The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 7, 1904
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LARGEST DAILY 10 PAGES IN KANSAS. LAST EDITION. THURSDAY EVEx. NG. TOPEKA. KANSAS, JANUARY 7. 1904. THURSDAY EVEXING. TWO CENT MM LARGEST DAILY 10 PAGES I IN KANSAS. j A t it- J I V I i l i 14 ji f J r THEATERJI.JSAFE. Investigating: Committee Finds the Crawford in Bad Shape. Many Glaring Defects That Menace Public Safety. DOORS SWIXG INWARD. Even the Fire Escapes Found to Be Dangerous. Exits at Hear of Stage Wholly Inadequate. Even With Changes Suggested Wouldn't Be Safe. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the mayor received from the Crawford opera house investigation committee an eight page typewritten report which condemns the. Crawford theater as unsafe in its pres ent condition; recommends a great many changes in exits, fire escapes, stairways, electric wiring, partitions, drop-curtain, fire alarms, water supply, etc., and states that even if all these changes are made, the committee does not intend to have it understood that they consider the building as safe. Mayor Bergundthal has called a spe cial meeting- of the city council for this evening at 7:30, and it is highly prob able that at that time the council will condemn the Crawford and order it closed. It is likely that L. M. Crawford will be ready with an injunction suit to prevent such action if possible. This will lead to a legal battle to test the validity of the ordinance. Mayor Bergundthal said today: "This Is up to the council now to do as It sees fit. I suppose that the council will take some action this evening at the special meeting which I have called. They certainly ought to, in view of that report. I don't care to say any thing about this report, but I am will ing to stand by the council in doing whatever they think is necessary." Following is the report: Fire Marshal's Office. Jan. 6, 1904. The Honorable Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Tooeka: Gentlemen In compliance with direc tions given me by Mayor W. S. Ber gundthal unner date of January 2, 1904, that I at ci.ce make a thorough and rigid examination of the Crawford opera house and the Grand opera house in this city and report the exact conditions found existing therein to the i city council at the earliest possible date, i said examination to cover the structuial' condition of the buildings and the arrangement as theaters as regards public safety. 1 hava acted under "aid instructions. In the letter of instruc tions Mayor Bergundthal gave me au thority to call upon City Engineer. James McCabe and such other persons as in my judgment might seem neces sary. I selected City Engineer McCabe, Henry Bennett. John Sargent, Mi Heery (the last three thoroughly expe- rienced and practical builders) and Chas. j E. Eldridge, electrical and insurance inspector, to assist me. and these gen tlemen have acted with me through the entire examination. We herewith submit the following re port of our examination of the Craw ford opera house: SHOULD ELIMINATE. STAIRWAYS. We find at main entrance the out side doors swing inward, and should swing to the street. The ticket booth in the front entrance hall extends two feet six inches into the main hall, and should be removed from this main pas sageway or entrance, which is 9 feet 2 inches wide; thence 17 steps lead to main landing, then six risers in reach ing the parquet floor. From landing in front of parquet a stairway 3 feet inches in width leads to private apartment rooms on third and fourth floors. Also from this landing two additional stairways lead to both bal cony and gallery, being in width 3 feet 9 inches. From landing in front of parquet there are six steps to reach the parquet floor. These curved stairs, together with the narrow platforms suggest to us that an incline from the top of stairs immediately at head of main en trance be built leading into parquet. In connection with this incline there should be an incline constructed to foot of stairs leading to balcony and gallery and made to intersect with in cline leading into parquet. From main landing in front of parquet, an exit into the Jewell building on the north leads into narrow hall through two pairs of fire doors; one pair now swinging- into the theater should be read justed to swing outward, i. e. to the north. This hall extends to north wail of Jewell building, thence west to nar row hall to stairs leading to Kansas avenue, and used principally as the gallery exit. Doors at head of these stairs should be remodeled to give greater space. There is also a ticket window, the shelf of which extends 9 inches into this hall, and should be removed Leading east from the hall in the Jew ell building, another hall 28 feet long by 4 feet 2 inches wide leads to plat- form of fire escape, said fire escape receiving discharge from main floor of .opera house. The door of this hall should swing outward, and to the north. This door should be 3 fet fl inches wide instead of 2 feet 6 inches wide. EXITS ARE INADEQUATE We believe the balconv and gallery stairs discharging immediately in front of the parquet entrance are inadequate for the quick or safe discharge of gal lery and balcony audiences. An im provement of this condition will neces sitate the removal of partitions divid ing off the front portion of the build ing. The gallery has a seating capacity of 2,0 people and is separated from front portion of building by one inch board partition, with open space also closets for general storage beneath. We find theeallery aisles are inadequate in width, and suggest that a removal be made of a tier of seats on each side We find no aisle on south side of gallerv o,i, fuuuu ne removed to make jx.i wtc uui it-ss man three feet wid r anacneci .reducing c, cum Blue aisic-s, should be removed. There are no exits on south side of building on nither floor, and recommond two exits, five feet wide, off iuV emery wnere small windows ara now located, discharging- on to roof of adjoining building on the south; and would further recommend that' the three east windows over roof be closed solid witff masonry. In our judgment, with the two new exits above 1 ef erred to on the south wall from gailery, the congestion pos sible in gai;ery would be somewhat relieved. We further recommend that an aisle be made at extreme rear of gallery not less than three feet wide. Balcony The south aisle paralleling south wall should be widened to at least four feet, and kept free of any seats or attachment of seats to side wails. FIRE ESCAPES ARE UNSAFE. North wall fire escapes We find that the outside iron stairs and platforms in their present condition are absolutely unsafe in view of a possible rush of people from the several exits leading thereto, and would recommend that all platforms and stairs leading from all north wall exits should be reconstructed under the supervision of the fire mar-" shal and city engineer. The rise and fall of steps in reaching the east north wall exit is a menace to the safe egress from main floor, and should be re-' moved. To quickly reach the east north wall exit, a row of chairs should be removed, extending from north aisle to this east exit in north wall. "CATCH ALL FOR REFUSE." The exits from rear of stage are found wholly inadequate, and larger openings and stairways should be pro vided. We find the partition dividing the stage from the auditorium to be con structed of wood studding with wains coting, some sheeting covered with zinc and iron, up to the top of main drop curtain. From this point to under side of roof, we find 2x4 inch studding covered with light corrugated iron. In tnis partition above curtain we find one small door at the south side leading into the open space or "blind attic'' over the auditorium, also one medium sized door on north side leading from the fly-operator's platform into a store room, which seems to have been used as a catch-all for the general refuse from stage. These doors should be permanently closed, and contents of storeroom re moved from premises. Having care fully examined the incomplete partition dividing- the stage from the main audi ence room, we would recommend in the absence of a standard fire wall that should prevail at this point, a complete and solid construction of studding, sheat asbestos and iron, with a stand ard asbestos drop curtain, the doors (permitting only those absolutely neces sary) leading off the stage also to be securely covered with the same mate rial. This class of construction should continue below stage, also cutting off all draft, suction from that portion used for dressing rooms. The object being, if possible, to create a retardent to any fire occurring on the stage, dressing rooms and floors from reach ing immediately over and into the main auditorium room, as is now possible. STORE ROOMS A MENACE. We found in the store room, No. 614 Kansas avenue, a tea, coffee and crock ery business. The rear of this sales room was occupied by an excessive amount of hay and straw as packing material. The large amount of this packing material together with the ac cumulation of rubbish, and lying di rectly beneath "the stage, is a danger ous condition, and would -recommend that not over h. day's supply of such packing material be allowed stored in the building. A grocery business oc cupies No. 612, and the basement should be relieved of accumulation of boxes and rubbish, and maintained in a clean condition. The presence of store rooms beneath this opera house is considered by us an extra hazardous feature, and therefore the management should give more than ordinary attention to the care of these store rooms and base ments. We further find on examination of the floor joist over tea and coffee and grocery stores and under finished rooms above same in front part, have deflect ed from 3 to 4 inches in the center. W e have, also thoroughly examined the stone walls and find them to be in fair condition, and should be properly pointed up with cement morter, a con dition which is much needed, especial ly on northeast corner in the cellar and the southeast corner in the alley, also south walls of fourth story, and north wall for a considerable distance down from top. If this pointing referred to was properly done, we could say the walsl would be in good condition. We also recommend that a large sign be placed over each exit door, also in addition to sign, there should be a red light placed over all exits. WATER SUPPLY INSUFFICIENT. Fire protection We find that the water supply in this building is insuffi cient in every particular, and we recom mend that there be a tap off the Kansas avenue water main for a sufficient sup ply for standpipe of ample capacity with attachments of 2 inch standard hose, ample in length to cover the dress ing room and stage floor areas. An attachment of hose should be on dress ing room and on stage floors. This vertical pipe should continue to rise to top of and branch ocer stage where an effective system of perforated pipes or sprinkler equipment should be installed, so constructed as to thoroughly sprinkle the entire area of the stage, the valve controlling snch perforated pipe or sprinkler system should be located above the dressing room and stage floor hose connections. A stand pipe should be installed near the front of building with provision for standard hose connections at each floor landing. Tiis stand pipe fire protection should be fed absolutely independent of domestic or house pipe connections. Two fire alarm boxes should be located as directed by the fire marshal. It is also recommended that a sufficient number of standard three-gallon hand chemical fire extinguishers be placed throughout the buildine. This entire installation should be under the super vision and acceptance of the fire mar shal and city engineer. ELECTRICAL WIRES IN BAD SHAPE Electrical Installation We submit the following detailed report: System The three-wire 110 volt di rect current syste mis used, entering the building on north side over stage, where service switch and main cut outs are located. A distribution center is a wooden skeleton switch board lo cated on stage, switches, cutouts and dimmers mounted thereon.- There are about 250 16 candiopower lamps used, besides numerous floor pockets for at taching ai-c lamrjs. The general condition of this instal lation is very bad and is liable to cause serious trouble at any time. Then follows a detailed description of defects found in the electric wiring of the building. CAN'T BE MADE ENTIRELY SAFE. yl hile we have enumerated many de fects discovered by this inspection, and have recommended changes and im provements that could be made, we would NOT have your honorable bodv consider that if these improvements should be carried out in a satisfactory manner, that we then- deem the. build ing fire-proof, and in absolutely safe condition. The suggegstions given are for the elimination of the most glaring HANNA WILL RUN. He Will Announce His Candidacy Next Tuesday. Telephones nis Decision to Com mitteeman Kerens. THIS IS THE STORY Which a Kansas City Paper Vouches For. The Senator Imparted the In formation Wednesday, Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. The Star today will print a story to the effect that Senator Mark A. Hanna will an nounce his candidacy for the presiden cy on Tuesday next and asserting that this information was imparted yester day to Richard C. Kednes, of St. Louis, national committeeman for Missouri, in a long distance telephone conversa tion. JURY COMPLETED. Attorneys Make Statements the Dietrich Case. in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 7. The jury was completed at 12 o'clock to sit in the Dietrich case and as selected is com posed of one real estate dealer, three merchants, one miller, one printer, two farmers, one bank clerk, two railroad men and a harnessmaker. District At torney Summers in his opening state ment began with a summing up of the counts in the indictments. He cited the alleged agreement between Senator Die trich and Postmaster Fisher of Hast ings by which the latter is charged with paying certain moneys, which the dis trict attorney stated it would be proven was for the purpose of securing Fish er's appointment as postmaster. "This testimony will show," stated Ine district attorney, "that the defend ant agreed to receive and did receive from Jacob Fisher money, property and other valuable considerations for pro curing and aiding to procure for him, the said Fisher, the office of United States postmaster at Hastings, Neb." Mr. Summers said the evidence would show Senator Dietrich's election as United States senator. He then recited the details of the alleged transaction, by which the appointment' of Fisher was made as would be brought out in the testimony. The evidence would show, he said, that Dietrich requested William Dutton to notify Fisher that if the lat ter would pay $500 for certain postofHce fixtures and then turn them over to the government, and in addition thereto pay $S00 in cash to him (Dietrich) Fish er would be appointed postmaster; that Dutton so notified Fisher; that a con ference followed between Fisher and Dietrich, arranged by Dutton, during the course of which the terms of the appointment were agreed upon, and that Fisher had admitted that the al leged transaction had been closed be tween himself and Senator Dietrich. The evidence, said the district attorney, would also show that Fisher was then appointed postmaster. District Attorney Summers said that after hearing the evidence the govern ment would expect conviction or ac quittal in accord with the evidence submitted and only asked for justice to all. He completed his statement at noon. Attorney Batty, during the afternoon, presented his statement for the defense. HEATH SUMMONED. Papers Served on Him at Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 7. A sum mons in the case of the government against former Superintendent of Rural Delivery Machen was served on the for mer First Assistant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath by United States Marshal Heywood today. Mr. Heath arrived at his home from Denver last night. He was immediately told of the reports that sub poenas had been issued for him and this morning he presented himself at the marshal's office- and asked that the pa pers be served. Mr. Heath will leave Washington this evening to give testi mony in the case. RUTH CLEVELAND DEAD. Former President's Eldest Child Yictim of Diphtheria. Princeton, N. J., Jan. 7. Ruth Cleve land, the eldest child of ex-President Cleveland, died at the Cleveland home here today very unexpectedly, the im mediate cause of death being a weaken ing of the heart action during a mild at tack of diphtheria. Dr. WIckoff, the at tending physician, said that Miss Cleve land had been ill with a mild form of diphthrrit for four days and that the heart affection was not anticipated. She was 15 years old. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan. 7. Forecast for Kansas: Fair tonight and Friday; westerly winds. defects discovered, and for the im provement of egress of an audience as sembled therein. We will further state that in our judg ment these improvements suggested, car ried out, will prove a factor eliminating the hazard very materially from fire and panic. We have referred specifically to some of the changes in suggesting the improve ments be made under the supervision of the fire marshal and city engineer and we would further recommend that all reconstruction or changes be under the supervision and approval of these two citv officers. We consider that the Crawford opera house, in its present condition, is un safe for occupancy as a theater, and es pecially the gallery located on the fourth floor. We will proceed at once in our exami nation of. the Grand opera house and sub mit our report as early as possible. Re spectfully submitted. a. O. WILMARTH, Fire Marshal. JAMES F. McCABE, City Engineer. HENRY BENNETT, -M. HEERY, JOHN SARGENT, CHARLES E. ELDRIDGE, REYES HAS REPLY Government Declines to Re-open the Panama (Juestion. He Wants Correspondence Sub mitted to the Senate. PENDING AN ANSWER The Interchanges Will Not Be Made Public. Hefusal to Discuss the Matter Is Made Emphatic. Washington, Jan. 7. General Rafael Reyes, the Colombian special envoy, has received the answer of the Wash ington government to his note charging the United States with open violation of the treaty of 1S46. The answer which was prepared by Secretary Hay, though couched in the most diplomatic terms and expressing the wish of this government to deal justly with Colombia, is an emphatic refusal to reopen the Panama ques tion. Prior to the reply General Reyes wrote to the state depantment request ing that the correspondence be trans mitted to the senate for its" considera tion. Pending an answer to this re quest the correspondence will not be made public. Japan Is Opposed to Interven tion in Her Affairs. Ministry Is Against Long De lay in Reaching a Settlement. Tokio, Jan. 7. The government is si lent concerning the terms of the Rus sian rejoinder. A high authority here, however, says that the reply is unsatis factory to Japan, especially in its lea tures berring upon the question of Korea. He says that the Russian gov ernment in its communication expresses a desire for a peaceful settlement of the matters in dispute. Japan has taken the reply under consideration and if con vinced that Russia s protests are honest and there is a chance for peace, she will continue negotiations. At the same time the ministry is unqualifiedly opposed to a long delay. It is becoming apparent that Japan would env any interven tion upon the part nf any of the out side powers in the extremity of the crisis. It is thought possible here that the United States might intervene., Such intervention, the Japanese say, would be unjust and only create delay, which would be advantageous to Russia. RUSSIA'S REPLY NEGATIVE.' Paris, Jan. 7. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris edition, of the New York Herald says: "There is no doubt that the Russian reply intimates in a friendly way that Russia can not accept Japanese inter ference. "At a council concerning Manchuria it was stated that Japan is placing im mense difficulties in the way of peaceful solution rendering it impossi ble for Russia to recede from her posi tion in the far east. "Russia cannot allow Japan to ac quire territory in southern Corea, thus cutting communication Detween viaai Vostok and Port Arthur. "The Russian government has ap proached the Wilson line asking what ships of the line could be chartered in the Black sea. AFTER MORE WAR SHIPS. Paris. Jan. 7. The St.Petersburg cor respondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald caDles as lonows: There is almost no hope of a peaceful solution and the public is expecting news of a battle resulting from the landing of Japanese troops in Corea. A battalion has been sent irom viaai vostock to prevent the Japanese land ing. The Genoa correspondent of the same paper says that the builders of the warshins Niasin and Kasaga, which the Japanese government purchased from Argentina, are doing their utmost to hasten their readiness for sea, and that the Japanese admiral and his officers express satisfaction with the vessels. The correspondent further says it is alleged that Japan is negotiating with Buenos Ayres for four other Argentine warshipx COAL FOR JAPANESE NAVY. Norfolk, Var., Jan. 7. The British steamship Knight Errant. Captain Ken dall, passed out the Virginia capes last evening laden with 11,600 tons of steam coal shipped to an importing firm in Yokohama, Japan, but for the use, it is said, of the Japanese navy. A great deal of interest is manifested in ship ping circles regarding the safe passage of the vessel and it is understood an unusually high risk was charged. Captain Kendall expects to reach Yokohama inside of fifty days, and said before sailing that precautions had been taken which would render it im possible for the voyage to be inter rupted. CONSOLS GO LOWER. London, Jan. 7. Consols today touched 86-13-16, another low water mark. M. Rothschild says this appears to be entirely due to apprehension of war between Russia and Japan, and not to fear that Great Britain will be in volved in the fighting. At their an nual meetings all banks are announc ing that they have written down their holdings of consols to 85. CABINET MEETING POSTPONED. London, Jan. 7. The expected meet ing of the British cabinet on Saturday has been postponed. -This is interpreted in rmsinsss circles to mean an amelio ration in the far eastern crisis, couoled with better reports from Paris through the Exchange Telegraph company say ing that the French foreign office has received advices favorable to a peaceful settlement. This led to an imorove ment on the stock exchange, consols going up and Japanese and other securities following suit. THE RUSSIANS WALKED. Washington, Jan. 7. U. S. Minister Alien at Seoul. Korea, has cabled the state department under today's date that the Russian marines who were landed at Chemulpo and who were re fused transportation to Seoul over the Japanese ra:lway, have reached the capital, marching overland. INQUESTBEGINS-. Official List in the Hands of the Coroner Includes the Names of 565 Dead Persons. A SEPARATE VERDICT Will Be Rendered in the Case of Each Victim. Proceedings Opened With the Name of Miss M. E. Torney. Chicago, Jan. 7. Before a" dense crowd packing the council chamber in the city hall, Coroner Traeger and a jury of six men today began the offi cial investigation of the Iroquois the ater fire. Witnesses were persons who were in the audience at the matinee. They told of the panic and of finding exits locked. Outside in the anterooms a host of witheses waited to be heard. Frightened victims who escaped with their lives from the fiery furnace, actors, chorus girls, stage hands, po licemen ami others men mingled there with, making a strange gathering. Within the council chamber the inqui sition proceeded along Judicial lines. Lawyers were resent in behalf of nu merous interests, seeking opportunity to examine witnesses along lines of spe cial Interest to their clients. Under Coroner Traeger's ruling such questions j were barred and the examination con tinued strictly along the lines laid down i by that officer. The coroner's official list of dead for use at the inquest contains just 565 names. Previous police reports in dicating 591 dead are declared now to be inaccurate and due to the shifting of bodies from one morgue to another. Preparations were comdete for the mosusearching inquiry into the causes of the greatest calamity that Chicago has ever known. Coroner Traeger pre sided over the investigation, with State's Attorney Dineen or one of his assistants in constant attendance as the coroner's legal representative, and the corporation counsel, the county at torney, a score of lawyers representing private interests and numerous officials of the fire and police departments tak ing part in the inquiry. It is estimated that it will require at least six days for the jury to hear the testimony of the 200 or more wit nesses. The provision of the law that the jury shall view the bodies over which the inquest is held having al ready been complied with. Coroner Traeger entered at once upon the ex amination of the witnesses to determine the cause of the fire and the responsi bility Of the loss of life Technically the inquest is held over "the body of iuiss Mary itiana Torney and 564 oth ers." Deputy Coroner Buckley knew Miss Torney and arrived on the scene of the nre a tew -minutes after her body had been carried out. He was able to locate the two policemen who had handled the body. The check to her seat in the theater was found on her clothing. Pre cise evidence can therefore be deduced as to the circumstances of her death and these circumstances will be inter preted to apply in general to the "564 others." -Although some died of asphyxiation, some of burns and some from concus sion, the jury will find that death in each cast resulted from "shocks and injury." The jury will sign a separate verdict for each victim. For the task of fixing the responsi bility for the great loss of life State's Attorney Dineen instructed Coroner Traeger to establish the identity if pos sible of some person or persons who died at the end of the passage leading south from the entrance of the second balcony. There a locked door cut off the escape of hundreds, whose bodies were found against the barricaded door. The coroner has succeeded in gathering this evidence. Mrs. Strong of Chicago and her niece, Vera Strong of Americus, Ga., died at the foot of the stairway. The story of their- death before the locked exit has been told to the coroner by James M, Strong, son of the elder victim. Mr. Strong, who is a board of trade clerk, consented to testify. The arrest of William J. Maher and George Nagel, which took place today is considered important by Coroner Traeger in connection with the investi gation. The men were employed by a subcontractor of the Fuller Construc tion company. According to the police the men say they nailed down the ven tilators on the roof of the theater over the stage and that an examination will show that the skylight frames had never been removed. In other words, the safety vents for a fire on the stage were never opened experimentally and every audience that ever sat in the Iroquois theater from the day the the ater was opened, had been in imminent danger of roasting to death w-holesale whenever a fire broke out on the stage. E. Krifting, is the subcontractor of the Fuller Construction company, who em ployed Maher and Nagel. The two workmen were at home in bed when arrested. The workmen explain to the police thaf the nails were expected to be removed later and the skylights put in proper working order when the the ater was given in to the hands of the owner. Both men expressed willing ness to appear before the coroner's jury. Great stress is laid by the coroner upon developments during the inquest in relation to the stage ventilator and air shafis, the proper working of which It 3 held would have saved hundreds from death. The ventilators and shafts were opened the next morning after the fire for Foreman David of the George Fuller Construction company, by two workmen, Maher and Nagel. According to the police, Maher today said that he had charge of the metal construction of the ventilator. Tha ventilator was to have been oraratac! by a lever from the stage; -that it could be thrown open at a moment's notice, but, according to Maher, the lever was never fitted. Maher, accord ing to the police, says that he went to the theater, the day alter ine nre anu looked to see if the lever had been at tached, but could find no trace of it. He saw several temporary scantlings nailed to the wall in the way he had fixed them when his part of the work of constructing the theater was fin ished. (Continued on Sixth Page.) ANOTHER PLEASANT DAY. No Signs of the Promised Severe Weather. The weather in Topeka today has been as balmy as if no snow storm had been predicted. The government forecast for Kansas sent out today by the weather bureau, tells briefly that severe weather is not to be expected. The forecast is: "Fair tonight and Friday." The wind at noon was west blowing 12 miles an hour. The minimum temperature for the day was 2S. The hourly tempera tures recorded by the government ther mometer today were as follows: 7 o'clock ..32jll o'clock 39 8 o'clock 32jl2 o'clock 43 9 o'clock 33j l.o'clock 46 10 o'clock 36 2 o'clock 50 Wind 19 miles from northwest at 2 p. m. CASHIER IS ARRESTED. Bank of II ighland Is Consequent ly Closed. The State Bank of Highland, in Don iphan county, has been closed by State Bank Commissioner Albaugh, and S. C. Crummer, state bank examiner, has been placed in charge. J. E. Marcell. the cashier, was arrested yesterday on the charge of forging about $20.00T worth of paper, and the closing of trie bank followed, Mr. Crummer is now making an investigation of the bank to ascertain its exact condition. The bank has a capital of $20,000, with $3,000 surplus. Its deposits were in the neighborhood of $100,000. The officers at the time of the last biennial report of the state bank department were as follows: President, H. Dillon: vice president. C. L. Marcell; cashier, J. E. Marcell; assistant cashier. Louis I Marcell. J. F. Close, assistant attorney gen eral, will go to Highland this after noon and look into the status of affairs from the state's standpoint, and it is likely that a receiver will be appointed to wind up the bank's affairs. It is not known to what extent Alar cell's alleged forgeries may run. It is said they were first discovered through Marcell borrowing $10,00i from a local capitalist, giving his note therefor, se cured by another note alleged to have been given Marcell by another wealthy citizen. The man who made the loan to Marcell was inquisitive enough to investigate how Marcell came to have a note from the other man, and discov ered that the other man owed Marcell nothing. This led to the arrest, and since then other guaranteed paper has turned up in St. Joseph, where Marcell did considerable business. This is not the first time the Marcells have been in trouble. When John W. Breidenthal was bank commissioner he had trouble in keeping their bank within the law, and Bank Commis&ianer Albaugh has had the same kind of trouble. A few years ago one of them was caught by the federal authorities for fraudulent transactions, and came very nearly going to the penitentiary, The story is that parties in the neigh borhood of Highland gave a mortgage on some land to a St. Joseph bank, and in due time it was sent throwrh various channels to the Highland bank for col lection. One of the Marcells repre sented to the holders of the mortgage that the parties who gave it were not good for it, but on the day it came due the parties went to Marcell's bank and paid it. Marcell kent up his reuresen tations until he got a compromise out ot tne bt. Joseph bank for considerable less than the face of the mortgage. TO MEET TOMORROW. First District Republican Com mittee Will Be Here. Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock the First district Republican congressional committee will meet at the Copeland and decide upon the time and place for holding the First district congressional convention, which, will decide the fate of Congressman Ctn tis for another two years. Besides fixing the time and place the basis of representation will also come up, and in connection with this the congressional committee will pass upon the proposition to segregate the Sol diers' home from Leavenworth county and give it a separate delegation as though it were a county by itself. Arthur Capper is chairman of the committee, and W. I. Biddle of Leav enworth is secretary. Mr. Biddle made the fight in the state committee against the segregation of the Soldiers' home, and he will doubtless do the same in tomorrow's meeting. The other members of the congres sional commit tee are as follows: Atchison county J. B. Kurth of Atchison. Brown county E. C. Beckenstoce of Hiawatha. Doniphan county D. P. Delaney of Severance. Jefferson county F.H.Roberts of Os kaloosa. Nemaha county W. H. Jordan of Seneca. Jackson county John M. Bacon cf Soldier. Atchison will put in a bid for the convention to be held there. GOLDEN STATE WRECK. Hock Island Has Another Dis aster No One Killed. Tucumcari, N. M., Jan. 7. The Rock Island's Golden State limited collided with a freight train, at Revueito, N. M., early this morning. Although no one was killed, the engine was disabled and much equipment was destroyed. At the time of the wreck the freight train was standing crossways of the main line and the limited struck it in the center. The limited was running at a rate of 69 miles an hour. Local officials of the road say that they know nothing about the wreck further than is contained in the above dispatch. They say that the limited was running about 79 miles an hour at the point where the wreck occurred and that it struck the center of a freight that was too long for the spur on which it was standing. Died of Broken Heart. New York, Jan. 7. Mrs. Nora Down ing is dead from what the physicians pronounce a broken heart. She fell at the side of an open grave in Calvary cemetery into which a casket had just been lowered containing the liody of her husband. Doctors were called, but she died in a few minutes, her heart having given away. SEVENTEEN DEAD. Tictims of Rock Island Disaster Up to Date. All Are Identified Except One Roy. FRIEXDS ARE ARRIVING Son of 31 r. and Mrs. W. S. Mar tin Is Here. Father and Mother Both Died in Wreck. CORONER IS AT WORK. OClcial Inrestlgation of the Causes Being Held. Willard Operator Listened for the Crash Those among the Willard wreck vic time who have been positively Identi fied and claimed by relatives are as fol lows: MRS. MARTHA HILL, Greensburg, Kan., aged 45 years. W. S. MARTIN, Do Kalb, Mo., 56 years. MRS. W. S. MARTIN, DeKalb, Mo., 43 years. JAMES GRIFFT, Claremont, Mo. E. E. MOTER, Kansas City, news agent on the Rock Island train. GAIL FULLER, Blockton, la,, 7 years. MRS. HEJNR x kaibdh, Durham, Kansas. WILLIAM J. "WELLS, Jacksonville, Illinois. Those whose names have been ascer tained but who have not been claimed by relatives are: MRS. MARY HARVILLE,Chillicothe, aged about 30 years. BEN HARVILLE, Chillicothe, aged 13 years. TOT HARVILLE, Chillicothe, 3 years. MRS. SUSAN REED. Chillicoth 43 years. GRACE REED, Chillicothe. LENORA REED, Chillicothe. boy, unidentified, about 8 years. Seventeen is the correct number of the dead from the wreck of Rock Is land passenger train No. 3, westbound, near Willard at 1:80 a. m. Wednesday. The bodies of the dead are all at To peka, eight at the undertaking rooms of J. T. Barclay and nine at the De Moss Penwell establishment and at these two places the coroner's jury is holding adjourned sessions today. The responsibility for the disaster has not yet been fixed. The work of identification went on until late last night and this morning all but the body of 'a little boy had been claimed by friends. It is supposed that the relatives of the small boy are in one of the Topeka hospitals, where all the wreck victims are reported to be doing well. All of the injured will re cover. Rescue work at the scene of the wreck continued from immedi ately after its occurrence until 4 a. m. None of the dead, save one or two who died on the relief train, were brought to Topeka until noon yesterday. Since that time grief stricken relatives have been arriving in Topeka to find their own among the dead. As soon as the coroner's jury disposes of its task most of the bodies will be removed from To peka, to be sent home for burial. Among those who have come to look for relatives is a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Martin of St. Joseph, Mo., both of whom were killed outright. A sister, Blanche Martin, ten years old, is in Stormont hospital supposed to be in ternally injured. The four little chil dren of Henry Kaiser, the German, are at Stormont hospital although none of them were seriously hurt. The body of Mrs. Kaiser will be removed immedi ately after the completion of the in quest. She will be burled at Durham, Kan., to which place she was on her way from her former home in Ger many. The coroner's jury, which will today complete its work of fixing the respon sibility for the wreck is composed as follows: J. N. Dolley, Charles Hoseaek, Dr. C. E. Menard, Dr. J. M. Kemper. Charles Paine, and George Oliver, all residents of Wabaunsee county. The circumstances of the wreck make it appear that some one is criminally and culpably responsible for the dis aster. It is believed that the coroner will be able to sift down the evidence and fix this responsibility. In case this is done the person on whom the blame is land will doubtless be liable to criminal prosecution under the Kansas statute for the punishment of manslaughter at tributable to culpable negligence. Speak ing. of the wreck. County Attorney Otia Hungate said today: "Some one has doubtless been crimi nally careless and is certainly liable to be prosecuted for it. In my opinion punishment should be dealt out in full measure in this instance. The wreck having occurred in Wabaunsee county, the prosecution of the responsible per son is of course out of my power." Among those who were on the wreck ed train but were unhurt was Miss Helen Hewitt of Elgin, 111.,, who was en route to Pochuca, Mexico. Misa Hewitt has been for four years a teach er in Mexico under the Women's For eign Missionary society of the M. B. church. Miss Helen F. Barnes of Chicago, na tional secretary of the Young Women's Christian association, was on the train, on her way to California to 'spend the winter on account of ill health. Miss Barnes was in the sleeper and escaped injury. She lent active aid in the re lief work. Miss Carolyn L. Patch of Chicago, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. of that city, was accompanying Miss Barnes. She also was unhurt. ROCK ISLAND'S WORST WRECK. With one exception, the recent wreck on the Baltimore Ohio railroad, in which about sixty-five people met their death, the Willard wreck is the worst that has occurred In this country for many months. Old railroad engineers and conductors express themselves as being of the opinion that nothing like it has occuired in the history of the Rock Island railroad. James Johnson, who in his twenty years of service as a railroad man has seen many bad wrecks, said yesterday after looking at the coach f.nd smoking car which had been telescoped in the accident and in (Continued on Page Six.)
