The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 29, 1904

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-.if J! TWELVE PAGES. LAST EDITION. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 29. 1904. TUESDAY IGVENING. TWO CENTS. "on, 110 SENTENCE YET Another Motion in Barton Case Filed Today. This Is That Judgment Be Suspended. KOT APPEAL NOW. It Will Be Taken After Motions Are Disposed Of. CoiiTiction Is Chief Topic of Con rersation Today. St. Louis, March 29. Sentence jiras not passed today upon United States Senator Burton, of Kansas, who was Monday found guilty in the United States district court of having illegal ly accepted payment from the Rialto Orain and Securities company of St. Louis for the use of his influence with the postal department on behalf or that company's interest. Counsel for Senator Burton today filed a motion in arrest of judgment and there is now also before the court a motion for a new trial filed imme diately after the verdict was rendered. Judge Adams will first have to dispose of these motions before sentence can be passed. The defense is busily at work pre paring a bill of exceptions and making a complete record of the evidence In troduced. It may take two or three days before this is completed and the bill of exceptions ready for filing, on which to base an appeal to the United States court of appeals, which is the court of highest Jurisdiction in this case. If sentence is finally passed upon Senator Burton and his case is op pealed, he will be released on bond pending the rehearing of the case by tlie court of appeals at St. Paul on Hay 2. SENATOR TO ELECT. Xo matter whether the senate waits until the courts pass on Senator Bur ton's appeal or decides that the verdict of the federal jury at St. Louis war rants it in declaring his seat vacant, the indications are that the next legis lature will have to elect a United States senator to succeed Burton. This depends, of course, upon whether a final judgment is rendered and the fenate acts before the legislature ad journs nearly a year hence. As there will be no reason for postponing action on the appeal it is quite likely that it will come up for argument befiirijs the T'nitfd States court of appeals at Den ver In September, and a decision can be reasonably looked for in October. Then, u doss a constitutional question jmn be, reif-ed by his attorneys, it is-ald that the decision of the court of appeals will end the case, inasmuch as the crime of which he is charged is only a misde mt ano.'. If the case should go to the United States supreme court, the next legisla ture probably will not get a chance to t-lt ct Senator Burton's successor, pro viding he holds on until the court of last resort passes on his case, but other wise the legislature which will be elect ed next fall will probably have a sena torial fight on its hands. There will be three important forces in that fight. The first will be the old Burton machine, which will now no doubt be headed by some one else. Burton will probably continue to be on good terms with, its members they made him United States senator three years ago knowing what kind of a man he was and is. In fact, it has been repeatedly asserted that one of the strong influences in his election was the debts which he had contracted his creditors wanted to put him in a posi tion to pay them, which is why he became connected with the get-rich-quick concerns, according to his own testimony in his trial. MI'LVANE MAY GET IT. It is the general opinion of the poli ticians that D. W. Mulvane will be the choice of what has been the Bur ton machine for United States senator to succeed Burton. And it cannot be denied that Mr. Mulvane will have considerable strength behind him. It is now acknowledged what the State Journal has contended for months that the Burton machine was taking advantage of the new boss buster movement in Kansas politics to dic tate the nomination of state senators whom 1t could control. That has been done in a number of state senatorial districts. State senators have been re nominated who were for Burton before end who will be for the choice of the Burton machine whenever a senatorial election comes around. Another factor will be E. W. Hoch and the element which worked with the Burton faction for the overthrow of Governor Bailey, but which is now arrayed against the Burton crowd. This element and the Burton faction came to the parting of the ways on the reorganization of the Republican state committee recently. The Burton crowd had determined to organize the state committee by electing J. R. Bur row chairman, and it would have done It had not Mr. Hoch and W. R. Stubbs Insisted that Burrow be defeated and Stubbs elected chairman. Mr. Hoch will be probably governor after the legislature meets. He will have a strong influence if he chooses to exert it in the election of a United States senator. If there should not be r vacancy in time to be filled by the legislature Mr. Hoch will probably have to fill it later by appointment, and the politicians are guessing that "W". R. Stubbs would be Hoch's choice. That is by no means certain, however. Hoch might choose Joseph L. Bristow. Bristow and Hoch have always been grood friends, and Mr. Hoch's son is now Bristow's secretary. The third influence which would en ter into a senatorial fight in the legis lature next winter would be the choice of Governor Bailey and his friends. If the vacancy comes soon enough Gov ernor Bailey will appoint a senator, but the appointment will hold good only until the legislature meets. In eome ways an appointment by Gov ernor Bailey might give a candidate considerable prestige, but if, on the other hand, a legislature should be elected in direct opposition to Bailey and his friends, an appointment might act as it did in the case of Justice At kinson in the state convention. The old Burton machine is already planning the nomination and election of members of the next legislature. Here tofore it has devoted most of its efforts to the senate on the ?nnnniion that the members of the house would not vote for a successor to Burton. From now on, however, there will be a fight for members ot Dotn nouse ana senate. The fight will be over the nom inations. There will, of course, be many other candidates than those mentioned. Congressman Curtis would doubtless be a candidate betore the next legisla ture. And so would Congressman Cal- derhead and probably Congressman Scott. And there are Secretary or State Burrow, H. J. Allen, Chief Jus tice Johnston, and numerous others who are on the "mentioned" list. IS THE OFFICE VACANT. The Burton triaU its effect, and Sena tor Burton's possible successor con tinues to be the chief topic of discus sion around the state house. Very few express any surprise at the outcome of the trial, but expressions of regret that a Kansas man should be mixed up m such an affair are heard on all sides. A good many, too, express sympathy for Senator Burton, but say that he brought his trouble on himself. Secretary of State Burrow and State Treasurer Kelly, who are recognized as leaders of the Burton faction, refused to express themselves for publication. Most of the other members of the execu tive council are out of the city. There is great interest around the state house, of course, as to when Sen ator Burton's seat will become vacant. A state house subordinate official, who is recognized as a first class attorney and who has practiced extensively in both state and federal courts, holds the opinion that the verdict rendered in St. Louis Monday itself creates a vacancy in the senatorship and that Governor Bailey can at once proceed to appoint a senator without waiting for Burton to resign or for the senate to declare his seat vacant. "The statute declares' that a convic tion makes a man thereafter ineligible to hold a public office," said this attor ney. 'Thereafter' means from the time of conviction. It seems to me plain that the statute makes it impos sible for Burton to longer remain sen ator without any action anywhere else. The conviction remains just the same pending an appeal. It simply with holds the judgment while the appeal is pending. If Burton should get a re versal and an acquittal it would again make him eligible to hold office, but in the meantime he stands convicted, and under this statute is ineligible to lonfeer continue in office. I think that the minute the verdict was rendered there was a vacancy in the office of senator from iCansas." HE SHOULD RESIGN. That Is What Kansans Think Burton Ought to Do. "The proper thing for Senator Burton to do is to resign." This was-the opinion expressed by a state house official today, in discussing the verdict rendered against Burton at St. Louis. ,:s "Under this verdict Burton will have absolutely no standing in Washington, And the people of Kansas will not ac cept him as senator. He can do noth ing to earn his salary and the proper thing for him to do would be to re sign." The expressions from those who are most intimate with Burton in St. Louis and Washington indicate that he will probably not resign, but every precedent indicates that resignation would be the proper procedure for him. Such a precedent was set by Alexander Caldwell, a Kansas senator who it was proved purchased his seat as senator. He resigned under the charges without waiting to have them formally proven. There have been other instances in There have been other instances in the senate in which senators have re signed when serious charges have been preferred against them. The senate of the United States is extremely jealous of its dignity and its members will not associate with a man who is under a cloud. "It is my opinion," said another state official today, "that while the senate may not declare Senator Bur ton s seat vacant until the court of last resort has passed on his case, the senators wili refuse to sit with him. Following this conviction Senator Bur ton may conclude that he has nothing to lose and it would be in keeping will' his old-time character to put on his nerve -and go back to Washington and go into the senate simply to snow his bravado. If he should attempt this it Is my guess that the senators would give him to understand that his pres ence was not wanted, and if he per sisted they might take some action in the matter. Such men as Senator Hoar and Senator Spooner and a good many others are very high-minded, and they have a high ideal as to the dignity of the United States senate. Senator Hoar personally is very poor in this world's goods, more so than Burton even, but he is among the most highly respected members of the senate." The majority of people express re gret that Kansas is responsible for Burton. They feel that his action and his conviction is a reflection upon the state. As an offset to Burton, how ever, there is Joseph S. Bristow, who stands for the highest type of offici-il honor and probity in Washington. Everywhere there are expressions of sympathy for Mrs. Burton, who has stood loyally by her husband through all his troubles, and who is in no small way responsible for his election to the senate. "It is very hard on Mrs. Burton," said Congressman Campbell, in discussing the -natter in St. Louis. "Mrs. Burton has worked hard to aid her husband in realizing his ambition to be United States senator, and without her tact and graciousness during the senatorial fight in 1901 he would .never have been elect ed. She had hoped great things for him, and this trouble which must necessarily wind up his public career is very hard for her." A Topeka woman who has known Mrs. Burton intimately for years said recently that Mrs. Burton has sacri ficed all her personal wishes to Bur ton's ambition. "I know that Mrs. Burton was a great homebody," said this Topeka lady. "She would have liked to settle down and have a quiet home, but Sen ator Burton's ambition has kept them on the go and she has sacrificed ev erything for him. I have a great, ad miration for her and the way she has borne up under this charge against the senator." The mermaid 100 Fathoms Seep. Vancouver, B. C, March 29. The steamer Mermaid is one hundred fathoms deep in the bottom of Jervis inlet, 100 miles up the coast. She sank on Friday morning as a result of running on the rocks in broad daylight. The crew and three passengers took to the ship's boats and the Mermaid sank shortly after they got clear of her. The Mermaid was val- FIRST BIG BATTLE Clash of Oriental Armies Looked for in a Week. Russians Hare Massed Force of 70,000 Men. 100 COSSACKS KILLED. Further News About Skirmish of March 23. Ail Correspondents Expelled from Port Arthur. Paris, March 29. The Echo de Paris' St. Petersburg correspondent says the war office general staff expects that the first land engagement In the far east will take place in about a week. It is estimated, he adds, that General Kuropi, commander of the first army in the Ping Tang region, has a total of 70,000 men, including a brigade of cav alry and 180 cannon. 100 COSSACKS KILLED. Seoul, March 29. A report has reached here that 50 Japanese and 100 Cossacks were killed and wounded in a skirmish that occurred between Anju and Tingju. The above dispatch prob ably refers to the engagement report ed last week as having occurred March 23, but in which no cossack losses were mentioned, ITO MAKES SUGGESTIONS. Seoul, March 29. Marquis Ito upon taking his departure yesterday sub mitted to the government some sug gestions for Korean reforms. The em peror has appointed Yi Chi Ying, a former minister of foreign affairs, as a special ambassador to bear presents to the Japanese emperor and return the compliments of Marquis lto's visit to Korea PULL THEIR QUEUES. Vladivostok, March 29. An amusing sequel has resulted from the order of the chief of police directing that a Keen lookout be kept for Japanese dis guised as Koreans or Chinese. Since the order was issued the police seize every Asiatic they see for a pull at his queue in order to ascertain whether it is real or false. FRENCH FLAG HOISTED. Tien Tsin, March 29. A Frenchman named Kreautlar, an employe of th Russo-Chinese bank, has been appoint ed French consular agent at New Chwang. He has hoisted the French flag over the bank buildings. It is con sidered probable that this is a fore runner of a movement to fly the tri color over all th Russian government buildings in New Cftwang. CORK HELMETS FOR RUSSIANS. St. Petersburg, March 29. In view of the experience of the British forces in South Africa during the Boer war, the war department is considering the equipment of the Russian troops with cork helmets for the summer campaign in the far east. NO DOUBT OF RESULT. St.Petersburg. March 29 Forecasting the result of tne war in the far east the Novosti declares there is no more doubt as to who will be the eventual victor than there was at the com mencement of the Graeco-Turkish, th; opanisn-American or the Boer war. 'For the Japanese the war is a life and death struggle," continues the No-I vostl- She places everything on one! card, ror Russia, it is really only a colonial war, and even defeat wou'i leave the empire, not greatly affected, while success would be sure to mean a. great stimulus to the Russian col onization of Manchuria, where it is reasonable to suppose many soldiers will settle after the struggle Is over. "But," adds the paper, "Russia should not pay too high a price for this colonial empire, and therefore, should conserve as far as possible the army, 3nd the fleet. SING AS THEY MARCH. Irkutsk, March 29. Traffic across Lake Baikal is being carried on as regular as clock work. The troops cross on the ice. singing as they march. The ice breaker is likely to begin the work of cutting a channel any day. EXPELLED FROM PORT ARTHUR. St. Petersburg, March 29.-1:20 p. m. A war correspondent of The Russky Viedomestl writing from Harbin, Man churia, says he has not been permit ted to proceed to Port Arthur and adds he will not be allowed to go to the front from Harbin until April 2. All the correspondents have been ex pelled from Port Arthur because one of them mentioned in his dispatches important information regarding the movements of Russian troops. JEWS VOLUNTEER: St. Petersburg, March 29. 1:20 p. m. The Novosti publishes a long article on the Jewish question, .combatting the allegations of some anti-semitic news papers that the Odessa Jews are doing everything to precipitate a repetition of the Kishineff affair by expressing sympathy with the Japanese. The Novosti denounces the allegations as monstrous falsehoods, declaring that the Jews throughout the empire have patriotically volunteered their ser vices and attacks the anti-semitic writers for attempting constantly to sow race hatred. CONFIDENT RUSSIANS. Moscow, March 29. Three British officers who arrived here yesterday from India by way of Persia, have pronounced themselves as being im pressed by the calm confidence among the Russians. The officers noted no signs of military activity and did not see a single military train through the Caucasus or European Russia. It was just as if Russia was not engaged in war. PROMISED NO MONEY. Chicago Tnrns Down National Committee's Demand. Chicago, March 29. The sub-committee of the Republican committee hav ing in charge the arrangement for the national convention in this city met to day with the local committee to dis cuss the plans that have been made at the Coliseum, where, the convention is to be held. All arrangements made by the local committee were approved by the mem bers of the national committee. It was explained to the members at the out set that Chicago had never promised to put ur for the use of the national co-rirpiftf? rvci a tm nm $15 000. nor in fact had it promised to put. up any sum of money at all. What It had promised was to pay all the bills of the convention, and this it would do. Harry S. New, of the com mittee, suggested there were things for which the committee would be com pelled to pay, and he thought it well if the local men would place a certain sum at the dlsDOsal of the national committee. This the local men agreed to do at once, and the amount sub mitted by Mr. New, $5,000, was prompt ly arranged for. It was decided all the bills for the convention are to be turned over to the local committee and they will provide for their payment. In going over the arrangement made for seating it was found that the total number of seats in the hall will be 8,428. Of these 500 will be on the stage and 275 will be for the press. There will be 990 seats for delegates and the same number for alternates, leaving 5, 673 for spectators. OUT OF ITS BANKS. Northern Tributaries Touring Floods Into the Ohio. Indianapolis, Ind., March 29. All riv ers in southern Indiana are pouring floods into the Ohio, forcing' that stream out of its banks. White river is getting into the coal mines around Petersburg, causing heavy loss and throwing miners out of work. The Wabash river is giving the farmers around New Harmony uneasiness. The crest of the floods in these two streams are expected to reach their junction point in Gibson county today or to morrow and may join their heavier forces at the same time. This will send a mighty river tearing through the rich lower Wabash valley to the Ohio. The only danger point south ot Indianapolis is at Lafayette, where the water from the Wabash is undermining a high railroad embankment. Should a serious break occur, a district that is now protected will be flooded. At Evansville the river is one foot above danger line and rising. The lowlands above and below the city are under water, and in some places the river is miles wide. At Haseltem White river is at the highest point known. The water plant above Evansville is sur rounded by water, and the workmen go to and from the plant in skiffs. In the flooded district below Terre Haute and above Evansville, where last night the levees broke flooding over 100,000 acres of rich bottom lands, the water is beginning; ta slowly re cede. HE TALKS TARIFF. Congressman Campbell Says It Is Only Means of Kefenue. Washington, March 29. The house to day resumed consideration of the Bun dry civil bill. Mr. Campbell (Kan.) dis cussed the tariff question Und said a protective tariff ws the. only means by which the money necssary for the an nual support of the government could be raised. Many members on the Democratic side interrupted Mr. Campbeil with questions regarding the upbuilding ot trusts through a protective tariff policy. He, however, asserted, that protection was not the mother of trusts, as repeatedly had been charged by the Democrats. IN THE SENATE. Washington, March 29. In the senate today Mr. Fulton called up a bill pro hibiting interstate and International commerce in misbranded salmon. Mr. Teller criticized the bill, saying that as originally reported it was made possible to prosecute the seller of even a single can or salmon. He also said that the bill shows a tendency to inter fere with commerce between the states in a harmful way. In explaining the reason for the pass age of the bill, Mr. Fulton said that most varieties of salmon were labelled in the name of the Columbia river and Fuget sound varieties, the best on the market. This, he said, was a fraud and should be prohibited. SPITE WORK. 31 an Accused of Having De signs on Roosevelt's Life. New York, March 29. The' story of an alleged plot to- assassinate Presi dent Roosevelt, which upon investiga tion proved to be entirely without foundation was made public today- by Police Commissioner McAdoo. Several days ago the commissioner receifod a letter from a man in Italy saying thit an Italian was about to come to this country for the express purpose of as sassinating the president. The writer gave a detailed description of the al leged anarchist, the steamer on which he would sail, and full details of the alleged plot. When the steamer dock ed an inspector was on hand with a large squad of detectives and the sus pect was found and detained. Investi gation, however, showed that the caae was purely one of spite on the part of the man who wrote the letter. It was found that the detained man was not an anarchist and that he had a perfect right to enter this country. He was allowed to land. The object of the letter, it was found was to have the man deported. ONLY A LIGHT RAIN. But the Government Bureau Promises There Will Bo More. This morning's rain amounted to thirty onc-hundredths of an inch, and there is likely to be mora rain tonight. The forecast for Kansas sent out to day is: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, with possibly showers east por tions. Warmer "-tonight. Cooler Wednes day." The wind at noon was south, blowing 20 miles an nour. xne nouriy temperatures. recorded by the government thermometer today, were as follows: 7 o'clock 45:11 o'clock 8 o'clock 45112 o'clock 9 o'clock 46i 1 o'clock 10 o'clock 52 2 o'clock Wind, IS miles from south, tion, .30. 56 BS 57 58 Precipita- Hartford Strikes CoaL Emporia, Kan., March 29. News has been received from Hartford saying that the drillers who are boring for oil or gas there have struck a four and a half foot vein of coal at a depth of 010 feet. Some of the coal will be sent to Alva Smith here to be analyzed. But it is probable that It is an excellent grade of coal, for the deeper oal is found in the ground the better it usually is. Temperatures of Large C tiei, Chicago, March 29 Temperatures at 7 a. m.: New York. 28: Boston, 30; hila dplnhia. ao: .Washington. 30: Chicago. 36 Minneapolis, 30; Cincinnati, 36; St. Louis, 4fi. HE MOVES UP. Superintendent William M. Davidson to Leave Topeka. Has Been Elected Superintend ent of Omaha Schools. HIS SALAKY IS $3,600. In Topeka He Was Paid $2,500 a Year. Members of Board Undecided What Course to Pursue. W. M. Davidson, superintendent of the Topeka city schools, has been elected superintendent of the Omaha schools. He will accept the position and will ask the Topeka board of edu cation to release him April 1L The superintendency at Omaha pays $3,600 a year and the superintendency in Ti- Superintendent William M. Davidson, of Topeka, Who Has Been Elected Superintendent of the Omaha Schools. peka pays $2,500 a year. Mr. Davidson will succeed Carroll S. Pearse, who has resigned the superin tendency at Omaha to become super intendent of the public schools of Mil waukee. The Omaha board invited Mr. David son some weeks ago to be a candidate and he declined. However, his name was presented to the Omaha board at the meeting last night and he was un animously elected over 21 other candi dates. The term is until August 1, IsOo. Mr. Davidson was notified last night bv telephone by the president of the Omaha beard that he had been chosen unanimously. The selection of Mr. Davidson by the Omaha board comes as a surprise to Mr. Davidson himself as well as to the Topeka board of education. At the meeting of the board In February it was decided that a committee should go before the legislature at the next session and ask that a law making the term of office of a suDerintendent in a city of the first class longer than for one year. Superintendent Davidson is largely responsible for the public school sys tem in Topeka reaching its prese.it high standing. The boards or educa tion in Topeka have always been in sympathy with his ideas for advancing the efficiency of the schools, under nifi superintendency the teaching force has been improved and salaries nave been increased: the buildings and equipment have been bettered and the attendance has grown. When Mr. Davidson was chosen as superintendent of the Topeka schools he was taken from the position he hell as principal of Lincoln school. The idea of the present board is that one of the Topeka principals, if one be found available, be elected to the posi tion. When Mr. Davidson was elected the salary of the position was $1,800. The salary has been Increased to $2,500 but it is likely that the board, being short of funds, will not feel that To peka can compete with the salary of fered by Omaha. F. M. Mallory, president of the board of education, said today: "I regret that Mr. Davidson is to leave Topeka. He is a valuable man to Topeka and we will have difficulty in filling his place. 1 don't know what the board will do. I presume we will either have to call a special meeting or fill the place by elect ing a successor at the meeting Monday night." W. H. Wilson, member of the board, said: "If Mr. Davidson is worth $3,600 to Omaha he is worth that to xopeka. The board and the schools can ill afford to lose the services of Mr. Davidson. It is simply a business proposition with him and he cannot decline a position with so much more salary." C. C. Nicholson, member from North Topeka, said: "If Mr. Davidson is worth $3,600 a year to Omaha, where he has never been engaged in school work, then he is certainly worth no less than that to Topeka where he has worked for years, where he has raised the standard of the schools above even his hopes when he began, where he has given the best part of his- life to the work. Oma ha, a much larger city than Topeka, sees his value. As a member of the board of .education I would vote to keep Mr. Davidson here if he will stay. We have buildings going up and work con templated which Mr. Davidson is thor oughly familiar with. WTe need him here. The reputation of the Topeka schools extends all over the country. Many people move to Topeka to make their homes and send their children to school here. Not long ago a commis sion from England visited the Topeka schools and praised the system as be ing one of the best they had seen in the country. Topeka wishes to be an educational center even more than at present. The high standard of the pub lic rioolj h much to do with To- peka's aspirations In that direction. We owe much to Mr.. Davidson and he owes much to Topeka. He has helped to make our public schools what they are and Topeka has helped to make Mr. Davidson what he Is. We can ill af ford to end this pleasant and profitable relationship." Colonel J. D. Norton, member of the board from ithe Fourth ward, said this morning: "I regret to hear that Mr. Davidson is to leave Topeka, but at the same time must compliment him. He is a valuable man to Topeka, but I fear the board of education cannot compete with Omaha." No candidates for the position "of su perintendent of the Topeka schools have announced themselves, and the board members have not yet considered names. John McBride, principal of the Branner school, has been with the To peka schools for many years and is looked utior. as an available candidate. Mr. McBride was superintendent ot Rice county and afterwards superin tendent of the city schools at Blue Rapids and held that position when he was elected to the principalship at Branner. He has been the man In charge of the manual training work in the Topeka schools and has made an enviable record In that line. Mr. Mc Bride is a probable successor of Mr. Davidson. L. D. Whittemore, principal of the high school, is another possibility. He has had plenty of experience as an educator and is well known to the pa trons of the schools. He was at one I time superintendent of the Hiawatha schools and was for fourteen years a professor at Washburn college before becoming principal of the high school. Mr. William M. Davidson began his career as city superintendent in To peka May 5, 1892. During his admin istration, and especially since 1899, the greatest development and improvement in the history of the Topeka schools have been accomplished. Mr. David son's idea has always been that Topeka should have the best school system in the wost. When he began as superintendent the city schools were not in the best condition. Since 1899 the Branner, Sumner, Lowman Hill, Lafayette schools have been built and Polk, Clay, Euclid and Potwin schools have been enlarged and remodelled. At present the manual training high school and the Quincy school in North Topeka are under course of erection. The first large t uilding to be built during Mr. Davidson's regime was the present high school building. Mr. Davidson was for one year superintendent of the Quincy school In North Topeka and. then for four years principal of Lincoln school just before being elected superintendent. Before coming to Topeka he was teacher in the district schools of Lyon county and principal of the Atwood high school, which he organized. Last month the board of education re-elected him superintendent of the city schools of Topeka for the term beginning August 1. Mr. Davidson has been president of the Kansas Teachers' association and is well known over the state. He is a member of the council of education of the National Educational association and of the American Historical as sociation. He has been vice president of the National association and also treasurer of the association and a member of the executive committee. He Is a graduate of the Kansas State university and of the Kansas Normal school. RAND IS OUT. Another Postoffice Official Has Parted from His Position. Washington, March 29. The post master general today accepted the res ignation of H. H. Rand as assistant superintendent of the division of sal aries and allowances of the postoffice department. The action takes effect immediately. Rand was appointed in April, 1902. During the postal investi gation it was charged that he was In terested In the promotion of numerous speculative enterprises, mostly mining companies, and that he used his official position to induce departmental em ployes to Invest In his schemes. The Bristow report failed to sustain the charges, but Rand never appeared aeain' officially at the department, and it was generally understood he never would resume his official duties. Trust Company Closes. Indianapolis, Ind., March 29. The Commercial Trust company, with 2,000 depositors, only five- or six having more than $j00. has closed its aoors. it is said the depositors will be paid in full and that the stockholders will staHil whatever loss there is. New Kansas Postmasters. Washington, March 29. These postmas ters have been appointed: Kansas Alice ville. Coffee county, Andrew L. Bruce, vice William E. Irwin, resigned: Rush Center, Rush county. Marcellus C. Hal lett. vice J. A. Russell, dead. WON'T JOUST MIFil. Proposed Prosecution Against McColiuni Is Dropped. Papers Were Bead; to Com mence an Action. MR. CLEMENS IS WART. Says "They Failed to Attend to Necessary Details." Explains Why Chief and City Are Liable. A few days ago a movement was on, foot to bring proceedings against Chief. of Police McCollum for the purpose of ousting him from office because of hla destruction of a carload of Ferd. Helm beer. It was also proposed to sue the city for the value of the beer. But It seems that the whole" proceeding has been sidetracked by the beer combine, which is very well satisfied with Mc Collum's way of "controlling" the joints. One who seems to know what he is talking about says that the "beer com bine" paid the Ferd. Helm brewery tho value of the beer soilled by McCollum for the purpose of stopping the prose cution. G. C. Clemens was the attorney who was preparing to file complaint against McCollum and a damage suit against the city. He said today: "It was a case of 'dead medicine against McCollum. He could not only; be thrown out of office for spilling that beer, but he could be subjected to im prisonment and fine. I was expecting; to file complaint against him with the county attorney, and the county attor ney could not have done otherwise than prosecute the case. But they failed to attend to a few little necessary prellml-' naries to filing the papers, and the re sult is that the papers are now in my wastebasket. "We could hold the city liable for the value of the beer spilled, under the rlot law. There were more than three peo-, pie engaged in destroying that beer. The supreme court has held in the Na-. tion and Boies cases that beer is prop erty, and is not contraband. When three or more people unlawfully de stroy property, the city is liable. If it happens that the three persons are officers of the law, that only makes It WOrs." hi The facts of the case are, briefly, that Chief McCollum searched the Mat Cave wholesale-liquor house and seized a carload-)f keg and case beer, which he took-to the. basement of the city prison. That night, before replevin papers were served, aria before the case was tried, policemen worked for hours pulling corks and knocking out bungs. All the beer was dumped Into the sewer, but the bottles and kegs were not injured. McCollum has no property and is not under bond, and the law re lieves the city for liability for the acts of its police officers. Section 2494, statutes of 1901, is tha search and seizure act. It says in part: and seize and take into his custody all Intoxicating llquors.glasses bottles, kegs, pumps, bars or other property described In said complaint of information which, he may find at such place, AND SAFBY KEEP SAME subject to the order of the court." The "safely keep" provision is what Mr. Clemens says Chief McCollum failed to do. He says: "McCollum had no right to destroy that beer any more than he would have a right to destroy a horse or a bureau, or anything else wnicn ne was afraid some one would replevin from him. It is a question whether or not McCollum is not in contempt of the district court by thus trying to avoid the effect of an order issued by that court, which he knew was about to be served upon him. He certainly Is in contempt of police court, tor ne aia not wait for an order irora mat court to destroy the liquor. The law gives nennle ten davs to appeal from police court to the district court, and until that ten days has expired., ttie cnier. of police has no right to destroy con-' ftsoated goods." The following sections oi tne crimes act provide the further, steps in the legal, net which is woven about Chief McCol lum: See. 2194. Every person exercising or holding any office of public trust wno shall be guilty of wilful and malicious oppression. partiality, misconduct or. abuse of authority in his official capacity, or under color of his office, shall on con viction be punished ty imprisonment m a county Jsll for a term not exceeding one year and fined not exceeding $1,000. Ko 9iwt Kvprv Derson who shall be du- lv convicted of any of the offenses men tioned in the preceding sections oi irns act shall be forever disqualified from holding any ofTice of honor, trust or profit under the laws of this state and .from voting nt any election. Sec. 2210. Every officer who shall be convicted of any offense which by this or anv other statute Is punishable by dis qualification to hold office, shall, in addi tion to the other punishments provided for such offenses, forfeit his ofTice. It seems that the law is sufficiently plain to convince any one that Chief Mc Collum laid himself liable to impeachment bv his action in destroying Ferd Heim beer. This being the case, does not it seem a little strange that the Jolntiot, who are, according to C. V. Wolf, being so terriblv prosecuted by Chief McCollum, should neglect the opportunity to throw him out of his position? CATTLEMEN'S CONVENTION. Western Kansas Stockmen to Meet at Dodge City. Dodge City, Kan., March 29. The first annual cattlemen's convention of the western district of Kansas meets here March 31 and April 1. The meeting is in the interest of the new packing com pany which is being organized. Stock will be sold to members. Speeches will be made bv some of the prominent catti men of the southwest. The principal topic will be freight rat and transportation. Special interest will be taken in lectures on diseases. The cltv will be decorated and the Eagles' and Phoenix club rooms will be open to the visitors. The Santa Fe and Rock Is land have made a fare and one-thtrd for the round trip on account of the conven tion. Weather Indcations. Chicago, March 29. Forecast for Kan sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, with possibly showers and thunder storms In east portion; warmer tonight; cooler Wednesday; brisk southerly shifting to northwest winds.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JQTJHNA1 TUESDAY EYTSN OfG. MAKCH 29, 1904. KANSASJJEVS. Eeloit Han a Lemon Tree That Is Bearing Fruit. Is Three Tears Old and Con tains Twenty-One Blossoms. WILL BE BIG LEMONS. Each Specimen Is Expected to Weigh Four Pounds. From Each One It Is Claimed 12 Pies Can Be Made. Beloit, Kan., March 29. The Call ays: One of the Call men had the pleasure of examining and Inspecting a lemon tree belonging to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Martin, living on South Lincoln avenue, today. The general supposition has been that a lemon tree could not en dure the Kansas climate. However prevalent this Idea has been in the past, It is certainly a great mistake. This particular tree la now three years eld. It is about three feet high, the Btalk or trunk being about three (ourths of an Inch 1". diameter. Twenty-one blossoms are now blooming. At tached to each one of these are the mall green lemons which are plainly visible at the lower end of the bloom. This tree is of the American Wonder variety, and It is claimed the lemons produced by this small piece of shrub bery will weight at the time of ripening not less than four pounds. As the lem ons while growing relieves the tree of considerable of ltB plant life, it is neces sary to top the branches occasionally, eo that that portion will not rob the Cruit of the nourishment which Is so essential to Its growth. This has the tendency to cause it to spread out, mak ing it very wide considering the height. Ordinarily this variety will bear in two years from the time of planting, but as before stated this one Is now three years old, and is producing Its first crop. The leaves greatly resemble those of the rubber tree smooth and thick. Pressing the leaf will leave the emell of a lemon on your hands. The blossoms throw off an odor similar to that of a tuberose. The entire Martin home was filled with the fragrant per fume Imparted from the tree. It was sent them as a present from Ohio, and they made a successful ex periment with it. They intend sending for two more trees of the same variety. Mrs. Martin informs us that from each lemon It is possible to make twelve lemon pies. From the fruit now growing it will be seen that this fami'v M have pie all next winter, as they will be able to bake 2,"2 pies, to say nothing of the pies that could be made from the fruit that It will bear later on. A PENSION BY FRAUD. Government Says Fort Bcott Veteran Served by Proxy. Fort Scott, March 29. The story of Joe Eller. the old soldier against whom proceedings were commenced by the government to inquire into his fraud ulently getting a pension from the government, was not learned until within the week, when an attorney for Mr. ICller and the old man himself, v.ere in the city. The case is to be tried in the United States district court at the next term, and will be heard by Judge Pollock. According to the story told by the old man and his attorney, he enlisted in the iate war and only served six weeks, when he desired to return home, having received word that his folks were sick. In order to get away from the army he elicited the services of another man to take his place and ferve for him, while he made the trip home. The man who substituted for him thought Eller was coming back all of the time, but he never showed up egain. The substitute remained with the war until the close and received a discharge, but it was In the name of Eller, the substitute's real name hav ing never been given. Eller secured the papers from the substitute and ap plied for a pension for his services. In tlue course of time he was granted one. He has been drawing this pension for a number of years and it was only last year that the government caused the Investigation into the case, which re sulted in the arrest of the old soldier. Just what caused the government to become suspicious or learn of the facts of the case is not known. AN ARMFUL OF CURIOS. Doniphan County Man Has an Exhib it Worth Seeing. A wave of curiosity is sweeping over the land, and people are reciting lists of old things in their possession. A lirown county lady has a prayer book dated L23 and a Bible printed in 179S; but Doniphan county can stretch a lit tle ahead of these. Pat Gray has in his curio box a fine old English book dated lili, with the original owner's tame written on the fly leaf. A few months ago he had a book dated 1535, but it was in Latin, and he traded it for some rare works in English. There are many other interesting things in Mr. Gray's curio collection. For ex ample, there are three very old news papers, one printed in 1713, one in 1793 and one in 1S02. Some very early cop ies of American and English magazines are to be seen in this same collection one in particular, Godey's, containing Baby's YrsoIsSeo Mothers, you may rely upon (LAXATIVE) It keeps tha baby's little bow els cool and regular, cures Wind Cclic, and helps them to grow strong and hearty. Spe cial directions for tha babies on each bottle label. Your druggist se!s it. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Montlccllo, III. GATLIN DRUG CO. DISTRIBUTORS Topeka, Kansas. Syrup Popsio illustrations of fashionable things worn by the young ladies of the years 1835 td 1S43. What extravagances In the way of hoopskirts, and what night mare dreams in the shape of frills and flounces are here shown on these old plates. Then there are many other early magazines, yellow with age, con taining quaint pictures and old-fashioned stories that were dear to the hearts of the boys and girls who loved and laughed and enjoyed the world fifty to seventy-five years ago. But literary relics do not take up all the room in this wonderful box. One of the most interesting articles therein Is a venerable bootjack, once the prop erty of a Wolf river pioneer. Another is a candle mold from Ireland, with the "loving dints made by the careless kicks of fairy feet." Then there is a set of little girls' mud pie plates used by little flaxed-haired cooks back In the sixties, a weaver's dress pattern dated 1831, a common pin with the head riv eted on, made more than half a cen tury ago, a package of fall wheat grown during the grasshopper year, an insurance tag from over the door of one of the first houses in the township, an old-fashioned four-pound back-breaking hoe. and a hundred other things queer and curious that belong to the days that are now no more. Seneca News. HE ENJOYED CUBA. A Coffeyville Man Visits the Island and Tells of It. Coffeyville, Kan., March 29 Mr. H. W. Reed and family have returned from a trip to Florida and Cuba. Speaking of the country he says: "We went from Coffeyville to St. Augustine, Fla. We stayed at this, the oldest town in the United States, for some time and I tell you we enjoyed it. Our rooms in the hotel opened out on a broad piazza and a few hundred yards away toward the east the ocean was rolling up its big waves. And the air that conies in from the water is most exhilarating. "Ed and Mrs. Rea, their little girl and myself then went to Miami, Fla., where we took a steamer for Cuba. The steamer left Miami at 9 o'clock one morning and we were in Havana the next morning at 7 o'clock. I didn't get sick, but Ed Rea and his wife and little girl were the sickest people you ever saw. Why. I think Ed was sick before we got out of the harbor at Miami. "Havana is the cleanest city in x.ie world. Why, the streets are just as clean as that floor. The city was a sight before the Spanish war, they say. But General Leonard Wood cleaned it up and he did a mighty good job of it. It was a good thing that our flour agent over there met us at the wharf or we could have hardly gotten along. There is scarcely any English spoken over there. It is all Spanish. But the agent was a good interpreter and we had a good time. We were In Cuba eight days. Wre went ail through Moro Cas tle, every inch of it. The agent who was with us had a brother belonging to the general army staff of the Cuban army and he got passes for all of us and we visited the whole thing. It was a wonderful sight and full of historic significance. When we came into Ha vana bay we anchored within a very few feet of the old sunken Maine. The fighting tops of the upper work of the oid ship still stick above the water and are very interesting to look at. "We stayed in Havana for a few days and then ran down to Matanzas, a short distance from Havana by rail. Ma tanzas is a city of 62,000 people and is fuli of husiness. While there we visit ed a vermicelli factory and it was a wonderful sight. We also went down into a cave and explored it with a guide. "The greatest business on the island of Cuba just now is the gathering of the crop of sugar cane. There is so much of it and it is such an enormous task to get it in. "The eating part of the trip was all right. When you first get up in the morning, you go down to the hotel dining room to the long table. There you are given a cup of coffee with boiled milk, a roll and butter; two oranges nicely peeled, which you hold up on a fork and eat; three little bananas, just as delicious as they can be and with a flavor like strawberries; a big slice of delicious fresh pineapple. This is the fust meal. You get breakfast at about 10 o'clock. And this island has the finest lot of fish you ever saw. Lobsters, crabs, oysters, everything imaginable. And by the way, I saw something else I never before saw in all my life. I saw them milking burros. They would drive them around the streets like cows and milk them and sell it." WICHITA APPOINTMENTS. Methodist Conference Selects Many New Ministers. Wichita, Kas., March 29. The fol lowing appointments in the Southwest Kansas M. E. conference were made by Bishop John W. Hamilton at last night's session: Dodge City district Presiding elder, W. V. Burns; Albert, H. T. Davis; Burdett, to be supplied; Cimarron, to be supplied by Milo S. Elton; Dighton, T. L. Parker; Dodge City, W. B. Bar ton; Garfield, to be supplied by W. E. Bonefield; Garden City, L. M. Riley; Garden City circuit, to be supplied by H. S. Booth; Jetmore, F. M. Romnie; Kinsley, E. S. MacCartney; Lakin, to be supplied by D. J. M. Jones; Leoti, to be supplied by J. W. Frame; Lewis, Wm. T. Cummins; Ness City, Thos. Carey; Isess City circuit, to be sup plied; Rush Center, J. B. Payton; Rich- i field, to be rupplied by George Harvey; I Spearville, to be supplied; Scott City, to be supplied by O. G. Mitchell; Santa Fe, to be supplied; Syracuse, J. L. Rutan; Tribune, to be supplied by G. W. Imel; Ulysses, to be supplied by Ernest E. Sipes. McPherson district Presiding eider, J. A. Davis; Alden, W. L. Davies; Bison, to be supplied by T. A. Brunker; Canton, Geo. P. Sturges; Chase. W. T. Danner; Florence, J. L Anderson; Frederick, E. J. Williams; Geneseo, Geo. W. Dalbey; Great Bend. A. B. Hestwood; Hillsboro, F. G. Severance; Hoisington, J. W. Kirkpatrick; Inman, to be supplied by A. W. Wright: Lar ned, F. W. Imboden; Larned circuit, D. H. Van Grundy; Little River, J. A. Holmes; Lost Springs, W. B. Robert son; Lyons. F. C. Fay; Marion, Dugald McCormick: Marion circuit, to be sup plied by W. H. Farout; McPherson. C. J. Howes; Mitchell, H. J. Naldson; Nickerson, Geo. Irwin; Pawnee Rock, Oscar Huddleston; Sterling, D. D. Akin; Windom, I. N. Pierce. Newton district Presiding elder, E. C. Beach; Abbiviile, to be supplied by S. M. Stevens; Annelly, F. H. Rose; Arlington, O. K. Hobson; Burns, G. W. Durham; Burrton, C. M. Gray; Chel sea, Peter Parker; ElDorado, H. Wait; Halstead. C. W. Hancocer; Haven, A. M. Wilkinson; Hesston, P. C. Herbert; Hutchinson, First church, D. M. Yet ter; Hadley chapel. I. A. Bartholomew; Mt. Hope, A. H. Ponath; Newton, V. C. Evers; Partridge. J. C. Fisher; Pea body, Pontiac, L. W. Kemp; Fotwin, D. E. Votaw; Pretty Prairie, R. A. Corrie; Sedgwick, R. A. Dadis man: Valley Center, W. M. Harkness; Walton, W. J. Shull. Pratt district Presiding elder, W. J. Martindale; Antrim, L. E. McNiel: Ashland, George Watts; Beaver, to be supplied; Coldwater, C. E. Williams; Englewood, to be supplied; Greens burg, to be supplied by H. T. Purcell; Hugoton, to be supplied by T. B. Par- amore; Ivanhoe, to be supplied by Grant L. Hayes; Kenton, O. T., to be supplied; Lake City, to be supplied; Liberal and Roy, to be supplied byi W. H. Guy; Macksville, J. H. Scott; Meade, H. E. Ross; Mineaola, R. E. Keyes: Pratt, C. H. Wharton; Pres ton, F. H. Poore; Sawyer, J. L. Mill sap; Turon, E. E. Robbins; Stafford, S. N. Cunningham; St. John, B. F. Jones; Wendall, J. C. Watklns. Wichita District Presiding elder, B. A. Hoyt; Andover, D. F. Irwin; Augusta, to be supplied by A. E. Kirk; Belle Plaine, R. L. George; Cheney, W. R. Weaver; Clearwater, J. H. Pracht; Colwich, E. T. Julian; Conday Springs, H. J. Dueker; Cunningham, W. J. Carter; Douglass, Frank McCormick: Douglass circuit, to be supplied by J. L. Renner; Goddard, J. T. Hanna; Greenwich, T. B. Lawrence; Kingman, C. D. Hestwood; Leon, T. B. Lahr; Mulvane, Samuel McKibben; Nor wich, W. W. Einyeart; New Murdock, G. T. Renner: Spivey, J. Q. Turner; Towan da, to be supplied; Wichita, Dodge Ave nue, D. H. Switzer; Emporia Avenue, E. C. Pollard; First church, F. N. Lynch; St. Paul, A. L. Parker; Wichita circuit, to be supplied. "Winneld District Presiding elder, A. O. Ebrighf. Anthony, J. M. Robert; Argonia, B. F. Ford; Arkansas City, J. F. Irwin; Arkansas City (east), P. L. Mawdsley; Arkansas City (west), to be supplied by C. E. King; Atlanta, to be supplied by C. H. Kimball; Attica, to be supplied; Bluff City, to be supplied by E. M. Smith; Bur den, G. W. Baker: Caldwell, J. D. Bot klns: Dalton, to be supplied by G. O. Kraft; Dexter, to be supplied by L. R. Young: Freeport. to be supplied by L. R. Hoff; Gueda Springs, J. H. Smith: Har per, J. W. Crouch; Hazelton, to be sup- &Iied; Hunewell, A. M. Livingston ;Kiowa, A. Kitch; Latham. H. L Gleckler; Mapla City, to be supplied: Mayfleld, W. A. Van Gundy: Medicine Lodge. J. L. Patterson; Milan, P. W. Dorr; New Salem, E. B. Anderson: Oxford, W. V. Whinery: Rock, F. F. Beernstorf: South Haven, W. T. Ward; Udall, to be sup plied by C. D. Whitman; Wellington, J. C. Hall: Wellington circuit, F. L. Rut ledge; Winfleld, First, W. T. Scott: Win field, Grace, B. T. Jones; Winfleld cir cuit, H. W. Cummings. PRICE OF BINDING TWINE. Warden Jewett Says Penitentiary Bates Are Yet Unfixed. Leavenworth, March 29. Warden Jewett says: "The news item going the rounds that the price of binding twine has been fixed for this year is a mistake. The price has not been fixed for this season. It may be at the April meeting of the board of directors, but am not sure that it will." Warden Jewett also adds that the penitentiary binding twine plant will mean a saving of $100,000 to Kansas farmers this year. He says further: "When the whe.it harvest commences we will have throe million pounds of twine ready to sell to the farmers. We started the plant last year immediately after we over hauled it at the end of the harvest sea son. It has been running ever since. We have enough of the raw sisal ili our warehouse to last through the harvest season. We have received no orders for twine yet, but a number of inquiries have been made as Tegards to the price. "The saving to the farmers this year will come in the competition we win furnish the trusts." We will sell our twine one cent cheaper a pound than we did last year. Last year we sold it for 9 and 10 cents a pound, and this year it will sell for 8 and 9 cents a pound. On a million pounds of twine this is a saving over the price paid last year of $10,000 and on three million pounds it will save $30,000. The trusts have to get very close to our price. They will sell in the neighborhood of seven million pounds of twine in the state." SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL YEAR. Nine Scholars Will Graduate at Randall This Spring. Randall, March 29. One of the most successful years of the Randall schools is nearlng the close. At this time it has an enrollment of over 130. The school has been in charge of A. W. Lucas, not quite 21 years of age, and a graduate of the State Normal, James Denton and Miss Bertha Mclntyre are the assistants. The graduating exer cises take place April 29 and 30. Nine scholars will graduate as fol lows: Mary Paul. Maud Carroll, Roai Bruch, Sylvia Sadler, Dottle Small, Mabel Mears. Madge Wooisey, Victor ia Bowman and Bert Hockett. Oniy one other year in the history of the school has there been a larger gradu ating class. THE JEWELL COAL MINE. Working: Twenty-two Miners and Doing Good Business. Mr. John Lungstrum. superintendent at the mine, has been compelled to return to Topeka to look after business of his own. Scott Farman will act as superintendent during his absence. A condenser put on the engine runs a steady stream of water back into the tank from the exhaust stream. The lit tle well they have now furnishes all the fresh water needed, docs away with the water haulers and saves a hundred dol lars per month. There are twenty-two miners at work and an excellent quality of coil is being taken out. The tunnels are being run far out from the shaft be fore theVooms are begun. Mr. Lungstrum says that within a month the mine will be in a condition so that 80 tons of coal a day can be taken out. Jewell Republi can. Revenue Stamps on a Letter. A few days ago while in the postoffice receiving our mall we noticed two letters posted conspicuously above the delivery window and on each stool out in bold re lief those words: "Held for postage." On scrutinizing them a little more closely we noticed that they were very plainly and neatly addressed and stamped with what do you think United States revenue stamps. We venture the assertion that NEW f This great naval vessel is one of five of similar construction-which are being built for Uncle Sam's navy. It is of 15,000 tons displacement with a speed of 19 knots and carries a tremendous battery of 12 Inch guns. The designs embody the latest improvements In naval architecture. there is no Dlace not even the hazel and crab apple thickets in the remotest moun tain gulches of Arkansas, where a 10-year-old school boy wouldn't know better. Then for suoH thing to happen In edu cated Kansas right m tne enngntenea neighborhood of Latham beats the bugs. Latham Mirror. "s CONCERTS WELL ATTENDED. Q The Lindsborg Messiah Proves a Drawing Feature. Lindsborg, March 29. The crowds attending the musical festival are large and enthusiastic. The progi.vnmes so far have been a great improvement over all previous renditions. The af ternoon concerts are of a popular na ture. The Bethany band, the male chorus, the chapel, and the orchestra, together with the soloists, appear in the programme. Madame Lenne says that the work of the "Messiah" chorus here is equal to that of any chorus in the country, and that the spirit in which the chorus pings is superior to that shown by any other organization "that sings the "Messiah" The s-inging of Madame Lenne ac"ds greatly to the festivities. She was re called at Monday afternoon's concert, which was contrary to all rules, as the management has made the pro grammes so heavy and long that en cores are seldom desired. The crowds this year promise to be the largest in the history' of Bethany's oratorio. The concerts will be continued March 30 and April 1 and 3. Court Avoids a Lottery Case. Wichita, Kas., March 29. Judge Alex ander refused to interfere in the case of S. M. Stevens vs. the Wichita Cen tral Labor union, and threw the case out of court on a demurrer. He took this action because the case involved a drawing by lottery. Stevens sued for $600. He alleged In his petition that the labor union owed him the money. The case grew out of the recent musical entertainment, to which the tickets were sold for 10 cents each, with the understanding that the lucky holder would receive a house and lot or $1,000, its equivalent. Stevens drew the lucky number the- first night, but It was alleged that'his number was a substi tute for the one really drawn and that the man who did the drawing had swallowed th right ticket. Another i drawing was held and a Kansas City man carried off the orisse. Thieves Active at Fort Scott. Fort Scott,- March 29. An organized gang of robbers seems to be operating In this county. Within ten days at tempts have been made to rob the banks at Bronson and Fulton, while several smaller robberies have been reported from Country 3tores. At an early hour Monday the Davis hard ware store and the Glunz wholesale harness store in this city were entered and robbed. At the Davis store about $50 worth of knives were taken. A lot of revolvers and other goods were piled near the door ready to be removed. A passing citizen saw the light and start ed an investigation, when the robbers escaped. They had gained an entrance through the basement. Wants Pay for Her Husband. Abilene, Kas., March 29. Mrs. Elor- anda Brown, of this county, has brougnt suit in the district court here against the Union Pacific railway com pany for $10,000 damages for the death of her husband, J. W. Brown. The de ceased was a wealthy cattleman of this county, and was killed November 11, 1903, by the Union Pacific flyer while alighting atthe depot here. He had been to Kansas City with a load of stock and.waa returning on the pas senger. i- Recruiting Officers Arrested. Salina.March 29. Private E. C. Deni gan, the recruiting officer in charge of the local army station, was arrested here by officers from the army and taken as prisoner to Ft. Riley. Cor poral John Ewing, the recruiting offi cer at Strong City, is also reported under arrest. No statement will be made as to the charges against the officers. Yates Center Wakes Up. Tates Center March 29. The con tract has been Jet for three new stone store buildings on the north side of the public square. "More than 100 new res idences have been built in the last two years, besides a dozen or more busi ness structures. One store building was erected at a cost of $25,000. C. F. Bates Adjudged Insane. Wichita, March 29. Charles F. Bates was adjudged insane in the prob.xte court Monday afternoon. Bates is from Wellington, and two weeks ago he was arrested for misbehavior In the pres ence of little girls. On nine counts he was given the minimum punisnnient m police court, which would have kept him in the city Jail tor tour years. Murdered by Parties Unknown. Junction City, March 29. Last even ing the coroner s jury that has been investigating the death of Charles H. Willes." returned the verdict that Mr. Willes met his death by violence at the hands of parties unknown. Willes was killed on December i, and his body was found March 6. A Factory for Caney. Caney, March 29. The board of trade has signed a contract with Haller brothers of Coffeyville for a window glass factory. The plant will employ about 100 workmen and will be In oper ation by September 1. Work on the plant will begin in 60 days. U. S. WARSHIP VIRGINIAN. v

V t i i v. .f .aim SPORTINGNEWS. Little Scont Wins the Opening Itace at Memphis. First In the Montgomery Hand icap Orer Big Field. COLT WAS A 7 TO 1 SHOT Son of Lamplighter Well Hand icapped and Ridden. Best Race the Game Horse Has Ever Made, Memphis, Tenn., March 29. Carrying 116 pounds and with the best field that could be mustered at this season of the yeer in competition with him, George C. Bennett's Little Scout won the Montgomery handicap at Mont gomery park. Next behind him, but far back, were Corrigan's McGee and J. F. Davis' Luralighter. Then back of this trio was the rest of the field of sixteen, as badly beaten a lot as ever went to the post in an important race. It was perhaps the best race that Little Scout has run in his racing career. Well handicapped and ad mirably ridden, the son of Lamplighter proved himself a horse worthy to race with the best that might be brought from any place and gave unquestioned proof of his ability to go a distance, to run at a good rate of soeed and to finish as gamely as it was ever given to horse to do. Owned, even though he is, by a local man, Little Scout's victory was not one most noped ror. Witful, De Reszke, Corrigan's entry (McGee and Havi- land), Martinmas and others in the group quite overshadowed the nlav on Little Scout and Mr. Bennett's horse was practically neglected by the ma jority of the players. In the betting on tne raca ne was quoted at 7 to 1, the Hildreth and Corrigan entries being favored over him, the former, of which were Byways and Safety Light, besides Witful. having the first call at 4 to 1. and Corrigan's pair, McGee and Havl land, the latter an added starter, being quoted at a to 1. When the betting on the race was be gun, Dan McKenna was slated to start as a stable companion to Little Scout, but after ten minutes of speculation. It was learned that Mr. Bennett had not accepted for Dan McKenna and the horse was ordered excused, with 20 minutes for a new book. It was then that Little Scout went from 5 to 7 to 1. Dominick rode the Bennett repre sentative, who had the inside position with this crowded Held. After a long delay and to a poor start Dominick got Little Scout away in front, but Little Scout is not a front runner, and from this advantage quick ly dropped back to a position in the middle of the bunch, while Duelist, Rankin and Martinmas were rushed to the front to make the running. Round ing the first turn Duelist raced away from his field and opened a gap of sev eral lengths, but he was not long in his lonely position, for at the half-mile ground, Haviland had forged his way to the front and in another quarter had opened a lead of a length. At the same time Dominick set Little Scout down for his real effort, and tak ing the clear sailing on the outside had him in a contending position on the turn into the stretch. Luralighter kept Little Scout company In the for ward movement and Lyne asked Mc Gee for his run at about the same time. It was at that stage that a rusn from Witful was expected, but Fuller had allowed her to lay so far out of the race that the game little filly was unable to make much progress under the heavy Impost of 122 pounds and she was a forlorn hope. Byways, however, was promine.it nd made her presence felt by the leaders in this final scramble for posi tion. McGee ran gamely and well in that final quarter, as did Luralighter, but Little Scout was the best horse and having taken a lead of a length or more in the straightening for the home run was not to be caught. Dom inick gave him a slight shaking up about the eighth post and the rest was easy. The big chestnut went along steadily without urging and came to the end of the journey an easy winner by two and a half lengths. Lyne put McGee to a hard drive and under this pressuxa the Corrigan colt took place by about two lengths, while Luralighter, tiring at the end, barely lasted long enough to beat Byways a neck for third mon ey. Two lengths back was Saftety Light at the head of a lot of tired horses in which Witful was eighth. De Reszke, the hope of the New Orleans contingent, ninth, Haviland thirteenth and the many time Derby winner, Claude, who was as good as left at the post, was pulled up at the head of the stretch. In the four furlongs selling for colts and geldings, Barney Schrieber's Bu chanan, by Sain, dam Marjorie, proved to be the best, but only after a sharp struggle with Mr. Corrigan's Loonam and Pendragon, from the stable of Scheftol May. The latter, who Is by Loyalist, looks like a colt that will give a good accoun of himself when he "5 7v A. 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Following DrurzUrta supply Hay' tioir-ticalth and Martina Soap la their shops saJj g Rftwi.FT jt. snow nth jir Ka..aaa Ave PEKA DRUG CO.. 732 Kansas Ave.: WAGGONER, 731 Kansas Ave.: FLAD, WJ Kansas Ave.; LAKE. 530 Kansas Ave.: K LING AM AN. 120 E. 6th; WALKER. 8TS Kansas Ave.; ROSSER, 10th Topeka A te.; SIMM, 623 Kansas Ave. knows more of the" business of racing. Tichenor Co. Introduced a fast filly in the fifth race in Voltrice, by Dr. Rice, dam Voltlne. This miss had the out side position in the field of fourteen, but overcame that handicap admirably. She raced to the front in the run around the turn and had little trouble in keeping a safe lead to the end. The New Or leans filly Pinkie was lucky enough to finish In the front of others. C. R. Elli son's Lady Ellison was favorite for the race, but Robbins was not alert enough when the barrier was sprung and was left at the post. Irene Lindsey was favorite over Scor pio and the others engaged in the five furlong spiint, and she won with a safe margin. Jockey Dominick's riding was one of the features of the day. Out of five mounts he finished first with three and second on another. IT'S A FIGHT FOB PATRONAGE Ban Johnson Will Personally Conduct Campaign of Highlanders. New York, March 29. The fight for pa tronage between Giants and Highlanders is going to be one to the death this year. Ban Johnson, president of the Ameri can league, will personally conduct the campaign of the American team. Most of his time will in fact, be given up to the Highlanders, and he is now- mapping out a series of special advertising and liter ature about the Griffith aggregation that will be scattered broadcast among the lo cal fans. The fact that war was to be made on President Brush in this city was the di rect cause of Johnson selling the Wash ington club. i can not aitena to tne DusmessH kjl me ltnfriio nnrl watch a team as well." says President Johnson, "and. consequently, I sold out my interest." McGraw Will Go to Playing. T?irTY-.iro-siTTi Ala March 29 John Mc Graw said that he would in all likelihood become an active memoer or tne rsew Vnrk Natlnnal lpHcue. The condition, of course, is that the game leg which, has kept him out so long continues to get stronger. It has improved so materially under constant massage and daily train ing that the chances are McGraw will be seen on the diamond when the Giants open in Brooklvn. McGraw is putting up a great game, and, if he becomes an ac tive memoer or tne team, ywoavij replace Billy Gilbert at second base. Detroit Slay Get Clarkson. Clarkson, brother of the famous John, t v Tv, it. T.-&11-,, mmnnaMl th 120.- Wll'J,' Willi -I 1 fsw 1 1 Uanropi'a IHnliKfKl nitr?h- IM) LaLLCI.V i,a.c.v, er, will enter the professional ranks him self next season. t,iarson ni irai through his brother in Detroit a big offer to Join the Detroit Americans, and an other flattering offer from Chicago, but is inclined more favorably toward the De troit offer. His fellow players predict tht he will be seen witn weuvn nc. Fight Verdict Not Popular. Chicago, March 29. Abe Attell was given the decision over Aurelio Herrera last night at the end of a six-round contest. The verdict of the referee did not meet with the approval of the spec tators three-quarters of whom were of the opinion that the fight should have gone to Herrera A Challenge for Britt- Chicago, March 29. Because Jack O'Keefe with a decision and a 20-round draw with Jimmy Britt, was defeated by "Buddy" Ryan.' Sig Hart, the lat ter's manager, announced Saturday that Ryan was Britt's next logical opponent. Hart will challenge Britt for Ryan, and post a J500 forfeit Gans Outpoints Gardner. Saginaw, Mich., March 29. Joe Gans was given the decision in a 10-round bout with Gus Gardner of Saginaw for the lightweight championship of the world last night. Gans outpointed Gardner in nearly every round and kept him worried with a left jab to the face which he used often and effectively. Sharkey Loses Wrestling Match. Richmond, Va., March 29. Tom Shar key the pugilist, lost in a wrestling match with M. J. Dwyer here last night by failing to throw his antagonist twice in one hour. He secured one fall, but was unable to repeat the performance. Manhattan 9; Bethany 6. Lindsborg, Kan., March 29. The base ball game between the Farmers and the Swedes resulted in a victory for the Farmers. It was a fine exhibition of ball. No wrangling whatever and best spirit reigns between tne teams, ecore; Manhattan, 9; Bethany, 6. Long Journey for a Child. Ti! ,i i. t TCaa ATarrb 29 Two thou sand miles is the distance 6-year-old Alice Luenm will travel aiuue ucivic she reaches her father in Waterville, -i r V. 'I-,. r thta h TTlllRt tfUVel ll V J v. rail, by stage and by water. The little girl left here via tne .Missouri racinc last night. From a string around her neck was her ticket and a tag. asking the trainmen to look after her. She was found here by the police matron surrounded by circumstances which were unfitted for her, and communica tion with her father brought money for her ticket. She will arrive at her des tination Friday Wichita Man DIardered in Persia. Wichita. March 29. Mrs. N. J. Mor rison, of this city, has received word by cable that her cousin, Benjamin W. Larrabee, for years a Presbyterian missionary in Persia, was murdered recently by Persian brigands. His body and that of his servant, who ac companied him, were found where the band had left them. They had been stabbed to death, presumably when hopes of obtaining a ransom had been given up. Mr. Larrabee had accom panied Miss Margaret Dean, also of t See ST A SFTELD. 622 Kansas Ave. TO Wichita, to the coast, where she em barked for home. She had been sta tioned at Uremia for three years. They were not molested, and Mr. Larrabe set out on the return trip with only his servart accompanying him. QVERSTBEET'S STORY. Tells How "Charges Against Members" Became Public. Washington, March 29. The McCall postoffice investigation committee ia open session continued its hearings on the "charges conceding members" re port regarding their connection with postoffice leases and increases in cleris hire. Representative Overstreet, chairman of the house committee on postoffices and post roads, testified the original Bristow report dealing with the gen eral investigation of the postoffice de partment had been referred to a sub committee of the house postoffice com mittee. In January the Hay resolution calling for additional information was referred to this subcommittee, of which he was chairman. While this commit tee was considering the postoffice ap propriation the Hay resolution was brought into the several meetings. Act ing co-jointly with his associates, Mr. Overstreet requested from the fourth assistant postmaster general details re garding prcperty leased to the depart meut which was owned by members of congress. During the hearing on the postoffice appropriation bill Mr. Waters, chief of the salary and allowance divi sion, made reference to a list which in cludes the names of members of con gress regarding clerk hire, which he said "was on the file of the fourth as sistant." It was suggested that a let ter be written from the committee to the postmaster general asking for this in formation. Mr. Overstreet dictated this letter January 25, 1904. It was read to the committee before being sent, and asked for the information regarding clerk hire and leases. He had never had any communication with General Bristow on the subject, but had called on the postmaster gen eral at his hotel regarding the informa tion. The information when received wa3 kept in the safe of the sereeant- at-arms of the house. In the meantime Mr. Hay was pressing for a conclusion regarding hia resolution. Mr. Overstreet said he was working for a unanimous report from the committee to have the report laid on the table in the house and not published. Mention of the re port was made in a New York paper. Mr. Overstreet asserted that informa tion used by the paper did not com from any member of the committee. This publication he said was entire wrong, but it did have a vital effect on members who thought in view of the exaggerated report in the paper that the real facts ought to be printed, because after that publication there was and always would be a contro versy as to whether the committee was really suppressing something that was a source of reflection on the mem bers, t was not until after this pub lication that the sub-committee took formal action and reported to the full committee. When the full committee had acted Mr. Overstreet ordered ad vanced copies from the printer for the press. It was not until after the report had been received and distributed in the house, that it was discovered that at the head of each page was the fol lowing line: "Charges against members of con gress." He at once ordered the public print er to take that line off. Mr. Richards asked Mr. Overstreet if in his conversation with Mr. Payne the latter had suggested the impro priety of publishing the names of members In this connection. Nothing was said on this point, replied Mr. Overstreet. The original manuscript of the report was produced and Mr. McDermott, after examining' it said that the line "Charges concerning members of congress" did not appear on it, and must have had its origin in the government printing office. Mr. McCall informed Mr. Overstreet that Mr. Wynne, the first assistant post master general, had testified that a list was prepared first without the name of members and that this list ttroa b-icted to hv th nostrfcffi m i 1 1 fe and the names demanded. Mr. Overstreet: "I made no such request." UALltUlUUA i?SO.UU Via Santa Fe. Tickets on sale during March and April. This rate also applies to inter mediate points. Good in tourist sleep ers and free chair cars. Liberal stop over privilege allowed. 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3 R A I LR OADJf J EVS G. K. Joughins, Mechanical Superintendent, liesigus. i I A V Hit if I ill TO 3 r eras r"3 K3 lias Been With th Santa Fe Two Years. I ila iiil P TOPEKA STATE JOUENAI TUESD AT ITTENIKO.MABCH: 29, 1904 Pi! iji3ijll m JJ La Ml 3 M IB r ii h it i i :tr m s t v x f. ta u Jw yil) Ho GOES TO HALIFAX, N. S. Will Resume Ilia Connection With Northern Road. Successor to Be Appointed fej Alfred Loyell, of Topeka. Q. K. Joughins, mechanical superin tendent of the Santa Fe coast lines, with headquarters in Los Angeles, Cal., has tendered the company his resignation to take effect as soon as his superiors can relieve him of the duties of his of fice. He leaves the Santa Fe of his own accord, withdrawing from the superin tendence' to accept the position of su perintendent of motive power of tire Intercolonial railway, with headquarters at Halifax, Nova Scotia. G. K. Joughins came to the Santa Fe as mechanical superintendent of the Eanra Fe coast lines in the spring of 130 i He has now been in the service of the company just two years. Although be is not very weil known to the local crfiCials of the company, having con fined his operations to that part of the mad lying west of Albuquerque. N. M., It is understood that he is one of the best of the Santa Fe's mechanical offi cials and that his resignation will create a vacancy that the road will have some trouble in tilling to its complete satis faction. Mr. Joughins came to the com pany from a northern road and will re turn ro his old "stamping ground" just as soon as his resignation becomes ef-f-ctive. It is not known here who is likely to succeed Mr. Joughins as mechanical su perintendent of the coast lines. Alfred Loveil, superintendent of motive power for the Santa Fe with headquarters in Tcreka. is the one who will make the apt-ointment, hut it was given out today that nothing had yet been done regard ing the matter. 3EDALIA GETS THE SHOPS. Missouri Pacific Gives Town a Great aiillioa Dollar Industry. Sedaiia.Mo.. March 29. The new ma chine shops of the Missouri Pacific railway, to cost between 1 and l1- mil lion dollars, will be located in Sedalia, and the work of construction will be gin at once, so that they may be ready for operation by July 1, 1'jOo. Announcement to this effect was tel ephoned here at 4 o'clock Saturday af ternoon. Mayor J. L. Babcock receiv ed a telegram from Russell Harding, vi e president and general manager of Missouri Pacific, calling him to Su Louis. The mayor left last night, ic runi -i by W. H. Powell, cashlar the Cl-izens National bank, who is i re of the city's financial agents in del!, and Charles E. Yeater, an at t -rei". Ar'rer a conference of one course of the latter will have to be changed before the road can be built, which work will require considerable time. The passenger trains will come iri over the Southern Pacific. The Salt La-ke has a half Interest in the steel track which is being constructed. The Southern Pacific agent here will also be the Salt Lake agent. While these are little straws, yet they seem to give color to the story that the Southern Pacific has acquired a large if not controlling interest in the Sait Lake corporation. SAVES $20,000 FEB MONTH. Santa Fa Lets Out 74 Men at San Bernardino Shops. Speaking of the big cut in the Santa Fe shop force in that city, the San Bernardino Sun says: Seventy-four men employed in the Santa Fe's local machine shop were given their time yesterday afternoon, quitting with the 5 o'clock whistle. With the reduction brought about by the cutting of hours, this will mean a saving of almost $20,000 per month in the local shop pay roll. The men discharged included forty five machinists, receiving an cnts an hour each, and twenty-nine machinist helpers, whose pay ranged from $1.30 to $2.21 oer day. The machinists have called a meet ing which will convene at 10 o'clock this morning. It is presumed that it is for the purpose of discussing the layoff, althcugh there is no indication that the men will take any radical action as a result of yesterday's oc currence. "The men know that work in our department has been very slack for the past several weeks, and I think that the majority of them do not blame the company for cutting the force, said a local machinist last evening. "Of course It is hard to be discharged, but then some one has to go at such times, and most of the boys take a practical view of the situation." The inquiry has been made as to why the company cut the hours and then follo-ed up this action by laying off men in the ma-mine shop. It is stated that the double course was taken for two reasons. First, because the com pany wished to take the fairest means of reducing expense; and second, be cause it had a contract with the ma chinists to the effect that it would re duce the hours in their department in Preference tc discharging men. It fol lowed the agreement by first cutting the working hours and later laid oft the necessary number of men. It was yesterday learned that the cut in hours which went into effect here Thursday extended through the shops of the entire Santa Fe system. This policy was agreed upon at a con ference held at Santa Barbara three weeks ago between President Ripley and the various heads of the depart mnts of the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe is not alone in its de sire to reduce expenses. The Denver Rio Grande company cut the number of hours and made a reduction in the force in their shops some eight months aog. and nearly all the railroads in the country have done the same in the past few months. POOR MISSISSIPPI. Father of Waters Boasted by Jas. J Hill, the Kailroad Magnate. Washington. March 20. Incidental to a proposition involving the construc tion of a canal at Buffalo, James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, at a hear ing this morning before the committee on rivers and harbors nf the house ,io..i :;'i i minutes the contract wa.3 1 took occasion to express in no doubtful When the news was ma le language his opinion of the Mississippi pi. Air r-iis w-re run, whistles blown. j river as a transportation factor, car.noii tn-d. locomotives shrieked and; "I am an old river man myself" he business was practically suspended. began, "and used to steamboat be Mayor Bibcock and other citizens st tween St. Louis and St Paul Before to work to secure the shops immedi- I I was 20 years old I w n iv auci Li.e i;uou ot usi summer, i steamboat. That was before I went war u i.ius u:e ue previously ae-; into railroading. But what I started lected in Kansas City to be abandoned. out to say was that the Mississippi An offer of $100.0.10 cash and shop j river's clock struck 12 twenty years grounds was declined by the company, j ns-o nn.-i ic will ncror a,riv o-irj uui wnen i.m.Km casn and 12 .acres of; You mig-ht ts well try to lath and pias- "V "..mc., woo i uimr ;ter the bottom of that river as to build i locks or to keep dredging out what the river deposits again every year. The bottom of that old stream is paved with lost hopes. Its day is gone. The points at issue had nothing whatever to do with, the Mississippi river. But Chairman Curtis became interested in what Mr. Hill had to say advisement by President George Gouid and the board of directors. Recently the railway officials have awarded a number of contracts in connect'on with the erection of the shops. Th sops will consist of ten separate buildings to be built of iron and steel fr.rm-s and bricked in. covering more tivm eleven acres of ground. v lin linishd t.iey wiil employ between l.lfi and I and the hearing digressed into the question of the river as a competing factor as opposed to the railroads. The railroad millionaire, lately worsted in the Northern Securities fight, discussed the matter very energetically, using gestures and speaking with heat. "To compete with a railroad which is managed economically and intel ligently you will have to have a twenty-four-foot channel from St. Lcuis to New Orleans.' "A twenty-four-foot channel is Im practicable," said Mr. Curtis; "how about ten or twelve feet?" "It won t do." said Mr. Hill, emphat ically. "It won't do. because under those circumstances the railroads would get the business sooner or later. There's n- telling what a railroad could do in the way of providing transportation if it were not compelled to carry passengers. And I say that if a low-grade road is intelligently managed, has the proper equipment and all that, it will equal anything short of a thirty-foot channel. No. nowadays the river town does not cut any figure. I am sorry to say that, as an old river man. Of course, you ought to have a better channel between Cairo and St. Louis, but the railroad intelligently handled can take the business and can do without the river." rit-n and rhe monthly payroll will be more i.-.an 5i cj. T'.-.e location of the plant here means a concentration of nearly all the dinVrent p:i'': of tne Missouri Pacific system, in ch; iir,g those at Cypress, St. Louis. Osa watorcie, Atchison and Seda'na. the repair sn-jps at Pueblo. Col., aione being left un thsrurl vd and those only for minor repair W'T'i. When the new snops are ready for CT'.-ration t.ae car department of the St. I-ouis. Iron Mountain Southern railway tt Dc Soto will be shifted to this place. rvl iater on only light repair work will be done at that point. The coach building and repair snoits at St. Louis will be transf erred here just so soon as that de r ir-rr.ent of tile shops is finished and the rc tchinery installed. The locomotive building department with an extensive foundry will be one of th features of the new shops. In this department it is proposed to construct a lirste proportion of the engines used on the svstei.i. beside providing all kinds of f'-'indrv work, excepting the manufacture cf stee! tires and springs and products of Liat class. NO NEED OF NEW TEAIK. Postmaster Flint, at Los Angeles Talks of Santa Fe Humor. Postmaster Flint at Los Angeles. Cal.. dcuo-s the truih oi the rumor regarding a new Santa Fe mail train. He says. "I do not think there is anything in the story. The Santa. Fe company finds H dirTcr.it to keep its limited on time now. and it could not beat the time male by that train anyway. Perhaps it may mean that the limited is to be made a daily throughout the summer, instead of a semi-weekly. If this is the ricn. nil right; bu as t putting on a n-w fast mail train. I do not think the-e :s anything in it. If the Rock Island road were to continue its daily service it might he credited, hut I un derstand the Rock Island limited is to bo taker, off April la. and the Santa Fe then wiii get all of the mail anyway. There is no reweighir.g for a year to c-me. and I cannot see what the Santa Fe wiii gain by a new train." To Prove What SWAMP-ROOT Will Do for YOU, Every Reader of The State Journal May Have a Sample Bottle FREE. Convincing Statements from People Cured by This Wonderful Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy. MEN WANT TICKETS. SANTA FE TO MOVE. Chicago Offices Will Bo Located in Bailwsy Ezchanga Building. Chicago. March :3. The general offi ces of the Chicago. Milwaukee St. Iaul will be removed on Monday from the Old Colony buildinsr to the new Railway Exchange building. Michigan avenue and Jackson boulevard. The Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe and the Chicago Alton will move their gen eral offices into the new building the middle of April. Eeach San Bernardino Soon. San Bernardino. Cal., March 29. J. H. F.urtner. asrent for the Salt Lake, came over from Riverside on business for the company. He brings rews that it will probably be six or eight weeks before Its trains are running into this city. The delay is caused by certain "engi neering difficulties in road construction. Owing to difference in the level of the roadbed and the big irrigating canal the Santa Fa Shop Employes Who Were Let Out Ask Passes. San Bernardino. Cal., March 23. The men who wie laid off at the shops some days ago are demanding transpor tation to various points east and north. Yesterday afternoon they called in a body at the shops and formally put in their application, being assured that the matter would be taken up immediately with the officials at Los Angeles, and the transportation secured as soon a3 possible. There is a rumor among the men that further lay offs are scheduled, although it is not thought that more than fifty men will be affected. With the excep tion of this rumor, things have settled down to the usual routine at the shops. Coming to Kansas. It Is reported that M. R. Williams, foreman of the bridge and building department for New Mexico, has ac cepted a situation on the K?isas di vision under Superintendent Fox. Tf- r w -.-.--w.w..v--...-.5.:.-A..t u in. I I 'Vt I I i i v 7 f ft 1 I a mmm, T h- 3. j fc. .tl1.Jaliri.i.iiiiili i M j "'WWW 1 if t Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. T. When I began taking Swamp-Root I was very 111 and had a severe pain In my back. Swamp-Root was recommended to me. 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I shall be glad to say a kind word for Swamp-Root at all times. Hatters' Union of America, Local No. 7. I ic 1 X II v f A I kt if .7 T I l y v-w -v. 4 rfi V-' J If' V, 1 It '-I Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Gentlemen: When surfering from kidney trouble I was induced to try a bottle of Swamp-Root. Two bottles relieved me of great pain in the back, and I feel I should express my grati tude to Dr. Kilmer Co. for the good It has done me. 1112 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N. T. Mailers' Union No. 6. Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. T.: I suffered from an attack of tha liver some time ago, and I have no doubt that my kidneys were also af fected. A friend advised me to try Swamp-Root, and I did. I was greatly relieved from the first and I am now strong and well. Assistant Foreman Nassau News Cet, Mail Drivers' Union, 16 Spruce St., New York City. Dr. Kilmer Co Binghamton, N. T.t When I was taken 111 a few months ago. I tried several medicines. Including a prescription given me by a physician, but none did me any good. One day, I read in a paper of the merits of Swamp-Root, and bought a bottle. One bottle did me so much good I bought another, and have now taken eight bottles in all. I had kid ney trouble; Swamp-Root cured me. It certainly does all that Is claimed for it. Mailers' Union Brooklyn. No. 6, 478 80th at. Why Swamp-Root Gives Strength. 286 Gates ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1903. Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y.: I used Swamp-Root for distressing inflammation, of the bladder, which baffled the skill of three of Brooklyn's best physicians. After "taking three bottles I was entirely cured. I have no doubt it saved my life. Hatters' L'nion of North America, Local No. 7. Almost every one, from personal experience, knows that the effects of any kind of severe physical strain are felt, first of all, in the small of the back in other words, in those Vital Organs, the Kidneys. This ia aa true in the case of the very powerful man as it is with one of les3 strength, and it i3 especially true whenever the kidneys are weak. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for more sickness and suffering than any other disease therefore, when through neglect or other causes kidney trouble is permitted to continue, fatal results are sure to follow. Swamp-Root Strengthens the Kidneys, and through them helps all the other organs. When this Wonderful Discovery can put the human body into condition to stand hard work and tremendous strain it is easy to understand how it has cured thousands in the more ordinary and less strenuous walks of life. Swamp Root is pleasant to take, and is used in the leading hospitals, recommended by physicians in their private practice, and is taken by doctors themselves, because they recognize in Swamp-Root the greatest and most successful remedy that science has ever been able to discover or compound. No matter how many doctors you have tried, no matter how much money you may have spent on other medicines, you really owe it to yourself and to your family to at least give Swramp-Root a trial. Its strongest friends to-day are those who had almost given up hope of ever becoming well again. Sample Bottle Will Be Sent Free by Mail. SPECIAL NOTICE Swamp-Root is the new discovery of the eminent kidney and bladder specialist, and la us ?d in the leading hospitals, recommended by physicians in their private practice, and taken by doctors themselves, because they recognize In it the greatest and most successful remedy that has ever been discovered. So successful Is Swamp-Root In promptly curing even the most distressing cases that to prove its wonderful merit you may have a sample bottle and a book of valuable information, both sent absolutely free by maiL Tha book contains many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters rectved from men and women cured. The value and success of Swamp-Root are so well known that readers are advised to send for a sample bottle. Ia writing to Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. T., be sure and say that you read this generous offer in the Topeka Daily State Journal. This offer is guar anteed. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Einghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. For sale at all Drug Stores Fifty Cents and One Dollar. Sues Santa e for $720. Emporia, Kas., March 20. Last June W. K. Ross shipped a carload of cattle from Kansas City to Flagstaff, Ariz., via the Santa Fe. On July 4 the cattle started from Emporia and at 2 a. m. the train the cattle were in was wrecked between Emnoria and Strong ity. Mr. Ross' cattle were piled ud in the end of the car, two of the steers were killed and another died of its in juries. In the district court today Mr. Ross filed a suit for the recovery of the damage done to bis cattle. He claims he lost $750 because of the w-reck, and petitions the court to make the Santa Fe pav him back that amount. Mr. Ross owns a big stock ranch near Flagstaff, Ariz. The "Spotter" Has Left Town. The man who loafed around the sa loons the past couple of weeks and was suspected of being a "spotter," has left the city and gone to the Cop perton mining camp of Valencia coun ty. The Citizen heard the story about this man being suspected as a "spot ter," and quizzed him on the subject. He' denied emphatically such a charge, and stated that he was not in the em ploy of the railroad company. In any event, since his departure from the city local railroaders breathe easier. Albuquerque Citizen, Santa Fe Machinists Dance. t The ball given by the Las Vegas machinists Thursday night was a great success, says the- Las Vegas Op tic. The electric lights of Rosenthal! hall shone on a large and gaily dressed iTo-wd. The music furnished by the city orchestra was excellent, the floor was in the best of condition, and ev erybody was in the best of spirits and out for a good time. It is estimated that there were over two hundred in attendance. In the grand march over fifty couples participated, and there were as many more in the hall who did not make the round. From the center of the ceiling hung a big pair of calli pers, symbol of the sturdy order of machinists, and on the stage was a shield which was wrought by the boys with the designs and emblems of the brotherhood. GOT HIS STAKT IN KANSAS. Joseph Walker Blade a Santa Fe Superintendent in California. Albuquerque, N. M., March 23. In his appointment to superintendents of the Santa Fe lines north of Bakers field "Joe" Walker is to succeed A. D. Schindler, who has resigned to go with the California Northwestern railroad as the assistant o i&a president, A. W. Foster, on the nr3t of next month-. "When the Santa. Fe people bought the Valley railroad -and obtained an entrance into San Francisco. Mr. Walker was chosen aa thesuperintend ent of the company's terminals In this city and at Point Richmond. J. L. Dunley was his assistant. Mr. Dun ley will succeed Mr. Walker In the place he is to vacate. Mr. Walker's career with the Santa Fa has beaa rather unusual. Twenty- two years ago he got modest wages from the company as bridge carpenter There was a wreck in Kansas on the line of the road eighteen years ago and the way he repaired a burnt bridge and expedited the movement of delay ed trains by means of a large force of men under him gained him a chief clerkship in the operating office. Later on he was sent out to this coast to take a similar position and showed a degree of ability that led to his ad vancement. TO IMPROVE FORT RILEX. Contracts Let far I-arge Amount of Construction Work. Junction City, Kan., March 29. The constructtns quartermaster -at Fort Riley has awarded the contracts to the lowest bidders for a large amount of construction work and repairs at the post, as follows: Construction uf guard house. Ziegler Dalton. Junc tion City; construction of band bar racks, farriers' school and swimming pool, Olson Sr. Son. Red Wing, M?mu; construction of ordnance storehouse; K. W. Atkinson, Colorado Springs; al teration of artillery stables and the construction of lockers in artillery bar racks, T. H. Bower, Topeka; plumbins and heating of new buildings, Gruber Bros., Lawrence. The cost of this work will be 662. Work on contracts will be com menced at orrce. Besides this another appropriation of $S0.000 was made re cently for a hospital and rifle range. Bids will soon be advertised for the j construction. SUICIDE IN A CHURCH. Dead Kan Left a Note Saying He Sad Killed a Policeman. Kansas City, March 23. A man, sup posed by papers found in his pockets to be Patrick J. MeGath, was found dead in the Congregational church at Six Mile, on the Kansas City-Leaven-worth electric Sire west of Kansas City. Kan., yesterday afternoon. Frank iaw, teacher of the school in district No. 10 of Wj-andotte county, and some of the pupils during the noon recess yesterday took ar. organ to tue church, which had been borrowed last Friday for an entertainment. Arriving at the church building they unlocked the doors and carried che instrument into the place. Near the pulpit they came upon the dead body lying on the floor, with a stream of blood that had flowed from a bullet wound on ths forehad, beside it. Near t body, and within reach of the right hand that rested on the floor was a revolver, while on the other side sat a chair, on which rested a lamp and a Bibie. The dead man had evidently gone In to the church, which Is only used every now and then for services, and killed himself. Coroner D. M. Shlv ly found In one of the pockets of th dead man this letter, written on a typewriting machine and bearing 113 date: "This is fa certify that I am the ma who shot Policeman Nibert at Mou catine, Ia., hi the summer of 1S96. Said Neibert was the cause of breaking up my family. That ia the reason why I shot him. "My belief is that I was justified in doing so. and I think it -was my duty. I left Muscatine. Ia., on C. R. I. intl P. Ry. eastbound freight train, inside of water tank. "My object of making this confes sion is to cause the release of any innocent person who may have been convicted of same. "I have been .desperate ever since, I shot three officers since for attempting to arrest me on suspicion. "Now I fee! satisfied to commit my self. PATRICK J. M'GATH." Besides this letter there were a small pocketbook containing a silver dolla and two knives In the pockets,

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4 TOPERA ,TATE JOTJimAI., TUESDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1904." TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. IVOLUME XXXI ..No. 76 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier, U er.ts a weeK to any part of Topeka, or uburbs. or at the same price In any Kan sas towns where the paper has a carrier system. 4 By mall, one year S i V mail tu mnntho -J Weekly edition, one year -jjO Baturday edition of dally, one year.. 1.0J l-i-.nterea July L, 185, as secm-.u matter at the postoftlce at Topeka, K.an.. under the act of congress. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell 'phone 107 Bu.inss Office Ind. 'phone 10. i importers' Room Bell 'phone oil tieuorters' Room Ind. 'phone 107 i PERMANENT HOME. Tope State Journal building. 800 and M ania avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE: ill Vanderbilt Bldg. Paul Block, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: latO ITnlty Bldg. Paul Biock, Mgr. rtTLL LEASSD "WISS REPORT CF THS ASSOCIATED PRESS. 1h State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day teleeranh -fr-nrt of that creat news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publi cation In Toi eka. Th r.ewa is received in the State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose, ou&y throughout the entire day. A oxnti-te copy o the right report is also rceiveu. The attention of the country is di vested temporarily from Senator Emoot to Senator Burton. Panama's navy is for sale. Here is chance for either Japan or Russia to make an addition to its fleet. The size of the Hearst barrel has been made public, but whether the fig ure 11,500,000 is authoratlve or not we are unable to say. Senator Burton should have tried the technicality line of defense, It has worked effectively in the cases of members of both houses. Missouri Republicans have already berun carrying the state for Roosevelt. By making thus early a start they will bave seven months of uninterrupted pastime. m Hartford Post: The remarks of some of the congressmen in connection with Bristow sound like the talk of pro fessional pugilists two weeks before a big scrap is to be pulled off. The Ohio law making body is trying so hard to legislate Tom Johnson out of the possibility of ever again holding office, that the Cleveland Leader, a Re publican organ in Johnson's own town, is constrained to cry out against the injustice of the thing. The bill granting the states police power over original packages of bottled malt and spirituous liquids has been reported favorably by the judiciary committee of the lower house of con gress. What's the matter with a pipe line from Kansas City. Omaha Eee: The trial of Senator Burton has focused popular attention upon the fact that lawyers who occupy Beats in the national legislature do not scruple to accept retainers from cor porations and individuals who have jobs to log-roll through congress, or through any of the departments, when, it is as plain a, daylight that the re tainer is nothing more nor less than a smooth way of placing a bribe where It will do the most good. A circuit judge in Wisconsin sus tains the contention of the insurance commissioner of that state that the law of the state, which provides for the distribution of the surplus accum ulation of mutual life insurance com panies among its members is manda tory, and not permissive at the option of the directors. Should the decision be affirmed on appeal it will force th-3 distribution among policy holders of n immense sum of money, estimated at nearly $300,000,000 by over 30 In surance companies. The decision was made in a suit by the insurance com missioner against the Equitable Mu tual to compel distribution of surplus to Wisconsin policy holders. A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK. Notwithstanding the merger decision, Wall street appears to be taking a cheerful and hopeful view of the busi ness situation throughout the country. The latest Issue of Henry Clews Co.'s Financial Review says: In the general outlook favorable ele ments predominate. The widespread and pronounced recovery in iron is, perhaps, the most auspicious factor of any, this industry still being one of the most accurate of business barometers. Prices of iron and steel have advanced materially during the past month, and furnaces and mills which had been idle for months are starting up. With the break-up oC spring construction work is being resumed, and the prospects are for at least several months' better business in the iron trade, if not longer. The textile industry is also likely to feel the benefit of cotton being once more governed by natural conditions, although hesitancy must disappear slowly until the final consequences of the Sully failure are known. Another favorable feature is the ease of money, which promises to continue until crop demands assert themselves. There is more or less expectation of gold ex ports, but this is usual at this season, and the declines in cotton and grain, if tiiey result in freer exports of those staples, will tend to discourage gold shipments in spite of Panama canal payments, which are likely to be less than once anticipated. Some disturb ance may be expected, as usual, in connection with the April settlements, but this is only temporary. The most serious factor in the money market is, of course, the war between Russia and Japan and tne probability of a war loan by either or the powers involved. Neither Japanese nor Russian bonds are likely to be taken to any amount in this market: still their issue might pre cipitate selling of Americans in the foreign markets and thus cause tem porary depression here. Within a month we ought to witness some decisive en gagements between the rivals. The railroad situation is improving. With the aDproach of milder weather traffic is resuming normal volume, and earnings continue, as a rule, to show satisfactory gains, while in some in stances the economies expected from recent Impro "ements are already ma terializing. 'J. he controlling element. however, in the stock, market just now is the readjustment of relations be tween the transcontinental lines, fol lowing the disruption of the merger plans by the supreme court. Even tually harmony must exist between these powerful rivals, but upon what basis is certainly not yet ascertained. Adjusting the balance of power under the new conditions is an exceedingly delicate operation; and while there is little chance of a repetition of the May panic of 1901, still there is the possi bility of harmony being deferred until a test of strength decides the relative positions of rival interests. A PROTEST. From the State Journal, January 17 1895. If J. R. Burton be nominated by the Republicans for the high office of United States senator, a protest will go up from the masses of the Republicans of Kansas that will shake the Republican party to its foundations. The nearness of the prospect of such a fatal blunder has awakened scores of legislators to their duty. Mr. Burton's candidacy Is today no longer a burlesque possibility on the party which says it means to stand for clean records, different methods, for true reform. It is a serious condition. Will the Republicans be equal to the emergency? Will the members of the legislature make an ignoble nomination, will they manfully present the right man? A tremendous sense of the im propriety of such a nomination exists on every hand. It is not disguised. It is outspoken. Do the Republicans mean to endear themselves to the rank and file and true representatives of the party, or do they mean to stultify themselves and misrepresent their constituents? Will they invite political ruin, or will they build anew on better, stronger foundations the party which a few years ago dropped from the pinnacle of the greatest state majority ever given end slipped and fell because th3 leaders of the party disgusted voters. The time of all times when Kansas Republicans are now. again put into the balance to be weighed, is to nomi nate a clean, able man of high char acter. Mr. Burton's past record is not one which can be pointed to with pride. His reputation In connection with his political and public career is one which does not entitle him to the greatest honor a state can give a citizen. It is proposed to send him to Wash ington as a typical Republican Kan- Ban. The situation requires a determined powerful union of all the forces against Mr. Burton. He has apparently shown his full strength. Such a purpose patriotically, unselfishly, unitedly de cided upon can result in some man for United States senator of whom the state may be proud. That man is J. state may be proud. That man Is not J. R. Burton. In other words, the board has been of no particular service to the state. Topeka Caaital. And yet that paper strongly advo cates, with the railroads, the re-elec tion of A. D. Walker who has been for five years on the board, which board has been and is of particular service to the railroads, but not, to be sure, to the state. JAYHAWKEK JOTS. Hutchinson's next promised industry is a factory for canning sweet potatoes. An Emporia hunter killed four large white swans in two shots. He thought them wild geese. In collecting a debt at Iola the con stable attached all property but the dog and a stump tailed cat. The most popular resort in El Dorado is the roller skating rink. It's one giddy whirl of excitement for old and young. If Senator Burton's downfall proves a lesson to other politicians with "Itching palms" his life will hot have been lived in vain. Until the "spotted fever" report from Hodgeman county is proven false that territory need not expect any influx of insurance agents and tramps. Chase county is kind to her dumb animals. Six thousand calves have been vaccinated there this spring. A "knock down" and a few bloody noses at the Atchison primaries indicate that the First district feud is not en tirely covered by an olive branch. An Emporia city farmer shatters an old tradition by announcing that it's all foolishness to plant potatoes in the dark of the moon. He says you can do it just as well in the day time. Five millinery shops at Concordia will have "openings" this week. That means that a great many men of the town will have to do without cigars and drinks during April. Edward Carroll of Leavenworth is be ing pretty generally mentioned as a good man for the Democrats to name for state treasurer. This would obviate catholic Democrats from having to sup port Mr. Kelly. Those in Chanute not tied up too tightly in oil are preparing to emierrate to South Africa. A package of virgin umuivuus in me purest ray serene re ceived by a Chanute man from a Cape Town friend is the cause. POINTED PABAGBAPHS. From the Chicago News. Too many men spend their money before they get it. Don't forget that a promising man seldom pays cash. Many a woman loves her 'husband less than her husband's wife. It makes a spinster mad every time sne nears or a widow marrying again. Boys fail to realize that some day tney win Know as tittle as their par ents. Fish make excellent brain food and those that get away make monumental liars. Almost any wife is willing to com promise by letting her husband do as she pleases. Some women don't care what the'r husbands say as long as the neighbors Qon t near it. Many a fool man expresses his will ingness to die for a woman who wouldn't even take in washine- for mm. QUAKER. REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Settling an old score Paying a loan of $20. When two men bet, one of them isn't going to better himself. Some men never learn to say no un til leap year comes around. The musical composer sometimes borrows money on his notes. The Intoxication of love is often fol lowed by sober second thought. A catboat couldn't put up much of an argument with an ocean grgy-? hound. A great deal of energy is wasted in talking that might be used in sawing wood. No, Maude dear; there is no simi larity between a tongue-lashing and an eyelash. It's all right to do one thing at a time, provided it's the right thing and the right time. j The fellow who likes a corned beef and cabbage diet often marries a pate do foi gras girl. Wigg "This climate doesn't agre with me." Wagg "Humph! Sometimes it doesn't even agree with the weath er man." Nell "Jack is always talking to me about the depth of his love." Belle "The depth wouldn't interest me so much as the length." I dine today on ox-tail soup, And calves' brains, nice and sweet, No difficulty thus have I In making both ends meet. REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR From the New York Press. An ugly husband makes a faithful one. A man can get a great reputation with a woman by opening a telegram Just as if it wouldn't bite. The only way to get a boy to take castor oil cheerfully is to give him the choice of that or Sunday school. No woman can wear another wom an's rubbers without pretending that she has to slide along on her feet to keep them from falling off. What a woman likes about buying a thing on the installment plan is that if she died before it was paid up she would be that much money in. to keVelecimvalker. Executive Council Will Again Name Him. The term xf office of A. D. Walker as railroad commissioner will expire next Thursday. He was elected three years ago at the time the new board was created for the three year term, which expires April 1. Under the old law the executive council was instructed to elect a new commissioner before April 1 each year, but the old law was repealed by the last legislature and the election of the railroad commissioners by the people provided for. The new law made no Drovision for the election of commis sioners between the repeal of the old law and the election of the board by the people next fall, and last year hen J. N. t ike s term expirea. At torney Gene lil Coleman rendered an opinion that as the new law made no provision for the executive council to elect new members of the railroad commission, the council had no power to act. The council, however, decided other wise and went ahead and elected Geo. W. Wheatley to succeed Fike, waiting, though, until after April 1, so that a vacancy actually existed. Mr. Coleman participated in the election, and its legality has never been questioned. The same question now comes up concerning Mr. Walker's term. Thove is no doubt but the executive council will re-elect Walker, since he was re nominated by the Republican state convention. Some of the members cf the council have been discussing the matter the same as they did a yeyr ago. Mr Walker himself believes the council can go ahead and elect him nftof noTTt Frtdav. April 1. the same as it did in the case of Mr. Wheatley. I was elected for a term ot tnree years," Mr. Walker said today, "so there will be no vacancy until after March 31, and the law does not au thors the executive council to elect new commissioners unless there is a vacancy. I think that after the va cancy occurs the council can go ahead and elect. Between the time my term expires and the. election there will be no commissioner." WHO SHALL GET CHILD. That Is the Bone of Contention in Culp Divorce Suit. rne divorce sun oi n&au. f antasia uip was utguw w, .w court this morning with an array of near- Mr. Culp "thinks his wife has not con- ciuctea nersen as sue unuuiu j""-, is an improier person to care for their nilU. MI'S. UHt iinimo oiro icrson to care for the child and that Mr. the DO witnesses, must decide who shall ave tne ennu. REAL ESTATE ASSESSORS. O. E. Jewell, Samuel T. Howe and H. M. Philips Are the Board. -c t 1 1 u ..1 T limp and 7T M. Philips will comprise the board of real estate assessors una yem. The three assessors who will determ ine the assessed valuations to be placed Kill ictll JJ'viJt.i Monday. It will take them several weeks to make a tour oi iuiwk nu uu, the valuation of all real property. DEAD UNDER A BRIDGE. Body of W. B. Kennedy Found in a Creek at Hutchinson. TT....V.I t.-qv. TlTarrh 9Q William nuiuiuiBuii. Rice Kennedy was found dead under U Qnr.in IT a VlT-iHiTt VlOrP tOflaV. Tt IS supposed he either walked upon the bridge ana acciaeniauy ien oil ui com mitted suicide by jumping mio ine ctaovn Uo wni a vptpTan in the Con federate army. His stepdaughter was Mrs. Ada MarKiano. onemeiu, noieu soprana singer. Mr. Holliday Pays It. C. K. Holliday today came to the office of the city treasurer and paid in the sum of $220. to cover in full the cost of canceling the contract for the repairs on the East Eightk avenue bridge. Mr. Holliday agreed to see to it that this contract was disposed of, and to give $50 toward the expense. The material on hand will be sold for $100 or thereabouts, and the remaining $70 will be raised by subscription among the people of East Eighth street. Canal Commission Sails. New York,, March 29. The members of the Panama canal commission sailed today for Colon on the steamship Al liance. LOCAL MENTION. United States District Attorney J. S. Dean went to Denver today on legal business. The Second ward Republican club will meet at 303 East First street WTed nesday night. The trustees who have served for the past year at the First Presbyterian church were again elected last nieiit to serve for the next 12 months-. They are: John E. Moon. Albert Watkins. George Whitcomb, W. B. Robey and G. F. Worley. The members of the Central BapUst church gave a rally Sunday to raise the back salary of Rev. H. W. White, which was due at the B. Street Ba tist. the debt was $481.99, the amount realized in the rally was $161.10, leav ing the amount of $320.89 due the pastor. HE'S EXONERATED "Committee of 200" Looks Into Mr. Wolf's Record. Sign a Statement That He Is All Right. HOW IT WAS DONE. E. B. Cowgill Explains Nature of Investigation. They Took Mr. Wolf's Word for It. Last Sunday afternoon the "Commit tee of Two Hundred" which seems to still have a sort pf phantom existence, held.: a political meeting and "investi gated" the charges against C. V. Woif, which having been done, the following coat of whitewash was applied: "Charges having been made and published reflecting on the character of Councilman C. V. Wolf to the effect that he is a frequenter of joints arid a drunkard and that he was guilty tf wrong-doing in connection with t'.e distribution of "flood relief funds, the committee of 200 has carefully inves tigated said charges and has found them and each of them to be without justification and- that said charges were inspired by base and selfish' mo tives. "Further, MrS Wolf has been active and faithful in the discharge of his duties as a councilman and especially in regard to the prohibitory law and ought to receive the support and vote of every law and order voter in he Third ward. (Signed) "S. G. STEWART, Prest. "E. B. COWGILL, Secy." The State Journal has gone to con siderable trouble to investigate these charges, too. It investigated t.ie charges before the ""Committee of Two Hundred" ever heard of them. It is therefore with great pain that it ob serves how all its work has been over turned by the committee in just one sitting. An interesting interview took place this morning between E. B. Cowgill, who drew up the above document cf vindication, and a State Journal repor ter, which shows what kind of ,'n "investigation" was made by the Com mittee of Two Hundred. It appears that the chief witness was Mr. Wolf himself. The other witnesses were some of Mr. Wolf's personal friends. "We made as thorough an investiga tion as we could," said Mr. Cowgill. "We called before us people who have known Mr. Wolf for a long time, .nul are familiar with his personal habits." "Mr. Wolf's friends?" was asked. "Yes, Mr. Wolf's friends. We also had Mr. Wolf before us, and he was cross-questioned by one of the best lawyers in Topeka. I think if there had been anything in these chargas, that examination would have brought it out." "Who were the people examined be sides Mr. Wolf?" "I don't believe I could say," said Mr. Cowgill after' some hesitation. "They are business men; and I would not want to give their names without their con sen;.'' "Were any of them men who are ac customed to being in joints?" "No, none of them were that class of people." "Then, if Mr. Wolf is playing a double, game, they might not know of his fre quenting Joints?" v "Oh, I suppose a man can deceive his friends," said Mr. CowgilL "The com mittee investigated as thoroughly as it could, and made is report accordingly. After the discussion was finished, I drew up the report,- which was adopted with a few slight amendments. We then placed the report in the h&nds of Mr. Wolf's friends'to be used as they might think best." TOOK WOLF'S WORD FOR IT. The investigation was supposed to cover the manner in which Wolf issued orders to himself at the time of the flood, and "absorbed" nearly all of the hardware business while the other hardware stores were obliged to return their surplus goods to the wholesale houses. "Why weren't those charges made a long time ago?" said Mr. Cowgill. "What is the use of bringing them up now, when an election is on? It would seem that if Mr. Wolf had been doing such things, the other merchants would have roared about it, and it would have made a sensation. at the time." Some of the merchants did "roar" and it did no good. Some of them were too self-respecting to even mix up in the dirty work which Wolf was practicing. They would not even ask for a share of the orders. They had no show. "I am free to confess," admitted Mr. Cowgill candidly, "that if I had been treated as it is claimed these mer chants were treated, I would have kept my mouth shut and said nothing." Then Mr. Cowgill put a question to the State Journal reporter. He said: "What do you folks say to Wolfs claim that he was the only hardware man in town who had the goods to supply this demand?" "We say it is absolutely false." "Then it is your word against Wolfs?" "No, it Is Wolfs word against the word of practically all of the hardware men in Toneka." Mr. Cowgill admitted that he had not made any investigation of the situa tion. The committee seems to have simply taken Wolf's word for it, and applied the whitewash. "BASE MOTIVES." "What does the report mean by at tributing the origin of these charges against Wolf to 'base and selfish mo tives'?" was asked of Mr. Cowgill. "I don't believe I care to say any thing on that point" was Mr. Cowgill's first response. Then he changed his mind and said: "We believe that the whisky men are back of this fight on Wolf. We think that they are partly responsible for in spiring these charges. We are also in formed that Mr. Wolf is supposed to be pledged to vote for one of the papers for the city printing. The other papers are not friendly to him for that reason. People out in the Third ward believe that this has a great deal to do with the fight On Wolf. I suppose that these are the reasons for attribut ing the charges to base and selfish mo tives." We suppose that the committee will admit that the State Journal has been flKhting Wolf about, as much as any other papef, and "in order to set the committee right, we will say mat tne State Journal is not a candidate for the city printing, and its fight on Wolf is made without the slightest knowledge as to how Mr. Green stands on that comparatively unimportant matter. This charge is scarcely a degree removed from being silly. XO FIGHT ON GREEN. "You will observe," said Mr. Cowgill, "that this statement from the commit tee of two hundred contains no refer- w e Wish convince the ladies of Topeka that we are showing the Prettiest Millinery in the city at lower prices than any of the other stores We Have the Finest Trimmer in the West. "1" 'MILLINERY GO. 0l&:pK 1 807 Kansas Avenue. yH t"jtj. f With Mr. Holcraft. v ence to Mr. Green. I regard Mr. Green aa one of our best citizens. There is nothing .to be said against him. I have a high personal regard for him, but he is being used to beat the law and order people of the ward. While Mr. Green himself is beyond reproach as a good citizen, yet his election would be a tri umph for the whisky people. It would add to their prestige." Any time the whisky people want to "add to their prestige" by putting pro hibitionists in the city council, there ought to be no objection on the part of the Committee of Two Hundred, es pecially when the prohibitionists dis place a whisky drinker and one whose conduct in the council has not been above suspicion. Third ward people will be considera bly enlightened by Mr. Cowgill's reve lations regarding the kind of an "in vestigation" mde by the Committee of Two Hundred. The State Journal is not criticising the committee for holding a political ward meeting on Sunday jn Wolf's interests, but it does criticise it for trying to pass off such a palpable fake and whitewash as a real "investigation." It will injure the future standing of the Committee of Two Hundred. SAVED FIVE NECKS. A Child Witness Rererses Her Testimony in Time. Chicago, March 29.A child's testi mony reversed saved 0ye men today frcm the gallows. The' result was a striking parallel to the case in which a fortnight ago Millionaire Peter Van Vlissinger practically demonstrated that under police pressure a boy named Wiltrax had given false testimony leading to the conviction of the boy's father for murder. Today's instance of youthful unreliabil ity under oath was in the case of William McCarthy and four Polish young men on trial for murder,- the witness being a lit tle girl, Appolonia-Starosta,who first gave direct, straightforward eye witness testi mony, apparently establishing beyond question the guilt of the men, and then repudiated her sworn evidence. In ex planation of the remarkable change of front, the child declared that she had been instructed bow to testify by the widow of the murdered man. Charges against the prisoners were withdrawn by the state's attornev. the five men walking out of the dock free by order of the court. CURTIS ON NEW STATES Knnsas Congressman Appears Before Committee. Washington, March 2!). Several features of the new statehood bill were discussed before the house committee today y Rep resentative Curtis (Kan.). Mr. Curtis urged that the constitutions of the new states be required to contain ample pro vision for the protection of the Indians in their treaty rights with the United States. Some features of the bill which have not heretofore been made public was that the state to be known as Oklahoma shall be entitled to five members of the house of representatives. The state of Arizona is to have two representatives. The capital of Oklahoma is to be Guthrie and that of Arizona, Santa Fe. KEITH WANTS EXEMPTION. Asks Commissioners Not to Collect Taxes on Hospital- Dr. H. H. Keith has petitioned the board of county commissioners to exempt his private hospital, at 601 Clay street, from taxation. Dr. Keith stated in his letter to the board that his hospital is chartered the same as Christ hospital and Stormont hospital, which, as charitable institutions, are exempt from taxation. These two hospitals each receive annually from the state bv legislative appropriation. Dr. Keith states that he does $110 worth of charity work each month at his hospital, that he does not receive aid from the state and that he has to pay taxes. The incorporators of the hospital were H. H. Keith. Helen C. Keith, Frank Keith, Fannie McKibben and Amy Mc Farland. The charter states that the hnsnital is "to orovide medical and surgi cal aid and treatment and nursing for sick and injured persons; to instruct anu train suitable persons in tne auues ui nursing and attending upon the sick." The petition was referred to the board by Countv Attorney Hungate. His opin ion which he will give the board, is that Dr Keith's hospital is a private institu tion, operated for profit and that it must pay taxes. Royal Arcanum Sustained. Lincoln, Neb., March 29. The effort to drive the Royal Arcanum, a fraternal insurance order, from Nebraska, has failed. The effort was made by the DYEING CLEANING PRESSING Laundry Work of every Description TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. (CO-OPEBATIVE) i, Phone 153. 625 Jackson Str. to V "Qrcat American Lvincheon"--50 civfcs That is what they call the mid-day meal on Rock Island flining cars the "Great American Luncheon." Breakfast and dinner are served on the a la carta plan, but the charge for the noon meal Is only B0 cents. The menu is varied, the service is Al, the portions are liberal bo much so that you will wonder how it Is done. But It is done and that is all you need bother about. Rock Island trains for Chicago leave Topeka at 3:35 p. m. and 6:15 a. m. daily, a r i a r-cxr is n. tt. lawui, Ticket Agent, North representatives of a home Insurance order on the grounds that none of the Massachusetts fraternal companies com plied with the Massachusetts insurance laws. He alleged that their rates were lower than those fixed by the fraternal congress and therefore a violation of the reciprocal laws. The Nebraska insur ance auditor decided that the fraternal sections are exempt from the reciprocal feature. LOOKING OVER THE LINE New York Men Propose to Build Kansas City-Topeka Line. Kansas City, Mo., March 29. The Star todav savs: If Guy M. Walker and W. B. Strang, electric railroad builders of New York, can find a practicable route between Kansas City and Topeka by the way of Olathe and Lawrence, it is probable that an electric line will be constructed between those cities' soon. Mr. Walker and Mr. Strang are at the Coates house. Several months ago they were invited by Kansas City business men to come here and look over the situation with a view of projecting a Kansas City, Topeka line and possibly other lines out of Kansas City. Today they have H. R. Gard, of Monroe, Mich., out with an engineering party looking for a practicable route between Kansas City and Olathe. HITCHCOCK'S REPLY. Sends to Senate Answer on Recent Pension Ruling. Washington, March 29. Secretary Hitchcock today sent to the senate an answer to the resolution of Senator Overman calling for information rela tive to the recent pension order in which 62 years was made the age limit for issuing pensions. The communi cation was quite long and recited rea sons heretofore given for issuing the ordef. "Biddie" Mftnson Is Sane. "Bificlie" Manson, the colored woman picked up by the police yesterday on a charge of Insanity, was tried in probate court this morning and discharged as sane. About 15 witnesses testiiied in, the case. The officers. Hendricks and White, who made a hurry trip to Fourth street and Tooeka avenue, where the woman was making a disturbance, and the jail ors at the county jail, testified that she shouted, struggled and preached. About a dozen of the brethren of the B Street Baptist church testified that the woman was all right and of sound mind. She seemed to be when brought into court and her "spell" was perhaps an attack of the "shouts," the religious frenzy to which both negroes and whites are sub ject during protracted meetings. The wo man has been attending protracted meet ings in North Topeka. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of Jacob Levi took place this afternoon from the residence of the family on Harrison street at 2:30 o'clock. Interment was in Topeka cemetery. Rabbi Mayer of Kansas City conducted the services, aided by the Knights of Pythias. All of the children were pres ent at the funeral. Ruth Newell, the 7-year-old daughter or Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Newell, died of pneumonia at the family home, 623 West Third street, last night. The funeral will take place from the residence to morrow .afternoon at 1 o'clock. Inter ment will be made at Elevation cem etery. Lillian Gorehorn, aged 2 years, died yesterday of pneumonia at the home of her parents. 213 Kast Fourth street. In terment was made in Topeka cemetery this afternoon. mm vr J I 4 i if .S;i-:-;: I ah r-i t r-i- A. in. TULLCK, Topeka. C. P. A., Topeka. TO SUE WATER COMPANY Insurance Concerns Losing in Parkhnrst Daris Fire. Within the next few days, the com panies which insured the Parkhurst Davis Wholesale Grocery company for fire protection, will institute a suit for $150,000 damages in the federal court against the Topeka Water company on account of the loss entailed from the low water pressure which existed in the city on the night of the big firs several weeks ago. All of the insurance companies are plaintiffs in the suit. They are being represented by Barger Hicks of Chicago, and it is understood that this firm is to be aided by Mulvane Gault, and Loomis, Blair Scandrett of Topeka. Mr. Hicks, of the Chicaa-o firm is in the city, but he won't talk. It Is known that he is here for the special purpose of bringing and prose cuting this suit. That class of work is the special practice of his firm. If the insurance companies obtain a judgment, as many lawyers think they stand a good chance of doing, it will in no way hinder the buying of the waterworks plant by the city. The suit will in reality be against the proceeds of the sale, and inasmuch as these are in the hands of the receiver of the court appointed by the federal court, there will be no danger of the city losing out through any subsequent legal tanele. At the present time the waterworks company is in reality in the possession of the court, with a special receiver ap pointed to look after its business. v The court must in all events protect its property. So the decree entered by Judge Pollock last Monday in the fed eral court, ordering a sale of the waterworks company, can stand and be in nowise affected by this suit, or in no way keep the city from acquiring the Dlant. Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured William Shaffer, a brakeman of Dennl son, O., was confined to his bed for sev eral weeks with inflammatory rheuma tism. "I used many remedies," he says. "Finally I sent to McCaw's drug store for a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, at which time I was unable to use hand or foot, and in- one week's time was able to go to work as happy as a clam." For sale by all druggists. AN IDEA of buying GROCERIES at the right price can only be obtained by dealing at the C. O. D. We are still getting lots of nice fire goods. Dewey Sugar Corn, per can TMo 300 dozen Fresh Uneeda Biscuits, package 3c (Not fire goods.) California Fruit, 3-fb cans, 30c goods, 2 cans 15o Fancy N. T. Cheese, lb 15c Hart Peas, can.... 6c Best Granulated Sugar, 5 lb 25c Warren's A-l Red Salmon, can lOc Extra fancy Colorado Potatoes, 60 pounds $1.25 Mustard Sardines, 10c cans, per per can 3o Women's Friend Laundry Soap, extra large bars, 8 for 25o Canada Sap Maple Syrup, per gal lon 80c Sunlight Flour. Highest Patent the $1.40 kind 50-Ib sack...? 1.19 FRAZER BROS. C. 0. D. STORE 217 WEST SXTH ST. Bell Phone 2704. Ind. Phone 660 The Piore That Undersells Them AH.

