The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 15, 1903

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"1 t. t i r I TEN PAGES. TEN PAGES. LAST ECHO THURSDAY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, JAXUAIIY 15, 1903. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. f 5 r r in iniPT Eli JlJiiil wwtJii Scholarly Discu sion of Railway Problem. the J. AY. (Jleed and Dr. Henry Wal lace tlie Speakers. ,N IJIFOIiTAXT SESSION Wallace Heconimends Gov ernment Control. Clec'l Opposes Any Radical leg islative Interference. s-s?ion of the State Bund of Ag riculture's convention is of more inter est to the public than the one held this afternoon, which is devoted to what .was praitically a joint debate on the rail road question, J. Willis Gieed, of this city, attorney f'-r the Frisco, speaking In defense of the railways, and Di Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace's Farmer, of Ies Moines, taking the op posite side of the discussion. DR. HENRY II. WALLACE. The arguments were long and compre hensive. They showed deep study of the problems involved, and formed a most interesting presentation of one of the Greatest problems now before the American people. Owing to the large crowd which is at tending the meetings of the hoard, it was found r.e' essary this afternoon to rent Crawford's Opera House. The pa pers were rtad there, and 'he parquet was weli fined. It is the intention to' hold the day meetings tomorrow in the council chamb-r, as oricinally an nounced. The change to the opera house was made because of the great Interest manifested in the deed-Wallace discussion. The council chamber was uncomfortably crowded at the morning session. The attendance at the meeting surpasses anything in the his tory of the board meetings. .After the readin of the papers this afternoon, there was quite an animated discussion by various persons who are tending the convention. Dr. Wallace's address was the more dramatic: of tile two. It abounded with seathing denunciation of the railroads, bac ked up with convincing logic, airl reached its climax when as the inevit able solution of the difficulty. Or. Wal lace sisserted that the governin-nt must either own or control all the railways in. the country. Mr. Cliee.j was naturally on the de fensive throughout. He advocated tne theory that the natural laws of eompe- titior. to th railw will act as a sutiic ient protection community from tile rapacity ot ys lit1 attributed the popular clamor against railways to the faet that the people distrust railway managers because they do not personally come into contact with them. In the closir.i. words of his address he advocated the formation of a state commission to Ftudy the railroad question and dissem inate knowi.-.lge as to the facts of rail way manHii'-tnent. The subjec t of Mr. Gleei's paper was "The Railroads and the Farmer." That i of Dr. Wallace's was "The Farmer and the Railroads." Mr. Gleed was first on the programme. Mit. i;i.i:hi opens argument. "Straners naturally distrust each, other." sai 1 Mr. Gleed. "In certain years of extreme distress. now fortunately past, there was much bitterness and bad language. The farmers said to the rail road owners something like this.; 'You railroad barons of the e;isr rot content with robbing the people or the best pnrt of the public domain, noli content with vast subsidies in the form iu municipal aid bonds, often procured by bribery and fraud, have loaded all the great public highways with fm-c i mortgage bonds and second mortgage 1 bonds and income bonds, and first pre- I ferre,l stoc k and second preiorred stock j and c ommon stock, have created a hum. fraudulent and artifi.-ial capitalization, and are now compelling us to pa v in- 1 terest on this vast sum out of funds whic,: ought to go to supply necessities, and comforts to our wives and oh.il i riren. You have us absolutely in your j power. We must reach the market aim i you lvy upon us ail the toil which it I is possible for us to pay and survive.' i "And the railroad owners retorfd:! 'Wo gather our accumulated capital I f oin all classes and com'.itions cti thrifty, hard working citizens and we' buil i rai'roa.ls and telegraphs through de. -i ts. We made it possible for you to go where the American neonle could r.m i: trone in one hundred years but for thrift, enterprise and darin v 1 our "l-'iiel and improved vonr farms an, I mult your for ot! to ties. We made it possible lohieve in tcccnK- vpn re 1 iterial progress greater than 'thJ ier states rna-ie n nvo hundred. And I now mat you h;ive rns.-cdn o property, now that our r:iiir:.,i I our vast t r.'lirios like a T:irl.:Pe ,.U now- that vonr oiiio o-i',-;o buill ojt i.irms are improved and now that von have 1,11 fho k., -itoc ke.1, e!it of our ris k and ventnr,-. -o, ,o upon us. We took the hazard. W F.aoe.i c.lr money in the wilderness in new auu untried enterprise, and it can not be removed. you have possesW,?, rf it. lou overtax our railroads. Yoii tlai Khst us in your legislatures Yoi, essum the right to regulate our rate Tcu rob us as jurymen. You refuse us justic e in your courts. You attack an I harass us in every conceivable and pos sible way. We are at your merev. You have our property in your pos'sessi-u, and you know it cannot be removed. r v. and you do not even pretend to deal ju 'ly by us.' t;-;k qt-k-stiox of competition. ''The reason, I suppose, why it has oeen so commonly assumed that the railroads exact an unconscionable amount for their product, transportation, is that it has beeen assumed that railroads have not been, and are not, subject to the law of competition nor to the law of supply and demand nor to any other natural law fixing: the amount of their remuner ation, as such laws do fix the amount of the remuneration of the farmer. Now I believe the fact is, not only that the law of competition has applied and does apply to the railroad traffic in this country, but that from certain inherent peculiarities of the railroad carrying trade, that law of competition has af fected and does affect the railroads much more stringently and disastrously than any other form of economic ac tivity. 1 believe further that other nat ural laws or forces are constantly at work automatically regulating and con trolling the compensation of railroads. o that there is no more ground for as suming that the railroads are overpaid than there is for assuming that any other form of industry is overpaid." Mr. deed argued that while the im mediate cost of transportation to a rail road is small, the cost of keeping the road ready to produce transportation makes the railroad business essentially different from other lines of business. Thus." said Mr. Gleed, "I think it would be clear that in the production of transportation tVie proportion of invari able experses to the variable is enor mously larger than in any other line of production. To keep the machine ready and this must be done the railroad cannot lie fallow to keep the machine ready means almost immediate bank ruptcy if there be no traffic: it means bankruptcy very soon if the volume of traffic be small, and it means bank ruptcy before a very lone; time if the total tor-nage be not. in fact. vast. And herein Iks the weakness 'the defense lessness' of the railroad. The road must have tonnage. Its invariable expenses are so vast that it must have a vast volume of freight; It must have this freiiht everv month and every year: it must be properly distributed; and this j Must' is quite as imperative and inex orable as the 'Must' which rests upon the farmer to ship his grain. "Indeed it is more so. The farmer ran vary his crop. If it does not pay to ship corn he can raise cattle cattle can walk. If it does not pay to ship wheat he can take it to the mill and have it ground. If rates become absolutely pro hibitive he can. as a last resort, raise a little of everything and help to build up such separate, independent, detached, self sustaining- communities as existed before railroads were invented. This last is an extreme illustration, of'course, j but I am comparing the relative weight of the 'Musts' resting respectively on the farmer and on the railroad; and I say. tracing: the matter to the very end, j that if the people shipped nothing they i vet could live; but the railroad would die." I COMMUNITY IB PROTECTED. I Speaking of the protection of a com- munity from railroad excesses, Mr. j Gleed said: j "Another protection to such a com- j munity as I have described lies in the i peculiar nature of the transportation business as heretofore outlined. It lies j i.-in the, fact that profitable railroading I inipcratn eiy calls for vast tonnage at low rates rather than medium tonnage at medium rates or small tonnage at i high rates; that there may be more net j Tir.iFit ir eleven trms at one dollar ton than in one ton at ten dollars, j Profitable railroadine imperatively i calls for flux; for the maximum move ment of commodities. The railroad is always anxious that you shall pro duce and ship more cattle and more hogs and more corn and it is to its interest in every way possible to pro mote this additional production and ex change. If lowering the rate from ten dollars to one dollar will evoke eleven tons where only one was shipped be fore, the railroad profits by lowering the rate. Again, as I have already suggested there is in the hands of the producer and consumer a remedy which I shall call the remedy by substitution, and this remedy or defense like several oth ers I have already mentioned applies to the trust question as well as to the railroad question. A while ago the great packing companies began raising j the price of beef, and instantly tney i found that the people had begun to eat something else. The rise in beef stop ped. If the rates on sugar are too high j w e shall start beet sugar industries I and raise beets instead of corn and make our own sugar. If the rate on boots is too high we shall tan hides and make our own shoes. If the rates on corn and starch are too high we shall make our own starch out of our own grain. The farmer can vary his product; the railroad cannot: all that it can produce is transportation. "Thus it appears to me that the far mer not only has the benefit of compe tition to a peculiarly acute and effective degree, but also the protection of other natural laws and forces some of w-hich I have described. "But you may say, 'Conceding the fact that the temptation to the rail roads to compete and cut is peculiarly great yet the roads are few in number comparatively and under intelligent control and it has been easy for them to combine and resist the temptation.' "On the contrary, it has not been easy and some of them have actually been heard petitioning municipal law to in tervene and save the railroads from themselves. There has been as a mat ter of fact and as a result of these natural forces I have described, an enormous reduction in the price of rail road transportation not to be paralleled in any other line. In proof of this fact I submit a few figures token from the bulh-tin of the Vnited Ftates depart ment of a ericulture on this subject is sued in 1H: "In lHtl the shipper paid on the aver aee for each ton carried one mile over the Rock Island road 2.40 cents, in '97 cents; over the Michigan Central in 'eld l.R" cents, in '97 .61 cents; over the Fitchburg in 3.05 cents, in '97 .S7 cents; over the New York Central in 2.16 t'ents, in '97 ,R7 cents: over the Milwaukee in 'PG 2.77 cents, in '97 1 cent: over the Alton in '(56 2.32 cents, in '97 M cents; over the Burlington in '66 2.60 cents, in '97 .7S cents. ''On most of the roads above mention ed the si-ippeu- paid in '60 more than three times what he paid in '97 and in every case more than twdce as much." RECOMMENDS RAILROAD STI'DT. In concluding his address Mr. Gleed said: "I do not therefore think that the railroads are receiving anv greater compensation in the aggregate for their services to society than they ouirht to receive. It is more likely that they are receiving less in the aggregate than justice and the general welfare rf cjuires. Entirely different lines of argument which I should like to present if time permitted lead to the same conclusion. The justic? of total charges and the jus tice of particular charges are two dis tinct questions. I should be glad to tM uss the subject of discrimination, the rieht and expediency of legislative m- (Conttnued on Page Six.)) PTFOP.TiiElVEEK Both Houses Will Adjourn Till Monday. Nearly All the Members, W ill iio Home. SENATE IX A WRANGLE. The Proposed Change in Rules Causes Trouble. Finally Decides to Abridge the Roll Call. Both houses will adjourn this after noon until 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Many of the members will go home. Nearly all have passes, so it doesn't cost them anything- to travel. Tonight a party of about twenty, chaperoned by Representative Emmons of Riley county, will go to Manhattan and inspect the State Agricultural col lege tomorrow. There will still be enough members left in Topeka for the third lipuse to do j business right along without adjourn- ment. The state printer fight will con- j tinue without interruption, and the sec- j ond choice campaign for senatorial votes will not be abated. The legislature will not meet tiil 4 i o'clock on Monday in order to give the j members who go home over Sunday a j chance to stay as long as possible.. Then I they can get in on the afternoon trains from the west and answer to roll call. They -will pay themselves their three dollars per just the same whether they begin at 8 o'clock in the morning or not till 5 in the afternoon. IN THE SENATE. Much Time Is Spent Talking About "Rules." By the adoption of the committee on rules this morning the senate put in force a regulation intended to prevent the pigeon holing f bills. Rule No. 'i was amended to read; "All bills or resolutions referred to committee shall be returned to the senate, together with the report of the committee there on, within live legislative days there after, unless further time be granted." A similar rule has been upon the cal endar for a number of sessions but it has been overlooked and neglected. Bills have been held up in committee, time out of mind. A senator could introduce a bill to please a constituent and after ward block it in committee. If the rule is carried into affect it will prevent this and a bill will stand a show for a vote on its own merits. This rule didn't create near the fuss that was Blirr-c.I up by a aroposed amendment to rule 3G to require a roll call vote of two-thirds of the members of the senate for a suspension of rules to dec-lare an emergency and advance a bill or joint resolution to the third leading. There is something in the con- titution requiring the two-thirds vote but the senate decided to cut out the roll call part of it. Then Senator Allen of Leavenworth moved that Room 2 be set aside for the use of stenographers. This was a nhot at P. Dumont Smith who wants the room for the judiciary committee and had it last year. Smith didn't hear the motion at first but was on his feet fighting it when he found out what it was about. He pleaded for the room the grounds of utility sanitary con- ditlon, the health of himself and his committee, the right of priority and primogeniture and everything else that came to his mind. He wasn't in his old explosive form but his defense of his case was able and the senate tabled the proposition. Allen also moved tf place desks in the southeast corner of the chamber for the typewriters, which was carried. Henceforth the senate will proceed amid the click of ma chines. All of Governor Hanna's ability as a parliamentarian was tried when the senate came to discuss a motion to ad journ. A concurrent resolution had been adopted by the senate that the legislature meet at 4 p. m. Monday af ter the adjournment for today. The house not having adopted a sim ilar resolution it was not in effect, but the senate overlooked this fact and argued over motions .to take a recess until 2 p. m. and motions to amend the original motion until not a soul knew where the original motion was at. As a last resort a plain motion to adjoin r was adopted. It was then announced that the body would reconvene at 2 o'clock, after luncheon. Senator Morrow introduced a resolu tion, which was temporarily tabled, or dering that within thirty days after the organization of the senate the ways and means committee should make a report upon all miscellaneous appropriation hills. This is to prevent the last day of the session from being confused with this sort of work. Gabriel of Labette got in with a reso lution that the senate be decorated with government flags. LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS. Speaker Pringle put in most of yes terday wrestling with the committee problems. The election of a state printer comes up next Tuesday, according to the con stitution. Bu'-klin and McKee, the two straight Popuiist members, have thus., far held no caucuses. Senator H. B. Miller is chairman of the Curtis caucus, and Representative Pollock of Cowley is secretary. The old-time members have been anx iously awaiting the usual hand-book of the legislature published by Crane Co. It is said that a majority of the legis lature favor the state fair proposition, but there will be a scramble over its location. Since the fusion minority has asked to be allowed to appoint a few em ployes, it has been suggested that the Republican minority might try the same rjlan. The belt for being the best dressed man in the house would have to be cut in two and divided between Ralie Wag gener of Atchison and E. K. Robhins of Hamilton county. "Vic" Murdock, managing editor of the Wichita Eagle, is "doing" the leg islature for his paper. Mr. Murdock has for several years held the belt for being one of the very best paragraphers in Kansas. Over in the Missouri legislature there is a "marine" committee. One is also needed anion" the Kansas lawmakers. To it could be referred matters relative to "schooners." Its membership would necessarily be large. F. L. Vandegrift frightened four dif ferent house pagesuntil they were ready to throw up ttwir jobs the very first day. It takes the pages fully a month to become accustomed to Mr. Vande grift's "slight" eccentricities. Senator Wuifekuhler, the successor of United States Senator Harris as state senator from Leavenworth county, is the author of the concurrent resolu tion endorsing Senator 1-Iarris for a place on the canal commission. Representative Sehermerhorn of Cherokee has a bill providing that u woman prisoner sentenced to the peni tentiary or reformatory shall be ac companied by a woman attendant at the state's expense in addition to an officer One of the house reading clerks is smooth-faced and at the same time somewhat rotund in appearance. A short-sighted member came in while this particular clerk was doing his stunt on the governor's message. "What," snor ted the short-sighted man, "is Bailey here reading his own ir.essage?" There has been some criticism of the senate for employing a superintendent of ventilation and also a first assistant superintendent of ventilation. People who have been criticising this action certainly do not appreciate the situa tion. No mere jaitor can look after this work. A janitor might perhaps perform the arduous task of raising and lowering the windows at the prop er time, but there are so many other things about a legislature that need ventilation that two men can easily be kept busy if they look after the work as they should. To be sure the news paper men generally look after this sort of ventilation without money and without price, but the state always likes to pay somebody for services per formed, especially when the patriots who are willing to draw the pay are thicker than flies around a molasses can. ASYLUM MENAGE. Topeka Institution Has Only Enough Coal for Today. Reform School Is in No Better Situation. j There Is hut a slift change in the fuel i situation, but if thQ present moderate i-weather continues the dealers -will he able I to keep the public supplied with sufficient; coal to tide over from day to day by dis-: i tributinpr it in small lots, but a severe cold i snap will make matters even -worse than ever. The situation t ihe state institu 1 tions is worse. j This morning there a ere 50 cars of coal j on the Santa Fe switch tracks being 1 emptied and delivered. Most of the cars are shipped by the Mt. Carmel Coal oora pany to the Topeka agency for the local retail trade, the Southwestern Fuel com pany and the Wear company, but there were a few cars for the smaller dealers. The 50 ears represent approximately 1,500 tons of coal. The companies, which claimed that they wrere short of teams, have all the teams and wagons they can handle and this morning refused to employ any n$ore wag ons and teams. No coal came in today from the Leaven worth mines, but it is expected that large shipments will be made from there in a few da:s. The state insane asylum and reform school have only enough coal to last through today, but the railroads have promised not to appropriate any more coal shipped to the state institutions and they may be relieved. No small share of the responsibility for the coal shortage lies with the railroads. Up to Tuesday but a few cars had been brought to Topeka daily from Osage county by the Santa Ke. Many cars of coal were standing on the sidings between Topeka and the mines una at the mines. The railroads being unable to keep abreast of the immense traffic, allowed the coal to be set out to wait and when the situation in Topeka became so serious the road pressed extra engines into service and brought the accumulated supply of coal in to Tri)eka. In southern Kansas the sidetracks of the 