The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 26, 1904

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EVERYBODY 10 PAGES EVERYBODY i III 10 PAGES NEEDS IT. READS IT. LAST EDITION. FRIDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, AUGUST 26, 1904. FRIDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. JEFF FAVORITE. ATTACyESUmED Japanese Army Again Mores REGAL SPLENDOR. Will Characterize the Tour of Pedro Alrarado. v. Champion Has Brst of the Bet ting In San Francisco. Toward Liao fang. According to Dope the Miner Fighting Has Been In Progress Multimillionaire Mexican Will Visit IS at Ion's Capital. Ilasn't Slightest Chance. for Three Dajs. RECORDS COMPARED. GUNS AT PORT ARTHUR FIVE PRIVATE CARS Munroe May Trj Bnsbing Tac tics at the Start. Indications Are That a Big Crowd Will Be Out. Fitz Ticks Californlan in Less Than Ten Bounds. BY JIM JKFFRIES. I can't we liov I can lose this fight. I am opposed to a man who once stayed four rounds vt itn me on suffer ance. Tliere Is not a fight follower In the world who will say that Munroe lia-: the s-eed, stamina or science that I have. I am in good shape, I will fight carefully, and will win sure- mark what I say." If it were the last thing I did in the world, I would bet on myself to heat this man. BY JACK Ml'XROE. I am In perfect shape, and I weigh almost as much as the champion. I am as strong, as fast, and I believe as clever. Why have I not a good chance? Jeffries lias never met a man who equaled him in weight or strength. lie will find one in me. lie has liis vitality sapped from various causes. 1 am froh, young and hearty. I believe that I will win the champion ship surely. If Jeffries dallies with me, as he says he will, lie has no chance on earth. On the other hand, If he mixes hard In the first few rounds he will find me there with the punch, and I, believe I can beat him to it. I am a better be at 3 to 1 than Jeffries at the reverse odds. San Francisco, Aug. 26. If Cham rion Jim Jeffries is not erring in his judgment, the championship aspira tions of Jack Munroe, the Butte miner, will go a-glimmerlng before the end of the tenth round of to night's big battle for the world's pre mier heavyweight honors. With the fipht now but a short time off, Jeffries has entered the betting market and, according to reports that are going the rounds in wise sporting circles, has wagered no less than.JSO, 000 on hia chances. Of this amount (10,000 has been placed at odds of 4 to 10 on a straight victory, on deci sion or by knockout any time during the twenty rounds, and J 10.000 at S to 10 that Munroe does not last over ten rounds. The report that Jeffries has backed himself so heavily to win within ten rounds has caused no end of surprise among the local fight fans, as it was no longer than twenty-four hours ago that the champion came out with a statement warning speculators against belting on the number of rounds. At that time the champion stated that he would make no effort to finish the miner in whirlwind order, and that he would be as content to win on a deci sion after twenty rounds of boxing as to carry away the honors by a knock out administered in the first session. In .view of the later developments It is now believed that Jeffries issued his warning with the idea of influ encing the odds, and that as a matter of fact he will enter the ring tonight determined to bring matters to as speedy a close as possible. The man agement o. the club under whose auspices the mill' will be held reports a surprising pickup in the advance sale. One of the biggest houses of re cent years is predicted. Sporting men from all parts of the country have assembled here to wit ness the event and it is expected that the receipts for the admissions will be over $30,000. The pugilists will devote today to rest and will appear early tit the ring side as there is only one pre liminary fight scheduled. Betting has settled for the time be ing at least at 10 to 3 Vs. with the champion favorite, and it is now alto gether likely that the men will enter the ring at these odds. At last Jef fries has stepped on to the weighing machine, tipping the beam at 225 pounds. The work of Jack Munroe during the past week, his splendid condition and the impetus added to his every effort from the presence of "Kid" Mc Coy have spread a feeling of confi dence among those whose dollars make prize fights prontable. Where before there was a feeling that the miner had no chance with a champion so invincible as 5iant Jeff, there has now come encouragement. j In Munroe's camp, and out of it. cheerful expectations are the rule. With the betting figures at 100 to 35, the general impression would seem to be that Munroe has barely a look-in; In other words that his chances are as 35 is to 100. The fact, however that Munroe money is hanging back for a still better price mits a different color on the general outlook. Jeffries money there is in plenty, as is always the case in a championship battle, in one place 1 1 0.000 is waiting for a chance to get on Jeffries at 2 to 1. The following telegram has been re ceived by Munroe: "You have your little pal rooting for you. our next world's champion. Re gards to friends. "YOUNG CORBETT." (Continued on Page Six.) The Most Famous Heavyweight Ring Battles. Contestants. I Date. Jeffries-Fitz -IJuIv 25, 1S2 JefTries-Corbett Mav 11, 1!"0 Jefries-Rutilin Nov. 15, 1900 JeiTries-Sharkey Nov. 3. 1W Je-ffri-s-Fit June 9, 1S Corbett-Fitz March 17. 1S97 Corb.-tt-Mitchell 'Jan. 25. 1M Corbett-McCoy 1 Aur. 30. 1!"0 Corbet t-Su Hi van Sont. 7. IS! 2. Corbtt-Jackon Corbet t-Choynksi Fttz-Maher Fitz-Mahr Fltz-Siiarkey Fltz-rvmpsey Fltz-Hall Fitz-Siiarkey Mav 21. lssl June 5. IS'!) March 2. 1SS2. ..jFeb. a. lsrs Aug. 2-t U Jan. 14. ISfl .J Murch 8, ln3.. ..'Dec 2. 1S96 s JAMES DEFENDS ROOSEVELT. Secretary Taft Bet-lares President Is Not Dangerous. Montpelier. Vt.. Aug. 26. Secretary of War Taft addressed a Republican rally in armory hall nere this after noon. The secretary was accorded an entnusiastic reception. Secretary Taft briefly reviewed the Issues and history of the parties and discussed the platforms of both parties. In a review of the administration of President Roosevelt to which the greater portion of the speech was de voted Secretary Taft eulogized the president highly saying: "Unable really to attack the record of the Republican party, unable really to take any ground which makes a com- batable issue with the Roublicans on the main question, the Democrats now seek to attack the president and to charge him with violations of the con stitution, with a headstrong disposition to rule or ruin: with a tendency to in volve the country in foreign wars; with being, in other words, an unsafe man. In all my experience I never have met a man in authority who has less pride of opinion in the judgments that he has formed in respect to situations present ed to him for action than has Theodore Roosevelt. I have never met a man who was so amenable to reason, so anxious to reach a Just conclusion and so willing to sacrifice a previously formed opinion as the present president of the United States. He weighs every argument which is brought before him and if by reason of the limpid character of his nature, which leads him to speak as he thinks, he gives instant expres sion to an opinion which subsequent facts show him to be erroneous he changes as only a man can change, who is an earnest seeker for truth, with he sincerest desire to do right. "He is not a tyrant but he is a lead er. He does believe in a strenuous life. He does believe in doing things. He believes that a man who is given Drain and muscle is charged with the re sponsibility of making the most of them and of doing as much with both as pos sible for his fellow men. He represents as hiph a type as there is in the country of energetic manhood. "No man ever sat in the presidential chair mote anxious to avoid war or con flict with foreign nations than he. His impulsiveness of manner and quickness of thought and speech coexist with) a real conservatism of action that makes it as certain as it was under Mr. Me Kinley that no policy will be followed needlessly exposing, the interests of th country to the peril of war. Ah, it is said, wait until he has a free hand af ter the election then you will see him in his true light. It is difficult to an swer such a gratuitous suggestion, founded as It must be on the assump tion that a man like Theodore Roose velt whose candor and honesty are so patent that he almost thinks aloud, has been playing a part for three years and is only waiting the success at election to throw off the mask. It is too ridicu lous for discussion. "But now what specific things is Mr. Roosevelt accused of? First, it is charged that he influences legislation and transgresses the line which under our constitutional system should exist between the legislative and executive branches. That it is unconstitutional for the president to confer with the members of the house and senate and seek to influence them with respect to Referee. Eddie Oraney Charley White Harry Corbett George Siler Charley White George Siler Honest John Kelly.. Charley White John Duffy Hiram Cook Patsy HoRan John Duffy Georie 8iler "Winner. Jeff, Sr. knockout. JefT, 23 r, knockout. Jeff, 5r, knockout. Jeff, 25r, decision. JefT, llr. knockout. Fitz. 14r, won. Corbett, 3r, out. Corbett, 4r. out. Corbett. 21r. won. Sir. no contest. Corbett, 27r. won.' Fitz, 12r, knockout. Fitz, lr, knockout. Fitz, 2r, knockout. Fitz. 13r, knockout. George Siler Alex. Brewster John Duffy A... Wyatt Harp Htz. 4r, Knockout. Shark'y, 8r, lost,oul. JKFFRIES. legislation is a new doctrine in this re public. In the first place the constitu tion gives him the express power and right to communicate with congress in giving his views with respect to legis lation. In the second place he is made a co-ordinating factor in the legislative branch of the government for he has the power to veto any act passed by both bouses and it can not become a law unless it is repassed by both houses by a two-thirds vote In each house. "Now, then is it possible that in con versation with members of each house he may not repeat the recommendation made in his communication to the house in writing or that in view of their joint responsibility for legislation he may not advise with them at any time and convince them if he may of the windom or unwisdom of the proposed legisla tion. Criticism founded upon such a proposition is evidence of the weakness of the position of our adversaries. "This brings me to the criticism of the president, that he has departed from his former high Ideals in the mat ter of politics. No charge is more un founded than this. He is as much in favor of clean methods, he is as much opposed to the spoils system, he believes in honesty and efficiency in the admin istration of government and in the en forcement of the civil service law as completely as he ever did or ever pro posed to do. He is doing everything in his power to maintain his ideals. Were he to take the course marked out as the proper one in such criticism and ostracize, so far as conference with him is concerned, the members of his party whom the mugwumps do not ap prove, he would divide his party, tie his hands, and destroy utteryly his power for usefulness to the country." INJUNCTION IS GRANTED Santa Ke Secures Restraining Order Against Strikers In California. Los Angeles. Cal., Aug. 26. Judge Wellborn, of the United States circuit, has made permanent The temporary injunction issued several weeks ago, restraining the striking boiler makers of the Santa Ke at Needles and Bak ersfield from interfering with the op erations of the company's shops at those points. The "application for a permanent injunction against the strikers at San Bernardino was taken under advisement on a question of ju risdiction. A number or strikers from the latter place, who were summoned before the court to answer to a charee of contempt of court, tor violating thaj temporary restraining order, were acf" ciuinea. $4,000 AN HOUR. Is the Loss Going on in Oil Fileds. Louisiana Cowley, La., Aug. 26. The fire at Mommoth oil fields is still burning in the More wells Nos. 7 and 8, and all work has been abandoned by order of the companies and every workman In the field is helping to make arrange ments to smother the fire with steam. The first effort will be made tomorrow. The oil being burned each hour is worth $4,000, and the loss by Saturday morning win amount to 1200,000. The fire can not spread farther. Weather Still Cool. The weather is still cool. The min imum this morning was 51. Tester day 73 was the maximum. Following are today's temperatures: 7 o'clock 53111 o'clock 72 8 o'clock 5812 o'clock 75 9 o'clock 65) 1 o'clock 76 10 o'clock 70 2 o'clock 77 Wind four miles from south at 2 p. m. Largest Judge Bead. Sioux City, la., Aug. 26. Judge Julian Bennett, of "Watertown, S. D., died to day of heart failure. He weighed 440 pounds and was known as the largest judge in America, Were Henrd at Chefoo During Thursday Night. Russian Squadron Preparing for Another Sortie. St. Petersburg. Aug. 26. A dispatch from I.iao Tang under date of Aug. 25, says the Japanese eastern forces began forward movement August 24, eight companies going on the main Liao Tang road, in xhe direction of Liandiansian. t The Kussian outposts held their po sition, the fight continuing yesterday. The result is not statea, but it is un derstood the second and 12th Jap anese guards division are participat ing. tiring Heard at Port Arthur. Chefoo, Aug. 26. Firing at Port Arthur was heard here last night. Preparing for Another Sortie. Tokio, Aug. 2 6. Five steamers and three torpedo boat destroyers emerged from Port Arthur Wednesday morning and began the work of clearing away floating mines. At twemry minutes past six in the evening a two-funneled tor pedo boat destroyer struck a mine two miles off Liao Ti promontory and sunk immediately. Five mSnutes later a second destroyer with rour funnels, ran against another Boating mine which exploded. This second vessel was at once surrounded by other Rus sian ships and towed into Port Ar thur, the entire flotilla accompanying her. These occurrences were seen from various Japaneze watch towers. The Japanese cruiser Hashidate also witnessed the explosion. The action of the Russians in attempting to clear the channel of mines indicates the intention of the fleet to again sally from Port Arthur.' Russia Admires Our Style. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26. 7:04 a. m. The Russ today declares it is in a posi tion to state authoritatively there is not the slightest foundation for the re port that Italy has suggested to France an offer of her good offices on behalf of Russia. An inspection of the cruiser Askold proves, according to the Russ, that the damage is irrepairable and she is forced to disarm, thus closing one phase of the incident. Protection of the cruiser now devolves upon China and, inci dentally, upon the neut'.al powers hav ing warships at Shanghai. The paper aays mis warning: "This protection must be effective, as another breach of neutrality on the part of Japan will force Russia to regard China as a belligerent .and thus change the whole aspect of affairs in the far east. The Novoe Vremya supposes now that the Vladivostok squadron is tem porarily out of commission contraband trade will resume full swing, "especial ly since the Smolensk which has proved to be the flying Dutchman to English traders on the South African route is now definitely headed off." Comparing the methods of the two countries the Novoe Vremya continues: We must confess we prefer the open, frank hostility with which the United States has been supplying food stuffs and war material to Japan to the hypo critical manner in which England has been carrying on the same trade." Russians Feel Encouraged. "St. Petersburg, Aug. 26. 3 A. M. The latest information from the front is summed up in today's dispatch from Chefoo to, the Associated Press showing nidi Hie JillJailCBt: xii luc aoaauiLg uu Port Arthur August 2l and 22 were again repulsed with heavy losses. Despite the assertion made in Tokio that all the attacks have been merely preliminary to a grand infantry as sault the feeling grows here that the ferocity of the repeated attacks and the defeats must be gradually dissipating the energy of the besiegers, and that the Japanese may find after all that "They have broken their teeth on the stones of Port Arthur." Nothing can be ascertained here re garding the reports from Tokio of the sinking of two Russian torpedo boat destroyers at Port Arthur. The fact the Port Arthur squadron is already so crippled and scattered has greatly reduced its importance as a tac tical factor in the eyes of the authori ties here. Accounts of the misfortune to the battleship Sevastopol and of the sinking of the cruder Novik are allow ed to be extensively printed, and it ap pears that the balance of sea power in the east is thoroughly upset pending the arrival of the Baltic squadron in oriental waters. tml 1 nr Chefoo, Aug. Only Three Forts Left. 26. Golden Hill, Whitemarble mountain and Liaoti mountain, .according to-Chinese ad vices dated the night of August 22nd, are now the only main forts securely held by the Russians ax Port Arthur. Others are occupied by them but they are subjected to an artillery fire which renders their tenure uncertain. Fort Number 5 which has frequently been reported taken by the Japanese and retaken by the Russians is again de clared to be in the Innds of the Jap anese. A rumor, having some points indicatinsr -authenticity says that the new European section of Port Arthur is in flames. Owing to the mud and brick construction of the buildings. however, it is probable that the fire is not general. It Is saia tne Japanese are using guns taken from the harbor defenses of Kobe, Nagasaki and Toko hama. These guns, numbering three hundred, are of heavy calibre. Through the Bosphorus. Constantinople, Aug. 26 The Russian Navigation company s steamers Tenoria and Meteor, laden with coal supplies and fresh water, traversed the Bosphorus yesterday. They are said to be on the way to join the Baltic squad ron. 5,000 Russians Wounded. Chefoo, Aug. 26. junk- which left Port Arthur Aug. 22 reports that the Russian wounded at that date numbered five thousand and that the Japanese occupied the heights near Chacchanko. It is further reported that boys are fighting in the Russian ranks now. (Continued on Page Six,) jfci Vi "f f Vi if. t ..3a..crri- -r. ..aa.. JACK THREW DYNAMITE CAPS. Three Persons Injured in an Attempt to Rob Chicago Bookmakers. Chicago, Aug. 26. By the explosion of some dynamite caps and in the pan ic that followed it, three persons were Injured at Hawthorne race track. It is supposed that the caps were thrown on the floor of the betting ring with the idea of creafing a panic.uiui'ing which the cash boxes of the book makers might be robbed. An attempt was made to rob one bookmaker, but it failed. The injured are: Frank Williams, left foot lacerated. Michael Bruno, right foot lacerated. A. M. McOill, severe scalp wound and badly bruised in panic in ring. None of the injured are seriously hurt. U. S. GRANT ON TICKET. Named for Presidential Elector by California Republicans., Santa Cruz, Cal., Aug. 26. When the state Republican convention reassem bled today the report of the committee on permanent officers and order of bus iness was accepted, temporary Chair man Devlin being made the perman ent presiding officer. The 'platform, which was then adopted, strongly com mends the national platform and the administration of President Roosevelt; advocates economy in the expendture of public funds; liberal appropriations for schools,' and file improvement of rivers and harbors and congratulates the country on the passage of the na tional irrigation act. W. G. Lorigan, of Ban jose, was nom inated for justice of the supreme court. U. S. Grant, of San Ddego, and W. S. Wood, of San Francisco, were nomina ted for presidential electors at large. The Eighth district nominations for presidential electors were ratified by the convention. E. A. Hayes, of San Jose, was nomi nated" for congress in the Fifth dis trict. MAYOR IS SILENT. Not Ready to Give Reasons for Vetoing Gas Franchise. Mavnr Bereundthal steadfastly re fuses to give up his reasons for vetoing the Hollidav eas franchise. He admit ted, however, that he is seeking legal advice in regard to the matter, which leads the interested parties to believe that besides the general reasons which he has at different times assigned for being opposed to the bill, that the mayor will also find some legal flaws in the measure. Just what these are no one seems to be even able to guess. The mayor states that he will read his rea sons before the council at the next meeting of that body on September 5. "No, I will not give my reasons to the. public until that time," said the mayor when asked about the matter. "I have made up my mind to do that and I shall stick by my intention. There is no need in asking about it- at all." "Are you employing any aid?" was asked of him. "Why, yes. I am consulting with at torneys in regard to the matter." "Is Mr. Spencer, the city attorney, helping you, or are you getting outside legal help In addition?" "Go around and ask every lawyer in town if he is helping me. That is the only way you'll ever find out." And with that the mayor concluded the interview. Logrolling at Clay Center. Clay Center, Kas., Aug. 26. The Modern Woodmen of America of the Fifth district held their annual log rolling here Thursday. Special trains were run from all the principal town, of the district bringing in large crowds. In the morning a ball team from Chapman defeated Manhattan by a score of 6 to 2. In the afternoon Chapman defeated Belleville, 10 to 2 Band contests and drills were given and at night there was a fireworks display. i'y. W MUNROE. TREES FELL ON THEM. Three Persons Killed and Several Injured at a Picnic Jamestown, N. T., Aug. 26. Three persons lost their lives and several oth ers were injured in a tornado that swept through Chautauqua county. Parkhurst's grove, where the Stock ton town picnic was being held, was directly in the path of -the storm. Five thousand people were on the ground when a terrific wind storm swept through the place. The Deads MRS. AUSTIN A. PIERCE, Fredo nia. MISS INA SCOTT, of Shumla. ORRIN DALRTMPLE, 60 years old. The most seriously injured: Mrs.. Orrin Dalrymple, of Shumla, will probably die. Arthur Bills, Portland. The storm came up suddenly. Trees in the grove were struck by lightning, many of them were blown down, and the frain fell in torrents. People who took refuge under the trees at the first sign of the storm were caught by fall ing branches and injured. Many horses were killed in the same manner. Some of the animals stampeded, trampling upon the injured people, lying on the ground. LOSS of millions: Tanks Containing 26,500,000 Gallons of Oil on Fire. Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 26. The oil tanks at Hoboken, three miles from here, containing about 26,500,000 gallons of petroleum, are ablaze together with all the sheds, wagons and parapher nalia. The fire started at the Russian company's tanks through the ignition of escaping gas and the flames quickly spread to the Standard Oil company's tanks. A high wind fanned the fire. Troops are assisting the firemen to localize the conflagration. The firemen say that nothing can be done except to allow the fire to burn itself out. The estimates of the losses run into millions of francs. The Standard Oil's nine tanks contain ed 60,000 barrels of oil. These are a total loss, but were insured for $240,000. One Russian oil firm lost 120,000 bar rels .insured for $180,000. Although a strong gale was blowing toward the Shcedlt ,the quays were not endan gered. Loss $1,250,000. London, Aug. 26. A dispatch to a news agency from Antwerp says that seven workmen perished in the oil fire at Hoboken .and that only two out of 40 tanks escaped. The loss is estimated at $1,250,000. CHANGE M ELBA'S DATE. Effort Being Made Because of Conflict With Fair. An effort Is being made to change the date of Melba's engagement at Auditorium on January 23 of next I year, because during that period it is being .planned to hold the Midwinter fair. If the latter exhibition is given again this winter, as in all probability it will. Secretary Brigham would like to have the opening date on January 23, on which night Melba is billed to apepar. Naturally the preparatory work for the big show will take al most two weeks previous to the open ing, which would make it impossible for the hal lto be used by the great prima donna. j Edward Wilder and Thomas J. An derson, secretary of the Commercial club, made the contract for Melba to come here. They engaged the Audi torium for the night of January. 23. They have written to Melba's man ager, Mr. Cronberg, at Kansas City, to see if the date of the singer's ap pearance here cannot be changed. If that proves to be impossible, Mr. Brigham says that he is willing to push the fair off one week. v. V Hare Been Ordered bj liloi for the Occasion. Will Carry Bodyguard of 100 Uniformed Men. Mexico City, Aug. 26. Pedro Alvara do, the multi-millionaire of ParraL Mexico, who a few years ago was a common peon working in a mine for 35 cents a day, has ordered a solid train of fie luxurious private cars In which, he will make a tour of Mexico, includ ing a visit to this city. He will travel in regal splendor, and his armed bodyguard of 100 handsome ly uniformed men will accompany him on the Journey and be his companions wherever he goes while in this and oth er cities. Alvarado has Just finished his man- ion at ParraL His new palace, which is the show place of Parral, is "built of marble. There is a piano In almost every room. In the court in the middle of the struc ture a regiment could drill without rub bing its elbows against the rare col- umns on the sides of the patio. Ail the furniture in the house has been brought from Pvflin and Grand Rapids, Mich. The tilings are Italian and Alvarado has brought artists and decorators from Spain and France t,o embellish the waUs of his mansion. Until the completion of the house ha lived where he had lived for eleven years in a two room hovel in the least desirable part of town. More than a year ago Alvarado mada an offer to pay the government public debt of Mexico. He said he had obtain ed his fabulous wealth from the soil of Mexico, and thought he ought to do nate that much of it to the government. This offer was declined by Minister ot Finance Limatour. The only time Alvarado has been out of the Parral mining district was two years ago, when he chartered a special train and took his family with him to the city of Chihuahua, to have gold filling put in one of his teeth. it is said he will meet President Diaz by special appointment while here. H has a fear of banks, and the many millions of his wealth are said to ba stored in a strong steel cage in the resi dence, where it is constantly guarded by armed men. It is expected that Alvarado will give away a great deal of money during his tour, and it Is thought his bodyguard will be none too large. TRAINS ARE MOVING. Santa Fe Trains Get Around Wash oats In Arizona. All Santa Fe trains which have been delayed during the past few days by washouts in Arizona have been started. Messages received at the offices of the Santa Fe In Topeka Rtate that all trains left Albuquerque between 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and midnight last night. They were routed outh to Deming and west over the Southern Pacific from Deming to Colton, Cal., where the trains will again reach the Santa Fe lines. The westbound passenger trains No. 7 were consolidated at Albuquerque and also two No. 1 trains were consolidated. Each train carried 15 coaches out of Albuquerque. Two trains No. 3 wera sent west, and the Cuthbert house par ty special has also gone around tha washouts. The heavy rains during the past few weeks and especially the past few days have given the operating officials soma knotty problems to solve, but it Is an nounced today that the worst of tha trouble Is over. A small army of work men have been set to repairing tha damages to roadbed and bridges caused by the recent rains. Ten cars of United States mall are aa the delayed trains. 2,000 ME.V AT WORK. Santa Fe Has Army of Men at Work Making Repairs. Kingman, Ariz., Aug. 26. The Santa Fa expects to have 2,000 men at work today repairing the damage caused by yester day's storm. At Crozler it is entimat4 that five miles of trackage, bridges and cribbing has been carried out. High Water at Kingman. Kingman, Ariz., Aug. 26. More than two inches of water fell yesterday in an in credibly short space of time and tha great canon west ot here, through which tha Santa Fe railroad runs, was soon con verted into a roaring torrent. The watfr was 20 feet deep. Heavy grades wer swept away, bridges torn from their foun dations and miles of track were wrecked. LAKES 0F0ON FIRE. Friction Starts Destructive Blaze in Louisiana Fields. Crowley, La., Aug. 26. The biggest fire in the history of the mammoth oil fields Ms raging, yesterday Morse well No. 8 came In, a boiling gusher, pouring out a volume of oil at the rate of 10,000 barrels a day. The fire caught from a spark emanat ing from friction and rapidly spread to other wells. Four oil tanks, each of which had a capacity of 1,200 barrels and four standard rigs caught and were destroyed. Large lakes of oil caught fire when the wells were shut down and the employea Joined In fighting the flames. Weather Indications. Chicago, Aug. 26. Forecast for Kan sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Satur day with probably showers in south portion; slowly rising temperature; east to southerly winds. 5,000 Purse Makers Strike. New York, Aug.' 26. A general strike of all the purse and bag makers in Greater New Tork has been or dered. It Involves 5,000 men.

