The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
September 27, 1904

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EVERYBODY EVERYBODY 1Q PAGES 10 PAGES READS IT. NEEDS IT. I LAST EDITION. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. TUESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. P FEAST AND TALK. That I the Programme Copeland Tonight. at Santa Fe Yiitors to Be Glren W elcome. 3IR. MILLS TO PRESIDE. Fresidentof Commercial Club Will Be Toastmaster. California Limited Is Made a Daily Train. Mr. Meholson Fixed This and Left for Chicago. The banquet for the Santa Fe traffic and operating officials at the Copeland hotel will be griven tonight by the Com mercial club. The dining room will be T. Nicholson, Vaffic Mange trf-Uw ima He, "Who Has Been Attending the Meeting- t Officials. taxed to Its capacity. About 75 Santa Fe men will be In attendance and an equal number of local members of the Commercial club will attend. The following programme of toasts has been arranged to be gIVen at the banquet: The Commercial club, W. W. Mills, president. Address of welcome. Mayor Bergund tha' "The Santa Fe and It's Relation to Topeka." W. S. Biddle. "The Arkansas Valley," G. E. Oyer. "Once a Topekan Now an Indian," H. A. Tie. Denver: or What Kansas Lost," C. H. Morehouse. "General Results," R. M. Baxter. "The Noodle Story," F. H. Mantera, Music by the Modoc club and Am (kion Mandolin club. George T. Nicholson, passenger traf fic manager of the Santa Fe system was unable to remain in Topeka for the banquet tonight and went to St. Louis today. His trip here was principally to dis cuss with W.- J. Black, the general pas senger agent of the Santa Fe. the mat ter of changing the leaving time of the westbound California limited at Kan sas City. It has been decided to make the Cali fornia Limited a daily train instead of a semi-weekly train when the new time t-jtrri ciws into effect on November IX The only change which will be made In the schedule will be that the Cali fornia Limited westbound will leave Kansas City at 8:45 in the morning instead- of at 8:10 in the morning as it does at present. This change will make It through Topeka at 10:20 o'clock in the morning instead of at 9:50 as here tofore. The train will leave Chicago at e mime time as it has heretofore 7:30 o'clock in the evening and will arrive at Los Angeles and San Francisco at tne tame time as the present schedule calls for. ti rhann is made in the schedule at Kansas City for the purpose of giving California travelers who make connec tions with the Santa Fe at Kansas City and who come into Kansas City from ether lines from Iowa. Missouri and Ne braska a better service. During the winter months the trains which are scheduled to arrive in Kan sas City in the early morning from points in the states above referred to are sometimes late, and as a conse quence California passengers who de sired to use the Santa Fe's California Limited would have to wait in Kansas City a whole day. By making the leaving time later In Kansas City all connections can be made without inconvenience and the tialf or three-quarters of an hour loss of time worked up on the schedule of the trip through Kansas. W. B. Biddle. freight traffic manager .r th. snnta Fe svstem. arrived here t noon today and lunched at the Copeland hotel with J. R. Koontz. general freight agent, Geo. T. Nichol son J. S. Bartle, general eastern agent at New York, C. H. Morehouse of Den ver and J. C. Burnett of Newton, Kan. Mr. Biddle came to Topeka direct from Chicago. He will give an infor mal talk before the members of the Commercial club and the Santa Fe men at the banquet tonight. Mr. Bid dle was surprised to learn today upon reaching Topeka that he was expected to talk. "I am not prepared to start out speech-making." he declared. However upon learning that the af fair was Informal to a degree he con sented to make the short talk desired. The office of General Freight Agent J. R- Koontz at the Santa Fe general office building- and the lobby of. the Copeland hotel are both thronged with railroad men. They are all talking shop. It is about all they can talk. A stranger getting mixed up with the bunch would soon become confused at the maze of talk about intricate phases of freight rates. Junction points, tariffs, shipping instructions and the hundred and one other details of the business. F. H. Manter, of Chicago can clev erly imitate a German dialect and his Noodle story will be well worth listen ing to tonight. C. H. Morehouse, division freight agent at Denver, who will respond to the toast, "Denver: or What Topeka Lost." is a genial fellow who thinks that Colorado is the only place. He has been given fair warning that if he says anything derogatory to Kansas tonight that he will be thrown out. But then he won't. He is another of the formerly from Kansas men. You find them everywhere, and although he is for Colorado first and last, he cannot lose his friendly feeling for Kansas. F. L. Conrad, general agent of Amarillo, Texas, is here and he can't find enough words for praising his sec tion of the country, the Pecos valley. Conrad is a great friend of Jerry Simpson of Kansas. who went to Roswell. "The Pecos valley Is about 50 or 60 miles wide," he said, "and is about a hundred miles long. It is a most fertile valley. All kinds of friut Is grown there. Last week we shipped 200 car loads of apples from Amaril lo. The country is being developed very rapidly now that we have irriga tion. We Irrigate in that country from artesian wells. We have one well that I know of which flows 3,100 gallons a minute, and all the wells average from bOO to 3,000 gallons a minute. Many I city, and with an extension in its fran of these wells have been flowing con- chise will no doubt continue to be one stantly for 15 years and have not given i of the great industries of which To out. Practically all the government j peka is proud. But the rights of the land within reach of the irrigation city must be protected, and an ade ditches has been claimed and is im- quate compensation must be secured possible to get. There is much land j for placing this great public utility in in that section, however, that is owned the hands of a private corporation for by companies and immigration to that the next thirty years. valley is very brisk. We have large It may be too early to criticise the cattle interests, and the country is l various provisions of the proposed productie of the crops for feeding I franchise ordinance which Mr. Mul cattle. Yes, we have one of the best I vane has distributed amone the mem- places in the world to live." H. R. Teasdale. of Oklahoma City, general agent of the freight depart ment, is the boll-weavil man. Mr. Teasdale looks after the cotton inter ests of the Santa Fe and he always carries around a few specimens of the boll-weavil in his grip to give away as souvenirs to his friends and the people he meets. Teasdale Is ery proud of a record made in his Jurisdiction last week. A special trainload of cotton was forwarded from Milano to Galves ton, a distance of 167 miles. The cotton was loaded on the train at the com pressor at Milano early in the morn ing after sunrise and the run made to Galvestcn, where the cotton was trans ferred from the train to a steamboat before sunset. Ell Titus, general livestock agent of Kansas City, is also here. Mr. Titus reports that since the packing house strike Is over, the road Is with difficul ty handling all the livestock offered for shipment. F. L. Smythmyer, of Lawrence, was here yesterday, visiting J. R. Koontz, at the general office building. He cam down with a story of a catch of a 7 pound bass at Lake View. This is somewhat better than any story told by Topeka visitors to the lake and is quite likely to result in the local fisher men making an attempt to land some thing bigger. J. J. Devereaux is here from Cali fornia. In addition to looking after the Santa Fe freight Interests he is the rep resentative of a line of steamboats which have recently been put Into service on the Sacramento river. W. R. Brown, of El Paso, says that he did not bring his shooting Irons with him on this trip. He feels safe to travel without them upon reaching civilization. Brown is devoting a great deal of atten tion to the matter of fence posts for the farmer's use in New Mexico and parts of Texas. A great deal of dam age seems to result to the fence posts from the heavy mountain storms and the subject of indestructible iron fence posts is one which is attracting no lit tle attention. Mr. Brown is said to be the author of a very comprehensive re port on the uses and advantages of a certain brand of iron posts. G. A. Aird, the general agent of Chi cago, reached Topeka this morning. Mr. Aird had nothing but adjectives to use In talking about his business at Chicago. He said: "It keeps seventeen of us busy there all the time to keep pace with the business." Weather Indications. Chicngo. Sept. 27. Forecast for Kan sas: Partly cloudy with showers ana thunder storms tonight and in east por tion Wednesday; cooler Wednesday; winds shifting to northwest. FOR 30YEAR LIFE Edison Electric Company Asks for New Franchise. Campaign Has Been Mad With Councilmen. IS KEPT VERY QUIET. Canrass Has Been Conducted With Secrecy. Proposed to Gire Consumers 25 -Per Cent Reduction. Terms of Ordinance Which Will Be Introduced. At the council meeting on Oct. 3, the Kdison Electric Illumination com pany expects to apply for a new 30 year franchise to do business in the city of Topeka, and to offer a 25-per cent reduction in rates. The com pany's present franchise will expire on Jan. 25, 1906. Copies of the proposed new fran chise have been placed In the hands of each member of the city council, and Joab Mulvane, one of the officers of the Edison company, has been in terviewing the various councilmen and explaining 'what is wanted. The af fair has been managed very secretly. It has been being gradually urged upon the members of the council for several weeks past. Mr. Mulvane was not inclined to be communicative about the matter today. He said: "We expect to ask for a new fran chise, perhaps at the next council meeting. The franchise has not been drawn up, and we are not prepared to say just what it will contain. It will offer a reduction in rates on both light and power. As soon as we are ready, I shall be glad to explain the pro visions of the franchise fully to the public. The work so far has been done with the city council. If the Edison company can line up the council, it can afford to let the public wait for its information about the proposed new franchise. There is nothing in the new ordi nance about the minimum monthly charge. The company now renders no bills for less than $1.50 a month, and the customer has to pay that much at least whether he uses any electric light or not. Of course this is not right. The Customer should pay for what he gets. The company offers to reduce the price of electricity from 1 cent per hour for a 16-candle power light to H cent per nour for the same amount of electricity. When asked today whether the same reduction applies to power as to light, Mr. Mulvane said: "We sell light and power on the same basis. There is no difference In our standard of measurement." The Edison company is now supply ing all the electricity used by the city railway, and its business has developed remarkaoiy auring the past few years. It has built up a splendid slant in this hers of the city council, because Mr. Mulvane himself says that no fran chise has been drawn up. Before the final draft of the ordinance comes be fore the council, some changes may be made by the Edison company's attor neys. The Franchise in Full. As it now stands, the proposed ordi nance is as follows: Air ordinance authorizing the Edi son Electric Illuminating company of Topeka. its successors and assigns, to build, maintain and operate a plant to furnish electric light, power and heat and to use the streets and alleys of the city of Topeka for said purposes. Whereas, the Edison Electric Illuminating company of Topeka, an existing corporation under the laws of the state of Kansas, is now doing business under Its charter in the city of Topeka in conformity with a fran chise heretofore granted by the mayor and council of said city of Topeka. the said company having invested a large sum of money in its buildings, ma chinery, poles, wires, conduits, pipes. appurtenances and appliances for the carrying on of the business of manu facturing, producing and transmitting to its customers light, power and heat, the said company desiring to continue the said business and to increase, en large and extend its plant and facili ties so that it may promptly meet the increasing demands of the public for service, and to this end and for all the above named purposes, the said Edi son Electric Illuminating company of Topeka requests that a new contract or franchise ordinance be made be- tweeen the said city of Topeka and said Edison Electric Illuminating com pany of Topeka. Whereas It is desirable that such new franchise ordinance or contract be made and entered into by the said city of To peka and said Edison Electric Illum inating company of Topeka. Now, therefore, be it ordained by the mayor and councilmen of the city of To peka: Section 1. That the right to use any of the alleys and streets and parks and to cj-oss any bridges of the said city for the erection, construction. placing, maintaining, operation and use of such Doles and wires, cables, conduits, pipes. and appliances as are now used by the said Edison Electric Illuminating com pany of Topeka. and such as may here after be needed in the extended con struction, maintenance and use of a plant and system for the manufacture and production of electricity and for the supply and transmission of light, power and heat, and 'the right to main tain and operate such said plant and system as are now established together with such extensions, additions and im provements as may hereafter be added thereunto within the city of Topeka. is hereby granted to the Edison Electric Illuminating company of Topeka. and to its successors and assigns, a corpora tion organized under the laws of the state of Kansas, for a. period of thirty years from and after tne date of the publication of this ordinance in the offi cial city newspaper. Sec. 2. That said electric lines, poles, wires, cables, conduits, and pipes and appliances, either above: or under ground shall be so erected, laid, placed or constructed and managed as not to obstruct the use of any of said streets, alleys, parks or public ways, or inter fere with the public use, work or travel on the streets, alleys, or public ways of said city, and so as not to interfere with or prevent any .-drainage, sewer age, sidewalk, crossing or other public improvement, whether now; existing or hereafter constructed. The poles, wires, cables,: conduits and pipes shall, wherever placed, laid or erected upon the pubMc streets, alleys. ways and thoroughfares, be constructed under the direction of the city engineer of the city of Topeka and. they shall be located and placed at such places as the mayor and council direct. Said wires and cables, where overhead con struction is made, shall be not less than 25 feet above the established grade of the street, alley, park, or thoroughfare upon which they are: placed and all poles shall be firmly placed, and all ex cavations for the location placing and construction of said poles, wires, cables, conduits and pipes shall be under the direction of the city engineer. Sec. 3. That the Edison Electric Il luminating company of Topeka shall at all times during the; erection of its works of every kind and character and in the operation and use of the same, hold the city of Topeka harmless against any and all damages that may be caused to any person-or persons by reason of the construction and opera tion of its said plant or works. Sec. 4. That nothing in his ordinance shall be construed so as to prevent the city from ordering all wires and ca bles placed under ground at any time the city council shall deem the same to be for the best interests of the city. In case any wires are placed under ground the same shall be done under the direction of the city engineer of said city and at such place or places and in such manner as -may be direct ed by the mayor and council of said city. Sec. 5. This ordinance shall not be construed to authorize -Ihe- exclusive use of any street, alley, "ark, or public thoroughfare for the purposes or uses named in this ordinance. Sec. 6. That if the said Edison Elec tric illuminating company of Topeka shall at anv time fail, neglect, or re fuse -to comply with the provisions of this ordinance, and shall continue m such default for 90' days after notice shall have been served upon them as hereinafter provided, the said Edison Electric Illuminating company oi 10 peka shall, at the election of said city, forfeit all rights, powers and priv leges to it by this ordinance granted by proceedings on the part of said city of Topeka as follows: Before the city proceeds to forfeit said, franchise as in this section pro vided; it shall first serve a written no tice upon the president or secretary of said Electric Illuminating company of Topeka, and upon the trustee or trus tees in any trust deed now existing or that may hereafter exist, securing.the bonds of said company which is of record in Shawnee county, Kansas, set ting forth in detail the neglect or fail ure complained of,, and said company shall have ninety days thereafter in which to begin thATwork incident and necessary to compliance with the provisions of this ordinance, neglect or failure to comply with which: is com plained of, and shall comply with such provisions within a reasonable time thereafter;, and in case of a failure or neglect to- begin work incident and necessary to such compliance for a period beyond said ninety days, the city may by ordinance duly passed, declare this franchise forfeited. Provided, that in case of a dispute between said Edison Electric Illumin ating company of Topeka and said city, as to whether said Edison Electric Il luminating company of Topeka has failed, neglected or refused to comply with any of the provisions of this ordi nance, said dispute shall first be set tled by proper action in the courts brought for that purpose, before the city shall have the right to proceed hereunder to forfeit said franchise. Sec. 7. That the said Edison Elec tric Illuminating company of Topeka, from and after accepting this fran chise and as consideration for the rights and privileges and franchises hereby granted, shall, during the month of July, 1905, and during the months of January and July each year, thereafter during the life of this fran chise, file with the city clerk of said city a verified report covering the business of said company for the pre ceding six months, which report shall show the total amount of capital in vested in the plant, and the total re rfeceipts from each and every depart ment of its business, and the total amount of expenditures made for all purposes; also a report of improve ments made and the cost thereof; and shall annually from and after accept ing this ordinance and franchise pay into the city treasury of the city of Topeka ten per cent of its annual net earnings over and above ten per cent earned by the company upon its in vestment: and the rate charged any customer in the city of Topeka for in candescent lighting shall not exceed three-fourths of one cent per six teen lib) candle power lamp per hour, and in consideration thereof, all con tracts, rights, privileges, licenses and franchises hereby granted to said Ed ison Electric Illuminating company of Topeka shall continue in force for a period of thirty (30) years from and after the date of the publication of this ordinance in the official city news paper. The mayor and council of the city of Topeka shall at all times during the ex istence of this grant, contract and franchise, have the right by ordinance to fix a reasonable schedule of maxi-' mum rates to be charged by the said Edison Electric Illuminating company of Topeka, within said city, provided, however, that said Mayor and council shall at no time fix a Tate that will prohibit said company from earning at least 10 per cent upon its capital in vested in said city of Topeka. over and above its reasonable operating ex penses and the expense of maintenance and taxes. Sec. 8. Said Edison Electric Illumi nating company of Topeka shall have the right to make all reasonable rules and regulations for the prevention of loss or waste in the conduct and man agement of its business and the sale and distribution of its products to its customers as may from time to time be deemed necessary. Sec. 9. That upon the termination of said franchise at the conclusion of said period of thirty years, the said city of Topeka may acquire title to the grant, rights and privileges as well as all the property of the said Edison Electric Illuminating company of To peka. in the manner followins, that is to say, the said city of Topeka may npon the termination of this grant, file a petition in the district court of (Continued on Page Six.) AOVANGEGHECKED General Shakaroff Beports Re pulse of Japanese. Were Forced to Retreat Along Their Whole Line. PURSUED BY CAVALRY Increased Force in the Yicinity ofSiancban. Japanese Cavalry in the Valley of the Liao Hirer. Dispatches from St. Petersburg today express the belief that if Kuropatkin intends to try and hold Mukden fight ing may be expected almost immedi ately. Oyama's armies now cover a front of 60 miles, his wing extending to he northward, east and west of Mukden. A rapid advance of both wings is expected when he is preparca to close the net. So far there has been no heavy fighting. Tokio remains si lent on the military situation and no word comes from the Japanese side. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27. The gen eral staff has received the following dispatch from General Sakharoff, dat ed yesterday: "The enemy's vanguard, consisting of one battalion and two squadrons of cavalry, has assumed the offensive, probably for a reconnaissance, in the district between the Mandarin road and the heights of the village of Toumytsa. His advance was stopped by our troops. The enemy retreated along the whole line, pursued by our cavalry. The enemy has not yet ad vanced north of Davan, on the left bank of the Liao river, but an in creased force has been observed in the neighborhood of Sianchan. Jap anese cavalry have appeared in the valley of the Liao river." Coal Pile Still There. London, Sept. 27. TelejrraDhinsr from Chefoo the correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "Photographs received from Port Arthur which were taken as late as September 34, show that piles of coal stacked on the Tigers tail at the beginning of the war are still there." Lack of Discipline. London, Sept. 27. The Daily Mail Liao Yang correspondent says: The discovery in abandoned Russian head quarters here of a number of docu ments and orders from Viceroy Alexieflf cashiering officers for abandoning po sitions and for drunkenness, etc., and censuring officers for lawless treatment of Chinese, proves an amazing lack of discipline in General Kuropatkin's army. t Japanese Courtesy. St. Petersburg. Sept. 27. A private letter from a person on board the Rus sian hospital ship Mongolia at Port Arthur describing the fight following Rear Admiral Withoff's sortie pays a tribute to the courtesy and considera tion shown- by the Japanese. The Mon golia was twice cut off from the squad ron, but the Japanese signaled her to steer to the left, which she did. Once the Mongolia was between two fires and frequently Japanese torpedo boats passed quite close to her, but she "was not attacked throughout the fight and returned safely to Port Arthur. Praise for tne Commissariat. London, Sept. 27. A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says the Kussky Invalid publishes a. tela gram from General Kuropatkin prais ing the Work of the commissariat corps, which the emperor endorsed as follows: "I have read with sincere pleasure the opinion of the commander-in-chief on the perfect manner in which the com missariat officers fulfilled their duties.' Japanese Lost 1,300 in One Night. London, Sept. 27. A telegram to a local news agency from St. Petersburg says a dispatch has been received by the official news agency there from Harbin, saying that the Japanese lost 1.300 killed during the night attack on Port Arthur, September 18. The Rus sian warships, it is added, rendered val uable assistance in repulsing the Japa nese. Fought With Bean Cakes. Chefoo. Sept. 27. 10 p. m. Two Jap anese torpedo boat destroyers were ob served outside the harbor of Chefoo to night. A Junk which left Liato promon tory last night and which arrived here tonight reports having seen one torpedo boat near Chefoo. Another junk carrying a Russian, his wife and two children, was stopped last night by the Japanese vessel, but ow ing to the great distance the treatment which the Russian received could not be observed. Chinese say that the battle which be gun September 19 continued intermit tently until September 24. In defending one fort the Russians rolled bean cakes down on the massed Japanese. These bean cakes are very heavy and are pressed into the shape of circular grind stones. Russia's New Commander-in-Chief. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27. 1:15 p. m. Although an official announcement to the effect is not expected immedi ately since it will require some little "time to get Russia's second army in the field, the designation of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, the in spector general of cavalry as commander-in-chief, is regarded as prac tically settled. The situation at the front with two and perhaps ultimately three big armies is considered to de mand above all else that the supreme commander be of such personal au thority as to be beyond jealousies and the possibility of intrigue on the part of subordinates and such a man the emperor now realizes can only be sup plied by a member of the imperial family. Grand Duke Nicholas Is re garded as being extremely well fitted for this great responsibility. Grand Duke Nicholas will not rely upon a single adviser but on a staff compris ing the ablest strategists of the general staff, who in reality constitute a board of direction of military operations. Viceroy Alexieff is regarded as al most certain to return here. The re port that he may become chancellor of the empire, however, is exploded. He is more likely to retain his title and come to St. Petersburg nominally in the capacity of adviser of the emperor and will thus efface himself as a fac tor of the military situation in the far east. TROUBLE FOR WRIGHT. Is Caused by the Agitation of Filipino Independence, He Says. Washington, Sept. 27. President Roosevelt is in receipt of a letter from Luke Wright, governor of the Philip pines, in which the governor discusses frankly some of the conditions whicn he encountered in directing the govern ment of the Island. Under date of Au gust 15 General Wright wrote in part: "The effect of the continued discus sion as to the capacity of the Philipino for self government and his immediate or ultimate independence is having its effect here and makes our task more difficult than it otherwise would be. The less a man is equipped with intel ligence and those qualities which make for good citizenship the more easily can he be persuaded that he is the possessor of all these qualities. These people have their full share of ambition and vanity and they also have their full share of reckless, half formed characters who are ready for intrigue in any direction which promises them profit or power. It is this class which has largely given force and direction to the Aglipayan movement and has recruited its ranks from the ignorant and dangerous ele ments. "In this general connection I may say to you as a matter of information that the agitation in the United States for Filipino independence and spoken and written utterances of prominent men there who are urging it are all brought here and published in the native news papers and are being made the text for editorials insisting that the Filipino people are now ready to become an in dependent nation. The effect of all this is distinctly injurious. Its tendency is to restore the influence of the old in- Real Estate Building Bought by C. J. Devlin for'$30,000 for the Catholic Church. surrection leaders and to make them active in preaching the old propaganda. This in turn has the effect of demoraliz ing and weakening the more conserva tive and thoughtful Filipinos who fear that if they speak out as they really think they would be considered the en emies of their people and lose their prestige with them. Those of the more prominent and best educated and who naturally have their ambitions are in clined to Join in the general cry." JOY AT MONTEVIDEO. End of Revolution Celebrated With Fi reworks. Buenos Ayres. Sept. 27. There is great rejoicing in Montevideo over the ending of the revolution. Fireworks were burned Sunday night and bands paraded the streets playing patriotic airs. Five thousand citizens made a demonstration in front of the presidential residence. The president toasted the union of all Uru guayans. Archbishop Soler has ordered a Te Deum in the cathedral. All political prisoners will be set at liberty. In the meantime the revolution in Paraguay is progressing, though there is no reliable information from the scene. It is under stood that the revolutionists are gaining. BOOKER WASHINGTON HOPEFl'L. Sees an Improved Public Sentiment Regarding Lynching:. New York, Sept. 27 Booker T. Wash ington, president of the Tuskogee insti tute, has addressed the Brjtifcklyn in stitute of arts and sciences ait Associa tion hall, Brooklyn, on his work among fellow negroes. In speaking of recent lynchings in the south he said: "Within the last few weeks a public sentiment stronger and more deeply rooted. I think than ever before has gone forth from the words and actions of governors, the daily press, the pul pit, confederate veterans and grand juries which is saying in thunderous tones that we as a nation, must not only be hearers of the words which teach us to protect the weak, but we must be doers when it comes to an im portant enforcement of the law. "A white man can not shoot down a negro without cause and not lower himself. A mob of white men can not lynch a negro and not bring shame on themselves fend their race." FLIRTING IN CHURCH Calls Forth Denunciation From Dean LeFroy in England. New York, Sept. 2 7. Dean LeFroy, preaching in the historic cathedral of Norwich, has denounced, says a Her ald dispatch from London, flirting be tween the young men and women in the sacred edifice during service. "I ask you," said the dean to the congregation, "to pray that conduct which would not be tolerated in the theater or the concert room may not be permitted or Indulged in within these walls, hallowed by the prayers of eight hundred years. I ask you to save this ancient shrine and this still more ancient city from such a scan dal, reproach and disgrace. I have taken means of a legal kind to prevent this, but I prefer to rely upon the moral support of those who love these services." Fleet May Break Ont. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27.-1:45 A. M. The naval organ Kotkin today publish es an article predicting that Rear Ad miral Wiren will attempt to break out of Port Arthur with his ships and return to Europe. The paper admits that the task of escaping from Admiral Togo appears to be hopeless if one takes for comparison Admiral Cerevns' attempt to get away from Santiago, but adds that -Wiren's men, unlike the Spanish have had plenty of war ex DEVLINJJETS it. Buys Real Estate Building for $30,000. Will Be Turned. Orer to the Catholic Church. USED BY A SOCIETY. Will Be Headquarters for the Knights of Columbus. Church Now Owns Entire Half a Block. C. J. Devlin today bought the- real estate building at the corner of Sev enth and Jackson streets for SS0.00A from Ira M. Cobe of Chicago for thl Knights of Columbus, a soi&etjr of th church. Some time ago Mr. Devlin, bought the four lots Just south of thi building and deeded them to a Topeka, lawyer, also prominent in the Catholia church for the church. Several year ago he also bought the lots adjacet to the parochial school and placed then in the name of another Topeka at-, torney for the church. This gives the Church of the As sumption complete control over Just one-half of one of the most valuable blocks In the. city, having at one end, the chflrch and the parsonag and at the other the Real Estate building with the lots in between. Just to what use the latter will be put has not yet' been decided upon. The Real Estate building will be used principally by the Catholic church societies, although the lower, floor will in all likelihood, as usual, be rented for office purposes. The structuie was built by H. E. Ball and C. O. Knowles for the City Real Estate Trust com pany. The latter concern was dis solved three years ago and since that time the building has been rented for office purposes. It was the home of the Kansas Mutual and is now Kansas headquarters for its successor, the Illi nois Mutual Life Insurance company. It is one of the best office buildings in Topeka. MORE RETRENCHMENT. Rock Island Locomotive Shops Closed Down at Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 27 The Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad company to day practically closed down its car and locomotive shops here. One hundred and fifty men were thrown out of work. The union boilermakers employed in the shops had made demands for high er wages a few days before the shut down came. "General Superintendent of Motlva Power Reed, however, denied that the shut down was in any way attributable to the demands or organized labor. "The move is for economy in operat ing," said the official. "The work that has been stopped at the Chicago plant will be done for the present at the shops at Moline, 111. PEOPLE STILL SWELTERING.' Uncomfortably Hot Weather In Kan sas Continues. So far there has been no relief from the torrid weather and Monday the mercury at McPherson went up to 98 while In Topeka it was 90 and swelteringly hot. The maximum and minimum tem peratures recorded for the 24 hours ending this morning at 7 o'clock were: Baker, 82, 66: Concordia, 86. 70r Dodge City, 9 2, 64; Dresden, 90. 66; Ft. Scott, 90, 68; Macksville, 98, 64; McPherson, 96, 64; Osage City, 9 4, 64; Russell, 96. 58; Sedan, 90, 70; To peka, 90, 69; Wichita. 96. 70. The rains recorded during the past 24 hours were: Concordia, .01: Dodge City, .32: Macksville, .16; McPherson, 1.82; Russell, .04. Today's corn and wheat region bul letin says: "The weather was cloudy or partly cloudy over Kansas and western Missouri this morning. High temperatures prevail except in north eastern Kansas and northwestern Mis souri. Showers have fallen In south western and middle Kansas with a heavy rain at McPherson." The government forecast sent out today for Kansas is "partly cloudy with showers and thunder storms to night and in east portion Wednesday. Cooler Wednesday." The wind at noon was southwest blowing 10 miles art hour. The temperature began this morning at 7 o'clock three degrees higher than on Monday morning, the hourly temperatures recorded being: 7 o'clock 75111 o'clock 84 8 o'clock 78112 o'clock 8 7 9 o'clock 80 1 o'clock 8 9 10 o'clock 8 2 1 2 o'clock. 89 Wind 15 miles, son th west, at 2 p. m.

