The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 24, 1905

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EVERYBODY EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READS IT. NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. TUESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JANUARY 24, 1905. TUESDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. STRIKESPREADS. Streets of St. Petersburg lYere Quieter Today. A Number of Gorernment Print ers Resumed Work. USING -DYNAMITE. People Are Blowing Up the Buildings iu Kadom. HERE TIIEY ARE. Tiro Administration Bills Ap pear in the House. BECOuESA COURT Senate of the L ulled States in a New Bole. Soldiers Fire on the Crowd and it Is lteturned. Organized to Try the Swayne One ProTides for Investigation of State Departments. Impeachment Case. A TIE UP AT MOSCOW. OATH ADMINISTERED TO PROTECT THE FUND. No Newspapers Will Be Issued in That City. lYork Stopped at Korno Factor ies and ltaiiroad Shops. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. The night was quiet. There are no signs of undue ex citement this morning, although thou sands of workmen are strolling through the streets. A number of government printers resumed work this morning. Moscow. Jan. 24. The strike is spread ing rapidly. All the printing works have been stopped. No newspapers will be issued tomorrow. Thus far there have been no collis ions with the police. Employes of the Bachrushin, Micha loft. Under and Scraeder factories have joined in the strike. The strikers here at noon today total led 10,000. Kovno, Russia, Jan. 24. Work has been stopped at all the factories and railroad shops here. Vilna. Russia, Jan. 24. A strike has commenced here. The town is juiet. Lull Is Temporary. St. Petersburg. Jan. :4, 2:30 p. m. While the city is quiet, there is still extreme tension in St. Petersburg, but from Moscow comes reports that dis order has begun there, and the lull here may be only the precurser of an other storm. Not a single mill or factory has started up. This is very significant, as indicating that the workmen are being supplied with the sinews of war. Xon have applied for pay at the factories, although some have two weeks' pay coming to them. The crowds in the streets are sullen. and several thousand additional troops were brought in at daylight and housed in barracks. Machine gun batteries were also placed at several points for emergencies. The terror of the peo pie has been somewhat relieved, but the dread of the next tew days con tinues. Many foreigners are leaving Russia. The foreign embassies are not manifesting alarm. They are express ing confidence that the government will be able to handle the situation, and there is nothing now warranting apprehension for the lives or safety of their fellow countrymen. The au thorities insist that the danger of the situation is exaggerated, continuing to scout the idea of a revolution and maintaining the ability of the govern ment to meet all emergencies. Traffic between St. Petersburg and Moscow and St. Petersburg and War saw is uninterrupted. The northern express arrived on schedule time. During the afternoon came the news that workmen were going out at Kovno and Vilna, but particulars were lacking. Although the crowds on the Nevsky Prospect continued to increase during the r.fternoon. just as they did yester day there have been no collisions up to this hour. Moreover, during the day several of the smaller mills re sumed work and the men at other mills assured their employers that they were anxious to return but that the strikers threatened to kill them if they did so. The wildest rumors are in circula tion. A mob is reported to be march ing on Tsarskoe-Selo to see the em peror, as the multitude marched to Versailles to ask King Louis XVI of France for bread in 1879, but the story is utterly without foundation. In certain quarters where the woes of Russia are always laid to the door of Great Britain the feeling against the British has become intense, it be ing charged that the British are fur nishing money to bring about a revo lution. Japanese Are Interested. Tokio. Jan. 24. The Japanese are keenly watching the developments at t. Petersburg. The newspapers pub' lishir.g extras wiih accounts of the riots are eagerly read. The people were shocked at the death roll and there is a widespread feeling that the bureaucracy will be powerless to stem tne tide or reform and that the down fall of the bureaucratic system must end the war. A member of a foreign legation said: Ihe war is over unless the Russian people are crushed with an iron heel. It has brought about a crisis. me Japanese army is now lighting the battle of the Russian peo pie." 300 Compelled to Strike. .Moscow. Jan. 24. A body of strikers at noon today forced thtir way into the works of the firm of Hopper and compell ed 5"0 men to join the strike. Simulta neously factories and other works were c-losfii throughout the district adjoining NO MORE KILLING. Russian Official Iteport on Monday's vents at St. Petersburg. St .Petersburg, Jan. 24. An official account of yesterday's event is as fol io v. s: During Monday there was no colli sions between the rioters and the troops. Detachments of soldiers had no need to use their arms as the crowds dispersed when the trooos ap peared. In the course of the duv un attempt was made to attack Gostinny jjvji iraiKei, our it was repulsed. Workmen at the electric stntinns joined the strike in the evening. Then! some groups taking advantage of the j darknesy began to break windows in I the shops, but order was everywhere! quickly restored. No person was! killed or wounded on Mondav. The exact number killed on Sunday was 96. wounded 333, of whom 53 were treated at the ambulance stations. Women and Children Leaving. London. Jan. 24. A dispatch to a news agency irom St. Petersburg to day says: Crowds of strikers are aain con centrating on the Xevsky prospect. The situation is so tense "that many Inhabitants of St. Petersburs are ending their wives and children to Helsinjisfors and elsewhere for safety. "rf" Sacred Gate of the Kremlin at Mos cow, Where an Outbreak Is Expected. A meetins of 350 barristers and so licitors has passed a resolution of) soliditary with the strikers, protesting! against the action of the government! in provoking bloodshed, declining tot plead in the courts and decidins to! open a subscription in aid or the propaganda, KERENS GAINING. He Took Three More Votes From Niedringhaus Today. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 24. In joint session today Thomas K. Nied ringhaus, the Republican caucus nom inee for United States senator, lost three votes which R. C. Kerens gain ed. The ballot stood: Niedringhaus, 78; Cockrell, 81; Kerens, 12; Goodrich, 1. Necessary to election 88. The next ballot showed no changes. J. K. Goodrich, of Kansas City, wno received one vote, is a Kerens man. He was not allowed to speak at yesterday's meeting of the Republican state com mittee. Se-erai absentees were paired. Today's blow at Neidringhaus was the most serious yet received and the be lie! was expressed that he could not win. Representative J. L. Bittinger, of St. Joseph, who leads off on each ballot for Kerens, arose and said: "I do not care whether we take an other vote today or not, but we have been ordered to proceed with this sen atorial election by Mr. Bothwell." (Mr. Bothwell is vice chairman of the Re publican state committee). The Democrats opposed the motion to dissolve the joint session. The Kerens men voted with the Democrats and the joint session was not dissolved. Another ballot was ordered. The? second ballot resulted the same as the first ballot. When Bittinger's name was called, he arose and said: "If I am not considered too old by the insolent presiding officer I will vote for It. C. Kerens." This was in reply to President Me Kinley of the joint assembly who said at tha close of the first ballot when Bittinger had spoken out of order, that the assembly had been ordered to pro ceed to election of senator but he al lowed Bittinger to speak on account of his age. This angered Bittinger and he made that caustic remark when called to vote on the second ballot. EDISON UNDER KNIFE. A Critical Operation Performed Upon the Inventor. New York. Jan. 2 4. A critical sur gical operation has been performed on Thomas A. Edison at his home near Orange, N. J. Great secrecy was maintained by the family regarding the affair, and few details could be obtained. The operation was for an abcess behind the ear, very close to the brain. As is generally known the inventor has been deaf for many years and the affliction has been growing worse. OFFICERS ARRESTED Two Held for Shooting at the Czar Last Week. St. Petersburg. Jan. 24. Davidoff, the captain, and Kurzeff, the senior of ficer of the battery from which the loaded shell was fired on January 19. striking the imperial pavilion and other buildings, have been arrested. Weather xnuioatJoris. Chicago, Jan. 24. Forecast for Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday, with possibly slight snow flurries in west portion; colder to night; northeast winds. m en om 1 4 1111 Vladimir Gate, St. Petersburg, Which M I i Il 77 KILL THREE OFFICERS. State of Siege With Patrols In Erery Street. Winter Palace District of Capl tal Again in Darkness. Breslau, Prussia, Jan. 24. Special telegrams from Radom, European Russia, describe that city as being in a state of siege, with military patrols in every street. The soldiers occa sionally fire on gatherings of the peo ple, who have returned the fire, kill ing three officers. The people are also said to have blown up several build ings with dynamite. St. Petersburg Dark Again. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24, 6:17 p. m. The lower section of the Nevsky Pros pect, including the Winter palace dis trict and the quay, where the embas sies are located, is in darkness and there has been a resumption of the panicky feeling of yesterday. Never theless the authorities express increas ing confidence that the backbone of the strike is broken and that all the prominent agitators and many extreme liberals have been arrested. Father Gopon has disappeared and s said to be in Moscow directing the strike there. For the moment here the men are without a plan of action and are seem ingly commencing to realize that with out arms it is folly to resist the troops. If the strikers are paralyzed there is general fear that the revolu tionists and terrorists, who are com ing to the front, will begin a reign of bomb throwing and that the political exiles" association, known as the 'illegal Red Cross," will make large contributions. There is no truth in the report cir culating that strikers 30,000 strong are marching on Kolpint. 20 miles from St. Petersburg, for the purpose of seizing the small arms factory there. Assassinations Reported. St. Petersburg. Jan. 24. 7:50 p. m. Sensational but unconfirmed reports are in circulation that the nrefect of St. Petersburg has been assassinated and that he will be succeeded by Gen eral Trepoff. the former chief or po lice of Moscow. It is also reported that the chief of police of St. Petersburg has been as sassinated. Order for Machine Guns. Berlin,, Jan. 24. The Russian gov ernment has ordered the Ludwig Loewe Arms factory to supply as soon as possible five hundred machine guns. DIED IN HER BERTH. Woman's Life Ends Mysteriously on a Santa Fe Train. Albuquerque, N. M., Jan. 24. A mysterious death occurred in aPull man car attached to a Chicago-California Santa Fe train which passed through here. The victim was a wo man 25 or 30 years of age. Papers Indicate her name to be Mary McKee of Alamada. Cal. Her ticket reads from Chicago to Los Angeles and the Pullman conductor and porter say that when she entered the coach she was heavily veiled. After retiring the first night the woman did not leave her berth. About two hours before the train reached here the porter heard moans coming from her berth and asked if she wanted anything. She replied in the negative. An hour later tfle porter found the woman dead in the berth. SCHOOL TAX BILL. It Passes the Senate With But Little Opposition. Senator Young's bill to provide a state tax for the permanent school fund came up for final vote in the sen ate Monday afternoon. Senator Toung amended the bill to read one mill in stead of two mills and the bill passed by a vote of 2 5 for to 4 against. Senator Waggener offered an amendment that the money so raised be distributed among the counties of the state according to the assessed valuation of each county. Senator Young- said that any distribution ex cept by per capita of school popula tion would be unconstitutional. Sen ator Waggener withdrew the amend ment. Senator Young's bill for a county school tax of from one to five mills was amended to make the levying of such a tax optional with the county commissioners and was passed by a vote of 2 4 for to 2 against. The funds raised by the tax are to be distributed by the county superintendent. Za Is Heavily Guarded by the Military. Mr. Stubb3' Measure Is a Plan for It. Ulead Assessment Bill, the New Tax Measure. Two of the "big" administration measures were introduced in the house of representatives today. One was the bill appropriating $10, Q00 for an in vestigation of the state departments; the other was the assessment and tax ation law. The first was introduced by the ways and means committee as a substitute for the Hackney bill; the other was introduced by A. G. Mead, chairman of the committee on assess ment and taxation. Another strictly administration measure, the Stubbs bill for the pro tection of the state school fund, was favorably reported from the commit tee this morning, and will come up Wednesday under general orders. It is evident that the administration machine is getting down to rocks now, and the real business of the session is about to commence. In the case of the $10,000 investi gation bill, an emergency was declared and it was given its second reading. It will likely go to the committee of the whole for consideration, as the ways and means committee has already given it careful consideration. The following is the full text of the proposed law governing the investiga tion of the state departments: "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: "Section 1. That the governor is hereby authorized and empowered to cause a full investigation to be made of the state departments. "Sec. 2. That for the purpose of making such investigation he is au thorized to employ such competent ac countant or accountants as he maydeem necessary therefor, and to pay them reasonable compensation for their services. "Sec. 3. That upon the appointment of such accountant or accountants by the governor they shall proceed to ex amine such departments in the order prescribed by the governor in writing, and shall make a report to the gov ernor showing the result of such in vestigation, and deliver the same to him in rjerson. "Sec. 4. It shali jethe duty of any and all orhcers, their assistants and clerks to render to the accountants herein provided for every assistance and facility in the examination of their respective departments. Any officer, assistant, clerk or employe who shall obstruct or interfere with such ac countant in the discharge of his duty shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction shall be filled in a sum not less than one hun dred ($100) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars. "Sec. 5. If the books and records of any department shall be obscure or shall fail to show, in detail, any trans action the accountant may submit to the head of such department, his as sistant, or any clerk thereof, written interrogatories concerning the same, and the person to whom such interro gatories are submitted shall answer the same in writing and sign and verify the same by oath and deliver same to the said accountant who shall return such statement or statements with his re- j port. "Sec. 6. If any person to whom in terrogatories are submitted shall fail, neglect or refuse to answer them, or any of them, or shall answer the same, or any of them, falsely, or shall refuse to sign or verify the same, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred ($100.00) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars. "Sec. 7. An accountant whose report shall show that any officer, assistant or clerk has been guilty of any offense against the laws of the state of Kan sas shall, if so requested by either the governor or attorney general, make an affidavit or complaint against such officer, assistant or clerk charging him with such offense. "Sec. 8. The governor is hereby au thorized and empowered to employ a competent attorney, or atorneys, to as competent attorney, or attorneys, to as under the provisions of this act, and to pay them reasonable compensation out of the fund hereinafter provided. "Sec. 9. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any fund in the state treasury, not otherwise appro priated, to be placed at the disposal of the governor to pay any legitimate ex pense incurred under the provisions of this act, and the auditor of state is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer of the state for such amounts to be specified in proper vouchers duly approved by the governor. "Sec. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pub lication in the official state paper." Till VIue Assessment. The central idea of the Mead assess ment and taxation bill is to obtain an assessment of property at its full cash value. The proposed law provides that in 1906, a county assessor shall be elect ed in every county of the state to hold office for two years. The township trus tees and city assessors are all made his deputies. The feature of the Mead plan is a long and elaborate affidavit which the assessor must sign after completing his assessment to the effect that he has put everything in at its run cash value, ible so to do. There is a severe penalty for failure or refusal to make accurate reiuma. xi.e um pro v..t tp assessor shall get Sri a day pay in couuties having over 40,000 population, with a limit of 120 days on li. that he shall get $4 in I counties with from 20,000 to 40,000 with a 100 day Iimu. -u"i";s or fess than 20,000 with a SO day limit. The pay for the deputy assessors is $3 4 1" Hawkins, of Johnson, has intro- rtiird a bill w-'i'-' Y7 ite for the Mead bill. It gives to any township assessor the right to go into a j,'.W.MTOWHy M..H..MI.I il ..num. "I l L mil l.i 'I" I; (1 p B f s.i'v' r, J rr.iailrTr.hitiirii.'Mfti.iii.ilri-ii nBviiiirir in.i-fc .i.-.! j.miiiiiiriM.rwtf J ILKIAEQILETTE Who was Today Chosen to Succeed Jos. ords in order to ascertain how much money a person has. The bank officers must afford the assessor every facility for inspecting the books so that the amount of money can be ascertained. This is to overcome the peculiar state of affairs which now exists in the state. The banks report holding 106 millions of money, but the assessors found only four millions cash on hand. Want Another Employe. An effort was made just before ad journment this morning to "test the sentiment" fit the house on the subject of hiring an adidtion telephone girl. There are some of the old members who want to give a place to a young woman, who was left out of the distri bution of prizes this session. Their plan was to get the house to recommend to the rules committee that it fix things for an additional telephone girl. But the matter was switched back into the rules committee under a ruling by the speaker. Speaker Stubbs this morning appoint ed the conference committee and fix up with the senate committee and .fix up the difference about the Kansas-Oklahoma resolution. The senate has refused to concur in the house amendments. The house-committee is as follows: Creech, Ham, Kinnison. Money for Quhidaro. Dail of Wyandotte introduced a bill appropriating the following amounts to Quindaro institute at Kansas City: Trades building, $20,000; maintenance 1906, $10,000; 1907, $11,000; heating and lighting. $3,000; library and equipment,. $6,000; traveling expenses of trustees, $200. The bill also au thorizes the authorities of the school to charge a tuition fee of $1.50 per month of all pupils from outside of the state. Quindaro is the negro school of which W. T. Vernon is presi dent. Bird of Shawnee introduced four bills amending the city charter act in various particulars. One of the more important of the four bills authorizes a citv to pave or repave a street by resolution, unless the majority of the resident taxpayers remonstrate within 20 days from the passage of the reso lution. Another bill allows cities to issue bonds for the purpose of build ing crematories. Ham of Rooks introduced a bill au thorizing townships to build their own bridges. The county commis sioners must allow the township trus tee to let the contracts. Mr. Ham savs that many special laws are passed because the county commissioners have not the discretion to build county bridges costing less than $200. Many times this makes it impossible for townshios to build needed bridges. McBride of Jewell has introduced a new form of "inquisition" bill. It re quires the county attorney, at the re quest of any complainant, to summon witnesses to appear before any justice of the peace, and tell what he knows. The witness refusing to testify can be punished, and the law imposes secrecy upon all the parties under the most severe penalties. Such a law as this would help in the enforcement of the prohibitory law, it is thought. Adams, of Sedgwick, introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a parole officer at a salary of $1,000 a year, to aid the governor and warden of the penitentiary in the enforcement of the indeterminate sentence and parole law. Husey, of .Sedgwick, also wants a new officer appointed by the governor; an officer for the inspection of steam hollers. A complete list of. the twenty-eight bills introduced this morning is as follows 413. Bird Amending' city charter act. 414. act. 415. act. 416. act. 417. dians' 418. Bird Amending city charter Bird Amending city charter Bird Amending city charter Davison Concerning guar- appointment. Dail Quindaro appropriation. 419. Ham Construction of bridges. 4 20. Benson Refunding bonds in small cities. 421. Benson Jurisdiction of pro bate courts. 422. Humphreys Assessment of real estate. 4 23. Husey Inspection of boilers. 4 24. Welsh Charge school boun daries 425. Archer Vacation. 426. Committee on political rights of women. v oman s surtrage in pres idential elections. 427. McBride Court of inquiry. 428. 429. tiary. 430. Adams Parole officer. Adams Relating to peniten- Adams Concerning sale of property. 4 31. Fieser- Vacation. 432. 433. 434. 435. law. Guyer Vacation. Guyer Vacation. Guyer Vacation. Clark Local school district (Continued on Faze ShO V. Quarles in the U. S. Senate. LAFOLLETTE CHOSEN. Wisconsin Governor to Succeed Quarles In the Senate. Madison, Wis., Jan. 24. Governor Robert M. LaFollette was chosen for United States senator to succeed Jos. V. Quarles by the Republican caucus. The governor received 6 5 votes out of 107 on the informal ballot, which upon motion was made formal. Upon a motion to make the nomination unanimous a few members rose to their feet and voted against it. Senator Quarles received 26 votes the other sixteen being divided be tween three candidates. Both houses of the Wisconsin legis lature today voted separately for United States senator, Governor La Follette beins named. OT A RIPPLE. $AJta Fe Bond Issue Plan Goes Through. Only a Small Number of Oppos ing Votes. Practically no opposition was de veloped at the meeting of the stock holders of the Santa Fe, held in Gen eral Manager H. U. Mudge's office to day, to the proposition of increasing the common stock of the company and issuing $50,000,000 convertible bonds. The only opposition to the proposi tion was expressed by the proxies of a number of holders of one or two shares of stock each, aggregating a total of 3 09 shares. Over three-fourths of the shares of stock of the company, or 826,202 shares of preferred and 873.018 shares of common, aggregating a total of 1, 69 9,220 shares, were voted in favor of the proposition. The common stock of the company is thereby increased from $102,000, 000 to. $152,000,000. The purchasers of the issue of $50, 000,000 of bonds will be allowed the privilege of converting the bonds into common stock at any time the holder chooses. The bonds will bear 4 per cent, interest. At the present price of common stock, the bond would be a more profitable investment than the share of stock which may be secured in ex change for each bond at the option of th" holder. If the common stock ever go.s to par, or above par, the holder of the bonds wrould find it profitable to exchange. The money which will be realized from the sale of the bonds will all be used in the extension of the property along such lines that it may be charge able to the capital account. It is understood that no work such as the reducing of grades and eliminat ing curves, and the betterment of the property in the nature of improvement of existing lines, may be carried on with the money reecived from the sale of the bonds. The money will have to be used solely in building or acquiring actually new and additional mileage or prop erty. Work on existing lines is taken care of in a separate account. The meeting today was attended by President E. P. Ripley, Vice President E. D. Kenna, I... C. Deming. Gardiner Lathrop, A. C. Jobes, Howel Jones, J. W. Gleed, C. S. Gleed, and P. I. Bone brake. Equal Suffrage Club Active. Wichita, Kan., Jan. 24. At a meet ing of the city council last night, a petition was presented to the mayor by the Equal Suffrage club, asking him to place two women on the elec tion board in each voting precinct as judge and clerk at the coming spring election. Twelve members of the club were present and the secretary pre sented the petition which caused con siderable amusement. Short speeches were made by the women showing why their request should be granted. The petition was referred to the mayor and chairman of the central commit tee, who are responsible for the nam ing of the judges and clerks. Temperatures in Large Cities. Chicago, Jan. 24. 1 a. m. tempera tures: New York, 22; Boston, 8; Phil adelphia, 4; Washington, .28; Chicago, 12; Minneapolis, 14 below; Cincinnati, 30; St. Louis, 20. Car Turned Over. Alton, Hi:;: Jan. 24. A. G. Chaplin, fireman, was killed, and several pas sengers were injured, none fatally, to day in the wreck of an Illinois Ter minal railroad train near here. A car containing 30 .passengers turned over. By Chief Justice Fuller of the Supreme Court. Order Issued for the Defendant to Appear at 15a r. Washington, Jan. 24. At 2 o'clock, today the senate organized as a court of impeachment. Chief Justice Fuller In his official gown was escroted to the presiding officer's desk. His presence was announced by Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the committee, at the re quest of the senate to administer the oaths to the senators. President Pro Tern Frye and Senator Piatt (Conn.) were first sworn. The roll of the sen ate was called and senators in groups of ten were presented at the desk and sworn. Many members of the house were present during the ceremony and the galleries were well filled. As soon the senate was organized aa a court a resolution was passed in forming the house that the senate was ready to receive the impeachment managers at the bar of the senate. Senator Piatt (Conn.), who was called to the chair as presiding offcer of the court, stated that during the impeachment trial all senators who had been sworn ought to be in their seats. As soon as the house could be In formed the managers of the impeach ment were announced and demanded that a process be issued against Judge Swayne. A resolution was passed di recting that an order be issued for Judge Swayne returnable on Friday at 1 o'clock. The senate as a court then adjourned and Mr. Frye reRumed the chair, the senate proceeding in regular session. HOCH'S VICTIMS. Six of Hi cm Are Believed to Have Died of Poison. Chicago, Jan. 24. Information of more alleged victims of the supposed Bluebeard, Johann Hoch. has been given the police by John Frick, an em ploye of the Nickel Plate road. Frick has reported to the police a charge that his sister, Mrs. William Schultx, mar ried Hoch, who then called himself Al bert Muschburg, at Argos, Ind., in 1900. Mrs. Schultz had a child named Nettie, then five years old. "Shortly after they arrived in Chi cago, letters ceased coming to me," nll Frick. "and I am unier the belief that my sister and her little girl were done away with. My sister had about l,f00 at the time of the marriage." Mrs. J. H. Schwartzman of Milwau kee telegraphed the police that she would arrive here today for the pur pose of. trying to identify a photo graph of Hoch as the man who mar ried her sister in 1S99. The woman died shortly after leaving $1,800 to her husband. Relatives of six of the thirteen wives credited to Hoch, have expressed a be lief to Police Inspector Shippey I hat the six women died from poison. Tho list of dead and missirg is as follows Mrs. Marie Welkcr Hoch, died Jan uary 11. 1903. Mrs. Mary Steibecker, died 1894. Mrs. Mary Becker, St. Louis, died 1902. Mrs. Mary Schultz, Argos, Ind., died 1900. Child also disappeared. Mrs. Lena Hoch, Milwaukee. Mrs. Sophia Hohn, Milwaukee. COLD WAVE IS HERE. It Will Probably Grow More lYigid Tonight. Topeka is due for a cold night this evening according to the opinion of Sec tion Director Jennings. The belt in which Topeka is now located extends up through northern Missouri and on up through Iowa. In this portion of the state the lowest reading of the ther mometer has been at Topeka, Follow ing are the hourly temperature readings for today: 7 o'clock 10 11 o'clock i 12 o'clock 5 1 o'clock 6 2 o'clock 6 8 o'clock 5 9 o'clock 4 10 o'clock 5 Minimum temperature reading 3 above. Precipitation .63. Wind at 2 o'clock blowing from the northwest at a rate of 24 miles per hour. MRS. IXGALLS CALLS. The Widow of the Kansas Senator Presented nt White House. Washington, Jan. 24. Among President Roosevelt's callers yester day was Mrs. Ingalls, widow of the late senator, her daughters. Miss Mar ian, Miss Muriel and Mrs. Edward G. Blair, of Kansas City, and her son, Sheffield Ingalls. They were present ed to President Roosevelt by George B. Peck, of Chicago. Mrs. Ingalls was in the gallery at the opening of the senate. Want Grand Jury Annually. Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 2 4. The Mercantile club last night adopted a resolution declaring in favor of the convening of a grand jury annually, "for the better enforcement of law, the deterring of crime and the general advancement of the best interests of Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte county." The resolution instructed tha committee on state and national legis lation to draft the necessary bill for in troduction in the Kansas legislature. The resolution was introduced a week ago by M. A. Waterman, who was chairman of the committee which se cured the calling of a grand Jury In the fall of 1903. The work of this grand jury formed a large part of th discussion of the resolution.

