The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
June 15, 1904

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rf f LARGEST DAILY 0 PAGES IN KANSAS. LARGEST DAILY 10 PAGES IN KANSAS. LAST EDITION. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA KANSAS, JTJXE 15, 1904. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. Ill M i Mb The Big" Excursion Steamer General Slocum Catches Fire While Passing Through Hell Gate, New York Harbor. Hurricane Deck Collapses While Thronged With People- Steamer Was Carrying 2,000 When Fire Broke Out. The Party Ma$e Up of Sunday School of St. Mark's Church. JAPTA I PI Many Were Drowned in the Shallow Water Near Shore. One Thousand Doctors and 500 Policemen Sent to Scene. Kpw York. June 1". Five hundred perpons, mostly children, perished to day by the burning of the excursion steamer General Slocum near Hell Gate in the East river. The Slocum with the annual Sunday school excursion of St. Mark's German Lutheran church of this city on board was proceeding up the river to one of the many resorts of Long Island sound, rwhen near 125th street persons on shore saw smoke and flames spring from the upper part of the crowded Fteamer, a panic resulted on the boat almost instantly. The crowds on the forward deck began to spring over board or to crowd to the after part of the boat. The screams of the terrified passengers, were heard on shore, and hundreds of small boats immediately put off to the rescue. 0ving to the rocks on either side of the channel at this point it was Impossible to beach the vessel. The steamer was surrounded with tugs and towed to North Brothers is land, where she was beached. An eye witness who saw much of what happened to the boat said: "The steamer's whistle was blowing for assistance as she came up the river. I saw several persons jump into the water before she was headed for the northwest shore of North Brothers island. Her position in the water made it impossible for those Aboard of her to reach land except by swimming. I saw perhaps fifty or a hundred persons, mostly women and children, jump overboard. Most of the throng was on the hurricane deck, when we plainly saw a portion of it collapse. Many must have been killed instantly." Superintendent Pickard of Belle vue hospital sent word to the of Bellevue hospital sent word to the of ficials of the institutions on Wards is land to send all the doctors they could spare to the scene and nine physicians were sent. The charities' department has dispatched its two boats to the scene. The General Slocum had on board the Sunday school of the German Lutheran church, which is located at Twenty-sixth street. The pastor of the church. Rev. George C. F. Haas, was on board with all of his family which it was reported was lost. The boat caught fire in Hell Gate and the flames had complete control before any move could be made to check them. Went Into River by Hundreds. Frightful scenes of panic followed; it was impossible to run the boat ashore because of the Hell Gate rocks on either side and the captain kept her headed for North Brothers island. Nothing could be done in the way of launching boats and as the flames ad vanced the passengers began to jump overboard. They went into the river by hundreds. The General Slocum was bound for Locust Grove, beyond Flushing, L. I., and had about 2.000 on board, mostly children. The latest report is at least 500 have been burned. Many were rescued by tugs and other vessels which promptly came to the rescue when the flames broke out. Persons on tus boats say that several i)v 0 Ii pa 11 H M, hundred bodies have been washed ashore or towed or carried in boats to the shore of North Brothers island. Almost every other woman who was taken away was calling for her child. The disaster was. witnessed by thousands of people from both shores of the river, and as rapidly as possible hundreds of small boats and launches set off to render assistance. With the boat burning under his feet, the cap tain stuck to his post in the pilot house and the engineer remained at his post below deck until the boat was beached at the lower end of North Brothers island, off Port Mor ris. Even then the passengers were not in a safe position, for they were some distance from shore and the boat was a furnace. Hundreds of small bats were scattered about and picked up those who jumped over board as rapidly as possible. It Is estimated that between 400 and 500 persons sprang into the water. Upper Deck Collapsed. An eye-witness said that the greatest loss of life was due to the collapsing of the heavy upper deck. It fell witn a crash soon after the fire started, crushing hundreds of persons who hud gathered on the lower deck. It was then that the greatest panic ensued amid the living stream of persons go ing over the rail into the water. As far as the eyewitness can determine, the flames originated in the forward part of the boat. Persons who saw the accident from the shore say that al most instantly persons who occupied places in the forward deck began to jump overboard. Policemen In the Bronx and Harlem saw the blazing boat steaming up the river and imme diately began to turn in alarms for am bulances and fire boats. All the boats at North Brothers is land were sent to the assistance of the people in the water, and as fast as they were brought ashore were cared for in the pavilions there. The patients in the hospitals on the island became almost insane from fright at the terrible scenes they had witnessed. A large part of the crowd on the doomed steamer were children, and there was little hope for them after they had gone overboard. The cur rent in the East river at this point is very strong, and scores of little ones were sucked in by the whirl. One man who went out in a rowboat said that he saw at least fifty children L-d LyJ 1 yxix .9 r- si m y 1-1 Beast' "-'-3- VK BROOKLYN Jlg Map Showing the Route of the Ecursion Steamer General Slocum and the Location ol the Dreadful Disaster ia New York Waters This Morning. u u u u u perish in these whirlpools before he could reach them. The excursion was in charge of the social committee of the church headed by Miss May Abendschien. In the minister's party, his son said, were the pastor. Miss Abendschien, Assist ant Superintendent Carl Anger, Wil liam Schlafer, the pastor's daughter, Gertrude, his sister, Miss Emma Haas, and W. B. Tetamore. Inspected May 5. At the office of the United States steamboat inspection bureau it was said the General Slocum was inspected May 5, and was reported to be in a thoroughly good condition and ready for the exursion season. Aboard the steamer was all the life saving apparatus required by law of steamers of her capacity. The Gen eral Slocum's licensed captain is Cap tain W. H. Van Schaick, one of the oldest excursion captains in New York harbor waters. Captain Stuck to the Wheel. The captain stuck to his post at the wheel and headed the vessel straight up the river for North Brothers island, where she was put aground in the shal low water. Several hundred feet of open water still lay between the burn- ng steamer and the shore and many persons perished either in the water or on the burning vessel after she had been beached. It was estimated that the steamer carried more than 2,000 per sons. She was the largest excursion steamer in these waters and could carry 2,500 passengers. There are 40 bodies on North Brothers island, 18 on the Are boat Zephyr Mills and 11 on Bickers is land. The board of health has sent 1.000 doctors and GOO policemen are on the scene. The Slocum sailed from the foot of Third street, East river, shortly after 9 o'c'ock. The exact point she had reached when the fire was discovered in the forward part of the boat, was off the "Sunken Meadows." at the ex treme east end of Randall's island. So quick was the spread of the flames that the captain of the Slocum could not turn and was forced to make head on for North Brothers island under full steam. By the time the Slocum reached 135th street the excursionists, driven to the rail, many of them with their clothing on fire, began to jump over board by twos and threes. When lSSth street had been reached, the heat from the fire had become so in tense that men, women and children plunged overboard by the score, 'there was a terrific crash when the boat was beached. Burned to Water's Edge. The boat was beached at the reef at the northern edge of North Broth ers island, where she rapidly burned to the water's edge. It is said the fire started in the lunch counter in the forward part of the bopt When the alarm spread among the passengers the hurricane deck was crowded and when off 13Sth street this deck collapsed. Many rersons were thrown into the water, but hundreds were precipitated into the lower deck which was itself a mass of women and children. A tug of the New Tork Central rail road saved nearly a score through the heroism of some unknown man. This man stood on the paddle wheel box of the Slocum and passed women and children to the tug until he was driven back by the flames. He then jumped into the tug himself. Neither police nor firemen when they arrived waited to re move coats or clothes but jumped over board and saved a great many who would otherwise have drowned. Ma.nv of the bodies were horribly burned. Wreckers say that it will be hours before the fire in the hold of the boat is out and the bodies there can be recovered. Both firemen and wreckers say that the greatest loss of life, extending into the hundreds will be found in the hold. Many Burned Still Live. When police headquarters received the first vague report of the disaster every source of succor and aid was utilized. The hospitals were notflied by telephone, and each sent all avail able surgeons, nurses and ambulances to the scene. The police reserves of a half dozen stations were hurried out, and more than fifty patrol wagons were sent for ambulance purposes. North Brother island, where the Slocum was beached, is occupied by municipal charity hospitals, and a considerable number of physicians and nurses were immediately avail able. Many of those picked up alive in the river will die in the hospitals. Most of them were frightfully burned, having delayed leaving the boat un til their clothing was on fire. Some died in the improvised ambulances in which they were hurried from the shore. Every man on board who could swim went overboard loaded down with children. Many of these heroes lost their lives, because bur dened as they were they could make no headway against the overpowering swirl of the tide as it rushes from the East river into the sound. Jotm Kdell's Experience. John Edell, 2 2 years of age, one of the survivors of the disaster, gave the following account of his terrible ex perience, his mother and little brother being drowned, before his eyes: "When we left the pier the decks CUit f. FLUSHING ISLAND. course of 5amen were packed to the limit of their capacity. The band was playing, the children were frolicking about, and we were having a fine time. As we neared Hell Gate the children were called down to the lower deck where ice cream and soda water were served. The children were falling all over each other in an effort to get to the tables which held the refresh ments. With my mother and my little brother Paul I went to the engine room to watch the machinery. "Suddenly and without the least warning there was a burst of flame from the furnace room that rushed up through the engine room and flashed out about us. The flames spread with the rapidity of an explo sion, setting fire to the clothing of the women and children who were grouped about the engine room watching the machinery. "There was the most terrible panic as the burning women and children rushed out among those surrounding the ice cream and soda water tables screaming with pain. "In the terrific scramble my mother and little brother were swept away from me and carried toward, the side where the chiuren and women with their clothes burning had begun to jump into the water. The flames spread in bursts that soon had the entire deck enveloped. The crew were helpless to render any assistance or make efforts to check the advance of the fire. We were just passing out through Hell Gate when the fire started. The eantain headed the boat toward North Brother island and the pilots who were with him yelled frantically to us to stay aboard until they beached the boat. Flames Burst Out. "But in a moment after the flames had burst from the engine room great numbers began to jump overboard. The women were wild with fright and snatching their children to them leaped into the whirlpools that carried them toward the rocks on both shores. "I endeavored for a few minutes to .break through the mad crush and get to my mother and little brother, but I was swept into one corner of the boat and held there unable to move. "As the boat kept on her way the breeze drove the flames toward the af ter part of the ship, where those In their panic had not jumped overboard, were huddled together. It seemed but a few seconds before the flames had swept down upon the children whowere struggling about the ice cream tables and set their clothing ahlaze. "They all rushed to the after part of the ship in a stampede that carried those who were near the rail overboard against their will. "At one time it seemed to me as if the women and children were pouring over the sides like a waterfall. As we made the shore the captain blew his whistle in one continuous blast and soon boats of all descriptions were making for us from every side of the river. "I was rescued by a launch just as the boat settled close to the shore. "When she was grounoed the flames had spread over the entire upper and lower decks. There were only a few spots on the boat untouched by the flames and in these were piled up men and women, who had fainted and fallen pinned others to the dock. "The men from th tugwho could get near the steamboat' shouted for those on board to jump and then the small boats picked tfiem up by the score." No Alarm Sounded. From all that can be gathered no alarm was sounded when the fire was discovered, but the crew tried to ex tinguish the flames without alarming the passengers. Those in the after portion of the boat did not know it was on fire until the flames had swept back on them. Then there was nothing to do but jump over board or be burned to death. Persons on the shore say that there were scores huddled in an apparently safe position on the hurricane deck with the breeze blowing the flames and smoke away from them, when suddenly the deck fell in. After the cloud of smoke had drifted away the observers looked back to where the crowd had been standing. The space was vacant. Many of the children picked up by small boats, were lashed to camp stools and other light boat furnishings, showing that some adult had tried to make the little ones safe. These pre cautions proved inadequate in the ter rific current and in the whirlpools. Very few of the children picked up had on life preservers. Children can not get at the life preservers on excursion boats in this harbor. They are lashed to the ceilings over the decks and can only be reached by a tall person. Paul Lebcnow, one of the passengers, who was on board, says a ferry boat passed near the burning steamer, but offered no assistance. Two policemen who had been assigned to accompany the excursion jumped from the burning steamer and reached the shore in safe ty. One of them was slightly burned. Up to 1:45 p. m. twenty-six uniden tified bodies had been listed. All were women and children. ARRESTS MADE. Captain and Pilots of the Burned Boat In Custody. New York, June 15. Captain William Van Shack, who commanded the Slo cum, has been arrested. Edward Weaver and Edward Van wart, the pilots of the boat, were ar rested along with the captain and were then transferred to the Harlem hospi tal. Wheel Clicked With Bodies. The following were the first bodies to be identified: MRS. MART BALIETR, aged 35. INFANT OF MRS. BALIER. MRS. AGNES DIPPERT, 62." MRS. SELMA GRIMMA, 34. Ambulance Surgeon Krauskoff, of the Harlem hospital, says he professionally treated no less than 12a persons and doctors near him were as busily en gaged as he. He said from where he worked he could see one of the paddle wheels of the Slocum choked with burned bodies of those who perished. Coroner's Physician Weston has noti fied the morgue keeper that 106 bodies are on the way to the morgue on the Massasert. Superintendent of the Har lem morgue has asked the charitable department for 00 boxes in which to put the bodies of those who perished in the disaster. TOPEKA ft! EN WIN. Elected as National Officers Knights Ladles of Security. St. Louis, June 15. At the national meeting of the Knights and Ladies of Security today W. A. Kirkpatrick, J. M W.allace and Dr. H. A. Warner of Topeka were re-elected as national offi cers of the o"der for a term of four years by acclamation. Mr. Kirkpatrick is president, Mr. M. Wallace and Dr. H. A. Warner of medical director. PAYNE STRIGKEEl. Postmaster General Suffers Stroke of Apoplexy. Was la Chicago for National Republican Conrentfon. NATIONAL CHAIRMAN. tie Has Acted as Head of Com mittee Since II anna's Dtatb. Was About to Preside Oyer x Meeting of That Body. Chicago, June 15. Postmaster Gen eral Henry C. Payne, chairman of the P.epublican committee, collapsed at the Auditorium Annex today. Mr. Payne has not been in good health for some time. He recently took an ocean trip for the purpose of recuperation. He was n his room when the attack came. Postmaster General Henry C. Payn His ailment apparently was of an apopletic character. The time was shortly before the "hour set for the con vening of the Republican -national com mittee, over which Mr. Payne expected to preside. TAKE UP FILLER CASE. International Brotherhood of Book binders in Session. St. Paul, Minn., June 15. -The In ternational Brotherhood of Book binders began a four days' annual convention hTe, with welcoming speeches by Governor Van Sant and Mavor Smith, responrtert to by Presi dent Tatum on behalf f the dele gates. For the first time in the history of the organization it was decided to hold executive sessions. The reason for this primarily is the fact that the convention will discus.s the William A. Miller case. William A. Miller was a foreman in the government bindery at Wash ington anil became involved in diffi culties with his local union, and the union demanded his expulsion from the government office. Miller was dis missed, and after his case was heard by President Roosevelt was rein stated. ISSUE OFSIOO.000,000 Southern Pacific Prepares New Propo sition for Stockholders. New York, June 1 5. Directors of the Southern Pacific road met today and voted to issue $100,000,000 of 7 per cent preferred stock of which $40,000,000 will be issued at par to present stockholders. The proceeds will be used for general purposes, in cluding the payment of floating in debtedness. The proposition wiii be submitted to the stockholders at a meeting to be held in July. There is now $200,000,000 of Southern Pacific common stock outstanding. Of this amount $90,000,000 is owned by the Union Pacific company, which will therefore derive benefit from the pro posed issue of preferred stock. IRELAND IX KANSAS CITY. Trying to Interest Boilermakers Santa Fe Machinists Strike. in A. E. Ireland, general organizer for the American Federation of Labor, is in Kansas City today for the purpose of holding a conference with repre sentatives of the Boilermakers' union. The purpose of the conference is not known. It is known, however, that it is Mr. Ireland's hope that the boilermakers will go out in sympathy with the machinists and there is prob ably some connection between this and his visit to Kansas City. He is ex pected back Thursday. Weather Indications. Chicago. June 5. Forecast for Kansas Generally fair tonight arid Thursday: warmer north portion tonight; variable Rind. ri-ry,.,-.;'.. 3 &-S' .S'i fc-i- -rUr S l lht ri- Kfi: i A I r yl i I 1 I F- i f i I I 4 I it.). j I Wl r i vt-M I i!l.V r I r If y 5 X n v V Z i L w i i J, i,.- j i I THERE WAS A LIGHT RAIX. Fraction of an Inch In Topeka, But More Elsewhere. The weather today continued to be seasonable and gives every indication that in a few days the thermometer may be expected to reach the ninety mark. The forecast for Kansas sent out to day is "generally fair tonight and Thursday. Warmer north portion to night." Today's corn and wheat region bulletin says: "Showers occurred quite generally over this state and in northwest Missouri last night, with heavy rains in the central and central northern counties of Kansas. Showers have occurred in all- districts with but slight changes in temperature." The rain recorded for the 24 hours ending this morning at seven o'clock were as follows: Baker .10. Concordia 2.12. Hays .22. McPherson 1.26. Manhat tan 1.10. Osage City .20. Sedan .34, To peka .05, Toronto .12, Wichita .01. The maximum and minimum temper atures recorded for the 24 hours were as follows: Baker 82. 62: Concordia 76, 60; Dodge City S4, 60; Dresden SO. 6; Fort Scott 84. 62: Hays 80, 56; Macks ville 82, 58; McPherson 72, 60; Manhat tan 82, 62; Osage City 80, 60; Sedan 84, 62; Topeka 81, 61; Toronto 84, 60; Wich ita 84, 60. The wind at noon was southeasterly blowing 12 miles an hour. The hourly temperatures recorded today by the e. Who Collapsed at Cliicafro Today. government thermometer were as fol lows: 7 o'clock 61 I 11 o'clock... 80 8 o'clock 67 i 12 o'c lock M 9 o'clock 71 j 1 o'clock 82 10 o'clock 75 j 2 o'clock 79 Wind, 10 miles from the north at p. m. ASKS MORE. Uaisuli Increases His Demands for Release of Prisoners. His Terms Regarded as Im possible at Washington. Washington, June 15. A serious hitch has occurred In the negotiations for the release of Perdicaris and Varley. the American and the Englishman cap tured in Tangier by the bandit Raisuli. The details as communicated to the stale department by Consul General Gummere indicate that Raisuli has vastly enlarged his original demands. He now insists upon absolute control of no less than four Moorish provinces and besides demands that no less than three nations, including the United States guarantee the absolute perform ance of the sultan's promises. The de mands are regarded as absolutely im possible of compliance here, notwith standing what effect the refusal may have on the captives. WROTE BOGUS INSURANCE. Two Men Arrested in Chicago Federal Authorities. by Chicp-go, June 14. Charged with conducting a fraudulent fire insurance business. E. A. Shanklin and Stephen Wesley Jacobs were arrested here to- dav by the federal authorities. Ac cording to Postoffice Inspector Ketch- am, their operations have been on a large scale. The prisoners, it is charged. wrote insurance in the names of companies with which they had no connection whatever. When the prisoners were taken be fore Federal Commissioner Foote this afternoon their casps were continued until June 2 4, and they were released under $5,000 bonds each. WOMEN DETECTIVES. Working in the Tenderloin District of New York. New York, June 15. Women em ployed by the police department are now doing detective work in the Ten derloin. Exactly what sort of police duty they have been set about is un known except to the captain of the precinct and his superiors. Thus far their movements have been kept care fully screened, and they do not report at the station. Employment of wo men in regular detective work about the precincts has not been before tried in this city. SEA FIGHT. Russian Yladirostok Squadron Slips Oat of Harbor. Sleet Japanese Warships in Korean Straits. CHANNEL IS CLEARED. Russian Cruiser Leares Harbor at Port Arthur And Engages Part of Togo's Blockading Sqnadron. Nagasaki. June 15. 5 p. m. A tele gram received from Oki island says that Japanese warships have engaged a Russian squadron near there and that the result of the encounter Is not yet known. Nagasaki, June 15. p. m. A Rue ian naval squadron was lately sighted off Tokushima-Ken and Yamaguchi- Ken and. sounds of firing, it is now stated, were heard off Oki island. Tokio, June 15. Private advices have been received from Katsumato, a town at the north end of Oki island, in Krusenstern strait to the effect that an engagement was in progress be tween Japan and Russian warships. Tokio, June 15. The entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur having been cleared of obstructions, is now open for the passage of ships in and out. Yesterday the Russian protected cruiser Novlk steamed out to sea and engaged with vessels of the Japanese blocking fleet. St. Petersburg, June 15. 3:35 p. m. No information is obtainable here re garding the reported engagement be tween the Russian Vladivostok squad ron in the Korean straits. But it ia quite likely that a naval fight has oc curred or is about to occur. Vice Ad miarl Skrydloff has left Vladivostok. with the armored cruisers Cromoboi. Rossia and Rurik and some torpedo craft. Escape From Vladivostok. London, June 15. A dispatcM to the Central News from Tokio,. filed this. Wednesday afternoon, says a naval en gagement is now in progress off Tsus chima island, in the Korean strait.-?, between three Russian cruisers, which escaped from Vladivostok and a num ber of Japanese whips. No details have been received yet. The Central News dispatch adds that the Vladivostok squadron was first re ported June 34, from Oki island, oft Kiolo. Japan, in the sea of Japan. Later in tiie day cannonading was heard northwest of Nacato, on the Jap anese coast in the straits of Korea. The captain of a Japanese merchant ship reported this morning that his ship was fired upon by a Russian wai ship. Heavy cannonading was heard early this morning in the enighborhood of Oki island and subsequently came news of the engagement already referr ed to by Tokio dispatches. Sortie From Port Arthur. London. June 15. 4:30 p. m. A dispatch to the Central News from Tokio says: "While llotillas of torpedo boat de stroyers and torpedo boats were sup porting the military bombardment of the forts at Siao Ping Tao, on the Kwan Tung peninsula between Port Arthur and Port Dalny, Tuesday morning, the Russian protected cruis er Novik and ten torpedo boat de stroyers made a sortie from Port Ar thur. The Japanese warships retired, endeavoring to lure the Russians into the open sea. The Russians, however, returned to the harbor the same after noon. "A flotilla of gunboats and mine ships sank a number of mechanical mines otf Port Arthur on Monday night." Mot Vladivostok Squadron. Tokio .June 15. 6 p. m. It is re ported here that the Japanese protect ed cruiser Niitaka engaged the Rus sian Vladivostok squadron off Tsu island, in the straits between Korea, and Japan. This report, however, lacks confirmation. The Japanese transports Ugo and Fuyo, homeward bound, met the Rus sian vessels near Oki island. The Russians pursued, them and fired IS shots at the Japanese ships. The transports escaped and reached Kat sumoto. 7:30 p. m. Three Japanese trans ports, outward bound from Shimono seki. met the Russian warships this morning outside the strait of Korea. The Russians fired 18 shots at tho Japanese ships. One transport es caped. The fate of the other two is not known. It is believed at Sasebo that a naval engagement is imminent. Two Forces Close Together. General Kuroki's Headquarters in the Field, via Fu San, June 15. It was an nounced here today that the enemy in front of the second Japanese army is increasing, and the two forces are com ing closer together. A battle is expect ed. There has been no fighting in front of the first Japanese army since June 12, when two eompaniess of Russian were driven from Wu Tai Ho with a loss of 20 men. The Russians have reoccupied Tong Yeng Pu, on the Liao Yang road. Si mingtsu on the Lien Shang Kwan road and Banchaitsu. on the Hal Cheng road with small forces. Relief Column for Port Arthur. Tien Tsin, June 15 It has been learned re from a Knsfian source that .B Russians passed Taihai than. 2i mil-9 south of New Chwangr. last Monday, go ing south. It is supposed that this force is going to the relief of Port Arthur. Cruising In Korea Straits. Seoul, Korea, June 15.-3:30 p. m. It is officially reported here that the Rus sian Vladivostok squadron is cruising between Tsu island, in Korea strait, and the coast of Japan, and seriously threatening mercantile ships to and from Korea. At Chemulpo there are sevral Jap anese officers whose return to Nagasaki is delayed because the steamer on which they propose to travel is await ing news of the position of the Russian vessels before venturing to sea. (Continued on Page Six.)

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TOPEKA STATE JOlTIIITAI WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUKE 15, 1904 SPORTJHGHEVS Tom Sharkey Thinks Munroe Has a Fair Chance. Would Not 15 Surprised to See Champion Defeated. RESPECT FOlt MIXER. Sailor Remember! Their Six Kound Bout in Philadelphia. If Butte Pugilist Can Pass First Hound He Is 0. K. Philadelphia, June 13. Unless Tom Sharkey's prediction goes amiss there Will be a new heavyweight champion after the Munroe-Jeffries battle next week. According to Sharkey, Jeffries Is in for a. good walloping when he tackles the burly miner. Sharkey does not hesitate to state his choice in the big: battle, and he says he would not be surprised to see the champion knocked out by his miner antagonist. Kver since Munroe made such a clev er showing in their six round bout at Philadelphia Sharkey has had consid erable respect for the westerner's abil ity, and he now predicts that he will relieve Jeffries of the championship. Having met both men in the ring, Sharkey Is in a position to judge eacn on his merit. He knows their weak points as well as their strong ones. It is Sharkey's opinion that Jeffries has gone back, and that Munroe's success wi-fi depend entirely upon the tactics that he em ploys in the contest. Sharkey looks for a lively bout, and he says that Jeffries will be beaten at his own game when It comes to mixing it. In an interview Sharkey says: "This fellow Munroe has a better chance with Jeffries than a great many persons believe. I think he has an ex cellent chance if he starts in right. Jef fries has been having easy game in his last few battles. In Munroe he will tackle a tough proposition. Munroe can take a pretty stiff punching and he can land a wallop that is sure to do harm if it reaches the right place. He is clever at mixing it. and will more than hold his own with the champion at close quarters. If Munroe rushes Jef fries he will win sure, and he ought to score a knockout. He has the punch to do it, and Jeffries is not any too clever to keep him away. In fact, I be lieve that Jeffries has gone back some, and he will show it Just as soon as he meets a fellow like Munroe, who can send as good as he receives. "With both Munroe and Jeffries in good condition, I think it will be a fast fight. It will be a short fight, too, and it will be the wallop that will count. I look for a knockout in the early rounds. Munroe has everything in his favor. He is a young fellow improving rapidly. He has won all of his important battles since he met Jeffries at Butte. He has no trouble in coming back with a wal lop. In our fight at Philadelphia I put him down and almost out with a wal lop. He took the count, and it seemed all over with him, but his good condi tion enabled him to come back strong, and he went the limit. "That's the kind of a fellow that will give Jeffries a tun for his money. The first round will probably be the hardest for Munroe. He is naturally anxious when he starts in, but once the open ing round is overhe is as strong as an ox, and the farther he goes the more confidence he gets. Whether Munroe wins or not, the fight is sure to be a good one, and I would like to get a crack at the winner for the champion ship." O'BRIEX AND FITZATJE TO BOX. Agree for Open Air Rout in Philadel phia July 6 or 7. New York, June 15. "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien and Robert FitZHimmons have agreed to box six rounds in Phila delphia. The bout will be held in the open air in the Philadelphia ball park. The men will weigh in at 1U5 pounds. Women Contest at Golf. New York, June 15. With a field of twenty contestants the women's metropolitan golf championship was begun on the links of the Apawamis club near Rye today. Miss E. A. Mace, who has won this champion ship twice, is again defending the title. The qualifying round wili con sist of 18 holes, medal play. The final will take place on Saturday. Grancy to Itc'eree Big Fight. San Francisco, .lime 1- rf,to tw ,-a, lections of Harry Pollok, manager of Munroe, Billy Delaney insists on F.rMie quarters the opinion prevails that Pollok is merely squaring himself with his other protege. "Young Corhett." Manager Cof froth, when asked about the referee ques tion, said: "The articles call for Graney and he will be the third man in the ring." Haskell Band at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., June 15. The Haskell Indian school hand of Lawrence, Kan composed of 40 pieces, under the leader ship ot Jenison. Wheolook. a full blooded Oneida Indian, arrived at the world's fail grounds yesterday. The band will fill a two weeks' engagement at the fair, giv ing daily concerts on the plaza of St Ixmis lrom 1J to 2 p. m. and from 8 to 10 p. m. Shaw on Knglish Lad. Chicago, 111.. June 15. Willie Shaw, the great eastern rider, will in all proba bility have the mount or Knglish Lad in the American Perliy next Saturday. Own er Cook received assurances of this. The news that Shaw will have the mount wMl boost his Xerby stock greatlv. Shaw was set down last summer for what the stew- 7 1 1 fti-3 aj J T itl I Sna Casrarctn ao wa th I would not b witboui thm. I w troubled a ret deal with torpid IWer and headache. Now aince takinr Cascareta Candy Cathartic 1 feel Terr much better I hail certainly recommend them to ay friends a the bent medicine 1 hare arer seen." Anna Baiinet. Oaborn Mill No. 8, Fall RiTer.lIaaa. fTr) Best For The Dowels Feasant, ralntrabie. Pntnt. Taste Good, Do Oocvl, Kover bicknt YVmitn or Grips. 10c, 2c. 50c. Never oid in btiik. The sronuine tablet b tamped CCC. iuranteii to cure or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 6or jni'jasaE. ten f.:iLisa coxes -.raney as rcreree ot the light ana so toes C'offroth. The articles of agreement Stlpuliite Graney shall referee the fight and 1'nllnlc !wrn mi f- T CAN DY C ATHARTIC TO SCF. FOR 1 f 1 j i n gf I I)

