The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 17, 1901

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feftUp LAST EDITIG1 TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS. DECEMBER 17. 1901, TUESDAY EVENING.- TWO CENTS. CIQQT nPRflTF I Illy I uuuii J Li Philippine Tariff Starts Dis cussion in the House. Chairman Payne Explains Pur poses of the Bill. SENATE COMMITTEES. Assignments Are Made by a Special Committee. Burton Has Place on Public Land and Three Others. Washington, Dec. 17. The first debate of the session in the house began today on the bill to provide temporary reve nues for the Philippine islands. Under the agreement made last Friday the debate is continued today and tomorrow until 4 o'clock when the vote is to be taken. Mr. Payne, the floor leader of the majority, opened for his side and owing to the indisposition of Mr. Rich ardson the floor leader of the minority, who is suffering from an attack of the grip, the task of opening for the Dem ocratic side devolved upon Mr. Swan son (Va.). There was a fair attendance in the galleries. Before the debate be gan some preliminary business was transacted. Messrs. De Armond (Mo.) and Brossard (La.) who had not hereto fore appeared at this session, took the oath. After the routine business had been disposed of Mr. Payne moved that tne house go into committee of the whole for the Consideration of tne Philippine revenue bill. Two Democrats, Aiessrs. Vanderver (Mo.) and Cooper (Tex.) at tempted to interrupt the motion with requests for unanimous consent to con sider Schley resolutions, but Mr. Payne declined to yield the floor and his mo tion prevailed. Mr. Payne in opening the debate carefully explained the purpose of the bill which already has been set forth in his report. Mr. Payne reviewed at some length the events leading up to the formulation of the tariff. He contrasted the Spanisn rates with those fixed by the commis sion. On flour, for instance, he said, the rate had been reduced from. $1.88 to 50 cents, on rice from 52 to 40 cents, and on hams and smoked meats from $9.13 to Ji Proportionate reductions had been made on other articles. Mr. Payne explained that the com missi un also had deemed it wise to con tinue a portion of the old Spanish ex port tax on hemp, sugar and tobacco, owing to the difficulty of levying and collecting a land tax. Personally, he said, he did not like the idea of an ex port tax, but there seemed no other way at present. There was necessity for immediate action to meet the situation created by the decision of the supreme court. Mr. Payne also explained the feature of the bill providing for the extension of the navigation laws of the United States to the islands and the permission it granted to foreign vessels to ply be tween Philippine and American ports until January, 1905. Mr. Payne's statement that by that time it was hoped that American ships would be able to take care of this busi ness, aroused scattering applause on his side of the house. During Mr. Payne's speech there was quite a colloquy between Ml Gaines (Tenn.) -who visited the islands last summer and Mr. Payne. The latter de scribed the success of the Philippine commission and asserted that the Re publicans were trying to lift the Fili pinos to American citizenship. Mr. Gaines declared the constitution and flag should be carried to the Phil ippines. Mr. Payne said he was surprised that Mr. Gaines had not carried the flag and constitution to the islands. "Tou have done that covertly." said Mr. Gaines. "1 propose to show you up." Mr. Payne sarcastically replied that he supposed Mr. Gaines had learned in a brief visit more than all the officials of the United States in two years and half of investigation. Mr. Payne also had a brief contro versy with Mr. Wheeler (Ky.) in which the latter asserted that aggregate capi tal had the assurance that the attorney general would not prosecute the trusts and that was why they existed. Mr. Payne declared that Mr. Wheeler did not believe his own assertion any more than he (Payne) believed it. Mr. Payne closed his speech at 1:20 and was followed by Mr. Swanson (Va.) who declared that none of the benefits of the Filipino people spoken of could accrue through the agency of the pend ing bill. The voice of the floor leader of the majority, he said was the voice of Jacob but the. hand was the hand of Esau. Mr. Swanson said that the president and secretary of war favored making generous concessions to sugar and to bacco from Cuba, but this bill failed to make any concessions to the Philip pines. Reciprocity treaties pending in the senate allow concessions to foreign countries, but none to the Philippines, which we hold as a part of our country. Holding the Philippines by force weak ened Instead of strengthening this coun try. The money we now wasted in the Pnaippines would build up the largest navy in the world. The solution of the Philippine problem was a congressional declaration to give them independence as soon as a stable government could be formed. IX THE SENATE. Washington,' Dec. 17. Soon after the senate convened today a joint resolu tion making soae amendments to the act, -to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia," was reported and passed. After the transaction of purely rou tine business, the senate at 12:35 p. m.. on motion of Mr. Allison, went into ex ecutive session. SENATE COMMITTEES. W ashington. Dec. 17. The Republican senators met in caucus today to hear the report of the committee on commit tees which had completed the Republi can assignments. The report was made by Senator Piatt of Connecticut, chair man of the committee. The report of the committee was adopted and the Republican member ship of the senate committees will be as follows: Appropriations Allison, Hale, Cullon. Perkins, Sewell, Warren, Wetmore and Quay. Finance Aldrich, Allison, Piatt, (ConnO; Burrows, Piatt (N. Y.); Hans brough, Spooner, Jones (Nev.) foreign Relations Cullom, Frye Lodge, Clark CWyo. Foraker, Spooner, Fairbanks, Kean. Commerce Frye. McMillan, Elkins, Nelson, Gallinger, Penrose, Hanna,' Ma son, pepew, Jones (Nev.); Perkins. CWyo.); Siinon, Nelson, McComas, De pew. Interstate Commerce Elkins, Cullora. Aldrich, Kean, Dolliver, Foraker, Clapp, Millard. Inter-Oceanic Canals Hawley, Piatt (N. Y.); Hanna, Pritchard, Mitchell, Millard, Kittredge. Naval Affairs Hale, Perkins, Mc Millan. Piatt (N. Y-); Hanna, Penrose, Gallineer. Philippines Lodge, Allison, Hale, Proctor, Beveridge, Burrows, McComas, Dietrich. Military Affairs Hawley, Proctor, Sewell, Warren, Burrows, Quarles, Scott. Postoffices and Post Roads) Mason, Penrose, Elkins, Dolliver, Lodge, De hoe, Beveridge, Dillingham, Mitchell. Privileges and Elections Burrows, Hoar, Pritchard, McComas, Foraker, Depew, Beveridge, Dillingham. Relations with Cuba Piatt (Conn.), Aldrich, Cullom, McMillan, Spooner, De boe. Burnham. Pacific Islands and Porto Rico For aker, Depew, Wetmore, Foster (Wash), Mitchell, Kearns, Burton. Public Lands Hansbrough, Nelson, Clark (Wyo.). Bard, Kearns, Gamble, Burton, Deitrich. Indian Affairs Stewart, Piatt (Conn.) Quarles, McCumber. Bard, Quay, Clapp, Gamble, McLaurin (S. C.) Agriculture pnd Forestry Proctor, Hansbrough, Warren, Foster (Wash.), Dolliver, Quarles, Quay. District of Columbia McMillan, Gal linger, Hansbrough, Pritchard, Stew art, Dillingham, Foster (Wash.), Wel lington. Public Buildings and Grounds Fair banks, 'Warren, Simon, Scott, Quarles, McCumber, Wellington. Territories Beveridge, Sewell, .Dil lingham, Nelson, Bard, Quay, Burn ham. Rules Spooner, Aldrich-, Hoar, Elkin3. Census Quarles, Hale, Piatt (N. Y-), McCumber. McComas, Burton, Gamble. Claims Warren, Mason, Stewart, Mc Cumber, Kearns, Clapp, Burnham, Kit tredge. McLaurin (S. C.) Printing Piatt (N. Y.). Elkins. Immigration Penrose, Fairbanks, Lodge, Mason, Sewell, Proctor. Coast and Insular Survey Foster (Wash.), Hawloy, McMillan, Fairbanks, Wellington. Audit and Control of Contingent Ex penses of the Senate Jones (Nev.), Gal- unger, Kearns. Civil Service and Retrenchment Per kins, Lodge, Elkins, Piatt (N. Y.); Mil lard. Coast Defences Mitchell, Hawley, Burrows, Penrose, Dietrich, Welling ton. Corporations Organized in the Dis trict of Columbia Aldrich, McMillan, Wellington. .Education and Labor McComas.Pen rose, Dolliver, Clapp. Burnham. Engrossed Bills Hoar and Clapp. Enrolled Bills Sewell and Hanna. Establish the University of the United State Deboe, Frye, Foraker, Wes more, Burnham, Kittredge, Wellington. Examine iihe Several Branches of the Civil Service Clapp, Foraker, Hoar and Deboe Fisheries Bard, Proctor, Frye, Mason, Foster. Forest Reservations and the Protec tion of Game Burton, Depew, Perkins, Calrk (Wyo.) Pritchawl, Keanss, Kitt redge. Geologic:! Survey Kean, Elkins, Allison, Fairbanks. Improvement of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries Nelson, Dolliver, Millard and McLaurin (S. C). Indian Depredations Gamble, Deboe, Beveridge, Dillingham, Kearns, Diet rich. At 1:50 the senate adjourned. SCHLEY RESOLUTIONS IN HOUSE. Washington, Dec. 17.--Representative Wheeler of Kentucky has introduced a resolution to investigate the conduct of Rear Admiral Schley from the time he took command of the flying squadron up to and including the destruction of the Spanish fleet, July 3, 1898. It recites the action of the court of inauiry. and declares the American people desire an investigation by citizens not connected with the navy department. Representative Mudd of Maryland also introduced a resolution relative to Admiral Schley, as follows: "Resolved, That the thanks of con gress and of the American people are hereby tendered to Rear Admiral Win field Scott Schley and the officers and men under his command for their vic tory ovr the Spanish forces and the de struction of the Spanish fleet in the naval battle off Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898." Mr. Mudd says the resolution is not the result of my concerted action by the Maryland delegation, and represents his individual views. IV10RE ZERO WEATHER. Mercury Again Retreats Into an Uncomfortable Location. 1 The minimum temperature for this morning was zero. The wind was from the northwest, blowing from 20 to 25 miles an hour, and made the cold fierce and penetrating. The temperature has moderated in the northwest somewhat. The reports show the mercury 14 degrees below zero in Prince Albert and 12 below at Huron. The coldest weather is now reported east of Kansas, the mercury being 4 below at Chicago, 12 below at Duluth and 18 below at Des Moines. The fore cast sent out today is "Generally fair tonight and Wednesday. Slowly rising temperatures." The hourly tempera tures today were as follows: 7 o'clock 1 above. 8 o'clock 0 9 o'clock 0 10 o'clock 1 above. 11 o'clock 2 above. 12 o'clock 4 above. 1 o'clock 6 above. 2 o'clock 8 above. WON'T MARRY HOBSON. Miss Eleanor Ludlow Denies the He ported Engagement. Cincinnati, Dec. 17. A TL-nes-Star special from Springfield, O., says that Miss Eleanor Ludlow, niece of ei-Gov. Bushnell, said today: "There is positively no truth in the re port of the engagement of Capt. Rich mond P. Hobson and myself. You will do me a favor to deny it and you can not make the statement too emphatic" Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 17. Forecast for Kan sas: Generally fair tonight and Wed nesday; slowly rising temperature; winds shifting to southerly. GUTS 6J0MILES. u in all a and Emyuila Esllrcad a Travel Saver. Packing House Interests Are Behind the Deal. WANT A NEW OUTLET. For Their Products In the Mis souri Valley. Export Shipments to Be Sent Orer Mew Line. Omaha, Dec. 17. Details of the or ganization of the new Omaha-Emporia road, mentioned in these dispatches yes terday, were made public today. R. M. Nevins, representing the packing house interests of St. Louis, is here negotiat ing the deal. Edward A. Cudahy, of the Cudahy Packing company, J. M. Wol worth, a local capitalist, and Wm. A. Paxton, for the Union Stock Yards com pany, have signed for blocks of stock in the projects! road and will probably be officers in the new company. Mr. Paxton went to Chicago today to con fer with the Armour Interests, which are also identified with the line. Mr. Nevins says the object of the new road is to furnish a southern outlet for the packing house products of the Missouri valley. With the Missouri, Kansas Texas it will form an inde pendent line to the south, thus reliev ing the packing interests from the com bination rates on their products destined for export by way of an eastern sea board. It will also cut the mileage from 1,500 to 900 miles. 2000 HOMELESS. Great Damage and Suffering From Eastern Flood. Frank Daniels Opera Company Forced to Lose a Date. Philadelphia, Dec. 17. Railroad serv ice in this state, which was badly crip pled by the floods of Saturday night and Sunday, is gradually recovering its nor mal condition and by this afternoon or tomorrow morning trains will be run ning practically on time. Thousands of laborers are at work today repairing the damage to roadbeds and bridges, wrought by the rushing waters. The railroads that suffered the most are the Lehigh Valley, Central of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Lackawanna Western and the New York Central. In some localities it will be weeks be fore the damage is fully repaired. The sweep of water was greater in some sections than was ever known be fore, and bridges that withstood the floods of years were swept away. The sudden drop in the temperature was providential in some respects, as it prevented the flood from spreading, but it entailed great suffering on the 2,000 or more persons rendered homeless by the destruction of their houses. AU pas sengers on stalled trained were removed from their uncomfortable situation last night and this morning by the railroad companies and the trains axe being ta ken to their destinations. The Frank Daniels comic opera com pany, which was to have opened a two weeks' engagement at the Broad the ater last night, did not reach the city until early this morning. Having been nearly 48 hours in making the journey from Buffalo, which is ordinarily ac complished in 22 hours. The members of thejcompany sat up nearly all of this time, and were both hungry and "tired when they arrived here. In the lower anthracite coal district the situation is growing worse. The mine workings are thoroughly soaked with water, and it may be weeks before some of them can be worked, although there was a resumption today in a few mines. It Is estimated that 50,000 mine workers and mechanics are idle as a re sult of the flood. At Harrisburg the Pennsylvania rail road officials say that trains from the west are now only about two hours late and from the north the service is prac tically regular. On the Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central railroads, the service while somewhat improved, is still very irreg ular, and officials say they will be lucky if passenger traffic is fully resumed by the end of this week. Along the lines of both roads hundreds of cars loaded with coal are help up, but there is no danger of a coal famine as the companies have a large reserve supply at tidewater points. The Reading railway has been com pelled to suspend traffic on its Little Schuylkill branch between Port Clinton and Tamaqua because of numerous washouts and the loss of a bridge. It will require several days work to get the line in working order and mean while the company will be greatly ham pered in the handling of coal and freight trains. The weather today is not quite so cold as yesterday and in some sections scow is falling. Various estimates are given of the money loss entailed by the floods. Con servative guessers place the loss at from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000. So far re ports have beeen received here of the loss of nine lives in various parts of the state. Bordentown, N. J., Dec. 17. The freshet in the Delaware river here has fallen two feet and is gradually passing out. Traffic will probably be resumed today. Only two trains from Camden have reached Bordentown today. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 17. The -flood situation in the Wyoming valley shows some improvement today. The water In the Susquehanna river receded seven inches more during the night, but the lowlands are still submerged and ail connection between Wilkesbarre and the towns on the west side of the river is still cut off. The railroads are getting Into normal condition again. The first passenger train on the Lehigh Valley railroad from the east arrived shortly after midnight. It carried a number of belated pas sengers who had spent 48 hours in the cars in the flood district near Stony Creek. The first train bound east over the Lehigh Valley left this city at 7:4 this morning. The officials of the com pany announce that the road is in pretty good shape now, and that trains will soon be running on scheiule time. Between this city and Buffalo there is no trouble of any kind, but it will take 24 hours at least before the repairs ou the Lehigh division are completed. PITTSBURG'S LOSS A MILLION. Pittsburg, Dec. 17. The three rivers I at riLlayutii uttte iducti i.-? uun- Bfr tine ttitu lc o,k v,- the debris, mud and the reclaiming of lost craft, washed away by the waters has begun. The loss sustained by Pittsburg in terests may reach $1,000,000. The boards of health of the two cities are distrib uting disinfectants in the flooded dis tricts and this it is thought will reduce sickness to the minimum but it will take weeks for inundated houses to be dried out and made fit for occupancy. Coal shipments will be begun tomor row or Thursday but not much coal will be moved although there are over 15 million bushels awaiting shipment. The strike of the tow boat pilots has caused this fuel to be held at Pitts burg. TO SUE W.A.WHITE Piatt Says He Has Been Ma ligned by Magazine Article. St. Louis, Dec. 17. A special dispatch from Washington to the Republic says: "Senator Thomas C. Piatt said today that he had deck 01 to bring libel suits against Mr. William Allen White of Emporia, Kan., and McCiure's Maga zine. There can be no doubt of Sen ator Piatt's intention in the matter.and if the suit ever comes to trial it will be one' of the most interesting of its kind ever heard in the United States. "Mr. White is known as President 1 Roosevelt's biographer, and as one of i the final arbiters at the White House of all questions involving federal patronage in the state of Kansas. Mr. White is a gentleman with a fluent pen, who leaped into fame several years ago by writing an editorial in a country newspaper on "What's the Matter With Kansas?' "He h.as been lately giving attention to the politics of New York state, with special reference to its bearing on the future of President Roosevelt. He adores Roosevelt and he hates Piatt, and has shown this in two recent ar ticles in which he has lauded one and excoriated the other. UNPLEASANT PICTURE OF PLATT. "The latest article was published in McCiure's for the current month, and drew a picture of the senior senator from New York that was so unpleasant as to be a matter of regret even to some of the senator's enemies. It de picted Piatt as one of the wholly base, without a particle of patriotism or pub lic spirit, dragging down friends and foes alike to perpetuate his political power. It characterized him as a lobbyist and one whose life had been devoted to un wholesome burrowing and intrigue. Senator Piatt said today: SAYS HE WILL ENTER SUIT. "I have made up my mind to enter suit on account of the publication for which Mr. White is responsible. I never knew him and 1 am sure he does not know me. Yei he seems to have con ceived a deep dislike for me. There is malice in every line or his so-called bi ography. I do not object to his praising President Roosevelt, but 1-do object to his defaming me for the purpose of add ing to his praise. His article is made up of a tissue of lies, and all who know me know that it is made up of lies. I did not know until today that this Mr. White claims to be on terms of friendly intimacy with the president. I do not believe that the president would claim friendship with a man who would write about me as this man from Kansas has." "Have the papers in the suit been served yet?" "They will be served very soon. I in tend to have full satisfaction for this article, which was designed to make me appear as a contemptible object in the eyes of the world." WHITE SAYS NOTHING. Emporia, Dec. 17. Upon being ac quainted with the fact that Senator Piatt would bring a libel suit against him, W. A. White took the matter very complacently. Being asked what he had to say about the matter he said: "Not a thing." SMITH RESIGNS, Postmaster General to Be Suc ceeded by H. C. Payne. Washington, Dec. 17. Announcement was made today that Postmaster Gen eral Smith has tendered his resignation and that it has been accepted. Henry C. Payne, natioqal committeeman from Wisconsin, has been offered the position and has accepted it. 'S Witnesses Testify Concerning It in Court. Chicago, Dec. 17. Testimony was of fered before Judge Tulley today in the suit for the appointment of a receiver for John Alexander Dowie's Zion lace industries to show that Dowie posses sed some mysterious power over his disciples and that by means of it he induced them to obey his commands im plicitly. Samuel Stevenson, the plain tiff, who charges Dowie with having defrauded him of $185,000 by this power, went on the witness stand again at the opening session and swore that Dowie waved his hands and exerted this in fluence by pressing him closely to his body. The attorney for the defense tried to have this power appear in the records as magnetism, but the court would not permit it. Stevenson testi fied that three times he had felt an in describable awe when Dowie pressed him to his body and that from this in fluence he and other persons felt that Dowie could call down a curse upon him effectually. He related Dowie is said to have declared that if Dwight L. Moody did not cease his fight against Zion that he would not say that Moody might not die and that later Dowie told how Moody had sickened and died. Stevenson told how three times he had tried to get out from under Dowie's influence but had failed until now. During this testimony a dramatic re cital was made how Dowie had declared himself to be Elijah the Restorer, how at the "last day" he would be caught up in the clouds, and of the dark days to come for all outside Zion-. Temperatures of Large Cities. Chicago, Dec. 17. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New York 20; Boston 12; Phila delphia 22 Washington 18; Chicago 6; Minneapolis 2; Cincinnati 10; St. Louis 1& TAKES IIEW TURN Old Soldiers Take a Hand in Pension Office Fight. Ask President to Appoint One of Their Number. IS NOT YET SETTLED. Fight Is Assuming a Comedy Phase. Appointment Not Likely to Be Made Soon. The old soldiers and members of the G. A. R. in Kansas are today bombard ing Washington with telegrams asking that Cyrus Leland be reappointed to the Topeka- pension agency. Those who do not ask directly for Mr. Leland's re appointment ask that an old soldier be appointed. Hundreds of these telegrams are going to the president from all over the state. It has always been conceded by Re publicans that the pension agency is the patronage o the old soldiers. They are most deeply interested in it, and it has always been customary to appoint one of their number to the place. In the fight which Senator Burton and his fol lowers are making on Mr. Leland in behalf of Colonel Metcalf an attempt is being made to overturn this unwrit ten law. Colonel Metcalf served with distinction in the Spanish-American war, but he belongs to a younger gen eration from most of those who are in terested most vitally in pension affairs. Among the pensioners who are paid through the Topeka agency are 90,524 veterans of the civil war, and 510 sol diers of the Spanish-American war. The contest over the pension agency is becoming a great comedy. One day Senator Burton or some of his friends calls on President Roosevelt and the report is sent out that Colonel Metcalf is sure of the appointment. Immedi ately afterwards some of Mr. Leland's friends call on the president and are in formed that there has been no change in the situation. This morning it was the inning of the Burton people. The morning papers contained special tele grams In which Colonel Metcalf was ap pointed almost as positively as he was last Thursday. The night dispatches stated that Congressmen Long and Cal derhead called on the president and were told, in the presence of D. W. Mulvane, that Senator Burton's recom mendation would be followed. Today that report is denied. It is true that the two congressmen called on the pres ident and they asked that the appoint ment be delayed. .President Roosevelt assured them that he would wait, and no immediate appointment is therefore looked for. William Allen White, who stands close to the president, and who recently returned fron Washington, publishes two lines of comment on the situation in the Emporia Gazette of Monday, but they are Very striking. Here they are: "Still you know what Grimes said about Tracy." Lawrence people believe that the fight that is being made to land Colonel Met calf in Mr. Leland's place is for the purpose of diverting the fight on Lit Crum. A great fight is being made on Crum, whom Senator Burton is under stood to favor for United States mar shal. This is the place which most of Colonel Metcalf s friends would like to see him get, -as it is more in his' line than, the pension agency, and they as sert the -Burton people discovered that he might be appointed instead of Crum and immediately began plans to switch Metcalf to the pension agency. There is no doubt that the great ma jority of Kansas Republicans would be glad to see Colonel Metcalf made United States marshal and he is emin ently fitted for the place. The salary of the two- offices, is the same, $4,000 a year. The Lawrence World, published, in ColoneL Metcalf 's home town, says: "The position of pension agent at To peka is still hung up. While Lawrence would appreciate the appointment of its distinguished citizen at the same time the people of this vicinity realize that it is asking too much to ask President Roosevelt to disregard the known wish es of his predecessor after all that has been said. Gen. Metcalf ought to be appointed United States marshal and Mr. Leland ou"ht to be appointed pen sion agent at Topeka." In speaking of the position of Colonel Metcalf, C. S. Finch.-editor of the Law rence Journal, says: "The principal interest of Colonel Metcalf in an office is from a monetary standpoint. He does not care for an office for the honor there is in it. be cause he already has more honor than any appointment or state office could bring him. He would not care to be governor, because being colonel of the Twentieth Kansas is a far greater hon or than being governor, and it costs more to be governor than it comes to. Colonel Metcalf probably wants some thing, but if so he will pick out an of fice that will pay well rather than one to -which there is a great amount of honor attached." The statement that the-president has been influenced by charges that Leland violated civil service rules is doubtless untrue, because these old charges were long ago disproved and have no stand ing before the president President Roosevelt naturally desires so far as possible to be in harmony with Senator Burton. The turning down of Tracey and Foley, whom the sen ator now knows should never have been recommended, makes the president nat urally anxious to now please Burton. The latter should see that he ought to defer to RooseVelt's emphatic promise to carry- out McKinley's known wishes in the pensio agency appointment, and bend his influence and energy to secure for -Metcalf the United States mar shalship. This would solve the problem and create harmony in big chunks. Burton ought to see that to urge his present position against the desires of both former and present presidents is not only the worst of taste, but bad policy for himself and his friends, when a happy solution is so apparently easy. Metcalf has been strongly endorsed by Burton. If his endorsements are "O. K.'d" for the marshalship, Metcalf will secure a place of especial fitness and of equal profit. This course would also enable Mr. Burton to be consistent with himself, in connection with the emphatic state ment he made in Topeka some weeks ago that the pension appointment was presidential patronage and he did n$ intend to press his personality. That position upon the part of the senator makes it apparent that some of Bur ton's followers, rather than he, are ac tively at work to bring about a change. WANTS TO HEAR FROM LOW. One of the dispatches from Washing ton published in a morning paper quotes the preBiaent ss oayiKs ihtt a ,i.an in whom he has the ufrcust confidence has useci in pretiJerl t t0 up Uzy pointment until he can con.municale with him. The dispatch further states that it is undei-stood that M. A. Low is the man referred to. .This is probably correct. It is claimed that Air. Low has openly stated to a number of people that Mr. Leland should be appointed, and in view of the recent reports sent out from Washing ton by the Burton people, it is quite probable that Mr. Low has asked the president to hold up the appointment until he has time to present a few facts to the president. The reports from Washington con cerning the interview between President Roosevelt and Congressmen Long and Calderhead do not agree. One report says that the president stated positively that he had decided to appoint Colonel Metcalf. Another report says that the president made no such positive state ment, but said he would follow Senator Burton's recommendation. Two of the reports agree that Lit Crum is in dan ger of losing the United States mar shalship. NOTHING TO SAY. G. M. Walden Adopts Wise Course Concerning Coburn. G. M. Walden, that Kansas City man through whom Secretary Coburn taught a few lessons to the people wiio' say bad things about Kansas unnecessarily, has discreetly concluded, after advising with his friends, to say nothing in re ply to Mr. Coburn. The Kansas City Star says: "Granville M. Walden, president of the- aKnsas City Live Stock exchange, has decided to preserve a dignified silence concerning the strictures made on his speech before the National Live Stock .convention in Chicago -by F. D. Ccburn, secretary of the state board of agriculture of Kansas. Mr. Walden's speech provoked a scathing letter from Mr. Coburn, wherein the latter took exception to Mr. Walden's picture of 'droughty Kansas. "Mr. Walden only returned to Kans&j City yesterday. He had no sooner land ed at the union depot than he was ap prised of the row he had stirred up. He went home and read the newspape s. "Mr. Walden was seen at his office In the Live Stock Exchange building this morning by a reporter for the Star. 'I am. very busy today,' said Mr. Walden. 'A lot of business has accum ulated during my absence. 'Sou may say, however, that the convention at Chicago was a cracker-jack. But when it comes to taking care of a crowd Kansas City will give Cheago a few pointers when the nationp.i association meets in this city next j ear.' "What have you to sty concerning Mr. Coburn's criticism of your speech at Chicago?' queried th reporter. 'It was great the way we worked to get the next meeting of the associa tion to come to Kansas City. It will brings 50,000 people here, and you'll see the greatest show ever given on this earth.' 'But what about Coburn?' persisted the reporter. 