'Frisco railroad are tilled with cars of coal from thp Weir City. Pittsburg and Colum bus mining districts. The miners claim that just as much coal as usual is being mined in southern Kansas and that the fault is that the raiiroads are not making deliveries cm account of heavy traffic. For thf present there is enough coal in Topeka to keep things going, but should a blizzard come the railroads would have to abandon their other shipments and handle cord or the city will be cold. The smaller towns are now in the worse shape. The large shipments are being made to the larger towns and the smaller places have to be content with car load lots several days after the orders are placed. Shipments of hard coal in sacks are be ing made from Topeka to neighboring towns. HONOR FOB TIL! FLOOD. Selected to Captain Brooklyn Baseball League Team. Denver, Colo., Jan. 13. Timothy Flood, formerly captain and second baseman of the St. Joseph Western league team, has received notice from President Hanlon of the Brooklyn base ball league team that he had been se lected to captain the Rrooklyns during the coniing season. Mr. Flood will ac cept the Brooklyn offer. In his letter Mr. Hanlon instructs Mr. Flood to go to Augusta, Ga., and meet the men there. NO COLD WAVE. The Weather Bureau Holds Out Bright Promises. The weather bureau is of the opinion that moderate weather will be in store and that there is no immediate danger of a cold wave. Today's forecast is as follows: "Fair tonight and probably Friday, moderate temperature. The wind this morning was w-est blowing five miles an hour. The minimum temperature for the day was 29 and the hourly temperatures re corded by the government thermometer were as follows: 7 o'clock 31 31 o'clock 42 o'clock 30 I 12 o'clock 4S 9 o'clock 30 1 1 o'clock 50 10 o'clock 31 I 2 o'clock 52 IIIDIflflSSTORY. Details of Pottawatomie Reser vation Scandal Made Public. Indian Rights Association In vestigates the Facts. SALE OF THE LANDS. Claim That Advantage Was Taken of Red Men Affidavit Concerning Sale Made by Indian Woman. Congressman Curtis Is Not In cluded in the Charges. The facts with reference to the al leged frauds in connection with the Pot tawatomie land sales are gradually coming out. The Indian Rights associa tion of Philadelphia has taken hold of the matter, and the Washington agent of the association, S. M. Brosius, has been looking up the evidence on file in Washington concerning the frauds. The association has forwarded to the State Journal a statement prepared by Mr. Brosius, which seems to show that not only has the public in general been shut out from bidding on the lands, but that the Indians have suffered gross mistreatment. The statement of Mr. Brosius is as follows: "More than three months ago charges were filed with the Indian department against the agent for the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha Indian agency, in Kansas, that have not been investigated, although of a sufficiently serious na ture to demand that they should have been given immediate attention. "Kev. F. E. Gates, a missionary lo cated among these Indians for several years, charges that the affairs of the agency are not managed in the best in terests of the Indians. The special cause of the complaint grows out of the abuses of the trading system, and the sale of the lands of deceased allottees which has been authorized by congress. It is charged that there is an apparent combination to secure the Indian lands at from $12. SO to $1S per acre, while sim ilar lands off the reservation command from ?40 to $70 per acre. "It is claimed that the Indian agent, W. R. Honnell, is president of a bank in Horton, Kas., near the reservation, and one i E. Hoyey, cashier; that E. T. Letson owns shares of the bank stock, as well as being a land speculator and all around Indian trader. The private office j3f the bank is headquarters of the combine referred to in carrying out their plans, and by reason of having access to the Indian tribal rolls they secure great advantages over their competitors, who have not the same privilege. It is claimed that Cashier Hovey and Letson are present at the annuity payments made by the agent to the Indians, and on account of having typew-ritten lists of the annuitants, prepared by the agent in advance, they almost have a monopoly, and cash checks and eolleoi their claims for money loaned at high rates as well as for other debts due from the Indians. These collectors have a desk on the only available route for the Indian to pass after receiving his check for annuity due, who is checked in his course sufliciently long for these collectors to secure their claims, while honest tradesmen who have furnished the Indian with groceries and clothing for his family must stand back and se cure what they can of the remainder. "The complainant states that it is the general belief in the community that Agent Honnell, together with Hovey and Letson, formed a company for the purpose of purchasing the lands of the deceased allottees; that Letson immed iately set to work to secure deeds from the heirs to these lands, and that they resorted to reprehensible means to ac complish their purposes. "Certain members of the tribe state under oath that Agent Honnell and Trader Letson came to their home dur ing the past summer with a deed al ready filled out containing a descrip tion of their land available for sale un der law; that Agent Honnell told them to sign the deed, and they did so be cause he was their agent and believed they should do as he desired. They state that they had repeatedly refused to sign a deed for the same land when importuned by Letson, who had ap proached them several times with an interpreter to induce them to do so. "In view of the fact that Agent Hon nell was appointed by the government to protect the interests of these wards, the following recital under oath will be read with interest: "State of Kansas, County of Jackson, ss. "Op-tuck-wah, of lawful age, being duly sworn upon oath states that she is a Kickapoo allottee, and is the wife of Albert Ross; that she is the mother of Edna Ross, a minor Kickapoo allot tee; that the said Edna Ross died on the 26th day of July, A. D., 1902; that E. T. Letson obtained in some way the signature of Albert Ross, my husband, to a deed conveying to him the west half of the northwest quarter of sec tion 21, in township 4, range 16, Brown county, state of Kansas, which is the land allotted to my daughter. Edna Ross: that the said Letson kept after me every time that I went to Horton to sign the said deed to the said land, and that I at all times refused to sell the land; that I wanted that we should keen the said land, as my husband w as a drinking man and that we should need the said land for our support. My husband signed the deed when he was drunk. While I was in Horton at the date that the deed was signed I was in the National hank of Horton. and Mr. Letson called me into Mr. Hon- neiis orrice. me agent, ana locKea me door and kept me tnere for several hours trying to get me to sell him th has been obtained from a reliable bankr land: that I did afterwards sign the ng authority from whom it was also said deed for Letson because I could I learned that the firm of J. P. Morgan not stay there all the time, and he j Co. has no objections to the acquisition w ould not let me go until I had signed i of the Erie by the Rock Island, provid the deed. jnE. the nriee paid is high enough to be "I wih further to state that on th" 27th day of July. 1002, (Sunday) W. R. Honnell and F. T. Letson came to my home and wanted to purchase of me the land that was allotted to my daughter, Edna Ross (Pa-nas-sa). We were then holding the funeral services, and they called my husband out and wanted to buy above described land. "Albert told them that he thought they might wait until the girl was bur ied. .1 did not want to sell Edna's land, and the thought that they would come there for that purpose while the child still lay in the house made me feel like crying. Mr. Letson and an interpreter came back the next morning and talked a Ions time with my husband at a house near ours but did not say any thing to me as they knew I did not want to sell-the land as I had sold them one 80 acres for $1,200 on this reservation. Her (Signed) "OP-TUCK-WAH. X Mark. "Attested to by two witnesses. "Jurat of notary public attached. "It is charged that while the agency records are evidently available to Let son, it is difficult for other persons, in cluding the resident farmers surround ing the reservation, to secure such in formation as will enable them to intel ligently bid upon any of the lands avail able for sale under the law. Indian po lice are hired, so the evidence goes to fchow, by the combine, and paid $25 for each tract of land they secure from the Indians for their masters. "The alleged violation of law also in cludes certain Pottawatomie lands in Oklahoma Territory, authorized to be sold under a former act of congress. The regulations of the Indian depart ment required that the purchase lands should be paid over to the Indian owner in the presence of the agent, and no de ductions are allowed to be made for claims held against the Indian selling it. Affidavits filed show that this has not been complied with: and Fince the re turns are sworn to by the officials, there is a serious problem presented that awaits an investigation when, it is made. "While visiting agencies in' Oklahoma Territory and elsewhere during the past summer, quite similar conditions were found to exist regarding the sale of In dian lands as are alleged to exist at the agency in Kansas. Fortunately for these wards of the government the Indian de partment decided to make radical changes in the manner of disposing of these lands, and there will be less op portunity for fraud. All lands of this character that may be available and of fered for sale must now be duly adver tised, so that any .person so desiring may have an opportunity to bid for it. "S. M. BROSTUS. 'Washington Agent, Indian Rights As sociation." ICE GAVE WAY. Thirty Persons Fell in Three Were Drowned. and Washington, Jan. 15. While a large crowd was skating- on the bathing- basin near the Washington monument the ice suddenly save way and precipitated thirty or more persons in the water. Three persons are known to have lost their lives and it is possible other deaths may have been caused by the breaking of the ice. Miss Jessie C. Thomas, a young woman, 20 years of age, employed as a clerk in the bureau of ethnology, died at the Kmergrency hospital. Later the two dead men were identi fied as Arthur Wasserbach, an employe of the bureau of engraving and printing and Henry Hammiil, a clerk in the war department. Wasserbach was a native of Wash ington. Hammiil is from Michigan, and Miss Thomas, previous to a year ago, had lived in Frederick, Md. Hammiil was about 45 years of age. There were probably 2,000 persons skating on the basin at the time of the accident. A hot water pipe from the engine room of the Washington monument empties into the basin near where the ice gave way. The skaters had been warned that the location was a danger ous one, but it is said they disregarded the advice given them to stay away from the vicinity, and when the crash came fully thirty men and women went through th broken ice and into the water. All were rescued except the two men, whose bodies were recovered. Miss Thomas died a short while after her re moval to the hospital. Officer Bannieran of the metropolitan police jumped into a boat near at hand, and, unaided, res cued seven persons. The police are sat isfied that all those who were in the ac cident have been accounted for. ON THE FREE LIST. Senate Amendment Removes Tariff From Anthracite. Washington. Jan. 15. The bill report ed from the ways and means committee to provide for a rebate on the duties on foreign coal for a period of one year, was passed in short order by the house by practically a unanimous vote, 25S to 5, those voting against it being Messrs. Cushman and Jones of Washington; Gain of West Virginia; Mondell of Wy oming and Patterson of Pennsylvania, all Republicans. The bill was consider ed under the operation of a rule which cut off opportunity to amend. The only opposition to the measure came from some of the members representing coal states, who expressed the fear that the admission of Chinese mined coal in Can ada would injure the coal industry of their states. Both Mr. Dalzell of Penn sylvania and Mr. Payne of New York, the Republican leaders expressed the opinion on the floor that the bill would not relieve the existing distress. They said it would satisfy however, public demand for action and show the dispo sition of consrress to do what it could. The Democrats, although they all sup ported the bill, took the view that it did not go far enough, saying that coal should go on the free list and when the bill came back from the senate with a provision which virtually placed anthra cite coal on the free list they applauded vigorously. The amendment was accepted and the bill became a law. BUY THE ERIE ROAD. Rock Island May Secure Line to New York. New York. Jan. 13 Negotiations are nending which will result in all proba- bility in the acquisition of a controlling i interest in the Erie by the Rock Island. savs the Times. Confirmation of this an incentive for the transaction. From the same authority comes the statement that the Rock Island is anxious to se cure an eastern outlet and it is merely a question of terms under which the deal is to be concluded. Death of Ornithologist Clark. Old Saybrook, Conn., Jan. 15. John Nathaniel Clark, known as an authority on ornithology, is dead here at the age of 72 years. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 13. Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and probably Friday; moderate temperature; southwest wlnds. OUT 0F1E BALLOT. State .Printer Contest Will Sooa Be Settled. Capper and Allen Get Out of the Way. ONLY TWO IN KACE. Will Be Hoch or Clark on First Ballot. The Latter Has Been Gaining Strength Recently. There will be only a single ballot in the state printer caucus Monday nirht unless the vote should happen to be a tie, which Is not likely. This announcement is made certain by the withdrawal today of Arthur Cap per from the state printer contest. Henry Allen had already withdrawn, and Mr. Capper today told some of his friends that his name probably would not be presented to the caucus Monday night. This leaves only two candidates for the place, George A. Clark of Junction City, and E. W. Hoch of Marion. If Miller is seated as the member from Lincoln county there will be ISO votes in the Republican caucus, counting Senator Fuilington of Clay county, who is seriously ill and has not been present at this session. This would require 65 votes to nominate. If Miller Is not seat ed before Monday night, 65 votes will constitute a majority. As only the two names will be presnted to the caucus one or the other will undoubtedly be nominated on the first ballot. Clark stock has been looking up today. The Clark workers have been making hay out of Mr. Hoch's action lu the Wichita convention last spring. Tha Bailey forces pleaded wdth Hoch at Wichita to divide the Marion county del egation on the temporary organization, but Hoch refused because H. It. Miller, one of the gubernatorial candidates, was against the Bailey organization. Hoch has a great many warm friends among the Long and Stanley followers in the present fight, but it is said today that Clark is making inroads in the Hoch forces. The Hoch workers, how ever, are as confident as ever and be lieve that Mr. Hoch will be nominated. Mr. Capper's action in retiring from the contest was in the interest of Con gressman Curtis. He has made his can didacy subordinate to that of Mr. Curtis from the start. Had it not been for Curtis Mr. Capper would now have a good chance of election as state printer. Realizing that his candidacy might In jure Mr. Curtis in the final scramble, he told his friends to sacrifice him as his name would not be presented in the caucus. PURE FOOD LAWS. Subject Bisenssed by National Retail Grocers. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 15. At the morning session of the convention of the National Retail Grocers today ex President George A. Scherer, presented the report of the National Pure Food commission, and a general discussion of pure food lows followed. J. A. Van Hoose, president of the Southern Whole sale Grocers' association. Birmingham. Ala., read a paper on "The Relation of the Wholesale to the Retail Trade," and George A. Bradford, of Kansas City, spoke on "A National Department ot Commerce and Organization." The election of officers for the ensuins year and the selection of the next con vention city took place at the afternoon session, when final adjournment was had. Temperatures of Large Cities. Chicago, Jan. 15. 7 a. an. tempera tures: New York, 26; Boston, 30; Phil adelphia 26; Washington, 30; Chicago, 28; Minneapolis, 22; Cincinnati, 24; St. Louis, 30. Cardinal Parochi Dead. Rome, Jan. 15. Cardinal Lucido Mary Parochi, sub-dean of the sacred college and vice chancellor of the Catholic church died today of heart disease. He was born in 1833, was of Italian nation ality and was created a cardinal in 1877. MILLS' STORE NEWS. JANUARY is a month devoted by us to cleaning up odds and ends found in every section of our store. EVERY DAY there is something new found to add to the long list of cut price bargains and these price cuts are so effective that EVERY NIGHT we find many articles have taken their depar ture and both the pur chaser and ourselves are pleased. If you have never attended one of our CLEAN-UPS you had better come and see us now. THE MILLS

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TirUHSD AY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1903. tgui mJ 0Zit -J- r ted k Mo appetite, loss of strength, nervous tsoss, headache, constipation, bad breath, genera! debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are a!i due to indigestion. Kodol cures indigestion. This new discovery repre sents the natural juices of digestion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure does not only cure indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy cures aii stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and trengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. i Mr. S. S. Bali, of Ravenawood, V,', Va., says: 1 w?s Iroubied with sour stomach for twenty years. Kodl cv:rd me ar.d wa ate new using it in rmiis fur baby." Kodo! Digests Whet You Eat. Bottles only, si. 00 Stse h-idlre ZH times the trial E'.e, which sells for 50 cents. Prepared by E. C. DeWITT CO.. CHICAGO Tc!e. 530 f 7 ft ''Hi- i FOR rrri V f" I Lata I ALFALFA HAY. Fourth and Jackson. E. O. BeJIo.ss. L. M. Penwell iDeilOSSS PEN WELL 4 i. Funeral Directors and Em balm ers. First Class Service at Reasonabis Prices. iSfl Quincy St. Both 'Phones 192 TOPEKA, KANSAS. Dr. EVA HARDING Horncopathist OFFICE AT THE "VIRGINIA" Cor. !0th and Topeka Ave, 20 years experience in the treat ment of diseases of women and children. Both. 'Phones 492 Y. II. C. A. TEACHES Lipctrlcal Ln&im:erii!g, Mechanical Drawing. Phfeics, Cii mistry. Alge bra, 'Geometry. TnKonome:rv, lousiness Practice, Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Rapid Footing. Speti liis. Grammar, Heading, Arithmetic, Banjo and Guitar. Call at Office on ICa.-t Eighth st. for FOR TOILST AND BATH Delicate enough for the softest Bkin, and yet efficacious in removing any stain. Keeps the skin in perfect condition. In the bath gives all the desirable after-effects of a Turkish bath. It should be ca every wash stand. ALL GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS FOR CONSCIENCE FUND. Stranger Pays $5,000 to New York City Chamberlain's Office. New York, Jan. 15. I-ate Tuesday an elderly, well dressed man entered the city chamberlain's office in the Stewart j building. He was received by Deputy Chamberlain John H. Campb' ll. When asked his business the stranger drew j from his pocket five $1,000 gold certifi- i cates, and said: "Please add these to i the conscience fund. The matter has been on my conscience for a long time. Personal taxes are involved." Mr. Campbell receipted for the $5,000, and the stranger left without another word. This is the largest single contri bution to the city's conscience fund on record. Finds Way to Live Long. The starting announcemetjt of a discov ery Tint wi;i Mirciy lengthen lift i mad bv EtlHT H. Down-- nf Cliurubmco. Ind. "I wish to sraie." he writes, "that 3.r. Kius's Xew Discovery for Consump tion is the rru.t infallible remedy that T hrtve ever known tor coughs, cnida an1 grip. It's invaluable to penpl'' with weak lungs. laving this wonderfui Tnediciru: no one iv-ed clre;jd pneumonia jr consump tion. Its relief is instant and cure cer tain." A. J. Arnt.id finn? Co.. X. Kan s;s a.e., guarantees every fi'ie, and $1.00 bottle, and gives trial bottles free. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bnmo Quinine Tablets. Ail drugis rrrujid the money if it fails to cure.. VV.Grove's signature on each box. 25c. i 1 17000, iiiinnfln w U a i U U I SPORTinGJIEVS. Prospect for Match Between Heavyweights Encouraging. Jim Corbett Now Has $2,500 Forfeit Posted as Asked. A JUNE BATTLE LIKELY Jeffries Declares That One Stiff Punch Would End It. And All That Was Necessary Was for Corbett to Put I p." New York. Jan. 13. A battle between James J. Jeffries, present holder of the title, and James J. Corbett for the heavyweight championship of the world, is now practically assured. lteplying to Jeffries' statement that he would arrange a bout with the ex- champion us soon as the latter posted a forfeit, Corbett has placed a forfeit of I $2,5) in the hands of Sam Hall, and has j wired his legal representative, Emanuel i Friend, to look after the details for him. Jn a statement Mr. Friend said: "Corbett has telegraphed me from To ronto. where he is now playing, to ar j range a match with Jeffries for him. Ke has placed $2.