The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 11, 1902

Page 1

I 1 LAST EDITION. MONDAY EYENING. TOPEK A. KANSAS. AUGCST H 1902. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. j M ELTI NGA V A Y. Opposition to Submitting VTater works Proposition Vanishing. f People May ret Vote s on Pnr cliase of Plant. OBJECT TO CONDITIONS Conneilmen Don't Want Re newal Clause in Preposition. The Election Will Probably Be Called For Fall. Councilmen Joseph Griley and W. F. 1 Weber, who have been most strenuous i Mrs. Bannon is a sister of General in opposing the proposition to submit Smith. Her mother, now 88 years old, the $620,000 offer of the water company is naturally very anxious to see her for the sale of their plant to a vote of j son, and counts the hours till he will the people, said today that they would reach here. While the correspondent be in favor of reconsidering the water- sat talking- with the family a telegram works question at the next council arrived, which announced that connec meeting, and furthermore that if the tions had been missed at Chicago, and proposition to submit the proposed bond that General Smith would not reach issue to popular vote should be pre- here until tomorrow at about 11 o'clock, tented unconditionally, they will vote The aged mother looked pleased. She f0r jt j said: "I would rather-see my boy come "If we could get the thing in definite In the daytime. He will feel fresher. form." said Councilman Weber this morning, "I would have no objection to leaving the question of voting $640,000 bonds to a vote- of the people. But the water company has not yet signified any willingness to accept $620,000 for the plant, unless the city will contract to renew the franchise provided the bonds do not carry. The company will have to put It down In black and white, so that we will know exactly what we are do ing." Councilman Griley said: "I would .vote to submit to the people a proposition to purchase the water plant for $620,000, but we don't want anv conditions at tached about renewing the franchise." Five of the seven councilmen who vo ted against the plan at the last meeting having expressed an inclination or in tention of voting for a reconsideration of the question, and in favor of submit ting the $620,000 proposition to the city, it seems almost certain that such action will be taken at the next council meet ing. The five councilmen are Weber, Griley, Wolf, Neil and Blanch. If it is decided to submit this bond proposition to the people of the city, proceedings preliminary to the special election will be taken under the law of 189? regulating the question of water, electric light, gas Hfid other municipal franchises. The election will in all probability be called at the same date of the county election this fall. Special ballots will be prepared for residents of Topeka to use In voting foror against the bond proposition.-' y It will also be necessary to have a pe tition signed by, two-fifths of the tax payers of Topeka. asking the mayor to call the snecial selection. A majority is required to vote the bonds. i The laws relating to the issuance of bonds and the calling of special election for the purchase- or erection of city wa terworks plants; are rather different from other laws1 on similar franchises. Under the 1897 law, the clty can issue bonds to purchase waterworks to the amount of about 52.000.000 if necessary. The law provides, that the amount of torpids shall not exceed 20 per cent of the assessed valuation, and the assess ed valuation is about $10,000,000. Concerning the calling of a special election, the law is as follows: "662. Klection. On presentation of a petition signed by two-fifths of the resident tax payers of any such city as shown by the last assessment roll, the acting mayor of sush city shall issue a proclamation for a city election to be held, giving at leapt 30 days' notice thereof in a newspaper published and of general circulation in said city, for the curpose of submitting to the elec tors of such city a proposition to issue bonds of such city for any and all pur poses mentioned in the last two preced ing sections, and section twelve of this act. "663. Canvass. If upon a canvass of the returns of said election it shall ap pear that a majority of the electors vot ing at such election are in favor of issuing said bonds the corporate au thority of the city shall issue the same for the purpose and in the manner and t othe amount specified in this act." J. W. O'Neill, manager of the Topeka Water company, said today in speaking of the proposition which the company has submitted: "The proposition of the water com pany was submitted in accordance with the wishes of the city officials. It is of advantage to the city to have this pro viso concerning the extension of the franchise and a reduction of rates. That was really put there to protect the city. Otherwise, it would be possible for those who oppose the purchase of the water plant to say, "If the bonds are defeated, the company can hold up the city by refusing to reduce rates." We are will ing to agree to a reduction in rates, and a renewal of the -franchise, provid ed the bonds are beaten. "It has not occurred to most people that the company can reduce the water rates, and the city, if it owned the plant, could not. The cost of operating the plant is about $30,000 a year. The city would in addition have to pay in interest and sinking fund $62,000 a year. The company has never made more than $62,000 a year. Hence the city must maintain the present rates simply to come out even.- "The company Is willing to extend its mains, and would have made a great many extensions during the present season, but the city refuses to allow us to extend our mains an inch during the continuance of the present contro versy. "I believe the councilmen are all try ing to be fair in this matter, but I think that they acted hastily in reject. s ng the company's offer and deciding to go to law." Mr. O'Neill's argument about the city not being able to reduce rates in the event it secures the plant is amusing. There never has been a time for the past fifteen years when the company was not struggling to pay interest and an income on five or six times the value of the plant. If the waterworks system in Topeka Is a good thing for a pri vate corporation there is no reason why it should not be good thing for the cltir. Fire in a Bank Building. New York, Aug. 11. The New Tork bank building, at the corner of Wall and William streets, was damaged by fire to the extent of $50,000 early today. The first floor, basement and a portion frf the top floor is occupied by the bank. The remainder of the building is used as offices. The fire started in a lawyer's flic on the third floor. Several other offices on that floor were damaged and 1 the too floor was almost burned out. The bank portion of the building down stairs and the safety deposit vaults were deluged with water. GEN. SMITH'S CJURSE. Probability That He Will Ap peal to the Courts. Portsmouth. O.. Aut' 11. There Is every probability that the legality of I President Roosevelt' action in retiring Gen. Jake Smith from the army will be tested. This Information is taken from a talk with.. Judge J. W. Jiannon. brother-in-law of General Smitfe, late 1 Saturday afternoon. For the first time since HH? ciuugcs were uicta General Smith, Judge Bannon submit ted to an interview. Seated in the ae- lightf ul comfort of his home on the heights above town, enjoying the fra- grance of a good cigar and. the company j ft his wlf and her mother. Vif talked for an hour with a correspondent. we s a nome Doy, a gooa soldier ana l t mighty proud of him. He has always stood faithfully by his subordinates, and I know has done nothing to be ashamed of." Near her 89th year,' "Mrs. Smith is remarkably agile, and climbed to the j third story to hunt a photograph of her 1 son, which he had sent her from Ma nila while he was yet. colonel of the Seventeenth infantry. She came to this country from New Hampshire when but seven years old, coming overland with her father, and walking about 300 miles of the distance. She laughingly tells about her hardships and the trip across the Alleghany mountains. "And my boy Jake has much of the determination which held me up when this part of Ohio was a 'howling wilderness' in fested with wolves and Indians. "Across the river my son raised a company for the Second Kentucky regi ment. At Shiloh he- was wounded, and we expected him to die. But God spared him to fight the battles of his country again at Santiago, where again he was seriously wounded. Again was he spared to take charge of the troops on the island of Samar, where he suc ceeded in his work of pacification. What matters it what he has said? Look upon what be has done. Look upon a record without a blot or blemish! Then shall we consider a few words spoken when the atrocities. to American soldiers were confronting him on every hand?" Her eyes Snapping fire, energy and life in every gesture, the aged mother of General Smith talked with a cordial frankness that Showed plainly her deei xeeimg in me nittLier. one uas reau every newspaper flipping relating to her son, also the speeches bearing upon her son's conduct. To many of the editors she has personally written her thank for their position. j Judge Bannon talked; very.eaFefully and reservedly. As he will likely be head counsel-for General Smith in case i of any legal complications, he naturally I talks with great precaution. Do you consider President Roose- veH s action in retiring General Smith .fr- not, me prompt repl: "Will the matter be tested In the courts 7" "That I' can not say. Naturally it will come up for conference between the general and me. I shall abide by his conclusion. He is a military man and may not look upon the matter as I do." "How could the matter be gotten Into the courts?" "Oh, there are several ways: one way would be to test the matter through the court of claims on the claim that he -Is entitled to full pay. not having been legally retired. And then there are other ways of testing the question, should the general decide to enter into ii!iifr!?rrtitimflno!i,WhenyTCn" ;;t,V,U'",..'T 'Ur ..uuv.vi.u. A 11.11 V- V. 1 1 ferred with the general and am not speaking for him. and he must not be held responsible for what I say." Gen. Smith will be met at the depot by Bailey post, G. A. R., under com mand of Mayor Milstead, and by prac tically all the citizens of Portsmouth. He will be royally welcomed at Ports mouth. VISITED BY HEATHEN. President Roosevelt Receives Chinese Officials at His Home. New York, Aug. ll.-Prince Chen. companied by Assistant Secretary of State Pierce, Wu Ting-Fang, the Chinese minister to the United States.Sir Liang Chen Tung, the new minister, and the secretaries of the prince and Mr. Wu, went to Oyster Bay today to visit Pres ident Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. The party was driven to the East Twenty sixth street pier where they boarded the gunboat Sylph shortly after 9 a. m. and the vessel sailed a few minutes later. ENGLISH TAILOR'S IDEA. Poke Fan at the Cut of Clothes Worn by Americans. London, Aug. 1L The Tailor and Cut ter, in an article on the fashion of vis itors to London, has this to say about the traveler from Uncle Sam's country. "The American there Is no mistaking him when he wears the clothes he has brought with him, and he holds firsl place as a matter of trade interest. He almost always wears a jacket of the lounge type, which somehow seems to have been cut with the special object of making hin appear to have very round and uncommonly fat shoulders. His jacket hangs away at the waist. This, together with his singular fond ness for straw hats, which both in shape and texture suggest the idea of a carv ing from corncob, gives a dumpiness to his figure, which is still further accen tuated by the closeness of fit in hia trouser les." Wed After Week's Courtship. Denver, Colo., Aug. 11. After love at first sight, followed by a-week's court ship. Miss Helen Cheever of the Man hattan Beach opera company and Cecil Smith, a young business man of Den ver, were married at Golden. They re turned to Denver" this afternoon and will be at home at the Savoy until the news is broken to the bride's mother. THEY QUARRELED. Latest Development in the Bar tholin Muder Case Shows That the Suspect Had a Fuss With His Mother ABOUT MITCHELL GIRL He Wanted to Marry Her and Bring Her Home. One of the Roomers Found in Denver, Another in Toledo. Chicago, Aug. 11. Developments to day in the mysterious murders of Min nie Mitchell and Mrs. Annie Bartholin led the police to double their efforts to locate Wm. J. Bartholin, respectively fiance and son of the women. At the In quest over the body of the older woman, which was found Saturday night cram med into a hole in the cement floor of the Batholln home, neighbors readily identified the corpse as that of Mrs. Bartholin. The burial day of Minnie Mitchell, by her family, removed all doubt in the public mind that the body found in the field at Seventy-fourth and State streets last week was that of the young wo man who was last seen with Bartholin. Complete hearing over Mrs. Bartholin's uouy iJUBipuu uj mc tuiwrer uuu resulted to the telegraph, telephone and j with governmental functions was August 21 in the hope that additional electric wires on account of the electrical proved, Mr. Dolphin contends, by Pres cle ws to the murder may be obtained. storm that accompanied the wind and ident Cleveland's action in the Chicago Today it developed that young Bar tholin had quarrelled with his mother just before she disappeared, over the question of bringing his prospective wife to live at his mother's home. EDWARDS' STOUT. He is Supposed to Know About the Bartholin Tragedy. Denver, Col., Aug. ll.-Milton R. Ed wards, who formerly roomed at the home of Mrs. Anna Bartholin in Chicago and for whom the police of that city have been looking in order to learn what he may know of the murders of Mrs. Bartholin and Miss Minnie Mitchell, is now in Denver.- He arrived here at 11 o'clock last night over the Union Pa cific railroad and reeistered at the Belvidere hotel under his correct name. To a representative of the Associated Press this morning he made the follow ing statement: "The reason that you have been able to find me is that I wrote to Robert Mitchell, the brother of Minnie Mitchell and told him why I had left Chicago so suuueiuy. x related lu lum me Xci max I had become suspicious of the actions of William Bartholin and decided that it would be unsafe for me to remain' longer In Chicago. As soon as I read jn an Omaha paper the story of the girl's murder, I wrote to the brother, who was a personal friend of mine, 'The reason-1 .went -to Omaha was to secure employment. I had for-some time been working m Chicago for the Chicago Terminal railway. I was about to gQ on my vacation when the un- toward actions of William .Bartholin hastened my dejiarture. I left the home of Mrs. Bartholin on the night of the 31st of July. On the 1st of August I slept In a hotel down town, fearing that my life was in jeop ardy, and as I remember it, left on the 2d of August. On the Slst of July I had gone to a room not my own, in or j der to get where it was cooler. About j 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning' I was i awakened by a cat jumping on the win dow sill. This incident called my atten tion to the fact that the screen had been taken out and on lighting the gas and making a further exa-nination I discovered that the screen in that win dow was the only one missing. As the next day was pay day 1 was fearful all the rest of the nisht and I am now 'u"y convinced tha't had I slept there ,'another night I should have been mur dered in cold blood "Mrs. Bartholin had not been at the house for perhaps 15 days before I left. William Bartholin, contrary to his cus tom, stayed about the house most of his time and whenever I broached the sub ject of the welfare of his mother or- her whereabouts he would Immediately change the subject. Of course I had no specific grounds on which to base any. information for the police, but on the night of the 31st as I remember it. I spoke to several of the neighbors of my suspicions. Among these friends was a HUKmmnnK Amonsr rnese ttimhh wna ;i Mr. Purd. who was an intimate friend of mine. Mr. Hunter, who was rooming at the house, also left and he went to Toledo, O. On the same, night Mrs. Mitchell, the mother of the murdered girl, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs.Rob- 1 ,.V-n1 1 1 .1 1 tMiS to ta 'wfl! i Ham, who had not been seen for several I days, and where Mrs. Bartholin was. At that time I told them of what t fff d' nd advised them to get a de- ICtllVC UI1 IIJC Lit 11 Ul -DLX UllMslI. XL' X had known that the body of Mrs. Bar tholin was then lying under the floor of the basement of the house I should cer-. tainly have informed the police. "I did not know Bartholin very 'well, because be was rather uncommunica tive. He was. in fact, more' repellant than anything else, and, so far as I know, had no following of friends. "I have made no effort to -Conceal my identity, and I have uniformly, since 1 have left Chirn.ro refristerert mv rrW name wherever I have stopped. If the police of Chicae-o desire my return. I am perfectly willing to go back. "Since I have left Chicago I have been more or less ill, and this was one of the reasons wnv I lert Omaha. I am now "'U5 11 "mana- i am now In Denver for the purpose of securing employment. Since I have herd of the denouement of the mystery I have suf fered no little from mental aneuish. "I have letters here from some of the influential men of Chicago and other j credentials showing my character. I servea m tne spanin-.imerlcan war snd am p rrerrber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Lakeside lodge No. 4S0." O. E. HUNTER'S STORY. Toledo. O.. Aug. 11. O. E. Hunter, a former roomer with Mrs. Annie Bartho lin found murdered In Chicago, is- now In this city. He talks in a straightfor ward msrmer concerning his seven months' tenancy of the Bartholin house. He left Chicago on Friday, August 1. coming here in repo".se to a letter from his brother, ex-County Treasurer Sam uel A. Hunter. His story is thus: "To the best of my reco'let-tion the last time I saw Mrs. Bartholin was on July 4 when I paid her my rent. I hardly ever saw her except on- pay day. I often met young Bartholin at a cigar store. He appeared to be a popu- lar young fellow, well esteemed m the heigh borhdod." Mrs. Bartholin disappeared on -July 8 and two or three days after that he Jnet Will, the son,' and askfed where his mother was, as his (Hunter's) bed had not been made. Young Bartholin said she had gone to Michigan and that he would see that the room was attended to. "July 28 was my nexfr meeting with Bartholin," continued-Hunter, "who said his mother had not yet returned: that the gas bill was due. and requested some money. I paid him two dollars. This was the last I saw of Bartholin. "On July 31 a Mr. Thompson, who had been rooming in the house for 17 years notified me that Will had gone" away to get married; that as nothing had been heard of the old lady he would close up the house and requested me to get an other room. I left the next day for To ledo. "The relations between Mrs.Bartholln and her son appeared all right during the time I was in the house.".,. SUNDAY'S STORfl Wind Blew a Gale and Rain Fell in Torrents. LeSS DaniPge in Topeka Than at 1 Ot .e r Plaees. The storm that passed over" Topeka at about 3 o'clock 'Sunday morning was not so serious in Topeka as it was in Kansas City, where it did thousands of dollars worth, of damage to the roofs of houses ana ouiiaings. usually severe. The velocity of the wind ram, The temperature Saturday at midnight was at SO. At 3 o'clock it was at 78 and during the following three quarters of an hour the mercury fell 17 degrees. The rainfall was .73 of an inch. The rain fell so rapidly that rivers were formed on the paved streets and the pavements which are on hilly streets were torrents. The rainfall lasted but a lev minutes, but during the storm hundreds of birds were killed in all parts of the city. The reports from various parts of the state are to the effect that the storm was general. Leavenworth was visited by a terrific rain and electrical storm Sunday morning. Two Inches of. water fell between 2 and 4 o'clock. The water cam down so fast that it flooded' cellars and washed out small bridges in two places. It also drown ed hundred of sparrows and small birds. In the court house park where many of them roost, the ground under the trees was: covered with dead birds. Lightning struck an old hay shed at the quartermaster's depot a Fort Leaven worth. The sheds burned rapidly and 450 tons of hay was destroyed. The .fire reached the quartermaster's mule stables at one time and there was great danger Of one hundred 'mules burning. The sol-1 aiers turned out In the storm; and by hard work saved the mule stable and adjoining property. New -Mick -hay sheds will be con structed in place of the old frame ones destroyed. Junction CIty.'Kan'., Aug. n. During the heavy rain Sunday morning hundreds of birds were killed in tha park here. The ground is almost covered with the dead bodies, and It is estimated that they will more than half fill a wagon box. Manhattan, Kaiu,-Ang. It. A rain storm utruoit fhis seetiort' barter; Sunday morninz. r-aceompanied by a severe wind which dam- Hgeu all crups UHUiy. i bwiui nan mov, accompanied fey- a terrific electrieal storm, doing considerable damage to the local tel ephone system. Two and a half .inches of rain fell. The weather forecast' for Kansas is as follows: "Partly cloudy with probable showers south and warmer- west portion tenigbt. Tuesday probably showers and warmer." Following are the- temperatures! 7-o'cloek .55111 o'clock 68 8 o'clock .68)12 o'clock 70 o'clock ...........a lo c ock 10 o'r.loclc a o ciock The wind registered a velocity of four miles an hour today. The minimum -temperature Sunday was remarkable for being 52 degrees. The max imum temperature was 74 degrees. FOURTEENTH WEEK. No Change Noted in the Anthra v cite Strike Situation. aini Shenandoah, Pa.r, Aug. 11. "Extreme ly auiet," was -the tenor of all the news i "ere"u,,tl" .o"rV tUR 1CK1UII. W 1-Ull 1 ii -i i i- i'??' "k V th the fourteenth- week was about the 1 Sateen wkIomcial'l of'the'miners same, as it was during tne previous

union say tnere is very nine amiresn and this is tieiwg looked after promptly hv tha roltnf iAmmittpos. In soeakin? of the conditions in this vicinity, CoL Haffman. of the Eighth regiment, said today there are many barefooted women -J nV.i 1 .1 stamina, tt tho omn PIPrV nau iiiiiui i-ii iuii.i.1 f day who take away with them the scraps of food thrown out of the mess tents. He said they are not all foreign ers, but a good percentage belong to the English-speaking classes. PUPILS ELOPED AT 16. Secret Marriage of Two Children Learned After Six Months. Syracuse, Aug. 11. It has just been learned that two Syracuse high school pupils, both aged 16. were secretly mar ried last winter.- They are Willard Au gustus Stelger and Edna May Conwav. i S?.-?'-1-!? ?,"y.anflSfd:.T.mr "aS Vx ville. The couple -after the marriage re turned to their homes. Soon after young Mtoi trvr liif t ftrhrwil and went to work in the hope that he would soon have mon- ev enoua-b, to suorjort his child wife. But i Mrs Steiger his mother, finally discov- fil' .,,77i, ered what was up and immediately took steps to have the marriage declared void on the grounds that both were un der legal age. The young wife has had a guardian arsointed and will contest the suit. Both say they still love each other and do not want to be separated. Attached by a Snake. Hazleton. Pa., Aug. lL Mrs. William Walp of Seibertsville was attacked in the kitchen of her ho-ne by a rattle snake, which lay coiled in a pantry and sprang at her when she opened the door.. The woman seized an iron poker and after an exciting battle killed the reotile- Anxious to Adopt Pet Dotj. London, Ang. 11.- An advertisement Inserted in the Daily Express the other day by trustees acting under the will of a West' Hampstead woman, offering 20 a year to any person willing to adopt her-pet dog, Cluny, has created a most remarkable competition. Letters from applicants arrived in shoals. DOLPHIN'S PLAN. Kansas Man Has a Scheme to End Coal Strike. Head of Telegraphers' Union Proposes a Way. TO SEIZE THE MINES. Wants Government to Exercise Its Bight in the Matter. Proposition is Being Considered by the President. TJew York. Aue 11. President Roose velt has in his hands, according to the World, a plan submitted by Martin Dol phin, former president of the Interna tional Order of Railroad and Commer cial Telegraphers, by which Mr. Dolphin thinks the strike In the anthracite coal fields could be ended. President Roose- torney general's department, and it is now oeing consiaerea Dy n. m. xiuyi, acting attorney general. This plan Is to have the government exercise the right of eminent domain and seize a certain number of the mines and operate them for the purpose of taking out all the hard coal required by the government in its various build ings, on the ships of the navy and tor all other governmental purposes. The right of the government to intervene In strike of 1893, when he ordered out i United States troops to keep the strik- ers from interfering with the trans por tation of the mails. In the present case intervention of the kind he advocates, Mr. Dolphin says, would also break the backbone of the strike by forcing the operators to resume work in all the mines. BATTLE AT BATTLE. Wyoming Town justifies Its Name Everybody Armed. Battle, Wyo., Aug. 11. A crowd of Mexican sheep herders attempted to take the town of Battle, with the re sult that two of the members were killed. Several made their escape into the woods, one man being shot in the leg. One- citizen was hit on the heel and Miss Kstell Sanders, a resident, was severely cut in the face by a win dow pane broken by a stray shot. Every man in town is armed, fearing the Mex icans will swoop down on the town, as there are scores of them in this vicin ity. The attack was in retaliation for the slaughter of 5.000 sheep by the townspeople, who had ordered the sheep -men to keep away, as this territory is reserved for the cattle men. FINAL ROUND BEGUN. End of the Hanover Chess Tourney is in Sight. Hanover. Aug. 11. The final round of the international chess masters' tourna- ment which was begun in -this city un fler the auspices of the German Chess j association on July 21, was played this mornine; according to schedule nine of 1 t TnA Kfr?pr Rvsrem rn n nvuni r-in n tr r o pitted against each 'other as follows: Gottschall vs. Levin, Tschgorln vs. Mason, Pillsbury vs.Swiderski.Janowskl vs. Popiel, Bardeleben vs. Mieses, Na- pier vs. Olland. Atkins vs. Marshall: Gun!berg vs. Wolf and Cohn vs. SUechting. When adjournment- was taken at 1 o'clock, six games had been concluded, the remaining three games being ad journed in. even positions. Play in the latter contests was to be resumed at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The results of the games finished this morning were as follows: Gottschall won against Levin, Tschi gorin lost to Mason, Pillsbury beat Swiderski, Janowski beat Popiel, Guns berg went down before Wolf and Cohn and Suechting drew. Pillsbury thus made sure of second, Janowski having won the first prize on Saturday. The disposal of third prize and some of the other prizes is still uncertain owing to the three adjourned games. CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HER

j bov'b Love of Grandmother. Killed bv J Xaghtniner, Drives Him to Suicide. v New York, Aug. 11. Seventeen-year- old William Lacey of 276 Central ave nue. West Hoboken, who swallowed carbolic acid on Wednesday night, died yesterday at the North Hudson hos- ii TOO by an older brother on Wednesday night hugging a picture of his grandmother. In the thunderstorm last Sunday Mrs. Gerrity was killed by lightning. Her death affected Lacey deeply. Before taking the poison the boy wrote a let ter declaring .that he could not live without his grandmother. Newport Society Men Agitated. Newport, R. L, Aug.lL There is quite a war on among the young society men over the approaching colonial ball to be given by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. It seems that this popular matron request that the gentlemen appear in costume, and i they are greatly opposed to this. Not only this, but it is understood that she f,il tw .h makes a further request that the gen tlemen shave off mustaches and beards. There is much speculation as to the re sult, but few doubt that Mrs. Fish will carry the day and that the gentlemen will accede to her request. Aeronaut Falls to Dpath. Marlon, Ind., Aug. 11. A message re ceived here stated Professor Frank Reed, .an aeronaut of this city, had fallen while making a parachute leap at Millersburg and was instantly killed He was married to a young woman in this city about one year ago, who was with him at the time of the accident and witnessed his fall to death. He was 36 years of age, and had been mak ing parachute leaps for ten years. Ban Into a Freight. Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 1L The first section of the express train on the Pennsylvania railroad which left shortly-before-midnight ran. into -the side of an eastbound freight train near Dock street tower in this city this morning. Seven freight cars were bro ken and burned but the Pullman sleeo ers composing the train were unbroken. No passengers were hurt. The fireman and engineer escaped. Most of the wrecked cars were box cars loaded with grain. BLOCKADE DECLARED. Gen. Firmin Burns Up a Town on His Retreat. Washington, Aug. 11- Commander McCrea of the gunboat Machias today cabled the navy department that a de facto blockade iiad been established by the insurgents at Cape Haytien. The Machias is at her anchorage. Minister Powell has cabled the state department from Cape Haytien that the provisional (Vasquez) government of Haytl has notified the U. S. legation that Gonaives, Port de Paix, Petit Goave and St. Marie provinces are in rebellion. The government troops cap tured -Petit Goave after strong resist ance in which many lives were lost. Firmin's troops in retreating from the place set fire to and destroyed that town. NOTHING BUT RUINS. Port au Prince, Hayti, Aug. 1L The correspondent of the Associated Press visited Petit Goave yesterday and found that the town had been entirely destroyed, there being nothing left but a pile of ruins. About 4.000 persons are homeless and are greatly in need of assistance. The greater number of j mem iravt? suugiu suener in 31111 monds factories near the town. The French cruiser D'Assas arrived at PetK Goave yesterday with provisons for the sufferers and returned to Port au Prince with 200 women and children and 15 wounded men. The authorities refused to permit the Firminjsts to leave, fear ing they would go to other points to take .up. arms again. acii party accuses the other of nav- t vtit noo k h eral bellef is that chlcoyei the Firminisl commander, resolved to destroy the town when he saw that ha could not hold it against the- Fouchardlsts. A Port au Prince dispatch on Satur day last gave news of the burning of Petit Goave after an attack had been made on the place by FoUchardists, According to that dispatch. General Chicoye, who is minister of the interior in the Firminist provisional govern ment, set fire to the town and aban doned it. TOPEKAJS SENT. Affairs at Porto Cabello Have Reached a Crisis. Washington. Aug. 11. Minister Bow en at Caracas today advised the state department that the Germans intend to land a naval force at Porto Cabello to protect German interests there, which are threatened by the uprising now in progress. The minister advised that we follow suit. After a conference between the officials of the state and' navy de partments, instructions were cabled to Commander Nichols of theTopeka to proceed from La Guaira to Porto Ca bello and to land a naval force in case of attack. The Topeka has already left for Porto Cabello. The' Topeka probably wili reach Porto Cabello, which is only a short sail from Lf guaira, some time today. The trouble at Porto Cabello grows out of the up rising that has convulsed Venezuela fot some tine, it is directed against fres ident Castro and has kept the country in a state of ferment for many months. minister ien recently sent worn tnax Minister Bowen recently sent word that rresiaeni uestro was leaving ior tne II u ill. wna me expecieiuon ui ligiimig decisive battle with the insurgents. The i. -i i i latter have been gathering strength at 1- Porto Cabello. Our consul at that point sent "word recently that the lives of some oi tne American residents, mciua in 5 members of his family, were im perilled, and two of the ladies of the consuls family were taken away in a government ship. Since then there ha been no word of a critical condition of affairs, but the advices of today indicate that a crisis has been reached. WILL GO UP HIGHER. American Book Co. Case Appeal ed to U. S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Doster, of the supreme court,' this morning signed the writ of error in the American Book company case. The signing of the writ was a formality necessary in taking the case to the United States supreme court. The attorneys for the American Book company: filed the writ before the su- r preme court at Washington against the .!Ttt r. Kaa!ts. ot1h TMiia state of Kansas and Galen Nichols, who allowed his name to be used when Geo. j Jj.y.on tho T?nit t?Z. .?r 7,rt hen the United States supreme court hears the case the fight will be upon W. Crane brought the original suit. the right of the Kansas supreme court to bar the. company from doing busi ness in Kansas under the interstate commerce laws because the Bush law in Kansas has not been complied with t The allowing of the writ does not change the situation in the litigation. Two Perish in a Well. Hamilton. O., Aug. 1L John Graves, 23 years old, of Hamilton and Thomas Saylor, 18 years old, of Millville were killed by gases in a thirty-foot well on William Minton's farm, five miles west of Hamilton, Saturday afternoon. Graves was first overcome and Sayloi lost his life in trying to secure him. They were brothers-in-law and from Kentucky." Quay Scalds His Foot. Atlantic City, N. X, Aug. 11 United States Senator Quay, who took up his home a few days ago in a cottage he had rented for the remainder of the season, was scalded severely. In taking a bath the senator turned on the hot water by mistake and it poured over his right foot, peeling off sections of the skin. The doctors say he will be laid up for two weeks. Temperatures of Large Cities. Chicago, Aug. 11. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New -York, 76; Boston, 72; Phil adelphia, 76; Washington, 76; Chicago, 56; Minneapolis, SO; Cincinnati, 62; St. Louis. Weather Indications. Chicago, Aug. 1L Forecast for Kan sas: Partly ekrady tonight with prob ably showers in south and warmer' In west portions; Tuesday probably show ers and warmer; variable winds. PYTIIIAN1I0STS. Receive a Welcome Never Before Equaled in San Francisco. Market Street Covered With a Canopy of Electric Lights. A STRIKING FEATURE. A Disk 25 Feet in Diameter Suspended Above the Street. It is the Center of a Scheme Including 9,500 Lights. San Francisco, Cat., Aug. 11. The grand carnival ot the Knights ot Pythias In this city opens today, though the official business of the order will not receive attention until tomorrow. Thousands of visitors have already ar rived from the east and by Wednesday morning it is expected that from 60,000 to 75,000 strangers will be in the city. In welcoming the Pythian host the decoration of the city has been carried out on a scale never attempted before. Tonight Market street will be covered over by a canopy of glowing electric bulbs, the glare from which will spread a halo of light over the entire lower portion of the city. The grand court of honor, at the in tersection of Market, Kearney, Geary and Third streets, is the most striking feature of the display. For some dis tance along the curbs at either side of the crossing there have been placed 2T tall, white columns outlined with frost ed lamps and loops of frosted lamps in terlinking them. In the center of th crossings and 150 feet above the streets has been hung a disc 25 feet in diam eter. The inside of the disk is studded with 600 incandescent electric lights in the colors of the order, red, yellow and blue one string showing the Knights of Pythias shield surrounded by red lamps. From the disk have been sretched in every direction loops 250 feet in length of clear lamps, supporting six festoons with 16 lights each, alto gether about 9,500 lamps. This elaborate affair is only one feature of the general plan of decoration. The Mechanics' pavilion which will be the headquarers of the knights, has been almost transformed in appearance for this occasion. One part of the structure has been converted into a mil itary camp, with many tents and thou sands of cots in perfect order, ranged in line. The headquarters of Major General Carnahan, who is in command of the uniformed forces, is the most pic turesque place in the pavilion. The gen eral's tent is flanked by palms and pot ted plants. Old Glory flying from the flagstaff and a. sentinel marching up and down before the entrance, gives a realistic aspect The programme for today will begin at 12:30 p. m. with the opening of an exhibition of county products at which Mayor Schmitz will deliver the address of .vfelcome. The response will be by -Qgden H. Fethers. supreme chancellor,' Knights of Pythias, and Major General James R. Carnahan, commanding uni form rank. Knights of .-Pythias, will also speak. At 6 p. m. the camp at the pavilion will be turned over by the chairman of the executive committee to the supreme chancellor. At 8 p. m. there will be re ception to Major General Carnahan and staff and the supreme lodge by the Cal ifornia brigade at the pavilion. BIG BREWER ASSIGNS. J. XL Ballantine, Supposed to Be Millionaire, Fails. New York, Aug. 11. J. Herbert Bal lantine of the brewing firm of Ballan tine Sons of Newark, N. J., has made an assignment to Thomas W. Crooks, president of the Essex County National bank of Newark, and John S. Hardin, a lawyer, for the benefit of creditors. The liabilities amount to U.885,000. It Is said the failure does not affect the brewing company. Mr. Crooks says it was due to unprofitable investments. He says he is confident that the credi tors will be paid 100 cents on the dol lar. Electric Line to Extend. Junction City, Kas., Aug. 11. An ex tension of the Junction City and Fort Riley electric railway will be com menced here today. The extension is to be built to the Union Pacific depot. MILLS' STORE NEWS SCHOOL. DAYS are draw ing near, and the mammas must soon prepare the dresses suit able for the hard wear that thev receive, and the frugal j buyer will visit our store this week to secure many of the bargains we are offering. There will be 50c Wool Dress Goods at.. 25c 75c Wool Dress Goods at, 37 $1.00 Wool Dress Goods at 50c The followine two assortments of Children's Dresses are made from Gingham, Percales, Madras, etc are neatly trimmed excellent values 89c and 75c Cotton Dresses CAr to 14 years UVv $1.00 and 98o Cotton Dresses 7ff 6 to 14 years I Jw SCHOOL HOSIERY. 12c quality, boys' and girls, H. all sizes, per pair llv A better grade, same as above, Q C f in sizes, 2 pair for 6Jl New Wool Waistings. Fsll iooz This is the first arrival for Fall and the styles are very neat, co'on good, are in stripes and figures take a look at them. THE MILLS CO.