'I don't know. You see I am so busy. Come around tomorrow. I don't believe that J'll pay any attention to what Coburn iiad to say. I am a busy man and haven't time to give a man who is trying to get a lot of free adver tising to boom his candidacy for gov ernor of Kansas. Really, you will have to excuse me from talking about the matter at all.' "Upon his arrival at the stock yards this morning Mr. Walden consulted one or two friends as to what course he should pursue in replying to Mr. Co burn's communication. They advised him to ret Mr. Coburn and his supply of invective alone." Mr. Walden's reference to Secretary Coburn as a man who is after "free ad vertising" is very amusing to people who know Mr. Coburn. To no man in Kansas, except Rev. Charles M. Shel don, is persjnal notoriety so distasteful as to Secretary Coburn". As to any as pirations he has to be governor, his at titude on that subject is best illustrated by a recent conversation between Mr. Coburn and Capt. John Seaton in the presence of a newspaper man. In 1898 Mr. Coburn was a real, bona fide can didate for governor. He did not make a light for the nomination, but he let his friends boom him, and would have taken it had the nomination been given him. Captain Seaton was aisa one of the seven candidates before the Hutchinson convention. They talked it over for the first time a few days ago. "I was really sorry for the other fel lows who got left," said Mr. Coburn, "but so far as I am personally con cerned I am profoundly grateful for the manner in which that little contest came out. I am very glad now that it ended as it did. I am convinced that I am fitted for the line of work in which I am now engaged more so than any other." BURNED HER TO DEATH Horrible Treatment of a Child by a Colored Boy. Athens, Ga., Dec. 17. Leila Lambert, an 8-year-old" child, was burned to death In her home last night by an un known young negro boy, whom she had allowed in the house during the absence of her parents. The boy was peddling, and asked that he could warm by a fire in the Lambert house. Afterward as he started to leave, he picked up a piece of paper, stuck it in the fire and placed the burning paper under the dress of the little girl and escaped from the house. The child attempted to ex tinguish the flames, but was unsuccess ful. The police are making every effort to find the negro, and harsh' treatment will follow his capture. FUNSTON SAILS. The Warren Has Left Manila For San Francisco. Washington, Dec. 17. The war de partment is in receipt of a cable mes sage from Manila reporting the sailing of the transport Warren December S3, with 756 short term enlisted men, and General Robert P. Hughes and General Frederick Funston. Suear Drops lO Points. New York, Dec. 17. Arbuckle Bros, and the National Sugar Refining com pany have reduced the price of refined sugar 10 points. Equal Suffrage Amendment Offered. Washington, Dec. 17. Senator War ren has introduced an amendment to the constitution granting the right of suffrage to. women. MURDERED BY A HUUob UKtAi'vllli. Young Woman Found Dead 01 Floor of Her Kooiu. Burglar Had Entered by Break ing the Window Glass. SHE HAD A PISTOL. Show of Resistance Probably Led to Her Death. Was the Treasurer of a Chari table Institution. Pittsburg, Dec. 17. Harriet P. Mur phy, prominent in church and society clrcles and treasurer of the Kings Icy House fund, was murdered at her home, 221 Howe street. East end, by a burglar about 3 o'clock this morning. The mur derer made his escape, and although the whole detective and police force of that section -fas called the man has not been capture,. Miss Murphy was the only sister of Seleofc Councilman John A. Murphy, frora the Twentieth ward, and was M years old.' She with her brother and two servant women lived alone in t!io hovjie. Miss Murphy was sleeping on the sec ond floor. She was an expert with the revolver, having practiced many years fir the purpose of protecting herself in the event of just such an attack as hap pened, this morning, and she always had a pistol either under her pillow or within easy reach About 3 o'clock this morning her brother was awakened by two shots m the house, and nastening to his sister's room found her lying dead on the floor with a bullet wound in the head. The burglar was a porch climber. He scaled the porch posts and entered the window of Miss Murphy room by breaking the glass. It is supposed that the noise of tlie crashing glass awakened her and as she jumped from the bed with her revolver In her hand the man fired. The marks in the snow on the porch roof In dicate that only one man entered the room. Miss Murphy usually kept- the collections for Lie Kingsley House fund in her room until they reached a sum large enough t-y be placed in the bank, and it is thought the burglar was after this money. When the police raised Miss Murphy they found the revolver within a few inches of her right hand under the folds of her night dress. The falling of Miss Murphy is thought to have scared the thief away before he had time to think about stealing anything. A careful investigation was made of the room and nothing of value was missing. The police are Inclined to think the burglar was a negro and at noon claimed to have a good clue. DOWN ML WASHINGTON Traction Car Jumps the Track on Hillside. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 17. A Southern Traction car jumped the tracks on the steep hillside of Mount Washington be fore daylight this morning and beside-, injuring seven people, crashed into a livery stable and completely wrecked it. The accident occurred at the corner of "Virginia and Woodville avenues and the injured are as follows: Miss Lulu Reese, none broken anil skull prohably fractured. Miss Minnie Stickler, cut by flying glass and right hand badly torn. Samuel McGray, conductor, cut about head and face and right arm sprained. A. J. Grable, motorman, knees injure and face and hands cut by flying glass. John H.Neeb, officer, bruised and back sprained. H. P. Beebler, officer, bruised and back injured. Unknown man badly cut in head and body bruised. The injured were removed to their homes. All it is thought will recover. SHORT IS APPOINTED. Is Trainmaster of Santa Feat Cnartute. C. L. Short, the well known Santa Fo conductor, who makes his home at the Copeland hotel in this city, has been appointed trainmaster for the Santa Fe with headquarters at Chanute. Kan. He takes the place vacated by J. F. Easley, who has been promoted to the position of division superintendent in place of Avery Turner. Mr. Short has been a Santa Fe em ploye for a' long time. He was at on time a, trainmaster on the Chicago di vision. MRS. M'KINLEY FAILING. Her Friends Have Little Hope That She Will Live Long. Chicago, Dec. 17. Relatives of Mrs. McKinley have little hope of her living long, according to a statement made by Lieut. James McKinley, U. S. A., a. nephew of the late president. Lieut. McKinley passed through Chicago iat night in company with Gen. S. B. M. Young, the successor of General Shaf fer in command at the Presidio, San Francisco. Continuing the lieutenant said: "My aunt in Canton remains in about the same condition- that she was im mediately after the funeral of the presi dent. There has been no improvement and there seems no hope of any." Death of Governor Gregory. Wickford, 11. I., Dec. 17. William Gregory, governor of Rhode Island, died at his home here today of acuie Bright's disease, following a succession of illness. After an indisposition of nearly two months he returned to the state capital last Friday, and his deam was the indirect result of a cold. Under the new constitution Lieutenant Gov ernor Charles D. Kimball, of Provi dence, becomes governor for the re mainder of the term. William Gregory was 52 years oid. He rose from loom fixer to mill superintendent, mill ownsr and banker. i

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17.1901. MUHYOH DYSPEPS GO Wb Prof. Manyoa says bit IyBppfa Cmrm Will curs indigestion and il form of stomach trouble ks umplf tells the troth. It will cure a stomach that has been abused by over-cotiac sad overdnaktnc. It will cure a stomach that has bees weakened by old-style drun. It will do much tsward making am aid stomach act like a souad en. At all druccuits, ss cents, r itty sis StAeff car MoayoB, 5ew York and Philadelphia. (First published in the Topeka State Journal Dfcemter 17. 1901.) Report" of the condition of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK. at Topeka, in the state of Kansas, at trie close or Dusiness isecemDer 10, liKil: RKSOURCES. Loans and discounts 6S1.039.47 uveraraits secured ana unse cured T". S. bonds to secure circula tion Premium on IT. S. bonds Stocks, securities, etc .Banking .house, furniture, and fixtures Other real estate Due from state banks and bankers 468.00 Due from approved reserve agents 103,116.10 Internal revenue stamps 13.28 -Exchange for clearing house 67,075.45 Notes of other nation al banks 14,648.00 Fractional paper cur rency, nickel a and cents 495.15 Soecie 42.974.85 1.069.59 300,000.00 Z1.446.U1 51.7ou.00 103.000.00 12.OUO.00. :Legal tender notes.... 5.000.00$ 233.819.83 .rteaemption luna witn u. treasurer (5 per cent of cir culation) 15,000.00 Total 1,389.134.90 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid 300.000.00 Surplus fund 2,000.00 Undivided Dronts less exDenses and taxes paid 1S.25S.72 National bank notes outstand ing 300,000.00 Uut to other nation al banks 6 3,122.31 3Eue to state banks and bankers 55,421.88 Dividends unpaid 20.00 Due to trust Co.'s and savings banks 11,796.28 Individual deposits subject to check 549,227.00 Demand certificates of deposit S9.6SS.42 Time certificates of deposit 106.430.48 Certified checks 400.00 Cashier's checks out standing 4,769.80 770,876.18 Total $1,389,134.90 State of Kansas. Countv of Shawnee. I. C. B. Hawley. cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to tne Deet or my ILnowleoge and Deiier. C. B. HAWLEY. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of December, 1S1. L. W. WILSON, (Seal.) Notary Public. Commission expires October 14, 1902. Correct Attest WILLIAM SIMS. W. H. ROSSINGTON, CM A a. J. DBVUN, Directors. (First published in the Topeka. State Journal Dec. 17. 1901.) Report of the condition of the Merchants National Bank. at Topeka, Kan., at the dose of business Jjecemoer 10. imi: RESOURCES. Loons and discounts $437,435.81 Overdrafts secured and unse cured 1,861.83 u. s. bonds to secure circula tion 100.000.00 Other bonds on band 1,644.7a Due from approved re serve agents 87.987.24 Due from other na tional banks 3,063.68 Checks and other cash items 26,296.24 Exchange for clearing house 26,148.71 Notes of other national banks 18,405.00 Fractional currency, nickels and cents 43S.96 Gold and silver coin 9.515.95 Legal tender notes 42.250.00 $214,095.78 Redemrttinn fund with. 1 1 fl. treasurer 5,000.00 $760,088.17 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $100,000.00 undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid 11,672.53 National bank isotes outstand ing 100,000.00 lMie state DanKs ana bankers 16,616.23 Individual deposits sub ject to check 514,325.02 Demand certificates of deposit 3,070.60 Time certificates of de posit 9,826.79 Certified checks out standing 3,882.00 Cashier's checks out- standing 1,145.00 $54865.64 $760,038.17 State of Kansas. Shawnee County, ss. I. F. W. Freeman, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my Knowledge and Pellet. F. W. FREEMAN, Cashier. Correct Attest XV. W. MANSPEAKER," TV. W. MILLS. ROBERT PIERCE, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of December, 1901. L. C. BRONSON, Notary Public. (My commission expires September 20, MAKING OF A STATE. Haj. Anderson to Deliver Address on That Subject. Major T. J. Anderson will deliver an address on the subject of "Making a State" at the oasis of Isis at Salina in the real of the Ancient Arabic Order of tne Mystic Shriners Tuesday night, De cember 17. The state referred to in his address is Kansas, and he will begin his narra tion with the time in 1854 when congress 5assed tne Kansas-Nebraska bill, al owing the inhabitants of the state to choose w hether or not the state should be slave or free. Among other addresses, Jerry Simp son will talk on "Our Country's De fenders" and F. Dumont Smith of Kinsley will tell of "American Com merce. Nobles and Novices of the order will make the pilgrimage to the oasis at fcjalina from all parts of the state. STRUCK A HAXDCAR. Santa Fe Train Kills Section Man Near Guthrie. Guthrie, O. T., Dec 17. The Santa Fe north-bound passenger during the blhs- ard last night ran into a handcar carrying three men. north of Guthrie. Wiling Thomas Kiess and fatally in juring Section Foreman Adolph Farrier, wmie tneir companion. Charles Fingle. soaped uninjured. Thebliexard drowned the ruwvbilng of the approaching train to ue section men and blinded the en gineer so that he could not see the car SPORTING NEWS, v -V Jim Corbett Thinks Jeffries Fears to Meet lilra. Plalnlj Make Such Assertions to Cincinnati Friends. 1 AXX10US TO TRY AGAIN Would Fight the Champion Under Any Conditions., The Pompadour Relates Some Dally Experiences. Cincinnati. Dec. 17. Before leaving for Chicago last night Jim Corbett made very strong talk. He said that Jim Jef fries was afraid to meet him. He will meet Jeff under any reasonable condi tions. All he wants is a chance to re deem himself. "1 have fought them all," said Corbett, "but none of the men whom I have met in the ring would ever consent to a return match. It's just like punching a man in the jaw and then running away to claim a victory. Jeffries himself knows that he has no business in the rine with, me in limited round contest. If he ever strips to meet me again for the championship you can bet your last cent there will be a new chamnlon. Corbett has been ignored entlrelv bv Jeff. who. upon the refusal of Fitz to meet mm, came out plainly stating tnat Sharkev would be the next man to be Kiven a chance. This is what makes Cor bett suspicious of Jeffries and strength ened his belief that the champion does not want any of his game. Corbett made a big hit in this city last week and there can be no doubt but what he would have great following if matched again with jennes. A little incident occurred veeterdav Il lustrating the fact that the stories Cor bett tells on the state are from actual experiences ne meets witn on nis travels. one or tne stones ts wnere ne meets a fellow in a crowd, and the man rushes up to him and says: "Hello, Jim, don't you Know mer l met you several years ago. I was the fellow in the crowd wearinjt the brown derby hat who met you at the train when you returned from JNew Or leans." Yesterday Corbett dropped into well known resort, and while seated at table with Borne friends a heavv-set individual walked up to him and extended his hand, saying: "How are you, Mr. Corbett? Don't you remember me? I met you in the dimmr room at Washington several years ago." "I am sorry," said Corbett, with a smile, "but I do not re call the incident." "You don't?" ex- ca limed the stout man. "'Why, Billy Brady was with you. I'll bet he would remember it if you ask him." Jim, how ever, did not have the time to wire Mr. Brady in New York about the matter and tooK tne fellow s worn tor It. After a week s rest Corbett will return to his company at Youngs town. O.. and men mane ms way east. HARYASD TO FLAT PRINCETON Old Scores .Patched Up and Game Wilt Be on Tigers' Grounds. Princeton. N. J Dec. -17.-After a breach in athletic affairs since 1900, .Princeton and Harvard have finally set tled tneir difficulties to tne satisfaction of faculties and undergraduates of both universities. At least Princeton is satis fied and it is probable that the feeling at Cambridge is much the same. One baseball game between the schools has been arranged to be played at Princeton J una 11, 1902. No game win De played at Cambridge. The base ball breach between Harvard and Princeton was caused by a controversy which arose axter the second game in 1900. Princeton wanted to play a third game to determine the .championship, each team having taken one. Harvard refused. in the fall of 1900, when arrange ments were to be made for next year's games, Princeton required a third game in case or tie, to be played on neutral grounds. Harvard's faculty refused. Neither management would give in and the games had to be called off alto gether. This year Princeton would have liked three games, but is well satisfied with the agreement as it is now, since here can be no question of championship wnen only one game is played. The undergraduates are very much pleased with the conciliatory spirit of Harvard agreeing to play the game this year on t-rmceton s grounds. A. R. T. Hillebrand has been engaged as head coach for the 1902 baseball team. He coached last year, and was very successful. TO TRAIN GARRY HERRMANN. Colt Has Recovered and Is In Good Shape Again. Louisville. Dec. 17. Tt will be a mat ter of interest to turfmen generally to know that Garry Herrmann, the $20,000 colt, favorite in the winter books for the Kentucky and American Derbys of this year, will race the coming season. and he is now being prepared at Churchill Downs by Trainer Bob Tuck er. Herrmann, it will be remembered THETRUTH IN A NUTSHELL. Theo. Gillespie Tells in a Few Words What Smith's Green Mountain Renovator Did For Him. "I have been troubled with dyspepsia for years, which made me a physical wreck In more ways than one weak. nervous, and unable to eat or sleep. I was induced to try Smith's Green Moun tain Renovator. A few bottles com pletely cured me, and thanks to your Renovator, I can now eat a square meal, sleep well, and feel strong and hearty. THEODORE GILLESPIE, 148 No. Pearl St., Albany, N. ST. Every day the common sense public are seeing more and more from their own experience, or that of their friends, that Smith's Green Mountain Reno vator is as unlike other medicines as black is from white. If you are watch ing results,- you find that Smith's Green Mountain Renovator ot only benefits, but that it cures permanently. Our agents know all about its merit; they guarantee every bottle they sell. If you have not yet learned for yourself what a perfect remedy this is, try it at once. and on an absolute guarantee to benefit or money refunded. A.CKIingaman SOLE AGENT, X20 East Sixth Street. was scratched in the Kentucky Derby because his owner. Captain Sam Brown, of Pittsburgh did not think him good enough to win that coveted event. An other reason was that he wished to save him for the American; and, as every follower of the turf will remember, the c4t after a burst of speed at Haw thorne Jn a trial preparatory "to the American, broke a blood vessel, causing what was feared at the time his per manent retirement from the turf. The colt was shipped to Louisville and given a long reft, and not until late In the season did Trainer Tucker give him any work, which he has taken with such good gTace, however, that he Is now pronounced perfect, physically, and In full possession of the speed he had when Charles Head Smith, of Chi sago, sold him to his present owner. 8PALDINQ ENJOINED, Freedman Obtains an Injunction in Supreme Court. New Tork. Dec. 17. Andrew Freedman obtained an injunction late Monday after noon in the Bunreme court to restrain A. O. Spalding from assuming the presidency of the National baseball league and from interfering with the business of the Na tional league in any way whatever. In this action Mr. Freedman represent ed the New York, Boston, Cincinnati and St. Louis baseball clubs, these four being the organization whose respective presi dents left the meeting of the National league magnates at the Fifth Avenue ho tel early on Saturday morning last. Mr. Freedman declares that there shall be no further controversy between him and Mr. Spalding, who stands as the rep resentative of the other four clubs in the National league Brooklyn, Philadelphia, PhlMEo and Pittsburff. He asserts that whatever future action may be taken to settle the fight in tne league will De taicen In the courts. Sharkey to Box Jeffords. New Tork, Dec. 17. Tom Sharkey and Jim Jeffords will be matched to box 15 rounds in Allentown in the near future. The management of the club there has been in communication with Sharkey, and the sailor has announced his will ingness to sign providing the induce ment held out is large enough. Sharkey is at work every day at Woods' Gym nasium, where Joe Choynski is also sparring. Flaherty After Lavigne. New York, Dec. 17. Charley Harvey has posted $250 for a match between Martin Flaherty, of Lowell, Mass., and Kid Lavigne. Flaherty, who is one of the strongest and most vicious fighters among the lesser men, will take on La vigne at 133 pounds. Lavigne has not been heard from, but several clubs around New Tork will make a bid for the match. Will Fight January 1. New Tork. Deo. 17. "Jimmy" Hand ler, the Newark welter weight, and Joe Wolcott have been matched by Joe Humphrey, who is the New York repre sentative of the National Athletic club of Waterbury, Conn. The men will go 20 rounds at catch weights on January 1 in the afternoon. Handler is now training in Brooklyn and ia In good shape. Big Match Race Is Clinched. Lexington. Ky.. Dec. 17. L. V. Hark- ness has accepted the challenge of Rosa Dlckerson of Madison, ina.. lor match trotting race between Gavatta and any candidate to be four years old next season. It Is understood that Wal nut Hall is to be Mr. Harkness' entry. A representative of Harkness has post ed $2,500 as a forfeit and it is under stood that he is willing to make the prize $50,000 a side. Jeffries at Salt Lake City. Salt Lake. Utah. Dec. 17. Champion Jim Jeffries gave a four round boxing exhibition with hie brother Jack Jef fries before the Salt Lake Athletic club last night. Billy Delaney. Jeffries manager, stated after appearing at the Young Corbett banquet in Denver, where the heavy weight and feather weight champions will spar together he and Jeffries would go to New York and endeavor to get on a match at once with Fitzsimmons. Michigan to Play Big Teams. Ann Arbor. Mich.. Dec. 17. Graduate Manager of Athletics Baird or tne uni versity of Michigan Has been east dur ing the last week.' and it looks now as though games with Harvard and Penn sylvania will be Included in next fall's football schedule. It is suae' at least two of the eastern elevens will be play ed by Michigan. If not Harvard and Pennsylvania, it is possible games will be arranged with Tale or Princeton. California to Meet Princeton. San Francisco, Dec. 17. It was decid -ed today that the University of Cali fornia will send a track team to meet Princeton for a field day on May 24. Efforts will probably be made to arrange meets with Harvard and Tale also, and the Californians are to con test for the intercollegiate champion ship at the Mott Haven games and the championship of the west at the west ern intercollegiate Held day. Mascot Sold For a Song. Philadelphia, Dec. 17. Mascot, the former champion pacer of the world was sold at the exchange, and the build ing was crowded to its utmost capacity by horsemen from all parts of the state. There was much interest in the grand old gelding s sale to the highest bidder. and when he was brought out there was a great applause. Mascot, despite his 13 years and the strain or many marvel ous performances, still looked the grand horse that he really is. The bllding, however, was not lively, and Mascot was knocked down to J. H, Nichter, of Pottsville, at the bargain price of $490. Flood May Manage Denver. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 17. It is said here that Timothy Flood, the clever sec ond baseman with the St. Joseph team last year, may manage the Denver team during the season of 1902. Altnougn Flood has been signed to play with Mc Kibben's men again. Owner Van Brunt does not say that he will not be releas ed in case he is a- necessity for Den ver. young Griffo Given Decision. Chicago, Dec 17. Toung Griffo was given the decision over Jim Popp, of Canada, last night, after six rounds of fast sparring. i To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Dmensts refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature oneach box. 25c Christmas and New Tear Holiday Bates via the Santa Fe. Fare and one-third for the round trip. Points within 200 miles of To peka, ticKets on sale uec. Z4. zo and 31, and Jan. L 1902, final limit return ing Jan. 2. Food Changed to Poison. Puterifvinsr food in the intestines pro duces effects like those of arsenic, but Dr. King's New Life Pills expel the poisons from clogged bowels gently, easily but surely, curing constipation, biliousness, sick headache, fevers, all liver, kidney and bowel troubles. Only 25c at A. J. Arn old Sc. Son's, 821 North Kansas ave. City Ticket Office Union Pacific B. 62a Kansas ave. l(AfJSASNElVS. A Four Year Old Child at Wich ita Is Scalded to Death. While Playing Around the Tub of Water Falls Ih. DIES SIX HOURS LATER Mother and Two Sick Children Found at Fort Scott. LlYing in a Coal House With Thermometer Below Zero. Wichita, Kas., Dec -17. Alpha, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hoag, 1211 St. Francis avenue, fell in a tub of scalding water, and died six hours later as a result of the burns. Mrs. Hoag uad placed the water on the floor preparatory to doing some washing. She went into another room, leaving her two little girls playing on the floor. She heard a scream and hur riedly entering the room was horrified to see her youngest child lying in the tub of scalding water. She had fallen backwards and was lying on her back. The little one was placed in bed and Dr. Bass was sent for. When the clothing was removed from her body great pieces of skin and flesh fell from her back. Her agony was terrible, and practically nothing could be done to relieve her suffering. She died six hours after the accident. Mr. Hoag is a motorman in the em ploy of the street railway company. Alpha la the youngest of two dau-hr. TWENTY-THREE ROUTES. McPherson County to Be Supplied With Free Delivery. Washington, Dec 17. Rural free de livery service will be established on February 1, in McPherson county,' as follows: Canton, three carriers, length of routes, 88 miles; population served.1,500; carriers, B. L. Rioper, J. K. Getty and C. L. Yoder; postoflice at Spring Valley to be discontinued. Postoflice at Red- bury to be supplied by rural carriers. Conway, two carriers, length of routes bt miles; population served, 1,000; car riers, C. D. Gum and J. L. Burton. Galva, two carriers, length of routes, B3 miles; population served, 1,000 car riers, Clark Tolland, J. M. Bunnell. Postoflice at Delmore to be discontin ued. Iriman, three carriers.length of routes, 78 .miles; population perved, l,50o; carriers, J. F. Bergen, I F. McCul lough and P. J. Neufeld. Postoflice at Sparta to be discontinued. McPherson, seven carriers; length of routes, isi miles; population served, 3,600; carriers. C. E. Feldt. E. L. Briggs, J. C. Miller. J. H. Williams. R. H. Coughenour, W. R. Vandusen and T. B. Speece. Postoflice at Winneshiek to be discontinued. Marquette, two carriers; length of loutes. 53 miles; population served, 1,000; carriers, W. L. Roney and AlfrecTTST son. Fostcfflce at Venago to be discon tinued. Mount Ridge (additional service), two carriers; length of routes, G3 miles; pop ulation served, 1,000; carriers. H. J. Vetter and D. H. Smith. Postoffice at Schley to be discontinued. Windom, two carriers; length of routes, 56 miles, population served, 1,000; carriers, G. S. Warner and J. D. Rodgers. Postoffice at Monitor to be discontinued. LIVED 117 A COAL HOUSE. Destitute Woman and Children's Sad Plight at Fort Scott. Fort Scott, Kas., Dec. 17. Mayor Goodlander's attention was today called to a most pitiable case of destitution down in the Buck Run bottoms about on a parallel with Eighth street. A mother and her two children have been living in a coal house there, and the other night they almost froze to death. A kindly woman, also in poor circum stances, Saturday gave them the use of her kitchen and they are now there until other quarters are provided for them. Recently they lived on Scott avenue, but the other day they had to give up their house and they applied to a Mrs. Wallace, who lives off of Scott avenue in the timber of upper Buck Run, for a place to sleep and she permitted them to use her coal house. WAS BADLY FROZEN. Whisky Responsible, It Is Said, For a Jewell City Man's Injury. Jewell City, Dec. 17. Theodore Kent was in Jewell City" Saturday and start ed home near Ionia. 