&W in the hands ot i Sam Hall to go as a forfeit, and de i clares that he stands ready to meet the champion in June. I "It seems to me that it's up to Jeffries I now. Jeffries has repeatedly stated that he would trive Corbett another chance, I and only today came out with the state i ment that the only thing necessary to get on a match was for Corbett to post i a forfeit. Well. Corbett has done that. The ofier of the Hayes Valley Athletic club of Oakland. Cal.. of a. $20,000 purse I for a twenty round bout between the I two men seems to me very liberal, and 1 have no doubt but that Jeff will come forward and clinch matters at once." Jeffrk-s. in his statement, says: "1 defeated Corbett easily in New York and can do so again. It is an easy matter to beat him. One good stiif punch will make him quit. I know whereof I speak. I have met the gentle man." JOCKEY AS LOTHARIO. Danny Maher Made Co-Respondent in Big Divorce Suit. Xew York. Jan. IS. Danny Mahev, j the famous jockey, was the co-respondent in a suit for absolute divorce bronsht by Percy X. Furber, a member of the Xew York club, against his wife. J Margaret Furber. whom he married 1 in St. George's church, Hanover square, j London, in November, 1S98. The case i came up before Justice Wilmot M. Smith, in the supreme court in Patch osue. Long- Island, yesterday, and the decree asked for was granted. Several witnesses testified to having seen Huher and Mrs. Furber in the same apartments in the Hotel Ven dome, in the city, about 4 o'clock in the mornine: of December 14, 100?. This date was made specific in the petition to the court, although Mr. Furbci allesred his wife had been in the com pany of "other persons" between July 1, l'.iiii:, and December 14, 1902. Mrs. Furber sailed for England on thfi first steamship following; the incident in the Vendome. She is young and beau tiful. Mrs. Furber put in no defense and Maher was not represented by counsel. The taking- of testimony was merely forma!, as there was no opposing coun sel to contest the case. RICE A GOOD DODGER. Young Corbett Gains Decision in the Eighteenth Round. Hot Springs. Ark.. Jan. 15. "Young Corbett." the featherweight champion, was given the decision over Austin Rice, of Xew London. Conn., last night, in the eighteenth round of what was to have bet-n a 20-round contest before the VVhittington Park Athletic association. j Jui-t before the end of the seventeenth j rrinnd Corbett landed a stiff left swing, glancing on the stomach and as a re I suit R:re was sick and all but helpless, i t in the calling of time for the begin I nnig of tne eighteenth round "IJattling Nelson," Ric e's second, threw a towel into the ring and, Corbett was given the decision. As a whole, the fight was disappoint ing. It had been freely predicted that Rice wouid not stay ten rounds and most of the betting was on this basis. The feature of the contest was Rice's footwork. Rut for his success in dodg ing Corbett's vicious lunses he would have gone down and out early in the game. Nearly every round consisted of rush- Pa. PIERCES FAVORITE pn I? r n i dtii r i III! 1 lWlHi Wiv' i 4 BACKACHE iJERVGUSNESS HEADACHE 1' Jul f.'i ea and aggressive fighting; by Corbett and feinting and dodging by Rice. Once the champion went to the floor, his foot slipping as he dodged a lunge from Rice. Rice fell to his knees under similar cir cumstances, but both men were on their feet in an instant. Rice landed almost as many blows as did the champion, but they lacked force and seemed to do but slight damage. Corbett in turn landed many face and body blows, but his most vicious swings and uppercuts were eith er dodged or blocked, and those that went home had small effect. Rice's fiaht was purely to stay the 20 rounds, and he fought 'almost entirely on the de fensive. K.o successful 'was he in dodg ing the rushes of the champion that Corbett sawed the air and several times ran into the roses with force. The contest was refereed by Pat Ear ly, formerly of Chicago. CRAWFORD DISAPPOINTED. He Says Ha Wanted to Remain With the Reds. San Francisco, Jan. 15. Sam Craw ford is disappointed. The big outfielder wanted to play ball in Cincinnati nest season, but the peace agreement be tween the big leagues just arranged will compel him to go to Detroit. Crawford said last night: "I had returned the advance money given me when I signed with Detroit, and firmly intended to be with the Reds again this year. I've been with Cin cinnati ever since '93 and all my friends are there. After signing with Detroit I regretted it, for 1 knew I should be homesick. This is why I agreed to re turn to the old team. "As the matter now stands, however, it would seem that I shall be forced to stick to the Detroit contract, which takes priority, or not play at all. Froiri what I can learn of this agreement first contracts are to be recognized and play ers will be obliged to live up to them. This being the case, there is nothing fur it but for me to go where I'm placed, but I'm sorry to have to quit Cincin nati." Relic of a Rowing Shell. Camoridge. Mass., Jan. 15. By th? gift of a recent graduate. T. S. Watson, '99, Harvard university has just come into the possession of one of the most famous rowing relics in the country. This trophy is the first six-oared shell made in America, and is the famous shell in which President Fliot, K. H. Aggasiz and the Crowninshields sat to gether, winning race after race for Harvard. Their success caused a revo lution in the building of racing boats, and established the spoon oar in row ing. It will occupy a place of honor i;i Harvard Union, where it will be hung upon the wall. The shell was made in the fall of '-7, when the four alxwe named students of the college assumed the responsibility of ordering the boat built to replace the heavy lapstreaks hitherto in use. It was 40 feet lone. 28 inches wide, and weighed 150 pounds. New Orleans Race Matters. New Orleans, Jan. 15. Stratton II and Old Hutch were the only winning fa vorites. Ecomer winner of the fifth race was backed from 15 to 1 to 8 to 1, and the ring profited but little by the very poor showing made by Satin Coat, a strong favorite. While at the post for the third race Old Hutch was kicked in the stifle and pulled up quite lame. The sixth race was notable for the rough riding, and Shotgun, the favorite, was bumped around considerably and all but knocked down. The stewards have re fused all privileges to A. P. Mathieson, in whose name Hiram Johnson, the al leged ringer, ran and won recently. Mathieson was eiven a certain time to produce the horse, which was removed from the track after the race, but has thus far failed to do so. It is believed the horse is running either at Newport or Los Ansreles, and, in order to clear himself. Mathieson has entered into communication with the officials of both tracks in order to locate the horse if possible. Good Offer for a Colt. Lexington. Ky Jan. 15. H. M. Zieg ler. the Cincinnati theatrical manager and turfman, has offered John Welsh, of Spring Station, Ky., $3,500 for the 3-year-old chestnut colt by The Commoner-Rosa Masso, bv imo. Rossington. Welsh holds the colt at $7,000. The colt is a sensational youngster, havin; worked Quarters here in 0:2'J12. He is now in the hands of Trainer Flan O'Brien at the Kentucky association track. He is extensively engaged in stabes. Accident at Oakland. San Francisco, Jan. 15. What may prove a fatal accident occurred during the running of the 2 year old event at Oakland. When the stretch was reach ed Redman, one or the Morris colts, bolted and crashed through the fence, striking an exercise boy known as Joe Galniffer. Galniffer was picked up in an unconscious condition. He was found to be suffering from concussion of the. brain and a possible fracture of the skull. His condition is critical. Stock Farm Sella Well. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 15. Litigation among the Kord heirs, of Virginia, in which Castleton stock farm was in volved, came to an end in an agreement today, and the court ordered that a deed to the property be given to J. It. Keene, of New York, on payment of $85,000. the purchase price. Keene ha? had the place under lease for several years. I10W WIS8IG LOST LOCKET. That Ke, a Fly Mug, Should Get Touched, Ha Says. Notwithstanding- secrecy on the part of Central Office detectives and the Hon. Phil Wlssig, the particulars of how Wissig was robbed on Friday night of a diamond-studded locket valued at $300 were made public yesterday. Wissig- and his bosom friend, Charles Ellwanger, a saloonkeeper of Duane street, had been attending a lecture up town and on their wav back stopped in to see a number of their professional friends. About 10 o'clock at Eighth street and Fourth avenue the pair stopped at an electric light pole to discuss one of the points of the lecture. Wissig's coat was wide open and the locket, which is the loudest piece of jewelry worn on Ciand street since the palmy days of Silver Dollar Smith, glistened under the rays of the light. Two slight built men came along and spied it. "Dis is dead easy," said one of them. "No man in Xew York has a right ter put such temptation in our way." Then the man grabbed the locket, but as he did so Wissig felt the tug. Both Wissig and Ellwanger grabbed the thief and both fell on him on the sidewalk. The thief managed to wiggle away from them and make his escape with the locket. When Wissig and Ellwanger finally got to their feet the two thieves were not in sight. "Don't say anything about this now," said a detective on the following day when Wissig reported his loss, "and we may get it back for you." "Don't you say anything about it. either," said Wissig. "It would ruin my reputation if people on the East side knew that me, who has been a fUr mug for 40 years, was such a sucker as to let a guy get away with that locket." i New oXrk Sun. A Woman of Seventy Years Mar ries After Week's Courtship. Second Matrimonial Venture of a Grandmother. GROOM 49 YEARS OLD. A Vicious Horse Near Lawrence Murders a Slan. Kicks Him Over Then Jumps ilepeatedly on the Hody. Arkansas City, Jan. 15. Mrs. Hannah Goodnight and John Smith of this city, have been married after a courtship lasting less than one week. This is the bride's second venture and she is nearly 70 years old. The groom has never been married before and is only 49 years old. He is a stonemason by trade, owns a cood farm and has a neat bank ac count. Mrs. Goodnight has ten great grandchildren. They expect to live in Arkansas City, IS STILL A MYSTERY. Argentina and Kansas City, Kas., Grocers Yet Getting Stamps. Argentine, Jan. 13. The mystery con nected with the money and stamps which are being sent through the mails to grocers of Kansas City, Kan., and this, place remains unsolved, and the en velopes are still being received. Yester day M. Klein, a grocer at 636 Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kan., received an envelope containing 26 2-cent stamps, and Sam Stewart, 646 Minnesota avenue, received a similar envelope containing the same amount. Many others, who received stamps and money several days ago, reported the fact yesterday. In fact, nearly every grocer in both Kansas City, Kansas, and Argentine, who has been in business very long, has received stamps and money, while none of the men who have recently establish ed business has had the experience. Two theories for this situation were suggest ed yesterday. One theory is, that the person who is resnonsible for the mys tery is in possession of a Kansas Citv, Kaji., directory, and has selected the names of the grocers by that means. This would account very well so far as Kansas City, Kan., is concerned, but Argentine has no directory. The other suggestion was that the unknown man is some wholesale dealer, who wdshes to make Ill's customers a present of some value. But the grocers who have so far expressed themselves say that they have never dealt with anyone living In Kirksville. Mo., the only postmark on any of the envelopes. The fact that the postmark in nearly every case is illegible has led some to believe that the postmaster where they are mailed, is in the secret. KILLED BY A VICIOUS HORSE. Animal Attacks a Farmer Ifear Law rence in Strange Fashion. Lawrence, Kas., -Jan. 15. Daniel Thompson, -Ti' larmsr 65."Sears old, living with his son five miles southeast of Lawrence, died Wednesday as the re suit of injuries sustained in an "attack by a horse. A neighbor's horse brokt loose and came to the Thompson farm with the harness on. Mr. Thompson caught the horse and started to lead it home. Several other horses were run. ning- loose, and as one of these passed Mr. Thompson it kicked at him. crush ing his hij) and knocked him down. The horse that he was leading then got aw:.;-. Then the animal that had kicked Mr. Thom;sori returned to w'here he was lying prostrate upon the ground and be gan to jump up and down on his body like a mustang killing a rattlesnake, After two or three vicious kicks the at tacking horse left his victim. With chest crushed in, ribs broken and hip injured, bleeding from head to foot from the hoof beats of the horse, Mr. Thomp son managed to rise and walk to his home. Here he fainted and never re covered consciousness. Items from Lincoln. Lincoln, Kan., Jan. 15. Charles Mabry, a young man about 22 years old residing in the southeast part of this county, accidentally shot himself Monday afternoon. He was lifting a shotgun down from a wagon rack when it was discharged into his left hand, the load then ranging up to the elbow. Amputation will probably be necessary. A new bank will open in Lincoln about March 1. It will be a national bank with a capital of $25,000. J. S. Of Insanity Despite Doctor's Care. Nervous Cramps in Hands and Feet. Dr. Miles Nervine Was My Salvation. Sleeplessness is at once a symptom and a disease. Just as soon as the nerves become deranged the patient sutlers trom sleepless ness. Deprived of their natural rest the nerves soon lose all force and vitality and while sleeplessness is a symptom in such cases it freauently becomes chronic and remains the chief effect of disordered nerves. Dr. Miles' Nervine quiets the nerves and strengthens them; soothes the tired brain and permits sleep; restores lost energy and vitality and brings sleep, health and strength. "Previous to our coming to the territory three years ago, we lived in Virginia, and it was there that 1 got acquainted with the wonderful powers of Dr. Miles' Nervine. I had been under the doctor's care and taking his medicine for over two years, but the nerv ous trouble that was gnawing my life away grew steadily worse. I had nervous cramps in my hands and legs, which would draw up and pain me so that I could not sleep at night. Often I never closed my eyes for days and nights together. The doctor finally told me he could do nothing more for me and that I was on the verge of insanity, lie told me I might try your Nervine as a last resort, and it proved to be my salvation. When I had used four bottles of the remedy together with the Nerve and Liver Pills I had re- fained my former good health." Mrs. -Iartha Siieffer, Omer, Oklahoma. All druggists sell and guarantee hVst bot tle Dr. Miles" Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Ca, Elkhart, I nd. Stover, who has been county clerk for five years past, will be cashier. Beverly, a little town of about 200 inhabitants. 12 miles east of Lincoln, will also start a bank in the near fu ture. It will have a capital stock of $18,000. The new laundry opened here the first of the year has been busy constantly since, and seems to be an assured suc cess. Several new buildings, at least one being a new store building, -will be put up here as soon as warm weather opens. WIN FIELD LIBRARY FUSS. City Can't Agree on Site for Gift from Carnegie. Winfield, Kas., Jan. 13. Winfield is having trouble over the site for the Car negie library. A few months ago Car negie gave the city $15,000 for a library, with a provision that the city should support it to the amount of $1,500 a year. The school board donated a site off the school grounds for its erection, but the people objected to such an ex tent that the idea had to be given up. Follow-ing this, the Baptist church offered to donate ground jointly with the Methodists, but the latter refused. The committee in charge are now en deavoring to raise money for the pur chase of a site, but if this proves un successful, Carnegie's offer wdll prob ably be rejected. One thousand dollars is already or' deposit in a Winfield bank for the building. WEATHER FOR FARMERS. Rural Mail Wagons Will Display Signals from Flag Poles. Arkansas City, Kas., Jan. 15. The four rural route carriers working out of Arkansas City have been supplied with flag poles which will be put upon theii wagons and carry the weather signals. The weather report will be received each day at 11 o'clock, and the farmers will thus know the predictions a fev hours later. Leonardville Wants High School. Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 15. A delega tion of twenty citizens from Leonard ville were in Manhattan Wednesday for the purpose of conferring with the commercial club and to enlist the favor of the people of Manhattan in aiding them t locate and build a county high school at Leonardville. If this co-operation is promised Leonardville in return will give her support to Man hattan in erecting a county court house here. Manhattan has always been the seat of Riley county, but without a court house, for the reason that the Leonardville people have wanted the county seat moved. Meeting of Postmasters. Postmaster John Guthrie has mailed invitations to attend the annual meet ing of Kansas postmasters on January 24 to the following department official at Washington: Postmaster General H C. Payne. First Assistant Robert J. Wyne, Second Assistant Shellenberget Third Assistant Edwin C. Madden. Fourth Assistant Joseph C. Bristo-tv, Supt. George W. Beavers of the salaries and allowance division, General Supt. Jas. T. Metcaif of the money order sys tem. Superintendents of Free Delivery A. W. Machen and William G. Elders, and Assistant Supt. C. M. Waters of the salary and allowance division. K. XT. Students Organize. Lawrence, Kas., Jan. 15. A new or ganization of students of the University of Kansas was formed last night. It will have for its purpose co-operation with the alumni and former students to push the interests of the school in every direction. The temporary officers are F. N. Raymond, president; Mr. Vandei Vries, secretary. Another meeting will be held soon. PHILADELPHIA WOMEN After Jenkin Jones Who Says They .Don't Know How to Cook. Philadelphia, Jan. 15. These days Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, of Chicaso, who says that domestic troubles are due in a great measure to the fact that wives do not know how t cook, is get ting himself strenuously disliked by th feminine population. He suKgPsts thai the way to eternal peace is through th& stomach, and that what Is reeded most in the education of woman is a training in the culinary art. At present he com plains that the girl graduate is as ignorant of the cook stove as a man ia of the knitting: needle. These allegations have brought down the wrath of women from all parts of the country on the reverend gentle man's head, professing that he doesn't know his business and that they car, cook meals good enough for any man with the average digestion. As to Mr. Jones' paraphrase of Bulwer's line, "The pen is mightier than the sword," to "The broom is mightier than the piano," the girls claim that it all depends upon the muscle of the woman. A graduate of the Girls' Normal school, of Philadelphia, said: "I am sur prised at Mr. Jones. I thought he kept abreast of the times. I am keeping house now myself, and I have found the patent sweeper is mightier than the broom. Why, I can play the piano with my right hand and run the sweeper with my left: and as for cooking. I'm training my husband now so that he gives me a day out and does the cooking himself on Thursdays." Philadelphia girls say they don't want Mr. Jones' old cooking school they've got one anyway out at the Drexel in stitute, and that their mothers can teach them more about cooking in a minute than Mr. Jones could in a month. A newly married young society woman of this city, when asked what she thought of Mr. Jones' accusations, said. "He does not know what he's talking about. 1 suppose there are some girls who don't know how to cook, but they are the few. Most every girl is born with the instinct for that sort of thing, just as she is with the maternal instinct. 1 don't claim to be a great cook myself, but T go every day to my kitchen to see how things are going, and sometimes to make cake and fancy desserts. There have been times, too. when I have cooked whole meals. when the cook has suddenly taken it into her mind to leave without notice. The girls who have to be taught cooking like arithmetic and geography will never learn it isn't in them. The only thing I agree with Mr. Jones in Is that it is as much the office of a woman to be able to cook more so. in fact, than it is to pl.v the piano. And as for Rrowning, 1 think that's good enough to take the time of old maids, who have neither home nor children." A well known clergyman, in speaking on the subject, said. "I thoroughly agree with Mr. Jones. I think the tendency of the young- woman of today is to seek after what they call 'higher things.' which, after ail. is only an excuse to slight the 'real things' that go to make up a home. What we admire most in woman is her femininity. That a woman should be able to play or sing adds a great charm to her, and that she should be able to discuss the poets or such things as sociol ogy and kindred topics is not to be sneered at." but before this she should be a good housekeeper I think the word home keeper better which embraces the knowl edge of all those gentler arts which are especially a woman's Held and insure the admiration of men far more than ethics ar.d poetry and make the home the most attractive spot on earth for the husband. I am perhaps a little old fashioned in my belief as the world goes now. 4ut I have seen in long experience that the art of homekeeping is the surest title to the hap piness of man and wife." The Golden State Limited, Leaves Topeka every evening at 6:09, arriving Chicago 10:30 a. ra.. New York 1:30 second afternoon. H 1? For two hours tonight (7 till 9) we will sell Choice of any patterns Smith's Velvet Carpet, with border to match per yard SSc (Bring room measurement with you.) Lowell all-wool 2-ply Ingrain at 57 'ac All-wool 2ply Ingrain at 50C Reversible Brussels room-size Rugs From S5.00 to 311.00 Smyrna Rugs, 30x60, for 81.25 Smyrna Rugs, 26x50, for .05 Velvet Brussels Rugs, 30x60, for 1.05 Brussels Rugs, 30x60, for For Friday and Saturday PAY-DAY SPECIALS. Hardware Dept. Hardware Dept. Rodger's 1847 Knives and Forks, per set S4.00 May Dale Hammers. Hand Saw File 5c 9-16 Car Bolts 60c Christy Bread Knife S9c Cobbler's Outfit 50c Asbestos Tourist Irons, 5c Best Guaranteed Razors your choice "Wood-frame Wringer, 11 in. roll Everything in Drugs 3 SPECIALS at Cut' Rate Prices OneMinute Cough Cure 25c and 50c sizes 20c and 4.0c Kodol Dyspepsia Cure ..-50c and 81.00 Catlin's Celery and Kola 75c size 60c SEE OUR ADS ON PAGES 3 AND 7. 70 SUPERB Leave Topeka 12:35 p.m. Arrive Los Angeles 1:59 p. ni. Second Afternoon THE "EL PASO SHORT LINE" (Figure thU time.) Also Two Daily Trains, to California via Denver and Scenic Route. For reservation and ail other information See A. M. FULLER, or A. W. LACY, Ticket Agent, Rock Island Depot. North Topeka. DELIST j m DRS. LYON HEATHERLY. (Office Established 12 Years.) ,311 Ean. Ave., Topeka, Kan. Ben -phon. 820. Over W. A. L. Thompson H hv. Co. GEO. IZ. IIOBLE Ss CO. financial Agents Buy, Sell and Manage Real Estate. Buy, Sell and Collect Mortgages. Insure Property in Seven of the best Companies in the State. TOPEKA, KANSAS. Telephone 444. TWO-HOUR SALS RugS and Carpets I X An opportunity for Carpet buying that should not be missed. i i 1.45 50 55c 60c O. K. Washers 60.00 11-16 Car Bolts 70o Christy 3 -piece sets. lc Asbestos Sad Irons, 81.25 No. 8 Diston Saws, SI. 75 2.00 2.50 TRAINS DAILY TO hJ iivik ill. I Jra Leave Topeka 12:59 a.m. Arrive Los Angeles 7:39 a. m. Third Morning. Yen will have to harry If you get those teeth fixed before it i3 too late. There ia nothing ,so essential to good looks and good health as a good set of teeth. Best Set of Teeth $8.00 Good Set of Teeth 5.O0 Gold Fillings $1.00 and up Silver Fillings 50o to $1.00 Bridge work, per tooth $3.50 Gold Crown. 22k 5.O0 Extracting Teeth without pain 50 Extracting Teeth without Medi cine 25 501 Jackson St. VIA r I r

