The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 20, 1905

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r? vf V f J EVERYBODY i 10 PAGES 1 NEEDS IT. 10 PAGES READS IT. LAST EDITION. MONDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. 3 CHARGES AGAIHST SAMTA FE Formal Arraignment in Con nection With Standard Oil. Six Violations of Interstate Commerce Alleged. CONSPIRACY ONE POINT Deal "With Standard to Ruin Small Shippers. How Kate on Crude Oil Was liaised. HE SEES PRESIDENT. Congressman Campbell Has Con ference With Roosevelt. Gives nim Information About Actions of Oil Trust. GARFIELD TO COME. Will Take Up Kansas Situation Himself. Effort Will Be Made to Get Early Report. Other States Fall in Line in the Standard Fight. Kansas may make an independent Investigation of the Standard Oil com pany's operations In thi state. The legislature may also make demands of congress regarding Indian territory oil leases. Senator K. Dumont Smith has pre pared a resolution providing for the appointment by the governor of a committee to investigate the charges filed with the commissioner of corpo rations at 'Washington by the repre sentatives of the Kansas Oil Pro ducers association. The leader to the legislature have planned also, it is said, to demand of the Kansas delegation in congress that the Foster lease on the Osage reservation in Indian territory be an nulled on the ground that it is the in tention of the Standard to discriminate against the Kansas field by securing all the oil it needs from this territory. Madison, Mis., Feb. 50. Following the example of the Kansas legislature the Wisconsin legislature will soon take np the subject of the Standard Oil company. Two measures will be presented, one a Joint resolution for an investigation of the methods of that corporation in Wisconsin and the other bill remodeled as a substi tute for the measure Senator McGllli vray has introduced, which will be stringent anti-trust legislation. Guthrie, Okla.. Feb. 20. A bill pro viding for a territorial oil refinery has been prepared by liepresentative Mc Bride and will be presented in the house. The measure will also, it is said, compel any corporation operat ing in the territory to sell its product at an equal price throughout the ter ritory. Governor Ferguson is said to favor a measure similar to that re cently passed by the Kansas legis lature. Washington, Feb. 20. Representa tive Campbell, of Kansas, the author of the resolution providing for an in quiry into the operations of the oil in terests of the country, had an extend ed conference with President Roose velt today regarding the investigation. Mr. Campbell presented to the presi dent considerable information bearing upon the matter which he has re ceived since the adoption of his reso lution. He informed the president he had received from the speaker of the house of the Texas legislature a tele grai. urging him to request the presi dent and the department of com merce and labor to extend the pro posed inquiry to the methods of the Standard in the Beaumont field of Texas. He also told the president he had received hundreds of telegrams and letters daily from all sections re garding the Investigation. The Standard Oil companv, Mr. Campbell informed the president, al ready was preparing its defense and would resist to the utmost the govern ment's investigation. The resumption by the company of the purchase of Kansas oil, he said, undoubtedly was decided upon in view of the action taken by the house of representatives in requesting an investigation. It would not surprise him either, he said, if the price of the crude oil should be advanced gradually on account of the present agitation. Mr. Campbell assured -the president that neither he nor the people of Kansas desired that any injustice should be done on either side of the question. The president will have a conference soon with James A. Garfield, commis sioner of corporations, who will direct the inquiry. At that conference a gen eral plan of procedure in the matter will be mapped out. The president also has directed that it may be made as rigid and thorough and as prompt as possible. Washington, Feb. 20. Formal com plaint has been filed with the commis sioner of corporations charging the Standard Oil company and the Atchi- son, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad com pany with being in a conspiracy to con trol the transportation and purchase of oil in Kansas. This complaint is signed by Wm. E. Connelley and R. C; Raw lings, member of the advisory commit tee of the Kansas Oil Producers' asso ciation, and was filed by Representative Campbell of the Third Kansas district. In all, six- allegations of violations of the interstate commerce act and con spiracy are made in the complaint. Will Go to Kansas. Chairman Hemenway of the house committee on appropriations, states tnat tne report or Secretary Metcair or the department of commerce and labor for ajt appropriation would be complied with. This sum is the unexpended bal ance of appropriations heretofore set apart for other Investigations by the department. It represents only a small part of the fund available for the Standard Oil inquiry, but the request to divert it to the Standard Oil inquliy was submitted in order to make it cer tain there would be no scarcity of gov ernment funds. It is probable that Commissioner Garfield himself will go to Kansas. He has declined to discuss the methods the government proposes to follow, but it is known that several of the agents now in the west who have been engaged in the beef trust investigation will at once enter the Kansas oil field. The first article in the complaint filed with the commissioner of corporations charges that "the Standard Oil com pany has endeavored to secure a mo nopoly of the oil business of Kansas from the beginning of its development and has prevented other companies from entering this field to compete for the Kansas oil trade; that there exists a conspiracy between the Standard Oil company and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company to prevent other parties from handling oil or pur chasing oil in Kansas." In support of their allegations the rats charged I. TJ. Knapp of Chanute when he began the production of oil in Chanute is cited. The rate from .Cha nute to Kansas City was at that time J4S per car, or ten cents per 100 pounds. This rate, it is claimed, was outrage ously excessive, as the rate on a car of stock was $25.50 and on a car of straw berries, a very perishable product, $30. In June, 1904, notice was given that the rate on crude oil would be raised in August to 17 cents per 100 pounds, an advance of 70 per cent. It is added that the Standard's pipe line was comple ted in August. It is alleged "The rates on carload mentioned were increased by the Santa Fe in counting the weight of a gallon of oil seven and four-tenths pounds thereby raising the $4S rate to $55.50 and the $81.50 to $94.35." Charges Blacklisting. The second article charges that the Standard Oil company had blacklisted Kansas oil for the purpose of coercing the legislature. The third article alleges conspiracy on the- part of the railroad company with the Standard company and alleges that the proof will be placed at the disposal, of the department by the ex ecutive committee of the Kansas Oil Producers' association. Santa Fe Owns Kansas City Journal. The following paragraph from the complaint is cited as corroborative proof of the Santa Fe's connection with Standard Oil: "The tone of the news columns and editorial utterances of the Kansas City Daily Journal, which Is owned by the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad; that said newspaper is owned by said railroad company can be established by the evidence of William E. Connelley, Charles S. Gleed. the books and man agement of said paper and of said rail road company." The fifth article charges that undue influence was used with the secretary of the interior to secure leases in the Indian Territory and an effort on the part of the Standard to destroy the in dependent refineries at Humboldt. The sixth and seventh articles are general allegations. Campbell in Conference. Washington, Feb. JO. Representative Campbell of Kansas, whose resolution in the house prompted the investigation of the Standard Oil company, had a long and important conference with Commissioner Garfield at the bureau of corporations Saturday night, and laid before him in detail serious charges against the Standard Oil company. Mr. Campbell's conference with Com missioner Garfield was held for the pur pose of facilitating the Investigation in Kansas, which will begin at once and be finished and reported to the president before the general inquiry has ended. The representations made Saturday will be made the basis of the Investiga tion and they are considered important here by the Kansas representative and the men who are with him in his state are leaving no stone unturned to force a criminal prosecution of the trust. Mr. Campbell gave out a statement, and said that in substance it contained the information furnished by him to the commissioner of corporations. In part, the statement reads: "The Standard Oil company is the only purchaser of crude oil in Kansas. There is a small independent refinery at Humboldt, but the daily consumption of this plant is so small, about 140 bar rels, that it cannot be considered. Since it was put in operation it has been ham pered by the Standard Oil company to such an extent that it has not had an opportunity to do much good for itself or the people. "The Humboldt refinery had a good market for fuel oil until last fall, when the rate on this commodity was in creased by the railroads from 10 cents per 100 pounds from Humboldt to Kan sas City to 17 cents. Ruined the Independents. "This increase in the rate cut the re finery out of the business, and the sup position is that the rate was raised on account of pressure brought to bear by the Standard Oil company. "The refinery at Humboldt had a good market for fuel oil, or, more prop erly speaking. ga3 oil, which it was shipping to St. Joseph, until the ad vance in the freight rates referred to was made. Then It had to discontinue for the same reason as governed the Moran Crude Oil company. "At Chanute there were several op erators who had a market for crude oil irrespective of the Standard Oil com pany, but all were forced to quit, and sell to the Standard or not at all. "It is now the only purchaser, for the reason that the freight rates are so regulated that the producers cannot ship their oil as fuel, and receive a price as good as that paid by the Standard Oil company." Tliis Is the Test. In grappling with Standard Oil the new machinery under the commission er of corporations will be put to a trial. (Continued on Page Eight.) GARVEUEPLIES. Comes to Defense of His Railroad Bill. Corrects Statements Concerning the Measure. SMITH'S SOLICITUDE. It Is for the Railroads and Not the People. How the Senate Bill Was Adapt ed to This End. Judge T. F. Garver, author of the railroad bill passed by the house by a vote of 112 to 0 last week and which comes before the senate for passage Wednesday, replies to Senator F. Du mont Smith's interview attacking the measure. Judge Garver says: "Senator Smith's explanation of his attempted destruction of the vital parts of the house railroad bill sounds much like a mere echo of the objections put forth by railroad attorneys who do no posing as the special friends of shippers, whether great or small. Keep the Promises. "To their arguments he adds mis statements as to the laws of other states and unfounded imputations of the motives of those who are insisting that ante-election promises be kept by the enactment of a law that means real relief and is not a mere cunning ly devised scheme to deceive the peo ple while continuing the conditions of which so much complaint- has been made. "The so-called senate hill is simply the house bill with practically every thing eliminated that gives any addi tional powers to the railroad commis sioners. If not as expedient, it would be at least more honest for the oppo nents of the house bill to admit that they are more careful not to interfere with railroad management than they are to afford relief of those who bear the burden of such management. That Section Four. "Mr. Smith says: 'The senate sub committee took the Garver bill and struck from it section 4 which gives the board the power to alter, revise, change, or abolish any rates, tariff or schedule without complaint, and in the place of it provided that all rates, tariffs and schedules might be changed upon complaint.' That statement is made either in ignorance of the pro visions of the house bill, or it is made to deceive. It is not true that the senate sub-committee put in the place of section 4 a provision for the alter ing and changing of rates, etc., on complaint. The provision for hearings on complaint was in section 10 of the house bill which was partially adopted as section 11 in senate bill. Instead of adding anything, in the interest of any shipper, the senate committee, in the interest of the railroads alone. struck out of section 10 the provision allowing the commissioners to go be yond the matters, expressly set forth in the complaint, and correct other rates 'and charges which they found to be unreasonable or discriminative, giving the railroad company an oppor tunity to be heard before any order is made. To Correct Abuses. "Every shipper, great or small, knows that a law for tjie regulation of railroads is of little value to him, if there is no power outside the railroads themselves, to correct abuses, except upon the formal complaints of individ uals. There must, of course, be oppor tunity for complaint, and the commis sioners must be authorized and requir ed to act thereon; for it may often happen that the matter complained of enters into only a particular shipment in which the public is not concerned. In such case, no one would expect a com mission to act on its own motion. But when an unjust or discriminatory rate affects a whole community or state, all shippers being interested, what objection is there, except that the railroads should not be disturbed n practicing such abuses, to empower the board of commissioners to investigate and correct without waiting for some one person to step to the front and, on behalf of all, ask relief? Duty of Commissioners. "It is the duty of the railroad com missioners to study the transportation question. They are supposed to know when rates and classifications are un reasonable. They can know when the agricultural, commercial and other in terests of the state are not given fair treatment by railroad corporations. "Does the senator's sub-committee, so solicitous for the small shipper, think that the interests of our people are given proper recognition in a law which ties the hands of the commissioners under such circumstances until loosen ed by the act of some one man who has public spirit enough to demand re lief? Is it not more in keeDine with pretentions of interest in Ihe men who pay the freight, to advocate a law which, in the name of the state, calls upon the commissioners for action when such conditions exist? Sections 4 and 9 of the house bill do this. The railroads say, and Senator Smith in 1 unison repeats the words, let abuses continue, let discriminations exist, let rebates and favors be given, let the in terests of the state languish and die, but keep- hands off the railroads until some brave, altruistic citizen takes his pen iD hand and- inquires of a supine board of railroad commissioners if the time has not come for remedial action. Tile Small Shipper. "But the small shipper: When was he discovered by these self-constituted protectors? What is meant by a small shipper, anyhow? If a farmer in cen tral Kansas buys a car of lumber in Milwaukee and is charged twice as much for hauling it west of the Mis souri river, a distance of 00 miles, as for twice the distance east of the river, is he the sma I shipper we are told attout? But he pays only the, regular rate; All his neighbors, and ail the farmers in Kansas, pay at the .same rate for the privilege of living in Kan sas instead of Missouri or Iowa. Of course the solicitous friend of this small shipper is eager to aford him an ade quate remedy for relief, hence advises him to look up a copy of the session laws of 1905 and see how ready at hand the desired -relief is. A mere letter, a (Continued on Page Eight.) ALMOST LIKE, SFRIXG. People Are Ixxl to Think Winter Is Over. The thermometer climbed higher to day than it has for ten days past. At 7 o'clock this morning it stood at the unprecedented figure of 30 above. The maximum registered for yesterday was 34 above, but this record was sur passed at 12 o'clock -today, and the thermometer will reach 4 0 above be fore starting on a decline. Following are the hourly tempera ture readings recorded by the govern ment thermometer: 7 o'clock 30 8 o'clock 30 9 o'clock 31 10 o'clock. 33 11 o'clock 34 12 o'clock 35 1 o'clock 36 2 o'clock 38 The wind at 2 o'clock was from the south, blowing at a rate of 13 miles per hour. The minimum registered today was 29. wreckWerie. One Girl Killed and a Persons Injured. Five Cars Rolled Down an Em bankment. Paterson, N. J., Feb. 20. An east bound way train on the Erie railroad jumped the track three miles east of here today. One girl was killed and many persons were injured. Five cars were ditched and some of them are said to have rolled down an embankment. The train was known as the Middletown flyer and was coming from Middletown to Jersey City. The accident happened between Fairlawn and Warren Point on the Bergen county branch. An official statement from the officers of the Erie railroad in this city said that the train wrecked was a. commut er's train that ran as local from Middle town to Sufferin and as express from Sufferin to Jersey City. Near Fair Lawn all five of the cars jumped the track, but the locomotive remained on the rails. It is supposed that the wreck was caused by the breaking of a flange on one of the car wheels. Official reports to the Erie offices say one girl was killed and 27 persons in jured. The train carried 150 passengers, most of them commuters bound to New York for the day's business. Physicians were rushed to the scene of the wreck. Three relief trains were dispatched to the scene of the accident with all possi ble haste. It was announced at the offices of the Erie Railroad company at 11 o'clock that the injured in the wreck number ed 44 and that they were being brought to Jersey City on a relief train. The first of the injured to reach Paterson was a man named Mont gomery of Sufferin. He was only slightly hurt. He said: "We were running at a high rate of speed when the accident happened. The whole train except the engine top pled down an embankment. The first car turned completely over and lay bottom up at the bottom of the ditch, while the three other cars turned over on their sides. The train was well loaded and a large number of persons were injured and one girl was killed. The work of rescuing the injured was begun quickly by those who escaped unharmed and persons living in the vicinity." The dead girl was Miss Grace Mat thews of Middletown, N. T. An un identified woman is suffering from a fractured skull and will die. The wounds of the injured consisted chiefly of cuts and bruises. With a few exceptions all the victims are resi dents of towns along the Erie road, but Middletown and Sufferin. CALL ON ROOSEVELT. Cotton Growers Ask Him to Help Ex tend Their Market. Washington, Feb. 20. President Roose velt 'today received a committee appointed by the recent southern interstate cotton convention at New Orleans to urge the creation of a commission to extend the foreign markets for cotton products. The delegation consisted of about a dozen members, headed by former Senator Mc Laurin, of South Carolina. The commit tee urged immediate steps looking to con gressional action for this purpose in be half of the cotton interests. The presi dent discussed the question with the dele gation and stated that he would take it up with the men who represent the cotton belt in 'congress. He assured the commit tee that he would do all he could to facil itate the movement. The committee later conferred with Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson. EXPULSION URGED. Four State Senators of California 3Iay Dose Their Seats. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 20. The spec ial committee appointed to investigate bribery against Senators Emmons, Bunkers, Wright and French, recom mends that they be expelled from the senate. The expelled senators were accused of demanding and accepting a bribe for protecting certain building and loan as sociations from investigation by the legislative committee on retrenchment and reform, of which they were mem bers. A trap was set for them and marked bills were given to a go-between who was seen to pass the money to them. Each senator received $350. They have been indicted by the Sacra mento grand jury. Twelve Hurt by Explosion. St. Claireville, O..Feb. 20. -Twelve work men were badly injured today by the ex plosion of a stationary boiler at mine No. 1 of the Providence Coal company near here. Two of the injured have since died and four others are believed to have been fatally hurt. At the time of the explosion there were 200 miners in the immediate vicinity of the boiler house. Bob Plgg Can't Be Found. The officers are still unable to locate Bob Pigg, proprietor of the Owl restau rant, who was indicted by the grand jury last week on the charge of violating the prohibitory liquor law He is thought to have "skipped out." The other three were arrested Their trials-will come up in the April term of the district court. Weather Indications. Chicago Feb. 20 Forecast for Kansas- Generally fair tonight and Tues day; warmer Tuesday and in west por tion tonight; fresh southerly winds. ARMYJHHIOVE. Kuropatkin Is Busy Shifting Positions of His Troops. A Steady Bombardment of Jap anese Is Kept Upl AMMUNITION WASTED. Oyama's Men Pay Little Atten tion to Enemy's Fire. Third Russian Pacific Squadron Is Heard From. Tokio, Feb. 20. The headquarters of the Japanese field, report that the Rus sians yesterday moved a division from the Russian front center to the front of the left and advanced 'from Tal mountain. Several columns moved 15 miles westward, halting at Hangchi ataitzu which is two miles northwest of Wanchiayuantzit The Russians con tinued' to shell portions of the Japanese lines Saturday and the Japanese fre quently failed to respond to the bom bardment which often was entirely in effective and is described as being largely a waste of ammunition. Third Squadron Moving. Copenhagen, Feb. 20. The third Rus sian Pacific squadron passed the south--ern end of Langeland island this morn ing. The squadron which consisted of four ironclads and four transports proceed ed northward and passed the northern point of Langeland escorted by a Dan ish torpedo boat and a German Iron clad. The latter after traversing the Langeland belt returned southward. Russians Building Railroads. Tokio, Feb. 20. It is reported that the Russians have constructed two light railroads, one connecting Fushun and Anting and another extending from Fushun to the upper Shakhe. This railway building in connection with other activities and the heavy concen tration of the troops indicates a plan to turn General Kuroki's right. General Kuropatkin is continuing his operations of increasing his entire de fenses and gives indication of a reso lute intention of retaining his position when the expected great battle occurs. The Tokio newspapers print the state ment that 126 Japanese who were cap tured at Heikoutai were grouped to gether and paraded through the streets of Mukden. This information comes from Chinese sources and it is impos sible obtain verification here. It is said that there will be an official inquiry into the matter and that the Japanese government will make a protest if the report is found to be true. The capture is announced by the navy department of the British steam er Powderham, bound for Vladivostok with a cargo of Cardiff coal. Where the capture is made is not stated. The Powderham is a steel screw steamer. She was built in Middleborough in 1892, and is owned by the Powderham Steamship company of Plymouth, Eng land. FOR THRASHING $1,000. That Is What Charles Reed Asks of Druggist Fred Walker. A damage suit for $1,000 was filed in the Shawnee county court on Sat urday night by Charles C. Reed against Fred T. Walker. This -action comes as a sequel to a personal encounter which the litigants had In Walker's flrug store a week ago. The two had a fight over an ac count, and Reed is said to have threat ened Walker. When Reed came into the store a week ago Saturday even ing, Walker struck him and put him out of the front door. For this "dis-pos-zession" Reed claims damages of $1,000. He says in his petition that Walker hit him on the mouth three times, lacerated his lips, causing him great great physical injury and suffering, and making him unfit for duty at his work for several days. He says further that he was greatly mortified and brought to shame among his associates, school mates and the public at large. CATCHES THE BIG ONES. Chief Stahl Arrests Men Charged With Being Wholesale Liquor Agents. Chief Stahl got busy on Saturday night and arrested Vincent Kaczynski and Dick Hodgins on the charge of keeping and maintaining nuisances. He says that they are the agents of the Schlitz Brewing company in this city. "They look like all the rest to me," said the chief after the arrests were made. Both were brought to the sta tion but immediately released on bond. After getting the "big fish," Chief Stahl added five more to the list head ed "keeping and maintaining." They are Geo. Klauer,. Pete Plamondon, Will McLaughlin. R. Van Tuyl and G. Oswalt. All were released on bond. Nothing was seized. No Material Change. Jefferson City. Mo., Feb. 20. With sev enty legislators either absent of not vot ing the twenty-seventh ballot for senator failed to materially change the deadlock. The vote follows: Cockrell, 49; Niedring haus. 41: Kerens, 12; McKinley, 4; Hooten, 1; Petti john, 1. Wanted A Candidate. The Democratic party is still in the woods for want of a mayor to head the local party ticket. A committee went the rounds today in an effort to draft a man. The convention will meet this evening at the Democratic Flambeau club rooms to nominate the party ticket. Temperatures in Large Cities. Chicago, Feb. 20. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New Tork 30; Boston 26; Phila delphia and Washington 28; Chicago 30; Minneapolis 26; Cincinnati 36; St. Louis 32. Death, of Dr. G. D. Boon. Chetopa, Kan., Feb. 20. Dr. G. D. Boon, an early settler, died today. He was a delegate to several national conventions. HIT HIM OX THE HEAD. For This Wm. E. Friend Charges J. J. MiUer With Deadly Assault. William E. Friend this morning swore out a warrant in the city court of To peka against J. J. Miller, charging him with assault with intent to kill. Friend says that he went to Miller's place at 115 East Sixth street on Satur day night, and that Miller quarreled with him, and then struck him over the head with a quart bottle full of whisky and a wash pitcher. Friend exhibited a broken nose and a badly cut scalp as the injuries which he received at Miller's hands. He says that Miller backed him Into a cornre and then beat him up. RAILROADS WIN. Fear of Certain Interests Produces Commercial CInb's Neutrality. The railroad interests won in their fight to keep the Topeka Commercial club neutral in regard to railroad leg islation now pending before the sen ate, which gives the board of railroad commissioners the right to make rates and to correct extortions or dis criminations that may exist in freight rate schedules in Kansas. The two bills over which the discus sion is now prevailing are: First, the "Garver" bill, which per mits the commissioners to. adjust rates of their own motion. This bill is the one so vigorously pushed by shippers and which passed the bouse by unani mous vote. Second, the Smith bill, which re quires that complaint must first be made, before commissioners can act. This bill is the one desired by the railroad interests and is no better than the present law. The fight took the turn, where it was charged this morning, that the railroads were intimidating local shippers that their jobbers' rates would be withdrawn, unless the fight was stopped. Secretary T. J. Anderson of the club had a stream of callers at his office all morning, and the majority came to ?8 about the meeting tonight. About 11 o'clock he said that he realized that, nothing short of a dis rupted club would result if he let mat 'ers continue, so he called together the board of directors of the organzation to meet and act "in the interests of harmony.". The board went into executive ses sion at 11:30 o'clock this morning. and it was quarter of 1 before they adjourned. None of the members would talk much about the discussion. but it is said that it was brisk and warm. Secretary Anderson aid that a de cision was reached to withdraw both of the present resolutions, one of which declares for an affirmative, and the other for a neutral attitude con cerning the Garver bill, and for the club to absolutely wash its hands of the whole matter and stay; entirely out of the fight. The special meeting set for tonight at tne ciuo rooms for 8 o clock will be held. The board of directors will gather a half hour sooner and formal ly draft a resolution to clear up the wnoie matter, in short, thev will thor oughly soak a big sponge with water, clean off the slate and hide the pencil, so far as railroad legislation is con cerned. Tonight's meeting will be formal. A lot of feeling has sprung up in the present agitation, and it is pretty well understood that the majority of the members of the club will only be too ready to table the entire matter. The lead of the directors will be followed without much Question. Secretary Anderson was delegated to talk to the reporters of the decision of tne board meeting this morning. "Why was such action taken?" was asked. "Harmony," sounded the major from the biggest diapason in his vocal ar rangement. "Harmony." he reiterated. "It has taken years to build up this Commercial club. Over there, the Aud itorium, the big pipe organ, the Mid winter fair, stand as 'monuments to the achievements of our organization. We have many members, more than we ever had before. Every day more are joining. We have gotten to the place now wnere we can do good and much of it. We must not break up our or ganization. The club has taken sides in regard to this matter. A great many aeclare tnat they do not want to see us mix up in politics. A general feel ing is pervading both sides, that the wise thing, 'the best thing to do,' is to withdraw both of the resolutions which have been presented, and to put the club in just the same position regard ing the matter, which it was before it was ever brought up, and then to re main that way. "It was then decided," continued the major, "to have the board of directors meet formally tonight at 7:30 o'clock, and draw up a resolution, expunging all previous actions of any kind, and present this as a recommendation to the special club meeting which is call ed for 8 o'clock. There will be no fight. The gathering will last only a little while and will be formal. The club will stay out of this fight, and nothing more is to be said about it This ends practically about four days of the worsushaking-up which the Topeka Commercial club has ever had. A week ago last Friday night, at the regular meeting, an innocent looking resolution, which provoked not a word of discus sion, was passed, urging the legislative representatives of Shawnee county to work and vote for the passage of the Garver railroad bill, which empowers the board of railroad commissioners to correct any freight rate discriminations or extortions. A special meeting for last Thursday night was called at noon of that day "to consider railroad matters." Nobody seemed to know just what it was all about. That night 26 members of the club gathered and rescinded the action of the Friday night before, leaving the club neutral in regard to railroad legis lation. Many of the members who were not at the special meeting at once declared the gathering "packed." and set about to have another special meeting called for tonight to again turn over the orig inal resolution, "face up." Then the railroads got busy. It is said that they threatened to withdraw what are known as Jobbers' rates from some of the Topeka shippers unless they got out of the fight. Railroad rep resentatives canvassed this town thor oughly and1 stirred up a big fight in the Commercial club. The difference be came so marked today that the board of directors met to see what was best to be done and proceeded on the "har mony" theory, to wipe out the whole matter. REVOLUTION IS RAMPANT. It Sways Meeting of Unirersity Professors and Students. St. Petersburg Institution Will Close Until Fall. FIERY SPEECHES MADE. Course of the GoTernment Is De nounced Unsparingly. Demand Made for the Ending of the War. Red Flag Unfurled and the Mar seillaise Sung. St. Petersburg, Feb. 20. 3:40 p. m. The spirit of revolution had .com plete possession of the great meeting of professors, students and directors of the St. Petersburg university which assembled today to discuss the question of joining in the general strike inagurated by similar institu- tions in Russia and decided to close the university till fall. In anticipation of possible trouble when the meeting broke up squadrons of Cossacks again paraded the streets, especially the Nevsky prospect and the neighborhood of the Kazan cathedral, which is al ways a point for student demonstra tions. It was the first joint meeting of students and professors ever author ized, but in view of the gravity of the situation it was hoped the presence of the professors, most of whom are in complete sympathy with the liberal movement, would exercise a restrain ing influence. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the university, a sprawling pile of yellow buildings on Bazil island, Neva hall being com paratively small and incapable of holding one-fifth of the 4;000 students assembled. The auditorium was pack-, ed to suffocation with earnest looking young men and women and the door ways and window embrazures were banked with students who held others on their shoulders. It was a strange gathering. Most of the students were poorly clad and all were in a state of intense excitement, their very eyes burning with zeal. A small rostrum in a corner was occupied by the speakers. A bell with which the student who presided tried to stop the thunders of applause with which the ocatora were greeted was completely unavailing. Fromtheoutset student ora tors set the imagination of their audi tors aflame with the Spirit of liberty, unsparingly denouncing the course of the government, declaring that promises could no longer avail Rnd that the only satisfaction would be freedom of speech, conscience and the press and the convo cation of a national assembly. The ma jority coupled this with a demand for ending the war. Almost every orator went back to the French revolution for parallels. Again and again was Russia declared to be on the eve of revolution. With burning words one of the stu dents described the affair of January 22, which he said had at last solidified the Interests of the liberals and those of the worklngman. Amid a storm of cheers he announced that a continua tion of study was impossible while such a struggle was in progress, said it was the duty of the young men there assem bled and others like them to return to their homes in the provinces and spread the agitation. f Some of the professors tried to stem the tide with moderate counsels advis ing the students to go back to their stu dies but their advice was howled down. When Prof. Spranzl, one of the speakers, revealed the fact that Gov ernor General Trepoff had threatened not to permit any student who left hts studies to re-enter any of the big uni versities, the statement was received with a veritable howl of rage. But the speeches in the auditorium were mild and temperate compared with those delivered at the overflow meetings in the class rooms, where eren the mur der of Grand Duke Sergius was glori fied. An attempt of a few reactionary students to hold an opposition meet ing ended in a dismal failure. Less than fifty students responded to the call and the meeting was abandoned. The few foreign newspaper corre spondents who were admitted to the university were amazed at the incen diary character of the meeting and the absolute freedom with which the stu dents, knowing that the auditorium was filled with government spies, boldly made themselves liable to the charge of treason. In the mind's eye one could almost pick out the Mirabeaus and Desmoulins and possibly Dantons and Robespierres of the future. It seemed strange with the soldiers outside ready to crush anything in the nature of a street demonstration, that such a meeting was allowed. It is nec essary to explain, however, that under the law once a meeting is authorized the police can not stop it unless the university directors call them in. The speeches grew more and more excited. An -address from Italian students was read denouncing the tragedy of January 22, and the general tyranny of the bureaucracy and expressing sympathy with the Russians' aspirations for lib erty. When shortly after 3 o'clock a recess was taken the whole student body be gan singing the Russian Marseillaise, "You fell victims of love of your coun try." A wild scene followed. The students unfurled a red flag on which was writ ten: "Hail to the constituent assem bly." With this flag the students began pa rading the auditorium and adjoining corridors. A portrait of Emperor Nicholas was also taken down from the wall and car ried in the procession. The portrait was torn in a slight skirmish but this called forth a protest from. the vast majority of those present who were careful to avoid even the appearance of disrespect to the emperor. Many proclamations were distributed. When the meeting reconvened It was decided to divide on the question of joining in the general strike and vote first on the resolutions explaining the motives of the action of the students and afterwards vote on the question of the Btrlka-

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. KANSAS-NEWS. Leavenworth Taxpayers "Want a Grand Jury. Insist That Matters Around Court House lie Probed. JJEST MEN ARE SIGNING County Has $1,000,000 of Bond ed Indebtedness and After More. Tlie Men Who Run the Saloons, Too, Are Worried. Leavenworth, Kan., Feb. 20. Six hun dred and thirty-five taxpayers of Leav enworth city and county have petition ed Judge J. H. Gilpatrick, of the dis trict court, to call a grrand jury to In vestigate violations of law In the city and county. Among the signers to the petition are some of the wealthiest and most influential business men of the city and the largest property owners in the county. The request for a grrand jury is the result of the alleged extravagant acts cf the county board. Leavenworth county has $1,000,000 of bonded indebted ness, and the commissioners are trying to get legislation to permit them to is sue $85,000 In bonds to co-er the floating debt. -Taxpayers' leairues have been formed in every township, and a coun ty organization perfected and the de mand for a grand jury Is the direct re sult. Judge Gilpatrick, when seen.stated that the petition had been formally presented to him about 6 o'clock. As to his attitude on the matter, he said: "The law is mandatory. I must order the county clerk to draw the jury for the April term, providad the signers to this petition or at least 400 of them, are genuine taxpayers." Judge Gilpatrick had Just placed the voluminous petition in the hands of the clerk to have the signatures verified. There is a fear that the Jury will be an opportunity for prohibition enthusiasts to get action against the numerous sa loons and gambling houses in Leaven worth, as the consent of twelve Jurors is necessary to a "true bill." This fea ture will depend on the jury drawn. The signers to the petition are Interest ed w-holly in having the affairs at the county court house probed. DECLARES SHE DRAXK. Sensational Development Expected in Kirkham Divorce Suit. Teavenworth; Kan., Feb. 20. Tn the dis trict court W. A. Kirkham, who is being pued for divorce by her husband, a well known Leavenworth jeweler, waa granted $75 a month temporary alimony and the sum of $11-0 with which to employ coun sel in her defense and cross-petition which she intends to file at once. The application for divorce caused a sensation, owing to the prominence of the fartie find the nature of the allegations n the petition. The wife is charged with drinking to excess and being wilfully ex travagant. They have two girls, the eldest 15 years of are. Mrs. Kirkham has spent her summers at Kxcr lsior Springs for several years and has a wide acquaintance. Mr. Kirkham is a quiet unassuming business man and is counter! one of Leavenworth's best citi Eens. Mrs. KMthftm Is a native of Eng land and qtiite good looking, and she is related to Mr. and Mrs. John Kellev of Kansas City. Mo., who -formerly lived in Leavenworth. The wedding took place at the home of the Kelleys about 20 years ago. Mr. Kirkham wints the two children and they are staying with him now. He has employed Atwood A Hooper to repre sent him, while Mrs. Kirkham is repre sented by ex-Senator Lncien Baker Son. If Mrs. Kirkham insiats on fiffhtine the case It is said that sensational testimony will be introduced. Death of Mr. Przj hylowicz. Leavenworth, Kan., Feb. 20. Michael Przxbylowicz, sr.. the oldest pioneer, died at his home on South Second street. Sat urday afternoon. Mr. Przybvlowicz was a native of Germany and was 78 vears eld. He came here in 152 ajid his "mar riage to Miss Joanna Garsknecker the same year la said to have been the first marriage of white people in Leavenworth. The first child, a daughter, now dead, is said to have been the first white child born here. A Fight for an Office. Kansas City. Feb. 20. The Wyandotte county election contest board decided it had the legal right to hear the contest of ML H. Donoho and A. A. Brooks for the Republican nomination for Judge of the Tsorth city court, and set the hearing of the case for Thursday. Mr. Brooks was declared the nominee bv the city com mittee after the primaries and Mr. Don oho filed a contest. When the board met Mr. Brooks' attor- M t) i X suffered for a long time -with a bad QTTfTflCIIfF r i i til' M la -n V u case 01 tatarrn, ana took, a great deal of me f that. If Secretary Wilson's m znedicine without any benefit. i vestigation shows that it possesses the I had a continual headache my cheeks I advantap;ea attributed to it big money had grown purple, my nose was always ;a(Waiis.we..Karsa.s farmer I under V 1..2..1. 1.4T aiways stand that the best results in manufac- S tiT jP t rt "cuincessanuy I heard of your S. S. S. and wrote you. I commenced to use it, and after taking several bottles I was cured and haJi never since had the slightest symotom of thcrlkKiw MiwM.t,,! d i Cor. 7th Felix Sts., St. Joseph, Mo. Wheelincr, W. Va.. Mav 20. ionr I had Nasal Catarrh for years for which I BsedS. S. S. with very gratifying results, j X uicu 111 appiiuaLluns IOr Some time, and getting no permanent relief I came to the conclusion that the seat of the trouble waiinth? Mmvl r-nrv: 0 Q c tlul r!S wlS-'i. t f tobe a pood blood medicine I began its use, and after nsing it for some little while it did away entirely with the offensive nu- ens in the nostrils, and I did not have to hawk and spit, especially in themomint?-. 1 to dislodge the catarrhal matter. 1627 South St. Fred H, Pressy. The filthy secretions and foul mucus that are continually dropping back, into the throat, find their way into the stomach and are absorbed into the blood. Catarrh i then becomes con-! stitutional.andthe only way to get rid 01 it is through the blood. Write us if yon have Catarrh, and our physici ans will advise you without charge. Tbe Swift Specific Company, Atlanta. Ga. 0 c c ney objected to Its hearing the case on the grounds that the office was a city of fice. He said the city ceiit'Wfc board should FREEZING OCT SMALL FRY. Gould Interests Charged With Renins Coal at Less Than Cost Pittsburg:, Kan., Feb. 20. Unless the Missouri Pacific coal interests change their attitude toward the smaller coal operators of this district there will be a rupture in the ranks of the Southwestern Coal Operators as sociation, and the smaller operators of this district will pull out of the asso ciation, meet with the miners and make their own contracts. The West ern Coal and Mining company has taken a position which will end in at least half of the smaller operators be ing driven into bankruptcy. The Gould coal Interests are charged with deliberately trying at the pres ent time by means of cut rates on coal to drive out of business the smaller coal operators of this district. They have been selling coal at less than it costs to produce, it Is charged, in order to get absolute control of the coal industry In this district, ine sit uation so far as the local operators Is concerned is a plain case of "big fish eat litle fish." It is stated that the Western Coal and Mining company has been selling coal at $1.50 for screened lump. The average cost of production of mine run coal at the mines is estimated to be $1.37 per ton, and with screened lump selling at $1.50 and mine run and slack selling on a corresponding scale, it is esti mated that the average selling price is $1.11. which means a loss of 26 cents on every ton of coal sold. Heavy Cattle Losses. Ashland, Kan., Feb. 2 0. Reports of cattle losses during the severe weather are coming in and range from one to one hundred head, varying with the size of the herds. The loss is not caused by lack of feed only. Some animals actually froze with their noses at the feeding racks. One man lost five fat Hereford bulls, well fed. A report from Dodge City says 900 head of 2.000 cattle just shipped in from Mexico died. Father of Thirteen Children. Hiawatha, Kan., Feb. 20. John Baxter, who was more than J5 years old, died at the home of his son, Andrew Baxter.south of llorton. Mr. Baxter was one of the first settlers of Brown county. He was the father of thirteen children. Among them were two sets of triplets, one set of whom are still living. Mrs. Baxter died three years ago at the age of 87. The fu neral wili be tomorrow. Dead From Heart Failure. Burlington. Kan.. Feb. 20. William Daugherty, an unmarried man about S5 years old, living by himself on a farm near Ottumwa. In this county, was found dead in his wagron at his home of heart failure. His body was burned and his hair and mustache singed off by his clothing catching fire trom his pipe. Gas Franchise for Burlington. Burlington, Kan., Feb. 2 0. Burling ton again hopes for gas, the city coun cil having granted a. franchise to the Ohio-Kansas Oil Gaa company. This company has oil and gas wells about twelve miles southeast of here and will pipe the gas in if it accepts the fran chise as amended by the council. MR. MIRDOCK'S PLAV. Proposes the Manufacture of Alcohol for Fuel in Kansas. Washington, Feb. 20. Representa tive Victor Murdock intends i make of alcohol a benefactor of Kansas. A few days ago there fell into his hands a report to the state depart ment from Frank H. Mason, consul general in Berlin, in which Mr. Mason told graphically of what denaturalized or methylated alcohol was doing for the people of Germany. Mr. Murdock was not familiar with that kind of acohol; neither was Representative Llttlefield, who sits next to him in the house, and who also comes from a prohibition state. Other members to whom he appealed did not solve the mystery. It was solved, however, by Mr. Ma son in the tail end of his report. It was alcohol manufactured from corn, potatoes, cassava, the refuse of sugar beets and other vegetable matter. It is used in Germany as a substitute for gasoline, oil and other liquid fuels. There was money in it, too, Mr. Ma son said. The Germans some of them at least were getting rich selling it to all kinds of people, from automobilists to cooks. The Wichita, congressman concluded that if it was a good thing for Germans, it could be made a good thing for Kansas. After talking the matter over with the chemists and others at the agricultural department. he proposed a resolution which he of fered in the house in the afternoon. It directs the secretary of agriculture to investigate and report to the house committee on agriculture at the next session in relation to the benefits that would accrue to agriculture by the free use in the United States of de naturalized or methylated alcohol In the mechanical arts and sciences in In dustries and for light and fuel, to gether with information as to the production, treatment, cost and use of such in foreign countries. "The alcohol referred to will never become populan- as a beverage because one drink of it will kill a man," said Mr. Murdock. The chemists at the i Agricultural department have assured are obtained by the use of corn and that it can be manufacture at a profit of about $5 a ton. "H that is true and it comes into gen ernl use Kansas could keep every auto mobile enine and stove in the United States going. It would also prove of benefit to Kansas in another way. With such a cheap fuel, water could be j pumped to wherever it is needed. This cannot be done now because of the cost C t Vi fttel T'lt.T 1 1 1 1 1 1 v.i rl nr metivla- ted alcohol is a wonderful discovery. If lne nouse Huuyis my icwiuLiuu, me secretary of agriculture will set forth 811 ot its a anta3 in his report." An obstacle to the general use of al- cohol as a fuel in this country is found in a heavy internal revenue tax. Mr. Murdock says that if it can be shown that it can be used generally for fuel purposes and that its manufacture will open a great industry, he has no doubt that congress will remove this tax. To Prevent the Grip Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world wide col 1 and grip remedy, removes the cause. Call for the full name and look for signa ture of E. W. Grove. 