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The Capitol Building and Loan Associat'a Will assist you to "START THE HABIT." 534 Kansas Avenue. OUR THEORY That one pleased customer brings another la doing Ita nili lion nobly. The Fivn Cer.ts a Day Telephone proving more popular daily. Missouri KansaiTeb Ci 'Phoai 999 Everybody reads the State Journal. r aV J IX KANSASJIEWS. D. A. Ellsworth, of Emporia, Returns from Mexico. Writes Interestingly of Ills Trip and Impressions. RIPE FOR INVESTMENT. Uubber, Coal, Money Lending and Kail road Work. Coffee Plantations Are Not Do ing Business Now. Take Along Hard Sense, Money and Gift of Spanish. Kmporia, Kan., Jan. 7. D. A, Ells worth, home from a trip to Mexico, re lates the following interesting story in the Gazette: Mexico is something the size of the western part of the Mississippi valley, and a trip from Kl Paso to the City of Mexico Is over twelve hundred miles in length. The plateau of Anahuae is the biggest part of the country, and it is drained, in the wet season, Jy the Rio Grande. Like some places nearer home, it goes dry about November and stays that way for several months. There is a big mountain range on the west side and a less,er one on the east and the rivers don't amount to much. Along the coast it is tropical and there it is the yellow fever occurs now and then. This is the smaller part of Mex ico, and few tourists do more than go to the edge and look down into the hot country. There is nothing inviting about north ern Mexico at this season of the year. It has the color of a buffalo waller in the fall, and is used for grazing. One man, the governor of Chihuahua, has the greatest cattle ranch in the world and is rated at twenty millions. The region has the ear marks of the desert. The hills are low and rounded in form and the mountains are round topped or mesas, due to the action of the winds. The plants are those that are armed for defense, as the cactus or thorny bushes, or gray in color with the mimi cry of the desert. Just now the cattle business Is being pushed into the tropical regions. The proposition is to buy cattle on the up lands at twenty dollars apiece, feed them for three months on the para grass, and then sell them for fifty dol lars per head. That is how it looks on paper and Alf Swenson says that is what he has done. There is no "winter ing" in stock raising and they have good markets at home and abroad. There is lots doing here in cattle, mil lions of American money are being in vested in the business. The coffee business is a little off color Just now. It has about the gait of "good residence lots some ways out." It is not a poor man's chance nor a double-your-money-in-a-short time proposition But it seems to be picking up somewhat. As a matter of diet I haven't found a cup of coffee in Mexico like Mrs. Wicks makes. Most of it is the color of ebony and they pour in hot milk half and half. Not the flesh-pots of Emporia, for me, so much as the coffee-pots! The rubber business is in rnnH fnvr here and big money is being made, but the best proposition is the cotton busi ness. Around Torreon they are getting results out of cotton that am far anil away ahead of Dixie. Thev are borinsr deep wells and irrigating and that means two crops a year. The cotton tree is the latest thinst in the trade and is irrawr. successfully in parts of Mexico. The class of labor employed is such that the porter exclaimed: "Lawd, my ole mam my would make all dem peons take her dust in dat cotton field." The man who irets a conl min in ty- ico has tail-hold on the dilemma. Fuel is tne ourning question. In the cities they use charcoal and on the railroads they burn wood almost entirely. There are coal mines in the north and even anthra cite in the northwest, but in Central Mex ico they are hard pushed for stuff to burn. The forests have almost disan- peared and the prices of wood and char coal are sKy-nigh. There are strong hopes of oil in the northeast, an exten sion of the Beaumont oil belt, basd up on the best of signs. They are going af ter coal in a thorough way and the pros pects are better in the fuel business. Mining is on the boom in Mexico. The prospectors are pushing a head of the branch railroads and new and rich dis tricts of gold, silver and copper are be ing opened up. The Americans seem to be foremost in this line and mining ex perts are here from all parts of our country. Kl Paso, a short distance from Mexico, is called the Cripple Creek of Mexico. Other notable regions are over on the Pacific coast around Colima and in the south near Oaxaca. One of the best chances is money lending. The banks charge 1 per cent per month and 9 per cent is paid on gilt edge securities. There is a strong demand for loans on improved real estate, while the man who loans on personal property has everything his way. The rate of ex change now is about two-thirty and so when you more than double your money and get twice the rate of interest, what is there to be desired but a quit claim aeea If there ever was a field that seemed to be ripe for investments it is Mexico. It is a land of two or three croDs a vear. labor is cheap, the government is almost ingenuous in its attitude to investors, there is a large class of wealthy ueonle who are fond of doo-dods and automo biles, prices are well, for instance a $10 desk is MS and a 526 cnina closet is Silo. and so on through the catalogue. It never does to walk right out of the I promised land, and a man who is in 1 Kansas with a good job and no kin trou bles ought to stay there. But to any one I who wants to try another country. Mpt 1 Ico oueht to look eood to him. but first of all and last of any, he should have three tmnps Dusmess tact, monev and Spanish and greatest of these three is Spanish. O D. Nash la Missing. Wichita, Kas., Jan. 7. Friends of O. D. Nash would like to know where he is. Nash is a Sedgwick farmer and the news that he had gone to Mexico be came current today. It is said that he left some time ago on account of money matters, out his lather, who is wrealthy, has paid his obligations and he is free to return. A Farm Sold for $14,000. Abilene, Kas., Jan. 7. A half section farm, purchased eight years ago for $7,000, was sold for ?14,000 cash yester day, it is east of town on the bottom lands and has, during all the eight years, paid p. big rent. It was boueht by tiortheastern Kansas farmers, who are buying many farms in this county, They pay large prices and usually cash. He Took Carbolic Acid. Wichita, Kas., Jan. 7. J. L. Turner, a teamster, died from a dose of car bolic acid taken with suicidal intent 111 health is assigned as the cause. He tormerly lived in El Dorado. Hogs Are Dying Off Arkansas City, Kan., Jan. 7. Hog raisers of southern Kansas are losing many head of stock from the muscle worm, a parasite that works in the muscles and, unless checked early, proves mortal. Many farmers have treated their animals for cholera, but have come to the conclusion that the worm is the cause of their losses. One farmer lost seventy-five head in one week. The- country along the Arkan sas river Is affected. MANY ILL WITH MEASLES. The Number of School Children Sick in Emporia Is 202 Emporia, Kas., Jan. 7. The measles epidemic in Lyon county is causing alarm. The city teachers' report shows that there are 202 cases of measlas among the school children. This is 12 per cent, of all of the children in the city schools. Aside from these, a num ber of Normal students are absent with the measles. The day before the Nor mal dismissed for vacation seventeen students were taken sick in one day. Two deaths have resulted frim the epi demic. In the family of William Bacon, eight miles northwest of here, the father and six children are bedfast with measles. The doctor gave up two of the Bacon cases. Every day the county superin tendent receives word of county schools being closed because of the measles. TO INVESTIGATE ATTORNEYS. Cherokee County Bar Will Follow TJp Grand Jury Work. Galena, Kan., Jan. 7. The Cherokee county bar will meet Friday to investi gate the charge brought by the grand jury against two of its present mem bers. The case is beyond the jurisdic tion of the jury, so the charges pre ferred were submitted to the court in written statement. Charles Stevens, ex-county attorney, and C. A. McNeill, a member of the state board of charities, are accused of beingintheemployof a liquor associa tion on a stipulated salary to defend men combined together for unlawful purposes. Judge Glasse appointed a committee of E. M. Tracewell, S. L. Walker and W. A. Sapp to make an investigation. FIRE IN THE CRAWFORD. Wichita Theater Had a Small Blaze Without Results. Wichlta,Kan., Jan. 7. Electric sparks came near causing a possible danger ous fire in the Crawford opera house, which, was crowded during the annual play given by the senior class of the 'high school. A member of the cast found two wires on which the insula tion was defective and touched them together, "to see the sparks fly." he said. A blaze was started, but was soon extinguished. The audience knew nothing of the blaze. The manage ment announced today that no more entertainments by students would be permitted In the bouse. Threatened to Lynch Lucas. TVnv. TCa.n.. Jan 7 Sheriff Rmspv took Sidney Lucas to Hiawatha last night to avoid a lynching. Lucas was arrested Sunday afternoon charged with an at tempted attack on Miss Clara Nieman Saturday night while he was taking her and her sister home from Wathena. Miss Nieman lives about four miles east of here. The feeling in that neighborhood is at hierh pitch ana there nave oeen tre- quent threats of lynching. A Victim of the Flood. Edwardsville, Jan. 7. Joseph Sen.' graves, a farmer living one mile east of here, committed suicide at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the basement of his home by shooting himself through the heart. He was despondent over the loss of his farm by the flood of last June. He leaves a wife, but no children. A Wichita Negro Shot. Wichita, Kas., Jan. 7. David Bady lies in a Wichita hospital with a bullet wound in his breast from which he may not recover, the result of a fight with Thomas Davis. Both of the men are negroes and the fight occurred in a negro resort. Farmers Buy a Store. Abilene, Jan. 7. The farmers of the vicinity of Navarre, 16 miles south of here, have united and bought the gen eral merchandise store there. They have formed a co-operative company and will conduct the business them selves after March L Was Killed in a Mine. Galena. Kan.. Jan. 7. Harry Porter was killed Wednesday afternoon while work ing in the Red Rose mine. A slab weigh ing about 3,000 pounds crushed him. Por ter was unmarried and leaves a mother and one brother. Rowan's Regiment to Panama. Atchison. Kan.. Jan. 7. CaDtain A. S. Rowan's regiment, the Nineteenth infant ry, now stationed at Vancouver barracks, Wash., has been ordered to Panama. Captain Rowan expects marching orders soon. Captain Rowan is in this city at present. Kansas Rural Carriers Washington, Jan. 7. Arthur P. Hamil ton has been appointed regular and Wal ter E. Hamilton substitute rural carrier for Derby, Kan. Life Caused Chronic Headaches. Stomach Trouble All His Life. Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills Cured Him of Both. As is very frequently found the stomach trouble and neadaohe in the following case came from the same cause. Dr. Miles Anti Tain Pills, like all ef Dr. Miles' Remedies, are designed to core the disease, net the symptoms. This readily explains why these sterling medicines can cure such a variety of diseases. There is n remedy, formal a or prescription which in any war equals Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills far the speedy cure and relief of headache ana kindred ailments. "Up to tl-e age of twenty-three my son was greatly troubled with severe pains in the stomach. After he had served his terra of enlistment with the army in the Philippines be came heme and was unfit for anything because of terrible headaches. He found that Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills not only re lieved him of the headaches but would pre vent an attack if taken in time. He contin ued then use for seme time and to his sur prise and delight he found they had cured the stomach trouble also. You may imagine how grateful both he and mvself feel to you for the good the Anti-Pain Pills have done him. I may add that I have used yeur med icines in eur family for many years and keep a bottle of Nervine in the house all the time. I think it an ideal household remedy and all the remedies are just what you recommend there ta be. You have my permission to rublish this." Mrs. M. L. Farrak, Walla Waiia, Wash. All druggists sell and guarantee Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain riiis. They are non-laxative; con tain a epiatea, never sold in balk, 25 doses, 5 ctats. Di. Miles Medical Co Elkhart, lad. SPORTINOEWS. Battle Between Sbarkej and Man roe Discussed. The Battle Should Be Hard Fought and Close. BUTTE MAS LARGEST. The Miner Has lmprored Won derfully of Late But the Sailor is Courageous and a Game Fighter. New Tork, Jan. 7. Now that Tom Sharkey and Jack Munroe are really matched and there is no doubt that they will fight, sporting men are rapidly taking sides. Some say that Munroe will have as much chance with the sail or as a lamb has with the wolf. Others declare as positively that Munroe will beat Sharkey without any more trouble than he did Peter Maher and Al Lim erick. There will be betting on this fight when the time comes. It seems evident, however, that any man who can knock out Peter Maher in four rounds will have a chance to beat Sharkey or any other fighter who can be beaten with a punch. Sharkey has been beaten by both Fltzsimmons and Ruhlin. He has absolutely un limited courage and willingness to fight, but, although he went twenty-five rounds with Jeffries, It is possible for him to be whipped. Munroe is a bigger man than the sail or and nearly, If not quite, as strong In build. If anything, he knows more of the varieties of blows used In the ring. He fights In much the same man ner that Sharkey does. In point of ag gressiveness, but he hits straighter and with better judgment. Sharkey has a terrible "wallop" with either hand. He knocked Ruhlin out once with a single punch on the point of the chin. He nearly broke "Kid" McCoy in two with a blow in the pit of the stomach. He beat Corbett about the ring so savagely that that clever fight er's second Jumped through the ropes to save him from a knockout. He knocked Fitzsrmmons down harder than any other fighter ever did in all that gentleman's experience. And with all that the sailor has a very limited variety of punches at his command. He swings the left and fol lows it instantly with the right. He hits with one hand after the other at 'the chin and with one after another at the body. He rushes all the time. If he is hit hard he does not vary the pro gramme, but keeps boring in. That is the way to beat a man who cannot hit or who cannot take a lot of punishment. It is not the way to whip a man who is strong and a hard hitter. Sharkey would find less trouble by far In running over and beating down Cor bett than he would in doing the same thing to Munroe, although as a boxer Munroe does not begin to compare with the Calif ornian. Munroe has improved much since he came here a .year ago after his bout with the champion', in Montana. Then he did not. know, enough about boxing to start a preliminary fighter In Phil adelphia. Since then he has worked with such men as Tom West, fit to teach him every point of the game. In his fight with Maher, a couple of months ago, he showed the beginning of some cleverness. With Limerick he again showed improvement. By the time he gets into the ring with Sharkey he will be a different fighter. .Munroe uses a good, straight hand. His jab lands hard, with jarring ef fect. That is one of the best blows to beat Sharkey with. Fitzsimmons, in his last fight with the sailor,-' used that to great advantage. He merely straight ened Sharkey up with the left, holding him off in good position with a wallop with the right. In the ring of the Na tional Sporting club of London Ruhlin did exactly the same thing. He jab bed Sharkey with the straight left, holding him away so far that the sail or's blows, his short wings, could not reach, but missed Ruhlin by a foot or so. Munroe did that with Limerick. If he can jab Sharkey and keep himseif out of range of that hook that the sailor uses he will win. Another of the blows that Munroe will use, without a doubt, is a right hand hook into the body. That is one of his best, and is the blow with which he claims to have dropped Jeffries. He steps straight in, feinting or jabbing with the left, draws his left arm across his jaw as a guard, and drives the right below his rival's defense, landing over the heart or in the pit of the stomach. Sharkey once took a terrible beating from Jeffries on that spot. He will never forget his broken ribs and per haps he Is not able to endure as much on that spot as he could before that fight. Fitzsimmons, with his shift and left hook to the body, battered the same spot another blow that the sailor remembers. Munroe can hit hard with that blow. If he can land it the punch will do damage. Hut with all his improvement in hit ting Munyoe has no defense worth men tioning. Sharkey will not have great trouble in getting his fists across to the miner's body or Jaw unless Munroe makes his defense by landing first and takinir the stine out of the sailor's punches. That is the best defense, but now and then it does not work. Young Corbett does more defensive work by- hitting or countering inside ot nis aa versary's blows than he does by cover ing. This fight should be a smashing bat tle, both men hitting hard and often until the end comes. Both will show cicna nf wear before the referee begins that final count ot ten over one ui other. There will be little attempt to flt-fonslvo work. Sharkey will swing, Munroe will hit straight or use short hooks. Since the fighters are cioseiy motnhefl in streneth and aggressive ness it should give a good line on the comparative values of these styles of fighting. More Land for Breeding Farm. Timrinn TTir .Tn. 7. J. B. Haereln or- nf 'RlmenHrtrf stud, has leased of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Simms 1.000 acres of the noted WoodDum estate, iexmjsion. rvy. fr,?m,r!v the nronortv of the late A. J Alexander, and the land will be used is an annex to his Kentucky breeding estab lishment. Cantillon Signs a Flayer. Milwaukee. Wis.. Jan. 7. Manager Can tlllon of the Milwaukee American asso ciation ball team has signed James Mc-" Kee of the Pennsylvania atate league to Sellers Ship String to Memphis. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 7. ?Sirl Sellers of this citv shipped to Memphis to be train ed at Montgomery park an even dozen of splendid looking 2-year-old colts and fil lies. Thev were nearly all purchased by Hfl Cl sr h. rlncin Allt ul. ft tVA Melbourne stud and ara of royal breed-1 ing, being by such sires as Prince of Mo naco. Rainbow, imo. Inaoldsbv. Faron- dale, St. Julien, Belvidere and Standing ana out oi such clams as flying Kumar, Desdemonia, Hifalutin, Minnie Bramble, Jessie Lee B. and Dicey. CORBETT WILL FIGHT BRITT. Little Champion Will Meet the Cali fornia Lightweight Next Month San Francisco, Jan. 7. A conference was held at Harry Corbett's between Willie Britt and Young Corbett which resulted in arranging a match between Jimmy Britt and Champion Corbett. The conference lasted not more than one minute, for Corbett came to Britt's terms, so anxious is he to meet the California lightweight. Corbett agreed to fight at 130 pounds at 6 o'clock. This is the giving of one pound by Corbett, who has held out all along for 129 pounds at 6 p. m. It was agreed that Graney should be ref eree, and that the fight should come off during February, but the club wasn't selected. In fact, it is expected that the fighters will gain somewhat by the competition for this pugilistic plum, as it is the biggest drawing card that could be presented here outside of the big heavyweights. The men agree not to engage In any fight before this match comes off, but the date is left uncertain because the new board ot supervisors has not yet granted per mits for fights. Manager Coffroth of the Hayes Val ley Athletic club will probably get the fight, as he has already made a bid for it for $20,000, but the fighters preferred a percentage of receipts. They have agreed to split the purse, 66 per cent to the winner. FENCERS READY FOR MEETING Newly Formed Intercollegiate Asso ciation Flans for Further Events. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. Representatives of the various college fencing clubs, members of the newly formed Inter collegiate Fencing association, are ready for their second annual meeting. West Point, Annapolis, Columbia, Har vard, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania will send delegates. Plans will be discussed for an inter collegiate fencing tournament at the St. Louis exposition. At least two of the colleges Yale and Columbia, are said to be in favor of holding such a tournament, while sentiment elsewhere seems to be divided. The argument urged in favor of holdlne a meeting at St. Louis is that it would give other colleges not members of the intercol legiate association a chance to com pete. Arrangements for the next intercol legiate championship tournament will also be made at the meeting. The New York Athletic club is the most likely place, and the date some time around March 20. WILL JOIN EASTERN TURFMEN Frederick Calhoun Names Tippecanoe for Big Brooklyn Handicap. New Tork. Jan. 7. Frederick G. Cal houn will join the ranks of eastern owners with the beginning of the rac ing season of 1904, and he has already named the colt Tippecanoe, recently purchased, as his dependence in the Brooklyn handicap. The other pur chases thus far are two highly tried yearling fillies, and it is promised they will be nominated in all of the big 2-year-old fixtuhes of the coming season. It was intimated at Washington during the Bennings meeting that Mr. Calhoun would likely purchase Tippecanoe. In his racing venture Mr. Calhoun will have Cornelius Fellowes, Jr., associated with him, although it is the intention to race the horses in the name of Mr. Cal houn. HAS NOT SECURED FULLER. Trainer of Highball Leaves New Or leans Without Hiring Jockey. New Orleans, La., Jan. 7. "Bub" May, who is training Highball and eighteen other horses for W. M. Soheftel. has re turned to Montgomery park without mnk ine any outright contract for the services of Jockey Fuller or even securing an an swer to his proposal to Archie Zlmmor. May seemed to be determined to get Ful ler at any price and said that his em ployer had not limited mm on the amount to be paid. It is said that Zimmer turn ed down a big offer and that he has other plans with Fuller included. Won a Trunk Full of Gold. Lexington, Ky., Jan. 7. Bub May, who recently returned from his suc cessful campaign on the Metropolitan tracks and who has gone to Memphis with a large stable of horses owned by himself and W. M. Scheftel of New York, astonished his friends in the lobby of the Phoenix hotel here the other day by an illustration of how easy it was to get hold of money in the east the past season. "Why," said May, 'five-dollar gold pieces are as thick around race tracks as chestnuts in Mississippi river bottoms. I began col lecting $5 gold pieces for my little boy. tossing every one l received in change into a trunk at our quarters at the track. When we came away I had a trunk full." Some of May's friends pressed him for the size of the trunk, but he refused to answer. McClelland Will Go to England. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 7. Jack McClel land will go to England with Jack O'Brien. The Philadelphian made ar rangements with Manager Mason and the fighters. "There are many- small men in England," said O'Brien, "and there is plenty of money in the fighting game, and McClelland can make a for tune and a reputation. To Coach Cornell Athletes. Ithaca, N. T., Jan. 7. Charles V. P. Young, of Williamsport, Pa., one of the Young brothers famous in Cornell ath letics, will succeed Dr. Edward Hitch cock, jr., resigned, as physical director and general overseer or Cornell ath leties. "Tar" Young graduated from Cornell in 1899. Racing at Frisco. San Francisco, Jan. 7. 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Get Your Order In Now so That Name Will Appear in Directory. 519 Kansas Ave. The Topeka Independent Telephone Ca lways R.jns5ker the Njtana tdnine Cares a Cold In One Day, 2 Days with a rush he called on his mount, but It was too late, and Our Bessie won by a nose. The race for 3-year-olds proved to be an interesting contest, Roekaway beating Military Man. a head. Chorus Boy stumbled in the third race, three furlongs from the wire and fell. Otis sustained a fracture of the skull. Modicum was plunged on in the last race, but made a poor showing. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 7. Knowledge, Nellie Waddell and Bard of Avon were the beaten favorites at the Crescent City track. Weather clear, track fas. Racing at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Jan. 7. Three favorites, two second choices and one third choice won at Ascot, and the public quit win ner on the day. The weather was fine and the track good. Tod Sloan Will Become a Trainer. London, Jan. 7. Tod Sloan intends to start a stable with a dozen of his own horses and what others he can get to train. GIRLS BUILD CHAPEL. No Kan to Have Anything to Do With Construction. Stamford, Conn., Jan. 7. With, their own hands the girls of Rosemary hall, a seminary In which daughters of wealthy families are educated, have be gun to erect a stone chapel. They have made a vow that no man's labor shall be employed in any part of the work. eorge Lauder, Jr., a nephew of An diw Carnegie, offered them all the stone they required from his estate. Just before the Christmas holidays fifty girls in rainy-day skirts, white jerseys, and heavy boots went after the first load on the Lauder farm. Two girls drove a cart, into which the girls heaved the stones with a will. Some of the stones were so heavy that two or three girls tugged with, all their might to lift one. For several days squads of girls, led by their gymnasium in structor, a woman, repeated the trip after the building material. When the pupils return to Rosemary in January they will take pickaxes and shovels and dig the trenches for the foundation. They intend to mix the mortar and lay the stone. A part of their holidays has been devoted to study of building operations. The origin of this novel building en terprise is a sentiment among the pupils that the school gymnasium is not a proper place for chapel exeicises. The plans, drawn y art architect, a man, call for a low structure of un dressed stone. Cat's Mile-a-Minute Rk'i Utica, N. Y., Jan. 7. An Albany cat reached Utica in a rather unconventional manner today. She was a passenger on the New York newspaper train which makes the run from Albany to this city without a stop at about a mile-a-minute gait Miss Pussycat rode on the front trucks of one of the cars. The cat was exposed to the bitter cold during the journey of the train up the Mohawk valley, but was none the worse for the experience. Crazy Man Starts Two Fires. New York, Jan. 7. Two incendiary fires early today imperilled the lives of hun dreds of persons living in tenement houses at Seventh avenue and Thirty first street. In one cf the crowded build ings the tenants extinguished the blaxe, but in the other place the flames got such headway that the firemen had (o carry 50 half frozen women and children down the fire escapes. A supposed insane man has been arrested on suspicion of naving nred tne Duimings. Water Scandal in Chicago Chicago, Jan. 7. In the disappearance of Superintendent Thomas A. Ryan of the shut off division of the city water bu reau, has come to light a scandal involv ing the alleged forgery of assignments of the salaries of employes of the bureau. The assignments are said to have been forged by different persons. A Very Close CalL T stuck to my engine, although every Joint ached and everynerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bellamy, a loco motive fireman of Burlington, la. "I was weak and pale, without any appetite and all run down. 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Washington, Jan. 7. News is awaited anxiously at the postoffice department in regard to the success of an effort to subpoena the ex-first assistant postmas ter general. Perry S. Heath, whose pres ence in Washington Is desired as a wit ness in the trial of August W. Machen, which will begin Monday before Justice Pritchard in criminal court No. 1 of the District supreme court. The papers were forwarded two weeks ago in due time to allow for their-receipts in Salt Lake City, and for service and the con venient Journey of Mr. Heath to Wash ington. Up to today the United States marshal of Salt Lake City had not been, able to secure service on Mr. Heath. A high official In the department,, said: "Mr. Heath Is wanted as a wit ness in the trial of A. W. Machen, Dll ler B. GrofT, Samuel A. Groff, George E. Lorenz and Martha J. Lorens in con nection with the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States In the mat ter of the purchase of mall box fast eners. "These fasteners were bought without advertisement or eompeition, but under the emergency rule which permitted Machen and Groff to fix up a deal by which the government was made to pay a dollar apiece for an article which cost but twenty-five cents, and Machen was allowed 40 per cent of the amount paid by the government. The orders for the purchase of the fasteners were signed by Mr. Heath, and it was to him that Machen is reported to have made the statement that there was an emergency and that the fasteners were needed. "The United States marshal has been trying to subpoena Mr. Heath aa a wit ness In the case, but he can not find him. His testimony is regarded as highly Im portant to the prosecution, but we can unaerstana tnat Mr. Heath is not partic ularly anxious to come here as a witness, and we benin to doubt if thA marshal n-iil be able to succeed in his mission. 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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI, THUKSUA1! EVENlWtf. JANUARY 7, 1904. A GIGANTIC SALE! Greenwald's, Topeka's Greatest Clothier's Entire $65,000 Stock. To Be Sold by tbe Chicago Salvage Company at Qreenwald's Stand, 62SH ai 6a7 Kansas Ave., 3rd Door North of Nation al Hotel, Topeka, Kansas. Save This and Wait Until Thurs day, January I4th, at 9 o'CIock A. M. THE ENTIRE STOCK Of Qreenwald's Will Be Sold at 33 Per Cent Cess Than Cost of Raw Haterial by the Chicago Sal vage Company in Ten Days. Greenwald's, Topeka's greatest cloth ing house, entire stock, consisting of $65,000 worth of clothing and furnishing goods, will be placed on sale and sold at retail at 33 cents on the dollar, be ginning Thursday, January 14, at 9 a. m., and positively closing in ten days. The entire stock must be sold as the stock has been placed in the hands of the Chicago Salvage company, the larg est institution of its kind in the world. As this sale will last only ten days, everything will go rapidly. This is the first sale of this kind and magnitude that has ever occurred in this city and it may never occur again. The open ing will be made a gala day. Bring the children. There will be music all day, and in order to prove to you what tremendous sacrifices must be made we mention a few of the extraordinary bargains that will be offered. And bear in mind that there are 1,000 dif ferent articles that we cannot men tion here, araons them many for the ladies. We advise you to save this and bring it with you, so there is no mis take that you get exactly the goods mentioned in this document. Remem ber, no postponement, this great Chi cago Salvage company's sale will close in ten days. Just think of the following proposi tions and remember that all goods priced in this document can be brought back any time during the sale. Splendid Overcoat in Medium, Heavy or Light Weight at Only $a.o8. This coat is of the finest material and positively worth $10. We will allow you to take this coat home and keep it five days, and if you do not think it worth $10, or no matter what the cause mnv he. vou may return the same and we hereby bind ourselves to refund the $2.98. Men's nice, good, durable over coats in blacks and brown for Sunday wear, $5.85, positively worth $12.50. Men's fine overcoats in silk and satin linings. $6.98, worth $15 or your money refunded, no matter what the cause may be. Men's fine Royal Standard Kersey overcoats in black, blue and brown, worth $18, Chicago Salvage com pany's price J7.9S. The finest quality of custom tailor-made overcoats and imported Royal Standard Kerseys, all shades and lined with plush, silk or astrakan, $12.99, positively equal to a $30 custom tailor-made garment, or your money refunded at any time dur ing this sale. A fine suit of men's clothes, all to match 2.98 This suit is positively worth $12.50 or your money refunded during the sale. Men's fine suits in Cheviots and Scotch Plaids 4.98 Worth $15 or your money re funded at any time during the sale if you are not satisfied. Men's splendid suits in Velour finished Cassimeres. all sizes.... 5.85 Silk and satin lined Dress Suits in plain checks and stripes 7.48 'Tr.iQ siiit is nnitivplv wr,fi-Vi t9 nfi inis suit is positively worth on'ffl vt-a find liT-ocu CJni a in oil Men's extra fine Dress Suits in all the latest styles and shades, heavy silk and satin lined, equal to the finest $40 tailor-made to order suit for tDon't fail to see this suit) 12.48 Men's fine Dress Pants 98c Worth $3.50 or your money back. Men's fine Trousers for Sunday wear in worsteds and fancy stripes 2.39 Postively worth $5, $6 and $7 or your money returned. Boys' Suits and Overcoats, worth $4.50. for One thousand pairs Boys' Knee Pants, worth $1 Men's best quality reinforced un laundered Phirts, worth $1 Good heavy work Shirts $1, for..;. Over 1.090 dozen men's fancy col ored Shirts, all sizes, among them such famous brands as Monarch, worth $2, for Fine DreFR Shirts, worth Men's Hatb, genuine Stetson shapes, also a few Dunlap shapes, worth $3 and S5 9So 12c 13c 19c 69c 38c 98c A few hundred boys' hats and caps worth $1, at 19C. Men's fine silk em broidered suspenders worth 75c at 6f Good heavy socks worth 35c at 3c. 500 dozen dress and work cloves at one third their value. Over 5.000 neck ties, in all shades, worth from 50c to IL at 39c and 19c. Men's handker- cnieis worth at 3c. 1.000 pairs of ",cl:"'3 worm 51. at 69c and S9c J1 s' ..y3'. anfJ children's high grade iiravy wool ribbed, silk x-vrV' snaaes and colors. NOITCE Mr. Greenwald has been in business and one of your city's n05t trustworthy and honorable associates fcr a number of years and could hav made this sale to a much better ad 7,?". bUi Pr?ferred placing the same in the hards of a well known and re- people on the same honorable lines that have marked his 24 years' career in business. Chicago Salvage company. S'a?-? ClothinS Howe sta-rtd. ;11 an5 6-'.Kp.nsas avenue, third door north of National hotel, Topeka. Kas Sale positively opens Thursday, Janu ary 14, and closes in ten davs. CHICAGO SALVAGE CO. I hereby agree to refund the money on all jroods priced above if not satis factory to the purchaser. GEO. W. M'GILL, Manager. N. B. Railroad fare paid to purchas ers of $2S or over. RAILROADNEWS. Railroads Will Enforce Rules Reducing Speed of Trains. Safety Hast Not Be Sacrificed to Swiftness. RULE A DEAD LETTER. Engineers Hare Reen Censured for Being; Behind Time. They Feel Oblidged to Hun at Reckless Speed. Chicago, 111., Jan. 7. Owing to the numerous wrecks which have lately been contributed to by excessive speed the managements of Chicago roads are seeking to better enforce the rule in their operating books, which declares that speed must at all times be sacri ficed to safety. The rule has been in nearly all local operating books for sev eral years, but it is said to have prac tically been a dead letter for some time. Now the general managers are calling the attention of their engineers to the order and are insisting that it be kept constantly in mind. Whether warranted or not, the feel ing has pervaded the ranks of railroad engineers that lost time must be made up at all hazards in order to avoid be ing censured by the management. It is said that engineers of fast trains take many chances when behind time and often run at reckless rate of speed in spite of rules. One general manager said yesterday: "There is a general misapprehension on the part of the public that railroad managements urge their engineers to make their schedules, no matter what the conditions. The contrary is true, and our constant effort is to make the men sacrifice speed to safety. Take such weather as we are having now, for example. I would not dare to call one of my engineers in and reprove him for having brought his train in behind time, and I do not believe there is a general manager in the city who would do so. It is true that we inquire re garding delays, but not for the primary purpose of censure." GOVERNMENT LOSES CASE. Railroads Not Obliged to Give Party Rates to XT. S. Troops. Chicago, Jan. 7. More than $100,000 worth of claims against the govern ment for the transportation of troops and marines are dependent on the de cision which Judge Grosscup handed down yesterday. The court held that the government could not claim the privilege of party rates in the trans portation of troops and marines, and that the land grant deductions could not be applied after the party rate had been applied. The matter has been in dispute between the government and the railroads ever since 1898. Western roads grant reduced rates to parties of ten or more when traveling as theatrical, football, baseball or en tertainment parties, but the rates are not open to the public as they are in eastern territory. In every movement of troops and marines the government has insisted on applying the party rates and then deducting the usual land grant and bond aids. Many of the roads refused to accept payment on this basis, and the Northwestern, Illi nois Ceneral and St. Paul railroads fin ally brought suit against the govern ment on a test claim. Judge Kohlsaat decided in favor of the railroads, and on appeal the higher court has sustained him. CLEARING RIGHT OF WAY. Dave Tipton Will Act as Housemover for the Orient. Emporia. Kan., Jan. 7. Mr. Dave Tip ton, the house mover, has contracts to move the houses off the Orient right of way in all the towns around here. Mr. Tipton and his men left Monday to make a way for the new railroad through Saf fordville, fourteen miles west of here. At that place a large livery stable belonging to D. C. Allen will be moved. There are a few other houses in that town that will be put out of the way of the steam en gines. There also are a number of farm houses between here and Strong City that will have to be moved and Mr. Tip ton will move them on this trip. He says Llta- -jii a itw itiriiia nouses ana the saffordville buildings are moved, ths 'P nee-line lor me orient Detween Strong City and Emporia is so straight that one can see the headlight in Emporia frora Strong City. Every few days a number of Orient freight cars pass through here on the Santa Fe bound for Wichita, out of which place the Orient is running trains. COLLIER'S WEEKLY SPECIAL. Sending Its War Correspondent to the Orient in a Hurry. Chicago, 111., Jan. 7. Frederick Palm er, war correspondent of Collier's Week ly, bound for the Orient, had an excit ing ride on the Northewestern yester day. In order to catch his ship at San Francisco it was necessary for him to take the train leaving Chicago for the coast at 11:35 p. m. The Lake Shore train was late and a special was made ready for Mr. Palmer, who arrived here more than two hours after the regular train had left. The special left the Wells street depot at 1:50 a. m. and succeeded in catching the regular train at Ogden, Iowa, 352 miles away, at 11:15 SANTA FE TRAIN WRECKED. Block of Stone Threw Twenty Cars Into the Ditch. Salina, Kas., Jan. 7. An Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe freight train was wrecked a mile east of this city Wed nesday night and twenty cars were thrown off the track. The wreck was caused by a large stone falling off a fiat car rolling under the train. DELAY ACTION AGAIN. Rock Island Stockholders Will Do Nothing About Bond Issue. No action on the proposition of the k.ock Island management looking to the autnorizing of a large bond issue will be tJiKen by the adjourned annual meeting ?f tnP stockholders today at Des Moines, la. The matter, it is said, will come up E?ev,Jl1. meeting of the stockholders to be held m the latter part of March, ine amount of new bonds, it is said, will be about $109,000,000, instead of $250,000, '300, as was originally proposed. Record of Stage Robberies. Cincinnati, Jan. 7. The Express Ga zette in its Jarnarv tv,s i lowing summary of train and stage rob beries committed in the United States during 19C3, together with the record for the past fourteen years: The total number of trains held up in tourteen years is 341; total number of people killed, 99, and the number of people injured (shot), 109. The number ot trains neld up in liHJi was is, as com pared with 22 in 1902. The number of stage robberies in 1903 was 6, while that of last year was 7. This year's record shows that no passengers or trainmen were killed by robbers, but there were 6 wounded. Last year one was killed and three wounded. One robber was killed in 1903, as compared with three killed last year. DENVER TO NEW ORLEANS. Rock Island Said to Be Interested in New Combination Line. Muskogee, I T., Jan. 7. The sale of the Muskogee Southern railroad last week to the Midland Valley Railroad company is believed by some to dis close another Rock Island plan con sisting of a transverse railroad line from Denver to New Orleans. Those who suggest this say the Rock Island people are desirous of securing a line to the Gulf of Mexico, which, with their feeders throughout the central western states, will put them in a position to command much of the Pacific and East Indies' trade. While it has been officially denied a number of times, the impression still remains that the Midland Valley will ultimately become a part of the Rock Jsirrid system. It is being built large ly by Philadelphia capitalists, who are nearly identified witn the party wnicn built and put in operation the Choctaw, Oklahoma Gulf railroad, which, after its construction, fell under the control of the Rock Island system. The Choc taw runs from El Reno, O. T., to Mem phis, Tenn., and forms an excellent crosscut line through the new country to eastern and northern connections. CHICAGO FOR HEADQUARTERS Latest Rumor la an Alton-Southern Pacific Merger. -hicago, Jan. 7. The Post says: Ac cording to reliable authority the Alton will be sold to the Union Pacific. This was the object of the Kuhn-Loeb cir cular asking for deposits of stock to facilitate the sale of the road. The response to the request for the deposit of stock has been so general as to in sure the success of the deal. The Alton will be used to afford the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific a direct Chicago outlet and the head quarters of the entire system may be moved to this city. It is intimated that the purchase of the Alton by the Union Pacific may not in any way interfere with the plans suggested for the closer affiliation of the former with the Kansas City South ern. RIPLEY LEASES A HOUSE. Will Spend the Rest of the Winter in California. President Ripley of the Santa Fe, ac companied by members of his family, are preparing to desert their home in Chicago in order to remain in southern California several months. Mr. Ripley has leased a house in Santa Barbara, and is due in that city in February. He has made that place his winter home for several years. ATTORNEY FOR SALT LAKE. A. S. Halstead Said to Be the Youngest in United States. Los Angeles, Jan. 7. A S. Halstead, for years a partner in the firm of Gibbon Thomas and Halstead, has been appoint ed attorney for the San Pedro, Los An geles and Salt Lake railroad in Califor nia, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Halstead Is said to be the youngest law yer in the United States to occupy a posi tion such as the one to which he has just been appointed. THEY STAND TOGETHER. Southern Pacific and Santa Fe to Issue No Stockmen's Passes. Las Vegas, N. M., Jan. 7. It will be of interest to know that the Southern Pa cific and Santa Fe railroads have an nounced officially that there will be no more return trip passes issued to stock men going with shipments of cattle. The persons who are actually in charge of stock will receive their fare going, but will have to pay for the return trip. Skating Pond a Curiosity. The town of Williams wants the Santa Fe to run excursions to the municipal skating pond at that place. It is sug gested that low rates be given to all the southern Arizona towns to induce the people to come up and see some real ice and skate on the same. Las Vegas, N. M., Optic. 