The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 27, 1903

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v5 r i r s -I Hi I i M i i TEN PAGES. TUESDAY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 27, 1903. TUESDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. V v r 4 L. v-: x LAST CHIOS UI1TF An Informal Ballot Taken joth Houses. in Brilliant Speeches Are .31 ado in the House. SENATOKS DOST TALK. Carefully Prepared Speeches Ho by the Hoard. Lon Ueceive a Total of 123 Votes Harris :$o. At noon today both houses meeting ptrsit.ly took, a formal ballot for tnii'.-i States senator. Tomorrow at ntvii they will meet in joint session in re; tentative hall, according to a Joint resolution, and canvass the vote taken today, and formally declare Chester I. j Lons elected to the I'nited States senate j lor the term of six years beginning on tlareh 4 next. I In the house this morning the vote I tood iZ for Long and 29 for the re-elec- j tion of William A. Harris. The ab- j entees were Stubbs, Barker and Law, j a.U Republicans. I In the senate the vote stood SO for Long to 6 for Harris. The absentees were Fr.llington, Cubbison, Leidy and fcusrhow. When the senate was called to order j at noon to take the formal ballot after a recess, Senator Allen shut off the j nominating speeches by moving that no speeches be made. Senator Aoitzger ior Long and Senator McMillan for Harris had prepared nominating speeches on which thev had put hard work. The motion carried by a rising vote, and I Noftzger especially was -joshed" for j the work which he had expended in j vain in preparing his nominating j Speech, j In the house it was different. No one obje. ted to nominating speeches, and while the speeches had not been so! cen fuliy prepared they were listened to j with evident interest. i As soon as the house had been called j to order and Speaker Pringle had made J the usual announcement that "the hour had arrived," Representative Galle o I Mcl'herson arose to nominate Mr. Long, j lie said: I 'I desire to place in nomination for the high office of I'nited States senator a gentleman not onlj known in Kansas as a gentl. man of ability, but through out the b-nu'th and breadth of this great nation. He first came into prominence j in national politics in 14 when he va. i elected to congress from the Seventh I congressional district of this state. He j ww re-el"ete 1 in K. and in lyt he was e,-. f"d hy a majority of ov 7,w in a. district which had always beev ex. eedinely close, and which had some times been misrepresented by Jerry "He is a man whose ability was rec ognized by the speaker ot t lie national; bouse of representatives when lie wan plaoed on the important ways and! means committee in his second tern When the Porto Riean tariff ouesfion! was up for debatfl the speech which he made on that subject was such a f)r,fl i that it called forth from the president j f the t'nited States, sitting at the head! of his cabinet, the remark that it was I one of the most lucid and best speeches ever mad" on that subioet. i "As a m'-rnber rf the vvnys and means committee in the house his ability and: knowledge attracted such attention that i he was unanimously chosen to l'ad the f ght for Cuban reciprocity on the floor f the house, and I need not recount how b,e led that struggle and won it in i the face of sreat obstacles. By this action he became the special friend and! advisor .f President -Roosevelt. i "I predict that when this man is elect, j d to r-nresent our stale in the I'nited! States senate Kansas will aeain assume! th" picud posi'ion she held when the! illustrious Insalls and Plumb were her! mators. Aye, site will be st 1 erent. i- because nations we aie now one of the great! of the world, a world iowet rind great national and internal ion: i j cur-stions will arise which must be! solved right, and I predict that the n- w s-nator from Kansas will be one of f w statesmen who will lead in the solution! of thee great problems. "I now have the honor of placing the; name of Hon. Chest...- 1. Bong in nomi- nation for fnittd States senator from In a-isas," j "VYAC.IKNKR NV.MTN-ATKS HARRIS 1 As soon as con.dudel. I'. pr-sent.iliv V is.'-n.-r arose to nom mute Senator I! nils. This was th first tin ,e that the A'chis.m mm his made a ;j ee, h oi' any l- ngth the floor of the li. use. and he instantly drew the closevt t ion. 'it h- irii al to t ile,' he said in ring, of lean in the dis a public trust nations as to his to., poiw.n of the harg to le ft t'rotti ..id carts ot envy, mele e and si ite. But v hen Senalor V.'ihiam A. Harris retire from the r.i.,-.i Staf-s ...-ate re-c, Mareh he will S.vn- l.-hind liim a re. f .'d of six years s-rU.-o which wid be unbieniisliel by supii ion. a record un tarnished by .orrtii t ion. a record with out a tti.ee of private p.-.u!H tiori or pi'b lic di'ho:n-sty. For siv ye.rs he has been a i'adhful tribune of the people, and when he retir.s it win be with the I .ajoiTs oi niiiiint-iR nniititudos who shall sav, 'Wei! done, good and faithful servant.' (Applause- by f usj. mist-I. v It would be a s.-.urce of gratification to thousands of Knnsa Recub'ti'.-ans if Senat-a- Harris could be his own succes sor. But it cannot he. The exigen.ieo of politics have d-oroed otherwi o. Rut sm.c it is must be otb- rwise w e feel that sonice of gratification to the citi zens of Kansas thafthe senato-cil man tie is to fall on the shoulders of Ohetr I. Bong, who. I have no doubt, will emulate the hlu-t.ious exanro'e of hi prd-.-.'S!..-.r. (Applause bv Remihlica nsi the p. oi iausas ever since i;ie dark da s b- the civil war have oc!. liiaKing nitory withotit dill'iculties. "b Tt has not beep, ut no-.v K:-ins:.s is nn .niinr-1. r-'eogc star in the gaiaxv th- nam- s of the potential In the a r-d te brightest if stab's. And among men who have been d-.i-'vonient of these inagninc -T t r-suits, th li.am A. Harris should name of Wil and will have to b. li-in ,1 peace m the 1 to our criu.iren and our children's children. "And now in obe.Hpr-ee to th-- -isii..q of a loyal minoritv, not expect 'ng"rim to h" (Beted lui! in ord--r to plie- oi,r s.dves on rrcrd as exfu-essing our con fidence in his ability as a statesman our admiration of him r,j a cltie" and our eppreciation of him as a fri.-nd r.d a neighbor, I place in nomination the nam of William A. Harris for I'nited States senator." Mr. Waggetier w.if congratulated by both siO"s on iris speech. As soon as be had finisned tb i"!l was called and t itch man rose and announce.) bis choice for -ti,r, with the result an nounced auov in the s vv;a Senators Wers Ready Y, it ii .eches but Were Shut Out. In the senata the men who were to have nominated candidates for the I dike i States senate were euually pre pared to speak, but the senate voted to cispense with nominating speeches. In fact thev had their "ey tem-oraneous" bursts of enthusiasm all written out r a.iv to deliver at the tap of ttte gavel. S. na'tor Xoftzaer had been selected by the Republican side of the house to de liver the decorations tor Mr. Long's nomination, while Senator McMillan, as the representative of the minority, won going to grind out a few lines of tribute, tor Senator Harris. In order that there might be no monotonous repetition oi eulogies Xoftajfer and McMillan had got ten together and compared speeches be forehand. THE SPEECHES THAT WERE NOT .MADE. Senator Xoftzger's: "Twelve years aso that mighty political crusade widen passed over this state swept iimii mo chair which we are now about to till the brilliant Ingails. whose Incomp arable eloquence and sparkling w it had lor eighteen years been wont to rill the galleries of the senate chamber of the I'nited States and to make the name ot Kansas glisten in the eyes of all the world like burnished steel. "That invasion of the Goths and Huns; of the political world carried devasta-i tion and destruction to the Seventh con- j gressional district of Kansas. When it j was ended that vast empire of hitherto impregnable political strongholds was dotted over with the ruins of its citadeia and not a Republican leader had been able to withstand the fierce onslaughts of that fanatic horde. So complete was the annihilation that the task of re civilizatton fell to the lot of the few humble Romans of Republicanism who had by chance of fortune survived the rage of battle. "The standard around which they ral lied was that of a gallant leader. Fur ten long years that banner has been to us a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire at night. Following that leader, sometimes to failure and sometimes to success, we have seen that bannei' raised from the slough of political de spond to the mountain top of victory. "The man under whose battle scarred colors we of the Big Seventh have fought so long, has outgrown the limits of district boundaries and it is with par donable pride and eager expectations that we now yield him to the state at j large, for we who know him best be- I lieve that he will till this, the highest j legislative office known to all history, with such fidelity and with such patriotism that his future career will redound to the honor and enhance the j glory of our heloved state and country.! "Mr. President. 1 nominate to be a senator of the I'nited States from Kan- j sas, Hon. Chester I. Long." SENATOR Mc MILL AX'S EFFORT. Senator .McMillan's: "My esteemed colleague who has preceded me has most, eio!llen,. 1 y portrayed the merits and qualifications of the distinguished statesman, whom the Republican party has selected for the high and exalted dignity of V. S. senator. Upon the part of the fusion party in the state of Kan sas and by the favor and compliment of my colleagues, an honor I most high ly appreciate, I have been instructed to name the candidate, who by the un animous choice of that great party has b"en selected as their candidate to rep resent the great and sovereign state of Kansas in that most august of all leg islative bodies, the senate of the I'nited States. In naming at this time the can didate of the fusion party of Kan?.as for senator, we have no trouble in ar riving at a decision. We are but glad lv obeying the commands of our party as solemnly declared by both the Dem ocrat and Populist state conventions, that for great and valuable services rendered to the people of Kansas irre spective of party, on account of his high and lofty character, his great in tellectual attainments, his profound knowledge and insight into the prin ciples of government; by his industry and sympathetic labors for the interests of his constituents, especially the old soldiers, by his unflinching support and advocacy at all times of wise and ben eficial legislation; by the advanced stand he has taken upon all the great economical and political questions of the day which has achieved for him a very high and enviable position amongst legislators, and has stamped the candidate, whom we present to you for your suffrages, Hon. W. A. Harris, as a statesman of the highest and purest type and one who has proved himself a representative of all the peo ple of the whole country. "In this matchless contest, -which is now- going on for the supremacy of the p' opie. the loss to the state and nation of such a representative as Mr. Harris, so pure a type of the early founders of the republic, will indeed be a great put- lie calamity. While I implicitly believe in the ultimate triumph of the. princi- !'.'-'-s of my party, I am conscious at this 1 tin e that I am representing the losing cause, but I would be derelict to the trust reposed in me if I fail briefly though it be to eulogize the qualities of our candidate and his eminent fitness for th" o'iice of senator. While party exigencies, as put ties are organized will not p.'i mit his return to the high place I" h'is filled so acceptably and well, it is generally and graciously conceded by jail that Senator Harris has proved him- self a lofty type of American manhood, able, legj.al. self reliant and alwavs i courageous and true. "Senator Harris has always worked i for what h" has regarded as the rights j of the people, and has done all in his rower as his record shows to promote the welfare and prosperity of this com imonw.alth and republic, and the radi an.oe of his integrity and the brightness "f his honor has never been assailed or i ouc Honed. Rising always superior to I.... uMii.-iii). ne nas moored with extra ordinary zeal for the public good and m war or in peace, has ignored any interest but of his state and of the na tion. "His views on finance, taxation edu cation, commerce and agriculture, the rights of the people and a wise and eco nomical administration of the affairs of government have alwavs been based on wise principles and in accordance with the best thought and traditions of the republic. TIt records of congress refer ring to the Spanish war, the settlement of the I'rion pacific debt (no 50 pet cent, oomrromise for him), the Panama canal, the pure food investigation, hia zeal and success in securing to the manv pensioners in Kansas just end liberal treatment, testifies to his efforts in be ha'f cf the public weal. "The history of national legislation for the last six years cannot be written without a pron.ienf mention of W. A Harris. It wool.' be vain for mrtisan -o:-bstry to undertake to belittle the brncecfnt influence and the legislative uceess of w. A. Harris, which has (Continued on Sixth Page.) FIFTY PERISH. Fire Breaks Out in an Asylum for the Insane. Haifa Hundred of the Inmates Burn to Heath. WERE PANIC STRICKEN Couldn't Help Themselres and Ketarded Work of Rescue. Five Buildings in AH Were Con sumed by Flames. London, Jan. 27. About fifty Insane patients were burned to death by a fire at the Colney Hatch asylum this morn ing. The outbreak occurred in the Jewish wing of the institution. The flames spread with great rapidity and before they could be gotten under control five wooden buildings, including dormitories and the doctors' apartments were de stroyed. Ail the efforts of the officials were di rected to removing the insane Inmates, but the latter became wild with excite ment and so panic stricken that not only were they unable to help them selves, but greatly impeded the opera tions of those trying to save them. There were nearly 600 women in the burned annex at the time the fire was discovered and most of them were safe ly transferred to the main building which was uninjured. Some, however, escaped and are still at large, rendering it difficult to ascertain the exact num ber of those burned to death. The work of searching the ruins con tinues. The officials admit that about fifty bodies have been recovered, but it is feared that the full extent of the dis aster is not yet known. All the victims were lunatics. Their charred remains presented a horrifying spectacle. The asylum was besieged by anxious rela tives and friends of the patients who arrived from all quarters. Pitiable ecenes were witnessed as weeping men and women left the premises after as certaining that relatives and friends had perished in the flames. The nurses had a terrible experience in trying to assist the insane people who were so panic stricken that they had literally to he driven to a place of safe ty. The Inflammable premises almost immediately became a furnace. Noth ing was left standing. The corrugated iron roofs of the dormitories and the bedsteads of the patients were melted by the intense heat. Some of the luna tics were burned in their beds and the charred remains of others were found huddled together in corners. while groups of partially consumed oodles on the site of the corridors showed that many persons lost their lives and sacri fied those of others in their frantic ef forts to force a passage through the flames to the main building. The latest estimate places the (jiumber of deaths at fifty-two. All the victims were women. ALL BEARS. May Wheat Makes a Sensational Slump in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 2.1. The bull campaign in May wheat received a severe set back today and a decline of over two cents was registered in that delivery. The main reason for the decline was the disappointing foreign advices which caused considerable anxiety among the longs resulting in the unloading of heavy lines upon an already weak mar ket. The let in the export demand was the principal bear factor, advices from France to the effect that the wheat which had been sold here the j past few days presumably for French consumption was intended for grinding in bond and to be exported again as flour. The leader of the campaign who has been an active burer for the past i few weeks took but small part in the I trading today, and as a result the mar ket lacked any material support, every body seemingly beinfr on the bear side. Lower Liverpool cables caused a weak opening and May was off to 814ffiSl?jc and after a momentary rallv, with the price went up to 81Tsffr82c there was a gradual decline, and before the end of the first hour the price had dropned to 73'8c. RISE UP, MR. NICHOLS. Senate Wants Fou to Explain About Insurance Suits. The legislature has interested itself in the attempted proceedings begun by County Attorney Galen Nichols a year or more ago to ousta lot of fire insur ance companies from business in Kan sas on the ground that they were trusts. Xichols commenced the suits on the relation of Attorney General Godard but dropped them before they came to trial. A concurrent resolution instructing the insurance committees of both houses to ascertain why the cases have not been brought to trial was introduced yester day by Senator Allen. In discussing his resolution Allen afterward said: "Those suits formed an important lot of litigation and I was much interested in them at the time they were brought. I have heard no satisfactory explanation of why they were dropped. Inasmuch as the name of the state was used I be lieve the legislature has a right to know all about them." In the senate this morning when the Nichols investigation resolution came up Senator Clianey of Shawnee county urged that Mr. Nichols be given an opportunity to appear before a commit tee and defend himself. At the sugges tion of Senator Allen, the author of the resolution, it was referred to the com mittee on insurance. Following is the resolution: Whereas, Galen Nichols, county attor ney of Shawnee county, on the relation of A. A. Gorlard, attorney general, com menced a suit, April 9, 1901, in the dis trict court of Shawnee county, to oust forty or more fire insurance companies from doing business in Kansas on the alleged ground that they were operating in violation of the anti-trust law. Whereas. The said Galen Nichols traveled about the country taking depo sitions in the aforesaid case and aa- nounced in the newspapers that he was making it warm for the trust. Whereas, The case has been dragging in the district court nearly two years, and several times has been continued at the request of the defendant companies and by the consent of the said Nichols. Whereas, The record in the clerk's office of the -district court shows that nothing has been done about the cane since May 28, 1902, when it was con tinued. Whereas, It is charged by the said X'ichols in his bill of particulars and re peatedly charged by newspapers and by politicians on the stump that the de fendant companies are in a combination to increase rates, and to accomplish their purpose have agreed to keep in force rates fixew by the so-called Eld ridge rating bureau of Topeka. in viola tion of the aforesaid anti-trust law. Whereas. The people of Kansas are deeply interested in the outcome of the litigation started by the said Nichols on the relation of the attorney general; therefore, be it -Resolved. That the committee on in surance in the senate and the commit tee on insurance of the house are hereby instructed to ascertain the status of the case herein referred to, and the reason it has not been brought to trial, and re port at the earliest possible date. Prince Wolffgang Found Shot With His liifle Near By. Nordhausen, Prussia, Jan. 27. Prince Wolffgang- Stolberg-Stolberg- was foijnfl shot dead early this morning in the park of his castle at Rottleberode. His rifle was nearby, but it is not known whether he was murdered or accidentally shot him self. The prince's father died a few days aso. Efi ROUTE TO CANTON. President and Party Bound for MeKinley's Old Home. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 27. The special train bearing President Roosevelt and party en route for Canton, arrived at 11:45 a. m. The trio thus far has been without special incident. Altoona, Pa., Jan. 27. The president's special train passed through at 7:55 this morning on its way to Canton. The president's car was dark. Washington, D. C. Jan.- 27. President Roosevelt and a party of friends left here at 12:30 o'clock this morning via the Pennsylvania road for Canton, O., where they are to participate in the cel ebration of the McKinle-y birthday ex ercises. They occupy 'a special train made up of the president's car, the "Courier." the "Hungary," the "New Zealand" and the "Eipus," a combination baggage and chair car. The r reside.:,., accompanied by Secretary CorfcV.you. reached the railroad station shortly-before 12 o'clock and retired to his apartment soon after ward. Those in the party in addition to the presirlent were: Secretary Root, Secre tary Cortejvou, General Leonard Won.1, Colonel T. A. Bingham. Captain W. S. Cowles. Surgeon General Rixey of the navy. Assistant Secretary Brigham of the agricultural department. Represen tative B. W. Taylor. Charles Emory Smith, Edward A. Kins and Julius Whiting, Jr., of Canton. FOUND IN AFRICA. Nephew of Princess Salm Salni Restored to Mer. Vineland. N. J-, Jan. 27. A cable dis patch has been received here from Princess Salm Salm of Prussia saying that she had found her nephew, Frederick C. Johnson, and that he sailed for home from Antwerp on Saturday. Johnson, who is the son of Colonel and Mrs. Edmund Johnson, of Vineland, disappeared in Belgium four months ago while returning from a visit to the princess. His baggage was found at Antwerp, and as he had several hun dred dollars with him, foul play was feared. Detectives looKeu tnrougn Jcurope for the lad. They finally found him in South Africa and brought him to the princess. ACTRESS BADLY BURNED. Blazing Cosmetic Falls Upon Char lotte Groves in Her Dressing Eoom. New York, Jan. 27. Screaming with pain and terror. Miss Charlotte Groves, one cf the sehnolma'ams in "The Sultan of Snlu." rushed from her dressing room in Wallack's theater yesterday after noon. Her face, shoulders and arms were covered with burning cosmetic. Other members of the company rushed to her assistance and smothered the flames. She was taken home in a car riage. It is thought she will not be able to "appear on the stage again for a woc. It was a peculiar accident. Miss Groves was "making up" for the per formance and had a pot of cosmetic over a lighted gas jet. It caught fire. She seized the burning pot and attempt ed to set it on a table. In her nervous ness she struck the pot against the wall and the contents flew over her. Pending her recovery Miss Victory Gale will take her part in the comic oera. OSAGE CITY SHOOTING. Transient Umbrella Mender Is Fatally Wounded. Osage Citv, Kan., Jan. 27. An unknown man, a transient umbrella mender, was shot and fatally wounded in a box car near the depot at. noon by a man who is still at large. It is impossible at present to identify either party or the cause of th? shootin";. SURVEYORS AT WOI.'r.. An Orient Force Is Now at Richland in Shawnee County. A party of fifteen surveyors are at work in the southeastern part of Shaw nee county surveying the right of way for the Orient railroad. From the movements of the surveyors it is expected that the roa'd will pass through Richland. The survey is be ing made from Lawrence to Osage City. The farmers of the country tributary to Richland are elated over the prospects of having a station on the long talked of road. nOLB! MAY Wit I Their Suffrage Measure Looked Upon With Favor. Believed That It Will Be Passed by Legislature. ONLY ON ELECTORS. Would Allow Them to Tote for President. Believed Leland and Bailey Both Favor the Bill. It seems quite probable that a wo man suffrage bill will be passed at this session of the legislature, although it will doubtless develop a spirited con test. Miss Helen Kimber of Parsons, pres ident of the Kansas Equal Suffrage as sociation, and other agitators of the suffrage movement, have been inter viewing members of the legislature for more than two weeks on the subject of the proposed measure. They seemed to have been extremely wise in their selection of membersto introduce the bill. In the senate Fred Dumont Smith stands sponsor for the measure, while the house was surprised last evening when Cyrus Leland introduced the wo man suffrage bill in that house. This is the first bill that Mr. Leland has in troduced. The bill does not give universal suf frage to women but allows them to vote only in presidential elections for presi dential electors. It would require a constitutional amendment to let them vote for state officers. It was a pro position of this kind that was voted down a few years ago. But there is no provision in the United States consti tution against women voting, leaving the matter entirely to the several states to regulate. Consequently the legis lature can give women the right to vote by a simple legislative enactment. It is supposed that Governor Bailey will also favor the bill, inasmuch as Mr. Leland is behind it. It will now be interesting to see how" Lieutenant Governor Hanna lines up as presiding officer in the senate. If the woman suffragists get the support of Bailey and Hanna in addition to Leland, they ought to toe able to get the bill through. The women are by no means a unit in supporting the measure. Mrs. T. A. Noftzger, wife of Senator Noftzger, is opposed to it. and she says her hus band will work against it. Heretofore Senator Noftzger has always lined up with Leland and Bailey. Xow it will be interesting to see how much in fluence his wife has over him. If the bill becomes a law at this ses sion, as it is quite likely to do, the women of Kansas will be given a chance to vote for president in 1904. MONEY FOB K. TJ. Appropriation Bill in Senate Asks for About $500,000. The bills which contemplated spend ing the most of the state's money, in troduced in the senate Monday after noon, were those of Senator Henley. One calls for the setting aside of $50,000 for the erection of a gymnasium 'at the state university while the other provides for the miscellaneous appropriations for the institution. Altogether the money asked for foots up to a little over a half million dollars. Following is a list of the appropria tion items: For current expenses for the year end ing June 30. 1904. $205,443. For current expenses for the year ending June 30, 1905, $205,443. For sewer system, $3,000. For furnishing new medical labora tory. $900. For completing tunnel. $1,000. For enlarging pharmacy laboratory, $000. Library improvement, $1,000. Repairing light and heat plant, $10, 14S. Claim of city of Lawrence, $1,080. Cases for museum collections, $9,000. Rearranging Snow hall, $3,932. Moving collections from Snow hall, $2,000. Completing chemistry building, $15,010. It is provided that $25,000 shall be available for the year ending June 30, 1904. LOOK INTO HARVESTER TRUST House Committee Headed by Hill, of Russell. Speaker Prinsle has announced the appointment oi Hill of Russell. God shalk of Rice, and Jenks of Franklin as the house members of the committee to investigate the harvester trust. The senate members are Senator Ward of Re public, who started the investigation, and Senator Allen of Btoniphan. Senator Ward is an implement dealer, and the investigation is the result of a threat of the trust to run him out of business unless he obeyed the dictates of the trust. It looks as though the mat. ter will be pretty thoroughly probed. Senator Allen says a representative of the trust came to him recently in Kan sas City and tried to scare him by threatening to withdraw the Interna tional Harvester company from the state if the investigation is pushed. "The representative belonged to the Champion division of the trust." said Alien, "and the conversation took place ill Kansas City yesterday. I told him that Kansas could get along without nv trut harvesters better than the trust could get alone without Kansas. He said it would be impossible for Kan sas to get enough harvesters without buying of the trust. I gave him a list of independent harvester factories, and said perhaps they could enlarge then plants enouch to take care of the addi tional business in Kansas. I also told him that if his concern was an unlawful organization, and doing business in Kansas unlawfully, the state could and would get along without it." WAGGENER THE FIRST. One of the Exceptions in Assignment to Committees. The appointment of B. P. Waggener as chairman of the house judiciary "commit tee is the first time such an important place has been given to a member of the minority in the legislature in twenty years The appointment was generally conceded to him. however, because of his ability as a lawyer. It is known thlt Speaker Prinele ccns5d ered the name of George J. Barker, his late opponent in the speakership contest, for the place, and Judge Barker might (Continued on Sixth Page.) ABE IN DECIDED. Weather Men at Sea Concerning the Elements. The weather men are expecting some new sort of weather for Kansas but just what it will be has not been de termined. The forecast sent out this morning was "threatening tonight and Wednes day." The wind this morning, what there was of it, was from the south east, but the recording machine seemed to stick and one or two miles an hour was probably the velocity of the air. The quietness of the air kept the fog at work all the morning and smoke would hardly drift away. The hourly temperatures recorded today were as follows: 7 o'clock 34!11 o'clock 38 8 o'clock 34 12 o'clock... 38 9 o'clock 35: i o'clock 39 10 o'clock 36i 2 o'clock 40 SPOONER CHOSEN. Re-elected to United States Sen ate on Separate Ballot. Madison, Wis., Jan. 27. John C. Spooner was re-elected to the United States senate by the two houses of the legislature in i? 4 A JOHN C. yPOONiiR, Elected to succeed himself as Wiscon sin's representative in the U. S. senate. separate session. The election will be con firmed by the joint wjpsicm tomorrow. Neall Brown of AVausau received the complimentary vote of the Democrats. ALBAUGH IS UP. His Wife Celebrates the Event With a Dinner Party.

Morton Albaugh, state bank commis sioner, was able to be dressed and come to the table for a meal last even ing for the first time since his leg was broken by a fall on the state house steps on December 13. In honor of the event Mrs. Albaugh gave a little dinner party which was attended by Cyrus Leland. Governor Bailey, Chief Justice Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bone, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. W. Y. Morgan. Mr. Albaugh's broken leg is still in a plaster cast, but he is able to go on crutches. He will probably Vie able to leave his home in two weeks. FORCE AN EARLY PRIMARY. That Is the Latest Plan of Law and Order Forces. For the purpose of forcing the "wets' to show their hand, and produce their candidate for the Republican nomina tion for mayor, if they have one, the Republican city central committee, at a meeting called for Thursday evening may decide that candidates must de clare themselves before Saturday, Feb ruary 7, and that ten days later, on February 17, the primaries shall be held. This will be what is known as an "early" primary. It is customary to hold the primaries about thirty days prior to the election. Last year the pri maries were on March 6. The plan for this year would bring the primaries three weeks earlier, and would make a long and no doubt bitter campaign for the election. The law and order people control the city central committee, and unless they get into a tight among themselves, can run it to suit themselves. There is still considerable fear on the part of the law and order people that W. F. Weber may get into the race, in the hopes of coming in between Hughes and Bergundthal. and corralling the nomination. If Hughes and Bergund thal should both stay on the track, and if Weber should come into the fight with the united liberal Republican vote back of him. he would have an excellent chance to win. ii. Euler, the treasurer of the Re publican city central committee, has an nounced his candidacy for member of the council font the First ward. Mr. Euler has lived in that ward for six years, and claims to have the united support of the liberals and the law and order people, though he is an officer of the Law and Order league. He think that he will have no objection for ttir place, as he says that A. M. Baird has refused to run. The meeting of the Republican city central committee wid be held at ths Armory, at S p. m. The following are the members of the committee, and i "ill be observed by those familiar with the membership that it is strongly law and order in character: First ward J. H. Lambertson. W. S. Eastman. Dr. O. P. Davis, H. W. Euler and Milton Bi.-kle. Second ward J. T. Howard, H. A. Willis. L. B. Rechner. J. A. Alexander, Ernest R. -Simon and S. T. Leachman. Third ward C. V. Wolf. W. S. Lind srv, G. W. Greenwood and J. W. Gleed. Fourth ward H. W. Page. James H. Guy. S. S. Rice. F. L. Evarts and Lu ther M. Nell's. Fifth ward Paul Adams, C. F. Ler- cher. C. A. Smith and C. H. Titus. Sixth ward W. A. livers, George E. Larkins and M. L. Fields. Temperature of Large Cities. Chicago. Jan. 27. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New York, 30; Boston, 2s: Phil adelphia, 32; Washington. .".2: Chicago. 34; Minneapolis, In; Cincinnati, 40; St. Louis. 50. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. Forecast for Kan sas: Threatening tonight and Wednes day; variable winds. ROBBERS DO QUICK JOB. i Blow Open the Vault of Steele ville, 111., Bank. Secure 3,000 In Cash and Make Their Escape.- A WOMAN LOOKED ON. Her Husband Ran to Secure Help of a Posse. When Citizens Arrived Thieves Had Vanished. St. Louis, Jan. 27. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Steeleville, 111., says robbers blew open the vault of the Bank of Steeleville at 3 o'clock this morning and secured $3,000 with which they es caped in a carriage. The sheriff at Chester was notified at an early hour and has left with a posse for the scene of the robbery. The Steeleville village authorities have notified the police at Sparta, Murphysboro, St. Louis and East St. Louis, as well as the constabulary of all the small towns within a radius of B0 miles, and it Is believed the robbers will be captured before night. Nitro glycerine was used to open the vault and four explosions were neces sary before the robbers could gain en trance. One man did the work inside the building while another stood guard on the sidewalk outside. Paul Zimmor, an engineer in Glister's mill, was awak ened by the report of the first explosion. Mr. Zimmer, who lived next door, glanc ed out of his front window toward the bank and saw the man standing on the sidewalk. Dressing hurriedly Mr. Zim mer went down through the alley in the rear of his house to the mill and in formed the mill employes. Zimmer and the men then armed themselves and started back toward the bank. Three other explosions were heard in the bank building in quick succession. The last explosion, more severe than any of the preceding ones, was followed by a crashing of glass, and sheets of flame poured from the bank wdndows. Mrs. Zimmer in the meantime had dressed herself and was standing on the lawn of their dwelling, which adjoins the bank property, watching the rob bers. She screamed to her husband to hurry up or the robbers would get away with the money. The robber on guard turned toward the woman and flourishing a revolver at her, saidr "Shut up or I'll blow your head off." his eonferedate. "Are you all right, Jim? Hurry up and scrape up the cash, for they are after us. but I will blow the head off the first man I see." The mill is only about two blocks from the bank, but so rapidly had the robbers worked that the vault was blown, the money gather up and the two men were running rapidly up the street by the time Mr. Zimmer and his posse had armed themselves and started back toward the bank. The men left town in an easterly direction. Steeleville is a village of 300 inhabit ants. FIGHT WITH CITIZENS. Four Men Rob the Bank at Waterloo, Neb., of $4,500. Waterloo, Neb., Jan. 27. Four men robbed the Citizens Bank of W'aterloo early today and escaped with $3,500 in cash after exchanging shots with a squad of citizens attracted to the scens by the explosion of the safe, which was wrecked. While two of the robbers worked Inside the bank, the other two stood guard. A dozen citizens appeared on the scene soon after the explosion, gathered about the bank and opened fire on the robbers. The fire was -returned, one of the robbers on guard shouting to the citizens that they had come there to rob the bank and intended to do it. Their work finished, the robbers made a dash into the darkness. Another fu sillade of bullets was exchanged but nobody was hurt, the robbers finally getting away with a stolen rig. MILLS' STORE NEWS. RUMMAGE PRICES IN THE Curtain and Drapery Section Are prices that clear stock. Here are some of them Those 100 pairs of Curtains offered last week are all sold, but we have made very low prices on another assortment. Good picking this $7.00 Irish Point Curtains 5.50 Irish Point Curtains 4.25 8.50 Irish Point Curtains 6.75 8.50 Brussels Net Curtains 6.75 4.50 Brussels Net Curtains 3.75 6.00 Brussels Net Curtains 4.75 4.50 Tapestry Portiere3 2.75 9.00 Tapestry Portieres 5.50 10,00 Tapestry Portieres 7.50 12c White Curtain Swiss 36 inches wide per yard 9o lc per yard for SILKOLINE that we have been selling special at 3c and 5c per yard--to close at lc ijg Price- Lot of Remnants Silkoline, Denims and Cretonnes-J Price. Nottingham, Ruffled Nets, Ruffled Muslin Curtains Odd Lots to close, marked very low. THE MILLS CO. 4