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i, ',r; t' I I Mrs. James Ci. Elaine; jr., formerly Miss Martha Hickborn, has an nounced to her Washington friends that she will seek a divorce from her husband. Mr. Elaine is the eldest son of the late statesman James G. Blaine. ards thought was a bad-looking ride on W. C. aly's Illyria. Shaw stayed on the ground till the opening of this season. He declared he did not use the why because he knew he was beaten. This is Ascot Week. London. June 15. Ascot week opened with brilliant prospects. All the houses in the vicinity had large parties. King Edward, Queen Alex andra and the Prince and Princess of ales drove in state from Windsor castle to the races and met with a great reception at the course. The Ascot stakes, a handicap of 20 sov ereigns each with 2,000 sovereigns added, two miles, the principal race of the day, brought out a big field of twenty-two. Merry Andrew won. Pure Gold was second, and Pradella was third. RATIONAL LEAGUE. AT PHILADELPHIA. Inability to hit Flaherty to any extent resulted in a shutout for the locals by Pittsburg. Four singles, a base on balls and a batsman hit gave the visitors four runs in the fifth inning. Attendance, 2,400.. Score by innings: H H E, Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 000 00 5 0 Pittsburg 0 0004001 16 12 o Batteries Mitchell and Dooin: Flaherty and Smith. AT NEW YORK. The locals worked their way tip to fourth place in the pennant race by de feating St. Louis. Taylor had the better of Nichols, as the iielding support given the visitors' pitcher was rather slow. At tendance, 4,00. Score by innings: r h Is St. Louis 0 0000000 11 4 2 New York 2 0011011 6 10 0 Batteries Nichols and Searfiss; Tavlor and Bowerman. AT BOSTON. Pittinger pitched effectively- for Boston and the home team defeated Chicago. The game was close until the eighth inning, when Corridon weakened. Attendance, 2,!)00. Score by innings: R H E Boston 0 0002004 6 9 3 Chicago 0 2000000 02 6 4 Batteries Pitting and Needham; Corri don and Kllng. AT BROOKLYN. Although the visiting Cincinnati team was outbatted in the game, Brooklvn w:i3 beaten. None of the visiting team's runs were earned. The teams will play a double-header here today. Score by innings: R H E Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 25 5 0 Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 i 8 3 Batteries Kellum and Peitz; Poole and Ritter. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. Club. Won. Lost. Pet. New York so 15 .hut Chicago 29 15 Cincinnati .31 p; .G5y Pittsburg zi 22 .511 St. Louis 21 22 4SS Brooklyn 19 20 '.V.K Boston 17 2S .:J7S Philadelphia 9 32 .220 AMEHTC.VN LEAG1E. AT DETROIT. With the game apparently gone, the IX troits indulged in a ninth inning batting rally, three hits tying the score. The game was called by the umpire owing to darkness alter the fifteenth. Score by innings: R II E Detroit 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 17 3 Washington .2 O 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 3 Batteries Kitson, Killian and Bueslow; Townsend, Jacobson and Drill. AT CLEVELAND. A rainstorm broke just as Cleveland was retired in the tilth inning after Cleve land had played slowly, hoping the rain would stave off defeat. Bender struck out seven men in the live innings. Score by innings: R.H E Cleveland 0 0 0 0 00 1 0 Philadelphia 0 1 3 0 0 1 5 0 Batteries Bernhard and Abbott; Bender and Schreck. AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. tJub- Won. Lost. l'et. Boston 32 15 ;si New York 26 19 .57j Chicago 27 21 '.d-2 Philadelphia 25 20 !o.".S Cleveland 23 2 5i'5 St. Louis 21 22 4iS Petroit 17 27 Washington S 35 .1S6 WESTERN LEAGUE. AT DENVER. Denver brought in two runs in the first inning and later bunched live in the sev enth. Smith's home ru; and general good field woi k were the features. Score by innings: RUE Denver 2 0100050 8 10 j St. Joseph 1 1010300 06 U 4 -Batteries Hostetter and Lucia; Chinn and McConnell. B AT DES MOINES. Big Jack Pfeist-r pitched gilt-edged ball for Omaha, letting Des Moines down with three scattered hits. Aa a result the le DIVORCE. cals were shut out. Score by innings; R.H.E. Des Moines 0 0000000 00 3 5 Omaha 1 0010000 13 9 2 Batteries Morrison and Towne; Pfeis ter and Conding. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Club. Won. Lost. Pet. Colorado Springs 2' 11 .70S Denver 27 15 .613 Omaha 20 22 .476 St. Joseph 18 22 .450 Des Moines 20 2ii .135 Sioux City 13 25 342 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Toledo Toledo, 8; Kansas City, 2. At Louisville Louisville, -.4; Minneap olis, 3. At Indianapolis First game: Indianap olis, 7; Milwaukee, 11. Second game: In dianapolis, 6; Milwaukee, 8. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDING. Club. Won. Lost. Pet. Columbus 2S IS .6"9 St. Paul 29 20 .593 Milwaukee 30 21 .5S8 Louisville 29 24 .547 Indianapolis 28 24 .520 Toledo 19 27 .413 Minneapolis 20 30 AW Kansas City 15 32 319 MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE. Fort Scott, Kan., June 15. The pret tiest 10-inning game ever seen on the oleal diamond was won Tuesday after noon by the Saints. The feature of the game was the batting of Schrant. The umpire's work was not satisfactory to either side. He allowed the game to drag. The score: FORT SCOTT. Player. AB. H. PO. A. E. Graves, of 5 2 0 0 0 Downs, 2b 3 1111 Fredericks, lb. 5 2 S 0 0 Armstrong, c. 5 1 12 2 0 Huffman, If 5 12 0 0 Jones, ss 5 2 12 0 Henlev, rf 5 14 10 Horath, 3b 5 1 2 0 0 Henderson, p 4 10 5 0 Total 41 13 30 11 1 TOPEKA. Player. AB. II. PO. A. E. Cole, cf ,...5 2 4 0 0 Friel, 2b 5 12 3 0 Oleson, ss 4 2 1 3 0 Sisler, 3b 3 0 2 1 0 Schrant. c 4 2 8 0 0 Randolph, lb 5 2 7 0 0 laming, rf 4 0 0 1 0 Thompson, If 4 2 6 0 1 Carter, p 4 10 10 Total 38 12 30 9 1 Score bv innings: Fort Scott 0 00000002 02 Saints 0 00002000 24 The summary: Earned runs Fort Scott 2, Saints 4. Three-base hit Schrant. Two-base hits Graves, Schrant, Friel, Thompson, Randolph. Sacrifice hits Sisler, Liming. Stolen bases Horath, Graves, Huffman, Ole son .Left on bases Fort Scott 12.Saints 8. Struck out By Henderson 10, by Carter 6. Bases on balls Off Hender son, 3 off Carter 2. Hit by pitched ball Downs. Thompson. Wild pitches Car ter. Passed balls Schrant. Time 1:50. Umpire Lowery. AT SEDALIA. Sedalia made it three straight from Leavenworth. Cates, on Sedalia's pitching staff last year, was easy for the Goldbugs, while Davis pitched winning ball, keeping the few hits off of him well scattered. Score by innings: R.H.E. Sedalia 0 O 0 0 4 1 0 4 9 12 6 Leavenworth 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 02 5 3 Batteries Davis and Stoner; Cates and Ulrich. is gg Oheap Enough? Is Perfect Health too dear at that price? Crci ngists sell 00c sizo Or. GaldiveSI's (LAXATIVE) yrup ro; too, but it's economy to buy the 01.00 size. It's good for every member of tho family. Si's a perfect laxative. PEPSIN SYRUP CO.. Monilcello. III. GATLIN DRUG CO. DISTRIBUTORS ism AT JOPLIN. The leaders mads H three straig-ht this afternoon from Pittsburg:. It .was a listless game from beginning to the end. and the visitors were never in the running. Kane got a home run in the eighth with one man on base. Score by Innings: R.H.E. Iola ft 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 16 10 0 Joplln 4 0000400 8 9 8 Batteries Torrie and Torrence; Lowell and Vanderhill. AT SPRINGFIELD. With a patched lineup, caused by Porter being disabled. Iola -won the game. Gooderl retired in the ixth in ning after Schmidt made a home run, scoring three men. Root went into the box and was a puzzle to the Midgets. Score by innings: R.H.E. Iola 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 16 10 0 Springfield 0 0000300 03 S 4 Batteries Gooderl, Root and Seigle; Horton and Schmidt. MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE STAND ING. Club. 'Won. Lost. Pet Jopiin 3-) 10 .7Sfi Iola 27 10 .7:'.) Sedalia 26 10 722 Sprinefield 2i 14 .SC Topeka IS 21 .433 Pittsburg 12 25 .324 Leavenworth J 21 .27:1 Fort Scott 3 32 -0S OX KANSAS DIAMONDS. AT MINNEAPOLIS. One of the best games of the season was played at Athletic, park between the Minneapolis and Beverly teams. At the end of the eleventh inning the score stood 6 to 5 in favor of Minne apolis. Batteries Minneapolis. Atridge and Shepard; Beverly, Woody and Bergman. AT MANHATTAN. In a seven inning game here between the Agricultural college faculty and business men of the city fifteen scores were made on a side. The features of the game were the pitching of Profes sor Nichols for the faculty and of Mayor George T. Fielding for the bus iness men. The gate money was given to the Y. M. C. A. building fund. AT YATES -CENTER. Tates Center won the first game of a series of games with Fredonia here in a very hotly contested game by a score of 3 to 4. Wharton was umpire. Bat teries Yates Center, Reiger and Wer ner; Fredonia, Campbell and Foley. Races at Pittsburg. Pittsburg. Kan., June 15. The June meet under the auspices of the Crawford County Pair association began here Tues day for a run of four days. There was a large attendance and the opening events consisted of four running races. The first event was a quarter mile dash with five starters and was won by May Scott, with Little Ead second and Pet third. Second event, one-half mile dash for 2-vear-olds with five starters. Won by Nick fa., with Irene second and Trixle third. Third event, five-eighths mile dash with four starters. Won by Lulu B.. with Jean Farrid second and Tom Arnold thpourth event, one-half mile dash, with even starters. Won by Flying Fox, with Pat Riley second and Yankee Lass third. Hackctt and Iieroy Tennis Winners. New York. June 15. H. H. Hackctt and Robert Leroy won the doubles champion- i i. V, Uatrnnntltun lWn tenniS tournament, defeating the former inter collegiate cnampiuna ui x wi..... Alexander and O. D. Little, in three easy sets 6-2, 6-2. TO CEASE DRILLING FOR GAS. A CoffejTille Oiwrator Brings Suit to Restrain. rn(rvriii. TCas.. June 15. Carey H. Harris, the lucky operator who brought in the good well on the Sher- !n Tvrn. has filed a suit in Ilia i ii." the district court against the Consoli dated Oil company, tne .ew tors un and Gas company, Howard Yv'eber, George Dow and Dome uow, tne mt e n 1 fin-acre farm ter owucia ui L "v near Independence, to compel the New l orK -m :iuu "a.-, v cease drilling for gas on the farm. Harris leased the farm from the pres ent owners. Several years ago the former owners made a lease to the t .1 Coo onmnaiiv nod were limepruuciic .icc, v,. to receive free gas if the wells were drilled witnin a tmaui uiuc. tt .v. n.Alla were not drilled in the required time, and that ac cordingly nis lease is soon aim not. that of the Independence Gas com- PBThe latter has drilled a well on the j a nr.. Tjn rlo care Vi Hrillino' lana, allU ivii. iianw j c is prejudicial to his interests, and he wants tne company itaLiamcu doing any more work. SEVENTEEN ARE PAROLED. Boys Released From the Industrial Reformatory at Ilutcnmson. Hutchinson, Kas., June la. The board of managers of the state indus trial reformatory, in session here, js sued paroles to seventeen young men who have been confined here. The number in the institution now is 333, the largest since the reformatory was started. The following is the list of those paroled: C. Z. Boyd, Sedgwick; D. J. Monroe. Elk; George Lindsey, Rus sell; William White, Sumner; Henry m.,i Dunn- ParVpr Hprrnn. Atcbi- son; John Mullen, Reno; Willie Da vidson, Leavenworth; Bert i nomas, Doniphan; Bert Coucher, Pottawa- MorlAn Mf.r'nrnher Cherokee: E. Rightmire, Wyandotte; Fred Hur ley, Harvey; William Searcey. Atchi son; Arthur Mulkey. Salina; Will Bly, Lyon, ana uoss vveavei, iwnv. WAS EVIDENTLY DEMENTED. Man at Chanute Gathering Up De cayed Scraps of Meat. Chanute, Kas., June 15. Henry Heinzel. a German, was found in the Santa Fe vards by Officer Hamilton and was taken to police headquarters with the hope of finding out some thing about him. He is evidently de mented, for when found in the rail road yards he was picking up the pieces of dry bread and meat bones that had been thrown from the dinner buckets of the workmen. He had a small clotn sacK mien wilii me reium and had spread his coat on the ground to form a sack of It to hold a pile of the scraps that could not b contained in the bag. The entire col- ection of scraps had been lying on the ground for several days, and the most common dog would not nave eaten any of it. Heinzel said that he was hungry and had eaten nothing for two days. He could not remember where he came from, and though his mind is impaired he is not fanciful or even willful. The Oklahoma Oil Inspector's Report. Guthrie, Ok., June 15. The monthly re port of A. Ashton, the oil inspector of Oklahoma, shows that 148.7ns gallons of oil and 112,472 gallons of gasoline were in spected in May. The sum of t5iS was re ceived in lees. KANSflSJIEVS. Big Chanute Oil Company Is Sued for $25,000. Claim la Made That a Contract Was Ignored. ATTRACTS ATTENTION. Shaw Oil Teople Sold Lease Holding to Texas Firm. W. A. Pierce Alleges That He Has a Trior Option. Chanute, Kas.. June 15. The stock holders of the Shaw Oil, Gas and Min eral company, who have been pleased recently over the sale of their lease holdings and properties to a com panyof Beaumont operators for $1 25, 000, have come across a fly in the ointment in the shape of a damage suit for breach of contract. W. A. Pierce la the plaintiff, and he asks for $25,000 and such other relief as may seem just to the court. By the sale consummated the holdings of the Shaw company, con sisting of lease rights on 1.011 acres lying eight miles southeast of Cha nute, six oil wells, a pumping system, tank house and quantity of crude oil in storage, were transferred to Messrs. D. R. Beatty, W. E. Skirvin and John S. Yost, oil operators and producers who are largely identified with the famous Beaumont, Tex., oil field. The consideration was $125,000, of which $75,000 was in cash. The sale was made by W. E. Connelley, who was selected by the new owners to look after their property temporarily. Mr. Pierce claims that on May 3 of this year, a short time preceding the sale to the Beaumont men, the Shaw company, through John W. Brey fogle, its duly authorized agent, con tracted to sell the property to him for $7 5,000 and entered into a. written agreement to that effect. He further declares in his petition that he had made arrangements to sell the hold ings to other parties for $100,000, a profit of $25,000, and that through the failure of the Shaw company to fulfill its alleged contract with him he has been damaged in the sum of $25,000, and asks the court to give him a judgment for that amount, the cost3 of the suit and such other relief as may seem just. Mr. Pierce is interested in the America Oil and Gas company, and has been making his headquarters in Chanute for same time. He took steps to begin action as soon as the Shaw property was sold to other pur chasers, but postponed filing the pa per until the negotiations had been entirely ratified by the contracting parties. SIX DEPORTED MINERS Cared for by Fellow Workmen at Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg, Kan., June 15. Six deported miners from Colorado arrived here on a freight train by way of Kansas City. They were taken care of by the district board of Mine Workers. IVY' PLANTS FROM OXFORD. English. School Contributes to Ottawa r University. Ottawa, Kan., June 15 The senior class of the college has received a package of ivy plants from Oxford, England. The slips were taken from the vines growing on the walls of the university building in Oxford. They will be planted so as to grow on the walls of Ottawa university's new building. The walls of the university building which was destroyed by fire, was covered with a luxuriant growth of ivy. The class last year instituted ivy planting in the class day exercises. The plants were not then in condition to plant and the planting was postponed until a few weeks ago. At the class day exercises of the class of 1!4 ivy slips from four Amer ican universities, Yale, Brown, Harvard and Princeton were planted. The Oxford ivy will be planted in places near the walls of the new building designated bv the faculty. It is hoped that the walls of the new building will soon be covered with ivy. Commencement at Scandia. Scandia, Kas., June 15. Com mencement exercises for the last class of common school graduates of Re public county were held in Providence chapel, near here, when five pupils, two boys and three girls, were given diplomas. The class address was made by the Rev. F. P. Raby, pastor of the Methodist church at this place, and the music was furnished by Mrs. A. B. Johnson, Virgie Williams, Mar tha Maheffy. Mary West, Hazlie Bow ling and Johrr-Berry. A Leavenworth Wedding. Leavenworth. Kas., June 15. The marriage of Mites Harriet Ettensen. daughter of Henry Ettensen, a lead ing merchant, and Abraham J. Pflaum. an attorney of Chicago, took place in the Jewish synagogue last night. Rabbi Kahn officiated. After tne ceremony a reception was held in the Planters' hotel. Many guests from out of the city were present, in cluding a number from Chicago. Solomon Citizen Dead. Kansas City. June 15. James Tobfn. one of the wealthiest land owners of Sol omon. Kan., died at the Sisters' hospital yesterday from cancer of the stomach. He was 70 years old and reputed to h worth 25C,ior. although when he was brought to the hospital the onlv informa tion divulged by his familv was that h was a retired farmer. Mr. Tobin had be"n at Excelsior Springs for his hAtilih and stopped heie.and entered the hospital re turning. Death of Max Bauni. Galena, Kan.. June 35. Maxx Baum, jr., member of the firm of L. Baum Co., in a general merchandise business in this place, died of injuries receive) Friday. He stepped into a hole on East Seventh street, fracturing his right leg between the hip and the knee and struck his head, which resulted in concussion of the brain, from which he died. The body will be placed in the Jewish cemetery at Port Scott. Patents Issued Kansans. Washington, June 15. The following patents have been issued to western per sons: Kansas Wesley H. Bennington. Kansas City, typewriting machine; Wil liam T. Bunn. Hutchinson. lifting jack; Thomas J. Corrigan, Arkansas City, wire tightener: Jonas H. Herriff, Krie, stove, also hydro-rarhon burner; William H. Hobson. Wichita, knife blade attachment for cutting machines; Samuel C. Iehman. Galena. broomcorn combing machine;Hen ry W. Luhmann, Hays, buckle. A IMay by Seniors at Manhattan. Manhattan, Kas., June 15. The seniors of the State Agricultural col lege gave "Two Orphans" as their annual play last night. The annual recital by the music department was Monday night. JOIIITS JI0 1 fUSCLES SWOLIEII AIID STIFF A disease so painful and far-reachine in its effects upon the human system as Rheumatism, must have a deep and well-laid foundation. It originates and develops ia the blood, and, like other diseases of the blood, is fre- f qtiently inherited. The poisonous acids with which the diooq is cnargea circulate mrougn Hnwn the health irritatincr t, Columbns.O., My 30, 1903. the nerves, settling in joints I had a .evera attack of Inflimmmtory Eheuma and muscles, and causing the tism. I was laid up in bed for six months, and th sharr. ciittintr na;n! neculiar ocu"Ihd did mo no rood. They changed med snarp, Cutting pains peculiar ic,n every week, nd nothing they precnbed to Rheumatism. Unless the eemed to help m. Finally I left oft their medi. VI -rQ j j cine and began the use of S. S. 8. My knee and blood IS purified, joints and Oib0w joint? were so awollan and. painful that I muscles become Coated With, could not close them when opened. I was retting the acrid matter and are ren- discouraged when. I began S. 8. S., but aa I saw it acna matter ana are ren- w,s helpin,: mo, continued, and to-day am asound. dered stiff and sore, and the well man. nerves completely -wrecked. 1365 Mt. Vernon Ave. R. H. CHAPMAN. Rheumatism, being a constitutional blood disease, requires internal treat ment. Liniments, plasters and such things as are applied outwardly, give toning up the nerves and all parts of the system. It is guaranteed strictly vegetable. Write us should you desire medical advice, which will cost yoa nothing. jjr; WIFT SPECIFIC CO., A TLANTA, CA. w Where they play Thursday; Topeka at Springfield. Leavenworth at Jopiin. Sedalia at Pittsburg. Fort Scott at Iola. Smoking on the bench has at last met with the emphatic disapproval and. or ders to "cut it out" of President D. M. Shiveley of the league. He has sent out a circular letter to every manager, which, reads as follows: "There arc several illegal practices in which play ers have been participating to which my attention has been recently called, and I wish to notify you that for the benefit of the game this order is issued: 'Umpires have today been in structed to fine and remove from games any player or players who purposely spike or maim any other players. I have recently seen players practice the habit of smoking cigarettes and cigars while in uniform on the bench. This also must be cut out. Nothing is more disgusting to a crowd, and players can certainly get along for the short time which is required to play a game with out indulging in this habit. You will also find in your rule book a prohibi tion upon players of talking to occu pants of the grandstand and bleachers. This is a habit wsicn tends to injure the game, and umpires have been in structed to stop it. See to it that your men get this notice and do not get into trouble over violation of any of these orders." Aa the days go by the Topeka fans are wondering more and more why Pittsburg gave Friel and Hughes for Abbott. Friel is playing ball that is little short of sensational at second, and is handling his station as well as any of the men who have played Point No. 2 on the circuit In Topeka tnis year, not even excenting Bankhead of Iola and "Nig" Perrine of Springfield. Hughes is pitching gilt-edgea Dan ana is working up a fine "rep." Both men are hitting. On the other hand Abbott is not hitting for Pittsburg and the offi cial scores also show errors against him, and it is seldom that a raarit in tho last column is not a costly affair. The fans are disposed to say "gold brick" with considerable fervor when their talk about the trade. let Ly Stinson, the disposed Saint, says that Abbott is the best first sacker who has appeared on Washburn field this year, and Old Spartacus Alberts is inclined to be lenient. The monthly report of the National Agreement for June shows the name of Omar Mehl under the head of "Terms Accepted" for Pittsburg. Kan. Tnat means that he was signed by the Pirates. In the Friel-Hughes-Abbott trade Manager Baldwin of Pittsburg also threw in the crack little Washburn catcher. Mehl says he will not play professional ball this year. It is a cinch now that he cannot play with anyone else but Topeka unless he is released by Manager Gus Alberts of the Saints. Topeka will have two double headers next week. On Thursday afternoon the Jopiin Miners and the Saints will play one. and on Saturday Pittsburg and Topeka will indulge in another. That will be pretty tough on the pitchers. The one with Jopiin is optional The Miners play here Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, but they owe Topeka a game and it is planned to get it out of the way. Pittsburg only comes for Friday and Saturday, and the double-header on the second day is per orders of Presi dent Shiveley of the league, and must be played. Liming and Thompson, the latter a new Saint, are showing up strong in the batting list. In the last three days they have led the team. j Johnny CJabriel, who caught for the Kmporia Elks in the game on Mon AU til ACTIVE UVER A COmSSTIPATIOII headache soon set in n r Jul al L TO SET YOUR LIVER WORKING RIGHT is absolutely imperative if you are to get any comfort from life or nourishment from food. A torpid liver can be a very dangerous condition and should not be neglected. Few medicines act as thoroughly, promptly and safely as Beechams Pills. They are vigorous but mild, and cause no inconvenience or nausea. TO CE RID OF CONSTIPATION There is no remedy quite as good as Beecham's Pills, not only to loosen the bowels but in the after effects. There is no binding up afterwards, as these Pills aid Nature in a natural way. Persons chronically constipated can become regular and be rid of the con sequent discomforts formerly theirs by use of BEECHAM'S PILLS. Sold Everywhere In Boxes, lOe. and 23c. tne system, Dreatin;j only temporary reuei. t.s.i. is tne recognized great est of all blood purifiers and tonics, and in no disease does it act so promptly and beneficially as Rheuma tism, neutralizing the acids and restoring the blood to a pure, healthy condition and invigorating and VKL&gao day with the local herd, went to Brooklyn witfi Randolph, the Saints present first baseman, last spring to try out with the National league in that town. Both went to the center of the table with the discard. The Western and Missouri Valley leagues are the only ones in the en tire country in which any of the clubs have a standing of .700 or over. Colorado Springs has this honor In the Western, and Jopiin, Iola and Springfield in the Missouri Valley. After the Saints skinned Fort Scott on Sunday, the Fort Scott Tribune found consolidation in these words in its obituary of the game: "There is Just as much luck and chance about a baseball game as there is about a horse race when there is a heavy bet on." .At last the Sedalia team will get new suits. The ugly yellow rags which has given them the name of Goldbugs will be discarded and the new uniforms will be of gray with brown trimmings. The next thing in order is a contest for a name, and the Sedalia Sentinel starts off the trouble by calling them the Grey-r hounds. Fort Scott is still in spasms over Armstrong. This Is the way the Re publican tells about the ex-Saint's re ception the other day: "When he came around the corner of the grandstand into full view of the spectators a tremendous applause arose, and the diamond was immedi ately turned into a ginger pot. The local team has not had the nerve to muster up as much ginger and vim during the entire season as was dis played there for a period of five min utes yesterday afternoon." Acute Rheumatism. Deep tearing or wrenching pains, occa sioned by getting wet through: wora when at rest, or on first moving the limhs and in cold or damp weather, is cu-d cured quickly by Ballard's Snow L'-ii-ment. Oscar Oleson, Gibson City. J'l writes Feb. 16, V.i2: "A vear ago I we's troubled with a pain In my back. It soon got so bad I could not bend over. One bottle of Ballard's Snow Liniment curd me." 25c. &t. J1.00 at Rowley Snow a and W. S. Miller's. For Colorado Tourists. The Santa Fe will sell round-trip tickets to Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver for $17.50, daily, June 1 o September 30, 1904, inclusive. Limit October 31, 1904. Stop-overs in Colorado will be allowed as hereto fore. Three trains daily. "The Colo rado Flyer" (in service June 19) "The Colorado Express," and No. i provide the means of reaching the re sorts quickly and comfortably. Illus trated literature describing trains, route and scenery, free. T. L. King Ticket Agent, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway, Topeka. Kan. WABASH TO ST. LOCIS. World's Fair Route- "Follow tha FUe." Only line to Worlds fair main trance. Five daily trains from Kansas City. Hhortest line. Ask your agent for tickets over the Wabash. L. S. McCLELLAN, Western Passenger Agent. Kansas City. Ma H. C. SHIELDS. Traveling Passenger Agent, Kansas City. Mo. St. Louis and Return $11.40 Santa i e. Good for 15 rlavi- 1 -7 A c A j .u a v' i J J days. right by IPO J 0 y u