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2 THE TOPEKA STATE JQITRNAL, FRIDAY EYENPG, A tJGUST 26, 1904. SPORTING NEWS, Fltza!mmon Stars With WIf In a PImj. Ufa Lankr Bob Makes a Hit la "A Fight for Lort." EIGHT CUIITAI5 (CALLS. The Ex-Champion Brings Down a Gotham Audience. An Incidental Remark Causes the Hero to Urln. New fork. Aug. 36. There was (treat first night up In Harlem when Bob Fitzslmmona ana Mrs. Fltxslm amnions, as co-stars, burst on the town In their new play, A Fight for Love." It is a sublime production the bills announce that It Is "protean." Bob helped to write it. He says so himself. And h stars in the part ot Robert Fitz almmona. a "country gentleman." You are aware of Robert Fltzslm mona, the play gentleman, even before be enters arrayed in his new riding breeches, because Bob's footman ap pears In livery and tells all about It. The blacksmith pugilist to whom he la talking calls Bob "his master," but the servant flings back this repartee: "No, not my master, but my employ er, the best and kindest a man ever bad." Pretty soon there Is something doing at the forge. The villain comes in- and gives the blacksmith $150 to loosen a hoe on his horse. Thereby a beauti ful girl with whom he s driving can not get home that night, will be com promised, and will have to marry him. It la useless to conceal the fact that the beautiful girl is Vivian Ellington, the banker's daughter, as played by Julia. My Gifford. otherwise Mrs. Fits Simmons. The shoe ia fixed and falls. There is no one to mend it. And then enters Bob, resplendent as a country gentleman in hunting stock and riding trousers which set oft tq advantage the famous kangaroo legs. He shoes the horse and saves the heroine. The blacksmith tries to put him out and runs into a left nook rrom itx, who at one and the same time sends the villain to dreamland with a right awing. The curtain falls with Robert Fitzslmmona in the limelight, remark- frier in a conversational tone: 'Remember you are In the presence of ladles." Another time, when Fits makes the villain take the count, an actress shouts: Whafs the matter?" Nothing." says Bob: "he's taking some of Prof. Fltzsimmona sleeping powders, that's all." That got eight curtain calls1 and a whole greenhouse walked on to the1 at a re. In one part Vivian played and sang for him and Bob said subtly (he is grand right there): "I wish I had some one to play for me like that through life." "You're getting to it. Bob." yelled a voice in the gallery; "keep jipur nerve. That made Bob look up and grin.- Fits was seen In bis dressing room between the first and second acts in the nroeess of donning his outing rig. He waa feinting for his mouth with a camel's hair brush- and planting light Jabs to the chin with a powder pun. "It's partly my own show," said Bob. "Didn't that first climax kill 'em dead? I put in the banker's daughter and the blacksmith shop and a lot of lines." Racing at St. Louis. St. Louis. Aug. 26. Tom Shelly and Woodlands, coupled in the betting at 1 to 50 as the Schreiber entry, easily won the Missouri Futurity at the fair grounds. J. B. Sheridan was third, two lengths behind Woodlands. The Schreiber entry was only breezing at the end. In the second race Franco dislocat ed his knee just as he got his head In front of Princess Orno, 100 yards from the wire. The colt faltered mo mentarily, but gamely continued his run on three legs only, being beaten two lengths for first place, but finish ing two lengths in front of King Trophy. At the Anthony Fair. Anthony, Kas., Aug. 26. Over 6, 000 people attended the third day of Anthony fair. The morning's program was a ball game between teams from Harper and Kingman and was won by Kingman by the score of 7 to 6. The harness events were all well con tested, but a slight rain before noon made the track a trifle slow. The 2:22 trot was won by Alice Roosevelt, David Medium was second and Robert W. third. The best time was 2:22. Kinsley Bay won the 2:35 pace, with Slum B. second and Dick Dean third. The best time was 2:19. A number of athletic events. Including a five-mile relay race, wore pulled off before the races. word while trailing In the opening I Batteries Case, Leever and Phelps; heat. In the home stretch she had Muchell, Fraxer-end "Dooin. ojxLy to oyoslake .Direct View, but she. Second game Score bnninys: R.H.E. failed to make the -distance and the i Pittsburg ..i.TT.O 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 8 stallion won by a short neck in z:us Sweet Marie was timed the final half in 1:02. Much to the surprise of all. Sweet Marie failed to take the second heat and Driver Smith was removed, Alta McDonald being sub' stituted. Sweet Marie took the next three heats and the race. How the officials will dispose of Smith's case will be announced tomorrow. The 2:07 trotting event waa the subject of considerable discussion, re- suiting in Driver Boone asking the judges to let Ed Geers drive aaciun ley. the favorite. The request was granted and the gelding won. It la announced that E. E. Smathers of New York bought Dr. Strong. 2:08 a.rtr th second heat of the Massa schuetta stake race for the sum of $14,000. SHOOT ENDS TODAY. Rapid Fire Is Program for Individuals at Fort Ktley. Junction City, Kaa., Aug. 26. In Thursday's shooting, part first of the national individual m.icn. me rouow inar were the hixhest scores in the slow fire, at 200. 300. 500 and 600 yards, in which 200 points waa the noffnihle tcArc: Private R- R. Pile, .pistrici oi Co lumbia. 17 8. First Lieutenant Raiph Alderman, District of Columbia. 177. Captain R. C. Hazlehurst, second Infantry. Georsria N. G-. 176. Corporal L. Burkhardt. v. B. marine corns. 174. Ordnance Sergeant John corre, Ninth New York. 174. Private J. Markey, U. S. Marine corps, 174. JL.. w. Wise. Massachusetts, 17, First Lieutenant H. D. Hoope, Dis trict of Columbia, 174. Sergeant Charles A. Van Amburg, Massachusetts N. O., 173. First Ueutenant K. V. Casey, assist ant inspector small arms practice. Sev enty-first New York N. G.. 17 3. The rapid fire shooting In this match was the program for the afternoon, but the frequent showers during the day delayed the shooting, and the work in the rapid fire wiu De finished to day with the skirmish fire two runs for each competitor, which will con clude the national individual match. In the morning was the most favorable time the marksmen have had for shooting, for the reason that there was very little wind. The Individual scores In the national team match, in which the possible' for the three days was &uu, were tabulated today. The ten highest follow: Sergeant Maybee, marine corps. 410. Captain Munsen, Ninth TJ. S. infan try, 400. Corporal Short, New York N. G., 390. Private Johnson, Rhode Island N. G. 3S9. W. H. White, TJ. S. navy. 387. Lieutenant Cookson. District of Co lumbia N. G., 881. M. Martinowski. TJ. S. naw. 381 Major Young, District of Columbia XM. G., 3l First Sergeant Gallman, Ninth TJ. S. iniantry, 3g. First Sergeant Dardingkiller, New xorK IN. G., 37 8 Council Grove 2, Marlon 1. Council Grove. Kan.. Ann- or council Grove took the first game of me series rrom Marlon in one of the best played contests of the season, tne locals putting up an errorless game ana letting the visitors down witn rour. hits. The feature of the game was a nome run by Hess of Ma rion, onngine- in the onlv score. Score by inninesr pun council Grove, 00200000 02 6 0 Marion 00010000 0 1 4 6 Batteries Connelly and Nichols- Lamar and Tarbet. National League Contracts for 1904, New York, Aug. 26. The following contracts and releases were acoroved ana promulgated Dy President Pul liam of the National league: Contracts With Boston. William B. Marshall, 1904: with Chieasro. C. Barry, 1904; William J. Carnev 1904-1905. Release By Cincinnati ville, Philip B. O'Neil, Bridewell Signed by Reds. Columbus. O.. A iic. 25 Jt v.-,. been announced that Shortstop Bride well of the Columbus American .ch elation team has been sold to the Cin cinnati National league club. Bride well wm play with Columbus the re mainder of the season. Eberhardts in Form. Omaha, Neb.. Aur. 26. In th. tow n's doubles, Fred and Frank Eber hardt of Salina, Kan., beat Schneider and Hughes, 6-0, 6-3. The Kberhardts beat Scribner and Pollard, 6-2, 6-2. Harvard Gets Early Start. Boston, Mass., Aug. 26. The can didates for the Harvard varsity eleven have been ordered to start training work on September 1 and to report for the first preliminary work on Soldiers' field on September 19. All the candidates have been ordered to give up smoking and drinking, and regular hours are demanded from now on, as every aspirant for a posi tion must be ready to stand a grueling scrimmage work the first week. Barly Buiumer me moat. Dromisin -nicasro o n o n i a a a a a i c candidates received footballs and they t New York 0 00100000 34 3 urea instructed 10 periect them- 1 Batteries Weimer.Wieker and Kling- selves in nnnthiff rranninw An ti.. Ilfnninnitu n- Yale Crew Man Is Dead. New Haven. Conn.. Auz. 2fi Tom.. E. O'Connor, who for manv vein w engineer of the launch Elihu Yale, and an assistant on handling Yale crews both here and at New London, is dead of appendicitis. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT CINCINNATI. Misplays by the Cincinnati' r,r. largely responsible for Brooklyn's two runs in the first inning. Thereafter Hahn was almost invincible. Score by innings: R H E. Cincinnati 0 0003110 i 7 2 Brooklyn 2 0000000 02 2 7 .Batteries Hahn and Peitz; Scanlon and Ritter. AT CHICAGO. New York took both games. rirst game bcore by innings: R.H.E Won. Lost. Philadelphia 0 0 3 1 3 2 0 210 17 Batteries Phillippl, Case and Phelps; SuthofC and Dooin. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. C1UD8. New York Chicago Pittsburg Cincinnati St. Louis Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia 77 65 63 64 69 43 38 30 31 43 45 47 63 69 71 '80 Pet. .713 .602 .579 .576 .533 .384 .349 .273 WESTERN LEAGUE. AT 8T, JOSEPH. Sioux City took a fast, snappy game from St. Joseph by the score 01 a to u Score by innings: R.H.E. Sioux City 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0-2 4 St. Joseph .....0 0 0 0 010 0 01 7 Batteries Llnderman and Graves; Soudera and McConnelL f AT COLORADO SPRINGS! The doubleheader between Colorado Springs and Des Moines was -divided, the locals winning the first and the visitors the second. The first game was an exhibition of good ball playing, but the second, as far as the locals were concerned, was played listlessly. First game Score by innings: R.H.K. Colorado Springs ...0 0312121 -10 15 Des Moines 004010022 10 Batteries McNeeley and Baerwald; Hoffer and Towne. Second a-ame Score bv innines: R.H.E. Colorado Scrinrs 001 1 0010 08 9 4 Des Moines 0 0401001 17 13 2 Batteries Nash, Vileman, Anderson and Baerwald; J. Clark and Towne. AT DENVER. A system of effective hitting was be gun in the fourth inning by Denver and thereafter it was a one-sided affair. Score by innings: R.H.E Denver 0 0051304 -13 19 5 Omaha 2 000000103 7 5 Batteries Eyler and Lucia: Sander son and Gonding. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs. Won. Lost.. Pet. Denver 67 Omaha 65 Colorado Springs 61 Des Moines 61 St. Joseph 44 Sioux City 36 AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT BOSTON." Chicago won a sharply played game in which extra hits were features. Score by innings: R.H.E. Chicago 000 00 0 03 0 3 6 0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 02 5 4 Batteries Altrock and McFarland: Young and Crlger. AT NEW YORK. New York won an eleven inning game from St. Louis. Powell outpitch- ed Glade. In the eleventh Conroy scored the winning run for the locals In fielder s choice and hits by Fultz and Kleinow. Score bv innines: T? "FT St. Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 01 7 3 New York 0 000000100 12 12 2 Batteries Glade and Sugden; Powell and Kleinow. AT PHILADELPHIA. Seybead and Murphy were the only members of the home team who could hit Kitson and Detroit won with ease. Score by innines: R.TT.E Detroit 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 07 10 2 Philadelphia .-.0 0 0 0 0 0 10 12 5 Batteries Kitson and Beville: Wad- dell and Schreck. jhi.r.c AT WASHINGTON. V Cleveland bunched hits tn Wolfe and defeated Washington. Score by innings: R.H.E. Washington 0 0001100 34 11 2 Cleveland 2 0400200 08 10 3 Batteries Wolfe. Clarke and KH- tredge; Bernhard and Bemls. AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. 1 Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. 44 .604 47 .580 44 .581 56 .521 63 .411 70 .340 New York 64 40 .616 Boston 64 43 .598 Chicago 64 45 587 Philadelphia 58 44 569' Cleveland 68 46 .558 Detroit 47 58 .448 St. Louis 40 62 .392 Washington 24 81 .229 LOSIKIM TENTH; Ball Game Was a Real Pitcher' Battle. Scor Waa One to One Until Rear the End. HUGHES IH GOOD FORM Pitched n -Excellent from the Start. Game Brilliant 'Fielding Character ized Playing of Saints. In the greatest pitchers' battle of the year, a dark complexioned splintered youth labeled Lowell from the mining burg of JopJln, took the measure of the saintly Tom Hughes by the score of 4 to 1 on Thursday afternoon.. The yard stick had to be laid over ten acts. But It was long enough with a little to spare. CpP. Torrence,. who; Pitches for Joplin To day, Known as the Best All Round Player in the League. At the end of the ninth the score was to 1 and Hughes had the better of the argument-,! Up to that time Topeka had made five hits while the coal-dig ging contingent had gathered but four. Neither of the runs had been earned. In the first act Fillman walked. Van- derhlll sacrificed him to second, and Bayless sent him over the guttapercha on the back of a single. The Saints got their credit mark in about the same way. It came in the fifth. Shlnners walked. Abbott ran for him. Hughes little grounder Xp the pitcher sent Abby to the second s'tation. Hurlburt laced out the bulb for a nice single and Ab bott went the long way. selves in punting, dropping on the Dan. starting, and catching punts. Racing at Detroit. Detroit. Aug. 28. The players of fa vorites and special good things made bookmaking an unprofitable business at Highland park.. The ring was hard hit on several races, and particularly on the steeplechase, which was won by Navigator, who was the medium of a very heavy play. The Pet. which made her first appearance at the meet ing, easily won the feature event of four and one-half furlongs, for which he was a strong second choice. Racing at Rcadville. Readvllle, Mass.. Aug. 26. Almost a gale of wind swept across the track, making fast time impossible at the Grand circuit meeting. Major Del mar was booked to go against the world's trotting record, but owing -to the wind the attempt was postponed until today. The Ponkapoag, an early closing vent for trotters, eligible to the 2:14 class last April, was the feature. It McGinnity and Warner. Second game Score by innings: RH.E. Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 8 New York 0 102405 12 13 0 Batteries Wicker and O'Neil; Wiltze and Warner. Called first half eighth on account of darkness. AT ST. LOUIS. St. Louis and Boston split even on a doubleheader, St. Louis getting the first game 5 to 2 and Boston the second s' to 1. McFarland and Fisher were the winning pitchers ,and both did good work. Home runs were the feature, four being made in the two games. Fta-st game Score by Innings: R H B St. Louis 2 0000300 5 6 0 Boston 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 02 5 1 Batteries McFarland and Grady; McNichols and Marshall. Second game Score by innings: R.H E St. Louis 00000001 01 7 i Boston 0 4 10 0 0 0 0 16 10 1 Batteries Dunleavy and McLean; Fisher and Marshall. AT PITTSBURG. Pittsburg and Philadelphia splif even waa counted by turf followers that nVeames The ifl i- i i,. c .Ilng games, x ne secona game was called the California bred mare,- Sweet'., tv, ,nH nf th owhiw Off the honors, munt nt HsrknpL Aiane. wouia carry on me nonors, count of darkness. WIU "lie U'Ut utll. HUl UI1UI 1 I1ML9. TTHrt OTim SjvirA K First gain driver of the favorite trotter, got the j Philadelphia uuiim, Flttaourtr 0 1 1 1 0 3 4 1 1 11 11 1 8 14 3 innings: 1 0 3 4 1 ...0 1 0 3 0 0 1 RH.E. HASKELL CONFIDENT. Indian Football Eleven Hope to Beat K. U. and Missouri. Lawrence, Kan., Aug. 26. Playing an excellent schedule and with seven old stars back. Coach Hernstein expects to put a Haskell Indian team on the field that will take in every team it meets. He will arrive September 1 and begin work at once although the training ta ble will not be started until the 5th., The schedule is probably the hardest played by any team In the Missouri valley. Of the ten games played, half of them will be with fast teams that have always put up good arguments against their dusky brethren. The hard est games will be with Kansas at Law rence on October 6. Missouri at Kansas City on. October 15, Texas at Austin Oc tober 21, Nebraska at Kansas City No vember 12, Washburn at Topeka No vember 19, and Washington at St. Louis November 24. The other games are ith Friends university at Lawrence September 24, Ottawa university at Ottawa October 1, Lawton at Lawton; Ok., October 24, and Ottawa at Law rence October 31. 1 Coach Hernstein has an advantage over college coaches in that his recruits grow up playing football under good coaches and a fast, experienced squad is always at command. Another thing that helps is the discipline that the In dians are under. There is no disobey ing rules or grumbling at Haskell. The old men who will return are Captain Guyon end, Oliver guard, Peter Hauser, an all round man. Emil Hauser tackle, Felix end, Moore quarter. La Motte quarter and Gokey a substitute who made good last year. Archiquette will return but probably too late to get in shape to play. He is playing profes sional baseball this. summer. Falias, the heady little quarter, will return but may not play -on account of sickness. He will assist Hernstein in coaching. IC is rumored that Johnson, the famous captain and quarterback of Carlisle.will be with Haskell this: year. Had not luck gone against the red skins they would have played an un equaled schedule. Their -game sched uled with Carlisle was canceled by the eastern Indian school because their coach left them. Wisconsin wants a game and wants it badly. They plan ned to play Haskell on October 15 at Milwaukee and are holding that date open. That is the date of the Missouri game, however,, and it is hardly possi ble that the game can be arranged. Superintendent Pears of Haskell said today: "We have a good schedule and are going to win it. We wish Kansas all success but we ran't afford to let her beat us. We ought to win nicely from Kansas and Missouri. If we do this we. ought to have an immense crowd at Kansas City when we play Nebraska." sible, bauble.. It sent a man to second who should" have .been out, and made irouoie, ana twice Abbott failed to be at pis station. Joplin made not an er ror-ZLaey played as -perfect a game an aaaing machine can figure out now strong you are at the bank. nut one thing marred the contest. mat was the mouthiness ef Abbott and Hurlburt. The latter masticated his opinion of Alberts pretty freely on two occasions, and he was in the wrong both times. Abbott was in the middle or tne diamond about as much as he was around the first sack. The Joplin players did some kicking, too, but they iiH.u j augment ana sense and control enougn to not make exhibitions of themselves. They went back to their Dencn and soliloquized sotto voce. cpv Captain Abbott Tied the Score. Alberts umpired a good game and It was a hard one. Seldom has Tom Hughes thrown as many twisters around the corner of the plate. To the Jops they looked like balls to one who could look sauarely across the plate they showed every symptom of being strikes. Hughes never showed better form this year. Shlnners did great work In the rla-ht field. He pulled four mean flies out of the clouds. The crowd appreciated his work, and blistered' their palms in eviaence. tjoie ana Dunn made bril liant stops. The score: JOPHN. Player. AB R Fillman, ss 4 2 Vanderhill, c 4 0 Bayless, If. 4 0 Welday, cf. 5 0 Gray, rf. 4 0 Crum, lb 4 1 0 Shimonek, 2b 4 0 Lowell, p 4 1 Grant, 3b. 4 1 Totals 37 "4 TOPEKA. Player. AB R Hurlburt, cf. 5 Abbott, lb 4 Cole, If 3 Schrant, c 4 Dunn, 2b ...3 Olson, ss 4 Freil. 3b. 3 Stunners, rf. ,2 Hughes, p. 4 Totals 32 Score by lnninsrs: Joplin 1 0 0 TopeKa u V o Summary: Earr.ed Struck out By Lowell, Hit by pitched ball-i-Dunn Vanderhill. ThreeDase H O A E 0 11 0 2 12 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1,00 O 10. 0 0 10 1 0 0 1 3 0 2 2.4 0 12 3 0 7 30 13 0 H O A E 12 0 0 0 10 2 0 110 0 2 9 2 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 4 1 0 4 0 0 0 12 0 6 i5 14 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 10 0 0 0 01 runs Topeka. 3. 10: by Huarhes. 8. sacrince nit hit Lowell Pitcher Lowell in Action. But the tenth was a nightmare, with both hoofs of the horse on your wish bone. Friel overthrew Shlmonek's grounder in trying to kill him at first, and the fast tunning Miner had started housekeeping on second when the ball was picked out from among the auto mobubbles. Lowell and Grant, the .weakest hitting men on the team, each singled, and the Jops let forth the gladsome cry: "Bases full. Nobody out. Nobody goin' to "git out." Fillman rap ped a little grounder to Hughes. Tom boomeranged her right back to the plate and killed Mr. Shimonek, but Ab bott wasn't on the base to complete a double play. Then Vanderhill whacked out a single and Grant stomped an other kink into the warming pan. At this point Hughes went to the bad on his control and let Bayless walk, forc ing in another run. Welday then ham mered out a long one to Hurlburt who squeezed the leather all right, but Fill- man came nome on tne tnrow in. mean while Tony Vanderhill got too far past second and was jiipped while vibrating between the sacks. Umpire Alberts. Attendance 300. Time of game One hour 40 minutes. j MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE. AT SEDALIA. Pittsburg defeated Sedalla in an eleven-inning game bjr the score of I to 3. "Dummy" Curtis has"been sus pended for-15ie" remainder it "the season ind "Jack" Edwards," a local amateur, pitched for Sedalia.. McDilly was put out of the- game for talking back to Umpire Collins, who had called him out on strikes. The shifting of the team that that followed cost Sedalia. the game. Score by innings: R.H.E Pittsburg 3 000000 00025 9 2 Sedalia .0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0-3 7 0 Batteries O'Brien and Seabaugh Edwards and Stoner. AT LEAVENWORTH. Leavenworth lost to Springfield In a loosely played contest. The feature was Cor bin's catch of a long foul. Score by Innings: R. H. EE- Lea ven worth ...0 3 9 0 0 0 0 0 03 3 5 Springfield 2 0200100 05 7 5 Batteries Hanson and Cor bin; Spier and Schmidt. AT FORT SCOTT. Game postponed; rain. Doubleheader is slated for today. MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE STAND- LNG. Clubs... Won. Lost. Iola 70 Springfield 69 Joplin 65 Sedalia 62 Pittsburg 43 Leavenworth 39 Topeka 30 Fort Scott 27 33 35 37 71 75 Pet. .680 .664 .637 .614 .422 .394 .297 .265 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Kansas City Columbus, 6; Kan sas City, 0. At Minneapolis Minneapolis, 7; St. Paul, 3. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDING. Clubs. won. Lost. Pet. cp- .B. You little knew when first we met That some day you would be The lucky fellow I'd choose to let Pay for my Rocky Mountain Tea. Gatlin Drug Co. Pepper Grant is as Noisy as .Ever. The Saints showed no sign of retriev ing their lost fortunes at their turn at the willow. Shlnners fanned the ozone. Hughes lifted one to Dolly Gray. Hurl burt put a dark-brown taste Into the hemlock- cup by- leaning on three of Lowell's -wide ones -and churning the atmosphere. He got this mark after his name in the score book: K-2. And that, according to SpaVding. means "Struck Out." For six Innings neither side made an error. Then Dunn fumbled an easy grounder. It coat- nothing, however. In the tenth Jack Friel made an expen- St. Paul 79 Milwaukee 70 Columbus 68 Louisville 66 Minneapolis 62 Indianapolis 67 Kansas City 47 Toledo 84 43 60 53 55 67 67 73 87 .648 .583 .562 .546. .521 .460 .392 .281 WOMEN DO THE WORK Of Maintaining the Splendid Public Library at Holton. Holton young women are admirable. For many years the town blundered along without a respectable public library. A few years ago fourteen young ladies-took the matter in hand to supply this deficiency and fill a long felt want. The result is a splen did library of modern, up-to-date books, a list of which does, not in clude a single patent office report. A county fair was maintained a few years ago by our leading citizens, but finally, interest In the enterprise flagged and the past year the associ ation went Into liquidation, or some other state akin to innocuous desue tude.. The young ladies of the city. and some who are not so young, have again rushed into the breech and have organized and arranged to hold a county fair, which will be held in the tabernacle September 29 and 30, un der the auspices of the Busy Maid and Matrons of the Methodist church. A liberal premium list will be pub lished soon, and it is expected that competition to secure the many val uable and beautiful premiums will be lively. Holton -women, young and old, are the best of their sex now on earth. Holton Record. Bml Oalc Finuoa wltb ouMr cuing ranorvd. Bring Us Your Heating Problems and we will solve them with the great It it the most carefully made and fitted furnace in the world. It will burn hard or soft coal, coke or wood with economy and succett, and hold th fir fust like the famous Hound Oak Stqbe. It is a strong, powerful heater and will last a life time when correctly installed. 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The Northeastern' Kansas Baptist associa tion, colored, in session here, passed resolutions declaring it to be the de sire of the organization that an indus trial school be established and main tained by, the association. It is pro posed to. p'urchaSe 100 acres of ground near Atchison -and teach the colored people how to farm and work in the various .trades. Where they play Saturday: Joplin at Topeka, Iola at Fort Scott.1 Springfield at Leavenworth.''"5 Pittsburg at Sedalia. y"'' At a meeting to be held some time next" week, the Topeka Baseball asso ciation and the Topeka Ball Park fta- sociatlon win be consolidated. A board of directors which will really interest itself in Topeka baseball affairs will be elected and given control of the team. The president and secretary will be chosen by this board. The manager of. the team will be appointed by the same powers.- Xhe engagement and tne releasing of players will also be done by this board. In fact it will do the work 'which president sneara and sec retary Logan pre now doing by them selves. The making of the team for next year -will consequently -devolve upon this new board. President Sheard and Secretary Logan have been dick ering with different men with a view of getting them here to manage, and had Dianned to engage one of them and Just simply go ahead and make up the team for next year according to tneir own notions, The exposition of this fact in the State Journal immediately raised a demand among the more enthusiastic baseball fans in this city, and especially those who have put money into the park, for a new board of directors. They ask for its Immediate selection. They ask that it decide upon the plans for next year's team, -iney ass inai the iudorment of six or seven good men be taken to plan tne team ior xuo, anu that it be not again left to Mr. Sheard and Logan. Look at this slam on the Sedalia team from the Kansas City Star: "It la claimed that Ralph Gibson,, formerly of the Kansas City Blues, will nnisn the season with one ot tne vajiey league teams, not because there is any hones of the team finishing in first place, but simply to prevent a slump to the second division. Evidently the Iola Record knows something about Hurlburt of the Saints: "'Speck' Hurlburt 'missed a train out of Kansas City tne otner day and wasn't there in time ior tne game. Speck is famous for missing trains." Jack Root, of Iola, seems to have lost his cunning with the Ball. He has lost ight games since his team opened at Topeka two weeks ago. Two went to the Saints, two to Leavenwortn, one to Fort Scott and one to Sedalia. Red Davis is back in the pitching har ness for Sedaiia again. He initiated his return on Wednesday against Iola by let ting down the latter with two hits. An abscess on his arm forced an interim on the bench. Harry Kane, who has been burning up the Delta, league, will join the Midgets the first week in September. He was with Springfield in 1902. From the Springfield Republican: "Cap tain Perrine, who seems to be the favorite among many Springfield fans, to say nothing of the ladies, has a first name and it is John. He is a candidate for faster company, being one of the best nll round players in the country. He plays second and makes many phenomenal 1 plays. This is his third year with the Midgets, Perrine will, it is said, fall heir to a vast estate in a short time. His home is in Kansas City with his widowed mother." v ,.r. i t" They will all get the right Idea by and by. This from the Springfield Leader: '"Hurlburt says he favors the admission of big towns into the league and that an extra run of a few hundred miles does not bother him. He thinks that the policy of the league should be to constantly ndd to its population. He wants towns like St. Joseph, Oklahoma City, Wichita and Kansas City taken in just as soon as pos sible. The name of the league next year will be the Western association." Harry Eels will pitch his first game with the Blues in Kansas City on Sunday. A double-header is the bill. The Joplin team does not show the form now which it did early in the season. Fillman said on Thursday that his mm are not playlne as well. "Thinm dnn't seem to go Just right," said the Jop man ager. "We should have won those games at Leavenworth, but didn't tions. It is hard for me to say Just where the trouble Ilea, but I know that the qual ity of ball we play now is not as gooa us a few weeks ago." Flllman's statement was right. Quite a number of the Topeka. fans commented on the matter and wore, their wondering caps. The Miners are made up of the lame men aa at the be ginning of the season. Mike Welday la back again. Harmony seems to be spread over the turn an inch thick and the lov lag cup seems to have nine handled. Some thing is wrong somewhere, but the play ers themselves can not find the bad place. Sissler is now playing shortstop Leavenworth. fof IX WOMEN'S CLOTHES. A Midnight Prowler at Kingman Dis guises Himself. Citizens of the First ward complain of the depredations of some night prowler who is frequenting that part of town nightly and entering private dwellings and carrying away prop erty which does not belong to them. Whoever it is has been seen repeated- ly, and if the clothing is any criterion to go by, it must be a woman thief,' for the person seen has been clothed in a woman's -dress. But ft Vina veloped .hat the dress is simply a disguise, for the prowler is a man go ing about clothed as a woman. The persons who have becom aware of this fact are now on the watchout for him. and anm nt th... fine evenings some man in that part of town will be arrested with a wo man s dress on, and will be taken be fore the proper tribunal to nnnw.a for his sins, among which will be the charge of masquerading In clothing not suited to his sex with a intent. Kingman Leader-Courier. Homeseekers' Excursion. The Chicago Great Western rnliwov will on the first and third Tuesdav r to October 18, sell tickets to points in Alberta, Assiniboin, Canadian North west, Minnesota and North Dakota. For further information apply- to a. W. Lincoln, T. P. A.. 7 West Ninth street, Kansas City ,Mo. Sale Ten Million Boxes a Year. TUB raBIL-rS FAVORITB MEOIOIMK M jtr w aa VSSCANDY CATHARTIC IOC. -((R s. wwtw u ji muni 1 11. ji Tiiif: I i 25c. 50c V-.-- An BEST FOR THE BOWELS

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1904. KANSAS NEWS. Gan of Swindlers Operates nt Chanate and lota. Long Suit Was the Cashing Worthless Checks. GAVE OUT SEVERAL one of the Pieces of Pape Were for Large Sams. Uut the Victims Think the Jail Is Due Them. Ctaanute. Aug. 26. A gang of swind lers swooped down upon Chanute yes terday afternoon and secured booty to the amount of 320 in cash. The party was composed of four flashily dressed young men with glib tongues and faculty for disarming suspicion that y they were not "on the level." Their operations were smoothly conducted, but two of them fell amuck and are Dow languishing in the Allen county Jail on the charge of forgery. The Chanute victims of the swind ling quartette are J. W. Guthrie and Tutcher Alexander. T. J. Noble, who appeared to be the leader of the gang, ecured 110 from each of the firms on checks drawn on the Iola State bank and signed by himself. Noble com menced his operations at Mr. Guthrie's restaurant by presenting a check to Miss Nellie Wells, a waitress at the establishment, and to whom he made himself very agreeable. Being a hand some young fellow, about 25 years old and an accomplished conversationalist, be encountered little difficulty in im pressing the young lady with the in tegrity of his motives. To make his position still stronger. Noble exhibited to Miss Wells the circular of an oil company to which his name was ap pended as president and general man ager. In the end Miss Wells smilingly cashed his check. Later in the day Noble appeared at Tutcher Alexander's restaurant and presented a 310 check, employing the same means for obtaining the mony on it that he had employed at Guth rie's. Afterwards he and his compan ions were observed going about the streets In company, and apparently well under the influence of liquor. By night they were thoroughly Intoxicated and two of them. Noble and J. C Jones, being unable longer to stand on their reel, went to bed at the Delmonico ho tel, where they were readily awakened about 11 o'clock at night by Sheriff Richardson and Officer Fustian of Iola Hammering on the door of their bed room. They were arrested by the off! cers on warrants charging them wit. iiMiijiiiLuug: iwgcnes at iola. They confessed their guilt and were taken dsck to the scene of their operations. The officers say they passed bad checks at Iola. Noble gave a check to the Cataract hotel for board. It was drawn on the Jjann or Allen County, but was taken up wiore it. was casnea. He gave a bad check to Kelley A Wootton for a out. inis went to protest. He gave two checks to T. E. Mart on the Iola State bank and refused be cause he did not have any money In the bank and the bank did not have me pleasure even of his acquaintance. l he checks were cashed by the Gas my ciaie Dank on an endorsement by Mr. Martin and Ben M. Myers. Smith laioert nave a check that is worth less. W. B. Frampton has a bad check, a storekeeper In Bassett cannot collect a check he cashed for Noble, and It is known there are two other in inio The sum obtained Isn't large but the men wno lost tne money want it back. PAYING IX VESTMENTS. Emporia's Waterworks and Electric Light Plant Money Makers Lmporia. Kan., Aug. 26. For some time the city's electric lisrht nlani ha been earning a good revenue for the city ana the day current experiment which looked for a while as if it would cost tne city considerable to continue. Is growing every day as a profitable Investment. The running expenses of the plant are liOO a month. The city now uses ninety-two lamps which uned to cost 3100 a year when the plant was own- ea Dy a private company which would make the Income from arc lights aiuiie ido, ana ior tne month of June tne cierk collected JoOO in cash, which is tne same as clear profit to the plant. During last month 3551 was collected w-hich shows that the cash business or tne plant is increasing each month ine pronts irom the plant are put back into extending and improving the plant, but as soon aa this work is compieiea it may be applied to liqui dating the debt against it. Profitable as the electric light plant may seem It doesn't equal the city ttiriwurKs system as a money get ter. The expenses for running the waterworks plant are something like o.uuu a. year ana auring last year over $19,000 was collected in cold cash for city water. If the profits of the waterworks were used to pay for the plant itself, the bonds now out for it could be liquidated inside a few years. Right Foot Cut Off. Burlington. Kas., Aug. 26. Carl Sklllman. aged 21, had his right leg cut off about three inches above the ankle by a mowing machine while at work In the hay field. The sickle cut through the clothing, flesh and iwne, ana leit tne loot In the shoe. Greenor Black AS SERVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR SALE BY t. 3f. Frank. Wm. Green A Sona lamea Weruu L. M iss. M lTs apoott The accident occurred about 4 o'clock. The horse driven by a young lady who was raking the hay became frightened and Carl stopped his team and got down to try to stop her horse. His team, which he thought would stand all right, became frightened also and started to run, and before he had time to get out of the way the sickle had caught his right leg, en tirely severing it from the body. ARREST THE GYPSY. Fortune Teller Casts a Curse on a Leavenworth Woman. Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 26. A Gypsy camp of fortune tellers made up of five old and shriveled women invaded the city yesterday and took out licenses for fortune telling in the city limits believing the people of Leavenworth to be in need of infor mation in regard to the uncertain fu ture. After taking out a license the for tune tellers started out to canvass the town. The first few places were un productive of anything worthy to mention, but when the women got to F. W. Bartlett's store on South Fifth street the trouble began. One of the women walked into the place of busi ness where the proprietor was busy attending to the wants of an aged German woman. The Gypsy walked up to Bartlett and asked whether he wanted his fortune told. He an swered that he did not need enlight enment. The Gypsy then turned to the customer and put the same ques tion. The woman also refused to al low the Gypsy to read her palm. The fortune teller became angered and proceeded to inform the woman that a curse would be cast upon her, that she had refused the aid of the hidden powers and that nothing but evil and misfortune could come of it. The wo man was about to begin incantations and utter a curse against the unof fending German woman when Bart lett, tired of the nuisance, stepped out from behind his counter and ordered the woman out of the store. It was too much for the Gypsy. She flared up, swore audibly at the watch maker, called him all the names in the allowed and forbidden codes and refused to go. He deemed, bodily ejectment necessary and pushed the woman out of the door. There she was Joined by one of her comrades and there in plain English the two berated the proprietor in terms which would hardly have belonged to the real Gypsy. Bartlett at once telephoned for a policeman and Officer Powell placed the two women under arrest. There was another scene at the station a few minutes later when their com panions came in and demanded that they be released. This was done with the proviso that the entire camp leave town at once. WELL MADE GOOD. Great Northern's Dry Hole Becomes an Oiler. Chanute. Kan.. Aug. 26- After coming in as dry as a bone so dry in fact that the company decided to abandon it well No. 3 for the Great Northern company is now an oiler with an output of from five to six barrels a day. The change took place over Sunday. The well was brought in Saturday morning. A thick stratum of oil sand was discov ered but It was barren of petroleum. This fact Was a great disappointment to the company, as the otner two wells which had been drilled on this ease -were both excellent oners ana It was thought that No. S had been located in the trend maicatea Dy tne first two wells. The company decided to abandon No. 3. When Isett Mildren. the drilling contractors, had finished their work Saturday, It was so late mat any further disposition of the hole was postponed to Monday. Monday tne drilling crew neiu oui nd started baling the water out of the hole for the purpose of plugging it. Much to their surprise, wnen tne baler came up the first time, instead of being full of water, it was full of oil. Manager C. D. Tillson was noti fied and upon examining the condition of the well, decided to shoot it. This was done and the well is now yielding steady production. THEIR SALARIES FIXED. Coffeyvllle Board of Education Holds Important Session, rv.ffevville. Aug. 26. In pursuance to a call by President Anderson, the Board of Education held a special meeting at the regular meeting place. The meeting was called tor tne pur pose of fixing the salaries of the teachers who have been previously employed. The summary is as roiiows: Twenty-three grade teachers at 47.50, total $1,092.50: one grade teacher at $42.50, total $42.50; one grade teacher at $45.00. total $45.00; four grade teachers at $52.50, total 210.00: one principal at $75. 00, total 75.00; three principals at $70.00, total 210. Total $1,675.00. One principal at the high school at 95.00, total $95.00: one Latin and assistant principal, $70.00, total $70; three teachers at $60.00, total $180. Total $345.00. Music teacher at $80.00, total $60; anitors at $202.50. total $202.50. and manual training at $60.00, total $60. Total, $2,442.50. BLUFFED A RAILROAD. The Sheriff of Osborne County Col lected an Old Tax Warrant. Sheriff Nate Watson last week sur prised the occupants of the court house by collecting a tax warrant from the Missouri Pacific railroad for 110 which it was not thought pos sible to collect without a hard fight. In fact, the county had offered to compromise the matter last June for $82. But Nate simply bearded tne lion in his den and made the brass collars dig up In a hurry. The state fixed the ievy for 1903 at 6.4 mills and the county raised it to 7 mills. The Missouri Pacific kicked on paying the difference until our stern sheriff got after them. Sheriff Watson, who is a member of the local militia com pany, did not go with the boys to Topeka. He had intended to go. but so many of our citizens kicked on his leaving while the county is overrun with lawless characters that he con cluded to stay here and protect the people who elevated him to office. The people appreciate his vigilance. Osborne Farmer. Good Wheat and Quick Threshing. -Frank Beltz was in town today from his Honey creek farm, in which neighborhood he says the corn is look ing fine. Incidentally in mentioning his neighbors he said that W. S. At kins' wheat when threshed, yielded 3 0 bushels to the acre and that Albert Weidenhaft Just fell short a little of having wheat to make the same rec ord. Henry Moyer, wnose wheat also made 30 bushels to the acre, when threshed earlier in the season, owns the machine that does much of the threshing in that neighborhood, and when it was running at a pretty fast gait on the Weidenhaft wheat, time was kept on the work it was doing and it was found to be running out wheat at one period at the rate of 3 Vs bushels per minute, which if kept up means that the machine was capa ble of threshing 210 bushels of wheat per hour. Anybody who can remem ber the threshing in this county 20 years ago, when a machine would pound away for half a day on about 300 bushels of wheat, can realize the difference between now and then and the marvelous change for the better in the conditions attending the whole operation. Before closing this item. It may be of interest to say that the Moyer, Atkins and Weidenhaft farms on which these big yields of wheat mentioned were realized, are all ad joining. Beloit Call. THE CATTLEMEN'S PICNIC. Kingman's Big Annual Affair to Begin Next Wednesday. Kingman, Kas., Aug. 26. The cat tlemen s picnic at Kingman will be held next week. It is the big affair or tne year In Kingman and the town Is crowded for four long days. There is about everything Interesting that anyone can think of, and Kingman takes care of the people while they are mere. This year the programme will con sist of music and a band parade in Main street on the first day. Follow ing this there will be a cowboy parade which will bring out all of the vis itors, the cowboys present showing off to good advantage. There will be prizes given for the best appearance. There is also a boy's riding contest for mis day. The afternoon of the first day, which is Tuesday, August 30, will be devoted to races at the driving nark. There are some good purses offered and a half dozen events will take up the afternoon. On Wednesday there will be an ex- nioit or the show stock for which prizes are also given. There Is also a ladies riding contest for this day at Riverside park. In the afternoon there will be races at the driving parte, Dan games between two clubs and band concerts in Main street. Thursday morning will see concerts and a ball game at the park and many other amusements. In the afternoon there will be more races at the track, which will bring out some more fine exhibitions of fast driving. On Friday there will be band con certs and ball games in the morning and a general good time in the after noon. This will consist of cattle rop ing, broncho riding and numerous other contests which the cowboys will work to amuse the big crowds. There will be the regular carnival doings that night with tin horns and all of the other things which go with a car nival. The Santa Fe will have special rates for this occasion. Are Using Steam Plows. Russell, Kan., Aug. 26. Many farmers in the central and western counties of Kansas have ceased de pending upin men and horses for their fall plowing and are using steam plows. Last year the wheat acreage in this part of the state was small because the farmers were unable to find men enough to put in the new crop. The farmers are now organis ing companies and purchasing steam plows, which do the fall plowing for wheat at a reduced expense and with more certainty. J. H. Hill, a member of the legislature from this county, heads a company of farmers using one of these plows. The company has a seventeen-gang plow attached to a 25-horse power engine. The machine wU plow forty acres in a day,.