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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
SUPT. NEWELL MURDERED.
The General superintendent of the Mid
Land Terminal Road shot BY a 1llner.

The General Superintendent of the Mid
land Terminal Road shot by "A Miner.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Dec. 20. The
shooting Of Richard Newell. jr. general
superintendent and chief engineer of the
Midland Terminal railroad, BY al w.
Van Houten, miner. near Independence
last night was the result Of a difficulty
over the right Of way of the road.
The owners of the Black Wonder
could not agree with the railroad com
pany to the damage done the property
by passing over 1t, and so arbitration
was decided upon, which gave to the
Black Wonder verdict for $3.50
OF this sum it appears the Midland
Terminal only paid 1928, and SO tile own
ers. or one of them at least. Gus conan
who resides in this city. told the men who
live IN a cabin standing directly on the
right-of-way not to let the railroad people
disturb the house under any circum-
stances. The railroad folks were bound
to 60 ahead, however, and so they swerved
out and around the cabin with their line
thus making it necessary for all trains in
passing TO come almost to a standstill at
the point in question.
Superintendent Newell was out on the
road ia his special car.
When the train reached the cabin 1Ir
Newell signaled the engineer to stop
and jumping off his car he pulled a pa
per from his pocket and walked into the
house Suddenly Mr. n eWeu came out.
the doorway with rifle in his hand A
quarter of a minute later the weapon
was discharged, and Newell staggered.
ran few fest and fell into the arms of
Pat McCawin. From the time he was
shot he never spoke, and seven minutes
later he was dead
Van Houten claims he shot i'll self
defense. but six railroad men who Wit
messed the murder VIII testify that Mr.
Newell vas uaarmed-
Van Houten had no interest in the
property in dispute He has been taken
to the jail at Colorado Springs. The
body Of sir. Newell has also been taken
to the springs and viii be shipped to
Cleveland, o.. for burial
Richard Newell was 27 years Of age
and a ne phew Of the late President New
ell Of the Lake Shore railroad His
father lives at Newburyport. Mass
w. H. Hosking. partner of Al w. Van
Houten, who did the shooting, has also
been arrested as an accessory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
NORTH TOPEKA.
Items of Interest from the North Side
the River

Items of Interest from the North Side of
the River
J. T. Davis of Jackson county was in
the city today marketing his apple crop.
The Needle Ten meets this afternoon
at Rev. Calvin Holmau's. to dress Christ
mas dolls.
George Dean of Manhattan will spend
the holidays with the family of J. 5.
Stansfield.
Mrs. Geo. Stead of Council Grove. a
former resident of North Topeka is Wis
iting friends here.
Just received, a fine assortment of Gus
pidors, cheap BRILL & NELSON.
Major Maxwell. accompanied by his
daughter Miss May, has gone to Manhat-
tan on a short trip.
Snow may think he has q job for the
winter. but we have the finest line Of
Jardiuieres in the city.
BRILL & NELSON.
Mrs. Frank Berry is still improving
slowly and II Is thought she will regain
her health though it will require long
time.
The Ellis county sheriff came back
Yesterday 10 look for the insane man that
gave him the slip at the Union Pacific
last week.
Mrs II F. Morris entertained the w.
T. h. club at their meeting this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
JOTTINcS ABOUT THE CITY.

" asnpurn and bethany colleges have
closed LOT the christmas Holioays-
There viii be "a Christmas tree Christ
oeaDfooh congregations churcA.
County Clerk Charles 4. McCabe is
attending the session Of the Kansas
County Clerks association at Salina.
sheriff Burdge says II the legislature
prefers to put the sherIHs on a stated
salary ne VIII not protsst, Out De entirely
satisfied
Topeka contractors are building s., 500
house for Editor r. A W eller, of W
mego- 1t was also designed by Topeka
architects
T. J. Anderson says half-rate to To
peka for the inaugural ball won't draw
many people He favors an open rate Of
one cent a mile
School district No. p, taught by Ida
Taylor, viii give Christmas entertain
ment Friday night 1t will be followed
by basket supper
Contractor George II. Evans went to
Fit " Worth last night to look after his
contract for 100000 worth of repairs on
the federal building there.
w. D. Murdoch, of Wichita, who leaves
soon for Mexico. will be succeeded bv
Charles L 1eaRraves, Of Kansas City. as
district passenger agent Of tile Santa Fe
The new court house mas now reached
the TOP of the third story and with a few
weeks more of good weather the build
ers will have the building entirely en-
closed.
Tax payments are unusually prompt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20