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TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAI tVEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 15 1904. RAILROADjIEVS. Cane Belt Manager Resigns for Peculiar Reason. Vf&B Afraid He Had Been Mark ed for Assassination. RESULT OF FATAL FEUD Things liridentiy Got Too Hot for Mr. Eld ridge. He 31 ay Go Into Business With Col. Polk. Announcement is made that W. T. Eldridge, vice president and general manager of the Cane Belt railroad, which was purchased by the Santa Fe a few months ago, will resign his po sition effective July 1, and will retire from railroad work and from the sec tion of the state where he has lived, through fear of assassination. Mr. Eldridge has had a thrilling time recently. It seems that he had a long standing feud with another Texas "col onel," and the two men met one day in a depot and had a violent quarrel, fol lowed by a pistol duel at close range, tldridge killed his antagonist. Since then some of Kldridge's enemies have been camping on histrail, and a few weeks ago, an attempt was made by unknown men to assassinate him. He was struck twice by bullets, one shot penetrating his breast, and one strik ing him in the leg. That apparently convinced Mr. Eldridge that it was not healthy for him to stay in that section of the country. It is understood that this condition of affairs was what led up to his resignation. His successor has not been elected. Johnathan Lane, president of the Cane Belt, gives out the following statement of the affair: "Mr. Eldridge has tendered his resig nation, effective on July 1, as vice president and general manager of the Cane Kelt. His reasons for this step ere that his private business affairs make it impracticable for him to con tinue longer with the company; and, further, on account of a seemingly de termined purpose on the part of a com bination of persons to assassinate him. lie has decided to leave that section of the state. "Mr. Eldrkige's resignation is consid ered a loss to the railway company, and under the circumstances is only accept ed In the interest of Mr. Eldridge him self. "He has not made any certain ar rangements regarding his future. He has sold his farming interests along the Cane Belt, and has no holding left in that section with the exception of a few tracts, his homestead and hotel in 1'agle Lake. "Mr. EUiridge never authorized any statement that he even contemplated a connection with the St. Louis, Browns il!e and Mexican, and the reports to thnt effect are entirely erroneous. He has bren considering several business matters in the nature of new develop ments, none of which have matured to an extent yet to justify publication." It in understood that Mr. Kldridge may take up residence in Houston, although Mr. Lane indicated that the matter of Ins future abode is not yet decided. It h:is been stated that Mr. Kldridge would become associated with Colonel L. J. Folk in the nutting through some in dustrial propositions. The report seemed feasible and ihere is no reason at the present time to doubt its truth. In fact, it may be reiterated, but as neither Col. I'olk nor Mr. Kldridge has up to the pres ent given out any statements as to their future plans, it lacks official confirma tion. SANTA I E WINS. Can Ii.iilil Tts Line Through Gila Val ley in Spite of Opposition. At Tombstone. Arizona, Judge Do.m granted the Phoenix Eastern an in junction against the Arizona Eastern restraining the latter from in any man ner interfering with that portion of I'hoenix fe Eastern's right of way, west of station 47-'S-i6, which is the extreme point of the rock work now in process of construction by the Phoenix East ern, and he intimated that whenever the Phoenix Eastern had completed its earth work up to this point he would grant further writs of injunction from time to time whenever the Ari zona got in its way and impeded its progress. The I'hoenix Eastern is a Santa Fe project and the Arizona Eastern has Southern Pacific backing. The fight 13 for right of way through a narrow val ley. E. IX Kenna went to Tombstone to represent the Santa Fe. 6,712 MEN LET OUT. Keporfs Keeoived Indicate a Reduc tion of 3 Per Cent in Employes. Chicago, June 15. Returns from sixteen roads in the general man aeers' association of Chicago, with a trackage of 36,920 miles and employ ing 264.835 men. report a net reduc tion of 6,742 in their forces, compared with the figures of June 30, 1903, or somewhat less than 3 per cent. Of the roads five reported no reductions, three decreases, five no material change and three slight increases. If a like percentage of reduction prevails among other roads of the association, the total reduction would amount to Rbout ll.OtiO. Between 1899 and 1903 the number of employes of the Chi cairo roads increased 53 per cent, while their compensation increased 60.6 per cent. I5AI TIME FOIl LOCOMOTIVE. Kock Island Engine Jumped the Track Twice at Cloudcroft. A peculiar accident in which no one was injured but which just escaped being serious, occurred on the Rock Island at Cloudcroft, X. M., last Sat urday night. Just after 'the train pulled out of the depot a kingbolt on the engine broke, which threw the en trine off the track. Engineer Riddle stopped it when it had gone a foot or two, very fortunately, for if it had gone a few feet further, the whole EXAMINE YOUR DENTIFRICE Acid and grit, deadliest enemies of the teeth, abound in cheap dentifrices. Fine per fumes do not make fine dentifrices. Your teeth deserve better of you than to be offered cp a sacrifice to your pocketbook. GOZODOTJT Is of proven value. Sixty years is a pretty pood test. No acid, no grit in Sozodont. Ti'. Liquid penetrates the little crevices and purifies them the Powder gives a bright and polished surface. f FORMS LIQUID, POWDER, PASTE. LIFE SAVED BY SWAMP-ROOT The Wonderful Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy. 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You may have a sample bottle of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root and a pamphlet that tells all abotit it, in cluding many of the thousands of let ters received from sufferers cured, both sent free by mail. Write Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and please be sure to mention that you read this gen erous offer in the Topeka Daily State Journal. Don't make a mistake, but remember the name. Swamn-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address. Binghamton. N. Y., on every bottle. train would have rolled over the steep hill, probably with many fatalities. The engine was put back on the track and was starting for the Y to turn around when it jumped the track again. The coach was then started down the hill and was speeding along until the end of the switchback was nearly reached, when a cow walked calmly onto the track and the speed naa to De slackened until the coach did not have momentum enough to get up the short incline of a switch. LETTER FROM RIPLEY. Blames San Bernardino Business In terests for Sympathy With Strikers. It is reported in the San Bernardino Sun that a letter has been received there from President Ripley in which he blames the business interests of the. town for not lining up with the com pany as against the strikers. Mr. Rip ley also insists that the company has all the men it wants, that the eastern employment agencies have been closed, no more men being needed, and he pro poses that several representative men of the town shall be selected and shown through the shops, for the pur pose of convincing them that work is progressing there as satisfactorily as before the strike. The latest reports from the Santa Fe shops is that the nonunion men em ployed there and residing in the stock ade, will be paid off in cash June 15, instead of in checks, as is usual, and inquiry is rife wondering whether the men will come into town following pay day, or if the $25,000 or more that is expected to be distributed in the shops may go elsewhere. Los Angeles is a little too far away, and there might be some question about the men re turning, if they were taken that far away, but the suggestion is made that perhaps some of the towns nearer home might be made to benefit by what us ually comes into San Bernardino trade circles at the middle of the month. There has been no official announce ment, so far as it is known, but a conference held yesterday, entirely In formal, pointed the way to the belief that the men will be welcome if they come into town, and that there will not be the slightest disturbance, for lead ers of the organizations represented in the strike have given their guarantee for it. As a matter of fact, many or the men on strike are out of town, working as near by places, but where they may easily be communicated with should the leaders desire to reach them and the suspicion grows that among these are such men as might be dim cult to control and whose hasty action might lead to trouble, if on the ground. WANT GUARDS REMOVED. Albuquerque Reports Indicate That Strike Is About at an .fc.iia. There appears now to be no cause for longer keeping a guard at the Santa Fe shops in this city, says the Albuquerque Citizen. There is no possible chance of trouble coming to the shop workers if they are allowed to find lodgings in the city outside of the stockade. The strikers are law abiding and will make no attempt to disobey Judge Baker's injunction. In fact, a majority of the strikers have left the city, and those now here are conducting themselves orderly. It would be beneficial to all concerned if the guard system was removed from the shops and the men were allowed to come and go as in the past. This city will guarantee that the civil authorities can take care of any law breakers within the municipal limits. Among the imported strike breakers there were, of course, a number of vicious men, incompetent, and known "booze fighters." These men are be ing discharged daily by the company, and in a very short time only the best and most desirable of the import ed men will be kept men who want to work and do not desire trouble, hence the guards could be removed now, the Citizen believes, without any fear of trouble coming to the im ported men. "No trouble whatever at the local shops," said an official this morning. "The departments are working full handed, some day and night, and the company Is getting value received for wages paid. The men are well pleased with their jobs, except those who are fired for incompetency, and we have no room to complain. Engines are being repaired by competent em ployes, and work on them is being rushed. The motive power on this division from Albuquerque to Wins low, and farther west cannot be im proved on." "The motive power on the coast lines," said an official this morning, "was never better. All passenger and freight trains are moving with marked regularity, and there will be very few delays in the future, and these delays will come from unfore seen events." RUNNING FIFTY MILES AN HOUR. New Rock Island Track In Use for World's Fair Trains. J. H. Spaford, assistant superintend ent of telegraph of the Rock Island, is arranging for the completion of the lines on the Rock Island's St. Louis Kansas City road now nearly finished, into the general offices of the com pany in the Bryant building at Kan sas City. The wires are already strung to a point only a few miles from the limits of the city, and it will take only ten or twelve days to bring them in there. "The rails are laid to Lee's Summit, fOlir Tni0 ffom fill nnnAt;An ...i.l. the Kansas City Belt line," said a Rock Island man yesterday, "and we expect to have the road ready for business all the way between Kansas City and St. Louis within a few weeks. Of course, the rails will be laid much sooner than that, but it will require some finishing work. A large force of men has been sent to Greenwood to do surface work. "The new train that we are operat ing from here to the World's fair by way of the Frisco to Clinton and over the 'Katy' to Windsor, where it goes over the rails of the new line, is doing good business, and over the completed portion of the new line is making 50 miles an hour and even better speed than that in some places. We are also running a train now from Pleasant Hill, a long distance this side of Wind sor, to the World's fair, and it will not be very long before trains are going all the way from here to St Louis over the new line." BUILDING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. Orient Laying Steel on Completed Grade In Oklahoma. Fairview, Okla., June 15. Kansas City, Mexico Gulf company began last week the construction of the road south from Fairview, Okla., to the Texas state line. The grading was practically completed during last year, but no rails were laid southward from this point until the past few days. Re newed active construction is now promised all along the line, and great progress is expected by the Orient company this year. Work also began last week laying the rails northward from Sweetwater, Tex., to the Okla homa boundary line. Steel is being laid between Milton and Wichita. Kan., a distance of thirty miles, and the company is beginning construction between Wichita and Kansas City. The American portion of this line operates through a country very rich in agricultural possibilities. Even the country beyond the Rio Grande, trav ersed by the Orient, gives even greater promise In the way of minerals. When completed this line will be 550 miles shorter than any other road between Kansas City and the Pacific coast terminus. Topolobampo, is 800 miles nearer the Philippines, China and Japan than is San Francisco. Great progress has been made in the construction of the Orient. At present there are 325 miles completed and in operation, and 600 miles more are graded and ready for the rails. The company has now on hand suffi cient material to proceed with active construction. BUILD ITS OWN LINE. Rock Island's Reasons for Abandon ing Texas Central Deal. Houston, Tex., June 15. Following the announcement that the Rock Island-Central deal had been declared off, comes the still more important declaration from authentic sources, that the Rock Island will now build its own line from Dallas to Galveston via Houston. The Rock Island had this line surveyed, and has the right of way for every mile of the proposed line. Even the terminal facilities have been secured in Galveston. The build ing of the Rock Island line from Dal las to Galveston will parallel the Houston Texas Central the entire distance, and the effect will be disas trous to the latter road. The Rock Island and the Frisco are the only two roads giving their Northern busi ness to the Houston Texas Central. NEW DEPOT HUMORS. Rock Island Said -to Have Plans for Sal ina Betterments. Salina, Kan., June 15. There Is a rumor that the Rock Island Railroad company will make some needed im provements in Salina, including a new depot. Such a move on the part of the company would result in an added volume to the business of the com pany at this point and its appreciation by the citizens of Salina would find expression in added traffic to the road. It is to be hoped that the rumor is well grounded. $75,000 HOSPITAL. Northern Pacific to Build a Big In firmary at Tacoma. St. Paul, Minn., June 15. A contract was let here today to a Tacoma; Wash., firm for the erection at Tacoma of a $75,000 hospital building for the North ern Pacific railroad buildings beneficial association. This hospital will occupy more than one city block in Tacoma and will shelter the injured and sick employes of the road. It is under the direct control of the employes of the road. Railway Surgeons Will Organize. The American association of rail way surgeons is likely soon to be formed, as both the International As sociation of Railway Surgeons and the American Academy of Railway Sur geons have authorized their executive committees to take action looking to that end. The last joint meeting of these two associations was brought to an end in Chicago last week. They are to be merged into the new organ ization. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE. Conductor C. C. Johnson of Newton is again running on the road after a 30-day vacation. H. H. Moles, traveling passenger agent for the Nickel Plate railroad, was in To peka Tuesday on business for his com pany. Mr. Moies is from Kansas City. E. D. Splckerman of the Santa Fe tick et auditing department, returned to To peka today from Muscotah, Kan., where he has been attending the funeral of his father, who died there Tuesday. W. L. Manson, agent for the Santa Fe at Attica Junction, has returned to that point after a short visit to his home in Harper. While there he assisted in the celebration of his parents' fiftieth mar riage anniversary. W. M. Gibson, chief clerk to H. C. Whitehead, general auditor for the Santa Fe at Chicago, is spending a few days in Topeka in conference with local officials. He expects to return to Chicago the lat ter part of the week. C. W. Jones, superintendent of the Kan sas division of the Rock Island, who has been absent from his work on account of sickness for the past two weeks, is still confined to his home. It is expected, however, that he will be able to be out some time next week. Henry Lautz, chief clerk to H. U. Mudge, general manager of the Santa Fe. is renortea to be improving irom a serious attack of appendicitis and peri tonitis. Mr. Lautz was taken sick a week aeo and for a time his condition was very serious. A slight change for the better was noticed iuesday, nowever. That part of the Rock Island's new time card which provides for the resumption of trains Nos. 35 and 36 will go into effect next Sunday. Nos. 35 and 36 are the trains which the Rock Island discontin ued about three months ago. thereby causing much dissatisfaction among the traveling men who naa to depena. upon those particular trains. Several other traffic representatives were In TopeRa Iuesday. 1 hey were ti. H. Marley, traveling passenger agent for the jviicnigan central: t J3. mimpnrev, traveling passenger agent for the Lake snore, ana trie oiaest man in tne ousi ness; A. L. Goodrich, traveling passenger aeent for the naitlmore ana otno. and W F. Bellalre, traveling freight agent for the Missouri faclnc, with headquarters at Wichita. It is not often that this manv passenger and freight men strike Topeka on tne emne aay. ,E HOPKINS' LAW lias Formulated Measure to Govern Primary Elections. Ilolton Man Shows Fallacy of Senator Smith's Position. POLITICAL MACHINE. Says That the Senator Would Build One. Doesn't BelieTe in Forcing People to Swear in Votes. Probably no man in the state of Kan sas has made a closer study of the question of primary elections than John S. Hopkins of Holton. Mr. Hop kins is the father of Scott Hopkins, of Horton, one of the regents of the State university. For several years he has been making a study of election sys tems not only in this country but in foreign countries as well. He has evolved a plan and formulated a bill embracing it, which he brought to To peka for introduction during the last legislature, but the people were not in terested in primary elections then and Mr. Hopkins' bill did not get anywhere. Now tne outrages committed in pri maries during the past few months have aroused public sentiment and there is a demand for some kind of a new primary law. Mr. Hopkins is run ning for the legislature in Jackson county on that issue and if elected his chief effort will be to secure the adop tion of his plan. In writing of it to the State Journal he says: Opposed to Conventions. There are many who do not under stand the difference between a primary law electing delegates to assemble in a convention, to choose and name nom inees for office, and a direct nomina tion law. by which the people them selves select and name the nominees by their ballots, without delegates, or any convention. Under the first system politicians rule, under the second sys tem the people control. The present primary law for selecting delegates can be amended at least in one material feature; i. e. by having all the delegates of all parties for all conventions select ed upon the same day. In regard to what amendments should be made, or not be made, to our present primary law, I have little to say and nothing to rpcnrnmend. for I am unaiteraDiy op posed to the thoroughly and necessarily corrupt system of caucuses, delegates and nominating conventions. During the last fifteen years, a ma jority of the states have been adopting, amending and reamending their pri mary laws and endeavoring to enforce by fines, penalties and punishments, honest voting at primaries, and trying to prevent voters of one party aiding. assisting, and voting for delegates oi another party. ah Kinua ui -.rf niona have been invented and adopted, yet today corrupt voting, cor rupt caucusing anu l-ohuiji tlons are more prevalent' tlmn at any time during the hast sventy-five years. System fe V rong. -While neonle are talking about re forming the primaries, not a sugges tion has been raised, so far as I have observed, what reformations should be made, or which sections of our present primary law should be amended. It would seem, and experi ence has proved the fact, that the more laws and the greater the fines and penalties prescribed to prevent corrupt politics, more ways and means have been devised by poli ticians to circumvent the laws. The whole trouble 'of the matter lies in the svstem. As long as delegates are chosen to attend conventions for the purpose of selecting ana naming can didates for voters to vote for, so 'ong are the people reposing an imprudent trust in delegates and politicians, and so long will delegates buy and sell each other and politicians ana Dosses rule the people. It is admitted on all sides, some thing has to be done." Shall it be what the mass of the people want, or what the politicians and the bosses want? While writing the above a copy or the State Journal was placed upon mv desk. I soon ran upon r Du- mont Smith, the Irrepressible," and his "new primary law" ideas. It being along tne line oi my thoughts and raising a few weak ob jections to a law allowing the people themselves to name candidates for office, I will pay attention to answer ing some of the ideas of Mr. Smith at once. As to Dumont Smith. Mr. Smith says he would not allow any voter to vote at a party primary unless he swears that he has voted the ticket of that party at the pre ceding election. Section 18 of a bill I have drafted reads as follows: "No person shall be entitled to vote at any primary election unless he was a duly qualified voter at the last general election and voted in the precinct at the last general election at which he offers his vote." My voter must show at the primary his name upon the rolls of the last general election as a voter. I do not think it wise for a man to come from one county into another and have him dictate, by his vote, candidates for office unless he has resided in the county in which he offers his vote long enough to become thoroughly acquainted with the repu tation and character of the men whom he would make nominees. My bill does not require the voter to swear to anything. Mr. Smith would have the voter swear to everything. Smith's Political Machine. Why in the world does Mr. Smith want to build up a great political ma chine and officer the same in January of each election year? All commit teemen for townships, counties, state, and senatorial and judicial districts can be elected and selected by sec tions 26 and 27 as provided by my bill at the time of holding the pri mary, they to act until their succes sors are elected at the next general primary. The chairman of the voting precincts form the county commit tees, as well as the district, judicial and senatorial committees. The chairmen of the county committees form the state and congressional committees Then Mr. Smith jumps to a conclusion and says, "We do not want a direct primary election for state nominees, such as they have in Mississippi and other southern states." I agree with Mr. Smith in that particular -aboutt the Mississippi law, Dut wny aoes ne pick out Mi sissippi law as the basis of his objec tions to a direct primary nomination of candiates for office Why does he not refer to the Minnesota law, or the Wisconsin law, or the Oregon law? I think it is more on account of hi? unqualified objections to a direct nomination law, than for any desire that the people shall have the right One of Nature's Secrets. A PROBLEM HITHERTO UNSOLVED. SOME time ago the country was horrified at the report of a most brutal murder. A prominent western manufacturer was ac cused of killing his wife and destroying her body with strong chemicals which dissolved every trace of her frame. A great question arose during the trial as to whether any chemicals could be found strong enough to completely ob literate a human body, and many ex perts were called in to testify. Our minds stand appalled at the idea of so powerful an agent, but we forget that within our own bodies there occurs naturally a fluid which is capable of breaking down and reducing to a solu tion almost every organic substance. The power of the juice of the stomach to digest our food is most wonderful, when we consider the great variety of materials which we daily put into it. A healthy stomach will digest easily enough food to keep the body strong and vigorous. It seems remarkable that bo powerful an agent as the gas We guarantee that Dr. Pierce's Golden contain alcohol, opium, or any harmful drug. It is a pure compound of medicinal plants scientifically combined. Persons making false statements concerning its ingredients will be prosecuted. to name their own candidates for office. And he wants a flexible law, to wit: one that may suit the wishes of county committees to hold either a direct primary nomination or a dele gate convention. That is just what all politicians want something flex ible, so that if they cannot accom plish their schemes by having a direct nomination of candidates, then call a delegate convention and try their hand at that game. Politicians and ofhceseekers under such a law could arrange matters to suit their wishes and schemes to a finish. Mr. Smith ntlmates that under some circum stances a direct primary nomination law would do for county officers pro vided there were a number of equally competent aspirants tor the same office or for a number of offices; rather than have the politicians get into the squabble, let a direct primary nomination be held and the candi dates submit their chance of a nomi nation to such a primary. What Politicians Want. Mr. Smith makes another tumn and draws another conclusion and says:'"In no case snouia we dispense with our state conventions. They are important parts of our party machinery, helpful in many ways, bringing members of the same party together, arousing enthusi asm, formulating a declaration of par ty puni-ipies, electing aeiegates to the national con-entions and are in short, indispensable." If Mr. Smith had ad ded to the word indispensable, "to poli ticians ana Dosses, and gentlemen who make their living out of politics," he would have been stating an exact truth. Again Mr. Smith says, "There are three capital evils in our present system of making nominations." If he had said there are three hundred evils in our present delegate system, and tnat it is tne most corrupt system that ever evolved from an irresponsible and imprudent trust, he would have come much nearer the mark than the article would indicate. Should Not Swear In Votes. One of the most objectional features of one of his remedies is "every voter, if challenged, should be compelled to swear that he voted a certain party ticket at the preceding election." Here you have espionage to satisfy the most astute and unscrupulous politician. The idea of swearing a voter as to how he voted at a former general election is based upon the idea that voters are dishonest. I know of no reason why a man cannot repent of his political opin ions within a reasonable time. Mr. Smith's idea of imposing the penalties of perjury upon a poor voter who has repented of his political errors,- is the first step towards the destruction of a government of the people, by the peo ple, of choking independent thought to death. Let us illustrate. On the 5th day of September, 1901. President William Mc Kinley in his last speech a few hours before his assassination, utter the fol lowing words: "We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or noth ing. If such a thing were possible it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. We should take from our customers such of their prod ucts as we can use without harm to industry and labor. Reciprocity Is the natural growth of our wonderful indus trial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. The per iod of exclusiveness is past. A policy of goodwill and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity trea ties are in harmony with the spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or the tric juice could be contained in an animal tissue without destroying it, and the problem of what prevents the stomach from being dissolved in its own secretions has never been satisfac torily solved. If a portion of another stomach (as when tripe is eaten) is taken into a stomach it is promptly attacked, and we sometimes find that the organ itself does yield in spots, causing the distressing and dangerous disease known as "gastric ulcer." This can never happen, however, unless the vi tality of the organ is weakened at that one spot. One of the first signs of stomach trouble is a loss of appetite, or possibly the appetite becomes raven ous, and soon the patient begins to lose flesh which shows that the stomach should be toned up with a harmless tonic which will increase the secretions of the digestive tract. A tonic made up of medicinal herbs which will stim ulate the stomach into greater activity and increase the secretions of the phos phates from the food a remedy which will do this is one which has stood the test of public approval for nearly forty years, containing no alcohol or nar cotic. We refer to Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It can be given to encouragement and protection our in dustries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?" McKlnley Reversed. That was Republicanism then. Today, reciprocity and a modification of tariff schedules have no place in the Ohio Republicans' platform. Ignore McKin ley's dying sentiments and "stand pat." So says Iowa. In 1888 the Republican party was in favor of the use of both gold and sil-' ver as money and condemned the poli cy of the Democratic party In its ef forts to demonetize silver. In 1&92 the Republican party demanded the use of both gold and silver as standard mon ey, with such restrictions and under such provisions as might be determined by legislation. In 1S96 the Republican party opposed the free coinage of sil ver. What is the formulated money policy of the Republican party today? Would Mr. Smith hand out a stone to a Republican who thought as many Republicans thought in 188S and 1892, and who thought as President McKin ley thought on the 5th day of Septem ber. 1901? Would Mr. Smith have a so contracted and contemptible political machine that would prohibit lifelong voters from voting at a Republican primary who opposed certain Republi can principles at the preceding eloc tion. The bill I have prepared provides that if the voter votes for part of one ticket of his ballot and for a portion of an other ticket on his ballot or any part of any other ticket of his ballot that ballot as soon as taken from the bal lot box is placed to one side and not counted for or against any one candi date for nomination. Section 10 of the bill I refer to does away with the ne cessity of a voter swearing to his po litical beliels. Why not as well have him swear what church he attended for the past three years, and what religious tenets he advocated. No Mixed Ballots. In mv next communication, if any, in favor of direct nomination of candi dates for office, I will show how, from the provisions of my formulated bill, a Democrat can not aid or assist Repub licans in nominating or defeating a candidate for office without the aid of a politician or how Republicans can not aid or defeat a Democratic candidate for office and the plan by which candi dates are to get their names on the ballot. The system is plain, and simple, and a voter can have no trouble in making an unbiased choice. Machine politicians and corporations within the state of Kansas, and corporations without the state doing business in this state, will use all their influence and supply a million of money, if necessary to de feat a direct primary nomination law, and the wishes of nine-tenths of the voters of all parties of the state. JOITN S. HOPKINS. Through Sleeper to St. Louis, Santa Fe. Leaving Topeka 8:30 p. m., arriving St. Louis 7:15 a. m. Call or address, T. L. King. C. P. T. A., Topeka.. or 'phone 682. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. TT.3 Kind Yea Kavs Always Bough! Signature of the smallest child with perfect free dom. If the blood is impure, if pim ples, boils, headaches occur, if the stomach is weak first eradicate the poisons from the blood. "I was all run down, very nervotss, and suffered terribly from stomach trouble, which the doctors pronounced indigestion," writes Mrs. Vm. Morey, of Marshall, Mich. I doctored for a year without permanent relief. Was advised bv a friend to try Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover, and after the use of nine bottles I was cured. I can heartily recommend the Golden Medical Discovery to any one suffer ing from stomach trouble. My hus band was greatly benefited by its use." AN IMITATION OF NATURE'S METHOD of restoring waste of tissue and im poverishment of the blood and nervous force is used when you take an altera tive extract of herbs and roots, without the use of alcohol, like Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This veget able medicine coaxes the "digestive func tions and helps in the assimilation of food, or rather takes from the food just the nutriment the blood requires. While using it one should get all one can of God's sunlight and air, and prac tice a mild breathing exercise each day. This "Medical Diuco-ery gives no false stimulation, because it does not contain alcohol or a narcotic. It helps digestion and the assimilation of such elements in the food as are required for the blood. Instead of a cod liver oil, against which the already sensitive stomach will declare open rebellion, this tonic has a pacifying action upon the sensitive stomach and gives to the blood the food elements the tissues re quire. It maintains one's nutrition by enabling him to eat, retain, digest and assimilate nutritious food. It over comes gastric irritability and symptoms of indigestion, and, in this way, fever, night-sweats, headaches, etc., are dona away with. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov ery purities the blood and entirely eradicates the poisons that breed and feed disease. It thus cures scrofula, eczema, erysipelas, boils, pimples, and other eruptions that mar and scar the skin. Pure blood is essential to good health. The weak, run-down, debili tated condition which so many people experience is commonly the effect of impure blood. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery increases the activity of the blood-making gle.nds, and en riches the body with an abundant sup ply of pure, rich blood. THE EXPLANATION OF THE MYSTERY of healthful living is not difficult. Dr. R. V. Pierce has prepared a wonderful book, which he calls the "Common Sense Medical Adviser," and this he sends free to any one who Eend3 him, at Buffalo, X. Y., 31 one-cent stamps, to pay cost of mailing only. "o one can afford to be without this great Doctor-book of over a thousand pages, in which you will find a fall description of the human frame, the cause and prevention of disease and many won derful facts concerning our bodies. Medical Discovery does not World's Dispensary Medical Association, rRKSIDMXT. Learn the BARBER TRADE mm A rieant and FTofttable Occu pation which la cot crowded. -THE- Kansas City Barber College TrarheR you in a short time and at a RmaU MPnw. It if the larffent and best equipped -ollear In America. Many' the bt barhra are gradu ates of this college- Why not jroaT Write for Free Catnloarae. KANSAS CITY BARBER COLLEGE, 03 Delaware. Kansas City. Mo. i: F. C BBIDGEFOBD, Prop. The Colorado Flyer will leave Topeka daily at 8:35 p. m. on and after June 19th. Pullman, Observation Sleeper, Free Chair Car, Library-Smoking Car. Everything first class. Colorado Tourist Tickets now on sale T. L. KING. Ticket Agent, Topeka, Kansas. Far A lilt Pure Water Phillips' famous mineral water delivered at your door pure and health ful. PEOF. J. W. PHILLIPS Proprietor. 612 West Eight Street. 4 -i O Q- 1 1 Through Sleeper to St, Louis, Santa Fe. Leaving Topeka 8:30 p. m., arriving St. Louis 7:15 a. m. Call or address, T. L. Kinsr, C. P. T. A., Topeka,, oi 'chona 2. V

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDA Y EVENING. JUNE 15, 1904. liHiiHMHimini; lninniiinnisisinnininnnimninnninnnnnnnnisninnnnnnnisiiiiiiinii i:;:y V-:;!;in:S!!!!IIl!!Il!l!III!!IIS!i!:ilIII!i!!II!!I!l!ilI!ISl!!ii:!Iill!S!!l!Ili:ilII DRESS TRinrilNuS. Our Abilene stock was noted for fine J WASH GOODS II More Figured Lawns in full new pieces and many waist lengths and some dress 1 patterns in Batistes and Dimities, going If on sale Thursday morning choice, ff rt 1 1 r3 oi P in m J u a Dress Trimmings, and to make quick g clearance we will put out fine trimmings, worth 11.00 and $1.50 yard, for H 25c 3 cents n n n n 11: Ulpyp I 5C, 6c, 7C, ioc Buys II Better Lawns, Batistes and Dimities, If and more of them to select from than J you will find anywhere. LACES. More laces from tha Abilene stock; worth 10c. 15c, 2 0c go on sale Thursday morning 5c SUK GLOVES. Elbow length blue, pink, white, black J 1.00 values 50c REMNANTS. HTJCK TOWELS. All linen size 18x37 Inches 25c value for 15c iiiiniiniiniinniniiiiiiniisHiniiiiiiiininixniiniiniiiiiiiiiniii Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be Rem nant days. Don't fall to see them. MORE GOODS- PILED OUT AT SMALLER PRICES We'll have a crowded store every day tMs week. Because we are not doing tilings toy halves. Instead of offering you just a few specially low priced items, you'll fiind there is scarcely anything in our store that is not so greatly reduced in price that you will instantly realize the great saving. Come to us for anything you need and "be convinced that we save you money. M (GflXOTS -C0 507 Hans as Ave. I!ilil!l!l!I!UIIiim!SII!i:!IIil!l!!iii!!!!!!!!i!EU!IM!!!!!:!!!!!IISII!!!l!!! 507 Hans as Ave. linn uMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiifiiiiiiiuuiixiiiiuiiiiiiiiifi fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiixiiiiiiiiiuiiiixiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiuiiiiiiniiiiixiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisiiii iiimiiiixmMiiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiii EMBROIDERIES. Greatest Bargains ever offered 10c. Reinforced by our Abilene stock, will make the table of 10c Embroideries more at tractive than ever. RIBBONS. All silk all colors. Widths 22 to 60 10c Widths 7 to 16. 5c SILK SUITS. Latest styles. In blue, brown, green, red, black unequaled values ..$12.50 WASH SKIRTS. To make a sure clear- ance of all Wash Skirts, rs we will sell EEs J2.50 Linen Skirts. .$1.19 E J3.50 Linen Skirts. .$1.98 "E $4.50 Cotton Voiles, $2.75 Only a Small Part of the Abilene Stock has been placed on sale yet. Every day we are piling out new Items at 25c, 50c and 75c on the dollar. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL ST FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXXI No. 141. This Is an announcement of extreme in terest and simply demonstrates that the evening: paper gives ail the news of the world, leaving little for the morn ing paper to do but to reprint it. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: -Dally edition, delivered by raf- eot a week to any part of TopeKa. or suburbs, or at the same price In any itan- towns where the paper has a carrier ryetexn. By mall, one year 5 3 y mail, three months r wm y vanion, une yeat i nil nne vear.. l.w Centered July X. 1875. as second class aier at the post office at Topeaa, K.an.. Knuer the act of congress. TPIJTPHnNKS. Buwnese OKloe Ind. PJfJ Reporters1 Room Be,lVph2 loz-l Reporters' Room lnd. 'phone IW-l PERMANENT HOME. Topeka Btate Journal building. M nd ft' .a ilanniu avonun. cor Tver of Liguin. NSW YORK OFFICE: El Vanderbllt Bldg :ZZ 'S v "aul Block, Mgr. C CHICAGO OFFICE: 15 Unity Bids. ""aui Block Mgr. 2 VIZ, LSASSD WISH REPORT CF 123 ASSOCIATED gSSSS, The State Journal ts a member o tne Associated Press and receives the full cay telegraph report of that great news or ganisation tor exclusive afternoon publi cation In Topeka. -r 5. m the State Jour r.bl building over wires for this sols pur- recevea. HOME SEWSWHILE AWAY. Subscribers of the Stat Journal nwny during the summer may have the paper mailed reg-ularly eacn nay to any address at the rate of thirty cents a month. Address changed as often as desired.' While out of town the State Journal will he to you like a daily letter from home. AT THE WORLD S FAIR. Subscribers to the Stat Journal visiting the World's Fair may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any address lu St. Louis at the rate of thirty cents a month. The last edition of the State Journal reaches St. IOnis the following morning. The paper can be sent care of the Kansas building, if desired. So Mr. Moody is to try his hand at "trust busting." ARBITRATIOX. To arbitration as a means of set tling labor disputes there can scarcely be any objection, but to compulsory arbitration tr.ere appears to be two sides. The chief justice of New South Wales has violently denounced the compulsory arbitration act which has been in force' in that colony since 1901. He declares that it encroaches on the liberty of the subject as regards person and property, creates new crimes, interferes with the liberty of employers and employes, and prevents the former from giving and the latter from obtaining employment except on forms settled by the court. It also, he avers, deprives the employer of the conduct of his own business, the man- agement of which is vested in a tri bunal which must be obeyed under penalty, and finally states that the law is productive of a great amount of litigation and ill feeling. In opposi tion to this is the statement of the agent general for New South Wales, who avers that the act has been bene ficial to the community. With rare exceptions, he states, it has stopped strikes and lockouts, and thus helped toward contentment and prosperity. The New South Wales act is formed on the system which has been in vogue in New Zealand for about a decade. Special arbitration tribunals are provided upon which the employ ers and employed are represented, the third member being a Judge of the courts. The services of the tribunal can be invoked only by organized bodies of employers and employes. and these organizations are held re sponsible for any refusal to obey the tribunal's findings. The system is said to have worked well in New Zealand, where, owing to fairly prosperous times, the findings have generally been in favor of the employes. The vital test of the system, it is claimed, will come when times are hard and the tribunals will be called upon to decree a reduction of wages. OUTATWASIIBURfl Thlrtj-ninth Graduation Exer cises Are Held Today. Dr. Joseph Henry George, of Chicago, Delivers Address. "GREATEST IN WORLD" He Ably Discusses the Duty of the Citizen. Graduates and Teachers All in Cap and Gown. Now it is the turn of the Republicans to laugh in IHinois. It may become necessary yet to send Gen. Leonard Wood to Morocco. Even the New Tork World has about given up hope of Parker's nomination and asks: "If not Parker who?" A man who is as easily knocked out by a bicycle as Senator Cockrell has no business In the presidential race. As soon as Secretary Shaw gave it out that high prices are a good thing the beef trust gave the screw another turn. Politicians are gathering at Chicago aweek in advance of the national con tention Just as though they expected there would be something to do. "Florodora" has been receiving an amount of advertising recently which will probably cause the placing of enough companies on the road next season to give every play house In the country a performance. The wickedness of that man Bristow affords a subject for perennial knock ing on the part of the postoffice graft ers. Everything was moving along so nicely and quietly until he broke into the game. The venerable James' N. Tyner, who was accused of complicity in postal frauds but acquitted by a jury, wants President Roosevelt to take back what he said about the accused before the trial on the ground that it has been proven to be untrue. A man of Mr. Tyner's years must know that it not infrequently happens that the verdict of a jury fails in convincing the public. There is room in this coimtry for the Scotch form of verdict, "guilty but not Des Moines Capital: The evening paper continues Its march of triumph. In every city under one-half million Inhabitants the evening paper is su preme. In the city of Indianapolis the old "Indianapolis Journal," whose weekly was established in 1S23, and and whose daily was started in 1850, has been purchased by the "Indian epolis Evening Star" and will be con tinued as the Morning Star, being the only morning paper In Indianapolis, a city twice the size of Des Moines. Indianapolis has one morning paper. The doctrine that "every man's house is his castle" seems to be "played out in New York." Smashing in the outer doors of the Ellas woman's home in order to serve a warrant on her was a queer proceeding. Its queerness was not lessened by the fact that the pub lic prosecutor didn't have any evidence to Justify the warrant when the pris oner was brought into court. Another queer proceeding, likely to end in an other case of house-breaking, is the conspicuous picketing of the house of Mrs. Frederick Neilson as a means for serving a subpoena on that lady's son- in-law, Mr. Reginald vanaermit. Ko chester Democrat. But it didn't. The cases may have been different and it is certain the peo ple involved are. The doctrine that, the law is no respecter of persons does not always apply to those entrusted with the law's enforcement. The thirty-ninth commencement ex ercises of Washburn college occurred this morning at the college chapel. That Topeka people are friends of Washburn has been shown throughout the whole year, and particularly so this morning, when an unusually large audience was present at the closing exercises of the college year. The stage was decorated with nu merous palms, ferns and cut flowers, while at the rear was draped a large American flaar. Miss Daisy Griggs, Valedictorian, The trustees, deans and faculty were seated on the stage, and the stu- j dents, in order of classes, at the south part of the chapel. The deans of the various schools, Dr. Plass and Dr. George and the seniors were all in cap and gown. The exercises were opened with a selection from Schumann by the Cla vier quintette, and was followed by a prayer by Rev. C. P. Connelly of Hia watha. Miss Rowena Bishop, one of the music graduates, gave in her bril liant manner "Andante and Presto, from G minor concerto, by Mendels sohn. Miss Ingalls played second piano. Dr. Plass, in well chosen words of praise, introduced the speaker of the day. Dr. Joseph Henry George of Chicago. JATHAWKER JOTS. Nekoma is crazy over croquet. The alfalfa kin of Dickinson county has in 400 acres of the paying grass. Ctntralia has a spring poet who gives evidence of "keeping it up" through dog days. Mr. Swords, a sharp commercial trav eler of Syracuse, is at home because busi ness is dull. Up at Washington you wink your eye and whisper "Bee-Bee" and the soda fountain clerk gets busy. Harwr has a "lean women's club." They are fat enough but lean towards picnics and social doings. At El Dorado it isn't considered a theft to steal an umbrella on a rainy day even if the property isn't returned. Great Bend hasn't any congealed water plant, but the new roller skating rink is supposed to cut considerable ice. One of the richest mn in southern Kansas landed in Harper county thirty years ago with $1.50. mostly in pennies. Seeing that it was too wet to plow corn the other morning, two Scott City boys went out and dug up a den of nine young coyotes. A woman was in Chanute the other day who had $5,000 sewed up in her petticoat. She showed a "doubting Thomas" from Missouri. A Jamestown blacksmith stuck a piece of steel in his hand a year ago. This week the physician cut it out of his shoulder. Predonia has too many small boys who prefer to howl along the streets at mid night instead of putting on their "nities" and creeping into bed. The bones of what was said to be a mastodon were unearthed at Marion the other day, but as a matter of fact it was a buried state printer's boom. A Scott City man complains that the barber tallts too much while shaving him. If the razor is in good working condition the tongue shouldn't be minded. Three snakes six feet long and as thick as a man s arm. each, were round in a Hamilton county hen's nest. It's but jus tice to the pullet to announce that she was absent at the time. Miss Ruby Gage,, Salutatorian. After stating that a railroad wreck and a hotbox had delayed him until a few moments before reaching the chapel, Dr. George began his theme "The Greatest Work in the World." His address in brief was as follows: "Among the themes which command the attention of men, this one my chief business must ever hold the place of royalty. "Other subjects are Important, but among those great questions on whosa solution the welfare of man both rot time and for eternity, depends, this theme has but few peers and certainly no superior. "Other subjects buttress the building of human character, but this is the cell tral column into which, to a large ex tent, the whole superstructure is built and upon which it depends for its util

