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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

ton of some congressman who have
rashly builded on an array of figures
hastily made up reminds me of the ex-
perience of miner friend in Utah who
had never had time to read and was
ashamed of his ignorance of current
literature. One happy day he ''struok
chloride" in Ophir canyon.
And reckon five naughts
Was the worth of that strike
Having sold, he hastened down to
Salt Lake City, bought complete set of
Dickens, Thackeray, Bulwer, George
Eliot and the rest and resolutely read
straight through the lot for six months
When met him the next summer, he
had a vague idea that Hetty Sorel was
seduced by Wilkins Micawber and got
even with the noble Lothario by shoot
ing Give Newcomb, the ward of that
Kenelm Chillingly who was disinherit-
ed by his father for voting for Catholic
emancipation, went to South Africa,
discovered Monte Cristo, returned in the
triumph of a multimillionaire and mar
ried Sarah Camp.
Students of Statistics.
Of all the representatives who use sta
tistics freely, Mr.. Dingley of Maine
probably does it most cautiously and
successfully. From our gallery one
may see him almost any hour bowed
over his desk, his dark and sallow face
almost touching the paper on which he
is figuring like the model boy in a gram
mar school. One day Tom Reed called
his near neighbours attention to Mr..
Dingley in these words: ''Look at that
calculating machine. He just naturally
enjoys that SORT of thing which would
kill me in six weeks''-all this with
that Yankee drawl which makes his
lightest utterances humorous Mr.. Reed
rarely troubles himself with statistics.
He has one of those happily constituted
intellects which are not obliged to toll
slowly up to a conclusion over rising
steps of tabulated facts When many
opinions have been expressed and confu-
sion reigns, he seems able to steer
straight across an ocean of sophistry and
strike the right point on the other
shore. His system is much like that of
Chief Justice Marshall, who used to
say, 81 could not answer the reasoning
of such a one, but knew that his con-
illusions would not do" Mr.. Holman
is, of course, compelled to study the
statistics and do very close figuring on
| his speoialties, but he rarely ventures
outside of them, and the same is true
of the members of the two leading COM
mittees. appropriations and ways and
means.
All the Populists, however, are great
on figures, and the silverites are even
more So Whatever may be the merits
| or defects of their various schemes, they
have done a wonderful work in collect
| ing and tahnlating the facts throwing
I light therson. Any one Of them can give
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

There is no snow in sight at Pawnee
Rock for the first time this year
Miss De Stevolinski has returned to
Fl. Scott after years absence with her
name still intact.
Clearwater has had two home taleet
plays within two weeks, and still the aw-
full appetite is not satisfied.
A warrant was issued for a man at Gar
den City ''who had twenty five yards of
carpet concealed on his person"
Since an Erie woman died of appendi-
citis the social center of Neosho county
has been shifted over from Chanute.
An old fashioned spelling contest,
where they gave out phthisic and
daguerreotype, was held at Attica re-
Gently.
A rope about 200 feet long was found
near Dodge City. 1t is supposed that
some travelling elder dropped the thread
of his discourse.
s'The Saturday Quid Nunc" is the name
of a paper at Great Bend. Baldwin City
people will wonder what Baker student
has "grouch" now.
A Thayer school teacher walks six
miles to school every morning, says the
Parsons Independent, but doesn't tell
who takes her home.
The real estate men of Garden City
are going to establish real estate ex-
change. They will open up their Offices
and the wind will do the rest.
The Wichita minister who preached
on "Three years a pastor in Wichita
was stretching the proprieties a little il
he told all he might have told
It is high time Great Bend were get
ting q state normal 1t is alleged thai
there are only two Trilby feet in town
and they both belong to the same girl
One hundred and four thousand pound:
of melon seed is the amount raised il
Kearney county this year, which brought
to thirty producers not less than SO, 400
Several people near Ensign have beer
arrested for stealing ties belonging tt
the Montezuma railroad line. Railroads
don't seem to know when to be grateful
IF a revival meeting at Dodge City
could gather In eighty wandering sheer
it is fair to suppose that Mr. Satan il
not exempt from the prevailing bushes!
depression
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

dence, which was again objected to by
the council for plaintiff, and such objec-
ton sustained by the court
The defense then sought to introduce
executions against Levi Baldwin for large
amounts of money, claiming that as it
was shown that Baldwin had paid the
premiums on Hillmon's life insurance,
that it was ground for additional suspi-
cion to be considered by. the jury; that
he was a man absolutely insolvent, and
yet was paying life insurance premiums
for another man. Plaintiffs counsel
made big fight to keep this evidence
out in which the court sustained them.
Defendants next introduced three notes
for $1,36195. $1,361.95 and 5000, re-
spectiveIy. all dated on the 10th day of
January, 1878, and signed by John H.
Brown and John W. Hillmon. Mr.. Barker,
one of the attorneys for the defense went
on the stand and testified these
notes had been sent him some pears ago
for collection as against Hillmon and
Brown, and that they have never been
paid. These notes were introduced for
the purpose of showing Hillmon's f1nan-
cial condition, and also for the purpose
of showing the great degree of intimacy
which existed between Hillmon and
Brown. Court decided over strong OBJ
jections of plaintiffs counsel, to admit
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