their convention at the Crawford opera
house in January
Florence Bindley, Charles Dickson,
Stuart Robson. SOL Smith Russell and
THE Dazzler'' will visit the Grand dur
ing the next thirty days.
James Murphy of the mail carriers
force Who IS still very sick with typhoid
malarial fever at his home on east First
street, IS now considered out of danger,
but he viii be sick long time
The kindergarten minstreI5 were
great success In many ways Besides
furnishing something to keep about sixty
young men out Of mischief they brought
in a clear gain Of $500 for the kinder
garten. The receipts Of the show were
something over $500
Vim. Doyle, VINO was recently released
from the county Jail by the commiss sion
ers, filed up on whisky Immediately
afterwards and kept that way. He was
brought to the city jail last night in d
maudIin state, which soon developed in
to an aggravated case of Jim ans. lie is
somewhat better today.
Both nights Of the Orphans home car
nival there were almost as many people
on the stage as there were in the audi
ence Topeka people are not much in
terested in trades displays and tneatri-
cal advertising, even for so good cause.
The show last night was d little smoother
than it was on Monday night
Mrs Jenny Milliner, an out of town
young woman. was arrested by the police
yesterday afternoon for shoplifting. She
was caught by a clerk IN Stevenson's
store, but had articles on her person
taken from other stores ia town She
put up SO for her appearance this morn
ing, but failed to emulate the notable eN-
ample of the cat
IF the fee grabbing light comes up be-
fore the legislature this winter" said
prominent lawyer today, The clerks of
the courts IN the state viii organize to
fight il. and there viii be a lobbying
committee sent here to see that no legis-
lation against them gets through the leg
islature. 1t is thieving law, but I be-
Iieve it Will be mighty hard to change it
now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
FINDS ENDORSEMENT.
Lawyers Verify the Statements
About Fee Grabbing
BILL IS BEING FRAMED
BY II d. WEIGH TO be Introduced Into
the Legislature Regulating Fees

BY Il - yvelch TO be introduced Into
the Legislature Regulating Fees
The war against fee-grabbers is the
principal topic of conversation among
the attorneys of Topeka this week. They
all agree that 1t is righteous warfare
and that the legislature should afford
them and their litigants some relief at
its session this winter.
R. B Welch has been at work some
time outlining a bill, by request which
would remedy the present fee system IL
provides, that the district clerk, sheriff.
probate judge and justices Of the peace
be paid Z stated salary, and all fees be
turned into the county treasury.
Mr.. Welch says, Il have never given
the matter great deal Of study but it
seems to be q municipal court ike that
described IN the JOURNAL would be an
excellent thing. 1t would be cOnven-
lent and economical. see no
reason or justice in allowing the
Justices Of the peace such enormous
fees. The fault, of course, is with the
law, but It should not assume that judges
should be reasonable IN their fees-lt
should make them so. 1 am told that 1t
was Justics Searle who discovered the
present way Of charging fees. He stud
led the fee laws and discovered how to
make big fee bills that were legal 1t
got out among the other local Justices,
the JOURNAL come out and take the
stand it did and 1 intend to go up to the
office and tell them you did just right
Joseph @. Waters says. From long
ex perIence in the courts of this county. 4
am satisfied that the costs incurred in
Justices courts are far beyond the good
they accomplish in civil cases, and in
criminal cases the costs are simply won
derful and grievous to the tax payers a
simple investigation Will prove this. l
orr justices; either way would be ecOnO-
nv As regards the perquisires of the
district clerk, they are greatly over
stated. If, after paying help, he gathers
in clean, over $4,000 year, l am mis-
taken. There are a heap of poverty aft
davit suits. and 1 would say that in p
per cent of the civil cases an execution
would catch neither plaintiff nor defend
ant"
Ex-Sheriff John n Wilksrson says:
There was d great deal of truth in what
the JOURNAL said; and 1 think 1 ought to
know, don't your"
The unfairness of the fee system j.
plainly shown in the following state
ment from a county officer who gets
salary. IF the district clerks office is
good for $12, 900 or $4,000 a year the
county treasurer ought to be paid 500
OJO year Frank SEahl has to give a
big bond and is responsible for every
cent that IS received or paid out by the
county. lie has more responsibility in a
day than the district clerk has in a
month Yet he is paid q salary of $4,000
"a We ar and out Of this he has to pay his
clerk and Office help. At present bust
ness is brisk and he is working seven
clerks at three dollars day. lie gets no
fees. Figure this out and see how much
Mr. S1ahP5 job is worth. The county
clerk. who is responsible for all the tax
and other county records gets $3.50 d
year and no fees"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
Nobby suits
at Ekberg's, ZIG Kansas avenue.

