The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 18, 1903

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wsvS rp fts- iff SIXTEEN PAGES. SATURDAY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 18, 1S03. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. L LAS! EDITIOU, r X. MR. WARE SAYS :!E iS RIGHT. He Is Accused of Violating the Civil Service Utiles In Displacing a Democrat With a Hepublicaii. DEFENDS HIS ACTION On Ground That Examiners Are Not in Classified List And McKinley's Order Jlaking Hoard I5i-Partisan. t Washington. July IS Civil service re- V formers will lie interested In what is harged to be a flagrant violation of the civil servire law. as well as of the ruk-s and regulations promulgated by direc tion of the president. The offense is charged against Commissioner of Pen sions Ware, and was committed when he directed the removal of a member of a board of pension examining surgeons lor political reasons. It has just been discovered that last December Commissioner Ware address ed a letter to Dr. T. J. McLaughlin of Jersey City, X. J., in which he called his attention to the fait that the board of examining surgeons, of which tr. McLaughlin was a member, was co.ti posed of two Pemociats and one Re publican. "An executive order directed S that, when practicable, the examining board ehall be made up of two Republic;- MS anil one Democrat." the letter continues. "In compliance with this order I must regretfully ask for your resignation as a member of the Jersey City board." Commissioner Ware stated when his attention was called to the letter that it was genuine, and that Dr. McLaughlin was dismissed. The pension bureau waited upon him several months to ten der his resignation and finally dropped him from the rolls. Commissioner Ware claims there has l.een no violati in cf civil service law or regulations, but th:s view is not shared by the civil service commission. Com missioner Proctor, who is the highest authority in such matters, holds that l'r. McLaughlin was protected by the civil service act, and that Commissioner Ware has rendered himself liable to penalty, which may even amount to dis missal. N The text of the commissioner's letter f "ollows: Dear Sir: Your board of examin ing surgeons is politically composed of two Democrats and one Republican. An executive order directs that when prac ticable the examining board shall be made up of two Republicans and one Democrat. In compliance with this or-, dcr I must regretfully ask for your res ignation as a member of the Jersey City board. This request must not in any w ay be construed as reflecting upon your efficiency as a member of the board, or as an expression of dissatisfaction with your professional work. I thank you for your past good services as an exam ining surgeon for this bureau. Very respectfully, E. F. Ware, commissioner." The executive order to which reference Is made in his letter to McLaughlin is not on record, and the commissioner, when asker about it, stated that the order was a verbal one made by Presi dent McKinley. The commission holds that the civil fervlce act as well as all rules and reg ulations made in accordance with i protect all officers and employes of the government in classified service against dismissal for political reasons. Commis sioner Ware's explanation of his action in removing Dr. McLaughlin and hi3 views in regard to his relation to the board of medical examiners are given in the following statement which he prepared "Hoards of medical examiners are not tinder civil service rules: they are sim ply hired nu-n for the time, subject to dismiss;!! at the pleasure of the bureau. In Jersey City the board was composed of two Democrats and one Republican. Complaints were made and Senator Keene requested the substitution of Dr. James A. lCxton in place of Dr. Mc Laughlin. Thereupon a formal letter was stnt to Dr. McLaughlin asking for hi.' resignation and thanking him for 1 is past services. The usual form for such letter was used. These medical boards are kept bi-partisan; that is to Fiy, two Republicans and one Democrat. Many changes are going on from time to time because eompluintsarefrequent made against one or another of tne oards. but in all they are kpt bi partisan. It was the verbal order of President MeKinley made in 1S'.9 that th boards should ha bi-partisan." Commissioner Proctor, speaking of this matter, said: "The law applies to all persons in the classified service, whether exempted or rot from competitive examinations. Members of pension examining boards are in the classified service, but not subject to competitive examination. "When Commissioner Ware wrote the letter to Dr. McLaughlin the civil ser vice rule read: 'No person in the execu tive civil service shall dismiss or in any manner chaifge. the official rank or com pensation of any other person therein Veeause of his political or religious opinions or affiliations.' Since th"n. on April 13, a new set of rules was pro mulgated by direction of and with the Approval of the president, in which it Is provided that 'no discrimination shall tie exercised, threatened or promised by any person in the executive civil service ntrninst or in favor of any employe in (he classified service because of his po litical or religious opinions. or affilia tions.' According to Commissioner Proctor. Dr. McLai"hlin was an employe in the classified ijt, and according- to Com missioner Ware's statement. Dr. Mc Laughlin was removed "because of his political opinions and affiliations." fn less Commissioner Proctor, who is the highest authority in such matters is in error in holding that Dr. McLaugh lin was protected by the civil service act and the rules and regulations Commissioner Ware has laid himself liable to the penalty prescribed by sec tion 3 of rule 12. wh'ch reads: ".ny i person in the eyervitive service who V er.nll willfully vio-nte anv of the pro- visions of the civil service act or of y these rules shall be removed from the service." "I think it would be necessary for the party at interest or some one else to prefer charges with th.. civil ser vice commission before te will under take an investigation of this case." said Commissioner Prod jr. "It is pos sible the man eoes not care for the i lace. The commission always prefers to act upon a complaint ami not on newspaper notice. We will not take up this case unless it is officially brought to our attention. I want to ray this for the Commissioner of Pen sions continued Commissioner Proc tor, tar as appointments .and pro motions are made by him we have never had a man in the public service who adhered more strictly to the civil service rules. He has been a very strict observer of the law and the regulations." RESTINGJASY. The Pope Shows No Indication of an Impending Crisis. Nobody Seems Willing to Make Any Prediction. Rome. July Is 7 P. M. The pope is reported to be somewhat better. His I respiration is easier. Nobody is allow ed to enter the sick room. The nose continues in the same en feebled state but there is no indication of an approaching crisis. His con dition appears to have lapsed into one of indefinite suspense, with the ever present danger of a fatal turn. Yet, there is no immediate fear that such-a change is near. During the morning the pontiff re mained comparatively quiet, getting some sleep and seeing no one except the doctors and his immediate attend ants. For three days the official bul letins have practically been unchanged, showing the patient's condition to be al most stationary. An Italian proverb says: "When the patient does not get worse he improves very much." But, with the pope, alter the last two weeks experience, everybody has renounced making any predictions. Undoubtedly symptoms of amelioration exist, as while on Thursday morning, when the jpieuratic liquid regathered, his respira tion reached 36; today when the liquid is lowering it fell to 28. In fact, it is known that Dr. Lapponi and Dr. Maz zoni discussed the question whether to announce an amelioration in this morn ing's bulletin, but abandoned the idea, bo as not to raise excessive optimism. The heat is beginning to increase. The shutters of the pope's bedroom window are almost closed, the window is open and the curtains are drawn back. It is reported that steps will be taken to in stall an electric fan in the room. The cabinet ministers have held several meeting' today to discuss the attitude of the government on the death of the pope and It has been decided that if the Vatican notifies the Italian government of his death, as it has done in the case of the death of othor distinguished pre lates. Italy will not officially participate in any manifestations of mourning hut limit herseli to maintaining public order and insuring full liberty for the con clave, as prescribed by law. Arriving at such, a decision the minis ters declared tha they had been guided by the wish to protect the dignity of the state, and by no lack of respect for the aged pontiff, towards whom there have been most chivalrous manifesta tions of sympathy from the kins who postponed lis journey to Paris on ac count of the pope's health and from the whole people," who are participating in the universal feeling of regret at the pontiff's illness, thus forgetting the tra ditional struggle between church and state. FREIGHT WAR OPENS. Pacific Steamship Lines Con tend for Carrying Trade. San Francisco, July 18. The fight for freight for the Orient Is showing no signs of abatement. The rate on flour has been chopped down from $5 to $1 a ton. The fight was started by the Pacific Mail company in consequence of the encroachment of the China commercial steamship line on Its territory. The Oc cidental and Oriental company and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha have followed in the footsteps of the Pacific Mail. The reduction has extended to the northern lines, which are carrying for the Orient at S3, per ton. To add more ton e to the fight, the China Commercial company is hurrying to San Francisco the big steamers Clavering and Lothean. The Korea, of the Pacific Mail company, will also be loaded about the same time and another cut in rates is looked for. WANTED IT KEPT SECKET. Strange Request of Artist Whistler Regardng His Death. London. July 1. The last instruction given by James McNeil Whistler, the emi nent American artist, prior to his death were quite characteristic of the man. When the Associated Press correspondent called at the house todnv he was informed that the artist had left stringent instructions that no information whatever n garding his illness or death should be given either to his friends or the ncws:iaprs. It has been nearly a ytnr since Mr. Whistler shut up his beautiful studio in the Hue du Pne. Paris, and came to live in London. During the interval he seldom returned to P;iris. He lived in an old house which he formerly occupied in Cheyenne Walk. Chebeau. Tt is a pictur esque lmiklir? facing the Thames, and is i overgrown with rmpir?. The studio is at the back of the house. Whistler's j friimls could not irr.ncine hv he returned t Louden, as he disliked the place, its iclin-ate. and rtrsnwa VruHKh nrt whfc. It r has b en in had health ever since he returned to Knejand. He suffered from some internal complaint. He went occa sionally to dinner parties with friends, but gradually wl a mere and more secluded life. The rxnet nature of his complaint is not known. He grew rnpidlv worse a few days ago and died quite suddenly. Succeeds General Wood. Washington. July IS Tt was announc ed today at the war department that Colonel Thomas H. Parry of the ad jutant genera! department has been se lected for brigadier general in the per manent service to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of General Leonard Wood. Site tor Australian Capital. Melbourne. Australia, July is. The committee arroi.ited to select the site for the new capital of the ""derated Australian states has recommended Tumut. New South Wales, 264 miles SOUthwest Cif SvHnot. T" i- ated in a rich agricultural district and m joaj uau a, population of 1,500. STILL POUNDING. Grain Journal Demands Recip rocal Demurrage Law. Asserts That Kansas Freight Kates Should Be Reduced. WHEAT TARIFF UXJUST Rate from Kansas City to Chi cago 14 Cents. Freight from Heringtou to Kan sas City the Same. There is no doubt that the Southwest ern Grain Journal, published at To peka. is making good its threat, pub lished in the Issue of July 1, to "go af ter" the railroads for exorbitant freight rates. In the issue of that publication for July 15, which appeared Friday, the following article on the situation ap pears: We demand that railroad freight rates in Kansas be reduced from 10 to 20 per cent. We demand a reciprocal demurrage law which requires railroad companies to pay a fine for cars ordered and not furnished, equal to the car service charges now imposed by railroad com panies upon shippers when cars are held ovs'r time. We demand a law compelling rail road companies to give a clean bill of lading for commodities transported. and demand that transportation companies deliver the exact quantity at destina tion which was delivered to them at point of origination. We demand from the next legislature a law permitting shippers to deduct the value of any shortage, or damage to commodities while in transit from the freight bill, at the time the commodities are delivered to the shipper. We demand a law compelling railroad companies to forward all freight with dispatch and not side track the same awaiting the pleasure of the company. We demand that loaded freight cars are kept moving toward their destination at a rate of at least 100 miles per day. In short, we demand laws to relieve the people from railroad domination and extortion and our agitation will continue until relief is obtained. Of all the abominable monopolies that suck the life blood out of the people, not one can compete with the railroad trust of Kansas. Kansas is legitimate prey. In Kansas the railroads can rob legal ly, thanks to the imbecile legislature of 1901. That legislature gave the rail roads the right to rob the people, so that the corporations are not so much to blame as the imbeciles to express it charitably who passed the law. It is well understood that railroad at torneys framed this measure and that the legislators were told to pass it: and they did. Why shouldn't they, were they not the servants of the corpora tions? What right had the people to expect anything different? But to prove our assertion, that rail roads have a right to rob the people of Kansas, read the last nine lines of sec tion 25 of the railroad law of 1901: "N'ur shall it charge more for trans porting; freight from any point on its line than a fair and just portion of the price it charges for the same kind of freight transported from any other point; nor shall it be lawful to chare a greater freight rate to haul any class of goods for a shorter distance than for a longer one in the same general direc tions under like conditions and over the same system of road 'IN KANSAS.'" Why was it necessary to add the words "in Kansas" when every child knows they were not making laws for other states? Without the words "in Kansas" section 25 pre .ides that "They shall not cha:.ge more for 'transporting' freight from any point on its entire line than a fair and Just por tion of the price it charges for the same kind of freight transported from any other point" over the same system. By adding the words "in Kansas" the force of the provision is destroyed and permits corporations to charge one rate over their system in other states and another rate, a much higher one in Kan sas, y.nd this the railroads are doing with a vengeance. Had the legislators been honest in their attempted railroad legislation, they would have used language similar to the following: "It shall be unlawful for any railroad company to chM Se greater rate or freight for the transportation of prop ery in the state of Kansas than what it "charges for like service in other states on the same system. If this were the law the people of Kansas would save enough money to build 1.100 miles of railroad every year. Freight rates are over 100 per cent higher in Kansas on the same system of railroads, than freight rates are in other states. Here are a few Rock Is land figures: The present tariff on wheat from Kan sas City to Chicago, 517 miles, is 14 cents. Herington to Kansas City. Its miles, is 14 cents. Pecause "in Kansas" the freight rate is 350 per cent higher on the same railroad system. For freight on wheat from Wellington to Kansas City. 251 miles, the Rock Is land charges 14 cents. Yet this same road carries freight through Missouri, Iowa and Illinois to Chicago, more than double the distance, for cent less. From Kansas City to Rock Island. 336 miles, the rate of freight is 9 cents on wheat. The farmers around Va lencia. Kan., are charged 9 cents to have their wheat hauled to Kansas Citv, 79 miles, making their freight over 400 per cent higher, because living "in Kan sas." Nor does the railroad in question treat people fair and impartial even "in Kansas." The rate of freight on wheat from Caldwell to Kansas City is 14li cents for 272 miles. This same road charges the farmers of McPherson countv 1W. cents for only 195 miles. Evidently the Rock Island Railroad company in order to play even makes the farmers of McPherson county pay the cost of carrying a good shnre of the leading citizens for their "flooence on free passes "in Kansas!" In the above we refer only to the published tariff rate from Kansas City to Chicago of 14 cents per 100 pounds. As a matter of fsct all the railroads for years have carried grain for about one half their published rate for favored firms and persons. Temperatures of Large. Cities. Chicago, July IS. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New York. 70: Boston. 70: Phila delphia, 68; Washington, 70; Chicago, 62: Minneapolis, 62; Cincinnati, 76; St. Louis, 74. NO SELECTION MADE. Commander Smith Has Not Desig nated Official G. A. R. Road. Adjutant General Denison denies the report that the Rock Island has been selected as the official route for the State G. A. R. delegetes to the Nation al encampment at, San Francisco. Com mander Smith has gone to Lawrence, but Adjutant General Denison says: "I know that uo to 11:30 last night. Commander Smith had not -reached any decision in the matter, and am confi dent that the report that the Rock Is land is selected is false." It was stated in the State Journal some time ago that the Rock Island seemed to have the best of the rate contest, and there is probably som foundation for the rumor that the Rock Island has won the prize. Mr. Denison states that no decision will be made until General Passenger Agent W. J. Black returns to the clt and has another conference with Com mander Smith. COBURH HERE Will Make No Estimate of the Kansas Wheat Crop. Secretary V. D. Coburn. of the state board of agriculture, returned today from St. Louis, and will be at his head quarters at the state house for some time. "It's true that I am temporarily em ployed at St. Louis." said Mr. Coburn today, "but here is where I am at home. It is when I am in St. Louis that I am away from headquarters." Secretary Coburn does not take much stock in the statement printed that the Kansas wheat crop will be only 82.000. 000, but he will give no estimate on what the number of bushels will be. "It has been stated that this office has prophesied a crop of 100,000,000 bushels. This Is not true. There is not a scratch of a pen to show that such a forecast is in our records. We receive reports from 1,600 men who are actively engaged in harvesting and raising wheat, and by sifting these reports with the utmost care, we give to the world with great fear and trembling a statement as to the probable condition of wheat. We give no estimates on the total crop. Thi estimate of 82,000,000 seems to be made up from reports received from only 20 different points in the state. It seems ridiculous to us to base an estimate upon such authority." Secretary Coburn says that Judging by the reports coming to his office the state has never had on the whole more favorable weather than has lately pre vailed for harvestins a great wheat crop. "There is nq denying." said Mr. Coburn, "that in many localities the heat has been intense and severely try ir.g to those who on account of a short age of help have felt it necessary to work almost or entirely beyond thoir strength. Wheat "rowers who are able to get their grain safely in well built stacks before a season of frequent rains have done much to mr'Se si -ure the re sults of their year's efforts.""" Speaking of his work at the St. Louis exposition, Mr. Coburn says: "It is a much bigger thing than I thought it was when I accepted th-3 work. When I went there, there was not a thing done toward the live stock exhibit. There was not so much as a blotter or pencil on hand to begin work with. We had to make requisitions for everything, and the red tape is so exten sive that it is sometimes a month before you obtain what you ask for. "But the St. Louis exposition can not be compared with the Columbian expo sition. It is so immensely superior. They have a park there a mile long and two miles wide which will is literally Jam med with exhibits from the whole world. The work is progressing rapidly. "I have just completed the work of preparing the catalogue for the live stock exhibit. We have put our heart's blood into it. We have been working on it constantly for six months. And yet when it is published, it will be only a small book. But every sentence had to be carefully scanned, because it was a book which would have to go into the lime light for the world's inspection. I expect to have it criticised, but we have done our best." TO DRIVE GUT JEWS. Russian Police Will Make Them Move Out. St Petersburg. Julv is. The police com mssary of the Kisheneff district has trans mittfd to the police commissioners in his jurisdiction the following circular: "s a result of the disturbances at Kish eneff April 1 and 20. and in consequence also of the alarming reports in circulation, and the possibility of fresh disorders, many Jewish families have left Kisheneff and settled in villages in the district contrary to the law cf May. 1.-K2. Consequently with a view to avoiding the very disagree able result to which this might lead. 1 herewith instruct commissaries to take vig orous measures for the expulsion of such Jews from localities where they have no right to live. I think it my duty to add that if commissaries fail to carry out these instructions I will deem myself obliged to inform the governor thereof. Y EAR'S REtJI ST RV REPORT. Topeka Postoffice Handled 64,822 Pieces of Registered Matter. The registry report for the Topeka postofRce for the year ending June 30 is out. Postmaster John Guthrie re gards it as a very creditable one and says it shows a considerable increase in business over preceding years. The report shows a total of 64.822 pieces of registered mail handled during the twelve months. This matter hardled is divided into classes as fol lows: Letters sent out. 6.EC2: parcels sent out. 2.532: letters for delivery. 15. 3S8: parcels for delivery. 4.328: parcels and letters misdirected and forwarded, 345- packages. 1S.9J3: packages received in transit 4.470; registered package en velopes dispatched. 9.128; through regis tered pouches and outer sacka. 1.101: through registered pounches and inner sacks made up and dispatched, 1,105; official letters, 520. Rosa Two Feet in 24 Hours. Janesville, Wis., July 18. A rainfah of three inches here last night has caused the river to rise two feet in 2? hours. Fear is felt for the dam just above the city. Should it give way. many business blocks are liable to be swept awai". Enjoined Against Picketing. Reloit. Wis., July is. Judge B. 3. Dunwiddie of the c rcuit court of Rock countv, todav granted a restraining injunction picketing at the Berlin Ma chine Works. The injunction is very sweeping in its nature. The machin ists' union has been out on a strike for nine -weeks. TENJULLE9. A Tornado Tisits the Northern Part of Illinois. The Property Loss Is Estimated at $2,000,000. MAST ARE INJURED. Streator and Mendota in Line of the Storm. Wind Was Accompanied by a Terrific Rain. Streator, 111., July 18. Five persons were killed and nineteen were fatally injured and property loss estimated at $2,000,000 was caused by a tornado here last evenina. THE DEAD: LARRY DOYLE. N. R. BIVENE. RICHARD PURCELU CHARLES SNYDER. WILLIAM BROWN, negro. THE FATALLY INJURED George Doyle. Mrs. Doyle. Bessie Boucher. Charles Snvder. Fred Crone, fracture skull. Mrs. Crone. Mrs. Smith. Miss Smith. Captain Peabody and wife. Ralph fioueher. Mrs. Henry Pease and baby. George Hunter. George Doyle's little child. Three children of A. J. Dougherty and a man employed on the latter's form. A score or more are reported to have sustained broken bones. The. first building struck was the Western Vulcan works, which was en tirely destroyed, causing a loss of $150, 000. The fifty employes had left the place. Only one man, Richard Purcell, the night watchman, was in the factory and he was killed. A quarter of a mile northeast, the Adolph clothing factory was razed. About 100 people were em ployed, but all had left half an hour be fore. Next, the tornado caught a num ber of small houses, wrecking some, turning others half way around, twist ing huge trees and breaking them off at the base. The baseball park, the street railway park and the driving park were next in the storm's path. All the buildings, fences and Brand stand at these three places, including a $15,000 amphitheater in course of construction were destroy ed. At the driving park about 50 car penters had just stopped work. There were four persons killed outright and about 15 injured. At the dairy farm of A. J. Dougherty, on the edge of the town, a house was blown down and several who were in it art: the time were badly injured. The Indiana, Illinois Iowa bridge costing $1,000,000 was partly wrecked and the hoisting and buildings at Spring Hill shaft were ruined. Many buildings in Kankley, four miles west of Streator, were blown down and several persons were injured there. Many houses were unroofed and otherwise damaged. At Erington several houses were ut terly demolished and four persons were seriously if not fatally injured. At Campus one man was killed while two others sustained injuries which may prove fatal. The tornado was accompanied by a terrific rain storm which washed out bridges, culverts and thousands of feet of railroad track. Loss of crops is very heavy. FOT'R KILLED AT MENDOTA. Mendota, 111., July 18. Four persons were killed and ten others seriously in jured by a tornado that struck the northern part of this" city last night. The path of the storm was eight miles in length. Everything in the storm's track was leveled to the ground. The known dead: CORA ROISDORF, aged 15. ORA LP NY. aged 19. SCHAMEL, boy, aged 13. SCHAMEL, boy, aged 4. The injured: Mrs. John AVirschem. Miss Wirschem. Mrs. Oscar Milligan. Jerome Milligan. Alice Wilson. Eda Austin. James Smith. Henry Schweitzer. Mrs. James Smith. Besides the foregoing nearly every member of the Boisdorf family who took refuge in their cellar was injured. The house fell on them. Joliet, 111., July 18. The report of de struction of Gardner, 111., in the storm last night proves untrue. While the storm was the worst in the history of the town, no lives were lost and no one was injured. A few houses were dam aged and trees and shrubbery were de stroyed. Country districts report considerable damage by rain and winds but no fatal ities in this vicinity have been reported. THE SANTA EE SUFFERED. Telegraph Lines Between Topeka and Chicago Down. Among -the several roads to suffer from the terrible tornado at Streator, 111., the Santa Fe was the principal one. Report received at the general offices of that road this morning state that all of the company's telegraph poles are down between Ransom and Mazon. III., both of which were in the path of the tornado. This morning the operators at the Santa Fe offices were unable to reach Chicago. Nearly all of the wires were down but a gang of men were im mediately put to work repairing the wires and the telegraph service to Chi cago has been improved somewhat. The second section of eastbound Santa Fe train No. 32, a through freight run ning between Kansas City and Chicago, was struck by the cyclone just a half mile-of Mazon 111. Three loaded and two empty box cars were overturned but no one was injured. No one was on the train at the time but the crew which consisted of the conductor, two brakemen and the fireman and engineer. Another report which was received at the general offices this morning states that 500 feet of track was washed out at Byrneville, 111., as the result of heavy rains. Byrneville is about twenty miles west of Chicago. Immediately after the washout a gang of men were set to work repairing the track and at 5:40 a. m. the trck was reported to be passable. During the time that the track was disable the Santa Fe detour ed trains over the Chicago Alton. FORECASTER WAS CORRECT Proraisa of Cooler Weather lor Today Was i"ul2!led. The weather man talks widely about low central barometers and oTnr tech nical things in accounting for the cool wave of Friday afternoon and last night, but tonight, according to the government forecast, will be fair and Sunday warmer. The minimum temperature recorded Friday night was 66 at about 6 o'clock this morning. It was cool all over Kan sas Friday night. Rains were report ed from four stations. Fort Scott. Se dan, Toronto and Wichita. Very slight each case. The corn and wheat region bulletin issued today says: "The temperature yesterday afternoon had risen in the eastern part of the state and fallen in the western: this morning it has fallen at all stations except Ft. Scott and is tailing in western Missouri. Showers have fallen in the southeastern coun ties The maximum temperature recorded in Kansas for the twenty-four hours ending this morning at 7 o'clock were as follows: Baker 88, 62: Concordia 82, 60; Dodge Citv 78, 60; Dresden 82, 56; Ft, Scott 94, 66; Hays 80, 52; Maeksville 84. 53; McPherson 8S, 62; Manhattan 90 60; Osage City 92, 64; Sedan 96, 63; To peka 89, 66; Toronto 98, 64; Wichita 1, Hourly temperature recorded by the government were as follows: 7 o'clock 68 11 o'clock 79 12 o'clock 8 o'clock 71 9 o'clock 74 10 o'clock 78 1 o'clock S3 2 o'clock M GREATEST EVER HELD. Attendance at Epworth League Convention Nears 25,000. Detroit. July 18. Despite the leaden skies which greeted them today, after a night of hard rain, more than 1,000 enthusiastic Epworth leaguers were present at the morning watch meeting in the Central M. E. Church which be gan at :30 o'clock. Dr. Joseph F. Ber ry, the general secretary of the league, led the meeting. Between the early meeting three conferences that began at 9 o'clock the sky cleared somewhat and gave a little promise of more of the fine weather that has been a fea ture of the convention. The leaguers this forenoon gathered by churches for conference. The Methodist Episcopal church met in the Auditorium Ep worth, with Bishop Joyce as chairman of the conference. the Methodist church South in the Central M. E. church with Bishop Hoss presiding, and the Methodist church of Ameri cans in the Detroit Opera House, "With Rev. A. C." Crews as chairman. This afternoon thre were no general meet ings and several of the state delegU' tions seized the oKcortunity to hold rallies. "This is the greatest convention1 we have ever had," said Dr. Joseph P. Berry. The attendance of delegates last night was, it was stated, at head qiiarteis22,500, and it is expected that the number will pass 25,000 today. LYNCHING EXPECTED. Posse Is Searching for Negro Guilty of an Assault. Montevideo, Minn., July 18. Helen Olson, aged 25 years, the daughter of Thomas Olson, was assaulted early to day by a man supposed to be a negro and although alive at noon, she will die. Helen Olson, who was living alone in her father's home at Watson, during the latter's absence in Minneapolis, where he is ill, had Miss Julia Torgensen with her last night. Early today the girls were awakened by a man who demand ed their valuables. The man dragged Miss Olson down stairs where he struck her on the forehead with an axe. Miss Torgenson had been ordered to remain in bed and not move, but on hearing a noise down stairs stepped out of a win dow to the roof. The intruder fired a shot at her as he fled. Her screams aroused the neighbors and a search was at once begun for the murderer. At 10 o'clock Marshal Wroodsworth rang the bells of the town calling a posse of citizens together. When a crowd had assembled Attorney Lyndon A. Smith addressed the citizens from the steps of the city hall. While he waa speaking Sheriff Hartley drove up in a buggy and immediately summoned every man present as a deputy, saying that he held every man present respon sible tor the negro. The crowd immediately took up the trail and if the man is caught, in view of the great excitement, there may be a lynching. Six negroes who have been living in a shack near Montevideo have fledpecause of the excitement. CUP DEFENDERS RACE. Reliance Crossed the Line First, Constitution Second. New Haven, Conn., July 18. The second stage of the annual cruise of the New York Yacht club was begun, today when the iieet started on the run to New Lon don, a distance of 37 miles. The three cup defenders got awny as follows, the time being official: Reliance, 10:15:20; Columbia, 10:15:-I5; Constitution, 10:17:00. live minutes after crossing the line the Constitution had apparently nearly caught up with the Columbia. At the start the wind was blowing about four knots. THK RELIANCE LEADS. New London, July IS. The Reliance was the frst boat to cross the finish line of the day's run here, going past the mark boat at 1:35:3". unofficial time, as seen from shore. The Constitution crossed at 1:43:30. unofficial time, and the Columbia at l:4U:u&. Elks Bound for Baltimore. Kansas City, July 18. Elks from Kansas City and all parts of the 'west will leave for the Baltimore grand lodge on a special train this evening. There will be several carloads of them. Geo. E. Runyan of Kansas City will be boomed for grand secretary. Clevelands Have a Son. Buzzards Bay, Mass.. July 18. A son was born to ex-President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland at their summer home here today. The attendants say that all conditions affecting both mother and child are sat isfactory. Three-Mas ter in Distress. Monroe, Mich.. July 18. News was telephoned in from Pointe Aux Paux today that a three-masted vessel is wrecked and is flying distress signals. Another vessel, lying about two miles south of Stony Point, is also flying signals of distress. HOT SHOT FOR MR. CLEVELAND. Col. Bryan Again Attacks the Former President In ills Speech at Carter Harri son's Picnic. FIFTY TROLLEY CARS Filled With Enthusiatic Demo crats in Attendance. Mayor Reed, of Kansas City, Among the Speakers. Chicago, July 18. William Jennings Bryan addressed several thousand en thusiastic Democrats at the Chicago Democracy picnic at Brand's Park to day. He was received with cheers and waving of hats when he stepped oft the platform. After a short introduc tory speech, by Mayor Harrison, Mr, Bryan scoke and was frequently inter rupted by applause. In hi3 address he made special reference to the possible candidacy of Grover Cleveland In 1904 and the latter and his supporters wer excoriated by the speaker. Mr. Bryan arrived In Chicago early in tho day and was escorted by the Chicago democracy inarching club to the Auditorium where a reception was tendered all the speakers of the day. After luncheon and a parade through the streets fifty trolley cars bore the Democrats to the picnic rrounds. Other speakers who followed Mr. Bryan were Mayor Reed of Kansas City, Jererolah B. Sullivan, of Iowa, D. J. Cam pan of Michigan and T. E. Ryan of Wiscon sin. Charles A. Walsh of Iowa, was absent and his address was read by City Clerk Edward M. Lahiff. Mr. Bryan said In part: "Surely if there ever were a time when the preaching of the Democratic gospel ought to be opportune, now is the time. The character of our party ia to be determined by the manner iii which it meets an opportunity, and the manner in which it meets an opportun ity will be determined by the ideal that dominates it. Will our party hesitate or take counsel of its fears? Will it abandon its championship of the peo ple's interest In the hope of conciliat ing relentless foes or of purchasing n few offices with campaign contributions that carry with them an obligation to be made gqpd out of the pockets of the people? "The Democratic party must appeal to the Democratic sentiment of the coun try and this sentiment is far wider than any party. Wherever the question has been submitted in such a way that it could be acted upon independently there has always been an overwhelming ma jority in favor of that which was Dem ocratic, and our party can appeal suc cessfully to this Democratic spirit if we but convince the people of our earnest ness and of our fidelity to those princi Xles. "We are handicapped Just now by the fact that the last Democratic adminis tration that we had was more subservi ent to corporate dictation than any Re publican administration that had pre ceded it, and the record of that admin istration has been-a millstone about the party's neck ever- since. The influence exerted by Wall street over the admin istration's policy, the use of patronage to reward those who betrayed their con stituents and the employment of the most reprehensible of Republican meth ods, made the administration a stench in the nostrils of the people and kept in the Republican party many who wore disgusted at that party's course. Th odium which Mr. Cleveland's second ad ministration brought upon the part which elected him did more to defeat the party than any one plank of the Chicago platform or even than all the planks that were most severely criticis ed. But for the reputation of the ad ministration, it would have been impos sible to make any campaign at all, and even the repudiation, thorough and complete as it was, could not complete ly disinfect the party. "The greatest menace that the party has to meet today is, not the proba bility, but the possibility of the party's return to the position that it occupied from 1892 and 1896. This danger Is not so imminent as the corporation con trolled papers make it appear, but In so far as it threatens, it paralyzes the energies of the party and nullifies its promises. Such a return would indicate a degradation of the party's ideals and a perversion of its purpose. "If the Democratic party will stand erect, face the future with confidence, defend the rights of the people and pro tect their Interests wherever attacked whether the attack comes from th financiers, the monopolists, the tariff barons or from the imperialists It can look with confidence for a revolution ot sentiment that will give us a victory worth having and this victory when it romes will not end, as the victory of 1892 did, in the demoralization of the i party, but in the building up of a Dem ocratic organization which will deal ag gressively with all of the evils of gov ernment and find its bulwark In the affections and confidence of the masses." NO HARD FEELINGS. itussia Explains and Says She Is Still Our Friend. St. Petersburg, July 18. The foreign office authorized the Associated Press correspondent to say that the reason for its refusal to accept the Kishineff peti tion was the unalterable objection of the Russian government to outside interfer ence in the internal affairs of the empira and that.-even had the petition been ac ceptable as a diplomatic document, Rus sia would have regarded the publication of the text before trflwsmlsslon as unus ual The foreign office says it is willing to regard the Incident as closed and adds that Russia continues to cherish American friendship. Weather Indications. Chicago, July IS. Forecast Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Sunday, ex cept possibly a local shower this after noon or tonight in the southeast por tion: cooler in the southeast portion tonight; Sunday slightly warmer; north to northwest winds.