4 MORE THAN PRLNCELY GIFT
UNDER the above heading the New
York Tribune deals with the recant bond
issue as follows:
Six hundred to eight hundred millions
of gold were knocking at the doors of
the state treasury, anxious to get in, but
President Cleveland thought best not to
open them until these millions had been
properly introduced by heightened for
eign bankers, who charged a few million
for the service When Senator Sherman
declared some time ago that the people
would have taken at 120 several hundred
millions of the same bonds which were
sold to the syndicate, some thought he
was inclined to exaggerate. But on the
very day the subscriptions were opened,
people were bidding 118, and yesterday
119. for the bonds which the government
sold to the syndicate for 104M. Over
half the difference, ~ per cent, the
syndicate took for itself before offer
ing any bonds to outsiders at 11214, and
it then retained for itself as many
of the bonds as it pleased, in order
which outside buyers obtained The
73 per cent profit on $62,310,-
OOO bonds is $4,829,412. SO that the
people will pay in all twice that sum, or
SO, SOS, S24, when the bonds go at 100,
which they would gladly have saved by
taking their own bonds, as Senator Sher-
man predicted. at that price.
The loan is an astounding success, says
Rothschild Indeed it was-for the bank
ers. For the American people it was an
astounding act of generosity. In their
impoverishment, after two years of the
worst disasters ever sustained which took
something like $4,000, 100000 from the
nations wealth, their government has
made a more than royal present of 81
| 624,412 to a few bankers, and probably
as much more to these and other inves-
tors and money lenders here and abroad,
who were fortunate enough to get share
of the spoils. Really, we ought to be the
richest nation on earth if this is to go on.
HEX nows nothing of the faith of Ameri-
cans in their institutions, nothing of the
faith of all the world in the future of
this nation, who pretends that it needs to
be introduced by the Rothschilds in order
to borrow money.
The kind of bonds was not the best
conceivable. But it was exactly the kind
of which Secretary Window sold $780,
| 100000 within a few days. Nobody
would have thought them bad but for
President Cleveland and his party. The
party had done its worst to make them
| bad The president had laDOreo IN MS
message to discredit them. They "were
made payable in coin instead of gold,'
said he, and "there would now probably
be difficulty in favorably disposing of
bonds not containing the stipulation to
pay gold" At the very time the presi-
dent sent these words to congress he
knew that Mr.. Belmont was at work or
ganizing his syndicate to take the pre-
else form of bonds he tried to discredit
The result proved that O0,000,O0O OF
capital at least was waiting eagerly to
take exactly that kind CT bond, and that
the people of this country alone would
have taken $3.50, 100000 in twenty-five
minutes if the president had permitted
them, at a price nearly $10,O00O0C
greater for the $62, 100000 than the syn
| dicate paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
THE HILLMON CASE.
The John H. Brown Deposition will no
be Used at This Trial.

L
be Used at This Trial.
The attorneys in the Hillmon case are
as vigjlant as ever and hardly any evil
dence is offered or question asked which
does not meet with objection from the
attorneys. Yesterday was day of OBJ
jections and argument
The defendants commenced proceed
ings by formally putting in evidence the
several pictures of Frederick Adolph
Walters. The defense next asked the
court that the plaintiff be compelled to
put in Hillmon's diary which was found
upon the person of the party shot at
Medicine Lodge, and which was attach
ed to the deposition of Jacob Frazier.
Plaintiffs attorneys made strong objec-
tions to the Introduction of this diary,
and were sustained by the court.
The defense then made formal appli-
cation to the court to impeach the testi-
mony given by E Covey, one OF the
plaintiffs Witnesses 1t appears that Mr..
Covey, on the trial before Judge Brewer
testified that Hillmon had no marks upon
his body that he knew of, and further
testified that the body at Lawrence,
which he saw, also had no marks, so far
as he found. In the testimony given at
this trial, he stated that Hillmon had a
large mole on his back, and also stated
that he found similar mole on the body
at Lawrence. The defence claimed that
Mr. Covey's testimony could not be be-
lieved on account of these glaring dis
crepencies. Plaintiff made strong objec-
tions TO the course of the defense, object
ing to each question and answer touched
upon in this connection, contained in the
testimony given before Judge Brewer.
The defense next put attorney ]. w.
Green on the stand and had him testify
to the fact that on the first trial of this
case, John H. Brown testified as witness
for plaintiff, and that on the second and
third trials Browns deposition had been
read on behalf of plaintiff, and that the
same deposition has been in court during
this trial, but never put in evidence by
the plaintiff. That Brown was the only
eye witness of the shooting at Medicine
Lodge, and was the most i'm
portant witness for the plaintiff.
and plaintiff failing to put Browns dep
osition into evidence this time, the de-
Tense claimed that they have the right to
show these facts; and also to claim that
this deposition was an act done by Brown
| on behalf of Mrs. Hillmon, in further
ance of the alleged conspiracy to defraud
the companies. Plaintiffs counsel OBJ
| jected to the Introduction of this deposit
ton, which obiection-was sustained by
| the court
The defense then. made another for
NAL application to have it put in evil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