100 Carloads of Oranges. San Bernardino,- Jan. 7. The biggest consignment of oranges and vegetables for this season was sent east by the Santa Fe last night when 110 cars pulled out of the yards. Of this shipment 100 cars were oranges. Rock Island-Frisco Agent at Pittsburg D. H. Malonev has been appointed general agent for both the freight and passenger departments of all the lines in the Rock Island-Frisco system at Pittsburg, Pa. HRecord Run of California Limited.' Las Vegas, N. M., Jan. 7. The record run for the Santa Fe's California limit ed between Albuquerque and Las Vegas this season is held by Engineer Kirk of this city. With engine 1080 he made the run Tuesday in three hours and fifty- five minutes, which is the fastest run ever made by this train between the The Book Tells Yon flow To Get Well at My Risk If you want to feel better. If you want more strength. If vou lack ambition. If you can't do things you used to do. If your nerves your courage is leavin you. ir your connaence in yoursen is less. If vou lack vim. visor, vitality. If something is eating away your con stitution. Ask me bv letter for the book. Don't send a penny. Let me take the risk. 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Jones made a good witness and was in the jury room for an hour and forty minutes. It is said he answered all questions promptly and withheld noth ing. He told the jury practically what he had stated in a meeting of the board of education. He is said to have testi fied that he had received rebates on in surance from practically all the insur ance agents with whom the board did business. He said he considered he had done no wrong, because the board would have had to pay the same for the insur ance anyway, and that if he made the insurance agents divide their profits with him it meant no loss to the school funds. Jones was also asked to explain some of the entries made in the books relating to the purchase of school sites and the payment of certain bills for contract work and for labor. He said he knew of no crooked work on the part of any member of the board of education other than what he learned from hearsay. However, he told the jury that two in surance agents in Kansas City, Kan., represented two insurance companies not authorized to do business in Kansas. Jones places the blame, for all the trou ble on the insurance agents. If his testimony in this regard is true the agents are subject to a $500 fine for every policy written for the unauthor ized company. The only charge against Jones is ac cepting rebates on insurance policies placed by tne board of education on public school buildings. For some of these rebates he signed a receipt in his official capacity as clerk of the board of education. He told the Jury he had used the money for his own purposes. Frank Campbell, the member of the school board from the Sixth ward, who wa; before the jury for more than an hour yesterday morning, was called to testify again yesterday afternoon. He was in the jury room an hour and twenty minutes. He told the Jury that In his opinion money had been used by contractors in getting favorable terms in the awarding of contracts for the construction of school buildings. He said that on more than one occasion contracts had been awarded to the highest instead of the lowest bidder and that the contractors were allowed to use most any kind of material, whether it conformed to the specifica tions of the contract or not. He could tell the jury of no instance where money had been paid to any member of the board for such favors. It was only a matter of conjecture on his part. LOST HEAVILY IN WHEAT. Officer of Highland Bank Causes Institution to Suspend. St. Joe. Mo.. Jan. "7. Cashier 3. E. Marcell of the Bank of Highland, Kan sas, charged with forgery, was released Wednesday on bond, and last night was again arrested on a charge of ut tering forged paper which it is said will aggregate $60,000. He is under guard at his home in Highland. The bank's doors were closed. Marcell has been a speculator in wheat on the Chi cago board of trade. He has lost heav ily in wheat of late. The closing the bank was taken on account of the arrest of J. E. Marcell, the cashier, on the charge of forgery. The paper was forged on B. D. Wil liams and some other big mule men of that place. The deputy bank com missioner is now making a list or tne assets and liabilities of the bank. The institution has a capital of $20,000 and deposits aggregating $100,000. It is im possible to tell what condition affairs are in at this time. A banker at St. Joseph shewed up late Wednesday with guaranteed paper amounting to $40,000 and demanded its payment. Crummer is investigating tne matter. He does not know whether the guaran teed paper is forged or genuine. If it should prove to be genuine, Marcell will be caught for violating the state law because he failed to list the guar anteed paper in his statement to the bank commissioner. MOSQUITOES DEFY COLD. Sign of Good Crops, Says New Jersey Expert. Bayonne, N. J., Jan. 7. Mosquitoes of the regulation "Jersey" size and mid winter brand were discovered here this morning by Patrick W. Donnelly, city hall engineer, He was on his way to look after his fires about 7 o'clock, when the ther mometer was several degrees below zero. He had rot near the Central rail road bridge, at Thirtieth street and Railroad avenue, when he was sur prised to hear a familiar buzzing, and, looking up. saw a cloud of mosquitoes, fat, big, and as frolicsome and ready for a meal Tas though it were the middle of August. A dozen of the insects follow ed Donnelly into the city hall and were caught. During the day they were ex hibited to visitors. "The presence of mosquitoes at this time of the year is a sure sign that the crop next summer is going to be no failure," remarked Court Officer Me lando, who has made a study of mos quitoes for many years. Missing Heiress Found. Mobile, Ala., Jan. 7. Ethel Rovelle, :the missing Meridian, Miss., heiress to $3,000,000, has been found in Mobile. She says she is going to stay hidden from her relatives and is going to marry J P. Moses, a clothing merchant. When the young woman disappeared from Meridian it was reported that her rela tives feared that she had been kid naped. Incidentally it is stated that the Colorado aunt, from whom It Is alleged she inherited her fortune, is not known in Denver. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. J. A. Peterson to C. C. Smith, $600, lot 238 Hancock street. Washburn college to E. Higgins, $150, lots 58. 58 and 60 Boswell avenue. Col lege Hill. J. Thomas, trustee, to J. L. Buckner, $50. part sw V 5, 12, 16. M. M. Zimmerman and husband to D. R. Jones aiyi wife, $575, lot 210 Adams street. Holliday's addition. R. Young to O. H. Young and others, $1, part nw 3, also part ne 4, 11, 13. W R. Prescott to D. W. Prescott, $1, lots 7 and 8, block 2, Auburndale addi tion. A clear skin can be cultivated and plainest faces grow lovely using Satin Skin Cream and Powder. A JOLT FRQit POWELL San Domingo Is Told What She May Expect. San Domingo, Jan. 7. The gunboat Independencia arrived here last night with two captured Dominican schooners in tow. The schooners carried arms and munitions of war intended for coast de fense. The Independencia bombarded the suburbs of the city with the object of driving out the revolutionists. It is officially reported that Bana and San Cristobal have been retaken by the government troops. There was an en counter between the government troops and the revolutionists at Haina with a result favorable to the government. The tug Ana, the property of an estate of San Isidro, was prevented by the revo lutionists from reaching the estate and the owners applied for protection to United States Minister Powell. The lat ter informed the government officials that if they could not protect the Ana he would. Commander Mertz of the United States gunboat Newport fur nished an armed convoy for the Ana equipped with a field gun. The two boats were ready to leave when the gov ernment endeavored to prevent their departure. Minister Powell promptly directed the boats should proceed and said that he and Commander Mertz would accept all responsibility for their action. Later Minister Powell and Commander Mertz waited upon the president and told him that if this gov ernment could not protect American property the Newport could and would. 1 The Ana carried $20,000 which the revo lutionists hoped to capture. The government has issued a decree closing the ports of Azua De Compo setea, San Pedro De Macoris, Sama Sanches, Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi, to take effect within 30 days for vessels from American ports and within 45 days for vessels from European ports. Arm ed schooners and gunboats will guard the closed ports. There was a severe attack on the city this morning before the troops managed to repulse the revolutionists. Commerce is completely at a stand still. News from the interior cannot be obtained. DUNNING THEATER BURNS. Famous Old Opera House in Kansas City, Kas., Gone. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 7. The old Dunning opera house, a large three story wooden structure built in 1867, at the southeast corner of Fourth street and State avenue, around which cluster many memories of old Wyandotte in the latter' '60s and the "70s, together with the oil wooden building adioininsr on Fourth street, in which the first Episcopal ser vice in the state of Kansas was held on Palm Sunday, 1857, by the Rev. Rodney A-ttiou, d. iiiioBiuutii y, were uurnea to tne ground last evening. An oil stove in Mrs Mary King's restaurant in the old build ing long since abandoned as a house of worship, started the fire at a few min utes after 6 o'clock. The total loss was $13,000 to $15,000. For an hour and a half a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 persons watched the his toric old buildings burn, while all the fire companies in Kansas City, Kan., and two companies from Kansas City, Mo., bent their energies in saving the adjoining buildings. The heat from the great wood en structures was so intense that the sides and roofs of the buildmgs 200 to .".00 feet away were scorching and smoking, and, though the water pressure was weaK, tne good worn of the firemen and the absence of a strong wind from any direction prevented a conflagration. TOURS WORLD FOR 2 CENTS Letter Returns to Sender After Eighteen Months. Philadelphia, Jan. 7. After a tour around the world, beginning May 11, 1902, a letter returned this morning to Jacob F. Rotham, an inspector in the bureau of health. It has made the trip for 2 cents. The letter was sent to a property owner on Nineteenth street, below Chestnut, requesting him to comply with certain requirements of the law. The postmarks show it was forwarded as follows: To San Francisco, to Se attle, to Hong-Kong, to Shanghai, to Yokohama, and Nagasaki, in Japan; then to London, to Bombay, back to London, to Paris and to New York, whence it came back to this city. The letter is literally covered with post marks, and although there is a "4-cents due" mark on it, there is no stamp showing the postage was ever canceled. A Prisoner in Her Own House. Mrs. W. H. Layha of 1001 Aemes ave.. Kansas City, Mo., has for several years been troubled with severe hoarseness and at times a hard cough, which she savs: "Would keep me indoors for davs. I was prescribed for by physicians with no no ticeable results. A fr -id gave me part, of a bottle of Chamber .in's Cough Rem edy with instructions to closely follow the directions and I wish to state that after the first day I could notice a decided change for the better, and at thi time alter usinff it ior two weeKS, nave no hesitation in saying x realize tnat 1 am entirely cured." This remedy is for sale by all druggists. A stitch, a twitch or a twinge in back will strike you. The aches and pains of a bad back strike you any time. Kidneys will go wrong, and when the kidneys fail the back generally fails too. Backache attacks alike the busy business man, the mechanic, the woman at her shopping or household duties, the old folks, the children and all who have sick kidneys. Kidneys are no respector of persons, time or place they will get sick when overworked. Doan's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney ills aud Urinary disorders. A TRIAL FREE To Topeka Journal Readers Kidney t 1 k' rmci so cuts STATE Tor free ftrMl bfrc. mall thf coupon to Taater-lffUbarn Oo., Buffalo. N. Y. If ajtove ipaoe im bumfflcieat, write aAdreo oa sepa rate slip. en Thousands of Women Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect To Prove What Swamp-Root, the Great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy, will do for YOU, Every Reader of the State Journal may have a Sample Bottle Sent FREE by Mail. Didn't Know I Had Kidney Trouble. I had tried so many remedies without their having benefited me that I was about discouraged, but in a few'days af ter taking your wonderful swamp-Root I began to feel better. I was out of health and run down gen- erally; had no appetite, wras dizzy and suffered with headache most of the time. I did not know thitt my kidneys were the cause of my trouble, but somehow felt they might be, and I began taking Swamp-Root as above stated. There is such a pleasant taste to Swamp-Root, and it goes right to the spot and drives disease out of the system. Et has cured me and I dheerfully recommend it to all sufferers. Gratefully yours. MRS. A. D. WALKER, 46 West Dinden St., Atlanta, Ga. MffS.AUWALKEfi fff To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT, the Great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy Will do for YOU, Every Reader of the State Journal May Have a Sample Bottle FREE by MaiL SPECIAXi NOTICE No matter how many doctors you have tried no mat ter how much money you may have spent on other medicines, you really owe it to yourself, and to ycur family, to at least give Swamp-Root a trial. Its strongest frionds today- are those who had almost givten up hope of ever be coming well again. Yu may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discov ery, Swamp-Root, sent absolutely free by mail, also a book' telling all about Swamp-Root, and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of tes timonial letters received from men and women who owe their good health, in fact their very lives, to its wonderful curative properties. In writing to Dr. Kilmer Co., Bingllamton, N. Y., be sure to say that you read this gener ous offer in the Topeka Daily State Journal. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and one dollar size 'oottles at the drugstore? everywhere. FIND KISSING COMES HIGH Attempts Cost Jail Sentences for Two Des Moines "SToung Men. Des Moines, la., Jan. 7. For attempt ing to kiss pretty girls on the streets of Des Moines, Edwin arid William Cox were each sentenced to 30 (lays in jail by Judge Silvara. Edwin attempted to seize a pretty young woman with the remark: "I would like to kiss J'ou." and when she protested and starteol to run he followed holding to her skirt. In the police court he remarked to th.e judge: "Why, I would not do anything like that, your honor. I just came here from Minne sota." "Well, I came here from Missouri," was the judge's answer, "and if you do not happen to have $100 about your clothes for that kiss you didn't get, you may go to jail for 30 days." IT SOARS LOW. Inventor Wright's Own Story of His Flying; Machine. Dayton, O., Jan. 7. The Wright brothers, inventors of the flying ma chine which has attracted such wide spread attention, have prepared the fol lowing, which they say is the first cor rect statement of the two successful trials made by them: "On the morning of December 17, be tween 10:30 and noon, four flights were made, two by Orville Wright and two by Wilbur Wright. The starts were all made from a point on the level near our camp in Dare county, North Caro lina. The wind at the time of the flights had a velocity of 27 miles an hour. The flight was made directly against the wind. Each time the ma chine started from the level ground by its own power, with no assistance from gravity or other sources what Mrs. M. Barnett, of 411 West Second street, says For eight or ten years I suffered with a terrible pain in my back. I experimented with the doctors and medicines of various kinds but got little or no relief, and the pains in my back and loins only got worse. I was bothered worse at night, and it was impossible for me to enjoy a good night's rest. Finally I saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised and procured them at Rowley Snow's drug store. In a few days after commencing their use I felt better, the pain in my back disappeared, and I enjoyed a good night's rest, and, in fact, felt better than I had for years. It WOMEN suffer untold misery be cause the nature of their disease is not always correctly understood; in many cases when doctoring, they are led to believe that womb trouble or femala weakness of some sort is responsible for their ills, when in fact disordered kidneys are the chief cause of their dis tressing troubles. Perhaps you suffer almost continually with pain in the back, bearing-down feelings, headache and utter exhaustion. Your poor health makes you nervous, irritable, and at times despondent; but thousands of just such suffering or broken-down women are being restored to health and strength every day by the use of that wonderful discovery, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. Not only does Swamp-Root bring new life and activity to the kidneys, the cause of the trouble, but by treat ing the kidneys it acts as a general tonic and food for the entire constitu tion. The mild and extraordinary effect of the world-famous kidney and bladder remedy, Swamp-Root, is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. A trial will convince any one and you may have a sample bottle sent free by mail. In taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root you afford natural help to Nature, for Swamp-Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that haa ever been discovered. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. ever. After a run of about eight inches from the ground it rose from the track and under the direction of the oper ator climbed upward on an inclined course till a height of eight or ten feet from the ground was reached, after which the course was kept as near horizontal as the wind gusts and the limited skill of the operator would per mit. The flyer made its way forward with a speed of ten miles an hour over the ground and of 30 to 35 miles an hour through the air. The flight was short. The succeeding flights rapidly increased in length, and at the fourth trial a flight of 59 seconds was made, in which the machine flew a little mora than half a mile through the air and a distance of more than 852 feet over the ground. All thje experiments have been conducted at our own exii?nse, without assistance from any individual or institution." He Posed as a Prince. Toronto, Ont., Jan. 7. An inmate of the Toronto jail under the name of "Archibald Edward Stuart," has been, partially identified as William Brown, the coachman, who, while posing as a foreign prince in England not long ago, married the Countess Russell. He is charged with vagrancy owing to failura to pay bills incurred while living here as a pretended nobleman incognito. The countess divorced the coachman upon learning his true character. Stuart has been in Toronto a month. The New 'York Central lines have de cided to put on fast and luxurious ser vice for the World's fair and trains oi the most approved pattern are now be ing built for this purpose. The trail wil be called the Louisiana Purchase Limited. w. en o
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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1904. TOPERA STATE JOURNAL BT FRANK K MAC LENSAN, VOLUME XXXI No, 6 TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Enily edition, delivered by carrier. J cents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas towns nUere the paper ha a carrier system. By mail, one- year..,. C69 By mall, three months weekly edition, one year 5 Saturday edition of daily, one year 1.0 Entered July 1. 1ST5, as second class matter at the post'office at Topeka. Kan., under the act of congress. TELEPHONES. flBusineg Ofriee Bell 'phone 107 Business Office Ind. 'phone 107 i reporters' Room Bell "phone 677 Importers' Room Ind. 'phono 1071 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka Stat Journal building, SOC ana 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE; 211 Vanderbllt Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1540 Unity Bids. Paul Block. Mgr. rULL LEASED "WISE SEP0B.T CF THE ASSOCIATES PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press- and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publica tion in Topeka. The news is received In the State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose, busy throughout the entire day. A complete copy of the night report is also received. It looks now as though Japan and Kussla will begin fighting and declare far later. Senator Hanna seems to have some trouble In lowering the asbesto3 cur tain on? his boom. Iowa has been saved from the inflic tion of a legislative session, for a time, fcy the burning of the state capiltol. When travel is conducted by means of flylrg machines probably there will be an tnd to collisions and not before. It looks as though the peace loiving czar Is about to be dragged into war by his hired men In spite of his prcrtest. Only a limited number of pianos have not yet received the endorsement and commendation of all tb. great singers. Not a day passes now without the discovery of some new cause for the terrible loss of life In the Iroquois the ater fire. Quay says Roosevelt will be nomina ted by acclamation and the Pennsylva liian knows a good deal about poli tics. The row in the far east has about reached the stage where some Kansas man Is due to take position under the lime light. The fixing of the price of the Lincoln Democratic dinner at a dollar looks like a scheme to boom the silver coin of our daddies. A Bryan and Hearst combine can only benefit the candidacy of Mr. Hearst. With Bryan, It is anything to beat "old Cleveland." A number of newspaper correspon dents are hurrying to the disturbed portion of the east. As soon as they arrive the war probably will begin. Central American! republics have not pulled off a revolution for some weeks. Probably they have been too busy watching the war clouds on the isth mus and in the east. Probably everybody but Senator Gor man Is satisfied with the president'3 presentation of the facts connected with the Panama affair, embodied in the message submitted to congress this week. But the Maryland senator in sists on being shown further. The fatted political calf is being kill ed in several sections of the country, and the Democratic prodigals are hitching their chairs up close to the mahogany, and expressing their fond ness for veal. Washington Post. Probably the intention is to serve the crow at the second table. TEST ROOSEVELT'S STRENGTH From the Philadelphia Bulletin. Here and there evidences frequently crop up which go to show that some thing very like an organized attempt to test public sentiment on the question of nominating Theodore Roosevelt is under way. On one day Nebraska, on another Indiana, on a third some other commonwealth is selected as the scene of alleged disaffection among Republi cans toward the present head of the administration. Hints th&t delegates from various states are to go to the next national convention "uninstructed" so that their votes may be switched off from Roosevelt if the occasion arises, are printed from time to time chiefly in the Democratic papers or that per sistent opponent of Roosevelt's election, the New York Sun. Yet there is not the slightest evidence that these efforts to convey the im pression that the Republican masses are doubtful as to the nominee are making any impression on the public mind un less it is that of contemptuous amuse ment. They fall as dead, apparently, as the recent editorials in the Cincin nati Commercial-Tribune, which inti mated that the president's nomination would be unwise because he would probably be beaten at the polls, or as the feeble piping of Mark Hanna's name by more or less irresponsible in dividuals who assert that he would be a "safe" candidate who would be as sured of election in advance. If the instigators of these tactics are acting in accordance with any definite plan, they must feel that they are get ting scant encouragement. Nothing can be plainer than that a great majority of Republican voters consider the nomi nation of Roosevelt as a settled fact. Neither is it possible to ignore the action of the twenty-three states and terri tories which have already endorsed Roosevelt as their' choice, and whose delegates in the Republican convention will number 496, or eleven more than is required to nominate to say nothing of the other portions of the Union from which he is certain to draw -a powerful support. GLOBI: SIGHTS. From the Aitchison CJlobe. When you observe some one's fault, see if you can't flnVi a virtue, too. Jim Langan fussies so much lately that he is known as "Cloudy Jim." An Atchison physitcian is looking for a name to give thotip who have eaten plum pudding. A "school teacher s ere am" is the lat est. It is the kind pewple give when you make a mistake. When a boy gets h old of a new cal endar, he looks ahead to see what day the Fourth of July frills on. The more meek a man is, the more different kinds of ail ments the doctois discover when they .hre called in. The ancient and tl te modern met in Atchison yesterday vunen a woman put a soup bone over to boil in a chafing dish. We hate terribly tto shatter a sweet tradition, but an Atthlson man got so drunk recently that has dog deserted him. It seems to be a duty one owes to himself to keep young as long as possi ble, and a duty he awes to the pre judices of others not to act it. We suppose that winen an old-time Shade looks through the window, it can't see much diffteaence between a chafing dish and an u n. We have noticed thait when a woman has reached forty, she: seems to have outgrown any violent- longing to own and operate a chafing dish. The great disadvani age in having a precocious child is tjaat it soon dis covers that its mother writes a poor hand, and that its father can't spell. We have noticed that after the wool wears off a tennis finnnel gown, what is left wears so well that a man never has an excuse for needing a new one. In some instances the amounts charged to them wore so extravagant that the men are cojmplalning because Santa Claus didn't "bring them, new wives. Ab. Harvey and hSs wife have parted. We thought something of the kind was in the wind: we noticed at the sociable the other night, thatt she didn't laugh at his jokes. When a woman ha s a banlf account of her own. her friiends think she is wise, but if she lets her husband know it, they regnrd it as a case of wisdom weakened by love. A man hnts the best of it In winter clothes, but a woman gets ahead of him in summer, when she appears in thin garments with holes embroidered in to let the ah- through. It is said tftat an Atchiscn preacher objects to the custom of lining a grave with greens. "It is earth to earth, he grumbled, ""and not eauth to ever green and cotton batting." A QUAKES REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record.! Look out for the leap year girl. The bachelor npw takes to the tall timbers. Will race suicid e be an issue in the leap year presidential election? Any married m:m will tell you that low cut gowns conie pretty high. Ferguson "What: would you suggest as a remedy for baldness?" Zlegler "A toupee. No, Maude, dear; we have never heard that there wras an abnormal de mand for frogs' le gs in leap year. Just because a lna.n sprinkles ashes on his slippery sidewalk it doesn't prove that he is going in the other direction when he dies. Wigg "Henpeckko admits that he is afraid of his wite. That taices cour age." Wagg "Yes; but Talkalot says that he isn't and that takes more. Oh, New year's dajy has "come" and "went And last year's resolutions, rusted. We all revived for the event. The goldarned things again are busted POINTED PAI1AGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. A woman without Jealousy is like a kite without a string. Happiness seldom c omes to those who seek it on the rum. There is too much charity in this world for worthless people. When a woman rends a historical novel she skips the history part. Ignorance of the law should excuse a lot more lawyers from practicing it. If a man is bent on committing sui cide he can afford to be familiar with a mule. A man doesn't need a pass in order to enable him to pass by an oppor-1 tunity. Many a man who ig offered the chance of a lifetime for a mere song can't sing. Why is it that babies fere always con spicuous by their absence at a "moth ers' meeting?" Few physicians are eojual to the task of curing patients who have nothing the matter with them. Though the average man laughs at his wife when she goos shopping and doesn't buy anything, he kicks if she does. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR From the New York Press. Quick popularity, swift oblivion. Whatever oughtn't to be is somehow mighty interesting. It's an ill stomach that can't ache Just before it is time for a boy to start to school. It is noteworthy that a mustard plas ter always seems easy to a man with a nagging wife. If a girl could put on her own skates she might be able to wear stockings that would keep her warm when she goes. City Treasurer Arrested. Haverville, Mass., Jan. 7. John A. Glines, city treasurer, was arrested to day charged with larceny of $43,000 of the city's funds. Helen Campbell Better. Washington, Jan. 7. Helen, the baby daughter of Representative and Mrs. Campbell, who has been suffering with diphtheria is now said to be out of danger. 'Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic that he feels as if his joints were being dis located He knows that his sufferings are very ranch like the tortures of the rack. What he want to know is what will per manently cure his disease. That, according to thousands of grateful testimonials, is Hood's Sarsaparilla It promptly neutralizes the acid in the Diood on which the disease depends, com pletely eliminates it, and strengthens the system against its return. Try Hood's. TO OPEN DARDANELLES. Russia Is Negotiating With Turkey for Egress. Paris, Jan. 7. A dispatch to the Patrie from Constantinople says Rus sia is negotiating with Turkey to per mit her Black sea fleet, said to consist of 76 ships to pass through the straits of Dardanelles. Official and diplomatic circles here claim to be without information re garding the contents of the Russian reply to Japan, but the tone is distinct ly pessimistic and there are but slight hopes of a peaceful exit from the posi tion in which Russia and Japan find themselves. St. Petersburg, Jan. 7. The war min istry has received a dispatch from Tokio saying that Baron DeRosenk, the Russian minister, presented Russia's re ply to the Japanese cabinet yesterday. Brest, France, Jan. 7. The Russian cruiser Almaza, of 2,385 tons, leaves here tomorrow for the far east. BUSINESS MEN TO COME. Sleeting Here to Consider Commer cial Interests. v The second annual meeting of the Kansas Federation of Commercial in terests will be held in Topeka on Jan uary 29, on which day the Kansas Day club holds its annual banquet. The call for the meeting has been address ed to all the commercial clubs and many of the towns where no such or ganization exists. Among the speakers will be Senator Fred Dumont Smith of Kinsley and S. S. Ashbaugh of Wichita. The call, which i3 signed by President Herbert Hackney of Topeka and H. L. Resing of Wichita, says: "The Federation of Commercial In terests will meet in representative con vention in Topeka, Kan., on the 29th day or January, 1904. "Headquarters will be at the office of the Commercial club, of Topeka, which club will furnish a suitable hall in which to hold the convention. "You are urged to send delegates to said convention, in accordance with the rules, of the federation, which al low one delegate from clubs, in cities of less than 1,000 population, two dei gates from clubs, in cities from 1,000 to 10,000 population, and three delegates from clubs or organizations in cities of over 10,000 population. Cities allow ed same representation as clubs. "Should your club or organization fail to act on this call, and you feel an In terest in the federation work, come to the convention and you will be invited to take part in the work. "While railroad freight rates and dis criminations may be the most important work to be taken up at the convention, othr contemplated legislation for the betterment of the commercial interests of the state wjll receive proper considera tion. "Agriculture, the foundation stone cf Kansas' prosperity, must be considered in our deliberations: and to that end and that its interests be fully protected, all agriculture societies and Oranges also are urgently requested to send delegates to this convention, where proper basis of representation will be agreed upon. "This is the second annual meeting of the Federation of Commercial Interests Officers are to be elected for the coming year and every effort will be put forth to the end that all distinctive organiza tions will be represented on the different committees to be appointed or elected for the next year's work." HAItKlMAN ELECTED. He Is Now President of the Union Pacific. New York, Jan. 7. E. H. Harriman was today elected president of the Union Pacific Railroad company. As has been expected for some days, E. H. Harriman haB been elected presi dent of the Union Pacific railway to succeed H. G. Burt. This means that a general manager for the Union Pa cifis will be appointed to succeed Mr. Dickinson, who went to the Orient rail way, and the new general manager will have headquarters in Omaha and at tend to the operation of the road. Mr. Harriman will merely be the supervisor of this work. Harriman is now presi dent of the Southern Pacific and other minor lines. He is said to own a half interest in the new road being built to California from Salt Lake City, backed by Senator Clark and other millionaires. Harriman is said to have assumed the presidency of the Union Pacific to save the expense of a president's salary, which would be about $50,000 annually. Harriman's salary, it is said, will be merely a nominal sum. BIBLE CASE IS UP. Sir. Billard Is Having Hearing in Su preme Court. The case of J. B. Billard against the Topeka board of education, involving the question of religious services in the public schools, was argued In the su preme court this afternoon. This is the case in which Mr. Billard mandamused the board of education to admit his son to school after the boy had been sent home for persisting in reading during the opening services in the school which he attended. The board of education won in the Shawnee county district court and Billard appealed. The board of education is represented by J. W. Gleed and John L. Hunt. Mr. Billard is represented by G. C. Clemens and N. Arnold. ARE AFTER COAL. Edward Oaborn and J. P. Rodgera Contract With Drillers. J P. Rodgers and Edward Osborn, who will prospect for coal near Valencia, have closed the contract with drillers for the work of sinking the prospect hole to be gin next Monday. Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Osborn have leased 4,000 acres in addition to the 0K) owned by Mr. Osborn. They believe that a rich vein of coal can be found at a depth of 250 feet and that If such a vein is not found that the Leavenworth vein can be found at a depth of &0 feet. The drilling will be done on the Osborn farm near Mission Creek. Live Stock Pavilion. At the meeting of the Kansas Improved Live Stock breeders in Topeka next week the matter of the building of a sale pa vilion in Topeka will be taken up for in dorsement. The stock breeders are in fa vor of the promotion of anything that will give them better facilities for mar keting their stock and most of them are dissatisfied with the accommodations furnished on the Kansas City market, where extortionate prices are exacted for sale room and for feed. It has been proposed by the Kansas State Ex position company to build the pavilion at a cost of about $5,000. Only the In dorsement of the breeders association and the assurance that the pavilion will be patronized by them is wanted. New York Money Market. New York, Jan. 7. MONEY Money on call easy, at &y3 per cent, closing bid and offered at 2 per cent. Time loans easy. per cent for all dates. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 5f?5'4 r-or cent: sterling exchange strong, with actual business in bankers' bills at S4.Sf,15 34.S.V-i for demand and at $4.2i?4.S210 for 60 dav bills: posted rates. $4.2V-'a4.S3 and H1-: commercial bills, $4.81. SILVER Bar silver, 57c; Mexican dol lars. 4S?iC. BONDS Government bonds steady, j DR. M'KINLEY DEAD. former Superintendent of Asylum Dies in Indiana. Information has been received in Topeka that Dr. l. D. McKinley. for merly superintendent of the state in sane asylum at Topeka, died In Mar shall, Indiana, on New Year's day. THE LATE DR. L. D. M'KINLET. Dr. McKinley was superintendent of the asylum during Governor Leedy's administration and with the advent of Governor Stanley he left and went to Illinois where he lived until about a year ago when he moved to Indiana. Dr. McKinley was 68 years old at the time of his death. He came to Topeka early in 1890 and had a drug store near the Chesterfield hotel. He sold his store when he was appointed superin tendent of the asylum and did not again engage in business in Topeka. He was an uncle of Mrs. Lee Jones. LAND AT $275 AN ACRE State Board of Charities Makes Purchase for Asylum. The state board of charities has com pleted the purchase of eighty acres of land adjoining the Topeka insane asylum to enlarge the asylum farm, as provided for by the last legislature. The price paid for the eighty acres is $22,000, or $275 an acre. The land is in two tracts of forty acres each. One is described as the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 26, township 11, range 15. It belonged to L. M. Thomas and the purchase price is $13,000. The other forty acres joined it on the east. It belonged to the Vermont Savings Investment company, and the price paid is $9,000. The warrants for the land were issued in the state auditor's office today. GAVE LIFE TO SAVE BARN. One Wanderer Who Was No Ingrate When Flames Raged. Norristown, Pa., Jan. 7. Alexander Lynch, 65 years old. lost his life here while trying to extinguish a fire in the barn of Jacob White. Lynch came here several weeks ago from College ville, where he had worked for years for Dr. Royer. Having no home, he was given permission to take up quar ters in the barn. While he was experl menting with an oil stove there was an explosion, and the next instant the sec ond story of the barn was in a blaze. Lynch had a chance to escape from the burning structure: but, after run ning to the door and calling for help he returned and fought the flames. Then he was overcome by the dense smoke, and when the firemen arrived his body was discovered. The firemen had trouble in securing a supply of water, owing to the in tense cold, and the flames were ex tinguished with snow. TALK OF BOODLE. Member of Rosedale Board of Education Is Implicated. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. Before the grand jury at Kansas City, Kan., to day Prof. George E. Rose, principal of the Rosedale school, testified that a member of the board of education had solicited $150, through his brother, L. H. Rose, for the foremr's reappoint ment as a public school teacher. The money was refused, it was stated, and Rose failed to receive the appointment NO TAXES ON PHONE POLES. Highest Court in the Land Will Per. mit No Revenue Levy. Washington, Jan. 7. On the ground that municipalities have no right to impose a revenue tax upon telegraph or telephone poles, the supreme court of the United States today reversed the ruling of the supreme court of Penn sylvania, which had upheld telegraph pole taxes in two boroughs in that state. The boroughs in question are New Hope, Bucks county and Taylor, and Justice Peckham, who hands down the decision, holds that the taxes in each case are too high to allow of their being considered as inspection taxes, as the borough in each case had contended. II AD 4,000 MEN TO BURY HIM Ordnance Superintendents Followed floral Emblems of War. Bethlehem, Pa., Jan. 7. More than A nfifi pmnlrtvpq of fhp Rethlehem Steel company followed the remains of Geo. W. Stroman, superintendent or tne gun forging and assembling department of the company's mammoth ordnance wnrVc tn pravo this nftpmnnn. A ta Vioad rf tli fnnerfi! rnrtffp were carried a miniature assembled man-of-war gun in floral design, a huge floral battleship and an empty floral chair. MUST MOVE QUICKLY. Drivers Must Hustle to Get Oat of Way of Street Cars. An eastbound street car ran into a Southwestern Fuel company wagon loaded with coal at Twelfth and Har rison streets Wednesday afternoon. The wagon was wrecked and the front end of the car was damaged some. The driver of the wagon said the ap proaching car was a block distant when he started across the track. Evidence Was Insufficient. Jefferson City. Mo.. Jan. 7. After the evidence had been submitted in the case against Prosecuting Attorney R. P. Stone on tne cnarge or having accepted an il legal fee. Judge Longan today directed the jury to return a verdict of not KUilty. The court stated the evidence did not warrant the case. This leaves two minor I charges against Stone, which are to be I tried on February 1&. I INQUEST IS RESUMED. Will Go to Wabaunsee County to Complete It. The inquest over the bodies of the victims of the Willard wreck was re opened in ToDeka at 3 o'clock this af ternoon. It had been' postnoned from 10 a.m. until after dinner for lack of witnesses. The coroner's inquiry will not be completed at Topeka. A few witnesses will be examined here todav, but not all have resDonded to their subpoenas. Coroner C. R. Silverthorn of Wabaunsee county has been in con siderable doubt about the propriety of holding any inquest in Shawnee coun ty at all, and finally at 2:30 o'clock to day announced his intention of cutting the Topeka part of his investieations as short as possible. We want to have everything regu lar," said he. "I don't think we ought to be holding an inquest here at all but under the circumstances we can't avoid it. One or two of our witnesses are in the hosiptal here and we will examine them. The rest will have to go to Maple Hill tomorrow." Coroner Silverthorne was reticent about giving out the names of those who had been subpoenaed but stated that only the eight trainmen who had actually been in the wreck had been summoned. No one from the office of train dispatcher had been ordered to be present. Engineer Benjamin went to his home In Kansas City Wednesday night and did not return today. Con ductor Nagle of the passenger train is in the hospital here. Brakeraan Mor rill and Conductor Fletcher of the stock train are also understood to be in town. These were the three witnesses with whom the inquest began tody. As far as can be seen no very active effort has been made on the part of Coroner Sil verthorne to get the witnesses together. The jury has spent its time idling about town while Coroner Silverthorne and his deputy, J. N. Dolley, have been oc cupied in waiting for witnesses and helping with the identification of some of the bodies. All the property taken from the bodies is in possession of the coroner. The bodies will be left here to be claimed by the friends, several of whom have been here today. The bodies of Mrs. Harville and two children, and those of Mrs. Susan Reed and two daughters, have not been claimed. Work of Wrecking Crew. Some of the most effective work that was done at the scene of yesterday's wreck was that of the members of the wrecking crew that arrived from Her ington about three hours after the ac cident. This crew went to work on the wreck at about 5 o'clock in the morn ing and by 1 o'clock in the afternoon the main line was clear and trains No. 11 and No. 43 were able to continue their journey sooner than was expect ed. These trains had been tied up at Willard for ibout 30 minutes when the line was opened. To Burn Dead Cattle. It is stated that the dead cattle that were killed in the wreck will either be burned or buried at some place near the scene of the wreck. James H. Smith, who is engaged in the hide busi ness in Topeka, has made the company an offer for the cattle but a deal has not yet been made. The bodies of the cattle are still lying along the right of way near the scene of the wreck. The cattle that escaped with their lives are quartered at Maple Hill. ALL IN HIS POWER. A, Sm Kane Says Mr. Crawford Is Anxious to Fix Theater. 'Mr. Crawford stands readv to do ev erything- in his power to better the New Crawford," said A, S. Kane this after noon when told of the report. "While waiting for the committee to finish its in vestigation and mwke its recommenda tions, Mr. Crawford has been planning some improvements of his own. He is willing to go even turtner than an prac tical and reasonable betterments it may have suggested. He wants to be given a chance to make these changes, however, without extreme measures that would bring irreparable injury upon himself and the traveling companies." DELEGATION WILL MEET. Will Try to Agree on Successor to Sidney Cook. Washington, Jan. 7. Senator Burton has called a meeting of the Kansas delegation for Saturday at ten o'clock at his office to determine what action the delegation will take in the matter of vacancy on the board of managers of the National Soldiers' .home. John Seaton of Atchison is an active candi date for the place; Bernard Kelly has been suggested and Calderhead is a re ceptive candidate. Wealthy Shoemaker Dies. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. William W. Kendall, a wealthy shoe manufac turer of this city, died at his home here today of pneumonia. He was born in Granby, Conn., in 1838. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Arthur Agert, aged 8 months, died at the home of his parents, 213 West Sec ond street, Wednesday morning. The funral was held this afternoon. Mrs. Maud Veazie Bartholomew, wife of the Rev. Otis Bartholomew, died in Denver on January 3. Mr. and Mrs. Bartholomew were formerly students of Washburn college and made their home here. LOCAL MENTION. A building permit has been taken out by the Santa Fe railway for the con struction of the new $29,500 freight depot and office building, to be con structed on Adams street between Third and Fourth. The building is un der contract to Fuller Garrett, build ers. City Attorney Spencer today filed an swer in eleven replevin suits which have been commenced against Chief of Police McCollum to compel him to give up saloon fixtures confiscated in raids. One of the members of the city coun cil of Evanston, 111., has written to City Clerk Squires asking for informa tion in regard to the operation of the double televhone system in Topeka. In Evanston they are talking of revising their telephone ordinances, and want to find out, apparently, whether it is advisable to have one telephone system or two. A communication was received today by the city clerk from the Sole Pipe Organ company asking for information about the proposed new pipe organ, and signifying a desire to bid on the construction of the same. Notice. That John Fetrzilek, the well known furrier, will be here in Topeka for sev eral days, and wants to see his old cus tomers. He stays at 930 Kansas ave nue. Tel S42. "i i. A 3 Bar- pvV'STCr7 erm TO BE ill TOPEKA Jan. 25th to Feb. 6th, 1904, will in every particular excel its predecessors. will ht more diversified, more interesting and extensive. HIGH-GLASS Introducing a number of European Novelty Features for the first time in the West, and all of which will be clean and above criticism. iarsiiall's Celebrated land AND THREE ORCHESTRAS Will afford Music of a High Character. As heretofore FIFTEEN CENTS will admit to the entire Exposition, making it without question the biggest entertain ment ever presented for so small a price. There still remain open a limited number of advantageously located Booth spaces for exhibitors. For full information, Diagram of Floor Space, etc., Address R. S. BRIGHAM, Secretary and General Manager Kansas Mid -Winter Exposition, TopeKa, Kansas. Ibl 31 11 HELD AT VAUDEVILL MilulEil p J
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The Ladies' World is published for every body and everybody who sees it likes it. Its departments embrace Fiction, Poetry, Housekeeping, Out-of-Doors, Artistic Needlework, What to Wear, Health and Hygiene, Boys and Girls, Mother's Corner, Household Topics, The Pleasure of Others and Home Decoration. It publishes original matter only. For 1904 The Ladies' World will be better than ever. No matter how many periodicals you take, you can afford to send 50 cents' for this popular magazine. You will be amply repaid for your little investment. S. H. MOOSE CO., Publishers, Dept. AS 23-37 City Hall Place, H. Y. JANUARY NUMBER NOW ON SALE FREE CHARACTER DELINEATIONS AND ASTROLOGICAL PREDICTIONS Tor the State Journal Headers by James Clyde Wallace, Psychic, 912 Quincy Street, Topeta, Kansas. To obtain a chirographieal sketch send signature or initials in natural stvle of handwriting and the date of your birth. The letters from outlying districts will specify the locality, otherwise the initials and date of birth will only be published. In writing your specimen of chirography, do not confine yourself to mere letters, as it is very difficult to deduce characteristics from a few capitals, especially those used continually. M. S., March 16, Kansas City, Mo prolific in the sense of getting up new ideas but lacking in force to put them Into effect. The chart shows, an up heaval of all conditions by August. P. M., Aug. 29. Versatile but lacking in tenacity of purpose. The chart shows no favor until Marcn. B. C. D., Dec. 21. A loud and affected script; your conception of the beautiful is awry. The chart predicts reverses in February. S. M. G., July 19. Cawker City, Kan. A specimen showing refinement and elegance in every line. Your chart pre dicts success in literary pursuits. P. A. H-, Sept. 20. A very capable specimen showing intellectual force and versatility. The chart is not favorable until April. G. F., April 6, Elmont, Kan. Droop ing spirits shown in the weak finals. The chart predicts favorable changes by May. M. I. C Sept. 10. Lacks order and harmony. The chart predicts a jour ney west in August. F. E. H., Feb. 13. Significant of the mentality with new ideas and executive ability. The chart predicts reverses in March. W. M. L., Aug. 1. An original speci men showing merit in every stroke of the pen. The chart predicts success in Journalism. B. M., Dec. 26. An eloquent specimen of the refined, cultured and artistic per eonality. The chart predicts success in business matters after April. F. H. A., April Significant of men tal versatility and ambition. The chart predicts success in dramatic art. C. E. G., Aug. 9, Bucklin, Kan. An elegant specimen showing intellectual capacity. The chart predicts an up heaval of all conditions by July. M. J. B., Nov. 10. Indicative of an unselfish and sensitive temperament. The chart predicts journeys in April. A. C, Dec. 21. Forceful but lacks neatness. Financial betterment predict ed in your chart by August. M. H. D.. July 16, Holton, Kan. A wholesome specimen of a reliable and equable temperament. The chart pre dicts favor in all matters after March. M. K. D.. June IS Valley Falls, Kan. Unaffected, neat and graceful. The chart predicts success in literary pur suits. W. C. Dec. 25 Manhattan, Kan. Not a very neat specimen, but showing energy and self-reliance. The chart predicts changes in March. B. B. C. March 9 A generous allot ment of conceit and pomposity in your display of self-conscious aloofness with the. rest of mankind. The chart pre dicts no success in histrionic art. C. W., July 10 An able specimen of an ambitious temperament. The chart predicts financial success connected With papers in August. i H. A. F., May 30 Herington, Kan. A splendid specimen of artistic percep tion and intellectual force. The chart predicts favorable changes by March. J. H. C, Oct. 29 Dodge City, Kan. A self-reliant and determined person ality. The chart predicts success for you in journalism. IT'S SO EASY To keep the stomach healthy, the apne tite Rood, the breath sweet and the bowels open. Just take a dose of Hos tetter s Stomach Bitters before meali and see for yourself. It is also a sure cure for Poor Appetite. Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Liver Com. plaints. Chills, Colds and Malaria. Try a bottle today; also get a copy of our 1904 Almanac from your druggist It Is free. 06 HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. S. E. F., Sept. 4 Lacks individuality but good portents shown. The chart predicts success in intellectual pursuits. W. J. S., July 28 Significant of a cultured mentality. The chart predicts financial success in April. M. H. M., Nov. 9 Careless and lacks force. The chart predicts a journey east in June. P. M. K., Nov. 18 A goodly amount of mental ability and conceit in your specimen. The chart predicts successes coining to you through many men in May. A. G. B., Feb. 25 Firmness, decision and energy in every line. The chart predicts financial success in March and April. P. J. H., Jan. 13 Ellsworth., Kai-. Graceful, neat and artistic. The chart predicts success in painting. M. E. G., March 19 Very decided, forceful and even stubborn. The chart predicts a marriage in 1906. S. B., March 6 Lacks order, precision and a proper sense of the fitness of things. The chart predicts many changes by May. M. B., Jan. 10 Perry, Kan. Modest, unassuming and graceful specimen. The chart predicts success for you in music. E. K. W., March 6. Independence, Kas. The specimen of a generous, kind and sympathetic personality. The chart predicts an inheritance for you in August. I. C. D., Sept. 12. Lacks decision, otherwise a neat and elegant specimen. The chart predicts a marriage by the end of this year. W. E. W., Oct. 13 Sterling, Kas. Not a beautiful specimen, but showing men tal capacity and intellectual force. The chart predicts new surroundings by Mai'. L. E. B., Nov. 19. Significant of men tal versatility and decided individu ality. The chart predicts success in music. A. B. C, Dec. 27. Specimen is force- iui, nut looks as though you were nervous. The chart predicts better neaitn conditions by March. I. B. K., Feb. 19. Inman, Kas. Care less, lacks force and ambition. The chart predicts new environments after r ebruarv. J- E. G., Nov. 15. An eloauent spec! men of mental capacity; your script shows that you are aware of this. The chart predicts financial success in April. J. S. R., Feb. 23. Profuse in ideas but lacking in executive ability. The chart predicts many changes by June. B. P. S., Oct. 18. Complex; small letters show mental force, capitals are weak and lack life. The chart predicts nnanciat betterment by April. P. A. B., Dec. 28. Grantville, Kas, LacKs life, ambition and enternrlse. The chart predicts journeys west and nnanciai success in May. J. A. M.. May 9. Reading. TCas. Sne- cimen is forceful but lacks order and harmony. The chart predicts success in coal mining in end of this year. L. G. R., July 16. An able specimen of an able mentality. The chart pre dicts success in music. B. C. R., Jan. 12. A grotesque display of something "midway between chicken tracks and a death warrant"; an im possible specimen. The chart predicts legal transactions in this month. F. R. w.. Aug. 16. Tenacity of pur pose and obstinacy shown in every line. The chart predicts success for you in commercial uursuits. M. R. W., Dec. 31. A hopeful, ambi tious and enterprising personality. The chart predicts success in mining ven tures during May and June. ,F" H- r--March 10. Significant of en erg ambition and mentai brilliancy. The chart predicts a very favorable influence in money matters after April. TiA- F-.Pec- 1B' Dodge City, Kan. hIk? e 4-1 the P"'11, wholesome and re name. The chart predicts more success for you m Colorado. P; ,Jan. 16. The letters contain Deo. 12 and D. W. B., Dec 9, are an your own; your subtlety lacks experience and fineness. K. S.. Mav 27. St. Marvs. Kan. Firm. decided and energetic. The chart ppre dicts a journey east in May. N. W.. Aug. 3L Neat but lacking in in dividuality, the chart does not snow f marriage this year. M. H. W.. July 19. An elegant sped men showing artistic perception. The chart predicts success in financial mat ters during Juiy. H. H. J.. Feb. 14. An eccentric pot pourri of capers, quirks and irate jabs of the perf: an impossible specimen. The chart predicts no success for you in liter ature. 15. S. S., March 3. The specimen of versatile mentality and intellectual capa bilities. The chart predicts favorable changes in July. J. E. II.. March 16. Indicative of ambi. tion, but lacking in determination. The chart predicts better success for you in Nevada. II. D. P.. Sent. 11. An able specimen showing ability in every line. The chart predicts journey west in April. A. O. B., March 2". A forceful, neat and reliable specimen. The chart predicts su cess for you In literary pursuits. H. H. B., July 21. Ambitious, energetic and determined. The chart predicts sue. cess for you in civil arul mechanical en gineering. Leota. May 22. Showing artlstio con ception and mental versatility. The chart predicts a journey in April. E. W. C. Sent. 8. Significant of an unselfish and generous temperament. The chart predicts radical changes by July. S. M. E. H.. May 15. A graceful spec! men and showing intellectual capacity. The chart predicts success for you In literary pursuits. El X. P.. May 31, Tuoumcari.New Mexi co. Small letters are good and show mental brilliancy. Capitals are vain and weak. The chart predicts new surround ings by March. M. S. r. J. H.. Sept. 14. Horton, Kan.- Precise, elegant and artistic. The chart predicts success in dramatic art. New Lodge Officers. On December 19 the following officers were installed in Beulah chapter No. 34, O. E. S., for 1904: Mrs. Lillian O. Anderson, worthy matron; Mr. William M. Shaver, worthy patron; Mrs. Kate Wilson, associate matron; Mrs. Helen Humphrey, secretary; Mrs. Emma M. Coney, treasurer; Mrs. Fanny Frizzell, conductress; Mrs. Adele Smith, assist ant conductress; Miss Flora Fisher, Adah; Miss Ethel Pankey, Ruth; Mrs. Minnie Atchison, Esther; Miss Mabel Cornell, Martha; Mrs. Minnie Massey, Electa; Miss Kate Whitson, marshal; Mrs. Mary L. Sargent, warden; Mrs. Mary Folndexter, chaplain; Mrs. Eliza Rogers, organist; Robert Edwards, sen tinel. Brother of Gen. Sherman III. Des Moines, la., Jan. 7. Major Hoyt Sherman of this city and brother of the late General W. T. Sherman, is report ed to be very ill from an attack of pneumonia. DOCTOR'S SHIFT Now Gets Along Without It. A physician says: "Until last fall I used to eat meat for my breakfast and suffered with indigestion until the meat had passed from the stomach. "Last fall I began the use of Grape Nuts for breakfast and very soon found I could do without meat, for my body got all the nourishment necessary from the Grape-Nuts and since then I have not had any indigestion and am feeling better and have increased in weight. "Since finding the benefit I derived from Grape-Nuts I have prescribed the food for all of my patients suffering from indigestion or over-feeding and also for those recovering from disease where I want a food easy to take and certain to digest and that will not over tax the stomach. "I always find the results I look for when I prescribe Grape-Nuts. For ethi cal reasons please omit my name." Name given by mail by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. The reason for the wonderful amount of nutriment, and the easy digestion of Grape-Nuts is not hard to find. In the first place, the starchy part of the wheat and barley goes through various processes of cooking, to per fectly change the starch into Dextrose or Post Sugar, in which state it is ready to be easily absorbed by the blood. The little parts in the wheat and barley which Nature can make use of for rebuilding brain and nerve centers are retained in this remarkable food, and thus the human body is sup plied with the powerful strength pro ducers so easily noticed after one has eaten Grape-Nuts each day for a week or 10 days. "There's a reason." Get little book "Th Road to Well vllle" in the pkg; Mrs. Charles W. Merriam will be the queen and Mr. E. W. Thompson the king of next year's Epiphany party which will be held on Twelfth Night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Meiriam. This was decided, at the Twelfth Night celebration Wednesday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. N. West on Topeka avenue. The election Is by lots, the king drawing from a bowl of beana the one marked with a crown for that purpose, while the role of queen falls to the woman who gets the ring in her slice of the royal cake cut by the retir ing queen at the close of the evening s festivities. The West residence was attractively decorated with Christmas garlands and greens and flowers and the evening was enjoyed by the Bishop and Mrs. Millspaugh, the Dean ana Mrs. Kays, Canon Burke, Mr. and Mrs. John Clarke Harmon substitut ing for Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Nellis, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Qulnton sub stituting for Mr. and Mrs. John W. Faxnsworth, Mr. and Mrs. E. "W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Zahner, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Mer riam. Mr. and Mrs. Carol B. Merriam, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Herbst, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McFarlana and Mr. and Mrs. Earle C. Williams.. Mrs. ,West, last night's queen, wore a robe of filmy white and a crown of roses. Mr. Carol B. Merriam was this year's king. The Wednesday Afternoon Whist club which met yesterday with Mrs. J. C. Mohler will meet again in two weeks with Miss Jeanette Lord. The next Hellanthus dance will be given Friday, January 22, at Stein berg's. Miss Helen Smith will entertain the Bowline club following its meeting at tbe Elite alley Tuesday evening of next week. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Bear will enter tain the Professionals' club at their home Friday evening. The Watova club will dance at Hud son's hall Friday evening. Miss Louise Allison will entertain Saturday afternoon for Miss Anita Col lins of Washington, D. C. The Topeka chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution will hold an important meeting Friday af ternoon at the home of Miss Isabella Thompson, 807 Topeka avenue. Miss Alice and Miss Virgina Meade have issued invitations for Saturday evening to meet Miss Margaret Lyle Burns of Pueblo, Col., who is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. A. L. Williams. The Felicity Card club will meet next Tuesday with Mrs. Chester is. Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Corby, 300 Woodlawn avenue. Potwin, entertained the choir of Cumberland Presbyterian church at their home Wednesday even ing. Mr. Corby is the chorister. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pattison's E-nests at a small dinner at the Cope land Wednesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Downig, Miss Eliza beth Oldham of Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Freeman ana Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Parks. Miss Loine Ball of Abilene, and Mr. R. B. Gemmell of Topeka, were mar ried Wednesday morning in the First Presbyterian church of Abilene, the Rev Dr. Rlavney officiating. Miss i5t,wk -Rail, the bride's sister attend ed her and Mr. Ray Gebhart of Sa lina was the groomsman. Miss Alice Sterlath was the organist and the wed ding marches were supplemented by a love ballad sung by Mrs. J. A. Young Just before the ceremony. A wedding break fast followed the ceremony.and Mr. and Mrs fipmmell left afterwards for To peka where they will be at home at the corner of Sixth avenue and Lincoln street. Mrs. Gemmell is the daughter of Mr. Frank L. Ball, superintendent of the Dewey ranch at Colby. Miss Florence Morton returned Tues day from Osborne, where she spent the holidays at the home of her parents, to continue thf work of her junior year s wnahhiiT-n and to "live down" the erroneous report of her recent marriage which was circulated tnrougnout me state during the Christmas vacation. The report,which was some soi-disant wag's perverted idea of humor, of her wedding with Mr. Edward P. Sample, of Osborne, was published in the To peka and Lawrence papers and else where in the state where Miss Morton has many acquaintances through her connection with the Washburn concert company, of which she is the .contralto. Mr Samnle is a lawyer at Osborne, a graduate of the University of Kansas, and an engagement exists between them, but the wedding will not take place' for some time, at least not until Miss Morton has finished her course at Washburn. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Short, of Chanute, will come back to Topeka soon for a permanent residence here. Mr. A. B. Quinton left today on a business trip- to Washington, D. C. He will stop en route to visit his daughter, Miss Helen Quinton, at the Cincinnati College of Music. Miss Elizabeth Oldham will return to her home in Kansas City Friday after a visit to her sister, Mrs. Charles Townirier. Miss Sarella Herrick, who is the guest of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Davis, will return to her home in Kan sas City Friday. Mrs. E. A. Prescott will leave Wed nesday of next week for Sacramento. Cal., to visit her sister. Mrs. Charles Wilmarth. before joining Mr. Prescott in a permanent residence in Los An geles. Mr. Kurtz Kellam will be up from Kansas City tonight to stay over Sun day with his mother. Mrs. T. J. ,KeI-lam. Mr. Ralph Wunderlich will leave To peka soon for Kingman, Kas., where ho is to take a position as manager of a hotel. Miss Laura Blombarg, of Parsons, has come to Topeka to remain permanently and is living at tne Blower house. Mrs. Wilder S. Metcalf has returned to her home in Lawrence after a few days with General Metcaif here. Miss Kate Clough has gone to Larado, Texas., to be with her niece. Miss Car rie DuBois of Kansas City, who is seri- ouslv 111 there. Mrs. Roger Van Hook went to Chi cago today to Join Mr. Van Hook in a permanent residence. Mrs. Walter' T. Noble and her chil dren returned to Atchison todav after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. George M. Noble. Dr. ana Mrs. John Lawrence Work of Meriden will visit Judge and Mrs. Abram Bergen during the Midwinter exposition. Mrs. George Harrison of St. Louis is the gueet of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bennett and Colonel and Mrs. T. W. Harrison. Mr. Howard Guild of Chicaeo. who has been the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Guild, during the holi days will return Friday. Mr. Lesli Guild will accompany him for a short visit. Mrs. Arthur R. Lingafelt returned to Chicago today after a visit to her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. James Brewer. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. L. Thompson are. expeciea rrom cnicago tonight. Airs. A. D. Mohr arrived todav from St. Joseph to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred B. Gatchell. She was accompanied by her granddaughter, Mohra Gatchell, who has been -visiting her. m Mrs. is. J. Dawson of Clav Center Is the guest of Mrs. George McCoy. Mrs. lan Cain and Miss Virgil Cain left Wednesday for their home in La Junta, Colo., after a visit here. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Magaw have re turned from a two weeks' visit with Mrs. Magaw's parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lyon have re turned from a three weeks' visit with their daughter at Hancock, Mich. SITE FOR COLLEGE. Methodist University May Be at Gage Park. A proposition for the location of the Methodist university, for the founding of which Mrs. Eliza Chrisman left her fortune of 1200.000. upon a tract of ground adjoining Gage Park, will be determined upon within the next month. If the plans now in contem plation can be carried out the univer sity will ba built on a site overlooking the city of Torjeka and about, one mile outside its nresent limits. The Topeka Railway company is said lo have al ready Egreed to construct a cir line which will give service to the school and to the locality around it. Henry W. McAfee, a prominent stock breeder. wnose farm lies Just beyond, is head ing the movement to place the school on the Gage property and has already aiscussea the matter with Rev. A. S. Embree. executor of the Chrisman escate. Mr. Embree has declinedt2 give an opinion, as no definite Erowosi tion has been mado to him. The ground in question is the prop erty of Norris L. Gage, a brother of the late G. G. Gage, of Topeka, the donor of the 80 acres between West Sixth and West Tenth streets known as Gage Park. The Norris L. Gage property lies just west and was formerly a Dart of the same tract. It consists of 90 acres. Speaking of the probability of securing tne ground, Mr. McAfee said: "Mr. Gage will be in Topeka within the coming month and at that time we will come to a definite understanding upon the price at which the ground can be secured. Mr. Gage will make only a nominal price for the ground. Of that I am assured. The residents in the vicinity are very anxious to have the school located there and will furnish the location free of charge. I do not know how Mr. Embree is succeeding with the work of Increasins the fund left by Mrs. Chrisman. I have no con nection with that part' of the enter prise. I am interested In the matter only as a resident of the neighborhood of Gage park and can think of no more suitable place for the school. "One of the most important consid erations in the whole proposition is that it will give us street car service. I have consulted with the officials of the city railway who tell me that they will stand ready to extend the asvlum line to Gage park whenever the school is assured for that location. The pro- perry in question extends south from Sixth to Tenth street and directly Joins the Gage park on the west. There was 170 acres in the original tract owned by the Gage estate. Eighty of that has since been dedicated to the city for park purposes. From the ground an excellent view of the whole city can be obtained. The institution would be a desirable acquisition to our neighbor hood and all the people in the vicinity will work to get it." The site for the new Methodist uni versity will probably not be determined upon for some time to come. Dr. A. S. Embree, to whom Mrs. Chrisman en trusted the work of raising funds for the school is now engaged in it. The location of the buildings is not likely to be chosen until the entire endow ment has been secured as some of the future bequests may be involved by stipulations on this subject. Should the Gage property, which is very desirable, be donated to the university it is very likely that it would be used for its location. VteHt HitTTtL. Jk 709-711 Kansas Avenue. Bargain Friday AFTER INVENTORY. Best Friday Bargains for Boys Yet. :$2.95 $2.50 Si. I i Boys' Long Raglan Overcoats in Dark Blue, Oxford and Black worth up to $4.50 Boys' All-wool 2-Piece and Nor folk Suits in Dark k ancy Jne viots 3 to 16 years Youths Long Pants in Dark Blue CZQ. and Fancy Cassimere worth up to $1.50.... J O 50 doz. Boys' Blouse and Belt Waists with collar attached Bargain Friday Boys' Wool Knee Pants in Dark Mixture, Navy Blue and Corduroy Bargain Friday, Boys' All-wool Sweaters 3 to 14 years, all colors, actual 75c values Bargain Friday, Boys' Silk Bow Ties ....5C Boys Double-breasted Chin chilla Reefers 4 to 15 years, storm or velvet collars actual S2.00 garments Bargain Friday 2QC 50C Boys' Solid Leather Shoes all sizes, AO- 7UW values up to 2.25 Boys' 25c Suspenders-Bargain Friday, Boys' Canvas Leg gins, worth 50c 'in all sizes Lj w Boys' and Girls' Wool f. Tams, Bargain Friday liw HAD TWO HUSBANDS. The little folks love Dr. Wood's Nor way Pine Syrup. Pleasant to take; per fectly harmless; positive cure for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma. $500 REWARD FOR WOMEN WHO CANNOT BS CTTRED. Backed up by over a third of a century of remarkable aad uniform cures, a record such aa bo other remedy for the diseases and weaknesses peculiar to women ever attained, the proprietors and makers of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States, for any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro lapsus, or Falling of Womb which they cannot care. All they ask ia a fair and reasonable trial of their means of cure. There are thousands of sick women drsgiti. out a weary, miserable existence, who would b welt aad swpvy did they but have my experi ence with Br. Pierce's Fsvorite Prescription, writes Mrs. Annie Lenmau, of lo4 Jackson St, Atlauts, Ga. "Pour years ago I was nearly dead with inflarouiution aad ulceratiou. I eu dured daily untold aguoy. and life wus a burden to me. I had useu medicines internally and externally until I had made up my mtud that there was no relief in sight for me. A friend of mine endorsed yeur Jvorite Prescription, and I determined then to fie it a triaf. It took patience sad peiserersaoe for I was ins sad oon oitioo, and had to use ysur medicine far nearly four snosiths sttlere 1 was eurco, eut waai Girl Charged With. Bigamy by Her Father. New Tork, Jan. 7. On a charge of bigamy sworn to by her father, Mrs. Minnie Kappell has been arrested in Hoboken. If the charges are true the arrest shows a remarkable situation. Mrs. Kappell's father recently sued his second wife the prisoner's step mother for a divorce. His case was upset by the testimony of the daughter which favored her stepmotner. men Mrs. Kappell's father charged the girl, she is onlv 21 years old, with bigamy. He asserted she had been married throe times, one of the husbands having died. When detectives went to her flat they found two of the alleged husbands there taking care of a baby which had been adopted by Mrs. Kap pell. The latter was at the theater. Titer she was arrested. One of the men is a cripple who earns a few pennies by selling lead pencils on the streets. NeighDors say it was understood he was a boarder. The prisoner declared her father's charges to be false and when she was taken away, the men promised to take good care of the baby. flASNAIN INDIANA. Poll at Love Feast Is Ten to One Against Koosevelt. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 7. Indiana Republicans who have been watching the growth of Banna sentiment here and elsewhere throughout the country say that it will be impossible to prevent Hanna receiving votes in the national convention, and that the number will be so large that it will be a surprise to the country. They say the sentiment that Hanna ought to enter the race is growing every day in Indiana. A state officer said today: "Duriner the recent love feast a can vass of the Republicans who were here was made and it was found that there were ten for Hanna to only one who was for Roosevelt. This canvass was made at the instance of Chairman Goodrich himself, and it is now no se cret among those close to Goodrich that as far as he is concerned he will ad vise against the nomination of Roose velt. If Hanna continues to decline. Senator Fairbanks will be brought out by the Indiana machine." IN EIGHTEEN BANKS. New Crawford Theater 8:15 TONIGHT. 8:15 HEtEN PfflRfiNTLY John E. Hughes Scattered Money Far and Wide. New York, Jan. 7. After a search of more than a month for the fortune be lieved to have been left by John E. Hughes, an eccentric bachelor who died in November, after years spent in the Maiden Lane diamond business, the au thorities have found in a safety vault bank books showinfr deposits in eightoei savings banks of more than $25,000. Deeds also were recovered showing that Hughes possessed real estate of considerable value. So far as the custodian of the property has been able to learn Hughes never confided to his business associates the slifrhtest intimation as to family affairs and it is likely the fortune will revert to the state in the absence of heirs. Hughes died without even telling his at tendants of his secreted valuables and their recovery was made through a sys tematic search of the banks caused by finding among the dead man's effects of keys which appeared to fit safety deposit boxes. WHALEBONE GOES UP. Is Now Worth $15,000 a Ton With Little in Sight. New York. Jan. 7. A new record price of $15.cG0 a ton has been estab lished for whalebone, says a Times dis patch from London. Two and one quarter tons brought that price in a sale at Dundee. The previous high mark was 12.000. Experts say the vis ible supply is now only four tons In England and America. Colima in Eruption. Chicago, Jan. 7. A special to the News from Guadalajara, Mexico, says: Violent eruptions of Mt. Colima volcano have caused the inhabitants of the country immediately adjacent to the mountain to become alarmed. Many of the peoole have left their homes and sought safety from the ashes and lava. In Original N. Y. Production of IN THE PALACE OF THE KING Prices: 25c to tl.SO. Seats selling. Friday Night, January 8. Magnificent Scenic Heart Story, THE CHARITY NURSE WITH SELMA HERMAN. Prices 15, 25, 35, 50, 75c. Seats Wed. Saturday, Mat. Night, Jau.Q BILLY VAN And Fifty Others With IIAYERLY'S ffiSTRELS Night: 25, 35, 50, 75c Mat.: 15, 25, 50c Sunday Night, January lo. The Appealing Life Story, THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTERS Great Cast All Special Scenerv. Prices: 15, 25, 35, 50, 75c. Seats FrL Monday Night, January II. Henry W. Savage Offers George Ade's THE SULTAN OF SULU Orchestra of 10 Company of 79. Prices: 2oc to $1.50. Seats Friday. EMPLOYED BY NEGROES. J. G. Carlisle and J. S. Wise Fight Virginia Constitution. Richmond, Va., Jan. 7. Former Sec retary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle and John S. Wise of New York will ap pear before the United States circuit court here on Monday as counsel for the Negro Suffrage league, which will undertake to overthrow the recently adopted constitution of Virginia. The league, on behalf of many citi zens residing in .eastern Virginia, asks damages to the amount of $5,000 each from the governor and forty-five mem bers of the convention which framed, the constitution. It is said that the petitioners have been damaged to that extent by the convention, which deprived them of the right to vote guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States. James H. Hays, the colored attorney, who is mainly responsible for the in stitution of the suits, has raised a large sum among the negroes to prosecute them to the end. Hack Drivers Strike Albany, N. Y., Jan. 7. Hack drivers here have gone on a strike, and much inconvenience, especially to undertak ers, has ensued. The burial of the dead has been accomplished, however, by summoning hearses and carriages from Troy, seven miles distant. LIVER ILLS. tion is a grand medicine. I wish every sick woman would only try it and be convinced." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt ef 21 one-cent stamps.' Address Or. K. V. Pierce, BomUo, N.V. That great humanitarian and scien tist. Father Sebastian Kneipp, who astounded all Europe by curing thou sands of apparently hopeless invalids, prescribed no drugs; he simply required his patients to give up coffee drinking. He discovered a wonderful substitute for regular coffee, known as Kneipp Malt Coffee, which hs patients used daily. Bean coffee contains caffein poison in sufficient quantities to undermine the strongest constitution when used continually, causing nervousness, dys pepsia, and many other ailments. 'J'he genuine Kneipp Malt Coftee bears Father Kneipp's picture and signature on every package. It is good to drink and is good for you. All grocers sell it. PR. RADWAT CO., New York: Iear Sirs I have been sick for nearly 3 years and have been doctoring with some of the most expert doctors of the TTnite'l Ptates. I have been bathing and drinking hot water at the Hot Springs, Ark., but it seemed everything failed to do me gool. After I saw your advertisement I thought I would try your pills, and have nearly red two boxes; been taking 2 at bed tima and one after breakfast, and they hava done me more good than anything else have ever used. My trouble has been with the liver. My skin and eyes were all y-i-low, I had sleepy, drowsy feelings; feu like a drunken roan: pain right above the navel, like as if it were bile on top of the stomach. My bowels were costive. My mouth and tongue sofe most of the time. Appetite fair, but food would not digest, but settle heavy on my stomach, n1 some few mouthfuls of food come up again. I could onlv eat light food that digests eas ily. Please send "Book of Advice." Re spectfully, BEN ZAOGO, Hot Spring's, Ark. II Pills Price 25o a box. sent by mail. Send to DR. RADWAY CO., 55 St.. New York for Book of Advice. Sold by Druggists ae Sim