once wnen sianaing upon ouapen- i i sion bridge at Niagara a young man called attention to the immense ropes of fine wire strung across which seemed to sag with the weight of their own importance. 'Upon these ropes,' said he, 'the strength of the bridge de pends.' "So upon a proper estimate of the chief business of life the strength of the bridge which spans the mighty riv er we call 'time' and bears the living freight of the soul to the safer haven of eternity depends. "The chief business in the world is a somewhat movable expression depend ing very largely for a definite meaning, upon application. "One's business must be in harmony with the nature of being and according to opportunity. "The sun has a peculiar constitution and nature. His greatest business so far as known to us, is to shine on in splendor and magnificence. By so do ing he puts life into this old globe of ours, crowns the seasons with their special glory and lights up the earth with the variety and beauty of life. "The raindrop is not great as to Its organization of power. Its prime duty. its greatest work is simply to fall into the lap of earth: there to be nourished and cherished, and in return to nourish in earth's bosom all the instincts of life therein stored. Man is essentially a moral being, and happiness depends more upon moral control and moral culture than upon anything else. He who leaves this out neglects to place the corner stone in the superstructure of manhood. This privilege is distinc tive to man in this world. One must have the highest possible ideals before him of physical develop ment, mental culture and moral great ness, both for'nimself and for humanity everywhere- One must pmrrsLce the opportunities and the advantrge of his times to make the most but of life. "If a man has gifts and graces for special work, the trend of his being and the demand of his heart will lie in that direction. Then, be thankful, that all you do may be done to the glory of God. The menial work of earth may thus be dignified into a deed worthy of heaven and a message worthy of an angel. Don't imagine you are out of your sphere. "The silent, unconscious Influence of a holy life is a man's strongest in fluence in this world. "Second In relation to active posi tive work, the opportunity lying right at hand is the God given opportunity for you. "Then let each one of us take away his lesson with him. My chief business is to reveal the truth in the grace of my character just where my calling in life places me. "To do my work for the welfare of humanity and the glory of God just as it comes to hand not an impossible duty not hanging in the clouds, but the claims on me every day, to the glory of God according to my special opportunities and my specialized quali fications. Still this is a business so important as to require the regenerated heart and the consecrated lite as well as tne wisdom and strength of God in Christ Jesus. Even then we are compelled to con fess that our best work is but poor ser vice. "Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small. Love so amazing, so divine. Demands my soul, my life, my all." The valedictorian of the class is Miss Daisy Griggs Of this city. Miss Griggs graduated with the class of '97 from the Topeka high SGhool with honors. Miss Ruby Gage, who receives the honors of salutatorian is also a Tope ka girl and graduated from high school in 1900. Roth voune- ladles are bright and the fact that both honors were taken by Topeka girls is creditable not only to themselves but to the work of the To peka schools. The ladies' trio, with string accom paniment, deserves special mention. The trio consists of Mrs. Eli G. Foster, Mrs. J. W. Wright, and Miss Florence E. Morton. Dr. Plass conferred the degrees upon the different graduates, with the words "In virtue of the authority vested in me bv the trustees of Washburn col lege. I confer upon you; the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and welcome you vu all the honors for the duties and emo luments pertaining to that degree. Dean McEachron gave the diplomas to the collegiate graduates ana jjean ren ny to the music graduates. Judge Johnston, and Mr. Rossington were given the degrees of Doctor of LiAvs. The trio tor vionn, iuuiu auu cello bv Messrs. Klingenherg. vue. and Calkins was very fine. Dr. Sar gent, of Wichita, gave the benediction. The following are the graduates: BACHELOR O r An 1 b. Frank Richardson Aldrich. Clark Bush. James Walter Clark. Guy Wallace Defray. Zeva Bradshaw Edworthy. Louis Baxter Fritts. Ruby Lambert Gage. Daisy May Griggs. Mary Louise Kellam. Perley Kelley. Harrison Alberto Maynara. Frank Martin Mohler. Edna Mary Morrow. Grace Plummen -Arthur Lewis Quant. Jennie Margaret Thayer. Perc-v Sharne Walker. s Mattie Wilda Westenhaver, Walter Whitington White. Ethelyn Wright. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. George William Anderson. Berenice Fuller. Lela Irene McLellain. GRADUATES IN 1IUSIC. Rowan Ida Elshop. Alice Mitchell Foster. Florence Edythe Morton. Josephine Marsha Wright. MASTER OF ARTS. Gilbert Bruce Blair. James William Blair. Samuel Butts. Bertha Iona Ensign. Homer Ffchan Wark. James Frank Worley. NO DECISION REACHED. ltecess Taken to Got More Evidence Concerning Judge Isenhart. AT ST. PETERSBURG. It Is Believed That Important Event Are Transpiring. In the contest over the will of the late S. B. Isenhart, being heard by Pmhate Juilee Havden. a recess was taken today until Saturday to allow the parties attacking the will to pro duce more evidence. The testimony of witnesses sum moned by the brothers and sisters who were not remembered in the will, and who are trying to have it set aside, was to the effect that on April 2 7. the day Judge Isenhart made his will leaving all his property to his sister. Mrs. Florence Douglass, of Fargo. N. D., that he was not in his rieht mind. The main testimony of those at tacking the will was given by Henry Wolf, a barber, who testified that he shaved Judge Isenhart on April it, and that while he was there shaving him that Isenhart imagined he saw a lake of water on the floor and saw lions and snake and other visions common to a person suffering from delirium tremens. The side trying to sustain the will introduced testimony to' the effect that Wolf Aid not .have Isenhart on April 27, and that he had been shaved only on Sundays while at the hospital. At torney Hungate, for the brothers and sisters attacking the will, said he could produce evidence to show that Wolf did shave the patient the day the will was made. The adjournment was taken until Saturday morning. St. Petersburg, June 15. 4:50 p. m. Not since the war began has such excitement been apparent at the war and naval ministeries as reigned to day. With the encounter between the opposing fieet Imminent and heavy fighting in progress south of Vafan gow, Liao Tung peninsula, about 55 miles north of Port Arthur, and along the line established by the Japanese reaching across the peninsula from Pitsewo to Port Adams, news both from the land and sea was awaited with feverish anxiety. The general staff believe that the Japanese force which attacked Major General Goingross division yesterday was the advance force of General Nozu's entire army of nearly 50.000 men. Gen eral Saron Stakelburg. who commands the first Siberian corps .is personally directing the operations at the front, but it is believed that the major por tion of his corps is too far north to render effective support. A MVSTERIOIS PENITENT. The Story of a Criminal's Night in Mexico's Cathedral. PIPE ORGAN EXPERT. Herve I. Wilkins Writes. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of H. W. Cheney, who died on Tuesday evening, will be held from his late residence. 1132 North Harrison street, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, June IS. Burial at Rochester cemetery. II. II. Winter, a wealthy retired hank-r formerly of Yates Center, but for the last 18 months a resident of Topeka- died this morning at his home. 238 Greenwoo.i avenue. Potwin. Mr. Winter was sVk -n-itK BtrtmMfW trniiVile for several weeU.s preceding his death. His body will be taken to Tates Center for burial. He wis 5fi years old and leaves a widow and five daughters, two of them being married. L. J. Voungberg died at Christ hospital on Tuesday of kidney trouble. The fu neral took place tins anfrrumn ir.pn. n-i West Sixth street. Interment in Roches ter cemetery. J. W. Burton, aged 72 years, died Tue dav night at 7i Chestnut street of heart failure. The funeral took place this af ternoon In Rochester cemetery. LOCAL MENTION. R. L. Thomas spent Tuesday in Lawrence on business. The Saints are playing at Spring field today. Sunday they move on to Joplin. Dan Hamer, of the United States attorney's office. returned Tuesday from a week s stay at nis nome neai Marion. The annual meeting of the Topeka Choral society will be held at the Commercial club rooms Thursday night, instead of tonight, as originally scheduled. The -auditing committee of the semi-centennial bills has not yet com pleted its work, and it will be a week or so before the exact shortage can be announced. Gardeners say that some sort of a worm is eating the leaves from the rose bushes and is making the flower ing period much shorter. It is the same kind of a "slug" that appears every year. Assistant United States Attorney Ed McKeever went to Sedan on Tuesday afternoon to be present at the hear ing of John Gagen. who was arrested for selling liquor to the Indians with out a license. A meeting of the Sunday School Teachers' union will be held at West minster Presbyterian church, corner of Huntoon and College avenue, at 2:30 Friday afternoon. The primary lesson will he given Dy Mrs. Frank Tripp, and the beginners' lesson by Miss Vina teherman. The organ In St. Patrick's cathedral, Rochester, is the work of Chicago builders. It is unsurpassed by any in the beauty and dignity of Its tone. The Kimball mechanism differs from oth ers. It employs two pressures of air. The heavy preiisure holds all key valves closed when key is not pressed. Press ing any key releases heavy pressure, and lighter pressure opens valve, caus ing desired pipe to sound. Thus the use of springs is unnecessary. The system also includes combination pneu matic pistons, which are adjustable at key desk. These pistons move the stops, thereby indicating exactly to the eye of the performer the combination employed. HERVE D. WILKINS, In Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. The Butterfly's fiiHs. The extraordinary gifts of the butter fly race have always excited the wonder not only of naturalists, but of the most ignorant observers their silent and un seen changes: the instinct by which they distinguish their favorite plant food, as, for instance, even among the scarcely differing species of the com plex race of asters, where they show themselves, as Prof. Asa Gray said, "better botanists than many of us:" their skill in depositing their eggs un erringly on or near the precise plant on which the forthcoming caterpillars are fitted to feed, although they as butter flies have never tasted it. Atlantic Monthly. JOHNSTON AN LL D. Chief Justice Is Honored at Washburn College Today. Chief Justice W. A. Johnston of the state supreme court was today given the degree or LL. u. Dy wasnourn college. W. H. Rossington of lopeka was also accorded a similar honor. Resume Itock Island Trains. Rock Island trains 33 and 36 to and from Kansas City will go into service Sunday. June 19. leaving Topeka for Kansas City at 8:0 p. m. and return ing leave Topeka for west at 10:05 a. m. Chicago and lleturn $11.25 via Rock Island System. Account National Republican con vention. Tickets on sale June 16 to 20, inclusive; return limit June 29. After Telegraph Companies. George W. Wheatley, chairman of the state board of railroad commission ers, say that the board intends to take up the matter of telegraphic accommo dations and see that towns that are en titled to them get good facilities. The board has never yet disturbed the tele graph companies. "It is remarkable, said Mr. Wheatley, "how many good towns have poor telegraphic facilities. There is no excuse for the companies giving the people such bad service. We will take the matter up at our next meeting." Reception to Satolli. smith Bend. Ind.. June 15. The ommencement exercises at Notre nam. iiniversitv beran with a recep tion to Cardinal Satolli. who arrived here late this afternoon. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. J No news is good news, except to a wo man. A hard luck story is only interesting on one side. Even the wise saws don't cut much ice this time of year. The bartender is never afraid of a shuite-up in his business. The clergyman performs a marriage ceremony at union rates. Flattery tickles a woman's vanity and opens a man's pocketbook. It is better to leave some things unsaid than to try to unsay ihem. There Is naturally something quite com plex about a woman's complexion. In scraping an acquaintance be sure you don't rub him the wrong way. It would take a novel excuse to ex cuse some of the novels that are pub lished. When a fellow has a difference with his best girl. It's Just as well to split the dif ference. "We are told that all the world loves a lover," says the cynical bachelor; "also that misery loves company." One might think we are still living in the Ftone anf, judsing from the fact that most of us are out for the rocks. "A rolling stone gathers no moss," says tvi Man.vunk Pnilosonher. "but that's no reason why a man should become a fossil. Nell "You are simply making a fool of trmina- Mr. Sanuehede. Belle on. well. I'm probably only saving some other girl i the troviuw. When Gregorio wrenched himself loose from the hands of the sleepy gendarme he started on a run for his life, nor did he stop until he came against an Iron barrier which proved to be one of the gates leading into the courtyard of the cathedral. It was un locked. The violence with which he came against it caused It to fly open, stretching him on the stone pavement inside. "A Dios!" he muttered, "but the saints are with me tonight." When be had made the gate secure with a bit of wire whit h was hanging from the lock, he hurried into the shadow of the doorway. Here he meant to stay until it was light enough 13 find his way outside the city. The clock struck two. He noticed a tiny light shining through a chink in the door; pushing it gently open he entered th. church. Another time he might have been surprised, but he was too excited now to think that the open door and un bolted gate was anything unusual. Stealthily he followed the light. "Was someone robbing the house of God?" Gregorio felt for his knife. The blood of the man whom he had stab bed was still on It. His war was on his enerples, not on the saints. Nearer and nearer came thHt strange light. Stepping behind a stone pillar he saw a woman slowly making the "stations of the cross." Kneeling before one of the pictures she bowed her head and prayed aloud. Gregorio had never heard a prayer like that. For the first time in his life he felt afraid. From station to station he followed the penitent, fascinated by the fervor of her devotions. "What terrible sin has she com mitted?" he asked himself. It never occurred to Gregorio that when he ran his knife iflto Antonio and left him to die in a lonely spot he had been guilty of a wicked deed. Before the last station was reached it began to dawn upon his dull con science that he too might have need of prayers. "Senorita." he said, softly, "what have you done that you should pray like this?" Slowly the woman turned her blaz ing etes upon him. Grecorio shuddered and ralsert his hands to shut out the sieht. The bloody knife which he held under his blanket fell at his feet. Ah!" said the woman, with a long sigh of relief, "is It possible that I an-, to find peace at last?" Turning to Gregorio and pointing to the knife she continued: "By that I know you have committed some dark crime. Tell me what it is." To obey a woman was a new exper ience for Gregerio. Tremblingly he an swered: "I stabbed a man to death. Wait till I tell you what he did. One year ago. while he was drunk. he beat his sick wife until he killed her. She was my sister. When I heard it. I never rested until I hunted him down. But he was quicker than I, and his knife was plunged to my breast. For three months I was in the hospital. The doc tors said I must die. The police did what they could to have Tie tell the name of the man who had stabbed me. Why? That Antonio mieht be guarded against me in case I did not die. You know, Senoiita." he added prou'Jly."w do not often tell who it is t'- k n'fos us. If Antonio is still ali je has not said it is I, Gregorio Gr ic-z. who stabbed him: no, not he. for if he lives he will watch and wait his time to strike me down aeain." "Listen!" sHld the woman, who semed to be slowly fndlnir Into a shadow. "Ycits ao I too committed a murder the murder of mvself. From the tower or this church I jumped. It toolc only a moment, but in that short time I was fnrry and breathed a prayer for mercy. For this my punishment was lessened. Every year when the nleht of my awf'.il rled comes round. I must come here t make the 'stations of the cross.' For more than 2" yen" I have prayed snd waited for some guilty and repentant soul to take my place.'' Dawn was breaking when Gregorio. shHking as if with an ague, begged to ba admitted to the hospital to see Antonio. But when the latter had turned his even upon GreKorio he muttered: "NV. this is not the man." Kven the policeman swore that the man he had tried to arrest was short and stout, while this one was quite tall. It was all in vain that Ore- gono piHiti. iittie nrotner. mnu knowest that I am he that sought to kill thee: forgive me and let me suffer for my crime." Three days later both Antonio and Gre gorio died, the one from the wounds and the other from a night of exposure. Los Angeles Times. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. J It's awful generous the way a plrl will admit you are fascinating to think she is so beautiful. It's very exasperating to have to ssr good night to a girl in the rain unless she will hold the umbrella. No woman can ever resist taking the advice of the man who tunes her piana on how to make her rubber plants grow. If a man -would like to make dinner calls with his wife she would consider him the nearest possible thing to tha ideal husband. The girl who can refrain from blushing when It would be immodest to do it is not likely to go very far from the path, of innocence. "I suppose you will marrv when you grow up." said the visitor pleasantly. "No." replied the thouKhtful little rirl innocently. "Mamma says papa is more care than the t-hlldren. so I guegi t'n care of my children will he enough for me without the rare of a husband." Chi cago evening Post. f i 1 W- v

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5 N sjbv ..m. Kk TOMORROW IS THE LAST i. Any pair of Men's I (except "Dr. t Z t t $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 values. High and low cut OPEN THIS EVENING TILL 19 O'CLOCK j "Topeka's Most Popular Shoe Store." X ALBEKT SCRINOPSKIE PRor. 3,A0M (c(0 54 FORHEARST. Illinois Democrats Instruct Delegates to St. Louis To Tote for;the Nfm lork Con gressman for President. HARRISON IS ROUTED. Chicago's Major Refused a Seat in tiie Convention. Platform Contains Plank FaTor ing Woman Suffrage. Springfield, 111., June 15. The Demo cratic state convention nominated the following ticket: Governo.- Lawrence B. Stringer o Lincoln. Lieutenant Governor Thos. J. Ferns of Jerseyville. Secretary of State Frank E. Dooling, Sangamon county. State Treasurer Charles B. Thomas HEAD SOLID SORE knk Suffering cf Baby essS Slctpless Nights rJ Mother. CUBED BY CUTICURA Skin Fair as a Lily with no Scar ta Recall Awful Sera Writes Mother. "I herewith write out In full the be plnningand end of that terrible disease, eczema, which caused my babe untold suffering and myself many sleepless Eights. My babe was born seemingly a far, healthy child, but when she was three Tveeks old a swelling appeared on the back of her head, and in course of time broke. It did not heal but grew worse, and the sore spread from the size of a dime to that of a dollar. I used all kinds of remedies that I could think of, but nothing seemed to help; in fact, it grew worse. Her hair fell out where the sore was, and I feared it would nevtr prow again. It continued until my aged father came on a visit, and when he saw the baby he told me to get Cutl cura Soap aud Ointment right away. To please hlra I did so, and to my nurprise by their use the sore began to heal over, the hair grew over it, and to-day she has a nice head of hair, her skin is as fair as a irty, and she has no scar left to recall th'it awful sore, and it is over eight months and no sign of its returning." Mrs. Wm. Eyrr, Elk Uiver, Minn. "Cure permanent." So writes Mrs. Eyer, Feb. 25, 1903, six years later: Tour letter of the l&th inst. received, asking in regard to the cure of my baby some six years ago. Well, the disease ha never returned to her head which at that time, was a solid sore on top and down the br.ek. Once or twice since then a pstch has come on her hand near the wrist, but it finally disappeared after proper treatment with Cnticura." Sold thwirhn.t th. world. Cntiettr Resolvent. 30e. 3n form Choeolat CMted PHI. Sic. pr rial of (V)), Ointment. 30e.. &o.p. ISC. Dpot t London, 27 Ccarter fcnuM .s rrU, ttv. ri i Bovcea. 137 OoliuBDU. A fotMr Ime Clwsm. Corp.. Bote PrcpriatOrh ee BAY Shoes in the house Reed's") for I black and tan. of McLeansboro. i Attorney General Albert Watson of Jefferson county. University Trustees Mrs. Anna O. Solomon of Chicago, Theodore C. Lohr of Carlinsville, F. B. Merrill of St. Clair county. Delegates-at-Large to St. Louis Con vention John P. Hopkins, A. M. Law rence. Benjamin T. Cable, Samuel Als chuler. Chairman State Central Committee John P. Hopkins of Chicago. By a vote of nearly 3 to 1, the Dem ocratic state convention indorsed Will iam R. Hearst for president. The dele gates to St. Louis were instructed to vote for Mr. Hearst as long as his name is before the convention. The only feature of interest in the convention was the Jolt which the state chairman, John P. Hopkins, adminis tered to Mayor Harrison. The latter and his followers were set down and out, and if they attend the St. Louis convention it will be merely as private citizens. Harrison at first was willing to accept the defeat he got at the Cook county polls. but some ill-advised friends urged him to come here with a brass band in the vain effort to get aboard Hearst's aeroplane. But Hop kins controlled the convention from start to finish. He might even have prevented the indorsement of Hearst had he so willed, but for some reason he let the matter get to a roll call. Kverything else fell into his net, how ever, and Carter Harrison is the worst beaten man in the state. The Harrison party came solely from Chicago and was pledged to the sup port of Congressman James R. Will iams. Harrison was unseated as a del egate, and took a train for home with out going near the convention. Both his faction and the Hearst party were as nothing compared to the strength and skilful management of the conven tion exhibited by Hopkins. Never before in Illinois has there been a bolder display of ruthless gavel rule than that exhibited by John P. Quinn of Peoria, who presided over the convention, both as temporary and per manent chairman. He paid no atten tion to men or motions when it did not jibe with the interests of the Hopkins plan for him to do so, and in one in stance at least, he declared a motion carried before the Hearst and Harri son people had voted upon it. The committee on resolutions finished its work early, but it was decided by the chairman to withhold it until he knew what action the Hearst people would take on the report of the com mittee on credentials. There w;s a long' wait of two hours before this body was prepared to re port, and as J. J. Kane of East St. Louis, wha was to read the report, came upon the rostrum, a line of police officers marched in and suggestively formed a long line in front of the speaker. They were facing that officer and it was suggested to them that danger was expected from the opposite direction. So they turned and con fronted the delegates. The report of the committee on cre dentials was brief and nithv. It simnlv said: "We believe everything done by tne state central committee in seat ing and unseating delegates was just and proper, and we recommend that its work be indorsed." Then came bedlam. The Harrison and Hearst people shrieked "Roll call," and jumped up and down in their chairs, yelled "Robbers," "Thieves," and a few other things less polite. They were so wrathful that they could not wait-to listen to the reading of a mi nority report which recommended ac tion opposite to the report first read. When quiet wan finally restored the ayes and noes on the substitution of the minority for the majority report was called for and it was lost. The adoption of the report was called for. All those in favor say 'aye. shouted Chairman Quinn. "Aye." came in a thunderous shout. "Those opposed, 'no.' Bang went the gavel. "The 'ayes' have it." said the chairman, and then No" yelled the Harrison and Hearst men. There were more shrieks of "Roll call!" and the chairman said: "You can have a roll call on the re port of the resolutions committee. We will give you anything you want after while." That was all the comfort the Hearst people obtained from the proceedings until they were given a chance to vote on the question of indorsing thei" can didate in the St. Louis convention. Pending the arrival of the committee on resolutions a motion was carried di recting the convention to proceed with the nomination of candidates for state officers. "Before we proceed," said Chairman I 1 ra.tatrwMa.-.ii.hiHaafi.-tfiu i m Quinn, "several of the candidates wish to address the convention." William Prentiss of Chicago, who was a candidate for governor, advanced to the front of the platform. His face was white with wrath and his eyes blazing. He declared passionately that he desir ed nothing from the convention; it did not, in his opinion, represent the De mocracy of Illinois, and he wished for nothing at its hands. "I decline to have my name suomit tde to this convention in any manner," he shouted, and walked off the plat form, followed by the sneers of the Hearst delegates. William C. Crolius of Joliet followed in a brief speech, indorsing the stand taken by Mr. Prentiss, and also with drew his name from the convention. Then came another long wait, dur ing which much confusion prevailed on the floor, and several fist fights took place between the delegates. None of them amounted to more than an inci dental diversion from the routine. Clayton E. Crafts of Chicago then came forward with the platform. He read W "We, the Democrat? of Illinois "Who are Democrats? You're no Dem ocrats," came from the Hearst people, and the hoots and jeers that greted Mr. Crafts compelled him to suspend for a time. He had a similar experience when he announced: "We believe in the rule of the majority." Pungent questions reek ing with sarcasm were put to him in profusion and the hooters were again strongly in evidence. The- resolution providing for the in dorsement of Mr. Hearst was not made a part of the report of the committee on resolutions, but was submitted to the convention as a separate matter. The original resolution provided prac tically that the I Inois delegation should vote for Hearst until it was convenient to vote for somebody else. A substitute offered by Clarence S. Darrow, pledging the delegates to Hearst fts long as his name is before the convention was then adopted by a vote of 936 to 395. The nomination of candidates was then taken up, Law rence B. Stringer of Lincoln and Clar ence S. Darrow of Chicago being named. Mr. Darrow declined to run and Mr. Stringer was nominated by ac clamation. The Platform. The platform "points to the recent revelations of corruption in the post office of Washington. "To a depleted treasury, shown by the last treasury statement at Wash ington. "To the failure of the attorney gen eral to prosecute illegal trusts and combinations and the promoters thereof by criminal action. "To the refusal of congress to re duce the tariff tax on these articles which enabled the illegal trusts and combines to plunder the people. "To the fact that the attorney gen eral left it to a private citizen, at lare expense, to uncover the coal trust, as proving the truth of the above charge against the Republican party." Woman suffrage is approved in the following plank: "Seventh Whereas. Illinois women are an important part of the citizen ship of the state.' bearing and rearing its children, obeying its laws and pay ing its taxes, we believe that not only these duties of citizenship but the privileges as well, should be exercised bv them, and recommend that our next legislature extend to women fur ther suffrage rights." Other declarations of the platform follow: -"So far as government is concerned, and its laws and the enforcement thereof, the rieht to labor, must: be protected as vigilantly as' our life, lib erty or property, for free labor is the basis of all these, and upon their pres ervation depends the permanency of our free institutions. "We demand that all departments of government recognize and act upon the doctrine that the constitu tion follow the flag in Porto Rico and the Philippine islands, or J else that they are free and independent, so that the true glory of our country shall not be tarnished by the. exercise of the despotic power of denying to a helpless people a republican form of government. "We favor the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. "We point to the growth of trusts and monopolies as one of the evil results of the ascendancy of the Re publican party at Washington. "By the present tariff law and in numerous ways special privileges and undue favors have been extended by a Republican congress and Repub lican president to favored classes and huge corporations. The older trusts have all been strengthened and new trusts, too numerous to mention, have been created since the government passed into the hands of the Repub lican party in 1S96. "These trusts devour the prosperity which appears in the land as a result of industry of the people, and conse quently the masses have had little taste of the fruit of their own labor. "If the people do not speedily dom inate, regulate and control these trusts, the trusts will permanently dominate and control the government and continue Indefinitely to levy exac tions upon the people. "We submit that the Republican party, itseif controlled by the trusts cannot safely be relied on to curb the trusts, and we demand that the government be taken out of the hands of the friends of monopoly and restored to the untrammeled repre sentatives of the people." The delegates to the national con vention are Instructed to vote as a unit. KETIKXED THE MOXEY. Divorced Woman Irev $1,247 in Pen sions Illegally. Washington. June 15. Mrs. Martha M Gray of Marshall. Ok., has returned to the government SI, 247 which she illegally drew as a widow's pension. Though di vorced from her husband. Miles B. Uraj after his death she applied for and re ceived a widow's pension, which she con tinued to draw for eight years. Resti tution was made when the case war brought to the attention of the United States district attorney and she will not be prosecuted. New Mall Carriers Named. Washington. June 15. The following contracts for carrying the Kansas mail have been awarded: Blaine By Moody ville to Westmoreland. Marion T. Wal den, "Westmoreland. $445. Yorktown to Victor, George A. Peck ham, Yorktown, $.'45. Neosho Rapids railroad station to Hert ford. Benjamin F. McCormick, Hartford 5147.50. Chicago and Return $14.25 via Rock Island System. Account National Republican con vention. Tickets on sale June 16 to 20, inclusive; return limit June 29. Chirasro !ml Return S 14.25, Santa Fe. National Republican convention. Tickets on sale June 16 to .20, inclu sive; final limit returning, June 29. St. Ixjuis and Return $11.40 Santa l'c. Good for 15 days; J12.70 for 60 days. BULL ONTTRACK. Charges a Locomotlre and Wrecks the Train. Two Men Killed and Sereral Slightly Injured. Shreveport, La., June 15. In a wreck on the Kansas City Southern two men were killed land several slightly injured. The dead are Frank Patterson, engineer, and Harry Gam ble, fireman. The wreck occurred at Rosepin, and was caused by a bull charging the locomotive on a trestle. The engine and two coaches fell into a ditch.'The fireman was crushed to death and the engineer met death by being so badly scalded that he was scarcely recog nizable. EDISON'S CHARGES. Those Made Against the Patent Office Are Not Sustained. Washington, June 15. In the matter of charges of Thomas A. Edison against the two examiners in the patent office in connection with, the grant of letters patent for an elect. :al invention by Ernest W. Junger, tne secretary of the "interior has approved an opinion rendered by Assistant Attorney Camp bell. The opinion holds that nothing is shown in Mr. Edison's petition that In volves any cause for the exercise of supervisory authority at the hands of the secretary and for that reason the secretary advised commissioner of patents should be left to his own dis cretion in dealing with, this matter. The transfer of the examiners from one division to another is recommended by Mr. Moore of patent office. Mr. Edison charged "Incompetence, neglect of duty and maladministration of office In connection with the grant of United States patent to Ernest W. Junger for reversible galvanic bat teries No. 738,110, dated September 1, 1903." In connection .w'th. the three charges. Mr. Edison complained of the. declara tion of an interference between one of his applications and the application of Junger and asesrted that Hie declara tion of this interference was improper and assists in showing that the exam iners were Incompetent. He further complained It deprived him 'of the op portunity of showing that Junger's in vention was inoperative. The finding of Acting Commissioner Moore were that there was absolutely no evidence of malfeasance or inten tional wrong doing on the part of ex aminers and the second and third charges were not sustained and should be dismissed. As to the declaration of the interference it was found that "the examiner in view of all the circum stances did not depart from custom and acted in accordance with the dic tates of common sense and Mr. Edi son was not deprived thereby of an opportunity of making a further show ing as to what was contained in the Junger application but on the contrary was expressly given that opportunity and failed to take advantage, of It." As to- the-first-charge "it -was found the examiners failed" to appreciate the nature of the enlarged description of the Junger patent and tnat they should have appreciated the effect of their en larged description and the charge was sustained only as to this particular.. GILBERT THE NOMINEE State Contest ISourd Sustains His Claim to Senatorial Nomination. The state election board has de clared A. L. Gilbert to be the regular Republican nominee for state senator in the First senatorial district, com posed of Brown and Doniphan coun ties. This is a victory for the Doni phan county delegates. Gilbert is a Brown county man, but he was nomi nated by Doniphan county votes. This ends the squabble in the First senatorial district. Brown county in sisted on the nomination of O. J. Nu gent, but the Doniphan delegates said Nugent wasn't big enough for the place. They insisted on Brown county bringing ui some man who was ac ceptable to them. Brown county tried to nominate Nugent by trickery, but his nomination was held to be il legal by the contest board. Then five Brown county delegates met with the Doniphan county delegation on the day agreed upon for' the adjourned convention to meet, but there was no nomination at the first session. At the evening session only two Brown county delegates returned. One of them voted for Gilbert and the other for S. L. Ryan. The Doniphan dele gates all voted for Gilbert, thereby nominating him. Nugent protested against Gilbert's nom ination, alleging trickery and that it was not. made in accordance with some rules and instructions set forth by the content hoard. Attorney General Coleman said the hoard had laid down no rules nor given advice concerning the nomination.! Alter me nearing, win,.,, rnucu i-i-tr terdav afternoon, the board held unant mousiv that Gilber's nomination was reg ular and legal, and his name wil go on the official ballot as the Republican nom inee. The real fight against Gilbert came be cause the friends of Congressman Curtis did not know how he might stand on Uni ted States senator. He was for Curtis for cor.sress in the congressional fight lnsc spring, hut he might not be for Curtis for United States senator. Hence the fight on his nomination. GIVEN LONG HOLIDAY. Sliurrs Take Pay Off and Are Not Allowed to Return. Salt Lake, Utah, June 15. !Two hun dred miners employed in the mines at Bingham, 20 miles from here were dis charged today in consequence of taking a day off without permission. Accord ing the Deseret News notices were posted at all of the mines in Bingham several days ago notifying the em ployes that if they took a layoff on Miners' Union day (the 13th) they would be discharged. A large number of the men contend ed that they were entitled to their an nual holiday and disregarded the no tice. The wholesale discharge follow ed. The News states that mine Owners of Bingham, Park City, and Tintic camp have reached an" understanding by which they propose to rid the cam; of undesirable men and that the Bing ham incident is the initial -step in the elimination of them. F. M. Bonebrake has advertised for bids for the removal of the rock, brick and iron from the basement of the Sells building, preparatory to rebuilding. Open Tonight f 4 M 1 i tinues OYb' and i 4 j f.'i-iv'-i- 1 -i 4 V S 1 Special Shirt Sale Genuine Madras Negligee Shirts, detached cuffs also fine quality solid blue chambrey, collars detached in all sizes handsome Shirts, that in any other store would sell at $1.00 A r" come sure only r""X TO STAND BY HEARST. Hugh Knrrelly Says Ilc'llVote for Him as Lous as There's a Chance. HuRh M. Farvelly, chairman of the Democratic state central committee and one of the delegates-at-large to the Democratic national convention, says he proposes to vote for Hearst for the Democratic presidential nomination as long as it seems likely Hearst may be nominated. Farrelly was elected as a Hearst man at the Wichita Demo cratic convention. "Do you imagine Hearst can be nom inated?" Farrelly was asked. "It is impossible to tell anything about it at present," he said. "No can didate will have a third enough in structed delegates to nominate him. aid there is no telling who will be final ly nominated." Chairman Farrelly is for Judge D. M. Dale for the Democratic nomination for governor. He believes if the Democrats nominate "the right kind of a man" for president there is a chance, to elect the Democratic state ticket in Kansas this year. By the right kind of a man lie means one who will be acceptable to the Bryan Democrats and most of the Populists. The Kansas delegation to the Repub lican national convention will leave for Chicago Sunday evening. The conven tion will open on Wednesday. A lot of the Republican politicians will go along. Some of thfm have got Jobs as assistant sergeants-at-arms. or at least they have been recommended for Jobs. Among these are Secretary of State Burrow, State Treasurer Kelly, Frank Grimes, Lieutenant Governor D. J. Hanna. Superintendent of Insurance C. H. Luling, J. S. Dean. United States district attorney. T..A. MoNeal. Clyde Miller. F. S. Kurt and Will J. Stewart of Wichita. D. W. Mulvane as nation al committeeman makes the recommen dations to the national committee. The congressional directory Just is sued by the public printer in Washing ton contains maps of each state show ing the boundaries of the congressional districts. On the Kansas map Shawnee countv is placed in the Fourth district and Pottawatomie in the First. This is as the opponents of Congressman Curtis allege it should be. Perhaps this can be traced to Cy Leland. George W. Findlay, who has had the contract for feeding the, federal prison ers at Muscogee for the past year or two. will lose the contract on July l. The government proposes to feed its prisoners itself and not let tne con tract. It is said that the Muscogee con tract is worth about $5,000 a year. Findlay was promised one of the four big federal Jobs in Kansas by Senator Burton when .Burton became senator. He expected to be made collector of in ternal revenue, at that time the best Job of all, but Burton gave it to J. M. Simpson and put t lnaiay on. ai length after Long waiting Burton got this federal contract for Findlay. but CLOTHES i I AUCRaACH j0 709-7 1 1 Kansas THE GOOD S&r' abr Stettii1 aii01 ,m tmtmTk. Toniorht arid Tomorrow con the Sale of the Topeka Woolen Mills $3.50 Genuine "Sunflower" Pants all sizes 20 patternsfor only The mill's wholesale price to dealers is 82.50 so you see the saving to you is a great deal Many have bought two and three pairs a pair of good Trousers always comes in handy. See them, any way. Choice of 40 Styles Fine Sails Now at $10 High-grade Worsteds, Cheviots Tweeds, Thibets, Serges, Cassimeres all the best weaves cut in latest approved styles sizes to fit all Suits that earlier in the season would have sold for $15.00 we offer now at choice for BLUE Serge Men's Unlined C'y EZfh f Coats, all sizes special at )aiDU 111 Child's Fine Quality Wash Blouse Of genuine Percale and Madras 3 to 8 years Child's Wash Pant3 well made, good quality.. 10c 19c bxtra Quality Knee Pant double breasted styles, in Serges and uneviots $4.uu values in every way On Special Sale.....V Boys' Bathing Trunks, 19c Boys' Black Sateen Shirts. 25c Mother's Friend Pat. Belt Shirt Waist3, 4 to 12 years. 16c Boys Fine Quality Straw Hats, all new shapes, at 39c SAlx$SPPW& we ws 30 Fancy, Come here, ye Stylish Oxfords and High In .Patents and Flam viiiiiiii'H SMli'lrk S4, So grades, odds and ends special now now it seems he is about to lose that. Th government is building new Jails in the Indian Territory and they are to be completed by July 1. When the prisoners are moved into them the gov ernment will be prepared to feed them without contract, and the contracts will therefore be annulled. WASTING TIIE WOODI.WDS. North Miohijtaii Almost J"nmIi.Ml of Its Once Magnificent I- j rests. The pine in northern Michgian is rapidly disappearing. A few more years and the end of the magnificent forests will have been reached. The cut has been going on for the last half century, many fortunes have been won, many thousands of men have been given em ployment and lumbering has been the main support of a considerable numbei of thriving cities and towns. There is but little data on which to estimate what the total cut has been it can be stated, however, that it runs well into the billions of feet. At first only the choicest white pine trees were taken, but now practicably everything goes to the mill, even the standing dry or dead trees having their uses. With the white pine have also gone the Norway pine and hemlock, and now little is left except the hard woods and the popular, cherry and a variety of other timber, with low grow ing trees of little use in manufacture. The swamp cedar, the spruce and the jack pine have been pretty well taken, the spruce and hemlock finding ready market in the manufacture of paper. An important plant that will be dos ed down permanently at the end of the coming sawing season will be the big mill of the Marinette Lumber company, which has conducted logging operations on the Menominee river for the last quarter of a century. The mill itself will be dismantled and the machinery shipped to Ontario, where, beginning with next year, it will do duty for the Carney Lumber company, an American concern, which recently acquired large tracts of timber in Canada. The Ham-ilton-Merryman company is another of the larger concerns whose end is in sight, its reserves being sufficient to last its two sawmills but two seasons longer. As illustrative of the change in the character of the timber cut during the cutting season Just closed, the pine and hardwood timber banked on the Me nominee and its tributaries togethei measure only about 150,000.000 feet, while in addition there are about 50. 000,000 feet of cedar ties, posts and poles piled along the banks of the streams in readiness for the annual drive, now about to start. In past years several hundred million feet of pine alone would be on the banking ground and there would be but little other timber. Chicago Chronicle. "His wife is an ardent temperance work er, isn't she?" "Yes; she won't travel In the west be cause she heard that the. climate is stim ulating." Cleveland Leader. STORE." Your Checks Cashed end a Shop Cap Free whether you buy or not. Avenue. Surplus 5tock of EN'S Blue Serge Unlined CO CVT 5 Coats and Vests, now. .kJjZJ Suits 45c Suits Single $2.50 mens nose now lUc I y on 01 Genuine Maco Cotton Black and Brown Hose --Seamless also Black with White Foot Wilson Bros.' make known as best now 10c kinds of good-wearing, high quality Summer Underwear- French Balbriggan, Lace Weave, Sea Island Cotton in Natural. 45g Black and Dark colors, now Shoe Cut Shoes Leathers, m t ECCENTRICITY OF HUIXETS. Man Who Was Target for IV1)1V'1'S Finds Missile In His Pocket. Philip Oppenheimer, in the criminal court of Cleveland. O.. related a remark able Instance of the eccentricity which sometimes marktj the course of a bullet. Oppenheimer was testifying before JuCge Tilden concerning trie robbery of his sa loon on Case avenue a few weeks ano. Orrin llrown was accused of having par ticipated in the transaction. "I wss hack of the bar that night." id Oppenheimer. "Two men, of whom Brown was one, came Into the saloon, ami they looked ftort of suspicious. So I switched my revolver to a place wnere I couid et at it hajidy. 1 put it on a shelf under the top of the bar. When the two men otepped forward for a second drink each of them had a gun in the hand which was reached forward for the schooner of beer. They pointed the weapons directly at me and commanded me to hold up my hands. "Did I hold up my hands? No. I duck ed, and when J came uj aain 1 had my gun in my hand. We penel fire at each other across the bar while we stood not a half dozen feet apart. The gun of one of the robbers balked at the second shot, but the other robber continued to pump bullets at me. I answered back with my own gun. After a few shots had len ex changed no one was the worse for them the two men turned and fled. When they reached the street they made straight for a horso and bugey which was hitche,l near by. One of my shots hit the horfc in the head and he dropped dead. The two robbers then abandoned the hope of escape In that manner and took to their heels. "By this time the police were running up toward the pcene of the scrimmage. One of the robbers ran plumb into an of ficer and was overpowered. The other one escaped." Oppenheimer said that he had not been shot, but that when he came to take an Inventory of the damages ne found a. bullet In his pocket. It Is presumed by Oppenheimer that one of the shots fired at him by one of the robbers struck the corner of a brass ornament on the bnr and glanced, dropping into his coat pock et. "I don't know exactly how it got there," explained the saloonkeeper. "All I know is that it was there after the shooting and it was not there before. I have calculated, using my position behind the bar that right, the angle ftt which the shot was fired, and the scar on the brasswork as the basis, that the bul- glanced on trMt corner, and when almost spent either dropped or pierced my coat and landed in the prx-ket." The prosecution, conducted by Prose cutor Hyde, will endeavor later in the trial to use the stranee incident as a fine bit of evidence, eitner for or fleauict Brown, alias Williams, the prisoner, as the case nmy be. Brown's revolver will be produced, the empty shells measured and by expert testimony it will be shown whether or not the. bullet which Oppen heimer found in his pocket fits the sne!I in Browns revolver. Chicago Chronicle. Rock Island Ss'Stem. Colorado Flyer for Kansas City leaves Topeka every day at 7:45 a. m.. arrives Kansas City 9:35 a. m., con necting with all trains north, south, and east. Leaves Kansas City 6:39 p. m.. arrives Topeka 8:20 p. m. Carries dining car in both directions, and is a. through train without stops at inter mediate stations. Buyers

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TOPEKA STATE JOUHNAI4 WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 15, 1904. OH WRONG SIDE. Reason Assigned by Citizens Alliance Committee 1