12 miles west, ia the evening. Sunday morning some neighbors saw a team and wagon standing on a hill and finally went to them. Kent had, i is said, been drink ing and fallen out of the wagon some time during the night, injurlr his side. He was picked up unconscious, limbs and arms frozen. The doctors say that if he recovers at all amputation of both limbs and arms will be necessary. The horses stood silently through the night. Kent is a married man. DAILY PAPER SUSPENDS. Opposition to Hutchinson News Failed to Appear Monday. Hutchinson, Dec 17. The Call, the new daily, failed to appear last even ing, after having run just three weeks. E. G. Nettleton, the editor, says he will resume publication later. He has had all kinds of bad luck with his typeset ting machines and his electric motor. He says that when he starts again he will start to stay. SANTA FE WRECK. Three Coaches Burned Near Garden City and Two Employes Injured. Garden Citv. Kan.. Dec. 17. Basseneer train No. 8 of the Santa Fe was wrecked three miles west of Sherlock, Kan. The wreck was caused by an explosion of gas. Three coaches were burned. Conductor O'Day and a porter were slightly injured. PLEASED MBS. JTKINLET. Tender- Song Composed by a Jewell City Woman. Jewell City. Kan., Dec. 17. Miss Lil lian Forrest of this city "has composed a beautiful song entitled "Do Not Mourn." Mrs. McKinley who saw a copy of it has sent Miss Forrest a card expressing her appreciation. The song will be placed on tne market in Jan uary with elaborate covers bearing the portraits of the late president and Mrs. McKinley. Sas Killed 35 Coyotes. Jim Landers, who lives eleven miles south of Abilene, holds the champion ship of Dickinson county as a coyote catcher. Mr. Landers has captured 35 bo far this winter, having, killed ten of them last week. He has five fleet greyhounds and a bulldog. The grey hounds bay the coyote, the bulldog is carried on hotseback, and when they arrive at tne scene of action tne null dog is dropped to the ground and the coyote soon expires. sauna union. Paine Acceded to Wife's Will. Fort Scott, Dee. 17. In a deed filed here today Albert Bigelow Paine, the ex-Kansas literary man ana author, now of New Tork, acceded to the will or nis late wire in wmcn sne attempted ri out HItm nut rf nnv IntorMT in hpr vu. vm. j estate here. Under the Kansas law half of the estate would go to the husband. and it appeared at first that he wouli refuse to surrender his interest in tn estate. The estate goes to the late Mrs. Paine's sister. Mrs. McComas of Vir ginia. Cousin of Thomas Lipton. Downs. Kan., Dec. 17. J. H. Lipton of this city is a cousin of Sir Thomas Lip ton, the great tea merchant and owner of the Shamrock II, the challenger ror America's cup. The cousin of Sir Thomas is a hotel keeper and is quite an old man. He went to New Tork last September and saw the races between the Columbia and the Shamrock II, and was a guest on the Erin, Sir Thomas Lipton s steam yacht. LEASES ARE MADE State Arranges to Take Posses sion of Ft. Hays Reservation. Hays City, Kan., Dec. 17. At the meet ing of the board of regents of the State Agricultural college at Manhattan on last Wednesday a resolution was unanimously assed authorizing President J. B. Mc "owell and Treasurer E. T. Kairchild to proceed to Hays City and make the best terms possible with the 15 homesteaders to get them to withdraw their new ap peals to the secretary of the Interior and grant them a lease of their homestead land, if they would so withdraw. At the State Normal school board meeting at Emporia on Friday a like resolution was passed authorizing Regent Dodge to set tle. This move was imperative if it was de sired to have any experiments made on the land the coming year and also if any school was to be started this spring, as the aDnroDriations of $10,000 would lapse June 30 unless used, and another appeal meant anojrher tie up ot tne land several months, and it was thought best to meet the homesteaders half way in a settle ment rather than do them an injustice even if the state should eventually win the land. teeents coburn and isteward. witn pror. of Agriculture Cottrel, visited the reser vation xuesdav and round tneir ideas, as detailed in the Journal of that day, prac tical and feasible,' reported to the board and were unanimously adopted and ar rangements made to carry them out in the snrine'. At tne JNormai scnool ooard meeting it was arranged to commence work at one and prepare the buildings for an auxiliary normal scnool to begin early next year. im aaturaay uant. Mcuoweu ano t,d Fairehild went to Hays, hustled all day, rounded up the settlers and before sun down had granted each one a lease of their or some other land and had their signatures to a petition to the sec retary of 'the interior, withdrawing the appeals made and allowing all the lands turned over to the state under the terms of the act of conerress. Desiring some ot tne land along tne creek bottom, they induced several to take wheat land elsewhere on the reser vation, letting the agricultural college have the bottom land for experiments $3,000 a year being appropriated for the wort It was a exeat couo for McDowell and Fairehild, for it gives t he two schools immediate Dossession of 7.600 acres of tim ber, bottom and hitrh wheat and grain land, 15 buildings that can be used or material used, for their schools and needed agricultural buildings, an inex haustible stone quarry from which the new buildings can be erected and a beau tiful normal scnool, campus ano recrea tion Grounds alone the creek skirted with big timber. It gives to the Sixth district m tact tne wnoie west nan or Kansas, not onlv the western experimental sta tion, but also a branch state normal school in the center of that west half saving scholars a large trip and leaving mem so tney can get nome easily uiu quickly. The following is the act of the legisla ture referring to the State Normal work which gives $2,000 to put buildings in shape, $o.000 for school purposes next BDrrae and S.000 for the rollowlner year: "The regents shall employ a principal and sucn otner teacners and janitors as the needs or tne scnool may demand shall prescribe the course of study. not extending over more than two years, conditions of admission, etc., all persons meeting the requirements for ad. mission shall be admitted, and on declar ing their intention to fit themselves to teach -in the schools of Kansas shall be exempt from all fees,-, save a small fee. Students not intending to teach may be charered a reasonable fee. Any person oi good moral cnaracter over 16 years of age. having been in ac tual attendance at least 20 weeks in this school and having completed the course of study prescribed, shall be awarded a certincate to teacn and good tor one year, and said certincate shall admit the noiaer to tne tniro year s wors at tne State Normal at Emporia without exam ination. An Attack of Pneumonia Warded Off Some time ago my daughter caught a severe cold, hpr chest fl She complained of pains m her chest and had a bad cough. I gave her Chamberlain's Cough Remedy accord- ing to directions and in two days she was well and able to go to school. I have used this remedy in my family for the past seven years and have never known it to tail, says james t-renaergast, merchant, Annato Bay, Jamaica, West India islands. The pains in the chest indicated an ap proaching attack- of pneumonia, which in this instance was undoubtedly warded off by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It counteracts any tendency of a cold to ward pneumonia. Sold by all druggists. De Windt Will Start Thursday. Paris, Dec. 17. Harry De Windt, the explorer who is to attempt an overland trip from .Fans to New York has com pleted the preparations for his expedi tion and -will start for Siberia December 19. The Russian government is actively assisting him and has telegraphed to the remote settlements in North Siberia to have reindeer and dogs in readiness for the use of the explorer. Mr. De Windt's companions on the journey will be Vicomte De Clinchamp and Mr. Geo. Harding. Piles Cured Without the Knife. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. No Cure No Pay. All druggists authorized to refund money where Pazo Ointment falls to cure any case of piles, no matter of how long standing. Cures ordinary cases in six days; the worst cases in fourteen days. One application gives ease and rest. Relieves itching in stantly. This is a new discovery and is the only pile remedy sold on a positive guarantee, no cure no pay. Price 50c. If your druggist don't keep it In stock send us BOc In stamps for it. Paris Med. Co., St. Louis, also m'ft'rs. celebrated cold cure. Laxative Bromo-Quine Tablets. Christmas and New Tear Holiday Bates via the Santa Fe. Fare and one-third for the round trip. Points within 200 miles of To peka, tickets on sale Dec. 24, 25 and 31, and JaJn. 1, 1902, final limit return ing Jan. 2. Notice. The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merchants' National Bank of Topeka, will be held, at its banking office, Tuesday, January 14, 1902, between the hours of 3 and p. m., for the purpose of electing a board of directors for the ensuing year, and for the tranaction of such other business as may legally come before the meeting. F. W. FREEMAN, Cashier. The Kind Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over SO years, has borne the signatnre of and has been made tinder Ms per- (l?. jCJFt-f-Z. sonal Bupei-vlslon since Its infancy. crv; 4cU&i Allow no one to deceive yen in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good' are baft Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare groric, Drops and Soothing: Syrups. It is.. Pleasant. Ib contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething: Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the The KM You Me Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THI e.MTAUH eofciMUW TT GEO. M. NOBLE CO. Financial Agents Buy, Sell and Manage Real Estate. Buy, Sell and Collect Mortgages. Insure Property in Seven of the best Companies in the State. TOPEKA, KANSAS. Telephone 444. 501 Jackson St. CALLS IT A BRIBE. Johu Seaton Bitterly Opposed to Carnegie Gift. Capt. John Seaton. of Atchison, the "father" of tha Kansas house of rep resentatives, is violently opposed to the acceptance by congress of Carnegie's offer of tl0.000.000 worth of steel trust stock for a national university. He sent this message to Congressman Curtis Saturday; Let congress accept the donation from the trust, and the Republican party might as well quit." Then he followed the telegram with a still stronger letter. In an interview on the subject Cap tain Seaton said: "As I read the dispatches telling of Mr. Carnegie's offer to endow a national university, the government is given 110,- 000,000 to hold in trust. It is my under standing that the money is to be given in stock. The gift is masked. It is cloaked as a benefice to hide an attempt to pollute the general government, pos sibly. If it is an attempt to pollute it would strike high. It is not aimed at individuals, not at congress, nor at con gressmen, but it would put a binding force on the whole governmental policy. It seems very like an indirect attempt to bribe tne national government in its entirety. 'With this immense fund on its hands to endow and pay for the running of tne proposed institution of learning, the government accepts a trust. It becomes guardian of the funds and has all the responsibilities of guardianship, not only to disburse, but to maintain the integ rity of the fund. In other words, it would be to the interest of the guardian to maintain the value of the stock at its highest level. That in itself would create sufficient Interest in the trust to Cured of Piles Where Knife Failed. Amos Crocker, of Worcester, writes: "After going through a frightful surg ical operation and after trying any number of salves and ointments, one 50c box of Pyramid Pile Cure gave speedy relief and it iuickly cured me." All druggists "sell it. Little book. "Piles, Causes and Cure," mailed free. Pyra mid Drug Co., Marshall, Mich. Signature of MURRAY VTflECT. new vofiic crrv. check any hostile legislation. The gen eral government would be Inclined to protect its own and at the same time it is protecting the other fellow's, too. In accepting an apparent beneficence, it accepts also a mischievous partial or complete obligation. "This gift may be all right. We may not understand it all fully as yet. But if our light is true, would not the ac ceptance of this obligation furnish am munition to anarchists? Not to an archists only and not to anarchists ex actly. The masses are Jealous of the powers they vest in the general govern ment. Poor people are suspicious of these things. If there is any question about the propriety of accepting such a trust as this, it is bound to be re garded as wrong. "By the present condition of our country a great national school, such as proposed, is not necessary. Our young people are well supplied with op portunities for getting an education. Our public school system is a gem. There are great free libraries with ac cess to the world's literature, works of science, travel, instruction and fiction are in easy reach. Every city has its public schools, high schools, normal schools and colleges. States have their great universities. eW are not an ag gregation of pauper commonwealths or pauper communities. We are a com munity of taxpayers. If there is a real demand for a national university it is not necessary to let individuals build it for the government. Public enter prise can accomplish that end Just aa well. "It was a matter of Intuition with me to object to this proposition. I may not see all there is in it from the brief and crude dispatches that have been printed. But all that I can see in it is danger and mischief. I do not know how my objection will be received nor how my views will be accepted, but I do hope that so dangerous a scheme will be halted before the country -is committed and before the Republican party is spitted on a toasting-fork that could never get out of the fire." ORANGES SAFE Cold Wave Has Passed Orer the South With Little Damage.. Atlanta, Ga.. Dec. 17. It Is believed that the cold wave which has held tht south tight in its grip the past 3fi hours, has been broken. In many cases the lowest temperature recorded last night broke all records for December. The Florida oransre belt is believed to have escaped damage, as a temperature of 40 was reported from mid Florida and C4 at Key West. Queer Names on Rolls. An examination of the pay rolls of the different state institution reveals some peculiar names among the employes of the state. For instance in one of the institutions is an individual who an swers present when "P. K Boo," Is call ed on the rolls. In another institution A. H. Pace is employed. His friends say his real name is A. Hot Pace. His wife is Mary Pace. There is no doubt that A. Hot Pace and Mary Pace ought to make an extremely good showing in the race of life. Cameo Stone is a gem whom the Btate employs in another institution, and Charles 'Polite exemplifies his name when visitors appear. I

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TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAIj, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1901; 3 !r. Lyon' PERFECT oofh Povdsr AM ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY. Used by people of refinement for rar t. craarter 01 a century- E. o. DbMoss. I M. Pekwell. DeMOSS PENWELL Funeral Directors and Embalmers. First-Class Service at Reasonable Prices. 511 Quincy St Telephone 192. TOPEKA. KANSAS. Kavv Valley Mince Meat Is made from strictly pure and healthful ingredients Sound apples, sweet cider, good, fresh beef, new seed ed raisins, and finest grade of spices. Prepared by thb Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Sold bv all the be9t dealers. a a for a a X Colorado f Alfalfa Hay j X Which has all the properties of X X grain Telephone 530. KACZYNSKI CO. 4th and Jackson. IT'S A PUZZLE, SOMETIMES, to find out how best to invest surplus cash. You can invest any amount with us. Our monthly contract has no superior for systematic saving. PA DITHI BUILDING LOAN VyArllUL ASSOCIATION. 534 Kansas Ave. Tele. 505. i POSITIVELY CURE PB fifiPLES restore to the complexion a healthy, roseate flow, at your home. Book and full m- lormauon irtre. v an ur w.. Woodbury O. I., 163 Stat St., Chicago. Rest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEKTHIVfi with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILL). SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN, CURES WIND COLIC and la the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Be siire to ask for "Mrs. Winslow'a Sooth ing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. FOR A SCRAP BOOK $25. 8am Radges Offers Tbat For Ananias Clnb Record. The non-discovery of the whereabouts of the treasured scrapbook of the St. Ananias club has induced the noble re corder, Samuel Radges, to offer a re ward of $25 for -information that will lead to the recovery of the book and the evidence to convict the thief." Radges is beginning- to wear a wor ried look. "We had every newspaper clipping- relative to the club that was ever printed, and all the stories and signatures of great man who honored the club, in the scrapbook. It is a val uable possession," he said. "It contain ed communications from any number of prominent men in public life, authors, actors and others." Secretary Root's Brother Weds. Carrollton, Mo., Dec. 17. Mrs. Anna Ray Quisenberry, daughter of Robert D. Ray, formerly judge of the state su preme court and Dr. Oren Root were United in marriage here today. Dr. Root is an only brother of Elihu Root, secretary of war, and professor of mathematics in Hamilton college. New York. A Kansan Loses His Stock. Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 17. The settlers in the new c6untry are losing their north ern born stock as a result of the pas tures being infected with Texas fever and ticks. One Kansan lost 100 head recently while smaller herds have been wiped out entirely. Northern cattle die as soon as infected. For this reason tn quarantine officers are making so may arrests of violators of the law. City Ticket Office Union Pacific R. It-, 525 Kansas ave. RAILROAD JEWS. California Limited Will Con tlnue Dailj Service.' No Return to the Old Tri- Week ly Irips. IT IS A M05EY MAKER. W. J. Black Tells of the Limit ed's Success. Will Be "Loaned" to the Club Women. The Santa. Ke expects to continue the California limited as a dally trans-continental train throughout next summer, and it has already been decided to con tinue it as a daily train in the winter. "The patronage of the California limited is increasing every day," said W.J. Black, general passenger agent, today. "Now that people are finding out what sort of a trip we offer on the limited, they are showing their appreciation by their pa tronage." The traffic on all the dally California trains is something enormous, and the ef fect of the "cold snap" is already notice able. Eastern people of wealth are com ing to California by the hundred. Most people are doubtless unaware that cold weather affects the business of the Cali fornia trains as much as it does the business of a coal merchant. 'Just as soon as it gets cold," said Mr. Black today, "the people begin to get out of the big eastern cities so fast that you can't see them on account of the dust. If they have some cold storms along the coast we at once get a heavier travel to California. And the people who come do not care for expense. They want the best accommodations, and they'll get the best if they have to buy a car. Expense cuts no figure." Mr. Black was asked whether or not the result of the collision of the Califor nia limited and Chicago limited at Fran conia, Ariz., would have any deleterious effect on the travel by those trains. "Not a particle," said Mr. Black. "Peo ple realize that so long as people make mistakes there are liable to be railroad wrecks. You read of them every day. It is only when a road had several wrecks in succession and gives ground to believe that it is getting careless that the public turns its trade in another direction. The Santa Fe has no such reputation. "We have not yet received from the auditor's office the report on the number of passengers hauled by the Santa Fe's California trains, but we know that it will be an enormous? number. At present it is the intention to continue the daily service of ths California limited through out the summer. Unless conditions change very materially we will do so. I believe tnat the patronage win justify it. It is certain that the service will be continued daily throughout the coming- winter. "The reason the California limited is getting so much business is simply be- cause we do hot allow the train to lack for anything which can be provided for tne convenience and safety of the pas sengers. We claim that the limited is not only equal to. but better, than any train in the east. We know that our dining car system is not equalled anywhere. We do not propose to ever let any other railroad on earth put a better tram on the track than the Californai limited. I know that the limited is the superior of any train in the country because people who have no interest whatever in the road and who travel extensively, tell me so. I do not say it in a boastful or unfounded manner, but I say it because I know it is abso lutely true. Arrangements are beins- made to "loan the California limited to the club women bound for the annual convention of th Federation of Women's clubs, which is to be held in Los Angeles from May 1 to 8. Two or three days, between April 22 and April i. will be designated by the road upon which the limited will be open ed exclusively to women delegates to this important convention. A special rate of from Chicago and $45 from Kansas City, St. Joseph and Topeka has been an nounced for the excursion. The tickets will be limited to June 25. Speaking of this unique plan Mr. Black says: we propose mis arrangement to the women's clubs of the various states. and if they see fit to accept our offer we win make the trip a pleasant one for them. If they don't care to go in a body on the limited they can, of course, take any of our trains they please. 1 believe, however, that the arrangement will ap peal to the women as being a good one, as it will give them the exclusive use of the train for the trip." The same special rate as for the Wo men's Federated clubs convention have been announced for the Knights of Pythias meeting in San Francisco on August 12 to 14, and the Mystic Shrine gathering in Dos Angeles next June. ROAD TO EMPORIA. New Lane to Be Built Through From Omaha. Omaha. Neb.. Dec. 17. Articles of in corporation are being prepared and will be filed within a few days for the incorporation of a railway from Oma ha to Emporia, Kan. The line will form a part of the Missouri, Kansas Texas system, but that part running through Nebraska will be incorporated under a different organization. It is stated the An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fis Sibcp Co., illustrate the value of obtaining-the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing' to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening- laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the Caufobnia Fis Sybijp Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN FSASCiaCO, CAI xxrrnsvxxxs. et. ssw York. it. t. For sale by all Druggists. Price GOc. per bottle. line will be completed within eighteen months, and will be a direct line from Omaha to Emporia. The road will follow closely the line mapped out by the projected road of Charles S. Wheeler and other Kansas City men. The local stock will be held mostly by stockmen, packing house men and others. It is stated the line will be completed within eighteen months, and will be a direct line from Omaha to Emporia. REPORT MADE PUBLIC. President Ripley's Suppressed State ment at Last Sees Light At the annual meeting of the stock holders of the Santa Fe road President Ripley read a statement showing the capital expenditures and the source from which they have been met from January 1, 1896 to September 30, 1901. The statement was withheld from publication for some reason, and a copy was placed in the hands of Edward Wilder, treasurer of the road, to be given out to the press on receipt of telegraphic instructions from iVetor Morawetz, of New York. It is likely that Mr. Morawetz and the other offi cials had some pet newspapers upon which they wished to bestow the report for its first publication. The report was made public late Monday afternoon, though President Ripley stated while in Topeka that it would not be given out till Tuesday. The report shows the following totals: Expended for additional railways $15,984,115.39 Expended for equipment 3,789,422.92 Additional terminal prop erties 2,406,930.92 Improvement and better ments 4,561,482.27 Aggregate capital expendi tures, in addition to bonds and stock issued in pay ment for Santa Fe Pacific. 36,744,952.50 These expenditures have been met in the following manner: Issue of general mortgage bonds $18,618,579.55 Proceeds of securities and property 513,164.75 From income 17.613.207.20 The company has issued $138,727,500 in general mortgage bonds to pay for the Santa Fe Pacific, to retire other bonds, and pursuant to the reorganiza tion agreement. The total charged to profit and loss, on account of discount on bond sales, betternent fund, and miscellaneous, is $4,670,821.21. MACHINIST OFFICERS. W. D. Luke Is Elected President of the Order. Saturday evening the local organiza tion of the International Association of Machinists, met and elected these offi cers: W. D. Luke, president; Lester Sedgwick, past president; C. E. De Weese, recording secretary; Edwin Coon, treasurer; B. G .Baird, financial secretary; William Gerdom, conductor; Thomas Hannigan, inside sentinel; Lee Gabler, Clyde Boltz and Frank Vogel, trustees. Three Topeka men were ini tiated and one each from Horton and Emporia, The lodge is one of the most prosperous trades organizations in To peka and has been growing much stronger lately. The lodge has received a circular let ter from San Francisco lodge No. 63 making a statement in relation to the represent strike which the tradesmen on the Pacific coast are carrying on. Ac cording to it there are 2,250 iron workers struggling for a nine hour day and bet ter conditions. On May 30 the strike was inaugurated and about two-thirds of the men who went out at that time are still idle. The employers are mak ing strenuous efforts to bring in machin ists from other parts of the country, and the strikers claim that if the terms of one can be granted they themselves are not unreasonable in their demands. Santa Fs to Cut Ice. Within a week it is planned that the Santa Fe will begin its annual harvest of the natural ice crop. Word has been received in Topeka that already the ice in the Hot Springs Canon at Las Vegas, N. M., has frozen six inches thick and with four more Inches it will be ready to store. At La Junta, Colo., also if the cold weather continues, which is practically certain, the ice cutting will begin by the latter part of this or the first part of next week. At Hot Springs the railroad people are count ing on getting 50,000 tons of as fine a quality as can be had, and at La Junta the estimate is 10,000 tons. Last year the company ran short of it3 supply of stuff for refrigerating cars, and for several months it was shipped In from Mississippi river points where a fine grade had been secured. This season, however, an air of confidence pervades the talk of the men who handle ice for the Santa Fe, they evidently believing that with the present start which win ter has made, there will be no difficulty in getting as much as will be needed. N ew Burlington Officials. New York, Dec. 17. Directors of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad company which has leased the Chicago, Burlington Quincy railway, met in this city and elected the following offi cers: President, George B. Harris; vice president, Darius Miller; treasurer, J. A. Peasley; secretary and assistant treasurer, H. E. Jarvis; assistant secre tary and assistant treasurer, T. S. Howland: assistant treasurer, A. G. Stan wood; assistant secretary, George H. Earl. Darius Miller is also in charge of traffic. Change in K. N. D. Engineers. D. N. Myers of Fort Scott who has been one of the conductors on the K., N. D. road since that piece of track, extending from Fort Scott to Topeka, was built, has been promoted to a run out of Kansas City. He has been suc ceeded on the K-, N. D. by Conductor v., A. Smith, who will have his layover in Fort Scott and will move here. Mr. Myers will run from Kansas City to Coffeyville and to Hoisington on pas senger trains. About the first regular train that was pulled over the K., N. X. was in charge of Conductor Myers and was pulled by Engineer Geo. Villee, who has been pulling Dan ever since. Mr. Villee has always lived in Topeka, but has moved to Fort Scott. Henderson in Los Angeles. George R. Henderson, assistant super intendent of machinery, left today for Los Angeles, Cal., where on Friday be will meet the master mechanics and road foremen of engines for the first meeting in which those men on that part of the system have attended. The gathering will take place on .Friday and is the third of its kind instituted by Mr. Henderson since he came to the Santa Fe. The next will be in Topeka at a time to be announced later. In addition to this Mr. Henderson will look after a good many matters In connection with the construction of new shops which the company has under way there now, and does not expect to return to Topeka until after January 1. Y. M. C. A. Delegates Leave. T. E, Prout, general secretary of the railroad Y. M. C. A., today headed a delegation of men from the Topeka as sociation which left for St. Louis to par ticipate in a conference with other rep resentatives f this work in the south west. These selected from here are W. H. Conry, Chtude Cor.roe, William Boyes. Frank Woodruff. G. C. Grout. J. HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys; if it stains the linen It is evidence of kidney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it, or pain in the back is also con vincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. WHAT TO DO. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney and bladder remedy, fulfills every wish in curing' rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part or the urinary passage. It corrects ina bility to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use or liquor, wine or beer, and over comes that unpleasant necessity of be ing compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordi nary effect of Swamp-Root is soon re alized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by drug gists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes You may have a sample bottle of Swamp-Root and a book that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer Co., Bing hamton, N. Y. When writing mention that you read this generous offer in the Topeka State Journal. Ost, and J. N. Greene. On December 18 and 19 the delegates will go into con ference. The object is to talk over mat ters in relation to railroad association work, such as evangelistic meetings Bible classes, and social and educational work. The expense of the meeting is to be borne by Miss Helen M. Gould, and on the list of speakers are the most prominent Y. M. C. A. workers in the United States. Burned $27 Check. Frank Palmer, of the storehouse, burned a check for $27. Monday Palmer had just received his pay, and after endorsing the paper held it over a gas jet to dryifhe ink. Unexpectedly it took fire, and before he knew it all but the ends were destroyed. These he re turned to the paymaster, and it is be lieved that he may yet get his money in time for Christmas. 2,500 Box Cars For Santa Fe. Orders have been placed by the San ta Fe for 2,500 box cars and 1,500 stock cars to be delivered between now and next summer. They will be of standard size and make. Besides this 600 ballast cars have been ordered constructed and are to be in the hands of the company some time in January or February. The name of the company building them has not been announced. Depot at Marion Destroyed by Fire The Santa Fe depot at Marion was burned Saturday afternoon. Workmen are busy fitting up a couple of box cars to answer as a depot until a new one can be erected. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. A. C. Blrt, a carpenter in the sheds, is sick. Blacksmith Charles Rosendahl has been laying off. David Elder, a boilermaker helper, laid off Monday. C. Leonard, a helper in the mill, was ab sent Monday. Charles Gerberick of the machine shop was off Alonday. George Fensky, a cabinetmaker, went home sick Monday. Milton Player, master mechanic, went to Emporia Monday. William Havens of the east side tin ship Is the father of a baby girl. Conductor Tilford took the general man ager's special west Sunday night. Edward Kirwick, a tinner, went home sick with a cold Monday forenoon. F. G. Withrow is acting as a conductor on a through freight for a short time. Casper Heim, a helper In the black smith department, took his time Monday. Machinist James Clark attended the concert given by the Kilties Saturday ev- Willlam Johnson, a clerk in the shop offices, has returned from a brief visit in Atchison. Arthur Steward, who runs a bolt ma chine in the wheel shop, did not show up for work Monday. Thomas Leonard, coal shoveler at the mill, lost Monday. He was kept at home by an injured foot. W. W. Saunders, a brakeman on the main line, has reported for service after a rest of two weeks. Fred Smith, a sheds laborer who caught a finger between two axles two weeks ago, is in his place again. G. C. Grout, a pipe fitter in the water service, is confined to his home with a se vere case of the mumps. Claude Holmes, a coach cleaner, has asked to be relieved for a short time on account of the sickness of his wife David Wlzer of the coach truck workers who has been out since Friday on account of an injured eye, reported Monday, ening. Clark says it was as good as a trip to the old country to hear the fa miliar Scotch airs which they gave. Sam Joslin, a machinist in the brass corner, has resumed his place after an absence of two weeks, made necessary by sickness. Martin Minnick of the boilermaking de partment has been detained from work a day or two ago on account of sickness of his baby. J. "G. Sullivan took out train 129 Monday in the place of A. J. Rader. who has gone to Kansas City to captain a passenger for a brief time. J. C. Covert and wife are here from Il linois for a visit of several days with their son, J. M. Covert, a machinist living at 320 Chandler street. Robert Wells, clerk in the coach shop office, has a sprig of mistletoe hanging JtECOJfJVEJVDED BT Sixty Tears a Honseiold Remedy For Burns, Cuts, Sprains and Bruises. CAUTION! Witch Hazel ia not POND'S EXTRACT. In- sist upon Genuine POND'S EXTRACT, aold only in sealed bottles, in buff wrappers. El over the door to the place In which he worKs. wris, tana notice. William Moran, a sheds workman, has been off on account of an eye which he burned accidentally the other "day. No serious result is expected. George Brosamer, Pat Todd, Theodore Parker and Alexander Rickett of the boiler shop, went to Pomona today to XJi.intr repairs oil a Bieel unugtt. D. B. Elm, a locomotive painter, struck his head against a rail the other evening, cutting a considerable gash. He will not lose mucn time on account or it. Brakeman K. O. Van Beek. who was re cently transferred to Argentine for a reg ular out 01 tnere over tne cut-on, is mov ing some of his goods down from here. Arthur Van Cleave, who has been down with typhoid fever for about ten days. Is holding his own and it is believed will be in a lair way to recovery betore long. Joseph Spendlove, the machinist who was paralyzed last week on his left side, is slowly recovering. It will prooably be a gooa wnue oeiore he can resume wont. William Black, a machinist helper In the east wing, has been out for a day or two on account of a lame shoulder. Rheumatism is responsible for the trou- Die. Henry Auge, a blacksmith -who a few weeks ago ran into a sheet of steel, in flicting a serious injury to one knee, is recovering and Monday was around the snop. Conductor J. H. Griffith, who has the morning passenger run between Topeka ami et. josepn, nas taaen a lay on 01 a few days. He may spend a short time out 01 town. John Keller, an apprentice boy who said he was sick Sunday and who was off duty Monday recovering from the ef fects of it, was ready for business again tins morning. Harry White and Hugh MeGivern of me asn-pan room went out to ucnianu this morning and are putting in the day hunting. They will return on the Missouri x-acinc tonirnt. Carpenters were busy Monday building mi auuition or aDout ten reet on tne east end of the air brake corner. This has Deen one of the most crowded depart ments in the shops. Clarence Walters, a machinist who has Deen m the service here for a month and a half, took his time Monday and ex pects to be at his home in Mattoon, 111., in time for the holidays. Arrangements have been completed for pulline down the old wooden water tank near the roundhouse. The tub will be scrapped and in its place one of the new steel class will be put up. Georee Paxton. an Emnoria machinist. was initiated into the local organization of that class Saturday evening. A num ber of Rock Island tradesmen from Hor ton have joined the Topeka lodge. Inventory was beerun at the storehouse Monday and in order that the job might be rushed, a large force of men have been added to that department. It will require fully two weeks to take the stock. R. S. Stock well, a storehouse packer, is in his Dlace after a short lay off. Stock- well has been havine considerable trouble on account of a lame back, but thinks he will not be obliged to lose much time. Richard Stellhorn. 1r.. of the tin shoD has a badly bruised finger. While wield ing a hammer Monday he struck the member with such force as to inflict a most painful Injury. He Is still on duty. George J. Graves, wife and little son. returned from Buffalo, whither they ac companied the body of Mrs. Love, Mrs. Graves' mother. Mr. Graves is chief clerk in the office of Resident Engineer J. M. Meade. Sam Zimmerman, day ticket clerk at the Santa Fe. who has been down since the first of last week suffering from an at tack of typhoid fever, is better. He is at the home of E. O. DeMoas. 701 Madison street. James Coeirins of the east shoo lost a iece of the end of one little finger Mon ay while on duty. He fainted and had to be helped into the machine shop office, but soon recovered sufficiently to return to work. Since the extreme cold weather came on employes of the sheds have been absent in large numbers. There are no heating facilities m that buuaing ana during tne winter the men have to move lively to keep warm. Nearly all the throueh trains have been off their schedule time since the begin ning of the present cold weather. Climatic conditions are likely to affect railroading as well as other things, and especially does strong wind prevent trains from reaching their usual speed. This evening the Toneka Turner Min strel company will give an exhibition at the Turner hall. A large number of shop fellows are interested in the production, and as they have been preparing for a long time it is expected that the enter tainment will be first class. Jerrv Dustin. a son of Ben Rustln of Topeka shops, has resigned his job as foreman ot tne Santa fe oonermaKers at Point Richmond, Cal. He is. now with the Southern Pacific at San Luis Obisno. that state, but contemplates returning to Saa Francisco about cnristmas. William Frame, bill clerk in the office of John Player, is enjoying a visit from his father and mother, Mr. and Airs. A J. Frame, of Waukesha, Wis. The elder Mr. Frame is a prominent banker of that city. He and Mrs. Frame are stopping at tne nome or mr. ana airs, flayer. Elmer Kins-, a machinist apprentice, left Monday nieht for Enid. Ok., where he will spend the coming ten days the guest of an uncle. tm tne return ne win oe accom nanied bv his mother, who has been there for about a month. He is a son of Wil liam King, engineer at the pumphouse. William Sheldon of the boiler shoo has returned from Kentucky, whither he and his wife and lamny vvere called about two weeks ago on account of the illneas of Mrs. Sheldon's father. He arrived too late, as his father-in-law was buried the afternoon of the same evening on which he reached there. Mrs. Nellie Israel has gone to San Ber nardino, Cal., to join her husband, Frank Israel, who is a machinist in the Santa Fe shops at that place. Israel formerly was employed here, but some months ago he went west ana recently reacnea ianior nia. Mrs. Israel is a daughter of Ben Dustin, a boilermaker. here. Thomas Moriarty. roadmaster for the Santa Fe at Abilene, was in town Mon day. Mr. Moriarty has ever so many ac quaintances in this place, having been foreman of the track gang in Topeka vards a long time ago. His jurisdiction how extends over the entire branch from Strong City, Kan., to Superior, Neb. C. E. Biddison. a Rock Island ensineer from Goodland, was in Topeka Monday. Mr. Biddison is just recovering from the injuries which he received in the Clayton wreck of September 7. An engine and 17 cars went through a bridge and Biddison's fireman lost his life. Biddison has settled with the company, receiving $600 and ex penses. Georee H. Carlson, a machinist ap prentice, was put out of service tempor arily Monday afternoon. While running a machine somehow the tning aid an unex pected trick which caught Carlson's lit tle left finger between the gears, cutting it off about the first joint. He will proba bly lose considerable time on account of the accident. Bert Stewart who. on September II. was oblieed to lay off and ko to the hospital because of an injury which he received while on duty in tne Doner siiop, resumed work this morning. He is not well, but on the other hand has grown impatient at the loss of so much time, and today took a place in the tank room. Lately with his wite ne visnea in Aritansas tity. James Collinson. general master me chanic, was at his desk aerain Monday after an absence of several days. He has been at Newport, ArK., giving testimony as a mechanical expert in a fire damage lawsuit between the Iron Mountain route and private parties. Cotton to the value of $250,000 was burned, and in the resulting trial the testimony of seven skilled wit nesses was neara. Water service men have been using air for testing heating pipes in the new oil tank cars instead of water as heretofore. Since the cold weather came on it has been found impossible to get the liquid used, so in order to see whether or not there are leaks, connections have been made with the air pipes. The results seem to be as satisfactory as those with water. Horrible and Blasphemous. London, Dec 17. At the Old Bailey today the grand jury returned a true bill against Theodore Jackson and Laura Jackson (Ann Odelia Diss De Bar). The recorder in discharging the grand jury commented upon the "hor rible and blasphemous character of the evidenca" Pyspepsia A nowerful eDtrlne can't be can't expect to keep up the wear and strain of anactive life with a weak stomach. Our boilers, or rather our stomachs, can't be replaced, and we cannot stop the human machinery while mak ing repairs. But when the stomach is unable to' digest enough food to keep the body strong, we can use such a preparation aa Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It digests what you eat, so that you can eat all the good food you want. The use of such a preparation as this ia the only certain way to cure indigestion. Et can't help but do you good Prepared by K. O. DeWltt A Co.. Chicago. The tL bottle contains t Um the Mc 1, When you need a soothing and healing application for piles, sores, and 6kia Aiseasea use DeWlTT'3 Witch Hazel SALVE. Bew re of counterfeits. BEST PERSONALLY CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS TO LEAVE TOPEKA Wednesdays and Fridays VIA Scenic Line LATEST IMPROVED TOURIST CARS FAST E. W. Thompson, A. Q. 1 y.11 1 inn .,l 1.. 111.1 "RJ1" 'Yf v J IT IS A GOOD HONEST SOAP Complete catalogue abowinR ret MADE TO DO THE WORK 800 Premian thllt 7 aeonred t by saving the wrappers, furnished free upon request. Send your name o a postal card, and we will mail yon the catalogue. Address fresiiiB Btpf.. IKE C'JSIXY PlSQXa C3. South Offlfthtj ff Cb Diamond "C" Soap for tale by aB grocer. We Don't rnnl in Trn1m f X share of it. Every ounce coal, and mil weight, and THE SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO. Sales Agents MT. CAR MEL COAL CO.S CoaL i X 734 Kansas Ave. v The First National Bank OP TOPEKA, KANSAS. Depository of the State of Kansas, Shawnee County, and the City of Topeka. PAID-UP CAPITAL,. $300,000. OFFICERS: Wit. Sims, President. O. E. Hawlet, Cashier. W. H. Rosslnqton, Vice President. O. 8. Bowman, Asst. Cashier. DIRECTORS: A. A. Robinson, W. H. Rossinzton, Wm. Sims, Chas. J. Lantry, Chas. J. Devlin, YV. A. Stephens, O. E. Haw ley. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Foreign Drafts on all Prin cipal Points. Letters of Credit issued. Small accounts as well as large receive the same careful attention. 'WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF SA POLIO EetmtHahea 1871. George 13. Palmer, UNDERTAKER. lull atlng ftrat-alata. Offles 'Fhone. 146. Raslame. Fh.aa. 17. MASOMIC TEMPLB. H JACK80H STBKET. Vaneka. Kansas. Digests tsrSiai yea Eat run with a weak boiler; and you LEAVE TOPEKA Wednesdays VIA Southern Route TRAINS P.T. A., Topeka, Kans. H t Sell A Viit: we fl r sell a food 7 we do sell is good, clean you can bank on it. X. Telephones 193, 771, I44 t .4 HtH

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TTJESDAT EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1901. TOPEKA STATE JOUKSiL BT FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. ACETYLENE EXPLODED. tmiUiiitiUHiiiiiiiiiiiiixmiiumiiim VOLUME XXVHl TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, aellvtred by carrier, M cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price In y Xansas town where the paper una a car rier system. By mail, one year .""S! By mail, three months Weekly edition, one year Saturday edition of dally one year 1 w PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal tulliiri W ana t)2 Kansas avenue, corner of Eigata. NEW YORK OFFICES: Sll Vanderbilt Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell hone 1W Reporter' Room Bell phone SI7 rTJLL LEASED "WIHB RESORT OF THE ASSOCIATES XJIES3. The State Journal is a-member of the Associated Press and receives the lull dav tf-legraph report of that great ornniat:on for exclusive afternoon PUP. liration in Topeka. The news Is received In the State Jour rial building over wires for this sole pur pose, busy through the entire day. A complete copy of t night report la alee received. The weather man at Medicine Hat has returned from his vacation. "To be or not to be." ia the Question now troubling Cyrus Leland. The coal men and the plumbers are at the zenith of their popularity. The delightful pleasure of buying for other people is now being enjoyed by countless thousands. Mr. George Klauer. Jointist, contem plates Judge Haaen's Hurrel law decis ion with complacent satisfaction. One could not well Invest a email amount more profitably for Christmas than by aiding the Salvation Army. Senator Burton has not said a word about being President Roosevelt's spokesman in the, senate for soma months. If Santa Claus ever answers half the letters addressed to him this week he will require at least a regiment of pri vate secretaries. The man who bought the famous Hope diamond has succeeded in con cealing his Identity. Has any one thought that he may be a Kansas wheat raiser? In offering a resolution in the, Benate for a vote of thanks to Admiral Schley, Senator Jones has laid the foundation for enough political discussion to last five years. Just as the people were about to be thankful for a relief from zero weather the weather bureau came along with a prediction for another cold waVe and spoiled it all. The man who postponed buying his coal until the cold snap came and found a half hundred orders ahead, is advised to fill his bin in the fall; but not every one has the bin or the price. There is an old adage which might apply in the case of Senator Hanna and President Schwab of the steel colossus, who yesterday were found on opposite sides of the labor problem. Can any body think what it Is? High railroad rates and the car short age, it is said, has made it cheaper for New York dealers to import, potatoes from Belgium than to have thera brought from points west of Chicago. It is probable, too, that the. high price of the domestic potato, owing to the shortage in the crop, is another Influ ence in the situation. TEE FRANKING ABUSE. Senator Mason, of Illinois, recently has been the means of directing public attention to the franking privilege in a way that should cause its entire abo lition. The Minneapolis Tribune deals with the subject as follows: "Some of the abuses of the franking privilege are only ridiculous, while aome are scandalous. It is all very well far a member of congress to frank his washing home to be done in the family tub, if he doesn't mind being laughed at It is another thing when a senator of the United States lends his frank to a champagne dealer to be used In circu lating advertising matter. It is still more remarkable when the advertising matter is an official report of a senate committee "booming particular brands ct champagne. These facta have just transpired In the senate. "When it is said that the senator K-hose frank was thus used candidly ad mitt and defended his act, everyone "sill understand that he could have been no other than Senator Mason, of Illi nois. He was chairman of the senate committee on manufactures and had oc casion to make a report on adultera tions' of food. His report commended highly certain baking powders and champagnes and was of immense value to the dealers as an advertisement. This fact attracted unpleasant comment at the time, but nobody supposed that the government was going to circulate as well as print the advertisement. This Is just what it has been made to-do by Senator Mason's generous loan of bis frank to send it free through the United States mail. "The franking- privilege comes next to the second class mail privilege as a pos tal abuse. This scandalous perversion of it grows naturally out of its cus tomary use In the free circulation of political matter and in the service of friends of members. In theory the franking privilege is given to members f congress to cover their personal and official mail. In practice it is used to load the mails with a mass of matter that should pay postage or be shut out. It is to be hoped that this scandalous exposure will call attention to the abuse and cause congress to make some rules for proper and decent restiction of the franking privilege." General DeWinton Dead. London, Dec. 17. The death is an nounced of Major General (retired) Sir iFrancis De Winton. Ha was born in 1S35. American Experts in Siberia. Berlin, Dec. 17. The correspondent in Ft. Petersburg of the Cologne Gazette telegraphs that a number of experts representing big American firms have arrived at Vladivostock en route for Si beria, where they will build factories and exploit the agricultural and mln ral wealth of the country. What Caused Sauta Fe Wreck at Garden City. What was left of the Santa Fe train No. 8 which was partially burned up by an explosion of acetylene gas near Sner lock Monday evening, arrived in Topeka at 12:30 today. It was due at 4:40 this mornins-. From passengers on the train it was learned that the accident occurred wmie the train was in motion, six miles west of Garden City. The colored porter, Robert Pennington, of Dodge City, was just lighting the lamps in the cars. It Is supposed that there was a leak in the gas tank on the chair car, for when the portexlit a match the explosion oc curred. Pennington and John O'Day, the conductor of the train, were both badly burned. O'Day lives at Dodge City. O'Day was so badly hurt that ha had to be left at Garden City. Pen nington was taken to Dodge City. The chair car at once, took fire, and the train was stopped. Before the cars could be separated the fire had com municated to a sleeper and a smoking car, and all three cars were entirely consumed. The passengers on the train all escaped in safety. They were taken aboard that portion of the train which escaped the Are and hauled to Dodge City, where a new train waa made up. This la the second explosion of acety lene gas which has occurred on the Santa Fe road within a few days. The first waa a acetylene epgine headlight. It is likely to have much effect in pre venting the general adoption of that form of lighting. BIG BOND CASE Kearny County Seat Bow lie Tired In Federal Court. The famous Kearny county bond cases that have been dragging in the federal courts through a aecade will be again called for trial this week before Judge John F. Phillips. Bonds to the amount of between $300,-. 000 and $400,000 are outstanding against the county, part of which the county now claims to be illegal. The bonds were issued when a county seat war was on between the three cities of Hartland, Chantilly and Lakin, in 1886. A temporary board of county com missioners favoring Lakin as the point at which to locate the county seat is sued bonds to pay people who were im ported to the town of Lakin to live long enough to vote for that plaoe in the election for the selection of a county seat. Those who were imported to Lakin were paid for "work grading roads and other public work." The amount ex pended in this manner waa 137,543. Previous to that time, the board had is sued bonds to cover a loan of $200,000, making the total indebtedness, of the county nearly $400,000. At the time the bonds were issued the county had an assessed valuation of only $21,180, from which taxes to the amount of $9,341, were being realized. Frank Lindsay, judge of the police court of the city of Topeka, was the at torney for the commissioners, and for his services received the amount of $4, 200, according to the records. The four cases against the board of county commissioners of Kearny county to secure an order of the court for the collection of the bonds are brought by G. H. Maberly. H. C. Spear, William Edwin Coffin et aL and Louise M. Irvine, respectively. Rossington, Smith Histed are representing the bondhold ers, and Milton Brown is defending Kearny county. The defense makes tnu contention that the bonds are illegal. inasmuch as the temporary board of county commissioners that issued them in reality had no power to do so. The county in 1900 had a population of 1,007. COLD PROVED FATAL. One Man Froze to Death and Others Will Lose Limbs. Omaha, Dec. 17. Last night's cold wave proved fatal to. one. man and two others were so badly frozen that am putation of their hands or feet is nec essary. Thomas Jefferson, a colored man. was found frozen stiff in the rear of a saloon and died at the police sta tion. George H. Rhodes, a sewing ma chine agent, was found in River View park by the watchman. His hands and feet were frozen stiff. Fritz Heitz waa found under the Douglas street bridge in a half frozen condition. Rhodes ana Heitz were taken to the hospital where both may lose hands and feet. LOCAL MENTION. Harry E. Glenn, editor of the Kiowa Journal, came to Topeka Monday to meet his wife and child who have re turned from a visit in the east. There will be a meeting pf the Second Ward Republican Flambeau club on Wednesday evening, 18th, at 7:30 sharp, at Jackson's band hall, at 420 Kansas avenue. By order J. W. Allen, president; J. W. Johnson, secretary. A. W. Wells, an old settler who came to Topeka in 1879, and who has been living at No. 13 Chandler street, leaves this week to go to Phoenix. Arizona. Mr. Wells has been foreman of the Thomas planing mills here and will se cure a similar position at Phoenix. He is taking his family to that state for their health. An unusually good meeting of the Ohio club was held last evening at their hall 117 West Sixth street. A short programme consisting of recita tions by William Leland and C H. Kutz and the reading of an original poem on "Ohio and Ohio People," by Dr. Roby was much enjoyed. A box social and social time closed a pleasant even ing. A goodly number were present. Three workmen In the Santa Fe store house received slight injuries today. R. F. Alexander had his knee bruised by a casting falling on it. E. Burdette had his foot mashed by a casting fall ing and. Joe Berberich had a hand mashed under a huge piece of sheet iron. The case of John Cairns, of Scran ton, who was convicted of violating the pro hibitory law. has been appealed to the supreme court. Cairns was an employe of an express company and he delivered a jug of whisky to a Serantorr man, C. O. D. Under Judge Thomson's rul ings, his action was held to be a viola tion of the prohibitory law. OASTOZIXA. Basis tu y Tin Kind Yon Haw Always Bought O TO XXX .A.. Baanths Sigaatare of O Bean the Signature ef t Ilu Kind Ym Haw Always Bought i Tta Kind Yon fare Alwavs Bought W C 0) U'LsLni Continental ALL THE WORLD Cornea to America to Get Its Railway Locomotives. New fork, Dee. 17. A number of im portant contracts for locomotives to be used by various foreign governments and private railroads have been placed in the United States within the last few days. The American Locomotive com pany of this city, has captured a con tract for thirty locomotives, intended for the Japanese government- railways. The engines will be built at Schenec tady. The same American concern is also building twelve locomotives for the Kuishi railway, one of the big private roads operating in the Japanese empire. This makes the sixth order seventy two engines in all that the American Locomotive company has secured from that road within the last two years. The Hokkaido railway, controlled by the Japanese government, has also or dered six American built engines. The Baldwin Locomotive works of Philadelphia has been awarded a con tract calling for eighteen locomotives to be shipped to the West Australian government railways and thirty-six American locomotives have also been contracted for on behalf of the New South Wales government railways. The H. K. Porter company of Pittsburg has been allotted an order for four locomo tives for use in the coal mines near Johannesburg, South Africa. WILL ARREST SHIELDS. Warrant Is Issued For Negro Doctor For Causing Death. A warrant waa Issued by the city court today for Dr. I. A. Shields, a col ored physician, charging him with caus ing the death of Nellie Thomas, a young colored girl of "North Topeka, by a criminal operation. His arrest is the outcome of the finding of the coroner's jury in the inquest, who found that the girl came to her death by reason of a criminal operation performed by him. The girl died a week ago today under circumstances which led to an autopsy and later an inquest. At the inquest Dr. Anton Rupin testified that he was. called to the girl's home just before her death, and that when questioned she said that Dr. Shields had performed such an operation. JURY COULDN'T AGREE. Ooodwin-Chamberlain Case Must Be Tried Over -The Jury in the Goodwin and Cham berlain bucket shop case in the federal court here has been discharged by Judge William C. Hook, and the case was redocketed for a new trial, after the Jurymen failed to agree on a ver dict. The case is the one in which F. G. Logan, a broker at Chicago, is trying to regain possession of the sum of $2,000 that was turned over to Mrs. A. G. Goodwin when the rirm of Goodwin Chamberlain, bucket shop proprie tors, failed here In 1897. The contention is made that the $2,000 was the money of Mrs. Goodwin, sav ings of I her own f rom teaching music and economy practiced in the house hold. The money was placed with the firm for investment, and when the firm failed was returned to Mrs. Goodwin. Logan is trying to regain possession to satisfy a claim he holds against the bankrupt firm. WILDER AND KINGMAN. Pioneers Will Talk at Histori cal Meeting Tonight. The anniversary meeting of the State Historical society comes off this even ing in the senate chamber at eight o'clock. The exercises will consist of an address by Samuel A. Kingman and Dl W. Wilder. Speeches and music will occupy an hour. The people will then go to the fourth floor where a re ception will be given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. SENATE COMMITTEES. Burton la Made Member of Commit tee on Pensions. Washington, Dec 17. The following additional senate committee appoint ments have been made: Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands Simon, WarrenStewart,Quarles, Bard, Quay, Kearns. Dietrich. Library Wetmore and Hansbrough. Manufactures McCumber, Mason, Foster (Wash.), McLaurin (S. C). Mines and Mining Scott, Stewart, Hanna, Clark (Wyo.), Keans. Organization, Conduct and Expendi tures of the Executive Departments Quay, Wetmore, Mason, Beveridge, Mc Laurin (S. C.) Pacific Railroads Dolliver, Frye,For aker, Stewart, Millard. Patents Pritchard. Piatt (Conn.) Mc Comas, Kittredge. Pensions Gallinger, Pritchard, De Boe, McCumber, Scott, Foster, Burton. Simon. (7ul r c Lru Cheaper than any other store in the United States 0 0 AT THE fit 0 LLS SM 617 KHNSHS HYEIMUE. MAURICE GRAU'S OPERA. "Tristan and Isolde" Will Be Bung on Opening Night New Tork, Dec 17. Maurice Grau an nounces that "Tristan and Isolde" will .be sung on Monday evening, December 23, the opening night of the grand opera season at the Metropolitan opera house, with Mme. Ternina and Ernest Van Dyok in the title roles. The announce ment has been delayed owing to the se rious illness of Mr. Van Dyck. Kur wenal will be sung by David Bispham, King Marke by Edouard de Reszke, and Bragene by Mme. Schumann-Heink. Muhlman, Reiss and Bars will also be in the cast, and Walter Damrosch will conduct. On Wednesday evening "Romeo and Juliet" will be given. Mme. Emma Barnes, who returns after an absence of two years, will be the Juliette, and the role of Romeo will be sung by Albert Alvarez. SHIVER WITH COLD. Reform School Roys Had Few Corers. The inmates of the Reform school have suffered since the cold wave came on account of a lack of bedding. The boys are expected to have a blan ket and a quilt each but when the cold weather made it necessary to supply them with extra bed clothing it was found that the quilts were used last H..r.....Hi4..Hi.H. l 4. Owing to the big rush since our last large announcement we nights marking everything in plain figures so that you can be your other words, you can look our stock over without asking prices and want If oia if you want to get in on the ground floor this year. Our Christmas business is tremend ous, our goods and low prices are the cause. I Oyr w4miiniyall Cfaostinroas UT OF THE Shoe summer to polish floors with and many of the boys had to sleep with only a blanket. The condition was reported to Governor Stanley and he ordered that heat be kept on the dormitories all night until sufficient bed clothing could be secured for the boys. MORE TIME GIVEN. Secretary Long Allows Schley Another Day. Washington, Dec. 17. Isador Rayner and Mr. Teague, counsel and assistant counsel, respectively, for Admiral Schley during the court of inquiry have gone to Baltimore, and are busily en gaged in that city today with the pre paration of the statement of objections to the court's findings which Admiral Schley has been granted permission to file with the reviewing authority. Sec retary Long. This work will, occupy them for several days. Senator McComas of Maryland called at the navy department today and had a long talk with Secretary Long before the latter departed for the cabinet meeting. It is understood that the sen ator came to the department for the purpose of securing an extension by several days, of the time allowed by Secretary Long for the submission of the statement, if it appears that the admiral's counsel cannot properly pre pare their document in time. Representative Norton of Ohio today introduced a resolution proposing the H"l Be Your Own alesmnaitT Will EEa.ve to HEurry Here you can spend one dollar or a hundred and get a Christmas present that will be a life time reminder. 0. w, M Telephone 353. 533 Kansas Avenue. n n i 1 1 x s -n v7 h 0) r U i Ull Ik) S I AL GlotMiri restoration of Admiral Schley to the active list. Secretary Long this afterndbn inform ed Senator McComas that he would grant Admiral Schley's attorneys an extension of 24 hours of the time origi nally allowed them for the submission of their statement. This will make the time expire Thursday at 4 o'clock. Stay ton and Moore, who appeared before the court of inquiry as attorneys for Ad miral Sampson have applied to Secre tary Long for permission to be heard in protest against the approval by the secretary of the minority report, writ ten by Admiral Dewey and appended to the majority report of the court of in quiry. The secretary has consented to receive any papers they may care to submit, TO SEE THE BRIGANDS. Parties Start to Negotiate For Miss Stone's Release. Paris, Dec. 17. The Temps today pub lished a dispatch from Constantinople which says: "The first dragoman of the United States legation and the secretary of the missionary society will leave here to night with full powers to negotiate with the brigands for the release of Miss Ellen M. Stone on the payment of 14,000 pounds ransom. The meeting will occur in Turkish territory." The latest in gents' and ladies' um brellas. Swearingen's jewelery store, 724 Kansas avenue. 1 1 M OFFIT Chi COo co; Monday, Dec. 16th. ....Special Engagement. Ferris Comedians. Ladies' Free Monday N'ght under usual oonditioiu. Prices ...toe. aoc and 30c Seats on sale Friday morning. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of Mrs. J. P. Lewis will take place tomorrow at 2:30 p. m., con ducted by Rev. H. A. Ott, assisted by Rev. J. B. McAfee. Friends desiring to see her are requested to call at the residence between nine and twelve o'clock Wednesday morning. Shawnee County Medical Society. The members of the Shawnee County Medical society are requested to attend the funeral of Mrs. Dr. J. P. Lewis, at 8:30 Wednesday afternoon. DR. L. Y. GRTJBBo, President. DR. W. E. McVET, Secretary. City Ticket Office Union Pacific R. R., 625 Kansas ave. C. F. Menninger. SI. D., office 727 Kan. sas ave. Tel. 19: residence 1251 Topeka ave. Tel. 85. Office hourse 2 to 5 p. m. Everybody reads the 8tate Journal. 'M 'M- 't'M M have been working own salesman, or, in pick out what you Sale