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2 THE TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAX., TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. KANSAS NEWS. Will the Price or Oil Go Now, Up or Down Producers 8aj It's Time to Change One IT ay or Other. QUARTERLY DIVIDEND. In This Respect 29 Per Cent Is Paid So Far. More Good Wells Are Being Brought In Dally. Coffey ville Sept. '.The Record ays: About the customary length of time has elapsed the local producers think ao that they may begin to look for a change ia the price of the stuff that made Rockefeller famous. Whether the price will go up or down, "that is the question" that disturbes the slumbers of the men who have oil for sale. Al though they look on the head of the great oil company as a big tin god they like to become seml-sacreligious and use the name of the captain of indus try In a sarcastic way. The price of oil. some of them say, is bound to come up Just as soon as John learns bout that pipe line that is being sur veyed through from Galveston, and the numerous refineries that are going up oer the country. Others ave that when he hears of it he will drop the price, let the pipe lines be built then wallow the whole concern In one big hungry gulp. As a matter of fact the Standard Oil company is not loosing a great amount in the field. Stockholders have received checks for amounts representing 5 ner cent of xneir noiamgs. mis oeing tne quarter ly dividend declared last month. This makes 29 per cent to be paid in divi dends so far this year. The capital stock of the company amounts fo 97, 600.000 and the amount distributed to day was $4,875,000. of which sum John X. Rockefeller received (1.950,0041 In the local field yesterday can be aid to have been an even break. No wells were shot. Two good ones and two dusters were the day's record. The Kansas Pert oleum company brought in their No. 1 on the Dilley land yesterday. ."ie Kansas Petroleum company, it will be remembered, is the concern doing the great advertising in Kansas City papers. Twenty or 25 stockholders of the company are com ing down from Kansas City to see the well shot. IS MENTALLY DERANGED. A W ichita Man Wanted to Write an Opera on Christian Science. Wichita, Kan., Sept. 27. Charles Lewis Lloyd is confined in the deten tion room at the county jail, where he will be kept until arrangements have been made with his friends in Kansas City. Mo., for his removal to some place of rest and treatment Until late Saturday night Lloyd gave no Indica tions of being mentally deranged. He visited the oflice of a telegraph com pany and sent various messages all over the country to churches and lodges. About midnight Saturday night he went to the office, inquired about his messaged and left. At 6 o'clock Sunday morning he returned, asked for paper and began to write. As he wrote he sang. "I am compos ing an opera. My mother has Just re covered from a long illness and a period of feeble-mindedness of over twenty years. She has been cured by Christian Science, and I have been inspired to write an opera with that as the theme." he explained. He wrote steadily for two hours and a half, singing constantly. The first message was addressed to the Temple lodge No. 299. A. F. and A. M., Kan sas City. The next was to Mrs. Laura Lathrop of the First Christian Science church of New York city. It was as follows: "We need help, assistance and strength at once. We ask in the name of the ther. Son and Holy Ohost, Amen. 'Will come tomorrow immediately at the eleventh hour. Arter working for more than two hours, writing all the time at a furi ous pace. Lloyd fell from his chair and lay stretched out on the floor of the office. He was removed to a padded ceii. ai times tne young man seems to be rational and is never violent. In nis mental wandering he confuses Ma onry and Christian Science. The last words he wrote were: "Forget what wb wanted to write. We are so sick. Among the telegrams were some to tne Koycrorters in New York, to Kansas City paper, to Mother Nichols in tirand island, Neb., to the Curtis Publishing Co., and to Hexter, a He brew rabbi in Grand Island. WHERE DID THE BEER GO? Confiding Beloit Sheriff's Confidence Is Abused. Beloit. Kas., Sept. 27. The people of Cawker City, a Mitchell county town, will not tolerate an open saloon. Sheriff J. C Eresch was told that I-Tanlc Leggett was selling booze in that town contrary to the prohibitory law. Armed with the necessary papers he went to Cawker City and found his man in a room blockaded with a number of empty cases and a few filled ones. He read him the warrant, and Leggett surrendered at once, the sheriff returning with him to Beloit. Before leaving Cawker City the sheriff saw the snakebite medicine safely loaded in a wagon, to be hauled to Beloit for safe keeping. He ad monished the driver who was to haul the wet goods to Beloit to be sure and deliver the goods In good shape to the Jail in Beloit. Arriving in this city about midnight, he found the driver in a hilarious state and hurrahing for both political tickets. On examlna- I give him his Mellin's Food and he sleeps til morning." How many mothers can say this of their babies? If your baby does not sleep well it may be that he is not properly fed. A poorly nourished baby is a poor sleeper. Mellin's Food babies are good sleepers. Our book the Care ft Feeding of Infants," sent free of charge. HELLIN S FOOD CO., BOSTON, MASS. tlon of the contents of the wagon, the driver explained that a crowd of toughs attacked the wagon and stole the greater part of the contents, and by the time he reached Beloit about all that was left in the wagon were the empty cases. WICHITA ACTS ALARMED. The Kansas Town Fears Mrs. Nation Will Make Good Her Threat. Wichita, Kaa., Sept. 27. Mrs. Na tion's proclamation urging her sym pathizers to meet here Wednesday is looked upon somewhat seriously in this city. The tall carnival opened here Monday. Today the W. C. T. U. state convention win convene and many temperance workers will be here, sev eral weeks ago. Mrs. Myra McHenry, a follower of the Medicine Lodge sa loon smasher, promised Wichita that another crusade was coming, and Mrs. Nation's proclamation is taken to mean more than an empty promise. C. L. Davidson, a member of St. Paul's M. E. church, was to have made the address of welcome to the W. T T. V. convention, but yesterday Mrs. Mc Henry served notice upon both him and Mayor MqLean that if either of them attempted to make a speech to the convention she would publicly de nounce him. At church she distrib uted circulars giving what purported to be Mr. Davidson's history as a coun cilman. Mr. Davidson said that he might not make the address. He is a candidate for the nomination for mayor next spring. Atchison's Coal Shaft. It looks as though Atchison will raise the additional hundred thousand dollars necessary to put the coal shaft in com plete operation. The subscriptions al ready amount to about $50,000. A ba ker walked into the office of the coal company today, and subscribed for $2, 000 of stock. The voluntary subscrip tions yesterday amounted to $4,500. Within a year this stock will be paying more than double the usual rates of interest. Within five years, the stock now being subscribed will probably aouDie in value. me proposition is really a very good one. Subscribers to this stock will not only help the town but help themselves. That's the hpt way to be enterprising. Atchison Jlobe. EAST EIGHTH IS OPEN. Half of the Pavement Completed. Has Been Hanley Ritchie have completed the w ork of paving the west one half of the East Eighth avenue job. The street is now open for traffic as far east as Lake street. Haskins Ramsey will begin the work of paving the east half of the street on Thursday. Their first work will be between Locust street and the cemetery, so that this portion of the street may be opened, and give a better means of entrance to the cemetery. The remainder between Locust and Lake streets will be rushed through and will probably be completed by the first of November. The grading is all com pleted, the sub-grade has been rolled, and the sand is nearly all in. Most of the brick is also on the ground. The. paving of East Eighth is one of the most Important and useful Jobs of paving which has been done in Topeka for a long time. It opens up another beautiful ride, from the center of town to the cool shade of the Topeka ceme tery, without the disadvantage of rough roads which has heretofore been a great nuisance to the hackmen and under take who have frequent occasion to use the road. SOLDIERS BADLY HURT While Firing a Big Gun at Target Practice. New York, Sept. 27. An accident which is likely to result in the death of two soldiers in the regular army has oc euvred during target practice at Fort Mott. N. J., near Salem. Robert Steward and John Tipton, two cannoneers, were engaged in hoisting a thousand pound projectile from the magazine when the chain of the elevator leading to one of the large disappearing guns Drone. Tipton and Steward became entangled in the chain and were dashed repeated ly against tne Dig gun before tne ma chinery could be stopped. Steward re ceived a horrible gash in the neck, near ly severing his head. One leg was broken and his shoulder was crushed. Tipton's legs were broken and he was injured internally. KANSAS FAIRS EN 1904. Following is a list of fairs to be held in Kansas in 190. their dates, locations and secretaries, as reported to the stat board of agriculture and compiled by Secretary F. D. Coburn: Harvey County Agricultural Society Jefferson County Poultry and Pet Btock C. H. Rhodes. jude; E. W. Kaufman, Bee re tar y Miami County Agricultural and Me chanical Fair Association H. A. Floyd, secretary, Paola; Sept. 27-30. Neosho County lair Association H. Ij3de. secretary, Erie; Sept. 27-30. Npss County Agricultural Association 1. ts. remuci, oevij, tuy; Sept. Riley County Agricult ral Association K X. vvoruu, Mi-iciaij, fluey; lct. 4-6, Southern Kansas Fair and Carnivai Association cus.jui tuumyj-H. i. je sing, secretary, W lchita; Sept. its to Oct. 1. Howard Street Fair and Gas Carnival and Old Soldiers' Reunion Oct. 12-15. In California. California's climate has a cash value. The farmer builds more cheap ly, provides less expensively for stock, lays feed, uses less fuel, does not eat and burn up in winter what has taken half a year to produce. California's harvest does not hurry him. No summer rains. Grain lies unsheltered in the sack and hay in the swath. Sowing goes on from No vember to March. No "cold spells" or "late springs" hindering growth. No cyclones destroying the crop. California's lands are among the richest in the world and today are a good investment. Will yield more profit with less toil from fewer acres than under other skies. Get a copy of "The Sacramento Valley." "The San Joaquin Valley." "The Coast Country," "South of Techachapi," books of one hundred pages fully illustrated and honestly written. Free of H. G. Kail. A. G. F. P. A., Fidelity Trust Co. bldg., Kansas City. Mo. Low Rates to Northern Resorts. Excursion tickets at unusually low rates, good for the season, on sale dally to Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, Green Lake, Devil s Lake, Gogebic. Ashland, Marquette, Superior. Duluth, St. Paul, Minneapolis and many other cool and delightful lake resorts reached by The Northwestern Line. Stop-overs at tot. Louis permit visit to the World 3 fair en route. Information and tickets can be se cured from your home agent. Booklet entitled "The Lakes and Summer Re sorts of the Northwest" mailed upon receipt of 4 cents in stamps. A. L. Fisher, passenger agent, 823 Main St, Kansas City. Mo, SPORTING NEWS,

The American League Race Is Still Tery Exciting. Boston and New York in Hot Fight for Championship. BATTLE TO A FINISH. Philadelphia and Chicago Fight for Third Place. The Hub Team Is Coining Money on Borne Ground. Boston. Sept. 27. Boston and New York continue their interesting strug gle for supremacy in the American league. Last week Boston showed a bit better fc.rm than the Invaders, but the difference was slight. At present the two leading teamS in the American league seem destined to battle to the finish with hardly a pos sibility of a dark horse winning now. Philadelphia and Chicago, the two closest contenders for honors against the New York and Boston teams, showed such weakness that many of the fans think both clubs have shot their bolt so far as the American league pennant is concerned. The strain of leadership is telling on New York, and they are not play ing as consistently as they did two weeks ago. Boston, on the other hand, is show ing an improvement all along the line, and at present look to have the best chance for landing the honor or lead ing the American league. The Boston American league closed the regular season at home last Wednesday by winning a double-header from Connie Mack's Quakers. Both games were full of sensational fea tures. Jimmie Collins made a remark able jumping catch of a hot liner from Dan Murphy's bat, and turned it into a double play with the bases full and none out In the first, saving the day. In the second game Buck Freeman drove the ball over the right fence, the second time since the grounds were opened, and Al Selbach sent in the winning run in the ninth inning of the second game with a fierce drive to the extreme end of the field. As New York had given up their grounds to Columbia college for a football game Saturday, October 8, the Boston game booked for that city will be transferred to Boston. New York had one postponed game in Boston, so that a double-header will be played in Boston October 8. These games are likely to cut an Im portant figure in the American race this season. The games between the three strong eastern clubs were all fought from start to finish, showing the clubs even ly matched. Boston won four, lost four and tied two with the Quakers, Boston winning the last three games to get an even break. Six games wera. played with New York in three days, each club winning two and tying two, making for Boston six won. six. lost and four tied. The attendance was bv lone odds the largest ever known in Boston. The visit ing clubs drew as follows in round figu res: New York l2.O0 Washington 67.001 Cleveland lOaOMiSt. Louis 62.0M Chicago Athletics S.(0j Detroit 61.000 Total 691,080 The club took in about J240.000 on the home grounds. Boston crowds are generally cold to the home team, but this season warmed up and encouraged the. boys during the New York athletic series'. Playing 21 games "In 'two weeks was too much of a strain rid' several of the Bos ton men were a bit shaky, but came back in good style, and should play the best ball from now on. The best individual playing for the two series, taking all-round work, was turned in by Captain Lave Cross, the oldest play er in the major league company, the Qua ker player starting out over 20 years ago. This must be a damper to those who fig ure the man of the present superior to the past. The Quakeia will be a long time in finding as good a player as the Cleve land veteran. Charley Nichols and his St. Louis team were at the South End grounds during the last two days of athletic games, and play ed to less than 100 paid people to a game. Charley Nichols was advertised to pitch the second game, but the crowd Increased not, and the ex-Boston man refused to work, as the weather was a bit cold. Interest in the National league race has settled down into second place, with Pittsburg showing a disposition to fight as hard for second as it did once for first. Hugh Duffy is making the efforts of a life time to pull his Quaker bunch out of the last place, and coming strong with several flneyoung players on the team. Let Duffy's men play good ball and they will receive liberal support in Philadel phia.and it looks very much as if the Phillies w.-re now in a way to build up a good team. President James A. Hart has been quoted as saying his aim in life now was the scalp of one Harry Pulliam, president of the National league. Harry Is ac cused of turning a deaf ear to the league magnates on the umpire question. Now for this Mr. Pulliam should be respected for he has brought back the old organi zation to a position of respectability when the players are forced to obov the officials and the public is enjoying clean, interesting ball in both major leagues. Match O'Brien and Burns. Milwaukee, Sept. 2 7. The Badger Athletic club of this city has matched Philadelphia Jack O'Brien to meet Tommy Burns (Noah Brusso) In a six round windup on October 7. The boxing season in Milwaukee was opened last night under the auspices of the Milwaukee boxing club, with five PROOF IN TOPEKA. Should Be Decidedly .More Convincing to iopoka People Than Testimony From Vtter Strangers. The statement which follows, like all that have preceded it on this sub ject, is from Topeka. It is not from some distant corner of the union. To peka people cannot dispute testimony like this: Mrs. E. W. Griggs. No. 815 Mon roe street, says: "I suffered with kid ney complaint for two or three years, had a pain across the small of my back, and constant heavy bearing down feeling which was very annoy ing, to say the least. I took different remedies, but they did not do me much good. When I noticed Doan's Kidney Pills advertised I went to Rowley Snow's drug store, corner of Sixth street and Kansas avenue, and got a box. Before I finished it the pain left my back and there has been no re turn of it up to date." For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. T., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. This is the game racer Artful off with the rich Futurity stakes. six round bouts." The prinicpal feature was the contest between Maurice Sav ers of Milwaukee and Willie Mack of Brooklyn, at 130 pounds. Sayers re ceived a close decision after a vigorous battle. COACH BOOTH PLEASED. Thinks the Nebraska Eleven Is in Good Shape. Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 2 7. For the first time at the beginning of the sea son since he became connected with the Nebraska football team Coach Walter C. Booth has declared himself fairly well satisfied with the material he has on hand and makes the pre diction that Nebraska will show, up very well before the playing season is over. "What we need now," said the coach, "is some heavy line men with experience. Lv-have no complaint to make on the material that has ap peared, for the old men seem to have taken hold just where they left off last fall. Of the men who made up last year's winning team Bender, Benedict, Borg, Cyrus and Glen Mason, Barta, Robin son and Eager are back. The latter three were substitutes last year, but they developed varsity form and it is believed will make good. Eager is light, but fast on his feet and full of pluck. Barta, a 200-pounder, has been placed at left guard end seems to fill the niche. Borg, i -who for two seasons has played center, has, since his brief engagement with Chi cago, been switched to right guard and will probably, be a fixture there. His place at center is taken by raw material in the person of Mills, a Franklin academy youngster, who tips the scales .at 260 pounds; and who is the heaviest, man ever seen on the Nebraska field, with the possible ex ception of Maziewod, of aiiinois. He is unusually aotivjufor on,e. of his bulk, and ihe coach, thjrnks vell of him. CapL Benedict begins -the season in better trim than ever before, and Ben der; last year's captain, is hardened for woEk toy a season.'s campaigning at baseball. He is assured of a place at right half, while Capt. Benedict will resume his old position at quarter. The season of practice is not yet far enough advanced to indicate the balance of the line-up, but it is-reasr onably certain it will contain the two Masons, Robertson, Speer, Gilbert and Johnson, either as regulars or sub stitutes. KING OF SHORTSTOPS. St. Louis Fans Think Bobby Wallace Leads the Bunch. St. Louis, Sept. 27. If you were to ask 100 fans who is the greatest living shortstop, 99 would unhesitatingly answer "Bobby" Wallace, the fast in flelder of the St. Louis American league team. And critics, magnates and ball play ers would readily agree with the ver dict of the 99 fans, for Wallace is unquestionably the peer of any short stop in the world, so far as the field ing end of the game is concerned. Wallace is to shortstops what Lajoie is to second basemen. They are un challenged kings in their respective positions. True enough, there are a number of great shortstops. Parent of Boston is a wizard, Elberfeld is a game, Wag ner Is a marvel, Dahlen is a hustling ball player, Shay is chain lightning, but each and every one of them has some weakness that puts him out of the running when they stack up against Wallace. The essential qualities for an in- fielder that Wallace possesses in a su perlative degree is his ability to throw and his- capacity for covering ground. GREAT RACE PLANNED. Sysonby and Tradition May Run for Two Year Old Championship. New York. Sept. 2 7. If negotiations which were begun today go through without a hitch there will be a special sweepstakes run at Gravesend next week to decide the 2 -year-old cham pionship. It has been planned to have James R. Keene's Sysonby, the best colt of his age in training:' Sydney Paget's won derful filly. Tradition; and a repre sentative from H. B. Duryea's stable -possibly the Futurity winner, Artful meet in what practically will be a match race, weight for age, the dis tance to be six furlongs. The subscription suggested is $2,50A a corner, the ;Brooklyn Jockey club tjal add J5.000. It is said Owner Paget and Trainer Jack Joyner already have expressed their willingness to start Tradition. Gans-Walcott Weights Agreed To. San Francisco. Sept. 27. Gans andj Walcott will fight at 141 pounds ring-J side, Instead of 142 pounds, as agreed upon when the match was originally j made. This decision was' only reached after one of the bitterest squabbles j between the managers of the two fighters in the history of matchmaking in this city. Gans' manager cared not a whit for any contracts that his representative. Zeke Adams, had made, j nor. indeed .did he care for the fact that Gans had given his word to the j club that he would appear. Britt May Sidetrack Gans. New York, Sept. 2 7. Even though Joe Gans has posted JI.000 to fight Jimmy Britt and has accepted all the conditions named in the original chal- 1 that surprised all the talent and galloped lenge of Britt, the chances of the two meeting seem remote. A dispatch from San Francisco says that Britt. now declares that he is go ing to keep his promise, and is ready to face Young Corbett in December As it was figured that Gans and Britt would meet in that month, it Is evident now that Gans is to be sidetracked by Britt in favor of the Denver man. BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS. Leaders in the American and National Are Given. New York, Sept. 27. Napoleon La joie has no difficulty in retaining his leadership of the American league batsmen, his nearest competitor, Wil lie Keeler, being 40 points behind. Only eight men are over the .800 mark the lightest showing in many York leads in team batting, Cleveland and the Athletics tied for second place. Boston leads in long distance batting, and Lajoie is the chief individual slugger. Owen leads the pitchers in the field, and Sugden the catchers. Lachance heads the first basemen, Robinson the second sackers, and Bradley the third basemen. Wallace tops the shortstops and Robinson the outfielders. Chi cago leads in team fielding. Chesbro has the best pitching rec ord in victories and in scarcity of runs scored per game. NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT BOSTON. With one out in the ninth inning, the game yesterday was called on account of darkness, leaving Boston tne win ner. Score by innings: R.H.Q Koston O0O0S10 O i S Cincinnati ...0 0 0 1 0 00 0 I 3 Batteries Willis and Moran; Walker and Street. AT NEW YORK. The New Yorks scored their hundred and third victory of the season Hon day by defeating the Pittsburg team in both games of a double header. At tendance, 6,800. First game Score by innings: R.H.E. Pittsburg 100001 01 03 7 New York .0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 5 S Batteries Leever and Phelps; Taylor and Bowerman. Second game Score by innings: R.H.E. Pittsburg 0 00000 00 1 New YorK ooiooo 1 2 Batteries Flaherty and Phelps: Mc- Ginnity and Warner. AT BROOKLYN. Chicago scored a double shutout on the Brooklyn team. The second was called at the end of the sixth inning on account of darkness. First earns Score by innings: R.H.E- ChicagO 0000 0 1 0034 9 0 Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 4 1 Batteries Weimer and Kling; Ries- tirier and Bergen. Second game score Dy innings: tt. ti.i. Chicago 1 0 00001 5 0 Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 00 2 1 Batteries Briggs and O'Neill; Jones and Ritter. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs Won. Lost. Pet New York 103 39 .725 Chicago 85 56 .603 Pittsburg 80 68 .579 Cincinnati 79 61 .564 St. Louis 68 71 .489 Brooklyn 5S 91 .368 Boston 49 94 .343 Philadelphia 47 95 .331 AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT DETROIT. Boston stepped back into first place by winning both parts of the double header h.eii. In the first one. Dono van' did not give a hit but kicked on de cisions until he was sent to the club house in-the sixth. Stovel lost his head in the eighth. Dineen pitched a great game. In the second. Detroit knocked Winter out in one inning, but Boston came light back and batted in a lead in the next and then was never headed. First game Score by innings: R.H.E. Detroit 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 Boston f 0000000202 3 0 Batteries Donovan, Stovall, Jaeger and Drill; Dineen and Criger. Second game Score by innings: R.H.E. Detroit 2 0000001 03 7 2 Boston 0 3010010 05 10 2 Batteries Kitson, Jaeger and Drill; Winter, Young and Doran. AT CLEVELAND. Cleveland dashed New York's hopes of winning the pennant by taking both games. Stovall won the first by making a hree bagger with the bases ftCTNe ELECTRIC t?AT ROACH pa5T rLurto ase and is a-readllT em. ten br rati, mice. cockroaches, w&trbig,ec. It drive them out 1 of Cho houfv- to die ia fure aeatxi to ineM pesus. I GUARANTEE. Tour dealer refunds the money If Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Putt doe no do aJl that is claimed for it. 8oi.boi,6o; hotel ratxe, 16 91.00. All dealer or ett$MpreP repaid on receipt rrto 1 rtbD ttuuaiBg. BICIIO.IH. J Sld by Rowley Snow. 4TVwu I. I"1 1 Vegetable Preparationfor As similating the Food andReg ula ting the Stomachs andBovfcis off Promotes DigeauoaCheerPuI ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium.Morplune nor Mineral. OTARCOTIC. Jlx.Stnna '.3m A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feven sly ness and Loss of Sleep. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. EXACT COOT'OFWHAEHEH. Long Distance Lines. We have recently added more than 200 exchanges to our list, and several hundred miles of copper metallic toll lines, reaching many eastern points. Try us and get the best. DIRECT WIRES, QUICK SERVICE. For further information call 406. THE TOPEKA INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE CO. 519 Kansas Avenue. PILES full in the eighth inning. It was Ches bro' s first defeat in ten days. In the second game, Powell became wild in tire seventh inning- and forced in two runs, hits driving in two more, winning the uit tw i w a 'spAm nv inn lnzs rv. n. Cleveland 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 0 fc-olvu ...0 01101000-3 9 0 Batteries Joss and Bemis; Chesbro and McGuire. bv inninns: R.H.E. fvlnfl ..0000104 1 10 1 now Vnrit 0 0000020 02 8 1 Batteries Donahue and Buelow; Powell .and McGuire. AT CHICAGO. Philadelphia won the final game of the series by a. nice bunching of hits. Chfcagoby.lnnir::.s:. ..o ooioooo oSni Philadelphia 0 0000020 0-2 7 0 Batteries Patterson and Sullivan Plank and Noonan. AT ST. LOUIS, st T.rvuis and Washington broke even here in the last game of their series, name -aiast called at the end of the eleventh inning on account of darkness. Score by Innings: St Louis 0 000ZOOOOO o z o i Washington 0 000020000 03 9 0 Batteries Morgan and Sugden; pat ten and Kittredge. AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING. Clubs- Won. Lost. Pst. 87 53 .621 ..84 53 .613 81 69 .578 74 B9 .556 74 62 .644 59 78 .431 56 81 .409 34 103 .248 Boston New York Chicago Philadelphia Cleveland I St. Louis Detroit Washington Racing at Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Sept. 27. The fourth annual grand circuit meeting opened at Oaklay park and will continue until baturuay next. The weather was all that could be desired and a large crowd was present. The track was in excellent condition. The Ohio stake for 2:09 trotters, purse 16,000. was the feature event of the day and was easily won by Tiverton, the well piayea favorite, in straight heats. Racing at St. Louis. at tmHm Rpnt 27. Scotch Dance was easily the best in Delmar'a feature today. The Parrish colt went to the front in the first eighth and maintained a winning lead of three lengths to the wire. Tom Mankins was heavily played to win the second race. Racing at Chicago. PhiMim.Scnt. 27 Scratches almost ruin ed the Fort Dearborn handicap, the feat ure event of the opening of the fall meet ing at Worth today. The original entry list had a total of twenty likely starters, but when the field was called to the post only four horses lined up. Stroller won tne race alter Deing an uui leiu .l uib post. Cheboygan was second nve lengtna In front of Gregor K. The stake was worth J1.700 to the winner. Armour to Manage Detroit. Detroit. Mich.. Sept. 27. The man ager of the Detroit baseball club for next season has been decided upon, W. A. Armour getting the appoint ment. Mr. Armour win continue to manage the Cleveland club until the present season ends. At the close he will come to Detroit. Long and Xeary Post Forfeits. Seattle. Wash., Sept. 27. Louis Long of Oakland and Charlie Neary of Milwaukee have posted their for feits of $200 each. Their twenty round boxing match on septemDer do is now assured. $7.60 to St. Louis and Return, Via Rock Island System. Tickets on sale daily, except Friday and Saturday, good 7 days in St. Louis. ii'e vilv to suffer from that horrible plague of the night, itching piles. Doan's Ointment cures, quickly and permanently. At any drug store, 50c. GASTORIA For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears "the Signature In Use For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA As lAn NO MONEY TILL CURED. 27 tears established. Psss4 FREE ill aoetpall I 252-pifi Ireatlae Pllee, Flatsla and Dleeaeea ot the artaa; also 1f-Binlllai. treatise en Dlaeates at "ernes. Of Ike theueanei curat ei car slid Mtkad, aoaa naia t cant (III curad-wa f urniaa their aanaa aa application. DRS. THORNTON MINOR, BWffi.S.fc Don't tie the top of your Jelly and preserve Jars In ihe old fashioned way. Seal them by the now, quick, aaosoiuiejy sure way Dy a i ii in coating; or rare Kenned Pttrafflno. Has mo taote or odor. Ia mlr tight and acid proof. Eaally applied. Useful In e, dozen other wars about the house. Full directions with Bold everywhere. MadeV STANDARD OIL CO. BEFORE YOU BUY COAL Telephone 530 KaGZDDSal FOR PRICES. i 4th and Jackson Sts. x LEWIS SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT s CIGAR made or EXTRA QUALITY TOBACCO OUR THEORY That one pleased customer hrl-gs another i doing Its mil Aon nobly. The Five Cer.ta a Day Telephone provlnar more popular dally. Mo. Kansas Tele. Co. Thone 999. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. The World's Flair Line. Seven dally trains between Kansaa City and St. Louis which leave Kan sas City :55. 8:00, 10:10 a. m. and 1:10. 9:16, 11:00 p. m. and 12:05 mid night. Ask for your ticket via this Una from Kansas City. If you mis on train, you will not have long to waia for another. EXTRAORDINARY. St. Louis and Return $7.60 Santa Fa. On sale dally, except Friday and Sat urday, from Sept. 15th to Nov. 30th, oa any train. Good 7 days. T. L. KING. C. P. T. A., Topeka,

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If CI I f SOME ONE SLEPT. liarber Asphalt Comp&nj Slip pd Up on City. Cot ExcluiT lUpalr Contract for Flrt Years. XOTHISG CAN BE DONE. Disintegrating Parementa Maj lie Fixed in One Way That Is to Let Trust Do the Work. Here's a pretty mess. The city teems to have tied Itself up to the Barber Asphalt paving company so that it can't resurfa.ce any of the worn out asphalt paved streets until May 16. 190 i, unless it hires the Barber company to do the work and pays that company the outrageous price of J 1.5 8 a square yard. Topeka has supposed it had a "re pair" contract with the Barber com pany. Instead of that, the contract seems to cover not only repairs, but reconstruction involving the entire re laying of the pavement. The city can not call for bids on resurfacing worn out streets; it must abide by its con tract and do business exclusively with the asphalt trust. A few days ago, E. B. Demarest, the "attorney-in-fact" for the Barber company, who got into trouble not long ago on account of some boodle scanaal in Oklahoma, was in Topeka In conversation with a certain well known city oliicial, Mr. Demarest said "1 made a pretty smooth deal with your cuy in that last contract of mine. I have got things fixed now so that if you folks want to resurface any of these worn out streets of yours dur ing the next five years, the Barber company will do the work. Did you know that? Our contract is broad enough to take it in, and you can't do the work unless you let the Barber company do it. An examination of the contract' on rile with the city clerk seems to indi cate that Mr. Demarest is right. At no place in the contract is the work to be done by the Barber company referred to as "repair work." It is always "repair and reconstruction." It appears on the face of the contract that it was drawn for the express pur pose of including not only the patch ing and repairs of the asphalt pave ment, but its reconstruction as well. Here are some extracts for the con templation not only of property own ers, but of the city legal department as wen: "Said party of the first part (The Barber Asphalt Company) shall and win turnisn all the material and ap pliances and perform all the work necessary to repair, reconstruct and maintain all the asphalt pavement in the city of Topeka for a period of five years Irom the 16th day of May, 1902, to tne 16th day of May, 1907. i ne work or repair and recon struction provided for in this contract shall consist in cutting out and remov ing the worn out or defective portions or me aspnalt pavement and the put ting in of hew asphalt, and in the removing and putting in new concrete from time to time as may become nec essary in the Judgement of the city engineer. "The price to be paid said party of the first part for said work is as fol lows "For asphalt pavement, including a concrete base of six inches, $1.99 per iuare jara. For laying asphalt pavement with out concrete base, J 1.5 8 per square yard." The city thought it was doing a rath er clever thing when it entered into a contract that it should not be ron-mell ed to do any asphalt repairing unless it wanted to, but it seems to have sten ped right into a trap which was delib erately set by the asphalt trust. lhe present asphalt pavements on certain streets are worn out and the city has practically stopped trying to repair them. The city council seems to have concluded that the cheapest way is to let the pavements wear as long as tney win ana men nave the DroDer ty owners petition for a complete re laying of asphalt. Brought up in this way, me property owners would have to pay the expense of the resurfacing. nue it tne city should attempt to le pair the wornout pavements, it would cost perhaps $10,000 a year, which would come out of the general city treasury. The way it stands, the city is not obliged to do ar.y work, but if it does any work of any kind, either repairing or relaying aspnalt pacement, the Bar ber company will do the work. Evi dently the Barber company has been fully aware of its advantage, and is quite willing the city should allow the pavements to go to pieces. It feels sure that sometime before May 16, 1907, it will be obliged to call on the Barber company for help. Apparently the city is prohibited by this contract from repairing or resur facing the asphalt streets with brick or anytning else. It must use trust as phalt at $1.58 a yard, and that's all there is to it. City Attorney Spencer was asked to day what he thought about the situa tion. He said: "I have not read over the contract recently, and I don't care to express any opinion in the matter. City Engineer McCabe says: "If the contract calls for all the work to be done by the Barber company, it rather looks as though it was useless to talk about resurfacing these streets with anything. I don't know what the con tract does call for. That is a question lor the legal department." It is over two and half years until the present contract with the Barber company expires. At the rate the as phalt pavements are going to pieces now. there will be nothing left of some of them at the end of that time. It is doubtful whether the people will en dure the condition that long. They may even be willing to pay $1.58 a Vi cts each; trontacTi? VCLUETT. PEABODY l a square yard for resurfacing, although this is a very high price. It is doubtful whether the city wants any more trust asphalt at any price. The natural rock asphalt, such as is used on the state house grounds, seems to be much bet ter, and it is not so completely in the control of the asphalt trust. The as phalt trust has been buying up a good deal of the natural rock asphalt depos its, but there are some independent concerns which would probably be able to do the work needed, in Topeka. WHAT BUSINESS MEN WANT. Federation of Commercial Interests M ill Ask for New Railroad Law. Copies of the railroad bill which the Kansas Federation of Commercial In terests will ask the legislature to pass next winter are now being put into circulation in order that it may be thoroughly discussed and improved if possible. Mr. Hoch, the Republican candidate for governor, has declared that the present railroad law is the best one in the country, but the busi ness men and shippers of the state do not think so. A compilation was first made of the best features of the laws of other states, especially Iowa and Texas, and then these were placed in" the hands of Judge F. L. Martin of Hutchinson ana A. E. Helm of Wichita for revision. Judge Martin was one of the boss bus ter leaders in Reno county and he has been identified with the Federation of Commercial Interests from its begin ning. Mr. Helm has been city attor ney of Wichita and has been interested in all the fights Wichita has made for better rates and also the fight of the cattlemen before the railroad board a year ago. They went over the matter carefully and prepared the bill which the federation now endorses. In its introduction the federation makes this statement to the people of Kansas: "For years the people have suffered from railroad extortion and discrimin ation, and notwithstanding legislation upon the subject, no relief has been obtained. "This is accounted for by the fact that the politicians who have enacted the laws have allowed the railroad at torneys to dictate the ph geology or write them entirely. In this manner the people have been hoodwinked and defrauded, with the corporations the only gainers. "The Kansas Federation of Commer cial Interests therefore places this bill before the people and proposes to make it an issue in the coming campaign. It was not written at the headquarters of the railroads. It was carefully prepar ed from existing laws of adjoining states that have been upheld by the courts. "Tho federation places this bill before the people and kindly asks Its endorse ment. Every candidate lor state sena tor or representative should be pledged tn vote for it- In every reprentative or senatorial convention this issue should be tilainlv nut before tne cano.io.aie. and no candidate should receive a nom ination who does not. or will noi pledge himself to vote for this meas ure. When this bill which gives the commissioners ample power to make rates Is passed, conditions will change and the people win again ruie me eimc which is now domineered over by the railroads. "Will the people come out in the open and endorse this bill which will be discussed in the coming campaign un der the searchlight or public opinion, or will they prefer to let inexperienced politicians under the leadership of rail road attorneys -write a railroad law for them and pass It under whip and P'r? Time win irn. t cnnakinr of the bill today H. L. Reising, secretary of the federation. said: We asked Judge Martin to pic- pare us a bill wnicn snouiu v fotiv fair to the railroads and not cripple them in any way. and at the same time should be fair and equit able to the shippers. There is nothing radical in this bill. Judge Martin has hon n railroad attorney and thor oughly understands railroad rates from both sides, ana L oeneve ne naa B'v"" us a good bill. As now made up, tne diii consists of' 81 sections, and provides for the itirn of the members of the board of railroad commissioners, as well as for the appointment or a special coun sel, a secretary and the needed sten ographers. It is provided that no man who is r.nnoted In anv way either directly or indirectly or by owning stock, shall be eligible to a place on tne ooara. If he should acquire an interest in any road after becoming a commis sioner, his place shall be declared va cant. He also must devote his entire tim to the duties of the office, va cancies are to be filled by appointment by the governor. The commissioners are given the general supervision of all the railroads operated within the tate. They have the power and autnority, ana it is made the duty under the proposed law to adopt all necessary rates ana charges, both as to freight and pas senerer tariffs, to correct abuses, to pre vent unjust discrimination and extor tion and to inflict penalties ror tne enforcement of their orders. The pen alty for unjust discrimination upon the part of any railroad is fixed at from $100 to $5,000. Relative to furnishing cars for ship pers, the bill provides that applica tion for cars must be made in writing to any superintendent or agent of the road, and the point to which they are to be delivered must be Indicated. Then the company shall deliver them at the point named within a reason able time, not to exceed six days. Where the number or cars needed is ten or less, they shall be furnished within three days; where it is 50 or more then the company is allowed ten days in which to make the deliv ery. Failing to furnish the cars within the stated time, the railroad company shall pay to the person ordering them $5 per car for each day of delay, and in a court of competent jurisdiction, the shipper may collect besides all actual damages sustained on account of the delay. At the time he applies for cars, the applicant must deposit one-fourth of the freight charge for the use of them. unless the road agrees to deliver the cars without the deposit. In case the applicant fails to load the cars within forty-eight hours after they have been delivered, he must forfeit to the com pany $5 for each car not loaded, and Is liable for actual damages sustained by the company. Where a number of applications are filed separately. and the orders for cars are filled at the same time, the applicant is given the first forty-eight hours to load the cars lirst ordered, and so on. California Offers Opportunities. California, the land of the orange. offers boundless opportunities to in vestors, farmers, fruit growers, stock men, dairymen, manufacturers. Here is the charm of the tropics without their perils. Everything grows, win ters are green, summers are long, no destructive rrosts, no prostrating heat, no storms, no sunstrokes.