We pnt on new neckbands on shirts
Peerless steam Laundry, liz and ia
West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
KANSAS AVENUE GLImPsEs.

The street car track on Jackson street
is being repaired.
IL Taylor Of the Bank OF Topeka was
in Kansas City yesterday.
Mrs A p. Wilder, who has been very
sick Of late, is slowly recovering.
Police court business seems to be pick
ing up some as cold weather approaches.
I. J. Kellam has returned from Colo
RADIO, where he has been for a week or
two.
Ed Wagner has about recovered from
his recent illness and is able 10 be on the
street.
DR.. l. Fl. Mum has been re-appointed
local surgeon Of the Rock Island road ia
Topeka
The new Bijou opera house will be
opened this evening with free invita-
ton concert by MarshalTs band.
n. 5. Hayes. the owner of the pacing
mare Ella C., has taken her TO Newton
where he viii remain a farm and
train her.
There is no one sick at the county Jail
now. Even the man who drank another
fellows medicine with deadly intent has
recovered
Chief of Police Fl. O. Lindsey il il
Oklahoma City looking at his property
and seeing about his probable candidacy
for city marshal
The visiting Representatives Of the
Kansas cities Of the first class viii hold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
WONT GIVE IT Up.
Frank Herald VIII Hold on to His ONCE
TIN '97-The Candidates.

Till '97-The Candidates.
The local politicians have left off talk
ing about the men TO be appointed police
comm ssioners long enough to give a lit
tie attention to the successor of Frank
Herald as commissioner of elections.
There are three men talked of as can
didates and there VIII probably be sew
eral more out before the new governor
is inaugurated. The men so far talked
about for the place are l. T. L0ckard,
Capt C. II. Titus and c. ID. Watson Mr.
Lockard was formerly councilman from
the Fourth ward and IS one Of the old
residents Of Topeka Capt Titus has
long been prominent in county politics,
and hr. w atsOn is secretary Of the cOun-
ty central committee
The commissioner of elections is al
lowed 81, 200 Z year and $420 for CLERK
hire lie Is appointed by the governor
for term Of four years. The clerk does
all the work and the commissioner pock-
cts 1920 for doing nothing.
While the Republicans are looking for
a suitable man to take the Office, Com
missioner Herald is confident that he can
March 10, 1897" said ne to a JOURNAL re-
porter, land they can have the office
then. but they will not get the place be-
fore that L appointed for four
years by the governor and I have my
commission for that time. can only be
removed for mismanag cement Of the Office
aud 1 have not been guilty of anything
of the kind and Go not propose to make
myself liable to that charge if I can
help it.
IF they attempt to remove me for mis-
out that 1 am something of a fighter my
ealf5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20
tomorrow. has been Il

this evening or tomorrow. has been at
tending school
Mr. Carl FOulks has gone to Chicago
to meet his sister, Miss Grace, who viii
spend the holidays at home
Miss Mabel Wilson VIII come down
from the state university for the holidays
at home
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Fellows Informally
entertained a few friends at high i've
last evening They have recently re-
modelled their cosy and comfortable
home at TO Lincoln street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20

Call up Phone 153 and have our wagon
call for your bundle.
TOPEKA STEAM LA6SDRx
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20

commenced the erection of a new church
edifice on the east side of Clay street,
north of Tenth. 1t will be of brick. with
dressed stone facing, and cost about
$4,000 It's seating capacity will be
about 300 It will be one Of the contest
churches in the city. Haskell & Stanton
are the architects The congregation is
a prospering and a growing one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-20

