high shell comb. Preceding the ceremony a picture of the entire bridal party was taken. The dining room where refreshments were perved after the ceremony W'as beautiful in violet and white. The pol ished table was almost covered with a square of Battenburg. and the center piece was heart-shaped and composed of white hyacinths and violets. Misty white illusion twined with smilax was caught at the chandelier and extended to two corners of the table, where it was held in place with big violet bows. The illusion was the wedding veil of the bride's sister. Other decorations in the dining room were ferns, smilax and branches of the vivid red and green opossum berry brought from Florida. The guests were received by Mrs. Horton. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Brown, Mr. and Mrs. John Prescott, and Mrs. Carrie Hoyt of Kansas City. The ladies who assisted In entertaining were Mrs. Oeorge Wr. Crane, Mrs, Frank Lewis, Mrs. Oeorge M. Noble, and Mrs. George O. Wilmarth, assisted by the members of the Douze Whist club, of which the bride was a member. Before going to their home In Arkan sas City, Mr. and Mrs. Brown will take a trip to Washington, D. C, and on their return will be at home Wednes days, both afternoon and evening, dur ing March. Announcement cards were issued today. The bride's going away gown was of brown kersey cloth, tailor-made: the blouse was of tan silk, and the Jacket faced with tan broadcloth. She wore a small hat to match. A Delightful Affair One of the pleasant affairs of the week was the Valentine dance at the Elks rooms Thursday evening. The affair was in charge of the 12 young ladies who took part ,in a "Night in Bohemia;" each one Invited one young lady and two men. The girls all wore pretty evening frocks, powdered their hair and wore patches aixanged at becoming angles. The programmes were big red paper hearts inscribed with the date and "The firt3 annual hop of the ladies in Bohe mia." The first part of the evening music was furnished by a mandolin or chestra and the latter part by Watson's orchestra. About 10:30 an elaborate course supper was served, the guests seated at several small tables. Among the guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bone, Mr. and Mra Geo. Mains. Miss Lotta Ranney of Arkansas City, Miss Alice Higgins of Clinton., Ia.. Miss Ota Nicholson of Lawrence, Miss Janette Lord. Miss Edna Crane, Miss Virgiline Mulvane, Miss Beatrice Foster, Miss Lillian Foster, Miss Bessie Stewart, Miss Anna Herbst, Miss Esther Cham--beriain, Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Kate Clough, Miss Olenna Cross, Miss Louise Fmith, Miss Mary Chamberlain, Miss Helen Otis, Miss Katherine Fleishman. biirn Agnes Guntaer.Miss Helen Thowp- EN'S All-Wool Suits best fabrics every garment tailor-made worth yN f j twice yes, many three times tomorrow's price. Vj I Rnf. urfl'popfflQ.ninhnnoQ on1 fViA 1 t i nlr hnTral wVio ji takes advantage will secure a great, great bargain B on hand early, and pick out a fine Suit for only CIO MANY people are incredulous because some merchants do not live up to their advertisements BUT WE DO f j you know it so ii you Vr'ant a nne buit sucn v i i malma na fit.Ain Rlnph'a TT. R. V AT. nnrl ff'hlnss Bros.', the best such as 815. G16.50 and SIS Suits Come Tomorrow and buy one for. J t 7) Overcoats for the price of OneTomorrow! i i! We know it takes an extraordinary inducement to make you invest in an Overcoat now but styles don't change materially, and the man that buys now can buy two Overcoats for the price of one TOMORROW and Tonisrht we give you pick from a lot of our CtJrl n,,- M,n,nnr rori03 finest Overcoats-sold from $15 to $20-all styles-all kinds f) if ?ur cheaper grades we won't carry them over so take your pick tomorrow in this I Tnt llVinW good as gold offer for only U XJ Qre 1 2 j) Pairs Pants for the Price of One Tomorrow. 4 The sale that riro'RS th snasnn's ssnaation .3.00 and $3.50 Trousers made from Cassimers bv Toneka -r m. (i g t "Woolen Mills, also Worsteds and Cheviot Trousers taken from Suits Trousers every length or style as good M Trousers as you can buy for dress or business wear S3, and $3.50 Trousers take your choice tomorrow for r j g 4, $4.50 Fine Cheviot Trousers, Tomorrow, $2.05 Finest $5 and $6 Trousers, Tomorrow, pi1" Pairs Men's Shoes For the Price of One Tomorrow In order to clean up all small lots of Men's Shoes nearly all sizes in lace or congress single and 1 f"0 f double soles hand welts this is a splendid chance to buy a pair of shoes sold from $2.50 to $4.00 j j f Tomorrow take a pair Tor the insignificant price of what an ordinary pair would cost you only jj. n 'va. 'f Boys' Bessemer Shoes the best by test $2 and $2.25 Shoes Tomorrow take a pair for GX0 $1.95 Bargains for the Boys-- If these do not catch the eyes of the prudent parents nothing ever wul ror they are superlative values. Boy f3, $3.50, Knee Pant Suits for dress, for .school wear, fine garment, can be worn for Spring and Summer, all styles, ages 3 to 14 Tomorrow only, for Boy's finest Knee Pant Suits, Youth's Suits ages 14 to 19 of Overcoats or Reefers, the ft" all wool fabrics were ir A A best $5, $6,7.50, ages3to U") $7.50 and $8.00 get one V) lii! Boy's Wool Sweaters 75c value Boy's 20c Suspenders only lOo Boy's Silk Neckwear only 19o Boy's Knee Protectors only -15o Special One lot of Boy's Plaid Waists 19c tomorrow for 50o just for school wear Special guy your furnishing goods here Tomorrow and you'll get big bargains. 50c Crown Suspenders the best made tomorrow G5o Shirt Sale Very Fine Percale Shirts 2 collars and a pair cuffs p detached $1.00 values Saturday only U J w Unlaundered White Shirts Union Linen Bosoms worth 50o "3 K f Bpecial tomorrow for U Jw Men's Black and Tan Maco Yarn Hose worth 20c 10a One Lot All-wool Underwear all collars also silk fleeced "!C) f was $2.00 a suit tomorrow for U J w One Lot of Underwear all kinds sold for 50c to $1.00 get your size tomorrow for. '30c Giaettol- 709 Kuum Ark Hats fiats Bargains in Hats! Bon, Miss Nellie Clough, Miss Callie Cut tell, Mis3 May Nye, Miss Bessie Hayden, Miss Kdith Guibor, Mr. Kurtz Kellam, Mr. Adrian Sherman, Mr. Walter Bui' pess, Mr. John Waters, Mr.Jack Tiffany, Mr. Dan Hammatt, Mr. Kenneth Whar ry, Mr. Lawrence Chamberlain, Mr.Will Frame, Mr .Joe Morgan, Mr. Will Alex ander, Mr. Galen Nichols, Mr. Brad Johnson. Mr. Archie Williams, Mr. Rol and Medlicott, Mr. Fred McGiffin, Mr. Leslie Guild, Mr. Ralph Peterson Mr. Lon Davis, Mr. Burton Mudge, Mr. Al Keid, Mr. Scott Lord. The Coramisceo Party. The Commisceo club gave an enjoy able dancing party at Hudson's hall Thursday evening. Music was furnished by Steinberg's orchestra and punch was served during the evening. Those pres ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Figg, Mr. and Mrs. Will Griffith, Misa Eva May berry of McPherson, Miss Anna Williams of Paola.Miss Venice Whitney, Miss Josephine McMahan, Miss Kather ine Ernich, Miss Ada Simmons, Miss Lela Hord. Miss Lee, Miss Tillie Zim merman, Miss Pearl Weber, Miss Daisy Warner, Miss Maud McKibben, Miss Josephine VanAmburgh, Miss Olive Leonard, Miss Maud Greggs, Miss Lizzie Wilson, Miss May Tally, Miss Dora Tuckerman, Miss Leona Sage, Miss Eda Smythe, Miss Mary Gunther, Miss Kath leen Hartman, Miss Bessie Creamer. Miss Blanche Steele, Miss Jennie Moore, Miss Marie Hanzo, Mr. Tobias Larson of Highland, Kan., Mr. A. P. Jackson of Lawrence, Mr. W. R. Seaver of Fort Scott, Mr. Gord Smith, Mr. Reuben Fo gel, Mr. W. C. Stevenson, Mr. Fred Good rich, Mr. H. C. Goodrich, Mr. Marshall, Mr. George Warren, Mr. Abner Marcott, Mr. Theodore Richenbacker, Mr. Theo dore Snattinger, Mr. Cephas Wingett, Mr. Lem White, Mr. W. R. Frisbey, Mr. Fred Tuckerman, Mr. Will Taggart, Mr. Jack Mercer, Mr. John A.Buchanan, Mr. Charles Smyth, Mr. Newt Alden, Mr. Morris Stevenson, Mr. Gus Mackey, Mr. Clyde Funchess, Mr. Ralph Ball, Mr. Cutts, Mr. Joe Agner, Mr. F. jL. Heyden and Mr. Walter Holtwick. A Valentine Party. The Voung Girls' Music club enter tained the members of the P. M. S. club at a very pleasant valentine party at the home of Miss Mary Sutherland Thursday afternoon. There was a valen tine hunt, a valentine party, music and games of all kinds. The members of the music club are, Bessie Jett, Nellie Kouns, Arline Dietrich, Clara Daniels, Mary Sutherland, Helen Sterns and Blanche Jenness. The hours were from 4:30 until 7:30 and at 6 o'clock refresh ments were served. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Eva Mayberry of McPherson who has been spending several weeks in To peka with her sister, Mrs. A. A. Hayes, left today for St. Louis. Mrs. O. L. Moore of Abilene arrived In Topeka Thursday; she came to attend the party given this afternoon by Mrs. Charles Harris. Invitations were issued today for a "character party to be given Feb. 22, by the members of the T. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. at the rooms of the former on East Eighth avenue. Not only Colonial characters will be represented but any representative people. All young people of the city are invited to attend. Mrs. Frank Edson will entertain at an informal thimble party Saturday after noon in honor of Mrs. George Rust. Miss Lucy Knowles entertained about fifteen young ladies Thursday afternoon at her home on Harrison street compli mentary to Miss Florence VanTassel. Each guest took with her an article of tinware and a recipe wbicii was pasted In a book provided for the purpose by the hostess. Miss Anna Williams of Paola is spend ing a few days in Topeka with Mrs. T. T. Kelly. Miss Sarah Horner has returned from a several months' visit with her brother in Leadville, Colo. Mrs. S. E. Little, mother of E. C. Lit tle, is expected in Topeka soon to visit Mrs. M. A. i Waters. Miss Rose of Burlingame has been in Topeka visiting Miss Estelle West. Miss Cora lrvin of Carbondale is vis iting friends in Topeka. Mrs. C. H. Hoffman of Strong City is the guest of Mrs. L. L. Goodwin at ?20 Monroe street. RIPE FOR REVOLT. Gen.Weyler Has His Hands Full ia Spain. New York, Feb. 15. A special to the Times from Washington says: It is learned that General Weyler has not only proclaimed martial law in Madrid, but has posted his troops in such a manner as to command every part of the city. The downfall of the ministry is said to be certain and that of the government possible. The reason given by Weyler for his action is the in ability of the civil government of the province of Madrid to maintain order. Nevertheless, there is a suspicion that this proceeding may be a coup d' etat of General Weyler's. That officer has for the last two years been acting ex actly like a general who was preparing for the role of the "Man on Horseback." He has been making speeches and giving out statements, the effect of which is to show that he was the only man who could bring Spain through her troubles. He is, however, the captain general and as such he is the person to enforce mar tial law in Madrid when it is declared. The disturbances which peneral Weyler is now trying to quell, are not, it is said, by persons familiar with the situation either Carlist or Republican originally although both patties are no doubt active in trying to take advan tage of trouble. It is declared that the uprising is in reality an outbreak of the discontented. Those taking part in it comprise all classes and its causes are like those which brought about the French revolu tion. As one diplomat put It: "Spain is suffering from a complication of dis eases." Poverty has been Increasing, the bur den of taxation has been growing heav ier, and the laboring classes are ripe for revolution. At the same time the ruling dynasty is unpopular. All these compli cations and a number of others have brought about a widespread feeling of unrest, and great events are looked for in Spain unless the incipient revolution is quelled. Spain has been tending toward a re bellion for some time. Even In the life time of King Alfonso XII there were continual disturbances and in the clos ing year of his reign there w-ere labor riots of such seriousness that It was re ported that the rioters had poisoned the wells in many places. The queen regent has always been unpopular and during the Spanish-American .war she received the significant nickname of "The Aus trian woman," the same eplthut which was applied to Marie Artonif?tte. Only a ehort time ago an attempt was ma-if to assassinate her. Had as whs Spain's condition in the lifetime of Alfonso XII and later, the impoverishment resultir.t? from the war with America, has made it immeasureably worse and iiaa driven tha laboring classes to desperation. For Shattered Nerves. A remerly that will with. build up the wasted tissues nwl enrich the blood i In dispensable. Liehiy's Olcry Nerve (''im pound has been wonderfully pureessful l-i cases of nervousiw";H. a thousands of frrateful people will testify. Sold by Oeo. XV. Stanarieid. tS Kansas avenue; Mr Bha.ll Bros., 115 Kansas avenue. 50c fine Crown make usiKndrs for 35c at The Palace tonight and tomorrow. Wichita and .Return $4.63 via Eanta Fe Route. Tickets on sale Ff b. Ifith to 2fith., in clusive. Good returning t Fob. Tonight and tomorrow $15 to JJO finest overcoats for $10, at The Palace. Summer Less Than Four Days Away For only $25 nnd in leys than four days the Santa, Fe route will take you from Topeka to California, whf re it h always summer provided you leave any Tuesday between February 12 and April 30. Men! You can buy $2.60 to $4 shoos for $1.85 at The Palace tonight nd tomorrow. i Depart UL ii. ii. ia M i n 9" t TT FT" TTTs a LJWO j Lj A II Li i .u. 4. 1 KJ WITH SHOES TOMORROW With each pair of Shoes sold tomorrow (Satur day) we will give, free of charge, a pair of our best I Rubbers. Our stock is complete with all the wanted J styles and sizes. J