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 15, 1903. RAILROAD I! i Supt. D. E. Cain Denies Kucior of Trinidad Line. Says He Has Heard Nothing of Surveying Parties. CUT OFF MANAGEMENT. Will It lie Added to Mr. Cain's Jurisdiction J len Promises to He querque's Rival. All) u- General Stipcrinu-ndent D. K. Cain, of the Ve:ern ",rand division of the Santa ft; who is now in Topeka at tending the- time- card meeting-, was sk.'d today concerning the. reported extension of the Santa Fe from Dodge Cliy to Trinidad or some other Colo rado point on the Santa Fe main line. He said: "1 don't know anything about this report, and think It must be a mistake. I have not heard of any Santa Fe sur veyors working In the country around Iudtff. ThT; can't be anything" in the rport. Of course it is possible that the Santa Fe has some engineers out ther prospecting for water or something- like that. We are always looking for water out ttiere. Rut there is noth ing to induce us to build a line of road outh from P. idee." .Mr. Cain's jurisdiction is from New ton to Albuquerque, thus in hiding all of tlie territory which is supposed to be TecteU by the proposed line. If there was any truth in the published reports lie wouid ill all probability know about it. Ask"d as to whether or not the pro posed N-w Mexico cut-oft would be added to his jurisdiction when com pleted. Mr. Cain said: "I have not been informed whether or not X am to have jurisdiction over this new line, or whether it will Vie placed under the coast line mana trenient It crosses the line south of Aibuquetvjue which is in my territory. I have nothing whatever to do with the construction of the new line, and know very littie about it ex cept what have read or heard inci dentally. It is undoubtedly a big con tract which the I.antrys have secured." The following interesting Informa tion concerning: the construction of the cut-off is taken from th Albuquerque Jourmi 1-1 'emot rat A. Ilauser. the western general fore man for I.antry Sons, with headquar ters in 1'S Anireies. was in the city for a short time last night, passing through mi the overland, on his way to Belen, N. M.. where his company has already begun construction work on the Santa Fe s Albuquerque cutoff Vi'lif-ii seen by a reporter, who chanced Drunkards Easily Cored Miss Edith Williams Wants Every Lady Reader of this Paper to Know How She Saved Her Father. Used an OJorless and Tasteless Remedy In His Food, Quickly Curing Him Without His Knowledge. Trial Package of the Remedy Mailed Free to Show How Easy It is to Cure Drunkards. No'hirg could he more dramatic or devoted lhan the manner in which Miss Kdtth Williams, Mux XI, Wayn-sville. 'hio. eirc(i her drunken futher after years of misery, wretchedness and al most unbearable suffering. MISS EDITH WILLIAMS. "Yes. father is a reformed man." she raid, "and our friends think it a miracle tiiat 1 cured him without his knowledge or consent. had r.-si.i how Mrs. Kate Lynch of 3 JO Klli sc, San Francisco, Cal.. had cured her husband by using a remedy secretly in hi"-- eol'ft e and food and I wrote to Ir. Haines for a trial "When it came I put some in father's coffee and food and watched him close ly but he couldn't ten the difference so 1 kept it tip. "One morning father got tip and said lie was hungry. This was a good sign j's he rarely ate much breakfast. He went Rival' and when he came hom at r.ooi, p. rfectly sober I was almost fran tic .with joy as I hadn't seen him sober f'i bait a day before in over fourteen years. After dinner he sat down in the bie easy chair and said. 'Edith. I iion't know what has come over me but i hate the stent and smell of liquor and am going to stop drinking forever.' This wes too much for me and I told him then what had done. Weil, we both had a good cry, and now we have the happiest home and the kindest fath er you can imagine. T am so glad von will publish this experience for it will reach many others and let them know about that wonderful Golden Sneeitio." Dr. Haines, the discoverer, will send a .ample of this grand remedv free to all who will write for it. Enough of the remedy is mailed free to show how it is used ,n tea. coffee or fool, an.', that it -will cure the dreaded habit Quietly and permanently. Send your name and ad dress to Dr. J. v. Haines. 25S Glenn Htnlding, Cincinnati, ohm. and he will mail a tree sanmle of the remedy to you. securely sealed in a plain wrapper lilso i ill directions how to use it boo'-s and t-Ftimonial-. from hundreds who have been ured. nn everything- needed to aid you in savin" those near and dear to you from a life of degradation and ultimate poverty and disgrace. Send for a fre. trial todav. jt' wj(I brighten the rest of your life. to find him on the train. Mr. Hauser stated that he would not be directly in charge of the cutoff work, another man having already been sent on for that purpose. The supply headquarters will not be located in Albuquerque, as was at first planned. "Lfuring the work on the cutoff," said Mr. Hauser, "headquarters and supply depots will, of necessity, be maintained in Helen. We would like to favor Albu querque, but the trains do not run regu larly, and walking SO miles from the scene of work is not a pleasant under taking, so we are compelled to place our headquarters near the work in hand." Work on the construction o the Santa Fe cutft' has already actively begun at Belen. A force of thirty construction engineers is already in the field. Several carloads of construction material are al ready at the railroad yards. J. N. "Whealty, for the contracting company, arrived at Belen yesterday and immedi ately set to work getting things into shape so that the work may be rushed as soon as the men and the rest of the machinery and material arrive. J. F. McNally, superintendent of the Rio Grande division, spent the day in the city, inspecting the condition of the impending wirj on the new line. It is stated on good authority that subsequent necessities of convenience for t handling repairs on the new Santa Fe i through coast line will ultimately cause i the building of extensive shops and the I establishing of cilices at Belen and after these things come to pass, while we will j not say that Belen will surpass Albu querque in commercial importance and I in population, yet we can confidently say that within five years Belen will rank second only to Albuquerque, as re i garde cities in New Mexico. NAUGHTY LEGISLATORS. Sold Their Annual Passes Issued by Northern Pacific. St. Paul. Minn., Jan. 15. Legislators of this and adjoining states have made more or less complaint because of the limitation of pass privileges by the Northern Pacific railway company. Some of the legislators have indignant ly refused to accept passes limited to the length of the session, and demand that they be made good for the calen dar year. President C. S. Mellen of the Northern Pacific m:ide the follow ing statement in reference to the mat ter: "The time limit on this year's legis lative passes has been so misunder stood that some public statement of the reasons for the same seems desirable. For several years it has been customary to issue passes, good in their several states, to members elect of the various legislatures. Such passes were a courtesy, not obligatory in any sense, and were issued without regard to the politics of the recipients. "Sometimes in previous years such passes have been loaned without con sideration or for a cash equivalent; members have used such passes to the capital the first week and left them with ticket brokers for sale for short trips, receiving them back In season for their return trips home at the end of the week, and at the end of the ses sion the passes have been sold outright by those who had no further use for them, and we have taken them up in the hands of improper persons on the trains. Sometimes traveling men and wholesale merchants who have been members have used their passes in their business to the serious damage of their competitors in trade, who have therefore accused us of discrimina tions. "For these reasons we have limited the passes to the length of the session, thus hopdng to at least shorten the abuse of tbe privileges granted. To such as make proper use of their pass es we will extend them to the end of the year. The passes are to enable members to more effectively serve their state by keeping in closer touch with their constituents than they would be able to do if required to pay their fares out of the very moderate compensa tion allowed by the state for mileage and services. "The abuses sought to be corrected were confined to no state nor to any particular members of any particular legislature, and those who used the passes as intended were to suffer no disadvantage; only those who misused them, as time would show, were to be curtailed in their privileges." LEAVES THE SANTA FE. Harry Hillyer, Formerly of Topeka Goes Into Oil Business. Harry Hillyer. chief clerk to Mechan ical Superintendent Joughins. of the Santa Fe coast lines, has tendered his resignation, to take effect within the next fortnight. He gives up his present position to accept a much more lucra tive one with the Galena Oil company, with headquarters in Franklin. Pa. Who will succeed to the chief clerk ship has not yet been ascertained, in fact it is doubtful if the new man has yet been selected. Mr. Hillyer retires from the employ of the Santa Fe with seventeen years of service behind his back. He entered the company's employ in 1SS5. as a clerk in the office of the superintendent of ma chinery, in Topeka. He served in that capacity until ISs. when he was pro moted to the oftice of chief clerk in the master mechanic's office, located in San P.emardino. when this place was head quarters for the "old" division. Front there he went to Albuquerque, serving as chief clerk to the master mechanic having supervision of the "lines west o Albuquerque." He went there In ISOi. being transferred back to San Bernard ino with the office in 1001. Since that time he has been located there, first un der G. V. Smith, and later, including up to the present, under Mr. Joughins. His sterling ability as a railroad man. and reputation for attending strictly to business cannot be overrated. His qualities as a chief clerk have been rec ognized by the fact that through the general reorganization which has sev eral times "shaken up" the Santa Fe ystem. placing new chiefs over him. h has stood the test and remained their right-hand man until, of his own ac cord, he leaves the bustle of the rail road office for a preferable position m the oil fields. INVESTIGATE MEXICO. Kansas City Conductors Want Rail way Laws Modified. Formal recognition of the oft repeated charge that railroad employes who are Americans are discriminated against under the criminals laws of Mexico, and that many of them are now languishing m Mexican prisons without having been tried, was given by division Xo. 55 of the Order of Railroad Conductors at a meeting held in Kansas City. Division Xo. 55, by vote, appointed its presiding officer. W. H. Hollis. as its representa tive to start a national movement for a searching inquiry into the matter, and directed that all the other divisions of the Order of Railroad Conductors be notified of the action taken by the Kan sas City division. The movement also contemplates that three other great or ders of American railway employes, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Railway Fire men, will become interested in the in vestigation. The four orders have 600.000 members. The division of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers at Pitts burg Kas.. has already volunteered to take up the matter. The action by division Xo. ,3 was the result of an agitation started by Harrv H. Adams, formerly a locomotive en gineer in Mexico. While employed on tne enages, Codral MatuhauUu rail- way, on May 21, 1901, Adams says that his engine and seven cars were wrecked, and that he was absolutely without fault in causing the wreck. His left leg was crushed and later had to be ampu tated. Adams says that even before he received medical attention he was taken before a magistrate, questioned and then thrown into prison, where he re mained a month. Other Americans are in Mexican prisons, he says, whose trains were in wrecks through no fault of the prisoners, and some of them have been in prison seven or eight years. Adams, while in prison, met some of these men, who begged him to appeal to the railroad men in America to interest themselves in their cases. CONSOLIDATE HIS LINES. Gould Will Organize His Properties to Fight Pennsylvania New York, Jan. 15. Oeorge J. Gould, according to the American, has ordered his attorney to make final drafts of the charter of the security company under which he is to collect his railroad prop erties east of the Mississippi. The com pany will be organized under Pennsyl vania laws, as Mr. Gould believes that by getting a charter in that state he will be in better position to fight the Pennsylvania railway. The capital named in the charter will be nominal, but there will be a clause authorizing its increase. The first move will be to take in the several small roads about Pittsburg which form the en trance to that city. As the Wabash and other roads are taken in from time to time the company will be increased itt proportion until with bonds it reachea $300,000,000. As soon as the details of this eastern comnany have all been an. nounced, the security company for western Gould roads will be incorpo rated. It is authoritatively denied that the Goulds are buyiijg Erie at present, or that they seek control of that road. ROW WITH SANTA FE. Ellinwood Trying to Force Erection of Brick Depot. There is a deadlock at Ellinwood be tween the Santa Fe rnilwav and the city Officials Tha ,.iO, tC e,.,... .1 J build a brick depot at that town to take I tiie place of the one destroyed bv fire some j.time ago. To enforce its demand It has auopted an ordinance requiring the rail way to erect such a depot as desired. This I it can do on the pretext of enforcing the fire ordinance or the citv. The depot grounds are within the tire limits. I In retaliation the Santa Fe has staked out a new depot site just outside of town j and threatens, unless the city revokes the city ordinance, to build its depot outside I of town. The company offers to build a j good frame depot on the old site, but not a brick one. I'P to the present time the Santa Fe has i net induced the city to revoke the objec i tionable ordinance. MAPS ARE FILED. Santa Fe Has Fixed the Route for Its Cut-oft. Santa F"e, N. M., Jan. 15. Two maps of the Eastern P.ailway of New Mexico have been filed by the Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe company in the office of the territorial secretary. The maps show two cutoffs, one from Texico, Tex., and the other from Portales, in Chaves county, which unite near Stinking Springs and form one line crossing the Rock Island a short distance above llano and the Santa Fe Central railway near "SYillard. The terminus of the line is at Rfo Pue'rco, one projected line crossing the Rio Grande river at Belen, Valencia county, and the other at La joya, Socorro county. Can't Find the Bottom. The Southern Pacific is engaged in building a trestle across a part of Salt Lake. The work has been stopped at one point, where the "bottom of the lake has dropped out." They have dumped 1.000 carloads of rock without making any impression on the cavity. For some years the waters of the great lake have been receding rapidly, but it has always been attributed to the withdrawal of many of the tribu tary streams for irrigation. Perhaps the lake has sprung a leak instead. Santa Fe Freight Wreck. Santa Fe. X. M.. Jan. 13. Yesterday the south bound freight on the Santa Fe was wrecked one mile south of Ken nedy, four cars being ditcned and one car thrown across the track. The wreck was caused by the dropping of a brake beam. W. H. Matson Has Resigned. San Bernardino. Cal., Jan. 15. W. II. Matson. jr.. traveling passenger agent of the Santa Fe, has handed in his resigna tion, to take effect February 1. Mr. Mat son has been in the employ of the Santa Fe 14 years, and is regarded as a most competent man. He will engage in com mercial pursuits. His Rniccessor is to be I.. H. Dickson, chief rate clerk, who is succeeded by M. C. Harris, advertising clerk. Mr. Harris' successor is to be W. H. Brown, private secretary to General REMARKABLE SUCCESS Of a New Catarrh Cure. A large and constantly incrp;i5ing majority of the American people are catarrh suffprf-rs. This is not entirely the result of our changeable climate, but because modern investigation has clear ly proven that many diseases, known by other names, are really catarrh. For merly the name catarrh wan applied al most exclusively to the common nasal catarrh, but the throat, stomach, liver, bladder, kidneys and intestines are sub ject to catarrhal diseases as well as the nasal passages. In fact, wherever there is mucous membrane there is a feeding ground for catarrh. The usual remedies, inhalers, sprays, douches or powders, have been prac tically failures, as far as anything more than temporary relief was concerned, because they simply dry up the mucous secretions, without havinpr the remotest effect upon the blood and liver, which are the real sources of catarrhal dis eases. It has been known for some years that the radical cure of catarrh could never come from local applications, but from an internal remedy, acting on the blood and expelling the catarrhal poison from the system. A new internal preparation which has bren on the market only a short time, has met with remarkable success as a genuine radical cure for catarrh. It may be found in any drug store, snM under the name of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, large pleasant tasting lozenges, composed principally of antiseptic in gredients. "Blood root. Red gum and sim ilar catarrh specifics. Dr. Ainslee in speaking of the new catarrh cure says: "I have tried the new catarrh remedy. Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, upon thirty or "forty patients with remarkably satisfactory results. They clear the head a nd throat more effectively and 'astingty than any douche or inhaler that I hpve ever p-en, and although they are what is called a patent medicine and sold by druggists. I do not hesitate to recommend them as I know them to be free f:.-m cccaSr.e and oriates, and that even a iittl child may u? th-m with entire ssfetv." Any stifferer from nasal e-t thrrh. throat or bronchial trouol". cawr.