Page 2

TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENIKGK AUGUST. XI. 1902. SPORTINITNEWS. The Sale of the Cincinnati Ball Team Completed. Herrmann, Mayor Fleischmann and G. B. Cox the Buyers. A BIG BASEBALL DEAL. Brush and Associates Receded Check For $150,000. New Owners Assume Indebted ness of Near 80,000. Cincinnati. Aug. 11. The Cincinnati baseball team has passed into the hands of a quartet of tha most popular citi zens of Cincinnati. A -deal has been consummated which places more than 80 per cent of the stock in the hands of August Herrmann, president of the board of waterworks commissioners, Mayor Julius rieischmann and his brother Max Fleischmann and George BTheHtock was transferred to Mr. Herrmann last Tuesday, and is now de posited in Cincinnati. John T. Brush has sold his entire holdings in the Cin cinnati club and will in the future have no connection whatever with the team further than that which his position as chief executive officer of the National league will give him. The club will formally pass into the hands of its new owners next Saturday, when it plays its first game on the home grounds after a successful trip all around the circuit. The new stock holders will hold a meeting some day this week, when new officials will be elected with Garry Herrmann as the new president. The other officers have not been fully decided on. Treasurer Ashley Lloyd also severs his connection with the team, and his holdings were sold with those of John T. Brush. Joe Kelley will be continued as manager and will be given absolute authority in regard to securing and signing players and managing the team. John T. Brush and his associates to day received a certified check for $150. 000 and in return turned over their holdings. The stock of the club has been placed m tne nanus oi me uma.? ette bank ot this city, which holds it for Mr. Herrmann, who has been the principal figure in the negotiations. The new owners assume an indebted ness of from 70,000 to $80,000. The deal which was completed in In dianapolis last Tuesday is the result of negotiations which have been pending all this year. After this came the sensational trans action in Baltimore which was engi neered by Brush, and which gave the latter and Andrew Freedman the pick of the players of the Baltimore American league team. By this deal Joe Kelley became the manager of the Cincinnati team, John McGraw was secured for the Giants, and the American league was given a blow which may end in its being relegated to the ranks of the minors. The Cincinnati baseball team is Just ly the most famous in the history of the sport, for the Queen City is the birthplace of professional baseball. Thera have been but few breaks in the line of succession since the Cincinnati Red Stockings were organized on July 23. 186G. When that team took the field nearly 36 years ago. Harry Wright was pitcher and L. L. Douglas catcher, and the other members were Charles H. Gould, first base; Asa Brainard, second base; Fred Waterman, third base; J. C. Howe. shortstop; J. V. B. Hatfield, left field; Rufus King, middle field, and J. Wil liam Johnson, right field, with Moses Grant, substitute. In 1866 that team played but four games won two and lost two. In 1867 the Reds won sixteen games and lost one. and in 1868 won forty-one and lost six. Then caaie the never-to-be equalled record of 1869, wiicn the all-conqjiering tour of the country was made. Harry Wright drew $28.50 a week from the Cincinnati club, and was the first salaried ball player. liOBD DERBY IS BEATEN. Iffr. Billings' Louise Jefferson Defeats Smathers' Horse in One Heat. New York. Aug. 11. Ten thousand persons Saturday afternoon saw the fast trotter Lord Derby, 2:06hi. who de feated Thoroas W. Lawson's Boralma fr the $40,000 stake a week ago at Hartford, in turn defeated by a mare with a much lower mark. The event took nlace at the matinee of the New York Driving club at the Empire State track. The trotter that performed the feat was the bay mare Louise Jefferson, 2:V?H. She belongs to C. K. G. Bil lings of Chicago. He was not here to drive her. so her trainer, Scott McCoy, handled the ribbons, while Mr. Smath ers drove Lord Derby. The race was a special mile dash, Louise Jefferson was sent away flying, while Lord Derby was rather slow in starting, and before the half-mile post was reached the mare held the lead by a full length. Mr. Smathers urged Lord Derby on with both rein and whip, but to no effect, for the mare had too much speed to be headed off. She won by a good length in 2:094. KFGOVEBN THE FAVORITE. Manager Bam Harris Has $10,000 He Desires to Wager. New York, Aug. 11. Sam Harris, manager of Terry McGovern. the ex champion of the featherweight class, who hopes to regain that title three weeks hence, is so confident that his protege will win from Young Corbett that he announces his readiness to wager $10,000 on McGovern. The bet was offered to George Consi dlne, but the latter, having already made a wager with Dick Bernard on the Denverlte's chances, refused Harris' of fer. Considine thinks Corbett will win. but thinks that the odds will favor Mc Govern on the eve of the fight, so will wait until then before wagering any money on Corbett's chances. Those who pick McGovern to wtn are most sanguine. Not only is his manager willing to wager $10,000 on the outcome but Terry's mother is reported to be willing to risk the home that Terry gave her on the issue. The featherweight fight has already aroused more interest among sporting men in this city than the Jeffrles-Fltz-slmmons fight in San Francisco did It to acknowledged that the fight at New London August 29 is really a tossup and consequently will be most interest ing and most closely contested. There will, without any doubt, be more money wagered in this city on the feather-w-eight contest that was on that held in California for the heavyweight cham pionship of the world. The latest news from Connecticut reports that McGovern is afraid of be ing overtrained and will consequently let ud in his work for a week or more. At Unionville the reverse is true, for Young Corbett needs every day ha has at his disposal to get Into shape for his fight. He started in to work only about three weeks ago. The difference of, opinion between Connecticut's state attorney, Solomon Lucas, and the managers of the Nutmeg Athletic club as to whether Young Cor bett and Terry McGovern are to en gage in a prize fight or a boxing exhi bition for points is still being argued. Mr. Lucas savs he has been informed the exhibition is to be a prize fight and that he will endeavor to stop it. Fail ing to do so, he says he will have bench warrants issued for the arrest of the principals after the fight and will try to convict them for prize fighting, or as sault, or for disorderly conduct. Irish Lad's Great Race. Saratoga, N. Y., Aug 11. Irish tad won the great sporting sweepstakes, the Sara toga Special, Saturday afternoon, in a driving finish from a field that included the best 2-year-olds of the year in train ing. Mizzen was favorite for the race, but he was outrun from the start to the finish and was unplaced. Irish Lad won by a length and a half from Dazzling, while Blue Ribbon filled third position three lengths away. Shaw, who rode Dazzling, and L. Jackson who rode Artive, made a claim of foul riding against Burns, who was on Girle, but the claim was not allowed. The net value of the race to the winner was $18,000 in addition to a gold cup of the value of $1,500. H. P. Whitney and H. D. Duryea own Irish Lad. Reiff Quits Drake. Chicago, Aug. 11. Jockey Lester Reiff, who cut Such a wide swath on the English turf, yesterday quit the employ of John A. Drake and left for California last night. Lester, during his English riding career, was looked after by Enoch Wishard. When the crack Jockey arrived in Chicago he, at Wishard's suggestion, accepted a posi tion with Drake as assistant trainer to Wishard and heavyweight Jockey. This suited Reiff during the Washington park meeting, when the stable was in tact, but when John A. shipped his best horses east and left the good for noth ing platers In care of Reiff he divorced himself from the stable. After 1,000 Mile Record. Minneapolis. Minn., Aug. 11. John Nils sen, holder of the half mile, and a num ber of other records, will try to break the 1,000 mile motor cycle record the lat ter part of next week. Nilssen will at tempt to better the performance made by A. A. Hansen on tha Mlnnetonka course some weeks ago. Hansen himself will make a motor cycle ride from Minneapolis to Chicago and re turn next week, and while in Chicago will attempt to establish a motor cycle record for twenty-four hours. Boston After Piatt. Boston, Aug. 1L The Boston league club has opened negotiations with Pitcher Piatt, of the 'Chicago American club. Mr. Billings received a message from the Chi cago man to-day saying what he would play for, and while the figures are quite steep, the Boston director may have to accept, as both Willis and Pitinger are looking for a raise in salary. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. AT LOUISVILLE. Louisville won both games from Milwau kee by terrific slugging. Altrock and Bar ber were hit hard throughout. Dunkle pitched both games for Louisville. In the first he was a puzzle. In the second he was hit hard, but after the first inning he kept his hits scattered. Attendance, 9,020. Score by innings: Louisville 3 0 1 0 2 2 2 1 11 Milwaukee 4 010111008 Batteries Dunkle and Schriver; Mc Makln. Altrock and Speer. Second game Score by innings: Louisville 1 0201711 13 Milwaukee 4 0101110 0 3 Batteries Dunkle and Spies; Barber and Speer. AT TOLEDO. Toledo outplayed Minneapolis in the first game and outbatted the visitors in the sec ond. Score by innings: Toledo 4 4 1 0 0 0 6 0 15 Minneapolis 0 00203100 6 Batteries McNeal and Graff ins; Cribbin and Byers. Second came Score bv innlnma Toledo 1 0200001000 16 Minneapolis 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 04 Batteries Mock and Grafting; Sporer and Byers. AT COLUMBUS. Columbus and St- Paul broke even, each securing a shutout. Stimmel held Colum bus down to one hit in the first game, which the visitors won on two errors by Myers. The St. Paul batters could do nothing with McMackin in the second, while Miller was hit freely, poor baseru li ning keeping the score down to three runs. Attendance, 5,320. Score by Innings: Columbus ...0 0000000 00 St. Paul 1 1000000 Batteries Thomas and Fox; Stimmel and Hurley. Second game Score by innings: Columbus 0 0010000 23 St. Paul 0 0000000 00 Batteries MoMackin and Fuller; Miller and Hurley. WESTERN LEAGUE. AT KANSAS CITY. Charlie Nichols can pitch in the mud as well as on a solid diamond and two games in succession look no harder to him than one, at least that is the Impression of the 2.U00 fans. Score by innings: Kansas City 2 0000000 2 Colorado Springs 00 0 00 0001 1 Batteries Nichols and Messitt; Jones and Hanson. Second game Score by Innings: Kansas City 5 0003 001 9 Colorado Springs 0 0000110 35 Batteries Nicholls and Messitt; Newmy er and Baerwald. AT STrjbsBPH. St. Joseph took both games from Denver by stronger batting and fielding. Score by Innings: R.H E Denver 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 03 7 1 St- Joseph 1 0000003 4 5 2 Batteries McClosky and Wilson; Parvin and Roth. Second game Score by innings: R.H.E. Denver 102110040 9 13 7 St. Joseph 0 1112030 210 11 3 Batteries Whitridge and McConnell Chinn and Roth. AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT CHICAGO. Boston won on Parent's single, followed by Ferris' double. Both teams put up a hard fight. But the visitors were the more fortunate. A hard rain before the game left the field In bad shape and prevented good fielding. Attendance, 4,000. Score by innings: Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 04 Boston 0 000013000 1 S Batteries Young and Criger; Patterson and Sullivan. at st "Louis. St. Leuls won another -easv victorv from Washington. A home run in the fourth in ning by Lee. with two out, saved the visit ors from a shut out. Donahue pitched a first class game and was well supported in the field. Orth did fairlv well, but his support was weak. Attendance. 8,408. Score by innings: Washington 0 0 0 S 0 0 0 0 03 St. Louis 2 0030001 6 Batteries Donahue and Kahoe; Orth and Clark. AT DETROIT. MuUin was hit in the seventh and ninth and the locals' poor fielding accounts for the visitors' other runs. Hustings was very effective. Elberfeld waa put out of the game in the first inning. Lepra went out to right and McAllister to short. At tendance, 3.200. Score by innings: Detroit 0 0100000 01 Philadelphia 1000032 0 39 Batteries Mullin and Buelow; Hustings and Powers. KANSASNEWS. Skeleton Near Lansing That of a Prehistoric Man.. Scientists of II igli Degree Pass Upon the Body Bones. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY Decide That It Is the Oldest Found in America. Mast Have Existed at Least 35,000 Years Ago. Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 11. A party of scientists, four of them known and recognized as authorities on the subject of geology, made a trip to the Concan-, non farm near Lansing Saturday and proved to their complete satisfaction that the human bones found there re cently are the skeleton of a. man who lived in the glacial period, or about 35,000 years ago, and that this skeleton is the oldest ever found on the' North American continent. In other vtrords, the man whose bones were found Is supposed to be one of the first human beings who existed on tnis continent. The men who made this statement as authoritative are Prof. M. H. Wlnchel! of Minneapolis, state geologist of Mini nesota since 1872 and now president of the Geological Society of America; Prof. Warren Upham of St Paul, who has spent fifteen years in geological surveys and has published a work which is al most a text book on the glacial period; Prof .8. W. Williston. the paleontologist of the University of Kansas; Prof. Eras mus Howard, who holds the chair of mineralogy at the same university. M. C Long, curator of the Kansas City museum, and Sid J. Hare accompanied the party. To all these men a careful, critical and almost skeptical Investigation of five hours proved conclusively that the skeleton is genuine and the oldest so far found in the new world. -They unite in pronouncing it the most important geological discovery ever rnaae in Amer ica. The proof that man existed on this continent thousands of years previous to any date which has heretofore been set as the time of his life is complete. Not one doubt which has been cast on the genuineness of the skeleton has any foundation in fact In the opinion of the scientists. The evidence is satisfactory to the most skeptical. These men did not go to the Concan non farm imbued with the idea that they were investigating a very import ant find. Rather, they were inclined to believe that the skeleton was a rem nant of a much later period than the glacial. Some of them had theories as to how a modern skeleton might have found Its way Into the place where the bones were found, and they worked to support those ideas until a conclusive proof showed them to be untrue. Every hypothesis which would tend to show that the bones were of modern origin was discussed and followed out until its unreliability was established. All the scientists were agreed that the skel eton was deposited in the glacial age or immediately afterwards. They rejoice in the knowledge that they have made a find which not only sheds much light upon the past history of North America. but which will be talked of and written about all over the scientific world. Held For Killing His Son. Iola, Kan., Aug. 11. R. Li Kirby was carried from his cell in the county Jail to the court house for his preliminary hear ing on the charge ot murder in the first degree, for shooting his son. He was a picture of despair. The defendant seemed to have aged rapidly since the shooting and he was on the verge of nervous col lapse. A brother and his surviving son sat beside him In the court rom. Kirby's at torneys admitted, so far as the present hearing is concerned, that he fired the shot. They will make their defense On the ground of self-defense and will urge the history of the father as evidence that he did not wilfully commit murder. Half a dozen witnesses were introduced by the state, but nothing new was brought out. The boy drank, was a drug fiend, quar reled with his father and was shot. Ralph Kirby, the surviving son,' refused to say that his father quarreled with his brother, but said that his brother "quarreled with father." The judge bound the defendant over to the district court under $2,500 oonas. After His Runaway Wife. Pittsburg, Kan., Aug. 11. S. A. Sidroe of Springfield. Mo., is in Pittsburg On the hunt for his runaway wife, who, he claims deserted him and took With her $3,000 of f her money and $500 of his. He is a loco motive engineer on the 'Frisco, running out of Springfield, and has cards and tia pers to show that he has served- many years with the company. The woman was in Pittsburg last week and left for Oklaho ma city. A Judgment For $75,509.45. Hutchinson, Kan., .Aug. UL John R. Price, a ranchman and mill owner of Tu- ron, has been notified that his claim of $75, 508.46 against the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad, which runs through Mexico. has been allowed by the superior court' of Mexico ana tnat tne money will soon be paid. This claim is for grading the road.. The Santa Fe has purchased the property and will have ta pay the amount of the judgment. A Money Lender Killed Himself. Wichita. Kan., Aug. 11. Frank H. Goode. a money lender, committed suicide Satur day evening by shooting himself through the head. He had been president of the city council and acted as mayor for some time. He was 42 years old and was in gooa nnanciai circumstances. Burglars in a Depot. Concordia, Kan., Aug. 11. The Missouri Pacific depot at Clyde was robbed by two men who "held up" the night operator and opened the money drawer. They couia not open tne sate, wnicn contained $2,000. Sheriff Moore arrested the burglars near tice. Raided Washington Joint. Washington. Kan., Aug.-11. Sheriff Lan don raided the only joint in town on complaint sworn out by Pete Cams and Leslie Brown on the "blind- titer" nian The jointists broke and ran for the corn field when the sheriff made his appearance, but they were captured in the east part oi tne city, uonsiaeraoie liquor was la Ken. Now a Democratic Paper. Hutchinson, Kan., Aug. 1L The Interior Herald has been sold and turned Into Democratic paper. It is 27 years old and one of the oldest Republican papers In the west. The new company is a stock com pany oi uemocrats witn unr Mxuer business manuer. Ottawa Chautauqua Has a Profit. Ottawa, Kan., Aug. 11. The Chantauque assembly board made public Its statement of expenses and receipts for the vear. The net earnings are ebout $200. which will be used to repair buildings. Profs. Larimers, Butler ana Johnson Were- employed for next jcear. Beaton Foundry Fire). Atehisnn v,n Aii. 11. The smaller of Captain John Beaton's two foundries caught -on fire at 9:30 o'croclt Ssrttrrday and burned to the ground. Loss. $10,000. partly covered by insurance." Cause unknown. The destruction of the entire foundry was narrowly averted. Fast Ball at Nevada. Nevada Un Amr 11. Nevada was shut out without the semblance of a hit, never reaching second base, only twice getting a man to first. Before Courtwright they were absolutely powerless. Cates, on the other hand did not allow- a hit, but hit two men and gave several oases, out -ut these develnnini? Into a run. owing to an error by Home at first base and a wild, throw by Weeks at second. Only two or three balls were hit to the Outfield during the same: Score by innings: k.m.e.. Nevada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 O S Jefferson City 0 0010000 01 0 0 tsattenes iNevaua. uateo ana i ferson City, Court wright and O'Halloran. Sedalia 11; Fort Scott 1. i "i l vj v. v. xvmi., j u t, i I wj- c fn runs, while the visitors made run after run on errors. Cravens and Curtis both pitcnea a good game. Score bv Innlnua: R.H.E. Sedalia ...0 1 03 1 SOS -ll 12 0 Fort Scott oooooooui i s a uatteries ort HCOtt.uravens ana uun, Sedalia, Curtis and Burson.- Tie Game at Joplin. T I YnOt,4 i z i a.u V. pmcu. a lie game on muuuj hciu. score stood 6 to at the close of the 11th Inning, when the game was called on ac- Sore bv innfne-s: R.H.E. Joplin ......000 0 1 2 21 0 0 0 6 12 5 Iola 0 0 2 0 1 0 Z 1 l) U 06 11 Batteries Reust and Meeks;. Morgan and Konsac Chan ute 1; Springfield O. rhannhi k'an Ana- 11. The eame here between Springfield and Chanute resulted in the followtng'score: Score by innings: R.H.E. Chanute 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 4 2 Springfield 0 0000000 00 4 Batteries Chanute, Ralahan and Br phy; Springfield,' Miller and Schmidt. Um-' pire Bruner. r FEARED TO JUMP. Seven Persons Loose Their Lires in a Hotel Fire. San Angelo, Tex., Aug. 11. A flre dls. covered in the Landon hotel at 2 o'clock this morning destroyed the structure. burning to death seven people and doing a property damage of $75,000. The dead: Mrs. Landon, wife of proprietor of hotel." Ed Hendricks, 'of Waco, Tex. Mrs. Flower, of Houston, Tex., and her grandson. Mrs. Shullmpsky, of Houston, Tex., and two sons. All of the bodies that have been re covered are fearfully charred and In no condition to be moved except in blankets. vv ben the clerk discovered the flames, the Interior of the dining room was a gulf of flame and he could not get through. He .rushed up the main stair way, kicking In doors, calling out at tlie top of his voice' -and making noise in every way In his-power. Most of the guests were aroused by this means, and by the discharge of firearms, as some of the guests got out There were seventy five persons in the house and all of them got out -safely- except the seven named, and three others who have not been lo cated, but who are believed to be safe. Tha seven women and children got out on a small balcony and were appealed to to jump into blankets which were being held for them, but jttaey failed to do so, and delayed urftlF the gallery Tell back into the flames which were licking up the big frame house. In addition to the hotel three stables and r half dozen-stores were burned, on ly the greatest effort preventing the whole of the business section of the town from being destroyed. OFF AT BRIGHTON BEACH. Trotting Meeting of High Class Horses Has Opened. New York, Aug. 11. The trotting meeting which begins today at Brighton Beach is styled the greatest the Metro politan district has ever arranged for. The high class horses on the cards are numerous, and the prizes very large. Today's events are a 2:15 class pacing race, with a. purse of $5,000, best two out of three, and then comes the chief at traction, 'the Bonner Memorial, 2:12 class trot, $10,000, three In five, in which Alcy, Major Delmar and other good ones will start A 2:06 class pace and a 2:14 class trot are the other two events. City Ticket Office. Union Pacific R. R., 635 Kansas Av., tnOHCESSAiT. She: "Dearest, I would die for you.'. He; "Oh, that isn't necessary, t rather tike red hair." roLLAN DEAD, Miehigan Senator Dies Suddenly at Hi Summer Home. Heart: Failure Follows, Illness of a Few Hours. Washington, Aug. 11. A dispatch has been -received here announcing the death of Senator Jacnes McMillan, of Michigan, at his summer home at Man- cbester-by-the-Sea,' Mass. .Death was the 'reSblt of heart failure following' congestion after an Illness of a, very' few hours. The news came as a. great shock to his friends here, as when the senator left Washington shortly after the adjournment of congress he ap peared to be In good health abd looked forward with much satisfaction, to. a quiet and restful summer. For some years Senator McMillan has made his summer home at Manchester-by-the-Sea, having erected a Very fine cottage at that place. SENATOR M'MILLAN OF MICHIGAN The senator leaves a widow, three sons, W. C, Phillip and Frank, all ot Detroit, and a daughter. Mrs. McMil lan and her daughter accompanied tne senator to Manchester-by-the-Sea after the adiournment of conCTess; Senator McMillan was a native of Ontario, having been horn in Hamilton May 12, 1838, but in early life removed to Michigan and for many years has been prominently Identified -with the business and political life of that state, having for a number of terms been chairman of the Republican state com mittee. He had been a member of the United States senate since March 4, 1899. it was chairman of the committee for the District of Columbia In that body and waa also a member of the committees on appropriations, com merce. naval affairs, relations with Cuba, coast and insular survey and corporations organized In the District of Columbia.- As chairman of the District committee Senator McMillan was Iden tified with District affairs and became very well known to the citizens of Washington, by whom he was highly regarded. He took a lively Interest In the welfare of the District and was one of -the foremost advocates In the efforts that are being made for the. improve ment of the citv. Senator. McMillan's family was promi nent m social circles in Washington. and the senator hlnself was a member of the Metropolitan and the Chevy C'nase cmos. If the family desires It A. congres sional .committee' from both houses 'of congress will be appointed to accom pany the remains to their last resting place.- 'The designations will be made by Senator Frye, president pro tern, of the senate, who now is in Maine, and by Speaker Henderson, who also is out of the city. Detroit,- Aug. ll.--8enator James Mc Millan vi-as born in Hamilton, Ontario, May 12, 1838, and came to Detroit when 17 years old. Soon after his arrival here he was appointed purchasing agent of the Detroit Milwaukee railroad, which position he held for several years. In company witn several others he orea' nized the Michigan Car company In 1864, and afterward purchased the car works at St. Louis and established sim liar works at Cambridge, Ind., and London, Ontario. His brother, William, who died a short time fte-o. afterward bought the St. Louis works. Senator McMillan became interested In the lake carrying trade and Invested large sums in. lake transportation, freight and nas Jsenerer. He was also heavily interested in. the shipbuilding business on the Great- Lakes. It was largely through this Influence that the Duluth, South Shore Atlantic railroad across the up per peninsula of Michigan was built. Senator Mcjfillan became one of the rnoet .prominent men in the business liffrof Detroit. He was a director In the First National, thefjjetrolt Savings and Jhe- State Savings nanks-, of this city, and was also a stockholder in a number of ether banks and financial institutions.- Among the more important local corporations in which he held stock are the Michigan Malleable Iron works, the Detroit -Railroad Elevator company, the Detroit Union Station company, the Fulton Iron and Engine works, the De troit Iron Furnace company and D. M. ;Ferry Co. He was a large stock holder In the Detroit Buffalo and the Detroit Cleveland lines of steamers and was president of the latter line. Senator McMillan was a. large con tributor to charities of various kinds iand made a number of notable gifts to Educational Institutions. He gave to the iUhiverslty Of Michigan one of the most complete. snaKeepe&rean libraries In the country and he also gave to that'tnv gan Agricultural college at Lansing, he gave the Tener :colleetiOn oT Insects and to Albion college' he gave the McMillan chemical laboratory" He -also -ae-ito.' the Mary Allen seminary, of Crockett. Tex., a school for the education of color ed girls, $18,000 necessary to complete Its endowment. The McMillan famllv has euirreA affliction and severe loss by death In the past year. Senator McMillan's son. James H. McMillan, and his grandson, James H. McMillan, Jr., died In Colorado within a few months of each other last winter. In addition to the senator's sudden 'death, his brother, William Mc Millan, and his nephew, Maurice Mc-" CITY MARSHAL KILLED. One of His Assailants Also Dead and Another Injured. Webb City, Ma, Aug. 11. City Mar shal Len Rich was instantly killed, Joe Gideon, who, with his brother and an unknown man. created a disturbance, waa fatally shot and died at an early hour this morning, and Jim Gideon was shot through the arm, and gave himself ud. to the officers soon after a difficulty which occurred at a disrepu table house here, where the marshal and two deputies had gone .to quell a dis turbance. The Gideon brothers and their male companies had been drink ing and undertook to make the Inmates of the resort do their bidding, when the officers were sent for. Several shots were, exchanged between the officers and rioters, after which the Gideon boys ran about four blocks to a lumber yard. The lumber yard was afterward search ed and the dead body of Joe Gideon was found there, he having been shot through the body. The dead marshal was well known in southwest Missouri and was a brother of the sheriff of Jas per county. He leaves a familv of sev eral children. The Gideon brothers were miners and unmarried. The third man of the trio is still at large, but the omcers ciaina tney will be able to cap ture him soon. TO CONSOLIDATE PAPERS. It Will Be Public Ledger and the Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Aug. 11. The Public Ledger and the Philadelphia Times an nounce that on and after Tuesday, Aug ust 12, the two papers will be consoli dated and will thereafter appear under the title of "Public Ledger and the rmiaaeipnia Times. The retail price will be 1 cent day ana 2 cents Sunday. The two papers are owned by Adolph S. Ochs. The Philadelphia Times will cease a separate publication after today's is sue. The editor-in-chief Is L. Clarke Davis. Of the Public Ledger, with Dr. A. C. Lambdln, of the Philadelphia Times, as nis associate. George W. Ochs will be general man ager of the consolidated properties. President's Quiet Sunday. Oyster Bay, N. Aug. 11.- President Roosevelt passed a quiet and uneventful Sunday at Sagamore HilL He did not attend church In the mornlns, as Is his custom, but Mrs. Roosevelt and the children were In their pew at Christ church. No visitors of an official char acter were received during the day. KANSAS FAIRS IN 1902. Following Is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas In lb02. their dates, locations and secretaries, as reported to the State Board of Agriculture and compiled by Secretary e. iA-ODunir Allen County Agricultural society C. H. Wheaton. secretary. Iola. September 2-5. Barton County Fair association James W. Clarke, secretary. Great Bend. Septem ber 2-6. Brown County Fair association Grant W. Harrington, secretary, Hiawatha. Au gust Z(-w. Butler Countv Fair association H M Balch. secretary. El Dorado. September 29 to October S. Chautauqua county Hewins Park and Fair- association, n. Whitney, secretary, Cedar Vale. The Kansas State Exposition Company r me stocK snow ana race meeting, Sep tember 8-13. O. P. Updegraft, secretary, Tooeka. Clav County Fair association E. E Hoopes, secretary. Clay Center. September S-12. Tnrshall fflimtv Fair a KROOin tirtn P) T MiUer, secretary, Marysville. September a-ii. Coffey County Agricultural Fair associa tion J. i'.. wooarora, secretary, isurnng. tnn. Rpntpmber S-12. Cowley county Eastern" Cowley County air- association a. aa. nenairson,- eecre terv. Burden. Finnev Countv Agricultural society Frpd Mima, secretary. Garden City. August 27- Franklin" County Agricultural society Carey M. Porter, secretary, Ottawa. Sep tember i-l. Harvey COunty Agricultural roe:ety jonn v.. iNicnoison. secretary.- newioo. SeDtember 23-88 Jackson County Agricultural and Fair association S. a. Aicurew. secretary. toi ton. SeDtember 23-2- Jefferson County Agricultural and Me. chanlcal association George A. Patterson. secretary. usitsinoAa. aetitemopr Jewell County Agricultural Fair associa tion H. K. Honey, secretary, Mankato. Marshall county Frankfort Fair associa tion J. D. Gregg, secretary, Frankfort September 23-26. Greeley County Fair association G. P. Hawkins, secretary. Tribune. Miami County Agricultural. Mechanical and Fair association W. H. Bradbury. sec retary, Paola. September 9-1$. Morris County Exposition company M. F. Amrine. searetary. Council Grove. Sep tember 24-2$. Nemaha County Fair association A. R. Sjgaulding. secretary. Seneca. September Sedgwick county The Wichita and Southwestern Exposition and Fair associa tion: H. L. Resing, secretary, Wichita September 42-27. Sumner county -Mul vane Agricultural Society John A Reed, secretary. Mul vane. Neosho County Fair association H. Lodge, secretary, -Erie. September 20 to October S. v Neosho county Chanute Agricultural, Fair, Park and Driving association A. K. Tlmpane, secretary, Chanute. August 2-29. Ness County Agricultural association H. C. Taylor, secretary, Ness City. Septem ber 24-28. Norton County Agricultural association J. L. Miller, secretary. Norton. Septem ber 2-5. CASTOR I A For XiukaU and Children. Tfci Kir.i Yea Hits Ateajs Bssgfct Cnatnre of &Mjy$fZ&& Dr. .ton o PERFECT Too.h Poufor AN ELEQAHT TCILET LUXURY. Used by psopl of refinement, tor over a quarter of a oentoxs U'VfV.-vMIVv Danger o! contracting, Sickliest U you use Pure Water That's the Kind furnished by the TopcKa Water Co. Telephone 122. 625 QUINCY STREET. TO EASTERN RESORTS. VIA BURLttTaTOiT fiOTTIS Low rate Summer circuit tours to Michigan, Canada, St. Lawrence re gion, Atlantic- coast; rail and lake or ail rail. TO CHICAGO The famous "'fill" from Kansas City and St. Joseph: fast, evening train for the East, with chair cars (seats free), standard sleepers and dining cars. TO ST. LOUIS. Double dally train service with ail kinds of high grade equipment. Including parlor cars, from Kansas City to St. Louis, on the morn ing train. COOL MINNESOTA. 10.000 lakes; scores of the coolest and best Summer localities In the country; frequent periods of low excursion tours, such as 112.20 Kansas City, and Ill.uO St. Joseph to St. Paul and Minneap olis. The Burlington Is the old reliable and established line to the northern Twin Cities. TO THE FAR NORTHWEST. "The BurlingtoV'-Ncrthem Pacific Express" now leaves Kansas City at 6:10 p. m., making direct connections with the early evening trains Into Kan sas City and St. Josenn. This is the only through train and througn equip ment from these cities to the North west territory in connection with tha Northern Pacific road. Connecting train from Denver at night Joining th Northwest train at Alliance, Nebraska. Describe your trip to your nearest ticket agent or to the undersigned, arfl let us advise you the leaBt cost and mall you publication free. R. tt CR0ZIEE, L. W. WAKtEY. '1. 1". a.. S2S Main St. tien'l I'ass'r Aeen Kansas City, Mo. Louit, Mo, CM. LEVEY. tieueral Manager, St. Louis. Mo. IT'S GOOD! EVERY INGREDIENT THAT'S USED AT WEIQHTMAN'S SODA FOUN tain is pure and healthful. For cool drinks that tickle the palate and can' not possibly HUfiT YOU GO TO WEIQHTMAN'S, 833 KANSAS AVE. SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. 5 CENT CIGAR, OUR THEORY L That one pleased customer f brings another Is doing Its J I mission nobly. The Five Cents a Day Telephone is in ii proving more popular dally. Missouri Kansas Tele. Co. Thou 9)9 Heat end Health to Mother end Chin MKS. W1,SLUW SuuThl.NIi iYRl P baa been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN, WHILE TEJSTHINO, with PERFECT 6UCCEPS.. It SOOTH KB the CHILD. SOFTENS the QGMB. ALLAYS all PAINT CtJRF.S WIND COLIC and Is the beat remedy for DIARRHOEA Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. WlnaloWs Sooth. Ing Syrup" and take no other kind. TWe tr-flv eents a bottle. 0,000 Watermelon Sent Worth. Newport News, Vo Aug. 1L The watermelon shipments from the Vir ginia peninsula to New "York and Bos ton markets this- season will break all records. During the week ending Sat urday the Old Dominion steamship coa pany received here for New 'York carloads, or about W.O00 melons, from two, Lenexa ana Llgntloot, Just above jnewvors ia S 3