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TOPEKA STATE J OTJTENAI4 TUESDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1904; 4 y WHERE IS JDSUBSniUJE FOR Absolutely Puro E3ATTEROF HEA IT MS NAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Lifthtnin' en de Harrican Lies a-flashin' fire, Bteeple never high enough. En so, dey blow it higher. Jordan is a hard road, But mawiiin' breakin' fas", "Don't keer how I Kits dar So I cl'ar de fence at las'! Moses in de bullrush, Happy ez kin be, lint lemme see a bull rush. En watch me climb a tree! Jordan is a hard road. But don't you all be late, Don't keer how I sits dar So dey lemme in de g-ate! Frank Lu Stanton. Thomas F. Doran la confined to his home by the measles. The G. A. R. posts at Rurlingame and Wellington have endorsed P. H. Coney for department commander. The city railway has taken out a permit for the erection of its new $7, 000 car barns at Jackson and Huntoori streets. The city railway Is again busy recon structing its system. The attention of the management Is called to West Sixth avenuJ. The county commissioners will aid Mission township to build a bridge on the rural mail route through that town ship. The county will help $150 worth. Malon Burget, the deaf mute, who has never missed a political guess, says: "C. K. Holliday is bound to win in the Second ward, as he Is the choice of the people." A Topeka young man who has gone to Kansas City to work was so homesick at the end of the first day that he spent two hours at the union depot looking for a familiar face. Trolley wires at the corner of Fifth Ftreet and Kansas avenue fell yester day afternoon and caused quite a scare. No one was hurt, although several had narrow escapes. Workmen are tusy at the fail grounds painting cars and wagons be longing to the Sells-Downs circus. This means that the spring: is here in dead earnest. Major Anderson wants all the men Fingers in the city to Join his Semi centennial patriotic chorus which has its first meeting on Thursday night at the Commercial club rooms. W. L. Taylor, of the Taylor Grain company of Topeka, has gone to the City of Mexico for the purpose of in vestigating the demand in Mexico for grains from the United States. James Anderson, who was formerly employed by the Edison company in To peka. is now chief electrician of the T'nited States steamship Machias just returned from a long cruise in European water.. Rev. John G. Maver will preach the eei-mon at the Masonic meeting Sunday morning when the Scottish Rite Masons of Unity chapter Rose Croix hold the ceremonial services of relighting the light'. The city railway is hauling ballist to the Washburn college line prepara tory to commencing the work of re construction on that branch. The Washburn line will be the next to be rebuilt. The Topeka Symphony orchestra re hearsed last night, but contrary to ex pectations did not agree upon the date of its Topeka concert. It will come either the latter part of May or the first part of June. Wednesday evening, the Republ'cavi city central committee will hoid a meeting at the old court house for the purpose of hearing the reports on the progress of the campaign in the Sec ond and Third wards. On Friday night, at the Elite alleys, the Manhattan bowling team will be here to compete with the Topeka five. The latter aggregation was successful at Manhattan, in the last contest, win ning by a total of 361 pins. The Washburn quartette gave a con cert last nisht at the charjftl for the benefit of the library fund. It was a success both from a musical standpoint and in a financial way. Miss Edna Hazelton accompanied at the piano. At the congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian church last night an effort was made to get at least some sort of a subscription from every member of the church. The session was Instructed to formulate a rule to cover the case to be reported at an early meeting. The Rev. H. R. Best began a, series of evangelistic meetings at the First Baptist church last night. He has just resigned his church at Winfield and will take ud a new pastorate at Sioux I'alls, S. IX. when the meetings are closed in Topeka. A big audience was out last night. The Western Union Telegraph com pany will displace the gravity batteries FEEL POORLY. As Spring- approaches you commence to feel poorly and you wonder at the cause. You feel tired and out of sorts. Your head aches, you have no appetite and the blood is impure. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters will quickly tone up the system, overcome that tired feeling and make life a pleasure. Test it for your self. It alsocures Dizziness, Bloating, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Insomnia, Liver Troubles, La Grippe and Halaria. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. now in use In their offices with a com plete dynamo plant to provide the cur rent. .For some time the company has maintained about 5,000 cells, but the in creased demands uoon the wires has necessitated still better facilities. The Washburn-Baker basketball game to be played in Topeka Friday night promises to be a bloodthirsty affair. Baker was defeated by Wash burn earlier in the season, and the wearers of the orange are coming down here for revenge. Baker and Washburn are not noted for their love for each other in any intercollegiate affairs. At the meeting of the board of health Monday afternoon, the plan of assigning a physician to each school in the city was favorably recommend ed. It was also decided to report fa vorably to the city council on the re constructing: of the barn which was burned down, and the purchase of a new pest house ambulance, which was destroyed in the fire. Manager Frank Leach of Washburn athletics has decided that it would be Impossible for the WTashburn girls' basketball team to play the Lincoln High school girls on Wednesday or Thursday night in Topeka, While of course the financial part of the matter has some bearing, the fact too is con sidered, that the Washburn girls play the Baker university girls for the state championship on Friday in Topeka, and Mr. Leach thinks it would not be wise for them to play a game before that date. Rev. E. A. Fredenhagen, the general superintendent of the Society for the Friendless, has just returned from a three weeks' tour of Texas, where he held services in the penitentiaries, visit ed the convict camps, and lectured in Dallas, Austin and Galveston. Steps were taken to establish the society in Texas, and the people who have taken up with the plan are now looking for suitable men to occupy the state and district offices. This is the eighth state which the society has entered since Its inception three years ago. WATER IS HIGHER. Saginaw, Mich., Still in Grip of the Flood. Saginaw, Mich., March 29. The Sagi naw river continues to rise, and the same general flood conditions exist about the city as did yesterday. The water is somewhat higher than yester day and consequently has inflicted more loss to the merchants and factory owners whose places of business are partially submerged and closed. Be tween Saginaw and Bay City the Ice in the Saginaw river is over two feet deep in places, and dynamite has had little effect in clearing the channel. Down river reports today tell of much suffering and exposure. It is not ex pected that the river will fall much if any today. WILL WEAR GUEY. Uniforms for Topeka Baseball Team Adopted. The Topeka Missouri Valley League association team will this summer wear gray uniforms with red trim mings. This was officially decided upon at the meeting of the board of directors last night. The caps are to be of gray, with red beading through the ribs. Red sleeves and red collars will adorn the shirts, and also the word "Topeka" across the breast in red letters. Red belts and stockings will also be worn. No jerseys will be used. Measurements for the uniforms will be taken as quickly as possible and the order turned into Spalding's, so that the clothes will be here on April la. It was decided to have Manager Gua Alberts, who begins his position as manager on April 1, to collect all of the unpaid pledges, which aggregate a i total of almost $500. Mr. Alberts will be furnished with the authority to get the money, and those who have not yet paid their subscriptions should do so to Mr. Alberts at the earliest possible data. The manager's proposal to have the men report at St. Joe on April 16 for the opening game of the season met with the favor of the directors. On the next day, Sunday, the Topeka team will be taken to Atchison for a game with Ed Green's semi-professionals. Then the team will come home for hard I practice and will play but three more preliminary games, these being with j Washburn, before the regular season opens upon May l. "Old Bogy" Is Dead. Chicago, March 29. Henry A. Bogar dus, probably the most widely known telegraph operator in America, is dead here in a sanitarium. Bogardus had a unique history. He was born in Ro chester, N. Y., about 60 years ago and on the death of his wife became an in veterate traveler. "Old Bogy," as he had been familiarly known for a quar ter of a century, had worked in every telegraph office of importance in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He is said to have crossed the continent from coast to coat and from Mexico City to Manitoba more than a hundred times. Philippines to Send Delegates. Manila. March 29. The Republicans and Democrats here are organizing to elect delegates to the national conven- jtions. They will urge the adoption of I legislation favorable to the Philippine islands. THE TWO B'S." An Interesting Story About Burton and Bristow. The Kansas City Journal, which has been a continued supporter of Burton, prints this story of the late senator and Bristow, the present postoffice official: Two men are responsible .for Senator J. R. Burton's present troubles. One is Senator Burton himself. The other is Joe Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general. Burton made a mistake in Setting mixed up with the shady get rich-quick concern at St. Louis. It gave Bristow the opportunity he had long craved. He wanted to humiliate Bur ton, if he could, and drive him out of public life. In the legislature of 1895 Saline county was represented in the house by Joseph Moore, a Republican, and a friend of Bristow. Moore was supposed to be for Burton for senator. The Burton men said he was elected that way. But Bristow controlled him. Leland had to have Moore's vote to beat Burton, so he got Morrill into the senatorial race. Bristow was a part of Morrill's official family. He was obliged to make Moore vote for Morrill. He regarded the obli gation to Morrill as being more binding than his obligation to Burton because it was more recent. Burton went to Bristow during the fight and asked him to let Moore vote for him (Burton). "I can't do it," said Bristow. "I am under obligation to Morrill for naming me as his secretary." "Then resign," said Burton. "You can be taken care of in some other way." Bristow declined to do so. Moore's vote beat Burton out of the senator ship. This estranged Burton and Bris tow. However, Burton became recon ciled. He wanted to go to the senate and believed that the way to win was by healing old sores rather than rub bing salt in them. In 1897 the Populists had the legis lature. The Republicans had only a handful of members in both branches. Senator John J. Ingalls hoped to go back to the United States senate and felt that the first step in that direc tion was to get the caucus nomination of the Republican minority at that session. This would put him in line the next time the Republicans had the legislature. Leland also wanted to get in line. So did Burton. Leland browsed around for' awhile and found that he stood no show. Although he had been against Burton two years before, he preferred him to Ingalls. He had been skinned too often by the Atchison statesman. So he lined up for Burton. This carried Bristow's support also, for Bristow at that time and ever since has worked hand In glove with Leland. Burton got the minority nomination hands down. BURTON'S TRIUMPH. Four years then elapsed before an other senatorial election. Lucien Baker's term expired in 1901. Burton went after it. Until a year or so be fore that election Leland and Bristow were on friendly terms with. Burton. Baker had given them the cold shoul der and they had turned on him. But Baker saw what was up and inade terms with them. Then they began to leg for his re-election. Burton went ahead and a few days before the Re publican caucus Baker threw up the sponge. The opposition had been whip ped to a standstill. Burton had the Republican members by a big majori ty. He was nominated and elected. Leland did everything possible to de feat him but failed. He gave out an interview during the fight denounc ing Burton in most scathing terms. He charged Burton with all sorts of things, but people didn't pay much attention to the interview because all the things charged by Leland ante-dated 1896. when Leland supported Burton. People figured that Leland, who said he had known the things all the time, was estopped when he supported Burton in 1S96. Why did Leland support Burton in 1896 knowing the things he charged against Burton was a question that played hob with the effect of Leland's interview. Through Leland's Influence, Bristow was appointed fourth assistant post master general by President McKinley in 1897. This put Bristow under still deeper obligations to Leland. The Leland-Bristow element expected to control the Kansas delegation to the Republican national convention In 1900 and Leland expected to be re-elected as national committeeman. But an upheaval camo. The Burton element realized that, in order to land Burton tr, t senate it would have to make a grass root fight that year; that the tail would have to go with the hide; that the Burton men would have to control the state convention, send a Burton delegation to Philadelphia, and select someone besides Leland as national committeeman or Burton would stand no show the following winter for the senate. LELAND AND BRISTOW BEATEN. So they organized the fight along this line. They swept the state. They had full control of the state convention, sent a delegation of their choosing to It may be that causes your troubles. It is the direct and certain cause of nervous disorders, dyspepsia, heart trouble, weak eyes and a multitude of other diseases brought on by slight poisoning of the nervous system. You can tell certainly in your own case by leaving off coffee and using Postum Coffee 10 days. If your troubles begin to disappear you have the exact reason for their cause and therefore know how to be rid of the "herd of little dem ons" and return to health and good old time comfort again Coliee the Philadelphia, convention and named Dave Mulvane for national" committee man to succeed Leland. Leland isa fighter. So is Bristow. J3ristow learned it from Leland -The jdeXea of theie side ,that campaign enraged them. They were still further enraged at Burton's election as senator, later on. Burton's stand for Judge Horton as against W. C. Hook for appointment as federal judge to succeed Judge Foster, had also added fuel to the flame. Of course, Burton lost in that fight. Le land and Bristow won. But the two latter wera not generous nor forgiving. They simply laid that up as one more grievance against Burton. When Burton went to Washington after his election he thought it was time for him to fight back. He had become tired the one-sided on slaught. So he started after Bristow's scalp. McKiniey vas still president. Bristow had mado a record investi gating the Cuban scandals, and McKin ley sustained him. Burton didn't get very far with his fight. After McKln ley's assassination, Roosevelt and Bur ton fell out over sugar. Burton didn't take up the Bristow matter with him. In the meantime, Bristow had been solidifying himself with Roosevelt and at every opportunity cut in a spike against Burton. To Bristow it was a high crime for Burton to go after his scalp, although he had been after Bur ton's for years. When one tries to pry a Kansan from the pie counter there is going to be trouble. Bristow was firm ly seated at the pie counter, and he wanted to stay there. He scorned Burton's attempt to dislodge him. Like wise he scorned Burton and has scorned him ever since. The fight on Burton was kept ui at home and Bris tow was depended upon to keep it stirred up at Washington. Burton must be discredited at the White House and stripped of his influence. BRISTOW FINDS HIS CHANCE. Some months ago the get-rich-quick concerns in St. Louis got into trouble with the postoffice department. Burton was general counsel for one of them. The postoffice inspectors swooped down upon the concerns and found some of Burton's letters. That was apple pie for Bristow. Soon thereafter, photographic copies of some of Burton's impolitic letters to St. Louis parties were mailed from Washington to Bristow's political as sociates in Kansas, and were exhibited around but for some reason no steps were taken against Burton at that time by the postoffice department. Things dragged along and were almost forgotten. Then another campaign opened in Kansas. The element to which Bristow belonged was in the saddle. It was the machine. Signs pointed to trouble for the machine. An uprising was threatened. It finally broke out. Ed Hoch was drafted to bust the machine. Things began to get warm." Hoch was making big in roads in machine counties. Hoch went on and swept the state. Governor Bailey saw what was coming and got out of the race. Burton gave bond for his appearance and has gone to trial and a conviction. But the trial rendered one service. It will not be necessary for Bristow to send any more photographic copies of Burton's letters to his political associates in Kansas. They are no longer needed. THE PASSING OF BURTON. That Bristow has succeeded In ruin ing Burton, politically, is conceded even by Burtort's friends. Burton is regarded no longer as a factor Jn Kansas politics, so far as his own am bitions are concerned. Bristow has got Burton' scalp. In the recent fight to defeat the ma chine, it was the intention of the bow ses that Burton was the Issue. This in face of the "advanced". information from Bristow .out of -the. department. It was the contention of the boss bus ters that Burton was no part of their issue and they seem to have beenTje lieved by the people. fillTCHELL TO LEAD. Will Take Personal Charge of the Colorado Strike. Denver, Colo., March 29. John Mitch ell, president of the United Mine Work ers of America, will be in Denver on or before April 18, and it is expected that he will take personal charge of the strike of the coal miners in the state. This information was given out by W. R. Fairley. a member of the executive board of the national organization, and Chris Evans, the financial representa tive of Mr. Mitchell in the strike dis trict. April 18 marks the meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor in Denver. This meeting will be attended by President Samuel Gompers and other leaders. "Our organization," said Mr. Evans, "is now and always has been ready to meet with the employers to consider any proposition which might tend toward a settlement of the strike. W'e are getting along well with the mili tary. Our supply bureau has not been in the least Interfered with, and we are caring for all of the men and their families who are in need." 1,000 A DAY. Flood of Inquiries from reu nion Applicants. Washington, March 29. Pension offi cials stand aghast at the number of inquiries flooding the bureau from vet erans who intend to make application for service pensions under the recent order. The "great unknown army" is making itself heard from with a ven geance. Applications for pensions and inquiries how to proceed are being re ceived at the rate of 1,000 a day. The number shows no sign of falling off, and is likely to increase rather than diminish. The applications are coming from every section of the UniteJ States. It was stated today by an of ficial that the estimate of Representa tive Miers that the order would in crease pension payments $14, 000, 'W0 probably would be far below the mark. He said it appeared as if every old soldier and every old soldier's widow had become suddenly active. TO CELEBRATE THURSDAY. Unity Chapter Scottish Bite Mason Will Hold Services. Unity chapter" Rose Croix No. 1 of the Scottish Rite, will celebrate Maundy Thursday at the Masonic tevt ple next Thursday at 8 o'clock and will hold Easter services next Sunday morning. The programme for the Maundy Thursday services is as follows: The Last Supper. Sermon by Rev. J. P. De B. Kaye 18 deg. The supper. Maundy Thursday its meaning: Re sponse bv Thomas W. "Harrison 33 deg., S. G. I. G. Charity "Charity, my brethren, Is the sweet odor of Jesus Christ which evaporates and is lost the moment it is .uncovered." Response by William L. Burdick 32 deg. Brotherly Love "A new command ment I give unto you, That ye love one another." Response by Thomas E. Dewey, K. C. C. H. Ex anguishing the lights. TK? Finest $3 flats hoAm $nyAhere. Reliable, Stylish, smart made for us from costliest materials by best makers hand-work and modeled after most popular new shapes in cinnamon brown, belly nutria,, pearls y ff and blacks, stiff and soft hats, guaranteed matchless get new Hat for Easter at P5UU Stetson Hats Most complete and comprehen sive assortment in the South west. Stetson's Hats in new Easter shapes, all qualities, shapes and colors, at $7.50, $5.00, $4.60, $4.00 and $3.50 10 cases men's soft and stiff hats, the entire floor tock of a renowned manufacturer new Spring Hats, regular $2.00 quality, at SI. 50. Palace Special Hat in all the latest styles and colors, soft or stiff, made of pure fur stock, at 82.50. Sole agents for YOUMAN'S HATS the world's best $5 BURTON'S BLUNDERS. They Began Directly When He Entered Senate. Joseph Ralph Burton's senatorial career has been a series of calamitous circumstances. In all the history of the senators of the United States con gress there has not been his equal for political blundering, stupidity and in discretions, which may result in im prisonment and inability to hold office of public trust. Senator Burton came to Washington under circumstances and conditions which gave him an op portunity to rank high among the pub lic men of the nation. During the period in his state when the Populist movement had swept from their polit ical bearings a majority of the poli ticians who figured in state affairs. Burton stood loyally by his party. His public career at that time' was forming. He had been a legislator in his state. Formerly a teacher of elocution, Mr. Burton had acquired the ability to ex press himself effectively on his feet. He dressed flashily, and the combina tion of dress and ready tongue made him a factor in a state whose first de mand of public men was that they should be noticed. Burton attracted attention. He was noisy; he was in sistent; he was irrepressible.- As a member of the state legislature he was the readiest debater of which his party could boast. He rendered valuai service to the richest family in his state and was adopted by it politically. This family of state and almost national reputation in the business world had a youthful member who combined all the qualifications of gentility and political resource. He was young, well educated and courtly. He committed the su preme folly of devoting his time, his money and his talents to advancing the ambitions of Burton. David Mulvane, the j-resent national committeeman from Kansas, could have himself occu pied the seat which Burton now holds had he bullded from the first about himself instead of around the flashy young lawyer from Abilene, who was In all respects his Inferior. MULVANE'S INTEREST IN BURTON Mulvane's personal friends from the very beginning protested against his policy. He refused to listen to them. He worked for Burton and Burton alone. In the first contest which came at a time when the Republicans had succeeded after a fierce state campaign in wresting the control of the state leg islature from the Populist party. Bur ton was a candidate for the office of United States senator. There was noth ing to recommend him save a glib tongue, a colossal egotism and an elo cutionary training. He waa defeated for the senate by one vote. The field was full of good men, but the man se lected made a failure as a senator. Why he tailed is another story, but fail he did, and Mulvane, still standing by Bur ton, contrived to have him elected sena tor to succeed Lucien Baker. He took the oath of office in March, 1901. His autobiography in the Congressional Record is the briefest in that publica tion. It does not indicate the modesty of the historian, but is brief because there was nothing in his life really worth the telling. Here it Is: Joseph Ralph Burton, Republican, of Abilene, was elected to the United States senate to succeed Lucien Baker, Repub lican, who took nis seat March 4, 1901. His term of service will expire March 3, 1907. McKinley was president when Burton became senator. The Kansas senator began his career with an entirely erro neous idea of his office. A senator is OPERATIONS A FAD. Public Gradually Awakens io the Fact. The latest fad in operations has been the appendicitis fad; before that the fad for rectal operations (piles, eto.) held sway. Hundreds of patients were frightened and hurried into hospital?, operated upon and robbed of their last dollar, when the trouble was a simple case of hemorrhoids or plies only, eas ily cured at home with a simple reme dy costing but fifty cents a box. "I procured one fifty cent box of Pyramid Pile Cure of my druggist, with the intention of buying a larger box later, but was happily surprised when I found that I was cured and still have six 'pyramids' left out i:f the first and only box. I have not h:ul the least sign of piles since I used this one box, which has been about two months; previous to using Pyra mid Pile Cure I had the worst kind of bleeding and protruding piles for over thirty one years, and no one knows, except those who have had the piles, the pain and misery I suffered. "I am a poor man, but have often said I would give a fortune, if I had it, to be cured of the piles, and now I have been cured for fifty cents. I should be very ungrateful If I did not thank you and give you every privi lege to use my name and this letter. when I know there are so many wn-n syft'er as I did." J. A. Weismiller. 100 Bladensburg Road, Washington, 1. C. The Pyramid Drug Co., Marsh:' il, Mich., publish a little book on the causes and cure of piles, which they will be glad to mail free to any appli cant, and we advise ail sufferers from this painful disease to write to them for it. The new crusher, made of imported stock in solid colors and mixtures worth $1.50 for Sl.OO. "The Good Clothes Store." merely given the opportunity to prove the "stuff" that's in him. There is no limit to his power or usefulness if he can "make good." The field is bound less. He Is the equal in all respects of the greatest in the nation.- But he must be able to maintain the pace. If he can't, he would better range with the humble livers. By comparison he be comes a thing. People, will compare him if he is a Republican with Spooner and Allison and Hanna and Piatt of Connecticut. Nobody will think of In stituting a comparison between a sena tor and Dietrich unless that senator himself forces it. ATTACKS BRISTOW. Burton came to Washington with one thought, first of getting even with the men who fought him in Kansas poli tics; second, of making money. He had thought a senatorship by day and dreamed of it by night. He was poor and in debt. He had a taste for things which riches bring. These two ideas dominated him. He had scarcely taken his seat until he sought McKinley. Bristow, the fourth asslstart postmast er general, had incurred Burton's hatred. Bristow belonged to an oppos ing faction and was possessed of a per sonality which men of Burton's stamp intuitively hated. No sooner could Burton reach the presidential ear than he began to talk about Bristow. The president did not wait for him to finish. "I am glad you have referred to Bris tow," said Mr. McKinley. "If you have any more men like him in Kansas, please recommend them for office. The public service needs such men." Bur ton did not finish his remarks. Mr. McKinley was assassinated and Mr. Roosevelt became president.. With the new administration Burton had earned the right of fair consideration. If there was pretext or excuse for fa voring him he had earned that too. When the issue in Philadelphia was in doubt Burton had led a procession which shouted the name "Roosevelt." It sought Roosevelt in his hotel and demanded his submission. Burton made the speech, and it was a good one. "The people have a right to demand a sacrifice," said Burton, "and you, Gov ernor Roosevelt,, must yield." The Kansas instinct for getting into the band wagon had led Burton in the right direction. Roosevelt yielded. BETRAYS ROOSEVELT ON CUBAN RECIPROCITY. With the beginning of the Roosevelt administration Burton again became active in his opposition to Bristow. But coupled with his opposition to Bristow, was the attempt to secure appoint ment for his own friends. The presi dent investigated. He refused to make the appointments and insisted upon the senator naming new men. The presi dent began to distrust Burton from this hour. He made it known that he would not remove Bristow except for cause. The fight for reciprocity with Cuba came on. Kansas was for Roosevelt and demanded that his policies be car ried out. Burton was mad because he couldn't have everything his own way about appointments. Roosevelt was carrying out the pledges he had made In a cabinet meeting at Buffalo when he took the oath of office at the time of McKinley's funeral. Roosevelt be lieved in reciprocal relations with Cuba. Moreover, his promise was a sacred eomDact. Burton chose to join a senate cabxl which sought to embarrass the admin istration. It was chiefly composed of senators from beet sugar states. Bur ton's purpose was to force concession;-.!. If he could not dq that he would iden tify himself with a cabal which gave? some promise of running the nation in the event of Roosevelt's political col lapse. The history of Burton's man euvers at this time will never be fu'.'y told. On one occasion he called at the White House by request and in conver sation with the president said: "I will not fly the coop." The expres sion became a well known phrase in Kansas. Not once or twice, but four or five times Burton gave the presi dent to understand that he would stand by him in the effort to make binding the solemn compact which the government made to Cuba. At a dinner in which three or four senators were assembled, the president one night unbosomed himself regaid ing Burton. The president is a man who drives directly at the mark. Ho gave the guests to understand that he would believe nothing which emanated from Burton's lips. Burton was din credited, but still had a senator's White House privilege of access to the executive. Roosevelt, who is almost us quick to forgive as he is to believo thought he would give Burton another chance. When the president visited Kansas, Burton accompanied him on the train. Burton had a pet project which promised to make millions fir him. THE NEW JERUSALEM AFFAIR. It was a reproduction at the St.Louis World's fair of Jerusalem at the tirr.a of the Savior's birth. Burton told tlie president all about it. What did th; president think of the scheme? Roose velt was enthusiastic. Would the pres ident write him a letter of indorsement to help him in perfecting the detail? Certainly he would. Roosevelt did it. In defiance of all the traditions whi' h hedge the chief executive about, Bui ton took his personal letter and caused a facsimile to be published as a ceti-tf-oieee of a flaming advertisement. The president's indignation knew ro bounds. He had never been so grossly and humiliatingly deceived in his i.i cumbency of office. Burton's useful ness as a factor In the affairs of his "Warewell" Hat $2.00 Absolutely the best hat in the land at the price; most stores get S2.50 and S3 for them;" correct shapes, in blacks and colors, and every one guar anteed, at $2.00 The New Cap "The NORFOLK" in plain and fancy 50c to $1.00 O. DeJIoss. L. M. PNvrU. DeMOSS&PENWELL jit Funeral Directors and Embalmers. FIRST-CLASS SERVICE. 511 Quincy St Both 'Phones 192, TOPEKA, KANSAS. state w herever they touched the Whita House was over. It might as well be said iipre a it haw never appeared before in print, thftt from this date the nomination of Charles Blood Smith, Burton's candidate for" federal judge to succeed Judge Hook, was impossible. The president even went so far as to say to a certain member of con gress that he wanted to appoint a given candidate and for that roaeon did not want him to get the indorsement of Bur- -ton. The people of Kansas would not... credit these things. They thought they had a senator who was acceptable to thn president and the newspaper stories wtT9 exaggerations. There are innumerable "little things" wJUieik.jnake spectacular and grotesque Senator Burton's senator ial career. Most of 'them are indiscretions due to egotism and utter lack of tact. There is his determined attempt to ar- range a senatorial Junket to Hawaii and j subsequent championship of Liliuokalani'R claim for damages against the govern ment of the United States; his objectioa to "clerks" visiting him at his home and his patronizing observation about treating another of his fellow citizens as if they were on terms of equality. The sum of -it all was by that time he soon was a much in disfavor in the senate as at tht 4 White House, with numerous newsivaper charges to confront about questionable money transactions. FOLK AND KNOX INTERESTED. This was the situation with regard to Senator Burton when Joseph W. Folk came to "Washington. The district attor ney from St. Louis came here to secure a, modification of extradition treaties, but. he had another case in mind. At the time Judge Adams dismissed the proceed- i. ings in the federal court in St. Louis, which involved certain officials of the Ri- alto Grain and Securities comjany, ho rendered an oral opinion pronouncing the scheme an infamous one to mulct a gulli- ble public and declared that the state au thorities should take it up. Folk plunged into the case with the kind of enthusiasm which has resulted in setting Missouri on fire. When Burton's connection with this concern was reached Folk discovered that his offense could be prosecuted with a greater chance of conviction if turned over to the federal authorities. He talked with the president and the president pass ed the case over to Attorney General Knox. R. H. Lindsay in Kansas City Star. Headaches From Army Life Finally Caused Nerv ous Dyspepsia. Dr. Miles Nervine Cured Me. Nervousness, indigestion and insomnia are the three greatest afflictions of mankind, j Attended as they are by a thousand dis- agreeable symptoms the victim is in constant misery. Pity the person who cannot sleep, enjoy his food nor secure rest and peace of J" mind. Dr. Miles' Nervine is a sure cure for all three maladies. It soothes the brain, strengthens the nerves of the stomach and digestive organs, bringing sieep, rest, health, strength and a good digestion. "Smallpox contracted while in the armv, left me with a disease of the spine, nearly -biind, and with a complication of nervous affections. Perhap3 the most distressing of all my troubies were the sick headaches which grew more frequent and severe as the years passed by, until I became a confirmed -dyspeptic with all the characteristic symp- toms of nervousness, indigestion, and in-- comma. In my search for health, I left my -old home in Aroostook county, Maine, and located in the west. Soon after coming here my attention was called to Ir. Miles' Re-' storatrve Nervine, and I decided to try it. It soon slopped my headaches and I have not had one since. When I had taken six bottles my health was wonderfully improved r in every way. 1 am well today, eat and -sieep all right'and in fact feel that my youth has been renewed." J. li. Byron, New Whatcom, Wash. All druggists sell and guarantee first bot- tie Dr. Miles' Remedies, hend for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miies Medical Co, El'thart, Ind. 5 I I I

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY BVENING.MAECH 29.1904. IEARLY A FIZZLE. Nortbeasteru Kansas Good Koads ConTention Is "Quiet." President W. II. Moore, of Na tional Association, Amazed. AYS IT IS STRANGE. Doesn't Understand Why Inter est Is at Low Ebb. 51 a j Itun Good Koads Train Through Kansas. 6 The Good Roads convention of north eastern Kansas in session today at the Commercial club rooms was a fizzle from the standpoint of attendance, but Its very failure in this regard incited W. H. Moore, president of the National Good Roads association, who is in To peka at the meeting, to declare that he would thi3 Bummer institute one of the most exhaustive campaigns ever at tempted in any state, to work up senti ment in Kansas in favor of the im provement of the public highways. "'I am simply amazed," said Mr. Moore this morning, "at this small at tendance of 10 or 12 people. I cannot understand why the interest is at such an ebb. Over the country we meet con ventions of 3,000 and 4,000 people and the enthusiasm la at high pitch. Other states are organized thoroughly to do good work and they are doing it. '"The scheme to work up the senti ment will probably take the form of running a train across Kansas and stopping at many intermediate points between the borders, to hold meetings, distribute literature, and in a general way to tell the people what other states are doing, how they are doing it, and what they can do. "The governor of Kansas is one of the four, out of all the executives of the United States, who has not answered our letters in regard to the national convention to be held at St. Louis on from May 16 to 21. The other governors who have failed to show any interest at all, are from Nevada and Texas and one eastern state which I have forgotten Just at present. Before I leave the city tonight to attend the meeting at Fort Scott called for tomorrow morning, I ehall see Governor Bailey, if he is in the city, and if not, I shall speak to his secretary on the matter and see if we cannot get co-operation from the chief official of Kansas. "Good roads and politics," continued Mr. Moore, "go hand in hand. We shall use this fact, too, in the campaign which we shall make in Kansas. The representatives in both your state and national law making bodies should be put on record in regard to this subject. iVe want to know just where they stand. Why. one governor in a west ern state told me that he would make his issue good roads, because of the fact that the issues now are badly tangled up. The sentiment all over the west is great, it is gioivfng rapidly, find certainly the small attendance at this meeting is a great surprise to me and one which I cannot understand." The meeting adjourned immediately after coming to order this morning at half past ten and reconvened this af ternoon, to talk ever the condition of things and to elect delegates to St. Louis from May 16 to 21. This morning the delegates who were here visited the new macadam road on West Sixth street. Major Anderson, secretary of the Commercial club, is in no wise respon sible for the small attendance, for he did all in his power to secure a big list of representatives from the fifteen counties which comprises the area of today's convention. In all of the coun ties the papers printed a notice about three-quarters of a column in length detailing the time and object of the meeting, but the advertisement netted no results. Personal letters in great numbers were sent out from the Com mercial club, but these also had little effect. There are two- causes for the light attendance, either the fact that it Is one of the busy. seasons on the farms or interest in good roads conven tions has dwindled to a low ebb in this part of Kansas. It is to resurrect this very sentiment that the campaign will be instituted in the state this summer by the National Good Roads association. President Moore promises that Kansas will hear It coming long before it strikes the bor der of the state. He visited the news papers and many prominent business men in the city today, and urged them to co-operate with his plans. CoK R. W. Richardson, secretary of the National Good Roads association, Is also in the city today to attend the convention. He prophesies a great meeting at St. Louis when the National Good Roads association convenes there in May. "We will nave a great repre sentation," he said. "Many public men cf prominence will be there, as dele gates from various states, and they will actively participate in the actions of the convention. Newspapers all over the country are interesting them selves in sending representatives to our meeting; in fact we already have let ters from a number of newspaper peo ple who state that they have been dele gated to attend our big meeting. The convention will be held in conjunction with the world's fair fend will be a great gathering of people who are In terested in gcod roads." W1U YON'S COLO CURE I WILL REFUND YOUR AVOr E IF IT FAILS TO CURE. I know truit my Cold Cure will re lieve the head, nose, throat and luns almost immediately, and prevent Pneu monia, Bronchitis, Grippe and other diseases. Get a 25 cent bottle of these little pellets, and if you are not perfectly satisfied with results I will refund your money. If your blood is impure, or ff you have Dyspepsia, or any liver or stom ach trouble, don't fail to use Munyon's Paw-Paw. It cures Dyspepsia, Ner vousness, Catarrh, Sleeplessness and makes you strong and well. MUNYON. Munyon'a Paw-Paw Tonic sold by all druggists. Paw-Piw. Laxative Pills, 25c a bottle. 