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Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is for sale at drug stores the world over in bottles of two sizes and two prices fifty cents and one dollar. Re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every i bottle. having the estate protected. There are other heirs, in the persons of two nieces, one residing in Indianapolis and the other at Louisville, Ky. These ladies received small portions of the estate also. Mrs. Baty's brother was, according to the report of an Indianapolis paper, killed by a Vandalia train in the su burbs of the city. His death came without warnins and as far as can be ascertained, there is no codicil to the will that provides for the Parsons wo man. Mrs. Baty's husband, Andy Baty, is foreman of a gang of Katy ainters. The family is highly respected in this city and the fortune that is to come will be hanaled with frugality. PLAINVILLE BREEDEKS. Second Annual Sale of the Association Fixed for Feb. 23. Piainville, Kar... Jan. 24. The date of the second annual s-lo of the Piainville Breeders' association has been lixed for February 23. The first sale of this asso ciation proved successful. It is the pur pose or tne orricers to make tms a larger one. So far 40 head of registered Short norn cattle, will be sold. The prominent raisers and breeders of Shorthorn cattle in this vicinity are J. S. Lester, William Mellott. A. V. Hall. R. 1,. Ordway. Ar thur Cooper, Tucker and Gaunt, C. O. Cochran Sons. H. F. Shaw and C. C. S!ason, who have fine herds, that of Mr. Shaw numbering 17. Col. James W. Sparks of Marshall. Mo., and J. W. Tra vis and K. A. Kreamer will be the auc tioneers. The officers of the association are Wm. Mellott. president; A. W. Hall, vice pres ident; S. R. Tucker, secretary and treas urer; N. F. Shaw, manager. In the sale wiJl be the fine herd bull Strawberry Baron 14S.4!'S. the property of K. F. Shaw. He is a handsome animal, and weighs 2,25 pounds. His age will be live years the date of the sale. He was bred by the well known Hornsby Bros, of Kminence, Ky. The officers of the association look upon the forthcoming sale with interest. The fine slock will be, here and unlsual in terest is being taken to make it a big success.. CONCORDIA'S CLEVER DOG. Watches the Time Cards and Makes tlie Trains. "Nubbin" !s the name of a small half pug, half bulldog that divides his favors between the New Colson and the Barons house, so far as a place cf habitat goes, and spends- his time mostly in making the various trains that come and go in this busy metro polis. "Nubbin" is not only good natured, but very intelligent and knows the time of the trains as well as the hack and bairgage men and never fails to meet them, rain or shine, day or night. It keeps him rather busy in the morning but about 9:30 he? will trot to the Central Branch and after the east bound train arrives he will go to the Union Pacine and thence back to the Santa Fe, seeing each train as it comes and goes. About 10:30 he makes the Burlington and Santa Fe .again and his trotting is done until the evening trains arrive, when he is "Johnny-on-the-spot." When the Central Branch changed time, after the close of the World's fair, he was at a loss for several days to account for the afternoon passen ger east on that road, but he finally, caught on to the change and cut out his trips to the station. "Nubbin is a sort of a partnership dog in which Charlie Banks, poison's colored porter, has a three dollar In terest. The remainder is the public's. Concordia Blade. GOOD FOR PJLAIXVIIX.E. Has Fine Prospects for Wheat and nig Cora Acreage. Piainville, Jan. 24. The farmers of Paradise Flats, which Piainville is the capital, are enthusiastic over their wheat prospects. The late snow which covered the entire Flats to a depth of six inches or more was of great benefit. It lay on the ground for more than ten days, gradually melting and soaking the ground. No such beneficial snow for the wheat has fallen on Paradise Flats for years. The acreage of wheat on the Flats is about up to the average of the biggest years, and the prospects are better for a harvest at this time than for several years. A big acreage in corn will be planted. Piainville continues to go ahead. As the capital of Paradise Flats the place has bad a remarkable growth. The town and country supports one of the largest milling plants in north central Kansas, working day and night to sup ply the demand. Recently a new paper has been started, giving the town two well printed journals. It only has one railroad, and a second one will reacli out to Piainville In the near future. It has mammoth implement houses, that of C. G. Cochran having cold more binders in the several years he has been doing business to reach as far as the mountains on the west and east to the Missouri river. It has a national bank, solid as any, with deposits amounting to $197,760.93. As reorganized the new officers of the bank are: C. G. Cochran, president; N. F. Shaw, vice president; F. C. Cochran, cashier. It has a good system of schools and several churches. It has a good class .of solid business men: also one of the largest butter, eggs and poultry establishments in this section of the state. Piainville has a never-failing system of waterworks. That is, wind mills and good wells are numbered in the hun dreds on the townsite. It is good to see so many never-failing wells and wind mills In operation. By this means many homes in the place have elegant lands around Piainville a few years ago could be bought reasonable, and cheap at the time: today they are cheap at the advanced prices. Paradise Flats are all right, the fellow who gave it this name deserves a lasting monu ment, and to the one who suggested that Piainville is the .capital 6f Para dise Flats deserve a simHar emolument. SABETWA S LITTLE QX'AKREL. Clash Among Society Leaders Over a "Juvenile Party" by One "Set." Sabetha, Kan.. Jan. 24. Society cir cles in this town are rent in factions and a "town row" is threatened. There is one class known as the "Washing ton avenue set," which is composed of about twelve families who are prob ably the "elite" of the town. Recent ly this "set" gave what was called a "juvenile party." Each guest was dressed as a child. Men wore knee trousers and waists. -and the ..women wore short dveses and aprons .one woman represented ..a .child of the early nineteenth century, attending the party in abbreviated clothing. This was looked upon .with abhorrence by some persons not' on the list of guests and talk of an uncomplimentary na ture began. To make matters worse, revival meetings have been in prog ress the last two weeks and the fight has been carried into church circles. Open letters are being written to the local newspapers by partisans of. the opposiing factions.. NO FIGHT AT PAOLA. Producers of That District Not 'Oppos ing the Standard Company. Paola. Kan., Jaa,, 24. The ope rators in this district say they will take no part in the light on the Stand--ard Oil company. They feel that the company has treated them fairly. One of the leading oil men here said: "The Standard people are going to us all right here. Oil is bound to be low until the pipeline is completed to Whiting, Ind., where the largest re finery in the world is. This pipeline is now constructed east of the Missis sippi river, connecting with the line here and in a few months will reach Whiting. The Whiting refinery was built In the west when the production was in the east and consumption largely in the west. Nov,-, things are changed; the production is in the west and is far above consumption." TALKED "GOOD ROADS." Three Meeting's Were Held In Em poria Xesterdiiy. Emporia, Kan., Jan. 24. A good roads convention was held here by Colonel W. H. Moore, president of the National Good Roads association, and party, who are traveling the length of the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad in a special good roads train. Three essions were held. The morning ana afternoon sessions in the opera house were attended by large crowds, most ly farmers from all parts of the coun ty. President Wilkinson, of the State Normal, let the Albert Taylor hall be used at night because of the large number attending. C. A. Stannard made the welcoming speech. Presi dent Moore responded and lectured on the "National Good Roads Move ment." FOUND WIFE IN EMPORIA. She Hcd Eloped From WinHeld With Younger Man. Emporia, Jan. 24. The police arrested Mrs. Mike Mitchel and Mel Nicholson here. The woman's husband arrived from Winfield Monday and took his wife and SJiJO of his money back hom?. Mitchel is a section foreman at Win field and is about 60 years old. His wife and Nicholson are both about 30 and are said to have eloped nearly two weeks ago. Nicholson was released, as Mitch el refused to prosecute when the money was returned. Nicholson is a race track manager and had been employed at Winfield. Mrs. Mitchel says that she will get a divorce from her husband and come back, to Emporia. Her Body Found in the Crvek. Parsons, Kan., Jan. 21. Mrs. James Jeffries, a young married woman who had been demented for some time, escaped from her home Monday and her body was found in Labette creek a few hours later. She had walked upon the ice for some distance until she came to a ritHe where the water was only a few inches deep and was drowned by falling face downward. Fhe bad previously attempted suicide. To Cnre a Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if H fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. SPOBTI(GNEWS. Cfaesbro Explains the Features of the Spit Bail. The Famous Twirler GItes Up the Secret. HAS PUZZLED SO MANY. ile Can Make Hall Drop Three Inches or a Foot. Iu Last 30 Games of 11)04 He Used Hardly Any Other. Boston, Mass., Jan. 24. Willing to let the other pitchers use It if they can Jack. Chesbro for the first time tells of the "spit ball," by which he won 41 vic tories last season, and which also lost New York the championship when one of Chesbro's spit balls went wild and allowed Criger to score with Boston's winning run. Chesbro's explanation will undoubtedly cause a big sensation In the baseball world. It throws an en tirely new light on the ball that prom ises in a way to revolutionize the sport. All last summer Chesbro persistently refused to tell of the spit ball. Manager Clark Griffith did not know how Ches bro got his control, and scores of pitch ers in the two big leagues vainly tried to emulate Chesbro. Chesbro was the king pin pitcher last season, and on his own statement over SO of the 41 victories he secured were made possible by the spit ball. Many baseball pitchers will be surprised when they read Chesbro's explanation, and according to him fans and experts who have thought they really know something of the ball have been groping in the dark. Since the spit ball was discovered it has been supposed that the ball shot down on reaching the batsmen because of the saliva on it. Nothing is farther from the truth, says Chesbro, and the pitcher who won 41 games, 30 of them by using the ball, should know whereof he speaks. The wetting of the ball by Chesbro is done simply and solely in order that the ball may slip off the in dex and middle fingers first and from the thumb last. In all pitching the ball leaves the fingers last and the thumb first. From the fingers is secured the power to make a all curve. By. wetting the bail Chesbro has been, enabled to make the ball leave the fingers first and thumb last, and from the thumb, and thumb alone, was Ches bro able to get such success from his use of the spit ball last season. It is not necessary to wet the ball thorough ly as some pitchers have supposed. In fact, Chesbro just moistened the ball enough to remove the friction. Ches bro's thumb caused the downfall of the heavy American league batsmen last season and not the moisture on the balls. It has also been supposed that the spit ball must be pitched slow. Chesbro, on the contrary, says the ball is only effective, when pitched with speed. Chesbro frankly .admits that something should "be dope, to make irroe' battirsr: and feels that before n- iTotKi??' season '"has" passed many of the (rpitohera iwttJ "tie in "supreme control of the mysterious spif- ball to the great detriment or tne Datsmen. it was only after a long argument "that Chesbro consented to tell of the spit ball, and even then he refused to tell how he was able to make the ball drop three inches or a foot. "The spit ball has come.' to stay, and is easily the most effective ball that can possibly be used. "It is an easy ball to pitch once you have acquired its secrets. "I have never yet read an explanation of it that was anywhere near correct. "I can make the ball drop two inches or I can make it drop a foot and a half. "It was only in the first few weeks of last season that the New York catch ers hurt their fingers when I used the ball. "Toward the close of the season I signaled Just how far the ball would drop, and whether it would drop straight or to the outside. "The spit ball cannot be pitched so that it will drop toward a right-handed batsman. "It can only be made to drop straight or to the outside. Of course, to a left handed batsman it can be made to drop in toward him. "The thumb and thumb alone directs the spit ball. The saliva on the ball does not make it drop. In fact, the saliva does not affect the ball in any way. "The ball must be moistened simply for the purpose of maiing the ball leave the fingers first and thumb last. "All curves and all balls leave the fingers last. By moistening the ball the fingers slip off first and the thumb last. The thumb does the trick on the spit ball and does it well. "Captain Anson couldn't hit the spit ball in a hundred years. In fact, I would be willing to bet that Anson couldn't even cntch it. "The ball is not hard on the arm. I pitched 54 games last season and my arm never bothered me. "Speed must be. used to make the ball effective, at least I always used speed, but the exertion is no greater than that of pitching fast straight ball. "I can make the ball drop 10 feet from the plate, or two inches. "You have read many explanations of the ball, but you never read of Gioson or Dineen telling how to use it. Gib- son had better control ot tne Dan man any pitcher I saw use it last season. "Dineen used the spit ball in his last game against us that gave Boston the pennant. "In the last 30 games I pitched last season I probably didn't use any bail hut the spit ball more than half a dozen times. "I used a spit ball when I mads the wild pitch that gave Boston the pen nant. "No, the spit ball Is not danserous. I simply put a little too much force into that ball, the same as any pitcher does when he makes a wild pitch. And, in addition, Dineen had been wetting the ball, so that it was rather slippery." "Won't the batsmen run up to meet the ball?" was asked, and Chesbro re plied: "Don't they run up now to meet a curve? You have simply got to try and figure out when they are going to do the stepping uo to meet it. and you can make" it drop accordingly. Of course, if the batsman knows when the ball will dro he will be able to kill it the same as he would if he knew you were to pitch an outcurve. "The spit ball has come to stay. I have refrained from telling how the ball was pitched until now. The use of it gave me a great advantage last sea son. It Is now up to the other Pitchers to master it. Stricklett wis the first pitcher I ever saw use it. It- was r.o-.vn at New Orleans last' spring. I saw Stricklett throw one, and I quickly said: 'That is something, Mr. Chesbro. that you must acquire.' I watched Strick lett closely and noticed how he wet his fingers. X did th same, and soon dis covered that It 'was tha thumb that did the work. "You have my secret now, and It is up to the pitchers, also to the batsmen, to discover some means of meeting the HAS NEW PRIZE IDEA. Milwaukee Will Distribute 3Ioney Differently to Bowlers. Milwaukee, Jan. 24. Authority has been granted to the local tournament company to so distribute the prize money in the national bowling cham pionships that the entrance fees for each event will be hung up for that event. For Instance, the Individual entries bring in more money than the five-men teams, and heretofore it has been the custom to distribute all prize money equally between the three events. This year it will be different, and if the prize money amounts to $10,000 it will be divided something like this: Individuals, $3,800; two men teams, $3,600; five-men teams, $3,300. This plan of distribution is considered much fairer. The material for the fourteen new alleys to be built for the tourney is expected to arrive today and work will begin in the exposition building Janu ary 29. The tournament company comes into possession of the building I February 1, and this will give eigh- j teen days to get it ready for the meet. I It has been used for entertainment! purposes all winter and is in perfect condition, so that about all that ts necessary aside from putting in the alleys, is to look after the decorations. The lighting and heating facilities are perfect, and at no- previous tourna ment has the same effort been made for the comfort of the visiting bowlers. THE HARDEST HITTER. Jeffries Says Choynskl Hurt Him Most in Battle. Denver, Jan. 24. Jim Jeffries and his manager, Billy Delaney, were caught in a conversational mood the other night and some of their talk was interesting. When Delaney was asked wrho was the hardest hitter he knew, Billy said "I think Jeff and Fitz were. That pair could hit just as hard as they liked. But for a fighter to lick an ordinary man,, or knock out a sucker, Mike Cleary was the best man I ever knew. He could swing on a sucker and put him away faster and quicker than any man that ever lived. Peter Maher was another fighter on that order. "Now I'm going to tell you some thing that will surprise you, said Jef fries. "If I left it to the public to guess which fighter hurt me most in all the battles I have, fought I don't think one out of a hundred would guess the man. I know that Fitzsim mons and Sharkey and probably Cor- bett would come in for the most guesses, but I'm going to let the cat out of the bag and tell you that Joe Choynski hit me harder and hurt me more than ever I was hurt before or since. "I was a new beginner at the time and my! how Choynski could hit in those days. I have often wondered since why Joe didn't break his hands when slamming those big fellows. He was just short of weight to make a good heavy weight and too heavy for a middle weight. SEEKS EARLY MEETINGS. Herrmann Wants Matters Settled Be fore March 1. Cincinnati, Jan. 24. If Garry Herr mann's advice is followed, the Nation al and American leagues will hold their schedule meetings in New York on the same date, and not later than the middle of February. The first part of this proposition was determined upon some time ago. when it .was practically agreed that the two big leagues should meet at the same time and place to adopt their schedules, which will already have been framed by Presidents Pulliam and Johnson. No date has been set for the meetings, and it was the in tention to call them for the last week in February or the first In March. Mr. Herrmann, however, thinks that the big league magnates should get to gether earlier, and he has communi cated his views on this subject to the two presidents. He says: "I recommend that the national board, which has power to act for the National association, be invited to meet in New York at the same time as the leagues. Women to Aid Ball Fund. Dubuque, la., Jan. 24. A feature of the fair to be held here the second the Dubuque Three I league team improve the ball park and maintain the Dubuque Three I league team to fore part of the season will be the raffling of a $500 automobile. There wilt be twenty-five elaborately deco rated booths, which will be presided over by young society women. The improvements on the ball park will represent an expenditure of about A5UU and the work will be com menced in March. "Hunkey" Hines has been re-en gaged to manage the team. There will be a number of changes in the team. The players have been ordered to report for practice in April. Pitcher Glendon Sold. Columbus, O.. Jan. 24. Pitcher Glendon has been sold by the Colum- dus American association club to the New Orleans team, in the Southern association. Phillies Get Courtney. Philadelphia. Pa., Jan. 24. After hang ing fire for two weeks the long delayed deal by which the Phillies are to secure the services of Third Baseman Courtney was finally consummated. The Phillies representative has been in New York sev eral days, a final settlement with Brook lyn being necessary before the local man agement could feel perfecely safe as re- Green or Black AS SERVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR SALE BT Dreisbach Wallace. Hubbell Bros., Fredonia. W. W. Toe, indesendeaca. gards the one position on their new infield that remained in the balance. The infield will now be Branslield, Gleason, Doolin and Courtney. LONGEST ON RECORD. Recent French Billiard Match Lasted 24 Hours. At 10:40 o'clock on the night of October 11 a 24-hour billiard match, during which play was kept up continuously, came to its end. The game was conducted in the base ment of the Brasserie Mele, formerly the famous restaurant Maison Doree. The competitors were two young Frenchmen, M. Cohen and Janssuad, and the player who made the highest score by 10:41 was to receive a prize of J3W. The match took place by gaslight and the strain on the men's eyes was very tiring and at the close neither showed any very evident signs of fatigue. Their movements were languTd and slow, but they were still capable of good play, and an hour before the time was up M. Cohen made a break of 32. including some very difficult shots, .his achievement being greeted with hearty applause. The table was French one. without pockets. The large and Interested crowd, which swelled as the end drew near, watched the proceedings with keen inter est. The scores were remarkably even throughout, seldom more than 100 points dividing the players. Two masseurs and two doctors were in attendance all the time, but neither was called upon to render assistance. The com petitors were not allowed to leave the room during the 24 hours for more than one minute at a time, and the only nour ishment they took during the match was extract of meat, kola and sugared water. The last stages of the match were con cluded ajnid intense excitement. When the final quarter of an hour was announc ed only 18 points separated the contest ants, and although M. Janssaud was very pale and M. Cohen very red, they kept gamely on, making breaks of six and seven, and some times a good deal more. Their legs were giving way, and as soon as either of them finished his turn he promptly took a seat until it was neces sary for him to play again. When the marker announced "only one minute to go" the score stood: Janssaud S,225, Cohen 3,196. Then Janssuad, the last man to play, made a final break of IX, raising his score to 3,238 and beating his opponent by the narrow margin of 42 points. There was much cheering and the band played the "Marseillaise." The pedome ters carried by the competitors showed that the winner had traveled 17 miles, while his rival covered only 13 miles. London Mail. Cardinals to Miss Taylor. Cleveland, Jan. 24. Treasurer Stanley Robison of the Cardinals gave out this interview concerning Pitcher Taylor: -"It will be a hard blow to us if Taylor is proved a dishonest player. He did good work for us last year, and w.e were looking for even better work in 1905. Taylor has always been considered an honest player by us, and we have never known anything to the contrary. We hope for the best, which is that Jack will prove his in nocence and be with us again in the spring. But all we can do is to hope. We have nothing to do with his squab ble with Jim Hart. Jockey Given a Small Price. San Francisco, Jan. 24. Walter Jennings has taken a hand in the trouble over Jockey Willie Knapp, and has secured the services of the little fellow from Wilkerson. Wilker son has a contract with Knapp, sign ed by both the boy and his father, under which he agrees to ride for the eastern man for $20 a month. Al though the genuineness of the con tract has been questioned because of its ridiculous terms, it is undoubtedly authentic and valid. Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 24. Formaster's sharp reversal of form was the feature of the day's racing. The colt, not en tirely overlooked in the betting, made a show of his field. Bradley Bill was so full of going that he could not quit after he had gone the mile, but kept on three miles further. All six fav orites were defeated, two of them. Flying Charcoal and Mountebank, be ing left at the post. Moorish Damsel fell in the first race, breaking her shoulder, and was destroyed. Racing at Frisco. San Francisco, Jan. 24. Sol Lichten stein, the favorite, was nearly bumped off his feet in the opening race at Em eryville by. Instrument, the winner which opened up at 6 to 1, but the judges refused to allow the claim of foul. Salable made a runaway race in the last event, taking the lead from the start and maintaining it. A Midwinter Snake Story. The middle of January, with the mercury below zero, is a strange time for a colony of snakes to become ac tive and enter a man's house, but that is what happened last Friday night at the home of L. E. Bigbee, who lives on the old Vass farm in Center town ship. The residence on the farm is a stone house and has been built a num ber of years. As a result it has a good many crevices in the walls which, from developments have be come a favoriate resort for a larire number of snakes, large and small, and of many varieties. Last Friday night, it will be re called, was an extremely cold one and the Bigbee family had some hot fires going in their house. The cold out side or the warmth inside seems to have awakened the snakes in the walls from their lethargy and long after midnight, when the family were all in bed, they were awakened by the reptiles crawling over tnem, the slimv visitors having found their way inside the house. Mr. Bigbee lost little time in getting out and beginning the slaughter of the snakes and when the job was com pleted he had killed thirty-five. Among them were garter snakes, bull snakes, rattlers and spreading adders and there was a nasty mess of it when he had finished. Concordia Blade. Colby Has a Shooting. PniKt, ITan .Tan. 24. Hpnrv TTprcpn. "iw, l ..1. a norma n farmer wna hfi nnH killed' late Monday in this place by Au gust rtOUpeiz, a. xuueriiiem i.iJlllt:r Ul fho came neighborhood. Three shots were fired from a revolver. The last Khnt struck Kersenbrock in the neck, severing the spinal column. The shooting occurred on Main street and was the result of a neighborhood feud. Roupetz was brought to town by the sheriff, charged with attacking a Miss Smith. Kersenbrock sided with the Smith family and a quarrel between him and Roupetz followed in which the shooting occurred. Koupetz was placed hi jail. Kersenbrock leaves a wife and a large family of small children. Old Olathe Citizen Dead. Olathe, Jan. 24. George H. Beach, about 0 vears old, and since 18i0 a hardware merchant of this city, died at San Diego, Cal. He left here a week ago to spend the remainder of the win ter in California, but contracted pneu monia en route. His wife, who accom panied bim, will return with the body here for burial. He was a brother of Lr. A. D. Beach, who died in this city last November, and an uncle of Her bert S. Hadley, attorney general of Mis sour. A Gnaranteed Cure for Files. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud ing Files. Your druggist will refund money if FAZO OINTMENT fails to cure you ia S to 14 days. 50c. z I v Cf MOST -i 3TtSf10t X of1" 1-' NO MORE h HAIR. f Tj 1l 7 ALWAYS restore yonthfal color to grsy or faded hair. Stops hnlr fulling. Posi tively removes danriruff. A Mgb-clnH halr-fcrowor dressing, ket-plng balr soft, glossy, luxuriant. Does sot eoil km or linen. Thin Great Hair Food, nlflei by HA.BFTVA POAP. heals the scalp, kills rtanrirnff perms, stops itching, supplies energy to roots and promotes fine hair growth. Large PCC. hottles, druggists'. Takenothlngwithoutoar signature. Fr Sfisn Cff str""1 '"fi.rake rresasep viisrHAllJrIA SOap. Slsm this coupon, take to any ef the following druggists, and get a IWe. bottle Hay's Hair health and ft 25o. cake Harftna Meolrated Soap, hest for hair, bath, toilet, both, for foc.; or sont by Philo Hay Specialties Co.. Newark. N. J., eiprets prepaid, on receipt of 60c. and ttiis Air. 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1 H h j.O.fc'EKA iSTATE JOUiiNAlt TU.U&JLJAY JjJVJblJNJLhO, JA3S1UAKY 24, 1905. veston. By acquiring both of these roaas the Rock Island-Frisco would obtain a direct line between North Texas and the ports of Sabine Pass and G.'lveston. The St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico, which is being built by B. F. Yoakum and asso ciates, will enter Galveston from the west, thereby affording, in connection with the Gulf and Interstate, a direct route be tween the Mexican border and Beaumont. The bill to authorize the sale of the Dal-lBS-Sabine division of the Texas and New Orleans is now before the legislature. MR. aiTDGLEY'S PLA'S. ARE ALLTALKKJG. What Newspapers of the State Saj About Legislature. 1 i i Wichita Papers Disagree Con cerning Husey's Bill. 1 TIio Kind You Have Always Bought, and Trhlcli has been. ia use for over 30 years, lias borne the s.igTiatnre of and lias been made under bis per- fyj jf7- sonal supetvisioa since its infancy. SsCCUSi Allow no one to deceive you in tbig. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but; Experiments that trifle wftu and endanger the bealta tS Infants and Children Experience against Experiment What is Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Fare ,oric, Drops and Soothing- Syrups. It is Pleasant. 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotia substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishriess. It cures .Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething1 Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and Uowels, giving healthy and natural sleep The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. G02U!fE CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of TheKInd You Have Always Bought in Use For Over SO Years. THi: eCNTKVR CCHMNV, TT MURRAY STREET, NEW VORR CITV. RAiLROADNEWS. The Grafstroni Memoral Fund Amounted to $5,500. That Sum Has Been Infested in Kailroad Stock. TRANSFER TO WIDOW. firs. Grafstroni Will Kecelre the Diridends. Gossip and Matters of Interest in Kailroad Circles. to be amputated, while his left leg was badly mashed. There is hope of his recovery from the accident. A sum amounting to $5,500 was raised for the Grafstrom memorial fund. It will be remembered that Ed ward Grafstrom, who was in the me chanical engineering department of the Santa Fe railway in Topeka, lost his life while heroically trying to save the lives of the residents of the low lands in North Topeka during the flood of 1903. A flat bottom boat was built in the Santa. Fe shops, and a gasoline engine placed in it for motive power. On one of Its trips of mercy, it foundered in the swift current of the Kaw river. and was capsized. Several persons! who were in the boat came near to losing their lives, but Mr. Graftstrom was the only one to suffer that mis fortune. Mr. Grafstrom was known as a good swimmer, but he was un able to cope with the swift current, because he wore a heavy overcoat and rubber boots, which prevented him from savins himself. A memorial fund was started, which grrew to $5,500. It was decided to in vest the money in some substantial stock for the benefit of his widow, and accordingly Illinois Central stock to that amount has been transferred to Mrs. Graftstrom. The following let ter to the Engineering- Review, from the treasurer of the fund is self ex planatory I'olurabus, O., Jan. 19, 1905. Editor Hallway and Engineering Re view: I beg to state for your information that the amount finally raised for the Grafstrom memorial fund amounted to J5.500. and that Mr. "W. H. Miner, the original mover in this, and mvsrlf, after consulting with a number of the contributors and others interested, de cided that the best disposition of the fund would be to make a good invest ment for the benefit of Mrs. Graf strom and turn it over to her. As a result, it was decided to purchase Illinois Central railroad stock, which was done, and the stock is now in her possession. As treasurer of this fund. I beg to take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors for their generous co-operation. S. P. RUSH, Treas., The Buckeye Steel Casting Co. Santa I'e Aent Injured. Dodge City. Jan. 24. Fred Gardner. Eanta Fe agent here for nearly 30 years was run over last evening by the Limi ted s engine and dragged some distance. Mien found his right arm was hang ing limp, with all probability of having SllEPAltl) RESIGNS. Gcnernl Superintendent of Santa Fe Coast Lines Goes to Chicago. A Los Angeles Dispatch says: Re ports from Chicago to the effect that Finley J. Shepard, general superin tendent of the coast lines of the Santa Fe system, had tendered his resigna tion, were confirmed today by Mr. Shepard himself. He is more than satisfied with the new position he will take for a large and prominent Chi cago concern manufacturing railway supplies. Mr. Shenard's resignation was handed in several weeks ago while he was in Chicago, and It Is to take effect at the convenience of the company. He expects to take a. short vacation before assuming his new duties. His headquarters will be in Chicago and his territory probably will cover all the railway divisions west of that city. General Superintendent Shepard is well adapted for the railway supply business, as he is thoroughly acquaint ed with railway affairs from beginning to end. Mr. Shepard has been engaged In active railroad business for sixteen years. As a youth he entered the em ploy of the Isorth Pacific Railroad company, and worked his way up from a clerical position to that of as sistant general manager. He was in the employ of the Xorthern Pacific for twelve years. Then the general man ager of the Santa Fe system discover ed him and engaged his services for the Chicago offices of the Santa Fe. After one year's service in the Chicago offices General Manager Wells brought Mr. Shepard to Los Angeles. FATiXSWOJRTII IX OKLAHOMA. Xew Rook Island Immigration Arrent Was Formerly Agent at Xew York. A. B. Farnsworth. who was recently ap pointed immigration agent of the Rock Island, with headquarters at Oklahoma iuy, is one ot tne oid-time jhtock island men. He was for a good many years the general eastern aent of the Rock Island at New York city. He appointed E. V. Thompson to be a traveling representa tive ot the Rock Island, and Mr. Thomp son afterward became the assistant gen eral passenger agent of the road. Mr. Farnsworth belongs to one of the old aristocratic families of Detroit, Mich., and r.e is considered one of the best pas senger men in the railroad business. Mr. Farnsworth is rather far along in years now, but he is vigorous and active, never theless. Iuring the past few years he has been out of the railway world and return ed to railway work in order to accept the position ot immigrant agent tor the JKock Island. Rock Islnntl Rumor. It is understood that capitalists allied with the Rock island interests are en deavoring to purchase the hard coal fields in Johnson county. Ark., between Fort Smith and LUtle Rock, and will build branches to the Rock Island lines. The held i3 now known to contract about 75, ftXMVrt tons of anthracite coal, largely controlled at present by eastern capital ists. Rock Ialnnd-Frisco Reaching Out. Austin, Tex., Jan. 24. In connection with the proposed sale of the iKillss-.Sa-bine division of the Texas and New Or-K-;;r,s railroad it is rci-orted here on ap parently trustworthv authority that it is not only planned by the Rock Island-Frisco interests to purchase that road, but that negotiations are also pending for their purchase of the Gulf and Interstate. The Liallas-Sabine division of the Texas and Xew Orleans runs from Dallas to Sa bine Pass, passing through Beaumont. The Gulf and Interstate runs from Beau mont to Point Bolivar, situated on the mainland just across the bay from Gal- 41. r s-ibrt 1 J j ''7?',' ET""ra fT3Ti r7"! i rJ V .-B If aorcv wnrrv nrsirkness lias Krrmc4il-vrm VCm naif a( an rrvtrVirn n KL rrArr ifmn Ka a s4 tW This rich and harmless stain restores gray, streaked or bleached hair or U beard instantaneously with no evil effect, and gives any shade from light brown to black. Does not wash or rub oil contains no poisons and is not sticky or greasy. Price 60c. All Druggists. fj Trial bottle sent free on receipt of tbi KWcrueaneat nd 4c poctasa by ice rAtini. iFjtui.iu tu.. si. Leuis.no. V'J' Tor Sa'.c ad Guaranteed by 1 S tiEOKUJE W. STAXSFIKLD, 632 Kansas Avenue. Urges Railways to Anticipate Railway Reform Legislation. "Railroad companies cannot afford to be parties to alliances with, private car companies which result in unjust discriminations against shippers of fruit, produce and other freight and which are used to stifle competition. It behooves the railroads without loss of time to divorce themselves from such alliances, which not only a suf fering witness but an outraged public would rightly denominate unholy." With this declaration J. V. Midgley in a circular letter sent out to the presidents and officials of the various railroads throughout the country sounds the keynote of his plea for the reform of abuses and evils which have been complained of befoje the inter state commerce commission growing out of the private car and private ter minal track. Mr. Midgley, who for the last three years has been carrying on an inquiry Into the growth, development and operation of the private cars with the view of securing a reform in them, and who testified at the interstate commerce commission inquiry upon the subject and also conferred with President Roosevelt concerning it, is now resuming his campaign. In the circular letter sent out by Mr. Midgley It Is contended that the time is opportune to subject the private cars to per diem rules, and sugges tions are made with, reference to the rates which should govern them. A conference between the railroads to consider means of changing the pres ent allowances for private cars, par ticularly for refrigerators, so that the private cars be put on a basis which will be both reasonable and defensi ble," is urged in the communication. "All that is required to bring about the reform would be to cast off the yoke that too long has been galling to every right thinking man and in augurate conditions such as have been persistently advocated and in that way lo more than can otherwise be done to anticipate and probably avert legis lation, which cannot, if provoked, fail to be disastrous to railroad com panies," says Mr. Midgley in his com munication. "I am sanguine that a reform could be commenced first, by transconti nental lines; second, by those lines ex tending from the Missouri river to St. Louis and Chicago, or, third, by con trolling roads east of the Mississippi, which operate in Central Traffic and Trunk Line territory. It is not essen tial to obtain the assent of every line in each group. Present practices are illegal, and it ought not to be neces sary to await action of all competitors in order to stop that which has been declared unlawful. "It must be evident that the public will not allow this matter to rest until the charges for refrigeration are in eluded and made a part of the freight taritts, which is not the case at pres ent, arrd the sooner that result is reached the better it will be for all parties. Railroad companies ought to compel the just regulation of charges for refrigeration when private cars are furnished, which are now complained of being excessive. This can best be accomplished by railroad companies obliterating the obnoxious distinction now made between private cars when engaged in interstate commerce and their own equipment thereby insur ing equality of treatment to all ship pers under like condition." The order of events connected with the agitation for private car reform Is outlined by Mr. Midgley and in this connection He sets forth that begin ning with the third annual report, dated December 1, 188 9, the inter state commerce commission set forth the evils growing out of the employ ment by common carriers of cars own ed by private companies and recom mended remedial legislation. The hearing of the commission at Chicago October lu, iyi4. and the press re ports following it are declared to have caused the awakening of the people to "a realization of practices In this age of progress and freedom, which were worthy of the days of feudalism." "Mark the radical change which has occurred since the hearing:" de Clares Mr. Midgley. "When President Roosevelt says, "Private car abuses must be stopped.' such language can have only one meaning namely, that they are manifestly illegal. The crv of Stop thief!' cannot be raised against one who is quietly pursuing nis nonest vocation. It is not neces sary to await an order of the interstate commerce commission or a decree of court before taking action. That ought to be done imemdiately that is. wherein the transportation of per ishable freight and of cattle prepon derates. "A rate of 50 cents a car per day for all refrigerators, whether private or railroad ownership, and of 30 cents a car per day for private stock cars could safely be Inaugurated." ROAST FOIl LELAND. Henry Allen Takes a Shot at Salt riant Bill. "Brown of Brown" Has a Fight on at Home. There seems to be a radical differ ence of opinion about the character of the new registration bill proposed by Representative Husey of Wichita. His own people at home express some interesting views on the subject. The Wichita Beacon says: "It Is a Vicious Measure. "Representative Husey has Intro duced a bill in the legislature on the subject of registration that does not meet with the approval of voters. The measure, instead of providing addi tional safeguards for the electorate, removes restrictions already in ex istence and makes fraud easier. "There are some objectionable points about the present system of registration. The law might be amend ed to make re-registration necessary only once in two years, as important elections occur only biennially. A pro vision giving a legal voter who was prevented from registering by absence from the city the right to cast a bal lot, because the law, as it stands, does not allow a voter to be sworn. In at the polls. In some states provision is made for that and separate record is kept of such votes, for verification of the oath "But to make registration a mere farce by simply transferring the names from year to year, nullifies every pro vision of the registration statute. It does away with the prime object of registration that of preventing illegal voting. "Kansas has had too much experi ence with fraud to stand for anything of that kind and it Is to be sincerely hoped that Representative Husey's bill will meet the fate it deserves. The measure is a vicious one from every point of view and should not be al lowed to become a law. It has not a single redeeming feature." The Wichita Eajrle seems to have a decidedly different idea of the situa tion. It says: "Husey's Bill All Right. "The bill introduced in the lower house of the Kansas legislature by Representative Husey of this city, ought to be passed for the simple rea son that it will secure as exact justice as the present registration law and will be a great convenience to the people of the cities of this state. i ne man or pustness has never been able to see the necessity of his going to the city clerk's office every spring to register when the city clerk and pretty nearly every person in the town knows exactly where he lives. Under the present law If he fails to go to the city clerk's ofnee and register he is not a legal voter in his precinct, while the floater, who perhaps came to the town on purpose to vote, and registers, is considered a legal voter." Henry Allen, in the Parsons Sun, takes this shot at Cyrus Leland's salt plant bill: "The proposition to estab lish a salt plant in Hutchinson to be operated by the convicts at the reform atory is again being agitated. Nothing is farther from the spirit of American citizenship than the placing of convict labor In competition with free labor. Even the mining of coal at the peniten tiary should be confined to production of only so much coal as can be used by Worn Out? Run Down I will gladly give you a foil dollar's worth of my remedy to test. Nothing to deposit. Nothing to promise. The dol lar bottle Is free. Your Druggist, on my order, will hand you a full dollar's worth and send me the bill. Mail Cars Run Through. Until recently it has always been the custom to change the mail cars on the Golden State limited at Kl Paso, Tex. When the west bound Golden State ar rived at Kl Paso the Rock Island mail car has always been taken out and a Southern Pacific mail car substituted and the mail transferred. The piosrmmme was revfrserl on the east bound trains, the S P. car being taken out and replaced by a R. I. car. It was found bv experience that the change consumed a great deal of valuable ti;ne. This was especially no ticed when the trains were late, at which time. 2t minutes could not well be soared. Hence, the decision that mail cars should rot be char.pred. This means that the S P. car on the cast bound train will go through to Chicago and the Roclt Island car will go to l.os Angeles and back. Clark in Topeka. W. J. Clark, postmaster at Dalhart Tex., and formerly a Rock Island rail way agent, has been in Topeka. He re turned to DalhaTt today. TLNDS THE HIDDEN MONEY. Nearly $6,000 Discovered in a Small Cave on the Tuxliarn Farm. McPherson. Kan., Jan. 24. A search of the premises of Charles Tuxharn, who killed two of his children and burned his home and bam, disclosed a small cave in which $1,3"0 in gold coin and more than $4,000 in bills, besides many valuables were lound. It is now believed that the skele ton found in tho ruins of the home was not that of Tuxharn, and the opinion now is that the man is still alive. Several hid ing places have been constructed- on the farm and Tuxharn is believed to have se creted himself in one of these. A search is being made for him. Greatly in Demand. Nothing is more in demand than a med icine which meets modern requirements for a blood and system cleanser, such as Ir. K'g's New Life Pills. They are just what Joa need to cure stomach and liver trov.ueis. Try them. At Arnold Drug Co., S21 North Kansas avenue. 25 cents. Guaranteed. Why do you work and worry and ex cess and strain and over-indulgence break down constitutions and make men and women worn out and run down and rest less and sleepless and discouraged and morose? Because they weaken the tiny tender nerves on which life itself depends. Not the nerves you ordinarily think about not the nerves that govern your movements and your thoughts. But the automatic nerves that, ungiiid ed and unknown, night and day, keep your heart in motion control the diges tive apparatus regulate your liver oper ate your kidneys. These are the nerves that worry wears out and work breaks down. It does no good to treat the ailing or gan the irregular heart the disordered liver the rebellious stomach the derang ed kidneys. They are not to blame. But go back to the nerves that control them. There you will rind the seat of the trou ble. It does no good to take stimulants and narcotics, for theirs, at best, is but a tem porary effect which merely postpones the day of reckoning. There is nothing new about this noth ing any physician would dispute. But it remained for Dr. Snoop to apply this knowledge to put it to practical use. Dr. Shoop's Restorative is the result of a quarter century of endeavor along this very line. It does not dose the organ or deaden the pain but it does go at once to the nerve the inside nerve the power nerve and builds it up, and strengthens it and makes it well. That is the end of all vital trou bles. That is the end of sleepless nights and restless days. That is the end of "nervousness," the end of brain fag and fatigue. If you are worn out, run down or have never tried my remedy write and ask. I will send you an order on your druggist which he will accept as gladly as he would accept a dollar. He will hand you from his shelves a standard sized bottle of my prescription, and he will send the bill to me. This offer is made only to strangers to my remedy. Those who have once used the Restorative do not need this evidence. 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MAT cj OY. i HEY ij)MFK i 11 9 M 0 FPME as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play when In health and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injuri ous or objectionable nature, and if at anytime a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform all reputa ble physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an, original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste therefore it is not a secret remedy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. 