Page 3

I, TOFEKA STATE JOtTRN AI MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 1 it 1C02. 3 RAILROAD JEWS. Engineer II. G. Rnst Makes Some Suggestions. Cut Out the Junket Features of Engineers' Conventions. THE NORFOLK MEETING Wasting $4,000 a Day on Idle Amusements. Scorching Letter in the Interest of Reform. In the August number of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers' Journal appears a. communication from H. G. Kust, one of the best known Santa Fe engineers running out of this place. The gist of the open letter to the mem bers of the brotherhood is a plea for a more industrious application of the del egates to the general convention of the order to the duties at hand. Mr. Rust writes from the attitude of one who has borne his share of the labors which have fallen to the lot of this great or ganization, having represented the To peka lodge at no less than eight of the meetings held in various cities of the country. The article appears over the nom de plume of "Kurnel Rice," but it has plainly the mark of Mr. Rust's in dividuality. It is as follows: Dear Brother Charley I am con strained to write you this to give ex pression to the thoughts forced upon me after reading the accounts in the Norfolk papers of the doings of -the G. I. D. at its recent session in that city. I was auite favorably impressed in reading the address of the governor of Virginia at the opening exercises, but when I read in the succeeding papers the accounts of the various Dleasure excursions taken, I could not dispel the thought that If he (the governor) had been made aware of the fact that the men he was addressing and lauding so highly for integrity and honesty of purpose were at that .very moment meditating on the expenditure of sev eral days' time at a cost to their con stituency of about $4,000 per day for the sole purpose of giving themselves a treat of pleasure and amusement, I hardly think he would have been so generous of his fulsome praises. Now I am free to admit te theory of an old-time saying, that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," but I believe all will agree with me that the reverse of this saying would be productive of equally disastrous re sults to the forensic abilities of any man or body of men. I certainly do not object to any or all the brothers seeing all there is to see, and enjoying all there is to enjoy, but let them be honest with themselves and their con stituents and transact the business they are sent to transact first, and then take all the time they want for per sonal enjoyment and sight-seeing. I certainly think that if the spirit had prevailed that ought to at all gather ings of a similar nature they would from an economical point of view, not only for themselves but their employ ers, the railway companies, have adopt ed a plan to reduce the number of del egates at least one-half, so that any fair-sized city could easily accommo date and care for them. It would not be such a burden on the railway com panies and. the expenses for each mem- ber would be reduced to a minimum, whereas as it now is each me"mber of the order will be assessed from three to six dollars to reimburse their dele gates for time lost and expenses. Now Charley, I hope you will deem this worthy of a place in the Journal. I expect to receive some severe roasts from the element that consider the trip a "junketing affair." "but believe all honest t thinking brothers will agree with me. I am I think fully prepared to withstand all attacks, as I have spent nearly forty years riding a loco motive and four years, fro.n 1861 to 1SG5, on the fighting line, and am pretty well inured to hardships and privations of most any kind, and a little tongue lashing won't hurt me. Seriously, I meant to enter a most rigid protest against the customary misuse of time and funds belonging of right to the membership at large, and "I'm agin It." Los Angeles, Cal., is equally if not more famous for its ability to give pleasure excursions and show inter esting sights than Norfolk, and I hope the brothers will have thought this matter over," fully prepared to make a radical reform on these lines and adopt a plan to rid the body of its unwieldy proportions. Frat. vours, KURNEL. RICE. STICKNET'S STATEMENT. Tells Why the Chicago Great Western Cut the Bates. A. B. Stickney. president of the Chi cago Great Western railway, has issued a circular letter to stockholders giving reasons for cutting the Kansas City Chicago rate on packers products and particulars of his contract with the packers. By this contract the packers at Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha, and Sioux City agree to route over the Great Western lines a certain per centage of the entire outDut of their plants, at stated rates,, for the term' of seven years. As to its advantages to the iiau, i-resiaent stlcKney says: "The aggregate revenue which these contracts secure to the Great Western on the present volume of business is es timated to be $14,000,900 and if the busi ness increases as rapidly in the next seven years as in the past approxi mately $20,000,000. "Under the terms of these contracts the company will publish and put into effect a tariff between the Missouri river and Chicago, covering every ar ticle of packing house products, which it agrees to keep in effect without change of rates for the period of seven years. This tariff is to be a published tariff open to every shipper to those no nave ana to those who have not signed the contract alike. The rates which the Chicago Great Western com pany has agreed to put into effect on Its lines are 20 cents from the Missouri river to Chicago, which is 25 per cent higher than the average of the last 15 years, and 18 cents on such products Natural Food Maintains the Natural) Condition of Health i i NATURAL FOOD. JilKlUUJJIJ n is passing through Chicago .which is 15 per cent higher than the average for the last 15 years xne Duut or. the Busi ness carried "the 20-cent rate, because the bulk of the products of the Missouri river points is shipped to Chicago for further manipulation and to be routed to suit the various markets of consump tion to which they are' reshipped." According to Mr. Stickney's statement the packers are" bound to give to tf Great Western the agreed upon per centage of -their products for seven years no matter how. the other roads may cut rates, or, falling to ship the agreed amount, to .'make a certain agreed cash payment for each defici ency car, which payment is equal to the estimated net profit to the railway if the shipment had been made. IK JURE KANSAS CITY. Santa Fe's Out Sates Likely to Help Chicago. Kansas City papers. say that the Santa Fe's cut on live stock and packing house products will hurt Kansas City. The Santa Fe hauls more cattle to Kan sas City than any other railroad enter ing the city. It has never been able to get much of the haul of the manufactured products out of Kansas City. The Santa Fe takes the position that in bringing cattle into Kansas City it simply creates busi ness for the roads that are getting the bulk or tne haul ol tne manuiacturea pacmns house products ana tne aressea oeei. ine Santa Fe can only be appeased by promise of good big hauls of the packing house products. The Santa Fe officials say thai they are tired of making business for the other railroads and that they will haul stock to C.deago rather than to Kansas City unless they can get the haul on the manufactured products. "There is a prospect of a lively but very brief fight," said a stock yards official at Kansas City. "Other lines from Kansas City to unicago win meet tne oama re cut and under the decision of the inter state commerce commission the same rate will have to be made from other Missouri river aoints." "It is all fixed up m Chicago," said an other man, "the packers and the rail roads both have their headquarters in Chi cago and they are working for Chicago and against Kansas City." SATS ALBTjqPERQITB LEADS. C. O. Young Discusses the Santa Fe Fire Departments. The Albuquerque Journal-Democrat says: C. O. Young, of Albuquerque, who is now inspecting the fire fighting equipment of the Santa Fe system and reporting to Superintendent of Ma chinery George R. Henderson, has re turned to the city for a few days' rest after touring the main line from this city to Chicago and from Topeka over the Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe to Galves ton. Mr. Young found the departments at various places in all stages of effi ciency from a perfect department as at Albuquerque and Topeka, to a verj imperfect equipment at Temple and Cleburne.Texas, where the Albuquerque chief organized departments. He says that no department on the system equals the local fire brigade either in organization or equipment. Mr. Young visited every station of importance be tween Albuquerque and Chicago, To peka and Galveston. After resting a few days he will Inspect the equipment at stations on the Rio Grande division and will then go out on the coast lines on the same mission. SOLD KANSAS LAND. Union Pacific Has Disposed of 261,- 500 Acres During Year. The Union Pacific has closed a deal with E. C. Barton, of Chicago,, whereby it transferers to hiro 30,000 acres of land in Arapahoe County, Colorado, and in Thom as and Logan counties, Kansas. A large portion of this is farming tend and will be broken up into small tracts, to which the new owner will move a large num ber of families. For the fiscal year end ing July the land department of the Ln ion Pacific sold 408,032 acres in Wyoming, 382,414 acres in Colorado, 108,333 in Utah, 16,125 in Nebraska, 261,500 In Kansas, a total for the year of 1,336,527 acres. New Connection For the Santa Fe. The Ludlow and Southern railway has tiled articles of incorporation in the county clerks office at Los Angeles, Cal. The company proposes to build a railroad to connect with Ludlow and the Santa Fe on the "desert, and to run through big mining camps some eight to niteen miles west. The work of con struction has already begun. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. Buckskin Bill made a stand at Olathe saturaay. Copies of the recent carmen's agreement were posiea arouna tne snops saturaay. K. R. Stewart, foreman of the store house, was In Kansas City over Sunday. Jesse Sutton has been allowed a transfer from the storehouse to the blacksmith snos. JoLn Bushacher. an unholsterer.has been sick and unable to do his work for some aays. Electrical eaulmnent for the new boiler ana macnine snop is oemg unloaded al ready within that building. Claude C. Hardv. transfer tableman at tne car shops, was in Wabaunsee county saturaay visiting a aaugnter. After several weeks runnlnr a machine. Joseph Fentlman is In charge of the bolt racits at tne DiacKsmitn snop. J. O Connell. who auit the blacksmith ing department, has entered, the pmnlov or me inewooa x-artt ranroaa. Superintendent McLellan -and Rridzea and Buildings Foreman Say re were on the cut on saturaay witn a special. The babv daue-hter of David Stewart blacksmith helper, is recovering from a se vere attacK oi cnoiera lntantum. Connections were betas' made at the pump house Saturday with the new air cusnion which was lately placed there. Contractor Richardson, who is in charge of the improvements on the Emporia roundhouse, has moved his family to that piace. Esther and Jennie Lees, daughters of Boilermaker Robert Lees, sr., went to Emporia Saturday for a week's visit with iriena9. Ignace Kisner. a helper to the black- snmns, xurnea m nis time saturaay. John Koeberlm has been put on in his place. Business Agent Schweitzer of the Inter national Association of Machinists, head quarters at Kansas City, was in Topeka suiuruay. Andrew Hartwick, a water service em ploye, is reported as being sick in bed. It has been some days since he has been arouna tne snop. North O. Carpenter, who a few weeks ago tooK a Job as trucker in the store de partment, has given up his place. He is helping can catsup for an uptown firm. Water service men have completed the overhauling or tne steam' shovel whicn was brought in from Neosho Rapids a few aays ago ana it was sent Back to that place Sunday. Nate Caffertsr. formerly a machinist In Topeka shops, but lately In California, was in Ogden, Utah, at last report. His parents believe he will be home within two weeks. A. A. Vogel. air brake hose repairer, had to be assisted home Saturday fore noon, owing to an attack of sickness which rendered it impossible for him to remain on duty. Miss Mary Gibbons, sister of J. W. Gib bons, foreman of the locomotive painters, passed through Topeka Saturday on her way to Decatur, 111., for a visit at her for mer home. Machinist Kirkbride. who recently was given employment in these shops, visited his family in Kansas City Sunday. He expects to bring his folks to Topeka the latter part of the week. A local lodge of the Amalgamated As sociation of Wood Workers is being insti tuted among, the Santa Fe employes and from reports the organization is receiv ing in membership a liberal support. Silas Ford, stenographer to General Storekeeper Hilton, and William Hunt, mailing clerk in the same office, took the flyer for Denver Saturday night, where they wUl recuperate for the coming ten days. The rain of Sunday morning was gen eral over the eastern division of the San ta Fe. The wind caused a partial prostra tion of the telegraph service and the linemen were on the go from daylight Sun day morning until nightfall. Fireman Fred Bartel was commissioned as messenger for the Canadian Northern locomotive 60, which was started from To peka for Winnipeg, Manitoba. It goes by way of Fort Madison, la., where another is picked up and sent along with it. Nine of the new Pyle National electric headlights which are to be put on the fast passenger locomotives, were at the round house Saturday. Engine 1000. which has been in for a few days getting flue re pairs and a touch of paint, will be fitted up with one of these lights. There has been a renovation of the workmen's cupboards within the last few days, and in the car department a num ber of new locks have been put on. The lockers of the new shops are to be steel In order that all possibility of fire from spontaneous combustion may be prevented- John Isaacson, foreman of the planing mill, has abandoned his duties long enough to go to Salina for a brief recreation per iod. His family has been there for some days. His brother-in-law, Charles John son, who used to be in the mill, is living on a farm near there. Matt Carl is in charge of the department while he is away. Fred Fish and H. Miller, machinists who hired out to the water service department a few days ago have drawn their time. It is related that they came over from the German Fatherland a few months ago and were reauceu to tne straits or pawning their clothing at Kansas City. In some way they reached Topeka and went to work here, thinking that they could draw part of their month's wages whenever thev wished. This was impossible without waiting until the 15th, or else quitting, so preferring the latter course, they took their -time and returned to that city, where It is supposed they again secured pos session of their clothing. UE CURES BOILS. Dr. Doyen Finds Means to Paralyze the Carbuncle Microbe. New York. Aug. 11. Dr. Doyen of Paris has demonstrated that the inflam ed tumors designated under the names of boils and furuncles and anthrax may be successfully submitted to the serum treatment, says the Paris correspondent of the Herald. The doctor has brought to the notice of the academy of medicine an album inous liquid which, administered in doses of five to ten cubic centimetres is efficacious against the staphylococcus microbe which engenders these affec tions. The serum employed has such a powerful effect that in two or three hours after the injection all pain caused by the inflammation ceases. The results vary a little according to tne manner in which the injection is made and the amount of decayed tissue in the center of the eruption. The largest carbuncles cure without any incision or cauterization, yielding to a simple emollient and aseptic dress ing. The injections, about 200 in num ber, made by Mr. Doyen and fully spec ified by him, have never produced an abscess. Farm Hand Commits Suicide. Warrensburg,' Mo., Aug. 11. Arthur Cromwell, a young farm hand ased 21 years, committed suicide this morning at the home of his former employer, Thomas Marr. 'living nine miles south west of this city. He stepped into the road in front of the house and fired a bullet into his brain. The young man had been despondent for several day on account of being out of work. PRESIDENT AT OYSTER BAY. Latest Snapshot of President Roosevelt, Taken During His Summer Vacation. i i. I Zt Ms i"5 "I JL u 'T t tT i'ne President on Horseback" is the name the Oyster Bay folks have given to OoL Roosevelt. A whole horde of photographers hover around the president's sum mer home on the alert for snapshots of the president on his horse. This authentic photograph has only Just been taken and -shows President Roosevelt leaving his house for a Sunday afternoon ride. PLATT IS SARCASTIC. Way Iowa Should Take Charge of Federal Issues. New York, Aug. 11. Senator Thomas C. Piatt has clearly indicated according to the Herald that the Republican state platform this year will ignore Cuban reciprocity, as advocated by President Roosevelt and indorsed by the Iowa state- platform, and confine itself chiefly to state issues. When asked how the Cuban reciprocity issues would be treated in the state platform. Senator Piatt said: "I have not heard that matter dis cussed. I do not know that the state platform will deal with federal issues. We have issues enough of our own here in the state." It was suggested that the Republicans of Iowa had taken a different view of the matter. "As the Republicans of Iowa have about everything in the national gov ernment, it is proper that they should take charge of federal issues," Senator Piatt repUed. CORN IS THE KING. Crop and Business Situation is Pro nounced Satisfactory. New York, Aug. 11. Henry Clews Cot's Financial Review says: In the main developments during the past week have been favorable. The principal crops are making excellent progress,, and the country now seems assured of nothing less than a big corn crnn In contrast with a failure a year ago.-; This- apparently is the keynote of the situation for the time being. .Near ly ia.ll advices froai the west are of an optimistic nature: and, if present ex pectations are realized, tne farmers win have a much better season than last year.' From the south, where an ample croD of cotton is promised, the reports are also encouraging: and the general impression is that the entire country will have a fall trade equal to lr not slightly in excess of last year. While the croD and business situation is satis factory, the industrial outlook is hard ly as promising as at this time in 1901, The unsettled condition of labor exerts a deterrent effect upon new enterprises, and the increased costs of production which the demands of labor are im posing are creating a situation that causes more or. less anxiety concerning the future. Profits, are already declin ing, and the present high level of prices makes it impossible for manufacturers to compensate themselves by rurtner advances that would simply curtail production and leave the producer in no better situation. It seems quite probable that the ability of manufacturers- to advance wages has about reached its limit, for the reason that advances in wages now mean still higher prices for products, which can not be obtained under present condi tions. Meanwhile' manufacturers are confronted with another problem that of new competition which, combined with new methods and small capitaliza tion, is making active headway against the older heavily capitalized concerns. Altogether, therefore, the industrial situation will bear some careful watch ing, the Indications being that we are nearer a. reaction ;in this part of our economic machinery than is generally supposed, if it has not been already entered. For this reason the strike fever cannot be regarded with the equanimity that would be possible if prosperity promised unknown continuance.- With the plain intimations that we are near a downward turn in prices and profits, much of the strike agita tion will prove ill-timed and injurious. The financial outlook is unchanged. While crops and business promise so well there is no opportunity for bearish demonstrations. On the contrary, the situation is such that the big leaders might easily inaugurate a bull cam-1 paign of greater or less duration, pro vided monetary conditions permitted. Here is the crief obstacle. The banks are practically loaned up to their full capacity. There is a general feeling among bankers, also, that contraction is more desirable than further expan sion. Within the year ending July 1 bank loans in the United States have increased $265,000,000. Of course, there has been an enormous increase of bank ing facilities during this period, but against this increase in loans there was an increase in specie holdings of only $33,000,000 and a small decrease in legal tenders, showing a low condition of re serves. Then, crop demands will be large larger than a year ago, when the corn loss lessened the drain on the banks; and mercantile requirements will be fully up to the average, so bank ers rightly expect a good demand for all available funds at profitable rates. This situation renders further gold exports of consequence improbable, and the payment of our foreign obligations will be either deferred to a more convenient period or done through more conveni ent channels when cotton and grain be gin to move. Liquidation of some of the syndicates in which large sums are tied up would relieve the monetary situa tion, and in this connection an active and stronger stock market would prove very opportune. Should no unforeseen accident intervene there is every reason to suppose that the big men will endeavor to take advantage of present favorable conditions to lift the market. They have stock to sell and buy ers can only be tempted by creating an active and stronger market. Just when such an attempt is likely to be made no body can determine, but the early fall, when vacations are over and crop demands have reached their maximum, seems the most opportune time. If these surmises prove correct we may have a fairly active and better stock market, offering good opportunities for trading. Important deals are still in prospect which will have a stimulating effect upon values. The whole railroad map of the United States is un dergoing reconstruction and it is not to be assumed that these plans are being pushed without advantage to their promoters. Au gust presents a brighter promise than July, though it should not be forgotten that prices are at skyscraping level and unexpected disaster might precipitate a very unpleasant reaction. LOVERS FIND A WAY. Steal Daughters of an Indiana Pastor While Latter Prays. Evansville. Ind., Aug. 11. The marriage of Misses Maude and Myrtle Brown at Booneville. Ind.. took place last night un der romantic circumstances. The father of the girls is a minister in the Church ot the Latter Day Saints and formerly had charge of a church at Reed's Station, Ky. While there the airls met two brothers. H. K.. ana JNea Ashby, ana a love matcn sprang up among them. Last night the young men went to Booneville to marry the girls and their father objected. He finally decided to pray over the mat ter and said he would gi'e his consent orovidine the Lord did. He called hts daughters and the members of his church in. ana wnue on nis Knees onering up a petition the Kentucky lovers slipped in and stole the girls away and they were married. The indignant father refuses to forgive his daughters. He Was Afraid of Bartholin. Denver, Colo., Aug. 11. Milton R. Ed wards, who roomed at the house of Mrs. Bartholin in Chicago, and for whom the police of that city have ljeen looking to find out what he knows of the murder of Mrs. Bartholin and Miss Minnie Mitchell, is in Denver. He tells a straightforward story, and says he came here looking for work and that he has at no time concealed his identity or his locality. He says he is willing to return to Chicago at any time if the police wish him to. One reason he left Chicago is, he claims, that he feared William Bartholin, who is accused of the murder of the two women, would also kill him. Before he left Chicago he says he expressed his suspicion of Bap- tnouru Kelba to Australia. New York. Aug. 11. Mme. Melba ar rived in New York on the Campania on her way to Australia. The prima donna was met by Charles A. Ellis, her for mer manager. "Mme. Melba will re main here for a few days." said Mr. Ellis, "and then resume her journey to Vancouver, whence she will sail for Australia. She has never sung profes sionally in her own country she's a Melbourne girl, you know and she is looking forward with much pleasurable anticipation to her coming tour of the Australian cities and New Zealand. She will return to San Francisco in Febru ary and after a few concerts there will come on to New York to join Mr. Grau's company at the Metropolitan ior tne oaiance or tne season. Big Steamers Race. New York, Aug. 11. The American Line steamer St. Paul from Southamp ton and Cherbourg and the French Lin steamer La Touralne from Havre, are In port. The great liners had a most exciting finish at the light ship. The St. Paul first saw the big Frenchman at daybreak in the distance dead ahead All day the great ships put forth their best efforts, and at night La Touralne was still ahead. At 7:56 o'clock in the morning the American liner passed Fire island and tne passengers had the sat isfaction of seeing the French steamer close alongside. From there to the lierht ship the St Paul continued to gain. The St. Paul passed tne sandy Hook light ship at 9:31 a. m., three miles ahead of La Touraine. Murder at Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, O. T., Aug. 11. Late last night Arthur R. Moore shot and killed Ed White, a saloonkeeper of this place. White and Mrs. Moore were walking along the street when Moore, wno was out looking for his wife, met them. He told White that he had given him warning. Moore fired five shots at White, one striking him in the leg and another In the abdomen. Moore was arrested at his home an hour later and is now in jail. He is the proprietor of we in cornice works here. Deer Hunters Fined. Madison, Wis., Aug. tL Mrs. C. D. Moon of Chicago, who, with her husband and dozen friends is spending her summer out ing ai spiaer uuie, oawyer county, was one orthe proudest women In the state up to a aay or two ago. She had killed deer, while several of the men in the par ty who tried to do likewise, failed. Then it developed that two men stopping at the resort who had been interested spec tators of the sport were Deputy Game Wardens Carpenter and Bowman. Mr Moon also killed a deer, and husband and wife were arrested by the deputies and taken to Hayward. where they paid fines of S and costs each. Burglars Blow Open a Safe. Longmont, Col.. Aug. 1L The safe of the Demo mill was blown open bv burglars early this morning. Nitro glycerin was used and the office build ing was blown to sieces. The mill, which is located 150 feet away, was not injured. The burglars secured only about $30 for their trouble. Accidents come with distressing fre quency on the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings, sprains. Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil relieves the pain instantly. Never safe without It. T THE KANSAS STATE I EXPOSITION COMPANY State Fine Stocli Shon I $10,000.00 HARNESS RACES. $3,000.00 RUNNING RACES. Vamdeville TOP Week: Sept. Half fare on all railroads. Entries close August 25th. For premium list, entry blanks or further infor mation, write O. P. UPDEGRAFF, Secretary. tM A LEAVENWORTH. SUIT. Thomas P. Fenlon Sues Henry Keller For Legal Services. Leavenworth, Aug. 11. An interesting suit is being tried in the city court. In it are involved persons who were at one time among the best known in Leaven worth's business and social circles. Thomas P. Fenlon is suing Henry C. Keller for $300. He claims this amount is due him for legal services rendered in securing a divorce for Mr. Keller's daughter from Charles H. Neely, Keller is now living in San Francisco. For years he was a leading insurance man of Leavenworth. He is now in the same business in the California city. The daughter Is now the wife of Cap tain Maurey Nichols, 7th United States infantry. She Is with her husband at the Presidio near San Francisco. Charles Neely was private secretary to Lucien Scott, the Leavenworth banker, when he married Lena Keller. He now is in the insurance business in Philadel phia. Charles Neely married Miss Keller in April 1889. In 1894 they separated. On July 9, 1895, she was granted a divorce in the district court in this city by Judge Louis A. Myers on the grounds of aban donment. It is said that an attempt was made to have the trial secretly conduct ed in the law library room at the court house. This effort at concealment was in effectual. Mrs. Nichols was a beautiful attract ive young women and married the arViy officer soon after the divorce was grant ed. Very sensational letters are being intro duced as evidence in the suit Jiow being tried in the city court. Neely, in one of them, charger Mrs. Keller, mother of his wife, with poisoning the mind of his wife against him. He says Mrs. Keller was very friendly with him until after Lucien Scott's death. He claimed she turned against him at once when she learned he had not been left anything by the bank er's will. Messrs. E. B. Baker and John T. O'Keefe represent Henry Keller. They claim Fenlon's demand is entirely out of keeping with the usual fee charged for such services as Thomas P. Fenlon Sr., rendered. They say Thomas Fenlon, Jr., was not the attorney for Mrs. Neely but for the husband. FEW COLORED BEGGARS. Booker Washington Calls Attention to Record of Negroes. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 11. At today's sessions of the negro young people's Christian and educational congress in terest centered in the address of Booker T. Washington on "The Contributions of the South to the Education of the Race." Introducing, his address,. Prof. Washington said it must be borne in mind that the negro was brought here by -physical force, and that he should have a claim upon the sympathy and helnful kindness of the DeoDle of all parts of the country. The race had ever striven to prove itself of service and not a burden, as was shown by the fact that few colored beggars were saen. Prof. Washington cited several in stances to illustrate the degree in which the negro responds to outside influences, telling of two negro townships in Ala bama, one ox wnicn naa not oeen neipea or reached by outside influences and the other which had been given the ad vantages of education and proper train ing. In the first township the masses of the people were without land, living in one-roomed cabins with their crops mortgaged and deeply in debt, while poor school and ignorance and immor amy were in evidence la the 8-13. township were 128 negro homes and tha negroes are paying taxes on $44,00(1 worth of property. Continuing he said: "I sometimes fear that we are in dan ger of producing too many leaders. We are not so 31 uch in need of leaders as workers. Before we spend any consid erable part of our time giving advice to others, let us remember that it is our duty to our families, our race and our selves to secure and pay for a com fortable home or a farm or to start business and secure a bank account. Talk after work is valuable; talk with out work is valueless. I cannot have much faith in the morality or Chris tianity or a man wnose note ior iu is not good at his home bank. The high est moral and religious progress does not go hand in hand with idleness. shiftlessness and poverty." The speaker then referred to the re lations between the white and black races, saying: 'No race can hate another without that race being weakened, narrowed and degraded. Let us cultivate friend ship end love for all races and indi viduals, and harbor hatred for none. If others would be little, let us try to be great: if others would hate us, let us try to love them; if others would be cruel to us, let us be merciful; if oth ers would break the law, let us respect it; 11 others would seek to push us down, let us seek to raise them. In the long run it is the race that helps to push up that succeeds." Gamblers Returned Winnings, Denver, Colo., Aug. 11. Leonard M. Dingle, former teller of the First Na tional bank of Aspen, was arrested in the city today charged with embezzling J40.000 from the bank. It is understood that his peculations have been going on for some time and that Dingle lost some money in gambling. It is also stated that the gamblers of Aspen have re turned about si5,ooo to the bank, and Dingle's bonds with a surety company will make up the major portion of the balance of the shortage. Dingle will be taken back to Aspen for trial. Home Visitors Excursions to eastern points. The Missouri Pacifla railway offers its patrons the exception ally low rate of one fare for the round trip on September 2d, 9th, 16th and 23d to certain "joints in Ohio and Indiana, and on October 3d to 6th inclusive to all points in Central Passenger associa tion territory, same including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, etc. Tickets limited 30 days for return, but not later than No vember 3d. This will be your opportun ity to visit your old home and friends and the Missouri Pacific with its solen- did road bed. its fast trains equipped with all the latest and advanced im provements and conveniences takes you to the "Gate-way" St. Louis,the World's Fair City with its magnificent union station, where direct connections are made for all points. For full informa tion see local agent. Half the ills that man is heir to come from indigestion. Burdock Blood Bit ters strengthens and tones the stomach; makes indigestion impossible. Btantks SBstn r o Bsnaths Tha Kind Yw Hot Always Bn Tin Kind VmHmHlwnn Bssgltf Bans the Sigsatsrs Tha list Yaa Haw hwra Baot 9

Page 4

4" TOPEKA STATE JOTJRNAL, MONDAY EVENING. ATJGTJST 11, 1902.

TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAW. tVOLUME XXIX .No. 191 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kansas town where tha paper baa a Bar rier system. By mall, one year ""J By mail, three months Jj Weekly edition, one year Saturday edition of daily one year...., 1.00 (Entered July 1. 1875, as second class matter at the postoftice at Topeka, Kn.. under the act of congress. TELEPHONES. Business Office .--Bell "Pbone 10J Business Office Ind. Phons Reporters' Room....... Be" phone 671 Importers- Room Ind. 'phone 1W-1 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal building. W eao OS Kansas avenue, corner of Ejghtn. NEW YORK OFFICE: 211 Vanderbilt Bldg. Paul Block, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1640 Unity Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. PULL LEASED "VTIR'B REPORT 07 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the (Associated Press and receives the full oay telegraph report of that great news or (ranfzation for exclusive afternoon publi cation in Topeka. The news is received In the State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose, busy through the entire day. A complete copy of the night report la aiaa received. HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY. Subscribers of the State Journal tnvay during the summer may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at the rate of thirty tents a month. Address changed as often as desired. While out of tow ike State Journal will be ta you like a daily letter front home. It ia now In order for Explorer Bald win to publish a history of "The First Voyage," What the European powers should do Is to arrange for general disarmament at the drop of a hat. Uncle Sam might give the signal. If the government ever goes into the business of taking over and operating public utilities, it might be well to be gin with the anthracite coal mines. Washington Post: Senator Burton has added a few amendments to his explanation of his course on the Cuban reciprocity bill. What a time the poor man is having. It might be expected that Neely would be contented with his escape from serv ing a long sentence in prison, but he is now demanding the return of the loot taken from him when arrested. Every Republican convention of the year has indorsed the administration. but Kansas was the first state to name Roosevelt for 1904. This was followed by Pennsylvania, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. The archbishop of Canterbury has poor eyesight and experienced consider able difficulty in finding the king's head when trying to place the crown upon It last Saturday. It is not surprising then that when during his efforts in this direction the band struck up "God Save the King." that the crowd saw the joke and yelled. Indianapolis News: Inspector General Hillar, of General Gobin's Btaff, says that 85 per cent of the miners in the Shenandoah region are foreigners, and that there are between 8,000 and 10,000 anarchists there. The inspector may or may not be correct in his figures, but his statement, even if exaggerated, goes to show how American labor has been "protected." MARK BANNA. The labor unions appear to have found a staunch friend and champion in Senator Mark Banna. This sugges tion is based of course on the supposi tion that the senator is sincere in what he says and there has appeared no rea son, so far, to doubt his sincerity. In all his public utterances Mr. Hanna differs from the ordinary politicians in the fact that he never dodges an issue. What he says is aimed directly at the mark and there is no attempt to leave a loophole for future escape from the consequences of his remarks in case such course should appear to be desir able. Senator Banna burns all bridges as he goes and does not beBitate to de nounce the men of his cla3s when he thinks they are wrong. He is making steady progress in the esteem of the American people. Discussing this change in the attitude of the public the Hartford Post says: The .change in a large par; of public sentiment toward Hanna during the past few years has been notable. That change is the upshot of a bnter popu lar knowledge of the man. Hanna wasn't known by the people at large until 1S96, when he conducted with mar vellous skill the first McKlnley cam paign. For several years after his en trance to public life he was depicts ty tils political enemies as the embodiment of the hoggishness of capital. Than he no man was aver more brutally and unjustly cartooned. He was represent ed as the enemy of labor and as always prepared to do anything to .crush the poor in order to fatten his pocketbook. This impression, wholly wrong, is now wholly chane-pri lvurwhca m recognized that labor has few better man .nanna. uireetly and in directly he gives employment to many thousand men, but probably not one of them works as hard as Hanna works The relations between him and them nave been most cordial and are based on mutual resrwrt end ii t... is the friend of the other. In him his employes have confidence because they are convinced that he always intends to treat them justly. In them he has faith because he has always found them to be disposed to do the square thing and to appreciate fair treatment. By everybody Hanna's ambition to vromeiti irrenuiy relations between cap ital and labor Is rerfp-nf? Tha, bition is sincere and honorable and not seinsn. Manna is a positive, aggressive and blunt man who does things. Ha is built on broad-gauge lines and takes targe views ox tmngs. intensely prac tical, he is always looking ahead and he builds for tomorrow as well as to day. Alike in business and in politics ha is constructive. He builds up but doesn't tear down. He likes a dollar but be likes a lot of other things better and mora. tFor demagogy he baa. no use except contempt. For duplicity and indirection he has no toleration. He's a salutary force in the life of both politics and business. The Indianapolis News says: We suppose there are few people who any longer doubt the bonestv of Senator Hanna's interest in tbe labor question. He has been brutally caricatured and denounced as the oppressor and en slaver of the workingman. and this in spite of the fact that be was known to have lived on the friendliest terms with the men who worked for him. But grad ually men have come to see him in his true obaracter, and it is now known that, whatever his faults, hostility to labor is not one of them. JAYHAWKEB JOTS. Saline county has samples of seVen foot bluestam on exhibition. Crokinole still prevails at. Newton. No new f angled gaoies like ping pong for them. A Salina woman offers $25 reward for a missing dog, which is probably .-$24.99 too large. There is hope for Leavenworth yet. The city fathers are going to enforce tbe curfew law. A Saline county mule was the vic tim of a sunstroke this week. It died without a struggle. A reading of the revised Topeka back rates would indicate that, all of the sharks are not in the deep, deep sea. A Goodland man who had five toes cut off by an engine complains that the only corns he had were on the otner foot. Explorer Baldwin of Kansas "regrets to state," while the North Pole remains silent, cold and serene in the undiscov ered country. An Ottawa woman insists that she is much younger than the birth records show. But truth and a woman's age are soon Darted. The Kingman county farmer who is growing row of corn 25 miles long probably takes his dinner afield while cultivating his crop. A Wellington family was compelled to travel all over the United States be fore they found out that home was "the garden spot of the world." The Osborne county man who is go ing after Noah's ark in the polar re gions might get a cheap outfit and some pointers from Kxplorer Baldwin. An Iola man who had all of his poul try stolen says he cares not for tbe goose that laid the golden egg so long as the cow that gave milk punches was left. Two gospel wagons found Abilene so highly moral that they refused to stop over night. After all, perhaps Senator Burton isn't to be blamed for running away to Hawaii. A postmortem caucus is to be held-by the politicians in the case of the Man chester postmaster who resigned office a week after appointment. They simply can't understand it. Up in the north tier of Kansas coun ties they are telling of their bumper grain crop and springing the ancient Joke that "corn on the ear is worth several on the feet." A woman has been nominated for school superintendent in Morris county. But so long as she prefers to pay $30 for a hat rather than $2 for votes she will hardly succeed in politics. An Emporia pony is offered, for sale because it's too frisky for girls. This is cheering news, visitors to that citv have been under the impression that nothing was too frisky for- the normal town maids. The Parsons couple who have been living together as man and wife under the impression that a marriage license was unnecessary, have evidently been consulting a copy of the Utah constitu tion rather than that of Uncle Sam. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Some people are afraid, and call it virtue. Never argue wlthi a man who drinks wbiskv. What mean things can pass through some sweet lias! Those who have disagreeable news to tell you, always find you in. No one likes to be reminded that there is another side to the story. We are looking for someone smart enough to explain the religious war in France. In writing a letter, the great genius is the one who remembers what should be left out. We never knew a worthless character who didn't tell what a great man he was ten years ago. When it is hot in Kansas, and the wind blows, you have to make a double effort to please, and then don't. When a farmer comes to town on cir cus day, and the parade doesn't suit him, he hitches up and goes home. People are always talking about the faults of. the children. Still, we grown people are not entirely without them. The woman whose husband goes with her to prayer meeting, has some thing to be proud enough of to take to the very front seat. Toung people wonder how old folks can get up as early in the morning as they do. The explanation is simple: they go to bed early. What an old man would like In the way of birthday cakes is one with candles showing how many more years are left him to live. They are telling of an Atchison baby two weeks old who laughs out loud. Well, a baby that has seen only two weeks of life can afford to laugh. If you start to tell any one your troubles, and he turns the subject and doesn't give you a chance, hunt him up afterward and thank him for it. Sentiment on one of the theater pic tures now being displayed in Atchison windows: "You shall marry aay daugh ter, and then I will Kill Too." An Atchison county woman who has eight children says she is getting along very well now that she has se cured a divorce and gotten rid of her husband. Some people who have real intelli gence, are ashamed to acknowledge it; instead, they accept the most foolish doctrines. In order to be known as lovely characters. A' lot of circus wagons drove by. "Always plenty of suckers to attend," a man said. W hereupon another man inquired: "Are you going this after noon or tonight?" QUAKER REFLECTIONS. Mrs. Muggins "They say you treat your husband like a dog." Mrs. Bug gins "Nonsense! What a libel on poor Fido." The lawyer who advertises to secure divorces without publicity somehow or other doesn't seem to make a hit with actresses.- Policeman (pushing his way through dense crowd) "What's the excitement here?" Bystander "Somebody is get- tinor In a trn ,vf roral 1"A good many 'fashionable churches are closed for the summer,1, says the Manayunk Philosopher, "but the devil never takes a vacation.' The fellow who consoles himself with the thought that there are Just as good nsh in the sea should bear in mind that they are not all suckers. Rollingstone Nomoss "Da scientists say dat kissin' is dangerous. You kin ketch t'lngs dat way." Tatterdon Torn 'Dat' s right. I onct kissed a gal, an" she. caught me." LESSON FROM EAGLES. New Model of the GoYernmeot FIjing Ships. Washington, Aug. 11. As a machine of war the government looks upon the bal loon as a failure, and the aeroplane as tha practical means of flight through the air. This is not an academlo conclusion on the part of the government, for through the war department it is conducting a series of experiments which it hopes will end in the construction of a practical flying ma chine. Ten thousand dollars was appro priated a few years ago to defray the cost of these experiments and investigation. They are now being conducted around Washington with the utmost secrecy under the general directions of S. P. Langley, who has charge of the Smithsonian insti tute, and who is regardeed as one of the most successful students of the problem of aerial flight. He is committed to the flying machine as a means of aerial navigation, and is against balloons. In his estimation the inflated gas bag will never be much more than it has been in the past. It may be slowly propelled in light winds from point to point, but will never become of any commercial value and is of only slight military importance. When the war department selected Mr. Langley to conduct its experiments it was known exactly on what grounds he would Sroceed. His convictions on the subject ad already been made public. He took up the task with the greatest reluctance, for he declared, at the close of some practical experiments, some six years ago, that his interest was purely scientific and not commercial. He declared that when he made a small machine fly at Quantico, on the Potomac, six years ago, he demon strated the scientific fact and that it was for men interested in commerce to de velop the device. The war department prevailed upon him to assist in perfecting hia model as a machine of war, and the experiments have been going on quietly ever since. LOCAL MENTION. Wm. Taylor went to Chicago yester day. Mrs. J. S. West and her two children are visiting in Fort Scott. Labor Commissioner W. L. A. Johnson will be the Labor day orator at Fort Scott. Mrs. W. A. Powers and son Charlton left Monday for a month's visit in the east. The Topeka Choral society will bring Mile. Zelie deLussan, the singer, to To peka December 26. This is the month for the doctors to go away on their annual vacation. It is generally the dullest time of the year with them. Joseph R. Lowry, Esq., an attorney of New York City, is spending a few days visiting his uncle, Judge Lowry of Seabrook. The family of EL Green, at 626 Van Buren street, which has been in quar antine for diphtheria for nine, has been released. Greer M. Arthur, of the senate fold ing room at Washington, is home for a visit. He goes to Logan, Kansas, today for a visit and will return to Washing ton on September L The Poverty Hollow baseball team de feated the Central Park team Sunday by the score of 27-8. Bad playing by First Baseman Kimball and Catcher Pennlck lost the game for Central Park. Peter Allendorff, assistant foreman of the Santa Fe yards, was hurt this morn ing by a railroad tie which fell across his legs, badly bruising them. No bones were broken, but Mr. Allendorff will be laid out for some time. George Smith, colored, who was found unconscious in his room over Keith Hazen's drug store last Thursday, died at Christ hospital Saturday evening, presumably from heart disease. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from St. John's M. E. church. The regular August meeting of the members of the semi-Centennial Civic Improvement association will be held Tuesday night at the Commercial club rooms. Mrs. Hill McCarter will read a paper on the subject of the care of lawns. Other details will come up for discussion at this meeting. There will be a public meeting for all machinists this evening at Lincoln Post hall. The meeting will be addressed by Chas. Ceilley, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor. St. Louis; K. F. Schweizer. general organ izer from Kansas Citv, and Lee John son, state labor commissioner. The meeting is not limited to union men. All are invited. W. G. Gilbert, whose continued ab sence from Rossville for two weeks past without informing any one where he was, has created considerable excite ment and many conjectures as to sui cide, returned to his home today. He had been very sick in Kansas City dur ing the entire time, being taken sud denly ill there the first day after leav ing home. He had been too sick to ex plain where he came from. A. M. Rogers of 208 Twiss ovenue ran a quarter-inch chisel through his hand near the first finger Saturday while working on E. B. Cowgill's new house, 1317 Clay street. The chisel cut an ar tery, which bled profusely until Mr. Rogers clasped the wound on both sides with his other hand, gradually causing the artery to contract But for his presence of mind in doing this he might have bled to death before a doctoi could have reached him. The instru ment was not rusty, so there is little danger of blood poisoning. There will be a meeting of the faculty of the Kansas Medical college this even ing to consider the merging of that school with Washburn college. The trustees of Washburn have drawn up in writing conditions under which they think the two schools should be Joined, and It is now up to the Medical college to reject or accept the same. It is generally believ ed the merger will be made. The Wash burn college trustees have their regular monthly meeting tomorrow night-Hence the merger deal will doubtless be con cluded tonight by tbe decision of the doctors. A case brought from the district court of Jefferson county on a change of ven ue was filed with the clerk of the court Eczema How It reddens tbe skin, itches, oozes dries and scales I Some people call it tetter, milk crust oi salt rheum. The suffering from it is sometimes in tense; local applications are resorted to they mitigate, but cannot cure. It proceeds from humors inherited or ac quired and persists until these have beei removed- Hood's Sarsaparilla positively removes them, has radical! md permanently cured the worst cases, an s without an equal for all cutaneoi rnption3. Hood's 11U4 are tlie beet cathartic 2rice2Jcent. today. The case was brought in 1896 by Francis Faulkner, as executor, against Amos H. Goodnow and others, and involves city property in Valley Falls. The case was continued" from term to term in the Jefferson county court, until last term when a judgment for the plaintiff was given. A chana? of verrue was secured because Judge Marshall Gephart had formerly been an attorney employed in the case. Chairman George Neil of the streets and walks committee has a plan by which the city will be able to cut down the cost of building a new pest house from $2,500 as estimated by Dr. C. B. Judd, city physician, to about $1,000. Mr. Neil says that a ten room house has been offered to the city for the sum of $500. This house is located near the cemetery, and could be moved to the site for the pest house which the city has nurchased for a few hundred dol lars. It is thought that the whole ex pense of building a foundation and moving the house would not exceed $500. TRY TO BURN PEORIA. Flrebngs Apply the Torch in a Number of Places. Peoria, HI., Aug. 11. What is believed to be an attempt to burn Peoria's busi ness section was made about noon to day. At 1 o'clock Neumiller's livery barn and 37 horses were destroyed. Clark's roller mills was burning and other smaller fires were raging; at dif ferent points. The losses so far include: Horace Clarke Sons, mill, $100,000; Neumiller's livery barn and 20 horses, $50,000; O'Leary's undertaking establish ment, $25,000. 5 The Neumiller livery company's livery barns in block 600, Adams street, were fired by an incendiary. Twenty horses were suffocated and the entire stock of carriages was destroyed. The O'Leary undertaking establishment and contents are a total loss. The Neumiller barns are in a thickly built up section of the city and it is feared the flames will spread to adjoining buildings. Previous to this fire an attempt was made to fire the store rooms and offices of the Val Blatz Brewing company, a few blocks away. A residence was fired early this morning. While the Neu miller fire was raging the torch was ap plied to the roller mills of Horace Clarke Sons, a few blocks away and the entire plant was wiped out. The police think they have arrested the firebug. STRUCK MINISTER'S HOUSE Lightning Damages Home of Rev. A. M. Reynolds. Lightning struck the house of the Rev. A. M. Reynolds. 1291 MulvrAie street, Sunday morning about 3:20 o'clock, tearing a hole in the roof, and setting the building on fire. The storm furnished its own fire extinguisher, however, for the rain poured into the hole in the roof in such torrents that the blaze was extinguished before the fire department arrived. The damage to the bulldinr was not large. The water which came in at the hole did more harm than the fire or the lightning. None of the Reynolds family was injured. Mr. Reynolds Is the pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian church, at Huntoon and College avenue. HOUSE BLOWN OYER. Unoccupied Residenoa Damaged by tbe Wind. A house which 'bad Just been moved from Fourth and Monroe streets to Sec ond and Brenner was blown off it foundation Sunday morning by the storm which raged at that time, and was almost demolished by the fall. The house was owned by W. W. Webb, and was unoccupied. House movers had been working at the house Saturday, and the work o placing it in the new location was not completed. It was this fact which mailt It comparatively easy for the wind to get under it and lift it off the founda tion. JERRY SIMPSON'S DEAL. Ex-Congressman Gets Into a Lumber Deal in Oklahona. Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 11. J. Y. Calla han and Jerry Simpson, a former Kan sas congressman, have formed a whole sale lumber company in southwestern Oklahoma, in which they have interest ed men of prominence in portions of Oklahoma and Kansas. The two hold the majority of Stock in the corpora tion. Prank of Lightning. Coffeen, 111., Aug. 11. Mrs. Frank Neller, of St. Louis, who had stepped into a church doorway here during a storm, was rendered unconscious by a bolt that wrecked the spire and went through a peculiar experience. The shock melted a gold watch chain that she wore about her neck and four gold rings on her hand, the rings running together into one piece. She recovered fully after being unconscious an hour. City Ticket Office. Union Pacific R. R SZ& Kansas ave. A PHILANTHROPIC ttWENTT-FIVE exalted personages I came together at the Hotel Swellfront to take measures to alleviate the sufferings of work ing women of the lower classes. The twenty-five philanthropists were mostly women, but there were four or five of the stronger sex among them to give the timid, shrinking creatures the moral support of their presence in an oratorical way. The philanthropists came in their carriages and automo biles. The meeting was opened with a dinner at $3 a plate. Then, being warmed to the occasion, the speakers opened out. Mrs. Paliestier Proud foot presided in white kid gloves and a lovely tiat that cost $25. The first speaker was a gen tleman who writes perfectly beautiful things, so sweet and touching that you Just lean back In your chair and close your eyes in tender joy. The speaker waved bis lily white, ta pering fingers and said: "The system of toiling fourteen hours a day Is all vrong. "We are not here to work; we. specially women, are here to create an ttmosphere. If I had my way, no wo nan should ever toil, but she should iave an income of 30 a day to create n atmosphere on. No woman is in her sphere except when she is creating an itmosphere." Amid gentle, high bred applause the neaker sat down, with his atmosphere uly folded about him. Then Tr. Mel ill rose. His voice was so musical and -mpathetic that it gave- the ladies i1!s to their spinal marrow. He said nirt: JAMMED WITH ELKS. Special Trains by the Dozens Pouring Into Bait Lake City. Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 11. Special trains by the. dozens Jammed with Bika from every section of the oountrv arrived here today and by tomorrow, when the nrst meeting oi tne annual session or tne grand lodge of Elks is held in the Taber nacle, it la believed that fully 12.000 mem bets of that fraternity will be on hand. There was no set programme for today and the time was taken up by the visitors with trips to Saltalr and other resorts and visits to the big Mormon Tabernacle. Among the first arrivals today were the Denver and Colorado special of ten cars and Omaha special of ten cars over the Union Pacific and Oreaon Short Line. The Short Line also brought In the big Califor nia special, accompanied by the Third ar tillery band, while the Rio Grand West ern brought in special trains during the aiternoon at intervals otuoru minutes, bearing big delegations from Omaha, Sioux Falls, Kansas City, Baltimore and other eastern points. A drizzling rain, something almost un precedented in Salt Lake at this time of year, leu occasionally during the day, Dut hot with sufficient volume to injure the decorations or interfere with the sight see ing. The business district is one mass of flags and bunting, the national colors and the royal purple of the Elks being inter twined on nearly every business block in town, while hundreds of residences are also draped. The electric effects on Main and other business streets are beautiful in the extreme and tonight when the illumi nation commenced the business district will be ablaze with thousand of incandes cent lights in white and purple, draped across and along the aides of the streets, hanging in festoons and gathered in im mense set pieces at various corners. The formal opening 'of the grand lodge of Klks will take place at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Tabernacle when Governor Wells will deliver an address of welcome. Grand Exalted Ruler C. EJ. Pickett will re spond and deliver his annual address. AFTER BRISTOW'S SCALP. Both Senators Elkins and Scott Make a Demand Vor Hia Removal. Washington, Aug. ll.-The report that Joseph L, Bristow, of Kansas, fourth assistant postmaster general, is to be retired to make place for a Wisconsin man has been revived, and September 1 fixed as, the date of his retirement. The prospective scalp-lifting is credited this time to Senators Scott and Elkins of West Virginia. An Inspector of the post office department went to West Virgin ia some time ago and made inquiries into the personal character of a man whom Senator Scott had recommended for appointment for tbe purpose of as certaining his fitness. The senator re sented the action bitterly and made a demand for the removal of Mr. Bristow. The demand was not comolied with, and it is now understood that Senator Elkins has joined with Senator Scott in a demand for the retirement of the fourth assistant oostmaster general. The report has it that the president has agreed to appoint a successor to Mr. Bristow, but this is not accepted here by the men who know the facts and conditions in the case. General Bristow has been the target for attacks by high officials in the Re publican party before. Senator Burton made a determined effort to secure his removal, but was informed by both President MeKinley and President Roosevelt that Mr. Bristow's services were eminently satisfactory and that there was no good reason why he should not be retained. Mr. Bristow has been a terror to evil doers in the postal service. He has en- j. forced all the laws with the utmost f rigor, showing no meroy. When a cer tain postmaster of long service put a 1 due bill in the cash drawer and used government funds over night, in viola tion of law, Mr. Bristow insisted on his dismissal, notwithstanding the inclina tion of the postmaster general to show clemency. I It was Mr. Bristow who went to Ha vana and investigated the postal frauds. His inquiries resulted in the conviction of the alleged conspirators. Checking TJp Bonds. Irving Cole, bond clerk In the office of the auditor of state, has begun the annual job of checking over all the bonds in the state treasurer's vaults. Each bond has to be taken from the filing cases and compared -with the en try on the auditor's books. The job requires the entire time of the bond clerk for six weeks. The work is done in the big vault, and two electric fans have to be kept going to drive fresh air into the vault. Last year Mr. Cole had to do the work while the thermom eter was soaring around 100 and more. Two fans failed then to keep the place cool. Soft Sugar Advanced. New York, Aug. 11. The American Sugar Refining company and B. H. Howell Son Co. today advanced the prices of soft sugars 10 points and that of confectioners' A grade B points. NECESSITY OF SLEEP. tFrom Alnslee's Magazine. But If sleep iu some cases may cause death, lack of sleep is sure to do so. A person absolutely without sleep for nine days will die. Sufferers from insomnia maintain that they have gone for weeks "The system of toiling fourteen hours a day is destructive of soul and body. It Is the system we are here to destroy. We are here te preach the gospel of play. The woman who sits up all night sewing on buttons, stitching her cen tralizing, vitalizing life principle into every button; the slender, underfed girl clerk who stands upon her feet from 8 in the morning till 9' at night waiting on customers in a shop, as many do these creatures must be lifted up. We must elevate them.' We must teach them the gospel of play. Be it ours to instruct them that they must cease to exist en bread and tea, that they must eat more nourishing food, that they must play, play, play. We are not doing our duty to the lower classes un less we go down among them, look with our own eyes upon their sorrows and make them recreate." Some of tbe ladles Were so moved at the thought of going down and learning the lower classes' sorrows that they put their Ave dollar handkerchiefs to their eyes and moistened them with a tear or two. Following Dr. Meltall, Mrs. Richard Livingston De Whanging rose to the occasion. She had on a simple gown, an imported trifle that cost $200. It was worn over a new straight front, cost SIS, which showed her graceful figure to fine advantage. The costume itself produced a ripple of applause, which was heightened when Mrs. Livingston De Whanging spoke. And she said: "I have gone down sometimes among the poor classes. I myself, and I always find the women and srirls overdressed. $05o(QXO) 11 Tickets on sale August 1st to 14th s- SEE BOCK ISLAND AGENTS IMimMIHIIIIIMWWMM MIHMMIIIIIIIHII Salt Lake Citv and ONLY S25.00. The official route for the Annual Reunion Ben evolent and Protective Order of Elks. Tickets on sale August 1st to 14th inc. good returning as late as September 30. Liberal stop-over privileges al lowed all through Colorado and Utah. For full information address T. L. KING, Agent. TOPEKA. 4 HHHtlHHHWH IMtHIHIHH llllll 111 I M without sleeping, but it has been proved that they do sleep without being aware of it. At a certain point sleep Is Inevitable, no matter what the bodily condition, the alternative being death. Prisoners have slept on the rack of the inquisition. And the Chinese found that only the greatest ingenuity ana vigilance couia carry out a sentence of death by sleeplessness. This mode of capital punishment was long in favor in China, and it is said to be so to day; while as a form of torture, depriva tion of sleep is considered one of the most efficacious weapons in the Chinese Judicial arsenal. In some such cases the prisoner is kept in a cage, too small to stand up or lis down in, and constantly prodded with a sharp rod.. Death by starvation, also a Chinese punitive method, is a slower pro cess, and: therefore one would think, more calculated to appeal to the oriental mind, if it were not that death by sleeplessness is thought so much more painful. In the latter case, the brain is the first effected of all the organs of the body; while in the case of starvation, the brain longest re tains its normal weight and character. A corresponding mode of taming wild ele phants is said to be depriving the animals of sleep when first caught. In a few days they become comparatively spiritless and harmless. The brain of the elephant is held to be more highly developed than that of and other wild animal, but, of course, as compared with a human brain, can be easily fatigued by new impressions, and so made very dependent on sleep. The wild elephant in his native Jungle, how ever, is said to sleep very little a further point for the theory of the universal ratio of sleep to intelligence. A man taken out of his habita and placed in conditions which he never could have imagined if transported to Mars, say would doubt less need an extraordinary amount of sleep at first. There is the almost parallel case of a German boy, Casper Hauser, who up to the age of eighteen was kept in one room where he bad no Intercourse with human beings, or sight of any nat ural object, not even the sky. At eighteen he was brought to Nuremberg and aban doned in the street. For the first few months of his life among men he slept al most constantly, and so soundly that it was very hard to wake him. "You had some trouble, I believe," re marked the neighbor. "Niver a bit," retorted Mrs. Clancy, who had proved victor in a disagreement with her husband. 'Twaa Clancy had all th" trouble." Chicago Post. aeBTlN. They load themselves with cheap finery, whereas plain clothing would cost less, and be so much more becoming to peo ple of their station. Let us teach them economy. A girl who gets J3 a week must be taught to save half a dollar a week out of it- Then when summer comes she can have a little vacation suitable to her sphere in life." The closing address was made by the presiding officer. Mrs. Paliestier Proud foot. It seemed to her, she said, speak ing as a clubwoman, that the collective i women's clubs of the country had taught their sex who belonged to the working classes the noblest lesson of alL Others were striving to help the poorer females; it was the pleasure of the woman's club to reach down to them from its unattainable heights and show them how to help themselves. Tbe motto of the woman's club was above all "service," and she prayed the day might never come when its motto would cease to be "service.- ciuowe min had put into the hands' of women of the laboring classes a weapon where by they could help themselves, even as clubwomen had done, and that weapon was organization "organization." re peated the lady president emphatically. The glory of reaching down from their pedestal and handing this weapon of organization to persons of their sex be longing to the toiling masses would go thundering down the corridors of time to the credit of American clubwomen, i Whereupon, lollowing this eloquent burst, the meeting adjourned amid rap- furous applause. t KATHARINE BLADES. E2 Camp in Cool Colorado during the heated term ZT5 17 Return Star Grocery B. nontgomery. Prop. 112 6th. Phone 252. Our Specials are very attractive. Malta Vita v 13c Per-Fo....... ......12c 20-lbs. Sal Soda... 25o 7 bars Silk Soap. 25o 7 ban White Russian Soap., ,25c Fairbank's Tar Soap 4c lie Package Soda 'Jfo Oil Sardiaes 25o 2 packages Quail Oats. 15c lA gal. pail Cooking Syrup. 25c Ginger Snaps, per lb.., 5c Reed Murdock's Mocba and Java, per lb 20o Bakers' Chocolate, J4 15c 2 loaves Bread s 5c NEW CRAWFORD THEATER. Three nights starting Monday, Aug. IS. Wednesday Matinee. The Imperial tock Companv Presenting "THE GAME OF LIFE," "UNCLE SETH HASKINS," "WANT ED A WIFE." Popular prices 10, 20 and 30 cents. N. B. Any lady admitted free on Monday night if accompanied by one paid 30 cent ticket. TO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE room modern house, i lots, Fillmore St., cheapest property on street. Must sell quick. The Strauss Agency. WANTED Solicitors, ladies or gentlemen, at onoe. J. T. McMillan, Chesterfield ho tel. WANTED Man and wife to do chores. Dr. Roby. WANTED Good woman cook at Holllday hotel, corner 4th and Holllday St. HEARING WITH THE LEGS. ifFrem Knowledge.) J One of the strangest and most unexpect ed of the uses to which we could imagine a leg as being put Is that of an organ of bearing. Tet such seems to be one at least of the functions at the forelegs In the cricket. On the outer side of the tibia a small oval space may be seen in which the strong armature which covers the rest of the body Is reduced to a thin and mem branous condition, making thus a sort of a window or drumhead. Communicating with this Inside the leg are tbe ends of a nerve and it can hardly be doubted therefore that the whole apparatus constitutes an auditory organ. Briggs What was it that prompted you to make love to Miss GoldstacksT Griegs I wanted te prove to my own satisfaction that I could really love her ia 1 spite of her great wealth. Life. 1