-h of the stomach, liver or bladder will finj Stuart's Catarrh Tablets remarkablv effertive. pleasant and convenient, and your druergist will teil ynu they are ab solutely free from any injurious drug. Passenger Agent J. J. Byrne, whose new secretary will be C. A. Larash, a tele graph operator now employed at San LUefio. ROCK ISLAND WAGES. Details of New Schedule Adopted for the Engineers. As has been announced, the Rock Island has granted its engineers a 10 per cent in crease. The details of the new schedule, oased on runs of 100 miles or less, are as follows: Eight wheel engine, IS inch cylinder and under, passenger, J3.70; over time, 37 cents. Kight wheel engine, 10 inch cylinder, passenger, $3. SO; over time, 8s cents. Kight wheel engine, 20 inch cylinder, with trailer, passenger. &j.W; over time, 33 cents. Six wheel conn, engine,; 18 to 10 inch cyl inder, passenger, fi.irj; over time, 39 cents. Six wheel conn, engine, 20 to 21 inch cyl inder, to S wheel, IS inch cylinder and tin der, freight, $4.00: over time 40 cents; local freight, $1.20: over time, 421' cents. Kight wheel engine, 19 inch cylinder and uudtr, freight, 4.ut); over time. 40 cents; local freight, $4.25; over time. 42 cents. Eight wheel engine, with trailer, 20 inch cylinder, freight, $4.0u; over time. 40 cents; local freight. $4.23; over time, 4-1-., cents. Six wheel oonn. engine, lis to lO'cvlind.-T, freight, $4.20; over time, 42 cents; local freight. $4.40; over time, 44 cents. Six wheel conn, engine, 20 to 21 inch cyl inder, freight, $4.3'j; over time, 43 cents; local freight, $4.50: over time, 45 cents. Consolidation freight, $4.4i; over time, 44 cents. Consolidation local freight, $4.60; over time, 4t cents. On switch engines, 10 inch cylinders or over, runs of ten miles a day of less, $3.10. with 31 cents an hour for over time: IS inch cylinder and under, $3 a day and 30 cents an hour over time, and li inch cylin der and under, $2.90 a day and 20 cents an hour over time. Of all classes of suburban trains between Chicago and Midlothian (if done within 13 hours), 100 miles or less, additional miles pro rata, $4.44 a day, with 37 cents an hour for over time. On work, gravel and construction trains freight rates apply according to above classification. ORIENT GETS A FRANCHISE. Kansas City, Kans., Councilman Yield to Vigorous "Vinewooding." Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 15. The Kan sas City, Kan., council last night in special session passed the ordinance granting the Outer Belt Railway com pany the right of way through the city without a dissenting vote. However, Mr. Thomas, from the Sixth ward, arose and said that while he intended to vote for the bill, he was opposed to it from beginning to end. "I shall vote for this measure," said Mr. Thomas, "just from the public pressure that has been brought to bear upon us." Other mem bers of the council voted Mr. Thomas' sentiments, although they did not so address the house. The bill was read by sections, and very few amendments were offered. By the provisions of the bill the company agrees that, when the bridge is built acroBs the Missouri river into Clay county, it shall be so constructed as to provide for a suitable wagon and car riage way, and ways for foot passen gers. The expense of construction shall be met in every particular by the company, but the company is not to be liable to damages for any injuries to person or property which shall accrue from any accidents on the bridge, un less such injuries are caused by the negligence of the company. Another concession of the company is that a depot and passenger station shall be erected at some convenient place in the city, the same to cost not less than $25,000. CHENEY DENIES IT. Santa Fe Stockholder. Says There's No Deal With Rock Island. San Francisco, Jan. 15. Benjamin P. Cheney,-who is one of the largest tndi- i vidual owners of Santa Fe stocks and bonds and who is a stockholder and dl rector In several lesser western roads, i including the St. Louis San Francisco, has arrived here via Panama, In an in terview he said that he did not think the Rock Island road was trying to get control of the Santa Fe. He would not oe surprised to see the completion of the Stilwell road from Kansas City to To polobampo, though he could say nothing, about the extension of the St. Louis San Francisco to this coast. ABOUT KAILROAD PEOPLE. Frank Woodruff, wheel inspector for the Santa Fe, is in Denver. Filmore Barnett of the spring shop laid off Wednesday to attend a wedding. Hush McGiJI of the spring shop was off Wednesday. His friends report him sick. J. A. MacXeill. wheel inspector for the Santa Fe, is in Chicago on an inspection tru. Grus Counter of the boiler shop was obliged to lay off Wednesday afternoon on account of sickness. William Maloney of th water service returned to work Wednesday after a few days off on account nf sickness. The Railroad Y. M. C. A. organized a new Bible clans Wednesday evening with John Kempton as instructor. W. K. Hodges, general purchasing agent for the Santa Fe. with headq uarters in Chicago, is expected to arrive today on No. lfc. There is practically no work goinp: on in the tank room in the roundhouse. Near ly all of the gangs are at work some other place in the shops. Oscar Wiscomb.an apprentice in the ma chine shop, returned to the shops Wednes day morning after a few days' absence on account of sickness. Albert Shaffler of the boiler shop left for Emporia yesterday afternoon, where he will spend about two weeks on some special work in the roundhouse. The two equalizers for the big cranes in the new machine shop, on which John Larson and his gang have been working, are finished. The job is a creditable one. Jesse Loy, who has was hit in the eye the other day by a riving piece of red hot steel and had to lay off, returned to his work in the boiler shop Wednesday morn ing. The new Rock Island time cards, which the division superintendents are here to perfect, were to go into effect January 1, but the time has been postponed. They will not go into effect before the 25th of this month. Mrs. Milton Payne left Wednesday on No. b for her home in Children. Tex., al ter a short visit with friends in Topeka. She was accompanied by ber children, her mother. Mrs. luke, and her sister, Miss Anna Payne. Nordaci Sweet, the day foreman at the coal chute, has resigned Ids position in fa vor of a better one with one of Frank Hammond's gangs at Chillicorhe. TH. Mil ton Mendenthal. the night foreman, will succeed him. A little item was published the other day to the effect that Henry De Canrp of the south shop, was the only man in the shop who could afford to burn hard coal. In reply Mr. De Camp says that those who work steady can afford to burn most anv thir.2. The friends of Thomas C. Butler are very much pleased over his election as page in the senate and desire to thank Senator John C. Chaney of this county. :o whom his election was due. Tomm But ler, as he is called, is a son of William Butler, night depot master at the Santa Fe, who is very well known by railroad men here. The January number of the "Santa Fe." a regular monthly Railroad Y. M. C. A pubUcation. is out. It contains sven-d in teresting little stories and the annual re r.o? ts of the officers of the as.-ociar ion. Amor g other items is one. to the effect fh.'r J r:n NVyrnan of the water service h 3 s i r ed 1 m em be rs f o r t h a toc i a -C-.u-'.a the past r. "Charh-s Hart ?fods .-corid. with 7" members, and Dan L--; orr s third, with 43. i3n Dustin. sr.. of the boiler shop, has invented a new socket far the stay bolt air machine, which is quite an improvement over the old socket. Formerly wh-n run ning stay bolts the men were obliged to MMMMMM M t SANTA FE PAY NIGHT nun nOL'R SALE 7 to 9 TOMGIiT ui n hi) Our Richardson Seamless, Iron Age, Puritan Calf and Seal Grain Shoes, Are the Favorites among Topeka Workingmen. Heavy Seal Grain Work Shoes Double soles, cap toe, sole leather in soles and counters good $2.00 value Our price $1.75. Special tonight, $1.59 Puritan Calf Shoes. Heavy inner and outer soles, large eye lets, cap toe, solid heels and counters every pair guaranteed. Regular price $1.75. Special tonight, $1.59 Same prices will unscrew the bolt from the machine after it had been run. This took up a good deal of time and was a source of sTcat trouble to the men, but with Mr. Austin's device the machine can be slipped on and off of the bolt at the will of the operato-. This is not its only good quality. It holds the bolt steadier than the old one did and does away with that whipping and squirming of the machine when it was equipped with the other socket. All of the men in the boiler shop are very much pleased with Mr. Dustin's invention and say that it is thoroughly practical in every way. Mr. Dustin is an old employe of the Santa Fe and is one of the many in ventors at the shops. There are very few men around the shops who know 'more about air machines than he does. TWENTY-ONE CITIES IN. Estimated Cost of Work During 1902 Looks Bright for 1903. Chicago, Jan. 15. The Construction News, of Chicago, 111., speaking ot the buildingr operations in twenty principal cities in the United States during 1902, says: "The operations show an exceed ingly satisfactory gain over those for the preceding year. They were partic ularly good in spots where it might least be expected and were weak in sections where it might be thought they would be strong. Carefully com piled statistics show that in twenty of the leading cities of the country permits were taken out in 1902 for the construc tion of 72,38 building improvements. Involving an expenditure of $297,151,462, against 69,119, involving $288,117,006 in 19(11, an increase of 3,266 buildings and $9,034,456, an increase of 3 per cent. "This increase is not nearly so large as in former years, but when one takes into consideration the intense activity that has characterized the past three or four years one would naturally ex pect something of a reaction from the figures as established during that per iod. The magnitude of the building during the past few years in this coun try is enormous. The gain for last year, it will be recalled, was 74 per cent, as against a loss of 29.20 per cent in 1900, this being due chiefly to labor troubles: the year 1S99 showed a gain of 41 per cent. "It is significant that In the figures for 1902 only seven out of twenty cities show a loss for the year, and that is really very small. "The most startling, perhaps, is the decrease in building operations in New York city as compared with the mark ed increase in Chicago during the past year. Jn New York, including the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, permits were taken out in 1902 for the construction of 4,203 buildings, to cost $95,969,693, against 4.107, involving a cost of $116,800,595, in 1901, a decrease in cost of IS per cent, while in Chicago permits were taken out for 6.074 build ings, involving an expenditure of $48. 070.390, against 6,035, involving a cost of $34.911,7,5, an increase of 35 per cent. Atlanta shows a decrease of 31 per cent: St. Paul, 32; Indianapolis, 2u; Minneapolis, 5: Philadelphia and St. Louis, each 3 per cent. Increases were in the cities of Los Angeles, which shows a gain of US per cent: Allegheny, 46: Cincinnati. 33: Washington. 36; Denver, 1: Milwaukee, 12: San Fran cisco, 11: Buffalo, 25: Kansas City, 6; Cleveland, 5. and Detroit 1 per cent. "It is interesting to note that corre spondence with men who are best in formed in the various cities represent ed indicates that building operations for 1903 will be upon an exceedingly satisfactory basis, and if present ex pectations are realized the gain will be considerably beyond that of 1902. It is to be expected that new fields of con struction, both so far as locality and class of building are concerned, will develop from time to time and that will afford equally active and lucrative fields for operations." HE STOLE COAL. Railroad Officials Refused to Prosecute. Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 14. Alfred Him-melsberg-er. who was arested last night for stealing coal from cars passing: over the Pennsylvania railroad cutoff north of the city, was discharged from custody today. Himmelsberger said he had money to pay for coal but could not get any, and he stole it to keep his wife and children from freezing. The railroad officer who had preferred charges against him requested his discharge, on the ground that they did not want to prosecute men in his plight. Every train of coal passing around the city is board ed and robbed to some extent. The coal famine in this city is now being felt more keenly than ever. Dislocated Her Shoulder. Mrs. Johanna Sodrholm of Fergus Falls, Minn., iell and dislocated her phouidr. She had a surgeon get it back in place as soon as possible, but it was ouite sore an-i pained her very much. iier son men tioned that he had s-n Chamberlain's Pam Balm advertised for sprains and sore ness, and she asked him to buv her a bot tle of it, wbioh he did. It quickly relieved her and enabled her to siep, which she rsd net done for several tiaVs. The son was much pleased with the reii. f it g;i. hia mother and he has sine recommended it to many others. For sale by all drug gists. C. F. Menninger, M. D., office 727 Kan sas ave. Tel. 19: residence 1251 Topeka ave. Tel. 5. Office hours 2 to 5 p. m. H -v"-i mm mm mm ma (fets Examine the- RICHARDSON SEAMLESS SHOE, and you'll have a pair no seams to rip or hurt the feet $250 Calf, 3 soles $2.25 $2.50 Calf, half double sole .$2.25 $2. 15 Calf, oil grain $1.98 The Iron Age, In Creedmores, Seamless and Plain Globe Lace Regular price $2.25. Special tonight, $1.98 be in effect Saturday. TOOK GOVERNOR'S COAL Street Railway Is Having Trou ble in Consequence. The Topeka Street Railway company is at outs with the state of Kansas over a car load of coal. The company '"borrowed" the coal from the state and now it can get one to pay it back. Governor Stan ley insisted that the coal be returned be fore he went out of office, and now H. J. Bone, secretary to Governor Bailey, is also making the street car company trou ble. .About three weeks ago a car load of coal was shipped from the penitentiary mines to the executive mansion here in Topeka. Governor Stanley received the bill of lad ing, but not the coat. He kept making inquiries about it, but the coal didn't come. Finally the supply at the execu tive mansion ran short and Governor Stanley had to borrow. A tracer was sent after the coal and it was discovered that for some reason or either it had been ap propriated by the Topeka Street Railway company. Governor Stanley called the superinten dent of the company up by telephone and insisted that the coal be restored at onc. The company promised that the coal should be forthcoming, but no coal could be secured more than the company needed for its immediate use," so the promise could not be fulfilled. Then the Stanleys moved out of the ex ecu tive mansion and Mr. and Mrs. Bone and Governor Bailey moved in. Mr. Bone is the head of the family, however, so upon him devolves the responsibility of providing for the household. That is where tovrnor Bailey scores by not be ing a married man. There was no coal in the coal bins and the furnace fires were running on short rations. Stanley told Bone about the coal which the street car company had appropriated, and Mr. Bone tried his hand at getting it. but the gen eral coal supply has been getting shorter and shorter, so that the street car com pany was confronted with the possibility of being compelled to shut down its plant if it turned its coal over to the fnate. Con sequently the coal has not yet been return ed and Mr. Bone has ordered another car load from the penitentiary mines. LAWYERS' STATE MEET. What They Will Talk About in Topeka, Following is the programme of the Kan sas State Bar association which meets in Topeka on January 27 and 2S: President's annual address, "The Su preme Power in the State," B. IP. Milton, rdge City. Address. "The Loves of the Lawyer, Will him Thomson. Burlingame. Address. "Some Phases of Legal Educa tion at Home and Abroad," W. L. Bur dick, Lawrence. Founders' day exercises. Short reminis cent addresses and early day expfrienefs by J. li. Gilpatrick. Leavenworth; C. B. Graves. Emporia: Clark A. Smith, Cawker City ,and pv.PsH 1 y others. Annual address. "Some Considerations Fpon the Constitution of the United Slates," Associate Justice Walter Clark of the supreme court of North Carolina, Ral eih. Addre. "Fxtradition," Eugene F.Ware, Wahinfcrton. O. C. Address. "The Doctrine of Reasonable Dnidjt." the most meritorious of the pa pers of the senior class cf the State Uni versity law school in contest for this humr. Address. "The Case of Shelley vs. West rooke (1 Jac. 2H." R. A. Burch, Saltna. Address. "The Contracts of Married Wo men," Julia F. V. Harris, Wellington. Address. "The Unwritten Constitution of the United States,-' Chancellor Frank Strong, Lawrence. Question box, conducted in the interest of county attorneys, J. S. West, Topeka. Regular annual banquet. A splendid list of speakers has been pro vided and a very pleasant time is assured. Heads Should Never Ache. Never endure this trouble. Use at once the remedv that stopped it for Mrs. N. A. Webster of Winnie, Va. She writes: "Dr. King's New Life Pills whnliy cured me of sick headaches I had suffered for two years." Cure headache, constipation, bil iousness. 25 cents at A. J. Arnold Drug Co., fclll North Kansas avenue. T In lfYrpnCmi pelj. pretty fig, LJ-JLJ J U U Kid? LMJ many of them deplore th F P 777) ff-pfir np All of this can be avoided, however, by the use of Mother's Friend before taby comes, as thii great liniment always prepares the body for the strain upon it, and preserves the symmetry of her form. Mother's Friend overcomes all the danger of child-birth, and carries the expectant mother safely through this critical period without pain. It is woman's greatest blessing. Thousands gratefully tell of the benefit and relief derived from th use of this wonderful remedy. Sold by all druggists at $i.oo per bottle. O ur little ibeJ JbtJi book, telling all about this liniment, will be sent free. T3 Eradflsld Eeplafsr Co., Allssta, 1 See Our Ads Pages 2 and 7. EOIR SALE t 7 to 9 t TOJCT X mm fcJ mm tu m mm aua WHIPPED TO DEATH. Brutal Methods of Enforcing Discipline in Colombian Army. San Francisco, Jan. 21. Among; thu passengers of the steamer Newport from Panama and way ports wera Lieut. Arthur H. Dutton and J. J. Many and four enlisted men of the American manned Colombian cruiser Bogota, which sailed from this port October 7. They ppeak in anything but enthusiastic terms of their experience in Colombian waters. Lieut. Dutton, executive offices of the Bogota, in a signed statement says: "I never heard of a court martial while I was in Colombia. Punishments were carried out and sentences inflicteJ at the sweet will of those in power. Ths so-called discipline of the armies was maintained by the bullet or the lash. "A trifling offense was at times pun ished by luO lashes on the bare baclfl with a flexible cane. Men were shot for mere nothing. "A few days after peace was declared two Liberal officers who had refused, to acquiesce in the conditions, but were captured, were taken to the Chiuqut fortress in Panama and there lashed brutally until dead. Some prisoners who had been taken after a particularly stubborn resistance, had their lejrs or arms cut off or their eyes or ears removed, and were then released to go maimed through life. Some died from loss of blood. "One of several schooners loaded with refugees which the Bogota was towing sprung a leak in deep water at sea. The refugees were rescued and the cap. tain and crew of five men were about to follow them when the Colombian offi cials in charge ordered them back on board the doomed schooner. 'Let them perish with her." was exclaimed. The six unfortunates, innocent of anv wrong doing, were left to their fate on" a sink ing schooner with no sails and no boats." Ifl DARKNESS. University of Pennsylvania Is Out of Coal. New York. Jan. 15. On nrmmif nt thm coal shortage the University of Penn sylvania was in darkness last night, says a Philadelnhia. riisnatrh tn ih. American. If coI can not be obtained louay tne institution will be compelled to close and 3,000 students will be out Of ClaSRPB T'Iiot'O io olcv v. di. virXLlm IIUII, the cold to the 500 patients in the uni versity hospital. CURSED IN STREETS. What 'Woman Missionaries Ara Sub jected to in Morocco. London. Jan. 5. Letters received here recently from Fez, Morocco, say that tho rapidly growing anti-Kuropean sentiment necessitated the hurried departure from that city of the American missionary-. Mr. Simpson, and his wife and three English women. For a few days prior to their de parture the women were openly cursed in the street, The Moors shouting as thny passed: "What's this filth in our street?" When the American missionaries from Mfquinez arrived at Fez, the Moors ex claimed "Oh. Ood! We thought thev were send ing the cursrd dogs from us, but they are comin. back." Subsequently a body of armed moun taineers met the women and wheeled round and cursed them in chorus. The missionaries were specially urged from authoritative quarters to leave as soon as possible. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson intend to remain at Tangier for the present. BECAUSE of patent "roller process" of making. Satin-Skin: Powder does not show or clog the pores. Is hygienic, refined, best made. 25c. At Model.- n Ererv woman eoveti a lost of their girlish forms aftr marriage. The bearing of children is often destructive to the mother's shapeliness. Jsi' n i 3 no??