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TOPETCA STATE JOIJRNAISATUEnAY EVENING. JULY 18, 1903. KAflSASEWS. Chanute After a Factory Manufacture Twine. TV'IIl Benefit the Farmer from tbe Start. RYE STRAW MARKET. Would Bring from 4 to $8 at the Factory. Keosboand Allen Counties ilare 15,0 )0 Acres In. Chanute. Ks., July 18. Upon the farming element In the vicinity of Cha nute depends the locating of an indus try which vlll benefit them alone to the amount of probably $30,000 the first year and double and treble that amount later. B. S. Summers and W. J. IMbbens, representing L. K Summers Co., of Chicago, arrived yesterday in charge of C. W. Cook, assistant general freight agent of the Santa Fe, and will en deavor to Interest the farmers In a pro. Ject whereby they may dispose of their flax straw at a price ranging from $4 to $8 a ton. Only the fibre of the straw which Is of no nutritive value, will be used, and the straw may be regained by those who wish to use It as fodder. The fibre will be consumed In manufac turing binder twine and rope. Hereto fore sisel. a foreign product obtained principally from Yucatan, has been used exclusively In twine manufacture. The exorbitant prices demanded by the Spanish growers for the material has caused extensive manufactories to donate much time in experimenting for a less expensive material. After an ex penditure of J150.000 a satisfactory manner of treating flax straw has been discovered which will materially re duce the cost of twines and cordage. The Yucatan producer has been re ceiving 9 cents for the raw product which costs them only 3 cents, and It Is a remarkable fact that there is not a. sisal grower in Yucatan who is not a millionaire. I The Chicago gentlemen propose, if the co-operation of the agricultural interests can be obtained, to install roughing machines in Chanute and purchase all the flax straw they can pecure. The farmers disyose of the raw material at a good price and buy it back in binding twine at a greatly reduced figure. In order to recerve a high rate for their straw these con ditions must be carefully observed in its preservation: The stalks must be long and straight and the bunches must contain no weeds. Straw 18 to 20 inches in length commands a price of $8 a ton, double the price of the lin est hay. In order to obtain stalks of this length it will be necessary for the farmer ti cut his grain with a mower Instead of a binder. Then in thresh ing instead of running the entire straw through the machine only the heads should go through. This can be ar ranged by holding each bunch of straw in the machine for amoment while the heads are threshed off and then drop ping the straw to the ground. By this man.ier of threshing flax the stalks are kept straight. In the north many farmers pull their flax by hand, thus increasing Its length and adding from J2 to J4 a ton to its value for manu facturing purposes. Neosho and Allen counties have an nual acreage of lax -of about 15.000 acres. The new industry would con sume 3.000 tons the first year and li'O. 000 per annum afterwards. This mens an Increase of from $4,000 to JSOO.OOO a year to the farmers income. If an agreement can: be entered into between the Chicago parties and th farming community, a .ten-horse power roughing machine, capable of carding 15 tons of straw daily would be in stalled here as soon as possible. A second would be sent by December 1st and if conditions warranted a third would be sent next sumtnor. These immense machines remove this fiber which forms the base of cordage. Sixty oer cent of the waste of the straw is removed by the process, which materially reduces transportation charges, besides leaving the fodder for the farmer. Branch buying stations will be established at Humboldt and Walnut but Chanute will be the con. centrative noint. Mr. Summers returned to Chicago today but Mr. Dibbens will remain sev eral days longer and he will be pleased to explain the elements of the industry to all interested. LIGHTNING'S ODD PRANK. Chases Over Sherman County Woman With Small Harm. Goodland, Kan., July 18. Mr. A S Gafford came to town last evening and relates a queer prank of lightning at Ms home eight miles northwest of town on W ednesday evening. The bolt ilrnt struck the wind mill. It then followed the warm current of air coming from an open window, darted through, struck two telescoped milk palls setting on the floor, burned the clothing of Mrs. Gafford who was stand ing by, blistered her limbs, and then lumped to a dlshpan on the stove and then went through the floor at a point where a nail was driven in. The work for the day about the home was done, save putting away the dish pan and milk palls. Mrs. Gafford had Just come from the parlor and entered the kitchen to finish this little task. A part of the bolt went down the tower and Into the ground and the oth er part followed a warm current of air cmtng from the house In the direction of the mill. Quicker than thought the lightning darted through the open win dow and dipped down upon the pails. Mrs. Gafford waa stunned by the bolt for about two minutes, and cave a scream Just as she was struck. Hols were burned in her clothes as neatly as though they had been cut with a knife. Her limbs Delow her knees were blistered, ard her face was affected from the shock. The lightning after striking her leaped to the dlshpan on the stove, drilled a small hole through the ft -Kiai NJ THE PU3E F-i AIM Arerr If you use Graln-0 in p!ace of coffee you will enjoy it juat as much for it tastes the same yet, it is like a food to the system, dis tributing the full substance of the pure grain with every drop. TRY IT TO-DAY. At grocers ererjwhere 15c. and 15c per package. n bottom and made its exit through the floor, following a nml in the lumuer. Mr. Gafford was in the adjoining room when his wife was injured, and thought, as he u-v her through the open door, that th end had come, but he reports tiiat Mrs. Gafford has com pletely recovered from the immediate eiiocta of th2 shock. THIRTY DAYS FOB STEALING James Plummer, Dining Car Waiter, Takes 12 from Pocketbook. James Plummer, colored, a dining car waiter on No. between Goodland and Limon, Col., is making a 30-day sojourn in the Gooaland jail for sickling J12 from a pocketbook, belonging to a lady, which had been laid upon one of the tables of the car. Wnen the owner picked up her pocketbook she found that through some slight of hand per formance the waiter had relieved her of $12. The missing money was made known remedy for rheumatism but during the to Detective H. J. Smith, of the Rock j long years that I suffered ftum this dis Island service, and he located his man i ease I never heard of but one thing that immediately. Plummer was brought to would cure it. I tried it myself and Goodland and pleading guilty to th charge, was sentenced to 30 days in Jail, and costs. Seven dollars of the purloined money were recovered. Goodland Republic. BOTHEBED DIVORCED WIFE. A Colored Man Arrested in Kansas City, Kas., Last Night. Kansas City, Kan., July 18. M. J. last night on a charge of disturbing the peace of his former wife, who lives at 1048 Ridge avenue. n, 1Vp, vear aao A i fZhrSESSS itoA Price and his wife were divorced at f V f v, ,ri7., Jht liei was about a half block from the house when seen attain bv Otficer Vogt at 8:30 o'clock last nient. nice ioia me umtci- that he wanted to se his two children. who were with their mother. The officer told the man to go to the house In the daytime, but he refused to leave last I night and was placed under arresi. woman told the officer that price naa i threatened to kidnap the children. The woman will be a witness against him in police court today. A .FLOOD DAMAGE SUIT. An Armourdale Man Sues the Metro politan Water Company for !(S1,000. Armourdale, July 18. A suit growing out of the Hood was niea m me oisirici court of Wyandotte county yesterday by William Pittman against the Metro politan Water company for $1,000 dam ages. Pittman alleges that after the water receded from Armourdale his house at 567 South Fourth street was still flooded from a broken hydrant at Fourth street and Kansas avenue. His house is about ten feet lower than the sidewalk in front of it and he alleges Completio!1 of tne Temporary Pile that the water company tore up a por- V, tion of the sidewalk and cut a passage- Bridge for Wagons to Armourdale. way which allowed the water from the Kansas City, Kan., July IS. The Kan hydrant to surround his house. I sa3 avenue wagon bridge, which was Pittman alleges mat Decuuse or me acts of the company he was unable to save the property in his house. WAS A LIViXT WIND. Near Lost Springs Houses, Earns and Crops Were Swept Away. Lost Springs, July IS. A tornado sev en miles southwest of here Friday mn damage which will amount to about j $10,000. It swept over a strip of com try ;ibout three miles long and from 73 I to 300 yards wide, tearing out barns, i houses and corn cribs. The shocks in a 30 acre field of oats were swept away, not one being left. No one was hurt. RAIN IS NEEDED. i Hot and Dry Weather Injuring Corn j Prospects West. i Halstead, July IS. The hot and dry weather in this part of the state is im pairing daily the poor prospects for corn in this county. Corn is now tasseling two to three feet high and the Intense heat from the surrounding stubble fields is v. ithering and curling it. Un less rain falls at once the corn will be a complete failure. Prehistoric Indian Relics. W. L. Uass, north of El Dorado miles, has a magnificent and most in tererting collection of prehistoric Indian relics, such as Hint, arrow and spear heads, pottery, etc. He has gathei e 1 them from many localities in Kansas and other states and is quite proud of i aces anu is quite piouu ul r of the finest of his speci- ,nd in Butler county. Just them. Some mens he fou east of Chelsea and on West Branch near his home. There r.re many pro blems to be solved in viewing such a collection. The flint is not native to the localities In which these utensils an! implements are found and the method of making them from the flint is a lost nrt, as is that of mnkins the pottery from clay, sand or broken mussel shells. Walnut Valley Times. Will Lose His Foot. Holton, July 18. W. II. Rockefeller, manager of the Sterling clothing house and one of the most prominent citizens of Holton, met with an accident that caused him to loFe his right foot. With his family he hnd started on a camp ing trip to the Blue river and while at tending to his team at Garrison one of the horses stamned him on the foot, crushing the bones so badly that ampu tation above the ankle was neces&ary. He was taken to Clay Center for the operation. Fo" ETayr of Griat Fend. Great Bend, July 18. At the Republi can convention, which was cai.ed for the purpose of nominating a candidate for mayor of this city In pl:ice of M. i Weiravch, resigned, E. W. Moses re celved the nomination. He is well known as one of the leading members of the Seventh district machine. He has al ready served three terms as mayor here and protested strongly against accept ing the nomination. Kin jtnan County's Wheat. If Kingman county wheat averages 11 bushels to the acre there will be 2.f00,0':0 bushels threshed In the county this sea son. At present prices it would cash in for enough to give every man. woman and child in the county over $109, or an Kingman county Is one of the very i;n- portent spot" on the map of Kansas. Leader-Courier. Maccabees to Celebrate. Chanute, July IS. The fireworks and badges have arrived, which will be uspU for the Maccabee celebration July 21. Something new in the order of fireworks wi'l be offered. Tho Maccabee lolse held a meetitigand appointed a commit tee to clean up the parka. No Miners' Asrrenent Yet. Pittsburg. July 18. Nothing has yet developed in the joint conference of miners and operators and they are about as f r from an agreement as they were at the opening of the conference. An Old Coldier's Two Widows. Atchison, July 18. Two widows of Nathpn Kelley, an eld soldier, who die at Effingham, Atchison county, last month, have put in an appearance. Af- MR. SiRUUPi-o CORE A PEORIA MERCHANT KNOWS A SPECIFIC FOR RHEUMATISM. He f peaks From Experience, lor He Tried Iba Remedy Himself In a Case of ievera. Years' standing. In Peoria, 111., everybody knows Mr. A. Strumpf whose fur store is located i at No. 419 Main street. Mr. Strutnpf's business takes him to New York city i frequently and on one of these trips he at learned of a epeciric for the cure rheumatism which he tried with, such unexpectedly gojd results that he is anxious that others should know of it. He says: Nearly everybody can tell you of a haven't had a touch of rheumatism since. In my case the disease did not trouble me all the time but at inter vals the pain was very severe and medi cine did not seem to huve the least ef fect on It. On one of my visits to New York a friend who had been cured of for Pale People advised me to try them. I Bob' th? ftrm.,? best h,orst' h,ch He was so enthusiastic that I did so ran in the stake race in the afternoon, and the result surprised me, for I had The bidding fo"r him was spirited, Cap almost despaired of a permanent cure, tain Sam Brown. Charley Ellison and 5a'.nl eg.ln d,lsaPPear befi'e I Sam Hildreth being the chief contend had finished the first box and three boxes completely cured me. That was nearly two years ago so you see my cure was permanent. I recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills every chance I get know of many people whom the plus have benefited Rheumatism is always painful but few people know how really dangerous it is on account of the liability that it j may attack the heart. Dr. Williams' tij., o1ii .-n for the "treatment of this trouble tnrout;n the biooli (the only correct ,..vl nr, ,hpil. in Hli airier of "tne b)ood anil nerves makes them of the greatest value in such stuborn dis- ea5!es as locomotor ataxia, partial pe- I -I r Tituc' 1 1 r- r 1 1 criatin) noil. ralgia. 'nervous headache.' after effects of the grip, of fevers, and of other acute diseases, palpitation of the h-art. an- aemia. nale and sallow comolexions. ami all forms of weakness. At all rlrua- gists, or direct from Dr. Williams Medi cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., fifty cents per box; six boxes for two dollars and a half- ter his death Mrs. Lydia Kelley of Ef fingham was appointed administrator of his estate as widow, and now Mrs. Jeanette Kelley, of Kansas City make3 a similar claim. BEER WAGON FIRST ACROSS. built by the Metropolitan Street Rail- way company, was opened for travel yesterday avenue. The first loaded ve hicle to cross was a brewery wagon. It was loaded with beer and crossed into Armourdale at 13 minutes before 4 o'clock. No other wagons were allowed to cross until after 5 o'clock. Opera House for Chanute. Chanute; July IS. It is now an as- sured fa--t that the $60,000 opera house at the corner of Main and Evergreen will be built. Fred Hetriek received word from Mr. Johnson, the builder yesterday- saving thr.t the opera house va rer'?linlv a settled fact. s all the material had been purchased a-nd was now on the way here. KANSAS FAIUS. Following "Is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas ;n WtSTl-mN STATE FAIRS FOR 19P3. MinHouri St?e f lir. Scdalia, Aug. l-Z'Z. Iowa State, 'air. Ies Moines. Auk. li--'. Mirmesoia biate fair, Hamline, Aug. -31-St jit. 5. Nebraska State fair, Lincoln. Sept. 4-11. Kansas Slate fair, Topeka, Sept. 14-19. liHnois Plate fjiir, Sept. LS-Oor. 3. Texes State fn, ban Antonio, Sept. 2ii Oct. 11. St. Louis fair. Oct. 5-11. COUNTY FAIRS. Allen County Agi iculturul society J. T. TretiWay, secretary, lola: Srpt. S-ll. Bariun County Fair aspociH tion James i w c mrit, Bccit'iaiy, ui tat H'-nu, Aug. m 28. j Kiswatha Fair association (Brown conn t t-nt"it xl Sept. I RJ, ty) Elliott Irving, secretary, Hiawatha; tv Fair association J. W. rv. El Dorado: Oct. :-9. Hewins Par and Fair s.rociation (Chau tauqua county) P. N. Whitney, secretary. Cedar Vale. Clay "turty Fair association K. E. Hoe-pes, sccreiary. Clay Center: Sept. 8-11. Coney County Agricultural Fair associa tion J. E. Woodlord, secretary, Burling ton; &ept. 8-11 Eastern Cowlev Fair association (Cowley enmity) Kd E. Reed, secretary, Burden; Dt p i. iu-io. Cowlev County Agricultural and Storf WeKir.:'- J" 8eCrttar y' oept. lo-i!-. Virn,.v (niinlv A erienltiiml societi' A W. Warner, eeorttary. Garden City; Aug. 5-7. Franklin County Agricultural society Carey M. Porter, secretary, Ottawa; Sept. 15-IS. Harvey County Agricultural scciety J. C. Nicholson, secretary, Newton; Sept- 22 25. Jackson Countj Agricultural and Pair association S. B. McGrew, secretary, Hol ton: Sett. 1-4. Joffcrcon County Agricultural and Me chanical asscciatton Go-ge A. Patterson, secretary. Oskaloosa: Sept. 1-4. Jewell County Aerieultura! association H. R. Honey, secretary, Mankato: Sept. 14-17. Frankfort Fair association MaT.hf;i countw J. D. Gregg, secretary, Frank fort: Sept. 1-4. Marshall County Fair association E. L Miller, secretary, Marsille; Sept. 15-IS. j anarr.i county Agricultural ano i Aieenan- secretary. Facia: Sept. S-ll. Mllchell CrAintv A srifulturnl association H. A. Phelps, secretary, Beloit; Sept. 3 Oct. S. Morris County Exposition Co. M. F. Arrrir.e, secretary. Council Grove; Sept. 22-25. Nemaha County Fair association W. R. Graham, secretary. Sciuca; Sept. J-4. Necsho County I' air as."nciat:on H. Locge, sferrta-;. Erie: Sept. 29-Oct. 2. t'hjirmte r-ipn. vr-l lnir I'rij-V nrfl P-rivine irsccistton Ncho county) A. E. 11:' pane, eeerctary. c hT'iie: Srnt. 1-4. Nss Cour.ty Apricul' :r '1 kss ciatson I B. Pcmber, secretary. Ness City: Set. 2-1. Norton County Agricultural association C. J. Shimeall, secretary. Norton; Sept. 1-4. Central Kansas Fair association (Reno countv) Ed M. Moore, secretary, Hutchin son: Sept. 14-19. Crage County Fair asTjriation E. T. Frice, secretary. Puriirpa-.e: Sept. 1-4. Rice County Agricultural Fair and Live Stock asaccia tier. W. T. Brown, secritcio, St. ling: Sept. 1-4. F.iiey County Agricultural society E. C. New by, secretary, Riiey; Sept. 1-4. Rooks County Fair association Olme" Aams, secretary, Stockton. Saline County Agricultural. Horticul tural and Mechsnical ns.-ociation H. B. Wajsce, secrctar". Salina: S ft. "-H- Wichita State Fair association (Seijwlck countv) H. G. Trier, secretary. Wichita. Sn ith County Fair sssociati-sn R. S. Rice, secretory. Srrtth Center: Aug. 18-21. Mulvane Agr-lcuitural arsocialion (Sum ner county) Newton Shoup. secretary, Mulvpr.e. I iedonia Agricultural association (Wil son county) J. T. Cooper,. secretary, Fre dor.Ia: Aug. 25-2S. Stafford Countv Fair association Geo. a Moore, secretary, St. John; Aug. la-21. SPORTINGliEWS. Prices at the Sale of Tieiienor Stables Are Good. 44 Flo Bob," Firm's Best Horse, Brought 13,000. BIDDING WAS SPIRITED The Thirteen Head Disposed of for SGOJOC. Ad Arerage of $3,914 for Those on the Block. Chicago, July 18. The racing firm of M. H. Tichenor Co. has been dis solved in the dispersal sale of the com pany's horses at the Washington park track. The highest price of the day was $13,000, which Mr. Tichenor paid for Flo ers. The latter bid $12,000 for E. E. Smathers, who was present, but Ed Tipton offered an extra $1,000, and all the persuasion of the auctioneer could not get a higher offer. It was expected Mr. Tichenor would bid in a number of the others, but he r.ppears not to have done so. Good prices were returned for all of the others in fact, the figures are a record Ior western auction sales. Thirteen neaJ brought a total o. $50,it00. an aver- tSe 9f 4 a hfar- Tne sales: Flo Bob, b. c, 2, by imp. Florist or Bob Miles Gold Bird; S. G. Reeves for M. H. Tichenor $13,000 Flocarline. eh. f 3, by St Flori Carune- ff- L .Richards, Bos t. Floria T,l" siaoie, isew x ork. Early, eh. c, 3, by Troubadour- 6,100 Mlss Dawn; same 6,100 Sidney C. Love, ch. c. by Dr. Rice Constance IV; E. G. Stutte.... Elsie L., b. f., 4, by St. Leonards 4,700 Klsie; E. G. Stutte. for J. C. Yeager 4,600 Waswift, ch. c, 4, by Wawekus Nell Swift; same For- ivarce, ch. c, by Onondaga Ii..ty of Cork; Joe Ullman H.uiy, ch. g., 3, by Hindoo La. 4,600 2,800 Esmeralda; R. L. Richards, Boston stable. New York 2,600 Semper Vivum, b. f., 3, by Ros siugton Semper Idem; Captain S. S. Brown 2,600 Caviar, br. h., 6, by Fordham Annie G.; Joe Ullman Farmer Jim, br. c, 3. by Kinglike 1,500 Vanadis; Al Slofel 1,200 Carmelita, b. f., 2, Linden Ag- netta; -J. C. Yeager Cambrian, ch. h., 7. by Hindoo Cambria; M. A. Shaw 700 400 CORBETT'S STYLE. Shows How He Expects to Become Champion on August 14. San Francisco, July IS. Jim Corbett today, for the first time Bince his ar rival in California to train for his fight with Jim J'ffrlcs. announced the style of battle he Would follow 'when he meets the chan.nion August 14. Hows your Knock-out punch?' was tasked. "it's all right, thank you," replied Jim. Corbett began playing for the head and Yank's hands went up to avert the torrent of taps that were directed to ward his chin. "There it goes." shouted Jim, and down went his left arm and out shot his clenched glove. The blow landed full and fair on Yank's solar plexus. "I don't expect that the solar will finish him." said Corbett, "and here is the finale." The next moment a sturdy right caught. Kenny on the jaw. "1 guess that will be about enousrh for :ir. Jeffries," said Jim as he removed the mitts. Dan Patch Makes a Record. Columbus, O., July IS. The summer meeting of the Columbus Driviag as sociation closed Friday. Dan Patch was driven a half mile against time and equaled the world's pacing record for t'.iat distance, :37i, made by prince Alert at Memphis. The quarter was made in :2S:,4 and the half in :h. Weather clrar ard track fast. Results: Ti.e 2:25 trot, purse $S00 Rob Islo won the second and third heats and race. Time, 2:124., 2:161i Prince Caton won thj first heat in 2:17H. Bermuda j Maid. Trizie. Mercury, Hortense and I Phillips J. also ran. j Th- 2:0S trot, pure $700 Maxine won the first and third heats and the race. i tne tirst arid thu d n xime OV 2"1'M4 I won the' secor d a Baron De Shay at. Time, 2:09. KytnmiC S1SO StarteU. The 2:13 race, purse $S0o Star Hal won in two straight heats. Time, 2:09V. I 2:09V-. Gold Call, Guy Red, Illinois and Ous Wilkes also stavted. Baron Boy distanced. Haol-n Gets Doscher. Chicago. July IS. Manager Selee has released Pitcher Doscher to the Brook lyn club. The youngster was not good enough for the Cubs yet, although Selee has faith in his ability to make an ex cellent pitcher, with a little more ex perience. He was rot given much of a chance to work for the Cubs, pitching or.H- three innings of a gsme down In Philadelphia, when he was hit freely, li -nlon needs no'".her ritcher, and will bo able to give Doscher a chance to work. Doscher is just out of college, and made quite a record as a twirler at Fordham last spring. Big Easeball Wager. Pittsburg, July 18. Baseball men are talking about a big wager made on the result of a game between the New York j a-d Pittsburg teams. New York won. "Shad" Gwilliam. the local plunger, bet $"",.000 to Ji.OOO that the Pittsburgh would Win the contest. The New lcrk end of the wager was acepted by Theodore 1 To ,-r. or a 11 o 'n lrTiT.fTi nil mnn dwil. limn wis once a coal digger near Car- r.--r;ie. Cetti::g interested in baseball in a small way, he proceeded to wager a ff,v oolars on the games now and then. Si-ecesi came to his judgment. McGraw said he was awaiting, the I ZrriZ any form of tr stomach trou- CEUE-. ATE0 ble you wiI find Vv the Bitters j? very beneficial. i It contains only i T U.- jf 2 j f ii i a a is w l ii strengthen the Try it for s' Herthu'-n, tr Ila ulency. Inaii .tloa. .ETCMACH ry-PTsia or It poaltlvely cures. signal for the fight to start between the two leagues, and he would secure three or four players from the Athletics next year. It is likely that "Billy" Lauder, the Giants' third baseman, will not play ball any more after this season. He left for his home in New York, feeling ill. His stomach is out of order and his head is in a bad fix, as a result of being hit back of the ear a few days ago In i practice. He is afraid to stand up to the plate, thinking a wild pitch will hit him. Players Ask for Clemency. Terre Haute, Ind.. July 18. Former Manager Walters of the Terre Haute club, who Jumped to join the California outlaw league, and played with Indian apolis at Kansas City, telegraphed to President Smith asking that the black list be lifted, but Smith refused. Man ager Watkins of Indianapolis asked by wire for clemency for Shortstop Kling, who jumped with Walters, but Smith says the matter is with the national board. Racing at Chicago. Chicago, July 18. At Washington park the rain which early began to fall made scratches numerous. The only fleld which went to the post intact was the quartet in the fourth race. In that contest Sidney C. Love won from Schwalbe and Hoodwink. Love ran in the colors of his former owner, M. H. Tichenor. Schwalbe set the pace until well into the stretch, when Love came with a rush and won. Four favorites won during the afternoon. The meeting will come to a close this afternoon. Racing at New York. New York, July 18. Rain or Shine and Leipslc were the only winning favorites at Brighton Beach, the other events going to well-played horses. Him self easily won the handicap at one mile and a. furlong from the heavily played Tugai Bey. The favorite. Articulate, was a bad last. Weather cool, track fast. Jeff the Favorite. San Francisco, July 18. Betting has commenced on the Corbett-Jeffries fight for the world's heavy-weight championship. The opening odds are 2 to 1. with the chamDion the favorite. Corbett has advised his friends to go the limit on him. and this it is believed may result in forcing the betting to even money. Racing at St. Louis. St. Louis, July 18. Forehand won the feature of the Delmar card, a handicap 8t six furlongs, for 2-year-olds. Major Pelham, the favorite, off badly, finish ed third. The track was good. Belleville 13; Clay Center 3. Belleville, July 18. The second game between Clay Center and Belleville was played in this city Friday and won by the home team. Score 13 to 3. Batteries Cheeney, Ward, Belleville; Vincent, Brandt, Clay Center. Maher Out of Danger. London, July 18. Danny Maher, the jockey, who was injured in an automo bile collision last week and has been in the Caterhani college hospital, passed a good night and is reported as being out of danger. Kelly After a Match. San Francisco. July IS. Hugo Kelly, the Chicago middle-weight, is trying to make a match with Harry Foley of this city. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PITTSBURG. New York forged to the lead by hitting Kennedy hard in the second and sixth innings, and by exceptionally line base running Beaumont tied the score in the ninth and Brnnsfleld's three-baggr, fol lowed bv Leach's lonr hit to right, won the game in the twelfth. Attendance, 5,'jM. Score bv innings: Re.E. PHtsburg" 0 2000011100 1 (Pl2 3 New York 2000210000 05 li 1 Batteries Kennedy and Smith; Taylor and Warner. AT CINCINNATI. Cincinnati won by timely hitting, knock ing Washburn all over the tseid. It was children's day. and most of the 23.000 per sons present were children, admitted free. Score bv Innings: R.H.S. Cincinnati 2 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 7 13 4 Fhilad( lphia 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 35 7 0 Batteries Hahn and Bergan; Washburn and Xooin. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs Won. Lost. Pet Pittshurg 52 23 .6r3 New York 4ij 27 .630 Chicago 4 32 .6M Cincinnati 3S C4 .623 Brooklvn 3 So .57 Boston 29 43 4i 3 Si. Louis 26 4H .347 Philadelphia 23 62 .ZTi AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT BOSTON. A wild throw by Smith in an effort to deprive Freeman of a three-base hit. cst Detroit a close ten-inning game. Freeman continued home for the only run scored. Attendance, 4.000. Score by innings: R.H.E. Boston 0 0000 0 000 1 1 3 2 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 4 4 Battcriesi Gibson and Criger; Donovan and Buelow. AT PHILADELPHIA. St. Louis could not hit Waddell and Philadelphia won easily. In the seventh Inning Waddell precipitated a scene by jurrping into the stand and dragging out a spectator who Had been using offensive epithets. The spectator was arrested. At tendance, 4.200. Score by innings: R.H.E. St. Louis 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 4 2 Philadtlphia 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 4 8 0 Batteries Evans and Sugden; Waddell and Schreck. AT WASHINGTON. Chicago bunched hits and scored enough runs in two innings to win. Washington's bscttirg. too. was heavy, out tne nils did not come at the proper time. Attendance, 1,700. Score bv Innings: R.TT.E. Washington 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 04 13 1 Chicago 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 06 13 4 Batteries Orth and Kittredge; Owen, Dun ill e and Slattery AT NEW YORK. Cleveland batted Cheshro out of the box in the sixth inning. Bradley made the longest hit ever made on the new grounds, sending the ball over the left fi' Id fence for a home run. Attendance, 2,600. Score bv innings: R.H E. Cleveland 4 000S400 011 14 1 N w Ycrk 1 00 0 010204 5 2 Batteries Moore and Abbott; Howell, Chesbro and Beville. AMERICAN LEAGLE STANDING. Clubs Fostun Philadtlphia Cleveland N'fw York Detroit Chicago St. Louis v"on. Lost. Pet. 48 27 .CIO 14 31 .S-7 39 S3 .512 34 34 .iti 33 35 .VXl 34 3J .4V) 30 38 .411 21 51 .2D2 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Minneapolis outbatted Toledo. Hoffman was in the lineup, but Just after the game started was barred on an ordr from Hickev, Kane going into The box and Reislins to left field. Attendance, 1.600. Score by innings: R.H.E- Minneapolis 0430000 7 11 0 Toledo 0 0020010 03 4 1 Batteries McDonald and Ludwig; Kane and Kleinow. ij:eViV -.SSHl,4rjTV.' 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But it waan't.j .The' score beard showed something raorf likt Louisville 2. Kansas City 1. and tiseieby. har.KS a sad tale of generosity ani. a bum throw. j Score bv innings: Tt.H.l"'.. Kansas Citv 0 001 0000 01 5 J i Louisville 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0? 5 1 i Pa tfries Walker and "White: Di.iljau. and iSutler. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDINf, Clubs St. Taul Milwaukee Indlanapniis Iui.sviile Kansas City Minneapolis Columbus Toledo Won. Lost. i'rt. 47 27 .623 44 27 41 32 .ofll- 40 40 .5i SO 33 .4Tb 22 43 .427 2!l 44 .3:7 25 45 .33S WESTERN LEAOTJE. AT DE8 MOINES. Des Moines Inched a victory In the last two innirss. Kansas City made their two runs on a home run by Kahl. aiter Weeks took first on an error. Attendance, 950. ,core by innings: R.H.E. I;s Moir.rs 00001002 3 S 12 4 Kansas City 0 0020000 02 6 2 Batteries Hoffer and Fohl; Hess and Mesaitt. AT DENVER. The Donver team tock the first Rame of the series wii h Peoria. It was closely con tested throughout. Score by Innings: R.H.E. Denver .2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 9 1 Peoria 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 01 8 3 Batteries Eyler and Schlel; Hart and Wii son. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs Won. Lost. Pet. Milwaukee 42 2 ,i77 Colorado Springs 44 23 .K57 Kansas City 35 31 .E.10 Denver 33 36 478 St. Joseph 31 34 .477 Peoria 2X SH .4C4 Ies Moines 2M 40 .3W Omaha 24 41 .309 Baseball at Osewatomie. Osawatomie.Kan., July IS. The teams of Garnett and Osawatomle played a WlilllS Mother's Friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, and all unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system for the ordeal that she passes through the event safely and with but little sufferiner, as numbers have testified and said, "it is worth its weight in gold." $1.00 per bottle of druggists. Book containing valuable information mailed free. THE B3ADIULD RLGLU10R CO.. Atlanta G. There is a Guarantee of 25 years behind every the only rold SUM caw that baa proved waannic quality b; leu of lima. Made, oia nu worn aince ibas. 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TOPEKA STATE JQUEXAL, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 18, 1903. RAILRQJWNEWS. Santa Fe Refuses to He-employ La Junta Strikers. liadical Action Taken to Pre vent Hasty Strikes. 200 MEN INVOLVED. Will Attempt to Start a Genera Strike of Shopmen. All Because Pay Checks Were One Day Late. La Junta, Colo., July IS. Wnen the 203 Santa Fe shopmen who struck heie Thursday because of the non-arrival of their pay checks reported for work yes terday they were informed that their services wtre no longer requireJ. The etrikeis declare that thry will attempt to call out all of the men of their craft cow working foi- the Santa Fe system. It was generally reported in Topeka Friday that the difficulty at La Junta had been amicably settled, the men be ing allowed to. return to work as soon as the pay checks were distributed. The .above dispatch from La Junta seems to give a different color to the situation. If it is correct that tpe Santa Fe has locked out all its shopmen at La Junta because of the strike, it may have ser ious consequences. It seems a trivial thing- to start a general strike of shop Men on the Santa Fe system, but it Id evident that there must be some bitter feeling in the matter to provoke such radical action. The shopmen claim that it is of the greatest importance that they get their pay ovicks on time, in order to avoid Karnishment suits. They say that it is foraetimta necessary for the men to walk out in order to impress upon the company the importance of paying on time. Local shopmen know very little about the trouble at La Junta but the general belief seeinH to be that the action of the Santa Fe officials was taktn for the purpose of preventing future walk outs on such slight provocation, ard that it will be rescinded before long, and the men taken back to work. The trouble was caused by the fail-", tire of the .Santa Fe pay checks to ar rive at La Junta on time. They are sup posed to be sent out from the office of the Santa Fe treasurer here at Topeka In time to reach the men on the fifteenth of eai month. Through some mistake, thoy di not reach La Junta until the 16th. 'inis precipitated the waikout. ORGANIZE FOR FIGHT. McFherson Peopla Will Go in to Win Bond Proposition. McPherson, Kan., July IS. A large number of citizens attended the railroad meeting held in the office of Grattan iiattan. George McCourt was chair man and Frank Grattan. temporary sec retary of the evening. They decided that a house to house canvass should be made all over the town and county, and appointed th! following committees: First ward, F. liawkinson. chairman; E. KngFtrom, J. 1 Grant, Kd Isaacson, Prof. Fahnestock and Jonas Alemgren; Second ward. Geo. Davis, chairman, John Baird, Emil Gustafson, and L. C. M( Murray; Third ward. Warren Knaus, chairman, Cl.as. Wheeler, T. J. Smith, and J. W. Wrieht; Fourth ward, F. K. Barber, Dallas McMurry, A. L. Nash, A. Bass and Geo. Stabler. it was decided to appoint committees to circulate the petitions throughout the townships but they were not appoint ed. It was also decided to call an other meeting in the rear future and appoint those. In the discussions it was developed that many people think that an extra election w ill bring a great deal of expense on the county. All expenses of the election will be paid by the rail road company. Every resident taxpayer Is allowed to sisn the petition so that the ladies have ns much right to sit;n as the men, providing they pay taxes in their own names. The petitions were gone over and found to be as agreed. SANTA FE LAKES. They Are Helping Business and Pleasure in Oklahoma, Newkirk, Ok., July lj. To Insure an inexhaustible supply of good water for traffic purposes, the Atchison. To peka Santa Fe Railroad company has built six big storage reservoirs along Its line in eastern Oklahoma, between this place and Byars. in the Chickasaw nation, a distance of about two hundred miles. Though built for commercial purposes, these lakes have given a charm to the landscape no less effective than If they had been constructed for pleas ure. In almost every instance the road bed was utilized as a dam. and at each lake a sluiceway for carrying off sur plus water at flood time is maintained by the railroad company. The lakes have a total area of J..0 acres of water, which will increase in time. The loca- .,1. irtws .i:u liumi size are: If You Are Sick t's Your Own fault Untimely death nnfl tnrHbi IS diseases are the result of sboer neg- ness is absolutely unnecessary. If you are a suflerer frma anv of tte following di.sensfs ani remain so aTtr reading this positive guarantee or neattn, you win nav no one in the world to blame but yourself. YOU CAN BE CURED. 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It Is the only perVpt tonic for every day in the year. Don'tde'.ayl Try It now. It means permanent health, happmem at,d yvrs added to your lite. Your dealer sells it. SI.OO, Large Sizo Bottle. Xewklrk, eighty acres; Mereraac, sixty acres: Yost, forty acres; Avery, twenty acres; Teoumseh, sixty acres; Byars, seventy acres. The lake at Tost was the first to be built, and in places is from twenty five to thirty feet deep. It quickly be came a feeding place for wild fowl in their spring and fall migrations and sportsmen found excellent hunting along its Bhores. It was stocked with game fish three years ago and now contains an abundance of bass and crappie. Some of the bass weigh as much as three and one-half pounds. A club at Stillwater leased the hunting privileges from the railroad company this week and will build a clubhouse at the lake and put a keeper in charge. The lake has beea sown to wild rice to attract geese and ducks and the mar gins planted to willows, now of strong growth, to afford cover. The lake at Vewkirk probably will be leased to Wichita sportsmen. All the lakes will be supplied with game fish by the gov ernment hatchery at Neosho, Mo. J. R. (Nottingham, attorney for the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, was notified sev eral davs ago that the delivery of fish would soon be made direct from the car to the lakes. Sportsmen believe that in a few years these lakes will af ford the finest hunting and fishing grounds in Oklahoma. ROUTE FOR NEW LINE. Frisco-Rock Island Has a Way to Reach New Orleans St. Louis, July 18. Upon excellent au thority it is learned that the Frisco Rock Island-New Orleans line from iran,nKia -m run down the west side of the river, crossing at a point about fifteen miles aDove xsan-oii iugc, and using the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley from that point to New Orleans. While there is no doubt but that the Frisco will eventually build and oper ate its own lines irom St. Louis and Chicago to New Orleans, It is under stood that until arrangements now be ing made for the construction of this line from Memphis down, and while it is being built, the Yazoo and Mississip pi Valley road win be usea. Arrangements have been made with the Illinois Central, the owner of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, for track age rights over this line, and it is be lieved that in consideration of these trackage rights the Illinois Central will not only have a share in the Frisco tragic from the west, but will be favor ed in the terminals which the Frisco has in contemplation in New Orleans. By forming an alliance with the Frisco the Illinois Central can also strengthen its position against the Mis souri' Pacific, which is building a New Orleans line. The Illinois Central has gridironed the delta with its lines in a manner to pre clude rivalship until the Frisco laid plans to enter in this, territory. Then it is stated that a conference was held between the Frisco and Illinois Central officials with the foregoing results. 1 The Frisco-Rock Island system under these conditions' will consist of the fol lowing roads forming the Chicago-New Orleans line: Chicago and Eastern Il linois; St. Louis. Memphis and South eastern; the Houck roads, and the two new branches of the new Frisco line fi m Memphis to New Orleans and from so. ie point on this line through, the Kit by lumber district. It .is understood that the securities of these lines will be covered by a blanket mortgage. The new system will probably be about fifty miles longer than the Illi nois Cenvval main line and about as long as the Missouri Pacific. HANDS OVER $50,000,000. Senator Clark's Son Says He Hag Considei-fdle "Ready Money." San Francisco. July IS. The $50,000.0)00 of 50-year 4 per cent, gold bonds which the San Pedro, Los Angties and Salt Lake railroad company has decided to issue are to be taken by Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, president and main projector of the road, as a personal investment, ac cording to his cn, C W. Clark, who is now here. Senator Clark has already ad vanced the company $18,000.00". Of this amnir,, $:.,0O0,iM) was paid for the Dos Ari geletl i-rriv.nul company. Jll,0ti.0 fur lines of t Orcgcn Short Line south of Salt Lak' and i2.Hn,R'0 for .surveys and new construction. "My father has a good deal of ready .noney." said the son. "and ho thinks ihere is no betu-r way to invest it than by ndvan ing cash to the railroad as it requires it nnd taking bonds in pay ment. His aim is to complete the road as soon as possible. There remains only a .ni of 300 miles between Caliente, Xev., and Paegftt. a station on the Santa Fe in California." STOP DOUBLE TRACKING. Santa Fe Will Not Finish the Cut-off Work Now. Ottawa. Kan., July 18. The Santa Fe has practically suspended work at dou ble tracking the line between this city and Kansas City. A few men are at work within the limits of Olathe; when the track shall have reached the depot the work will be shut down for the time beinc With the exception of a few miles there is a continuous double track be tween Tower, (Missouri Pacific crossing) west of this city, and Kansas City. Be fore long the company will fill the gap and continue westward until the entire "cutoff" is double tracked. The company realizes the great advantage of the cut off in the saving of distance and of grades, for as the trainmen are paid by the mile every mile counts, and a dou ble track will be a necessity to accom modate the immense traffic that will be diverted from the main line via Ottawa. AFRAID TO SEND MAIL. Train Officials Fear Holdups in In dian Territory. Chickasha. I. T., July 18. The mur derers of City Marshal Cross of Geary have been located between the Wood reserve below Marlow. I. T., and Sterl ing. Okla. The country is rough and broken and an excellent hiding place, but the woods are full of deputy sher iffs. No mail or express was sent west on the Lawton branch yesterday or to day, as the railroad officials, knowing of the presence of the robbers, feared the train might be held up. The out laws have been steadily pursued for al most two weeks. Rewards aggregating J1.S00 have been offered for their cap ture. Dodge City Items. Dodge City, Kan.. Julv 18. Division Siinr-irtpndt-nl George E. Ayer and family have gone to Coronado Beach, cala., on a tvo wee ks' pleasure trio. Dispatcher T. M. Gavin, who has been visiting home folks in Illinois for the past two months returned Tuesday and is at his old poFt of duty again. Dispatcher H. E. Huffman left Tues day for a week's trip to Kansas City, Topeka .and Newton. He is being re lieved by Mr. C. J. Townsend. Prairie type engines are now facing used on all passenger trains between Dodge City ard La Junta except on trains 9 and 10. which are being han dled by Dicksons. The passenger traffic nas ben vtry heivy for over a month and the big engines are necessary to make good time with the heavy trains. A new steel bridge has just been com pleted across the Purgatoire two miles east of Las Animas. This stream has been an exceptionally hard one to con trol during high water and has all but swept the old bridge away several times in the part few years. The new bridge "will hold it for a while," It is thought. The track improvement on the west end goes merrily on. From forty to one hundred cars of gravel are being planted' between Lamar and Grana da daily. Conductors Briggs and Cook have been in charge of the work train service. The extremely hot weather of the past ten days is causing a great deal of com plaint from train and enginemen on the night runs It is with difficulty that they are able to get sufficient sleep in the day time. A number of Dodge City people are planning trips to Colorado during the next six weeks. Some have already gone. An era of sidewalk building nas struck Dodge City. Vitrified brick and cement walks are replacing the old rotten and patched board walks that have been eyesores on the business strepts for so rntny years. The Dodge City flour mill, which was once considered ore of the best in the tate. is to be given an overhauling and operated again. Road Foreman of Engines Saunders was down from La Junta Wednesday. $17,341 IS MISSING. B. O. Cashier Says It Is Due to Faulty Records. Cumberland, Md., July IS. William H. Doerner has been arrested on a warrant sworn out by Clarence Christie, auditor of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, charging Doerner with embezzling $17,341 of the company's funds. Doerner had been cash ier for ten years, and declares he is a vic tim of faulty bookkeeping. CONFERENCE AT GALVESTON. Santa Fe Conductors and Brakemen to Meet Officials. A. B. Honeycut, John A. Glenn, Mart Black, W. E. Nowlin of Houston and J. F. Saddler of Gainesville left for Galveston yesterday as representatives of the con ductors and brakemen on the Gulf, Colo rado and Santa Fe road, to confer with the officials of the road. After the Santa Fe Now. The Texas railroad commission has or dered the Gulf, Colorado and Santa t'e to slop its trains at Richmond, Tex., and it will have to accept passengers for Hous ton. Its trackage agreement with the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio has never been submitted to the commis sion and its existence was officially un known. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. It was announced yesterday that W. M. Robinson has been installed as agent for the Santa Fe at Meeker, O. T. A. L. Fisher.traveling passenger agent for the Northwestern railroad, was a visitor at the local railway ticket offices yesterday. J. A. Stewart, the new general agent for the ltock Island at Kansas City, was a visitor at the Rock Island division of fices yesterday. J. B. Kilpatrick, assistant superin tendent of machinery for the Rock Is land, with headquarters in Chicago, was in Topeka yesterday. Arthur S. Nelson is a new clerk in the office of the Santa Fe freight au ditor. He takes the place of G. H. Kelch who has been transferred to the. general storekeeper's office. Mrs. D. E. Weatherbee. wife of T. E. Weatherbee, of the office of the Santa Fe ticket auditor, has returned from a month's pleasure trip in CalU fornia. She was accompanied by her son. Roy Johnson, theatrical traffic man ager for the Santa Fe. is in receipt o? several Philippine curios from a friend In the Islands. One of them is a bolo, but the American name for it would be "corn knife." The Santa Fe has just issued a new time table for the Colorado division which will go into effect Sunday, July 1J. Several changes have been made In the time of the trains running on that division. Elmer Sheldon, operator for the San ta Fe at Wellsville, Ks., is visiting friends in the citv. Mr. Sheldon was formerly employed in the local freight house. He will be in the city for sev eral davs. The Santa Fe is erecting a big high board fence along that pirt of the m-in line track which lies just south of the shops. This fence shuts oil tne shops from the outside world and it is thought will assist in decreasing the number of things stolen from the shops at night. The Santa Fe will shortly make exten sive repairs to their main line track in the vicinity of Topeka. The new steel for this work has already arrived and has been distributed along those parts of the track which are in need of re pairs. Some of the main line track is badly in need of repairs especially on the curves most of which have been worn down until there are hardly any rails for a train to run upon. Excursion Kansas City and Return $1.25. Sunday, July 19, via Santa Fe. Aus pices Retail Clerks' union. Special train leaves 8:30 a. m. Why is it that the firstborn child is so often the healthiest of a family of chil dren? The reason seems to suggest it self. As child follows child the mother has less and less vitality often not enough for herself and none, therefore, for her child. Expectant mothers who use Doctor Fierce s ravonte fre scription find that it keeps them in vigor ous health. They eat well, sleep well and are not nervous. When baby comes its advent is practically painless, and the mother is marie hap- Sy by the birth of a ealthy child. If you would be a healthy mother of healthy children use Favor ite Prescription." I will be very clod to say a few words for Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip tion," writes Mrs. P. S. Ikmglas, of Mansonville, Brccie Co.. Quebec "Dur iojf the first four months, when I looked forward to becoming a mother. I suf fered very mucli from nau sea and vomrticsr, and I felt so terribly sick I could scarcely eat or drink anv thingr. I bated all kinds of iood. At this time 1 wrote to Dr. Pierce, and he told me to pet his Favorite Prescription and a bottle of Oolden Medical Discovery.' 1 got a bottle of each, and when I had taken them a few days, I felt much better, and when I had taken hardly three parts of each bottle I felt well and could eat as well as any one, and could do my work without any trouble (I could not do anything before). I feel very thankful to Dr. Tierce for his medicine, and I tell all who tell me they are sick, to get these medicines, or write to Dr. Pierce." Those who suffer from chronic dis eases are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, by letter, free. All correspondence strictly private. Address Vr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure bil iousness and sick headache. WHISTLER IS DEAD. Noted American Artist Passes Away in London. London, July 18. James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler, the celebrated American artist, died yesterday afternoon at his residence, 74 Cheyne Walk. Chelsea, at the age of 69. His death came unexpect edly, although for some time he had been seriously ill. The morning papers publish elaborate obituary notices, recognizing the dis tinguished and unique personality of Mr. Whistler, whose genius greatly dominated European art of the present generation. While admitting that it Is for posterity to decide his exact position as a painter, it is generally conceded that he was a consummate etcher. The Daily Telegraph says: "It is mor tifying to think that there is no ex ample of his work in the public galleries of London where he lived and worked so many years." His eccentricities and his whims gained for Whistler as much fame as his paintings. The world to him had one central figure Whistler. When some old lady once confided to him that he and Velasquez were the only two really great artists who ever lived. Whistler put a sneer on his lips and asked: "Oh! what's the good of dragging in Velas quez?" James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born at Lowell, Mass., in August. 183. He was the son of George Washington Whistler, an eminent civil engineer and Anna Matilda McNeill. Several years of Whistler's early life were spent in Russia while his father was superin tending the construction of the St. Pe tersburg Moscow railroad. He return ed to the United States after his fath er's death and in 1851 was appointed cadet-at-large at West Point by Presi dent Fillmore. In 1854 Whistler was recommended for .discharge, as he va3 deficient in mathematics. He could only fix his mind upon drawing. After leaving West Point Whistler went to England and from there to Paris, -where he was a pupil of Charles Gabriel Gleyre, the painter. In 1859 he exhibited at the Royal academy two "etchings from nature, and since that time contributed to nearly all the im portant exhibitions in London, Paris, Munich and The Hague. Whistler's paintings were for a time the subject of bitter criticism. John Ruskin could hardly express his con tempt and once wrote: "I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a not of paint in the public's face." Whistler brought suit for libel and nominally won, being awarded 1 farth ing damasres. The London Quarterly Review some time ago said of him: "Mr. Whistler stands before the world as the repre sentative of art without ideas and the determined opponent of the literary el ement in painting, which has found supporters in Ruskin and the pre Raphaelites. But however much we may differ from Mr. Whistler in his theory of art, critics and painters of every school must agree in admiration of the superb craftsmanship and skill of his actual handling of paint, which has already done so much to raise the standard of technical attainment ir this country. Perhaps Whistler's greatest portrait was that of his mother, which has as its subtitle, "Arrangement in Gray and Black." It was painted in 1S72 and that same year was sent to the Royal 1 acadamy, to which it was admitted un j der protest. NEW BRIGADIERS. A List of the Colonels to Ba Promoted and Retired. Washington, July 18. Secretary Root has sent the following memorandum to the adjutant general for the promotion cf colonels to be brigadier generals and i their retirement with that rank: j "By direction of the president, you will prepare commissions for the promo I tion and retirement of the following of- ficers, with the understanding that each has applied for retirement and comes within the provisions of the bill that passed the senate of the United States at its last session, namely, that each served creditably during the Civil war, for not less than one year, and has a total service of not less than thirty-five years: John H. Page, Third infantry; William L. Haskin, Artillery, corps; Charles W. Miner, Sixth infantry; Jas. M. J. Sanno, Eighteenth infantry; Chas. F. Rohe, Ninth infantry; Edwin B. At wood, quartermaster's department; John Simpson, quartermaster's depart ment; Frank G. Smith. Artillery corps; George B. Rodney, Artillery corps; Al mond B. Wells, First cavalry; John B. Babcock, assistant adjutant general; Charles A. Coolidge. Seventh Infantry; Henry Lippincott, medical department; Cyrus S. Roberts, Second infantry; J. Milton Thompson, Twenty-third infan try; Carle A. Woodruff, Artillery corps; David H. Kinsey, Artillery corps; Jas. Miller, Twenty-second infantry; David J. Craigie, Eleventh infantry; Alpheus H. Bowman, Twenty-fifth infantry; Ed mund Rice, Nineteenth infantry; Chas. G. Penny, Twenty-ninth infantry; Jesse C. Chance, Thirty-fourth infantry; Theodore F. Forbes, Twenty-seventh in fantry: Daniel D. Wheeler, quarter master's department: James L. Cooper, Fifty-eighth cavalry; James W. Relly, ordnance department; John A. Kress, ordnance department; Calvin DeWitt, medical department: Peter J. Cleary, medical department; Leon A. Mutile, Twenty-fourth infantry; Charles A. Woodruff, assistant commissary gener al; Colonel C. C. C. Carr, Fourth cav alry, to be brigadier general and re tained in service." A WOMAN RECLUSE INSANE. Wyandotte County Probate Court Sends Sirs. Anderson to an Asylum. Kansas City, Kan., July 18. Mrs. Anna Anderson, 70 years old, who lived the life of a recluse in her room on Splitlog avenue, between Fourth and Fifth streets, was adjudged insane yes terday before Wlnrield Freeman, pro bate judge of Wyandotte county. She will be sent to an asylum. The woman asserted that she was a physician and her little room was filled with old bottles of various kinds. About a year ago she began to show symp toms of insanity. She imagined that persons around her had designs on her life. She has lived here about nine years. She is a widow and has three children living in St. Louis. Chautauqua Lake, N. T. and Return $14.00 From Chicago via Erie Railroad July 24th. Return limit thirty days. Trains leave Chicago 10:30 a. m., 5:15 p. m. and 10:00 p. m., for Akron, Youngstown, Chautauqua Lake, Buffalo, Niagara Falls. Albany, Boston and New York. Write A. W. Moore Traveling Pas senger Agent, Kansas City, Mo., or D. M. Bowman, General Western Passen ger Agent. Erie Railroad, Chicago, for information, and illustrated Chautau qua folders. Years of suffering relieved in a night Itching piles yield at once to the cura tive properties of Doan's Ointment. Never fails. At any druff store. 