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENJJG. .DECE3fBER 17, 1901. 5 Gold Weather Underwear At Special Prices. The new Swansdown Fleeoe Ladies' Union Suits worth $1.00 special j... 75c Suit. Ladies Heavy Hygiene Fleeced Vests and Pants Special 45c Garment. Ladies All -Wool Union Suits, (Onieta) broken sizes worth up to $1.75 special 98c Suit. Ladies' All-Wool Ribbed Vests worth 75c Special 50c Each. Boys' Extra Heavy Fleeced Union Suits the larger sizes worth up to 69c special 49c Suit. Children's Heavy Fleeced Vests, Pants and Drawers from 13c up to the largest size at special 25c Garment. Special Prices on Odds and Ends in all Sorts of Underwear. DRY GOODS CO. 713-715 Kansas Ave. Mrs. Homer Low. of Fort Worth, Tex., and Mrs. J. C. Mohler were the guests of honor at a delightfully informal little thimble party given this afternoon by Miss Vera Low. Toward the close of the afternoon a, dainty luncheon was served. The guests who enjoyed Miss Low's hospitality were: Mrs. Low, Mrs. Mohler, Mrs. DuRelle Gage. Mrs. Fred erick Fruer, Mrs. Dorr Norton, Mrs. Frank Scott Davis, Miss Helen Smitii, Miss Hazel Fassler, Miss Sue Sharitt, Misa Helen McClintock, Miss Maude Bates, Miss Ivah Davis, Miss Bessie Hayden, Miss Helen Thompson. Miss Kate Critchfleld of Oskaloosa and Miss Edna Crane. A Pleasant Affair. Mrs. Ralph Squires, of Green Moun tain Falls, Colo., was the guest of honor at a charming 1 o'clock luncheon given today by her sister, Mrs. John Cleveland at her pretty home on Quiney street. The guests were seated- at one long table and the luncheon was served in five courses. All of the rooms as well as the table were attractively decorated with ferns in jardinieres. In the center of the table in a pretty jardiniere was a luxuriant asparagus fern; the long fronds trailed gracefully over the snowy lloth and produced a very pretty effect. The guests invited for the occasion svere: Mrs. Squires, Mrs. W. J. Rad cliff, Mrs. E. L. Hindman, Mrs. C. B. Reed, lira E. A. Austin, Mrs. J. H. Squires, Mrs. W. H. Righter, Mrs. Charles Cooper, Mrs Charles Heartburg, Mrs. Otis Hungate, Mrs. R. B. Kepley, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. E. J. Whittaker, Miss Anna Crane, Miss Anna Squires and Miss Emma Stevens. Baer-August. The marriage of Miss Emma J. August, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. August, and. Mr. M. Baer, of New York city, took place Sunday at 1 o'clock at ths home of the bride's parents on West Sixth avenue. The wedding was a very quiet affair and was attended only by the immediate relatives. The bride wore her traveling gowa. After the ceremony a course dinner was served in the dining room, which was decorated with quantities of roses. Cut flowers were used in the parlors. Mr. and Mrs. Baer left Sunday even ing for a southern trip, after which they will go to their future home in New York city. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. T. O. McCray and daughter, Misa Lena McCray, have returned from a short trip to Chicago. Mrs. L. W. Wlllitts and children of Tulsa, I. T., arrived in the city Mon day for a visit with Mrs. Wlllitts' moth er, Mrs. Margaret Johnson. Miss Blanche O'Neil is planning to come over from Leavenworth next week to spend the holidays with Miss Other Stores Advertise Haviland China at Half -Price. Our regular prices are lower than their half price. Here's a Comparison Other stores advertised half price on Havi land China Cups and Saucers per set J I Qf" $2.50 our regular price VP I iOU Other stores advertised half price on Havi land China Plates 1.98 per set (TJI Cf our regular price U I U U -Other stores advertised half price on Havi land China Plates 12.50 per set Q I Qfl our regular price ...pliOU You can always expect to get the best for the money here, as the above comparison will show. THE JOHN C. HUMES CO., 624 Kansas Avenue. Julia Wellhouse at her home on Topeka avenue. Miss Hattle Reynolds of Wamego, spent Monday shopping in Topeka. Mrs. H. S. Bullard of Tonganoxie, it expected In Topeka soon for a two months' visit with her sister, Mrs. 51. C. Moore. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. At water will come over from Leavenworth to spend Christ mas with Mrs. Atwater's mother, Mrs. M. C. Moore. Miss Sallie Beck will entertain at an informal thimble party Wednesday af ternoon complimentary to Mrs. Ralph Squires, and Thursday evening Mrs. W. J. Radcliff is to give a small dinner party for her. Mrs. Squires will leave Sunday for her home in Green Moun tain Falls. Charlie Guibor has returned from Denver to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. C. H. Guibor. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black have re turned from a short trip to St. Louis. Mrs. Fred Freeman is spending the day shopping in Kansas City. Mrs. Dan Cain and daughter Virgil will leave Saturday for a short visit with relatives in Duluth. Miss Corinne Bone will come up from Kansas City Saturday for a few days' visit with Mrs. E. T. Sim at her home on Harrison street. Mr. Homer Low of Fort Worth, Tex., and Miss-Joella Drake of Ringold, Tex., were married November 26. They left at once for a wedding trip to California and are now spending a short time in Topeka with Mr. Low's uncle, Mr. M. A Low and family, en route to Fort Worth. Mrs. Frank Metzler and sister and Miss Edith Crawford returned this ev ening from two day spent in Kansas City. The Chafing Dish club was pleasantly entertained Monday afternoon by Miss Pearl McFarland at her home on Har rison street. Eggs a la jardiniere was the new chafing dish concoction added to the recipe book. Miss Lida Bergen will be the hostess in two weeks. Miss Anna Swearingen of Rossville, spent Monday shopping in Topeka. Mr. and Airs. William Albright are planning to go to Leavenworth the last of the week to spend the holidays with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Maegley have returned from a trip to New Mexico. Mrs. George Bauerschmidt left today for Lincoln, Neb., to spend the holidays with her parents. F. C. Hopper has returned from a trip to New Mexico and Colorado. He will represent Crane Co., at the State Teachers' association at Albuquerque, next week. Mrs. Walter C. Jett and Mrs. Hiram D. Jett spent Sunday with Mrs. W. H. Jett and daughter Mabel in Grantville; their cousins Misses Byrdie and Lizzie Quinn of Kentucky were also visiting in Grantville, and will spend this week in Topeka. Mrs. Henry Bennett, Mrs.Oeorge Har rison and baby went to Kansas City Monday. Dr. William Maclay Lyon of Chicago, is spending a few days in Topeka with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lyon. Engraved visiting cards and wedding invitations, finest productions. Adams Bros., 711 Kansas ave. Landlord of the Brevoort Assigns. New York, Dec. 17. For the benefit of creditors Charles Jaimes, lessee of the Brevoort house, in Fifth avenue, and the Chastaigneray hotel in Madison avenue, has made an assignment. It is said that the assets will fully cover all liabilities. The business stability of the Brevoort will not be affected by the assignment. WON'T STAND IT. J. B. Billard Doesn't Want Bible in Schools. Ilia Son Refused to Take Part In Religious Exercises. SEST HOME BY TEACHER Controversy Was Then Re ferred to Superintendent, Board of Education Will Try to Adjust Difference. Mr. Billard Says He Will Take Matter Into Courts. "I object to religion in the public schools and' if necessary I will bring an action in the courts to see if the board of education can force me to allow my son to submit to religious instruction in the public schools." said J. B. Billard of North Topeka this morning. Mr. Billard says that his son, Philip Billard, aged 10 years, was expelled from the Quincy street school 14 Nortb Topeka because he followed the instruc tions of his parents and refused to take part in the religious exercises at the opening of the school and that Principal W. H. Wright sent him home with a note to his parents that the matter would have to be taken before Superin tendent Davidson for adjustment. The objections of Mr.Billard are made on account of the resolution presented to the board of education and adopted at the last meeting that the reading of the Bible and repeating of the Lord's prayer at the opening of school each morning be compulsory. The resolution was drafted and presented to the board for adoption by Dr. J. D. McFarland representing the Ministerial Union. Mr. Billard said this morning: "I pro tested against my child being compell ed to study religion in the public schools. He does not go there for that purpose. That was all he was expelled for. Before the order was passed by the school board he was submitting to it partially. I went to the school and saw Mr. Wright, the principal, and told him that I did not wish my son to take part in the religious exercises at the opening of school and that I preferred that while they were being conducted that he be allowed to continue his studies and take no part in such exer cises. "The principal would not allow this and expelled him. My son was out of school a week while I was taking the matter up with Superintendent David son. The superintendent arranged that temporarily, my boy should not go to school until the religious exercises were finished. He went to school yesterday under that arrangement. The superin tendent told me that on account of the action of the board of education he did not feel at liberty to deviate from the rule and that this arrangement could be carried out until the matter could be brought before the board at the next meeting. Of course before the board adopted the resolution there had been some religious exercises but now the taking part in the exercises and the conducting of them is made a rule and is compulsory upon the pupils. "If the board will not restore him to school and give him full privileges I will take the matter before the courts. I have not consulted others but I know that there are others who do not favor religious teachings in public schools. I do not feel that the time of the school should be taken for religious teachings and I think parents should give their children the religious instruction they wish to. It is contrary to our rights and the constitution for parents to pay taxes for religion to be taught in any form in the public schools. "If the board compels me I will'brlng an action in the courts to see if they can force me to allow my son to sub mit to religious instruction. Mr. David son was very reasonable and willing to do what was right and I hope the school board will do the same when the matter is presented to them." Superintendent Davidson said this morning: "Mr. Billard s son was not expelled. He was sent borne with a note. The principal of the school, Mr. Wright, did not wish to act In the mat ter and referred it to me. I arranged that the boy should go to school after the religious exercises until the matter could be brought to the attention of the board." Principal Wright said this morning: "I simply followed the rules as given me. I referred the entire matter to Superintendent Davidson. I have noth ing further to ssy about it." Mr. G. W. Daily, member of the board of education from the Sixth ward, said this morning: "I presume this will come before the board at the next meet ing. I do not know what will.be done." A. A. Kodgers, member of the board from the Fourth ward, said: "A far as I am concerned I will do all I can to see that Mr. Billard gets his rights without having to go to the courts. THE POPE PROTESTS Against Repeated Stories of His Sickness and Death. New Tork, Dec. 17. A dispatch from Rome to the Paris Temps quoted by the correspondent of the London Times and New York Times in the French capital, describes an interview with the pope In which his holiness complained about the false reports in regard to his health. You see, the pope said, that it la not all over with me. I work six or eight hours a day, and my work is not easy, for it embraces the whole church. Please say that I am not yet dead." SHARKEY IS MATCHED. The Sailor to Fight Peter Maher on January 17. New York, Dee. 17. Tom Sharkey has commenced training for his bout with Peter Maher, which will be decided in Philadelphia on January 17. Final de tails for the match were arranged as soon as Sharkey announced that the terms offered by the Central A. C. man agement were satisfactory in every way. Sharkey has been doing light training for the past two weks in ex pectation of a match with Jeffries, but now that a fight with Maher is an as sured fixture he has decided to increase his schedule. "Jack" McCormick of Philadelphia will assist Sharkey in his preparation. Although the bout is only limited to six rounds the result is ex pected to be interesting owing to' the fact tnat snarkey nopes to secure a match with Jeffries upon the latter's ar rival here next month. The Lehigh Is Open. Eaaton. Pa., Dee. 17. Through pas senger traffic on the Lehigh valley rail road from New ork to Buffalo. i prac tically open, after a tieup of nearly hours due to the floods. e4 iH E ONLY 11 Sadcliff We don't take trips around the side street stores We have no time. We do the business, the people trade with us, we sell the best goods at the cheapest prices, we advertise our Shoes only, not Toilet Rooms, and we don't ask the people to pay for new show cases or new plate glass. Our prices below will show this for themselves 200 pairs Fine Ladies' Shoes, worth $3,50 our price $2.00 1000 pairs Ladies' Rubbers at 25c per pair, and up. 500 pairs Men's Fine Box Calf, Extension soles, Rope stitch, worth $4.00 our price $2.50 500 pairs Men's Fine Box Calf, Extension soles, Rope stitch, worth $3,00 our price. $2.00 500 pairs Men's Overshoes, all sizes and all kinds, for 50c per pair, and up. 1000 pairs Men's Working Shoes until Christmas we will sell them at 98 cents 1000 pairs Men's Fine Shoes, Vici Kids and Box Calf, worth 3.00 until Christmas $1.90 1000 pairs Child en's Shoes, from 25 cents up. Remember the places THE BOSTON SHOE STORE. Don't be lured away by hot-air stories in regard to French plate glass and new show cases. BOSTON SHOE STORE- 514 Kansas SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The snowfall was light but sleighing is excellent. And still the mail carriers have not donned overcoats. Andrew Baird is at Coffeyville in the interest of the T. M. C. A. work. The Muscotah State bank has been chartered with a capital of $10,000, A Topeka man who lives at a hotel takes his meals at a boarding house. The state officers will soon be desert ing Topeka for their homes and Christ mas. The Ferris comedians will play "A Daughter of the South" at the Crawford tonight. Marshall's band is out about $100 on account of the engagement of the Kil ties band. Sneak thieves have stolen some of the nickel plated plumbing fixtures in Rep resentative ball, The Smith Co.'s automobiles seem to be the only ones seen on the streets during this blizzard. The way the weather bureau is sup plying cold waves is apt to make that department unpopular. Secretary of State Clark has gone to the Pecos Valley with H. U. Mudge oa a duck hunting expedition. Ice on the river is about four inches thick. There was considerable skating Sunday, but since then too much snow fell. The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist church will meet at the church parlors Wednesday afternoon at 2:30. Christmas is a week from tomorrow. H. L. Harris of Smith Center has been operated upon for appendicitis at Christ hospital. The demand for the Smith Co.'s trus ses have made it necessary for them to Increase their traveling force six men the first of the year. There is some advantage in having a house without modern conveniences there are no plumbers" bills to pay to tnaw out frozen pipes. Every once in a while some one in quires when the Parker-Hughes decis ion is to be handed down. It is strange people will not forget that. The Santa Ke delegation which takes the Oakland car at 7:45 was late this morning. They were detained on West Sixth avenue by a broken car. A. C McGargee, who has been in tha service of the Pennsylvania at Logans port, Ind., has arrived in Topeka to take a position as draftsman with the Santa Fe. In Monday's police column a mistake was made in a house number. It was Vi instead of 118 West Sixth avenue which was raided as a disorderly house Sunday night. Abel Wills has been entered at the Reform school from El Dorado. He was sent to the Reform school for stealing a pocketbook from a teacher in the El Dorado schools. The Topeka Turner minstrels will give an entertainment this evening' at the halt of that organization. The Arions YOUR FOOTSTEPS By the depth of his footstep in the earth the Indians tell the weight of a man. Do you tread shallow or deep Per haps you would like to weigh more If you are below weight and find that ordinar)' food does not build you up try Scott's Emulsion. It is not a drug but a food that time has shown to have real value in such cases as yours. We'H ttnd you a little ta try, if you like. SCOTT BOWKK, 4 I earl meet. New York, AT stoat Snoe STORE IN TOPEKA where you can purchase the $3.50 Shoe for $2.00. Ave. M. AITRON, Prop. and Sons of Herman are to be guests of the performers. Judge Hazen has sentenced Amos Brubaker, who was convicted of hoa stealing, to five years in the peniten tiary. He served time before for steal ing the same kind of live stock. An election for the selection of a sec ond lieutenant will be held tonight at Metropolitan hall by the members of Company C of the K. N. G. The man to be chosen will succeed H. Helwig. Assistant Attorney General West says that county officials who hold over un der the biennial election law should provide themselves with new bonds in order to be sure that everything is reg ular. Dean James Philip de Bevers Kaye will give a talk on Florence, Italy, with stereopticon lantern, under the aus pices of the Sons of the King, in the Guild parlors. Wednesday evening, Jan uary 15. Attorney General Godard will go to Lansing in a few days to personally in vestigate the title to Steiger's island in the Missouri river, which the state is considering buying for penitentiary coal mining purposes. W. H. Barnes, secretary of the State Horticultural society, delivered an ad dress on "The Horticultural Progress of a Century," at the convention of the Iowa State Horticultural society in Dea Moines a few days ago. A paper on "The Strength and Weak ness of the Church Today" was read by Rev. J. A. Stavely before the Ministerial union Monday. The election of officers will take place at the next meeting of the union on January 6. This time the roar against the street car company comes from the people who live out near Quinton Heights. The complaint is that not enough cars are run to give the patrons comfortable ac commodations these cold mornings. "Does the Abuse of Public Men by the Press Foster Anarchy?" is the sub ject of a paper that is to be delivered by Rev. J. D. Countermine, of the First Presbyterian church at the next meet ing the Ministerial union in January. People who drive should be more careful in blanketing their horses.Along Kansas avenue a great many animals stand shivering in the cold with no cov ering whatever, because their owners are too careless in putting the blanket on to see that it is fastened. Governor Stanley has refused to grant a conditional pardon to William R. Walden, who is serving a sentence of five years In the penitentiary for killing Thomas Hoffman, a Santa Fe brake man, in a fight resulting from Walden attempting to steal a ride on a train. James Haddock, a former employe of the Santa Fe in Topeka but now with a smelting firm at Anaconda, Montana, has been in Topeka for a few days vis iting. He is on his way to Cable, 111., to remain over the holidays and will rec tum to this place later to remain a week. Since the ruling of the district court on the breaking and entering ordinance, the police department has been taking a rest. Last night passed without a single arrest. It is probable that the jointists will now bar their doors and feel secure against the ravages of the police. E. R. Burkholder, president of the Farmers' State bank of Hillsbdro, who has represented Marion county several times in the legislature, is preparing to nationalize his bank. He has raised its capital from $10,000 to $25,000. The latter sum is the minimum allowed for na tional bank. The case against T. P. Newell for re ceiving stolen property was dismissed in police court this morning by the prosecuting attorney, and the charge of violating ordinance 2129, governing junk dealers, and failing to report purchases of second hand goods to the police was substituted. Newell was originally charged with buying a set of harness which had been stolen. The case was continued at the reo.uest of Attorney T. H. Bain of the defense. George Burghart was arrested several days ago on a complaint by License Collector P. H. Forbes for refusing to pay a $10 license on an electrical banjo in his cigar store, which was claimed to be a slot machine not a gambling de vice, and subject to a license. Burghart swore in court this morning that the machine was operated only by the em ployes of the store, and that a brass slug was used instead of a coin, and had been used in this manner since the yearly license expired last month. The defendant was discharged. Atchison Globe: Frank A. Root's THE to see what our neighbors 514 book, "The Overland Stage," is one of the best books on the west yet written. The author often repeats himself, and his material is not well arranged, but the book is packed with valuable facts. It appeals particularly to people living between the Missouri river and Denver. The author was an express messenger on the old overland stage between Atchison and Denver, and deals partic ularly with this part of the west. To people living between the two points named, it is a more valuable history than "Beyond the Mississippi," which covers a larger scope. Atchison is men tioned on almost every other page. PRESIDENT'S YACHT. The "Restless" Will Not Be Fitted Out Immediately. New York, Dec, 17. Work has just been started on the yacht Restless, which for the past three months baa been lying in the navy yard at Brook lyn. It is said the boat when fitted out will be used by the president and sec retary of the navy as a yacht in place of the Mayflower, as was proposed some months ago. It will take two months at least to get the boat in trim. J. Frederick Tama was the former owner. At the time of the Spanish war he sold her to the government and she was 'used as a dispatch boat. After service in the south Atlantic waters she was placed in the navy yard. The Rest less is 132 feet long, with a 18 foot beam and an 18 foot draught. She was built for Mr. Tarns in 1837. New Bath Parlors Opened. Mr. and Mrs. O. Kihlberg opened their new bath parlors under the National hotel yesterday to the public. During the day the new establishment was vis ited by many well known people. Mr. and Mrs. Kihlberg conducted a bath establishment on Harrison street for the past three years and are well known to the physicians of Topeka. They de cided to move their bath parlors to a more central location and chose the rooms under the National. They have a cozy reception room, a cooling and lounging room, seven dressing rooms, toilet room, tub and shower baths, hot' room for Turkish baths, steam room for Russian baths, sprays and showers in the rubbing room, and special arranse- j ments for giving shampoo hatha. The bath rooms are fitted in marble ana are properly heated and ventilated. Saw Death Near. "It often made my heart ache," writes L. C. Overstreet of Elgin, Term., "to hear my wife cough until it seemed her weak and sore lungs would collapse. Good doc tors said she was so far gone with con sumption that no medicine or earthly help could save her. but a friend recom mended Dr. King's New Discovery and persistent use of this excellent medicine saved her life." It's absolutely guaran teed for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma and all throat and lung diseases. 60c and $1.00 at A. J. Arnold Son's drug store, S21 North Kansas ave. Trial bottle free. Christmas and New Tear Holiday t Rates via th Santa Fs. Fare and one-third for the round trip. Points within 200 miles of To peka, tickets on sale Dec. 24. 25 and 31, and Jan. 1, 1902, final limit return ing Jan. 3. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup seems especially adapted to the needs of tha children. Pleasant to take; soothing in its influence; it is the remedy of alV remedies for every form of throat and lung disease. Holiday Rates via Rock Island Route Tickets on sale December 24, 25 and 31, and January 1. Final limit January 2, 1902. A Cure For Lumbago. W. C. Williamson of Amherst. Va.,says: "For more than a year I suffered from lumbago. I finally tried Chamberlain's Pain Balm and it gave me entire relief, which all other remedies had failed to do." Sold by all druggists. Christmas and New Tsar Holiday Rates via the Santa Fa, Fare and one-third for th round trip. Points within 200 miles of To peka, tickets on sale Dec. 24, 25 and 81, and Jan. 1, 1902, final limit return ing Jan. S. tore i 4. or competitors are doing. Kansas Ave. HAS A GOLD BOOM. Precious Metal Has Been Discovered in Finland. Correspondence of Associated Press St. Petersburg, Dec 3. Portions of Finland are having a gold boom, gold having been discovered at Ouleaborg. A member of the meteorological bu reau has recommended the adoption of American' methods of distribution an i utilization of the reports in the Russian bureau. The metallurgical congress is contln uing its efforts to establish coal and iron syndicates. As a result, supposedly, of the rail road accident at Kharbin, when some 20 persons were killed, it is announce I that no passengers other than railroad employes will be at present carried on the Mancburian railroad. Whist Club Scores. The next regular game in the tour nament of the Topeka Whist club will be played Monday evening, December SO, the game scheduled for next Monday night being postponed on account of this holidays. The following scores were made last night: NORTH AND SOUTH. Marshall and Pennekamp l-l Wolf and Ryder lsw Bronson and Cole 1)7 Scott and Kennedy 117 Putnam and Thrapp.... 11 Sibley and Kurrie Copeland and West 1:1 Koonts and Gill H Hillis and Berg Stanley and lnghanke lu Average, 113 3-10. EAST AND WEST. Munn and Ash by IS! Keeler and Fa'.kiner l ii Washburn and Greenwood lr Hart and Carr 15i Nowers and 3torey m Conn em and Compton 14H Noble and Shakeshaft 14-! La ran and Robbins Hi Spivey and Kendall 14 Mitchell and O'ltourket 1 Average, 146 7-10. Remarkable Curs of Croup A Little Boy's Life Saved. I have a few words to say regardiii!r Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It saved mv little boy's life and I feel that I c-tn not praise it enough. I bought a bottl-s of it from A. E. Stoere of Goodwin. S. D., and when I got home with it the poor babv could hardly broathe. I gave the roodicine as directed every ten minutra until he "threw up," and then I thought sure he win going to choke to death. Vo had to pull the phlegm out of hm mouth in great long strings. I am positive that if I had not got that bottle of coiiKh med icine my boy would not be on earth to day. Joel Demont, luwood, Iowa. Fur sale by all druggists. Santa Fa Health Resort's Excursion Rates. Phoenix, Arizona, and return, IS5.0O, good for nine months. San Antonio, Texas, and return, $30 00, good returning until June L El Paso. Texas, and return, $4S.40,good six months. Las Vegas, N. M., and return, $31.00. three months' limit. Hot Springs, Ark., and return, $28.85, three months' limit. Excursion rates to other health re sorts quoted on application. Address T. L. KINO. Agent A. T. S. F.. Topeka. Many Preventive Arrests," New York, Dec. 17. The Constan tinople correspondent of the London Times and New York Times as Sultan Abdul Hamid is as usual pain fully apprehensive about his annun! visit to Stamboul at mid-Ramadan in order to kiss the Prophet's mantle. It is the only day in the year when he will venture out of the Ylldiz Kiosk. Many "preventive arrests" are consequently being made every day. Holiday Rates via Rock Island Route Tickets on sale December 24, 25 and 31, and January I. Final limit January 2, 1902. Satin-Skin Cream nourishes away wrinkles, blemishes, gives lovely com plexion, satin skin. 25c. At New Modei. "Itching hemorrhoids were the plague of my life. Was aimost wild. Doan's Ointment cured me quickly and perma nently, after doctors had failed." C. F. Cornwell, Valley Street, Saugertles.N.T.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17. 1S01. s i 1 tHItHH 1 I" I I' 't t t t IVSIG and AWT c-The W. F. Doehr Music Co. Oiler an elegant variety o! Fine Musical Sculpture, Bas Beliefs, Medallions, Busts of Com posers, Etc. Kimball Pianos and Organs. Ilallett and Davis Pianos. Also a large assortment o! Musical Gilt BooKs ol recent publication, beavtihilly bovnd. Music Rolls, Satchels and Folios, in many styles and colors. Violin, Mandolin, Gvitar and Banjo Cases in Leather and Canvas. The Simplex Piano Player. Stella Music Boxes, Reinhart Mandolins and Guitars, Guilmont, Mazzoni, and Martin Violins, Stewart and Bauer Banjos. 1 "A Send for our new Illustrated Catalogue. W. F. Roehd Music Co. TOPEKA, KANSAS. H. 1. 