-. A $10,000 College Gift. Kansas City, Kas., Aug. 26. D. S. Stephens, chancellor of the Kansas City university, received word yester day that $10,000 had been set aside for the university In the will of Dexter Horton, a banker of Seattle. Wash., who died a few weeks ago. Mr. Hor ton was a warm friend of the uni versity and during a visit last spring Inspected the institution. Mr. Steph ens was unable to say last evening to what use the money would be put. as he had not received full particulars concerning the bequest. He said. however, that a new dormitory might be built, as at present many of the students are compelled to board away from the university. Death in a Mine. Pittsburg, Kan., Aug-. 26. Lester Quick, a miner 18 years old, employed in mine No. 5 of the Pittsburg Midway Coal company at Midway, was killed late Thursday afternoon. He was at work in his "room" in the mine when a mass of rock and slate weigh lng about two tons fell from the roof and crushed him. It Is presumed Quick had warning of the approach ing fall as his body was found near the entrance to the working place, in dicating that he had made an attempt to escape. His neck and his back were broken. To Work for Good Roads. Wlnfield, Kan., Aug. 26. B. F Sadil, secretary of the Winfield Com mercial club, has received a letter from W. H. Moore, president of the National Good Roads association, saying that in a short time the asso ciation would run a "Good Roads' train through Kansas, by the cour tesy of the St. Louis San Francisco Railroad company, and suggesting that a meeting be called for the stop to be made here. Mr. Sadil does not know the exact date the train will be here, but is arranging for a meeting. The Arkansas River Case. Kinsley, Kas., Aug. 26. The hear ing in the Kansas-Colorado suit about the right to the head waters of the Arkansas river began here Thursday before Special Commissioner Richard son. The witnesses testified that the Arkansas river Is not nearly so large as a few years ago, before the Colo rado irrigation ditches were built. Crops are not so good as when the river contained more water, they said. The absence of the underflow was also touched upon. Rain Helps the Corn. AT HUTCHINSON. This valley had a good rain, which came up with a chilly northeast wind. The temperature fell lower than at any previous time this month. The rain will do the corn great good and make a large yield certain. AT WINFIELD. There was a fine rain In this county Thursday afternoon. It was not of sufficient quantity to interfere with the fall plowing. Holton Can't Understand. Hiawatha does not have so many people by 600 as Holton has, accord ing to the latest reports, yet they are to have free delivery there in Novem ber. Wonder how Postmaster Her bert and Congressman Curtis managed it. Holton Recorder, New Kansas Rural Routes. Washington, Aug. 26. The follow ing rural free delivery routes have been ordered established October 1 in Kansas: Hanover, Washington coun ty, one additional route; area covered. it square nines; population, 421. RAILROAETNHWS. Burlington System Wilt Hare Headquarters at Kansas Citj. One Million Dollars to Be Spent In Improrements. SEW FREIGHT YARDS. Many Miles of Switches in Clay County. Gossip and Matters of Interest In Railroad Circles. Kansas City, Aug. 26. There Is no longer any doubt that James J. Hill, the controlling spirit of the Burlington system. Intends to recognize the im portance of Kansas City as the logical center of the operation of the great 18,000 miles system represented in the Burlington and its allied lines. The general offices of the companies interested may not be ipoved here, but officials of higher rank will be station ed in Kansas City and the holdings of the company will be extended so that the great business that Wilt go through Kansas City when the jiew gram car rying line is built by. the: Burlington from Kansas City to the gulf may be handled easily and promptly; With this line completed the great wheat crops of the northwest will be diverted from St. Paul and Minneapolis and from the eastern seaboard to the gulf by way of Kansas City. The Burlington has plans completed for the expenditure of about 1 million dollars in the development of terminals on its holdings in Clay county. The terminals in Clay county will probably be one of the greatest freight terminals in the United States. They will be to Kansas City what East St. Louis is to St. Louis or Hoboken and Weehawken are to New York. The Burlington will build many miles of tracks and switches in Harlem and will use them to store freight cars and make up and break up freight trains. Trains can be sent out from the vards across the river to St. Louis, Chicago, Omaha and all points north, east and west on the Burlington system without having to cross the river. The busi ness over the line to the gulf will be handled through Kansas City over the Outer Belt railroad, which the Kansas City, Mexico Be Orient railroad is going to build. The Burlington has just completed a million bushel elevator in Harlem, the first of the long line of improvements to be made in Clay county. FOR DAILY EXCURSIONS.. Passenger Men Discuss Move to In crease World's Fair Traffic. Views of passenger- officials upon the advantage or disadvantages of putting on dally coach excursions to St. Louis form the nucjeus of conver sation between employes of this de partment of railroad service. Since Assistant General Passenger Agent Richardson of the C. E. I. announced a daily coach excursion between St. Louis and Chicago for the latter half or August and within three days withdrew jthe announce ment, mcie lias uccu a cucicll uu easiness prevailing. Passenger officials of several of the St. Louis lines are In favor of putting on a dally coach rate, which is about one cent a mile each way, from a territory within a 200-mile radius of St. Louis. Others do not want the rate effective outside of a 100-mile radius, and many oppose changing the present plan of two coach rate days every week. Practically all are opposed to a daily coach rate which would take in Chicago and Kansas City, arguing with considerable justness that this would materially affect transconti nental and through rates generally and make a rich harvest for the scalp ers. It is also claimed that a daily coach rate from Kansas City to St. Louis and from St. Louis to Kansas City would necessitate a material reduction in the present rate from Kansas City to Chicago, which would have a far reaching and dangerous Influence on the rate situation throughout the country, as a general readjustment would be necessary to meet the change. Obviously the Chicago lines oppose this plan, as It would have the result of making St. Louis even more of a gateway from the west and southwest than it is and strip Chicago of much of Its through business. The advocates of a daily coach rate from a territory within 200 miles of St. Louis contend that the large cities arje not within this radius. and the dif ference between the regular and coach rates from points In this territory would not be sufficient to make an adjustment of the through rates nee essary nor afford the scalper an op portunity of making capital out of the business. It Is claimed that the. statistics of previous expositions show that the large percentage of the total attend ance came from territory within a radius of about 200 miles of the city in which the exposition ,was located and that every opportunity and in ducement should be given to the peo ple in that radius to visit the fair. Further contention is made that as the distance is within a twelve hours fun, sleeping cars or expensive equip ment will not be needed and that day coaches, costing comparatively little to operate, can be used at a profit. In answer to the advocates of the dally, coach rates from a radius of 200 miles the many in favor of leav ing the arrangements as they are claim that these excursions run daily would spoil the local business and that a large percentage of visitors to the fair from distances within the 200- mile radius will either use the coach The quantity of the food taken is not the measure of its nourishment. The quality is what counts. Many babies take large quantities of food and get a small amount of nourishment. Mel lin's Food babies take a small quan tity of food and get a large amount of nourishment. Send for our book MeJUn's Food Babies." x. MELLIN'S FOOD CO.. BOSTON. MASS. 1 fF 1 excursions which are now run twice a week or take the regular trains. On the other hand it is- contended that under the daily coach excursion many would come to the fair several times whereas under the present ar rangement they would only come once or twice. WANTED TO VISIT HOSPITAL. Mrs. Gray Was Given Opportunity to See Santa Fe Hospital. One story of the Scranton disaster of the Santa Fe last week has not yet been printed. Mrs. Robert Gray, of Flora, ill., who with' her husband. Captain Gray, was going to California, is the subject of the story. While she was walking up and down the Santa Fe depot plat form during the time the train stopped here for lunch, her attention was at tracted to the Santa Fe hospital build ing. She -remarked its architectural beauty and made Inquiries concerning it and examined it quite closely with her field glass. "I should like ever so much to go through that building," was her final statement, as she stood on the car platform as the train slowly pulled out or the yards. Within five hours of the time she made that statement she had been brought back to Topeka and was an inmate of the hospital. Captain Gray remained in Topeka with Mrs. Gray. He is an officer in the tegular army and he visited with the volunteers at Camp Bailey. Strange things happen sometimes. Accepting Freight to Japan. Chicago, Aug. 26. Notice is given by the Harriman lines that com mencing August 30, the Pacific Mall Steamship company from San Fran Cisco and the Portland Asiatic Steamship company from Portland, Ore., will resume receiving freight destined to Yokohama, Kobe, Naga saki, Japan, and for points beyond those ports. Freight will also be accepted for Chemulpo, Gensan and uusan, k.o rea, but bills of lading must be in dorsed bearing notation, "All ware house and extra charges at Nagasaki to be oaid by consignees. Freight will not be handled for New Chwang, Port Arthur, Dalny, Korsankovsk, Alexanderovsk, Niko laevosk, Chlnampo and Mokpo. Shipments of firearms, cartridges, caps, or unloaded cartridge, shells destined to Yokohama, Kobe, Naga saki, Japan, or points via these ports will not be accepted. Express Companies Form Pool. ReDorts that an agreement has been reached for the pooling of profits of all the express companies according to a scale of percentages fixed for one vear apparently are confirmed by a sudden rise in the stocs of all express companies. The stock of the Wells Fargo company has advanced $2 5 per share. United States stock went up $10 a share, while an advance of $a a share was made in the stock of the Adams and American tjompanies. The pooling agreement is said to also strictly define the territory to which each company will operate, and, according to report, no company can for one year extend its service into the territory of another company. Curbs Newsboys on Pennsylvania. General Manager Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad has Issued an order relating to the privileges of newsboys on passenger trains. Here after the venders will be subject to orders from conductors. They must be neat and clean and wear uniforms. Only one will be allowed on any train and can only take one trunk. They shall not be permitted to deposit news papers, periodicals, books, candies, etc.. on the seats of cars or in the laps of passengers and tre only to an nounce, in a low tone of voice, not exceeding four times in each car, the article offered for sale. Trying to Get Cotton Pickers. Chicago, Aug. 26. Railroad man agers in Chicago have been appealed to to send 8.000 cotton pickers into the fields of Oklahoma and Indian Territory in order to save the crop. In response to this appeal the agents of the Rock Island and other south western systems are searching Chi cago to secure a large number of Ital ians willing to, take the jobs. It is purposed to make a rate of 1 cent a mile for all laborers from this terri tory, and from Texas and Tennessee. where agents also have been sent in search of men. The estimate is that at least 8,000 1 No "Matter Who's 'Ejected- Just the same NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY- laborers are needed to save all the crop. Fully double the acreage of last year was put Into cotton this sea son. Early in the year the wheat proved a failure and thousands of acres were plowed up and sown to cotton, which promises to yield from three-quarters of a bale to a bale per acre. CONSCIENCE HURT HIM. Northern Pacific Section Foreman Confesses to a Steal. St. Paul, Aug. 26. A letter was received today at the office of President Klliott of the Northern Pacific railway from a wo man missionary in San Francisco, telling of the conversion of a man formerly a section foreman of the Northern Pacific road, and that he confessed to her that for several years he regularly reported one more man than he had on his force in his payroll. When the check arrived he appropriated the amount. The missionary says the man's confession is so sincere that he wishes to return not only the money taken, but wishes to observe the old mosaic law, of paying one-fifth additional in the form of smart money. The letter asks that the records be gone over apd the amount determined. To Make Faster Time. Kansas City, Aug. 26. The Katy is remodeling all its tracks with a view of making faster time with its pasen ger trains. The line between Paola, Kan., and Parsons ,1s receiving espe cial attention. New rails have recent ly been laid and now large forces of men are at work ballasting the road bed. The Katy uses the Frisco tracks from Paola to Kansas City. From Paola to Parsons, on its own line, is a distance of 94 miles. Already 31 miles of this track has been ballasted. and isin tip-top shape, according to Katy officials. "When the improvements are made on the track between Paola and Par sons," said a representative of the Kayt yesterday, "our trains will make much better time than at present. In fact, it is the intention to run the 137 miles from here to Parsons in three and one-half hours." WiU Surely Build. Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 26. In a telegram Senator Andrews, presi dent of the Santa Fe Central and Albuquerque Eastern railroad com panies, says that he will be in Albu querque in a few days for the purpose of letting the contract for the con struction of the latter road through Tijeras canyon. He will be accom panied by General Torrance of Pitts burg, Pa., who is a stockholder in both railroad companies, and who is deeply Interested in coal properties in New Mexico. The contents of this telegram is additional assurance that the Albuquerque Eastern.wil be built. Attendance Picks Up. St. Louis, Aug. 26. Within the last week the traffic to St. Louis has as sumed such proportions that passen ger men have been compelled to make repeated cans ror more equip ment and it is said that even now the passenger equipment of almost every Plasters are the original and 1 FE" mm or mi&gii Y knmswMIy mm? rw if Allcock's f oeen equauea i 11 or any poison 6 N is a pam-curer. We guarantee tnem to contain no Dellaaonna, opium rhatever. Absolutely sale, wonderfully curative. ever Accept St. Louis line is taxed to its utmost capacity. Railroad officials generally state that more visitors have been brought to St- Louis since the fair was opened than were carried to the Columbian exposition at Chicago in the same time. A Good Berth for A. C. Burrows. Kansas City, Aug. 2. A. C. Burrow, city freight and passenger agent of the St. Joseph and Grand Inland railroad, has been appointed passenger agent of the) Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rntl road, with headquarters in Kansas City. Mr. Burrows succeeds the late Byron P. Humphreys, who died recently in Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Burrows was formerly city ticket and passenger agent of the Chicago Great Western. Attempt to Free Mattox.. "Leavenworth, Kas., Aug. 26. It Is reported that a movement will soon be started to have Clyde Mattox par doned from the Kansas penitentiary. Mrs. Hatch, mother of Mattox, was here in consultation with lawyers. Mattox is now serving a life sentence for murder. He Is at present prison photographer and helps keep the Bertillon records at the Kansas peni tentiary. By the personal efforts of hia mother he was pardoned out of the United States penitentiary by Presi dent McKlnley. It was represented that he was ill of consumption. Indian Corn Dance. Hiawatha, Kan., Aug. 26. The big corn and bean dance of the Indians In this part of the state is now In prog ress on the Kickapoo reservation in this county. Besides the Kickapoos there are Iowa. Sac and Fox. Potta watomie and other tribes of Indians engaged in the dance. Many visitors have been to the grounds to see the dance. The Indians are well behaved In spite of the fact that the dance Is carried on according to old tribal customs. After a Kansas Convict. Leavenworth, Kas., Aug. 26. Capt. O. W. Hyatt, of the guard at the Kansas penitentiary, has started for Visalia, Cal., to bring back Clarence White, a convict who escaped while a night fireman by scaling the wall August 9. A warrant was sworn out here charging White with escaping and requisition papers will be carried from Governor Bailey. Low Rates to Northern Resorts. Excursion tickets at unusually low rates, good for the season, on sale dally to Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, Rreen Lake, uevii s LaKe, Uogeb c. Ashland. Marquette, Superior, Duluth. St. Paul, Minneapolis and many other cool and dellgntrui lake resorts reached by The Northwestern Line. Stop-overs at si. i-ouis permit visit to the World'3 fair en route. Information and tickets can be se cured from your home agent. Booklet entitled "The Lakes and Summer Re sorts of the Northwest" mailed upon receipt of 4 cents in stamps. A. L. Fisher, passenger agent, 823 Main St., Kansas City. Mo. Tear an Allcock's Porous Plaster in two length wise, and apply on soles of feet; renew the plaster every time ;the feet are bathed. You wiH be sur prised how it will relieve rheumatism in the feet or ankles. For tired or lame feet relief is afforded at once. genuine porous plasters and have never a Substitute.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1904. TOPEKA STATE JOCMAL. BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAN. Entered July 1. W.i. as second class tnattet- at the poslofTlce at lopeita, iuui.. under Uia act o congress. VOLUME XXXI.. No- 201 terms; op bubs.iptioN'. r;aiiv Mfitinn i usrwi bv carrier. 10 cents a week to y part of Topeka. or auDurbs, or at the aame price In any lvan us towns where tno p-ir has a, carrier system. Hy mail, on year ZZ iiy mail, three months fr Weekly edition, one year Saturday edition o daUy. one year.. TELEPHONES. Business On-iceTn. Pno"? Business Otfice Ind- .Pone 107 Reporters' Koom aell 'fa 77 Keporters- Room rPW 60 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka Stafe Journal build in B. a1"1 02 Kansas avenue, comer of Eintn. .EW YORK OFFICE; 2U Vanderbilt Biu. Paul Block. Mt CHICAGO OFFICE. 1640 Unity Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. PtTLL LEASES "WISE REPORT Cy I2IS ASSOCIATES f&SSS. ""The Plate Journal Js men?!?5rf da? Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great ne lianfsatlon foV exclusive afternoon publi cation In Topeka, c Jnur- Th. news IsYecelyed In the State Jour rial buuaing over wires u 2tf!nilIi!IIIIIiII!!III!IIIIIIIIIllII!l!!!IIIIM u reeowa Id's iini.in.iiii.inM TT o c m rag; FO ire 21 v -3 1 We are too crowded with busy, happy buyers who are buying for the future at prices--well, they take II J a whole armful home of good things for a few cents All the H HatSi and Furnishin Goods home: news while away. Subscribers of the State Journal may during the summer may havfc the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at the rate oC thirty cents a month. Address changed aa often as desired. While out of town the State Journal mill be to you like a daily letter from home. x AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Subscribers to the State Journal visiting the World's Fair may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any address In St. Louis at the rate of thirty cents a month. The last edition of the State Journal reaches St. Louis the following morning. The paper can be sent care of the Kansas building. If desired. The operations about Port Arthur are very depressing to the Russian navy. It looks as though Russia's promise to evacuate Manchuria in October may yet be fulfilled. They are deporting lawyers from Cripple Creek. A place where law Is not recognized has no use for lawyers. Tom Watson declares that the Demo crats are after the offices. No such charge could be made to stick against the Populist candidates. World's fair boomers are trying to Increase the attendance by circulating a story that one of the guards found a coat with $17,000 in one of its pockets. Once more a threatened international war has been averted by Russia's dis arming her disabled war ships that had taken refuge in the harbor of Shanghai The New York World makes the as tounding suggestion that New York Democrats be permitted to make their own choice of a candidate for governor. Judge Parker has let it be known that he will not make public his letter of acceptance until after President Roosevelt has been heard from. There seems to be no necessity for this de lay. He might turn it loose and send a telegram afterwards if occasion should arise. General Shease, a cattle raiser of South Dakota, announces that thecattle raisers of his section are about to ap peal to President Roosevelt to save them from bankruptcy by intervening to bring the stock yards strike to a close. Shease took 500 head of cattle to the stock yards at Chicago rather than face the loss of feeding them longer. He declares they sold at a loss of S8 a head. Others, he said, are feeding large herds at heavy loss rather than face perhaps greater losses by shipping. According to General Shease the cattle raisers of the Dakota are in a desperate condition. President Roosevelt Inter vened In one strike and won the good opinion of consumers of coal thereby. If not of the parties directly concerned. Perhaps he may fail to see a way by which he can accomplish anything in connection with the present difficulty. STIRRING THE WATERS. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Fears of crop damage are visibly re straining orders from farming district merchants. The price war that has bro ken out among steel manufacturers seems to have decreased sales. Yet there are many indications that the ultimate effect of these movements will be to broaden the basis of business and Increase Its activity. For many months the dominating feature of business has been a reluct ance to engage in new enterprises or those Involving more than the mini mum of risk. Established businesses appeared to be everywhere at least modei ately prosperous, but their man agers seemed to have little thought of expansion and Investors were manifest ly averse to taking chances. The main cause of this attitude of in difference Is now well understood. It was not so much lack of confidence In the future of the country Itself as wide spread distrust of its existing financial and industrial leadership. Such Incom petence, to use no harsher term, as the hard coal strike and the passage of the Steel common dividend betrayed, chill ed and soured the public mind, to the paralysis of commercial imagination. Something was required to break up this apathy and stimulate the public mind Into activity. The excitement, to speculative effort, brought by the re ported wheat shortage, seems to have stirred the stagnant waters. The re duction In steel prices, long held up chiefly because there seemed no new business to be encouraged by conces sions, appears likely to give another sttmulus to enterprise. Those who hold on too long for high wheat profits will, of course, pay dear-

Must be sold. Nothing reserved. Every Dollar's worth must go, even if we have to give it away. Ask For One of Those Big Packages For 25 Cents LOTS OF GOODS NOT DAMAGED BY FIRE OR WATER AND 27 KANSA AVENUE ly for their error. Some steel manu facturers may not find In a larger vol ume of trade compensation for reduced margins of profit. But the general ef fect seems like to be good in arousing new hopes of successful endeavor and in breaking up thegeneral lassitude In to which investors had fallen. If some fortunes are lost or .impaired, others will be made or increased. Best of all, new leaders may be developed and brought to the front. The commer cial imagination should be stimulated and indifference be goaded into new activity by the present stirring of the waters of production, consumption, ex change, and investment. JAYHAWKER JOTS. Attica still rinds it cool enough for flinch. Anthony Is large enough to support three automobiles. Jetmore Is fortunate enough to har bor a painless dentist. Lyons pavement of shale and cinders is said to be very effective. Burlington yearns for an anti-expec-torating ordinance that can be enforc ed. Hobo socials are popular at Syracuse. Old clothes are worn and knives and forks cut out. Attica has the "Worlds fair craze" bad. Nearly every person in town has gone or is going. Passing movers have despoiled one farm yard near Irving of 200 spring chickens, frying size. Frankfort is easy. The town has al ready given away four free franchises for electric railways. A nine inch limb at Lyons contains ten fully developed apples. This is a great fruit year for Kansas. An Olivet woman went to gather a bouquet for the breakfast table and got her feet wet. To show his appre ciation the brute of a husband gave her a terrific beating. Then the court gave him 90 days. An Arkansas City freak chicken has wings upside down. Now tWe question is where will the fowl go when it flies. Hunting for pearls has become a great fad at Ottawa since a fisherman brought up a $300 specimen the other day. A Parsons woman took her first auto ride at 93. She says it carried her back to her first buckboard ride and sweet sixteen. Newton golflsts found gadding over the green with the temperature at 95 not exactly the holiday they had been promised. A blast touched off at El Dorado sent a boulder through the roof of a fash ionable residence that left a hole big enough to drive in a cow. The hardest blow Hutchinson has re ceived was when an eastern visitor pointed to a street car and exclaimed: "Oh, what a pretty little milk wagon." GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.l A girl never gets chilly as long as she looks better without a wrap than with one. A real loyal wife is one who doesn't tell the neighbors when her husband beats her. A married woman Is able to reach a de cision without consulting; her reflection in the mirror, but an unmarried woman isn't. This rose fever some people claim to have is Just common ragweed fever. The only difference is that rose fever sounds more cutglassy. All other methods for strengthening the memory of a woman are useless com pared with one which never fails, and that is making her jealous. About the time that a man's children grow taller than he is. the discovery is made that he is beginning to show the stoop of business care and age. This is the season of the year when neighbors will see a light flickering in the cellar shortly after the arrival of callers: that means the hostess is show ing how much fruit she put up. "When you are sick, what do you do to attain distinction?" was asked a Kansas City woman recently. "Oh, that's easy," was the reply. "We engage a trained nurse from St. Louis." It Is simrly unfortunate when a mother has to scheme ways for keeping father and children home In the evenings, but it is a tragedy when the rest of the family have to invent home temptations for mother. When a man talks too much his wife pulls at his coat for him to sit down, and it is not until she is dead and he makes a fool of himself that the world recognizes how much of his past good rec ord was due to this Coat Tail Censor. HILL TURNS UP. Democratic Campaign Takes on Active Appearance in New York. New York, Aug. 26. David B. Hill was again in the city and saw a num ber of state and national politicians. He had a long conference with Chairman Sheehan of the national executive com mittee .and he also was at the Demo cratic state headquarters. Chairman Sheehan took active charge of affairs today at the executive com mittee rooms and received a steady stream of politicians from New York, as well as from other states. Colonel Henry Waterson of the Louisville Courier-Journal, was at headquarters conferring with "Vice Chairman DeLancy Niccoll and Secre tary Woodson, regarding the coming convention of Democratic editors in New York City. Mr. Waterson and other prominent Democratic newspaper men have taken an active interest in his matter. Herman Ridder, of the New Yorker Staats Zeitung. Charles W. Knapp of the St. Louis Republic, and other members of the committee having charge of the arrangements have notified the national committee that they will do their utmost to assist in making the convention a success. It is estimated that from 1,000 to 1,200 edi tors will be present. DOCTOR TO ENJOIN RIVAL. Asks Court to Prevent Jllin from Prac ticing Medicine lit Jersey. Atlantic City, N. J.. Aug. 26. What may be regarded as a curiosity in med ico legal jurisprudence is presented in the riling of a bill In the court of chancery by a prominent physician, who prays that another physician be enjoined from practicing his profes sion within the limits of this city. The answer is made returnable on Septem ber 6, and the action of the chancellor Is awaited with keen interest by the great army of doctors, not only in this resort but throughout the state of New Jersey. It is not alleged that the physician whose means of livelihood is thus threat ened is not competent or skillful. It is admitted he is "regular" and has com plied with the laws of the state, and is duly licensed to practice medicine. The complainant sets forth that he has been a practicing physician in Atlantic City for 25 years and has built up such an ex tensive practice he needed help from stu dents. In the last 15 years he has had numerous assistants and has required that they enter into a written agreement, by the terms of which they deprive them selves of the right to practice medicine independently in Atlantic City after leav ing his employ. In March, 1901, the complainant employ ed an assistant at $40 a month and 35 per cent of the fees collected for his personal services. This assistant signed the agree ment, as had his predecessors. He must have made many friends among his em ployer's patients, for he left him and set up a "doctor's shop" of his own, where he is said to be doing a land office Busi ness .and. as alleged in the complaint, in violation of the compact. Now the okl doctor wants to stop him and compel him to take in his shingle. 17. F. STARTS TROVBLE. LOSER TO GET $8,750. Nice Little Sum for the Defeated Fighter at frisco. San Francisco, Aug. 26. Jeffries and Munroe will battle for a purse of $25,000. Of this amount 65 per cent or $16,250, will go to the winner and 35 per cent, or $8,750 will revert to the loser, a rather excellent balm for defeat. From present indications the attendance should be large, for there is widespread interest In the mill and the advance sale nas been grati fying. Munroe has the advanage of two years over the champion. Jeffries was born at Carroll, Ohio, in 1875, while Munroe iirst saw the light at Chester, Pa., in 1877. Jeffries stands 6 feet 1 inches, wmle Munroe's height is exactly 6 feet. Munroe stated positively that he would not have a piece of money down on himself. Out at Sheehan's tavern Munroe. with trainers and sparring partners, was resting up. For the first time Munroe made puolic his list of seconds. The men behind him In the ring will be Kid McCoy, Tim Mc Grath, Frank McDonald and probably Harry Foley. RIGHT TO SWEAR AT HOME. Woman's Fines for Profanity Appeal ed for a Court Decree. Makes Local Through Rates on Wire and Nails. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. tFrom the Chicago Daily News. Theory Is a vine from which facts are gathered. Charity with a string to It uncovers a multitude of sins. The last turn of the worm is art to be on the angler's hook. If a woman refuses to tell her age give her time for time will tell. There is no fool like the me with a bald pate, and moth-eaten whiskers. It's a shame that men are not as smart at 45 as they thought they were at 25. A girl's dearest girl friend is apt to be one she has known less than two weeks. It sometimes happens that a woman never forgives a man for letting her mar ry him. Don't expect to meet with success: you must get a hustle on yourself and try to overtake it. The festive hobo toils not, neither does he spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like, one of these. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26. The action of the Union Pacific road and other lines in making a local through rate on wire and nails from Chicago to Colorado common points caused a commotion among local jobbers In those commodities. The rate does not provide a proportionate cut from Omaha to the west and permits Chi cago and Des Moines houses to ship to Omaha territory cheaper than the local men. Vigorous protest Is being made to the roads running west and they are being besieged with demands for a proportionate cut to the west. Whisky Kills Small Boy. Wausau, "Wis., Aug. 26. The three-year-old son of Charles Seymour of the town of Hewitt found a jug of whisky left near a well while his father and a crew of men were harvesting in a nearby field. He drank until he fell unconscious in the grass, where he was found several hours later. He died within a short time. Exposure to the sun is said to have caused death. Gives $70,000 to Cab Fellows. Louisville, Aug. 26. Joseph Born schien, who died recently in Paducah, left $10,000 a piece to seven engineers who had fired under him on the Illi nois Central railroad while he was an engineer. Bornschien was wealthy before he took to railroading. When his father died he left the cab to take charge of his estate. Hen York Monev Market. New York. Aug. 26. MONEY Money on call, per cent, closing bid 4 and of fered at 1 per cent; time loans slightly firm: 60 days. 2 per cent: 90 days. 24 per cent: 6 months. 3V per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. l&iTv 4'4 per cent: sterling exchange heavy, with actual business in bankers' bills at H.R7S5'4.S790 for demand and at M.8520f 4.8635 for 6u day bills; posted rates, J4.86 and J4.89: commercial bills, 4.85. SILVER Bar silver, Bic; Mexican dol lars. 45HC, BONDS Government bonds steady. Wilkesbarre. Fa., Aug. 26. Attor ney Bowman raised a knotty question before Magistrate Brown, of this city. He was defending a woman who had beert arrested '.tjy another woman for swearing at heri The magistrate imposed a fine for each cuss word, but Lawyer Bow man took an appeal, claiming that the swearing was done in a house, behind walls of brick and mortar, and that there is no penalty for such swearing. the law providing the imposition of a fine when blasphemy is indulged in on the streets or in public places. BEES PUNISH A BURGLAR. TEMPORARY REPAIRS. Have Been Made on Santa Fe Tracks Near Isleta Junction. Deming, N. M., Aug. 26. The washout on the Santa Fe railroad near Isleta Junction, on the Rio Grande river south of Albuquerque, caused by yesterday's heavy storm, was temporarily repaired late last night. There were five cars of soldiers In the train that first encountered the washouts. Many of the soldiers handled shovels and helped the la borers repair the damage. Five trains have already reached Deming and seven more overlands are proceeding to this point, where they will be trans ferred to the Southern Pacific. Unless further washouts occur some of the delayed trains will reach Los Angeles by midnight Saturday or early Sunday morning. BOLSTER IN BED WAS ALIVE. Hiding Woman's Clever Device Failed to Conceal Her. Owner of House Had Intended to Do It With a Whip. Alburtis. Pa., Aug. 26. A. L. Eisen- hart, residing near Maple Grove, while returning with his wife from a visit, saw a tramp trying to force the rear door of their residence. Eisenhart jumped off his wagon ran Into the barn, and, securing a big blacksnake whip, went for the bur erlarious hobo. The latter saw him coming and ran arourid the corner of tie house and plump Into a Dee hive, F(ir a few minutes the air was filled with a mixture of yells, bees and tramp, and when the latter finally got clear he was In such a condition that Eisenhart concluded he had been pun ished enough. MORTON AT HIS DESK. Secretary of Navy Will Soon Begin on Annual Report. Washington, Aug. 26. Mr. Morton, secretary of the navy, was again at his desk at the navy department today af ter an absence of several weeks. He will noon commence work upon his an nual report. In view of the speech he recently made in Chicago advocating the largest navy in the world, the bu reau chiefs of the department are hope ful that his estimates to congress this year will be generous. CHURCH IS NOW READY. First Congregational Edifice Has Been Redecorated. The First Congregational church, which has been closed for improve ments during the past three weeks, will be open for services Sunday. A new carpet has been laid in the church and extensive decorative work done on the walls. LOCAL MENTION. Mrs. M. A. Van Cleave, of No. 326 Branner street, who was hurt while boarding a street car at First and Kan sas avenue about two weeks ago, is re ported to be unable to use her foot. She strained a ligament in one of her ankles. Mrs. A. A. Hayes of Thirteenth and Fillmore streets is suffering from severe burns by the explosion of gas in a gas stove. W. J. Black, of the general passenger department of the Santa Fe, is in To peka again after an aosence ui a lew days. J. R. Koontz, general freight agent of the Santa Fe. and J. J. Coleman, assist ant general freight agent of the Santa Fe of Chicago, are in Atchison. They were In St. Josepn eariy mis ween. The Retail Grocers' and Butchers' as sociation had another meeting Thurs day night to make arrangements for the big picnic to be neia at uarneia parte on next Wednesday. Aug. 31. Mar shall's band was engaged to play dur-Ina- the whole rlav. Dancing will be en joyed in the casino at night. The park will be Illuminated witn arc ana incan descent lights. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 26. Charles Porter, James Harvey and "William Coleman, colored, were committed to the Chester county jail in default of $300 bail each on a charge of conduct ing speak-easies, selling beer illegally and conducting gambling headquar ters in Rock Run, a mile north of this town. Constable TJnsted, accompanied by a corps of officers, made a. raid upon the houses last night and found in one place 47 cases of empty beer bottles, gambling tables, etc. In one house, after the officers thought they had all the occupants, Of ficer Burrells found a woman pretend ing to be a polster. She had crawled under the bed cover, laid across the head of the bed and then put a pillow on top of herself. McGINTY UP FROM THE SEA. Appeared in Connection With Another Man's Overcoat. Wilmington. Del., Aug. 26. "I've come from the bottom of the sea and must live. My name's McGinntty Callahan," said an old man when arrested by Ser geant Rice at French Street station this morning for taking a coat from a com mercial traveler who had stepped away from his seat for a moment. The owner refused to prosecute and Callahan was released. 4 III t I I I 111 SATURDAY LAST DAY OF OUR REMOVAL SALE Many lines advertised in our previous ads are entirely gone, others going fast at prices quoted. While they last we will sell 7 bars Fairy Soap (toilet, bath or laundry) for 25c 8 bars White Russian or Lenox soap for 25c 9 bars Diamond C soap for. .25c 9 bars Woman's Friend soap for 25c 10 bars White Rose soap for. .25c 12 bars Monday Morning soap for 25c Marvel Scouring S oap, 3 10c bars for 10c Uneeda Biscuits, 2 5c pkgs. for 5c Graham or Oatmeal Crackers, 2 10c pkgs. for ..15c Water Thin Biscuits, 10c pkg. for 5c Zuleback, 15c package for 10c Wetmore's Gelatine, 10c pack age for 5c 2 packages Egg-O-See for. 15c 2 packages Vigor for... 15c 3 packages Wheatling for 25c None Such Pie Fruits, 10c pack age for 5c White Hoop Holland Herring (worth $1) 80c 2 15c cans Palace Car Toma toes for 25c Extra Fancy Sugar Corn. 10c All 25c Catsup 2 bottles for. ,S5c All 10c Catsups 5c Sweet Pickles (regular 25c per quart) 15c FRESH MEATS. Spring Chickens, dressed, R...15o Chuck Steak, per R lOo Round Steak, per lb 12Vc Sirloin Steak, per lb ....15c Porterhouse Steak, per Ib...l7f&e Boiling Meats, !tc up. Veal. Lamb, Mutton, etc., pro portionate price. Cottoline, 25c pails for. ,.20c Cottollne, 50c palls for 40c f X German Crop Report. Berlin, Aug. 26. The imperial crop report up to August 15, the scale be Ing one for perfect and five for poor est, shows the grades of winter wheat to be 2.6 against 2.7 in 1903; summer wheat 2.9 against 2.6. The report says that the unusual drought and heat from July 15, to August 15 hindered the plant growth remarkably. The potatoes and hay crops suffered se verely and many fields of clover and lucerne will not yield a second mowing. Eberhardt Brothers Win. Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26. The Eber hardt brothers of Sallna, Kan., today won the final round for doubles in the middle west tennis championship from Con Young of Omaha and R. D. Fletcher of Galesburg, 111., 2-6, 0-6, 6-3. 