The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 31, 1904

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WITH RIFLE FIRE. Battle at Liao Yang Was Re sumed at Daylight. Desultory Firing Continued Throughout the Sight. REPORT FROM MUKDEN 8ajs Samsonoff Has Captured Two Japanese Battalions. Little Information Is Coming from Field of Battle. Liao Lang, Aug. 314:45 P. M. The battle was resumed today with rifle fire at dawn in the southwest. There was desultory firing all night. The last attack of the Japanese yes terday was made at 7 p. m. on the Fens IWang Cheng road. St. Petersburg. Aug. 318:50 P. M. The telegraph department declares that communication with Liao Jang is not Interrupted. A dispatch from Mukden this after noon says it is reported there that Tien. Samsonoff has captured two Japanese battalions. The almost entire absence of news from the battlefield of Liao Yang up to noon today is not explained by any ad vices from either St. Petersburg or Tokio. It is now midnight in Man churia and but little word has been re ceived of events since 9 -o'clock last night, when it was announced that the fierce battle that raged all yesterday oeased at 9 o clock and both armies nan bivouacked on the field. The only sur mise to be drawn from this absence of both press dispatches and official re ports is that the telegrapn line nas been interrupted noth of Liao Yang. tieneral Sakharoff yesterday reported that a, large Japanese force was ad vancing northward along the Taitzu river, west of the railroad. Such a movement, if accomplished, would interpose this force between Liao Jang, the Russian base, and Mukden and would cut Kuropatkin's communi cations north. Added probability is giv en to this surmise by the fact that the Assotiated Press received almost hourly dispatches from Liao Yang, one timed at 6:49 p. m., detailing the battle up to that hour, being received in New York at 1:15 p. m. .while up to noon today no advices were received. St Petersburg Is Anxious. St. Petersburg. Aug. 31. 9 p. m. The great anxiety here for news of today s battle had not been relieved at this hour. No press or private dis patches giving details of the fighting have arrived and the explanation given is that the wires are probably busy with official messages. It is positively stated, however, that the emperor this Afternoon received telegram from Cieneral KuropatkiiJ but the contents can not be learned. The general staff does not doubt that the losses yesterday were heavy on both sides, but the staff declares that in the absence of direct infor mation the figures mentioned are largely guesswork. Baltic Fleet Plans I'nchanged. St. Petersburg. Aug. 31. 4:10 p. m. The Associated Press is enabled to state authoritatively that there has been no change in plans regarding the Baltic squadron on account of the re sult of the sea fight off Port Arthur August 10. The maneuvering and firing trials of-the ships have been completely successful and the squad ron has now returned to Cronstadt to await the finishing touches on the battleship Orel and the cruisers Oleg, Izumrud and Jemtchug. The Associated Press is again au thorized to give the most absolute denial of the reports that any guns aboard the ships exploded. No $un of the Oboukoff works, it is further as serted, ever burst. The Associated Press is also posi tively assured that the Japanese state ment on which they base their de mand that the crews of the Askold .-and Grozovoi. at Shanghai, be in terned until the end of the war, namely, that the officers and men of the Varlag and Koretz are on board Fhips bound for the far east, is un true. The crews of those vessels have been distributed among the school and training squadrons and on shore duty in the Baltic and Black sea, but not one man or one officer is on board Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's vessels. Wireless Station Dismantled. Washington, Aug. 31. The state department has received a cablegram from Consul General Fowler at Chefoo saying that. the Russian wireless tele graph station there has been dis mantled. FAIRBANKS IS COMING. His Train Will Arrive Evening. at 6:30 This This evening at 6:30 o'clock. Sena tor Fairbanks will arrive in Topeka over the Rock Island. He will be given a reception at the Republican headquarters at the National hotel. Chairman Stubbs telephoned this information to Mayor BergundthaJ this morning, and requested the mayor to be at the train this evening to meet the party. Through Mayor Bergundthal an invitation is extended to the public to attend the reception this evening at the National hotel, and meet the Republican candidate for the vice presidency. It is not likely that Senator Fair banks will make a speech in Topeka. POPULISTS IN REVOLT. Say They Have Been Deceived Colonel Bryan. in Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 31. Populists to the number of 50. who oppose fusion met today in state convention to place a ticket in the field. A call has been issued for a convention of fusion Pop ulists September 15. There is still a de cided split in the party. Temporary Chairman Samuel Wadsworth in his address said the Populists of the coun try had een deceived into believing that Bryan was an advocate of their principles, but they were now perpared to stand for their beliefs. The platform reaffirm the Springfield, 111., platform. KAISER'S CHILDREN NOT AN GELS He Objects to Having Theni Depicted as Such. Berlin. Aug. 31. The architect who designed the restoration of the Protestant church at Spires, capital of Rhenish Bavaria, which was dedi cated today, selected the portraits of the seven imperial children in their fourth year for the heads of seven angels in the windows around the chancel. The emperor objected, say- lng: My children are no angels." The empress, however, thought the idea charming and it was accordingly executed. ROBBED OF $900. Express Agent Held Vp as Train En tered Station. Cheyenne, Wye, Aug. 31. Upon ar rival of the Oregon Express on the Oregon Short Line at Kemmerer, Wyo., at 2 o'clock this morning four men stepped out from the shadow of. a building near the depot and as soon as the door of the express car was opened by the messenger, two of them held him up, while two others stood off the station agent. A package con taining $900 to pay off the employes of the Kemmerer Coal company was demanded and was given to the rob bers, who disappeared. Sheriff James and Deputy Jones of Evanston went pn a special train to the scene of the robbery and are now in pursuit of the robbers. The robbers are believed to be em- General Kuropatkin in Command of the Russian Forces ployes of the coal company who knew of the arrival of the package as they made no further search for plunder. A package containing $13,000 for the Cumberland Coal company was not disturbed. Pursnins the Robbers. Kemmerer. Wyo., Aug. 31. Two heavily armed posses are now in pur suit of the robbers who early today held up the express messenger of the westbound Oregon Short Line passen ger train and took a package con taining about J 900. Marshal Maymin said today that he was positive of the identity of the robbers and was con fident he would have them in custody by night. The scuffle attending the robbery last night attracted the atten tion of the station telegraph operator, and ar number of switchmen across the tracks. They rushed toward the express car, but were immediately compelled to throw up their hands by the robbers. After securing the money the robbers marched the ex press agent, operator and switchmen into the express office, locked them in and disappeared. PARKER GOES TO FAIR. The Judge and His Wife Ulster County Show. Attend Kingston. N. Y., Aug. 31. Judge and Mrs. Parker and the judge's brother, Fred H. Parker, came to Kingston to day from Esopus. They crossed the city on a trolley car to the New York, Ontario Western station, where they boarded a special train for the Ulster county fair at Ellenville, 27 miles southwest of this city. Ellenville, N. Y., Aug. 31. Judge Parker and his party left he train at Napanoch. four miles from Ellensvllle station and were driven to the house of Thomas E. Benedict, where they had luncheon. After luncheon they were driven to the fair grounds. At the station in Kingston and all the way out on the train the candidate was greeted by old friends and new, for each of whom he had a handshake and a cordial word. Dynamiters Demolish Dam. Rochester. Ind.. Aug. 31. The mill race dam at Willard, five miles east of here, was dynamited and complete ly demolished and thirty feet of the steel bridge ruined early this morn ing. The damage amounts to about $2,000. Farmers gathered many bush els of dead fish. The perpetrators are unknown. Weather Indication. Chicago, Aug. 31. Forecast for Kansas: Unsettled tonight and Thursday; occasionally local showers; variable winds mostly southerly. JUMPS JJNJVHITE DaTid Bennett Hill Attacks the Emporia Editor In a Speech Delirered at Broome Co., N. Y. Fair. MAGAZINE ARTICLE. Is Made the Subject of Some Bitter Remarks. Mr. White Denies That Story Was Inspired. Ills Binghampton, N. Y., Aug. 31. For mer Senator David B. Hill was the guest today of the Broome county' fair, which is being held at Whitney Point, and delivered an address. Mr. Hill briefly discussed the tariff and said the Democratic platform was silent upon the money question be cause that question, was deemed set tled. The almost unanimous approval by the convention of Judge Parker's telegram operated virtually as an amendment of the platform in accord ance with its terms, and the new platform necessarily superseded and eliminated 11 previous national plat forms. The present campaign on the part of the Republicans, the ex-senator declared, "is one of humbug and false pretenses peculiarly Roosevelt ish in all its essential characteristics. The president through himself and his late private secretary manage and di rect every detail, while experienced political mangers of long service in the party are brushed aside and ig nored." "When the president." the speaker continued, "had particularly desired to impress upon the country the greatness or goodness of his deeds, but has preferred to refrain from communicating to the public directly through his messages or addresses, he has employed the agency of cer tain magazine writers, some of whom have not been particularly familiar with political affairs, but who possess a breezy and entertaining style of composition and are under obligations to him for various courtesies extend ed to them at the White House, whereby he might better reach the public ear and influence public opinion." Mr. Hill then cited a magazine ar ticle by William Allen White on the subject of "How Roosevlt Uncovered the Postal Frauds," and proceeded at considerable length to analyze the article in question. He said it was an effort to convince the people that the president was not responsible for the postal frauds in his administration, and that notwithstanding his long neglect to prosecute them he was really the exalted instrument which exposed them. If the article was not dictated at the White House the speaker declared, it was at least in spired there. It would fail of its pur pose, however, because it Is not true because it has been embellished for political effect and will not stand the test of examination. "In extolling the president," the former senator went on, "an attack is made upon the two Republican United States senators from this state. Messrs. Piatt and Depew, who were active Republicans before either Mr. White or Mr. Roosevelt was born. "Here is what is said: "When it fthe investigation) touched the president's friend and political sponsor. State Senator Green of Bing hamton. N. Y., and when he was about to be indicted for crookedness, the two senators from New York, and every prominent Republican in the state beg ged for mercy and then threatened President Roosevelt for allowing Bris tow to indict Green." "If true this is a most serious accus ation. It virtually accuses our two Re publican United States senators and also 'every prominent Republican in the state' with a crime. But it uplifts Roosevelt and he apparently delights to be exalted at the expense of oth ers. "Who,"the speaker inquired, "but the president himself could have furnished. him this exclusive information which he now discloses to the public? "It is believed that the charge is ut terly groundless; that its publication was intended as.,3. spectacular and sen sational performance and that it was concocted especially to aid the presi dent in the present contest regardless of its damaging effect upon others. Be ing false in one essential particular, the whole article should be discredited. "Of course, if Senator Depew admits the accusation and confesses his guilt then I withdraw my denunciation of the publication in question. If Senator Green or Senators Piatt or Depew in his behalf ever threatened President Roosevelt because of Senator Green's indictment it was the president's per sonal and official duty to have immedi ately exposed the dastardly attempt to intimidate him at the time it was made and not have waited after his nomina tion was secure and the" necessity for the manufacture of some political sen sation in the president's behalf in this campaign was deemed desirable." Mr. Hill then took up the Philippine question, arguing, that the people of these islands, when it safely can be done should be given.- not merely self government, but independence. He ar gued for the election of United States senators by the people and referring to Senator DepeWs candidacy for re-elec tion said: "Decent men of all parties would greatly prefer him to the grafter and the grocery man now at the head of the Republican organization In this state, who speculates in the securities of trusts and takes his chances and then squeals on his asosciates to. induce them to share his own losses. Mr. White Replies. Emporia, Kan-. Aug. 31. William Allen White, referring- to the state ment in ex-Senator Hill's speech said today: "The article in question was not in spired at the White House. The president furnished none of the facts. It was well known before the indict ment against Green issued that he was getting political influence to pre vent the indictment. His friends were not at all secret about the matter They boasted that they would head Bristow off. They claimedthat Green was innocent and so represented the case to the New York Republican politicians who interceded in their be half. It is not discreditable to any man, be he senator or governor or politician, to try to help a man whom he sincerely believes to be innocent. The men who tried to help Green did so in the best of faith and after the evidence was presented to them in the Bristow report the effort in Green s behalf immediately stopped. If Sen ator Hill can get any comfort out of the fact that New York politicians of high and low degree in the Repub- ican party refused summarily to help man who they see Is honestly in dicted for a real offense, Mr. Hill is welcome to his comfort,." TIME FOR PEACE. King Leopold Wants President Roose velt to Intervene. Ovster Bav. Auc. SI. Information was received at the'txecutive offices ere of the arrival in New York of G. Francotte, a delegate to the peace con ference which is to be held at the St. Louis exposition." He is to be the bear er of credentials from the king of Bel gium to President Roosevelt, request- ng the latter to use nis good offices In the restoration of peace between Russia nd Japan. No engagement has been made for Francotte to see the president. The usual diplomatic proceedings would require that the bearer of a mission should call upon the secretary of state first and make through him ar rangement for an interview with the resident. It is. likely that course will be followed in this instance. New York, Aug. 31. Mr. Francotte was not aware that no appointment had been made for him to call upon the president and will leave this morn- ng with the understanding that sucn rrangements had been made by cable. He said: 'King Leopold is of the opinion that President Roosevelt is in a position to accomplish more in behalf of peace be- ween Russia and Japan than the ruler of any other country. King Leopold is deeply interested in tne suDject or uni versal oeace and the settlement of all delicate questions between nations by arbitration. His majesty's interest has been ac centuated by Andrew Carnegie's offer o build a great peace temple. Kveii lr President Roosevelt does not think the time opportune for friendly interven tion, he may have valuaDie suggestions to make along the lines of international harmony, such as a peace congress of all the nations every few years. It is the opinion of European diplomats that the time for ending tne japanese-nus-sian war has arrived.'" MYSTERIOUS LYNCHING. Negro Prisoner Found Suspended His Cell. in Chicago, Aug. 31. A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from Weimar, Texas, says While incarcerated in jail Oscar Lee Turner, a 17-year-old negro un der arrest for attempting rape, has been mvsteriously lynched. The offi cials are unable to determine just when or how the act was committed. Minnie Schultz, the 19-year-old daughter of a wealthy farmer, was attacked by Tucker. He was arrested soon afterward and placed in jail. Three hours later, when the officers went to the cell to take the prisoner into court, they found hinv. hanging by his neck dead. The cage had not been broken into but he had a forty foot rope around his neck and his head was drawn, up to a hole in the cell about eight inches in width and not over four feet, from the floor, used to pass food through to the prisoners. His feet were tied close together with cords. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Kemorse Causes Suicide. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 31. James B. Hawlev, a prominent politician, com mitted suicide last night by taking strychnine. The deed is attributed to remorse for having shot and killed his brother April 18. 1902. At that time James B. Hawley was exonerated on the ground of self defense. Light Rain Today. The rain today amounts to .16 of an inch. Following are the temperatures as recorded by the government ther-mometer- 7 o'clock 69111 o'clock 72 8 o'clock. .70112 o'clock 74 9 o'clock. .701 1 o'clock. f. .76 10 o'clock 711 2 o'clock. .79 Wind 12 miles, from the south. LOOK JIT. THIS. What the Records Show About Comanche Bonds. Everyone Held by School Fund Is in Default. FROM AUDITOR'S OFFICE State Holds Nearly 10,000 of Comanche Securities. Tiro Thousand of This Declared Fraudulent. Interesting Facts About Action of Commissioners. One of the charges made by the State Journal in the Comanche county bond deal was that the state school fund al ready holds bonds of Comanche county which are in default. Nothing has been said about this or any other particular charge made by the State Journal. In the action by which the school fund commissioners hoped, to bluff this paper into silence a wholesale denial is made. The State Journal today took the trouble to investigate this feature of the case and the following facts are taken from the official records in the office of the state auditor: There are 27 Comanche county bonds owned by the state school fund, exclus ive of the $123,000 recently purchased, and every one of the 27 bonds is in de fault. Some of them were due as far back as 1891. The following is a complete list of the Comanche bonds owned by the school fund, the amount due on each, and the date when the bond fell due: pistrict Amount wo- due. 1 3) $1,500 230 220 31 3S0 3 TO 6 275 1.S0O 22 350 2o -MO- 125 33 300 38 (2) 310 When due. 190t 1901 19rtl 1901 1901 1001 1901 1H01 1901 1901 1901 1901 1901 1901 1891 41 400 700 20 (4) 49 52 40 (2) Two fraudulent bonds. 30 12S 300 J7.515 2,000 Total .19,515 The face value of the bonds above listed is $9,350. From time to time since the bonds came due. a few remittances,. have been recived and have been credi ted to the proper bonds, but the records of the state auditor show that there is still due on these delinquent bonds the sum of $7,515. In addition to the $7,515 which the Comanche county bonds are in default, the state school fund has a total loss on two fraudulent Comanche county bonds. These Comanche bonds were issued In 1874 for $1,000 each, with inter est coupons to the amount of $1,400. They were to come due in 1888. Ttiey were registered in 1877, and purchased by the state school fund. In the p,- "H tor's bond register, these Comanene county bonds are duly entered, and af ter them is endorsed in pencil this word: "FRAUDULENT." So far as the records show, no interest or principal nas ever neen paid on these bonds. The state school fund was simply out the value of the fraudulent bonds. The fact that the county has never made an ef fort to square this transaction does not seem to have injured its credit with the present school fund commissioners. Most bond buyers look with great sus picion on any corporation which had ever issued fraudulent bonds, or repudi ated its obligations, but it seems to be different when it is the state which is paying for the transaction. Each year, it is required that the auditor check up with the state treas urer, and ascertain the amount of de linquent bonds and coupons. The fol lowing is the reading of the statute: It shall be the duty of the auditor of state, on the first Monday in August of each year to compare the register kept by him with the bonds in the treasurer's office, and shall at the time of comparing such register require the treasurer to produce all coupons and bonds remaining unpaid, which shall be compared with the register." The work of making this comparison is not yet completed, according to Au ditor Wells. When asked to show the register today. Auditor Wells made several excuses, first that the clerk who was doing the checking was "too busy" and then that all his books were over in the treasurer's office. Subsequently, however, Mr. Wells discovered that the books were in his own vault, and that the clerk could devote five minutes to looking up the Comanche countv bonds, the checking of which had Just been completed. The figures herewith pre sented are therefore right up to date. and are obtained through the extreme courtesy of Auditor Wells himself. All credits as shown on Auditor Wells' books are subtracted from the amount due on the face of the bond. Auditor Wells was inclined to ridi cule the idea that there was anything worth printing in the fact that all the Comanche county bonds are in default. 'Hundreds of bonds are delinquent in the same way," he said. "It does not prove Ifcat a bond is bad simply be cause it is delinquent. These school districts are slow about paying their debts, that's all." It ought to be considered in deter mining the propriety of loading the school fund up with $123,000 more in bonds of the same county. How School Fund Is Depleted. According to the 1902 report of the state auditor, which is the last one is sued, the state school fund commis sioners have been obliged to compro mise the interest and principal on the bonds of a number of counties near to Comanche. The compromises listed in the 1902 report are as follows: Greeley county; amount due, interest $14,790. principal $62,500;, compro mised for $2,456. with an agreement to accept one-sixth of the- interest thereafter. Seward county; principal due, $12. 000; interest due. $3,240; compro mised for $540, with an agreement to accept one-third of the interest there after. Wichita county; -principal due, $35, 000; interest due, 114,700; compro- mised for $3,000 with an agreement that interest should be reduced from 6 per cent, to 3 per cent. Ness county; principal, $9,500; in terest. $237.50; compromised for $118.75, with an agreement to accept 2 per cent, instead of 5 per cent, in terest. It is stated that the names of the counties which have compromised their interest during the past two years have not yet been compiled and can not be given to the public. PECK WILL BE NAMED. tVisconsui Democrats Will Nominate Bad Boy's Pa for Governor. Oshkosh, Wis., Aug. 31. The state Democratic convention met here to day to nominate a full state ticket. Martin Lueck of Juneau, was made temporary chairman and H. J. Kil- lilea, of Milwaukee, is slated for per manent chairman. The nomination of ex-Governor Peck, of Milwaukee, for governor is conceded. There are sev eral candidates for all the other offices. The convention is expected to make a recommendation with reference to the United States senatorship and the gen tlemen who are looking for that fa vor are: Former Senator William F. Vilas, Congressman C. H. Weisse, Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee. Neal Brown of Wausau and T. E. Ryan of Waukesha. The platform will denounce the ex travagance of the present Republican administration and declare for primary election reform. In the course of his speech Martin L. Lueck, the temporary chairman, said "There is a rjressinsr necessitv to secure for the people from public ser vice corporations a fair return for the favors bestowed upon them, through extraordinary powers granted by the taws or this state. Democrats con tend that there is no inherent power existing anywhere to take private property except for the necessities of government or to promote the public welfare. "And where private enternrise. whether engaged in the railway, tele phone, telegraph or other business as sumes and is clothed with authority belonging to the sovereignty of the state, such private enterprise becomes a part of the public business and must submit to give the control that will tuny protect the rights of the people. Democracy concedes to public ser vice corporations the right to make such reasonable charges as will fully compensate ror tne money invested, risk assumed and ability and energy applied. But we maintain that every dollar of net proceeds which repre sents unearned profits belongs to the people, it is the fixed purpose of the Democratic party to., restrict all of such corporations in the matter of charges so that the. people and indus tries of Wisconsin shall be favored with a minimum rate." TAYLOR MEN WIN. Boss Buster Faction Lose the Osborne County Fight. f i Osborne, Kan.,- Aug.' 31. Tuesday, September 6 will mark the close of a very spirited legislative contest in Os borne county, that being the date of the Republican' nominating convention. The contest has been between J. B. Taylor, of Alton, the present represen tative, and John A. Morton, of Osborne. The later has had the backing of the element which bolted a portion of the Republican ticket two years ago. The loyal Republican workers of the coun ty have stood steadfastly by Mr. Tay lor, and have won decisive victories in every precinct where caucuses have al ready been held. Out of 61 delegates elected up to. date, all of them are for Taylor. The early returns were so over whelmingly in favor of Mr. Taylor that the Morton adherents lost heart, and now concede Mr. Taylor's renomination by acclamation. The caucuses in the three wards of Osborne were held last night. The Taylor men were out in force, and the seventeen delegates elect ed are all Taylor men. Mr. Taylor's majority at the election this fall it is believed will be the largest given a legislative candidate in this county since 1888. STEAL PARKER'S APPLES Picnickers Are Giving the Judge Much Annoyance. Esopus, N. Y., Aug. 31. Judge Parker's candidacy has caused his place at Rosemount to be visited by picnic parties in increasing numbers. Some of the parties come from long distances. They enter the grounds usually without permission, make themselves at home with the utmost freedom, ond leave the place littered with picnic leavings. One party re cently stripped several apple trees and committed other depredations. Judge Parker has been cordial in his treat ment of all visitors, but the picnickers are causing much annoyance. SENATOR CLARK TS PURSUED. Attacked by a Man Who Thought He Had a Bird. Missoula, Mont., Aug. 31. Senator Clark was attacked today by a man known as Joe Peg, who thought the senator laad been breaking the game laws and was carrying a grouse in his pocket and who threatened to take the senator's life. Peg followed the senator several blocks, persistently calling upon him to hand over the grouse. Senator Clark ran panting to the lobby of the Florence hotel and demanded protection. He was sure that Peg had a gun, for several times the latter had made motions to pull it and threatened to shoot unless the senator gave up his game bird. Sev eral persons sprang to his assistance and the man was overpowered. FOR A FAIR FAIR WEEK. Cider Smith Issues a Forecast Cover ing That Period. "Cider" Smith has issued the fol lowing forecast to cover fair week in Topeka: "So far as I can see the week of the state fair, September 12 to 17, will be generally fair. The equinox coming a week later will probably be out of the way, as the storm period ot the 17th and 18th being important would naturally draw together." filEATJMNE. Strikers Are Endearoring to Bring One About. 