1. .H,HM IllllUt l-l-M I I Hi i IHHI III OLD FOLKS HOME. Police Matron Thorpe Explains Her Latest Plan. Would Hare a Place to House the Poor. THOSE WHO SUFFER. Says That Many People Could Be Heliered. who owns a building he could donate to the cause, rent free, we could carry out the plan without asking a cent of money. I believe it is a worthy object tor cnarity, and I hope some of the philanthropic people of Topeka will neip to carry it into effect." KNOX CONFIRMED. Connection With Steel Trust Held to Make No Difference. Wants a Place With 12 or 15 Itooms. "Philanthropists with money to do things should get together and rent a roomy old house and let it out free during the winter to old people who t ould earn enough to eat if they did not have to pay rent. I know old people who are now suffering with cold and j hunger to keep a shelter over their few things khich they fondly call 'home.' Sirs. Laura E. Thorpe, police matron. This, in a nutshell, is the latest plan proposed by Mrs. Thorpe for the ameli oration of the condition of the aged poor of Topeka, some of whom, as Mrs. Thorpe declares, are suffering with cold ttnd hunger. The proposition is quite unique, and peveral questions are likely to arise in the minds of everyone who considers the wisdom of Mrs. Thorpe's plan. Why don't the county take the aged poor to the county farm? How many suck cases are there in To peka? How larger and what sort of a house. Is needed? Who will be in general charge of the house? Who would pay for the use of the house? In explanng the details of her plan, bo far as decided in her own mind, Mrs. Thorpe answered the questions which suggested themselves. She said. "The aged people of whom I speak tire not eligible for entrance to the county farm, because they are able to earn their support except in winter when it is so cold, and is hard to get out and find work. If the poor farm was close to town, so that these old peo Xle could arrange to board there, pay ing a small sum for their board, I think it would be unnecessary to have a spec ial home for such cases. Besides, there is a natural prejudice against becoming a permanent inmate of the poor farm, and these old people will fight hard to retain their independent existence. "I should say that there were about tn deserving cases of this kind in To peka at present. I know, for instance, of an old man and old woman who live on East Fourth street, in a little room for which they pay 1.25 a week. The man ia partially paralyzed. The woman works for $2 a week. It is a mystery to me how they manage to exist. I think they would not be able to live without help from Poor Com missioner Hale. Another deserving .case is down on Crane street, where there lives a widow with a little boy to provide for. lt really does not make much dif ference what sort of a house we have, jor where it is located. Probably a house I could be secured cheaper in North To peka. The upper rooms over a store j building might do very well, and prob j s bty would not cost much in some part I of town. I think that a dozen or fifteen I rooms would be enough. One room could I be used for a common laundry room. "I think that we could arrange with lone of the tenants to be in charge of the bouse. We would, of course, admit ionly desirable tenants, and I think that j there would be no extra expense for the 'general supervision of the house. Ap plicants could be assigned to the rooms iia any way thought best by the donors. "In regard to paying for the rent of I the rooms, it seems to me that there are wealthy people In Topeka who would I contribute $25 or $50 apiece to the char ity to make it a success. I think that for a hundred dollars the rooms could be rented for the necessary length of Usne each, winter. If there is some man Washington, Dec. 17. The senate has confirmed the nomination of Philander C. Knox to be attorney general of the United States. The nomination of Mr. Knox was taken up when the senat-9 first went into executive session a few minutes after 12 o'clock, but the point was made that there should first be ac tion on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty un der the agreement reached last Thurs day. The virtue of this plea was con ceded, and a tentative agreement was made that further consideration of the nomination should be postponed. When however, the senate had disposed of thj treaty the attorney general's nomina tion was again called up. The discus sion of it turned upon a motion made by Senator JonesMArk.) to recommit the nomination to the committee on judic iary, in the meantime publishing the testimony bearing upon the case. Speeches in favor of this proposition were made by Senators Jones and Tur ner, and. in opposition by Senators Hoar and Pettus. It was contended by the two senators last named that the only, evidence presented against confirmation had been iiled by members of the anti trust league and was very vague and indefinite. The senators favoring the motion said that if this were true there could be no objection on the part of the friends of the attorney general to plac ing all the facts within reach of the public and the more time the commit tee should give to the subject, the more thoroughly the public would be con vinced of- the fairness of its position, when ultimately taken. They dwelt at some length upon the charge made that the attorney general, previous to enter ing upon the duties of that office, had been attorney for the United States Steel corporation and the Armor plate manufacturers. In reply to these ac cusations it was said that it was legi timate for an attornev in private life to represent any interest in his official ca pacity and it was argued that his posi tion as a counsellor for those interests could not be used legitimately against him in connection with his nomination to a position under the present admin istration. So long as he had conducted himself with propriety hi3 relationship as an attorney should not be used to his in jury as an official. The motion to re commit was lost. The ballot stood 43 to 7. There was no roll call on the motion to confirm, which immediately followed. WORST IN 50 YEARS. Serere Storm in Scotland and Throughout Europe. London, Dec. 17. The fall of snow in Scotland is heavier than at any time in 50 years. Several game keeper3 and shepherds are m!spfng, and the destruc tion of sheep in the snow drifts, wnich range from 20 to 20 feet deep, is un precedented. Tho roads are impassable. Parts of England are suffering almost equally from the heavy fall of enow. A train which was snowed up near Hart irgton on Thursday was only released today. The frost today is so severe that out side work has been suspended at many points. The storm appears to be pretty gen eral all over Europe. There has been a violent snow storm at Rome, and sev eral of the bridges over the river Tiber have been swept away. Numbers of wrecks have been report ed from the Mediterranean. Christmas presents for large and small at F. W. Swearingen's, Jeweler, 724 Kansaa avenue. -.QLIZZABDN0.--.-2.- A Second Serere Storm Sweeps Of er the Northwest. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 17. Another severe storm has struck northern and western Nebraska, and In some parts of the state is the worst experienced since the great blizzard of 1888. The most serious reports come from along the line of the Fremont, Elkhorn Missouri Valley railroad, which traverses the length of the state along the northern border. From along the line of that road and as far west as Casper, Wyo., come re ports of a heavy fall of snow, accom panied by a blinding wind. Several trains are tied up in the western part of the state. Reports from the ranges say that the present storm is the worst that ever visited this section of the country, and that if it continues for 24 hours the losses will be heavy. The loss of life in Wyoming due to the blizzard is probably in excess of ten persons. Five persons are known to have lost their lives. Of these three were herders, one a railroad man and the other a woman. Five herders were reported lost near Point of Rock3, and as their dogs came to town the men undoubtedly perished. A civil engineer named Hemingway, who left Casper several days ago to visit a ranch, got lost and searching parties are scouring the prairies for him. His friends believe he is dead. TREATY AD0PTED. Senate Passes the Hay-Pauncefote Canal Agreement. Washington, T. C. Dec 17. The sen ate ratified the Hay-Pauncefote isth mian canal treaty by the decisive vote of 72 to 6. ,The vote was reached after almost five hours' discussion behind closed doors. There- were no sensation al incidents during this entire time. The debate was confined exclusively to a discussion of the merits of the agree ment and the policy of its provisions. The principal speech of the day was made by Senator Teller, in opposition to the treaty and he was followed in rapid succession by twelve or fifteen other senators who spoke briefly either for or against the motion to ratify. Senator Clay was one of the southern senators who spoke in advocacy of the treaty. He contended that the treaty should be ratified because it secured the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN DI PLOMACY. Senator Mason made a strong plea for the treaty, expressing his gratifica tion that American diplomacy had suc ceeded in securing such a triumph as was this treaty over the original Hay Pauncefote agreement. Senator Bacon's speech was made in connection with a motion to amend the treaty. In presenting this amend ment he said that he was in favor of a canal and would vote for the treaty with the Davis amendment. He op posed the treaty because be did not believe it would give the United States full control of the canal. He said that Great Britain rejected the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty, but sent us an other treaty about identical with the former treaty as amended, except as regards the Davis amendment. He considered that fact the most import ant feature of the whole controversy. There was an exceptionally full sen ate when the time arrived for a vote, but the certainty of ratification had become so apparent that there was comparatively little interest in the pro ceedings. The votes on the amendments succeeded each other quickly. Senator Culberson offered an amendment to in sert the Davis fortification amendment of the last session. This was defeated, 15 to 62. Senator Bacon then offered an amend ment striking out of the preamble in the reference to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the words "without impairing the general principle of neutralization es tablished in article VIII of that conven tion"; also the following words in article II relating to the purchase of stock, "subject to the provisions of the present treaty"; also of article III relating to the neutralization of the canal; also all of article IV, declaring against change of territorial sovereignty. All this was embodied in one amendment and was defeated. 18 to 60. The treaty was then ratified by the following vote; Teas Aldrlch, Allison, Bard, Bate, Beveridge, Berry, Burnham, Burrows, Burton, Carmack, Clapp, Clark (Mont.), Clay, Cockrell, Cullom, Deboe, Deitrich, Dillingham, Dolliver, Dubois, Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster (La.), Foster (Wash.), Frye, Qalinger, Gamble, Ginson, Hale, Hansbrough, Harris. Hawley, Heitfeld, Hoar, Jones (Ark.), Kean, Kearns, Kit tredge. Lodge, McComas, McCumber, McEnery. McLaurin (Miss.), McLaurin (S. C). McMillan, Martin, Mason. Mil lard, Mitchell. Money, Morgan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Piatt (Conn.), Piatt (N. Y.). Pritchard. Proctor. Quarles. Scott, Simmons, Simon, Spooner, Stewart, Taliaferro, Turner, Vest, War ren, Wellington, Wetmore 76. Nays Bacon, Blackburn, Culberson, Mallry, Teller, Tillman 6. Bailey paired with Depew and Elkins. Rawlins paired with Hanna and Sewell. WILL NOT GO TO COLORADO. CoL J. H. Richards Denies an Offer From Gould's Road. Fort Scott. Kan.. Dec 17. Some of the state papers are publishing a statement to the effect that Col. J. H. Richards of this city, general attorney for the Missouri Pacific road, has been offered a position in charge of the legal interest of the Mis souri Pacific system in Colorado and that he has been offered a salary of $20,000 per year to take it- This report is denied at Col. Richard's office here with such em phasis as to brand it as having no foun dation at all. "Wreck Was Planned. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 17. It is be lieved the fatal train wreck near Essex, Mont., yesterday was not an accident but a crime. A telegram has been re ceived from W. H. Kennedy, assistant general superintendent of the Great Isorthern. who has visited the wreck. He wires: "There is not the slightest doubt that No. 8 was deliberately wrecked by parties unknown. Think discharged employes." Mrs. Bonine Restored to List. Washington, Dec. 17. The civil serv ice commission has decided to restore the name of Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine, who recently was acquitted of the murder of James Seymour Ayres, jr., to the roll of eligibles for appointment to the civil service. Just prior to the death of Ayres Mrs. Bonine had successfully passed an examination for skilled labor in the government printing office, but pending the result of the trial her name was held up. ISSUES BANK CALL. Mr. Albaugh Wants to Know Situa tion December lO. State Bank" Commissioner Albaugh has issued a call for a report from all state and private banks showing their condition at the close -or Dusmess ue cember 10.. Blanks are also being sent out with the call In which every director of a state bank is required to sign an oath that he will support the constitution of the United States and the state ol Kan sas, and also, which is the important part of it, that he will see that his bank will obey all banking laws, that its re ports will be promptly made, and that he will take a personal interest in the business. Heretofore vrominent men of good financial standing have been persuaded to take a little stock in a bank, ana have then been elected to its directorate simply to lend the influence of his name to the institution, but he has taken little Interest in the affairs of the bank. It is to com nel directors to know what is going on in their banks, instead of leaving It all to one or two persons, that these oaths are being sent out, TH1NKSDEWEY KNOWS. General Miles Willing to Take the Admiral's Judgment. Cincinnati, Dec. 17. General Nelson A. Miles, speaking today of the findings of the Schley court of Inquiry, said: "I am willing to take the judgment of Admiral Dewey in the matter. He nas been a commander of a fleet, and as such has known the anxieties and re sponsibilities which rest on a man un der these circumstances. He was in strumental in the destruction of one Spanish fleet, and knows and realizes the feelings that encompass an officer under such conditions. I think Dewey has summed up the matter in a clear and concise manner, and I believe his conclusions will be indorsed by the pat riotic people of the United States. I have no sympathy with the efforts which have been made to destroy the honor of an officer under such circumstances." NORTH AND SOUTH UNITE. Two Branches of Presbyterian Church in Missouri Join Bands. St. Louis, Dec. 17. For the first time In more than a quarter of a century the synod of Missouri connected with the general assembly of the North Presby terian church in the United States of America and the synod of Missouri con nected with the general assembly of the South Presbyterian church in the Uni ted States, which are holding their an nual meetings here, met in joint session. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. William Hoge Marquis, moderator of the Southern synod, who announced as his theme "The character and influ ence of the church of God." The communion service which follow ed was an impressive one. The two moderators, the Rev. Dr. W. H. Mar quis and the Rev. C. C. Hemenway presided and conducted the service. A score of elders from both bodies assisted in the distribution of the com munion elements. STILL HAS AN ORDINANCE. Judge Wood Says City Is Not Wlth out Liquor Law. Judge J. G. Wood, the attorney for the Law and Order league, has made an investigation Yelative to the effect of Judge Hazen's decision on the work of enforcing the rohibtory law. He said: "The city still Tias, the ordinance passed on November 22, 1900, prior to the passage of the Hurrel law, and after the decision in the Semple case, which was that cities have no power to impose a Jail sentence on prisoners. We will act under this ordinance, which is No. 2192, and contains all the provisions of the so-called Hurrel ordinance, except that it does not provide for a jail sentence. "The decision in the Semple case I have always considered a partisan one, and altogether wrong. Judge Hazen held the Hurrel law to be unconstitu tional because of the decision in the Semple case, 'hough he intimated that he did not have much confidence in that decision. I think that under that Semple decision Judge Hazen's ruling is natural." The ordinance passed on November 22 is almost as stringent as the Hurrel or dinance, except that it provides for a fine of rom $100 to $500 instead of a fine' and imprisonment. It has a clause against clubs, a search and seizure clause, and a provision that the pos session of a United States liquor license is prima facie evidence of guilt. This ordinance was passed rather hastily by the council for the purpose of giving Chief Stahl a club to wield after all the old ordinances had been knocked out by the Semple decision. It was not re pealed by the passage of the Hurrel ordinance." Lodge's Prohibition Bill. Washington, Dec. 17. Senator Lodg3 has introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of fire arms, opium and intoxicat ing liquors to the natives of islands in the Pacific ocean. TODAX'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, Dec. 17. WHEAT Holiday dullness pervaded the grain pits at the opening today and weaker cables influr enced Tower starting prices. May wheat opened ?ic to a shade lower, at 79-fE 79c. As the sepsion advanced the local demand picked up somewhat and May ad vanced to 79c. Local receipts were 68 cars 2 of contract grade; Minneapolis and Duluth reported 598 cars, making a total for the three points of 666 cars, against 1,194 cars last week and 717 cars last year. Business continued dull in the wheat pit up to the last hour. Reports of damage from the weather in the southwest and some professional bulling sent May up to a firm close and c higher, at 79W80c. CORN There was verv little doing In corn at the opening. The feeling was easier on lower cables, but there was no Eressure to sell. Mav opened a shade to ,iftc lower, at 66!fi6R4C, but on a small outside demand and the slight show of strength in wheat, it advanced to 66ic Receipts were 64 cars. Corn closed firm and o up, at 67 6TOc. OATS Oats opened steady and ruled practically unchanged on a light outside demand. Receivers were offered moder ately. May oats opened unchanged to M-c lower, at 44,'i-44atc, but sold up to 43c. At the end of the first hour it was around yesterday's closing price. Receipts were 121 cars. PROVISIONS Provisions were quiet to start, with a small trade and almost no feature to it. Prices at the yards were slightly better and held options firm. May pork opened unchanged to 5c higher, at $16.80(516.85. and sold up to $16.90: May lard opened unchanged, at Sd.&i1, and ad vanced to $9.921.'ft9.&5, and May ribs. 214c up. nt $8,621. and advanced a shade.', WHEAT Oash: No. 2 red. WV.aH2c: No. 3 red. 77481ac: No. 2 hard winter. 76St 77-c: No. 3 hard winter, 7677c: No. 1 northernspr; g, ISUjgTic; No. 2 northern spring. to'&Tic: No. 3 spring, 77&76c. CORN No. 3, 6?M'i63u.c. OATS No. 2, 46S46U.C: No. 3. 46c FLAX Cash: Northwestern. $1.52; southwestern, $1.50; Dec, $1.50; May, $1.52i. RYE? Dec. 63c: May. 6654c BARLEY Cash: 56f)63c TIMOTHY March, $6.55. CLOVER March. $9.45. Chicago Livestock Market Chicago. Dec. 17. CATTLE Receipts. 6,000 head. Market steady. Good to prime steers, $6.25&7.25; poor to medium, $3.90 m Sale of FiEe; anidl v Mediiim- priced! Furs When you are spending your money for Christmas and New Years' Gifts See the display in our South Window and consider, if there is any thing more suitable for Mother, Daughter, Sweetheart or Wife than a present in Fine Furs. CAPES. $110.00 Beaver Capes, 32-in. long, will be... 1 ..$89.75 25.00 Astrachan Capes, 32-in. long, will be 2175 27.50 Astrachan Capes, 32-in. long, will be 23.75 37.50 Near Ssal Capes, 32-in. long, will be 32. 5 O 27.50 Wool Seal Capes, 32-in. long, will be. 23.75 20.00 Electric Seal Capes, 32-in. long, will be 17.75 37.50 Wool Seal Capes, 32-in. long, will be 32.50 JACKETS. Our $148 Beaver Jacket, 24-in. long, will be $119.50 Our $100 Near Seal Jacket, 36-in. long, box back, and 4-in. beaver cuffs, beaver revers, beaver edging down front, will be 79.75 Our $75 Near Seal Jacket, box back, 28-in. long, marten collar and revers, will be 65.00 Our $55 Near Seal Jacket, box back, 28-in. long, will be 45.00 Our $60 Near Seal Jacket, beaver revers, 28-in. long, will be 47. 5 O Our $50 Near Seal Jacket, 22-in. long, will be 42. 5 O Our $35 Electric Seal Jacket will be 30.00 Our $30 Electric Seal Jacket will be 25.00 SCARFS. Our $37.50 Isabelle Scarfs, 2 3-4 yds. long, 2 large tails, 4 claws, will be. $33.75 Our $25 Sable Scarf, 2 1-2 yds. long, two large tails, four claws, will be $21.75 Our $35 Isabelle Scarf, 3 yards long, twelve tails, will be .$29.50 Our $32.50 Marten Scarf, 2 3-4 yards long, eight tails, will be. $29.50 Fifty Scarfs, valued up to $6.50, will be $5.00 100 Scarfs and Storm Collars all prices. Scarfs $1.50 and up. Storm Collars $8.75 and up. Just as advertised you will find it at Tuesday, December 17, 1901. tTof! 6.00; stockers and feeders, $2.0O4.25; cows. 1.W.4.50: neirers, J1.5Ua.uu: canners, i.wi (S2.00: bulls. $1.754.50: calves. $2.5CKS5.25; Texas fed steers, $4.605.4O. HOOS ReceiDts todav. 30.000 head: esti mated tomorrow, 43,000 head; left over, 1,- 027 head. Market strong. Mixea ana butchers', $5.85(S6.60: good to choice heavy, $8.256.674: rough heavy, $5.9006.15; light, $5.17U.!fi5.95; bulk of sales. $5.90C6.40. SHEEP Receipts, 14,000 head. Market steady. Good to choice wethers, $3.75(3 4.50; fair to choice mixed. $2.S03.40; west ern sheep, $3.00ffr4.00; native lambs, $2.50 5.75: western lambs. $2.00(R4.00. Official receipts and shipments yester day: tjatue. nogs, oneep. Receipts 16,041 33.420 15,679 Shipments 2,741 3,850 150 Kansas City Iavestocc Kansas Citv. Dec. 17. CATTLE Re ceipts, 7,000 head, including 700 head of Texans. Market strong to 10c higher. Na tive beef steers, $4.65!l6.50: Texas steers, $3.2Si4.75: Texas cows. $3.25Ti3.75; native cows and heifers, $2.755.25: stackers and feeders, $3.00&4.50; bulls, $3.254.25; calves, $3.2535.50. HOGS Receipts. 17,000 head. Market 5 10c higher. Bulk of sales, $5.906.70: heavy, t6.75i6.95; packers', $6.356.75: medium, $6.256.70; light. $5.506.45; yorkers, $5.25 6.25: pigs, $4.25fr5.25. UrititLijr ieceipis, a.uw neau. amrKet strong. Muttons. $3.00i4.00: lambs, $4.00 5.00: western wethers, $3.25(&3.75; ewes, $2.85 3.50. Kansas City Produce. Kanssa Citv. Dec. 17. Close WHEAT Dec. 730: Mav. 77W.C. Cash. No. 2 hard. 7i'S75c; No. 3, 73(74c; No. 2 red, 86fe87c; No. 3, 84H(ffi86c. CORN Dec, 69c: Jan., 6SVc: May, 68c. Cash: No. 2 mixed. 6S'S69c: No. 2 white. 6tM56Ac: No. 3, 67'8Sic. OA 1 a JNo. s wnite. 4i4ic RYE No. 2, 64V.a65V,c. HAT Choice timothy. $13.50:choico prai rie, $13.75 14.0(1. BUTTER Creamery, 1822c; dairy, fan cy, 37c. EGGS Kresn. 22c WHEAT Receipts, 39 cars. Suear Market. New York. Dec. 17. SUGAR Raw steady. Fair refining. 3 9-32c; centrifugal, 9tf test,, 3c: molasses sugar, 3 l-32c. Re fined unsettled. Crushed, $5.40; powdered, $5.00: granulated, $4.90. LOfi tt-steaay. jno. i io, b)c MOLASSES Steady. New X"ork Money Market. New York. Dec. 17. Noon MONEY" Mor.ey on call steady at 6 per cent: prime mercantile paper, 5f5 per cent: sterling exchange firm, with actual business hi bankers' bills at $4.863i&4.87 for demand and at $4.83i4fi4.S3H for 60 days; posted rates. $4.84 and $4.87: commercial bills. $4-S3V,(fi4.84. S11.VE.K tsar suver, ooc; Mexican dol lars. 43?ic. BONDS Government bonds steady. To day's Quotations: u. B. reiunum aj, register. U. S. refunding 2s, coupon. 10914 U. S. 3s, registered 108 U. S. 3s. coupon 108 U. S. new 4s. registered 139 U. S. new 4s, coupon 139-"a U. S. old 4s, registered. 111 j U. S. old 4s, coupon 111 U. S. 5s, registered U. S. 5s, coupon 107ii 107 New York Stocks New York, Dec 17. Wall Street Amal gamated Copper resumed its downward course to the extent of over a point in the opening dealings and affected the general list by sympathy. There were a number of gains, but they were among the less important stocks. Rock Island rose 14 points and Rubber Goods preferred 2 Soints. The Smelting stocks fell a point ut otherwise the dealings were frac tional. Selling of Amalgamated Copper contin ued until it reached 60. The general mar ket was stagnant, but when Amalgamated Copper started up business increased in all stocks. The rally in Amalgamated Copper carried it to 62S4 point above yesterday's close. Opening losses in other stocks were also wiped out and St. Paul, Pennsylvania, New York Central and the Tractions were carried a point or more above last night. General Electric rose 2 and Long Island 3 points. Amalgamated Copper and Sugar fell back a point and the market became easier. Prices in the general list moved in ac cordance with the fluctuations in Amalga mated Copper. This stock maintained a pretty stable tone during the second hour and rose to 64, other stocks being bene fited to a smaller degree. The level of prices was above that reached earlier and there was some heavy buying of the Uni ted States Steel stocks. Atchison, Louis ville and the Pacifies, which accentuated the general strength. Louisville and Un ion Pacific scored a net gain of 14 points. Bonds were irregular. The general market followed the move in Amalgamated Copper with narrow fluc tuations. That stock was as low as 63j,b and as high as 64 during the noon hour and was near the top at the end of the hour. Rubber preferred rose 4 points in all. The dealings were very light every where. The buying movement in Amalgamated Copper showed some signs of exhaustion and the room traders promptly realized and put out considerable short lines, dropping it 2 points, to 62. This inci dent threw the general market into semi stagnation and it weakened in spots. Rock Island and the Tractions sold a point below their best prices. Wool Market. Boston, Dec. 17. WOOL The wool mar ket maintains its strong tone and the out look is very favorable. There is a steady demand for supplies which keep prices at their full tension. The call for territory wools is steady at full prices. Purchases are mostly of moderate lots for immedi ate use. Fleeced wools are firm .with an average demand. Quarter blood Austra lian wool is quoted at 3Sc clean. New York, Dec. 17. WOOL Strong. Territory and western mediums, l316V4c; fine, ll(gl5c; coarse, IValVfac, Market Gossn. Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commis sion Merchant. 601 Kansas ave. Kansas City: Wheat open 1 "changed from yesterday's closing p: lets, demand good and market firm. Cold wave com ing and shorts nervous. Kansas City grain receipts: Wheat, 39 cars; corn, 176 cars: oats, 21 cars. A year ago: Wheat, 51 cars; corn. 38 cars; oata, 7 cars. Northwest grain receipts: Minneapolis, 188 cars; Duluth, 410 cars: total 598 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, 431 cars; Du luth, 150 cars; total, 5sl cars. Kansas City: May wheat Puts, 77Hc; calls, 78c; curb, 77c. May corn Puts, 68c; calls, 69c; curb, 69c. Range of Prices TFurnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Of fice 110 West Sixth street. 'Phone 4wi. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. Chicago. Dec. 17. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT- Dec May July CORN Dec May OATS Dec May Julv FORK Jan May LARD Jan Mav RIBS Jan May 7514 76 79-79 80- 79ft-4 64 66!4-?4 67 44 4434 447- 45 38- 39 16 32-5 16 45 16 S0-5 16 92 9 SO 87 8 42 8 60 9 92 9 95 8 42 8 65 75 75 79 7t 7i 79 64 66 44 45 38 16 35 10 80 9 R7 9 90 8 42 8 62 66 44 44 38 16 32 16 80 9 80 9 82 8 40 8 60 Commla- Kansas City Oram. Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, sion Merchant. 601 Kansas ave. Kansas City, Dec. 17. Open High Low Close Yes VV ri EA1- Dec May OORN- Dec KHK 69 68 Jan 6K- 68 March 68- 687 May 68- 69 68 76 77- 76 73 77 69 6S 72 76 6S 68 68 68 Range of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Of fice 1 West Sixth street. 'Phone 4XU. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R T U. S. Steel Texas Pacific M. K. T. C. G. W. Rock Island St. Paul Atchison, com Atchison, pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific Wabash So. Pacific U. P., com U. P.. pfd Southern Rwy. Reading N. Y. Central T. C. I Erie C. O B. O L N Pacific Mail 61 62 4(p 3X BO" 23 New York. Op'n Hih Low 13l' US'. MX1 SN' M C3 41 38 50 24 149 150 149 159 161 159 Vt li'i 9 99 99 99 133 135 133 91 91 91 103 103 102 42 42 41 67 5fc 98 Ioo 9S 9K 33 47 165 164 1 6'i 39 3S 45 43 101 101 104 li 104 43 44 43 32 47 34 60 38 45 101 60 62 5' 23 57" 9K 98 32 47 Dec. 17. Cl se Yes 121 1 121 99 98 62 62 41 t' 3X 38 6H 6i 24 2.3'... 15" 14S 11 159 77 7! 99 px 134 13 91 91 103 103 41 42 5x 57 Hi" 98 9- 97 33 32 47 47 1J5 104 61 6" 39 39 45 4 101 1(W 106 104 44 444