6-3, 6-2. Sentenced to Death. St, Petersburg, Aug. 26. It is report ed that Samsonoff, the assassin of M. von Plehve, has been sentenced to death and that the sentence Is now before the emperor. The reports which have been circulated about Samsonoff having es caped and also that he was dead are declared to be false. Convicts Abandon Lock Step. Anamosa, Iowa, Aug. 26. Following the example set at Sing Sing prison, Warden Hunter of the state peniten tiary at this place has abolished the lock step among convicts. United States military tactics will hereafter be used. The reform is made from a hu manitarian standpoint. An Official Denial. Oyster Bay, L. I., Aug. 26. It was authoritatively denied here today that the German student duelists who arrived In New York on the Duetseh- Iand yesterday en route to the St, Louis exposition came to this country either by the invitation or at the instance of President Roose velt, as has been announced. The president did not send an invita tion to them to come to this country and he has had no Intention of witness ing an exhibition of paukersl or stud ents' duel. ge,1vi RArvirp "Hftv!" shouted the rich man, peering cautiously over the stair way. "I want you." "Well," chuckled the burglar, reaching for the silver. "I'm at your service, sir." Chicago Daily News. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. PREPARED for particular people. Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Powder ask acquaintance. 25c WANTED First class short order cook. Cremerie restaurant. We are headquarters for the best Full Cream New York, Swiss, Brick and Limburger Cheese, and our prices always the lowest. We Strive to please in Quality, Price and Service. Davis Mercantile Co. High-Class Groceries and Fresh Meats at Popular Prices. Ind. 'Phones 703 and 1005. Bell 'Phone 703. sua iiansas Avenue. GOOD EATABLES AT SPECIAL PRICES Can always be found at the C. 0. D. The prices f quoted here should crowd the store tomorrow from morning until night. 25 lbs. Best Cane Granulated Sugar for $1.00 with a $5.00 order for other goods. Grocery Dept. 2,000 dozen Jelly Glasses, with tin tops, dozen 16c Fancy Lemons, dozen 10c Good Kansas Potatoes, bu 50c Pint Mason Fruit Jars, dozen.. S9c Half gallon Mason Fruit Jars, dozen 50c Uneeda Biscuit, 3 pkgs 10c Silk, "White Russian or Lenox Soap, 8 bars 25c Ginger Snaps, lb 5c Best Japan Rice, 4 lbs 25c Armour's Prepared Soups, can, 8c Sunlight Flour, highest patent. 60-Ib sack 91.20 Fresh Meat Dept. Fancy Rib Roasts, lb 10c Hamburg teak (suet free with each order), lb ..10c Loin Steak, lb 15c Round Steak, 2 lbs 25c Chuck Steak, 3 lbs 25c Fancy Kansas Cheese, lb 12 o Best New York Cheese, Tb...,15c Wolff Packing Co.'s Hams, lb 12 c Fresh Kaw River Catfish, lb 15o Dressed Spring Chickens, lb 18c Salt White Fish, each 5c Choice Celery ,bunch 5c Good Breakfast Bacon, lb.,.124c Fraser Bros. G. 0. D. Store Southeast Corner Sixth and Jackson Streets. Both Phones 660. -The Store That Undersells Them All THE UNION PACIFIC TEA CO. Sells pure Coffee at a less price than you can buy it else where and give you a handsome premium free. Give us a trial. Satisfaction or your money back. Sugar sold at cost. 513 Kansas Ave. You see our wagon everywhere. Try the Journal Want Columns for Quick Returns.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1904. 5 iieOO CREAM opclor IX USE THE MOST ECONOMICAL Greater in leavening strength, a spoonful raises more dough, or goes farther. Price Baking Powder Co. CHICAM. SHOOT'S MAN WINS. Mormon's Influence Dominates Vtah Republican Convention. Salt Lake, Vtah. Aug. 26. After a titter all day fight John C. Cutler of ea.lt Lake was nominated for gover nor bv the Republican state conven tion on the second ballot. The fight for the governorship was a three cor nered one between Oovernor Heber M. Wells, now serving his second term in that office. James H. Ham mond, present secretary of state, and John C. Cutler, a prominent merchant of Salt Lake, and absorbed the atten tion of the delegates to the exclusion of the rest of the ticket. Mr. Ham mond -withdrew after the first ballot The second ballot stood: Cutler, 239; Wells, 221. Charges that church Influence was being used in behalf of Cutler were freely made by the adherents of Oov ernor Wells and Mr. Hammona. in directly the fight for the United States Benatorship in the Utah legislature next winter was brought into the con test. Senator Smoot. who is one of ths twelve apostles of the Mormon church, being an open and active sup porter of Mr. Cutler, while Governor Wells was helped in his campaign by Senator Kearns. During the balloting the feeling between the Wells and Cutler adherents broke forth several times, but charges of church mnu ence which were expected to be made In the convention hall did not ma terlalize. Outside of the fight for the gover norship Interest centered In the nomi nation for congressman, lariy in tne lav the Wells and Hammond dele' rates succeeded in having this nomi nation postponed until the last and after Governor Wells was defeated a lively fight against the renominatlon of Congressman Joseph Howell was looked for. The complete ticket Is as follows: Presidential electors A. W. Wade, H. P. Alyton and D. H. Cannon. Congressman Joseph Howell, re nominated. Governor John C. Cutler. Secretary of state C. S. Tingey. Treasurer James Christiansen. Auditor James A. Edwards. Attorney general M. A. Breeden. UFE I'EXCK STARTS TROUBLE. Former Congressman Stirs Up Dele gates to Mining Congress. Portland. Ore.. Aug. 26. Great bit terness "was aroused at the afternoon session of the American Mining con gress by the Injection of the Mormon question into the discussion in regard to the selection of permanent head quarters for the congress. The senti ment that Utah will solve the Mormon problem In her own way, and that it will be settled to the satisfaction of the country was hotly Indorsed, judg ing by the applause ol tne largest as sembly that has attended tbe session f congress. A controversy started by Lafe Pence of Lewlston, Idaho, former member of congress from Colorado, developed Into a debate that It is now believed will result In the postponement of the election of the permanent headquar ters for one year or perhaps longer. Bl Sale of Sheepskins. London. Aug. 28. A sale of sheep skins was held at. Maiden Lane to day. The offerings numbered 3,496 bales. Special Train to San Francisco Santa Fe via Will leave Kansas City August 29 at 11 o'clock a. m.. with the grand com mandery. Knights Templar of Kan sas, and subordinate commanderles. Through Pullman palace sleepers and dining cars. Train will stop at nu merous points of interest en route. An opportunity for those who are not K. T.'s to visit California In first-class style, and with pleasant companions. (I Opening of Dunlap Hats, Thursday, Sept. 1. Emm U ilaking P 5 POLITICALGOSSIP Glimpse at the Candidates on State Tickets. Jobn T. Little, of Clathe, Is the Senior. ON THE SAME BASIS. Little Difference In Ages Hoch and Dale. of Fnsionlsts Dare Trouble to Furnish Headquarters. The age of the opposing candidates on the Republican and the Fusion tickets is about the same and both tickets are well represented by the "younger crowd" in the three parties. John T. Little, fusion candidate for the supreme court against W. R. Smith, is the oldest. S. H. Allen, fusion can didate for supreme Judge, Is also a lit tle olde rthan ills Republican opponent. Judge Cunningham. M. B. Nicholson, fusionist, and Clark Smith, Republican, who both want the same seat on the supreme bench, are about the same age. Francis M. Brady, fusion candidate for congressman-at-large, is about ten years younger than Charles F. Scott, theiftiepublican candidate. Judge Dale and Kd Hoch are about the same age. M. A. Householder, the fusion candi date for lieutenant governor, is older than his opponent. Dave Hanna. John H. Curran, fusion candidate far secre tary of state, is youneer than J. R. Bur row. W. H. McDonald, fusion candi date for state auditor, is about thesame age as Seth G. Wells. Thomas M, Dolan. fusion candidate for state treas urer. is older than T. T. Kelly. N. W. Wells, fusion candidate for attorney general, is older than C. C. Coleman. John Stowell. fusion candidate, and C. H. Luling, Republican, who both want to be insurance commissioner. are about the same age. When the election is over it may be that some of the younger men may feel older and some of tne older men may feel younger. The fusionists' state headquarters have been furnished in the old billiard room of the Throop hotel and the last furnishings were two second hand framed pictures and three second hand office chairs. "Billy" Pepperill. secretary of the Democratic committee, made Journey to a second hand junk shop 'and gave his order for three office chairs ana tne best collection of pictures, suitable for Democratic headquarters, tnat tne sec ond hand man had in stock. In an hour the second hand dealer delivered the chair and an old style framed picture of George Washington and also a very antique picture of Grover Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland Grover does not happen to be an ideal of Kansas Democrats and that.together with the fact that his face was adorned with a mustache, was too mucn for Pepperill. "That picture of George Washington will do." he said to the second hand man, "but put that other picture in that other room." William Allen White takes one view and the fusionist leaders at the state headquarters take another. Editor White says, editorially in the Emporia Gazette: "A number of the newspapers are trying to write Hoch s speech on prom bitlon for him. This is unnecessary. Hoch's whole life in Kansas is his speech on prohibition. Nothing that he can say or preach now can change it. If Hoch had been a wobbler; if he had been a trimmer, if he had been a weak character personally, what he might say would perhaps indicate what he will do. But no one who has watched his career in Kansas can doubt for a minute. "First. That Hoch will not butt Into any trouble on the prohibition question, and "Second, That if un4er the laws be fore him he can strengthen the en forcement of the prohibitory law by moral suasion or by legal steps h will do it, and keep doing it with all his heart though all the brewers in the state get up and boo at him to scare him. "Ed Hoch is a sane, sensible, courage ous gentleman and you can't coax ETTTi outside of the law to help the law; and you can't bulldoze him out of his duty inside the law. And that's all there is to it." At the fusion headquarters the lead ers say that although Hoch Is a Ger man that his attitude toward prohibi tion will lose him the votes of Ger mans and especially of Turner and Arion society members. The fusionists say that the German voters think that for any German candidate to be a pro hibitionist r-an that there is some thing radically wrong. Ed Hoch will begin his sneaking tour with the opening of the Republican campaign at Marion September 1. From that time on he will be busy jumping OF "t"t3n WL 3H 3 I from one stumping place to another. On September 2 he is billed for; Eur eka, September 3 Girard and then on the 8th at the Burlingame fair. He is expected to speak at the opening meet ing of the Shawnee campaign about September 10. Secretary Miller, of the Republican committee, said today that Hoch would be "billed solid up to No vember." Chairman Stubbs doesn't propose to slight William A. White, of Emporia, in this campaign. He intends to use him on the stump. White says that the former chairman would never give him a show. He will have no complaint of that kind against Stubbs. The first meeting of the campaign was held yes terday at Randolph, In Riley county. Stubbs assigned White as one of the orators. White was unable to go on ac count of the sickness of his boy. Stubbs will bill him regularly after September 1. Henry J. Allen spoke at Randolph. He sounded the "key note." At least he announced that it would be his key note. J. N. Dolly, candidate for senator in that district, went along to see what sort of a speech Allen put up. Edwin Anderson, a Swede, at JUinas- borg, is a new find. He is said to be a spellbinder. Stubbs proposes to use him extensively in the Swedish settlements of the state. AiHerson is a double- gaited talker. He uses both the Eng lish and Swedish language fluently. Rudolph Hatfield, of Wichita, will put in some time on the stump. He has confined his campaigning mostly to Sedgwick county, but this year he will be used over the state. He is a classical talker. In the past congressional nominees have spent most of their time in their own districts. Carr Taylor, of the speakers' bureau, will try to arrange it so that the congressmen this year can exchange dates. "'Our congress men are all good campaigners," said Taylor, "and there is no reason why they should be confined to their re spective districts. I hope we will be able to switch them around so that every congressman will be able to make a few speeches in each district." Troy, Kas., Aug. 20. At the High land station Woodman picnic and Doniphan county fair Thursday, Major A. M. Harvey, Democratic candidate for congress from thii district, made an address. He received marked at tention from many leading Republi cans of the county. Judge Dale, Dem ocratic candidate for governor, is ad vertised to speak today. Phillipsburg. Kans.. Aug. 26. The Democrats and Populists held a joint convention in this city Thursday for the purpose of nominating county of ficers. All the nominations, except ing one, were made by acclamation. The following is a list of the officers nominated: For representative, Geo. H. Tannahill; for county treasurer, C. W. Bowman; for sheriff. G. E. Utter; for county superintenaent, C. M. Ar nold; for register of deeds. Wayne Smith; for clerk of the district court. J. T. Hill; for county attorney, T. M. Sullivan; for county clerk, S. C. Landis: for coroner. Dr. Jeurink; for surveyor, William Gray; for commis sioner of second district. Joseph Brown; for commissioner of the third district. Charles Hasler. The ticket is considered to be a strong one. Six of the nominees are now ser'ing their first term, and were renominated. Hon. H. O. Castor, of Decatur coun ty, and fusion candidate for congress in the sixth district, was present and made an address before the conven tion which was well received. lightning was busy. Tivo Hours' Storm at Iola Much Damage. Does Iola, Kans., Aug. 26. For two hours Thursday a severe electrical storm raged over this city. A heavy rain accompanied the storm. The homes of A. N. Swigart. Lute Stover and Capt. Travis, were struck by lightning. At Swigart's four holes were torn in the roof, and two chim neys wrecked. At Stover's a chim ney was torn down, but Travis fared better, being little damaged. iwo dovs gathering: refuse were knocked down by a shock. Walt. Conlev. a barber, wm Innclr 1 down while walking: alonar the street and two employes of the Cement works were knocked down while t wont in tne quarry. the Iola Telephone comnanv hurl 250 phones burned out and the lino from here to LaHarpe was put out of Business. PliAYEUS FOR PARKER. Theatrical Women Have Organized Democratic Ix-aguc. Esodus. Auar. 2. .Tnp-o p.rv.p i. man usually Dliay. He entertninpH a number of men Thursday whose missions were political, as well as a deles-atinn r-n. 1 .l iieairicat vv omen s Karkop league. The candidate was told that 120 women are memners or tne league, which the delegation said, controls o votes in the theatrical profession. The memher propose to tiirn all of these votes into mo Liemocraiic column and as many more as can be reached bv their influence Th delegation was composed of members of companies now rehearsing In New York and received a cordial retention. Representative Krancis Rurfrm Hirri... of New York, vice chairman of state com mittee on organization, visited Rosemount while en route to Albany, where he will take steps looking to the opening of the upstate campaign. To Settle Rate AVar. London, Aug. 26. A telegram from Liverpool today announced that Lord inverclyde. chairman of the Cunard line, and Herr Ballin, director general of the Hamburg-American line, will meet at Frankfort, Germany, August 29, to try to settle the rate war. Messrs. Ismay and Dawkins. reDre- senting the International Marine com pany, have been invited to attend the meeting. The Kaiser Replies. St. Louis, Aug. 26. Through Gen eral von Plehen, adjutant general to Emperor William of Germany, the kaiser has replied by cablegram to the greeting extended to him by the Veterans' Association of North Amer ica. The emperor also expressed gratitude for the kind remembrance in which the former soldiers still hold the German army. Bank Clerks In Session. St. Louis, Aug. 26. The feature of today's session of the American Insti tute of Bank Clerks was the inter city debate on the question "That it is contrary to safe banking policy for commercial banking corporations to underwrite or trade in stocks, corpor ation bonds or real estate." Attention, Sir Knights. -Your notice is called to the fact that the sleeping car space on the Santa Fe Special Knights Templar train to San Francisco August 29 is being taken rapidly. All Sir Knights and their friends who are desirous of mak ing this trip should see the under signed immediately, who will be glad to reserve sleeping car space on this train and furnish other information. Address T. I King, C P. T. A., Toseluu New Fall Clothing New Hats, New Shoes, are daily arriving. Your inspection is invited As usual, our styles and fabrics are correct. nn r HMD 1 11 1 r Tomorrow jm fl fl t"'!2i "'"ill m H mm 11 mvTr- .m uti m m S 15 SUITS It's a clean-up of all seasonable suitsj in cluding many Fall and Winter suits left from last season but we need the room to show their New Magnificent Fall Stock.. It's a great chance to buy finest suits, meritorious merchandise. I You know H. S. M. cheap est suits sell at $15 so this makes the bar gain all the greater. $20, $18, $15 suits to morrow for. Youths' $10.00 offering Is one to sell Youth's Suits for $5.00. Materials are plain and fancy worsteds, smooth finished cassimeres and blue serges. Many heavy enough for fall -wear; sizes 13 to 20 years. Sounds almost unbe Hevable, but It's a fact. Tomorrow, your 25 Dozen Boys' Fine Negligee Shirts; plain and plaited bosoms; woven mad ras, Irish linens, Oxford cloth and per cales; light, dark and medium col ors; sizes 12 to 14 neck; former $1, $1.25 and $1.50 values; to- (Qr morrow, choice Saturday's Great Hose See Our Window 1,800 pairs Wilson Bros. Fine Hose Many of them imported, in all colors beautiful weaves, aualitv Usually re tail at 35c and 50c Tomorrow Sale price only SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS I stuck a cockade in my hat. And sought the bloody wars, That I might for my true Love win A hero's splendid scars. And after seven years I went My victories to tell, But lo! my Love had four times wed, And reared four tombs as well. Whereat I writ upon the same: "True heroes, to my mind. Are not the men who go to wars. But those who stay behind." Town Topics. The soldiers are all gone. The last left on Thursday. Sedalia opens a series of three games in Topeka on Sunday.. A. E. Cooper, division passenger ag.ejit of the Rock Island, is in Chicago to day. The city free employment bureau still has plenty of places for house girls and cooks. J. P. McLaughlin, county attorney of Osaee county, was in the city on Thursday. The street cleaning department has not been successful in an effort to free Kansas avenue from dirt. Another lot in all sizes of $5 and Jfl Florsheim fine shoes on sale for $2.95 tomorrow, at The Palace. The annual county convention of the W. C T. V. will be held in the First Christian church, Tuesday 30th. The state fair begins here three weeks from Monday and the public schools open four weeks from Tuesday. W. L. Taylor went to Charleston, W. Va, last night where he was called on account of the serious illness of his father. The establishment of a tuberculosis sanitarium is again getting into the newspapers. The state board of health it is said, will ask the legislature next winter for an appropriation for that purpose. Charles Samson returned from St, Louis today happy as a man can be. He entered his 2-year-old colts, Wilkesbar and The Pope in the standard bred class at the exposition and got prizes on both the fourth on Wilkesbar and sixth on The Pope. There were 164 en tries. Leslie F. Randolph has issued the first number of the "Inland Investor nd Midland Real Estate Magazine." He publishes it from No. 116 West Sixth avenue. It is a monthly arid contains a liberal amount of news and corres pondence gathered from a dozen states. Your merchant knows wool; vour cobbler knows 7 leather; I know drugs; we all know money the less we take, the better you like us. How many Topeka drug gists know that FRANK HOBAKT, 500 West Tenth. THE GOOD 96UCTTCU A7:.