25c. California 23.00 via Santa Fe. During March and April tickets will oe soia to j.os Aiigeies, &an rancisco Portland, Seattle, lacoma, and other points in aiirornia ana tne .Northwest Through tourist car service at slight additional cost. Free chair cars all the way and only three nights out to the above points Santa Fe all the way. Write for literature free for the asking. Address T. L. KING C V T. A., Topeka, SPORTINGNEIVS. Rival Ball Men Are Friendly in All of the Leagues. Schedules Show Good Effects of Closer Relations. WORKING IN HARMONY Coniiskey Was the One Man Who Left Disgusted. Never Saw Such Side Stepping as Hart Is Doing. New Tork, Feb. 20. The meeting of the baseball forces in New York last week resulted in closer relations be tween the major leagues, which will prove a blessing to the game. The mi nor leagues were given a respectful hearing by the American League and offered several valuable concessions, but the small fellows were not willing to take half a loaf when they expected to pay for the same by the loss of great deal of their independence, one feature that the minors must ever stand strong for. The schedules given out were by long odds the best ever drafted since the advent of the American League. The general mixing up of the delegates around the hotel corridors was a con spicuous feature of the meeting. Men who had long been apart on some small matter got together and the baseball atmosphere was cleared up as never before since the two leagues started out for patronage. The minors were ably represented and made a fine impression, and, though failing to1 land what they asked for, paved the way for better conditions in the future. The Southern League asked to be raised to the highest class of the mi nors, and President Johnson made this one of the conditions of any concessions to the minors. "I believe," said John son, "that the Southern is fully as strong as any minor league and in Judge Kavanaugh, their president, they have a man whom the American League would like to honor; "The Southern League oblects to navine its players drafted bv the east ern and other class A leagues, and then buy the men back for the same amount of money. The argument of President Kavanaugh was very strong, and should have gained him the concessions he asked for from the National board John M. Ward has not given up the idea of going after August Herrmann for his statement at the Laughery club to the effect that Pitcher Taylor was not as level as a sidewalk. Ward was gathering information from those who heard the remarks by Mr. Herrmann. Taylor has gone back to St. Louis. I was very much pleased to see the brotherly interest Clark Griffith took in the Taylor case. The player never dreamed of securing counsel until he met Griffith at New Tork, and then he was forced to get Ward in line. The one man. who 'left for home thoroughly disgusted was the- "Old Roman," Charles Comiskey. "I never saw such sidestepping," said he to President Pulliam, "as Jim Hart is do ing, and the way be is crawling out of a hole is laughable. For over a year he hinted that he knew some awful things about this man Taylor, and yet we find him pulling away from the proposition when invited to show something substantial. I don't care to bother with this affair, but the pa trons of the game in Chicago demand that the player be punished if guilty of a wrong, and Mr. Hart has not come to the front as the public had reason to expect that he would." George Tebeau, the western whirl wind, was conspicuous, with two swell presidents on his stac, O Brien of the American association and O'Neill of the Western league. The combination of Herrmann and Frank De Haas Robison was a Warm one, both liberal minded men who mixed up with the crowd and made every one comfortable. The game has not produced any man more con siderate of others than Mr. Robison, and the league meetings are pretty slow affairs when he is missing. He made a winning fight for his man Taylor and saved, the boy's bacon through the testimony of Mike Grady, who caught the now celebrated game at Pittsburg and gave the signals. My Offer to Kidney Sufferer I will give you a full dollar's worth of my remedy to try without cost or deposit or promise to pay. I could not make this offer a full dol lars worth free if mine were an ordinary kidney remedv. It la nut it t the kidneys themselves, but the nerves that control them. ThA rnn.o n Vlrlnov trouble lies ALWAYS In these nerves. The only way to cure kidney trouble is by strengthening and vitalizing and restor ing thtse kidney nerves. That is exactly what my remedy Dr. Snoop's Restora tivedoes. Therefore I can make this ot ter with the certain knowledge that every kidney sufferer who makes this trial will be helped. When I say "nerves" I do not mean the ordinary nervs of feeling, thought, ac tion. I mean the automatic nerves, which ""o ny, raifunea ana unseen, con trol and actuate and operate every vital process of life. These are the master nerves. The kidneys are their slaves. xour minu can not control them. Your rv,.i ci um sway mem. Yet when they are strong, you are well; when they are not, you weaken and die. Lhw ve S'rltten a book on the kidneys which will be sent you when you write This book explains fully and clearly how these tiny, tender "inside" nerves control not only the kidneys, but each of the oth er vital organs. I have made my offer that strangers to my remedy may know. It Is not Intended for or open to those who have used my fn nTave&o-r edT hand you a ful. donar bottlel'aTai senu the bill to me. There are no condi Jo lSrn reJ"!rements-simPly writ, mi For for a free order Book 1 on Dyspepsia, full dallr Eook 2 on th wi,,. bottle you address Dr. ShooD. Rnob i guuttjon tne Kidneys Box F729, Racine. Book 5 for Men Wis. State which Book on Rheuma book you want. tlsm. Mild cases are often cured by a einerle bottle. For sale at forty thousand druir stores.. s Dr. Shoop's Restorative XATTOjf AI SCHEDULE. Baseball Series lor the Coining Sea son Now Adopted. New York, Feb. 20. The National league baseball schedule for the com ing season has been adopted, after which the league proceeded to finish up me Dusiness ot the spring meeting. BOSTON. At Brooklyn April 21, 22, 24, 25; July J, 4, 4, October 5, 6, 7. At New York April 14, 15, 17; May 6, 8; June 24. 26.- 27: September 7, 8. At Philadelphia April 26, 27, 28, 28 May 26, 27; June 2829, 30; July 1; Sep tember 9. At Pittsburg June 12, 13, 14; Augus i, I, 8, 10; October 2, 3, 4. At Cincinnati June 15, 16, 17, 18; Aug ust 11, 12, 13, 14: September 25, 26, 27 At Chicago June 7, 8, 9, 10; August z, 3, 4, 6, t; September 28, 30. BROOKLYN. At Boston April 18, 19, 19, 20 September 1, 2, 4, 4; September 18 19, 20. At New York May 26, 27, 29, 30 30; July 6, 7, 8; September 9. 11, 12 At Philadelphia, May 5, 6, 8; June 24, 24, 26, 27; September 5, 6, 7, 8 At Pittsburg June 19. 20, 21. 22 July 29, 31; August 1, 16; September 25, 2, 30. At Cmcinnatti June 7. 9. 10: Aug. ust 2, 3, 6; September 22. 23. 24. At Chicago June 15. 16. 17. 18 August 11, 12, 13, 14; September 25 NEW YORK. At Boston May 1, 2, 3. 4: June 1, 2, 3, 5; September 16, 16. At Brooklyn April 26, 27, 28. 29 May 31; Juno 28, 29, 30; July 1, 10 September 13. At Philadelphia April 21. 22. 24 25; July 3, 4, 4, 5; September 18 19, 20. At Pittsburg June 7. 8. 9. 10: Aug ust 2, 3, 4, 5; September 25. 26. 27. At Cincinnati June 19, 20. 21. 22 July 29, 31, 31; August 1; October 2, 3. At Chicago June 11. 12. 13. 14 August 7, 8, 9, 10; September 22, 23 2. PHILADELPHIA. At Boston Mav 29. 30. 30. 31 July 6, 7, 8, 10; September 13, 14. 15 At Brooklyn April 14, 15, 17; May 2, 3, 4; June- 1, 2, 3; September 16. At JNew York April 18. 19, 20 September 1, 2, 3, 4, 4; October 5 6, 7. At Pittsburg June 6. 15. 16, 17; August 11. 12, 14, 17; September 21 22, 23. At Cincinnati June 11, 12, 13, 14; August 7, 8, 9, 10; September 28, 29, 30. At Chicago June 19, 20, 21, 22; July 29, 30, 31; August 1; October 1, 3. At St. Louis June 7, 8, 9, 10: Au gust 2, 3, 5, 6; September 2, 5, 26, 27. PITTSBURG. At Boston May 2 3, 2 4, 25; July 24, 25, 26. 27; August 24, 24. 25, 26. At Brooklyn May 13. 15, 16, 17: July 11, 12, 13. 14; August 17. 18, 19. At New York May 18. 19, 20, 22: July 15, 17, 18, 19; August 21. 22, 23. At Philadelphia May 9, 10, 11, 12: July 20. 20, 21. 22; August 2$, 29, 30 At Cincinnati April 14. 15, 16, 17; May 7. 28; July 2; September 14, 16 17; October 2. At Chicago April 23. 24. 25; June 5: Julv 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; September 3. At St. Louis April 30: May 1, 2. 3 June 25, 26, 27, 28; September 10, 1, 12. CINCINNATI. At Boston May 13, 15, 16, 17; July 11, 2. 13, 14: August 17, 18, 19. At Brooklyn May 9, 10, 11, 12; July 0. 20. 21, 22; August 28,. 29, 30. At New York May 23, 24. ?5; July 24. 2526. 27; August 24, 24. 25. 26. At Philadelphia May is, 19, 20, 22; July 15, 17, IS, 19: August 21, 22, 23. At Pittsburg May 5, 6, 8, 27; June 24; July 3. 4. 4; September 7, 8. 9. At Chicago April 19. 20, 21. 22; June i, 26; July 1; September 1. 2, 19, 20. At St. Louis April 26, 27, 28, 29; June 4; September 3, 4, 4: October 4, 5. CHICAGO. At Boston May 10. 10, 11, 12; July 20, 20, 21, 22: August 28, 29, 30. At Brooklyn May 18, 19, 20. 22; July 17, 18, 19; August 21. 22, 23. At New York May 13. 15, 16, 17; July 11, 12, 13. 14: August 7, 9. At Philadelphia-May 23, 24, 25; July 24, 25, 26. 27; August 24, 24, 25, 2G. At Pittsburg April 26, 27, 28, 29; June 2, 3: September 4, 4: October 6, 7. At Cincinnati April 14, 15, 16. 17:June 23, 24; July 2; September 8, 9, 14, 16. ST. LOUIS. At Boston May IS, 19, 20, 22: July 15. 17. IS, 19: August 21. 22. 23. At Brooklyn May 23. 24, 25: July 24. 25. 26, 27: August 24, 24. 25. 28. At New York May 9. 10, 11, 12; July 20, 20. 21. 22: August 28. 29. 30. At Philadelphia May 13, 15. IS, 17: July 11, 12. 13. 14; August 17. IS, ID. At Pittsburg April 19, 20, 21. 22: Mav 29. SO. 30: June 30; July 1; August 31; Sep tember 2. At Cincinnati April 23, 24, 25; June 1, 2; Julv 6, 7, 8. 9: October 6, 7. At Chicago May 4. 5, 7, 27, 28; July 4, 4; September 17, 18; October 8. Irwin Gets Word From Frantz. Kansas City, Feb. 20. Manager Ir win has received word from Pitcher Walter Frantz that he is satisfied with the terms offered him and that he will be ready to report whenever Irwin orders. Frantz is one of the most ex traordinary characters in baseball. He is what may be called a ball player by instinct. The money paid him for his services is an unimportant considera tion. He has not adopted baseball as a profession; he plays simply because he loves the game. He refuses abso lutely to sign contracts .saying that he does not care to bind himself to the profession." However, he has given his word to Manager Irwin that he will in no way violate the provision of his contract as long as he continues in the game! And Manager Irwin says that Frantz's word is as binding as his signature. Statement IVom Jeffries. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 20. James J. Jeffries made a statement here de claring that he would only enter the ring to defend the world's champion ship one more time and that the match must come within the next twelve months. The champion assigns as his reason for this his growing distaste for severe training and the hard and constant work necessary to keep in condition. He says he has accumulated and in vested enough money to keep him comfortable for the rest of his days. Billy Delane'. the veteran trainer. who has unearthed -two world's cham- down and out. Both Pittsburg Teams Won. Pittsburg, Kan., Feb. 20. A double header basketball game played at the Red Men s hall resulted in victory for the Pittsburg High school girls' team and the boys' team, the former de feating the Joplin Business college girls' and the latter the Manual Train ing Normal boys. The first game was a close contest, and at the end of the first half the score stood Joplin L p'"sburf 2; When time was called at the end or the second half Pittsburg was one v, kv the score of R to 7 Thd "Pittsburg gin li 1 vi "t,L make a single basket thrown from fle1deduaring1he entire Bae and the Joplin eirls did so but once. AJi points! HinTlB va r. it .Ion rPflTP trOTTl S C- a i I, ,.V.HI 1. I tive. participation in all matters per-j 'Vid SSfmr ?oTewhLt,22 i taining to the rins when jennes steps imDie dippered after month's std m.e. were made bv throwing Kaah-cta the foul line with the exception of two t-u.Hta raaae Dy Joplin on a field throw. Two Coaches for Princeton. a.hteton' N'. J" Feb- 20.-Prlnceton's athletic association has engaged two ,1 l?r the cmmg season, but the neao. graduate nnar-h i vJtd tiush JmnlnB f the Baltimore pastern league, who had coached Cornell f-oLhre ?'ear8 act as professional the Pit, KPlacex,of.,Fred Clarke, captain of Ji tsburg Nationals. Jennings will ar- R0nn, Mum5 I1 and "main one month. Hildebrand. a graduate of 1900. nin 2?uihSd Ktne la,st two championship w,H Ti11 b? ierS,a!1 tne season to super dthemst,?n Princeton's baseball can didates ,wlll be called out on Feb. 23. Hanlon-Mowatt Fight Off. Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 18. There was no glove fight here between Eddie Manlon of San Francisco and Tommy Mowatt of Chicago. After the men had been permitted to prepare for the battle and were on the verge of enter ing the ring Governor La Follette sent word to District Attorney Carl D. Jackson and the sheriff of Winnebago county, Eber Simpson, to prevent the mill at all hazards. Fitzsimmons Arrested. Terre Haute. Ind.. Feb. 20. The gathering of a large crowd in a saloon to observe Bob Fitzsimmons maul his pet lion, attracted the attention of Hu mane Officer Bradbury, and, unaware of Fitzsimmons' identity, he ordered him to desist mistreating the lion. Fitzsimmons resented the interference and the officer left. He filed a charge against the pugilist. Fitzsimmons was taken to police headquarters out was later discharged. Grim Too Much for Dixie Kid. Lancaster, Pa.. Feb. 20. Joe Grim, the Italian invincible, and Dixie Kid of San Francisco met for the third time before the Lancaster Athletic club, but the colored man failed to make good his boast of putting Joe to the woods. In fact, he came near get ting there himself In the sixth and last round. FITZPATRICK DENIES IT. Says That Mr. O'Brien Is Careless of the Truth. Senator Fitzpatrick from Chautau qua county, in the southern Kansas oil belt, after reading the dispatch from Kansas City, in Saturday's State Journal, in which John O Brien, west ern manager of the Standard Oil com pany was quoted, gave out the follow ing interview: 'I have read the dispatch contain ng the statement of Mr. O iJrien or the Prairie Oil Gas company, and am sure that the Standard company must pay Mr. O'Brien very liberally for his services, for certainly no man could afford to originate as many un truths as Mr. O Brien has done in tne last thirtv davs on a small salary. In the statement referred to tnere is not a single statement but that is known by thousands of people in the oil district to be essentially untrue. And so far as the 'stock boomers' re ferred to by Mr. O'Brien are concerned, he knows, as do the people of Kansas, that the men who have formed the leg islation adopted by the Kansas legisla ture are none of them 'stock boomers or 'stock jobbers' in any sense of he word. All of them who are engaged in the oil business in anv way acre ac tively engaged in the production of oil. I do Jiot believe that 64 is tne cor rect number of companies operating in the Kansas field. There are more than .000 nroducine wells in the field, and in the county of Chautauqua, in which live, has already developed a aany nroduction of more than four times the amount Mr. O'Brien gives as the total production of the Kansas field; ana it is no exaggeration to say mat tne pro perties already in operation could, within a short time, increase their pres ent production ten fold. The stimulus for the organization 01 oil companies with a large capitaliza tion was the action of the Standard Oil company in gradually advancing the price of oil a little over a year ago rrotn 94c to S1.38 per barrel. With a rising oil market neODle from all sections of the country were induced to miy biock in "oil companies, and when the money had been spent by tnese several com panies, now contemptuously referred to bv Mr. O'Brien as 'stock jobbers,- ana vaulable oil properties developed in the state the Standard Oil company started. arbitrarily, from day to day, to reduce the price of crude oil and followed it down until the price reacnea ks cents. Then the producers held a meeting at Chanute. and showed some signs of ac tivitv. Very shortly following that meetinar the Drlce was again temporar ly advanced two cents per Darrei, until the uneasiness of the producers was allayed, and their organization disband ed, when Mr. O'Brien's company again resumed its policy of reduction, and by frequent reductions of from two to five cents per barrel they in time reaucea the price to its present low standard. "Mr. O'Brien also says that the Prairie Oil Gas company buys most of the oil in the field, from which it would seem that he would like for the readers of the public press to understand that there was some competition for oil in the Kansas field, this is untrue, be cause the Prairie is the only purchaser in the market today for Kansas oil. And it is the only purchaser because as soon as its pipe line was completed from the oil field to Kansas City, with oil selling at $1.38 per barrel to the Stan dard, the railroads of southern Kansas, without cause or excuse, and supposed ly at the dictation of the Standard Oil company, immediately raised the freight schedule on oil to an amount that made it impossible to ship oil out of the Kan sas field, and left the Standard with its pipe line the only market that we had. "The legisluation enacted bv the Kan sas legislature is not expected to serve as an apology for the failure of any of the oil companies: but is intended and expected to prevent the Standard from forcing all of thein to either fail or sell out to it, while the purchase price of piracies disappeared after a montn'i steady I hara recommended them to ail my friends and Quite a lew nave iouna re not. C. J. Poach, 96T Park Are.. Nw Tor City, K.T, 5est Tor The Bowels PlMr.t,Pltbl, Potent. Taste Good. Do good, Sw Siciten, We.ken or Gripe, loe. 38c, SOc. Merer sold in bulk. Th. genuine tablet stamped CCC. j -v. ur jour ujvjiidj un. Sterling Rem.dy Oo., Chicago or N.V. oo nS'JXL SJUJ, TES VSWZX E3XES Ifll oral "r liH trnobla with nt bowels wbieb mA mw THERE'S t WHY OUR 'WHY? Because It's Pasteurized 'Phones 537 I OPEKA PURE MILK CO. r IT'S NOT THE NAME That sells the Favorite 5c Cigar It's the tobacco that's used in its manufacture. Geo. Burghart, Maker. our proprty is being paid by the Kan sas consumers as they purchase Stan dard refined oil at exorbitant prices, "The Kansas legislature and the peo ple have acted after sober reflection. The government at Washington is now beginning to gather information for its guidance in the future, and the whole people of the country are beginning to sit up and take notice; so that the time is near at hand when such misstate ments as made by Mr. O'Brien will cease to fool any of the intelligent peo ple of the country; and the Standard Oil company and its employes must be decent and honest. The people of Kan sas ask no more, and will be satisfied with nothing less." Elegant Through Sleeper Sendee St. Louis to St. Augustine. Beginning January 9th, 1905, the Southern Railway only St. Louis line with its own rails to Jacksonville put into service fine observation sleeper line from St. Louia to St. Augustine, Fla. ONLY O.NE JNlUliT OIM THE ROAD. This sleeper will leave St. Louis every day except Sunday 10-00 a. m.. arrive at Jacksonville the next evening at 9:35 p. m. and arrive St. Augustine at iu:d& p. m. The trip is directly through the beautiful Blue Grass Region of Kentucky, thence via Chattanooga, Atlanta ana Macon, Go. At Lexington. Ky., this sleeper taken on to the famous "Chicago Florida Special" the finest winter train in the world, carrying every variety of perfectly constructed equip ment Another attractive feature. giving new charms to a Florida trip this season, is mat me ooucnern Kail- way has arrangea variapie tour tick ets, whereby a passenger may pay the small additional sum oi a.uu and se cure a ticket going to Jackson vill one route and return from there a entirely dinerent way; mat is: go South througn unananooga ana At lanta and return via Savannah, Co lumbia. Ashevllle ana Knoxville. al lowing stopover privileges at different Skv" with its mountain, forest and stream charms. Write to any of our representatives for full information, G. B. Allen, Assistant general Jr-assen ger Agent, St. Louis, Mo.; Wm. Flan nelly. Traveling Passenger Agent, Kansas City. Aio. One Way Kates. Every day from March 1st to May 15th. 1905. the union -acinc win sell One-way Colonist tickets at the follow ing rates, from Missouri ttiver termi anls, Council Bluffs, to Kansas City In elusive: $2 0.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $2 0.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Hel ena. $22.50 to Spokane ana wenatchee, Wash. $25.00 to'Everett, fairnaven, vvnat- com, Vancouver ana victoria, via Wnntineton and Spokane. $2 5.00 to Tacoma ana oeattie, via TTuntine-ton and Spokane. J2S.00 to foruana ana Asiona, or Ashland. Roseburg. Eugene, Albany nnH Saism via Portland. $25.00 to San Francisco, j,os Angeies and San Diego. Coresnondingiy low rates to many other California, uregon, wasmngion, Montana. Utah and idano points. Through Tourist cars run every aay on Union i-'acmu uclwcch aijosuun River and Pacific Joats; aouoie Derm s 75. For full lnrormauon can on or address nearest Union .pacific agent. Special Homeseekers' Rates via Santa Fe. On February 21st and March 7th and 2lst special nomeseeKers tickets will be sold to Galveston, Ft. worth Dallas. Houston, San Antonio and other Texas points at the extremely low rate of $15.00 for the round trip. Points in Pecos Valley and return $20. El Paso and return $26.50. Rate of one fare plus $2.00 to points In Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arizona, New Mexico, rkansas and Texas, uckcis iimnea to riovo from date of sale and stop overs allowed on the going trip within 15 days. For full information, literature, etc., address T. L. King, C. P. and T. A.. Topeka, Kan. Grand Island Route. Double daily service, with new 80-foot-acetylene gas-lighted Pullman chair cars (seats free) on night trains and Pullman high-back seat coaches on day trains, between Kansas City and St. Joseph. Mo.; Hiawatha, Seneca aA Mnrcvlile. Kan.. Fairbury. Fair field. Hastings and Grand Island, voh Cnnnrfinns made at Kansas rlt fo pnts east, south and west. or i'," jiPrt r onnections are At Grand Island direct fonnecuons are made witn union ratu". i. for California and the Pacific north- weat. S. M. Adsit. general passenger aeenc, St Joseph. Mo. A REASON I t CREAM IS BEST oa every bos. 2Sc Always Remember the Foil Name axative .romo fldaaa Cares a Cold !a On Day, Gripta 2 tya Advertised In the State Journal. THE STAR VAUDEVILLE THEATER. Management of L F. Slaferd. Matinee at 2:30 p. m. Daily. Evening, two shows, 7:30, 9:00. Admission 10 cents to all. WEEK OF FEBRUARY1 19 TO 25. The Great Peola," comic slack wire walker and balancer. Miss Dorothy Benton, soubrette and her prettv little son Cleo. Mr. D. Walters, illustrated songs, Blue Belle. Chris Christopher, German yodling singer and violinist. John D. McOinnis, Irish and colored artist. Kinodrome Down Where the WurtzbUrger Flows, Ballet of Nations, A Tub Race, Metamorphosis of King of Spades, The Escaped Lunatic. Entire change of programme each week. Ladies' Souvenir day, Friday. Children's matinee, Saturday, 6c. far A a A Pure Water i Phillips' famous mineral water delivered at your door pure and health ful PKOF. J. W. PHILLIPS Proprietor. 612 West Eight Street. Bell Phone 2002 Black. A NIGHT SCHOOL FOR. MEN Steam and Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Drawing Courses. Also studies In other subject. For full Information apply to Y. M. C. A. U7 East Eighth. N. W. HIUIX Carpenter and Builder. Job Work Done Quickly and leatly. Shop, 124 West Eighth Street. Ind. Phone' 1004. RED AND BLACK Numbers indicate those whs have the Five Cents a Dy Telephone. Call them up 1 and convince yourself of the merits of the service Mo. A Kansas Tele. Co. 'Phone 099. VIOLINS Price $5 to $100 Bows, Cases, Strings and ail violin accessories, newly '"SSnSS" WaiebaW C. Stenger. 706 Kas. Ave., Topeka, Kas. State Journal, 10c a 7eek. r

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1905. AILROAD NEWS. Santa Fe Will Spend $1,500,000 for Locomotives. Fact That Balanced Compounds Are Ordered Causes Comment. FREAK FIGURES GIVES Some Statistics of Stationery and Supplies Used. Gum Slot Machines on Santa Fe Took in 1,500,000 Pennies. The Santa Fe system has just placed an order for locomotives costing- $1,500, 000, and also for sixty passenger coaches of the largest size, and for 5,300 freight cars of large capacity. All of this equipment is to be delivered to the company as soon as possible. Traffic of all kinds is very heavy all along the system and the new equipment may be utilized at this time. In all sixty-five engines have been or dered, thirty-five for passenger service and thirty for freight. There will be fifteen passenger engines of the Atlan tic and thirty of the Pacific type, all balanced compounds. The freight en gines will be of what is known as the fcama Fe type, each having four pairs of driving wheels and one pair of trail ing wheels. These engines will be used on the mountain divisions of the sys tem. Each will weigh in working order about 200 tons. Operating departments of both east ern and western railroads are greatly interested in an order which has Just been placed by the Santa Fe for the forty-five balanced compound locomo tives. The Santa Fe already has forty balanced compounds, and Is the pioneer In adopting this kind of an engine for passenger work. The majority of operating officials are said to believe that the balanced compound is still in its experimental stage, and therefore the investment by the Santa Fe of nearly $1,500,000 in this type of engine occasions widespread in terest. Largely by way of experiment the Burlington recently purchased five of the balanced compounds. The tests which have been made have proved highly satisfactory. The locomotives are said to be exceedingly speedy and to run as smoothly and with as little vibration as a sewing machine. Some Freak Figures. Some interesting statistics have been compiled showing how trifling articles count up In a year on the Santa Fe system. In the 400 stations between Chicago and the Faclfic coast are slot machines containing gum. Into these machines last year were dropped 1,150, 000 pennies for gum, the sum amount ing to $11,500. The pins used by officials and em ployes of the Santa Fe system last year weighed 3.000 pounds. To keep the depots and offices clean 26.000 brooms were used. The lead pencils used, if placed end to end, would make a line over 325 miles long. Fifty barrels of ink and 400,000 pens were used. From what is known as the "scrap heap' the company realized last year $1,250,000. This included almost every thing from a shingle nail to a worn out locomotive. Over $5,000 was realized from the sal" of waste paper alone. It is also shown that the company used 3,000 pounds of rubber bands and fifteen carloads of printed blanks. The engines burned 3,250,000 barrels of oil and 2,000,000 tons of coal. Row Over Rates to Pacific. Chicago. Feb. 20. The transconti nental railroads have been unable to agree on rates to be made from Chi cago to the Pacific coast during the Lewis and Clarke exposition at Port land, Ore. Some time ago they did agree to make a rate from here to Portland and back during the exposi tion, by the direct lines only, of $56.50, or $6 less than the regular fare one way. The fight is over rates to be made going to. Portland or returning from there via California. Some of the roads insist on $12 being added to the As a Guarantee on Liquozone. The First Bottle is Free. 'A great deal is said in these days about Liquozone. Millions are telling of the good it has done; for one home in five wherever you go has some one whom Liquozone has cured. This remarkable product has become the talk of the world. In the past two years, the sick of nine nations have come to employ it. But so great a good could not be done to humanity without harming the Inter ests of a few. The consumption of medicine has im mensely decreased. The popularity of the few physicians who cling solely to drugs has diminished. And in number less homes where Liquozone is in daily use, sickness has been almost banished. These facts have injured some inter ests. And a few of the injured attack what they blame for the injury. They denounce that which has done the good. The usual method is to insinuate that Liquozone itself is a medicine; that, de spite our claims, it is a compound of acids and drugs. Such statements are oft repeated; and we cannot doubt that some are led to believe them. Out answer to all is this: The virtues of Liquozone are derived folely from gas, by a process requiring immense apparatus and from S to 14 days' time. The gas is made, in large part, from the best oxygen producers. Nothing whatever enters into the product, save the gas and the liquid used to absorb it, plus a touch of color. And, to emphasize this answer, we offer $5,000 to any one who can dis prove it. In this business, methods which are subject to criticism are most carefully avoided. We permit no misrepresenta tion; no claims which have not been fulfilled. Our product is too vital to humanity to be laid open to prejudice. $58.50 rates on tickets sold to Port land via California one way. Others think $6 is enough to add to the rate for the "circuit" trip, -while still other roads want the round trip rate of $56.50 to apply to any route going- or coming. In addition to the Portland exposi tion, nearly twenty big conventions are to be held at San Francisco and other Pacific coast points the coming sum. mer, and persons who want to attend those conventions are exerting all their influence to have the $56.50 rate made good via San Francisco and Portland. Some roads threaten to act independ ently in making this rate. If some do all others will be forced to do so. DOl'BLE TRACK. Rock I.-land Announces Plans for Kansas Work. In' line with the plans for improve ment of the properties of the Rock Island road in Kansas, as have been previously outlined in the State Jour nal, the announcement is now made that the line of the Rock Island be tween Topeka and Herington, Kas., is to De aouDie tracked. The length of track which will be added to by the construction of a sec ond track is 8 2 miles. The construc tion of the double track to Herington will give the Rock Island a double track line a distance of 150 miles west from Kansas City. The work will begin in time to have it completed when the 67 miles of sec ond track of the Union Pacific be tween Kansas City and Topeka is built. The Rock Island has a con tract which gives it equal rights with the Union Pacific on the latter's tracks between Kansas City and Topeka. The contract for the double track work on the line between Kansas City and Topeka has been let and is con structing under Union Pacific direc tion. It has been recognized for several years that the track between Kansas City and Topeka used by the Rock Island and the Union Pacific is the most congested piece of track in the country. In a smaller degree the Rock Island tracks between Topeka and Herington are congested. All of the trains for the Rock Island's Okla homa and Fort Smith line, the El Paso line and the Colorado line pass over the single track used by the Union Pacific and Rock Island between Kan sas City and Topeka. and from To peka over the single track to Hering ton, save that the Colorado line is di verged northward at McFarland, 49 miles from Herington. At Herington one line continues to El Paso and California, while the Oklahoma Fort Worth line is di verged southward. The Rock Island line from Chicago by way of St. Jo seph also joins this part of the system at Topeka. All of these trains must use the track between Topeka and Herington, except the Colorado trains, which use it to McFarland. The Rock Island has spent many thousand dollars putting the 223 miles of its system between Eldon, Iowa, and Cameron, Mo., into first class con dition. Sharp curves have been elimi nated, embankments cut down, and the track practically rebuilt. The Rock Island uses the Chicago. Bur lington Quincy tracks for the 54 miles between Cameron and Kansas City. Eventually the tracks used jointly will be double tracked unless the Rock Is land builds an independent line, which is not probable in view of the fact that the lease for the Chicago, Bur lington Quincy tracks has been re newed for a long period. A Chicago dispatch says: "The cold snap seems to have picked the Rock Island for a special victim," said B. L. Winchell, president of the sys-1 tern. "We had 4.000 of the 7,600 miles of the Rock Island system proper un der snow. The storm came out of the Dakotas and followed our system through Nebraska, barely touching theChicago, Burlington Quincy, that runs north of us. It followed the Rock Island through the Missouri valley and down into Oklahoma and the Indian Territory. We got it the hardest of any railroad system in the entire coun try." It's "Pittsburgh" Now. New York, Feb. 20. The Pennsyl vania railroad company has decided hereafter to spell it "Pittsburgh." An official announcement has been sent to the various departments that the let ter "h" is to be attached. There has been a difference of opinion as to whether the "h" should be attached or omitted from the Pennsylvania city's name. Even the "Pittsburgh" papers spell it differently. The order What we say about Liquozone is true. What we claim it can do has, again and again, been done. And in any dis ease which we claim that Liquozone will help, we assume the whole risk on a two months' test with every patient who asks it. Before we bought the rights to Liquo zone, it had been tested for years in thousands of the most difficult cases obtainable. We found that diseases which had resisted medicine for years yielded at once to it. Sickness which had been pronounced incurable was cured. The value of the product was placed beyond possible question, before we staked our fortunes and reputations on it. It was amply proved that, in germ troubles, Liquozone did what medicine could not do. Then we gave the product away gave millions of bottles, one to each of millions of sick ones. We have published no testimonials; no evidence of cures. We have never asked a soul to buy it. Our method has been to buy the first bottle ourselves; to let the sick try it without the cost of a penny; to let the product itself prove its power. Most of you know the result. There mote but know some wonders which mote but know some wonder which Liquozone has wrought. And Liquozone is probably doing more to cure sickness, and to prevent it. than all drugs, all medicines com bined. How petty is that self-interest which would have you go back to the old methods to the days before Liquozone! Back to the time when the very cause of disease was unknown, or when no one knew how to meet it! What Liquozone Is. The greatest value of Liquozone lies in its germicidal powers. It is a germi cide so certain that we publish on ev ery bottle an offer of $1,000 for a dis ease germ that it cannot kill. will make a big difference in the com pany's correspondence, as many head ings have no "h." The time tables dispense with the letter also. The change has been brought about by the fact that in the spelling of the name on the city's corporate seal the final "h" is retained. Besides this, in the execution of all contracts between the Pennsylvania railroad company and the city, in which the name of the city appears, the "h" is retained. TEE KAXSAS CITY SOUTHERN. Considerable Discussion in Regard to Where Control Lies. The stockholders of Kansas City Southern who propose to bring suit to terminate the voting trust before the annual meeting say they do not rep resent control and do not know where control lies. They believe that the road is in good shape, that President Knott is an able railroad man and that the company should be able to begin dividends on its preferred stock before long. They say they are in no way identified with the Hawley in terests in the property. The facts in regard to ownership of Kansas City Southern stock appear to be that for a year or more aDsorpuon has been going on by some interest and that during- this period the Dutch holders have disposed of most of their stock. It what interest this buying has been conducted has not been definitely disclosed, although there is good reason to believe that Edwin Hawley now owns sufficient stock to enable him to elect a majority of the board on the termination or the vot iner trust, it is believed. however, that Mr. Hawley has acted merely as a broker in this matter and nis prin cipals have not yet chosen to disclose their identity. The voting trust expires in April, but as the annual meeting comes in March it would be possible for the voting trustees to elect a board wnicn might continue to direct the property for a year unless the courts should grant the application of certain stock holders for a dissolution of the trust at a date earlier than the annual elec tion. In case the application should not be granted it is quite likely that Mr. Hawley would be able to secure changes in the board should he desire to make any, as at present he is con sulted on matters of policy relating to the company. It appears, then, that not only is he in control of the stock, but that he is virtually in control of the policy of the road through the present management. This condition of control was effected without creat ing any ill feeling between the present owners and the former controlling in terests. MAY BURY THETR WIRES. Railroads Would Protect Telegraph Lines From Frost. The recent cold weather caused so much damage to the railroads by breaking the telegraph wires that a plan is now being considered to place the wires under ground. Different railroads have their engineers investi gating the proposition, and experi ments will be made. If these prove satisfactory, the overhead wires will go. Harry Donaldson's Trip. Harry Donaldson, of the general pas senger department of the Santa Fe, went to Chicago today. At Chicago Mr. Donaldson will join the Gates special train, which will pass through Topeka Wednesday via the Santa Fe to California, and he will accompany the train as far as Albuquerque. Wheatly Joins the Rock Island. Brainerd. Minn.. Feb. 20. It is re ported Arthur Wheatly, assistant su perintendent of motive power of the Northern Pacific, has resigned to be come superintendent of the Rock Is land shops at Moline, 111., at $5,100 a year. Congressman Otis Dead. New York, Feb. 20. Congressman Norton P. Otis of the Nineteenth dis trict is dead at Hudson Terrace, his home in Yonkers, aged 65 years. He had been ill for months. Colorado and Return, 927.50. Colorado and return every dav to April 30, 1905, inclusive, with final re turn limit June 1, 1905, via Union Pa cific, izt.ao rrom Topeka. Be sure your ticket reads over the Union Pa cific. Inquire of J. C. Fulton, Depot Aeent; F. A. Lewis. CitF Agent. 