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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
JAMES C. FAIR DEAD
The Western Millionaire Sue
cumbs Early This Morning.
Was Ex-senator from Nevada
and Worth 20 Millions.
REMEMBERS HIS son.
Chas. Fair Once Disinherited
Named in the Will.
Fair Was One OF the Big
Bonanza Kings.
REMEMBERS HIS SON

SAN Francisco, Dec 29.-Ex- Senator
James G. Fair died suddenly at the Lick
house at 1920 this morning Senator
Fair has been in poor health for some
time, suffering from asthma, a few days
ago he caught cold while going out in a
rain storm to view some OF his property
improvements at North Beach. The
cold did not apparently affect his lungs,
but settled IN his kidneys. Last evening
he was feeling better than for the past
few days and his death was entirely un-
expected
Senator Fair was about 81 years old.
His death was due to a complication of
kidney and stomach troubles. His only
son. Charles @. Fair. whom he disinher-
tied about a year ago, was with his father
at the time of his death, a reconciliation
having been effected a short time ago.
Senator FAIR was born in Ireland and
was United States senator from Nevada
He made mis- fortune in the Comstock
lode and was mem Der of the famous
Bonanza firm, Flood, Mackay, Fair &
O'Brien. He largely increased his
wealth by investments in San Francisco
and California real estate. and his for
tune is estimated at twenty million
dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
THEY ARE GONE.
The school Ma'ams Have Gathered Up
Home.

The school Na'ams Have Gathered Up
Their Bright Smiles and Taken Them
Home.
The teachers are leaving US Their
bright smiles are gone and it is once
more cloudy and dismal and wOrkadav
The hotel corridors have nothing but pol
itics in them now and the happy spirit Of
the Kansas school mA'am trying to com
bine the serious brow of learning and
the happy eyes of outing is no longer on
the street
Representative hall and the high
school building are dreary aud empty.
The good natured discussion has stopped
for year and the teachers have gone
back TO their books and kindling, and
pupils; TO the irksome tasks that they
rejoice IN, the real teacher IS an en-
thusast-
The thirty-second annual meeting
closed last night with the lecture at the
high school building by DR.. Charles
Cation Of Chicago 1t was entitled Mrs.
Grundy'' and was good.
There was the usual number of meet
ings OF the various divisions yesterday
afternoon. The college and high school
people met at the Baptist church, and
the district and graded school division
met IN Represe NATIVE hall
The county uperintendents held their
meeting IN the senate chamber and cleo
ted the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, E. Stanley; vice presi-
dent, Z L. Glasgow; secretary, +. II.
Baker. The next meeting Will be held
at Abilene in May.
the kindergarten work was discussed
in the assembly room of the high school
building.
The teachers will meet again at Topeka
on Decem Der 26th next, and they will be
welcome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

KANSAS CITY, Dec 20.-CArrLE-R
ceipts, 1870; shipments, LOO. Mar
ket steady Texas steers 81 500
800; Texas COWS. $4,000 60: beef steers.
$275052O; native cows. %l.3J9g5. 30s
stockers and feeders $2.z0036J; bulls
$L75u3 10
Hoas-Receipts. 1900; shipments.
so. Market strong to Toe higher
Bulk of sales @41OW435. fIeavies, SAID
8450; packers, @405014.5O; mixed,
81 OOG94 50; lights. 81. 60015.yJ; workers.,
$3S50395; pigs, $3OOu3.o0.
SHEEP - Receipts. 100; shipments.
none. Market nominally steady
WHEAT-Firm; No. hard 53c; No.
red, 510g &c; rejected, 460147.
Sales by sample f. q. b. Mississippi
river: No. 2 hard 59B60c: No 2 red,
570l58c
CoRN-Market fractional higher: No. 2
mixed 49Cl &c; white slow and ~ low
er; No. white 400 gil
OATs-Steady; No. = mixed. 3O94 0o3lc;
No. white. 33c
RYK-Firm- No ?, 49c-
Flax SEED-DuL a. %L2S11.3O
BRAN-F4rm at 6S 5000.
HAY-Steady. Timothy, $S0019.J0.
prairie. $T.pONS 30.
BUTTER-Quiet and steady. Creamery,
1SM21c; dairy 130115c.
EGGs-Firm; strictly fresh. 16W1G1Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
BANQUET TOASTS.