,QSi I! for regular $5.50, $6, 6.50 and 7.50 Three Days Sale in Men's and Women's Furnishings For the Continued Deportation of Colorado Miners. 6 4.00 j 4444444 Sf BROS 0 AID IS PERMITTED. Unless It Is Sent Through the Military Authorities. Western Federation of Miners Issues Another Statement. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 15. Since the deportation kust night of 36 union miners there remain In the city and county jails and the military guard houses in this city and Victor about 75 prisoners against whom no charges have yet been filed. Many of these men, it is saM, will be charged with murder, rioting and inciting to riot and come are held as witnesses. N District court is now in session, with Judge W. P. Seeds on the bench, but the criminal cases can not come up until the next term, in September, un less a special venire is decided on, and It is a question whether the cases can fce prepared before the convening of the regular session. Judge H. McCarry, a member of the committee which inves tigates the records of prisoners and de termines, subject to General Bell s ap proval what shall be done with them explained the reasons for deportations as follows: "We are not deporting any criminals nor yet any who might make good wit nesses. The only difference between those deported and those remaining la in their expressed sympathies. Those who are on the wrong side of the fed eration question have to go. Other wise they are just as good men is many who are permitted to remain in their homes." Thirty-six men deported Tuesday afternoon by the military were resi dents of different sections of the dis trict but mainly lived in Cripple Creek and Victor. There was a large crowd at the Florence and Cripple Creek depot when the men were loaded on the train but little excitement or dem onstration of any kind was made. The destination of the exiles was given out unofficially as New Mexico. The report was current, however, that they would be taken through that territory to tne Old Mexico line and made to pass over on to Mexican soil. A strong guard of military will accompany the men until they are finally released. The men sent out are nearly all union men or union sympathizers. Quite a number of them are married. Food was taken on the train for the prisoners. Preparations are under way here looking to the eventual abrogation of martial lamt whioh it is expected will occur within one week. A large num ber of deputies will be commissioned to take charge of the district under Sheriff Bell's directions when martial law is called off. A list of men to act in that capacity is being prepared. Winei utr'ui but just when the next train load of men will be ready to be sent out is not stated at military headquarters. 1 lie urv'unativii mode public last night plainly reads mat tne ueiiorieu iohth to the southern boundary of Colorado via Alamosa on the Denver Rio Grande railroad, and "deposited upon territory within the boundary of the state of Colorado." Soldiers and deputies continue to patrol the streets of Cripple Creek and Victor. of the military during the absence of General Bell, who loft for Denver, gave to the Associated Press an official i V- v. l UlUI VMitiu ira'in. "No organization will be allowed, while- this county is under military CUHUl'li l IUI LIIHII 111 Mil 1111111 to the members of any organization the same is done through military channels. Aiajor i nomas it.. McCIel janu is piitvuNL niri niii.1 tii tins mili tary district, and he stands ready to receive from any person or organiza tion any money or other supplies which are for distribution to any per nor! rendered needy by reason of the military occupation of the county for the suppression of insurrection, and all money and other supplies so fur nished will be applied to the relief VI inc iiriaun d. c i f it."I 1 ell lo. Ictor. Colo., June lt. Selected values from our most desirable lines of Women's Umbrellas, priced thus to make umbrella buying a special object for the two remaining days of this week. Think of saving $1.50 to $3.50 on goods like these. Union Taffeta and Silk Serge Covers, on. para- gon frames, with steel rods, elegant handles of rolled gold, and sterling silver, pearl and ivory inlaid. See Vestibule Show Case. Acuities and that the intention was to immediately arrest him. This report gained such headway that General Bell decided to issue an order which he personally sent to Mr. George, who now in Denver, inviting him to come here as his guest. ictor. i.iwo., june to. tteports nave reacneri tne district that Henr; George, jr., would come here for thi purpose of looking into the labor dif THE STAR Always makes interest ing inducements for Pay Day. To-day Cherries, per half-bu. basket 75c Strawberries today, per crate 75c to $1.00 Onions, per peck 10c Cucumbers, two for 5c Condensed Cream, per can.... lc S cakes, 10c size, Toliet Soap.. 10c 2 Dc can Runkle Bros. Cocoa. '4 -lb cake Baker's Chocolate Mocha and Java Coffee, lb 3-lb can Green Gage Plums. 6 lbs Tapioca 2 pkgs. Pettijohn's Breakfast Food 25c 2 pkgs. Macaroni 15C County Butter, lb 5e Fruit Jars, per doz 5(c lbs Crisp Soda Crackers 15c Best Flour In the market, per sack 4 $1.25 20c 15c 20c 10c 25c Star Grocery Wholesale and Retail. E. nontgomery. Prop. 1 12 E. 6th Both Phones 252 MINERS' STATEMENT. Western Federation Ief ends Its Course in Colorado Troubles. Denver, Col., June 13. Acting under instructions given by the twelfth an nual convention of the Western Feder ation of Miners, recently held in this city, the executive board of that organ ization has issued a statement regard ing the strikes in Colorado and the re cent disturbances in the Cripple Creek district. "The Western Federation of Miners," the statement begins, "has al ways counted and invited the utmost publicity in all its acts and the acts of its members in matters affecting all its dealings." It is declared that "not withstanding persistent reports to the contrary, "every local union voted upon the proposition betore a strike was called. The recent convention sent a committee to Cripple Creek to investi gate the situation. This committee it declared, found the representatives of the miners ready and willing to lis ten to a proposition of settlement. "Before any further conference could he held," it is asserted, "the Citizens' Alliance interfered in such a manner to frustrate further efforts in direction of settlement, the interference of the alliance being no doubt prompted by the bitter hatred of the merchants against the four co-operative stores es tablished and maintained in the district by the federation." The statement continues: "We are fully convinced from infor mation by trustworthy persons that the original explosion and subsequent out rage perpetrated are not only the work of the Citizens Alliance, but are thor oughly of the opinion that the whole matter was planned in advance. Per haps no single occurrence has so much bearing on this conclusion as the forci ble resignation of various regularly elected officials in the district. 'What public necessity' justified the mob to compel the resignation of these officers we will leave the reader to judge for himself. To set aside the expressed will of the people to depose officials named by the majority to con duct public affairs, is of itself a crime against citizenship that we cannot pass without severe criticisms. Beside this all other crimes are puny ire parlor jokes or comic opera." After referring to the imprison ment and deportation of union miners and the refusal of the Citizens' Alli ance to permit any merchants to sup ply provisions to the families of such men, the statement continues: "The very fact that union men are deported by the military is of itself sufficient to show that no evidence has been obtained against these men, for if evidence of crime was at hand does any reasonable man or woman sup pose that the military commandant or the mob sheriff would be simple enough to deport to other parts the guilty persons? No, indeed. What evidence there is acquits the miners, but apparently fastens the crime upon the heads of hired assassins and thugs in the pay of the Citizens' Alli ance. "The apparent success of th;s line of action at Telluride has evidently prompted the recent acts of violence in the Crinrjle Creek district. The lawless mob at all time had access to the state guns and ammunition. When the mob had committed outrages without number the power of the great state of Colorado steps in, takes up affairs where the mob left off, de ports union rn.cn, abuses others and brazenlv heralds to the world the palpable lie that the miners' unions are criminal organizations and must be wiped out. At no time during all this struggle has the military power, or the civil power, ever been used to protect our members in their rights of citizenship. "Even at the present time no deter mined effort is being made by the au thorities to discover the real perpetra tor of the Independence explosion. Nothing is attempted to be done ex cept the one thing that is to fasten this unholv crime by imputation and innuendo upon the heads of our inno cent membership. "s was plainly shown some months ago in a trial where the Western Fed ration of Miners was nni of wv. kinsr a train, the fed eration was innocent. So it is clear that none of the present outrages were committed by our memDers. as was rlainly shown then that the crimes and "outrages were committed bv hired detectives and thugs for the niirpose of bringing discredit upon union men. so it will be shown that the present outrages, even the ruth less slaughter of the unfortunate vic tims of the explosion that killed six teen men at the Independence depot on the morning of June 6, was the work of these same hirelings, who simply enacted the first part of the plot that was to furnish the excuse for all subsequent outrages. We denounce the verdict of the coroner's jury which holds the federation respon sible for the death of these men. as unjust and ridiculous, and we assert that when the truth is known if it is ever divulged over the combined op position of all county and state offi cialdom) it will be found to be as stated above, the work of detectives and thugs hired on purpose to com mit a deed that might be laid at our door and offer the excuse for the reign of terror that followed." The statement concludes with an appeal for funds to sustain the de ported miners and their families. "This is not our struggle alone," says the executive board. "We are merely bearing the brunt of battle now. Later it may come in the same way to all others, for the right to or ganize and maintain a union is now the only issue at stake. If the West ern Federation of Miners can be ruth lessly destroyed, then other unions can be likewise destroyed. This is the concern of all. Let us make com mon cause against the common enemy. Let us pour out our treasure to be used in securing the rights for union men that are denied them without charge and without trial." Governor Otero's View's. Santa Fe, N. M., June 15. Gov ernor Otero, In answer to an eastern newspaper for his views on the pro posed deportation of citizens of Colo rado to New Mexico, and what meas ures the territorial government would take to prevent it, sent the following message: "My view is that no difference should be shown between capital and labor in their respective positions so far as the law is concerned. New Mex ico has no objections to any citizens who respect our laws and we are yeli able to uphold them under any and all conditions. If the deported citi zens from Colorado conduct them selves n a law-abiding manner they will be welcome; if not, they are com ing to a poor place, as the laws of this territory will be upheld without re gard to consequences so long as I am governor. We will not. however, tol erate dictation from any source, and those wishing to work will receive full protection under our laws." Driven Across the Border. Antonito, Colo., June 15. Thirty-six union miners and sympathizers deport ed from the Cripple Creek district by the military authorities were unloaded from the special train used for the de portation near the New Mexico line to day and were driven by the guard un der command of Lieutenant Colonel Leo W. Kennedy, over the border. They were moreover warned not to return to Colorado. Nevertheless after the de parture of the troops the deported men walked back to this town, five miles north of the line, where breakfast was furnished them by citizens. William Ketcham, one of the miners, was too sick to walk and a wagon was sent for him. HIS FATHER STOPPED IT. J. Martindale Puts an End to Suit Against M. Campbell. WOMEN'S SPECIALS Cr Cotton taped, bleached rib U bed, Sleeveless Vests, 7c qual. fr White cotton ribbed Vests, U low neck, sleeveless, taped neck and arms 15 quality. Iflp Outsize Vests, Ecru cotton, UV ribbed, taped neck and arms 15c quality. x QRf ine bleached Lisle Pants, 00 umbrella style, lace edged. French band 50c quality. Ifr Linen Handkerchiefs, em JJ broidered, hems t i t c h e d lace finished, and scalloped. Also hand embroidered initials, 15c qual. 3fflf ORr w"ite cotton Vests, lui ,0 sleeveless, low neck. taped ioc quality. IEf Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, embroidered and lace finish ed, hemstitched and scalloped, 25c quality. Children's Special 5c iaiu?8leeTOle8a' Men's Specials OQr Negligee Shirts of printed UU madras cloth 50c quality 3Qp underwear, in fancy blues, pinks, greys and white shirts and drawers, priced per gar ment 50c quality. QCr Shirts and Drawers, in light JLO weight, pure white, basket weave, of excellent quality. Odd sizes 50c quality. SEA FIGHT. (Continued from Page One.) is heir to the extent of $300,000. Bretiginere came to New York ten years ago and obtained his first em ployment as a news agent. In the district court this morning the suit of Romo Martindale against Monte Campbell for $5,000 damaeres was dismissed by T. J. Martindale, the father, in whose name the suit was brought. Mr. Martindale announced to Judge Hazen that he had never given his consent to his name being used for the bringing of a suit for Romo, who is a minor, and he announced that he wished the suit dismissed. Romo Martindale was mixed up in a fight at Clarence Young's drug store. He charged Monte Campbell with striking him with a glass door to a show case and severely cutting his arm and hand. The suit may be revived with another party, instead of the father, as the next friend, but it is not probable. General Ma Moves Headquarters. Tien Tsin. June la.-i-General Ma has removed his headquarters from -Chao Ching to Ping Cluu Chow. Viceroy Yuan Shai, commander-in-chief ot tne Chinese forces, has refused General Ma's request for 10,000 troops. It is De lieved here that there are forty thou sand Chinese Imperial soldiers on the Mongolian border. 12 MILES FROM PORT ARTHUR. Japanese Appear to Have Much Hard Fighting Ahead. Chefoo. June 15. 8 D. m. Further details of the fighting at Kin Chou the latter part of last month have been obtained from a Russian merchant who was there at the time, and who has arrived here on a junk. He says that when the Chilesean announced the Japanese approach on Kin Chou the Russians were unable to obtain accurate information as to the strength of the enemy. Four thou sand men from the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh regiments who were sent out to reconnoiter met the Japa nese on the plains. The enemy was about 35,000 strong. The infantry arms engaged, and the Russians lost 200 men before they could reach the shelter of their trenches. The Rus sians claim that the Japanese lost ten men to their one in this preliminary engagement. .When the Japanese warships com menced tha-f bombardment of the Russian trenches from Kin Chou bay, shot and-shell Jf'll among the Rus sians like hafb and it was impossible for them to holdtheir position. It had been the intention of the Rus sians to evacuate Kin Chou, but the Japanese attacked them before they had time to move out. Kverything was ready to- retire, however, and the Russians returned to Port Arthur by train, leaving behind them only some old Chinese guns, the breech locks of which had been de stroyed. The Japanese artillery fire was well directed, but the Russians suffered more from the fire of the Jap anese gunboats!. When the Russian merchant from whom these details were obtained left Port Arthur the Japanese were within 12 miles of that place. The Russians have trenches and earthworks at in tervals of two miles throughout this distance. The Japanese fleet is no longer able to support the army, the water along the coast being too shallow to permit the vessels to approach. Port Arthur is well provisioned. There are 9,000 head of cattle there and the firm of which this merchant is a mem ber has just turned over "to the author ities 92.000 pounds of salt beef. Other firms also have supplied the authoritie; at Port Arthur with provisions. This merchant estimates the number of men at Port Arthur at 5O.0"0. This exceeds the Chinese estimates by 20,000 men. CHARITIES MERGE. Xew Organization Will Be Known as Topeka Provident Association. Xew Orleans Man Chosen. Richmond. Va June 15. A special from Charlottesville, Va., says Dr. F.dwin A. Alderman, now president of Tulane university. New Orleans, w-as today chosen to be the first president of the University of Virginia. CAME TOO LATF,. The Associated Charities and Social Settlement societies met in joint session Tuesday night at the Baptist tabernacle and decided to unite their organizations into one to be called the Topeka Provi dent association. Fifteen members will constitute the directorate, the present of ficials of both societies continuing in thoir positions. Dr. C. B. Van Horn ia secretary of the new organization end Rev. O. S. Morrow secretary of the board of directors. The building of the Social Settlement society at the northwest comer of Fourth and Jackson streets, now occupied by the Nis.sley Newiboya' -society, will be used as a home. It is probable that a city hospital will be established in this build ing. It will have other features like sleeping rooms for homeless people, read ing rooms and kindred accommodations for that class of wanderers. On next Fridav evening a meeting of the board of directors will he held and the rom- le scope and plans of the work will be outlined. The coalition of the two organizations has been under contemplation for some time and will without doubt be produc tive of good results. RATE WAR TO END. Ten Dollars Is Too I-iow for Trans atlantic Passage. London. June 15. There are some Indications of a possible, ending of the Atlantic rate war. It is reported that terms of 1 settlement were discussed at a conference held at Liverpool to day. No details are given, but it is said that terms of agreement for all lines sailing from British ports were under consideration. It is also re ported that J. Bruce. Ismay, president of the International Mercantile Ma rine company, on behalf of the White' Star line, is seeking to reorganize the old "conference," while the Red Star line has instructed Its agents to book no more passengers at the $10 rate. It is said the agents find that the low rates are inducing many persons who would ordinarily travel second class to avail themselves of the cheap steerage rates, and thus the rate war involves losses additional to those In cident to the cutting of the steerage rates. It was reported late last night that the Cunard line contemplates issuing a new list making a further cut in the third class rates. MARKETSJODAY. Decline of Lirerpool Theat Weakens the Price. Small Receipts of Corn Cause a Good Demand. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Are Steadj to Fire Cents Lower. Hogs Weak and Also Somen hat Lower. TO STRENGTHEN DETROIT. George Huff to Reeome an American League Manager. New York Bntter. New York. June lfi. Bt'TTRR Markrt easier. Creamery, common to extra. IZ'fC 18c: state dairy, common to extra. 131ct7o. Lots of Folks EAT MOTHER'S BREAD Do vou Clearing of Port Arthur Channel Does Not Worry Japanese.' Toklo, June 15. 4 p. m. A flotilla of torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroy ers under tne command of Captain Tsuchiya and co-operating with the army, made a reeonnoissa-nce in force near Siau Pingn island yesterday and bombarded the Russian outposts on the west of the island. (Siau Ping island is 12 miles to the west of Port Artnur.) At noon the Russian cruiser Novik convoying 10 torpedo boat destroyers, steamed out from Port Arthur. The Russian shore batteries protected these vessels with a heavy cannonade. The Japanese flotilla retreated slowly, firing as it went for the purpose of decoy ing the enemy to sea. At three o'clock in the afternoon the Russian ships re turned to the entrance of Port Arthur. The fact that the Novik came out of Port Arthur makes it certain that the Russians have, succeeded in blasting a channel through the cement laden mer chantmen! sunk by the Japanese in the entrance to the harbor. This freedom of egress comes too late to permit of any effect upon the operations of the Japanese army, for men, guns and stores nave practically an ueen lanueu, and Admiral Togo is capable of keep ing the remnants of the Russian fleet imprisoned in Port Arthur. Heatins Plant Out of Coal. The state house heating plant is out of fuel and it is causing considerable In convenience. Not that heat is espec ially needed at present, but the heat ing plant also furnishes lights to the state house and power to run the ele vator'. Lights are especially needed for the vaults in which records are kept. Most of the vaults are now lighted by lanterns. The heating plant has been out of coal since last Saturday and is entirely shut down. The elevator is not running and people who have to go up to the third and fourth floors are getting plenty of exercise from climbing. Heir to SSOO.OOO. New York. June 15. At one time a lieutenant in the French army and now a guard on a Brooklyn Rapid Transit train. Desire Bretiginere has been notified by members of his" fam ily in France that his father is dead, leaving an estate of which, tbe guard Chicago, June 13. The Tribune says today: Recent reports that George Huff, graduate athletic manager of the Uni versity of Illinois, would become an American league manager, have been confirmed from a source of undoubted reliability. It was learned that all ar rangements have been completed for the Illinois director to take charge of the Detroit club, succeeding Manager Barrows on Saturday next. He will take Parker and Zangerle of the tTn versity of Illinois nine with him to De troit and will endeavor in other ways to strengthen the team. Chicago, June 15. WHEAT A decline of about lc in the price of wheat at Liver pool had a weakening influence on the market here today, offsetting the effect of heavy rains in the southwest. While sentiment was generally bearish, offfer ings were not large and a fair demand from shorts held prices about steady. Ju ly opened H'sV.c to Vric lower, at 84c, sold up to 85c, and reacted to Hie. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago report ed receipts of 16a cars, against 263 cars a year ago. CORN Small receipts induced a good commission house demand for cirn and in consequence the market ruled firm. July opened a shade lower to a shade higher, at 4r.i?7 4Ji'-5C and advanced to 4vc. OATS Oats were steady. July opened ac lower, at 3:ic, and sold at 39sc. PROVISIONS Provisions opened lower, but recovered on a good demand from shorts. September pork opened 21vfr5c lower, at $12.551 12.57H. and advanced to J12.724. Lard was down 2c at $6.S7H, selling up later to v .vzvaG.x. Klbs open ed unchanged, at $7.32' i, and rallied to $7.37V-a7.40. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, l.fnf?l."5; Nv 3 red, Kc'ntl.K; No. 2 hard, bn.r; No. 3 hard, 7s--aHc; No. 1 northern, fj'ci M.'i No. 2 northern, &3'al6c; No. 3 spring, CORN Xo. 2, 4Sifl 4!c: No. 3. 4Sit?4re .OATS No. 2. 4"f7 4lHc; No. 3. Xtgc. RYE June. 65c: July, 6"c; Sept., 55c. FLAX Cash: N.-W.. $1.08: S.-W., $1.01; June. $1.01; July, $1.01: Sept.. $1.06. TIMOTHY June, $2.10; Sept., $3.25. CU)VKR-June, $10.75. BARLEY Cash: 4sli57c Range of Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4S. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo.j Chicago. June 15. t)pen High Low Close Yes WHEAT July SS'i-?g K-Vb JS7 Sept si' Xit ol ,4 W,4 k2 WHEAT (new) 84 July Sept CORN Julv Sept OATS Julv Sept POHK Julv Sept 12 55 ijAHU Julv Sept RIBS Julv Sept 84- W-Vs S5 son 4!-'i 4H',i 39' 3f''i 32' 32V .12 30 12 57 4-H 4i 4s!-?8 VJ'a 31T-B 2Va 6 70 6 87 7 15 6 SO 6 !2 12 SO 12 55 6 67 6 87 40-42 15 30 12 40 12 IS fi 72 6 SO 7 17 7 35 84;- 4-'4 4vy4 3 32-Vs 12 35 12 60 6 72-75 6 90 7 17 7 32 ket steady to 5c lower. Pe3 and lights. J4.lorM.So; packers', $4 V'ii4.s5; butchers' and best heavy. $4.90fi5.'6. SHEEP Receipts today. 7 SO ha.1 Market steady. Natives, $3.5066.; lambs. Chicago Prod ace Market. Chicago, I!1., June IB BT'TTER Mar ket easy. Creamery, 13i'dl7ic; dairy, it (jj lc. EGGS Market easy. At mark, cases in cluded. 14'il41c. CHEESE Market easy. Daisies, gc; Twins. 71,4 7VC Youn Americas. Sc LIVE POULTRY Maxket weak. Tur keys, 10c; chickens. Vfitc; springs. 14S2')c Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, June 15. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 10 cars. Quotations were steady. Julv, Td-c; Sept., 7,,aic Dec, 70ic. Cash: No. 2 hard, f?g No. 3 hard. s.vHc; No 2 red. $1.02a 1.03; No. 3 red. 7cfi Sl-OL CORN Market steadv. Jul-. 45Hc: Sept., 44c; Dec, 39c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 4:';W50r; No. 3 mixed, 434tfiftc; No. 2 white. 50c: No. 3 white, !V. OATS Market steadv. No. 2 white, 41?? 42c; No. 2 mixed, 840V4c. RYE 4c. HAY Choice timothy, $11.5V 11.00;cholce prairie. $s.25!iS.50. BITTER Creamery, 13315c; dairy, 12c EGGS Fresh, 13c Market Gossip. fFurnlshed by A. M. McDermutt Commis sion Co., Stocks, Grains. Provisions and Investment Securities. Rooms 20 and 21, 702 Kansas ave. Liverpool opening cables: Wheat Ji lower; corn unchanged. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 34 cars: graded, 1. Corn. 279 cars; graded, 21. Oats, 114 cars; graded, 5. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne apolis, cars; Duluth, 31 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, -213 cars; Duluth, 40 tars. Closing Uverpool cables: Wheat Md lower; corn d lower. Cotton Market- Galveston. Tex., June 15. COTTON Market steady at 12c per pound. Wool Market. St. Louis. Mo., June 15 WOOL Market steady. Territory and western meqiums. KV521C; fine medium. K.jl7c; fine, loiKc. SOLOMON" METTY SUES. Asks for $0.18. From City Railway for Personal Injuries. Solomon Metty filed suit in the dis trict court this afternoon against the Topeka City Railway company for $G,185 damages for injuries received by being run into by a car while he was crossing Kansas avenue, on Third street. April 23, 1903. His buggy was demolished and he claims to have been seriously and permanently in jured. He charges that the car was running 25 miles an hour, and that, contrary to law, there was no fender on the car. Sliowalier Is Reins Sued. E. B. Showalter of Kansas City. Kan who was commissary officer of the Twen tieth Kansas for a time, has been in To peka looking up some evidence to he used in connection with a suit brought hy the government against Showalter over his accounts as commissary. Through error somewhere the government claims Sho walter was short $5,000. Colonel E. C. Lit tle is attornev for Showalter. "As a matter of fact. I was not short a pennv." said Showalter. "I had charge of the commissMrv on the Indiana, when we sailed from Frisco to Manila. The de partment turned over S?,2.("1 worth of ra tions to me when we left Frisco. I turned back S2." worth of rations when we reached Manila. The remainder was used in feeding the S.0"O troops on the ship during the voyage." Kentucky Building Dedicated. St. Louis. June 15. Kentucky dedi cated her state building today wiih f -la bora te ceremnnies.Talks were made by Governor Beckham. President Francis and others. The "Home coming colors" of the battleship Kentucky were pre sented to oGvernor Beckham by a com mittee of the crew of the Kentucky, especially detailed, by the navy depart ment. Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4s6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, June 15. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT July 74'i-H 75-H 74'i Sept 701. 7,,.- 7oVg CORN Julv 45i 45-"-i- 47.' i Sept 4,!!;-'.-z 44 43' a 75-H 7'-- 74--- 45" 44 45'4 4 Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City. Mo.. June 15. CATTLE Receipts today. 6.W0 head, including 1,.5"0 head of southerns. Market steady to nc lower. Native steers. $1.5'.i y7.40; southern steors, $'i.3'''i5.40; southern cows. $2.257 4.25; native cows and heifers, $2.25'a5.4j; stock ers and feeders. $3.0ofi4.;; bulls, $2.7r'a, 4.25: calves, $2.5a4.50; western steers, $4.50 6."0: western cows, $2.iT'i5.(0. HOGS Receipts today. S.'M) head. Mar ket weak to 5c lower. Bulk of sales. $4 75 f(i 4. heavy, $4.KV'i4.9: packers', $4.75'' 4.!': pies and lights, $4.25-14.75. SH EEP Receipts today, 3,Yt head. Market steady. Muttons, $t.&oy?,f; w: lamr,s. $5.L'5''i 7.o; range wethers, $4.20ii5.u0; ewes, $4.3113 4.75. Chicago Livestock Market. Chicago. June 15. CATTLE Receipts to day, 21,1X0 head. Market steady, flood to prime steers. $5.75"i t.t5; poor to medium. $4.7Si6.8: stockers and feeders, $3.0iXr4.7a; cows, $1. 75-(i4.75: heifers, .5"j6.2S: can ners. $1.75'a2.75; tuils, i-.Z&'-i 4. 75; calves, $3.0"i5.25. HOGS Receipts today, 33.0O9 head; esti mated Thursday. 25,ofJ head. Market 5 lower. Mixed and butchers', $4.-Q5.06; good to choice heavy, $4.955.071,: rough heavy, $4.s5'i7 4.!6; light, $4.ftu4.96; bulk o? sales. tl.iAXiiS.iXK SHEEP Receipts today. head. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $4.7-g5.; fair to choice mixed, $5.W'i6.75. St. Louis Lle Stock Market. St. Louis. Mo.. June 15 CATTLE Re ceipts today. 12. '"0 head. Market steady to lower, lef steers. $3.75'aS.5: stookers aT1d feeders. $3.5ot4.5G: cows and heifers. $2. 6014. -5: Texas steers. JM.ff5.25; Texas cows and heifers, $2. ia-fi3. i.i. HOGS Receipts today, 9,000 bead. Mar- New York Stocks. Wall Street. New York. June 15 STOCKS Opening prices in the stock market today showed small gains over last night and the higher prices in Lon don this morning helped the advance. Missouri Pacific led with a gain of point, otherwise tile gains were limitej to small fractions. There were some heavy blocks of I'nion Pacific and South ern Pacific transferred on the advance. Heavy operations in a few stocks sway ed the course of the general market, hut the movement was narrow outside of th5 pivotal stocks. I'rotit taklnft in Metropol itan Street Railway, which cost it point, turned the market downward, b'it a later rise to 8-M of I nion Pacific car ried it back to the opening level. South ern Pacific (rained point. Ganeral Electric sold ex-dividend and ex-riphts at 15a to lUi'i, compare! with 15'4 last nieht. The riirhts brought o'sfj, o1-. Reading second preferred. Kansas and Texas preferred arid Nashville. Cii.-t-tanooga and St. Ixuiu advanced 1 to P4 points and Railway Investment fell 1 point. The coalers were inclined to be heavy and when the rise in Union Pacic paused. Keadintr receded point under last night. Southern Pacific dropped back to J2 point under last nijrht. I'nion Pacific reacted 7s point. 1'riees steadied at or slightly below last nipht's level Rumors of a new capital issue by P'l'ith ern Pacific to fund its floating indebted ness were held accountable for the nativi ty in I'nion Pacific and Southern Pacific. Bonis were irrecular. Range of Prices on Stocks. New York. June Op'n Hign Low Cln Stocks Sugar People's Gas Anial. Copper R. R. T.. T. C. I I'. P. Steel 1". S. Steel, pfd Atehinn, pfd Atrnisnn. com C. J. W St. Paul R. I., com Wabash, cam Wabasn. pfd Mo. Pacilic Western I'nion Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. lac itic Heading Erie Erie, 1st I'nion Pacific C. O 15. O L. Ac N Katy Pennsylvania C. A: A., com 1". S. leather C. F. I 12 i)7 12 4iTi 35 S44 72 iiri'i 2M,

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115H 11K. 24'-, 5.1 3Pi 126' -7 4H 4"N 34-', !4 r-4-v, M 71 H uh" lfi SPi Mi, 147i 1471 U5-H lir, 2iS 2M, 4:,- 46 f- 44 2'.-, 23-g 51-2 tU. 87U. 874 31 31 7'i 7fGi 4 WvJ 4V-S 43 3' f4 54', ft!3 71S, 13' 4 142 21 16 3! 1 Trf-i 7?Si 71 Si vi 114-s 115 3S H 3i."i 15. -v.. 126--W 07 4f'-i 4-- 35 5i 54' 'M 71 7i i.-r-i 143 2r-i 16-- 4 35 ri 14-H 116 2P 47 47'i 24 'f, 5!, 31 H 36 115H New York Money Market. e i'T Tork'J""e 15.-MONET Monev on call leasy. hiehest P. lowest 1, ruling rate P4. last lnnn Pi. closlnit bid l's and offered at U4 per cent: time loans easy and dull: fii and 90 davs, per cent- months. 3-fy3i4. per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 3i 4U per cent; sterling exchange easy, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4 S7 -0 J4.S714 for demand and at $4 .!54 4.R53o for tt) days; posted rates. J4.S6 and $4.88; com mercial Mils. I4.sr-Sj4.fc5;, SILVER Bar silver. 55'ic; Mexican dol lars. 4I1..C. liONLS Government bonds steady. Sugar and Corfee n New Tort. New York. June 15 SI 'GAR Raw s-i-ear quiet. Fair refining. 3c; centrifugal :6 test. 3 27-32c; molasses sugar. 3'ac Re fined sugar quiet. tTushert, $o.6o; powder ed. granulated, $4:'. CO.fr ILL Market steady. No. 7 1 c. Rio. f