125 Special Policemen Down Their Clubs. Lay STRIKE IS EXTENDED. President Donnelly of Butchers Issues a New Order.- Calling Out Workmen iu the In dependent Concerns. STOCKHANDLERS QUIT. Toted Last Night to Go Oat at 10 O'clock Tod a j. Strike Leader Expects to Get Railroad Switchmen Out. Chicago, Aug. 31. Famine in meat is declared by the strikers to be the probable result of their new move in the strike against the packers. Orders have been issued for a general strike of all butcher workmen throughout the country. They are expected to go out tomorrow. The order will affect in all about 2,000 men in Chicago and ten in dependent plants. The order, if ob served, will also affect independent plants of large capacity in East St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, Sioux City, New York, Milwaukee, Syracuse. Stickney, Illinois, and hundreds ot smaller plants throughout the country which employ from 10 to 20 men. Al together union officials assert that 16.- 000 men will go out, and the meat sup ply will be seriously crippled, leaving as the only supply the output of the big packers by their nonunion help. To day the pickets surrounding the yards were largely increased and strike breakers were warned not to leave the yards. Six hundred stock handlers at the yards quit work today. They were greeted by cheers by the union pickets. The packers say it is Donnelly a aim to create a meat famine, which he thinks would arouse the public to such pitch of indignation tnat a settle ment would be forced. "Donnelly is undertaking -the Impos sible," said a representative of one of the packers. In addition to the stock handlers, 123 special policemen and nearly 400 pen cleaners of refuse wagons, and laborers. employed by the Union Stock Yards company., also quit work. Efforts are being made to call out the switchmen at the yards, employed by the Chicago Junction Railway com pany. Frank F. Hawley. grand master of the Switchmen's Union of North America, has been summoned to Chi cago with the view of getting switch men throughout the United States to refuse to handle cars containing any thing of the packers. Independent Plants Included. Chicago, Aug.. 311 President Donnelly has ordered 1,500 butcher workmen em ployed in the independent packing plants to cease work after today. He id that if these men continued slaughtering cattle they would be handling stock previously looked after by the men who took the places of thd stock handlers selected to quit work to day. The manager of the Union Stock yards Transit company said, in antic ipation of the strike of the stock hand- lers, men had been in training to take the places of deserting weighers, and that a lot of such men are available at once. He said further that no troubl was expected in handling the stock. A strong effort is to be made by the union leaders now at the stockyards to spread the scope of the strike so that it will include every trade which is sf filiated in even a remote degree with the packing: industry. The first step in this direction was taken last night when the stock handlers now employed at the yards vo ted to go on strike' at 10 o'clock this morning. There are about 1,000 of these men and their duties are to look after and feed the cattle in the pens between the time of their arrival and the time of their killing. Their action, therefore, will make it incumbent upon the pack ers to provide other men to take their places. President Donnelly of the Butchers' Union declared that he would also be able to call out all the switch men employed on the railroads which do business at the stockyards and pos sibly to extend the strike to other de partments of the railroads. A mass meeting of the strikers is to be held this afternoon at Watita hall, near the stockyards, and addresses are to be made by a number of labor lead ers. A SHALLOW OIL WELL. Sand Shot at 180 Feet In a Property Near Coffej-vllle. Coffeyville, Kan.. Aug. 31. Without' a doubt one of the shallowest oil wells on record is that of the Wlsden No. 1, four miles west of town. The well is owned by R. L. Plunkett of this cifr, and others. The pay sand was struck at 180 feet and the well shot. The showing was good, and considering the depth, the well is a bonanza. There have been rumors of wells, water wells that flowed oil at fifty feet, even men digging post hole have been reported to have found the crude product, but when it comes to a regular full fledged oiler shot and completed at 180 feet, it's getting neat the limit for shallow sand producers. The Wisden farm is new territory, and doubtless if good oil can be found at such a shallow depth, it means a rush to the new field. Several wells will be put down immediately on thil lease. No State Ticket. Helena. Mont., Aug. 31. A. small convention of the Prohibition party oi Montana was held here today and i was decided to abandon the idea oi placing a state ticket in the field. Three presidential electors wen named as follows: J. W. Bennett ol Missoula, J.. A. Longstaff of Helens and T, F. Stevenson of Bozeman,

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1904. Gleeson, St. Louis; Robert Leroy, LOST AND WON. Wfeattlft Why New York; F.B,. Feitshans, Lawrence, Kansas. c Interscholastlc championship sin gles L. Stearn, Chicago. Louisiana Purchase exposition sin Final Clash 8bows How Well That Is the .Story of Tuesday's gles H. McK. Jones, St- Louis; O. V. Vernon, Kansas City; H. C. Auld, Hatched Teams Are Ball Game. In the Desperate Battle in the American League. HAVE XO RUNS TO SPARE About 15 of Last Games Won or Lost by One Hun. Seren Shutouts llegistered and Seren Into Extra Hounds. Chicago, Aug-. 31. A special to the News from Philadelphia says: The final clash of the west In the east is proving how well matched ave the teams in the American league, for gome desperate battles are being waged al most every day. The number of games won and lost by one run in the two aeries just completed is surprising and would pass unnoticed by those who do not follow the "dope" closely. Besides this there have been an unusually large number of extra-Inning contests, as well as more than the ordinary number of shutouts registered. It Is these kind of games that explain the even balance cf the American league race, as well aa the ascendency the pitcher has acquired over the batter in the game of today. Since the western clubs came east for this final invasion thirty-four games have been played. Of this .number fif teen, or almost half, have been won and lost by one run. Such a record la con sidered remarkable. Seven shutouts have been registered and seven con tests have gone Into extra rounds. Cleveland has been the champion win ner of games by one run so far,, while the White Sox get the cellar champion ship on the same basis. The Blues have won four and lost one by this narrow margin. Reverse this and the record of the White Sox is given, one won and four lost. Detroit has won and lost one each way. St. Louis has one won and two lost. The record for the home clubs in these games is: New York, four won, one lost; Boston, two won, one lost; Philadelphia, one won and two lost, and Washington, one won and three lost. In the matter of long games Cleve land again leads, having played four In these two series. Three of them were victories, two taken from the Athletics and one from the Senators. Washing ton gave the Blues their only defeat in an extra session conflict. There have been three ten-inning games, three for eleven innings and one went twelve rounds. This was between Cleveland and Washington, 1 to 0, in the former's favor. Of the seven shutouts three were 1 to 0 games. The record is as follows: Detroit 6. Washington 0; Philadelphia 2, Cleveland 0; Boston 8, St. Louis 0; Boston 3. St.. Louis 0; New York 1. Chi cago 0: Cleveland 1. Washington 0; Cleveland 1. Washington 0. 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It would seem that any reader so nf f iced should write the company at once Ince no money is Involved and the In doraements are from such a high and arveOworthy sourca. tTOE Who says he -will retire after or lose. first place, as they were a week ago, Comlskey's men are struggling against the tide that seems to be swiftly and surely carrying them to the foot of the first division and almost Into the sec ond. So close to the second division are they that should the Athletics beat them today and Cleveland succeed in downing Griffiths' highlanders. only one point in the percentage column would keep Cleveland out of the first division and the White Sox out of the second. It was rumored in Boston Saturday that Charlie Farrell. the veteran catch er, had notified Manager Collins that he Is through playing with that team. The reason is said to be that Farrell is piqued because he was "roasted" in the first game the White Sox played there and he says if the crowd has gone back on him he is done. During the other three games the Sox played in Boston it was noticed that Farrell did not warm nr as usual, and was indifferent in many ways. Criger caught the three remaining games and one. when his hand was hurt and it looked as though he would have to retire. Doran, a new comer in fast company, prepared to take his place. SHARKEY KNOCKED. OUT. Thrown From His Runabout in a Run away Accident. New York Aua. 31. Frightened by an automobile the bay gelding Hopper Grass (2:124). owned and driven by Tom Sharkey, bolted in the Brooklyn Speedway, throwing Sharkey heavily tr. th B-round. The horse ran for several blocks through the crowded drive before being overtaken ana brought to a halt by Mounted Police man Cullen. Sharkev had finished a brush wun a friend When his attention was called to an automobile of high power, on the front seat of which sat a dog. dressed in automobile clothes and wearing goggles. As Sharkey laughed the machine "coughed" and Hopper Grass turned, quickly. The puginstv lost control of the reins and was Ditched headlong to the bicycle path. The trotter started on a run down the drive. Cullen. with another mounted po liceman, gave chase. The trotter can gallop as well as trot. He heard the policemen coming ana jumpea tor ward with vigor. The light runabout at his heels offered little resistance. Cullen raised his voice in warning to drivers down the road. They drove their horses onto the grass, beyond the curbs, some of them leaving the road in the nick of time. At Avenue L Cullen overtook Hop per Grass and brought him to a halt, but only after a struggle, during which Cullen was almost pulled from his horse's back. The wagon was slight ly damaged, and Sharkey, after a friend had ricked several splinters from his face, drove home. I 'it i Would Fight Munroe. New York. Aug. 31. "The fight be tween Jeffries and Munroe ended Just as I expected it would," said Bob Fltzsimmons. "Why, a man like Mar vin Hart could put Munroe away be fore the limit and Jack O'Brien would be able to cut him to pieces in six rounds. Munroe is. as I have stated since he met Jeffries at Butte, little better than an amateur. Munroe's manager knew at the time his match with Jeffries was made that his match would be whipped quickly. Right now I believe I could polish off Munroe without any difficulty. I think that it is like finding money to fight Munroe, and if he is anxious to meet me, I will sign articles with him at once and agree to knock him out in twenty rounds or forfeit my end of the purse. He would be the easiest game Im aginable. He is in the same class with Jim Jerroras ana ai umericK. New York Unpopular. New York is not a popular team around the circuit, nor is it composed of parlor babies. There's no mamma's darling business about tne .New xorks. They are more like the Baltimore rowdies, in whose -school McGraw, Bowerman, McGann and McGinnity were educated. They play ball, they chew at the umpire, and they raise old Ned generally. And they have won a pennant, and the glory thereof is all theirs. That's all settled. They've got it. From now on well just try to keep our heads above water and shut off Pittsburg ana j incinnati nom sec ond. Chicago Journal. Woman Driver for Prince Alert Syracuse. N. Yi, Aug. SI. A feature of the races at the New York state fair on Sept. 8 will be Miss Nina Phelps' endeavor to lower the world's record for women drivers held by her self. She will drive Prince Alert in the attempt. Miss Phelps is the daughter of a West Troy, N. Y., bank er, and two years ago drove Dariel in 2:12. Raring at Providence. Providence, R. I., Aug. 31. Twelve thousand persons saw the grand cir cuit racing at Narragansett park. The weather conditions and track were perfect and the horses In two In stances made the best marks made in a race over any track during the year. The big attraction today was the Parkbrew stakes for a purse of $5. 000 for horses which were eligible to the 2:09 pacing class last March. There were five entries, but the event was practically a two-horse race between Gallagher, the Canadian horse, and John M., property of E. E. Smathera of New York. The former GAMS his coming fight with Gardner, win was favorite over the field. In the initial heat the favorite led from wire to wire, with John M. at his sulky wheel at the finish. In the second heat the Canadian at the word raced away to the front, with John M. laying to his sulky wheel, in the last ten yards Gallagher weak ened and John won by a head. This heat practically settled the race, John M. winning both the fol lowing heats by good lengths. The first heat of the race made a new rec ord for the event, lowering the one made by Direct Hal in 1902 by one quarter of a second. In the 2:08 trot ting event Oxanam lowered the trot ting race heat record of the season from 2:07 to 2:07. In the 2:08 pacing Darius was first made favorite, but later was supplant ed by Pauline G. Darius won the first heat handily. Pauline G. made a break at the head of the stretch by swerv ing into the track, causing Johnny Wiseman to smash into her. throw ing both drivers out and Wiseman ran past the wire before he was caught. Outside of broken sulkies no damage was done, and the Judges placed both horses on account of an unavoidable accident. Racing at New York. New York, Aug. 31. Beldame, at 1 to 7 in the betting, and with 126 pounds up, won the Dolphin stakes for 3-year-olds, one mile and a fur long, at Sheepshead bay. The Octa gon filly was giving away big weight to her field, and waa not extended during any part of the Journey, win ning easily by four lengths. St. Bel- lane, carrying 126 pounds, and con ceding weight to his field, captured the Partridge stakes by two lengths from the favorite, Bedouin. Glen Echo was third. Bedouin was an added starter and was heavily played. being backed from 5 to 2 to 8 to 5. Letola in the first race broke the track record for the full futurity course. Jockey Shaw was suspended for three days for breaking in the last race. Racing at St- Louis. St. Louis, Aug. 31. Five horses, heads apart on the wire Tally H., the favorite; Eleanor Howard, out side; Sid Silver, second choice; Whisk ers and Buccleuth was the order in which the third race was run at the fair grounds. The five fought it through the stretch, the favorite win ning in the last stride. Woodlands, Rome Respass's recent purchase from Barney Schreiber, was made a 4 to 5 favorite in the fourth race, the fea ture of the card. Woodlands won by the narrowest of margins from Fruit, who was bought recently by Mose Goldblatt for one-fifth the sum paid for the Schreiber horse. Track fast Racing at Cleveland. Cleveland, Aug. 31. The Cleveland challenge gold cup remains In Cleve land for another year, it being won by H. M. Hanna's Aerolite, driven by H. K. Devereux, president of the Cleveland club. Sadie Mac, owned and driven by E. E. Smathers of New York, won the first heat and finished first in the second, but was set back in consequence of swerving In the stretch, a violation of amateur driv ing rules. Racing at Detroit. Detroit, Aug. 31. Surprises were plentiful and complete at Highland park, the greatest coming out of the running of the feature event, a handi cap at a mile and seventy lyards. In a field of five Autolight was an even money favorite, but finished a bad last. 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Taylor was erratic ana bases on balls and a wild pitch, mixed in with hitsy were responsible for Phil adelphia's runs. Attendance, 1,600. Score bv lnninsra: R.H.E. St. Louis 0 0000200 02 9 10 Philadelphia 0 1000101 14 8 Batteries Taylor and Grady; Corrl don and Dooln. AT CINCINNATI. New York won from Cincinnati by scoring three runs in the eighth on a base on balls, an error and three sin gles. Attendance, 3,100. Score bv inninra: R.H.E. Cincinnati 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 8 1 New York 0 0000003 03 6 1 Batteries Hahn and Peltz; Matthew son and Bowerman. AT PITTSBURG. Boston won the game In the first three Innings by hitting Phlllippi for eight bases, scoring four runs. Willis kept hits scattered. Attendance, 1,516. Score by innings: R.H.E. Pittsburg 0 0 1 0 0 01 6 3 Boston 2 0 2 0 0 04 9 3 Batteries Phillippl and Phelps;Wlllis and Moran. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. New York 82 32 .719 Chicago 68 45 .602 Cincinnati 67 48 .53 Pittsburg 65 47 .580 St. Louis 60 57 513 Boston 44 73 376 Brooklyn 39 74 .315 Philadelphia 33 82 .28? AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT BOSTON. The Champions maintained their position by shutting out Detroit. At tendance, 7,300. Score by innings: R.H.E. Boston 1 0 3 0 0 2 7 0 -13 IS 0 Detroit 0 000000000 6.5 Batteries Young. Criger and Doran; Kilson, Stovall and Beville. AT PHILADELPHIA. Inability to hit Patterson's delivery wa8 the cause of Philadelphia s de feat. Attendance, 5,500. Score by innines: R.H.K. Chicago 0 0 0 2 0 0 10 03 7 1 Philadelphia 0 0000000 00 4 2 Batteries Patterson and McFarland; Henley and Schreck. AT WASHINGTON. Pelty easily outpitched Townsend In the first, while Patten was much more effective than Howell in the second game. Second Baseman McCormick had his left forearm fractured by a swift inshoot from Pelty. He will be out of the game for the rest of the sea son. First gameScore by innings: R.H.E. Washington w..0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 S St. Louis ....;.i..w,0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 9 0 Batteries Townsend) and Kittredge; Pelty and Sugderu Second game Score by Innings: R.H.E. Washington 3 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 4 10 1 St. Louis 0 0000001 01 6 0 Batteries Patten and Clark; Howell and O'Conner. AT NEW YORK. The local Americans won by clever team work In the final inning. It was a pitchers' battle. Attendance, 4,594. Score by innings: R.H.E. Cleveland 0 0000000 00 4 2 New York 0 0000000 11 6 0 Batteries Joss and Befnis; Orth and Kleinow. AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. Boston 68 43 .613 New York 66 43 606 Philadelphia 61 45 .576 Chicago 65 48 .575 Cleveland 61 47 .565 Detroit 47 62 .431 St. Louis 43 65 .39Si Washington 26 84 .236 WESTERN LEAGUE. AT DES MOINES. By a batting rally In the tenth inning Des Moines took the game from Omaha. The game was a pitchers' battle. Score by innlnes: R.H.E. Des Moines ........0 1 000000012 9 6 Omaha ...0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 Batteries Morrison and Towne; San ders and Gonding. AT COLORADO SPRINGS. The doubleheader between Colorado Springs and St- Joseph was divided, the visitors winning the first game and the locals the last. Sollenberger, a local college man, pitched a shutout game. A majority of the runs In both games were due to errors. First game Score by Innings: R.H.E. Colorado Springs ...00 003 00014 7 3 St. Joseph ,....02 00 000 1 25 8 3 Batteries McNeely and Baerwald; Clark and Garvin. -Second game Score by innings: R.H.E. Colorado Springs ...80 1 00001 -4 5 3 St. Joseph 00.0 000 0 0 00 6 3 Batteries Sollenbergenand Baerwald; Clark and Garvin. AT DENVER. Denver won a doubleheader, but the victory was without a struggle. Snap py fielding and pitching combined to produce two good contests. First game Score by innings: R.H.E. Denver. 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 4 14 3 Sioux City .0 0000000 11 5 4 Batteries Eyler and Braun; Jarrot and Leslie. Second game Score by innings: R.H.E. Denver 0 2 0 O 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 Sioux City ..000001 0001 6 0 Batteries Kenna and Braun; Kostal and Leslie. WESTERN LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. Denver 73 44 .62t Colorado Springs 65 46 .5?6 Omaha .w.. 67 49 578 Des Moines 63 58 .521 St. Joseph 45 S8 .398 Sioux City 39 74 .345 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Minneapolis Minneapolis, 0; Colum- At St. Paul St. Paul. 12: Louisville. 3. At Milwaukee Milwaukee, 1: Toledo, 1 (called ilth inning account darkness.) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION STANDING. Club. Won. Lost. Pet. St. Paul Milwaukee Columbus Louisville Minneapolis Indianapolis 84 73 69 68 64 58 43 .662 50 57 58 60 69 74 82 .594 .54S .540 .516 .457