Men Who VIII Do the Talking at the 1Iu-
nicip4I Reform banquet.
The committee which has charge of
the arrangements for the meeting Of the
representatives of the cities Of the first
class ia Topeka on next Thursday has
about completed the preliminary work
There will probably be 100 people
here to attend the convention. which
will be held in the council chamber.
There will be no programme at the day
meeting but committee will report on
needed Legislation" and the report will
be discussed
Councilman Fellows, who is chairman
of the committee, is busy preparing the
programme of toasts for the banquet
which will be given the visitors on the
evening Of Jan 3. So far as arranged
the programme Of toasts is as follows:
Mayor Harrison, Topeka, Paving the
Way" Mayor Barnes. Kansas City, emu
nicipal improvements" Mayor Cloyes.
Atchison, ''Ihe City Of Atchison;" Coun-
Gilman s. B. Bradford, Topeka. sMnni-
cipal Government Councilman Geo.
E McGill of Leavenworth and Council
man P. c. Hesser of Fort Scott have also
signifed their willingness 20 respond to
IOazts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
AN IMMENSE LAND DEAL.
Cincinnati Men Buy $4,000 Acres of
Mclean Land for 5000. 600.

Cincinnati Men Buy $4,000 Acres of
Mexican Land for 100000.
MEXICO CITY, Mex. Dec 29.-The
largest land deal recorded in this country
for many years has just been consum-
mated between Marguerite HarO
of the Isthmus Of Tehaunte-
pee, and Talton Embry and
associates of Cincinnati. The property is
situated on the Isthmus of Tehaunte pee
and Is known by the name of Hacienda
De San Miguel 1t comprises 45,UOO acres
of land OF which nearly half has been
cleared There are between 5000 and
1000 head Of cattle we'll GO head
Of horses. and about 400 houses inhab ited
by 125 families.
The purchase price is between $780,
600 and $2OO,QCO in gold, or $4JO.OOO
Mexican money. The owners are Messrs.
Talton EN- brv of Cincinnati, j. B. EN-
bry, ;. I. Christman and d. B. Mills of
Kentucky. They intend to spend an ad
ditional $25O,00J on improvements and
the installation Of sugar machinery and
agricultural implements. so as TO mani
pulate il after the style Of American
agriculturists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Topeka people who dance at the inau-
gnrai ball must put up $3.50
H A Heath. Of the Kansas Farmer, is
attending the POpulist conference in St.
Louis.
The Sedgwick county members of the
legislature are said TO be for LObdeil for
speaker
George L Douglass, speaker Of the
last house. IS here TO see his old legisla-
tive friends.
Cy Leland. has gone home. and his SEN
atorial boom viii have rest until after
New Years
1t will cost 80 cents to get a seat in the
the Inaugural ball
As far as heard from there is but one
candidate for assistant chief clerk Of the
house, 5. Sears.
r. B WEIGH says he will not be a
candidate for re- election as a member Of
the school board next spring.
Congressman John G. Otis will
start out on leeturing tour for the
Farmers Alliance next week.
Columbus Borin Of the Oberlin Eye
has arrived and will do newspaper work
here until the close Of the session
J S. Caldwell. who wants to be insur-
ance commissioner. to succeed ;. H.
Snider, is here, accom- panied by his wife.
Some of the politicians object because
A. W. Stubs changes his haas SO often
they never know him when they see
him.
1t is expected there will be a big crowd
Of politicians strike Topeka Monday, as
that is the last day they can use their
1924 passes
It is predicted that after next Monday
everything else viii be lost sight Of IN
the speakership contest until the house
is organized.
l. E Lambert, of Emporia, has Joined
the Hood forces at the Copeland lie
says Major Hood will not come to Topeka
until after New Years.
ST Dickson of Sumner county, and A
H. Burtis of Garden City, are here work
ing for the same job They want to be
sergeant at arms of the house.
Frank A. Root, who for many years
was the editor of the North Topeka Mail,
and Is now employed on a Cripple Creek
paper, IS visiting his family.
W. J. Bailey, of Baileyville who used
to be al the head of the Republican
league IS here. but he says he is looking
after business matters exclusively.
J. K CubbisOn, one of the candidates
for speaker of the house, viii Introduce
an insurance bill and an anti-lottery meas
ure when he gets an opportunity.
The Kansas Farmer wants the Repub-
Hcan mem bers of the house to make "
b. Sutton speaker, because he Is presi-
dent Of the Kansas Improved Stock
Breeders association.
A. G. Sherman will introduce a bill in
the house to provide for an industrial
hall IN connection with the reform
school, where the boys may be taught
some kind of a trade.
It IS now said that Chester L Long
will follow the example set by Congress
man Broderick and viii take d hand IN
the senatorial fight He is to be here
next week with the Ady boomers.
Representative J. NJ Foster. one OF the
old Republican members, is here from
Republic county. aud viii represent his
county IN the house again this winter
He is IN favor of a court of appeals, to
relieve the supreme court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.