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TOPEKA STATE JGTJBNAlV TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, lUi5. ii Oil I litu itL i C In the List of Winning Jockevs Gannon Is Leader. i But Jledfern Is Fast Overtaking II i rn at New Orleans. SEVEN TIMES J FRONT. Darnell Herz Are the Leading Owners in Winnings. Forty-two Stables Have Earned Over the $1,000 31 ark. New Orleans, Jan. C7. Cannon sti'.l continues at the hend of the jo key list, With 3-". wins to his credit, but if lied- I fern continues in his present form it is nly a question of a short time until he passes the earlier favorite of the meet- in ff. Kedfern is second on the lint, with J 21 wins. He won seven races last week, j while Cannon also increased his total by a single win. This boy has had some bad mounts in the last few days, but apart from that, in two or three in stances, his work has been open to criticism. His efforts on Boundless it: particular were found fault with. Pos-, Fibly his loss of form is only temporary, and with better mounts in the future no doubt his good luck will continue. Dur ing the week Buchanan rode two win ner". Fulier three, Robbins four, Hicks three, Winklield four and I.lndsey three. I-Heks. in two or three races, showed quality far in advance of anything he had done previously. Durnell fr Herz still head the list of winning owners. They are nearlnjr the 15 thousand mark. Korty-two stables have earned over $1.0tj0, while 108 have won at hast one race. James Arthur is second on the list, with $8,S2S. while Philo, which runs in 3H rs. Arthur s name, has won ?:,-i3'J. Al bert Simons and S. C Hildredth are crowding- closely, and it is likely that Hildreth is the largest individual win ner, as he is one of the biggest bettors here and has won a majority of his wagers. GIANTS ABE WORSTED. Hew York Patrons Will Patronize the American League Next Year. New York, Jan. 27. It is universal lo cal opinion that the Giants and Trolley Dodgers Ernt by far the worst of the peace agreement. The west got every thing and the east nothing. A promin ent fan said: "Certainly the Giants and Supeibas got the short end of it. They lost every point for which they con tended everything they had at stake and in return got absolutely nothing. "The permission granted to the Amer ican League to establish a club right here means enjoying more than half of the plums of the greatest baseball city in the world. "As far as the New York team is con cerned the peace pact leaves it exactly as it was last year, an inglorious tail enrier. "So far ps I can see the only chance for' New York fans to see any good ball tit is year will be in case an Ameri can League team is stationed here. The list of men assigned to the New York Americans and the Giants won't be in it." CALIFORNIA OAKS SATURDAY. Sylvia Talbot, Gaviota, Honiton, Ni grette, Gravina and Others Eligible. San Francisco., Jan. -7. The chief event to be decided at Oakland this week is the California Oaks for :-year-ol'l fillies at a mile and a furlong, it will be run Saturday and a fine field is assured. Among the eligibles are Gra vina, Gaviota, Dainty. Honiton, Sylvia Talbot, Ballroom Belie and Xigrett;.. The piospeets ate that the tracit will ba muddy in the v eel-:. W. B. Jennings CO. passed the 2Ci. M0 mark Saturday, when Klliott took j the Bizzak handicap and Tacnlaw an- I r.exed tie?. 2-year-old event. The firm j has a big lead over the other owners with Jiil.SJi to their credit. Green li. Morris is now credited with S'.Ci-'i. Burns Waterhouse are still third, with S7.6e.". and. through the victories i of Princess Tiiarua, John Millin has ad vanced to fourth place, with Xniring the sixty-one 'lays the new California Jockey club distributed f;74 in stakes and purses. Twenty-mr.e owners have won sums in excess of ono, while fifty-live have taken over c-'jj WANTED A NAME. What Will tha American Ball Team in Gotham Be Styled. Chicago, Jan. 27. Traveling suits for Manager Clark Grifiith's Now York Ancrican league team were picked out today hy the manager and President Ban Johnson. It was necessary to make a hasty move in this direction so that the players under contract could have their apparel in time for the southern trip. The new fogs wili be navy blue, with white trimmings and blue stock- VJill Core You of Else No Money Is Wanted. Any honest pi rson who suiters from Ihcumatism is welcome to this offer. I am a. specialist in rheumatism and have treated more cases than any otlcr physician, 1 think. For li years X mails 2"'' ex periments with different drugs t st ing all known remedies while searching tn world for something better. Nine years a,-ro I found a costly chemical in Germany which, with my previous discoveries, gives me a certain cure. I don't mean that it can turn bony joints into rlosh again; but it can cure the dis ease at anv stage, completely and forever. I have done it fully l''rcee timep. I know this so well hat I will furnish my remedy on trial. Simply write me e post-tl for my book on rheumatism, and T will mail you an order on your druggist for six botth s Dr. Shoop's Kheunuuic Cure. Take it for a month at my risk If it succeeds, th cost is only 55 50. If it. fails I wiil pay the druggist myself and your mere word shall decide it. I mean -that exactly, if you soy the re eults are not what I claim, I don't expect sl penny from you. I have no samples. Any m?re sample that can affect chronic rheumatism murt be dragged to the verge of danger. I use no such drugs, and it is folly to lake them. You niiitt get the disease out of the blood. My remedy does that even in the mo.t difficult, obstinate cases. It has cured the oldest cases that 1 ever met. And m ail my experience in all my ",eJ tests-1 never found another remedy that would cure one chronic cuse in ten. Write me and I wili send ton the order. Try my remedy ior a month, as it can't harm veil anyway. If it fails, it is free. Aodress Dr. Shcop. Box 72:1. Racine, Y":s. Mild cases, not chronic, are often cured lor one or two Lotties. At ail druaists. oil rr n vin ill -il ll I 1 11 ings. Only in the latter particular do the New Yorks differ from the white sox in traveling uniforms. "It's now up to the boys to sugegst a short and characteristic title for the American lea spue team that wiil repre sent New York." remarked Bobby AIc Uoy today at the conference of fans at Ban Johnson's office. "The team will have to be distinguished from the giants, the name that has cluns to the New York National league club for many years. There must be no confu sion. How about Alerts for a name?" "This is not any easy one to crack," replied Idanager Griffith. "Bet Comis key make some 'kidding' remark and he will be sure to offer the right sugges tion." The fans agreed that this was a mat ter that would be settled in due tinje. The newspaper writers wiil find it necessary to make up a name for the Griffith team to prevent confusion, and some title like Athletics for the Ameri can league team in Philadelphia wiil suggest itself to some one before the season has started. "Might call our team 'burglar,' sug gested an American league man laugh ingly. "You know the National leaguers think we are up-against it in New York, and will have to break in with a jimmy." "Why not the 'Stars.' suggested an other. Other names sugested by the fans are "Veterans," "Harlemitcs." "Boves" because the peace committee included New York in the American league circuit; "Columbus." because the university of that name is situated in New York; "Koyal Blues," because the traveling uniforms are blue; "Griffiths" as a compliment to the manager; "Blue Sox," etc. AMERICAN MAGNATES Visit New York, but Fail to Reveal Location of Grounds. "New York. Jan. 27. John F. Kilfoyle and Charles V. Somers of the Cleveland Amer ican bngue baseball team, are in the city oh business connected with the placing of the American Beague tPam in this city. Mr. Somers, speaking of the baseball sit uation, said: "President Johnson will be here this week, and 1 prefer to let him do the offi cial talking for our league. I think when he gets here he wili he ready to make public all the plajis for our New York club. In regard to Air. Brush's statement in Cincinnati that the American league has absolutely r.o chance to locate in Manhattan. 1 wiil leave that for Air. John son to answer. "1 think I am safe in saying in behalf of the American league that we are all well satistied that the' National league rat uk d tile peace agreement and that henee forlh baseball will be conducted on a basis of live and let live, and that both leagues wiil be more prosperous than ever. I was a member of the American league peace committee, and I t'ett certain that the compact would be ratified when the National league owners understood it." M'COY AND BOOT Will Likely Come Together at the In ternational Club. New York, Jan. 27. George Grant, manager for Kid McCoy, has just re turned from a western trip, where he signed articles for a go between the Iloosier lighter and Jack Boot at Chi cago. When Governor Yate's fiat stop ping fighting in Chicago was issued the match was declared off, but on his way east Grant stopped over at Buffalo, arid Col. J. H. Herman, of the, Internationa! Athletic club, of Fort Krie, made an offer for the McCoy-Root battle. Grant accepted for AlcCoy and Root's man ager i.i expected to accept shortly. If the Chicago man's manager signs articles the bout will be a -0-rouud affair and take pia.ee on Alarch 17. UNDER PROTEST. Alex. Gilbraith Paid Duty on His Im ported Stallions. New York. Jan. 27. The recent deci sion of W. C. De Vries. of the New Y'ork hoard of customs appraisers, to the effect that thoroughbred horses import ed for sale cannot receive the benefit of free delivery as specified In the tariff act of 1S99 found its first victims here in the Suffolk stallions that came over from Kugland on the steamer Alinnetonka. Before they could be shipped to their destination, Janesville, Wis., Alex G. Gilbraith, their owner, had to pay 25 per cent, duty on the horses, which he did under protest. RYAN MATCHED AGAIN. Will Take on" "Cyclone" Kelly at Hot Springs, February 4. lint Springs, Ark., Jan. 27. Tommy Ry an, middleweight champion of the world, who is now here at the Park hotel, ac companied by his wife, lias been matched to tight "Cyclone" Kelly of San Francisco i at catch weights before the Whittington j Park Athletic club on the evening of Feb- roary 4 for the championship. Kvan has i already started training tor the event. Kelly has been here five weeks and is in excellent condition. Ryan says this fight wili in no wise interfere with his coining tight with Philadelphia Jack O'Krion, v. hieh may take place in this city. RYAN WOULD FIGHT FITZ. But He Wants Bob to Train Down in Middleweight Ciass. Hot Springs. Ark.. Jan. 27. Tommy Ry an, champion middleweight of the world, w'no is her'"'. received a telegram from Jack ll'-rtnann, manager Fort Krie Ath- j letio club in Buffalo, asking him if he won id fiht Fitzsimmons there for a purse of 25, Ryan replied at once that 'n? I would if Fita would train down to middle weight limit. He asked them to wire date if his replv w;if satisfactory. Ryan weigcca i. :trippea. tooay. hyle Signed With Brewers. Milwaukee, Jan. 27. Billy Phyle, for merly pitcher for the St. Paul. Chicago and New York baseball clubs, has been signed to pitch and play center field for the Alilwaukee American association ball team. The negotiations whereby Phyi- comes here were closed by Manager Cantillon of the rRewers this week. Jack O'Brien will in all probability again play with the Aliiwaukee W'estern league team this season, as Alanagcr Hugh Huffy has made arrangements with Henry Killilea of the Boston club whereby ho will be able tc keep O'Brien until he is wanted by Boston. He wilt prove to be a tower of strength to the local ter.;. Haskell Loses Bain, l. Wis.. Jan. 27. William Bain, year played halfback on the Has m school team, arrived in Madi rdav morning and will enter the Madisn who last kell Ir-ii sem vest' law dep; irtment of the university at the h'-'ginuin weipbs ftio! 'call e; of the next semester. Bain pounds, has a reputation as a player and will in all probability ;elidate for the football team next he a can fail. Ba Carlisle ami for with Ba: n playeel a tackle position on the Indian school several years ago the last two seasons has niayed e.:ell. Rice Wins Over Toy. St. Bouis, Jan. 27. Austin Rice of Connecticut, received the decision over Kddie Toy of San Francisco at the St. Bouis Olympic Athletic club last night in the seventeenth round. Toy claimed a foul and quit. Kling Denies the Report. Kansas City, Jan. 27. Johnny Kling yesterday Uatly denied the report that was sent out from Tacoma, Wash., to the effect that he had signed to play with the Tacoma Pacific Nealhwest leareue team the com ins season. He says he has ne-er thousht of leaving the Chicago Nationals, and that he has not been approached by Manager B. E. McKibben of Taeoma on the subject of signing with that team. "The rumor probably started," said the Colts' star backstop yesterday, "by some remark that McKibben may have made to the effect that he was trying to secure me. As a matter of fact, he has made no effort in that direction, but you know managers sometimes say those things for" effect. No, you can say absolutely that I wiil be with tin Chicago Nationals the coming seasop." THIS NOVEL IDEA Adopted by Jim Corbett to Humiliate Champion Jefiries. New York, Jan. 27. If Jim Jeffries does not come out to defend his cham pionship it will not be the fault of Jim Corbett. Corbett says he believes Jef fries is afraid of him, and so the ex champion has hit on a novel rtlan to make the big ex-boiler maker agree to a match with him. Corbett's idea is to have a three-sheet poster printed and posted in every town in which Jeffries appears. It wiil read something like this: "James J. Corbett, the only man Jim Jeffries is afraid to meet." Corbett thinks his scheme will brine; about the fight he is spoiling for. MATTHEWSOU MAY atJIX. Made a Fortune This Winter in the Lumber Business. New- York, Jan. 27. Christy Matthew son arrived in town today from Michi gan, where he has been engaged in the lumber business with Frank Bowerman. It was reported that Matthewson had cleared $31,000. and there was a possibil ity that he would not play ball next summer. "Why should I play baseball," Matty is quoted as saying, "When I can make that much money in the lumber busi ness?" For a Concrete Fence. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 27. Bids wiil lie opened next Wednesday afternoon for im provements at the Cincinnati baseball park which, when completed, will make the lo cal play grounds the best equipped ball park in the country. The estimated cost of the improvement is $lt.i.'W. of which Sl'ftiWi or JS.uw will go toward the erection of a solid concrete wall IS feet high, to surround the park, making in all approximately 7,0 feet of concrete fence. In addition to this there will be. a concrete and wood entrance and a concrete wing on each side of the pres ent grandstand, to take the place of the wooden seats. Forbes-Tokell Bout. c nicago. jan. narry oroes, oamarii- wt ignt cnampion or tne woriu. ana .auov Tokell, champion of Borland in the same class, have been matched to meet before the West Knd Athletic club of St. Bonis February 2t in a 20 round battle for the championship of the world. The weight agreed uiion is 115 pounds at o'clock on the day of the fight. George Siier was agreed upon as a referee. Racing at Oakland. San Francisco. Cab, Jan. 27. The races at Oakland were run over a sloppy track and rain fell during a part of the time. It w:is announced today that the dates of the Thornton stakes at four miles and the Waterhouse cup were transterred. The Thornton will be run Alarch 7 and the event will be re-opened 15 days before that date for additional entries. The V atr house handicap wiil be decided Alarch 31 Paris Turf Talk. Paris. Jan. 27. The American jockey, Winnie O'Connor, has just signed a three years' engagement with Karon A. Be Rothschild for first mounts and with an other owner for second call. From the baron's stable he is to receive rnr the per-t-'wi named 575.. and from the second owner $:j,0.00. making a total of Si06,ta.The engagement begins March 1 next. O'Con nor must not scale over to kilograms. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. F. Babcock and wife to F. L. Robin son. $.1 000. south t2 northeast of southwest Vj. of northwest 14 17, 11, 16 j and part northwest ti 17, 11, 15. C. H. Sheerer to H. W. Fisher, $1, lots 398. 4W. 402 and 404 Wisconsin avenue, Keystone sub. M. J. 'Bywater to Alary Bywater, $1, lots 370 and 372 Division street. Western Land Lot company's addition. Mary A. Sedgwick to J. Miller, $200, lots 114 and 116 Spruce street, Ros.wille. C. W. Higginbotham and wife to J. Afiller, $45, lot 105 Spruce street, Ross ville. Trustees church property diocese of Kansas to AI. J. Bywater, $1, lots .170 and 372 Division street. Western Land Lot company's addition. Cornell university to Ann E. Sheldon, $100, lots 241. 243. 245, 247, 249. El, 253, 255. 257 and 259 Adams street, West View addition. AI. B. Nichols to T. J. Nichols, $100, lot 316, 313 and 320 Kellanj avenue, J. w. Alorris addition. Heads Should Never Ache. Never endure this trouble. ITse at once the remedy that stopped it for Airs. N. A. Webster of Winnie, Va. She writes: "Dr. King's New Life Pills wholly cured me of sick headaches 1 had suffered for two years." Cure headache, constipation, bil iousness. 25 cents at A. J. Arnold Drug Co.. S'21 North Kansas avenue. A I 'm fT CT fetsa ti&M 'M tBii i f Beat So Violently, Its Movement Could Be Seen Through. Clothing. Dr. Miles Heart Cure Cured Me. No matter what's the matter with your heart, it wiii pay you to try Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. It is a great heart and blood tonic that cures by removing the cause. Try it for a short time and you will find that you are no longer short of breath after brief exertion; that you can sleep in any position with com fort and without the dread of smothering; spells. It removes the symptoms and cures tne disease. It strengthens the heart's action, enriches the blood and improves the circulation. It has cured heart disease when all else failed. It has brought relief when death seemed nigh. "Since taking a number of bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure during; the past year my health is better than for many years' I no longer experience any trouble from lying; on my left side, which disagreeable symptoms used to bother me greatly. The frequent spells of palpitation and fluttering that 1 was at that time subject to were most alarming. At times my heart would beat so violently that the movement was noticeable through my clothing. Doctors said my heart was enlarged and I had frequent severe shooting fains through and in the region of my heart, think Dr. Miles' Heart Cure a great medi cine and have always been able to secure freat relief from its use. I am in good ealth now. considering that I am 60 years old. I wish you success." Andrew Jack son, Centralis, Wash All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book On Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Risdicai Co, Elkhart, Ind. KAnsAsnEivs. Overjoyed at the Sight of Her Father "She Faints. Ilesult of Unexpected Meeting In a Wichita Hotel. SEPARATED FOE YEARS She Going Home to California, He East to Her. Hat her Peculiar Happening to Mr. and Miss Kay. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 27. After hav ing been separated from her father for years, Miss Clyde Ray fainted away when by chance she met him face to face in the dining room of the Carey hotel yesterday morning. She was car ried to her room and a doctor was called, who pronounced it a faint, due to the shock of meeting her old father and to her weakened physical condi tion. The meeting was accidental, both spending the night in the same hotel without the knowledge of the others presence. The Ray family lives at Gait, Cala., and Miss Ray left her home several years ago and went east to live. A short time ago she became sick and when she did not recover she began to long for the old California home. She wrote to her father, say ing that she was going home, and after waiting long for an answer she con cluded to start while she was able to travel. In the meantime her father had written that he would go to her and ac company her home. He started east the first of the week, arriving here Sunday, and being compelled to lay over here he registered at the Carey. A few hours later Miss Ray, who had started home alone, registered at the same hotel, her name just below that of her father. She did not notice his name, however, and spent the night in a room very near the one he occupied. Yesterday .morning- -he went to the dining room and was eating, when an old gentleman, slightly grayed, enter ed. Miss Ray glanced at him and at tempted to rise, but with a cry of joy sank to the floor in a faint. Her father recognized her and hastened to her, but not in time to save her from the fali. Help was volunteered and she was car ried to her room, when medical aid was summoned. She Regained conscious ness in a few minutes and both she and her father were overjoyed at the lucky meeting, which saved her father a fruitless trip to the east and" gave the sick daughter company home. THE STOLTZMAN TRIAL. Charged With Murder of Postmaster Morrison at Pawnee. Fort Scott, Kan., Jan. 27. The trial 01 Wiliiam Stolfzman, agent for the 'FTiaco road at Pawnee, charged with having murdered the postmaster, M. J. Alorrison. at the iatter's store;Jast October, was be gun here today. Afr. Morrison was a well-to-do merchant. He slept in his store and was awakened 'one night, evidently by some one who ineiuired for a bottle of medicine which he kept in stock. As Mor rison was handing; the medicine to the cus tomer lie was knocked down and his throat cut and the store and postoffice were robbed of about $5Xi. The. murder and robberywas committed by some one1 familiar with Mr. Morrison's habits and with the hiding place of his money. A special venire of 10 jurors was summoned and it took all of Alonday to get the jury. Crowds are here from all over the county to witness the trial. Public sentiment is almost evenly divided. Stoltz man's parents own a farm near Pawnee, but were living at Topeka at the time of the murder. He is only 21 years old. Morrison was killed with a cheese knife Steitzman. it is alleged, was the last per son in the store previous to the killing. Footprints leading from a haystack, where Stoltzmau's hat was found were identified as fitting the defendant's rubber boots. A shot sack containing S217 in money, with bloody finger marks, has been identi fied as the same that was stolen from the ftore and postoffice on the night of the murder. The sack w-as found under the granarv of the Stoltzman house at Paw nee. The case is creating more interest than any for years. STRUCK A VEIN OF COAL. Important Find Six Miles West of Chanute. Chanute. Jan. 27. Wareham Islett, who are drilling a well for the Isett Brwin Oil and Gas company, struck a 12-foot vein of coal at a depth of 44H feet. The strike was made on the Barney Thielen tract, six miles west of the city. The drillers will go on and finish the well It is located across the road from the 10. (Mi.lMi easser, and they are after gas or oil. not coal. The find is important, how ever and would attract much attention if the other resources of the held were not of such greater magnitude. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. Burlingame Will Furnish Its Citizens Electric Light at Cost. Burlingame. Jan. 27. The town is just completing a fine building in which will be installed the most modern machinery of an up-to-date electric "light and perw er plant. The socialistic idea prevailed and the town will own ana ooerate it 10 furnish electricity at cost to the citi zens and munk duality. It is believed light and power can be furnished at half the prices charged by speculative electric light companies. Say There Is Oil and Gas. Arkansas City, Jan. 27 Professor D. H. Bashford, the man who declared some time ago that there was no gold in the Trego county shale is here and has made numerous experiments with Ar kansas river sand. He says that oil and gas exist in great quantities. He ha-3 created somewhat of a sensation here by his statements. Apoplexy Killed Man and Wife. Concordia, Jan. 27 Chris Nelson, agent of the Santa Fe at Oneonta. lirst station west cf Concordia, was buried yester day. He died suddenly of apoplexy six weeks after his wife's sudden death from the same cause. For Gas and Oil at Dexter. Winfield, Jan. 27. The Grouse Creek Gas and Mineral company, of which several business men of this city are members, will commence boring for oil and gas this week near Dexter, a town 20 miles east of W infield. Winfield Wants New Court House. Winfield, Jan. 27. Colonel H. C. Loo mis, formerlv mayor of Winfield, now state O. A. R. commander, is aeitating the matter of erectin a $50,000 com t house for Cowley county, to take the place of the present brick structure. Dropped Bead at Parsons. Parsons, Jan. 27. J. C. Highfield, of Scranton, Pa., who. with his wife, has been spending the winter with their daughter, Mrs. W. W. Jones of this city, dropped dead Monday afternoon in the office of his friend, Judge Scott. When he left his daughter's home after lunch he seemed to be in excellent health, but had been in Judge Scott's office but a few moments before he died without a premonitory sign of his condition. A GIFT FROM CARNEGIE. Manhattan Is Offered $10,000 for a Library Upon Usual Conditions. Manhattan, Jan. 27. The Alanhattan Bibiary association has received an of fer from Andrew Carnegie of $10,000 for the erection of a public library condi tional that the city provide a mainten ance fund of $1,000 a year. There has been a movement here for several years by the Library institute to establish a public library, and there has been ac cumulated nearly $4,000 for the purpose. Alanhattan was the home of the late Col. C. G. Anderson, who gave Air. Car negie the use of his library in his boy hood. Airs. Anderson is still living here. RURAL DELIVERY DOG. Labette County Canine Carries Kail Daily Over 12 Kile Route. Parsons. Jan. 27. The Sun says: A farmer named Arder. Reeves, wdio lives a few miles northwest of Parsons, thinks he has one of the smartest dogs in the state. Reeves and his wife are living on their home place while several of the children are living on another farm 32 miles away. The family dog is used as a letter carrier between the two farms and makes a daily trip. A small box has been attached to the collar of the dog and in this box letters from one family to the other are placed and the dog is said to make a very quick trip between the two farms each day. Reeves thinks that his method of com munication even exceeds the convenience of the rural free delivery. Crew Jumped Before Trains Met. Junction City, Jan. 27. A Union Pa cific passenger train collided with a freight train here this morning. The freight engine was almost completely demolished but its crew jumped before the collision. No one was seriously hurt. Mortgagees Get Concordia Paper. Concordia, Jan. 27. The Concordia Press has been taken possession of by the mortgagees and, it is understood, will be sold to parties who will make it an anti-Republican organ. Oil Near Coffeyville. Coffeyville, Jan. 27. A strong flow of oil has been struck at 600 feet within one-haif a mile of Coffeyville. This is the first well in this vicinity that has produced oil. The company will drill other wells on land under its lease. PASSING OF THE BEARD. The Moustache and Smooth Face Now the Proper Thing. Nothing is presently plainer in a world that loves its little mysteries, and likes to keep the observer in a state of trem ulous suspense about a good many things, than the fact that it is beginning to shave again. It has always shaved, more or less, ever since beards came in, some fifty years ago, after a banish ment of nearly two centuries, from at least the Anglo-Saxon face. During all the time since the early eighteen-fifties the full beard has been the exception rather than the rule. The razor has not been suffered to rest in disuse, but has been employed in disfiguring most physiognomies in obedience to the prev alent fashion, or the personal caprice of the wearers of hair on the face, where nature has put it, for reasons still of her own. For one man who let nature have her way unquestioned by the steel, there have been ninety-nine men who have modified her design. Some have shaved all but a little spot on the under lip; others have continued the imperial grown there into the pointed goatee; others have worn the chin beard, square cut from the corners of the lips, which has become in the alien imagination distinctively the American beard; others have shaved the chin, and let the mous tache branch across the cheeks to meet the flowing fringe of side whiskers; others have shaved all but the whiskers shaped to the likeness of a mutton chop; the most of all have shaved the whole face except the upper lip and worn the moustache alone. All these fragment ary forms of beard caricatured the hu man countenance, and reduced it more or less to a ridiculous burlesque of the honest visages of various sorts of ani mals. They robbeel it of the sincerity which is the uedeeming virtue of the clean shaven face, and of the dignity which the full beard imparted no less to middle life than to age. Harper's Weekly. THE IJ0EH POINT OF VIEW. A Summing Up of the Situation as De Wet Sees It "Give me leave, then, dear reader, to place before you the whole of the cir cumstances. England's great power pitted against the two republics, which, in comparison with European countries, were nearly uninhabited This mighty empire employed against us. besides their own English, Scotch and Irish sol diers, volunteers from the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and South African colonies; hired against us both black and white nations, and, what is worst of all. the national scouts from our own nation sent out asainst us. Think, further, that all harbors were closed to us. and that there were there fore no imports. Can you not see that the whole course of events was miracle from beginning to end? A miracle of God in the eyes of everyone who looks at it with an unbiased mind, but even more apparent to those who had personal experience of it. Y'et, however that may be, I had to declare again had there been no national scout3 and no Kaffirs, in all human probability matters would have taken another turn.

O i C? vj O ARE words familiar throughout the civilized world, words tna stand for all that is pure and effective in medicine. No power on earth his been able to bar its progress, because it did iis appointed work In every clime and with every people it has worked wonders in alleviating pain. Its cores of Rheumatism have ap proached the miraculous Its intrinsic value is the secret of uccess of its world-wide poptilaritv ot its wonderful sa.e of its Lonstatit growth. Its virtues are stamped on the hearts of the once crsppled and tortured everywhere never to be effaced while life lasts. Such in brief is ST. JACOBS OIL, the pain killing marvel of the century. m It Acts Like M?gic. CONQUERS I PAIH. CI I, iJ is Oil But as things have turned out, all that can now be said is, that we have done our best, and that to ask anyone to do more is unreasonable. Alay it be tht. cry of everyone. "God willed it so His name be praised!" De Wet's Book. "DOOLEY'S" GETTING RICH. From His Writing and W. C. Whit ney's Stock Exchange Tips. An old friend of "Air. Dooley" Peter Dunne met him the other day, and tells the following story of the encounter: "I met Pete Dunne, the evergreen Air. Dooley, at a fire in New. York, the other afternoon," says the friend. "I have not seen him for a good many years. We vorked together in Chicago about 14 years ago. "Pete wsss then just 21 years old, and I was three years older. I was city edi tor of one of the afternoon Chicago pa pers, and Pete was my star man. "He would write a swift and flamboy ant story about any old thing, but he never had much of an eye to detail, and one of his weaknesses was his invaria ble neglect to get the damage and the insurance when he was sent to 'cover' a tire. "Threats, bulldozing, persuasion, bully-ragging nothing could seem to in duce Dunne to bring in a fact or two about the destruction in dollars and the insurance of a fire. "He would frame up a babe of a yarn, describing the fire in general terms, but he could have written that without so much as leaving the office to look at the fire. "Well, when I saw him the other day he was standing; with the crowd on a street off Broadway, looking at the smoke pouring out of the windows of a big furniture store. I walked up behind him and clapped him on the back sud denly. 'Hello, Pete. I said. 'Have you got the insurance yet.?' "Goh. no!' he exclaimed quickly wheeling about and recognizing me "Say, you look out for that end cf it, will you? and I'll do the "lurid glares' and 'lambent flames.' "Then we adjourned to a place near by, and extinguished a few inward flames of onr own, I "From the slender stripling" that he used to be in the old days, Mr. Dooley is now a solid chunk of a Bmooth-f'ioed chap, weighing about 180 pound.?, if net more; but, in spite of his ruddy skin and clear Irish eyes, he isn't in good health, and hasn't been for five years, since he had a bad dose of typhoid fe ver. "He hasn't got a single, solitary thing on earth but just money, if anybody should climb off a hardic to ask you. Hi3 enormous revenue from his Dooley isms has been a whole lot supplemented during the last couple of years by the right, kind of stock information. "As Peter Dunne-Dooley has one of his strong" admirers in William C. Whit ney, and as the two are frequently seen together, motoring around New York in one of those any-figure devil wagons, it doesn't take much of a guess to figure out where the Archey road delineator picks up his knowledge of the correct things to do in Wall street." Philadel phia Press. CHILLED AND FROZEN BEEF A Distinction With an Important Difference to Meat Eaters. So much attention is being directed to our beef supply at the present moment that a few words on the subject, so far as beef refrigeration is concerned, may be of more than passing interest. It is somewhat peculiar that what at first sight might appear to be the most del icate of meats should be capable ot standing such low temperatures as those to which lamb carcasses are subjected, yet long years of experience have proved that these carcasses can be reduced to very low temperatures, indeed, and safe ly held thereat for many months, with out the slightest detriment. On the other hand, beef, when frozen and thawed, indicates too clearly the condi tions it has been subjected to. and, con sequently, when once treated in this manner not only bears very palpable eivdence thereof, but is so deteriorated in appearance as to be reduced consid erably in value. The greater portion of the imported frozen beef is therefor, dumped on the cheap markets, where price, rather than quality, regulates the demand. The difficulties experienced in connection with beef refrigeration were undoubtedly the cause of the large im portations of live cattle into this coun try, and it is consequently no wonder that such efforts are being made to again obtain the supply of cattle from Argentina, which the existing regula tions have prevented for some time past. The well known effect of freezing beef, on the one hand, and the great reduction in the arrival of live cattle on the other, drove the importers to consider the best alternative means to be adopted to bring this meat into the country, with the re sult that experiments were made with chilled beef, which turned out so satis factorily that large consignments have been arriving here for a long time in excellent condition. This meat is held at or about the freezing point, say be tween Si2 degrees Fahrenheit and 33 de grees Fahrenheit, and must not be sub ject to any great variation in fact, tlr temperatures just given should be the highest and lowest permissible. Pndei such conditions as these the meat came cut in very good condition, and may In! readily shipped in quarter sides with advantage: but there is an unfortunate drawback to this method, due to the limitation of the time that thts chilling effect acts as a preservative. A mimbe,' of trials have been made, but up to the present it appears to be impossible to keep beef for more than three weeks in a chilled state, and so far every attempt which has been made in lone-distance steamers has resulted in the necessity i of freezing down after the period named j if the meat was to be landed in a salable 1 condition. It is some satisfaction, how- I ever, that so much beef can be obtained within the radius represented by thir. time limitation, and that the altered conditions of the trade have been a dis tinct boon to refrigeration machinery makers in particular and the industry generally. Ice and Cold Storage. CLEVEIi S31LG0LEI1S. Not an Uncommon Thing for Them to Beat the Customs Officer. The former customs inspector was talk ing of jewel smugglers. ""Von hear a lot about the cleverness of the treasury agents in running these fol lows down, but their cleverness isn't a marker to th;it of the folks who make a business in bringing things in. Cases of detection are few and f?ir between; just think of the thousands of cases which are never detected. Indeed you are 'tip against it' when you deal with these neople. They're just as clever as you are, a whole lot cleverer, some of "em. "I remember one case which beat us badly, although we had our eyes wid? open and thought we know all about -it. Wold carre from Paris that a man we'd been suspicious of for a long time was conung ever with a handful of cut dia monds. We were teld it would be useless to search his elothin'g or iiis baggage for them, because he wotild have them under a porous piaster on his back. "So we laid low and waited for the man's arrival. He came as smiling as a basket of chips, and we nailed him. He declared he knew nothing about jewels: said he hadn't one in his baggage: we could search it if we pleased. But we didn't please: we took him into a state room and told him to undress. Then he began to get nervous. Ho said he had rheumatism in his back and the stripping would be the death of him. Finally we came to the porous plaster. There it was and there were lit tle bumps all over its surface. We knew Indigestion Causes Catarrh of tne Stomach. For many years it has been supposed that Catarrh of the Stomach caused indigestion and dyspepsia, but the truth is exactly the opposite. Indigestion causes catarrh. Re peated attacks of indigestion inflames the mucous membranes lining the stomach and exposes the nerves of the stomach, thus caus ing the glands to secrete mucin instead of the juices of natural digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. Keck! Oppspsla Garo relieves all inflammation of the mucoul membranes lining the stomach, protects tho nerves, and cures bad breath, sour risings, a sense of fullness after eating, indigestion, dyspepsia and all stomach troubles. Kodol Digests What You Eat Make the Stomach Sweet. Bottles cnly. Reeular size, 1 .00. holdinr 2hi times the trial sue. which rells for SO cents. Prepared by E. O. DeWITT CO., Chicago, III. Tele. 530 19 OQD, FEED, ALFALFA HAY. Fourth and Jackson. E. O. DbMoss, L. M. Penwell" DeMOSS PENWELL 1 MtttttMOla S. V Funeral Directors and Embalmers. First-Class Service at Reasooabis Prices. 511 Quiocy St. Both 'Phones 192 TOPEKA, KANSAS. Dr. EVA HARDING Homeopathist OFFICE AT THB "VIRGINIA" Cor. 10th and Topeka Ave. 20 years experience in the treat ment of diseases of women and children. Both 'Phones 402 Y. 11. C. A. TEACHES Klectrical Kngiueering, Mechanical Drawing, Physics, Chemistry, Alge bra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Business Practice, Bookkeeping, Penmanship. Rapid Footing, Spell ing, Grammar, Reading, Arithmetic, Banjo and Guitar. Call at Office on East Eighth st. for information. FOR TOILET AND BATH It makes the toilet something to be cn joyed. It removes all stains and roughness prevent! prickly heat and chafing, an leaves the skin white, soft, healthy. In th bath it brings a glow and exhilaration whicl no common soap can equal, imparting th vigor and life sensation of a mild Tnrkist bath. All Grocers and Druggists. Long Distance Telephones Are used exclusively on me f N tallic lines. f 1 These insure the users of the Five Cents a Day Tele- t w I,l!nc Kood service. Missouri Kansas Te!:. Co "Phons 99 we had him, and he. apparently, knew it, too When we suggested removing the piaster, he almost wept; perhaps he had once tried to take one of them off. KventualSv we compromised by puncturing the little bumps on the plaster and taking from each a fine, sparkling diamond. The man was fairly beside himself because the value of the gems must have been nearly $75,jti0. We had a clear rase, and we marched the man off triumphantly. "Xcxt day we learned that everyone of the" "gems' was a bit of cut glass the man had brought in a fortune in gems in his valise which we had never opened. We also learned that he had sent us the 'tip' about the porous plaster." New York Ev ening Post. Eczema, No Cure, No Pay. Your druggist will refund your money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cute ring worm, tetter, old ulcers and sores, pim ples and blackheads on the face, and all skin diseases. 50 cents. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take I-axative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggisis refund the money if it fails to cure. E.W. Grove's signature on each box.23& FOR A V Wight Schoo HAND BAFOLIO