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY E VEXING, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. c 4 And continuing for 10 days we will put on sale our entire stock of Men's and Boy's Clothing, Shoes and Furnishing goods AT firr- Tlir nrpfg tji T I Ut ilLiSuL ilia -1 giiu ytf m t ad ii ti S itr This don't mean only on Suits and Overcoats but every article m the store. (We will have to except Florsheim Shoes, Lonley Hats and iu. V Collars and Cuffs in this sale.) Our agreement with these houses will not permit us to cut on them. One Third Off Do you realize how much of a savin? that is to you. Every dollars worth of goods you buy only costs you 6C cents. Every article in our store is marked in plaiu figures you deduct the- discount and pay u3 the difference. f UsffYir A W 617 ICansas Avenue. 4 i For Bargains IN GOOD I S 4- Strollers ;H "u? fU GO TO Foriii an's ClosingOut Sale I Prices on everything in stock are cut. Actual cost not considered. Special Lots in 32.03, S2 50 and 3.00 values in Ladies' and Misses' Shoes (broken sizes), cut to a0 eeis a Pair. 0 ounc in uqt, t. J 1 a t L J 2 S s! I J G28 Hansas Avenue. z t AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT. The audiewe who saw the curtain up fti the first act of Augustus Thomas' latest drama. "Arizona." at the 'raw ford liist nit;ht cmld almost smell tr, sage brush, taste the alkali and feel the prick of the cactus of that wild ter ritory, ao reaiistic was the play to the locality. The story is laid in the Aravaipa val-l'-y. 30 niiies from Fort errant near Old arrp Oiant.ar'd niilesK i'r;m the Gila. J'i his play of Alabama" Mr. Thomas curried his audiences t trie mapnoiia Frented Taladega. of that state and "In Mizzouri" his auJienre? w( re in the typ ical Pike county. Perhaps no play-v.-risrht can jrraep that subtle Ingredient ifo necessary to a pviccesful portrayal, li cal color, so weli as Mr. Thomas. Kvery 1ttle detail tf "Aiizuna" in the scenery Htiil the drcilnff of the play is carried cut to a r.tcety. When the cavalrymen rr: V"? in their typical frontier uniforms 1 r-T.i a SiJ miles ride they are covered rwith the alkali dust of the desert. The ctAVboya wear the tyfical shapajaroa find bii Mexican ppurs. The vaquero is typical from his half Greaser, half Eng lish cuss words to the everlasting- Mex ican brown paper cigarette. The bis red bandannas are knotted about the necks ff the men with the tied ends behind the neck so that the bulk of the colth can be raised to the mouth, t-yes and nose to wipe away the sting of the set tling dust. The bis soft felt hats are twisted and punched in exactly in the manner which is so characteristic of the cavalryman and the rancher. The stal v art ol 1 rancher, t'anhy. is typical in 1 gruff wajs and sayings but as he ex plains it in Arizona they are "shy on water, but have a whole lot of charity i r w omen." The company which presented "Ari Eora" last right is a good one and vorthy to sueceed the original company. 3ast reason the Tupcka theater groers liad a chance to see the original com pany, now making- such a success at the 3ierald S-iuare theater in New York. and the second company compares well. Jas. K. Fulton as "Henry Canhy," owner of the Aravaipa ranch, was not quite equal to the oripln.-U. Theodore Roberts, as he had to borrow a deal more of the swasr trer and gruffness of the rancher but he si as not displeasing. Frazier Coulter as "t'ol Konham" does not compare well with last year's character. Kleanor A ilton as "Mrs. Canhy." the wife of the rancher, was deci iedly clever in the por trayal of the character who hated Ari zona so much because jshe could not wear bed diamonds ard "had to let the clock run down to know when it was f uniay," because of the loneBomeness of te place. Orac Thome as "Eitrella Konham." wife of the colonel, was good and in comparison makes the part decid edly better than it was last season. "Iena Keilar." a small part, is well han dled by Carrie Reynolds. Lionel Karrymore as "Ueut. Denton," the hero is a surprise. He was under study to the character with the company last season and handled a smaller part in a manner which would prive no one a suspicion of his ability. As the heroic, honorable and wronged officer and man he injected a naturalness into the part which was pleasing:. At no time did he step out of or overdo the part. "Bonita Canhy," by Laura Almor.sina, is a most trying part when it has been created by such an actress as r.leanor Robson but Miss Almonsino handled it in a pleasing manner. The love scene with Denton still remains the same charming little bit of love making and has lost none of its flavor in the hands of the two new players. Charles I.ane as "Captain Hodgraan," was a capital villain, so good that the audience was glad to see him killed. Catherine Countess as the school teach er, did the small part well and gave Ben D. Dean as "D. it. Fenlon," a chance for some funny remarks about the absence of suspenders from his wardrobe. Wil lard Curtis as "Tony Mostana, a va quero." was about as perfect a Mexican as he could be. His vernacular, gait and songs were just as a real Mexican would make them. His gleaming teeth, cigar ettes and leather clothes were tpyical. Charles E. Mitchell, as "Sergeant Kei lar." was a gruff old German sergeant In every move and speech. He seemed to have been transplanted from Fort Grant to the stage in an instant. In all the company is a strong one and the play does not suffer In any instance. The scenery with the play this year was perhaps, better than last year as it has leen arranged to fit small stages like the Crawford. The patio scene of Can by's hacienda was painted with a real ism which seemed to have stolen the col ors from the adobe walls and tiled and thatched roofs of the territory and placed them on the canvas. There was a typical Mexican ox cart, too, and the hot sun beating on the desert and the heat rising from the sands could almost be felt w hen the audience looked through the big gate and imagined the sand stretch between, there and the next place, wherever it might be. The play is not without comedy and when "Canby," in speaking of "Col. Bon ham" and his wife says that he "has broke colts to go double," but doesn't know how to break the colonel and his wife there is a titter and when "Denton" informs him that he loves ids daughter, the old rancher is excited, but controls himself and makes a sudden move for his right hand pistol pocket. "Denton." however, is too quick for him and draws his Colt's with finger on the trigger and covering the ranchman is ready for "a shootin' scrape" but the old rancher was not after a gun, he thought in his ex citement that he needed a cooling bite of "the weed" and he draws from his pocket a. pouch of finecut and takes a supply on board. No "gun play" after all and the audience sees comedy enough in that. "Arizona" is certainly one of the best plays written by an American author, Family Washing 3c to 5c Per Pound. Flat "Work all Ironed Distilled Water for all "Wool and Colored Goods. (CO-OP-EiiAiIVE.) Phone 153. J. W. Ripley, Mgr. 625 Jackson St. telling the story of some American local ity and played by American, actors that has ever been produced. killeTby a tiger. Animal Keeper Gets Into the Wrong Cage. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 15. Albert Neilson, aged 15 years, employed as an animal keeper at the Zoological garden in this city, was killed by a Bengal tiger today. He entered the cage in which the tiger was confined and was attacked by the beast. A terrible strug gle followed in which Neilson was torn in a hundred places. Hed hot irons were thrust into the blood-thirsty ani mal, but not until seven bullets had been tired into his body did it reiase its hold on its victim. Neilson was dragged from the cage more dead than alive and was hurried to the city hospital where he died as he was being carried in. The tiger was not fatally wounded. Neilson lived at Piqua, O., and had been employed by the Zoo company three years. He was in charge of the lion cubs and it is supposed opened the tiger's cage by mistake. SLlASHEDTTiELl. Country People Destroy Two Saloon Buildings at Peck And Take LiqHor to Depot and Ship Back to Wichita,, "Wichita, Kas., Feb. 15. A Beacon speciai says: At Peck, a small place in Sedgwick county, fourteen miles south of Wichita, 100 men, women, boys and girls living in the country about the town last night made a raid on two joints and ordered the proprietors out. Being refused they completely smashed the buildings, delivering all goods at the depot platform in a whole condition. The goods were shipped to Wichita today. AT WICHITA NEXT YEAR. Oklahoma Live Stock Association Ad journs at Woodward. "Woodward, O. T., Feb. 15. A. T. Wil son was elected president of the Okla homa Live Stock association; George W. Crowell, first vice president; George W. Boyd of Magnum, second vice president; John J. Gerlach of Woodward, treasurer, and W. E. Bolton, secretary. Wichita was selected as the place for holding tho convention, next year. DEATH IS MLUl. Uo Longer Any Hope For Recovery of tho Empress Frederick. New Tork, Feb. 15. A dispatch to the Herald from Berlin says the condition of the Empress Frederick is causing the most serious anxiety. All the physicians can do is to mitigate the pain she Is suf fering and to defer the inevitable catas trophe. The extreme danger of the empress state Is proved by the fact that the kaiser and the members of the family stay con tinually in the neighborhood. A Tin Can Trust Formed. Chicago, Feb. 15. The Record says: The new thing in consolidation is the tin can combine, which, it is said, is now being formed with a capitalization of JIO,OUO.0-O. The promoter is W. H. Moore. It is al leged an agreement has been signed with the understanding that after April 1 the American Tin Can company will control the output of every factory in the "L'nited States. At present there are 10S such fac tories in the country. One of the largest plants Is at San Francisco. Thirty-live small factories will be closed, throwing 4,QiA) people out of employmenu Wilcox Wins. Washington, Feb. 15. Delegate Wil cox of Hawaii today scored a distinct triumph in securing a unanimous vote of house committee on elections No. 1, confirming his right to a seat in the house of representatives and holding that the charges filed against him were not sufficient to warrant his removal. Tonight and tomorrow $15 to $20 finest overcoats for ?10, at The Palace. Ex- Senator PeSer Sick. Ex-Senator W. A. Peffer is confined to his bed with bronchitis at his home, 513 Fillmore street. 