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TOPEHA BTATE JOUnNAI WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1904. Woman's Neckwear Dept. Black Goods and Silks. Embroidered Turn-over Collars 5c Ecru Lace Collars 25 each Hemstitiched Sets Turn-over Col lars and Cuffs. 10c a set See them in one of bur small cases. 24 inch Foulards, all neat desirable designs they were $1.00 for ..-83c 21 inch Foulards, neat pretty de signs and good colors for 43c A J The world has never seen such a year in Cotton as that we are passing through. In the market reports we have watched raw cotton forced up from seven to fifteen cents a pound, and even higher, and cotton yarn to 20 and 21 cents a pound from hjalf this price. In the South, the Land of Cotton," we read that three times the usual price is paid for cotton in the bale. To make con ditions worse a shortage of a million bales in the year's crop is reported by the government Today cotton is gold from the minute it puts out its first shoot and unfurls its white fleece to the sun. Many people have, no doubt, thought that in the face of these extraordinary conditions it would be impossible for us to offer Wash Fabrics" this year so much under value as we did late in "the sea son last year. But we made what has turned out to be a very fortunate purchase of 10,000 yards of Wash Materials some time ago of a firm who did not want to carry them over and so sold them to us very much under value. The different lots and the prices at which they will be sold are given below. You cannot affords to miss this, our largest Sale of Wash Fabrics." Figured Lawns all white grounds with different colored figures 3c yard Batiste Lawns dark and light grounds 5c yard Sheer Batistes plenty of tans and blues among them 'lie yard Plain Sheer Batiste Lawns 30 in. wide 74c yard Embroidered Swiss Muslins, 10c yard Rosalind Dimities plain colors and figures 10c yard Queen Batiste Lawns 10c yard Claribel Batistes white grounds with black, green and red polka dots 10c yard Lace Stripe Novelties navy and white ground 12c yard Lappet Mulls white and colored grounds 12tc yard Shrunken Voile in green, white and blue, white and red, gray wlUI Diack, wnite witn green. Plain Mousline de Soie cream, blue, black, tan and white 19c yard White Dotted Swiss Muslin, 19c yard We received yesterday Tan Voiles also blue. Price 15c yard HAVE FEWCATTLE Shawnee County Farmers Are Evidently Discouraged. Trices of Lire Stock Cause a Decrease. WILL AFFECT TAXES. Means a Decreased Valuation In Personal Property. Swine Industry in Shawnee at a Standstill. The packers' combine in keeping down the price paid for fat cattle, while the price for slaughtered meat fs high, is affecting Shawnee county materially in the assessment of this year's taxes. On the first of March last year the number of cattle, over six months old, in Shawnee county was more than 5.000 greater than on the first of March this year. Last year the cattle feeders were busy in Shawnee county as the price for cattle was good and the price of corn was comparatively low. This year, however, the price for fatted cattle at the stock yards is low and the price of corn in Shawnee county is high, being up around 40 cents. Last year cattle feeders lost money and this year many of thosewho have been the most extensive feeders in Shawnee county are not feeding the great herds of cattle that they did a year airo. The townships of Rossville, Silver Lake, Dover and Menoken show a great failing off this year over last in the number of cattle being fed. Among the most extensive feeders have been Holden and Andrews, who had herds in Kossville. Dover and Silver Lake townships. They are not feeding ex tensively this year as they did iast. The difference in the number of cat tle, by townships, in the county is as follows: Township. TtnssYiUe Silver l,ake Menoken Soldier Topfka Tecumseh Monmouth Willinmsport Auburn Dover Mission Total 1W(. 2.S18 l.res 2.TOS 3.149 2..W1 l.5 3.4S2 3,(24 4.415 3.63 3.736 ..33,171 1903 4,:i54 2.5R3 3. 11 3.1S4 H OC1 -719 r,.l2 4.4M 4.132 3.726 3S.2S1 The falling off in the number of cattle in the county will be one of the principal factors in reducing the total assessed valuation of personal prop erty in the country. This year's total assessed valuation of personal prop erty in the townships, as shown by the assessors' returns, will be $175, 400 less than last year. The loss in the number of cattle being fed, and consequently the loss of the amount of corn on hand March 1 for feeding purposes, are the principal causes for the reduction. The assessed valuation of personal property by townships this year and last were as follows: VALUE PERSONAL PROPERTY lownsnip. 1S4. Rossville t 76.715 Silver Lake 76.750 Menoken 60.325 Soldier, 91,920 Topeka 154.5V) Tecumseh 46.S20 Monmouth 7S.540 Williamsport 66,000 Auburn 65.540 Dover 73,i4 Mission 81.990 Total $SSS.120 $1,M55,E20 When the assessment was taken March 1. 1903, the conditions were more favorable to cattlemen than pre viously for years, and large numbers of cattle were fed in Shawnee county, and the cattle business was largely responsible for the increase in the as- i9rff 11S.3A", S3.IW0 94,1190 100. 595 1S5.230 52, WO 53, fl73 80,l.!5 92. 170 107.323 Ssile -'off Women's Tailored Suits HALF PRICE Fifty Women's Tailored Suits will be placed on sale today at half price. All stylish materials and manufac ture. Carpet and Curtain Dept. Rugs. Fifteen Brussels Rugs 9x12 ft. regular J16.50 and J15. 00. .$13.75 Curtains. Seventy pairs Tucked Muslin Cur tains regular 50c values for, per jy, pair 39c Ruffled Muslin Curtains. Just the thing for summer draperies -110 pair3 for 30c pair Three Styles Rope Curtains. Regular price ?3.50, for ...$1:98 each sessed valuation of property in Shaw nee county, which was, in round mim bers, $17,000,000 in 1903, while the total assessed valuation for 1902 was something over $16,000,000. In 1903 the- highest mark up to date of as sessed valuation in Shawnee county was reached. The valuation of cattle this year and last, as made by the assessors, shows no particular differ ence. The swine industry shows little change over last year, for the number of hogs in Shawnee county March 1, 1904, was a few hundred more than last year. The- number of hogs in the county, by townships, were as fol lows: NUMBER OF. HOGS. Township. 1904. 1903. Rossville 1,013 37 Silver Lake 1,121 1,079 Menoken 1.438 1.4W8 Soldier 1.735 1.5S: Topeka 1,013 944 Tecumseh 917 829 Monmouth 1,361 1,325 Williamsport 1.476 1,427 Auburn 1,185 1.151 Dover 1,191 1.47 Mission 1,366 1,050 Total 15.72-4 15,042 JUSTICE BREWER KESIGN'S. Is No Iionger a Member of Washburn Board of Trustees. At a meeting of the trustees of Washburn college held Tuesday, the resignation of David J. Brewer, justice of the United States supreme court, as a trustee of the college was received and accepted. Judge Brewer resigned because of the fact that his duties in Washington prevent his attendance at any of the meetings of the board. Dr. J. C. McClintock, of Topeka, was elected to succeed Judge Brewer, and Dr. W. S. Lindsay was elected to a place on the board as a representative of the medical department. Otis L. Benton, a graduate of the col lege, who now lives at Oberlin, and has won considerable distinction as a poli tician in his part of the state, was elected to the board as successor to the late Harvey D. Rice. The following officers of the board of trustees were all re-elected: Norman Plass. president; L. 11. Greenwood, secretary; James F. Grif fin, treasurer, and H. C. Bowman and T. B. Mayo, auditors. 1,500 JULES OF RAILROAD. To Be Built by Mormons In Mexico at Early Date. Mexico City, June 14. More than 1.500 miles of railroad, it is said, are to be built in Mexico under the direct auspices of the Mormon church. Bishop W. D. Johnson, who repre sents the church in this country, is here arranging for the construction of the road. It is expected the road will run from Ameca, in the state of Jalisco, to Giudad Juarez, opposite El Paso, Tex. The Mexican government has given the Mormon church an other grant of 100,000 acres of land in the state of Chihuahua. A Surprise Party. A surprise party was given In honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kline by their friends at their home, west of Hayes' greenhouse, last evening at 8 o'clock. They were entertained by music and singing, and refreshments were served later in the evening. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Pinkstaff, Mr. and Mrs. Bo garth, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Blank. Mrs. Gross, Mrs. J. W. Stout, Mrs. Pond, Mrs. Leeper, Mrs.- Falls. Mrs. May Newell, Mrs. Nonkens, Mrs. Anna Shinn, Mrs. Anna Tomson, Miss Agnes Gross, Mr. Wil liam Kline, Miss Lula Pinkstaff, Miss Gertrude Ashpole, Mr. Lanbertaln Pinkstaff, Miss Bessie Kline, Miss Gertrude Bowers, Miss Mildred Leep er, Miss Dorothea Leeper, Miss Ruth Bogarth, Mr. Eugene Bowers. St. Louis and Return $7.60 1,'nlon Pacific. Special excursions to St. Louis and return via Union Pacific for $7:60 on Mondays only. Good only in coaches, on any train. Inquire of J. C. Fulton, Depot Agent; F. A. Lewis, City Agent, 525 Kansas avenue. y 0,000 Yards Wash Lace and Embroidery Dept. Valenciennes Laces edgings insertions to match 3 Cents Yard. and Two special lots of Embroideries they will interest you 7J Cents Yard. 10 Cents Yard. New line Corset Cover Embroid eries to show you today 35 Cents Yard. Two new lines of White Aprons 15 Cents. 19 Cents. Women's White Sunbonnets 19 Cents Each. Children's Wash Hats colors' pink, white, blue 25 Cents Each. WANTED--OVER $1,700. Seml-Centennlal Shortage Is at Last Figured l"p. From the report of the auditing committee of the Semi-Centennial as sociation, which completed its, work Tuesday afternoon, it is shown that the expenditures for the festivities were $1,762.03 in excess of the re ceipts. The total cost of the celebra tion was $5,239.28, while the sums realized from the Parker shows, the concessions and the concert aggre gated $3,477.25. All of the bills have been presented and passed upon and the above figures are official. The merchants of the city sub scribed $2,300 to run the celebration. Of that amount $600 wa,s collected and the remainder pledged to be used if necessary. Consequently there is $1,700 still outstanding and this if paid will just about liquidate the shortage. Difficulty is being experi enced, however, according to Major Anderson, In collecting some of this money, three or four of the mer chants having already refused s point blank to pay their subscriptions. "I do not know what the reason is," said the major, "for I was not with the committee which went out to do the collecting." If the pledges do not make up the deficit then it is up to the committee to institute some method of getting money. It was suggested to have Villie Sells' circus upon its return from the summer season give three or four shows in Topeka and use all the proceeds outside cf what it cost to give the performance. But this scheme is not feasible for the simple reason that this solution of the prob lem has too big a time element In it. The bills of course should be paid now, and that is what the committee intends to do. Major Anderson was unable to say what the association would do in the matter, further than that a meeting would be held shortly at which time the matter would be taken care of. There are several reasons why a new subscription list about the city would not be the wisest course to pursue, and one among these is the fact that just now the Topeka Young Men's Christian association is right in the midst of a campaign to raise $75,000 for its new home, and this will make big demands of the people of the city. "I have not the most remote Idea," said Major Anderson this morning, "as to what plan will be invoked to make up the difference if one still occurs after all the pledge money is collected. That Is up to the commit tee." It was thought by the Semi-Centennial association when the festivities were planned that even the one fourth of the subscriptions 'which were collected could be paid back from the receipts of the week. This would probably have been the case had the weather been at all favorable. The fact of the matter was that only about two entire days were favorable, and even they presented cloudy skies part of the time. There would have been a surplus in the treasury of the association even after all subscrip tions had been paid back if the weather had been fair throughout the six days. The good afternoons and evenings at the Parker shows proved this fact conclusively. Further than that Mr. Parker was so well satisfied even with what he did receive that he made an attempt to cancel his Em poria engagement and stay in Topeka another week. According to the con tract the association received 50 per cent, of the gate receipts, 15 per cent of the sideshow receipts, and 50 per cent, of the concessions. Mr Parker took over $5,000 away as his share and this was practically made in two days and one night. Chicago and Return $20.00 via Santa Fe. Tickets on .sale June 1st to Sept. 30th, final limit returning Oct. 31st. Good via St. Louis in one direction, either going or coming. For full in formation address T. L. King, C. P. T. A., Topeka. Excursion to Kansas City. Santa Fe. Sunday, June 19. Round trip $1.25. Tickets at Rowley Snow's and Santa Fe depot. Train leaves 8-00 a. m. Everybody Invited. Notion Dept. "Peggy from Paris" Bags in black, brown and tan shades, two sizes each 50c and 25c. Carriage Bags fine grade of wal rus leather, braided handle, fitted with card case and coin purse $4.00 values, at $2.50 Crush Leather Belts covered buckle, all colors each 25c "Little Beauty" stray fancy back, each 25c lock Combs Hair Pin Cabinets fitted with assorted hair pins and pin cushion, two sizes, each 5c and 10c "Keep Clean" Hair Brushes $1.00 quality, each 50c Hair Brushes genuine bristles, solid wood back, 50c value each 25c n SI fe '-A v?l '--7-; iP V ft.1 t tail! L'iST r David Overmyer, of Topeka. Chairman of the' Kansas Delegation to the National Democratic Convention, Who Will Support General Miles for President. K Oil T li TOPEKA. Leave items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co., 912 North Kansas ave. D. L. Heaton left today for Auburn. N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gerher of Merl den were in town today shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Schwartz, of 1301 Logan street, are the parents of a daughter, born the 13th. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Colbert of 1219 Western avenue are the parents of a son born this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Heckethorn have returned from a short visit to Mr. Heckethorn's parents at McPherson. The members of the C. E. society of the Congregational church gave a pic nic last evening on the church lawn. Rev. W. B. Hutchinson will be in town Thursday and conduct the prayer meeting at the Baptist church that ev ening. Bennie, the little ion of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Forbes, who has been suffering from inflammatory rheumatism. Is now able to be around. At the meeting tomorrow evening of North Topeka Camp Modern Woodmen, ice cream and cake will be served to those present without charge. Mrs. John M. Bradley and children arrived today from Denver, Col., to vis it her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Sheetz, 1228 Quincy street. Misse? Rebekah and Polly Campbell of Boulder, Col., are the guests of their aunt, Mrs. A. J. Arnold of 927 Jackson street and of their relatives, the Camp bells. Mrs. W. C. Steele of 919 Van Buren street, has returned from Larkin where she has been for the past two months with her sister. Miss Nellie Raker, who has been very ill.' Miss Baker, though somewhat improved, is still ill. 1 Miss Lolah McAfee, Miss Hazel Haynes, Miss Helen Haynes, Mr. Har old Forbes. Mr. Jim McAfee and Mr. Hal Miller spent Sunday at Forest park, Kansas City. They were chaper oned by Mrs. Harry Nichols and Mrs. J. F. McAfee. The Argonauts met last evening at the home of Mrs. Charles Curtis, 905 Van Buren street. The lesson for the evening which was on the writers of the south and west was conducted by Miss Jessie Priddy. The paper for the everting was by Mrs. Curtis on "Ameri can Musicians." Plans for the annual picnic were discussed and it was; decid ed to hold this affair In two weeks at Vinewood. Harmony Rebekah. lodge No. 51 have elected ths following oflicess: Mrs. irics Dn Shirt Waist Suits A special purchase of 168 Shirt Waist Suits is offered to you today for the first time. They range in price from $1.75 to $5.00 each. Seven styles and many colors among them. Hosiery and Underwear An odd lot, 19 11-12 dozen Ladies' low neck sleeveless Vests tape neck and arm extra fine finish .3 for 25c Another lot containing two styles, 66 7-12 dozen Ladies' Vests wide lace yoke, tape neck and arm 2 for 25c Ladies' Vests lace finished neck and arm 2 for 23c Women's lace Lisle Hose... 19c pair Children's lace Lisle Hose.. 19c pair Men's drop-stitch Cotton Hose 10c pair Herbert Green, noble grand; Mrs. Min nie Whitehead, vice grand; Mrs. Kate Diffenderfer, warden; Miss Frances Short, conductor: Mrs. W. A. Wolber ton, right supporter to N. G.; Miss Flora Anderson, left supporter to N. G.; Mrs. Julia Steward, right supporter to V. G. Mrs. Mamie Finch, left supporter to V. G. Mrs. Margaret Young, chap lain; Mrs. Bessie Bartlett, secretary; Mrs. Amestt. treasurer: Miss Shevster, inside guard; George Knowles, outside guard. Yesterday was Flag day. It was also Corpus Christi day, the day when good Catholics fling out their banners, hang their tapestries upon the walls and dis play rose garlands and celebrate wilh music, lights and flowers strewed along the street. And this June 15 is St. Vitus' day and all who will may dance. It is said to be famous for the rain it brings and because it gave name to a peculiar disease in which the patient is said to imitate or follow the actions of cer tain dances at one time celebrating St. Vitus' day. St. Vitus was a Christian martyr under the Roman Emperor Diocletian. The "Men's Baraca club," of the North Topeka Baptist church, met Tuesday evening at the North Topeka Baptist church. Meeting was lively and very Interesting. Subject for the even ing being, "The Russian-Japanese War." led by an excellent paper read by Mr. John Grant and followed by dis cussion, all members of the club taking part. This club is for the literal and spiritual advancement of all men in North Topeka wishing to become mem bers. Come and join us in our next meeting and let us show yo. a good time. Subject for next meeting, June 28, is. "Is it right for the United States to hold the Philippines, or should they be left an independent nation?" Hats at greatly reduced prices Thurs day and Friday at Mrs.. Burgen's, 917 Kansas avenue. In the death of H. W. Cheney, which occurred last night, North Topeka losrts one of its best and ablest citizens. He was one of our modest but most de serving men. Only those who knew him intimately were aware of his real worth. His value as a man, like that of many others was hidden beneath his quiet habits. He was a Christian man. As a citizen he was deeply interested in agricultural and kindred subjects and on these as well as on general top ics he was a careful snd intelligent writer. His papers for the agricultuial press and for stock associations were marked by a wonderful clearness and illustrated by a humor that gave them piquancy and interest. The circum stances surrounding his last illness were most pathetic. He was a sufferer I St I if t II lil'iillr p! Ittll Mere Value Colored Wool Goods. Now is the time to make selections for going-away gowns. We have a number of materials suitable for that shirt waist suit. 45 in. Mistral cloth, that was 75c, for t48c Colors Brown, reseda, olive, navy, tan. 3 8 in. Mohair for 50c Colors Myrtle, navy, brown, tan. 50 in. Mohair, that was 75c for.. 48c Colors Brown and navy. 38 In. Nun's Veiling 50c Shades Navy, brown, champagne. We are showing a good line of Fancy Mohairs, ranging from $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 Navy, old blue, copper, brown, and tan mixtures. Also a full line of Plain and Fancy Voiles, in all desirable shades. Prices from 50c to $1.75 for many weeks, by some supposed to result In part from effects of the flood, which caused his Imprisonment witli others for many days at his home, 1132 Harrison street. During most of his sickness poignancy to his illness was added by the condition of his wife who was unable to render him the least ser vice and is now helpless with a dis ease that may end in her eariy death. Mr. Cheney left no children. The fun eral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his late home and the burial will be in Rochester cemetery. XEAR1XG COMPLETION. Third and Iast Section of the Rapid Transit Tunnel. New York, June 15. The third and last section of the Rapid Transit tun nel under the Harlem river will be completed inside of six weeks. The work is an engineering feat which has attracted much attention. The total length of the tunnel is about 1,500 feet. It consists of two cast iron partial cylinders with a cast iron tjiaphram between them, each cylinder cariying a single track of railway. They were laid under a new system, the first procedure being to dredge a chan nel across the river to a depth of 9 or 10 feet below the elevation of the roof of the finished tunnel, the width of this channel being a little greater than that of the finished tunnel struc ture. After this dredging was comple ted four lines of piles were driven throughout the length of the channel. The upper halves of the two cast iron cylinders were then put together upon a pontoon ajid sunk in place on the tops of the timber side walls. Engineers have examined the tunnel with the view to the possibility of us ing the new system under the river at Ietroit and across the bay to San Francisco and Oakland. IX MEMORY OF HAMILTON. Weehnwken Plans a Patriotic Cele bration on the Fourth. New York. June 15. A movement has been started in Weehawken for a pat riotic demonstration July 9 in com memoration of the one hundredth anni versary of the death of Alexander Hamilton, who was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr. A small marble slab now marks the spot where Hamilton fell. The promoters of the demonstration in tend to inaugurate a movement to re place this slab with a suitable monu ment. ON A LONG CRUISE. The. Taconia Sails In Search of the tioiis Lost Coneinaugh. San Francisco. June 15. The cruisr Tacoma has sailed on a long cruise. Recent orders from Washington direct ed Captain Nicholson to go in search of the missing steamer Conemaugh, and In order to ascertain definitely the fate of the vessel the Tacoma may go as far as the eastern coast of the Uni ted States. The Conemaugh. laden with a full cargo of sugar, sailed from Honolulu last January and after touch ing at Coronel. Chile, 20 days later, was never heard from. It is believed thut she foundered off Cape Horn during a gale. New York and Philadelphia cannot be more pleasantly or conve niently reached than by the Grand Trunk-Lehigh Valley route. Solid through trains, magnificent scenery, all trains run via Niagara Falls. De scriptive literature sent free on ap plication to advertising department Grand Trunk railway system, 135 Adams street, Chicago, Geo. W. Vaux. A. G. P. T. A. Rock Island System. Colorado Flyer for Kansas City leaves Topeka every day at 7:45 a. m.. arrives Kansas City 9:35 a. m., con necting with all trains north, south, and east. Leaves Kansas City 6:30 p. m. arrives Topeka S:20 p. m. Carries dining car in both directions, and is through train without stops at in Central church ladies will have an ic cream social, 1263 Fillmore, Fri day evening from 5:30 till 10 p. m. v

A full line of White and Natural Pongees, 24 to 36 In.. Prices 50c to $1.50 We are agents for Bonnet Taffeta the best in themarket, and very suitable for shirt waist and coat suits. Prices from. .75c to $1.38 We have a few pattern lengths left In Fancy Silks, for shirt waist suits, that s were $1.00 lengths from 12 to 16 yards. Now.... 75c We have a good line of light col ored Homespuns and Sackings for separate skirt. Nothing looks cooler and is more satisfactory for general wear than a skirt of this material and a white shirt waist. Prices range from 75c to $1.50 all 4 8 to 50 Inches wide. I! Shirt Waists S1.50 Each. One of our windows today will show these Waists, and .they seem to us to be the most attractive of any we have seen at anywhere near this price they look like a two fifty Waist, in fact. 9 KANSAS FAIRS IN 1904. Following is a list of fairs to be helj In Kansas in I'M. their dates, locations and secretaries. s reported to the state board of agriculture and compiled Ly Secretary F. D. Coburn: Allen County Agricultural Society J. T. Tredway, secretary. La Harpe; Sept. Barton County Fair Association W. P. Feder, secretary. Great Bend: Sept. 13-1. Hiawatha Fair Association (Brown county Eiliott Irvin, secretary, Hiawa tha Sept. 6-9. Butler County Fair Association H. M. Balch. secretary. El Dorado; Sept. 19-24. Hewins Park and Fair Association Chauta.uo.ua rotintj W. M. Jones, sec retary, Cedar Vale; Sept. 20-22. Clay County Fair Association E. K. Hoopes, secretary. Clay Center; Sept. 6-9. Coffey County Agricultural Fair Associ ation S. D. Weaver., secretary, Burling ton: Sept. 13-16. Cowley County Agricultural and Stock Show Association V. J. Wilson, secre tary. tVinfiel.J: Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. Eastern Cowley 1-alr Association Cow ley county) J. M. Henderson, secretary, Bur.len: Sept. 7-9. Crawford County Agricultural Fair As sociation Frank McKay, secretary, Pitts burg: Sept. 6-9. Kik County Agrlculttiral Fair Associa tion J. F. Deal, secretary, Grenola; Sept. 14-ln. Finney County Agricultural Society A. H. Warner, secretary, Garden City; An;. 24-26. Fnrri County Agricultural Association J. H. Churchill, secretary. Dodge City; Aug. 3") to Sept. 1. Franklin County Agricultural Society Carey M. Porter, secretary, Ottawa; Sept. 6-10. Greenwood County Fair Association C H. Welser. secretary. Eureka; Sept. 13-H. Harvey County Agricultural Society John C. Nicholson, secretary, Newton; Oct. 3-7. Jefferson County Agricultural and Me--chanical Association George A. Patter son, secretary, Oskaloosa; Sept. 6-9. Jewell County Agricultural Association Henry R. Honey, secretary, Mankato; Sept. 6-9. Marshall County Fair Association E. Miller, secretary. Marvpville: Sept. 33-16. Miami County Agricultural and Me chanical Fair Association H. A. Floyd, secr-tarv, Paola Sept. 27-30. Mitchell County Agricultural Associa tion P. G. Cnubbtc. secretary, Beloit. Morris County Kxposilion Company M. F. Armine, secretary. Council Grove. Nemaha County Fair Association W. H. Fitzwater, secretary, Seneca; Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Neosho County Fair Association H. Lodge, secretary. Krie; Sept. 27-. Chanute Fair and Improvement Associ ation (Neosho county A K. Timpane, secretary, Chanute; Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. ess County Agricultural As.'ociatSiin T B. Pemoer, secretary, Ness City; Sept. 2-30. Norton County Agricultural Association L. V. Graham, secretary, Norton; Aug. 20 to Sept. 2. Osage County Fair Association K. T. Price, secretary, Burlingame; Sept. 6-12. Central Kansas Fair Association (Reno county) A. L. Sponsler, secretary, Hutch inson; Sept. lS-24. Hlce Countv Agricultural Fair and Liv Stock Association W. T. Brown, secre tary. Sterling. Itiley County Agricultural Association R. T. Worboys. secretary, R ley; Aug. .11 to Sept. 2. Rooks Cour.tv Fair Association Olmer A'Jams. secretary. Stockton; Sept. 21-23. Southern Kansas Fair and Carnival Association (Sedgwick county H. L. Re slng. secretary, Wichita; Sept. 26 to Oct. I. Kansas State Exposition Lompany (Shawnee cmjnlvl C. H. Samson, secre tary, Topeka: Sept. 12-17. Smith County Fair Association E. S. Rice, secretary. Smith Center: Aug. 23-21;. Stafford Countv Fair Association V,. E Moore, secretary. St. John: Sept. 7-1 Fiedonla Agricultural Association (Wil son county) J. T. Cooper, secretary, Fre Uonia; Aug. 23-26. Through Car Route For Michigan Tourists. Through sleeping ear leaves St. Louis 12:45 noon, daily, on and after June 26, over Vandalia-Pennsylvania Lines via. Richmond and the Grand Rapids Indiana railway "The Fishing Line" for North Michigan summer resorts. Dining car service. Get particulars from A. B. Richie, Traveling Passen ger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. ,or from J. M Chesbrough. Assistant General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Chicago and Return $14.25, Santa Fe. National Republican convention. Tickets on sale June 1 6 to 20, inclu sive; final limit returning. June 29. St. Louis and Return $7.60 Santa Fs. Tickets on sa! every Monday In June, final limit returning seven days. Tickets good in chair cars and conch- 'P T IT1r, r P X. T A T r r m Today