525 Plenty of lump coke. Prompt de livery. Telephone 856, Topeka Ice Fuel Co. 1 Yet it is absolutely harmless to the human body. Not only harmless, but neiprui in tne extreme. Even a well person feels its instant benefit. Liquozone is the only way known to kill germs in the body without killing the tissues, too. Any drug that kills germs is a poison, and it cannot be given internally. Medicine is almost helpless in dealing with inside germs. But germs are vegetables; and Li quozone the very life of an animal is deadely to vegetable matter. This fact above all others gives Liquozone its vaiuJ. mere is no other way to di rectly end the cause of any germ dis ease Germ Diseases. These are the known germ diseases. Nearly all forms of all these diseases have been traced to germs, or to the poisons which germs create. These are the diseases to which med icine does not apply, for drugs cannot kill inside germs. All that medicine can do is to act as a tonic aiding Na ture to overcome the germs. But those results are indirect and uncertain. The sick cannot afford to rely on them. And no one needs to now. Liquozone alone can destroy the cause of these troubles. It goes wher ever the blood goes, so no germ can es cape it. The results are almost inevi table. We have seen them so often in every disease in this list that we have come to rely on them. Liquozone has proved itself so certain that in any stage of any of these diseases, we will gladly send to any patient who asks it an absolute guaranty. Asthma Abscess Anaemia Bronchitis Blood Poison Bright's Disease Bowel Troubles Coughs Colds Consumption Colic Croup Constipation Hay Fever Influenza Kidney Diseases La Grippe Leucorrhea Liver Troubles Many Heart Troubles Malaria Neuralgia Piles Pneumonia Pleurisy Quinsy Rheumatism Catarrn cancer Scrofula Dvsentery-DiarrhoeaSkin Diseases Dandruff Dropsy Stomach Troubles Dyspepsia Throat Troubles Eczema-Erysipelas Tuberculosis Tumors L leers Fevers Gall Stones Varicocele Goitre Gout Women's Diseases. CDci)a(Q) THE GARVER BILL. Measure That Passed House by Tote of 112 to 0. Shippers Are Asking Senate to Do Likewise. UP ON WEDNESDAY. Railroads Doing All in Their Power to Defeat It. Included in Minority Report of Railroad Committee. On Wednesday the senate will decide the fate of railroad legislation for the present session. It will take up both of the railroad bills which have been proposed. The senate bill will come up on majority report of the railroad committee, while the Garver bill, which passed the house 112 to 0, will get a chance through the minority report. The Garver bill is the one which the shippers of the state want. It is the bill which really affords protection to the Kansas interests. The full text of the Garver railroad bill, which is endorsed by the ship pers and which has been passed by the house, is as follows: AN ACT CONCERNING RAILROADS and other common carriers, amending and repealing sections 2 and 3 of chap ter 391 of the Session Laws of 1903, amending section 18 of chapter 2S6 of the Session Laws of 1901, and repealing sec tions 8 and 18 of said last-named chap ter. Be it tnacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. That section 2 of chapter 331 of the Session Laws of 1903 be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 2. The said board of railroad com missioners shall be elected at each general biennial election in the same manner as other state officers are elected, and shall take office on the second Monday in Jan uary after their election; provided, that in case of a vacancy in said board the gov ernor shall appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy. Sec. 2. That section S of chapter 391 of the Session Laws of 1903 be amended to read as follows: Sec. 3. No person own ing any bonds, stock or property in any railroad company, or who is in the em ployment of or who is in any way or manner pecuniarily interested in or oth erwise obligated in any way to any rail road company shall be eligible to the of fice of railroad commissioner, secretary or stenographer to said board. Said railroad commissioners shall be qualified electors of the state and shall not hold any other office under the government of the United States or of this state, and shall not.whlle such commissioners, engage in any occu pation or business inconsistent with their duties as such commissioners. Said com missioners, secretary and stenographer shall be sworn to the due and faithful per formance of the duties of their respective offices before entering upon the dis charge of the same. Each of said commis sioners shall enter into bonds, with secur ity to be approved by the governor, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his du ties. Sec. 3. It shall be 'unlawful for any commissioner, secretary or employe of said board to receive, or apply for, any free transportation, reduced rates for transportation, or any other perquisite, gift or emolument, from, any railroad company or other common carriers, their agents, servants, or employes, for himself or for any other person, during the term of his office or employment, and any per son violating the provisions hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and upon conviction of any commissioner of such violation the governor shall declare his office vacant, and shall appoint his successor thereto, iiach commissioner, secretary, stenog rapher and employe shall be entitled to receive from the state his actual neces sary traveling and other expenses while absent from the city of Topeka on official business, which amount shall be paid by the treasurer of state on the order of the state auditor, an itemized sworn state ment thereof having been first filed with the secretary of the board and approved by the board. Sec. 4. The power and authority is hereby vested in the board or railroad commissioners, and it is hereby made its duty, to supervise all railroad freight and passenger schedule of rates, tariffs, and classifications, and all rules and regula tions governing car service, the transfer AH diseases that begin with fever all inflammation all catarrh all contagious diseases all the results of impure or poi soned blood. In nervous debility Liquozone acts as a vitalizer, accomplishing what no drugs can do. 50c Bottle Free. The way to know Liquozone, if you have never tried it, is to ask for a bot tle free. We will then send you an order on a local druggist for a full size bottle a 50e bottle and will pay the druggist ourselves for it. This ap plies only to the first bottle, of course to those who have never used it. The acceptance of this offer places you under no obligations. We simply wish to convince you; to let the product itself show you what it can do. Then you can judge by results as to whether you wish to continue. This offer itself should convince you that Liquozone does as we claim. We would certainly not buy a bottle and give it to you, if there was any doubt of results. You want these results; you want to be well and to keep well. Then be fair with yourself; ac cept our offer today. Let us show you, at our expense what this wonderful product means to you. Liquozone costs 50o and $1. CUT OUT THIS COUPON for this offer may not appear again. Fill out the blanks and mail to The Liquozone Company, 458-464 Wabasil avenue, Chicago. My disease is I have never tried Liquozone, but if you will supply me a 50c bottle free, I will take it. 672D. Give full address white plainly. Any physician or hospital not yet using Liquozone will be gladly supplied for a test. and switching of cars from one railroad to another at junction points or where enter ing the same city or town, all charges made therefor, as well as the rules and regulations adopted, by any railroad com pany for the operation of its road in the running of trains. It shall be the duty of said board, from time to time, to alter, change, amend or abolish any schedule, classification, rate, rule or regulation es tablished by any railroad company or companies which the board, either upon complaint as hereinafter provided, or up on its own motion, may find to be unrea sonable, unjust, or discriminative; and such amended, altered or new schedule, classification or rate, rule or regulation, shall be put into effect by such railroad company or companies within not more than thirty days after receiving written notice of the order-of the board; provided, that before such an order is made by the board notice and a hearing shall be given as required in sections 9 and 10 of this act. Sec. 5. If any two :or more railroad companies having connecting lines of road shall fail to agree upon a fair and just division of the charges arising from the transportation of freights, passengers or cars over their lines, the commission ers shall fix the pro rata part of such charges to be received by each of said connecting lines. Sec. 6. The board of railroad commis sioners shall have power to adopt rules to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of all investigations and hearings held by the board under the authority conferred upon it by this act or by the act to which this is supplemental; provided, no person desiring to be present at any such investigation or hearing Dy said board shall be denied admission. The attorney general, when requested, shall give the railroad commissioners such counsel and advice as they may from time to time require; and it is hereby made his duty to aid and assist them in all hearings, suits and proceedings in which said commissioners may request his assistance. Sec. 7. The board of railroad commis sioners shall have power, and it is here by made its duty, to investigate all through freight rates on railroads in Kansas; and when the same are, in the opinion of the board, excessive, or levied or laid in violation of the interstate com merce law, or the rules and regulations of the interstate commerce commission, the officials of such railroads shall be no tified of the facts and requested to reduce the rates, or make the proper corrections, as the case may be. When the rates are not changed or the proper corrections are not made, according to the request of the board of railroad commissioners, the lat ter shall notify the interstate commerce commission and apply to it for relief. Sec. 8. Within thirty days after the tak ing effect of this act all railroads doing business in the state of Kansas, and to which any of the provisions of this act apply, shall furnish the board of railroad commissioners copies of all of their schedules of rates, charges and classifi cations of freight, joint tariffs, and divis ions of rates, and shall, in addition there to, furnish said board with copies of all rules and regulations concerning the switching or transfer of freight and cars, and of rules providing charges therefor, and copies of all rules, orders or sched ules fixing or providing for mileage, per diem, demurrage or storage charees, or for use of cars, loaded or empty, and of printed rules governing the action of em ployes in operating trains engaged in switching, passenger or freight traffic :and upon the adoption of any new classifica tion, schedule of rates, rules or orders by any such railroad company, it shall, with in ten days thereafter, furnish said board with copies thereof; and the failure of any railroad company to which any of the provisions of this act apply to furnish any of the things above provided, within the time specified, shall subject .such rail road company to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each day that such failure and neglect shall continue, and each day of such continuance shall con stitute a separate offense. Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the com missioners carefully to examine all sched ules of rates, tariffs, charges and classi fications, as well as all rules and regula tions, made and published by the railroad companies operating lines of road in this state, for the purpose of being fully in formed as to their scope and nature; and if the board shall at any time have rea son to believe that any tariffs, rates, charges or classifications, or any rules or regulations, of any railroad company, as. to handling of cars or the running of trains, are unreasonable, discriminative, or in any way violative of the laws of this state, or of the acts of congress for the regulation of interstate commerce, it shall direct the attention of such railroad company to the matter wherein such vio lation may consist, and request its cor rection. If such correction be not made within ten days after such railroad com pany has notice of such request, the board shall forthwith notify such company that at a certain time and place a hearing will be had upon the matters involved in such request: and at the time and place named the board shall proceed to hear and de termine the matters involved in such re quest and make all necessary orders with reference thereto the same as if such hear ing had been had upon a formal com plaint filed with the board. Sec. 10. That section 18 of chapter 286 of the Session Laws of 1901 be amended to read as follows: Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of said board of railroad commis sioners, upon the complaint of any per son, firm, corporation or the mayor of any city, setting forth that the freight tariffs put into effect by any railroad company, or any freight charges or clas- j sifications made bv such company, or any rules or regulations as to the handling of cars, the running of trains, or other mat ter concerning such company in the oper ation of its road, are unreasonable, dis criminative or otherwise violative of the laws of Kansas or of the orders of said board, to make an immediate examination of such complaint, and forthwith notify the company complained against of the filing thereof. If the matters complained of are not rectified within ten days after such complaint shall have been filed, the board shall set down the complaint for hearing at a specified time and place. Be fore proceeding with such hearing the board shall give to the complainant and railroad company ten days' notice in writ ing, served in the same manner and up on the same persons as in a civil action, nf thn time and nlace of entering upon the same. If upon such hearing it shall o nnoar tn siniil rnrnmissioners that the complaint is well founded and that any material matters alleged are true, they shall so adjudge: and shall then and there rind and decide what is a reasonable tar iff, charge, classification, rule or regula tion respecting the particular matters in volved; and shall make such further find ings and orders as the board shall deem nirpriner.chane-ine. amending or abol ishing any schedules of rates, tariffs, charges, classifications, rules or regula tions of such company which shall be found to be unreasonable or discrimina tive, whether or not they are all included in the complaint upon which the original hearing was ordered. Certified copies of the findings and decision of the board shall within five days be furnished to the parties to "such proceedings. And when ever the board of railroad commissioners shall decide what is a reasonable charge for any freights, based on the classifica tion existing at the time of such decision, such classification shall not be altered thereafter, without the consent of the board, so as in effect to increase such charge as to any class of property, but such decision as to what is a reasonable charge shall be interpreted according to the classification existing when the decis ion was made. See. 11. Each witness who shall appear before the board, or any member thereof, in answer to a subpoena, shall receive for his attendance one dollar and a half per day and five cents per mile, traveled by the nearest practicable route, going to and xeturning from the place where the witness is directed to appear, which shall be ordered paid by the auditor of state when the state is liable therefor, who shall draw and deliver his warrant upon the presentation of proper vouchers, sworn to by such witness and approved by the chairman of the board. In case any wit ness shall fail or refuse to obey a sub poena, said board or any member thereof may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction to issue an order and an at tachment for said witness, directed to any sheriff of the state of Kansas, and compel him to attend before the board, or any member thereof, and give his testimony and answer any question upon such mat ters as shall be lawfully required of him. and all district courts are hereby vested with jurisdiction to carry out the provis ions of this section. If a witness, after being duly summoned and ordered by any court, shall fail to refuse or attend, or to answer any question propounded to him, and which he would be required to an- Auditorium, Monday, Feb. 27 (Pronounced E-zi-ee) THE GREATEST LIVING VIOLINIST Second Entertainment on Pipe Organ Course Admission: $1.00 all over the house Chart opens at Stansfield's, Friday, Feb. 24. jj" "LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE" 1 SHONE SUCHFi&RCE MEAT S In 2-PIe 10c Packages with List of Valuable Prenta. fiK?K.'w? J swer if in a court, such court shall have the power to fine and imprison such wit ness for contempt. The claim that any such testimony may tend to criminate the person giving it shall not excuse such witness from testifying, but such evidence or testimony shall not be used against such person on the trial of any criminal proceeding, nor shall he be liable to crim inal prosecution for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify; provided, that the board shall in all cases have the right in its discretion to issue proper process and take depositions, instead of compell ing personal attendance of witnesses, as depositions are taken in civil cases. The sheriff executing any process under the provisions of this section, or under any other provisions of this act, shall receive such compensation as may be allowed by the board, not to exceed fees now pre scribed by law for similar service in civil cases. The board is authorized to tax all costs of hearings to parties or the state, as in its judgment, shall be Just. Sec. 13. Upon application of any person, the board shall furnish, free, certified cop ies of any classification, rates, rules, reg ulations, or orders; and such certified cop ies, or printed copies published by author ity of the board of railroad commission ers, shall be admissible in evidence in any suit and sufficient to establish the fact that any charge, rate, rule, order or class ification therein contained, and which may be in issue in the trial, is the official act of the board of railroad commission ers; and such determination and orders of the board shall be prima facie evidence, in any action in which they are offered, of the reasonableness and Justness of the classifications, rates and charges involved therein, and of all other matters therein found and determined: and after the lapse of thirty days from the time such determ inations and orders were made, no suit then pending to set the same aside, and they remaining in full force and effect, such determinations and orders shall be held to be conclusive as to the matters involved therein. A substantial compli ance with the requirements of this act shall be sufficient to give effect to all de terminations and orders made and estab lished by the board. Sec. 13. Nothing herein or in the act to which this is supplemental shall pre vent the carriage, storage or handling of freight free, or at reduced rates, for the state, or for city, county or town govern ment, or for charitable purposes, or to and from fairs and expositions for exhi bition thereof, or the free carriage of des titute and indigent persons, or the issu ance of mileage or excursion passenger tickets; nor to prevent railroads from giv ing special rates or free transportation to tne onicers and memoers ot tne Kansas national guard, to ministers of religion Inmates of hospitals, eleemosynary or charitable institutions, or to any railroad officers, agents, employes, attorneys, wit nesses attending court or before the com missioners on behalf of such railroad com pany, stockholders or directors. Sec. 14. It shall be unlawful and a vio lation of this act, for any railroad com pany to cnange tne classification of its freights, or to raise the charges therefor. without first having obtained an order from said commissioners permitting such Sec. 15. The provisions of this act shall be construed to apply to and affect only tne transportation or passengers, freight. express matter and cars between points within this state, by railroad and ex press companies and all other common carriers, not including street railway com panies. Sec. 16. All the provisions of chapter 2S6 or tne cession Laws or isol, including all penalties and remedies in case of viola tions of law or of the orders of the board. in so far as applicable, shall apply to this act me same as lr said provisions naa been re-enacted herein. Sec. 17. That sections 8 and 1 of chap ter 286 of the Session Laws of 1901 and sec tions 2 and 3 of chapter 391 of the Session Laws ot are Hereby repealed. Sec. 18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and atter its publication In tne oniciai state paper. 'It was almost a miracle. Burdock Blood Bitters cured me of a terrible DreaKing out all over tne body. I am very grateful." Miss Julia Kilbridge, West (jornweu, conn. THE STOMACH IN WINTER Hearty Food Puts Extra Strain on This Important Organ. Winter is a little more than half over, and the results of its hearty food are shown in the variable appe tite, nausea, gnawing at the pit of the stomach, heartburn, sallow skin, furred tongue, headache, backache, and sleeplessness. The stomach has been overworked, the nervous system is unstrung, the blood is in bad con dition, the digestive organs are tired out. It is at this season of the year that Mi-o-na, the only remedy known that gives strength to the stomach and di gestive organs. Is of especial value. Mi-o-na Is not a hit-or-miss cure, but Is an unusual combination of remedies that makes it infallible in restoring health to the stomach and digestive system. It overcomes any acid condition that may be present in the stomach and intestines, soothes and heals the irritated mucous mem brane, has a stimulating effect on the solar-plexus, and combines peculiar properties that strengthen the nerves of the stomach and puts the whole digestive system In so healthy, clean and sweet a state that fermentation of the food cannot exist, any disease germs in the stomach will be de stroyed, and the digestive system will be so strengthened that it will extract from the food all the elements that make solid bone, firm muscle, and pure blood. It is a guaranteed cure for all diseases of the stomach, ex cepting cancer. The guarantee on Ml-o-na is given by one of Topeka's best known drug gist firms, Rowley Snow, who agree to refund the price, 50 cents, should Mi-o-na not give perfect satisfaction. Ask them to show you the guarantee they give with every package. GRIEVED FOR HIS WIFE. This Hastened the Death of William Cullcn Bryant. The following is from the New Torlc Tribune and refers to William Cullen Bryant, publisher of the Brooklyn Times and nephew of the poet, who) died this week: Mr. Bryant, at the time of hia death, was business manager of the Brooklyn Times, secretary of th American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, treasurer of the Publishers' Press and one of the best known men in the journalistic profession through out the United States. The Late William Cullen Bryant. He was born in New York city in 1849. He spent his early years in Brooklyn, and was educated in public school No. 16, from which he was graduated. Mr. Bryant began his career with the firm of H. B. Claflln Co., whom he represented for seven years. He then became manager for Henry B. Osgood Co., dry goods dealers in Boston. In 1875 he began his newspaper career by becoming as sociated with his father-in-law, the late Bernard Peters, in the publication of the Brooklyn Times. In 1875 he married Mr. Peters' oldest daughter, Julia M. Mr. Bryant was one of the founders of the American Newspaper Publishers' association, and in Feb ruary, 1S93. was elected its secretary. About three years ago Mr. Bryant was made treasurer of the Publishers" Press association. In social and political life in Brook lyn Mr. Bryant always took an active part. He was the first president of the Williamsburg Athletic club, also of the Hanover club, and held the latter position for about five years. He always took an active interest In the affairs of the Republican organ ization of Kings county, and was on two occasions mentioned in tho city convention for the mayoralty nomination. In 1895 Mayor Frederick W. Wurster offered Mr. Bryant the position of fire commissioner. Mr. Bryant accepted this position, and served during the Wurster administra tion. He was instrumental in having several new engine houses erected where Are facilities were poor. When the Williamsburg bridge was opened Mr. Bryant was selected as grand marshal of the civic organizations. He was grand marshal or the parade which met the Forty-seventh regiment when it returned after the Spanish American war. Mr. Bryant's first wife died in 187. and two years later he married Mr. Peters youngest daughter, Mary w. Mr. Bryant leaves five children. Hia oldest son, William B. Bryant, is an assistant to the business manager of the Tribune. His second son. Morti mer D. Bryant, is associated with the management of the Brooklyn Times. Mies Camilla Bryant is the youngest child by his first wife. Two minors. Thomas A. and Julia, are children of the second wife. Mr. Bryant was a relative of William Cullen Bryant, the poet. His father was Ezeklel D. Bryant. Mr. Bryants nome for years has been at No. 539 Bedford avenue. Brooklyn. Mrs. Bryant died last year. In January his family insisted on his giving up business, and he was taken south to Jacksonville, where he re mained until early in February, when he returned home. From that time on his failing was steady. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. L. Ward Brlgham and the Rev. Almond Gun nison, at the home tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. The body will be burled on Saturday morning in Cy press Hills cemetery. DfCENDIART FIRE. Attempt Made to Burn the Morrison Hotel, Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 20. A can of gaso line, oil soaked cloth and a substance said to be nitro glycerine were found last night when fire was discovered in a tailor snop in tne Morrison note! building. Clark and Madison streets. The blaze, it is declared was of in cendiary origin. The fire caused much alarm in the hotel building, it being- the third time within a week that hotel guests have been driven into the street by flames. In the hotel were more than 200 guests. No one was injured, but sev eral chambermaids and domestics on the second floor developed cases ot hysterics. Try a ton of lump coke. It will burn in your stove. Telephone SIS. Topeka Ice Fuel Co.

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THE TOPEKA" STATE JOURNAL', MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905.: T0PER1 STATE JOUiLVlL BT FRANK P. iiAC LEKNAN. (Entarad July 1. lXiX as second class natter .t ths pootofaoe at Yepefc. Kia., .VOLUME XXXII No- 4; Tt'Dua rt- m-R9fRIPT10N. Dally edition, delivered by cair er. 10 eents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or er. ths sums price In any Kan as towns where the paver has a, carrier f yitem. i ......la.w "'""l WHO J"" 1 V r a i 1 t nrua mnn t nn. Weekly edition, one year iiin.rris.' ..,i r i li v. ons year.... TEJuEPUONES. Pusiness Office .Bell. 10T ..Ind. 107 Reporters' Room ts Importers' Room TonVfi Si.re Journal building, V ftnl 3 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE; SU Vanderbtlt Flag. Paul fclock. Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE: 1S Unity Elds. Paul Block. Mgr. The trtate Journal Is a member of the Associated Preas tnd receives tne full day telegraph report of that great news or- finiiauoa tor exclusive alteration puou .-ation In Toneka. The news Is received In the State Jonr aal building over wires for this sols pur- The hour of Lawson's triumph over ths "system" appears to be at hand. The Standard Oil company may not be a. trust but it is something just as ad. Washington pays her dog catcher 11,800 a year. That is cheap enough tl be catches all the dogs and keeps them caught. One-third of the members of the United States senate retire every two f-ears, not Including those indicted or envleted of crime. Ths railroads should take -warning from the experience of the Standard Oil. The state might decide to ope rate the roads itself, in an emergency. It looks now as though the czar Wight need at home some of those Ikons which he sent to the front shortly after the opening of hostilities. The Indiana legislature proposes to prohibit the making, selling or smok ing of cigarettes in the Hoosier state. That is about as sensible as it -would be to forbid by legal enactment the Use of a certain kind of liquor while leaving the citizen free to indulge in all the others. Exports from the United States to Cuba in the calendar years 1904, the first year under the new reciprocity treaty, were larger than in any earlier year in the history of our trade -with that island, and were 38.9 per cent in excess of those of the immediately preceding year. Practically every ar tide of importance exported to Cuba showed an increase in 1904 compared with 1903, and in the few articles showing a decrease the reduction in value was, in some cases at least, due to lower prices, while quantities were greater than those of the preceding year. Flour, cattle, lard, lumber, coal, boots and shoes, corn, cotton cloths, mineral oils, and furniture, in tire or der here stated, form the largest items in the exports to the island during the year. One of the improvements that are likely to come with good roads is the trackless trolley. Experiments with trackless trolley cars, large, heavy vehicles resembling automobile omni buses which run on the ordinary sur face of good public highways but de rive their motive power from over head trolley wires, have been fairly successful in German and France, especially the former country. It is found that about 25 per cent more power is required for operating a given number of vehicles than would be required on tracks such as are used fr American suburban and interur ban electric lines, but there is a very great saving in the cost of equipping a trackless trolley road, compared with the common kind. For that reason it is thought that the trackless trolley may prove very useful in districts where there is not enough traffic to -warrant the expense of building elec tric railways. The Baltimore Herald submits aa re cent additions to the language the fol lowing: Beckwlth, noun. A dupe; a gullible person; one who may be easily hood winked. Chadwick, verb. To outrageously bunko; to flagrantly victimize. To chadwick a person is to obtain prop erty or credit on the flimsiest security. Chadwicked, adjective. Bunkoed; extensively hoodwinked. Also, cleaned out. thoroughly mulcted. Used collo quially, "I've been chadwicked," that is, drained of the last farthing. Colorado, verb. To constantly dis turb: to create endiess confusion; to keep in a turmoil. Used colloquially In a profane sense. "We have a Colo rado of a time." Pennypacker. noun. A vain, arro gant fellow. An important person who pretends to autocratic powers. A laughing stock. A male scold. The immense consumption of sugar in the United States is the subject of a letter from Francis Wayland Glen to the New York World. Some of Mr. Glen's figures are as follows: We consumed 2.549.643 tons of sugar in 1903, and 2,767.162 tons in 1904. an increase of 217,519 tons. The per capita gain in consumption was 8 1. pounds. Our domestic production of sugar was as follows in 1904: Beet, 170,135 tons (a decrease of 77,428 tons from 1903); cane, 323,649 tons; total, 493,784 tons. In other words, we produced only 483,784 of the 2, 767,162 tons of sugar which we con sumed. The American Sugar Refining company, or the "sugar trust," refined 1.523,244 tons in 1904, leaving 1,026, -"399 tons as the amount refined by other concerns. Remarking that Cuba's capacity for production is 6, 000,000 tons annually, while' the American capacity seems destined never to come within hailing distance Ct th domestic demand, Mr. Glen urges that by repealing all duties on sugar we might effect an annual sav ing to consumers of over $120,000,000. THE FIGHT roil HATES. If the state of Kansas means to reg ulate freight rates and to correct un just and discriminating tariffs, the senato should pass what is known as the Garver bill, which came to that body with the unanimous approval of the house. If the state does not mean to reg ulate freight rates, if it intends to go on in ths future as it has in the past and permit the railroads to conduct freight matters under their own sweet will, the legislature wili pass what is known as the Smith bill. In fact, the Smith bill puts the state. so far aa freight interests are concern ed, in worse shape than at present. The Smith bill is weaker and not so good as the present railroad law. It is sn easy matter for railway employes and railway interests to in timidate shippers and that is just what has been done in Topeka today. Job bers are given to understand that they are likely to lose what favorable rates they have if they persist in supporting the railroad bill which really regu lates. This thing should be clearly re membered: The rates charged In Kan sas by railroads between many locali ties are from two to three times rates charged through Missouri, Iowa, Ne braska, Illinois, Texas and other states. Why should freight rates be doubled and tripled when freight for Kansas passes the Missouri river? To Senator Betts, and other sena tors: If you. are in your present posi tion to do what the railroads want you to do, vote for the Smith bill. If you are in your present position to help the Kansas public secure fair and reasonable rates and charges that are not discriminating, you will vote for the Garver bill. The Garver bill is not going to do Injustice to the railroads, but if car ried out it will compel the railroads to do justice to the people. Other states are regulating freight rates. Let Kansas get into line. The jobbers of this town only ask for fair treatment and they need not be afraid, if this Garver bill pass, that they will not get fair treatment, the railroad companies notwithstanding. Neither need the railroads themselves fear the bill. The bill is to secure jus tice for both sides. The rankest injus tice now often prevails against the shipper or receiver of freight. The facts show this. Double and triple rates west of the Missouri river prove this. Here is a quotation: "As a railroad man I have for years preached to the railroad managers the doctrine of consideration of the rights of the people. I have told them that they should stop any attempts to manipulate politics and legislation. and should not oppose reasonable ef forts at reforms and rational govern ment supervision. "Some railroad men of my acquaint ance think an attempt to introduce government supervision of rates is a mischievous and meddlesome impertin ence. lhey resent it, and announce their intention to fight the movement to the last ditch. But that is absurd in this day and generation. These men are behind the times. In many states boards of railroad commissioners fix the rates and the roads comply with their decrees. "The president does not wish to work any injustice to the railroad industry. He is not engaged in a hue and cry against corporations. But he is right, eternally right, in his declaration that reforms of method are needed, and they are needed as much by the rail roads themselves as by the people. My experience has shown me that the most harm done to the railroads in this coun try is done by themselves." Who used these words? Some enemy of the railroads? Some agitator? No. No less a person that Paul Morton of the Santa Fe. He knows that freight regulation is coming and is right and necessary. OUR COMPETITOR IV COTTON". The cotton industry of British India and its growth in recent years, discuss ed In a report just received by the de partment of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics, shows that the number of mills in India at the end of the fiscal year 1903-4 was 204, against 137 In the fiscal year 1893-4, and in 1003-4 the number of spindles was 5,213,344, against- 3.539,68L in 1S93-4. The number of persons employed was 186,271 in 1903-4, against 130.570 in 1893-4. The nominal capital and debentures in 1903-4 amounted to about 65 million dol lars, of which 50 million dollars was paid up. The number of spindles in the United States is about four times as great as that of India, while the rate of increase in the number of spindles in operation has averaged in the case of the United States 715,000 per annum, and in the case of India 167,000 per annum during the past decade. These figures, indicating the growth in the cotton manufacturing industries of India and the United States, respec tively, and tha relative manufacturing facilities of the two countries, are es pecially interesting in view of the fact that India is the second largest cotton producing country of the world, her to tal production averaging about 2 mil lion bales annually, against an average of about 10 million bales for the Uni ted States while Kgypt ranks third with an average production of over 1 million bales annually. The statistics of the commerce of India show that that country, with its population of 300,000, 000 people demanding cotton manufac tures and its large supply of cheap la bor, exported in 1903-4. the latest avail able year, 888.281,000 pounds of raw cot ton, 252 million pounds of twist and yarn, valued at 28.6 million dollars, and 78 million yards of cotton piece goods, valued at 4.8 million dollars; and in the same year imported 2,033 million yards of cotton piece goods, valued at about 83 million dollars. It thus appears that India, although a cotton growing couu trv and possessed of an. unlimited sup ply of cheap labor and with British capital available for investment In its industries, exports but about one-half of the raw cotton wmcn proauces nu imports about 933 million aoiiars worth of cotton manufactures annually, JAYHAWKER JOTS. Don't figure on getting a Job on the refinery. Convicts will see to tnat. The ups and downs of life bring out the best of umbrellas and senators. Several walking delegates have ridden to Topeka lately at the expense of some one else. Fixing up the state printing plant is quite a Job. But the state printer gets $3,000. That is assured. A Great Bend man claims his girl cares for neither oyters or ice cream. But how about chocolate drops? It is past the middle of February and the coal dealers are nearly out. But prices are not retiring to the cellar. A Parsons woman claims she can now decorate her face as well as nature does. But it cost her years and money to learn. A woman can make a fool of almost anything. Why not let the Kansas leg islature secure Mrs. Chadwick for the Standard Oil case. A Topeka barber has a million or so coming to him from distant relatives. Just in time to invest in Standard Oil or railway stocks, isn't it? Emporia claims that one man in town only arises to the occasion when his corns are tread upon. And then he nas something to say in addition. Beer isn't the only thing being cir culated in Leavenworth. There are a half dozen unspeakable court scandals that are only whispered about. Governor Hoch is threatened by sev eral colored politicians with being bought if he doesn't veto the separate high school bill. Tet a great many white people favor the bill. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. 1 A multitude of sinners rely on char ity. The cup that cheera is a hollow mockery. Exceedingly proper people are seldom interesting. Some women reign, and others posi tively storm. The man who has no enemies may also have no friends. A lack of appreciation is generally due to a lack ot merit. The woman who can inspire no envy feels that she has lived in vain. The energy that women expend in making fools of men would run an em pire. A canal boat doesn't need fingers, but it couldn't get along very well without tows. There is a difference between a shaft of wit and a funny tombstone inscrip tion. Keep your mouth shut today and you won't have to square yourself tomor row. A man can lose more money through one hole in his pocket than 18 holes in a golf course. It is the well-preserved woman who realizes that self-preservation is the first law of nature. There isn't anything in the whole world that a man knows as much about as a woman knows about dress. Sillicus "Are they happily married? Cynicus "I imagine so. He is one of the best listeners I know." Love is a flame that fiercely burns Its own grim funeral pyre, And then the victim sadly learns A burnt child dreads the fire. ROCK ISLAND WRECK. Two Persons Killed and One Seriously Injured. Chicago, Feb. 20. Two passengers killed and one seriously injured is the result of the wreck of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific train near Wiota. Ia, today, as reported to the general offices of the rail road company in this city. The dead: HENRY MEHLER. residence unknown. REV. J. R. JOHNSON, supposed to be from Harlan, la. Seriously injured: L. E. Kent, Morris, 111. The train was known as No. 5, Chicago and Denver express, and left Chicago last night at 10 o'clock. HEARST AFTER THEM. Would Put Pipe Lines Under Inter state Conunercc. Washington, Feb. 20. Representative Hearst (N. Y.) introduced a bill today placing pipe lines for the transporta tion of oil under the Interstate com merce act for regulation as "common carriers." Manager "What do you want to be a star for?" Actress "Well. I have failed at everything else.'"-Brooklyn Life. We have some fine makes of Pianos, new in this city, the Clarendon Piano AND THE Armstrong Piano which we will be glad to show yon how deserving they are of your consider ation. They are very moderate in price consid ering their real musical value. E. B. Guild Music Co. PIANOS FRANK PROUTY HERE. Arranging to Entertain Editors With a Buffalo Hunt. Frank Proutv. an old Topeka news paper man whose father formerly owned a part of the Topeka "Record- as well as the "Commonwealth," was in the city today in the interests of the annual convention of the National Educational association which meets this year during June 6, 7 and 8 at Guthrie, Okla. Mr. Prouty is now editing the "Star" at Fallis. I. T. The management of the Miller ranch, which is due south over the line from Arkansas City, is exceeding itself in preparations for entertaining tne members of the convention. The Mil ler boys will give an entertainment lasting over three days beginning witn June 8, at which there will be a grand melee of cowboys, buffaloes and In dians. An effort is being made to reinact some of the early frontier scenes on the plains. A herd of 300 buffaloes, 500 cowbovs and some 5.000 of the tribal Indians from the territory will be on hand to aid in the enter tainment which is being put up by the xmiier boys at an exDense of aporoxi mately $5,000. Thev expect to make it an oacK by running excursions from cnicago, Kansas City and St. Louis. A representation will be given of an old time buffalo hunt and a buffalo barbecue will be given at which three of the animals will be roasted and dis tributed free to those attending. Mr. prouty. who is a representative from the Fifth district to the terri torial legislature, returned to his home tnis evening accompanied by his sister, miss uenna. Prouty. SUES CITY RAILWAY. Sirs. RiKdoii Asks $10,000 for Per sonal Injuries. Mrs. C. M. Rigdon this afternoon filed suit in the Shawnee county district court against the Topeka Railway com pany for $10,000 damages. blie alleges in her netition that ht cause of the neglect of the motorneer oi a vves. Tenth avenue car. shp w.-m run down at Tenth avenue and Tyier street, September 21, 1904, and badly in jured. She says that she sustained fracture of the skull and bad bruises about tha lower limbs which caused partial paralysis. DEATHS ASP FUNERALS. Rev. Hugh Park McClurkim. D. TV. who died on Saturday mornine- at his residence, 119S Fillmore street, was the son or jonn and Elizabeth McClurkim and was born near Rock Creek, Chester district, south -Carolina, November 12, 1823. His parents were amonsr the earlv Covenanters of the south and removed from that country on account of Slav ery in the fail of 1833. iney settled near Sparta. 111. He re ceived his early education in the schools of his native and adopted countries and graauatea rrom Duquesne college in 1845. He studied theology in Cincinnati seminary and was licensed by the Lakes Presbytery April 20, 1848. He was or dained by the Pittsburg Presbytery and installed pastor of the Salt Creek con gregation, now New Concord, O.. Oc tober 15, 1850. .For. 32 years he was pas tor of this congregation and wielded not only a powerful influence in the pul pit but he was .also a mighty power for civic righteousness in the communi ty. He resigned this charge in October, 1882. He was pastor at Wahoo, Neb., from 1884 lo 1891; pastor of the U. P. church at Denison, Kan., two years, and his last charge was in the Reformed Pres byterian church in Topeka, from 1896 to 1902. Since that time he has been in feeble health. Dr. McClurkim was an able divine, a clear thinker, an eloquent preacher, a man of deep spiritual character, a champion of reform, and accomplished much for the betterment of man and the upbuilding of the kingdom of God during his long, useful ministry. He leaves a -wife and rive ennaren ana a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. The funeral will he held at the Second United Presbyterian church, Fillmore and Huntoon streets, on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p. m. In terment in Topeka cemetery. The following resolutions were adopted by the Ministerial union con cerning his death: 'Resolved by the lopeKa Minis terial union, That the life work and zeal of the late Rev. H. D. Mc Clukim, D. D.. we recognize with gratitude to God, the noble man, the Christian gentleman, the ripe scholar, the wise teacher, tne sound tneoiogian, the loving companion, the loyal Chris tian, and zealous worker and helper n all good causes within his reach. "His lone: and useful life was a blessing to the world, and his faithful ness to this union, for many years give a fr3grancy to his memory which we will cherish tnrougn an me coin ing years. "STEWART SHELDON, "Committee." .Tamps T.lovd Krott died Sunday ev ening at 7 o'clock, at his residence, 1021 Quincy street, after an illness of four months, at an age of b years ana days. Mr. Scott was born in Baltimore county, Md., February 14, 182L From there he moved to Ohio at an early day, and was afterward one of the pioneer settlers of Linn county, Kansas, going there in 1857, where he commenced nis career as a private surveyor. He had an intimate acquaintance with the pub lic men of the early days. He was a free state man in the early struggle in Kansas. From 1S57 till 1859, he was a justice of the peace in Linn county, and was also deputy sheriff. In 1859 he was elected county treasurer of Linn coun ty under the territorial authority, an ofTica which was: extended under the state' laws, and was re-elected under the state laws in 1861, holding the po sition four years, after which he was in business in Mound City and Fort Scott until 1870. when he removed to Independence at the opening of the Osage Indian reservation. At Independ ence he was in public office, and held the offices of justice of the peace, po lice judge and United States commis sions. During the war, he was quar termaster of the Sixth Kansas state troops in the Price raid, and participa ted in the battle of Westport. He has been a resident of this city since 1882. He was a member of Lincoln post G. A. R., also a member of Masonic lodge No. 17, of this city, who will have charge of the services at the cemetery. He is survived bv a widow and four children, who are M"rs. Fannie Beardsley, of the adjutant genera'.T office: Frank C., postmaster at Valley Falls: William L., of Kansas City; Lillie M-. also one granddaughter, Mrs. James A. Staples, oi this city. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 1 p. nv, from the resi dence. Piso's Cure has cured coughs for many years. It is still on the market. 250. i ROOSEVELT GIVES UP. Has No Hope of Railroad Legislation at This Session. Washington, Feb. 20. President Roosevelt, who has been for weeks hopeful that some definite action might be taken at the present session of congress on the railroad rate ques tion, practically has relinquished the idea of securing legislation on the sub ject this winter. It is reasonably cer tain that he will not call an extraordi nary session of congress to meet in the spring,, but, unless he changes his mind, he will call eongress together probably next October. Representatives Esch and Town send, joint authors of the rate bill which passed the house, had a talk with the president today. They out lined the rate situation in congress as they have found it. They agreed with him that the prospect for the enact ment of rate legislation at this session was remote. They indicated that if no action were taken at this session the subject would be considered thorough ly during the coming summer with the idea of presenting a measure at the next session which very likely would contain some additional features. As mey jert tne White House both Messrs. Esch and Townsend exnreswed the con viction that an extra sessi on wouM K caiiea tor next autumn to deal with me rate question. WILL BE A BIG EVENT. Two Hundred and Fifty Tickets Sold lor Democratic Banquet. Final preparations are being made by the Democrats for their banquet which will be held hero thia i. Wednesday, on Washington's birthday. Colonel Sapp, who is in charge of the arrangements, states that the banquet ue oi tne oest wnich has ever been held of similar character in the state. The idea which is fathering the giving of the banquet if is for the establishment of a permanent affair something in the nature of the Kansas Day banquet. This is the first banquet for manv years at which the Democracy of the best Democracy of the star has as sembled, according to a statement made by Colonel Sapp. About 250 tickets have been sold thus far and the chances that still more will be sold. The younger blood of the Democracy will be out in full strength and the absence of a number of the old war riors will be noted. It is stated that the reason for this is that thev feel slighted because of the failure on the part of those manaeiner the affair to ask them to appear in response to toasts. J. ti. Atwood, national com mitteeman, it is stated, has refused to accept an invitation for this reason. NO STATEHOOD ACTION. Bill Is Set Aside for Swayne Impeach ment Trial. Washington, Feb. 2 0. The first part of the senate session today was de voted to routine business. A number of bills were passed, one authorizing the award of bronze medals of honor to persons displaying conspicuous bravery in saving lives in railroad wrecks, which measure had passed the house. A. substitute for a house bill relat ing to the construction of a dam and reservoir for irrigation, purposes on the Rio Grande in New Mexico was passed. The motion for a conference on the statehood bill was then considered. There was quite a long discussion on the appointment of conferees, Messrs. Gorman, Teller and Foraker maintain ing that the conferees should represent the sentiment of the senate as shown by the bill which finally passed that body and which provided for the ad mission of Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory as one state and New Mexico as another, leaving Arizona as a territory. No action had been taxen on tne statehood bill at 2 o'clock when it was displaced by the impeachment trial of Judge Swayne. In the House. Washington. Feb. 20. A resolution pro viding for early consideration of bills al lowing homestead entries of 640 acres each in eastern uotoraao ana ooum ua', was the first business in the house today. It was called up under suspension of the mips anil ws onnosed bv Mr. Maddox Ga.), who forced a count of the house on a point of no quorum and also a debate on the adoption of the resolution. After a prolonged uistuiun iin- iui ded and the resolution was passed. Consideration of the naval ap propriation bill was then resumed. a Tb Hudson Is Frozen. New York. Feb. 20. From Tarry town to Nyack the Hudson river is frozen over solidly for the first time in ten years. In the channel at Dobbs Ferry the ice is eight inches thick. Wo desire to express our sincere thanks to our friends for their sym pathy and kind assistance in these, our sad hours of bereavement. WM. BARTELL AND t'AMlbl. v.,, ,.ctp-'" "Well nearly everybody in this town seems to De trustin mm, a.3 iui i Chicago Record-weraia.