Each member present was made the
recipient of a souvenir Of the season.
Mrs c. W. Angle surrendered her
commo5ious home to the ladies Of the
Congregational church last evening.
There was a good attendance and much
enjoyment
Fred Munsie, an employe Of the Santa
Fe offices, who resides on the corner OF
Quincy and Fairchild. sustained a par
alytic stroke yesterday and is IN pre-
carious condition. He is member Of
Sunfower camp, Modern Woodmen of
America.
Pocket knives for Christmas az Hen
rvs
10 per cent of on Banquet cook and
Oak heating stoves for Christmas pres
ents J. II. FOUGHT
Finest skates and lowest prices at
Henry's
According to custom Of many years
standing Santa Claus has established his
headquarters for the holiday season. at
the 10 cent store 83S Kansas avenue. The
collection of goods suitable for Christmas
presents is larger and better and cheaper
Lecture BY Ethel Frances Baker on
the passion Play" ODER mmerRau.
Knights of Pythias hall Friday eve. De
cember p. Admission 10 cents. Every
body welcome.
Call up Phone 15s and have our wagon
call for your bundle.
ToPEKA STEAM LA6SDRx
NobBy suits
Ekberg's. TIC Kansas avenue.
We pnt on new neckbands on shirts
Peerless steam Laundry, liz and ia
West Eighth street
Topeka sueam Laundrys
co Jackson street
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Topeka steam Laundryr
GO Jackson street
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20

opposite the present home of General
Dow which is on the other side of Con-
eress street, at the corner of Congress
and Dow streets. General BOWS present
residence is of comparatively recent con-
struction but the old house was built IN
1900. In 1869 it was remodelled and
somewhat enlarged The accompanying
cut represents it as it was before the re-
modelling.
General Dow was born in that house
in 1904. Congress street was then known
AS Back street, or the county road. The
house was quite in the country,
although at that time good residences
had begun to appear in that vicinity. A
brief consideration of the Portland of
the year of Mr.. Dow's birth will illus
trate better than anything else the great
changes which have passed in Portland
since then. The Portland of 1904 was
country village of from four TO SIX
thousand people. Two years later it had
but $40 dwellings. The aristocratlc
norton of the town was still in the
neighborhood of India street and
Thames street, where it had been turing
the Revolution. The Fore street house
where Longfellow was born in 1907 was
among the mansions in that region,
and not far away was the mansion which
Brigadier General Preble had erected.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20

with the vigor of middle life; not even
emitting to assail an opponent in the
old lively way.
1t is as
The Father of Pro hibition"
that General Dow will be greeted today.
IT is not claimed for him that he is ssthe
inventor of that method of dealing with
the Iiouor traffic. Two hundred and
fifty eight years ago court at York IN
this state, decreed that a fine of thirty
shillings should be assessed against any
man that doth sell his neigh Dor stron
drink etc. In 1874, in Georgia, in the
days of Oglethorpe, the sale of rum was
forbidden. In 1887 James Appleton, OF
this city, made report as the chairman
of a committee of the legislature, Iii
which the absolute prohibition OF the
LIQUOR traffic by state law was recon-
mended. And this report was maze ID
response to petition addressed to ene
legislature by Edward Kent ana others
In 1S47 the Massachusetts legislature
was petitioned to pass prohl bltory law,
and in 1s4s bill prohibiting the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors was passed by the
House of Representatives, but failed IN
+be Senate. The idea had been in mems
minds for many years, even centuries;
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20
The vacant Judgeship.

Petitions for the appointment of Hon
SewalI C. Strout as judge of the Supreme
Court, are in circulation in this county
and that presented to the bar has re
ceived the signature of nearly every
member without regard to party. Like
petitions have also been signed by many
business men including ex-Gov Robbie,
Collector F. N. Dow. Mayor James P.
Baxter, Postmaster John G. Small, Hon.
George P. Wescott, S. r. Small, presi
dent of the Casco bank, and many Other
prominent citiZe ms.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20
MARRIAGES.