9 the state institutions, and not an article should be manufactured there to be placed upon the market in competition with the products of the labor of free citizens. The binding twine plant does not come within this restriction, for the reason that there is no factory of this kind within the state. But a salt plant at Hutchinson would be different. Nearly two thousand men are employ ed in these plants and they support their families by their labor in the salt plants. More than that, thousands of dollars, some of it Kansas capital. Is invested in this industry and to estab lish such a state plant would be to re duce the earning capacity of this cap ital. But the greatest objection to such a measure would be the placing of free labor in competition with convict labor, something that is repugnant to a re public." The Horton Headlight says: "Brown county is at present getting all kinds of notoriety from its many statesmen. Representative S. E. "Brown has intro duced a number of bills, but the most famous is the 'An act to regulate the price of county printing in Brown county.' This bill alone is enough to cause his name to be heralded down through the coming ages. Brown evi dently thinks that the average news paper office is a gold mine, and he should help to check, the centralization of wealth in the newspaper fraternity. His bill fixes the price of public print ing at 30 per cent of the present legal rate. "The cause of Browts's activity in this matter Is that he has been pounded black and blue for getting a salary bill through the last legislature, and wants to carve everything In sight. He is in about the same condition as a bull that has been teased until he is ready to charge anything and everything. He Is at war with everything that has a wage attached to it." The Ottawa Herald says: "The leg islature will pay all its employes from the beginning of the session. This is graft. It isn't much graft, and it won't make any difference in the state tax levy, but It is graft of the same quali ty as that which keeps two doorkeep ers where only one is needed. "The legislature made a good start when it refused to hire employes who weren't needed;it has done many things to indisate a sincere intention to give the state an example of a model legis lature. But the other day the senate decided to double up on its employes, and now both houses have voted to date the pay roll from the opening of the session, regardless of when the em ploye was hired." From the Clay Center Dispatch: The bill introduced proposing letting the use of the state funds to the highest bidder will doubtless cause a roar of protest from all over Kansas. The thing most de sired by Kansas in this line just now is a law permitting the state funds to re main in the counties until needed by the treasurer at Topeka. Here is something the Commercial club might profitably in terest itself In." Bent Murdock says in the El Dorado Re publican: "Legislative calendars of both senate and house are loaded with freak bills, local bills, crazy bills; and if they were all enacted into laws it would be practically impossible for any bank to do business, any railway to run or any man to live in the state for any length of time, pav his taxes and keep out of jail. But then 95 per cent of these bills will be kill ed and things will continue to go on as usual." The Concordia Blade says: "Represen tative Pollev of Republic county, who is a man of great good sense as well as a gentleman of honor, has a bill that is in tended to compel property owners to ex terminate the gophers or pay for having it done. The gophers are a great pest, but hard to get rid of." The Atchison Globe says: "Every tel egram from Topeka pictures Stubbs in the attitude of wiping with a sponge some item of expenditure off the slate. Those who believe in Stufcos have every reason for thinking the state is a million dollars richer since he was found." Racing at Hot Springs. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 24. Favorites and outsiders made it an even thing at Essex park, but at the end the advan tage was largely with the bookmakers, as the defeats of Baikal and Kingraine were severe jolts to form students. Both were thought to be the best betting propositions of the day and came In for an unusual amount bf play, especially from the eastern contingent. Baikal's undoing came about chiefly because of the incompetency of Jockey Springer, who had the mount on him. Florizel, DIRECTORY JUST OUT SHOWING f subscribers. Have changed our char- n n a a 3300 ter from West Virginia to Kansas un der same ownership, with increased caDital stock, installing new switch boards, better equipped than ever tohandle good orders promptly. We are in the business here to stay. The Independent Telephone Co. Central Office 519 Kansas Avenue. which since becoming the property of H. McCarren, jr., is running consistent ly, had .little trouble and was allowed to show the way for the entire distance and won by a length from Baikal, which in turn, on his own courage, beat Payne by a length for the place. Mamie Worth easily outclassed her company in the third race at five and a half fur longs and won in a common canter by a couple of lengths from Follies Ber geres. Incense had a tight fit to land the purse in the fourth; but an ener getic ride on Creamer's part staved off defeat from Massa by a head. Massa secured the place five lengths before Aden. Minna Baker, at SO to 1 in the betting, was the biggest surprise of the afternoon by her easy victory in the opening race. The Griffin pair, Mathis and Saidora, were the 2 to 5 favorites In the race, but finished behind the others. Gavin C. and Gigantic had little trouble winning their respective races. THE PIPE LAYERS ARRESTED. Tito Arkansas City Council Passed a Special Ordinance. Arkansas City, Kan., Jan. 24. City of ficers arrested L. A. Bond, field manager for the Morton-Levering syndicate, and A. Cummings, contractor for the company, late Monday afternoon for laying a pipe line from the syndicate's gas wells north west of here into town. Both men were released until today. The company was granted a franchise some time ago and began making preparations to pipe the gas into the riant of the old artificial gas company, which it had acquired. The actual work of digging the trenches and laying the pipe began in the morning and continued without interruption until nearly 4 o'clock. Then the oouncil met in special session, passed an ordinance mak ing it a misdemeanor forany one to lay pipe except under the supervision of the city engineer, and providing for the ar rest of all laborers on such work. This became a law upon its publication in the official city paper at 5 o'clock. There were 100 men on the work and they were ordered to quit. Six guards armed with shotguns took their places in the ditch. Nearly a mile of pipe was laid before the work was stopped and if the men had been allowed to proceed it would have been completed to the city limits by morning. The city apparently is in a po sition to delav the work until the passage of the bill now in the legislature provid ing that franchises must be obtained in cities of the second and third class before pipe can be laid. Enjoin Liquor Dealers. Atchison, Jan. 24. Temporary injunc tions were granted in the Atchison dis trict court forbidding the sale of intoxi cating liquors in two different buildings at Arrington, Atchison county, and the court has been asked to order the de- ATHLETE TO KEEP IN GOOD TRIM MUST LOOK WELL TO THE CONDITION OF THE SKIN. TO THIS END THE BATH SHOULD BE TAKEN WITH HAND SAFOLI All Oncers and Druggists SAVE MONET AM) PTTT IT TO WORK Where it will work for you night and day earning you 3 to 6 per cent ac cording to time. The Capitol Building and Loan Associat n Send for Booklet. 534 Kansas Ave. t I IT f!f CVS I MGILB STRAIGHT fCIGAR annoai. g- g r rv. fendants to pay the costs, and tl.000 at torneys' fees. A state purity league ia said to be behind the matter. It Is the first complaint brought in the district court, under the prohibitory aot, for several years.- Small Wreck at Paola. Paola, Kan., Jan. 24. Three cars of a northbound Missouri, Kansas Texas freight train jumped the track near Martin City Monday. Traffic was de layed two hours. On account of another Katy freight wreck which occurred on the Frisco track north of here In the morning the trains were using the Mis souri Pacific track. Sickening Shivering Fits Of ague and malaria can be relieved and cured with Electric Litters. This is a pure tonio medicine, of especial bneflt in malaria, for it exerts a true curative In fluence on the disease, driving it entirely out of the system. It is much to be pre ferred to quinine, having none of this drug's bad after-effects. II S. Munday of Henrietta, Tex., writes: "My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaun dice, till ho took Electric Hitters, which saved his life. At Arnold Drug Co., 821 North Kansas avenue. Price 5uc. Guaranteed. 4T mi i if 1 II Every mother feel f 1 I 1 ti mil-' Breal urcau vi me pain the most critical period of her life. Becoming a mother should be a source of joy to all, but the suffering and danger incident to the ordeal makes its anticipation one of misery. Mother's Friend is the only remedy which relieves women of ths TC2 pain and danger of maternity this hour which is dreaded as woman'i severest trial is not only made painless,' but all the danger is avoided by its use. Those who use this remedy are no longer despondent o gloomy nervousness, nausea and other distressing conditions ara overcome, the system is made ready for the coming event, and th serious accident 60 common to the critical hour are obviated by the use of Mother's pnnf "Xpf Friend. "It is worth its weight in gold," I 'i ?"t 1 'says many who have used it. $1.06 per if tiLti Wk J bottle at drug stores. Book containing valuable information of interest to all women, will Hffe?! ff be sent to any address free upon application to m"": f! CXADFiELO REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta Gsu U U L

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1TLE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1905. mm STATE MilML BI FRANK P. MAC IjENNAX. CEnteri Jrly 1. 1876, aa second class matter et the poetoitioe at Topeka. lik. under th ict cl congress.) VOLUME XXXII. ..No. 20 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier. 10 centa a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas towns where the paper has carrier Ey mail, una iar fjy mail, three mor.tns vveekiy edition, one vear Saturday edition of daily, one year SO 50 LOO TELEPHONES. Business Office Be"- Business Office n?: gl Reporters' Room 6J7 reporters' Room Ild- 66 PERMANENT HOMR Tonekri state Journal building. 800 and B Kansas avenue, corner of Eights. NEW YORK OFFICE; 211 Vanderbilt Bldg. Paul P!ock. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 35 1'nitv Bldg. Paul Block. Mgr. SITLX. LEASED w"IK3 SEP0E.7 ffSS ASSOCIATES fRESS. The Htate Journal Is a morn Tver of the Associated Pres tid receives the full dav telegraph report of that great news or ganization for exclusive afternoon publi cation in Topeka. The news is received in the Ptate Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose. This appears to be the open for Russian citizens. Possibly those Russian officers in St. Petersburg mistook the strikers for Japanese. 'At last the Russian troops have scored a victory, but it was gained in an encounter with unarmed men. The "Wall Street stock market has be gun to sit up and take notice. It is about time for Tom Law-son to land on it again. Japan's battles are now being fought for her in the capital of her enemy. If Providence interfere in war it is evi dently on the side of the heathen in this one. "Washington Post: Tuition charges at Borne of the big universities are being advanced to the point where it will be cheaper for young men to enter politics and have degrees conferred upon them than to stand the expense of a college course. Let there be no misunderstanding. Gov. Douglas has secured the return of the Fall Ri-er strikers at the wage scale fixed originally by the mill own ers and any day since the strike be fran the operatives could have returned on as favorable terms. Springfield (Mass.) Union. Let there be no misunderstanding. At no time since the strike began, until the matter was taken up by Gov. Doug las, would the mill owners agree to ar bitration. At any day since the strike I began they could have started their mills on those terms. The incorporation at Dover, Del., of the American Corn Fiber company, with a capitalization of $500,000, says the Detroit News, recalls a hope that appeared only to vanish again a few years ago, when Kansas experimenters were reported to be perfecting a process for the manufacture of a good quality of paper from corn stalks. What prog ress may have been made since that time is not a matter of public knowl edge; but the fact remains that the so lution of the weighty problem concern ing paper supply aggravated by an extortionate tariff almost wholly de voted to the enrichment of a grasping monopoly lies in the invention of some satisfactory process of making paper from the fiber of some annual crop that is produced in enormous quantities. If the American Corn Fiber company is In possession of such a secret it8 orig inal capital will soon be wholly inade quate to the handling of the business that It Is sure to develop. General trade continues active for the season, says Henry Clews in the Finan cial Review, and the country is now distinctly feeling the benefit of a pro fitable harvest. Even the cotton plant ers are doing well, having sold more than half of their cotton at 9c and be ing quite capable of holding the balance of the crop for better prices if they choose. Pig iron production is going along at a record-breaking rate; and, while the top notch has probably been reached, this great industry is certainly enjoying a revival of prosperity not dreamed of a year ago. Building opera tions are also progressing at a rate un usual for this season of the year, and are likely to continue unless interrupted by a fresh outbreak of labor agitation. Money is plentiful at easy rates, and though the demands from business channels are increasing there is little prospect of any advance In rates until the April settlements approach. Some what higher rates than now exist would be wholesome, for if profitable employ ment cannot be found in legitimate channels more hazardous uses are sure to be found for idle capital. The pres ent superabundance of money Is one of the chief supports of the stock market at present and is still reflected In the good investment demand for bonds, which continues active and has exceed ed all expectations. JAYHAWKEtt JOTS. Concordia claims to have eight $1 a day hotels and they are always full. The Rev. Mr. Ott of Heizer is fish ing through the ice this week. Any stories that he tells are supposed to go. Partridge has the rumors of a boom which the citizens hope will not take .wings and fly away. A Doniphan hunter killed twelve prairie chickens at two shots. There's a man really to be envied. A Horton Democrat has already announced that he will vote the Re publican ticket in the spring. It's probably correct that Speaker Stubbs has returned his passes. But truth doesn't always prevail. An Emporia woman opens a tele gram with as much trepidation as her timid husband does a Jack pot. Wellington physicians pulled the town throusrh an epidemic of typhoid with the loss of but two. That's a record. Bocker T. Washington is said to be one of the coming men. But that de pends upon whether you are dweller in Topeka or Wichita. EVENTSANi) HEN. Mr. Poller's War on the Pocket Gophers. He Would dents Make the Littte Ko L'ncomfortable. TO DECLARE A WAR. Bags, Birds and Animals Are in Dan rer. Sir. D. W. Blaine and II is Lat est Scheme. The birds and animals are up against a hard proposition when they have to contend with legislation. As a rule, they find it hard picking at best. Out in Republic county the pocket gophers have found it almost impossible to get along and raise a family. To add to their troubles. Mr. Polley, the Re public representative, has introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a pocket gopher to live. The bill sets a price on the head and pockets of the little animal, and it is feared that he will be totally destroyed in a few hours after the printing of the bill in the statute book. Mr. Policy's Flan. The pocket gopher is a pest which practices mining. It delights in dig ging a hole, filling it up and then dig ging another hole. This practice is said to be very injurious to the alfalfa crops of Republic county, hence Mr. Polley's bill. He proposes to make the road overseer of each township the official gopher inspector. When said inspector has reason to believe that any man is harboring gophers on his premises, he climbs over the fence, without asking leave, carefully tramps down an acre or two of farm yoiluce in the inspection, and If he finds any symptoms of gophers he tells the owner of the property ot kill them and be quick about it. If the farmer is busy with the fall plowing and doesn't have time to comply wrtri the order within five days, the inspector comes around with a bottle of poison and gives each rodent a dose. This is sup posed to wipe said rodent off the map, at about two dollars per wipe, the farmer footing the bill. No provision is made for the furnishing of death certificates for each gopher. The legislature has been making war on animals and birds since the days of Prairie Dog Cave, who wished to redeem the doc-towns of the far west. Representative Landergln has a bill Intended for the elimination of the crow, and Mr. Montee is supposed to have a chicken hawk bill concealed about him. In years gone by the state has legislated against ticks and grass hoppers, and many other bugs and beasts. Mr. D. W. Blaine, of Pratt, has ideas. Every harvest season he gets the. idea that Pratt county is shy on harvest hands, and advertises exten sively. You can't start anything without Mr. Blaine coming along with his lanre valise full of ideas. He will put it down, open it and sort out an idea to fit the occasion, Quicker than a Jew peddler could open his pack and display an assortment of collar Mr. Blaine's Latest Scheme. buttons. In fact, he is a regular Idea factory. He has a brand new one this time. He has figured that all Kansas needs is a canal. If we just had a canal across the state and across Okla homa and across Texas and down to the gulf well, that is what we need. Then we could load the Pratt county wneat on snips, sail 'em down the canal to the gulf, out into the ocean, and then somewhere else. To be sure. Mr. Blaine has it down pat. And it wouldn't cost a great deal, either. ILL TREATING HIS WIFE. Marshal of Strong City Takes Man Out of lied and Whips Him. Strong City, Kas., Jan. 24. The agi tation of corporeal punishment for men who ill treat their wives is bear ing fruit in this city. City Marshal Willey has had no end of trouble with a resident named Lew Rumsford, whose treatment of his family, report says, has not been calculated to make their home happy. The city jail has no terrors for him, as he can do noth ing there as well as if at liberty, and his meals are better and more regular. A few nights ago Mrs. Rumsford and children sought the marshal, saving her husband had driven her and the children out into the cold. After think ing the matter over a few moments the marshal procured a -"quirt" and ac companied the family to their home. On arriving there and not being able to get a response to his knocks, the marshal kicked the door open and found Lew in bed. Catching him by the hair he yanked him onto the floor and laid the "quirt" most vigorously on. The squirming victim howled for mercy, but the marshal continued the work. Then the wife and children, fearing the marshal would kill the husband and father, joined in the chorus: that aroused the dogs, and they butted in. Puts light in the eye, tints the check with Nature's bloom, loosen? the tension of life, brushes the cobwebs from the brain, that's what Hnllister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. WILL HUNT- IF! TEXAS. President to Go After Jack Rabbits in the Spring. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 24. The Republic says: President Roosevelt has arranged to hunt jack rabbits in Texas some time between March 25 and April 5. The president will attend a weddiner in New York March 18 and almost immediately afterward, accompanied by Secretary Loeb. he will take a special train for St. Louis where he will be met by Cecil Lyon, a wealthy lumberman of Sherman, Tex., and W. S. Simpson, of Dallas, Tex. Mr. Simpson was a mem ber of the Rough Riders i.nd was In the charge at San Juan hill. The party will go direct to Texas and the presi dent will visit Houston and Dallas and attend the Rough Riders' reunion at San Antonio. He will then De taicen to a section east of Houston, known as the "Big Thicket," which abounds In Jackrabbits and other game. The pres ident will spend some days in hunting. His itinerary on the return trip has not been definitely agreed upon. WOOLEN MILL IS SOLD. Kansas City Will Get the Oakland Enterprise. The Topeka "Woolen mills have been sold for a consideration of $45,000 to a stock comoanv composed partially of the present management and Kan sas City and Princeton, Mo., parties. The removal of the mill will take place some time this fall. The brick building of the company will be offer ed for sale or may be utilized for a canning factory. The new company which is about to be organized will be considerably larger than the one in operation here. J. F. McAfee, who resigned as man ager of the Western Woolen mills in North Topeka, will act as manager of the new company at Kansas City. Mr. J. G. Fleischman, vice president of the Topeka Woolen mills, will be connect ed in an official capacity with the new concern. Mr. Oscar Neil, secretary and treasurer, has not fully decided as yet whether he will remain with the new company. The reason given by the company for its removal is that freight rates are more favorable at Kansas City, and also that coal can be purchased much more cheaply at the latter place. It was stated by one of those Interested that the company would not have thought of selling out if the plant had been better located with reference to the city and shipping facilities. The company employed about 135 people. Previous to the sale an effort was made to consolidate the Western Woolen mills and the To peka Woolen mills, but the former failed to meet the offers of the Kan sas City people and the deal fell through. REPEAL BARBER LAW. Such a Measure Meets Approval Senate Committee. of Two years ago and four years ngo the Kansas barbers thought they needed tonsorial legislation, and they lobbied and worked on the legislators for the passage of a law establishing a barber board for examination of bar bers as to their qualifications and for I the sterilizing of all tools and appli ances used by barbers. Now the barbers have appeared be fore the senate committee on hygiene and requested that the barber bill be repealed. At this morning's session of the senate the committee on hygiene reported unfavorably on the bill to make the barber law applicable to all barber shops in the state, in not only cities of the first class but in cities of the second and third class. The same committee reported favorably on the bill which will repeal the present barber law if passed. "The committee made these recom mendations because the barbers re quest such action," said Senator Huff man. "The barbers do not like the barber law. They say It puts them to great expense and forces them to buy sterilizing ovens, and that the law is not enforced." THAT LIBEL CASE. School Fund Commissioners Uneasy About Tainted Bonds. In connection with the $45,000 libel suit brought jointly by the state school fund commissioners. Messrs. Coleman, Burrow and Dayhoff, against the State Journal, a motion was made yesterday by the attorneys for the school fund commissioners to strike out from the defendant's answer the history of the fraudulent Comanche county bonds which were the original bonds in lieu of which the bonds recently purchased by the school fund commissioners were afterward issued. The motion also included to strike out many pages of the answer in which reference was made to the as sessed value of Comanche county as based on assessors' returns and cer tain references to the action of the state board of equalization in raising valuations; other references to the sacredness of the school fund, etc., etc., to the extent of cutting out a great part of the answer. J. G. Waters, for the defendant, set forth reasons why the history of the fraudulent bonds and the other items were essential to the answer. Judge Dana of the district court took the matter under advisement. Skirmishing Near Mukden. Tokio, Jan. 24. The Japanese head quarters at Sienchang, Manchuria, re ports that a Japanese force dislodged about one company of Russian cavalry northwest of Westzuku on Monday, occupying the position and capturing some horses and arms. Another Jap anese detachment routed a force of Russians in the neighborhood of Chancheng. inflicting over 20 casual ties. The Japanese captured five of ficers and men with their horses and arms. Overland Limited Wrecked. San Francisco, Jan. 24. The west bound Southern Pacific Overland lim ited, due here this evening, is reported wrecked near Lovelocks, Nev. Accord ing to the report, the dining and bag gage cars and three sleepers jumped the track. It is not yet known if any of the passengers or train crew were injured. Anotfier Term for Clark. Cheyenne, Wyo.. Jan. 21. Ballots ta ken at noon today in the two houses of the state legislature