Kansas I cannot tell a lie I the mills "ea New Merchandise-- First Offering Tailored Suits. We are showing the new Spring styles Etons, Blouses the 22-inch Jacket and the Coat all ex cellent styles; Skirts with flounces, the plaited styles and many gored flare effects. Suits from $10 up. Spring Jackets. One style is the box coat, material Covert cloth, Wooltex make; large sleeve, square jacket, strap in back. Priced $5.00. Other styes made from Covert cloth perfect fitting jackets tailor stitched high class gar ments. Priced $5.75, $7.50, $8.50, $10, $12, $15, $16.50. Rain Coats. All the new models in Tan, Oxford, Olive Tan, plain tailored styles; also the shirred effects. Priced from $7.50 to $25. Silk Shirt Waist Suits. Many new and attractive models and. in all the desirable new colorings brown, blue, green, red, and black. Give usethe opportunity to show these to you. Price range from $12.50 to $35. New Muslin Undergarments. Our assorting is never more complete than now of the celebrated "Home Made" brand of these gar ments the best of materials, dainty, sheer and at tractively trimmed truly as rich and elegant as any made at home garments could be. Silken Fabrics. We are now showing a very large assortment of Silks suitable for Suits; colors and black being much used for that purpose. Everything points to this being a "silk season," and we have bought accord ingly we never had so large a showing shall be pleased to give you a showing. LOCAL MENTION. The floor of the portico at the Audi torium needs the care and attention of a broom in the hands of the caretaker. At present the front of the portico looks anything but clean and attractive. Street debris and other leavings strew the front. Water and a broom could do some effective work. The sewer in the Fifth ward caved in at the corner of Eighteenth and Kansas avenue yesterday. No one was hurt or endangered but it means somewhat of a loss to the contractors as very nearly 50 tons of material caved in, in a length of 35 feet. The sewer was not properly supported and the water and moisture did the rest. There are plenty of calls for hired girls and cooks at the free employment agency at the city hall. Thus far the agency has not had enough help to sup ply the demands. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Theakston of 718 Madison street are the parents of a baby boy. Minot Hickman, who shot his brother-in-law, Rollin Todd, in South Topeka last month, was arraigned be fore the city court of Topeka this morning for his preliminary hearing. A postponement of ten days was taken because of a turn for the worse in Todd's condition. Minnie Moyer, of Willard, was mar ried to Dr. Dutton, of Dover, by Pro bate JudiTe "Hayden this morning. Cliff Rumford was arrested by the police Saturday night on the charge of robbinsr slot machines about town. Abe Steinberg said he caught Dumford using slugs on the machine in front of his store, and accordingly swore out a warrant. The directors of the Kansas Midwinter-exposition met this afternoon at the Parkhurst-Davis building to close up the business matters of the last fair. The Swedish-American National league will meet at the Swedish Lu theran church tonight. Election of officers is the important topic on the programme. Anna Tillson, deputy clerk of the dis trict court, is sick with the grip. Oscar Stroukle, a runaway boy from Hays City, 16 years of age, is being held at the police station. Georere W. Taylor is under arrest at the police station on the charge of dis turbing the peace of Mrs. E. F. Buck ingham of North Topeka. He is ac cused of pulling up one of her fence post?. "Tour daughter, sir, has asked for my hand." "Well, young man, do you think you come within her allowance?" Life. From the Minneapolis Journal. did that much with my little hatchet. i TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. PAINFUL burns, any skin hurt, quickly heated by Satin Skin Cream. 25c. BEGGAR WAS RICH. Fortune of $400,000 Found Sewed Up in Ills Clothes. New York, Feb. 20. Max Fldler. a Brooklyn quijt maker, has learned that he is heir to part of a fortune of $4fl,no, left by a beggar in France, whom Fidler hap pened to be a nephew. There are teven sisters of the quilt maker, some of them Jiving in Odessa, who also receive a share. Abraham FIdler of Nice, France, died there last August at the age of SO years. When his clotnes were removed the shab by receiver of alms was found to have sewed in the linings drafts amounting to the sum mentioned. A will also was found bequeathing the entire sura to Baron Rothschild. When informed of his legacy the baron assigned detectives to trace the beggar's life and relationship. It was found he had beer, kidnaped from Odessa in childhood and became a professional beggar, whicii he continued to be all his life. HISS TARBELL'S HOPE. Government 31ay Correct System vt Transporting Oil. Washington, Feb. 20. The New York World teltgrraphed Miss Ida M. Tarbeil, the Standard Oil exposer in magazines at Titusville, Pa., for her ideas on the Kan sas rcfnery law and the Campbell resolu tion. Miss Tarbell opposed the Kansas re Ilnery, stating she thought it would play into the Standard Oil h.inds. She favored inatpad establishment of co-oierati ve re fineries and pipe lines. She closed with th fallowing reference to the Campbell reso lution: "My own hope is that proposed govern ment Investigation will demonstrate thj unjust and oppressive use the Standard company still makes of the railroads of the whole country and devise means to put a stop to the abuse; also, I hope it will show the danger and folly of permit ting an interstate system of transporta tion like the gr'at pipe line system for transportation of crude oil, and also own ed and managed by a company which is practically the only buyer and manufac turer of that product. The pipes should go under the interstate commerce commit tee and be subject to the same inspection and regulation as railroads." Ill M01! OF THE DAT. Once on a time two youths were suitors for the hand of a ffood, beautiful, sensible, bright, tactful, candid, soulful, womanly Kirl. One youth made love. The rith -r tade money. Puzzle: Which youth mar ried the good, beautiful, sensible, bright, tactful, candid, soulful, womanly girl? Puck. "Why, James Henry Pthudd!" ex claimed his wife as he elam!ered up the stairs at 3 a. m. "What In the world do you mean b coming home at this hour and in such a condition?" "Now. m' dear." explained James Henry, carefully, "you Jusht calm y'rsehlf. I been wlz Deacon Brown an Parson Jones, del catin' th' new sh'loon on Main street." Life. Mr. De Style "Well, are all you our ranrements for a nuramtr at at the fah- fonable resort completed?" Mrs. Ds Style "Nearly, but I m in such a Quan dary. I have arranged to send our noutw plants to a florist, our cat to a cat home, and our dog to a canine boarding; house, so that all will be well cared for until fall; but whit n the world shall 1 tic with the baby?" New York Weekly. Dyer "What's your hurry. Mack?" Mack "Got to meet my wife at 1:3"." Dyer "Oh, you ve plenty of time. It's only 2 o'clock now." Brooklyn Life. "Money put that man Into polities," said the. patient. "You have It mixed." an swered Senator Borghum. "That man is expected to put money into politics." Washington Star. Hew York Uooer MtrkM. New York Feb. 20. MONEY Money on call steady, Z'fi'ttZ'J! per cent, closing bid 24 and offered at 2Vi per cent; time loans sllRhtly firmer: 60 and 96 days, 8 per cent; 6 months, Z'hS per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. Z1$ H iper cent: sterling exchange weak, with actual business in bankers' bills at i.Hh'c(. for demand and at 4.6630 for 6o da-v bills: posted rates, U and H.&X'-.i; commercial bills, M So-M So1. SILVER Bar silver, 61c; Mexican dol lars. 47c BONDeJ Government bonds steady.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, 'MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. 5 DR. .HORNE Has returned from his Southern Trip, and can be found daily at his office, 106 W. Eighth St. Dr. Cookinham is now associated with Dr. Home. Call end consult these eminent physicians absolutely free. IT IS A SHAM Children Are Crammed With Too Much Arithmetic. Prof. Cook of Chicago Attacks Common School. 3 ,m 1 Dr. J. Alvin Home. CHRONIC DISEASES CURED "v"e make a specialty of chronic diseases. We have mastered such dis orders and feel that we are justified in making the assertion that no other physicians in America have attained the same proficiency in the treatment that -we have accomplished. If your hearing is becoming blunted, if you have dimness of sight, if there Is irritability of the throat, it you have weak lungs accompanied by a cough, if your heart palpitates, if you have stomach trouble accompanied by dis orders of nutrition and dyspepsia; if your kidneys are diseased, if Brights disease or diabetes have begun their terrible devastating work; if- you have continued aches and pains in any part of the body, you should call on us at your earliest convenience. There is no patent remedy that can reach these disorders, for the causes are too numerous.. We give you special treatment prepared for the individual case and calculated to cure you by removing the cause, which is the on!v scientilic cure. WE TREAT AXP Cl'RE all forms of Blond Poison, Seminal Weakness, Variocele, Catarrh, Bronchitis. Asthma, Epilepsy, Constipation, Insomnia. rvspepsia. Skin. Kidney and Bladder Diseases, and all diseases which have bamed other physicians. rjiggsES OF WOMEN We are treating-diseases of women with universal success. Our specialist in this department has treated many hundred .eases. During all his expe rience he has onlv been compelled to appeal to surgery in one-half dozen cases, and only in a very small percentage was a physical examination neces- Ear!By our svstem of diagnosis the very seat of the disorder is discovered In a very few minutes without any embarrassing examination, and we can posi tively promise a cure in all curable cases, and a probable cure in a very large percentage of the so-called incurable cases. We have saved many women afflicted with ovarian diseases from the surgeon's table. We not only cure all womb troubles, but at the same time we cure the complications. Vertigo, headaches, fainting spells, nervous exhaustion all disappear under our treatment. CURED OF CANCER AFTER SIX PHYSICIANS HAD FAILED Holton. Kansas, October 20, 1904. I suffered for vears with cancer on the side of my nose. Had it burned out cut out. and "in fact, operated on four different times. In the summer of 1903 it grew rapidly worse. I heard of the treatment used by Dr. Cook inham through a friend who had been cured. I visited him and took the treatment. In eight days the cancer came out completely, and I know I am cured There is scarcely any scar left. I can not say enough for Dr. Cookin ham. This is no fake. I will gladly answer all questions m reference to his treatment of me. Engineer Holton Electric Co. DRS. HORNE C00 KIN HAM'S NEW TREATMENT is at the Head, aa the best, quickest and mopt sure cure, as it so quickly re- lieve'the.,vain.na saft'erit. ajid enables them to successfully treat bad cases" which heretofore- they had: to refuse to treat, so they now say to you, who are suffering with any disease, to call and see them and let them cure vou. Remember the'- have had many years' practical experience in trenTiAc?XANT'CJoRESdAXI TUMORS. OLD ULCERS, CHRONIC ECZEM and PILES are successfully treated and cured by their painless method; and they charge their patients NOTHING FOR EXAMINATION. You can call and be examined, and they can tell you just what has to be done TO CURE YOU. BE PURE YOU GO TO THE RIGHT PLACE. Consultation and X-ray examination absolutely free. Doctors Home Cookinham, 106 West 8th Street Opposite Transfer Station.) Hours: 9 to 12, 2 to 5, 7 to 8; Sundays from 9:30 to 12. SAM BADGES STEPS IN. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals After Crawford. The attention of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been called to the team used in the Crawford theatre baggage work. The team used in hauling the dray for transporting baggage and scenery of the various companies to and from the theatre and the depots, is declared to be used in a merciless fashion. Saturday a large load of baggage was being hauled to the ther.r.e from the Union Pacific depot. The streets are icy, and the horses were not prop erly shod. The wagon was driven In the street car tracks, but the team was unable to haul the load all the way up the hill from Third to Fifth street. In front of the old court house the wagon became ntuck across the street car tracks, blocking street car traffic. Sam Radges, an officer of the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, toik a hand in the proceed ings. He ordered trmt a portion of the load b" taken from the wagon, or that another team be added to haul it. He also ordered that the team should be properly shod. If the at tention of the Cruelty to Animals of ficers is again called to the Crawford theatre dray team, arrests will likely follow. Mr. Radges said: "This is the most ritiful case that has come to my at tention this winter. One of the horses of the team hitched to the big drayload of stuff ought not to be used. The horse is in an extremely bad con dition. I am informed that a negro driver who was formerly in their em ploy quit about two weeks ago because he would not drive the team knowing he horses were unfit for the service demrmded of them. "The driver of the team said he couldn't help himself. He said he was told to drive the team, and that he would lose his job if he didn't." Mr. Radges secured a policeman who wrs placed on guard to see that the demands on the team were diminished. SPECIAL. City of Mexico and Return $15 Via Santa Fe. A great opportunity to see Old Mex ico. Tickets on sale March 4. 5. 6 and 7. Tickets limited HO days from date of sale. Stopovers In either direction. For lull information and literature ad dress T. L. KING. C. P. T. A Topeka. 'ou don't have to wait. We have it on hand. Coke by the ton or by the car load. Telephone 856. Torieka Tee Fuel Co. as aya. NORTH TOPEKA. Leave items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co., 912 N. Kansas avenue. T. D. Joseph is ill at his home in Shorey. Joe Pacie was In town today from Grantville. Mrs. Willitts of 927 Van Buren street is iil with the grip. Mr. and Mrs. John Lesser of Shorey are the parents of a nine pound girl. Mr. Folium and family will move this week from 112 7 Quincy street to Grantville. Mr. and Mrs. John Keller have gone to housekeeping in block 1500 Mon roe street. Clarence Isaacs returned Saturday from a short visit to his home in Jack son county. The Duplicate Whist club will meet Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. A. Ryder. Miss Grace Brook has been con fined to her home northwest of town by an attack of grip. The Merrv Matrons will meet next Thursday with Mrs. Fred Clark, 809 Kansas avenue, south. Mrs. M. R. Mitchell is ill at her home corner of Van Buren and Gor don streets with the grip. Mrs. C. F. Bridge, who has been ill at her home 1125 Van' Buren street with the grip, is much improved. The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres byterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Thomas Page, 102 7 Monroe street Mrs. EJ Thomas and little eon ar rived today from Bartlesville. I. T to visit Mr. Thomas' mother. Mrs. R. M. Thomas, of 835 Monroe street. Israel Nelson of Lindsborg stopped off on his way from New York to visit a few days with his cousins, Dave and Sam Beaudry, of 92 9 Quincy street. The Sunday school board of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church will meet this evening at the church at which time an ejection of officers will be held. Mr. and Mrs. Ed.Sheetz, who were called here a few weeks ago by the death of their brother. W. J. Sheets:, left today for their home in Alleghany City, Pa. The Bible study class will meet with Mrs. A. J. Arnold, 92 7 Jackson street, this evening at the usual time. A full attendance of members and new stu dents urged to be present. Charles Reynolds, colored, 72 vears old. died yesterday at 12:15 o'clock at his home, 633 Tyler street. The fu neral will be held Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock from the B Street Baptist church and the interment will be in the Topeka cemeterv. Harold K-, the 4-year-old son of -nr. ana -Mrs. c. C. Boohr, died yester day of grip at the family home, 117 East Laurent street. The funei-ni win be held tomorrow afternoon at half past l from the house and the burial wm re in itochester cemetery. NOT THE RIGHT THEORY Undue Attention to Brokerage, Banks and Stocks. Kecommends a Study of Nature Instead. Orville T. Bright, principal of one of the ward schools of Chicago, and one of the old guard who has grown gray in the service of education, proved con clusively Saturday night in an address at the high school auditorium that he is not a stickler for the present curri culum in the common school system. The compound fraction which we have always approached with a feeling of awe and reverence was forcibly hurlsd from its pedestal by the venerable iconoclast. The memory stunt of con ning over the capes of the world on which we prided ourselves when in our youth was overwhelmed with a deluge of scorn. Mr. Bright gave an address Saturday night to an audience of 600 sj-hool teachers of the city and the county to gether with a number of those inter ested in educational topics upon "School and Home Ideals." In the afternoon he spoke informally to a large number of the county school teachers at the same place. Mr. Bright was formerly super intendent of the Cook county. 111., schools. The main theme of the whole address waa an appeal to get back to nature and the introduction of nature study into the school system. Through that medium he trusted to arrive at the pro per ideal of both school and home, the former reacting favorably upon the lat ter. In sketching out an introduction lead ing up to his main theme Mr. Bright said: "The common school system of America originated in old New Eng land. The public school I like the name free school better was founded In old New England and today half of the school system of the United States is on the free school basis, I don't con sider them free unless free text books are supplied." The speaker then stated the advanc ed steps that had been taken in France in the introduction of gardens in con nection with the public schools of that land and the other countries of Eur ope. "They are," the speaker contin ued, "300.000 school gardens in Europe. Look at the land that you have In this state to what beauty and use could you not put it. Why every school house, country as well as city, should have a garden surrounding it to teach beauty and naturalness. Would that in the future some Carnegie would cease long enough from endowing public libraries to give some of his wealth to this cause, or that some Rockefeller taking a surcease from a fight on Kansas would turn some of his huge wealth towards the establishment of gardens about our schools." In attacking the present curriculum of the common schools Mr. Bright said: "Did you ever stop to think of the time we put in studying mathematics. We teach boys and girls about banking, brokerage, stocks and bonds, and the foreign exchange peculiar to school houses. We teach obsolete compound numbers and compound proportions which never existed outside the school hou?e. Days and weeks are given to the greatest common divisor, and to four story complex fraction montrosl ties; but never a word about the soil, the growth of crops which make life possible, or of trees, shrubs and flowers which may make home beautiful. The absurdity of this condition of things needs no demonstration. Let no teacher imagine that I speak here only to the teachers of country schools. What is true of the farm life is just as true of the village and the small cities, and to a great degree even of the large cities." Mr. Bright was not afraid to say what he thought, even if it took plain Ir.nguage to do it. Speaking of the beau ties of nature and especially of bird life, he said: "Would I have stuffed birds in the school house? Not on your life! Nor on women's hats. Queer, isn't it, that men don't have to be adorned with murdered birds. Why do women? But thank God they are getting out of this disgraceful fashion. Disgraceful? It is atrociously cruel and damnable. Array the child against this sort of thing, and make it strong, and don't hesitate to call it murder." Mr. Bright condemned in strongest terms the present methods of teaching reading, history geography and other branches. He said the school reader should be supplemented with other books which the children may really en Joy. He demanded that histories be written to furnish entertaining stories of historical events, instead of dry chronology. He roasted the study of arithmetic to a rich brown, and it will do people who hate arithmetic good to read what he said about it. "The work is hard and lugging," says Mr. Bright, "and a great part of it is neither practical nor disciplinary. No small part of it is rubbish and antique rubbish at that. Babies who have never poss?ssed more than a nickel at a time are taught to talk glibly about thou sands and millions. I insist that the arithmetic which can run the business affairs of Topeka, for instance, or the state of Kansas, is strong enough for the elementary school children of To peka, or the state of Kansas. It is vicious to place bofore children number relations which can't be drawn from any probable or even possible conditions in the world, or in the heavens above or the other place. It is vicious to give these complicated affairs or arithmetical puzzles to children for home study, and it may result in immorality. The sym pathetic father takes hold to help or does so on-the despairing importunity of his child. He is humiliated by his in- COLD CURE A V7 Relleves and lungs I WILL REFUND YOUR MONEY IF IT FAILS. IV1UISYOIN, Philadelphia. ability to solve the puzzles and it is for tunate if he says nothing improper." The next remark caused an exchange of apprehensive glances on the part of the school teachers, who were sitting in -the rear of the auditorium,. "I never knew of a woman who was strong in mathematics who was good as a housekeeper, as a wife, as a mother. I have met some of the leaders in art and society in Chicago, whose homes were the embodiment of all that was refined and attractive, and whenever I have question ed them as to how they got along in school with their mathematics, the reply has come: 'O. I never could get my al gebra,' or 'I never did like mathematics. I was so stupid.' Mathematics never did make a good housekeeper and probably never will." In touching the study of geography Mr. Bright said: "We teach them the names of capes. Capes, what are capes! We are not teaching navigators. Of what use, the knowledge of capes? How many of you different kinds of birds, of trees or flow ers, think you. can they name?" A shot was taken at the present method teaching of botany. "1 would never let a plant be dissected in my laboratory and then to be dried and placed away in a herbarium. Study nature out in the fields." The speaker thought that the relation ship of father and son should be closer drawn and that nature was a good me dium for the establishment, of that rela tionship. "Teach him the things that you iove," he continued, "the places where you pluyed as a boy. the flowers and the woods that you loved." Go with him to the baseball game, enter with him in his play. It is cowardly to leave to the mother the whole responsibility of the bov." Mr. Bright is opposed to the fraternity idea. He said: "Thank God that there are no frats or sororities on the farm to make snobs of the boys and snobs of the girls, and intellectual and social failures of both boys and girls." VSAYE A GREAT ARTIST. Mr. Eddy Surprised That Topeka Secured Him. Mr. Clarence Eddy told a reporter when he was here to dedicate the new organ, that he hoped Topeka people would appreciate the great privilege of an opportunity to hear Ysaye. He said that Ysaye was acknowledged among all musicians to be the greatest living violinist, and he thought it was remarkable that a man in such de mand as he seems to be this season could be secured for a concert in a town of this size. Mr. Eddy said, "It must be your beautiful Auditorium that has attracted him or his manager.". Ysaye, as Seen by a German Car toonist. Ysaye is as great an attraction as Melba, and if he had ever made a tour through this part of the country be fore, there is no question that he would attract as large a house as Melba or Nordica. Several theater managers in Kansas City tried to get him- for this season, but were unable t"do so, as his dates are now all full. Topeka got ahead of Kansas City by making an engage ment early last summer. Already several orders from Kansas City have been received for tickets, and we may have the gratification of seeing an excursion run from Kansas City to Topeka for a musical entertain ment. The Kansas City violinists are interested in Ysaye's Topeka concert, and a large number of them and other members of musical fraternities of the city will come to Topeka for this occasion. STAR THEATRE POPULAR. Larse Audiences Enjoy the New Bill at Playhouse. The Star Vaudeville theater at No. 418 Kansas avenue seems to have caught the fancy of a goodly number of the amuse ment loving people of Topeka. The at tendance has been gratifying, as judged from the box office standpoint. The open ing of the new bill for this week drew three good audiences Sunday. The last three days of last week also drew several capacity audiences. Dorothy Benton, who was so popular at Vinewood park last summer. Is proving a big hit and her song and dance specialty is winning for her exceptional encores. Dorothy Benton is now Mrs. Louis Sei ferd. Panola, the slack wire walker, whose act is presented in a tramp costume, is another feature of this week's bill. Mc Ginnis, the song and dance comedian, earned a hearty encore, and Chris Chris topher, the yodling singer and violinist, is worthy of considerable praise. The moving picture number is amusing. The tub race, the sleight of hand perform ance, Happy Hooligan in a beer garden, and the escaped lunatic, who poses as Na poleon, furnish a laughable series. The il lustrated song this week is "Blue Bells." The theater is a union institution throughout. The following resolution was passed at a recent meeting of the Amalga mated Sheet Metal Workers' association: "We, as an organization, wish to in dorse the Star Vaudeville theater, at 418 Kansas avenue, as a safe place of amuse ment: also an establishment deserving the patronage of all union men. "J. M. KIFRNAN. President. "BURT COMPTON, Secretary." PCBOC SCHOOL CENTENNIAL. It Is Bcins Celebrated in New York City Today, New York, Feb. 20. One hundred years have elapsed since the first steps to establish New York's public school system were taken and today the an niversary was celebrated in ail the schools. In the evening special ex ercises will be held in Carnegie hall. On February 19i 1S05, a dozen citi zens met and discussed the question of public schools. It was the sense of these gentlemen that the poor chil dren should be given a "virtuous edu cation" as they were inheriting vice from the bad example. The incorporation of the New York free school society, of which DeWitt Clinton was the first president, was the outcome of the meeting. It was more than a year after the meeting that the first free school was opened. New York at the present time has 546 school buildings and other school property valued at $80,000,000. There is a registration of 622,000 children and 13,000 teachers are employed. .Small Fire hi Tailor Shop. The Are department was called to 107 West Fifth street at 5:26 this morning. Fire starting in a tailor shop owned by W. E. Stewart did small damage to the stock and burned a hole in the floor. The source of the fire is unknown. The damage will not ex ceed $2 5. The building is owned by H. C. Ashbex. HOUSE mL WAIT Anti Discrimination Freight Bill Goes Over. Action of Senate on Bailroad Bill Awaited. ARE SOT YET READY. Judiciary Committee Says It Has Xo Report. Indication of Antagonism Be tween Branches of Legislature. Owing to the fact that the judiciary committee of the house was not ready to report on the anti-discrimination bill, the house declared off the special order on that bill which was set for this morning at 10 o'clock. On motion of J. L. Brady, the bill was set ahead, and made a special or der for next Friday at 10 o'clock. There is some political jockeying in this move. The house wants to wait and see what the senate is going to do with the house railroad bill before it takes action on the anti-discrimination bill. The anti-discrimination bill pro hibits railroad favoritism not only among producers of oil, but also among wholesalers, jobbers and manu facturers of all kinds. The reason for the opposition to the bill is the fact that some of the minor "combines" of the state, such as the millers, salt pro ducers, etc., fear that the bill will hurt them. The judiciary committee to which the anti-discrimination bill was re ferred, held a meeting Friday night and heard speeches from D. Smith, author of the bill, and from repre sentatives of some of the Kansas ioh. bers who fear the law will hurt them. Judge Benson, the chairman of the committee, said this morning: "We did not agree upon and report. and therefore were not able to report the bill back to the house today. I think that the committee will be ready io inane iu report on Tuesday. The house and senate, by indulging in their bickerings, are likely to kill uiiguiy gooa, legislation. Investigate Consumption. Under terms of a joint resolution passed this morning by the house, the governor win appoint a, commission of three members to discuss th ad. visability of establishing a state sani tarium for consumptives, and make its report some time during the first six days of the next session of the legis lature. The bill provides that the commission shall serve without pay except actual expenses, and that it shall consist of either five or three members at the option of the gov ernor. The commission is authorized to report on the best site for a sani tarium for consumptives. The vote on tne resolution was 87 to 7. Not Enoiish Votes. Senator Simon's resolution provid viding for 1 the submission of an amendment to the constitution mak ing provision for the appointment of acting probate judges in case of dis ability or insanity of the judge came up inis morning ana lacked consider able of having a two-thirds maloritv. The vote stood 6 8 for and 11 asainaV Owing to the absence of a two-thirds majority, a reconsideration of the vote was ordered, and the resolution laid over until some future time when more of the members will be present to vote on the proposition. The amendment is to supply a deficiency in the constitution and a good many of the members think it is unnecessary ai me present time. Conference Committee Named. Speaker Stubbs this morning named the following committee to confer with the senate on the subject of congres sional apportionment: Husey of Sedg wick, Brandon of Butler, Plummer of Jefferson. This is a committee which will be likely to stand pat for the Brandon bill which has passed the house. The senate amended the house bill by putting Cowley county back into the Third district. It seems likely that the conference committee will agree to the house bill. The senate amendment leaves the Eighth district shy on pop ulation. Has Fun With Mr. Hall. Mr. Jones of Norton this morning proceeded to have some fun with Rep resentative Hall. He introduced the following resolution: "Whereas, It was announced in the Sunday papers that Representative Hall is leaking in three places, therefore, be it "Resolved, That his case be referred to the members of the medical frater nity of this body for their tender and careful attention." It is fair to state that since the snow was shoveled off of representative mall there has been no more trouble about the leaking. Representative Kerns Married. E. L Kerns of Oakley, Logan county, was married Sunday afternoon at Oak ley in the Christian church to Miss Gertrude E. Clary of Oakley. The cere mony was performed by Rev. R. .W. Woodstde. Mr. and Mrs. Kerns came at once to Topeka, and plan to make this city their home. Mr. Kerns will locate here in the insurance and real estate business. Mr. Kerns is the youngest member of the house of representatives, and is well liked. He appeared in the house this morning in a Prince Albert coat and with a box of cigars under each arm. The house this morning voted to have printed 1,000 copies of the Davison game law for circulation throughout the state to officers entrusted with the enforce ment of hte law. Lieutenant Governor Hanna and Sec retary of State J. R. Burrow have is sued invitations for a Sixth district din ner party to be given at the Elks' club Tuesday evening, at 6 o'clock. COMPETENT JUDGES. Beauty Doctors Endorse Herpicide. Women who make a business of beau tifying other women come pretty near knowing what will bring about the best results. Here are letters from two, con cerning Herpicide: "I can recommend Newbro's 'Herpicide,' as it stopped my hair from falling out; and as a dressing it has no superior. tSigned) "Bertha A. Trullinger, "Complexion Specialist, "292 Morrison St., Portland, Ore." "After using one bottle of 'Herpicide' my hair has stopped falling out. and my scalp is entirely free from dandruff. (Signed) "Grace Dodge, "Beauty Doctor, i'lSS Sixth St.. Portland, Ore." Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. Rowley Snow, special agents. A ZllSS MART STONS. MilwftaKsa.WU. ID If on Mecl Up? 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The gift was made to Mr. Penny by the members of the Idies' Music club of Topeka. ft was presented to Mr. Penny after the Te Deuro Laudamus number which was used as the opening of the ded icatory musical program on the pipe or gan. The members of the Ladies' Music club at first intended to present Mr. Pen ny with a bunch of roses, but decided to give instead the score of Parsifal, which would serve better as a token of regard and esteem and which would at the same time prove more lasting. The volume was a handsomely bound and printed copy. FEES PAID. Statement Covering Transactions of Panama Railroad Company. Washington, Feb. 20. A statement showing fees paid. to members of the canal commission for services as di rectors of the Panama railroad was filed today with the Investigating com mittee of the house committee on in terstate and foreign commerce by Vice President Drake of that road. The statement .also shows dividends re ceived on stock of the road held by the commissioners. Admiral Walker received 12 50 for attending ten board meetings and 1475 as dividend on j snares or stock. Commissioner W. S. Burr re ceived $250 for ten board meetings and a $5 dividend on one share of stock; C. E. Grunsky received $2 50 for meetings and a $5 dividend; W. B. Parsons $395 for meetings and a $5 dividend; B. M. Harrod received $125 for meetings and a $5 dividend. Mr. Drake continued his testimony of Saturday. He took up the question of proposed discontinuance of the steamship line operated in connection with the road and argued against it. He also spoke against moving the of fices from New York city. Jf you want a smooth, clear complexion, take Hollistor's Rocky Mountain Tea this month. Bright eyes and red lips follow its use. 35 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Irug Co. CASTOR I A For Xafants and Children. Th3 Kind Yea Kava Alssjs Cr:;M Bears the Signature ef 1