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6 TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1904. If DIRE EXTREMITY, Barton Is Determined to Force iloch Into the Race. Regards It as Onlj Chance to Gain Control. STUBBS TO THE FORE. Senator's New Jerusalem Rep resentatlve Taking the Lead. Iarion Man Shows No Disposi tion to Surrender. The politicians who are fighting Gov ernor Bailey are insistent that E. W. Hoch will run for governor, notwith tanding his repeated declaration that be Is not a candidate. Their asser tions cast an uncomplimentary Insinu ation upon Mr. Hoch's sincerity. Their actions and words virtually assert that while Mr. Hoch says one thing he means another. Mr. Hoch stated positively to tho State Journal "Wednesday after W. R. Btubbs had talked with him, that he had given Mr. Stubbs no encourage ment whatever; that he had had his Bay in his letter published the day be fore Christmas and that his position has in nowise changed. In' that letter Mr. Hoch declined to run for governor and he said that his decision was final.,, His exact words were as follows: "I cannot get my consent to lead this movement In the way these good peo ple wish me to lead it. It is a case in which my impulses are on one side and my Judgment is on the other, and as many of my nearest friends know, this is the attitude I have sustained to this movement from its inception so far as it relates to me. I have never encour aged it. In deference, however, to the opinions of others, my Judgment has been suspended for a while and open for conviction. But time and thought and investigation only strengthen my original conviction. "No words I have cusr written have given me more pain than these, be cause they will disappoint some of my best friends and win no favor from my opponents. To resist attacks of ene mies is easy. To refuse the importuni ties of friends is hard. The reason for this final conclusion can not be given in detail. They are too many to be enumerated and their specific enum eration would be useless, anyhow." Mr. Hoch doubtless realizes that the Burton element is making a strong ef fort to use him to rake chestnuts out of the fire for them. Of course, it is desired that the hand of Mr. Burton shall not appear in it, but W. R. Stubbs who is now at the head of the move ment and who is responsible for this second attempt to force Mr. Hoch to run, is tied up with, Senator Burton himself both in business and politics. Another of the chief movers in the Hoch movement is W. H. Mackey, Mr. Burton's United States marshal. The only fcepe of the Burton machine to regain control in Kansas politics is to get some man like Mr. Hoch who is personally popular to stand the brunt of a fight, and then let the Burton ma chine step in and reap the benefits of whatever success Mr. Hoch might have. In its desperation the Burton element is trying to force Mr. Hoch to run for governor despite his declination. There is no doubt that Mr. Hoch is personally popular throughout Kansas, but the fact that such a man as Sen ator Burton would reap the benefits of his success would take from him the support of thousands who might oth erwise be for him. The people of the state generally believe that the re election of Senator Burton would be discreditable to the state. Whatever may be charged against Cyrus Leland, Morton. Albaugh and their friends, the fact that they are unalterably opposed to Senator Burton is greatly to their credit. As a choice between the Burton machine and the Leland machine, the latter is unquestionably preferable. It Is a realization that his candidacy would be used for the benefit of the Burton .machine that has doubtless had much to do with determining Mr. Hoch not to run for governor. Now the Burton machine proposes to force Mr. Hoch into the race anyway. In order to do this it is insinuated that Mr. Hoch is not sincere in his refusal, but that if the people give him suffi cient encouragement he will run any way. Mr. Hoch's future action will indicate whether the insinuation that he is not sincere is correct, or whether lie has the backbone to stand by what he has said after mature deliberation. It the Leavenworth Soldiers' home can poll as many Republican votes as it is asserted it will eventually poll, the veterans in the home can run the poli tics of Leavenworth county just as they want to if they will unite. There are over 3,000 old soldiers in the home, and It is asserted that nearly all of them are Republicans. In Leavenworth county outside the home last year there were cast 2,711 Republican votes. If the old soldiers in the home should all stand together they could make the Republi can leaders of the county do just about as they want them to. not only in state and congressional politics, but with re gard to county offices as well. If the Soldiers' home had been segregated from Leavenworth county for political purposes, as the anti-machine attempt ed to have done, this would have been impossible, as the home would have been set off by itself. Here is a brief comment from the Hutchinson News, in which a careful reading between the lines discloses something of a satirical nature-: "It is the opinion of the News that Mr. David Mulvane should be unani mously re-elected member of the Repub lican national committee. But we do object to him being called a representa tive of the 'anti-machine.' Mr. Mulvan is justly considered one of the best ma- 'chlnists in the state. He is the head of that excellent organization known as the Burton machine. He has a machine in Shawnee county which runs over all apposition. He should be re-elected be eause he is a friend of Mr. Burton and there should be no disposition in the Republican organization to leave out the large faction which calls itself by the senior senator s name. The Concordia Press is booming Sen ator Harry McMillan for the Demo cratic nomination for governor. Among other things it says: "We say without fear of successful contradiction that he was the only member in the last legis lature who did not ride on a pass." This can be successfuly contradicted. Judge J. K. Barnd of Ness county was an other members who did not ride on a pass. The "machine" men are almost afraid that they made a mistake in the state committee meeting after all. The Law rence Gazette almost endorses their ac tion. Whatever the Gazette endorses may be looked upon with suspicion. One of the funny things in connec tion vith the midnight meeting of the boss busters was the strenuous denials of some of the Burton element that they were here to attend the meeting. O. A. Cheney and W. C. Lansdon of Fort Scott, who are two of the prin cipal spokes in the Burton machine in Bourbon county, were especially strong in their denials. Cheney is slated for postmaster at Fort Scott under the compromise made by Congressman' Bowersock, and Lansdon is editor of the Fort Scott Monitor, the Burton organ there. INQUEST BEGINS. (Continued from First Page.) "Exhibit A" at the inquest probably will be the fatal floodlight from which the fire originated. Fire Department Attorney Fuikerson and two city fire men went to the theater building to day to recover the lamp which was op erated by Edward McMullen when the lire broke cut. Attorney" Fuikerson decided today to hold no session in the city's fire Inves tigation, but instead be present with a stenographer at the coroner's inquest and there secure testimony pertaining to the city's inquiry. Any witnesses Mr. Fuikerson wishes to question will be recalled for separate inquiry by the city fire department. The first witness before the coroner'6 jury was John G. Calvin, a painting contractor. He testified that on the afternoon of the fire he stepped into the vestibule of the Iriauois theater to purchase tickets for the following evening. As he turned to the ticket office the center doors of the lobby foyer and the outside entrance doors were blown open as though by a blast of hot air. Looking into the foyer he saw people endeavoring to open the west door, that being the nearest. It was locked on the inside and he could do nothing with it. CITY'S LIABILITY. It la a Vital Feature of Impending Lawsuits. Chicago, Jan. 7. According to George N. Morgan, attorney for Miss Ivy Ow ens, who Tuesday filed the first damage suit against the proprietors of the Iro quois theater and made the city of Chicago a co-defendant because of its alleged failure to enforce the building laws, there are no decisions in Illinois on a municipality's responsibility for loss of life in a theater fire. The city's liability is a vital feature in the suits, as it is admitted the Iro quois management probably could hot pay damages for the 590 or 600 lives lost in the fire, Mr. Morgan said: "I have based the suit of Miss Ow ens on the decision of the supreme court of Illinois In the street car cases. It was decided that a passenger in a street car was entitled to protection from the city.even though it was shown that the city's police did all in their power to suppress the mob violence through which the injury occurred." Lawyers versed in personal damage law say it Is doubtful whether Mr. Morgan's client can recover for death or injuries sustained on property not owned by the city. NO QUIBBLING. Life Insurance Companies Will Pay Policies Promptly. Chicago, Jan. 7. Life insurance com panies which had policy holders that lost their lives in the Iroquois fire will pursue a liberal policy in the settlement of the losses. The announcement is made by the managers of most of the high class companies that there will be no quibbling over technicalities. With out exception, the managers of the large companies said that any reasonable proof of death ana tne receipt ior tne amount of the policy from the bene ficiaries would be all that would be required. The precedent that will be followed by the substantial companies is the Gal veston flood, where no coroner's verdict was required. In this case only reason able proof of death and identity was demanded. Checks for the amounts of insurance carried by some of the vic tims have already been given to the beneficiaries. ALDERMEN SHUT OUT. Not Permitted to Enter Council Chamber During Inquest. Chicago, Jan. 7. Nothing short .of a subpoena or a personal order from Coroner Traeger passed spectators into the city council chamber today while the coroner's inquest was in progress. Hundreds of persons were turned away by the twenty policemen on guard. Among those refused admittance were a number of aldermen, who for the first time in their exierience found the council chamber barred against them. Today City Building Commissioner Williams, who is under a formal charge in connection with the Iroquois disaster, offered his idans of the theater to the coroner, but the offer was declined. Other plans will be used whenever nec essary during the inquest. INSTALL NEW OFFICERS. W. O. W. Meeting at Leavenworth Well Attended. Leavenworth, Kas., Jan. 7. Sovereign Commander J. C. Root and Sovereign Clerk John T. Yates of Omaha, Caat. P. H. Coney of Topeka, and over a hundred people from Omaha, Toreka. St. Joseph, Atchison, Fort Scott and St. Marys were present at the annual installation of officers of the Lincoln camp No. IS, W. O. W., in the Times building last night. There was speak ing by the sovereign officers, an exhi bition by the degree team of the Oma ha camp, sujiper and dancing. Twenty one candidates were initiated into the camD. The officers for the year 1904 who were installed last night are: Consul commander, John Fitzgerald; adviser lieutenant, J. C. Ramey; banker. J. J. St. Clair: clerk, Fred Heis; escort, D. W. Richardson: watchman, A.J. De veries; sentry, E. D. Knapp; physicians, Charles J. McGee and J. D. Miller: managers, Charles Wandermaker. John T. Riley, and Louis Hoffman; past con sul commander, E. R. Snodgrass. Among the delegates here from out of the citv were: Phil Miller, deputy: John Kuehn, ad viser lieutenant; Mel Rerfield, past consul commander; John Simpson; E. R. Stiles, head clerk; John Crawford, escort, and Captain R. O. Forgen and the degree team of sixteen members as follows: Burstall, Peterson, A. John son, W. Johnson, F. Lowery, A. Low ery, Murray, Knight.Tembrink, Gabrio, Grimes, Polcer, Funnonson, Hendricks, Crowley and Doafie, from Omaha; N. H. Wolf, clerk; W. J. Matter. E. R. Hayes, Col. G. W. Reed. A. M. Stitt, A. L. Duff and W. H. Reeme from To peka: and F. J. B.kuIe, deputy, from St. Marys. Two carloads of visiting Woodmen Trom Kansas City arrived at W) o'clock. Among these was J. E. Fitzjerald. sovereign commander of the state of Missouri. WTith the twenty-one additions last night the membership of Lincoln camp ia brought up to two hundred. ARE LINING UP. Local Politicians Are Beginning to Be Actire. Will Center Around Contest for District Judge. FOR A SINGLE PRIMARY Talk of Combining County and State. Wonld Force a Disposal of Nom inations Very Early. Chairman H. M. Philips, of the Shaw nee county Republican central commit tee, has issued the official call for the committee to meet at the old court house Saturday afternoon, January 9, at 2 o'clock Some of the candidates are waiting until after the date of the county pri maries is set before making official an nouncement of their candidacy. The question of the most interest that will come before the committee at next Sat urday's meeting will be the date to be agreed upon for the county primaries. Many of the candidates, who will be up for renomination, are anxious for early primaries. J. B. Larimer, candi date for judge of the district court, and a few others who are entering the con test for office for the first time, are anxious for late primaries in order that they will have a longer time to cam paign in the county. In connection with the selection of a date for the primaries will come up the question of combining the primaries for the Shawnee county Republican nominations and the primaries for the selection of the delegates to the county convention which will be the conven tion that will name the Shawnee county delegation to the Republican state con vention at Wichita, March 9. If the effort to combine the two pri maries is carried, under the plea that the expenses of the double primary will be half what two separate primar ies would be, it will force an early primary for the selection of the Shaw nee county Republican ticket for coun ty offices, as the Shawnee county con vention must be held not later than Monday, March 7, two days before the state convention. There will be some opposition to the combining of the primaries by those who stand with the candidates who de sire an early primary. The principal contest in the campaign before the primaries will be on the district judgeship. So far there is no contest on any of the county offices where the present incumbents are ask ing for a second term. The question in the campaign which is still undecid ed is: what will the prohibitionists do? They will support J. B. Larimer solidly for the nomination as district judge against A. W. Dana. That has been settled, but so far that is the only con test. Otis E. Hungate up to date has no opposition for nomination as county attorney. Clad Hamilton was looked upon as the candidate who would be against him at the primaries but Ham ilton declined. Charles D. Welch was also talked of but he has not announced that he will or will not be a candidate for the nomination as county attorney. The fact is that Mr. Hungate is making an official record which would make his defeat impossible. There is talk of running Frank H. Foster for the nomination as county attorney, not so much with hopes of electing Mr. Foster as for keeping the prohibition voters together and preventing the supporters of Dana and Hungate from having too little' to do. The prohibitionists think that to give opposition only to Dana would allow the Dana supporters too great an opportunity to center their efforts and the prohibitionists wish to divide this work by forcing part of it to Hungate by giving Hungate opposi tion in the candidacy of Mr. Foster. Foster was once a candidate for nomi nation as county attorney. He was defeated by Ben Curtis. So far no opposition candidate has been named to ODDOse Sheriff Lucas. Probate Judge Hayden, County Clerk Newman, Register ol Deeds Marsnan, uounty Treasurer Bowen, County Commissioner Sterne, Clerk of the Court Curtis. In the representative districts there is something of a contest on already. In the Thirty-seventh district, north of the Kansas river, there is a scramble for the nomination to succeed J. B. Betts. John Howerton, George Stewart, Dr. L. A. Ryder, Mort Hutchins, Ed Ward and H. A. Euler are all mentioned. In the Thirty-eighth district, the city district which was represented in the last legislature by Archie F. Williams, who resigned to become United States com missioner, W. A. S. Bird, John V. Ab rams, Charles K. Holliday and W. G. Ftiirchild are talked of. In the Thirty-ninth district, which John B. Sims has represented for two terms, Robert Stone and W. W. Harvey are the two candidates now mentioned. In the race for the nomination as state senator from Shawnee county, John T. Chaney is asking renomination for his second term and J. B. Betts, who was representative from the Thirty-seventh district, is out to defeat Chancy. C. P. Bolmar, who has served as representative from Shawnee county, is the third candi date for senatorial honors. There is quite a contest for the nomi nation of county superintendent on the Republican ticket. It is understood that S. F. Wright will not be a candiate for a third term. C. H. Kutz, John F. Carter and W. H. Wasson are the candidates. NEW GERMAN UNIFORMS. Color Will Be Nearly That in Use in United States Army. Berlin, Jan. 7. Since Emperor William saw Generals Corbin, Young and Wood in their uniforms at the Germany maneu vers in September, 1902, the army cloth makers of this country have been exper imenting with similar shades and have produced a blend between straw color and light olive green, which will present ly be substituted for dark blue through out the army as the uniforms of privates and non-commissioned officers. The cloth has been tested for a vear under service conditions for wear ami cleanliness. It was found in the last summer maneuvers that the new uniforms are scarcely distin guishable at a distance from dry stubble of grass. It will be three or four years before the present uniforms entirely dis appear, as the government has upwards of 3,000.0(0 old uniforms in stock, thotieh the greater part of these have seen ser vice. The German government is the largest readv make clothes manufacturer in the world, turning out 600.000 to 910.000 per year, the exact number depending on the weather. Object to Immigration. 1 New York, Jan. 7. Sir Percy Sander son, the British consul general, gave out the following today: "Information has been received to the effect that the government of Cape Colony desires owing to the present condition of trade in the colony and throughout South Africa, to discourage the further immi gration of persons without ample means or prospect of immediate employment. Numbers of skilled artisans and others have been thrown out of work and fresh arrivals accentuate the positions." SEVENTEEN DEAD. (Continued from First Page.) the bottom one of which so many peo ple met their death: "Those two cars are telescoped worse than any two cars Ihave ever seen in all my railroad experience. I cannot understand how anyone could come out of either of the cars alive after the ter rible accident which occurred last night. I have been told, however, that many of the people in the top car escaped death. It is simply miraculous. Those who have investigated those particular cars have no doubt noticed that the roof of the lower car ran through the floor of the east end of the ucper car while the floor of the upper car did the same with the lower car, only it entered from the west end. The sides- of the upper car seem to envelop the lower car in the same manner that an old hen does her little chickens when it is threatening rain. In View of those facts I cannot see for the life of me how any one could have been saved from either car." Since the excitement caused by the wreck ha3 quieted down satisfactory statements in regard to the cause of the wreck have been obtained. It was given out by Rock Island authorities that the cause of the wreck was a mistake that was made by Engineer Benjamin of No. 3. According to this statement Mr. Benjamin had orders to wait at Willard for the cattle train. When he arrived at that point a freight train was standing on a siding there and thinking that this train was the one referred to in his orders and that, contrary to the orders, had reached Willard ahead of time, he ran on through without stopping and the re sult was the collision with the cattle train a few moments later. Railroad men say that Mr. Benjamin's mistake was unexcusable and that he should have taken the number of the engine on the train at Willard. If he had done this he would have noticed his mistake and the accident would never have happened. As it was, however, many of them think that at the investi gation which will follow the wreck, the blame will be placed on Mr. Ben jamin. SIGEL HEARD THE COLLISION. It is stated by G. W. Sigel, who was acting as agent for the Rock Island at Willard at the time of the wreck, that the noise Caused by the collision of the two trains was so loud that he heard it t his station which is fully three miles from the scene of the ca tastrophe. Mr. Sigel said yesterday: "I was expecting the wreck and it is probably for that reason that I was able to hear it. I had been notified of the orders that had been given the en gineer on No. 3 and was surprised when he ran past the depot without stopping. I thought, however, that he would probably stop before he had gone very far and that he would back onto the other track. This was not the case. When I went out onto the depot plat form I was just in time to see the train disappearing over the hill and then I knew that something was going to happen. It was too late for anything to be done, however, for a few moments later I heard the crash and then the noise of the escaping steam came to my ears." MANY SIGHTSEERS THERE. The scene at the wreck was one of horror. The excitement reached the turning noint when all of the dead had been taken from the wrecked cars, The bodies were laid on the cushions that had been torn from out the wreck age of the dav coach, and as a whole they presented1' the, -appearance of a hospital ward. Large crowds of reole who had come from the surrounding country immediately on hearing the news were grouped around the wreck and here and there could be seen per sons who were anxiously scanning the faces of the dead in the hope that they might recognize some friend or relative ,who had been lost. Steam was still coming from one of the big Brooks en gines as if it was striving to force its way ahead in spite of the obstruction in its way, and all of these things, to gether with the dead cattle that were strewn along either side of the track for a hundred feet, made a scene that will be remembered for a long time by those who saw it. At 10 o'clock when the second relief train arrived at the wreck, bringing a lineman from the local offices of the road, a temporary telegraph office was established on the spot. The lineman cut into the disDatcher's line and for an hour afterwards C. W. Jones, divi sion superintendent for the company, with headquarters In Topeka, was busy with the key. From his little station out on the prairie he gave orders to all of the other trains to either detour by way of some other road or wait until the main line at Willard had been cleared. Station "WK" was then turned over to a regular operator, who staid until late in the afternoon, when the wires were taken down and the in struments were brought into Topeka on eastbound train No. 12. INQUEST POSTPONED. Coroner Silverthorn of Wabaunsee county called the jury together at 10 a. m. today at the Barclay undertaking establishment, but on account of the nonarrival of several of the witnesses the inquest was continued until 3 o'clock this afternoon. The witnesses will be composed exclusively of Rock Island railroad officials and employes, it is understood, although the list of those subpoenaed has not been made public. In case the evidence is not all taken todav, it is not unlikely that the jury will be taken back to Wabaunsee coun ty and the inquest concluded there. Coroner Silverthorn 'says that while the state law authorizes him to conduct an inquest outside of his own county, if necessary, he does -not like to do so. ON WAY BEFORE WRECK. Two Maple Hill Doctors Notified Be fore It Occurred. Dr. J. M. Kemper, a resident of Mapie Hill, made a startling statement today in connection with the recent wreck on the Rock Island near Willard, Kas. Dr. Kemper and Dr. C. E. Men ard, another Maple Hill physician, are both members of the coroner's jury and are In Topeka today for the purpose of attending the inquest. The following is Dr. Kemper's story: "We were called to the scene of the wreck from Maple Hill just eight min utes before it occurred. This probably seems impossible to those who are not acquainted with the facts, but it is true just the same. When the cattle train was reported through Maple Hill and the passenger train through Wil lard, the dispatcher in Topeka knew that a wreck was coming. He imme diately called the operator at Maple Hill and told him to notify us of a wreck between Maple Hill and Willard. We started at about the time the wreck occurred and arrived at the scene about thirty minutes later." BELL IN ANOTHER WRECK. Medical Student Who Did Good Work Was Injured on Railroad. New York, Jan. 7. Frank Bell, who is mentioned in the dispatches from Topeka as having saved from death many of the injured in the Rock Island passenger wreck at Willard, Kan., re ceived the injuries which made him a cripple in a railroad wreck nine months ago. He had been visiting his mother in this city and undergoing treatment by specialists. Bell is said to be an expert electrician and inventor, having studied hospital work as a pastime. He is a native of Alabama. A special from Hutchinson says: Frank M. Bell the man who did such efficient medical work in the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific railroad WTeck near Willard this morning, passed through here on the belated train to night. He is not a physician, but had studied medicine for three, years. He lives at 33 East Twenty-second street. New York city, and is on his way to El Paso, where he has property interests. "The women did all of the work and the things which helped to alleviate the sufferings of the injured,"' Mr. Bell sai.l tonight. "They did not stop until all that could be was done for the injured and their work probably saved several lives." The women referred to are the Misses Louise and Edith Mann of Smithville, Mo., and the Misses Helen and Esther Roseborough of Hanover, Kan. Th- Misses Mann were in the train tonight and they said Mr. Bell took charge of everything and worked until his strength was gone. He is suffering from some ailment and could not leave his berth here. GROGAN LEFT THE TRAIN. Rock Island Engineer Attributes Es cape to Mercy of God. Thomas Grogan, a Rock Island engi neer running out of Kansas City, had a narrow escape from death. Mr. Grogan was not in the wreck but he rode up from Kansas City Tuesday night on the wrecked train and it was only a mere chance that he got off at Topeka. Mr. Grogan said last night: "It is only through the mercy of God that I am not in heaven today. I came up on No. 3 to see the officials at To peka but before we reached Topeka some on said that they" were not there. I then told the conduiV-or, who was an acquaintance of mine, that if I found LHiat neither Jones or Gruber were at headquarters I would go on to McFar land just to keep him company. When No. 3 reached Topeka," however, I found that the officials were -here and 1 de cided to stop over. About two hours later when I had gone over to the Chesterfield to go to bed, I heard that No. 3 had been wrecked near Willard and that twenty people had been killed. It made, my blood run cold to think of the close shave that I had had. I had been riding in the east end of the smoking car where the news "butcher" was killed and if I had been in the wreck I do not think that I would have ever gotten out alive." Mr. Grogan is the engineer who was pulling the Golden State Limited when that train was wrecked in the Hering ton yards a year ago last November. At that time he came very near losing his life. BENJAMIN GOES HOME. Engineer Who Caused Wreck Is in Kansas City. Rock Island officials still refuse to give out any statement in regard to the wrack at Willard. When seen at noon today and asked for an3flicial statement about the wreck. C. W. Jones, superintendent of the Kansas division of the Rock Island, with headquarters in Topeka, said: "The investigation has not yet been held, and not until it has been held will an official statement be given out. I have not yet seen any of the members of the passenger crew. Engineer Ben jamin came to Topeka early Wednes day morning and caught a train for his home in Kansas City. I suppose that he is feeling blue and depressed on account of being implicated in such a horrible catastrophe. I expect to go out to the hospital this afternoon and have a talk with Conductor Nagle. I saw the members of the freight crew yesterday but all that they knew about the matter was that Engineer Reardon had the right of way and orders to meet No. 3 at Willard. I cannot say when the investigation will be held or where the blame will be placed." After Kodak Men. One of the troubles with which the Rock Island had to contend at the wreck yesterday was the kodak oper ators. No sooner had it been learned that a wreck had occurred than people with kodaks began to appear on the scene, and from that time until late in the evening the workmen were kept busy chasing them off of the right of way. Some of these people, however, climbed over to the other side of the fence and from there they obtained good pictures and were not disturbed. It is strange that they were molested. They certainly could not injure the wreck by their actions. Henry Kaiser Leaves. Henry Kaiser, the German whose wife and baby were killed in the Rock Island wreck Wednesday morning, left at noon today for Durham, Kan., in company with his four remaining children. Mr. Kaiser was en route from his home in Germany to Durham at the time of the accident. He leaves the body of his wife in the care of the underdertakers at the rooms of the Barclay undertak ing establishment. COLISEUM IS WRONG. Big Conrention Hall Does Not Meet Legal Requirements. Chicago, Jan. 7. Although the Coli seum, in which the nati6nal Republican convention is to be held in June, has been closed by order of Building Com missioner Williams, it is said the order will be rescinded within forty-eight hours, and that no change in the con vention will be necessary. The violation charged against the Coliseum is purely technical, and it was no sooner made than the matter was investigated by Graeme Stewart, national committeeman from Illinois, and Senator Hanna, who was in town. Their investigation over both gentlemen expressed the opinion that there was no safer building in the world. Statements to this effect were made by Mr. Hanna and Mr. Stewart, and their publication authorized. Mr. Stewart said: "I feel great personal responsibility in the matter and if the Coliseum is not a safe building for the convention then there is no such building in the coun try." Mr. Hanna said: "The convention will be held in Chicago as planned. The Coliseum is one of the finest structures I have ever seen in its provisions for safety." It is alleged by the building depart ment that the Coliseum violates the ordinance which requires that such building shall face on at least one street and two public alleys or open spaces. The Coliseum to the west fronts on Wabash avenue,' while in the rear it opens on a public alley. To the south of the building is what amounts to a private alley and it was here that the building inspector discovered a technical violation of a section of the building ordinance. This alley is 70 feet wide and is covered. In no other way does it differ from the ordinary alley. The Coliseum proper is provided with twelve wide exits. Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 7. The carriage and wagon machinery factory of Lane Roach was destroyed by fire last I night. Loss $114,000. MRKETS TODAY Bullish Sentiment In Wheat Pit Again Prevails. War Rumors Put the Bulls in Ascendancy. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Are Steady, Natives Sell ing from 3.50 to 4.75. Hogs Also Steady and Inclined to Be Higher. Chicago, Jan. 7. WHEAT Judged in the wheat pit today the situation in the far east, if anything, appears perhaps more serious than yesterday, and, as a result, a bullish sentiment again prevaded the trade, although prices showed some loss. There was considerable liquidation at the opening and initial sales on May were fec lower, at S75.Sac. There was a good commission house demand, however, and after advancing to 8Sc the price steadied around 87c. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 373 cars, against 310 cars a year ago. A sharp rally occurred on a report from Liverpool that Russia and Japan had commenced hostilities, May selling up to 88V4c. A quick denial of the report, how ever, resulted in a big slump and May closed rle lower, at 87g87c after touching STiio. CORN Heavy profit taking in corn, causing a considerable decline after a strong opening in May, was (5c lower to 5c higher, at 474Sc at the start, but later sold off to 47c. Receipts were 217 cars. May closed c lower, at 47(5'47c. OATS Oats were affected by the liqui dation in corn and an easier feeling de veloped after a steady opening. May opened unchanged to a shade higher, at 3!(fi3:c to Sic, but declined later to 39e. Receipts were S3 cars. fKOVlSlo.NS-Moderate selling or pro visions by packers and profit taking by longs caused slight loss in all products. May pork opened unchanged to 22c low er, at $13.45(5-13.67; May lard was un changed to 5c lower, at $7.077.02, and ribs 2c lower to 2c higher, at $6.80a6.S5. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, 91c; No. 3 red. SSTiSiic: No. 2 hard. S0tfiS3c: No. 3 hard. 7679c: No. 1 northern, 85(587c:No. 2 north ern, 82i!S4c; Iso. 3 spring, itisuc, CORN No. 2, 43(5 43c; No. 3, 4343c. OATS No. 2, 36c: No. 3, 35c. RYE Jan., 53c; May, 57c. FLAX Cash: N.-W.. $1.05; S.-W.. 98c: Jan., 9Sc; May, $1.03. TIMOTHY Jan., .w; March, ss.iu. CLOVER-Jan., $11,25111.35. BARLEY Cash: 35&oSc Hanga ot Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commission Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks, Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4b6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. Chicago, Jan. 7. Open High Low Close Yes tVHEAT- May SS 88 87 87- 88 July 83 83 S2 S2- 82- CORN May 48-47 48 47- 47- 47- July 47 47 46- 46- 47- OATS May 39 39 39 39- 39- July 36 36 36 36- 36 POKK- Jan 13 05 13 05 13 00 13 00 13 32 May ....13 57-6213 62 13 27 13 32 13 67 LARD Jan 677 677 675 675 May 7 07-12 712 700 700 712 RIBS Jan 6 42 6 52 May 6 80-85 6 S5 6 70 6 70 6 82 Kansas City Grain. .Furnished by J. K. Gall, Commissions, Grain. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks, Office 110 West Sixth street Telephons 4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo. Kansas City, Jan. 7. Open High Low Close Yea WHEAT May 73 73 72 72 73- July 71 71 70 70 71 CORN May 41 41 40 40- 41 July 41-40 41 40- 40Vi- 40 Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, Jan. 7. CATTLE Receipts to day, 10,000 head. Market slow. Good to prime steers, $5.105.65; poor to medium, $3.T6i&5.00; stockers and feeders, $2.254.25; cows, $1.75(84.25; heifers, $2.00(54.75; can ners, $1.75&2.50; bulls, $2.254.60; calves, $3.50117.26. HOGS Receipts today, 40,000 head; esti mated Friday, 30,000 head. Marke 5il0c higher. Mixed and butchers', $4.b5S6.00; good to choice heavy, $4.9&5.10; rough heavy, $4.6554.90; light, $4.50(&4.85; bulk of sales $4 505 4 90 SHEEP Receipts today, 15,000 head. Sheep and Iambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.00;a4.50; fair to choice mixed, $3.25(54.00; western sheep, $3.55'4.40: native lambs, $4.006.25; western lambs, $5.00&6.L5. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. CATTLE Receipts today, 6,000 head, including 200 head of southerns. Market steady. Na tive steers, $3.50(54. 75:southem steers, $2.10 &'4.25; southern cows. $1.50(53.00; native cows and heifers, $2.40Q"3.85; stockers and feeders. $3.25(53.75; bulls, $2.2&S3.50; calves, $2.50(55.75; western steers, $3.404.15; west ern cows, $1.50(53.00. HOGS Receipts today, 9.000 head. Mar ket steady to higher. Bulk of sales, $4.55 (54.70; heavy, $4.50(54.80: packers', $4.55$ 4.75: pies and lights, $4.3054.70. SHEEP Receipts today, 2,000 head. Market steady. Muttons, $3. 50(54. 45: lambs, $4.755.65; range wethers, $3.3&'4.40; ewes, $2.30-53.55. Bt. Louis Livestock Market. St. Louis, Mo.. Jan. 7. CATTLE5 Re ceipts today, 4.50O head. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.8055.25; stockers and feed ers, $2.3055.05; cows and heifers, $3.25 3.00: Texas steers. $2.604.40; Texas cows and heifers. $2.15(53.25. HOGS Receipts today, 10.500 head. Mar ket strong to 5c higher. Pigs and lights, $4.35(54.75; packers', $4.4054.80; butchers' and best heavy, $4.60(54.95. SHEEP Receipts today, 2.009 head. Market steady. Natives, $3.25(4.25; lambs, $4.00(55.75. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Jan. 7. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 144 cars. Quotations: May, 72c; July, 70c. Cash: No. 2 hard, 735 74c; No. 3 hard, 67(572c: No. 4 hard, 63f67c; rejected hard, 60(&62c; No. 2 red, 86c: No. 3 red, Sl'9S4c CORN May, 40r5iOc: July. 40g:40c Cash: No. 2 mixed, 3:540c; No. 2 white, 40540e; No. 3 white, 39c. OATS No. 2 white, 39c; No. 2 mixed, 35 (537c. RYE No. 2. 48c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.009.50; choice prairie. $7.50(57.75. BUTTER Creamery, 1421c; dairy, fan cy, ISc. EGGS Fresh, 24c. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, 111., Jan. 7. BUTTER Market easier. Creamery, !K(5'25c: dairy, 14'S21c. EGGS Market firm. At mark, cases in cluded, 25tt2&c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 10 10o: Twins, 10c: Young Americas, 10c. LIVE POULTRY Market firm. Tur kevs. 1213c; chickens, llgllc; springs, ll(gllc. Engar and Cofiee Market. New York. Jan, "."SUGAR Raw sugar nominal. Fair refining, 3e; centrifugal, 6 test, 3c; molasses sugar, 2c. Relined sugar quiet. Crushed, $5.05; powdered, $4.55: granulated, $4.45. COFFEE Market firm. No. 7 Rio, 7c. A. Al.McDEARMOTT COMMISSION CO., Rooms 1 and 2. new" Devlin Buildings 702 Kansas Avenue. Stocks, Grains, Provisions and Investment Securities. Handled for Cash or on Margins. UNITED STATES BONDS A SPECIALTY Direct private wires to Chicago and New York. References All Kansas City and Topeka banks and commercial agencies. BeU telephone, 92. Independent telephone, 223. W. F. LOGAN. Manager. WANTED An experiencedhmtlroneK The Mutual Laundry Co., 3d and Quin cy sts. Cotton Market New York, Jan. 7. COTTON Sales to day, 119 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet and 20 points lower. Quotations per lott pounds: Middling uplands, $13.10: mid dling gulf, $13.55. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 7. COTTON Market easy at 12o per pound. New York Stock. Wall Street,New York, Jan. 7. STOCKS The recovery which followed the open ing decline in London modified apprehen sions of the war situation and opening changes in the stock market here were narrow. Declines were the most numer ous, however, extending to over point in Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Amalgama ted Copper was the only prominent stock to show a gain, but a number of minor stocks rose a fraction. The light selling at the opening was construed by the professionals as show ing no important pressure of stocks. Purchases of the usual leaders were made for a turn before the market rallied to an average of point above last night. In the case of the United States Steel preferred and a few low priced stocks the improvements were much larger. Chi cago Terminal preferred resumed its re cent pronounced rise, gaining 2 points on active dealings. Texas Pacific prefer red and Kansas and Texas rose 1 point. Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis preferred fall away 1 points, National Railroad of Mexico preferred 1 points, Virginia-Carolina Chemical preferred 3 points, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 4 points and Anaconda 6 points. Leading stocks displayed some feverish ness at the top range and reacted in soma instances to the opening figures. Speculative sentiment was undecided and prices sluggishly on dull trading. A reaction of about a point in Amalgama ted Copper and Sugar had little effect on the market which was hard. Kansas City Southern preferred lost 1 points. Bonds were irregular at noon. Amalgamated Copper was driven a point below yesterday's final price. Mean while the general market, which had ruled persistently firm during the morn ing, began to give way and the early small gains were lost. Business was the smallest of the week, largely congested in a handful of favorite stocks. Des Moines and Fort Dodge declined 1 points, Colorado Fuel rose 1 point. Tha market hardened sharply at 1 o'clock. Relatively active stocks such as Minne apolis and St. Louis, Colorado andl Southern second preferred and Chicago and Alton preferred furnished the chief features of interest in an otherwise feat- ureless market. These stocks sold 1 to VA points higher. Bangs of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks, Office 110 West Sixth street Telephone 4SS. Correspondent Christie Grain anJ Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mo. New York, Jan. 7. Stocks Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes Sugar 124 124 124 124 124 People's Gas 96 96 96 96 M Amal. Copper 49 4! 48 4S 49 g. R. T 48 50 48 49 48T4 T. C. 1 35 36 35 35 35 U. S. Steel 9 10 9 9 10 U. S. Steel, pfd 55 56 55 65 55 Atchison, com 66 67 66 6 6d Atchison, pfd 88 89 8S 89 Hi' C. G. W. 15 15 St. Paul 141 143 141 142 141 R. I., com 21 22 21 21 21 Wabash, com 19 10 Wabash, pfd 36 36 35 35 3H Mo. Pacific 86 91 91 91 91 Western Union 86 86 86 S6 86 Manhattan 141 142 141 141 141 N. Y. Central 117 118 117 11S Texas Pacific 24 24 24 24 ?4 So. Pacific 47 47 46 47 46 Reading 43 44 43 44 42 Erie 27 2S 27 27 27 Erie, 1st pfd 67 6S 6i Union Pacific 76 77 76 77 77 C. 0 32 32 32 32 32 B. 0 76 77 76 77 77 L. N 106 107 106 107 106 Katy 38 33 Pennsylvania 117 117 116 117 117 C. A., com 34 35 34 35 34 U. S. Leather 7 T C. F. 1 27 30 27 30 28 Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 7. WOOL Market nominal. Territory and western mediums, 18til9c; fine medium, 15S17c; fine, 1516o. New York Butter Market. New York, Jan. 7. BUTTER Market firm. State dairy, lSQlo; creamery, 154 24a Xopeka Market. Topeka, Jan. 7. HOG 3. MIXED $4.25)g4.40 HEAVY 4.35S4 .45 LIGHT 4.154.i3 CATTLE. COWS (best) $3.ija COWS (medium) 1.602.So HEIFERS (best) t.M HEIFERS (medium) l.BOStoO STEERS 3.0OS.7 bulls -VES: HEAVY .5a8.7 LIGHT fiiKf; w NO. 2 WHEAT mt NO. 3 WHEAT J?; White corn I!? YELLOW AND MIXED CORN afo NEW CORN P NO. 2 OATS 3u4i NO. 3 OATS aJ FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, Furnished by S. E. Lux, successor to W. O. Anderson Co., 210 Kansas av nUel FRUITS. ORANGES Navel, per box, $2.75 LEMONS California, per box, $2.75(53 on BANANAS Fancy Port Hmons, $2 25a 2.85 per bunch. GRAPES Malaga, $5.005.25 per bbL APPLES $3. 65S 3.85 per bbl. CRANBERRIES Per bbl., $6.50. DATES 45c per lb. VEGETABLES. TURNIPS Per bu., 40c. PARSNIlC -Per bu., 75c. CARROTS Per bu, 75c. CAULIFLOWER-Per crate. $8.00. POTATOES-Kaw Valw?, 0c per bu.' Colorado Pearls, lie per bu. SWEET POTATOES-Virguna. p., bbl $3.50; Muscatine, la., sacked, per bu., J HUBBARD SQUASh-Hef uoz.. CABBAGE $2.50(52.60 per cwt ONIONS-Per bu 80S5c; Spanish on ions, per crate, $l.Sa1.40. HICKORY NUTS-$1.40 per bu. CELERY Blue Ribbon, per do.. B0c Jumbo per doz.. iac. COCOANUTS-$4.25 per sack; 60c PeP dHONEY 24-rack cases, $3.00. FIGS-Per lb., lie; boxes containing jj 1-lb cartons, per box, $1.00. a OYSTERS Extra selects, per gal. Ji rn. extra standards, per gai .40; standar'dV per gal.. $1 3o; New ork counts. per col 45c; New York extra selects, per can. 35cl Baltimore standards, per can, 25c. FULL CREAii CHEESE, 20-lb. Daisy cheese, per lb Kansas Y. A., per lb.. New York State, white, per lb JJ Brick, per lb UV-4 Limburger. per lp j. Block Swiss, per lb BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY. BUTTER Country, Wal6c. EGGS Case count, fresh, 26c; storage, POULTRY Roosters, S'A-Sec lb.; hens. 7V-C lb.; spring chickens, 7(8c lb.; ducks! 8c" lb.; geese, 7o lb.; turkeys, 11c 1 1