.27 Kansas city 51 Toledo 34 I can not name the rare Joys, the infin ite delights that intoxicate me since tak ing Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. Saints Used up Tiro Gold Bug Pitchers. GAME IS A POOR ONE. Filled With Bases on Balls and Hit Batsmen. Final Score Was Topeka 8, Sedalia 5. Red" Davis of Sedaha made a rec ord on Tuesday afternoon. But it was not the kind to be proud of. In six in nings he gave Topeka nine bases on balls, and these coupled with a wild pitch, and two errors by his mates, gave Topeka the victory. Hutter finish ed the game, but the Jig was up, and Amos didn't exert himself. The finale read as follows: Topeka 8, Sedalia 5. C.p.B. Mr. Grarrley at the Bat Just Before He Struck Out. Talk about hippodrome performances In baseball. It was absolutely the worst. The freakishness of the game was positively scandalous. Both teams had better lose the pattern which they used on Tuesday. At the end of the second inning tne fans sat on the corpse and decided that Sedalia had the game won. The tally sheet then read 5 to 0 in favor of the Gold Bugs. Three were made in the first Inning. Bauers singled as the ini tial stunt of the game. He stole second and was hurried hcrne by Rohn's a.ir one. Stoner got his base on balls. Billy White then nlasterea out a two-bagger. the bulb going through Cole's legs, and Rohn and Stoner were in. In? the sec ond act, Hutter had lifted oat a two- Mr. Rohn Unexpectedly Collided .With the Ball. bagger before the curtain was entire ly ud. Davis hit one lor two sacus, and of course it meant "Home. Happy Home" for Old Amos, B. C. But "Red' got busy trying to stretch his hit into three bases ana was nippea in me act. Bauers then got his base on balls and stole second. Ho advanced to third on McDill's grounder, which was too slow to field. Then he proceeded to beat the throw-In following Rohn's long hit to left. That made a total of five runs, and it meant all that the Bugs made. c.p.e 1 Mr. Dunn Shows His Form. Old Coaching The Saints got one in the first. Ab bott hit for three sacks and then came home on Davis' wild pi.tch. Things looked blue as indigo until the fifth In ning. Then Davis took his balloon as cension. He'- passed Hurlburt. Then Gramley made an error, and Hurlburt came all way round. t;oie ana tsenrant both got passes and the sacks were full. Dunn came up in the nick of time and laced the pill out for two sacks, bringing home Abbott and Cole. Mr. McDill Sits Down on Hughes at Third Base. Olson hit to deep center and Schrant beat home the throw-in. mat maae four runs and tied the score. It was almost as bad In the sixth. Hurlburt got passed again. Abbott made the CP.B. Where they play Thursday: Leavenworth at Topeka. v -Sedalia at Fort Scott. "Dutch" Henry, president of the Se dalia baseball team, was in Topeka on Tuesday for the ostensible purpose of strengthening his team by trading with the Saints. He first made a proposition to Manager Sheard of the Celestials to give Stoner- and M-cDill for Big- jonn Schrant. This was turned down cold. Stoner likes corn Juice too well, and McDill has not hit worth a continental during the last fifteen days. Two good ones represent about the total gate re ceipts for the .youngster in that time. Then Mr. Henry proposed trading .Mc Dill for Freil. Topeka's utility- man. But that, too, met with frigid recepUoni Mr. Henry will not leave this town strengthened with additions from- the Topeka team. He will have to look elsewhere. He thought that inasmuch as Topeka Is a tail-ender and practical ly has the second last place clinched, it would not care for the surrender of a good player or two to beaaiia, xo keep the Gold Bugs from falling out of the first station. But he forgot that Topeka is building, for next year, and will hold every man now on the, team for 1905. The fall meeting of the Missouri Val ley League managers will be held in, Kansas City in November. At that time the principal work will be the re arrangement of the circuit. A lively session promises to result, The Sedalia team and its poor playing has turned the stomach -of the Sedalia papers. The following appeared in the Sedalia Sentinel on Sunday relative xo the Gold Bug-Pirate game In Se dalia on last Saturday: "Has Reached the Limit Exhibitions by, the seaana Baseball Team Have Grown Ranker and Ranker Not Entitle to Patron age Public Has Been Fooled Long Enough and the Time Has Arrived xo Call a Halt What Is the Matter? Errors, dumb plays and general good-for-nothlngness or worse, is the story of Sunday's game with Pittsburg. The exhibition given by the seaana Dau team is not worth the space necessary to describe It in thl spaper, and so no account appears this morning. ine Sentinel all season has pusnea xne sport along to the full extent of its ability, but it declines to be a party to taking from the nublic without ade quate return and that is what the Se dalia duo is aomg. ins smra not worth wasting time to see. much less navinar money for that privilege. and the people of this city should de- ciine 10 pairumao mem From the Topeka Capital: 'A., JJ. Baker, of Joplin, wants to succeed 'Doc' Shively as president of the Mis souri Valley league and will be a. can Airtota it tbn meeting next spring.. The sporting editor of the Capital doesn t know Mr. naker personally, uu relief from Shively's administration would be acceptable. The thing the Valley league needs most now is to rid itself of Shively." To this the Joplin Globe replies:. Two questions are Involved If it la true that A. H. Baker, president Of the Joplin association, is an asnlrant or would ac cept the presidency of the league. The first question is why there should be a change, and the second is whether a better .mart than Baker could be found for the place.' The answer to the first is, "There should not," and the answer to the second is, "Uhere could not." The addition of Pitcher Henderson of Fort Scott to the Iola slab-staff has aroused some very peculiar talk over the circuit, namely that the Giants have simply handed Henderson over to the Gaslighters to help the latter win the pennant. Springfield protested Sunday's game with Iola on that account, saying, that the league rules do not allow players of- the league to change clubs at this time of the year. In the way of comment on the two defeats which Joplin received at the hands of the Saints last week, and the only defeats for the Fillmanltes by Topeka for the year, the Joplin Globe has the following interesting stuff: first station on McDill's bad throw and both went one in addition. Then Cole rapped out a single and two more runs were hi. For good measure- another was made in the eighth. Schrant sin gled. Dunn advanced him to third with a nice one and he jan in on White's bad bauble of a grounder. The only real interesting thing about the game was the tying of Ifre score and the cause thereof. The crowd went after "Red" Davis until they had the sorrel-toD clear up above the clouds. zasninsr for air. It was an instance of noise rattling a pitcher and a good In stance. Tom Hughes was on deck ror. the wing-clipped. After the third inning he gave but three hits. His benderlnes were as puzzling to the Sedallans as the ownership of the Topeka franchise is at the present time, tnougn jjavis bad error may have ha something to do with it. nun Alberts handled the Indicator, and if ever an umpire suited Topeka, it is Old Spartacus. Not only that, but he suits the other fellow lust aa -well. For giving all-around satisfaction they can't beat tne "01a man.- The score: TOPEKA. TMaver. AB R H 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 O 3 6 6 2 2 1 1 0 A 0 1 0 o 2 3 1 0 1 Hurlburt. cf. 3 3 Abbott, lb ,.4 Cole, If. 3 Schrant. c. 1 Dunn, 2b 4 Olson, ss. Brown, 3b Shinners, rf. 3 Hughes, p Totals ......30 8 SEDALIA. 7. 27 Plaver. AB R H 1, 0 1 o j 0 1 2 1 0 A 0 2 1 Bauers, cf. McDill, 3b 3 5 4 3 4 4 3 4 3 1 ...34 Rohn, lb Stoner, c White, ss. -1 .3 Lee. 2b 1 1 Bunton, If. Hutter, rt. at p. Davis, p Edwards, rf. Totals 24 Score by Innings: Totieka 1 o o .0 4 a o a Sedalia 3 2.0000000-5 Summary: Earned runs-Sedalia. 8. Struck out By Hughes, 4: by Davis, 6. Hit bv pltcnea Dan acnrani, oie, owm-i. Stolen bases Bauers. 2; McDill. i cole. Three-base hit Abbott. Two-base hit- Dunn, wnite, z; nutter, i. uu Davis, Hutter. Umpire Aioerts. 1 inws of game one nour oa muiuico. iu; ance 200. "The second defeat of the Miners at Kansas capital yesterday afternoon calls forth bare mention of the sonor ous slump of the- local innocents. The question made famous by the veteran Dud Risley, commander of the Iola Gaslighters, "What's going on here?" lo surely opportune about now. Pre vious to Friday afternoon the Saints were never able to deport themselves as regularly organized professionals when dickering with Fillman's family. But for once they overstepped prece dent and walloped the visitors to the heartrending twhe of 8 to 2. Tester my they added insult to Injury by ad ministering another distressing defeat by a score of 9 to 7. In both of these battles the Miners were easy prey for the Topeka weaklings. The mott dis couraging feature of the situation is the deplorable condition of the pltch- ia& man. oa.m Mornm is iaia up wun a large boll on his pitching arm and Big Bill Torrence admits that he can't do his team Justice In the box while engaged at other points In every other game played. When stationed at third base or In the outfield he conducted himself creditably but it is asking en tirely too much to have him deliver slants even to the seventh hole club in Topeka. Then Lanky George Lowell Is the only twlrler left for constant duty. He worked hard in the first and third games at Topeka. Torrence waa on third in the first game, in the pitcher's box in the second and be hind the bat In the third. What man ner of man expects great gobs of vic tory under such circumstances. Since the injury sustained by Vanderhlll In this city two months ago he has been an entirely different person. The won derful alacrity which he showed at the first of the season has been sadly missed, and the same is true of Dolly Gray, whose rheumatism has seriously interfered with his scampering in the right garden and precluded the possi bility of him covering the first sack rn.il' mure mis yean; From the Fort Scott Republican: "Ft. Scott will be in the Valley league again next year with a stronger team than ever- There is not a gamer man in the Valley than Fred Hornaday." Iola did not get a chance to see Umpire Cusick work until last Sunday. On his debut the Register had the following: 'Mr. Cusick made his first appearance In Iola yesterday as umpire and made a fa vorable impression. He is a strapping big fellow, being larger than Owens, but he is Just the opposite of Owens, who is a bully. Cusick Is not at all loud, but run the game in a nice, quiet way. Yester day's game went through without the semblance of a squabble." The sporting editor of the morning pa per, who steals two-thirds of his news from the State Journal and fiills the rest of his space with abuse of his benefac tor, had another fit this morning because sheard and Secretary Logan claim the trie state journal tola that President franchise in the Valley league. He says everybody knew it two months ago, but nevertheless this gr-at sporting writer carefully refrained fxm publishing the fact until he saw the item in the State Journal. That is probably his idea of news as gained by his long distance ex perience on the New York Sun. Mean while the State Journal will continue to print all the baseball news, despite the Jealous snarling of the writer on the morning paper who knows it is news only after it is published in the State Journal. MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE. AT PITTSBURG. Pittsburg shut out Joplin in a fast and well played game, making it three straight. The visitors could not find Halia's twisters. Kane's fielding waa the feature. Score by innings: f RH.E Joplin 00 00O0 0 0 0O 3 3 Pittsburg 2 0000101 4 8 1 Batteries Torrence and Vanderhlll: Halla and Seabaugh. AT LEAVENWORTH. Leavenworth lost the game to Fort Scott by a score of 9 to 4 in a very yel low exhibition of baseball. Score by innings: R.H.E. Fort Scott 1 3011200 18 6 5 Leavenworth 4 0000000 0 4 14 6 Batteries Gates and Ulrlch: Hanley and Armstrong. AT IOLA. Springfield won from Iola in a one sided game. Root was batted hard in the first part of the contest. Score by innings: R.H.B. Iola 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 01 4 2 Springfield 1 12 0 4 0 0 0 08 14 1 T.. T" I 1 n I i,tv i irn rro j. yjjt, auit oclgie, vralg anCi Schmidt. MISSOURI VALLEY LEAGUE STAND ING. Club. Won. Lost. 34 37 42 44 59 65 73 78 Pet. .658 .661 .(Vr7 .5K .419 ffTK Iola 75 Springfield Joplin Sedalia Pittsburg Leavenworth Topeka. Fort Scott 72 65 63 48 29 35 30 '.327 Kansas Ball Games. AT EUREKA. Eureka defeated the Haskell Indians by a score of 8 to 1. The feature of the game was the pitchlna- of Murnhv. Eureka's star twlrler. He let the In dians down with three hits and one run. AT PERRT. An exciting ball game was Dlave here by Oskaloosa and Perry, resulting in a score or to 8 in favor of Oska loosa. .Batteries Oskaloosa,ThomDson. Dick and Randolph; Perry, Maston and Gramse. AT ELLSWORTH. Ellsworth, had a reversal of form bit ting Attridge at will. The visitors were In the-atf Jn the first, fourth and seventh,.-"Stanley, for the home team.kept the visitors well In hand until the ninth, when he let up, giving them three hits. The same, team plays here today. Score by innings: R H.E. Minneapolis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 s S Ellsworth 4 0 1 4 0 0 6 0 14 15 3 Batteries Attridee. Penaulte mi Brown; Stanley and Mehl. AT EMPORIA. In one of the fastest games everniav. ed here the Emporia Maroons won rrom tne council Grove team by a score of 1 to 0. The game was a pitchers' battle In which Shaner, of the Maroons won. He struck out ten men and gave the visitors one hit. He was given al most errorless support by the team Allen, who pitched for the visitors, gave the home team three hits and struck out two men. 1 Score by lnnimrs: u u t.. Emporia 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 i 3 i Council Grove 0 0000000 0 0 1 1

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1904. 3 KANSASJEWS. The Tjro OH Field Ha. Shown Great Actlritj Lately. One of the Largest Couiitj Wells Struck Sear the Line. GOOD FOR A TASK A DAY A Second One Produced 75 Bar rel! the First Daj. The Franklin Well Output Con tinues First Clasv. Independence, Aug. 31. Tyro has at last been vindicated. Rider, Miller Black have one of the largest wells drilled In the county in a long time on the Mills' farm, south of Tyro, near the Territory line. It is estimated to be good for a tank a day. This Is thetr third wei: on the tract, and is the larg est well yet drilled in the so-called Tyro pool. Another well in this district was drilled by the Consolidated on the Dob wn farm, northeast of Tyro, near the well drilled on the Foster farm by the Xranklin Oil company, recently. It did 15 ban els the first 30 hours pumping. These two wells add color to the the ory that the edge of a large pool -was struck when several producers were drilled around Tyro recently. The Kranklin well is still doing 60 barrels a day after having filled eight 2o0 bar rel tanks, showing excellent staying qualities indicating a large storage back f it. The Prairie Oil Gas company- completed a pipe line to these wells last Saturday, and yesterday a pump was shipped in. The first oil was run today, A number of wells now drilling in that vicinity will give a pretty fair idea of which way the pool extends. The Franklin Oil company has al ready drilled a failure on the Foster, near its good well and is now down 500 feet In No. 3. The Consolidated is arm ing at 900 feet in No. 1 on the Meacham farm, north of the pool and west of Jefterson. and has lust spudded in well on the J. F. Dobson. The Kansas Natural Gas company has a test spud ding in on the Alessersmith and Harry lincke is drilling on the Cox and nas a rig up on the Hester. One mile north the Consolidated has a rig on the Smith, and will at once start a well 400 feet east of its producer on the Dobsoo. Half a mile south of the Cox farm Rider, Miller Black. are putting down a well. IS HOME IltOM EITIOPE.. Father Ileitz Returns From a Visit to the Old World. Father Ileitz of St. John's Catholic church in this city arrived home from his trip to Europe yesterday after noon. He has been gone since spring and has had a very enjoyable vacation, nothing supervening to mar any of its pleasures. He made a very rapid journey from the Kuropean side, as he was only five days and se'enteen hours crossing the Atlantic, leaving Cherbourg. France, on Friday. August 19, and arriving oft Sandy Hook on Wednesday, August 24. at midnight. Father Heitz crossed on the reutschland. one of the Atlantic grey hounds, that flies the fla of the North German Lloyd steamship company, a boat that makes close on to 600 nau- tlcal miles per day. the best run on the occasion of our townsman's home ward Journey bein 575 miles. For two days the weather was rough, which delayed the vessel somewhat, otherwise it would have arrived a number of hours earlier than was the case. It carried about 1,000 passengers this trip, and Father Heitz is loud in his praise of the service and the at tention bestowed on the comfort and welfare of all on board. The father was accompanied home by his niece, Miss Lena Jordan, who left here with him. and also by another niece. Miss Lizzie Heitz.. who comes to this coun try for the first time. Beloit Call. At flic Cowley County Fair. Winfield. Kas.. Aug. 31. The first day's racing of the Cowley county fair was held before a fair-sized audience, t'ncle Sam won the 2-year-old trot in four heats. Bickham Hugo was sec ond and Black Silk third. The best time was 1:19. The 2-year-old pace, half mile, was won by Woodland Daisy in five heats; Inez Weaver was second and Gold Lace third. The best time was 1:09 There was a half-mile running race, which was won by Queen of Hearts. Glenn Mc Ewan. a country girl. 13 years old. rode one of the horses in this race, but finished last. She wore a short white dress and rode astride. Soon Seeks a Divorce. Mary Diegnon has filed suit in the district court for a divorce from James Diegnon after living with him just seven months. They were mar ried in Leavenworth January 25, 1904. and the wife states that she has con ducted herself as a wife should, but alleges that the husband within two months after marrige began to In dulge quite heavily in the juice of the forbidden fruit, and on pay day of each week would cet filled with the stuff, and remain in that condition for from two to three days at a time; that during such periods he would call her names, slap her and that finally about the first part of August he ordered her to leave her home in Chicago, where she was then living with the defendant, and that she was compelled GOFJSTBPATBOrj Don't you know that Dizziness, Biliousness, Sick Headache and Bad Breath result from Con stipation Dp- Gn3divo.ro (LAXATIVE) Is the best remedy you can take to cure Constipation and Stom ach trouble. Try It to-day. PEPSIN SYRUP CO., Montlcello, III. GATLIN DRUG CO. DISTRIBUTORS. A Letter to State Journal Readers. 53 Cottage St., Melrose, Mass. January 11, 1904. Dear Sir: "Ever since I was in the army, I had more or less kidney trouble, and within the past year it became so severe and complicated that I suffered everything and was much alarmed my strength and power waa fast leaving me. I saw an advertisement of Swamp-Root and wrote asking for advice. I began the use of the medicine and noted a de cided Improvement after taking bwamp-Root onlv a short time. I continued Its use and am thankful to say that I am entirely cured and strong. In order to be very sure about this, I had a doctor examine some of my water today and he pronounced It ail right and in splendid condition. I know that your Swamp-Root Is purely vegetable and does not contain any harmful drugs. Thanking you for my complete recovery and recom mending Swamn-Root to all sufferers. I am. Very truly yours. I. C. RICHARDSON. Tou may have a sample bottle of tnis wonderful remedy. Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Root, sent absolutely free by mail, also a book telling all about Swamp-Root. If you are alreadv convinced that Swamp-Root Is what you need, you can purchase the reg ular 50-jcent and one dollar size bottles at the drug stores everywhere. Don't mane any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root Dr. Kilmer's hwamp-Koot, and the address, Bing hamton. N. Y., on every bottle. to write home to obtain sufficient money with which to pay her trans portation back to her parents' home. The plaintiff states that her maiden name was Mary Hund and she asks the court to restore her to it when it grants her a decree of divorce. Leav enworth Times. CAME FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. Baby Opossum Found In a Banana Car Consigned to Fort Scott. w. L. Drake, the commission man on East Wall street, has a young opossum that is a curosity In this climate. It is a native of Central America and was taken from a car of bananas that was received this morn ing from that country by Mr. Drake. The animal is about the size of a full grown rat, and but for its head and actions its species could not have been determined. It sits up on its hind feet like a kangaroo, and eats bananas like a young pickaninny. The hair is unlike the possoums in this country. Instead of being gray It is dark brown. The animal was taken out of the car this morning and waa almost dead from exhaustion. It was so weak it could hardly stand up. The possum was dying from thirst, and when It was given water it almost foundered Itself. Mr. Jacobs placed It in a barrel and will keep it as a curiosity as long as it lives, which, from its weakened con dition, will not be long. Fort Scott Tribune. Abused His Generosity. C. O. Graham, who resides just south of Logan, has an exceptionally fine large field of watermelons and showed his generosity by announcing that anyone desiring to sample his product could enter the patch at pleasure and eat a melon or take it away with him. He has been, com pelled to refuse this privilege, as 500 or more melons had been pulled from the vines, cut open or burst, and havoc generally spread throughout the patch. This represents quite a financial loss as the melons were a marketable product, and in order to iimt rt t himqplf and rmrtTtv from tn(.se wholesale marauders has been compelled to notify the public that everyone must keep out. He will place a guard in the patch and prowl ers may meet a circumstance if sim ilar visits are again atempted. Phil lipsburg Herald. Charged With Wife Murder. Cofreyville, Aug. 31. Lester Scofield. a well known young farmer living a mile west of here, was arrested by a deputy sheriff charged with murdering his wife. Mrs. Scofield was killed May 22, according to her husband, by the ac cidental discharge of a revolver. It is leported that Mrs. Marian Allen, Mrs. Scofield's mother, asserts that Scotield and her daughter disagreed, and that Scofield killed her. Scofield is in jail in Independence. Scofield says he is inno cent. Negro Soldiers Leave Fort Riley. Fort Riley. Aug. 31. A battalion of the Twenty-fifth infantry (negro), which has been on detached service here, left last evening for its proper station. Fort Tiiobra a. Neb. The bat talion arrived here three weeks ago and has been encamped near the na tional range on the Republican bottom. During the national match it perform ed police duty in the camp and furnish ed the markers for the targets. Patents for Kansans. Washington, Aug. 31. These pat ents have been issued: Kansas George L. Bumgardner. Gridley, cultivator shovel; George W. Durham, Burns, sickle grinding at tachment to mowing machine; Otto Hofmann, Argentine, roasting fur nace; Francis T. Jacobs, Newton, wind wheel regulator; Wilson R. Pratt. Topeka, air engine; Frederick B. Stoner and C. Hoatling, Chanute, drill and clutch. Played Before Royalty. Ottawa. Aug. 31. S. E. Losh, former ly a resident of this county, has return ed home from England. Losh has been doing vaudeville work and is said to have done well. He appeared before the Prince and Princess of Wales and sev eral representatives of royalty. His niece travels with him. They return in a few weeks to fill a four years' con tract. Members of Oood Familes. Ottawa, Aug. 31. "Jack" McCormick and Charles Warner, members of good families, have been arrested, charged with highway robbery. There have been a number of holdups the last few nights, in one of which a man was knocked senseless with a beer bottle and dangerously Injured. Gasoline Stove Exploded. Emporia, Kan., A-ug. 31. Mrs. W. R. Samuels, the wife of a Santa Fe engineer, was perhaps mortally burn ed here Tuesday by the explosion of a gasoline stove. She was filling the reservoir when the accident occurred. There were no fires of any sort in the house that she knows of. and she is at a loss to account for the explosion. Rum Crusade for Wichita. Wichita, Kan.. Aug. 31. Myra Mc Henry, a co-worker of Carrie Nation, promises a temperance crusade for this city. She made the announce ment last evening, but declined to give particulars. Mrs. McHenry Is con sulting sign writers with the end in view of having banners printed for use during the crusade. "Down with rum," and other Inscriptions will ap- oear on the banners. "Yes," said Mrs. McHenry, "it-will be down with rum but not In the sense that most men put down rum. JIIXBaiS TO VOTE AGAIN. Referendum Soon to Decide Changes Proposed by the Convention. Pittsburg, Kan.. Aug. 31. The miners of district 14 wiil have an other referendum election soon. The date has not yet been set. The pur pose will be to vote on the proposed changes in the district constitution. The recent convention drafted a num ber of changes, but before they can take effect the miners of the district must vote upon them.. One of the most important changes proposed provides for the starting of a co operative store system. The calling of the election has been left to Mr. Gilmour. the secretary-treasure, and the district board. The board will meet here Friday. The new mining contract between the miners of the district, represented by the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, and the operators, represented by the Southwestern Coal Operators' as sociation, will take effect Thursday. The contract and agreement have been signed by the scale committee of both bodies. The only change in the scale is a small reduction in the day wage scale and the dead work price. Cattlemen's Picnic Opens. Kingman, Kas., Aug. 31. The sixth annual cattlemen's picnic commenced here Tuesday with a large crowd in attendance. The forenoon exercises consisted of horseback parades and riding contests. Horse racing was the principal feature of the afternoon ex ercises. The three minute pace was won by Moxie McGregor in 2:24. Governor Stone was second and Hall Saturn third. Sunny Jim won the three minute trot, best time 2:23; Strong Chance, second, and Brilliant Star, third. Mong G. was first in the 3-year-old trot or pace, best time be ing 2:23 Va: Just Out was second and Sister C, third. High Collar won the half mile dash In 0:55: Sky Rocket, second, and Gray Bess, third. There are a number of good stakes listed for today and Thursday. The wild cat tle roping and broncho busting con tests will take place Friday, the last day. Death of Robert Leslie. Leavenworth, Kas., Aug. 31. Rob ert Leslie, one of Leavenworth coun ty's oldest and most respected set tlers, Is dead at his home near Fair mount, south of town. He was 70 years of age, and settled here in 1868. He was engaged for several years in the commission business in Leaven worth, but of late years has resided with his family in the country. The funeral will take place Wednesday, and will be in charge of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Leslie leaves a wife and five grown children. Robber Ijeft a Clue. Independence, Kas.. Aug. 31. The postoffice building was broken into at an early hour and the news stand till robbed of about $8. Nothing In the postoffice has been missed. The rob ber left a memorandum book which the police believe belongs to the smooth faced '-'oung man who has been selling typewriters in Indepen dence and neighborhood towns and whom the typewriter company has notified ..the police to arrest. He is charged With various crimes. Requisition Honored. Denver, Aug. 30. Governor Pea body has honored the requisition made upon him by the governor of Texas for S. E. Bruner, who is wanted In Terrant county, Texas, on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The requisition was presented twice before but was rejected because of some tech nical errors in the papers, which have since been corrected. Habeas corpus proceedings have been Instituted by Bruner, which may delay his extradi tion. Mrs. C. D. Landish. Holland Was i11 run down: could pot eat, slep or work. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea made me stront; and robust, (irpat tonic. Ho cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. f jr Mr S3' Charles W. Goodyear Is said to be worth $20,000,000. He is a railroad own er, a coal mine operator and a small sized lumber king. He is very popular in Erie county and Grover Cleveland has publicly announced his pleasure at the announcement of Mr. Goodyear's candidacy for the governorship of New York. RAILROADJIEWS. New Electric Motor Dooms Steam Kali roads. Alternating Current System Soires Operating Problem. IS GIVEN A TRIAL Experiment Proves to lie En tirelj Satisfactory. Gossip and Matters of Interest in Bailroad Circles. The day when all railways will be op erated by electricity instead of steam has been brought a great deal closer, it is claimed, by the successful inaugu ration of an alternating current electric car service on the Ballston extension of the Schenectady railway. The new line has an overhead trolley, Is double-tracked with rails weighing 75 pounds to the yard, is gravel ballasted; and has a maximum grade of 1.8 per cent and a maximum curvature of 4.25 degrees. The type of car in service on this line is unique not only In that it Is equip ped with alternating current motors, but In that these motors can be run either from an alternating current 2,000 volts, stepped down in the car to 400 volts, or from a direct current of 600 volts. This makes it possible to run cars by direct current on one part of that road and by alternating current on another part. The development of large power sta tions and transmission systems has been principally with alternating cur rent, requiring rotary converters or oth er commutating devices for changing the alternating current Into a direct current of about 600 volts, suitable for the operation of electric railways. Obviously, there would be a great ad vantage in railway motor equipment that could be operated from an alter nating current" of high voltage, without the necessity of intermediate commu tating devices. Of still greater advan tage would be such equipment if it could be operated on systems having in part the alternating current of high voltage and also having tne direct cur rent trolley in part. For years electri cal engineers have tried to devise such a motor, and it Is now claimed tncy have solved the problem, as demonstra ted by the results achieved on the Schenectady line. The commercial development of the alternating current motor is opportune, as steam railway managements throughout the country are displaying great activity in acquiring competing electric roads and in electrically equip ping portions of their systems now op erating at a loss with steam locomo tives. EXTENSIONS AT HUTCHINSON. Santa Fe Is Making Improvements in Yard Facilities. Hutchinson, TCans., Aug. 31. The new switch tracks which the Santa Fe authorized in the f la-tchlnson yards some time ago are now being put in A crew of trackmen are here and for some days have' been grading. One long track will run from a point near Maple street on the main line to a point beyond the tank yaras or tne Standard Oil company in the east part of town. The grading for this is near ly completed. West of the freight depot the grading crew are preparing for the putting in of several sidings. The Santa Fe has long been crowded for yard room in Hutcninson, and it has been often the case that there have been so many trains In the pro cess of making up in the yards and so many cars of local freight being loaded and unloaded as to make it difficult to handle all of the trains go inar through here on the main line and the two branches. During the time In the morning when the grist or passenger trains in all directions is being run out It is impossible to get a rrelght train through town and many of them are delayed to a consid erable extent by this cause. The traffic handled bv the Santa Fe has increased wonderfully In the past iew years since the last time the yard was extended and has now reached a point where the present yard capacity, or lack of capacity, seriously inter feres with business and Is an expensive proposition. NOVEL SAFETY DEVICE. New German Invention' to Prevent Head on Collisions. Frank H. Mason, American consul general at Berlin, in a report to the state department gives interesting facts regarding a novel safety device for railroads which is being tested in Germany. This device, an electrical appliance. Is designed to prevent col lisions Deiween railway trains, ana tne tests on one of the government lines near Frankfort, in the presence of a board of experts, were successful. The device is the joint invention of Hubert Pfirmann and Max Wendorf, and its construction and operation are thus described by Consul General Mason: Midway between the rails is iaia a nent third rail of the ordinary T pattern, the points of which are so connected as to form a continuous conductor. Midway under the forward part of the engine is hung the work ing instrument, an electrical appara tus, inclosed in a square case or jack et, occupying a cubic foot of snace. .ine instrument is connected with a contact shoe which slides along the uuru ran, ana Dy wires with a tele phone and electric alarm bell in the cab of the locomotive, and a red in candescent lamp, which is lighted by the same impulse that rouses the aiarm Den into action. A further im provement of the device sets the elec tric brakes on the engine or pntiro train simultaneously with the alarm signal which sounds the bell and lights me rea lamp. J. he apparatus Is so adjusted and arranged that the engineer can at anv luument, oy toucning a lever, satisfy millMeij: mat It IS in mil wnrtintr rrtn mnoii. ine recent tests were con ducted on the main line from Frank fort to Hanua, and a translation of the omciai report will illustrate concisely the working of the annfl ratns. Two locomotives hart hon pnntnnofl with the new device. Engine No. 290, drawing a special train and approach ing Sachsenhasen station at full snerl received the danger signal and came to a full stop. The engineer of No. 290 then asked by telephone the cause of the signal and received from tie keeper of a grade crossing, half a mile in front, word that a wagon had broken uown in crossing the track and ob structed the line. After ten minutes wait the engineer of 290 received word by telephone that the obstruction had been cleared away, and thereuDon re- sumea nis trip. A mile farther on the signal of No. 90 again sounded, and the engineer was Informed by telephone as before, that the semaphore round a curve, and more than half a mile distant, was set at "halt." Thereupon engine No. 290 slowed down and proceeded cautiously, sounding its whistle at short intervals the telephone bell in the engineer's cab ringing continuously until the curve was rounded, when the ringing ceased, notifying the engineer that the sema phore had changed to "track clear. Thereupon No. 290 resumed full SDeed. in tne tests to prevent collision en gine No. 1,420 came up rapidly from behind on the same track as No. 290. which had slowed, down and was pro ceeding cautiously in consequence of reported danger In front. The moment that No. 1,420 came within 1,083 yards of No. 290 the signal on both engines began to ring and their red lights to glow. Thereupon No. 1,420 halted, the engineer inquired of No. 290 In front the cause of the alarm and a complete un derstanding between the two trains was immediately established. An important point in this connec tion is that in practice the same warn ing signal is sounded upon every en gine equipped with the apparatus which is on the same track and within the prescribed radius a kilometer or a mile, as the case may be from the engine and train which cause the ob struction. If a semaphore signal be falsely set at safeity the train may run past it into a block In which another engine is halted or moving with perfect security that warning will be given in ample time to prevent a collision under any and all conditions of darkness, fog, storm or mistaken instructions. In effect this invention puts the engi neer of every train into instantaneous touch with other trains, switchmen and station and cross-keepers in his neigh borhood and keeps ever before his eye and ears an automatic and infallible signal, which springs into activity the moment that his locomotive, whetner running forward or backward, comes within the radius of danger from col lision. The government of Russia has ob tained license to test in actual service on its new military lines In Siberia this new invention. OLD ENGINE TO BE SAVED. No. 1 Was the First Locomotive to Cross Continent. San Francisco, Aug. 31. Governor Stanford No. 1, the first locomotive to cross the continent from the Pa cific coast, is being placed in the Stanford museum, where it will remain permanently as a relic. This engine was built in the early sixties and was brought from the east around Cape Horn in 187. After the driving of the golden spike, the last act in the completion of the Central Pacific rail road, on May 10, 1869 jo. 1 was used by Governor Stanford to draw his pri- ate train through Nevada to the scene of the exercises. The Central Pacific company gave the engine a few years ago to Mrs. Stanford. It has been resting under shed on the university campus, but is now being removed to the museum, where the rust is being scraped from the metal work being polished and new coat of paint added to make it ppear as nearly as possible like it did when It was the finest type of locomotive in use. A handsome glass case is to be built over the engine, and it will be placed on exhibition. Air Brake Association Convention. J. G. McNeal, of the Santa Fe air brake department, has received a let ter from F. M. Nellis, of New York city, asking what inducements Topeka could offer tor the convention of the Air Brake association in the year 1905. Mr. Nellis is secretary of the associa tion and is casting about for a place for the holding of the annual con vention next year. The letter has been turned over to the Commercial club. Cott Sues Santa Fe. Winfield. Kas., Aug. 31. A suit for 15.000 damages for alleged false im prisonment has been instituted here In the district court against the Santa Fe railroad company by Stuart Cott, of Arkansas City. Last summer dur ing the machinists strike Cott waa arrested on a charge of meddling with engines of the company. He was discharged in court, and next arrested on a charge of having violated an In- HAY FEVER OR ENDEMIC CATARRH. A Chicago Journalist Suffered From This Disease Cured By Pe-ru-na. CHICAGO tZjJ VV A Well Known Journalist Owes His Recovery Entirely to Pe-ru-na. Mr. L. M. Babcock. 1619 Addison Ave., Chicago, 111., Secretary Chicago Journalists Asosciation. writes: I suffered from catarrh and hay fever for some time and owe my re covery entirely to Peruna. I did not have much faith in Its efficacy when I first started to use It. but as 1 gradual ly grew better, I began to feel that perhaps I might get rid of these an noying troubles.. I continued to use it for several months until I was cured.. It is a great relief to me and I am therefore pleased to give my endorsement to Peruna, and trust that all who use it may have the same good results that I have had." L. al. isao- coclt. F. H. Siebert, 440 S. High Street, Columbus, Ohio, writes: "There Is not any doubt of your Peruna curing my cough and hay fever, for which I can only thank you for your kind junction to prevent strikers from In terfering with the nonunion men who came to take their places, being held on a charge of contempt of court. He was also proved not guilty of this offense. OLD RAILROAD TIMETABLES. Interesting Relics of Early Railroad ing in the West. Terre Haute, Ind.. Aug. 31. Henry M. Hawley, an old railroad man. has in his possession a set of railroad relics which is of Interest in connection with the development of railroads in West ern Indiana. The collection consists of old tickets and time tables of roads, some of which have long been out of existence and the rest of which have changed their names so they would hardly be known today. Possibly the most interesting of the old time ta bles is a card of 1857, signed by E. J. Peck, superintendent of the Terre Haute and Richmond railroad. It took effect on October 27, 1857. Where today there are eight east- bound and seven westbound passen ger trains on the Vandalia-Pennsyl vania lines there were at that time only two each way daily. The time of the "flyers" of 1857 would make a switch engine driver ashamed of himself today. An accommodation train left Terre Haute daily at a quar ter to 7 o clock in the morning and arrived at Indianapolis, if on time, at twenty minutes past ten, almost four hours on the road. Ine express left this city at ten minutes past 7 o clock in the evening and arrived at Indian apolis at twenty minutes past 2 o'clock n the morning. The two westbound trains made time at about the same rates as the eastbound. Among the old tickets were some issued by old Terre Haute and Rich mond, the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Vandalia and St. Louis, the Bee Line (afterward the Big Four), the St. Louis and Indianapolis Short Line, the Evansville and Crawfordsville (now Logansport), the old Pittsburg. Cin cinnati and St. Louis, or Pan Handle, etc. All the tickets were signed by the conductors instead of the sales agent, as is customary today. SOLD TO ROCKEFELLER. The United Salt Company Bid in at $9,000. Cleveland, O., Aug. 31. A supple ment report of the master in the sale by the common pleas court of the United Salt company properties today showed John D. Rockefeller to be the highest bidder and the probable pur- haser of the concern. The United Salt company is, or rather was, one of the largest and most important in terests in the American salt industry. Dut in tne last lew years its value and its assets have decreased by reason of exhaustive and complex litigation. Rockefeller's bid is $9,000. A condi tional offer of $12,000 is made, how ever, which is contingent upon the court's approval of certain assets be- ng included in the deal. The sale of the United Salt company is the result of three years of receivership into which it was thrown when the Na tional Salt company, better known as the salt trust, attempted to merge with it. Herblne Renders the bile more fluid and thus helps the blood to flow; it affords prompt relief from biliousness, indigestion, sick and nervous headaches and the over-indulgence in food and drink. Herbine acts quickly, a dose after meals bring the pa tient into a good condition in a few days. j. j. uaiaweii, flgi. jvi., ana v. K. Checotah. I. T.. writes. ADlil IS. I was sick for over 2 years with en largement of the liver and sDleen. The doctors did me no good, and I had given up all hope of being cured. when my drug gist advised me to use Herbine. It has made me sound and well." 50c. Sold by Rowley Snow and w. s. Miller. St. Louis and Return $7.eo via the eianta .b e. Tickets on sale Tuesdays and Thurs- ays In August. Final limit seven days. T. L. KING. C. P. T. A. STOIIIA. Bears the Signature t The Kind Yok Hava Always Bought of Bears th yf ins hmQ TOU naVB Always B0Ug!Jl OASTOIIIA. Bears the jj u Ha A'3" Bought ness. Peruna has cured me. It will cure others also." F. H. Sibert. Mr. J. Naschold, 426 West Mount Pleasant avenue, Philadedlphla, Pa., recommends Peruna for endemic ca tarrh (hay fever). He writes: "I have used your treatment for ca tarrh of the head, nose and throat, as you diagnosed it. I have for years been a sufferer of this disease, espe cially during spring and summer time and never have received any relief until very hot or very cold weather set in. "I took four bottles during Febru ary, March and April, when I not only felt greatly better, but am now cured. The attacks always returned about the middle of August and lasted until December. I have been entirely free from catarrh this autumn." J. Nas chold. Hay fever Is really acute catarrh excited by minute 'emanations, from certain grasses, flowering plants, fungi ,or dried vegetable substances. It Is very sudden In Its onset, and, with out proper treat ment, continues un til the season CAUSES OF HAY FEVER. changes or the patient goes to some favorable locality. It has all the symptoms of acute catarrh sneezing, abundant exudations of mucus, and thickened, reddened mucous mem branes, sometimes exciting spasmodic asthma. Peruna Is a specific for hay fever, and should be taken during the whole season of the exposure to the cause; for, as long as the exciting cause re mains, no cure can be permanent. People who are unable to change their location during the season of hay fever will find Peruna a priceless benefit to them, as it meets every dis agreeable symptom exactly. It is al ways advisable to begin the use of Pe runa a week or two before the ex pected attack of hay fever In old cases, where the attack can be fore told, as this will often prevent entire ly the return of the disease. Address Dr. Hartman, President of rThe Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio, for a free book. Through Sleepers to St. Louis via Rock Island System In addition to our No. 4, leaving Topeka daily at 4:00 p. m., carrying Coaches. Chair Cars, Tourist and Standard Sleepers through to St. Louis without change, we hava through Standard Sleepers on No. 10 and No. 36. Xo. 10 leaves Topeka at 7:45 a. in. No. 36 leaves Topeka at 8:05 p. in. Arriving at St. Louis at 6:50 p. m. and 7:20 a. m. By taking the Rock Island for St. Louis you avoid the very disagreeable change of cars at Kan sas City. Also, remember, that No. 4 Rock Island train lands you at the main entrance to the World's Fair grounds. For reservations and all other in formation, see. A. M. FULLER. C. P. A Both Phones 384. Rock Island deoot. Learn the BARBER TRADE A F1aant and Profitable Occu pation which la not crowded. THE Kansas City Barber Cbllege Tewhes yon la a short time and at a nmall ewnH. It la ths larcxnt and bout equipped eollere In America. Many of the beat barners are gradu ates of this oollef e. Why not you? Write for Free Catalogue. KANSAS CITY BARBER COLLEGE, 503 Delaware. Kansas City, Mo, F. C. BRIDOEFOHD, Prop. PureWater Phillips', famous mineral jj water delivered at your 3 door pure and health- jj tal J PBOF. J. W. PBILUPS jj Proprietor. J 612 West Eight Street. 3 I Can Sell Your Business or real estate, no matter where located Properties and busi ness of all kinds sold quickly for cash in all parts of the Unl. ted States. EKwTt watt. Write today, describing what yoil have to sell and give cash price on sain. A. P. TONE WILSON, JR.. Resl Estate Specialist CI Kan. are. Ind pbone U9i Topeka, Kan. Long Distance Telephones Are used exclusively on me tallic line. These insure the users ot tlie Five Cents a Day Tele phone good aerviom. Mo. Jb Kansas Tele. Co. 'Phone 998. DR. ADAH RUPIN, SR. 68 Tears of Age. GERMAN PHYSICIAN. 106 East Sixth Street, Upstairs. 18 Tears In Present Location. SPECIALTY CURING DROPSY. It

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUENAt, WEDNESDAY EYENING, AUGUST 31, 1904. TOPERA STATE JOIRSAL BV FRANK P. JIA'J LENN'AN. Entered July 1. 1875, as second class matter at the pogtoftice at Topeka. Kan., under lie act of congress. VOLUME XXXI No. 204 TERMS OF SUBSCIUPTION: Dally edition, deliv-trvd by carrier. 10 Okats a week to any part of Topeka, or uourba, or at the same price in any Kan sas towns where the lumper has a carrier system. Hy mail, one year S-?J By mail, three months M Weekly edition, one year Saturday edition of daily, one year.. X-u" TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell 'pnone 1W Rii,i nni 7nd. 'phone Rrnnrt.r,' Mnm'"" Bell 'phone iT Reporters' Room lnd. rphone w Trnok. CI.X Imirn.l hiding. SOD "DO KZ Kansas avenue, corner ot Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE; 111 Vanderbilt Bid. Paul Block. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1540 fnlty Btdg-. Paul Block. Mgr. FDT.I. 12ASED "WXXS R2P0RT CJ" T2S ASSOCIATED PRESS. t i ia member of th Associated Press and receives the full da telegraph report of that great news samsation for exclusive afternoon puou :ation in The ne m ropeaa. Tour- ws is rcceiyea -y tsl buiialng over wires for this sole pur HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY. .uhaorlrMTs of the State Journal way durinz the summer may bv the paper mailed reptiUriy eacu u-j to anr address at the rate of thirty cents a month. Address changed as often aa desired. While out of town the State Journal "ill be to you like a dally letter from home. AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Subscribers to the State Journal lsitliig the World's Fair may have the paper mailed regularly each day to any addresa In St. Louis at the rate of thirty cents a month. The Inst edition of tho State Journal reaches St. Louis the following morning. The paper can be senc care of the Kansas building. If desired. Judge Parker's views on the subject of the Philippines appear to be about the same as those held by Secretary Jerry Simpson has been defeated in the race for a nomination to congress in New Mexico. Jerry's political luck forsook him when he began to wear cocks. Perhaps the Russians and the Jap anese may be able to settle their differ ences before winter comes on. It would be a serious matter for both if the war should be prolonged into another year. Wireless telegraphy having rendered cable-cutting obsolete, the naval elec tricians have been trying to accomplish an analogous result by Interrupting aerial telegraphy between an enemy's stations. The experiments are said to have demonstrated that not only can the communication be effectively in terrupted, but the Instruments can be disabled by the electric currents em anating from the Instruments of the in terfering party. We have all heard the story about the boy who whileeatingan apple was asked for the core and replied: "There ain't goin' to be no core." The time has come, it seems, when a similar state ment can be made without prevarica tion. A blossomless, seedless and core less apple has been developed by a horticulturist named John F. Spencer after seven years' culture. It has a stamen and pollen, but no blossoms. In Its first stages it resembles a berry, but later assumes the appearance of an ap ple, with the exception of the small protuberance at one end characteristic of the naval orange. The flavor of the fruit is that of the apple from which It was derived. In a discussion of the business out look Henry Clews Co.'s Financial Review says: General business con tinues fairly promising, being influenced chiefly, of course, by the crop outlook. Continued labor agitation is a serious menace, though the actual impossibility of granting many of the demands causes them to meet with less anxiety than if their limit was unknown. For several years labor has enjoyed its full share of prosperity, either in the form of shorter hours or better pay, if not both; so that now it must be prepared to take Its share of the reaction which has already set in. The iron trade has been unsettled by lower prices, but this step ought soon to be compensated by renewed demand. The great textile strike is still on and seems unlikely to be settled until the cost of production can be reduced, possibly only through concessions In wages. RAILROAD RETRENCHMENT. From the Washington Post. Advance reports and estimates of the operations of railroads for the months of July and August present a rather favorable financial resume, as compared with the somewhat unsatisfactory show ing made for the twelve months ending with June 30. The statement for the fiscal year ending in June, according to tabulations made by the Wall Street Journal, showed a decrease of net earn ings amounting to 1.7 per cent, or 2. 830.000. in spite of the fact that sixty three of the principal railroads of the country showed an increase of $39,000, 000 in their gross earnings. The de crease In net earnings, notwithstanding the increase in gross receipts, is ex plained by the statement that the roads have been unable to cut down their op erating expenses to meet a slower gain In gross earnings. The flood tide of ex pense, reached In 1902, when every rail way organisation in the country was clamoring for more men and spending millions In Improving transportation facilities, has not receded as rapidly as the ebb of business. Since the end of the fiscal year, however, railroad managers have been taking advantage of the lull In traffic to reduce their working forces, lessen the number of trains, and in various ways reduce the operating expenses. The burden of this retrenchment pol icy has naturally fallen upon tae em ployes, thousands of whom have been discharged or given enforced vacations pending a revival of business. The rail roads, however, now indicate that the limit of retrenchment has been reached and that there will be a better demand for railroad workmen from now on. In stead of further reductions. There has been a decided revival in some lines of manufacturing Industries, and this.with the certainty of an immense crop to be moved in the early fall, furnishes a rea sonable guaranty that the railroad bus Inesa will be more profitable both for the owners and the employes for some time to come, as the conditions which are producing this increased business Dromise to be permanent, wnile the causes which led to the abnormal ex penses, and the consequent reductions and retrenchment, were temporary and exceptional. WHERE THE WHEAT GOES. In the fiscal year Just ended agricul tural products formed a smaller per centage of the total exports than ever before, falling for the first time below 60 per cent. In 1880 agricultural prod ucts formed 83 per cent of the total ex ports; in 1S90, 74 per cent, and in 1904, 59.4 per cent. Manufactures In 1SS0 formed 12.4 per cent of the total ex ports; in 1890. 17.8 per cent, and in 1901, 31.52 per cent. The total value of agri cultural products exported In 18S0 was S6 million dollars; in 1S90. 630 millions, and in 1004. 