60 centa. SECOND APPEAL ISSUED Kaw "Valley Committee Aek for Aid to Rebuild. A second appeal for funds, to be used in rebuilding homes damaged or swept away by the recent flood, was issued late Friday afternoon. The people of Kansas are asked to contribute. The appeal was signed by representatives of various relief committees from the Kaw Galley as follows: To the Citizens of Kansas. Realizing the terrible calamity that has overtaken thousands of the citizens of our commonwealth by reason of the recent flood, and knowing by personal observation or authentic reports that a large portion of these sufferers will not be able to reconstruct their homes nor support their families under present conditions or until a crop has been' raised, we make this appeal to the good citizens of Kansas to aid us in the work of relief. Owing toajhe extended area devastated by the flood it is impossible even to ap proximate the amount of loss, or the amount that will be necessary to place the unfortunate ones in such position that they may again be self-supporting, and while the charitable people not only of our own state, but in many parts of the United States responded nobly to the first call for aid, we who have had to do with the active work of relief throughout the flooded district find that what has already been done is but a beginning of the great work we are i called upon to face. We cannot agree with the censure ex pressed against our officials in voting against state relief, but believe that whatever action has been taken official ly or otherwise, has been from pure mo tives and with the desire to accomplish the greatest amount of good to the greatest number of sufferers, and call attention to the fact that in similar in stances the state of Pennsylvania made no official appropriation for the John ston sufferers nor did Texas officially assist the unfortunate ones at Galves ton, yet those who witnessed the des- I truction at both these places agree in saying that in neither case was the devastation and suffering equal to that wrought along the Kaw valley from Manhattan to the Missouri river. Now, therefore, we, the chairmen of the various committees and organiza tions having this work in charge, speak ing for and in behalf of these unfortu nate ones do earnestly appeal to the good people of Kansas to come to the relief of their fellow citizens in this time of extreme need by contributions proportionate to the abundance of their harvests and the prosperity with which they have been blessed. This appeal is addressed to individuals who have been blessed with plenty, to churches, Sunday schools. Missionary societies and any other benevolent and charitable organizations, also to all city governments within the borders of our state; and at the earliest possible mo ment, those at the head of such bodies are earnestly requested to present the subject to their respective organizations and ask that an offering be made at once. Please do not delay action many fellow citizens are actually suffering and in need, and help now will be worth double what it may be a few weeks hence. Kindly forward your contributions to the chairman of any of the committees or organizations named below and they will see that it is immediately applied where it will do the most good for the greatest number. W. J. BAILEY, Governor. E. J. SMILEY, Chairman Grain Dealers' Committee, Topeka, Kansas. D. E. CLOPPER, Mayor of Argentine, Kan.,- 12 South Spear Street. T. B. GILBERT, Mavor Kansas City, Kan. L. E. DETLAR, Township Trustee, Grantville. Kan. WILLIAM DISTER, Chairman Relief Committee, Menoken, Kansas. J. L. HELLER, Rep. Relief Works. Oakland, Kan. O. S. MORROW, Secretary Topeka Associated Charities, Topeka, Kansas. MRS. A. M. MILLS, Chairman U. I. Club Relief Commit tee, Topeka; Kansas. G. W. TOOTHAKER. In Charge Relief Work, Argentine, Kansas. DEFENDS INJUNCTION. Justice Brower Calls It "Right to Prevent Wrong." Des Moines, la., July IS. Justice Dav id J. Brewer of the United States su preme court, addressing the Iowa State Bar association here, defended the pow er of equitable injunction and its exer cise by the federal courts and predicted and advocated a wider scope for it. He said: "Unless the law is to place itself out of harmony with the advancing civ ilization, the right to prevent wrong should have an enlarged rather than a restricted scope. The cry of government bv injunction will eventually die out and it will be felt by all that the power is exercised only when necessity arises and when equity and justice demands." Clothes in Pictures. The Tailor and Cutter's art critic is again lamenting the lack of sartorial knowledge displayed by portrait paint ers in their pictures at the Royal Academy. In the current issue of the journal he exclaims, in large capitals, that if these pictures represent the present-day school of British artists, it is "high time England awoke! Are men's clothes today," he asks, "so ut terly unworthy of the painter's art? Are they so completely devoid of taste and beauty that they are so shame fully reproduced? They cannot prove otherwise than to be the laughing stock of tailors and their customers." Coming to details,- the portrait of Lord Mount Stephen shows a "total absence of buttons on the coat; there Is not a buttonhole in the lapel, and the trousers are quite innocent of seams. The coat and vest are contortions in black, the trousers a smudge in gray. There were very few of the pictures, indeed, that portrayed a gentleman in ordinary dress that was the least bit like what gentlemen of today wear. Coats are so miserably drawn that they bear no possible resemblance to the orieinals." In one portrait "the right lapel is at least five times as large as the left," while in another "there is one solitary buttonhole in the lapel, and that is large enough for three, and there is not a single button indicated on either the coat or the vest." One coat presents "a style that no one but an old woman who is brought into the house sometimes to mend the clothes would adoDt. It is a libel on tailordom." A reverend gentleman, alas! is portrayed with his sleeve half wav up to his elbow. "We should like to condemn those who have produced them to wear onl garments such as they have portrayed on their figures. They would then pre sent such a pitiable spectacle that they would never dare to leave their homes." London Express. For forty years Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry has been curing summer complaint, dysentery, diar rhoea, bloody flux, pain in the stomach, and it has never yt tails to do every- ttuue olAimed for it. SUMMER CATARRH Claims Many Thousands. A Great Trage dian's Thanks to Pe-ru-na. I', ROBERT DOWNING, THE Among the sreatest. if not the greatest of American tragedians is Robert Downing. For years he has held American audiences spell-bound with his thrilling interpretation of tragedy. Few people realize what exhaustless en ergy it requires of a man to keep up this terrible drain of nervous force. If the truth were known it would be found without doubt that few if any of the leading stare artists are without some tonic or nerve invigorator to enable them to keen themselves in a state of absolute health. Robert Downing the subject of our sketch, was recently interviewed by the press on this subject. Mr. Downing promptly and emDhatically gave the whole credit of his splendid physical condition to Peruna, saying: I find it a preventative against upon one In changing climates and companion ana safeguard against malarial influences. You may notice that persons In poor health always find the heat most intolerable; this I avoid by using Peruna. l know by the ther mometer that the weather is hot, yet I have telt tbe heat less this sum mer than ever. The cooling action of Peruna on the mucous membrane makes It Invaluable to actors and singers, as it does away with that tendency to sudden hoarseness so apt to overtake one on emerging, from a hot dress ing room to the draughty stage. To sum it up, Peruna has done me more good than any tonic I have ever taken." Robert Downing. Mrs. Hannah Lind, 1132, E. Long St.. Columbus. O., says: "I was for manv years a victim of nervous prostration and neuralgia. I would have spells during which my sulering was great. All sorts of treat ment was tried, from which I received little or no benefit. Doctors were em ployed and various kinds of medicines used. Except to give temporary relief, there was no appreciable change in my condition. At last I was induced to try a bottle of Peruna, and, after using two bottles of this medicine, I found myself more improved than from all the other treatment I ever received. I always try to keep Peruna in the house, as I then feel safe from my nervous attacks. It is a wonderful medicine for nervous women, and I Qood Sporf in Colorado. Bear, antelope and mountain lions. To bag them you have to leave the railroad behind you, hire a guide and plunge "into the interior" on horseback. It costs money and takes time, this but it's worth while. Low rates via the Rock Island, June 1 to September 30. Only $17.50 for the round trip from Topeka. Information and literature on request. Rock Island trains for Colorado Springs and Den ver, leave Topeka A. W. LACY, Ticket Afrent, North Topeka. iT- ----I---------,---!- i The First National Bank I OF TOPEKA, KANSAS.

Depository of the State of Kansas, Shawnee County, and the City of Topeka. PAID-UP CAPITAL, $300,000. OFFICERS t WM. Sratfl, President. W. H. Rossington, Vice President DIRECTORS: ZTORSs A. A. Robinson, W. utry, Chas. J. Devlin, W. A. Lai Interest paid on Tims Deposits. Foreign Drafts on all Prin cipal Points. Letters of Credit issued. Small accounts as well as large receive the SO UTTXE UNDERSTOOD. FAMOUS TRAGEDIAN. all udden summer Ills that awoop water. It is the finest traveling recommend it to them especially dur ing the trying weather of spring and early summer." o Simple stimulants will not cure such cases. Neither rill so-called tonics. Nothing but a natural nerve invlrorat or that restores the mucous membranes to their normal condition will perma nently relieve such cases. Dr. Hart man was the first physician in the United States to accurately describe systematic catarrh. His remedy Pe runa, the only systematic catarrh rem edy yet devised, is now known all over the civilized world. A person having used it once can never be nersuadea to be without it when in need of such a remedv. Write for a copy of Dr. Hartman'a latest book entitled "Summer Catarrh." Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. at 1:10 p. m. and 8:10 p. m. A. At FULLER, C. P. A. Topeka. r n- r r rrir rii jw C. E. Hawlet, Cashier. C. S. Bowman, Asst. Cashier. H. Kosslngton, Wm. Sims, Chaa, X Stephens, O. E. HawJLey. same careful attention.

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TOPEKA STATE JOUIiXAL, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 18, 1903. BETTERTHINGS la the Business World With Each Succeeding Week In Matters of Labor Disturbance and Weather Conditions. THE OUTLOOK IS GOOD. The Crops Are Now Making Itapid Progress. Hallway Traflic Is Ileary and Earnings Show Increase. New York, July 18. R. G. Dun Co's Weekly Review of Trade says: "Conditions continue satisfactory outside the region of speculation, many reports Indicating further Improve ment. During- recent months the two disturbing factors have been labor con troversies and weather conditions, but each week has brought better things In these two respects until the outlook contains much that is encouraging. Crops are making rapid progress and the army of unemployed is diminishing. Railway traffic is heavy, earnings thus far reported for June exceeding last year's by 13.6 per cent and those of 1901 by 19.2 per cent. Retail trade In seasonable merchandise is fully up to the average, and there is less than the Customary midsummer quiet among Wholesalers while the preparations of Jobbers and manufacturers Indicate confidence in a large fall business. "Unsettled conditions still exist in forge and foundry pig iron markets, while Ecssemer iron is only barely steady. The chief difficulty appears to be the Inclination of prospective pur chasers to wait for the lowest possible quotations. This is a condition to be expected in a declining market, but ap pears unusually aggravating in the present instance. Current consumption Is heavy and the delay is only in con nection with distant deliveries. Struc tural tteel betins to- reflect the settle ment of labor troubles in the building trades, but several complete undertak ings have been postponed until next year. Merchant steel and pipe are in better demand, several large contracts being under negotiation. Steel rails are sold well into 1904 and other rail way equipment is still one of the best features in the industry. Southern iron furnaces and steel mills are af fected adversely by the coal miners' Btrike. "It is a season of uncertainty in the manufacture of cotton goods, every thing in the nature of improvement can be expected until the artificial position of the raw material is radically altered. Supplies of cotton goods in first hands are low and there Is no effort to make spot sales. Buyers fill their require ments for immediate distribution, but in no department of this great industry is there any inclination to anticipate needs of even the near future. As supplies di minish there is a corresponding stiffen ing of quotations. Mills are, steadily curtailing production both here and abroad. Now light weight woolens are being opened with fair results only, buyers exhibiting nonxiety regarding the future. Silks axe firm owing to curtailed production and the high prices commanded by the raw material. "Western Jobbers use operating freely in the Boston footwear, market, both on contracts for spring goods and supple mentary fall orders. .m "Failures this week were 13 in the I nited States against 13 last year and sixteen in Canada compared with 20 a year ago." Bradstreet's says: "Well nigh perfect summer weather helps crops, increases confidence in fall trade and stimulates retail and summer resort business. Lower prices for many staples are really an encouraging de velopment. Six months' railway earn ings returns two-thirds of thecountry s mileage represented show a gain of over 13 per cent over the best ever re corded, while roads thus far reporting for the first week of July show a gain of nearly 16 per cent. These figures confirm the claim that present business Is the largest ever handled for a mid summer period. "The salient features In trade reports this week sire the better tone of trade advices from the southwest, where the feeling grows that a large business will tie done. The unsatisfactory outlook for immerlia" and future supplies of cotton limits activity in cotton at the cast, but tne wool market is strong, tvith more doing both in the raw ma terial and in the manufactured product. Tinn ri'turns of foreign trade point to the largest aggregate on record, due, however, to 13 per cent gain in imports, because exports fell off 2 per cent from last year and 5 per cent from the record Of 1!01. "The iron trade is quiet enough on the surface, but production and consump tion are alike enormous, though pres sure of the latter lends to ease in quota tions for iron and steel. Western mar kets note reductions in pig iron and bil lets, with a large business done at the concessions, and southern iron has been cut without evoking much new busi ness. Tin and copper ar weak and low er on large shipments in the c?se of the former and on alleged overproduction in the case of the latter. "Hides and leather are weaker at the Past, but eastern shoe shipments are far In excess ot last year for the week and leason. "Business failures i:i the United States for the uiek ending with July 16 num ber 173, against lr4 Inst week. 174 in the like week of li)-', 2 in 191. 22 in 1900 and 174 in lKt:. In Canada for the week 13. bs against 20 last week and 17 in. this week a year ago." DI LL SEASON OX. Bank Cloaringa in United States Show a Slight Decrease. New Tork. July IS. The following table. 2nir:piled by Bradstreet, shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended July Ifi, with the percentage Pf increase and decrease as compared with the corresponding week last year. Cities Amount. Inc. Dec. New York Jl.aJ3.lh7.lS4 .S Chicago Hjl,l!ti 3.5 Besfnn 137.413.lfi3 4.1 Philadelphia 122.123 3.5 St. Iyiuia 5u.lM.M4 5.7 Pittsburg 47.3i'3.4t 1.6 San Francisco 30.263. ir g.g Halrimore 2o.t2.i"4 3.1 Cincinnati 24.al2.2io 1.8 Kansas City 2M47.277 13.1 Cleveland 18.3!l.olS New Orleans lt;.0Sl,SH9 24.4 Minneapolis 1.1.0C2.O74 7.4 Detroit 10.723.4S9 4.7 Iulsville M.itto.MS .8 "Houston io,.v;.mo 11. 0 fimsha 8.2:;s.c7: 27.4 ndianapolis 8.17s33 41.7 Milwaukee 7.771. 240 1.4 'Providence 7.3x9.1) 4.9 Um Angeles 6.6S7.7B4 2S.1 (Buffalo .56,9i3 17.6 'St. Paul 6,32u.45 9.2 "TGalveston 5.256.OO0 26.9 Polumbua 5,lu2,9uO 24.2 Denver 4S2S.571 St. Joseph 4.514,924 Seattle 4.471,523 Richmond 4.1U4.34S Washington 4,072.348 Portland, Ore 3.4X2 425 Hartford 3.4W.544 Fort Worth 3.3)7,381 Albany 3.314.163 Memphis 3.158.H46 Salt 1-ake City Toledo 2.a22,941 Savannah 2,822.878 Rochester 2.547, 6o0 Peoria 2.543,958 Nashville 2.511,532 Atlanta. 2.455.548 Spokane. Wash, 2.370,48 Ies Moines 2.198. 3H1 Grand Rapids l77,6t-o Portland, Me 1,733,568 Tacoma 1, 66.931 Sioux City 1,297.362 Topeka 1.150.5M Charleston. S. C. 1,064.734 Augusta, (J a. &59,965 10.7 7.2 19.9 1.8 1.1 7.9 6.6 31.8 6.5 21.3 14.4 3.4 9.4 13.9 46.6 9.4 33.3 26.7 7.1 8.6 31.2 15.0 ZL.'l 5.7 2.1 Totals, V. S $2,12,173,748 Outside N. Y 849,086,614 Balances Daid In cash. Not included in totals because contain ing other Items. BERGUNDTHAL'S TURN. Home Defenders Wait on Him and Leave a Letter. Three of the Home Defenders, Miss Blanch Boies, Mrs. J. W. Stout and Mrs. E. M. Coleman, called at the office of Mayor W. S. Bergundthal this morn ing to leave with him communication in regard to the liquor situation in To peka. The mayor happened to be out and did not meet the representatives of tne temperance cauje. When he found It later and read It he laughed. "I guess I'll have to appoint Miss Boies chief of police," he said. "I don't suppose she would be content in a minor position." Mr. Bergundthal was not disposed to regard the matter seriously. The letter follows: To the Honorable Mayor of Topeka: "Kansas Is In a most deplorable con dition on the liquor business and rapidly going from Dad to worse. Every admin istration gets lower and lower at the feet of the great god Bacchus, the su preme ruler and governor of politics. Bailey's action In appointing Probate Judge Hayden shows how completely the temperance people and law and or der workers of the Republican party have once more been wheedled and hoo dooed. And since you were elected mayor how many joints havereally shut up shop and gone out of business? And what has become of the general move that was promised and expected to wipe out the rebel liquor traffic in Topeka and redeem the good name of the city from the Parker regime? Think of Lindsay sending up fifty liquor cases and all thrown out of the district court for alleged technical errors. Also Galen Nichols only made one case suck at the cost of over a thousand dollars for his Incompetency. Doesn't the Republi can party have any competent men to put In these important positions? The Balfe stark case stuck to tne supreme court. No technical errors were found in the Carrie Nation trials. Blanche Boies Is having no trouble on that score. "The impression Is rapidly gaining that all this is not accidental any more than some other things that are occur ring. "The dailies have wondered time and again whv the jointists get due and timely notice of police raids. Perhaps you have an Arion, Eagle. Elk, Turner, or other liquor fraternity agent on your force. "David Overmyer boasted In his Audi torium speech that the convivial order of Elks would never be brousht to obev the constitutional prohibitory law, and we were amazed that the dignified may or of Topeka would go to the rum-ridden city of St. Joseph, to join in the 'antics' and dissipations ot these ani mals, lending them his honor and in fluence. "At Columbus, Ohio, the Hquorltes have a large organisation of the 'In ternational Order of Owls' with such of fices as 'Blinker," "Property Owl,' 'Sapi ent Screecher,' r lrst V ice ccreecner and 'Scratcher.' This is no joke and shows what degenerate organizations will do in these latter days. Birds of a feather will nock togetner and evil associations corrupt good man ners. -Ts:fi wonder Insanitv Is on the Increase and chivalry and manly dignity and de corum on the wane. Where is tnai line cense of nrnnrietv and respect that hov ered and animated our grandsires? "There is a most serious as wen as ridiculous side to all this. "When lawyers, judges and officials go into the 'antic business,' pose as ani mals and mingle with slummers and or ganized violators of constitutional law, H i lime to call a halt. The sober. earnest. Christian people have a right to expect better things. When an Arion judge returned the liquors and rebel joint paraphernelia the other day to so many of his fraters. why did not your men seize and destrov tnem. men those 'hon tea' villains, who have been arrested often, fined sometimes, but gen erally turned loose by the said Arion district court. Why don't you hold them on their federal license and then burn their fixtures right then and there in stead of 'passing' them on to the cus- today of their friends.' Von nrrpst a Door tramp, warn him to leave the town and he has to travel. Start these whiskey rebels for the su burbs and across the city limits, then let the sheriff, who used to be such a conscientious Christian gentleman, es cort them across the line ot bnawnee countv. In other words let the officials of Topeka and Shawnee county do their sworn duty and this unDleasan matter will be settled, 'lhis spasmodic arresting, t appealing to the distric court and release on technicalities must cease. Appoint a few loyal women on your police force, give tne oraer ana n will be stormed. "We trust that you will not recog nize the grand hailing sign of distress of the Topeka jointists and as the gov ernor has shifted all responsibility on to you, after appointing a liquor pro bate judge to checkmate law enforce ment at every turn, take matters in your own hand. The plan is to make you the scapegoat of the Republican administration at the capital." "We await your further action with profound anxiety. "COMMITTEE HOME DEFENDERS." Much Growing Corn Destroyed. W'arsaw. Ind., July 18. A severe storm and heavy rainfall early today destroyed thousands of acres of growing corn. v noie neicis east or tnis place in an area within a radius of six miles were ruined. Disfigured Skin Wasted muscles and decaying bones. What havoc Scrofula, let alone. Is capable of all that and more. It is commonly marked by bunches i the neck, inflammations in tbe eyes, dyt nepsia, catarrh, and general debility. It is always radically and permanent!; cured by Hood's Sarsaparillc Which expels all humors, cures all erup tions, and builds up the whole system whether young or old. Hand's 11IU cure IWer the non-lnitatlng an oniy cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaoarilla GAY DEN TO PRISON. Will Remain There for an Indefinite Period. George Gayden, the obstreperous colored person who recently got tired of a neighbor, Clarence Moss, and sought to remove him from this terrestlal sphere with a "Zulu" shotgun, will go to the penitentiary, but he has not the sat isfaction of knowing how long, he will be gone. Gaydon was bound over from the city court on the charge of assault with in tent to kill, and getting tired of remain ing in jail under a bond of J1.500 until the September term, went up and enter ed a plea of guilt before Judge Hazen this morning. The reason Gayden (or any one else, for that matter) does not know just how long he will linger at Lansing, is that he has the distinction of being the first candidate for that place sentenced under the new rules as set forth by Chapter 375, Session Laws of 1903. which. In part, reads as fol lows: "Section 1. Every person convict ed of a felony or other eriie punish able by Imprisonment in the peniten tiary, except murder and treason, if judgment, be not suspended or a new trial granted, shall be sent to the peni tentiary, except in cases provided for in Section 7100 of the General Statutes of 1801. but the court imposing such sen tence shall not fix the limit or duration of the sentence, but the term of im prisonment of any prisoner so convicted shall not exceed the maximum nor be less than the minimum term provided by law for the crime for which the per son as convicted and sentenced. The release of such person to be as herein after provided." The sections following relate to the conditions which shall regulate the state board of prison control which shall de cide when the prisoner has been in long enough. It means that any court can not sentence a prisoner to serve a cer tain term in the state penitentiary as heretofore. In Gayden's case he can be turned out In one year or held ten years, just as the board of prison control sees fit. In such cases the court passing sentence Is supposed to file information in the case with the board, which will be considered In determining the length of time the prisoner will be required to serve. Although Gayden is the first prisoner to receive this kind of a sen tence, the law has been in effect since June 1. Perhaps Judge Hazen overlook ed it the other day when he sentenced R. Mallory, the busy burglar, to serve rive years for burglary and, two for larceny. DR. LOW It Y FEA11S FEVER. 