- no malaria. wide markets, large profits. Colonist rates via Southern Pacific, September 15 to October 15, $25 from Topeka. Write for California Booklets to H. G. KaiU. A. G. F.. P. A., Fidelity Trust Co. bldg., Kansas City, Mo. RAILROJIDNEWS. Atchison Is Owned by Fire Big Systems. Control Divided .Among Roads Sharing Its Business. UNION PACFIC BUYS. Other Holders Rock Inland, St. Paul, Mo. Pac, Pennsylvania. Gossip and Matter of Interest In Railroad Circles New York. Sept. 27. Five different railroad systems now have a stock holding interest in the Atchison. To peka Santa Fe railroad. The purchase of between 2 80,000 and 300,000 shares of Atchison stock for the Union Pacific practically fol lows a similar accumulation of Atchi son stock for the benfiet of the Chi cago, Milwaukee St. Paul. Within the last six months brokers acting for William Rockefeller have bought abouj; 250,000 shares of Atchi son, presumably in the interest of St Paul, which may make an arrange ment with Atchison for an outlet in stead of building a new line. Pennsylvania Railroad interests have held a large block of Atchison stock for a long time and E. J. Ber wind represents these interests in the Atchison board. The Rock Island bought a large amount of Atchison stock about the time that the St. Louis San Fran cisco purchase was made. The last named road was formerly a part of the Atchison system, and when the Rock Island people bought the Frisco they thought best to protect the latter s Pacific coast traffic by buying in the Atchison. Control of Rock Island. It is currently reported in Wall street that about $25,000,000 of Rock Island common stock was sold to Eng lish capitalists not long ago to offset the Atchison purchase. The control of Rock Island lies in the preferred stock. The following table shows the ap portionment of Atchison stock among the other big western railroads: Owner. snares. Pennsylvania Railroad 4X.00O Rock Island 360,000 St. Paul 25O,0oC Union Pacific 300.000 Missouri Pacific 250,000 Total 1.550.000 There are 2,160,000 shares of Atchison stock, common and preferred, so that it will be seen that a Majority of this stock is owned by Interests identified with connecting and rival roads. In no case is Atchison stock owned by the railroad companies tnemselves. George J. Gould personally and the Rockefellers hold the stock which was bought to protect the interests of the Missouri Pacific. The Rockefellers it is believed, have bought at one time and another 500,000 shares of Atchison. Atchison now bears the same relation to the other western roads that the Lehigh Valley bears to the other trunk lines. After J. Pierpont Morgan had obtained control of the Le high he distributed a large proportion of its stock among five other trunk lines. In this way a majority of the railroads operating in a certain terri tory are enabled to control the entire traffic situation, and preserve not only narmony, but stability of rates. STATEMENT TO COME. A statement will shortly be made on this subject in its bearing on Union Pacific interests. Some of the leading men directly interested in this matter were in conference yesterday. One cf their associates, a well-known banker, said: "The uncertainty about the crops is now at an end, and it will not be long before you will see a large part of the railroad map of the country recon structed. It will then no longer be pos sible to say this or that interest is fieht ing some other interest and causing loss to untold thousands of stockholders whose money is invested in railroad se curlties. "You will see a community of interest in certain properties which up to this time has only been dreamed of except by a few. "What the control of Atchison means to the Union Pacific and St. Paul rail roads ought to be obvious to any per son familiar with the railroad territory covered by those properties, and it ought not to be necessary to say any thing more. Atchison will no longer be a thorn in the flesh of the Union Pa- TOE BUGLER'S COEST Is well expanded. He rises his lungs to their fullest capacity. People in ordin ary do not use much over half their lung power. The unused lung surface be comes Inert, and offers a prepared ground for the attack of the germs of consump tion. There is no need to warn people f ..w'i'j "'.I'M"! or the danger of warning is con &!fiB9r stantly needed not to neglect the first symptoms of die eased lungs. Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discov ery cures obstinate coughs, bronchitis, bleeding lungs, and other condi tions which, if neglected or un skilfully treated, 6nd a fatal termi nation in consump tion. It is entire ly free from opi ates and narcotics. "About three years iro Z was taken with a Dad cough, vomiting and spitting a-lcod," writes Mr. O, J. Rob inson, of Spring Gar den. W. V,. 1 tried many remedies; no h inw seemed to help me till I commenced using Dr. Pierce' Golden Medical Discovery. After using ten bcrtles and four vials of his Plessant Pellets." 1 commenced to improve. Mr case seemed to be almost a hopeless one. Doctors proncanoed it ulcer of the lung. I was sick nearly two years part of the time bedfast. Was given up to die by all. 1 thonebt k would be impossible lor me to live over night at one time. I naven't spit any blood now for more than twelve months, and worked on the farm all last summer. It waa Or. Pierce's medicines that cured me." Accept no substitute for Golden Med ical Discovery." There is nothing "just as good for diseases of the stomach. The Medical Adviser," in paper cov ers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay for mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Fierce. Bufialo, N. Y. cific or any other RockefellervHarriman-Kuhn-Loeb interest. You may expect an official announcement any day. Atchison Earnings Excellent, New York, Sept. 27. The report of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe road for the year ending June 30, shows that gross earnings were Jbs.i, 1,200, an in crease of $,800802 and operating ex penses J42.222.012. an increase of $3, 784,022, leaving net earnings of $25,949. 167, an increase of ,2,033,880. The report sets forth that the expenditure during the year chargeable to capital account for the construction and acquisition of additional railways, equipment and other properties and for improvements amounted to J14.553.780 and that the sum of $3,000,000 was charged to profit and loss and written off the property accounts in respect of betterments, im provement, equipment and discount on bonds. President Ripley points out that the revenue was favorably affected by a substanital increase Jn the citrus fruit crop of California, by a. small in crease in the cotton movement from Texas and the Indian Territory and by large Increases in the movement of general merchandise and lumber. Against these increases there was a loss in revenue from coal and coke ton nage. Mr. Ripley mair.es tne ionowing reference to the strike or coal miners in Colorado and New Mexico: "On November 9, 1903, occurred a strike of coal miners in Colorado and New Mexico which closed the mines and is estimated to have cost your company in loss of tonnage and en hanced cost of fuel not less than $1, 600,000 net. BUNCO MEN AFTER THEM. Kansas Excursionists Have a Lively Time Out in Denver. Denver, Colo., Sept. 27. The Times says: Denver confidence men are reaping a harvest. They are taking advantage of the lack of knowledge of city- ways of husbandmen from the western part of Kansas, who reached the city on a special excursion of the Union Pacific railway. The locally famous alleged bunco man, Len Bly, was at the depot with his allies this morning making in quiries concerning the excursion trains. Other well known alleged con fidence men also put in appearance, and before the excursionists arrived there were a dozen or more of the oily gentlemen gathered in front of the depot. A report was received at the union depot that some of the local gold brick merchants went to Kansas to meet the farmers and made the trip to Denver with them. One train stopped on the prairie and set one of the bunco men down in a spot miles from any habitation. There were four train loads of ex oursionlsts who took advantage of the cheap rate of the Union Pacific, which made a maximum rate of J 5 to points as far east as Ellis. There are, it is estimated. 1,500 of the Kansans in the citv. As soon as the visitors began leav- intr the deDOt the bunco men got busy. Two of them approached James Shelby, who resides in the vicinity of Lincoln Center. "You know us?" said one of them, Mr. Shelby looked around in sur- Drise. and extended his hand in greet ing, supposing that it must be a dis tant relative or old-time friend. "Of course, you know me," con tlnued the gold brick merchant. One of the depot employes who had been watching the movements of the gang whispered to Mr. Shelby that they were trying to work him. The Kansan became furious and at tempted to strike the two men down He swung his arms about after the manner of a busy windmill until they got out of his reach. In a few min utes one of the Kansas men who had been traveling with Mr. Shelby pushed through the crowd and laid his hand on his shoulder. Thinking that it must be another bunco steerer, Mr. Shelby turned round to strike him, but discovered his friend. All the way up Seventeenth street the sharks lay in wait for the un suspecting visitors and tried to in veigle them into fake auction shops, into card games, into misfit clothing houses and into saloons. The police men on the street seemed to pay no attention to the performances. IjEWIS and c LAllK EXPOSmOJf. Railroads Already Preparing for Traf fic to Portland. Preparations have been besun by the Northern Pacific road for handling the large crowds which are expected to visit the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland, Ore., next year. In dis cussing the matter A. B. Smith, assist ant general passenger agent of the Northern Pacific road, said: "From the eventful trip of Lewis and Clark in 1803 to that of todav is but a step in evolution, but the many changes in this westerr country have been almost unthinkable. The people of the great Northwest, with an un bounded faith which is justlflea. will, by the Lewis and Clark exposition, make these changes in the settlement and development of this country com prehensible. "Alive to the importance of educat ing the east to the rapid progress and growing influence in national attairs, this exposition has been organized to show to the world what 100 years west of the Missippi river have done. The railways will make low rates and every possible facility will be afforded to the people to study Washington, Oregon and the intermediate country traversed a hundred years ago by those hardy pioneers, Lewis and Clark. "The Pacific Northwest of today is little understood by most of us. nor are its growth and possibilities com prehended. The thousands of acres of arable land, the great forests, the vast mines of good coal and the best seaports of the world are ready for the further upbuilding of a great empire. "Congress should convene early in the fall of 1905 on a special train, with every representative of that body, for a tour of the great west, going out by southern lines, spending enough time in the west to see and understand its value, and return home over the northern lines via St. Paul and Chi cago, with a broader grasp or tne needs of the entire country and a more catholic idea of what can and should be done to develop this western em pire, which is to.be the home of un born millions of their countrymen." Extension of Time Grapted. Springfield. Mo.. Sept. 27. Sunday night at midnight an ordinance passed two years ago granting right of way over the streets to the Missouri Pacific Railroad company axpired, and a com munication receive from the manager during the day indicated that the Mis- i souri Pacific would not ask for an ex- tension of time, having decided not to j build into Springfield in the immediate j future at least. Late in the evening: a telegram was received from George J. Gould, seeking seven months, fur- there time. The council was at once I convened in special session and passed an ordinance granting tne Missouri Pacific an extension of ninety-two days, the seven months asked being considered more time than was neces sary for the company to begin definite work. Mr. Gould was advised by telegraph of the action of the council, and it is V,.' --"VlBlaaU wci-v" ..'.-.5 I There is only One Genuine-Syrilp of FigS, The Genuine is Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. The full name of the company, California Flar Syrup Co f tm printed or the front of every package of the genuine. 5 The Genuine- Syrup of Figs- is for Salerln Original Packages Only,, by Reliable Druggists Everywhere Knowing the above will enable one to avoid the fraudulent imita tions made by piratical concerns and sometimes offered by unreliable dealers. The imitations are known to act injuriously and should therefore be declined. Buy the genuine 'always if you wish to get its benefidal effects. It cleanses the system gently yet effectually, dispels colds and Vt when bilious or -constipated, prevents fevers and acts best on the kidneys, liver, stomach and bowels, when a laxative remedy is needed by men, women or children. Many millions know of its beneficial effects from actual use and of their own personal knowledge; It is the laxative remedy of the well-informed. Always buy the Genuine Syrup of Figs MArcJFACTURH.&YTHS a-e ttW CSmmp generally believed he will accept the terms of the ordinance, and take im mediate steps toward the building of this long hoped for railroad. ESTABLISH AUTOMOBILE LINE. Devil Wagons Will Be Used in New Mexico If Railroad Is Not Built. Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 27. If the Santa Fe Central does not build to Roswell soon the people of that section are -going to make connections with the railroad anyway. The latest scheme is to equip and operate an automobile line from the Pecos valley town to Torrance. The scheme is said to be- well back ed and it will be pushed as rapidly as possible. The object of the company is to purchase strong ana last automo biles and run them between Tor rance and Roswell. At present to get to the cities in the eastern part of the territory it is necessary to travel over a goodly part of the United states. Tne distance between Torrance and Ros well, by the way the automobile would operate is 103 miles, and It is claimed that the distance could be regularly and easily made in y;ven hours, and in an emergency it is expected the dis tance could be covered In four hours. The road from Roswell to Torrance will be placed in good shape and the machines operated regularly. One ma chine, it is planned, will leave Roswell each morning, another leaving Tor rance at the same time. The schedule will be operated regularly and the rates wil be as low as possible under the conditions. Illinois Central Report. The fifty-fourth annual report of the Illinois Central Railroad company, cover ing the fiscal year ended June 30 last, was issued yesterday. It shows an increase in operating expenses of nearly $3,000,000 over the preceding year, while the gross re ceipts from traffic increased only Jl,64&,000, making a decrease in net earnings of H, 392,67. The increase in operating expenses is due to the prolonged and intense cold of the past winter, the greater cost of fuel, and a raise of more than J1,2(X,000 in the wages of those solely engaged in this de partment. The total amount paid for wages In all branches of service the past year was J23.009.tiS9. 42. The preceding year the amount was $20,609,194.17, or $2,400,495.25 less than in the past year. SUMMARY OF COMPANY'S BUSINESS. The following is a summary of the com pany's business for the past fiscal year: Gross receipts from traffic $-i6,S3l,135 Operating expenses 32,793,231 Taxes ..7. 1,942.430 Net receipts from traffic 12,09n,453 Net receipts from sale of lands... 41.053 Income from investments, etc 2.675.4S5 Kxcess of income over expenses.. 14,812,002 Total fixed charges 5.946.C75 Net income for year 8,865,927 Surplus dividend fund from 3903.. 1,17S,1S6 Amount available 10,044,114 Dividend payments 5,702,400 Advanced to Dubuque and Sioux City railroad 536.818 Set apart for betterments 2,579,329 Surplus for future dividends l,22o,7G7 MILEAGE IS INCREASED. As compared with the preceding year the mileage of the system increased 47.37 miles, or 1.1 per cent. 'Gross receipts from traffic increased $1,645,C69, or 3.64 per cent. Expenses of operation increased $2,957,368, or 9.91 per cent. Taxes increased $80,359, or 4.32 per cent. Income from traffic de creased $1,392,668. or 10.32 rjer cent. Net receipts from sale of land increased $25.- zzs, or per cent, income irom invest ments and miscellaneous profits decreased $769,822, or 22.34 per cent. Excess of income over expenses of oper ation and taxes decreased $2,137,266, or 12.61 per cent. Total fixed charges de creased $273,800. or 4.4 per cent. Net income for tne nscal year aecreasea i,sw,4, or 17.37 Der cent. The amount available af ter deducting fixed charges decreased $1.- My Stomach "It feels so uncomfortable. Food distresses me. I get blue and despondent. My doctor says it's my stom ach.' And what did your doctor tell you to take? Ayer's Sarsaparilla.& vrCo., Maas. wwuiwuwsmui) -.RJt. r,I nnrcims SOTTXX 817,725, or 15.32 per cent. The sum appro priated from income for betterments de creased $2,301,924, or 47.16 per cent. The surplus dividend fund has been augment ed by $47,680i or 4 per cent. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the company will be held here Octo ber 19. STL DIXON'S NEWEST SCHEME. He Will Run Oklahoma Products Train to World's Fair. Enid, O. T., Sept. 27. Syl Dixon, who gained a national reputation in 1896 by running the McKlnley corn train from Kansas to St. Louis, has made arrangements to take a general produce train from Oklahoma to the world's fair. The train, according to the present schedule, will leave Enid October 3. Dixon has been in almost every part of the territory, and has completed contracts with almost every town of importance to be represented. It was at first his intention to run a wheat train, carrying that staple only, but he found more favor with the farm ers by adopting a general line of pro ductions. To Drop Use of Third Rail. Boston, Sept. 27. The New York, New Haven Hartford railroad is dismantling its third rail electric line between Nantasket Junction and Bralntree, and the announcement is made that the electrical equipment and operation of its suburban lines will not be undertaken until invention of new appliances or perfection of those now existing makes such a step more feasiblt Electric trano't facilities have been expected for several years by residents of suburban towns, especially since the new South station was built with a subway intended for the handling of this traffic. An interview with President C. S. Mellen, of the New York, New Haven Hartford has discouraged their hopes. President Mellen said: "We have not yet been able to make definite plans for electrical equipment, and it is not likely that we shall be able to do so right away." The Katy's Big Mortgage. Joplin, Mo., Sept. 27. The Missouri, Kansas Texas Railway company has filed one of the largest mortgages ever recorded in Jasper county. The mort gage is for $40,000,000, and is made to the Farmers' Loan Trust com pany of New York and comprises rail road properties, franchises and rolling stock. Forty thousand bonds of $1,000, each bearing 4 per cent interest, are to be issued. St. Paul Directors Chosen. Milwaukee, Sept. 27. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chi cago, Milwaukee St. Paul railway, held In this city, the following direc tors, whose terms expire this year, were re-elected: J. Ogden Armour, Chicago: Frederick Layton, Milwau kee; Joseph Milbank and Samuel Spencer, New York. The hold over members of the board are: A. J. Earl ing, Chicago; Peter Geddes, Charles W. Harkness, Roswell Miller, William Rockefeller, Henry H. Rogers, James H. Smith and Frank S. Bond of New York. Upon the adjournment of the stockholders' meeting the directors re elected all the old officers of the road. WiU Finish It in Five Years. Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 21. Presi dent Hays of the Grand Trunk Pa cific says that while the company by its contract has seven years to com plete the new transcontinental line it would be finished in five years. Win nipeg would be reached in a year. Everywhere he visited he had been met by delegations asking for the new line, claiming extra railway accom modation a necessity. Construction would be started at both ends and at intermediate points. As soon as the main line had been decided upon, branch lines would be considered, as the policy would be to network the country with them. What Is Life? In the last analysis nobody knows, but we do know that it is under strict law. Abuse that law even slightly, pain resultB. Irregular living means derangement of the organs, resulting in constipation, head ache or liver trouble. Dr. King's Now Life Pills quickly readjusts this. It's gen tle, yet thorough. Only 25c at Arnold Drug Co., 821 North Kansas avenue. ML. IIJ..IWMNHWaW lfet $aiSu&4-?' I far E. O. DeMoss. X M. PaurwaUa, DeHOSSS PEN WELL Funeral Directors and Embalmers. FIRST-CLASS SERVICE. 511 Qulncjr St TOPEKA, Both 'Phones 191 KANSAS. A. W. HOPKINS, Merchant Police. Private work a specialty, and private watchmen furnished. Residence, 1021 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. Save Systematically And invest your savings where they will earn from 3 to 6 per cent, accord ing to time. Security first mortgages on Topeka homes, repayable monthly. The Capitol Building and Loan Astoclat'n 534 Kansas Ave. Call for Booklet. A Wonderful Farm. Fredonia, Kas., Sept. 27. In Wilson county Orval Jeffers owns a farm of 320 acres, fronting three-quarters of a mile on Fall river, that contains natural gas, petroluem, fire clay, pot ter's clay, brick shale and glass sand. The glass sand is in the form of rock which is reduced by crushers. Glass manufacturers say there Is no better sand for their use in the United States. This rock forms a large mound and must be quarried. It is the only glass sand so far discovered in Kansas. The soil of 200 acres of the farm is 27 feet thick, and produces wheat, com and alfalfa in abundance. On tha upland and adjacent range Mr. Jef fers grows cattle and hogs. The land Is well timbered and from the trees Mr. Jeffers makes lumber, posts, and fuel. He has owned the place sinca September, 1868. G. E. Ford Is Drowned. Salina. Kas., Sept. 27. While bath ing in the Smoky Hill river here last evening with a friend, G. E. Ford, a traveling man, was drowned. Ford and Edward Keen went to the river at the edge of town and had Just en tered the water when Ford took 9 cramp. Keen became panic-stricken and ran to town for help. When the rescuing party arrived Ford was not to be seen. After an hour's search the body was found at the bottom of the river clutching a log. A Bear Is Barbecued. Hanover, Kas.. Sept. 2 7. The two days' barbecue in which five beeves and one bear will be killed opened Monday. The bear was killed at 4 o'clock this morning and will be roasted and fed to the crowds. Speak ing, footraces, basket ball and other games were had. Today there will be basket ball and football games and a balloon ascension. The bear, a large cinnamon one, was procured from Mr. E. H. Pratt, living six miles north of here, who raised him from a cub. $7.60 to St. Louis and Return, "Via Rock Island System. Tickets on sale daily, except Friday and Saturday, good 7 days in St. Louis. O. M. Ailing. Freeport Was all run down. Could not eat or sleop. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea made me a wH man. 35 cents. Tea or TaDiets. Gallia Drug Co. 3fe,aW-V-v;. I mm K ym it ft

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVlilNINGSEPTEAIBER 27, 4- TOPEKA STATE JGIMAL BY FRANK P. MAO LENNAN. (Entered July i. 1875. aa second class nauar si tna pontonic si lopcu, iinttar Uw sot ot coneres. VOLUME XXXI No. 235 TKR1L8 OS- fiL-BSf.-RlPTlON'. Dally dition. 4raln4 by carrier. 10 nt a. week to any part tf Tope, or vuouros. or at tna same &rica in "j sas towns wbera tbs p4er ns a carrier By soall. on year Jr mail, threa month. VVkiv i r I ci nn. IMF Saturday edition of daily, ons year.. 1-Ou IILEFUOJi3. Buatnea. Off"tf.7.......BeU ;pho Aeporters' Room Ind- 60 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka BtafV Journal building. W "n0 ikaasss avenue. cot ot Eiinifc NEW YORK OFF1CB: HI Vanderbllt Bid. paal Block. M IT CH ICA'iO OFFICE: 1M Cnlty Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. IXLL L2AEZ9 "W1S3 RIPOSIT cr Tsa associated rsass. The Plate Journal Is a "tber,,,?n Aasorlaud Press and receives tjie lull "J telegraph report of that great newi or mi Nation for exclusive afternoon pufcu catloa In Topeka. iftllT. The news la received in e State Jour nal bullaln. over wires for tb;s sole pur pose. AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. fiabecrfbers to the State Journal lsitia the World's Fair may have the paper mailed regulnrly each day to aay address In St. Louts at the rate of thirty cents a month. The last edition of the State Journal reaches St. Louis the following morning. The paper can be sent care of the Kansas building. If desired. Judge Parker still clings to that old fashioned notion that the tariff is a tax. Montana appears to be regarded as debatable ground. Both Fairbanks and Bryan are booked for a speaking tour cf the state. The mission of the Republican party this year Is to aid in the transferring of a number of candidates from the bench to the shelf. Almost every eastern paper has a different theory regarding how the nomination of Herrick was brought about. The fact is it waa a surprise to all of them. It Is reported that J. Pierpont Mor gan will turn his business affairs over to his son and retire. Russell Sage is almost certain to cross the old man from his visiting list. Candidate Roosevelt goaded Candi date Parker into declaring that if elect ed he will revoke pension order Ne. 78. It was what might be expected how ever, from the man who sent the now famous gold telegram to St. Louis. It cannot be said that either candidate for the presidency is a coward. New Jersey hardly makes any de demands upon its citizens for financial support for state purposes, but it is said that there is an overflow of two millions annually from its corpulent treasury for the benefit of the varioxis municipalities. But in no other state does the taxation question loom -larger than there. Not satisfied with the out put of the franchise industry, they want the railroads more heavily as sessed and a more equitable distribu tion of the dividends. Philadelphia Bulletin: If Pension Commissioner Ware supposed that by painting the legend, "The Lord Hates a Liar," on the walls of his reception room, he could make the crafty pen sion sharks who throng it ashamed of themselves, he has probably overesti mated the amount of conscience which they really possess. Men whose chief stock in trade consists In the promo tion of perjury and all other known forms of deception will laugh in their sleeves at the Pension Commissioner's notion that the Lord or anybody else hates liars. It is refreshing to know, however, that these professional filch ers at the public treasury have not teen able to close the eyes of Com missioner Ware to the real nature of their calling. Discussing the annual outgo of mon ey from New York in connection with the movement of crops, Henry Clews Cos Financial Review says: "The efflux of currency this season promises to be large. Crops In the aggregate are above the average, and so are prices; hence plenty of money will be required for their financing. Western banks are well supplied with funds and are r.ot likely to be large borrowers in the east; though withdrawal of their bal ances In New Tork will tend to further diminish the latter's reserves. It is ev ident, therefore, that the money mar ket has limitations and that the re serves cannot long stand the rate of depletion which has been going on for the last few weeks. Money rates are already growing firmer, and it is quite probable that banking conditions will soon become a more Important factor In the situation than the crops. The banks, however, are still in good posi tion and carrying a reserve much above what is usual at this season; so there Is no Immediate reason for concern on this score. Yet it should be remem bered that the loan account is not merely a record breaker but is also ever $260,000,000 in excess of the same time in 1902, when both business and speculation were more active than now." Minneapolis Journal: There is some thing ominous in the way the voters are Ignoring party lines in state elec tions Just now. There is Folk of Mis souri sure of a big Republican vote, not because the Republican candidate for governor is not a good man and a de serving candidate, but because the rood people of Missouri generally, re gardless of politics, feel that it is their duty to make the indorsement of Folk Just as emphatic as possible, because to .indorse Folk is to condemn boodle lam in politics. Then there is the Ar kaxLS&s situation, where the case is re- versed and thousands of Independent, self-respecting Democrats either refus ed to vote at all on governor or voted for the Kenublican candidate, with th result that Davis' total was cut down 45.000 votes. Another situation even more interesting is reported from Washington, where it is agreed by both Democrats and Republicans that there will be a heavy falling off in the Re publican vote for governor, because the candidate is believed to be the special representative of the Great northern railroad. The Republican disaffection i. en Htronir. and the protest against the methods employed to secure the nomination is so fierce, that tne inai cations are the Republicans will lose the office of governor while carrying the state for Roosevelt by a big ma jority. TtAPin GROWTH OF EXPORTS. Th. nniH growth in the exportation snr,,UrM from the United States and the Increase in the share winch they form of the total exports i irtormont of commerce and labor LIIC UCfOi i""' i. I.,, mail rt Statistics tO a inruufiii no mo.-ic, of the srrowth of the manu facturing industry in the United States with that of other countries engasra supplying the worlds international markets with manufactured products. Vaia sominTY1 iH the United Kingdom. Germany, France and the United States are the world s chief purveyors of the manufactures which enter who im". tional commerce. The value of ntrinz the international markets of the world amounts to about four billions of dollars annuany, .1.1. .hm.t three billions in value 11 11,19 is supplied by the United Kingdom, Germany. Fiance, anu States During the period of 1888 to 1903 the growth of production of manufactures n the United States is o-- nnn w nnri in the three European countries combined. $3,863,000,000. and the percentage of increase ror tne i. m.. ed States 85 per cent, and for the three European countries combined 42 per cent. that the above fiff- iue l. iiwnw. i ures are necessarily estimates, made by different persons and presumably un der circumstances differing widely, t,t a mimh more satisfactory evidence of the actual growth In the great manufacturing industries m t. n niipstinti may be ob- tained by an examination of official statistics of consumption of a few of the great factors entering into manu. facturing and industrial activity. For tunately, the actual figures of consump tion of three of the most Important ar ...111,0 in manufacturing are available for each of the countries in question for a considerate v n-,,,.a figures are those of the rai3' i consumption of cotton, pig iron, and .,i ThMo three articles muuu, iron, and coal-supply in their con sumption a better measurement of n- Qniifiicturing activity a us 1 1 wt 1 than any other data available in coun tries which take no census of manu factures. While the figures of produc tion as well as consumption are v.i rse. those of actual con sumption are of course a more accurate measurement of industrial activity in the lines to which they are related, and are thus utilized in the attempt 10 measure Industrial growth in the coun tries under cnslderation. t Mtin noiisumotion the actual in crease in the United States in 1903. as compared with 1SS0. is i.ozo.i..--o .1. m-alnst an increase of 883.- 653 016 pounds in the United Kingdom, Germany and France combined, the per centage of increase In the United States being 107 per cent as against o per cem in the three European countries om bined. JAYHAWKER JOTS. Cheyenne county turkeys are in the grasp of a coyote trust. The man who prefers pumpkins to wa termelons lives at Moline. The "Cuban Queen" of Kiowa county was a M-poun4 watermelon. Mr Crow won some of the best prizes at the Hutchinson poulV show. The tonsorlal artist at St. Francis has cut hair price to IS cents when the cash is paid, all others 25 cents. Wr-eat sowing in Barton county makes Great Bend as quiet on Saturdays as the political campaign in Topeka. The bone of contention over who robbed a moat market at Winfleld has been set tled by sending a negro to Jail. The atorm cave of a Rice county resi dent contains 5.X0 bricks: the other build ings on the premises are of wood. Two automobiles purchased by the pro prietor of a Moreland livery stable tell the story of a row of empty stalls. The one backward step Atchison is tak ing is in rushing premium stamps. The quicker they cancel that fad the better. A Mankato dog that went to sleep in the shade of a locomotive while the en gineer was oiling up. Is now sleeping in the happy hunting grounds. Lightning destroyed five tons of good hav in a flash for a Clay county farmor. Had he been a mind reader what a vast amount of work he would have gotten out of. Potter claims to be the residence of the inventor of the folding bed. There are some things that even a modest little town like Potter would do well to keep under cover. A Chanute man is to be visited by a brother whom he has not seen in 56 years. Kansas citizens are so busy making mon ey nowadays that sociability is a sec ondary consideration. A Topeka man has a scheme to rnise camels within the shadow of the state house dome. There Is so much hades promoted in that section that it would make a "ship of the desert" hump itself to have a ghost of a show. Lyons women are so plentifully sup plied with Jewelry that the loss of two gola rings by one occasioned no comment. Mr. Jov is the nominee for the legisla ture in Ellis county. It will be a pleas ure to him, no doubt, to be elected. GLOBE SIGHTS. tFrom the Atchison Globe. What has become of the old fashioned bride who expected, of course ,to do her own washing? So many Japs and Russians have died lately that they must have to stand in line before St. Peter. People may enjoy being married when on their honeymoon, but the women don't look it. The Atchison people have not cr.'y given a man the rope, but they leave him alone with the tree. A big house finally becomes a board ing house, and a business building sees its finish in a blacksmith shop. About all being creditable gets some men is the privilege of putting up for members of the family who are not. When girls want to give a wedding present in cut glass, there is much com-, plaint because they can't buy a piece smaller than a salt cellar. It Is terribly bard to be cheerful when one is awake at midnight, and every one else in the house is asleep. An Atchison girl has written to Ed ward Bok to ask if she should tell hr parents of her marriage engagement The men kin do not iike to go to a wedding, but it seems the one family occasion when they are afraid to rebel. There are two smooth book agents in town. Better lock yourself up, if you lack backbone; and we'll bet you do. Don't let a man tell you what other people say about you without telling him what other people say about k.'m. The Kansas City Star says an Atchi son man is called Kuroki, because he Is such a chaser. It isn't a man; it s a woman. Whenever the average woman gets ready to go anywhere, except to church, the excitement give? her a headache. What has become of the old-fashioned woman who made soup so thl :k tCiat she referred to it as meat, drinK. and lodging? An Atchison woman, after enjoy'ng excellent health, for eighty-five years, dropped dead last night. What a com fortable way to die. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. The only good husband has a widow. A man is mighty lucky to find a dol lar bill in the street without his wife knowing about it- You couldn't count the times a girl thinks men tried to propose to her when they were only trying to kiss her. Most any girl can catch a man with a big picture hat, and any man a girl with a proper appreciation of it. It is very embarrassing to a woman not to be able to explain to a man where it is she is stouter than the rest of her looks. When a boy is moody over whether he has been found out tor playing hookey his mother thinks he is getting religion. 3 OR 5 DAY T1CKETG. What Is Beins Arranged for Topeka Day at the Fair. "Topeka Day" at the St. Louis World's fair will be on October 14. This morning the special committee from the "Commercial club appointed to look after the details, met at the National hotel and laid slans. It was decided to get a special rate over the Rock Island railroad for both three or live days. A "three and rive day" hotel rate will also be obtained at St. Louis. Colonel Charles wood will so to the World's fair city next week to look after the accommoda tions, the exrjense -of which, the com mittee says, will be very reasonable. Announcement with regard to tne rates for both transportation and hotel accommodations will be made shortly. The special tram will leave lopexa on October 13. arnvins at i. a-.oui.