50c to $3 underwear for 39c at the Pal ace tonight and tomorrow. Legal Tender Coxey Dead. Pittsburg, Feb. 15. Legal Tender, son of Gen. Coxey of the Commonwealth army, died yesterday of scarlet fever at Massillon, O. He was bom a few days before Coxey's march to Washington in ISM. Gen. Coxey is now in the west and cannot be reached by telegraph. Buy one of those splendid suits for J5, worth double, at The Palace. The Ladies' Circle to the Woodmen of the World will give a social dance Mon day evening at their hall, 418 Kansas av enue. FLOWERS FOE WEILEP. Irish-American League Appreciates. His Ideas of "Loyalty." The Irish-Americans of Topeka put themselves on record today. They pre sented Ed Weilep, representative from Cherokee countv. with a large floral harp. In recognition of his work in the house Thursday. The letter of thanks for sympathy expressed at Victoria's death had gone upon the house journal when Weilep objected to it and was suc cessful in having It expunged from the record. The clause to which Weilep ob jected was that in which the word "loyalty" was used, as expressing the relation now existing between King Edward "VII and the sovereign state of Kansas. The harp was placed upon his desk while he was at dinner. NEW STXFFBAGE BILL. Hr. Hamer's Measure Allows Women to Vote For President Representative R. M". Hamer, of Lyon, introduced a bill in the house this morn ing granting suffirage to women to vote for the president of the United States. The bill goes no further" than this one proposition, but if successful, would mean the entering wedge to give the fair sex universal suffrage in Kansas. The enacting clause reads: "That hereafter in all elections for presidential electors in the state of Kansas the right to vote shall not be abridged with regard to sex; women shall be permitted to vote th same as men, under like qualifications and restrictions as men. Out in the irrigation country the peo ple suffer inconveniences through the ir rigation companies, building their canals across the public highways and not pro viding any other means of passage but to ford them. Representative Cobun has a bill in to compel the companies to build bridges over the irrigation canals wherever they cross the roads. As a support and ptrengthener to the anti-trust law the bill introduced by Representative Willits) is supposed to operate, if it should get through. The amendment proposed m the bill, which was drawn by Former Senator Kimball of Parsons, provides for an action, for damages to treble the amount or suf ferance and makes competent the testi mony of dealers in the same kind of commodities as to the questions of cost and prices. i HTJKKELL'S BILL ADVANCES. It la Heady For Third Beading in the Souse. Senator Hurrell's bill declaring joints public nuisances and making the hnd ing of liquor or bar fixtures prima tacie evidence of unlawful sale, has been reported by the house temperance com mittee, ordered printed and advanced to third reading. The senate killed the county attorney inquisition bill for the house. The pres ent house is strongly prohibition in the ory, at all events, if not in practice. WThat action it may take on Senator Hurrell's drastic prohibition law is con jectural. PAROLE BILL THROUGH. It Now Goes to Governor For His Signature. The house passed Senator Smith's parole bill this morning. Tnis measure was recommended by Governor Stanley in his message and it now goes to him for his signature. The bill legalizes the conditional release of prisoners and pro vides rules for the regulation of their conduct after they are released up to the time ot expiration of their sentence. Mr. Mason's bill providing that no liens can be given upon exempt personal property, except by joint consent of both husband and wife was also passed. No more bills on third reading were ready for passage for lack of being en grossed. Don't Want Convict CoaL The legislative committee of the So ciety of Labor received the following resolutions from United Mine Workers of America, who held their twelfth an nual meeting in Indianapolis January 21-31: W'hereas, Abill is pending in theKansas legislature providing for the repeal of a portion of the law preventing the sale of convict-mined coal in the state peni tentiary mines; and Whereas, The passage of such bill would entail serious injury to the min ers of Kansas, therefore be it Resolved, That the United MineWork ers in convention assembled do most emphatically protest against the sale of convict mined coal coming in contact with coal produced in the free and or ganized coal mines of the state. Copies of the resolutions were sent to Governor Stanley and to the chairman of the committee on mines and mining. Bills Reported Favorably. The following bills were reported favorably this morning: Providing for the election of police judge in cities of the first class, regarding service of process on beneficiary societies, relating to mutual hail insurance companies. NO NIBBLER. An Old Fish Knows Good Bait From Poor. A good old family Doctor down hi Edenburg, Miss., says he is not afraid to tell the truth about coffee and its effect on him and the remarkable change pro duced by leaving off and taking Postum Food Coffee in its place. He used coffee formally years.and says, "Of late years I have been so nervous that I dreaded to perform an operation, and my eyesight had bothered me a con siderable. I think about two years ago I first heard of Postum Food Coffee, and gave it a trial. I am not quick to bite at humbugs, but the change in my physical condition brought about by leaving off coffee- and taking Postum Food Coffee was a complete surprise. I began to eat well, sleep well, and in just tnree months my eyesight was restored, my nerves strong, headaches disappeared, and my chronic catarrh of thirteen years stand ing was cured with little or no treatment except the change in coffee. I am today stout, erect, and weigh 20 pounds more than I did before giving up coffee. I have an extensive practice and have had very satisfactory results among jny patients where I have induced them to leave off coffee and take Postum in its place. Coffee is ruining and destroying thou sands of our young Americans, and it is a pleasure to know of a nutritious and palatable breakfast beverage that re builds the nervous system rather than tears it down, as the old coffee does. It may interest you to know that we had much the same experience as many others when we first began to prepare Postum. We boiled it in a desultory sort of way for a few- minutes and the pro duct was not satisfactory. Turning to the directions we discovered the fault ar.d from that time we have followed those directions which are simple enough, with the most satisfactory re suits in point of flavor and food value. With my best wishes for your contin ued success." Dr. A. G. Alston. prohibiting filthy actions in public buildings, providing a penalty for train robbery, regulating trust companies. Bills in the Senate. The" following bills wer introduced in the senate this morning: By Partin To provide for the leas ing of lands and town lots where the county has held the same on tax deeds. By fchaney Making appropriation for the current expenses for the asylum at Wrinfield. By Householder Providing for the terms of holding district court in Ga lena and Columbus in Cherokee county. By Smith Allowing county commis sioners to acquire title to unsold school lands for use as burial grounds. By Branine Relating to excessive fees of probate judges. By Tapri Regulating the salary of the coroner of Sedgwick. Governor Signs Bills. The governor has signed the bills es tablishing a cadet corps at the state ed ucational institutions, and the bill pro viding for the appointment of certain officers in cities of the second and third class. Advocate Cullom Bill. Senator Branine's concurrent resolu tion directing United States senators and members of congress from Kansas to support the Cullom bill to increase and strengthen the powers of the interstate commerce commission, was adopted by the house this morning. They are di rected to use utmost efforts to prevent discrimination against shippers. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Would Not Induce Mrs. O'Connor to Quit the Use of Burton's Sanatory Milk. Topeka, Kas., Jan. 27, 1901. To Mothers: I wish to recommend "Burton's Sanatory Milk" for' infants and invalids in the highest possible terms. My babe is now the embodiment of health and vigor, and had it not been for this milk I do not believe he would be alive. Not for one thousand dollars would we change him from this diet. While in Chicago we used the Walker Gordon milk, but while it sells lor double the price, it is not one-half so good. Gratefully, MRS. JOSEPH W. O'CONNOR. Note. Joseph W. O'Connor is the contractor on the federal building, but his home is in Chicago. TO DA IT'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, Feb. 15. WHEAT Under the leadership of the corn market and aided also by firm cables. May wheat opened c higher at lo'a c today. Trade, was light and mostly local, however, and dur ing the first hour May sold off to 75V2c. Receipts were liberal. Minneapolis and Du luth reporting 432 cars, against 451 cars last week and 581 a year ago, while local cars were 33, four of which graded con tract. The market was dull and fluctuated narrowly the remainder of the session. May touched 75c and closed a shade lower at Tntc. CORN There was a large trade in corn early. The tone of aggressive strength, which has been noticeable lately, is still in evidence. Country offerings were light, the cash demand pressing and the total of yesterday's cash sales here put at 600. 000 bushels. May opened JgC higher at 40t.4c to 40sc and under liberal buying by commission houses and shippers advanced to 4uc, c over the previous high price for the crop. Receipts were 214 cars. There was a heavy trade the rest of the day. May later advanced to 407c and closed strong, 4'5c higher at 40V2C. OATS Trade in oats was small, but the market was steady in sympathy with corn. May opened unchanged to a shade down at 25H:C to 25''ic and steadied early at 2")M.c. Receipts were 210 cars. PROVISIONS Provisions opened a shade easier because of heavy hog re ceipts but for some time thereafter ruled firm in sympathy with the corn strength although prices underwent no important changes from the opening. May fiqrk opened 2.c lower to 2'c higher at 14.3ia 14.35, May lard unchanged at $7.57Va and May ribs unchanged at $7.17J. FLAX Cash Northwestern J1.66; No. 1, $1.65; May, 1.65. rp rr n t 0 f f o Or' are agents for brated J0HMSTGF exclusive the Cele TvlURPr 4- 4 IV i lit t SHOES. Costliest if 11 The V A. t $5 and $6 Our New Spring Styles are open for your inspection. SEE OUR SHOW WINDOW. YOURS TO PLEASE. t t t .Ii TuTiAJnti POPULAR PRICED shoes. Chicago Live Stock Market Chicago, Feb. 15. CATTLE Receipts. 2,500: steady. Good to prime steers. $4. SO ft,'6.00; poor to medium. $3.40fi 4.80; stockers and feeders, $2.65a4.50: cows. $2.55-l4.15: heifers, S2.6')4.35; canners.$i.KW2.50; bulls, J2.40S4.25: calves, $4.tXKa4.70: Texas grass steers. $3.30-a3.0: Texas bulls. $2.5003.60. HOGS Receipts today. 3S.000; estimated for tomorrow, 28.000: left over. 2.667; open ed steady, closing strong: top, $5.47. Mixed and butchers, $5.25g5.4714: good to choice heavy, $5.3Ti5.47; rough heavy, $5.20-!i5.3O; light, $5.25&5.45; bulk of sales, $5 35i5. 45 SHEKP Receipts. 5.000: steady. Good to choice wethers. $3.S5'a4.50: fair to choice mixed, t3.RVfi4.0O: western sheep. $3.90&4.5': Texas sheep, $2.50f(3.60; native lambs. $4.25 Si 5.30: western lambs, $5.00?i5.30. Official for yesterday: Receipts: Cattle, 12.053; hogs, 40.M9; sheep, 15.036. Shipments: Cattle, 5,278; hogs, 7.2S9; sheep, 5,117. Kansas City Livestock. Kansas City, Feb. 15. CATTLE Re ceipts. 3,000 natives, 200 Texaris: market steady. Native steers. $4.501.5.50; Texas steers, $3.754.50: Texas cows. $2.70fri3.50; native cows and heifers. $2.504.75; stock ers and feeders. $3.5lKg4.70; bulls, $3.0 4.50: calves, tS.OO-aG.SO. HOGS Receipts. 14,000; market steadv. Bulk of sales, $5. So 5.40; heavy, $5.35d 5.42; packers. $5.3tKa5.4; mixed, S5.22V.