1 styles WA ft? mmmm SsS' A 'XA V H AtM 2 I WELL DRESSED MEN In every avocation of life recognize the superior excellence of Rogers, Peet Co.'s hand-tailored clothing the build of the shoulder, the set of the collar, are distin guishing marks which you can readily discern a block away. The man who once wears a Rogers, Peet and Co. garment never consents to wear any other. It's the merit in the merchandise which enables Rogers, Peet Co., with but one traveling salesman on the road to represent them, to sell over Six Million Dollars a year, about three times more than any other clothing manufacturers in America employing from thirty to fifty salesmen to travel and push their makes. Watch Us Grow. Watch Our Busi ness Methods Win. DEAN TOSTOP IT. Applies to Government for Se cret Service- Men. Express Companies Are Evad ing the Revenue Law. MR. DEAN SURPRISED. Says This Business Has Reached Immense Magnitude. Force Is Too Small to Cope With Situation. The persistent and successful' at tempts of the Kansas City wholesale liquor dealers to evade the prohibitory law in Kansas through use of the United States express companies, has caused J. S. Dean, United States dis trict attorney, to apply to the depart ment at Washington for assistant ex pert secret service men to capture the offenders. At the present time each congres sional district in the state has one revenue collector. About four times that number are needed to cope with, this new plan of the liquor dealers to ship their wares into Kansas. The scheme employed by the whole salers in the Missouri town is to send packages of liquor by the express com panies marked C. O. D. to people in Kansas, who never ordered the stuff. It 'is then up to the person to whom it was shipped to refuse the goods or buy it at the price named on the package. If the goods are refused at the express office, the agents of the Kansas City dealers, and they can be found in every town in Kansas, take possession of the liquor and sell it by j the bottle. All of these sales are made without license, and it is to this phase of the business that United States At torney Dean objects. "Since I have made a more thorough and personal investigation in this mat ter, I am simply surprised at the mag nitude which it has assumed," said Air. Dean. "This wildcat selling at Kansas City is in my mind a thoroughly work ed out scheme of stupendous propor tions, of which the general public has no idea as to its size. I am perfectly safe in saying that at the 300 or more express offices in Kansas, one would today find from 200 to 250 packages of liquor from these Kansas City houses, marked C. O. D. If the persons to whom they are sent refuse to take them, bottles, one at a time, are taken out and sold around the town, the package lying in the ex press office all the time. While this scheme has been worked before, it has never even commenced to be as flagrant as at the present time. It must be stop ped. These people have to pay license if they want to sell liquor. "It is for this purpose," continued Mr. Dean, "that I want aid from the department at Washington. Our force at the present time, one man to each congressional district, JS inadequate to ccpe with this wild cat scheme which has come out of Kansas City. Four times our present strength is absolute ly necessary and still more could be used." The system of "beating" the govern ment out of revenues by using the ex press companies has been going on for more than a year In the state. It pro bably is the most successful scheme ever tried for that purpose, and the united States officials have had a hard time to capture the offendrs. Two wholesale dealers were convict ed in fa.an.sas City a short time ag-. Several retailers have been nunished within the last year for handling the stuff out of the express offices, and tnere are tnree more up for trial be fore the United States district court on April 11. Author of "Little Drops of Water,' In Galesburg. Illinois, there lives an elderly lady whose rhythmic words nearly every English speaking person has recited. She is Mrs. Julia A. Car ney, the author of the famous poem "Little Drops of Water." and she is nearly eighty-two years old. While Mrs. Carney has devoted most of her life to writing publishing a greater part of her widely read poems anony mously her popularity rests upon the one short poem, "Little Drops of Wa ter," as it is popularly known, or "Little Things," which, the author says, is the real title. A short time ago I had the pleasure of visiting Mrs. Carney, who lives In a small, prettily-situated house. I was escorted to her room and found her at a small writing table. Something in the radiance of her pleasant counte nance told me that I was more than welcome, and without hesitation I took advantage of the situation. I directed a few questions concerning the writing of "Little Drops of Water." The poem was written while Mrs. Carney was attending a class in phonography held in the Old Tremont Temple, Boston, fifty-nine years ago. She wrote it in ten minutes merely as an exercise in meter which a professor desired the students to practice. The next morning she made a few changes in it, adding a verse, or two, for she enjoyed teaching a Sunday school class, and thought that It might be well to read her verses as a poetic les son. This she did on the following Sunday, and the parents of some of the children who heard the .litres were so impressed that they sought a pub lisher for the young authoress. Several periodicals published the poem soon after. From Success. Marine Milkman of the Great Lakes The marine milkman, who supplied passing boats with milk, appeared one morning at a wharf where we tied up. We found him interesting because he differed from his city prototype in that his customers came to him to be served. He was round and fat, and his neck was adorned with a bright red and green necktie as he sat on a bench before his islandlike milk shop, and me life with a smiling countenance and that air of one who is at ease and has plenty of room to which we of the crowded east were beginning to grow accustomed. "Yes, I'm the marine milkman," he said, smiling broadly at the title we gave him. And when we essayed thr; olden pleasantry of which the city milk man is the immemorial victim, suggest ing that he seemed amply suplied with fresh water for the purposes of trade. he laughed as if he had never heard thi3 witticism before, and as one with a clear conscience. Louise Morgan Sill, in Har per's Magazine for April. "Jolly" is the word generally asso ciated with the jack. tar. lie is the picture of health, and the health bub bles over in mirth and merriment. When people are sick, especially when sickness attacks the lungs the doctor often advises a sea voyage. But in the large majority of cases the sea voyage is impossible. It is to the men and women of the workaday world to whom sea vovages or change of climate are impossible, that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery comes as the great est earthly boon. The effect of this medicine -upon those whose lungs are "weak" is re markable. Even where there is bron chitis, spitting of blood, emaciation, weakness, condi tions whidi if un checked or nnskillfully treated lead to consumption, "Golden Medical Discov ery" in ninety-eight cases out of a hun dred works a perfect and permanent cure. It strengthens the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, sa that the body in all its parts is not merely fed but nourished. And it is by nourishment that Nature builds up the body to resist or throw off disease. "I had a terrible couch something over a year go and could find nothing to stop it, or even to do me a particle of good," writes j. M. I-arr, Esq., of Cameron, Screven Co., Ga. "I chanced to see an advertisement of yours, and forth with Bought a bottle of your invaluable Golden Medical bottle I Oiacovery." Before 1 had taken half a as entirely well" Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation. BURTON THE TENTH. The "Lane Succession" in the Senate, v Senator Burton is the tenth in the "unfortunate Lane succession" of Kan sas United States sonators. In the Pomeroy succession, on the other hand, there have been only four senators Diior to Senator Long. In the Lane succession, with one exception, not a man served more than one term and the majority retired from office defeat ed and broken-hearted. The tenth. Burton, goes forth disgraced in the ey.s of the natioii after little more than half of his term -has "expired. The ''fatal succession," as John J. Ingalls once termed it whei; he de clined to run for a' place in this succes sion, has often been commented on. The following have been United States senators under it: James H. Lane, drew the short term, got at outs with his constituents, and committed suicide after serving for rive years. Edmund Ross, appointed to succeed Pomeroy, gave the vote which kept Andrew Johnson from conviction on impeachment charges, and was repudi ated by his people. Now living In New Mexico, almost in poverty. Alexander CaldwUl, charged with buying his election, ana resigned un der charges. Robert Crozier, appointed to succeed Caldwell, but failed of election to the regular tarm. James M. Harvey, who served a full term, but could not be re-elc ;ted and retired from public life broken-hearted. Preston B. Plumb, the one exception, served fifteen years and was a force in the senate, but even he died a tragic death in Washington. Bishop W. Perkins, appointed to fill Plumb's unexpired term, but a turn in the political wheel in Kansas placed the Populists in control of the legislature and defeated him for re-election. John Martin, elected by the legislature of 1893 to fill out the balance of Plumb's unexpired term to 1S95, but another turn of the political wheel placed the Republicans again in power and caused his defeat after only two years as sen ator. Lucien Baker, who served a full term without disgrace, but who lacked the force to secure a re-election, and who retired to private life embittered. And Joseph Ralph Burton, brilliant, but a convicted boodler when only half of his term has expired. Who will be the eleventh man in this unfortunate succession? Will he, like Plumb, be an exception to the rule'.' The Pomeroy succession, on the other hand, while not always successful, has been either successful or respected. It began with Samuel C. Pomeroy who drew the long term, was re-elected and was therefore senator for twelve years. It is true that he was defeated by In galls with charges of buying votes tainting him, but he had what is gen erally termed in politics a successful caree;-. Next came John James Ingalls, who remained in the senate for eighteen years and was one of the most con spicuous figures in the nation. The third was William A. Peffer, who while lacking Ingalls' brilliancy, retired at the end of his term with the respect of his colleagues and the confidence of his people in his utmost integrity. Fourth came William A. Harris, who attained a high position in the senate and who, but for a turn in the political fortunes of the state, would have been re-elected without question, and who is now held in the highest esteem by the people of his state regardless of politics. And fifth came Chester I. Long, whose career as United States senator is just beginning, but which seems full of prcmiEj. The Church of the Future. "The ideal church," says Newell Dwight Hillis in Everybody's Maga zine for April, "is one noble building, centrally situated, crowded from Sun day morning until the next Saturday night, a church that is the center of the social, the musical, the literary, the ethical life of the community; the home of light andJjoy; the pride of all the people. With numbers comes en thusiasm, economy, emulation, effi ciency. When all the teaching: forces and the art of teaching Is a great gift, and there are only a few teachers out of two thousand that know how to Impart wisdom are united, the Sun day school will again become popular. The great library of this church and MARSHA! its social rooms, equal to those of the best club rooms In the great cities, will be the center of the artistic life of the town, where' the new painting, pur chased by some merchant prince, will be exhibited for all to see; where the club life for young men, the literary life for young women, and the musical life for all classes will center. On the Sabbath there will be a great sermon in the morning, that represents the thought and study and prayer of six days and nights, of a man whom God ordained through his ancestry for moral illumination. There will be a great Bible school, toward which all the families will converge. There will be a great choral service in the after noon, that will be more attractive than all the things of the park, or the ball field. There will be a practical address to young people at night, that will lead men out of ignorance into wisdom, out of selfishness and sin in to righteousness, and the manhood of Jesus Christ." WATER ATTRACTS SNAKES. Naturalist Werner Reports Results of Observations. Some surprising and notworthy con clusions on this point have been reach ed by a German naturalist, Werner of iVenna, who has recently reported the result of observations that he has been making for some time on the senses of inferior vertebrates. On certain points the conclusions of M. Werner are very surprising, and in all they are worthy of not'ee. Werner has observed 136 individuals, of which one-third were at liberty, and he took all possible precautions not to let the creatures know they were watched. One general fact is evident, that rep tiles and amphibians are strongly at tracted by water. They go straight for it, sven when they are at a distance so great that they could not divine its presence by any of the senses known to us. It seems really that a sense of which we have no knowledge informs them of the direction in which water may be found. There seems to be a sort of chemical attraction, says M. Werner. But how does this act. and on what part of the creature? This remains a mystery. Reptiles also seek the light, but inde pendently of heat: they are positive ly heliotropic, and in winter they often leave a comfortable and warm retreat to seek the sunlight. Sight is general ly good with them. It is probably the finest sense they possess, but it would still appear to be very limited. Tho caymans and the crocodiles cannot distinguish a man at a distance of more than six times their length, according to Werner. In the water fishes see only at very close range about half their own length. This wiil seem, perhaps, -unlikely to anglers, al though some of them can cite instan ces showing that fish cannot see far. Snakes seem to have a very mediocre sense of sight. The boa, for instance, docs not see at more than a quarter or a third of its own length; different species are limited to one-fifth or one eighth of their length. Frogs are bet ter off; they see at 15 or 20 times their length. Frog catchers know this from experience. Hearing Is much poorer than sight, if possible. Most reptiles are noticeably deaf, except saymans find crocodiles; the boa appears to be absolutely so. Revue Scientiiique. Once Upon a Time. Once there was a younff man who was madly In love with a beautiful girl. After he had called on her a few times her father went to the young man, saying: "I should like to have a few minutes private conversation with you on a lit tle matter of business." The young man's heart began to beat violently, and his face turned very red. "I assure you, Mr. Miggleham. he said, "that my intentions are strictly honorable, and that (t "I beg your pardon for Interrupting, said the girl's father, "but before we proceed any further I should like to ask you a few questions. What are your resources? Do you own any property? Have you any money in the bank? Have you any paying in vestments "Oh," replied the young man, becom ing enthusiastic. "I think I can reas sure you on those points very quickly. In the first place, I inherited $20,000 from my grandmother. This is invest ed in gilt-edged stock which is paying annual dividends of 14 per cent. I have for several years held a lucrative posi tion, and I've been careful in using my money. I have invested $12,000 in a house and lot. which I rent for $175 a month, and I have money scattered around in various banks. If it became necessary I could raise $50,000 in cash tomorrow, and I have no reason to doubt, that I shall continue to advance here, so that "Very well." the old man replied. "Much obliged. I've just been ap pointed a member of the board of equalization and I notice that you are down on the list for $425 worth of personal property, while your $12,000 house is listed as being worth $950. Good morning." When the young man revived an hour later it was found that .his reason was gone, perhaps forever. Chicago Rect ord-Herald. The Gray-wings. Coming- from afar in a bis white cloud, the snow goose before-reaching the edge of the pond masses suddenly up In a long column inclined some forty degrees from the vertical. Every black tipped wing is thrown outward and downward and rigidly set, with the axis of the body about corresponding to the axis of the whole column. Any thing like sailing is thus impossible, and the whole descent is a slow settling or drifting downward, almost as gentle as the fall of a gossamer skein on the J.ALVIN HORNE,M.D.,D.S.T. The Celebrated and Eminent Specialist, of Chicago, is Now Permanently Located in Topeka. Dr. Home Has the Finest and Best Equipped Office in This State. He is Giving His $10 X-Ray Examination Absolutely Free to All Who Call Before April ist. Dr. Home Cures the Sick and Weak Permanently. Pleasantly and Painlessly. 7 'OtNk. the facilities at my command that enables me to positively guarantee a speedy and permanent cureof every case I undertake. If I relied on medi cine alone, I admit I would be on the same plane as any other intelligent Physician. MARVELOUS CURES. In many cases the cure is so rapid that th results are marvelous, giving instant relief, imparting new life and vitality to the diseased organs, stirring them to new life and vigor and enabling them to work with me In giving you the greatest of all blessings PERFECT HEALTH. My methods of revitalizing the Sympathetic Nervous System are espe cially effective in absolutely curing thefohowing diseases: DISEASES OF WOMEN. HEADACHE. CONSUMPTION (first stage). DISEASES OF HEART. DISEASES OF KIDNEYS. DISEASES OF LIVER. DISEASES OF BLADDER. CATARRH. DISEASES OF SKIN. GOITRE. DEAFNESS. DYSPEPSIA. BRONCHITIS. RHEUMATISM. ASTHMA. STIFF-JOINTS. Consultation and $13.00 X-ray examination absolutely free If -von fail fore April 1st. y CaU J. ALVIN HORNE, M. D., D. S. T. 106 West Eighth St. (over Santa Fe Watch Co. and opposite Transfer station) TTnui-a Q M 19 O n. K 7 tn ft venineS. 1(1 tn 15 still air of Indian summer. The white-fronted goose swings over it high in air as if he enjoyed the play. He is reasonably silent about it as he floats a thousand feet or more above the water, where he lines up for the great plunge. Then the edge of the line breaks, and as if suddenly struck rigid by the thunderbolt, yet with every throat tuned to concert pitch in a wild medley, the birds pitch, dive, tumble and gyrate sidewise, upside down, roll ing over in air in every imaginable way. a cataract of whirling life, down to within a few feet of the water. There the grand go-as-you-please march sud denly ends, the wild clamor of every throat is stilled, each goose rights itself in a twinkling, drifts into an orderly line, and floats a few yards along the surface of the water, then drops its feet, raises its neck and head, and, throwing back, its wings, slides into the water as gently as the reflection of the fleecy clouds it left above. From Outing. Hives are a terrible torment to the little folks, and to some older ones, fails. Instant relief, permanent cure. Easily cured. Doan's Ointment never At any drug store, 50 cents. Everybody reads the State Journal. I wish all men and women suffering with ill health would read carefully what I have to say. I assure you there Is absolute truthfulness in my every claim and sincerity in every word. I tell you the road to perfect health is open to you. and those who do not follow it are neglecting a plain duty they owe to themselves and their fam ilies. My methods are different from those of any other physician so different that physicians have placed themselves under my treatment for diseases they were powerlev to control by ordinary methods. I have the knowledge and DROPSY (reduce swelling la two daysi. PARALYSIS. EPILEPSY. ULCERS. NEURALGIA. STRICTURE. HEMIPLEGIA. PARAPLEGIA. ECZEMA. FISTULA. HEMORRHOIDS (Piles). DISEASES OF MEN. NERVOUS DEBILITY. LOST VITALITY. BLOOD POISON.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TTTESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1904. Mew Model 6th and Qumcy New Model To say this sale has been satisfactory is putting it very mildly. It has surpassed our expectations, and the last day we propose to make the greatest day of all by cutting the prices still deeper. If you have been here and secured some of the wonderful bargains, come again tomor row we have a surprise for you. To those who have not attended this sal?, we extend a special invitation. DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Pi ONE BAY MORE OF THE Jo g Ladies' Black Taffeta Silk Dress Skirts 5 tiny vertical tucks, covering entire body 12-in. 35 fluted flounces with six all silk ribbon ruffles S black "spun glass" drop skirt a ?Q QQ S garment cheap at 8. Tomorrow. ..$uUU 5 Bed Sheets Readv-to-use Bed Sheets. 90-in. -i :g long, iZ-m. wide; hemmed ready for use. Tomorrow... jg Ladies' Petticoats Ladies' black and white 5g striped Petticoats 12-in. flounce with three ruf 35 fles 11.00 garments AQr jjj Tomorrow Ti3' Towels Cream Turkish Towels 54-in. long :S and a bargain for 15c I fir S Tomorrow I U- White Rabbit Egg Dye solid colors flr 35 and fancy paper dyes package l-t One lot Plain White India Linon full -5 width, perfect in cloth 2 bolts, while it lasts tomorrow, yard TELL 0WN STORY Prosperity of Kansas Verified by Banks. For Four tears Profits Hare Been Uniformly High. 20 PER CENT IN 1903. Capital Increased Orer a Mil lion In Three Years. National Banks Will Duplicate the State Kecord. Figures compiled today by State Bank Commissioner Albaugh show that Kan sas banks have been doing a uniformly good business during the past four years. They indicate that the total profits of the state and private banks in Kansas during that time have varied from 18.09 per cent in 1900 to 20.17 per cent in 1903. Mr, Albaugh says that the national banks w ill just about duplicate the figures which he furnishes for the state and private banks. The number of state and private banks have increased in- the four years from 395 to 513. The capital invested in these banks has increased from $6,S86,S30 in 1900 to J?.14!.2,V in 1903. The total receipts of the banks have increased from to,664,541.94 in 1900 to J5.2M.7-H.:! in 19u3. The total profits made by the bank3 is shown by the sum of the dividends paid, the surplus and the increase in the undivided profits each year. These p:onts by years were as follows: l!v 1 09 per cent. 19.l'4 per cent. IS. 79 per cent. 1S03, 20.17 per cent. The total amount paid in dividends has increased from Jtj44.270.5S in 1900 to $y47.7i57.1J in 1903. The undivided profits have gone from $C6.935.51 in 190o, to $1,394,709.52 in 19.J.1. In addition to the dividends paid, Kmsas bunks carried to surplus in $417,972.67; in 190 J. $341,900.S1: i 19' 2. J372.490.40 and in 1903, J464.S40.99. or S.S per cent in 1900, 5 per cent in 19'd, 5 per tent in 1902 and 5.75 per cent it. 19'i3. Likewise, they had undivided profits In 1000 in excess of 1S99 of $31,119.00, or 1.36 per cent. 1SH in excess of 1900 of $140,942.00, or "4 per cent. !fi- in excess of 1901 of $153,533.00, or .34 per uent. 1903 in excess of 1902 of $227,299.00, or 2.79 per cent. The comparative statement of the receipts of disbursements of the banks of the state during the- four years, as compiled today by Bank Commissioner Albaugh. furnishes in condensed form a financial history of the state during' that time. It is as follows: RECEIPTS. 1SW. liwvi. 1303. 1903. Nurr.ber b.mks reporting 3r5 413 474 513 Undivided prorits J 9T7.S77.li? $1,167,4101 Jl 394 7W "52 Interest and discount 2,348.267. 0 2.62K.3S9 IS 2 973 f'M 57 3 314 Its 47 Kxchango 211.443.2S 225.31S.64 20S.4I-S.64 24 6S 36 Rents 57.37. 2 4B.538.12 61.W2.H4 57 32 Commission? 4'UC 63 3!'.M3.77 45.F4J7.9S 37.232 51 Profit or, real estate sold l'.4-'5.13 15.2'.22 lS,t23 92 19 5 79 Awment on capital stock S3.4.3 431.27 'sftKOO 15 572 30 All other sources 63.925. "S 112.f27.68 122.S0T.32 r-:i.46S '4 Front and loss 2.563.3S 2,!-53.51 4,649.il 4.702.08 Totals J3. 664.541. 94 $4.112.179.53 J4,606,261.99 $5,281,716.23 DISBURSEMENTS. Officers" salaries J &4.9"7 73 5 560.121.71 632 272 6S 7 4!4 32 C!"rk hire lKl.ftSi 70 131.k64.67 126!4:'.3i) 156 337 53 Her.t 3H. 25 19 3!.r7.93 42.222.23 47.3.34 Insurance Id.!!.', 2v-4.42 20.217. 07 25.123 16 Taxes 140.575.74 13S.449.50 lte.649'67 161J99 75 Interest on deposits 207.54S.90 210.732.95 247.S97.36 2S2.245.71 Interest on borrowed money 15.974. 6ci 9.S45.91 15I434 67 24 1,,,V66 I.ivi.iend 6S4.27f.5S 843.t'S3.3.l S37!249.i S4t!767.12 Oarried to surplus 417.972-67 341.fvS! 372.4?.4' 44,SJ f9 Bad paper charged off 15S.15.06 15S.9M.56 21l'.Si-2.(w 16S 16S 2 I-nss on real estate sold 32.50 1.219.i"2 217.00 i.7Vi.7S Tepreciation in real estate 27.546.97 29.03.0-4 72.9W.72 16!96e6S lepreciation in fixtures, etc 13.2t6.65 15.125.37 22.440 3' 29 76 13 All other purposes 312.S3'.6i "r344.23 3NV722.43 529 S3S 51 Balance undivided profits 1.011.365.91 1.210.722.17 1.473.217.20 1.72Z979.41 Totals J3.66l.541 .94 J4.102.179.S3 J4.6"i5.261.99 $5,281 746 29 Avra capital invested JB.6s6.si3n.rrt $.'.9tl.2,V.0i $7 4i2.0Si.rt JS.149.2S5 0 Gross earnings J2,731.55'12 $3,111,917.59 $3,432,701.37 J3,SS672 39 Per fftit earnings to capital 40.S5 45.90 46.12 47.45 N. bs-.nks paving dividends 27S 2 326 34i No. bunks paving no dividends. 117 135 i4,s 173 Per ewit dividends total capital lti.23 J2.20 11.25 1163 Percent salaries total capital.. 7.55 8.24 8.50 8 6) Per cent taxes to total capital 2.10 2o 1.90 jlss 35c and finish full some up to In speaking of this statement Sir. Albaugh, said: "Each item of the figures furnishes interesting information and shows that the banks of Kansas, during the past four years, have done a very gratifying business and that they have made very satisfactory returns to the stockholders. These reports are for the state ana private banks. The national banks wiil show almost a duplication of these figures and by doubling the amount in each case, the reader can easily arrive at the receipts and dis bursements for all the banks of the state." LOOKS GOOD FOR COAL. Topeka People Encouraged at Jewell County Prospect. The following is from tha Jewell City Republican. The mine, referred to is owned by Forceda company, composed of Topeka business men. The Repub lican savs: 'Mr. John Lungstrum, -superintendent at the mine, has been compelled to re turn to Topeka this week to look after business of his own. Scott Farman will act as superintendent during his ab sence. Much credit is due to Superin tendent Lungftruir.'s cleverness and energy in lifting the mins out of its confusion and nonproductive condition, and getting all the wheels to running smoothly and in unison. A condenser that he put on the engine runs a steady stream of water back into the tank from the exhaust steam. The little well they have r,ov furnishes all the fresh watar needed, does away with the water haulers and saves a hundred dollars per month. There are now 22 miners at work and an excellent qual ity of coal is being taken out. The tun nels are being run far out from the shaft before the rooms are begun. Mr. I-ungstrum says that within a month the mine will be in a condition so that SO tons of coal a day can be taken out. The company is advertising in eastern papers for bids to sink the big shaft. There seems no longer any dcubt that there is going to be quite an extensive mining business done in Jewell county. The people who are burning the coal are almost unanimous in praising it." COAL TO BE HIGHER. Schedule of Summer Prices Fixed in New York. New York, March 29. Prices for coal here during the year beginning April 1 have been fixed at a meeting of the re tail dealers' association on a basis prac tically ten cents higher than for the current 12 months. At the first of the coming month, when a 50-cent reduction by the coal roads goes into effect, the dealers who buy 2.240-pound tons will sell 2.000 pounds for J5.85, compared with J5.75 for the same period last year. On June 1 ten cents will be added to the price, and on September 1 it will jump to $6.25 last winter's rate. Increased rent, higher wages and taxes are the causes to which the deal ers attribute the necessity of an ad vance over the older rates. Loyd Graham and Harry Bates re turned Sunday afternoon from a hunt ing trip down the Kaw ..river from Maple Hill. They bagged 40 ducks yes terday, most mallards. One lot staple Apron Check Ginghams full bolts, perfect cloth, fast colors, green and white, blue and white, brown and white, II tomorrow yard T"2 8oo yards Standard Percales bookfolded and 32-in. wide, cloth and colors warranted blacks, blues, Calcuttas, silver grays and 71 cardinals 10c is a bargain figure yard 12 Woven Stripe Madras Cloth 32-in. wide and bookfolded perfect cloth and. fast colors, all new, fresh goods, long range of attrac tive designs, 12c is the value, yard Table Damask Cream linen Table Damask. 72-in. wide, five excellent patterns, re gular 60c value yard Ladies' Corsets One lot standard make in Ladies' Corsets whites, drabs, and blacks sizes missing; in this lot are $1.00 your choice The Lincoln, Neb., High V. Err, "Wolfe, Barger, BRYAN APPEAL HEARD. JJeunett Will Case Is 'ow. Be fore a Jury. :Xew Haven. Conn., March r 29. The appeal of William Jennings Bryan from the decision of Probate Judge Cleveland in relation to the will of Philo S. Bennett, of which Sir. Bryan is an executor, was heard in the su perior court today before Judge ICd win B. Gager and a jury. Mr. Bryan appeals from the probate court's de cree that the "sealed letter" mention ed in the will is not a part of the will. By this letter Mr. Bennett expressed a wish that Mr. Bryan have a gift of J50.000 of which J10.000 was to go to Mrs. Bryan and J15.000 to be held in trust for their children, the remainder to be for Mr. Bryan himself. Mr. Bryan was present in court, but Mrs. Bryan, who accompanied him here from Nebraska, was not In the room. When James K. Blake, clerk of the probate court, was called as the first witness, there was much sparring be tween counsel over technicalities relat ing to the identification of the witness and the sealed letter from the court records. Kvery question asked by counsel for Mr. Bryan was objected to bv the other. The witness was enter ed as exhibit A and the sealed letter was exhibit 'B." areTot expected. No Provision Made for Delegates from Philippines "Washington, March. 29. No provision has been made by either the Republi can or Democratic national conventions to seat delegates from the Philippine islands. In the calls for the conven tions issued by. Chairmen Hanaa and Jones neither the Philippines or Porto Rico are included among the states and territories entitled to representa tion. However, should delegates from these islands present themselves to the conventions it is within the province of the committee on credentials to seat them. Would Examine Sully's Partners. New Tork, March 29. David H. Mil ler, one of the two receivers for the suspended cotton firm of Daniel J. Sully Co., said today that the re ceivers had applied to the United States courts for an order for the ex amination of Edwin Hawley and Frank Ray, the alleged partners of Sully in the big cotton deal, which re sulted in the suspension of his firm. The object of the examination will be to find more about Sully's assets. Vacation for Postmasters. "Washington, March 29 Acting Post master General Wynne has issued an order allowing- ten days' leave of ab sence to all postmasters of second nd third class pestoffices who want to at tend the convention of the national postmasters of the second and third class to be held in St. Louis May IS, next. Cut in Crude Oil Pittsburg, Pa,, March 29. The Stan dard Oil company today reduced its quotations in all crude oils. The. cut in the Pennsylvania product amount ed to three cents, making the quota tion $1.68. Other credit balances, in cluding both high and low grades were cut in proportion. This is the fourth cut of three cents since March J. Remember the 35c values 15c School Girls' EJasketball Team Defeated by Topeka TJ A Watt (Capt; '-Woodwort-' Trigg, DEFEND PENSION ORDEIl. Roosevelt Will Show That It Follows Cleveland-McKinley Precedents. "Washington, March 29. The presi dent hopes to satisfy his critics when he sends to congress the information, recently called for by the senate and house, relative to his executive order defining old age to be a pensionable disability. It will be forwarded to congress very shortly. The strong point that will be brought out is that in issuing the order of March 15. for which he has been criti cised as having by executive act usurped the powers of congress, he has but followed the distinguished prece dent set by Grover Cleveland, the only Democratic president since the civil war, and indorsed by McKinley, his own Republican predecessor. The president will set forth that in the or der of March 15 no new princiDle has been established, but the executive acts of Cleveland and McKinley have simp ly been reconstrued and reinterpreted for the benefit of a class of veterans whose claims became more pressing and more deserving of liberal treat ment as the years go by. It was Judge Lochren of Minnesota, Democratic commissioner of pensions under Cleveland, who fixed 75 years as the age at which the maximum rate of $12 Der month should be paid for disa bility, and it was H. Clay Evans. Re publican commissioner under McKinley, who fixed 65 years as the minimum age for which pensionable rate is $6. The president's message will make it ap pear that in reducing, the maximum age to 70 years and the minimum age to S2 years the head and front of his offending has been to follow in the path of his illustrious predecessors. He Fought at Bull Bun. "Washington, March 29. General William H. Payne, counsel for the Southern railway, a distinguished con federate officer and commander of the famous Black Horse cavalry at the first battle of Bull Run, died today, aged 73 years. Made Governor of Guam. Washington, March 29. Commander George L. Dyer, commanding the cruiser Albany of the Asiatic fleet, has been assigned to duty as naval gover nor of the island of Guam to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Com mander William E. Sewelf. T .adlock on Miners' Scale. Pittsburg, Pa.. March 29. The com mittee of the United Mine Workers and the coal operators of the Pittsburg district appointed to adjust the scale for the coining year have deadlocked. Neither side, it is said, will yield at any point. President Dolan says if the members fail today to settle the ques tions at issue the conditions will be serious. The druggists imagine you have got to buy drugs. So you have, dear people you have but you have n't got to put up with1 drug man ners, have you Frank Hobart, 500 West Tenth. Only one more day You will have to hurry up if you get one of those fine $6.95 Suits. We have a few more $3.50, $4.98 and $5.45 Suits left at Red Tag Prices. Those Men's Pants that we are selling at $i.oo, $1.25, $K5o and $1.98 you ought to see them while the Red Tag Price lasts only one more day. Shirts A fine line of Shirts at 50c, 65c, 75c and $i.oo. r This is your last chance for this sale. Red Tag Sale. Red Tags f- Drug Department. We are the originators of Cut Rates on drugs. Low Prices still prevail in our Hardware and Queensware departments. Hunt, Kmmel, Spirk. BLOW TO A TRUST. Plumbers' Combine Enjoined from Continuing Business. Detroit.Mich., March 29. In a sweep ing decision handed today by Judge Brooks of the circuit court, the River side club and Plumbers' Exchange of this city, made up of organizations of plumbers against which proceedings were brought by Prosecutor Hunt on the ground that they were organized to fix prices and stifle competition, were restrained from continuing busi ness which the court holds to be "an unlawful enterprise inimical to the public welfare." FLYING REPTILES OF OLD. Of Great Size, They Were Once More Common Than Birds. We are apt to think of reptiles as creeping and crawling things, forget ting that there was a time when fly ing re'otiles were more common than birds. These reutiles, the pterodactyls, or tlying dragons, not only flew, but some of them reached a size much greater thaa that of any bird, for the largest birds do not fly. The South American condor sometimes measures as much as ten and "e-half feet from tip to tip of outstretched wings, and it is quite rossiole that the finest ex amples of the albatross may measure a little more. But the great pterod actyls which flew about the sea that in the days of old reached from the Gulf of Mexico to the Rocky Mountains, measured as much as twenty feet, the, width of an average city lot, across their wir.ers. Most of us have seen an eagle Hying", and we can appreciate the size of this ancient dragon by remembering that it was nearly three times the size of an eagle It was not. however, three times as heavy, for the body of this strange reotile was so small and its skeleton so wonderfully light that the entire animal is thought to have weighed not more than twenty-five pounds, or only about as much as a large condor. One of the largest bones of the wings, 2 feet long" and 2 inches through, was, as Prof. Williston- tells us, no thicker than a sheet of blotting paper, and the great head, with a beak over three feet long, was equally light. This great toothless beak is believed to have been used for snapping up fishes; and we can imagine this huge creature sailing swiftly over the sea, now and then swooping down to picic up a fish as deftly, for all its size, as a real swallow- But what did Ornithostoma this is the animal's name-do with his wings and beak when he made occasional visits to the land? One would think they must have been very much in his .way. and that the animal was as awk ward on the shore as he was graceful in the air. And how did he start tofly? With such enormous winss, we think Ornithostoma must have dwelt on cliffs about the sea and launched off them as the gannets do from Bird Rock. This great flying reptile lived some six million years ago the sea over which it flew long ago disappeared, and the mud into which its bones sank became chalk and from the formation of these great chalk beds the time at which Ornithostoma existed is called the Cretacious. period. St- Nichclas, All first-lass grocers sell Simon Pure Baking Powder. It is pure and the best. Try it. r: Mothers: Come and see these $1.50, $1.98, $2.25 and $2.49 Boys' Two-piece Suits none better, they are almost worth twice the money. Come while the Red Tag Price is on them. Neckwear for 15c, 19c and 39c these prices are only while the Red Tag Sale last. Boys' Knee Pants for 19c, 39c and 50c Red Tag Price. Young Men: You ought to visit the Red Tag Sale before it is too late only one more day and the big sale is off. Furniture and Carpets. Many have provided themselves with furni ture and carpets during this sale, and we know there are many more who should come tomorrow and fit themselves up with these lines while it can be done with so little money. H AMERICAS CZAR. Alaska we think of as a brand new country just now in the making. But some years before ever John Kinzie built his house across the north branch on the site of what is now Chicago, Sitka, the caDital of the territorv of Alaska, was founded. The man who settled Sitka was old Baranoff, and Russia has nroduced few men who have lived more romantic and pictur esque lives. In Sitka there still live a few hundred descendants of the original Russians who creDt across the straits of Bering more than a hundred years ago. The Greek church, the orthodox church ot Russia, stant.3 up against the hillside, surmounted "y the Russian cross, and it still has many followers all through the peninsula. It was Baranoff who. first of all the Russians, came into contact with the seafaring Yankee from New England. It was Baranoff who fought and strug gled to save Alaska for his moiherland, but years before Russia sold her American possessions to the United States for the trifle of $7,500,000 poor old Baranoff, the victim of intrigues at the court of tr czar, started home across the Pacific and died, a broken hearted man, far out on the ocean. Russia had so much unexnlored and savage country at her eastern doors in those davs that there was small in centive for Russians to go wandering far from home in search of new lands. But it was Russians who discovered Alaska in 1710 and it was the Russian American company which first sent fur traders to buy otter and sealskins from the Indians and Eskimos along that icy coast. The Russian fur traders had their headquarters on the island of Kadiak, one of the archipelago which juts out from the point of the Alaskan peninsula, j But the Russian supply ships which were supposed to carry food out to the fur traders on the island were often de layed, and Baranoff got tired of going hungry for weeks at a time. He had heard that adventuresome Americans often landed on the mainland of the Alaskan peninsula, and he decided that a more regular supply of food could be obtained there. Besides a trading post on the peninsula ought to prove profit able to the company. So, with a little company, he sailed away from Kadiak island and settled down about six miles north of the present site of Sitka. Baranoff staid there long enough to see that a log stockade was built for the protection of his men from the hostile Indians. Then he went back to tell the company what he had done. He was always one to do things first and tell about them afterwards. He staid at Kadiak until his action had been ap proved. Then he loaded some more men on a ship and went back to his colony. He found nothing there when he arrived but the ruins of the stockade. The In dians had surprised the colony when most of the men were out fishing and killed all the adult males, carrying oft the women and children into captivity. Baranoff lost no time in complaining; nor did he lose heart and give up the struggle. He moved down to the pres ent site of the city of Sitka and there, on a high promontory, he built a new fort, mounted half a dozen smooth bore cannon so that they commanded the whole country round, and sat down with his men to fight the thing out. Presently an English vessel came along that way and Baranoff was dip lomat enough to persuade its captain to make his quarrel his own. In the English vessel Baranoff sailed down the Alaskan coast, chastised the In dians, and forced them to deliver their Russian captives back into his hands. That done, he went back to Sitka, builded himself a great logblockhouse, took possession of the whole country in the name of the czar, and settled down to reign for thirty years as the czar of Alaska. The name of Baranoff is still the best known name among all the na tives of the Alaskan peninsula. His old log house, which survived for more than half a century after the death of its builder, was burned only a few yeat ago and was known among all the people who were familiar with Alaska as "BaranofTs castle." He was a big, rough bearded, hard drinking, masterly old Muscovite. Soon after the settlement of Sitka the sailor men from New England began to visit him. They brought In their ships abundant stores, on which Baranoff was .practically dependent for the sup port of hi colony. At the same time they were accustomed to buy the skins of the sea otter and other precious furs from the Indians right under the nose of Baranoff and his traders, and that made the old man furious. He wrote home to the imperial govern ment wrathy letters complaining that the Americans were despoiling the MiSts of Russian America and urging 3- on Everything. that some action be taken against them. At the same time he did not dare to quarrel openly with the Yan kee skippers, for they were practically his only source of supplies. Finally he set himself to outwit them, and in the end, as might have been predicted, he got the worst of it. Baranoff's scheme was to maka con tracts with ail the Yankee sailor men who visited Sitka to act as his agents in the fur trade. In this way he cal culated that he would be able to keeo the trade in his own hands and pay them only a small percentage on tho profits. He found the skippers of tha American vessels who called at his fort ready enough to make such contracts, though they were undeniably hard at closing a contract. Then the Yankees, their contracts calling for payment to them of 25 per cent, on an agreed price, went out and; sailed in and out of the bays and canals which make the coast line of Alaska longer than that of the eastern coast of the United States. Everywhere they visited the trading camps of the In dians and from them bought many sea otter skins at a cost in cheap goods of $1 each. These skins they later turned in to Baranoff at $2 each.-deducting also their legitimate commission of 50 cents on each skin. In that way, while Baranoff finally got the skins, the Yan kees got a profit o $1.50 on each and saved ail the trouble of carrying the skins round the horn with them. Baranoff was not the czar of Alaska for nothing. It was charged that when other Russian traders invaded his ter ritory he incited the hostile Indians to rise against them and drive them back, diminished in numbers, to trading posts on the islands. Complaints against him and his administration were made at the headquarters of the company in St. Petersburg and even reached tha ears of the czar himself. When Baran. off heard that a cabal was plotting against him it was characteristic oC him that he should waste no time. Ha tarted by forced marches across Ber ing straits and then over the frozen steppes of Siberia to the Russian cap ital. And such was the force 01 hts personality that he overthrew the peo ple who had attacked him and cara( back to Russian America more than ever a czar in his own right. Time and aeain he fouirht with the In dians, but the thunder of his old smooth bore cannon was so terrifying and the prsoral bravery of Baranoff was so im pressive that before many years all tho natives along the Alaskan coast and far into the interior neetieu out to near nis name to obey the orders which he issued. Nor did he always treat the natives with harshness. When, as was often the case, supplies gave out and a band of natives was in danger of starvation, they could always find succor by applying to Bara noff or to his fur traders, who, after the fame of their master was once estab lished, traveled anywhere in Alaska with out danger from attacks by the Indians. Finally after Baranoff had lived at Sit ka and had practically reigned over Alas ka for 30 years, his enemies at St. Peters burg again got the ear of the czar and orders were sent summarily removing him from power end ordering him to return home at nee for trial. The old man was broken hearted. He took ship for home, but he died long before it reached land, his lion spirit crushed at last. Today ail over the Alaskan peninsula there exist monuments to his fame in the shape of bavs, islands, straits and canals which bear "his name. And surer test of long lastinir popular fame there are few Alaskan towns in which there is not a Baranoff hotel and a Baranoff saloon. Chicago Tribune. "Use Perfumed Rings. The use of perfume as a disinfectant is well known, and the "scented dan dy" has perhaps more hygienic wis dom than his detractors give htm cred it for. It is he who is trying to re-r vive the use of the perfumed fountain ring, an article de luxe which may either be used as an ornament or as a means of a pleasant disinfectant in stuffy underground trains or in in salubrious districts. The ring is an or dinary gold one fitted with a bail at the back. It is filled by pressing tha ball nearly fiat, and dipping the ring into a cup of scent, when the elasticity of the ball draws the perfume into tha interior until quite full. By the least pressure the wearer of the ring caas cause a Jet of scent to shed its ite freshing aroma any moment he pleass and he may thus act as a benefacrci or a nuisance to those in his vicinity. The perfume lamp may also be used as another pleasant method of disin fecting a room. A ball of spongy pla tinum is placed over the center of the wick, and is fixed in its position by a thin glass rod, which 4s inserted Into the wick. The iamp is then filled with any scented spirit, and when lighted is allowed to burn until the. platinum, gets redhot. The flame is then blown out, and a pleasant odor f'lls the at mosphere. London Express. "Anything new about the war?" 'An unofficial dispatch has just been con firmed." Chicago Record-Herald.

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJRNAI TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1904 8 TWtTTTTtTTTTttTtTWTTTTTt t V V W "P VI NEW FROM .THE SPRING STOiLB. A Writing Tablets Good 10c special for 5c Tooth Brushes New 12Ic Japanese worth 25c, bristles, special 10c Pearl Waist Pins Larere size. 25c kind. Set special 10c Metal Waist Pins To clear odd sets. Were sold up to 25a Set 5c Leather Belts Narrow ones odd lots of black and colors 10c

SOCIETY j The new cooking- club which has been formed for Tuesday mornings under the direction of Mrs. Julia Vylie had its first meeting today. Among the members are Mrs. Frank Scott Davis. Mrs. David W. Norton, Mrs. Don Mulvane, Mrs. John Baird Nicholson, Mrs. Dick Alden, Miss Agnes Gunther, Miss Mabel Wood, Miss Helen Otis. Miss Edith Guibor, Miss Elvia Mlllspaugh, Miss Fay Quinton, Miss Anna Herbst, Miss Mar garet Jones and Miss Elizabeth Cole. The date of the Bowling club's dance in honor of the Evening club which is to be one of the important post-Lenten entertainments has been set for Fri day, April 22, at Steinberg's. Mrs. Schuyler Nichols entertained the D. D. Whist club Monday after noon. The substitutes were Mrs. Willis Norton, Mrs. J. B. Furry and Mrs. William Webb. Mrs. Arthur Mills will be the next hostess. The Occidental club is meeting to day with Mrs. Dell Keizer. The Kappa Kappa Gammas of the University of Kansas have issued in vitations for their annual spring party Friday, April 8, Everett hall, Law rence. The Kind You Have Always 1 Tl 11GA VkW AYf AM V, v jcars, WjXW; ana lias neon made under his per T&J&X Sonal saPervision since its infancy. AH Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-a-srood" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health off Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR! A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-fc-oric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Ifarcotio substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tha Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GEflUIPJE CASTORIA ALWAYS r .wear uia Tiie Kind You Have Always Bought in Use For Over 30 Years. -rue c.nmu. nuMin, ry Our W inctows at a passing glance what's newest in finest cotton fabrics for elegant gowns. Duck Suitings Basement Every bolt crisp and new pretty blues, tans, white and black, and the like. Rings, dots, and neat fig-urea; plain colors too. Just right for inexpensive but stylish and serviceable shirt waist suits. New Ginghams Suits 10 to 15c Basement Not common place, not coarse, some of them copies of high priced suitings. Pat terns selected for imitation that work up well in gingham fabrics and really, if they're made up right, with pretty pipings or some tasteful trimmings, the effect is just as good as if your suit cost three or four times the price. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. A. H. Norton has returned from a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Charles jtfrown in Arkansas City. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Patten are ex pected back tonight or tomorrow from their trip to Galveston and San An tonio. Mrs. Hairy Williams, Mrs. William Frame and Mr. Burns Williams will spend Wednesday in Kansas City. Miss Jennie Wilson of Valencia spent Monday in town. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Foote left Mon day evening for Hayes City to be gone until the end of the week. Miss Gertrude Mulvane will go to Enterprise Wednesday to visit her sis ter, Mrs. William Ehrsam. Mrs. Charles Sessions and Mrs. Jesse Leach left Monday for a trip through Mexico. Mrs. Myrtle Foote-Holme? will en tertain the O. A. O. club Saturday af ter Easter at the home of her father, Mr. C. E. Foote. Judge and Mrs. Adrian L. Greene and their children will go to Newton Friday to spend Easter. J. D. M. Hamilton has returned from California and will leave the last of the week for New York city to join Mrs. Hamilton on a viait to Mr. and Mrs. Hale Hamilton. He will be gone about ten days. Miss Norma Wheeler, who is the guest of Mrs. George Port Ashton, will return to her home in Kansas City Friday. MM. Jary Seery has gone to Wich ita to remain for several months. Mrs. R. E. Hitchin and her daughters of Olive Hill, Ky., who have been the guests of Mrs. A. A. Hurd, will go to Kansas City Wednesday for a visit be fore returning home. Mr. Frank Groom, who spent Sunday i wich Mr. and Mrs. Irving Pribble, 701 Fillmore street, returned to Kansas City Monday. Ms. Moreland has returned to her home in Hiawatha after a visit to her sister, Mrs. A. A. Hurd. Miss Jennie West ana Miss Lillian Hanson returned Monday from Chicago, where they have been since Friday. D. and Mrs. Frank W. Marston of San Francisco, Cal., are the guests of Mv. and Mrs. Frank Durein for a few day?, when they will leave for New York to sail for an extended European tri;-. Miss Mae Legler, who has been visit ing Mis3 Ethel Corbet for the past few day:-, returned to her home In Valley Falls Monday. 1 H U Ui Bought, and which has been.