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1903. Iti'tKA STATE JOLilML BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. .volume .No. 15 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. T'aily edition, delivered ty currier, 10 cnta a week to any pait of Topeka or suburbs, or at thu same price hi any Ksnsas town wiiere the paver has a car rier fcistem. X-y rnail, one year $3.ft0 y rnaii. ttsree mom hs Weekly edition, one year 'Entered .lulv 1, 1675. as second class matter at the posteffice at Topeka, Kan., lander the act of congress. TELEPHONES. PnMness OfTlce Bell 'phone:1?? i:usineb Office Ind. 'phone 10. 2 I mporters' Kooin Kell phone o. jUeporters' Room Ind. 'phone ltii 1 FERMANEXT HOME. Topeka State Journal building. S00 and KB Kansas a venue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE: 211 Vanderbilt Bids. Paul Block. Msr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1540 Unity BMg. Paul Block, 2,'mr. "ULL LEASED -WIRE REPCST CP ASSOCIATED XESSS The State Journal is a member o the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or f onizatinn for exclusive afternoon publica tion in Topcita. The rrws is received in the State Jour ml building over wires for this sole pur pose, fcmsv throughout the entire day. A complete copy of the night report Is also received. How would you like to be the coal man? One noticeable result of the coal fam ine is that people have forgotten to grumble about the high price of meat. The commandment "Thou shalt not steal" aipas to have been suspended es far as it relates to coal, in a number of daces. The Washington Post is disposed to congratulate the country on the fact that history is being made faster than XJurat Halstead can write it. A clause has been "sneaked in" a Georgia legislative enactment which is designed to limit the output of colonels. The governor is permitted but twenty eight on his staff. Omaha Bee: Just now Kansas is rep resented in the national legislature by two congressmen. The other five are at Topeka watching the senatorial fight, ia which four of them are candidates. Washington Tost: The feelings of Senator Burton appear to have been somewhat ruined by the manner in which the Kansas legislature was or ganized. But why do our public men continue to expose thsir sensitive points in this reckless manner? Out in Montana the railroads made the mistake of sending session pa spaa to the members of the legislature in stead of annuals, and the bits of paste board were promptly returned. Nobody knows his rights better than a Montana legislator. Perhaps it is an oversight, but there seems to be no provision made for re tiring members of the commission which is to superintend the building of I the Isthmian canal. There are abundant j indications that the commissioners wiH become incapacitated by age before the work is completed, if not before it shall be begun. The choice of Stone to succeed Vest as United States senator from Missouri j may be fairly considered a Bryan vie tory, the first one recorded in a long time. The election of Teller probably would be counted as another by the Bryan following, but Teller's chances fare not of the brightest. It has been found that opponents of Wolcott among .Republicans are equally opposed to the Democratic cundidate. Detroit has announced that she will ripen up for business her municipal coal ;;:rd today. The action of the Michi gan metropolis affords one more evi dence that the people of this country always find a way out of a situation brought about by evil disposed persons, when they become aroused to an earn est effort. What Detroit has done the republic would do should occasion arise. Truly the people do rule when they care to trouble themselves about the matter. Probably the legislative enactment by which importers ore relieved of the coal duty for a time wiil not benefit more than a limited ana of the country, but j congress has shown its good intention m the matter. It has proven to the coun try that when necessity arises it can 'iiact laws without the customary days and even weeks of talk. Yesterday's action may serve as a hint to the coal barons and other oppressors of the peo ple. If similar action were taken re Carding cattle and dressed meat it might be of advantage to the public. St. Paul Dispatch: The delicacy of trade movements, the slight causes wnich produce large deflections, finds apt illustration in a news item from N?w Orleans, which notes the sailing thence of a steamship carrying 8.500 tons of farm machinery for Black Sea ports from Chicago factories. It notes that cargoes of like articles for three more steamships for the same destination are under contract for this and next month, and that the value of the consignments is over $2,500,000. And why should im plements made in Chicago go forward from New Orleans instead of New York? Because on January 1 a change in freight rates over the latter route took place which raised the cost two tents a hundred weight. That ap parently trivial increase sent these ship ments to the more distant port for ex port. JAYHAWKER JOTS. Spring Hill hasn't had a coal famine yet. Farmers around St. Clair are gather ing corn by moonlight. Skating and the revival are rival at tractions at Ottawa just now. Jefferson county claims to raise the finest eatimv apples in Kansas. The largest cattle shipment out of Dougias lately was nineteen cars. A Junction City man who has 10,800 iushels of maize in cribs thinks he will have no scarcity of corn pone and cakes this year. Coffeyville has neither bootleggers nor jointists but the wells are still Mow ing. Two Fort Scott poor farm Inmates found money enough to start a law suit. "Thirty days and costs" Is what it means to steal a coat and get caught in Leavenworth. A little Topeka bootblack is one of the house paces. He should surely shine in the legislature. A Lyon county trapper's December catch amounted to eight possums, eleven coons and seven minks. A Cane j- horse thief captured on Fri day was born on the same day and once in a cyclone on that date. The present postoffioe building at Abilene will be? retained for ten years more, cyclones and fires permitting. An Emporia woman has left her husband simply because he flourished a revolver arid threatened to kill her. The moon is full this week and as it placidly shines down over "holy" To peka there is no feeling of loneliness. Senators who are positive they are going to be elected should remember the earlier features of the speakership fight. An Atchison old maid has refused a $5,000 estate upon the conditions that she visit the grave of a former lover twice a year. A Persons man has a unique dog trunk the size of a Saratoga. A sign reads on this during shipment: "Valu able dog. feed and water." Emporia society young men, fined in open court, have "pull" enough to keep their names out of the papers. What they need is a "pull" with the judge. EDITORIAL, COMMENT. The Coal Trust Responsible New York Press. If the coal trust is trying to protect the public from $10 and $12 prices, why is it that dealers who buy directly from the 'trust" at the mines cannot lay down their coal in this city for less than $I.50 a ton? This is a fact. If the coal trust is holding the list price down to figures that permit thJ retailer to sell at SS.50 a ton. why is it that if a retailer buys at the mine from the "trust" the monopoly will sell him coal at the list price "for future deliv ery." and the dealer will NEVER GET HIS COAL, but if he will pay $3 a ton MORE thanthe list arice he can get his coal for immediate delivery? This is a fact. President Baer says that the coal trust wiil shut off the supply of any dealer charging more than $6.50 a ton, but the coal trust is charging for immediate de livery much more than $6.50 a ton to dealers. This is a fact. It is the coal trust that is bleeding the public. Too Much Civilization. Post Bispatoh. There is no sensation in Dr. Arthur McDonald's declaration that "automo biles, electric cars, telephones and other luxuries of life are responsible for the increase in crime, insanity and suicide." It is sound sense. It is a great mistake to suppose that all these conveniences of life add to life. Any improvement which limits the nat ural exercise of mind and body Is apt to result in an enfeebled constitution. Nor is it any nearer the truth to sup pose that the sum of good "things" in the world constitutes civilization. All the wonderful contrivances of science and industry from the cotton gin to the wireless telegraph cannot make life bet ter worth living unless there is in the character that which knows how to use them wisely. As Dr. McDonald says, 'thejr put an abnormal strain upon the nervous system as compared with the muscular system," and the result can- I not uuL oe LiKajtuous to loose wno are not sturdy enough to endure the strain. Men and women are not civilized by the possession of a huge mass of things which tempt them to forego the activi ties required by nature. Oftener they are dragged down. est f,.i(,nd Viiile using rationally all that the inventive faculty can provide for our convenience. Only so can we get the best of civilization without forfeit ing the birthright of nature. Asphalt on the Bargain Counter. j Minneapolis Tribune: j Now is the time to lay asphalt pave- ment, before the contractors get to- gether again and boost the price. As- phalt is an ideal pavement for some purposes, though not universally. Ma- nadam and prepared wood are super- seding it on wide boulevards and i heavy traffic streets. But it is admira I bly suited 'to narrow streets, both resi j dence and business, where a firm arch can be made and there is not too much tearing up for repairs. The great objection to asphalt is its price. The article lends itself to mo nopoly, and most cities grumble as they pay assessments they are con vinced are too high. But big profits invite competition, and every now and j tnen an asphalt combine falls out and honest property owners get their rights. This has just happened in St. Paul. A new bidder came into a paving compe tition for which the engineers' estimates were over $46,000 Evidently the oth- ers knew he was coming and the old established company cut its bid to the bone, getting the contract for about $10,000 less. We believe that this old company handles the best asphalt from the Trinidad lakes, though the new bidder offered only California as phalt. The successful bid was only $1.75 a yard, except on one heavyr traffic street. This is the lowest price ever paid in St. Paul. That it is ripe to competition is proved by the fact that the lowest bid for a sandstone con tract, ottered at the same time. wa? $400 above the engineers' estimate. This price makes asphalt cheaper than brick or stone, and there is going to be -i scramble for it in St. Paul. The old combine price was about 50 cents a yard more. We should suppose that this state of things would have some interest for Minneapolis. It is peculiar how a single taste of legislative service will affect some men. Some of the most persistent applicants for minor jobs are men who have Ferved in the legislature and now want to get on the pay roll simply to enable them to stay and watch the proceedings. In the meantime their business at home, if they have any, is going to pieces. What are Humors? They are vitiated or morbid fluids cours ing the veins and affecting the tissues. They are commonly due to defective diges tion but are sometimes inherited. How do they manifest themselves In many forms of cutaneous eruption, ;alt rheum or eczema, pimples and boils, tnd in weakness, languor, general debility. How are they expelled By Flood's Sarsaparilla vhich also builds up the system that has suffered from them. It Is the best medicine lor all humors. ROOSEVELT SIGNS Bill Removing Duty from Coal Noiv a Law. Senator Tillman Renews His Speech Begun Wednesday. BLAMES ALL ON KNOX. Holds Him Responsible for Suf fering and Death. Senate Committee Beaches Agreement oh Cuban Treaty. Washington, Jan. 15. Shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon Representative Wachter ot Maryland, chairman of the house committee on enrolled bills, ac companied by Representative Allen reached the executive offices with the engrossed and enrolled copy of the free coal bill passed by congress yes terday. President Roosevelt received the committee at once and signed the measure immediately, expressing at the same time his pleasure that congress had acted so promptly. IN THE SENATE. Washington, Jan. 15. The senate to day passed the resolution introduced by Mr. Hoar yesterday calling upon the president to inform the senate what government is now existing in the is land of Guam and asking why Mabini is detained in that island. The Vest resolution regarding the removal of the duty on coal was taken up and Mr. Tillman resumed his remarks. He de clared that the railroads are absolute ly in the saddle on the coal question. They mine and market coal and fix the price, he charged, without regard to a solitary independent operator. He said it was an infamy the way the press of the country was lending itself to befuddle the minds of the people and deceive them into the idea that the railroads are willing and anxious to relieve the stress occasioned by the coal famine, but that somebody some where, called an independent operator, is responsible for the present condition of affairs. The president deserves no credit, said he, except for his attempt to effect a settlement of the question, "but the actual fact is," he added "that J. Pier pont Morgan gave orders to his co-con-spirators or servants to attempt the ar rangement between the monopoly and the strikers." The attorney general had been, he said, derelict and criminal and he is the man to whom the people can point and say: "You have murdered all those who have frozen to death. You are the man who deserves the opprobrium and hate of the poor and oppressed of this land." In the course of his remarks, Mr. Till man stated after being closely question ed by Mr. Spooner, that W. B. Hearst had charged that the United States dis trict attorney for New York had re ceived orders from the attorney general not to submit his report of his investi gation regarding trusts. IN THE HOUSE. Washington, Jan. 15. Without pre liminary business the house today re sumed the consideration of the army appropriation bill. Without further amendment the bill was passed. Mr. Dalzell (Pa..), from the committee on ruies, then presented a rule to make the senate department of commerce bill a continuing order until disposed of. nut to interfere with appropriation bills or other privileged reports. The rule was adopted and under its terms the house proceeded to the consideration of the measure. Mr. Mann GUI made the opening argu ment in support of the measure, it hav ing been arranged that Mr. Hepburn (la.) should control the time for and Mr. Rich ardson (Ala.) against the bill. AGREE ON A REPORT. Washington. Jan. 15. The senate com mittee on foreign relations today agreed to report the Cuban reciprocity treaty to the senate with two amendments, the first of these is the guarantee against a further reduction of the sugar tariff which was adopted yesterday and the other makes a reduction of 40 per cent in the. duty on American cattle exported to Cuba .instead of 20 per cent as provided in the treaty as it was orielnally transmitted to the senate. Senators Bacon and Iiailey cast their votes against the resolution for a favorable report, but all the other votes were in the affirmative. 10 WORD YET. American Liner St. Lonis Still Causing Anxiety. London. Jan. 15. The American liner St. Paul which arrived at Southampton at an early hour today, reported having encountered heavy weather and in quiries at the office of the American line here today were given this and leaky boilers as the probable cause of the de lay in the arrival at New York of her sister ship, the St. Louis. No apprehension is felt here regarding the safety of the St. Louis. New York, Jan. 13. There was quite a crowd at the office of the American line today asking for news of the St. Louis, most of the people being friends and relatives of passengers. The Span ish steamship Montevideo docked today. Her captain said that the steamer had come over the southern route but had not sighted the St. Louis. The Ameri can line did not attach much import ance to his failure to sight the boat as i they said the St. Louis would not tak the southern route. "PI NCH" WHEELER HERE. He Explains All About the Show Girl." "Punch" Wheeler came to town to day. In the circus and theatrical pro fessions Wheeler is in a class by him self. In the summer he is the press man for John Robinson's show and in the winter he booms some theatrical attraction. This year his protege is "The Show Girl" which will be at the Grand tomorrow night. Mr. Wheeler once said he had to play two nights in a western town in order to accom modate all the holders of complimen tary tickets. He also started a move ment to bring out "The Liver of Min neapolis" as a companion piece to "The Heart of Maryland" and "The Lights of London." But all this is in the past. Now he wants peopie to know what a good thing "Rice's Show Girl" is and he with his own hand penned the follow ing explanatory epic: Edward E. Rice's natural genius for producing clever stage fantasies was never more emphasized than in the lat est musical comedy. "The Show Girl." This last graduate from the Broadway school of successes met the critical en dorsement at Wallack's for ten weeks and after its production here will be regarded as the most enjoyable of all the Rice library of musical concerts made famous by "Evangeline." "1492" and "Adonis." More than ever up to date is "The Show Girl." The bright 619 Kansas Avenue. Pre-Inventory and NOTE Housekeeping Dept. 59o for a large white quilt, was SSc. 83e for an extra quality and extra size quilt, Marseilles pattern, worth $1.15. $1.00 for a 12-4 white quilt, very handsome pattern, very heavy, were $1.25. S5c for 11-4 fleeced blanket. $2.25 for a strictly all wool blanket. Topeka woolen mills product. One-third off on white blankets of all kinds that are slightly soiled. 8 l-3o for 42-in. pillow cases, were Turkey red tabling 15c and 17V&C worth 25 and 30c. Remnants 2 to S yards. 37'Ac for best quality Turkey red and fancy tabling, remnants 2 to 10 yards. Bleached and cream tabling 22Vi& and 27Ho, worth 30c and 37Vi,c. Rem nants 2 to 10 yards. 4'ic and 5c for the best Standard Calicoes that are sold everywhere foi- Dry G oods In going over our invoice we found many desirable short lengths which are now on the remnant pile and sold as card reads one-fourth less than the 1 i Sold at a Great !Loss. About 50 ladies' and misses' Coats in extremely fashionable lengths, blouse and Norfolk effects of very finest Ker sey and Beaver cloths, all desirable shades. Choice $5. 48. Values here up to $12.50. About 35 ladies' and misses' 27-inch Coats, very newest, most fashionable cuts, finest Kersey and Beaver cloths, and witty dialogue is interspersed with original musical numbers galore, call ing for repeated encores, and with its prettily gowned young ladies in a per fect whirlwind of kah-idescopic lingerie so perfectly entrancing in its ever changing gorgeousness as to fully sat isfy the artistic eye and mind. Many of the singing and dancing numbers have been applauded as "a perfect whirl of girls.',.' All the fun is clean, fresh, fast arid fui'iottj. Many clever specialties are. introduced, notably Miss Oertie Holt, a 'whistling soloist whose equal is yet to appear: Harry Burn flam, a German comedian of marked ability: Edgar Flavelle, the most re markable animal performer since the days of Grimaldi: St. Albans and Burnham. the East side sketch artists whose faithful portrayal of the "com mon persons" brings forth tumul tuous applause: and Halbertie, the Great, whose wonderful toe dancing places this artist head and shoulders above even such supreme stars as Bes sie Clayton, Annie St. Tel, Bonnie Maein and Snharet. The cast proper is headed by such well known favorites as Ben Lodge, whose operatic record stamps him as the funniest of all sing ing comedians: Robert Kane, E. Coit Anderson, Harry Lane, Hugh Chatham. Frank Garfield. Max L. Pelletier and Walter Hogdson, while the prima don na. Miss Carlotta Oilman, late of "Foxy Quiller" fame and whose por trayal of "The Show Girl" has met with unstinted praise, will be seconded by such sterling artists as Miss Mamie Scott. Miss Katherine Waters, Miss Margaret Baxter. Miss Ada St. Albans, Miss Vivian Brazier. Miss Blanche Paquette, Miss Florence Rather. Miss Olive Woolford and a Rice chorus cif remarkably pretty girls and handsome men. in all the organization com prises fifty people using its own scenic equipment and electvical mechanical paraphernalia. The advisability of re serving seats in advance is respectfully suggested. HOUSE CONVENES. Gets Down to Work Once jlore This Afternoon. The house met at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, but nearly a half hour was taken up with preliminaries. It is ex pected that there will be a flood of bills when that head is reached, necause a good number of the members have bills which they wish to come up early, and for that reason they want to get themj introduced before an adjournment is j taken over Sunday. TO GO TO MANHATTAN. j The party of legislators who will go to Manhattan tonight to visit th State! Agricultural college will leave Topeka j on the Rock Island at 8:10. Represen-j larive Emmons will have charge of the j party, and the people of Manhattan wiil j entertain them. It is desired that th members shall look over the work ot the agricultural college, and also us needs, so that it will get a generous ap propriation. Among those who will K' in the party are Representatives Schlver, Pralie. Honnell. p.rown. Mur dok, Rcvington. Hill, Watkins. Camp bell of Meade, Kinkel, Kennison, Dunn, Einsel. Law. Hugos. Hayden. King. Hutchinson, Chandler, Parish and a few others, and Senators Fulton. Branine. Fitzpatrick. and perhaps two or thrc more, besides a number of newspaper 511 ,j TUP E I i a f7 v inc. rum. GRAIN COFFEE The coffee habit is quickly over come by those who let Grain-O take its place. If properly made it tastes like the best of coffee. No grain coffee compares with it ia flavor or healthfuiness. TRY IT TO-DAY. At grocer everywhere 15c. ad SSc. per pckse. fl BET! u u u u y vj TWO GREAT THESE MARKED-DOWN 6Vi and 7Vic. Remnants run 2 to It yards. Warranted fast color. 