Page 5

TOPEKA STATE eOtTRNAI MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 11,1802. 0 BARTHOLIN MYSTERY. Search for the Man Suspected of Murder Still In Progress. Chicago, Avg. 11. The search for Wil liam Bartholin, who is suspected of hav ing murdered hla mother and Miss Min nie Mitchell, hia sweetheart, was con tinued today, but no trace of the miss ing man was found. Oscar Thompson, who was for 18 years the constant friend of the fugitive's mother, and who was arrested yesterday, stoutly main tained hia innocence of any knowledge of the murders and pleaded with the authorities to be released. After a long examination, however, Thompson was sent back to his cell, as the police feel confident that he has not told all he knows. E. O. Hunter and Milton E. R. Edwards, former roomers at the Bar tholin house, are being sought by the Dolics. Late today a special delivery letter arrived from Omaha for R. H. Mitchell, brother of the murdered Minnie Mit chell, from Edwards, who wrote the day after Miss Mitchell's body was Iden tified, stating that he was morally cer tain that Bartholin had murdered his mother. Edwards In the letter declared that he had fled from Chicago because he feared that he, too, would fall a victim to Bartholin s thirst for blood. It was learned today that Thompson was in the house the night that Mrs Bartholin was killed. Thompson has admitted that he was in a room di rectly across the hall from Mrs. Bar tholin's. The Dolice have discovered. they say, that the aged woman was strangled on a couch In her own roon the night of July 7 and her body thrown into a closet, where it remained undoubtedly for several days before burial in the basement. Evidence of this was found today by the police who discovered Mrs. Bartholin's false teeth, a nierhtrobe cov-ered with blood and a large blood-stained area on the floor of the closet in Mrs. Bartholin's room. The bloody garment was tucked away in a corner under a sneir. to gether with the teeth, but the blood stained floor revealed that the body of the murdered -woman was first hidden in the closet and the door to her room kept locked for several days. Another suspicious circumstance to add to the Complications of the mystery developed when It was discovered that Horace Clark, a companion of young Bartholin, has been missing since the murder of Mrs. Bartholin. It is now stated that it was absolutely impos sible for Bartholin to have buried his mother In the basement during the day time, because there is no entrance to the cellar except by way of an outside aoor. to get tne corpse into the base ment be would have had to carrv it from the closet out of doors into a back yard directly under the South side elo vated railroad structure where trains pass constantly, and in view of scores or windows on r orty-third street. Thompson, havinc admitted to the no. lice that he was in the house every night for two weeks after Mrs. Bar tholin's disappearance, firmly denies that he saw Bartholin from Tuesday morning, the day after her murder, un til Friday evening, and he also declares that he never heard a suspicious sound or saw suspicious signs during the day in which the awful tragedy was com muted witnm nis very reach. Inspector Hunt found a close friend of Bartholin who saw him last Tuesday, nearly a week after he disappeared with Minnie Mitchell,- his sweetheart, who was killed on the night of Jy 30. Bar tholin called at the house oflthis friend last Tuesday night. He was in a ter rible state of mind, and his actions aroused the wonderment of his host. 2S Inmmr WOO fcfcy and mppaU. "Fa b nearly to From him the' police obtained a de scription of the clothing Bartholin wore when last Been. These clothes, the shoes, imitation Panama, bat. the coat with the lodge button in the lapel and the shirt were found today in Bartholin' room, thus proving beyond a doubt that he returned to the house six days after the death of Minnie Mitchell and that he could have returned at no other time save at night when Thompson was at home. Thompson says he never saw Bartholin after the Wednesday night he went away with Minnie Mitchell. TEACHERS FOB LIFE. t State Examinations Will Begin on August 25. The examinations of teachers for state and life certificates will be held the last week in August, beginning Monday, Au gust 25. Examinations will be hald at Topeka Lawrence, Manhattan, Emporia, Holton, Beloit and Ealina. Requests have been sent to Superintendent Nelson for exam inations to be held at other places and the list will be increased. The questions for the examinations have been prepared by the members of the state board of ed ucation, which is as follows: Frank Nelson, president, Topeka, J. N. Wilkinson. Emporia. W. C. Spangler, Lawrence. E. R. Nichols, Manhattan. W. M. Massey, Wellington. A. H. Bushey, Peabody. J. D. S. Riggs. Ottawa. The programme for the examinations at the various places will be as follows: FOURTH MONDAY OF AUGUST. (Afternoon Session.) 1:00 p. m. to 2:00 p. m. Formal applica tion for certificate or diploma, with tes timonials. 3: p. m. to 3:00 p. m. Ortheopy and Or thography, including the analysis, deri vation and structure of words. 8 :00 p. m. to 5 :0t) p. m. English Grammar and Composition. 6:00 p. m. to 6 p. m. Reading. TUESDAY. (Forenoon Session.) 8:00 a. m. to :0u a. m. United States His tory. 9:00 a. m. to 9:30 a. m. Penmanship. 9:30 a m. to 12 m. Arithmetic (Afternoon Session.) 1:30 p. m. to 3 p. m. Bookkeeping. 3:00 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. Political and Phy sical Geography. 4:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. Geology. WEDNESDAY. (Forenoon Session.) 8:00 a. m. to lunw a. m. Algebra. 10:00 a m. to 11:00 a. m. Industrial Draw ins. 11:00 a m. to IS m. Zoology. (Afternoon Session.) 1:30 p. m. to 3:00 p. m. Physiology. 3:00 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. Natural Philoso phy. 4:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m.i Botany. THURSDAY. (Forenoon Session.) 8:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. m. Constitution. 9:00 a. m. to li:00 a. m. Literature. 10:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. Mental Science. (Afternoon Session.) 1:30 p. m. to 3:30 p. m. General History. 3:30 p. m. to 5:i p. m. Geometry. 6 aX p. m. to 6:00 p. m. Chemistry. FRIDAY. (Forenoon Session.) 8 a. m. to 10:30 a. m. History of Educa tion. 10:30 a m. to 12:00 m. School Law. (Afternoon Session.) 1:30 p. m. to 3:30 p. m. School Manage ment. 3:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m. Method of Instruc tion. SATURDAY. (Forenoon Session.) 8:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. m. Philosophy of Ed ucation. 11:00 a. m. to 12:00 m. Rhetoric. (Afternoon Session.) 1 :30 p. m. to 3 p. m. Political Ernoomy. 3:0 Op. m. to 4:30 p. m. Vocal Music. 4:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m Latin. TOPEKA CLUB WON. Carried Off the Honors in Ping Pong Tournament. The Topeka club defeated the Elks In the ping pong tournament by a de cided score. Saturday night's play was the last, and the Elks did not win a set. At the finish the Topeka club men had 32 sets and the Elks 22. Pancoast Kidder came out with a clean record. Saturday night he de feated A. F. Sherman of the Elks -o, 6-3. J. S. Parks of the Topeka club de feated A. F. Williams 7-5, 6-4. Theo dore Hammatt of the Topeka club de feated his brother, Dan Hammatt, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Herbert Armstrong of the To peka club defeated Lou Branson 3-6, 6-2, 8-. George Crawford of the To peka club defeated Frank Bennett 6-2, 6-1. The official score of the tourna ment was as follows: TOPEKA CLUB. Won. Lost Pancoast Kidder 10 0 T. Hammatt 8 3 Geo. M. Crawford 6 5 H. L. Armstrong 4 7 W. J. Black 4 8 THE ELKS. D Hammatt 7 4 A. F. Williams 4 A. F. Sherman 4 7 Lou Bronson 3 8 Frank Bennett 2 8 The total number of games won dur ing the week was: Topeka club Kidder, 64: T. Ham matt. 69; Crawford, 49; Armstrong, 46, Black. 42. The Elks Bronson, 57; V. Hammatt, 53; Williams, 47; Bennett, 40; Sherman. 37 G. A. B. REE3M0XS. Many to Be Held in August and Sep tember. The politicians will find plenty of op portunities this fall to work on the old soldiers. At least 28 G. A. B, reunions will be held in August and September. The list as prepared by Department Commander Loom is so far is as fol lows: Oswego, August 11-16. Cherryvale, August 18-23. Iola, August 19-22. Cambridge, August 19-22. Philipsburg, August 20-22. Grenola. August 26-29. Wetmore, August 20-22. Blue Rapids, August 20-23. Washington, August 27-29. Hiawatha, August 27-29. Baxter Springs. August 25-30. Randolph, August 28-29. Dodge City. September 2-5. Goodland, September 2-6. Stockton, September 3-4. Arkansas City, September 9-12. Holton, September 9-11. Valley Falls, September 8-10. Eureka, September 9-12. Caldwell, September 16-19. Chanute. September 17-20. Beloit, September 16-19. Eskridge, September 16-18. Smith Center, September 16-19. Wichita. September 22-27. state re union. Sedan, October 1-4. Ottawa, October 1-3. Rich. Gold Kins is Found. San Francisco, Aug. 11- The schoon er W. 8. Phelps returned from a voyage to Galapagos islands and the coast of Ecuador, bringing 27 big tortoises, 1,500 pounds of gold quartz, half a cord of palo santo wood, and a quentity of lava specimens. The Phelps was not on a hunt for buried treasure, but went to the tropics on a search for a gold mine once discovered by Capt. Nye, the mas ter. The search for the gold mine prov ed successful, according to the mem bers of the party. The mine deposit is said to be exceedingly valuable, and its accessibility is another strong point in its favor. KANSAS SITUATION Will Be Considered by Allied Party's Committee. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 1L The following call has been issued: "Dallas, Tex.. Aug. 11. The national executive committee of the Allied Peo ple's party is hereby called to meet at the Hotal St. Nicholas in Springfield. 111., August 27, at 10 a. m., for the pur pose of considering the situation in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma and deciding upon whether we should push the work of independent organization in those states during the present cam paign, as well as to consider any mat ter of interest which may come before the meeting. All commissioned organ izers, as well as members ef the central committee, officers of state organiza tions, nominees of the party in the sev eral states and active workers of the party who feel disposed to attend, will be welcomed. "This meeting will probably outline the work to be done during the cam paign in the central states and I am very anxious to have as full an attend ance as possible. "The Illinois state convention meets on the 26th at the same place and visi tors from other states ase especially in vited, (Signed) JO A. PARKER, "Chairman Allied People's Party Exec utive Committee." GOSPEL FOR YOUNG. lie j. Charles M. Sheldon Says Preach Too Much For Old. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon believes that the special mission of the Christian church right now is to get in touch with the young people of the country. In his sermon upon "Progress in Christianity" at the First Congregational church Sun day morning among other things he said: "The opportunity of the church is to bring the gospel to the young. We ministers preach too much to the older people. I think the best thing the preachers all over the world could do would be to preach for six months to the Sunday schools. Whatever will in terest the young folks is going to in terest the older ones. The time has gone by when the ministers can take rank as orators or rhetoricians. The only department in which the minister is privileged to excel his parishioners is in his insight into Christian living. One of the most helpful indications of the church in America is that during this summer more street meetings arc being held than ever before." LIGHTNING DOES FREAKS. Knocks Baby Out of Mother's Arms and Hits a Piano-Player. Winsted, Conn., Aug. 1L During a sharp storm lightning struck the dou ble tenement house at No. 1C5 Elm street and knocked a baby out of the arms of Mrs. Welcome without serious ly injuring either. The bolt also knock ed down stovepipes, one piece of which struck Miss Margaret Kelly on the head and removed lids from the kitchen stove. Richard Lawton, who was play ing a piano in a house across the street, was stunned. Edward Kane, of Thomaston. was so badly shocked as to be deprived of his speech, probably forever, and Henry Seymour, of the same town, has a large bump on his forehead made by the elec tricity. During a shower a few days ago Robert Innes. of Thomaston. who had been deaf 21 years, was struck by a bolt of lightning and his hearing was immediately restored. DENOUNCES JUDGES. Central Federated Union of New York Ooea on Record. New York. Aug. 11. The Central Federated Union of this city has gone on record against the judges who have issued injunctions against the striking miners. At a meeting just held a long preamble and set of resolutions was unanimously sassed. The first para graph of the preamble denounces th judges mentioned and cats them "will ing and subservient tools of the coal trust." After still further scoring the judges the resolutions "urge the miners to in sist UDon and if need be defend their right to feed starving brothers in de fiance of the mandate of the federal courts, and that we pledge them our hearty support to the furthering of that end." Copies of the resolutions will be sent to all labor bodies for indorsement at their Labor day demonstration. COMING DRAMATIC ETENTS. The Imperial Stock company will be at the Crawford August 18 to 20 at pop ular prices. Ladies will be admitted free Monday night. The following is from the San Jose Mercury: "Seldom has there been staged in San Jose a comedy more provocative of unrestrained laughter than "Wanted a Wife" at the Victory theater last night. This was produced for the first time in San Jose by the Imperial Stock com pany, and despite the Inclemency of th weather, there was the largest house they have had during their stay in the city, and well they deserved it for the company was seen perhaps to greater advantage in this exquisite comedy than in any other play in their repertoire produced here. There is a general re gret expressed that this talented com pany had come to the end of their en gagement, and a commonly uttered hope that there would be a return date in the near future. The company as a whole is certainly the most evenly bal anced of any appearing in San Jose." BEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS C. B. Merriam and wife to Otto Du row. lots P and Q. Muivane's sub division SLS0S ju. rarite ana wire to r ir. larK. lot 629. Lincoln street. M. and D.'s addition toft k. a. statier and wire to J. p. Cro zier, lot 566 and south third of lot 583. Buchanan street. Edward's tract L40 a. v. lung to u. n. ugee, lots z&4. zb. 25S and 260. Taylor street. MaDle Grove addition 109 F. E. VanSant and wife to T. Martin, lots 436 and 437. Kansas avenue 2J08 jonn n. uaiter. et aL, trustee, to Cora V. Moffat, lots 232. 2S4 and 236. Mor ris avenue. Dr. Martin's Place addi tion 4.Q2S oeorge r. btevenson to Joseph i. Hooper, part of lots 4S. 489 and 433. Fillmore street. Throop's addition 300 j. t. iwnniton and wile to oeorge TVendel. lot 7. block 4. Elmont 1 J. H. rxwcht to C. H. Ogee, lots 254, 2So. 2SS and 260. Taylor street. Maple Grove addition 1 365-Pound Sword&sh Killed. San Francisco, Aug. 11. A sword fish weighing 365 pounds was killed in the bay today. It became entangled in the nets of fishermen and was killed with a shotgun. It was 12 feet 5 Inches long and the sword measured 6 feet. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Haskell Indians play ball at Scran ton today. George Floyd of St- Louis visited friends in Topeka Sunday. The first show of the season will be at the Crawford next week. The Buckskin Bill Wild West circus comes to Topeka this week. W. W. Mills, of the Mills Dry Goods company, is in New Tork city. W. C Chaffee has gone to Colorado to recuperate from throat trouble. George C. Stoker has recovered after a long siege of nervous prostration. There was a large crowd at Garfield park last night, but a very small band. There has been a marked change in A. W. Dana's accent since his visit In Boston. Congressman Charles Curtis has re turned from a trip through the Sixth district. Cider Smith still carries the palm as the most reliable weather prophet in Gilbert Kelly left Saturday for Wash ington state where he will look after a bond deal. Ennis Brown, of Topeka,, a soldier in the Fourteenth Infantry, has been made a sergeant. Large numbers of dead birds were no ticed on the ground after the storm of Sunday morning, Adrian Sherman lowered the record on the Topeka golf links Saturday, He made the round in 42. John Switzer doesn't look like a farmer, but he owns at least two dozen farms just the same. On Tuesday afternoon the Foster Cemetery association will meet at the home of Mrs. Anna Koger. The Washburn football schedule in cludes eleven games. They play a gaaie after Thanksgiving, December 6. There were 70 patients admitted to Christ hospital during July. The whole number cared for during the month was 111. The T. M. C. A. baseball team de feated the North Topeka team at the asylum grounds Saturday by a score of 9 to There was an increased attendance upon the Sunday church services over those of a week ago, owing to the cool weather. There was a motor cycle race at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon. John Perine won handily. Lou Wyman was distanced. President Roosevelt has appointed Craig Harris, son of Senator Harris of Kansas, to the military academy at West Point. The Oakland Blues baseball team de feated the Santa Fe Reds team Satur day afternoon at Lowmao Hill to the tune ot 8 to 6. Topeka must be sort of ultra-progressive place. Carrie Nation, Walter Vrooman and E. E. Brown all have us on their list. Willis J. Bailey, Republican nominee for governor, went from Copeland coun ty, Topeka, Saturday, to Blossom coun ty, Kansas City. The pile drivers are still at work patching up the street car bridge across the river. It ought to be good when it is finally finished. The Rev. Mr. Williamson of Mulberry, Mo., preached at the, United Presby terian church Sunday. Mr. Williamson may locate in Topeka permanently. The football teams of Washburn and the Kansas Medical- college will not consolidate this year. They will op erate upon the basis of an armed truce. W. H. Craddock has announced that he will meet W. J. Bailey. The Repub lican nominee says he wants to "get him to the bat." Ha means to throw him three strikes. H. H. Art, better known as "Chap pie" Arts of state house war fame, is a candidate for congress from St. Louis. He may have the best wishes of Colonel Fred Close, and ne may not. O. EL Hun rate is the latest recruit to the ranks of Lake View club members. He Is now trying to solve the problem of bow to fool a bass with a buck tail fly. The Topeka Business college baseball team defeated the Haskell Indians for a second time Saturday afternoon at Washburn park. The score was 6 to 4 and was a poorly played game. A woman on one of the cars coming from the park last night jumped off backwards at Sixth and Kansas ave nues and was thrown to the ground. She was not seriously injured. The Saturday night storm filled up the excavations which have been made on the new sewers, making it necessary to put the pumps to work this morning before excavating could be resumed. A movement will probably be started among the residents along Topeka ave nue to secure an ordinance enforcing the painting of the unsightly telephone poles which have recently been erected all along the avenue. The Street Railway company has a new style car almost ready to turn out of the shops. It is considerably longer than the cars in present use and will have seats on both sides of an aisle running the entire length of the car. W. C. Musser, who for some years has been in the shoe business here, has gone to Canon City, CoL, to open up a stock of soods of that class in connec tion with a general merchandise estab lishment which is being started there. The Low man Hill Emerson club will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at the corner of Morris avenue and Eleventh street. There will be speaking by Earle R DeLay, chairman of the state prohibi tion committee. Walter N. Allen, of Meriden, who was a member of the state board of chari ties under Governor Lewelling, has an nounced himself the Democratic candi date in the First district against Con gressman Curtis. M. Campbell's race horse "Lady Evans" defeated H. C. Lindsay's "Dixie" in three straight heats at the fair grounds Saturday afternoon. Th race was for a stake of S500 a side. The time was slow, 2:29 being the best. The T. M C- A. and the T A. A. ping pong teams feel rather hurt because the Topeka club players claim the cham pionship of Topeka when they have de feated only the Elks. The association players claim that they should have a hearing. CoL J. C. Gordon, proprietor of the Copeland hotel, was painfully injured at Horton last evening while on his way to Topeka from St. Joseph. Some tough threw a missile through the car window and struck Mr. Gordon on the nose, cutting a gash about an inch long, which bled profusely. Duchess of Karl borough to Beturn. New Tork. Aug. 11. The Duchess of Marlborough will sail for New Tork Wednesday of this week on the Kron prinz Wilhelm, cables the London cor respondent of the Herald. She will go to Newport to remain until the .end of the season. Postal Clerks Will Stay Out. Chicago, Aug. XL The postal clerks of Chicago by a majority vote have in structed their delegates to vote against the proposition to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor; when it Is brought before the National Associa tion of Postal Clerks at the convention to be held at Kansas City the first week SALE OF J. II. WDITE CO.'S Fine Stock of FURNISHINGS goes on crowds of buyers testify to the genuineness of these bargains Read then-Come Tuesday mm mm For Summer Underwear LUn of finest text are that riril. White sold at wholesale XJXJ W at 17.53 to S12.00 a dozen this is very cheap, a. n For Summer Underwear. a lV in plain and colors that 11111. White sold at wholesale at CVW 4.25 nd 94.50 a dozen. 68c For Negligee Shirts cuffs attached and detached that White sold at whole sale from $9 to $10.50 dozen this is a big bargain. For Negligee Shirts all kinds, that White sold at wholesale for $6 and 9&50 3 dozen. All colon in the lot. A snap, sore. For Hen's Shirt Waists improved, that White sold at wholesale for 91X50 a dozen. 38c 95c 28c For Fine Suspenders handsomely mounted White's price, 94.50 dozen. 18c For Plata and Fancy Hose White's price was $2.25 and 93.OO a dozen. 29c 5c For Plain and Fancy Hose very finest White's price was 94.25 to 96 doz. Por Black and Tan Hose all sizes White's price was 91,00 a dozen all fast colors, guaranteed. 15c Por Men's All Linen Handkerchiefs White's wholesale price was 92.50 a dozen. Por Pancy Border Hand kerchiefs White's price was 90c dozen Dozen for White Lawn Ties White's price was 9 1.00 a dozen. 5C 6c Por Night Robes White's price was 94.25 dozen mostly all sizes. Por Night Robes good quality White's price was 95.OO a dozen. 25c 39C SALE AT in September. While they are willing to pledge their heartiest sympathy to the federation, they feel certain that affiliation with it will not be to their interest because of their relations with the government. NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH. Defection in the Philippines is Assum ing Serious Proportions. Manila, Aug. 1L Isabelo de los Beyes, the labor leader; Pascual Poblete, for merly a member of the Katipunan se cret society and La Union Obrera Dem ocratica (the worttmen's democratic un ion) have organized a Philippine Cath olic church in defection from the Roman Catholic church. Governor Taft, Dr. Pardo de Tavere, a member of the Phil ippine commission, and Aguirfeildo have been appointed honorary presidents of the organisation and Father Gregorio Aglipay, a native who was recently ex communicated by the Catholic church, has been made bishop of the Philippine islands. Fourteen junior bishops and a large lay council have been named; the latter includes Felipe Buencamino, one of the leaders of the Federal party. Pascual Poblete has taken the presi dency and Isabelo de los Reyes the sec retaryship of the new organization. Several native priests who were named bishops have declined to accept. It is expected that Governor Taft will decline his honorary presidency when he bears of bis appointment. Dr. de Tavern opposes the movement and will repudiate it. Aguinaldo will also proba bly decline his appointment. Opinion here as to the growth and ef fect of this movement is divided. In some quarters it is ridiculed, while in others it is considered serious. Some people say it will farther upset the po litical situation and create unrest and possibly a clash between the regular Catholics and dissenters. WONDERS OF GALAPAU0S. Related by Capt. Richard Nye of the Steamer W. S. Phelps. San Francisco, Aug. 11. Captain Richard Nye. who was one of those on the steamer W. S. Phelps, tells of many wonders of Galapagos islands, which that vessel recently visited. In an in terview he said: "The islands are as fuM of minerals as shad is of bones. On t emarie there is an extinct crater, miles in diameter, in which there is in sight 40.000 tons of pure sulphur. The crater is about ten miles inland and a tramway will be necessary for transportation to ttbe coast, but this should be a small mat ter, considering the possible profit. 'One of the queer things in Albe marle island is that it is overrun with wild dogs. The animals are a mongrel breed and were left on the island by whalers. The dogs have become wild and are extremely vicious. They are woiflike in their habits and run in drovea" Captain Nye also tells of a remark able lake on the Island of Chatham at aa elevation of 3,000 feet above the sea level. This lake, according to the cap tain, rises and falls with the tide, and no sounding line has ever reached its bottom. Many relics of an ancient race found. NOT cosmetic, face wash or paint. Satin-Skin Cream beautifies, because it absorbs and neals blemishes. 25c At The Model. Use only Satin-Skin Powder. Refrigerators at reduced prices. D. H. Forbes. 1 Jf j Clearing Out Suits d Pants very cheap! Read These Prices No Goods Carried Over. Men's $2.50, $3 Pants e. X all sizes all kinds, for 4 Men's $3.50, $4- Pants A all kinds, all sizes for... P4 Men's $5, $6 Pants the best all sizes for Po y5 Rogers, Peet Co.'s $7, $7.50, $8 Pants all kinds UU GREAT SUIT SALES $7.50, $8.50, $10 Best Flannel Suits also Homespuns 2-piece Suits, for Alfred Benjamin Co. Best Outing Suits were $10, $12.50 ALL go tomorrow for $15 8ilk-lined Blue Serge Suits $10, $12.50, $15 Fancy Summer Suits all shades, all sizes "7 CO While they last, only J J $15, $16.50, $18 Finest Suits small lots Cleaned up this week at only All $5, $4 Best and Finest Single Blue Serge Coats RA in all sizes, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Return, 15.00 Tickets on sale August 1st to 14th, INCLUSIVE Good returning as late as Oct. 31st. The Colorado Flyer, a new fast train this season, leaves Topeka at 8:35 p. m., arrives Colorado early next morning. Standard Sleepers and Free Chair Cars on this train. Rock ballast track, free from dust and dirt. Observation Car on rear of train, for sightseers. For full information address T. L. KING, Igent, Topska. T. M. JAMES, North Topeka. GIANTESS SEEKS DITORCE. She is Too Big to Get in the Court bouse However. St. Paul, Minn., Aug-. 11. Mrs. Cath erine McGroaty, whose weight is over BOO pounds, and who does not travel even on shopping excursions because she cannot find a hack with a door big enough to let her in, has filed suit for a divorce at Great Falls, Mont., against Barney McGroaty on the ground of de sertion and nonsupport. The interesting question has arisen bow the trial is to be held. There is said to be no vehicle in the city other than the truck used for hauling safes sufficiently strong to transport the plaintiff to the court house, and even after she has been taken there doubt is expressed as to the possiblity of her being able to climb the stairs to the court room on the second floor. It is suggested that the court ma have to enact the role of Mahomet, as recalled by the saying concerning the prophet and the mountain. Mrs. Mc Groaty, despsie her magnificent propor tions, is not ungraceful, and in fact is quite handsome. She is nearly ai feet 9 inches tall, and has weU formed fea tures. Wilson Was Not Arrested. Washington, Aug. lL The state de partment today received a cablegram from Consul Gottschaik at Bluefields saying that Dr. Russell Wilson is safe at Bocas del Toro and also that his mother will leave for the United States very soon. The state department has never received any information from Nicaragua that Dr. Wilson bad been under arrest there. The disnatch of Consul Gottschaik is interoreted as confirmatory of that of Dr. Wilson's brother in an Ohio dispatch printed this morning to the effect that his brother has not been under arrest. Found $59,000 and Returned It. Chicago, Aug. 1L Lance Harwood, an 8-year-old boy from Big Rapids. Mich., has returned to Swift Co. a package containing S59.000 of negotiable securities which had been lost at the stockyards by a messenger boy em ployed by the firm. Young Harwood found the package while sightseeing ai. the stockyards. He received a reward of 2i Three Koun tains Emitting Smoke. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 11. Mountains Redoubt, Ilmiana and Augustin, in the Cook inlet section of Alaska, con tinue to emit smoke. All three peaks were active while the steamer Santa Ana. which has arrived from the north west, was at Cook's Inlet. "It was a pretty sight," Captain Andrason said. "We were in full view of ail three n $5-oo 7-50 $io (7 peaks, the farthest bfing not more than fifty miles distant. The smoke did not appear to be very dense, out enough ashes have been scattered over th snow-covered peaks to almost blacken the white surface. There was no flame coming from either mountain." XO CLOTHES WHILE IN DEBT Farmer BuysHis Family No Gar ments, Bat Pays His Mortgage. Connellsville. Pa. Aug. 11. To pay off a mortgage on his farm James McManuaa. a farmer of Laurelville, near the West moreland county line, refused to buy clothing for his eleven children. Todav, when the neighbors complained about the manner in which the family lived. Steward Samuel Newcomb of the Fayette county home found almost all the children with out apparel. Their state bordered on the animal. Raid the steward. The children hid themselves in the one roomed shack which served as a home for the 13 members of the family when the of ficer approached. McManus wan surly when questioned by Steward Kewcomli, and said he owed money on his farm and that be would buy no clothes for his fam ily until the land was paid for. The fam ily have enough to eat and the husband and father has been making regular pay ments on bis land. A POPULAR ALDERMAN. Funeral Procession Is Expected to Beach a Kile in Length. New York. Aug. 11. Alderman Bridges' funeral, which will be held in Brooklyn today, will probably be one of the largest ever seen in that borough. Though illiterate the alderman was a most popular man in the section of the city near the navy yard, and his con stituents have determined to show their love at his funeral. The undertaker in charge has already received orders for one hundred carriages, and there will be probably as many more when the cor tege moves from the church. With these carriages and the societies whica wiil follow the feearse, it is estimated the procession will be a mile long. Preacher Placed in Prison. New York, Aug. 11. The Rev. Charles S. Dennis of Flushing, a well known Long Island revivalist, is in prison in Queens county jail charged with felon ious assault. While he was conducting a service some boys who live nearby threw stones into the meeting room. This was a repetition of similar annoy ances and Mr. Dennis is said to have on this last occasion sprung from the platform in anger. It is said he tore a burning gasoline lamp from its fast enings in front of the door and hurled tt into the crowd of boys. It struck James Fretenzo. 20 years old, and he was so badly burned that fears axe en tertained that he will die.