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mm fiat 1 4i u i .f r w, New White Waists priced from IJrr WW 'P Mfi$;) win This striking turban of fancy straw o at the front is fastened by a Jet ornamen TO KXl'OSE THE LUNUS. A Gsrman Surgeon Announces an Invention. New York. March 29. A celebrated Breslau surgeon is expected to make at this week's annual German surgical congress the first announcement of an invention providing for the exposure of the human lungs for operative pur poses, says a Herald dispatch from London. Experts already acquainted with the process say that the invention will widely increase the range of chest sur gery and operations in the region of the aesophagus and throat. It consists of an air tight cabinet, holding the patient and two operators, th patient's head protruding through an opening at the side. The principle involved is the reduction of the air pressure around the exposed lung so as to prevent its collapse. Experiments on animals have proved completely successful. After the ani mals were anaesthetized the air within the cabinet was pumped out sufficient ly to lower the mercury a fraction of an inch. The lungs, upon pressure. filled up with air and emptied them selves regularly, and the heart action continued uninterrupted, except by anesthesia. When the air pressure within the cabinet was increased the lungs Immediately collapsed and re mained collapsed until the air was again rarlfied, when respiration be came normal. WABASH TO ST. LOUIS. World's Fair Route" "Follow the Plag." Only line to World's fair main en trance. Five dally trains from Kansas City. Shortest line. Ask your agent for tickets over the Wabash. L. S. HcCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. H. C. SHIELDS, Kansas City, Mo. Calilurnia A Farm for Ten Are you satisfied at home? Or do you wish to better yourself? You should In vestigate what the San Joaquin valley of California has to offer hustlers. ln that great valley is grown nine-tenths of the U. S. raisin crop, and millions of gallons of ine are made yearly. you can profitably raise almost everything there. Good farms at cheap prices. Low rate colonist excursions in March and April on the Santa Fe. Write for pamphlets to T. L. KING, A., T a F. Ry., Topeka, Kansas. Special Bale this week on a fine new line of Gold clocks, J2 up, at Swearin jtan's jewelry store, 721 Kansas avenue. 1 Z l Newest White Waists Not many women will make Waists this season. We show them at moderate prices that vie in fineness and daintiness with the expensive creations of the best modistes. Fine India Linons, inset with Tenerlffe medallions, faggoting and Valenciennes laoes. Not the Valenciennes usually found on ready-to-wear waists, but really dainty laces, in new patterns, such as you would select for yourself. Pure linen waists are made up with real Mexican drawn-work, in medallions and bands. Some of the Swisses hav6 especially ar ranged designs in rare lace work and hand embroidery epaulette, stole, band and yoke effects. One very Frenchy creation has a deep yoke of very fine lace, above a graceful inset design of hand-wrought lace. Cuffs are lacey and dainty to match the waists. TURBAN OF FANCY STRAW. wes its smart effect to a clever introduct t. Foliage and flowers trim the crown CUT OUT HIS TONGUE. Surgeons Perform an Operation on Thomas Maguire. New York, March 29. After two weeks of preparation a surgical opera tion for the removal of the tongue has been successfully performed upon Thomas Maguire, a well known theat rical treasurer, formerly of San Fran cisco, but who has been attached to New York playhouses for several years. -j Maguire was a victim of cancer at the rcots of his tongue, caused by ex cessive smoking. A fev lvveeKs ago the doctors Informed him that his only chance for life lay In the entire removal of the tongue. He cheerfully submitted and said in bidding farewell to his friends who gathered around the oper ating table that he should soon Jearn to talk with his fingers. The surgeons now believe he will rapidly recover his health. POLICE COURT NOTES. The disprderly resort at 301 Kansas avenue was raided by the police at a late hour last night, and three women and two men arrested. Lou Arnold was charged with being the keeper of the place, and Ruth Bailey and Bessie Morton as inmates. W. S. Travis and James "Van Horn wrere arrested for be ing found in the place. One Is a pri vate watchman employed in that vi cinity and the other a hackman who was called to the resort. The only real guest of the establishment, a traveling man, escaped. W. H. Brown, a negro vagrant arrest ed last night, was fined $10 in police court this morning. He colored his offense by attempting to assault an officer who went into the jail to quiet a drunken prisoner who was making a disturbance. The negro got a lump of coal and stood behind the door in a good position to crush the officer's skul! but thf rtnUceror n ws? tun ,Mik for him and threw him into a private celi after disarming him. The police Uiin. uij io,jr3 u.u cciicu iiml.ai. and was going to take a long chance on getting away. The Mills hardware store in Rossville was broken Into by burglars last night and a number of articles, including knivei, razors, puns, etc., were stolen. Sheriff Bert Lucas was notified this morning, and has gone out to investi sate. Iva Williams, a negro girl, was ar rested last night on the charge of lar ceny. It Is claimed that she Stole a silk dress from the sample rooms of the National hotel, where a stock of silk goods was being displaved by a travel ing man. The dresa was recovered. J1L 5,5,1,9 gm $12.50 $1.00 to ion of jet end chiffon. The stiff feather and fall over the back with loops. XOUTIlTOPKIiA. Leave items for this column with th Kimball Printing company, 312 North Kansas nvenue.l Foster Baxter spent Sunday in Kan sas City. John Scales of Meriden was In town yesterday. Miss Alta Bell has returned from a short stay at her home in Winchester Kan. M. GamlowskI, formerly of North Topeka, but now of Humboldt, was in town today. Miss Edna Heywood expects to leave shortly for Chicago to take a post graduate course in the University of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hodge and chil dren, formerly of 1012 Madison street left last evening for their new home in Oklahoma. Arthur Small was up from the In dian Territory Sunday for a short visit to his mother, Mrs. E. D. Small of 1123 Jackson street. Misses Edith and Ruby Brower of Lewis, Edwards county, are the guests of their cousin, Mrs. Lew Fraser of 1524 Madison street. The annual meeting of the Presby terian church will be held Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. A. J. Ar nold, 927 Jackson street. Born, this morning to Mr. and Mrs. T. M. James, Jr., of 224 West Laurent street, a nine pound son. The young man has been named Allen David. Aaron Sheetz, who is taking treat ment from Drs. Thornton Miner at Kansas City, has returned there after a visit of a few days to his family. Roy, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fluke, formerly of North Topeka but now of Oakland, died last evening at the family home after a short illness. At the business meeting of the C. E. society of the Central Avenue Chris tian church held last evening at th home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beelrr PERFECT fliiffffl AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century prepares mr $12.50 $7.75 A ilh ill iTi ilti A Jli Ti ill m. .m TTTTTttTTTTt VIFWvTT loofhr $20.00; WHITE AND BLACK" hnir ed Taffeta. Ions- shnuMor est effect, pined with stitched tucks front and red silk buttons. Front of with red. SILK FOULARD SUIT blue or brown with white; front and long shoulder strappings piped with white, skirt to match. PONGEE COLOR, with red or green dashes a new disposal of broad tabs across front of waist piped to match green or red; sleeves tucked at elbow; skirt seams piped and tucked. CQ -DUNBARTON SUITING 7-7i5 mixed tan. ySdashe8 ot red or green, ,afni, The above Dunbarton and Crash are made with long shoulder yoke front and back, puffed sleeves with pointed cuffs, skirt seams turned back In point at flare, piped like waist. BLUE CRASH, waist box pleated, strapped shoulders, long front tabs. White pipings. Six long graduated straps on skirt down from waist line. JmLXA ill if i iTi iTi A iTi ill iT it. A ill it i A The First National Bank OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. Depository of the State of Kansas, Shawnee County, and the City of Topeka. PAID-UP CAPITAL OFFICERS: Wm. Sims, President. W. H. Rossington, Vice President. C. E. Hawley, Cashier. C. S. Bowman, Assistant Cashiev, DIRECTORS A. A. Robinson, W. H. Rossington, Wm. Sims, Chas. J. Lantry, Chas. J. Devlin, W. A. Stephens, C. E. Hawley. Interest paid on Time Deposits. Points. Letters Small Accounts as well as Large dpi Our January Directory With 2000 Paifiyimf a .l.S.aaffiWljhl!J 5,9 Kansas Avenue. 1021 Central avenue, Mrs. Beeler was elected treasurer and Mr. A. E. Robin son, secretary to fill the vacancies caused by the resignations of Mr. Sto vall and Mrs. Will Cowdrey. The annual meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will be held "Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. P. Beaudry on Qum cy street. At the meeting of the session of the Second Presbyterian church last even ing Mr. S. C. Miller was elected as a delegate to the Topeka presbytery which will be held April 12 at Clay Center. Mr. J. W. .Priddy was elected alternate. There will be an Informal recepti.m given this evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Huff, MIS Kansas ave nue, In honor of Mr. F. H. Bentley, the newly arrived pastor of the Cen tral Avenue Christian church and his family. The affair will also be in the nature of a farewell party for Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stovall, Mr. and Mr3. Will Cowdrey and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jackson who leave next month for Oregon to make their permanent homes. On the evening of Maundy Thursday the Rt. Rev. Frank R. Millspaugh, bishop of Kansas, will make his an nual visitation to the Church of the Good Shepherd, administer the Holy Eucharist and confirm a class which will be presented by Canon Burke. The service for Good Friday at the church will be at 10 o'clock in the morning lasting one hour. The regular three hours' service from 12 until 3 will Le held in Grace Cathedral. This service will consist of prayers, hymns and short addresses on "The Words on the Cross." Breaks will occur every half hour so that those who are not able to attend the entire service can enter and leave the church without disturb ing the other worshipers. A meeting was held yesterday after noon In the T. W. C. A. reading and rest rooms in the Holman building, the object of which was to elect officers for this new enterprise. The attend ance was good and all were welcome whether members of the North side branch of the Y. W. C. A. or not. The board of managers for the reading and rest rooms is composed of three members from each of the North side churches and were appointed Sunday bv the different pastors. The officers elected yesterday were from this board and were: President, Mrs. O. D. Skin ker; vice president. Miss Clara Hol man; secretary, Miss Jessie Priddy, and treasurer, Mrs. Jonas Lukens. These rooms will be kept open every day from 9 until 6 and will be in charge of Miss Garrett. The Y. C. A. Bible classes will also meet in them. Proper Treatment for Pneumonia. i fneumunu I for anvone to attempt to doctor himself, lalthougn ne ma nnvc ii.e jjivpei ;aoe Idies at hand. A physician should always be cnlW. 1 h--"d be borne in mind, r!;v.. iit.ononia aiwo-'s results from a cold .r trom an knack V1,"'"" ind that by giving Chamberlains Cough Kemedv the threatened attack of pneu monia mav be- warded off. This remedy is also used ty physicians in tne treat ment of pneumonia with tne best results. Dr W J. Smith of Sanders, Ala., who is also a druBKist. says of It: "1 have been selling Chamberlain a Cough Remedy and prescribing it in my practice for the past six vears I use it in cases of pneumonia and' have always gotten the best results." Sold by all druggists. Shawnee lodge No. 1. I. O. O. F., and Rebekah lodges Capitola and Noami will give an entertainment and box so cial at their hall on Qulncy street on Thursday evening, March 31. All Odd Fellows and their families invited. j All shapes and col ors good styles. Clearance at Hn Khpok. vrlr rl Note Paper red tinv red Whiting's Royal Velvet, boxed, 25c kind. Special at back small skirt piped 15c i French Cambric Stationery Beautiful poppy boxes, 50c regular. Special 25c Wrist Bags J In cotton, wan us itsa-iiier, in side purse, leather handles, nickel frame, good colors. 39c Given Free pipings to With every ounce jf of Lundborg's Per- J fume sold, an or- 4 namental imitation cut glass Dottle. T t

Perfume, oz. T 25C' m m m m m $300,000 Foreign Drafts on all Principal of Credit issued. receive the same careful attention. subscribers is the largest in Kansas. Residence party lines only 5c per day. Visit our Central flffito -a n i eoA inr wifnh hnaivl in fini i t r The Topeka Independent Telephons Co AJJDJJTORJJJM TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5. Foar Big Musical Recitals In One Evening. Ralph Wylie Violin Virtuoso Aelf Klingenberg. ..Norwegian Pianist Karl Kirk Celloist Helen Buckley Soprano Admission 50 cents. Reserved seats Saturday at E. B. GUILD'S MUSIC STORE. AUDITORIUM, APRIL 1G Wagner's Greatest Musical Drama "PARSIFAL" WALTER DAMROSCH INew YorK Ssympnony Orchestra TEN SOLOISTS Mail reservations. Address T. J. Ander son. 625 Kan. Ave. CHART OPEN APRIL 9. Prices-$2, $1.50, $1, 76c and 50c 3 CLE. ANLINE.S S I s the watchword for health and vigor, com. ,'ort and beauty. Mankirid is learning nol only the necessity but the luxury of clean liness. SAPOLIO, which has wrought such changes in the home, announces bl sister triumph HAND SAPOLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH A special soap which energizes the wholf body, starts the circulation and leaves at THP FTDT nnil AD Civcn Is but an incident. The second uoilai saved starts a habit that will lead to wealth. The Caoitoi Buildinz and Loan Assocint'n Will assist you to "START THE HABIT." 534 Kansas Avenue. OtJR THEORY That one pleased customer brings another ".nitf l mil Ion nobly. The Kiva H. Certs a Day Telenhona -a proving more popular dally. Missouri Kansu Tela Cx "Phons 99) Murdered by a Beggar. Buenos Ayres, March 29. Herr Dufay, the German vice consul at Salta, has been murdered by an Ital ian Yi(rfrn r whn vn flrreloj tive of the murder is said to have been revenge. Ask your frrocer for Simon Pure Bak ing Powder. It Is the best. Try U. i r

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9 SPEAKSOUT. Hackney "HI Uun for the fcar mi TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1901. Co 1 nia tt& n r i':-r.'.K k v-: n 1 Easter Belts Our assortment of new and up-to-date Belts is too large togointo minute description, but in a general way we say, see the line, it will please you. GIRDLE STYLES Of black Taffeta and Peau de Soie, up to $2.50 CRUSHED LEATHER Lined in black, tan, brown and white, at S1.00 Crushed Silk black and white beautifully trimmed, at.. $1.00 Crushed Leather, a stylish belt handsomely lined and trimmed, at 50o Other Natty Styles at 25c to ANOTHER SILLY FIGHT. Washburn Student Factions Can't Be Suppressed. "Washburn is in the throes of its an nual athletic election, when the presi dent of the athletic association is cho sen. These are two factions lighting for the office. One faction is booinMii; llehl for the presidency, and the other to far seems to have no candidate. The election will take place Wednes day. The fight, It is claimed, is an effort en the part of Cunningham to defont John Dadisman, captain of the loot ball team. Dadlsm.in was elected cap tain over Cunningham last fall, and it. seemed to make Cunningham pretty sore. The president of the athleticns soclation appoints a majority ot. the board of athletic control, and the ath letio control board is superior to the football captain in authority. It is the court of last resort for all ath letic affairs. Mehl sides with Cunning ham. The board cf control is composed of the president of the association, the athletic manager, one representative from the alumni, one from the law school and one from the Medical col lege, three members at large from the association, and three members from the faculty. The president appoints a majority of these. a bill authorizing the payment by the state of New Yotk of a pension of $72 per month to Hirman Cronk, the last American survivor of the war of 1812. Both. Republicans and Democrats sup ported the bill for a pension and the sum of $72 was agreed to after a state senator had declared that Cronk was in want. A Democratic Landslide. Council Bluffs, la., March 29. City elections here resulted in a Democratic landslide. Dr. Donald MacRea was elected over present Mayor Margon by over 500 votes. The Republicans elected but one alderman out of eight. At Lo gan ex-Lieutenant Governor J. C. Mil liman was re-eleetei mayor. At Neola a telephone franchise was voted after a heated campaign. Makes an Address to Ills Pro spective Constituents. TELLS PLAIN FACTS. Issues the Hepublicait Party Will Have to Meet. Mistakes of Wichita Convention on Portions of Ticket. HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Pops Is in No Danger. Rome, March 29. The report, pub lished by the Daily Chronicle of Lon don, and cabled to the United States, that the Vatican has for days past been guarded by a large force of Italian sol diers and police, owing to the discov ery of a plot against the life of the pope, is ridiculed, by the Vatican au thoilties who say that the number of carbineers and policemen on duty at the papal palace is no larger than usual. Killed by 10 Year Old Son. Birmingham, Ala., March 29. A spe cial from Fort Payne, Ala., says: J. C. Colp. policeman and deputy sheriff at J ia telle was killed this morning by his 10-year-old son. His son had been fighting with some other boys and his father whipped him for it. The child afterward stole the parent's pistol and blew his father's head off. Couple Burned to Death. Keokuk. Ia., March 29. James Lem lee and wife were burned to death In their home at Montrose at midnight. Lemlee was found in the kitchen terri bly burned and his wife was burned to death in bed. State Votes a Pension. Albany, N. T., March 29. Both houses of the legislature have passed S. S. Ott and wife to D. M. Long, $15, part lot S7 and 89 Bellview avenue, Ar lington Heights sub. F. J. Mather and wife to F. Logan, $l,S0O, lots 43, 45 and 47 Highland ave nue, Seabrook's sub. C. n. Colton and wife to J. X. Brown, $1. lots 195, 197, 199, 201, 202. 203. 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209. 210, 211. 212, 213 and 214 Adams street, Fairchild's second addi tion. G. H. F.lliott and wife to K. E. Mc Fadden. $372.50, lot 8 Elliott avenue, El liott Place. Joab Mulvane and wife to C. M. Sheafor, $250, lot 27, block 7, Mulvane Chase addition. Howard and husband to C. A. Finch, $2,000, lot 155 and west half 153 Eighth avenue west, Home's addition. M. J. Price to J. Petri, $800, lots 118 and 120 Leland street, Veale's addition. A. Washburn and wife to A. B. Cham berlain, $300, lots 382 and 392 inclusive, Wayne avenue, Washburn Place addi tion. I. M. Cobe and wfie to E. L. McEwen, $325, lots 13 and 15 West street, Thurston Place addition. S. S. Ott, executor, to D. M. Long, $15. part lot S7'and 89 Bellview avenue, Arlington Heights sub. E. A. Johnson executor," to ;G. W. Greenwood, $4,500, south half northeast quarter 8. 11, 14. M. T. Watson and wife to Fix Bros., $1,475, part southeast quarter 20, 12, 17. O McKinney and wife to E. X. Shaw, $900, part lot 358 and 356 Sixth avenue, Bowen's sub. CALIFORNIA 3S25.00 Via Santa Fe. Tickets on sale during March and April. This rate also applies to inter mediate points. Good in tourist sleep ers and free chair cars. Liberal stop over privilege allowed. For full Information and free litera ture, address T. L. KING. W. P. Hackney, of AVinfield, is a can didate for the legislature. He has is sued a statement setting forth som? of the reasons why he should be elect ed. Mr. Hackney has had wide experi ence in the house and senate, is al ways interesting and forceful. Here are some of the things he says: "The Republican party, after the ov erthrow of Populism, seems to have divided into two hostile camps, one under the leadership of Tom Kelly, and the other under the leadership of Cy Leland. "The legislature in 1901, in both the senate and house, were dominated ab solutely by Kelly and his friends, and Senator Burton was elected. In the campaign within its ranks in 1902, which culminated at the Wichita con vention, the friends of Kelly were uni ted on everything but governor, and Mr. Bailey, a friend of Leland's, won ithat prize; everything else, with possi bly one exception, went to Kelly and his friends. "The Kelly senate of 1901 held over and constituted that wing of the legis lature of 1903. Leland's friends bein? in the majority in the house controll ed that body, so that one was a check or ought to have been a check, on the other, in that legislature, and Senator Long was elected. "There has been much said and printed about machines and anti-machines, and Boss Busters and anti Boss Busters, in the campaign that re sulted in the nomination of candidates for the various state offices on the Republican ticket at Wichita on March 9, 1904. "That there are two powerful and hostile organizations within the Repuo lican party in Kansas, each fighting the other, and both seeking to control the nominating conventions for state officers, federal patronage, and politi cal influence (for their faction) goes without saying; and whether we call Mr. Leland and his friends a machine, or Mr. Kelly and his 'Boss Busters' a machine, when boiled down it means that they are all Republicans and are thus designated, each by the other. "The state convention at Wichita, which nominated Hoch and drove Bailey from the field, refused to en tertain a rrcpositicn of any kind look ing to placing some one man of the other faction on that ticket in order to build a bridge, as it were, whereby these two factions might be brought together in support of the whole state ticket in this campaign. Such sugges tions were spurned with the declara tion that so long as grass grows and water runs no man who had been fa vorable to Bailey should ever, in the grave of oblivion to which they were consigned, hear of the resurrection, which was never to come to them; and Hoch and Stubbs, emblematic of that fact, even after Bailey's withdrawal continued their fight on his friends with more bitterness than ever before. And why? Because Bailey was a farm er the only man of that calling that ever occupied the governor's office in Kansas; a man whom the railways and other corporate interests in Kansas could neither buy, cajole, frighten, in timidate, nor drive. Hence the rancor of the representatives of these inter- jrHE Real Reason V need a Biscuit are the 4 i best soda crackers in the world is because they are clean and good through and through. They are made of good, clean material, and in a good, clean manner. There is not one feature in the process of making them that could displease the most fastidious taste. iiiifj Psceeda Us r,"' .TV r.zzi:i The Crackle You Hear Is the Sign They arc fresh are always fresh and crisp. The air-tight package keeps them so. Dust, moisture or germs can not reach them. The best proof of the good ness of U need a Biscuit is shown by the enormous demand. We fell short on orders for a while, but are again able to supply all needs NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY V str -f jssf Va4!i I MAIM iim iTOo. i' i i ini i km ssuI'S TT AND OTHERS. The better class of druggists, everywhere, are men of scientific attainments and high integrity, who devoto their lives to the welfare of their fellow men in supplying the best of remedies and purest medicinal agents of known value, in accordance with physicians' prescriptions and scientific formula. Druggists of the better class manufacture many excellent remedies, but always under original or officinal names and they never sell false brands, or imitation medicines. They are the men to deal with when in need of anything in their line, which usually includes all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy and the finest and best of toilet articles and preparations and many useful accessories and remedial appliances. The earning of a fair living, with the satisfaction which arises from a knowledge of the benefits conferred upon their patrons and assistance to the medical profession, is usually their greatest reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. They all know that Syrup of Figs is an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives universal satisfaction, and therefore they are selling many millions of bottles annually to the well informed purchasers of tho choicest remedies, and they always take pleasure in handing out the genuine article bearing the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front of every package. They know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by biliousness and constipation and of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from irregular habits, indigestion, or over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant, prompt and beneficial in its effects as Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives universal satisfaction. Owing to the excellence of Sj-rup of Figs, the universal satisfaction which it gives and the immense demand for it, imitations have been made, tried and condemned, but there are individual druggist3 to be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignity and principles of the profession and whosa greed gets the better of their judgment, and who do not hesitate to recommend and try to sell the imitations in order to make a larger profit. Such preparations sometimes have the name Syrup of Figs" or "Fig Syrup" and of some piratical concern, or fictitious fig syrup company, printed on the package, but they never have the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front of the package. The imitations should be rejected because they are injurious to the system. In order to sell the imitations they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception, and whenever a dealer passes off on a customer a preparation under the name of "Syrup of Fig" or "Fig Syrup," which does not bear the full name- of the California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front of the package, he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so unfortunate as to enter his establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts to misrepresentation and and deception in one case he will do so with other medicinal agents, and in the filling of Ehysicians' prescriptions, and should be avoided by every one who values health and happiness, knowing that the great majority of druggists are reliable, we supply the immense- demand for our excellent remedy entirely through the druggists, of whom it may be purchased every where, in original packages onlv, at theregn!ar price of fifty cents per bottle, but as exceptions exist it is necessary to inform the public of the facts, in order that all may decline or return anv imitation which may be sold to them. If it does not bear the full name of the Company---California Fig Syrup Co" printed on the front of every package, do not hesitate to return the article and to demand the return of vour money, and in future go to one of the better class of druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything in his line at reasonable prices. vJV Vnf"-' CV" ests in the Republican party against mm. l nat is why he was driven from the conflict for renomination for gov I ernor by such influences, and that is why the said agents of those interests in that organization are so vicious I against him and those who, knowing his worth, and the reasons for their op- position, saw fit to align themselves j with him. i "Look at your delegation to the na,- tinnal convention, nominated by the Hoch convention, and you can see that power exemplified. "It haf been charged by Mr. Hoch and his friends that Governor Bailey ought to be beaten, and that his en forced retirement was justifiable, be-! cause of the great number of useless employes in the house last winter. And yet it has been charged by Mr. Bailey and his friends, and never de nied to my knowledge, that the last legislature 'in legislative expenses' cost this state only $1,640 more than the preceding one. and that $1,605 of that was expended by the senate, with only forty members, while $35 only of it was expended by the house, with one hun dred and twenty-four members. Whether this last statement is true 1 have no present means of verifying; and whether true or false, the fact re mains that both factions of the Re publican party in Kansas, state offi cers as well as representatives and senators, were responsible for the ex travagance of the last legislature, and the faction which controlled the re cent Wichita convention is wholly re sponsible for the extravagance of the next preceding legislature. "As Republicans we will be met in this campaign by the foregoing facts, which cannot be denied by anybody. And it is not worth while to deny them, but far better to concede it and promise reform, and show by our con duct that we mean it. "The last legislature was extravagant to the point of criminal recklessness, and every Republican of intelligence knows it. And what is true in regard to the last legislature Is equally true in regard to the preceding one, and every man knows that. As a sample of such extravagance, leaving out "the merciless waste of the people's money through usdeFS employes in both the senate and bouse, I cite the case of 'The Lawrence State University.' located in Douglas county and in the representative district represented by Chairman Stubbs of the 'B ss Buster' organization, and likewise chairman of the late Republican con vention at Wichita. In the last legisla ture he wanted $490,000 for that institu tion. He was chairman of the commit tee cf ways and means of the house, to which all appropriation bills must go, and he succeeded by reason of that posi tion in forcing through both branches of thrt b-gislature as appropriations for thMt institution, the enormous sum of $Sfcinoo. "When it is remembered that the pub lic institutions of this state have been scattered all over the same, and that a rremtier or senator's popularity at home is measured largely by the amount he can get out of the state treasury for his own institution, it can readily be sefn that when they combine, as they always do, to assist each other, that ex travagance will necessarily follow un less men cf experience, capacity and unflinching integrity are sent to Topeka by th-3 pc-i pie to represent them: men of strength of purpose sutfieient to with stand the combined assaults of all of those represerung districts where such ir.FUtutior.s are located. "The railroads apreal to the law for their organization and construction, and having them under the law they ouht to be regulated by the law. That they are unduly extorting from the people, and that the people's interests are not protected by law in Kansas, every man of intelligence knows. "Only last year, when the price of cat tle was never so low in recent years, and every hoof marketable was being rushed to the market, and the cars and motive power of these corporations were insufficient to supply the demand of the public for transportation therefor, these corporations in Kansas arbitrarily raised freight rates on cattle; this at a time when they had more business than they could do, and at a time when the people could least afford to suffer such extortion. "Last year, with hundreds of thou sands and even millions of bushels of wheat lying on the ground and ex posed to the weather, and in some in stances rotting for want of cars or ele vators in which to store or ship it. these railroads after putting all of the cars in use owned by them as well all others they could obtain, including motive power to move the same, were unable to care for the freight thus tendered them, yet they raised the price of freight on wheat. Last year, when this state raised a corn crop nev er excelled in Kansas, and at a time when every car that the railroad com pany owned or could procure, and with all of its motive power in use in mov ing the freight they had, they arbi trarily raised the freight on corn. All of these raises in freight were made in the face of the fact that it was wholly and absolutely unnecessary; and that they were then and thereto fore in the enjoyment of a business aPj remunerative rates never excelled by such corporations in any agricultural community. Notwithstanding tlv.-se arbitrary raises in freights on cattle, wheat, and corn, inexcusable and in defensible as they were, there is r,o power in the laws of this state, any where, to prevent the same or to re dress the grievances occasioned there by. In the face of this calamity the people stood dumb. Verily, they :v e tied hand and foot by these corpora tions, and are powerless to raise a finger against these infamous outrages, extortions, and oppression; and all he- cause the people will not, or do not care to elect enough members in eacii house of the legislature who will Co their duty, stand together, and make laws that would render such oppre sions impossible. "While no intelligent man wants to deal unjustly with this class of our property, yet all intelligent men not in their employ should see to it that they do justice to the people, as their lib erty ends where the people's begin. Justice to each would insure justice to both, and anything less is an injusaice to one or the other. "I know that ynu have been be trayed, outraged, and neglected by the two last iegislatures; aye, greivously wronged. I know it because Hoch. Stubbs, Kelly and Wells, the latter two your present officials, have told you so as to the last legislature; and Bailey, Albaugh. Leland and others tell us that the former was as bad; and my inves tigations confirm what they all' sav. "President Roosevelt says 'tell the truth' and witness how he has ex posed coriuption under a Republican administration; and be will be renomi nated by acclamation. Mr. Hoch says 'tell the truth' and witness how he mercilessly exposed the shortcomings of the last legislature: and he was nominated for governor by acclama tion. I have told the truth, and if that is what you want you will nominate and elect me." Mr. Hackney then cites a number of different quotations from interviews and newspapers, already printed in these columns, covering the feeling ot the state, as he expresses it, Including that against the nomination of A. D. Walker on the board of railroad commissioners. British Immigration Bill. London, March 29. The alien immi gration bill was introduced in the house of commons today and passed its first reading without a division. The bill follows the recommendations of the report of the royal commission on alien immigration issued August 11 last, that the immigration of certain classes of aliens into the United Kingdom be sub jected to state control. Home Secre tary Akers-iDouglas in introducing the measure referred "o the increase ot crime due to the admission of a class of aliens in this country who would be refused admission into the United Status. An American Lord. Baltimore, Md., March 29. Albert Kirby Kairfax, eldest son of the late Dr. John Contoe Fairfax, of Prince George county, Maryland, and inheritor of his titles of Lord Fairfax and Baron Cameron in the peerage of Scotland, is reported to have assumed his titles and taken his seat in the house of lords. He went to Kngland two years ago to engage in business, and had no inten tion of following such a course. It is now said he has been legally adopted by a wealthy Englishman as the heir to his es tates and persuaded to assume his titles. Student Commits Suicide. Milwaukee. Wis., March 29. Harold Stuart Peterson, a university of Wis consin graduate and formerly one of its most popular students, committed sui cide by shooting himself in the head. The parents of the young man say that his act was the culmination of strain caused by taking up too much work at the university. Gas Supply Cut Off. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 29. The suffering of the flood victims will now be aggravated by the failure of the gas supply. During last night all the gas mains leading to the flooded west side district filled with water and there is no possibility of their being opened before th? flood completely recedes. The result will be very serious. Gas was being used extensively for heating and cooking. The Grand river con tinues to recede today slowly. 40,527 Die in a Week. Bombay, March 29. The latest avail able bubonic plague returns for the whole of India for the week enoMnfr March 19 show the appalling mortality of 40,527, an increase of 7,000 over those of tha preceding week. In the Punjab and the northwest provinces earh there is a death roll of 10,000 weekly, in tha Bombay presidency the deaths number 8,500 and in Bengal 5.O00. An Increase in Dividends. New York, March 29. A compilation by the Journal of Commerce of divi dends so far announced by industrial corporations payable in April shows an increase of more than $2 SOU. 000 over the same month in 1903. and of about $2. 100,000 over April two years ago. Next month's total, based on the returns so far, foot up about $22,200,000. Private Bank Fails. Eldora, Ia March 29 The private banking firm of O. E. Miller Son, of New Providence, has failed. Pro ceedings in bankruptcy have been be gun. The cause of the failure is not announced. Excursion to Washington, D. C. On April 10, 11 and 12 the Baltimore Ohio railroad will sell excursion tick ets from Chicago to Washington, It. C, at rate of $1.ou for the round trip, ac count Knights of Columbus meeting, good to return leaving Washington not later than April 18. For further in formation address. Ticket office 244 Clark street, Chicago. Best Line to Florida. There is a through sleeper running every day from Kansas City over th Frisco System and Southern Railway to Jacksonville, Fla. This is the old established line. Many new and attractive features In Florida tours this winter. Full information will be given on ap plication to WM. FLANKELLY, T. P. A.. Board of Trade building, Kansas City, Mo. Special sale this week on a fine new line of Gold clocks, $2 up, at Swearin- j gen's jewelry store, 724 Kansas avenue. 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 tha thoughts and aspirations of the mother bending over the cradle. The ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, how ever, is so full of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hour when she shall feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Every woman should know that the danger, pain and horror of child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother's Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and render pliable ail the parts, and E 3 b i assists nature in its sublime work. By its aid thousands of women have passed this great crisis in perfect safety and without pain. Sold at fi.oo per bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless value to all women sent free. Address BRA OflELO REGULATOR CO Atlmntm. 0a. w ElTi trLdL it