-s on Thursday morning, which is Topeka day. Tickets will De sola gooa ior three days, and also tickets good for five days. The former will expire on Sundav night, while the latter will be good until the following Wednesday. The Commercial club committee having the matter in charge consists of J. C. Holland, chairman; W. L. Taylor, L. M. Wood. H. C Howard, E. H. Crosbv, James Chapelle, C. H. Mor rison. H. C. Howard, C. H. Morrison and L. M. Wood were appointed a committee on programme. W. L. Taylor will have charge of the badges. BOXERS ARE BUSY. Another Uprising Is Fixed for October 17. Shanghai. Sept. 27. A report received from the northwestern part of the province of Shantung says that the Sho Tuan "Boxers" are openly distributing prospectuses, couched in the same lang uage as those circulated before the up rising of 1900. These prospectuses order precisely similar observances and fix October 17 next as the date for the ex termination of all foreigners. According to a dispatch from Shang hai September 1, the North China Her ald commenting on recent occurrences at Tamingfu, province of Pe Chi Li, where a number of American mission aries had to leave owing to the threat ening attitude of the boxers, said: "It ought to be mentioned that news of such threatened raids travels swift ly and loses nothing during its passage. Its effect many hundreds of miles dis tant from the scene of action has been immediately felt. As we said in 1900, so again we repeat with added emphasis, there is danger of a general conllagra tion unless the utmost vigilance is ex ercised. Those interested in preventing such an outbreak, we remark as we did then, will govern themselves accord ingly." tilR, OST PROMOTED. Topeka Man Becomes Santa Fe Store keeper at La Junta. Mr. Joseph Ost of the store house department of the Santa Fe at To peka, has been promoted to be divi sion storehouse keeper at La Junta, Colorado. Circulars have been issued making the promotion effective October 1. Mr. Ost succeeds H. E. Bird who has re signed. Thirty-three States Represented. St. Louis. Sept. 2 7. Representa tives from thirty-three states, of eight foreign governments and the leading manufacturing interests of the coun try were present today at the second day's session of the International Pure Food congress. The addresses de livered were a general review of food inspection in foreign countries. Later a conference was held with fruit and vegetable dealers relative to the use of antiseptics and colors. American Suicide in Berlin. Berlin, Sept. 27. A dispatch from Strasburg announces that D. H. Goss, president of the American institute there, has shot and killed himself. No explanation is yet obtainable of the cause of Mr. Goss' suicide. The American instite at Strassburg is closed. Killed Himself for a Woman. New York. Sept. 27. Because a young woman with whom he was in fatuated had refused to recognize him when they met in a fashionable cafe last night Carlo Frederiques von Ban ditz, a wealthy young Venezuelan, shot and killed himself in his apart ments at Hotel Endicott. Xo Decision in Wisconsin. Madison. Wis.. Sept. 2 7. Xo deci sion was rendered today by the su preme court in the La, Follette-Cook contested election case. HEAR JUDGETHAYER. Second Day's Session of American Bar Association." St. Louis, Mo.. Sept- 27. The second day's session of the American Bar as sociation was called to order today by President James Hagerman, of St. Louis. After a short executive session the general session was resumed and the annual address of Amos Thayer, United States circuit Judge for the eighth cir cuit of St. Louis was read by Judge Franklin Ferris, also of this city. Judge Thayer was present, but owing to a heavy cold was unable to deliver the address himself. The subject of the ad dress was 4'The Louisiana purchase; its influence and development under Amer ican rule." Following Judge Thayer's address the session was occupied with reports of standing committees. Th6 standing report of the committee on international law briefly reviews the more important events of the year in the field of international law, conclud ing the review by sayjtig: "The United States have done much to promote the settlement by arbitra tion of international disputes. When once our people realize that Justice be tween nations ought to be attained by peaceful means our influence will De exercised in favor of the resort to such means and against the arbitrament 01 the sword and that Influence, if we are ture to our national traditions, will be come more powerful every year. .1 toira n r the Russo- Japanese war and discusses it at some length. Briefly, the report states: "It is not for your committee to pass Judgment upon the merits of this war; r "e j- 1. th. the .Tananese DUt We UU BUU1I111 1 1 1 l. claims isof a character that affords Just ground for meditation unaei iiio ond title of The Hague convention. The third article declares that The signa tory powers think it to be useful that one or more powers which have no part in the conflict may offer of thir n.i for 99 circumstances may make it appropriate, their friend ly offices or their mediation to tne states engaged in the conflict. iTnit states might, as It seems to your committee, very proper ly avail itself of tne provwiuns Hague convention and make a.n en i or, ond to the further shedding of blood in Manchuria. The standing committee J"'', prudence and law reforms subniitted j..i; t v, sales of non- its repori, ueaims orary degrees and combinations or trusts. The report stated that a care ful investigation mrousu"" X. try has been made to ascertain how far the evil of the sale of honorary degrees in law existed and that but a single-instance had been discovered in Tennessee. In regard to the sub ject of combination in the form of trusts the committee reported that un der the clause of the constitution to regulate commerce congress has no power to create corporations except those which have for their object the carrying on of exclusively Interstate business. Ttie report concluded by submitting a resolution: "That the bill presented to congress bv the maritime law association of the United States entitled 'an act to authorize the maintenance of actions for negligence causing death in mari time cases' is. in the opinion of this association, one which supplies a de fect in the law of the United States and we earnestly recommend to con gress that it should take up and pass this bill." The majority report of the stand ing committee on commercial law, sub mitted in pursuance of a resolution adopted at the last meeting of the as sociation that the committee be in structed to report specific remedies in legislative form for any unlawful com binations which may threaten com mercial intercourse, is based on the conclusion that the resolution referred to the federal power to regulate inter state commerce rather than to the state power to control commerce ex clusively within the state. Tho nnmniitlfip i therefore Of Onin- ion that until the exising remedies recently provided by law for the pro tection of commerce aeainst illegal combinations are further invoked and their efficiency further tested it is not necessary to propound additional leg islation extending the summary pro cedure. A minority report was submitted by Walter S. Logan stating that he was unable to agree entirely with the conclusions of the other members of the committee on commercial law. His report concludes: "I know of no better weapon that 1 Eleanor Robson, the charming little American girl, has won the hearts of London theater-goers with her portrayal of Zangwill's play, "Merely Mary Ann." Her reception in the English capital has been the most cordial ever tendered an American actress. She was seen in Topeka as Bonlta in Arizona, the community has for its defense than the weapon of taxation. I am the more convinced as to the effective ness of this method of regulating large combinations in the form of corpora' tions when I see the opposition to it that .is made by the combinations and corpoXatlons affected. The passage of such legislation would, I believe, go a long way towards settling in the inter est or the people the important and vexatious trust question." At the conclusion of the reports a recess was taken. When the associa' tlon again assembled James J. Abbott of Georgia was Introduced and made an address on the question "To what extent a nation protects its citizens in foreign countries?" The association then listened to re ports of sepcial committees. FOUR CARS WENT OFF. Twenty Persons Hurt in a Wreck on the Iron Mountain. St. Louis, Sept. 27. Southbound Das- senger train No. 17, on the St. Louis Iron Mountain railway which left here last night for Hot Springs, Ark., suf fered the derailment of four cars to day near Vulcan. Mo., 125 miles from here, resulting in the injury of 20 per sons, none of whom is thought to be seriously hurt. The cars derailed were the baggage, chair car, coach and sleeper. The wreiing train, with the general superintendent of the road and physicians to care for the injured has left St. Louis and information is await ed at headquarters here as to the ex tent of the damage and the names of the injured. A list of the injured, telephoned from Piedmont, Mo., contains the names of 31 persons, a. number of whom are so badly hurt that it is believed that they will die. The names of those most seri ously injured follows: Frank L. Lawson, Fulton, Mo., left arm broken. R. S. Hayes, Fayette, Mo., injured on head, neck and hand. Mrs. J. W. Michaels, Little Rock; wounded on back of head. H. H. Bill, Little Rock, Ark.; left shoulder dislocated, probably fatal. Pat Martin, Focahantus, Ark.; seri ous cut on head and back, seriously hurt. W. W. Strothers, Des Arc, Mo.; seri ously injured internally. RESE3IBLES BRYAN. Randolph Hitmen, Lawyer, Soldier, and Deserter, Is Released. Junction City, Kas., Sept. 87. Randolph Hinnen, known, in Kansas and Oklahoma as W. J. Bryan's aouDie, nas Deen released from the guard house at Fort Riley, after sev eral months' confinement awaiting the disposition of his case, in which he was charged with deserting from the army. His case is one of the most peculiar in the annals of Fort Riley. Hinnen left for Holton to visit his father and brothers. From Holton he will go to Ponca City, Okla., to prac tice law. Previous to his enlistment In the army Mr. Hinne npracticed law in Hutchinson, Kiowa and Topeka, and a number of the most influential politicians and business people of the state were interested In his behalf during his recent trouble. Military Wedding at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 27. Colonel Charles Morton, of the Seventh U. S. cavalry, stationed at Chiekamauga park, and Mrs. Sabma B. Pemberton, of Pasadena, Cal., have been" married at the home of Captain F. R. Rice, in this city. Rev. John W. Day, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, officiated. Captain M. C. Butler, a member of Col onel Morton's regiment and at present commissary officer of the Filipino con stabulary at the World's fair, was Col onel Morton's attendant. Among the guests were Geenral John C. Bates and General M. B. Young, retired. A Prince Slioots a Duke. Dresden, Saxony, Sept. 27. While hunting partridge today Duke Henry of Meklenburg-Schwerin was shot by Prince Othon of Schoenberg-Walden- burg and wounded In both knees and one hand. Luckily the gun was loaded with only bird shot. Nevertheless the duke will be confined to a hospital for several days. Parker Again in Town. New York, Sept. 27. Judge Alton B. Parker arrived here today from Esopus and went to a hotel to meet the Demo cratic campaign managers. General Nelson A. Miles, who expects to make several speeches in support of Judge Parker was one of the callers this afternoon. l: Announcement On Monday, September 26th, I entered the employ of the popular clothing firm of Robinson, Marshall Co., and will be pleased to see the friends and customers who have favored me with their patronage during my many years of employment with the firm of Greenwald Co. Yours very truly, Charles F. Figg. MARSHALL'S BAND Assisted by the New Xudttnrtum rtUUlLUI lUIII, Numbered Tickets Selling; at Roehr's Music Store, Admission TALKS ON WOOL Senator Fairbanks Suits His Speech to His Audience. Big Timber, Mont., Sept. 27. Senator Fairbanks discussed the wool tariff In his speech of the day made at this point this morning. A light rain was falling and the air decidedly chilly, but despite this fact the attendance was large. The meeting appropriately was held in a large wool warehause by the side of the rail road track, In which President Roosevelt had also spoken. On the wool question Senator Fair banks said: "It is the policy of the Republican par ty so far as possible to diversify indus try throughout the United States. It has sought to stimulate the establisment of new industries by means of protection. It believes in encouraging sheep husbandry and Jji stimulating the production of wool en iroods in the United States. "There is no good reason why the American farmer snouia nqt De ame to produce the wool necessary to meet our great and expanding domestic needs. Wo should not turn over wool growing tor our uses to the farmers of Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, the Argentine Republic or eiseviere. e sriouia not pursue a policy which destroys the American flock, but, on the otehr htnd. should, bv the applica tion of the protective principle, encourage sheep raising in our own country. There is a radical airterence Detween tne par ties upon this important subject. This dif ference is not found only in the platforms adopted by them, but in the legislation ot congress. "During the last Democratic adminis tration wool here was worth 7 to 9 cents per pound. Now it is 17 to 20 cents. We stand face to face with the question as to whether we shall overthrow the Re publican party under which the wool in dustry has been put upon a profitable basis, or whether we shall return to the Democratic policy which so great ly injured it." Senator Dolliver also made a brief speech. HOAR NEAR THE END. Deatli Is Xow a Question of a Few Hours. Worcester, Mass., Sept. 27. Senator Hoar remained today in the state of coma into which he sank during Sun day night. The' bulletin issued today said. "The senator is very weak. His pulse is very low. Death seems now to be a question of a few hours." AT THE PLAY LAST jN'IGHT. George Ade's "The County Chair man" was in Topeka last night. While the comedy can scarcely be said to be up to the Ade standard it deserved a larger audience than was present last night. The piece contains much of the quaint humor for which Ade is known in the most remote hamlet of the country, but the situations are strained and over done and often the thread of the play takes the audience into the realms of cheap melodrama. It was no doubt Mr. Ade's purpose to give a picture of the conduct of a rural campaign and he probably felt that it was necessary to overdraw his characters to make them interesting. There have no doubt been people sim ilar to the Honorable Jim Hackler, the county chairman, but there have been none like him. There may be girls just as love sick and young men just as ridiculous as i.ucy RigDy ana un- ford Wheeler, but they live only in the imaginations of novelists and the brains or the writer or meioaramas. Topeka was glad to welcome the big brawny Theodore Roberts back once more even without the gray mustache and ungainly stride of Col. Candy. Mr. Roberts will probably try a great many roles before he dies, but it is doubtful if he ever finds any one that suits him so well as that of the gruff, kind hearted old Arizona rancher in the beautiful play of that name by Theodore Thomas. He makes a good Jim Hackler. perhaps as good a one as Macklyn Arbuckle, but he occasionally gives way to his environment and acts Just like any hero of a Lincoln J. Car ter melodrama. The majority of the people who saw "The County Chairman" liked it and left the theater glad that they had been there for does it not all end just as ev erybody desired It to end, with the can didate of Jim Hackler being elected to office and the stern Lucy relenting and agreeing to marry the young man. This may not be in accordance with the climax of the modern drama but it is what the people want and Mr. Ade probably considered this when he wrote the last act of the play. Therefore the average theater goer will vote "The County Chairman" a sucess. The play was perfectly staged and no detail, however unimportant, was omit ted. This is in accordance with the es tablished reputation of Henry W. Sav age who owns the play. "Are you fond of music?" asked Miss Cayenne of her guest of honor. "Very." Then I won't ask Mr. Biggins to sing." Washington Star. YorR KInetoscope Co. Friday evening, October 2i, 1904. and Flad's Drug Store. 50 Cents. FRASER BROS.' C. 0. D. STORE S. E. Cor. 6th and Jackson. Both Phones 660 We'll take the best of care of your orders for anything in the way of fresh, delicious table sup plies. In buying here you are as sured of getting them pure and fresh, and at the lowest price. New Dates, 3 lbs 2oc Cero-Fruto, 2 pkgs 15c Cneeda Biscuit, 3 pkgs 10c Hamburg Steak, lb 10c Jelly Glasses, with tin tops, per dozen 22c English Breakfast Tea, lb 20c Extra Large Kansas Potatoes, bushel 50c Fraser Bros.' Club brand Coffee, 25c value, lb 20c Preserving Pears, half bushel.. 65c Wolff's Capital City Lard, 3-lb pail, 30c; 5-Tb pall, 60c; 10-Ib pail $1.00 Good Breakfast Bacon, ib...l2!jc Tbe store that undersells them all. A NIGHT SCHOOL FOR MEN. Steam and Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Drawinj; Courses. Also studies in other subjocts. For full information apply to Y. M. C. A. 117 East Eighth. School opens September 30. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. PREPARED for particular people. Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Powder ask acquaintance. 25c. STRAY ED A red cow with halter on. Liberal reward if returned to corner of Crane and Jefferson. R. KnelHler. LOCAL MENTION. C C. Hunt, the "drummer orator,"an ex-state senator of Illinois, will speak at the old Armory tonight on campaign issues. Judge Hazen has decided in the H. C. Root case that Mr. Root must make his petition in his damage suit against the city more definite and certain. The case was argued some time ago. Mr. Root wants the city to pay him dam ages because of the injury done his property by Biddle creek flood water. A. D. Chamberlain of 400 Shawnee avenue, has taken out a permit to build a $1,500 house and a J123 barn. Mr. and Mrs. William Cawker are the parents of twins, born today. One of the babies is a boy, the other a girl. Mr. Cawker is a fireman at headquar ters. His home is 316 East Ninth. The fire department is "all agog" over the event. H. A. Spillman, of firm of Emahlzer Spillman, has rented the Burllngame residence No. 118. Greenwood avenue, Potwin, and is having it repaired for a home for his family which arrived in Topeka a few days ago. Lightning Causes $250,000 Fire. Keokuk. la.. Sept- 27. During a terrific electrical storm today a bolt of lightning struck the Collins Healslip wholesale carpet building. The struc ture was destroyed by fire. Loss $250,000. Lrf-t us speak of man as we find him. And censure only what we can see. Remembering that no one can be perfect. 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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAli, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. 5 BARNUfl i Remnants of Moquettes, Axminstcr, Velvet and Body Brussels Carpet. About 75 pieces in the lot, at per yard 65c. These carpets are retailing throughout the land at $1.25 and $1.00 jier yard. Remnants of highest grade extra super all-wool Carpets, such as Lowels, Hartford, Park's, and sim ilar, and worth 80c and 85c, at per yard 50c. Floor Oilcloth Rich colorings, pretty designs, at per square yard 20c. The celebrated English Linoleums (none as good), this week, at per square yard 45c and 55c. Two quali ties. This is but little more than you are asked for the better grade of oilcloths. i Special "We are now engaged in unpacking and placing our Fall and Winter stock of Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, ROWETT ON NEW TASK. State Accountant Checking Vp Barber Board. Governor Bailey has started State Accountant Rowett at work checking up the barber board. The affairs of the barber board seem to be in a rather bad shape. Governor Bailey has been after the board for some time, and the members of the board have confessed that they are unable to straighten matters out. Each mem ber seems to think that the other two members have collected more fees than they are entitled to, and it will take the accountant's investigation to find out how matters stand. The members of the barbers" board are J. D. Stevens of Leavenworth, W. L. Akers of Wichita, and D. M. Mitch ell of Argentine. Stevens is president, Akers is secretary, and Mitchell is treasurer. Under the law, which was passed by the last legislature, all barbers in towns of 3.000 population and over must pass an examination and secure a license from the board. The mem bers of the board receive $3 per day and their expenses in making the ex aminations. The members of the board are said to have divided up the work of issuing the licenses this year and each one has kept what he has collected at least this seems to be the case, and they have made no report. That is why the state accountant will go over their books and find out how much each has received, and if anything is coming to the state after paying their per diem and expenses. Governor Bailey, who has been try ing to get the board to straighten out Its affairs for some time, thinks it is simply a case of bad bookkeeping. He thinks the members of the board are probably good barbers but poor book keepers. The Wichita Beacon publishes a Statement that Secretary Akers. who had been employed in a barber shop in that city, left two months ago for the world's fair and has not yet re turned, nor is it known when he will toe back. The barber law was supposed to be in the interests of hygiene and cleanliness In barber shops. The bar bers themselves were -ery anxious for It and have been working for such a law for several legislatures past, and finally got it at the last session. Fome shops, soon after the law went into effect, raised the price of shaves to IS cents, but not all of them did so. The law does not seem to have been a very great success thus far. Bloodhounds After Incendiaries. Ogden, la., Sept. 27. Bloodhounds rised to track the Itock Island train tandits at Letts, a week ago, were placed on the trail of incendiaries re sponsible for wholesale fires here. Barns, stacks, corn cribs and even dwellings have been fired and in some instances smouldering embers satu rated with kerosene used in starting the blaze were found. A posse of farmers is following the dogs. Reyes Finds Opposition. Bogota, Sept. 27. President Reyes is meeting with much opposition in the Colombian senate to the resumption of amicable relations with the United States. Thankful It Wns No Worse. Ijing. Thibet, Sept. 27. The British expedition to Thibet left Lhassa Sep tember 23. nnd is now marching in the direction of the Chumbt valley. In bid ding farewell to Brigadier General Mac Donald, commander of the British mil- P nco s CREAM baking Erovdor MAKES HOME B AX IX 8 EASY Young housekeepers find in its use the beginning of suc cess in cookery. Price Baking Powder Cot CHICAOO, ir ALL OF THIS WEEK Notice itary forces, the venerable regent in voked the blessing of heaven on his head for sparing the monasteries from violation, and presented him with a golden image of Buddah. POLITICAL GOSSIP. The fusioniats have thus far nomi nated 27 candidates for the state sen ate of the forty to be named. Leav enworth county candidates are hold ing their convention this afternoon, and Ed Carroll is talked of for the nomination. The rest will be named shortly. Those nominated thus far by districts are as follows: Second, B. P. Waggener, Atchison. Fourth, J. L. Carlisle, Kansas City. Sixth, George H. Hodges, Olathe. Seventh, Manford Schoolover, Gar nett. (Declined.) Eighth. Thomas Macon, Devon. Ninth. IX M. Whitehead. Walnut. Tenth, Cyrus W. Harvey, Galena. Eleventh, H. W. Schwartzel, Par sons. Twelfth, W. A. Merrill, Caney. Thirteenth, Fielding J. Scott. St. Paul. Fifteenth, L. H. Hannon, Burling ton. Seventeenth, H. C. Lindsay, Topeka. Eighteenth, C. E. Elliott, Wetmore. Nineteenth, Frank Thomas, Sum- merneld. Twentieth, H. R. Fulton, Hanover. Twenty-second, John McKee, Clay Center. Twenty-third, Charles J. Schneider, Cottonwood Falls. Twenty-fourth, Thomas Ryan, Em poria. Twenty-fifth, W. K. Benson, El Dorado. Twenty-seventh, S. L. Long, Win field. Thirtieth, George H. Davis, Mc Pherson. Thirty-first, Harry McMillan, Min neapolis. Thirty-third. Hi R. Honey, Mankato. Thirty-seventh, A. B. Reeves, Dodge City. Thirty-eighth, J. E. Andrews, La Crosse. Thirty-ninth, John Schlyer, Hays City. Fortieth, L. C. Ahlborn, Kensington. Only a comparatively small number of the 125 candidates for the lower house of the legislature have yet been nominated by the fusionists. It may be three or four weeks before all of these nominations are completed. The Republicans of Meade county believe in recognizing the fair sex in the matter of county offices. They have nominated women for the offices of county superintendent, county treas urer and register of deeds. DUBOIS CHALLENGES FAIRBANKS Would Like to Discuss the Mormon Issue In Idaho. Spokane, Sept. 27. The challenge to Senator Fairbanks, Republican nominee for vice president, to discuss the Mor mon issue in his two speeches in Idaho, has been made by U. S. Seantor Fred T. Dubois. In an open letter to Senator Fairbanks, Seantor Dubois calls atten tion to the anti-polygamy plank In the Democrat platform and demands to know the position of Senator Fairbanks on the question. Rev. Dr. Robert Dead. St. Louis. Sept. 27. Rev. Dr. Pat rick Gibson' Robert, aged 7 7 years, one of the best known Episcopal Clergymen in St. Louis, is dead at his residence here, after an illness of seven years. The deceased was born in Richmond, Va. A widow and five children survive, one of whom is Dent Robert, managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner. New Mexico Republicans Split. Las Vegas. N. M., Sept. 27. Dele gate B. S. Rodey, who was dafeated for renomination for congress in the regular Republican convention by William H. Andrews, has been nomi nated by the Independent Republicans in convention and has agreed to run. Parker Is Congratulated. Esopus, Sept. 27. Many telegrams came to Rosemount. congratulating Judge Par ker on his letter or acceptance. Some of the dispatches came from prominent men in the Democrat party and not a few from editors. A delegation of 36 Dem ocrats from Poughkeepsie came to Rose mount and spent an hour with Judge Par ker. A Boy's Wild Ride for Life. With family around expecting him to die, and a son riding for lite, 18 miles, to get Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, Coughs and Colds, W. H. Brown of Leesville. Ind., endured death's agonies from asthma, but this wonderful medicine gave Instant relief and soon cured him. He writes: "I now slop soundly every night." Like marvelous cures of consumption, pneumonia, bron chitis, coughs, colds and grip prove its matchless merit for all throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 60c and Il Trial bottlas tr. Arnold Drue Co., 4B1A Ciorta ihansts avanne. Directly East of the Postoffice Mittens, and all kinds of Knit Goods; also a complete and excellent line of Coats for children of all ages, especially of school ages. By offering these at exactly one-half of their real value we should certainly be able to interest every mother looking for children's wraps. A Word of Advice Take time in the purchase of your Fall and "Winter supplies. There is no need of any hurry; the bargains of today may be multiplied tomorrow, as there is no scarcity of goods in this market. In a few days our stock will be in shape to handle. "We promise you right now that the saving will be of considerable magnitude as much as the cost of a ton of coal on every $10 purchase. Hadn't you better get your winter's coal free SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS Wh the daylight closes Darkness dreams of day; Rain won't drown the roses; Sing along the way! Just a little sorrow Makes a. Joy thrice sweet; Yonder comes Tomorrow Dancing twinkling feet! Just one golden minute Makes up for sad years; Life has more things in it Than a rain of tears. Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu tion. The board of county commissioners cancelled warrants Monday. Major Anderson expects to have the Commercial club rooms in the Curry building again next week. Home grown cantaloupes and musk melons are coming into market in numbers. Better late than never. Tonight the Commercial club will give a banquet at the Copeland hotel for the visiting Santa Fe railroad men. The weather men seem to think that this is the baseball and tennis season instead of the football and golf period. The trouble with the weather Is that Director Jennings is absent and left everything in the hands of his as sistants. Otto Kuehne has returned from Colorado, where he has been the past two weeks looking after business in terests. Col. "Cope" Gordon, who now lives in Highland park and feeds chickens and does other farmy things, looks ev ery inch a prosperous rancher. Everything seems to be going on today just as it did yesterday, even if a man who draws the mere pittance of 75,000 a year did visit the village. Misery loves company. Everybody was complaining to everybody else coming down town this morning, of inability to sleep last night on ac count of the hot weather. The Ball Park association has de cided to cover the east bleachers and make them into a grandstand and then build more bleachers further east This will be done during the winter. A postal card from Left Fielder Cole of the Saints to Secretary Logan says: "But I wish I were back in Topeka again." Cole is working in a shoe-factory at Binghampton, N. Y. Vice President L. E. Myers of the city railway company states that an "amusement manager" will be ap pointed for Vinewood park for next summer. The park is owned by the father of President Wilson of the rail way company, but the latter concern has complete control. According to PLAIN TALK Food for Thought There, Too. "Having found out for myself the food that enables me to get the most pleasure out of life I consider it a duty to tell someone else my experience," says a Mass. woman. "Born with a weak and sensitive stomach I suffered long with indiges tion and the many ills arising from it, general constipation, weakness of the bowels together with catarrhal Inflam mation and rheumatism of every form and fashion with a tremendous amount of suffering. I had what is known as deposits of brick dust and uric acid, with almost every other impurity of the blood which such a condition can produce. "Coming to the conclusion that I must eat to live and not live to eat I began looking about to find the best way and among the many foods tested was Grape-Nuts. I did not use It as a general food or exclusively but simply ate it once a day either at morning or night on an empty stomach and soft ened in warm cream or milk with a little sugar, bread or butter or cooked or raw fruit. Up to this time I had tried every known remedy for consti pation and had to rely on the medi cines, although I continually got worse Instead of better; within a short time the Grape-Nuts food (which always digested) had toned up my whole sys tem and digestive organs in particular until every bit of constipation and bowel trouble disappeared and I bade good bye to all the cathartics. "Now after using Grape-Nuts two years I still think it delicious. My rheumatism is all gone, also the con stipation, something I had never even hoped for, never have a headache nowadays, my eyesight and hearing are excellent for one of my age, but had given me much trouble while I suffered from constipation. I am now past 80 years of age but walk out and enjoy it- Feel strong and well and I know the Grape-Nuts has given added vigor to my brain, too. It would be very gratifying to me to know that my letter had helped show others the way to a proper diet that has cured my stomach and bowel trouble." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each pkg. for the famous little book. "The Road to Weirvill," j Mr. Myers some good attractions will be featured next year. The regent of Bethany announces an increase in the attendance. Ten new pupils were registered in the kin dergarten Monday. An assistant teacher was employed for this work. SEVENTY-FIVE FEET IS LOST. Potwin Sewer Outlet Has Been Con siderably Shortened. When the city engineer made a sur vey of the sandbar which blocks the mouth of the Potwin sewer, he found that the sandbar is 75 feet narrower than it was when the contract for the sewer was let. Instead of being neces sary to build a sewer 500 feet long through this sandbar, the sewer outlet will have to be only a little over 400 feet long. The missing 75 feet was washed out by the flood. The whole sandbar is likely to go the same way before long. Whether M. Wall, the contractor, will be able to collect the full contract price for the work is rather uncertain. City Engineer MoCabe thinks that the con tract was let at so much per foot, but it is possible that Mr. Wall can hold the city for the full amount of his bid. The work on the construction of the sewer will begin at once. The citv en gineer has completed his survey, and the material which has been on the way for some time has arrived and is on the ground. ONE OF McWADE'S MEN. Interpreter at World's Fair Chinese AriUage Indicted. San Francisco, Sept. 27. H. T. A. Da faylva has been turned over to the cus tody of United States Marshal Shine by jonn juurpny, a secret service agent of St. Louis, who was deputized by the United States marshal of Missouri to bring the prisoner to this coast. Da Sylva, who was formerly an interpreter in the Chinese bureau was recently, ar rested in the Chinese village at St. Louis on a telegraph order from Mar shal Shine, stating that Da Sylva had been indicted by the United States grand Jury of this city and was wanted on a warrant issued by the United States district court charging Jjim with the crime of unlawfully importing wo men into this country. Da Sylva was a subordinate of Con sul General McWade, just removed by the government from the post at Can ton. KILLING AT TRINIDAD. Jack Doird, Formerly a Santa Fe En gineer, Kills William Willis. Trinidad, Col., Sept. 27. During a quar rel in a saloon at Raton, N. M.. last night, Jack Dowd of Trinidad, formerly a Santa Fe engineer, shot and killed William Wil lis, a coal miner employed at Raton. Dowd was immediately arrested. There is con siderable excitement among the railroad men at Raton over the killing, but the of ficers fear no further trouble. Mail Car on Fire. Reno, Nev., Sept. 27. A mail car on the westbound overland flyer on the Southern Pacific caught fire on the des ert near Ocala, this state, this morning. Before the blaze could be extinguished half a dozen pouches of unregistered mail was partially destroyed by fire and damaged by water. The car was badly scorched. No cause for the fire could be learned. Bryan Speaks In Nevada. Reno. Nev., Sept. 27. William Jen nings Bryan opened the campaign in Nevada at McKissick's opera house last night. The house was packed in spite of the heavy rain storm. Bryan spoke for an hour or more on the dif ferent issues of the campaign urging the people to support Parker and Dav is. He will speak at Carson City. Vir ginia City will be visited in the evening and tonight. He will leave again for the east. $500,000 for rr. of p. Philadelphia, Sept- 27. The Public Ledger today says a contribution sup posed to amount to $500,000 ha been made to the University of Pennsyl vania to form the nucleus of an en dowment fund to meet the current ex penses of the Institution. The actual amount of the sift and the identity of the donor will be announced later. Lady Cuiion Slept a Little. Walmer Castle. Sept. 27. The slight Im provement of yesterday in the condition of Lady Cunon of Kedlestone is fairly maintained this morning. The doctors' bulletin was as follows: "Lady Curzon passed a fair night with a little natural sleep. Her general strength has not de clined, but her condition is still criti cal." Tour blood goes through your body with jumps and bounds, carrying warmth and active life to every part, if you take Hol listra Mountain. Tea. 35 cents. Tea. or Tahits. 0tUa PrS Co. A GOOD WORK. A. K. Wilson Investigates the Santa Fe Beading Room. How the Employees Find Use for Them. DOING GREAT SERVICE Tired Worklngman Is Frorided With Entertainment. Mr. Busser Appears to Hare Solved the Problem. Albert K. Wilson, grand secretary of the grand lodge of Masons of Kansas, recently delivered a series of addresses to the employes of the Santa Fe rail road at the division stations between Topeka and the Pacific coast where reading rooms are maintained by the company, and his story of his experi ences on the trip Is interesting. The lit erary work of the company in behalf of its employes was a revelation to him, as were also the general Improve ment and state of perfection which the road has attained since an earlier trip made by him a score of years ago. His enthusiasm over it all is so great as to be contagious and what is hereinafter said is his own account of the Journey. 'The literary department of the com pany is under the immediate supervis ion of Mr. E. S. Busser, an old-time citizen of Topeka and a long-time resi dent of Kansas. This work is Mr. Bus- ser's great pride and surely he is en titled to be as vain about it as he pleases. His whole life has been devo ted to books and men, with the result that he not only knows what men de sire but he also knows where to find that which will satisfy such desires. The libraries connected with the read ing rooms are of his selection and he says that 40 per cent is fiction, 20 per cent history In its general form, 15 per cent biography, 10 per cent technology, the remaining 15 per cent being miscel lany. Everything respectable and use ful or entertaining in the way of cur rent magazines and newspapers is sup plied, no expense being spared by the company in that respect. Mr. Busser, of course, is simply one of the means by which this great railroad is accom plishing great good to Its employes, ana to that company must the credit of the work be given. It was an experiment at the beginning but now it has proved to be an inestimable success. No rail road company, or other corporation, or in truth any employer loses anything by making life brighter and better for employes. What may be a great sacri fice in the beginning soon developes into the reward. "If any person has the least sus picion that these reading rooms and libraries are not appreciated let him take a trip over the line and note how they are used. In my journey I noted sixty-seven employes using the reading room at a small division point in the far west. Even the men who do not reach the division point get much benefit, as all magazines and newspa pers which are replaced by the later editions are sent along the line of the road to the section men and those em ployed in the bridge and construction work. This Is of mestiriiable Denent in that part of the country which is sparsely settled. In this connection it must be remembered that the families of the employes have the use of the books and magazines. When people live where they must depend on them-' selves for entertainment and recrea tion this sort of help is a Godsend. In connection with the reading rooms the company, through Mr. Busser, ar ranges each season a series of enter tainments in the way of concerts and lectures. Some of the best known en tertainers of the country have been taken over the line for that purpose, and all of it is done without expense to the employes or their families. "Books and magazines are not the only benefits in and about these read ing rooms. In conection with them may be found billiard and pool tables, thoroughly equipped bath rooms and other means of benefit and enjoyment. Every room contains a piano, and about the buildings, most all of which were especially constructed for this work, are small parks in which may be found flowers and shrubbery and trees which make them veritable oases In the desert. "It is not a very long time since peo ple hesitated to make the trip to Cali fornia on account of the dust of the desert, but all of that has now been eliminated in Arizona and California by thoroughly oiling the roadbed so that no discomfort whatever is experi enced. Instead of being compelled to pull down the blinds and exert every effort to get rid of the discomforts, now one can enjoy and consider as he travels the marks of history which are evident all along the line. One is no farther along than the tunnel which takes him out of Colorado and into New Mexico when he passes through the Maxwell land grant, fa mous in political history, and finds himself at the Glorietta mountains, at an elevation of 7,500 feet. There he sees the historic Pecos church (now miner mass of adobe) in which 1 the Aztecs kept a fire burning for many years In the hope that Monte zuma would again return and re estalbish their religion which was overthrown by the Spaniards. In go ing down this mountain one passes through the Apache canon, commonly known as the 'battlefield of Glorietta.' It was in this canon, during the civil war, that armed forces from Colo rado repulsed in a most bloody con flict a confederate army from Texas who were on their way north on a foraging expedition. The loss to both armies was very great. "One hurries by the petrified forests at AcTamano. Ariz., which are protected by the government, and the home of the an cient Cliffdwellers near Flagstaff, many of which are so high up on the mountain side that they have never been explored, and, leaving the main line at Williams, Ariz., he goes north 63 miles to the rim of the Grand Canon at an elevation of 7, 000 feet. Upon arriving at this natural wonder of the world one is bewildered when he looks into what seems to be al most a fathomless abyss. While the great ness and sublimity of this ponderous opening in the earth is manifest immedi ately on seeing it, yet more fully to ap preciate this wonder it is necessary to descend to the bottom of the canon a distance of seven miles and a tTscent of 5,fl00 feet to the Colorado river, the width of which is 200 feet in the canon, where it rushes and roars through this vast aper ture in the rocks. The descent is made on horses and mules and over a narrow trail. It is not until one starts on his re turn trip from the river that he fully re alizes the magnificence, wonder and beau tv of this massive wall of solid rock a description of which has baffled the to pographer. Its beauties are beyond the vision of the artist and poet and the lan guage of any people is inadequate to por trav its grandeur. "One would like to tell the full story of the passing from the desert to the land of fruits and flowers and to give expression to the emotions that are thereby engen dered, but it is a long story and the beau ty of it would be destroyed were it told with a fullness of detail. It leaves in the mind a dream which will make life ever afterward richer and fuller and better." CONCERT AT WASHBURN. Faculty of Music Department Present an Attractive Programme. The season of musical events at Washburn college will be opened this evening with a concert given by the instructors of the music department. The following will be the programme Sonata in F For violin and piano. Grieg Mr. Wylie and Mr. Klingenberg. "Estudiantina" duo for soprano and alto Lacome Mrs. Parkhurst and Mrs. Thatcher. Polonaise in D Violin .Wienianski Mr. Wylie. "Autumnal Gale" Grieg Airs. Thatcner. "Slgmund's Love Song" Wagner-Tauslg "Magic Fire" Wagner-Brassiu Mr. Klingenberg. Aria from "Aida" Verdi Mrs. Parkhurst. Fantasle Appasslonata".. .Vleuztemps Mr. Wylie. This programme is the first of a series which will be given throughout the year. They will be given at the college chapel, and no admission will be charged. Last year the car service was inadequate for these concerts, but for the coming season Prof. Penny, dean of the fine art department, has made arrangements for special car service. DIVIDE THE WORK. Various States Assigned Separately to Democrat Managers. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 27 The News says: National Chairman Taggart will give personal attention to the Democratic campaign in Indiana. The leaders have reached the conclusion that it may turn out that the election of the Democratic tiket will hinge on the result in Indiana. The date of Taggart's return to Indiana to carry out the new line of battle has not been fixed definitely. The present plan is to have him start things here within the next two weeks. In the ex ecution of the plans agreed on at the New York conference Senator Gorman is to have charge in Maryland and West Virginia, Thomas Taggart in Indiana, ex-United States Senator Smith In New Jersey, the Connecticut state organiza tion in that state and William F. Shee han in New York. If a little later It shall appear that the party has a fight ing chance in Wisconsin, National Com mitteeman Ryan, a member of the ex ecutive committee, will command in that state. SIGSBEE'S STRONG HINT. Brings Another Apology From Gov. ernor of Cartagena. Colon, Sept. 27. The American con sulate at Cartagena having been twice recently besmeared with filth Rear Ad miral Sigsbee, with his flagship ,the Newark was ordered to proceed to Car tagena and investigate the circum stances. The gunboat Newport, Com mander Mertz, joined the flag ship on September 16. In a communication to Governor Louis Patron, Admiral Sigs bee says in part: "I find your expressions of regret for the acts of indecency on behalf of your self and your government, satisfactory, but that they have not been given suf ficent publicity. I suggest additional precaution to prevent a recurrence of such Incidents and fuller publicity of the government expressions of regret. In order to avert a friendly visit as suming a more difficult feature." Patron complied by reiteration of his regrets. Foundlings Coming West. New York, Sept. 27. Amid scenes of weeping, seventy-five children have taken their departure from the New York Foundling asylum for new homes In the west, secured by agents of the charity. The children were taken from the home by Fifth aveeue stages and placed aboard a special passenger car in which they are now speeding west ward, bound for Nebraska and Ari zona. All are from three to five years old. A large crowd gathered to see them start, wealthy patronesses of the institution looked on with moist eyes and the nurses who had reared the little ones were deeply affected. Massachusetts Primaries. Boston, Sept. 27. Spirited contests for congressional nominations in various districts led to general interest today in the primares wheh were held in 22 Massachusetts cities and two towns. Two of the most vigorous contests in the state are in the Tenth district.where Joseph F. O'Connell Is trying to defeat Congressman William S. McNary for the Democratic nomination, and Elev enth district, where four Republicans seek the nomination. These included Eugene N. Foss.who has been an active supporter of Canadian reciprocity for several years; Stephen O'Meara, former editor of the Boston Journal; former State Senator Isaac H. Hutchinson and former State Councillor Isaac B. Allen. They Make No Comment. St. Petersburg, Sept. 27. All the newspapers here print President Roosevelt's statement to the delegates to the interparliamentary union at St. Louis, regarding the organization of a second peace tribunal, but without comment. 60,000 in Porto Rico Schools. San Juan, Sept. 27. Porto Rico's 1,007 public schols opened with 60,000 pupils enrolled. In the first school year dur ing American occupation there were 800 schools with 25,000 pupils. n JF tor (WUBdSlDd pure. The critical ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, however, is so fraught with dread, pain, suffering and danger, that the very thought of it fills her with apprehension and horror. There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either painful or dangerous. The use of Mother's Friend so prepares the system for the coming event that it is safely passed without any danger. This great ana wonaenui remedy is always appliedexternally,and has carried thousands of women throuerh the trying crisis without suffering. Send for free book eontsining lnformtlo of prieelms value to all expaotaat mothers. The Bradfield Regulator Co Atlanta. 6a. j l f2-:; 1; ll-W -ill ml If lp S1 Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner Marx The Raincoat Is today man's most ser viceable and dressy garment. A waterproof shield in the stormy days of Fall, a wel come protection on chilly mornings and evenings ap propriate for formal wear, cor rect always it proves the claim made for it. We have them cravenettes and cielettes in style, finish and weight to suit any taste or purpose. $15, $18, $20, $25 Special Mention A few Bwell Raincoats, in worsteds and scotches, carried over were 15, j 1 CA $18 Tomorrow I Jm vJ J The Good Clothes Store. DOCTORS ARE CHEATED. They Will Not Get the Brain of George Conant. New York, Sept. 27. A desire ex pressed by Dr. George Conant, who died last week, that his brain be de livred to the department of physiology of Cornell university In the interest of scientific research, will never be ful filled. The body of the physician has been cremated by order of his rela tives who objected to the fulfillment of his wish regarding the disposition of his brain. Dr. Conant died Friday after suffer ing for a long time from diabetls. His relatives, who reside in Ogdensburg. N. Y.. heard that the doctor had willed that his brain be turned over to the scientists. They came to New York and after Investigating assert that they were unable to find any such pro vision in the doctor's will. "Expelled a Colored Pastor. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 2 7. On recom mendation of a committee appointed to investigate the conduct of Rev. W. H. Jones, of Junction City, Kan., the Kansas-Nebraska conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church expelled Rev. Mr. Jones from his pas torate and from the church. Rev. Mr. Jones was charged with falsehood, insubordinaton and general miscon duct. He had been suspended from his pastorate by the presiding elder, but declined to obey. Bishop Grant declared Jones dismissed. Too Smart for Her Parents. Winfield Kan., Sept. 27. There waa a surprise in store for the parents of Myrtle Effner of Oxford when they came to the probate judge's office in Winfield to secure a license for her sister to marry Wiley Hornbeck of Udall. They found Myrtle, who Is only 17 years old, had been married earlier In the day to John W. Yynn of Seely, making affidavit that she was 19. The astounded parents had no alternative but to forgive their daughter's actions. Torpedo Boat Destroyer Lost. London, Sept. 27. The British torpedo boat destroyer Chamois has been lost off the island of Cephalonia, In the Med iterranean. All on board were saved. No woman's happi ness can be complete without children it is her nature to lova and want them as much to at it is to love the beautiful and I J AUCMCH ii jy.i Jiip,j, n u

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6 1 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. AS IT LOOKS NOW Kew York Herald Sizes Up the Situation. General Aspect Is FaTorable to the Kcpublicans. SEW YORK FOR PARKER Tide In Doubtful States Set Towards Uooserelt. Democrats Are Still Hoping for a Late Change. New York, Sept.27. The Herald com Bifnts on the political situation as fol lows: Surveying the political field in the last week in September these things tand cut with clearness: New York state is doubtful and the situation is complicated. Inliuenced by its Mist poll Ie Repub lican state committee claims thi state by 20,000 for Roosevelt and -Fairbanks, but this poll was conducted before the state nominations were made, and must be revised. It is conceded by Republicans, as well as Democrats, that if the election weie held today the Democratic state ticket would be elected by a large plur ality. As New Yoik is the nub aiound wnii h trie entire Democratic campaign levcivot: it is necessary to examine me situation elsewheie, with particular ititiin t to the events which have ta ken im.ce liere. Dfeitiihi-s liuni all the doubtful states ;;,ree that the Saratoga conven tion, nrmn nominated Judge Heriick, iias en'.ou.ageii the Dcmociats in ail tne uoubttul states with the exception ml Kno e iatlanJ. tair.ul inquiry among the campaign maiiafei s. hunrver, snows that tne fliui has been toward Koosevelt for liio.t man a month, and unless the Dtinocii-ts succeed in turning it toward 1 auti the betting will continue to the cnu oi tne campaign at odds in favor 01 Kuost-velt. Ja.tr 1 aiiter is a believer in a short campaign, lie thinks this election will be iu in the last three weeks of the vanvays. tor tnal reason he has Ue- leuec nis letter iu a t-ptanee seven vteks later tn.-m the ter of Samuel J. Tilden, whose tight was made on like issues, liovniiui 1 ilden's letter was printed on August 6, l7ti. New York Democrats are confident of carrying this state tor both Parker and rlf rnck. Some of them look for a pluranly for the Albany judge reaching i00,0o0. If that should prove to be a well founded expectation, then the state could not be carried for the Republican eiectors. In ISSN, when Harrison carried the state for president and Hill was elect ed governor, the Republican electors had a plurality of 13,002 and the Democratic governor a plurality of 19.171. Here was a difference of 32, 173 votes. The Republicans regard the situa tion in the state for the state ticket as desperate. The leaders find a deep seated feeling of resentment among the Republican voters against Gover nor ode!!. The Democrats are not yet satisfied with the outlook in any of the other so-called doubtful states. The situa tion continues to be that they have states certain to go Democratic which will give them 159 electoral votes. In order to obtain 239 electoral votes, or a bare majority of the electoral col lege, they must get SO votes elsewhere. New York, Connecticut, New Jersey. Indiana and West Virginia would give them just 8 0. Dosing New Jersey and carrying all the rest, and also W'iscon-j sin. would give them 240 one to j spare. They could lose West Virginia 1 1 VI v OI 1 lie. Ill LI l ttiiu V .1 II nu I u r i i including Wisconsin, and still fail, un less ine) couiu pieit up one v uir j somewhere else. This might come, from Delaware or from Nevada. The Democrats are by no means confident of carrying this combination I of states, unless they can get the pub- lie profoundly stirred, as they did in 1892. If the condition throughout the country was like that which exists in New York, the betting on Parker would be at odds in his favor. But only In Wisconsin is the situation so bad as In New York. So that condition does not exist. The Republicans assert that they have made headway in Connecticut and that the Democrats have lost ground. This, they say. is also true in Rhode Island. The state two weeks ago was doubt ful. The Republicans are making to day emphatic claims. The result in New Jersey, depends altogether on the way the employes in the manufacturing establishments in the northern end of the state will vote. There is as yet no sign of a political revolution. Something more than union In New York will be needed to turn the scales, in the opinion of men whose minds are not blinded by parti sanship. In Delaware the situation is not yet satisfactory to the Republicans. West Virginia has been practically wiped off the slate of Democratic ex pectations. It is a protection state and the recent speech of Henry G. Davis, the candidate for vice president, declaring for protection, was intended to be an effort to discount the harm the letter of Judge Parker, support-1 .'10 iiuiiicwmic laiiii l r umuii, Hill HO to the Democratic cause in that state. Indiana and Wisconsin will be the battleground in the west. Thomas Taggart. chairman of the national committee, returned to Democratic headquarters last week and reported that the Indiana Democrats were In better condition than they had been since 1892. He thinks the state Is going Democratic. On the other hand, j Chairman Cortelyou seems to be very I confident of Indiana. An Impartial ODserver. wno nas Deen making esti mates on that state for many years, gives the opinion that the Republicans have the best of It. Neither party has completed Its tabulation of the sixty day poll of the state, and until they get the figures at headquarters there will, of course, be considerable doubt as to the drift. Both parties are sturdily claiming Wisconsin. The Democrats hope that the trouble between the Republican "stalwarts" and "half-breeds" will de feat the Republican electors. They ad mit that Roosevelt is very popular in the state, and that it will be difficult to make either faction vote for Par ker electors or for Independent elec tors. The troubles between La Fal lotte and the "stalwarts" will come up In the Wisconsin courts tomorrow at Madison. There is to be a contest for electors in all of the Rocky Mountain states. In Colorado the labor troubles are expect ed to affect the Republican votes. The state went for Bryan-Fusion electors te 1900 by 29,661 aad lor Governor Pea- body In 1902 by 7,295. There is no fusion now to help the Democrats. The Re publicans confidently claim the state for the presidential ticket, but there may be a surprise. Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Utah are all now In the Republican column. The Democrats have made good state nominations in all these states, and will contest with spirit for the electors. On the other hand, the Republicans think they have a good chance to carry Nevada. This is the situation six weeks before election. The Democrats are hoping for a change in sentiment among the great masses of the voters, which will enable them to carry enough "doubtful" states to give them SO electoral votes that are not now clearly In sight. The Republi cans are hoping for a continuance of present conditions. WE MUST APOLOGISE. For the Arrest of a Member of the I.ritisli Embassy. Washington, Sept. 27. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British ambas sador, has received a telegram from Lenox telling of the arrest of Mr. Ouenery and stating that the matter had been referred to the state depart ment. The ambassador took no action in the matter nor does he expect that it will be necessary for him to do so. He expressed confidence that the state department will take whatever action is proper. He expects to leave vvasn tngston today to return to Lenox as he had originally planned. Notice of the action of a special jus tice at Lee. Mass., in hning Hugh Uuerney, third secretary of the Hritisn embassy, was received at the state de partment in a telegram from Mr. Raikes, hist secretary of the embassy who is at Lenox. The department transmitted this telegram in substam e to the governor of Massachusetts with the suggestion that he do whatever might be necessary to secure the di plomatic immunity of Mr. Guerney. It is believed at the department the matter may be far more serious than the local officers at Lee seem to regard it. In the first place by constitutional and statutory law the persons attached to an embassy are expressly relieved from any legal responsibility and the exemption even extends to domestic sei vants. It will remain for the governor of Massachusetts to take initial action in this case which will require prompt re dress. The last important precedent occurred in 1892 at the picnic resort of Ray Ridge near Baltimore, when Dr. George, an attache of the Swiss lega tion in Washington was arrested by a deputy sheriff on the charge of being a pickpocket and was searched and otherwise treated in a humiliating manner by the local authorities. State department secured his release at an early moment through the governor of Maryland who also caused the dismis sal of the offending deputy and extend ed an apology for the incident. Though the Swiss minister might Irave pressed further punishment e accepted what had been done sufficient but the mat ter wa3 deemed of such importance that he could not give this notice to our government until the Swiss federal had formally considered the case and expressed itself satisfied. LAND FOR PUBLIC ENTRY. 100,000 Acres -"Will Be Opened for Settlers In Idaho. Minidoka. Idaho.. Sept. 27. The Oregon Short Line will begin the con struction of a branch from this city to Twin Falls City, on the Snake river, where has just been completed the Twin Falls irrigation enterprise, re claiming 275,000 acres of arid Snake river valley lands, said to be among the best valley lands of Idaho. The irrigation work has been done under the immediate supervision of the Idaho state land board, and under the provisions of the Carey land act. The cost of construction of the irrigation system has been about $2,000,000, and was one of the largest undertakings of the kind since the act was passed by congress. The state opened 30.000 acres of the land to public entry last fall and it has all been absorbed. The land board has now authorized the opening of an additional 100,000 acres at noon. October 20. Preliminary indications are that several thousand settlers will take up homesteads as soon as the new tract is opened to public entry. The opening will occur at Twin Falls City, where the land office will be located. Twin Falls City is one of the town sites and has grown rapidly, one mod ern hotel and several large business blocks being in course of erection. The new line to be constructed by the Ore gon Short Line will pass through the newly irrigated lands. TEXAS A GATEWAY. For the Introduction of Undesirable Immigrants Into United States. San Antonio, Tex.. Sept. 2". Texas and Mexico have been called upon to play a part In the great European con spiracy to flood this country with hordes of undesirable immigrants, and today the Lone Star state is being used as a gateway for these people into the Unit ed States. So alarming have the conditions be come that Commissioner of Immigra tion Frank T. Sargent of the bureau of commerce and labor, has come to San Antonio for the purpose of beginning an active warfare on the smuggling of un desirable immigrants across the border. Mr. Sargent arrived in San Antonio yesterday and today held a long and earnest consultation with Mr. Callahan, the local immigration official, who has done some very keen work in ferreting out the details of the smuggling plot. As a result of the Investigations. which have been going quietly on for the past two months, the Texas-Mexican border will be guarded at every pass and town. If objectionable Immigrants can get into the United States through the gov ernment's barrier thus erected they will, say officials, have earned their entry into this country. IMPALED OX A STUMP. Boy Loses His Life While Gathering Chestnuts. New Tork, Sept. 27. Impaled on a stump of a tree by a large splinter that had penetrated his right breast to the lung, Alphonse Pedee, of Brooklyn, died in the presence of a score of horrified boys and girls with whom he had been chestnuting near Jamaica. Pedee had been sitting on the branch of a tree knocking the nuts down to his companions when the limb on which he sat broke and he fell face downward upon a Jagged stump below. Most of the children became frightened and ran away. When a doctor arrived he found the youth dead. One of his playmates was praying beside him. HIS INDIAN TALK. Ker. Charles M. Shelden Tells of Summer Trarels. Visited the Navajo and the Moki Tribes. THEY ARE NOT LAZY. Says Narajos Are a Sturdj In dustrious liace. Not a Single Conrert to Christi anity Among Them. Nava, Nava, my Navajo, I have a love for you that will grow If you'll have a coon for a beau, I'll have a Navajo. Charles M. Sheldon did not sing the above familiar ditty at his lecture at Central church last night on the sub ject of the Navajo and Moki Indians, but it might have been appropriate. Mr. Sheldon spent part of his sum mer out In Arizona visiting the In dians, and he has picked up a large amount of interesting information about them, also a line collection of Navajo blankets and Indian utensils. The Navajos appear to have only one joke, and that joke is on their neigh bors, who are commonly known as th Mokis. The real name of the Moki tribe is Hopi, not Moki. Hopi means "peaceful people." The Navajos, on the other hand are warlike, and they in derision call the Hopi tribe "Mokis," which means "dead ones." Considering the fact that it was originated by a Navajo, this is a very good Joke. It worked the United States government, all right, for it is only recently that the government maps have given the Hopis their proper name. Some very elegant gray and black rugs and blankets were exhitied by Mr. Sheldon to the large audience last night, together with numerous other articles in common use with both Na vajos and Hopis. The proceeds of the lecture about $100 will be used to buy a carpet for the recently rebuilt Central church. "If you never ate griddle cakes bak- ed on a buzz-saw," said Mr. Sheldon in speaking of the f agojj trip through the Indian country, "you don't know much about cooking. Our party originated the custom among the Navajos. w e would dig a long hole in. the ground, lay tbe buzz-saw over the top, and build a fire in the hole. Then we had a draft both ways, and did our cooking on the buzz-saw. The Indians would crowd around to watch us." An interesting story was told of the trip across the painted desert, the ex perience with bugs, lizards, scorpions and floods. "But we did not see a single snake," said Mr. Sheldon. "The missionary who has been there eight years says he has never seen a snake. Where the Indians get their snakes for their snake dance is a mystery. "The term 'lazy as an Indian' does not apply to the Navajos," continued Mr. Sheldon. "There are about 25,000 Navajos and they are increasing in numbers. They are a rugged people, and the missionaries out there say they have never seen a drunken Navajo. The women always own the sheep. The men own the horses and ponies and till the fields. "They have peculiar superstitions which interfere seriously with some of their domestic relations. When a girl is married, the mother is for ever forbidden to look upon the face of her son in law. They must keep apart under all circumstances. An other superstition is that they will not count their sheep. They know each sheep by sight, even when they have docks numbering as high as seven hundred. When a man is sick, they say he has had beads shot into him, and the medicine men make a pre tense of extracting the beads. "The Navajo rugs are made on a very simple loom, hung out of doors under a tree. .The women do the work. There is no typical Navajo rug. Each woman makes her own design. "They live in what are called ho gans. A hogan consists of some limbs of cottonwood locked together at the top like a tepee, with the cracks plas tered up with mud. The Navajos are polygamous. In the eight years that Mr. Johnson, the missionary, has been there, not a single convert to Christ ianity has been made. But they love Mr. Johnson, and would lay down their lives for him, and I believe that when they do embrace Christianity they will make very good Christians. "The Hopi tribe lives up on the sides of a great cliff. They are a happy, jovial people. They are not polygamous. The women build the houses, and the men do the weaving. "The snake dance is a ceremony which makes you wonder if you are still living in the United- States of America in the year 1904. There were fhZ Ll t. Cn f"'! w'omen there this year. Including the Indians, about i00 or 800 people saw the dance. A little before sundown, the thirteen antelope priests come up out of the kivas, each carrying a rattle. They march around the large circle, shakine their rattles Then the snake priests come up with their whips. There are twelve of the snake priests. Each of the priests went to a little booth at the further end of the plaza and took from it a poisonous snake. Most of them were rattlers The probability is that the fangs or poison sacks of the reptiles are not ex tracted. They simply do not bite those Indians. Probably the Indians know how to handle them. As they came dancing toward us, I noticed that each Indian had between his teeth one of the snakes. The snake was held Just back of its head, and then with each hand the Indian held the snake's body out in front of him, and appeared to be careful not to let the reptile coil up. "After dancing around the circle, they threw their snakes down. One of the snakes cfawled over among the tourists, and made a great sensation. It was captured and taken back. Sacred corn meal was scattered on the ground, and each of the priests threw his snake into a pile on top of the meal. I stood not five feet from this pile of wriggling snakes. Then each of the priests made a dive into the pile of snakes and grabbed all he could get hold of. Some of them got two or three. I couldn't see that they paid any espec ial attention to how they took hold of them. Each priest then ran down into the plain, and released his snakes. On their return, they drank very deeply out of earthen Jugs. Some of them must have drunk as much as two quarts. Then the most disgusting part of it all happened, for each turned around and vomited up everything he had drunk. This was not done, we are told, to coun teract the snake bites, because there were no snake bites, but simply as part of the ceremony of the dance. "And this whole thing is a prayer for rain. They are dependent on rain for their existence, and the snakes which are re leased are supposed to go to the great father and intercede with him for' rain. "The priests-were intensely in earnest. They pay no attention to anything that is going on. Up on the roof of one house was a man with a moving picture ma chine, grinding away as fast as he could during the whole performance, but they never paid any attention to him. There were correspondents there from the east ern papers and they jumped over into the circle to take snap shots of the dance, but the priests paid no attention to them." Mr. Sheldon said that one Moki girl had betn baptized into Christianity a few days before the dance, and that this girl stood on the roof of a house watching her fath er engaged in the heathen dance and weeping bitterly. Mr. Sheldon secured a large collection of oictures of the dance and the Indians in their "hogans," which will be exhibited on lantern slides at some future time. CANNON FINDS A TEXT. In the Pension Clause In Parker's Letter of Acceptance. Hastings, Neb., Sept. 27. Speaker Can non's Drincina.1 sDeech of the day wa made here. Speaker Cannon took up and discussed that part of Judge Parker's let ter of acceptance relating to the presi dent's order providing lor a graduated pension scale. Sneaker Cannon reviewed the law un der which the order was made and tne construction placed on it by President Cleveland and President McKinley, and continued: "Now then when that order of Roose velt's was issued the Dickens was to play, although along the same principle and the same manner as formerly issued by Cleve land and McKinley, and they have been raisins? a row about it ever since, talking of executive usurpation. In Parker's first acceptance by speecn ne complained or the expenditure of the government under Republican rule and Roosevelt came back at nun and said: 'How are vou Groin? to cut down these expenditures? Are you for the repeal of that executive order relating to the sol diers 7 "And Parker now comes back in his letter of acceptance Just issued and says: 'if I am elected president I will rescind that order.' And then he goes on and says: 'But, after I rescind it I will use my influence with congress to pass a bill giv ing an age service pension to the soldier tnat pertormeel service in tne civil war. "I ask: What age, Parker, will It be: i a, bo. b2 years, or what lndennite. still you are, and probably not, sincere. But suppose you are elected president. Mr. Parker, and you use your influence, what will tnat bring in tne meantime.' xom 23.000 to 50.000 ueoDle will have their pen sions taken away while you promise to use your influence to have congress pass a service pension law without stating the age you propose to recognize. "Now I ask you, Mr. Parker, if you are elected president, wno will control the house of representatives will not two thirds of the Democrats in that body be made uu of members from the south, and are they liberal people with pensions for tne union soioiers "Let us read a chapter from the history of pension legislation as it stands on the statute books today. There are fourteen bills that have been passed from time to time, and these bills form the pension code. Who passed them? Democrats for the bills 417, Democrats against the bills Mi, Kepuoneans lor tne Dills l.ues, KepuD licans against the bills none. That's how the record of the vote upon those meas ures stand. Is there any hope there for -Mr. "ariter s influence to be effective? He is to take pensions away from thousands of people and only replace them by a promise to use his influence with a party in congress that has a notorious record against tnat very thing. "Let me ask you, have you ever read Bunyan's 'Pilgrims Progress'? Great book: splendid allegory. There was Chris tian and there was Faint Heart, and there was i rue Heart and there was Mr. Fac ing Both Ways. I say to you that if Par ker had lived then that character in the dook would not have been Facing Both t uui uui'i nave ueen rarner. $1,782 FOR A RIDE F. M. Pease Slakes Ttecortt Breaking Trip on Pennsylvania. Chicago, Sept. 27. By a record breaking run from Philadelphia to Chicago. F. M. Pease, who "deals in cars and locomotives," saved a busi ness transaction said to involve $250. 000. What it was no one knows ex cept the man and his attorney and the three other Chicago persons princi pally Interested in it John W. Gates, Charles W. Gates and John M. Drake. The Pennsylvania railroad special, which carried Pease, his wife and lit tle daughter, also carried a quarter of a million dollars in cash needed to complete the transaction. The train covered the 822 miles be tween the two cities in sixteen hours and fifty-seven minutes. The best pre vious record was eighteen hours and thirty minutes, made by the same railroad a year ago. The trip cost Pease $1,782. Pease had missed the Chicago lim ited on Thursday, and it was "impera tive" that he should reach Chicago be fore 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon. He started from Philadelphia at 4:08 in the afternoon and reached here at 9:05 the next morning. That gave him four hours to spare. The first thing he did was to give the railroad com pany a check for $1,782. "I consider it a cheap trip," was his comment. A cab took Mr. Pease to his office in the Railroad Exchange building. Then he called up Attorney Moritz Rosenthal by telephone. Neither Pease nor Rosenthal would give the details of the deal which 1 1 r. V, 1ia v. I haste, and no information was forth- coming from the Gates or John A. Drake. It Is understood that it had something to do with the organization of a corporation. The Pressed Steel Car company, with a capital of $25, 000,000 was mentioned in 'connection with the record breaking trip. Mr. Pease and Mr. Rosenthal were busy with the transaction whatever it was all day. Pease said that he and his family enjoyed the trip. There was no die comfort aside from a nervous desire to try and count telegraph poles and the clicks marking the rail joints. "I fried several times to -time the train," said Pease, "but gave it up. The crew said we made more than a mile a minute at numerous points along the line." "The special train, which was made up In Philadelphia thirty-eight min utes after Mr. Pease gave the order, consisted of a sleeper, buffet car, and locomotive. Instructions .were given to every division superintendent thirty minutes in advance to have the tracks cleared for the special, which had precedence over everything else on wheels. At each of the six division points engines and crews were changed. MARTYCUTS HIS THROAT Cashier of Long-ford State Bank Ends His Life. Clay Center, Kan., Sept. 27. J. J. Marty, cashier of the Longford State bank committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear early this morn ing. The cause was mental and nerv ous depression. The act does not ef fect the bank accounts as the books show that everything is straight. Mr. Marty was first county clerk elected by the Populists. He represent ed the county in the legislature but was defeated by W. S. Bradbury; for the second term. 1ARKETST0DAY. Sentiment in Wheat Inclined to Firmness. Wet Weather in Northwest the Canse. LIFE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Slow Natives $3.75 to $6. Bring Hog. Strong Bluk of 5.90 to 6.05. Chicago, Sept. 27. WHEAT In spite of lower cables sentiment in wheat today was inclined to firmness owing to predic tions of wet weather in the northwest. May opened unchanged to c lower, at $1.1141.11. After advancing to $1.12 tjf price slumped off to $1.11, but rallied again to $1.12. December opened Vic low er to He higher, at $1.104il.l0. After touching $l.lc the price advanced to $1.10. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 1,062 cars, against 1, 233 cars a year ago. On heavy purchases by a leading bull FOR 30 YEAR LIFE. Continued from Page One.) Shawnee county, Kansas, against said Edison Electric Illuminating company of Topeka, or against any successor or assigns of said company, which peti tion shall contain a general descrip tion of the plant or property, setting forth the interest or property rights of said corporation or others therein, as near as may be done, and praying that the city may be permitted to ac quire a title thereto in the manner provided by an act of the legislature of the state of Kansas approved March 13, 1903, entitled, "An act relating to cities of the first class and repealing chapter 37 of the laws of 1881 and all acts amendatory and supplementary, and chapter 82 of the laws of 1897, and all acts amendatory and supple mentary thereto, in so far as the same relate to cities of the first class." Thirty days 'notice shall be given all persons interested in said property, of the time of hearing of said application by cublication in three successive is sues of some weekly newspaper of the city of Topeka having general circula tion therein, the first to be made in said paper not less than 30 days prior to the time of said hearing, and notice shall be further given by delivering a copy of the notice so as aforesaid to be published to the manager in charge of the said Edison Electric Illuminat ing company's property, if such man ager can be found within the county of Shawnee. In such proceedings, pe tition and notice it shall not be neces sary to state the names of any of the parties Interested as defendants ex cept those of the reputed owner or owners. That after saia notices navr been served and made as hereinbefore nrovided. the said property shall be appraised and acquired and paid for by the said city in strict accordance with the requirements and provisions of said act approved March 13, 1903, relating to cities of the first class here inbefore referred to, and the proceed ings therein directed shall be in all respects complied with and followed. Sec 10. That within 20 days after the passage and npproval of this ordinance, said Edison Electric Illuminating com pany of Topeka shall file with the city clerk of said city its acceptane in writ ing of the provisions, terms and condi tions of this ordinance, which acept ance shall be duly acknowledged before some officer authorized to administer oaths. This ordinance unless so ac cepted shall become null and void, but when so accepted shall be and consti tute a contract between the city of To peka and said Edison Electric illum inating company of Topeka, Sec. 11. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances In conflict with this or dinance be and the same are hereby re pealed. Sec. 12. Tnat tnis ordinance snail taae effect and be In force from and after its publication in the official city news naner and shall be a valid and binding contract between the said city of To peka and the Edison Electric Illum inating company of Topeka, from and after its acceptance by said Edison Electric Illuminating company of To peka as hereinbefore provided. 9.000 RETURN TO WORK On Basis of Open Shop, !Lower Wages and longer Hours. Chicago, Sept. 27 Nine thousand men returned to work without union regulations of any sort when the three Chicago branches of the International Harvester works and the Pullman company reopened their shops after a shutdown of two weeks. The men not only returned to their former places as individuals, but they also agreed to reductions in pay of 10 to 20 per cent. Before the shutdown the International Harvester works recognized the labor unions, but with the announcement of a resumption of work came the state ment that the company would not re new its agreement with the trades unions and that the plants would be operated on a basis of fifty-seven and one-half hours a week instead of fifty four with no increase in wages. The men accepted the ultimatum of the company without any serious mani festations of disconent and all of the old employes who could obtain work accepted the new regulation. A call was issued for a special meeting or an unions having members employed by the International Harvester company to consider the conditions at the three plants, but the general decision is that the men will remain at work under the new conditions. The case of the employes of the Pullman company is different from that of the Harvester company, inas much as the Pullman company has ignored all trades union since the strike in their plant In 1894. The Pull man company announced it would re open its shops but at a wage reduction of 10 to 20 per cent. Less than two thousand workers were given their former positions,, but these men willingly accepted the de crease in pay and several thousand former employes left the yards of the company bitterly disappointed because they could not return to work even at the reduced wages- It is the intention of the Pullman company to have its plant in full operation by next Mon day. Work was resumed only in the car repair shops. Wants Divorce for Cruelty. Grace Mauk has filed suit in the dis trict court for divorce from Fred Mauk. She charges cruelty. wwwwitwti inn inin.mt.nn 1 1 1 1 I The Bargain Of Topeka. have been particularly unfortunate this making their purchases.' Along about September read the first flaring announcements of new Fall clothing and the assurance that no goods are ever carried over from one season to the next, which would lead yon to believe that only newest products are on display, and now it develops that the stock selections were so poorly made that $15 top coats re quire hard pushing at $10; that $2.50 and $3 hats must be dumped into the $1.98 booth; that children's $5 suits are so poor that they must be reduced to $2.98 to induce customers to consider them. The Average $5 Suit For a boy should cost at least $3.58 wholesale, and good mer chants who .are anxious to "grow" are willing to pay $3.75 and even $4 for good values to retail at $5; and if we had a buyer who would pay $3.50 to $4 for a line of boys' school suits to retail at $5, and we found them so bum as to neces sitate reducing them to $2.98 special in two weeks after the Fall season opened, we would Are the expert and hire a black smith or hod carrier to do the buying. Even if he had no Judg ment, he could hardly do worse. See our boys $2.B0 suits for $2.50, worth $2.50, like others advertise as "$5 values, spe cial tomorrow $2.95." Watch Us Grow. Watch Robinson, Marshall Co. 703 Kansas Ave. Ind. 'Phone 22. Security Building. L it. Jf i A interest the market became decidedly strong, December advancing to $1.12. May sold up to .13ffil.l3. The close was strong with December up lc, at $1.12. May closed at $1.134, a net gain of lVjc. CORN Indications of additional rain in the west and comparatively steady cables held corn steady. December opened tc lower to hkc higher, at 5t50c, advancing to 50c, and steadied at 50c. At the close December showed a gain of c, final figures being at 5tc. OATS December oats opened unchang ed to c lower, at 30(fi30aic sold at 'dOVgft 0c, and steadied at 30(t30c. PROVISIONS Provisions were firm. January pork and lard were each up 2Hc, at $13.37H and $7.47, respectively. RIb3 were 2rtJ5c higher, at $6.Sa. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red. $1.16a"1.17: No. 3 red, $1.12W.14; No. 2 hard, $1.10ai.l4; No. 3 hard, $1.03(jil.l0; No. 1 northern, $1.20; No. 2 northern, $1.18: No. 3 spring. $1.15. CORN No. 2, 52i.4'S53c; No. 3. 52'fi624c. OATS No. 2, 3O'a30'4c: No. 3, 2Hc. RYE Sept., 734c: Dec, 76c; May, 7S'v2C FLAX Cash: N.-W.. $1.1H4: S.-W.. $1.09: Sept., $1.09. TiMuray-sort.. $2.70: Oct.. $2.70; Dec. $2.75; Jan., $2.80: March, $2.56. (JLOV KH-Sept., $12.15. BARLEY Cash: 37iS54c Ranffe of Prices. .Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Crains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephon 4BS. Correspondent Christie Grain an1 Stock Co.. Kansas City. Mo.l Chicago, "Sept. Z7. Open WHEAT High Low Close Yes 1 1 0S 1 10 1 09 Dec ....1 1C4 1 12' 1 10H 1 12 1 lOH M iv... 111? 113 111 11314 HI CORN Sept 52 53 521J 52 624 Dec rf -50a4 54 49-4-50 WWi 5t)i4 May 4S14-9 41-li 4fc?fc-i 48- 4S?i OATS Sept 8S94- 29 2I'4 294 29 Dec 3- 30 3 3014 30 Mav 33-33 33',8 32Vs- 30 33 PORK Sept 11 60 11 70 Oct 11 62 11 65 11 60 11 63 11 62 Jan 13 40 13 40 13 30 13 30 13 35 LARD Sept 7 40 7 ffl Oct 7 40-42 7 45-47 7 37 7 42 7 35 Jan 7 47-50 7 50-52 7 42 7 47 7 45 RIBS Sept 7 70 7 75-77 Oct 7 S2 7 85 7 72-75 7 72-75 7 77-S0 Jan 695 695 690 6 90-92 6 90-92 Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commission rjrains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephon 4S6. Correspondent Christie uraia ana Stock Co., Kansa? City. Mo. Kansas City, Sept. 27. Open High Low Close Yea WHEAT Doc ....1 01 1 03 May ...1 mi 1 04 1 00 1 03Vi 1 OUa 1 03i2 1 01 1 02 43 43 CORN Dec 43-4 4 43 May 43fe- 44 43 43 43 Market Gosslo- rTrsirnlKheri bv A. M. McDermott v.ummi- slon Co., Stocks. Grains, Provisions and investment securities. too.ns a ana u 702 Kansas ave.J Liverpool opening cables: Wheat d tnnmr- mm X( lower. Liverpool, 1:30 p. m.: Wheat d lower; rnm lirl lower. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 134 cars: eraded. 