-ee 5.40; light. $5.20&5.o5; yorkera, $5.15ii6.30; pigs, $4.505 5.05. SHEEP Receipts, 1.000; market steady. Muttons, $3.7&b4.45; lambs, $4.90&5.20. Kansas City Produce. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 15. Close WHEAT May, 6S?V67c; cash. No. 2 hard, 6&Mr&tc: No. 3. 67tftc; No. 2 red, 71c; No. 3. C7-(i70c. CORN May. 37?4c: cash. No. 2 mixed, OATS No. 2 white, 27c RYE No. 2. 43c. HAY Choice timothy, $10.50S11; choice prairie, $9--j9.oO. BUTTER Creamery, 17320c: dairy, 16c. EGGS Fresh, 15o. Receipts wheat, 50 cars. Today's Topeka Markets. Topeka, Feb. 15. CATTT.K. COWS $2 50 S3.25. HEIFERS tS.OO'n 3.50. CALVES. H E A VT-S3. 00413. 59. LIGHT (Under 200 lbs) f4.Oog4.6a HOGS. LI G H T $4. Sya 5.10. MEDIUM AND HEAVY $4.80-55.10. GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT mamc. NO. 2 CORN 31Vic. NO. 2 WHITE CORN 33c. NO. 2 OATS 24c. PRODUCE. BU TTE R 16'3 ISc. EGGS 13- HAY $7.00. Topeka Side Market. Based on Chicago and Boston quota tions. The following are net prices paid in Topeka this week: Topeka, Feb. 15. GREEN SALT CURED 6't-c. GREEN SALT. HALF CURED 5c NO. 1 TALLOW 4-ac. Cotton Mark3i. New York, Feb. 15. COTTON Spot closed quiet; middling Gulf, 8-Jic; middling uplands, S5.sC. Gram Letter Furnished bv J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant. Stocks, Grain and Provisions, Receiver and Shipper of Grain. Chicago, Feb. 15. WHEAT Liverpool cables were c lower today and barring strength in corn, grain markets were in clined to weakness. Northwest receipts were smaller than a year ago by lr-9 cars and their markets were weaker than Chi cago. Volume of business was small and old time tracers are intiuitu w hard spots and keep short a moderate line, figuring that the market Is too high on its merits and that a break of 8 or 10 cents a bushel is sure to come sooner or later. The news and statistics are all bearish, but a short interest seems to ac cumulate every time the market starts down and they run to cover on the first sign of tn advance, causing these sharp bulges of late. We see nothing in the situation to warrant buying, except for a small scalping profit, and on the other hand we believe good long profits can be made by selling short on bulges and ex ercising a little patience. Estimated cars tomorrow, 45. CORN Corn was strong and higher again today. To start with, cables came id higher, sympathizing fully with our advance of yesterday, and this induced shorts to cover freely, advancing the price to 407c for May. There was con siderable offered on the advance and the market dropped back and closed at a small gain over yesterday's closing prices. Corn is in a strong position. Short sellers are few and scattered, while the bulla are powerful and concentrated. Estimat ed cars tomorrow, 276. OATS Oats were quiet and featureless. PROVISIONS Provisions were. not act ive today. There were 30.000 hogs at the vnrrlq wltb rtrices slow and a shade lower. Mav pork closed with a loss of 12U.C a barrel from yesterday's closing. Packers were the sellers early, but mod erate buvers on the decline, taking good lots of Mav pork just before the close. Estimated hogs tomorrow, 25,000. J. C. GOINGS. Butter Market New York. Feb. 15. BUTTER Strong. Fresh creamery, lf.22je; June creamery, 15&20c; factory, llCuloc. 8ugar Market. New York, Feb. 15. SUGAR Raw, steadv: refined, quiet; crushed. $6. COFFEE Dull. No. 7 Rio, T&c New York Money Market New York, Feb. 15 MONEY Money on call nominally at Wtz per cent; prime mercantile paper, 34 a 4 per cent: sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.87t.-ti for demand and at $4.M1i'?i for sixty days; posted rates. 4.K.Va4.S5' and 4.fcSVa4.b9; com mercial bills. $4.8314.84. SILVER Silver certificates, 62-3630; bar silver file: Mexican dollars. 47!2c. BONDS Government bonds steady: re funding 2s. registered, lOoVi: coupon. lOSH; 3s. registered. 110M.: coupon, 111 ;new 4s. registered. 137 coupon. 1374: old 4s, reg istered, 113H" roup-jn, 1131s.; 5s, registered, 110; coupon, 110. Market Gosstp. Furnished bv J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, Stocks. Grain and Provisions, Receiver and Shipper of Grain. New York: The stock market opens steady and higher, with a good volume of business being done especially in the in dustrials. Railroad earnings continue satisfactory in the main and there is every reason to believe that they will form a basis for a further advance soon as the market broadens and hardens. Chicago: Receipts wheat, 51 cars; corn, 326 cars: oats. 3'6 cars. Receipts of hogs: Chicago, 30.000: Kan sas City, 14,000; Omaha, 4,000; market slow. Receipts of cattle: Chicago. 2.000; Kan sas City, 2,000; Omaha, 1,800; market steady, Liverpool morning cable: Wheat d lower, corn ad higher. Kansas City: Receipts wheat 50 cars, last year 33 cars: corn 28 cars, last year 49 cars; oats IS cars, last year 12 cars, Argentine shipments this week, Sb41,000 bushels. Chicago: Wheat active, firm. Crowd bearish and inclined to sell on hard spots. One very strong feature is the fact that all the bear -news is in and all accidents that may happen between now and har vest are in favor of the bulls. Chicago: We understand Chicago mar kets will be distributed to the public again, commencing March 1, by the tele graph companies at same C. N. D. rate as before. This will help ,rade material ly, business nas oroppea on very nnu.-r-iallv since the Chicago board of irmlfl built a Chinese wall around lis markets. Northwest receipts: Minneapolis 3 4 cars, la-st year 334 cars; Imluih 3S cars, last year 247 cars. Chicago: Northwest receipt ar com mencing to fall oft materially and Ar gentine shipments are smaller than ex pected. Chicago: Wheat opens firm and hSgher. Local crowd sold quite a. lot of lor- .wheat yesterday ai'ternoon and went over short as a rule. A good many strong people on the bull side. Chica&o: Corn opened up a fraction, but there seemed to be some for sale. Looks like market is going higher. Liverpool closing cable: Wheat "H'l lower, corn Hd higher. Chicago: Heavy selling of May corn by scalping longs. Not much snap to wheat. Packers Bold May pork quite freely at the opening. Kansas City: Receipts wheat SO cars, last year 33 cars: corn 1'S cars, lust year 49 cars: oats IS cars, last year 12 cars. Chicago: Estimated receipts for tomor row: VVheat, 45 cars; corn, 270 cars; oats, 250 cars: hogs. 25,000 head. Chicago: Puts May wheat, good tomor row, 751-sc to 75;Htf-: calls, 7:'.,e to 7;-hc: puts May corn. 40-Ve: calls. 4"-".e. Chicago: Privileges" good all next week Puts May wheat. 7:!'.e: rails, 77i,c; puts May corn,-3SK; calls.- 4.'!c. Kansas City: Puts May wheat for to morrow, 6t"4t5i67c; calls, 67-- -mo. Clearances, four ports, wheat and flour, as wheat, 25y,0u bushels; corn, fcuu.Ooo bushels. Ranpe of Prices. Furnished by J. C. Goings. Cnmnilslon Merchant, Storks. Grain and Provisions, Receiver and Shipper of Grain. Chicago. Feb. 1". Article. Open High Low Ciosa Yes. WHEAT Feb. TVi n V.'.i 73' 4 May 75-js- 75:i 75 7:i1,-.-'i CORN Feb. 3SU 3S'4 3--V, May 40V- 40T4 4u;i OATS Feb May 2S-54 2514 25v4 poii Kirch Mav ...14 30 UKD- Feb. 7 47 7 47 7 47 May 7 57 7 67 7 fi Rli,S Feb May 7 17 14 32 14 15 3i'4 40V4 2Hi-ii 2 s 14 T, 11 20 40-' 14 32 WHEAT May 66T4 July CORN Mar May 37 July 7 17 7 12 KANSAS CITY. 67-674 6674 7 47 7 55 7 (-7 7 12 3"7i-"4 37r;4 34 Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. C. Duncan, commit, sion, grain, provisions a rid stocks, oflw-e K-9 East Fifth street. "Phone li. Char-j. Knepp At Co., correspondents, Kanai City, Mo. New York, F"b. 15. Stocks. lOp'n'HIgh! Low ,crp"-Y" l::; ir,v l'-i 51'.', Ii:-. '-i, V. I Sugar I it People's Gas.. 1 ii -Ii Am. Tobacco ..i 117'; 117 A. K. r W. B. R. T Federal Steel C. is. o. C. R. I. P...1 lit C. M. St. P. lf.'..! ir.Ki Atchison com..l ar'j 57Ti Atchison pfd s'v Ms,: Manhattan llhr; 1W; Western Union! ft j ;nt Mo. Pacific t-ic! I". I. Pf'l I KM.",! (.yTI T- P. com WV f'A! i. j. central.. 144--.; K7 ho. Paeinc 4';x,i B. O up.' T. C. I Xo. Pac. pfd. M'-i No. Pac. com..! v;,! n.i- L JEr N" 1 People's Gas sold ex-fiivid cent: Northern Pacific prcier. dividend 1 ver ceuu r,i---i It-., j v-".'4l v( f ii7ii: 5--'-8, 1 1 1.:--, -s' h lis--. Us., v J-t: 4f'.l.-, 4-.-T, !'I-V i-i', '-''J i V 4

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, EEBRTJART 15, 1S01. 7 J A. JU. XS!"' TT EIGHT STORES UNDER ONE ROOF. 9 "E-ti il J. No ft to look pleasant if you'll attend the closing days of our GRAND NEW CENTURY CLEARING SALE for you'll be so surprised and to Be Told r 4W.J preparations we've made for supplying 1T ,1 ...:n i-i Kiiiu tiitiu juui luuiuciiaittc win icuctL making an extraordinary effort to clear besides all complete lines of Winter to deeper cutting and greater sacrificing, pleased at the plies of every come. We are accumulation, season urges us this sale the uttermost depths of value this great store contributes material for each aisle and counter with eager Don't Miss Your Share. :-y you cheaply with needed sup- your happiness for days to Merchandise. The waning until for the closing days of Every department of ta deluge of price reductions certain to crowd shoppers Tonight, Saturday and Monday. k i giving are reached. Open Till 10 Tonight. I 4 7 rre've opened the way to economical Dry Goods buying and selling. Our facilities for buying the best in the Eastern markets, at the lowest rates, and our busi- ness methods in retailing these snaps for the benefit of our customers have won a big trade for us, and satisfaction for our customers. Here are Mr. O'Con- nor's Santa Fe Day Specials good tonight, tomorrow and Monday. Standard Mack and white Calicoes very best brands, yard 4c One lot all wool filling- DressGoods, navy only, yard 60 On? tot 35-in. wide Fancy Dress I.inir.ps. fast black grounds, good assortment nf styles, sold at' VlzC arid l.e yard 5o 46-inch wide fine all wool French Serge Lness Goods, black and col or, this cloth is cheap at .ic, yard 49c On lot pHin white, double nap ped Unmet Flannel. 27-in. wide, good weight, worth 8c yard 4c "CARDINAL ROSE." a fine, high ly perfumed Tuiiet Soap. 3 cakes in box and Sells for 15c bos box 9c Ladies' ready-made black broca ded wool L)re?a Skirt?, three rows t-atin band trimniinR a:ound bottom of skirt, lined and interlined, velve teen binding, worth each $1.75 6-4 Art Denims Stand Covers four colorings worth 7fe choice 23c One lot. all linen Huek Towels lSx'io a bargain at 15c each....lOe Choice of any of our best brands of Tennis Flannels w 01 ta. up to YiMiC yard 9c Good quality Tennis-Flannel light and dark colorings good cloth -Saturday, yard 4Vic Castile Soap. Andrew Jergens Castile Soap white Co. "a Sea Salt and mottled lo Ladies' Night Dresses. Ladies" white Muslin Xight Dresses lace and embroidery tiitnmed 7o, k?c and $1.00 values choice 49o Crowley's Sewing1 Needles 25 in a paper solid sizes or assorted never sold for less than 5c paper paper, .lc White enameled Curtain Poles, 4 feet long, complete with silvered fluted ends and brackets lie is the lowest price, on Kansas Ave each 10c WINDOW SHADES Opaque Cloth Window- Shades, nemmed and muu::ted on spring rollers complete with brackets and nails all the sta ple coiorinsa each 25c Oar 15c number. Ladies 50-gauge fine fast black cotton Hose, extra long, all sizes pr 9o One lot Wool Buggy or Lap Robes, worth $1.50 choice 85o Ladies' Ready-Made Petticoats Fancy stripes and checks, knee flounces, with four rufflea;choice 79c Ladies' Tailored Suits all perfect fitting, satin-lined. Jackets; 1-3 oft marked price. Cray Blankets Woven borders, five-pound weight, all wool, both warp and filling, made at the Topeka woolen mills, 11-4 size per pair $2.98 Four-pound All-Wool Gray Blan-ketslO-4 size. Topeka woolen mills make per pair $2.48 10-4 Gray Blankets Part wool, good weight, worth $1.75 pair per pair $1.19 10-4 "Dark Oxford Mixed Gray Woolen blankets, $3.00 values per pair $1.93 Homemade Bed Comforts, covered with the best standard calicos, filled with W. W. pure white guaran teed cotton. tied with imported Saxony yarn, weight about six pounds; value $2.00 each $1.39 Lonsdale Muslin 36-inch wide bleached Lonsdale muslin "Hope" brand at 7o Short lengths in fine Bleached long cloth, 3t inches wide, worth 20c per yard .....10c Infanta' Vests Infants' fleece lined ribbed Vests; loc value; each 4o S if I ay man who reads i nnnflr is hnnnrl tn find onn adver tisement, at least, full of information about the most satisfactory and best wearing Clothing in Topeka. It's the New Model Clothing and New Model Clothing ads are always to be depended i 1 upon. Men's extra fine black Kersey Overcoats satin sleeve linings latest styles sold all season for $15.00 Clearing up price $10.98 Any of our magnificent line of $12.50 Overcoats or Ulsters for only $9.45 Xot a great many of our $10.00 Overcoats left. What there is will be eold tomorrow for only $6.95 $15.00 heavy weight fancy Suits will be cleared up at only $11.45 Men's heavy winter $10.00 Suits in all styles will be cleaned up for $7.45 Men's Winter Suits at $3,00 and $5.50 will be sold tomorrow for only $3.95 Men's heavy Winter Pants, nobby styles ptrfect fitting our $4.00 quality for $2.95 Men's $2.25 All-Wool Pants very strong and durable Tomorrow for $1.79 Our finest $5.00 Pants in heavy winter weights neat styles at only $3.95 Touth's $8.50 and $9.50 Suits heavy weights will be sold tomorrow for $6.95 Boys' $6.00 heavy winter Suits in black Thibets or fancy mixtures will be sold tomorrow for $4.95 Boys' Knee Pant Suits In black or brown mixtures our $1.50 grade for only $1.19 All $1 50, $1.00 and 75c white body Shirts, fancy bosoms and cuffs size broken will be sold Saturday for r 50o Men's all colored stiff bosom Shirts w-ith cuffs same. $1.00 quality for .'