-.:- 'tftfi 709-711 Kansas Arexrae ff y I! II La IC II i y iriRjO!) for Tomorrow Money Saving Valves Boys' Dept. and $12.50 All Wool Snits. $5.00. Tomorrow's of the most remarkable we ever made. Going $10.00 and $12.50 $5.00 choice of $12.50 and $10.00 Suits for $5.00. Youths' Nobby JTew Fall Suits All the fashion points of col lege clothes, at $7.50, $10, $12.50, $15. Boys' Long Pants Flannels and cheviots; light and dark tl C colors; were $2.75; tomorrow. PIUJ Boys' Swell New Hats Wide brims, Sale $1 New Shirts for 69c If 31 cents is worth saving at all, here's your chance. Handsome, genuine Madras and French Percale' Negligee Shirts, such standard makes as Elgin, Eclipse and "Wilson Bros., all known to you in plaited and plain, cuffs on or and pattern, fine 18G separate-1 New $1.00 Negligees at It is handsomely printed and illustra ted and contains news of "mines ana mining, oil and gas, and lands and loans." A building permit was issued yester day to Mrs. Stella Parkes for the erec tion of a two-story frame dwelling at 309 Jefferson street, to cost $1,000; to M. F. Laycock for a $2,000 dwelling at 1415 West street, and to D. Pratt for a $250 addition to a dwelling at 310 East Lau rent street in North Topeka. Roadmaster T. S. Cafferty, of the Santa Fe, and Mrs. Cafferty leave to day for an extended trip through the east to last about one month. Return ing Mr. Cafferty will visit the World's fair at St. Louis where the Roadmas ters' Association will hold its annual convention. Mr. Cafferty is vice presi dent of the Roadmasters' Association. The morning and evening pedestrians to and from North Topeka are riding on the new street car bridge. Superintend ent Patten has made arrangements whereby the bridge is opened at 5:30 in the evening and cars are operated until midniirh. In the morning the cars go across the bridge until eight o'clock, when they are stopped again and work resumed. The State Journal is getting a small amount of advertising through the courtesy of the management of the "New" Crawford In its theater pro grammes, on its bill boards and in the local newspapers, but it must be dis tinctly understood that no bill is to be rendered later on for this service. Ad verHsincr or no advertising the State Journal will continue to print the truth about the Crawford theater and the at tractions brought here. Ramsey Family Reunion. St Louis, Mo., Aug. 26. The mem bers of the Ramsey family held a re union today in the Kansas state pavil ion. All persons of that name, wheth er they spell It "Ramsey" or "Ram say" had been invited to attend the exercises, which consisted of papers by E. M. Ramsey of Virginia, Mrs. Andrews of Kansas City and Mr. Ram sey of Pennsylvania. Case of Plague at Honolulu. Honolulu, Aug. 26. An autopsy on the body of the Corean, who was a steerage passenger on the steamer Coptic and who died after being landed at the quarantine station here, shows that he died from the plague. Died of Lockjaw. Wichita, Kan., Aug. 26. As a re sult of running a splinter into his foot about a week ago, Charles L. Hamil ton, aged 13 years, died of lockjaw at the St. Francis hospital. To the Woriu's Fair via the Missouri Pacific. If you do not live on the lino of the Missouri Pacific, ask for your ticket via that line from Kansas City. There ar seven daily trains between Kansas City and St. Louis, making connection with all trains on all lines running into Kansa3 City. Any ticket agent will sell you a ticket at the reduced rate reading over the Missouri Pacific from Kansas Citv. Healthy, happy babies. Mothers say Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is the greatest baby medicine in the world. 85 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Irug Co. CLOTHES STORE" mm m, m SwV jjj kuy8 choice of this sea- 00. sSf son's $5 and $6 finest r Trousers all makes. New Fall Knee Pant Strictly all wool. In nobby fabrics and newest colorings to be worn this Fall. Elegant, serviceable school suits, in newest fashions, unlike any to In the city are $5 values In every way. Buy now and you buy them for only Youths' Boys All Wool Knee Pant Swell lots in 2 and 3 piece styles $2.95 suits for Boys' Nobby Caps All odds and ends. Were 39c and 50c. Tomorrow Shape now. FaU 95c I5C 50c Underwear, 25c Splendid real Balbriggan and Swits' Conde fine Underwear all ae sizes Tomorrow 50c Suspenders, 25c Made by Wilson Bros. of their fine imported webbing in leather cantab and silk ends All tomorrow. 25c Fancy Hose- See them nobby colors great values 69c MATCH FOREBERHARDT To Meet R. I. Fletcher for the Mid dle West Tennis Championsliip. Omaha, Aug. 26. Frank L. Eber hardt of Salina, Kan., and R. D. Fletcher of Galesburg, 111., were matched today in the championship round in singles for the middle west tennis championship and Fletcher and Con Young of Omaha meet Frank Frank and Fred Eberhardt in the final round in doubles. Frank Eber hardt won the championship a year ago, and has been .playing a strong game during the present tournament. THE INTERIEBAX ROAD. Cliilocco-WlnHeld Company Reorgan ized With New Capital. Winfield. Kan., Aug. 26. The Chiloc-co-Winfield Interurban railroad has been reorganized with the following officers at its head and work toward its completion will be rapidly pushed: W. C. Robinson, Winfield, president: L. H. P. Northrup, Arkansas City, vice president and general manager; C. A. Scruton, Arkansas City, secretary and treasurer; S. P. Gould, Arkansas City, auditor and assistant general manager. The work on the road was in danger of being impeded this week, when labor liens were brought against Mr. North rup, the original promoter, for $1,500. He was able to secure Mr. Scruton and Mr. Gould with new capital for con struction and to pay off the obligations already pending, and now the construc tion will go forward with a rush. The company has the contract for furnish ing the power for the electric light sys tem at Arkansas City. NEARLY A MILLION. Expenses of Insurrection in Colorado Are Heavy. Denver, Aug. 26. A special com mittee of the grand jury today report ed to District Judge Carpenter criti cising certain expenses of the military during the campaign in Cripple Creek and Telluride as "extravagant." With regard to the .appearance of troops on the streets of Denver on election day, comment as to "whether a soldier should perform partisan services un der the guise of citizenship and ren der a bill to the state therefor" is withheld. The report shows a total indebted ness on account of insurrections of $921,239. Sues Treasurer's Bondsmen. Troy, Kan., Aug. 26. Peter Detrlck son, guardian of the estate of his brother, Rasmus Detrickson, an in sane person, has brought suit against the bondsmen of A. R. Graves, ex guardian of the estate, for $3,250. Graves is the former treasurer of Don iphan county who absconded and was captured a. few weeks ago. He is now in Jail awaiting trial on the charge of embezzling some of the funds of tbe Detrickson estate. Look Pants Buyers Splendid All Wool TopeKa Woolen Mills Sunflower Pants Sell the country "over for 4 Tv f f $3.50 Dark and Light 3 D J J patterns in all sizes Cm Here Tomorrow Suits, be seen $3.45 Suit $1.69 Stetson's Hats Full and complete lines of these famous for quality, best hats on earth O wm g At s3.50 Notice-- We are sole agents in Topeka for the Stetson Special," Soft and Derby styles $5.00 25c a 8- mm M 14c A BIG RAIX STORY Which Xoljody But a Man From Pratt Would Have Believed. The big stand pipe at the Santa F depot is more than thirty feet tall and fully twenty-five feet in diameter, con sequently holds an immense amount of water. At present it is filled by pumping the water into it, the pump ing station being some distance away; and therefore a person being unac quainted with the manner In which it is filled would naturally wonder how the water is put into it. The other day it had been pumped full, and as there is no cover to the big tank it of course runs over when it gets full, and if there happens to be a good breeze, the water is blown over the top of it in considerable quantities, and, as It stands near the depot, at such times it attracts the attention of persons about the depot. The other day the tank had been pumped full and was run ning over and the wind was sending it out over the top in sprays. The train from Pratt arrived at the depot in the meantime and there was a Pratt man on the train, who happened to notice the tank full of water and his curi osity was at once aroused, so much no that he asked a reporter for this pa per how they managed to fill that big concern with water. He was very DromDtlv informed that the tank had been made without a cover purposely. so that the rains would fill tha tank, and that the water he then saw slop ping over the top was all rain water, and that the tank had been filled by the recent heavy rains wlhch had fallen in this county. And the Pratt man believed it- Think of that! A heavy enough rain so that a tank 32 feet tall was filled to overflowing. The water certainly must have been un comfortably deep in this section at that time if the reporter's story was true. Those Pratt fellows will be lieve any sort of a story. Kingman Leader-Courier. The Clinton Chautauqua. The M.. K. T. railway will for this occasion make a rate of one fare plus 60 cents for the round trip. Tickets on sale August 24 to September 4, good to retuA until September 6. The Chautauqua this year will be better than ever. Katy, with four through trains In each direction, is well equip ped to handle the crowds. See Katy'a agent about this. George Morton, Q. P. and T. A., St. Louis, Me. Special Train to Marion. The Santa Fe will run a special train to Marion for Republican rally Thursday, Sept. 1st. This will be the biggest political rally ever held la Kansas. CASTOR I A For Iafants and Children. Tbe Kind Yea Have Always Esughl Bears tha Signature of

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6 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1904. IT WILL PAY YOU To furnish your New Home, or re furnish the Old Home from our col lection of New Fall designs and col Store or House Window Shades (Third Floor-) JEFF FAVORITE. Continued from Page One.) Fitzsimmons Tells His Opinion. New Tork, Aug. 28. In the opin ion of Bob Fitxslmmons, who is now a. handy roan with his fists in a play called A Fight for Love" at the Me tropolis theater, Jeffries will have no difficulty in disposing of Jack Mun roo. "I'll tell you, son," said Fitz, as tie stood in the wings of the stage last night, "I have been up against Jeff on two occasion? and I know what his real worth Is, likewise how hard he can hit. I admire Munroe, and I wish him Juck, but my frank opinion is thst the champion will put him away In less than ten rounds. In fact, my limit is eight rounds." Fitzsimmons was assed if he would challenge the winner. "Wait until the fight is over," was all he would say. Some Past History. James Jeffries, holder of the heavy weight championship of the world, and Jack Munroe, who covets that title, will meet in a battle tonight that is scheduled for 20 rounds. It may reach that limit and then again it is likely to terminate abruptly in the initial act, simply because both of the contestants are big. husky fellows with the punch. For a championship fight it appears rather easy to "dope." On form and past performances it should be a one horse-race, with Jeffries the odds-on favorite. He has negotiated the dis tance in good company on many occa sions and he has never yet developed a disposition to display the yellow. He is a stake horse in every sense of the wcrd. As to Munroe, there Is no knock com ing on his ring performances. Two years ago he broke into the limelight of fistiana by sticking four fluke rounds with the champion in an exhibition bout at Butte. No one considered him a fighter because Jeffries did not mur der him when he was out of condition; they simply said he was lucky and let It go at that. Munroe. however, did rot stop there. He became Imbued with the idea that there was championship stock in his makeup and he secured a manager and began looking for trouble. Munroe then began to exercise rare Judgment. Everyone thought that it was simply a case of swelled head and that the so-called Butte Joke was going after the tough game and have his candle snuffed out in the first real bat tle. Not so Jack. He became a wrest ler, threw Sharkey to the mat. fell a victim to the strength and science of a few professionals and then announced that he was ready to do business with the padded mitts. Naturally he chal lenged Jeffries, This was the key to tne casn box. It takes advertising to get money out of the fighting game and Munroe knew it. When Jeffries an swered his defl by telling him to gi. a reputation he started out to acquire one. He was besieged by challenges from Tommy Ryan, Jack O'Brien and others of that class, but the wily miner passed them up. He wisely said that he was not In the business to pick on the little fellows, when he knew down in his heart that he would have proved easy money for either Ryan or O'Brien at tne six round game. "A big one for me." said Munroe. and they trotted out Al Limerick. The latter was soft even for a crude boxer like Munroe. and that was the beginning of the miner's reputation. Limerick bit the dust in three rounds and then the tales of Munroe's wonderful punch be gan to go the rounds. Another tough one was then trotted out as a sacrifice to the man from Butte. It was Peter Maher. The decrepit old nonwinner of a hundred battles journeyed to the box office to g't the losing end after four rounds of rather even milling up to the time of the knockout. Then Munroe was a real championship possibility. They grew a little tougher as he traveled along on the pugilistic high way, and as the next step toward Championshipville that rugged old tar. Tom Sharkey, was once more put in training. Sharkey fought his same old battle for three rounds. He looked like a battleship against a Mississippi tug for half of the Journey and then he gave out. and at the finish he was getting his kneadings good and plenty. This is the one fight that gave Munroe a boost with the followers of the box ing game. They knew that he must be game to beat Sharkey at his own game, but still they could recall a number of others that had beaten the sailor and beaten him at his own game. The foregoing is the record of Miner Jack Munroe. barring a twenty-round draw with Hank Griffin many moons ago. It is hardly necessary to go into the record of James J. Jeffries. He Is a champion in every sense of the word. Among his victims will be found the names of Fitzsimmons. Corbett, Shar key. Ruhlin. Goddard. Armstrong, Peter Jackson, Hank Griffin and the great and only Pete Everett. This bunch comprises the greatest heavy weights of the past decade, but nevertheless, barring one or two engagements they all proved easy forthegiantCaliforniau. Both Fitzsimmons and Corbet cut him into ribbons, but the best that they re ceived for their pains was the losing cd and a terrific beating. Sharkey orings in Carpets, Rogs, t Mattings, Linoleum, Curtains, and Drapery Materials. probably gave the champion the hard est fight of his career, but at that time Jeffries was far from being in good condition. Still he gave the sailor such a beating that it practically retired him from the game. Sharkey left the ring on the occa sion of that fight with several ribs broken, his eyes closed and his nose in such shape that it took months to get it untangled from his ears. He was a physical wreck, and every time since that memorable battle he has been easy money for men who once feared him as Jeffries is feared' at present. At one time Jeffries was classed as the slugging fighter, but this reputa tion does not do him Justice. He be longs to the scinetific class. He is probably the best defensive fighter In the business, and even with his pon derous bulk he is not unduly aggres sive. His style of milling is to wait and counter with a left to the body, a punch that never fails to bring home the money. Of course, the big fellow is dangerous at close quarters, but he nrefers to counter. It has been given out by the official press agent that Munroe will carry the battle to Jeffries with a ven geance, and if such proves the case he will see his finish in a hurry. He will be framing up exactly to suit the champion. However, paradoxical as It may seem, there is no other chance for him to take down tne money ac cording to the wav they have been fighting. It is a certainty that Jef fries is much tne cleverer or tne pair and a better ring general. It may be that, the mixup game is the miner's only" chance. The "dope" shows that Jeffries Is the stronger, a better ring general, cleverer by far and the best defensive fighter in the business. Munroe's brief record shows for itself. In his battles he has neither demonstrated that he can box or that he is the possessor of a wonderful punch. He has won his few fights by wearing down his op ponents. There is only one way to figure the outcome of the bout. If Jeffries is as good as be was in any of his recent battles he looks like a legitimate 1 to 3 chance. It is said that the big fel low has been leading a fast life and if such is the case, of course Munroe stands a chance a very slight chance. PLACES ARE ALL TAKEN. There Are No Positions Going Begging In Topeka. Naturally with the advent of the colder weather, lots of men are look ing tor Jobs for the winter. But the city employment bureau can offr nothing in the way or work in the city of Topeka. Farm hands, brick makers, and manual laborers are in great demand at the bureau. Not enough of these can be obtained to even begin to supply the demand. Few of those, however, who look for work at the city office, will take such jobs, or even consider them. They want to winter in the city. A good many of the applicants are mar ried men with families here. They have had out-of-door work during the summer on all kinds of construction labor, and since the inclement weather will shortly put an end to that, they have to have labor to earn their bread and butter, but they do not want to go outside of the city to get it. But there is out-of-town work of almost every character to be had. Yet not one In ten who comes to the bu reau and applies for a job will for a moment consider such a place. They declare that thoy want work in the city or none at all. There are also a good number of places fcr cooks and house-girls. These are however always to be found on the books. The supply never does meet the demand on this score. "Hired gir!?," as they are commonly denomi nated, never were a drug on the mar ket in Topeka. To Build a Town Like Pullman. Harrisburg. Pa.. Aug. 26. The large farm of ex-United States Senator J. D. Cameron, at Lochiel, near this citv, is to be changed into an Industrial village similar to Pullman. 111., and Dayton. O., to accommodate 450 emploves of the El liott Hatch Book Typewrites- Manufac turing company. Plans were completed today. Upward of 200 men and their families will shortly come here from Cleveland, O., to accept positions at this plant. Damaged $65,000 by Fire. Helena, Mont., Aug. 26. The dry goods store of Champy Iverson has been damaged $65,000 by fire. Several firemen were overcome by smoke, but have recovered.. For Single Statehood. Las Vegas. N. M.. Aug. 26. The terri torial Democratic convention today adopted resolutions declaring, for single statehood. Harris Will Speak. W. A. Harris, ex-United States sen ator, will speak at the opening meeting of the fusion campaign, at Wichita, Sept. 10. ATTACK RESUMED. (Continued from Page One.) Major L. L. Seaman, U. S. A. went from here yesterday to the summit of a mountain on one of the Miao Tau Islands, 20 miles from Golden Hill near Port- Arthur. With a powerful teles cope Major Seaman could see a great deal of the coast of the Liao Tung peninsula. He heard six heavy shots and much small artillery firing, in dicating that fighting had. subsided to a certain degree. False Report. Corrected. Cajje Town, Aug. 26. There Is no foundation for the report circulated In the United States that the American South Atlantic squadron. Rear Admiral Chadwick commanding, now In these waters, had been ordered to leave here, and watch the Russian volunteer fleet vessel Smolensk, which it was added was believed to be waiting for an American ship. The British- warships Crescent, Odon. Pearl and Forte, Rear Admiral Durnford commanding, are at the Seychelles islands, in the vicinity of Zanzibar. It is understood that the admiralty has sent orders to the ad miral, directing him to communicate with the Smolensk and St. Petersburg. Russians Hear of Japanese Repulses. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26. 4:45 p. m The advices of the war office from the front are very meagre. In fact they are confined to a report dated August 24, giving an account of the advance of the Japanese column of 30,000 men along the main road towards Liao Tang which began at daybreak August 24. The Japanese drove in the Russian outposts and when the column reached a point a couple of miles west of Liandainsian the Japa nese attempted to install batteries but they met with such a hot fire that they only succeeded in placing one battery, which was soon compelled to change its position. At the moment of sending the dispatch the Japanese had suspended operations. The war office has no news of the reported at tack on Anshanshan, and the genera) staff is by no means satisfied that the eastern movement of the Japanese is more tnan a feint. General Ivanoff is in command of the late General Keller's corps at Liandiansian. The war office was much elated to day at the receipt of a dispatch from Lieutenant General Stoessel, dated from Port Arthur, August 22, report ing that the Japanese had at last been exhausted by their attacks and that the bombardment had been sus pended. Full details regarding the dispatch are not available, but it prob ably refers to the Chefoo dispatch of yesterday announcing the repulse of the Japanese with heavy losses in their attacks upon fort No. 1 and Fort Etselshan. JAPANESE ADVANCE. Fighting In the North Resumed After Four Weeks Quiet. St. Petersburg, Aug. 26. 