2. Corn, 343 cars; graded, 36. Oats, 174 cars: graded. 31. Liverpool closing canies: w neai su lower: corn unchanged. Northwest erain receipts today: Minne apolis, 348 cars: Duluth, 6C0 cars. A year aero: Minneapolis, 5S9 cars; Duluth, 562 cars. Estimated grain receipts at unicago to morrow: w neat, bz cars; corn, 10a cars; oats, 145 cars; hogs, 14,000 head. Chicago Live Stock Market. ChirReo.Kent. 27 CATTLE Receipts to day. 13.000 head, including 00O head of Tex- ans and h,vH head of westerns. Mark-it stead v. Good to prime steers. f. t&cib do; poor to medium. $3. 75Jr5.40: stockers and feeders. 52.i5'Vi4.o0: cows, $l.50g4.35; heifers, $2 cocao. 25: canners. tl.iMf2.40: bulls, S2.0UW 4. U0; calves. $3. 516.25: Texas fed steers, $4.00fi5.50; western steers, W.5(5.10. HUU&-Keeeinis toaay. iv.wv neau; esti mated Wednesday. 14.000 head. Market weaker. Mixed and butchers'. $5.65S6.37H; jood to choice heavy, $6.oo6.jy; rougn heavv. $5.6CK5.90; light, o.i0(a6.30; bulk 01 sales, $5.54j6.10. SHEEP Receipts today, zo.mw neaa. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers. $3.75a4.25; fair to choice mixed. $3.0Oii4.0O; western sheep, $3.0a&4.25; native lambs, $3.50-5.45; western lambs, $4.005.65. St. Louis Live Stock Market. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 27. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 7,500 head, including 4.000 head of Texans. Market steady. Beef steers, $1.00-a6.05;stockers and feeders, $2.25 t3.60; cows and heifers, $2.25'g3.75; Texas steers, S2.5C&3.5U; Texas cows and heifers. $2.002.65. HOGS Receipts today, C.000 head. Mar ket steadv. Fis and lights, t4.5O!&6.00; packers'. $S.00!ati.25; butchers' and best heavy, $6.056.30. SHEEP Receipts today, 3,500 head. Market steady. Lambs, $4.75g5.60; Texans, $3.X&4.00. Kansas City Livestock Market. Kansas Citv, Mo., Sept. 27. CATTLE Receipts today, 22,000 head, including 2,000 head of southerns. Market slow to steady. Native steers, $3.75'(;6.0'; southern steers, $2.5Oi3.50: southern cows. $1.50it2.60: native cows and heiiers. $l.o0i4.75: stockers and feeders. $2.25ft4.O0: bulls, $1.79fi3.S0: calves, 1 $2.5C"ii5.5u; western steers, $3,004x4.25; west ern cows. $1.5i."fr3.25. HOGS Receipts today, 10.000 head. Mar ket steady to strong. Bulk of sales. $5.t0 4x6.05; heavy. $5.90&6.05: packers', $o.90tJ6.10; pigs and lights, $5.&56.10. SHEEP Receipts today, 15,000 head. Maiket steady. Muttons, $3.00(63.80; lambs. Clothiers Fall In 10 you Our Business Methods Win. j $4.005.25; range wethers, S3.25g3.90; era. $2.753.35. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, 111., Sept. 27. BUTTER M r ket firm. Creamery, 141912; dairy, 13 a 17c. EGOS Market steady. At mark, cases included, 14-17c. CHEESE Market firm. Daisies, 9fl"io; Twins, 8i48Vic; Young Americas, 9fiHo. LIVE POULTRY Market steady. Tur keys, 12c; chickens, lOVsc; springs, 10911ah Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Sept. 27. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 135 cars. Quotation were higher. Sept., $1.04; Dec, $1.03V 1.03; May, $1.03"-. Cash: No. 2 hard, $l.Ge&1.07; No. 3 hard, $1.0ZCg'1.0: No. 4 hard, 93C? $1.01; rejected hard. 8V2c; No. 2 red, $1.00; No. 3 red, $1.0Bfel.06; No. 4 red. 96ci $1.04. CORN Market steady. Sept.. 4BVsc; Dec, 43c; May, 43fr43Tie. Cash: No. mixed, 47Vii 47i,c No. 3 mixed, 47c; No. a white, 4Mj 4x14c; No. 3 white, 471AC OATS No. 2 white, S2c; No. 2 mixed, 31. RYE 70c. HAY Choice timothys $9.50; choice prai rie, $7-257.75. BITTER Creamery, 1517c; dairy, 12a. EGGS Fresh, 18c. New York Stocks. Wall St.. New York. Sept. 27. STOCKS First prices of stockR today were gener ally to hi point higher than last night on a broad and active demand. Union Pacific and Atchison preferred made gains of point and Iouisville of point and there were 7.000 shares of United States Steel preforred sold at 69 and 70, compared with last night. The market became broader and strong er as selected stocks responded to inn heavy buying orders. Of these United States Steel preferred. Union Pacific, Ca nadian Pacific and Brooklyn Transit gained a point or more, the first named touching 70. Atchison was active, but only steady. Substantial advances were shown by a number of minor stocks. The market showed some hesitation for a time and Reading, Sugar and Metropol itan Street Railway wer appreciably af fected by realizing. Union Pacific then look up the leadership with an advance to 102' 4. Gains reached about a point in St. Paul, Southern Pacific. Wisconsin. Central, People's Gas and General Elec tric. Ther e was some reaction befor noon. Bonds were firm at noon. Low priced stocks figured prominently in the early afternoon rise, especially the coalers. Minor industrials were also taken freely and there was an increased demui J for the grangers, led by St. Paul, whtol crossed 169. Renewed buying of the Bteel stocks carried them up to the highest and there was steady improvement to the oth er shares of prominence. Unexplained selling of Cotton Oil on a large seal de pressed it 2 points and the preferred 1 points. New York Central, Illinois Central Hocking Valley, Consolidated Oas and Metropolitan Securities were advanced 1 to 1 points, but there was profit t akin a! in the United States Steel stocks and the grain carriers. The grangers. Pacifies, Readinsr and United States Steel preferred reacted point. Trading became dull on the decline. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commission Grain3, Provisions, Cotton and Stock, Office 110 West Sixth atreet. Telephuo 4st. Correspondent Christie Grain an4 Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. New Tork, Sept. 27. Stocks Op'n High Low Cle Yes Sugar 132 132-4 132 132 1324 People's Gas 102 102 102 103 1014 Amal. Copper 58 69 5S 68 57 B. R. T T. C. I 65 64 55 56 64 47 47 46 4 47 U. S. Steel 17 1S 17 17 lTUj 6" 70 69 70 8.4 U. S. Steel, pfd Atchison, com Atchison, pfd 101 100 101 100 C. W 1674 17 ISl 17 IS St. Paul R. I., com 158',, 159 158 158 1M 2S 28 28 28 28 21 21 21 21 21 42 42 41 42 41 9X f8 97 7 97 90 9 90 f 90 154 1W 154 154 154 127 128 127 127 127H 31 23 31 31 31 57 57 66 57 5 67 67 6.'. 67 66 31 31 31 31 31 67 67 67 67 67 KH li2 inn 101 ino 42 43 42 42 42 Wabash, com V abash, pfd Mo. Pacific Western Union Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie Erie, 1st I nion pacinc C. O B. O 89 89 89 8d4 89 L. N 125 125 124 124 124 Katv 4 491-4 48. 4S3i 481 Z Pennsylvania 132 132 132 132 181 ?0 40 4f 4"' 4 9 10 9 10 9 35 35 34 34 34 C A., com U. S. Leather C. P. I New Xork Monev Market New York. Sept. 27. Close MONET Prime mercantile paper, 4&S per cent; sterling exchange nrm, with actual busi ness in bankers' bills at $4. 8580-34.85 for demand and at $4.SiSA4.t365 for 6C day bills; posted rates. $4S4vi4.84 and $4.86i4ffl t-. 1 1.1110 e c, l.OI L'llMiirn.iai wills, ,i M-rK). SILVfe-R Bar silver, 58c; Mexican dol lars. 4c. BONDS Government bonds irregular. Cotton Market. New York, Sept. 27. COTTON Sales to day. 70 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet and 0 noints lower. Quotations ner 1011 1K- Middling uplands, $10.90; middling Kul'fL $11.13. Galveston, Tex., Sept. 87. COTTON Market lower at 10 9-16c per pound. New York Hutter. New York, Sept. 27 BUTTER Market firm. Street price, extra crMmprt- 21c: official price, western factory, com mon IO UliUitC, ii-'UHC. Wool Market. St. Louis. Mo.. Sent. 27 wmi -vt.. firm. Territory and western moium. vi ij22c; fine medium, 17folSc; fine, iodise'

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAE, TUESDAY EVENINGiSEPTEMBEll 27, 1905. Miss Gannon, Secy ss Oannnn. fe.r'v Detroit Amateur I WumM J 7 w T m 4 Art Association, tells do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. Dear Mrs. Ptntoeiah: I can conscientiously recommend Lydia Bp Pinltham's Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles "which so often befall 'women. I suf fered for months with general weakness, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. I had shooting' pains, and was utterly miserable. In my distress I was advised to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and it was a red letter day to me when I took the first dose, for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt so elated and happy that I want all women who suffer to get well as I did." Miss Guila Gaknon, 859 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art Association. It is clearly shown in this young lady's letter that Ifdla B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will certainly cure the sufferings of women and when one considers that Miss Gannon's letter is only one of the countless hundreds which we are continually ublishing in the newspapers of this country, the great virtue of Mrs. Pink am's medicine must be admitted by all and for the absolute cure of all kinds of female ills no substitute can possibly take its place. Women should bear this important fact in mind when they go into a drug store, and be sure not to accept anrthitio- that is claimed to be just as good as Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, for no other medicine for female ills haa made so many actual cures. How Another Sufferer Was Cured. Dear Mrs. Pixkhm: I cannot praise your wonderful remedies enough, for they have done me more good than all the doctors I have had. For tue last eight years and more I suffered with female troubles, was Tery weak, could not do my housework, also had nervous pros tration. Some days I would remain unconscious for a whole day and night. My neighbors thought I could never recover, but, thanks to your medicine, I now feel like a different woman. I feel very grateful to you and will recommend I-ydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound to alL It has now been four years since I had the last spell of nervous prostration. I only weighed ninety-eight- pounds at that time now I weigh one hundred and twenty-three. UI consider your Vegetable Compound the finest remedy made. Thanking yon many times for the. benelit I received from your medicine, I rei.iain, Yours truly, Mrs. J. II. Farmer, 2809 Elliott Ave., St. Louis, Mo." Kemember Mrs. Pinkham's advice is free and all sick women are foolish if they do not ask for it. She speaks from the widest experience, and has helped multitudes of women. $5000 FORFEIT f w cannot forthwith prodnro the original totters and signature of itbove &?lunouiala, which wiU pro their absolute gaiiuinneH. Lydia K. l isktiaiu Med. to., Lynn, Mm, SIOM'MEXTS FOR VICTIMS. Cilrzcns Will Inscribe Thereon Xanies of Dead S-liool fiirls. Cincinnati, frt. 27. The funerals of Emma Ste'.nkamp, Amelia Hesse. Kdna Thee and Hazel Glover, victims in the cellar accident at the public School last Friday, were largely at tended at Pleasant Ridge today. At two of the obsequies the president of the school board officiated. The other tun discourses were delivered by the Kev. Mr. Lambert, who was one of the first to reach the school grounds for rescue work. As only rart of the subscription funds were needed for funeral ex penses, it has been decided to erect a monument with the names of all the Victims inscribed on the marble shaft. While three of those rescued are still In a serious condition, it is thoueht that they will recover. Coro ner Weaver will tomorrow resume the Inquest, which promises sensational disclosures. PLAYED WIT! I A UOMB. One Roy Kailly Hurt ami Two Others Injured. New York. Sept. 27. Archibald Ratti. B boy of Madison. X. J., is in All Souls1 hospital. Morristown. peveiely injured s a result of playing with an explosive found on the grounds of the Madison Athletic association. The boy and two brothers found the remnants of a recent fireworks exhibi tion. They carted a lot of the stuff home. They climbed to the roof of a woodshed and started to t pen a bomb. Archie wanted to see what was inside. He used a hatchet. In a moment there was an explosion and the three lads were blown from the roof to the ground. Archie's hand was blown off and he as burned about the lower part of the body, and his face disfigured. The oth er lads are badly bruised, but manage to limp about. r'earfnl Odds Against Him. Bedridden, alone nn.! destitute. Such. In brief, was the condition of an old sol dier by the name of J. J. Havens. Ver sailles, O. For years he was troubled with kidney disease and neither doctors nor medicines irave him relief. At length he tried Klectric Fitters. It put him on his fet in short order and now he testifies: "I am on the road to complete recover v. Hest on enrth for liver and kidney trou bles and all forms of stomach ami bowel complaints. Only 5-c. Ouaranteed bv Arnold Drug Co.. Kl North Kansas ave. Morgan Sticks to Him. New York. Sent. 27. Most Kev. Thomas Randall Oavidson. archbishop of Canterbury, has arrived here from SVfeshtnfton, accompanied on his spe- Detroit Am? young women what to cial train by J. p. Morgan, the banker. With the archbishop also were Mrs. Davidson and his two secretaries. The party was driven to an uptown hotel. The primate of England will remain in New York one week, sightseeing and filling social engagements. SALVATION' ARMY TO DIVIDE. Two Sets of Headquarters Are to Be Maintained. Chicago. Kept. 27. The Salvation Army, it is stated, will be divided into two sections. with western head quarters in Chicago and the eastern offices in New York. The object, it is said, is to increase the efficiency of the two territories by extending opportuni ties for greater concentration in each. The main headquarters, it is under stood, are to continue in New York. The eastern or New York district will be much the larger and probably will he in charge of Commissioner Eva Booth, who is leaving Canada. The western or Chicago district, which in a measure will be subsidiary to the eastern, wil be placed under the direction of Commissioner Coombs, now in England, but a former commis sioner of Canada, Was Trying to Make Work. St. Louis, Sept. 27. According to statements by the police. William Wiikie, who today surrendered him self, has confessed that he had tried to burn the Lammert Furniture com pany's store on August 8. The fire resulted in a loss of 8 0.000. Wiikie, who calls himself a socialist, is an employe of the Lammert company. Wiikie told the police that he tried to burn the store for the reason that it would give work to many men in re placing the stock. WAR ASH TO ST. iXJCTS. World's Frlr Route "Follow tha Flag." Only l'.ne to Works's fair main en trance. Five daily trains from Kansas City. Hhortesi line. Ask your agent for tickets over tbfe Wabash. L. S. McCLEIJLAN. Western Passenger Agent. Kansas Citv. Ala. K. C SHIELDS. Traveling Passenger Agent. Kansaj Citv. Mo. EXTRAORDINARY'. St. Ijouis and Return $7.60 Santa Fe. On sale daily, except Friday and Sat urday, fiom Sept. 15th to Nov. 36th, on any train. Oood 7 davs. T. L. KING, C. T. A.. Topaka, People sending Items to this department of the State Journal will confer a favor By giving the full first name or mo initials, with all proper names. Items must bs accompanied by the nam and address of tha writer or they can not e puDiisneo.j Many Topeka friends of the family of the latter will be interested In the engagement, formal announcement of which has just been made, of Miss Margaret Bastar, daughter of Dr. Wil liam Clay Bastar of Benton Harbor, Mich., and Mr. Don Bryant Sebastian, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sebastian, of Evanston, 111. The Sebastian fam ily formerly lived in Topeka and are still frequent visitors here. Mr. Don Sebastian is with a grain commission firm in Chicago. The wedding will take place late in November. Mrs. James E. Hurley will give a luncheon Wednesday for Mrs. D. E Cain of La Junta, Colorado, Mrs. G E. Ayer of Dodge City, Mrs. R. J. Parker of Marceline, Mo., and Mrs. Charles E. Russell of Chillicothe. Mo.. who are in town with their husbands who are attending the meeting of the banta Fe railway officials this week. Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain: An event on the social calendar of this week to which society is looking torwara witn interest is the concert to be given by Miss Margaret Lyle Burns. at the Grand opera house Thursday evening. Miss Burns is such a popu lar society belle that her musical debut can hardly fail to create much inter est in social circles. Her musical studies were begun in Pueblo and last year she attended the Powers-Briggs musical studio in University building. Kansas City. She will be ably assisted by Francis Fisher Powers, the cele brated baritone and Harold Briggs, a talented pianist of Berlin, who con sented to come to Pueblo before their return to New York. Miss Burns Is a niece of Mrs. A. L. Williams and spent part of last winter in Topeka. The marriage of Miss Helen Dods- worth and Lieutenant Stahl of the post will take place Tuesday evening. October 18, at St. Paul's Episcopal church. A reception just to include the bridal party will follow at the home of the bride's mother. Mrs. Annie Dodsworth on Osage and Sec ond streets. Leavenworth Times. The marriage of Miss Jean Bower- sock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Bowersock of Lawrence, and Mr. El liott Blackwelder of Chicago, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder. for merly of Lawrence, took place very quietly Monday at the Bowersock resi dence in Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Blackwelder have gone west for their wedding Journey and will stop in To peka on their way back for the wed ding of Miss Frances Albert and Mr. William Kercher. They will live in Morgan Park, a Chicago suburb. Mr. Blackwelder is a member of the facul ty of Chicago university. At 6 o'clock this evening at the residence of Mrs. T. E. Bowman. 221 Tenth avenue west, the weddins of Miss Alice Smith of Burlington, Ver mont, and Mr. Harry Smith of Den ver. Colo., will take place. Miss Smith is a relative of Mrs. Bowman and has been visitinsr her and other relatives here for several weeks. Mr. Smith came on from Denver Sunday. The wedding ceremony will be per formed by the Rev. Francis L. Hayes. Only a few relatives and friends have been asked. Miss Shirley King will be the maid of honor and Mr. Gordon King groomsman. The bridal toilet will be of white eolian and the bou quet of bride's roses. Miss King will wear a pink frock and carry pink roses. The house will be decorated with autumn flowers and foliage and a reception will follow the ceremony at which Mrs. Bowman will be assisted bv Mrs. Homer Bowman, Mrs. Edward King, Mrs. F. O. Popenoe, Miss Nora Spencer, Miss Lottie Stelzner of Jop- lin. Mo., Miss Rose Campbell and Mr. Harry Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will leave tonight for their future home in Denver. The following girls enjoyed a corn roast at Tecumseh Saturday afternoon: Miss Vivian Tuttle, Miss Celia Smith, Miss Allie Wingett. Miss WMnnie Wil liams, Miss Myrlte Sproat, Miss Stacey Burgess. Miss Margaret Betzer, Miss Louise Kaster, Miss Bernlce Healy.Miss Ines Morris, Miss Louise Fleming, Miss Lulu Healy and Miss Etta Sproat. The yearly business meeting of the Watova club was held at Hudson's hall Tuesday evening. September 20, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mr. W. F. Sheahan. pres ident; Mr. Walter Lawrence, secretary, and Mr. Harry D. Wolff, treasurer. The club's first party will be given the even ing of Thursday, October 27. Mrs. Lawrence Safford Chamberlain, Miss Florence Lewis and Miss Mary Chase Chamberlain are issuing invita tions today for an afternoon euchre at the Lewis residence, 414 Harrison street, Thursday, October 6. in compliment to Miss Pearlade Prescott. The invitations are limited to the members of the Art club, of which Miss Prescott is a mem ber, and her most intimate friends. Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Nina Thomas who has been studying voice in New York city for the past several seasons will come to Topeka Saturday to spend the winter IF YOU'RE SICK Why don't you try a dose of Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters before each meal and at bedtime? You'll be sur prised at the amount of good it will do you. It has cured thousands of sickly men and women in the past and won't fail you now. It is un equalled for curing Poor Appetite, In somnia. Indigestion. Dyspepsia. Con stipation. Xausen. Female Complaints and Malartn. Try a bottle and test it for yourself. Avoid substitutes. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. here. She is now with her sister, Mrs. Charles O'Neill, Jn ChilUcothe, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott IJavis re turned Sunday from St. Louis and Chi cago. Mrs. G. O. Fox of Washington. Kan sas, is the guest of Mrs. Arthur Nichols and the Misses Clough, 401 Tyler, street. Mrs. J. L. Constant-who spent the summer among the northern lakes has returned to Topeka. Mr. Constant met her in St. Louis and they visited the ex position together. Mr. W. H. Stewart has gone to St. Louis to meet Mrs. Stewart who has been in New York all summer. They will spend this week at the fair and re turn Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Harry-Bowen returned Monday evening from their wedding trip to the St. Louis exposition and are with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Walker, a08 Eigth avenue west. Miss Helen Moon who has been visit ing her sister, Mrs. Charles Haines, in Sabeth and Hiawatha and Holton friends for several weeks will be home the last of this week or next. Miss Lottie Stelzner of Joplin, Mis souri, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Frank Bowen, this week. Miss Price who has been in California for several months is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John E. Moon. Mr. and Mrs. Townsley Roby and Mrs. A. M. Legg of Washington, D. C. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Roby, 1516 Harrison street. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Monroe of Char iton, Iowa, are expected Tuesday to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hayes on their way home from St. Louis. Mrs. L. B. Wyman and Miss Elliott of Los Angeles, Cal., will leave October 2 for St. Louis and Washington, D. C, to visit their sister, Mrs. D. S. Shook. Miss Bessie Ward Brown haa re turned from Douglass where she has been for a few weeks. Miss Alice Rossington left Monday for Wellesley, Mass.. for her second year at Wellesley college. Miss Risteen and Miss Hazel Risteen are home from St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ashby are mov ing into their new residence on Eighth avenue, west. r Mrs. E. A. Tirrill is in Leavenworth visiting her parents. Colonel and Mrs. Gilpin. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lowry are moving from their apartment on Kan sas avenue to 1201 Fillmore street. Mrs. M. E. Young of Hiawatha is the guest of Mrs. A .A; Iturd. Miss Ethel Andrew of Zanesvilie, O., who has been the guest "of her cousin, Miss Mabel Holloway, left today for St. Louis to visit the fair on her way to Zanesvilie. Mr. Roy Millice of Aguas Calientes, Mexico, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Millice. Mr. Ben Criawell and his brother, Mr. Robert Criswell of San Francisco, who has been visiting him left Mon day for Normal, 111., to visit their peo ple and will go from there to St. Louis to see the fair. Mrs. C. J. Evans left last ight for St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Ebey have moved from 1210 Harrison street to 507 Fillmore street, Where they are at home to their friends. Miss Minnie Marie Kuehne Is home from Salina where she has been visit ing Miss Lulu Garverich and Mrs John -Gates. Miss Lulu Garverish, Mr. Davis Maynard and Mr. Leonard Simmons of Salina, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kuehne and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Martin and Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Burdge have returned from Kansas City, where they attend ed the wedding of Mr. Martin's son. Mrs. Charles Martin and Miss Mar Fresh in every climate: Hot or cold, wet or dry. Adapted to every condition: Rich or poor, sick or well. Suited to every color: White, black, red, yellow. Used by every age: Childhood, youth, manhood, old age. Good at all times: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. And in all places: At work or play, by day or night, NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY garet Haskell,-" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Haskell, which took place Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. C. Geo. Nyman of 406 Western avenue gave a 6 o'clock din ner Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Nyman of St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. John Hand and her niece. Miss Kate Fuller, left today for a visit to St. Louis relatives. Miss Emma Boone of St. Joseph is spending a few days with Mrs. Lewis Deppe of No. 105 Topeka avenue. Mrs. Claude Hudson and son King and Mrs. May McCarter and son Ra phael have returned from a visit to Chicago. FROM THE CHORAL SOCIETY. Officer s Hope to -Have a Larger Organization This Year. The first" meeting of the board of direc tors of the Topeka Choral society for the season of 1904-5 was held Friday evening, September 23, ac which time plans and programme for the coming year were dis cussed. It is desired to enlarge the chorus the coming season and it is hoped that all the singers of the city will co-operate and become members of the society this year. The great organ which is to be placed in the Auditorium will be formally pre sented to the Topeka public on December 35 and the choral society is to assist on that evening. The work of the society this year will be in connection with the pipe organ. It Us very much desired that the chorus this year be the best in the history of the society and the coming season promises to be one of great benefit and pleasure. The first meeting will be held on Wed nesday evening. September 2S, in Security hall. Seventh, and Kansas avenue, and will commence at 7:30 sharp. It is asked that -all members owining copies of Gou nod's "Redemption" bring same with them. The new music for the opening concert will also be on hand. Singers, come and help make this a year to be remembered in the musical an nals of the Topeka Choral society. Japan Bays Out a Trust. Tokio, Sept. 2 7. The terms of the sale of the interests of the American Tobacco company to the Japanese government under the recently estab lished monopoly have been concluded. The company objected to the price the government first offered and appealed to the American legation. As a result of the extended representations made by Mr. Griscom, the American minis ter, the consideration for the transfer of the company's interests has been increased about -one million yen, equivalent to about J490.000 American money. The total consideration has not been made public. Christopher Went Free. The jury in the district court Monday afternoon decided that Dudley Christo pher, a young colored man, was not guil ty of robbing Goldberg's second hand store. Christopher is the only man who has escaped conviction at this term of the district court. Christopher had no money and could not employ an attorney, so Judge Hazen appointed John W. New ell and George Overmyer to defend him. Overmyer and Newell uncorked their best oratory and won the case. $7.60 to St. Louis and Return, "Via Rock Island System. Tickets on sale daily, except Friday and Saturday, good 7 days in St. Louis. One of nature's remedies: can not harm the weakest constitution; never fails to cure summer complaints of young and old. Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw berry. Capltola Rebekah lodge No. 219 will give entertainment and refreshments for the benefit of the orphan home fund at L O. O. F. temple Wednesday even ing, September 2S. Public invited. 3VEGROES SHOT FIRST. But the Dead and Wounded Are AH on Their Side. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 27. Two ne groes were killed and three were fatal ly wounded in a race riot near Lynch burg, Miss., 15 miles south of Mem phis, today. The shooting took place on the plantation of J. J. Johnson, who, with his two sons and two friends, went into a field to gather a load of corn. The field was worked on shares by a negro family named Kennedy. As the white men were driving their wagon from the field, a fusillade from a party of blacks met them. The fire was returned with the result that two negroes were killed outright and three were fatally shot. A number of whites joined Johnson and his friends and are now search ing for others of the attacking party. The names of the dead and wounded are not obtainable. Cortelyou's 3Iother-in-Law Dying. New York, Sept. 27. Mrs. Ephriam Hinds, who was the first teacher of Chairman George B. Cortelyou of the Republican national committee and through whose advice he first took up the study of stenography and later went to Washington, has been stricken with apoplexy and is dying at her home in Hemstead, Long Island. Her

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The Longest Subterranean HE opening within a few weeks of New York city's under ground railway, or, more properly speaking-, the subway divi sion of the Interbor ouch Rapid Transit jompany, will mark an epoch In the history of subterranean travel. Five j-ears ago the scheme of an under jround subway for Gotham was re tarded by conservative men of capital s a spectacular proposition. When Ihe subway commissioners, all of them men of standing in the financial world, ere in search of a backer for the co lossal enterprise they were met with mere polite Incredulity than encourage ment. It is a matter of record that they found the atmosphere of the "gold dis trict" singularly unsympathetic and the husiness denizens of that famous region disposed to converse on other subjects. A responsible contractor finally was discovered who promised to do the work for $33,000,000. Before the -ork could be begun it would be necessari ly find some one who was not only the proprietor of such a sum of money, but was willing to devote it to the digging of an enormous hole in the ground. One morning rather more than four years ago, to assume the agreeable phraseology of the story tellers, a port ly, middle aged and very bald man sat in the private office of the banking house of August Belmont in Nassau street. New York. He was John B. Mc Ihinald. a New York contractor, and he held in his hand a contract for build ing the proposed subway at a cost of $j;.000.()00. After forty-eight hours' deliberation Mr. Belmont had decided to risk his entire fortune on a scheme which had been pronounced doubtful ly able financiers in America. When asked by a friend how he could summon the courage to undertake such a venture Mr. Belmont replied: "I guess lama good deal like a little ishop 1EXRT CODMAN POT TER, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York, whose recent presence at the opening of a high class taver-r. in his see city has been the occasion of much discussion by both the religious and the secular press of all countries, is an ecclesiastic who has hitherto been regarded as a believ er in the most uncompromising con servatism. It must not be forgotten, however, that the bishop's attitude on the temperance question is not a new development; he has held precisely the same view of the matter for many years. His toleration for a well regu lated traffic in honestly distilled liq uors Is well known and was publicly avowed on more than one occasion dur ing the army canteen discussion. In 1901. at a Washington's birthday cele bration at the University of Pennsyl vania. Bishop Potter put himself on record as follows: "When a wise provi sion was made in the army post for the safe and decent relaxation of the sol dier the liquor men controlled the highest legislative body in the land, to the end that under the guise of sur render to the disciples of Mrs. Carrie Nation congress played squarely into the hands of the nearest saloon and the infamies of its back parlors." The bishop's personal sanction of the new departure -in saloon keeping was due to his faith in the so called "Earl Grey system" of regulating the sale of intoxicants. The Subway tavern, as it is called, is to be a liquor saloon with most of the objectionable features elim inated, it is true that stimulants are sold, but the sale of nonintoxicating Levemges of all descriptions is made a prominent feature. The object of the experiment is to dissociate the drink ing of stimulants in public from vice. Strikes IHE form of industrial disturbance popularly known as the strike I has always been a fas- student of social sci ence. In recent years the growing frequency and persistence of this means of clarifying the inrustrial atmosphere have forced themselves upon the attention of those who, although not active participants in such expe dients, share in all the results of indus trial agitation. The recent conflict of organized labor with the powers of the meat producing industry and the still ter agitation in the building trades jd their numerous ramifications fur nish a theme for painstaking considera tion, and the origin and progress of strikes, especially in this country, are matters of interest to every one. In actual practice It is not always sy to distinguish between the strike -nd the lockout. This is especially the ase when an employer becomes aware f an impending strike among his workmen and locks them out by way forestalling them. In general terms t may be said that a strike is in op eration when a body of employees, act-Jc-K in concert, cease work with the vowed object of enforcing some de aaand of their own or of renting some 'tuirement of their er.iloyer. r"he causes of stlkes are manifold. Sometimes they Say be found in rea sons which iake further unmodified nation Setween employer and em-oy-5 an impossibility, and sometimes 9?y are so trivial as to defy intelli gent specification. The most frequent cause, however, is the wage question. In prosperous times strikes are likely to occur on account of demands for higher wages. In times of business de pression there has been much industrial trouble on account of attempts to de crease wages. The regulation of working hours has also furnished fre- fin in 1 1 n 1 1 1 r r i il T 1 i I 1 1 1 M M J Completion "f'W" CITY HALL SITBWAY STATION. dog I used to own when I was at Har vard. He wasn't much on the fight, but if another dog tackled him he would get hold of a hind leg and stick. I had faith in this thing and I had faith in McDonald. I got my leg hold, and I hung on." At the present time every element of uncertainty is removed from the proj Potter's The bishop of the diocese of New York comes from a race of churchmen. His father. Dr. Alonzo Potter, was bishop of Pennsylvania, and his uncle. Dr. Horatio Potter, was his predeces sor in the metropolitan diocese. Henry Codman Potter was born in Schenec tady, N. Y., May 25, 1835. At the time of his birth his father was vice presi dent of Union college, and his grand father, the venerable Dr. Eliphalet Nott, was president of the same insti tution. As a boy Bishop Potter was not endowed with a vigorous constitu tion, and for that reason he was not required to prepare for college. His parents made up their minds to vary the family tendency to become schol ars even to the extent of permitting Henry to embrace a commercial life. After his father was elected bishop of Pennsylvania and the family removed to Philadelphia he became a student at the Episcopal academy in that city. He finished the rather eclectic course in the academy and afterward served a brief apprenticeship in the commission busi ness. It was soon evident, however, that the family pro'pensity toward the ology was alive and vigorous in the young man's heart. When he could not be dissuaded, and on account of his insufficient classical preparation, he was permitted to enter at the Virginia Theological school. At this small but famous Institution the future prelate won distinction as a student. He applied himself with such earnestness to the subjects in which he was deficient that at the time of his graduation he was credited by the fac ulty with being one of the best schol ars ever sent out from the institution. Immediately after his graduation he was married to Miss Eliza R. Jacobs. He was then in his twenty-first year, not yet in orders, being still a few months short of the required age. Five children were born of this first mar riage, and all of them are living. and Lockouts as They quent cause for labor upheavals. Many of the recent strikes have had their or igin and subsequent progress to solu tion in a determination of the members of trades unions to affiliate only with fellow members. Quite as frequently a resolution on the part of the employer to avoid discrimination between union and nonunion labor has been produc tive of industrial trouble. Of still later of the ect. There is probably not one of the financial doubting Thomases who would decline to have his name men tioned in as close connection with the enterprise as possible. The new sub way Is no longer a subject for specula tion; it has acquired a standing in the world of finance that nothing but an earthquake can dissipate. It Is ac Interest In the origin is the sympathetic strike. In which the workmen of one trade, con vinced of the righteousness of the cause of a body of striking workmen of an other trade, decline to labor at their usual avocation until justice prevails. It is not unusual for employers to form organizations to resist the de mands of the trades unions. Most of the employers of organized labor jre Railway Great q APPROACH TO A knowledged to be the greatest financial undertaking and the most notable feat of engineering in the history of any city. For the immediate future it must be the model for the world's rapid transit developments. This vast system extends from the Battery, at the southern extremity of Manhattan Island, to Bailey avenue and BISHOP HENRY CODMAN POTTER. members of such protective societies. They have also been accused from time to time of instigating strikes in order to bring the expedient and its promot er into public disfavor. This accusa tion has never been easy to prove. On the other side boycotting and picketing have been employed in extreme cases, but these measures are not in especial favw J-w the most consistent ad In the 55,060,000 New York B SUBWAY STATION. Two Hundred and Thirtieth street on the west side in a long sweep of thir teen and a half miles of four, three and two tracks or forty-eight miles of sin gle track. It also reaches from One Hundredth street and Broadway under Central park to the east, under the Harlem river to Bronx park and One Hundred and Eighty-second street, a New Subway Occur In This vocates of the labor movement. Public sympathy is an essential element in a strike, and either side is extremely careful to do nothing sufficiently culpa ble to alienate it. This is so well un derstood by the better class of trades unions that whenever violence occurs it may safely be attributed to 'influences other than the leaders of the move ment, who for the most part are men World distance of seven miles, or seventeen and a half miles of single track. This is the Manhattan division which the contractor is about to turn over to the operating company. The great Brook lyn feeder is being pushed rapidly to ward completion. It leaves the main line in Manhattan at the foot of White hall street, near Battery park, and, plunging beneath the East river, enters Brooklyn at the foot of Joralemon street, running with two and three track systems to Atlantic avenue, a distance of two and three-tenths miles. Figures are inadequate to express the magnitude of this greatest of subter ranean passageways. It Is only by comparison that its unique dimensions may be appreciated. Compared with it the famous catacombs of ancient Rome are rabbit burrows. When the Simplon tunnel under the Alps uniting Italy and Switzerland was constructed It was ac counted the most wonderful triumph of engineering, but if there could be added to it the St. Gothard tunnel, the Mont Cenis tunnel and the Lake Fucino tun nel, thus uniting the four longest tun nels on the eastern hemisphere, the combination would only about equal the length of the new subway. The length of the seven other great tunnels and subways in America are as fol lows: Baltimore and Ohio tunnel, seven miles; Hoosac tunnel, four and three fourths miles; Boston subway, two and one-half miles: Cascade tunnel, two and one-half miles; Boulder tunnel, two miles; Ivanhoe tunnel, two miles; Sar nia tunnel, one mile. The total, it will be observed, is twenty-one and three fourths miles, a mile short of the total length of the Manhattan and Brooklyn divisions of the subway. Yet it is only the beginning of the underground system of transit In New York. Three other mammoth projects are being carried forward. One of them is the tunnel of the Pennsylvania rail road, which is to extend from Weehaw ken, N. J., under the Hudson river and beneath the surface of Manhattan Is On May 25 of th following year he was ordained deacon by his father in St. Luke's church in Philadelphia. A year later Dr. Bowman, assistant bish op of Pennsylvania, ordained him priest in Trinity church, Pittsburg. The young minister's first charge was Christ church, Greensburg, Pa. In a few months he received a call to St. John's church, Troy, N. Y. After he had been in charge of that parish for three years he was called to the rec torship of Christ church, Cincinnati. A year later he was elected president of Kenyon college, Gambier, O. The same year St. Paul's church, Albany, N. Y., made a bid for his services. All of these overtures were declined, the young clergyman preferring to remain at Troy. After seven years in that parish he accepted a call to Trinity church, Boston, that stepping stone to so much ecclesiastical preferment. Two years afterward he was called to Grace church. New York, where he served with marked distinction for fifteen years. In 1877 he was elected bishop of Iowa, but declined the honor. A quarter of a century ago the proffer of a diocese in the then far west was no temptation to a rector of Grace church. In 1883 Dr. Potter was made coadjutor to his uncle, who was becoming infirm and had asked to be provided with an assistant. He was consecrated in Grace church, Oct. 20, 1883. forty-three