.79o 75c quality for .....59c EOc quality for 39o Men's Heavy Underwear. $1.50 quality for ..$1.15 $1.00 quality for 79o 50c quality for 45o Men's full wool Socks 25c quality for ...20o 20c quality for 15o 15c quality for lOc Men's Winter Caps. S5c quality for 65o 50c quality for 39o 25c quality for 19c Men's Lined Gloves and Mittens $1.00 quality for 85o 75c quality for 59o 50c quality for 39c 50c Boys' Corduroy Knee Pants for t. .39o Men's High Cape Mackintoshes regular price $1.88 for ...$1.25 Men's All-Wool Mackintoshes worth $5.00 for $3.95 "Us MY FRIEND Taffeta Silks. Givernaud Bros.'s popular and re liable Taffeta Silks Black and all colors, and worth 75c at yd 49e 40-inch wide Black Crepon Dress goods, worth up to S&c yard; four elegant designs; yard 49o One lot Cream Turkish Bath Towels size 52 in. long and 20 in. wide a bargain for EOc Sale price, each lOo 1 here are no counterfeits IN OUR SHOE STOCK. a: hnh Good, honest, time-proven makes, bearing the brand of reliable makers, are the only kinds we have room for. The big shoe trade we enjoy is not the result of accident. We deserve it, for we have worked for it by buying only what we honestly felt was worthy. All cur La lies $3.00 Shoes in Welts, I iurns or JU'ivay's cloth or leather tops lace style tos sizes and widths to fit all shaped teet new spring goods included Sale l'ri(e $2.65 Kvry man's Shoe on our shelves including nw spring- goods former ly soi,l at $.151.1 difierent leathers late style toes Sale price $2.95 Boys' Kangaroo or Cadet Calf lace Wiors-New goods just in Knglish back stav. Every pair guarantee! seizes 21, to 5V-. Sale l-r''e ."...$1.55 All Misses' Shoes in stock for merly sold at $1.75 extraordinary good values. Sizes slightly broken Sale pru e $1.48 Good solid leather lace Shoe in Boys and Youths' fresh new goods. Ail Sizes Youths' 13 to 2 $1.00 Boys' 2j to 6i $1.10; Men s and Ladies grey felt Slip- pers felt uppers and soles Men's s:,c grade 65c Lh. lies' 7-e grade 55c All our Men's J2.50 Shoes, consist -ing of hoi. Velvet. Kangaroo. Calf ana Mci Kid Goods on the shelves and new gooda just in Sale p,'!e $2.19 Buy your Children's Spring Shoes now money in your prx-ket $1.1! Lace or Button Shoe.. .99c $1-00 Lace or Button Shoe 85c j kOc Lace Shoe 69c 1S3 pairs of Grain Solor tip Button Shoes for giris or boys in sizes 12 to 2 Regular value $1.00 Sale price 59o Odd lot of Misses' and Women's felt and bathroom Slippers ordinary sold at 50c Most all sizes Sale price 35c All our $2.00 Men's Shots, including our famous "Stronghold" Shoe Satin Calf, Kid or Kangaroo Calf Sate price $1.75 Our entire line of Ladies' J2 50 Shoes. All strong values and good styles new spring goods included Sale price $2.19 135 pairs of Men's lace Shoes Coin or tilobe Toes Regular retail price $1.25. All sizes Sale price 8Sc Ask to see our Misses' Kid Button or Lace Shoes Ail Eizes solid as a rock $1.50 value $1.17 11.3 value 99o If you are locking for more than your money's worth, ask to see our ladies' Kid Lace Shoe solid as a rook. Well worth $1.50 Sale price $1.25 Don't forget during this sloppy weather we can sell you a 50c storm Sandul for 29c Misses' Kangaroo Calf Button Shoes solid throughout -sizes 13 to 2 worth in any store $1.50 Sale price 89c Men's good solid lace or Congress Shoes Globe. French or Coin toes Honest value at $1.65 Sale, price $1.35 Just listen a minute, while Mr. Cramer tells you how cheaply he sells Hard ware, and Mr. Friesen gives you an idea of New Model Prices on good, reliable Furniture. No. 12 Maydole Hammers 55o No. 11 Maydole Hammers 6O0 No. 11 Maydole Hammers 65o A full line of Witherby Chisels, all sizes and warranted to the handle 1 inch size 40c Syracuse Twist Drills, 12 inches long No. 11 Twist Drills, 12 inches long 50c No. 13 Twist Drills, 12 inches long 55c No. 15 Twist Drills, 12 inches long 65c No. 18 Twiat Drills, 12 inches long 75c 24-in. Diston Saw (K. P.) brand 98o 26-in. Diston Saw (K. P.) brand $1.15 Blue Wing Half Hatchet see them 75c Blue Wing Lath Hatchet 85c No. 14 Steel Square 65c Wood frame Wringer, warranted 5 years $4.00 Screws, all sizes, per doz 3o Carpet Tacks, 12 papers 5o Tin Wash Boiler, No. 8 45c Before purchasing1 Your Carpets this season, you should not fail to call and see our line of Floor Covering. We have fine, new patterns to show you, and will save you money if you buy of us. Our Seamless Brussls Rug's, room sizes, are new patterns Oriental and Domestic designs, fast and rich colors, durable in quality, and cheap in price. Come and get prices. Large Arm Rocker, cobbler seat, golden finish $1.93 A high-back, large Arm Rocker.spring box seat, imitation leather upholstered, a tine, easy chair, made of oak, finished golden, regular price $6.50 sale price $5.50 An Arm Rocker, leather seat and back; regular price, $5.50; sale price $4.75 6-ft. Extension Table. 40 inches square, quartered oak, polished top, golden oak finish; this is a table that sells any where at $10.00 to $11.00. During this sale as long as they last $8.75 8 ft., 40-in., round, quartered oak. pol ished top, golden finish table, a bargain at $15.00 sale price $12.50 A 6-ft. oak, golden finish Extension table, cheap at $7.75 sale price. $6.50 Oak Diningroom Chairs, cane seat, full-stock posts, golden finish; roVular price $9.00 per set; sale price $7.00 An oak, cane-seat Chair, plain back, slat spindles, cheap at $12.00 per set sale price $10.00 A large number of other chairs to choose from at bargain prices. SIDEBOARDS Double serpentine molded top 2'x4S inches, 6 feet high, 18x36 French bevel mirror, front swell ed, one drawer lined, golden finish, pol ished, made of oak, regular price 00 in this sale $20.00 Another double top, 22x44. height 6 ft., 1Sx28 French mirror, two drawers swell ed, one lined, golden finish, polished, made of oak, regular price $16.00 sale price $14.00 Another, 22x2S French bevel mirror, either square or oval style, regular $16.00 during this sale $14.00 With bedstead complete, $18.00. Another, 20x24 French plate mirror, mahogany finish, Fegular price $14 00 now at $12.00 With bedstead complete, $15.00. Half-brass Bed, headboard 72 inches high, footboard dropped below rails, rea ular $27.00 in this sale $20. OO A half-brass Bed, headboard medium height, footboard dropped, either swell or straight, regular price $12.00 in this sale $9.75 Another with brass toprod, double vases, swell footboard, cheap at $10.00 in this sale $7.50 A brass-trimmed Bed, regular price $9.00; in this sale $6.50 An Iron Bed, brass knobs, heavy rails between posts, with spring and mattress complete .$6,50 FOLDING BED (no weights), cabinet top. with two doors, 12x16 French bevel mirrors in doors, fitted with woven wire spring, supported by three rows of coil springs, made of oak, finished gold en, regular price $25.00 in this.' sale $19.50 Mantel Folding Bed (no weights), sideboard style with swell imitation drawers, two doors, Hx2S French mir ror, two bracket shelves, fitted with woven wire springs, supported by three rows of coil spring; regular price $22 00 in this sale $lS.OO McCall's Patterns, ioc and 15c None Higher. A 11 A liiu imi iiiuuei aupjjij oiure. 14Gla Steps Hast of tlio Avenue on Sixth. St. Kemper Paxtons. Sixth and ()utncy. McCall's Patterns, ioc and 15c None Hisrher. ACROSS T1IEKAW. Tfems intended for this column should bs left with the Kimbill Printingr company, ?5 Kansas avenu& We will give a coal hod for the next 15 days only with every ton of coal. C. F. HAWKINS, 1012 Kansas ave. Mrs-. J. H. Callender, of Anthony, Kaa., is visiting at the home of J. K. Withers, 1209 Quincy street. No pattern better, and no other pat tern as cheap, as the New Idea. Any pattern, 10c. COSTLEY POST. Mrs. Cal. Matthews has moved into the property at 1010 Jackson street, and Misses Grace and Mabel Miller hove taken rooms with'her. A nv-mber" of First ward ladies at tended the Mrs. Nation trial yesterday afternoon, and incidentally congratu lated her upon her safe return to Topeka. Mrs. J. K. Buck has been spending the past week with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Fagan. assisting in the care of little Norma Fagan, who is slowly recovering- from her recent serious indis position. Bargains every hour Saturday. Wc never have sold goods as we will sell them Saturday. We must have room for our large stock of spring goods. Bar gains in dress goods, furnishing goods, shoes, etc. COSTLEY POST. The Ladies' Aid society of the Second Presbyterian church held a very pleas ant meeting Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. M. J. Heyden, 1107 Jackson street, Mr. Frank Heyden favored the ladies with a number of selections on the pho nograph. Mrs. James Thompson gave a taffy pull Wednesday evening in honor of her guests, Miss Anna Alexander and Mr. Monte Oladish, of Peterburo, Ind. Prizes for the contest games were won by Miss May Ward and Mr. Richard Howard. Miss Inda Guyre and Miss Anna Alexander received the consolation prizes. This; evening at the Presbyterian church Miss Lily Graft's Sunday school class, the Extcll Mission band, will re ceive and entertain all of their friends who come. The new members of this church family will find here a hearty welcome. The members of the Axtell band are Misses Bessie and Macie An derson, Ethel and Bessie Sheldon, Cora Priddy, Effle Page, Alta Stevick. Mabel Wright, Bessie Campbell, Blanche Reynolds, Maggie Birley ajad Jessie Riach. Miss. Maud Wilson was the hostess last evening at an exceptionally pleas ant valentine party, given at her home on Quincy street. Partners for pro gressive crokonole were found by matching cut heart-shaped valentines. and the prizes, a handsome valentine and a heart pin, were secured by, Edgar Ciark and Fred Miller. After refresh ments a candy heart hunt was indulged in, in which Miss Finch, after finding the greatest number, received a pretty valentine, while Edgar Clark was given a box of bonbons as consolation. Miss Wilson's guests were: Miss Mabel Mil ler, Miss Grace Miller, Miss Jennie Finch, Miss Clara Marlett, Miss Tillie Holcomb. Miss iKitty Marlett. Mr. Edgar Clark, Mr. Fred Miller, Mr. Will Marlett, Mr. Sidney Blenkarn, Mr. Charley Mar lett, Dr. Bryan, Mr. Charley Root, MANSION FOR GOVERNOR Bill to Provide For One Goes Through. The bill to erect the governor's man sion was one of the 106 bills passed by the senate last night. This bill was not purely local but it came up in the batch of local bills and was passed. Other bills affecting Shawnee county passed were the bill authorizing the con struction of three bridges across the Kaw, fixing the poor commissioner's sal ary at $S00 per year and increasing the salary of the sheriff and his deputy. A mistake