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TOPEKA STATE JOUHNAjL, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1903. iilllLiiUiiU i.Lwdi Eastern ltailroader Admits Western Superiority. They Have Nothing to Equal the California Limited. FLORIDA OUT OF IT. lio Longer Popular as a Whiter Hesort. D, 15. Martin Talks of the Golden State Limited. "In the conduct of nd in advertising pas passcngpr traffic rigt-r service the astern raiiiuad are far behind the r. mr methods are obsolt te, and we 1 something to wake us up." Bt- Tills is what D. B. Martin, passenger traffic niaiiager of the Baltimore Ohio WUlrxrfd. sai l in Chicago when talking about Ciillforma traffic, in au tmngs the cast has always assuraea a n 4M Hup-riority over the west, and it has only hv-n 1 w;ntly that eastern railroad Bier, would admit that the west had a decent railway system. Tile competition of the Santa Fe with its California Limited is largely respon Ible for this changed condition of things. The Santa Fe was the first of the transcontinental lines to really make I a gi at feature of its Limited equip-; merit, it oougni l ie uuwi j not so. When Engineer Reed saw thai market, and then advertised those cars ne cf,uld not at on the runaway trail, thoroughly The result was that the and that a collision with the stalled en Santa Fe' California Limited was soon gine. 77:!, was eminent, he and Fireman j Clark climbed from the tab out upon transformed from a semi-weekiv to a )f hp oU and a(. thp ni( dally tialn, and this year, additional ment ot- tne collision they leaped, being cars had to be put on to tai-e caic ui the in'-reasiiig business. The C.l'ien State Limited of the Rock Inland has followed the banta I-v s crack train. example of the and is proving to be a wonderful suc.-tss. Continuing. Mr. .Martin said: "Of course there are exceptions in the 1 p. east as to the advertising feature, but In pass. -nger equipment, in the general time made and in tile service given we fendant in three big damage suits, arid lue far behind western roads. We lack I pul to the exoense of cost I v litigation, the aggressiveness which has made the Attorney R. E. Bledsoe has been re westem railroads the wond.-r of the age tained by the families of the victims cf In passenger service. j the accident to look after their inter- ttf nave trains in use mm i we boost greatly, imt they are not to be mentioned in the same category with any of the limited trains which western leads are running in the California ser-vi.-e. For luxurious appointments, for trw ecu: fort and the facilities they afford the tiaveling public, any one of these trains is a perfect marvel, and Califor nia has almost decimated FIoi ida traffic. Vha. has been tile result to western reads ul providing this wonderful train terviee end prosecuting this extrava gant ;H ert isinsi the kind of extrava-ganei- that pays'.' Take the Rock is l.oi.l. for example. By placing in sen-, j. r: e I o 1 den cUat" Limited and by f-'I" lie V-s ling large sums in letting tne pun now about it, that company hr-s at a single bound prestige and i Ha: which, under the slow eastern iu-thi.Js, it would have taken twenty eats r'f conservative eastern raili-oad-iug to ac.uire. Xo. 1 do not think that combinations of ia:iroad systems has lessened com petition. We are out for business an hard as ever, but out for it on legiti mate lines, and are obtaining it by im proving tiie service and maintaining rates, instead of by doing up our com pete. ers, are! thereby gaining an ad vantage which at best is ephemeral. "In advertising methods, too, there h is been a wonderful advancement. We have ;rot away from the cheap adver tising, such as the cheap, shabby folder iirei tne heap hand-bill. The class ot :id ae lisini: now prepared by the aver age railway is such as men like to tako into tie ir homes, and it is sougiit eager ly by sehools, elhbs and societies. Many cf the maps, pamphlets and histories is sued bv i he railroads are in fact being used as te t-books in schools. Thcra tire, for evample, thousands of sohoots throughout tile country in which you vriil ni'i the monthly issues of the i THEORIES ABOUT CATARRH. Peculiar Ideas Regarding a Common Disease. Mark Twain's cure for a cold in the j head w as simple, but he claims very e- j foctive m iiis ow n case; his plan was i to eat nothing whatever lor twenty lour hours or presumably until the trouble had disappeared. Altiiouirii not aide to speak from per sonal exp' rietice as to tiie eti ectiveness uf tliis t i-eatui--nt it certainly has the merit of etr-ine economy, but it oc curs to u-. that the application of it to a cas.- of nasal eatarrh might be at-lend-d with difficulties. Catarrh, as everyone knows, is a chrome cold in th head and Mr. Tw ain's t reiitm-nt, i! it should become a lad. would make of us a nation of fast tvs: an army, emulating the example of the- hnuiorial Tanner who achieved world wide tauv by fasting forty days. Catarrh is certainly becoming a na tional .lis-el.-e and there is little doubt but that errors in diet, particularly ov. r ating is a very common cause. Most people how.ver are more in t.sested in the cure of the trouble than in th- cause, and modern mdieal m-h-riee has produced more effective and less heroic remedies than Mr. Twa in's. llydrasim is a new remedy, very ef-j v f'itive in sonie forms of Catarrh Rrrl M C-um is anot h'-r w hich on aecount of its antis.ptlc properties is very valuable, w hile many severe i ases of Chronic Ca tavrh hav- been entirely cured by the sa.ngulnaria or extract of Blood root Wiihiu a year an enterprising rhfm 1M has conibin- ti all of Ub-so remedies in T.ill-t form, palatable and conven i"nt and the superiority of this tablet r: iHil'T CaiHlTM remedies IS SO OP- P M-r t th-t all druggists. nuv carry t:i Moert. u sutuuv toe iioui ar d- iri.vlid Th. y are called Stuart's Catarrh Tel. lets and it is doubtful if any medi cine has achieved a national popularity In so snort a time as this. stua-.t's Catarrh Tablets are used by thousands nt traveling men because they can V carried In the pocket and used any time and in any quantity be- i.t ,1-e ironi Cocaine, poisonous drug. opiate or any .uTh'?,' u':,r ,h'- head and throat from the disgusting seci-tions of catarrh, For nal' Catrh "L'"' ior to any wati use of which is uyri- lotu-n or ointment t;if f in f t and annoying as the dien,.. iti i i no llll 'II Vf 1 For coughs, colds, bronchial cata'rt and catar'-h of stomach tiuse tablets give imm. diate relief and a permanent cure where lotions, douches and in halers make no impression whatever. This preparation is a boon to citar'rh FUiierers arm any uruugist will tell you i mil .-luart s i atarrli Tablets ttaiedy that has come to stay. 'Royal Blue' of the Baltimore Ohio, which is sousht for its value as an aid in the study of history." NEWS FF.Oil THE WRECK. Some Details of the Santa Fe Collision on Cajon Mountain. San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 27. The two engines, Is'os. M2 and 773, which were in the recent Cajon pass disaster, were brought down the hill last night, and today a large number of people were attracted to the yards to see them. They were more expressive than words of the frightfulness and force wiln which the engines carne together. En gineer Heed's cab was crowded with the tender of the engine, a mass of broken and twisted iron and timbers. Had I,? remained in the cab he would have been crushed to death. The other en gine fared even worse, though both can be repaired at little cost, considering-the damage which was done to some of thu box cars, which were reduced to kindling-. Many members of the B. of L. F., to which Fireman Beckett belonged, vis ited the undertaking parlors of .Bartuti oc Catiick to take a last look upon the face of the dead fireman as he lay ir. the beautiful casket. The features hid I been cleared of ail evidencs of the dkv aster and the dead man looked as one j wrapped in gentle sleep. The members j of the local lodse of the brotherhood sent a beautiful floral tribute resem i hling- a wheel with a spoke gone, which was taken to Los Angeles with the DO,jy On the casket were the woros, d upon a silver plate: "Age 25: (ng Charles V. Beckett. B. of L. F." The local rfiiroad men wish the re pert that Engineer Reed jumped a sec ond time from an oil car denied. Ac cording to some reports which have gained circulation, tne wildest kind of disorder prevailed among the railroad men immediately following the collision in Cajon pass. It is stated that Engi neer Heed, in che general delirium of excitement after he had leaped from limbed back upon the oil car leaped madiy off. This is lIlm: tnrown ny trie xorce or tne impact nuy feet frem the train, and two car lengths from the engine. Reed was so badly injured by the fall, having struck the earth on his head and back, that he could not rise to his feet. In fact he lay for some moments unomsrious. As a result of the catastrophe on th anta re which cost the lives of thiee men and inpjred a fourth, the Santa f e company will probably be made the de- ests. and yesterday -Mr. -HJortso- corn- menoed work upon the cases. He at tended the inquest held by Coroner Pitt man over the remains of the late Con ductor Beckett and will have tran scribed the testimony introduced. After hearing the evidence and con versing with the w finesses, Mr. Bledsoe gave it as his opinion that a suit could be maintained against the Santa F company for damages. "I believe," said Mr. Bledsoe, "that the Santa Fe com pany is criminally liable. The com pany has been overtaxing Its men and overstraining its locomotive power. The men have protested against taking a tram of more than 35 cars up the hill because an engine cannot control a heavier train, but their protests have not been heeded." The inouest was not concluded yes terday and a searching investigation will he made of the case by Coroner I'ittman. "1 am determined to get at the facts." says the coroner, "and wilt endeavor to place the blame where it belongs." HAS INCREASE BEEN GRANTED? Report That Some Roads Are Dealing With Trainmen. St. Louis. Jan. 27. It is expected that some tangible understanding will be ar rived at this week between the wage increase committees and the officials of the four roads on whom the demands have been made. Conferences between the committees of the M., K. T.. Missouri Pacific, Cotton Belt and the Frisco and the offi cials of those systems have been held more or less frequently, either collect ively or individually, for several weeks, and on the best information it seems that no material progress has been made. It is reported that the M K. T. men have received a definite offer of in crease from that system and are now polling its acceptance or non-acceptance among the employes of that road. The result of this poll will be learned early this week and a reply made to the other-is as to whether it will be accepted. It is also said that the officials of the Missouri Pacific have granted an in crease to their men and a poll will be made this week as to whether it will be accepted. Further conferences between the offi cials of the Cotton Belt and the Frisco are also expected to be held this week. BUILD TEMPORARY IIXE. Lantrys Will Soon Have Freight Road to Abo Canyon. T.as Yearns. X. M., Jan. 27. K. I-ntrv'S Pnn-. thi rlrm of ra ilroart contractors, which iw buikli ip- the Santa Fe cut off, has t to Simon Xeustadt cf T-os L.nnas. a contract to furnish 4 teams for freicrhtipi; Hi-7T'Ilit'S from BtU n to Abo canyon. Teams v.-ill he nsMl to haul the smpolios To the i -any on until t he tempora ry line now in fours'1 of construction is finished. Jt is a r.ir.-- contract for Mr. Xeustadt. Thfj actual construction of the Santa V cut off has already ln-prun. Some m-n frA teams worked on the n'W grade last wek. A train load of material and i0 m ales, for th grading outfits, were un-loHd'-d at ien Saturday niht. It is es timated that the const ruct i-.m forces will I'-- m'i-as'- d to men and I.tV" tea rru within tlu- ii'xt .!o days. A short line will built to A ho ranvun first. Three erad- in camps will be established, one ten j lnh's, another twenty miles and another i thirty miles. The latter two will be in I Abo canyon. PECULIAR PETITION. Elmdale Wants Santa Fe to Eetain Agent S. D. Pear3al!. Klmdale. Kan.. Jan. 27. The people of Klmi-l-. lo ,l.-,.ftvmincft of making j fort to scure the reinstatement of their pgent, S. A. Pearsall, who was recently discharged "for permitting the windows and office to become dirty." Mr. Pear sail is very efficient, accommodating and deserving and Klmdale people will visit Topeka officials this week with a long petition begging his retention by the company as their agent. FIREMEN MAKE DEMANDS. Coast Line Officials of Santa Fe Again Meet Committees. Los Angeles, Cal.. Jan. 27.-Santa Fe niMiien are the latest to make a demand nn thc 4 nil. viuijjciii HJ 1IH.I frtCC 111 fci ho,- iction is independent of other railroad organizations and they are represented by Committeemen J. M. Bland of Needles, chairman; K. C. Wil liams, Needles; W". R. Fenwlck. Point Richmond; "W. J. McKee, Albuouerque, C. M. Smith, Winslow. and Guy Fish, San Bernardino. The firemen want the same increase in pay that was given the engineers two weeks ago. This committee represents about 500 men employed btween Albuquerque and San Francisco. It is thought an agree ment will be reached without referring the case to Chicago. The firemen, like the engineers, work on the mileage basts, the present pay being for freight: $2.40 for light engines, J2.65 for medium weight engines and $2.85 for heavy en pines. Passenger: $2.40 for light and S2.2u for heavy engines for 100 miles. NEW X. C. DEPOT. Meeting of the Corporation Held in St. Louis. St. Louis. Jan. 27. The stockholders and directors of the Kansas Citv Union Depot company heid their meeting in this citv Monday at the office of Vice President and General Manager Winchell of the 'Frisco, in the Commercial building. The meeting received and discussed at length a report from the special committee on lo cation and general design of the. proposed new union station for Kansas Citv. All interests were represented, but no conclu sion could be reached, and it was flnailv determined to meet again in two weeks, when definite action is exneeted. both as to location and design of the structure. SOCK ISLAND MAKES CHANGES Creates a New Division Point at Tecolote, N. Id. The run of the engine and freight crews on the Rock Island has been changed from Santa Rosa to Tecolote instead of Alamo gordo. That makes Tecolote. naif way be tween Alamogordo and Santa Rosa, a di vision point. A roundhouse has been built and a boarding house for trainmen will be erected. This makes three runs between Santa Rosa and El Paso of about SO miles each. Rock Island Buys Mora Land. Kansas City, Jan. 27. The Rock Island and I"tteihc Railway company is expand ing its possessions in Armourdale bv mak ing extensive purchase ef real estate ad jacent to its tracks west of Twelfth street. Yesterday warrantee deeds were filed with the register of deeds in Kansas City, Kan., for the transfer of 45 lots in the Jameson addition. The property contains about four and a half acres and was bought for $11.0110. The purchase recorded yesterday lies just west of the 27 acre purohase for which deeds were tiled Saturday. These pur chases are being made, it is understood, with a view to extending the company's tracks in Armourdale. Box Cars Burned. Albuquerque X. M., Jan. 27. Some where along- the desert a big string: of box cars was set afire a few days ago. Every day there is brought into the yards some of the charred cars, and there are at least seven there now awaiting the car repairer. No more long freights will be brought down the grade. This has been definitely decided by the trainmen, and there won't be any men discharged if they refuse to haul down a train they believe is unsafe, either. Connect Choctaw and Rock Island. Santa Fe. Jan. 27. The Chicago, Rock Island Choctaw Railroad company filed incorporation papers to build a railroad from Amarillo. Texas, to Tu cumeari Guadalupe county, connecting the Choctaw Rock Island systems and giving- a short line from Memphis, and Little Rock to El Paso. The line will be built this summer. Capital stock $1,500,000. Headquarters at Chicago and Alamogordo. Coming to Kansas City. Las Vegas. N. M.. Jan. 27. Tom Bourne of Raton having resigned his position as an engineer with the Santa Fe to accept a position as traveling representative with an accident insur ance company, with headquarters at Kansas City, will remove his family to that city. Raise Was Only 2 1-2 Per Cent Las Vegas, X. M., Jan. 27. The raise recently given the Santa Fe engineers of the west end was not 10 and 124 per cent, as the Associated Press dispatches had it, but 22 per cent. In other words, the engineers were granted approxi mately 10 cents more pier 100 miles, or $3.60, where before they received $3.50. Leaves Newspaper for Railroading. Dodge City, Kas., Jan. 27. C. T. Beeth, an old time operator on the Santa Fe who quit the road to pur chase and manage the Wilfield Tribune, has returned to the railway service as dispatcher at Lodge City. New Rock Island Director. New York, Jan. 27. George P. Boggs, secretary of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway company has been elected a director o the new Rock Is land company. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. Wheel Inspector Woodruff is in Chicago. Leon Weeks of the spring shop was off Monday. Zack Reeser of the spring shop laid off Monday on account of sickness. All of the jrrates have been set tip for the boilers in the new power house. Santa Fe Wheel Inspector MacNeill is in Kansas City on an inspection trip. Walter Gilmore of the pattern shop was off yesterday on account of sickness. James Robinson, Santa Fe scale inspec tor at Atchison, was in the city Satur day. Some of the machines in the brass corner wili be moved to the new shops before long. Steam shovel No. !W56 was backed into the east shop Saturday afternoon for re pairs. A. Stevens of the water service returned to work Monday morning after a week's absence. Victor Nelson, heater on the frame fire in the spring shop, failed to ring in Mon day morning. Fd Schultz returned to work in the east shoo yesterday morning after an absence of a few days. S-mie of the south shop force, worked nil day Sunday in order to get engine No. 1001 ready for her trial trip. A. F. Cooper, division passenger agent for the Rock Island, took a short business trip to Kansas City yesterday. John Parkinson, foreman of one of the gangs at The new shops, failed to appear at the shops Monday morning. Mrs. Charles Bauermann. wife of Chas. Bauermann of the water service, died Snn- A STUBBORN COLD OR BRONCHITIS. yields more readily to Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil than to anything that you can take; and if persistently used a few days, will break up the cold. When you awake in the night choked up and cough ing hard, take a dose of the Emulsion, and you will get immediate relief, where no cough medicine will give you relief. It has a soothing and healing effect upon the throat and bronchial tubes. Send for Free Sajapie, SCOTT EOWSE. r-i-.;.tl Pead St. Jg. If day at the family residence In North To peka. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Thomas Darlow of the east shop return ed to work In the shop Mondav morning aftef an absence of a few days. H. O. Sworthwood. chief operator for the Rock Island, returned to Topeka vesterday after a short business trip to Chicago. For some reason the regular monthly meeting of the foremen, which was to have been held yesterday, was postponed. Samuel Wallace is-a new clerk in the of fice of John Purcell. superintendent of shops. He was employed Monday morn ing. "William Eckert. formerly of McCoy's gang in the storehouse, is now -working on the mailing desk in the storekeeper's of fice. Nearly all of the hammers in both black smith shops had to be closed down yester day on account of the lack of furnace coal. Joseph Masxin, jr., of the spring shop, returned to work Monday morning after a four days' lay oft on account of sick ness. "Wade Jones is a new mailing clerk in the storekeeper's office. Joseph Hoffman, the former clerk, haa gone to work down stairs. John Walker of the brass foundry is the proud father of a baby boy, born last Sat urday. Every one in the foundry smoked yesterday. Clyde Wettling of the storekeeper's of fice, returned to work in the office after an absence of a week on account of his wife's sickness. Frank Oeutsoh. formerly a spring maker at the Santa Fe shops, was in town Satur day. He is now working for the Rock Is land at Horton. Another Reymond and Whitcomb series of excursions will be run over the Santa Fe this year. The excursionists will leave the east May 2. Paul Spurlock and W. F. Franzen of the cabinet shop, who were on the sick list laet Friday and Saturday, returned to work Monday morning. Owen Kelly returned yesterday to his home in Kansas City, after a short visit in Topeka with his father-in-law, J. R. Deisher, of the tin shop. Arthur Sears, a former employe of tho shops, was in Topeka Monday and went through the shopn. Mr. Sears Is now work ing for the "Frisco in Springfield, Mo. John Waldron of the water service has taken charge of the Bible class in the cof fee room. The class has had an increase of several new members since last month and is rapidly coming into favor with the shop men. Charles Dodge of W. L. Boyes' water service gang, retvirned to work Monday morning after a two weeks' lay off. Mr. Dodge is a member of the Jury in Judge Hazen's court and consequently is off a good deal. Joseph Davis, foreman of the cabinet shop, had his leg cut yesterday morning while at work in the shop. He was cut ting a piece of glass when a piece fell and cut his leg. The cut bled profuseiv and it was necessary for him to go to tho hospital and have it dressed. Francis Maniey, a former employe of the Santa Fe shops, died of lung trouble in Cleburne. Tex., last Saturday night. H" was a machinist and learned his trade in Topeka and was very well known by the men in the shops. He was a son of Wil liam Maniey. engine inspector in the roundhouse, and a brother of Bert Man ley of the south shop. The body arrived in Topeka yesterday afternoon. Arrange ments for the funeral have not yet been made. TEMPERANCE WORKERS. Programme' for the Annual Meeting in Topeka, Following is the -programme of th meeting of the State Temperance union, which opens in Topeka. Tuesday, Feb ruary i0: AFTERNOON SESSION. 2:00 i. m. Call to order, by President F. D. Coburn. Prayer. Rev. O. A. Palmer, Neta waa. Organization of the convention and appointment of committees on creden tials, resolutions and nominations. 2.30 p. m.- "The Mission of the Faith ful Few in Temperance Reform," Rev C. S. Nusbaum. Ottawa; Rev. J. a. Knotter. Neuchatel; Rev. C. P. Con nolly, Hiawatha: Rev. Granville Low ther. Winfield. 3:15 p. m. 'What Toung People's So cieties Can Do for Temperance," Miss Addie Mains, Oskaloosa Dr. G. A, Crise, Manhattan; E. R. Simon, Topeka, Rev. Jay C. Everett. Norton. 4.00 p. m. "The Educational Value of Temperance Work," Rev. J. D. Counter mine, D. D.. Topeka; ex-Supt. Frank Nelson. Lindsborg; Dr. F. A. Cady, Ma rion; Prof. A. D. "Wilcox. Toocka. 4:45 n. m. Report of committee on credentials. Announcements and adjournment. EVENING SESSION. 7:43 p. m Music, Ladies' quartette. Prayer, Rev. D. Y. Donaldson, Hutch inson. President's address, F. D. Coburn, Kansas City. Music, Ladies' quartette. Freewill "Dime to a Dollar" collec tion. Address, "The Child and His Inheri tance," Chancellor Frank Strong, State University, Lawrence. Music. Announeeroents and benediction. WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION. 9:00 a. m. Call to order. Prayer, Rev. S. S. Murphy, Baldwin. Reports of Secretary J. E. Everett and Treasurer J. B. Larimer. Reports of field workers: Prof. A. D. Wilcox. Major E. T. Scott. 9:30 a. m. "The Saloon a Despoiler of Homes." Rev. O. S. Morrow, superin tendent Kansas Children's Home soci ety, Topeka. "The Saloon a Cause of Crime," Rev. E. A. Fredenhagen. general superin tendent Kansas Society for the Friend less. Topeka. Discussion. 10:20 a. m. "The Cultivation of Pub lic Sentiment: Needs and Methods, "Mrs. E. P. Hutchinson, Hutchinson; J. W. Dunn, Onaga; Mrs. MoVean-Adams, National V. C. T. IT. lecturer. Mound City; Rev. Frank Lynch. Wichita. 11:20 a. m. "The Canteen Question," Prof. "W. H. Carruth, Lawrence. Open discussion. 12:00 m. Announcements and ad journment. AFTERNOON SESSION. l.-Rfl p. m. Call to order. Prayer. Rev. W. H. Elliot, Newton. "The Church's Present Attitude To ward Reform," J. T. McFarland, D. D., Topeka: Rev. Eugenia St. John, Sa lina: Rev. H. R. Best, Winfield; Mrs. E. T. Scott. 2:20 fe m. "Local Workers and City Elections." Rev. H. H. Fowler. Rose dale; General J. K. Hudson, Topeki; Miss Madaline- Southard. Winfield; Rev. A. B. Whitmer. Clay Center. 3:10 p. m.- "The Present Standing of the Temperance Reform." President Norman Plass, Topeka: Mrs. Minnie J. 1 Grinstead.- Larned: Rev. "Walter Scott Priest, Atchison: Major E. T. Scott. I 3:50 p. m. "The Supreme Need Faithful Officers," Rev. Mary Sibhitt, Hutchinson: A. C. Pierce, Junction I Citv; Mrs. S. H. "Wallace, Kansas City; Rev. Harold B. Wright, Pittsburg. 4:50 p. m. Reports of committees on I nominations and resolutions. Announcements and adjournment. EVENING SESSION. 7:45 p. m. Music, Railroad Y. M. C. A quartette. Prayer, Rev. Frank Fox, Kansas City. Music, Railroad Y. M. C. A. quar tette. Freewill "Dime to a Dollar" collec tion. Address, "How America's Good Name May Be Maintained," Francis E. Clark. Singing. "America," audience, led by W"m. M. Shaver, Topeka. Beoewyctiori. IF LlfiCGLFi HAD LIVED. Watterson's Tribute at Confed erate Veterans' Banquet. New York, Jan. 27. The thirteenth annual banquet of the Confederate Vet erans' camp of New York, held last night at the Waldorf Astoria, was made memorable by eloquent eulogies of the great figures of the south and the north during the civil war, declared by men who themselves had fought in the armies opposing them. Charles Francis Adams, of Massachu setts, a soldier of the union, responded to the toast of "Robert E Lee." and Col. Henry Watterson, a soldier of the con federacy, paid tribute to the character of Abraham Lincoln. The third toast tc Jefferson Davis was responded to by W'illiam Hepburn Russell, formerly of Missouri, and now commissioner of ac counts of New "kork city. Upward of 500 comrades of the camp and their guests were present, and the presence of many women lent bril liancy to the banauet. Commander Henry E. Owen presided, with Mayor Low on his right and Col. Watterson at his left. Others at the guest table were: George H. Taylor, commanding Alex Hamilton post; J. Ed ward Graybill, president George society; Gen. A. S. Barnes, commander La fayette post; Col. Samuel D. Paul, lieu tenant commander Confederate Veter ans' camp of New York; Augustus Van Wyck, president Southern society; Roger A. Pryor, regent Virginia so ciety; D. L. Snodgrass, former chief justice of Tennesse; James H. Parper, past commander Confederate Veterans of New York; Gen. Thomas H. Hub bard, of New England society; Wralter S. Logan, regent Empire State Society Sons of American Revolution; W. W. Fulter. president North Carolina so ciety; Rev. George? S. Baker, chaplain Confederate Veterans of New York, and Rev. J. Nevitt Steele, president Mary land society. The olenitis: toast to "The President and the Army and Navy of the United States A Prince Among the Rulers of the Wrorid and but the Servant of a Free People," was drunk standing, amid great applause, the orchestra rendering "Hail Columbia." This was followed by the toast to General Lee, "Nature made him and then broke the mold." This was succeeded by the rendering of the "Bonnie Blue Flag," and songs of antebellum days by Mrs. Hollings vvorth Warkins, formerly of Louisiana. In responding to the toast -to Abraham Lincoln "He Was Not for an Age. but for All Time" Colonel Henry Watter son said: "Jefferson Davis, than whom there never lived, in this or in any land, a nobler gentleman or a knightlier sol dier Jefferson Davis, who, whatever may be thought of his opinions and ac tions, said always what he meant and meant always what he said Jefferson Davis declared that next after the sur render at Appomattox, the murder of Abraham Lincoln made the darkest day in the calendar for the south and the people of the south. Wrhy? Because Mr. Davis had come to' a knowledge of the magnanimity of Mr. Lincoln's heart and the generosity of his intentions. "If Lincoln had lived, there would have been no era of reconstruction, with its repressive agencies and opnressive legislation. If Lincoln had lived, there would have been wanting to the extrem ism of the time the cue of his taking off to spur the steeds of vengeance. For Lincoln entertained, w ith respect to the rehabilitation of the union, the single wish that the southern states to use his homely phraseology 'should come back home and behave themselves," and, if he had lived he would have made this wish effectual as he made everything effectual to which he seriously addressed himself. "His was the genius of common sense. Of perfect intellectual aplomb; he sprang from a southern pedigree and was born in Kentucky. He knew all about the south, its institutions, its tra ditions and its peculiarities. He was an old-time Whig of the school of Henry Clay, with strong emancipation leaning, never an Abolitionist. Tf slavery be not wrong,' he said, 'nothing is wrong,' but he also said, and reiterated it time and again, 'I have no prejudice against the southern people. They are just what we would be in their situation. If slave ry did not now exist among them they would not introduce it. If it did now exist among us, we would not instantly give it up.' "From first to last throughout the angry debates preceding the war. amid all the passions of the war itself, not one vindictive, proscriptive word fell from his tongue or pen, whilst during its progress there was scarcely a day when he did not project his great per sonality between some southern man or woman and danger. Yet the south does not know, except as a kind of hearsay, that this big-brained, big-souled man was a friend, a friend at court, when friends were most in need, having the will and the power to rescue it from the wolves of brutality and rapine whom the history of all wars tells us the lust of victory, the very smell of battle, lures from their hiding to prey upon the help less, the dying and the dead. But, per using the after-story of those dread days. Mr. Daviu knew this, and died do ing full justice to the character of Ab raham Lincoln." ED HOCK'S STATEMENT. Marion Editor Discusses His Defeat for State Printer. E. W. Hoch holds Cyrus Leland, Gov ernor Bailey and their immediate politi cal friends to blame for his defeat for state printer. In reviewing the recent contest in his paper, the Marion Record, he does not mention his successful op ponent, George A. Clark. He says: "The result of the legislative action on state printer is doubtless known to all our leaders. But it is perhaps due to cur friends thc.t we make a brief statement of the causes of that result. About SO members were solemnly pledg ed to our support (65 being sufficient to elect). Had the election occurred a few days before it did. as we tried to have it. the result would have been over whelmingly different, but an adverse caucus committee, headed by Mr. Le land. by a vote of four to three, post poned the vote till hist Monday to give the 'machine' time to get into opera tion. And the time was industriously used. To beat a poor little country edi tor, who was without money and with out official patronage of any kind. 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Y and our doctors will analyze It and send you a report with advice free of charge to you, together with a valuable book; describing all diseases ot the kidneys, liver, bladder and blood, and treatment for each disease. Ail letters from women read and answered by a woman doctor. All correspond encs in strictest confidence. Beware of so-called kidney cures which are full of sediment and of ba odor they are positively harmful and do not cure. WARNER'S SAFE PILLS move the bowels gently and aid a speedy cure. vate secretary, Harry Bone, with the patronage and power of their positions; the chairman of the state central com mittee, Mr. Morton Albaugh, lent his help his home, where Be lies confined from an accident, being a sort of Mecca to which legislative patriots wended their way in Quest of light and "other things. House committees, with or without the knowledge of Speaker Pringle, we have not yet decided which, were used where they would do tiie cause the. most good. The chairman of the state board of charities used his pleasing personality and his powerful influence, officially obtained, in a cause his heart had often condemned. Other leaders joined in the glorious work of defeating one who had never done them any harm, but. had helped to wrest them from an obscurity they so much adorn ed. Three members of the supreme court glorified the ermine in the same way. And these allied forces after sleepless viail and tireless struggle, won won by a magnificent vote of 65 to 6:5. with two of our friends kept away by sickness. Oh, it was a glorious vic tory! "Now. why this prodigious effort to defeat one who had helped every one who did it. and had never before asked a favor from his party? Why, that wc 1 had refused at Wichita, last spring, tJ j desert our neighbor and friend, H. 13. I Miller, prove recreant to soiemn prnm ises to liiin. and divide Marion county's j fourteen votes in a manner that would ihave proven us an ingrate. We divided the vote with these critics in every other case, at that time, but in this single casc we could not ami would not divide it. IThi.s was the sum of our offending. Th ones with whom we divided, like Bone land Corrnandy, repaid our generoshy j with votes against us. while the one lease in which we refused to divide wo, j held as a pile-driver above us. This W I "politics." Against this one awful s.i thirtr years of faithful and unselfinh and expensive services and sacrifice:, counted" for naught. Maybe this is goo-i politics. Maybe this is the way to build up a i arty. Maybe it is statesmanship, Mai'be not. "We have never been a kicker. We have never been a boss buster. A few years a?o Cyrus Leland was voted fot for United States senator by a Marion county representative without critiui. from us. We have never had any am munition to waste on our r.arty asso ciates, preferring to reserve it ail for tha common enemy. "W. J. Bailey has had no better friend than the editor of this Daper. We have showered compliments and kir.dne.3 upon him through this paper and upon the rostrum. We sat with him in the house of 'i. and learned there to like him. Have liked him ever since. Heart ily supported him for congress. Re joiced always in his success. Went to his Seneca home it-st spring and re. joiced w ith th "irl'wced over his Vi3 i iiW i ii nelly iiirttf SAFE CURE

nomination. Helped to give him tha biggest .majority last fall ever cast for a gubernatorial candidate in this coun ty, l.uSii, Went all over the etate sing mg his praises and trying to swell his majority. Did all this because we Hkeii him and admired him. And it does not seem to us- that simply because condl tions which we greatly regretted pre vented us from supporting him at Wich ita he should have used the great powef we afterwards gladly helped to place in iiis hands, to crush us. That seems to us unkind and unfair. We say it in sor row, not in anecr. O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it as a giant." "Ed Hoch is like a. falling leaf in a great forest; like a grain of sand on a mighty beach; he is nothing. But tha things he stood for at Topeka for party tolerance, for fairness, for un bought honors, for official dignity, for the right of an individual to his opin ion without fear of officials he has helped to elevate to places of power, for a leadership that is above petty personalities, for kindness in party counsels, for the rights of the minority, for decency in politics, for everything that gives permanency to parties and makes membership in them a thing of honor instead of a mere passport to preferment these things are of vital importance. If it shall ever become the settled policy of our beloved party that the success of one faction in it, at the polls, means the relentless and cruel crushing of the minority, we trem ble for the future. 1 "The long, hard struggle is over, and we bow loyally to the verdict of those whose prerogative it was to render iu Our Republicanism is too deep rooted to be affected in the least by a defeat, however painful and crushing and hu miliating it may be to us, personally. The. old party we have loved so long and so well may continue to tax our time and talents in its service. "We come out of the contest, our first one, with empty hands, but thank God they are clean ones. "Our day dream is over. The visions have come and gone. The air castles, beautiful in their way, have vanished. We return to terra firma and to tha treadmill of daily duties with a heart overflowing with gratitude to the peo ple of this town and county for a sup port as warm and generous as it was unanimous; to the newspapers of tha state for a support which has touched us tenderly: to the brav- representa tives and ser.ators who od by us at the cost of the displeasi:. of all the powers that be: and to all the nobis friends who were kind to us before and after the battle. God ble Uteva all!" City Ticket Office, Union PaclflS Railroad, 525 Kansas avenue. v "y.-w i

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 27, 1903. :A STATE J01R51L 1 v i i BY iEANK P. MAC LKNNAN. VOL l"M K XXX N n. TEUMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Doily edition, delivered by carrier, 19 Cents a wpek to any palt ot Topeka cr eiiburbb, or at the same price in any Kansas town whcie the paper has a car rier i steal. I-y mail, one year $2.0 I v ii hiI, three months Vv pi k edition, one year ,i iialur.lav etlmen ot dau. one viar 1.W rt:meied July 1, i-ila, as si con j class ir-.auer at tii'! pesuiffice at Tup-.ka, K:-ui under tile act of couyress.) TKLLPHONE3. Business Office Bell phone 1 Iv.:mne,3 Office Ind. 'phone w.- i llooiu Bdl pl.ooc Ke porters' Room Ind. piiunc 10i- FERMANEXT HOJ1H. Topeka !tate Journal fcuildinsr, soo and j Kansas in-niip, corner ot Kifctull. XI-." YORK Oi-'I-I'.'l-: 2U Vandelbllt !U,li. Paul Block. Mar. CHICAGO OFFICE: IMG I'nitv Paul Block. Mur. ISAES VIES RSPCST cf t: IT:eniamin Harrison, we have not the The State Journal Is a m'niber of ,he I siightesl doubt that he would have in trSo.t "oTS&T 'sreanc" "or I duled the intemperance of calling ha.t f ni?.aiinn for exclusive Gfu moon pubii -a We all know what Mr. Cleveland did tton In Tm ku. few years aso. President Rooseit, T ho m is rerrlved In thn Stat JMir- J pal building over wires for Oils sole pose, busv throughout the entire Jay. Complete copy c the night report is trc ived. Perhaps. Ca thi story ab Weil. Harrison never heard the pitcher :m:l the Edward O. Wolcott differs from many other persons, in that he knows when he ii whipped. oJhn Phi! in Sousn is the author of a erfi! rtc-v the first Inst ailment of .lreh npptars in The Housekeeper for Kebiuii'V. .nnte -leopio may w md-jr bow Heufii liods time t.i write Ft cries Henry Clew's Financial Review is re sponsible for the assertion that there is a universal belief that tic;' country is in for another six months, at least, of good business. 1 that if the harvest of 1U03 proves ftn thing like satisfactory it doubt ieSS nutinue beyond that. The winkles in the Colorado sena torial situation are being ironed out Tepidly and thtre is abundant reason to believe that Mr. Teller will go hack to the senate and will not find it neces sary to nail down his seat. After all Colorado might have done a great deal worse.