assure the election of Senator Clarence D. Clark for an other term in the United States senate at the joint session tomorrow. Clsuk received all the Republican votes. The Democratic minority voted for Samuel T. Corn, former chief justice of the su preme court. SEIIATE SQUABBLE. Firemen's Tournament Is the Subject of Controversy. The first contest in the senate was over the bill Introduced by Senator Peck to set aside a percentage of the two per cent annual tax paid by the fire insurance companies doing business In the state to be used in promoting a state tournament for the volunteer firemen. The bill came up for discussion In the committee of the whole this morn ing and the senators lined up for and against the bill pretty much according to tne population of their home towns. Senator Miller opposed the bill and called attention to the fact that at a tournament he remembered there was a big placard which said, "Firemen's headquarters" and inside was a saloon He thought such tournaments Bhould not be encouraged. "These tournaments are simply 'blowouts' and picnics," said Senator Noftzger. "They are not wanted by tne nremen in the eight counties x rep resent." "You can't have anv kind of a meet ing where there will not be some such 'headquarters'," said Senator Young who championed Senator Peck's bill. "Even at the agricultural meetings there are such places. I do not know what tournament the senator from Harper refers to irf speaking of the firemen's headquarters' Senator Noftzger interrupted the sen ator to say, "I made no such reference said Noftzger. "The senator from Osage made the remark. I don't know but the 'headquarters' is the best part of the tournaments." Senator Peck's bill provides that Ave per cent of the fire insurance tax be paid annually by the superintendent or insurance to the treasorer of the Kan sas State Firemen's association to be used in paying prizes at the yearly tournaments. The bill was drawn by Senator Peck at the request of the president and secretary of the State Firemen's association. When Senator Noftzger referred to the tounaments as picnics Senator Peck said: "Let the volunteer firemen have at least two days' picnic each year. The annual tax irom the lire insurance com panies amounts to $40,000 a year, or thereabouts, and why not let some of the small volunteer departments receive encouragement from this fund. Senators Peck and Young spoke in favor of the bill and Senator Brewer re ferred to a letter he had received from the officers of the firemen's association asking him to support the bill. Senators Getty, Betts, Stewart, Miner ana rsoitz uer opposed the bill. The committee of the whole referred the bill back to the senate subject to amendment and debate. Senator Chapman's bill providing for a complete record of all acts concerning real estate to be recorded by the regis ter of deeds was recommended by the senate committee of the whole for pass age and will undoubtedly pass the sen ate. Senator Chapman's bill will make it possible to discover the exact standing of real estate. The Din provides, in sua stance, that when the title of a piece of real estate is in any way affected by decrees or judgments in district courts nrobate courts, the clerk of the court or the judge of the court shall send a copy of the decree to the register of deeds and name the parties whose interests are affected and that the register of deedn shall enter such decrees or judg ments on his records. The Judges and clerks and the register of deeds are to receive the same fees for recording such proceedings as are allowed for similar work and the fees shall be charged in the costs of the case. Senator Quincy's bill to provide the front foot rule in taxing the cost of paving in cities of the second and third class instead ot tne apportionment, at cordine to the assessed valuation of pro perty brought forth considerable oppo- r v. T. I sition irom oenatur rmn.n, num riaiia itn Senator Smith thought such a rule unjust to the property owners and the bill went over tor lurtner consiueraiion. Senator Watrsrener offered a resolution that the attorney general be called upon to pass on the constitutionality oi i strife oil refinery, as suggested in Gov ernor Hoch's message, and report to the senate. The resolution went over un der the rules. The senate received a message from Governor Hoch, through his private sec retary, State Printer-elect T. A. Mc Neal. that he had approved the senate appropriation bill of $1,000 for the main tenance of the executive mansion for the remainder of the fiscal year ending Juna 30. SAYS HE WAS TRAPPED. Prof. Von Dahlen Tells Story of His First Marriage. Springfield, O., Jan. 24. Prof. Wal demar Von Dahlen, director of music in the Wittenberg conservatory and First Presbyterian church, the Spring field Ladies' chorus and Young Men's Christian Association, for the first time told this morning just prior to leaving for New York city of his first wedding sixteen years ago in New York city. He says he had just land ed from Germany and was guiltless if not unsophisticated, and he was trap ped into a marriage and did not live with his wife a single day. After a lapse of eleven years he thought he was free, having been in formed wife No. 1 had secured a di vorce. Then the news came four days ago that wife No. 1 had not been di vorced. Prof. Von Dahlen's trip to New York is for the purpose of bringing suit for divorce from wife No. 1. It is ascertained that he and wife No. 2 will then be remarried. NO COUNCIL MEETING. One Set for This Evening Postponed. Has Been The council meeting which was scheduled for this evening has been postponed. Mayor Bergundthal wishes to attend a lumbermen's convention at Kansas City today and as Mr. Street was agreeable to the change the coun cil meeting will be dated for tomorrow night. Nothing new it is thought will develop from the meeting, as the coun cil refuse to take over the plant in the face of the city attorney's opinion of the title, the city attorney has noth ing new to offer and against what he has already offered and the water com pany attorneys state that the solution offered is out of the question. The members of the council think that the city attorney should devise some scheme which would tend to a speedy settlement. The Topeka Waterworks company is not spending any money in the way of keeping up the plant other than what is absolutely necessary and when the city secures final possession it will be forced to spend considerable money almost Immediately in order to maintain good service and pressure. ALL Ifl A HUDDLE. Legislature Finds School Land Trans actions in Bad. Shape. "Great confusion exists" is the sub stance of the report of the special com mittee composed of J. T. Pringle, Ed Davison and Robt. Stone to investigate the school land situation. The report was presented to the house this after noon and ordered placed on file. The committee stated that it had found that the laws are inadequate, and do not require necessary reports on the condition of the school lands. They state that so far as they have been able to ascertain, there was orig inally 2,750.000 acres of school lands of which 1,700.000 acres have been sold and patents issued. The total amount received has been about $6.- ooo.ooo. The committee recommends that a thorough Investigation of the condi tion of the school lands be made with out delay, and that pending the result of the investigation all the school lands be withdrawn from the market. The committee states that it was a grave mistake the state made when it first put the school lands on the mar ket. The total amount of lands re maining unsold is about 1,000,000 acres, but half of this amount has been filed on preparatory to purchase. Two Topeka institutions, the Crit tenten home and the ToDeka Or phans' home, presented petitions to the house this afternoon asking for appropriations for their work. The Crittenten home petition was signed oy several hundred of the leading citizens of Topeka, including Charles M. Sheldon, and asks for $1,000. The Orphans' home petition is for a con tinuation of the $500 appropriation which has heretofore been given. une committee on cities of the first class reported a substitute for the new municipal accounting bill, with the recommendation that it be passed. The bill provides for a supervision of municipal accounts by the state auditor. The house at 2:30 commenced the consideration of house bills on the third reading. NEW THEATRE COMBINE Stock Company in Larger Cities In cluding Topeka. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jan. 24. Plans are being perfected here for the immediate organization of a new theatrical com bine to be known as the Association of Stock Companies, which will include one theater in every principal city in tne united States. Sixteen favorable replies have been received by Manager George Fish, of the Forepaugh Stock company of this city who is engineering the new trust. The cities heard from so far are: Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Colum bus, St. Louis, Kansas City. Denver, Topeka, New Orleans, Chicago, St. Paul. Atlanta and Memphis. The plan provides for the rotation of scenic property and supplies around a chain of stock theaters. A. S. Kane who is interested in the Crawford syndicate says that he knows nothing about the new combine and had not heard of it. NEW THEATER IN TOPEKA. Vaudeville House to Be Opened in Two Weeks. Topeka is to have vaudeville every afternoon and night, including Sun days, beginning in about two weeks. at the Star vaudeville theater at 418 Kansas avenue. The decorators are at work at the store building at that num ber, and within two weeks the place will be transformed into a vaudeville house with a seating capacity for 300 persons. The new theater will be under the management of L. Sieferd, who had charge of the "figure 8" at Vinewood park last summer. We are going to have a nice, clean ittle theater," he said today. -"It will be a place where women and children may come without being afraid of en countering anything vulgar. It will be our aim to give clean, wholesome amusement." There will be three vaudeville acts. nterspersed with moving pictures and illustrated songs, at every perform ance. The vaudeville acts will be changed, part of them twice a week and a portion every week. The vaudeville acts will be given by performers secured from the Crescent vaudeville circuit. THE GIDEONS ARE COMING. Will Hold Their District Meeting In Topeka Jan. 28. The Gideons, an organization of Christian commercial traveling men, will hold a district meeting here on January 28 and 29. A preliminary meeting will be held on the 2 8th and three meetings on the 2 9th. Sunday. In the morning a meeting will be held n the Presbyterian church followed in the afternoon at 3 o'clock by another special meeting for men at the same place. In the evening the Gideons will hold the closing meeting at the Methodist church. The principal speaker at each of these meetings will be the national secretary. C. H. Pal mer of Chicago. The Topeka meeting is one of a series of three which is being held by the state organization, the other two will be held in Wichita and Salina for the two weeks follow- ng. A. B. Pomeroy is president and W. D. Perry of Topeka is secretary and treasurer of the state organiza tion. The Gideons have been in existence a little over five years, having been organized in the latter part of 1899 In Wisconsin. In the brief period of the five years the organization has grown into a membership of upwards of 5,000. Fled With the Child. Arkansas City, Kan., Jan. 24. Local members of the Kansas Children's Home society are looking for Mrs. Sam Phillips of this city, who has a child from the home. She was convicted in a local court last week of abusing the child and sentenced to serve ten days in jail, but sentence was stayed. When officers went to get the baby, Mrs. Phil lips could not be found. She is believed to have gone to Oklahoma. The officers are trying to locate her and secure the child, a girl 2 years old. Meeting Broken Up. Vienna, Jan. 24. Workmen heid a meeting in a hall here last night to discuss the strike situation at St. Petersburg. As soon as the first speaker mentioned the word St. Petersburg the police official who al ways attends such meetings ordered the meeting to be dissolved. His order was carried out amid considerable tumult and protestation, but there was no disorder. coining Nothing handier to slip on in a homy; nothing more comfortable about the house; nothing that makes a woman look more in harmony with her sur roundings than these tasteful Wrappers. One of the best manufacturers in the country produced these Wrappers. We make these cut prices on the fleece lined kind: $1.00 kind for 79c $1.48 kind for 98c $1.89 kind for $1.25 Knit Shawls in All-Wool, Silk, and Silk and Wool Plaited. We have done a splendid business in this line, but now comes the time for a quick cleaning up, so all go at just half price. They have been priced 25c, 39c, 48c, 69c, 98c and op to $3 We are doing a pretty good business now, but we want to do more, and are willing to sell some things below cost for the sake of breaking the ice. When our qualities and prices become known to you, we shall have a share of your permanent patronage. You ought to take full advantage of our cut price offerings. i V m m m I I,t liliAi 69 Jz(2rtzACl3 CZvt. HAVE SIGNED 17 MEN. That Is Announcement of Topeka Baseball Magnates. Secretary W. F. Logan of the To peka Baseball association announced this morning that 17 players had been signed for the Saints for next summer. And then he straiehtway refused to give the names of any. A little ques tioning proved, however, that eight are of last year s team, nameiy, uison, Brown, Abbott, Bevis, Coie, Howie, Hughes and Carter. "We have signed five seasoned catch ers, three pitchers and outfielder. We will only bring one of the catchers here, we are now examining the records of all five and we will take the one which we consider the best of the bunch. All thres of the nitchers will come here when the season opens. Two pitched in the Missouri Valley league last year. We still need a second baseman, out I am sure that we will sign Bert Dunn again. In the outfield Ave have Bevis nnd Cole and a third man who is crackerjack. We cannot give out his name just now. In fact we will give none of the names until after next Thursday at which time the annual meeting of the association takes place at Kansas City. Captain Abbott will be here then. He has signed most of the players and we will then decide who to keep. When we give out any information it will be the exact line up which we will have when the season opens." TOPEKA DENIES IT. Didn't Dump the Charity Charges Onto Atchison. Recently the Atchison Globe fired a bolt at this city, saying that Topeka dumped its charity people on Atchison. To this the Topeka Provident associa tion objects, and righteously so. The cause of the Atchison paper's state ment was concerning a woman with a child who was sent to that town from Topeka at her own request, saying she had friends and relatives there. The woman came to Topeka and was cared for here by the provident association. proved to be unsatisfactory. She a-sked to be sent to Atchison, saying that she would be held at that place by rela tives For mat rraauu auco. -r. j.imt nBsociation feels the criti cism unjust. The National Association of Charities and Corrections taboo the idea of "dumping" people from one town to another, and the Topeka organization consequently does not like to be charged with that action. ROOSEVELT r.RTICIPATING. Trustees of Peabody Fund Vote to Dis solve Their Trust. Washington, Jan. 24. The trustees of the Pelbodv fd Tucational fund today voted to dissolve their trust. A vote also was ta ken on th.e proposition to appropriate $1. 000 OfW for the George Peabody school for teachers at Nashville, Tenn., and it was carried the appropriation for the purpose nehTir made by a vote that was unani Sfouf The vote on the question of dis solving thl Peabody trust followed con sideration. Several members expressed vervDOsitive opposition to the move to dfSSol?r and when the vote was taken it stood 11 to 2. President Roosevelt partici pated in the proceedings. WAS FROZEN TO DEATH. Dogs Scent Body in a Straw Stack Near Wichita. Wichita. Kan., Jan. 24.The body of an unknown man, aged about 2 4 years, was found in a straw stack near the packing house district today. The bodv was found by hunters whose dogs scented the dead body. He had burrowed under the straw, probab y during the recent extremely cold weather, and had frozen to death. wrappers When we lower a price mark it does not necessarily mean that the goods are out of season or out of style. TOOJLAjnEJIX) FOUND BEST by test Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Powder. 25c. WANTED Boy with a wheel at Warren M. Crosby Co. e. BRIEF BITS OF CITS" NEWS. Collection of Important Para graphs for Your Consideration. Jennie Mae Eckworth, who secured a fur coat from Peterlitzky's store by misrepresentation several months ago, belonging to Miss Edith Ott. was this morning sentenced to six months in the county jail and fined $10. We want to sell another barrel of the good lard we have, and will sell you four pounds for 25 cents the same lard that credit stores sell you three pounds for 25 cents. We alRO sell California hams 7 cents per pound, chuck steak 7 cents per pound, round steak 10 cents per pound, loin steak 12 cents per pound, and coal oil 12 cents per gallon. R. E. Jones, 917 Kansas avenue. Ind. phone 1412. Chief Stahl has a new spotter on his force. But that ought to excite com ment, for a new one Is put on almost every other day. The sheriff's office is very busy col lecting delinquent personal tax. Almost $1,000 was taken in on Monday. It was the first day after the sending out of the notices. If you want to preserve your wife's health, you should send the family washing to the Mutual laundry. Cold weather is especially hard on wash days, and then there Is the chance of tearing the garments when taking them from the line. Spencer Abbott, captain of the To peka baseball team, will arrive in the city the latter part of the week, to re main here until the season opens. A game has been scheduled with Wash burn college for April 15. The Hasty Messenger Co.. is open day and night and are always ready to serve you. If you want a hurry mes senger or a parcel delivered call them. Both phones 1082. DEATHS AND FUNEiIALS. The funeral of Weslev Case, who died In Texas on Sunday, took Dlace at 3 o'clm-lc cms aiternoon irom the residence of his son. K. V. Case, 1265 Polk street. Inter ment in Topeka cemetery. Nicholas Schloss, aged 18 months, died of pneumonia at the home of his parents, on West Laurent street, on Monday even ing. The funeral took place this afternoon from the house at 3 o'clock. The funeral of Thelma Reede, the in fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. w. Reede. of 1MI Van Buren street.took placo this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the resi dence. 1S11 Van Buren street. Interment In Topeka cemetery. Flora Conley, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Conley, of 1418 Van Buren street, died on Monday evenintr. Funeral announcement has not been made. Founder of Russell, I. T, Bankrupt. Muskogee, I. T, Jan. 24. Camp bell Russell, one of the best known stockmen of the southwest, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities are placed at $113,166 and assets at $89,747. He is a leading breeder of Hereford cattle and founded the town of Russell. I. T. More Yaqni Murders. Houston. Tex., Jan. 24. A special from El Paso, Tex., says: Antonio Astlzarian, a member of a prominent Mexican family, with two servants, has been murdered by Yaqul Indians in the same vicinity where five Americans were slain last Thurs day. The family of M. Doane, a ranchman, was robbed, but they were allowed to go with their lives. If uwanta fair skin, appply Satin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Powder. 25 cents.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOTJKKATJ, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1905. 6 ELEPHANT STIRS IT UP. People Object to lisposit ion of Ills Mortal Remains. Sentiment anions the members of the council for fome immediate action tend ing towards city ownership of a crema tory is becoming more pronounced. The bill which Representative Stone will in troduce to the house providing for the municipal ownership of the waterworks plant is being amended by the city at torney to cover ownership of a crema tory as well. Under the charter act of 1903. power probably exists for the cita to issue bends for the building of a plant of this nature but it is stated in general terms and City Attorney Spen cer is of the opinion that because of its general sjope it might cause some dif ficulty in the sale and disposal of the bonds. Section lii-4 of article S of th charter act states that the city may (pfter sprifying the character of im provements)'"for any other improvement of works not otherwise herein provided for. and for the purpose of rebuilding, adding to or extending: the same from time to time as the necessities of the city require, the city may borrow mon ey and issue its bonds for the same. Under other improvements the erect tlon of a crematory could be classified but bond buyers are particular as to the law authorizing the issuance of bonds and might raise objections to a purchase which would inteifere mater ially with the progress of the plans. Under the present condition of the cre matory, incapacitated to take care of the garhaee of the city, the conditions which have led to so much trouble in the past are doubly aggravated. The boilers ar.d furnace at the plant are not in running order on account of the fire which took place some time ago and as a conseoueriee all the refuse is be ing dumped out on the ground in the immediate vicinity of the crematory. An I elephant which died several days ago! The only place in the United States that guarantees freedom from strikes, lockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek, Mich. The story? The work people, mer chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi zens became aroused and indignant at the efforts of the labor uinons through out the country to destroy the business of one of our largest industries the Postum Cereal Co., Lfd, and at the open threats in the official union pa pers, that the entire power of the Na tional and State Federations of Labor was being brought to bear to "punish" the industries of Battle Creek, and par ticularly the Postum Co. This spring from the refusal of C. W. Post to obey the "orders"' of the unions to take the Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the labor trust the unions. Mr. Post was ordered to join the un ions in this conspiracy to "ruin" and "put out of business" these publishers who had worked faithfully for him for years, and helped build up his business They had done no wrong, but had found It inconvenient and against their best judgment to buy labor of the labor truFt. It seems a rule of the unions to cc r-pire to ruin anyone who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An ink maker or paper maker who failed to sell ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin those publishers. So the peddler In the street might stone you if you re fused to buy his apples; the cabman to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manu facturer to discharge certain people be cause they did not patronize him. and eo on to the ridiculous and viilianous limit of all this boycott nonsense, in trying to force people to buy what they Jo not want. If a man has labor to sell let him sell it at the best price he can get just as he would sl! wheat, but he has no right to even Intimate that he will ob struct the business, or attempt its ruin because the owner will not purchase of him. The unions have become so tyrannous and arrogant with their despotism that a common citizen who has some time to spare and innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that paint taken off and put on again by "the Union" or all sorts of dire things hap pen to him. hi3 employer is ordered to discharge him, his grocer is boycotted If he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and insulted and his life made more miserable than that of a black slave before the war. If he drives a rail to repair the house or barn the carpenter's "union" hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe and prevent damage to his proper ty and the plumbers' "union" does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the bricklayers, plasterers or hod carriers "union" is up in arms and if he carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has no "union" label on it the bakers "union" proceeds to make life miserable for him. So the white slave is tied hand and foot unable to lift a hand to better himself or do the needful things, with out first obtaining permission from pome haughty, ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union. It would all seem rather like a comic opera, if it did not rob people of their freedom: that kind of work will not be permitted long in America. Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust in the last few years, to bring themselves money and power and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making it possible for them to lav oown the law in some cities and force I workmen and citizens in 'r.y.c-a'' i I "rlieitly. stripping them right and left of their liberties. They have used boycotting, picketing, assaults, dynamiting of property and r.iurder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the president to remvoe cer tain citizens from office because the i nions wern't pleased. That means they propose to make the law of the unions, replace the law- of this government and the union leaders dominate even the chief Executive This is a government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall cisplaee it. But the unions trv it every now and then, led bv desperate men as shown in their defiance of law and support of law break ers. The "union" record of assaults crip pling of men and even women and chil dren, destruction of property and mur- ier hi American cn.zns during the; past 2 years is perhaps 10 times the j volume of trime and abu'e perpetrated j ...c umicis uu.iog anv two years previous to the civil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy, which per mits us to stand idly by while our American citizens axe abused, crippled was carted out and the remains have been distributed about under a light covering of manure. The people in the near vicinity of the plant are now voic ing their objections again in no uncer tain manner because of this failure in the disposition of the offal and waste. Councilman Griiey. who visited the plant Sunday stated that the iefuse from the city was being dumped on the ground and light layersof manuresprea J over. Close by are signs which fr. Menninger cf the board of health had erected forbidding the dumping of such matter but under the circumstances the signs are something of a jcke. The To peka Desiccating company u knowledge that they have been unable to handle desiccate or handle the dead animals end other refuse of the city in a sani tary manner ever f-inee the iire a num ber of wee lis ago because the plant has not been fixed up to handle the refuse as it should be handled. All this time the refuse has been lying there coverei over with light layers of manure. It, will be some time yet before the plant can be operated. The city coun cil for pome time past has felt that municipal ownership was the only suit able and proper method of handling the crematory question but the financial condition of the city has always le-1 it to approach the question in a gingerly manner. Now. however, that the cre matory situation is more badly tangled up than ever, the feeling is strong In favor of irsuing bonds and going ahead with the municipal idea. even in the face of financial condition of the city treasury which should tend to the strictest economy. Councilman Green is in receipt of a letter from the Dixon Manufacturing company who have a patent process for the erection of crematory plants, esti mating the cost of erecting: a crematory sufficient for the size of Topeka at $lt, OC'iV. employing the best construction in every particular. The capacity of such a plant would be 35 tons every 24 hours. Jly using corrugated buildings instead of brick and an iron stack in stead of a brick the cost of the plant could be reduced to $12,000. For a site the city might use a portion of the ground in the vicinity of the pest house and murdered in doezns and hundreds by an organization or trust, having for its purpose, thrusting what it has to sell (labor) upon ua whether or no. Suppose an American in a foreign city should be chased by a mob, caught and beaten unconscious, then his mouth pried open and carbolic acid poured down his throat, then his ribs Kicked in and his face well stamped with iron nailed shoes, murdered because he tried to earn bread for his children. By th-? Eternal, sir, a fleet of American Men of ar would assemble there, clear for ac tion and blow something off the face of the earth, if reparation were not made for the blood of one of our citizens. And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of widows and orphans of those Americans murdered by labor unkiiis? How do we try to protect the thousands of intelligent cit izenu who, with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily paid rulers oi the labor trusts? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy a general boycott was ordered on Grape-Nuts and Postum all over the country, which set the sood red biood of our ancestors in motion, bringing forth the reply that has now passed into history: "We re fuse, to join any conspiracy of organiz ed labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employes upon the orders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and sink our ship, we will go down with the captain on the bridge and in command." This set the writers n labor papers crazy and they redoubled their abuse. Finally one oi their official organs come out with a large double column denunciation of Battle Creek, calling it "a running sore on the face of Michi gan." because it would not become "or ganized" and pay in dues to their la bor leaders. The usual coarse, viilian ous epithets common to labor union writers were indulged in. The result was to weld public senti ment in Battle Creek for protection. A citizens' association was started and mass meetings held. Good citizens who happened to be members of local un ions, in some cases quit the unions en tirely for there is small need of them tilers. The working people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics. The majority are not union members for practically all of the man ufacturers have for years declined to employ union men because of disturb ances about 11 years ago, and the un ion men now in the city are among the best citizens. No city in the state of Michigan pays as high average wages as Battle Creek, no city of its size is as prosperous, and no city has so large a proportion of the best grade of mechanics who own their own homes. So the work people massed together with the other citizens in the organiza tion of the Citizens' Association with the following preamble and constitu tion: Whereas from 1S91 to 1S94 the strikes instigated by Labor Unions in Battle Creek resulted in the destruction of property and loss of large sums of mon ey in wages that would have been ex pended here; and, Whereas, these acts caused serious damage to the city and in a marked way delayed its progress at that time; and. Whereas, since the year 1S94 the citi zens have been enabled, by public sen timent, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and Labor Union disturbances which have been prevalent elsewhere; and. Whereas, the employers of this city havc steadfastly refused to place the management of thsir business under the control of I.abor Unions, but have maintained the highest standard cf wages paid under like conditions any where in the United States, and hereby unanimously declared their intent lo continue such policy; and the employes of this city, a largo percentage of whom own homes and have families reared and educated under conditions of peace and the well-earned prosperity of steady employment, have steadfastly maintained their right as free Ameri can citizens to work without the dicta tion and tyranny of Labor Union lead ers, the bitter experience of the past offering sufficient reason for a deter mined stand for freedom; and. Whereas, the attitude of the citizens on this subject has been the means of preserving peaceful conditions and con tinuous prosperity in marked contrast to the conditions existing in other cities suffering from the dictation of Trades Unionism; it is therefore. Resolved, that the continuance of peace and. prosperity in Battle Creek can be maintained, and the destructive work cf outside interference avoided under the combined effort and action of all our people, by the formation of a Citizens' Association. j where the city owns enough ground with out going to the additional expense of buying a location. t'OlTAXT WILD DOSE. I Former Topeka Man Having Political Trouble ill Wyoming. Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 24. Col. C. G. Coutant, the noted historian, and for the past four years state librarian, has informed Governor Brooks that he is not a candidate for re-appointment to the position. It is understood that the leaders have agreed upon Mrs. Fred Bond, widow of the late state engineer, for the position of state librarian, and that her name will be sent to the senate for confirma tion at the close of the present session of the legislature. When Col. Coutant learned of this lie at once announced he would not be a candidate for re-appointment. He is deeply incensed at the thought of be ing shelved. Col. Coutant was formerly editor of the Topeka Mail and with Fred Collier founded that paper. AFTE1I PADD MOIITOX. Congressman Baker Wants the Presi dent to Sue Him. Washington, Jan. 24. Representative Baker (N. Y.) has introduced a measure directed at Secretary Morton and re quiring the president to bring suit against Paul Morton and J. C. Stubbs for entering into contracts in restraint of trade. Testing Three Cent Fares. Cleveland. O., Jan. 24. The Cleveland Blectric Railway company has inaugu rated a test cf three cent fare within a limited zone. CONSTITUTION. Article 1 Name. Article 2 Objects. First To insure, so far as sossible, a permanent condition of peace, prosperi ty and steady employment to the peo ple of Battle Creek. Second To energetically assist in maintaining law and order at all times and under all conditions. Third To protect its members in their rights to manage their property and to dispose of their labor in a legal, lawful manner without restraint or in terference. Fourth To insure and permanently maintain fair, just treatment, one with another in all the relations of life. Fifth To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employment and sell his labor, with out being obliged to join any particu lar church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to sup port all such persons in their efforts to resist compulsory methods on the part of any organized body whatso ever. Sixth To promote among employ ers a spirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best interests of their employes, and to promote among workmen the spirit of industry, thrift, faithfulness to their employers and good citizenship. Seventh To so amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best citi zens of Battle Creek, that a guarantee can be given to the world of a contin uance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capitalists can be induced to locate their business enter prises in Battle Creek. Then follows articles relating to membership, officers, duties, etc., etc., etc. This constitution has been signed by the great majority of representa tive citizens including our workpeople. A number of manufacturers from other cities, where they have been suffering all sorts of indignities, incon venience and losses from the general hell of labor union strikes, picketing, assaults and other interference, pro posed to move, providing they could be guaranteed protection. The subject grew in importance un til it has reached a place where abso lute protection can be guaranteed by the citizens of Battle Creek on the following broad and evenly balanced terms which guarantees to the work man and to the manufacturer fair ness, justice, steady work and regul arity of output. The new coming manufacturer agrees to maintain the standard rate of wage paid elsewhere for like ser vice, under similar conditions, the rate to be determined from time to time from well authenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports issued by the Government De partment of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and it is expected later on that this government bureau will furnish weekly reports of the labor market from different centers, so that the workman when he is ready to sell his labor and the employer when he is ready to buy, may each have reliable information as to the market or rul ing price. The new-coming manufacturer also agrees to maintain the sanitary and hygienic conditions provided for by the state laws and to refrain from any lockouts to reduce wages below the standard; reserving to himself the right to discharge any employee for cause. The Citizens Association on its part agrees to furnish, in such numbers as it is possible to obtain, first class workmen who will contract to sell their labor at the standard price for such period as may be fixed upon, agreeing not to strike, picket, assault other workmen, destroy property, or do any of the criminal acts common to labor unionism. Each workman reserving to himself the right to qvrit work for cause, and the Citizens Asso ciation further pledges its members to use its associated power to enforce the contracts between employer and em ployee and to act enmasse to uphold the law at ail times. The new industries locating in Bat tle Creek will not start under any sort of labor union domination whatsoever, but will make individual contracts with each employee, those contracts being fair and equitable and guaran teed on both sides. Thus from the abuses of labor unions and their insane efforts to ruin everyone who does not "obey" has evolved this rlan which replaces the old conditions of injustice, lockouts, strikes, violence, loss of money and property, and general industrial war fare: and inaugurates an era of per fect balance and fairness between em ployer and employee, a steady contin uance of industry and consequent prosperity. The entire community C7 MITCHELL ELECTED. Vsrairi Chosen to Head tlie Mine Workers' National Union. I Indianapolis, Jan. 24. At the after noon session of the miners' convention the national tellers reported the re I cent vote of the organization as fol- lows: President, John Mitchell. 79,598; vice president, T. D. Lewis, 79,802; secretary-treasurer, W. T. Wilson, I 79,189; national auditors, John Mos- sop, Patrick Fitzstmmons and Ed Mc Kay; delegates to the American Fed eration of Labor convention, John Mitchell. T. L. Lewis, W. T. Wilson, W. D. Ryan, Patrick T. Dolan, John D. Favey, John Dempsey; national tellers. Matt Charles, Illinois; James P. Richard. Ohio; William Fitzstm mons, Pennsylvania. In a brief address to the convention just before adjournment President Mitchell referred to the co-operative store movement which will be one of the pronounced developments of the miners' organization during the com ing year. He advised them to go into the venture carefully and with all pre caution. Mitchell then declared the convention adjourned. JEWELS ARE FOUND. Stolen Gems Had Been Buried in Hotel Grounds. Pasadena, Cal.. Jan. 2 4. The $2 0, 000 worth of jewels stolen from the room of Mrs. W. S. Edey last Saturday have been found and returned to their owner. Chief of Police Freeman of Pasadena and Captain Austin of the detective force found the box of jewels where they had been buried in the grounds of the Raymond hotel and re turned them to Mrs. Edey. The police say they were stolen and buried by bell boys. 0, pledged by public sentiment and pri viate act to restore to each man his ancient right to "peace, freedom and the pursuit of happiness." Other cities will be driven to protect their work people, merchants and citi zens as well as their industries from the blight of strikes, violence and the losses brought on by labor unionism run amuck, by adopting the "Battle Creek plan," but this city offers indus trial peace now with cheap coal and good water, first class railroad facil ities and the best grade of fair, capa ble and peaceable mechanics known. Details given upon inquiry of the "Secy, of the Citizens Ass'n." Identification. The public should remember that there are a few Labor Unions con ducted on peaceful lines and in pro portion as they are worthy, they have won esteem, for we, as a people, are strongly in sympathy with the right act that has for its purpose better con ditions for wage workers. But we do not forget that we seek the good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, whereas even the Taw abiding unions- show undeniable evidences1 of tyranny and oppression when they are strong enough, while many of the unions harbor and en courage criminals in their efforts to force a yoke of slavery upon the American people. As a public speaker lately said: "The arrogance of the English King that roused the fiery eloquence of Otis, that inspired the immortal declaration of Jefferson, that left Warren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill was not more out rageous than the conditions that a closed shop would force upon the community. These men burst into re bellion 'when the king did but touch their pockets.' Imagine if you can their indignant protest had he sought to prohibit or restrict their occupation or determine the conditions under which they should earn their liveli hood," and to assault, beat and mur der them, blow up their houses and poison their food if they did not sub mit. The public should also remember that good true American citizens can" be found in the unions and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow members, but they are often in bad company. Salt only hurts sore spots. So, the honest, lawabiding union man is not hurt when the criminals are de nounced, but when you hear a union man "holler" because the facts are made public, he has branded himself as either one of the law breakers or a sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the law breaker, and likely to become one when opportunity of fers. That is one reason employers decline to hire such men. A short time ago inquiry came from the union forces to know if Mr. Post would "keep still" if they would call off the boycott on Postum and Grape Nuts. This is the reply: "The labor trust has seen fit to try to ruin our business because we would not join its criminal conspiracy. We are plain American citzens and differ from the labor union plan in that we do not force people to strike, boycott, assault, blow up property or commit murder. "We do not pay thugs J 20 to break in the ribs of any man who tries to support his family nor $30 for an eye knocked out. "We try to show our plain, honest regard for sturdy and independent workmen by paying the highest wages in the state. "We have a steady, unvarying re spect for the law abiding, peaceable union man and a most earnest desire to see him gain power enough to purge the unions of their criminal practices that have brought down upon them the righteous denunciation of a long suffering and outraged pub lic, but we will not fawn, truckle, bend the knee, wear the hated collar of white slavery, the union label, nor prostitute our American citizenship under 'orders' of any labor trust. "You offer to remove the restriction on our business and with 'union' gold choke the throat and still the voice raised in stern denunciation of the despotism which tramples beneath an iron shod heel, the freedom of our brothers. "You would gag us with a silver bar and muffle the appeal to the American people to harken to the cries for bread of the little children whose faithful fathers were beaten to death while striving to earn food for them. "Your boycott may perhaps succeed in throwing our people out of work and driving us from business but you cannot wrench from us that priceless jewel our fathers fought for and which every true son guards with his life. Therefore, speaking for our work people and ourselves the in famous offer is declined." POSTUM CEREAL CO.. LTD. What to us is time or space. Hours of absence, days of grace; As we rule and reign alone In a kingdom of our own? Love like ours is up to date. Sneers at fortune, conquers Fate; Makes the loves of early times Look like three bright, shiny dimes. Couldn't we give cards and spades To historic lovers' shades? Easily our love can beat That of Faust and Marguerite. Heloise and Abelard Stooped to tricks that we'd discard; Orpheus and iiurydice Only knew a simple way; Launcelot and Guinevere Wondering would our love songs hear, And a few things we might show Juliet and Romeo. Hero we'd give pointers to Teach Leander how to woo. I could coach Semiramis, Trojan Helen teach to kiss. You'd teach Dante and Petrarch Distance Cleopatra's Mark. Oh, the loves of bygone days Were not up to modern ways! Carolyn Wells in Smart Set. The Kansas Bar association meeting begin next Tuesday. Have you compared Melba with Nor dica, DeLussan, Innes, Sousa, Bartilli, et al.? The senate chamber attracted many out of town people yesterday afternoon who were in Topeka to hear Melba. Mayor Bergundthal has gone to Kan sas City to attend a lumberman's con vention. He will return Wednesday morning. "Doc" Brown, the negro cake walker who was well known all over Kansas, Is dying of consumption In a Kansas City hospital. The graduating exercises of the Jan uary, 1905. class of the high school will occur Friday night at the high school assembly hall. Shawnee county hogs are going to Kansas City by the carload. (This is a live stock market note and does not re fer to passenger traffic). W. J. Black, general passenger agent of the Santa Fe railroad, is in Chicago today attending a meeting of the West ern Passenger association. Al Spurgeon, of Silver Lake, will till the soil of County Commissioner Sam Haynes farm this year while Mr. Haynes helps run the county. A. T. Coakley, pattern foreman of the Santa Fe shops, and Chas. Frazier, blacksmith foreman, have been over to Atchison on business with John Seaton. Mrs. H. B. Giddings, of Atchison, has been at Christ hospital for several weeks taking treatment for nervous prostration. She will' return to Atchi son in a week. This storm is undoubtedly the result of the special request of Ralph Brigham, general manager of the Midwinter ex po., to Weatherman Jennings for mid winter weather. Mail and Breeze correspondent at Sunnyside says: "Will say to our in quiring friends that we have entirely recovered from our mixup with a To peka street car recently. It cost us $6 to get our buggy repaired, but as the railway company gave us $10 we are $i to the good." The cost of appointing the appraisers and levying the assessment for the Pot- win sewer extension will be almost as much as the extension of the sewer it self. The extension will cost $475 or in the neighborhood of 13 cents tor each of the 3,500 lots which are liable for the Improvement. "Sergeant Kitty" was played at the Crawford theater in Topeka, matinee and night, at the highest prices possi ble. The prices for the afternoon as well as the evening performance run up to $1.50. At Crawford's theater at Leavenworth Sunday night the highest prices for seats on the floor was $1, according to advertisement In the Times. Topeka evidently hasn't lost its reputation as an "easy" town. The registration at the commissioner of elections office yesterday took a sud den bound. About 150 new names were added to the books in the course of the day. Carriages were out bringing de linquent voters to register as if on the eve of an election. The activity is credi ted to the Street Railway company who are anxious that the bonds for the Branner street viaduct be carried at the special election designated for the 13th of February. The total registration is now close to 1,200 and of this number 50 are credited to women voters. HAD 13 WIVES. Chicago Police Are Looking for John Hoen. Chicago, Jan. 24. John Hoch, whom the police allege to be a mod ern Bluebeard, is an expert chemist and may possess knowledge of a se cret poison, was the declaration of Police Inspector Shippey. "This man is poisoning me," are the words Mrs. William Steinbecker told the police today that her mother-in-law said shortly before her death ten years ago. Mrs. Steinbecker told In spector Shippey that after her mother-in-law's death property valued at $4,000 was disposed of by Hoch. Police Inspector Shippey declare.'! that Hoch had married at least thir teen women in the last ten years. Four of them died within a short time after their marriage. No trace of Hoch has as yet been found. The police have no proof of murder against him but declare they have a clear case of bigamy, on which charge they will arrest him as soon as possible. NEW FRENCH CABINET. Men Who Are Expected to Guide the Destinies of France. Paris, Jan. 24. Following is the list of the new cabinet ministery as finally arranged: President of the council and minister of finance M. Rouvier. Minister of Justice M. C. Haumie. Minister of foreign affairs M. Del casse. Minister of the interior M. Etienne. Minister of war M. Berteaux. Minister of marine M. Thomson. Minister of colonies M. Clementel. Minister of public works Armant Gauthier. Minister of public instruction Bienvenu Martin. Minister of commerce M. DuBief. Minister of agriculture M. Ruau. Under secretary Fine arts, Dajardin Beaumetz. Finance M. Mertou. Posts and telegraphs M. Berard. Geo. R. Peck Gives a Dinner. Washington, Jan. 24. George R. Peck gave a private dinner at the Shoreham Saturday night to the entire Kansas delegation and their wives in honor of Mrs. John J. Ingalls and members of her family, who were present together with Mr. and Mrs. Bristow, Marsh Murdock and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, of Wichita. An Offer to Trade. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 24. Nied ringhaus men have offered to give Dr. A. C. Pettijohn the- speakership of the house if the Kerens men will support Thomas Niedringhaus, the Republican caucus nominee for senator. Dr. Pettijohn has declined, the proposition. Men's Heavy Fleeced Underwear 39c 1 n j. 1 I Shirt Sale $1.50 and $2.00 Soft and Stiff Bosom Shirts, light and dark, cuffs attached or detached, pleated or plain, all sizes, your choice tomorrow Tennis Flannel Night Robes 45c 709-711 Kansas Avenue. PROPAGANDA AT WORK. Ilevolutionists Distributing Documents itt the Streets. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. 2 p. m. St. Petersburg wears a less martial aspect today. Everywhere troops have been drawn into court yards. Only pickets are left outside and small squads of Cossacks are patrolling the streets. The stores along the princi pal thoroughfares are mostly closed and barricaded. The correspondent of the Associated Press drove up the Nevsky prospect and with the help of daylight realized that the damage done to the store fronts was more considerable than ap peared last night. A large number of business premises were wrecked, the mob having devoted itself principally to confectioners and pastry cooks. Enormous crowds of strikers and many sightseers, encouraged by the mild weather, were promenading the sidewalks this morning and the street cars were again in operation. All was quiet up to this hour. The correspondent of the Associated Press noted several men distributing proclamations. The people formerly were shy of accepting such docu ments; now they are eagerly accept ing them and have nicknamed them "Lastochoke" (swallows), an allusion to the spring which has become a synonym of revolution. The corre spondent secured a number of copies. They are all signed by "The Russian Social Democratic Labor party." One proclamation, dated January 22, reads: "Comrades So long as autocracy exists no improvement in our condi tion is possible. Therefore we con tinue to inscribe on our banners the following demands: "The immediate cessation of the war. "The summoning of a constitutional assembly of representatives of the people elected by universal and equal suffrage and direct, secret ballot, "The removal of class and race privi leges and restrictions. "The inviolability of the person and domicile. "Freedom of conscience, speech, the press, meetings, strikes and political as sociations." A second proclamation dated January 23, says: "The proletarial of all countries are united. "Citizens, you yesterday witnessed the cruelty of the autocratic government. You saw blood flowing in the streets. You saw hundreds slaughtered, defend ers of the cause of labor. You saw the death and heard the groans of the wounded, women and defenseless chil dren. The blood ond brains of the work ingmen were spattered around where their heads had been laid open. Who directed the soldiers to aim their rifles and fire bullets at the breasts of the la borers? "It was the emperor, the grand dukes, the ministers, the generals, the nobles of the court. They are the murderers. Slay them. "To arms, comrades! Seize the arsen als and arms at the depots and the gunsmiths.- Lay low the prison walls. Liberate- the defenders of freedom. Demol ish the police and gen d'amerie sta ions and all the government and state buildings. "We must throw down the emperor and the government and must have our own government. "Long live the revolution! Long live the constituent assembly of the repre sentatives of the people!" A third proclamation appeals to the people not to attempt to injure private property. General Prince Vasilchokoff, com mander of the guards, has not yet an nounced the stringent rules usually ac companying a state of siege, such as forbidding persons to leave their houses after 10 p. m. with special passes and the extinction of all lights in private quarters after that hour. The authori 13 7tMV DAGEIAGEHG. NIKE TIKES CUT OFTEN ITS CAUSED BYCCXSEST&a. h F"Y3 -y RKiweaiBe r T"a ii i to contain belladonna, opinm r n poisoooua Inirredlfmt. They r made oi hca- tag eg eta Die gums which ooihe, strengthen and core. Stop the Ache with sn ft Insist Upon Having ABcock's. 20C Wool Hose Tomorrow 1 2o A All $1.50 and $2 Lined Gloves Tomorrow S1.2Q ties evidently are still confident that they have the siuation well in hand. There is no confirmaion of the report that the emperor, empress and their children are going to Copenhagen or or the other hand that the emperor haa decided to appoint a mixed commission of officials, employers and working rnen to consider the strikers' demands, notably the question of eight hours' work per day and to make an investi gation of the shooting of the strikers. All sorts of rumors are circulating in both official circles and among the working-men. A curious report spread among the men last night that the em peror had given in and that three white flags had been placed over the Winter palace signifying that he had consent ed to reduce the maximum legal houra of work from 11 to 8. According to thin legend the emperor would have display ed a red flag if he had decide to refuse the strikers' request. Many working men deceived by this rumor shouted, "Hurrah," in token of victory and thia possibly was the reason that the strik ers believing they had already won the day refrained from committing excesses yesterday. Father Gopon's popularity is unim paired but it is already evident that the social democrats are getting the upper hand and that they are encouraging the people to violence. From a trust worthy source it is learned that Father Gopon sent a letter to the social demo crats in the following terms: "They have fired upon and massa cred us but we are not vanquished and the day of our triumph is nigh. Do not spoil our triumph by taking up arms and resorting to violence. Content yourselves with destroying the portraits of him who is no longer worthy to be called our emperor." This pacific admonition irritated the social democrats and does not meet with a response from the worklngmen who apparently thirsting for ven geance, are clamoring for their lead ers to distribute arms. The revolutionists are also reported to be actively preparing bombs and infernal machines to wreck the post and telegraph offices and destroy other government property. The revolution ists talk wildly of issuing a manifesto declaring a provisional government. They seem to have broken completely with the zemstvolsts whom they treat with contempt on account of what they call their "truckling" to auto cracy. Even Prince Trubeskol who led the reformers of Moscow is re garded by them with suspicion and even hatred because in an article pub lished by the Pravo he described the revolutionists as a "Port Arthur In side of Russia" which Russia would have to overthrow. M. Hessen, editor of the Pravo. whose advanced liberal views are well known has been arrested. The work ingmen's club has been closed by or der of the prefect of police. A. G. Vanderbllt Hurt. New York, Jan. 24. Alfred G. Van derbilt is suffering from a badly wrenched ankle as a result of a fall while horseback riding and it is prob able that he will be confined to hi home for several days. The accident occurred at the Ridge club in West Fifty-eighth street, during a military drill, when Mr. Vanderbllfs horse stumbled and fell, pinning his rider's left leg under him. Lake liamplain Frozen. Plattsburg, N. Y.. Jan. 24. The ther mometer registered 20 degrees below zero at Saranac Lake today, 24 below at Upper Chateaugay Lake and at Paul Smith's and 18 below at Addiwon Junction. Lake Champlain is com pletely frozen over, the ice being from 5 to 20 inches thick. Honor for Wliltelavr Iteid. Rome. Jan. 24. King Victor Emanuel has signed a decree conferring the grand cordon of the crown of Italy on Whitelaw Reid of New York. A. The simplest, easiest and most effective remedy for this most common complaint fs an Allcock'z Porous Plaster. Millions have been cured of back trouble during the past half century by this wonderful, healing, strengthening and relieving plaster. R AUcmcft Platter t are nuns. V.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1905. FOR CMLSERVIDE Bill Proposing a Start Iutro duced in House. First Step Toward Complete lie form of System. 05LY OUT FOR CAUSE. That Is Provision to Govern Employes. Proposed to Take School Landi Off Market. A mild form of civil service reform in the state institutions is proposed in a measure introduced into the house of representatives Monday afternoon by C. E. Kirtland, of Saline. Under the proposed law, which is very brief, and which, Mr. Kirtland says, is only the first step toward a complete system of civil service in state affairs, the various boards in charge of stale Institutions are instructed to draw up a sort of civil service examination, -which all applicants for positions must tako and .pass before being: eligible for ap pointment. The bill also says: "No person shall be removed from his or her position except for cause, the charges with regard thereto to be made In writing. The person against whom Euch charges are made shall be entitled to reasonable notice of the time and place of such hearing." The proposed law is made to apply to the state insane asylums, penitentiary, reform schools and charitable institu tions. It does not interfere with the present method of appointing the offi cials of the institutions. Kirtland's bill has been referred to the committee on charitable institu tions. "If the state school lands had never been placed on the market but had bean held by the state and rented," says A. G. Mead of Mitchell. "We would now have enough income from these lands to pay all the running expenses of the etate educational institutions." Acting upon the theory that it is "better late than never," Mr. Mead has Introduced a bill taking all the school lands off the market, and putting them on a rental basis for the benefit of the school fund. Mr. Mead thinks that tho income from the school lands will even at the present time amount to a consid erable sum. Mr. Mead's bill is as fol lows "Section 1. All lands granted by th? congress of the United States for school purposes, known as section 16 (sixteen) and 36 (thirty-six), together with all euch lands, as have been granted in lien of said sections now unsold ar; withdrawn from sale and shall not be Bold. "Sec. 2. All of eaid school lands re ferred to in section 1 of this act shall be leased as other lands belonging to Individuals are leased and the rentals except as hereinafter provided shall on the first day of January, of each year, be paid into the county treasurer for the benefit oi tho common school fund of the state of Kansas. "Sec. 3. The county clerk and the county treasurer of the various counties of the state of Kansas, having unsold school lands, shall rent said lands, and collect the rents thereof, for the use and benefit of the common school fund of the state of Kansas "Sec 4. The county clerk and the county treasurer, shall each be en titled to retain as compensation for renting said school lands and collect ing said rents, fiva per cent of the sum total of rents. "Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws In conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, especially sec tion 6338 of the general statutes of the state of Kansas of 1901, provid ing that this act shall not effect exist ing contracts for the sale of school lands." tV. P. Hackney of Cowley county wants to get the legislature to authorize his town of Winfield to issue $6,000 vorth of bonds with which to erect a life size statue of Capt. Hugh H. Stverd. C. S. Beekman of Arkansas City, Cowley county, thought it would never do to let Winfield get the start of his town in that way.so he combined forces with Hackney and together they Introduced a bill authorizing each town to vote $6,000 in bonds to erect a statue, tseeKman is not particular what sort 1 fif a statue he gets; he leaves it entirely to the local G. A. R. post to select the model. Capt. Hugh H. Siverd was a civil war hero, and was murdered some time ago while discharging his duties as city marshal of Winfield. He was a great friend of Mr. Hackney's. The queer patr of the proceeding is that the bill should be introduced as the joint work of two members of the legislature. Another state board is In sight. This makes about six new ones which have been proposed so far. The latest recruit Is a board to examine and license the brick and stone masons who build chimneys. The bill is introduced by p. O. Young of "Wilson county, but Mr. Toung was careful to have it stated that he did it by request. Under the terms of the bill, the governor will ap point a board of three masons. who ia.i icm man xv years experience in the business. They will issue licenses to all masons who can pass the examination, and pay a license I feeof$l. Anybody whohirepan unlicensed mason to Duna a cnimney will be sub ject to a heavy fine. Incidentally, the members of the board will get $3 a day and their traveling expenses. J. T. Tredway of Allen introduced a bunch of horticultural society bills Monday. One was to pay the secretary of the society, W. H. Barnes, his ex penses to the national horticulturists' convention, a bill which the state au ditor refused to allow. Another bill ap propriates $800 to fix up the horticul-! tural society rooms with new cases and shelves. Mrs. L. Josephine Ritchey and-Mrs. Ella A. McNutt, of Leavenworth, have asked the state to appropriate $3,150 to pay them for 50,400 tons of coal which they claim the state has taken from under their property. J. W. Berryrhan has proposed a good law. It requires that when a railroad company confiscates coal, or any other merchandise. It shall not only pay to the owrwr of the coal the full market price, but 1 per cent, in addition thereto, together with attor ney fees in case it is necessary to go to lav. to get the money. J. L. Brady, of Douglas, introduced B. bill Monday making numerous changes in the law concerning limita tions. It puts a 10-year limit to suits $o enforce written agreements, con tracts and promises In writing, five years to enforce contracts not in writ ing, one year for actions of slander, libel, assault and similar crimes. "When K. K. Robinett, of Wyandotte, came back from Kansas City Monday, he found that some cruel monster had moved his seat back to the rear of the hall. Robinett had taken the liberty of placing his seat at the front of the hall, shutting off some of the other occupants of the front row, because he did not like the place which he re ceived at the rear. On a matter of personal privilege Mr. Robinett ex plained to the house Monday that he could not hear well, and asked to be allowed to put his seat back at the front, and the house granted the per mission. Two petitions came In Monday in behalf of the state fire marshal law. "Wonder who the fellow is that ants a job?" inquired Bill Hackney in an audible whisper, when the petitions were read. The state fair bill has been referred to the ways and means committee of the house. Nearly all of the important house committees held meetings this morn ins at 9 o'clock, and worked for an hour before the house convened. The house has granted the use of representative hall to the Lincoln Day club for a meeting on the evening of Feb. 13, 1905. D. W. Eline of Pratt is in town, and visited the legislature Monday. He expects to be here during the session, and rrfake a fight against the continua tion of the Kansas-Colorado litigation. He says that the litigation will benefit no one except the lawyers. Inciden tally, Mr. Blaine is still talking about his canal from the Dakotas to the gulf. He says "There is a great chance for a reservoir in Kansas right now, that would be a preventive of floods and would store up water badly needed. That is to turn the Cheyenne bottoms, near Great Bend, into a great lake. By means of a dam in their east end, there could be made there at small irtyfeet deep, and 'thmkTf the fiood waters from the Smnkv Hill anrt the Arkansas it would hold, and prevent coming this way. And then it could supply a long stretch of canal, too. The trouble in Kansas is that we let all our rainfall run away from us through .the Missouri and Mississppi, and the people down. these rivers are complaining of too much water, while we have too little. Only in that way can we solve the problems that now confront us. But we would first bet ter quit fighting Colorado at great legal expense for rights that soon will not exist." The "oil lobby" which is here to see to it that the right kind of legislation for the southern Kansas fields In en acted has rented rooms at the Cope land, and will make its headquarters at that hotel. J. L. Parker, secretary of the Oi! Producers' association, will be in charge of tho headquarters. The others who will be there are H. E Vru' President; J L. Parker j Humboldt; J. O. Fife, Kansas L. Perkins, Lawrence. City; Mr. Kirtland of Saline was back in his place Monday after an absence on leave for several days. His son, who has been sick, is now considered out of danger. A big blackboard has been put up at the right of the speaker's stand containing room for announcements about "committee meetings. The new book of house rules was placed on the desks of members today, It contains a complete list of commit- tees and a list of members arranged alphabetically. J. w. Berryman's name is not in the list through some body's blunder. the ronowmg petition: "We. the under L signed barbers of the citv of CofTeyville. Kan., are opposed to the present law regulating the profession of barbering in this state; we believe it to be unjust and a nuisance, of no benefit whatever to the members of the barbers' commission, and we l pspectfully pray that von use your best efforts to have it abolished." The pe tition is signed by about 20 barbers The house committee on the political rights of women, which will have to wres tle with the women's suffrage bill, is said to be unanimous in favor of the suffrage billl arid will give it a favorable report at the earliest opportunity. People down at Kansas City, Kan are interested in the drainage district bill which was prepared by C. P. Hutchings of mat town. it is a h i for rli deepening of streams. A special com- I mittee will be sent to Topeka to lobby for imi. One of the Ftate house janitors has been detailed to take charge of the house of representatives hall from the time of ad journment until things are locked up for the night. There has been a good deal of petty stealing going on. Ink wells seem to be the chief attraction for the "lift ers." The state constitution will interfere with some of the consolidation plans which Hooh and Stubbs have had for the various state boards. Mr. Stubbs' plan has been to consolidate the board of char ities, the prison board, the Hutchinson re- formatnry board and the Dodge Citv sol dirrs' home hoard into one board of "threi ro members. This would wipe out fourteen i places and crea to three, making a net re- auction ot eleven lobs. It has been dis covered, however, that the prison board is a constitutional hoard and can not be wiped out by a legislative act. So the Hutchinson reformatory will be "placed i un.ier the prison board. This will wipe home board will not be vuc vrtiu. j. lit; iwuge iny soldiers aoonsnrd, as it is an old soldiers' board and the soldiers wnnt to retain it. The board of charities will be reduced to three members. All this wipes out five jobs on the char- ltable and penal boards. W. P. Hackney's bill, regulating the granting of franchises to natural gas com panies was passed Monday a fternoon.This bill is one which is much needed bv the second and third class citie3 in southern Kansas, where work is already progress ing on municipal pipe "nes. The new law will give to the city council the right to protect the city from imposition. It also requires the gis companv to pav the citv 2 cents per 1,000 feet on gas sold for fue"l or lighting, U cent on gas used for mon- lpet used. An effort was made by Mr. umcmring. w cents on a nat rate per 1,000 "ixisoii id amend tne mil, making it op tional with the city councils to charge this bonus from companies. Lupfor of Pawnee was the only member voting against the proposed law. Western Postmasters. Washington, Jan. 24. The follow ing western postmasters have been ap pointed: Indian Territory Brooken, district No. 12; William T. Phillips, vice W. P. Forrester, resigned. Kansas Williamstown, Jefferson county; Mrs. Sarah F. Davis, vice Sarah G. Wood, resigned. Colorado and Return. $27.50. Colorado and return every day to April 30, 1905, inclusive, with final re turn limit June 1, 1905. via Union Pa cific, $27.50 from Topeka. Be sure your ticket reads over the Union Pa cific Inquire of J. C. Fulton. Depot Agent; F. A. Lewis, City Agent, 526 The barbers of Uoffeyviile have petitioned men lepresentauve. j. v. Hoidren. toil vote for the abolishment of the state I THEY WJ tip. Senator Haggener's Bill Aimed at Prirate Corporations. Penalties for Those That Ignore the Law. FREE KINDERGARTENS. They Are Prorided for In Sen ator Porter's Measure. Secretary of Senate VVouIdLimit Ills Say to 500. Senator Waggener introduced a bill at the short session of the senate Mon day afternoon, which will bring forth opposition from the private corpora tions. Senator Waggener's bill Is Intended to regulate and govern Kansas and foreign corporations doing business in the state. There are corporation laws but the corporations some times obey them and sometimes ignore them and this bill is for the purpose of making all corporations obey the Kansas laws. Senator Waggener said: "Corpora tions are doing business in Kansas without authority and without comply ing with the laws of the state. There are no penalties and the officials are powerless to act." Senator Waggener's bill in part -is: "That it shall be unlawful for any private corporation organized under the over t ha same: to award and pay prem laws of any other state, territory or iums. and make an appropriation there- country to purchase, own, lease or pos sess anv nrnnprtif 1 nf nnv IHnd real or Phonal, in this state, or to enforce any contract obligation in this state re- suiting from or growing out of an at tempt to do, or the doing, or the trans action of any business in this state, without first having secured permission from the charter board to do business in this state, and fully and in all re spects complying with each, all and every requirement of the laws of this j mote the safety of the traveling public state relative to foreign corporations. and to protect the lives and limbs of "All property, real or personal, for- the railroad employes, feited to the state of Kansas under the By Hayden, No. 265 An act amend provisions of the preceding sections of inr criminal procedure, this act, shall be sold under order of the By Hayden, No. 266 An act creating court decreeing the forfeiture, as upon the office of state accountant, prescrib execution, and the proceeds, after pay- ing his duties and compensation and ment of costs and a reasonable attor- j repealing chapter 247, session laws of ney's fee, to be fixed by the court, shall De paid into the common school fund. "That any private corporation, organ ized and existing under the laws of this state, shall not be permitted to migrate from this state, or by virtue of such in- state, to transact business in any other .and maintain In thin stntp a Hiigt agent, upon whom service of a sum- mons may be made, which designation shall be, by instrument of writing, duly signed by the president of such com- j pany and attested by the secretary, with the corporate seal attached, and which instrument of writing shall give the name and address of such agent, and shall be filed with the secretary of state of the Btate of Kansas. "That when any private corporation; organized under the laws of this state, does not have and maintain Its head- quarters and principal place of busi ness within this state, but maintains its headquarters and principal place of j By Wilkerson, No. 274 An act amen business In some other state or terri- i datory of and supplemental to an act tory, it shall be required to pay to the entitled "An act for the protection of state treasurer of the state of Kansas, j the records of the several counties of annually, a license fee of $100, and in .the state of Kansas," and regulating the addition thereto, as a part of such i business of abstracting and relating icense fee, a sum equal to one-tenth if 1 per cent upon its authorized can- I ital stock, which payment shall be made on or before the first day of January, 1906, and on or before the first day of each succeeding January thereafter. "F.very private corporation, incorpor ated under the laws of any other state, territory or country, doing business in this state, shall, in addition to the fees now required to be paid by any law of this state, on or before the 1st day of January, 1906. and on or before the 1st day of each succeeding January, pay to the state treasurer of the state of Kan sas a license fee of $100 as a condition precedent to its right to do business in this state for the ensuing year, provid ed, that as to such corporations engag ed exclusively in interstate commerce. this section shall not apply, but as to