was made in the bill providing for the erection of the three bridges and when it came over from the senate it was found that according to the bill ona of the bridges was to be built one mile from the river. The representatives from Shawnee county were greatly worried and came over to see Senator Chancy about it. After explaining the situation thf y asked him what couid be done. "Well, I hardly know," he answered, but you might go back and introduce a resolution changing the course of the river so that it will run under the bridge." Senator Chaney finally got the bill changed by unanimous consent so it will not be necessary to change the course of the liver. BIG SHOW T0XI6HT. Flambeau Club Benefit to Be Given at the Grand. The Republican Flambeau club's en tertainment at the Grand tonight to raise money to defray the expenses of the club to Washington to attend the inauguration, promises to be an inter esting vaudeville entertainment. The tickets are being sold at 25 cents and already a large part of the first floor and the best seats in the balcony have been sold. The programme contains sev- tral very pleasing numbers. Marshall's band will play two numbers and be tween them Miss Ona May Miller will recite James Whitcomb Riley's "Th" Old Band." One of the features will be a vaudeville sketch entitled "A Breezy Time" by Charles Mahany, "the brick layer comedian." The whistling of Vin ton t-nenis is always good and he will be heard tonight. The double song and dance of May and Neily Nve. "Paree was a hit in the Elks' show and promises to be good a long time yet. NATION CASE TO BE ARGUED N Submitted After Examining But One Witness by Agreement The case against Mrs. Carrie Nation n the city court will be resumed Mon day morning. The attorneys in the ease, after ex amining one witness, Mike Kelly, decid ed upon an agreed statement of facts, that Mrs. Nation broke up the property in question; that that property was used in the operation of a joint. The point of law to be deduced is whether the property had any value or the own- rs any rights, as it was being used for illegal purposes. The case will be ar gued Monday morning. Texas and Keturn $15.00 via Santa Fe Route. Tickets to Beaumont, Dallas. Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, Port Ar thur, San Antonio, Waco, Lake Charles, at the extremely low rate of tIZ for the Round Trip. On sale Tuesday, Feb ruary 19. Limited to March 12. return ing, see iving; agent, uopeica, lor particulars. "Wichita and Eeturn $4.62 via Santa Fe Routa. Tickets on sale Feb. 16th to 20th., in clusive. Good returning to Feb. 23d. 50c to $1 underwear for 39c at The Pal ace tonight and tomorrow. OVER flll.-EtlBAnKf.iEHT. Street Car Containing 30 Pas ssngers Drops 50 Teet. Cincinnati, Feb. 15. A street car con taining 30 passengers, en route from Dayton, Ky., to Cincinnati, Jumped the track today on a down grade and plunged over a 50-foot embankment into a small stream, injuring all but one of the passengers. Several may die. Among the most seriously injured were: Motorman Samuel Yates, fatally. W. H. McCormlck. Bellevue. Miss Edna Contans, Bellevue, may die. VV m. Spencer, Dayton. Ky., may die. Miss Ella Huxell, Westwood, may dio. A. H. Waggener, Bellevue. The others injured received cuts and bruiae3. Miss Emma Hampton was tr only passenger who entirely escaped Injury. She was taken from the wreck 1.1 a fainting condition. The car was running at a lively speed when it suddenly struck soma email obstruction or. the rail and instantly veered across the track. Motorman Yates stuck bravely to his post in an endeavor to apcly the brakes, but his efforts were unavailing end the car crashed over the embank ment. He received internal Injuries from which he may die. SHULEtt FARM FOB RENT. Good Bottom Land in Edge of Town, One hundred acres, best bottom farm in county, adjoining Oakland. Seven room house. Running water. A good chance for right party. Apply to Ross ington. Smith Histed, Crawford building. Headache Causes. Headache Is usually caused by living in poorly ventilated rooms, overindulgence in food or drink, insufficient exercise, mental strain, excitement or malaria. Krause's Headache Capsules quickly cure the most severe cases and leave the bead clear and cool. Price 23c. Sold by Geo. W. Stans Seld. 6S2 Kansas avenue; Marshall Bros., 115 Kansas avenue. Tonight And tomorrow $15 to $20 finest overcoats for $10, at The Palace. 'Wichita and Return $4.62 via Santa Fe Route. Tickets on sale Feb. 16th to 20th., elusive. Good returning to Feb. 23d. in- Tonight and tomorrow $15 to $20 finest overcoats for $10, at The Palace. 1D IIISCELLiXEOUS ADS. FREE MESSENGER FOR WANTS PULL a Postal Tetet"-ph-Cab! Box, or call by telephone No. 417 and have your Want Ads brought to Th Stute Journal office by free messenger. No charge to you fT messenger service. Cost of classi fied ails. 5 cents per line of six words to in line ana every iracuon vaersxjt. ANN OUNCES-TENTS. I AM A CANDIDATE for re-election to the council from tne V ourtn ward, sub ject to the Republican primary. March 9, WE ARE authorized to announce the name of W. F. Schoch as a candidate for city attorney, subject to the Republi can primary, earuruay, .naren a, ini. I AM A CANDIDATE for the office of city attorney, subject to the Republican primary, l stana lor a strict, enrorcemer.i of the laws, and if nominated and elected I shall perform the duties of that office to the full extent of my ability. GEO. E. STOKER. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 9, 1901. SITUATION WANTED. WANTED Situation, by middle aged woman, nursing preferred. Impure Mrs. Barstow. Western School Journal office, or address M. E. M., care Journal. WANTED By young w.an IS years old, situation in grocery store: has had two years' experience. Address 510 Van Buren street. WANTED A situation by experienced collector; good stenographer; can fur nish reference and give bond. Address "C," care Journal. WANTED By a your); country pirl. uge 15. a permanent position in private fam ily, for housework, more for a home than wages. Call 210 East 5th st. WANTED AGENT3. AGENTS Carrie Nation's Hatchet, the Little Smasher, does the work: an at tractive miniature hatchet souvenir: im mense demand: order quick. Price 5 gross. 50e dozen; sample Inc. Jones-Kee-nan Mfg. Co., laver.port, la. WANTED FEaALE HELP. WANrEDGTrTfoTserte 1157 Fillmore st. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED At Colorado Springs. Col., 40 plumbers and 15 fitters, at once. Ad dress X. Haas. Sec. Master Plumbers' Assn. 322 North Tejon St., Colorado Springs, Col. WANTED A solicitor or order man. Call 133 West 7th. WANTED Four boys between 14 and 16 years old; light work; answer at once, giving age, rts-idence and price desired per month; also state whether you have ever had a job, and it so. who with. Ad dress your letter to "M. C." care Journal. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED 100 sets of harness, all kinds; buggies, wagons. Newell, 92 Kansas av. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Two furnished roomfor housekeeping, first floor. 711 tjuincy st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, one on first floor. 613 Topeka ave. FOR RENT 3 unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Inquire at lu24 To peka ave. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, beat and modern conveniences, two blocks Santa Fe depot. S. W. corner 5th and Madison. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 4 room house, 1204 Clay st. Elder, till Kansas ave. FOR RENT Good, large house, barn. cistern. $10, 721 Chestnut. Inquire lSjO Van liuren. FOR RENT New 4 room house. 1?7 North Lake. Jnquiro 2t5 North ilranner. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE BlRck Inrhau roosters end a. few hens. 4 i Quinoy. FOR SALE Chp. new cnvnlrv pci-PPe and telf-raph ins! rmnetit. 7 -6 I.incotn s:. FOR SAT. E At private sa!. h"'iM fori ture and furnishings ef ail kmua at 9 -I Tyler ft. FOR SALE 5ft 4-bushel barrels. Clarence Skinner, 123 K. tith. FOR SALE OR TRADE 3'4 MMie im proved wagon. 911 North Kansas nve. FOR SALE Fine upright pl;r.o: owner leaving city: must eil, tad ut one. 630 Jefferson tt. FOR SALE OR TKADK 4 Jo'"l l"-rli mandolin. $10, or will trnoe i,,r gui'xr of equal valu. Address Mandolin, cat j Journal. FOR SALI3A $.Vi0 Ktmb.ill piano for sold to save moving. Address H. K. J., care Journal. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE New 8 room house, pewlnr room hall, bath, etc., hot and cold water, gas. cel lar, cistern ami cltv water in kni ln-s'. barn, 2 tine east front lots, on west good location. Bargain if sula in u,t ten davs. BARNES RKA1, ESTATK CO.. Ii3 West Filth Street. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS. F RENT 52t) acre stork ranch. plenty living water, good improvements. W acre farm. good Irnprnvfrn'Ti's. close in, BARNES ItHAL ESTATK 113 West Fifth Street. MISCELLANEOUS. Al'CTION SALE Corner Sih ami .'uincv, Saturday, February Pi; over $150 -north of furniture, stoves and tinware. a. begins et 1 o'clock harp. LOST AND TOUND. LOST Between Mills Drr Goods store and 610 Van Bnren, $1"; tinder r- turn to above address and receive reward. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN M v m plication for a nermit to sell lofoyt.; ing liquors, ar-coriiinK" to law, at Ka aal ave., in the Second ward of the cm of Topeka. is now on tile in the oftice tne probtite judRP of Shawnt-e count Kansas. Tile hearing of the same is s for Monday, at 9 o'clock a. in.. March 1 19U1. t'HAS. Vv. KOHI- GERMAN. GERMAN TAl'OHT, both in class aril private, by Mrs. Pauline Trebbe, t,tS Quincy. MAGNETIC OSTEOPATHY. MAGNETIC OSTFOPATHY Many curei In Topeka to prove our work: genuine A. T. Still Osteopathy and Weh merist'i combined. Drs. Chamberlain Ac Co., ixt Quincy tt. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clock. Snc: f.iftln springs. 75c: crystals. Ko. Cosh paid for old gold or silvery All work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanp-.-d for new. If uaJ up. see Uncle Sam, X2 Kansas aveuue. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCIL3 THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. Aw. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. Catalogue true. Tel. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete stock of watch-", c monds, silverware, etc. Eyes exatniuej and spectacles properly fitted. SPECIALISTS. DR. C. H. OTTTBOR, Disease of the N"Ju Throat and Luntrs. 7i Kansas evenj. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. U K. RTDKtt, M. TX. OFFICE J residence ccrner fiordon st.. and Central ave.. N-.rth Topeka. hb nn fl4. Uses the Briiikerhoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treat ment tor piles, hsiula, tissuru. ulceration, etc. IDA C BARNES. M. D.. Office 7TSS Kansas avef P.esldenee Thir teenth and Ciay. Office houn: a. es., to 11 a. rri.. and 3 p. m., to 6 p. m. Telephone &98 residence and 16 of! ice. DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathlst. CJ Kansas eve. Telephone 4o2. BICYCLES. TOPFKA CYCLE CO.. 113 West Stb t Tel. 70S. Blcjcies and sundries: bicycles and tandems fur rent; repairing of c.U kinds. U. S. CYCLE CO.. 118 E. th st. National and Uniou bicycles. Sundries, repairs. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital Clfr Vltrifte Brick and Paving Co., has been removej to Hi West Eighth street. PATENTS. FISCHER Sc THORPE, Patent Eawyers, 314-317 Junction Bids-. 8th and Main sits., Kansas City, Mo., have new book on pat ents for free distribution. MONEY. TO LOAN Money on Topeka r-el e-tit-. Pay back monthly. Low Interest rs e. Phawnee Bubditig and Limn Assoc' noon. See Eastman, at Ui West Sixth ttrefcu MONEY TO IO AN on live stock, ptanon. organs, typewrlt'-ra, hou eh' Id goo ssd personal security. L. iiiscoe, Kan. eve. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. T. D. HUMPHREYS. Lawyer. Room Columbian building. STORAGE. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER A PTORAO Co.. packs, shtps and stores houslaoi l goods. Tel. lsd. Clarence Skinner, iS i 6th st. HAIR GOODS. SWITCHES, CHAINS. WTG3, F'UM poolnp. etc. Mrs. Hattie Van Vleck. s0 East Fifth. 'Piione k'ii. FLORISTS i!P.S. J. R. TiACrE. Florist, su-enior R. J Groves, fci7 Kansas ave. "Phone 4 x CUT FLOWKRS and floral s!-n at Hayes'. 101 West Eighth su 'i;iuu t'U