For particulars inquire az the Office.
Holiday excursion rates, one and one
third fare for the round trip, distance 200
miles. Tickets on sale Decem Der p. %.
p. %, 81 and January 1, good TO return
including January ?
We sell tickets to any place on earth
and check baggage to destination City
Office, 601 Kansas avenue; pOstOhdce.
North Topeka; passenger station, Kan
sas avenue and First street
Werun fully equipped vestibuled trains
that compare favorably with any run
from Topeka Il o. GARvEY,
City Ticket and Pass. Agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

At LeavenwOrth the River Is Bridges
WIN Ice sIhere 10 Is NarroLE.

At LeavenwOrth the River Is Bridged
With Ice Where 1t Is Narrow
LEAvESwoRTH. Dec. 29.-The Mis-
souri, river was bridged with ice ia sew
erdl places here yesterday. lit is 4 rare
occurrence for sufficient ice to form to
block the Missouri river in about tn enty-
four hours The low stage Of the water
at this time probably has something to
do with it.
The ice formed a blockade across the
river Immediately above the new bridge
where the stream is very narrow.
The stream is also blocked ID the Vi
entity Of the North Leaven worth coal
shaft aud agaia near the old sugar fac
tory. There is open water between the
gorges The weather has moderated
some today and the gorges may break.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Patents granted to citizens of Kansas
for the week ending Decent Der p, 1894,
reported through the office Of j. F. Beale,
solicitor Of patents, 600 f street, \. W..
Washington, d. c.: Frank J. Brown an
A 5. Allen, Halstead, transmitting gear
for windmills: Austin Low, Minneapolis,
type writing machine; Sarah A. Potter,
Harper, invalid chair; LucIus A Smith.
TODeka. frnss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

The Colored Peoples Meeting at Atehison
Closed Last Nis-ht

ATcHIsoN, Dec. 29.-At the Interstate
Literary society At the Ebenezer Baptist
church Miss Mai Lewis and II. LaFitte
Of Atchison rendered an Instrumental
duet after which Miss n. @. Generals,
also Of this city, read a paper entitled
Marvellous Wonders Of the Negro"
Aliss Mai Lewis, also Of Atchison. read a
paper on Realism ia Fiction Seven
papers were read by Lawrence delegates
during the day. The convention closed
last night with a paper by Rev. Adam S
Green OF Lawrence, entitled Human
Species" f. C. Long of Atchison also
reid paper.
Prof Albert E. Menke. Of the Kentucky
State Agricultural College, writes. II
have found on examination DR. Prices
Baking Powder 10 be the strongest and
most wholesome in public use"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
REFUSED TO INDICT.

The Chicago Grand jury Finds Nothing
Against Alderman Powers.
CHICAGO. Dec 29.-The grand jury by
a unanimous vote today refused to indic5
Alderman John Powers for soliciting a
brlbe. Alderman Powers had been
charged with attempting to secure $780,
0OU to repeal cigar and cigarette OrdI-
nance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dee 29.-Jacob
Shane of Coon Rapids. was ..alurEed"
by highwaymen here, and robbed ol A
draft for $4,000 on the First
National bank Of Chicago and
$4,000 in notes payable 20 himself
In another purse which the thugs dill
not get he had $4,000 in notes and drafts
payable TO himself He Will recover
from his injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
no ORGANIZE THE STATE
The Topeka POPuIist League Have = Plan
to ReJuvenate the Party