853 millions, an increase In 1904 of 25 per cent over 1SS0. Manufac tures exported in 18S0 amounted to 103 millions; in 1890, 151 millions, and In 1904, 452 millions, an Increase in 1904 of 340 per cent over 1S80. That this change in the character of the exports of the country a movement from agricultural products toward man ufactures is due rather to an increase in the home production of manufac tures than to any actual decrease the home production of agricultural products Is apparent upon a study of the statistical tables of the census bu reau and bureau of statistics, which show the home production in these tw great classes. The census tables show a rapid move ment of population from the agricul tural sections toward the manufactur ing centers, and as a result a smaller proportion of the total population is en gaged In tie production of food, whi! a larger proportion is producing manu factures instead of food supplies, thus diminishing the surplus available for exportation. Figures of the bureau of statistics show that the wheat consumption of the United States in the fiscal year 1904 was the largest In the history of the country. ELEVENKILLED. Fiftj Cnjured in Collision on the Grand Trunk. Regular Train Ran into a Fair Special Heavily Loaded. WITH TERRIFIC CRASH. I Save First Two Cars fn Each Trai Were Telescoped. Roth of the Engines Were Smashed to Pieces. JAI'HAWKEIt JOTS. Arsenic is rapidly abating the dog nui sauce at Concordia. For over a month the Rice county Jail Das been minus a prisoner. Mr. Crow flew away with most of the Diue riDOons at me Antnony lair. A lively little paper lately established at xouisvuie la Known as ine j-.yre. The boys are making magic lanterns out ot 3. -pound pumpkins at Conway springs As Chase is a prohibition town, a wr it tank has been erected on the main street. Some of the Sterling sidewalks are so overgrown with grass that they look like cowpaths. Seventeen candidates were shaking hands at one time with Urlbune voters last Saturday. The trans and poison were too much for tne srrassnoppers at uaraea cuy. ine at' Biosphere Is clear again. A Philips county farmer has a field of 65 acres of com. many ears of which measure 14 inches. There are no nubbins. If there's anything In a name Mr. Good fellow, who is a candidate for eommis ioner in Rooks county, should be given the place. A Rawlins county prospective bride groom has just finished a snug little sod house, where he expects to spend bis Honeymoon. One Rooks county farmer's wheat crop was a trine sriy. but tne sale or worm or plums will Keep tne woir away ior day or two. Frank Parrot of Stockton rode off a neighbor's horse the other night. Like other bad birds, he will be given a water and cracker diet for a time. Because Marion Is the home of a guber natorial candidate, a visitor expected to find it different from other towns. His first sight at the depot was a colored man selling red nuts. Occasionally you hear some one abusing Cyrus Eeland. but have you noticed that 11 the summer lonsr the Doniphan states man is out on his farm attending strictly to his own business.' OUTLET MUST BE BUILT. Potwln Sewer Sandbar Is Still the Way. la M. Wall will on Thursday begin the construction of the outlet for the Pot- win sewer. The recent high water did not clear away the sandbar from the outlet of the sewer, as it was hoped it would do. It will be neces sary for the contractor to lay about 00 feet of sewer pipe to conduct the sewage across the sandbar and empty It into the river. City Engineer McCabe made an in spection of the sewer outlet today, and found that the sewage was flowing back up the river some distance along narrow channel close to the bank. By this channel it gradually washed ut Into the river, 'the whole sand bar. which was thoroughly saturated ith sewage, had been covered by the recent high water with a deposit of sand. The size of the sandbar has in creased rather than diminished. FRIEL LOANED TO SEDALIA. Gold Bugs Hope by Tills Means to Strengthen Their Team. Jack Freil, the Saints utility man, was this afternoon loaned to Sedalia in ex change for Eddie McDill. Topeka will pay the former his salary and Sedalia will pive McDill his check at the end of the playing season. Fretl will be back with Topeka again in 1905. McDill will be utility man for Topeka the remainder of the year. The loan ws made to help out the Goldhucs. President Henry Is striving his hardest to keep from falling nut of the first division. His team has taken an awful slump. Freil will be put on second base and I.ee Gram ley on third. Jack Freil has been iiitting and fielding at a great clip lately an j;e GoMbugs think that he will be a valuanle addition on the second sack. McDill has not hit worth a snap for the last fifteen days. Topeka will probably not need him at all. and consequently there is nothing lost by the exchange, even though there may be nothing gained. OUltfeld Still In Hns-ill-l. St. Louts. Aug. 31. Barney Old field, whose automobile killed two men in the races Sunday, is still con fined to the hospital by his injuries, and the inquest into the death of the two men proceeded today without him. Richmond, Que., Aug. 31. The worst railway accident that has taken place in this province since the Craigs road disaster in 1885 occurred here today when the regular No. 5 Grand Trunk train from Island Pond, Vt., collided with the special fair train from Montre al to Sherbrooke. Nine persons were killed outright ,two of the injured died later of the hurts and about 50 others were Injured, 25 of them seriously. Many of the dead are so badly man gled that they are unrecognizable. The dead who have been recognized are: J. B. BLANCHETT, M. P. CHAS. SINARD. St. Hyatinthe, Que. T. H. UACKETT, route agent, Cana dian Express company. WILLIAM MOUNTAIN, .Windsor, aims. The fair train was packed with peo ple. There was a terrific crash and the first two passenger cars in each train telescoped the baggage cars, while both engines were smashed to pieces. The cause of the wreck is unknown, Within five minutes there were many willing helpers on the spot and the res cue was commenced. Physicians -were telephoned for from all over the sur rounding country and a special train was immediately sent from Sherbroke with a half dozen doctors and nurses. DEMOCRAT IN TROUBLE The Xew Organ May Suspend Publl cation. C. C. Watson, managing editor of The Kansas Democrat," the weekly Democratic paper recently established in Topeka, has resigned. It is under stood that the reason for his resigna tion is explained by a decision of the board of directors of the paper to pay but J10 a week salary. It is under stood that all members of the force on the weekly have declined to work for the salaries offered and that there are breakers ahead for the publication. COOPER ORDER IX EFFECT. His Office Abolished as Told In State Journal. Effective today the office of dlvisi passenger agent of the Rock Island railroad in Topeka is -abolished, and A E. Cooper, who has been at the head of the office has resigned from the ser vice of the company. F. W. Thompson, who has been general western agent of the Rock Island at San Francisco is appointed to be traveling agent, and it is planned that he will do practically the same work in the state of Kansas which was formerly performed by Mr. Cooper, except that he will have head quarters at Kansas City and will report to J. A. Stewart, general agent. The announcement that this action had been decided upon and was to be carried out soon was exclusively an nounced in the State Journal of the date of July 26. It was printed by no other paper and was denied in some quarters. A. E. Cooper, who retires from the service of the Rock Island on account of the discontinuance of the office of division passenger agent here, has been with the Rock Island continuously for 17 years. He began his service with the Rock Island when a young man. He was agent at Wichita and El Reno and other points. Later he was appointed traveling passenger agent and was af terward promoted to be general agent at Portland. He came to Topeka two years ago to be division passenger agent. He is very well known all over Kan sas and is well liked by everyone with whom he has had dealings. It is a matter of much regret in Rock Island railway circles in this state that he has severed his connection with the company. He is now visiting with his father-in-law, Mr. A. B. Kosser, of Cof feyville. TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN Somebody Put an Obstruction Union Pacific Track. Grand Island, Neb., Aug. 31. An attempt was made last night at the north end of the bridge over the south channel of the Platte river to wreck an incoming passenger train on the Union Pacific. Running at full speed the engineer noticed some ob struction and saw a man leaving the bridsre. He brought the train to a stop before any damage resulted, fur ther than to raise one truck orr tne track. A new piling was found lodged under the engine. It is the second attempt of the kind in the same vicinity within thirty days. Your loney and Wait for the Overwhelming Sale That Starts Saturday, Sept, 3, a 8 a. m. $30,000 Worth of High-Glass Dry Goods, Furnishings, Etc. Thrown Out for Clearance. THAT GIGANTIC DESTROYER OF PRICES, Mr. M. V. Lewis is with us for this sale, and has marked this stock so low that it should long be remembered as THE CROWNING SALE IN AIX TOPEKA'S HISTORY 50 experienced salesladies wanted. Apply Thursday afternoon at 2 p. m. 619 KANSAS AVENUE. VV7 MJ SMMI J Illru GAVE AJPARADE. Grocers and Butchers Didn't Mind Weather. Men Marched In a Kaln. Drizzling STORES ARE CLOSED. Ererjbody Is Enjoying a Real Holiday. Sports and Contests Are Giren This Afternoon. SHEARD MAKES A MOVE. Subscribes for Majority of Stock Baseball Park Association. In President Tom Shcard of the Topeka Baseball association is desirous of being a regular octopus. This afternoon he sub scribed for 51 more shares in the Topeka P.all Park association, in addition to tne 50 shares which he now already holds. The shares are worth $10 each and the park association is capitalized at $2,0CO. If Mr. Sheard gets what he sub scribed for this morning he will own a controlling Interest in the park. Should tae latter get control ot tne phtk 11 the. baseball in Topeka is his. That will take away any ax which the park as sociation has been holding over him with regard to his obtaining complete control of the franchise. LOCAL MENTION. The fire department was called to 18 Kansas avenue at 10:25 Tuesday- evening. The cause was a slight chim ney fire, causing no damage. The Republican Flambeau club will meet this evening to make preliminary rrangements for the rally to be held here on Sept. 10. The club will give fireworks display at that time. Despite thseatening weather the Gro cers' and Butchers" picnic and barbecue was pulled off today at Garfield park. The parade moved north on Kansas avenue through a drizzling rain short ly after 11 o'clock, and nearly 1,000 per sons reached the park about noon. Garfield park is today filled with all kinds of booths, stands, lemonade coun ters and grafts of one kind and another. The principal attraction was the bar becue dinner which was served in tne casino. Pork, mutton and neei was served with coffee, bread and cutter, crackers and cheese. The parade was formed at oeventn and Quincy streets. The Topeka. ponce force, headed by-cniei stani, icu me procession which marched on Quincy to Minth street and from Quincy to Kan sas avenue where it turned north and marched to the park. Following the nniire came the fire department. Mar shall's band composed the third section of the parade and the band was follow ed by the wholesale dealers and com mission men with their employes. This section also contained several floats of manufacturers and dealers. One of the floats contained aDout, a dozen negro children and above tne float on a banner was the inscription. An overproduction of blackberries. Tho ninnic seems to have been pur sued by ill luck Snis year. The original ntention was to have tne picnic at viTiPu-nml nark. After negotiating lor a time this deal fell through and ar rangements were forthwith made to take the picnic to Eureka Lake. The picnic was to have been held a week ago today at Eureka, but at the last minute It was touna impossiuic the picnic at that place and it was postponed for one week and announce ment was made that it would be held at Garfield park. The damp weather today nas naa a ery bad effect on the picnic and has kept many away at nome wno omcr wise might have attended the picnic. However at a o'clock in the afternoon nearly 1,500 people were at the park. Today all grocery stores anu uulu;i. shops in the city are closed, une stores were closed to give all the employes an nnnnrtiinltv of attending the picnic. A dance will be given tonight at the ca The following is the programme ui tha afternoon entertainment: 1:30 Ball Game Norm xopena sup pers vs. Grocers, winning ieam $3. Standard Oil Co. Losing team prize, 50 Growler cigars, Khngaman. 9-An Shnrt rnnrpn aiarsnau J3iimi. 3 00 Addresses A. W. Dana, Judge R V TTnvrlen. Ed Hocn. 3:00 Ball Game wm. tjreen as doiih s. Shawnee Grocery Co. Winning team prize, o, tneisnman iran j. u""s team prize, 50 J. cigaia, j. n Spetter. 4:00 Short concert iYj.aiaiia.nt uu Rooster Catching Contest Boys 15 years and under. First prize, boys hat, New Era Department store. Second prize, ball bat, Kitchell Marburg. Grand Rush for Hidden Prizes Six prizes, by T. Voiland. Sack Race Boys 10 to 15 years. First prize, pair shoes, C. A. Fernstrom. Sec ond prize, one sack Crosby s best flour, Crosby mills. Fat Man's Race 200 pounds or over. First prize, J. B. Stetson's stiff hat. Palace Clothing Co. Second prize one sack Big 4 flour. Mid-Continent Mills. Rope Climbing Contest First prize, one box Pearl soap, National Soap Co. Second prize, one shirt, August Cloth ing Co. Lean Men's Race First prize, um brella, Robinson-Marshall. Second prize, 50 Rose Tint cigars, C. S. Eagle. Ladies' Ball Throwing Contest First prize, one box soap, Peet Bros. Second prize, one sack Silver Leaf flour, J. B. Billard. Third prize, one cake, Voigt bakery. Girls' Running Race 15 years or under. First prize, one pair shoes, W. C. Steele. Second prize, one sack White Loaf flour,-nter-Ocean mills. Running Broad Jump For men. First prize, 50 Little Tromp cigars, II. L. Tromp. Second prize, 5 gallon keg" kraut. Otto Kuehne Co. r-iirar Smokinsr Contest First prize, pair Sunflower pants, Topeka Woolen Mills. Second prize. 50 Burghart's Favorite cigars. George Burghart. FROM REAR PLATFORM. Fairbanks Makes His First Campaign Speech in West. Jamesport, Mo., Aug. 31. Senator Fairbanks, the Republican vice presi dential candidate, arrived here on his way to Marlon, Kan., today. He came in on a special train over the Rock Island road, and was heartily greeted along the route. At Trenton, the county seat of Grundy county, there was an impromptu meeting and the senator made his first rear platform speech in this campaign. When the train pulled into the station ,a large assemblage of people was gathered on and about the platform and there were loud calls for the senator. He responded promptly, saying that lie had nowhere seen greater enthusiasm manifested in the campaign than at that point and adding: "If the American people take to their homes and their firesides the great public questions there can be no possible doubt that the verdict to be rendered will be rendered in their interest and in the interest of our common country. If Missouri shall take counsel of her highest and best interest she will align herself with the hosts of Republicanism." The speech was received with ap plause and at its conclusion many of those present come forward to shake hands. Included with them were sev eral who were introduced as Demo crats. SEND REGRETS. Both Presidential Candidates Write to Irish League. TO PIPE NATURAL GAS. Scheme of Kansas City Men Includes Topeka In Schedule. New York. Aug. 31. At the con vention of the United Irish League of America there was no official pro gramme for the proceedings, but most of the morning session was taken up by the reports or the various commit tees which were appointed yesterday and the secretary's report. Secretary John O Callaghan read a letter of regret from President Roose velt in which the president sent the heartiest assurances of his hope for the success of the Irish movement. Letters of regret also were read from Judere Parker, the Democratic presi dential nominee. Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ryan. HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. Is Granted In the Case of Mrs. Nan Patterson. New York, Aug. 31. A writ of habeas corpus for Nan Patterson, who is under indictment on a charge of murdering Caesar Young last June, was granted today. The writ, which is returnable tomorrow, orders the warden of the Tombs to produce Mrs. Patterson in the supreme court at that time, when her counsel will ask for her discharge on the ground that there is no evidence that she com mitted the crime charged against her. If this is denied, application will be made that she be admitted to bail. Kansas City, Aug. 31. The People's Natural Gas and Fuel company, backed by Kansas City men, applied to the city council for a franchise granting the right to lay and maintain in Kansas City a system of pipes and to furnish consumers gas. A charter for the People's Natural Gas and Fuel company, with a small capital, was secured in Jefferson City Monday. It will be the basis for the operating of the company, which is to have a capital of $36,000,000. The plan of the company is to bring gas from southern Kansas and the In dian Territory to Kansas City and in termediate points by the use of a pipe line. The main line will run from Bar tiesville, I. T., to Kansas City, by way of Kansas City, Kan. A 24-Inch pipe will be used. From Kansas" City, Kan., the line will extend north to Leaven worth and Atchison. Several routes are under consideration. One Is by way of Coffeyville and Chanute, the other through Joplin, Carthage, Nevada, Rich Hill, Harrisonville, Lee's Summit and Independence. A branch to Lawrence and Topeka is also contemplated. The proposed length of the route 5s 2.400 miles. The charge for gas, as proposed by the new company in its application for a franchise, is 50 cents for 1,000 feet. The rate now charged is $1. It is also provided that work on the pipes within the city shall commence six months af ter gas has been piped here and that, in 12 months, 25 miles of pipes shall have been laid. In consideration of the privileges it asks the council to grant, the company obligates itself to pay into the city treasury 2 per cent of its gToss receipts within the city. The franchise ordinance was intro duced in both houses of the council and was referred to a committee. The men behind the latest plan for pining gas here from Kansas are wai ter S. Dickey of the Dickey Sewer Pipe company, A. E. Stilwell, president of the Orient railway, James H. Arnold, broker and capitalist; Joseph J. Heim, president of the Heim Brewing com pany; U. S. Epperson, president of the Epperson Land and Investment com pany; D. B. Holmes, attorney; W. A Rule, cashier National Bank of Com merce. Famous Shows Will exhibit under canvas (rain or shine) At 9th and Jefferson Sts., ONE DAY ONLY Monday, Sept. 12. Afternoon at 2, Night at 8 BARXOl'S MAN IS HERE. w. D. Coxey Tells Topeka What May lie iixpecteu. ANALYSIS COMPLETED Of the Stomach of Mrs. J. Vicker at Pasadena. H. Mc- Los Angeles, Cal.. Aug. 31. City Chemist Day completed today an anal ysis of the stomach of Mrs. J. H. Mc Vicker, widow of the well known the atrical manager of Chicago, who died at Pasadena, last Thursday under pe culiar circumstances. The autopsy held immediately following death did not disclose any signs of poisoning but on order of H. C. Wyatt. acting as the personal representative of Horace McVicker. stepson of the dead woman, the stomach was removed and placed in the hands of the city chemist for a thorough analysis of its contents. The examination is expected to set tle all question concerning the man ner of her death. The body of Mrs. McVicker, which is being held at a Pasadena undertaking establishment, subject to the order of Mr. Wyatt, will be sent to tne cnicago relatives either tonight or tomorrow. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Republican Rally. Marion, Kas., Sept. 1st, 1904. Spe cial train leaves Rock Island depot 9;00 a. m. 13,15. for round trip. mvh TMcle MoCutcheon. aged 73 years. of Highland Park, died on Tuesday of paralysis. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. In terment in Topeka cemetery. Ixw Rates to Northern Resorts. Tr-rciirsion tickets at unusually low rates, good for the season, on sale daily to Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, n.oon ijke. Devil's Lake, Gogebic. Ashland, Marquette, Superior, Duluth, g Paul, Minneapolis &xiu uinuy uuier i -nd delightful lake resorts reached by The Northwestern Line. Hton-overs at St. Louis permit visit to the World's fair en route. information and tickets cm 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 Ctty. il9t t W. D. Coxey, the well known press agent, who was with Ringlings last year, is here today in advance or Barnum Bailey, and gave out tne following: Those who have seen the Barnum Bailey Greatest Show on Earth this season say that the big circus has an unusually large number of clever wo men among the 300 or more perform ers. One of the cleverest, as wen as one of the most attractive in race and figure, is Miss Josephine Koubeck. Miss Koubeck is a Bavarian gin. .tier specialty is high school menage riding and driving, and in this particular line she is said to be without a peer either in this country or Europe. Attired in a handsome riding habit, she presents a most attractive series of pictures on horseback. Her second appearance is even more successful. In this number she displays a new kind of menage act. Her horse, a magnificent pure black Strakene stallion, is put through an astonishing performance while draw ing a buggy with a single shaft that extends over his back and work on a swivel on the saddle. Trained dogs are cleverly introduced in this attrac tive display, and the act creates more than usual comment and interest. On Easter Sunday Miss Koubeck made a tremendous sensation by driving her flower covered cart out Fifth avenue. New York, during the Easter parade. Another clever rider is Miss Ma falda Von Korb, who is now visiting America for the first time. Miss Von Korb is an Austrian girl and is very highly connected among the leading families of Vienna. For family rea sons she never appeared professionally in Europe, but was widely known as a clever amateur rider. The clever ness of her riding and the attractive ness of her appearance have made her a great favorite with American audi ences. The show has many other clever women who perform notable acts, es pecialy among the aerlalists. So far as the mid-air performances are con cerned, there is a general agreement that they surpass In thrilling interest and magnitude anything hitherto seen in this country. The Clarkonians. who turn double and twisting somersaults, have made an especially strong im pression. The entire circus company numbers 300 performers rrom au parts of the world. They appear in three rings, on two stages, in mid-air and upon a huge" hippodrome track, and in connection with forty clowns, who are credited with actually being funny, they give a performance that was the talk of New York for five weeks and served to crowd the great canvas auditorium twice a day dur mir the week in Brooklyn. The at tractions of the big show do not end with the performance proper. There is a splendid spectacle, a complete hippodrome, and what is equally in teresting, a magnificent zoological dis- Now the Largest, Grandest, and Best Animal Circus in the world. SEE KITAMURA'S ROYAL JAPANESE TROUPE. MARK DIAVOLO Loop the Loop on Bicycle. Many New, Unique, Novel Features this year. Don't fail to witness the all new free street parade at 10 s. m., Sept. 12th TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. PREPARED for particular people. Satin Skin Cream ana satin okin fowdcr ask acquaintance. 25c. play givin In connection with a con gress of strange and curious freaks from all parts of the world. The models of the fighting ships of the United States navy of which so much has been said and printed are also exhibited in the menagerie pavilion. This year's street parade is entirely new and is declared to be gorgeous beyond anytnmg ever attempted, even by this great show, which will be here Wednesday, September 21. 500,000 Men and 1,300 Guns. Liao Yang, Aug. 31.-5:31 P. M. The bat tle is still In progress, but the strength of the cannonade does not equal that of yesterday. The Japanese are getting around the Russian left flank. Over 500. 000 and 1,3000 guns are engraged on hothj sides. Practically the whole Russian force is In the firing line. One regiment which had just arrived from Russia went lni. action with its band playing. To the World's Fair rim the Missouri Pacific. If you do not live on the line of tke Missouri Pacific, ask for your tlck-t via that line from Kansas City. There are seven daily trains between Kansas City and St. Louis, making connection with all trains on all lines running into Kansas City. Any ticket agent will sell you a ticket at the reduced rate reading over the Missouri Pacina from Kansas City. When You Want Good Work Quick Phone 153 Laundering, Cleaning, Dying, Pressing Topeka Laundry Co. Co-operative) 1