2oes Not Agree With Physicians Who Think There Is No Sanger. Dr. Chas. Lowry, secretary of the state board of health, takes exception to the statemsnt that there is no danger of an epidemic of malarial fever. He thinks that fever is likely to be prevalent this fall. He says To the Editor of the State Journal: The interview with my friend. Dr. Men ninger. reported In the Capital this morn ing, reminds one of a wise saying, "Let me write the headlines and I care not who writes the editorials." Regarding the proposition that epidemics do not usnnllv follow floods. I have no reply to make, as floods are of such un- j usual occurrence, but that epidemics of malarial fever do follow rank vegetable growth resulting from excessive rainfall and hot weather, is an undisputed fact. Another recognized cause of malaria Is the breaking up of new ground, such ns paving in cities, the building of new rail roads, etc in fact anything that causes a denosit of new soil on the old surface, a condition that exists largely on the North side at the present time. A further orolific cause of malaria, ad mitted in the body of the interview re ferred to. if not in the headline, is the mvriads of mosquitoes that always abound where there are pools of standing water, such as exist In numerous places after such unusual ralnfnll as we have had this year; so taking the conditions as they exist, if we do not have an unusual amount of malarial fever it will be con trary to all former experience. CHARLES LOWRY. WANT. SCALES REPAIRED. Farmers Wish Weighmaster Nash to Resume Business. The farmers living north of North To peka have recently been filing petitions with Weighmaster Nash for the re placement of the hay scales which were ruined by the flood last month. The scales, which were located on West Norris street, were turned on their side and covered with mud and rubbish. W'eighmaster Nash, who had them in charge before the flood, has called the attention of Food Inspector Fa rns worth to the matter in an effort to have them restored to their former usefulness. Norris street was formerly used as the hay market for North To peka and the scales were placed there handy for the use of the farmers with hay to sell. The farmers object strenu ously to driving across the river to weigh their hay. inspector f-arnswortn has taken the matter up and will prob ably get the scales into repair. The work will necessitate the clearing of the street. ORDINANCE ALL WRONG. City Attorney Spencer Does Not Fa vor Drug Store Tax. On account of the protests of the Topeka druggists against the passage cf an ordi nance assersing upon them a license tax for the privilege of holding a permit to sell liquor, It seems doubtful If the meas ure proposed by Councilman W, F. Weber will be adopted. Considerable pains has been gone to by City Attorney Spencer in drafting an ordi nance to cover the assessment of the tax, and the question of the proper amount is now up before the license committee of the council. Mayor Bergundthal is not in favor of it. and will probably veto the measure if the council passes it. In speak ing of it he said this morning: "That ordinance will never be passed. We don't want it. The Idea is wrong and will result in taking the permits to sell liquor away from the right kind of drug stores and encouraging lawbreaklng stores to go in deeper. A druggist who does a legitimate business In liquor does not make enough to pay the tax of $25 per month which has been proposed. If a drug store is selling illegally it will sell more to make good." A CHEWING GUM DIET. Goldie Gleaves Tried It Awhile With Poor Success. Goldie Gleaves, the young colored wo man who tried to kill herself at the city jail by turning on the gas, has served 16 days of her 25. Until last night she has refused a mouthful of food furnished by the city, and subsisted on chewing gum and oc casional bananas sent in by her ad mirers. Last night, however, she begged for a plate of supper, her supply of chew ing gum having been exhausted. Notice to Patrons The Topeka Distilled Water Co. has disposed of its business to Arthur Whit tam, who will continue the business on his own account from this date. THE TOPEKA DISTILLED WATER COMPANY. Notice I once more wish to thank that noble order, Sunflower camp No. 536 Modern Woodmen of American, for their kind ness, and for the prompt payment of insurance. MRS. LILLIE A. FAGAN. MOVED 13 TON ROCKS. They Were Tossed About by a Storm at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, July 18. Reports of dam age from yesterday's storm are coming in from the southern part of the state and are to the effect that crops were battered down flat. In many instances it will be impossible to harvest the grain crops and the only recourse left to the farmers will be to turn their live stock into the fields for pasture. Tne storm was particularly severe on Lake Michigan. Thousands of dollars damage was wrought to the govern ment pier which protects Milwaukee harbor. It is said that great piles were up rooted and tossed about like feathers. Contractor Glllen says that massive stones weighing as much as 13 tons were displaced and tossed across the breakwater as though they weighed but a few pounds. Shade traes were uprooted In many sections of Milwaukee and hundreds of cellars were flooded because of the in adequacy of the sewers to carry off the flood. Two inches of rain fell in Milwaukee. Madison reports 3.45 Inches, Janesville, Brodhead and Chippewa alls report severe storm and minor railroad wasliouts. JUST KEEP COOL. Oatmeal Water Is What the Steam ship Stoker Drinks. The most aggravating thing on the face of the earth is to be "advised to keep cool when to keep cool seems to be out of the Question and you are swelt ering. We haven't the slightest doubt that crimes have been committed before now under such great provocation not the slightest doubt. If crimes produced by anger are ever justifiable thev are certainly of the character invoked by tne customary expression in hot weath er, "Oh, just keep cool!" When a man, half dead, has been told this for the fortieth time patience ceases to be a virtue and he is apt to throw things if he has enough energy left. There are just a few common rules, however, that a person can observe that will at least bring him, if not absolute comfort, relief from something worse. We won't call them rules. With the thermometer soaring around the 100 mark no one wishes to burden himself even with rules. Let us call them sug gestions. We are talking now to the city bound man the man who cannot go to where the breezes blow, but must plod through his daily toil in spite of thermometers and fiery suns and fight against old General Humidity, who is the foe of all suffering mankind. The other fellow can look after himself. Don't be tempted to pour alcoholic liquid of any kind down your throat. That is the first and best suggestion. It heats and but adds fuel to the flames already burning altogether too fiercely. Nor is it wise to eat heavy meals of meats and hot soups. A man who be gins the day with fruit, rolls or toast and a broiled tomato, for instance, is much better off than the one who calls for steaks and greasy potatoes. The roasts which many business men snatch in the middle of the day are not necessary in this burning weather. If you must have meat try a small slice of cold mutton or beef and a salad ot some green stuff. If the luncheon is confined to the salad you will probably feel better and keep cooler. Iced tea moderately taken is not bad, but don't make the mistake of drinking even iced tea or lemonade in great quantities. Great draughts of ice water do more harm than good. Down in the holds of the ocean mon sters, where scores of men are shoveling coal into the mouths of the immense furnaces, it is far hotter weather than a landsman can find even under the di rect rays of the sun. It is so hot down there that the stokers go naked to the waist. Their thirst is intense, and they alleviate it in a simple way. They do not seize upon buckets of ice water and drink for momentary relief. They know better than that. They have had experi ence with heat, and they adopt the very best method when they take a mouthful of cool water upon which is floating a little oatmeal. They have found that this drink is just what they need. If you should adopt that system in your office you would find your thirst much better allayed than should you drink quarts of ice water and make fre quent trips to the bar or the soda foun tain. Take a leaf from the experience of the stoker. That is all that we pro pose to say in this little sermon, which is designedly made short. Eat only light food, drink moderately of nlain beverages, never touching those of the alcoholic variety, and you will be in a condition to ward off the heat when the immoderate eater and drinker will succumb. And, above all, try to keep your mind from the heat. That is more difficult to do, but if you are not etern ally talking about it and if you don't permit yourself to worry over the up ward tendency of the mercury in the tube you will be surprised to find how very much easier it is to deal with try ing conditions. Philadelphia Inquirer. LOCAL MENTION. Rev. J. F. Sloan will preach in Mayet ta on Sunday. At 3 o'clock Monday afternoon the W. C. T. U. will meet at the First Methodist church. Miss Emma Dennis and Miss Oda Clossen will sing solos at Grace Cathe dral Sunday morning. Sunday school will be held Sunday af ternoon at the resular hour, 3:15 p. m., at the Belvoir school house. Preaching services at 4:15. Miss Mary Marshall who has for some time been making her home with Mrs. King, has gone to Iowa to visit friends. The state G. A. R. has received $250 more for the relief fund for old soldiers who suffered in the flood. The total now on hand is J2.220. Next Thursday the state board for the examination of barbers appointed on the barber inspection commission will be ex amined in this city. The North Topeka Congregational church will have no services Sunday. The building is being newly painted and will not be ready for use. Herbert Armstrong, deputy clerk of the supreme court, has gone to Isle Royal, Lake Superior, to spend his va cation. He is accompanied by his wife. The county commissioners will open bids for the recovery of the Shawnee county bridges on the Kaw river, which were washed out during the flood, on August 7. The new church workers of the First Baptist church will sew next Wednes day morning from 9 to 12 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. M. Miner, 213 West Huntoon street. The Vinewood line will be open to the public a week from tomorrow, Sunday, July 26. There will be a ball game and some other attractions which have not yet been announced. Dr. E. L. Enochs, general practitioner, special attention diseases of women and children; noFe and throat; chronic diseases. Calls promptly day or night. Office with Dr. Grubbs. Residence, 3C3 Woodlawn avenue. mar MONDAY SPECIALS AT THE At 9 o'clock we place on sale 100 Summer Corsets, while they last, at per pair Qq At io oclock we place on sale 500 yards Crash at 3 yards for 9 c At 3 o'clock we Ladies' $1.50 Shoes Per pair THE TOPEKA CASH DOCTORING SCALES. Putty and Other Devices Used to Give Short Measure. "Tou can depend upon it that in any city where there is not an efficient bu reau of weights and measures the poor are being defrauded." said James B. Reynolds before the Summer School of Philanthropy. "This is true of all classes, but especially of the poor, for when a man is down there are ten times as many people ready to hit him as when he is up." Mr. Reynolds had been asked, as sec retary to the mayor, to speak on mu nicipal action in relation to the welfare of the poor. He was fortified with an array of balances possessed of a profit making bias, of gouged out weights and loaded scale pans, and what he had to say about the bureau of licenses and of weights and measures was particularly illuminating, for in few cities is any im portance attached to this field of mu nicipal activity. "These bureaus," said Mr. Reynolds, "deal primarily with businesses in which the two parties to a transaction do not meet upon an equal footing, as in the pawnshop, employment agency and pushcart peddling. Here is a scale pan taken from a pushcart stand. It was used in weighing out cherries, and the four or five inches of putty which lined the Inside of the thing were placed there for a purpose. You paid for so many cherries and for so much putty when you bought of that dealer. Some times a metal ring takes the place of the putty. "Recently there was an Investigation of the weighing in the fish market, where the pushcart men were obliged to congregate, on account of the in sanitary conditions prevailing on the street. Out of fifty-three spring scales twenty-eight were short two ounces or more. One man's scales were short twelve ounces. The method of weighing with tnese scales was to jounce the pan up and down while the weight was being taken. The needle was sooner or later sure to pass the figure bargained for. but the purchaser never knew whether it belonged there or not. Now we insist on a stationary beam, so that the weigh ing process is not such a spring board exercise." Speaking of the fraudulent weighing in the sale of coal in London, Mr. Reynolds said: "I believe that even worse practices prevail here, because we are more clever and enterprising than tne English. In conclusion. Mr. Reynolds pointed out the relation between private and public effort for the welfare of the poor. "Governments must be more or less con servative," he said. "It is the province of private philanthropic enterprise to experiment, while the government should stand ready to draw from the experience so gained, doing for the many what private philanthropy has done for the few. Some ot the best work of the municipal government in New York has been due to the initiative of the Charity Organization society, the Settlements and other organizations," New York Tribune. B. HAUTE WAXED WROTH. The "Devil" Lives to Tell About One of Overland Monthly Proofs. The death of Anton A. Roman, last Sunday, in the lamentable accident on the North Shoie railroad, recalls an in cident of long ago an incident which endeared him to us ever after, and tha memory of which made his shocking death all the more shocking to us. Mr. Roman was, at the time, the pub lisher of the Overland Monthly, which he founded. Bret Harte was its editor. We were the "devil" In the printing of fice of Bacon Co.. from which it was issued. One day the foreman gave us proof of a 16-page "form," with instruc tions to take it to Mr. Harte. We did so. The moment he received it he flew into a towering rage, wanting to know what we meant by bringing him "a proof like that, for which you deserve a sound thrashing." W"e were indignant. because we had but obeyed orders," didn't know what was the matter with the proof nor with Mr. Harte, and, as we were not big enough to thrash him, burst into tears. At this point, a kindly looking man rjresent gently patted us on the head, and tried to mollify Harte (who was getting madder and madder), bv auietiy saying: "Perhaps the child is not to blame." Harte stopped instantly, but In a moment said, with real tender ness of voice: "Of course, he isn't to blame, and I'm sorry, my boy, that I spoke so hastily." Then looking at the proof again, the atmospnere once more became "blue" as was the ink of the proof, which cause all the trouble, as we were made to understand by what followed: "You tell that infernal fool," he said, "who sent you with this proof In blue ink, and all blurred, that if ever he does it again, I'll His con cluding words were lost upon us, for we had "skipped" as fast as our little legs could carry us. to salute our foreman and resign from our "strenuous" job at $3 tier week! Years later, we one night spoke at a meeting, under the auspices of the "San Francisco Literary society," in Piatt's hall. After the meeting, we were Introduced to many present.among them Mr. Anton Roman. The instant we saw him, we recognized him as the kindly looking gentleman, who had turned awav the wrath of Bret Harte from us by saying: "Perhaps the child is not to blame." We reminded him of the inci dent, without revealing the fact that we had pleyed any part in it. He at once remembered, although, as he said, he "had long forgotten it." "But how should you know of that?" he asked. "Only Bret Harte, that boy, and mv elf were present." "Because I was that boy." From that day we knew each "ther better, and were friends. Truly may it be said of Anton Roman: His life was gentle, and the elements place on sale at 99 c DRY National Encampment Q n SAN THERI AND BACK. ft Diverse Routes. Special Train. TicI r iale August 1st to 14th, incl. Final Limit i .7-t. 15. Visit California at a pleasant time of the year. Tickets may be issued to read returning via same route as that used going, or via any other direct route. For return via Port. land, an additinal charge will be made. Special train for California, stopping at Santa Fe, Laguna, Grand Canyon of Ariz'jra, ($6.50 additional for side-ride, Williams to Grand Canyon and return,) and many other points of interest en route, will leave Kansas August 11, 1903. Pullman palace and tourir-t sleepers, and free chair cars. For free descriptive literature, reservations, in formation about rates, etc., apply to T. L. KING, C. P. T. A. The A. T. S. F. Ry. Co., So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand ujp And say to all the world, "This was a man!" San Francisco Star. A NEW GRAIN BUREAU. Santa Fe Adopts System for Looking After Grain Shipments. The Santa Fe railroad has established a bureau in Kansas City known as the Kan sas Wheat Bureau. This bureau, which will consist of seven men, will be in charge of J. XV. Glasgow, one of the chief clerks in the office of W. J. Healy, freight auditor for the Santa Fe. Mr. Glasgow and the men under him will look after the movement of Kansas wheat over the Santa Fe. It is the purpose of the bureau to keep track of all wheat which is shipped over the Santa Fe, and to give it close attention during the time of shipment, even up to the time it is turned over to the elevators. The bureau will keep track of oil the wheat cars, and also see that the shippers are sup plied. In this way the Santa Fe railroad will be able to handle all of the wheat which will be harvested In the counties through which the line runs. Formerly the Santa Fe has had no such bureau, but this year's enormous wheat crop makes a bureau cf this kind necessary. Liquor Permit Refused. W. S. Karr, proprietor of the drug store at 115 East Fifth street, was re fused a permit to sell liquor, by Pro bate Judge Hayden this morning. Sev eral druggists must renew their permits Monday, and it is apprehended that some of them will fall to do so. County Attorney Hungate objected to the per mit being issued. Funeral of Chief Arthur. Cleveland, June 18 The funeral services over the remains of the late Chief P. M. Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Engineers, who died suddenly In Winnipeg Thursday night, will be held at the family residence in this city Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The re GOODS CO. sjsjjsjBPBEg Liberal Stop-over Privileges allowed. TOPEKA, KANSAS. mains will arrive in Cleveland Sunday evening. Assistant Grand Chief A. B. Toungson. of the Brotherhood, who has been lying very ill in a hospital at Meadville. Pa., was reported to be slightly better today. CHURCOEWS. Divine Science services will be held at 1414 Quincy street Sunday afternoon at 3:30. -4:3f3 First United Presbyterian church, ser vices in Knights and Ladies of Security hall, corner of Seventh and Kansas ave nue. Rev. J. A. Rennick, pastor. 11 a. m. subject, "God's Way In the Sanctu ary." 10 a. m. Sabbath school. In the evening the congregation will Join In the union tent service. Reformed Presbyterian church, cor ner Clay and Tenth streets, E. McLean Coleman, pastor, 611 West Eighth street. 10 a. m. Sabbath school. 11 a. m. sermon, subject, "Different Effects of God's Discovery of Sin." Job 7:20; Luke 6:8. 12:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor. (Additional Church Notices on Page 9.) Hot Weather Don'ts From the Atchison Globe.J Don't hurry. Don't walk on the sunny side of the street if you can avoid it. Don't wear a heavy black hat and thick, stuffy clothes. A light crash suit will mean money in your pocket and comfort in your frame. Don't drink alcoholic liquors, or bev erages rich with sugary syrups, or Ice cold water. Pure wster, or carbonated or mineral water, cold but not Icy. Is best for quenching thirst and far best for the health. Drink It freely, but in small quantities at a time. Don't wear a high tight collar. Don't fill your stomach with rich, highly spiced, carbonaceous food. A bowl of bread and milk is better than beefsteak a l'enfer! Don't worry. A I? FRANCISCO 1.1 li iistsgfWWPWslWWM

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TOPTCA STATE JOTJIlNAI SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 18. 1903. POLICEJOJTINGS. ntiful Story of Little Houston and the Mule. His Acquaintance With the Animal Had lie en Short. II1S IIOGSHIP IN COURT Contest Orer a Porker Valued at Three Dollars. Judge MrCabe Thinks Swine Case Difficult to Untangle. An under sized Ethiop -with a Congo complexion and the nerve of a Jesse James was plucked from his roosting place on the roof of a mule this morn ing by Officer Summers, and consigned to the canning factory. It was a sad case. Little Houston Dunn wanted to emigrate. He disliked to walk all the way. so he borrowed One faded mule. Just where he borrow ed the mule Is at present unknown to the police, but they will doubtless hear a "holler" from some agriculturist be fore the shades of niKht have fallen. Little Houston was spotted by Sum mers, and the manner In which he handled his mount indicated that they were not old acquaintances, so Summers ran him in. reputable citizens, who have no inten tion whatever of selling it. One who uses the foaming beverage would rot sell seven cold ones at any price, (if lie were unable to replace them). The oily, dirty, disagreeable hog causes more trouble than anything else. It is often noticed that when two men get into a litigation over a three-dollar hog they Immediately take on the dis position of the property in question, and become very stubborn. Judge McCabe of the city court had a case of this kind Friday, where Messrs. King'and Clark, both of North Topeka, sought tt pus session of a hog which they both claim ed. There were witnesses galore on both sides. Finally Judge McCabe decided in favor of Clark. In giving his decision the court remarked in part: "We have all had dealings with the hog case, the worst thing that ever got into court. How often do we remember of the case where the entire population of a town ship swore positively that they knew the hog as an infant, and had been with it constantly up to the date of the trial and could not help knowing that it was the property of A, after which the pop ulation of another township swear the same thing except that the hog is un doubtedly the family pet of B, after which it transpires that C is the real owner of the hog." Of course Mr. King appealed to the district court. Justice Wright of Shorey has a similar hog case on tap, wherein the costs have already reached the $S5 mark, and both contestants have sworn that they will appeal if they fail to get the bacon. Two small Oakland boys were arrest ed by the sheriff yesterday on the charge of 1 umpire on street cars contrary, etc.. j to the wishes of the conductor and the peace and dignity and other things of I the state of Kansas. The boys are Jas. Emery and Harrison Eastman. Together with a number of other Oakland youths lf VmV m A- GOING HACK TO KENTUCKY. Then little Houston told his .sorrow ful tale. It was to the effect that hi9 maternal ancestor had passed to the saccharine subsequently. leaving no portable property but said mule, which was a family relic. This home of the mule and the demise of the parent he paid wtre both at Hiawatha, and he had, started on the long Journey to Ken tucky, his former home. Considering the fjct that little Houston is only about 12 years old. this was a whopper for him to tell, as a session in the sweat box revealed. After a private talk with officers he owned up that he had never met the mule before last night, when he introduced himself to the beast of toll at some farmer's barn, about two miles out in the country. Little Hous ton is slated for larceny, pending the arrival of the mule's lawful master. James Welch, whose happy home is located on the banks of the classic FhutiKanurga at the intersection of 1 f ii rrisson wtrppt was nn his semi-fre- quent drunk last eve. and celebrated' pay day by beating on tne lace ot nis spouse, who came up this morning and soured a warrant for his detention. Mr. Welch was still suffering from the effects of his jag when arrested. A GIANTJJRANE. New Santa Fe Shops Equipped With Modern Device. Lifts an Entire Locomotive With Apparent Ease. RUN BY ELECTRICITY. Found to Make Great Saving in Time. Old Style of Hydraulic Jacks Done Away With. In the days before the new Santa Fe shops were built when an engine arrived at the shops for repair and it was necessary that the running gear should be withdrawn from the engine, hydraulic jacks were used for this part of the work. The engine would be jacked up a few inches, a block would be put in to hold it in ulace and theiv the jack and another block would be used until the engine w6uld be clear of her wheels. All this work took a good deal of time and the shop men were usually behind although they did as as much work as it was possible to do between seven o'clock in the morning and six in the afternoon. Consequent- for the men to run the cranes at a uni form speed but now that they have re ceived plenty of practice they are able to keep together perfectly. Lifting an engine is not the only thing that can be done with these traveling cranes. They are almost In dispensable for carrying heavy castings from one part of the shop to another. V--rly the entire floor space of the new shop can be covered by these cranes atu v hen it is lound necessary to trans port some piece of work from one end of the shop to the other a signal is given and one of the cranes runs down the shop, the piece of work Is attached to the wire cable, it is raised until it is clear of all obstructions, the crane is started and In a few seconds it lowers its burden to the floor at the other end of the shop. The big cranes do not cover the entire floor space of the shop. These cranes only cover that part of the shop where the heaviest work is done. The remainder of the floor space is served by two smaller cranes of 6 tons capacity each. These are only used in transporting work fiom one part of the shop to the other but they do their work well and are is indispensable as the larger cranes. John Purcell, superintendent of shops, is very proud of this complete set of traveling cranes and well he might be for they are indeed magnificent ma chines. Now that the new shops are completed Mr. Purcell has under his supervision many pieces of modern ma chinery but of all these the traveling cranes are the most wonderful. WAR ON THE GERMS. Milk Men Propose to Build Pasteur izing Plant. J. E. Nissley and Peter Heintz, pro prietors of milk distributing stations In Topeka, are promoing a scheme for the Lifting a Mammoth Santa Fe Mikado Engine Weighing 260,000 Pounds. Photo by Strlckrott. I-- The Electric Traveling Crane at Work in the Santa Fe Railroad Shops. It is well for folks to dwell together In peace and unity, as nearly anyone knows, but it is alleeed that Stella liaynes, on the southwest corner of town, disregarded all things relating to peace and drew a large ripe, juicy look- IP A GUN APPEARED ON THE SCENE. lng revolver on her sister-in-law. Lulu liaynes, wherefore she was arrested. All parties concerned are colored, and it is alleged that even the guri was of the blue steel variety. The court has decided that just be cause Sim Watts had seven cold bottles "stasched" in his hock-shop down on lower Kansas avenue, he was not nec essarily guilty of maintaining a nuis Bnce. The court knows that in all pro bability seven times seven cold ones mlt-ht be found in the possession of very they are charged with looping the Oak land loop without money and without price. John Beauchamp. charged with em bezzling $917 from the Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile company, was to have been given a Tireliminary hearing in city court yesterday, but the case was con tinued until July 20. Beauchamp ha3 been trying to settle the affair out of court, and from what can be learned of the case, should be allowed to do so. George Overfield, proprietor of the Topeka Drug store, gave up his liquor permit yesterday in preference to fight ing the case which was about to be filed against him in probate court by the county attorney. He says the permit is not worth fighting for in court. WILL HELP LOW. President Will Aid His Friend in Mayoralty Race. LOCKHART'S IMPROVED OIL OF GLADNESS is goods for cuts, bruses, sprains and inflamation of all kinds. WILL CURE RHEUMATISM For sale at all drug stores. 