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J I V at TOPEKA STATK JOUKNAli, TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1901. v i-'r VJ I V I fl them like candy, and they will work gently while you sleep. They cure, that means they strengthen the muscular walls of the bowels, give them new life. Then they act regularly and natur ally. That's what you want. Cure guaranteed. Be sure you get Cascarets. Sample and booklet free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York. -tm PROPER PRESENTS FOR CHRISTMAS! Genuine Barrios Diamonds Trade-mark.) are equal to real diamonds as to looks and wear, will cut glass, and stand all the tests of old-mine gems. For a lew days we offer magnificent rings, etuds, pins, ear-rings, etc., at the marvelously low price of ONE DOLLAR EACH. Gentlemen's eavy Flat Belcher Ring. We are the first to introduce a gold filled flat Belcher Ring; heretofore they have been made only in solid (fold. TMs ring set with a beau tiful, brilliant Bar rios Diamond, will be mailed to any ad dress in the world upon receipt of price Jl.oe. This ring has the appearance of one costing $200.00. OUR GUARANTEE. GENTIXE BARRIOS DIAMONDS are guaranteed to retain their brilliancy for rver The mountings are heavy rolled plate and are made of one continuous piece. The plate is thick-shelled gold and will last 100 years. These rings are warranted not to tarnish the finger and greatly superior to any similar goods ever placed on tne market. Studs and pins, $1.00 each. Earrings, screws or drops, $2 per pair. MAIL ORDERS. In ordering give full directions and state whether small, medium or large stone Jm desired. Order now to avoid the Christmas rush. If goods are not exactly as represented money will be refunded. Finger measurement of rings may be given by using a piece of string. We have no branches or agents anywhere. Address all orders plainly to the BARRIOS DIAMOND CO., 1139 Broadway, New York BRIEF TELEGRAMS. City of Mexico, Mexico, Dec. 17. Both branches of the national congress have approved a bill for allowing the Mexican National railroad to change its gauge to standard. Camden, N. J., Dec. 17. The condition of United States Senator Sewell. who is ying dangerously ill at his home in this c'itv. is slightly improved. The physicians in attendance said that he was a little brighter and stronger. London, Dec. 17. T. P. O'Connor, who lias been ill for over a month past, has suffered a serious relapse. Stevens Point. Wis.. Dec. 17. Alexan der Kirk, while delirous from smallpox, escaped from his home at Amherst, Wis., last night, wandered about in the snow etorm, and was frozen to death. Lyons. N. T., Dec 17. William H. Wal ker, a painter, was found frozen to death today near here. Sofia. Dec. 17. The Bulgarian minister has resigned, owing to the hostility of the obranje to the proposals for a new loan. St. Petersburg, Dec. 17. Prince Nicholas if Montenecrro has arrived here and has visited the czar at the palace at Gatz-chlna- London, Dec. 17. The present illness of Queen Sophia of Sweden is not serious. Iondon, Dec. 17. Sir William H. Preece, president of the institution of civil en gineers, is very skeptical of Air. Marconi's success and considers that more conclu sive tests than have yet been made are needed. New York, Dec. 17. The Commercial Advertiser announces that the H. W. Jones Asbestoh Co. of New York and the Manville Covering company have been consolidated as the H. W. Jones-Manville company, with 3,000,000 capital. Bloomington, 111.. Dec. 17. The Steven son fiat and store building waa burned tonight- Loss $50,000. Boston, Dec. 17. Luigl Storti, the mur derer of Michele- Calucci in Boston. No vember 7, 1SS9, was executed by electricity st the state prison in Charlestown at 12:29 o'clock this morning. Pueblo, Co!., Dec. 17. The Pueblo city council has passed a resolution agreeing to appropriate annually for maintenance of a public library 10 per cent of such an amount aa Mr. Carnegie may donate for Its establishment. The amount is said to be 8T5.000. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 17. Mrs. I.uther W. Osborn. wife of the late con sul general to Samoa, arrived here on the Ft earner Son o mo with the remains of her husband. She is accompanied by her son. The remains will be taken east for inter ment. San Francisco. Cal.. Dee. 17. Captain B. F. Ttlley. U. S. N.. ex-governor of Tutu lla. Samoa, arrived here on the steamer Sonoma, accompanied by his wife. He will proceed to Washington, traveling leis urely by the southern route, in order to accustom himself to a climate more rig orous than that to which he has long been accustomed. New Tork, Dec. 17. Park Benjamin, CAN'T KEEP IT UP. Can't Deceive Topeka People Very Loos Tbey Learn Quickly, It is sometimes an easy matter to fool the public, but you can't keep it up very long. They are sure to find you out; and every time a man is fooled another skeptic? Is made. We are nat urally skeptical when reading a pub lished statement riven by some stranger residing in a far-away place, but the circumstances are entirely different when home endorsement is presented. The testimony of local citizens renders deceit impossible. It is so easy for you to inevestigate. Read this case: Mr. J. R. Black, of No. 1005 East Blxth street, paper hanger and painter, says: "During the three years that I suffered from kidney complaint, the grumbling, aching pain across the small of my back greatly inconvenienced me when reaching and straining as is nec essary to do in paper hanging. I also had a very distressing and annoving weakness of the kidneys, particularly noticeable at night when it greatly broke my rest and I arose aa tired in the morning as when I went to bed. When I saw Doan's Kidney Fills ad vertised I got a box at Rowley Snow's drug store, corner of Sixth street and Kansas avenue. They gave me the greatest satisfaction and in a short time the pain in my back disappeared." For Bale by all dealers. Price, 60c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.. sole agents for the United States Remember the name, Doan's, and taJt no substitute. About the first thing the doctor says How are your bowels Then, "Let's see your tongue." Because bad tongue and bad bowels go together. Regulate the bowels, clean up the tongue. We all know that this is the way to keep well. You can't keep the bowels healthy and regular with, purges or bird-shot pills. They move you with awful gripes, then you're worse than ever. Now what you want is Cascarets. Go and get them today Casca rets in metal box cost ioc. Eat Ladies' Qlnstex Rings. The most fashionable ring: for ladies at the present time is the Cluster. We have sold these rings heretofore in solid gold only at 89.00 each. For the first time in our history we are enabled to furnish these rings with Emerald. Ruby. Opal or Turquoise centers at Jl.uo hAL'H. ut ti ers ask 84 and $6 for these rings. Order at once. Goods war ranted. president of the naval arch commission, which has charge of the proposed naval arch and water gate at the battery in this city, announced today that the project has been temporarily given up. The arch and gate was to have cost $l,3u0.00i, and $250,000 has been pledged. Mr. Benjamin said that the Schley controversy had destroyed public interest in the- undertaking. Washington, Dec. 17. Late advices re ceived at the state department, from its agents in Turkey show that they have not remitted their efforts to secure the re lease of Miss Stone and are again seek ing to open up communication with the brigands with probability of success. Chicago, Dec. 17. To prevent the sale of property of the Assyrian Asphalt com pany, under a judgment for $112,648, cred itors filed in the United States district court a petition in which they asked to have the concern declared bankrupt. On their application John McLaren was ap pointed receiver. Shamokin, Pa. Dec. 17. Fourteen thou sand men and boys have been rendered idle because of the flood in this district. There are fourteen collieries in this region and all of them were flooded by the heavy downaour. Washington, Dec. 17. The committee designated by the representatives of the two houses of congress appointed to in vite Secretary Hay to deliver an address in memory of the late President McKin ley, called upon the secretary and secured his consent to perform this distinguished service. No time for the ceremony was fixed. Hancock Sails With Recruits. San Francisco, Dec. 17. The transport Hancock sailed at noon today for Ma nila with a large number of troops and cabin, passengers. On board are 21 offi cers and 653 men of the Fifteenth cav alry seven officers and 360 recruits, three officers return to duty, 19 lady passengers and six children, together with hospital corps and signal corps men. Last Obstacle Removed. Washington, Dec 17. As a result of the negotiations that have been in prog ress between Secretary Hay and Min ister Brun, the Danish minister, the last obstacles of substance to the prepara tion of the treaty of cession whereby the United States will be come possessed of the Danish West Indian islands have been removed. It is said that the points of difference have been adjusted in a manner to insure the acceptance of the treaty by the United States senate, and it is even possible that the convention may be laid before that body before the holiday recess. The decision of the su preme court in the insular cases has made easier the preparation of the treaty on satisfactory lines, it is said. Rumors of Miss Stone. London, Dec. 17. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, wiring from Sofia, says that George Washburn, president of Robert college at Constan tinople, has ascertained that Miss Ellen M. Stone is not now in Bulgaria, Mr. Washburn also learns that the majority of the band holding Miss Stone captive are Bulgarians. It is rumored that Miss Stone is now in Servia. Mental Scientists indicted. Sea Breeze. Fla.. Dec. 17. The federal grand jury today at Jacksonville re turned true Mills against C. C. Post, husband of Helen Wilmans Post, the leader of the mental scientists, and C. F. Burgman, her son-in-law, all of this place, charging them with violating section 5480, United States revised stat utes, which relates to using mails for fraudulent purposes. A similar bill has been returned against Helen Wilmans Post. Housebreaker Shot Seriously. Kansas City, Dec. 17. A man who was .shot last night and seriously wounded by A. T. Conwell, whose house he had entered, today give his name as C. E. Bean. He refused to talk further than to say he had come to Kansas City three weeks ago. Several receipts in his pocket bore the imprint of tha Davenport, Iowa, Times, and the name of C. E. Bean. His wound is still con sidered serious. Around tba World in a Canoe. San Francisco, Dec. 17. News comes from Australia that Captain Voss and his little 40 foot canoe arrived at Sydney No vember 20, having made the vovage safely from British Columbia, At Fiji his mate. Luxon. concluded to go to Sydney by steamer, so Captain Voss shipped a sailor named Louis Degonte, but the man was washed overboard five days out and Captain Voss made the rest of the voy age alone. He will go from Sydney to Ceylon on his voyage abound the world. NORTH TOPEKA. Leave items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co., 912 North Kansas Ave.J Pictures framed at James'. 25 dozen ladies' hemstitched hand kerchiefs 2c each. COSTLEY POST, George Albe waa in from Silver Lake today. 1S02 calendars and diaries. James. Joseph Taylor, of Rossville, was In town today. Fountain pens $1.00 and up. James'. The F. A. A. will give a dance at their nail Wednesday evening.. The Union Pacific pay car came in this morning. Focketbooks, Bibles, miscellaneous dooks. James Lou Myers, of Thompsonville, was In town yesterday. J. T. Hopkin3, of Rossville, was a Toi- peka visitor today. Mr. Olin Bell, of Lawrence, was trans acting business m North Topeka today. A glance at our windows will make you think of Christmas. COSTLEY POST. Frank Hale has moved his harness shop to the building back of Morns Myers. Go buy a hat for Christmas at half price at NEW ERA DEPT. STORE. W. S. Eastman was in Meriden Sat urday to attend the funeral of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Dibble have moved from 1126 Van Buren street to 1129 Qumcy street. A big sale on all millinery goods this week at Mrs. Courtney's, two stores, 603 soutn, suf north. 50 dozen ladies all linen handker chiefs for 5c each. Now is the time to buy your Christmas presents. COSTLEY POST. For this week only, $2.00 oval Platinos for $1.00 dozen. Aldridge's studio, 1015 North Kansas avenue. Mrs. Kate Sproat returned last even ing to Speer, Okla,, after a short visit to relatives in Topeka. Don't buy your Christmas presents until you look at our line. Prices the lowest til t NEW ERA DEPT. STORE. The ground is being broken for the erection of the Clime-Baird building on Kansas avenue north of R. Nichols' real estate office. The Ladies' Guild of the Church of the Good Shepherd will meet Thurs day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Hart, 613 West Gordon street. 10c and 12e percales, 5c yard; 6c plain -white tennis flannel, 3c yard; 10c 32-inch twilled cretonne, 5c yard, at the "Fire and Smoke" sale. W. B. SPEAR CO., 834 North Kan. Ave.- Miss Elizabeth Conklin has resigned her place with the W. B. Spear com pany and taken a position with the Mills Dry Goods company. The cottage prayer meeting of the Central Avenue Christian church will be held this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gash, on Central ave nue. The Epworth, league will hold their monthly business meeting this evening in the Kansas Avenue M. E. church. At thi3 time the annual election of officers will take place. 50c blue denim overalls, 39c pair; 50c work shirts, 39c each; $1.00 men's blan ket lined duck coats, 69c each; $1.75 men's mackintosh with cape, $1.00, at the "Fire and Smoke" sale. W. B. SPEAR CO., 834 North Kan. Ave. Miss Jeannette Wolcott is making ar rangements to go over to Atchison dur ing the holidays, where she will be en tertained by Mies Florence Kaffer and Miss Bessie Fletcher. There will be an opportunity to buy desirable Christmas presents at the Ladies' Bazaar at Kansas Avenue M. E. church, Wednesday, December 18. The bazaar will be open all day, and in the evening supper will be served, 15 cents. Mrs. C. C. Conkle and little daughter, Edith Marie, are expected Sunday from Canon City, Colo., to spend the holidays the guests of Mrs. Conkle's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Baker, of 1113 Jackson street. RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA. New York Mercantile Association Pleads For Such Result. New York, Dec. 17. Commercial bod ies" throughout the United States are being asked by the Merchants' associa tion of this city to co-operate in a movement toward! securing favorable action by congress in. the matter of commercial reciprocity with Cuba, says the Journal of Commerce. To this end resolutions on the subject, recently adopted by the directors of the associa tion are being sent to merchants and commercial organizations all over tha country and also to President Roose velt, members of his cabinet and to all members of congress. The statement of the Merchants' as sociation says: "Commercial bodies throughout the United States are invited to co-operate by adopting similar resolutions an-.l transmitting them at once to their re spective senators and representatives in congress." HANGED HERSELF. Woman Commits Suicide in Her Steamer State Room. New York, Dec. 17. Her mind unbal anced by business reverses of her hus band, Mrs. Una H. Perry of this city, killed herself on the Fall River steamer Friscilla, at the pier here. She and her son Ralph, 6 years old, were being ta ken to Boston by Mrs. Redman, her mother. While the grandmother and boy were on the deck of the vessel Mrs. Perry hanged herself to a clothes hook in her state room. The woman's husband, George H.Per ry, came from St. Louis about a year ago and started in business here but was unsuccessful. Mr. Perry is said to be in the west at present and Mrs.Perry worried over his absence. A Horse For Roo sovelt Manchester, Vt., Dec. 17. A letter has just been received from Captain John Got? at Morocco, saying that he expect ed a fine blooded Arabian saddle horse to reach him from the interior about December 10. He says the animal will be shipped to Washington for President Roosevelt's use. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. This wonderful medicine ha9 never been equalled as stomach strength -ener and health builder. It is the only one to take when your system is weak and run down and you suffer from dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, flatulency; sour stomach or headache. Try it. It will surely do you good. Be sure to get the genuine with our Private Die- 5-tsmp over the neck of tbe bottle, also obtain a copy of Hos tetter's Almanac for 1902 from your druggist, free. NIPPED IN THE HUD. Scheme of Curtis Men to Pack Kansas Day Banquet.,. Fred Vandegrift has uncovered a plan of the backers of. Congressman Curtis for United States senator to pack the Kansas Day banquet with the friends of' Mr. Curtis, which may result in an overwhelming crowd at the banauet. He says "A. K. Rodgers, custodian of Con gressman Charles Curtis' boom for United States senator, has sent to the Kansas Day club committee a list of 331 men whom he wants invited to the an nual banquet to be given January 23. The scheme is to pack the meeting with Curtis men and so convert the feast into a Curtis affair. The committee paid no attention to the request, for the reason that every Republican who has the price of a plate is invited without waste of stationery and postage. The request, however, has served to inform the friends cf other candidates for United States senator of Curtis' proposed flank movement, and it is probable that tables will be spread for the overflow in the senate chamber, in the supreme court room and elsewhere in the state house. It will be a great day for the hotels and the drug stores of Topeka. "It ia fortunate for the management of the banquet that this rivalry of sen atorship boom has come up, for it will give a zest and spirit to the occasion that otherwise would be lacking. The committee has been disappointed in its plans fop oratoVical attractions this winter, and Its programme, while an nounced and published, is still subject to amendment. There is a scarcity of native timber, and to piece out some men who have been on exhibition be fore have been put on. The committee built its hopes on Senator Hanna, of Ohio, but he has a previous engagement. Then Senator Foraker was talked of, but the second thought came that Sen ator Foraker might resent being made second choice. Next the committee turned to Marcus A. Low, who replied that he expects to be in Washington January 29. In place of Mr. Low's own proper person, P. A. Valentine promises to read Mr. Low's speech, but Mr. Low has not consented to write it yet; so that number on the programme is in the air. "The chief attraction, and, indeed, an attraction even with Senator Hanna on the programme, will be Col. William H. Rossington. of Topeka. Colonel Ri sington ia only recently from the Demo cratic fold, and his address is apt to contain some ideas never heard at a Republican banquet before." HOBSON ENGAGED. Will Marry Niece of Got. Busb nell in February. Springfield, O., Dec. 17. Capt.- Rich mond P. Hobson. of Merrimac fame, has succumbed to the wiles of Cupid and his engagement was announced today to Miss Eleanor Ludlow, one of the most beautiful young women in Spring field. Captain Hobson attended the opening of the Y. M., C, A. building in this city last fall, and while here met Miss Ludlow, who was one of the com pany having charge of the arrange ments for the opening. He has been a frequent visitor in this city since that time, and it was currently reported that he was engaged to be married to Miss Ludlow, but not until today was the secret made public. Captain Hobson arrived in the city yesterday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Miller, who gave a dinner last night in honor of the bride and bridegroom to be. Miss Ludlow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lud low and is a niece of former Governor Asa Bushnell. The wedding will take place in February. HARVARD'S NEW ORATOR. R C. Brace, of Indianapolis, Ia a Colored Man. Cambridge, Mass., Dec.17. At a meet ing of the senior class at Harvard last night the following class day officers were elected: Secretary, Barrett Wen dall, Jr., of Boston; first marshal, J3. C. Campbell of Cambridge, Mass.; second marshal, H. Lewis of Boston; third mar shal, J. E. Willis of Morristown, N. J orator, R. C. Bruce of Indianapolis; poet, R. M. Greene of Boston; Ivy ora tor, H. M. Ayres of Upper Montslair, N. J.; odist, W. E. Forbes of Milton, Mass.; chorister, H. R. Brownell of New Bed ford, Mass. Wendall is captain of the nine, Camp bell led the eleven to victory last month, Willis is captain of the track team, and Brownell pulled on the substitute fours that defeated Yale at New London last June, Bruce is one of the few colored men in college. A Woman's Awful Peril. "There is only one chance to save your life and that is through an operation." were the startling words heard by Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge, Wis., from her doctor after he had vainly tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach trou ble and yellow jaundice. Gall stones had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then she began to use Electric Bitters which wholly cured her. It's a wonderful stomach, liver and kidney remedy. Cures dvspepsia, loss of appetite. Try it. Only 50c. Guaranteed. For sale by A. J. Arn old Son's drug store, 821 North Kansas ave. He Cannot Recover. Washington, Dec. 17. James Q. Stiff of Oak Grove. Va.. who was shot while with a number of men attempting to chastise .nerDerc jviarx at me latter a nome ai Grove some time ago, was today removed from the Emergency hospital here to his own home. The hospital physicians say that ha can not recover. Sentries Froze to Death. Lisbon, Dec. 17. The cold weather pre vailing here is quite unprecedented. Two sentries have been frozen to death. The river Tagus is full of drift ice. The pro vinces of Portugal have been swept by a snow storm. Mrs. McKln ley's Visitors. Canton. O.. Dec. 17 Two sisters of the late president, Mrs. A. J. Duncan and Miss Helen McKinley, of Cleveland, are here to visit Mrs. McKinley. Mrs. McKinley does not require medical at tention, although Drs. Phillips and Port.-nann see her once or twice a week. Traffic Stopped in London. London, Dec. 17. The cold, accom panied by dense fog upset most of the traffic arrangements in London this morning. River traffic was at a stand still for hours and thousands of out door laborers were unable to work. The railroads in the provinces are Blowly clearinir their tracks which have been snow bound for four or five days. Tele graphic communication remains great ly impaired. Sing's Visit Called Oft London. Dec. 17. The World today says the proposed visit of King Edward and Queen Alexandra to Ireland, which was to have taken place in tne spring or after his majesty's coronation, has been abandoned on account of the ais- turbed state of that country. C. D. Sinclair Dead Racine. Wis.. Dec. 17. Calvfh D. Sinclair treasurer of the Mitchell Wagon Works -uea here today, agea bit years. MISCELLANEOUS IDS. UKiOASt:L I REE MESSENGER FOR WANTS PULL a Postal Telegraph-Cable box or call by telephone No, 417 and have your Want Ads brought to the State Journal office by free messenger. No charge to you for messenger servioe. Cost of classi fied ads S cents per line of words to the .line and every fraction thereof. WANTED SITUATIONS. WANTED Situation by- young black smith. Address W. C, care Journal. WHEN you want to hire a man or boy. call up Y. M. C. A., telephone 811. We have a list of men and confidential ref erences concerning them. Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau, 117 East Eighth at. WANTED Situation aa pressman, cylin der or Job presses, had 12 years' experi ence and can give good references. Ad dress M. Vogel, 339 Lawrence St., Topeka, Kan. WANTED FEMALE HEt,?. WANTED Good girl to cook at 122 W. 6th st. WANTED A competent girl at once 300 E. 6th st. WANTED White girl for general kitchen work 204 W. 6th st. WANTED-2 dining room girls or girls to learn, southeast corner of 8th and Quincy sts. WANTED Good girl for general house work; good wages. 1112 Topeka ave. WANTED Girl to do general housework. Apply forenoons 621 Topeka ave. WANTED Girl for general housework, family of 8. Inquire 826 Monroe. $10 WEEKLY copying letters at home:in close 2 stamps with application. Wo man's Western Employment Bureau, Box 33, Quincy, 111. WANTED A capable head dining room girl; steady employment and good pay. Address H. C. Whitley, Emporia, Kan. WANTED AGENTS. WANTED Agents; quick money for rustlers;- salary or commission. Inquire Storms, 116 E. 8th st. WANTED MISCELLANE OCT 1 WANTED To exchange one Golden Oak Domestic sewing machine for cart at the Domestic office, 718 Kansas ave. Bab cock Frost sole agents. WANTED To buy a small heating stove. Address Stove, Journal office. WANTED Lace curtains and portiere to clean. Mrs. Fosdick. 725 Quincy at. WE guarantee splendid wages to anyone that learns the trade with us. We want 100 men now and can furnish positions to all; only two months required; can earn scholarship if desired. Catalogue mailed tree. Moler Barber College, St. Louis.Mo. $10 WEEKLY, male or female, copying letters at home; send 2 stamps with ap plication. People's Supply House, Chicago. FOR LOWER TARIFF. Russian Statesman1 Says That's the Country's Worst Need. Correspondence of the Associated Press. St. Petersburg, Dec. 3. Mr. Anton Rad xig, a statistician and economist of high standing, has taken a strong stand against a chauvinistic commercial policy. In a published letter he says the tariff difficulties with the United States have brought Russia considerable disadvan tages with no compensating advantages. Referring to Germany, Mr. Radzig says she is very foolish to raise her breadstuff because German agriculturists are unable to supply all the demands of the German population for foodstuffs. He anticipates that the principal result of a high Ger man tariff will be a general rise in prices which the consumer will have to pay. What Russia needs is not higher, but lower, duties, and above all he believes that a commercial war would be the worst possible Investment for the coun try. A metallurgical congress, now sitting at Kharkoff, has petitioned for the free im portation of pitch used in manufacturing coal brickettes. This pitch comes from the South Atlantic states. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. M. F. Church and wife to James W. Hornback, $300, lot 160, Lawrence street, Parkdale addition. C. J. Gore and wife to Chas. S. Gleed, $500, north half lot 6, Woodlawn avenue, Potwin sub-addition. Zorada Scott et al to Mary Ida and Fanny May Scott. Jl, lot 1-3-5-7-9-11, McVicar avenue, and lot 2-4-6-8-10-12, Guthrie avenue, Griffith sub-addition. A. S. Hail to C. Bauerschmidt, $500, lot 476 and north half 47S Harrison street, Huntoon's addition. P. I. Bonebrake, executor, to F. P. Rude, $2,350, part northeast fraction quarter 24-11-15. B. R. Wrheeler, receiver, to Geo. A. Miller, 872, lots 4-6-8-12-14-16-13-15, block 1, Russell's Meadowside addition. A. O. Fuller and wife to R. E. "Val entine, SI, lot 136 north half 138, Liberty street, Veale's addition. E. E. Payton and wife to J. M. James, Jr., $98.79, part reservation 4. A. Dienst and wife to M. E. Muth, $1. 900, lots 312 and south half 310 Poik street. E. Brown and wife to R. B. Stewart, $500, nw of ne of reserve 6. Evaline Knowlton to Marguerite Rand, $1, lot 118 and north four feet 116 Topeka avenue, Curtis addition. Dr. Huidekoper Dead. Philadelphia, Dec. 17. Dr. Rush S. Huidekoper died here today from a com plication of diseases said to have been contracted during the Spanish-American war. Dr. Huidekoper was United States commissioner general at the exposition at Hamburg in 18S3 and in 1803 was appointed chief surgeon in the army with tne rank of lieutenant colonel. He was 47 years of age. Finger Marks on Her Throat. Washington, Pa., Dec. 17. At a result of the inquest on the remains of Mrs. Eliza beth Shannon, found dead in a held near Waynesburg yesterday, David Hoge has been placed under arrest. Finger marks were found on the woman's throat and It is thought she was choked to death. Hoge is a member of an old and well known Green county family. Holiday Excursion Rates, THE UNION PACIFIC will sell tickets on its lines for the Holidays at Greatly Reduced Rates. For dates of sales, limits, and points to which tickets will be sold, apply to F. A. Lewis, city tocket agent. 525 Kan sas avenue; J. C. Fulton, depot agent. Holiday Rates via Rock Island Route Tickets on sale December 24, 25 and 31, and January 1. Final limit January 2, 1902. New designs in fine cut glass at F. W. Swearingen'a Jewelery store, 724 Kan sas avenue. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED Men to learn barber trade, tools furnished; also opportunity for earning board: positions guaranteed. Writs for particulars. Motor's Barbr College, Denver, Col. rOR RENT- HOUSES. FOR RENT A furnished 5 room house with some modern conveniences, close in, to couple who will board the owner. References required. Address A. B. C, Journal- office. FOR RENT 9 room house 1027 Kansas ave, 16 per month, or $8 for 6 rooms on second floor, and $12 for first floor; city water in house good cellar. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT One large and one smaller room, well heated and furnished, mod ern conveniences; good board. 520 Harri son st. FOR RENT Large unfurnished room, also small one, $3 and $2 par month. 800 W. 8th st. FOR RENT 3 rooms furnished or unfur nished. 223 B. 6th St.. cheap. FOR RENT 1 furnished room, heat, hot and cold water, $5 a month. 522 W. 6th. FOR RENT 2 unfurnished rooms south west corner 6th and Polk sts. FOR RENT 2 large furnished rooms. In quire southwest corner 6th and Polk st. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE At a bargain, one Baby Grand Kranich Beach piano. BABCOCK FROST. 718 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE Eight sewing machines, all makes, taken on mortgage must ba sold in 10 days; your price. Come quick; cash or time. N. B. Campbell, 605 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Fresh Jersey cow, gives 1 gallons milk daily. Apply 204 Branner. FOR SALE Four Kimball organs (new). taken on mortgage; must be sold in 10 days; come quick; cash or payments, at any old price. N. B. Campbell, 605 Kan sas ave. FOR SALE For storage goods belonging to M. C. Haas of Wichita, Kan., consist ing of 1 cook stove and pipe, 1 lounge. C. D. Skinner. S. W. corner 6th and Quincy, Saturday at 2 p. m January 4, 1902. FOR SALE 25 organs any old price. BABCOCK FROST, 718 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE Several boilers, engines and tanks, also pulleys, hangers and shaft ing. Boiler repairing done. Apply T. E. Riley, 114 Kansas ave. north. Tel. 753." FOR SALE Horse, buggy and harness, cheap. S. W. cor. 6th and Polk sts.- FOR SALE 70 acres, part bottom land, 4 miles from North Topeka, 2 story house, well. W. M. Pollom, North Topeka. FOR SALE The best bank counter In Topeka and other furniture. May ba seen at 816 Kansas ave. Address C. C. Baker. 113 E. Eighth st. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. IFoT-C's'AiPSly'lionie quire at the house. FOR SALE By M. Ireery, 32 Monroe St., houses and lots on time payments. lOST AND FOUND. LOST A large black Mastiff with white stripe down the breast. Liberal reward fiven If returned to Mr. Mucks, No. 3 Are epartment, for Identification. A. B. Hen ry, at C. C. Baker's. LOST Heart-shaped scarf pin between 8th st. and Kansas ave. and 11th and Jackson Saturday evening. Leave at Weightman's drug store, 833 Kansas ave., and eret 50c. LOST Fur collarette. Reward for return to Kellam Book Stationery Co. LOST Waltham watch, silver case. Re ward for return to 1335 Kansas ave. MISCELLANEOUS. SEWING machines repaired by an ex pert machinist, all work guaranteed at Babcock Frost, 718 Kansas ave. SEE those $25.00 sewing machines at the Domestic office. Babcock Frost, sole agents. 718 Kansas ave. AUCTION. PUBLIC SALE 10 o'clock a. m., Dec. 18, 1901, at my farm, 5 miles northeast of North Topeka, Kan., 52 head of cattle, 16 head of hogs, 2 horses, weight, 2,600 2 colts, harness. 1 buggy, surrey, spring wagon and 1 lumber wagon and farm im plements, consisting of plows, cultivators, harrow, mowing machine, hay rake, port able engine, also some household and kitchen furniture; also feed, consisting of Kaffir corn, cane, hay and fodder. Terms all sums of $10 or under, cash: over $10 a credit of nine months will be given, with bankable note, at 6 per cent from date of sale: 6 per eent off for cash. A. D. Jones. Hungate, auctioneer. BANS: STATEMENTS. (First published in the Topeka State Journal Dec. 16, 1901.) Report of the condition of the CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK of Topeka at the close of business Dec. 10. 1901, as called for by the comptroller of the currency: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 695.551.00 Overdrafts 5,842.00 U. S. bonds to secure circula tion 250,000.00 U. S. bonds to secure U. 8. de posits 60,000.00 Premium on U. S. bonds 15.375.00 Stocks, bonds and securities... 9,725.00 Furniture and fixtures 4,000.00 Real estate 1,300.00 Investment in banking build ing 76,500.00 Due from other na tional banks '4.8S4.65 Due from state banks 14,177.98 Due from approved reserve agents 211,887.32 Checks and other cash items 10,547.39 Exchange for clear ing house B9,S78.59 Bills of other national banks 28,105.00 Nickels and cents 663.72 Specie gold and silver 72.403.05 Legal tender notes.... 20.0uO.0O 422,047.70 Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer 12,500.00 Internal revenue stamps 810.00 Total $1,643,230.78 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 250.000.00 Surplus fund 38,000.00 Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid 12.41.82 Circulation outstanding 250.000.00 Due to national banks! 26,198.20 Due to state banks 17,221.14 Due to Trust Co.'s and savings banks.. 14,610.82 Individual deposits subject to check 774,678.96 Demand certificates of deposit 110,990.24 Certified checks 68.00 Cashier's checks out standing 19.002.02 United States deposit. 50,000.00 $1,012,765.38 Total $1,543,230.70 State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss. I, Edwin Knowles, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. EDWIN KNOWLES. Cashier. Correat Attest: P. I. BONEBRAKE, C. S. GLEED, C. S. DOWNING. Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of December 1901. GEORGE B. MANNING. (Seal.) Notary Public. (Commission expires September 13, 1905.) TO WHOM IZ MAY CONCERN. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My ap plication for a permit to sell intoxicat ing liquors, according to law, st XSi and 124 East Fourth' Street, in th Becond ward of the city of Topeka. is now on file in the office of the probate juo of Shawnee county, Kan. Tha hr!ng of the same is set for Friday at 9 o'clock a, m., January 10, 1902. M. A. rUNCHESfl. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My ap plication for a permit to sell intoxicat ing liquors, according to law, at 116 East Sixth St., in the Second ward of the city of Topeka, is now on file In the office of the probate judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. The hearing of the same is set for Thursday at 9 o'clock a. m., January 2, 1902. J. HENRIETTA. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My P rlication for a renewal of my permit to sell Intoxicating liquors, according to law. at 632 Kansas avenue, in ths Second ward of the city of Topeka, Is now on flic In tha office of th probate judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. Th hearing of the same is set for Friday at 9 o'clock a. m D- cember SO. 1901. GEORQE W. STANSFTELD. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vltrl- fled Brick and Paving Co. has been re moved to 11 West Eighth st. FLORIST 3. MlftiT'jRpH'AaUET'f ave. 'Phon 602. CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at. Hayes'. 107 West Eighth st. 'Phone 689. SATIN-SKIN SPECIALTIES. SATIN-SKIN Cream nourlsh.-s away wrinkles, blemishes: gives lovely com plexion, satin skin. 25c. New Model. STAMP3, SEALS AND BTENOIL1 THE J. C. DARLING CO.. T34 Kn. Av. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade Checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. Tel. 23. STORAGE. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER ft STOltAQK Co., packs, shins and stores househc vl goods. Tel. 186. Clarence Skinner. 123 E. Sixth st. FREE DISPENSARY. FREE DISPENSARY. 128 Kansas av north of 1st St.. under manngement ot seven Topeka physicians, where those who are unable to pay for medical treat ment may have, the same free of charge. SPECIALISTS. DR. J. ALBERT B7TRRY. 623 Kansas av., tel. 765 Diseases ot tne organs oi digestion, including the mouth, nose, throat, stomach and Intestines. SANITARIUM. THE Improved Turkish bath and the Bat tle Creek sanitarium massage: trained nurse In attendance. 723 Quincy st. MONEY. FARM LOANS Low rate, best terms. S to 10 years: privilege to pay In full or in partial payments before due. Loans can be closed at once. Call on or write The Kansas Mutual Life Ins. Co.. 7ol Jackson St., Topeka, Kas. TO LOAN Monev on Tonrka real estatf. Pay back monthly. Low Interest rate. Shawnee Building and Loan Association. See Eastman at 115 West Sixth st. MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos. organs typewriters, household Roods and personal security. L. Biscoe. 623 Kan, ave. ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW. T. D. HUMTHRETS. lawyer, has re movsd his office to 604 Kansas ave. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks. 60c: main springs. 7oc: crystals, me. uasn paia for old gold or silver. All work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, sea Uncle Sam, 512 Kansas tv PHYSICIANS AND 8URGEON3. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 728 Kansas Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m.. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 698 residence and 16 office. DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathlst, 629 Kansas ave. Telephone 402. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HATDEN. Jeweler and Optt clan. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. BICYCLE 1 TOPEKA CYCLE Co.. 109-111 E. 8th et. Tel. 706. Bicycles and sundries: bteycli s and tandems for rent: repairing of ail kinds. U. S. CYCLE Co., 11$ E. 8th St. National and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs. HAIR DRESSING. SWITCHES, shampooing, wigs frr Santa Clause, etc Airs, van vicck, iA bin St. Tel. 878. JFOXCItAaE FOR EXCHANGE One fine square piano for a horse. 718 Kansas Ave. HIDES AND FURS. WANTED Hides and furs; highest mar ket price paid. 217 W. 6th st. T. J. Brown. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN Attorney and counselor in patent, trademark andcopyrlght causes. Patents procured: trademarks registered. Office. Rosen Building. 418 Kansas Ave. MACHINE SHOPS. BUT, sell or trade guns; fine repairing, machine, patent models, sporting goods tot Kan. av. H. M. Howard, Golden Rule. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. WESTBOUND. Arrive. Leave. Texas Express No. 1 12:50 pm 1:00 pm St. J. Topeka No. 139.12:45 pm Night Colo. Flyer No. 9.8:10 pm 8:10 pm Night Texas Ex. No. 3. ..11 :45 pm 12:01am S. W. Express No. 25 8:05 pm K. C. ft Chicks sha No. 35 :30 am 9:35 am EASTROt'ND. Eastbound Limited No. 18.80 pm S:SS pm Topeka St. Joe No. 14. 3::'.B pm East Ex. Mail No. 4.. 5:30 am 4:20 am Col. K. C. Flyer No. 10 7::i0ani Topeka St. Joe No. 26. 7:31 am Chick. K.C. No. 36... 7:00 pm 7:00 pm All trains dally except Nos. 35 and So daily except Sunday. UNION PACIFIC. .WESTBOUND. Arrive. Leave. Den. Pac. Coast No. 5.12:30 pm 12:30 pm Limited No. 1 11:10 pm 11:10 pm Juno. City Pass. No. 8.. 6:10 pm 6:25 pm EASTBOUND. Atlantic Ex. No. 4 3:0 pm 3:00 pm Limited No. 2 6:5t)am BrnOarn K. C. Pass. Jo. 6....r 8:05 am 8:2am MISSOURI PACIFIC. Arrive. Leave. Topeka-Ft. Scott Accom. No. 285 6:00 pm 8:09 am