36-inch Percales of very best standard quality and worth 15c lOe 32-inch Percales, good styles, strictly standard and fast colors 6Vi Fleeced back Wrapper goods, gooa styles, fast color 6Vi: 6e value fine 36-inch Sheeting. .4Vfec Ttc value finest unbleached Sheet- mg 5i 6c value white Shaker flannel..1 7c quality bleached Muslin, soft fin ish, and 36-inch wide 5Li& 10c finest bleached Muslin (Lonsdaie finish), yard wide 6?4t ISc quality Mercerized Sateen, for 121a 40-inch India Linen, very sheer.... lOe 20 and 25c quality Indian Linen, ex tremely fine and sheer Extra special......... 13bc Note Some of above come in short lengths, but there are hundreds of yards exactly alike, so tnere will be no diffi culty in matching up. JL em neurits. We have also a large stock of rem- i nants in Outing Flannels, Ticking. Denims, Relisias, Percaiines. Skill ioV COSt. very cheap at $S.50 and $10.00. Choice of the line $5.00. We shall also include in this lot about 25 Plush and Cloth Capes, all 30-inch lengths, full sweep, real value over 50 per cent. more. i 25 ladies' 27-inch Jackets of fine Ox ford and Black Melton, worth fully $6.50. Choice $3.88. PRESERVE THIS AD. Lieut. Gov. Tillman. Meets N. G. Gonzales on Street And Coolly Fires a Eullet Through His Body. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15. A long distance telephone message from Columbia says: While walking home to lunch today. Mr. N. G. Gonzales, the editor of The State, the local paper, was met by Lieut. Governor Tillman and two state senators. Lieut. Governor Tillman stepped close to Mr. Gonzales and draw ing his revolver placed the weapon close to him and fired. Mr. Gonzales stag gered but was caught by two men. Tillman after the shooting walked away wiping his revolver on his coat, and then threw, or attempted to throw, thv weapon away. He was arrested by the police. Mr. Gonzales was carried to his office and preparations are now being made to take him to the Columbia state hospital. The bullet entered Mr. Gon zales' right side and went entirely through the body, passing out through the left side. Mr. Gonzales says the shooting was entirely without provo cation. It is said that Mr. Tillman and Mr. Gonzales have not been on speak ing terms since Mr. Tillman's campaign for governor, when Mr. Gonzales was so bitterly opposed to him in his race, for the gubernatorial nomination. SEBASTIAN HERE. Kock Island Traffic Manager Discusses Time Card. Mr. John Sebastian, passenger traffic manager of the Rock Island with head quarters in Chicago and L. M. Allen, general passenger agent arc in the city in consultation with the division super intendent and other officials concerning, the new time card which is to go into effect January 25th, Mr. E. W. Thomp son, assistant general passenger agent with heado.uarters in Kansas City, is also here having joined Mr. Sebastian and Mr. Allen at Kansas City last night. The conference was held today anil several matters concerning some minor changes in the passenger service were discussed. As stated by the members of the party nothing more important than this concerns their visit to To peka the trip being entirely in the na ture of an inspection trip. The party arrived at 1 o'clock last night and this afternoon they will leave for their respective headquarters. They are traveling in Mr. Sebastian's special car, No. 300. LIMITED m A WRECK. Rock Island Flyer Smashes a Dining Car Two Hurt. At 10:30 last night as the Rock Island Golden State Limited was speding on her way to California she struck the rear end of cast bound" No. 30 which was just puliing into the siding to let the limited pass at Fowler, Kas. The rear car. which was a diner, was thrown into the ditch and the chef and one of the waiters were injured. C. Jenson. the waiter, is a resident of To peka, living at 111 Van Buren street. He deceived a severe cut on the head. The chef, whose name could not be learned, received a severe gash in the back and several other cuts of minor consequence on other parts of the body. No. 30 arrived in Topeka this afternoon at 2:30, eight hours late, and the in jured men were taken to Stormont hos pital. Their injuries are not considered serious. The matter as to who is to be blamed n n r sj w y SALES IN ONE Will include 30-inch Capes at this price. 25 Children's Coats, some with Capes, some with deep sailor collars, all ex tremely well made and handsomely trimmed. Choice $1.48. Values up to $3.00. A Great Wrapper Bargain. $1.00 fleeced Wrapper, stylishly made up, deep flounce, braid and ruffle trim med, our regular dollar number, in this sale 69c. The $1.25 kind reduced to 89c Choice of the balance of our finest French Flannel Waists, very stylishly made, values up to $4.00 choice $2.4ii Choice of our entire line of Silk Waists (blacks included) $3.98. No finer shown at $7.50. While roaming in the made-up Gar ment department we have decided to continue the sale of ladies' Undermus- Furnishing Goods Section. FOR MEN AND BOYS. Lower priced than at any previous offering, really priced ridiculously low in order to close out quickly. Best 10c Celluloid Collars, 3 for lOe Haven't all sizes. Three and four-ply Linen Collars 15c kind 7H; 50c quality finest French Web Sus penders 25c Good 25c quality Suspenders, only. .15c Good 20c quality Suspenders, only..lOc We have only small lots of above. 50e quality heavy fleeced Under wear 29c 75c quality extra fine fleeced Under wear 45c $1.00 camel's hair Underwear, now..65u $2 natural wool Underwear, now.. $1.35 One case of extra heavy Rockford mixed Sox, the 12V2c kind 7 Vic BHIHG IT WITH for the accident has not yet been set tled. There is a rule that a train which is to sidetrack for another should be in the clear at least ten minutes before the arrival of the other train. Judging from this the persons employed on No. 30 are more to blame than anyone else. The Limited which has the right- of way over all other trains received or ders at the preceding station that she would pass No. 30 at Fowler but when the train arrived there running at a high rate of speed the other train was just pulling on to the siding and about one third of the rear car was still on the main line when it was struck. It is stated that if the Limited had been just 30 seconds later the east bound train would have been in the clear and the accident would not have happened. MANSLAUGHTER. Charge Made Against Madden and Kelly, of Pittsfield. Pittsfield, Mass., Jan. 15. The grand jury in the case of Euclid Madden and James T. Keiley today reported an in dictment against each charged witri manslaughter. The men were in charge of the electric car which last August ran into the carriage of President Roosevelt with the result that Secret Service Agent William Craig was killed. NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE Calls on the Board of Trade and la Thanked for Coming. Washington, Jan. 15. President Roose velt today received about 30 members of the National Board of Trade, now in session in this city. President Roosevelt in responding to the presentation speech said: "I shall not try to make you any speech. I wish simply to say what a very real pleasure it is to see you and also to say this that I am glad to see the meetings of the bi2 business inter ests take ;ilace sometimes in .Washing ton. Nothing: can be better both for the business interests and for legislation than to have as close a touch as possi ble between the elective representatives here and the men whose welfare is so interwoven with what is done in the halls of congress. It is a very great he'-i to all of us to have you come here. I thank you for coming." WHAT MINORITY GETS. To Be Allowed Representation in Proportion to Numbers. The fusion catrcus last night canvasseel the subject of minority representation on committe-'. It was decided to ask Speaker Pringle to give the minority committee representation in the ratio of its represen tation in the whole house. In addition to this the caucus canvassed the situation and instructed Representa tive liroadbent. secretary of the caucus, to make a list of the members which tho minority wished on each committee and give it to Speaker 1'ringle in order to save the sutaktr from beinii annoyed by hav ing the minority members run to him to make their claims to committee member--hi1. five employes will also be asked for a clerk, stenographer, assistant sergeant-at-arms. doorkeeper and page and it is said assurances have been received from the minority that these wiil be allowed. Low Rates to Kansas City Rock Is land System. If you contemplate a visit to Kansas City, either on business or for pleasure, vou should take advantage of the low rates to that city which the Rock Island offers January 18, 19 and 20. For tickets, etc., see the nearest Rock Is land agent. Solicitude for Young Vanderbilt. The immediate family of Cornelius Vanderbilt has been very much touched by one evidence of sympathy with the young man that came from outside New York city. Up to yesterday more than 1 000 letters of sympathy had been re ceived from persons in various parts of the country, none or whom was known even bv name to the family. All of them expressed sympathy for the sick man 619 Kansas Avenue. PRICES: 12 Baby Coats of all wool cloths, are knee lengths, carried over from last season. $2.50 values 69c. Sample line of Ladies' Dress anil Rainy Day Skirts, a splendid line, no two alike, from $1.69 up, including ele gant Silk Skirts. The $1.75 kinds reduced to $1.19. SSc Percale Wrapper, 63o. $1.00 Percale Wrappers, 75c. It is impossible to find a more attrac tive line. lins. We show the "Peerless" make of garments, and we assert without fear of contradiction that it is impossible to find better made goods if you were tu shop the whole country over, the per fection of their make, and the charming taste shown in their trimmings, making this line indeed Peerless. See north window. One case of finest quality M hose, coj ors black and tan. full 40 guage fine, usually retailed at 25c a pair 15c 23 duen gents' large and fine Cambrn Handkerchiefs, as durable as all linen, 7c or 4 for 25c. 10c Turkey red Handkerchiefs, large size 5c Men's extra heavy Golf Gloves, all wool 25c Boys' real dress Kid Gloves, 75c value 35c Boy's good Overalls, Casslmere styles 25c Sweet, Orr Co.'s warranted Work Shirts ...50c $2.75 quality Duck Coats, Slicker anl Rubber lined, make guaranteed, deep corduroy collars $1.98 Duck Coals from 75c up. YOU. and expressed the hope that he would soon recover. In addition to inquiries from friends of the family in this city, there have come cards from others with whom the family had no acquaintance whatever, though they were persons im portant enough in various ways of life to make sympathy appreciated. But nothing offered greater evidence of tic widespread interest in the case than the letters which are still arriving daily from all parts of the United States. New York Sun. ENDORSES HARRIS. National Live Stock Association Goes on Record. Kansas City, Jan. 15. Several import ant resolutions presented at the morning session of the National Live Stock as sociation were adopted. most of them without discussion. One by J. W. Rob inson of Kansas favored an amendment of the interstate commerce law in such a way as to grant to the interstate com merce commission power to adjust freight rates, after they have been found to be unequal or unjust and pow er to put into full force and effect its rulings and decisions which shall stand until reversed or modified by the courts. President Springer, commencing upon the above resolution, said that at pres ent the five members of the commission cost the government $200,000 a year, and yet they had never been able to enforce ne of their own orders. A resolution endorsing Senator Wm. A. Harris of Kansas for appointment as a member of the Isthmian canal com mission, was adopted, as was one en dorsing the Penrose bill providing for tUe improvement of horses for general pur pose Dy ureeaing along approved lines. FIRED BY WARE. Charges Subordinate With Writing Anonymous Letter. Washington. Jan. 15. Commissioner of Pensions Ware has recommended to the secretary of the interior the dis missal of James Roberts, a principal ex aminer in the law division of the pen sion bureau, on the charge of writing anonymous letters to the commissioner regarding clerks in the bureau. Mr. Roberts denies the charge. DIVISION OF PLACES. Various Factions to Be Recognized on Committees. What Speaker Pringle will probably do in the make-up of the house committees in recognizing the various factions is shown by the first committee which he nHmed, that on apportioning the govern or's message. This committee consists of Representative Jackson of Franklin coun ty, a Stanley supporter; Representative Sims of Shawnee county, a Curtis man, and Representative Hale of Rush, the mi nority leader. The motion lor the ap pointment of the committee was made by Mr. Jenks. and for that reason he was named first, as Is customary with the maker of a motion. Mr. Pringle'B close friends say that this sort of a snirlt will be ehown In all his committee appointments. LOCAL MENTION. The teams representing the Turners and the Elites bowled a series of three games of cocked hat last night on the Elite alleys. The Elites took the three games with 74 pins to spare. The Republican Flambeau club holds its annual election of off leers tonight. It will be followed by a smoker. Best orchestra of the season at Stein berg's Saturday night. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. Bridget Hogan, mother of Michael Hogan. undertaker, died at her residence, 63: Locust street, at 1 a. m. today at the age of 77 years. The funeral will be held at the Church of the Assumption at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Mrs. Hogan died of stomach trouble. She was born in Tipetary county, Ireland, and came to Topeka 2S years ago.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 15, 1903. 0 Oi'!E L.10RE GOi'E. Chester I. Long Gets an Acces sion from Stanley. Uepresentatire Dan Campbell, of Uourbon, the jlan. STANLEY ALSO GAINS. Head and Linton, Doubtful Members, Declare for Him. Situation 15etreen Seventh Dis trict Candidates Changing. That the lines are tightening between the Sr.iniry arid Long forces in the sen atoriid oonp-st is shown by the action of jfprtrsentative JJitn Campbell ol JJoi;rb'n county in declaring fur Long. Campbell has always bo-ii counted fot Stanley. It has been supposed that tie Would line up according to the wishe.i of Grant Horna.lay, the Fort .Scott financier, and S. O. Spencer, Governor tHanKy's appointee as state oil in spector. Up to a week ago there was no doubt among the Stanley forces bu; what Campbell would be among th etaunchest of Stanley's supporters. A week, ago Spencer gave warning that Campbell was wavering, and now he has openly declared for Long. "As long as the Seventh district is divided Bourbon county will give each of the Seventh district candidates a Vote," Mr. Campbell told a State Jour- ral reporter today. "My colleague, Mt. Laird, has declared for Stanley, ami I have an understanding with him that I will be for Long until the Seventh district gets together. As soon as they unite, eitht r on Stanley or l,ong, tic y can have two vot.s from Uourbin coun ty for tiie candidate they decide upon." S. O. Snencer and pome of the other Ftanley boomers are inclined to be sore over Campbell's action, and they inti mate that undue influences have been brought to btar on him to induce him to make the change. Stanley has more than plaved even, how ever, by se uring open dec larations for his candidacy from A. G. Mead of Mitchell and L. M. Linton of Smith, both of whom up to this time have been non-committal in the senatorial contest. "i have been waitinjr to ascertain as nearly as possible the sentiment in mv county," said Mr. Linton today, "and 1 am now convinced that the majority ere for Stanley, although the other can didates have some friends. Yesterday I received a good many letters on the sub ject and the most of them were for Stanley. I don't generally take much stock in thlnffs of that sort, hut these letters were from a class of iieonie and were of such a nature that 1 deem it lny duty to vo'.e for Stanley." 'onsressnian Curtis, too, has secured members who have been classed as deiih'ful. Among these is E. 1. Crocker of Chase county. Another is Senator Hays I:. White ,,f Jewell county. Hoth or these went into the Curtis' caucus Tuesday night.' HARRIS AT THE SL10KER. Senior Senator Arrives Unex pectedly in Toneka. As a surprise at the smok-'T given f"i- t'oe vision's to the meeting ot trie Kansas Improved Livesb nk Bre.-deis' aseciation last evening Senator V. A. Harris arrived on an evening train from Kansas City. His coming had not beiii looked for hut his reception was r.ene the less cat husiastic. As lie stepp. d into the hazy atmosphere; of the oxford hotel dining room he was trr,'-r,..j with applause and cneers. Calls Pr a speech elicited an acknowledg ment of thr. senator's appreciation of the hospitality shown birn. He said: "I do not know that I have any story to teil and ail the speech I have has been manufactured since 1 trot into To pek l a few minutes ago. It is not al ways that I return home p, pn,i HO warm a prwtiiiff but nevertheless 1 am always chtrt to get back lure. I am profoundly thankful to g, i back to Kansas and I th ink you ail for the kind r-o pt.on 1 have received." Senator Harris then resumed his at and swnt the remainder of th evenine cha-ting with old friends and new ar-oualntances and tm..kiiic Bnrg hart's Fav. -rit. s as if he had nev.-r done anything beside labor for t!io improve ment of the livestock industry since hi.; eariit infancy. H.ad it not b,-,-n for good ventilation the smoke,- might have been followed hy a night of aching heads. As it was the room presented an appearance of undisturbed enjoy ment during the whole evening. There were present probably gv peo ple including the tubers of'the Com mercial club and their gti"sts and it anyone lost on the refreshment service Bad wares arc never cheap French Proverb A homely truth too of:en for gotten. It dies net, how ever, follow that good wares arc always dear. Take, for mstar.ee, the caie of Gorham Silver Everyone knows that there is no finer silver ware to he procured, but not everyone, per haps, recognizes that to procure it entails greater initial ou no lav than is needed for th productions of anonv mous makers lacking that inestimable guar antee, the Gorham trade-mark. ST"!--"-. recrensibio j keep it it resulted from criminal neglect of their own interest because there ap peared tu he a plenty of everything. Music was furnished by Steinberg's orchestra and the Modoc club. HAMT! Ilia I Livestock Association Passes Resolutions on the Subject. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 15. At the third day's session of the National Livestock convention many papers were read and discussed and a flood of resolutions were introduced and considered. After yester day's period of sight seeing and last night's ball, the delegates were slow in gathering this morning, but when they linaliy got started much work was dis posed of. The convention will finish its work tomorrow and will be followed on Saturday by the annual meeting of the national growers' association, at which important action regarding the range prob lem is expected. Onf of the important resolutions intro duced in the livestock convention today sought to heal the long standing bitter ness existing between cattlemen and sheep- rre n over the question of ranges. A. A. Robertson of Texas had yesterday intro duced a resolution calling for an amend ment of the laws regulating the grazing en public lands and approving the leasirg e f such lands in such states where such a peilicy is desired by the people. This was referred to the executive committee and linaliy lnid upon the table. In its place the following resolution, prepared by a cattleman and which it is said is approved by sheepmen and by many of the cattle men, was indorsed: Kesoived. That the laws governing the use of public lands of the Cnited States have become outgrown and obsolete, owing to the rapid advance of civilization, and we believe that the time has come when c. ingress should take action looking to ward laws that will recognize the chanired onditior.s and will encourage the se ttle ment, anil improvement of the largest pos sible area and pmvide protection to the st ttiemeut of saiel lands for grazing pur- Kesolved, That we approve the sugges tion of President Roosevelt In his last me.ssage to congress, that larger areas of these semi-arid lands should be allowed lor a boniesteael. anel that a commission of experts be appointed to investigate the present exis;ing condition and suggest to congress the r-medies that will be fair and just ami will bulla up rath, r than retard the growth and improvement of the west. r b solve'l. That a memeirial from this convention to congress be prepared call ing the attention of congress as brieftv -is possible to the fact that the present land laws encourage the destruction of the for age upon the public lands and retard im provement and settlement: that the memo rial petition cemgress to adopt the sugges tion (if President Hooseveit to appoint a commission of experts to make a careful investigation into the actual conditions now prevailing and to suggest new laws that will benefit all sections of the coun try, the varied and conmeting conditions existing in the different sections of the west beinr the principal obstacle that h-is prevented the stockmen from agreeing among themselves for a plan of change m the laws, as the law that would benefit eine section woulel cause loss and ruin where different conditions prevailed. lb solved, That said memorial lie pre pared immediately and presented to the present session of congress with an urgent appeal that action lie taken te the end that this grave question may be settled nt an early elate anel to the further end that oi'ingress may rieit act hastily and un advisedly in changing the present laws un til properly informed through its commis sion of experts as to the actual prevailing conditions in all sections. Among the aoMress-s at the morning session was one by William M. Springer of Washir jton. Pi. P.. on "The Proposed Merging of trie Paeking Tlants of This Country aneld the Kfft-cts and Ttemee'y." and one by Pr. W. If. rHilrymple of T.ou isiana on "Infecti- ets Diseases and Tie ir l're ention." Y. S. Peer of New York was also on the programme to read a pa per, but a tele-gram from his wife today announced that he was on the Atlantic en route home from Europe. C. K. Abbott of Springer. X. M-. and Senator Franrir Kminy Warren of "Wyoming, p resident of the national growers' association, also ad dressed tire delegates at the morning ses sion. Among the speakers at the after noon session were R. C. Jacetbsen of Illi nois and Colonel John P. Irish of Cali fornia, on "The Changes Congress Should Make in the Laws Governing the Public Domain and Forest Reserves." KELLY'S TRIAL Ex-Speaker of St. Louis House of Delegates Arraigned. St. Louis. Jan. 13. The case of Chas. F. Kellv. former sneaker of the houe of elelegates, charged with perjury in connection w ith the Suburban railway franchise deal, was called for trial to-day in Judge Kyan's division of the I criminal court. A venire of sixty spe cial jurors from which to Felect twelve to ser ve in the case has been summoned by the sheriff. Kelly tied from the city the day the indictment was found against him by the grand jury, and remained in Europe several weeks. He returned after the death of bis child anel was arrested in j Philadelphia. i The case against Kelly is similar to those of l.ehmann. Faulkner and Perseh. who have been convicted. The s irne witnesses will be called for the srale, among them John K. Murrell, K. V.. T'luireii. Job". Helms, William M. Tambiyn and George F. Robertson, former members of the house1 of dele- gap s; Philip Slot k. whei is allseed to have aereed to pay John K. Murrell $7r..ooo for nineteen votes: Charles H. Turm r, former president of the Suburb an: Richar d Hosp 's. e'ashier of the Ger man Savings institution, from which the money was obtained, and several city orheials from wheim drre-umentary ewi-d'-m-e will be gained. The case, it is be lieved, will be completed and go to the jury Saturday night. FORGING A CHAIN. Chicago Grand Jury Sends 3Iore Witnesses. for I Ohicao-o, Jan. 15. On new cWelnp- ments on the coal investigation the S!,e cial Brand jury has widened its scope j of inquiry. On information received late yesterday, subpoeana? have b?n sent to the sheriff of Sangamnri county I fr ihe appearance before it of Ch ii'les A. Stavne. of the Virden Coal company and th- West End Coal company of Sprir etioM, Terrene Onse-v of the- V."'l bamsville c. ,1 eompn ry and I.. V. S-ustTiey, of the Altiyi and Auburn e 'oh 1 company it Auburn. The evi dence of lite men from th" Spring"fielil district, it is said, will form th" con necting link in the chain of evidence1, showine; ntrrecments between the np :e rateus of Illinois and Indiana. Sev eral w itnespus summoned for yesterde.y v.i'!