Page 6

VTOPEKA STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 11, 1902. GET GOOD RATES. Railroads Grant Concessions to Topeka Exposition. Transportation of Show Ani mals is Cnt in Two. FOR A- SINGLE FARE Anyone in Kansas May Visit the Fair. List of Attractions is Growing Every Day. The Topeka railroads have granted liberal concessions for the first annual event of the Kansas State Exposition company. The passenger departments of the roads have instructed the agents at all stations In Kansas and on the Missouri river to sell. tickets to Topeka and re turn on the dates September 6 to 13, in clusive for one fare. All tickets will be good for use to return on until Septem ber 15. The freight departments of the roads have agreed to give a half rate for all stock shipped to Topeka for display In the fancy stock show and which re mains in the possession of the original sTMpper at the end of the exposition. These concessions will have the effect of greatly adding to the entries in the stock show and to the attendance from all parts of the state. The exposition this year, while it will not include regular agricultural, indus trial and manufacturing exhibits is sure to prove a big event. The race meeting will prove to be the big feature, al though the carnival and vaudeville fea tures will come in for their share of attention. The race meeting comes in the regular circuit of races in the cities in this vicinity and the handsome large purses hung up on the various races will as sure the entries of many and fine horses. Some of the finest cattle in the world will be entered in the stock show. C. A. Stannard will exhibit twenty Herefords from Sunnyside farm at Emporia. Red Polled cattle will be brought from Illi nois and exhibits will be made by Kan sas cattle men from all parts of the state. H. A. Heath, of the Kansas Farmer, declares that Kansas will soon gain the distinction of being the first state in the union in point of cattle interest and high bred stock. Kansas is not far from being the first at the present time, and the exhibits at the exposition next month will prove this assertion. The Continental Creamery company of Topeka, which has one of the largest establishments in the world, wants tc build a permanent pavilion on the fair grounds for the exhibit of the products of the creamery and for making exhibi tion tests. The request will probably be granted. The enterprising business men of To peka, desiring to see the first annual meeting of the State Exposition com pany a success, have raised a guarantee fund of $5,000 to guarantee prompt pay ment of all premiums for all classes of fine stock at the State Fine Stock Show, at Topeka, September 8-13. The entertainment committee of the Commercial club has decided to have their fall festivities in conjunction with the Kansas State Exposition company during the week of September 8 to 13. and have arranged in addition to the Carnival proper a fine evening enter tainment consisting of vaudeville per formance to be given in a temporary stage erected In front of the grand stand. This joint show will make To peka doubly attractive for the week above mentioned. Queen Maria Embarrassed. Paris, Aug. 11. Early mass at Made leine was attended by Queen Maria Christina and the Infanta Maria The resla. During the collection the priest officiating presented the plate to the queen, but she carried no money, and her embarrassment was only relieved by the Duchess de Alba slipping a coin Into the queen's hand. Still Keeps It Up. "During a period of poor health some time ago I got a trial bottle of DeWitt's IJttle Early Risers," says Justice-of-the peace Adam Shook." says Justice-of-the-"I took them and they did me so much good I have used them ever since." Safe, reliable and gentle. DeWitt's Little tarry Risers neither gripe nor distress but stim. ulate the liver and promote regular and easy action of the bowels. TWO WEEKS AND 5 DAYS Until the End of the Diamond "C Contest. The aspirants for the Diamond "C" soap prizes realize that the end of the contest is drawing near, and they are putting forth every effort to gather the much sought wrappers. Great things may well be expected of these ener getic contestants before August 30. The following is the standing of first 25 contestants at noon today: Mrs. L. B. Crowder, 223 Klein. .6,422 Lean Saunders, 620 Lake 5,249 Mrs. Fannie Harris, 301 Lake.. 4,120 Ethel Teargain, 409 E. Third, 3,815 Mrs. Blake, 2009 Harrison 3,127 Cora Stevens, 707 Lake 2,703 Kate McKeirnan, 805 East Sixth... 901 Jessie McCord, Crosby Bros 760 Margaret Crow, 1719 W. 10th 609 Mrs. D. Dillon, 500 Fillmore 500 Harry Dreisbach, 213 Harrison 475 Iva Grow. Western Woolen mills.. 435 Edna Groves, 817 Monroe 414 Harry Pettit. confectionery 383 Emma Schafer, Ind. Tel. Co 362 Emma Sholes, 211 Hancock 334 Minnie Boyle, 1433 No. Kan. Ave.. 324 Margaret Goodrich, Continental Creamery 30fi Hazel Thomas, 500 Swygart ave.... 293 Zaidee B. Gilbert. 2200 W. 10th j& Mrs. Craig, laundress -g Mrs. Jessie Sheffield, 137 Twiss ave.. 255 Mrs. R. T. DeArmond, 708 Jefferson.. 228 ugeai wiison, 1405 Jackson 210 Loretta Kinney, 1435 Topeka ave... 205 Booklet giving details and con ditions of the contest can he had at F. W. Swearingen's Jewelry Store, 724 Kansas avenue, or write the Cudahy Packing Co Topeka. DEATH TO BIRDS. Thousands of Sparrows Killed in Sunday Morning Storm. Supposed That Heavy Wind Was the ause. PILES OF DEAD BIRDS. They May Be Seen Along Side walks Sear Trees. Slaughter Especially Great Near the City Library. If newspapers were published for cir culation among the fowls of the air, it is certain that they would have today on their front page, under a Topeka date line, and a scare head a story like this: "Terrible disaster! Thousands of birds lose their lives at Topeka, Kan. Tornado and waterspout do deadly work. Bodies of the dead lie unburied on the streets. Galveston flood outdone. "Topeka, Kan., Aug. 11 Between mid night and morning of Sunday, a terri ble strom raged in Topeka, causing the death of thousands of sparrows and other birds who were hurled from their beds and dashed against branches of trees by the force of the-.wlnd and the drenching fall of rain and hail. The disaster was especially appalling at the corner of the city library grounds, where your correspondent this morning count ed 75 dead bodies of sparrows lying unburied on the ground, all within a distance of twenty feet. "Wherever birds were caught out in unprotected trees, the death rate was something awful. It is estimated that the list of dead will run up into the thousands. "There has been nothing since the Galveston flood to compare with the awful tragedy at Topeka. The storm came up unexpectedly after a delightful summer day. The evening was cool and pleasant, and when the thunder commenced to rumble about midnight, it did not serve to warn the population of the impending calamity. When the storm burst, it did so with all its fury. Birds who were unable to get -away from the trees, and scud with the storm, or seek shelter in buildings, were al most invariably killed outright or hor ribly mangled. The wind was so strong that it broke branches from the trees, and the birds were utterly unable to re sist it. No doubt the hailstones, driveD by the tempest, killed many who would have otherwise escaped. "It is a noticeable fact that many of the dead bodies are terribly mangled. From some the feathers have all been stripped by the combined action of wind and water. The fatalities are mostly with sparrows. Other birds did not suf fer much." Such a story fitly describes the pecu liar effect of the Sunday morning storm. It is not very often that the tough and hardy English sparrows are caught nap ping and slain in such wholesale quan tities, and it seems very peculiar that it should have happened this time. There is no especial love wasted on the English sparrows, but it is rather a ghastly sight to see the piles of dead birds near the city library. Around the base of one elm tree, just as they fell, are 15 dead sparrows. At one place on the diagonal walk the water has wash ed together a stack of probably 40 coroses. The disaster to the sparrows was not limited however, to any one part of town. Apparently the birds were killed wherever they happened to be spending the night In trees which were exposed to the violence of the northwest wind. Last Friday there was a storm 'In Kansas City which had a similar effect on the sparrows. It is stated by a man who happened to be in Kansas City last Friday that in the court house grounds there the dead bodies of sparrows were picked up by the bushel, and carried oft in wagons. It is not quite so bad as this in Topeka, but then, Topeka is not in Kansas City's class when it comes to tornadoes. French Like Vanderbilt. Paris, Aug. 11. W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. since his second automobile speed record-breaking exploit, is now the most talked of automobilist in France. His name appears in all advertisements of the Mors machine. The French peo ple's imagination is appealed to by the prowess of the wealthy chauffeur. The papers described how he arrived at Baitogne, Belgium, on Thursday, Just in time for a 500-kilometer race, in which he came in third, cleaned and arranged the machine himself and started back for Paris, all in the twenty-four hours. Pensions for Xansans. Washington, Aug. 11. The following pensions have been granted for Kan sans: Increase, .reissue, etc., William Heston, Havensvtlle, S8; WlVJlam V. Haskins, Wichita, $24; David P. De Tar, Edgerton, $12; Lewis W. -Critser, Wichita, $12; Noah Oren, Altamont, $8; James L. Soupene, Manhattan, $17; Ma rion L. Bancroft, Norton, $10. Widows, minors and dependent relatives, Valeria Gayhart, Topeka, $12; Mary A. Lipps. Reamsville, $12; James G. Finch, Otta wa, $12; Margaret Burns, Lebo, $12. Frost in Iowa. Des Moines, la., Aug. 11. A severe frost is reported in northwestern Iowa. Near Sibley the damage to corn has been considerable. Range of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions. Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4M. Correspondent Christie Grain anil Stock company. Kansas City. Mo.J New York, Aug. 11. 1 Op'n High Low Cl'se Fri t. S. Leather 13 13 13 13 13 Sugar 133 133 131 131 132 People's Gas 108 106 105 105 105 Amal. Copper 67 68 67 67 67 B. R. T 6gJ, 6S 68 68 6S U. S. Steel 40 40 39 39 40' U. S. Steel, pfd 89 89 89 89 89 Texas Paciflo 49 49 48 49 49 M. K. A T. 63 64 63 63 63 g- f W- 31 31 31 31 31 Rock Island 188 188 183 183 189 St. Paul 187 187 185 185 187 Atchison, Com 98 93 91 93 Atchison, pfd 102 102 102 102 102 Manhattan 134 134 133 134 Mo Pacific 117 117 115 115 116 Wabash 47 47 46 46 47 So. Pacific 69 69 s 68 69 U. P., com 108 108 107 107 108 U. P., pfd 92 92 91 91 Southern Rwy. 40 40 39 39 40 Frisco 80 81 80 81 Reading 67 87 66 66 67 N. Y. Central 164 165 163" M3 165 T. C. I. 69 69 67 6T 68 Erie 40 40 38 38 40 C. 0 54 56 54 54 54 B. O. 109 110 109 109 109 L. N 149 149 147 147 149 Pacific Man 40 4C 40 40 40 C. A., com 43 43 41 41 43 Wabash, com 31 31 30 30 C. F. 1 90 90 89 SO 89 Western Union 88 90 88 88 88 Pennsylvania 159 160 159- 153 160 Illinois Central 170 170 168 168 170 HARMONY PLEA. Republican Committee Trying to Smooth Out Things. W. J. Bailey Attends Meeting and Makes Speech. H. M. PHILIPS TRIES. Chairman Struggles With Anti Kelly Sentiment. Result of the County Conven tions Saturday. W. J. Bailey would like to have har mony in the Republican ranks in Shaw nee county and he would also like to have the solid Republican strength of the county behind him in November. Captain H. M. Philips has hopes of smoothing out the local differences in Shawnee county which have split the party vote on local elections and which, if the drifting keeps on, the party lead ers fear will pull down the Republican majority for governor. Mr. Bailey was m Topeka Saturday for the purpose of meeting the Shawnee county Republi can central committee. Not only the committeemen were there but the workers were taken Into the meeting that they might see the hypnotic Bailey smile. Mr. Bailev made a two minute talk. Just enough to show the commit teemen that he could talk, that he was a good fellow and that he could use up to date slang such as "It's up to you." with ease. Chairman Philips, of the committee, is making a decided effort to secure har mony in Shawnee. The local questions which have split the party on local can didates during the last few elections, are still rampant. The party whip has been used with some effect, but not any too much. There is a good sized bolt on Galen Nichols, candidate for county attorney and A. T. Lucas, candidate for sheriff. So the Bailey hypnotism was tried and the result Is to be seen. At present there is trouble brewing in the Republican committee. There are members on the committee who refuse to support all the Republican candidates for county offices and a few are stumb ling over T. T. Kelly's name on the state ticket. Chairman Philips is ready to excommunicate all committeemen who will not vote the solid Republican ticket from top to bottom. But the more conservative wish to smooth matters ovr. If this plan was carried out it would mean that quite a large number of committeemen would be dropped who refused to support county candidates, and if the rule was carried out to the very letter, there would be some who would be ousted because they will not stand for Kelly. If this was done 11 would give the fusion forces a chance for campaign gossip regarding the split in Shawnee. Letters have been sent to members of the committee who are thought to be opposed to some candi dates, asking them where they stand and pleading with them to be loyal to every candidate on the state, county and township Republican tickets. The Republicans of Shawnee have found that a decided fight will be made by the fusion forces to get a vote for Senator Harris from the Republican stronghold of Shawnee. T. M. Hanley, the Democratic nominee for representa tive from the Thirty-seventh district, which is north of the river, is pitted against J. B. Betts. who is up for re election. Hanley Is from the home coun ty of Congressman Curtis, from his own town, and from his own ward. Curtis' friends are many but the Republicans know that a fight will have to be made to, elect Betts. Etanley is a Democrat and he is par ticularly strong in his district. With the senatorial question eliminated he would be more than likely to win. Han ley can poll a large vote and he will give Betts a good fight. The party lash and the Charley Curtis whip will be used without stint in Shawnee county during the coming campaign. There were no instructions when Dr. Edward Atkin, of Olmitz, was nomi nated for representative by the Barton county Republican convention Satur day afternoon. The convention, how ever, went the full length in indorsing President Roosevelt and Congressman Long's position on Cuban reciprocity. Following is the resolution adopted: "We indorse and applaud the admin istration of our president, Theodore Roosevelt We commend him to the people as a faithful and courageous ex ponent of Republican policies and pledge him our cordial support for the high position of chief executive in 1904. We heartily indorse in unmeasured terms the congressman from this dis trict, Chester I. Long, and the splendid record he has achieved in national leg islation, and we especially indorse and applaud his gallant and loyal fight for reciprocity with Cuba." The following county ticket was nom inated: Treasurer, Louis Zutavern; county clerk, James W. Miller; reglste of deeds, Miss Flora Smith; county at torney, W. B. Hess; clerk of the dis trict court, Bert Bowman; sheriff, J. R. Johnson; probate judge, H. I. Ward; county superintendent. Porter Young; county printer, Ira H. Clark; county surveyor, S. A. Newcombe; county treasurer, short rm, R. C. Bailey; county coroner, Dr. Haas; commis sioner. First district, Henry Oeser. G. L. Chapman, of Great Bend, is chairman of the county central com mittee. The Sheridan county Populists held their convention at Hoxie on Saturday afternoon,, and nominated the following ticket, which was afterward ratified by the Democrats: Representative, J. C. Herron; sheriff, J. B. Banter; county clerk, J. G. Rouse; superintendent, L. W. Pierce; county attorney, John Hodge; register, J. W. Schlicher; sur veyor, James Foster; probate judge, J. H. Cresswell; clerk of the court, George Evans; commissioner, A. Nestor. No nominations were made for treasurer and coroner. Places will be filled by tne county committee. Herron is the present member of the legislature for that county. C. M. Cole, fusion candi date for. congress, addressed the con vention. The Johnson county Republicans at Olathe Saturday afternoon made the following nominations: A. E. Moll was renominated for county treasurer, J. G. Rudy for county clerk, E. C. Owen for county attorney, J. R. Thorne for clerk of the district court and Dr. S. C. Par ker for coroner, by acclamation. R. Goddard was nominated for sheriff, T. D. Hedrick for register of deeds. Lulu Lyons for school superintendent. W. S. Speer for representative of the Twelfth district. A. L. Hayes for probate judge, Ole Blbner for surveyor and M. Lv. Moon for commissioner. The resolu tions indorsed President Roosevelt, trade relations with Cuba, the state ad ministration and the state ticket and commended the present county officers. C. C. Coleman. E. W. Hoch and H. J. Allen addressed the convention. No in structions were given as to United States senator. The Lane county Populist and Demo-, 1 cratic conventions at Dighton made the following nominations Saturday after noon: Representative, D. B. King, clerk, J. TJ. McCoy; treasurer, Daniel O'Connell; recorder, Calas Dagg; clerk, of the court, H. Whiting; sheriff, C. N. Hockaday; school superintendent, R. McKelvy; attorney, J. E. Lucas, sur veyor, A. Haney; probate judge, W. Owens. The Socialists at Pittsburg held a county convention Saturday and made the following nominations: Sheriff, J. S. Blauchard; district clerk, Curtis Dar nell; county clerk, Peter Flath; county treasurer, J. E. Housewert; register of deeds, John Knott; probate judge, W. M, C. Hays; county superintendent, W. F. Phelps; county attorney, W. C. Ben ton; coroner. Dr. C. H. Strong; county surveyor, W. L. Lewis; representative Twenty-third district, A. J. Cory; rep resentative Twenty-fourth district, Sol omon Hoffman. There was a miniature bolt in the Stafford county Republican convention Saturday afternoon. The convention nominated c. B. Stark of Macksville for representative and instructed him for Chester I. Long for senator. Staf ford asked for the next county conven tion and equal representation on the congressional and judicial committees with St. John. The resolution embrac ing this demand was defeated and the delegation from Stafford and the town ship bolted the convention. This may result in. the election ot the fusion tick et. sThe convention seemed unanimous on one thing and that was the indorse ment of Long. The mass convention of socialists of Mitchell county Saturday nominated the following ticket: For member of the legislature, A. C. Pagett; sheriff, J. B. Reeves; treasurer, John McDonald: clerk, T. F. Wanzer; clerk of district court, Dr. L. Knight; probate judge, John Hyde; coroner, James Munroe. Tne central committee was authorized to All the vacancies of county attorney and county superintendent. About two thirds of the townships of the. county was represented, and a county central committeeman was selectedi from every one represented. There were between 40 and 50 socialists present, and enthusias tic members of the party say the ticket will receive between 250 and 300 voters, while others claim it won't receive to exceed 50 votes. A. C. Pagett was elect ed chairman, and J. T. Barnes acted as secretary, the latter being the nominee of the Socialist party for secretary of state. Mr. Barnes was also recom mended for state committeeman of the Sixth district. The Mitchell county Socialists are of the opinion that a nomination for congress in the Sixth district will soon, be made. The Wyandotte Republican conven tion Saturday afternoon was as ex citing as anticipated. E A. Enright, the Long candidate, was nominated for representative by a majority of ten votes. The following anti-Burton reso lution was adopted: "We heartily endorse the position of President Roosevelt upon the question of Cuban reciprocity, and urge upon our representatives and senators in con gress to sustain and forward by their honest efforts the pledges of the nation and the policy of our president, and we deprecate the apparent disposition upon the part of some senators to thwart the will of the nation by opposing measures proposed by President McKinley and sustained by President Roosevelt." Following is the county ticket nomi ELEGANT PROMENADE COSTUME. Handsome gown of natural pongee, embroidered brown and white dots. Ecru silk insertion joins the seams and forms bands decorating- skirt, waist, and sleeves, with tiny black ribbon velvet laced through. A deep draped cape, trimmed with black velvet and applications of lace medallions trim the waist. The chemisette is of tucked mousseline Girdle of black ribbon velvet. The hat is of ecru straw, with white chiffon ttnderbrim. and white plumes and rib- boa trimming; nated: Sheriff, H. A. Mendenhall, Sec ond ward; county attorney, James S. Gibson, Third ward: clerk of district court, William Needles, Fourth ward; register of deeds, A. C. Cooke, Quin daro township; probate judge, Winfield Freeman. Third ward: treasurer. D. E. Cornell, Bonner Springs; county clerk, i 13. W. Towner, 'ourth ward; clerk of common pleas court, James Beggs, Third ward; coroner, D. M. Shively, Sixth ward: county surveyor, R. E. Ela; superintendent of schools, Charles E. Thompson, Edwardsvllle. The Dickinson county fusionlsts In one convention Saturday nominated the following ticket: Representative, W. T. Harris; treasurer, C. A. Morton; county clerk, George F. Lank; register, D. M. Myers; superintendent, Aaron Emig: sheriff, J. W. Baker; county attorney, P.- H. Kane; probate judge, J. A. Flack: district clerk, E. S. Chartier.- The reso lutions indorsed Senator Harris for re election, the Kansas City and Wichita platforms and public ownership of pub lic utilities. The nominee for represen tative was elected mayor of Solomon on the resubmission platform last spring.- Mayor Craddock and, Andrew Shearer, candidates for governor and congressman, addressed the convention. A special from Kansas City concern ing the Republican nominations for rep resentatives indicates that Congress man Long will get the vote of the rep resentatives if they are elected, though It is hinted that one of them may be" for Stanley. The dispatch follows: E. A. Enright, D. F. Pocock and Harry Perkins were nominated for the legislature from the three Wyandotte county districts at the Republican coun ty convention held here this afternoon The three nominated are for Chester I. Long for United States senator. The Curtis faction made a hard fight both at the primaries and In the convention but the First district congressman was turned down. TODAI'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, Aug. 11. CORN Depression came upon the grain markets again today shortly after the opening. There were frosts reported In South Dakota and Min nesota and corn receipts were very light, but the initial firmness was soon lost. Sat urday's heavy covering left corn with only light short interest and easily subject to bearing on crop reports. Yitlds are now reported probably much heavier than ex pected last week. The government report that is due this afternoon was forecasted as very bearish. September corn opened c to (,c higher, at 51(351c. on the weather. Selling soon set in, cables were depressed and September dropped to 50c. Receipts were only 75 cars. There were occasional rallies in corn on covering of small short accounts, but sell ing prevailed and September slumped to 50c, closing weak and c down, at 50c. WHEAT September wheat opened a shade lower to 3e up. at 67368c, and sold to 68c on the weather. World's ship ments were bullish, at 5,996,000 bushels, against 10.410,000 bushels a year ago. Sell ing followed the corn weakness, December increasing its discount to lc under Sep tember and weakness resulted. September sold off to 67c. Local receipts were 42i cars 3 cars of contract grade: Minneapolis and Duluth reported 177 cars, making a total for the three points of 598 cars, against 673 cars last week, -and 649 cars a vear ago. Breadstuffs on passage increased 288,000 bushels. Wheat sold freely on the corn weakness and big receipts, September breaking to 67c, the lowest price thus far for the option. December slumped to a weak close 31c lower, at 66c, and September closed weak and c oft, at 67'367c. OATS Receipts of oats were very liberal, at 329 cars. Demand was fair at the open ing, but trade fell off on offerings and Sep- BEST PERSONALLY' CONDUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS TO- VIA LEAVE TOPEKA Wednesdays and Fridays VIA Scenic Line IHiimmBkiui LATEST IMPROVED TOURIST CARS KAST E. W. Thompson, A. Q. tember, which opened c up, at 30 30SJC, sold down to 29c. PROVISIONS Everybody in the provis ions pit expected another break at the opening because of liberal hog receipts and prices as much as 25c lower. There seem ed to be good support, however, and af ter an early dip, prices recovered and made good advances. September pork started 15c lower to unchanged, at $16.2ftfi 16.35, and sold to $16.50; September lard 7c down, at J10.60, and jumped to $10.82, and September ribs 17c off, at $9.85, and sold to $9.95. Late trading in provisions was active and erratic. There were momentary rallies but prices closed at their weakest Septem ber pork 35c oft, at $16.00; September lard 12e down, at $10.55, and September ribs 45c lower, at $9.57. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, 69c: No. 3 red, 65ft 66c; No. 2 hard winter, 6767c: No. 3 hard winter, 66c; No. 1 northern spring, 72c; No. 2 northern spring, 71c; No. 3 northern spring. 70c CORN No. 2, 5-UAS55c; No. 3. 5355c. OATS No. 2, 2SSi29e: No. 3, 2&S26C FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.45; S.-W., 11.40: Sept., $1.31; Oct.. $1.26. RYE Sept., 4714c. BARLEY Cash (new), 5&S63C. TIMOTHY Sept., $3.7 CLOVER $8.50. Kansas Oity Liivestocfc. Kansas City, Aug. 11. CATTLE Re ceipts, 13,000 head, Including 6,000 head of Texans. Market steady to a shade lower. Native steers, $5.25fd8.2S; Texas and Indian steers, $3.0O4.05; Texas cows, $2.50&3.00; native cows and heifers, $2.0034.50: stock ers and feeders, $2.005.25; bulls, $2.753.65; calves, S2.60sft5.10. HOGS Receipts, 2,000 head. Market 5 15c lower. Bulk of sales, $7.107.20; heavy, $7.201i7.30; packers', $7.05g7.20; medium. $7.10 fg7.25; light, $6.90r7.15; yorkers, $7.107.15; pigs, $6.70rg6.90. SHEEP Receipts, 3.000 head. Market strong. Muttons, $3.40-34.15: lambs. $3.75g 4.75; range wethers, $3.00(34.20; ewes, $3.15 (34.00. Chicago Livestock Markat- Chicago, Aug. 11. CATTLE Receipts, 20,000 head. Including 1,000 head of Texans and 3,000 head of westerns. Market for best steady; others 10c lower. Good to prime steers, $ts.00jj:8.90; poor to medium, $4. 25(37.50; Blockers and feeders. $2.5C"35.25; cows, $1.50(32.50; heifers, $2.25S'6.25; canners, $1.5OCe2.50; bulls, $2.255.40: calves, $2.50 7.25; Texas fed steers, $3.25(36.00; western steers, $4.75(36.00. HOGS Receipts today, 30.000 head: esti mated tomorrow, 18,000 head; left over, 1, 590 head. Market 1035c lower. Mixed and butchers', $6.50,7.40; good to choice heavy, $7.107.5O; rough heavy, $6.5007.00; light, $6.50(37.20: bulk of sales, $G.T5(g7.10. SHEEP Receipts, 17,000 head. Sheep and lambs steady to strong. Oood to choice wethers. $3.50(34.25; fair to choice mixed, $2.50 3.50: western sheep, $3.00ii4.25: native lambs, $3.50(36.25; western lambs, $6.25 top price. Official receipts and shipments Saturday: Receipts 3n7 5.026 1,733 Shipments 210 2,331 St, Louis Livestock Market. St. Louis, Aug. 11. CATTLE Receipts, 8,000 head, including 6,000 head of Texans. Market steady. Beef steers, $4.6U7.70; stockers and feeders, $4,50(34.85; cows and heifers, $4.25(35.75; Texas steers. $4.75&5.60; Texas cows and heifers. $2.80(33.85. HOGS Receipts, 1.500 head. Market 5c lower. Pigs and lights. $7.00(37.25; packers', $7.00(37.25: butchers'. $7.2537.55. SHEEP Receipts. 2,500 head. Market steadv. Natives. $3.45(34.20; lambs, $4.10 6.60; Texans, $3.0033.75. V New ork Stock. Wall Street, New York, Aug. 11. STOCKS The stock market opened active after the prolonged holiday and dealings in some special stocks Were in large vol ume. Prices, however, were irregular and fluctuations were mainly slight. Rock Is land was under pressure- and lost a point, while Norfolk and Western improved as much. Erie opened with a sharp frac tional decline, but soon, recovered, but the other coalers were neglected. -Hocking Valley gained 1 points on small dealings. Trading was feverish and dull for a time but the market became active "again and yitlded all around when room traders sold prominent stocks. St. Paul.. Union Pacinc and Illinois Central declined a point and Hocking Valley lost its--gain. A tew minor stocks showed strength. Colorado and Southern second preferred,, Minneapolis. St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie preferred. New York Air Brake and .American Ice preferred rising 1 to 2 points. New Jersey Central and Lackawanna fell 2 points each. Toward 11 o'clock la.ge buy ing orders appeared for Norfolk and West ern, lifting It to 70 without beneliting the general list, which continued to sag. Prices dropped here and there, but the general level was above the lowest in sym pathy with the large absorption of special stocks. Norfolk t and Western eextended its rise to 70?4 and stimulated some buy ing of the other soft coal stocks; C. and O. gaining a point.. St. Louis and San Fran cisco's rise of 2 points helped other south western stocks, but -the grangers and Pa cifies lagged. Rock Island broke 4 points. Amalgamated and Colorado Fuel were-In demandand a point higher.but other metal stocks were neglected. The market show ed increased breadth, many unusually in active stocks showing sharp changes either way. Cleveland. C. C. and St. L. prefer red, Colorado and Southern first preferred. Fort Worth and Denver City stamped, C S. Rubber Goods and Twin City Rapid Transit improved a point or more and New Haven 3 points. Corn Products preferred and Lead preferred lost a point. J Bonds were irregular. The market continued narrow and. spotty. Western Unlnn advanced 1 points. Losses receded a point in Atchison. Hocking Val ley and a number of minor stocks. Rock Island's decline extended to 5 points. U S. Reduction dropped 4 points. A decline of over a point in New York Central. Louisville and Erie second pre ferred renewed selling of the railroad list, and St. Paul. Hocking Valley, Union Paci fic and Atchison declined to the lowest. Manhattan showed considerable heaviness and Amalgamated lost about all its morn ing rise. Chicago and Eastern Illinois de clined 3. points. Chicago Produce Market.' -Chicago, 111., Aug. 1L BUTTER Market steady. Creamery, 16-19c; dairy, 15& CHEESE Market steady. 5 Twins, 10? 10' c: daisies, 10'--'6 10?4c; young Americas, 10?i311c. EGGS Market firm." Loss off, cases re turned. 17li'81Sc. ICED POULTRY Market steady. Tur keys, 12i613c; chickens, lldl4c Kansas City Produce Market Kansaa'Citvl Aue. 11. Close WHEAT Sept.. 61 c: Dec.. 61H61c Cash: No. 2 hard, 6 65c: No. 3 hard. 63S--c: No. 4 hard. Eo)5c: rejected hard. 5r.i53ei No. 2 red. 63c; No. 3 red, a4f2c. "-EAVE TOPEKA Wednesdays VIA Southern Route TRAIJVI P.T. A., Topeka, Kan. CORN Sept., 41c: Dec, 3233c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 53(3 53c; No. 2 white, 67 57c: No. 3 white, 56c RYE No. 2. 44c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.5010.00: choice prairie, $6.25. 'BUTTER-Creamery, 19c; dairy, fancy, 17c. EGGS Fresh, 14c. WHEAT Receipts, 262 cars. Xopexa Market. Topeka, Aug. 11. HOGS. HEAVY $7.137.50 LIGHT 6.55-37.00 ROUGH 6.95(07.10 PIGS 3.20a.7 CATTLE. STEERS $3.00!SS.0 GOOD GRASS COWS 2.6niS3.$3 GOOD GRASS HEIFERS 2.50(33.25 BULLS 2.503i.OO VEAL CALVES S.0U4.0 GRAIN. NO. 2 NEW WHEAT 600 NO. 3 NEW WHEAT 5So NO. 2 WHITE CORN 66o NO. 3 WHITE CORN 64 o NO. 2 YELLOW AND MIXED CORN 55o NO. 3 YELLOW AND MIXED 54c NO. 2 NEW OATS 82a FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. ORANGES Mediterranean sweets, best sizes. ROW; 4.50: late Valencia, $4.8535.00. LEMONS Fancy California, $4.00;cholce, $3.50; fancy Messina, 14.50. BANANAS Market lower, being Sc per lb. and running trom $1.75(32.50 per bunch. PINEAPPLES Very scarce and higher. Per crate. $3.75. APPLES Native, 6075c pr bu.; $2.00(9 2.50 per bbl. PEACHES Arkansas Albertas, 7585o per 4-basket crate; free stone, 6070c. TABLE POTATOES Kaw Valley, 25o per bu.. VEGETABLES Home grown radishes, fer dozen bunches. Mp-lOc: iiome irown ettuce.per dozen bunches. 10c:nome grown green peas, per bu., 75c: home grown wax beans, 40c per -bu. basket: home ktowh asparagus, 30c per dozen Punches: horns grown cauliflower, 6575c per tioz. head; home grown cabbage, 85c per 100 lbs.: wa termelons, $15(322 per 100: Arkansas cante loupe, standard crate, -52.00(3225: 2-3 tm. crate, $1.25; standard basket, $1.00(31.1": cucumbers, 30c per bu. basket;- toma toes, 25330c per bu. basket; dry onions, 75c per bu. BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY. EGGS Case count, 12c; candled, loss off, 13c. BUTTER Country, 12c POULTRY Hens, 7c lb.', roosters. 15 each; ducks and geese. 4c lb.: turkeys, 79 9c lb.; live spring chickens, 10c lb. HAY. PRAIRIE HAY By car .....$5.00 PRAIRIE HAY By ton 5.00 r Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Aug. 11. Prices paid In Topeka this week based on Boston a.uotations GREEN SALT CURED NO. 1 8J GREEN SALT CURED NO. 2 ...7o NO. 1 TALLOW 6o Wool Market. St. Louis, Aug. 11. WOOL Market steady. Territory and western mediums, 16(317c; fine, 1216c; coarse, 1215c. Cotton Market. New York, Aug. 11. COTTON Middling uplands, 9(39c Galveston, Aug. 11. COTTON 8 7-lGc Sugar and Cofiee Market. New York, Aug. lL SUGAR Raw firm. Fair refining, .2c: centrifugal. 96 test, 3 13-32c; molasses sugar, 2c. Refined firm. Crushed, $5.15; powdered, $4.75; granulated, $4.65. COFFEE Market quiet and steady. No. 1 Rio, 5"c. MOLASSES Market steady. New Or leans, 33&41c New Tork Money Market New York. Aug. 11. Noon MONEY Money on call firm at 3 per cent: prime mercantle paper, 4(ii5 per cent; sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.87(3i.8 for demand and at $1.85'34.S5 for 60 das: posted rates, $46 and $4.88; commercial bills. $4.S!if. 4.85. SILVER Bar silver, 52c: Mexican dol lars, 41V1C BONijs Government bonds steady. To day's Quotations: U. S. refunding 2s, registered 107 U. S. refunding 2s. coupon 107 U. S. 3s, registered 105 U. S. 3s. coupon 105 U. S. new 4s, registered 132 U. S. new 4s, coupon 132 U. S. old 4s, registered 10i U. S. old 4s, coupon 10s U. S. 5s. registered 104 U. S. 5s, coupon 104 Kansas City Grain. tFurnished by 3. E. Gall Commissions. Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stoe to. Off.ce 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4S6 Correspondent Christie Grain aid Stock company. Kansas City. Mo.J Kansas City,' Aug. 11. Open High Low Close Sat WTTEAT Sept 61 61 61 61 61 Dec 62 62 61 61 62 CORN Sept 41 41 'i 41 Dec 33 33 32 32 32 Kane of Pricai. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grain. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephoin 486. Correspondent Christie Gram and Stock company, Kansas Citv. Mo.l Chicago. Auk. 11. upen nign wheat- Low Close Sal Aug 67 67 65 .68 53 -Sf 39 6R 7-a 66 60 i 54 51-M Sept 67-6 6S 67 Dec 66 67 63 May .(..69 09 68 CORN I Aug Sept .....Sl-51 Dec 39-40 40 May ...,38 39 OATS 60