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENESTG, AUGUST 31, 1904. 5 V Fall 1904 The Style MaRers of America Opening of Bunlap The only hat having an opening simultaneously all over the United States. BURG. Sole SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS When I was a boy on the old plantation, Down br the deep bayou. IThe fairest siot of aJl creation Under the arching blue: I'ben the wind came over the cotton and corn. To the long: slip loop I'd spring. With brown feet bare and a hat-brim torn Swinging in the grapevine swing. Swinging In the grapevine awing. Laughing where tlie wild birds sing, I dream and I sigh i For the lay gone by. Swinging in the grapevine awing. Cut o'er the water lilies bonnie and bright. Back to the moss-grown trees; X shouted and laughed with a heart as light A3 a wild rose tossed by the breeze. IThe mocking bird joined in my reckless glee. I longed for no angel's wing: 1 was just as near heaven as I wanted to be. Swinging in the grapevine swing. Swinging in the grapevine swing. Laughing where the wild birds sing. Oh. to be a. boy. With a. heart full of Joy, Swinging in the grapevine swing! I'm weary at noon, I'm weary at night, I'm fretted and sore of heart, !And care Is sowing my locks with white As T wend through the fevered mart. I'm tired of the world with its pride and pomp. And fame seems a worthless thing: I'd barter it all for one day's romp And a swing in the grapevine swing. Swinging In the grapevine swing. Iaughing where the wild birds sing, I would I were away From the world today. Swinging in the grapevine swing. Samuel Minturn Feck.. Wild asters are blooming. Web worms are playing havoc with elm trees. O. Mlt Wilhite of Emporia was in Topeka Tuesday. The last heat will be trotted this week or next with the lawn mower. Rev. John A. Bright has gone to Eureka to attend the old soldiers' reunion. A. W. Dana, the Topeka war ex rert. says that Kuropatkln will es cape with his army. The morning car service on West Flxth avenue is almost as Irregular as it used to be In the old days. L. II. Smith. Vnited States marshal for t'tah was In Topeka on Tuesday. He formerly lived In Kansas. A marriage license was issued Tues day to Frank M. Shields of Lindsborg. Ivan., and Dulcy K. Marple of Topeka. The baseball fever won't have a chance to die naturally in Topeka this fall. It will be merged into football enthusiasm at one fell swoop. The people who left Kansas to find cool place to spend the summer are coming home to find that Kansas has had summer resort weather all the time. The Kev. P. W. Crannell has gone to HVaverly to attend the Baptist asso ciation in session there. From there he will go to Osawatomie to attend the Miami association. The weeds around the edges of the baseball field at the new park ought to be cut. Twice within the last three days batted balls have been lost In them end aided runners in advancing bases. Harry Bone's Ashland Colts play the Faints in Topeka on next Wednesday. Hone Is offering odds of 50 to 1 on his aggregation. That is. 50 cents to one dollar. His friends are responsible for that. Nothing has yet been done toward rectifying conditions complained of fit the city crematory and dump. The health and sanitation committee? and board of health have charge of the mat ter. Fred Wellhouse will begin harvest ing his apple crop in Leavenworth county today. The harvest will last fit weeks and from a!l his orchards in Osage and Leavenworth counties he expects to gather 25,000 bushels. William Clayton of Kansas City, suc cessfully defended the Wyeth trophv against J. J. Gorman of Topeka. in a 100-blrd shooting match at St. Joseph Tuesday. The score was 97 to 91. In a IT IS A MATTER OF HEALTH Absolutely- Pare Fall 1904 fiats E. ZEIS Agent target shoot with a possible score of la. tne zoiiowing scores were made by jopexa maritsmen: Morton 166; Gor man, 161; Montgomery 136. W. T. Lawless of Topeka has estab IiRhed a hack line and livery stable at rort cott. we has leased the Al bright barn there, and will have things in full running order in about a month. He will have two hacks to begin with. George Anderson, the quarterback of last year's Washburn team, and who win play end or quatter on this year's team, is in town to talk over football matters with Manager Leach. Ander son is one of the fastest end men in the state. Fire Marshal Wilmarth has been noti fied of several violations of the law re quiring lanterns to be placed on obstac les in the street, and he is getting af ter tne onenaers. it is or the utmost importance to the fire department that all obstructions be marked with lan terns at night. Kansas City has a new automobile law which is much more stringent than anything of the kind in Topeka. The law fixes a minimum speed of 8 miles an hour on practically all of the streets of the town except the boule vards. It also makes severe demands upon the automobilists in case a horse becomes frightened at their machine, or In case of an accident. Kach automo bile must have a license, which will be revoked if the owner of the license vio lates the ordinance more than once. BAY KVM KILLS SOLDIERS. Men at Tosts Also Vsc Ited Ink Satisfy Cravings. to New Tork, Aug. 31. Private Hoffman lies dead at Fort Hancock. Sandy Hook. from having taken bay rum to satisfy a craving for liquor. His death yesterday is the second jt that post within four months froiis the same cause. Bay rum. patent medicines, and even red ink are consumed by the soldiers at various army posts since the canteen was abolished four years ago, say num erous army officers, and the condi tion of the men is much worse than formerly. The men got leaves of ab sence and go to the nearest grocery, where they make up for lost time. Back at post, their longing the next day for something hot is so great that their sense of color tries to satisfy the taste, and hence the red ink when noth ing else is to be had. PROVES SOX'S AGE. Remarkable Faculties Preserved 101 Years by Mrs. Scott. at Columbus, O., Aug. 31. The remarkable circumstance of a man 72 years old prov ing his age by his mother, now past l'U, was disclosed in the office of Colonel V. L. Curry, state commissioner of soldiers' claims, today. The man is Hamilton T. Scott of Columbus, who is an applicant for an increase in pension under the age law. An affidavit In proof of age was Tuesday prepared by Colonel Curry and sent to Philadelphia to be signed by Scott's mother, Mrs. Mary Scott of that city, who. on August 12. celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary. Her faculties are remarkably well preserved, she being able to read her Bible and daily newspa pers. BABY IX A YAWL. Mystery Over a Xew Arrival lVom Yacht. Atlantic City. Aug. 31. A yacht flying the colors of the Philadelphia club, bound rrom rew ork to pniiatieipnia. ancnoroa off shore late last night, and a short while after a yawl came in containing an unusual cargo. The stork had visited the yacht after leaving Gotham, and the tiny bit of humanity, whose name was kept a profound secret, was brought to a local institution. While great secrecy surrounds the rf fair. it is known that there was a physi cian aboard the vessel, who brought the child to this city. No names, however, were obtainable. PATTERSON'S GOOD LUCK. Brooklyn Man Has Xew Experience and Is Now Happy. Ne wTork. Aug. 31. The happiest man in Brooklyn today and one who is receiving congratulations from his friends is George E. Patterson, of 1302 Fortieth street. He had been unlucky for a quarter of a century, during all of which time he was sorely afflicted with catarrh, and during the last ten years he suffered greatly from asthma. In his distress he felt that tne world was against him and that everything went wrong. Six weeks ago his physician pre scribed the new drug ascatco that has recently been introduced into this country from Austria- In six days his asthma was gone and he has an nounced that for the past week he has been entirely free from a single sirvptom of catarrh. Ascatco is the medicine samples of which are being distributed free by n-Hi; to all inquirers by the Austrian dispensary. No. 6 East Fourteenth street. New Tork city. Itcpublican Rally. Marion, Kas., Sept. 1st. 1904. Spe cial train leaves Rock Island depot 9:00. a. m. II. 1st for round trips FOR A fJEV "GYM Washburn Athletic Managers May Gtt One. Propose to Erect a Building at Coat of $20,000. PAY OUT OF PROCEEDS Manager Leach Thinks Monej Can Be Earned. Expects to Break All Records for Football Crowds. Plans for a 120,000 gymnasium are be lng made by the athletic interests of Washburn college. It is proposed to carry out the plan after the close of the coming football season, provided the season proves to be profitable. At present, Washburn has no gym nasium worthy of the name. It has about JSOO worth of gymnasium appar atus, but no place to put it. Training quarters for the football team have been established in the basement of Rice hall. With the development football and baseball enthusiasm, the organization of a track team, and the Interest In basketball, there is no build ing which would be more acceptable to tne college than a hne gymnasium. It is proposed to pay for the gym nasium out of the receipts from the football games. Each year there is pretty certain to be considerable proti in toot ball, ana the athletic manage ment want it fixed so that all of the income will be devoted to the gym nasium building. In order that the building may become immediately available, it is thought that the college will loan the athletic association J20, 000 out of its investment funds, which will be repaid from year to year out of the income from athletics. The experience which Washburn had with athletics last year showed con clusively that if the college puts a first class team Into the field, it will get the support of the town, and make money, There is no reason why the athletic as sociation should not clean up several thousand dollars every year on the football season. Topeka is a city of sufficient size to turn out immense crowds for big athletic events. The reg ular Sunday attendance of 2,000 at the baseball games shows the strength of the athletic interest in the city. Manager Leach says in speaking oi the financial prospects of the coming football season: "I have hopes that we will be able to finish the present football season with $5,000 in the treasury. Of course it depends a good deal on the weather which we have for our games this fall, but under fa vorable conditions I cannot see why we should not clean up a good deal of monev. In case Kansas university has a strong team, and Washburn is successful in most of its games, I ex pect to see a record breaking crowd at the Washburn-K. IT. game. I want the attendance at that game to reach 6.000, and I believe we can bring it up to that figure. I expect to put In the two weeks prior to that game working up excursions from all towns within a hundred miles or lopeKa, and I think we will be able to get a very low rate on the railroads. I want to bring two or three thousand people nto town, in addition to the Lawrence delegation, which will undoubtedly be very large. This w asnourn-iv. u. game should be made the biggest toot- ball event of the year in Kansas. We will have Ottawa university here for the Thanksgiving day game. I have given Ottawa the date because I have received assurances from there that she will have a very strong team in the field this year, and expects to resume her former place as a formia able rival of any Kansas team. We should have at least 2.500 people out for the Thanksgiving day game. "Our game with Haskell on No vemher 19 at Topeka ought to be an other big drawing card, for it will be one of the hardest on our schedule. The Indians always draw well In lo :fka. and there should be an at tendance of two or three thousand at this game. I do not think the In dians will have as strong a team as thr-v did last year, but nobody can tell. They have a way of getting a srlendid line of material, and are not handicarmed by any collegiate con ference rults prohibiting the use of imported players. "With these three games as our big cards of the season, all of them at Topeka, I can not see why we Fhould not make money, unless bad weather interferes. The other games on our schedule ought to all bring in a good return financially, and go a good ways toward paying the ex penses of the season, which will be unueunllv heavy." The expenses of the Washburn team during the coming season will probably be in the neighborhood of 13,500, so It is evident mat mere must be a big attendance at the games to make the business pay. About $1,- 600 will go to the coach and manager, another fl.OOO will be the cost of the training table: and the other S1.000 for fixing up the athletic field, rebuild ing the west bleachers and the pur chase of equipment for the team. There never has been so much money spent on a football team in Wash burn's history, and the results ought to be good. According to the Lawrence Gazette, the members of the K. U. team have already commenced to train under Coach Kenedy. Washburn's team will not begin training until next week, when Coach Outland will arrive from Wichita. The following is from the Lawrence Gazette: "Bert Kennedy is all football. If the men who try for the team, and the attendants of the university who are supposed to support athletics, will be half as enthusiastic about the game as Coach Kennedy is. there will be a team at the university this year thot will be a credit to the town, the sehooi and to the state. "In spite of the criticisms that Kennedy is getting from the Topeka people, he is going to keep on with his work with the hearty support of all Lawrence and all the university. The fact that Bert Ken- SORE AND BLEEDING GUNS Soft and spongy gums are mado healthy by the mildly alkaline and astringent prop erties of SOZODONT. It is the most fragrant deodorizer and antiseptic dentifrice known to the world. SOZODOUT TOOTH POWDER the complement of SOZODONT Liquid, has abrasive properties, yet is absolutely free from grit and acid. It will not tarnish gold fillings or scratch the enamel. FORMS LIQUID, POWDER, FASTS. nedy made Washburn's football season auecessiul one last year ana Kept down Topeka's reputation as a wrangling town, makes the Topeka papers and Manager Leach look like poor mongrel -whelps as they cheaply attempt to roast Kennedy for trying to steal Washburn players. "Tne workingout of the new men was to have been begun in a measure today, but on account of the rain it will not commence until tomorrow. Coach Kenne dy, with McCoy. Dodds and Earl Hudkins. the new player from Cawker City, will be the I'.rst ones on the field and will begin at once to train out." A DISGUISE THAT FAILED. Syracuse Girl, Deserted, Becomes Tramp With, 111 Success. Newark, N. J., Aug. 31. Mounted Policeman Benfer, whose beat is in the Parkview section of Newark, about 2 o'clock this morning made put a figure on the sidewalk a few hundred feet ahead about which he had his suspic ions. As he watched the unknown more closely the policeman detected an un mistakable air of femininity about the eneral carriage, despite the fact that the garments were those of a man and apparently a tramp at that. Benfer hailed, and a shrill young voice trying to assume gruffness informed him that its owner was "looking for a job." I think you re a woman," Benfer said. 'I'm not, I'm a man," replied the un- Heinrich Conreid, the manager of back from a very successful trip in members of the Metropolitan this year any time in the past. known with an attempt at bravado, even more unsuccessful than the first. Well, I guess you'd better come long with me anyway," concluded Benfer. Then she. who had Insisted upon the right to wear masculine apparel, broke own, and when sne had been marched up to the desk of tne .f irst precinct station she told Sergeant Purcell this story: My name is Lottie Horton, I am 26 yeara old, and I live in Syracuse. About ten days ago I ran away with a boy named Sidney Johnson. I was wearing dresses then, and we traveled in style on the New York Central to New York. We intended to get married, but in New York Sid's money gave out. and I changed my clothes for these old ones, and we took to the road. We were go ing- to work our way west, but bid de serted me a couple of days ago I don't blame him so much, for I must have been an awful nuisance to him. Today walked over here from jersey city and The recital got no further, for the girl broke down and cried. Sergeant Purcell turned her over to the matron, nd she was locked up in appropriate lothing until her relatives in Syracuse could be heard from. J. W. GLEED MAKES A SPEECH. Delivers Temil.erance Talk Before Ottawa W. C. T. U. J. W. Gleed, of this city, delivered an ddress at Ottawa Sunday night before the W. C. T. U. The address was in the Methodist church and all the churches of the city united in the ser- ices. Mr. deed's subject was ".National Wealth." He discussed political econ omy, which he said had to do with the distribution of wealth so that the re sult of the greatest good to the greatest number will obtain. But monev and concrete property are not the only wealth," declared Mr. loorl He said that if the people oi the United States were transported to Fi1i islands and the f'ljl lsianaers were brought here and installed in the place of Americans, this country would quickly degenerate, despite its resour ces, development, machinery and pros perity. "In four years the Hottentots would reduce this country to the state of their own in South Africa," he said. On the other hand, the substitution of Ameri cans for Hottentots In Africa would cause the desert to blossom like the rose. "America's wealth consists in the strength of the character of the indi- idual back of the weaitn. ne auueu. Mr. Gleed alluded to the temperance question, declaring that liquor ruins the full usefulness of the individual. Union Pacific $45.00 To California and return, final return limit October 23. Go one way return another. Liberal stopovers. Tickets on sale August 16 to September 11, 9 04. Try the U. P. J. C. Fulton, depot agent; F. A. Lewis, city agent, Kansas avenue. You can't expect to do away with face blemishes in a week s time. Keep on taking Holhster s liocKy -Mountain Tea. You'll have a lovely complexion. 35 cents. Tea. or T&blets. (QaUln. Drug Co. 7"'"''''" '"rmm' 1' vote it straight: Advice of Col. Bryan to the Missouri i t Democrat. Nevada, Mo., Aug. 31. William J. Bryan spoke to more than 3,600 per sons at Lake park today and 1,500 others were unable to hear him. He said he was delighted to be again with the Democrats of Missouri. "Missouri was good to me whan I was a candidate and I love Missouri Democrats." said Mr. Bryan. "I hope to come to Missouri many more times during my life. I want to tell you what I would do if I lived in Missouri. You have a campaign on this year. If I were in Missouri I would vote the state ticket from top to bottom. I would vote for your Democratic congressman, for a. legislature which elects a United States senator and I would vote for Parker and Davis. Your greatest trouble is that a great many Democrats may not vote at all. Don't make that mistake. You can't blame others for what you do your self. If you stay at home others might do so, and it might mean the defeat of your ticket. The first thing is to be sure and vote. "The right to vote involves a duty. It is a responsibility you have no right to shirk. Don't allow the elec- the Metropolitan Opera company, is Europe, adding to his company. The promiser to be more brilliant than at

tion to go to the Republicans by de fault I find personality enters into politics; men wrangle over nomlna tions. An individual is so insignificant that he amounts to nothing compared with a principle. No man's friends can ttfford to be more interested in him than they are in the principles he represents. One legislator may decide the election of a senator. Lay per sonalities aside ana vote for principle. You cannot afford, when great inter ests are at stake, to stand on per sonalities. "In this state you have nominated Mr. Folk. I come with gladness to give to his candidacy any support that I can. When I needed Democrats, Mr. Folk was a warm supporter of the party. He deserves the support, not only of Democrats, but of Republicans also. He is a young man; he wasn't known four years ago. Now he is better known than I was when I was nominated for president. He has gained distinction as a prosecutor of corruption. He is worthy of the sup port of any honest man. "There is another man w hom I want to see elected. He is Sam Cook, be cause he has helped to gain so many Democratic victories. Sam Cook was one of the first men to take up the silver issue in my campaign and in vited me to speak in his town when I was scarcely known to a number of Democrats in the state. I will not dis cuss each member of the state ticket, as I have not time, but there is an other candidate I wish to speak about and that is your candidate for rail road commissioner. He stands for the laboring element of your party." Mr. Bryan discussed the "Imperial ism" plank in the national platform, the race question and the large stand ing army and navy. He said the peo ple were taxed $30 for the mainte nance of a large army and navy to $1 expended for agriculture. He said also that President Roosevelt was rep resented witn warlike attitude, while Parker represented peace. He said there were only two reasons for a large standing army, one was for the suppression of strikes between corpo rations ana iaDor, ana the other for the enforcement of an imperialistic government. Mr. Bryan spoke to a large gathering at night in the court house yard. FAST AXD BE ILVPPY. Life Without Food Favored at Con nect lent Peace Society Meeting. Mystic, Conn., Aug. 31. Two of the principal speakers at today's meeting of the Connecticut Peace society in Mystic grove were C. C. Haskell of Norwich and Bradford Peek of Brook- lir.e, Mass. The former, in his address on "Scientific Living, the Path to Peace," asserted that all war and commotion arose over food, and de-r clared that a person could live froni fifty to a hundred days without eat ing. He read a letter from a woman who said she was doing her house work on the fifty-first day of her fast ing. She had suffered from a disease the cure of which, the letter said, had been declared by physicians to be im possible. Mr. Peck, who is national president of the Co-operative Association of America, spoke on "Industrial Co operation." jie advocated the, adop- Swell New Brown (...Fall Suits Are Here... Stiff and very best the world for II ffW Mara tsiei v '"'-Sufi Special Showing of AH the New Fall Styles of Hats! J. B. Stetson's fine Hats, S3. 50 to J7.50. Young's N. Y. Hats, the best for J 3. Roelofs fine Hats at 3, 4. 5. Warevvell 12 hats, unequalled. Young's N. Y. Crush Hats, si to $3. All the newest colors and shapes. Marion, Kas., Leaving Topeka 9:00 Marion 12:15 Noon. Returning will leave Marion (j 10:30 p. m. Rate of one fare for the round trip has been author ized from all stations on the Rock Island System within 200 miles. Senator Fairbanks, Hon. E. W. Hoch and the en tire congressional delegation will be there to participate in this grand rally. RATE FROM 1Y7TT T T3T it mm imi For any further Information see DRUGCED, ROBBED AND Nothing more truthful can be said of one afflicted with piles who la induced to buy and use ANY Pile medicine (relic of the Dark Ages) containing ergot, lead, mercury, cocaine and opium or other narcotics. "Any druggist who desires to deal honorably with the public will rep resent that ALL of the old Pile medicines 10 contain narcotic poisons, ergot, lead or mercury. K. W. Lloyd, Pli. O. nd Druggist, Denver." "Opiates or other narcotics simply hold Piles in abeyance and never cure, although universally used." G. E. F. Anderson, A. B., D. E. 8., Ph. G., M. D., 637 Kearny St., San Francisco; formerly with Chicago Board of Health. E-ISU-SA IS TIIE OXLY NOX-POISOXOTJS PILE CLUE. K-RTJ-SA cures Piles or $50 paid. Worst cases cured with on. bo. Hundreds of most competent and reliable doctors and druggists endorse above statements, and I challenge denial. DR. L. GRIFFIN. Demand of competent druggists the facts yourselves. "Those who handle E-EU-SA are most competent and reliable with out an exception," viz: A. O. Kosser. Keen A Knowlton, Swift Holllday. A. C. Klingaman. Petro Woodford. A. T. Waggoner. ieo. btansneia. t opeka Drug t:o. W. H. Wilson. E. B. Walker. 1 red T. Walker. WASHBURN COLLEGE School of Liberal Arts A high grade college course leading to the degree of B. A. or B. S. Standard of admission high. Courses of study varied and thorough. A liberal choice of electlves'in the Junior and Senior years. Large faculty holding degrees from leading universities. Positively no student In structors. Graduates may obtain a state teacher's certificate. Special departments for the study of Law, Medicine, Music, Painting, Drawing, Illustration. Fall term opens September 14. Ask for catalogue. XORMAS PLASS, President, Topeka, Kansas. tion by business Interests of co-operative means of production and distri bution. "To my mind." he said, "there is no one' greater than 'John the Bap tist D. Rockefeller in organizing a business on the co-operative plan. The principles of the Standard Oil com pany are undoubtedly economically sound, although the matter of distri bution of its profits is undoubtedly, un democratic" The Good Clothes Store. m ii Sv tutntu Mm You Never Saw Better Suits in all your life than these $20, $13 and $15 Suits we offer for Announcement! We have been appointed sole agents by John B. Stetson Co., Philadelphia, of their new agency Hats The Stetson Special soft styles, the hats sold in 'UU Sept. I, 1904 The Rock Island SYSTEM Will Run Special Train o'oclock a. m. Arriving at TOPEKA IK VL7viV- A. M. Fuller, C. P. A. INJURED FOR LIFE. Homeseekers' Excursion. The Chicago Great Western railway will on the first and third Tuesdays up to October 18, sell tickets to points In Alberta, Asslnlboin. Canadian North west, Minnesota snd Xorth Dakota. For further Information apply to O. W. Lincoln. T. P. A.. T West Ninth street, Knsa. fitx Jio, .mt

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6 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1904. It Seems Remarkable That clothiers of Topeka who continually offer $20.00, $25.00 and $30.00 Suits for $8.73 special should have such a struggle to unload, and that they should be forced to to keep up the pow-wow front March to September, and from September to March, and with all the bargain offering, you never find man In a thousand who claims that he ever got more than a $10.00 suit for $0.98. Competition Is Dazed Because our $20.00 Suits are so much better than the makes they offer as $25.00 values reduced to $7.77; that ours sell at $20.00 readily while theirs stick and hang on the tables wlien reduced to almost nothing. It must be poor judg ment In buying, or else the man who marks the goods has not yet learned that a suit wliich costs $5.50 wholesale will not catch many suckers when marked $18.00, reduced to $9.85 special tomorrow. Our Business Success Is due, we believe, to the fact that we aWays strive to do business on a common sense basis, selling a dollar's worth for a dollar and gaining a patronage in five years greater than any other clothing store In Topeka has acquired In fifteen or twenty years. We expect to pass our fifth birth day very soon, but there will be no Grand Jubilee Sale, no 50c Shirts marked up to $1.00 and reduced to 69c special; no 1902 Hats shown as "Xew Fall Styles" under last year's cuts. Selling merchandise above cost is good enough busi ness policy for us. i Watch Us Grow. Watch Our Business Methods Win. Robinson, Marshall Co. f Ind. 'Phone 22. Security Building. DRAWNBATTLE. End of 16 Honrs Fighting In Front of Llao Tang Finds Both Armies Occupying Sam Relatlre Positions. JAPANESE REPULSED. Aftsr HuTing Gained Possession of Russian Trenches. Opposing Forees Blronacked on the Field Last Night. St. Petersburg, Aug. 31. 