bishops of the church and over 300 members of the clergy being present Later the aged bishop resigned. Bishop Potter's administration of the affairs of the leading diocese in the country has been markedly successful. Under his prudent and businesslike oversight it has expanded wonderfully. He has always shown an admirable ca pacity for steering clear of the shoals of ecclesiastical controversy and has been especially clever in avoiding the constantly increasing differences be tween "high" and "low" churchmen. especially anxious that their cause shall not exceed the bounds of legal decorum. The magnitude of some recent strikes has done much to emphasize the dam age done to business and the interest which the general public really has in the sense of being a third and impar tial party. In the last few years con ciliation and arbitration have com for ward as remedies for strikes. In 1888 a federal law provided for the appoint ment by the president of strike com missioners, and the Chicago strike commission recommended the appoint ment of a permanent commission, which should supervise labor disputes. In the United States there were a few strikes even before 1800. The bak ers of New York had a strike in 1741, and the Philadelphia shoemakers were strikers on four occasions previous to 1805. In 1802 the sailors of New York refused to sign 'articles, paraded the streets and compelled others to join them. From 1821 to 1834 there was at least one strike each year. According to the report of the department of com merce and labor, strikes were numerous in 1835. A number of strikes for a ten hour day occurred in the thirties. Strikes for an eight hour day began in 1872. Between 1SS1 and 1900, again ac cording to the reports of the depart ment of commerce and labor, there have been 22,793 strikes, involving 117, 509 establishments and 6,105,694 em ployees. The average duration of strikes for the last twenty years is 23.8 days. Wage loss to employees during that time has been $257,000,000. The loss to employers has been J122.000.000. More than J16.000.000 has been contributed by labor unions toward promoting strikes, and many of the unions are provided with large strike lunds. Twenty-eight per cent of all the strikes in this" country have been In New York, a little over 12 per cent in Pennsylva nia, 11.6 per cent in Illinois, a little over 7 per cent in Massachusetts and 6 Subway land as well as under the East river t Long Island City, a distance of four and one-fifth miles. The famous tunnel under the Hudson, begun in 1874, tm practically completed. It is one and three-fourths miles in length. By July, 1905, it will be fully equipped with electric trains like those on the under ground railway. Work has been begu on the tunnel under the Hudson river to connect Manhattan Island with the Jersey City termini of the Pennsylvania and Erie railway systems. Its metro politan terminus will be at the subway station at Dey street and Broadway. It will also be equipped with electrl trains and is expected to be running within three years. Both of these tun nels are to have twin tubes, one for I each track. In a few months the new terminal facilities of the New xors. Central railroad will be ready for use. Direct connection with all station within a hundred miles of the Gran Central will be made by electric trains. As a beginning the subway manage ment has ready 800 cars, most of them steel. They represent the most modern features of car building, being incom bustible and as indestructible aa the mechanical knowledge of the present day can make them. In taking the un derground from any of the subterra nean stations one will descend from the street through a kiosk by a broad marble staircase. Passing a neat brass barred ticket office, a roomy semicir cular platform is reached. If the pas senger is a New Yorker he will be agreeably surprised at the unusual spa ciousness of the platform. He will also note the tasteful manner in which the station walls are covered with glazed brick and that they are not disfigured with advertisements as are the stations of European underground roads. There has been much complaint about the bad ventilation of the "tuppenny tubes" in London. That serious fault has been guarded against by a system of electric fans which keep the air pure. RUSSELL P. MARTIN. Tavern Although from his antecedents and early training the bishop might rea sonably be expected to favor the so called "low" element, he has carefully refrained from making any marked dis tinction. He has maintained a digni fied indifference in regard to the growth of ritualism in the diocese and is apparently quite as cleverly uncon scious of the advanced Biblical inter pretation that prevails in certain quar ters. As an amusing instance of his ability to sjrmount an ecclesiastical difficulty which might in less compe tent hands have made no end of trou ble may be cited his diplomatic man agement of the recent dedication of the new Monastery of the Holy Cross at West Park, on the Hudson. It was ab solutely necessary for a bishop repre senting the diocesan to be present. It would hardly do for the diocesan or his coadjutor, the Right Rev. Dr. Greer, to officiate at such an extremely ritualis tic proceeding. Bishop Potter was equal to the emergency. It was within the scope of his episcopal authority to invite the bishop of another diocese to represent him at the function. He ex ercised his privilege and invited the bishop of Pittsburg. Dr. Whitehead, who is one of the extremists In the "low" church party, and the genial doc tor accepted and was present on the occasion. On Oct. 4, 1902, Bishop Potter and the immensely wealthy Mra. Alfred Corning Clark were married at Fern leigh, the beautiful country home of the bride at Cooperstown, N. Y. Mrs. Potter is deeply interested In the progress of the great Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which has been pro jected and carried to Its present stage of erection by her husband. It is an undertaking which will require mil lions for its completion, and its pro moters are naturally gratified by Mra. Potter's interest in its development. TRUMAN L. ELTON. Country per cent in Ohio. In New York city alone 5,0'JO strikes are recorded, and Chicago has a credit of 1,737. The lar gest strikes have occurred in railroad ing and mining, as Is shown by the fact that of the total number of striking employees 31 per cent were in coar and coke, 7.9 per cent In transportation and 10.9 per cent in the building trades. Among the great labor upheavals in this country one of the most historto ie the strike in 1877 on the Pennsylvania railroad, in which much damage wai done and troops were called out. In 18SC the telegraph operators were called out, and the entire American telegraph ic system was tied up. The famous Homestead strike at the Carnegie works in 1892 was the most bitter dustrial conflict in American history; and involved a sanguinary battle be tween private detectives and unionists, in which many were killed and wound ed. The memorable Chicago strike of 1S94 originated in an effort of the new Iy organized American Railway union, under the leadership of Eugene V. Debs, the present Socialist nominee for the presidency, to obtain favorable terms for the striking employees of the Pullman car works. There were street railway strikes in several large cities Im 1900 and in the following year a great steel strike. In 1902 the anthracite coal strike came nearer to producing a. famine in that commodity than any previous event. It became such a se rious menace to the industrial inter ests of the country that executive aid was Invoked and extended in order te effect a temporary resumption of min ing. In'' the United States strikes have never been Illegal unless accompanied by violence, but in Europe they were until recent years prohibited by law. Any combination of laborers to raise wages was unlawful until 1824. In France the restrictions were not with drawn until 1864. TIMOTHY FARNUlfc J nr. f

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THE TOPEES STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1904, 9 The Doctor Who Diseases But He Who Treats Only a Few May Hope to I Adver tise What I Do f; or t t More than 2,000 human diseases are known to the medical profession. The doctor who tries to treat them all seldom cures any. but he who treats nly a few may hope to cure all he treats. I confine myself in my practice trictly to chronic and special diseases of men and women. When I say that I am better prepared to combat and conquer these maladies than any other physician or specialist, I am not boasting or making any false statements; I am simply stating facts which are known to be true j-'by thousands of my cured patients. My office equipment and treatment facilities are complete the best that Kcience can devise and money buy; while my financial and business responsi bility is indorsed by the best banks, business houses and commercial agen cies In the city. No fake deposits, no bogus records, no free trial treatments, no intro ductory offers, no half-price decoys, no misleading propositions of any kind are made by me to the afflicted in an ignoble effort to secure their patron age. While I naturally desire to rescue as many afflicted as possible from the ravages of disease, yet if they engage my services I want them to do so upon an honest, fair and square basis, and with mutual respect and con fidence between physician and patient. Let every one afflicted with a disease or weakness peculiar to their sex read what follows: Free X-Ray Examinations Tv the Fluoroseope in conjunction with the X-Rays excited by the largest static Electric Machine made, which I have in these offices. I am able to ex amine all parts of the body and find out to an absolute certainty the cause of the patient's affliction. Come and be examined; it is absolutely free. I will not charge you one cent. Come and find out what your trouble Is. and I will advise you in reference to a cure. I will not embarrass you by urging you to treat with me. Varicocele. I cure this disease without opera tion. Under my treatment the "worm like" blood vessels soon disappear. The parts are restored to their nat ural condition, size, vigor, and strength. Stricture. Cured without the knife, by my dis solvent method, which causes absorp tion of the hard unyielding bands of sore tissue. The treatment is painless and sure, and does not Interfere with business. Contagious Blood Poison. I cure Elood Po'on In any stage acquired or hereditary. I cure all its complications. I stop its progress, eradicate every vestige of poison from the system, and this without the use of mercury or potash. I also cure rheumatism, paralysis and locomotor ataxia, lumbago, in flammation of the bladder, cancer, lupus, chronic ulcers and tumors and eczema. tt ti iip TOn A Xl C VT One visit is always preferred, but if IlUiULl I KCA I IHCn 1 you cannot call at my offices write me fully and frankly, stating plainly your age. occupation, symptoms and dura tion of the same, and 1 win De giaa to sealed envelope, what can De aone ior you. improved methods of home treatment Consult me FREE. Hours: 9 to 12, J.ALYIN HORNE, H. D KOKTH TOI'filLA. Leave items tor this column -with Klm ball Printing Co.. 913 North Kansas av Independent "phone 746. Dr. C. W. Culp to in today from Hoyt. Mr. T. M. Forbes Is In St. Louis vis iting the fair. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Petro were In Silver Laic today. Mr. and Mrs. Conklin of 1031 Qulncy street left Sunday for a week's visit to the St. Louis fair. Misses Feaxl Kaib and Ella, Allen returned yesterday from their visit to the fair at St. Louis, George WaJp of the Santa Fe gen eral offices, was doing business on the north side yesterday- The Santa Fe section men are at work putting tn a switch to the West ern Woolen Mill plant. Manager McAfee of the Western Woolen Mill has returned from a brief business trip to Nebraska Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Winner of May etta, wh are en route to the St. Louis fair, were the guests today for a short time of Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Steele. Lee Wright, clerk at the Santa Fe storehouse at Argentina is spending his vacation visiting his parents, north of town and friends in Eureka and Holton. Mrs, Joseph G. Knox of the Falrvlew neighborhood has returned from a visit of three weeks to her daughter. Mrs. George Folts of Shepherd, near Colum bus. Ohio. II. II. Bair, who has been suffer ing from the result of a fall received at his store over a week ago, is much improved and able again to be at his place of business. The marriage of Miss Vera Herring to Mr. Roy Capron will be solemnized Wednesday evening at tne nome or tne bride's parent. Mr. and Mrs. Herring, 1014 Monroe street. The Taylor Grain Co. have pro cured three sizes of thermometers which they are distributing among their patrons advertising Perfection f.our. Mrs. Mary Schwartz and grand daughter. Miss Delia Bistus. have gone to the World s fair and while in St. Louis will be the guests of Mrs. Jacob Brandt. M. T. Campbell of 831 Qulncy street Is suffering from a severely sprained ankle, the result of a fall from a bi cycle, at which time the ligaments were also torn loose. The workmen at the new Gyrator mills are laying the timbers preparatory for the masons to begin work on the third floor of the building which will be Ave stories and nearly 100 feet high. Miss Anna Fenton, formerly of Topeka, but later matron of the Hutchinson hospital, was the guest yesterday of Mrs. C. D. Myers. Miss Fenton leaves shortly for California where she will spend some time. Complaint is made by the residents living on Harrison street in the vicin ity of the Union Pacific and Rock Isl and tracks that great annoyance Is caused them at night by the whistling Treats All Seldom Cures Any Cure All He Treats I Do What I Adver tise Kidneyand BladderDiseases I cure all irritation, frequent desire, stoppage, pain in back, brick dust or buttermilk sediment, scanty flow and catarrhal conditions. Bowel Diseases and Piles. If you knew how surely and pain lessly I can CURE all rectal and bowel diseases such as piles, fissures, fis tula, itching, inflammation, catarrh and constipation, you surely would avail yourself of my novel course of treatment. Woman's "Weakness. The weakness, disease and troubles peculiar to women are every one amenable to treatment. Catarrh, dis placements, ulceration, leucorrhoea or whites, painful or irregular periods, pains in groins running up the sides and down the thighs, backache, weak ness, faintness, headache, weak eyes, constipation, piles, etc., all can be painlessly, positively and suiely cured. Don't fail to place your case in my hands. I will surely cure you. ten juu, ncc ui l""6C' Thousands are cured by my 2 to 5, 7 to 8. D. S. of the engines. This noise is very an Mrs. J. E. Utt of Omaha and Mrs. Vina Moore of White Cloud, Kans., who have been visiting Mrs. E. F. Ten- nant of 1527 Tyler street, will return to their homes tomorrow morning. The next meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Presbyterian church will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the vacant house on the old church lots, 923 Qulncy street. A quilt is on hands. Come and help, noying to people the least bit ner vous. The question is being agitated of having an ordinance passed prohib iting so much whistling between cer tain hours of the night. The Marysville, Kansas, correspon dence of the St- Louis Herald of Relig ion, a German Catholic newspaper, un der date of September 21, writes that grading on the Topeka Northwestern railroad had begun from Marysville southward. He states that it will not be a branch line but a line built espec ially for through traffic. He also states that the line will be of vast importance to Marysville, Onaga and North To peka. The supper given last evening by Amity lodge 231, K. of P., at their hall was well attended. Supreme repre sentative W. A. S. Bird was present and gave an address. The presenta tion of the past chancellor jewel to C. C. Maze was made by A. N. Goodman, P. C, on behalf of the lodge. Music was furnished by J. Knote Withers' orchestra, and there was also a spe cial piano selection by Miss May Rodgers. N. B. Arnold is closing up the work of getting signatures to petitions in re gard to dyking the river and Soldier creek. There have been some com plaints or fears that the commissioners are neglecting this work. This is a mis take. All property owners must be noti fied and to do this takes time. At first a general canvass was made, and then It was found that much property is owned or listed under different names. So recourse was had to the tax lists and the proper ownership ascertained. The commissioners and every one else re alize that these dykes must be built in order to preserve the value of the property. Court Saves Boy From Prison. New York. Sept. 27. Judge Aspln all in the Kings county court, has suspended sentence in the case of An tonio Cucozza, the Italian youth who recently pleaded guilty to the charge of kidnapping growing out of the ab duction of Tony Mannino the little son of a Brooklyn contractor. The judge declared his belief to be that the lad was made an instrument in the hands of older persons and promised him the protection of the court instead of send ing him to prison. Do Yon Want to Save $15.00? You'll do it. If you buy a Colonist ticket to California from me between September 15 and October 15. Tickets will cost more later on. Fast trains. Pullman sleepers dally. Excursions under personal escort three times a week. Liberal stopovers. I'd like to tell you about this. T. L. KING, C F. T. A-. Topeka, Kas. V-' ANE0U5 Am. PULL AN A. IX T. Call Box or call cither tel ephone No. 51 and have your Want Ads brought to the State Journal office by free messenger ser vice. Cost of classified ads 6 cents per line of six words to the line and every fraction thereof. OFFICIAL ANVO UN CEME VT3. 1 AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATIC senitor from the Seventeenth district, 0tn. subject to the decision of the quel 'fled electors to Shawnee county in No vember, c. P. BOLMAP-. P. Hosier and wife to R. Spangler. southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 32, township 13, range 17; also part of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 32. townshio 13. ranee 17 SI. 500 J. Ii White to D. F. Clammer, lot 366 and part lot 368 Monroe street, Ritchie's addition: also part lot 370 Monroe street. Ritchie's addition 400 J. Welterlund and wife to O. Meyer, lots 41 ana 43 Madison street. Crane's addition 1.625 H. E. Hewitt and husband to C. E, Hewitt, part of lot 16S Shawnee ave nue. Elm Grove subdivision 65 IT IS HOT EVERYWHERE. Weather Report Shows That Topeka Isn't Suffering Alone. The climate and crop report for Kan sas issued this morning by Frank Montgomery, temporarily in charge of the Topeka weather bureau office, re ports hot weather general over the state. The summaries says: GENERAL CONDITIONS. The week began and ended with warm and generally clear weather, the maximum temperature ranging from 90 to 100 degrees over the middle divis ion on the 18th and 19th, while the 20th, 21st, and 22d were cool and cloudy. There were good rains in the south eastern counties extending northwest ward through McPherson and Reno counties and into Barton county. Fair ly good rains fell in Clay, Riley and Pottawatomie counties, and light show ers over the remainder of the eastern part of the state, while the western part continues dry. EASTERN DIVISION. Corn generally has made good pro gress during the week. Cutting is fin ished in some of the southern counties and is in progress over the rest of the division. In Elk county corn is nearly ready to crib. Late corn is maturin, well, but will need two weeks of good weather in some counties. The ground is generally in good condition for wheat seeding but the work has been delayed a few days by rain in the southeastern counties, while it is rath er dry in the middle eastern counties. Wheat i is coming up in Coffey tount. -.Alfalfa cutting and seed ing are ln- progress in Chautauqua county. -Prairie, haying is about com pleted and the crop has been very good. Pastures continue good and stock are doing well. Kafir corn and cane need a month of good weather to ma ture well in -Coffey county. The potato and apple crops range from fair to very good. In Woodson county, fall ap ples are plentiful, but winter varieties scarce. Peaches are. better than ex pected in Marshall county. MIDDLE DIVISION. Corn Is matured in the southern coun ties and cutting about finished. In the northern counties it is ripening rapidly and cutting is in progress. The crop is good, especially in the northern coun ties. The ground is dry in tne western and northern counties of this division but plowing has progressed well and is mostly done, and wheat-sowing is gen eral and well advanced in many coun ties. The acreage will be large. Al falfa is being cut for hay and seed in the northern counties. The prairie hay crop has been large and of good quality and is all harvested in most counties. It is being baled in Washington county. Pastures continue good and stock are doing well in most counties, but dry weather has cut the grass short in Phil lips county. The rains helped cane and Kafir corn in Butler county. They are being cut in other counties. Forage cutting is well advanced and the crop is generally good. There is complaint of apples dropping. The crop ranges from fair to very good. Peaches are plentiful and mostly ripe in the north ern counties. The potato crop ranges from fair to very good. WESTERN DIVISION. Corn has made good progress during the week. It is ripening and fairly well matured in the northern counties and is mostly safe from frost. The crop is generally good, the ears being large and well filled. The ground is generally too dry for much progress in plowing and wheat-sowing, but the working is ad vancing nicely in Trego county, while but little wheat will be sown In Morton tounty. Some early sowing is up and growing nicely in Decatur county. Thrashing is still in progress In some counties. Alfalfa-cutting for hay about finished; in Ford county the seed crop is fair in places, but generally not large. Pastures are curing wen ana win maKe good winter feed. Forage crops have generally done well and will furnish plenty of roughness for winter. About half of tne peacnes nave npenea in Norton county.' WANTED MUSIC TO DIE BY. Despondent Man Shot Himself Listen ing to Favorite Tune. New York, Sept. 27. While his 12-vear-old niece sat at the piano playing Lead. Kindly Light," his favorite tune, George Vollner, a machinist who was out of work because he had lost three fingers in an accident, shot him self. Little Dora Vollner often played for her uncle when he seemed despondent, and had been playing for him some time when he stopped her in the middle of a selection and said: "Play 'Lead, Kindly Light," Dora. I like that best." As the girl was finishing the air her uncle drew a revolver from his pocket, pointed it at his breast, and fired twice. Both shots took effect and he died almost. Immediately. Do You Want to Save $15.00? You'll do it. if you buy a Colonist ticket to California from me between September 15 and "October 15. Tickets will cost more later on. r ast trains. Pullman sleepers daily. Excursions under personal escort three times a week. Liberal stopovers. I'd like to tell you about this. T. L KING, f 2 ISC ELL YlLSSlnWR REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Washburn college to F. S.' Longaker, lots 123. 125 and north half of lot 121 Tvi iilviin. srrffeL Addition B. Colleee Hill 475 N. Lauterback and wife to J. Blevins, lot Wl and north half of lot 33 Mon roe street. Crane's addition 1,550 A. E. Sheldon to E. M. Miller, lots 127 and Dart of lot 129 EiKhtn avenue east 3,500 E. A. Janes, by A. T. Lucas, to P. T. -Tinkham, lots 161, 163 and 165 Mon roe street, Fairchild's addition T. P. Crawford and wife to M. A. Booker, part of lot 2a and lot 33, -block 9. Bell View avenucBell View addition 1,800 M. Manson and wife to J. P. Rogers, nart of lot 4 Rural avenue. Rural Holmes' addition 2,300 M. A. Booker and husband to T. P. Crawford, part of the northwest Quarter of section 17. township II. range 16 1,800 F. A. Carpenter to M. v. iv. D. Blakely. lots 544 and 546 Harrison street. Orchard Place addition 850 Robert L Forbes to Olive M. Cham berlain, lots 156, 58 and 160 Shawnee avenue, Elm Grove subdivision 210 Tax deed to E. E. Hill, lots 53 and 52 Eleventh street, Bean's addition WANTED SITUATIONS. WAETSewing of all kinds, prices reasonable, a nt guaranteed. airs Johnson, 220 E. 5th st. WANTED Position by experienced lady oooaKeeper, can also do shorthand wont. 1. P., Uuo N. Kansas ave., upstairs. WHEN you want to hire a man or boy, call up Y. M. C. A telephone 311. We fli re a list or men ana cunnaentiai re erences concerning them. Y. M. C. A. En'Dloyment Bureau. 117 E." 8th St. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED First class meat cutter, good salary to right man, giving references. Call at 1006 Topeka ave. WANTED For U. S. army, able Dodled unmarried men between ages 21 and 3a; citizens of United States, of good charac ter and temperate habltf who can speak, read and write English. For Information apply to recruiting officer, 401 Kansas ave., Topeka. Kan. WANTED A strong boy to work in shoe snop at 8Z4s Kansas ave. rteuter. WANTED Man to clean well. Call after 6 p. m. at 617 Hancock st. WANTED A neat and reliable man for general housework, one ho can cook cnm. nmfarr&rt 311 1 fit h nwo u-oat WANTED Men to learn barter trade, short time completes by our method, can nearly earn exDenses before finishing, special inducements to applicants from distance, positions waiting graduates. write tor catalog. Moler Barbtr college. t .Louis. Mo, WANTED Curbstone cutters. Apply on Fillmore St., south of 13th, after 6:30 p. m. at 1202 N. Van Buren st, H. K. Win. ans. WANTED 25 ranch hands for Oklahoma, 120 mo. Capital Em p.. i3a Kansas ave. WANTED At once, 4 reliable boys to distribute circulars. Mrs. tj. xx. Morrison, 631 Kansas ave. WANTED FEMALE HEt.P. WANTED First class ladies' plain clothes ironer at once, good wage; steady work. 735 Topeka ave. WANTED Girl for general housework mile irora car tracKs, good wages., ina, 'phone 159. Mrs. B. 11. Pugh. WANTED Good laundress to take work home. SuO Topeka ave.., after 7 p. m, WANTED Girl for general housework. Mrs. m. Jj. wagan, iju van Buren st. WANTED A lady agent for canvassing, Apply at 1133 Kansas ave., upstairs. WANTED Woman cookvat 1301 Topeka ave. t WANTED Help in all departments, high est wages paid. Mutual laundry. 3d and yumcy, WANTED White girl general housework, good cook, $20 per mon., go to Indian .territory. Airs, soper, bzi xopeKa ave. WANTED Coompetent girl, small famr Jiy. goon wages. Mrs. J. Armstrong, 1034 Van Buren st. WANTED-White girl tor general house work, one who can go home nights pre- ierrea. ti tmy St. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED Small second hand cider mill at once. Address Cider Mill., care Jour nal. WANTED A second hand bone cutter.M. O. Frost, S30 Kansas ave. WANTED By gentleman; nicely furnish ed room with private family, vest of Van Buren, on or near 12th St. car line. Address K., Journal. WANTED To pay cash for Deach pits. Taylor Sons, east of Santa Fe shops. WANTED Orders for choice tomatoes. Bell 'phone 3041 red. WANTED Apples at cider mill 6u6 E. Sth st. J. C- Gregory. WANTED 2d hand set household furni ture. D. J. M., Journal. WANTED 250 stoves.' We want stoves and good second hand furniture. New and second hand furniture bought and sold. Monarch Furniture and Stove Co., 309 Kansas ave. WANTED To rent 3, 4 or 5 room house, no children: give location and price. E. H. H., Journal. WANTED Apples, fruit, butter, eggs and merchandise to store, ample cool storage rooms, just completed, competent man in charge. Anyone having apples for cold storage would do well to cor respond with us before making contract. Mutual Ice and Cold Storage Co. TORRENT-OUSE3. FOR RENT Cottage 5 rooms 1210 Harri son, small grown family, no barn. FOR RENT 6 room house 413 Clay st. In quire H. Zarker, 24th and Topeka ave. FOR RENT 5 room modern cottage. Call at 1118 Madison st. FOR RENT i room house Lime st. In quire 1215 Clay st. FOR RENT No. 134 Fillmore, 12 room house, 3 lots, furnace, bath, electrio lisrht. stable, etc. Inquire 706 Kansas ave. FOR RENT 9 room modern house on To peka ave., J28 per month. Thos. S. Lyon, phone 1158 Ind. t FOR RENT First class 7 room house, wa ter and gas, 4 blocks from business cen ter. T. N. Dyer, 501 Kansas ave. FOR RENT Modern house-8 rooms, re ception hall, corner 1st and Taylor. Ap ply Mrs. Soper, 627 Topeka ave. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT 4 or 5 furnished rooms, pri vate bath, 1st floor. 1106 Van Buren. FOR RENT Furnished rooms 4 young men with board, reasonable. 824 Quincy. FOR RENT Nice rooms with or without board. 521 W. 10th St. FOR RENT 3 or 4 unfurnished rooms suitable for light housekeeping. L. M., Journal. FOR RENT 1 furnished room downstairs with furnace heat. 500 Taylor st. FOR RENT ROOMS. FOR RENT En suite or separately, 2 modern rooms and a dressing room 718 lay lor st. FOR RENT 2 furnished rooms, modem, also barn. 1031 Jackson st. FOR RENT 3 furnished rooms, modern, gentlemen only. 316 W. 7th st. FOR RENT Modern front room with al cove, nicely furnished, near good board ing houses. 1126 Tyler st. .FOR SALE: REAL ESTATE. FOPsALECotSrieXf" shops and SewarS ave. Geo. Miller, 1209 Seward ave. FOR SALE S. of N. W. Vt of sec. 7, township 13, range 15, one of the best improved farm's in Auburn township. G. R. Gibson, Au,burndale, R. R. 21. FOR SALE 7 room house and 10 lots at 2046 Fillmore st. Price Sl.BtiO. FOR SALE 5 room house on Van Buren st, good cellar. and shade. Price SUOO; part cash. Address Bargain, Journal. Z. m FISHER. For a flfst class hotel, cheap, see me about it. 5 room house Van Buren St., close in. Cheap if sold this week. A nice home and 2 lots on Monroe St., east front, cheap and on payments; if you want, this be quick about it. A fine modern corner property on W. Sth St.; can be bought cheap for quick sale. 5 room house Lincoln St., $1,000. 50 acres 4 miles out, well improved, or chard of 7 acres, only $3,500. 8 room modern house W. 10th St., $2,600. SEE FISHER, 418 KANSAS AVE. Bell 'Phone 6oO. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Tomatoes,- 10c per basket at patch. Ind. 'phone 12782 rings. FOR SALE Dark blue velvet rug 12 by U, also smaller rug like large one, near ly new, cost $38.50. wUl sell both for $22.50. Call at 422 W. 6th St., upstairs. FOR SALE Good hard coal baseburner, also gasoline lamp. Inquire 118 Fillmore. FOR SALE 14 stands of bees will be sold at Tom Stanbury's sale Oct. 6, 8 miles southeast of Topeka- FOR SALE An extra fine milk cow 46S Reno ave., Oakland. FOR SALE Household goods 524 Topeka ave. FOR SALE Journal route. Route, care Journal. Address FOR SALE 25 head of 2-year-old heifers and 1 4-year-old Shorthorn bull, eligible to register. B. L. Rush, 3 miles S. E. on Deer creek. P. O. box 28, Topeka. FOH SALE Good suburban grocery, fine trade, excellent location, reasonable rent; can give part time. O. J., Journal. FOR SALE Small road wagon and cart, cheap. 828 Fillmore St. FOR SALE 1 wagon and harness, 3 show cases, 1 Oak heater, 1 gasoline stove. J. T. Voight, 1121 E. 6th st. FOR SALE Good team and bread wagon. Home Bakery, 915 Kansas ave. FOR SALE1 Or will trade for Topeka property, 80 acre tarm. J. S., Journal. FOR SALE 4,000 shares Syndicate oil gas stock at 4 cents. Address R. F., Journal. FOR SALE Fresh Jersey cow with calf, $35. V. R. Frederick, Highland Park. Bell 'phone 6292. c-"Vi FOR SALE Hammock swings. Call or address 701 Morris ave. FOR SALE All my household goods.Mra. L. A. Neely, 515 West st. FOR SALE Several good second hand square and uprignc pianos, very cheap. Geo. D. Butts, 921 E. 6th st. FOR SALE 1 lot in front cart of ToDe- ka cemetery, nice location. Inquire of jeAioss .renwen. FOR SALE Grocery. 3 living rooms, fur niture, 2 lots, Darn, wen. juclid av. FOR SALE Restaurant stock and fix tures, all in good shape, good trade: ill health reason for selling. Address A. L, Schroeder, Lyons, Kan., Lock Box 812. FOR SALE New and second hand furni tare, gasoline stoves and everything in the housefurnishlng line. Monarch Furni ture and Stove Co., 309 Kansas ave. FOR SALE One good second-hand fold ing bed and mattress, cheap; new and second hand furniture nought and sold. Monarch Furniture and Stove Co., 309 nansas ave. FOREXCHANGE FOR EXCHANGE Active interest in a good business for Topeka home. Profita ble, Journal. nSOTLLANEOm LIVERY, boarding and feed stable. 514 and gib jacKson st. Horses wanted for boarding. W. E. Bobbins. IF YOUR shoes need repairing send them to REUTER. H2VA Kansas ave.. the largest and best equipped and only shoe repair shop in tne state, where the very latest improved shoe machinery, operated by electric power., is used for trimmimr. burnishing and polishing of the soles and neels of your shoes, and which will make your -old shoes look like new ones. HIGHEST prices paid for men's second hand clothinK. nats. shoes. JV1. .Manson. 408 Kansas ave: LOST Between-Wolff Packing Co, and 3d and Van Buren,. envelope containing $13.02. Reward for return to 331 Van Bu ren. LOST Conductor's transfer punch. Re turn ior reward to city Railway office. LOST Shawnee building and loan assess ment book, with name Kate Renver. Please return 706 W. 3d St. LOST 10 heifers and cows, brand 2 spurs and figure 6 on left side. Anyone finding any of them please take care of them and notify Chas. Wolff Packing Co. MAGNETIC HEALERS. LOOK HERE! S. J. RESTORICK, The strongest magnetic healer In the world, now permanently located at 412 Kansas avenue, iopeka. He treats rheu matism, liver, stomach and kidney trou bles, erysipelas, granulated sore eyes and all chronic diseases. Female troubles a specialty. Come and see this wonderful healer, consultation tree. vnte to him about your troubles. Prompt attention given to correspondence. STRAYED OR STOLEN. STRAYED Brindle bull dog with white spot on back of neck, one eye sore. Re turn for reward to 919 Harrison st. KTOJFACTORT. RUGS of all sizes made from your old worn out carpets. Write for price list. Best rug on earth. O. JVl OOXiaHClS. itUli f AtTUBI, Phones 42L 522 Van Buren St. DRESSMAKING. DRESSMAKING, moderate prices. Miss Taylor, t-23 vv. sin st. WANTED Dressmaking at my home. JUrS. JU- XI. iXLUlTLXUtLUU, J.1 i. 0.tUBVlL TOPEKA STEAM BOIi-EK WORKS, IBe largest shop west Missouri rlver.boilers, all kinds tanks, smokestacks sheet lro.i work. Write for prices, 'f hones 463. TOPEKA BRIDGE IRON MFG. CO. manufacturers of highway bridges. W W. 8th st. Plant Uth Mad. St. 'Phone 67. WM. SCHICK, mattresses, feathers, pll- holstery goods, etc. Tel. 436. 127-31 Kan.Av. ave. E. G. KINLEY. -Manufacturer and Staler in all kinds oi vetoes. Bee u? about that delivery wagon. jg WEST FIFTH 8T- THH Jensen Mfg. Co., creamery supplies. cheese factories. lUmmlng staUOuS.test ers. etc VS Jackson st. Ind. 'phone ASK YOUIt CLOTHIER FOR Sunflower pa-.ts. made by the Topeka Woolen Mill Co. WESTERN WOOLEN MILL CO., Manufacturers of Wooito Goods. Men s Trousers and Ladles' Skirts. 'PHONE 294. RUSSELL DOUBLE FORCE PUMP has no superior. Call and see before you buy. 24 VAN BUREN. JVHOMSALERS CHARLES WOLFF PACKING CO.. man ufacturers of the celebrated "Banquet Hams" and "Binquet Breaktast Sausage and all other oiga grade packing uouse products. THE HYPES Barber Supply Co., mug decorating, razor and shear grlPAing. Z14 Kansas ave. THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE CO. Hardware, stoves, fine tools. 706 K sua ci T.l PARKHURST-DAV1S MERC, CO.,whole eale grocers and manufacturers oX bak ing powders, extracts, etc USE the "Silver Leaf Brand pickles, vin egar, mince meat, etc. Otto Kuehue Preserving Co., 'phone 300. THUS SYMMS GROCERY CO- Wholesale Only. PHONE 456. 13 KANSAS AVE. ELEVATORS. FLOUR MILLS. ETC. THE TOPEKA MILLING CO. Highest class hard wheat Hours and manufac turers of Ralston health flour. THE TAYLOR GRAIN CO.. Shippers and exporters of grain, eleva tor capacity million bu. Galveston. Topeka. MID-CONTINENT MILLS, elevator ca pacity 100,000 bu.; mill capacity 700 bbls. THONB 498. THOS. PAGE. CROSBY ROLLER MILLING CO.. man ufacturers of hard wheat flour. 'PHONE 224. COMMISSION HOUSES. COPE CO., car lots a specialty, fruit and vegetables. Established 1883. 'Phones 396. 134 Kansas ave. All codes. JUUKJAJj R. H. EDDY, piano and organ repairing, rennishing and polishing. Ind. Tel. 132H. HIDES. JAS. C SMITH, highest cash price for hides, wool, tallow, lurs ana pei;s, con signments solicited. Tel. 684 108 E. 3d St.. Topeka and St. Joe, Mn, HORSE SHOERS. WM. GEORGE, the horse shoer, 617 Quln cy. Ind. phont 1x34. ARTHUR MASSEY, practical horse shoer. 118 W. r litn. not a phones 48. CLEANING AND DTE WORKS. HAVE those clothes cleaned at Topeka pantatorium. 115 W. 7th. TeL 872. ii p apiiii. GO to G. A. Wood for that wall paper and painting. 832 Kan. ave. Tel. S0. 2. STAPLE AND FANsET GROCERIES. 'PHONE 443 or 661 for your groceries. ARTHUR BROS.. 332 TAYLOR ST. JCORNICEJJTORKS Galvanized iron cornice, metal skylights, slate roofing. L. Van Dorp, 509 Jackson. HOT air furnaces, tin roofing, metal work. John M. Balrd. 216 W. 6th St. Tel. 3i9. JPICTURE FRAMES. THAT framing, regiiding, mat making A mounting should be done by J. U. Sulli van. 114 W. Sth ave. Packing, shipping, etc PLUMBING. FRANK P. EDSON, member American society of heating and ventilating engi neers. 118 W. 6th St. 'Phone 314. VETERINARY SLRGEONS. J. O. YOUNG, D. V. S., vet. surgeon and dentist. 426 Quincy. Ind. Tel. 196. Bell 2591 red. FOUNDRIES. CHAS. LINDEN SCHMIDT SON, Iron railings, wheelbarrows, shutters, stairs, window gratings. 606 Jackson st. JiAKERrES ASK for Royal homemade bread. Kansas ave. 'Phone 282. JWONUMENTS C. W. GUILD, monuments, designer and carver. 923 Kansas ave. CARPET CLEANER. CARPETS cleaned, renovated, refitted. sewed, sized or laid. The only machine cleaner in the citj-, all work guaranteed. O. M'CORMICK, Phones 421. 522 Van Buren St. PHOTOGRAPHEl. WEHE makes anything in pictures. 701 Kansas ave. J-TOJUSTS J. C. RODMAN, blooming plants, cut flow ers, palms, designs, decorations. 112 W. 8th. 'Phone 37. Greenhouse 12th Mon. CUT riOWERB and Dural designee al Hayes'. 107 W. 8th at. Both 'phones 177 PHYSICIANS ANIi SUHGEOXs. DR. EASTMAN, late supt. state lnsana asylum. Mental and nervous diseases. 6ue Kan. av. 'Phones 714. Kes. 1270 V Buren. IDA C. BARNES. M. D. Office 72l Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: a. za. to 11 a. m. and S p. m. to 6 p. rx Both phones 16 residence, and ina. uib onice JkLSfJEJPARLOR- LADIES' beauty parlors, facial massage and shampooing, toilet articles, jura Annie M. Trapp, 710 Kan. ave.. upstairs. TeL 372. BICYCLES AND REPAIRING. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CTCLli Co. TeL 706. Bicycles and sundries, bi cycles and tandems for rent: repairlns all kinds. U. a CYCLE CO.. lis H. 8th St. Nation ml i Iver-JohnsoTi bicycles Pupplies. repairs. MOVING AND STORING. FOR moving, packing and shipping, Atlt erton Bros., 200 E. 6th st. Both 'phones 9k& MONET. MONET TO LOAN on lire stock, pianos. orgass, typewriters, household goods -personal security. L. Biscoe. 12S Kan. tf. COAL DEALERS. SOUTH WEST KRN FUEL CO, Telephone laJ. Northeast Corner 8th and Kansas ave. 11 kinds of Coal. Best Quality. Full Weight. Prompt Delivery. WESSON COAL CO. A1V kinds of coal at lowest market pries. 'PHONE 504. 607 E. 4TH ST. 1. W. F. HUGHES, coat denier. -Phones 400. Office and yards Sth and Adams. All kinds coal: b'acksm'.th coal beat quality. PATENTS. J. A. KUBKN, ra.lt in Attorney, sas ave., Topeka. HOTELSL THE HOTEL THKOOP. largest and best hotel In Kansas. U to $3 per day. 'PHONE 38. 4TH A KANSAS AVB. NEW MIDLAND HOTEL, 1st class tran sients especially cared for. $1 to $126 per day. Fourth and Qulncy. 'Phone 138. FURNACE WORKS. GEO. S. 6EYBOLD, furnace work. Us roofing, guttering, spouting, furnaoes a specialty. 931 Kansas ave Ind. 'phone 6UL JOHN SEYBOLD, tin roofing, guttering. spouting, galvanized iron ana furosee work. 124 E. 8lh si TeL fad. FREE DISPENSART. TOPEKA FREE DI8PENSART, souto east corner 12th and Tyler eta., from 1 to 2 p. m.. except Sundays. Conducted by regular practicing pnysiclans for the benefit of persons without matins who need medical attention and treatment. Ps tients are assured of careful and consio crate treatment. Medicine furnished to most WATCHMAKER- WATCHES cleaned. 75c; clocks, 60c; main springs, 75c; crystals, 10c Cash paid for old gold or silver. All work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up. see Uncle Sam. 512 Kansas ave. MACHINE SHOP. FINE gurismithing, exchange gans, head quarters football supplies. H- B. How ard, 6o3 Kansas ave. BAIR DRESSING. SWITCHES, pompadours, all kinds of hair work. Mrs Van Vleak. 222 K. 6th. STORAGE. MERCHANTS' TKANSfcKK BlOHAGa l-O. pacaa, snips anu aiurtis uuihouuiu goods. TeL 186. Clarence Skinner. (XI Qulncy st. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAVDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian. Complets stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc Eyes exam In ad and spectacles properly fitted. UNDERTAKERS. GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. EattU llshed 1871. Prices reasonable. TeL efllJS 146. Residence 87. 621 Jackson at. SHELLABAROER St BON, funeral direc tors and licensed embalmers. Parlors 122 W. 6th St. 'Phono 373. DEMOSS A FENWELL. Funeral Dlreo tors and Embalmers. First class servlcs reasonable prices.&U Qulncy. Both tels 192. PAVING. CAPITAL CITY VITRIFIED BRICK ft PAVIiU CO., J1S W. ln St. Mrgrs. oi building, paving and sidewalk brick. UPHOLSTERING. W. J. VCSS. upholstering, furniture packed, shipped: mattresses, couches, etc made over. 609 Jackson St. Ind. 'phone SIS. STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. catalog tree. AeL KtiL RAILROAD TIME TABLES. TIME TABLE Topeka, Kansas. The "Right Road" To and Freis and Batwae OMAHA DENVER I COLORADO SPGS FORT WORTH ST. PAUL i CHICAGO ST. LOUIS MKS1PHI3 PEOKIA ST. JOSEPH KANSAS CITY MINNEAPOLIS I And Everywhere Beyon.