Last week Carnegie borrowed a dol- j lor to make a contribution to charity i and the fact was heralded ail over the j country. In this connection 1 tif.ns naturally arise. One H: Why didn't he write a check, and the other: Why didn't he give more than a dollar. If the (liarity were unworthy he shouldn't have given anything: if other vise ;,e ought to have done something commensurate with his financial ability. The- 1'ost Check scheme is a novel one, but ctnainly it has the merit of utility, s.-iys the Un-ton Olobc, for the present postal sysTein nf money or.h-i s is r.ot c;Ay lmr y but expensive. The idea is simplicity itself. It is to have the government bills so printed that theur ere biank spaces which could be filled out like a che k. When not tilled they pass current as money just as they do now, but when filled out to pay a small hi!, say at some distant point, they must be endorsed by the receiver, and cashed at th postorfice. Aft-r that the bill is worthless as currency. The only expense would be a two cent postaqe stamp for sovernment fee on the face of the bill when it was converted into a cheek, it is calculated that this system would prevent a great ch-al of the pres ent incrinvenience which peoplo find who w-ish to pay a small biil, say a subscrip tion for a p;iper or a magazine, when niih bill h'is to be sent by mail, and of course everybody knows there is a cer--tain risk in sending ordinary money through the mails. The i.lea embraced in the bill v. hich went before congress last year met with favor, not oniy among congressmen and financiers, but was also favorably commented upon by the press of the country. The practica bility and the simplicity of the scheme appealed to everybody. FRESIDENT AND VENEZUELA. From the Washington Post We think that the country, when it comes to consider the facts of the case in the light (if complete information and an intelligent grasp of its meaning, will pay tribute to the firmness and conser vatism "f President Roosevelt in this Venezuelan affair. At the time of his accession to the presidency there were not a few to proclaim apprehension for the future. It was said of Mr. Roose velt that lie was young, impetuous, hot- Moode-l: that his impulses, always chat ing at the curb, would override h judgment: that nothing could be pre dicted of Mm save th-u he would act i'rst an.l think afterward. And much T.ic.-e to the s nil-.- effect. Now. however, it seems necessary for even the gloom iest pessimist to revise his verdict. No American president, siiu e the enunciation e,C the Monroe ticxMrlne. has ever had bis p-itience subjected to a se verer strain or his temper to more f. ig tar.t Movo -ation. This affair of Vene zuela presents aspects of special an-1 peculiar xasnerutiou. and has devel oped coTisiilcratiejns cf almost phenom enal delicacy and difficulty. Inaugur ated under solemn assurances of friend ship to the 1 'cited States, it has grad ually assune-i i a shape of unmistakable hcs'tiliiy to the Monroe doctrine. Her alded as a peaceful blockade, it h:is ta ken on the proportions of cruel and op pressive war. TP" seizure and destruc tion of the Venezuelan ship?, the bom bardments of Puerto Cabello and San Carlos, the landing of armed forces, an i the general severity and arrogance dis played by the allies though particu larly by Germany all this has been in such flam-ant iolatton cf the promise of a pe-,, pfi;i blockade, and in such im P'j.'.eiit c'-nten'pt or' the sijirit cf the Monroe d ctrine that it inisht 'veil have s,iirred to violent r?f ntnr.ir.t the most cautious and philosophical of men. Nor is this all. The Germans have, de liberately kept open the port of Coro for tii-j benefit cf Matos, the insurgent load- or. While he shelled the seaports known to be loyal to Castro, the i! facto presi dent of the republic, the German com modore lift Coro at the disposal of the insurgents for the safe importation of arms, ammunition and military sup plies generally. Engaged in a pretended war on Venezuela for all affectation of peaceful purpose was discarded tjarly u the prame this German commodore openly co-operated with a Venezuelan rebel, and. of course, with a view to in stalling him at the head of the Caracas government. If the Monroe doctrine means anything, it' means that the European powers shall not intervene in the domestic affairs of American na tions. If the action of this German commodore merns anything, it means that he seeks to set up in Castro's place a creature of his own, and that Ger- many shall hereafter rule Venezuela by i nroMy. j Nevertheless and notwithstand. Mr. Roosevelt has met these menaces an 1 I irritations with a calmness that must i excite the admiration and dispel the ap j prehensions of the American people even the most timid. Had such cu emergency arisen during the term cf i years, has kept his balance through all these disturbing and agitating circuni i Fiances. The country will recognize his wisdom and applaud his serenity. JAYHAWKER JOTS. Although a trifle out of season, a watermelon case is being tried at Hays (."it:-. Ness Citv is dailv. nav hourly, await ir.sr the- commencement of the proposed new .Santa Fe depot. I At Meade the bovs dodge the pro- hibitory law by upsetting a jug a'-iu saving its contents. Thirteen divorces were granted at Fort Seott Friday. Thanks to the cal endar Fridays are numbered. The joints are closed around Gkn Elder, but hog stealing is still a popular-after dinner fad in the underworld Hereafter Kllis county small boys who grow too boisterous at public meet ings will be "reprimanded by the pre.-.." A Winchester man advertises for a pair of lost spectacles. He could hardly be expected to see to lind them with out them. A small boy near Angola has been kicked in the head t ice within tic" past year by a mule, and never missed a day frum school. A Canton pig weighed 600 pounds dressed Aitnoup-n omy twenty immma

old. twenty-three gallons of lard ai j rendered from the worker, j A Sumner county farmer found a I small copper nugget that ltxiked so much like gold that the editor of tlw Xews offered to take it on subscription According to a Halstead professor the Hes.5inn fly blew into this country dur- i in; the devolution. Yet the present leg- iL.l-.t-,,a f.,ll.-o linnDfntl,, nf DTtftrmlr,!!.

Owing to the fact that several of the best citizens of Trego county and their teams have been stuck in the mud there is talk of a bridge over the Smoky at ing about their ext eriences, and especi the Wilcox ford. ally about the impression produced Helnit "old soaks" complain that tli I upon the entire personnel of the fleet by whisky sold by the "bootleggers" is of j a villainous oualitv. They threaten t' patronize the drus stores unless the- j brand is. changed. Skating parties have been all the rae.o this winter in Washington social circles. When a bov wants to get rid I of his sweetheart he takes her to the ice and lets her slide. Chanute parties boring for gas struck a splendid vein of coal. and simply turned un their nose at it. Like a wo man, everything they want is on the other side oi a wire fence. An Ottawa cat that is a family per and a wedding present has signed its death warrant. It yanked a couple of g 'Id fish from the urn am! followed up the lunch with the favorite canary. R"oks county complains that th? roads in the hill country are in de- i plorable shane and must be repaired at once, it should be an easy matter to nen uie giaoe is uown inn. ujdiKiiu luuniv tr-Bt.-it-i ?i cuiitiidlil j that the pupils ttndulge In the dreamy waltz to the detriment of u.rlded knowl edge of our foreign possessions. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Are twin brothers any more related than other brothers? If you accomplish anything, you must i do it m snite ot the critics. j The owners of diamonds and old homesteads always exaggerate their i value. What is said on a moonlitrht niirht is never as important as what is done on a (isrn one. Haven't you noticed that patience be comes other people? Then why not try it yourself? "I don't, know what I'm good for," a worthless man said today; "I hope 1 will make a good corpse." It should occur to a man oftener that his friends don't mean all they say, and that his enemies do. Th first week after a girl's pictures conr-1 heme from the photographer's. sne noes norrnng out lor at them. Reform has not proceeded quite far enough. People are examined for every thing these days excepting bad breaths. Hdith Hitmen, the St. Joe girl who committed suicide last Saturday after noon because of unrequited love for Dr. s j Weymann. had his initials tattooed on ijrj i-'i'-j-i. u t-iiiiau Liiu me w-oru using his own blood for the purpose He intended to have her initials tattooed en his breast, but neglected it. When you are in love, do you do anything as silly as this? KEF ECTIONS OP A EACHELOS, ri-'rnm the Xew York Press. N'o man tflls all he know., tells more than she knows every woman Women who st out to reform rakes f nd b reeding reform themselves. Tin re is no age p.t which a woman c t, pe. herself beautiful tinip ehe comes Dllml. A woman's Idea of a man's being good to her is when he agrees with her when 3he knows she is wrong. At to a woman is as sacred about her complexion as a man is about his pocket book in a dark alley. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. 1 From the Fhiladt 1 phia Record. Glovop are handy to have. A man's friends generally lust as long r his mnrey. Aiam never had any ancestors, but he ma n;td to get a family trr e. It W easy enough m view trouble eaimjy, provi'.iid it is not our own. "My life 1 a case of 'fore and aftr," complains the fK caddy. lM'-s.s Is a pnor index. Many a yo-n. mar. is s bright as his neel.tit" VvO-iI-1 make him appear. Y t i 1 1 can't m a k so me m n hIir vt a 1 (iilachi; next merniUK- X.il "Miss Gnti ox has. such a poor complexion." Belle "Yes: she's rich enough to afford a better one. too," rules you have a good" opinion of your- self jou can't expect other peopla to h. gifted with a keener sense of apprecia tion. Whm some men fail at everything else Uiry try matrimony. Blobbs "I saw Newrich sprinkling nyhea on his sidewalk the other day." 8lobU "Making another vulgar display Gf his wealth, eh?" Sympathy is not 50 plentifxil as one might suppose. The man who suffers from insomnia has no pity for the fellow who has nightmare. Siliicus ".Everybody says he is a gen ius." Cynic us "Then 1 gues3 he might be. It takes genius to convince other peo ple that you are one." EDITORIAL COMMENT. Railroad Passes Are Bribes. Detroit Free Press: The Northern Pacific railroad has made a practice of issuing piasses over its lines to members of the legislatures of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Washington. This was not an unwonted act of generosity on the part of the toad. In fact, this free trans portation had come to be regarded as one of the perquisites of the interested solons. If these passes could be tor tured into representing a legitimate purpose it would be to enable the legis lators to go to and from the capital or to travel to state institutions or to make investigation in the line of official duty. President Mellen has brought out the fact that this is not the view of the case taken by the legislators. The latest batch of passes, as usual, were good only for the time that the respec tive legislatures were in session, and they have been indignantly returned. The statesmen demanded the privi lege of using the road from one year's end to the other, and a often as they wish. The president answers the angry lawmakers by declaring that the legis lators in every state mentioned have been in the habit of lending their passes to their friends or selling them to scalpers to an extent that brought pro tests from' the paying patrons of the road. The lawmakers now threaten "to get even, and to the extent that they attempt to do so from motives of re venge they will demonstrate their per- sonai view 01 iree u anpui lauon. Mr. Mullen has shown that the legis lators with whom he has had dealings are not ordinarily appreciative or grate ful and has brought about a conclusion that if they attack the road because it will not give them all the passes they ask for, they are capable of favoring it when their swinish demands are gratified. Legislators, as such, have no business with railroad passes. They are provided only with a view of keeping the law maker in a kindly temper toward the corporation which grants these free rides. No self respecting man will ac cept this expensive hospitality and then seek to injure those who extended it. No self respecting man will sell his political support for a pass or other bribe, no matter how thick may be the sugar coating. The forced conclusion is I na y no Ke it resriM- r Lr esriisiMitir will "7, TV accept raiuoau uasse ui an, unu liiui is the exact proposition for which we contend. It is precisely on a par with the policeman on a beat who accepts free drinks and cigars. In nine cases out of ten they induce him to look the other way when the law is being vio lated, even though he be honest in the ordinary affairs of life. Admiral George Dewey. Washington Post. Some of our naval officers, returned from the Caribbean evolutions, are teli- Admiral Dewey m his capacity as com mander-in-chief. Had the Venezuelan incident led to a clash, as at one time seemed not impossible, of course every one would have been prepared for a repetition of the vigorous and brilliant action wnicn we nave an learneu to ex pect of him in a w arlike emergency. He would then have been upon familiar ground and we could have foretold with certainty what he would do. But. as the saying: goes, we had no "line" upon Dewey as the head of the most power ful fleet the United States has ever sent to sea and as the director of peaceful maneuvers on a gigantic scale. He had never ben tested by that standard, nor did his demonstrated qualities as a war rior furnish any forecast of his qualities as a tactician. It appears, however, that the admiral soon demonstrated his en tire mastery of the situation to the sat isfaction of the most incredulous. He made it immediately evident that he was more than eaual to every demand upon his powers. He was easily in com mand, never at a less, always serene, potent, balanced. He Instilled into those under his orders the most implicit confi dence, and fired them with as genuine an enthusiasm as that which startled the world in Manila Kay nearly five years since. There was no doubt as to the inspiration of the fleet, none as to the identity of the directing mind and the dominating will Everybody knew that George Dewey rode the situation with a sure seat and an iron hand. Ev erybody felt that he was the supreme force, the organizing intellect, the guid ing energy. The maneuvers were em inently successful, significant, reassur ing. Jiut George Dewey s commanamj personality and infiuer.ee constituted the in tiKii:iuuMug idi-L'ji in uic iivic rua- tlon. we Know mm now io oe as gieau in peace as he is in war a creator of splendid discipline, the distributing cen ter of an irresistible enthusiasm. Three cheers for him, and three times three! A Brief Discourse on Mr. Baer'a Text. Washington Post: The Post has said, and still believes, that a large share of the responsibility for the coal calamity is justly charge able to the operators of the mines. They could have prevented it by means which, under the circumstances, they ought to have adopted. But this belief, which we think is practically universal does not impair the American public's appreciation of the correctness of this statement recently made by Mr. Baer, in New York: "In genet al. it is true that the seller had a right to get the highest market price for his goods, but this rule ought to be modified as to food and fuel, in times of great distress, when a decent i or her crew were rescued by a lite boat, respect for the necessities of mankind i one man lost his life and 16 are miss should restrain the seller from taking ing. morf than n normal, legitimate prom. Thnt. there are many men in the coal; business who do not reeoscnize this j obligation is an unpleasant and affile- j j live tact, Dtit it is tne purpose ot inis article to consider the relations to the public of another class of business men j who appear to have taken advantage j of the coal famine to boost the price of j another fuel product at least 50 per cont since the coal trouble began. Coal oil that was retnileri at 10 cents a Kil- !nn lcicl- Timo liac Hoon for- onino wonks snmp wf selling at 15 cents. As evervbody knows, the former price. :md even the lowest prices that prevailed at various prior pfriods. yielded enormous profits and piled up fabulous fortunes for a few men. The Post has never failed to recognize all the pood points of the oil trust. That it sold an excellent oiality of oil pt a seemingly low price we pherfully conceded, and we paid i (l.F tibutr1 to the splendid business --;nrity of M". Rockefeller and his as 's.r!ats Tint this rushing up of the 1 cr.st of fuel in ordT to auemnt profits ih;it n!rp?dy exceeded "the drenms of a nnc- seems to us like heartless op- prefsion of the poor. Of course the demand for oil han I hper- largely increased by the coal i shortage.' and if it be justifiable to put j on all the prce that the traffic will bear no cause of complaint exists. But the same logic would justify extortion in food if the supply were short and most of it controlled by a single manage ment. When Mr. Baer urges that "in times of great distress a decent respect for the necessities of mankind should restrain the seller from taking more than a normal legitimate profit," he hits the oil trust even more palpably than the speculators in coal. As the New York World puts it, "even worse than the coal extortion is the wholly unwarranted raise of the price of oil in a time of fuel famine. To increase its cost by one cent a gallon means a profit of $23,000,000 a year to the Stan dard Oil company. An increase of four cents means a profit of $92,000,000 exacted in a period of distress from th scanty incomes of the poor." When one remembers that all of those millions go to the coffers into which hundreds of millions had been gathered before this time of distress began, when one reads of or hears or sees the sickness and death and cruel sufferings incident to lack of fuel, one cannot help thinking thoughts that had better not be printed. The only ad vantage of such thoughts is that they warm one up. LESSLER'S DEff!AL Further Evidence in Naval Com mittee Bribery Case. Washington, Jan. 7. When the house committee on naval affairs resumed the investigation of bribery charges today, Representative Lessler took the stand and denied statements made vesterday by Philip Doblin. "I desire to deny," he said at the out set of his detailed statement, "abso lutely and unequivocally as false the statement made by the witness Doblin here yesterdayas to any collusive scheme or any of the substantial details sworn to by him, and desire to reiterate thai the facts as originally told by me are true "1 desire to call attention to the fol lowing facts: As to the telegram 'Take midnight train. Come to me. Want to see ycu. Keep this confidential,- the members of the subcommittee will re. member that the statement I made tt. them was on Tuesday afternoon; that ut that time everything: before us was. in camera, and I said I will produce the witness Doblin in the morning, but did vav. tA; ZJ-,r.J"Z i room. "Mr. Doblin came into my room at the hotel a few minutes after 8 o'clock. I had left the door unlocked and he knocked, waking me up. I asked: 'Who Is there," he said 'Phil' or 'Doblin,' I have forgotten which. I said 'Come in.' He came Into the room and I said. -Phil I tnv. t.i,i,. ee-'i- uyuutr He said, 'How's that?' I said, 'I have told in committee the whole story of the submarine proposition.' He said, 'Oh, that's terrible, that's terrible." I said, 'Keep up your nerve. All you have to do is to tell the truth here, nothing but the truth.' Then telling of taking his bath and dressing, he continued: "He. Doblin, was walking up and down. I said to him, 'I said to the com mittee yesterday that when you came over to say nothing to you as to the testimony or the story.' I did not want it discussed between us. I was th-an fully dressed. We walked out to the elevator and went down to breakfast. I did as I do everv morriner. took nn the paper the Washington Post. I got my man at tne omco first and then we went In together. "When we sat down T rend the storv and I desire to have in full in the evidence the article in the Post of January 21. We went up stairs and the talk contained ab solutely nothing as to his testimony here. "The whole talk w.is as to his position in New York and as to what might occur to him. how he was politically ruined in New York. T was very much impress-d by the fact that he was in a serious sit uation and I diii tell the speaker that the proposition was undergoing examination here ami asked if it were possible