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. 0 SEE. OUR Vr HITE SALE AD. ON PAGE 7. Very Newest Corset-: iinmnts una hnim Mm i-i IP. ceful Lestelle Poise and shapeliness for the too slender women; grace and lightness for stout figures; distinction for the woman of ordi nary build all found at last by wearers of Fashion's .newest md most cleverly designed corset, "Lestelle." The initial display in Topeka occurs as a special feature of jr Whits oale. Several of the most needed Les telle models are illustrated here. Our Corsetiere will gladly show and xplain the special merits of styles idapted to all figures. ure 1. Figure 1 Dainty model of fine White Ba tiste, prettily trimmed with lace and ritbon. Has front and side hose supporters of frilled 9i!k elastic. Well suited to slender figures, $2.50 Figure 2 Exquisite Corset made of a very fine light French fabric, having silk embroidered design of forget-me-nots in natural colors. Fine laces and delicate ribbons for finishing. A grace-creating model for average figures. $4.50 Lestelle Corsets WillLe Found Only at Our Store. Figure i. Figure 3 Excellent model for stout figures Made of fine French Coutille, with deep lace Note the hips, and of hose $3.00 garniture, long close adjustment supporters. P reii s Dmntv Garments t:a i, ii iiuyuu nnuw uiaL we can sen you most Deautitul little blips and Dresses for infants, and Frocks for children at prices that put making them out of the question? And just now we have so many new styles, purchased especially for the White Sale selected with a view to creating interest among women who have always made children's garments, and will ap preciate the help this department is waiting to give. These pretty little garments are all most daintily made of fine materials selected in exquisite taste. Beside the few little dresses and slips we have space to write about are many others equally pleasing, or more so. Then you can buy all the Children's Underwear here, ready to put on, and very small priced. Infants' Slips Beautifully Made N a I n sook S C sllPa, made w plain, with dainty little hem stitched ruffles neck and sleeves. Very carefuly finished. Good Nain- sook Slips fc,,w' with pretty yoke of fine hem stitched tucks and hemstitched ruffles neck and sleeves. 1 o n gcloth 7 ''if s11ps yke of fine em broidery i n s e rtion and hemstitched tucks. Dainty ruf fles of embroidery neck and sleeves. $1.00 tO a n y T? 7? styles of JO.tJ Long cloth and Nainsook Slips, made up with finest embroideries, laces, and tiny tuckings. Pretty French fl.VV Frock of India Linon, long full blouse effect and short skirt, fancy new yoke of inch wide hemstitched tucks forming a "V." Wide yoke ruffle with' same tucks. j $1.25 Children's Fine, White Frocks India Linon French Frock, with belt of material. Pin tucks and two g r o ups of half-inch tucks down frorg:, with tiny pearl button trim mings. Back tucked in groups. f9 5CVe,7 dainty p&.,J French Frock of fine India Linon, deep scalloped yoke of pin tucks inset with medallions of embroid ery and fine lace. Yoke and skirt ruffles lace edged. Neck and sleeves have wide em broidery beading rib bon drawn. fy Mother Hub JO.VU bard Frock of India Linon, yoke of Valenciennes lace and Swiss embroidery. Em broidered bertha, lace edged. Kibbon drawn sleeves. Skirt tucked and lace edged. fig c Mother Hub Mfit.JV bard Frock of India Linon, yoke of pin tucks and fine Val enciennes. Bert, ha tucked, lace trimmed. Tucks, insertion and edge on skirt. fji J1 B e autlful Frock of sheer India Linon, Mother Hubbard style. New pointed yoke of delicate lace insertion and em broidery. Sleeves and bertha finished same. Skirt ruffled, has lace, embroidery and tucks. Other Pretty Frocks from 75c to $6.00 New Gingham Dresses made in pretty new ways of excellent materials, for chil dren from 2 to 6 years prices 50c to $2.25. Buster Brown's Sister's Dresses are considered exceedingly smart made of nice white pique; have bright silk tie, and leather belt $2.25. Creeping Dresses for Small Children, of good quality, plain blue ginghams, serviceable, and neatly made 50c. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Commercial club meets tonight. Country roads in many places are practically impassable. Ysaye, the Belgian violinist, comes to the Auditorium next Monday night. J. F. Blair of 222 Clay street has gone to Los Angeles for an extended visit. The Star 10 cent vaudeville theater has a new bill this week that is attract ing large crowds. The Orphans' Home association had !ts regular meeting this afternoon at 634 Harrison street. The Missouri Valley league met at Parsons today to formally vote Pitts burg into the circuit. Al Rankin is in Topeka this week after a absence of nearly two weeks on the western lines of the Santa Fe. John Fleishman, the K. U. football player, is at Christ hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis Sat urday. The girls' basket ball team of Wash burn will go to Baldwin Tuesday to meet a similar team from Baker uni versity. Dick Cooley, the Topeka ball play er, has been released by the Boston National league management. No ex planation is given. Very little registering is being done at the commissioner of elections office just now. People don't seem to know that the books are open. T. J. Coughlin, J. J. Kinney and James W. Gibbons of this city installed a. chapter of the Knights of Columbus at Muskogee, I. T., on Sunday. Secretary T. J. Anderson of the To peka Commercial club, was at his of fHce again today after a three days' confinement to his home with grip. Mrs. N. B. Campbell, who has been eick at Stormont hospital for several weeks, is much improved and has been taken to her home, 425 Harrison street. In the district court on Saturday af ternoon, Dora Higgins filed suit for di vorce from George Higgins. Failure to support her, is the allegation of the petition. E. L. Brannan, general agent of the Sells-Downs shows, has returned from an eastern trip where he arranged for "paper." The show will open in To peka April 2 2 and will be larger than ever. Harry W. Frost, a former Topeka newspaper man and a son of M. O. Frost, has been elected president of the Monarch Supply company of De troit. The firm manufactures railway specialties. Miss Jennie Greer of Topeka has been appointed to be housekeeper at the Boldiers" Orphans' home. She succeeds Miss Carrie Askran who has been housekeeper but who is now a teacher In that institution. Six gangs of surveyors are in the field locating the grades for the Union Pa cific line between Topeka and Marys ville. The grading contractors are al ready in the field and have made all preparations for beginning work. City Clerk Squires will address a meeting of the Ohio club tonight in the rooms of the I. O. O. F. on Quincy etreet. Mr. Squires will relate some personal experiences of his while a pris oner in the Andersonville prison. Dr. W. A. Quayle, pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist church of Kansas City, was in Topeka for several hours on Saturday night. He came here to meet the funeral party of the late Kev. E. Gill, who died at Burlin ame Friday. An amusing incident occurred the oth er day in one of the grade schools of the city. The class in question is in volved in the Interesting incidents con nected with the War of the Rebellion and has just been following Sherman's memorable march to the sea and his capture of Atlanta. Now It also hap pens that in this same class there pre two children patriotically named Shsr man and Atlanta. The boy Sherman is a very good friend of his girl class mate Atlanta. He was greatly interest ed therefore at General Sherman's maneuvers to take Atlanta and awaited with some degree of impatience the day of his triumph over Atlanta. But Atlan ta, who is shrewd even though she Is shy, stayed away purposely on the day at which Sherman was to triumph over Atlanta and foiled her classmate of his hour of triumph and attending expres sion of glee. The ladies of Central Congrega tional church will give a colonial con cert, followed by a social, at their church, corner Huntoon and Bu chanan streets, Wednesday evening, Feb. 2 2. No admission will be charged. The meeting of the Commercial club tonight will doubtless be the most live ly of any meeting held by that organi zation in many months. There will be a big fight between the "railroad inter ests" and the shippers and consumers who have to pay high freight rates. Miss Kllworth, one of the basketball players with the Lawrence girls' team which played the Y. W. C. A. here on Friday night, had a purse containing several dollars taken from her. She left her pocketbook in a handbag in tne dressing room and when she re turned it was gone. Henry M. De Shattio, a colored bar ber employed In the city, is pushing a claim for a portion of theChoteau estate of St. Louis. The Choteau family of St. Louis is immensely wealthy, largely through holdings of city real estate ac quired in the early days of St. Louis. De Shattio who states that his name has been changed through the spelling of It by outsiders, claims that his grand fatter was one of the four Choteau brothers who emigrated from Canada and settled on the site of what is now St. Louis. De Shattio's father left St. Loui3 as sOon as he was old enough and came to Kansas and on the death of his father failed to receive a division of the estate which he left. The son is therefore now pushing the claim which it is claimed his father failed to receive. Choteau was a French Canadian but on his arrivel here married a colored wo man who was a freed slave. Fire LOSS $1,100,000. in the Wholesale District Indianapolis. of PENSION BILL PASSED HOUSE. Democrats Tried to Eliminate Famous "Order No. 78." Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 20. The prop erty loss by fire in the center of the wholesale district is placed at $1,100,000; insurance $826,000. Explosions of chemicals in the Keifer Delmetch house with the accompany ing bursts of flames made the fire a spectacular one. Falling walls added to the danger In curred by the firemen, one of whom suffered a broken leg. There were many narrow escapes from death. The fire was confined with great diffi culty to the burned district which ad joins the union station. The concus sions from the chemical explosions broke hundreds of panes of glass across Meridian street. The burnt district is bounded by Meridian street, Ash street, Jackson place and an alley.- Sparks from the burning buildings flew over the city, carried by a high wind. These sparks fell on the buldings and men were stationed on roofs to protect them. Smouldering sparks fell on the roof of the Grand hotel and it was discovered to be on fire. A general alarm was sounded. Guests at the hotel were aroused and fled from their rooms. Many of them had just retired after watching the adjacent fire in the whole sale district. The fire on the roof of the Grand hotel was extinguished in an hour. The loss was caused for the most part by water and reached $2,000. from his boarding house last Sunday afternoon until Tuesday, when he awoke to find himself lying under a bridge. Another lapse prevented his recalling where this bridge was, and he next became conscious in Leroy, Kan., last night. ;He walked from there to his home beyond Burlington, seventeen miles, during the night, ar riving before daylight this morning. His face is said to be severely frost bitten, but he is uninjured otherwise. RED MAN A BIGAMIST. John Blackhawk, Who Ran Away With Nebraska Girl Now in Kansas. Missing Student at Home. Kansas City, Feb. 20. Cecil A. Bowman, the student at a business college here who disappeared from 2132 Summit street last Sunday after noon, is at his home in Burlington, Kan. Bowman says he can remember nothing after getting a dozen blocks THINK IT OVER. Something Yon Can See In Any Res taurant or Cafe. Washington, Feb. 20 The house pass ed the pensions appropriation bill car rying $138,250,700. The minority, led by Mr. Underwood, made an ineffectual ef fort to reduce the aggregate of the ap propriation so as to exclude pensions allowed under "Order No. 78," which, it wj ctatfrt wmilH inunlvd nhmit 4 FlftA 000. It was contended that the orderfas to have escaped your observation was without authority of law. The minority insisted that the majority should bring in a service pension bill. Mr. Grosvenor defended the order, and, Incidentally, reviewed the course of the Democratic candidate for the presidency in the last campaign. Mr. Robinson sought to add a section to the bill giving a service pension, which amendment Mr. Grosvenor characteriz ed as "buncombe." Mr. Benton, of Missouri, declared that the majority had decided against a service pension bill last year because they did not want to add $3S,000,000 to the appropriations. The bill was pass ed in the form in which it came from the committee. Under a special rule, the house passed about 25 private bills. T7 ords Can't Tell How Well you feel 10 days after quitting Coffe l and using POSTUM AGRICULTURE IX SCHOOLS. Senate nwommfn Pill Farmers' Course. Adding The senate comm. nee of the whole Saturday, recommended for pas sage Senator Dumont Smith's bill al lowing district schools to add agricul ture to the course of study if the school board so desires. The committee of the whole acted favorably upon Senator Dumont Smith's bill providing that when a cause of action accrues against an ab sconding or concealed person that the period of limitation shall not begin to run while the person is concealed or absent from the state. The senate committee of the whole recommended for passage Senator Du mont Smith's bill allowing: county of ficials to turn over to the state his torical society any records, books or papers, not required to be kept by law. sfter three years after the current use of the same. The senate committee of the whole recommended for passage Senator Du mont Smith's bill providing that: "In each county of this state having a population of less than 3,000 no jury shall be drawn or summoned to serve In the district court except on the written order of the Judge of said court." A physician puts the query: Have you never noticed in any large res taurant at lunch or dinner time the large number of hearty, vigorous old men at the tables; men whose ages run from 60 to 80 years; many of them bald and all perhaps grav. but none or tnem ieeoie or senile? Perhaps the spectacle is so common or comment, out nevertniess it is an object lesson which means something. If you will notice what these hearty old fellows are eating you will observe that they are not munching bran crackers nor gingerly picking their way through a menu card of new fangled health foods; on the contrary they seem to prefer a Juicy roast of beef, a properly turned loin of mutton, and even the deadly broiled lobster is not altogether ignored. The point of all this is that a vig orous old age depends upon good di gestion and plenty of wholesome food, and not upon dieting and an endeavor to live upon bran crackers. There is a certain class of food cranks who seem to believe that meat, coffee and many other good things are rank poisons, but these cadaverous, sickly-looking individuals are a walk ing condemnation of their own theor ies. The matter in a nutshell is that if the stomach secrets the natural di gestive juices in sufficient ijuantlties any wholesome food will be promptly digested; if the stomach does not do so, and certain foods cause distress, one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets arter eacn meal win remove all difficulty, because they Hiawatha, Kan., Feb. 20. John Blackhawk, the full blooded Winne bago Indian who eloped to South Sioux City with and was married to Miss Allie Jbiart, tne i-year-oia daughter of Dr, Hart, government Dhvsician at'' the Winnebago Indian agency near Homer, Neb.,, is now with his -white wife at Keeerve, this county. The couple was married at faouth Sioux City by the county judge of Dakota county last Monday and ira mediately came to this county. Black hawk has been a student at Carlisle Indian school. He is 25 years old and a handsome, educated young redskin. It has come to light that Blackhawk has an Indian wife at the Winnebago agency and that she has given birth to a child since his marriage to Miss Hart. An attempt will be made to have him arrested and prosecuted for bigamy. KRATZ TRIAL BEGINS. WOMAN IN THE CASE. The One Who Came Between Buffalo Bill and His Wife, Charged With Accepting a Bribe Nearly Three Years Ago. Butler. Mo., Feb. 20 After a delay of nearly three years the trial of Charles Kratz of St. Louis, a former member of the municipal assembly of that city, Be gan here todav in the Bates county court. Kratz is charged with accenting a bribe while a member of the municipal assem bly from an agent of the Suburban Rail way company to pass a bill surrendering an extensive franchise. Kratz fled to Mexico and his extradition came only after a special treaty had been arranged with that government through the personal interest taken in the case by President Roosevelt. RIDER HAGGARD IS COMING. He Is a Commissioner to Investigate Salvation Army Settlements. wnat every wean stomacn lacks, pep sin, hydro-chloric acid, diastase and nux. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do not act upon the bowels, and in fact are not strictly a medicine, as they act almost entirely upon the food eaten, digesting it thoroughly, and thus gives a much-needed rest and giving an ap petite for the next meal. Of people who travel nine out of ten use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, knowing them to be perfectly safe to use at any time and also having found out by experience that they are a safeguard against Indigestion in any form, and eating, as they have to, t all hours and all kinds of food, the traveling public for years have pinned their fait' to Stuarts Tablets. All druggists sell them at 50 cents for full-sized packages, and any drug gists from Maine to California, if his opinion were asked, will say that Stu art's Dyspepsia Tablets is the most popular and successful remedy for any stomach trouble. London, Feb. 20. The steamer Teutonic which sails from Liverpool for New York February 22 will have among her passen gers Rider Haggard, the author, who has been appointed a commissioner to inquire into the conditions and character of the agricultural and industrhil land settle ments organized m America oy me oaiva- tion army. Explorer From Thibet. San Francisco, Feb. 20. Lieutenant Wilhelm Felchner, an officer of the Bavarian armv and an explorer, has arrived on the Siberia alter aooui is months of travel and exploration in Thibet. The purpose of the lieuten ant's travels was scientific research and a desire to be the first to bring from an unknown region records that will be of great value to travelers and explorers, who will doubtless flock to Thibet now that the way nas Deen cleared by Colonel Younghusband's expedition. Bribery Committee Reports. Sacramento. CaL. Feb. 20. The committee appointed to investigate the bribery charges, involving State Sena- ni tors Emmons, French, wrignt ana Bunkers, comnleted their report late last night, and it will be filed at to day's session of the senate. The mem bers of the committee would not give direct answers as to whether the re port will recommend the expulsion of the accused men, but Senator Simpson said: "The report will recommend that action be taken in the case of the senators charged with bribery." Father of the Grand Circuit. Buffalo. N. Y.. Feb. 20. Cicero J. Ham lin, founder of the Village stock farm, or ganizer of the National Trotting associa tion and father of th& grand circuit, died today, aged So years. High School Pupils Arrested. Warsaw. Ind., Feb: SO A number of the older pupils of the high schools who had been inducing children of the lower rooms to absent themselves from school, have been arrested by the police and soldiers. Monarch over pain. Burns. cuts, sprains, stings. Instant relief. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. At any drug store. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 20. Miss Bessie Isbell of Washington is the young woman who has come between "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his wife, with whom he has lived thirty-eight years. Mrs. Cody's lawyers will present to the court in due time the charge that infatuation of this young woman actu ated the venerable Wild West hero, to seek to rid himself of his wife and that he did so with the intention of marry ing or adopting that young person when free. Locked in a vault in the office of the clerk of the first district court are a number of depositions which give the history of this infatua tion from the beginning in 1900 to the present time. This evidence will be submitted to Judge Scott when he calls the formal hearing of the divorce case at Sheridan, Wyo., probably the latter part of the week. The first glimpse of the life led by the white-haired' showman and the woman is found in the deposition of John W. Claire, valet and messenger to Colonel Cody for several years. He is now in the employ of the American Ice company in New York. His testi mony was taken last April at Hemp stead, L. I. His evidence was given in the presence of Attorney Ridgley, rep resenting Colonel Cody, and Attorney Wilcox, representing Mrs. Cody. The dialogue which Judge Scott will read in the depositions will read in this wise j "When did you first become acquaint ed with the person named Bessie Is bel, asked Attorney Wilcox. 'At the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, while the show was there in 1900," re plied the former valet, Claire. "Under what circumstances did you first see her?" "I saw her in Colonel Cody's room." "Where did you next see her that sea son?" "Colonel Cody's tent at the show grounds in Minneapolis." "Where next?" "In the colonel's tent in St. "Anywhere alse that year?' the attorney. "Yes.l' said Claire. "I saw her in Chicago first at the show grounds at Wentworth avenue and Thirty-fifth street. Miss Isbell was driven to the grounds in a closed carriage and I took her directly to the colonel's tent. While there a telegram came for Colonel Cody. He was in a buckskin suit, ready to go into the arena, and told me to get some change out of his clothes in the dressing room. I couldn't find any change. 'Wonder what I did with that hundred?" said Colonel Cody. "At this Miss Isbell pulled a roll of bills out of her bosom and said 'Here it is, I took it out of your pocket in the hotel.' "Where was the colonel stopping in Chicago?" asked Mr. Wilcox. "At the Auditorium Annex," replied Claire. "Was the colonel under the influence of liquor in the tent?" "Well, he was about half intoxica ted." "Where else did you see Miss Isbell that year?" "At a hotel in Sherman, Texas, the name of which I have forgotten." "Tell the circumstances." "I called at Colonel Cody's room on Sunday afternoon. He wasn't feeling well. He was recovering from one of those 'toots' on which he started in Oklahoma City. I heated some ex halia and rubbed hii.-; down with it." "Where did you see Miss Isbell?" "In her room, which adjoined the colonel's. I found the colonel in her room after dinner. I rubbed the col onel down again with exhalia." "How was Miss Isbell clothed?" "She had on a loose dressing gown, a sort of a kimono. The colonel asked her to step out of the room while I rubbed him down. Then the colonel told me to occupy his room that night and if any persons called for him not to tell them where he was. If absolutely necessary I was to wake him without anyone knowing it." "Where did he tell you to find him to wake him up?" "Why, he didn't have to tell me. I went into the colonel's room and slept there all night." "When and where did you next see Colonel Cody?" asked the lawyer. "I saw him next morning in Miss Isbell's room," said Claire. "The col onel was in bed and Miss Istell was moving around the room in the same dressing gown as on the previous evening." In the remainder of the affidavit the valet enumerated many other ho tels where they were together and tells of seeing them in Cody's private car. L. F. Clark, Cody's ranch fore man, tells of their stopping at the ranch house for some time and of property which the young woman said Cody had given her. MEMORIAL SERVICE IN CHICAGO BISHOP &VLAREN DEAD. Was In Charge of Protestant Episco pal Diocese of Chicago. New York, Feb. 20. The Right Rev. William E. McLaren, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Chicago, died here last night. Death was due to heart failure. The bishop had been ill for more than a month, during the great er part of which time he was confined to his bed. The members of the bishop's family with a few friends, were at the bedside 1 when the end came. Besides a widow, the deceased is survived by one son and two daugh ters. Bishop McLaren was born in Geneva, N. Y., in 1831. In 1860 he en tered the Presbyterian ministry and eleven years later embraced' the Episcopal faith and was ordained In Detroit in 1872. He, was. consecrated bishop in 1875. Bishop McLaren founded the Western Theological seminary in Chicago In 1883 and was author of many religious works. SUES FOR BACK ALIMONY. Mrs. Florence Cnnard Asks for Ar rears Amounting to $23,000. Paul." pursued In Honor of the Late Grand Duke Sergius. Chicago, Feb.. 20. Elaborate me morial service in honor of the assas sinated Grand Duke Sergius have been celebrated at the Russian orthodox church here. Baron Schlippenbach, the Russian consul, and Vice Consul Prince Engalitcheff occupied the space reserved for persons of high rank. The services were in the Slavic language. In a short sermon In Russian, the minister urged the worshippers to pray for the soul of Sergius who, he said, was slain by an anarchist. He blamed the American people for show ing Kvmnathv with the Russian revo lutionists, of whose class, he declared, was the murderer ot rresiaeni Kinley. Mc- Satolli Has a Relapse. Rome, Feb. 20. Cardinal Satolli, for mer apostolic delegate in the United States, who had nearly recovered from his recent attack of bronchitis, has suf fered another relapse. Some fears are entertained about his condition as he is now threatened with pneumonia. Makes bone and muscle faster than any other remedv. Brings strength, health and happiness to the whole family. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Gatlin Drug Co. Trenton, N. J., Feb. 20. John A. Montgomery, an attorney here repre senting Mrs. Florence Cunard, now the wife of one of the owners of the Cunard line of steamships, caused to be Issued out of the supreme court a writ of attachment against the prop erty in the estate of Edward M. Fadel ford of Baltimore, Md., for $23,000 back alimony, alleged to be due Mrs. Cunard, who formerly was Mrs. Padelford. Mrs. Cunard obtained a divorce from Mr. Padelford In New York in 1890, and under the decree Padelford was ordered to pay his wife $6,000 a year alimony and was forbidden to marry again in New York state. Padel ford disregarded the decree so far as. remarrying was concerned, but con tinued to pay the $6,000 a year ali mony until 190?, when the then Mrs. Padelford was married to Mr. Cunard. After the marriage Padelford refused to pay the alimony and has persisted in his refusal during the last three years. Edward M. Padelford's broth er was the first husband of the lata Bettina Gerard. fMJ, l,' r5S i 1 t5r "--J 1 4c. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Financial Item Indications Point to a big boom in oil. Items From Jewell City. Jewell City, Feb. 20. Jewell City Is to have electric lights. Mr. A. G. Blankenship is at the head of the enter prise; the mill of which he is proprietor will furnish the power. This town was without a train from the 11th to the 16th on the Calamity line. The trains are running all right now. Mr. J. C. Stidham is reported as being interested in the First National bank in a romantic fashion. Sohaeffer Breaks a Finger. Pittsburg, Feb. 20. Jacob Schaeffer, the billiardist, slipped on the icy pave ment at Englewood and broke the little finger on his right hand and it will be six or eight weeks before it will heal. Schaeffer called off the tour with Willie Hoppe and left for Chicago today. Two Put to Death. Ossinlng. N. Y., Feb. 20. Frank Rimlerl, who murdered Jake Pinto, a Brooklyn junk dealer, and Adolph Koenig, who strangled Mrs. Mary Kauflfman to death at her home in New York, were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison today. Father Gopon in France. Paris, Feb. 20. It is reported that Father Gopon, leader of the workmen in the recent St. Petersburg disturbances, arrived at Marseilles on his way to Rome in companywith several students. The Russian police agents are making inquiries in Italy as to his residence in that country. Telephone 8 56, Topeka Ice Fuel Co., for lump coke. Prompt delivery. j3 i o :m i y. Bearatha Iha Kind Vos Hav Alware Bought Signature s -7lrf of leiaSy 7-c6z4U4 Baani 'ao The Kind You Have A!was Boi'ghJ Boan the a Tin Kind You Have Alwarc Esughi

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, "1905. 7T7 O rJ 7 IT IT '77 T7 O TT O Madf r'-Tfi tiM w J2eacf aso ai&ottf Infants' and Children's Wear, and the New. Lestelle Corset on page 6 i 7.50 Dainty Trousseau Sets Composed of four matched pieces each. We're telling here of two special sets, very specially priced but can make up complete matched sets In some of the pret tiest and finest underwear in regu lar stock. Set of Fine Long Cloth elaborately trimmed with wide Val. lace. Chemisette Gown Has deep round yoke of insertion and Clur.y beading:, ribbon finished. Short ribbon and lace trimmed sleeves. Skirt Has 21-inch flounce, with broad band of fine tucks and hem stitching. Three bands of inser tion, and deep lace ruffle. Corset Cover Made full with deep round yoke front and back, of lace and ribbon drawn beading. Drawer? Have full flounce headed with tucks, and trimmed with lace and insertion. Same style set of finer materials Lace used being beautifully designed Normandy Valenciennes. $10.00 wk, my '3;.v w it ri -sr ,1 XK t W think of "r t 1 Nl iYrrT3 n I II iv f ii ii tin ENTICINGLY PRICED UNDERMUSLINS rHITE harbingers of Sprinsr days these lovely, lacey garments. They set every one planning, buying, making- ready. A sensible, saving pleasure, for it i9 now generally 3d by practical women that it does not make underwear, or hire it made. To the time spent in planning, and collect ing materials is enough, without count ing the hours of toil hours most wo men need- for a hundred other things. Then there is the added cost when a seamstress does the work. How much simpler to spend a pleasant hour in leery Muslin Underwear Room, selecting your very ideals from pile3 of beautiful gar ments finished, all ready to put on less all the fuss and extra expense. Jror tne cost is wonaeriuuy ngnt, ana tne garments fine as if you made them yourself. You see the manufacturers vie continually in making goods nearer and nearer to home- cV? work, tov nicety; and as we accept only the refined productions of the very best makers there's no chance of your buying anything but delightfully satisfactory garments at this store. Of course we lay greater stress on this February sale than on any later selling. We tret the verv finest o-oods for it. at the very lowest possible prices e-ive vou values now that may not be duplicated again this season, when the 6upply is exhausted. This makes present buying imperative if you would get the very riohest choosing. Unexpected Specials at 25 c Gowns Well made of good mus lin. V neck, plain tucked square yoke. Yoke back. Neatly ruffled neck and sleeves. we are com pelled to limit these gowns, one to a customer. 23c. Skirts Neat muslin long skirt with six-Inch ruffle, having fine tucks and deex hem. 23c. Cambric Short Skirt. Five-inch ruffle, with two hemstitched tucks and deep hemstitched hem. 25c. Chemise-T-Round neck muslin chemise, with Cluny lace edge around neck and arms. 25c. Drawers Made of Cambric, with full flounce "neatly hemstitched. Also style with Cluny lace ruffle. 25c. Corset Covers Full cover of cambric, with deep points of wide lace insertion inset. Lace edged neck and arms. 25c. Round neck, full cambric cover, with edsre of Torchon insertion and lace. 25c Full cover of cambric, with deep yoke of faggoted bands. Pretty hemstitched ruffles neck and arms. 25c. A Cambric cover, full front and back. Has fine narrow-tucked ruffles neck and arms. 25c. Cfl. V Xeck Gown of uUb muslin. Square yoke of tucks and em broidery. Plain back yoke. Same style high neck. Crt- High Neck Gown UUv of muslin. Square yoke of plain tucks. Ruf fled neck and sleeves. The Pretty New Gowns 75c Short Sleeved Gown of cambric. Round neck ribbon drawn. wemstttcnea ruffles on neck and sleeves. Special Milne. qp chemisette Gown of 03C cambric. Square neck with deep band of hemstitched tucks Kimono sleeves, with deep hemstitched edge. q j- Square Neck Gown of D3C cambric. Square yoke of Cluny insertion, with bands of tucks on either side. Yoke back. Unusually sxl- Chemisette Gown of cambric. Deep square or nne ivajnsooic em broidery, ribbon drawn. V neck lace edged. Siecial nnnibor. Two Pointed Yoke Gown--Made of cam bric. Yoke of fine Swiss with heavily embroidered design, and hemstitching. High neck. Em broidery edged sleeves. A sne-ciaU Si. oo $1.00 1.00 1.00 S1.50 i High Neck Gown of good cambric. Yoke of embroidery and neat tucks. Yoke back. Good full gown. Short Sleeve Gown of cambric. Square neck. Deep yoke of fine Cluny lace, open design. Full sleeves gathered Into lace cuff. Kxtra value. Chemisette Gown of long cloth. Deer. round yoke back and front, made of wheel pattern Valen ciennes and rows of silk fag goting. Neck ribbon drawn. Kimono sleeves edged like yoke. A dainty special. 2. Itonnd Neck Chem isette Gown of long cloth. Yoke of two rows fine Cluny Insertion, Joined with faggoting. Lace edge, ribbon drawn. Sleeves trimmed with lace and ribbon. SO 7 Chemisette Gown of Ctmli long cloth: Very deep yoke four rows of open Valenciennes and ribbon drawn beading. Short sleeves, with deep full lace trimmed ruffles. Very dainty. Qi) IJC New Yoke Effect. tyOml 0 Yoke of solid pin tucks, inset with large meshed, fine Valenciennes insertion, in points. Edge of lace and inser tion, ribbon drawn. Short sleeves, with full Jace. trimmed ruffles. Chemisette Gown, of fine long cloth. Handkerchief Yoke, Chemisette Gown of fine long cloth. Novel and beautiful the yoke is of hand kerchief points, in very finely embroidered Swiss, with lace edges. Neck lace edged and ribbon drawn. Back tucked. Sfi Bj! Chemisette Gown of 3m I J sheer long cloth. Round neck has ribbon drawn Valenciennes edge. New yoke, inset with special designs in crocheted motifs. Short sleeves have deep ruffles of insertion and lace, ribbon drawn, An ex quisite garment. 5.00 50c C ft Flounced Muslin Skirt. uUu Eight-inch flounce with five fine tucks and Cluny lace edge. Hemstitched Tucked Skirt of muslin. Seven-inch cambric flounce with the three tucks and hem neatly hemstitched. Great value. Very Deep Flounce. 0l Skirt of muslin, with 13-inch cambric flounce having two rows of Cluny insertion, and Cluny edge. Dust Ruffle. Bargain. Beautiful White Skirts n C Hemstitched Tucked I UU Skirt of muslin. Ten inch flounce has two groups of hemstitched tucks, and deep hemstitched hem. Cambric Skirt, with 14- 85c linon, having two rows wide Valenciennes insertion, and deep edge to match. Dust ruffle. With Rose Embroid ered Flounce Skirt of cambric, 11-inch In dia linen flounce head ed with narrow tucks. Valuable special. Valencien nese Trim med Skirt. Cambric top, 14-inch India linen flounce, with two rows lace inser tion, and lace edged ruffle. Dust ruffle. Sl.00 SI.00 $1.50 I.accy Flounce Cam bric Skirt. 14-inch India linon flounce is tucked, and has 7-inch ruffle set with polka-dotted lace bands, edged deep lace to match. Good spe cial. Sn ft n Fine Valenciennes UiUU Trimmed. Cambric top, 17-inch India linon flounce with two bands of wide lace in sertion above a wide ruffle, which is banded and edged with the lace. 5Q 17C Deep, Lacey Flounce U. I 0 Skirt of cambric. The 17-inch India linon flounce is closely inset with rows of wide. fine Valenciennes lace, open pattern. Has deep lace ruffle, and dust ruffle. Handsome Embroid- S5.00 of fine cambric, with deep tuck ed flounce, wide ruffle of iarge polka-dotted embroidery.. Em broidered dust ruffle. $6.00 Cluny Flounced Skirt. Sheer cam bric top. 28-lnch flounce of al most solid Cluny Insertion, wide and fine. finished with deep Cluny ruffle. C"7 Cfl Dainty Daisy La re 0JU Trimmings. Cam. brio Skirt, with 18-inch flounce composed of wide fine insertion, in daisy pattern, and bands of narrow tucks. Deep lace ruffle. Exquisite Embroid ered Skirt. Sheer nainsook top, with 16-inch flounce of beautifully embroid ered nainsook headed with ribbon drawn beading, finished with large soft bow of pale blue ribbon. Black India Linon Skirts. Often asked for, seldom found. Neat, well made skirts of eood India linon. with 9- inch tucked flounce, are each SI5.00 SI.00 50c embroi arms. 50c DAINTIEST CHEMISE 1.50 Square-necked cambric Chemise with yoke of heavy embroidery. Embroidery edged arms. Round-necked Chemise with pretty lace edge around neck and arms. Neck rib bon drawn. QC a Longcloth Chemise with UUU round neck and deep round yoke of lace insertion joined with ribbon drawn beading. Tucked ruffle at foot. Pointed Yoke Chemise of Nainsook. Yoke of faggotting. Neck lace edged, rib bon drawn. Tucked and lace edged ruffle at foot. 1.00 Round-necked Chemise of longoloth, with deep Valenciennes yoke. Ribbon drawn lace edge neck and arms. Tucked ruffle at foot. Yoke of Fine Embroid ery, ribbon drawn. Em broidered ruffles at arms. Chemise of longcloth. Square ".Yoke of fine, wide lace insertion. Lace edge, ribbon drawn at neck. Lace trimmed foot ruffles. Deep Round Yoke of delicate lace, quite wide. joined with embroidery beading, ribbon drawn. Lace at neck, and on the tucket foot ruffle. 1.50 2.25 Lace edg Lace trim 2.75 3.00 Tucked Yoke Inset with Lace Wheels. Lace edge with ribbon. Lace edged foot ruf fle. Chemise of sheer longcloth. 3.75 Ins '1th Rays of Fine Lace insertion in the deep round yoke. Tucks and deep lace on foot ruffle. 5.00 Rose Embroidery me dallions set into the pin tucked yoke, and edged with dainty Valenciennes Insertion in ray de sign. Back yoke of tucks. Lace trimmed foot ruffle. Short Skirts 39c Muslin Skirt with neat Surely a great lace edged. bargain. RCIlT rretty Tucked Skirt liUu of cambric. Eight inch lawn flounce is headed with fine tucks, and has neat ly tucked ruffle. Good spe cial. rjQ With H e m s t itched UfO Tucks. Muslin Skirt with 9-inch lawn flounce, having two inch-wide tucks and deep hem. All hemstitched. QC Tucks and Wide Lace UUV Insertion on the 7- inch flounce, lace edged flounce of this pretty cambric skirt. S ftft Cluny Lace Trim l.UU med Skirt of good cambric. Eight-inch lawn flounce, headed with tucks, has deep lace edge and band. S Eft India Linon Skirt. J.)U Six-Inch flounce with three rows fine Valen ciennes insertion inset, and "deep lace edge. Ribbon drawn beading at top. Dainty Ribbon Girdle CORSET (Like illustration.) Special secured for this sale made of broad "mercerized rib bon, in white, pink and blue 50c Our unprecedented price is Cflft Embroidered Yoke of special de JuU sign, drawn with wide ribbon. Cover of nainsook. Eft a Deep Round Yoke of fine meshed wUU lace, with five rows of faggoting. Cover of nainsook. Special number. 