k.oLo business wholly within the state, the li cense fee of $100 is only intended to ap ply to that part of such business as is or may be local, and not interstate. "All money paid in to the state treas ury of this state as license fees under the provisions of this act shall be kept in a separate account, known as "bridge and road fund account," and on the 1st day of March. 1906, and on said .late each year thereafter, the same shall be distributed to the several counties of the stite, in proportion to the assessed valuation of each county, for the next year preceding, and when so paid to the several counties, shall be by each county treasurer credited to the bridge and road fund account of such county. an d thereafter used and expended ex clusively for the improvement of the roads and bridges of said county." Senator E. F. Porter introduced a bill In the senate at the session Monday af ternoon providing for the establishment of kindergarten schools in cities of tha second and third class. The bill pro vides that school boards may establish kindergartens, in connection with the public schools, for children from 3 to i years of age but it specifies that chil dren attending such kindergartens shall not be included in the census of school children and the law shall not change the school ages. This provision is to prevent the increase of the school pop ulation in school districts, by reason of the younger ages of the kindergarten scholars, and thereby make a decided difference in the distribution of state school tax. Senator Porter, who has been a cham pion of the kindergarten and manual training ideas, said: "I think that the child should be given every advantage in the common schools. If the common school develops the child then the high er edcuation will come but the child must be started right. I am greatly in favor of kindergartens." Senator Peck has introduced a bill in the senate setting aside 3 per cent of the annual firemen's fund, collected by the stale department of insurance, for the purchase of prizes to be awarded at the firemen's tournaments. The idea of the proposed law is that by offering prizes the firemen will be zealous in striving for them and thereby the efficiency of the departments will be on the increase. This bill is directed toward the volun teer firemen's tournaments. At the request of W. S. Kretsinger. secretary of the senate. Senator Dol ley Introduced a bill at the Monday afternoon session of the senate which provides that the secretary of the senate and chief clerk of the house shall receive $5 a dav for not to ex- ceed 100 days for the work they do at ana ror eacn session of the legislature. Kretsinger has announced that he will be satisfied with $500. The bill also provides that employes of the house ana senate snail be paid only for the time actually employed. Senator Stewart, from Wichita, is pleased with the Brandon congres sional apportionment bill which places Sedgwick county in the new Eighth district. Senator Stewart says that Congressman Victor Murdock will be satisfied with the Brandon plan as it will leave him in a district in which no other congressman lives. Senator Griffin introduced a bill in the senate Monday to reduce the bond of the state treasurer from one million to one-half million dollars and to have the state pay the fee for the bond. The Senate Bills. The following bills were introduced in the senate at the short session Monday afternoon: By Porter of Crawford, No. 257 An act to empower the school board of any district to establish and maintain free kindergartens for the instruction of children between three and six years of age. By Porter of Crawford. No. 258 An act defining the meaning of the word horticulture; defining certain duties of the secretary of the State Horticultural society, and providing for the payment rrom appropriation made in 1903, of the secretary's traveling expenses in at tending meeting of the National Irri gation congress in November, 1904. By Porter of Crawford, No. 259 An act to clean, improve and furnish the rooms occupied by the Kansas State Horticultural society, and making an appropriation therefor. By Benedict. No. 280 An act author izing the state, board of agriculture to hold annual expositions within the state; to locate, lease, purchase or ac quire by gift, and equip grounds for that purpose; to exercise police power for for these Dumoses. By Benedict, No. '261 An act entitled An act -pvoviding for county assessors and defining their duties, providing for their assistants, and to repeal sections 7585 and 7596 of the general statutes of 1901. By Benedict, No. 262 An act for the relief of S. L. Freidline in the purchase school lands. By Waggener, No. 263 An act relat ing to private corporations. By Simons, No. 264 An act to pro 1895. By Griffin, No. 267 An act amending section 16, chapter 80, general statutes of 1901, relating to the statutes of lim itation. Bv Griffin, No. 268 An act to amend section 338 of chapter 92 of the general statutes of the state of Kansas of 1901, Bv Retts. No. 269 An act conferring upon street, suburban and interburban railway companies power and authority of eminent domain and prescribing the procedure incident thereto, By Betts. No. 270 An act permitting all blind persons to peddle or sell goods in any city or municipality without a city or municipal license. Bv Betts. No. 271 An act relating to judges and clerks of elections in cities of the first and second classes. By Betts, No. 272 An act relating to crimes and punishments. Bv Betts, No. 2T3 An act relating to cities of the first and second class. thereto; and fixing fees and regulating additional bonds from abstractors, and fixing punishment for violation there of. By Harrison. No. 275 An act for the protection of trade marks. Bv Smith of Franklin, No. 276 An act rela'ting to county surveyors, their duties and compensation, and repealing sections 1797 to 1S24, inclusive, of the general stat utes of 1901. a Bv IXMev, No. 277 (By request of W. S. Kre'tsinger An act to amend section tS9 of the general statutes of Kansas of 1901. By Martin of Bourbon, No. 278 An act to encourage the establishment of public school libraries and making appropriation therefor. By Fulton, No. 279 An act relating to life insurance in fraternal beneficiary so cieties. Bv Stewart, No. 280 An act appropri ating money to pay the deficiency in the salary of W. F. Thompson as assistant state grain inspector. Bv Stewart, No. 2S1 An act relating to trespassers upon real estate, who take possession and cccitny the same without the consent of the owner of such real es tate or the agent of such owner, being du ly authorized and providing penalties therefor and providing for placing the owner in the possession ni saiu mnus uij on conviction of such trespasser. Bv Chapman, No. 2-3 An act authoriz ing' township board, Oreat Bend township. Barton countv, Kansas, to submit to elec tors said township at special election to be called for that purpose, the question of erection of public hall and purchasing land for same. By Conner. No. 2S3 An act to vacate certain streets in the city of Oswego City, Kan. Bv committee on i educational institu tions No. 2S4 An act authorizing the board of regents of the University of Kan sas to conduct clinical work at such places in Kansas as it may deem advisa ble. By Smith of Edwards. No. 2R5 An act making section 7050 of an act in relation to the state penitentiary chapter 99 of the general statutes, applicable to convicts in the penitentiary sentenced under an act entitled "An act providing for indetermi nate sentence of convicts set forth in chapter 275 session laws of 1903." By Smith of Edwards, No. 286 An act to amend section 21 of chapter 80 of the general statutes of 1S0S, the same being section 4449 of the general statutes of 1901, and repealing said original section. By Smith of Edwards, No. 287 An act to amend section 4578 of the general stat utes of 1901. By Smith of Edwards. No. 288 An act directing the state librarian to furnish the library of the school of law of Washburn college t Topeka, in the county of Shaw nee, with reports of the supreme court and court of appeals. By Smith of Edwards An act to pro vide for the care and preservation of pub lic roads. Bv Smith of Edwards ,No. 290 An act to provide for the annual school meeting of school district No. 1, Edwards county, By Smith of Edwards, No. 2J1 An act to amend section 1052 of the general stat utes of 1901, relating to cities of the sec ond class. By Griffin. No. 292 An act authorizing and directing the slate treasurer to de posit public monevs, and to receive in terest on sneh der-jslts for the use and benefit of the state, providing the manner of making such deposits, limiting the liu biiitv of the state treasurer, and provid ing penalty for violations of the provis ions of this act. BV Griffin, No. 293 An act relating to the oath and bond of state treasurer, and amending section 48 of chapter 102 of the general statutes of 1901. Blizyard in Iowa. Des Moines, la., Jan. 24. A fierce blizzard swept over the northern part of the state today. At Mason City the street cars are at a standstill and the four roads enterirur the town have I MOKETS TODAY, Corering by Shorts Steadies the Wheat Prices. Slay Com Opens a Trifle Lower at Start. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Are Steady to Ten Cents Lower. Large Receipts of Hogs Weakens the Price. Chicago, Jan. 24. WHEAT Covering by shorts, pessimism in view of the Russian situation, steadied the wheat market here today in the face of liberal northwest re ceipts. The opening was easv. at Va.c de cline, with May at $1.14. The price soon ad ve need, however, unuer buying orders to U.15(&1.I5. Minneapolis, Duluth and Liucago reported receipts ot 6iiS cars, against 315 cars a vear aeo. Smaller receipts than anticipated in St. Louis and Kansas City resulted in the jaay option advancing to $1.15. Tne close was easy. May sold off to KL14dl.l4. and finished with a net loss of Sic, at CORN Mav oam opened (SUc lower. at 44.jJ44c. Scalpers and receivers sold freely, but scattered demand held the price within the opening range. The close was easy, at 44'i(a44c. OATS May oats started a shade off, at 30c, and receded a shade further in sub sequent trading. PROVISIONS A steady market for live hogs gave a light tone to provisions. May pork was unchanged, at $12.9o. lard ranged 2-S5e higher, at $7.C5i&7.07. Ribs were unchanged, at $67. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red, $1.18; No. 3 red, 1.02i&1.14; No. 2 hard, $1.131.16; No. 3 hard, J1.05&1.13; No. 1 northern, $1.19; No. 2 northern, $1.14(31.15; No. 3 spring, $1.05 1.1 1. CORN No. 2, 43S43c; No. 3, 4242c. OATS No. X rOfcauHe; No. 3, 30c. RYE Jan., 75c; May, 79c. FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.21; S.-W., $1.15 Jan., $1.15: May, $1.19. TIMOTHY Jan., $2.80; Feb., $2.85;March1 $2.90; April, $2.90. CLOVER Jan., $12.75. BARLEY Cash: 3S(s50c. Range of Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephona 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and stock Co., .Kansas city, Aio.J Chicago, Jan. 24. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT- May ...1 14i 115 1 14Vi 114 115 July s SSVi 9fVi- 98H Sept 81 921; 13fc. 91i CORN May 4i- 44 44 44- 45 July 45- 45- 45 45 45 Sept 45 OATS Mav 30 31 34 30 30-31 July 30-31 31 30 30 30-31 PORK Jan 12 87 12 77 May 12 95 13 10 12 95 13 05 12 95 July 13 05 13 10 13 05 13 10 LARD Jan 6 82 May 7 07-05 7 10 7 06 7 10 7 02 July 7 17-20 7 22 7 15-17 7 22 7 15 RIBS Jan 6 55 6 73 6 65 6 70 6 62 May 6 87 6 92 6 87 6 90-92 6 85-87 July 7 00 7 05 7 00 7 05 6 97 Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4S6. Correspondent Christie Gram ana Stock (Jo., lunsas city, aio.i Kansas City, Jan. 24, Open High Low Close Yes VVHEAT May ...1 04. 1 05 1 04 July 8S SS-S9 88 CORN May 42- 42 42 July 42- 42- 42 1 04 1 04 88 S8-90 42- 42- 42- 42ts Kansas City live Stock. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 24. CATTLE Receipts today, 11,000 head, including 500 head of southerns. Market steady to loc lower. Native steers, $3.5005.60; southern steers. $3.4094.75; southern cows. $2.25&3.50; native cows and heifers, $1. 754. 50; stock- ers and feeders. $2.75174. 20: bulls. $2.6034.00 calves, $3.00-a6.50; western fed steers, $3.50 (&5.25: western fed cows. $2.053. t. HOGS Receipts today, 19,000 head. Mar ket steady to a shade lower. iSUlK oi sales, $4.tW?T4.80; heavv, $4.7S'4.S5:packers' $4.ivi4.89: p'igs and lights, $4.00&4.72. SH1CEF Receipts today, 8.000 head Market st"dy; lambs weak. Muttons, $4.50 raa.75; lamus, f6.wxui.au: range wetners. $5.50u6.60; ted ewes, $4.zbfg&.la. St. Lo uls Livestock Market er. Louis. Mo.. Jan. 24. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 5.000 head, including 2,000 head of Terans. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.25i5.S0;stockers and feeders, $2.25 i4.25; cows and heifers, $2.25j4.65; Texas steers, $2.50S4.6o; Texas cows and heiters, $2.(KKS3.50. HOGS Receipts today, 14,000 head. Mar ket steady. Pigs and lights, $3.oo!g4.i)u; packers', $4. Soft 4.80; butchers' and best heavy, $4. 75 'a 4.85. SHEEP Receipts today, 3,500 head. Market steady. Natives, $1.50!&6.E0; lambs, $5.00-U7.50; Texans, $3.0O.u5.00. -ckioneo Live Stock Market. Chicago, Jan. 24. CATTLE Receipts to day, 6,000 head. Market steady. Good to prime steers, $5.65G6.15; poor to medium, $3.75,5.50: stockers and feeders, $2.304.25; cows, $1.25'n'4.40; heifers, $2.tWS5.O0; can ners. $1.25&2.25; bulls, $2.10&4.00; calves, $2.75ci6.85. HOGS Receipts today, 30,000 head: esti mated Wednesday, 40,000 head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers', $4.55ii4.S0; good to choice heavy, $4.75Si4.87; rough heavy, $4.55Tg4.65; light, $4.5&4.70; bulk of sales, $4.fv55i 4.75. SHEEP Receipts today, 16,000 head. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.9i&5.50; fair to choice mixed, $4.0O&4.80; western sheep, $4.2Ca5.50; native lambs, 55.75S7.io; western lambs, $5.757.75. Chicajro Produce Market. Chicago, 111., Jan. 24. BUTTER Market easv. Creamery, 19?a29c: dairy, lS!g24c. KGGS Market firm. At mark, cases in cluded, 1Si24c. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies, 11 12c; Twins, 11i5jHc; Young Americas, ll'al2c. LIVE POULTRY Market weak. Tur keys, 13c; chickens, 11c; springs, 10c. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Jan. 24. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 23 cars. Quotations were higher. May, $1.04ffll.04 July, temporarily abandoned their sched ules. The temperature is 6 below zero here. HERE THEY ARE. (Continued from Page One.) 436. 437. tion. 438. 439. Robinett Sale of real estate. Mead Assessment and taxa- Pringlej Township treasurers. Pringle Publication of city treasurers statements. 440. Haskins Inspection of bank records. 441. Tread way-fLocal bond issue. Dance given by the Ladies' Society B. of L. F-, Thursday evening, January 2fi. 1905. at Steinberg s hall, 628 jacK- son St. Admission 50c. Extra ladies 25c I Every Ob Of clothing advertisements must be impressed with the sameness of the bargain offers. No mat ter what month in the year or day of the week you read a Topeka newspaper it is the same story, "$20, $22.50 and $25 Suits and Overcoats, special tomorrow for $15," or possibly for a change you get "$18, $20 and $22.50 values, spe cial Monday for $12.50." We Can Produce A hundred advertisements run in Topeka during a period of twelve months, offering boys' $5 or $6 Suits, special for $2.95 or $3.95, and a hundred such ads in one year means a special sale every three days a steady diet for a "special sale," but customers have learned that the $5 values for $2.95 were always marked $2.95, and that in strictlv one price clothing stores they can buy them any day for $2.95 or $2.75 or $2.50. Do Graft Methods Appeal to the average buyer? We think not. Will you bite quicker if we take 50c shirts and mark them ""Was $1.60 and $2.00, now 69c" does 50 cent underwear, reduced from 75c to 49c, strike you as a stupendous bargain? Will you pay 37c for hose sold formerly at 35c and 25c be cause the card says "worth 50c, 75c and $1.00"? Does a suit which cost $7.50 wholesale look better to you if reduced from $25 to $12.49 than if priced to you straight $10 See our Winter Suits and Overcoats at $10, $12 and $15. They are merchandise, not bargain sale plunder. Watch Us Grow. Watch t obinson, T.larsholl t t t 703 Kansas Ave. Ind. 88c. Cash: No. 2 hard, $1.05; No. 3 narg, $1.03(51.04; No. 4 hard, 90C&W-00; No. 2 red, $1 12; No. 3 red, $1.06S1.10; No. 4 red, 98c

CORN MarKet nigner. mj, July, 42fi42,-ic. Cash: No. 2 mixea, 44 &42c: NO. s mixea, 4zc; ro. f 43Hc: No. 3 white, 43c. OATS Market steady. ISO. z wnne, ox- (g31''2c; No. 2 mixed, 3031c. HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, $a.5??10.00: choice prairfe, $i.w. $ijl 1 .r. creamery, tr-iic, EGGS Market higher. Fresh, 24c. Market GoaalD. Furnished by A. M. McDermott Commis sion LO., &IOCK.3 vriuuia, r.t" nvestment Securities. Room 12, Colum bian building. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 43 cars; graded, 0. Corn, &30 cars; graded, 16. Oats, 171 cars; graded, 35. Liverpool opening cables: T heat un changed; corn Vti lower Liverpool, 1:30 p. m.: Wheat unchang ed: corn d lower. Grain receints at Kansas City: Wheat, 23 cars; corn, 29 cars: oats, 12 cars. Northwest grain receipts touay: iiuiuk- apolis, 2S9 cars; Duluth, 24 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, 139 cars; Duluth, 38 cars. Estimated grain receipts at cnicago to morrow: u neat, l& cars; coin, oats, 89 cars. .Liverpool closing cauius; iiea-t y&x higher; corn d lower. New York Stocks. j Wall St.. New York. Jan. 24. STOCKS Opening prices of many prominent stocks today rebounded sharply from yesterday's closing depression, although there was a sprinkling of losses. Beading was carried up an extreme point on running sales and 4 000 shares of Erie sold at 41 ana 41, compared with 40 last night. Realty gained a point and Rock Island, Union Paifir- Southern Pacific. Louisville and Nashville and Consolidated Gas large f rnftiftns. Rpalizine on the dividend announcement on Hide and Leather preferred more than wiped out its forenoon rise and induced sales of other specialties. Smelting pre- feri-eri also reacted more man a poim. Railroad stocks lacked feature, but were minted at about the highest again at 1 iVilnnlr The market was almost luie ana very sluggish. The early buying was most effective in the transcontinental stocks, but several nf the fonlers. metal stocks and tractions were also taken liberally. St. Paul, North western, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific preferred, Erie second preferred and Kan sas ana jexas preitjutu uvw.m;f i i-2 noints. The Smelting stocks. Republic Steel preferred, Metropolitan Securities, Consolidated Gas, Hide and Leather pre ferred and Westinghouse Eh'ctric figured for similar gains. Heavy selling of Read ing, which drove it down from 88 to 86. precipitated realizing elsewhere and the previous advances were cancelled. Cotton Oil lost 1 point. Ice preferred 1 points and St. Louis and San Francisco nrst preierreu j vs puis. .v v ..w. market was auu. Prices tended upwarus m b.vuiiiiij advances in individual siocua, nut ine Ktneral movement was narrow. Southern Pacific gained 1H, points. Smelting prefer red was carried up 3 points and North American 2 points. There were declines o nnint or more in Cleveland. C. C. and St. Louis and Chicago Great Western referred r ana hock jsmnu incicn -i.v. nnintd The demand ran oit at tne higher level and let the prices slip back. Bonds were sicaay m uuuu. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, tirains, rioviajuua, Office 110 West Sixth street. Telepnone 4S6 Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo New York. Jan. 24. Stocks- Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes 141 141'-i 140Vi 14014 141 lWi lOfi-H 10)5 lfiVt rat 73 73H 734 mi 6m em m eo 70 7( 69 )'4 694 29 29s 28 28ai Suear People's Gas Amal. copper R. T C. I P. Steel IT. S. Steel, pfd 92 63 924 92i 92;s 80 &V S5 S5 8o Atchison, com Atchison, pfd C. G. W St. Paul 99 100 99-,fc lWij 1") 22 22 22 22 22 174 175 17:4 17.i 174 30 3W4 34 34 35 21 21 21 2! 21 42 42 42 42 42 106 10b 15 105 105 ,'9 f,2 92 2 171 171 W9 170 171 113 14.3 142 142 143U 33 34 33 33 34 65 66 64 64 64 87 88 86 8S 87 41 4! 40 4 40 78 79 78 78 78 117 118 lit 116 117 48 4n 4X IS 4 li 1"2 101 K'1 101 137 137 135 13Si 137 64 64 64 64 6i 136 136 135-3 135 130 4l 41 I". 13 13 12 12 13 46 45 45- 45 45 I..- com Wabash, com Wabash, pta Mo. Pacific Western Union Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie Erie Union Pacific C. O B. O L. N Katy Pennsylvania C. A., com U. S. Leather C. F. I server Our Business Methods Win. 'Phone 22 Security Building 4 New York Mont y Market, New York, Jan. 24. MONEY Money on call steady, 1572 per cent, closing bid 1 and offered at 2 per ctnt; time loans easy; 60 days, 2g2 per cent; 90 days, 2t!3 per cent: 6 months, 3fa3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 3tfi4 per cent; sterling exchange strong, witn actual business in bankers bills at $4.8780 Q4 87S5 for demand and at $4.8&35!S4.S510 for 60 day bills; posted rates, $4.86 and $4.88; commercial bills, $4.85. SILVER Bar silver, 60c; Mexican dol lars, 47c. BONDS Government bonds steady. Sugar and ColTeo 4n New Tork. New York, Jan. 24. SUGAR Raw sugar nominal. .Fair refining, 4c; centrifugal, 96 test. 5c; molasses sugar, 4e;. Re fined sugar steady. Crushed, $ti.8a; pow dered, $6.25; granulated, $6.15. COFFEE Market quiet. No. 7 Rio, 8c. New York Butter Market. New York, Jan. 24. BUTTER Market unchanged. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., Jan. 24. COTTON Market lower at 6 13-16c. New York, Jan. 24. COTTON Sales to day, 810 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet. Quotations per h pounds: Middling up lands, $7.00; middling gulf, $7.25. Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo.i Jan. 24. WOOL Market nominal. Territory and western mediums, 21a22c; fine mediums, 17lSc; line, WylTc. Topeka Market. Topeka, Jan. 24. Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' $4.254.60 HEAVY 4.4iVH4dO LIGHT 4.1&&4.35 CORN FED CATTLE. fFurnlshed by Charles Wolff Packing Co l COWS $2.lrfVfS.60 HEIFERS 2.5"i3.W BULLS LIGHT CALVES HEAVY CALVES GRAIN. fFurnlshed by J. B. Billard. 2.0iyi2.50 3 0"i 4.00 2.50-83.90 Central iviifis, 01 in uz 111 Aaossa avc.j NO. 2 WHEAT 9SCS$1.00 NO. 3 WHEAT K.mm NO. 4 WHEAT 8i390o NO GRADE WHEAT ,',c CORN 40o NO. 2 OATS 4&0 NO. 3 OATS 2ao FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. E. Lux, successor to W. O. Anderson Co., 210 Kansas Ave nue. FRUITS. ORANGES Navels, J3.2SVfr2.85 per box. LEMONS California, $2.75'oS.0o per box. BANANAS $1.75g 2.85 per bch. APPLES Fancy, $4i4.50 per bbL HONEY $2 40 per 24-rack case. COCOANUTS 65c per doz. FIGS 70ii80c per box. MALAGA GRAPES $5.00-36.00 per bbL GRAPE FRUIT 14 25 per box. NEW DATES 4--8 6c per lb. CALIFORNIA TANGERINES $2.25 per box. VEGETABLES. CAULIFLOWER $3.00 per crate. PARSNIPS 50c per bu. HUBBARD SQUASH $1.25111.50 per doa. POTATOES Colorado, 4S'u5'.ic per bu. SWEET POTATOES J1.05B 1.10 per bu. CABBAGE $1.0511. 10 per cwt. TURNIPS 3oc per bu. CARROTS 50c per bu. CANADA RUTABAGAS lc per lb. BEETS 50c per doz. ONIONS H.ZO'sf 1. 25 per bu. CRANBERRIES $,.257.50 per bbl. rT.T .F.HY Jumbo, 76c per bunrh- T?i.,A Ribbon. 50c Per bunch NEWYORK COUNTS 45c per can NEW YORK EXTRA SELECTS Sic per can. XI' I. Aj-TV uiDiaits. STANDARDS $1 40 per gallon. EXTRA SELECTS $1.65 per gallon. FULL CREAM CHEESE. KANSAS Y. A 14c per lb. NEW YORK STATE (White). 14Hc cer lb. BRICK lie per id. LIMBURGER 15c per lb. BLOCK SWISS 15c per lb. BUTTER, EGGS. POULTlTY. Furnished by Cope Co., 134 Kanas Avtnue POULTRY Hens. 9c lb.: springs, large 9c lb.: turkeys, gobk-rs. 12c lb.; hens, 13 4il4c lb. EGGS Fresh, 25c doz.; cold storage, 22a doz. COUNTRY BUTTER 18200 per lb. HAY. Furnished by D. O. Coe, 119 E. Sixth St 1 PRAIRIE Loose, per ton ...$5.0Ofi 6 PRA1R1H- uaiea ALFALFA Loose ALAFLFA Baled STRAW Per ton 6.r) 8. 50ti! 9.50 9.5iVoio.OO 4.KS 5.00 Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Jan. 24. Prices paid in Topeka this week, based on Boston quotations: GREEN SALT CURED go NO. 1 TALLOW io Cat-! 0 Oi 1

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