THE Globe Democrat in discussing a
possible International agreement as to
silver says: Certainly the endeavors Of
any one, two or three nations, however
wealthy or powerful, would come to
naught The long, costly and humiliat-
ing experience of the United States in
trying to sustain the silver market is de-
cisive on this point" Well, what was
the experience of the United States?
Silver was at a slight premium over gold
until it was discredited by act of COZ
gress, Let congress restore to silver
what it took away from it and there will
be no need of an international agreement
us far as we are concerned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

Danger of Building Figures Hastily
Compiled = The Thesaurus OF Senator
Jones-Prospects For the Farmers-A
Handy Chart For the Voter.
Especial Correspondence.l
WASHINGTON, Feb 21.-Away up in
the fifth story of the Adams building,
on + street, opposite the Ebbitt House,
Mr. Worthington Chauncey Ford and
his "a clerks and assistants burrow in
the deep mines of figured facts and turn
out those wonderful compilations which
are the delight of men with wheels in
their heads and are painfully apt to de-
velop wheels where there were no wheels
before. This is the United States bureau
of statistics, branch of the treasury
department. Here are piles on piles of
pamphlets containing the latest eonclu-
sions of every statistician in the world;
here are stacks on stacks of blue books
and red books showing the relative num-
bers of men, women and children, of
buildings and live stock, of gold, silver,
paper and everything of a monetary ma
ture in the civilized world, with all
kinds of guesses at the corresponding
facts among the uncivihzed. Hither
come the congressman for those wonder
full tables which are supposed to adorn
The Congressional Record. Here one
can post himself on almost any subject,
can stuff himself with statistics and Just
wallow in figures.
Figures VIII Lie.
Most important of all perhaps, this is
the place to get conclusive proof that
figures will lie. Out of the same reports
obtained here the Prohibitionists proved
several years ago that the per capita
consumption of liquors was rapidly in
creasing. and Hon. David A. Wells
proved that it only seemed SO because
the revenue was more closely collected.
Henry George proved that the land was
being owned in larger bodies, and dozens
of others fellows proved just the oppo-
site. One party proved that the currency
had been contracted, another that it had
been expanded, and as to what has been
proved pro and con on tariff, gold and
silver might go on for columns, but
for the elects sake the details are short
ened. The moral of it all is-don't
monkey with figures unless you know
how, for if even one important fact be
left out they may prove the exact op-
posite Of the truth. The mental condi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

SENATOR WoLCoTT, though perhaps an
honest advocate of silver coinage, is
making an effort to have commission
appointed to attend the proposed inter
national bimetallio conference. There
never was a greater fraud and humbug
than these same International bimetallic
conferences. They are gotten up by the
shnanciers" themselves for the express
purpose of delaying action on the silver
question and hoodwinking the people.
Whenever some action looking to the
reconciliation of silver seems imminent,
one Of these conferences is sprung upon
the world and then every body waits to see
what it will do They always do the
same thing-nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

IT Is reported that ''Cap" Curtis, father
of our congressman, has left the Repub-
licans and that hereafter he will affiliate
with the Democrats in state affairs. Now,
if his son could only be brought to real
ize the folly of his ways, we might kill
the fatted calf and hold jubilee services
Augusta Gazette.
The possibility Of 8 city Of $4,000 peo-
pie containing two titled gentlemen with
the same patronymnio does not seem to
have occurred TO the Gazette. The soap"
Curtis who has topped is Captain R. n.
Curtis who conducted the celebrated
Stop exchange" during the last cam
paign. The Topping business seems to
have struck In on him. Captain Orrin A.
Curtis, father of our congressman was
still a consistent Republican at dast
accounts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