1 p. m. Success crowned the Russian arms the first day of the great battle of Liao Tang, and the utmost confidence pre vails here that the issue of the fight will be a complete victory for Gen. Kuropatkln. From dawn until dark j-esterday the battle raged, first In the center and left and then on the right of the Russian line. The Japanese charged gallantly and desperately in an effort to break the center, and then In the afternoon came a move ment against the opposite flank. This attack was delivered from the west, but Gen. Kuropatkln had evidently anticipated just what happened, for he not only met and repulsed it, but actually was able by superior force to overlap and envelop the Japanese. Last night both armies bivouacked in their positions. No attempt was made by Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff. in his report to esti mate the Japanese losses, except to ay that they were extremely heavy, and the Russian losses were only ap proximated at 3,000. No Russian gen eral officers fell. Gen. Kuropatkln's forces occupied positions forming a semicircle about Llao.Ynng, the Hanks resting on the Taita river, east and west of the city. The battle divided itself into two periods. After a preliminary bom bardment of the Russian lines on the right and center, the Japanese infan try advanced to the attack, charging the Russian center. Although re- Seatedly checked, they came on with ulldog tenacity, hurling themselves against the Russian positions with the bayonet. There were many bloody hand to hand encounters. By noon the Japanese actually succeeded in occupying a portion of the Russian trenches. Then Gen. Kuropatkln sent forward the reserves, delivering a series of counter attacks, recaptur ing the lost positions and drove back the Japanese all along the line. The attack on the center having failed, the second half of the fight began at 4 o'clock in the after noon when the Japanese tried to turn and roll up the Russian right. Here also they failed, but only after a des perate struggle which was continued until 9 o'clock at night. Reserves dis patched in time by General Kuropat kln at last succeeded not only in checking the Japanese but in envelop ing and driving them back in con fusion. During the progress of the battle General Kuropatkln encouraged his men on the fighting line by sending out the news of the repulse of the at tack upon Port Arthur August 26. The Japanese flank movement from the west began Monday from Chandia padzt. three miles southeast of Shakhe, which is eleven miles northwest of Liao Yang. One of the striking features of the I thank you, friends, who are on my side or, rather, .we're all in a bunch. FRANK H0BART, 0Q .West Tenth, battle was the splendid work of the Russian artillery, in which arm the Japanese have heretofore excelled. In a dispatch filed last night by one of the Associated Press' Russian corres pondents, he says that a report was current at Liao Yang that 4 6 Japanese guns were captured during the day. There is great rejoicing in St. Pe tersburg over the news on the bulle tin boards. The dispatches posted there are surrounded bv eager crowds. The officials of the war office, although they have not yet received advices in regard to today's events, are in high Fpirits. The Japanese, who have been con tinuously advancing for a week are now said to be utterly exhausted after yesterday's hard and unsuccessful fight ing and no doubt exists here that if the opportunity offers General Kuro patkin will not fail to follow up the advantage he has achieved. Sakharofrs Report. St. Petersburg. Aug. 31. Lieutenant General SakharofT, telegraphing to the general staff on the conclusion of yes terday's sixteen hours of fighting around Liao Yang, estimates that the Russian casualties throughout the day were three thousand. The battle ended at 9 o'clock last night when many positions occupied by the Japanese were retaken and again held by the Russians. The report of Lieutenant General Sakharoff is as follows: "From 5 o'clock this morning until 9 tonight the Japanese forces attacked our front at positions before Liao Yang and on the left bank of the Taitz river. Both, their artillery and rifle fire were intense. Their main efforts were direct ed against our center positions and left name, out numerous attacks were re pulsed along the whole line. Our trooDS made several counter attacks, culmi nating in bayonet fighting. Many positions which had been oc cupied by the Japanese were retaken at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. During the artillery attack our batteries did very effective work. About 4 this afternoon the enemy was observed attempting to turn our rignt nank with considerable force but several battalions of reserves advanced after a fierce engagement checked the Japanese and compelled them to retire. The battle continued until after dark and only ended at 9 o'clock. The spirit of our troops is ex cellent. The men are rejoiced over the news of the heroic behavior of the gar rison at Port Arthur, the repulsion of Japanese attacks upon which has been communicated to them. "Our casualties today have been con siderable, reaching about 3.000. The Japanese losses must have been heavy." Town Rejoices. Liao Yang, Tuesday, Aug. 30. 8 p. m. Delayed in transmission The town has been filled with joy owing to a re port that the Russians took forty-six cannon today. The Japanese assault on the Russian center was desperate in the extreme. The Japanese losses were very great. The attack was sustained mainly by the Eighth Siberian regiment. The fighting at "Wafango can not be com pared with what occurred today. Shells shrieked over the town from early morning. People who occupied posi tions on house tops had a magnificent spectacle. The rain has begun to fall. IT .HASJEGUN. Rooserelt and Dale Circulars Are Out. Bear Ko Date and Are Mailed on Train. FAIRBANKS IN TOPEKA. His PriTate Car Will Be Here All Night. Will Leare for Marion Early in Morning. Many Young Girls Marry. Pittsburg, Kan.. Aug. 31. Youthful brides have been plentiful here of late. Within the past few months Probate Judge Jones has issued licenses to sev eral girls of 14. 15 and 16 years of age, permitting them to wed. Generally the men they married were much older. The probate judge has no recourse, as in all cases the youthful brides have the con sent of their parents. The latest girl bride is Mary Livingston, of Cherokee, who is barely 14 years of age. She was married on the 29th Inst., to E. D. Har ris, of Cherokee. Associated Press Man Decorated. St. Petersburg. Aug. 31. 11:10 a. m. M. Olginsky, one of the Asso ciated Press 'Russian correspondent has been decorated with the order of St- Anne for bravery on the field of battle while with General Mistchenko. The Ohio Will Be Accepted. Washington. Aug. 31. Announce ment was made at the navy depart ment today of the preliminary ac ceptance by the government of the battleship Ohio, built by the Union Iron works of San Francisco. Arrivals From Panama. New York, Aug. 31. H. A. Gudger, United States consul general at Pan ama, Colonel Gorgas, the sanitary of ficer of the Panama canal tone, and Admiral A. S. Kenny, U. S. N.. arrived here today on the steamer Seguranca from Colon. The first unsigned and mysterious circulars of the campaign are being cir culated. In a blank envelope with the postmark of "K. C. Denver Railway Postoffice. Train 7, August 30," the cir culars are being sent out. There is no clue as to the senders. Below the print ed circular is the impression of a rub ber stamp reading" "Roosevelt Dale, Freemen's club." The circular is as follows: "Be independent. "Partisanship is the most Dotent evil of American politics. The corruption of candidates and po litical parties finds security only In the iaci mat many voters are not free men. but, are enslaved by a clineiner to rjarty as wholly unreasoning and foolish as tne blind bigotry that the Chinaman evinces for his pigtail. ine crimes of politics rest in the Digotry, prejudice and bias of the par tisan. A free man's ballot is a scratch ed ballot, nine times out of ten. Party name, blatant demogoguery, prejudice, passion and personified stupidity is the stock in trade of the partisan paper and me partisan voter. The unreasoning holding to party when its candidates are unworthy of trust, is a brand of electoral idiocy a remnant of feudal ism. The country will be immeasura bly improved when each citizen will fully and completely realize that he is a unit independent of all others and absolutely free to judge for himself and vote as he pleases, regardless of party lash or the edict of party priests. The partisan is ever ready to condone the public plundering and brazen corrup tion of his party or Its candidates the independent never. The offlceseeker and officeholder are ever ready to ex cuse, defend or even commend the rot tenness of his party's candidates, be cause of self interest. The great body of voters, however, are not officehold ers nor officeseekers, and they should vote to chastize candidates and parties, of whatever name, which reason tells them are unworthy of the support of American citizenship. Any other course is un-aemocratic and un-American. Examine the present facts as evidenced by the Burtons, the Kellys. the Bur rows, Bowersocks, etc., as exposed in the show case of the campaign now on o this without being biased by party name or warped by prejudice, and you will instantly see that the voter who casts an Intelligent vote for President Roosevelt, who caused Burton's prose cution, cannot consistently and ought not to vote for many of the candidates upon the Republican state ticket. They oppose every civic virtue for which Roosevelt stands." Senator Fairbanks will arrive In To peka, over the Rock Island, at 6 o'clock tonight. Senator- Fairbanks' private car will stand on the tracks at the Rock Island depot until 9 o'clock Thursday morning, when it will be attached to the special to Mar ion, where Senator Fairbanks will open the national campaign in Kansas at the same rally when E. W. Hoch opens the state campaign for the Re publicans. National Committeeman Dave Mulvane accompanies Senator Fairbanks from Chicago here and Chairman Stubbs will meet the party at Kansas City. A Chicago dispatch under date of August 3 0 says: "Senator Fairbanks, Republican candidate for vice president, passed through Chicago tonight en route from New England for Kansas. He left at 12:30 o'clock over the Rock Island for Marion, where on Thursday he will open the Kansas campaign He has arranged to speak at Charles ton, W. Va., on September 27, when he. will invade the field of his rival for vice presidential honors. It is his in tention to give the latter part of the campaign to the west." The Republican state central com mittee has decided not to furnish speakers as attractions for county fairs. Carr Taylor, director of the speakers' bureau at the state head quarters, has reached that decision. "When a campaign orator is billed for a street fair or picnic he is sim ply advertised as one of the drawing cards, like the snake-eater, the glass eater or the high diver," said Taylor today. "He Isn't wanted to convert voters to his party: only to help draw crowds. And in the exhibition he is placed at a disadvantage. The bark ers for the shows and the organ at the merry-go-round simply drown him out. Very few people stop to listen to him, and what few do can't hear half he says on account of the noise at the other attractions. All campaigners shy at such assignments, and I don't blame them. As long as I am chairman of the speakers' bu reau, none of them will have to go up against any merry-go-rounds." Taylor reached this conclusion after Frank G. Drenning. a Topeka lawyer, related his experience at a Comanche county picnic a few days ago. Dren ning was sent to the picnic by Taylor upon the urgent request of the local politicians. When he got there, he found no platform to speak from. However, he did find a merry-go-round In full operation, and several other attractions making much noise. The merry-go-round man refused to suspend business till Drenning could talk, and Drenning couldn't go up against the merry-go-round, so he called his speech off. although he had spent two days reaching there. "Drenning's experience has taught me a lesson early in the campaign," said Taylor, "and I have cut out pic nics and fairs. Of course, if the man agers of those concerns can find spell binders who are willing to go up against the game. It is all right with me; luck to them. But I won't as sign speakers for them.." A southern Kansas rair manager wrote In this morning for a squad of speakers. He said he would like to have Senator Long and E. W. Hoch for one day, Charlie Curtis and Phil Campbell for another, J. K. Cubbison and Eugene Ware for another. Gov-, ernor W.'E. Stanley and Congressman Charles Scott for another, and would appreciate it very much if the state committee would send Senator Bev- eridge or Elihu Root for the big day. He wa informed that none of the as signments could be made. The Phillipsburg Herald says: "A boom baa been started to make P. P. Campbell the mirrennr to Senator Bur ton. Campbell is a brilliant orator and one or me strongest memDers or con gress." The Rooks Conntv Record savs: "Three fist fights followed the Republican county convention at Phillipsburg last xnursaay, Up in Phillips nnlitira is run on the stren uous plan.- The Anntost for suDremacy has been hot and furious for a long time be tween tne local machine ana tne anti-ma chine forefs. John Royce appears to be the machine and as such was successful in landing the whole ticket. The feeling engendered is said to be so bitter mat tne county will go Democratic irom top to Dottom. The Phillipsburg News says: "The News has done all it could toward har monizing matters between the two fac tions in the Republican party in this county, but some of the tricks put up at the recent convention held here were rank enough to cause a dead Republican to turn over in nis grave. Congressman Rowersock seems conn dent that he will be re-elected. Speakinsr of his chances in the Second district he said 1 he AJlen contest, is out of the way. and the onlv effect it will have will be on account of the soreness it may have left behind. I think this will wear away before the campaign is over. Two years ago tne aistrict went KepuDiiean ty 4.0110. That was an off vear and the Republi can majority should be as much or more this year, Through the operation of the biennial election law this will be the fir3t time in Kansas that a president and all state and county officers will be voted for at once. PENSION LISTS CUT OFF.. Commissioner Ware to Stop Extra Cost to the Government. Washington. Ansr. 31 Pension Com missioner Ware has fecreed that the pension list shall pass -into history. For a long time the names and addresses and the amount of ponsions were given to the public freely, but the commis sioner put an end to that practice soon after assuming charge of the bureau. He maintained that, too many "schem ing" lawyers took advantage of infor mation given in the list, wrote to the pensioners, and offered to obtain for them a more liberal allowance from the government. Also there was an inci dental expense of "'about $6,000 a year entailed in compiling, printing and dis tributing this list. Under the new or ders of the commissioner, only two lists were published and these were closely guarded at the department. There was no objection, however, to anyone call ing for the list, obtaining it and copy ing the names. It was not long before the commissioner learned that the law yers were still doing business and he ordered the addresses cut oft the list. This left it practically worthless to the lawyers, but it was still a source of in formation to those interested In pen sion affairs. Now he has decreed that the entire list must be put aside, and no further information shall be given out. He gives economy and stress of other work as the reason. DEATH OF DK. HERRAJT. Was Colombia's Representative Washington for Several Years. at New York, -Aug. 31. Dr. Thomas Herran. who represented Colombia at Washington for several years up to the time of the Panama Incident, died today at Liberty, N. Y., after a long Ulness. Mr. Herran was educated in the United States and devoted his life largely to his country's foreign serv ice. In his appointment as Colombian minister to the United States he rounded out his term of service and at the4?&me timeTfc'hieved the unique distinction of becoming the accredited minister to a country he had once rep resented in a minor capacity. Many years ago, while .-president of the University of Madelline, Mr. Herran was appointed and served as United States consular agent to Madelline, Colombia. For ten years he repre sented his own country as secretary of the Colombian legation. During his service there, which continued un til he was appointed minister to this country by his government to succeed former Minister Concha, he was prac tically the head of the legation. He was appointed in January of the present year. WAGES 100 PER CENT. HIGHER MARKETS TODAY. t. -5. Si Wheat Is Again Slightly Off This Morning. Corn Market Firm Despite the Condition. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Are Fire and Ten Cents Lower. Hogs Are Affected In Similar Manner. Chicago, Aug. 31. WHEAT Sentiment in the wheat pit today was either as a ifauu 01 liDerai liquidation resulting irom tne lower tone 01 toreign gram marKets, At the start a moderate tone prevailed, due to heavv rains in the northwest, Initial quotations on December were off fe'fiVtC burner, at $l.w'ai.08Vfc. Commission houses had plenty of wheat for sale and with only a moderate demand December DroKe to $1. 0-14. Covering bv shorts car ried the price up to $1.0S again, but an other reaction followed, the price easiri; off to $1.07. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chi caso reported receipts of 294 cars, asrainst airi cars a year aeo. On damage reports from the northwest considerable strength developed toward men middle ot the session, December at: vancinir to $1.09. Much of the train was lost, however, on profit taking. The mar- Ket closed nrm. witn uecemner up -'l v-c at $1.08l4a.06. U)K. in spite of easier cables and more favorable weather conditions, the corn market was firm. December opened gc to c higher, at 51fa51c, and neia witnin tne oneniner ranee. Alter advancing to 52c on crop damage reports, December closed witn a gam or rc. at wtc. oaxs Oats held steady. December opened unchanged to c higher, at 32 33c, and eased off to 32c. fKUVisio.a bower prices ror nogs and prospects of more serious strike con ditions caused weaKness in provisions. October pork opened 2c hirher. at $11.45, but declined to $11.30. Lard was 2(5c lower, at $y.U73Y.io. tiDs were down y;ac at $7.37. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, $1.101.12 No. 3 red, $1.07(S1.11: No. 2 hard, $1.0761.11 No. 3 hard, $1.621.08; No. 1 northern, $1.16; ino. 2 nortnern, i.uwai.i; iso. 3 spring, t.uo. RYE Sent.. 71iAe: Dec. 77Ac. FLAX Cash: N.-W.. $1.25: S.-W.. $1.18: Aug., $1.1S; Sept., $1.18. 'nMurai sept., $2.95; Oct., z.sa. CLOVER Aug., $12.50. BARLEY Cash: 37&66c. CORN No. 2, 6354c; Kb. 3, 53853c, OATS NO. Z, 31c; NO. 3, 30C Range of Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, urains, provisions, cotton and stocas. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City. ilo.J Chicago, Aug. 31. Open HIeh Low Close yes WHEAT Sept ...1 08 1 07 1 05y, 108 105 Dec ....108 1 09 1 07 108 107 May... 110 111 109 110 1 10 CORN Sept 62-53 53 52 Dec 51- 52- 51 May 49- 50- 49 OATS 31- 31 31 33-S3 33 32 33- 35 35 Sept Dec May PORK Sept ....11 20 11 25 10 95 Oct 11 45 11 45 11 05 Jan .....13 47 -12 62 12 35 LARD Sept 6 90 6 95 6 85 Oct 7 10-07 7 10 6 92 Jan 7 10 7 10-12 7 02 RIBS Sept 7 32-30 7 32 7 15 Oct 7 40 7 40-42 7 27 53i,4 52 51 51- 49- 49 31 31 33A 32 35- 35- 10 97 "41 30-32 11 12 11 42 13 42 12 57 6 85 7 00 7 07 7 02 7 12 7 12-15 7 17-20 7 37 7 37 7 45 Jan 6 60 6 62 6 52-55 6 60 6 IK Than In Any Country on Earth, Secre tary Wilson Says. Barr, Vt., Aug. 31. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was the central figure at a political rally here last night. He said in part: "The prosperity of this country is greater than ever before. Working iren of Vermont know that wages are a hundred per cent, nigner man in any country on earth. During the last three years of Mr. Cleveland's admin istration 3,0000,000 laborers were idle. If Parker is elected this fall these conditions may return. "Parker was frank enough to tell you that if elected he would attempt to reduce the tariff. The common people believe In Roosevelt and every state from the Alleghany to the Pa cific slope will cast its electoral vote for him in November." He declared that the only danger to be avoided is that of apathy on the part of the Republicans. GIRL LOST IN WOODS. Searchers Found Her Sitting on Bank Waiting for Daylight. Lowville. N. Y.. Aug. 31. Miss Bes sie Lowe, daughter of a wealthy Day ton, O., merchant, has been lost for 16 hours in the Adirondack wilder ness in Lewis county. Guides and a party of visitors searched the forest wfth torches and alter nve nours- hunt found the girl sitting on the bank of Francis lake, awaiting the break of day. Miss Lowe attempted to walK to Stillwater to meet some friends. She got oft the trail and night fell before she was able to locate it again. She was without food or matches with which to start a fire, but she suffered no serious injury. Phoenicia Is Safe. Plymouth, Kng., Aug. 31. The Hamburg-American line steamer Phoenicia which left New York, Aug ust 20, for Hamburg and which was reported by the North German Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm at Brem en yesterday to have been sighted on August 2 7, apparently drifting, passed the Lizard at 7 a. m. today. Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, orams, provisions, cotton and escocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephona 4&6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. Kansas City, Aug. 31. Open High Low Close i'ea WHEAT 97 96 96 96 b7 86 97 96 1 00 99 1 0l 99 Sept 96 Dec 97 May ...1 00 CORN Dec 45V4 May 45 45 45 45 45 45- 45 45 45- Sentenced for Life. Chicago, Aug. 31. Milton W. Car son has been sentenced to imprison ment in the penitentiary for life after conviction of mistreating Mabel May field, 14 years old. His wife, Viola, also was found guilty and sentenced to a year s imprisonment. Carson previously had been found guilty of attacking another young girl and sen tenced to 14 years imprisonment. Czar Returns to His Palace. St. Petersburg, Aug. 31. The em peror returned to Peterhoff this morn ing from the Don district, where he reviewed the cossack troops bound for the far east. Grain Letter. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. To the Grain Trade of the Southwest: 1 wish to say a little here that may be of some benefit to some of you. I do not pretend to sav that wheat will go to just such a figure, and if it should go there say I told you so and told you to follow me, when I did not know, only guessed, but there is something that I remember in the past, about a year ago it said in many papers that there was a long line elevator system or two that was going to make the public pay $1 per bushel for wheat, and hold it at that price. I claim that this is the case today, that the ac tual surplus of grain is being held off of the market. If you ask where, I say in private elevators, it tne government was right in its estimate of last year's crop, which was overi00,000,000 bushels, can you find any figure that will tell where the crop went to? I can not find any that will work. For the bad reports in the northwest, I have heard tnem Derore. in 1900 they had the whole crop up there kill ed and bulled wheat from 62c to SSc on it. I then warned the trade that it would get left in buving wheat at those prices and in the following spring they sold wheat at 64c. It is against my business to talk this way, but I have been in this business a long time and I never saw any one buy wheat above $1.17 and get away with a nice thing. I, myself, am afraid to ad vise the sale of it, as the fluctuations are too great, but I am not afraid to say if you have cash wheat to sell it as soon as you can, and that you will make more money going to the world's fair than to hold wheat after the September option is out of the way. which no one can tell what they miRht do with. There is another thing we should not forget, and that is that the present corn crop is one of the largest of history and yet the prospects within 100 miles around here are bad. They will use this big crop against you when the proper tim comes, but they might have a frost first. You can run a bear up a tree, but in order to keep him there you must keep watch with a gun ano some gooaaoErs. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas City. Mo.. Aug. 31. CATTLE Receipts today, 7,000 head, including 500 head of southerns. Market 5fil0c lower. Native steers. $3.755.90; southern steers, $2.501-3.75: southern cows, $1.50f&2.25: native cows and heifers. $1.50t4.50: stockers and feeders. $2.25-fi4.0O: bulls. $2.00i&3.25: calves, $2.25?75.S: western steers, $3.00 4.50; west ern cows, $1.55t&-3.50. HOGS Receipts today, 7.000 head. Mar ket SftlOc iower. Bulk of sales, $5.305.40; heavv, $5.25(&5.35: packers', $5.2o5.40; pigs and "lights, S6.00ft5.45. SHEEP Receipts today, 2.000 head. Market steady. Muttons, $3.25iS4.00: lambs, $4.50i5.80; range wethers, $3.5054.00: ewes, $2.753.50; Idaho ewes and heifers, $3.50. Chicago Llvwtnck Market. Chicago.Aug. 31. CATTLE Receipts to day. 22,000 head, including 1.500 head of Te'xans and 7.000 head of westerns. Mar ket lower. Good to prime steers, $5.4OQ6.00; poor to medium. $2.50'&5.00: stockers and feeders. S2.0O5i3.75: cows. $1.35ig4.00: heifers, $1.75'a4.50: canners. $1.35(52.25: bulls, $2.00 4 00: calves, $3.5056.25; Texas fed steers, $2.50ff3.50; western steers, $2.554.00. HOGS Receipts today. 26,000 head; esti mated Thursday, 16,000 head. Market 10 -J Last 3 Days of This Week From 9:00 a. m. to 8:30 p- m. n(" fy si Prof. J. Austin Larson will wait on those who fail ed to see him Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on account of the ove rwhelming rush of business, together with any other who desire to oonsult him. Remember these three days this week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, are New Patients Only. This extension of time will not be granted again nd is to give an opportunity to the many who de sire to see him and have failed to do so. As it will be impossible to handle both old and new patients, the new ones will be given the preference these three days. Evening Consultations are added this week to give a chance to business and workingmen to consult this man. Consultation Free. New Patients will be received on Thursday, Friday, Saturday this week from 9:00 o'clock in the morning until 8:30 in the Evening. Consultation Free. After this week regular reception days will be maintained. 15c lower. Mixed and butchers', $5.1055.60; good to choice heavy, $5.aMl5.60; rough heavy, $4.60-&5.00; light, $5.25&5.05; bulk of sales. $5.304io.50. SHJKi.f Kecelpts today. 25.000 head. Market lower. Good to choice wethers, $3.50(04.00; fair to choice mixed. $3.0O3.40; western sheep, $2.75&4.00; native lambs, $4.005.75; western lambs, $4.00S5.75. St. Louis Live Stock Market. St. Louis. Mo.. Ausr. 31. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 3,500 head, including 1,800 nead ot 'lexans. MarKet steady. Beef steers, $4.10&S.75;stockers and feeders, $2.25 (03.50: cows and heifers. $2.25ca4.Z5: Texas steers, $4.105.75;stpckers and feedersi- $2.00 fi.ib'as.w. HOGS Receipts today. 1.500 head. Mar ket 5(&10c lower. Pips and litrhts. $5.0O&5.55 pacKers o.au'ao.bo; Dutcners ana best heavy, $a.40(3o.b5. SHEEP Receipts today. 2.500 head. Market steady. Natives, $3.25(3.85: lambs. ti.waa.w, lexans, m.uu4.uu. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. Auk. 31. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 218 cars. Quotations were steady. Sept.. ybTfac: Dec.. if74c:May. $1.00. Cash: Xo. 2 hard, $1.0051.04; No. 3 hard, 7crosi.00; No. 4 hard, nanwjc: No. 2 red, $i.05CU.07; no. 3 red, $1.00411.04; no. 4 red, M5cra$i.oi. CORN Market Arm. Sept.. 47c: Dec. 4534!a4oc: May. 4554c. Cash: No. 2 mixed. 4!&4&Vic; No. 3 mixed. 48ii4c; No. 2 wnite. 4S"iC: no. 3 wmte. 4-5i(M;c. OATS Market, steady. No. 2 white. 3358 34c; No. 2 mixed, SiOJc. RYE MarKet steady, 75c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.50; choice prai rie. $7.25. BUTTER creamery, llwg-ltpAc; dairy. 12Vic. EGGS Market firm. Fresh, 18c. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago. 111.. Ausr. 31. BUTTER-Mar ket firm. Creamery, 14'319c; dairy, 12V4 16c. EGGS Market steady. At mark, cases included, 14'516c. CHEESE MarKet steady. .Daisies, swer 9c; Twins, 8(g8V4c; Young Americas, 8Vi 9c. LIVE POULTKY-JlarKet steady. Tur keys, 12c; chickens, 11c; springs, 14c. Market Gossip. Furnished by A. M. McDermott Commis sion L.O., blocks, vrrauis. rravisigna ana Investment Securities. Rooms 20 and 211. 