25 cents per bottle. The Thompson Medical Co. Manufacturers, Topeka, Kas. Oyster Bay, L. I., July IS. President Roosevelt passed comparatively a quiet day at Sagamore Hill. At luncheon he and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained a party including George V. L. Meyer, United States ambassador to Italy; Mayor and Mrs. Low, of New York; George W. Smalley, New York correspondent of the London Times; W. L. Ward of New York and the house guest, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university. Ambassador Meyer arrived In this country recently from Rome and came here to pay his respects to the president. It is learned that rumors of his resigna tion as ambassador to Italy have no foundation in fact. During the day, the president and Mayor Low discussed the political situ ation in New York city. It is under stood that the mayor will be a candi date for renomination and reelection and that the administration will aid him to the extent at least of lending him its strong moral support. WATER IS SATISFACTORY. Council Is Satisfied With Quality in the City Mains. A report of the board of health of the city council upon the investigation of the pumping station of the Topeka Wa ter company, was placed on file at the council meeting Friday night. The report stated briefly that the Wa ter company is procuring its water sup ply from tha wells that should properly be used and is not pumping water from the river. The investigation of the water company will not be pushed fur ther. Councilman S. A. Swendson, the author of the investigation, said after ioe niing ot tne report: "I see no occasion for pushing the waterworks investigation further. We have ascertained what we wanted to know; simply, that the water we are usirg is not coming directly from the Kansas river. As long as the water company is giving us the best water it can secure I see no need of a bacterio logical examination to ascertain its healthfulness. The water has been ex amined recently by the state board of health and was then found to be suffi ciently pure for domestic consumption." Safeguard the Children. Notwithstanding all that is done bv ocarris of her.lth and charitablv inclin-d persons, the death rate among small chll- P..18 very high dnring the hot weather S-i. summer months in the largo cities, there is not probably one case of bowel complaint in a hundred, however, that could not be cured by the timely use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rnoea, Kerned- sw 1 tu u dninkta. lv when it was decided to erect a new machine and boiler shop it was also decided to equip them with a new de vice the technical name of which is "electric traveling crane." Now that the new shops are finished and are in operation many people visit the shop daily but or all the many curious and wonderful things to oe seen the traveling crane attracts the most attention. Many visitors at the new shops have wondered at the ex ceptional amount of work and also at the ease with which it can be done with these cranes. Kor instance, an engine is run into the shop for repairs, the crane is run up 'the track uDon which it operated until directly over the engine, steel wire cables are lower ed from the crane and attached to each end of the engine alter it has been detached from the running gear. The signal is given and the motors of each section of the crane are started at the same time. In less than it takes to tell it the boiler and cab of the en gine are lifted clear of the wheels and are swinging in mid-air. Another sig nal is given and the three motor trol leys, small devices which are operated on tracks running lengthwise of the crane, begin to move and the mam moth engine Is carried to the side cs the shop where it is lowered until ix rests upon a set of blocks which have been set in place to receive it. The time in which all of thi3 work can be done is about ten minutes where it sometimes took hours when the old system was in use. After all the nec essary repairs to the engine have been completed it is again taken up by the crane and in a short time It leaves the shop wheels and all. This gives one some idea of the traveling crane. It i not only a great saving of time but also of money and if they are used con tinually they will in a short time pay for themselves several times over. In appearance the crane is somewhat similar to two steel bridges and al though it is impossible to give th ex act weight of the crane it would be safe to say that they weigh as much if not more than any of the bridges which span the Shunganunga. There are usually two cranes which operate together to make one laree crane to lift the engines. When an en gine is being lifted it is necessary to have one crane at each end of the en gine nnd for this reason the shop is equipped with two. The accompanying cut shows the cranes in the act of lifting one of the 15 Mikado engines which were built at the Baldwin Locomotive works for the Santa Fe road nnd delivered at the shops last winter where they were set up ready for freight service on the west ern lines of the road. The Mikado en gine is of large type. When it is known that this type of engine weighs 260.000 pounds one can form some idea as to the capacity of the traveling cranes which can lift an engine of this type with as much ease as if they were lift ing a piece of tissue paper. The capac ity of these cranes is 120 tons, each crane having a capacity of 60 tons. They can easily lift an engine weighing 130 tons, such as that one in the picture, but CO tons is as much weight as th?y could stand to lift resularly. The dis tance from the iioor of the shop to the bottom of the cranes is 25 feet. This is referred to as the "lift." The length of the cranes is 74 fet three inches. The power used in operat ing them is electricity which is furnish ed from the power house east of t'm new shops. The medium through which the electricity reaches the cranes is a trolley wire running the full length of the shop parallel with the elevated tracks upon which the crane? are oper ated and which also rup the full lengtn of the shop. Each crane is operated by a man who occupies a sort of hanging balcony at one end of the crane under his supervis ion and operates the switch board in accord with the signals of the man who has charge of this particular part of th work. At first It was a hard matter establishment of a pasteurizingplantfor handling milk. A number of the' other milk men in Topeka are said to be in favor of the idea and an effort will be made to con solidate all the milk dealers upon the support of the institution. Such a pasteurizing station as would be re quired would cost about $5,000. This method in the treatment of milk Is not much in use in the west but pasteuriz ing plants are numerous In eastern states. NATURAL GAS. A Statement from the Continen tal People's Standpoint. Vice President J. H. Curran of the Continental Oil Gas company, whose application for a franchise to lay mains and sell natural gas in Topeka is under consideration in the citv council today made a statement in regard to the gas. rates which have been proposed by his company for their products. Mr. Cur ran's rtatement was made in reulv to assertions mo.de during the considera tion of the gas measures at Friday night s council meeting that his com pany was making gas rates too low to be practicable. Mr. Curran said: "I have this mornins written to the mavors of several cities in the towns of the middle states which are furnish ed natural gas through mains similar in length to the one rroposed to be laid from Char.ute to Topeka. I will submit these to the council. Gas is delivtied to factories in the Chanute fields at from 2 to 5 cents per thousand cubic feet and there is practically no demand for our product locally. The cost of the construction of our mains we figure to be about $7,000 per mile and the distance to be traversed is somewhat over one hundred miles. We will endeavor to secure the privilege of laying mains on the Santa Fe right of way and will take in Garnett and Ottawa and Lawrence. We shall be able to finance the enterprise by a bond issue. We have not $700,000 in cash in our treasury, of course But we are as well able to vise ..it amount as any other enterprise. Our company is one of the most substantial in the Chanute oil field. At the prices of 30 and 45 cents per thousand, that we have quot ed for gas, we will be able to make money upor. our investment. At the price of 45 and 60 cents quoted by tho other people we could make far more monav. "Our company has agreed to heat and light the Auditorium free ot charge. This expense amounted last yenr to $1,320. In addition we agree to light the streets at a cost to the city of the lighting fixtures and 50 cents per month for gas per lamp. The per sonnel of our company is strong, con. toining the following men who are rec ognized men cf business: C. P.. Hoff man of Knterprise; J. T. Jontz. presi dent of the National bank of Abilene, J. A. White, cashier of the same bank; G. C. Sterl and A. W. Rice, successful merchants of Abilene: ex-secretary of State, W. E. Bush, W. H. Hofstott of Kansas City and Judge S. W. Brewster of Chanute." Issues an Ultimatum. Pittsburg. Julv IS. Three mills of the Port Vue Tin Plate Works at Mc Keesport, were in operation today. Minacr Lauck has Issued an ultima, turn declaring the union will not be i recognized, or the scale signed, and President Shaffer ot tne -'-mairunatei association asstrts that the strike wirt be fought to the bitter end. The work men have been provided with revolvers in anticipation of an attack by strikers, and the latter have armed sentries oiv duty on the road leading to the works, but no conflice has occurred although trouble is feared. ...ANNUAL... Kansas State Fair and Exposition I TO BE HELD AT- j Topeka, Sept. 1419, 1903 j BY THE KANSAS STATE EXPOSITION CO. i '$20,000 IN PREMIUMS The State Fine Stock Show to be held under the auspices of the Kansas Improved Stock Breeders' Association. The State Poultry Show to be held under the auspices of the' Kansas State Poultry Association. The Department of Horticulture to be held under the auspices of the Kansas State Horticultural Society. The Department of Farm Products and Country Collective Exhibits to be held under the auspices of the Kansas State Grange. The State Dairy Show under the auspices of the Kansas Dairy Association. X

i M. A. LOW, President. CHAS. H. SAMPSON, Secretary. 44 K0RT1I TOPEKA. Leave items for this column with th Kimball Printing Company, 912 North Kansas Avenue. A. M. Cross has opened up his Jewelry store at 803 Kansas avenue, his old lo cation. Misse3 Klla Allen, Pearl Cooper and Harriet Staples will spend Sunday In Beatrice. Miss Bessie Campbell will be the guest Sunday of Miss Blanche Reynolds at Holmes' halL Temporary office of North Topeka Dental parlors in Central National bank building, Seventh and Kansas avenue. Allen Haines, who haB been visiting his sister, Mrs. Mary Smith, returned to his home at Muncie, Ind.. this morning. Bliss Native Herbs and oil, the great blood surifier for sale at 1226 North Madison street, by Mrs. A. Hutchins, agent. Screen wire lc a square foot; screen doors iic each trimmed out. Mrs. Potts' sad irons $1.00 a set. at H. M. Clime Son. S07 Kansas avenue. 2 Burner Gasoline Stoves, $3.00; $1S.00 Gasoline Stoves at JS.OO, and Steel Ranges less than cost, at H. M. Clime Son, 90? Kansas avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dolman and grandchildren, Helen and Hobart Dol man, returned Wednesday to their home at S24 Quincy street. Mrs. Rose Salyer and son, Ray of Los Angeles, Cal., left this morning for their home after a pleasant visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McAfee of 1005 Quincy street. There will be a called meeting of the Royal Highlanders Monday evening at 917 Kansas avenue, upstairs. All mem bers are requested to be present. Martha Holler, Illustrious Prelector. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Holt have rented the Morse house at 220 West Gordon street formerly occupied by the W. D. I.aceys and will move into their new home in a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Mahan and family will return tomorrow to 127 West Gordon street. Mrs. Mahan and son, Royster, who have both been ill since the flood are now much improved. The following services will be held tomorrow at the Kansas Avenue M. K. church: 9:45 a. m. Sunday school; 11 a. m. preaching by the pastor; 12:15 class meeting; 7 p. m. prayer and praise service. Quincy street between Norris and Laurent is receiving the attention of the street force, as is also West Gordon street and Van Buren. The piles of dirt are being taken from these streets ana the streets graded. At the Church of the Good Shepherd tomorrow there will be Sunday school at 10 a. m. At 11 o'clock there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion. These will be the first services in the church since the flood. The fire department was called out this morning to the home of Mrs. Bolt inghouse, corner of Gordon and Quincy streets, where a slight blaze was caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove. The damage was slight. Contrary to expectations the Presby terians will hold no services tomorrow as no euitable location could be found for the tent. It is thought a site can be secured this coming week and then reg ular services will be held. The funeral of Paul Forbes was he?! yesterdav afternoon at half past 2 from the family home on the Rochester road. Rev. W, B. Hutchinson of the Baptist church had charge of the service and his remarks were replete with words of comfort and hope for the grief stricken family and friends of the young boy. Colorado Flyer ON THE SANTA FE. Topeka to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Denver, daily. Pullman observation and drawing-room sleepers chair car library-smoking car. Leave Topeka in the evening:. Arrive Colorado next forenoon. Quick luxurious convenient popular. Another fast Colorado train now leaves Topeka on the Santa Fe every morning. LOW RATE EX CURSIONS ALL SUMMER. Ask for free copy of "A Colorado Summer" it tells all about vacation outings in Colorado. T. L. KING. C T. A., A. T. S. F. Ry., Topeka. Or T. M. JAMES, Jr., North Topeka. WE HAVE AN OVERSTOCK OF Chain and Chainless Bicycles And beginning Monday will offer great bargains in Ladies' and Gents' Wheels until stock is reduced. Boys and Girls Juveniles. $18.00 TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE CYCLE CO. 109-111 EAST EIGHTH STREET. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Mrs. McNoun. Miss OUle McNoun, Mr. W. M. VanXess and Mr. Charles Berry, with Mrs. Berry at the piano, who sane "Will There Be Any Stars In My Crown?" "Jesus As Thou Wilt" and "All the Way My Saviour Lead Me." The flowers which were in profusion testified of the love In which the little fellow was held by all who knew him. Roses and carnations, his favorite flowers, were everywhere. The pall bearers were Newman Reynolds, Krskine Ray, Dwisht Oreenfleld, Ken neth Clark, Joe Howard and Klmer Forbes. These boys were all playmates of Paul's and he had asked them to do this last service for him. The burial w in Rochester cemetery and over fifty carriages followed the remains to their final resting place. Th funeral of Kenneth GIvens was held this mor-ir.g at half past nlna o'clock. Rev. J. A Stavely of the Kan sas Avenue church conducted the ser vice and a choir composed of Mrs. A. J. Arnold, Mrs. Lilian Bryan, M. C. Hol man and H. W. Cheney sang, "Jesus I flANR on Real Estate. LUMIlU Monthly PiymanU. C&pitol Building and Loan Association. (34 Euiii Arenas. Telapnon S3S Lover of My Soul," and "Nearer My God to Thee." The burial was in th Grantville cemetery. North Topeka Baptist church, corner of Laurent and Harrison streets. Rev. W. B. Hutchinson, X. D., pastor. Sun day school at 9:30 a. m.; preachlngr ser vice at 11 a. m., subject. "Symmetry of Life." B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. If the weather is pleasant there be preaching at 8 p. m, subject, "The Paradox of Faith." If men did not like Kreat deal to learn a little get married and stay so for r great length ot time. atuwavkeo benuuet. to go through a they would not

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY 18, 1903. DR. GRAYJUILTY. A Verdict of "Gross Immorali ty" Was Returned. State Medical Hoard Voted to llevoke His Permit. WILL APPEAL TO COURT Garden City Physician Will Fight Case to End. Will Continue to Practice Re gardless of Decision. It was necessary for the slate board of medical registration to take only two ballots to decide that the license of Dr. Robert E. Gray to practice medicine In Kansas should be revoked. He was de clared guilty of "gross immorality." The board refused to make a written state ment of the findings, and refused to make on oral statement in regard to which of the charges were sustained and which were overruled. The board alio refused to state the result of the DR. ROBERT E. GRAY, of Garden City. ballots taken, but it is stated that the first ballot was four to three for convic tion, and the second stood six to one. Five votes were necessary to revoke the license. The board was in consultation over Its verdict for an hour and a half, the result being announced about 5:30 p. m. rr. Gray's attorneys are preparing to apply to the district court of Shawnee county for a temporary injunction to prevent the revocation of the doctor's license. They hope to prevent action by the board until the Meffert case, which has been appealed to the supreme court of the United States, is decided. The fate of Dr. Gray will be decided by the result of the Meffert case. Dr. Gray returned to Garden City this afternoon. He proposes to stay there and fight It out with his adversaries. A. W. Marston, Gray's Chicago attor ney, started for Chicago at noon today. Judge A. L. Redden of this city is left in full charge of the Gray case. Dr. Gray was accompanied by his friends, Dennis Doty and IT. H. Fearce, who VIN-SENG Cures Stomach Trouble, Weak Heart and Catarrh. One man spends over 500.00 in doctoring three bottles of Vin-Seng cures him. It would seem impossible that man could make a medicine that could cure diseases that have tortured the weak (or years and years. But in Vin-Seng Tonic this has been accomplished. Its cures have astonished every one who has seen the wonderful cures that it has effected. It matters not of how long standing or the nature of your Stomach Trouble or Catarrh. Vin-Seng will cure It. It cure Heart Trouble; increase: the circulation; strengthens the nervous system and enriches the blood. Vln Seng corrects all digestive derange ments. "I want to tell what wonders Vin Seng Tonic has done for me. For many years I have had a great deal of trouble with my stomach and head. For over 4 years I have doctored for these troubles and for nervousness and have never gotten any relief; and when the flood came to North Topeka It destroyed my property and left me in a very weak condition. One day as I was riding out to my daughter's home (she was living near the sugar works then) I gave out, and could not go any farther. Some one must have helped me out of my wagon, for I cannot remember of having gotten out myself. I came into your store and your clerk gave me something to revive me. I was just about as near dead as a person could be and still be alive, I then told him about my condition and he said that he thought that if I used Vin-Seng Tonic and Kas-Kenna Wafers I could be cured. So when my daughter and I came to town next time I got a bottle of Vin-Seng Tonic and it has done more for me than all the medicine I have ever tak'.n and more than the doctors could do. I have spent over $.r00 In doctor bills and medicines in the past (our years. I have not been, able to eat a square meal in all that time. I could not eat meat nor drink coffee; nothing but very light foods. Your clerk told me to take Vin-Seng and eat any thing and I did so. I can now eat meat and drink coffee too. All my doctoring did not do that much for me. I felt that I ought to tell you this, for Vin-Seng is the greatest medicine I ever heard of and I want people to know what great things It will do. I am now living with ny daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Nyhart, on Holman street, just west of Garfield park. I thank you for making this wonderful remedy. Yours truly. JAMES A. Cl'RRET." This wonderful preparation for sale at HOBART'S Cut-Rate Drug Store 500 West Tenth Avenue. Both phones 450. Price, 50 cents. Tour money back if you want it. til testified for him at the hearing before the board. One of the members of the board, after the verdict had been rendered yes terday, expressed the same opinion con cerning the verdict whjch was given in Friday's State Journal. He said: "I do not think we had evidence enough to convict the man of the charge in a court of law, but it wa3 sufficient in a case before the board. No evi dence was presented to show that Dr. Gray was a drunkard, and only the un supported evidence of his divorced wife and her sister that Gray used drugs. The gravest charge against Gray was his visit to Chicago with Irma Brown." Dr. Gray and his attorneys had a con sultation this moaning at Attorney Red den's office, and decided upon a course of action for the future. They expect to mak a hnrd fight for their client. Mr. Marston said: "Dr. Gray will &uJ. if Fhoto by Colville. A. W. MARSTON, Attorney for Dr. Gray. tight to the last ditch. He will go ba.ck to Garden City and continue to prac tice medicine. Suppose the board has revoked his license. Suppose he con tinues to practice. What will be the result? He had the license once. Per haps it can not be taken away from him. However, I don't care to go into that matter at this time. These people who are hounding Gray will find that he is no coward, and will stay right there at Garden City and fight to tne last ditch. I was not ereatlv surprised at tne verdict, because I had been Informed of the character of the board. It is a po litical organization, and was obliged to lend its ear to the popular clamor for vengeance on Dr. Gray. I never saw seven men look more shame-faced and guilty than those men did last night when thev returned that verdict. It is probable that the Meffert case will be decided before we can make up our pleading in this case. We believe, how ever, that our case is stronger than that of Dr. Meffert." At the close of the argument Friday, the attni neys for the defense filed a motion asking that the board make its findings in writing, and that each mem ber of the board sign the document. Thev also asked that the findings of law and the findings of fact be made sep arately. These requests were both de nied. The attorneys were allowed an hour on a side to arsue the case, and the ar gument was concluded at about 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. The board then took the case in hand and rendered the decision, as stated at 5:30 in the af ternoon. Bowling by Telegraph. Denver, July IS. A selected bowling team from the Denver Athletic club played last night a series of games with a team from the Olympic club of San Francisco, each team playing in its own alleys. The scores made being ex changed by telegraph. The Denver team was composed of W. B. Pfouts, T. H. Marshall, D. D. Johnson, B. F. Davis and D. R. Rrister. The play was dis appointing to the local bowlvs and their friends, the men failing to make the scores they have been making in practice games. The scores of the Den ver team in the three games were 845, 753 and 8.15, grand total 2.438. The San Francisco men, L,awton, Nolan, McCon nell and Lux. scored 925, 885 and $20, j grand total 2,630. I Ball Team's Kansas Tour. Kansas City, July IS. Emmett Hana I han's bunch of All-Stars, the fastest j aggregation of semi-professional ball tossers ever organized in Kansas City, will leave here for a two months' tour through Kansas next Wednesday. The schedule is nearly complete at present, I and will include games at Paola, Colum bus, Scammon, Oswego, Neosho Falls, Yates Center, Eureka, Wichita, Hutch inson, Ellsworth. Great Bend, Smith Center, Downs, Frankfort, Seneca and Atchison. The tour will extend west as fr as Great Bend. Kan., where the return trip will commence through the northern part of the state. Paroled, Yet Died in Prison. Hutchinson, Kan., July 18. Richard Hintz, a paroled inmate of the reforma tory, died Thursday night and was buried in the graveyard at that institu tion. The entire number of inmates were paraded for the funeral ceremonies Friday, Rev. Paul R. Talbott, rector of the Episcopal church, preaching the ser mon. A choir of inmates sang. Hintz suffered a stroke of paralysis seven months ago and never recovered from It. He was almost totally paralyzed and died in this condition in the prison hos pital. He was paroled a year ago, but had never been able to leave the insti tution. Beat Her Assailant Oft Salina, Kan., July 18. A man entered the home of Mrs. Arthur Richardson, here, at an early hour, and attempted to assault her. The plucky woman fought a desperate battle and won. The fight continued ten or fifteen minutes, the woman being hit over the head with an iron bar. W hen Mrs. Richardson's cries for help awoke her children the man tied from the house and made his es cape. Locijaw Silled Him. Parsons, Kan., July 18. John L. Horr, 15 yeais old. died at his home Fridiy fiom lockjaw caused by a wound ln llicted by a toy pistol on July 4. The wound was so slight at first that little attention was paid to it, but in a few days tetanus developed and in spite of everything the surgeon could do the boy died. This is the first Fourth of July death in Parsons this year. Death of A. Hood. Columbus. Kan.. July 18. A. Hood, for 30 years one of the leading citizens of Cherokee county and a resident of Col umbus, died at his home here at 3 o'clock this morning. Mr. Hood was pro bably the bst known man in south eastern Kansas and one of the tnost popular. He was well-to-do and the president of the A. Hood Implement company, which operates large imple ment stores at this place and Pittsburg and McCune, Kan. He leaves a family consisting of a wi and six vjfjren. REfvlAINSJJLOSED. Second Street Will Not Be Opened This Year. Antis Managed to Delay Work for the Present. JUDGE WOOD WRATIIY. Charged City Clerk Squires