The Topeka POpuIist League Have Plan
to ReJuvenate the Party
The Populist league wants the Popu-
list party reOrganized. The Topeka
league IS the only organization of the
kind IN the state, and at their meeting
last night they decided that the
only way to keep life in the Pop
uljst party is to organize SINH
lar leagues all over the state
1t is the intention of the league to send
organizers to every county seat in the
state TO organize league.
Then the county societies will organize
sub-leagues in every township in the
county. The league intends TO submit
this plan to the state conference of Popu-
list leaders which will be held in Topeka
on January 8.
The league also ordered the report of
the committee on legislation printed n
circular form, and these will be scatter
ed broadcast over the state.
At the meeting of the league next
Friday evening officers viii be elected
and some changes made in the con-
stitution.
Word comes from all quarters that the
neatest and most satisfactory dye for col
oring the beard a brown or black Is
Bucking CHAINS Dye for the Whiskerz
stovas at coat 702 Kansas ava
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
Furnished by the Associated Press to the
State journal

CHICAGO. Dec % Wheat was weak
today on continued liquidation and lower
cables, but later the market became
tirmer on New y ork message to the
effect that Argentine ports had been
closed on account OF cholera May open
ed sc lower At 81 sold of to 81, and
reacled to 5T14 as.
Corn WAS easy in sympathy with wheat
and dull cables. May opened 1sD14c
lower AT Is touched 4S1s, aud sold of ID
4sss 9+S- Later che market rallied 70
3fay oats opened a shade lower at g1is
declined TO 3l3s and advanced 10 tho
opening price.
Provisions were easier on outside sell
May pork opened unchanged at
$1LS5, and advanced to @1L1A
May lard opened unchanged AZ $500
and declined to $6.9J.
Estimates for Monday Wheat -
cars; corn $40 cars; oats 90 cars; hogs
$1,000 head Hogs next week l55 900.
WHEAT F. Dec. &C; May 575ac
asked.
CoRN-Dec. 451sc; Jan 1890; May.
1875 &c; July 4 -.
0ATs-Dec. $3.50; Jan. 2s5sc; Feb.
2938c: May, Fac.
PoRK-Dec. $lL3O; Jan. $1L85
TIMOTHY Cash. $3.50.
flax May $LS31s.
HO0s-Receipts today, 1900: Official
yesterday 1926; shipments Oil; left
over. about $500. Quality quite fair
Sales ranged at S30J9445 for lights;
81 1OW43O for rough packing: %4.OJ
01465 for mixed; $4350147J for
heavy packing and shipping lots, and
$25O014.10 for pigs.
CATTLE-Receipts, 1000: market stea-
dy and quiet at unchanged prices.
SHEEP-Keceipts, 5000; market dull
and weak At 5N1Oc decline.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Having rented part of my store room
Will close out my entire line Of sGold
Coin and sStewart" stoves at actual
cost MARION SHELDON,
T02 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

The MISSOURI Pacific VII sell tickets
account Christmas and New Year holt
days, between points within 20O miles
distance At rate of one and one-third
fares for the round trip, with minimum
rate of % cents. Dates of sales, Dec. p.
%, "A, 20 and 81, and Jan. !, limited to
return until Jan g
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

READTNe, Dec 29-Dr MulIens Shot
and killed William Blake at Arvonia, six
miles southeast of here. last night Both
were drunk and the trouble occurred
over some trivial matter Blake had
lived at Arvonia for several years. Null
Inns is young physician Of Lebo He
declares thaI he shot In self- defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
DREW A HOTEL ron A PRIzE.
A Guthrie Man Gets the Fine Arkansas
City Hotel.

Arkansas Cry, Dec. 29.-Last night
the news came 70 the city Of the
number that drew the Fifth Avenue
hotel The number was held by
Henry Lynn, general agent of the Pabst
brewing company At uthrie. Dir Lynn
bought all the tickets unsold and that
ticket was among them. He has been
notified Of his luck and Will probably
come here TO take charge of his pro
perry. The hotel cost $4,000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

sol Topeka ave, rs-oPeas January 7th
We give the cheapest and best instruc
ton in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

The finest in the world, Camel coal
for CRATES REsING-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

An invariable guide to success in cook
ing-Dr Prices cream BakIng Powder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

We put on new neckbands on shirts
Peerless steam Laundry, III and ia
West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

la golden autumn or icy winter DR.
Prices's Baking Powder is equally effec
tive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29
EXCLUSION TO TEXAs.