702 Kansas ave.J Liverpool opening cables: Wheat ?4d lower; corn d lower. Liverpool, 1:30 p. m. Wheat d lower; corn d lower. Northwest erram receipts today: Minne- neapolis, 216 cars: Duluth, 22 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, 1(7 cars; JJuluth, H cars. Gram receipts at Kansas City: Wheat, 1 257 cars; corn, w cars; oats, cars. Grain receipts at Chicaero: V heat. f6 cars: graded, 3. Com, 337 cars; graded, 64. Oats, 200 cars: graded, 50. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d lower; corn d lower. but met support around yesterday's clos ing figures. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Graina, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephona 48S. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co.. Kansas City. Mo.J Stocks Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T T. C. I U. S. Steel U. S. Steel, pfd Atchison, com Atchison, pfd C. G. W St. Paul R. I., com Wabash, com Wabash, pfd Mo. Pacific Western Union Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie Erie, 1st Union Pacific C. O B. O L. N Katy Pennsylvania C. A., com IT. S. Leather C. F. I New York, Aug. 31. Op'n High Low Cl'se Vel 131 131 131i 131i IIU'I 66"4 66 64H, 64Vt 444, 44 12 12X4 60 61 8H4 S0 98 98V, laSi 10 57 5414 44 12 60 98 15 155 26 1 39 97 57V4 55 45 12 62 81 98 15V, 155 26 lfllj 97 153 154 25 25 1H 19 3K 38 96 57 54 12 6" 81 15 154 25 13 3!' 155 155 155 122 123 122 SIVfe 31 3l 63 28 65 98 39 87 56 62 27 64 100 38 86 12f 121 47 4 96 9t 155 122 30 56 62 28 64 9S 38 86 12i 120 12"- 4i 47 47, 56 62 27 64 97 38 fct 155 122 31 57 62 27 64 10" 3 125 125 124 124 125 41 41 40 404 41 7 7 7 7 7 37 37 36 "36 36 Ex-div. 2 per cent. Hew York Money Market. New York. Aug. 31. MONEY Money on cal leasy, $tl per cent, closing bid and offered at 1 per cent: time loans easy and dull; 60 days, 2 per cent; 90 days, 2 per cent; 6 months, 3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 3f?4 per cent; sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4 S745 I&4.8755 for demand and at $4.84&4.F480 for 60 day bills: posted rates. $4.85Vi and $4.88; commercial bills, $4.84 4.84. KibviiK-uar silver, &c; Mexican dol BONDS Government bonds Irregular. New Tork Batter. New York, Aug. 31. BUTTER Market unchanged: New York Stocks. Wall St.. New York. Aus. 31. STOCKS The stock market opened quiet and hes itating, with slight fractional changes either way. Reading was bought in round amounts and advanced to 62. On the other hand there was some renewal of yesterday's pressure against Atchison and It lost point. Board room operators sola tne moce representative western stocks, but the early effect on prices was slight, owing to the further rise in the coalers. Erie sec ond preferred, Chesapeake and Ohio, New York Central and Metropolitan Securities advanced 1 to 1 points and Continental Tobacco preferred 3 points. Prices were yielding all around again ai noon, tne heavv selling of the grain carriers un dermining the market. Bonds were nrm at noon. The selline movement showed sisms of exhaustion after 12 o'clock and there were but few additional losses of consequence. Xnt much effort was made to force a ral ly and the market became very dull when the selling ceased. Some obscure stocks dvanced buoyantly. anuit prererrca jumped 4 points. Smelting was run up 1 points, but there was some heaviness in a number of low priced railroad stocks which have recently been advanced. Speculation was quiet during tne greater part of the afternoon and a spasmodic rise of 1 points in United States Steel preferred had out lime enea in reviving tradine in the jreneral list. Enormous buying of Consolidated Tobacco 4s was the chief feature of the bond dealings. The advance reached 4 and there was a sympathetic jump of 7 points in Conti nental Tobacco preferred and American Tobacco preferred, both of which are al lied properties. Bun operations UOll vt wh ers, the recent aBsrfsio m Readine reviving speculative interest in the rest of the Erie group. Erie showed unusual activity and sold above 28. Other stocks improved slightly, but they did not maintain their advantage long, renewed selling of St. Paul, Union Pacific and Missouri racinu tauniiig off. Reading lost its rise Detore 11 o cioctc. Sugar and Coffee In New Tork. New York. Aug. 31. SUGAR Raw su gar firm. Fair refining, 3 ll-16c; centrifu Ral. 96 test, 4c: molasses sugar, 2 7-16c. Refined sugar firm. Crushed, $5.90; pow dered. $5.30; granulated, $5.20. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio. 8c. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., Aug. 31. COTTON Market higher at llc per pound. New York. Aug. 31. COTTON Sales to day, 4.300 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet and 15 points lower. Quotations per 100 pounds: Middling uplands, $11.50; mid dling gulf, $11.75. Wool Market. St- Louis. Mo., Aug. 31. WOOL Market steady. Territory and western mediums 2221c; fine medium, 16i-l8c; fine, 1543 16o! Topeka Market. HOGSTOPeka' AU' 31- AND BUTCHERS' $5.0Of?5.10 LIGHT J 95 5.15 GRASS CATTLE.' -9&-15 HEIFERS 2 (xya- cows iioolco KUL-LS 2 .n o 9; calves aoSSrS; DRY LOT CATTLE BiLina HEIFERS COWS VEAL CALVES GRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT NO. 4 WHEAT n2 WHITE CORN YELLOW AND MIXED CORN NO. 2 OATS N. 3 OATS .$4.00W5.00 .wa4.7S J.oo-at.oo $-00 3.54 .88-3900 'S88c Sw80o .6B&7-JO .13 .48o .S3 o Fkl'ITS ANO VST.lTTiiiiV.-"""' (Furnished by 8. E. Lux, succesaorte w O. Anderson Co.. 210 Kansaa aril FRUITS. ORANGES Valencia, $3.7564.25 per hn LEMONS-California, per box, oo-Stf BANANAS Per bunch, $1.762 S 003-2 b)APPLES Kansas, $1.00 per bu."; $3.00 per PEACHES Colorado,1, per box. 75fiSOc GRAPES Per basket, 25c. S80C' MALAGA GRAPES, 4-basket crate t 1 TOKAY GRAPES, 4-basket crate 8S UTAH BARTLETT PEARS per box. UTAH PLUMS, 1-basket crate, J1.B.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOTJBNAE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1904. 7 A A. LOW, President. AT September 12th to 17th inclusive. C. H. SAHSON, Sec. One Tare for the round trip on all railroads from all Kansas Points. 520,000 to be distributed in purses and premiums $20,000. t t i i Tuesday: Kansas Derby Day. Wednesday: Dan Patch Day. The third Kansas Derby for a purse of $500 will bo ran on Tuesday, Iorbjr Day. A total of $3,500 has been hung up for the runner, besides the $8,000 in stakes and purses for the twenty har ness races. The stake races have closed and all have filled, and an unusually Interesting racing programme Is assured. The elOTen purse races close September. 3. Marshall's Band will play every afternoon between the races. The Fine Stock Show will be better than erer, for breeders who have their herds and stables entered at the St. Louis exposition will be there but ten days and before and after that exhibit will tour the circuit of western state fairs of Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, etc., insuring the greatest exhibition of live stock erer shown over the fair circuit. Come and see the World's Fair fancy stock. THE FASTEST HARNESS HORSE IN TftE WORLD. DAN PATCH :564 Din Patch win go against his own rrorld's record of 2:03 for a half-mile track. He appears In Kansas only at Topeka Thursday: Topeka Day. Friday: Kansas Day. Thomas Bass, the champion saddle horse trainer of the West, will bring a carload of his famous high school saddle horses to Topeka from his stables at Mexico, Mo., and will give an exhibi tion eery night In front of the grandstand during the concerts by the Banda Rossa. Mr. Bass trained the celebrated saddle hones limestone Belle, Forest King, Kentucky Blue Eyes, and many others. His horses have human Intelligence. The Italian Banda Rossa will give a concert every night. In the Industrial building will be an even larger display of ma chinery and manufactured products than ever before. A special division on the grounds will be devoted to the exhibition and demonstration of farm machinery of all kinds. In the Agricultural building the products of Kansas will be displayed and special pre miums and prizes will be offered for agricultural and horticultural exhibits. O The Biggest Fair Ever Held in Kansas and the Most Attractive A request to the secretary brings a live stock, agricultural and horticultural premium list or entry blank for purse races. NO, SAYSJ5HIVELY Sbeard and Logan Mistaken About Baseball Franchise. Otrntd hj the Topeka Associa tion Says President. STIRS UP EXCITEMENT. Announcement in State Journal Starts the Talk. Members Think Officers 11 aren't Acted Fairly. Evidently President Thomas Sheard and Secretary W. K. Logan of the baseball association are mistaken about their ownership of the fran chise of the Topeka ball team. It is rot made out in their own names, as Mr. Sheard stated on Tuesday. The title reads as follows: "To the To peka Baseball Association, T. E. Sheard. president, W. F. Logan, sec retary." President D. SI. Shiveley of the Mis souri Valley league, was called up over the telephone at Kansas City, Kas., this morning and asked to state who owned the franchise and in whose name he made it out, and to whom he intended to give ownership. His reply was as follows: "I made out the franchise to the Topeka Base ball association, T. E. Sheard, presi dent. V. F. Logan, secretary. It was my intention to make it out to the association, as it is made out. I never thought of making it out to Mr. Sheard or Mr. Logan, or any individ uals. The franchise belongs to the association. On top of that there is no ner d to worry over its present own ership. A franchise, unless sold for an actual consideration, cannot be transferred during the playing season. That must be done at the annual meet ing of the board of Valley League man agers which takes place in Kansas Sour Stomach f vsexl riietrtti and t1 like a new man. I been a sufferer from dyspepsia and aonr stomach for the last two years. I hare been taking medi cine and other dross, tmt eottld find ne relief only for a short time, x will reoatncend C as caret to my friends as the only thine for Indigestion and sour stomach and to keep the bowels in good con dition. They are very nice to eat." Harry Stuck ley, Alauch Chunk. Pa. Best For The Dowels 5V. camow CATrujmc Pteasitnt, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. IV Good, Jfeer Sieke. Weaken or Orire. 10c. 2-"x. 50c. Nerer aold la buik. The rutne tablet stamped C C C. Guaranteed to ear or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 509 AXIIML SALE, TEN IIILUON BOXES City In November. The franchise now belongs to the association. If it proves necessary, I shall come to To peka and make that matter clear. A meeting of the Baseball Park as sociation has been called for the Cope land hotel at S o'clock tonight. Both President Sheard and Secretary Logan are members of the directorate of the park association. They will be present at the meeting tonight. There was a soTt of informal agree ment between the Topeka Baseball as sociation and the Ball Park association, which the latter body will call Into evi dence. When the park was built. It was tacitly understood by the men who put the money Into the new park, that they were in a sense to father the baseball association, and baseball In general in Topeka. Their money built the park, made Sunday baseball pos sible and made it a paying institution. They are asking Mr. Sheard to now show his hand. W. E. Drechsel and Curtis Bailey, two members of the Ball Park association directorate, are in favor of taking the park away from the Topeka Baseball association next year, and theestablish ment of a Western League team in To peka. Their idea is wholly out of the range of possibility, due principally to the fact that under the National Agreement two different leagues can not exist In one city at the same time, unless the first there gives the second a right to operate a team. Then Mr. Sheard Is one of the principal stock holders in the Ball Park association. He owns $500 worth of the stock and nat urally has a good deal to say when things come to a show-down, as he ought to have. But from all this it may be conjec tured by the ordinary layman in base ball matters how high the feeling has run against Mr. Sheard's apparent usurpation of the owneship of the To peka Baseball association. One man who put money into the team and also into the park, says that inasmuch as Mr. Sheard made what he calls the transfer of the club to himself way last June, that his act was premeditated and that it was done Intentionally in the view of his finally getting control of the association. Legal advice was taken today from several lawyers In regard to Mr. Sheard's right to claim the franchise. It was alike, namely, that any man who had put five cents into the Topeka association had a right to sue Mr. Sheard for any profits which the as sociation might make, and a right to a voice in any council regarding the handling of its affairs. But in the face of all this Mr. Sheard stoutlv maintains that he owns the association. "President Shiveley trans ferred it to myself and Mr. Logan," said Mr. Sheard this morning. "It is ours and we intend to keep it. We're not going to allow anybody to butt in and take away from us what we have made a success." "But other people helped, other peo ple gave money, and they are mighty apt to kick," was suggested to him. "D their kicks," was his reply. But it will be up to him to answer tha Ball Park association tonight. That body feels that faith has been broken somewhere. They feel that by the building of the park they made baseball a genuine go. They understood that they were to be taken into the baseball association, or that the two were to be merged, and that every ef fort was to be made to give Topeka good baseball. They declare emphati cally against a money making venture. A telegram was sent to President Shivelev at noon today, asking him to be at the Ball Park association meet ing tonight. Further than that, in formation concerning the meeting was given to the newspapers in Topeka, so that the wrong ones may set in line i with the State Journal, and tell the truth about the whole thing as was done in this paper last night. The morning paper asserts that it has been common knowledge among the people interested in baseball in Topeka for the past two months, that Logan and Sheard had transferred the franchise to themselves. Just to show that the Capital talked through its hat, every member of the board of di rectors was asked this morning when he first heard of the alleged transfer. And to a man, beyond Sheard and Lo gan themselves, every one answered that it was news to them until ex posed in the State Journal on Tuesday night. The directorate is composed of the following men: C. K. Holliday, W. L. Taylor, W. F. Jigan, Thomas Sheard, Ralph Moore and John Waters. Here are their answers: C. K. Holliday: "All news to me until I saw it in the Journal last night. I have nothing to say." W. L. Taylor: "I never heard of it be fore. I haven't had a chance to inquire Into it either." Ralph Moore: "Didn't know a thing about it." John Waters: "No, I never heard of It before." There are the facts. The names men tioned above are those of the men who were chosen an executive committee, with Sheard as president and Logan as secretary to look after the baseball af fairs. Not a single word had been said to them. Yet the Capital declares that everybody interested In baseball affairs had known all about it for two months. And in addition to that it might be mentioned as a clincher that not a member of the Ball Park association was acquainted with the fact until the State Journal printed it last night. The Capital made one more state ment. It said that Sheard and Logan went into their pockets to supply the deficiency every time that there was one. In a single instance when the sal aries were due and not enough money was on hand, Mr. Sheard, Mr. Logan and one other member of the board of directors put up $50 each, with the un derstanding that it was to be immedi ately taken out of the gate receipts of the next few days. And it was. It was taken out before anything else. Mr. Sheard and Mr. Logan deserve credit for their efforts on behalf of base ball in Topeka. They have done the bulk of the work and ought to be paid for their services. But there are other people who deserve consideration and who have spent their money to make baseball in Topeka a success. Rheumatism. When pains or irritation exist on any fart of the body, the application of Bal ard's Snow Liniment gives prompt relief B. W. Sullivan, proprietor Sullivan house" El Reno, O. T.. writes. June 6, 1902- "I take Dleasure in recommending RillarH'. Snow Liniment to all who are afflicted wim rneumausm. ii is me only remedy t have found that gives immediatn relief 23c, 50c. 11.00. Sold by Rowley Snow and v B. miner. $7.60 St. Louis and Return via Rock Island system. Tickets on sale Tuesdays and Thursdays during August ana oepiemoer. CASTOR I A For Iafants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bough! Bears the Signature ef JS0KT1I T0PKA. Leave items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co., 912 North Kansas ava. independent pnone iw.j Mr. A. W. Long of Manhattan is in town today. Mr. Daniel Becker f Merlden was in town the other day. Mr; Elmore of Shawnee State bank. has returned from Iola. Henry Buechner has been home with a cold for a couple or aays. Mark Putman is- now taking a horseback ride every morning. Mr. Willie Schott, of Kuehne Pickle works, Is taking a holiday today. North Topeka drug stores will be closed this afternoon from one until five. Mrs. A. W. Tennyson of South To peka is spending the day with Mrs. K. L. Gatz. Mr. E. D. Small is here from Tex- arkana, where he has been for the past year. Mrs. Wils Rigdon left yesterday for Washington, D. C where she will visit her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Z. K. Heinzman have gone to Valencia today. They will re main until Saturday. Very few stores on this side were open this morning. Those will be closed this afternoon. Mr. Will Woodford is spending his spare time painting signs to post throughout the country. W. S. Frieze of Galveston,- Texas, formerly of Topeka, will arrive soon to visit North Topeka friends. Mrs. Charles Bridgeman and two children of Horton, Kans., are visit ing a few davs with Mrs. George Hare of 1314 North Tyler street. Mrs. May Jones from Indian ter ritory, who has been visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Albright, will return home tomorrow. Mr. Wm. D. Conoby, who has been visiting his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Wise, left Tuesday for his home in Colorado Springs. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Small and chil dren Arthur and Adelle will go to Delevan park, Jackson county, where they will spend a month or more. Mrs. Chas. Hartburg entertained in formally yesterday evening for Mrs. Russell Barber who will leave tomor row for her home in Los Angeles, CaL Miss Jeannette Wolcott will return next Tuesday from Colorado Springs, where she, with her mother, has been for the past two months. Mrs. Wol cott, however, will not be back until later. Funeral services over the remains of Mr. Thomas Hiller will be held at the Kansas Avenue Methodist church to morrow morning at 10 o'clock. The in terment will be in the soldiers' plat at Rochester. Shawnee council No. 3, K L of S., gave a banquet last evening as a cele bration of their new hall. Nine new applications were received and a gen eral good time was enjoyed by all present. Miss Maggie Hanley entertained in formally last evening for her guest, Miss Margaret Sullivan, of Horton. The evening was spent in playing cards and dancing. Her guests were Dr. and Mrs. Lyon and little son Charlie, Mrs. Isaac Sheetz, Miss Sadie Baird, Mr. Robert Thomas, Mrs. James Walsh, Mr. John Hanley and Mr. Tom Hanley. Mr. John Nystrom was the guest of honor at a lawn party given at his home, 1019 Jackson street, Monday evening. The lawn was prettily light ed and decorated by Japanese lanterns, and made comfortable by rugs and hammocks,. During the evening Mr. Nystrom, was presented by his friends, a Morris chair ,the occasion being for his 60th birthday. Ice cream, cake and coffee were served as refreshments. Miss Nettie Lagerberg of Portland, Oregon, Miss Anna Johnson, Miss Bert Olson, Miss Anna Marties and Miss Ligne Leublade assisted Mrs. Nystrom. Miss Anna Nystrom and Mr. Clifford Nystrom in receiving and entertaining the 120 guests present. THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The corner stone of this new church building on the cornor of Jackson and Gordon streets will be laid tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock. The exercises will consist of short addresses by Dr. Miller, president of the Emporia col lege, by Dr. Bailey and Dr. Osmond and by Dr. Huntfleld, of. the Third Presby terian church. The pastors of the var ious other churches of the city, espe cially of the North side, are invited to be present. Dr. Glendenning, pastor of the church, will have charge of the cer emonies. Copies of the Topeka daily papers will be deposited within the stone together with other pertinent documents. SLIGHT SKETCH OF THE CHURCH The Second Presbyterian church was organized September 15, 1878. Its early history began some eight years prior to this date. As far back as 1870 an ef fort was made to establish a Presby terian church in North Topeka, ably seconded by the Rev. Dr. McCabe. pas tor of the First church. The effort was not successful and was abandoned af ter a few months. On the evening of September 6, 1878, a conference was held to take into consideration the propriety of immediate organization. As a result of this conference a petition signed by 28 persons was sent up to the presbytery or TopeKa asKing mat a church be organized. On the 15th day of Septembera committee appointed by the presbytery ertectea an organization. A few months later the Rev. J. C. Mil ler, now president of Emporia college. was installed as the first pastor. Under his administration the first house of worship was built and here regular ser vices were held until the flood of 1903 rendered it untenable. The Rev. Mil ler's successors were G. W. Bean, then W. E. Archibald, followed by the pres ent pastor. The Second Presbyterian church of Topeka has been noted for the ability and culture of Its pastors, for the earnest and devoted adherence of its members. The new structure now building will be the finest of its kind in North Topeka, and an earnest of the faith of its members in the fu ture of the North side. Found Husband Dying In Street. New York. Aug. 31. John Deikler, a well to do builder, was shot and killed earlv today near his home at G'.cndale. borough of Queens, by an unidentified man with whom, the po- lce said, he had engaged in a quarrel over politics. Mrs. Deikler found her husband dying in me street irom a bullet wound in his head. A posse was quickly organized, but the as sassin escaped. Yates Bujs a Residence Site. Springfield. 111.. Aug. 31. Governor Yates purchased today 200 feet of valuable land for a residence that is to be of stone and completed in time lor him when he leaves the executive mansion. TIME EXTENDED. American Shippers Given Opportunity to Prepare an Appeal. Marion and Return $3.15 Santa Fe. Thursday, Sept. 1st, opening day of the campaign. Senator Fairbanks, Sentor Long, E. W. Hoch, twelve bands. Glee club, parades, free re freshments. Special train from To peka 8 a. m. returning after the doings. St. Petersburg, Aug. 31. There is no disposition to take snap judgment on the American shippers in the case of the protest against the confiscation of the flour on board the Portland and Asiatic line steamer Arabia, captured by the armored cruiser Gromoboi, of the Vladivostok squadron, July 22. The period for taking an appeal will be extended until the parties in the Unit ed States who are interested in the appeal prepare their papers. It was announced from Washington August 26, that the state department in reply to a request for information from the Portland Flour Milling com pany, the owners of a large part of the carg-o of the steamer Arabia, had notified the company that the United States would take no part in the pros ecution of the damage claims against the Russian government. The state department added in its letter of in formation that the firms whose goods were seized by Russia must be repre sented by legal counsel at the prize court at Vladivostok and the admiralty court at St. Petersburg and recom mended that Russian attorneys be em ployed. The statement was also made that upon the American cargo owners rested the burden of proof and that they must be prepared to make good their claim that the goods seized were not contraband and to establish the amount demanded by them as indem nity to be fair and reasonable. Racing at Chicago. Chicago, Aug. 31. Fossil was heav ily backed in the third race at Har lem, the odds being pounded down from 15 to 1 to 5 Vi to 1, and the beta were still going in when the horses were at the post. Fossil looked to have the race, but in the last furlong Bragg came very fast and took first place by a narrow margin. GOES TO PRINTER. The President's Letter Is Now Oft Hit Hands. Oyster Bay, L. I., Aug. 31. Havin transacted all business of pressing im portance that has been pending sinci his arrival at Sagamore Hill the pres ident will give more time hencefortfc to visitors. A few callers will be re ceived almost every day. Members ol the international arbitration confer-, ence which is to be held in St. Louil in the next ten days will be received at the White House on September 24 The delegates will be the guests of th nation while In this country, congreni having appropriated $50,000 for theil entertainment. Many of the delegate already have arrived in this country and others are expected in a day ol two. The president's letter of acceptanc was taken to New York last night bj Assistant Secretary Barnes and placed in the hands of a printer. It will re quire several days to make It ready foi distribution and publication. I-ielter Begins Coal Rate War. Carbondale, 111., Aug. 31. Bellevlni he has won a victory over the United Mine Workers, Joseph Leiter, through the ZieIer Coal company, has secured the contract for furnishing 600 tons of coal daily to the Armour packing plant in Chicago at a reduction oi more than 10 per cent below the price of the Williamson County Coal com- pany of Johnston city. This Is lie. lieved to be the beginning of a wai between Leiter and the other southern Illinois operators. Chicago and Return $20.00 via Santa Fe. Tickets on sale June 1st to Sept 30th, final limit returning Oct. lst Good via St. Louis in one direction, either going or coming. For full in formation address T. L. King, C. P. A T. A.. Tooeka. Handy to Have About the House To Cure Tha Ills Of 11 The Family By Using A Pill in time is a wonderfully good thing and saves -many a fit of sickness. Every person, young or old, needs a little help often to put their systems right. 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