With Changing Records. The Councilmen Laughed and Peace Was Restored. A dozen or more residents of the Fourth ward of the vicinity through which it is proposed to open Second street between Fillmore and Western avenue, spent an hour and a half in the council chamber Friday night con tending for or against the creation of a benefit district to bear the expense of the improvement. Before the matter was settled a clash occurred between J. G. Wood and City Clerk J. H. Squires, Wood accusing Squires of falsifying the city records. The city clerk was sustained by the reading of the stenographic report of the previous meeting and the council indulged in an audible smile at Judge Wood's expense. The opening of Second street, as well as other streets in the vicinity, has been a subject of contention in the neigh borhood for a good while past. A year ago an effort was made to create a benefit district to include not only Sec ond street but also Fillmore and Third streets. A protest was filed because the assessment was not properly apportion ed and the district was knocked out in the district court. The matter laid over until this year when a petition was pre sented for opening Second street. After the benefit district had been laid out by the streets and walks com mittee of he council ind the ordinance creating the district was ready to be passed. Judge G. S. Huron, Judge J. G. Wood and others appeared and protest ed against it. That was last Monday night. In response to the request of persons the matter was laid over until the next council meeting, which occur red last night. Friday night the protesting property owners appeared before the council with a written protest signed by about one hundred tax payers of the proposed dis trict. Judge Huron was also equipped with numerous citations of law and rea sons showing why the benefit district was too small. He asserted that the petition was prepared without the con sultation of the signers of his protest and exhibited the affidavit of J. H. Hunt who stated that his name had been put cn the original petition with out his knowledge. On behalf of the opening of the street T. F. Doran was present and said that the people of the locality who wanted the street opened were willing that the size of the district be increased but that rather than have the opening of the street delayed they were willing to bear the additional cost that a small district would make. "That part of town needs to have those streets opened," said Mr. Doran. "While other parts of town have been getting pavements and Improvements and are progressing that locality has stood still. We have lived in a pasture and always will unless we get those streets opened. It is impossible for a vehicle to enter the alley between Fill more street and Western avenue north of Fourth street. That unopened local ity is an eyesore to the whole city as well as to the people living around it. If we don't have that street opened we'll live in the woods and die in a cow pasture." Judge J. G. Wood then resumed the argument for the "prosecution." He said the residents of the locality, who did not want the benefit district cre ated as recommended, had been un fairly dealt with. He said that they had been given to understand that they would have two weeks in which to prepare their protest against the opening whereas they had but four days. Judge Wood said the council had in fact ordered the matter laid over for two weeks and that the pub lished minutes of the meeting showing it to have been laid over until the "next ensuing meeting." was an in correct report. At this point City Clerk Squires, who is responsible for the official records, attempted to interject a denial but he was overruled by Judge Wood, who was by this time becoming warmed to the object under discussion. He went forward to pronounce the pro posed benefit district an imposition and an outrage and to announce that if the council went ahead with Its creation a BE ON GUARD when buying Groceries Come Here A pair of scales Should form a part of every kitchen outfit. Weigh all goods you get from the grocer. We do not suppose there is a grocer in Topeka who intends to cheat in weight, but some have poor, cheap scales, and many are careless in keeping them bal anced. Our scales are Troemner's agate bearing, money weight, and al ways in perfect order. All our goods are examined by inspectors before being taken by wagon men. We aim to do business on the 16-oz. plan. If you want an all-around, satisfactory trading place, and haven't found it, try our grocery. WM. GREEN SONS. suit would be commenced "to have It declared invalid., The moment that City Clerk Squires had an opportunity to make himself heard he addressed the mayor and said: "Mr. Mayor, I have just been charged with making over the official record!" to suit myself. I should like permis sion to have the stenographer read the report of the last meeting." Upon permission the stenographer turned to the stenographic notes taken at the previous meeting of the council and read the motion by Councilman Weber under which the benefit district controversy was "laid over until the next meeting." "That ain't right," shouted Judge Wood. The atmosphere of the council cham ber had assumed a tragic tinge that cleared instantly in the laugh which followed Judge Wood's refusal to stand corrected. Again upon motion of Councilman Weber the Second street opening was laid over until the next meeting. This is the final death blow to the effort to create a benefit district to open Sec ond street this year. The assessment rolls have to be prepared by the first of August and, as the council will not meet again until the first Monday night in that month, it will be a phy sical impossibility to get the thing in shaoa City Attorney Spencer, who was the attorney for the city in the last legal controversy over the opening of Second street made a- suggestion last night which the council received as appar ently feasible. He proposed that, as a final settlement of the difficulty, the council order the opening of all unfin ished streets in that WnKtv nevf and create a very large benefit district to bear the cost. He said a consid erable part of the expense ought to be taxed up to the city at large at that tima. SORUENTINO'S PROGRAMME What the Bed Band Will Play at the Auditorium. Programmes for the Monday night and Tuesday afternoon concerts of the Banda Rossa in the Auditorium have been received in Topeka. Sorrentino- is now at work on a tremendous Wagner ian programme for Tuesday night, which is to be "Wagner night." Much new music is on the Monday mgnt 11st, wnen "Willow Grove" will be played as an encore. The "Andrea Chenier" music is the most inspiring and lifting music that Sorrentino plays. There have been some requests for the "Carmen" music and that, with one or two others, may be inserted in the two programmes, which are: MONDAY NIGHT. Part I. 1. "The Great Western" March (new) Sorrentino 2. Overture, "Gssza Ladra" Rossini 3. Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rus- ticana" Mascagni Solo Trumpet, Sig. Bottega. 4. Grand selection from "Andrea Chenier" Giordano Part II. 1. OfCrtoire Batiste 2. The French Galantry "KakeWalke" (new) March, "Miss America," (new).. Sorrentino 3. Duet from "II Trovatore" Verdi 4. "American Republic," March.. .Thiele TUESDAY AFTERNOON. Part I. 1. "Willow Grove." March Sorrentino 2. Overture, "Poet and Peasant" Suppe 3. Song, "Let Me Dream Again" .j.-,.. Sullivan Solo Baritone. Sig. Barilotti. 4. Echoes From Metropolitan Opera House Ar. by Tobanl Part II. i. "Dixie Girl" Lampe 9 -"Characteristic Dance" Mascagni 3. Waltz, "Hon Reve" Waldteufel 4 ppxtette. from "Ducia" Donizetti 5. "Hiawatha," A Summer Idyl.-.Moret FOR S UN D A I Si) INNER. Prices of Fruits and Vegetables on the Market. Among the Topeka markets' offering for the Sunday dinner are Michigan celery two bunches for fifteen cents; Texas' egg plant, 15 cents each; ever green roasting ears, 20 cents a dozen-, tomatoes. 20 cents a basket: cucum bers, 2 for 5 cents; summer squash. 5 cents each; okra. 15 cents a pound; string beans, 20 cents a peck; radishes, two bunches for 5 cents, onions, let tuce, turnips and beets the same. The last of the Colorado strawber ries, inferior quality, are selling at 10 cents a box; blackberries, the same. California plums, red and purple, are 40 cents a basket: home grown apples are 60 cents a peck, and very scarce; watermelons are 20 and 25 cents and cantaloupes 5 cents each. Spring chickens are 29 cents a pound today and spring lamb 20 to 25 cents. Parsons Sua Directors. Parsons, Kan., July 18. Articles of in corporation have been issued to the Sun Printing company, of Parsons, for the purpose of issuing the Parsons Daily Sun, recently purchased from the Har ry Lusk estate by Henry J. Allen, chair man of the state board of charities. The capital stock is $10,000, and the following are the directors: Henry J. Allen, of Ottawa: Clyde M. Reed, Wichita; Arch D. Swanwick, of Oswego; W. H. Mar tin and W. D. Atkinson, of Parsons. Still an Escaped Jail Bird. Junction City. Kan., July 18. Harry Barney, the highway robber who escap ed from the county jail here last week, has not yet been captured. In his flight he has been joined by Elrir Shuarta, a deserter from Fort Riley. They were seen crossing the reservation on Tues day. It is thousht that the men have gone to work on a farm somewhere in this part of the state. An Aged Eloper Arrested. Guthrie, Okla., July 18. Rev. O. K. Posey, a minister of the Christian church, 73 years old, vho eloped with Miss Josie Shelton, 18 years old, from southern Pottawatomie county, a few weeks ago, has been arrested. He has been taken to El Reno, where the offi cers believe they have a strong case of adultery against him. Cotton market Galveston, July 18. COTTON Steady, 12c. New York, Jiilv 18. COTTON Spot clor-ed quiet. Middling uplands. $12.50; do. Gulf. $12.75. Soles. 70 bales. Futures closed quiet and steadv. July. $12.20; Aug.. $12.00; Sent., $10.45: Oct.. $9.68: Nov. $8.53; Dec., $9.52; Jan., $9.49; Feb., $9.47; March, $9.48. Market Gossip. Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commis sion Company, Commission Merchants and receivers and shippers of grain. Room No. 3, Columbian building, inde pendent telephone 798.1 Liverpool closing cables: Wheat, un changed; corn, unchanged, for the day. Chicago receipts, car lots: Wheat. 81; graded. 34. Corn, 260; graded, 20. Oats, 240: graded. 28. Northwestern receipts, car lots. Minne apolis. 223; last year, 20S. Duluth, 7; last year, 9. Kansas City receipts, car lots: Wheat, 91: corn. 23; oats, 1. Chicago: Privileges good Monday: Sep tember corn Puts. 76c: calls. jic; euro, 76c bid. September corn Puts, 49c: calls, site: :ru. 43c TEND DOWNWARD Grain Prices Show Signs of Weakness at Chicago. Influenced hy Favorable Condi tions of Weather. LITTLE ANIMATION Was Shown in the Stock Market on Wall Street. Bank Statement Caused a Rally But It Didn't Hold. Chicago, July 18. WHEAT With cables unchanged to a shade lower wheat opened easier today with September down c at 77c. The weather map. which showed rain southwest and clear skies northwest, was given most attention among the opening iniluences, and a further decline to 76c occurred. New wheat made a fine show ing in quality, with receipts increasing at a good rate. There was only a small de mand at start. Commission houses had selling orders on September and Decem ber. Cash demand improving. Receipts at Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago were 222 cars. Fair buying by local traders with some support from St. Louis brought about a reaction, and September sold up to 77iic but pit traders sold on the bulge andthe advance was more than lost. September closed easy at 76c, c off, after selline down to 76c. CORN op ned steady to easier, with Sep tember down a shade to &c at 50r3 5oc. Cables were unchanged but local traders were inclined to sell on weather conditions, which were most favorable for crop developments. Scalpers were moderate buyers, and on crop damage reports from Iowa a better tone developed, September rallying to 50&c Receipts were 2t0 cars. Near the close prices sagged off on pro visition house selling, September closing weak at 49fc, the lowest point of the day, and a loss of c OATS Oats were easier earlv on the weather, with September dc wn cg,ic at 34c to c, and held steady on a fair demand at the decline. Receipts were 10 cars. PROVISIONS Quiet at the opening, with light trade, but showed some early strength on the. hog situation. September pork was unchanged at $14.55, with lard a shade higher at $8.15 8.17, and ribs off 2c to 5c at $8.52 to $8.55. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red (new), 78c: No. 3 red (new), 77c: No. 2 hard winter (new), 7is1-2c; No. 3 hard winter (new), itMi) 7iic: No. 1 northern spring. 84c: No. 2 northern spring, 82: No. 3 spring, 76'B80c, CORN Cash: No. 2, 4S-V&80c; No. 3, 49'&5014C. OATS No. 2, 35-33SC; No. 3, 31fi32c. RYE July, 4Si50c; Sept., Sofac; Dec, 4Wic. f LAX Cash: N. W., 97c: S. W., 93c; July. S3c; Sept., 96c: Oct., 96'Ac. TIMOTHY July, 3.40; Sept., $3.25; Oct.. $3.15. CLOVERJuly, $12.50. BARLEY Cash, SS'aSOc Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. High Low Close Yes 69 69 67tt 66 66 67H 45 454 45 45- WHEAT Julv Sept 6e CORN July Sept 45 Kanes of Pncss. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixtn street. TeKphcno 4s-fi. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City, Alo. Chicago, July 18. Low Close Yes Open High 76 WHEAT July 76 Sept 77 LVc 76 CORN Julv 4t Sept 50H, Dec 4i)W OATS July 38 Sept 3.-S--S, 1 c So-jt 751 7H'.2 76- 49 49 48 37H 7574 76' 4 7t' 77 76b- 77 49 49 49- &'-U 49 49 37 38 32-33 33- 33 33 4H 4f SS 33 Julv Sept ....14 60 14 60 14 37 lard 14 15 14 37 14 30 14 55 July 8 90 Sept 8 15 RIBS 8 90 8 17 8 85 8 05 7 87 8 05 7 92 8 12 July Sept 8 50 8 50 8 27 8 57 8 55 8 57 8 45 Grain Letter. Chicago, July IS. WHEAT The past week has been most excellent for harvest ing and threshing operations and for the growth of crops. The bulk of the winter wheat has nw been harvested under most favorable weather conditions. Threshing returns from some parts of Ohio and Missouri are disappointing in yield, but judging from the tirst market ings from that territory the Indications are the average quality is high. In the west and southwest good yields and quality are being reported. Late advices from the spring wheat states indicate fairly favorable progress of the crop during the past week. Some re ports early in the week stated that in Min nesota wheat is thin in the northern part of the state and heading short. In North Dakota no improvement is noted, wheat weedy, thin and mostly headed with short heads. In South Dakota wheat heads gen erally of good size, except in northern part. In this state the wheat is threshing out about as expected, heavy in western and light in eastern counties, and quality very good. The speculative markets have been strong. The bull movement in wheat which started from claims of crop losses in the soft winter wheat belt has gradually gained force .and crop losses have spread until the northwest, which a month ago presented prospects for a bumper yielo, with conditions almost perfect, are now down to 3.4 points below the July average of the past ten years. All the indications show that the northwest crop is spottea, and it will do well if it equals last year. In the great Red river valley the crop is estimated as not to exceed 60 per cent, of last year's, and some make the figures less. Based on the government estimate the total croi of SDrinff and winter wheat is 6S8 million bushels, or 18 million bushels le?s lhan last year. The professional has traded In and out. but the big men are long. Another bidl factor is the delayed movement. North western millers are after the hard wheat of the southwest and are competing there with buyers from other sections and pay ing better prices. With prices at Kansas City around 72c for No. 2 hard, the Chi cago market is too low to admit of a free movement their way. Millers in the soft wheat country are absorbing the offerings, and unless there is a material increase pri mary markets are liable to get very little wheat this month. The only bearish feature in the wheat situation is the indiffrence of foreigners. They are buying very little wheat, and have less headed toward them than fot several weeks. For the time being this bearish feature is offset by the very low visible supply and small stocks of contract wheat. On the basis cf the government report there is no more surplus than ex. isted a year ago. when the increase con sumption is considered, and Europe will be required to import more than last year. Taking into consideration that prices are generally the lowest at the beginning of the new' crop movement, and aiso the fact that there is a stability to prices which will prevent anv material decline, it will be seen that wheat is not too high, and on a supply and demand basis should work higher. We advise its purchase on soft spots. CORN In regard to the corn crop, prac tically all repurts note a rapid growth or REWARD IN For the exact amount in cash or Its X equivalent (bouquets included) given J to flood sufferers from the firm of Sears Robuck, Chicago, Illinois.

Did Jones Son, 320 Kansas Avenue, turn a cold shoulder to you? NO. We keep everything that goes into the house, t from a box of tacks to a piano carpets, couches, mattings, rugs stoves, gasolines and cooks furniture, sideboards, chiffoniers, etc Try us once. J. W. MB mi 320 KANSAS AVENUE. improvement, but estimates as to possible outcomes vary widely in different locali ties, from haif a corp to a full crop. On a whole the present condition in the principal corn states may be regarded as holding out a promise of three-fourths of a full crop, or a little better. The plant generally has a good color, moderately clear of weeds, but very irregular in size. Some reported to be tasscling under size in the west, but there is no indication that there, will be much of this. In the south ern states reports are very favorable ai,d Indicate that the plant is maintaining a good condition with ample moisture. Corn in this state varies trom a fine prospect in the noth central counties to poor in the eastern counties. It has a good color and is growing vigorously, but is uneven in growth. The government report gave the condition at 79.4. the low est on record, and 10 points under the ten year average. The trade figures that con ditions have improved since July 1, but we call the attention of the trade to the fact that the July report is generally the high est of the year. The report suggests a total crop of a fraction over two million bushels, or about 400,000.000 bushels less than last vear, and the surplus states indi cate 1.3f 0,000.000 bushels, or 400,000,000 less than last year. There are three things that might work against the crop hot winds, drouth an.: an tarly frost. Any one of these thr would be sufficient to lower conditions g to cut the crop down materially. OATS The oat crop has made fe -r- able progress toward maturity durim past week. Some complaints of ru? a little from smut in Illinois and Iov 1 these reports are not extensive. has commenced in the southern pa jv oats section, and will soon becc "r j eral. The total yield is expec' oe some less than last year, but t. v Sty i is going to be much better. In ti:.'- :ar:r an average crop of excellent ct:.1 i. anticipated. Traders are bear): n file and there has been good s- ti r. -k;. r m the bulges of late. The w--:k f, a-.ur" is the poor cash demand. Tbi ".:--ent figures were a disappoint-..-' i i'.'- tolls, showing a decline of oi:!v or.- two tenths from June 1, ani- j crop of 7TO.0fiO.W9 bushels. L- A. G. GOODWIN Cf -MX'? CO, New I New York. Jul 1'-. -:-mcKS .s p-..i'tating m 'i.. same an.. l--.ses. i'i ex. eed The opening sto.k r'..; and very irreg t'.ar. t--group showed T;ixt! sat. Changes were iinow ai,d H excent in one two cases ..t tiu- 'rid ing was light. Tho -.Ir.s and If f..- fctfe very evenly divided throughout ire U There was renewed selling f A:r. mated. New York Central. Colcrad.t F 1, and Rock Island, in which losst a point. As there was entire al i yesterday's aggressive demand, the e"..i J list fell off in sympathy. Leading r i j fell off below yesterday's close end nm-i.- i fractional losses occurred in St. f Union Pacific. I. C, Atchison, and St-. il. ern Pacific. Other stocks also shared n the depression. B. O. pfd.. Hocking V;' lev pfd., Chicago Terminal pfd., Erie 2:: i pfd. and Pacific Mail losing a point e.:- more. Toledo, St. Louis Western, Gen- eral Electric and Reading 2nd pfd. ad- vanced 1 to 13i. The market was almost entirely In the hands of room traders and showed little animation. Selling before the bank state ment was on the theory that a favorable statement had been discounted. There was a rally after the publication of the state ment New York Central recovering to last night's level, but the rally did not hold. Losses reached 1 to 1 in St. Paul. South ern Pacific, Union Pacific. Canadian Pa cific. Atchison, I. C, Louisville, Texas Pacific, Alton, Brooklyn Transit. Tennessee Coal, and Sugar. Amalgamated lost 3. Cleveland. Lorain Wheeling pfd dropped 10 Kansas Citv Southern pfd. 4 and L. B. W pfd. 3. The St. Louis W. rose 2"4 and the pfd. 1. The closing was dull ana heavy. Ranre of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, llo.J New York. July 1!. Stocks Op'n Hieh Low Cl'se Yes Sugar 117 117 116 lis 110 Mex. Central 204 20 2i 20 2Hi Gas 94 S 95 SS4 C. A., com 25 25 24 244 25 Amal. Copper 49 49 47 47 49 B. R. T 52 52 51 51 52 T. C. 1 47ii 47 47 47 4s U. S. Steel 2M 2fi 2 26 2'' U. S. Steel, pfd 77 77 76 77 77 Atchison, com 65 61 65 tiS Atchison, pfd 89 8!' 8S 8S mi Great Western 17 17 17 17 17 St. Paul 1!3 143 141 141 143 R. I., com 29 29 27 27 29 Wabash, com 23 23 22 22 22 Wabash, pfd 40 40 39 39 3' Mo. Pacific 1O0 vn ii9 99 99 Manhattan 133 133 132 133 133 Western Union 83, Texas Pacific 27 2714 26 26 27 So. Pacific 47 47 40 46- 47 N. Y. Central 117 118 117 118 11S Reading 50 5i 49 50 5" Erie 31 31 30 30 31 Union Pacific 77 77 76 76 7x C. O 34 35 34 34 35 B. 0 84 84 83 83 84 L. N 117 107 17 lfft 108 Pennsylvania 121 121 121 121 121 Katy 43 43 42 42 43 Leather 8 8 x 8 8 C F. 1 64 54 53 53 55 Erie, 1st pdf 67 67 66 66 67 New Torlc Monev Market. New York. July 18. MONEY Money on call nominal. Time money firm; 61) days, 4Vfr5 jer cent.; 90 days, 5 per cent.; six months, 6 per c:nt. Prime mercantile paper, 5r56 per cent.; sterling exchange firm, with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at J4.S6.375rrx4.S6 for demand and at J4.WJT4.84.2o for 60 dav bills: posted rates. J4.S4?4.85 and S4.87ijiih"; commercial bills. J4.S3'ii4.84. SILVER Bar silver, 4c; Mexican dol lars. 42' .c. BONDS Government, steady; railroad, irregular. Et. Louis Livestock Market St. Louis. July 18. CATTLE Receipts 35i). including 250 Texans. Market steady. Beef steers. J3.7O&5.50: stockers and feed ers. J2.75rd4.25: cows and heifers, J2.25fi4.ti5; Texas steers, J2.30Ji4.2o; cows and heifers, J2.2SC3.15. HOGS Receipts 3.500. Market 5c higher. Pigs and lights, J5.00;5.SO; packers. J3.35tf 5.7fi; butchers' and best heavv, J5.30?i5.6O SHEEP Receipts 00. Market steady. GAS Natives. J2.4fW3.85; lambs, 4.4f36.70: Tex ans, 2.5ii3.S0. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago. July 18 CATTLE Receipts 1.500, Including 1.000 Texans. Steady, nom inal. Good to prime steers, J5.10-ji5.o0; poor to medium. J4.00i5.00; stockera and feed ers. J2.5i.hj4.50; cows, Jl.5txi-4.40: heifers. J2.25tf4.75: canners, Jl.50Cn2.80; bulls, J2.2T 4.35: calves, J3.Oora6.00; Texas fed steere, J3.2offj-4.75. HOGS Receipts today. 7,000: Mondnv, 38.000: left over, 835. Good medium and heavy, 10c higher. Mixed and butchers'. J3.25rrY5.75; good to choice heavy, J5.5ixii5.75; rough hivy, J5.O0ri5.45; light, J5.35:a5.75; bulk of trs, J5.40fa5.H5. SHE? Receipts 4.000. Steady. Good to choice :!i(.if. ?3.7o'ri4.10: fair to choice mixed S.'..-.i..5: western sheep. J2.50ca4.25; native XKU6.55. .iVfidEi-s City Livestock. s y, July 18. CATTLE Re ''v. Market unchanged. Native 1 -i ,.15; Texas and Indian steers, exas cows J2.lfXu2.UO: native J-, cer s neiters, Jl.oca4.50: stockers and 35(&4.O0; bulls, S2.00ft3.75; calves, "':4 western steers, J3.ourji4.S5; west-c---.t. J2.25'S3.30. M iS -Receipts 4,000. Market strong, k sales, J5.35cS5.55; heavy, J5.25Co5.37; J5.30rri5.5O; medium, J5.404JO.5tt; J5.25&5.50; yorkers, J5.50frj5.55; pigs, '5.50. :EEP Receipts 500. Market firm. :tona, J3.0tir4.96; lambs. J3.20ti6.00; range hers, J3.(jOii5.00; ewes. J3.00ca4.00. Chicago Produce Marftit. Chicago, July 18. BUTTER Steady. Creamery, lB20c: dairy, 134jl8c. f.teis hieaeiv, is'ni4'c. CHEESE New, stezdy. Daisies, lift llc; twins, 1010c; Young Americas, lVd llc. ICED POULTRY Weaker. Turkeys, 11c; chickens, llrcl2c. Kansas City Produce Markat. Kansas City, Julv- 18. WHEAT Re ceipts, 313 cars. Sept., 66c: Dec, 7Vi68c. No. 2 hard, 721iV2C: NcS. 691 71 c; No. 4, 6f?j67c; rejected, 61(&6oc; No. 2 red, 73rrrc; No. 3. 71r'-c. CORN Sept., 455c: Dec, 43ec Cash: No. 2 mixed, 48crj49c; No. 2 white, 5JWc: No. 3. 49ra5tc. OATS No. 2 white, 3&-539c; No. 2 mixed, 35fr c. RYE No. 2. 52c. HAY Choice timothy, J13.00; do. prairie, S11.00-S 11.50. BUTTER Creamery, 16(rJ13c; dairy, fane;-, 16c. EGGS Fresh, 12c Wool Market :-'t. Louis, July IS. WOOL Steady. Ter ::'y and western mediums, 16Cfjl8c: fine, c; coarse, 135il5c Sugar and Coftea Market. v ork. July 18. SUGAR Raw. firm, f.r n lining, 3 3-16c: centrifugal, 96 test, :s nclasses sugar. 2 15-Pic. Refined, l i.i. f'-t shed, J5.60; powdtred, S5-10; gran- 0. ,.t j i Quiet: No. 7 Rio. 5 3-lGc. )!i 'uAif'K5! Firm; New Orleans, 31g40c Jlsvf York Butter Market. New Vmk. July 18. BUTTER Receipts, 6.671 i-rr-iM-s, Steady. State dairy, 14 2uc; er-itnr-y, 15r2uc CHI K:. Receipts, 823 packages. Steady State full cream fancy, large and small, colored and white, 10c. Topeka Market. Topeka, July 18. HOGS. MiXED J4.95-i3.f; HEAVY 6.(iri(5.0.. LIGHT S.OOa.lO DRY LOT CATTLE. STEERS J3.50174.23 COWS AND HEIFERS 3.0033.50 GRASS CJATTLE. COWS J2.50rg2.75 HEIFERS 2.a0ti3.23 CALVES. VEAL CALVES J2.50'a3.25 GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT 65c NO. 3 WHEAT 63o WHITE CORN 40a YELLOW AND MIXED CORN 45o NO. 2 OATS 40c NO. 3 OATS ao FRI ITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. E. Lux, successor to W O. Anderson Co., 210 Kansas ave nue. ORANGES Mediterranean Sweets, per box, J2.Sirti3.(X; St. Michaels, per box, $3.73; late Valencia, J3 5ru4.25. LEMONS California. 360 sizes. $1.25 per box: 300 sizes, J4.25; Messena, J5.50. BANANAS Fancy Port Limons, J1.75iJ 2.50 pe r bunch. PINEAPPLES Sizes 24, 30, 36, 42 per crate. J4.00. BLACKBERRIES Per crate. J2.0Orrj2.25. APPLES Arkansas, 1-3 bu. box. 75c. PEACHES Texas, 4-basket crate, Ji.50; l-3-bj.-box, $1.00. NEW POTATOES Texas, sacked, pt bu., 75c. HOME GROWN VEGETABLES. GREEN BEANS 1-3 bu. box. 75c. RADISHES Per dozen bunches, 25c; green onions, per dozen bunches, 25c BEETS 35c dozen bunches. Sfl.VACIi-Per bu.. 4ic. NEW TURNIPS 30c per dozen. LETTUCE1" bu. bpsket. 35c TEXAS WAX BKANS J2.50 per bu. box. TEXAS SQUASH $1.00 per ou. box NEW CABBAGE 1U0 lb. lots. 2&2V4a CUCU.VBEKS 3orrSuc per dozen. TOMATOES Texas, 4-basket crate, S5c; 5-crate lots. 7rc ONIONS New Texas, per bu., $1.50. HONEY Colorado, 32 -rack case. $4.50 COCOANUTS Per 100. $4.(0; per i:tv S BUTTER. EGGS, POULTRY. BUTTER Country, 12c EGGS Case count. 9c POULTRY Hens, 7c lb.; roosters, 15c each; ducks. Ec lb.: geese. 5c lb.; lurkey 8c lb.; broilers, 11c lb. HAY. Market very firm. NEW PRAIRIE HAY Loose S8i PRAIRIE HAY-By car PRAIRIE HAY By ton (baled) ill'fKJ PRAIRIE HAY (loose) $8.00T,tj'.J NEW ALFALFA HAY (loose) ton.. $vj