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJKNU FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 15, 1001. Ix v-j. i i s A 1 03 can A Notice of great interest to all Housekeepers, Boarding House and Hotel Proprietors: r" MlUlfl h t t'VI 1901 W 1H iTH J J;;---: Napkins. Hundreds of dozens of celebrated makes. Special weights and sizes for hotels, restaurants, and clubs. These special lots, priced to make this a record breaking sale 100 doz. All-Linen Napkins, 20x20, for.. ..31.25 doz. (This is a leader.) Napkins at 80c S1.00 1.25 1.45 01.75 2.00 2.25 2.50 2. Tf 5 and upward NaPkms....S1.25 1.45 1.89 2.50 2.75 83.00 3.50 3.75 4.25 4.50 and upward Pattern Table Cloths. A fine collection in the best size3, from the less ex pensive ones up to the very fine ones 2x2V German Damask Cloths, extra heavy and choice designs 81.95 2x3 2.25 Also finer grades 2x3 2Jx3tf and 3x3 yards From. .82.25 3.00 3.50 4.50 5.00 upwards Damasks, From the best looms of Ireland, Scotland, Germany and Austria. Yards upon yards, in the different weights, widths and bleaches. Prices range from 48c up to $1.50 per yard. To emphasize this great sale, a celebrated manufacturer sold us several lots at prices that make our offering positively matchless in values. These prices are choice, and HITS SOCIETY. 2Irs. Nation Declaims Against Formality and Finery. Prays For "Love of Jesus" In the Churches. I3IPASSI0TED ADDRESS Discusses Her Wort While in Chicago. Experiences JIade lier Sick But She is Glad She Went. The Home Defenders gave Mrs, Na tion a. reception inst night at the First Vniteti Presbyterian church. The pro gramme was Informal, and consisted of feorigs, prayers, f.hort addresses, and at the close a handshake with Mrs. Xa tion. Mrs. J. 2.1. Dumenil presided, and Sirs. Kosa Crist led the singing. Mrs. Xation's address was the prin cipal part of Lhf! programme. In part she said: "Friends, I am glad to see you again, fly voice is poor, but my heart is full. Is' ever in all my life have I received each treatment as that in Chicago. I was very much astonished. When we arrived thousand. were at the depot; we ere met by Mis- Shontz and a delega tion from the Young People's Temper ance union, and were taken to the hotel in an automobile. They did everything for our comfort. I never met such a Kliee force, even in Kansxs. They vied with each other in showing- me the I'-laces where I wanted to s". "God told me to jro to Chicago. I got word at Pes Moines. Mr. Rankin was Tint in favor of soing to Chicago, and I iidn't know wh.t to do; but I went to eieep and the Lord came to me. He iV3 'Go to Chicago victory, victory, victory." I got up and went to Mr. Jtanfcin and tol 1 him I was going to Chicago. He tried to jv-rsuade me not t.i, hut I told him I would not stay away from there for o room full of gold. In Chicago T met my husband's grandson, 3:i!ey White. He was running a saloon tfi"re and invif-d me to smash it. I told him that I had promised not to do any funashinjr. and I wouldn't tell a lie. I went into somn awful hells. I couldn't t ierp for the thought of them. I invited the ea!oonkeepcr3 to Wifiard hall; they 3!d not come, but Riley came up and f ili he had arranged a meeting for me in his saiiK'n. 1 went down there ajid 3iiet the ljvd women of the town. I ta'ked to them and told them they most get out of this business. We win 3. you. As soon as we clean up Kan sas we will jump right over to Chi cs. CO." irtclaimins against formalities and as a rule. During the LINEN SALE every to good advantage, GOODS and in values Special Counters on Main merely instances early comers will El fineries of the time, Mr3. Nation grew indignant. "I've got no patience." she said, "with such women as these fine ones. Oh, for a little bit of the love of Jesus in the churches. I may be more severe on members of my sex than I should. Wo men are what men make of them. The girl who loves a fellow that emokes cigarettes should be compelled to use a skunk for perfume. I have been sick for two or three day3 on account of this awful stench." Mrs. Nation then read a chapter from the Bible, expounding it and comment ing as she read. Referring to the breaking of the win dows of a Winfield church she said: "This transaction in Wiiifleld shows that hell's mad at the church." To a State Journal reporter Mrs. Na tion said: "We are out and out for Kansas. While we may be smglehanded, we go forth more than a thousand to smash, in our work of faith and labor of love." It has been suggested that the rail roads should give her transportation. She says she will not beg, but evidently believes that her car fare should not cost her anvthing. George R. Kirkpatrick, field 'lecturer for the State Temperance union, ad dressed the meeting for a few minutes. Referring to the Nation crusade he said: "Mrs. Nation impresses me, and this after studying conditions generally, as a sublime challenge to manhood wher ever there is any, and a fortunate irreg ularity." Iuring Mr. Kirkpatrick's talk Mrs. Nation led the applause. Otner addresses were made by Rev. M. F. McKirahan, T. J. Hevelle and John Holmes. She had the following open letter ad dressed to her grandson, Riley White, telegraphed to a Chicago newspaper last night: Topeka. Kan., Feb. 14. Mv Barling Rilev: I got here all right. O Chicago: Chicago! How fondly my heart turns to theethe home of fond hearts that were so loving to me. To Eva Shontz and her colaborers who gave me all. The saloon men of Chicago treat ed me better than those of any city I have visited. I have never received such courtesy from any police force as was tendered by the police brothers of Chi cago, whom I know but to love. Riley, my boy, tell that man who sang in your saloon that 1 never heard a voice so lovely. I expect to hear him sing in heaven. Tell the dear girls that I met there that they are the sisters of Carrie Nation. When I come to Chicago I want to meet them. I shall pray to God to open up the way that I may go to Chi cago the lirst place after I leave Kansas, for I love that poor .burdened city too well not to have an earnest desire to smash the hell-holes. Yes. sweet, affec tionate Chicago. I love thee in spite of all thy law derianoe. There is a better day for thee. Riley, come to me as quicklv as possible. I will be here until Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock, when I go to Medi cine Xjdge. Your lovintr errandmother, CARRIE NATION. More Trouble For Sugar Trust Philadelphia, Feb. 15. Adolph Segal, who has associated with him several wealthy capitalists, will build upon the Delaware river front in this city one of the largest sugar refineries in the United States. The new refinery will be opera ted Independent of the American Refin ing company, which controls practically all of the refineries now in operation. Several million of dollars, will it is said be expended upon the plant. Table Linens are every day things, vary but little in price, and all we save we save by buying in quantities and importing from the makers abroad so, very naturally, a number of hotel-keepers come here because they can save much money, and hotel-keepers are good buyers as and starting tomorrow you'll find saving on all sorts of TABLE LINENS as unusual as TT TT Floor Makes the LINEN 60-inch Heavy All-Linen Cream Damask 48c 60-inch 59c 62-inch Extra Heavy Cream Damask 65c 66-inch Extra Heavy All Linen 69c 66-inch German Damask 75c 72-inch Choice Designs 89c 72-inch Round Thread German Natural Linen.. 0100 Bleached Damask Table Linens (With Napkins to natch.) 60-inch Pure Linen Damask 50c 66-inch All Linen Damask G9c 68-inch Heavy Scotch Damask, Napkins to match, 79c 68-inch heavy Scotch Damask, Napkins to match, 89c 72-inch Fine Satin Damask 89c Napkins to match. 68-inch Extra Choice Designs 05c 72-inch, new effect border and designs Sweet Pea, Dots, Pansy and Geranium S1.15 72-inch, in choice designs Poppies, Clover, Thistle and Rose 81.25 72-inch Damask and Conventional, in finer grades, in handsome designs and double Border effects Rose, Tulip, Pansy, Sunflower, Thistle, and Clover. Unlaundered White Shirts. SPECIAL A good Shirt for the price, made of extra quality muslin, pure linen bosom, reinforced front and back, felled seams, continuous facings 45c each Six for S2.60 of how Linens throughout the entire naturally reap IK MILLS C INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS. Opinion of Prominent Persons onEow It Can Be Increased. Newr Y'ork. Feb. 15. The following are excerpts read at the dinner of the Cor respondents club last night from some of the responses received from prominent persons in answer to the question, "How can the influence of the pres3 be increas ed?" Secretary of State John Hay I do not consider myself competent to give ad vice on this subject. Whitelaw Reid By the most scrupu lous effort in giving the news to tell the exact truth, without exaggeration and without guesswork and by discussion based upon fair-minded study and con ducted with the courtesy that com mands a respectful hearing. Horace "White By an honest effort to deserve it. Joseph Jefferson The best means of increasing the influence of journalism, or indeed any profession, is by bringing to bear on it industry, ability and integri ty. It would be a grand departure if the best newspapers were to inaugurate a system whereby only known facts would be published and would search out and expose every fraudulent journal; under such conditions a confidence would be aroused in the public mind that perhaps j&oes not now exist. Susan B. Anthony By advocating the ballot to all women as well as to all men. H. H. Kohlsaat.Editor Chicago Times- Herald There is a wide demand that the influence of the press shall make more for those things that are of good report and exalt a people than it does. It can be less cynical and mofe sincere. It can be more optimistic In Its views of life. It can be more considerate toward the un fortunate and more generous in the treatment of those with whom it may not be in accord. The truth, however, should be told with all the vivacity of fiction or the press will sufier. Stupid veracity is the rock upon which more than one truly good newspaper has foundered. Veracity with vivacity is my prescription for what I think your club is seeking after. Wr. J. Bryan A newspaper will exert a. greater influence, other things being equal, if it is known to represent on pub lic questions the deliberate convictions of some person, a person of flesh and blood, not a corporation. The influence of a newspaper, other things being equal Calumet" makes he light est, sweetest avid most wholesome bread and pastry. f ft w i i E'j Powd riONE SO GOOD. NOT f MADE BY I THE I V TRUST. economy that bigger buying and bigger selling can T? TYT 7 4(2 W DEPARTMENT Bigger for A Good Turkish Also Cream and the benefit. will be greater if it is known who owns the paper and controls its policy, and that the person has no interest adverse to the interests of the readers. The influ ence of the press will be increased by greater unity in the support of any good cause and in the condemnation, of any bad practice. Jeanette L. Gilder I should gay by less sensationalism and more truth. Arthur F. Hadley, president of Yale university Is not the question rather how influence can be so directed that it shall work more toward permanent ends and less toward temporary ones? General Russell Alger Let the press be overzealous in ascertaining whether its publications are founded upon facts or not. Thos. A. Edison By publishing a fact now and then. Nikola Telsa The influence of the press might be greatly increased hy adopting a better system of informing the world of technical and. scientific ad vances; or, generally speaking, of such news as concerns professional men. Rev. Lyman Abbott The proprietor must put influence above commercial success. To secure this influence the editor must have both definite and in telligent convictions on the subjects on which he wishes to exert influence. He ust be fair to those who do not share these convictions. He must convince his