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0 TOPEKA STATE JOTJUNA.L., TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1901 NEW DIRECTORY IS OUT It Is Bigger and Ever. Better Than j X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--X- X X" X- X- X- X-X-X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X- X X" X-X-X-X-X- x-x-x- X-X-X-X-X- X-X-X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X- Holiday Attractions. This is an ALL-STAR Aggregation. x t X- i X-X-X- X-X-X-X- -tt t t -tc -tc Any one of the following Artiafio Productions will discourse sweetest music for you for years to come, and and also gratify the eye In their new "costumes." Hard man, Story Clark, Packard, There are no Pianos like these named above and below IN ALL THE. WORLD not excepting any American or For eign makes, at the prices sold for. Schaeffer, Haines Co., i

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X- Starr Co. COMING. Braumuller Piano will arrive next Wednesday. It will please you; it must be "all right" when George F. Bristow says so, and La Qrassa makes it. A. B. Cameron Piano will arrive next Wednesday. It will be as plain as A. B. O. that the A. B. Cameron Cameron Piano is one of the nnest Pianos ever made for anything like tho price. Prices on Pianos S20D to $500 Terms Monthly, $6. $8, $10 Don't forget that we sell the Apollo Piano Player-- the most perfect instrument In all de tails of construction and proper ex ecution of music SPECIAL PRICES for the Holidays? Yes, of course, not to earry much stock past ibis period. X- X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X- f Peerless Z Organs. Regina 5 z Z Z Music Boxes. Prices $18 to $75. I Waverly Z Z Organs. t HHHHHHHHHHHHk---i JMHMMHf J X E. B. GUILD I MUSIC CO.: 2 GRIMES IS GLAD. Haver Would Have Done For Him to Be Barton's Secretary. Ctate Treasurer Frank Grimes, to whom Senator Burton offered his pri vate secretaryship some time ago, is shaking bands with himself because he turned down the job. He didn't know it at the time, but he has since discov ered that Washington is not so demo cratic a place as one would expect to find the capital o a popular government In which the ''common people" are the supposed "bulwark of the nation." It Is not much of a snap for a man of any spirit to be a private secretary to a congressman in Washington. Many of the congressmen do not amount to much, let alone their secretaries. It is a great breach of courtesy for one con gressman to introduce his private sec retary to another congressman, or for a senator to recognize his secretary as an equal In the presence of another senator. It Is all right for a congressman or a senator to eit down and talk to his sec retary alone In a committee room, but if another senator should come In con gressional courtesy requires that the secretary get up immediately, excuse himself and go out. Otherwise it would bo considered as an affront to the other senator. It is against the rules of senatorial courtesy for a senator to receive his private secretary at social gatherings as his equal. This sort of thing would not set well with a man of Mr. Grimes' spirit. "As it is now," he said, "I can go back to Washington and visit Senator Burton and be received by him, but If I was his private secretary he could not treat me in any such manner. One of the bright est men in Washington is Senator Hanna's secretary, yet Mr. Hanna does not dare to Introduce him to other sen ators, because of this social barrier." FORT SCOTT'S NEW PAPER. Will Be a Horning Issue and Repub lican in Polities Fort Scott, Kas., Dec 17. F. C. Ra ney, until recently editor of the Monitor, who is to start a new daily paper in Fort Scott, says it will be Issued in the morning Instead of the evening. He has secured the room in the opera house block formerly occupied by The Owl. and the basement under it. When ques tioned today lbout the new enterprise Mr. Raney said: "Arrangements have been made to make the new publication a morning daily with full Associated Press tele graph report. I expect to go to Kan sas City tomorrow to purchase a new press and complete outfit. The paper win oe canea me Kepubllcan, and will issue both daily and weekly editions." The Topeka City Directory, "larger and better than ever," is out. It con tains 870 pages, and 17,342 names in the alphabetization. It is illustrated with more half tone cuts than any issue heretofore has been. The present state officers. Judges of the supreme court. and other public men come first. The compilation of the churches, clubs, so cieties, secret societies, streets and city and county statistics follow. A new departure is the department devoted to a summary of the territorial period of the history of Kansas, lnciua Ing the half tone cuts of the governors of the state from the time Andrew Reeder, the first territorial governor took his oath of office in 1854 until the present time. On one page of the directory, Mr. Radges makes a strong argument to prove that our population is in excess of 40,000. He says: The number of names contained in the alphabetization is 17,342. Of this number, 5 per cent is deducted for the names of corporations, firms, and otner paragraphs not referring to individuals, which leaves 16.425. These figures rep resent the population over 18 years of age, except married women who are not engaged in mercantile or profes sional pursuits; these are estimated at 62 per cent (which is the lowest on rec ord) 8,240 making a total of 24,765. This gives what is known as the adult population. To this is added the official enroll ment for the public schools, 11,550, and for children under school age, approxi mated at one-third the number of the former, 3,850: a total of 15,400 under 18 years of age, and a grand total popula tion of 40,165. Another system for approximating the population of a city is to multiply the number of actual names in tne ai rectory by two and one-half, and by three In older communities. There being 16,425 names enumerated, it would show the population to be 41,068 at the min imum rate. William Elsey Connelley wrote a brief history of the city of Topeka, beginning with its birth in 1854, and dealing witn its growth, struggles and triumphs, that follows the publisher s preface to the directory. In mentioning Topeka, Mr. Radges says: If all that has been nroDOsed for Its improvement shall be carried out: If parks shall be beautified; if streets and avenues shall be raved: if fine resi dences shall be bullded; if the capltol shall be completed before the merciless hand of time has laid it in unrecogniz able ruins; and if Ceres most- benef icent of aroddesses wrought in im perishable bronze shall by some gen eration yet unborn be raised to her throne uoon the grand dome that over looks all the wide valley where, within the memory of men still young,, the In dian and the buffalo roamed, and wnere, before Kansas had a name, the Spaniard marched from the sea and marked the miles with deeds of orueltv and sham then will we not have lived and loved and labored in vain for her progress and success. The Topeka of the present Is largely what the progressive pioneers of -fifty years ago made her. The To peka of the future will be wholly what you shall will her to be, and the strength of man and the influence of woman must go hand in hand to per fect, intellectually and morally, the city that is our borne and our children s home; the one spot on earth where cen ters our love, our hopes, our faith and our pride. The next ten years will make or mar her fame and standing; will put her at the head or In the rear of the procession of western towns. Rivals will press hard and envy will detract, but I be lieve that the people, the guardians of ner prosperity, ner reputation ana ner honor, will stand together, and she will be victorious and without a peer when the cycle we have just entered shall be complete. ALL ABOUT A FOOT OF LAND 2 .r.'-1s.::i.r i '0 mi mm. fa that the proper way to cure indigestion, sick headache, consti pation, stomach and bowel troubles is NOT by the use of violent purgatives the sick body needs assistance, not forcing. A strong cathartic does not cure, it may seem at the moment to remove the difficulty, but in reality it only attacks the effect and by its inflammatory action aggravates the cause. Or (Caldwell's Synmp Pepsin and Herb Laxative Compound on the other hand is "made up of refined special herbal remedies so combined as to give it a gentle laxative effect; other ingredients soothing and healing the pepsin in it aiding digestion. It is a rational curative preparation put up by a physician, and if your own doctor does not think more of his fee than he does of your health, he will tell you to try a bottle. For Sale by Most Druggists Ask yours, but if he hasn't it don't accept a substitute. Write us and we will send you FREE a sample bottle and a very interesting book. PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY. Monticello. Ills., U.S.A. THEY WANT IN. People Living Near Washburn Object to Being Left Without Sewer. Some of the people in the west part of town who were not included in the proposed Washburn college sewer dis trict, as printed last week in the State Journal, have made an informal pro test against the plan to leave them out of the benefit district. In response to these objections. City Engineer McCabe has drawn up a new map, and is figur ing on the cost of extending the pro posed district to include all that part of the city between Fifteenth and Hun toon and Lane and College avenue. If the proposed extension in the boun- drie of the district are made, the sewer will 1 st more than double the first esti mate of 17,000. The cost will likely be in the neighborhood of J20.000 and there will be about 800 lots to bear the cost. The proposed extension of the sewer will branch off the7 24-inch main which it is proposed to build west on Piercy street. The branch will be at West street, from whence the proposed sewer will eo north to Thirteenth, west to Col lege avenue and east to Lane, with judgment and the court decided this morning that Pernell should have pos- THE EARTH OPENED. Earthquake in New Zealand Creates a Panic. San Francisco, Dec. 17. New Zealand news received by steamer gives details of great destruction of property In the Cheviot district by an earthquake on November 18. In the town of Cheviot and country damage will reach 20,000. Scarcely a building was left standing. The fine homestead of Sir George Clif ford was wrecked. Great fissures opened In the earth and water issued from them. In one office a heavy safe was thrown across the room and brick chimneys fell like toy houses. The people are panic stricken as the shocks still continue. At Waiian river great cracks opened in the river bed, into which water poured. Then eight long laterals extending to Hun- they closed and volumes of water were THEI CLAIM THE EARTH. in The United States Gov ernment Report shows Royal Baking Powder to be stronger, purer and better than anv other. It Resulted in Lengthy Law Suit District Court. There is an extra foot of land or there is not in the block on Kansas avenue in i North Topeka between Norria and Lau- j rent streets. One survey shows an ex tra 12 Inches and the other survey shows Just enough ground. The uncertainty about the number of feet in the block was developed by the suit of W. C. Little against L. C. Arnold In the district court for $260 which Judge Hazen decided Monday in favor of Lit tle. Twenty years ago G. W. Little, the father of W. C. Little, who is now dead. planned to erect a building on his lot. He had a survey made and the surveyor found an extra foot of land. Aletha Craig owned the property next to Little. He told her of the extra foot. She didn't want it, so Little took it. Aletha Craig sold her property to Arnold and he erected a building and used the wall of the little building and claimed that as it was on his property that he should not pay for it. Little wanted 1260 for it. and claimed that tne extra dozen inches were his. The court decided that as hi3 building had occupied the 12 inches for twenty years ana tnat tne matter was understood when he erected his building mat ne snouia nave pay for his wall. BANQUET FOK THE LADIES. Saturday Nighters to Entertain Their Wivea Now Year's Eva Following a precedent established one year ago, the Saturday Night club will give its second annual midwinter ban quet at the National hotel on New Year s eve, Tuesday, December 31. During two decades the members of the Saturday Night club have ban queted annually, at which time it has been the custom to allow no one to make a speech or give a toast with any aegTee or saastaction, but the gentler sex was never included m the invitations. Finally when it was decided that the club should entertain the wives and friends of the members of the club, it came to a choice between, abandoning old customs or inaugurating a new or separate .banquet. The latter course was adopted. The banquet was given during the winter, and was called the midwinter banquet. At the banquet New Tear's eve the wives and friends of the Saturday isignters will be entertained by the fol lowing programme, in addition to the banquet: President's address, "Beyond the Alps lies Italy," x. JJoran. "Beyond the Rhine," Anna Marie Nellis. "Auditing the Old Tear'a Accounts," C. D. Welch. "The Old Tear and the ex-Members," John MacDonald. "Breaking New Resolutions," Mrs. C. J. Evans. "The Nation (al) Guard," Rev. J. D. McFarland. toon street on the north and Fifteenth street on the south, The maps and estimates of the city engineer are all preliminary, and are being prepared for the purpose of sub mittlng them to the people In the pro posed sewer district at a meeting to be called soon by those who are pushing the project. PERNELL MAY BE HEARD. Judge Hazen Sets Aside Judgment Against Him. Judge Hazen, in the district court. has set aside the default judgment- on the Kansas avenue building secured against Fred Pernell by the Chrisman estate. The building in controversy is occu pied by the Topeka Cash! Dry tioods company. It was owned by Eliza Chris- man and shortly before her death she deeded it to Fred Pernell, the negro plumber, who has since left Topeka. S. S. Ott and A. S. Embree, executors for the estate, brought suit to have the deed set aside and the judgment was rendered in their favor on account of Pernell not contesting the case. A pe tition was filed to set aside the default IT IS IMPORTANT. Long Grants Schley's Request. Washington, Dec 17. Secretary Long acknowledged In a formal letter the re- ceipt of the letter from Admiral Schley ior permission to file a bill of objections. The secretary's response was brief and purely formal, It granted the request and allowed until Friday next in which to submit the bill. To Know What You are Taking When Using Catarrh Medicines, Catarrh is the short route to consump tion, and the importance of early and judicious treatment of catarrh, whether located in the head, throat or bronchial tubes.Vcannot be too strongly emphasized. The list of catarrh cure3 is as long as the moral law and the forms in which they are administered, numerous and confusing, from sprays, inhalers, wash es, ointments, and Ealves to powders. liquids and tablets, s The tablet form is undoubtedly the most convenient and the most effective, but with nearly all advertised catarrh remedies it is almost entirely a matter of guess work as to what you are taking into your system, as the proprietors, while making all sorts of claims as to what their medicines will do. always keep it a close secret as to what they are. The success and popularity of the new catarrh cure, Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, is largely because it not only cures catarrh but because catarrh sufferers who use these tablets know what they are taking into their systema Stuart's Catarrh Tablets are composed of Red Gum, Blood Root and similar valuable and antiseptic ingredients, and are pleasant to the taste and being dissolved In the mouth they take Immediate effect upon the mucous lining of the throat. nasal passages and whole respiratory tract. The cures that Stuart's Catarrh Tab lets have accomplished in old chronic cases of catarrh are little short of remarkable, and the advantage of knowing what you are putting into your stomach is of paramount importance when it is remembered that the cocaine or morphine habit has been frequently contracted as the result of using secret catarrh remedies, i Stuart's Catarrh Tablets meet with cordial approval from physicians, be cause their antiseptic character render them perfectly safe for the general pub lic to use and their compoel Ion makes tfm a common swine cure for all forma of catarrhal troubles. All druggists sell them at 60 eta. for full sized p&sokaares. sent hundreds of feet into the air. HE LIVED IN TOPEKA. Lo wen thai Victim in Big Portland Diamond Bobbery. The LowenthaJ who has figured as a victim in the Portland diamond rob bery, is a "formerly of Topeka" man. About 20 years ago Lowenthal Broth ers, L. M. and A. F. Lowenthal, had a large Jewelry establishment in a build ing where the Western Union telegraph office now is. A. F. Lowenthal, who was robbed, was tenor singer and belonged to the Modccs. The brothers left here to start a wholesale jewelry business. in New Tork. WILL ENTERTAIN GROCERS. Topeka Association to Make Expo sition Visitors Comfortable. The Topeka Retail and Wholesale Grocers' association is planning to en tertain the delegates to the State Re tail Grocers association convention at Topeka January 21 and 22, at a banquet and the members of the local associa tion will meet Tuesday evening, De cember 17 at the Commercial club rooms to discuss plans and features for the entertainment of the grocers of the state. At the state meeting, which Is to be held here during the Kansas Midwinter exposition, a number of speakers of na tional reputation will be present. One of the important measures to come before that body for considera tion is a revised Kansas collection law. Title to Chicago Real Estate Worth Millions in Dispute. Chicago, Dec. 17. A claim has been made to practically all lake shore prop erty lying east of the United States survey line of 1821. This time every thing is included between the Indiana and Wisconsin state lines, covering property held by the Illinois Central railroad, the Illinois Steel company and other big corporations, representing a value of millions of dollars. Claimants to the north shore tract are said to be Dr. Jacob Nine, E. H. Pick ering and M. P. Benson. Those alleg ing title to the south shore tract are said to be B. D. Marks and S. M. Biddl son. both of Chicago. The north siders assert their title rests on revolutionary scrip secured many years ago, while the south siders place their faith in some other scrip obtained by Dr. Nine. These claims were brought out today by the filing for record of an agreement between the two parties, which was made on October 25, 1900. By this in strument interests In the two tracts are made mutual, and it is agreed that if the whole or any part of either tract is disposed of the proceeds are to be divid ed equally. Claimants allege that negotiations are pending for the sale of their title to a corporation, but real estate men are not disposed to consider the matter seri ously. BUYING GOOD WILL How London Papers Regard tbe Hay-Panncefote Treaty. HELD AT CRAWFORD. Boer Peace Meeting in Topeka Sun day December 29. Final arrangements fix the date of the mass meeting in Topeka for the purpose of passing peace resolutions bearing on the South African situation for Sunday afternoon, December 29, at 8 o'clock, at the Crawford opera house. At this meetinir Sunday afternoon. De cember 29. Major J. K. Hudson will pre side. Speeches will be made by David Overmyer and Capptaln J. G. Waters. Statistics showing the havoc wrought by the war. with no aimarent results, will be introduced and the meeting will close after the circulation of resolutions for the signatures of those present, urging the rompt adoption oz tne suggestion or ar-itration. DEATH CAUSED BI TUMOR. Suspicions Regarding John Weilert Are Allayed. John Weilert, a shoemaker running a little shop at 603V4 North Kansas avenue, died last Friday night. The circumstances gave rise to a suspicion ox suiciae. ana as his life was insured, it was decided to hold an autopsy so that his family would have no trouble in collecting the insurance if the suspicion was groundless. The body was removed to Hogan's un dertaking establishment, where Drs. Hogeboom and Buckmaster, assisted by Drs. Righter and Scholie. made an autopsy on Sunday and discovered a aocess on tne Drain wnicn- naa causeu death by forming a clot and producing convulsions. It was the convulsions iust before his death which led his attendants to suspect poisoning. Rothschilds Head Oil Trust. St. Petersburg. Dec 17. A telegram from Baku says the meeting- of naph tha firms summoned to Heal with the export question resulted in the with drawal from the-union -of the firms of Noble and MantaschefC. Other houses. headed by the Rothschilds, are said to have formed a combination, wh&h is expected to increase export prices. London, Dec. 17. With the exception of the Globe, the afternoon newspapers today comment approvingly on the rati fication of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty by the United States senate yesterday The Globe sees in the overwhelming ma jority for the ratification proof that the compact is regarded by the senate as one-sided and calculated to adversely affect British political and commercial interests. "Senator Teller's offensive phrase, In her present mood,' clearly signifies," the paper says, "the conviction that Eng land has become more submissive than The book-keeper's occupation renders him specially liable to stomach trouble. The hasty breakfast, the "quick lunch," the long hours spent in stooping over journal and ledger, with lack of exercise, all tend to the derangement of the stomach. When the stomach is in a healthy con dition the feeling after a meal is one of satisfaction and comfort. Whenever there is discomfort after eating it is a sign of stomach derangement or disease. Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs Of digestion and nutrition perfectly and permanently. The cures effected by this medicine are almost countless. I have taken one bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for indigestion and liver com pLaiot," writes Mr. C. M. Wilson, of Yadkin College, Davidson Co., N. C. Have had no bad spells since I commenced taking your medicine in fact have not felt like the same man. Before 1 took the Golden Medical Discovery 1 I could not eat anything without awful distress, but now I can eat anything 1 wish without ban lag unpleasant foelinxSt. Don't be fooled into trading a sub stance 'xx a shadow. Any substitute offered as just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery is a shadow of that medicine. There are cures behind every claim made for the Discovery," which no "just as good aaadidne can show. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the Dowels and regulate the liver. They produce permanent benefit and do not react on the system. to stand up for her rights against the American republic." The Globe concludes: "It is a sur render. We hand over national prop erty as purchase money for American friendship." COBURN AHEAD OF ALL. Receives More Invitation to Make Addresses Than State Officers. It is frequently stated that Governor Stanley receives more Invitations to make addresses than any other man in Kansas, with State Superintendent Frank Nelson a close second. This is incorrect. The man who receives the most invitations of this character is Secretary Coburn, of the state board of agriculture. Mr. Coburn Is flooded with them. Every mail brings them in from all over the state, and frequently from neighboring states. Air. Coburn is rarely ever able to com ply with these requests, however, owing to the vast amount of work with which he is crowded. He has an Immense mail to look after besides looking after the gathering of crop statistics and Is suing the reports which meet with so much favor. Both Governor Stanley and Superin tendent Nelson bave more time to give to making public addresses, and both of them receive aiore requsts than they can fill. Each of them frequently makes from three to five public ad dresses a week. Yesterday Governor Stanley went clear out to Lakln, on the extreme western border of the state, to give a lecture to a high school class. From there he will drive forty miles to day to make another address at Ulysses. DATE IS FIXED. Populist State Central Committee Will Meet Dec 27. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Populist state central committee on Decen ber 27 at the National hotel. It will be for the purpose of discussing the formal invitation- extended by ths Democrats to the Populists to partici pate in the Democratic primaries as Democrats. Some of the members of the commit tee are in favor of accepting the invita tion and going Into the Democratic party, and capturing the entire Demo cratic machinery. Others, principally the old-line Populists, are In favor of hanging on to their own organization and going it alone. Both John W. Breidenthal and E. R. Kidgley, the chairman, favor this plan. Not all of the old-line members of the committee are opposed to the Demo cratic invitation, however. Andrew Shearer, of Marshall county, for In stance, is one of the founders of the People's party, and before that he was a Greenback, but he is now in favor of going into the Democratic party. The Democrats, however, want tt nominate him for congress in the Fifth district. He is being boomed by a number of Fifth district Democratic In opposition to Harry McMillan, who is a real Demo crat. If the invitation Is accepted the To peka Democrats offer to nominate John W. Breidenthal for the legislature from the Thirty-ninth representative district, the one which has been represented by E. D. McKeever. But this district is overwhelmingly Republican, and even so popular a man as Mr. Breic enthal would have a hard light to win. It is no temptation to him, especially as he Is busy with his new insurance order and doesn't want the office anyway. CHICAGO SCHOOL. CHILDREN Have Subscribed $2,300 to McKinley Memorial Fund. Chicago, Dec. 17. With 25 schools still unheard from, the reports at the offices of the board of education show that $2,300 has been subscribed to the McKinley national memorial fund by children In the public schools. It Is ex pected that the final totals will amount to 12,500. AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT. Ferris' comedians opened a week's en gagement at the Crawford last night in "In the Land of the Cajuns." The audience which greeted the open ing performance of the engagement was large and nearly every seat was taken. The play was put on in a thorough manner, every part being taken in a satisfactory way. Harry McKee, as the Yankee peddler, was especially funny and furnished plenty of amusement June 8wift as "Marian Dean." the hero ine, was very pleasing. The specialties of Emily Batlo, Harry McKee, Chauncy Holland and the Rutherford sisters were good. The company will play "A Daughter of the South" tonight. The prices are 10, 20 and 30 cents.