-1 heard today after which the crranel jury turn eel its attention to the vol ume of documentary evidence. Steady Growth in 'Exports. M-xii-o City. Jr.n. 1". Consul nenfril B.-.rlow reports a steady incre-tse in j th e xports to the Cnited states and a growth of trado between the two coun tries. A laree amount of money has e en subscribed here for the Mazatlan I sufferers. SNAPSHOTS AT HOSE NEWS. Bnsiness is dull with the peanut men. The Flints are drawing: large audi ences at the Crawford. The government thermometer ranged between 110 and 4j "Wednesday. Hill P. Wilson and T. IX Hammatt were In Kansas City Wednesday. Independent telephones have been placed in both the house and senate. J. B. Pillard's attorneys in the "Bi ble" case have asked Judge Hazen for a new trial. The Kiities will not play in the Grana Monday, the engagement having been declared off. A meeting of the Euterpean club is being held with Miss Kdith Van Dorp this afternoon. Isaac Kicker will be tried in the dis trict court Friday on the charge of op erating a road house. A Ladies' Aid supper will be given at the First Congregational church Fri day evening at 6; 30 o'clock. There will be a meeting of the1 Golden Rule club with Mrs. W. K. Clarke at 11.2 Fillmore street Friday afternoon. Some of the mud and dirt was scrap ed off of the Kansas avenue navement Wednesday by the street cleaners. Oh, joy. J. R. McKeever says people have him confused with some one who is acting as one of Hypnotist Flint's subjects, and he doesn't like it. Atehiscn Globe: Tom King of Topeka goes to New York three times a year, and what he jays about the shows at the opery house goes. The Republican Flambeau club -will hold Its election of officers in the armory this evening. A smoker for the mem bers is to be eiver. afterward. The jury in the district court Wed nesday found Ed McDonald, colored, guilty of throwing the rock which struck Conductor Harris of the Rock Island. E. R. Simon, who was stenographer in the attorney general's department while Attorney General Godard held the e.ffiee, has gone into the legal depart ment of the Union Pacific railroad com pany. Earl de France, the little colored boy who is perhaps the most popular negro newsboy and bootblack in Topeka, was the first page appointed in the Kansas legislature this session. Cyrus Iceland nominated him. Meetings are being held this week in the Second Fniteel Presbyterian- church at Fiilmore and Huntoon streets. Kev. J. A. Rem ick will preach all week. The attendance at these meetings ii lar-e. A rumor" that Principal I- I. Whitte- more of the Topeka High echoed intend eei to resign at the cleise of the present term was cienied by Superintendent Davidson in the High school assembly room yesterday? George X. A'lendorf and Dora Olfer- j man, both of Topeka, secured a mar j rlage license in Kansas City yesterday, j Allendorf is a native of Greece who J Americanized bis name and he operates several candy stores in Topeka. I Twenty-seven new members were ad ded to the Commercial club last evening. The mimes of all of them had been se- cured during the "0 eiays previous. A 'particular chert is being made at this time to enlar ge the organization and it I seems to be meeting w ith success. I The marriage of Miss Florence F.. Leavitt of Wichita to D. Albert Aspey of Kansas City, Mo., took place at the i home of the bndc-'s grandparents, Mr. land Mis. S. I.. Eeayitt at f14 Jackson street Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Frari cis D. Hsyes performed the ceremony. The citizens of South Topeka axe on i the war piath after another joint whie-h has started tip in that end of town to i take the place of those lee'ently cut off I in the blossom stage by the police. The i new "h"ll hoW is said te hf located in i the rear of a restaurant at 1303 Kansas avenu". Walter Walker, the young comedian who is ftppoaring as "Dick Carewe" in Morris Hall':; production of "When We Wer-- T enty-one." is attracting great attention and receiving unstinted praise for his artistic work in that many-sided character. Mr. Walker ha.' been a star for a number of years, anc i is well known to theater-goers. Contracts were signed at Cleveland Wednesday for Ezra Kendall to make a pday out of Eugene Field's "Little Hoy Blue" for the starring of Arthur Dunn ra-xt season. Dunn has been seen in Topeka twice as "Flipper," the jockey in the musical comedy "A Run away Girl." Dunn is just the right size for a "Little Boy Blue" for he is small er than Sam Itadges. Lawrence Journal: Of the two thous and people who went to see Governor Bailey inaugurated, probably l.diO were out of town folks. Not more than one in a hundred of the Topeka people turned out. And yet. we are prone to look upon Topeka as a town of political pullers and pushers. There is not a town in Kansas where the inhabitants i pay as little attention to politics as they j do in Topeka. j Senate committees are likely to be created to handle legislation relative to educational institutions, irrigation and labor. At a meeting of the committee on rules yesterday afternoon it was de i cided to report favorably upon the crea i tion of these committees. It is probable that the chairmanships wiii go to Sena tors Bust how, Findlav and Tapp, re spectively. It is anticipated that there will be more proposed legislation on j the se topics this winter than usual. 1 Test-ri'iay Defective Ed Pavey cap. j tureei Free! Markham. a graduate or the Hutchinson reformatory, who vio- lated his parole. Markham escaped i from one of the reformatory officers at Wichita, while waiting for a train. He had been arrest-el in that city, but wanderc-d away, leaving the officer stantlir-.g on th pp-rform with a gun in one band .and a pair e,f handcuffs in the' other. Markham forgot tei write bae k to his Alma Mater once a month as per agreement. Another Delay in Morrison Case. TC Dorado. Kan.. Jan. 15. The hearing of tiie implication for a new trial for Miss Jessie Morrison, convioteci of cutthrc Clara Wiley Cnstlc's throat with a razor, has brrn continueil ur.til the April sitting- be cause- the cle fense could not so t The brief r-rboed i: time. It is now in the bands of I the primer nr. J will miike 2X1 pages. MPs I Morr ison is snen-linfi; tire winter with her i lircthtr. who is 'A oepoty sheriff at Knid, Ok. filin ("ustie. who recentpv went to Cal i ifomiit. is ;r cl-rk i;i a cler-inrtmerit gtenre in I. cs Ant' 1' s. It is rumored that he will marry a Butler county pirl. Rocke'eller Gives S100.000. w York. Jan. IS. John D. P.ockefel- lus eontrihuted $!v.r- toward a 1 of ?'e-e.0o0 to be raised by the V. X fun 51. A. of bvc-'oklyn. The trustees and el i re tz ir b.f the w;l s had .-tors of the association h ive en efi in nnuiteir.pt to raise this a mount re the enel of the current ye-ir. At time Mr. IP-ckefeiier-? contribution nnncuree-i it was said that the fund reached $'!Sr..(H"'0. Croup. T'ne peculiar cough which indicates croup i is u-'iali'.- w- ii known to the mothers of croupe- ciiii Ircn. No lime should b lost in J the lre;:ii:o-t of it. and for this purpose i no me-!;., ;r.t his ri eeiv- i more cravi-rsal approval than Chan Pe: lam's "oap:h Rem i eciy I io rait waste valaahie time in exp-ri- menuni: with untrr-.-tl remedies, no matter cow liigiilv they may be recommended, but give this medicine as cirected ami ail symptoms of croup will quickly disap pear. For sale by all druggists. 52 HIRAM P. DILLON. Prfisir!pnt. JOAB MULVANE, Vice ff P"3 H F f"vS vjElliy.'llkiu Oily ilildl'jidMliy Oiiaiylilillv The only Company in Kansas with a Paid-Up Cash Capital. Insures Against Fire, Lightning, Cyclones, Windstorms and Tornadoes. Writes more busi ness in Kansas than any other Company. ANNUAL STATEMENT, JANUARY 1, 1903 ASSETS liOans on real estate secured by first mortgages $321,590 00 City of Topeka bonds and other bonds and stocks 94,730 12 Loans secured by collateral 31,318 00 Cash in banks and office 11,241 84 Cash in Transmission 25,872 78 Bills receivable 4,567 55 Accrued interest on loans 6,552 94 All other assets 2,164 93 Total J498,038 16 LIABILITIES Cash capital $100,000 00 Reserve for reinsurance 279,493 33 Reserve for unpaid losses 12,717 46 All other liabilities 3,654 60 Net surplus 102,172 77 Total $498,038jL6 Increase in assets for 1902 $50,666 41 Increase in reinsurance reserve for 1902 22,258 36 Surplus to policy holders 202,172 77 Total losses paid to Dec. 31, 1902 $1,019,518 20 DIRECTORS Hiram P. Dillon, Topeka. T. D. Fitzpatrick, Salina. Joab Mulvane, Topeka. L. A- Will, Salina. Hon. E. N. Morrill, Hiawatha. James W. Going, Topeka. A. A. Robinson, Topeka. D. W. Mulvane, Topeka. Edward Wilder, Topeka. 1 John R. Mulvane, Topeka. George M. Noble, Topeka. 5 GOOD FOR BLUE KAPIDS. Recent Decision of Supremo Court Joyfully Received, Blue Itapids. Kas., Jan. 15. In its opinion handed down Saturday the su preme court affirmed the judgment of the Marshall county district court in the case of Hayden vs. Green et al., which involved the welfare anel public interests of lUue Rapids to a very great extent. In fact, the property and in terests in litigation were so intermingled with every other property and interest that the entire locality was practically involved in this case. It is well known that Blue Rapids possesses the natural advantages and resources which should long ago have made her a much larger and more im portant town. Her great waterpower her inexhaustible gypsum deposits anc; the incomparable tanning country im meeliatelv tributary give her a sure biisis for the support of a population of several thousand people. About twenty years ago the old town company which founded Blue Rapids gave up the balance of its property to satisfv its obligations, and went out of business. This property consisted of a large number of town lots and blocks scattered throughout the town, and that part of the waterpower which had not lilreadv p-issed into individual hands, mi l this prope rty fe ll into the possession of cistern speculators. Visionary and extravagant notions of the property, it is charged, dominated its management and control to such an extent as to prove a bar to new im provements. This little item, "Hayden et al. vs. Oreen et al. affirmed," so small and un important to most eyes, is a most wel come message to Blue Rapids. FOK WOMAN SLTFKAGE. Senator Smith Hopes They Will at Last Succeed. Senator Fred buniont Smith hopes seme day to have a monument of i bronze representing: himself in the act i of har.di.is to the women of Kansas the right of equal suiiraze on an eeiua.o-v with men. Aire id v th" members of the legislatur e are bcgh-rimz to glance 'un easily at the door as if expecting an ap pariation in rustling skirts and long hair and Senator Smith alone is at peace. He has announced that be will introduce a bill to grcnt to women the right to vote for presidential electors and state o;Tker. Petitions for the pas sage of the bill have been in circulation i ail over the state anei their arrival a, the r-tate houe 1 nlmo-t due. The Kansas Koual Suffrage associa- tion is as untiaggirgiy busy as ever and promises to help the legislature al! it can toward the passae-e ot the long desired woman's suffrage law. as soon as the real work of the legislature is under 'way the women wi:l be here headed by their committee ai d officers composed j of the following persons: Helen Kim- her. Parsons, president: Mrs. Mason S. 1 Peters. Kanras City, vice president: iT'.lrs. John K. Sims, corresponding secre tary. Topek i Mrs. Clara N. TJouehty. Recording secretary. Topeka: Mrs. Lilin 1 Pav Monroe, treasurer. I. eon: Mrs. W. -A. Johnston. Topeka: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Johnson, Court'.and; r.Irs. J. D. Mcl-ar-land. Topeka Mrs. Emma Troudner, Carbondale: Mrs. Frank Doster, Mar ie n; Dr. Debora K. Longshore, Toseka; President. JAMES W, GOING, Secretary and Manager. Cask Capital $100,000.00. Losses Paid $1,019,518.20. THE OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. Mrs. L. A. Forsha. Hutchinson: Mrs. Charles W. Smith, Stockton; Mrs. Leslie Patterson, West Mineral: Mrs. E. A. Enright, Kansas City; Mrs. Emma Al bright, "Winfield: Mrs. A. C. Pierce, Junction City; Mrs. A. H. Horton, To peka; Mrs. Bina Otis, Topeka. Growth of Postal Business. Washington, Jan. 15. The receipts of the fifty leading postoffices o the United States for December as com pared with December, 1901, show a net increase of 14 per cent or $734,235. Day ton, Ohio, shows the largest increase, almost 34 per cent, and Los Angeles ranks next with over 32 per cent. New York city receipts aggregated Jl. 289. Ill, an increase of 15 per cent; Chicago $'--32,186, an increase of nine per cent. The only decrease was a little over 2 per cent at Troy, X. 1'., accounted for by the recent discontinuance of postal card distributing agency there. Harzenyi's Plan Approved. Pittsburg. Pa., Jan. 15. The executive committee of the board of home mis sions of the Reformed church of the United States of America in session here has approved the plan of Dr. S. T. Harzenyi. a Hungarian theological stu dent at Tiffin, O., to organize his coun trymen in the United States into Chris tian associations under the direction of the Reformed church. Dr. Harzenyi says there are about 100,000 Hungarians in this country, whom he hopes to in duce to join the oarganization. An an nual charge of 50 cents for missions will be collected from each member. Burglars Stole Black Jewels. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 15. Burglars ransacked the rppidenrp of Mrs. Adpiain-. Houston of this city lust evening and car ried off 410 pounds of anthracite coal in parks. They did not touch jewelry and Tlate. A BREATHING SPELL. If the consumptive could only keep from getting worse it would be some encourage ment. Scott's Emulsion at least gives tired nature a breathing spell. The nourishment and strength obtained from Scott's Emulsion are a great relief to the exhausted system. This treatment alone often enables the consumptive to gather force enough to throw eft the disease altogether. Scott's Emulsion brings sti ength to the lungs and flesh to the body. Scad for Free Fftmple. SCOTT BOWSE, ChemisU, o Pearl St., N. Y. JOHN R. EDWARD FAMIflE Ifi SWEDEN. Keports Indicate a Distressful Situation in That Country. London, Jan. 15. Telegrams froVi Stockholm confirm the distressing ac counts of famine in northern Sweden as given in these dispatches. About 3,000 people are affected by this famine which extends from the 61st to the 67th degree north latitude and from the gulf of Bothnia and the Russian border far into the interior. The starving people are eating pine bark, which is dried, ground to powder, mixed with stewed Iceland moss and made into a kind of famine bread. Coincident with the failure of the crop is the extreme scarcity of fish. The fishermen return from their expeditions empty handed. Even ptarmigan, usual ly found in great numbers in the strick en district, have almost completely dis appeared. It is estimated that the ex penditure of about JS.300.000 will -be necessary to save the population from decimation. Thus far about $200,000 has been subscribed of which sum over $12, 500 was sent by Swedes in the United States. This amount does not include the money necessary to save the breed of cattle, which alone can live through an Arctic winter, or supply seed for the spring sowings. The peasants are making pathetic sacrifices to avert the extermination of hardy northern cattle. Finely chopped twigs of birch, wdllow and ash are used for feed. The mixture is boiled and fed to the cattle warm, but it is found that the milk of the cattle thus fed leads to dipherd fever. This and other diseases are certain to spread unless relief is hastened. The situation threatens a repetition of the terrible famine of 1867, when thousands died of starvation and dipherd. A spe cial commission of the Swedish govern ment who has just returned from the scene of the distress 'emphasizes the necessity for the adoption of immediate rlans to abate the distress. His report has caused a most painful impression and will, it is hoped, enhance the nat ural efforts to provide remedial meas ures. Up to the present 1.300 car loads valued at over $100,000 represent, the total quantity of provisions and fodder shipped to the famine stricken area. Leavenworth County Contest. Lea venworth, Kan., Jan. 15. The lower contest court in the election contest be tween Cory. Republican, and Spencer, Democrat, for county treasurer finished a recount of the votes on Leavenworth county late Wednesday and found that Spencer was seven votes ahead. The elec tion boards in November returned Spencer a majority of 142. the lower court refusirg to count 750 votes of veterans of the Sol diers' home. Cory will appeal the case to the district court and then to the state su preme court to try and compel the count ing of the. veterans' vote. The offices of registe. ot" deeds and surveyor also depend on the counting of the veterans' votes. "Weaver Named for Mayor. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 15. John Weaver, present district attorney of this county, was today unanimously nominated by the Republican city con vention for mayor to succeed Samuel H. Ashbridge. The Democratic conven tion was held last night. Francis Fish er Kane was named for mayor. MULVANE, Treasurer. WILDER, Auditor.

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41 ML- 9t s mZ COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS. A musical comecy new to Topeka and in the first season of its success will be seen at the Grand tomorrow night in Rice's "The Show Girl." The piece was produced in New York in early summer last year, and caught on from the out set. Mr. Rice promises that the pro. duction he will send to Topeka will be equal in every respect to the Broadway show. Seats are selling at Flad's. "When We Were Twenty-one" is a love story pure and simple and is told in a straightforward, homely way. It is a story of how Dick Carewe and his comrades rear and guide the only son of a deceased chum; how they guard and save him from the pitfalls and snares that lie in the path of life at 21. It is a story of hearts bound together by ties of friendship that nothing can break, and of how the comrades sava their ward from the results of his fool ish Impetuosity. It also tells how a great and abiding love comes to Dick, all in return for his willing self-sacrifice for the girl he loves and who, he thinks, loves his ward. This play will be pre sented by a company of artists at the Grand Saturday afternoon and night, and seats ar eselling at Flad'B at 25 and 50 cents for the matinee and 50 cents to $1 for night. Krl Redmond, who appears in th character of "Davy Crockett." in the play of that name, is especially well fitted to portray the character of this wonderful American. He has made special study of the life of Crockett, and has come to actually live the part while on the stage. The late Frank Mayo achieved his greatest fame as "Davy Crockett." For years the public would not tolerate him in any other part. Not until he appeared as "Pudd'nhead Wil son," in Mark Twain's famous play, would the public allow him to forego the character of "Davy Crockett." Mr. Redmond is the legitimate and worthy successor of Mayo, in this magnificent drama. He will be seen at the New Crawford Sunday niht in the play, and I the advance sale starts tomorrow morn ing at Rowley Snow's. "For Love's Sake" will be the opening bill Monday nlsrht at the New Crawford of the two nights' engagement of the j Thurston comedy company. This will be women s free flight. A comedy of the higher type is "Peck's Bad Roy." which will be at th New Crawford next Thursday night. It is beautifully staged and the company which is presenting It is unusually strong. J. W. Clifford and W. J. Mc Dermott are the fun-makers. With the funny comedians are Blanche Gibbs. Beatrice Gamble, Florence Alden.Wash-tel-la. Ruby Roerers, J. Lester Herbert, Wilbur W. Martin, J. W. Morton, R. "W. Mack. The Kilties band has canceled its date at the Grand next Monday and will not come here. 3? ire- in Orphans' Home. St Douls. Jan. 15. A defective furnace flue in the Christian Orphans' home caused a fire that imperilled the lives ot Vttt little inmfltes, but all were rescued. A 3-vear-old chiid was found unconscious from suffocation, but was later rescued. The fire spread rapidly and when extin guished had caused such damage that the building may have to be reconstructed. For the time the neighborhood has fur nished homes for the children.

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