On January IS we will sell round-trip
tickets TO all points in Texas at one low
est first class fare plus two dollars.
Ticket will be good for return within 20
days-with stop-Over privileges. For
furt her Information, tickets, etc, call on
or address ii. q. GARvEY.
City Ticket Agent, COL Kansas ave.
WATSON 81 CROMWELL,
r. .. North Topeka.
Or depot, corner First street and Kan
'sas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

let to be discOvered-rhe woman who
was disappointed in cooking with DR..
Prices Baking Powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Topeka Coal Go.
9th and Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Stoves at cost. 7J2 Kansas ave.
Stoves at cost 702 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Smiles abound wherever DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder is used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-29

Stoves At cost ZOE Kansas ave.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-06-16
WEST AND SOUTH.

AT the age of % years Naganab
chief of all the Chippewa Indians. died
at the Indian reservation at Fond du
Lac, Wis. In 1926, through his efforts
| the treaty was made by the Sioux and
Chippewa Indians by which they ac.
knowledged the sovereignty of the
! United States.
The Little mine near Peora. ILL.,,
was attacked by strikers and four of
the defenders. including one of the pro-
prietors. were wounded and one of the
attacking party killed. The mine was
then set on fire.
NOMINATIONS for congress were re-
ported as follows: Indiana. Ninth dis
trict, ]. f. Ianley trep1; Thirteenth,
Lewis ". Boyse lrep.D. Kansas, Sixth
district, William Baker (pop.l renom-
IL ated.
4 FORCE of l,200 militiameu was sent
by Gov. Mckinley 10 the scene of the
coal miners strike in eastern Ohio
where strikers were interfering with
the movement of trains.
JAMES WHEELER, Edward Green,
James Holmes and Edward Scraggs,
all cOlored, were drowned at Birds
Point. Mo-. by the upsetting of boat
In the republican convention at To-
peka Maj. Z. y. Morrill,. of IIiawatha,
was nominated for governor of Kansas
and W. 4. johnson was nominated
for associate judge of the supreme
court.
MINERS stoned Vandalia train near
Brazil. Ind. killing the engineer. Will
liam Barr. and injuring the conductor
and brakeman.
SEVEN lives were lost in a battle be-
tween strikers and militia ut Mineral
Siding Col
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-06-16
THE EAST.

THE death of five boys, inmates of a
Catholic home in Tarrytown. y. Y. oc-
CURED from eating a poisonous root,
and seven others We're seriously i'll.
STRIKERS took possession of McKees.
port, Pa, and nOn-uniOn men were ter
ribly beaten and many acts of violence
committed.
THE republicans in the Second dis
trict of Maine rcnominated Nelson
Dingley. .Ir.. for congress.
The republicans of the Third dis
trict of Maine renominated Seth L.
Millikcn for congress.
PENNSYLVANIA prohibitionists in
convention at Williamsport nominated
Charles l.. ilawley, of Scranton. for
governor; II. l.. Castle. of Pittsburgh,
er, of Delaware, for auditor general,
and f. X. Kane and Rev L. &. Jordan
for cnngressmen-at-larg
RoDMAN VI. PRICE. ex-governor Of
New Jersey. died at his residence in
Oakland. lie was the first person to
raise the stars and stripes on California
soil.
THE Union Warehouse company. of
New York, assigned with liabilities of
more than $1,000, 900.
4 NEW political party has been formed
in Pennsylvania with an avowed pur-
pose of upholding the public school
system.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-06-16
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE revolutionists in Salvador were
reported to have triumphed completely
and President Ezeta was said to have
fled the country.
The resignation of the Italian cab
met was announced.
4 STEAMER bound from Montreal to
Bristol. with 1000 head of cattle and
sheep. went ashore at st. Shotts, y. F..
and the animals were washed over
board and drowned.
A FLOOD entirely destroyed Kaslo, a
town of 1000 population in British
Columbia.
HAwAII's first constitutional conven-
tion was formally opened in the legis-
lativc chamber in the old government
building in Honolulu.
A HURRICANE swept the Cape Breton
coast, resulting in heavy loss to ship
ping, but no lives were reported lost.