2:15 p. m After four weeks interval the Jap anese have resumed their advance against General Kuropatkln's posi tions. The opposing armies are in contact east and south of Liao Tang, ana ngnting has been in progress since Wednesday. The advices at hand are too meager to enable the officials to form a correct opinion as to whether it will result In a general engagement, but the extent and char acter of the Japanese movement leads to that conclusion. Since the rains ceased a week ago there have been continued intimations that General Kuropatkin was about to assume the offensive, but instead of that it was the Japanese who attacked the Rus sian commander's eastern and south ern positions. A Japanese column 80,000 strong, was reported on Tues day to be marching up the right bank of the Lianh .river, which would seem to indicate that three Japanese armies are co-operating in enveloping three sides of Liao Tang. From the meager accounts it appears that Gen eral Kuroki selected Tantzlapudz as the point for his attempt to drive the wedge into Kuropatkin s outer de fenses at An Ping and Liandiansian which are situated respectively ten miles northwest and southwest of Tantziapudzy, the latter being on the Lianhe river, leight miles above the confluence of the Taitse river, whence a mountain ridge runs westward. The fact that the Japanese are preparing pontoons at the Taitze river was noted In these dispatches several aays ago. The capture of this bridge will be the first object of the Japanese and doubtless will entail severe fighting in which the Japanese are probably counting on the superiority of their mountain guns. If they are. success ful the Russian positions at Anping and Liandiansian will become pre carious. Their operations on Anping are sunDorted from Gutziatzy, three miles higher up the Llanne river, ana aiong the Taitze river, as snown in tne ais- natch reporting that the Russian front was south of the Taitze river and that General Kuroki was simul taneouslv moving on Liandiansian along the high road as reported from Liao Tang last night and by the fact that another Japanese column is mov Inir on Liandiansian along the south road from Siaolindzy, ten miles north east of Hal Cheng. That General Kuropatkin had foreseen these vari ous moves Is shown Dy tne manner in which the attack on Tanzapu was met nd by the repulse of the Japanese at Siaolinrzy. The Baltic fleet, which sailed from Cronstadt last night on a trial cruise, consisted of twenty warships. The emperor leaves here tomorrow for the Don to bid rareweit to de parting troops. ANCIENT CHURCH CRUMBLING. Historic Building In Venice May Fol low Fate of Campanile. Venice, Aug. 26. Another lamenta ble accident, like that to the Camp anile, seems Imminent. The Church of San Glacomo di Realto threatens to crumble in ruins. It Is the oldest in Venice, having been built A. D. 4 92. Time has also corroded the beams of the front porch of the church, and they must be removed. The municipal council has appointed a commission to take in hand the pres ervation of the church, and has voted $60,000 for the purpose. DOG JUMPS EXPRESS. Lands Unhurt on Train Going Forty five Miles an Hour. Seaford. Del., Aug. 26. While the Bal timore special on the Baltimore, Chesa peake and Atlantic railway was flying through Rhodedale, Md., at 46 miles an hour, a fine setter belonging to Arthur Mc Williams Jumped on the cowcatcher of the engine. Mr. McWilliams looked for his dog af ter the train passed, expecting to find It mangled to death, but could not locate it. He telephoned to Hurlock, where the train had to stop for water, and received a reply that the dog had been taken off the cowcatcher there. Securing a team he drove to Hurlock and returned with the dog unhurt. EDNA ORAIfE IS DEAD. Former Topeka Girl Passes Away In Axizotaa. Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell, formerly Miss Edna Crane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Crane of this city, died at Morencl, Arizona, at the age of 2 7, on Thursday, August 2 5, from complications arising from ty phoid fever. The body will be brought to lopeKa. Announcement of the fu neral will be made later. Her death was particularly sad from the fact that after much solid tation on the part of her father, Mr. juitcnen nad decided to remove to To peka to assist in the management of crane Uo. s business, and had give: 1 up a lucrative and responsible Dosi uon witn tne Detroit copper Mining company. iney naa soia tneir nome ana shipped their household goods and were to have left Morencl the day following the one on vnich she was ia Ken sick. Mrs. Mitchell was born In Topeka, uecemDer 10,-1876. Sne was a gradu ate of Bethany college. In 1894 she was awarded the "Bishop Vail Medal at that institution for the highest sianuing in scnolarsnip ana deport ment for the? year. She was a en. eral favorite and was an unusually "cu 2.iiu cneery aisposition. DOG DISCHARGES GUN. As Result Hunter's Wife and Son and Neighbor's Child Are Shot. fueblo, Colo.. Aug. 26. Mrs. C.nV Spencer of 913 West Thirteenth street was wounded J and her 7-year-old son and a child livine near the Snencers hurt by the accidental discharge of a snotgun. Mr. Spencer had been hunting and was returning home. His wife and lit tle boy saw him in the distance and went to the gate to meet him. He stnn- pea in iront or tne nouse ana took from tne buggy the gun which he had been carrying. Then-Jbe started to take the otner things from his buggy. a aog stepped on the gun trigger and aiscnargea tne weapon. It was loaded with bucksnot. Mrs. Spencer received several or the shot in the abdomen, and tne nttie Doy was shot in the arms and legs. The other child was grazed by bullets. While the condition of Mrs. Soencer and her son is serious it is not thought mat tney are tataiiy injured. TO PROMOTE MARRIAGES. Country Editor and Parson Agree to Divide Fees and Boom Business. wiiKesDarre. Pa.. Aug. 26. As an Incentive to matrimony the pastor of tne .local cnurch of the village of Dal las, this county,,and Editor Ganwell, publisher of the town weekly, the Dal las Post, have entered into an agree ment by which marriages among the young people' will be encouraged. The following appears In this week s issue of the Post: "Here is a chance that will help you to get 'the Post a year free. A good brother duly authorized to say the words that will unite for life, or until tne divorce court cuts the bonds. says he will divvy up with us the fees he receives from all couples we send to him to marry. Now we will give a year s subscription to each couple who will gBt him to tie the knot and also give a nice write-up of the wedding besldes;T: f Editor Cap well says the offer is not confined exclusively to young folks. BEES STOP FUNERAL. Swarm Out of Pulpit and Put Mourn ers to Flight. Flemings burg, Ky Aug. 26. While a funeral service was in progress in the Vernon church, near Flummer land ing, a swarm of bumble bees which had nested under the pulpit was disturbed and, emerging from its quarters, caused a panic among the mourners. Ihe officiating minister and friends hastily retreated from the sanctuary and were closely followed by the pall bearers with the casket, warding off the bees as best they could in their flight. A number of the mourners and two pallbearers are reported to have been badly stung. However, they remained until the funeral service had been con cluded in the church yard. The exact location of the nest cannot be determined until the pulpit is torn away, rne congregation aisiiKes to tin ker with it at thw time, the eve or a protracted religious meeting. Unless the bees remain unaer cover tne meetin will probably be held in a grove. HISTORIC SPOT IS FOR SALE. Place Where Caesar's and Cromwell's Troops Camped Now on Market. London. Aug. 26. A British camp dating back prior to the Roman In vasion Is advertised for sale. It has an area of twenty acres, and is more than three hundred reet above tne sea level. It served the troops of Caesar, the Saxons, Ethelred, Alfred the Great, and the soldiers or urom well. The proprietor asks $500 an acre, and recalls to prospective buyers the archeological value oi tne prop erty. His Horse Went Down. What came very nearly being a se rious accident occurred at Seventh and the avenue this morning. As City Mail Collector Mautz was turning the corner, his horse caught a shoe n the street car traeK ana ieu in ront of an approaching- Santa Fe car. By quick work the car was stopped ust before It strucK tne norse ana vehicle, so that with ene exception of broken wagon ana narness ana a badly bruised horse no damage was done. "Silver Ticket in Nevada. WInnemucca, Nev., Aug. 26. Forty- five delegates who were unseated by the credentials committee or the sli er convention met at Silver state hall and organized. They wppointed a state central committee and elected officers. Presidential electors were chosen and a platform adopted endorsing Watson and Tribble. The rrt of the state ticket will be filled out by a committee appointed for the purpose, and a cam paign will De maae inrougnoui tne state.. WABASH TO ST. LOUIS. World's Frlr Route "Follow Flag." ths Only line to Worlfi's fair main en trance. Five dally trams rrom Kansas City. Shortest line. Ask your agent for tickets over the Wabash. 1 s.-mcv;iiiviiLAn, Western Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Ma H. C SHIELDS, Traveling Passenger Agent, gna City. Ma. i. t FVl if kff- mi u i Garments bearing this label are correct. They have been advertised and sold in Topeka for the past 20 years by the leading clothiers. MARKETS TODAY. Wheat Is Rather Firm at the Start. Afterward September Takes a Slight Slump. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Steers Are Steady Natives Sell at $3.75 to $6.00. Hogs Are Fire and Ten Cents Higher. Chicaeo. Auer. 26. WHEAT Weakness in the Minneapolis market curtailed buy ing orders here today. Opening prices suffered losses varying from Wlc in the September delivery, at $1.025,1.03. and in the December from 5c. to 1J la at Sl.MSfl.OMb. Free selling 'Of Sep tember ent that- option off to 1.02V&. The weather in the northwest is still re garded as dangerously cool and at the decline some influential Duying too piace, rallying the market. September recovered to Jl.03. and December to I1.M4. Minne- anolis. Duluth and Chicago reported re ceipts of 301 cars, against 483 cars a year ago. The buying movement received further impetus oy tresti estimates as to tne -font of th hHvoc. wrought bv black rust. One message from North Dakota stated that the vleld win not average eigni ousn- ls to the acre. From other sources came allegations that districts which had prom ised a to 3U Dusneis an acre nave suf fered a reduction of 25 per cent from rust. Shorts hurried to cover while selling or ders became scarce. September advanced steadily to $1.05 and December to Jl.06. closing strong at the top, with gainS-OT 6c and lw&za respectively. CORN The combined effect of weak ness in the cables, good weather in the corn belt and larger receipts than antici pated, sent corn prices downward. Sep Tpmhpr iirx-Ti mi! imrhaneed to WSC high er, at 52"4&63c December was down Mi e to sc, at 5U4(g51c. The mar-tet steadied at the lower level. September advanced to &3c. uecemDer ouched 62Mc. rne close was ui m i"i September, at 53, a gain of c. Decern Der was on a snaae in me n tions, at 61?ic. oats fnta orpned lower, with Septem ber at 32432c, a loss of c. Decem ber opened unchanged to He lower, at 34 H33c. The firm tone in wheat steadied the market within the opening range. PROVISICWNS A. nrm reeling prevaucu (.i nni-ioinn spntpmber nork was up 5c. at J11.65; lard was a shade higher, at SS.ve: nns gamea z'sc, ai ti.oim. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, J1.061.10: No. 3 red. 1.0651.08: No. 2 hard. $1.061.08; No. 3 hard. $1.01(gl.06: No. 1 northern, tl-25; No. 2 northern, $1.151.20; No. 3 spring, 1.0591.15. (JOXVIN IN O. 2, Ol'fllWt;, 1U. Ot ooTT 't .X- OATS No. 2. 31(S31c; No. 3. 30&31c. RYE Sept., 72c; Dec., 72c; May, 77. FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.25; S.-W., J1.1814; Aug.. J1.1SV4; Sept., Jl.lifl. TIMOTHY Aug., $2.90; Sept., $2.97; Oct., $2.90. CLOVER Aug., BARLEY Cash 37g56c. Paneo of Prices v Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, (grains, rrovisiuus, v.unuu emu Hiui.aa Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mo. Chicago. Aug. 26. Open High low Close xes WHEAT Sept ...1 l w 1 02 1 06 1 04 1 04 1 0(i 1 UD"4-?fe May'.. .107 109 106 109 107 CORN Sept 5ZW.-M OJYt Dec 51- 52 May 49- 50 52 50 49 32 33 35 53 53 51 il- 49- 60 OATS Sept 3Z- Dec 8fe- 33 Mav 35- 36 32 33 35 32 33 35-36 PORK m Spot 11 65 Oct 11 70 11 72 11 55 11 62 11 67 12 80 12 70 12 70 12 87 Jan 12 LARD Sept 6 93 Oct 7 02 6 92 6 87 7 02-05 6 97 7 07-10 7 02 6 87-90 6 90-92 6 97 7 02 7 02 7 07 Jan 7 07 RIBS Sprit 7 SI 7 37 7 32 7 42 6 70 7 32 7 42 6 70 7 37 7 45-47 6 S2 OH 7 45-47 7 47 Jan 6 82 6 85 Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, grains, rruviaiuna, miu wiv-no. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas city, iuaj Kansas City, Aug. 26. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT Sept 93 i" sw' s-l Dec 92 95 92 as 4 May 96 98 S6 98 97- CORN- m, Dec 45 o May 45 .45 4o 40 lon,- Kansas City Livestock Market. r.ncii rit-v Mn A lit. 56. CATTLE Receipts today, 3,000 head, including 500 head of southerns. Market steady. Na tive steers, $3.7556.00: southern steers, $2.50 eiK- nthf.rivr onwa. 11. 6003.00: native cows' and heifers,- $L5Og4.00; stockers and EVERY YEHR You have observed that the clearance sales in Topeka torture along until September 15, and then comes the big blow about "New Fall Styles," hot air creations worth "$20 special tomorrow for $15." Last year some of our com petitors jogged up a notch or two and an nounced a few new styles about September 1st, but that was due to the fact that we had been showing new styles for fully four weeks and others like to keep in sight of our lead, and this year we look to see a little advancement and the big puff fall ads. will probably come the last days of August. "VVe have been showing all the new fall Suits and Top Coats for thirty days while competition is still struggling along these cool, icy mornings trying to convince you that you should buy their straw hats reduced to 50c, which never sold for more than 50e in season; still pleading with you to buy summer suits that should have sold last May. and June for $7.50, now reduced from $20, $22.50 and $25 to the "absolutely one price" of $8.73. If such garble does not appeal to you, pass it up and patronize a store that sets the pace, and Watch Us Grow. Watch Robinson, larshallfi Co. 703 Kansas Ave. Ind. 'Phone 22. feeders, $2.254.15; bulls, $2.003.25; calves, $2.005.00; western steers, $3.00i&.00; west ern cows, $1.50(g3.50. HOGS Receipts today, 7,000 head. Mar ket 510c higher. Bulk of sales, $5.205.35; heavy, $5.16g6.25; packers'. $5.16(&5.36: pigs and lights, $6.0035.40. SHEEP Receipts today, 1000 head. Market steady. Muttons, $3.2504.00; lambs, $4.00&5.50; range wethers, $3.264.00: ewes, $2.503.50. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chlcago.Aug. 26. CATTLE Receipts to day, 4.0U0 head. Market steady. Good to prime steers, $5.5ftg6.00; poor to medium, $3.60(56.00; stockers and feeders. $2.00&3.90; cows, $1.30-54.50; heifers, $1.754.75; can ners, $1.30g2.40; bulls, $2.004.15; calves, $4.00(6.25; Texas fed steers, $3.003.50;west ern steers, .10(83.50. HOGS Receipts today, 13,000 head; esti mated Saturday, 8,000 head. Market 510c higher. Mixed and butchers', $5.205.62; good to choice heavy, $5.40(66.55; rough heavy, $4.90(55.35; light, $5.356.65; bulk of sales, $5.35(55.50. SHEEP Receipts today, 7,000 Head. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $3.504.75; fair to choice mixed, $3.253.75; western sheep, $3.26(84.26: native lambs, $4.25(36.00; western lambs, $4.005.e0. St. Louis Live Stock Market. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 26. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 2,000 head, including 1,200 head of Texan s. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.50g5.35; stockers and feeders, $2.00(53.10; cows and heifers, $3.00(34.50: Texas steers, $2.50(53.55; Texas cows and heifers; $2.303.25. HOGSReceipta today. 4,500 head. Mar ket steady to strong. Pigs and lights, $5.00 5.50: packers', $5.105.50; butchers' and best heavy. $5.30(S6.60. SHEEP Receipts today. 600 head. Market steady. Natives, $3.50(33.90; Iambs. $4.006.Z5; Xexans, $3.5tt3.U0. Kansas City Prod oca Market. Kansas City, Aug. 26. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 309 cars. Quotations were steady. Sept., 95e; Dec, sH4c; May, 9Sc. Cash: No. 2 hard, 99c(5$1.01; No. 3 hard, 96cg$1.00; No. 4 hard, 86fi95c; No. 2 red, $1.06c1.08: No. 3 red, $l.oa&1.06. CORN Market lower. Sept., 48c; Dec., 45e; May, 45c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 49c: No. 3 mixed, 49c; No. 2 white. 50c; No 3 white &0c OATS No'. 2 white, 3536c; No. 2 mixed, 33-g34c RYE 75c. HAY Choice timothy, $8.509.00; choice prairie, $7.00)7.25. BUTTER Creamery, 1416Vc; dairy, 12c. EGGS Fresh, 17c. Chicago Produce. Chicago.Ill., Aug. 26. BUTTER Cream ery, 13(&18c: dairy, 12S?15e. EGGS Market steady. At mark, cases included, 13S16c. CHEESE Market firm. Daisies, 89c; Twins, 88c: Young Americas, 89c. LIVE POULTRY Market easy. Tur keys, 12c; chickens, 11(3 llc; springs, 13c Market Gossip. Furnished by A. M. McDermott Commis sion Co., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and Investment Securities. Rooms SO and 20. 702 Kansas ave. Liverpool opening cables: Wheat HA lower; corn a lower. Liverpool, 1:30 p. Wheat d higher; corn Bld lower. Gram receipts today at CTmcago: wheat. 104 cars; graded, 3. Corn, 304 cars; graded. 24: oats. 234 cars: graded, 3. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d higher: corn ?4d lower. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne apolis, 165 cars; Duluth, 32 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, 2S6 cars; Duluth, 53 cars. Estimated receipts of grain at Chicago tomorrow: Wheat, 105 cars; corn, 369 cars: oats, 278 cars. Grain recemts at Kansas City: Wheat. 305 cars; corn, 42 cars; oats, u cars. Sugar and Coffee tn New Tork. New York. Aug. 26. SUGAR Raw su gar firm. Fair refining, 3 ll-16c; centrifu gal, 96 test, 44c; molasses sugar, 3 v-ibc. itenned sugar nrm. urusnea, o.yu; pow dered, s.;su: granuiatea, to.av. COFFEE Market quiet. No. 7 Rio. 8c. New Tork Stocks Wall St., New York, Aug. 26. STOCKS Uniform gains of a small fraction were quite general at the opening of the stock mantel today ana trading was on a rather active scale. United States Steel preferred was conspicuous with a rise of point and continued absorption oi st. Louis Southwestern preferred benefited it 1 points. Business increased In volume as prices gave way in the second hour and a num ber of the" more important stocks sold substantially below last night. Buying for both accounts caused a fractional ral ly towards noon, but the market became dull again on the advance. Bonds were irregular at noon. Prices relapsed immediately after the opening, some of the grangers and Pa cifies receding slightly below yesterday's closing. Heavy purchases of United States Steel preferred, which lifted it to 60, brought about a rally In the general market later, but the improvements were not well held. A number of minor stocks showed considerable strength, particular Kansas and Texas preferred, St. touis Southwestern, Colorado j?nel. Realty, Construction and Consolidated Gas. Spec ulation generally was narrow and trading was rather light except in special stocks. Railroad stocks made but little head way upwards in the afternoon despite the vigorous bidding up of Norfolk and Western and the Metropolitans, which gained over a point each. Room tradors sold the stindard stocks on all rallies except the leaders about on a parity or slightly below yesterday's finals. Slightly lower prices were made this cf ternoon before the market encountered any effective support. On the rebound Amalgamated Copper was- bought freely and sold up to 57. St. Louis Southwest ern rose 2 points in all, but the recovery elsewhere was not of much consequence. Our Business Methods Win. Security Building. Ranee of Prlosa on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Oall, Commissions. Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. New York. Aug. 24. Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes 131 181 130i 130 131 102 102 102102 102 66 67 66 67 6H 64 64 63 63 63 4A AAM 4R AATa. Stocks Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T T. C. I. U. S. Steel 12 12 12 13 13 U. S. Steel, pfd 69 eo 89 50 Atchison, com 81 81 81 81 81 Atchison, pfd 98 9h 98 98 !6 C. G. W 15 15 15 15 16 St. Paul 152 152 151 1P2 1P2 R. I., com 26 26 26 25 25 Wabash, com 19 19 19 19 j Wabash, pfd 3K 3 38 3 3 Mo. Pacific 96 7 96 96 96 Western Union 8 Manhattan 155 154 N. Y. Central 122 12? 122 132 122 Texas Pacific 30 3r 3( 3' So. Pacific 67 67 66 66 57 Reading 68 58 57 67 5S Erie 27 27 26 26 27 trie, J.si wfc btf' 63 Wfc th-i 63 100 100 99 99 99 38 3S 37 3X 38 86 86 86 86 16 union facino C. O. B. O. L. N 121 121 12" 121 121 Katy 4W4 49 4 49 48 Pennsylvania 124 125 124 124 124 C. A., com 40 41 40 41 46 IT. S. Leather 7 7 7 7 7 C. F. L 37 37 36 36 53 New York Butter Market. Nw York. Aug. 26. BUTTER Market firm. Official price (extra creamery). 18c; street price (extra creamery), lS-18c. Cotton Market. New York. Aug. 26. COTTON Sales to day, 179 bales. Spot cotton closed quiot. Quotations per KiO pounds: Middling up lands, $11.20; middling gulf. $11.45. Galveston, Tex., Aug. 26. COTTON Market steady at 11c per pound. Wool Markeu St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 26. WOOL Market steady. Territory and western mediums, 22(324c; fine medium, 1618c; line, 15316c Topeiuk Markeu HOGSTOPeka- AUf MIXED AND BUTCHERS' $4.905 OS HEAVY 4.8535.00 LIGHT 4.30:35.10 GRASS CATTLE. HEIFERS s nr3 n COWS 2.00fc2 60 BULLS 2.00it.2.2S CALVES a.u04i3.0 STEERS LI xim nit HEIFERS 4.004.7$ COWS $.oo2 00 VEAL CALVES R-; loglM NO. 2 WHEAT ....8890 NO. 3 WHEAT BR-Sto NO. 4 WHEAT 755 0o NO GRADE K,i$-7.-J: WHITE CORN ..4 YELLOW AND MIXED CORN NO. 2 OATS S2 N. 3 OATS gj. tKUlia AINU v tAJiL TABLES. (Furnished by S. E. Lux, successor to W is. Auucisvu -v., j.v aamai ave nue.) FRUITS. ORANGES Valencia, $3.75(34.25 per box LEMONS California, per box, $5.25(53 so! BANANAS Per bunch. $1.75:32.76. APPLES Kansas, $1.00 per bu. $3.50 per bbl. PEACHES Elbertas, per 4-baaket cxat. $1.00. GRAPES Per basket,. 25c. CALIFORNIA FRUITS. BARTLET r rtAHS-rer box ITALIAN PRUNES, 4-basket crate EGG PLUMS, 4-basket crate BiT.VFR PRUNES basket-crnto $2.01 .1.5$ 1.64 1.4fl 1 44 L7i BURBANK PLUMS, 4-basket crate MALAGA GRAPES, 4-basket crate. VEGETABLES. WAX BEANS Per basket, $1.00. .GREEN BEANS Per basket. 90o. CUCUMBERS Per -bu. box, 35c. NEW POTATOES Per bu.. 60c. SWEET POTATOES Per lb.. 6c TOMATOES -bu. basket, 40c. CABBAGE 70800 per cwt. CANTALOUPES Rocky Ford, $2 50 per crate; Arkansas and Oklahoma, $2.00 per crate. WATERMELONS $2.503.00 per doaen. ONIONS Per I.U., 70-S90C. NEW BEETS Per doz. bunches. 25a 6WEET CORN Per dor., 12c. SUMMER SgAH-Pr basket. 40a N Y. COUNTS, per can N. Y. EXTRA SELECTS, per can S3 FULL CREAM CHEESE? Kansas Y. A., per lb l(k. New York State (white), per lb liu- Brick, per lb...... Jg" Ltmburger. per lb.. t Block Swiss, per lb S BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY POULTRY Hens, 7c lb.; broilers, lia 12c lb. BUTTER Country, 1214c. EGGS Candled, 17c. HAY. NEW PRAIRIE Loo3e, per ton. 6.00 n NEW PRAIRIE Baled, per ton. 6.0CK?? oo OLD PRAIRIE Baled 6.506 W ALFALFA Loose 6.50-5800 STRAW 5.00fc6:!3 Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Aug 28 (Prices paid In Topeka this week, based on Boston Quotations: GREEN SALT CURED Hoar's Condition Unchanged. Worcester, Mass., Aug. -26 ti-- v,i letin today on the condition of sTtor Hoar was as follows: "The senator Is quiet He did not have nnit. .n a night as the night before. There is no essential change in his general condition."

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