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TOPEKA STATE J OUEKAL, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY 7, 1904. 7 Clean linen, clean, pure food and per sonal cleanliness are important requi sites in the healing of the sick. On account of its purity, Ivory Soap is the best for the ward and operating room as well as for the hospital kitchen and laundry. It has been examined for germ life by microscopists and chemists and found to be free from impurities, and is now in use in hos pitals, training schools and for general medical and surgical work, where the finest soap is required. WHAT BLISS SWORE TO Substance of His Testimony Be fore the Senate Committee. Washington, Jan. 7. The Associated Press has secured a copy of the testi- j rriony given by Brig. Gen. T. H. Bliss, J XT. S. A., when he was recalled before j the senate committee on military af- i fairs to give evidence in the Wood in-j vestigation concerning' the admission! of the Jai-AIai gift free of duty, .about, j which a controversy has arisen. General Bliss was recalled at the re- 1 qu6st of Senator Hanna, who asked whether the silver service given to General Wood in 1902, at the time of lis passage through the custom house, was the propenty of an officer of the V. S. army. General Bliss answered that j he understood it so; that he had re ceived information on the second day before leaving Havana that a package would arrive there from New York on the next day for General Wood, and it Would have to be returned on the steamer on which the baggage of the officers and men were being placed. A request had been made that the pack age should be hastened in its passage through the custom house. Senator Hanna inquired from whom the Information came, and was told by General Bliss it came by telephone from the clerk's office at the palace of the governor general. General Bliss Baid he did not know whether the pack age was Rddressed to General Wood, but was tol.i that it was for him; that when he learned that a package would be received from the military governor be had given orders to facilitate its tassage through the custom house. Senator Foraker asked if General IWood had anything to do with the or der. The witness replied: ".Not in the least." "I thought you said the order came to you from the palace," remarked Senator Hanna. General Bliss repeated that received the message from a he had clerk in ras omce, wno nam received it over the telephone from the palace. Senator Hanna inquired: "And with whom would that orig inate?'" General Bliss said it was merely a rncssage such as he received mar.y times a day from persons desiring to facilitate the passage of articles through the custom house. Senator Hanna Inquired if he was to under stand a telephone message purporting to come fiom the palace would be obeyed. The answer was in the nega tive. The senator then nsked for an Explanation and General Bliss said: "If any one sent a message that a fackage would be received there for he military governor I had a number of trusted employes and I would say: 'If a package arrives do not delay tut dispatch that.' That is what I did. end what you would have done and vhat any one would have to do until you had stepped the entire business of the custom house." Seantor Hanna: "I do not know whether I would or not. I do not think mm feel th,- Pm;t1'f. tt, -n V 7 ,,uara lo lne when she shall F! thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and If 1-m w tl WTn ShUld knowthat e danger, pain and horror l rim7 ded by the use of Other's Friend. seeks hsr:r use assists nature in its sublime work. By its aid thousands of women have passed this great crisis in perfect safety ana witnout pain. Sold at $i.oo per bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless ralue to all women sent free. Address emprtEUJ REGULATOR CO AUsatm, Bm. you have any justification for putting me in that position." General Bliss: "Any one would have to. Any usiness man would have to do that way." Senator Hanna: "I have had some experience In business and I do not think I would do it on the say so of a clerk and on the orders of a clerk, as you say that that order came from the palace." General Bliss again insisted that he had not received an order and af ter some further colloquy Senator Proctor remarked: "He says that it was not an order." Senator Scott asked what course Gen. Bliss would have taken If he had learn ed that the silver service was not the property of General Wood, but was the property of a firm in the United States which was sending it down there to b submitted as to whether it was to be accepted and bought. Gen. Bliss answered It would not have been admitted free of duty, lrx explanation of his act in admitting the silver service free of duty General Bliss said: "I have no hesitation in saying that if I had been Informed there was a present coming for the military governor under the circum stances I would not have made myself obnoxious to the Cuban people by rais ing any little points about the hand ling of the package in the custom house." BRIEF TE LEU HAMS. New York, Jan .7. Three trainmen were killed today by a collision of two trains on the Brooklyn Elevated rail road. Augusta, Me., January 7. Two large brick blocks, occupied by th Augusta Savings bank and several stores were burned here today and several other buildings were damaged. The loss is estimated at $200,000. St. Petersburg, Jan. 7. Lieutenant General Kleigets, prefect of St. Peters burg, has been appointed governor gen eral of the governments of Kieff, Po dolia and Volhynia. London, Jan." The Impending return to the liberal party of the Duke of De vonshire, who. October 5 last, resigned the office of lord president of the coun cil is announced by the Pall Mall Ga zette which understands that the Duke and Lord Rosebery have agreed to "bury the political hatchet" and amal gamate their interests. Sydney. N. S. W., Jan. 7. It develop ed today that the loss of life on Brit ish cruiser Wallaroo, by the explosion of one of her boilers was not so great as first reported. The number of men killed and injured totals 43. The first reports said 43 men had been killed. London, Jan. 7. The December state ment of the board of trade shows in crease of $20,745,000 in Import and $2, 020,000 in exports. Toulon. Jan. 7. The French armored cruiser Sully has been ordered to com plete her armament and be ready to start for Chinese water January 8. Is the joy of the household, for without it no happiness can be complete. How sweet the picture of mother and babe, angels smile at and commend the thoUS-hts nntl acninfmr. F U il bending over the cradle. The ordeal through winch the expectant mother must pass, how ever, is so full of danger and suffering that Church Which Will Be Erected by the Presby terians in North Topeka. J33 Q i r -.,1 It has been decided by the congregation of the Second Presbyterian church of North Topeka to build a new $15,000 church edifice as soon as winter is over. The building will be located at Jackson and Gordon streets, and will be of pressed brick with a stone basement. Competitive plans were submitted by several local architects and by one architect in Chicago and another In Los Angeles. The plans submitted by John Yout.kers, of Topeka, were ac cepted, and the elevation and ground plan of the proposed structure are here with printed. In the basement o the building: will be a large room for social purposes, a dining room, kitchen, and boiler room. In an annex on the first floor is a Sunday school room 20x24 feet, and five class rooms. The audito rium Is 42x42 feet, with a domed ceiling. It is octagonal in shape, and Its seating capacity is 260, which can be increased by opening the steel rolling doors into the Sunday school department. The seats are arranged to radiate from the pulpit, thus giving a good view of the platform from every part of the house. WILL BUILD IT. North Topeka to Hare Large, New School House. At a special meeting of the board of education held Wednesday afternoon It was decided that the 12 room school building in North Topeka should be built and that the law governing the bond issue should be complied with. The bonds of $20,000 for the building were) voted for the erection of a new building in North Topeka it was un derstood, and so voted, that the $20,000 should be, used in completing the walls and roof and one room of the building. Since the flood the board decided that the Quincy school building would have to be abandoned in a few years and that the thing for the board to do was to build a 12 room building, which would cost $40,000, and thereby have school accommodations for North To peka for years to come. The contractors stated that the walls and roof and one room of the new building could not be completed for $20,000. The board was in a quandary and to complicate matters still more the calls for bids stated that the $40, 000 building should be completed. The contractors bid on a completed build ing. At the meeting Monday night these points and objections were raised and it was decided not to open the bids made for the completion of the building as the board has not the money to pay for that amount of work. At the special meeting the difficulties were obviated by the contractors all agreeing to submit new bids in two parts. The first part of the bids will be for the erection of the walls and roof and completion of one room with in the $20,000. The second part of each bid will be for the completion of the building. The board has the $20,000 of the bond issue now on hand. By the time the fur.ds are needed for the com pletion of the building the tax levy for the year will have been made by the board at the August meeting. The work on the building can go on without interruption. The plan to have the bidders make separate bids was suggested by E. E. Miller, member of the board of educa tion from North Topeka. Mr. Miller asked the contractors who were bidding if they would agree to such a proposi tion and they all consented. Mr. Miller said, in speaking, of the North Topeka situation: "The new building is greatly needed in North To peka and we should have nothing less than a 12-roorh building of the most modern and convenient type. The building is needed now and. further de lay means that North Topeka will have to put up with the .present conditions that much longer." If the contract is let at once it is doubtful if the school building will be ready for occupancy before the Febru arv term in 1905. The board at the same meeting elected M. L. Holloway to be the superintend ent of construction on the Manual Training high school. Mr. Holloway has been in the employ of the board as chief engineer for more than a year and the board has found him to be an ex cellent man for the position. As the members of the board cannot give their time to watching every bit of work done for the board, Mr. Holloway was selected to have general supervision of all work done for the board. Mnnros Going South. Kansas City, Mo.. Jan. 7. Jack Man roe, the hero of a four-act melodrama at Butte, Mont., a year ago, in which Cham pion James Jeffries was the villain, spent a few hours in Kansas City yesterday af ternoon. He is on his way to Hot Snrings, where he is going solely for the purpose of "looking over the place." Af terwards' he will go to Chicago, where he is booked to participate in an exhibi tion wrestling or boxing bout with some one yet to be selected. SECURING A JURY. Senatorial Bribery Case la Now in Processor, TrijaL Omaha,-Jan. 7. When the, case ot United States Senator Charles H. Diet rich, charged with bribery was called In the United States district court to day the room was again crowded. Be sides several state officials there were numerous lawyers and judges of minor courts present as spectators. There were also several women in the room, among them Miss Gertrude Dietrich, daughter of the senator. Judge Van deventer at once called the case against Senator Dietrich wherein he is charged with direct violation of section 1781 relating to bribery by a member of congress. The securing of a jury was then taken up by counsel. TO BUILD JETTIES. Sam of $2,000 Pledged for Work on the Ebw at Lawrence. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 7. The board ot trustees of Grant township met with the board of county commissioners and re ported that Grant township had donated $1,000 as its share of the cost of building jetties along the Kaw river. The board of county commissioners donated $1,000 to ward the fund and the township trustees expect the city of Lawrence to furnisti another $1,000. A Bpecial meeting of tha council will be asked for tomorrow night. Chairman Scott Wood will go to Kan sas City to consult with Chief Engineer Bye of the Union Pacific in regard to commencing work on the jetties next week. The Union Pacific railroad has of fered to do the work of building the dyke for the road, while the $3,000 to be raised is' to b used for building jetties to pro tect the dyke. DRINK EVIL DRUNKENNESS CURED TO STAT CURED BY White Ribbon Remedy I announce to the world that I have an absolute cure for drunkenness in White Ribbon Remedy, based on thousands of cures made in the most obstinate cases. In a majority of cases White Ribbon Rem edy was given secretly in tea, coffee or food, without the patient's knowledge. By degrees the patient gets a distaste for in toxicants and finally leaves off altogether. It is wonderful. Many a hard drinker has thus been reclaimed and restored to his family and friends. White Ribbon Rem edy is easily given by following the sim ple directions. It is tasteless, odorless and perfectly safe to give or take. White Ribbon Remedy will cure or de stroy the diseased appetite for all alco holic drinks, whether the patient is a con firmed inebriate, a "tippler," social drink er or drunkard. Impossible for any one to have an appetite for alcoholic: liquors after using White Ribbon Remedy. It restores a victim to normal health, giving him or her steady nerves, and a determi nation to resist temptation. Builds up the will power. Indorsed and Sold by members of a Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs. Anna Moore, Press Superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, Los Angeles, Cal., states: I have tested White Ribbon Remedy on very ob stinate drunkards, and the cures have been many. I cheerfully recommend and indorse White Ribbon Remedy, and advise any woman to give it to any relative suf fering from drunkenness. Sold by druggists everywhere, 50c and $1. Trial package free by writing or calling on Mrs A. M. Townsend (for years secretary of a Woman's Christian Temperance un ion), 218 Tremont St., Boston, Mass. Spa clal agent in Topeka. M. WEIQHTKAN, 833 Kansas Aye. DRINK SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Happy In de summer time Or winter roarin' free; Any tree de 'possum climb Ain't too high for me! Happy In da night en day Wort so bright to see; Any tune de fiddler play Ain't too- fas' fer me! Happy wid de cross or crown Takln' of my chance; All I wants, de worl' eroun". Room enough ter dance! Atlanta Constitution. "King Dodo," which was in Topeka Monday night, is in Parsons tonight. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Smith are the parents of a Eon, born Wednesday night. A Topeka. man who took photographs of the Rock Island wreck was threat ened with arrest. Only two women have registered so far. The total registration of men has j reached nearly 150. j During the last six months the state school fund has received $147,554.73 from the sale of school lands. Adjutant General Kelsey is chairman of the Republican county central com mittee of Atchison county. This evening the annual business meeting of the First Lutheran church will be held at the church. j D. B. Vanderheyden has asked for a divorce from Martha Vanderheyden on the firround of abandonment. Judge C. E. Koote, formerly a silver Republican, but now a bond broker, declares for Hanna for president Superintendent Collins, of the Myers Construction company, which is re building the city railway, haa returned from a trip to Iowa. Not a politician was hurt in the Rock Island wreck though there were many on the train. The reason is that poli ticians ride in Pullmans. The people who are driving piles- for the new street car bridge are progress ing rather slowly. They have driven only a few piles so far. United States Marshal W. H. Mackey was one of those who went through the Willard wreck uninjured. Mr. Mackey was returning to his home in Junction City when the accident occurred. Governor Bailey has paid F. D. Wil son, of Great Bend, $50 reward offered by the state for the capture of H. C. Dowell, who broke jail in Barton county a few weeks ago. Barton county also paid Wilson $100 reward. Harvey G. Parsons, the State Journal reporter-cartoonist, who was in the Rock Island wreck, got out of town again Wednesday night for his Okla homav trip, and so far as known, has had no further adventures. Cold weather seems to have no ter rors for the street car people. The work of rebuilding the West Eighth avenue track seems to be going right ahead in spite of the frozen sand and ice-covered pavement. The decision of the attorney gen eral's department that the law on the statute book raising the clerk hire for registers of deeds in certain counties, is invalid, knocks that office in Shawnee county out of $1,000 clerk hire. The heads of the various public labor bureaus of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa held a meeting in Kansas City yesterday and formed an organi zation, the chief object of which will be to handle the harvest hand problem in the big wheat states. Dog tax tagr No. 1 for 1904 was issued to Grace Griffith, of 909 Madison street. The new law requires that people come to the office of the city clerk and pay their dog tax. If they do not do this prior to March 1, the amount of the tax is doubled. The townships along the right of way of the proposed Topeka, Frankfort Northwestern railroad are circulating petitions which will be presented to the boards of county commissioners asking for special elections to vote subsidy bonds for the enterprise. A South Carolina man has written to the Kansas department of agriculture that he knows how to make a good sub stitute for whisky out of watermelon juice, and he wants Secretary Coburn to help him exploit. And Mr. Coburn is president of the Kansas State Tem perance union, too. The Topeka League Baseball associa tion will have a meeting some time dur ing the next week or two to complete its organization and arrange for raising the rest of the bonus for its entrance in the Missouri Valley league. Gus Alberts is being talked of for manager of the club. On account of the recent changes in the money order department at the post office the former clerks have moved up so that their arrangement nows is: William Tinker, superintendent; Miss Carrie Sheffield, money order clerk; Robert Caldwell, clerk in the money or der division. AT THE PLAY LIST NIGHT. Murray and Mack wer at the Craw ford last night in their farce called "A Night on Broadway." The team name of "Murray and Mack" is a title to juggle with for it has been juggled a good deal. Who were the original Murray and Mack and whether the two men at the Craw ford last night were or were not the originals is a question. There have' been a good many Murray and Macks. It isn't a team name to be particularly proud of. Murray and Mack means slap stick, red whiskers, bald heads, fall down, stand up, shout and do some very strenuous dancing. Some times the alleged comedians have a fairly good supporting company. Some thought that the company here last night was good. Others didn't. Some people like slap sticks and some do not. It's just a question of whether a per son likes the Murray and Mack style. It is a style that to those who like it, the worse it is the better. Receivers Named. Trenton. N. J., Jan. 7. It was an nounced today that Vice Chancellor Emery has appointed James R. Clarke of New York, and Charles E. Kimball of Summit, N. J., receiver of the In ternational Fire Engine company, a nine million dollar corporation with plants in New Tork. Baltimore. Chi cago, Cleveland. St. Paul, and Elmyra, N. Y., and other places. $33,500 for Soldiers' Home. Washington, Jan. 7. Secretary Shaw of the treasury department, has sub mitted to congress a recommendation from the secretary of war for an ap propriation of $33,500 for "improvements at the Leavenworth Soldiers' home as follows: Completion of one combina tion barracks, $5,000; completion of one conservatory, $4,000; completion of chaplain's quarters. $1,000; completion of greenhouse, $3,500; repair of main avenue and roadway, $20,000. Rheumatism Cured in 24 Hours. T. J. Blackmore of Haller Blackmore, Pittsburg. Pa., says: "A short time since I procured a bottle of Mystic Cure. It got me out of the house in 24 hours. I took to my bed with rheumatism 9 months ago and the Mvstic Cure is the only med icine that did me any good. I had five of the best physicians in the city, but I re ceived verv little relief from tnem. I know the Mystic Cure to be what it is represented and take pleasure in lecnm mendlng it to other poor sufferers." Sold by Rowley Snow, druggists. Sixth and Kansas ava. Bright's Disease? 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The Washburn college faculty has ruled that next spring's baseball team must not play games on more than 10 school days. A proposition is now un der consideration for changing the spring vacation from the last of March to the middle of April, for the purpose of enabling the baseball team to make its spring trip during the vacation, which is of one week's duration. Manager Frank Leach says that he has been unable to complete the base ball schedule because of the uncertain ty as to the exact time of the vacation. If the faculty decides to postpone the vacation, the team will arrange its dates accordingly. Washburn expects to have a strong baseball representa tion this year. Washburn is much interested in the charge of professionalism which has been made against Rice, Griggs, Pooler, Hicks and Allen, five of the strongest members of the K. U. team. These five men played in a football game with Lamar, Mo., against Carthage, Mo., a few days before Christmas, for a purse of $1,000 hung up for the winners. Un der the rules, this constitutes profes sionalism, and it seems almost certain that these five men will have to be dis qualified. Manager Leach is already doing some work toward getting new football ma terial for next year's team. Roy Gill, who played on the Washburn team two years ago when only 18 years of age, will be back in school. He now weighs over 200. Several other big men are likely to be secured, but Manager Leach states that he Is not after "one year" men, but men who really intend to go to school and take a college course. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on Washburn to adopt the Chi cago conference rules instead of the Kansas president's agreement as the standard for its athletic management. The only difference is that the Chicago conference limits the number of years which a man may play at one school to four, while the Kansas conference al lows a player to have six years. This is on account of the fact that most of the Kansas colleges have a preparatory de partment, of which some of the students prove themselves eligible to the. first teams. It is probable that within a few years Washburn will adopt the Chicago conference rules, but the sentiment now is strongly in favor of leaving the pre paratory students eligible to places on the team. There is still hope of getting Bert Kennedy back as coach for the foot ball team. The Washburn authorities have not fully decided whether they will establish the dental school next fall or wait until the fall of 1S95. If there seems to be a sufficient demand for a dental school, with good outlook for attendance, the school will be es tablished next fall, in which case, Lr. Kennedy will be given the position of laboratory demonstrator, and will move his office to Topeka. All of the Washburn students are pulling together for next year football team, and are reporting to the mana ger of athletics all the names of likeiy candidates for football in their respec tive home towns. This is the plan adopted by Missouri university this year, and it is being used with good ?Villll c r-. fr 5r mm1?:? .tMfjrw mwmmmwwm I Grew Rapidly Worse Could Keep Nothing on My Stomach; Lost Weight, and for Days Could Not Leave fly Bed." "I was taken seriously ill in New York 2 years ego; grew worse; had the best doctors. They said I had Bright' s dis ease and could do nothing for me. I commenced to bloat, had heart failure, could keep nothing on my stomach, and lost flesh rapidly. I could not work and for days was unable to leave my bod. I was in the last stages ot this -awful disease, with death staring me in the face. "Happily for me, 'Safe- Cure' was sug-, gested, and I took It as a last resort. l began to get better with the first bottle, improved steadily, and in four months every trace ol kidney disease had disappeared, my appetite was good, and I got back my health and strength, and never felt better in my f RAY, 43 Broadway, Rochester, N. Y. nervousness, bad complexion, skin affec- tions. weak heart, cloudy urine when it stanos z nours, ana diseases ox: ine urinnrv and female orerana. are every results there. One of the members of the Missouri team claims to have se- cured pledges from eleven football players in his town to attend M. S. U. next fall. JUDGMENT IS SECURED. Topeka Bank Gains a Point Over a Wellington Creditor. Wellington, Kan., Jan. 7. The Central National bank of Topeka. has secured judgment by default against the Sumner- Sherman Cattle company and B. E. Wil son, county attorney, for the sum of $11, 961.74, with interest at 6 per cent, from date. This is the debt evidenced by the notes and mortgages on which the signa tures of J. W. Forney are claimed to De forgeries. Neither Wilson nor the cattle company made any defense or filed any answer or pleadings in the case. The only oth?r question left in the case is the liability of J. W. Wilson as indorser. Col. For ney has denied under oath that he either signed his name on these papers or au-, thorized any one to sign them for him or knew of their existence. This part ot the case has been set down for trial oa Thursday of next week, the 14th inst. 5PELLED. Hundreds of Firearms Confis cated at Tellnride. Telluride. Col., Jan, 7. Fifty-six men have been expelled from San Miqucl county by the military authorities.sinne the publication of the governor's mar tial law proclamation. About 45 of these men are quartered at Montrose and propose to return to Telluride af ter the troops are withdrawn. The search for fire arms and ammunition has been completed and between 600 and 700 weapons have been confiscated. VERDICT ON B. O. WRECK. Coroner's Jury Finds That It Was Unavoidable. Connellsville, Pa., Jan. 7. The cor oner's investigation of the wreck of the Duquesne limited express, on the B. O. railroad near Laurel, Pa., on the night of December 23 last, closed la3t night and after hours of deliberation the jury returned a verdict that the wreck was unavoidable. Fort Scott's Police Receipts. Fort Scott, Kan., Jan. 7. The re ceipts of the police department for the month of December of the year just department were $1,979.75. Chief of Po lice Mendenhall states that the receipts of the police department for the corre sponding month of a year ago, or 1902, while the old administration was in, were $1,S93. This makes the receipts of the last month $586.75 above those of the year prvious. Twenty-four Persons Drowned. Antwerp, Jan. 7. The mission steamer Lapstay capsized recently opposite Kwamouth, on the Congo river. A mis sionary whose name is not given and 23 natives were drowned. A dispatch from Leopold giving the news adds that the Lapstay was proceeding, from the upper Congo to Leopold to embark four j other missionaries, when faulty naviga tion caused the disaster. The Lapstay .7 was towed into shallow water, but it is -feared she will be a total loss. umwim 25 Don't economize on light economize on the gas L3L The Yusea Welsbach Mantle gives three times more light and saves i the gas bilL Five kinds of Welsbach Mantles, each with the Shield of Quality on the box. Refuse worthless imitations. Genuine Welsbach Mantles cost 15, 20, 25, 30, 35c AH Dealers. Ml mm S3 I V II lilt 1
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ieism &n'd'the:-:::Ctiit-"of $he Centuries; view of the exhibition which "Elijah HI." Dowie made of himself during his invasion of New York many peo ple are sorely perplex ed to account for the fact that Dowieism must be reckoned one of the most prominent of twentieth century cults. History furnishes the solution of the problem. From time Immemorial there have been people eager to embrace the bizarre, willing to accept doctrines and dogmas, no mat ter how repugnant they may be to com mon sense, provided they be promul gated by a man of powerful or at least unique personality. This applies not only to religious Vut to medical ques tions, and when the two elements are deftly intermingled the attraction be comes all the greater. At the same time It must be said that medico-religious cults have frequently been pro ductive of much good in the way of casting light upon the relations of mind and matter. Too often, however, such cults are carried to extremes, when they become menaces to society. Of medical cults pure and simple his tory furnishes us with striking exam ples, apart from the sun cures, the barefoot cures, the back to nature cures and the light cures of these latter days. Perhaps the most noteworthy instance of a medical cult was that propagated by Mesmer, whose singular practices led Dr. Braid to the discovery of hyp notism as a therapeutic agency. Mes mer therefore must be credited with having founded a cult which was ulti mately productive of good. That as originally practiced mesmer ism abounded in extravagances cannot be gainsaid. Mesmer himself has been described as one part scientist and three parts impostor. After having an nounced his discovery of animal mag netism he removed to France from Switzerland, where he was born in 1733, establishing himself in Paris and losing no time in turning his discovery to financial account. Soon his parlors were thronged with people anxious to rid themselves of various ills. The charlatanism of the man is evident from his modus operandi. In the mid dle of a large room he set a tub in which magetized bottles were covered with water. Through a lid over the tub curved iron bars protruded to be grasped by the patients who stood in a circle about the tub, all the patients being connected by a cord twisted around each individual's waist, in order, so Mesmer explained, to permit the magnetic force to pass through the en tire circle. The walls of the room were covered with mirrors, ostensibly to in crease the magnetism. Soon the devo tees began to experience strange sen sations as they stood about the tub, and various hysterical attacks ensued, while Mesmer, arrayed in a gorgeous robe, walked about the room stroking the patients with an iron staff. There can be no doubt that some remarkable cures were effected, but science has es tablished the fact that the cures were due to hypnotism, and not to Mesmer's tub. Hypnotism itself has been violently attacked, but that it has a definite place in neuropathology is now gener ally acknowledged. Its practice is by no means a product of modern civiliza tion, antedating Dr. Braid's discov eries as it does by centuries. The mar velous feats of the fakirs of India may be attributed to hypnotism. According ROMANTIC CAREER I HE action of the Amal gamated Copper com pany in closing down the mines which it controls at Butte. Mont., thereby throw ing 15,000 men out of work, may not inaptly be deemed the climax in the sensation al litigation which-has been waged for years between the Standard Oil inter ests and F. Augustus Heinze, the pug nacious 3-oung millionaire who has been jcutting a wide swath in the commercial and political world of Montana almost ever since he first invaded the copper country in 18S9. The decision of Judge Clancy granting, an injunction restrain ing the Boston and Montana Mining company and the Parrot Mining compa ny from paying dividends to the Amal gamated Copper company was the prox imate cause of the cessation of mining operations in Butte and was also of mo ment as showing that if Heinze had not permanently worsted his opponents he had succeeded in holding them at bay. And Heinze, be it remembered, million aire though he be, is a man who is not yet thirty-four years of age. Small won der that in him and in his success cap italists and students of human nature alike find a problem worthy of the most serious consideration. On the surface heredity and early en vironment have not contributed much In the direction of placing this young millionaire in the position he holds to day, but those who search below the surface will find that, as usual, hered ity and environment have been oper ative factors to no small extent. F. Augustus Heinze was born in Brooklyn, Dec. 5, 1869, his father. Otto Heinze, being a New York merchant of German descent. The youthful Fritz by which name the lad was known until he elim inated all of it but the initial in con sequence of his playmates dubbing him "German Fritz" did not as a boy dis play any signs of the remarkable per sonality developed in later years. He was educated in Germany and later at the Polytechnic institute in Brooklyn. Before he entered the latter school, however, he had shown very plainly in what direction his inclinations lay, for his mother reports with pride that even as a boy his greatest pleasure consisted in the study of minerals. After his course at the Polytechnic it was but logical that he should attend a mining school, and accordingly he was en rolled at the Columbia School of Mines, from which he graduated in due course in 1889. Beyond displaying a marked aptitude for mineralogy, there was nothing in his college course to warrant the suspiciifti that within a decade he IFczctors Which ;Ma to one writer, there is a sect in Egypt which has practiced hypnotism for 4,000 years. Arabic sorcerers draw on the hand a circle with a black spot in the center, and by gazing at it fixedly soon pass into the hypnotic state. Moroc can marabouts superinduce the sleep by gazing at a bottle filled with water and placed in front of a lamp, the eyes being fixed attentively on the light fo- JUmJ lj Diana VcLicgfian garbed, txs I LPh- jk Vfc fJllk B 1 XttFr1 INsA Bt0to Priestess UNIQUE PERSONAGES WHO HAVE WON LARGE FOLLOWINGS. cused in the bottle. But it remained for the nineteenth century to introduce the wonders of hypnotism to peoples other than the oriental. A medical charlatan of ancient days was Thessalus, who came to Rome and, like the adventurer he was, entered upon a studied career of deception. Knowing the inclinations of the people with whom he had to deal, Thessalus taught that health could be assured by the liberal use of wine and rich foods as well as all manner of self indulgence. He even went so far as to start a school of medicine based on these principles would become one of the mining mag nates of the country. What he did show, however, was an unusual degree of pertinacity. Once he undertook to solve a problem he would stick at it until he had answered it to his entire satisfaction. This faculty stood him in good stead from the mo ment he first entered the employ of the Boston and Montana company at Butte. He was engaged by it as a mining engineer at a salary of $5 a day and for months, in overalls, pursued hrS vocation hundreds of feet below the surface of the earth. All the time, how ever, he was studying the conformation and eccentricities of the various copper leads and planning to turn to his ad vantage the knowledge thus gained, all of which he sedulously kept to himself. One thing he learned was the fact that the title to more than one mine was strangely involved owing to loose loca tions and relocations. He also