17C ft Double Pointed Yoke front and UU back, made of all over hem stitched and embroidered swiss. Lace edged, ribbon drawn. Full cover of nainsook. QCr Longcloth full cover with front OJu and back yoke of fine daisy pat- Latest in Corset Covers 1.75 s tern lace three rows set together with beading and ribbon. Very dainty special. QC a Low Round Necked full long Ouu cloth cover. Double pointed yoke effect with embroidery medallions edged with Valenciennes lace. Tucked back. 51 flfl IceP Embroidered Ruffle livu around the yoke, which is made of embroidery, and Cluny beading ribbon drawn. Back tucked. Extra special. Dainty Cover of Dotted Swiss with deep round yoke of lace insertion and ribbon, front and back. 1.00 Pin Tucked Yoke With Lace Medallions, and cross bands of pretty Valenciennes inset. Lafce and ribbon drawn neck. Tucked back. Cover of fine longcloth. Sheer Swiss Embroidery and alenciennes Yoke, round effect deep points set with embroidered medallions. Large cluster of narrow rib bon loops. A very dainty garment. Cover of Solid Valenciennes Lace. Row on row of dainty insertion set together. Finished with ribbon drawn frill at neck. 3.75 4.50 39c It- NT .J Drawers Finely Made l 50c full, tucked i'tkNDEftGAIKNTS R01TA1 Muslin Drawers. Deep ruffle with row of Cluny insertion and wide lace edge." Extra bargain. Cambric Drawers with deep ruffle headed with tucks. Scalloped Ruffle of Cambric, Cluny lace edge, tucked heading. Drawers of muslin. A special. fi n&f Fine awn Ruffle with pretty Valenciennes "Sm i OC lace and Insertion. Tucked heading. Drawers of muslin. 't OCr Lawn Flounce with tucks and fine lace Inset J OwU in wheel design. Deep lace edge. of muslin. Special number. 50c Drawers M 1 ftft Cambric Drawers with India linon ruffle ll.UU headed and edged with tucks. Fine em broidery frill. CI SO Deep Flounce of India linon with two 2 1 .OU bands of wide lace insertion and lace edge. Drawers of nainsook. Srt n C Bias Flare Flounce of India linon. Dainty Ctw I 0 Valenciennes ruffle, composed of four rows of lace with overlapped edges. Ribbon drawn beading at top of flounce. Drawers of longcloth. 50 n R Bis Flounce, flare cut. inset with me 0. I D 'dailions of embroidery and lace insertion. Edge of Valenciennes lace with overlapped edges. Larg bow of soft ribbon. Let Prices Do the Talking At This Linen Sale Once down in the Daylight Basement, no arguments are needed for the big salesroom is hung and piled right and left with bargains of such apparent value that there's no possibility of a mistake about it. Our own unimpeachable values, known all over Topeka and far beyond rriced down to figures that barely save us from loss, in many instances. But when we get up a bargain sale we make it strong. And this sale is sure to prove its strength by spread ing out and reaching more peo ple than anything previously done in this line. iLINlisN SAIL, IE Jilj ii iiiiit: BASEMENT. TABLE LINEN SALE 25c Cream Union Table Linen. 58 inches wide. Regular 23c quality. O J" Good Heavy Cnion Linen www in cream. 64 inches wide. Very special value. 45c AH Linen Damasks in cream, silver, and bleached, widths 60 to 68 inches. Extra fine linens put in at this very low price as a spe cial surprise. P f" Fine Bleached AH Linen WWW Damasks, wide. Bought at low price, for this sals though regular price would be 75c 70 inches an especially 65 90c inches SI. 10 Heavy Scotd! Damask, bleached and cream, 72 inches wide. 12 good styles. Unbleached Scotch Damask, and fine bleached Irish, 72 inches wide. Regular $1.25 and J1.35 linens. C C Finest Double Dam- 41.TW ask, bleached Scotch and Irish, 72 inches wide. Real $1.65 and $LS5 linens. Genuine Mercerized Damask, bleached. Launders well. 60 inches wide. CC Best Mercerized Damask "WV at cut price for this sale. 6 4 inches wide. Also 72 inch width for 65c special. 48c Napkins Underpriced 90c All Linen, and Union Linens, bleached. Heavy quality. Size 18x18 inches. Special bargain. TI QC All Linen Napkii bleached and un OI.AW bleached. 20x20 inches. Our good $1.50 napkins, savingly priced. S Cn Bleached, Silver Bleached and Unbleached ItWU Napkins. Sizes 20x20 and 22x22. at this surprisingly low price. SI OC Great Extra in Bleached Irish Napkins. Owour fine j2. 50 22-inch Napkins with the price cut down to save you 65c a dozen. SO "JK Bleached Napkins, a miscellaneous lot of -w good bargains, sizes 22 and 24 inch. The early people will appropriate the best. ?9 Heavy Scotch and Fine Irish Napkins. 4'&WW bleached. Sizes 2 4. and 26 inches. Good choosing and great values. SO Q Dinner Napkins of fine double damask. Wi WW marked at this special price. Linen Damasks, bleached W. and cream. 66 and 70 inches wide. Good assortment of patterns. Excellent values. P Q Irish Damask, bleached vuv and cream, 70 inches wide, and 6 S -inch German Silver Bleached Damasks. 85c quality. Crash in Crash Prices rf Heavy AU-Linen Brown I 72w Crash. Good 18-inch good IS -inch 10c Crash. 0 Bleached and Un IUC bleached all linen Crashes, 18 inches wide, and 19 inch Glass Cloth, 12 c qualities. Fine Pure Flax Crashes, 18 inch bleached. 20 inch unbleached. Something unusual. Special in Very Fine 65c Toweling. Our fine Damask Huckaback Toweling, always 65c a yard. The kind you buy when you're going to make up fine towels, and embroider the initials upon them. Width 2i inches 48c yd Tine Nainsooks and Longcloths For those who would make up dainty underwear, these especially low bolt prices are a great boon. We've cut the profits down to nearly nothing on most of these fine cloths, so that you can buy a bolt easily. All are 36 inches wide. Nainsooks and Longcloths in fair quality, 12-yard bolts, $1.10, $1.23, $1.55, special. In finest qualities, 12-yard bolts, $1.80. special. Sheer Nainsook, of pure Sea Island Cotton. Very fine, beau tiful cloth. 12-yard bo'.ts. $1.95 and S2.25; 40-lncli, $2.85, all specials. Bedspread Specials np Honeycomb Spreads, W wC h e m m e d. Marseilles patterns; size 80x90 inches. Our regular $1.25 values. SI.39 Large Fringed .Spreads.. Size 80x90. Fine at $1.75, wonderful values at the sale price. j Wash Cloths, Knitted and w Turkish. Going to part with 60 dozen good ones for a few pennies apiece. 9c Lively Towel Sale Every number a special seldom matched at such small prices. It will be well to buy towels enough now to last a year or so, for this is a sale that will not bear repe tition in a hurry. We dont wan't to lose so much in profits soon again.' ROc dozen Bleached Huck I '-w Towels. 17x33 in. Hemmed and hemstitched.. Be quick to buy they are going fast. Hemmed Union Tuck and Turkish Towels. Four num bers, far below regular prices. Heavy Turkish and Hem med Huck Towels. Choose from six numbers. I Ca line Hemmed Turkish and lvlw Huckaback Towels, sizes 19x39 and 20x42 inches. 'JRrt Bargain Assortment all f Ol) sorts of odd towes at an unusually low special price. Hem med and hemstitched, and fringed, in Huck and Damask. Also bleached and unbleached Turkish Towels. Many were 35c. i o 1

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. 8 FLAVJSJOUHD. Important Point In Primary Law Overlooked. No Provision Is Made for the Cities. HELPS PARTY MACHINE IVould Keestablisli the County Convention. Old It Is Proposed, However, Have Regulations. to There is a fatal defect in the Beards ley primary election law which has been Introduced in the house of representa tives as y.n official administration meas ure. It makes no provision whatever for city primaries. Several meetings have been held bv members of the legislature representing the leading cities of the state, and a new section has been drafted which will be presented to the legislature as an amendment to the Beardsley bill. The plan is to enable cities to continue to hold their primaries aa they do at present, by the Crawford county sys tem of primaries. The Beardsley law was drafted by a lawyer named Beardsley from Russell, who has a job In J. R. Burrow's office. It is a peculiar 6ort of a combination of the Crawford county system and the convention system. Apparently, the "administration" has tried to fix up something which would satisfy both the convention crowd and the Crawford county crowd. The Crawford county system Is merely to give the people a cnance to vote for candidates in the primary Just as they vote in the final election. The political fixers do not like this system as well, because it requires more work for less certainty of re turns. Under the proposed law, a primary election is held in each township of the county, at which the people not only vote for the candidates for county offi ces, but also vote for a township dele gate. The township delegate goes to the county convention pledged to vote for vhe candidates who are declared to have carried his township. He is not really bound to vote for these candi dates, but he knows what his people want, and is pretty liable to follow in structions, it Is thought. The county convention is the source of all the power of the party machine. Through the county convention dele gates to other conventions are selected, and the party machine is thereby put in motion. This system cf giving each township one delegate of equal power with all other delegates is likely to stir up a big fight, and there is a strong prospect that the bill will be defeated for this reason. It means that every township has equal authority with every other township, regardless of the population. The little township cuts Just as much figure in the county convention aa the big township. It is a measure which ought to be received with favor by the email townships. It is rather an amusing circumstance that from the "official" primary election bill the author should omit such an im portant feature as the primary elections for cities. It seems he became so much involved with the intricate details of his curious bifurcated system that he completely forgot that there were such things as city primaries. Passed Anti-Cigarette Bill. Judge A. R. Clark persuaded the house on Saturday afternoon that his anti-cigarette bill is a good thing, and the house recommended the measure for passage in committee of the whole. The bill prohibits the sale of tobacco or cigarettes, or the giving of cigar ette papers to all minors under 21 years of age. The committee on health and hygiene recommended that the limit be fixed at 18 years instead of 21. Judge Clark said to the house mem bers: "If you keep a boy from smokin? cigarettes until he is 21, it is my ex perience that he never will smoke them. You have Just about saved him from danger. If, on the other hand, he smokes cigarettes until he is 21, he is rrobably on the highway to other forms of vice. I would like to drive cigar ettes out of the state altogether if I could. But as I can't do that, I say, oon't let the boy begin to smoke the things until he becomes a man, and hen the chances are that he will never begin. The principal change in the pro- fiosed law is that it prohibits the giv ng away of cigarette papers. The boy could buy tobacco, and the dealer would give him some cigarette papers." Worked In Committee.. Nearly all day Saturday the house worked in committee of the whole, cleaning up the calendar. Saturday af ternoon the following important bills were acted upon: Pringle's bill allowing militiamen to be admitted to the Soldiers' home, pro vided there is room for them without crowding out enlisted soldiers. Stone's bill providing for annual re ports of the state labor commissioner. Holdren's bill authorizing county commissioners to offer reward for the apprehension of persons unlawfully killing fish. Pringle's bill appropriating $1,000 to pay the cost of marking the course of the Santa Fe trail. State Packing House Bill. When the Brandon bill providing for the establishment of a state packing house was reached, Mr. Brandon arose and said: "I have about come to the conclu sion that the use of 15 of our convicts at the state oil refinery will run the supply of convicts so short that there will not be enough to run my packing house. Therefore I am willing that my bill should go over." The Brandon bill is one of the bills which was introduced for the purpose of having fun with the state refinery proposition. Judge Benson has Introduced in the house the senate bill providing for the taxation of pipe lines. It also provides for the taxation of telegraph and tele phone lines, and puts them all under the same board. The bill was by con sent of the assessment and taxation committee referred to Judge Benson's committee on judiciary, together with house bill 290 which also relates to tax ation of pipe lines. Xew Duties for Sheriff. T. E. Adair, of Chautauqua, this morning introduced a bill which abol ishes the board of live stock sanitary commissioners and makes it the duty of the sheriffs of the various counties of the state the officers to execute the live stock sanitary rules. The sheriff Is given authority to make investiga tions, establish quarantine, and call on veterinary surgeon of State Agricul tural college. The sheriff can direct that animals infected be killed, after being appraised, and the county com missioners shall pay tne amount fixed. The sheriff may also compel railroad companies to disinfect cars used in the transDOrtatton of stock. The bill gives the sheriff $3 a day for the time used in the discharge or ms duties, and o cents a mile for traveling expenses. The county shall pay this bill. The state shall pay the veteri nary surgeon of the State Agricultural college $5 a day for his time when he is called out to diagnose disease. CHARGES AGAINST SAHTA FE. beside which the brush with the beef trust becomes insignificant. It is realiz ed in Washington that this is the first real test of the power of a trust-busting" president matched against a so called 'octopus" of the business world. The Standard has been the one trust pre-eminently against which attack up on attack has been aimed ever since its guiding masters of finance built up its dominant position. Indignant citizens of various states at various times in the last 20 years have compelled legis latures to undertake to expose it and limit its monopoly. Congress has followed suit. Endless testifying, endless resolving and re peated investigations are in the records I of national and state legislation. 1 Few have been the results attained. These movements heretofore have orig inated in the east, and when carried to congress their .backing has been east ern backing. Now it is a western state, Kansas, which takes up the gauntlet, and is passing bill upon bill, all calcu- lated to restrict the Standard and fur- nish competition. It is a western congressman wno in troduced the resolution calling for a national investigation, though national as well as western, popular sentiment he fathers o uciiii.w "nil n.c t circumstances now are airrerent, in that an executive is in the White House whose popularity largely rests upon his "trust-busting" proclivities. The presi dent, also, has a special machinery available with which to prosecute such inquiries. It is the bureau of corpora tions. They Should Know. This bureau is fresh from its experi ence with the beef trust, and at least should be thoroughly informed as to how to proceed. The means, the men and the disposition seem to be at hand, and the time seems appropriate for gov ernment action against the great mon opoly, which promises to be historic in importance. Agents who worked upon the beef trust case have been dispatched to the Kansas field, and will begin investiga tions next week. The nature of the procedure and the facts obtained are to be kept secret for the time being. It is expected that the force of In spectors will be kept constantly work ing until June or July. By that time it is thought that the true situation in all the centers of the oil industry can have been learned. Then the data obtained will be sifted and a report rendered direct to the president, who will make public as much or as little as in his discre tion he may think best. The Campbell resolution specifically declares that information which may be secured shall be available for legal prosecution. By its terms the com missloner of corporations is directed "to make early report of its findings. according to the law, to the end that such information may be used Dy con gress as a basis for legislation or by the department of justice as a basis for legal proceedings." The information gathered as to tne operations of the beef trust has not been published and the commissioner of corporations regards It as unavail able to the department of justice. But discovery of violations of the law on the part of the Standard, under the Campbell resolution, will permit of criminal proceedings. The president and Mr. Garfield both have indicated that the present work is to be the most comprehensive of its kind yet undertaken by the govern ment. The president has declared that now Is the time to "go to the very bottom" of Standard Oil. It will be a battle royal. Standard Oil Kests. Chanute, Kan., Feb. 20. For the first time since the Standard Oil com pany was organized, it has given up a fight in less than a week after it be gan. The Standard Oil company is now buying oil in the Chanute district, after refusing to take any for one week. The construction of the pipe lines in the territories is also again in progress. Reports from Independence, Peru and other places indicate that the Standard is buying there also. When it had "accomplished" these things the Standard notified the pro ducers that it would run their oil for them. The producers are especially desir ous of getting through the Missouri legislature the bills making pipe lines common carriers and providing a maximum freight rate on oil. There is a big market for fuel oil in Missouri, and the passage of these laws will be necesary to enable the people there to get the full benefit of cheap fuel. Those Osajje leases. Pawhuska, Ok., Feb. 20. The resist ance of the people of Kansas to the co ercive conduct of the Standard Oil com pany may lead to a more general pub licity of a gigantic attempt at plunder In the Osage Indian reservation by the same monopoly. The Osage Indian tribe, more than a year ago, consented to the allotment of their lands in severalty and the abolition of their tribal government. Representatives of the tribe are now in Washington, where they were called to negotiate with the government a bill for the division of their property. The Osage reservation is one of the most valuable oil and gas fields in the south west. This oil field is in the clutches of the Standard Oil company. The fight of the Osages, both at home and in Washington, is to prevent the Standard Oil company from fastening itself upon their lands and depriving them of their wealth. Many of the Osages helieve that they are making the fight single handed and that their leaders are at a disadvantage in trying to circumvent Standard Oil lobbyists and attorneys, the most capable that unlimited wealth can secure. The Indian Territory Illuminating Oil company, an offspring of the Standard Oil company, holds a blanket oil and gas lease on the entire reservation. This leasa was made about eight years ago for a period of twenty years, but re duced to ten' years by reason of the fact that this was the maximum allow ed by federal statute. The original lease, so many of the Osages allege, was not made honestly. It was approved during the administration of Hoke Smith as secretary of the interior. But Smith did not approve the lease, nor did bis first assistant. His second assistant indorsed it in the absence of his, super iors. Don't Like It. The Osages to a man are opposed to an extension of this lease for another ten years to the Indian Territory Illum inating Oil company. The latter is do ing all in its power to outwit the Osages. An agent of the company said recently that the Standard Oil com pany had such tremendous influence in congress that national officials interest ed In other important legislation dare Commissioner Garfield Who Will t th demands of the standard com nan v in the Osage country. Late Washington dispatches allege that the holdings of the Indian Terri tory Illuminating Oil company will be cut in two, and instead of getting an extension of its lease for another" ten i year's on all the reservation it will be allowed only about 600,000 acres, sucn a statement is grossly misleading. A lease of 600.000 acres would cover prac tically every foot of land in the Osage country which experts would regard as valuable for oil and gas. The eastern half of the Osage reservation aggre gates about 600.000 acres; it is there that oil and gas have been found, and it is In this area that the Standard Oil company has intrenched Itself and made Its improvements. To say that the Standard Oil lease In the Osage country has been reduced to 600,000 acres is to say that the Standard Oil company has won all that it has been fighting for If individual producers ever hope to gain a foothold in the Osage oil fielu, from which Bartlesville is drawing much of its supply, this is the tim they must make their fight. Their op portunity lies in Washington, where the bill for the allotment of the Osage lands is pending. If the lease holdings of the Standard Oil company are con firmed, this gigantic creature of con fiscation and monopoly probably never will be shaken loose from its hold on what may be the most valuable oil field in the southwest. To defeat the extension of this blanket lease might make It possible to combine the Osage with the Kansas field and give to con sumers a source of supply -not controll ed by the Standard Oil company. The latter is offering the plea in Washing ton that It has made great investments In developing the Osage field. This is denied by men who assert they know actual conditions, and who insist that Secretary Hitchcock is being deceived by misrepresentations. Furthermore, the Standard Oil company will endeavor to perpetuate its 10 per cent royalty now paid to the Osages. Hundreds of men with ample capital would be will ing to pay a one-sixth royalty, which the Standard, receives from sub-lessees in the Osage country, in addition to a bonus of from $1 to $20 an acre for the lease. And Texas, Too. Dallas, Tex., Feb. 2 0. The oil is sue is becoming active in the Texas legislature. The independent com panies have been clamoring for legis lation to protect them against extor tion and business conspiracies. They claim to be victims of big representa tives of the Standard Oil company, which it is claimed controls the pipe lines in Texas. There is pending in the legislature committee what is known as the Drecker pipe line bill. It proposed to regulate the pipe line rates and traffic in the interest of all oil producers In Texas. The Standard Oil representa tives are opposing the passage of the bill, according to Senator Drecker and others. A conference was held at Austin last night and another in Dal las Sunaay, at which the situation was considered. At the conference It was agreed that if the Drecker bill, or some measure approximating Its provisions, is not passed, then the friends of the Dreck er bill will use their efforts to pass a bill providing for the building of a state refinery and pipe line facilities, the provisions of the bill to be similar to those of the new law of Kansas just signed by Governor Hoch. Hoke Smith Denies. Washington, Feb. 20. In an au thorized statement, former Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith, replying to a statement issued by Secretary Hitch cock regarding the action of Mr. Smith in approving an oil and gas lease made with the Osage Indians in 1896. severely arraigns Secretary Hitchcock as making "a baseless charge." Mr. Smith arrived in Washington today to examine the records. Be fore' leaving Georgia he telegraphed a friend In this city to make a search of the records and the result of that search was placed before him todny upon his arrival. Mr. Smith said that he had not found it necessary to go to the Indian office or interior depart ment In person. "Secretary Hitchcock's statement," said Mr. Smith, "is misleading and de ceptive. When the lease was approved no oil had been found in Texas, and not a great deal in Kansas. There was scant hope to encourage the expense or boring wells in the Osage country. A lease was applied for bv E. R. Foster to prospect and bore for oil and gas. The property belonged to the tribe. The Osage national council passed an act directing the lease. the lease required payment of ample royalties to the Indians in case oil or gas was found. It was recom mended by Colonel Freeman of the United States army, acting Indian agent for the Osage tribe. "It finally went to the secretary's office, with the recommendation of the Indian commissioner that it be ap proved. The letter recommending approval is initialed by Mr. Larrabee, the present assistant commissioner of Indian affairs, thereby carrying his approval. "The records show the approval in the office of the secretary of the in terior was made by Assistant Secre tary Reynolds, as acting secretary, who has been recently elected to con gress from Pennsylvania. "With this record in his office, Sec retary Hitchcock declared the lease was approved by the then secretary of the interior, Mr. Hoke Smith, and he uses this further language, 'the orig Come to Kansas to Investigate the oil situation. inal lease Is an unheard of monopoly ana notnins snort of a public scan dal.' The mind of the secretary must have been overstrained when he dis covered a monopoly of oil on the Osage reservation in 1896 before a well had been bored, a pipe laid or a railroad built within many miles. To his opinion on this subject I am in different. "But when Secretary Hitchcock stated that the original lease was nothing short of a public scandal he uttered a charge for which he was en tirely without excuse. He placed him self in the class of common slander ers. He bore false witness against a predecessor in office, knowing at the time mere was no truth in his base less charge." Missouri May Try It. Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 20. The Mis souri legislature may be asked to take up Kansas' fight against the Standard on company. Representative Leslie J. Lyons of Kansas City has, it is said, agreed to introduce in the house at Jef ferson City the maximum freight bill rate and the bill making oil pipe lines common carriers. As soon as copies of tne bins passea by the Kansas legisla ture are received a; number of Kansas City men interested In the Kansas field will, it is stated, go to the Missouri cap ital in the interest of these measures. GARVER REPLIES. (Continued from First Page.) two cent postage stamp and behold the machinery of the board in action! The railroad attorneys wouldn't do a thing to that kind of complaint. The very bill the senator advocates requires the com plaint to set forth, wherein freight tariffs, charges or class' fications are un reasonable. It is r discredit to the shipper that he knows practically noth ing about the freight tariffs and classi fications. The small shipper pays the freight exacted and endures extortions with a feeling of helplessness against the power of a great corporation. The small shipper is told that if his wrongs grow out of unreasonable schedules and classifications, all he has to do is to make his letter long enough to cover his own grievances as well as the griev ances of all others similarly situated In the state. Very simple, exceedingly just, only bear in mind that 'the com plaint may be so broad as to cover all rates throughout the state with respect to a particular commodity such as grain, lumber, coal or cattle, and the board upon that complaint has full power to correct grain, lumber, coal or cattle rates everywhere in the state? How many shippers especially small shippers would assume that remedial work? It is well known that individ uals cannot and will not take upon themselves such tasks. For that reason they are asking this legislature to write into the statute not only a request but a direction to remedy all general unjust exactions when found to exist. Curtails the Power. "Not satisfied with striking down section 4 of the house bill, in order to still further protect the railroads from interference, the Smith bill must take uv section 10 of the original act of 1901 and emasculate it so far as it concerned freight Tates. It appears as section 9 in the Smith bill. This sec tion is mostly advisory in character, but it does authorize the commission ers, on their own motion and without complaint, to do certain things. Among other things, the board is authorized to call upon the railroads to change their rates for transporting freight when, in the judgment of the board, such rates are unreasonable. In con nection with section 4 of the house bill, section 10 of the existing law is good enough so far as It goes. But the senator seems determined to leave the railroads untrammelled in the matter of freight rates, so far as the j than carload shipments. In the former commissioners may act on their own' the rate is always less, and that is the motion, hence the necessity to strike j rate in which jobbers are most interest out even this meagre power which the ed. But the shipper of one car has the board now has. Doubtless this, too ,is in the interest of the small shipper, who brooks no such interference with his right to patiently pay the freight. "In the same spirit section 10 of the house bill is also emasculated In favor of the railroads and against the in terest of the small and big shipper, by striking out the provision authoriz ing the commissioners to correct abuses which appear upon any hear ing on a complaint, even though the correction involves the changing of tariffs and classifications not specifi cally set out in the complaint. But no, the commissioners must not lay their impious hands upon the sacred right of the railroads to extort, discriminate, build up one concern or locality at the cost of the ruin to another; no matter how obvious the wrong, the board must be impotent until some private citizen draws the weapon of defense. It has not been explained, but that change likewise was prob ably made in the interest of the small shipper. Only a Thin Cloak. "The provision for another assistant attorney general is a thin cloak for the deficiencies of the butchered house bill. The latter (Sec. 6) makes it the duty of the attorney general to aid and assist In all hearings when re quested by the board. It was not thought that any necessity existed for the creation of another officer; that the attorney general with the two as sistants he now has could perform this additional service. There is, however, no objection, unless on the ground of unnecessary expense, to section 4 of ARKETSJODAY. Persistent Selling Depresses the Wheat Price. Fair Demand Holds the Corn -Business Steady. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Are Steady to Ten Cents Lower. Hogs Also Are Five and Ten Cents Off. Chicago, Feb. 20. WHEAT Persistent selling of May wheat by commission houses had a depressing effect on the gen eral market today, but active coverine bv shorts checked the declining tendency. In eympatny witn nigner prices at Uverpooi, July opened (ac higher, at $1.01gi.01. May was a shade hie-her to 'SV.o lower. at $1.19al.l9. Under heavy offerings from commission houses May broke to $1.18 and July eased oft to $1.01. Buying by shorts forced May up to $1.19. July ral lied to $1.01. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 632 cars, against a holiday a year ago. The close was weak, with May off c, at $1.18. July closed at $1.01, a net loss of c. U)KN-A fair demand held the corn market steady. May opened He higher to snade lower, at 46346c to 46-V.c. and sold off to 46c. May closed with a loss of '3c, at 46 '46e. OATS May oats opened unchanged to a shade higher, at 30fc30c to 30c and easra on to Jc. PROVISIONS Mav nork wan nfr 2ffiKc. at $12.80. Lard and ribs were each a shade lower, at $s.sy and $6.82 respectively. WHEAT Cash: No. 2 red. $1.22: No. 3 red, $1.1&S1.19; No. 2 hard. $1.17(S1.19: No. 3 hard, $1.1031.18; No. 1 northern, $1.191.23; No. 2 northern. $1.15(31.20: No. 3 snrine- $1.10(fil.20. CORN No. 2, 4414c:' No. 3, 44c. OATS No. 2, 30fi31c; No. 3, 3030c RYE Feb., 75c: Mav, 78c. FLAX Cash: N.-W. $1 2fi- a -W 1 ir- Feb., $1.18: May, $1.21. TIMOTHY Feb.. $2.S5: Tlfarrr, IK. no- April, $2.90. CLOVER Feb., $12.50. BARLEY Cash: 3S48c. Range of Price. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. urains, provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4SS. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo. Chicago, Feb. 20. Low Close Sat Onen Hie-h WrtliAl May ...1 19 119 118 118 119 July... 101 102 1 01 101 10114 Sept 92- 93 92 92- 92 May 46- 46 47- 4714 47 47 46 46 47 46l,i- 46 46-47 47- 47- 47 July Sept OATS May July Sent 30 30 30-- 30 30- 30- 30 30 29- 29 28-29 29 30- 30 29 12 82 12 95 PORK May ....12 80 July 12 82 12 75 12 77 12 87 LARD May July 6 90 7 02 6 92 7 02 6 87-90 6 90 6 90-92 6 97 7 00-02 7 03 RIBS May 6 80-82 6 82 6 95-97 6 97 6 80 6 95 6 S2 6 95 6 82-85 6 97 July Kansas City Grain. Kansas City, Feb. 20, Ocen Hlsrh Low Close Sat WHEAT May ...106 106 105 105 July 9- 89- m,l 89- 1 06 89Vi- 4- 44 CORN May 44- 44 44 44 July 44 44 44- 44 the senate bill providing for the ap pointment of another assistant for this work. That is not objectionable nor essential to the friends of the house bill. But it does not in the least make up for the striking' out of sec tion 4. Hie Illinois Law. "If Senator Smith has read the Illi nois and Iowa laws he has not 'done so with much care. All his state ments about those laws are either rroneous or intentionally misleading-. He says. "The Illinois law gives the board power to make a maximum dis tance rate. It gives no power to make commodity rates, jobbers' rates, for milling in transit, hence the rejection of the Illinois law. the substitution of the Texas law which gives these powers." That statement s a gratuitous Insult to the large num ber of business men who have con cerned themselves to secure some ade quate legislation on this important subject, asking no more than the ante election promises of both parties; and it is a flat misrepresentation of the laws of other states. "Why are not the provisions of -the statutes cited which give such powers? There is nothing in the Texas law different in this re- pect, in any substantial way, from the provisions of the Illinois or Iowa laws. In all three states the rail road commissioners are given full au thority to fix the classification and make the rates for freight. In each the only requirement is that the classifications must be just, reasonable and not discriminatory. There Is othing In the Texas law, or in any bill that has been before this legislature, that authorizes any favor to a big hipper that the small shipper is not ntitled to. Evidently the senator does not know the difference that is made to all shippers between carload and less same rate as the shipper of 20. If the senator has the same feeling-of hostili ty to section 4 that the railroad attor neys have expressed, because it has too much of a Texas flavor, why did he not suggest substituting the provisions of the Illinois law? Then he would have had section 4, beginning in line 10 read: 'The railroad commissioners are hereby directed to make for each of the rail road corporations doing business in this state, as soon as practicable, a schedule of reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freights and cars of each of said railroads. said commissioners shall from time to tim as often as circumstances may require, change and revise said schedules." That covers all that the house bill empowers the Kansas board to do and it can be done under the Illinois law without no tice and without a hearing. The house bill authorizes the board to exercise such power only after notice and a hearing, and then only to correct or change the railroad schedules of rates in the particulars in which they are found to be unjust or unreasonable. "All tht objections, criticisms and insinuations that have been made against the house bill may properly come from the railroads which are anxious to hold the advantage of the situation in Kansas; but they have a suspicious sound when uttered by on; who poses as the special friend of the small shipper. May we not ask if the i-,r-,f-" 'riend does not protest too much. Verily the voice is Jacob's uut the hands are the hands of EsaU." Kansas CltJ Uveatocfc Mark' -Kansas City, Mo.. Feb. 20. CATTLE Receipts today, 11,000 head, including l.ffM) icu jt suuuierns. laarjtet steady to 10c lower. Native steers, $3.75(35.65; southern steers, $3.25:34.50; southern cows. $2.2563.25; native cows and heifers, $1.754.50; stock ers and feeders, $3.004.30; bulls. $2,25fi3.75: calves, $3.0037.00; western fed steers, $3.75 (35.25: western fed cows, $2.0OW4.00. HOGS Receipts today, 11,000 head. Mar ket KilOc lower. Bulk of sales, $4.604.85; heavy, $4.8ti4.87i-j: packers', $4.70(84.85; pigs and lights, $3.90g4.70. SHEEP Receipts today, 10,000 head. Market 10c lower. Muttons. $4.75&5.75; lambs, $7.00(57.75: range wethers, $5.00fg6.75; fed ewes, $4.75fh5.25. St. Louis Live Stock. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 20. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 5,500 head. Market lower. Beef steers. $3.2585T30; stockers and feed ers. $2.75(54.10; cows and heifers, $2.75H4.50; Texas steers. $3.0O4.65; Texas cows and heifers, $2.50&3.6o. HOGS Receipts today, 6,500 head. Mar ket lower. Pigs and lights, $3.75(34.75; packers', $4.75(34.90; butchers' and best heavy, $4.S5'S4.95. SHEEP Receipts today, 1,500 head. Market strong.. Natives, $4.50(36.00; lambs, $6.0CKS.7.00. Chicago Live Stock Market Chicago. Feb. 20. CATTLEi Receipts to day. 31,000 head. Market 10416c lower. Good to prime steers, $o.60.00; poor to medium, $3.80g5.66; stockers and feeders, $2.40414.30: COWS. $1 SO- heifer-a if. nctdf, o.uu; canners. $1.351.65; bulls, $2.004.09; calves. $3.60(&S.fi0 HOGS Receipts today, 45,000 head: esti mated Tuesday, 30,000 head. Market steady. Mixed and butchers', $4.70-64.95; good to choice heavy. $4.955.02: rouzh heavy $4.65(34.75; light, $4.65(34.85; bulk of sales, SHEEP Receipts today. 25.000 head. Market 10ftl5c lower. Good to choice wethers, $5.65-36.10; fair to choice mixed. $4.6035.o0; western sheep, $4.70(86.15: native lamps, o.;xs5.u; western lambs, $5.7o.0O. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, 111., Feb. 20. BUTTER Market nrm. creamery, 2332c; dairy, 23(329c. EGGS Market easv. At mark, 'cases in cluded, 23(3 29c. CHEESE Market firm. Daisies, 13c; Twins. 12c: Young Americas, 13c. LIVE POULTRY Market steady. Tur keys, 14c; chickens, 12c; springs, 12c Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Feb. 20. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 143 cars. Quotations were steady to higher. May, $1.06"3 1.06; July, 89c. Cash: No. 2 hard, $1.09fil.l0; No. 3 hard, $1.061.08; No. 4 hard, 9SCn$1.05: No. 2 red, $1.10(5.1.13; No. 3 red, $1.071.1.08; No. 4 red, $1.00(31.06. CORN Market steady to lower. Mav, 44'344c; July, 44c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 46ra47c; No. 3 mixed, 46c: No. 2 white, 46(&47c; No. 3 white, 46(a47c. OATS Market steady. No. 2 white, 33 33c: No. 2 mixed, 32c. RYE Market steady, 78'379c. HAY Choice timothy, $9.50-310.00; choice prairie, $7.50(38.00. BUTTER Creamery, 27(331c. EGGS Market lower. Fresh, 27c Market Gossip. IFurnished by A. M. McDermott Commis sion Co., Stocks Grains, Provisions and nvestment Securities. Room 12, Colum bian building. Liverpool opening cables: Wheat d higher; corn (&d higher. Liverpool, 1:30 p. m. Wheat unchanged; corn unchanged. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 12 cars; graded, 0. Corn, 231 cars; graded, 6. Oats, 149 cars; graded, 26. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d higher: corn d higher. Visible supply changes for the week: Wheat decreased 640.000 bushels; corn de creased 1,658.000 bushels, oats decreased 263,000 bushels. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne apolis, 587 cars; Duluth, 33 cars. A year ago a holiday. Grain Letter. (View of the grain market, furnished by 'nomas J. Myers, DroKer, ground noor Columbian building, Topeka, Kan.) WHEAT While May wheat is down around $1.19 it looks like a good chance to buy some cheap wheat. People are be ginning to see and listen to some of the causes that have steadily advanced the price of wheat. The crop of 1903 fell so short in making the distribution that had been planned for It that prices started up when the crop year had not half expired and scored an advance of 35 cents, about 30 cents of which the cash wheat market maintained in western primary markets and interior milling points till the advent of the crop of 1904. Facts like this one were sneered at, while wheat was $1.10, or lower, but they are quite interesting now. Every one interested in the present and future price of wheat could have known and should have known that when we entered upon the marketing of the crop of 1904 we started out with it, quality and quantity considered, at least 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 bushels short of what we had used for home requirements from the crop of 1903. Even that crop rose 35 cents In supplying our necessities. From that crop of 1903 we exported 120,000,000 bushels. It will ive a good idea of "where we are at" on this crop to call our shortage ex ports. Say we exported as much as last year and add to that 20.000,000 bushels, ex actly exported during the first 7 months. This leaves us now with not more than 480.000.000 bushels, where we had 518,000,000 bushels for home needs last crop. Do you look for wheat to go down on this show ing, when it advanced and held a rise of 30 cents on the last crop? w neat win or course have some setbacks, but it will do to buv on all of them. Don't forget that and don't forget to buy it. CORN The com market seems to br gaining friends daily. Receipts are light and promise to continue so for some time. Should the May price break below 40c I would advise you to taKe nolo. New York Stocks. Wall St.. New York. Feb. 20. STOCKS The opening trading in the stock market today was very active in the Pacifies, Chi cago Great Western and Ontario and Western. First sales of Union Pacific were of 15,000 shares at an extreme advance of point. St. Paul was up 1 points, Southern Pacific point and Ontario and Western point. Some of the specialties also showed sharp gains. Federal Mining rising 2 points, the preferred 1 points. Lead 1 points and Smelting. Pacific Mail and Locomotive a large fraction to a point. Reading, Pennsylvania, Rock Is land and Amalgamated Copper made small fractional losses. Otherwise prices were higher. Notwithstanding the buoyancy displayed by Union Pacific and many specialties, general price movements were not uni form and heaviness developed in spots. Eastern and southwestern railway stocks and the United States Steel stocks were among the favorites that were sold stead ily The rise in Union Pacific to 131 was accomplished by the absorption of thou sands and thousands of shares of stock. Southern Pacific Kept pace wn.11 11 in activity and gained 1 points Practically little else of interest transpired in the rail way quarter; Federal Mining continued to rise in a sensational manner, the first iimtr-B train being over 10 points. Other noteworthy improvements were Sloss Sheffield Steel 3 points, the preferred 1 points. Cleveland. C. C. and St. Louis 3 points. Republic Steel preferred and tlie Lead stocks 2 to 2 points. Smelting 1 points Consolidated Gas 1 points and Louisville and Nashville Linseed and ReDublic Steel 1 point. Pullman and Wa bash preferred -declined 1 point Prices generally were below the best at 11 The'reaction of Union Pacific was lim ited to 1 ooint and the check to its decline steadied "other stocks after some of them had reacted a point or more Locomotive r-referred fell to a point under last week. After a dull and sluggish period heavy buying of Ontario and Western lifted it 2 points and animated tne m"rl: Mfc,(n reach 2 points. L nion far otic and St. Paul rallied to the top. Fmds were firm at noon. Concerted buying in various quarters imparted an aPPeanf f,f?ss,j;e strength to the market after midday. St. Paul bulged to 179 and Northwestern gain ed 2 points. Some of the eastern stocks came4 into" active demand Bait imore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio rising a point, the Pennsylvania group generally seliine over last week's closing. In the MONEY TALKS If you speculate in grain or stocks, do so with responsible brokers, where you get fair treatment, and where your mar gins and profits can be obtained the minute you close your deals. I offer you the highest banking and commercial references, and references and testimonials of well known people who have made a great deal of money through my advice. THOMAS J. MYERS, Broker. Grain, Stocks, ami Bonds. Ground floor, Columbian blilg.. Topeka, has. rk kkkkkkkkk specialties Sugar and Tennessee Coal were bid up over a point each. Profit tak ing in western stocks clipped off a point of the rise in St. Paul, Union Pacific and Northwestern, but the market rallied vig orously again under the leadership of the United States Steel stocks, the common rising a point. The rapidity of the rise induced general realizing late In the afternoon. The load ing western stocks and Ontario and West ern ran off about a point and Northwest ern 2 points. Meantime the Iron and Steel stocks were rising strongly. United States Steei preferred, Colorado Fuel, the Pipe stocks,Steel Foundries preferred and Com products advanced 1 10 ifi points, rnirrm Mining preferred 3 points and Slos Sheffield Steel preferred 2 points. Great Northern sold at 295, a gain of 4 points. Central Railway of New Jersey, Rubber Goods preferred and Grass Twine lost a point each. Ontario and Western advanc ed to above 54 at 2 o'clock. Erie followed the Ontario and Western recovery with a gain of 1 point. The sec ond preferred also rose 1 point. But tne disposition to realize profits affected prices Union Pacific especially falling back be low 130. Metropolitan Street Railway and Kansa3 and Texas preferred fell 1 point below last week. United Fruit advanced 4 points. Amalgamated Copper's rise to about 76 led a rally and Atchison gained 1 point. The closing was active and firm. Ranee ot Prices on Stocks. IFurnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas. City. Mo. New York, Feb. 20. Stocks Op'n High Low Cl'se Sat Sugar 144 146 lVi 144 143 People's Gas 107 107 106 lii 1T Amal. Copper 74 75 74 7o 74 B. R. T 62 62 62 62 62 TCI 81 82 81 82 81 U. S. Steel 32 33 31 33 31 U. S. Steel, pfd 94 Sf 94 95 94 Atchison, com 88 8 8S 8X 87 Atchison, pfd 102 102 102 102 102 C G W 24 24 24 24 24 St. Paul 177 179 176 ITS 176 R. I., com 34-5 35 34 34 34 Wabash, com 23 23 23 23 23 Wabash, pfd 45 46 45 46 45 Mo. Pacific 105 107 106 106 10t Western Union 93 93 93 93 93 Manhattan 173 173 173 173 1-3 N. Y. Central 147 147 146 147 14, Texas Pacific 36 30 36 36 36 So. Pacific 6!! 69 68 6 67 Reading 94 95 93 95 91 Erie 44 45 43 45 44 Erie, 1st 79 SO 79 7"- 7 Union Pacific 129 131 129 130 12S C. &.0 51 51 50 51 &i B. 0 164 104 104 104 VM D. N 137 138 137 138 137 Katy s,: Pennsylvania 139 139 138 139 13s C. A., com 41 41 40 40 U. S. Leather 12 12 12 12 12 C. F. 1 50 52 50 51 5o New York Botter. New York. Feb. 20. BUTTER Market strong. Street price: Extra creamery, 3a 335e. Official prices: Creamery, com mon to extra, 27li'15c: creamery, held com mon to extra, 2333c: western factory, common to extra, 20fj29c; western imita tion creamery, common to extra, 24'(j31c. Sucr and Coffee in New YnrO New York, Feb. 20. SUGAR Raw su gar firm. Fair refining. 4c; centrifugal, tout Sn- molasses suirar. 4c. Relln"d sugar firm. Crushed, $6.75 .powdered, $615; granulated, $6.C6. COFFEE Market quiet. No. 7 Rio, 8c. Cotton Market. Galveston. Tex.. Feb. 20 COTTON Market higher, 7 13-16C. New York, Feb. 20. COTTON Sales to day 200 bales. Spot cotton closed quiet and 25 points lower. Quotations per WO pounds: Middling uplands, $7.90; middling gulf, $S.15. Wool Market. St. Louis. Mo., Feb. 20. WOOL Market steady. Territory and western mediums, 21i322c; fine medium, 17cal8c; fine, 16il7c. Topeka Market. Topeka, Feb. 20. Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co.J HOG S. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' $4.304.45 HEAVY i?!'?y$ LIGHT 4.10'cf4.3o CORN FED CATTLE. TFurnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co COWS 2?'S?52 HEIFERS BULUS H.OOuii.50 LIGHT CALVES 3.0O34.00 HEAVY CALVES... 2.504,3.00 fFurnished by J. B. Billard, Central NO 2 WHEAT 98c$1.00 NO 3 WHEAT 96So IO 4 WHEAT fetfOOo NO GRADE WHEAT 04S5o CORN 460 NO. 2 OATS ...30c N- 3FRAUITS AND VEGETABLES." TFurnlshed by S. E. Lux, successor to W. O. Anderson Co.. 210 Kansas Ave- Buel FRUITS. ORANGES Navels, $1.!?2.00 per box. I FMON'S California, $2.50-3 2 85 per box. BANANAS $1.75i2. 75 per bch. APPLES Fancy, $44.50 per bbl. HONEY $2.40 per 24-rack case. COCOANUTS 65c per doz. p-lfis 70c per box. MALAGA GRAPES $5.75 3 8.00 per bbl. GRAPE FRUIT-$4.00 per box. NEW DATES-43 4c per lb. CALIFORNIA TANGERINES $2.25 per box. VEGETABLES. CAULIFLOWER $3.00 per crate. PARSNIPS 50c per bu. HUBBARD syUASH-$1.251.50 per doa. tjciTATOKS Colorado, 48'50c per bu. SWEET POTATOES $1.004,1.10 per bu. CABBAGE $1.10 Per cwt. TURNIPS 35c per bu. carROTS-50 per bu. CANADA RUTABAGAS P,c per lb. ONIONS $1.30j 1.35 per bu. CRANBERRIES $7.i5S8.0i per bbl. CELERY Jumbo, SOc per bunch; Blue TfUbon 55c per buncn. NEWTOKK COUNTS 45c per can. NEW YORK EXTRA SELECTS-Soc per can x-T-T nVSTERO oTi-nAHDS-11.40 per Ballon. EXTRA SELECTS $1.65 per gallon. FULL CREAM CHEESE. KANSAS Y. A. 14c per lb. NEW YORK STATE (Walte), 1o per IbBRICK 15c per lb. LIM BURGER 15c per lb. BLOCK SWISS 15p per lb. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY. IFurnished by Cope Co., 134 Kansas Avenue. POULTRY Hens, 10c lb.; springs, large, 9c lb.; broilers, 12c lb.; turkeys, EOblers. 12c lb.: hens, 15c lb. EGGS Fresh, 28.-. COUNTRY BUTTER 25c per lb. HAY. rFurnished by City Hay Market, 417 Quln cy street. PRAIRIE Loose, per ton $7.00-8 00 PRAIRIE Baled 7.50iS. ALFALFA Loose 9. 01 Call .00 TIMOTHY S.Wciftpo CANE 5.5';6.N. STRAW Per ton 4.5xa5. Topeka Hide Market. 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9 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUAltY 20, 1905. HON EST ABE. U. S. M. Ills Poetry Goes With Ie livery. tlie Mail I had had two weeks' vacation oft my route, and when I drove over it Tcain the other day I found that many fh ngs had happened. One of the first to hail me was Farmer Jim fa now. "4.be, you'll have to come Into the house for a few minutes." he said as 1 "Anvthm wrong. Uncle Jim?" -Wall we had a little baby born here two weeks ago, and two das ago it died and ma and me have conclud ed that we must have some poetry tJlV' on it I told her that you T n in a hurry, and that lots of other de'ad bab.es was waitin' to haye verse's writ on em. but she f a,d you d have to come in or shed faint away. Jfou can dash off two or three verse" for us and kind of quiet her 1 11 be your friend for life. Joe was Leaning Over the Barnyard Gate and Looking Loensome. t ir, with him and found Aunt i nA nftpr drinking a gfaTs of hot cider to thaw out my muse 1 wrote as follows: Our little Peter came and went. Like shadow on the water. And though we wipe our weeping eyes We know we hadn t orter. For little Fete is better off With wings of goid a-flying. Instead of Having chickenpox. And with the colic crying. If he had lived he might have been A leading politician; And then again he might have filled In Sing Sing a position. Twa-s better he was called away. And we our grief must smother And think his loss was for the best. And look out for another. "Say Abe," said Uncle Jim, as he i h T-oraes and brought his fist a imu "that's Doetry Yesterday I borrowed a copy of Shakespeare of Bill Saunders and .X ,i unnthin' to comfort us but not a durned thing could I get hold of. The verses didn't rhyme, and the lines wobbled all around, i iD cnnthini!' to tech tin ix i n hp hantred if I don't see you u i,t Wnat d've say. r Aunt Sarah replied that no poet in the world could have done Dener, .v. hottrmtr it read over had almost made her resigned to her loss She handed down a pumpkin pie for me to devour, aim iny departure Uncle Jim accompanied me out to the gate and said: "Abe. any time you get ready to resign your position and go to writ ing poetry just lemme know and 111 order ilftv poems as a starter By So "but we'll be a different fam'ly after this. Have you got any mail for Henry Johnsons rolks.' "One letter, I believe. T ,.-oe coin' to ask J'OU to Btoo there anynow. nemj down the cellar stairs the other day, and I shouldn't wonder if they wanted some poetry written about it. Farmer Johnson heard my horn blowing and was at the gate, and the lirt thing he said was: "Abe. this United States may be in a tarnal hurry to get its mail de 1 i-er-.v..,. Hn't make no difference to" me. You've got to get down and come in. Mebbe you've near- suuui Mirandy falling downstairs? "Vps. something about it. v,o was e-oin' down after some pickled peaches for supper, and her foot struck sunthin' and away she went We all thought the house was Hr.n She weighs 220. you know, and she made a thunderin" big dent in the cellar bottom. ci "t found Aunt Miranda propped up in bed with a look of suffering on her face, and she shook hands with me and said: "Abe the doctor has been here and av T will live through it and frisk again, but somehow I've made up my mind that I won't not unles you -ii-rite some tioetry onto me. It's an idea I've got into my head and can't get it out. I replied that I'd write "some poe- r.ntn her" with the utmost cheer fulness, and fifteen minutes later, and without sweating a nair, i n pi in duced the following: Twas Aunt Miranda Johnson who started down tne stairs. To get some pickled peaches In a bowl And while she was a-thinking of her va And a feeling of a gladness in her soul tin. fArtt it riwt nlie-ht uoon an apple peel And of course she lost her balance and she fell: And I'ncle Henry's feelings I leave for vou to feel As 'she struck the cellar bottom with a yell. The tumble that she took would have killr.i a vearlina- calf. And her coming down it would have killed another; Oh, the way she bumped the bottom ne'er can tell the half. And so I leave the task to poet other. They eot her to her bed, and they called the doctor in. And the doctor said he thouht she misht recover; Unless seme bones were broke, or her fatness got too thin. Or he'd failed him ail the splinters to discover. "But the angels are a-watching, and they u Drmg ner out all riKht. And she'll frisk again upon the cellar stairs: And she'll sing the same old songs from morning until night. And laugh away her burdens and her cares. Did you hear It, Mirandv?" aske Uncle Henry, as I finished the verses and read them aloud. "Yes." "Every word?" "Yes, every word and line." "And what do you say?" "I say them verses is better'n any three doctors, and I'll bet all the pre serves in the house that I'll be up and around within a fortnight. Abe, I don't know how to thank you. I could feel that I wanted sunthin' be e!de emediclne and liniments, and that sT I'd die if I didn't get it, and here it is. Henry, can we ever be thankful enough?" "No, Mirandy, we can't, but I m sayin" right here and now that Abe won't have to buy no more "taters and nork for himself for a year to come. Poetry? Why, when he was readin' them verses the chins went up and down my back till I thougnt I d been absent-minded this mornin and left my undershirt off!" I got away, followed Dy tears nnu protestations, and two miles down the road I met Joe Skinner. joe was leaning over the barnyard gate and looking lonesome, but as he saw me he brightened up and said: "Say. Abe, you are the very iener wanted to see." "Well, here I am. "My wife's sister, out in Indiana, is dead." "No!" "Dead as a hammer, Abe." "How did she die?" "Got choked on a chicken bone, and the doctors couldn't save her. What we want is a verse or two of your poetry to send on, and if we don't get it there are two or three other relations out there who'll think we don't care a darn. Come in and -have some cider and pie and write us sun- thin'." I -wanted to oblige Joe and, his wife, and so I stopped long enough to dash off the following: Our Sarah's gene and left these shores, And landed on the other; And left a father old behind Also an aged mother. She did not die of lingering ill. With time for preparation: And chance to say a word or two Before the separation. She sat at table with the rest, A-eating of a chicken: When quicker'n scat the hand of death Reached forth, and she was stricken. We grieve and mourn our Sarah dear Who's left us all alone; But we would say to one and all: "Beware of chicken bones!" (Copyright, 1906, by T. C. McClure.) THE GRAY GOOSE CHASE. It was one of those dull, gray days of later autumn, which so often brings suddenly to its close a season of sum mer warmth and brightness. The woods resounded solemnly at every wind, the fields were a dull and expressionless green. There was that unmistakable look of change in everything which af fects the sensitive nature as the subtle marks of age might do, noticed for the first time on some familar and beloved face. John Houston emerged from the woods and stood absently leaning upon his gun as he contemplated the Ion stretch of meadowland before him. He dreaded the tramp; undeniably he was growing old. His mirror had affirmed the fact beyond contradiction that very morning the little square looking glass before which he had shaved him self in his own room in the one inn of Mapleton. Why had he come to this Dlace? he Questioned.- Ostensibly for hunting, but what did he care for hunt ing? The boys would have laughed to see his clumsy attempts at the game He had been wise enough not to bring any of them along. He was tired of his friends, wearied to the death of the club, worn to the verge of satiety with travel, and unreconcilable to his bache lor apartments their hollowness was worse than the hollowness of the woods He had not even brought his valet, the man bored him so with his automatic attentions. He wanted to go back to his vouthful davs again, when wealth had been only a dream, but there had been something infinitely better in his life. His physician had said that he i was on the verge of a nerve collapse, and that he must have rest. He knew it was not rest he needed, but stir the tir of life. Often in these days he was tempted to adopt a child. When Sam my Houston's wife died he had made a high bid for the little boy there was something in the child's eyes that made him think of what he had lost out of life but Sammy wouldn't let the baby go. "I know I'm poor," the young man said, "but I can take care of my boy. He's all I've got to remember her by." He had not urged the matter, although he had felt his life would be more empty than Sam's without the child Sam had the memory of his love. He knew the men about town, the young men, all envied him longed to attain his position, his wealth, and social standing. He hoped they would keep on doing so, and never know how small the whole thing TICS EXCITING COIXOaXT? IN THE NATIONAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. John A. SulliTan, whose recant quarrel trlth Congressman -William R. Hearst in the national house- of representa tlvea ha3 attracted a great deal of attention, is not yet thirty-seven years of age. He is a lawyer and nans irom Boston. He served two years in the Massachusetts senate and was erected to the Fifty-eighth and r irty-nintn con gresses. Mr. Hoarst is just finishing his first term in congress, having been re-elected last fall. He is a rnuitimii llonalre and the editor and proprietor of newspapers In New York, Chicago. Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He was a candidate for the presidency before the last Democratic coveton and was second only to Judge mar ker In the -umber of vetea roeiTiL seemed to him as he stood at the edge ot the Mapleton woods this dark au tumn afternoon. It had been misting at intervals all day, and the thickly strewn leaves that in the morning had drifted on aromatic blasts, first this way, then that, were quiet now, and sodden. The wind was rising again, the mist be coming keenly palpable. John Hous ton knew it was setting in for a night of long menaced downpour. lne rheumatic chills were creeping, with icy clutches, up and down his back. He felt he must be moving, ior a siege of gout in a place like Mapleton would be unbearable. As ne starieu forward, something a gray, feathery thing started up from a little pond just below in the meadow. He put up his eyeglass it was a goose. But a goose is better man notn- ing," thought he. "I can't go back to that landlord witn notning in my bag." However, while he was collect ing his scattered senses the goose flew away, making good time, as geese fly, over the meadow. jonn nousiun started in pursuit. "All my life I have been on a wild goose chase," he thought; "I won't give up now." Over hillock, over bog, now down in the nnn slush, now confronted by barbed wire fences, he Kept up ms ciuac after the gray goose. Mo one, seeing this man now, would have wondered at the concentration of purpose which had accumulated his Immense iortune. Not cne of them would have guessed that his purpose had failed in the one thing he deemed or moment in m world. Suddenly he found nimseii up against-a high board fence with- a swinging picket gate m it tne goose had disappeared. It was raining tor rents now. He opened the gate and stepped inside. There was a woman there a tall, slender woman ur in black, with a big flapping hat. She was feeding the geese. As John Hous ton looked at her he thought she might be thirty, or even forty, for the hair was a dead gray under the black hat. But she carried tne grace ana sprightliness of her prime in her lithe movements and vibrant voice as she called the geese about her. I beg your pardon, ma am, saiu John Houston, "I Oh!" she said, turning snarpiy, "are you the man who frightened my I m afraid l am. said John. 'But vou are wet," she said quickly, noting the disheveled condition of the man. "It is a perfect downpour. Won't you come in and dry your clothes a bit?" John Houston did not hesitate. Without realizing it he was thinking of rheumatism and of the desolate room at the inn. He passed through the neat kitchen into the living room And such a room! He had never thought to see its like in Mapleton. Long, low, with a blazing fire at one end, it was filled With surprises of easv louneine nlaces. divans, and cushions. "Make yourself at home," said the woman, motioning toward the blazing fire, "and I will have saran Drew you a warm drink. You are chilled to the bone." When she came back with a steam inir cun on a little tray he was stand ing before the fire. He had thrown asjde his cap and heavy hunting jack et, and was holding in his hand a pic-j ture he had picketd up from the table. The darkness of night had set in, nnd with it the storm was increasing. The blaze leaped up from the open wood fire and shone on her as she entered. A woman never shows to better ad-' vantage than in the firelight. The gray hair was an illumination as it fell in girlish locks on each side of the face. The face was flushed with a delicate pink: her hospitality had been good for her she looked almost young. For a moment John Houston did not sneak. There was a look in his face the men on Wall street would have been surprised to see. nis were a little drawn and white, but when she advanced to set the tray on the table before him he managed to bring a kind of smile. He took a step forward. "Agnes!" he cried, impet ,im,siv. "Acnes, don't you know me?" The tray tumbled and the steaming liquid poured over tne wmic na.nu, but she did not mind. "John!" She was breathless. 'John, where did you come from?" "From chasing your old gray goose, he said. "All my life since you loft me I have been on a wild-goose chase. They seated themselves. Explanations were m order. The hot drink was forgotten. "Whv did you run away from me, Agnes'" John Houston asked. "Whv? You must have known, John. At:s .-62 rhe State Jour nal prints more want advertise ments than any other T o p e k a newspaper. Al though the cost is about the same the results from these want advertis ements aremuch larger; this because the State Journal has more read ers in Topeka than all other daily newspa pers comblnea. Advs. Not Accepted Over Plione. The State Journal does not accept want advertisements over the telepnono nor does it make charge, accounts oi them. The most satisfactory plah ls -to bring your want advertisement to tna State Journal office. If you can not this, call the Western Union telegrapn office, either phone 51, and tell them that you nave an advertisement iui -r Journal. They- will send an A. 1- t- bov to vour house. You pay m "J the advertisement, the State iournju pays for his services m ormging ii town. Cost of classified alveriiseii." is 5c per line. Six ordinary words make one line. How to Answer Advertisements. Advertisements signed In care of State Journal, such as "Address A.ti. State Journal," or Aautt State Journal," should be answered m writing only. Write your answer ana mail it care State Journal or leave It at the Stato Journal office. Do not ask the clerks in the State Journal office to give you the name of the advertiser; they can not give this information. ANNOUNCEMENTS, C W. HORNE IS A CANDIDATE FOR rmmrllman from the Fourth ward, sub- ject to the Republican primaries Robert, my brother-he defaulted. if him. mother and I. We We oaid every cent of that awful lndebted-ntss-then Robert died. We came here to bury our grief and our shame. I was afraid of you-even of you. John afraid &l,l-'L and stood before the fire again. How handsome he looked a man is not really old at nity. T have been all my life oh a wild-goose chase," he cried, impetuously. She rose, too, the old humorous tender nr. hr face and in her eyes. 'But you. have found your old gray r-ooKe at last." she sald.-Los Angeiea Times. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Farmer Checkerberry "Ezra writes, '1 nlntar.n;n7nn Inst nierht an got simply paralyzed, but am able to set up an' hev my bed made this mornin What in blue blazes does that fool boy wanter ride arounu on une u waterin' carts for? Sarves him right I sav, fer not hirin' a buggy. Gol-ding it: I give him money ernurf tew ride decent like." Judge. "You might ask your mistress if she is at home." "It's no use..ir. She saw you coming.'' Life. Bustler "Don't you Relieve the world owes you a living?" Rustler "Yes, but the trouble is it won't pay' Up, and I have to work to collect the money! Detroit Free Press. !r Magistrate "What's this man charged with?" Officer "Av ye mane phwat's he loaded with, ver Honor, Oi think Us mosthtlv whiskey an' the Ioike o' thot. Philadelphia Press. "Your little hoy seems to have his father's nose. Mrs. Wibblrton." "Oh. no. It looks that way because he fell yester day and bumped It on an iron choo-choo car, poor little pet. mcasu nra- Herald- "Which do vou think counts for the most in life, money or brains? Well, answered Miss Cayenne, "I see so many people who manage tu get on with so lit tle of either, that I am beginning to lose my respect for both." w asmngion otar. Briggs "Has he no aim In life?' Diggs -"Oh, ves: but-" Biggs-"Well?" Diggs "He 'is too lazy to shoot." Chicago Daily News. 7 w I WU,T ANNOUNCEMENTS. TT R HOW ARn T5? A CANDIDATE FOR councilman for the Third ward, subject tt the Republican primaries. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A candidate for councilman from the mira ward, subject to the Republican pri maries. F. E. N1PS. I WILL BE A CANDIDATE FOR councilman from the Third ward, sub ject to the Republican PriBgrlAI1v;E. W. A. VOIGT ANNOUNCES HIS CAN didacy for councilman of the Second ward, subject to the Republican pnmaiy election held March 8, iao5. F. P. LINDSAY ANNOUNCES HIS CAN diftacy for police judge of the city oi Topeka, subject to the Republican pri maries March 8. WELZA G. FAIRCHILD ANNOUNCES bis candidacy for the office of po-'V: judge of the city of Topeka, subject to the Republican primaries. ARTHUR J. M'CABE IS A CANMDATE fop. renomiiatiof as judge of tne court of Topeka, subject to the Kepuolican pri' maries to be held March 8, l&Go A. J. BOLINGER IS A CANDIDATE FOR the office -of police judge of Topeka, su b- Ject to the action oi mo "F""'" primaries. candidate for councilman from the i mra maries. trtuxn. ,-r nuTiTP IfKflWN AS .o? iKWiSr marshal or tne cuy courvsuujcv -can primaries. i CAPT. J. T. WINTRODE,. THE WELL- known marshal or tne cm candidate for the nomination for re-elec. tion as marshal, subject to the Republt can primary. M. F. LAYCOCK, WHO WAS AFPOINT ed to succeed E. L Good, resigned, an nounces himself as a candidate for the oi- fice of clerk of the court oi lupt. ject to the Republican pnmanea. ALFRED S. COYNE ANNOUNCES HIS candidacy for marshal of the city court, subject to the Republican city primary. S. a URMY IS A CANDIDATE FOR Judge of the police court, subject to tne Republican primaries. EDWIN L. O'NEIL IS A CANDIDATE for clerk of the court of Topeka, subject to the Republican primaries. FRED C. SLATER IS A CANDIDATE for judge of the court of Topeka, subject to the Republican primaries. M. E. YOUNKIN ANNOUNCES HE IS A candidate for the nomination to the oi fice of marshal of the city courV subject to the action of the Republican city pri maries, spring of 1906. WANTEBrTUATIONS. CHAFFEUR voung man with experience Ct"ts Position in shop or as pr.vate cnaneur in oi kj (Instructions for answering this kind oi an advertisement will be found at the head of the Want column. WANTKP-By young man, place in ot fice; can do stenographic work. A. B. TlnstrcTions for answering this kind ot an advertisement will be found at the head of the Want column. iitM a or boy. W ,i ,,t,yy M C A telephone ZU. We ha've1 aUPlist- 2t men anc 1 confidential ref erences concerning them. Y. M. Employment bureau. 117 E. ta s- WANTED 31 ALE HELP. Teachers free. Open every p.m. and nignt. WANTED Everybody to send 10c or Mg Kest sell of 2uth century called Colonel Pick Witt, New Cambria, Kan. "AJNTED-lnstallment collector for mer handte accoun Goodalary and ex pensPs. Address Manufacturer, jr. v. 1027, Philadelphia, Pa. 1th $1,000 to buy in W ANTED Man w business in Florida, JfdTmonth and ePenses ja this ot lliisyuL found at the head of the Want column. WANTED FEMALE HELP. T-rir A woman or B" '"v.. V. ":,V for old lady. Call at u w. Bi. wivwn-A eirl who can cook. Bi J.ErVATifr Street. 231 Topeka Bring av. reiei i h.--j WANTED Girito help in housework, to go home ntKi. vED-Whitell-f afternoons ook at Holliday WANTED tioou ,3. hotel, cor. u family. 315 Topeka ave gOOU ""b' peka ave. SSlES- earn er hundred ritmg short letters. Ideal Mfg. Co., Cassop- for particulars, olis, Mich." wnv-TPD Women cooks, $5, $6, $7 and $9 WT-eewUresses, $17 and $18 pernio P. J, Sd' room- chambermaids, dish board and room. famiiies. lunch counter3 'help Capital Emp. Agency, 735 Kansas ave. WANTEI-Immediately whit. g xor general "w"3"" y Tyler st, WANTED A competent female cook, $25 ?onth Inquire State hospital. WANTED Cotton rags for lining ma chinery; must be washed. State Journal office. cotton rags; will pay 4c xTTcnf'lflan WAiHi printers lb. Adams .i., oncTfresrCal! Ind. phone 9S1 3 rings d-hand refrig- WANTED-to inches in.F? D?KQ. 2. Lyndon, Kas. WANTED-To buy veal calves, i-ii -P. 4th. Ind tel. 3b0. F. Loud, WANTED Veal calves at Porter's mar ket! 412 4th st. Ind. 'phone 363. IXR REXT-HOrSES vR RENT My i room stone and brick house midway between state house and court house; all modern except heat; close fn- nice for boarders, roomers, or private "e", furniture.0 A "Savto. 622 Van Buren. nTlwaroh 1. 1126 Tyler st. Call or -address 829 Kansas ave., upstairs. VR RENT OR SALE A modern 9 room F2,.5 West 6th et For particulars call telephone No.- 300. FOR RKST-OKOOMa FOR RENT-a furnished rooms i for light houseKeeping.i.uuvmi FOR RENT Furnished rooms, 1 for light houseaeeping. oi FOR RENT Front room furnished, good board near, ws v. iv FOR RENT ROOMS. 3 NICE ROOMS for light housekeeping; water, gas. bath; furnished or unfi nished. 122 West Filth St. FOR RENT 3 furnished rooms for house keeping, modern. lWi van isuren su FOR RENT Furnished housekeeping rooms. 306 East Tenth St. FOR RENT Furnished and unfumisnea rooms, 723 Quincy st. FOR RENT 2 large unfumisnea rooms, gas, heat and bath, inquire no n. pm- FARMS FOR RENT. 219 ACRES on 10th St.. 1 miles west of city limits, good buildings, tame grass pasture, orchard, aJfaUa. etc inu No. 1 dairy farm. C. P. BOLMAR. 423 Kansas Ave. FOR RENT 180 acre farm. Adams St., Topka. Inquire 901 FOR SALE MISCFLLAN" EOUS. FOR SALE High grade Durham cow. 311 Hancock st. won sale-Good work horse. 306 West Sth st. Inquire at 413 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Pool table, complete. D. Butts, 921 East Sixth. FOR SALE Organ, $10. 921 East Sixth. FOR SALE Two good 100 egg incubators Mrs. F. P. Bacon. 23rd and Topeka ave iyir SALE Stove wood. Wm. Shick, 120- 136 Jackson St. DRY STOVE WOOD. $6.00 per cord delivered, .Ind. 7153. J. Gregory, 610 E. 8th St. C. FOR SALE Jewel gas range, used only 4 months. 4iu Hi. itn si. CONTRACT for swill at Topeka Vinegar Works, Norm xoei-a. urT? SAT.F Drv hard wood, stove, and 4 ft lengths, reasonable. Call evenings, Ind. 'phone 87? 2. E. L. Bromley. FOR SALE Home made mince meat and apple butter, VV 'piione oy a nua.. FOR SALFr hire, sleighs horse. har- nefis. watrons. ail Itlima. iivy... FOR SAJLE REAIi ESTATE- ANYONE desiring good ""P,!",333 ave. prupeny, uuc, t,ij Instructions for answering this kind ot l .j...1.m.nt will be found at the head of tha Want column. j c nn house. 12 lots, we.&..-Srf barn and plenty of small fruit, 3 blocks trom car line. rmstructions for anjweung this kind of ofl,,timmt will be touna th' head of the want cuiunni.j FOR SAI-O-Lots Johnson Place addition, W. 6th. J. neery. xc- FOR SALE-20, 40 or SO acres 'choiae land adjoining city. i"". ol- premises. weswisi si.. lege, near Redden ave. Mrs. Higgins. FOR SALE -House 4 rooms, Wt lots, $500; rents la per cenu j-u v.. EXCHANGE, 10 room strictly modern residence, wide haUoak finish. 5 sets shding doors mantles ana g. one fine barn, large grounu, of the most w v east front, near '-rrtv cheap or part trade in rental property. BARNES REAL ESTATE CO 121 West Fifth St. FOR SA.LE-3 houses. IV. lots, 4 rooms SSi fach Rent $6.25. 