readers that he is seeking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, not for a personal or sectarian advant age. He must deal with topics which are both' of real interest and of real importance to the public. Cardinal Gibbons The influence of the press would be much increased by a strict adherence to facts in recording events and by a scrupulous accuracy in reporthig .the expressions of public men. Andrew Carnegie The paper which obtains a reputation for printing au thentic news and only that which is fit to print, and which editorially writes temperately, although always decidedly, will steadily increase its influence. Wu Ting Fang, 'Chinese minister I will simply say that the influence of the press can be increased by strict adher ence to facts. Bishop Henry C. Potter By the edu cation and elevation of its readers. A decent, intelligent, thoughtful constitu ency will compel a decent press. B. B. Odell, jr., governor of New York Accuracy and reliability are the prime requisites. WOMEN ENDORSE. Make Their Selections For Candidates Ior the Council. The Woman's league at its regular meeting Thursday afternoon endorsed a candidate for the council from each ward with the exception of the First, and that was left until the next meeting, as it was reported that E. J. Hathafcvay would not run and it was not known who the candidate was to be. The candidates endorsed were F. W. Griggs from the Second, George Neil from the Third, John Abrahams from the Fourth. E. Ridley from the Fifth and S. Swenson from the Sixth. A committee composed of Mrs. W. A. McCarter, Mrs. J. IX McFarland and Mrs. A. H. Thomoson was appointed to meet with the Home Defenders and urge them to stand by Colonel Hughes for mayor during the coming campaign. At last week s meeting the advisability of hav 1 HP f fO7l f& I G This Special Occasion. Unlaundered White Shirts. Our Best Shirt 05c each Six for 05.50 Towels. Bath, huck, damask, crepe, diaps and momie weaves, No hotel, club, housekeeper or private family should miss this opportunity to supply their towel wants for a whole year at 95c a doz. Hemmed Huck Towels, $1.18 and SI. 45 doz., up to the very finest ones. Everything known to the Towel trade here. Values better than has ever been our good fortune to offer. Huck Towels and Damask. S1.00 a doz Hemmed Huck and Damask 19x36 12 C each S1.35 dozen Hemmed Huck and Damask 20x40 15c each Extra Heavy Huck Towels 21c Hemmed and Hemstitched Damask Towels 21c Extra Fine H. S. Huck Towels 25c Also the finer grade, 35c 39c 4:5c 50c an(i upward Turkish Towels. Towel, in cream Bleached 18x36. 81.00 12'C Extra Heavy Cream 25x46... 18c each, 02.00 Turkish "Wash Cloths. 25c collection will be PAN ing women on the school board was dis cussed and a committee appointed to look into the matter. Mrs. A. H. Thompson, chairman of the committee, in her report yesterday said that nearly everyone she had talked with, both men and women, were in favor of having women on the school board, but as none can be found who are willing to run it will probably be given up. Miss Shontz will return to Topeka Mon day and hold three meetings: Monday aft ernoon it will be a mass meeting for women; Tuesday evening it will be open to both men and women, and Wednesday it is to be for the colored people. The attendance yesterday afternoon was larger than at any of the previous meet ings. There were a number of colored women present and many of them took an active part. 'The women are all en thusiastic and promise to stand together during the campaign. D f I V E R 17 A Fl TS FIGHT. Offers to Post $10,000 to Bring Off the Event in March. Denver, Feb. 15. Otto C. Floto, man ager of the Colorado Athletic associa tion, hopes to secure the Jeffries-Ruhlin fight for this city. He has telegraphed Manager Brady an offer to post a guar antee of J10.000 to bring off the event on any day in March that may be agreed upon. Should the offer be accepted a roofless arena, in which 15,000 spectators can be accommodated will be construct ed especially for this occasion. The senate bill to repeal the Cannon prize fight law has been defeated in the house. The effect of the repeal would be to wipe from the statute books all legislation on the subject, leaving Colo rado with no laws at all concerning pugilism. On this showing many voted to strike the enacting clause from the repealing bill. The Cannon law is now before the supreme court, and if that tribunal decides it to be unconstitutional previous legislation on the subject will stand. Can Arrest Without Warrant. Pittsburg-, Feb. 15. In the suit of Jno. B. Bennett against secret service agents Flynn and Berrvman and Deputy Unit ed States Maj-shai W. S. Blair, who were charged with malicious trespass, assault and battery, in connection writti the arrest of the plaintiff. Judge M. W. Acheson, in the United States court, handed down an important opinion. He makes a precedent in deciding that United States marshals or their dep uties can make arrest3 in emergency cases without warrant. McKmley'a Present From the Czar. Washington, Feb. 15. Count Cassini, the Rusisan ambassador, today present ed the president a magnificent album containing scenes of the coronation of the czar in 189S. The album is a present and a souvenir from the czar to Presi dent McKinley and was specially made for the latter. The presentation was made by Court Cassini, who said that the gift represented the czar's high es teem for the head of the great govern ment of the United States. The president responded appropriately. make is turned aud HOUSEKEEPING Crashes. Crashes, Huckabacks, Glass Linen, Linen and Cotton Diapers, Kitchen and Pantry Cloths, Stable Rubbers, Dish and Scrub Cloths. Complete lines at a great sav ing during this great sale. All Linen Crash 5c Also better grade G''c SC 10c 12'c Bed In Marseilles, Satin Crochet, Cameo Spreads as low as 95c and up to each S4:.50- vThese will be shown at first counter to the left as you enter the store. Hemmed ready for use 11-4 95c These goods are made of 3 ply yarn, both warp and filling and warranted not weighted with any substance whatever. Also a better grade 01.15 11-4 Crochet Spread Hemmed and Fringed.. 01.4.5 11-4 Satin Quilt 02.00 11-4 Marseilles... 02.00 Also better grades S2.50 02.75- 03.25 03.75 and 01.50 Also Cold Satin Quilts Hemmed and Fringed. a doz each a doz a dz sold of courie there is a I way A CHINESE THICK. Smuggling Chinamen Into United States an Established Business. Portland, Ma, Feb. 15. The federal authorities here are in possession of papers found on the person of Sam Wah Kee, of Boston, when he was arrested in the act of smuggling six of hia coun trymen into the United States across the Maine border, which lead to the be lief that an organized band of influen tial Chinese have been" engaged in, smuggling their fellows into this coun try with the collusion with, government officials. Among the papers are many letters, which gave a clue to the meth ods employed in evading the immigra tion laws. In one of the letters Sam spoke of having successfully brought one thousand Chinamen across the bor der in the past dozen years. Sam, who was at one time a Chinese Inspector, was at the head of the organ ization. A Chinaman who was to be smuggled in was furnished with a cer tificate of earlier date containing an original valid second sheet with the affi davits and signatures of two white wit nesses, testifying to the applicant being a merchant in this country. To this sheet they annexed one bearing a pho togiaph of the man seeking admission and forged the United States commis sioner's seal, which was necessary to make the certificate good. The favor ite method it is said was to cross the line in the district of some commis sioner supposed to be "friendly" and then take special pains to be arrested. A casual examination- and a.n official O. K. sent the applicants safely to their destinations. It was customary to send to Canada for admission before they de parted from China informing names to be used, the date of their supposed first arrival in America and other informa tion sufficient for a purely formal ex amination. There are also in the possession of the government several specimen contracts entered into by the smuggler and the man to be imported by which the immi grant agrees to pay t he former party a sum ranging from jlOO to $150 and heavy interest upon any part of the principal left unpaid after a certain time. NO MORE RUSSIAN SUGAR. Extra Duty of 91 Cents Per Hundred Will Keep it Out of America New York, Feb. 15. Secretary Gage's order imposing a countervailing duty of 32 cents on each pood (3S pounds) of Russian sugar imported into this coun try, is the subject of considerable com ment among sugar men. Alired F. Gray of Willett Gray said: "Some time ago the secretary sent an expert to investigate the sugar growing industry in Russia and to find out if Russia realiy -paid a bounty, either di rect or indirect, on sugar production. It has not as yet been determined whether or not Russia pays a direct bounty on the exportation of refined sugar. It was found, however, that the Russian sys tem of controlling the supply, as well as the domestic price of sugar, operated as a bounty to the manufacturers of that country. The action of Secretary Gage indorses the vote of the conference held last year at Brussels, to the effect that Russia should be placea upon the same ""if vv i .j 1 4 i) Spreads. t t a basis with other countries in the pay ment of countervailing duties on sugar. Now that the duty has been imposed upon Russian sugar, there will be no more exports of the product to this country, because the new extra duty of 91 cents a hundred pounds will practical ly exclude Russia from our market. This will mean a cessation of only JJluO, 000 worth of business a year. "The Russian product, under th polariscope, tests quite as well as Mm American sugar. It closely resembles the Louisiana product and has been used here by manufacturers since it answer ed all purposes of high grade white sugar. The Russians have enjoyed a profitable sugar exporting business, for they were able to send tneir product here at half a cent a pound less than the cost of production here." President Post of the National Sugar Refining company said that the Rus sians were placed on the same basis with the Auatrlans, French and Ger mans and, therefore, had no right to complain against the imposition of ex tra duty. Continuing he said: "Russia will not resort to retaliatory decrees. She can buy to best advantage in our markets and price-is generally the determining factor in the business relations of people." HITS THE PAN AMERICAN. Southern Pacific Railroad Secures Shipments of Freight New York, Feb. 15. The Journal of Commerce says: Vice President Lawiey of the Southern Pacific railroad has confirmed the report that arrangements had been made for handling via San Francisco freight from South American ports destined for east ern states and Europe which formerly was shipped via the Pan-American rail road and the Pacilio Steamship eomoaov and establishes a new branch of frt-iittit business for the Southern Pacific Jt i understood that mt-rchanriise condirn-d to New York will go via Ogtlen ami that European shipments will be made over the Sunset route. This Arrangement was put into practical operation with the ar rival recently at San Francisco of tia steamship City of Para. An official of the Pnn-AmerSran Rail road company., when questioned with re gard to the new deal and its elVect on tnat road, said that the Pan-American at .the present time was handling a lart-e volume of traffic both wav and ii hia impression that the shipment whirr, would be made via Kan KrancN-,, fr, South American ports for N"eW -york a r .i Europe would consist fhietiv nf cargoes which previously have been RPllt Mr,un,. the Horn. The route via San Era m- he said, was much longer and an ,i,, it MraJT,route as compared wiih that k the Pan-American railroad. He it-ellnMd to the belief that the Hot.t hern vl- a deal would not make any serious itiromU' on the traffic handled by the p','r t2. rallroad a4 Us steamship 1 "CASTOR A For Infants End Children Tfo K!nJ Yen K3?3 Alwiys Bears the SiSnatM of CtzfMtil