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING. MARCH 29, 1904. 10 firiT vrT nfiiir liU! SCI UUiiC Senator Burton Will Hold Scat for Present. To Await Action of Highest Tribunal. WILD VACATE SEAT. Other Senators Say That He May Resign. Washington, March 29. Senator Bur ton will not lose his seat in the senate until the highest federal tribunal has passed upon the appeal -which he is expected to make. By the provisions of the statute under which Burton is convicted he is prohibited from ever afterwards holding a public office of trust, honor or profit. This will oper ate to vacate Senator Burton's seat. No action by the senate will be re quired to dispossess him of office, al though a resolution will be adopted then which will contain the verdict of the federal court, and thereby mako a record of the fact that the seat is va cant by declaring it so. This is the view of Senator Fairbanks. Senator Fairbanks says the verdict itself expels him from the senate and that ail that is required of the senate is to take notice of the fact. But the senate will also extend to the convict ed senator all the rights which -are granted him under the law In the fed eral courts. If the right of appeal is granted by the court the senate will wait until the highest court has passed upon that appeal. If no appeal is granted Burton is out of the senate. Senator Fair banks said on this point that the loss of his seat in the United States senate was a part of his punishment, Just as the fine to be imposed, the impris onment to be fixed or his disfranchise ment which will naturally follow. "If Senator Burton is granted the right of appeal or of a new trial," said Senator Fairbanks, "he will not be sentenced to pay a fine until that ap peal has been adjusted. The same rule applies to his loss of the office of sen ator. "The senate will get no notice from the court where Burton was trieS. It will take notice of that when record is made of the fact that his seat was vacated by the action of the court." Senator Piatt of Cennecticutt and Senator Spooner are inclined to think that Burton will continue to be a member of the senate until a resolu tion is adopted expelling him. The difference between opinions is not great. It hardly involves more than the "stopping of his pay." If a reso lution Is required to throw Burton out, his pay will continue until that action is taken. There is no doubt but he wiil be thrown out Immediately the appeal is decided. Under the view of Senator Snooner and Senator Piatt. Senator Burton might be permitted to resign, that is if he is. still a member of the senate he may offer his resignation and have it accepted. If, as asserted by Senator Fairbanks, he loses his office by the verdict of guilty, he will not be per mitted to resign.. He is now out of office. Senator Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, which primarily deals with all such questions, said he did not care to pass on the fine law points involved, as the matter probably would be submitted to his committee for decision later. The point Involved was not of consequence in his opinion, for if the verdict was not conclusive as to the vacancy, the senate would be compelled to act under the law. Senator Bailey said: "This is the first time in the history of the senate that a senator has been prosecuted un der the -statute which convicted Sen ator Burton. One of the clauses states that a senator so convicted is forever barred from holding office, but no ac tion can be taken until the matter is brought before the senate in the reg ular way. Senator Burton undoubtedly will resign pending the disposition of his appeal and the final disposition ot the case." Senator Long refused to discuss the verdict. It is not probable that in any event Senator Burton will attempt to perform the duties as senator. Since the day he was indicted he has not been on the floor of the senate, and. when he has gone to the capitol it was only upon the most urgent business. His committee room is in the Maltby building near the capitcl. and he sought quiet, there until the day he left for St. Louis to be tried. The verdict caused no surprise in the senate, as the Kansas man was very unpopular. It was felt here that he was guilty and the expectation was that the government would be able to prove it. A senator who has a national rep utation as a lawyer admitted, in dis cussing the Burton case, that he did not know until recently of the exist ence of such a statute as section 1782 and he added that lie did not believe Burton ever heard of it until he had been indicted. It was enacted June 11, 1864. and it was aimed at members of congress who were known to be using their influence to assist con stituents in getting contracts during the civil war. The widespread ignor ance of the law was not accepted as a mitigating circumstance in the case of Burton, however, as after the news of his conviction nothing that was good was said of him. It was agreed that it would have been better for the peace and dignity of the senate had Senator Burton never entered that body. He has made few friends since he came to Washing ton and this fact was never brought out more clearly than yesterday. None was so poor as to do him reverence after his conviction and the criticisms of his conduct in some quarters were such as to accentuate the fact that there are those who do not hesitate to kick the man who is down. In the opinion of senators there is little reason to expect that the verdict of the jury' will be set aside and in fact in all the discussions of the case here today it was regarded as prac tically settled. In some quarters the suggestion was made that Burton would resign, but this suggestion was not accepted generally. Representative Miller, who Is as friendly with the Kansas senator -as any man in Wash ington said that he would remain in the senate and fight till the end. It is not thought likely that he will attempt to return to the senate or perforin snv of the duties of a senator, as since his indictment he has taken no part in the senate deliberations. If the verdict stands Senator Bur rows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, will offer a resolution presenting the record of his convention and declaring the seat va cant. -The senate will adopt this resolu tion, probably without discussion. That will be the last of Senator Burton of Kansas. In the opinion of some sena tors, it will not be necessary for the senate to declare the seat vacant, and these senators insist that the senate should not place on record the fact that one of its members has been convicted of a criminal offense. They hold that the moment Burton enters on his sen tence the governor of Kansas should take note of that fact, declare the seat vacant and appoint a senator, or, if the legislature should be in session, call at tention to the fact that a vacancy ex ists in the state's senatorial representa tion and recommend the election of a senator. Thcr? 1 ii?btest doubt that if Burton were o return to His seat, pending an apai, he ivumu pim-c i self in a position where ne would sac rifice all rights to what little sympathy he has now, and that he would be denied even an outward show of court eous treatment. As stated, however, if is not at all likely that he will subject himself to the humiliation of such a position. In the disgrace of Burton much sym pathy is expressed here for Mrs. Burton. Members of the Kansas colony referred to her loyalty to her husband and to the assistance she has been to him in his political career. Kansas members of the house refused to discuss the verdict of the jury for the reason, they said, that it might be reversed and the sen ator acquitted. There was very little sympathy among them for Burton per sonally, but they deplored the fact that the name of their state had been linked with that of Burton. Senator Long positively refused to make any comment on Burton's convic tion or its effect upon Kansas politics. Representative Curtis "said that discus sion of Burton's successor would be premature, as he undoubtedly would re main in the senate until the further dis position of his case, which Mr. Curtis said might not, be reached this year. General Bristow, when asked for a statement with reference to the Burton case, replied that he had nothing to say. The postoffiee department was notified of the verdict by a telegram from a postoffiee inspector in St. Louis. BURTON IS THE FIRST. No Other Senator Ever Convicted of Bribery. Washington, March 29. The records of senate election cases from 1789 to 1903 show no expulsion of a senator for conviction of a crime, though there have been instances where members of the senate have resigned before action on charges. The first expulsion from the senate for any cause was that of William Blount, who was a senator from Tennes see from 1796 to 1799. A special lnvestL gatlon committee found him guilty of the authorship of a letter capable of various constructions, but which in his own mind, according to the letter, ap peared to be "inconsistent with the in terests of the United States and Spain." He was found guilty of high misde meanor and a resolution of expulsion was adopted by a vote of 25 to 1. For complicity in the Burr conspiracy an action was brought to expel John Smith, a senator from Ohio from Octo ber 25, 1803, until he resigned April 25, lbOs. Indictments had been found against Senator Smith in the courts of Virginia, but he was not convicted. When the resolutions for expulsion were presented to the senate the vote after long debate resulted 19 yeas to 10 nays. Two-thirds of the senate not concurring therein, he was not expelled, but about two weeks later he resigned. A num ber of southern senators were expelled when their states seceded. Jesse D. Bright, senator for Indiana from March 4, 1845, to February 5, 1862, was expelled on the charge of disloyalty to the United States, after it was shown he had written a letter to Jefferson Da vis, president of the Confederacy, in troducing a Texan, whose business was to dispose of "an improvement in fire arm:!." Another case where a senator re signed without final action having been taken on charges brought against him is that of James F. Simmons, who, while a senator from Rhode Island, resigned in August, 1862, under charges alleging that he had received compensation on government contracts. Near the end of Mr. Simmons' second term in the senate a resolution was submitted that he be expelled. The preamble stated that it appeared from a report of the secretary of war that Mr. Simmons had exercised his official in fluence to procure an order authorizing a certain person to manufacture rifles in behalf of the goverment and that Mr. Simmons had agreed to receive as com pensation for such service the sum of $50. 000, and that he already had received two promissory notes amounting to $10,000. The committee on the ludiclarv reoorted that the facts were substantially as given and that it was of the opinion that "such a practice is entirely indefensible and that it was highly improper for a senator of the United States to have acted thus, even when the government sustained no loss thereby;" that It was manifest that congress disapproved of such conduct from the fact that It had promptly passed a law making it a penal offense thereaf ter, but that to visit a severe penalty on an act which at the time of its commis sion was not punishable or forbidden would be retroactive in its effect and ren der the step liable to that objection to which all post facto laws are Justly sub ject. The committee unanimously reported the resolution accompanied by the state ment of facts so that the senate might take such action as it might think best. No action was taken. Congress adjourned after the report was made and Mr. Sim mons resigned his seat in the senate be fore the next session. James W. Patterson, senator from New Hampshire from March 4, 1S87, till March 4. 1873, was charged with bribery as the result or evidence taKen by a select com mittoe of the house for the purpose of examining the charges of bribery against memners oi mat doov. it was Impossible for the senate to consider the charge at the session when it was made and Mr. Patterson's term expired before the in quiry had been made. The senate voted that it was very questionable if it was competent for it to act after Mr. Patter son had ceased to be a member of that body. ALBATJGH AND BURTON. j What Republican Leader Said of Senator's Election. The conviction of Senator Burton Is no great surprise to people' who have been thoroughly acquainted with his former practices. Since he has been United States senator he seems to have been carrying out the same pol icy he adopted when he was in the Kansas legislature. and those who were acquainted with him were not in the least surprised at the fact that he has been grafting as a United States senator. In January, 1901, Immediately after Burton had been chosen by the Repub lican caucus for United States senator to succeed Lucien Baker, Morton Al baugh published an editorial about Burton which, between the lines, reads with considerable doubt as to what kind of a senator Burton would make. Albaugh was then chairman of the Re publican state central committee, and was expected, of course, to stand by anything the party did, but he was in clined to criticise the selection of Bur ton for United States senator. Here is what he wrote about Burton on Janu ary 17. 1901: "While Mr. Burton received the un animous caucus endorsement it must not be construed to mean that all the Republicans of Kansas believe him the proper person for the place. He has been a candidate for the United States senate continuously since 1S90. That has seemingly been his sole ambition, his one object in life. He has taken an active and effective part in every political campaign since that time. He has made one or two speeches in al most every county in the state. He has probably met and shaken hands with more people than any other man in the state. He has established a reputation as a campaigner possibly equalled by but one man, Governor Stanley, and probably never excelled by any one In the history of the stat-5. He enters the senate under most fa-, vorable circumstances. "His party is in power in the nation and seems thoroughly entrenched in Kansas, There are none but kind words for him everywhere. vri amoni tri s nt, opposed ins tiecnun mui trutri ij :tieaily. He is a young man, with m'.ny years of usefulness before him. It has been the lot of few to have such opportunities. He has a practically united party at his back. His position gives him great power. He is on trial. If he serves his state and his party with the capacity and energy of which he ia possessed he can make for himself a name and a record possibly beyond that attained by any of his predecessors from Kansas in this high office. But his career will be watched with a critical eye. His every act will be given the closest scrutiny and his success or fail ure will be of his own making." WILL WHITE ON BURTON. Says His Election Was Due to the Railroads. Chicago, March 29. William Allen White, of Emporia, Kan., says in thi Chicago Tribune today of Senator Bur ton: "He has flourished, and flaunted him self in the eyes of his people. Young men have seen his wicked prosperity and. have been misled to believe that mere smartness pays. Yet by the mis erable tragedy of his fall he has writ ten for the whole nation an object les son in the profitableness of decency. He had served a term or two in the state legislature, where he openly so licited bribes, and was charged dozens of times by the newspapers .with being a boodler. Perfectly reputable news papers have charged Burton with vio lating every obligation of life, social, moral, political and financial, and he made no attempt to bring those news papers to the bar of justice. His elec tion to the senate was due to the in fluence of railroads in state politics." woulOnjoiFcanal Chicago Attorney Files a Bill in Equity in U. S. Court. Washington, March. 29. Warren B. Wilson, a lawyer of Chicago, has filed in the district supreme court a bill in equity for an injunction against Sec retary Shaw, the Republic of Panama, the new Panama Canal company of France and others to stop the construc tion of the Panama canal. He asks that Secretary Shaw be enjoined from permitting the payment from any moneys under his control under the pretended authority of the void act of June 28, 1902, entitled "An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans." He avers that there is no appropriation .by law of any money for the payment of any of the construction expenses and declares that the act of June 28, 1902, is in vio lation of the constitution of the United States, and is null and void. He charges that the treaty is wholly un constitutional and invalid both, in the United States and Panama, In its es sential features and confers no rights and imposes no obligations on either of the parties directly concerned. Mr. Wilson chaiges that even if that act were valid its terms and conditions have not been complied with and do not authorize the proposed payments. Mr. Wilson, who came here solely to institute the proceedings, left for Chi cago last night. He said that in bringing the proceedings he represent ed no person or persons whatever ex cept himself, although he does not ex pect people to believe that statement he said the question appealed to him personally and that he proposed to fight the case along tne u. a. supreme court which was the only tribunal that could pass finally on so important a matter. Chicago, March. 29. Several influen tial persons in Bogota are believed to be instigators of the suit which was brought by Attorney Wilson to prevent the purchase of the Panama canal by the U. S. government. Attorney Hawes who occupies the same office in this city with Mr. Wilson, said: "I am of the opinion that some Bogota-people who are opposed to the Panama canal project are behind Wil son. Mr. Wilson started working on the Panama canal case about a month ago after he had been visited everyday for a week by a prominent merchant r.. T J ...In T I has at lonet ftre el iiuit u In Bogota, but I have never learned their names. In view of his connection with, these people the logical conclusion is that they are the ones that are re sponsible for the legal proceedings brought in Washington." A FEW MORE Fire Goods left You nad better take ad vantage of this sale. Remem ber these Foods are guaranteed to be good, if not bring them back. 20c value Salmon .'10o 10c value Salmon 05c 20c value Peas, 3 for 25c 10c value peas 05o 10c bottle Mustard 05c 30c value Cal. Fruit lOc 10 value Blackberries 05c 2 cans Lye 05c 5c pkg. Washing Powder, Olc 4 lbs Cal. Peaches 25c 2-!b can Raspberries lOc Oyster Crackers, lt 0 5e Imp. Tea, lb 20o 1-lt) can Rumford's B. Powder. 23c Col. Potatoes, per bushel $1.25 Pure Country. Sorghum, gal 40c The best Flour that can possi bly be made, for 50-Tb sack $1.25 Star Grocery Wholesale and Retail. E. nontEomery, Prop. 1 12 E. 6th Both Phones 252 PLASS WON'T TALK, Says Nothing About Proposed Fine Arts Building. President Norman Plass of Wash burn college returned to Topeka today from a trip to Stockton. Kas.. and when asked this morning to make a statement regarding the report that A. C. Stich, of Independence, has offered to give Washburn $75,000 for a new fine arts school, said: A. C. STICH, Of Independence, Kas., the friend of Washburn. "I have not seen the story printed in the State Journal, and do not care to make any statement. I regard It as very unfortunate that anything, of this kind should have been printed." D. L. McEachron, dean of the col lege, said that while Mr. Stich was a good friend of the college, no dona tion for a new buildins' was expected from him in the near future. The college authorities seem to feel bad about the publication of the story at this time for the reason that it ia premature. They think that it might In some way influence Mr. Stich to change his mind. The Information came to the State Journal, however, from a reliable source, and came In such a way that there was reason to believe that no special effort was being made to keep the matter secret. It may have been a mistake on somebody's part to give the information to the State Journal instead of some other Topeka paper, but that isn't the fault of the State Journal. A. C. Stich. the man whose name is connected with this report, is one of the leading men of southern Kansas. He was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1846. Mr. -SUch has been identified with Indepedence since 1872, engaging first in the mercantile business there with his brother, John Stich, who now resides In Seattle, Wash. Their business was started In a very small way with a stock of general merchandise, but it grew to proportions equal to any of their competitors. After several years of successful operation the business was sold to other parties and the partner ship existing between Stich Brothers was dissolved. A. C. Stich began financiering in 1885, when he purchased in connection with the late Henry Foster, the Hull bank. The bank was changed in name of Citi zens' bank with, Mr. Stich as cashier. Later when the institution was nation alized' he become its president, which position he now holds. Under his ad ministration of its affairs the bank has always been of the soundest and safest character, and a source of profit to the stockholders, among whom the $r0.000 capital is divided, while they at the present time own $55,000 more in surplus and undivided profits. Mr. Stich was Instrumental largely in bringing to the Missouri Pacific railroad. He subscribed for stock to and financially assisted the Indepen dence Gas Co., in its dire hour of need, years ago, when capital in genral seemed to have no faith in the strug gling company. He conceived the idea of the city paving a certain district of its princi pal streets as an aid to the establish ment at Independence of a vitrified brick plant, tl was carried to success, notwithstanding strong and bitter op position. This institution now has the largest pay-roll of any industry in that city. The new and magnificent Carl-Leon hotel at Independence stands as a monument to the public spirit and characteristic foresight of the same man. For years he tried to interest local capital to invest in a stock com pany to build a hotel, as a public en terprise and advertisement for the town, but without success. For a time he let the matter drop, but one day In January, 1902, he called a re porter for a locaj dally Into his private office and told-him he could 'announce that he had secured the site and would immediately commence the construc tion of a big hotel. He outlined the plan and the news printed that even ing under big headlines created great rejoicing throughout the city. A crowd of citizens engaged the band and pro ceeded to Mr. Stich's residence that evening wher be was given a serenade and accorded an ovation. In replying tn tho spokesman's remarks he frank ly assured the crowd that he thought the hotel would be a money-maker for himself and that it was not a philan thropic project by any means. Mr. Stich is a heavy stockholder in many enterprises and has a wonderful capacltv for work, much of his time and advice being demanded by his varied interests. But he is seldom too busy to have a genial word or a jo -ce from friends -and acquaintences. He owns several business buildings, having recently commenced the con struction of a fine 3-story building, 46x100 at 204-6 N. Pennsylvania ave nue. Independence. He also owns many residence properties. Mr. and Mrs. Stitch are very popu lar socially and their beautiful home is well known for Its generous hospi tality. They are members and work ers in the Presbyterian church. Mr3. Stich takes a great interest in educa tional matters, having for three suc cessive terms been elected president of the Ladies' Library association. Politically Mr. Stich is a staunch Republican. As a lodge man he af filiates with the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic orders. It the latter he has taken the thirty-second de gree. Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo., March 2f.WOOL Mar ket steadv. Territory and western medi ums, lS'riZOc; fine medium, 15lic; fine, 14 'v 16c. Cotton Market. Galveston. Tex., March 29. COTTON Market steady at 15c per pound. New York, March 29. COTTON Sales today, -1.400 bales. Spot cotton closed dull. Quotations per 100 pounds: Middling up lands, $14.90; middling gulf,- $15.15. Mrs. Nuritch I want to get a pair of swell white gloves to wear to a ball. Clerk Tes'm. How long do you want them? Mrs. Nuritch See here, young man. I ain't talkin' about rentin' them. I want to buy 'em. Philadelphia Pi'ess. ARKETSTODAY. Good General Demand for Wheat Causes Strength. Corn Buying Again Forces Price Up. LITE STOCK TRADE. Satire Steers Sell at from Hogs Five Cents Higher, Bulk at 5.15 to S5.20. Chicago, March 29. WHEAT Covering by shorts with a good general demand, principally by commission houses, were the chief elements of strength in the T "arkt today. The cash situation and higher cables formed the basis of the Dullish sentiment. Tnere was very Hg'it offerings. July opened a shade to Mc h'Sher, at M:ifcHe. and advanced to 89o. Later the market had some reces sion on profit taking, July touching 89M,c. Receipts at Minneapolis, Duluth and Chi cago -were 232 cars today, as against 311 cars a year ago. Extreme weakness developed" the latter part of the session, due to the more reas suring crop news from the southwest. July declined 2c from the high point, the low figure being 87c. The close was weak, at 87!S87c, a net loss for the day Of l(jC. CORN In corn the good buying demand which was so prominent in yesterdav's market was again in force todav, the market in consequence ruling strong. The cash market was strong and cables slight ly higher. At the opening July was fefle high-r, at 52S35214C. The market advanced to 52c, declining later to 52c Receipts were 205 cars. July sold ofT to 51c, closing prices were barely steady, with July at 514 51c a shade decline for the day. OATS Strength in other grains caused a bullish feeling in oats. July opened a shade to.i&ie higher, at 3&39c, and advanced to 39c. Receipts were 205 cars. PROVISIONS Provisions were strong. July pork opened unchanged and ad vanced to $13.65. July lard opened at $7.22 and touched $7.27. Ribs were steady, with July at $7.1714. WHEAT Cash- No. 2 red, $1.0CvSt 03; No. 3 red,- 9e$1.03; No. 2 hard, 95?99c: No. 3 hard, o7.&96c; No. 1 northern, SSc'iJ; J1.03; No. 2 northern. 95eii$1.02: No. 3 spring. S8cia1.00. COK.N No. 2, K.'g&c; No. 3 4852c. OATS No. 2. 40c: No. 3, 39c RYE May, 73c; July, 6Sc FLAX Cash: N.-W.. S1.15t&: S.-W.. $1.09! May, $1.11. TIMOTHY March, $2.90. CLOVER March, $11.25. BARLEY Cash: 36S56e. Range of Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall. CommlMloiu, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486'. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo.) Chicago, March 29. Open High Low. Close Yes WHEAT- May 97 97 July 90-90 903-4 Sept 8434-85 85 WHEAT (new) July 89-89 89 Sept 83 84',, CORN May 55 55 July 52-5214 52 Sept 51 51 95?4 96 8974 8S 82 87 81 &4 51 50 83 84 87- SS4- 81- 83 55 55 5134- 51 51 51 40 403.; OATS May 40-41 41- 4C July Sept PORK Mav Julv LARD May July RIBS 38-39 39- 3S- 38- 3R'4- 33-33 331,4 3214- 32- 32-33 .13 35 .13 55 13 47 13 70 13 07 13 25 13 07 13 25 13 32 13 55 7 00 7 22 7 12 7 27 6 97 7 12 7 05-07 7 22 7 12 May 6 97 7 02 7 20 6 90 7 05 6 90 7 05 6 97 7 12-15 July 7 17 Kansas City Grata. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Teleohone 488. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City. Mo.) Kansas City, March 29. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT May 87 July 7S CORN May 46 July 45 88 79 47 45 86 87 86 78- 78- 78 46 46 46 45-, 45- 45 Market Gossip Furnished by the H. H. Lee Commission sas avenue. Independent telephone 795.) Company, Commission Merchants and receivers and shippers of grain, 623 Kan Opening Liverpool cables: Wheat d higher: corn d higher. Liverpool, 1:30 p. m.: Wheat d higher; corn d higher. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 19 cars; graded, 1. Corn, 202 cars graded, 31. Oats, 2S cars; graded, 15. Closii.g Liverpool cables: Wheat d higher; corn d higher. Chicago: Privileges for tomorrow: July wheat Puts, 86c; C.1II3, S8c. July corn Puts, 51c; calls, 52c. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City. Mo., March 29. CATTLE Receipts today. 12,000 head, including 400 head of southerns. Market steady to slow. Native steers, $3.601i5.25: southern steers, J3.COS4.15; southern cows, $2.403.25; na tive cows and heifers, $2.0Of;4.2S; stockers and feeders, $3.00ft4.30; bulls, $2.503.75: calves. $3.O06.0O: western steers, $3.40 4.60; western cows, $2.00(ri3.50. HOGS Receipts today, 9.000 head. Mar ket for heavies steady; lights 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $5.156(5.20; heavy, $5.155.25: packers', $5.15(g5.22; pigs and lights, J4.25 5.20. SHEEP Receipts today, 5,000 head. Market 10c higher. Muttons, J4.00ti5.25-, lambs, $4.75S5.90; range wethers, t4.504i5.00; ewes, $3.50 4. 60. St. Louis Livestock Market. St. Louis, Mo., March 29. CATTLE Re ceipts todav, 3,000 head, including 1,000 head of Texans. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.85&5.15; stockers and feeders, $3.3Ol4.00; cows and heifers. $2.25tt4.30: Texas steers. $3.354.30; Texas cows and heifers. S2.00fi3.10. HOGS Receipts today, 6,500 head. Mar ket strong. Pigs and lights, $4.85f5.15; packers', $5.15"&5.50; butchers' and best heavv, $5.455.65. SHEEP Receipts today, 600 hend. Market strong. Natives, $4.40(g5.O0; lambs, $4. SOS 5.60. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago, March 29. CATTLE Receipts todav, 5,000 head. Market slow and lower. Good to prime steers, $5. Ibta 5.60; poor to medium, $3.75ifi4.9fl: stockers and feeders, $2.75'&4.35: cows. $3.75f74.40: heifers, fc.'.0CK3; .1 Aft- hnll M 5l1(S4 (11- calves, $3.007.00; Texas' fed steers, $4.25tf 4. 13. HOGS Receipts today, 22,000 head: esti mate! Wednesday. 2S.0OO head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers', $o.25tS.C0; good to choice heavy, $5.505.65; rough henvv. $5.25175.50: light, $5.20flo.ti5; bulk" of sales. $5.40i5.55. n SHEEP Receipts toaay, ai.uuu neai. Sheep 10c higher; lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.60ft5.50: fair to choice mixed, $4.25(f4.60: western sheep, $4.005.55; native lambs, $4.5O'05.75; western lambs, $4. 750. 15. New York Stock. Wall Street. New York, March 29. STOCKS Opening prices showed a sprink ling -of gains, including Pennsylvania, Reading. Southern Pacific and United Stats Steel preferred, but secondary prices sagged, carrying these stocks he low last nipht, along with others, which opened lower. There was some heavy blocks transferred in the leaders, espe cially in Amalgamated Copper and Uni ted "States Steel preferred. The downward tendency trtta ohecked HSTfHBLrr&&& or I Millinery The styles you are looking for are here. Popular price ready to wear hats. You should visit this de partment be fore Easter. t I Our Easter I sale of Sorosis Underskirts begins f tomorrow. bv buving orders in St. Paul. Atchison, the Pacifies and the Pennsylvania group. Prices rallied quite generally to above yesterdav's close. Union Pacific showing the maximum gain of point. The de mand slackened when the losses w?re mada up and prices drooped anew on fresh selling of United States Steel pre ferred. Ice preferred rose 2 points on a few transactions. United Fruit 2 points and Delaware and Hudson and Metropoli tan Street Railway, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie and Anaconda 1 to 1 points. Colorado Southern first prefer red fell 1 point. A fresh advance in Un ion Pacific to 1 points over last night rallied the market again. Selling orders diminished, but offerings were ample enough to force prices lower all around. Baltimore and' Ohio, Mexican Central Realty preferred and North American were numbered among those which were down a point or more. Dela ware and Hudson lost Its early rise and Ice prel erred lost about point. Prices fluctuated rather narrowly un der the conflicting influences of firmness in Union Pacific and weakness in United States Steel preferred. The latter sold off over a point upon expression or ooudi over tne maintenance ui Jc; V rate and dragged the list down with it. Illinois Central and Colorado and South ern lost a point and Northwestern 1 points. Union Pacific preferred gained 1 point. Bonds were irregular ai huuu. t- 1 T-... e n,ranoafl 9. nnltlts and Southern Pacific recovered to the nignesi, but other stocks did not respond. Prices generally were still near the lowest at o'clock. New XorK, ivxarcn xnvic actlvltv on tne euro in me uis r ;Xr' particularly Northern Securities, at the opening toaay. miuti ed at 98, advanced to 98; and then re acted to 98. Northern Pacific was 12S bid and several small lots changed hands at that price. Great Northern preferred was quoiea ai mis n. A sequently advancing a point but trading ln tms stock was i"""1""- ..i curities stubs were quoted at 23, and of- 'There -were no transactions in the first" half hour Little business was oune m c- .rtr the first half hour. At noon these were the prices: Northern Securi- ties. &Vs, rsui uiei n v 1 1 k-'v -r bid and 250 asked; Northern Pacific, 130, and Great Northern preferred, 167. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. -Gall, Comrr.lsslens, Grainr. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth srreet. Telephone 486 Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City. Mo.J TMew York. March 29. Stocks. On'n Hietl Low Cl s- Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T T. C. I U. S. Steel U. S. Steel, pfd Atchison, com Atchison, pfd 126 126 126 126 126 96 49 43 38 11 58 70U 9nu 15 142 22 19 37 92 8X 143 117 24 ii 49 'jj 44 26 114 3 32 80 108 3S 117 37 7 2S 96 5A 43 11 58 70 90 15 50 44 38 11 5SiA 71 90 4914 49 43 38 11 57 71 43 11 57 69 90i,4 90 15 C. G. w St. Paul w T mm l&V 141 144 141 144 22 S!Vfe ZifS ivs '37 '38" '37 37 92 92 91 92 88 i 143 143 143 imi 117 117 117 "49 50 48 50 44 44 43 44 26 26 25 26 114 115 114 115 83 87 82 86 "79 'mi "w" so 108 108-4 10T. 107 iii iis in 118 37 38 37 38 28 Wabash, com Wabash, pfd Mo. Pacific Western union Manhattan t.t v Ppntral Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie C. Pacific Union Pacific rr. O B. O L. N Katy Pennsylvania r ri n in U. S. Leather C. F. I New York Money. New York. March, MON'ET-Money offered at 1 per cent: time loans steadv; w anu uxjo, r month?. per Bilterliexican dol-'aBONDS-Government bonds strong. Morning Stock Seview. ririirnlshed by A. M. McDermott Commls Co f Stocks, Grains. Provisions and Investment Securities. Rooms 2u and 21. 702 Kansas ave.I New York. March 2S.-STOCKSUnion Pacific is just now furnishing all street with the main xopiu uiav. rhsurTace it looks as if the stock was amounts and at times it looks as tnough thprp were a general inaHu.-wi. -olirketW etiort. 11 u'ii the ward appearances for granted. If the maninulation of the stock covers liquida tion on ttds advance, it is remarkably well bandied. Whatever is going on is i- tJr.irfh T easier by the uncertainty wh?4 ?tUl surrounds ythe particulars of The various Agreements reached whereby he Northern Securities company is to be innlS A a topic of discussion the Northern Securities matter is growing a lile old but it is not being relegated to the' background because its importance is lessening. Kansas City Produce Jtarket. Kansas Citv. March 29. Close WHEAT wereints today. 57 cars. Quotations: Mavf S7c: Jul? 7S7Sc. Cash: No. 2 hard, 91fi94c: No. 3 hard. WJMc; No. 2 red $1 02A1.04: No. 3 red, $1.0m&1.01. CORN-Market firm. -May.-Wfes; July. i4Ec. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 46c; No. 3 f inn barg-aws, mixed, 4646c: No. 2 white. 46c: No. 3 white, 46c. OATS Market steadv. No. 2 white. 40c: No. 2 mixed, SSc. kye-Market steady. No. 2, 6ZO. HAY Market weak. Choice timothy. $10.00; choice prairie, $7.5Wi7.75. uui'ijiK-ureamery, zi'ezzc; aairy, xan cy, 17c, .t;ijGS iresn, ioc. Chicago Produce. Chicago. March 29. BUTTER Market firm. Creameries, 1424c; dairies, 12i 21c. EGGS Market firm. At mark, cases in cluded, 16Sl6?ic. CH EESE Market easy. Daisies. 10c: Twins, 10c; Young Americas, 11a. live rouuHi-AiarKet steaay. .Tur keys, 12c; chickens, 13c Sugar and Coflee Market. New York, March 29. SUGAR Raw su gar firm. Fair refining, 3c: centrifugal, 96 test, 3c; molasses sugar, 2c. Refined sugar firm. Crushed, $5.40; powdered, $4.80; granulated, $4.70. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio, 6c. New Yerk Butter. New York, March 29. BUTTER Market firm. State dairy, 1321c; fresh cream ery, 1SS25C Topeka Market. Topeka. March 29. MEDIUM HEAVY LIGHT ....$4.7!14.i0 4.8S-g4.95 4.70tjU4.55 ....$2.0023.50 2.00-3.i4 3.0fril4.0lf 2.0uil2.7S $2.503.fi 3.0LU4.U CATTLE. COWS HU-lU'ERS STEERS liU 1 .1 HEAVY LIGHT -ix-T-JTT IT CALVES. "grain"." soo NO. 3 WHEAT NO. 3 V1-Ai ,o 10 WHITE UUnji 4.io YELLOW AND MIXED CORN t NO. 2 OATS 300 NO 3 OATS 2a FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. E. Lux. successor to W. O. Anderson Co 210 Kansas ave- nUeJ FRUITS ORANGES Navel, per box, $2.10. LEMONS California, per box, $2.50g2.75 BANANAS Fancy Port Limons, $1.7&vj 2.75 per buncn. APPLES i.aii.J li "ul CRANBERRIES Per bu. box, $2.50. STRAWBERRIES 24-quart crate, $3.50a 4.00. .rc.CTlllT .CO SWEET POTATOES Southern Illlnolii. Eer DDI., "ea, per u.. $1.?0. POTViUH.3 v.uluiviv, uu., 1.20. TOMATOES Fancy Mexican. 6 basket rrnf. $b.00; fancy Florida. 6 basket crate. $3.50. t-.. LETTUCE Texas, per dozen bunches. P.ADISHE3 Texas, per dox. bunches. "pARSLET-45c per bunch. TURNIPS Per bv.. 40c. PARSNIFS-Per bu.. $1.M. CARROTS Per bu.. $1.00. RUTABAGAS Canada, per cwt.. ti 59 CAULIFLOWER Per crate. $2.5034.75; CABBAGE $3.75&4.00 per cwt. ONIONS Per bu., $l.agi.75. SEED SWEET POTATOES-Jl.3S22.oo per bu. CELERY Blue Ribbon, per dozen. 65c: Jumbo, per dozen, 90c COCOANUTS $4.00 per sack; 50c per 3 SEED POTATOES Red River Er!y Ohio, $1.30; Red River Early Rose, fi.26; Wisconsin Early Ohio, $1.25; Kaw Valley Earlv Ohio, $1.1- HONEY 24-rack cases, $2.73. FIG'S Boxes containing 10 1-lb. cartons. PDYbS,rERS:-Extra selects, per ge.1.. $1.75. extra standards, per gal.. $lv3w: jew York' counts, per can, 4oc; New lork extra e 1 ner can. 3oc; Baltimore itanHam. per can, 2c. rpPra, 20-lb. Daisy Cheese, per lb 12o o?katTwwVeV7b:::::::::::i2 Brick, per lb....... um Limburger, per lb. lt(, Block Swiss, per lb lia BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY. POULTKi-luuuB 'icu, k each: hens, 10c K.: spring chickens, 7ft8c lo BUTTER Country, 12c Li 1 -3 HAY. PRAIRIE HAY-Loose $4.5055-6.50 PRAIRIE HAY Baled 6.wufc. t JJ STRAW Baled 5-005.50 Topeka HideMarket. Topeka. March rPKces pnld In Topeka th is week, based on Boston quotations :j GREEN SALT CURED 7a NO. 1 TALLOW 4o A. M. McDEARMOTT COA1M1SSION CO., Rooms 20 and 21, New Devlin Bulldiafc 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 Topks banks and commercial agencies. Bell telephone, 292. Independent telephone. 222. W. P. LOGAN. Manager. x trTX 2 -Air i j i -1! r 'ii v l

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TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAI4 TUESDAY KYENING, MARCH 29, 1904. 11 J X IS PILGilISi JOE. He Falls Among the Philistines While Pursuing His Way. At nine o'clock of a balmy morning not too balmy I found myself and my outfit on the highway between the respectable and thrivin' towns of Hal lelujah and the Gulch, and the light ness of my heart compelled me to give the old hoss a cut with the whip and to observe to myself: "He who is out of debt, stands in no fear of the law and he who hath two hundred cold clunks in his pocket is richer than a king, and not half as apt to have appendicitis." And also: "Be not vain and conceited, lest ye bite off more'n ye kin chaw and choke to death. Be vain enough to reverse your paper collars every Sunday morn in' and conceited enough to be glad ye re -not red-headed, but drop it right there." And likewise: "It is the duty of a man to console with and seek to lift up his feller-men, but he must have food and fodder while he is doin' it, and his profits ought to average at least 23 per cent." Thus did I commune with myself and feel glad that I was alive and out of Jail, and all was goin' well with me nd mine when I obsarved half a 3o?.en denizens of the kentry comin' for d on a gallop. It looked to me as if I might make a sale of five or six bottles of my Pilgrim Pain Alleviator, heretofore referred to as the best rem edy known cn airth for coughs, colds, chillblains, broken hearts, consump tion, low speertts, disappinted love and so forth, and I got the bottles ready. Whr-n the cavalcade came tip. however, I noticed a sai-tin look of hilarity and good fellerhip that ma.ie me doubt, and I was prepared for a surprise when tlie boss of ttie crowd remarked: "V- hav-i been lookin' for you for two days, old man. Come along with us." '"He who seeks long enough will gen erally find." I replied in a light-hearted way, "even if he is lookin' for a black cat on a dark night. Does it haDpen that any of you critters are troubled with a roarin' in the head loss of vis ion nightmare a feelin' of goneness a "It don't," says ths man. "We was never more healthy In our lives, and never more prepared to see jestice done "Widder Scraggs, what do You Think of the Critter?" to the widder and the fatherltss. Make tt'At old hoss step lively." "To whence?" "To down here about two miles." I asked no further questions. In the Territory of Oklahoma the fewer ques tions ye ask the quicker the suspense is over. While kiverin' the distance Fpoken of I felt myself quite buoyed up hv the knowledge that I had nevtr set lire to an orphan asylum nor rob bed a church. The most sinful thing I could find agin myself was winnin' a Jackpot of $11 on a pair of tens, and 1 was hopin' to be forgiven that when we stopped in front of a shanty erecte i without regard to the rules of archi tecture. A woman came out to greet us. She was 50 years old. and Natnr' had given her a nose that turned up, a mouth like a pancake and eyes that were on the squint. Nay, she was not fair to look upon not even fair to medium, and I was rejoioin' that fate had not made her my blushln' bride, when the leader of the gang turned and said: "It's just this way, old hoss. Herd's a pore and good-hearted woman who has lost two husbands by death and a third by his runnin' away. She has nobody to love; she has nobody to sorrow and sympathize with her; she has nobody io call her fond names ami throw the arm of purtection around that ample waist o' hers. Is it r.;rht. Pilgrim?" "Not skassly." I replied. "That's what we say, and we are iroin' to make it right. There's got to I a turtle dove a-singin' around this shanty before the day is out or some body's got to hang. It's a case that's been appealin' to our feelin's until we kin stand it no longer." The widder smiled and tried to flirt with me. but I frowned upon her girly ways and asked: "And how ye goin' to git the turtle 4ove?" "We've got him, old hoss got him flcht here." "Monniii' you?" "Not by the whiskers of Caesar! It's meainin' you! You are goin' to marry this pore, heart-broken wid.ler or be pulled up to the limb of that tree! You ain't a heap to look at. und your teeth will be fallin' out in three or four years more, but you will have to answer for the occasion. Widder Pk.iggs, what d'ye think of the frit ter?" "Purty nigh all skin and bones, hut I reckon he'll have to do, swered, tryin' to flirt with she an me some more. "Yes, he'll have to do, as he is the only critter we could git Come, old hoss. There's a right htre and the weddin' hold of preacher bells are waitin' to ring. We ain't none of us contendin' that the widder Skagg"? is bewtiful to look upon, or that her form 5s like the wild gazelle that boundeth o'er the grassy green, but she's solid on her pins and her heart is as bi as a cabbage-head. She Is yourn, old man she is yourn til death comes along to separate you. and if you ain't thf happiest critter for a thousand miles around it will be bekase you have a pizen mean disposishun." "Look-a-here, widder and critters all," I said as I felt my hair crawling up and my boots pullin at my feet, "don't deal the keerds too fast. To begin with, she ain't no real wiuder, but only one of grass. Her third hus band simply ran away, and I ain't savin' I blame him any. It would be agin tlv law for her to marry." The law never interferes in th? case of a pore, heart-broken woman, re plied the boss. "In the next place. I've got an old woman myself back in Wisconsin. It's true I haven't lived with her sinco shi sold my yoke of oxen to git an o.:tfit to go to the circus with, but we are laxally hitched. Jest the same." rl -AND5-i1ISCELLANB -cs Alia. PULL. AN A. Dl T. Cull Box or call either telephone No. SI end hav your Want Ada brought t th State Journal of fice by free idc enger serrlce. Coat of classified da five cents pet tine of six word to the line and very traction thereof. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I AM A CAKDIDATEOR STATE senator from tne Seventeenth district, fl'th), subject to the decision of the qual ified electors In Shawnee county in No vember. C. P. BOLMAK. "It won't work Wisconsin is too far off," says the boss. "Wall, then. I don't love her." "But I'll make ye," smiles the wiu- der, as she tries to take me in her arms aril almost treads niy feet into the airth. "It got to be done and ye can't get out of it!" shouts the boss as he seta his law hard. "This climate of Oklo homa won't grow bananas, but it will purtect the widder and the orphant. and now you either marry or hang. Widder, strain him to your bossom." "Durned if she will!" said I. "Do vou mean vou won't marry her?" "1 do. I'm a Pilerim. travelln' around to sorrer with the sorrerin' and console them that have bet their money on the wrong hoss, and incidentally I, sell my Pain Alleviator at 25 cents a' bottle, but I'll be durned if I'm to be hitched up to any woman agin my will. Go ahead with your hangin'!" They put the noose over my head and stood me beneath the limb of a tree, and I have no doubt that they would have pulled on the rope had not a cross-eyed, stub-nose, knock-kneed critter of a man come ridin' up on a. shamblin' old hoss. He proved to be the husband who had run away, but had got enough of it and had come back to be supported for the rest of his J"1? VT v t ,X hangin, but before I was allowed to cmve on eacn critter treatea nimseu tu a bottle of my Pain Alleviator, while the woman drank two and obleeged me to take a tin type of the reunited pair. I got away at last, and it was only after I had traveled five long miles that 1 dared draw rein and say to myself: "He that is armed with a clear con sciencs hath a good weapon, but it is sometimes just as well to depend a little on luck." i on luck." (Copyright, 1904, by C. B. Levis.i NAMES, JAPANESE WAY. Key Prepared by World'a Fair Com missioner from Mikado's Empire. The following key to the pronunciation of Japanese, Chinese and Korean geo graphical names was prepared by Hajime Ota, the Japanese world's fair commis sioner: Japanese geographical names are pronounced by Japanese with little ac cent, as a rule. The vowels are spoken broadly "a" as "ah," "e" as long "e," "i" as short "e," "o" generally as "o," but sometimes as "aw." and "u" as "oo." There is little slurring of syllables; the divisions are distinct, and. as a rule, both the final letter of a syllable and tirst let ter of the following one retain their dis tinct pronunciation. This leads Americans frequently to sup pose that second sound hase been intro duced between the syllables. Take the name "Tokio. it is pronounced JOKyo the "o" in the tirst syllable and tne K n the sprnnd E-ivine- such Individual pro nunciation that when spoken rapidly it sounds to the unaccustomed ear much like the "toa-kyoh." F" is not sooken distinctly when it ne- gins the first syllable and is followed by as in Fukuoko. the worn is pro nounced "Foo-kwoo-o-kah, the sounds being much as though It were "iiiwoo- okah." Here are some of the Japanese names most frequently met in the war news: Tokio Toa-kyoh. Nagasaki Nah-gah-sah-kee. Hakodate Hah-ko-dah-ten. KnKoshima Kah-go-shc-mah, a slight accent of the last syllable. Shimonoseki She-mon-o-say-Kee. Fukuoko f Kwoo-o-kah. Sasebo Sah-say-bo. Hiroshima sHe-ro-she-mah. ((The af fix "shima." frequently found In Japanese namfs. signifies "island." This, "sHe-ro- island.' Tokushlma To-koo-she-mah, "to, as "tow" in "towboat." Takaoka "Tah-kah-oh-ka," Nanao "Nah-nah-oh." Tsurugil Tsoo-roogah. Niiata Nzhe-zhc-R-ah-tah. the double "i" taking the sound of "zbe-zhe." The word has a slight accent on the third syllable. Sakata Sah-kah-tah. Ishikari Keesh-e-kah-rey (a bay.) Osa ka Oh-sa h-ka h. Shikoku Sho-ko-koo. Klushu Kyu-shee, the first "u" given its Cull sound. In many respects Korean and Chinese names are pronounced after the same rubs as Japanese, although many have a decided accent, on the final syllable. Atnon' them are: Yalu Y.ih-loo, river dividing Korea and Manchuria. Chemulpo Chee-mweel-po, accented on the second syllable. Masampo Mah-sham-po, accent on sec and sv liable. Kokpo Koh-po, accent on first syllable, the "k" sounded much like the "ch" in the German "a.ch." Chefu Chee-foo. accent on last syllable, as in the following instances: Wiiu Wee-zhoo. Yongampo Yong-ahm-po, the "ng" be ing sounded as it is in French. Hniji Whah-eh-zhee, the first two syl lables being practically only one. Seoul Sool. Fusan Foo-shan. Sonchin Sohn-chcen. Ohmnampo Cheon-nahm-po. Yang-Yang Yahng-yahng. Chunju Chwane-zhu, "ju" signifying "ville," as "t hung-ville. Tein Tsin Tain-shen. Ta lien wan Tah-leen-whan. Chin wan taoc Sheen-wahn-tau. Wcihaiwei Wee-high-way. Newark News. A Sham Battle. Governor J. K. Vardaman of Mis sissippi, whose recent attacks on lynch ing have been praised everwhere, said the other day: "Lynching war prize fights all these things seem to me barbarous and cruel. Yet I must adrriit that, about war at least, there is a fascination and a glamour. "I once attended a sham battle, and even this sham battle seemed to me. as I looked on, to be a fine, romantic, inspiring thing. I was following the troops about in a hack, and I remem ber how impatient I would grow when, the ground becoming hilly, the driver would not drive me fast enough. "Hurry up, man!' I would say. 