to stop ia public investigation. Of course liked the notoriety of it." NINE NEW CASES. Almost Alarming Increase Contagious Diseases. in Nine cases of contagious disease were reported today to the board of health. Scarlet fever, diphtheria, chick enpox and measles were all represent ed, and most of the cases were among children. The list in detail is as fol lows: rfi o .i.j i.. 1-. t f-e T tS" J, j antiru.d at the C(lunty jail, sheriff's res- idence. T. H. Sheridan, of .107 Jackson street, is reported sick with diphtheria. Mrs. J. C. Allison, of 623 West Eighth, also has diphtheria. Helen, the i-vear-old daughter of j MUttn Mpn(ienhaiI 217 Jefferson street, jhas scarlet fever In the family of H. J. Neiswender, IH Oakland avenue, the 4-year-old daugh ter Susie has scarlet fever. Diphtheria is reported in the familv of F. A. Snow, 70fi Polk street. The pa tient is Floyd, an 11-year-old son. Scarlet fever is reported in the Jen sen farnilivat 313 Polk street. In the family of Henry Wolf. 1)2S Harrison, two boys are sick with chick eni:ox. 16 ISSlflG. Dead of the Crew Sunken Steamer. One of a j j j j London, Jan. 27. The Eritish steamer Graffo from Olassow for liuenos Ayres j was sunk off Ramsey island today. Six De Vega Not Guilty. Hutchinson. Kan., Jan. 27. tteniamin Vega, thr Cuban, was rbns-d afer beins? hold six hours, without a preliminary h'-ar-ine nn thf rhsrep of ha vi ncr hurir 1m rizpd l h h honrK- of Dr. F. W. Cook. County Attor- fiht in congress. It required a tele ny Brown decided that the eviderfce was gram of over 00 words to transmit tti. not of a nature to warrant a trial and af- j memorial. After it was read it was t c:. r j-nr- tH.l ori ncr t muttPT" for n whiln i ,.c ..3 i j ;njRs 7n ciise. De Vepa Vayi he will bring sr.t for false imprisonment asrainst Dr. Cook and the officers, as r.e considers that tllS rtUUtlltlOn WHS Uimnsre-l nis six nours acienuon m tne custouy 1 i Yost to Coach Michigan Ann Arbor. Mich.. Jan. 27. Official an nouncement hns been made that F. H. Yost would conch the 1'nivcrsity of Michitrin fxtball team aain next fall. Attention No. 244, A. O. TJ. W. The funeral services of Brother Fran cis Monly will be held at Grace cathe dral tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2-.3i o'clock. The remains will leave resi dence, 326 Monroe, at 2 o'clock. Al! brothers that can are requstei to at- tend. CHAS. F. WOOriWARl), Recorder No. 44. City Ticket Office, Union Pacific P.ailroad, 525 Kansas avenue. PEflSiOfHOR ALL. Senator Scott Advocates Pay ment of 812 Per Month To All Soldiers Who Ask After Age of 62. Washington, Jan. 27. In the senate today Mr. Beveridge presented a peti tion from Indian Territory for state hood, which was read at the senator's request. He then proceeded to explain his reason for the reading whereupon Mr. Aldrich remonstrated, saying that it was opposed to the senate rules to read a petition in detail and also to enter into debate upon it. He said that both practices were growing in the senate and that both were reprehensi bile. When the routine business was con cluded at 2:40, Mr. Quay moved to take up the statehood bill, but he was met by Mr. Aldrich with a point of order to the effect that under the rules of the senate the motion was out of order and that the bill could not be taken up before 1 o'clock without unanimous consent. Mr. Quay responded that this rule was alternative, permitting business to proceed after the conclusion of the routine business or at 1 o'clock. The chair, Mr. Frye, said he was in clined to decide against the point and expressed a desire to hear from Mr. Aldrich but Mr. Scott claimed the floor on a previous notice and proceeded to address the senate. Mr. Scott spoke on his resolution pro viding for a commission to suggest changes in the pension laws and to in quire into the advisability of granting a pension of $12 per month to any sol dier of the civil war who served 'M days. In the course of his remarks he said "Large as the pension roll now ap pears, mammoth as seems the aggregate of a nation's bounty, it is an aggregate summed from all its war. Yet however large that roll be it is not so large as the muster roll and r.o man who an swered the call to which none but the true and brave responded, should now be forgotten. Go, Mr. President, read the muster roll from '61 to '65, subtract fr"m those that sleep in the cemeter- les and then comnare the remainder with the pension roll and tell me where that vast army is. "Who cares for them? There is not one of them perhaps, but was as brave and true a patriot as his comrades, who are now provided for. Their names have never been enrolled uoon the pension list; they have been knocking, but knocking in vain. Upon what principle cf justioVj, by what teaching of human ity shall one-half be clothed and the other naked. It was the blood of the Union soldier that cemented the stones erected by the fathers of the constitution and they, are not asking for the 'last drop of blood and the last pound of flesh' but are asking for an equitable distribution of the fruits of their handiwork. "This resolution provides that the union veteran be paid $12 per month after reaching the age of 62 and making application for the same. This will be a scanty living; even then the wolf will howl close by. After the age of 62 few men, especially those who have under gone the hardships cf the war, are able to do manual labor. Many of these ar.i today worthy and suffering for the necessaries of life. I believe this reso lution will meet with the hearty ap proval cf a brave and generous people I know it will meet the approval of our cor science. Let' this commission be ap pointed; let it resume the task that it will appeal to duty and patriotism and not to partisanship or sectionalism Let the members be men who can not be sw-crved from dutv bv the cheer of j the demagogue or the groans of the miser, and recommend to the next con gress such a measure as will simplify our present complex system and broaden the pedestal of our philanthropy. "When the soldier served 90 days and was honorably discharged, and has reached the aire of 62. he should receive from this government not less than .$12 per month. This will give him a few of the necessities and none of the luxuries i of life. It is small to the individual and the aggregate would never be felt by j this people. Can human genius devise I a more appropriate outlay for the ac cumulated surplus? It would prove a generous method of redistribution. 1 "Many a soldier files his claim, and long before it is reached he has passed over the river and filed a claim else where. Nearly 10 years have come and gone; S61.076 applications are on file: of these 470.S5O have been allowed, leaving nearly 400.000 not acted upon. At this rate it will require eighty yes.rs to com plete the roll and when completed there will be non left to answer it." IN THE HOUSE. Washington, Jan. 2. After transact ing some routine business the house to day adopted a resolution to give the day to the consideration of bills reported from the judiciary committee. HE WADED THE HIVEK. Henry Leather, Reform School In mate, Escapes, but Freezes Out. Harry Leather, an lS-year-old boy do ing time at the reform school, made a dash for liberty at 6 o'clock last even ing, and was chased all over the sur rounding country by the officers of the school, finally eluding them by cross ing .Soldier creek several times and eventually wading the Kaw river above the Rock Island bridge. He was wet to his shoulders, and had to go to the Rock Island depot to keep from freez ing. While trying to dry his clothes at j the radiator in the waiting room he was j arrested by Policeman Anderson. The boy was brought to the police station and given dry clr thes. His experience m trying to get away from the reform sehol guards equals some of the early day stories where a lone white man was the g-ame and a gang of Indians the htmterc. 2few Mexican Memorial. The legislative assembly of New Mex ico today telegraphed a memorial to the Kansas leish turre asking the latter to ursre congress to pass the omnibus state hood bill, over which there is now a "r 'r """'ure on Ieaeral re

J-lAilUliS To Topeka commandery No. 5. Knights Templar, Topeka lode No. 17. A. F. and A. M.. also all German and benevolent societies and friends who so willingly assisted us with helping hands, cheer ing words and heartfelt sympathy, and to all who paid the last tribute of re spect to our beloved husband and fath er, John Greif, we desire to offer the deepest gratitude of a widow's and d:ug-hter's heart when aroused to its utmost capacity for grateful feelings. MRS. JOHN GIltIF, KJiMA GRIEF. C. F. Merninger, M. D., office 127 Kan sas ave. Tel. 19; residence 1251 Topeka ave. Tel. S5. Office hours 2 to 5 p. m. City Ticket Office, Union Railroad, 025 Kansas avenue. Pacific FEES FOR PRINTERS. Measure Introduced to Regulate the Charges. To the end that county printers may receive a fixed and definite fee for print ing opcial ballots and publishing legal notices, Representative Jones of Norton has introduced two bills. One of them prescribes that for printing official bal lots printers shall receive $10 a thou sand in presidential years, and $8 a thousand in other years, where there are not more than four tickets on the bal lot, and $1 a thousand for each addi tional ticket. The present law fixes th& rate at "not more than $10 a thou sand," and in some counties the com missioners scaled the price down this last year until the printers did not come out even. Mr. Jones' bill fixes the price definite!!-. For legal publications the other bill fixes a definite rate of 75 cents per square of 250 ems for the first insertion and 50 cents for subsecuent insertions, and it makes this rate obligatory to make the notices legal. At present the rate is S! for the first and 50 cents for sub sequent insertions, but lawyers fre quently get printers to give them a half rate or less. The rate for publishing the delinquent tax list is left the same as at uresent. LAWYERS ARE HERE. Bar Association Begins Its Sessions in Topeka. Chief Justice Clark of North Caro lina who has won fame in the south as an orator and a jurist, will address the State Bar association tonight. The subject of his address will be "Some Considerations Upon the Constitution of the United States." Judge Clark arrived in Topeka last night and stopped at the Throop hotel, He was immediately taken in charge by Judge J. G. Slonecker. Judge Clark was present at the election to the United States senate at noon today of Chester I. Long. He was visiting around in the house and senate and meeting a few of the prominent law makers and interpreters of the state when the house wis called to order for the cut and dried ballot. During the recess before the ballot was taken, Judge Clark met Speaker Pringle and said that he was glad to meet a fellow jurist who was in a position of high boner and trust. Judge Clark has a pleasant face and the inborn grace of a southern gentle man. His career as a jurist has been alongand brilliant one. and still he shows little symptoms of age except a white mustache. He is favorably impressed with what he has seen of Kansas and its capital. The State Par association met in the supreme court rooms at 10 o'clock this morning", the first meeting of the ses sion, to attend business of the associa tion, and hear the reports of the ex ecutive council, the secretary and treas urer. The afternoon session, beginning at 2 o'clock, observed the following pro gramme: President's annual address, "The Su preme Power in the State," B. F. Mil ton, Dodge City. Report of judiciary committee; J. C. Pollock, chairman. Winfield. Report of committee on legal educa tion and state university law school; J. W. Gleed. chairman, Topeka. Address, "Some Phases of Legal Edu cation at Home and Abroad." W. L. Purdick. Lawrence. Founders' day exercises: Short remi niscent addresses and early day expe riences by J. H. Gilnatrick, Leaven worth: C. P. Graves. Emporia: Clark A. Smith, Cawker City, and otherB. Miscellaneous business. The meeting tonight is open to all, and ladies are specially invited to be present. The Ad Astra quartette will furnish music. At the banquet, which will be held at the Hotel Throop Wednesday night, January 2S, the following toasts will be proposed "The Law and Its Makers," Senator W'ulfekuhler. "The Law and Its Interpreters," Judge Lobdell. "Editors and Lawyers," Charles S. Finch. "Guilty or Not Guilty." W. S. Roark. "Keep Off the Grass." Fred Dumont Smith. "The Stranger Within Our Gates," Chief Justice Clark of North Carolina. TOMORROW'S MEETING. Following is the programme for the session tomorrow: Report of committee on amendments to laws. James T. Herrick, chairman, Wellington. Report of committee on probate i courts, B. F. Milton, chairman, Dodge City. Report of committee on universal con gress of lawyers and jurists, J. G. Slon ecker, chairman, Topeka. Address, "Extradition," Eugene F. Ware, Washington. D. C. Address, "The Doctrine of Reasonable Doubt." The most meritorious of the papers of the senior class of the State university law school, in contest for this honor. Address. "The Case of Shelley vs. Westbrooke" (1 Jac. 266), R. A. Burch, Salina. Miscellaneous business. AFTERNOON SESSION. 2 O'CLOCK. Report of committee on admission to the bar. Abijah Wells, chairman, Seneca. Address. "The Contracts of Married Wo men." Julia F. V. Harris. Wellington. Address. -"The Unwritten Constitution of the United States," Chancellor FranK Strong. liawrence. Address. "The I-oves of a Lawyer," Wil liam Thompson. Hurlingame. Question box, conducted in the interests of county attorneys. J: S. West, Topeka. Election of officers. Miscellaneous business. MCHOLS FOR. COUNCIL. Fifth Ward Member to Re-election. Stand for H. S. Nichols, councilman from the Fifth ward, has announced that he will be a candidate for re-election. Mr. Nichols has served one term and is admitted to be one cf the most shrewd and energetic members of that body. He is a member of yt- er;d Important committees and is active as a member of the board of health. Although he has voted with the Prohibi tion members of the council on all meas ures calculated to put the members on record, he stands in good favor with tho administration and has been ir. a position to secure favors lor his ward which might otherwise have been difficult to obtain. PRESIDENT AT CANTON. Canton. O.. Jan. 27. The special train bearing President loxisevelt and party ar rived at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Made Envoy Extraordinary. Berlin. Jan. 27. The title and rank of envoy extraordinary and minister pleni potentiary have been conferred on Bar on Speck von Sternberg, who succeeds Dr. Holleben as the representative of Germany at Washington. Lynch's Sentence Commuted. London. Jan. 27. The sentence of death pessed upon Colonel Arthur I.ync-h. who was found euiltv of high treason on Friday last, has been com muted to penal servitude for life. C. F. Menninger, M. D., office 727 Kan sas ave. Tel. 19: residence 1251 Topeka ave. Tel. 85. Office hours 2 to 5 d. m. PERFECT F""S P! f Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century PREPARED BY TO LATE TO CLASSIFY. STRAYED From 426 Reno St., 1 fine black Poland China sow, rlns in one side of nose, crop and split in one ear; wt. about 250 pounds. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF the court or Topeka, subject to the decis ion of the Republican primary. FRED C. SLATER. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR A SECOND term as councilman from the Fifth ward, subject to the Republican primary. H. S. NICHOLS. tm. BRISTOW IS HERE. Very Much Pleased Over Long's Election. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general, arrived in Topeka today from Washtngton to attend the annual banquet of the Kansas Day club and for a brief social visit. "I wanted to get here for Bailey's in augural," said Mr. Bristow today, "but it was impossible for me to get away from Washington jn time. I am a great admirer of Governor Bailey and would nave given a good deal to have been here. He is courageous, straightfor ward and always upright and honest, and I look for him to give the state a great administration." iMr. Bristow is recovering: the use of his eyes which gave him great trouble for a year. Much of the time he was unable to use them at all further than to glance at the headlines of the news papers and read a short letter now anJ then. All of the rest of his work had to be done by the use of other peciile's eyes, but now his are considerably im proved and he believes he will in time recover their full use. "The outcome of the senatorial contest seems to me to have been a very happy one," said Mr. Bristow in discussing the election of Mr. Long. "Long has had six years in Washington and I do not believe another member of congress has grown with the rapidity that he has. He stands high and will make an excellent senator for the state. He already has great prestige with the leaders, he is al ways courteous and agreeable, and I look for him to make a name for him self in the senate." Mr. Bristow will be in Kansas till some time next week when he will re turn to Washington. GIRL MESSENGERS. Postal Telegraph Company in Mil waukee Prefers Them to Boys. The slow-g;oing novel-reading: mes senger boys of old will soon be a thing of the past in Milwaukee, and in their place will be bright-faced girls. That is in accordance with plans which will soon be put into effect by Manager McGlll of. the Postal Telegraph com pany. According to Mr. McGill a force of girls will be put to work In the down town office and at some of the branch offices just as soon as they can be se cured. The present condition of affairs is brought about largely by the fact that boj's are harder than ever to get, and it is almost impossible to hire enough to handle the company's business. The value of girls as messengers was demonstrated to Mr. McGill here a few weeks ago when one of the boys at one of the branch offices was taken ill and his sister undertook to fill his place, and did so with so much promptness that Mr. McGill at once saw a possi ble way out of his present difficulties, and wrote at once to headquarters to get its views in a permanent staff of girls for the work. Today word was received to the ef fect that such action would have the company's sanction and now Mr. Mc Gill is looking for girls to install as messeng-ers. In speaking of the mat ter this morning Mr. McGill said: "It is not any grievance with our boys or anything like that which has led us to open the field to girls. But it is simply impossible to get boys these days in insufficient numbers for night service, but there is no reason why they should not be able to handle the downtown work as well or even better than boys. The work is healthy, as they are out of doors a greater part of the time, and when the distance is far their street car fare is paid. We shall use some of the girls here at the main office, but the most of them wdll be sent to the branch offices where the work is much easier." Mr. McGill said that the girls will be hirerl just as soon as they put in their applications. All that is required is that they be over 14 years old and have a fair knowledge of the city. Milwaukee Journal. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Mrs. Marcaret F. Foster of loio Topeka avenue died this morning at hemorrhage at theV.ge e.f K4 years. The funeral will be held from the First Presbyterian church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The funeral service of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Patterson will take place at the residence. Ili7 Olav street, on Thursday morning ."-t 11 o'clock. The interment will take place on Friday at Monmouth, 111. Peter Vinson, an aged colored man liv ing at 414 Kast West" street, died Monday morning of old age. He was 05 yiars old and has been under the care of Mr. and Mrs. I-awrence, colored, for some time. LOCAL MENTION. Mrs. Nation has -gone to Ida to de liver a lecture. Miss Daude Dwelly of Kansas City is visiting Mrs. T. M. Hall. The Topeka High School Alumni ns sociation will hold its annual m V ing and election of officers on Wednesday evening. February 4. This will be the first annual meeting held in three years. During that time the organization has been forgotten but last fall a number ot old high school people got together for the purpose of resurrecting the organi zation. There have been several meet ings preliminary to the annual meeting to be held next week and preparations for it are complete. At next week's meeting plans will be discussed for a re ception for the winter graduating class at the high school. Calla council No. S, V. R. K. of P., i viii gsve a nance at tneir nail, corner Sixth nr.d Quincy. v. ednesday night. Januaiy Knights of Fythias and their friends are invited. Tickets 50c. City Ticket Office. T'nion Railroad. 525 Kansas avenue. Pacific

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