Topeka Hide Market.' Topeka, Julv 18. Prices paid In Topeka this week, "based on Bfston quotations: GREEN SALT CURED FLAT 71 a NO. 1 TALLOW 4U

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TOPEKA STATE JOUBXAL, SATURDAY EVENING. JUIAr 18, 1903. 7 1 4 .1 e J THEATRICAL NEWS

SerIes of Midsummer Concerts at Auditorium. Sorrentlno and His Red Hand Will Be Attraction. 'WILLOW UUOVE' AGAIN Conductor's Favorite MarchWill lie IMajed Again. Other News of the Tlays and 1'lajers. The Banda Rossa is coming'. After an unprecedently dull two months in amusements there Is to be a "place to go" next Monday and Tuesday in To peka. Sorrentlno and his gorgeously palms ana under tne cooling Dreezes ui leotrlc fans in the Auditorium. The engagement will be for two days. band lately declare Sorrentlno nevet before had such a superb body of mu sicians.. This season he again has five of the players who used to be with him years ago. It has always been his pol icy to keep as nearly as possible ihe same men around him. This accounts in a degree for the wonderful control over them which everyone remarks. He has learned them and they have learned him. They understand each other per fectly. Nothing like the precision which this band exhibits has ever been heard in another musical body. The absolute unanimity, the faultless at tack, the crescendos, the tremendous climaxes all these are cause for won derment on the part of audiences. There is not a bandmaster besides Sor rentino who Introduces such marked contrast in tore and shades. In expres sion, as Eugenio Sorrentino, master of the Banda i'.ossa. Rottega, the peerless trumpeter, Barl lotti, the baritone, Tedeschi. clarinet, and others of the old favorites are sti'l the soloists and the right hand men of the great conductor. "Willow Grove" Spain! That will quicken interest in hundreds who have sat beneath the spell of Sorrentino's mastery march. But he has a new one. It is as yet unnamed, but it is said to be better than the favorite "Willow Grove," "Kansas City Spirit," "Banda Rossa" and others whose Inspiriting strains have caused rulses to quicken when played here before. And it will be. played as the Banda Rossa plays George to witness the opening perform ance. As they entered the town the first thing that struck their eyes was a glaring poster of the show, which dis played a gathering of men and women in evening dress. One woman in the foreground, evidently Mrs. Burdick, wore an elaborate mauve gown, which at once attracted the attention of Mrs. Van Dorff. She gazed a moment and in amazement, and then indignantly ex claimed: "Why, that's the gown that Dorothy Dorr wore in the dramattza tlon of my novel, "Hearts Aflame.' And Jutni to think of it, there's Aubrey Bouei cault and Bijou Ferdinandez and Mor ton Selten; they've just stolen -those old lithographs, and something ought to be done to them for that." Mrs. Van Dorff hunted up the advance agent of the show, who promptly admitted the charge, and exclaimed: "You see. I was up at a printer's in Rocksberry the other day and he had 200 of these old posters left on his hand. I saw they would be just the thing for a session of the Elmwood Country club, so I gave him a dollar for the whole lot. He of fered free seats for the show, and his apology was accepted. FOBEIGN ARTISTS COMING. Announcements Indicate Many New Musical Celebrities Next Season. Prom preliminary announcements it would seem as if the season of 1S03-04 would have an unusual number of visiting foreign musical artists. Leader of the Banda Rossa and Six of His Soloists. i pa A hension anything like outside competition. Such all element is a pernicious influence and does more to stifle the growth of art and lead to the dull level of mediocrity than any other system. The entire change which has come over our taste in musical art In America, and the desire for ever broadening and expanding in our knowl edge of that art, is due to the constant annual visit of the "old world" artists; therefore we should view with delight the outlook for next year, when bo many dis tinguished artists will be in America. THE WEEKLY GB.I8T. if speiiks t 81 it In civilized society there are one thousand dyspeptics to one drunkard. This host would be cut off at! once it only pure, cleanly, nourishing food were eaten. Dyspeptics are made by the use of impure. uncooked, improperly prepared foods. Funny Stories Told by Players on and Off the Stage. If they continue to resurrect stories concerning the late Stuart Robaon and his practical Jokes, we will be compelled to believe that, in this respect, at least, he was the elder Sothern of America. Now it is told of the comedian that upon one occasion he was traveling in England with a friend (a smalt man called "Bill"), and on the Liverpool train "Bill" fell asleep. While he slept, Robson stole his ticket from his pocket. In a little while the conductor was to be seen apporaching. "Tickets. 'Bill.' Get out your ticket." Robson said. 'Bill," after a frantic search, said with an oath that his ticket was lost. Rob son then advised him to escape paying by biding under tne seat. This "Bill decided to do, and when the conductor appeared he lay on his back on the dusty floor, quite Invisible. Robson surrendered both tickets, whereupon the conductor said: "Here are two tickets. "Where Is your friend, sir?" "Under the seat, there," the actor an swered. "I don't know why he wanted to avoid you." The conductor, surprised, looked un der the seat, and "Bill" smiled at him sheepishly, and then crawled awkwardly forth. Marshall V. Wilder Is popular with his associates. This was. conclusively proved on the occasion 1 of his recent marriage, when congratulations and gifts poured in upon, the humorist and his lady. Some letters of congratulation, how ever, are to be taken as being between wit and wit. Particularly the follow ing: "Now that you are married, may I have your monologue?" Arthur Dunn. "What had the nerve to stand up with you?" Louis wesiey. It is the runniest tnine you ever aid In your life." Dick Carroll. I m glad to learn tnat you nave se cured a sympathetic audience." George Evans. This story, said to have originated with Chauncey Olcott, is going the rounds: "A friend of mine." saia tne actor, "had an Irish servant girl who one day asked leave to attend the 'wake' of a favorite cousin. The desired permission was granted, and Norah graced the mel ancholy feast clad in her best. A few weeks afterward she announced to her master that she must leave him within a month. 'Are you dissatisfied with your work or your wages, Norah? asked the mas ter, taken by surprise and sorry to lose a faithful servant. 'Oh, no, sir,' said Norah quickly, 'but I'm goin" to be married to my cous in's widower." 'Isn't it rather sudden, Norah?' was the next question. 'It's suddint to me. sir,' said Noran, twisting the corners of her apron, 'but taint to him. He says i was tne me or the wake, sir. and he marked me while he was mourning.' Theatrical Notes. Henrietta Crosman will not be under David Belasoa's management next season after all. This statement is made upon the authority or Mr. ueiasco nimseu. Amelia Btnirham says she is going to show tne tneater-goers oi mis country a. splendid stage version ot "canteroury Tales." Maggie Moore, the most prominent of Australian stars, will be seen in this coun try next season in "StrueH OU, rejuvenat ed, and other pieces. Augusta Glose. who was prominent Tor two seasons in the company playing "The Liberty Belles." is being booked for novel feature in vaudeville next season. Helen Royton. in last season's "Silver Blipper" as Stella, the girl who kicks her slipper from Venus to this earth, is spend- .n,n,c. in TT.r, crl a cnil TV-i ni'O IS) o 'plgljlll3!? (P L7HEAT FLAKE CELEHY is absolutely pure, clean and contains only the necessary substances that the svstem demands for strength, health and comfort. Carefully and conscientiously prepared by a phyj'ician and chemist of forty years experience. Palatable nutritious Easy cf Digestion and Ready to Eat My mtgnrntira an very ackuf. QjeS Dr. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts." Pr.pand by PRICE CEREAL FCC3 CO., Food Kills, BATTLE CREEK, KICH.lJfcta Officii, CSIISAG3. iwith a matinee the last day. This will give Topeka three concerts by this world famous organization. There in probably no musical company in tne world that has so large a repertoire of music and this will enable music pa trons to hear the great conductor and his men in a great variety of compo sition" It is not too much to say that this Italian band has created a sensation in Topeka. On its former two visits here It was received with the greatest favor. There is a striking individuality about everything that it does that makes it different from any other band or or chestra. The first concerts struck those who heard them with wonder, and they flocked again to hear it the first of last August in increasing numbers. Since it played here Sorrentino's or. animation has won many new laurels, t played at the Ak-sar-ben carnival at Omaha, and after a successful winter tour completely captivated the schol arly musical critics of Chicago. In St. Louis, where It tinishes a three weeks engagement tonight, the Globe-Democrat declared that there was something about it which compelled attendance. So it has been everywhere. And now it returns to its own here, where it has long been held one of the foremost concert aggregations. Those who have heard the great "Willow Grove" which means as no other band can play it. This is the sixth summer for the Banda Rossa in this country. It is a long time, something like 15 years, since Sorrentino sallied forth with his reJ coated men from the little Italian town of San Sevro and captured the prize from the crack bands of Europe. Since then he and his mates, some of whom were companions of his at the conserva tory, have done many remarkable things. They played Wagner in Ber lin and made the Germans admit that they found new beauties in the sonorous compositions of their musical saint. There is not another brass band that plays Wagner to compare with the Banda Rossa. The secret of all this Is Sorrentino. He has artists, of course, but it is due to his musicianship and training that the band is what it is. It is doubtful if there Is another conductor in this coun try who approaches him in his field. He is earnestness itself and plays the light est popalar fancies of the day with an artistic sense and regard that makes them doubly delightful. A lavish use of electric fans will aid in keeping the well ventilated Auditor ium cool. Seats are now selling at Row ley Snow's for the two night concerts at 25 and 50 cents. The matinee tickets will not be reserved and the admission will be 25 cents. There are two ways of considering the outlook for next season. One is to compare it with, those seasons when the influx ot foreiijners has not been as great: the other tn enmnare It with the seasons when the foreigners have dominated the music of the country. It will be conceded that -whnt mitrht he termed the "foreien" eea sons have been the most notable, as the standard of work has uniformly been higher. The presence of the artists from abroad has afforded an inspiration and given a stimulus to the American artist to raise himself and his art to the highest possible plane, and so successful has the home musician been in his endeavor, that it has freciuently happened he Ins en loved erreater prestige than the visitors. There is always a certain element among American musicians which distinctly ob- iecla to the advent of the European prod uct. But this element is either afraid of r-nmnarison or belonKs to that narrow- minded brigade which views with appre- If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents." Browningf We need not agree absolutely with the poet's Fra Lippo, nd yet we are all convinced that beauty is a very excellent thing. The GORHAM CO. Silversmiths allows us an opportu nity of bringing beauty into our cvery-day life at small expense. All Gorham silverware ex hibits an insistent striv ing after the beautiful. All riaponaibl jeweler keep it ill) CRANE IN THE SPENDERS." Will Shelve- "David Harum" Next Season for New Sole. W. H. Crane will open his American season under the management of Charles Frohman with a dramatization by E. E. Rose of "The Spenders" in the Savoy theater in New York next Sep tember, following Mrs. Langtry, who will appear in a new comedy which is being rehearsed for her by Charles Hawtrey. Mr. Crane has left London for Carlsbad, Intending to return to New York in two weeks. C. E. Hamilton, a manager for Mr. Frohman, has just returned from a. brief honeymoon. Last Saturday he married Miss Christine McGill. daugh ter of the late Royal academician. W. Murdoek McGill. Mr. and Mrs. Ham ilton will make their home in London. BURDICK THAQEDT STAGED. Was Produced in the Country as a Summer Attraction. U.1ln.the littIe tovvn of Tlconderoga. on the shores of Lake Champlain.a new drama was given to the world this week. It is called "The Great Burdick Mys tery, and with all the art and enthus iasm of the unknown writer was built around ths incidents of the recent Buf falo tragedy. It is useless at his time to attempt an adequate description of its virtues and eccentricities, but there was one thing about it which had not been contemplated by the writer, and which made more actual stir than all the rest of the play. Louise Winters, the novelist, who in private life is a Mrs. van Dorff. was one of the party which drove over from The Hague on Lake Of Suffering From Heart Disease. I Would Not be Alive Today But For Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. Do not neglect the warning symptoms of a weaK near;, palpitation, smomering bpeiii swelling of feet or ankles, pain in and around heart; oftentimes affections of the stomach. lungs, liver, bladder, kidneys, etc- arise Jrotn heart weakness. A weak heart must be helped. It cannot stop to rest. It must be strengthened and rejrulated. 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Nothing I took did me any pood until I used eleven bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure which removed all these distressing- symptoms and made me feel well and strong." Mrs. H. C Cruse, Saa Fran cisco, CaL All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle Dr. Miles' Remedies, bend for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind. ing the summer in England and France, The theatergoers of England, Ireland and Scotland are to be given a chance to see "A Hot Old Time" next season when the piece is to be produced under the direction of E. E. Rice. Messrs. Shubert and Nixon Zimmer man have about decided to send out Jeffer son De Angelis at the head of "The Torea dor" company next season, the latter ap pearing in Francis Wilson's old part. Maude Fealey ha3 been engaged as lead ing woman to support Orrin Johnson in "Hearts Courageous." She will be cast as Anne TUlotson, a vivacious Virginia girl, the heroine cf Amelia Rives' novel. Jimmy Powers returned to New Tork from London recently, where he made a tour of all the playhouses. Mr. Bowers says that our worst musical comedies are 50 per cent better than anything now being pre sented in London. Richard Mansfield has not fully decided whether he will use next season "Ivan the Terrible," or "The Garden of Lies." Both pieces are said to be favored by Mr. Mansfield and the one best liked by the public will receive the greatest attention. When David Warfield gives up "The Auctioneer," about the first of the year, he will appear in a new play by Charles Klein, which will have for its principal character a well-to-do Italian, one of the New York kind. John T. Sullivan, who 13 now In New York, asserts that his Inst engagement at Lafavette theater in Washington estab lished a record. "I played in 137 parts in 155 weeks." says Sullivan, "including the summer work in Denver." Dan Daly's professional days may be near an end. The popular comedian is very ill at his home at Crescent Beach, near Boston, suffering trom lung irouoie. anu the chances are that he will not act at all next season. Jess Dandv, the well known Hebrew im personator lit vaudeville, has been engaged bv Henry W. Savage to play in the No. 2 "Prince of Pilsen" company, taking the part now in the hands of John W. Ran some. R H. Roberts, who plays the papal legate in "Du Barry," has been re-engaged He has been promised one of the two most prominent parts in the new play which Mr. Belasco is atjjresent engaged in writing for Mrs. Carter. When Nance O'Neill opens her season in New York next September playing Udv Macbeth, E. J. Radeliffe will play Macbeth Mr. Radeliffe has done excel lent work in this line recently in San Francisco, hence his engagement. Peeler "Madam. I have here a fine comnlexion beautifier which Lady "No. you don't work any skin game on me," Cornell Widow. Fashion and Folly ran a race To see which went the fastest Dace. But half way home they stopped.Each saw The race was going to be a draw. New York Kerald. Brutally Tortuerd. A case came to lieht that for persistent and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equaled. Joe Golobick of Cclusa, Calif., writes: "For 15 years I endured in sufferable pain from Rheumatism anl nothing relieved me. though I tried every thing known. I came across Electric Bit ters and it's the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of it com pletely relieved and cured me." Just as good for liver and kidney troubles and gen eral debility. Only 60c. Satisfaction guar anteed by Arnold Drug Co., 8Li North Kansas ave. MR. BOWSER'S LECTURE. H Left Somathing Out but Got Home Alive. "If dinner isn't ready yet I'd like you to hurry it up a bit," said Mr. Bowser, as he got home ten minutes ahead of his usual hour the other evening. "Are you going out? oueried Mrs. Bowser. "Yes, I'm booked to deliver a lecture this evening and I haven't any time to spare." imner was ail ready, ana as ne par took of the meal he explained: A friend of mine named wnltmore has been delivering lectures or talks to tramps every Wednesday evening for the past three months, and as he was suddenly called away today he wanted me to take his place." Have you made any notes or what you are going to sayf Mrs. Bowser asked. "No.- There Is no need of that. It will be more of a talk than a lecture, and I can think of plenty to say. I shall touch upon temperance, ambition, in dustry, and so on. Whitmore's idea has been to incite the tramp to higher aims, and he has had great success. He says that at least ten men have gone to work after loafing around for flfteenyears." Jtou are sure tnere is no ,kkp aDout it?" asked Mrs. Bowser, who somehow scented a put up job. "Joke? Joke? Nobody ever jokes with me, madam. Eight or ten men will gather in a room hired for the puurpose, and I will stand up and appeal to their manhood for an hour or so. I fail to see where a joke can come in. Perhaps, however, you will regard it as a joke if three or four of my hearers rise above their present life and are heixi of in the fields of industry?" Mrs. Bowser said no more. She had never heard of Mr. Bowser's friend Wliitmore or his "talks," and she knew that Mr. Bowser himself had no "gift of gab," but she helped him make ready to go and trusted to luck that he would at least come nome in tne amouiance. As he left the house she said: "You won't blame me if anything happens, will you?' "What can happen?" he asked. was against him. There was appluuse. The applause consisted of every man stamping his feet and crying out in chorus: "ARE YOTT SURE THERE IS NO JOKE ABOUT IT?" ASKED MRS BOWSER. "Hear! hear! but Where's the beer?" The speaker then related the story of the governor. The governor had been an ice man, but owing to the dishonesty of his customers he had failed in busi ness and taken to tramping. He had got so low down that he would steal eggs from under a setting hen. when lightning rod man met him and appeal ed to his better nature and ambition change came over him at once. He be gan to work his way up, and ten years later he was the beloved governor of a great state, and offering champagne to all tramps who called at his kitchen HEAR! HEAR! HEAR! BUT WHERE'S THE BEER?" City Ticket Office, Union Railroad. 625 Kansas avsnus. PadBa "I don't know." "Well, don't make a pancake of your self. One would think I was about six years old. and that you were afraid I'd be hooked by a cow." Mr. Bowser had been told that he would find his audience in the back room of a marble shop, and he found them. The marble cutter gave the room rent free and lighted it with two can dles because he had once been a tramp himself. Seven men were gathered to greet their lecturer and let his words of wisdom sink deep into their breasts, and they applauded him as he arrived. Af ter the applause had subsided the mar ble cutter took him into the front shop where the tomb stones were and whis peringly said: "The boys are all here, as you see. and are expecting something good. What will vou start out with?" "Why, I think I'll relate the caseof a western governor who was nothing"out a tramp, but who worked himself up by sheer force of character." "I don't mean that. Will you start out by giving the boys beer or cigars? We generally send out the growler to oil up things." "I am not here to pander to vice." stiffly replied Mr. Bowser. "As I am going to talk about intemperance I don't propose to minjrle beer with it." "Then we'll make it cigars." "We'll not make it anything of the kind. I'm not going to bribe anyone to listen to me." "Oh ah all right," said the man, as he fell back. "Yes, you are right, and you can go ahead. The boys will be a little surprised, but that won't hurt anvthir.g. Give it to 'em strong." Mr. Bowser led off with asking his audience how it came about that they were tramps., and he answered the question by saying that a tramp was a man who had been the victim of mis fortune, and had become disheartened and discouraged and felt that the world door. The story made an Impression. Every man stamped his feet and cried out: "Hear! bear! but Where's the beer?" Mr. Bowser ignored the hear and the beer, and spoke of the evils of in temperance. He was not a living ex ample of it himself, but he had a first cousin who began on ginger ale and ended up cn "Old Crow" and in a drunkard's grave. The foundation ot industry, integrity and success was sobrietv. Not a tramp could hope to rejuvenate himself ai,d carry a bottle in his hind pocket at the same time. He was just preparing to quote fig ures on the awful effects of intem perance on the tramps of America when he was interrupted by another burst of applause. It was another burst, but the same old applause: "Hear! hear! but Where's the beer?" "What does this mean?" demanded Mr. Bowser, as he folded his arms and looked around him. "I came here to sow seeds of ambition to Implant newer and higher ideas to arouse your dormant ambition and lift you "Hear! hear! but Where's the beer?" chorused the audience, while the mar ble cutter beckoned him into the front shos and whiskered: "You see, you oueht to have taken the boys a little different." "How different?" "You ought to have divided your talk into four rarts, with beer between each one. That's what they are used to. and they are rather uneasy over it. I'm afraid you don't understand the tramp as he is. He's got to have his beer to help him aim high." "Well, he won't get It from me," was the rt ply. "I w-as told that I would find men here who would be ready to listen to reason and argument." "And you have, sir you have; but don't you understand that beer makes argument go all the better? Just send out for two gallons of beer like a little man and I'll warrant you'll see any Southern Fruit and Vegetable Growing. The fertile lands along the Louisville Nashville R. It. in Alabama, West Florida and Mississippi are veritable bo nanzas for the fruit grower and truck gardener. One man sold from one single acre, 100 barrels of radishes for $900.00, gross; another patch of 4 acres radishes yielded $1, 463.00, net. In the spring of 1902, another truck gardener sold 300 barrels of potatoes In Pittsburg from 3 acres ot ground for $1,518, and after paying all expenses, cleared $fcf-2.00, or $297.33 per ncre. W ithin two weeks after sell ing his potatoes, corn was up and watermelon vinps were running on the same land. He harvested his corn, sold his melons, and afterwards cut two crops of hay olf of the same land, and on Jan uary 20. 1S03, was planting it again in potatoes. Strawber ries yield i from $300.00 to $550.00 per eecrer as high as 12.4S0 quarts of luscious ber ries haveHJeen grown ou a single acrej; Address Q. jA. PARK, Ccneral Industrial and Immigration gant, Louisville Nashville R. R. LOUISVILLE KY amount of ambition after it comes in." "I won't send for a drop! I 11 con tinue my remarks, and if I'm Insulted again I'll stop short off and go home. Mr Bowser returned to his audience and started out to give the number of tramps who had risen to be generals in the last ten years, but before he had spoken twenty words he was interrupt ed bv a chorus of "Dear, dear, do we get any beer?" And while he was looking around for his hat the chorus changed to: "Oh. why is he here if we haven't got beer?" "Gentlemen." he began, but the next moment there was a rush and he was carried out doors and across the street and left stranded among the scrap iron on a vacant lot. A quarter of an hour later Mrs. Bowser heard the front door softl open, and she called out: "Is that vou. dear?" No replv. She rose and looked out Into the nan and caught sight of some one sneak ing up stairs. "Did you incite the tramps to higher ambitions?" she asked. But echo answered, and half an hour later, when she went up to bed. she found Mr. Bowser with his face to the wail and the few hairs on his head still bristling up. (Copyright, 1903, by C. 3. Lewis. 1 HAY FEVER ABOLISHED Relief For This Malady Discovered by Medical Science Breaths Hyomel. Among the important additions mads to medical science in recent years, none is more notable than the positive an. nouncement of a cure for hay fever. While this disease Is not regarded as fatal, it is certainly a most distressing malady, and if anything can be devised to cure it, a great boon will be conferr ed UDon the human race. Exhaustive experiments with HyomeJ prove that this treatment will prevent all attacks of hay fever if used two or three weeks before the annual appear ance of the disease and that It may be .relied upon if used faithfully after the disease has begun, to relieve at once and afford a speedy cure. Geo. W. Stansfleld, druggist. 631 Kan sas avenue has sold hundreds of Hyo mei outfits for the treatment of dis eases of the respiratory organs under the agreement to refund the money it Hyomei did not afford relief. In selling Hyomei for the cure of hay fever, he will continue this equitable, plan, and want all who are subject to this distressing malady to begin its us at once with the understanding that if it does' not give satisfaction. tb.8 purchase price is to be refunded. Stomach dosing cannot cure hay fe ver. A change of climate is the onl treatment that has heretofore aborted an attack, and Hyomei, which la breathed through a neat pocket inhale coming with every outfit, acts upon this principle, giving in your own homi a climate like that of the Whit moun tains or other health resort.

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