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI WEDNEF5DA 5T EVENING. JUNE 15, 1904 8 EW GAS RATE. r c I i ALL hii r.Ti si O TVT TVTW W v Mil IJLJwl 1 -ii F3 il ii THE TOPEKA CASH DRY GOODS CO. Sjii 4 ISSUE AN ADDRESS. T. M. C. A. Directors Tell Why a Xew Building Is Xecdccl. The total amount now subscribed for the new y. M. C. A. home amounts to ?2S,000. A number of large subscriptions, at least two of $5,000 each, are expected to be ready to be announced at the meeting of the board of Y. M. C. A. directors to night. It is thought that the contri butions by tonight will aggregate at least J30.000. It appears now as if little difficulty would be experienced in raising the money. Among those who are able to give freely a number have an nounced that'they will help, but wish to withhold any definite contribution for several days. The board of directors met. infor mally Tuesday afternoon and pre pared, the following statement to the general public on the efforts being made to secure the building: The association now has 860 mem bers, of whom 710 are young men and 150 are boys under the age of sixteen years. The present rented quarters have been occupied for ten years and have become wholly inadequate and unsuited for the need of the present membership. Practically nothing has been expended for equipment during the past ten years except $500 gen erously donated by the Rev. C. M. Sheldon about four years ago. The floor coverings, bath and toilet rooms with the gymnasium apparatus and other fixtures have done good service, and excellent work has been accom plished with them, but they have now become worn to such an extent that a considerable outlay is imperatively necessary at an early day. With the current expenses aggregating $10,500 annually, a large part of which is for rent and repairs, we are certain that the expenditure of $3,000 that is re quired for present repairs and reno vations would not be justifiable. Of the $10,500 annual expenses the mem bers contribute at least two-thirds, or about $7,000, which is far above the average. The membership is not in creasing, and we cannot hope to reach and hold others under present conditions. It has grown steadily for ten years from about 200 to the pres ent membership of 8ii0. and wmiM continue to grow if we could provide room with even the present inad equate accommodations for them. In a word, the association must either secure larger quarters and better equipment or it will deteriorate in both members and efficiency; it can riot remain stationary. The only sat isfactory solution of the problem is a suitable association building. We unanimously agreed that such a building can and should be erected vithiu the next eighteen months. ine cost, including site, will be about $75,000. This mav seem a lar-e sum to some persons, but the need and opportunity are large, and surely there is enough wealth, Christianity and public spirit in our city to fur nish this sum, which is a permanent not only tor this genera tion, but for others to come. Many other cities of less importance, with a smaller population and wealth, and not nearly so many members in their associations, are investing much more money in this wiy. The annual in terest on $75,000 at 5 per cent is $3,750, which is about one-third of the present current expenses. This sum will be saved every year bv rent and repairs alone, to say nothing of the large net income that will be derived from the dormitories. The universal experience of other associations has been that with a suitable building properly equipped the membership would be doubled within two veara This will undoubtedly be the result in Topeka. To accommodate such a membership, which will, within two years be at least 1,600, will require a building not less than 75x12 5 feet in dimension, four stories high with base ment. Such a building would be as follows: In the basement Bowling alleys, natatorium 25x60. boiler room, locker room, camera club dark room, bicycle room, bath room, wash room and lavatories. First floor Reception hall, secre tary's office, business office, reading room and parlor, gymnasium 40xS0. Second floor Running track of gymnasium, boys' reading and game room, religious work secretary's oilice, auditorium for 500 men. Third floor Educational class This Will Now Keceife Attention of City Council. It Includes a 30-X ear Extension of Franchise. LINCOLN CLOSES A DEAL Nebraska Capital Will Get Gas for $1.20. In Topeka Company Figure at $1.25. Places room, boys' bath room, boys' locker room, working boys' educational class roorns. Fourth floor Dormitories. The dormitories will provide sleep ing quarters and a home for many young men who are separated from home ties, and will prove, as have the dormitories of the Topeka Railroad Y. M. C. A. and of all other associa tions where they are in use, a source of considerable revenue .thus greatly reducing the regular current expenses; being used only by the members the property would not be subject to any tax, and the advantages of having a large number of young men In such close and constant contact with the association are obvious. Another rea son that impels us to this action is thatwe should build beforeground ad vances In price. No site has yet been selected, but several suitable ones are in view at a reasonable valuation. To provide the required amount, we believe, upon a conservative estimate, that the young men who are members will contribute from their small in comes at least $10,000. Property val ued at $5,000 was conveyed to the association for this purpose several years ago, and several public spirited, philanthropic, Christian business men have made subscriptions of $5,000 each, and others are confidently ex pected. If the members contribute $10,000, or one-seventh of the re quired amount, it will be a larger proportion than is usually given by young men in other places. For the most part they are possessed of no property and but small Incomes, which in many cases must be shared with others. The subscriptions are to be made payable in Installments as may be most convenient for the sub scribers, the expectation and desire being that one-fourth will be required September 1, 1904; one-fourth about March 1, 1905; one-fourth about Sep tember 1, 1905, and the balance about January 1, 1906. We are pledged not to let the contract for the building until the amount needed is sub scribed. On behalf of this enterprise we re quest the generous support of every person in the community, without re gard to nationality, creed or religious belief. J. B. LARIMER, President. H. T. CHASE, Vice President. H. S. MORGAN, Treasurer W. B. LAXTZ, Secretary. JOAB MTJLVASE. S. S. OTT. WARREN M. CROSBY. W. C. GARVEY. J. C. SMITH. J. P. DAVIS. RICHARD WILSON. NORMAN PLASS. J. E. NISSLEY. S. G. STEWART. JESSE SHAW. DAVID BOWIE. CHARLES ELDRIDGE. THEY WANT MILES. Montana Officers Will Come for Self Confessed Murderer. ii f I P p 8 1 FA fi LJ jliS fciiiiiiljlMl L uUuuut) At the next meeting of the city council, on July 1, it is expected that the Excelsior Coke and Gas company will come forward with a request for a new 30-year franchise, In exchange for which they offer to reduce the price of gas In Topeka to a flat rate of $1.25 per thousand for both fuel and lighting, and to spend $200,000 in extensions of the gas mains. At present the price of gas is $1.65 for light, from $1.35 to $1.50 for fuel alone, or for fuel and light together. The consumption in Topeka is about 40,000.000 cubic feet a year. The re duction of 32 cents would therefore mean a saving to gas consumers of about $13,000 a year. The plan of the gas company to "gridiron" the city with mains would largely increase consumption, arid with every million feet of increase in consumption the cost of the manufacture of the gas is reduced a fraction of a cent, thus increasing the company's profits.. This promises to be the central topic of discussion in the city council and among the people of Topeka for some months to come, ana it is in teresting to note the deal which has just been closed between the gas com pany at Lincoln, Neb., and the city council at that place. Conditions there seem to be in many respects similar to those in Topeka. The rate in Lincoln has been $1.46 Vs for illuminating gas and $1.25 for fuel gas. The people had been clamoring for dollar gas, just as they have in Topeka. The gas company finally proposed to reduce the rates to a fiat price of $1.25. The council offered to allow the company to con tinue to charge existing rates until October 1. after which the fiat rate should be $1.20. This offer the com pany finally accepted. COST OF MAKING GAS. The lawsuit in which the city is en gaged to enforce a dollar gas ordinance brought out very conflicting statements about the cost of making gas in this city. H. S. Morean. secretary of the rnm- pany, testified that during the year 11500 the cost per 1 000 cubic feet of making gas here was 102.64 cents, and for the first half of 1901 the cost was 100.30 cents. R. C. Johnson, one of the city's expert gas witnesses, testified that with proper facilities the company should make gas here at a cost of 72.90 cents, and with coke at present advanced prices the cost should be 68.45 cents. E. W. Bemis, another expert for the city, testified that the cost here should be 79.05 cents, and with coke at present prices 74.12 cents. All of these figures were on a basis of 40,000,000 production. With an increase of 10,000,000 feet per year the city experts es timate that the cost would be reduced about 5 cents per 1.000. The city claimed that the reason Mor gan's estimate was so high was because he has included in his estimate the fol lowing: 1. An extravagant and unnecessary amount of fuel for the works, due to de fective machinery. 2. An extravagant and unnecessary amount of leakage and condensation, due to faulty methods of manufacture. 3. An extravagant amount under the charge of "maintenance" which should have been charged to capital account. 4. An unnecessary expense in hauling coal by wagon from the cars instead of by a switch track. It was also claimed that by the expen diture of $1,500 the company could install machinery to preserve the ammonia, which would be a valuable by-proluct, reducing the cost of the gas. According to the decision of Special Master Robert J. Brock, appointed by the federal court to take testimony, the city tailed to establish Its case. The special master held that the cost of making gas in Topeka was really considerably more than claimed by the gas company. We did not know where to go or justjvhat to do when we bought the James stock and announced through the dailies we would sell for less than manufacturers' prices. We knew we would do plenty of business, y et j we never dreamed we would be entirely snowed under. People rushed onto us from Oakland to Auburndale, i from South Topeka to North Topeka. We had customers as far west as Russell, Kansas, and as far east as Argentine. We did our best but could not attend to the people s wants as we wished we could. .During this week we have two extra salesmen, and hope to wait on all that will come, and will try to promise prompt delivery.- Remember, if everything is not as represented we will refund the money and come and get any article purchased. Remember this is a spot cash sale. To parties with good credit we will extend time thirty days. Have you done house-cleaning Can't you use some piece of Furniture, Rug, Matting, Carpet or Linoleum Oilcloth If so, take advantage and buy now. T. M. James had one of the largest stocks of the city and mrovuf hirrv Kvn rrhr inrirhiTi ciy m nn rh Combination Bookcases James' price S15.00 Our price SXO.75 James' price 18.00 Our price. James' price 22.00 Our pri. James' price 30.00 Our price. Sideboards Jame3' price $16.00 Our price S 10.68 James' price 20.00 Our price 15.00 James' price ,25.00 Our price... James' price 33.00 Our price 13.75 17.50 22.50 19.50 25.00 Qo-Carts We have a few Go Carts. That we must have room Is sure, and Go-Carts take up too much room. We will sell you one for less than factory prices. Small Go Carts at$2.19 wortli jTV $4.00. Let us show', you prices on Go- Carts. This is the season you can one. the use w ..v..-. A W 1 4 v Kansas City, Mo., June 15. Deer Lodge, Mont., officers have wired Chief Hayes of this city to hold Wil liam Miles, the self-confessed mur derer of John Edwards, a railway brakeman, killed nineteen years ago and say they will send someone to take him to Montana for trial. A man named Murphy is now serving a life sentence for the crime. HE PAINTS VERY WELL. G. 0 0 El I II PobHctv indorsed by the Superintendent of he great PEOPLE'S MISSION, who says it II T CURES .1PERAHCE. People's Mission. Washington. I. C, February 29, 1904. The Orrine Co., Inc., Vashinpton, I. u. Gentlemen It is very prat.ifyintr indeed for me to report to yon that Orrme baa proven to my entire sati-tfactmn that it is a specific for drunkenness. A patumt who had been tinnkms; about a pint of V'hK-key a day lor a creftt many years sras com plete! y cured within teu days from the time he took lhef,r(lose of Orrme, and he i now restored to perfect sohriety. I shall be plad to have yon refer any person to me for a verification of thi a statement. I am convinced Orrme is a cure for that tertbie di eae, druiiiienuesis. Wishing you great succese, 1 am, Yours very trulv, W. C McMICHAEL, Superintendent People's Mission, A SIMPLE HOME TREATMENT! I ner i cure without patient's knnwl rs" ff(1Pei1)ny Orrine No, I; for Tolan- CSOXa 1 tary treatment, buy Orriiie No. 2. CURE EFFECTED OR MONEY RErUNDED. Honk na Prunkpnness (Reafpd) free on request. Orrme mailed (scaled.) on receipt of $i.0O by The Orrine Co., Inc., Washington, D, C. Bald and recommended by SWIFT IIOLLIDAV DRVG CO. Topeka, Kansas, V. Strauss, Who Is Visiting In To peka, Has Creditable Pictures. I-ocal artists and art students are much interested in the work of G. V. Strauss, of Bioomington, 111., who is visiting his Topeka relatives, C. K. Strauss and family of 1020 Polk street. hiiu jir. ana Airs. Louis Strauss of numoon ana Tyler streets, and a num ber of whose paintings in dils are on exhibition at a Kansas avenue art store Mr. Strauss' work is well known in Chicago where he has studied at the Art institute and has been among the it-suiar exniDitors at the annual exhi bitions of the institute since 1S92. Mr. Strauss is strictly an American painter, having studied only in Chicago, New York and Boston and never abroad. His work shown here includes several still life pieces, marines and landscapes. One of the most pretentious of the lat ter, "Morning on the Creek," is excep tionally well handled. He has also "a study of Mount Washington, and a moonlight effect at sea which is the artist's favorite of the pictures on ex hibition here. Mr. Strauss is a young man in the neighborhood of his thir tieth birthday. Besides being a paint er he is a violinist of rare skill and talent. He will probably remain in Kansas for another month and do some studies of Kansas scenes. The Sunday Ball Petitions. The absence of a number of the directors of the Topeka Baseball asso ciation from the city caused a post ponement of the meeting to have been held last night. Action was to have been taken upon the petitions for Sunday baseball. A. S. Hulit pre sented the signatures of 1,348 people, all of whom wanted Sunday ball. Cut it Short Cheap Kates tor Vacation Trips, From Kansas City via Chicago Great Western railway, $15.00 to St. Paul or Minneapolis, $19.00 to Duluth, Superior, Ashland or Baylield. Equally lot rates to summer resorts In Minnesota and Michigan. Tickets on sale every day to September 30th. Good to re turn until October 31st. For further information apply to any Great West ern agent or J. P. Elmer, G. P. A. Chicago. IU. Excursion to Kansas City, Santa Fe. Sunday, June 19. Round trip $1.25. Tickets at. Rowley Snow's and Santa Fe depot. Train leaves 8:00 a. m. Everybody invited. for 10 days and find out For Sure if coffee is really causing your trouble. You say "nonsense, there's old Bill Jones drank coffee for 50 years Never mind him, remem ber you're not Bill Jones Lounges We bought fifty in the James stock and have sold 39 of them and have 11 left we will sell for le3S than factory prices. Don't buy a lounge until you have our prices. We will save you just one-third over our competitors. We are going to save you some money on Iron Beds. James' price $3.00 Our price SI. 69 James' price 4.25 Our price 2,75 James' price 6.00 Our price 3.98 James' price 10.00 Our price 6.50 We have 11 beds. We are going to close them. Iron Beds any color, with spring and mattress complete, only $4.79. No two beds to one customer. We are overloaded in Chairs and will make you prices. High back Dining Chairs, solid oak continuous post. A good chair only 73c. Rocker to match, $1.15. We have 50 nice Rcckers. James price $4, our price $2.25. Can't you use one We are going to make prices this week on Carpets that will make our carpet competitors sick, yet they cannot blame us as we bought them at two-thirds what they cost Mr. James and we are going to give them to you the same way. Half Wool Carpets, James' price 50c. Our price 34 C Cotton Chains, James' prjee 65c. Our price 49c All wool the very best extra super, James' price 75c. Our price 55c Best velvet, no border, James' price $1. 15. Our price T9c James' price $1.35. Our price 95c See Them in Our South Window Extension Tables We bought 36 extension Tables in the Jamea stock and will sell them to you for less than factory prices James' price $5.50 Ours $3.29 James' price 811.00.. Ours $7.65 James' price 8.00 Ours 5.25 James' price 20.00..., Ours 12.50 Mattings Nice cool floor coverings. We bought 50 rolls from James. WTe will make you One-Third Off on mattings. Remember we Pay Freight to any point in Kansas over $5.00. Independent 'Phone 353. SFIiii 533 Kansas Avenue. Later in the week a meeting will he held at which time some definite action will be taken upon these peti tions. There were several other im portant matters up for settlement. It s urged that all of the directors oe at the next meeting, which will prob ably be held on Friday night. KANSAS OIL FIGURES. Production for the Month of Was 383,011.36 Barrels. May WASHBl'RX CONCERT. Event Was a Memorable One in Kan sas Musical Circles. You're You and want to be well, and if you'll cut out the drug coffee for 10 days and use well boiled PQSTUM in it's place, our word for it you will reap a great reward. There's a Reason Get the little book, "The Road to Wellville" in each pkg. Chanute, Kan., June 15. For the month of May according- to the state ment of the Standard Oil company, just issued, there was transported through the lines of the Standard 383. 614.36 barrels of oil and of this amount 97,922.35 barrels came from the station at Chanute. the rest com ing from the country around Xeode sha and the Indian Territory. This is the largest amount of oil which has been credited to a single state for a single month. It means a daily average of more than 14.000 barrels, in fact it is nearly 15,000 bar rels per day. For the month of May there were brought in 2 55 wells, making the number of producing wells in this district 2,995 and since the statement was issued sixteen more wells have been shot which brings the total of producing wells now in to more than 3.000 and this number is being in creased at the rate of 10 per day. The ratio of dry holes to the number of wells drilled as shown by the pipe line statement for May is as one to twenty. This is the highest average of producers to the number of holes drilled of any oil field in the history of the business. The figures show that Kansas has more wells producing oil than any state in the union. The daily output of Kansas is now larger than the daily output of Pennsylvania. And less than two years ac;o Kansas was absolutely at the bottom of the list of oil producing strifes. Last loss bv the flood which lias just pasea was in the shutting down of the plants for davs and thus shutting off the pro duction. This will have some bearing on the figures of the June production, hut the number of new wells will more than counterbalance tho flood effects. The limits of the proven field have hp verv widolv extended (Turing the past three" weeks. The bringing of some wells in Wilson eountv In territory Here tofore considered good for gas has in creased activity in leases in that localtty. The eastern limits of the field a.re bem? steadilv widened. As a general proiio- .itiAn it isj nnlv iiorr-Ksarv to Sink a nit in eertain narts of the Chanute terri tory to get oil. There are some sections o-Hnr-o si rtrv hole Tvas never heard of. Leases on such land are worth little for- North as far as Paola the line of pro ducing wells runs and south into the In Ain rrtimtrv Fnr more than a hundred miles the oil bearing sand runs north and south and in some places it runs east and west for a distance of more than 40 miles. Decidedly the best concert of the sea son was that which heralded the com mencement week at Washburn Monday evening. At no time this year has the strength of the faculty of the music de partment of the school of fine arts been more 4n evidence. Mr. Klingenberg's playing of the Twelfth Rhapsodie by Liszt placed him at once in the leiui of all pi anists who have made Topeka the scene of their activities. In response to an en thusiastic encore, he gave a Norwegian march. Mr. Wylie even excelled his fine work at the choral society concert last winter in his playing of the Mendelssohn con certo and brought the concert to a fine climax with this closing number. Mrs. Parkhurst sang beautifully the aria from the C'ueen of Shena. There were also several numbers by members of the eraduating class. Mrs. Eli O. Foster. Miss Morton, Mrs. Wright and Miss Bishop, in which they all ex- e..lleil eaeh one receiving encores from an audience which packed the house and crowded the corridors. The following is the programme: Sonata in G, for piano and violin Intn A lleE-ro Andante con- moto Presto Grieg Mr. Klineenbere- and Mr. ylie. Song for soprano "Springtime" Torrey Mrs. E. G. Foster. "Spring's Awakening" Buck Songs for contralto "Shadows" Bond Miss Florence E. Morton. a Sharp Minor Nocturne Chopin Polonaise No. 12 McDowell Miss Rowena Bishop. Song from Mtgnon "Dost thou, know that sweet land" Thomas Mrs. J. M. Wright. Rhapsodie No. 12 Liszt Mr. Klingenberg. Aria from Queen of Sheba "More re gal in his low estate" Gounod Concerto for violin Andante and Fi nalQ ....Mendelssona Mr. Wylie. B...........:. Cirolifelwelw For the ToarUt who desire to unite rallgai UBIIIW j pleasure with comfort t moderate cost STEAMSHIP For those Seeking Health in the balmy For the Business Man to build op his shattered nerves. Thre safline- each week between Chicago, Franklort.Northpon, Char ievoii. Hetosaey, naroor springs ana Mackinac Island, conncctir.tr for Detroit, Buffalo, etc Booklet Frae. JOS. BEROLZHEIM. Q. P. A. Chicago Al ATJ1 N Mill ZZZZSv inlte l I VI ALWAYS ON TIME THE STRUGGLES OF WASIIBURX. Cliarlcs A. Greenlees Talks of Them in His Alumni Address. ItEI, WHITE AND BLCE. Suggestion for Decorations in County Superintendent's Ofliee. Rooms for Parker at St. Iouis. New York, June 15. It is reported in political circles here, says the Times, that a suite of rooms has been engaged at a leading St. Louis hotel for Chief Judge Alton B. Par ker during the Democratic national convention. The report that he will go to St. Louis is not confirmed, how ever, and his friends discredit the story. Rnilding for Y. 31. C. A. at Sapulpa. Work began yesterday on a $10,000 railroad Y. M. C. A. building at Sapul pa, I. T. The building is being erected jointly by the Frisco system and the Y. M. C. A. It will be the first in th territory. The county commissioners have de cided that the three rooms occupied by County Superintendent of Schools Silas F. Wright, in the court house, shall be decorated and the board and the super intendent might be pleased to receive suggestions as to the proper colors and most suitable decorations. It has been suggested that one room might be painted red, another one white and another one blue and that the border around the top of the walls of the first might be numerals, digits, addition marks, subtraction signs and examples of problems in square root and that the second room might be bordered with pictures of Columbus landing, the march of Lewis and Clark, DeSoto on the Dig river, eic. xue cuS gestion for the border of the third room is quotations from the first readers on up from "The cat. see the cat" to "Marcos Bozzaris." Any other sugges tions can be sent to the county commis sioners. Rock Island Rates to St. Louis. The Rock Island System, the World's Fair line, has made the following round trip rates to St. Louis: $11.40, limited for return 15 days; $12.70, limited for return 60 days; $15.20, limited for re turn Dee. lath. Tickets on sale daily for further information see A. W. Lacey T. A., North Topeka; A. M. Fuller, C. P. A., Rock Island depot. Excursion to Kansas City, Santa Fe. Sunday, June 19. Round trip $1.25. Tickets at Rowley Snow's and Santa Fe depot. Train leaves 8:00 a m. Everybody invited. Charles A. Greenlees, a graduate of Washburn college in the class of 18S6, and now principal of Jennings acad emy and pastor of the Congregational church at Jennings, O. T., delivered the annual address before the Alumni association of Washburn college Tues day evening. A large number of the old students of the college assembled in the chapel to listen to Mr. Green lees' able address. Music was furnished by Miss Mary Harrison, one of the instructors in the Washburn musical department, and a graduate of the musical department of the college, and by Mr. E. X. Strong of Kansas City. Mr. Strong sang two selections, and encores. He is the tenor soloist in Dr. Quayle's church at Kansas City, and is one of the best tenors ever produced by Washburn. While living in Topeka, he took a prominent part in all the local musical events. Mr. Strong is now resident salesman for the Colum bus Buggy company at Kansas City. Mr. Greenlees came to Topeka with his wife to attend the commencement exercises. His address last night was full of interesting reminiscences of old Washburn days. He selected for his subject, "Ad Astra Per Aspera," and told of the struggles of Washburn in the old days to overcome the difficul ties which lay in the path of Its pres ent prominence and success. He paid a beautiful tribute to the late Peter Mc Vicar, who was president of the college while Mr. Greenlees attended school there. He prophesied a great future for the college and congratu lated President Plass on the success of his work as president of the college. After the address, the old students held an informal reunion in the chap el, after which the observatory was opened for the inspection of visitors. Cures Old Sores. Westmoreland. Kan., May 5. 1902. P.ril lar3 Snow Liniment Co.: V our Snow Lin imenl cured an old sore on the side of mv Chin that was supposed to be a can cer The sore was stubborn and would not vield to treatment until I trld Snow I iniment, which did the work in short or der Mv sister. Mrs. Sophia J. Carson. All"-nsville, Miffin Co.. i'a,, has a sola and mistrusts that it is a cancer. 11e,ie send her a Sue bottle. At Rowley Ah Snow's and W. S. Miller's. OA.STOZIIA. I'M Kind Yds Have hmn WHISKEYS craving cured by a horough and selen itic course of med ication. Dr. Keeley's gold remedies employed exclusively. One of the largest and best appointed Keeley institutes in the world. The Keeley Institute 716 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Mo. DR. ADAM RUP1N, SR. GERMAN PHYSICIAN 106 E. 6th St., Upstairs. 18 years in present location. SPECIALTY CUR1NQ DROPSY. Long Distance Telephones Are used exclusively on me tallic line. These insure the users of the Five Cents a Day Tele phone ood service. Missouri Kansas Teis Cx "Phous 9)) OHZA. Tf. Kiwi VJi HavMfwavs Bossi Bears tbe Signature of Bears the Eiiraatare a i" o x. x jSk. m T! Kind Yen Have Aiwan EcrM Signature of POLICE COURT SOTES. Three alleged joints were raided by tha police last evening and arrests were made according to the warrants. John Pears, wno runs a '"place" at 218 North Kansas avenue, did not have any liquor in sight. but the police took a look around and found a bottle In the pocket of Pears' coat, which hung in an ad joining room. Therefore Pears was ar rested. At Hutch Cave's place, at 81? North Kansas avenue, a. few bottles of beer were found in an lee chest so Cave was taken in. loiter. Harve Wheeler s place, J 14 West Norris street, vas raided and a few cold ones discovered. John Jeanett and Sherman Burns, aileged bar tenders were arrested, and this mornin? when heeler, who was out on a fishin trip when the raid was made, came ove? to furnish bond for his assistants, he was also booked. Sergeant Christian Christensen of Troop C. Fourth cavalry, called at tha police station yesterday afternoon and took charge of Henry Garrison, a de serter, who was picked up by the police In North Topeka. Harrison savs he was off for a furlough, but the sergeant says he was not. Rock Island Excursion to St. Joe, Mo. Special train via Rock Island System, Sunday, June 19. Leave Topeka 8. S3 a. m., returning, leave St. Joe 9 p. m. Round trip rate only J1.M. Splendid afternoon and evening programme at Lake Contrary park. Get your ticket at Democratic Flambeau club head quarters, 232 Kansas avenue, or fro to members of the Flambeau clula. Excursion to Kansas City, Santa Fm. Sunday, June 19. P.ound trip tl.ta. Tickets at Rowley Snow's s-n J Santa Fe depot. Train leaves :09 a. m. Everybody invited.

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XOfEEJV STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENIXG. JUXE 15, 1904. 9 4 l WEDNESDAY, j THURSDAY and FRIDAY We will have a special line of 4)2.00 on TRIMMED Untrimmed Hats at SOc MRS. ETTA LACEY, Manager. Ind. Phone 1259. The marriaee of Miss Winifred Van flerpool and Mr. Harry L. Miller will be celebrated tonight at the residence of the foi-mer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. harles L. Vanderpool, 623 Buchanan f treet. The ceremony will take place at half after 8 o'clock and will be per formed by the Rev. J. IT. Hill of the Kansas State Normal school at Empor ia, and will be preceded by a son?, Thine For Life." by Miss Effie Neil, -liss Mary. Harrison will play Miss Neil's accompaniment and will then Five her place at the piano to Mrs. 4 'harles Stark of Terry, who will play the wedding marches. The house will be decorated in daisies and asparagus ferns throughout except in the dining loom where brides' roses and maiden h4r fern will continue the color scheme. Jliss Vanderpool will wear a. gown of white Persian lawn and will carry bride'H roses. She will be unattended. Seventy-five guests, relatives and inti mate friends, have been asked to the wedding: and the reception which will follow and among them are these from out of town: Mrs. Charlie Stark, Perry, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Miller, Misses Lona, Stella and Zoe Miller. Mr. Howard Mil ler and Mr. Don Miller of Perrv. Mr. find Mrs. F. O. Keir and Mrs. P. M. Haas of Holton and Miss Susie Guild of Sabetha. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderpool will be assisted in receiving and enter taining by Mrs. W. C. Hamilton. Mrs. A. H. Purdy, Mrs. Lutie Embleton.Miss Mary Harrison. Miss Marie Vander pool. Miss Hazel Criswell, Miss Helen Tilottson and Miss Zella Zellers. A house Is being built for Mr. and Mrs. Miller at Third and Woodlawn avenues, I'oUvin, sr.id will be ready this fall but they will be at home meanwhile with the Vanderpools at 25 Buchanan Ftreet. Mrs. Sutherland gave a luncheon at her house on Monroe street today for Mrs. Charles V. Kouns and Mrs. W. L. Ireeii of Salt Lake City. The table was decorated with roses and pen and ink name cards marked places for No Extortion in St. Louis. Liberal Accommodations at Moderate Kate Assured by the Admin istration. The manag-ement of the St. Louis World's fair is determined that visit ors to the great exposition shall enjoy ample accommodations at reasonable rates, hence under its auspices an enormous hotel called The Inside Inn lias been erected inside the grounds of the exposition. This splendid hostelry is three Ptoiies high. 400 feet wide and 800 feet long. It contains spacious par lors, reading rooms and reception rooms. Its dining room and restaur ant seats 2.500 people at a time and it contains 2,257 sleeping apartments. All visitors to this hotel enjoy the same service and the same excellent table: the range of prices being deter mined simply by the location and size of the rooms. The hotel is run on both the European and American plans and rates vary from $1.50 to $5.50 per day, European, and from $3.00 to $7.00, American, including admission. The Inside Inn is under the person si supervision and management of Mr K. M. Statler, the well known res tauranteur of Buffalo, which fact alone guarantees the high quality of the cuisine and service. The comfort and convenience thus afforded visitors in not having to go outside the grounds or of incurring the trouble and crushing of street cars and suburban railway service cannot be overestimated. Once a visitor is registered at The Inside Inn no fur ther admission fee to the exposition is charged, and after a tiring morning or afternoon one can readily return to their room, wash and rest Up, re fresh themselves with a first class meal and then turn out and enjoy the pleasures of the evening: in the ex position grounds. The enormous capacity of The In :de Inn assures good accommodations r all, no matter when or in what numbers they come but those who prefer to reserve their rooms in ad vance can do so now. Full details of rates and reserva tions can be had by sending a postal card to The Inside Inn, care of Ad ministration Building, World's Fair Grounds. St. Louis. id S3. HAT 603 KANSAS AVE. Mrs. Kouns. Mrs. Green. Mrs. Margaret Wiggin, Mrs. Eagle, Mrs. Patrick Walsh. Mrs. J. H. Stuart, Mrs. J. P. Rowley. Mrs. F. M. Conwell, Mrs. Geo. Anderson and Mrs. Will Connors. Miss Ethel Everingham will be the hostess at a party at her home on Western avenue Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Alden's guests at an informal evening at cards Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mead of Pe oria, Hi., Mrs. Franklin Metzler of Col orado Springs, Mr. and Mrs. David Norton, Mrs. Charles L. Short, Mrs. Harry Williams and Mr. Walter Smith. Mr. Walter Smith. Mr. Will Stewart, Mr. Harold Copeland, Mr. Roy Stewart, Mr. Ralph Parr of Concordia, Mr. Al fred Quinton and Mr. Harlow Hurley went to Maple Hill today to camp for a week. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. McFar land, who will soon leave Topeka for a permanent residence in New York city, were at home to their friends Tuesday afternoon and evening at the Parsonage at 500 Topeka avenue. The reception was perfectly informal but was attend ed by a very large number of Dr. 11c Farland's parishioners and friends out side the church. Mrs. Albrecht Marburg entertained Tuesday afternoon in celebration o the twelfth birthday anniversary of her niece, Harriet Jetmoro of New York city. She was assisted by Miss Brown of Citronelle. Alabama, Miss Wilhelmlne Marburg and Miss Margaret Jetmore. The guests were Helen Louise Crosby, Mildred Morton, Helen Stevenson. Mary Weightman, Henrietta, Maty and Jane Alexander, Mary MacLennan, Marian and Grace Dana, Mai lan Wear, Louise Heath, Ruth Amelia Brown, Mary Virginia Thomas, Clyde Bone brake, Emma, May, Ruth and William Tomlir.son, Berry Morgan. Helen Knox, Cynthia Monroe, Josephine Norton and Annabel Garvey. Miss Geneva Henderson is giving an informal afternoon at her home on Harrison street for Miss Lois Cook of Kansas City to meet whom she has asked Miss Esther Rauch, Miss Nellie Raster, Miss Pearl Givens, Miss Wini fred Hadley, Miss Sara Stagg, Miss Phil Reed. Miss Julia Whitney. Miss Caro line Dickey, Miss Alice Willard, -Miss Ethel Kingsley, Miss Margaret Betzer, and Miss Guenn Godard. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Eckert entertain ed the Saturday Night club at their house on Quincy street Tuesday even ing. Mrs. L. R. Lane and Mrs. O. B. Mar tin are giving a large thimble party today at the home of the former, 1271 Western avenue. The house is decora ted in daisies and asparagus fern. Some guessing contests in which prizes are to be given are diversions of the after noon beside the usual "gossip" and needlework. Mrs Charles Wolff entertained a small company informally Tuesday ev ening for her mother, Mrs. Stender, who leaves Thursday to spend the sum mer in Cleveland, O. A pretty wedding solomnized this morning at the Church of the Assumption was that of Miss Helen Bernard and Mr. Matthew Patt, both of St. Joseph. The Rev. Father Harrigan was the officiating clergyman and the attendants were the bride's sister, Mrs. E. C. Cummings and Mr. Cummings of 1111 Van Buren street at whose house a wedding breakfast was served imme diately after the wedding. The bride's gown was of white dimity combined with val lace and prettily fashioned and she wore a white chiffon hat and carried bride's roses. Mrs. Cummings, matron of honor, wore white Persian lawn trimmed with chiffon and a white hat. Mr. and Mrs. Patt will take a wedding journey to the St. Louis expo sition and will be at home after July 1 at St. Joseph, 621 North Third street. Misses Dot Eppmyer and Vera Eby will entertain the J. J. club tonight at their home at Fifth and Lane streets complimentary to Miss Zilla Mileham, who leaves Sunday for England. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith will leave Thursday for Chicago to at tend the Derby. Mrs. Holcomb of Garden City is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Henry Free man Mason. Mrs. Chester Burns Reed went to Kansas City this morning to spend the day and goes on from' there to Fort Scott where Dr. Reed will join her to morrow to stay over Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Willis Coston. Miss Helen Smith went to Kansas City today to visit her sister, Mrs. Eu gene Sallee. Miss Louise Kellam is in Leaven worth to spend the remainder of the week with Mrs. D. R. Phillips. She took her degree at Washburn this morning and went to Leavenworth this afternoon Mrs. William Musick of New York city who has been visiting in Marion will stop off here on her way home to visit Mr .and Mrs. A. B. Jetmore and i Harriett Jetmore of New York who Is visiting them will return home with her. Miss Lucy Wright of Lawrence is the guest of Miss Josephine Keizer. She is here for the Owl sorority dance to night. Mrs. L. A. Sharrard and Mrs. W. A. Gardiner of Meriden are shopping in town today. Miss Hazel Mulvane and Miss Ethel Morton will leave Thursday for Arling ton, Colorado, to spend several weeks on the Mulvane ranch. Mrs. Franklin A. Lewis is in Law rence the guest of Mrs. Ross Brodhead for a few days. Mrs. H. A. Perry and her children left today for Chicago to visit Mrs. I. B. Snow for a few days and go on from there to their summer home on the Massachusetts coast. Mr. C. W. Kouns and his children left today for St. Louis to visit Mrs. L. L. Jester of Tyler, Texas, who has taken a house there for a time, on their way to their future home in Chicago. Mrs. Kouns will visit in Texas before join ing them in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Mason of Pueblo, Colorado, have returned from St. Louis and are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davis, Seventh street west, for a few days. Mrs. Hugh McPhee and Mrs. Bertram Payne of the Virginia have returned from a visit to the latter's people in Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Will Trautman will leave soon for Las Vegas. New Mexico, to visit relatives for a fortnight. Mrs. J. B. Furry and her daughter Anna who have been with Judge Furry in Albuquerque for a time will return to Topeka the last of the week. Dr. G. J. Mulvane will leave Sunday for Arlington, Colorado, to spend a week with his son. Mr. Paul Mulvane. Miss Ethel Griffith of South McAles ter, I. T., Miss Marsh of Anthony, the Misses Rogers of Abilene, the Misses Scott of Las Animas, Colorado, and the Misses Winne and Hoadley of Manhattan, the Bethany girls who re turned Tuesday from the St. Louis ex position with Miss Hambleton and Miss Whltton, left for their homes today. Miss Christine Patt and Miss Isabel Bernard of St. Joseph were in town today for the marriage of Miss Helen Bernard and Mr. Matthew Patt which was celebrated at the Church of the Assumption this morning. The Taka Art Embroidery club will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. J. R. Farris. 104 8 Morris avenue. General and Mrs. Wilder S. Metealf will leave Sunday for Cleveland, O., for a short visit. Mrs. Myrtle Moore Burkhalter and her daughter Elizabeth and Miss Ann Shreve of White Cloud have been visiting their aunt. Mrs. A. F. Tennant on Tyler street, for the past week. Miss Shreve will return home Friday and Mrs. Burkhalter will be the guest of Mrs. Robert Merrick next week. Both are former Washburn students. Mrs. G. W. Hunt is in Lawrence for the meeting of the Congregational as sociation of the state. Misses Ruby and Pearl Grimes will leave tonight to visit the St. Louis ex position. Mr. Solon Summerfield of New York city is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. M. Hamilton. Mrs. Harry Williams and her daugh ter Marian will go to Chicago next week to visit the former's sister, Mrs. Roger Van Hook. Miss Mary Frost, Miss Tharp and Miss Anna Hagar started today for a California trip of several weeks. Mrs. Frank W. Thomas and her son. Kit, left today for St. Louis to visit the exposition for a week. Mrs. John Lawrence Work of Meri den was the guest of her parents. Judge and Mrs. Abram Bergen, Monday. Mr. Jean Rogers has returned from a month's visit to an uncle in St. Louis. Miss Ethel Kingsley is in St. Louis. Mr. Luther Nellis is visiting the St. Louis exposition. Mrs. W C. N. Garvey and Miss Amelia Garvey will leave about the first of July for Pittsburg and other Pennsylvania cities, the former to spend about six weeks and the latter to re main indefinitely. Miss Gertrude Reed will be home from the Ohio Wresleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, for the summer next week. Mr. Otis Benton of Oberlin is the guest of her sister, Mrs. L. A. Case. Mrs. W. G. Dickie is visiting in De Soto while Mr. Dickie is in Minnesota on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wolf are in St. Louis visiting the exposition this week. Miss Hattie Madden returned to her home in Emporia Tuesday after a short visit to Miss Margaret Garvey. Miss Gertrude McClintock and Miss Margaret Stone of Kansas City expect to go to Junction City Saturday to visit Miss Love Rockwell. Miss Irene Jerrue of Vera is the guest of Miss Cora Goddard in Potwin. Mrs. WTilliam Kitchell left Tuesday for Chicago to Join Mr. Kitchell and the children who have been "doing" the exposition at St. Louis and accom pany them to Bear Lake, Wisconsin, for a summer outing. Miss Blanch Price who is in Topeka temporarily at 1300 Tenth avenue west is spending a few days at her home in Concordia. Mrs. E. J. Cocker of Brookfield, Mis souri, is the guest of Mrs. L. R. Lane, 1274 Western avenue. Miss Giaeomine of Omaha and Miss McCredie of Chicago who have been guests of Mrs. Alfred Scott left for their home Tuesday. Mrs. H. O. Garvey and her children, Willis and Annabel, are in Burlingame today for the annual picnic of the Osage County Federation of Women's clubs. Mrs. W. K. Etter left Tuesday for Las Vegas, New Mexico, to visit rela tives for a month. Mrs. J. W. Criswell and her daugh ters, Hazel and Esther, have returned from a visit to Burlington, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bennett of Pot win left Tuesday for St. Louis to see the exposition, after which they will visit in Illinois and Wisconsin. Miss Libbie Hill has gone to Colum bus, O., and Washington, D. C. Mrs. J. W. Dixon entertained Mon day afternoon for her daughter Gretchen, it being her thirteenth birthday. The rooms were decorated with roses, daisies and potted plants. Those who enjoyed the afternoon were Mrs. Finkstaff nd Audrey, Mrs. Saddlemire and Hazel, Mrs. W. G. Tandy and Kittie, Mrs. George E. Dougherty and Gladys, Mrs. E. F. Hef lick and Mildred, Mrs. Nonken. Mabel and Myrtle, Mrs. J. A. Adell and Era, Mrs. Pierce and Carrie. Mrs .Arthur Majors and Dorothy, Mrs. Newton and Mary, Eugenia and Esther Grote wohl, Ruuth and Beth Sutton, Bessie Dixon. It was the thirteenth day of the month, Gretchen's thirteenth birthday, and thirteen persons were at the table. The afternoon was spent in games on the lawn and a peanut hunt in the house. Era Adel! won first prize, a vase, for the largest find, and Audrey Pinkstaff the consolation prize, a doll. Rock Island System Best Line to St. Louis. Through standard and tourist sleep ers, chair cars and coaches through to St. Louis without change. Leaves To peka daily 4:00 p. m., arriving at World's fair main entrance at 7:30 a. m., St. Louis Union station 7:45 a. m. For tickets, reservations and all other Information see Rock Island agents. lifter Pl'LL AN A. P. T. Call Box or call either tel ephone No. 51 and have your Want Ads brought to the State Journal office by free messenger ser vice. Cost of classified ads 5 cents per line of six words to the line and every fraction thereof. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATBJ senator from tno Seventeenth district. 117th), nubject to the decision of the qual ified electors In Shawnee county In No vember, C. P. BOLMAa RFAL EsJATJRAjFERS I. T. Graham and husband to P. Schoenfold, part of lot HS Quincy street. First ward $1,150 L. M. Johnson and husband to Kate Walsh, lots 138, HO, 142 and 144 Clay street 1,700 M. McLaughlin to Mary E. Casev, lot 133 and north half of lot 135 Taylor street 1.S0O C. A. Magaw. et al., to M. L. Bliss, lot 327 Topeka avenue 2,300 Tax deeds to S. 11. Friend lot 41 Polk street. A. B. Poole and wife to If, H. Wol cott. lot 537 and north half of lot 339 Taylor street, Ott TewKs bury's addition 1 WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Woman for housework; must have references. Ilu3 Quincy st. WANTED Experienced dining room girl and girl for general housework. 122 W. 6th St., Topeka hotel. WANTED Good girl for cook. small fam ily, no washing. Call immediately at 1027 Van Burcn st. WANTED Dressmaking apprentice 719 Tyler st. WANTED At once, girl for general housework, good wages. 619 Lane st. WANTED A girl for general housework from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. 912 W. 8th st. WANTED Competent girl for general housework. 2 in familv: references re quired. Mrs. H. L. F. Hillycr, 815 Fill more st. WANTED JIALE HELP. MOLER barber college. St. Louis, wants men to learn barber trade, few weeks completes; can nearly earn expenses be fore finishing if desired: tools and board included, $12 to $15 weekly paid gradu ates. .That beats hard work. A GOOD position is always open to a competent man; his difficulty is to find it; we have openings and receive daily calls for secretaries and treasurers ot business houses, superintendents, mana gers, engineers, 'expert bookkeepers, trav eling salesmen, executive, clerical and technical positions of all kinds, paying from $1,000 to $10.00 a year. Write for plan and booklet. Hapgood (.Inc.), suite 17, Chemical bldg. Stv.Lrtn.! Offices New York, Chicago and 12 other cities. ABLE bodied unmarried men between ages 21 and 35, citizens o United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English. For information apply to recruiting officer, 101 Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. WANTED A first class barber. T. E. Sheard, 635 Kansas ave. WANTED 10 gentlemen to room and board at The Star restaurant. 10S E. 7th. WANTED Experienced barber. steady job. C. C. Kepple. Burlington. Kan. ANY intelligent person may earn $50 to $100 monthly corresponding for newspa pers. $5 a column for work in spare time; no canvassing. Send for particulars. Northern Press Syndicate, room 24, Lock port, N. Y. WANTED A competent boy for general housework. 315 W. 10th ave. WANTED SITUATIONS. WANTED Expert young lady stenog rapher desires position; best of refer ences. H. L., care Journal. WANTED Job by all round baker, coun try town preferred. 15 years' experi ence: strictly sober. Address H. B., care Journal. WHEN you want to hire a man or boy, call up Y. M. C. A. telephone 311. We hav a list ot men and confidential ref erences concerning them. Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau. 117 E. 8th St. WANTED SALESMEN. WANTED Salesmen. Pay weekiy. Work the year round. Outfit free. Lawrenco Nursery Co., Lawrence, Kaa. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Room and board private fam ily for man and wife, girl 10 years old, boy 5. ground floor rooms preferred, for 2 months. Address by letter only, giving price and location. C. S. Collier, caro State Journal. WANTED To exchange a heavy mare for a lighter horse, to be used in a de livery wagon. Inquire 611 Quincy. DRESSMAKING, first class work, moder ate prices. Miss Taylor, 601 Topeka ave. WANTED To hire a horse with privilege of buying later. Apply Home bakery, 6th and Polk. WANTED Horses or cows to pasture.2039 Van Buren st. WANTED Collections for business firms solicited, have experience. Addres3 W. A. S., 318 Topeka ave. WANTED Fine piano and organ repair ing. Geo. D. Butts, SCI E. 6th St. WANTED To buv a good team, weight not less than 1,200 each. Call 227 Klein. WANTED To buy a job printing plant: must be in first class condition and cheap. Address Job Printer care Journal. BUY gentlemen's good clothes, pay high est price. Fleaso drop me a card. M. Manson, 105 W. 5th st. WA NTED Horses to clip. 115 W. 5th at. 'Phone 488. Arthur Massev. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. The World's Fair Line. Seven daily trains between Kansas City and St. Louis which leave Kan sas City 6:55, 8:00, 10:10 a. m. and 1:10, 9:15, 11:00 p. m. and 12:05 mid night. Ask for your ticket via this line from Kansas City. If you miss one train, you will not have long to wait for another. 4jyJD Sim -W I FOR w 1 WJITS BUSINESS CHANCES. WE CAN seii your real estate or business no matter where located. If you desire a quick sale, send us description and price. N. B. Johnson Realty Co., 506 C, Bank Commerce bldg., Kansas City, Mo. FOB RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT 5 room house 630 Branner st. Inquire evenings at this number. FOR RENT House with small stable, near Santa Fe shops, high ground. R. D. Blaine, 525 Kansas ave, Ind. 'phone 9103. FOR RENT 6 room house 1230 Clay St., water, bath, Botn 'phones 16. rORENT ROOJtfS FOR RENT A suite of unfurnished and 1 furnished room. 5u8 Harrison st. FOR RENT One bed room and a suite of rooms, furnished or unfurnished, all modern conveniences. 726 Topeka ave. FOR RENT 2 large unfurnished rooms 809 W. 10th, opposite Bethany. FOR RENT 2 nicely furnished house keeping rooms, modern. 1008 Monroe st. FOR RENT Furnished rooms, modern. 719 Tyler st. FOR RENT 2 large unfurnished rooms, first floor, housekeeping, 1024 Polk st. FOR RENT 1 furnished housekeeping room. 306 Ek 10th st. FOR RENT 2 furnished rooms for light housekeeping at 305 Adams. Call 1215 Clay. FOR RENT Well furnished large front room, good board. 620 Harrison st. FOR RENT Furnished room, south ex posure, folding bed. 522 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Newly furnished front room, modern. 834 Monroe st. FOR RENT- Furnished or unfurnished room, modern. 1529 Harrison st. FOR RENT Second floor of residence for light housekeeping. 3 pleasant rooms, conveniently arranged, water, sewer, pan try, 2 large closets; middle aged persons preferred. Z., Journal. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT Bakery and store room 316 E. 4th st. FOR SALE: MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE 3 fresh cows, 1 lister, 2 horse cultivator. Call SoO Lawrence st. FOR SALE Organ, $10. 821 E. 6th St. FOR SALE 4 nice brood sows. 2120 Fill more st. FOR SALE Driving mare and buggy, cheap. 615 Tyler st. FOR SALE Large horse, suitable to drive or work. 615 Monroe st. FOR SALE Gas stove, almost new.cheap for cash. 1033 Monroe st. FOR SALE Small black driving mare, safe and sound in every particular. 1115 Garfield ave. FOR SALE Medicine case or thrade for a trunk. 1215 Monroe st. FOR SALE Small driving horse. 406 Ty ler st. FOR SALE Set of blacksmith tools. 416 E. 4th St. FOR SALE Silver tea sets at a big dis count during June at Morrison's, 631 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Elegant silver butter dishes at a discount for June at Morrison's. FOR SALE Remember the annual June silverware sale at Morrison's. FOR SALE Elegant hats cheap for June special at Morrison's, next to National hotel. FOR SALE 100 street hats at half price. June sale. Morrison's, next to National hotel. FOR SALE Elegant silver syrup pitch ers, candelabras and silver trays in Morrison's June discount sale. FOR SALE Silver shaving cups that will last a lifetime in Morrison's June dis count sale. FOR SALE Delivery tricvele, cheap for cash. W. F. Bellman, 108 E. 7th st. FOR SALE 2 good second hand hacks; also 3 good driving horses. Lawless' livery barn, 519 Quincy st. FOR SALE Team. Harness and wagon. Topeka Coal Co.. 506 W. 10th st. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. Modern HOUSEiioT 8 rooms, all modern, E. front, fine loca tion, Tyler st., new barn, brick walks, etc. Owner, non-rosident, says sell with out delRv. Rents $ir. THR STRAl'SS AGENCY, Central National BaJik Bldg HOUSE SACRIFICED. 412 Tyler St.. 7 room house and 1'4 lots, to be sold this afternoon or tomorrow forenoon to the highest bidder. As yet we have been offered only about the price of the ground. Look it over and give us a bid. W. M. Forbes, 107 W. 7th. Both 'phones. FOR SALE Lots on W. 6th., on paved St., $225 each. M. Heery, 'phone 1235. JjJALLIONS JACKDAW, the greatest sire of extreme trotting speed owned in the Missouri valley. 326 Jackson su R. I. Lee. THE SHAMROCK, sensationally bred. worthy of his ancestry, stands to in sure at 326 Jackson st. R. I. Lee. BOl'THWESTKRN FUEL CO., Telephone 133. Northeast Corner th and Kansas ave All kinds of Coal. Best Quality. Full Weight. Prompt Delivery. J. W. F. HUGHES, coal aealer. "Phon-s 40o. Office and yards 5th and Adams. All kinds coal: blacksmith coal best quality. VIEWS. F. C. LUTES Everything In modern pho tography, indoor and outdoor scenes, funeral flowers, etc. Ind. 'phone 1312. HORSES FOR SALE. NICE drivers, family horses, educated saddle horses for ladles and gentlemen. Some nice children's ponies; every horse guaranteed as lepresented. Salthouse N orris. WATCHMAKER. WATCHES cleaned. 75c; clocks. 50c; main springs, 75c: crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam. 512 Kansas ave. JEWELERS JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. EDUCATIONAL ROUDEBUSH'S Rapid Round Writing; also common branches taught in E. If Roudebush's summer school, with Dough erty s Shorthand school, 115 v. itn st, BANK STATEMENTS. (First Published in Topeka State Jour- REPORT OF THE CONDITION of the Central National Bank Of Topeka, at the close of business June 1 04. a? called ior by the comptroller of the cu'nncy. RESOURCES Loans and discounts 1 T7S.S90.ro Overdrafts 66.96 u. a. bonds to secure circula tion 250.000.09 U. S. bonds to secure U. S. de posits 70.000.W Premium on U. S. bonds 14,9nO.'TO Stocks, bonds and securities.... 6.''.' 00 Investment in bank building.... 71.5".00 Furniture and fixtures 2,509.00 Due from other na tional banks 10.C7.63 Due from approved reserve agents 337.6S2.23 Checks and othercash tems 2.832.52 Exchange for clear ing house 4,447.37 Bills of other na tional banks 42,626.00 Nickels and cents..... 106.24 Specie: gold and silver 92.915.65 Legal tender notes 2J..U0 611,243.63 Redemption fund with U. S. treasurer lz.oou.w Total $1,713,628.40 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 250.000.00 surplus rund Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes nairt 15.044.55 Nrtfional banknotesoutstanding. 250.0o0.00 .uue to other nation al banks 10.2P7.42 Due to state banks 14,477.15 Due to savinuss banks 10,S.60 Individual deposits, subject to check 86S,495.55 Demand certificates of deposit 173.6O0.3T Certified checks 252.W Cashier's checks out standing 10.593.73 U. S. deposit 70.000.00 1,158,62s. 40 Total $3. 713.628.40 State of Kansas. Shawnee County, ss. I, Edwin Knowles. cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief. EDWIN KNOWLES. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me 14th day of June, 1904. GEO. B. MANNING, fSeal.) Notary Public (Commission expires Sept. 13, 1304.) Correct Attest C. S. GLEED, P. I. BONEBRAKE, CIIAS. S. DOWNING, Directors. (First published in the Topeka State Journal June 14. 1904.) No. 2,64fi. EEFORT OF THE CONDITION OF TlfE FIRST NATIONAL BANK at Topeka. in the State of Kansas, at the close oi business, June 'J, 1904. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts 947,530 23 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 1.111 53 U. s. bonds to secure cir culation soo.ooo oa Premiums on V. S. bonds. 16,446 01 banking; house furni ture and fixtures' 91.7V) 01 Other real estate owned.. 3,741 83 Due from National Hanks (not reserve agents) fl06.271 87 Due from state baukt and bankers 1.88S 10 Due from approved re serve agents 163,262 44 Internal revenue stamps, 35 xcnaug3S lor clearing house 103,783 41 Notes of other National banks 23,172 00 Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents 202 16 Specie 43.SM 40 Legal tender notes 25,001 00407,074 73 Redemption fund with VJ. fci. Treasurer f 5 per cent of circulation) 15 000 00 Total H.7S2.654 S3 LIABILITIES. Capital slock paid iu $301,000 03 Surplus fund 55.0J0 01 Undivided profits less ex penses and taxes paid. 10,841 63 National bank uutes out standing 800,000 00 Due to other National banks J9.7S0 17 Due to state banks and bankers 26,266 78 Due to trust companies and SaviUKS banks 4,080 72 Due to approved reserve aj-'ents 2,317 93 Dividends unpaid loo OJ Individual deposits sub JecFto check 783,521 41 Demand certificates of oe posit 289.035 53 Certilied checks 1,700 36 Cashier's checks out standing 9 80 1.116,812 70 Total 11,782,654 33 State of Kansas. County of Shawnee. s: I, C. E. Hawley, cashier ot the above named bank, do solemmy swear that U19 above statement is true to the best of ray knowied?a and belief. C. t. HAWLEi. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before raa, this 13th day of June, mm. SAMUEL G. ZIMMERMAN, Notary fubiic My commission expires January 7, 1906. Correct Attest: WM. SIMS. W. H. KOSSINGTON". CIIAS. J. DEVLIN. Directors. First published in Topeka State Journal June 14, U04.1 EErORT OF THE CONDITIO of the Merchants National Bank at Topeka, In the State of Kansas, at the close of business June 9, iMi: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $520,832.96 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 1,303.42 U. S. bonds to secure circulation ioo.o.n.00 Other stocks and bonds on hand 21,303.22 Due from approved reserve agents $183,533.60 Due from other national banks 14,350.87 Due from State Banks and bankers 10,212.20 Checks and other cash items 1,035.11 Exchange for clearing house 7.9C7.R6 Bills of other National banks 41,070.00 Fractional currency, nick els and cents 6.22 Goid and sliver cola 31,753.53 Legal tender notes 30.685.00 320.746.41 Redemption lund with U. S. Ireasurer 5.000. 00 soca.iw.oi LIABILITIES., Capital stock paid in $100,001.00 Surplus fund 11,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid S 4T0.S3 National bauk notes outstanding Kxs.ium.im Dividends unpaid lOi.oo Due to national banks $3,310.17 Due to state banks and bankers 27,335.38 Individual detoslts sub ject to check 624,852.50 Demand certificates of de posit 89.223.S7 Certified checks outstand ing S50.00 Cashier's checks outstand ing 3.499.67 750.571.18 J(Hi9,ll)2.01 State of Kansas. County of Shawnee, ss: I. M. Bonebrake, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that tno above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. F. M. BONEBRAKF. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 13th day of June, 19 H. t Seal) W. S. GALLOWAY. Notary Public. My commission expires October 9, 1907. Correct Attest: W. A. L. THOMPSON7, ROBERT PIERCE, Vf. V. MANSSEAKEIi, Directors, rxomsTs. MRS. M. E HOLCBAFT, 817 Kanssa ara. Cut flowers and floral designs. Fooae 17 L CUT FLOWERS and norm! lea!R-nss at utytr. iu vv. sin st- uota pnonM 9 a. THE J. C. DARLINfS rn 714 Kan 3 v Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade cnecKs. i-ricts Kw. Camiog free. Tel. 2:-a. FCRN ACE WORKS. GEO. E. SETBOLD. furoics wor. Ua roofing, guttering. SDOutlnr. furn&eai A specialty. Mil Kansas ave. lull, 'pnono iii. STORAGE. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER A STORAGE! c-o. packs, shies and itonj bousenold goods. Tel. 1M. Clarence tikincer, 4U Quincy st. tTHOLSTEIUXa. W. J. VOdSL llnhnliitrtnff v, mltura packed, shipped; mattresses. cou nes. etc. made over arid to order. 609 JacksoD iL BICYCLES AXD IlEPAXRiya. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE! AND CYCLS Co. TeL 7o6. Bicrcies and sundries, bi cycles and tandems for rent; repairing of AAA KJU'OB. U. S. CYCLE CO 11 K sth -r Nr.tl,.! Iver-Johnson bicycles Surollos. reoairv. MASSAGE PARLOR. LAUIL3 beauty parlors, facial massage and shampooing, toilet articles. Mrs. Annie M. Trapp, 119 VV. 7th. Tel. S7X MONEY. FARMS AND CITT LOANS WANTED. HOME MONEY. RATES VKHY LOW. MONTHLY. QUARTERLY OR fiEiU. ANNUAL. PARTIAL FAYililN X3 ALLOWED. STATE SAVING3 BANK. 620 KANSAS AVE. MONEY TO LOAM on Uve stock, elanoa. organs, typewriters, household goods and personal security. L. Blscoe. 623 Kan. UNDERTAKERS. PEMOS3 A PEN WELL. Funeral Dlreo tors and Embalmers. First class servlcs reasonable prices. all Uulncy.Both tela. tel. GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. Kth- llsbed 1871. Prices reasonable. TeL oftics 146. Residence 87. 621 Jackson st. rATEys. J. A. KOSEN, Patent Attorney. 411 Kan- m ate., lupeKft. JEOPATIL ELIZABETII HARVEY. "oeoltiC'' Kan, ave.. successor to Dr. Linda Hardy. FEATHERS AND MATTRESSES. FEATHERS bought and sold, old feath ers renovated: mattre;B mn. irt a. der. Fred Scraper. 40t,. Kansas av MOVING AND STORING. FOR moving:, packing and shipping. Atn erton Bros.. 20u E oth st. Both 'phones 9SS. HAIR DRESSING. SWITCHES, pompadours, all kliids"i hair wcrk. Mrs Van Vieck. 23 E. 6th. DR. EASTMAN, late supt. state insans asylum. Mental and nervous diseases 66 Kan. av. 'Phones 714. Res. 1270 V. Buren. IDA C. BARNES. M. D. Office 72 Kansati ave. RnM Ty.t- teenth and Clay. Office hours: a m. u 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to S p. m. Bota f"wle" jo ifsiucncs, ana ina 1316 office. HARDWARE. THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE rn Hardware, stoves, fine tools. Job Kan' is ave. Tel. 6'5. MACHINE SHOP. LAW N mowers sharpened, 75c; free de livery. Golden Rule, tel 503. Trade old mowers on new. 6u3 Kansas ave. I'REE DISPENSARY. TOPEKA FREE DISPENSARY, south east corner Lth and Tyler sts.. from 1 to 2 p. m.. except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing pnysiclans for tn benefit of persons without meuM who need medical attention and treatment. Pa tients an. assured of careful and consid erate treatment. Modlcine furnished In most cases. SATIN TOILET SPECIALTIES. SATIN Skin Soap, 2 kinds, oval scented toilet and square medicated curative. Price. 2 cakes :5c. Rowley fc Snow's. SATIN skin face powder doesn't show. Flesh, white or brunet tints. 2oc. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. f TIME TABLE Topeka, Kansa. Ih "Right Hwd" T ana rrois ana Bet? CHICAGO ST. LOUIS MEMPHIS PEORIA ST. JOSEPH KANSAS CITY OMH J'ENVER COLORADO SPG3 FORT WORTH MINNEAPOLIS And Everywhere Beyond. (Effective June 5, 1D04.) TRAINS LEAVE TOPEKA AS FOL LOWS: EASTBOUND. No. 12; Chicago Mall Fix 3:?5 pm No. 14, East Ex. Mail 4:50 am No. 4. El Paso Chicago Ex 4:oo pin No. 10, Colorado K. C Flyer.... 7:45 am No. 512, Colorado K. C. Ex 3:35 pro WESTBOUND. No. 11, Chicago Texas Ex 12:55 pm No. i, Colorado Flyer 8:30 pm No. 13. Texas Ex 12:25 arn No. 3, California Mexico Ex... 11:53 m No. 511, Colorado Ex 12:55 prn NORTHBOUND. No. 54, St. Joe Ex 7:46 m No. 32, Su Joe Chicago Ex 4:01 pin SOUTHBOUND. No. 31,' Chicago Ex 11:45 arn No. 43, S.-W. Ex 8:00 pro All trains daily. For sleeping reservations, tickets, tinm tables, etc., apply to any Rock Island Ticket Agent. UNION PACIFIC. EASTBOUND. AlTlt No. 2 limited 50 sot No. 6. Kansas City local pas 7:6au, No. 4, Atlantic exp7ess 2 to pro No. i, K. C and Sailna express.. a.sOna WESTBOUND. No. 7, K. C. and Sailna express. ..11 :e am No. 3, Denver and Pac. Coast ltd.12 :50 prs No. 6, Junction City local pass.. 6 0 pr No. 1 limited .v0 pm Daily except Sundsy. Alt others AaUjS