1039 Lawjf" FOR SALE 4 room cottage, lots, Fillmore St., by occupant. 616 FOR SALE-6 acre tract. 3 room house, good well, cellar. 2 fine orchards. W. H. Barbee, R. D. 16, Tecumseh. CINDERS FREE at Edison Co.'s. Load ed into wagon without handling. Accnox. PUBLIC SALE. Having sold my farm, I, will on Feb ruary 22 sell at the farm all of my stock and farm Implements, consisting ot 42 head of horses, mules and ponies; 26 head of pedigreed and high grade cattle: a Worcester manure spreader, a Bradley riding plow, John Deer riding lister a complete haying outfit,, and other articles too numerous to mention here. See sale bi Is. To make it interesting a. credit of $10 will be given to the purchaser who Guesses nearest to the amount of the sale when footed up; also a credit of $10 to the purchaser of any pony who guesses the nearest to the amount the ponies bring. Discount footed in. Providing the guess ers buy that amount. Suitable cards for euessing can be had by calling on the clerk of the sale. Polls will close prompt ly at 12 o'clock.- Hot lunch at noon. Colonels W. O. Warner, J. M. Pollom. and T!.r Fisher, auctioneers. vv L. Keici, clerk. J. M. WILKERSON. TO WHOM IT MAY COXCERX. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My ap plication IOi- a perran iu ing liquors, according to law, at ila Kan sas ave., in the Fourth ward of tne city of Topeka, is now on tile in the office of the probate judge of Shawnee county, Kansas. The hearing of the same is set for Thursday at 9 ojclock a. m.. March 23 1906. A. H. MARSHALL. MUSICAL. MUSIC LESSONS it pupil s home, &c. 1540 Kansas ave. Mrs. C. M. bmiiey FURNACE WORKS. GEO. E. SEYBOLD, furnace work, tin roofing, guttering, sprains, -pecialty. Wl Kansas ave. Inu. phone 61J. WALL PAPER. GO to G. A. Wood for that wan paper anri i S n C V: KflllSaS BVC. 1"- ELEVATORS. FLOCK MILLS. ETC. CROSBY ROLLER MILLING CO.. man ufacturers of hard wheat flour. PHONE 224. MANTTFACTTTRERS. n 1T1MT.KV. Manufacturer and dealer in all kinds of vehicles. See us about that delivery wagon. 116 W. Fifth st TREE niSPF.NSAUY. TOPEKA FREE DISPENSARY, south n i-2th nnd Tvlcr sts.. from I Sundavs. Conducted by regular practicing physicians for the i.nflt of nersons without means who need medical attention and treatment Pa i ...nmii of careful and consta- t treatment Medicine furnisned in most cases. BICTCLES ANT RKPAIRINO. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CYCLE Co Tel. 706. Bicycles and sundries, bi cvcles and tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds. U S CYCLE CO., 118 E. Sth st. National &'lver-Johnson bicycles. Supplies, repairs. CLAIRVOYANT. TBANCP ,NTn TRUMPET MEDIUM. nrl Thurs eve.. Sunday a.- 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Mrs. W. 6th. Ind. S3. itrsTs. C. RODMAN, blooming plants. cut now- ers, palms, designs, decorations, m w. 8th. Phone 37. Greenhouse mh ana .won. JtfONET. MfiNET to T-nA? on live stock, planoe, organs, typewriters, household good and personal security. 1 3iscoe- o rmn. WHOLESALERS. THE COUGHL1N HARDWARE! CO. fine tools. 7u Ka- Hardware, stoves. sas av. Tel. OW. IIA1H DRESSING- SWITCHES, pompadours, 11 kind ot hair work. Mrs. Van Vieck. MO. 17NDERT KERS. DEMOSS PENWELL. Funeral EHreo- tors and Embalmers. First class nevmc reasonable prices. all Quincy. Both tela 1 GEO. B. PALMER, undertaker. Estab lished 1871. Prices reasonable. Tel. olo 146. Residence S7. 621 Jackson st. BARBER SHOP. D. G. JOHNSON, shave 10c, hair cut. shamnoo. massaee 15c. work iruaxanteeo. Under Exchange Grocery, corner 6th and CJulncy. M1SCJFXAXETJS USE the "Silver Leaf" brand pickles, v ln- etcar. mince meat. etc. Otto ivuehne Preserving Co., 'phone 3i0. TTRXTTOKjEPACK CAPITOL UPHOLSTERING CO., 18 years experience in Topeka, prices reasonable. best of references. 126 W. 7th. Ind. 13&. STORAGE- MERCHANTS' TRANSFER 8TORAOH Co., packs, ships and stores household goods. Tel. liS. Clarence Skinner. 6U Quincy et. MASSAGE PARLOR. LADIES' beauty parlors, facial massage and shampooing, toilet articles. Mrs. Annie M. Trapp, 710 Kan. ave.. upstairs. Tel. 372. inpiioLSTERrva. RECANING. repairing, upholstering. Ind. 'phone 11454. Chairs called for. F. W. Whittier, 1323 Tyler st. PAVTNO CAPITAL CITY VITRIFIED BRICK A PAVING CO., 118 W. ith St. Mfgrs. ot building, pavig and sidewalk brick. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. PATETr. J. A. ROSEN, Patent Attorney. 418 Kan sas avf., Topeka. HACKS. RINGiip Ind. phone 274 for quick hack service, reasonable rates. J. H. Vilott, 515 Quincy st. STAMPS. REALS AXP STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO. 734 Kan. ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. Catalog free. Tel. ATTORXETS-AT-LAW. T. D. HUMPHREYS, lawyer, 521 Kansas ave., lna. pnone iuii. n-ai """7? sDecialiy. Collections. Practice in oil state and federal courtJ. DR EASTMAN, late- supt. state Insane asylum. Mental and nervous diseasee.6u Kan. av. 'Phones 714. Res. 1270 V. Buren. IDA C. BARNES. M. D. --f 7?r TCansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clay. Office hours: a, in. tj 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. Bt phones 16 residence, ana inu. x COAL DEALERS. SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO.. Aeiepiiuue x jo. Northeast Corner 8th and Kan. Av All kinds of Coal. Best Quality. Full Weight Prompt Delivery. RAILROAD TIME TABLES. TIME TABLE Topeka. Kamn. the "Right Road" T and From and Bat- OMAHA PENVEh COLORADO SPG3 FORT WORTH RT. PAUL f 'it CHICAGO ST. LOUIS MEMPHIS PEORIA ST. JOSEPH, KANSAS t.11 1 MINNEAruo And Everywhere Beyond. Time Taule Effective Dec 25, 1904 All 1 rains uuuy. EASTBOUND. Leaves. iiTexas Ex 4:30 ana i,T.California-St. Louis Ex 4:65 am feo tZZVloraiio-K. C. Flyer 7:46 am t-Co orado-K. C. Ex B :20 pm vtln Worth-Chicago Ex 3:35 pro l. ?-o'irlen State limited 6:35 Dm C,' I2rhickasha-K. C. Ex 7.y r,m No. 86-tmi- .VJ3H0UNL. 1K C. -Texas Ex 12:10 am atlst. Louis-California Ex.... 1:00 am No- fpr r c chlckasha Ex I0:o6 am ?;0' SZoolden State limited 12:45 pm fcch cago-Ft. Worth Ex l.tm So 15-K.. C-Colorado Ex 1:40 pm S -Colorado Flyer 8i0 puj NO. 8 -"'"NORTHBOUND. v Leaves. i;4Topeka-St Joe Ex 7:4 am No! TopekaJ E. ,;Wpra Arrives. No 2V-St. Joe-Topeka Ex i2:i, pra No! iSt-Joe -Topeka Ex icos pra JslON PACIFIC. JiAilbOUiNU. Arrive. No 102 Limited 7:00 am 7.jK. C. local passenger 7:25 am So 104 Atlantic Express 2:50 pra -K? C.-Sallna Ex 6:10 pra N- WESTBOUND. XTo 107 K. C.-Salina Ex 10:45 am las Denver-Pac. Coast limited!. :bu pra No 105 Junction City local pass.. 6:35 pro No' 101 Limited S:u0 pin Daily except Sunday. All others daily. MISSOURI PACTFIC. SOUTHBOUND. Leave. No. 315 Freight 7:00 am Ko. 23 Passenger :ii0ara r' NORTHBOUND. Arrive. No 22 Passenger 4:25 pm No. 314 Freight 6:60 n Til

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10 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1905. IN TIIESEIJATE. One Member Who Has a Watch ful Constituent. Senator Xoftzsrer Called Down for Dereliction. URGED TO BE HONEST. llis 16-I'ear-OId Son Is the In terested Terson. Senator Smith an Old Neighbor of Coburn. There is one senator, one in particu lar, who has a constituent watching his every move, keeping tab of his po sition on all questions of legislation and who is criticising 'his acts in a very free manner. The senator who is so watched Thos ger carefully ia Senator Azro Noftz- of Anthony, Senator Noftzger. Harper county, and the constituent is Lee Noftzger, also of Anthony. Har per county. A sample of this correspondence be tween the senator and the constituent does tioC tak.a on the form of the correspondence of son to father or father to son as might be supposed. This constituent is about 16 years oW and he goes to school but the senator pays great heed and gives much at tention to the correspondence, a part ft which ia as follows: Anthony, Kan.. Jan. 24. Senator T. A. Noftzger, Topeka. Kan. Dear Sir: Tha position which you took on the firemen's bill is entirely wrong. You should flop to the other Bide and be in with the men who are In the right. You are mistaken about the firemen of your district not being for it; they are for it and you should vote yes when the time comes. I don't (want to butt in but I think you should be sure of your ground before you vote. Truly yours, LEE NOFTZGER. Senate Chamber, Topeka, Kansas, Jan uary 28. Mr. Lee Noftzger, Anthony, Kansas. Mv Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 24th and I thank you for writing me because I am always glad to hear from my constituents. My position on the firemen's bill was that it was not proper to take any part of the firemen's fund and give it to the state association officers. I was perfectly willing to al low the local fire departments to con tribute a certain per cent of the funds which they receive from the state to promote a state tournament. They will find, before the next session of the legislature, that this money will be de livered to the officers of the state as sociation and that they will use this money largely to promote their own in terests. Yours very truly, T. A. NOFTZGER. Senator T. A. Noftzger, Topeka, Kan. De-ir Sir: I hope you are getting along all right and that you are being perfectly honest. We are tending to your business all right. I enclose a draft. Yours truly, LEE NOFTZGER. Senate Chamber, Topeka, Kansas, Feb ruary 2. Mr. Lee Noftzger, Anthony, Kansas. Dear Sir: 1 have yours oi the 30ih. I am getting along all right and trying to be perfectly honest. Yours truly, T. A. NOFTZGER. The firemen's bill was a measure to set aside a certain percentage of tl state tax, paid by fire insurance com panies doing business in the state to be prorated among the fire depart ments of the state to be used as a re lief fund, to be used by the officers of the state association to be used in giv ing prizes at the firemen's tournaments. This Senator Noftzger, whose record Is watched by this youthful constitu ent, is now known as "Grammarian Tom," since a resolution to that effect was adopted by the senate Saturday. "Tom" Noftzger, as he is usually call ed by constituents and contemporaries alike, watches the bill in the senate so closely that no grammatical errors are supposed to pass his notice. Senator Noftzger is the wit of the senate and his jokes, witticisms and sarcasm often do much to defeat or pass a measure. Senator Noftzger represents Harper, Barber, Clark. Mead, Kiowa, Comanche, Ford and Gray counties as the Thirty-seventh senatorial district. Senator Koftzger Is serving his second term as senator and in winning the first term he re ceived a bare majority of 2 3 votes in his district which had before been swaying toward the other political col umns. He is a native of Indiana and a graduate of the University of Mich igan. If It can be discovered there is some one characteristic about each member of the senate which marks him as different from all the other mem bers. Senator H. J. Smith, from Ot tawa, the senator from Franklin, to distinguish him from the other member of the Smith family in the senate, differs from the senate majority from the fact that he has not put up his lightening rod in hopes that a congressional bolt of lightening will strike it. He has never been accused of aspiring to a seat in congress. Senator Smith and F. D. Coburn went to Ottawa county immediately after the Civil war and about the same time. Mr. Coburn went to work as a farm hand, therf bought his own farm, worked, prospered and studied and was called to the secretaryship of the state board of agriculture. Mr. Smith started the first hardware store in Ottawa in 18(56. He hauled his hardware from Kansas City and Law rence overland in big wagons to his store. This hardware mercnant pros pered and then went into the banking business some thirty years ago and not long ago resigned the presidency of the First National bank of Ottawa as he had served his time and had earned a rest from his labors. Mr. Smith has been representative from Franklin county and has been mayor of the town and councilman ana is now senator. He is one of the oldest and most respected and honoraDle citi zens of Ottawa. Senator Young and Secretary Coburn met in the senate chamber a few days ago and Senator Smith recalled the early davs in Franklin county and described the school house where Foster Coburn taught in the winters two score years ago. Senator Smith raised a company in Ogle countv, Illinois, under authority of the old war novernor of Illinois. Governor lates At that time Senator Smith was county treasurer of Ogle county and tne larmers brought their sons to him and asked that they be allowed to follow him. Smith was made lieutenant and then captain and he marched with his regiment, the Ninety- second Illinois infantry, with Sherman, from Atlanta to the sea. He was wound ed in a skirmish at Sweetwater, Ala. The senate was discussing Senator Betts' bill to make "hoDDing street cars a crime, punishable by a tine of $25. The senate was opposed to such a fine and wished to reduce It to to. Senator Betts thought the judges Would not impose all or me tine. "I know a Judge who would fine a boy of mine J10O for jumping a street car if he got a cnance. said senator uoiiey. "I don't know what kind of boys the senator from Wabaunsee has," remarked Senator Griffin, as if to intimate that per haps the boys ought to be fined. "I will say for the. benefit of the senator that my boys are all girls," said Senator Dolley. One of the best known men in Kansas is A. J. Holsinsrton. assistant secretary of the senate. Mr. Hoisington was editor of the Great Bend Register for years and made that one of the most prominent pa pers in the state. He was appointed reg ister of the land office at Garden Citv in iKs. Mr. icisington went to Barton county in 1874 and was postmaster of oreat Bend in IS, 6. He began his newspa per career on the Iowa State Register. MUST BE CLEARED House Decides on a Calendar Re- Tision. A Stock Yards Bill Is Passed Today. Sen. II. J. Smith. t i i a fj a y i 1 1 mJ Wa A B I i r-, w n JtYmif trsr Perfect In quality. Moderate In prioe. After holding night sessions, Satur day sessions and Monday sessions in a tremenaous ertort to keep up with the rush of bills, the house of representa tives has about concluded to resort to the system of daily calendar revision for the purpose of sifting out the un important bills, and allowing them to drift to the rear of the procession and die of neglect. At the 1903 session of the legis lature, there were 892 bills introduced in the house. At this time there have been 923 bills introduced in the house, and there is still another week before the end of the session. Efforts to se cure the passage of a resolution by both houses to shut off on bills after a given date have failed. The house passed a resolution a long time ago fixing February 15 as the limit for the introduction of bills. The resolution went to the senate for concurrence, and there it was thrown into a com mittee, and is now set for considera tion on February 25, just three days before the end of the session. It will probably strike the average observer as rather peculiar that the senate should consider on February 25 a resolution to shut off on bills ten davs before that date. That is the senate's idea of a good joke on the house. This morning the house commttiee on rules reported the following reso lution: "'Resolved, That the speaker is hereby authorized and directed to ap point a committee of three for re vision of the calendar, whose duty it shall be from day to day to revise the calendar, and whose report and re vision thereof shall be conclusive, un less overruled by a majority vote of the house. "J. L. BRADY, "ROBERT STONE, "C. B. KIRTLAND. "S. H. BRANDON, "R. H. McBRIDE, "J. S. SIMMONS. It was decided by the house to take up the consideration of this resolution Tuesday morning. At that time It is probable that the committee of three to steer the remainder of the session will be authorized. This committee on revision of the journal is an important and authorita- i five body. It can sidetrack anything wnicn aoes net suit us fancy, and is practically a tribunal to- decide which bills shall be passed this session. The following new bills were intro duced at this morning's session of the house: 920. By Mr. Curran To vacate part of streets and alleys in the town of Pro tection, state of Kansas. 921. by Mr. Stone To amend section 2 of chapter 67 of the session laws of 1872 relating to county auditors and re pealing said original section. 922. By Mr. Stone. Requiring and directing the clerk of the district court of Shawnee county to pay to the state treasurer certain fees and moneys here inafter designated and repealing section 1 of chapter 15 of the session laws of 1S98. 923. By Mr. Simmons To amend sec tions 7093. 7094, compiled laws of 1901, being sections 1 and 2 of chapter 355 of the session laws of 1901. Passed Stock Yards Bill. By a vote of 72 to 4 the house this morning passed the Missouri-Kansas joint stock yards bill. Those who voted against the bill were Berryman, Leland, Morgan and Ossweiler. What little opposition to the bill there was, was due to a fear that the state of Missouri would not carry out its part of the bargain and pass the same bill. Several members of the house expressed the opinion that if Missouri did not come up to the scratch, the Kansas legislature should repeal the law. This would leave things in lovely shape for the stock yards people. They could do exactly as they pleased for the next two years, without any laws to interfere. The senate has not passed the stock yards bill, though the same measure passed by the house is now pending before it. Mr. Potts' bill requiring railroads to furnish sanitary conveniences and suitable chairs in cabooses on freight trains was passed by a vote of 6 8 to 0. This bill will make a lot of bother for the railroads, as they will have to put practically all of their cabooses through the car shops to have them fixed up to comply with the law. The law gives the railroads until November, 1905, to comply with the law. Hits the Commission Men. Senator Blaker's bill to prohibit arbitrary discounts on weights was passed by the house this morning. The bill is intended to stop the practice which the Kansas City commission men have of knocking- off 100 pounds1 And ty ILli ii fl iill ome! Many people that could not get waited upon last Saturday were here early this mornins-. some before th rlnm-s nm a-nA "h; no wonder, either, as bargains like we are giving are not an every day occurrence. A chance of a lifetime! Just think of it thousands of pairs of Men's, Women's and Children's High Grade Shoes, not damaged in the leasts new, fresh and clean and on sale at 40c, 50c and 60c on the dollar. If you have not already visited this great sale then do so tomorrow a chance for you to buy two or three pairs of good shoes for the real worth of one pair a chance for you to shoe the whole family for. a few dollars. AH Shoes can be Exchanged in this sale. Your money back if you don't want them after bringing them home. 9 Ji?ipe and Water Sale "Dr. Reed" Cushion Shoes, for men and women; regular price $5 and $6, at $3.65 Men's $2.00, $1.75 Slippers and Ox fords for 98c Men's $5.00, $4.50, $4.00, $3.50 Ox fords, in patent and plain leathers; bought for this Spring's trade, received about a week before the fire $1.95 Infants' 50c, 60c and 75c soft sole Shoes ,cut to 29c Jbpekas Most PopaJtt jf 11-- Sr. Men's Arctic Overshoes for 88c, 98c and $1.29 Ladies' $4.00, $3.50, $3.00 hand turned and "hand sewed patent kid, patent colt, vici kid and box calf Street and Dress Shoes, also Oxfords and Sandals, worth up to $5.00 hundreds of pairs on tables, in all sizes and widths $1.98 Men's and Boys' $2.00, $2.25, $2.50 5 Jaii siioes at vac and Ladies' Overgaiters 13c $o, $4.50, $4 best and finest Dress and Street Shoes, for 82.4:5 Men's and Boys' Felt Boot3 and German Sox and Overs, for $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50. $3.00 High Cut Shoes .$2.43 $3.50 and $4.00 High Cut Shoes..$1.98 Men's Slumber Slippers ...14c Ladies' Slumber Slippers., 14c 5 Infants' and Children's Shoes button and lace; patent and plain leathers; all styles; thou sands oi pairs sacrificed, at loc, 9c, 29c, dsJc, 48c, 59c, 69c, 79c and 98c many shoes in this lot worth up to $2.00. Boys' and Youths' $2, $2.25, $2.50 Patent and Plain Leathers, for .$1.19 Boys' and Girls' $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 School and Dress Shoes, for 98c and $1.29 $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50 Fine Dress Shoes, in patent and plain leathers, for Big Boys and Girls tomorrow ..$1.69 $8, 87.50, $6 and $5.50 high cut, Elk Skin shoes, in black and tan cut to S3.05 Ladies' Rubber Boots, at....... $1.29 Lambs Wool Soles Children's 50c Slippers Nine pairs Shoe Laces. 6c Shoe Polishes Sc $2.50, $2.75, $3 High Cut Shoes. .$1.75 Men's Rubber Boots $1.98, $2.48, $2.98 Sf3 .13c .19c Men's and Boys' Felt Boots and German Sox and Overs for $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.25 and $2.50. One big table full of Men's, Ladies' and Children's Shoes, Oxfords, Slippers, and Felt Shoes. Hundreds of pairs $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50 and $5.00 values .98c One big table full of Ladies', Men's and Children's Shoes, Oxfords and Slippers, all kinds, all styles, values up to $3.00 pick 'em out for 98c Ladies' 75c Slippers 39c rx 3 W. L. Douglas," "Regent," "Koyal" and other well known brands of $4, $3.50 and $3.00 S 7 n i t i j1. i r1 -1 r r- snoes, in au styles ana learners, ior x.o $3.00, $2.75, $2.50, $2.25 box calf, patent colt, vici kid and wax calf; blucher, lace and con gress shoes for men, now at. .$1.48 Men's and Ladies' 50c, 75c and $1.00 Over gaiters for 13c, 19c, 29c, 39c, and 48c. $3.00, $2.75, $2.50, $2.25 Ladies' Shoes and Oxfords in heavy and light soles, button, lace and bluchers, now at $1.29 gj Infants' 25c, 35c and 50c Moccasins 11c Men's, Women's, Children's Overshoes, Rubbers, High-Cut Shoes, Felt Shoes, Slippers, Oxfords, Street Shoes, Dress Shoes every pair Sacrificed at Less than Half factory cost 40c, 50c, 60c on the jm M. W. m AAA W M. A J rfk li MMA WW M. kr AAA A A m. w W A A -mm A A "W mm, mmMw Z on every carload of grain shipped to them and pocketing the value of that 100 pounds. They call the discount .an allowance for shrinkage but as the deduction of 100 pounds is made from the net weight, it is nothing but a plain, old fashioned steal, so the grain shippers say. There has been no fight on the bill. and it is now in shape to go to the gov ernor for his signature. Another bunch of petitions asking the legislature to make an appropriation to pay the Price raid claims was intro duced in the house today. The state printer bill, which has been passed by the legislature in twe sec tions, one providing for the erection of a state print shop and the other creat ing a state board to decide what shall be printed, is practically the same thing which was introduced in the house by Robert Stone of Shawnee county. Mr. Stone had the erection of the plant and the appointment of the board all pro vided for in one bill, but the powers de cided that it would be better to split the thing up into two parts. In doing so, the wording of the Stone bill was copied almost entire, but the credit for the authorship was given to others. There is some sentiment in the house n favor or the senate resolution ior a constitutional convention, but it does not seem to be strong enough to give the resolution much show, even if it gets past the senate. BRIDE LOST $300. At the Same Time Her Husband Also Disappeared. HEW DATE" FIXED. Waterworks May Be Transferred April 1. The waterworks plant will probably pass over into the formal possession of the city of Topeka upon the first of April next. This appears to be the wisest step under the circumstances, as it brings with it the end of the first quarter of the year. It makes the matter of a transfer more simple from a bookkeeping standpoint, as collection of water rental is made every quarter in advance, and if the city should take possession within the next few weeks it would take some careful accounting to discover what in truth was coming to the city and what to the water company. On account of this .factor and in order to give the attorneys In the matter as much time as possible to straighten out the le gal tangle in which the title is involved, the transfer will not be made until the first of April next. It is not thought that there will be any hitch in securing a cleaiing-up of the title by that time, and, according to the present outlook every thing should be lovely. There is only one thing in connection with the transfer which is to be regretted and that is that the present administra tion may not chance to have the honor of taking over the plant since the term of office of a majority of the citv officials expires with the 31st of March and re turns from the elections may mean some new faces in the regime- which rules the city s anairs. She Appeals to the Police But in Tain. It was not only a story of unrequited lov which Mrs. M. M. Gray, a bride of two weeks, told the police this morn ing, but also one of a faithless hus band, running away after getting $300 of her money, all she says she had in the world. The Grays came to Topeka about two weeks ago directly ifrom Mount Ayr, Iowa, after being married. They stopped at the Chesterfield hotel. According to the story Mrs. Gray told Detective Josiah Boss this morning, whom she called on for advice, she had not known her husband very long be fore she married him. He told her that he was a detective and had a case to work up in Topeka. So they came here. Mt. Gray says that she had $300 which she gave to her husband to de posit in one of the Topeka banks, which he promised to do. Week before last he left town and returned on Sun day. He went out again the first of last week, saying he was busy on de tective work, and promised to return last Wednesday. He never came back. That is all. says Mrs. Gray, that she has heard of her husband or her mon ey. She told the officers that she is sure her husband haa deserted her. The police say that there is nothing to do in the case, declaring that she gave Gray the money, and since he is her husband, he has a right to keep It. BOWLING CONGRESS. Century No. 1 Tciun of Chicago StiU Ijeads In Five Men Class. i SPECIAL. City of Mexico nnd Return $45 Via Santa Fe. A great opportunity to see Old Mex ico. Tickets on sale March 4. 5, 6 and 7. Tickets limited 30 days from date of sale. Stopovers in either direction. For full information and literature ad dress T. I. KING. C. P. T. A., Topeka A wonderful tonic for the sick and afflicted. Get strength, health and hap piness by using Hollister's. Rocky Moun tain Tea this month. A bracing family medicine. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Gat lin Drug Co. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 20. In the politi cal situation in connection with the American Bowling congress, the secre taryship is the main bone of contention. Sam Karpf, the present incumbent, still claims his election, while Abe Langtry of Milwaukee is equally confident. Century No. 1 team of Chicago still leads in the five men class with a score of 2.778. In the first five-men squad today Hawkeye of Des Moines scored 2.533. In the last five-team squad which rolled Saturday night in the American Bowling tournament Centurv No. 1 team Of Chi cago rolled up a score of 2.77S, capturing first place so far in the series. This puts the preceding leaders down a peg. There are still a large number of five-men teams to DOWI. Nationals. Madison 2.584 Pristers, Milwaukee 2,3X Atwood, Stillwater 2.2S Mavwood, Maywood 2.5S6 Illinois, Chicago 2M9 Teasers, Madison 2.565 Watertown. Watertown, S. D. 2,343 Remnants, Madison 2,b!2 B. B. Co. Kids, Chicago 2,594 Century No. 2, Chicago ....2,647 Weiss, Chicago 2,625 Ruehl, Chicago 2,5o3 Century No. 1, Chicago 2,778 H. E. Banbien Named. H. E. Baubien, of Dodge City, has been appointed forestry commissioner by Governor Hoch, to succeed R. A. Wright, Several bills to abolish the office of forestry commissioner are now before the legislature, and Mr. Baubien may have but a short time to serve in that capacity. He will personally con duct the Dodge City station, and will be allowed one assistant to run the Ogallah station. tPeopia sending Items to this aepaxtmeni of tho State Journal will confer a favor by g'vir-g the full first name or two initials, with all proper names. J! must be accompanied ity the name ana address of the witter or they can not oe puuusoea.i Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Poindexter will give a card party this evening at their house on Eighth avenue west for which they have asked Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey, Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Reed, Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Esterley, Mr. and Mrs. Jiugene s. Qumton, Mr. and Mrs. W, G. Smyser, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Well man, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Rodgers, Mr. and Mrs.-W. B. Roby, Mr. and Mrs. Clement Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Snow, Mr. and Mrs. Warren M. Crosby, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lininger, Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Andrews. Mrs. W. C. Evans has asked guests for a George Washington birthday luncheon at The Parsonage, 500 Topeka avenue, Wednesday at 1 o clock in com pliment to the Misses Hoch. Mrs. W. A. Morton is entertaining the Monday Whist club this afternoon at her house on Tenth avenue west. Mrs. Hammatt, Mrs. John Clark Harmon, Mrs. John Bradley and Mrs. Daniel J. Small are substituting for absent members. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Coughlin, Miss Findlay, Miss Maud Findlay and Miss Amanda Find lay will go to Leavenworth tomorrow to attend the wedding of Miss Margaret Jennings and Mr. John Kelly or To peka which will be solemnized with solemn high mass at the Cathedral Wednesday morning at half after 9 o'clock. The Rev. Father Jennings, a brother of the bride, will perform the ceremony and the mass will be by the Rev. Father Kelly of Kansas City, Kan sas, a brother of the groom, deacon, the Rev. Father Ward, dean of the cathed ral, eub-deacon, and the full cathedral choir, assisted by Mr. Harry Kelly, brother of the grcom, who will sing the offertory. "Miss Margaret O'Keefe of Leavenworth wilj be the maid of honor and Mr. Joseph Kelly of Kansas City. Missouri, will support his brother as best man. Mr. and Mrs, Kelly will come to Topeka immediately after their wedding and will live at the Throop for a few months until they take a house. The Woman's Auxiliary of Grace ca thedral will give a tea at the Bishop's House Friday afternoon at 3 o clock. A musical programme will be given with a paper on Alaska illustrated by Alaskan curios. All the ladies of Grace cathedral congregation are cordially in vited. Announcement has been made of the approaching marriage of Miss Lillian Dearing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Dearing of Durant, I. T., and Mr. John J. Johnston, of Tahlequah, I. T., son of Chief Justice and Mrs. W. A. Johnston of Topeka. The wedding will take place March 8 at the home of the bride's parents, and they will be at home after March 19 at Tahlequah. The marriage of Miss Lucy Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Brown, and Mr. Karl Engler. was celebrated Saturday evening at the birde's par ents' country place, The Pines, on the West Sixth pike. The ceremony was at half after 8 o'clock and was performed by the Rev. Mr. Lee of Seabrook. The same afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Brown gave a large reception in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniver sary. Mr. and Mrs. Engler left imme diately after their wedding for their country home southwest of town on the Burlingame road. Miss Lenore Monroe and Miss Daisy Monroe entertained the new officers and members of the committees of the Washburn Girls'. Literary society at their house, 909 Harrison street, Satur day afternoon. The company included Afiss T.pnore Monroe. Miss Edith Ing ham, Miss Hazel Larkin, Miss Grace Page Miss Efne Page, Miss Marcia Williams, Miss Helen Ingham, Miss Cora Godard, Miss Eleanor Lukens.Miss Daisy Monroe, Miss Allie Wingett, Miss Mebel Ren wick, Miss Julia Lari mer, Miss Louise wood, miss Mar guerite LovewelL Notes and Personal Mention. Judge and Mrs. R. F. Thomas of Min DDroHu Minn., are the euests of Chief Justice and Mrs. W. A. Johnston, at Elm- wood flace, ior me ween.. Mr John Fleishman, who is a student at trie University of Kansas, was brought up from Lawrence very ill Saturday with ,r,rii!tis and was taken to Christ hos pital where Nin operation was performed Sunday night. His condition today Is ta vorable and indicates a prompet recov- eryr'rs p v. Goebel and Miss Goebel of Louiburg spent Saturday with Represen tative Goebel in Topeka. He returned hdme with them Saturday night to spend Sunday. t Senator Oeorgc Hayden went to his home at Wetmore to spend Sunday. Mr Sam Hazelbart of Kansas City is here" to spend the week with his father, Mr. Iscwis Hazelbart. Mrs M. L. Merrill, who was the guest of Mrs. John R. Mulvane, returned home Saturday. Miss Gertrude Risley and Miss Grace Risley of Lawrence spent Sunday with Mrs W R. Stubbs in Highland Park. Mrs E E. Wardin. Miss Ethel Hadley and Mr Harry Wardin leave Thursday for Los' Angeles. Cal., to spend the re mainder of the winter. Mrs. J. C. Harmon has returned from a business trip to Neodesha. Mrs F W. Dickerson of Denver has re turned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Overmyer, after a visit in McLouth Mr. Harry Bone and Mr. T. R. Hite are in Ashland. The Primrose club is meeting with Mrs. Harry Bowen today. Tur or.H Afi-a R S. Bates left yesterday for New Tork. Chicago and Pennsylvania, to be gone about tnree wejts. fiaaae nf the First Presbyterian Sunday school will give an entertainment at the church Wednesday evening, assist ed by the ladies of the Monday and Tues day ittble stuay classes, xiic t m two classes which will give the program are Esther Rodgers, Caro Gage, Margue rite Parkinson. Allison Shaver, Louise Worthlngton, Marjory Glasgow, Helen Estey, Eva Rees, Grace Grote, Margaret Russell, Margaret Brown, Aenid Stricklnr, Katie Bacon, Annabel Garvey, Helm Slia. ver, Jean Rodgers. Mariorle Rodgers, Clyde Bonebrake, Mary MacLennan, Hel en Stephenson, Mary Alexander, Verna Worley, Nellie Babcock, Lucille Organ. Mrs. Ella W. Brown, who was in town last week, has returned to Powhattan, where she is in charge of a church. Mrs. S. Stanton left today to visit her daughters in Van Buren. Ark., en route for Hot Springs, where she will spend the remainder of the winter. The Taka Hasha embroidery club will meet with Mrs. James Nelson, 32S Tyler street, Tuesday afternoon. SAVE THE BRIDGES. Judge Pollock Enjoins Kansas City From Destroying Structures. Judge Pollock of the United States circuit, court this morning granted a temporary injunction to the Kansas City Belt railroad to prevent the coun ty commissioners of Wyandotte county from destroying its bridges across the mouth of the Kaw. where it empties into the Missouri. Last Saturday the county commis sioners of Wyandotte county, and T. B. Gilbert, mayor of Kansas City, Kan., notified the railway that unless it began the removal of the bridges by today noon, the structures would be destroyed. It is feared that if ice gorges form against the piers, another 1 flood will inundate Kansas City. j. ne temporary injunction w as granted, and the final hearing set for March 9. The defendants in the injunction are named as O. I. Claflin, G. E. Espen lank and1 R. L. Marshall, county com-, missioners of Wyandotte county; the city of Kansas City, Kan., through T. B. Gilbert, mayor; A. J. Murray, chief of police; A. R. McClackey. street commissioner; Tim Lyons, J. W. Rad ford. T. Q. Polock, Harry Dean, W. A. Coy, William Daniels. BILL WAS VICTOR. Caught Matalor on His Horns Nearly Killed Him. and Chicago, Feb. 20. A dispatch to the Tri bune from El Paso, Tex., says: Rafael Arana. known as Joarana Chleo, has met with injuries In the bull ring that will retire him for life. He sustained a broken leg, his spine was fractured and his side was gored. The fight was under the management of Felix Robert, a French matador, who himself dispatched two of the six bulla killed. It was the fifth bull that caused the excitement. "Chico" went at the bull in the midst of cheers that fairlv shook the amphitheater. He had been heralded as one of Spain's most noted matadors. Scarcely had he made the death plunge at the bull when the Infuriated animal "side-stepped," quickly charged and caught him on its horns. Rushing about the ring, bellowing and pawing witli rasre, the animal first tossed him to the right and then to the left, and finally crushed him against the walls. A panic ensued, only the gendarmerie avoiding a rush that might have injured many persons. Funeral Notice. The members of Topeka lodge No. 17 A. F. A. M., are hereby notified to meet at the lodge room, Wednesday, February 22, at 1 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of attending the funeral of our brother, James L. Scott. Visiting brethren are fraternally invited to meet with us. JOHN M. CLEVELAND, S. W.. Acting Worshipful Master. CARL W. N ELLIS. Secretary.