Sept 26 Dec 2 May 29 OATS new Sept 30 Dec PORK Aug..... Sept 16 20 Oct 1 0 Jan 14 42 26 24 2S 27 28 30 29 24 27 28 29 26 30 28 16 20 1 33 1C 45 14 50 W 67 10 7 'six 975 10 02 9 62 tm -15 90 16 00 16 12 14 Z 10 45 10 55 9 52 g 22 52 9 57 9 27 7 67 1 50 16 00 16 60 16-12 14 55 14 02 LARD Auk 10 67 10 72 Sept' ....10 60 10 SO Oct 9 67 8 70 Jan 8 35 8 40 RIBS Aug Sept ....10 12 10 12 Oct 9 67 9 70 Jan J 40 7 67 10 45 10 55 62 g 23 9 57 9 2") 7 27

Page 7

TOPEKA STATE JOURNAIy MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 11, 1902. v HELP ON SUSPICION. Louis Bardi Is Being Detained on Ellis Island. New York, Aug. il.-Louls Bardi. who arrived here Saturday on the steamship La Touraine, and is being held at Ellis island at the request of the. acting Spanish consul general. Is suspected of being Bassilio Nuanna, of San Sebas tian, Spain, an alleged parricide. A few days ago a description of Nuanna was furnished to the New York detective bureau by the acting consul general with a request that he be arrested if he came here. When the La Touraine docked two detective ser geants went on board and looked over the steerage passengers. Finally they picked out a young Spaniard answering the description of Nuanna. When they asked him his name he gave that of Bardi, which the Spanish authorities had said that Nuanna. was supposed to have assumed. The local police are somewhat In the dark concerning the exact nature of the crime that Nuanna is supposed to have committed. From the information furnished by the foreign office at Mad rid he may have killed his father or mother, or both, or may have taken the life of his grandparents. THEY SOLD THE CHURCH. A Four-Tear Deadlock in the City Council is Broken. Springfield, O., Aug. 11. The Salva tion Army has purchased the old St. John Lutheran church property for $5, 500. The deal will probably break the famous four-year deadlock in the city council over the selection of a site for the proposed new city prison and work house. The statement has been made and never denied that members of the St. John congregation promised to support ex-Mayor Bowlus if he would use his Influence to have the board of public affairs and council concur in the pur chase of the church as the site for the prison.. The former did so, but the Re publicans in council insisted that it was helping the Democrats to pay a political debt, and they tied it up. Since then the selection of a prison site has figured in every municipal election. SURVIVED TWO WARS. Only to Meet Death at the Hands of Robbers. Kncotville, Tenn., Aug. 11. After over 60 years John AHyn, who as a member of the "Bloody First" Tennessee regi ment, under Col. William Bowen Camp bell, first planted the American flag on the walls of Mexico City in 1S47, has met death at the hands of his fellow men. He was found lying- in a corn field today in McMinn county, where he had been felled and dragged that his assail ants might secure the nension monev which he had Just drawn, a double pen sion, for be was a veteran of both the Mexican and the Civil wars. His only son, Smith Allyn, is an actor of promi nence in the east. POURED OIL ON HIS FEET. After the Blaze Was Started a Farmer Told Where His Honey Was. Dayton, O., Aug. 11. Jacob Mumma, an ased farmer who lives alone north of this city, was tortured by masked robbers who broke into his house Sat urday night, and is in a critical condi tion as a result of his injuries. Mumma attempted to defend himself with a shotgun, but his aim was bad, and he was overcome and bound. The robbers poured coaloil on his feet and started a blaze to compel him to reveal the hiding place of money he was sup posed to have, but they secured only an insignificant sum. Lawn mowers at reduced prices. D. H. Forbes. w V V- y -rr o r J. 'i2- r v v r i l r v 2- jf The reetnt changes in the army make Gen. Samuel B. M: Young the senior Jor genertl. As aush ha is directly in line to succeed Lieut. Miles. GRAND PROMOTER. He Lets His Chiropodist In For a Good Thini:.. (Copyright, 1002, by C. B. Lewis.) 1 Major Crofoot, grand promoter and general organizer, was eeated in his of- fice with the stub end of a cigar and all the world before him when the chi- ropodist from the floor above entered with a slip of paper in his hand. "By George," exclaimed the major as he got his feet off the desk and wheeled around, "but I was thinking of you this blessed minute! There must surely be something in mental telegraphy. Five minutes more and I should have been op stairs to see you." "This bill has been running for a year, and I want to know what you are going to do about it," replied the chi ropodist as he handed it over. To removing two corns, $1.' Yes, you removed two corns for me about a year ago. You couldn't change a twen ty dollar bill, I remember." "You didn't give me the chance." "Perhaps not, but there was some trifling reason why I didn't settle on the spot. Sorry to have given you any trouble over the matter. You might have sent it down any time. One dol lar one dollar. Yes, you removed two corns, and they haven't bothered me since." "This bill has been sent to you about i dozen times," said the chiropodist as he pointed to it. "Can that be true?" replied the major, with a fair show of concern. "I pre sume I was out or forgot it, and I am ?lad you finally came in yourself. It shall be paid at once. You are one of the few men who had confidence in my integrity when I was down to my last shilling, and I wish to show you that I am not ungrateful. My dear sir, I was just about to apply for articles of incorporation for" "I don't want to hear about your schemes. You owe me a dollar, and I want it" "My dear sir, allow me allow me. Although I have floated fourteen dif ferent money makers during the last year, I have kept the best one for the last. It is one in which you shall par ticipate. Your trust and confidence in me shall net you a thousandfold. What I am working on is the storage power Idea, and I have it almost within my grasp. It's the biggest thing you ever beard of the biggest thing on earth. I'll let you in on the ground floor and make a Rothschild of you in three months." "By thunder, but you mean to talk me out of my dollar!" exclaimed the chiropodist in great indignation, though at the same time he sat dowi and pre pared to listen. "How much power do you suppose Is going to waste every day in America?" softly queried the major as he smiled at the ceiling. "Let me answer. Enough to run the machinery of the whole world if it could only be stored up for use yes, enough to run four times as much. As it is, we are losing the power of the wind, of the tides, of a thousand other things. Every time you walk up or down a pair of stairs there is enough extra power lost to run a coffee roaster for two hours. When two men fight on the street, the surplus power would run a sawmill half a day. For every 10 cents' worth of lettuce he sells a street peddler wastes a dollar's worth of power. Do you catch on?" "There may be power wasted," re luctantly admitted the creditor. "But there is millions of horsepow er daily enough to run every factory In the world if it was stored up. That's the idea to capture it and store it up and sell it to those who want to use it. Why, man, it's a scheme to take your breath away! Right here, as we talk, the waste' power would run a sewing machine. That blue bot tle fly buzzing on the window is wast ing enough energy to beat the dust out of a rug. The only question is how to store up the surplusage. But I've got geniuses at work at it, and I'm not losing any time myself. We may not strike it today or tomorrow, but it's bound to come. Then comes "MY DEAR SIR, ALLOW ME AL LOW ME." your reward. You shall be vice presi dent of the American Storage Power company; capital, $20,000,000. Your salary to begin with shall be not less" "That's all in your eye, and I want my dollar!" interrupted the corn, re mover, with a bang of his fist on the table. "Your salary shall be not less than $25,000 a year," calmly continued the major, "and I'll throw in a block of th stock to boot. You appear a bit skep tical. Let's descend to details. How far does a frog usually jump? About five feet, isn't it 7' "Y-e-s." "How many frogs In America?" "Hanged if I know. "We'll say 10,000,000, and every one jumps twenty times a day. That's 200, 000,000 jumps. Every frog jumps a distance of five feet, and in so doing he exercises enough power to turn a grindstone once around. That mean's 2,000,000,000 turns in all. Figure this down and you are running twe large irotton mills with the power. Stir up the frogs to make 'em jump twice as often and a foot farther and you can add two more cotton mills and a shoe factory. Do you begin to see the point now?" -i "There may be something in it, but Kvhat about this bill?" "Something in it! Why, man, If s the scheme of the twentieth century, the Golcohda of the age! I wouldn't take $5,000,000 for the frog idem along. There's something else equally, as good as that What does a cow d when a fly lights on her back and begins to borer r' "Switches her tail." "Exactly. There are 20, 000,00a cows in America, and for four months in the year each one is switching her tail 2,000 times a day. Each switch repre sents power enough to open- or shut a door. Store np all that wasted power and you could run 1,000 freight cars from New York to San Francisco. Add the oxen, horses and mules to the num ber of cows, and who can figure out the wasted power? I tell you, man" "Do I get my dollar or don't I?" de manded the chiropodist as he rose up. "Your dollar goes to help pay the ex penses of incorporation," blandly rer plied the major. "In other words, for the trifling sum of $1 you receive "You are a fraud and a rascal, sir! You are an old liar and a deadbeat!" "You receive a salary of $25,000. per year as the vice president of the Great American Storage Power company, and the dividends on your stock will not be less than 20 per cent and may pos sibly go to 30. And now, my dear sir, let me con" But the chiropodist had gone, and the major patted himself on the back and at down to wait for the. next. ZEB WHITER He Tells How a Cantankerous Han Was Put to Fliffbt. (Copyright, 1902, by C. B. Lewis.) One October day Zeb. White, the pos sum hunter of Tennessee, took me along with him when he went -the rounds of his woodehuek traps, and as we were coming home be told me this story: "I worked so hard, fur three w ftf y'ars arter the wan that I got all run down and couldn't skasely git about Thar was days when I felt purty well and days when I jest sot around and hadn't strength 'auff to move outdoahs. That same y'ur' a critter' named Pike moved' into the nayburbood. He was from Alabamy, I believe, and he let it be known powerful soon that he was a hefty man in a scrimmage. He talk ed so- loud and bloweft so high that ev erybody was skeart of him, and he jest went around steppin' high, and bossin' the roost; That critter used to cum down to my cabin- and' brag and blow and tell how many men... he'd licked, and one day I gin him plain to understan' that I didn't believe hi sto ries. That made him mad,, and. he went away sayin' as how- he'd wallop me fur his next victim. He knowed I was is pore health and couldn't fight a fly, but every two or three days he'd cum down and stand in front of the jrabin and yell: 'Now, then, Zeb White, cum out yere and git the awf ulest wallopin a human critter ever received! I'm no hand to brag, but I kin tie both hands behind me and then chaw yo up in two minits. I've licked forty-seven different men and never got my nose skinned. Either own up that yo" dasn't fight a man or cum out and be wal loped.' "That's the way he'd talk to me," continued Zeb, "and I'd git so mad that I cried like a child. Bimeby I begun to git a leetle better, and one day when he was callin' on me to cum fo'th and be walloped I told him that if he'd show up a week from that day I'd tackle him. He went away crack in' his heels and wboopin' and rejoic in and the old woman sex to me, sez she: 'Zeb White, if yo" was a well man yo' could wallop that critter befo' I. could make a hoecake, but yo've bin down the banks all summer, and yo' can't git well in a week. I'm sorry yo passed yo'r word, but bein' it's passed we'll hev to abide by it. I'll git whisky and roots tomorrer and brace yo' up." "And did you get better?" I asked. "No; I got wuss. Whisky and roots didn't do me no good. When the week was up, I was in bed and too feeble to walk across the room. That pesky critter knowed jest how it was with me, and yit be cum and stood in front of the cabin and shouted to the ole woman: 'Ar this the dwellin' place of a varmint named Zeb White?" ".'She be.', 'Calls hisself the possum hunter of Tennessee, don't he?' 'Yes; he do.' 'Has wrassled with b'ars and wild cats and painters and thinks hisself powerful on the fight? That's my Zeb.' "Then I hain't made no mistake. Would yo" do me the everlastin' kind ness to tell him to step out yere while I chaw his ears off and stay my hunger-' 'He's sick abed just now, but if yo'll cum back arter dark he'll make yo' eat grass and beller like a calf." 'Then yo' kin be lookin' fur me, Widder White. I'll be kinder sorry to see death take 'him from yo', but I must hev him fur my forty-eighth vic tim. Good arternoon, Widdei: White; good arternoon." "That's how they talked," said Zeb as he heaved a rock at a snake sun. ning itself on a rock,, "and of co'se I heard every word of it. I jest couldn't help weepin' with my, madness. How was I to go- out and fight him when h couldn't git outer bed? That's what I asked the ole woman, and she sorter winked and smiled and sez to me, sez she: "'Zeb, doan' yo' worry no5 mo' 'bout this wallopin' bizness, but leave it all to me. If that varmint-shows up here tonight, he'll be the? wust licked mar in all Tennessee, befo' he gits away."" 'But who's gwine' to lick him?" 'Never yo' mind.' "She wouldn't say no mo'," contin ued Zeb, "and I was too feeble to fig get 1 put.,1 crie4 njjgelf tojleepjapt it was arterl 'dark ivJuen 1 up That thsr varmlnty a'adV 'cum back 'eordin to promise, and was in from of the cabin a-shoutlu'f A 'Zeb White the time hag-'cun fur yd' to be-pulverized. Mebbe I won't do. no juo t ha a eha w jro'r ea rs .off am" cripple yo tut life,' but I'll do tha' much, fur share.Cam- outer yo'r holt and stand up fo me tike a man.'. v "Jest about the time, he begun to boiler my ole woman'.begun to git outer her clothes and inter mine. 'What yo gwine to do? ses I, 'Gwine out to wallop that critter or die,' sez she. V4V;--. 'But' yo at a woman, and he's a powerful fighter.'; 'Zeb White, yo: snuggle down and keep quiet. He's cum- f ur a fight He'? bin promised one and has to hev it. As yo' can't fight him, I shall, md I'm a-feelln' that the Lord will put a jaw bone inter my hand to slather him.' "It .wasn't no use, to talk to her. When she got dressed up, she Iookec" like a- man, and as she stood in the door that' varmint .cracked his heels together and. crowed like a rooster. I jestf had the strength to git to the win- When the feller bad crowed and crack ed, he yelled' out:, j 'My forty-eighth victim ar now be fo' me to be chawed.. Speak up, Zeb White, and tellf. me which ear yo'd rather I'd begin on to git up my appe tite. Whoop, whoop-ee!'- "And abeut the!fight"? I asked,, as Zeb was silent for several minutes. "It war full of surprises," he an- "NOW. TORN, ZEB WHITE, CUM OUT xlsIUS! swered. Tbat varmint was only a Dlownard; arter all. The ole woman walked around him two or three times and then sailed in. He hollered at the fust jump and tried to git away, but she wouldn't let him.' She scratched, kicked and pulled ha'r, and when she finally let up on him he woaldn't hev .1-. 1 looked wuss if half a flaHn Vira .had played with him. I've seen a heap ol men- walloped, but he was the wallop edest man of the hull lot" Oud he didn't know it was a wo man?" I asked. Never knowed it till he eot hnm and his own wife examined the claw marks and the bites. The Rtnrv vnt around, and purty 'soon he had to Jest pull up and move away. He had bin licked by a woman, and it was tha wuss lickin' he ever got" "And how did Mrs. White come out of it?" 'She didn't git a scratch, bnt rvi alius bin sorry about it" "For what reason?"- "Waal," said Zeb as he turned bla face away from me, "befo that fight she was a mighty humble woman and left all the bossin' to me. Sence then she's she's" "She's not so humble?" "Jest so: jest eot the idea that ch kin wallop me, same as she did him and thar ar days when she's all rendv to make a try at it. Spiles a woman to git sucu nosnuns in her head of co'se aoes. And an hour after we eot home that evening I overheard her saying to him: Jsow, .zeb VV bite, yo git me up a heap of firewood by the back doah to morrer or take the consequences, and I'm tellin' yo' that them same conse quences will make yo'r back ache fur a hull month to cum." ABE ALL HUMBUG. Grand Duke Boris Defends His Coun try Against De Windt's Charges. San Franesieo,Aug.ll "Those charges are all humbug." said the Grand Duke Boris of Russia, when questioned in an interview here as to statements made by Harry de Windt, the explorer, con cerning alleged cruelties practiced upon exiles in some-of the Siberian outposts. One station in particular, the explorer described as "a hell upon earth," and said: 'Of all the men and women there only two are accused of actual crime. The others are political agitators." "I don't know Mr. de Windt," said the grand duke.' "Of course, Russian discipline is strict in Siberia. It has to be so. England and France have treat ed prisoners more severely than have the Russian authorities the exiles to Si beria. 'Why there should be such a thing as an exile system in. any country is another question. Once in Siberia, for whatever cause, the prisoners or exiles, if you please, or not subjected to inhu man treatment 'There may be, and doubtless are, is olated cases of undue severity, as in the prisons and asylums of the United States and every other country. The responsible Russian authorities always see that justice is done in these cases. It is a fact that thousands of exiles, when pardoned and. free to return to Russia elect to stay in Siberia. Thou sands of them are prosperous and hap py in that far-away land today." TO BE PUT ON THE-MARKET. Securities of the Morgan Steamship Combination to be Listed. New York, Aug. 11. From what it considers a reliable source the Journal of Commerce hears that the securities of the Morgan combination of trans Atlantic steamship- lines will soon be placed upon the market Full details of the new company and of the amount of securities to be offered are not' avail able, but it is understood that a new corporation will be chartered under the laws of New Jersey, the capitaliza tion; including stocks and bonds, approximating $150,000,000. It was understood before Mr: Morgan sailed for Europe, says- the same paper, that the tentative plan was for an issue Of $100,000,000 stock and $44,000,000 in i per cent bonds, and it was on this basis that the underwriting syndicate, which is thought to be' virtually the same as that which underwrote the United States Steel corporation, was formed. The bond issue may exceed the amount mentioned. Remarries Deserted Wife, Decatur, 111., Aug. 11 Theodore T. Snyder, absent 18 years and most of that time believed to be dead, came to Decatur from Kewanee and today re married the wife that he had deserted A srrown son that was a babv in arms when the father left this week saw his father for the first time. Snyder de serted his family when the son was 12 days old. The wife believed him dead and got a divorce. Tuesday he knocked at her door. She at first thought it was a brother-in-law, but after a few words recognized her husband. They were re married today. Held a Second Time. New York, Augr. 11. Geise RaWnivicl and bis six children are being held a second time at Ellis island by the im migration authorities. The man and his family, who are Roumanians, reached here several weeks ago- and were de ported because they had no money. The eldest daughter had come to marry a young man who objected strenuously to her being sent back to- Europe. This time the father of the family brought with him 600 marks, and' now the au thorities are holding them to find out how they got ao much money In so short a time. Earthquakes at Corfu. New York, Aug. 11. A special cable dis patch to the Herald from Corfu says two earthquake shocks occurred there- at 4:56 Sunday morning, but no damage was dene. FOB EXCHANGE. FOR TRADES 1 or 2 five room houses for heavy work team, wagon and harness. Lau evening alter o ciocic sa xyler. MISCELLANEOUS. t CHEAP LUMBER We have an accumulation of cull lumber we desire tor close out- at onoe. Some Snaps; Come early. J. THOMAS LUMBER CO.. 213 W. Sixth St. ve. and U. P. By. MD fllSCELLMEOCS IDS. FREE MESENOErOR WANTa FULL a Postal Telegraph Cable box or call by either telephone No. 417 and have your Want Ads brought to the State Jour nal office by free messenger. iVo charge to you for messenger service. Cost of classi fied ads S cents per line of words to tha una ana every iracuon inereoi. jANJffOTJNJDEMEKTa 1 AM AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE for the oflio ef -uwHI of .Shawnee county. LEE MYERS. WANTED SITUATIONS. WANTED A place by a young man to work while going to school. Answer J., care Journal. WHEN you want to hire a man or boy, call UD Y. M. C. A IcVnhnnn 111. We have a list of men ana conndential ref erences concerning them. T. M. C A. employment Bureau, ill Hi. stn St. WANTED --MALE HELP WANTED 6 young men from Shawnee Co. at once to prepare for positions In the government service. Apply, to Interstate Torres, insi., eaar itapias, la. 'BH 'JtT3 uomunr -tr -m aDuo B sjiqjeq pooa oax aaxNVJM CAPITAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICE fia-iusiuitn, cnamoermaia, laundress, )nnrh miinfn. dM. V. .3 1 e", VUTl tWKflp linen girl, pantry woman, waitresses. WANTED Young man to sell and deliver iew Magnet restaurant, 417 Kansas ave. WANTED We want 2 moulders, none but sober men need apply. Permanent Job. Topeka Foundry Co., Topeka, Kan. WANTED Mattress finishers; men to fin ish mattresses after being stuffed. Write Abernathy Furniture Co., Kansas City.Mo. WANTED Collecting to do. Address Col- WANTED Man to take chare of office 1 ..T-t. In Tlrulra Ail.l.n.. 1 L. 1 nuu rcictciiuc, A. T. Morris, care L. T. Deaver. Creston, MEN, OUR,; FREE CATALOGUE Ex plains how we teach bartering in eight weeks. Address Moler Colleges, St. Louis or Omaha. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Good dressmakers for fore-wo men. .Mrs. jeroer, jrosty i3roe. WANTED White girl for general house- WANTED A lady's bicycle; must be jet lob 1. uiuutu ana cneap. t. uajcer Opt. Co., 624 Kansas ave. WANTED White girl 14 or 15 to assist with light housework and go home at nights. Calt 601 Clay at., up stairs. WANTED 3 white women cooks, 2 dining- ruuni gins. 1 -cnamDermaia, t outnt for man and wife on R. R., 3 farm hands, 10 R. R. men, 2 porters, man and wife for farm, 3 house girls, good homes, 1 house man, 1 pastry cook. Star Employment Agency. WANTED Girl for general bmjsewnrlc tn work forenoons. Call mornings before 9 u ciuch. L6 w., irn at. LADIES TO LEARN HAlRDRESSING. manieurine or massacre. Four weeks re quired. Address Moler College, Omaha, or WANTED SALESMEN. SALESMENi-We can offer attractive con tracts to reliaoie, energetic salesmen, acauainted with the lubricating oil traite. The Champion Refining Co., Cleveland, uiuo. WANTED Salesmen for full line of fruit and ornamental trees. Pay weekly, out fit free: steady work. Lawrence Nursery Co., No. 9 E. Henry St.. Lawrence. Kan. PERSONAL. MORPHINE, opium, laudanum, cocaine habit; myself cured, will inform you of harmless, permanent home cure. Mrs. jaiawin. Box raz. Chicago. WANTED MIS CELLANEOUS. WANTED To buv new tvne. 3 home now. er eiecLnu muiui A.aams uros., printers. WANTED-rHorera and cattle to nasture. 1st noose nonn Kocnesxer scnool house. 1. G. u-uman. WANTED Party to take car to Seat' tie or Whatcom, Wash., last of this month, lira VV. luth st. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Furnished or unfurnished iront rooms, with ooaro. 716 Topeka, ave. FOR RENT Furnished room, modern. 412 w. tin sc. FOR RENT First floor, 3 nicely furnished rooms iot nouseaeeping. 113 is. vth St. FOR RENT 2 or 3 nicely furnished rooms. everyimnst moueni. sia. Monroe, at. FOR RENT Well furnished southeast rooms, modern, with board. 520 Harri son si. FOR RENT Pleasant rooms, southeast- exposure. iu vumcy at. FOR RENT Nicety furnished front room. vreai olii l. inquire crystal laundry TfttT9 BRUIT PlMMnl I..II.4I. 1WIU) south and east exposure. 1216 Monroe st. FOR RENT Lower floor of 301 Van Bu ren St., modern; very desirable; to family without children; references-will be asked. FOR RENT Nice large upstairs front room with aeove. furnished or unfur nished. Bath and gas. Gentlemen pr- ierrea. ia wesi otn St. FOR RBNT Desirable furnished or un furnished rooms, very cheap, at the New Magnet. 417 J&ansas ave. FOR' RENT HOUSESl FOR RBNTr-One. room and one 3 room house ob Hancock at. Inquire at 3ui Man- cock St. FOR RENT Three room cottacre. 115 North Madison at. J. O. SmiLo, 316 Qumcy st. FOR RENT Modern 7 room house. 1124 Tyler at, FOR RENT To first class tenant only. choice, modern S room house, 4 blocks from Kansas ave: first class location. Frank S. Thomas, sen Kansa ave. FOR RENT 5 room house 1264 Lincoln St. See Elder, 611 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 7 room house 70O E. 7th at. See Elder, 611 Kansas ave. FOR RENT New t room bouse,' near' Washburn- college. Inquire M. F. Loy- cock, court house, -pnsae mo, or n .vt 1MM. FOR RENT New 9 room modern bouse, Nn lint W. 13th st.. evervtmnsr com- elete, new paper, H scr month. Key next ooor. FOB RaJJ-BEAL ESTATE. New 5 room- cottage W. 6tb st, 3 lots, Ice home. $S7S. ni BARNES REAL ESTATE CO., .121 West Fifth St. FOR SALE Cheap., in Oakland, owners leaving pHV..Hwf.llin 7 rnnra 4 lota and 6 rooms, barn, 4'4 lots. By f. c MOOKK, 420 Kansas Ave FOR SALE Br M. Heery, 411' Jackson St., iiuuon buu iuu ub nine payments. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Merrill's drug store, corner 6th and Clay. Price $2,200. None but cash customers need apply. Call at the store lor particulars. FOR SALB-Journal route, 125 subs. R. S. FOR SALE Cheap, double storedoor, transom, etc., good as new. Jos, GroU. 420 Kansas ave FOR SALE Grocery, meat market, stock and fixtures, dellvprv wnsnn snd hiirw.- Address A. F. L., care Journal. FOR SALE Box lunches, 10 and 15 cents. aenverea. ine r.ew Magnet restaurant, 417 Kansas ave. Bell 'phono 2782. Ind. FOR SALE Good saddle pony. 1161 Pine pi., xjownian mu. FOR SALE 1 bay mare S years old. wt.', 1,100; also 1 delivery wagon, or will trafle for heavier horse. Inquire Cudahy Pack lng Co.. Ill E. 2d St. FOR SALE A good cook stove. Round ivsttn. itcraier, ueuruum suite, extension m we. dining room chairs, rocking chairs, parlor set. carpets, matting and many other articles of household furniture. Call at BIS W. 7th st. Owner leaving city. FOR SALE Pointer, excellent breed. imaie;, t momns oia. sa r OiK st. FOR SALE No where, by no one. Just I ruuu out nop wua moKfu a soot yruur. FOR SALE Restaurant, cheap, doing fine Dusmess;- leaving city, sneiaen, T& Kan sas ave. SATIN-SKIM SPECIALTIES. AS IT contains no animal gat or oils, Sat-in-Sktn Cream does not cause nor pro mote hair, growth. 25c at the Model. LOST AND FOUND. LOST White and black spotted bird dog. Finder please return to SIT Laurent St., and receive reward. JEDJJCAKONAI THE Topeka Telegraph school. S27 Kansas ave.. loDeka. teaches men and women railroad and "commercial telegraphy; schol ars assisted to nosltinns immediatelv noon qualification. Expert teachers of 25 years experience, -luition low. xerms easy. Be no lor catalogue. VOOAX INSTRUCTION. VINCENT GRAHAM Studio. McVlcar residence, Washburn campus. Terms SI (ML PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. IDA C. BARNES. M. D. Office 728' Kansas ave". Residents' Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 596 residence and 16 office. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitri fied Brick and Paving Co., has been re moved to 118 W. 8th st. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDER3. N. W. MULL, shop 113 W. 8th St. 'Phone 18.; Job-work promptly done, 'xopeaa. Kan. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned, 75c; -clocks. 50c; main springs, 75c; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guaranteed. Old Jewelry exchanged for new. It hard up. see Uncle Sam. 512 Kansas ave STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS THE J. C. DARLING CO., 734 Ran Ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Pricts low. Catalogue free. Tel. m BICTCLES TOPEKA" AUTOMOBILE AND CTCLB Co. Tel. 706. Bicycles and sundries; bi cycles and tandems for rent; repairing of ail Kinas. tt fTVT'T.P! no.. 118 EC. 8th-st. National and Iver-Johnson bicycles; suppllea.repalrs. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete stock oi watcnes. au mnnria. irilverware. etc. Kves examined and spectacles properly fitted. FREE DISPENSARY. FREE DISPENSARY, 119 W. Fifth at.. under management or seven lopeaa pay-. sicians. where those who are unable to pay lor medical treatment may nave me same free of charge. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN. Patent Attorney. 4U avenue, Topeka. FLORISTS. CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at Hayes IVI w. atn Bt. rnone a. MONEY. MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos. organs, typewnieiB. hvubcuuiu kiwvw personal security. L. Blacoe. 623 Kan. Ave. STORAGE MERCHANTS' TRANSFER STORAGE Co. packs, ships and stores household goods. TeL 186. Clarence Skinner, 123 SJ. 6th st. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. Roesr Island. (In effect May 18. 1)2. Leave. I:u0 pm 3:19 pm 12:50 am 13:15 am t M am 1:35 pm 3:3 pra 4:20 am 5:00 am 7:45 am 7:4' am

Toiaa EX. No. 1....-, ..12:50 pnr. Texas ,5-- -a-- u 12-45 n-n Nurh't Colo. Flyer No. 9.... 8:10 pra SiX limited No. 29.... 12 :40am Night Texas Ex. No. 3.. ..11.55 pm a W Express No- 25 8 .Co pra K. C. Chick. E Wo. 38.. 91 am Eaat-bouna East-bound Lltn. Ex. No. t. 8 JO pa t A 8t- J. Ex; No. 14... ?22t Ex. Mail No. 8:39 am No-30 El Paso Chicago.. 4:45am r m- v r- fiver No. ID- 1 I UL Ol Tnn St. J- ix.- m- Ch?ck7& K- C Ex. No. 36. :50 pra cnA. .i dail. except Noa 35 and 36 daily except Sunday. WESTBOUND. Arrive, Den. Pac. Coast No. pm 5-Tc::no;-.::H;W Sauna Ex. rf M K. C. Pass. No. I am Balin Ex. No g.,...,.. 5 :ipm If C Ex. So. S.pm, Leave. 12:30 pm 11:10 pm C:2t pn l:USaa t:9ps 5:50 am :20 ara .10 pm :10 pm All trains -ay except Noe. 7 and t eaily except Sunday. i Miesoori Pacific. jtrrlve. Jjea.ru. Topeka-Ft. Scott Aecen. No. mm i:0ni Titeass 3