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 15, 1904. n r I ii Sixth and Qaincy. New Model. .Another Wonderfu Remarkable Values. Unmistakable Bargains. Money-Saving Sole of All the new good things of the best factories that emploV careful and intelligent workers onlv. Every -garment properly cut and made to fit. Superior workmanship in all its details and the prices so low as to make you wonder how we do it. Note the assortment, see the prices, look at the illustrations, though they give but a faint idea of the many good things to be found at this great Muslin Underwear Sale. DON'T FORGET. SALE THREE DAYS, June 16, 17 and 18. DON'T MISS IT. lO New Mode!. Your r Choice, 1 Ladies' White Cambric Corset Covers, embroidery trimmed. Children's White Drawers, tucked and lace trimmed. Children's White Petticoats, tuck ed and lace trimmed. Children's Combination Waist and Skirt, 3 sizes. Ladies' White India Linen Aprons White Cambric Baby Slips, lace trimming: at neck and sleeves. Ladies' White Cambric Corset Covers some lace trimmed, some finished with hemstitched ruffles. Children's White Drawers, 3 sizes, with hemstitched ruffles. Ladies' White Drawers cambric, hemstitched ruffles, all sizes. Ladies' White India Linen Aprons lace trimming. Baby Slips of White Cambric Swiss embroidery yoke, ruffles at neck and sleeves. Children's White Drawers with tucks, large sizes. Children's White Drilling Waists, large sizes. WHITE GOODS 1 lot Fine Fancy White Goods mill ends but perfect, over twenty dif ferent styles in the lot, and none worth less than 15c as long as it lasts during sale, yard 8c Reliance Cloth 38- in. wide, and has the lustre and finish of silk mull 40o the yard is the value of this cloth during sale, yard..l9c Laces One lot German and English Torchon Laces, from half inch to four inches wide and worth up to 20c Edgings and Insertions to match sale price, yard 5c Ttttg picture give fcrt tint of Iht trtal value offtrol t tills ttlt. Clwictt llfce thti aft Um hand. t jnmr choke. 6 Lot 1 I ft la ySSTTT Lot-5 I Lot 2 am m&& 0 m M far WpMisi m i IF you hive any donb abort (rut value for little money, core and tee Mr foods. Only at this sale can yi ttt so food vaice. I ySiAj 1 I jrestjityles and shapes. If yon fall to amply yourself now, yog wont fet inottier chantt. TaHe a few while tter last B t M .1 Lot 3 S tftfhB JP jp f f sec it 3ft Mm M. EH 'I '1 i '.t'Sy v&gffitasss- ne 2c Ladies' Fine White Muslin Night Dresses Empire style, hemstitched tucking and embroidery insertion in yoke, cambric ruffes at neck and sleeves. Another style with V-shaped neck, grouped tucks and embroid ery insertion in yoke, hemstitched cambric ruffles at neck and sleeves. Ladies' 50c White Cambric Draw ers sale price 29c. Ladies' 50c White Cambric Corset Covers sale price 29c. Only one of these garments to a customer. 3 A triumph of modern industry. TaSt as many farments- 1n ths assortment as yoa wish, except the fowns. Only CKt te a enstoncr. Ladies' White Muslin Petticoats 8-inch ruffle, with 3-inch tucks and 2-inch lace edge. Over twenty different styles of Ladies' Night Dresses, worth from 75c to $1.00 in this sale 50c. WHITE GOODS 6c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard 4lO 8c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard 6c 10c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard Tfc 15c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard lie 20c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard 14c 25c quality White India Linen Sale price, yard l7c 1 lot mill ends Fancy White Goods Dimities, two-stripes, P Ks, satin stripes, and other fancy weaves, ranging in values up to 25c Choice during sale, yard He SHOE DEPT. SHOES FOR MEN Whether you want to buy or look, we are at your service. We want you to see our sum mer lines we know they'll please you prices, $2. $2.50, $3.00, $3.50. SHOES FOR LADIES We have a full line of high cut and low cut fine ones for dress wear and good solid ones for every day wear. Can please you and fit your foot right; prices are the lowest. Oxfords from $1.00 to $2.00 High Cuts.. $1.50 to $3.00 LADIES SLIPPERS Ladies' Slippers in one and two straps turn and McKay sewed prices, $1 to $1.75 Ladies' three point and top Slippers at 85c to $1.10 SHOES FOR GIRLS Here's where we are extra strong prices and kinds to suit all people and'all kinds of pocket books. Good, strong, dressy shoe3 for summer wear $1.19. $1.35, $1.50, $1.85, $1.98 LITTLE HEN'S SHOES We have a strong line of shoes for the little men in vici kid and velours heavy ex tension soles. We can save you money on these goods sizes 9 to 13 prices 81.39 S1.50 S1.75 BOYS' SHOES If you want a good strong shoe and one that will stand the boys, try one of our Rich ardson's seamless or J.Miller's shoes. Price S2.00 We have good solid shoes for S1.50 31.60 S1.75 CLOTHING DEPT. MEN'S SUITS For the rest of this week here are some prices for you to look over: One lot $3.93 One lot $4.95 One lot $6.00 One lot $7.00 One lot $8.00 These are one and two of a kind and are bargains. MEN'S UNDERWEAR All kinds all sizes from 32 to 50 prices 25c, 39c, 50c AlEN'S PANTS 250 pairs of Pants on sale for the next three days prices that down them all One lot $1.50 One lot $1.65 One lot $1.98 One lot $2.25 BOYS' DEPT. For the rest of this week we will offer you some bargains in Boy3' and Children's Suits. Boys' two-piece Suit $1.50, $1.65, $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50. These are all wool and very cheap. SHORT I0MILLI0N Kansas Wheat Crop Won't 156 Up to Last Itear. Estimate Daged Upon Board of Agriculture Figures. LESS IN NORTHWEST. Farmers Didn't Have Time to Put in Crop Properly. Southern Kansas Prospects Were Ne?er Better. Estimating from the recent report of the Kansas state board of agriculture, the Kansas winter wheat crop this year will be between 80 and 85 million bush els probably about 83 millions. This will be about 10 million bushels under last year's record-breaking crop. While these figures are based on the report of the board of agriculture, they are not made by Secretary Coburn, as he never makes any estimates. This estimate is made, however, on the re- Torts of the acreage standing and its condition as reported by counties. It is believed that the estimate is very conservative. The decrease is almost wholly in the western and northwestern counties which last year raised so much wheat that the farmers could not take care of it. In the southern and central counties of the state, in which the crop was comparatively poor last yea. here Is a considerable increase this year. The decrease in the northwest is caused chiefly by the poor methods used in sowing the crop last fall. The farm ers were so over-bvrdened in caring for their harvest and help was so scarce that they could not get the fall wheat properly sown. Very little plowing was done. In fact in many instances it was Impossible to get last year's crop off the fields in time to do any plowing. Consequently thousands of acres were eimply drilled in the stubble, and much of that was done just as winter was eetting tn. The late fall and winter was dry and this wheat never sprouted. Large areas were plowed up this spring. This does not mean that that sec tion is short on crops this year. It is only short on winter wheat, but the shortage is made up in other direc tions. The acreage that was plowed tip was all put into spring wheat, jcom and other crops. There has been jan abundance of rain this spring and Jhe spring wheat is said to be looking exceptionally fine. This will add con siderably to the amount of wheat grown in these counties, but it does rot show in the winter wheat figures. There has been a great increase in the corn acreage in that part of the state also, and the alfalfa crop is something immense. The winter wheat report, therefore, is not an index of the con ditions of agriculture in the north west. In some of the southern Kansas counties the wheat prospect was never finer. This is especially true in Har per, Kingman and perhaps Harvey counties. Harvey will have about double the crop it had last year. A year ago it had the poorest wheat in the entire wheat belt. This year it divides honors with Kingman for the best. A cone of counties having its base on the southern state line and with Cloud as its apex shows an increase in yield this year. Cowley, Sumner, Har per and Barber counties form the base. The other counties are King man, Sedgwick, Reno, Harvey, Rice, McPherson, Marion, Ellsworth, Saline, IJickinson, Ottawa, Clay, Cloud. Sumner county again takes its place as the champion wheat county of the state. Because of its low yield last year it gave way to Barton. This year Barton shows a small decrease, al though still above the four million mark, while Sumner goes to over five million bushels. Last year it was only 3,803,760. The largest crop ever raised bv any one county in the United States was by Sumner in 1901, when it produced 6,819,266 bushels. Clay, Harvey and Marion counties dropped below the million bushel mark last year, but they will probably get back into the million bushel class this year. Barber county, which has never before raised a million bushels of wheat in any one year, will probably get into the million bushel class this year. There will be about 28 million bushel counties this year. These 28 counties will this year raise 61.635,512 bushels, as against 61,144,795 bushels last year. The million bushel area does not reach into the northern tier of counties this year, but Phillips and Smith come well up to the million bushel mark. Their acreage is not as large as a year ago, nor is the yield quite as great. They will have more corn, however. Norton, Decatur, Rawlins, Graham, Sheridan, Trego, Ness. Edwards, and Ford drop out of the mil lion bushel class so far as winter wheat is concerned. The 28 million bushel counties, with their estimated yield this year, as com pared with last year, are as follows: County. Rarton Barber Clay Cloud Cowley l.iokinson frills Kllsworth Harper Harvey Kingman Lincoln Marion McPherson Mitchell Osborne Ottawa Pawnee ITatt Rno Rice Rooks Rush Russ-ell Saline Sedgwick Stafford Sumner SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS lfVT4. 1VI3. 4.C25.08S 4,SiR "54 1.038.274 842.3JO 1.0i'62rt .1-25 1.&S76 1,475. ',6 1.244.368 1,144,361 l,914.t 1.231.857 l.S'8,778 3.13S.234 2.0SS.416 1.919. 1M0 2.9S3.4M 2,S77.10 l.Mfl.340 ST,S 3,27.3'X1 2.141.046 1.4-.fl 1,772.46 1.370.1S3 P04.fi73 2.97S.5S6 l.f.915 2,037,91; 2.1S2.512 1.298.775 2.517. C20 l.(3,t4 1.326.572 1,684.896 2.S1.152 2.317. 77i 2.330.530 3,389.524 2.731.395 2.941.615! 2.212.717 1.23'i.olO 2.678,1-10 2.227.5M 3.491.136 2.122A3 2,7"4.3 2.159.964 1.426.920 2.92&.7; 2.1!'"H5 2.176.(6 3.332,049 5,148,774 3,803,760 61,635,533 61.144,785 Behold the graduation lass! In beauteous array She and her sister student pass Upon a summer day. And wisdom 011 this errant sphere Renews her annual lease. She smiles with nothing more to fear She's spoke her little piece. Tet folk of far more grave pretense Have stood before the. crowd, And talked jof "wherefore'' and of "whence" In accents long and loud. The campaign speaker shows his wit, And when he deigns to cease. There's nothing much that comes of it He's spoke his little piece. Washington Star. The annual Stahl prohibition picnic will be held a week from tomorrow. Judge Hazen has set nine divorce cases for trial next week in the dis trict court. Tuesday was flag day but most peo ple forgot it and will make up for the thoughtlessness on July 4. The new Independent telephone di rectory will be out on July 1 and it will contain the. names of 2,500 subscribers. J. R. Burrow, secretary of state, Frank Grimes and Charles Sessions are scheduled to ride the Elks' goat to night. Tuesday the board of equalization began the tour of the city viewing the property which owners think has been assessed too high. Sardou's cherries are the largest and finest that comes to this market and Sam Hindman, who is sole agent, is selling them for only $1.10 a case. If you can get up early enough these mornings you may see wagon loads of cherries coming to market. The cherry crop is particularly good this season. The Royal Neighbors w-ill give a free entertainment at their hall. 523 Quincy street, Friday evening. There will be a fancy drill by the Sunflower team Modern Woodmen after the exercises. Emporia Gazette: Chief of Police Stahl. of Topeka, phoned Assistant Marshal Hillerman last night to find out the Parker Carnival company's present stand, which is Fort Scott. He did not state what he wants them for. Thomas Lightfoot, an Indian, was released from the county jail Tuesday. He was serving a sentence of 30 days for taking a pot shot at some pther Indians on the Pottawatomie reserva tion three years ago. He was loaded with firewater when the shooting oc curred and thought he was going to Hobart's Own or Ho bart's Own Make," doesn't mean that I am a doctor somebody else is that I know who 'tis, and what 'tis I take no risks my customers take no risks. Frank Hobart, 500 West Tenth. make good Indians of the ones he shot at. Two Topeka newspapers in their re ports of the Elks ball game told how Sherman pitched for five innings for the Topeka team. Sherman was no nearer to Topeka than Kansas City but there is nothing like printing all the news. Bert oJhnson, charged with, assault ing Frank McElroy, gave a $500 bond Tuesday and was released from the county jail. The bond was $2,000 before it was reduced by Judge McCabe, of the city court. Johnson will be tried at the next term of the district court. Dr. D. C. Jones, formerly mayor of Topeka and now surgeon of the home at Danville, 111., narrowly escaped drowning a few days ago while fishing on the lake on the home grounds. The boat capsized and Dr. Jones sank twice before he Was rescued by a fisherman in another boat. CITY BASE BALL LEAGUE. Six Teams Included and Games Will lie Played Only on Saturday. The Topeka Amateur Baseball league was last night formed at a meeting of representatives from six of the amateur baseball teams in the city. The members are: The Santa Fe Reds, the T. M. C. A., North To peka. Freight Auditors, Asylum and All Stars. A schedule will be pre pared at once for Saturday games, the first to be played on June 2 5. The opposing teams on that day will be as follows: Asylum against Santa Fe Reds, at the Asylum grounds: North Topeka against Freight Auditors, in North Topeka: X. M. C. A. against All Stars, in South Topeka, probably on the Lowman. Hill grounds. The sched ule and the playing grounds will all be arranged soon and published. Three grounds will be used, the one at the Asylum, the one in North To peka ard'one on this side of the river, to be settled upon later. It is prob able that Washburn field can be ob tained for a portion of the schedule. The following officers were elected at the meeting: President, W. R. Kercher: vice president, J. A. Augus tus; treasurer, A. E. Fogelberg. A board of arbitration having in charge all settlement of claims, disputes and official determination of club stand ings will be appointed later. An effort has been on foot for some time to get a city league started. To peka has a, promising crop of youthful aspirants for baseball honors. Most of the big players get their start in city league work. Games have been going on between most of these clubs every Saturday afternoon this sum mer, and it was believed that a healthy rivalry could be stimulated by form ing them into a league. J. A. Augus tus, physical director of the Y. M. C. A., called renresentatives of these clubs together and proposed the plan at the Y. M. C. A. rooms last night and it met with instant favor and or ganization. A pennant will be pre pared and given to the victorious team at the end of the season. The sched ule will probably run until October 1. Commencing with Saturday, June 25, there will be fifteen Saturdays un til October 1, making that number of games for the remainder of the season for each. club. There are six teams in the league, making three games on each Saturday, or forty-five games to be played in the city in the entire schedule. BURGLARIOUS METHODS Is What Bryan Styles the Work of the Parker Supporters. New York, June 15. The follow ing letter from William J. Bryan to M. G. Pallisor, who has called an anti-Parker meeting, was made pub lic here today: "I am in receipt of your letter en closing the call for a convention of protest to be held in New York on June 20. I am very glad this step is being taken, and assume that it is not the object of the protesting conven tion to send a contesting delegation to St. Louis or to question in any way the regularity of the Albany conven tion, but merely to enter a protest on behalf of a large number of New York voters who believe in honesty in poli tics and are opposed to the burg larious methods which are now being employed to foist upon the party a speechless candidate and a meaning less platform. "The argument made in favor of Judge Parker is not in any way fitted for the position because his fitness can not possibly be ascertained without a knowledge of his views on public ques tions. The argument made oy his friends is that he can win and they base their belief on the fact that as he has never said anything in connection with pending questions he has no rec ord that can be used against him. His virtues are purely negative, and his friends think it sufficient that the Dem ocrats send him forth as a candidate with the endorsement 'we know nothing against him." "It is the first time in recent years, at least, that a man has been urged for so high a position on the ground that his opinions are unknown. Surely the Democratic party is in desperate straights if among all of its members it can not find a trustworthy man who has evidently been interested enough in public questions to give expression to his opinion. In the great contest be tween Democracy and plutocracy our party should take a positive and ag gressive stand and it should present a standard bearer who will infuse cour age and enthusiasm among the masses. "I am glad, there are Democrats in New York who are willing to register such a protest as your call suggests. And I trust the protest may be effec tive at St. Louis. Wheh it is shown, as I believe it can be shown that a noncommittal candidate would not be popular with the voters even in New York the Parker candidacy will lose its only prop. "I mistake the loyalty and earnest ness of the Democrats who were true to the ticket in 1896 when the loyalty meant abuse and ostracism, if they are really in favor of a silent candidate whose most conspicuous supporters have in recent years been more familiar with Republican headquarters than with Democratic headquarters." Chicago and Return $14.25, Santa Fe. National Republican convention. Tickets on sale June 16 to 20, inclu sive; final limit returning, Jtine 39. JOE WATERS WILL SPEAK. Eloquent Topeka Lawyer the Orator at the Stahl Picnic. Chief of Police Frank Stahl has post ed the big bills announcing the 23th an nual prohibition picnic at Stahl's grove on June 23. Joe Waters is announced to be the speaker of the day. The bill also an nounces "plenty of refreshments of all kinds limited." The limited means that the specification "all" is limited to non-intoxicating liquors. The bill also shows that Chief Stahl's residence in the city has caused "nim to assimilate slang for the bill says: "Programme good and something will be doing all the time." BOARD WILL GO ON INSPECTION To Look at Proierty About Which There Is Complaint. The complaints received by the board of equalization of assessments on city and country property being placed too high, have all been recorded and the board will visit and inspect most of the property. County Treasurer Bowen has pre pared a route for the board to take in viewing the property. Bowen arranged the route so that the board could make as short a journey as possible in view ing the property. It will require more than one journey as the property is pretty well scattered throughout the city and country. The board will begin the pilgrimage as soon as the session is over. CORN IS BEING REPLANTED. Much Damage Erom High Water in AVakarusa Valley. The fields of corn in the Wakarusa valley in Shawnee county were serious ly injured by the high water of ten days ago and many of the fields are still too wet for the farmers to get into them. County Commissioner Harrison, who owns a farm in the Wakarusa valley in Auburn township, says that the val ley for half a mile on each side of the Wakarusa was so thoroughly soaked that the corn was injured and that as fast as the farmers can get in to the fields the corn is being plowed up and replanted. In some of the f.elds water is still standing. That Tired Feeling! If vou are languid, depressed and in capable for work, it indicates that your liver is out of order, lif-rbine wiil assist nature to throw off headaches, rheuma tism and ailments akin to niTvonsne.'i and restore the energies and vit.-iilty r.f sound and perfect health. J. J. Huhbar-1, Temple, Tex., writes March 22. liC: "1 have used Herbine for the ra.t two year. It has don? me more gooU than all th dov'tors. When I feel bad and have that tired feeling, I take a dose of Herbine. It is the best meiicine ever made for chills and fever." f-c a bottle at Rowley Snow's and W. S. Miller s. Chicago and Return $11.25 via Rock Island System. Account National Republican con vention, tickets on sale June 16 20, inclusive; return limit June 29 to (pu n Wt H complies with the pure food laws of air states. Food prepared with it is free from Rochelle salts, lime, alum and ammonia. Trust Bakinz Powders sell for 43 or 50 cents per pound and may be iden tified by this exorbitant price. They are a menace to public health, as food prepared from them con tains laree quantities of Rochell. Beits, a dangerous cathartic tlruy.