In Strong. March IT. by Rev. J. Nixon, Sam'l
Moores and Miss Mary Beers, both Of Strong;
In Strong, March II, Wallace G. Virgin and
Miss Emma G. Mecham, both of Phillips.
In Saco March IA, George L. Mahoney and
Miss Nellie Bradeen. una 2fE.
in Bridgton, March TO- Orlando v Pfatsted Of
Brldgton and Miss Mary Redlon of Sweden.
In Bar Harbor, March 10, Alonzo w. Connors
of Cherryfleld and Miss Mary r. Clckard OF
Bar Harbor.
In Dexter, Marcn en-, = - e IS ). Fo!S1m anu MISS
In Bethel March 6, George N. Currier and
Eliza L. Wheeler.
In Clinton. March s. Henry York and Miss
Louvina Trask.
In Bangor, George Cover and Mrs. Alice R.
Lane.
In Carmel, March 8, Cyrus P. Clement and
Mrs. Mary johnson, both OF Hermon.
In Moscow, Daniel Hilton and Miss Grace M.
Gordon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20

but 1t had been hardly more than an
IDEA. AS time had gone on 1t had grown.
The Washingtonian movement mad
strengthened the temperance sentiment
and practices of men had made them
ready to entertain the Idea of radical
experiment.
Under such circumstances the agrees
sive, ready, interesting and persistent
personality of Neal Dow appeared to
lead the movement; and when, as mayor
of Portland he carried to the legislature
of 1851 the draft of the first prohibitory
law. he succeeded in gettingsit passed,
although that body was overw helmingly
Democratic. But nearly all the wings,
the Free Sellers and two-fifths of the
Democrats voted for it. The passage OF
the measure was undoubtedly acceler-
ated by the fractional feeling bred in the
Democratic party in the previous sessie n
bv the protracted effort to elect Hannibal
Hamlin, with his anti-slavery tendencies,
to the United States Senate. over pro
| slavery man. "Shep" Carey. LED the
anti-Hamlin men, and also, in the
session of 1851, led the opposition to the
| Dow law. "Niggers are now swallowed
UP in rum," said Carey. Ii used to be
Niggers First and Rum Next
Now it is rum first and niggers after
| wards" The wild Cat Democracy"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20
THE FATHER OF PROHIBITION.
General Dow Has Seen Portland Grow
From a Country Village.

Particulars of the Passage of the First
Prohibitory Law--The Riot of 1855
The Law in Maine and Other States.
This evening, at City hall, the
ninetieth birthday of General Neal Dow
will be commemorated with appro-
pirate exercises. General Dow will,
himself, attend, and will make An ad-
dress which will undoubtedly be a
fitting close to day of many congratu-
lations and receptions of old friends and
neigh bors.
The salient points of General Dow's
career are SO well known to the people OF
Portland that an extended review OF
them at this time would be superduous.
He was born in Portland, and in Port
land he has always lived. The house in
which he was born is still standing, it
being the large square house No. III
Congress street, now occupied by
Colonel H S. Osgood, but still owned in
the Dow family. 1t is almost exactly
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-20
DEATHS.

In this city, March 10, Mary j. Farrell wife
of John F. Monroe, aged as years.
H[Funeral Wednesday afternoon. at O'Clock
at her late residence, No. 1877 Newbury street
copy]
In this city, March 49, at the Home for aged
women of which place she has been resident
Tor 81 years Mrs. Harriet Fogg, aged 93 years
months.
Funeral Wednesday afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
from the Home.
Horatio and Deborah q. Clark, aged 10 years 3
months rs days. "
Funeral this afternoon, at $50 O'Clock, from
her parents residence, No. "a Free street; os
the late Stephen B. Bracket, aged rs years
month.
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Funeral or Wednesday afternoon at o'clk,
at her late residence, Stevens Plains Avenue.
In Springvale. March 10, ThaddeuS G. Lewis,
of Portland, aged So years months.
Notice of funeral hereafter.]
In South Boston, March Is, Bridget E. Maher,
aged 48 years.
Funeral Wednesday morning from the resi-
dence of Thomas IL. Gately, 176 Congress St.,
Portland.
76 years.
In Rockland, March 9, Sarah Longley aged
rs years.
In Deer Isle, March g. Mrs. Sarah M. Torrey,
aged IA years.
In Bar Harbor. March 9, Mrs. Julia J. Con-
ners aged 81 years.
In Lifchfield Plains, March IA, Mrs. Henry
Huntington.
aged SO years.
In Harrington, March -, Stephen L. Wing,
aged 33 years.
In Industr,, March 10, John D. Leaver, aged
70 years. p y