(Effective June 19, 1904.) TRAINS LEAVETOPEKA A 3 FOL. EAS'i BOUND, Pro ant Pa Ko 612. Colorado K. C. Ex j:t6 $o.m: HvMub5undEx-- 1 n Chicago Jfc Texas Ex 12-m So"! cSlora'do .Flyer V." No. I?1 California 11.x. Ex 11.50 Noieii. ColoradEx. ,6. UM p No" S IV joe &xchicagoEx:::::: is 22 No. U, bt. J SOLXHBOUNI) Pn No. 81. Chicago Ex u :45 a So S.-W. Ki SiWpJl All trains daily. For sleeping reservations, tickets, time, tables, etc., apply to any Rock island Tir-ket Auent. UNION PACIFIC. EAST BOUND. Arrive. No. Z limited 8:06 an No. 6. Kansas City local pass 6:66 &rn No. 4. Atlantic express. :U pq Mo. 4, K. C and Sallna express., lit cm WESTBOUND. No. 7, K. C. and Sallna express. ..11 :S0 sta No. X Denver and Pac Coast ltd.12 50 pn No. fc. Junction City local pass.. :M pre No. 1 limited t.faup, aOalljr except Sunday. All others -"ma MISSOURI PACIFIC. SOUTHBOUND. Leave. No. 315 Local freight 7:00 ana No. 23 Ft. Scott-Carthage 9:00 asm NORTHBOUND. Arrive. No. 22 Ft. Scott-Carthage 4:25 prn No. 314 Local freight fM&m Ko 12. Chicago Mall Ex t:XS Noilt East Ex Mall... 4JS No! 4. LI Paso Chicago Ex s;46 11). LOIUI auu u. v.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING.SEPTEMBER 27, 1904. lO WANTEDA FAIR. CALLEDJJOWN. Massachusetts Officials Find Tnemselres In Trouble. i How's This! Regular &c Dress Percales on Hid-Winter Exposition Wilt Be .Again Repeated. Sale for 6c Per Yard Tomorrow These percales are beautiful dark reds and bluesalso black. The patterns, are the usual percale kind; We bought a large quantity of this percale because we could buy it cheap. We're going to sell it cheap to morrowin fact, the best calicoes are sold regularly at 6c, and that's what this percale will be priced tomorrow. Suitable for children's school dresses as well as waists. We have had it marked 8k, you can't tell it On from the regular 1 0c quality full 27-inches wide, your choice of the entire lot tomorrow for, yard UU Euiiaes Men Are In Faror of Through Arrest of a Member of the British Embassy. th Big Show. WILL MEET OCTOBER 5. HEAR FltOM MR. DEE. International Lair Has Been Detail Flans Are Then to Be Arranged. Violated He Says. Br. Brigham Will Undoubtedly Be the Manager. Matter Must Be Set Kight as Far as Possible. Topeka will have another Mid Winter exposition this winter. The 'Auditorium has been reserved from January 30 to February 11. On Wed nesday afternoon, October 6. the an nual meeting: of the stockholders will take place and the machinery set in motion for another exhibit. The business men of Topeka are nore than enthusiastic over the inten sion to have the fair again. A large number were consulted and in every Instance they quickly and unhesi tatingly announced themselves as in favor of another show. Interviews with a few of them are printed and they follow: W. H. Davis: "Yes. indeed. I favor another fair. It is a very good thing. fThey have been such marked success kn the oast and there is not a single -eason why they cannot be made so again." H. A. Auerbach: "I want to see the Mid-Winter again. The town needs it. St has my hearty support." Joab Mulvane: "I am in favor of the fair again. It is all right." Otto Kuehne: "The town needs Jlvening up at that time of the year fend the Mid-Winter seems to do it. Sit has been a great success and I favor Slaving it again." T. J. Anderson: "Of course it is the "thing to have. Got to have the show tagala.". Robinson-Marshall: "Yes, we are rery much in favor of another fair. It 1 verv rood thinjr. The people Weed a good, successful amusement of that kind during the winter. Warren M. Crosbv: "It brings peo ple to Topeka. It helps business and trade. That has been proven. It was a success. Why not have another?" M. F. Rigby: "Yes. I think it a mighty Vood thing. Put me down as in tavor another fair." Mayor Bergundthal: "It is a fine thing for the town. We want another ie.'' George Stansfield: "Yes. indeed. It lias been too marked a success to even think of dropping it. I favor it again." W. W. .Mills: "They have been a suc cess all along, why not have another? 2 am heartily in favor of it." William Green: "I think it a fine thing tor the town. Yes, indeed I fa vor another fair." K. H. Crosby: "I am for another fair. It brings people to the city. It has been proven a success. I want to try it another time." The Midwinter fair is a good thing." That fact is indisputable. Facts and figures galore can be shown as evidence. Subscriptions are not ask ed of any one. The big show is en tirely Eelf-supporting. In 1903 the net profits exceeded $1,000. The U and I club earned almost $500 last winter from the fair from concessions and this Bum was expended entirely upon worthy charitable objects. But one of the fair's great results is the outside attendance which it brings to the city. The official reports of the railroads showed that over 10,000 visi tors came to Topeka during the fair in 1903. The year previous the total was 1,000. while the first year, in 1902, 3.500 visitors came. That proves conclusive ly the growing -popularity of the fair. It emphasises and affirms the statements of the business men that the show is worth while and a good thing for the commercial interests of Topeka. But the greatest share of praise for the success of the fair is due to Secre tary Raich Brigham. He has done about 99 k per cent of the work each year. To his management can un questionably be attributed the fine and lasting results of the now three times tried and three times successful show. Mr. Brigham was asked to talk this morning concerning the show. Char acteristically he referred the reporter to the results. He is always willing to talk about what Topeka has done and what can still be done with the Mid Winter, but he always eliminates him self. "I am glad," he said, "to know that the business men of the town feel that the fairs have been successes. I will do my best, if the committee again aees fit to elect me secretary, to give the citv the best show possible again this winter. By pulling together it will not be hard to get results." There is no question but Mr. Brig' ham will again be secretary and man azer of the Mid-Winter Fair associa tion. Practically all the stockholders name his selection again, as one of the conditions for their interesting them selves in the big exhibition. C. D. Jones' Daughter Married. Norton. Kan.. Sent. 27. Grace W. Jones, anrhtrr of Colonel and Mrs. C. D. Jones, was married to Charles Phrimmer, the Burlington railroad agent at Funk. Neb., today. The bride has lived in Norton since 1SS5 and has held several positions ot trust and honor. She has an extensive acquaintance and is highly respected. The groom is young man of fine business qualifications and for some time was an mplove of the Burlington road in Nor ton. The wedding took place in the pleas ant home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Jones, in the presence of only their relatives and immediate trienns. Chilean Training Ship Arrives. San Francisco, Cal.. Sept. 27. The Chi leitn training ship General Baquedano has arrived In port. 45 days from loKonami The vessel carries officers and a crew f 337. mostly cadets, of the Chilean na- -v. and has been making a leisurely vov- aee to Asiatic countries. She is now on her way back to Valparaiso. Dr. Lyon's PERFECT ooffiPovdor AM ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY TJsed by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century c ntcpARiD mr Washington, Sept. 27. The state de partment today called on the depart ment of justice to take action in the case of Hugh Gurney, third secretary of the British, embassy, who was fined yesterday by Justice Phelps, of Lee, Mass., for contempt of court and for speeding his automobile. It is expect ed that Attorney General Moody will send a special district attorney to Lee iu investigate me matter. Reaches the Governor's Offloe. .Boston. SeDt. 27. A tele-ram frorri Washington bearing on the fining of Third Secretary Gurney of the British emoassy by Judge Fhelns at Lee. Mass. yesterday, was received at the executive department at the state house today. Upon receipt of the dispatch by Lieu tenant Governor Guild, who is acting governor in tne absence or Governor Bates, he at once sent disDatches to Acting Secretary of State Adee who signed the telegram from the state de partment addressed to Judge Phelps at Lee. The telegram from the state de partment follows: "Washington, Sept. 26, 190. Hon. John L. Bates, Governor of Massachusetts, Boston: British embassy lniorms me mat Air. Gurney, third sec retary of that embassy, charged with anving automobile at excessive speed. was arrested today by deputy sheriff and taken after entering protest under tnreats or rorce to the court of Lee, where in spite of his protest he was sentenced by H. C. S. Phelps, special justice of the Lee police court, to pay a fine of $25 and on his declaring that ne could not admit the right of the court to sentence him. another fine of t-o for contempt of court and to eo to prison it ne nia not pay. "Section 4063, Revised Statutes of the United States, declares ;that any writ or process issued out or prosecuted by any person in any state court or judge or justice whereby the person of any public minister of a foreign state is ar rested or imprisoned, shall be deemed void. "Section 406 declares that any-person obtaining or proscuting such writ or process and- every officer -concerned in executing it shall be deemed a vio lator of the law of nations and subject to imprisonment and fine. "I have to request that you take such action as may be pfwper in this case. ALVET A. ADEJC, "Acting Secretary of State." Lieutenant Governor Guild in reply to the state department said: "Investigation already started. Im mediate action will be taken." The telegram to Judge Phelps said: "State House. Bosm, Sept. 27.H. C. S. Phelps, Special Justice, Lee, Mass.: The following telegram has been re ceived from the state department at Washington: (Here is given the dispatch of Acting Secretary Adee). 'The assistant attorney general In forms me that if the facts are as sta ted above you have in your endeavor to enforce the laws of Massachusetts for the security of life upon our high ways committed in this particular case a grave breach of international law. May I ask you to telegraph me at once if Mr. Gurney was arrested and fined in spite of protest. Other channels cf redress are open in case of violation of Massachusetts laws by the diplomatic representatives of other nations. There fore, if fine was inrmosed and collected the commonwealth will apologize. The fine must be remitted and I need not suggest to one so respected as you She personal amend thVti you will, of course, desire to make to Mr. Gurjiey for the error in method adopted by your court in this unusual case. Kindly forward me affidavit of the evidence of any breach of Massachusetts laws. ;'CURTIS GUILD, JRM "Lieutenant Governor, Acting Gover nor." Lieutenant Guild said that no further action would be taken until he had heard from Judge Phelps. TOPEKA FIREMAN SLUGGED. Clothing: Close-Outs We want to close out these lots of clothing. We have taken them from regular stock for that special purpose. We have made the prices remarkably small. If-' .:f-'J-"- Men's Suits, $4.95 Were marked up to $lfr. All the lots from' our regular stock which contain only one," two or three" suits, have been placed in this lot to" close out. Made of cheviots, cassi meres and worsteds;, both light and dark patter ns -splendid Fall weight mate rials, good styles through o u t. Tour choice of these suits tomor row, marked as high as J 10 in regular stock. 4.95 $1.49 Cliildren's Fine Blouse and Norfolk Suits Black and blue cassimeres; sizes. 3 to 10 years; very nobby styles. Marked as. high as J 3; your G 1 QQ choice jpi.UO Boys' Knee Pant Suits--Mostly light patterns, but good weave mate rials; sizes up to 15 years; 2 and 3 piece styles. Marked as high as $2.75; your choice of them tomor- flj C row for tpl.Uv Boys' Knee Pant Suits Sizes up to 16 years; splendid heavy weight ma terials, dark patterns, 2-piece styles. Marked to sell at $2: we have re duced that price to Yoting Men's Long Pant Suits Extra heavy materials, light patterns; exceptionally fine suits for autumn; sizes 16, 17 and 18 years, a few 15 and 19. These suits are marked to sell as high as $4.95; to close them cut they have been ff QC marked lpl.UJ Men's Pants One table containing about 258 pairs $1.98 will buy your choice. Made of stylish, serviceable materials; neat, nobby, dark patterns; ail sizes. Marked as high as $3.00; your unrestricted choice 01 QQ for ip ImxJSJ Men's Suit!! Marked up to $7.50, priced at $2.98. Odds and ends from regular stock we want to clean upr made of extra heavy cheviots and caasimeres; mostly light colors. Not more than 50 in this lot, at your choice of them for to morrow Deep Drug Cuts Special prices that are money savingly low. Pomade Vaseline Regularly 15c; special for tomorrow, 9c. Wine of Cardui Regularly $1; will be sold tomorrow at 70c. Hood's Sarsaparilla Reg ularly fx; to be sold tomorrow at 7 Sc. Bromo Quinine 25c regular ly; for tomorrow, 15c. Glycerine 10c bottles will be sold tomorrow at 5c. 20-Mule Team Borax One pound package, with picture, 18c. $1 S. S. S. To be sold tomor row at bottle 6c Snoop's Rheumatic Cure S l bottles will be sold tomorrow at 75c. Listerine 25c bottles will be sold tomorrow at 16c. Dr. Graves' Tootli Powder 25c box will be sold at 18c. Seven Sutherland Sisters' Hair Tonic $1 bottles will be 75c. Carter's Little Liver Pills 25c regularly, for tomorrow 15c. $2.98 Be rgain Square Velvet Ribbon II. Rice Knocked Down and Robbed at Chetopa. The Chetopa Advance says: Some resident of the First ward going ror a wane aoout b o ciock satnraay morn ing discovered a man lying near the walk just in front of the Bush residence with out either hat, shoes 'or hose, with pockets turned wrong side out and evidently auf- ipring with much pain. tn closer inspec tion it was found that the man was un conscious from an injury of some kind and the city marshal and several others were summoned who removed him to the Valley house and called a nhvsician. An examination showed a bruise on the back of the head such as would be inflicted by a sandbag or sluneshot. ThrouEh the ef forts of the physician the man awoke from his stupor about 8 o'clock and told the story of his accident. He gave his name as J. H. Rice and his home as TopeKa. He was 26 years oi age. a locomotive fireman by occupation and bound to Coffeyville. where he expected to get work. He alighted from Katy train No. 1 about 3:30 a. m. and started up town to find a hotel in which to remain until tne Missouri t'acinc went west. The only thing that he knew about his assault was that on the way down from the station something happened like an explosion and ne Knew notning more until he regained possession of his faculties in the hotel and was told the condition in which he was found. His losses were SSI in monrv. Stetson hat. shoes, hose and several other minor t nines aoout nis person. The Wood men furnished him with the missing ar ticles of clothing and Saturday evening he was sent to Coffeyville, where he has friends. Committed Suicide in the Street. Philadelphia, Sept. 27. Dr. Eugene Manning, 50 years old, professor of German in a boy's high school, has shot and killed himself in the street. No cause for his suicide is known. Prof. Manning went to a restaurant near his boarding house and telephoned to the city electrical bureau that a police pa trol wagon would be needed in Button wood street above Sixteenth street, which at night is deserted. When the wagon reached the place the body was found. George B. McCntcheon Weds. Chicago, Sept. 27. George Barr Mc Cutcheon, the author, was married here last night to Mrs. Marx Van Antwerp Fay of Highland Park. I1L Only im mediate relatives of both were present. Mr. and Mrs. MeCutcheon will leave for a trip to Europe. There will be an Interesting collec tion of bargains on this bargain square tomorrow. Merchandise must be at Its lowest price before "it is allowed to go on this bargain square.-- Mirrors, 35c They're marked. 49c; we're going to sell them at 35c to morrow. That's 14c saved. Two styles, oblong and dia mond shape heavy plate glass;, bronzed, frame; the edges of the glass are chip ped. Here "tomorrow only you can buy these Q K p 49c mirrors for OU Sewing Needles Best English make kind that are regularly sold at 5c paper; to be sold, tomorrow-at, per package Collar Bnttons Fancy styles; some are celluloid, others are china. To be sold tomorrow, per dozen I j Sterling Silver Thimbles Guaran teed. Marked 25c; to be sold tomorrow, each Lace Pins AI1 colors,, on a card; indestructible. Tomorrow, per card Iron Toy Tools Six different kinds spade, rake, hoe, pick, sledge, and hatchet. To- be sold tomorrow g at two. for 1 1 Iron Banket Fancy style- Marked 10c; to be sold tomorrow at each 5c lc ome lc ran- 15c :ard; 5c We're going to be frank; we have too much of this. We want-to sell a big -part of it tomorrow. It's a splen did quality: of satin back, black velvet ribbon;- widths up to 8 Inches. Sold as high as 20q.yard regularly; we go ing to have it priced tomorrow at 10c per yardU This ribbon is used for belts.- and trimming: purposes. Be cause we've got too large a stock we are going to sell it tomorrow t fif at, yard 1U0 Shoe Surprise Do you remember we told that our shoe buyer was in St. Louis at a big auction sale? Thursday we're going to hold a big bargain sale of these cash captured shoes. You can buy shoes at the prices usually paid by the retailer. 79c $2.00 Covert Cloth We have two colors of very fine quality of covert cloth that is marked to sell at 98c; you can buy it for 79c tomorrow. This is a pure wool quality, 53 Inches wide. One is a rich brown mixture, the other is the new green shade; both are very nobby fabrics, and they are ex ceptionally cheap at 98c that's our marked price; as a special value for tomorrow we are go ing to sell them at, yard Waist Patterns We have a few very handsome patterns of French flannels and tricot, with embroidered trimmings. These are worth $4 and $5; we want to close them out now at, each -Molialr Black brocaded; dots and figures; a serviceable fabric for skirts, suits or waists; 38 and 42 inches wide. 50c is the regular price; will be sold spe cial tomorrow at, QQa yard ODu Repellant Cloth 54 Inches wide; waterproof fabric for making suits or skirts; very serviceable; black and brown only. Special bargain at, yard Dnrbin Cloth 28 inches wide. A splendid weight for school dresses; absolutely fast colors. Worth 12c; will be sold special tomorrow at, yard Corded Madras 3 3 -in. width; white and colored grounds with fancy stripes; extra heavy cloth for cold weather wear. Worth 25e; will be marked to sell tomorrow at, yard White Goods In short lengths suitable for aprons or infants' dresses. We have a small lot we want to close out to morrow at, yard Women's Apparel Bargains The following are special lines of goods we want to close out. We have reduced the prices accordingly. You will save if you buy while the lots last and while such low prices are in force; if you wait until these garments are gone you will probably pay much more for merchan dise that fills your need with no better satisfaction. $1.00 $1.79 49c 8c 17c 3c Women's Sateen Waists Black grounds with white dots; full sleeves; plaited front and back. Marked 75c; will be on special sale tomor- 1AA row at, each 41 C Women's Shirt Waists Made of mercerized cloth, etamine weave; pink, tan, and blue; piped with white; trimmed with buttons. $1.4 9 is the price iney re marked to sell at; will oe out tomorrow, your choice women's Fancy Waists Made of crepe- material; light colors; also black, plaited and tucked: som nf them are trimmed with medallions. Waists that are regularly sold at z.zt; your choice tomorrow Women's Petticoats Made of mer. cerized sateen, trimmed with lace. Marked $2.48; will be spe- CP 1 ftC cial tomorrow at, each jj I HQ Women's Petticoats -Black sateen: accordion plaited ruffles. They're marked 59c: we are sroinsr to J n. sell them tomorrow at, each 7uU That's less than the material would cost you. Children's Short Jackets Sizes 4 to 12 years; zibelines, meltons, and nov elty mixtures. Some of them sold as high as $2.75; to close them. rA. out we have made the price JUL Children's Jackets Sizes 12 to 16 years; short styles;, made of warm, serviceable materials; fancy collars, trimmed with braid; .splendid for school wear. Marked $1.98 up to $3.98; to close them out they QQn have been priced at f.Ow Women's Skirts, $4.95 Most of these skirts sold as high as $12. Cloths and Colors suitable for all winter wear; nice stylish skirts, splendid ly made. Come here and get one of these $12 skirts for 4.95 Children's Dresses Made -ot per cale; very nicely trimmed; sizes 2 to 4 years only. That's why we want to close tnem out. Marked up to 75c; your cnoice or tne lot to- 39c morrow Women's Suits length; jackets which have shoulder capes; trimmed with large fancy buttons. These suits come in a good variety of materials and colors. They're marked as high as $15; we want to close them out now, and have made the C ft C ft price l?y.0ll Bedspreads $1.15 We bought a large quantity of them to sell at $1.39. White only; full 81x90 inch size; large enough to cover a big bed. Our regular marked price is $1.3 9; were going to sell Of 1 C them tomorrow at 9 1 1 Q 9-4 Bleached Sheeting Extra heavy serviceable quality. Would be cheap at 23c; special sale tomorrow, 1 Q yard A 01 Heavy Russia Crash All-linen Regular 10c quality; will be sold tomorrow at, yard Unbleached Turkish Towels 20x45 inch size; extra good quality; red bor dered. Regular price 12 c for tomorrow, each Mercerized Table Damask This linen will hold its lustre In launder ing. You see this on special sale at 75c; special for tomorrow, yard Silver Bleached Table Damask German manufacture; very heavy, handsome table linen. Regular price 5 9c; will be sold special to morrow at, yard 8&c 0x45 bor- 9c -This ider- 63c 49c Satisfaction or Your Money Back. "The New Model." 6th and Quincy. Save $20.05 This store will save you that much on a single pur chase. The ranges we sell at $19.95 are the range s other stores in town are selling at $40. They're made of good material. The fire box is fitted with duplex grate the oven is very large and perfect baking; has high warming closet and. two tea shelves. Very handsomely nickel trimmed you never saw a handsomer range any where.. We are able to sell them at $19.95 because we contracted for an unusually large quantity from a Chicago manufac turer. If you go to any other store n this city and ask for a six-hole range they would ask you $40 for It. Come here and we will sell CI f A AC you one for 9 f This Store Closes At 6 every evening except Saturday, when we stay open till 10. We optn at 8 in the mornings. SHERLOCK HOLMES CASE

Mysterkras Stabbing of JPeter Kiel at "His Home. While defending" his" hme last'night Peter Kiel, a German machinist who lives at the corner of -First "and Jeffer son streets, was seriously stabbed by an' unknown assailant. Kiel Is now at a local hospital, suffering from a se vere wound in the lat arm and anoth er in the palm of his hand. Kiel had been living in the house only two days, and has no idea who assaulted him. About 11:30 o'clock last night he heard some one pounding on the back door. Kiel Jumped out of bed and pounded on the inside of the door to scare the intruder away, but the unknown man ran around to the front and started to batter down the front door. When Kief cached the front door he, threw his Weight against it to hold it shut. Tbe man outside then smashed in the glass in' the upper half of. the door, and reached through the opening. Siezing Kiel by the left arm he pulled it through the broken pane of glass, and drove a large knife through the muscle below the elbow, severing an artery and one of the ter dons. Kiel grabbed the knife, and his hand was badly mangled. The asasilant then ran down Jeffer son street, and was seen by a woman living near the Kiel home to board on upbound Oakland car. During all the time the fight was going on Kiel did not get a look at the assailant, who was outside the door. The cuciain which hung over the glass front was in the way and gave Kiel no chance to see the man. The door was not opened until Kiel went out and called for help after his assailant had escaped. This morning the police picked up "Spider" Heppenstal, a police character who lives in the "Bottoms," and took him out to the hospital to see If Kiel could identify him. Kiel said that he would not know the man who assault ed him, and the only thing he knew about his dress was that he was In his shirt sleeves. Heppenstal is a veryi small boy about 19 years of age, and would never have been able to draw Kiel's arm through the broken door-light. COIilJXS IS IN COURT. Much Sought Man Appears Pleads Guilty. and WILD MAX TO GET $6. Sells Downs Raw Meat Eater Secures a Judgment. Fred Collins, who was busy chasing David Brown Monday while Nick Chiles was chasing both Collins and Brown to get them into court in order that the bonds he signed would not be forfeited, appeared before Judge Ha zen this morning and entered a plea of guilty to the. charge of attempting arson. Collins was In the joint business. Jack Bradshaw was in the same busi ness in a house owned by Mrs. Kate Heitman on East First street. Com petition In the joint business in that neighborhood -was red hot and Collins thought that the trade should not be divided. He "decided to burn Brad shaw out and he set fire to the house. The fire was extinguished with small loss. This happened a year ago and Collins was not suspected until his wife became angry at him and appear ed before the county attorney and told all about Collin's misdeeds. BARTENDER LOSES A WIFE. Lola Elliott Granted a Divorce From Harlo Elliott. Lola Elliott was granted a decree of divorce from Harlo Elliott this morn ing by Judge Hazen. The divorce was not contested. Mrs. Elliott stated that her husband follows the occupation of bartender and that he drinks and becomes intoxicated and that while under the influence of liquor he had called her bad names and had struck and beaten her. Leopold Assumes Regency. Detmold, Principality of IJppe, Sept. 27. Count Leopold, eldest son of Count Ern est, the dead regent, has assumed the regency. Robert Marshall, colored, secured judgment against the Sells Downs circus this morning in the district court for $6 due him in wages for per forming with the side show. The part in which Marshall was cast was that of the Wild Man of Borneo and he received $1 per day. He growled and ate raw meat for six days, he claims, without receiving any sal ary. It was a hot job wearing long hair and big tusks and tearing the raw meat in front of the astounded crowds in the side show and he thought he should receive his pay. The circus people did not appear in court and everyone who sued the show, even to the flea on the hair of the tail of the dog of the child of the flfe of the Wild Man of Borneo got judgment for $6. C. Tedrick, president; A. O. Yeoman, vice president; D. Billings, cashier. SEEK AUTOISTS. Indiana Farmers Plan Vengeance on Men Who Brought Injury to Two. SCED FOR TWO CENTS. Refused to Pay Toll on Darby Pike and Was Arrested. Chester, Pa., Sept. 27. Because he refused to pay two cents toll, James C. Fender, a millionaire and president of the Keystone Plaster company, has been arrested. Mr. Fender drove past the No. 1 tollgate on the Darby pike at Eddy stone, but did not drive through it. He argued that because he did not drive through the gate, but turned onto the pike alongside it, he has no right to pay toll. The case will involve hundreds of dollars, for the defendant says he will carry the case to the supreme court if Judgment s against him. National Bank for Kingman. Washington. Sept. 27. The comp troller of the currency has authorized the Farmers' National bank of King man to begin business. The bank s capital is $25,000. Its officers are: A. Hammond Ind., Sept. 27. Farmers armed with shotguns have watched the road to Chicago all day, hoping to wreak vengeance on two automobilists whose swiftly driven car brought ser ious injury to Cornelius Kalf and Cor nelius Porto. The auto crowded Kalf's rig off the road and the horse ran away, throwing both men into the ditch. This is the third accident of the kind within two weeks in the same locality. KILLED BY STARVATION. Boston Man Refuses All Food for a Week and Expires. Galesburg, III., Sept. 27. John Jen nes. traveling salesman for a Boston firm, died of starvation at a hotel here today of his own choice. He had been ill all summer, and at first refused med ical attention and food, but finally ac cepted both and recovered. For a week before death, however, he had refused all food. H AN D SAP OLIO FOR TOILET AND BATH Finger roughened by needlework catch every stain and look hopelessly dirty. Hand Sapollo removes not only the dirt, but also the loosened, injured cuticle, and restores the fingers to their natural beauty. ALL GR.OCIR8 AND DRUGGIST Building "The Trail." Portland, Oreg.. Sept. 27. The work of building "The Trail" as the amuse ment feature of the Lewis and Clark exposition is to be known, has been commenced. "The Trail" is to be 70 feet wide and several hundred yards long. To the Ww -ti's Fair via the Missouri Pacific. If you do not live on the Jine of the Missouri Pacific, ask for your ticket via that line from Kansas City. There art 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 Pacific from Kansas City. An Honest Sale. "I never knew but one honest knock-down sale In the clothing busi ness," said the boot and shoe drum mer, "and I wasn't fixed to-take ad vantage of that. It was when the flood came to Galveston. When the waters had reached a depth of a foot on the floor of a clothing store opposite the hotel where I was stopping and roost ing in the second story, the clothier. appeared at his door and called out to me: 'Now vhaa your time, my frendt. All my $15 suits vhaa going for $9 apiece.' "I shook my head, and five minutes later he called: "'So help me gracious, you 'shall have one of dose suits for $5, und dot vhas $2 less dan cost. I warrant him der latest cut, fast dye and fit-you like., der best tailor in New York. Don't" miss dose bargains.' "I had to, though. A great wave came rolling down the street, and next moment that stock of clothing was floating all over the island, and the clothier was paddilng away on a board." Vnloved Husband Seeks Divorce.. W. H. S. Albro filed suit in the dis trict court this morning for divorce from Ettie G. Albro. He charges that she says she no longer loves him.