discov ered that there were yet deposits of great value which a man with capital could operate for himself. Then it was that he began to have dreams of fu ture greatness and to cast about to find a way to establish title as a min ing monarch. Less than two years after his arrival in the mining camp Heinze turned his steps east again, intent on finding capi tal that would give him the start he needed. By the death of his grand mother he fell heir to $50,000, as did each of his two brothers. Otto and Ar thur. He persuaded Arthur to invest his capital in Montana mines, and there then sprang into being the Mon tana Ore Purchasing company, nest egg of a great fortune. Back to Montana he went and forthwith erected a big smelter, greatly to the amusement of wiseacres, who foresaw speedy failure for the tenderfoot. But thev did not know the caliber of this tenderfoot, nor were they acquainted with the fact that while he had been earning hi? $5 a day he had been acquiring knowl edge which was invaluable. In order to secure ore to keep his smelter busy Heinze leased a mine from James A. Murray, and the litiga tion which has made his name so wide ly known may be said to date from the day of the execution of that lease. It was not long before Murray, dissatis fied with Heinze's conduct of the mine and asserting that he was not getting his fair share of percentage, brought suit to annul the lease, obtaining an in junction which shut down the mine. The case was eventually settled in pri vate, but the ball of ceaseless litigation had been set in motion. Heinze had purchased the Rarus mine and, greatly to the surprise of experts who be lieved the mine exhausted, was soon extracting considerable ore from it. and guaranteed to turn out doctors after a course of but six weeks. The luxury loving Romans flocked to him, and he lived and died one of the moat popular of pseudo savants. In some respects he was not unlike Paracelsus,' who in the middle ages attained a vogue almost equal to that of the man who hood winked the Romans. But there was less of the quack about Paracelsus, who has been called the father of med ical chemistry. He'taught that for ev ery human ill there is a specific remedy to be derived from some product of na ture. Like Mesmer, he was born in Switzerland, and even in his youth won renown as an alchemist and magician. Through some luckycures he was ap pointed professor of medicine at Basel in 1526 and proceeded to burn the an cient medical works, declaring himself the "monarch of medicine" and the dis coverer of the elixir of life. Ultimately he developed intemperate habits, be came a vagabond and died in poverty OF F. AUGUSTUS Then Heinze set on foot a policy of ex pansion, invading British Columbia, where he secured railroad charters and big grants of timber and mineral lands. Soon his operations attracted the at tention of the Canadian Pacific rail way, which looked with jealous eyes upon the EUccess of the brainy Brook- HEINZE AND SOME MEN lynite. At the same time his rivals in Montana declared war on him, and, hastily making peace with the railroad people, he returned to Butte to begin the fight of his life. This was in 1897. It was alleged that MmK, mm I Contributed to Their at Salzburg in 1541. He it was who brought mercury and opium into gener al use as curative agents. The mention of Paracelsus inevitably recalls the name -of the Italian Caglio stro, who was nothing if not a charla tan, but succeeded in establishing a widespread cult. His real name was Guiseppe Balsamo, and he was born at Palermo in 1743. When but thirteen he ran away from the seminary to which he had been sent by his parents, but was recaptured and placed in a mon astery, where he became assistant to the institution's apothecary. Thus he obtained a knowledge of chemistry and medicine, scanty enough in truth, but sufficient to enable him to impose upon many credulous people. Before he was thirty he had entered upon his career of deception. He gave out that he had traveled with a sage named Althotas in Greece. Egypt and Asia, picking up the lore of the ancients. His wife, a Heinze had struck new ore bodies in his Rarus mine located in such a way that they belonged either to the Boston and Montana or the Butte and Boston WHO HAVE FOUGHT WITH mines adjacent to the Rarus. These companies began suit, and therefrom developed the sensational lawsuits which have been characterized by all sorts of charges and countercharges of bribery and corruption, stories redolent beautiful Venetian, became his accom plice in his money making schemes, and ere long he was on the highroad to wealth, doing a lively business in dispensing what he was pleased to call the elixir of immortal youth. Italians, Germans, Russians and French were numbered among his dupes, and every country in Europe was visited by him. Eventually he fell into the. hands of the inquisition and was condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. "France was the scene of his most dar ing operations, and France has been the habitat of cults even more inju rious than that established by Caglio stro. Only a few years ago the noted French writers J. K. Huysmans and Jules Bois published a book to sub- stantiate the statement that cults of Satanists still existed in the republic, a sect of Luciferians and a veritable body of devil worshipers. Cumulative evidence was heaped high in this vol ume, adding fuel to the fire already oc casioned by the revelations of one Di ana Vaughan, who claimed to have been the high priestess of the Lucife rians and after her conversion to Catholicism wrote a series of memoirs exposing the secrets and rites of the cult, memoirs which were sensational in the extreme. A Kentuckian by birth, she is said to be the only woman, with one exception, ever admitted to the highest degrees of the Luciferians. After the destruction of St. Pierre a sensation was occasioned by the state ment ascribed to a priest to the effect that in his opinion the eruption of Mont Pelee was a visitation of God designed to punish the people of the island for having to a large extent embraced Lu- HEINZE. THE COPPER KING of scandal. Heinze has fought not only the Standard people, but the late Marcus Daly and Senator W. A. Clark, being at one time allied with the latter in HTM AND AGAINST HTM. waging commercial and political war against Daly. Early in the battle over the Rarus mine Heinze, whose lawyer brother had been investigating the ti tles to various big claims, set on foot no less than sixty lawsuits tending to ciferianism, with its weird ceremonies and "black masses." By some the Satanists proper are thought to be an offshoot of the gnos ticism which flourished in the early centuries of the Christian era. MM. Huysmans and Bois cited many blood curdling anecdotes instancing the lengths to which the alleged Satanists of France will go in their hatred of Christianity. One of the most striking stories related to the desecration of nine churches in the He Maurice on a March night in 1895, the tabernacles being demolished and the sacred wafers stolen. The supposition is that the wa fers were taken for the purpose of utilizing them in the rites of black magic. Whether or not it can be defi nitely proved that Satanism as a cult still exists in France, it is certainly to be found today in Asia Minor, accord ing to the testimony of an English traveler who secured entrance to the inner temple of the devil worshipers where the sacred book of the creed is kept. These Satanists, who are said to be in other respects highly civilized, are known as the Tezidis and are to be found in Mesopotamia. Their chief is called the "kak," is accredited with possessing supernatural powers and is also revered as the incarnation of the angel Reziel. Oriental mysticism, of which this is but a crass outgrowth, has of late years been exercising a strong influ ence over the western mind and has been responsible for the birth of some very extraordinary cults, not a few of which may truly be said to be devoid of charlatanism. Theosophy, for ex ample, may be reckoned among the sin cere cults followed in America today, although Mme. Blavatsky, with whose name the term "theosophy" was so long associated in the public mind, did much to discredit it. The Blavatsky may be regarded as one of the most remarkable women of the nineteenth century. She was born in 1831 in a south Russian town bearing the euphonious name of Yekaterinoslav and first attracted at tention by her statement that she had penetrated into Tibet, had met and communed with the mahatmas of the Himalayas and had been initiated into the mysteries of their occultism. Her fame spread speedily, and she was li onized by the most select circles of Eu rope. In 1873 she came to the United States from Europe and two years lat er established the Theosophical society. About four years afterward a branch of the society was started at Bombay. In 1884, so great was the furore concern ing the clever Russian that the Society For Psychical Research undertook to investigate her claims, with the result that her miraculous pretensions were discredited. Undoubtedly, however, she contributed not a little toward popular izing the tenets of Buddhistic philoso phy both among foreigners and natives of India itself. Vedantism is another oriental cult that has found its way to the western hemisphere, its most notable exponent in the United States today being the swami Abhedananda, a cultured, pol ished Hindoo of magnetic personality. In this the most orthodox of the six orthodox Brahmanical philosophies, an idealistic monism is methodically work ed out, the central idea being the re lease of the soul from its corporeal bondage and the escape from the neces sity of rebirth, the passage of the soul from one bodily form to another. Ve lantism is essentially esoteric, but it has an exoteric side offering a popular religious explanation of the universe embarrass his opponents, while it is stated that at one time more than 100 suits were pending in the courts. Of these suits the most famous has been that for the possession of the Minnie Healy mine, involving property worth $10,000,000. The judge before whom this case was tried awarded the mine to Heinze, but a judicial scandal devel oped, and a retrial followed, the deci sion, which was rendered by Judge Clancy not long age, again being in favor of Heinze. It is reported that once his opponents, through H. H. Rog ers, tried to effect a compromise with Heinze. offering him $250,000 in cash for his claims. With inimitable sang froid he is said to have made a counter de mand for $10,000,000, and the incident was hastily declared closed. Perhaps nothing shows the tireless energy and remarkable versatility of this young man better than his politfcal campaigning against Marcus -Daly. Heinze bought newspapers, imported writers and artists, inspired cartoons, formed glee clubs to sing odes written for the campaign, wrote pamphlets and took the stump, speaking in English or German, according to the audience. Those who heard his speeches say that they were marked by wit, terseness and eloquence. At all times he was a whirl wind of activity. And so soon as vic tory rested with him he plunged again into the vortex of his mining litigation, Growth and the nature of man. The first to popularize it in the western world was the swami Vivekananda, whose lec tures were one of the features of the celebrated congress of religions at Chi-' cago In 1893. His mental alertness and his readiness to answer the most in volved philosophical questions attract ed widespread attention. The same qualities are to be found in Abheda nanda, who has made New York his headquarters for the past few years. Of Quite another class is that fa naticism which results in the formation of an aggressive religious cult. His tory is replete with examples of this, the most noteworthy at the present time being the religious war in progress in Somaliland, where the British have for years been vainly endeavoring to conquer the Mad Mollah and his fol lowers. The Mad Mollah's name is. Haji Mohammed Abdullah. Haji sig nifies one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca, Mohammed is the name of the prophet and Abdullah means "servant ii wiic umc mis oeuigereryc African was friendly to the British, But no sooner did he conceive the idea that he was semidivine, the earthly repre sentative of Mohammed, than he began to wage a religious crusade. He is said to be perfectly sincere in his belief as to his divinity, and his adherents swear by him. In 1899 he advanced on Berbera, but the Abyssinians worst ed him, and he fell back into British territory, where he has since been lead ing the British troops a lively chase. He is described as a typical oriental demagogue, is tall and slender and pos sesses features that show at once strength and ferocity. His many nar row escapes have led his followers to believe that he is invulnerable and that he is able to work miracles. Fanaticism does not always lead o aggressiveness and crusades, however. Take the case of the Doukhobors, who are fanatics if there ever were fanatics. Their peculiar beliefs aroused the en mity of their Russian neighbors and ul timately, largely through the instru mentality of Tolstoi, whose sympathy they had won chiefly by their doctrine of nonresistance, they emigrated in a body to Canada, settling in the north west on land provided for them by the government. For a time all went well, but in the fall of 1902, influenced by the teachings of a Russian who came to their colony earlier in the year, they turned their cattle and horses loose, re fused to harvest their crops by other than purely manual labor and discard ed every article of wearing apparel that had its origin in animal life. These actions were based on the preachment that it was wrong to make animals suffer in any way for the sina of man. To cap their fanaticism, they started, 1.000 strong, on a pilgrimage "in search of Christ." Leaving their settlement and abandoning all their possessions, they marched on foot to x vi ivluii, wuence iney sec out ior Win nipeg. The weather was intensely cold, and their privations were extreme, but it was some days before the authori ties decided to use force to comnel them to return home. When this decision was reached the Canadian mounted po lice rounded them up, loaded them on railway trains and saw that they wer transported back to their deserted cab ins. It was later announced that the Doukhobors had resolved to conform t the customs of the country, but fron; recent reports it would appear thai they are still presenting a problem very difficult of solution. RATMfWn W WT.T.lfvr at the same time not allowing the grass to erow under his feet In tha oac-nh new mines, a search which was capped by the discovery of a new bonanza, known as the Cora and Rock Island. Personally Heinze is good to look upon. He is always dapper, and even when employed by the Boston and Mon tana people never failed after working hours to exchange his overalls for even, ing clothes; hence he was for long ir reverently dubbed "the dude of Mon tana." But there is little of the "dude" in his mental equipment. He is a nat ural logician, is exceedingly shrewd and possesses an aptitude for getting at the bottom of a proposition. When he was a boy an old German master, com paring him with his brother Otto, said, "Otto is quicker, but Fritz bites into the heart of a sour apple." Today, sharpened perhaps by necessity, he is able not only to grasp fundamentals, but to grasp them quickly. As his rec ord shows, his Judgment, at least so far as business questions are concerned, is excellent. A friendly biographer declares that Heinze cannot in any sense be deemed vindictive. He is always ready for a fight, but he does not cherish enmity, according to this writer; while he hits back and hits back hard, he does not pursue a feud to the bitter end. On the other hand, he is loyal to his 'friends, by whom he is described as the soul of generosity itself. A big money maker, he is a big money spender and is spec tacular in the way of entertainments, yet he cannot be styled a member ol the hail fellow well met class. He is suave and courteous, but dignified; wherein, perhaps, lies one of the secrets of his success. He is unmarried, chief ly, his mother says, because he has al ways been too busy to get married. But he is not too busy to find time to steal away every now and again to pay a visit to the old home in Brooklyn, where the mother who idolizes him ea gerly awaits his coming. ELBERT O. WOODSON. VILLAGE OF CHESS PLAYERS. Some distance from Halberstadt, in the district of Magdeburg, is a village of about 1,200 inhabitants where old and young, rich and poor, are confirm ed chess players. Chess is one of the compulsory subjects taught in the ele mentary schools, where every day one or two hours are set apart for practice and the composition and solution of problems. Twice a year examinations are held, and a prize of a beautiful chessboard is awarded the best player. An annual tournament is also held at an old inn. To the Chessboard, in which some of the greatest players of the day have taken part.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENTNG. JANUARY 7, 1904. 9 TABLE ASP KITCHEN. Conducted by Lida Ames Willis, Mar quette building. Chicago, to whom all Inquiries should be addressed. All rights reserved by Banning Co., Chicago. Doughnuts and Crullers. These sweet cakes are more generally known as fried cakes. They are of two kinds either made from sweetened bread dough or raised with baking powder. Small pieces are broken from the dough and twisted into shape, or the dousrh if rolled out and cut into rings Th" cakes are then dropped into very not iai uc;y euui. ivj .,iv u and fried a lisht brown, then they are rolled in powdered sugar. Our most cherished recipes for "fried cakes" have been handed down from either our Puritan or Manhattan Dutch forebears. It is said that the art of making these cakes was taught the Puritan3 during their stay in Holland the land of "olekoeks." These popular cakes are known by various names fried cake, doughnut, cruller in the north, and in some sec tions of the south you are introduced to them as Friday cakes a name due, It is claimed, to "their being fried and generally served fresh on Friday. Bv the great fraternity of "traveling men" they are designated as "sinkers," a suggestive name which does not sub stantiate the claim made by some that they are wholesome. There is no roason why they should not be as wholesome as other fried foods at least. The reason why fried cakes are s(. hard to digest is because they are usualli- fried in lard and are coated with grease which is affected by neither saliva or the action of the gastric luicts; consequently these pieces cannot penetrate the impervious cover ing of the starch, etc.. in the interior. Very frequently, too, the inside of the cake is not sufficiently well done and the greasy outside mixed with the doughy mass inside, makes a eombina- tion unfit for food. For those opposed to lard or those who do not like greasy doughnuts there are other fats which are far more wholeome. Clarified drippings from Toast beef may be used, or fresh beef Euet may be prepared and this is cheap, cleanly and healthy. It is important that the fat be at Just the right heat. When it ceases to bubble and is perfectly still try it with a small piece of the dough. It ehould be hot enough to cause the dough to rise to the surface in a few minutes and cause the fat to bubble around it while the dough swells up quickly and browns on the under side. If you wish the doughnuts to be per fectly round like puff balls, turn them frequently while they are browning. This will also prevent their cracking open. If doughnuts are cut into rings they will cook in more uniform man ner, the fat bubbling up through the hole in the center until this finally closes up. Make the dough as soft as can be handled; cut about half an inch thick. Plain sweetened bread dough dough nuts must be fried more carefully than those made with eggs, the use of eggs preventing the dou;h from absorbing the fat. If you are in the habit of making and frying another supply of doughnuts as Boon as one frying is exhausted, you can use the same fat, adding more to It if necessary, from one time to an other. As soon as you are done frying cut up a potato in slices and put into the fat to clarify it; stand it away un til it settles, then strnin into a stone ware jar. cover closely and keep in a cool place. An iron kettle is best for frying doughnuts. Vegetable oils are now preferred by most people for frying, as they leave no residue of fat and are pure, clean and wholesome. DUTCH OLEKOCKS. About tea time take a pint of baker's or good home-made yeast, add a tea spoonful of salt and flour enough to make a stiff batter. Cover and set iti a warm place to rise. Later on take a r riuart of milk warmed to blood heat, .tdd to it one and a quarter pounds of sugar, three-fourths of a cup of butter, six eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda. Mix well together, then pour in the yeast sponge and stir in enough Hour to make about as stiff as biscuit dough. Work well, but do not get it too stiff have as soft as can be han dled. Let it stand, covered, in a warm place over night. In the morning mould into cakes, breaking off dough about size of an egg. Mould lightly and no more than is necessary. Press Into the centers of each olekock one or two raisins. As you mould each one Sl -".-nrr -i ....1.: J T "I't- W H t "-"'"''"i n-ilf-T 'ao.ffcWIi'" ij-jj-.aw-.. ,.j 44 aEBMtmw-M,.1sffi1?g' Kinc.?l? i0n!?h8ehearttoAe,CUre the New York for that was 36 years air hS2 l metropolis, the greatest building i as vcai-o the country's BODUlation ii wiii 11 111 place on a moulding- board and when all are done set it in a place as warm as possible without overheating them. Cover and let rise until very light; then fry them in hot fat, turning them several times. When done, roll them In powdered sugar and lay on large dish es or oiled paper to cool, but do not pile them one on another or they will be heavy. CRULLERS. Take a pint of sugar, half a pint of sweet milk, three eggs, a heaping table spoonful of butter and three teaspoon fuls of baking powder mixed with six cups of sifted flour, half a teaspoonful of nutmeg and a level teaspoonful of cinnamon. Beat eggs, sugar and butter together, add milk, spices and flour. Put another cup of flour on the mould ing board, turn the dough out into this and knead to a dough stiff enough to handle. Roll out quarter of an inch thick, cut in squares, make three or four incisions in each square, lift by taking up alternate strips between the finger and thumb, drop into hot fat and cook like doughnuts. MAIZE DOUGHNUTS. Put two cups of sifted cornmeal into a bowl and pour over it one and one half cups of scalded milk. When cool, add two cups of flour and one cup of softened butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, three eggs and a flavoring of nutmeg or cinnamon. Let rise until very light, then roll out half an inch thick, cut in diamond shape and fry In hot fat. OLD FASHIONED DOUGHNUTS. Make a sponge for white bread, using one pint of warm milk and a large half cup of yeast; when the sponge la very light, add half a cup of butter, a cup ful of sugar, teaspoonful of salt and a small teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water, one tablespoonful of cin namon, and a little grated nutmeg; stir in now two well beaten eggs, add sifted flour until it in the consistency of bis cuit dough, knead well, oover and let rise, then roll the dough out into a sheet half an inch thick, cut out with a very small biscuit cutter, or in strips half an inch wide and three inches long, place them on greased tins, cover them well and let them rise before frying them. Drop them in very hot fat. Raised cakes require a longer time to cook than those made with baking pow der. Sift powdered sugar over them as fast as they are cooked and while they are warm. PUFF BALL DOUGHNUTS. Beat three eggs very light, add one cupful of sugar, one pint of sweet milk, salt, nutmeg and sufficient flour into which has been sifted two heaping tea spoonfuls of baking powder, to permit the spoon to stand upright in the mix ture. Drop by the dessertspoonful into hot fat. These will not absorb a bit of fat. NUT CAKES, FRIED. Beat two eggs very light, add to them one ounce of sifted sugar, two ounces of warmed butter, two tablespoonfuls of yeast, a teacupful of lukewarm milk and a pinch of salt. Beat all thoroughly and then sift one pound of flour by degrees, and if necessary more milk, making a thin dough. Beat it until it falls from the spoon, then set it to rise. When it is light cut little pieces from the dough the size of a walnut and drop into hot fat. Roll in chopped nuts and powder ed sugar mixed with the white of egg, place in a cool oven for a few minutes to set. GERMAN DOUGHNUTS. Beat 4 eggs very light, one pint of sweet milk, one small tablespoonful of lemon extract, a pinch of alt; scald the milk and while hot pour over one pint of sifted flour; beat all very smooth and when the mixture is cool have ready the yolks of the eggs well beaten; add them to the flour and milk, beat them in thoroughly and then add the well beaten whites; then add the salt and lastly sufficient flour to make a soft dough; flour your biscuit board and turn the dough on it, roll it in pieces as thick as your finger and form them into rings, fry in boiling fat. Delicious for breakfast. DAINTY CRULLERS. One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, one cupful of rich milk, three cupfuls of flour sifted with two tablespoonfuls of baking powder, one level teaspoonful of salt and flour enough to roll; cut in two inch squares. Fry in hot fat and when done roll in fine sugar. NUT CRULLERS. Beat three eggs very light, add three tablespoonfuls of milk. ix tablespoon fuls of sugar and three tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Sift in two cupfuls of flour in which has been sifted one saltspoonful of salt and one teaspoon ful of baking powder, and lastly stir in half a cup of chopped nuts. Roll out NEW YORK AFTER DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION. t 1 ,c mecrupuns, tne greatest buildiner rL say that no city in the country offers so many accommodations no urs riae of New York. half an inch thick and cut with a crul ler cutter and fry in hot fat. WONDER CRULLERS. Beat three eggs very light, add three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, three tablespoonfuls .of granulated sugar.mix as hard as can be rolled with flour, then roll as thin as pie crust; cut in squares three inches long and two wide, then cut several slits lengthwise to within a quarter of an inch of the edges of the ends; run your two fore fingers through every other slit; lay them on the board edgewise and dent them. Fry in hot fat. "Very dainty when fried. inquiries Answered. Mrs. C. R. writes Please send me one of the cook books, and I would like very much to have a recipe for mak ing chocolate Icing and one for making lemon jelly. COOK BOOK. The cook book has been mailed you. Kindly let us know by post card if you do not receive it. CHOCOLATE ICING. Beat the white of one egg to a stiff froth, add half the Quantity of cream and confectioners' sugar to make it stiff enough to scread over the top of the cake. Melt half a cake of sweet chocolate over boiling water, add a tea spoonful of boiling water to the choco late, beating it well, then pour this over the cream frosting on the cake. LEMON JELLY. Cover half a box of gelatine with a cup of cold water and soak an hour; then pour over it a pint of boiling water, add one and one-half cups of sugar and a cup of strained lemon juice: stir until the sugar is entirely dissolved, then strain through.- cheese cloth into a glass or china mould and set in a very cold place to harden. SOFT BOILED ICING. Constant Reader writes: Pleasa giva a recipe for frosting or icing a cake, one that will not get too hard. You will and a soft boiled icing very satisfactory. Make as follows: Put a cupful of granulated cane sugar into a saucepan with Quarter of cud of boil ing water and half a saltsoonful of cream of tartar. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then let it boil without stirring until it will hang in a thread when a little is dropped from the point of a spoon. Have the white of an egg beaten to a stiff froth, pour the hot syrur Into the egg in a steady stream, beating rapidly. Continue to beat until the mixture will spread nicely over the cake, but do not let it get cold. Flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla or any flavor you ureter. THE (MYALESCEiMS. "The surgeon major says that you may get up." Andre Freuil smiled at Sister Jeanne when she announced this good news. She was already far away; her white cap fluttering like a bird, a messenger of mercy, hovering over this room full of sick and protecting it. In this hos pital, in a email town in Normandy, Sister Jeanne was in charge of the wards reserved for the military. She was no longer young, and certainly she had never been beautiful. But she was tender-hearted, caring for the fate of the poor young soldiers, and she cooled their brows with her gentle motherly hands. She was happy in supporting the first steps of the convalescent round the little garden, where the paths were carefully raked, and the evergreen box edges, always neatly clipped, were a perpetual reminder of crisp Easter Sun days. Andre Freuil put on the conva lescent's loose overcoat with white metal buttons. He tottered on his feet as he dressed, and his head felt empty. He scarcely heard his neighbor, an old gendarme, who cdngratulated him on his recovery and bewailed his own fate bacause he had to spend some weeks in bed. A corporal hummed an old Breton tune, as in a dream. Sister Jeanne of fered Andre the support of her arm and spoke to him kindly. She led him to a bench in the sun shine. Two young soldiers were there already, warming themselves with a shiver, in the April gleam. They, too, were pale and emotional. "Good morn ing, Freuil; so you are better? Good day, Gosset. All right again? Good day Cathelin; feeling pretty well now?" They shook hands and looked at each other, pathetic from weakness. Sister Jeanne was knitting, and by her side Sister Mane, the youngest and prettiest in the hospital, was finishing a little garment for a baby. The plain of Nor mandy spread away into the distance; men were plowing near and encour aging the horses with harsh, loud voices. the of it scene cf the r.ct Democratic national f S' of its kind in America. Only one convention was ever held in New York, ana In an orchard close by, apple trees, with i twisted, gnarled trunks, displayed their garlands of flowers. "Fine weather for field work," said Gosset. "We should be poor laborers," re marked Cathelin, feeling the muscles of his still feeble arms. They were quite melancholy; and then by the way of jest they said to Freuil: "You are' the lucky one. Scholar. You need no strength for reading." Andre shook his head: a strain of artless music was heard from the neighboring chapel; the voice of women and children singing. The soldiers were silent, thinking of their past lives and of the future. Gos set and Cathelin, looked back on their farm homesteads a house full of old furniture, a bright kitchen, a yard where fowls clucked and crowed, dewy meadows where huge cattle pastured, fields golden with ripe corn. Freuil was dreaming of the rooms in Paris where his .father and mother were anxiously thinking of him in hospital; every chair was remembered as an old friend im patiently awaiting his return. He could see the old Sorbonne and the terrace of the Luxembourg. Oh! what long de lightful hours he had spent under the trees near the Medicis fountain! The eager discussions! The bright dreams when some elegantly dressed woman left a wake of perfume as she passed! The three joung fellows gazed out at the distance. Sister Marie murmured a lullaby as if she were singing the oaoy to sleep for which she was making the little bodice.. A light air brought the scent of the orchards to the con valescents, and tossed some white petals on to their knees, exhaling the sweet breath of spring.- Under the blossoming apple trees came a strong healthy girL She car ried a pail of foaming milk. Her sleeves were rolled up above her white arms. Then she set down her pail, looked at the trees and lazily stretched herself. She bent Jier head and shut her eyes, for a snowy bough caught in the hair at the back of her neck.; Suddenly she saw the soldiers and the sisters, and hastily went on her way.' She colored slightly; nevertheless, before disap pearing from view she turned round and blew a kiss to the young men. Gos set and Cathelin agreed that she was like a girl in their village. Freuil was reminded of the blue eyes of a little singer he had adored. How miserable he had been at having to join his regi ment! He remembered the first nights in the barrack dormitory; he could not sleep. Men lay dreaming and uttering incoherent sentences in a far-away tone. Others snored noisily. He listen ed for the chimes of a clock near at hand. -At half past ten he had reflect ed: "She is just going on to the stage." And he had actually wept. His illness had effaced that bitter grief. His heart was as fresh as the young spring. Sister Jeanne rolled up her knitting. "Now," said she, "we must go in." The soldiers obediently rose, but Sis ter Marie did not move, and tears drop ped from her lowered eyes, down her thin cheeks. She had finished her work and looked at it sadly.As Sister Jeanne affectionately Questioned her: "Oh, it is nothing," she murmured, "I was only thinking of a baby's help less movements, and its mother's hap piness." The bells tolled for service, and in the distance a bugle' call at the bar racks announced the coming of the quartermaster, bringing the latest news to the men. Illustrated Figaro. Didn't Care for Such Fare. Before Judge Bittetiger today Mrs. Vincent Ktraj-baugh of Salem avenue and King street told a story the sub stance of w hich was that her husband, while endeavoring to' put her out of the way, had fed her on glass, putting in into her bread and foreingra 12-year-old daughter to put some In the coffee. At other times the husband would scratch his wife with a pocket knife and pieces of glass. Coffee placed on the table had a peculiar taste, as did also the milk, and Mrs. Strasbaugh was often sick, and her physician or dered her always to have on hsnd, a solution of alum and molasses as an emetic. Strasbaush was sent to jail in default of $1,000 bail to keep the pea for a year. Philadelphia Record. "Do you believe in Santa Claus, Tom mie?" "Wait till I see wot Tie brings me." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. MISCELLANEOUS. G. E. SEYBOLD, the furnace man, has moved his tin shop to 931 Kansas ave. DON'T forget that Isaac N. Town, 210 W. 6th, carries a full stock of poultry and stock supplies. convention. The above picture shows and attractions, and. that two-thirds of f i -ANDs- .'X t-TWU PULL ANA. D. 1 Can Box or call either telephone No. n and bavs your Want Ads brought to the Stat Journal of fice by free mes senger service. Cost of classified aOm five cent pel tine of six word to tlie Una ind every traction thereof. OFrciAANNtJNCEMElITB. iTjSrfSyOnouncfTmyself as a candidate for renominatlon as state senator tor the Seventeenth senatorial district, subject to the Republican county primaries. JOHN T. CHANEY. J. B. SIMS ANNOUNCES HIMSELF AS a candidate for the office o county commissioner from the Third district, subject to the Republican primaries. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for judge of the district court of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican primary election. AETHCB J. McCABE. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MY CANDI dacy for judge of the Shawnee county district court, subject to the Republican primary. J. B. LARIMER. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE senator from the Seventeenth dlptrict, subject to the decision of the Republican primary election of Shawnee county C. P. BOLMAR. I AM A CANDIDATE) FOR THE' NOMI nation as county commissioner from the Third district, subject to the Republican primary. FRANK H. HARRISON. 1 WILL BE A CANDIDATE FOR COTJN ty superintendent of public instruction, subject to the Shawnee county Republican primary. JOHN R. CARTER. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SEN ator from Shawnee county, subject to the action of the Republican primary. J. B. BETTS. WANIED-SIIUAIIONS. WANTED Work by a competent man; can do shoe repairing. 415 Tyler st. WANTED By experienced man, steno graphic Job work at night or Sunday; terms very reasonable. Address P. O. Box 295, Topeka, Kan. WHEN you want to hire a man or hoy. call up Y. M. C. A. telephone 811. We ha"e a list of men and confidential ref erence concerning then-. Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau 117. S. 8lh St. WANT ED -FEMALE HELP. WANTED Experienced white girl gan eral housework. Mrs. Geo. E. Stoker, 1206 W. Sth st. WANTED Young lady copyist who writes jlain and rapid hand. Mail and Breeze, 5(JtJ Jackson st. WANTED Wash woman, one who can take work home, white preferred. 51a E. 8th St. WANTED A girl or woman at 301 Chand ler st. WANTED A reliable middle aged wo man for housework. Address B. C, Journal. WANTED Cleaning woman at once. S. E. corner Sth and Quincy sts. WANTED Chambermaid S. E. corner of 8th and Quincy sts. WANTED Cooks, waitresses, houseeirls, maids. Capital Employment Office, 735 Kansas ave. WANTED Good dressmakers. steady employment. Mrs. Mercer, Crosby Bros. WANTED MALE HELP $S TO $12 weekly easily earned by either sex knitting seamless hosiery for the western market; our improved family ma chine with ribbing attachment furni3hed worthy families who do not own a ma chine on easy payment plan. Write at once for full particulars and commence maKmg money, ino experience requirea. united states woolen Co., JJetrolt, Alien. WANTED A boy about 15 years of age; easy work and steady job. sss id. 5th st. WANTED Young man In printing office, one that can teed cylinder press prefer red. The Smith Co., 618 Quincy st. ANY person to distribute samples, $2.50 daily, steady. Aisr. n.mnire. J&il Grand Blvd., cnicago. WANTED-Men to learn the barber trade. Start now and complete for spring rush Top wages paid graduates. Advantages tnat cant De nao eisewnere. tools and hoard eiven distant applicants. Write to day. Moler Barber college, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED A brieht proaresslve youne school teacher (either sex), who nas jyj to invest, to open a branch office of our association in Kansas: the work will not interfere with school duties and the right oartv can make Jl.OCM clear the first yea. Address American Teachers' association. 1423 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa.; 174 Ran dolph bldg., Memphis, lenn. WANTED Furs. Write for price list. Willis Moss. Richland, Kan. WANTED Partner In newspaper bust ness, good payiner Dusmess. $400 cash required, experience unnnecessary. Ad dress .Newspaper, care Journal. WANTED 2 or 3 furnished rooms for light housekeeping. B., care Journal. WANTED To trade 2 dry cows for one fresh cow. 417 Park st., N. Topeka. WANTED To buy a home from the own er; afraid of agents. Widow, care Jour nal. WANTED Nicely furnished room in nice neighborhood. Apply to Mr. Olian at Zanuiton s, &21 Kansas ave. WANTED Good clean cotton Journal office. rags, at FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Furnished rooms for house keeping or sleeping. 307 Van uuren FOR RENT 3 furnished housekeeping rooms. 30 E. 7th St. FOR RENT Unfurnished room, heat and gas. 106 ti. 7th st. BUSINESS CHANCES. RICHER AND RICHER. GROWS THE HAZELTON SANTIAGO MINES AS DEVELOPMENT PRO GRESSES. Miners in No. 3 Tunnel of the Santiago encountered a streak of ore 8 inches thick, assa-ing $345.35 per ton. Over one million dollars worth of ore is now blocked out and in sight in the Santiago and the most rigid examination will fail to disprove the statement. THE GREATEST THING ON THIS EARTH IS MON EY, a truth, and you can't get away from it. You want it: you need it. Shares can be secured at 15c until Jan. 12, when prices will be advanced. Subscribe for stock and become a partner in this great mining consolidation and secure your share of wealth soon to be produced. Call and see our credentials and investigate this great opportunity while yet time. H. S. DAT, Bell Phone 121. 620 Kansas Ava. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board, new furnace heat, rates $1 per day, $3, $4 and $5 per week. Topeka hotel, 122 W. 6th st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board. 617 W. lOt-h st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms 1128 Tyler street. FOR RENT 6 nicely furnished rooms, gas range and piano. 634 Lane St. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, electric lights and bath, pleasantly located. 512 Quincy st. FOR RENT Furnished room, very pleas ant, house thoroughly modern. 334 Van Buren st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms; all mod ern convenience, bath, etc-; southwest Eth and Madison. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 5 room cottage, gas, bath, hot and cold water. Apply J. M.- Hill, 106 E. Sth st. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE A good upright piano, cheap. inquire at is tsranner st. FOR SALE M i 1 k and cream. 