Page 8

8-' POLICE JOTTINGS. 11. B. Bond, a Street Preacher, is Arrested. Charged With the Unseemly Crime of Being a Vagrant. BE HEARD TONIGHT. Will Then Face the Court and Tell All About It. Events of a Day With Topeka Peace Guardians. R. H. B. BOND, a transient preach er by trade, was gathered into the told of iniquity Sunday, after he had made a few touching remarks on the evils of evil, and passed the hat. He was carefully scrut inized by a police man who lnform hlm that his work was coarse and he was landed in jail. Rev. Mr. i j .1 1 fa an nhlp bodied person with a red mustache and a large, neaitny nerve, nc i he had been a distributor of gospel for 15 years, but the police seemed to think he was a vag. He said that he arrived In Topeka Friday night, after having wandered flpwn this way from Holton, contemplating nature and the wild In dian by the way. He explained to the court this morning that he was not a vagrant, and will make his real situa tion clear this evening. 'Way last June, while the birdlets were singing in the underbrush and tall timber, Mr. Grant Lewis, colored, wan dered back from Oklahoma, via the Rock Island side door system. He used the side door method to save some $35. which he intended to spend in his na tive city. He had been to Oklahoma to attend the funeral of his paternal parent who had suddenly deceased. It was even time when he arrived in the Rock Island yards, and he there dismounted from his side door coach and was con fronted by another colored man, in fact, two other colored men, total strangers to Mr. Lewis, who exhibited the open end of a large revolver and asked for his coia. Mr. Lewis was slow about responding, so they saved him the trouble by taking it. Then they drove him into the car and told him to stay quite a while, while they eloped. Mr. Lewis has little faith in the police. He went home, told his. troubles ta.his better half, and purchased a revolver. Since that time he has been looking for the gentlemen to whom he donated $35. He was heavily disguised as Nemesis .Saturday night he found one. of them. By way of introducing himself, this un christian person, harboring malice in his heart, drew his revolver, smote the ex-robber on the lid and fired two shots at him. Both parties were gleaned by the police. Mr. Grant explained his jus fflable attempt at homicide, and svorf out a warrant for Messrs. John Doe and Richard Doe, charging them with high way robbery, otherwise known as rail road friskery. Mr. Doe was incar cerated. This morning, when he wUs ar rested on a state warrant, his name was Sam Hanna. As a counter irritant he secured a warrant for Mr. Lewis, charging him with deadly assault. The police are hot on the trail of Mr. Roe. Lou Wager undoubtedly forgot to close his joint Saturday night. He ad mitted this morning that he had kept a tippling shop open on Sunday and was fined $50, which is customary, and therefore right. Q. Woolford was drunk, so was J. Inman. Three each. C. Ivers was drunk. He also disturb ed some peace. He will hear about it this evening. WED AS HE LAY DYING- Bride Left Her Bridegroom After the Ceremony and Did Not Bet urn. New Tork. Aug. 11. Axel Ebertson, a Swede from New Roehelle. who has been a patientin Flower hospital for the last month died there yesterday of a cancer. On July 25 a young woman called at the hosxiital with a Swedish minister and was married to Ebertson. She has not been to the hospital since. A Woman Pilot Licensed. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 11. Mrs. John Golden,' of Jeffersonville, Ind., has been granted a license to pilot steamers on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and to day she will start on her first trip as a licensed officer. She will be at the wheel of her husband's steamer, thp Shawnee, which goes south with a large store boat, the Mount Vernon, in. tow Mrs. Golden has devoted much of her time to the river- and has traversed the various waterways of the south with captain uolden. .-Kehoe Dying at a Hospital. New York. Aug. 11. Joseph Kehoe. who was wanted by the police on a charge of assault. Is at a hospital dying, it iS be lieved Of a nimtnl oVm. 1 I .Policeman Marrinan. When the officer went to arrest Kehoe he was struck in the face. A crowd then attacked Marrinan and then the officer shot Kehoe. but whether by accidental explosion of his re volver during the scuffle or puroosely, has yinf- hmn HBrorminiu) I.' V. 1 t I ixcuur aim .l ill I ill il II were well acquainted and it is said there wet uiwu ireiweeu Lilt III. Colombian Gunboat Missing. New York. Aug. 11. Cabling from Pana ma, the correspondent of the Herald savs the Colombian gunboat Boysca. which left nere juiy a wun juu soldiers, to Reinforce Oen. Berti at Aeua Duloe is still mi a a. Ing. Incoming vessels have seen nothing v w. uv uiiiu ia u)im unaay. i2 MA f HANNA TOWED A LORD Senator's Former Daughter-in-Law Finds an English Spouse. Cleveland, O., Aug. 11. May Harring ton Hanna, former wife "of Daniel R. Hanna and one of Cleveland's cleverest society women, is rumored to be about to become the bride of an English no bleman. She declines to affirm or deny the report. The prospective bridegroom Is said to be one of the most manlv men of Eng land and a close friend of King Edward. Mrs. Hanna's Cleveland friends say the wedding will take place this fall either in Cleveland or New York. Senator and Mrs. Hanna are said to favor their former daughter-in-law's selection. She has three children. She was divorced from Dan Hanna several years ago. She recently returned from Europe. GATHERING THEM IN. J. Ll Bowen Arrested For Sell ing Liquor to Indians. J. L. Bowen. the bartender at the Chesterfield hotel bar has been arrest ed by Deputy United States Marshal F. W. Knapp on the charge of unlawfully selling liquor to Indians. He was re leased on a $300 bond but will appear on August 27 before United States Com missioner R. F. Havden for prelimi nary trial. Bowen is the seventh of the Topeka jointists who have been arrested bv United States officials on the charge of selling liquor to Indians. The officers refuse, to state whether other arrests are to follow or not but it is believed that others will follow. The practice of sellin liquor to In dians has almost been broken up at the reservation. Consequently the Indians have been coming to Topeka where they have found no difficulty in getting "fire water.". The Indians are sore on the Topekans because they claim they have been rob bed in a number of tlaces. Assistant United States Attorney E. D. McKeever says he has sufficient evidence to con vict all the men arrested. AIMED AT THE CONDUCTOR. Missile Thrown .by a Disorderly Man Struck a Passenger on a Train. Wellington, Kas., Aug. ll.-Conduetor Secor of a north-bound Chicago, Rock Island Pacific train, put George Bush mas off at Corbin, a little station south of here, Sunday morning. Bushmas picked up a piece of burnt gumbo from the ground near the depot platform and hurled it at the conductor, missing him. It was not known that the missile struck any one until after the train had started and the 'conductor and trainmen had chased Bushmas off the platform. It was then found that the gumbo, which weighed about three pounds, 'had struck C. A. Brown, 4b years old, of Brookfield, Mo., who was sitting by an open window. He became unconscious from -the blow, and the train was hurried here and Dr. S. W. Spitler, the road's physician, was called. He found Brown suffering from con cussion of the brain, and ordered him kept here. Brown was unconscious most of the day, and Dr. Spitler says his injuries may prove dangerous. After the train reached here the agent at Cor bin was instructed to have Bushmas arrested, which he did, the offender having returned to the depot. He was brought here and placed in jail. He was put oft the train because he was drunk and disorderly. FIX LABOR TROUBLES. Difficulties at Fort Scott Have Been Adjusted. Labor Comm issioner Johnson has re turned from Fort Scott, where he ad justed the troubles there between the contractors and the laborers on the city sewers. The contractors were paying $1.35 per day, and the laborers asked for the cur rent rate of $1.50. The rate asked for was allowed. Commissioner Johnson also adjusted the trouble between Charles Ransey of Topeka and his laborers on a paving contract at Fort Scott. Ramsey was paying $1.50, and some of his employes tried to hold him up for $1.75 after agree ing on the current rate. The union men refused to demand the raise, and the matter was adjusted. INJURED BROOM CORN. Dry Weather Has Shortened the Kan sas Crop. The dry weather In the northwest has injured the broom corn crop. vneyenne county, wnicn claims one fifth of the broom corn acreage of Kan sas, sent out an announcement some time ago that 300 extra hands would be needed to harvest the crop. Superin tendent Gerow, of the free employment Dureau, sent out inquiries concerning the report, and has received advices from Cheyenne that no extra help will be needed for the broom corn harvest. GREAT BALL GAME. A World's Record in Fifteen Inning Contest at Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 11. A world's record was broken here Sunday in the 15-mning tie game between Cedar Rap ids and Terre Haute when 27 men were struck out. Fifteen strikeouts were credited to McFarland, of Cedar Rapids. Popp, formerly of the St. Louis Nation al league and Columbus American as sociation clubs, struck out 12 men for the borne team. To Discard Steam and Horse. Copenhagen, Aug. 11. The official organ of the press exhibition, which opened here on June 14, prints a letter from Thomas A. Edison in reply to queries as to h to opin ions concerning motion, traction and aerial navigation. Mr. Edison's letter read as follows: "I believe that within 30 years nearly all railways will discard steam loco motives and adopt electric motors and that electric automobiles will displace the horse almost entirely. In the present state of science there are no known facts by which one could predict any commercial future for aerial navigation." Tried to Kill Himself, Leavenworth, Kas.. Aug. 11. Private Cross of the First battalion of engl neers. tried to commit suicide while on sentry duty last night at Fort .Leaver. worth. He placed a Krag-Jorgensen rifle under Ms chin and pulled the trig ger. The ball passed entirely through his head, tearing away his (face. The soldier' is still alive. The surgeon says he will not live 24 hours. Clergyman Champion Angler. Westfield. Conni. Aug. 1L Rev. "Dr. Howard Lee Jones, pastor of. the Bap tist church of the Epiphany of New Tork, who with his family is spending the season at Highland Lake here. Sat urday achieved the distinction of being the champion fisherman of this resort by catching a black bass 22 inches long, weighing five and one-half pounds. TOPEKA GETS IT. Daily Weather Bulletin SerTiSI is Granted. Order From Chief Willis L. Moore is Received. Topeka has been granted the weather bulletin service from the stations in Kansas simultaneously with their pub lication at the Kansas City station. Orders have been issued to that effect by Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States .weather bureau, and the service will begin tomorrow. The matter was taken up with Mr. Moore through the Topeka Commercial club. Resolutions of that body asking for the additional service were forward ed to Mr, Moore, and Major T. J. An derson received the following lettei from ,Mr. Moore late Saturday evening: "Mr. T. J. Anderson, Secretary of the Commercial club of Topeka, Topeka, Kansas: "Sir In connection with the recent resolutions of your club regarding more extended weather bureau service at To peka, I have the honor to inform you that action will be taken whereby it will be possible to publish in Topeka daily bulletins containing reports from the stations in the Kansas City corn and wheat district, together with thi; averages for the several district centers throughout the corn and wheat belL This will give Topeka the same infor mation, and at the same time, that is now received and published in Kansas City, and I trust that it will satisfac torily meet the wishes of the Commer cial club of Topeka. The service will begin at an early date. "Very respectfully, "WILLIS L. MOORE, "Chief U. S. Weather Bureau." In addition to the reports from the stations in Kansas, Topeka will also receive the reports from the other dis tricts of the United States direct from the central office at Chicago. The reports are received each morning at Kansas City from the stations In Kansas at about 7 o'clock. When all the reports are received and con piled they will be repeated all In one tele gram to both Chiepijo and Topeka. It Is expected the reports will reach To peka before 8 o'clock, and the distri bution of the bulletins will take place soon after. Observer Jennings la preparing to Is sue about fifty of the bulletins each morning, which will be distributed to the merchants and others desiring the reports, and he will also prepare to post the bulletins in a number of conspic uous places. The reports will prove of great ad vantage to Topekans, who have here tofore had to wait 24 hours for the re ports to come from Kansas City. Mr. Moore,, chief of the weather bureau, has earned the gratitude of To peka business men by his courteous dealing in the matter. 50TH ANNIVERSARY And 48th Annual Convention of the Typographical Union. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 11. The forty eighth annual convention of the Inter national Typographical union began its session here today with all the 365 dele gates present and over a thousand vis itors. Pike's opera house was crowded, including the galleries, that were most ly occupied by women, who are here for the first convention of the ladies' auxiliary. After the welcoming ad dresses, to which President James T. Lynch responded, a resolution of sym pathy and support of the United Mine Workers in their anthracite strike was adoDted. The officers and committees were then ahnounced: The committee on law con sists of Hastings, Crawford, Benton, Spires and Olwell. Telegrams and letters of greeting on the fiftieth anniversary of the typo graphical union were read from almost all other labor organizations. Most of the time was devoted to the reading of the report on law and President Lynch's supplemental address on this report and their consideration was postponed until tomorrow. The annual reports of the officers were then made, after which the convention adjourned until tomorrow. President Lynch s report was as fol lows: 'The greatest problem of this or any other age is said to be embraced in the scientific creation of wealth and Its sci entific distribution. Capital is endeavor ing to solve the hrst part of the Ques tion, and the combination of wage earn,- ers, tne labor organizations, the latter. To this effort the International Typo graphical union has contributed. The high place of the printing trade, the prosperity of its followers, and the con stantly increasing remuneration which they, are receiving, attests in a measure our success. Happier homes, more com forts, greater education, shorter hours of labor, and more time for mental de velopment, all these add to the welfare of a country and its people, and afford an example for the encouragement of the millions who toil. "The year just closed has been re markable for peace and tranauillitv in our industrial relations. The employer has been brought to realize the value of conciliation, a doctrine preached for years by our international, and that policy has been more than ever in evi dence in the settlement of disputes. wage scales nave been increased in the jurisdiction of many unions. There has been but one serious strike, that occur ring in Rouse's Point. N. T. "In reviewing the entire international field, and taking into consideration th many betterments secured, and without friction, the membership has reason for congratulation. The new year opens well, and every effort .will be made by your officers to avoid conflicts, and at the same time conserve the interests of local, unions. While strikes will be avoided where possible, yet if entered into they will be prosecuted with all the vigor that can be exercised and will not be abandoned until the unfair em ployer is made to feel the terrible cost attendant upon arrogance and a. refusal to accord just conditions. "During the year just closed several important newspapers and many book and job offices have been unionized. It has been maintained that the employ ment of union labor is a business prop osition, and that industrial peace, -the largest possible output, efficiency, order, and a larger field from which to select employes, were all embraced in an agreement with our local unions. "In the report of your delegates to the American Federation of Labors there occurs two recommendations -to which your president desires to direct attention. These relate to the autonomy and political propositions. They should receive careful consideration by the members and the delegates. Thus far the International Typographical union has steered a conservative course. It has avoided all the 'isms, panaceas that are confidently recommended as cure alls for industrial ills. It is not your president's intention to advise the mem bership of tie convention either for or against any particular political policy His personal opinion is that the wage earners of this country-will eventually work out their political salvation, and that they will do it without adherence to or the adoption of the .principles enunciated by .any particular school of thought. The advice of last year. In i the remarks on this subject, that we should confine, our action to the ad- j monition to study all, with the hope that wise selection may be made,' is as sound today. i "As to autonomy versus Industrial ism, it is a fact thrit no terms are more widely used and more generally misun- 5 deistood by trades unionists. The con vention should express itself on thu subject, and, as the federation dele gates' report recommends, it would be well to refer both the political and autonomy propositions to the referen dum in concise questions and allow the membership to -express its will as to the policy that should be pursued by the International Typographical union ana its representatives on both important subjects. "The new or amended arbitration agreement is being taken advantage of quite generally by publishers. Ow ing to the fact that the agreement is to run five years, your president is exer cising great care before attaching his signature, to establish that the condi tions are as represented in the contract. In one case refusal to sign was based on the ground that the office was an open one, and that even though such a condition might be satisfactory to the local union it was not agreeable to the international body. Many of our unions were under the impression that they should bring pressure to bear on local publishers to the end that agreements might be executed. They were advised differently. The benefits under the agreement are just as valuable to the publisher as to the union. If the pub lisher believes that he does not need the protection of an arbitration agreement, then the local union can rest equally content. In other words, we stand ready to arbitrate. The instrument has been provided: it remains for-the pub lishers to do the rest. "As far as our general relations with the American Newspaper Publishers' association are concerned, it can be said that they are satisfactory. "The arbitration idea has many strong supporters among the book and job em ployers. "The covenant at present In force be tween the International Typographical union and the International Stereotyp ers and Electrotypers' union offers the basis for effective and satisfactory coalition of the various branches of the printing industry. During the five months' life of this agreement, it has given complete satisfaction. As far as the industrial field is concerned, under this agreement there Is but one govern ing body. -When trouble is imminent, all the force and power of our great, federa tion of interests are brought to bear to secure an adjustment. The publisher does not deal with one trade he faces a combination. In theory and effect, 'an injury to one is the-concern, of all.' And the stereotypers and electrotypers pay for this assistance. They demand our aid as a matter of right, and not as a matter of sympathy. Would not the in terests of every follower of the printing craft be conserved bv such a general arrangement? "Contrary to the idea, frequently ex pressed, that the limit of machine in troduction has been reached, these de vices continue to increase both as to number and pattern. Rumors of In ventions that will again revolutionize the printing trade frequently reach us, but thus- far they have been without foundation. "The practice of securing Industrial peace through contracts running from one to five years, has become very pop ular with local unions 'and employers. Hundreds of these covenants are now in existence. It would be well for the con vention to recommend to1 our subordin ate unions that wherever possible con tracts be executed.1 si nd' that these con tracts contain arbitration provisions that will guarantee the peaceable opera tion of industrial departments under the terms of the contracts." and make as remote-as- possible chartce for fric tion and trouble. "The desire on the part of our book and Job members for an eight-hour day is beginning to manifest itself, and is receiving "encouragement in i many jur isdictions. That the eight-hour day will eventually be established as the maxi mum for our entire membership goes without challenge. We trust that it may come peaceably, but in any event, come it must." The report of Mr. J. M. Bramwood. secretary-treasurer, showed that the receipts from June 1, 1901, to May 31, 1902, were $151,141, and the expenditures $145,760, the balance on hand being $38,- 072. The present membership is 39,711 typographical, English and German. 37,956; photoengravers, 476; mailers. 789; type founders, 407; newspaper writers, 73. There were twenty strikes in all during the year, nine resulting in vic tory for the union, three being lost, ana eight in progress. STEREOTYPERS CONVENE. Cincinnati. O., Aug. 11. The first con vention o fthe International Stereotyp ers and Electrotypers' union was called to order here today. The meeting is the' first independent body. About 50 dele gates from all parts of the union and Canada were present. Heretofore the stereotypers and electrotypers have been a branch of the I. T. U., but since the last meeting of the larger organiza tion they have organized independently though a close connection is maintained with the parent body as is shown by the fact of its convention being called to meet at the same time and place. Woman Breaks Jail. West Chester. Aug. 11. Bessie Smith, awaiting trial for larceny, broke out of the Chester county prison last night. She took out stone around the skylight of her cell, drove pegs, built a scaffold and thus climbed to the roof. From thib point she reached the prison wall and escaped. BRIEF TELEGRAMS. London, Aug. 11. King Edward held a privy council today at Buckingham palace at which the newlv appointed ministers were sworn in. Later he officiated at an investure of the Victorian order. Spa, Belgium; Aug. 11. Marie Henrietta, queen of the Belgians, had a good night and was able to leave her bed this morn ing for breakfast. Rome,. Aug. 11. At the request of Car dinal Gotti, prefect of the propaganda! a list has been., furnished of the most im portant affairs pending at the Vatican. The list includes the nomination of archbishops of New- York and Chicago and the ap pointment of coadjutors to the archbishops of San Francieco and St. Louis. Denver, Col., Aug. 11. "Huckleberry Finn."Mark Twain's story of boy life on the Mississippi river, has been excluded from the Denver public library on the ground that it is immoral and sacrile gious. Berlin. Aug. 11. The semi-annual report of the German Genossansehaft bank em phasizes the existing industrial depression. The report shows that the bank lost $867,503 in industrial enterprices. Washington, Aug.' 11. Minister Bowen has cabled the elate department from Caracas, Venezuela, jthat the revolutionists have cut the cable at Barcelona. City Ticket Offloo. Union Pacific R- R.. 535 Kansas ,ve. Refrigerators at reduced prices. JX H. Forbes. RE.MOVAIL SAILED Pianos, Organs, Sheet Music, Music Books and Musical Merchandise. Everything in the music line at greatly reduced prices until we move into our new building, 722 Kansas Avenue, about August 23rd. PIANOS. We offer our entire stock, includ ing Hardman, Packard, Story Clark, and others. Pianos at a saving to you of 15 to 20 per cent from regular prices, either cash or on easy payments. PARLOR ORGANS. Finest makes of Parlor Organs at $40 to $50. SPECIALS. Kemiar Removal Price. Sale Priee. Husic Rolls. $1.00 9J0.69 Music oils 1.-5 .83 Harmonicas.. 15c to .30 .10 Harmonicas 25 ,19 Harmonicas 35 .24 Music Stands 75 .55 Plain Jteel strings.. .05 a for 5c Wound Steel strings 10 .OS Canvas Cases 1.50 1.15 BANJOS. At greatly reduced prices. Call and see what low rates we have put on these goods. Easy terms if desired. E. B. Guild Music Co. A number of people spent the week end at Manhattan Beach hotel, Eureka Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Dorr Norton, Miss Agnes Gunther, Miss Lulu Ewart, Mr. Harry Parks and Mr. Arthur McClin tock composed a party which returned today. Mrs. W. A. Morton and her daughter. Miss Ethel Morton, Miss Smith, Miss Eva Smith, Miss Isabel Smith, Miss Maud Grimes were there for the week. Mr. Leslie Guild, Mr. Tinkham Veale, Mr. Ed Frank, Mr Charles Wehtworth, Mr. Monte Kistler and Mr. Lester Bennett joined te party for Sunday. A pleasant Informal reception was given Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. Atenzo Wardall, 307 Van Buren street, in honor of the birthday anni versary of his father, Mr Thomas Wai dall, 87 years of age. Tne large cool parlors of the Wardell residence were profusely decorated with asparagus fern and many beautiful garden flow ers. The dining room was in pansies and ferns. Punch was served in this apartment. A programme including a short biographical sketch of Mr. War dall and a poem dedicated to him and read by its author. Miss Marie Green, was a feature of the afternoon. Among the guests were four of Mr. Wardairs seven sons. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Metta Robinson Is expected home from Denver Wednesday. The Rev; Robert H. Mize of St. John's school at Salina will be in town this week the guest of the E. H. Crosby family. Miss Ivah Davis left this morning for St. Louis to visit her sister, Mrs. DuRelle Gage Mrs. W. E. Dauchy and her son Fred of Chicago will arrive Wednesday to spend ten days with Mrs. Robert T. Herrick. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Carter will go to Troudnor Heights in Osage county Wednesday to attend a large club pic nic to be given by Mr. and Mrs. George Troudnor that day. Mrs. McCarter is to be one of the speakers. Mrs. Mary Vance Humphreys of Junction City also has a place o'n the programme. Mr.! A. A. Robinson arrived in London last Saturday morning. Judge and M. Henry Keeler, who are now in Atchison, will join Mr. and Mrs. Ed Small, of Atchison, at Deer Wood lake for the last of the month. Mrs. Carl Moller and Mr. J. J. Moller of St. Louis, who were guests of Judge and Mrs. C. E. Foote, have gone home. Mr, Harry Fleishman, Mr. Carl Trapp, Mr. Irwin Snattlnger and Mr. Walter Myers have returned from a week's camping at Vera. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Short, of Chanute, spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. David Norton. Next week Mr. and Mrs. Norton and their little daughter, Lenna Marie, will go to Chanute to spend several days with the Shorts. Miss Gussie Fuller and her cousin. Miss Valla Cox, expect to leave for Salt Lake City Wednesday. Mr. Chappell Foote goes to the Foote farm In Dickinson county Tuesday for a fortnight. Dr, and Mrs, W. N. West and children have gone to Prior Lake, Minn., for the rest of the month. i Dr. J. T. McFarland and Miss Mc Farland returned Saturday froji Colo- Mrs. H. L.'P. Hillyer left today for Waupun,' Wis., to visit her mothei. From Waupun she goes to several of the northern lake resorts, including Lakeside, Wis., where Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Marburg, Miss Wilhelmina Marburg and Miss Jetmore are spend ing the month. Mrs. Hillyer does not expect to return to Topeka until Oc tober. Miss Bessie Jett Is home from Mc pherson, where she has been visiting for a fortnight, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wolf left Sun day for three weeks at Ludington. Mr. George Crawford and Mr. Herbert Armstrong are in Colorado for a fort night's outing. Mips Nellie Lercher has returned from a month in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mrs. Arthur J. McCabe and her daughter Lulu left Friday for a month in Colorado. Mrs. Minnie Bennett and her son Clifford are in Kansas City for a fort night. Lawn mowers at reduced prices. D. H, Forbes. SHEET MUSIC. Oar entire stock of Sheet Music comprising more than 100,000 copies at one half and ao per cent discount. Music Books marked 75c, $1.00, J1.25, S1.50. S-.00 and $2.50. CfV In this sale at JW- Music Folios, paper cover, vocal, regular price 50c. 7 fir Removal sale price tJ Instrumental Folios, paper covers regular price 50c. IZr Removal sale price...... OOl Our entire stock of editions," both foreign and American publications, as Litolff, Peters, and Wood Sehir mer, at 50 discount. Band and Orchestra Music, and Octavo music, at l3 off list price. Singing School Books, Sundav School Books and Gospel Hymns, single copies at the 100 rate. Ten Cent Music at 5c copy. NORTH TOPEKA. tLeave Items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co.. 912 North Kansas Ave.; Mrs. Will Klussman is visiting rela tives at Alma. August E. Smith has returned from a visit to Ft. Madison, Iowa. Miss Nellie Wetherholt will return to day from a visit of two weeks to friends at Carthage, Mo. Mrs. J. C. Fulton went to Kansas City this morning, where she will be the guest of relatives. Mrs. Chris Jones, of Herington, was the guest Saturday of Mrs. Cruaimer, at the Union Pacific hotel. W. G. Brooks will speak at Asbury chapel tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Subject, "The Evil of Strong Drink." Mrs. Miller of Kansas City is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Pliley of 1231 Madison street. E. D. Small spent Sunday at Delavan Park with Mrs. Small who is chaperon ing a small house party there. Miss May MeNoun has resumed her place in the W. M. Costley store after a vacation of several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Hamilton of Kansas City were the guests Sunday of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ham ilton. Hazel Fulton and, cousin, Helen Sterne, have returned from Maple Hill, where they visited their aunt, Mrs. Mc Grew. Miss Lina Pliley, of 1231 Madison street, who has been visiting in Kansas City, has now gone to Excelsior Springs. Miss Mabel Foucht returned this morning from a visit of several weeks to friends in southern Kansas and A. M. Bajrd and daughters. Sadie and Mildred, are expected home tomorrow from Chicago, 111., and Wau kesha, Wis. Carl McGrew and sister, Miss Myrtle McGrew, went to Maple Hill today where they will be the guests of their aunt, Mrs. McGrew. Kent's Kash Koal Koncern will fill Cash orders of two or more tons Osage Citv coal during August for $3.00 per ton. A. M. KENT. Mrs. L. C. Kistler and daughter, Mar garet Emily, went to Kansas City yes terday for a visit of several weeks to Mrs. Kistler's mother, Mrs. E. S. Shockey. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hayden, of the W. M. Costley store, are taking their vaca tion, part of which will be spent visiting Airs. Hayden's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kemp, of Capitol View. Mrs. Dora Mungle, of South Bend, Ind., who has been spending the sum mer at Salt Lake City, arrived in To peka Saturday and was the guest yes terday of her sister, Mrs. W. F. Smith, of Quincy street. Mrs. Mungle left last evening for her home in Indiana. During the storm Sunday fnorning the barn of W. E. Jones, of East Gordon street was struck by lightning, and one entire end torn out. A horse that was in the stable at the time, with the ex ception of being struck by one of th pieces of wood, was uninjured. Some of the timbers of the building were thrown 200 feet. A picnic party given at Garfield park Friday in honor of Miss Alice Leland ot Minneapolis, Minn., included Misses Myrtle Robinson, Stella Mitchell, Zura Kellar, Sadie Heber, Ada Munsie, Amy Parsons, Adele Bistus, Hope Clarke. Messrs. Kenneth Clarke, Will Buechner, Albert Atkins, Will Bridge, Oran Lay- rfm, t f0 It is the 1 1 ljr I "nl I VV to be well Lj L-r-4 arlm-iJy parents Xf"V TVkfT resPonsiility, and MlirArl:ll no taint of disease JP M V, J to be transmitted to the helpless child, entailing the most pitiable suffering, and marking its little body with offen sive sores and eruptions, catarrh of the nose and throat, weak eyes, glandular swellings, brittle bones, white swelling and deformity. How can parents look upon such little sufferers and not reproach themselves for bringing so much misery into the world f If you have any disease lurking in your system, how can you expect well developed, healthy children Cleanse your own blood and build up your health, and you have not only enlarged your capacity for the enjoyment of the pleasures of life, but have discharged a duty all parents owe to posterity, and made mankind healthier and happier. There is no remedy that so surely reaches deep-seated, stubborn blood a purely vegetable medicine, harmless in its effects, and can be taken by both'old and young without fear of any bad results. Write us about your case, and let our physicians advise and help you. Thiswill cost you nothing, and we will also send our book' on blood and -skin diseases. TH-C. fWIFT SPfiCiriC CO.. Attau-ta. C-- GUITARS. Removal sale prices will prevail, and we offer the following well known makes of instruments Howard, Bay State, Washburn and Bruno at greatly reduced prices, besides our large stock of medium and low-priced goods on easy terms if desired. 3.50 Guitars 9 2.65 5.00 Guitars 3.40 7.50 Guitars 4.75 10.00 Guitars 6.25 12.00 Guitars 7.50- Finer styles at an equal reduction. MANDOLINS. -Our stock -comprises Such well known makes as Martini, Bay State, Washburn and Bruno, at the following low prices, on easy terms if desired $2.75 Mandolins 1.85 3.50 Mandolins 2.60 5.00 Mandolins 3.25 7.50 Mandolins 4.SO 10.00 Mandolins........ 6.25 12.00 Mandolins 7 .40 VIOLINS. Our stock is the largest in the west, all of our own importation, which we offer at ONE-THIRD regular prices. Easy terms if desired. ton, Ed James, Will Heber, Ed Buech ner and Dave Bergundthal. A young man who is evidently un familiar with the snags- in Soldier creek attempted to take one of his young wo man friends boating yesterday after noon and while rowing near the Central avenue bridge his boat became anchor ed on a snag. All his efforts to become free only succeeded in filling the frail craft with water much to the damage of his companion's clothes. Finally Kenneth Clark, who was near, went to the assistance of the unfortunate peo ple and brought them safe to shore. COWS ATE DYNAMITE. One by One They Dropped Dead on Way Home. Altoona, Pa., Aug. 11. Claude Peters, a farmer residing Hear Martlnsburg, Blair county, lost three cows last night from the effects of eating dynamite. A gang of Pennsylvania railroad men, who are erect ing telegraph poles, had been using dyna mite for blasting out the holes. At quit ting time they put what they had left over in a sack and left it in the field, where the cows were grazing. After they left the cows ran across the dynamite and ate it. Shortly after Mr. Peters came to drive them out and on the road they dropped dead, one at a time. HEROIN BOILING WATER Brave Boy Sought to Rescue Friend and Perished. Philadelphia, Aug. 11. James Carr, 16 years old, was fatally scalded today in a tank of boiling water while attempting to rescue Joseph Garforth. 17 years old, who had fallen into the tank.. Carr died at a hospital and Garforth is not twepected to live. The youths were playing baseball and Garforth tripped and fell Into a sunken vat used as a receptable for exhaust steam and water from a factory in the vicinity. Carr went to his friend's as sistance and was dragged into the scald ing water. With marvelous heroism he held Garforth's head above the water un til both were rescued. DEATH IN DANGLING WIRE. A Keading Boy Who Touched It Was Electrocuted. Reading, Pa., Aug. 11. Ira 8. Pyle, aged 17, was electrocuted last night at Welmer and Wunder streets. The placing of new curbs caused a telephone pole to sag and the wires fell across those leading to an electric light near by. Young Pyle touched a dangling telephone wire as he walked by and was instantly killed. The flesh was burned from his hand, which clutched the wire.MoRes Long, who tried to release him, was severely shocked. Welcome Home to Oen. 8mith. Portsmouth, O., Aug. 11. Gen. Jacob H. Smith, U. S. A., retired, is in Columbus to day and is expected to reach here, where his aged mother lives, tonight. Extensive arrangements have been made to give him a cordial welcome home. Low Round Trip Summer Bates. Via Chicago Great Western railway te St. Paul, Minneapolis, the Cannon Val ley lakes, Duluth and the Superiors. Tickets good to return October 31st. For dates of sale and other information ap ply to any Great Western agent, or to J. P. Elmer, G. P. A.. ChicagcvUL Removal, Notice. Dr. A. H. Thompson has removed bis dental office to No. 720 Kan. ave.. Just across the street. TeL 826. right of every child born, and to the it must look for happiness. How incon ceivably great is the parents' how important that is left in the blood 4M0 troubles as fc. i. b. It searches out even hereditary poisons, and removes every taint from the blood, and builds up the general health. If weaklings are growing up around you, right the wrong by putting them on a course of S. S. S. at once. It is