'We mustn't miss that flanking movement.' "And the driver would growl and WANTED MALE HELP WANTED Men to learn barber trade; board, tools and scholarshlD Included in our offer; few weeks completes; prepare now ior spring rush: graduates earn top wages; positions guaranteed; catalog free. Moler Barber college, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED A young man desiring to work for his tuition to call at the Standard Shorthand school, 630 Kansas ave. FARMERS, take notice I will sell you stock salt, white, clean, first Quality, In sacks at barrel rates. Isaac M. Town, 210 W. 6th st. HOLER'S barber college of Dallas, Tex., Denver, Col., or Salt Lake, Utah, offers advantages in teaching the barber trade that can not bo had elsewhere. Write nearest branch for terms. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Girl for housework, no laun dry work. 516 Topeka ave. WANTED Girl for housework, no wash ing. Van Buren. st. WANTED Sewing girls. O'Brien, with Mills Co. Mrs. B. A. WANTED First class house girls, good wages. Capital Emp., 736 Kansas ave. WANTED 5o women, good wages, for private family and hotel work. Capital Emp. Agency, 735 Kansas ave. WANTED White girl for general house work at 501 Lincoln st. WANTED Girl for general housework; good wages; Sundays off. Ladies' Ex change, ll'J W. 6th St. WA iA'TED A competent white girl for e.eral house work, 3 adults. 1107 To peka ave. WANTED 7 chambermaids,!! waitresses, house girls, cooks, clerks, farm hands, camp cook. Capital Emp., 735 Kansas av. WANTED IT neat women for eating house work, $30 per month, board, room and pass. Capital limp., 73 A-ansas ave. WANTED Girl for housework or good cook. 1028 van Buren st. WANTED SALESMEN WANTED Side line salesmen, good com mission, sell from photographs. Ameri can Chewing Gum Co., St. Louis, Mo. GOOD side line for salesmen makinis no tion and 5 and 10c stores. Ideal Gar ment Co., Ann Arbor, Mich. WANTED AGENTS WE WANT 10.000 seen tsrorKTeateft house hold Beller ever invented; best money maker on record: actually sell to every house; send l&c for sample and our 2 mam moth catalogues of agents' supplies. South ern Merc. Co.. Dept. 52. Houston. Tex. WANTED SITUATIONS. WANTED A place to work during the day by a lady attending night schuol. Call at Standard School of Shorthand. WANTED-Position by experienced young ,ad stenographer; must have some- j thing. goo1 and at once, in or out of city, I Address 11. K., care Journal. WANTED A position in hardware or grocery store, experienced. References. Z., care Journal. WANTED By young woman, work of some kind where I can go home nights. Address Dot Harris, care Journal. WANTED Position in private family by young Swede 23 years old as driver ana gardener. Address A. L., care Journal. WANTED Sewing by day, experienced. Call at viz wuincy st. WANTED Position as collector or city salesman; references and bond if neces sary. Address B. W., care Journal. WANTED Position by young man, has office experience ana can operate type writer, reasonable wages. Address R., care Journal. WHEN you want to hire a man or boy. call up x. m. a. teiepr.one an. we have a list ot men and confidential ref erences concerning them. Y. M. C A. Employment Bureau. 117 IS. Stfr st. WANTED MISCLLEANEOUS. WANTED Orders to sell manufactured building stone, range stone and steps a specialty; estimates furnished. Yard cor. Curtis ana Monroe St., iNorin xopeKa. u. E. Raney. WANTED To buy small house in South lopeka: give number or house. J. f.. care Journal. WANTED Good clean cotton rags, not small pieces, but large enough for wip ing machinery. Call at State Journal of fice. WANTED To buy for cash good sonnd driving horse weighing about 1,100 lbs. Apply 727 Tyler St. WANTED By man and wife 2 or 3 rooms furnished for li&rht housekeeping: must be in good location and close in. Address a. jvi., room z, uoiumoian Duuaing, city. WANTED Horses to clip. 118 W. 5th St. 'Phone 488 Arthur Massey. BUSINESS CHANCES. ESTABLISHED trade and patent right on most useful article on the market. Box 35. Topeka, Kan. JORRENT KOOMS FOR RENT Nicely furnished single room for gentleman; S. E. exposure, housu modern, gas, bath. 1125 Van Buren su FOR RENT Rooms furnished or unfur nished with or without board. 617 W. 10th. FOR RENT Furnished rooms pleasantly located, electric lights, oatn. biz yumcy FOR RENT 5 room flat 611 Quincy st, C. D. Skinner. FOR RENT Lower floor 5 rooms, hall. 316 Harrison st. Call at 518 Monroe st. FOR RENT Large furnished room with alcove, near state house, ws loth st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms for lignt housekeeping, modern improvements. 1321 w. 6th ave. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, 412 W. 5th st. FOR RENT Room, modern; young men prcterrea. 6Ui vv. tn st. FOR RENT To gentleman only, furnish ed front room, in modern house. 1261 Tyler st. FOR RENT Furnished and unfurnished rooms. 304 Monroe st. FOR RENT 1 furnished room with bath and gas, for one or two gentlemen. 706 Harrison st. FOR RENT T unfurnished rooms April 2 at lib fom st. FOR RENT Well furnished rooms, mod- ern conveniences, tirst class board: also accommodation for table boarders: 520 Harrison St. touch his horse with the whip. "Finally the bugles of the sham en mies gave the 'cease firing' call, and my driver, with a look of relief, pulled up and began to feed his horse from a nose-bag. Suddenly, though, the 'ad vance sounded, and off the troop3 started again at the double quick. "But the driver made no attempt to interrupt his horses meal and follow them. I, intoxicated with the glory and glamour of the sham battle, said to the man, to inspire him: 'Now, cabby, drive on. Imagine we are in a real war. 'All right,' said the cabby; 'and you imagine that me and the hoss is is shot.' Denver Post, FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT New 5 room- cottage and 7 room house. Inquire at 14 Monroe st. FOR RENT Nice 8 room house, central ly, located. W. H. Barnes.. state house. FOR RENT The large brick house S. W. cor. 6th and Polk, hath jutd gas, barn. Inquire 715 W. 6th St. FOB, RENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT 10 acres 2'4 miles north, good nouse, oarn; sen or traae lor city prop erty. Inquire 1414 N. Quincy. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE Quick. 1U to 3U. Ints fwm n- 2 blocks from governor's mansion. Teh 264 or call 1122 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 8 room house. 2 lots. El Sth st; for quick sale only 750 this week: i room house, 3 lots, Quincy st, $1,400: 7 room house, 2 lots, 2V4 blocks state house, $2,200 3 room house, 31 ft. front ground. Buchanan St., tUSO, $100 down. $10 per month. I have some well improved farms cheap and on easy payments. Fisher, 418 Kansas ave.. Bell 'phone 609. MODERN COTTAGE. 6 large rooms, 4 blocks from state house, just built, furnace, bath, gas, everything, hard floors, chandeliers, lii lots. This is to be sold this week, and first come, first served. 'Way below $3,000. THE STRAUSS AGENCY. FOR SALE: 5 room house, 1V4 lots, shade, fruit, flow ers, grapes, barn, block to car and pavement, $1,200. SCOTT SCOTT. 615 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE My 4 room cottage, 2 lots, gooa snaae, wen ana cellar, near car line, east of new shops, $650; possession given at once. Fred C. Slater, 615 Kansas ave. ON EASY PAYMENTS. A GENUINE SNAP Fine home 10 rooms. right close to Washburn eollege:if you don't want all the rooms you can rent the rest, i nne lots, large Darn, well, cistern, house finished in hard wood, fine man tels and reception hall. You can get this for only $2,000, and the most wonderful part of all on a pay ment or 5oUU or mavbe less, the easv monthly payment, with 6 per cent straight interest. Better hurry; some one will be ahead or you. THE STRAUSS AGENCY, Central National Bank Bldg. FOR SALE An 8 room house. 24 lots fruit. For further information call at 30i Van Buren st. FOR SALE Lots In Johnson Place add! tlon, W. 6th, between Horne and Morris ave. M. Heery, ind. phone Vila. FOR BALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE OR TRADE $40 piano, latest style, a bargain. iiu( v. 8th st. FOR SALE 2 fresh cows at 300 Lawrence street. FOR SALE A fine go-cart, cheap. In- quire 1017 Monroe st. FOR SALE Russian speltz. D. O. Coe, lis iu. bin St. FOR SALE At once, household goods. 422 vv iocust st. FOR SALE Organ, $10. 621 E. 6th St. FOR SALE: A' surrey", and phaeton, in good order, at 1603 N.- Kansas ave. FOR SALE Square piano-'(Fisher), $50; $5 per month, sis Monroe st. FOR SALE Boarding house furniture with gooa business, 20 Doaraers, a bar gain, party leaving town. 113 Adams st. FOR SALE Wall paper that sold from 8 to loc, tor 3C roil, at v Kansas ave. FOR SALE 1 wall case suitable for jew elry, millinery or bakery; must be sold at once. Ulamperl's Dept. store, 40S-410 E. 4th st. FOR SALE One 6 and one 5 gallon cow. i. vesper, 113 E. sth st. FOR SALE Almost new gas stove and iv ew process gasoline stove, cheap. 33a vv estern ave. FOR SALE No. 1 work horse, weight 1,- 3uu los. sz3 in. vjuincy st. FOR SALE Fresh Jersey cow and calf. I33z nuchanan st. FOR SALE Fine heifer calf. Thos. Lyon. Ind. 'phone 115a. COME quick! Choice budded peach trees best varieties; must be sold, cheap. C. Al. Randall, ws tanmett st. FOR SALE Fresh cow at 621 Lane st. FOR SALE Choice, well bred, all pur pose mare, light run-about, 2 sets single harness. HW, vv. loth st. FOR SALE Gentlemen's second hand clothing, cheap. S32 Kansas ave., upstairs. FOR SALE Surrey. S09 Madison st. FOR SALE Nearly new rubber tired runabout, also harness and laprobe. Call at oZi vv est st. FOR SALE 3 loaves home made bread 10c, 1 quart fresh milk 5c. Home Bak- eery, 6th and .folk. ma. pnone nu7 z. FOR SALE Unredeemed high grade watches and leweiry. G. N. ALLENDORFF, 500 Kan. Av. FOR SALE 3 good gentle driving horses, l work norse, l jersey cow. a. Fletcher, Shorey, Kan. FOR SALE Lady's bicycle. White drop hea.-l sewing machine, good as new. Van Buren st. WHITE Wyandotte eggs for settings, 15 for 51.00. VV. A. Smith, 10H E. 10th St. FOR SALE Emporia postofflce furniture and fixtures, in good repair, can give possession about April 1. For prices and particulars address W. T. Soden, Empor ia, Kan. FOR SALE Common brick $6 per M. pressed brick, $12.50 per M. stone, $4.30 per cord, sand and cement. Morse Ma terial Supply Co., 913 N. Kansas ave. Ind. 'phone 1033. FOR SALE Early Ohio 'Phone 6202 rings. W. seed potatoe T. Dawson. FOR SALE New 1 farm wagon, power saw and belting, platform scales, at south half 819 Kansas ave. FOR SALE 3 work horses, ren st. 700 Van Bu- FOR SALE Fence posts. R. Laycock, E. 6th St.. near Rice school. FOR SALE Team, harness and wagon. Topeka Coai Co.. 509 W. 10th st. FOR SALE A fine young stallion at 700 Van Buren, stables. PIANOS and organs rerelrcu. bought or sold. Geo. D. Butts. 921 E. 6th st- PLANING MILLS SASH, doors and mouldings, brackets and interior finish, turning, and stair work. W. G. Agard. Ind. tel. 547. 212-16 Jackson. PACKING. E. A. HOLMAN, furniture packer, has had long experience: 140 Evelyn st.. N. Topeka. Ind. tel 4492 rings. Leave or ders with Mrs. Etta Lacey, 603 Kansas ave. Ind. tel. 1259. MISCELLANEOUS. IF YOU WANT to save money flgur with Gillett Nicholson before you buy coal,' lumber or any kind of building ma- (dial, iw luiascts ave. iei. yo. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Small box 'containing jewelry and money. Finder please return to Kit hi laundry and receive reward. LOST A lady's black handbag containing some money, stained classes ana other articles; has envelope with name on. Find er please return tooffice Mills D. G. Co. aand receive reward. LOST An automobile horn between 315 Topeka ave. and Oakland. Return for reward to Dr. Munn. STRAYED OR STOLEN TAKEN UP A stray bay mare 8 years old, halter on. Bell 'phone 6202 rings. MANUFACTURERS The American Wind Engine Co. Draw ings, patterns, models and small motors made. All kinds of machine work done. 213 West First street. TOPEKA STEAM BOIiEH WORKS, the largest shop west Missouri river, boilers, all kinds tanks, smokestacks sheet irort work, write for prices. Phones 463. WESTERN Foundry Machine Works, largest Dlant in the state, machine and mill w'rk Corrugate mill rolls. Call. write. TOPEKA TENT AWNING CO., tents. awnings, nags, wagon and horse covers. PHONE 612. 304 KANSAS AVE. McENTIRE BROS., steel woven wire springs, cots, crios, mattresses, puiows. 305-7 KANSAS AVE. EXT PICKENS' Saratoga chips, always fresh. J. Spencer, 607 Jackson. 'Phone 1252. Geo. J. Graves Son, before flood In N. T now at 324-28 Jackson st. Painting and trimming delivery wagons a specialty. TOPEKA BRIDGE IP )N MFG. CO.. manufacturers of high -y bridges. 106 W. Sth st- Plant 13th Mad. St. 'Phone 67. WM. SCHICK, mattresses, feathers, pil lows, iron, fold in and SDrine beds, up holstery goods, etc. Tel. 436. 127-31 Kan.Av. ave. REHKOPF BROS., manufacturers of all kinds vehicles, delivery wagons a spec ialty, zui-si w. 6th. "fhone CAPITOL BROOM WORKS, brooms. broom corn and materia.!. Wm. SuDDle. jvansas ave. i-none joi i rings. E. G. KINLEY. Manufacturer and dealer In all kinds of vehicles. See us about that delivery wagon. 116 WEST FIFTH ST. T. F. LANNAN, carriage repair shop, any kind of a job made to order, our special ty rubber tires and general repair. S.-E. corner Sth and Jackson sts. THE Jensen Mfg. Co., creamery supplies. cheese factories, slum miner stations, test- ters. etc. 523 Jackson st. Ind. 'phone 479. ASK YOUR CLOTHIER FOR Sunflower pants, made by the 'lopeka Woolen Mill Co. WESTERN WOOLEN MILL CO.. Manufacturers of Woolen Goods, Men's Trousers and Ladies Skirts. 'PHONE 2S4. RUSSELL DOUBLE FORCE PUMP has no superior. Call and see belore you Duy, 34 VAN BUREN. THE CURRIE WINDMILL CO., Steel Windmills, Steel Towers and Grinders. Tel. Main. 900. 7TH IIOLLIDAY. ELEVATORS, FLOUMILLSJETC THE TOPEKA MILLING CO. Highest class hard wheat flours and manufac turers of Ralston health flour. THE TAYLOR GRAIN CO., Shinners and exporters of grain, eleva tor capacity million bu. Galveston. lopeka. THE SHAWNEE MILLING CO., manu facturers of celebrated "Big T Flour," Shawnee Fancy and high patent flour. MID-CONTINENT MILLS, elevator ca pacity 100.000 bu.; mill capacity 700 bbls. PHONE 496. THOS. PAGE. CROSBY ROLLER MILX.ING CO., man ufacturers of hard wheat flour. 'PHONE 224. HAY and chop feed. 'Phone 880, 3 rings. For coal, pure cider and vinegar, 25c gal. J. C. GREGORY, Sth Holliday. WHOLESALERS CHARLES WOLFF PACKING CO., man ufacturers of the celebrated "Banquet Hams" and "Banquet Breakfast Sausage" and all other high grade packing house products. THE HYPES Barber Supply Co., mug decorating, razor and shear grinding. 214 Kansas ave. NEW YORK Cheddar, Wisconsin Brick, Limberger and Block Swiss Cheese. The Roser Cheese Co., 313 K. A. 'Phone 667. PARKHURST-DAVIS MERC. CO..whole sale grocers and manufacturers ot bak ing powders, extracts, etc USE the silver Leaf Brand pickles, vin egar, mince meat, etc. Otto Kuehna Preserving Co., phone 300. THE SYMMS GROCERY CO., Wholesale Only. 'PHONE 456. 132 KANSAS AVE. BAKERIES. ASK for Royal homemade bread. Kansas ave. 'Phone 2S2. 833 ASK your grocer for Voight Bros. bread 2 large loaves 5c. 1121 E. 6th st. J3TELS THE HOTEL THROOP, largest and best hotel in Kansas, to S3 per day. PHONE 28. 4TH KANSAS AVE. COPELAND hotel, Topeka. Kan. Rates: $2.00 to $3.00. James Chappsle, proprie tor. THE FIFTH Ave. is opposite P. O.. cen trally located. Rates $1.00 to $1.50 per day. Hankla Bros., proprietors. NEW MIDLAND HOTEL, 1st class tran sients especially cared for, $1 to $1.25 per day Fourth and Quincy. 'Phone 728. COMMISSION HOUSES COPE CO., car lots a specialty, fruit and vegetables. Established 1&S3. 'Phones 396. 134 Kansas ave. All codes. WHOLESALE produce and commission. Fish, fruit, vegetables. W. R. Smith Son. 128 N. Kansas ave. 'Phones 438. THE A.-A. CO., wholesale fruit and pro duce, manufacturers of all grades of cooperage stock. 'Phones 147. 204-8 K. av. CARPET CLEANING. SEND your carpets- to McCormick St Peake, in our new location, new ma chinery. We can give yon better work, more promptly than ever before, and at a price that will please you. McCormick Peake, rug factory and carpet cleaning works. 522 Van Buren St. 'Phones 421. STEAM GRINDING. LAWN mowers, 60c: axes, hatchets, cleavers and scythes, 10c: butchi.-r knivs. scissors, sickles and skates, 5c. b24 Kansas ave. CLOCK REPAIRING J. B. CARTER, machine, lock and key works; work guaranteed. 917 Kan. ave. DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS BUY of O'Purdy If you live in dale. Uli E. Sixth sC Tel. 265. Park- CLEANING AND DTE WORKS ELIAS WHITE, Suits cleaned, dyed and pressed: eooq work, reasonable piicss 110 W. 5th st. HAVE those clothes cleaned at the To peka pantatorlum, 115 W. 7tn. TeL 872. J. C. URY Let us press that suit. Our price will suit vou. Dvinc and clean ing. 923 Kansas ave. RUG FACTORY. DO NOT throw away that old carpet. but send it tn MoCnrmfrk A- Ppake. 522 Van Buren. They will make you the best rug you ever saw and the cost is ridicu lously small, vv rite tor price list or call up 'phones 421. McCormick Peake. EDUCATIONAL KEISTER Tailoring college, ladles taught to cut, fit and make their own gar ments. Mrs. Nellie Martin, 6th and Jack. FOUNDRIES. GREY iron castings for motor, gas en gines, brass castings, gear cutting, ma chine work.Topeka F'nd'ry, 2d Jackson. CHAS. LIN DEN SCHMIDT SON, iron railings, wheelbarrows, shutters, stairs. window gratings. 606 Jackson St. EJWINMAmNES EXAMINE the New Home sewing ma chine; we can suit you; all kinds of machines repaired. Offices SIM Kan. ave. PICTURE FRAMES THAT framing, regilding, mat making mounting snouia oe aone oy J. u. sum van, 114 W. 8th ave.Packing.shipping, etc. W. A. PATTISON, picture frames and mats made to order. 120 W. Sth ave. HORSE SHOERS WM. GEORGE, the horse shoer, 517 Quin cy. Ind. 'phone 1234.. ARTHUR MASSEY, practical horse shoer, 118 W. Fifth. Both 'phones 448. FRED REINKE, scientific horse shoeing, hand made shoes a specialty. 103a Kan. av. LORTIE SON, all diseases of the feet treated. 223 Kan. ave. Tel. 690. CARRIAGE WORKS HORSES, harness,, buggies, wagons, sur reys bought, sold, exchanged, easy pay ments. Newell, S22 Kansas ave. HEARICK BUGGY CO.. vehicles and har ness, rubber tires, carriages, painting. 527 Jackson st. HIDES. JAS. C, SMITH, highest cash price for hides, wool, tallow, turs and pelts, con signments solicited. Tel. 684. 108 E. 2d St., Topeka and bt. Joe, Mo. MERCHANT TAILORS FOR a good suit ko to'KIlnste's. 108 W. Fifth street. Independent telephone 281. FOR A GOOD fitting spring suit of the latest style, go to o. ikDerg, 111 w. 7th st. JOHN BAUMGARTN'ER., 1st class suits. latest styles, $25 up. 806 K. A. Tel. hbb. CORNICE WORKS GALVANIZED Iron cornice, metal sky lights, slate roofing.L. Van Dorp, S2S K.A, HOT air furnaces, tin roofing, metal work. John M. Baird. 216 w. etn st. xei. 3ja. PLUMBING FRANK P. EDSON. member American society of heating and ventilating engi neers, lis W. 6th st. Ttons 314. LET us make that estimate. George W. Uutherin &Co. plumbers,, and titters. 107 E. 5th St. 'Phone 977. WE light the world, the Block light peo ple, national Heating vjo., i( Kansas ve. Tel, 792. SHOE REPAIRING GEO. REUTER, shoe repairing, dealer In leathers, shoe findings. 8Z4 Ran, ave. DRUGGISTS J. W. GISH, physicians' prescriptions a specialty. 900 EAST 4TH ST. LAUNDRIES ITS WORTH MOKE than Money TO Save Your Patience." Send your family washine to the WHITE STAR LAUNDRY, 'PHONES 1U. (Only five cents a pound.) E. M. COCKREIJJ. STAPLE FANCY GROCERIES 'PHONE 443 or 651 for your groceries. ARTHUR BROS., 332 TAYLOR ST. COAL DEALERS SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO., Telephone 1S3. Northeast Corner Sth and Ivans as ave. All kinds of Coal. Best Quality. Full Weight. ronipt Delivery. J. W. F. HUGHES, coai" dealer. 'Phones 400. Office and yards 6th and Adams. All kinds coal: blacksmith coal best quality. WESSON COAL CO. All kinds of coal at lowest market iSrice. 'PHONE 504. 507 E. 4TH ST. TEL. 221. F. M. Neal Co., for coal, flour, feed, hay and grain; we treat you right. SU Kansas ave. YOU get honest weight and quick deliv ery of that coal by buying of Anderson Bros, r'nones oou ana tej. ncK, wood, sand and stone 508 E. 6th st. BEST quality coal, full weight, lowest prices. Coffman, 'phone 32. LIVERY STABLE. THE old Pritchard and Knisely barn on E. 10th will be occupied April 1 by O. D. Hart, who will maintain a boarding. training and sales stable. Will be thor oughly equipped to clip horses. Bell phone yt: ino. pnone i:h JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jewelrr and Opti cian, complete siock ot watcnef. dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. VETERINARY SURGEONS YOUNG BROS., vet. surgeons and dent ists. Night calls. 426 Quincy. Ind. 'phone 196. MASSAGE PARLOR LADIES' beauty parlors, facial massage and shampooing, toilet articles. Mrs. Annie M. Trapp, 119 W. 7th. Tel. 372. WALL PAPER GO to G. A. Wood for that wall paper and painting. S32 Kan. ave. Tel. 3S0. 2. MEAT MARKETS Chesney Co.. fresh and salt meats, fish. oysters and poultry. Tel. Ml lop.av. PEOIOGKAPHEK& WEHH makes anything in pictures. Kansas ave. PATENTS. J. A. ROSEN. Patent Attorney. 41S Kan sas ave., Topeka. BICYCLE3 AND REPAIRING. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CTCLS Co. Tel. 706. Bicycles and sundries, bi cycles and tandems for rent: repalrirs ot all kinds. V. 3. CYCLE CO., 118 E. Sth st. National Iver-Johnson bicycles. Supplies, repairs. FEATHERS AND MATTRESSES FEATHERS bought and sold, old feath ers renovated; mattresses made to or der. Fred Scraper, Kansas ave. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDER3 BUZICK WILSON, contractors an.t builders. Job work a specialty. 120 E. 4tl St. Ind. 'phone 1244. USICAL. WORRAL, 715 Polk, piano lessons, pupil's home, 60c Church and lodge playing free. GEO. N. NEWTON, 71SH Kansas ave. Piano tuning and repairing; expert ac tion regulating and voicing. Ind. Tel. 127. FURNACE WORKS. GEO. E. SEYBOLD, furnace work, tin roofing, guttering, spouting, furnaces a specialty. !31 Kansas ave. Inu. 'pnone 513. JOHN SEYBOLD, tin rooting, gattering. spouting, galvanized iron and furnace work. 114 E. Sth St. Tel. 581. MONUMENTS C. W. GUILD, monuments, designer and carver. 923 Kansas ave. PAVING- CAPITAL CITY VITRIFIED BRICK JrAVING CO.. 118 W. Sth St. Mters. Of building, paving and sidewalk brick. STORAGE MERCHANTS' TRANSFER STORAGa Co. packs, ships and stores household goods. Tel. 1S6. Clarence Skinner, 611 Quincy st. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEON DR. EASTMAN, late supt- state insane asylum. Mental and nervous diseases. 6UO Kan. av. 'Phones 714. Res. 1270 V. Buren. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 726 Kansas ave. Residence ThJr--teenth and Clay. Office hours: 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Telephone 508 residence, and 16 office. GAS GASOLINE ENGINES MOST economical power for all purposes is the Witte gas engine. Witte Iron Works Co., 52S W. 5th St., Kansas City, Mo. UPHOLTERING J. F. PETRIK SON, upholsterers, all kinds furniture. 930 Kan. av. 'Phones 843. W. J. VOSS. upholstering, furniture packed, shipped: mattresses, couches, etc.. made over and to order. 609 Jackson St. WATCHMAKER. F. W. WIEMAN, practical watchmaker and engraver. All work done in neatest, promptest workmanship manner, at low est prices. Highest cash price for old gold and silver. 107 W. 7th st. FREE DISPENSARY. TOPEKA FREE DISPENSARY, south-,,. east comer 12th and Tyler sts., from 1 to 2 p. m., except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing physicians for the benefit of persons without means who need medical attention and treatment. Pa tients are assured of careful and consid erate treatment- Medicine furnished la most cases. MONEY. MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos, organs, typewriters, household goods and personal security. L. Btdcoe. 523 Kan. av. FLORISTS. MRS. M. E. HOLCRAFT. S17 Kansas ave. Cut flowers aud floral designs. 'Phoua 174. J. C. RODMAN, blooming plants.cut flow ers, palms, designs, decorations. 112 W. Sth. 'Phone 37. Greenhouse 12th Mon. CUT FLOWERS and flural design at Hayes". 107 W. 8th st. Both 'phones K77- STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. av. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. .Trices low. catalog iree. xei. cm. UNDERTAKERS DEMOSS PENWELL. Funeral Direc tors and Embalmers. First class service reasonable prices. 5H Quincy. Both tels. 692. SHELLABAKGER SON, tuneral direc tors and licensed embalmers. Parlors 122 W. 5th st. 'Phono 373. GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. Estab lished 1871. Prices reasonable, lei. ollice 46. Residence 87. 621 Jackson st. HAIR DRESSING. SWITCHES, hair work. nompadours, all kinds ot Mrs. Van Vleck, 222 E. Sth. HARDWARE. THE COL'GHUN HARDWARE CO. Hardware, stoves. Ana tools. 706 Kan sas ave. Tel. 606. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. TIME TABLE Topeka, Kansas Th "Right Road" To and From and Bstwtsn CHICAGO ST. LOUIS MEMPHIS PEORIA ST. JOSEPH KANSA3 CITY OMAHA DENVER COLORADO SPGS FOKT WORTH ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS And Everywhere Beyond. (Effective Jan. 3, 1904.1 TRAINS LEAVE TOPEKA A3 LOWS. EASIbOUNP. Ko 12, Chicago Mail and Express.. 14. East Ex. and Mad 4 El Faso and Chicago Ex.... -2' 10. Colorado and K. C. Flyer.. 44 Golden State Limitedf....: Colorado and K. C. Ex.... No. 51 -o WESTBOUND. 8:3$ pna inj 1 g:A5 am am I? P-n.- ptn 22.-S6 p,u 8:26 dm in. cnicaEu e"" -j. 13:20 am it ona cVucagoEx:::: J$p2 Jno. U. SOUTHBOUND. pm No. SI. Chicago Ex No. .63. 12:35 j)nif' 8:06 For sleeping car reservations, tickets. lime tables, etc.. apply to any Rock Islani Ticket Agent. Union PaciKa. KASi BOUND,. No. 2 limited illo'ara No. 6. Kansas City local pass...... 7:65 a No. 4. Atlantic exp;es 8:50 pm No. 8. K. C and Sal'jia express.. 60 nm WESTBOUND. va No. 7, K. C and Sal'na express. ..11:20 am No. 3, Denver and Pac Coast ltd.l2:60 pm No. 5, Junction City local pass.. 6:30 pm No. 1 limited 8:00 pm Daily except Sunday. All others daily. Missouri Pacific. (Effective July 6. 19QT) No. 801, passenger, leave Topeka... .9:48 am No. 815, Iccal. leave Topeka 7:00 am No. 302, paMenger, arrive Topeka ...3:50 pra No, 14 lovai. arriva Topeka ;M am NO. So"" Golden fate Limited". ill ;S So. 511. Colorado. !2:&i pa, l.V V t'

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TOPEKA STATE JOUSNAI4 TUESDAY ETEN ING. MARCH 29, 1904. 12 4-..s.l.4.4.i. 4- -BIB.' SAVING OfJ EVERY I You'll Save a Dollar on Your I I nnrnr iifimriv' nniurn o n s r PURCHASE Easter Shoes if You Buy Ours Our $2.50 and $3.00 Easter Shoes for Ladies and Gentlemen are, equal to those shown elsewhere for a dollar more in price. An endless variety of styles, the very newest. Come and let us show, it will be to your interest. "Topeka's Most Popular Shoe Store" 1 l&tftf 509 Kansas Avenue. THE DRIVE STANDS Flan to Vacate It Defeated In City Council. Will LeaTS the Beautiful Street as It Is. S3I00TIIING IT OUT. Paring Situation Is Simplified bj Oflicial Action. Eleven iJlocks Are Allowed and Four Rejected. At its meeting Monday evening, the city council "saved The Drive," and turned down John D. Kry;x by a unani mous vote. 1'ietty much all of the male popula tion of Auburndale was present to pro test against the plan which Mr. Knox had proposed for the vacation of The Drive, and the substitution for it of an other street which he proposed to open, and increase in the width ot a third stieet to afford more easy communica tion throughout that part of town. Mr. Knox, and his son John D. Knox, jr., seemed to stand alone in their desire for the elimination of The Drive as the .main thoroughfare of Auburndale. People who live in Auburndale frankly denounced the plan as a scheme to de fraud property owners out of their right.!. They said that since the city has taken into its limits a considerable tract oi' land owned by Mr. Knox ad jacent to The Drive, that Mr. Knox de fired to vacate The Drive so that he misfit have a better opportunity to cut this tract up into city lots, and sell it off. As it lies now, it is split in two by The Drive, and is in bad shape to be platted as city property. The Boston Syndicate, which handled the Auburndale land speculation in boom days, hired a landscape gardener to come out here from Boston, at a cost, it is said, of a great many thous and dollars. This landscape gardener planned the streets, and laid out The Drive. No one will deny that the effect is very attractive. "Take away The Jrive from Auburndale." said one of the anti-Knox speakers last night, "and mere is nothing left mere worth looking 1 nis statement will probably Ira 8t.' rress a good many people as being pret ty close to the truth. It also seems that through some tech nicality, Mr. Knox was able to claim ownership toThe Drive, and to force the county, by litigation, to pay him $579 for the land in that thoroughfare, when Auburndale was still in the country. The fart that Mr. Knox had been paid for the land was urged as an argument by the people living out there, and own ing property there, as a rea?on why it would lie unjust now to allow it to revert back to Mr. Knox. It is claimed by Auburndale people that Mr. Knox tried to railroad his project through the city council without letting anybody know what he was try ing to do. They claim to have discov ered what was going on only when the streets and walks committee of the city council came out there to investigate the situation. Councilman George Tincher, who rep resents that part of the city is out of town, and Councilman Swendson stated, when the Auburndale citizens had told their story, and Mr. Knox had told his. that Mr. Tincher s idea was to allow The Drive to remain as it is until the reople out there are able to agree with Mr. Knox upon some form of compro mise which would be mutually satisfac tory. As there seemed to be no possi bility of agreement. Councilman Swenrt 8cn moved that the petition for the va cation of The Drive be rejected, and this was done without a dissenting vote PAVING SITUATION. As a result of an hour's struggle Tilth, paving petitions last night, the city council brought forth much con fusion, and the following tangible re sults: Rejected 4 blocks Adopted 11 blocks Still pending 11 blocks Mayor Bergundthal served formal notice on the council last night that he would veto all new pavement for this season with the sole exception of eight blocks on East EigVith street. This means that the block on Twelfth, be tween Kansas avenue and Quincy, which was adopted last night, will run into a snag. It is doubtful wheth er it can te passed over the mayor's veto. Fred Webster, acting for the West Fifth street people, withdrew their pe tition, which involves seven blocks, and the matter was left in the hands of the ways and means committee. It is probably dead, but is left in the above summary as still pending, as it has not been formally disposed of. Four members of the council, Neil, Nellis, Howe and Weber, are pledged to oppose it, and this is enough to pro tect the mayor in his veto power. To elaborate on the above summary of results, the following statement shows what disposition was made of each petition and resolution brought forward last night: Itejeated Van Buren, between Huntoon and Thirteenth; favorably reported by ways and means committee; report re jected by a vote of 9 to 2. Resolution to pave also rejected by same vote. Taylor street, Tenth to Huntoon, ad versely reported by ways and means committee, report adopted and petition rejected uranimously. Adopted East Eighth avenue, Shunganunga creek to cemetery, resolution to pave adopted unanimously. Huntoon street. Van Buren to Jack son, left over from 1903, resolution to pave adopted unanimously. Alley between Harrison and Topeka avenue. Eleventh and Twelfth streets, left over from 1903, resolution to pave adopted unanimously. Twelfth street, between Kansas ave nue and Quincy. Resolution to pave failed to specify material, and was de feated 7 to 4. Corrected resolution sub sequently introduced and adopted, 8 to 3. Still pending: West Fifth street, petition not re ported by ways and means committee. Third street, Madison to Mcnroe, fa vorable report of ways and means committee adopted by a vote of 8 to 3. Through an oversight, resolution to pave not Introduced. Douthitt stre.t, Topeka avenue to Harrison, adverse report of ways and means committee adopted. Petition referred buck to streets and walks committee for further report. Douthitt street. Western avenue to Fillmore, adverse report of ways and means committee adopted, petition re ferred back to streets and walks com mittee for further report. Alley, North Topeka, left over from 1903, before the flood; consideration postponed, as it is likely that peti tioners desire to withdraw their peti tion. Even if the council should finally pass all of the petitions which are in the "still pending" class, which is not likely, they would all, with the excep tion of the North Topeka alley, which is a 1903 job, be vetoed by the m:rr and probably could not be passed over his veto, with the possible exception of Third street, which seems to have strong support. Third street gives an outlet for the new Santa Fe freight depot, and is favorably considered for that reason. WANTS BETTER REPORTS. Councilman Swendson's plan for more intelligent monthly statements of the city's financial condition was presented to the council last night. It was referred to the ways and means committee. The plan provides for a certain form of report on current expenses to be made everv month by the city clerk, embodying a comparative statement with the corres ponding month of the previous vrar, and an a.gregite of all expenses for the pi-t months of the current year, with a com parative statement of the aggregate of the same months in the previous year. It means a lot of work for the city clerk, but will be a very good thing for the city council to have. The present form of financial report is worthless for practical purposes. The prorosed form will enable the city to understand exactly where its I money is going month by month. The I $4.00 v f Silk UmbrellasX I Special y I ROSE; "D t 1 vtr imii 5"' 5-j vx P Ik. Perfect beverage, light and delicate, invigorating and sustaining. "Under-buy and Under-Sell" is our motto. No job lots, nor auction bought goods, but strictly reliable and dependable qualities that you find only in reputable establishments. We won hundreds of new customers last week, our first week in Topeka, and we will thoroughly demonstrate from now on that ROSE'S" is the most satisfactory shopping place and the most economicaL We save you money on every purchase, We guarantee satisfaction with every sale. We're here to stay RY QODS COA 507 Kansas Avenue. t

Mohair DRESS GOODS I '$1.00 Values 69 c 75c Values 50C 4 days only IPANYi 0 507 Kansas Avenue. 3,500 yards Calico short lengths 1 cent per yard. msff Je$fx? Suit mii Vh A 1 W rah wav-m A7rv-t j.'T i 1 VX 'V,vw IV i W -v fc adies' ailor-m aae Just received, 25 Ladies' Tailor Suits latest styles that reign this spring. Every one strictly high-grade materials and per fectly made styles that will readily appeal to women of fash ionable tastes. Every suit un derpriced there's no need of paying $25.00 and $35.00 when you can buy same qualities and same styles for $14.50 19.50 Made up in Cheviots, Broad cloths, Etamines, and Fancy Mixtures all colors and all silk lined. Phenomenal Sale of Street fiats Just received by express over 300 latest approved styles for Spring of 1904. It's to your interest to visit this grand ex hibit before selecting your Easter outfit. ALL THE NEWEST AND ALL UNDERPRICED. Special sale prices from until Saturday night. Prices t adies fid Gloves A grand opportunity to buy your Easter Gloves at greatly reduced prices. Made of splendid quality Kid in black and all colors. Until Easter $1.50values ..98c $1.00 values 75c adies' eparate Skirts Such under-pricing should in terest every lady in need of a Dress or Walking Skirt. All latest spring Styles. $1.50 values 98c $2.50 values .$1.50 $4.00 values 2.50 $7.50 values 4.98 Special prices until Saturday. Under Priced GOODS 12&c, !5s and 19c Fabrics at You'll not find a value elsewhere that is anywhere 'near this lot. All newest 1904 designs. 32 inch Madras Cloths regular 15c values. Full line colors in Canvas Suitings, for Shirt Waist Suits and Separate Skirts worth 19c. Heather Suitings all best colorings 15c values. iFino wards nf fine 'Mercerized Ginghams with beautiful trous finish that has appearance of silk 19c value. 1200 yds. best quality Percale 36 in. wide, 12c value. Sheer Batistes, Fine Dimities worth 12c. All on sale from 8 o'clock Wednesday Morning until Saturday Night at Special Price of, yard I LACES I Why pay 8c, 9c and 10c yard for fine Val. and Torchon Laces when you can buy them at, per yard 5 J Over 5000 yards in the lot worth up to 15c yard. CURTAIN SWISS 1000 yds. short lengths, 12Ac, 15c values, 7 c 1250 yards Simpson's Percales Beautiful line of patterns, regular 8c value Wednesday morning 5c o 1 8Mc lus- HANDKERCHIEFS 50 doz. Ladies' Handkerchiefs in plain and hemstitched, lace edged, pure linen, colored borders, embroidered corners c regular values 10c, 12 ic and 15c, for Ladies' Silk Finish Drop Stitch Hose in cream, pink, gold and blue Regular $1.00 values 50c, form of report provides for the following items Receipts. General revenue fund. From taxes. From miscellaneous. Total. General improvement fund. From taxes. From miscellaneous. Total. Grand total. Receipts. Disbursements. General revenue fund. To police department. To fire department. To city officers. To sanitary department. To miscellaneous expenses. Total. General improvement fund. To street department. To city engineering department. To electric light department. To miscellaneous expenses. Total. Grand total disbursements. Receipts over disbursements. CAN'T CONFISCATE GUNS. The proposed ordinance to forfeit to the city all weapons taken from prisoners at the city jail was unfavorably reported by the police committee, and the reoort was adopted. The scheme was to have it fixed so that the police could confiscate revol vers and then sell them to members of tne police force. It was a measure pro posed by Chief McColium for the. purpose of legalizing the confiscation of weapons, which has been a common practice at po lice station. City -Attorney Spencer holds that the police have no risht to retttiri possession of weapons anv more than they have a right to retain the bicycle of a man arrested for riding on the side walk. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. A petition was received asking for 40 foot pavement on Adams street between Second and Fourth. It was referred to tbe streets and walks committee. H. K. Goodrich riled formal notice that pursuant to an order of the supreme court he has taken possession of the elec tric iijht plant and is ready to resume relations as such official to the city. The Missouri and Kansas Telephone company filed a request for permission to put in a conduit for its wires in the same excavation with the excavation for the water main. C. S. Gleed was present representing the telephone company and claimtd that the company had the ri)?ht under its franchise to put its wires there, hut desn-ed to secure the city's consent. The request was referred to the streets and walks committee with power to act. The request of the managers of Shipp's indoor circus for a remittance of the $15 license fee, was rejected. Roy Crawford and Arthur Kane filed request for a reduction in their license from $100 to $50 per year. The request was referred to the committee on licenses. A iemonstrance was received against the paving of Van Buren street from Thirteenth to Huntoon. and also against the paving of West Fifth street. The use of the Auditorium for April 26 was granted to the United Commercial Travelers for a concert. The request of Harley Reisman for use of the Auditorium on April 4 for a con cert, was referred to the buildings com mittee, with power to act. The building committee will .take up the matter with the pipe orgra7smiation. This Is the first request to go before the.-organ asso ciation. k i -i i Mrs. Mollie Allen of South Fork. Ky..' Lsaya she has prfented attacks of chol- I'l i utui uus try -iittiiiK v iiaiuuciiaiii s Stomach and Liver Tablets when she felt an attack coming o. Such attacks are usually caused by indigestion and these tablets are just "What is needed to cleansa the stomach and ward off the approach ing attack. Attacks of bilious colic may "be prevented in the same way. For sale by all druggists. BRIEF TELEGUAMS. San Francisco, March 29. The new consul general for Bolivia at Pan Fran cisco is I. Augierra Acha. Mr. Acha was formerly consul general for Bolivia in the United States with offices in New York. Consul Acha has already entered upon his oflicial duties here. San Francisco, March 29. Muriatic acid was found in the stomach of John H. Coe by the city chemist who has re ported the fact to the coroner. Coe was found dead at the foot of a fight of stairs down which he was supposed to have fallen. However, as no frac tures were found by the autopsy sur geon, the stomach and contents ware sent to the chemists. San Francisco, March 29. Prof. A. B. Arnold, eminent as the author ot several surgical treaties and a distinguished classical scholar and translator of old Hebrew and Arabic writings, is dead at the advanced age of 85. He was born in Germany in 1819. Marshalltown, la., March 29. Mrs. Caroline Robinson, a sister of General M. M. Crocker, commander of the fa mous Crocker brigade, and the only wo man ever admitted to a Soldiers' home, is dead at the home here. Alexandria, March 29. It is rumored here that the khedive intends to visit the St. Louis exposition. Chicago, March 29. Allison B. Stone, who for 20 years was connected with the Daily News of this city. Is dead. Dur ing his newspaper career Mr. Stone in vented many devices for saving time and labor In a newspaper plant, among them being an automatic paper earner, an automatic proof press and numerous appliances for presses. New York, March 29. Mrs. Timothy L Woodruff, wife of former Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, died last night at her home in this city after a long ill ness of Bright's disease. Washington, March 29. General Wil liam Henry Fitzhugh Payne, the famous Confederate black horse cavalry leader, who has been failing for some days, is very low. Norfolk, Neb., March 29. Delayed re ports from last week's prairie fire dis tricts in Holt Wheeler and Rock coun ties show that over 500 square miles ot prairie were burned, and twenty ranch men lost their buildings and stock, en tailing a loss of $100,000. Washington, March 29. Burton Har rison, who with his wife. Mrs. Burton Harrison, the author, is spending the winter in Washington, Is extremely ill. u;. jMik la hnnrlv expected. Con gressman Francis Burton Harrison, son or tne sick man, is mm London, March 29. King Edward and Queen Alexandra left London this even ing on their way to Copenhagen to at tend a family gathering on the occa sion of King Christian's 86th birthday, April Philadelphia, March 29. Morton Mc Michael, a orominent banker of this city, died suddenly last night of heart disease. He was a brother of Post master Clayton McMichael, for many years publisher of the Philadelphia North American. Washington, March 29. The condition of Mr. Payne continues favorable,' al though the progress toward recovery in his weakened state is very slow. He sat lis for some time today St. Louis, March 29. The entire town of Valley Park, Mo., situated along the Meramec river, 18 miles west of St. Louis, Is flooded as a result of the re cent heavy rains, and the damage al ready done is figured at $30,000. Everybody reads the State Journal. InNFANTSjgVALlDS Sweet sleep comes to the baby who is properly fed with a proper food. Mellin's Food babies sleep well. A postal request will bring a sample of Met. lin's Food right to your home. MELLIN S FOOD CO, BOSTON,' MASS.