210 E. 7th st. FOR SALE 3 good fresh milk cows. Feed yara, ba uuincy st. FOR SALE A good upright piano, nearly uew, caeai. ?i m. ttn St. FOR SALE Fixtures of candy and cigar store, witn soaa lountain ana shiners stand. 1U5 w. 7th st. FOR SAJLE Fresh cow and calf, 4 gals, a day. 1727 Harrison st. FOR SALE Brick. $6 per M. Ind. 'phone morse (jontracung uo., Zli vv. cioraon st. FOR SALE Good half Jersey cow. 615 w est st. FOR SALE Six hole steel range. 1C29 mamson st. FOR SALE Fox terrier pups 9 weeks old. lass in. yuincy st. PIANOS and organs repaired, bought or soia. ieo. jj. tiutts, sth st. FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. porTsaleIby T. J. NICHOLS, 509 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kas 70 acres at His Snrintrs. where thev are finding coal, zino and oil, improved with 7 room stone house, frame barn 24 by 24, with hay loft, school and church close uy; price $4,200. 80 acres 6 miles from Topeka. some im provements, beautiful 1 ocation, for only $3,300. Here is a great bargain m the best Im proved 400 acre farm that I know of in this county. Price only $16,500. 530 acres hierhly improved. 40 acres Rood orchard, good soil, crop and all for $45 per acre. Also have many other farms, small and large, as I am the only real estate agent here who makes a specialty of the sale of farms. Therefore I am prepared to turaisn any Kind or a tarm you want. FOR SALE 7 room house, east front, 2V4 lots, lnciuire liiii Clay st. BARGAINS IN HOMES. Over $2,500 improvements, about 30 acres good land, 7 room house, good well aivl cistern, new barn, fenced, located west of state house, between 10th and Hun- toon sts., mile from street car. Price $5,000; 1-3 down. Fine home on W. 6th St.. 7 room house. good barn and outbuildings, in fine shape and rents well. Desirable properties to sell, rent or exchange. See list. GIBSON. Room. 1. 522 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE Remodeled 9 room house. beat, light, bath. barn. 2 lots. St.GuO. 1028 Fillmore st. Inquire 901 Monroe st. NEW BARGAINS. Cottage 7 rooms. Western ave.. ltt lots. large barn, city and cistern water, gas, sewer. Price for 3 days, $1,650. Another cottage brooms, bath, eas. hlerh ceiling, hard wood, close in, east side. .Bargain at jibo. 9 rooms. 3 east front lots, corner Mor- his ave., barn, city water, $1,700. Easy terms. 5 room cottage, fine location, west side. lMi lots, fine barn, property on 13th st. car line. Price $1,300; $200 down, balance to suit. BRAND NEW cottaee 5 rooms. Hi. cor ner lots, near Central park, large cistern, polished floors, sewer, etc.. $1,650. Snap. 5 rooms, 1 lots. Van Buren, $1,250; $110 down, balance $10 per month. Lots tor sue everywhere. THE STRAUSS AGENCY. Central National Bank Bldg. SELL, rent, exchange, list, collect. D. GIBSON, 522 KANSAS AVE. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Leather grip, saddle color, proba bly taken by mistake from baggage room of Santa Fe depot, 1 opeka, Kan., night of Jan. 4, or morning of 5th; has brass fasteners, ink spots on leather, tay with name. A reward of $5 will be paid for return of grip and contents to room 16, Veale block, Topeka, Kan. J. F. Dan iels. LOST 2 piano strings with my name stamped on shipping tag. Please return to Geo. D. Butts, S21 E. 6th st. LOST A pair of gold bowed spectacles and case. Finder will be suitably re warded by leaving them at Central Na tional bank. LOST Jan. 4, lady's gold filled watch. Return for reward to Mabel Moyles at Journal office. PICTURE FRAMES. THOMAS E. DELAHOYD, framed pic tures: portraits made to order; frames made to oder. 720 Kansas ave. TO WHOM IT MAY' CONCERN TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My ap plication for a permit to sell intoxicat ing liquors, according to law, at 501 Kan sas ave.. In the Fourth ward of the city of Topeka, is now on file in the office of the probate ludee of Shawnee county. Kan sas. The hearing of the same is set for Friday, at o ciock a. m., jan s, 1904. E. T. SIM. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My ap plication for a permit to sell intoxicat ing liquors, according to law, at 122 and 124 E. 4th St.. in the Second ward of tne city of Topeka, is now on file in the of fice of the probate judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. The hearing of the same is set for Tuesday, January 12. 1904. at 9 o clock a. m. m. a. u-umchicsb. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN. Patent Attorney. 418 Kan sas ave., Topeka. BUSINESS CHANCES. CLAXjaVOYAJMT 50c MADAM MERZO 50c CHESTERFIELD HOTEL. (Near Rock Island Depot.) America's greatest Clairvoyant. Medium and Palmist. Tells names, facts, every thin; past, present, future; who and when you will marry. Reuniting separated. causes marriage, gives luck, removes svil Influences, locates diseases, develops mag netism, the secret of success whereby you can control others even though away. 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. WANTED 2 loans, $1,500 and $2,500. on improved city property at oi per' cent. Address Owner, care Journal. MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos, organs, typewriters, household goods and personal security. L. Biscot. 523 Kan. Ave. IDA C. BARNES, M- IX Office 726 Kansas ave- Residence thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. in. to 11 a. m. and S p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 09$ residence, and IS office. UNDERTAKERS EMBALMER3 PEMOSS PFNWELL. Funeral Direc tors and Embalmers. First clasB servica reasonable prices. 511 Quincy. Both tela. 192, GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. Estab- iisnea m Prices reasonable. Tel. oaica 146. Residence S7. 621 Jackson et. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS THE'X'cT'DAlSjNaC Ruuber stamps, brass and aluminum trada checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. Tel. 2k& FLORISTS. MRS. M. E. HOLCRAFT, 817 Kansas ava. Cut flowers and floral designs. 'Phone 174. CUT 'LOWERS and floral designcs Hayes". 107 W. Sth st. Both 'phonej S77. CARRIAGE WORKS. GEORGE 3. GRAVES SON have re moved to 326 and 328 Jackson St.. where they will continue to give their patrons good value in carriage repairing, trim ming and painting. Ind. 'phone 1144. STORAGE MERCHANTS' TRANSFER STORAGES Co. packs, ships and stores househoKi goods. Tel. iso. Clarence Skinner, all Quincy st. HAIR DRESSING. SWITCHES, pompadours, all kinds at hail work. Mrs. Van Vleck. 222 E. 5th. MUSICAL. GEO. N. NEWTON, 114 W. 8th. Piano tuning and repairing; expert action reg ulating and voicing. WORRAL, 716 Polk, piano rsssons, pupil's home. 50c. Church and lodgs playing tra. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitrl- neo arctL ana paving uo.. nas boen re moved to 118 W. uta m. BICYCLES AND REPAIRING. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CYCLB cycles and tandems for rent; repairing o an Kiiius. U. S. CYCLE CO.. 118 E. 8th t. National Iver-Johnson bicycles Supplies, repairs. HARDWARE. THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE CO. Hardware, stoves, fine tools. 706 Kansas ave. Tel. 606. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian, complete stoca of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. JEWELER AND OPTICIAN. F. vV. 6WEARINGEN, Jeweler and grad- up.te optician. We guarantee every pair of class --s to til and every watch wa re pair. We carry the largest Una ox watches, clocks, diamonds, cut glass, etc, In the city. Watch Inspector V. P. R. R., Z4 Kansas ave, JOJOALJDEALEJRS SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO., 1 1 i.rt i;u.r. IM. N. E. COR. STH AND KAN. AVA All kinds of Coal. Best Quality. Full Weight. Prompt Delivery. FREE DISPENSARY. TOPS.KA FREE DISPENSARY, south east corner iztn ana lyier sts., rrom 1 to 2 p. in., except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing physicians tur the benefit cf persons without means who need medical attention and treatment. Pa tients are assured of careful and consid erate treatment. Medicine furnished in n.ofit cases. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. TIME TABLE Topeka, Kansas. The "Right Road" To and From snd Betwatn OMAHA DENVER COLORADO SPGS FORT WORTH ST. PAUL CHICAGO ST. LOUIS MEMPHIS PEORIA ST. JOSEPH KANSAS CITY MINNEAPOLIS And Everywhere Beyond. (Effective Jan. 3, 11)04.) TRAINS LEAVE TOPEKA AS FOL LOWS: EASTBOUND. No. 12, Chicago Mail and Express.. S :35 pm No. 14, Kast tx. and Mail 6:00 am No. 4. El Faso and Chicago Ex.... 6:15 am No. 10, Colorado and K. C. Flyer.. 7:45 am No. 44, Golden State Limited 5:35 pm No. 512, Colorado and K. C. Ex.... 8:35 pm WESTBOUND. No. 11, Chicago and Tex. Ex. .12:55 pm No 9, Colorado Flyer 8:25 pra No. 13, Texas Ex 12:20 am No. 3. California and Mexico. Ex. .11:50 pm No. 43. Golden State Limited 11:55 am No. 511. Colorado Ex 12:55 pm NORTHBOUND. No. 54, St. Joe Ex 7:68 tint No. 32, St. Joe and Chicago Ex 3:B6 pro SOUTHBOUND, No. 81, Chicago Ex 12:35 pm No. 53, S. W. Ex S;(J6 p;n All trains daily. For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time tables, etc., apply to any Rock Island Ticket Agent. Union Pacini EASTBOUND. No. 2 limited No. 6, Kansas City local pass No. 4, Atlantic express 'No. 8, K. C. and Salina expresj. WESTBOUND. Mn. 7. K. C. and Salina express.. Arrive. 6:50 am 7 55 am 8:50 pm 5:50 pm .11:20 am No. 3, Denver and Pac Coast ltd. .x:uu pm 6:;:o pm 8:00 pm No. 5, Junction City local pass N. 1 limited Daily except Sunday. All others daily. Missouri Pacific. (Effective July 6, 1W.1 No. S01, passenger, leave Topeka 9:45 am No. 8i5, Iccal. leave Topeka 7:00am No. 302, passenger, arrive Topeka ....3:50 pm No. 111. local, arrive Topeka
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10 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1904 of the H. F. Department 50 cents on the dollar, and Store, purchased in St. Louis, Mo., at shipped to Topeka and placed on sale in the building located at 507 Kansas Avenue, will be opened on Saturday morning at 8 o'clock, with a broadside of bargains. Be on hand early, as many lots will be snapped up by judicious buyers. See Friday's State Journal for particulars of this Great Closing-Out Sale. g THE ECONOMY STORE' JOHN B- sp?tL THREE KILLED ON "L" Collision Followed by Fire Starts a Panic. New Tork, Jan. 7. Three trainmen were killed today by a collision of two trains on the Brooklyn Elevated rail road. One of the dead was hurled from the structure to the street and nearly every bone in his body broken, while another had his head crushed between the bumper of the engine which was rammed by a motor train and the front car of the one drawn by steam power. Simultaneously with the collision a fire was started by the coals from the locomotive and this added to the panic of the passengers who fought desper ately to escape from the Wrecked cars. The dead, who were all employes of the road were: GEORGE GUILG, yardmaster. JAMES O'BRIEN, car coupler. WILLIAM H. FERGUSON, foreman. George E. Smith, aged 35 years, was seriously injured. None of the passengers was badly hurt. The crowded passenger train crashed into a train of empties, telescoping the rear car of the latter in which were the trainmen. TO CLEAR GIRL'S NAME. prima Donna's Father Appeals to American Ambassador in Berlin. Berlin, Jan. -7. Sometime ago the news- faper Die Welt printed a story connect njr the name of Crown Prince FYedericit William with an American girl, Geraldine Karrar, the prima donna of the royal opera and a daughter of a former Amer ican baseball player. Emperor William and Mr. Farrar were both angry over the publication, and the Jatter said he intended to sue the news paper for libel and would appeal to the JCaiser to aid in clearing1 Miss Farrar's name. It is now announced that Charlemagne Tower, the American ambassador here, has received an application from Miss Karrar s father to interfere in the case, but defamation of character is not a case within the province of the embassy, where the insinuations are not credited. It is well known at the embassy that Miss Karrar has been received in some of the best German houses. N0T0RIETI ANNOYS GIRL. Fiancee of Wreck Victim Receives Offers from Strangers. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7. Miss Lillian Bennett.the young English -girl who came to this country to marry Ambrose Good, one of the victims of the Dawson wreck, and who was buried at McKeesport Mon day, will remain in America and make her home with Thomas Good, a brother of the deceased, who resides at McKees port. The sensational newspaper stories pub lished in the eastern papers to the effect that Miss Bennett was penniless anii friendless have been the cause of much annoyance to the young woman, who has been receiving numerous communications by mail from strangers all over the country. Cash offers for her photograph, offers of marriage, to go on the stage and imita tions from strangers extending her a permanent home and positions have been received daily. She has, without excep tion, ignored these letters. Prof. Clark, Well-Known Scientist, Praises Paw-Paw. Prof. E. "Warren Clark, the well known lecturer, traveler and scientist, 27 Thomas street, New Tork, writes: "Paw-Paw is nature's own remedy for Indigestion and nervousness. In three trips around the world I have become perfectly familiar with the medicinal virtues of this remarkable fruit. People in India could not do without it. I was much interested when I read that Prof. Munyon had introduced this remedy to the public, and I have been taking Mun yon's Paw-Paw with most gratifying results. The first bottle increased my appetite and cured me of sleeplessness. I am now taking it regularly, and find that my whole system is improved and strengthened. Paw-Paw certainly is a wonderful aid to digestion. I am telling all my friends about it and what it did for me." If you have Dyspepsia, try It. If you are Nervous, try it. If you are despondent, try it. If you are weak and run down, try It. Cast away all tonics, all, medicines and all stimulants and let "Munyon's Paw-Paw make you well. It will lift you into the high altitudes of hope and hold you there. It will give exhilaration without intoxication. Sold by all druggists. Large bottle, $L Paw-Paw Laxative Pills 25c a bottle. PAW-PAW KOKTII TOPEKA. Leave Items for this column with th Kimball Printing company, 932 Norta Kansas avenue- j New roller skates at Lukens'. E. Harsford was in today from Silver Jjake. Misses Ella and Agnes Cunningham, of Silver Lake, are visiting relatives at Meriden. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Johnston, of West Gordon street, are the parents of a daughter, born December 31. The Duplicate Whist club will meet Friday afternoon at the home of Miss Martha Kimball, 215 West Gordon street. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Artusy, of Gal veston, Tex., are guests of Mrs. Artusy's mother, Mrs. A. Walker, of 1322 Van Buren street. Miss Alta Thornburg, of Holton, has been visiting here the past week, the guest of C. A. Wright and family, of the Fairview neighborhood. All post and corps members and their families are invited to attend .ioint in stallation of Blue post No. 250 and Blue corns No. 5 at their hall, 822 Kansas avenue, Friday evening, January 8. The Indian Creek Grange installed their newly elected officers last evening at their meeting in the Indian Creek school house. The installation was fol lowed by an oyster supper. W. D.vDavis, living north of Topeka. found in his stalk field on Monday even ing a pony with saddle and bridle. He is interested to know what to do with it or to learn to whom it belongs. Mr. S. S Myers left Tuesday for Longton. Kas.. where he will be the guest of his sisters for several days. From there he will go to Cushion. Okla,, to see his mother and brother. Miss Anna O'Rourke, of Concordia, who has been the guest for the past week of Miss Heloise Green, of 921 Har rison street, is now the guest of her sister. Mrs. Wm. Allen, of the Bur lingame read. Miss Kate Mclntire, who has been trimming at Mrs. S. L. Courtney's mil linery store, received word yesterday of the death of her mother at Bloomfield, Ky. Miss Mclntire left today for Bloomfield, S. L. Courtney accompany ing her as far as Kansas City. Miss Maude Taggart, of Meriden, re turned to Emporia Sunday to resume her studies at the Normal after spend ing the holidays visiting her parents. She was accompanied by Miss Jessie Myers, of Western avenue, who will be her guest for several days. At the masquerade dance given last evening in Barrett hall by the F. A. A., Mrs. Gus Bollotte, who was dress ed as an Indian received the ladies' first prize on the most original cos tume. The gentleman's prize was won by Mr. Rena Heston, who represented King Dodo. Mrs. H. W. Coad, who has been spending the summer and fall visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of Boulder, Col., and is now en route to her home in Pittsburg, Pa., arrived last evening and will be the guest for sev eral days of her aunt, Mrs. A. J. Ar nold of 927 Jackson street. Mrs. Wm. M. Costly has received news of the death of her grandfather, Mr. Fogeson, which occurred at his home in Aurora, Mo., Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Scott, son-in-law and daughter of the deceased, are now in Aurora, where they have been for some time. A. M. Baird, vice president of the Northern Shawnee Development com pany, went to Chanute today to pro cure information on the oil question and how to handle a strong flow in case oil is found in the oil and gas well at Shorey." Indications are very strong that oil is somewhere in that locality and it is expected that some thing will be found within a few days. Messrs Earnest. Don and Winifred Bobb and Fred and Abe Joseph have returned from Willard where they went to view the R. I. wreck. The Joseph boys managed to secure some very good pictures of the wreck although the R. I. section foreman at that place threatened to smash their camera if they set it up. They :ere not intimi idated, and as they were not on rail road property but on the land of a far mer who had given them permission to take all the views they wanted from his ground kept steadily at work and got several good pictures. The section foreman, however, refused to flag any of the trains for the young men and four of them were compelled to stay in the waiting room at Willard until three o'clock this morning when they came in on a freight. Seeks American Aid. London, Jan. 7. Jacques Lebaudy, the "Emperor of Sahara," has ap proached United States diplomatic and consular officials with a view to obtain ing the services of Americans for his imperial service in his "empire." M. Lebaudy says he intends to form a navy and is anxious to secure Ameri can sailors for the service. The officials have declined to be se duced into accepting positions by offers of Saharan decorations, pointing out that Americans who would join the navy would be liable to arrest as pirates. Fifty Strikers Arrested. Chicago, Jan. 7. A dispatch to the Tri bune from Aurora. 111., says: Because of the riots in Batavia, as a result of strikes in the different factories there, 50 strikers have been arrested. The cases are set for hearing next Wednesday. SCHWAB ON STAND. Ex-President of Steel Trust Testifies in Shipbuilding: Case. New York, Jan. 7. Chas. M. Schwab, ex-president of the United States Steel corporation, took the stand today in the action to make permanent the receiver ship over the United States Shipbuild ing company, to tell of his connection with the sale of the Bethlehem Steel company to the shipyards concern. The attendance at the hearing, which had fallen off during the taking of testi mony, was greatly increased today, in teresting testimony being expected from the man who arranged the sale of the Bethlehem plant from J. P. Morgan Co., to whom he had transferred it as syndicate managers, to the United States Shipbuilding, the arrangement being such, Receiver Smith alleges, that the Shipbuilding company has been un able to control the Bethlehem company organization of its earnings to keep the Shipbuilding company from insolvency. Counsel Untermyer for the complain ant bondholders' protective association immediately began the examination of the witness. Mr. Schwab gave his age as 41, and said he had at present no oc cupation, having ceased to be president of the United States Steel corporation. He had no connection, executive or ad-,! visory, with the Bethlehem Steel com pany at this time, he said, though he had "an enormous pecuniary interest in that company. He severed his connec tion with the management of the com pany on account of his going abroad in 1902." His whole life, he said, had been con nected with the steel industry. "You are considered the leading ex pert in that line are you not?" was asked. "I do not take that honor to myself," he answered. MAJOR 51'TEER DEAD. Stomach. Trouble Carries Off Mayor of .Knox villa. New York, Jan. 7. Major J. T. Mc Teer, mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., is dead at the Hoffman house from stom ach trouble. In the early part of last summer Major McTeer came to this city and put himself under the care of special ists and in a short time improved so much that he was able to return home. The illness recurred, however, and about two months ago he came back to this city in such a serious condi tion that it was considered best to op erate upon him two weeks later. During his illness Major McTeer's wife and son were with him. Feeling that his father was on the road to re covery, the latter went back to Knox ville. but Mrs. McTeer remained here. A chill contracted a week ago produced complications which proved fatal. The body will be shipped to Knoxville to day. GLASSES FOR SPECTACLES. Advance in Price Made in the Raw Material. New York, Jan. 7. Following the ad vance of five to 100 'per cent in the price of glasses for spectacles made on November 1 last, notices have been sent to wholesale dealers and jobbers of the United States of another raise which has just taken effect and wi!l apply to practically all optical goods. The advance has been made by the manufacturers who import raw mater ial and is said to be due to great changes in the trade in recent years, compelling them to carry a vast assort ment of goods at great expense. Domestic Troubles. It is exceptional to find a family where there are no domestic ruptures occasion ally, but these can be lessened by having Dr. King's New Life Pills around. Much trouble thev save by their great work in stomach and liver troubles. They not on ly relieve you. but cure. 25c at Arnold Drug Co.. &21 N. Kansas ave. The Beads Make Up. Wednesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. William Reed appeared before Judge Hazen and asked that the decree of divorce granted to Mrs. Reed a few weeks ago be set aside. Judse Hazon set aside the decree of divorce and the case was dismissed. Charles Bunce Arrested. Charles A. Bunce. who lives west of town, was arrested today on a crimi nal charge made by the mother of Marie Kirkpatrick. The child is eight years old. POSTUM has saved many a t Coffee ruined t Nervous System STEEL RAIL TRADE QUIET. Some of the Railroads Have Can celled Their Orders. New York, Jan.' 7. While some im provement is noted in the foundry pig iron markets, according to the Iron Age, disquieting reports come from the steel rail and finished material trades. Re ports of cutting are again current in structural materials while complaints have been made of price irregularities in the steel plate trade. A disposition to shade prices in northern pig iron also is noted as one of the events of the week. Concerning the steel rail trade, the Iron Age says: Disquieting reports come from the steel rail trade, which must, however, lose a good deal of their force when the conditions are more carefully examined. It is stated that some of the railroads have recently cancelled orders placed for this year, that others have cut down their estimates and have notified' the mills of postponement of deliveries, and that earlier inquiries have shrunken much lately. All this must not be taken too seriously. The buyers know that the steel rail capacity is much greater-than it was a year ago, that the pressure for steel for the manufacturing of billets is less, and therefore in all probability there will be little trouble at any time during 1904 in securing fair deliveries. There is little incentive, therefore, to get orders in early or to put in full re quirements. Prices are usually guar anteed against a decline but this ap plies only to the actual time of ship ment. When rails are delivered the contract price holds. In finished iron and 'Steel generally consumers are maintaining a waiting attitude. Some tonnage has been placed in structural material, but there are reports that some low prices are being made in fabricated material and on contracts for finished structures. There have been complaints, too, of oc casional irregularities in the plate trade. In the east and in the west iron bars have not gained in strength, but a better volume of inquiries is reported in sheets. An export t-ade in bars is developing in an encouraging mannt There has been increased interest in the foundry pig iron markets and some disposition on the part of northern pro ducers to shade prices. INDIANS ARE UNFRIENDLY. Chief of San Bias Tribe Wears Colom bia's "Uniform. New York, Jan. 7. The United States gungoat Bancroft has returned from a cruise along the coast of Caledonia, made to investigate conditions and cir cumstances of the alleged abduction of the Indian chief Inanaquina, says a Herald dispatch from Colon. It is sta ted that the San Bias Indians weie found to be most unfriendly. They ob jected to the landing of the Bancroft's officers and to their remaining ashore. They also refused to sell fruit or fre3h water. Chief Inanaquina was seen at a dis tance, wearing a fine new Colombian uniform. TO LAI A THIRD RAIL. Scheme of Southern Pacific to Pre vent Tunneling the Sierras. San Francisco, Jan. 7. It was stated today that the Southern Pacific has under consideration a new project to facilitate transportation across the Sierras, the tunnel project having been indefinitely deferred. The proposed plan is the laying of a third rail be tween Sacramento and Truckee and the establishment of an electric plant with power obtained from the Truckee river. Great motor cars would be operated to assist trains in crossing the heavy grade. It is said that plans have been prepared and submitted to President Harriman. v MASON GOES TO PRISON. Negro Murderer Begins His Life Sentence. Sheriff Lucas this morning tooi Will iam A. Mason, colored, to the peniten tiary to serve his life term for the murder of Fred Tutcher. Mason claims to have been suffering from acute rheumatism for several weeks and Lucas delayed taking him to the penitentiary until he declared himself able to travel. Harry Nichols accompanied Lucas as a deputy to guard the prisoner. Sixto Lopez Sails for Japan. Honolulu, Jan. 7. Sixto Lopez, the well known Filipino, has sailed for Japan, via Manila, on the steamer Nip pon Maru. In an interview before his departure he said that he believed the Filipinos will ultimately get justice, but he was unable to say in what form. While here he visited various planta tions, studying the methods used in the production of sugar. Coliseum Pronounced Safe. Chicago. Jan. 7. The order by the city building department closed the Coliseum along with the theaters and other public halls in Chicago, but was today rescinded as to the Coliseum, the building department finding upon fur ther investigation that the Coliseum was entirely safe -and was fully com plying with all requirements. Everybody reads the- State Journal. COUNCIL OF WAR. Military Officials at Cripple Creek Map Out Campaign. Cripple Creek, Colo., Jan. 7. Colonel Verdeckberg, commander of the mili tary force in this district, held a "council of war" today with, his post commanders at which plans for the en forcement of the vagrancy proclama tion were discussed. The colonel re fused to disclose his plans but it ia re ported that one more day will be given strikers to leave the district or obtain employment. 'Preparations are being made, it is said, for wholesale arrests tomorrow. Prisoners against whom no charge other than vagrancy is made will be evicted from Teller county and will not be permitted to return. C. H. Reimer, who was arrested yes terday, is confined in the county jail but no criminal charge has been filed against him. His home is in Buffalo, N. Y., and an attempt may be made to take his case before the United States district court on an application for a writ of habeas corpus. WANTS PRESS GAGGED. Kentucky's Governor Would Suppress Accounts of Bloody Feuds. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 7. In his mes sage to the Kentucky general assembly Governor W. C. Beckham urged the passage of a law making it a penal of fense to send out exaggerated accounts of such feuds as have occurred in Breat hitt county recently. The governor ad vised that a gag be put on the press, on the ground that the printing of ac counts of the feuds injures the nanfe of the state. He said, after admitting that the conditions in Breathitt county were unfortunate: "The conditions in Breathitt county were grossly exaggerated by sensational journals, among whom it has been the fashion to paint a lurid romance out of any tragedy in Kentucky. Our state has been made their sport and prey. With morbid greed they seize on every crime committed here, and display it in the most extravagant manner, while a similar crinfe committed elsewhere re ceives only passing notice. "The people of Kentucky are as law abiding as any on earth. Life, liberty and property are as safe and well pro tected here as in any other state in the Union. It is not an exaggeration to say that there was not a day during the past year that human life was not safer in Kentucky even in Breathitt county than it is any night on the streets of Chicago or New York." FIND PEARLS IN OTSTER. Pennsylvania "Woman's "Fry" Yields Belated Christmas Present. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 7. Pearls of an estimated value of several hundred dollars were found in an oyster by Mrs. G. C. Schofield of Bath, Pa., while she was having lunch at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. F. Reinhardt, last evening. Mrs. Reinhardt stopped at a down town restaurant on the way home and bought a box of fried oysters. Mrs. Schofield had eaten several bivalves, and upon putting another into her mouth bit on some hard substance. On investigating she found they were eleven pearls. Three of these are as large as French peas and perfectly round, while the others are not quite so large, but or good color and shape. The pearls were submitted to an expert for examina tion and he gave a preliminary opinion that they are of considerable value. Been on a Wurld's Tour. Honolulu, Jan. 7. F. E. Clark, president of the -Society of Christian Endeavor, ar rived here on the steamer Sierrar on his tour of the world. He was given a warm reception at the wharf. Responsibility Is Fixed. Des Moinos, la., Jan. 7. H. Fraze, an electrical worker, has been found re sponsible for the $250,000 fire at the state capitol, he having dropped a light ed candle. He will not be prosecuted. Saved from Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of Bargerton, Tenn., saw her dying and were pcverless to save her. The most skillful physicians and every remedy used failed, while consumption was slowly but surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Pr. Kinsr's New Discovery for Consumption turned despair into joy. The first bottle brought immediate relief and its contin ued use completely cured her. It's the most certain cure in tne worm lor an throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles and S1.00. Trial bottles free at Arnold Drug Co., szi in. jvansas are. Low Bates to Portland, Oregon, via Union Pacific. On account National Live Stock asso ciation at Portland, Ore.. January 12-15, 1304, and arnual convention National Wool Growers association at Portland. January 11-12, 1904, the Union Pacific ofiers the following rates and dates of salts- Round trip tickets on sale January 6, 7 I and 9, 1904, at $50.00, good returning until January 31. 1904. For full information regarding berths, liir-its, routes, etc., call on J. C. Fulton, let ot agent cr F. A. Lewis, C. "T. A., 52i Kansas avenue. MR. WHEELER APOLOGIZES Didn't Mean Mr. Albaugh in His Statement, D. W. Wheeler of Marion says that his remarks before the Republican state central committee Tuesday night were not intended to apply to Chairman Al baugh, but referred to the way things were run last winter during the early part of the legislature. Everybody sup posed Mr. Wheeler was directing his statements directly at Albaugh, and Mr. Albaugh himself so construed them. "Albaugh was at home with a broken leg at the time I referred to," Mr. Wheeler said to a State Journal re porter afterwards. "I was driving at the way the headquarters was run here in the Copeland along about the time the legislature met." Mr. Albaugh took the remarks to him self, and when he took occasion to thank the committee for its treatment of him. just before its adjournment, he said he was sorry to hear, for the first time, that any member had thought himself not treated right as a committeeman. Mr. Albaugh added that he had not in tentionally slighted any member of the committee or wronged any in the con duct of the committee affairs. After the adjournment Mr. Wheeler went to Mr. Albaugh and said he was not aiming at him in his speech. WRITES HIS OWN EPITAPH Coal Dealer's Will Contains Philos opbyor Tombstone. Mount Holly, N. J., Jan. 7. In his will, which, has Just been admitted to probate in the county surrogate's of fice here, after disposing of an estate valued at several thousand dollars, Lorenzo D. Hammell, a former Bur lington coal dealer, who died on his farm near that city recently, directs that the following inscription be placed upon his tombstone: "In memory of Lorenzo D. Hammell. Born Nov. 21, 1818; died By force of eternal law, man lives and dies. The purpose of his production he cannot know, but can be assured that if plan ned and executed by omniscient wis dom and omniscient power, it can neither be an experiment, mistake, nor failure, but must result as the Designer intended, and had all knowledge and power to accomplish." OCTOGENARIAN Ts J AIL. Litigant Surrenders Himself After Adverse Court Decision. Binghamton, N. Y., Jan. 7. W. S. Holmes, aged 94, of Whitney Point, is in the Broome county jail, having given himself up to protect his bondsmen. Holmes had a long litigation with relatives over his wife's estate. He claims that before her death she gave him $1,800 in cash. After her death relatives sought to recover this proper ty, and finally obtained an order from Judge Gladding of Norwich directing Holmes to turn over the money. Supposing that the money was his, the old man had spent it in the years since his wife's death. Accordingly, he cannot turn it over now in compliance with the court order, and is therefore in contempt. Rather than have the heirs look to his bondsmen, the old man has gone to jail voluntarily. STORM LAST OF WEEK. That Is Present Prediction of "Cider" Smith. "Cider" Smith, who scored a correct forecast for the storm of January 1 and the weather to follow, today issued the following forecast: "We get our best weather any time of the year after a 'northeaster.' How quickly the weather responded to the change of wind direction from the north west to the eastward. We are not in or very near a storm period, but will be about Saturday or Sunday. At present the precipitation will be light." Dan Hanna's Brother-in-Law Killed Saranac Lake, N. Y., Jan. 7. Carl Gordon, a brother-in-law of Daniel R. Hanna of Cleveland, O., accidentally shot and killed himself last night. Congratulations- Mr. John H. Cullom, editor of the Gar land, Texas, News, has written a letter of congratulations to the manufacturers of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as fol lows: "Sixteen years ago, when our first child was a baby he was subject to croupy spells and we would be very un easy about him. We began using Cham berlain's Cough Remedy in 18S7, and find ing it such a reliable remedy for colds and croup, we have never been without it in the house since that time. We have five children end have given it to all of them with good results. One good feat ure of this remedy is that it is not disa greeable to take and our babies really like it. Another is that it is not danger ous, and there is no risk from giving an overdose. I congratulate you upon the success of your remedy." For sale by all druggists. Who Travels in Tourist Sleepers P All sorts of people; business and pro fessional men; farmers; land seekers everybody but the very rich and the very poor. Second class tickets are ac cepted saving No. 1. Berth rates are only half those of standard sleepers saving No. 2. Total saving, nearly 20. Rock Island tourist sleepers run daily via 'El Paso: three times a week via Colorado. Fully described in folder "Across the Continent in a Tourist Sleeping Car." Ask for a copy. A. E. COOPER. t Division Pass.. Agent, Topeka. TO CHANGE BOX'S NAME. Legislature Will Make Young Heir Francis Baring Peckham. Newport, R. I.. Jan. 7. The legislature will be asked to change small Eddie Corcoran's name to that of his bene factor, the distinguished lawyer, Francis Baring Peckham. Mr. Peckham, whose will was filed Monday, bequeathed $30,000 in trust to his protege, $5,000 to the boy's mother, and $10,000 to Eddie's aunt, Miss Mary C. Mahoney, who was Mr. Peckham's housekeeper both before and after his wife's death. Mrs. Peckham was childless. She was blind during her last days. Eddie Cor coran's presence in her home brought joy to her, and nearly satisfied Mr. Peckham's yearning for a son. The lawyer's will ordered that the best education will be given Eddie to fit him for life's struggle; that, if need be, the capital of the trust fund be used to thus equip him. Mr. Peckham's handsome but simple residence on Central Court will also finally revert to the boy, who is 10 years old. He and his mother and Miss Mahoney are now living in the house. "We wish to remain in obscurity," said Miss Mahoney. "Neither Eddie's head, nor that of any of us, will be turned by this sudden wealth, you can depend. He is not particularly pre cocious, nor particularly handsome, but he is a good boy, with a gentle disposi tion. When he was younger, with long light curls, Mr. Peckham was much at tracted to him. But now Eddie is at that -':ward age when no boy is really go- .ing." ue say what he will 'be' when he up?" asked the-correspondent. "No," said Miss Mahoney. "His grand father and father were expert engrav ers, but Eddie has no talent for draw ing. Nevertheless his father- intended that Eddie should be an architect. The youngster goes to school at Miss Mae Sayer's private school, where he asso ciates with the children of the wealthy. We will try to make him all his bene factor would have wished." MOTHER OF TWINS AT 60. Aged Farmer and Wife Proud of New Year's Present. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 7. A New Year's present for Charles Ritter, an aged farmer of Bristol pike and Pennypack lane, was a fine pair of boys, who will be named Joseph and James as soon as preparations for a christening celebra tion can be completed. The boys have 'three brothers, hut they will never have them for play mates. Charles Ritter, jr., the eldest, is 33 years old. and Albert, the young est of the three, is onlir ten years his junior. Mr. Ritter who is 70 years old and but ten vears older than his wife, came to this country from his native town in Saxony in 1850. For the last forty years he ha3 been engaged in farming in the northeastern section of this county. His wife is also of German birth, hav ing come to this city from Cassel, in Hesse. Nine children have blessed their union. Mrs. Ritter does not look more than 40 years of age, although she is fiO. Mr. Ritter was the picture of happi ness this morning, and expressed his intention of continuing work on his farm as long as he should live. The twins are healthy and strong. FIFTY-TEAR ROMANCE EN DS Deininger and Mrs. Haile, Sweet hearts in Childhood, Are Wed. Belleville, 111., Jan. 7. A romance more than half a century old culmina ted today in the marriage of Christ opher Deininger to Mrs. Eva Haile. Mr. Deininger is 79 years old and his bride is 70. As children they played to gether, and always the boy, nine year? older than the girl, watched tenderly over her. As they grew older they still held their affection for one another, and at last were betrothed. They were separated, however, and after a few years both married others and each had a family. For years they never heard of one another, as they had moved to other cities. Recently they met here, and renewef their old friendship. This rapidly ripen ed into the' old love, and today they were married, and left on the wedding journey they might have taken more than 50 years ago. Officer Shawhan What's your big sis ter gettin' teacher, up dere at de school? Teeny O'Tun Aw, electrocution, physi cal torture, and stuff like dat. Puck. "What maks you think she has a sav ing sense of humor? Because she laughed so heartily when she described the way you proposed to her. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Suppose it was t'other way and all the Topeka druggists but one were cheap one dear and I the dear one. Wouid they all pounce on me I can't believe it. Frank Hobart, 500 West Tenth.