FRANCE has closed her markets
against American cattle. Germany did
the same some time ago. Whatever
these countries offer as an excuse for
their action, there is little doubt that it
is intended as a retaliatory measure for
our placing a duty upon beet sugar
Nations dance and the people discharge
all obligations to the musicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

A subscriber at Stafford writes as fol-
lows: sThere is a car of the state aid
coal here on the side track. It has been
here for a week and so far no one has
applied for any. The citizens think it
should be taken to some place where it
is needed. Nobody here wants any of it.
Don't need it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

IT is clear that no more legislation of
general interest will be attempted by
this congress. 1t is just as well, Let the
do nothing record of that body be undis-
turbed by anything that looks like bust
ness. The country is willing to call
anita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

THE ST. Louis Republic has lately en-
tered the field of humorous journalism.
It says: "Unless Democrats stick togeth-
or they will make Republican admins
tration and Republican congress-" It
would seem to a casual on locker that
the first thing needfuI for the Demo
cratic party, is to get together before
anything need be said about staying
there,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

Mrs. NJ. B. Brown of Washington, N.
c.. has given to the state council of
Kings Daughters her beautiful home,
to be used as a home for imbecile chill
dren. There are said to be 4. 600 in the
state, and the legislature will be asked
to make an appropriation for its support.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
weather indications.

CHICAGO. Feb 26.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Heavy rain tonight; Wednesday
slightly cooler, fair west and local rain
east; southeast winds, shifting to Yves
terly Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

The Bourbon county ex-prisoners of
war association will hold its annual re-
union at Fl. Scott March Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26

DR.. Prices Baking Powder is declared
by all government chemical experts alb
aolutelY nura.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-26
THE FIGURE BUREAU
WHERE CONGRESSMAN GET TABLES
TO A0oRN THEIR SPEECHES.

Danger of Building Figures Hastily
Compiled = The Thesaurus of Senator
JOnes-Prospects For the Farmers-A
Handy Chart Fer the Voter.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-01

does 1.oe CONE t-oxz Puget So2nd- 5e-
5alse - lave I'D -Ez-p=1tZ-e ovens
TIE MANI .z~cr~re - ta--eAs : 21o-h@-
9=Z5 op<a- The S-zzx2-d o. Company
1Sas 3 great u<Zo-- every year which
= pays freight n <ryz ire EzSt Sugar
b2-e-S ara zee44a-5 a. Hawaii. but r1ay
- aoc csoGe from Puget s9zz1- L ;
true rA=re are = t-x cocpeE saops. bE-t
WITH one p-oss9o3@ exception the bglk -
Tie o1tcgt = chap barr-zs s1r fish.
l%-ne. etc
\ start hzS b<ez made u n2aa1 ssas-t1r-
1E-g tubs ard buckets With god results
Taere = . led for butter tubs q sZ<1c=
and pals - cedar AID rt-e few factories
n operation 60 Id complain aooat dali
less y crade-
Most a. ot TIE tocl and ak handles
ara imported. Washington has sog1e
excellent woods. especially AA2skA &c
Oar aid hard wu-osls. bit d. Handkerchief
1a-s as Yet appeared u che sce1e
Wagons ara use=i considerably 81 tae
Coesc a1d as Il Austria They ara
imported from Racine. Nome AID chi
cag3. a16 eleven car loads we're SHIPPED
- Australia recently. Fir Ez-azes good
t1ZlgG=s ard spruce excellent wagoc
boxes. bllt Ne have n wagon sacrorTes
get
S1iP64L6ilg 5 al important indus
-ry. and : pretty well covered by ch-
firms IL business
There 5 q market for supplying the
Coast with pianos, organs and musical
iE-s-rI EIse1rs. Spruce Is shipped from
Gray's ha-osor and redwood tru4n Cali
Eo-EA-a % Chicago. There they a-e Taaai=
.2to musical instruments, and when the
E'al-itic cast citizen purchases q piano
ard organ TO- his family h- knows
something about r2ilruad f-e5gh-
Great quantities OF spruce are shipped
from Gray's harh-Sr 10 San Francisco,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-01

s-zlbers are rolled b. al array % long
shoremen- Often these tlnbers are 20
feet l1ng AMI from two - three fset
square
The area covered ~ the plant exceeds
ten acres. ana fourteen ships can h bad
ed AZ once. FItty-two thousand s1aar4
feet % mex wharfng ara now being add
81. which VIII afford three a3d.ti3naI
eegtas for ships. There IS also being con
str1c:ei l. 49, feet .: elevated 3oub,e-track
railway with switches and ch4tes. the
whole 10 - rooted N. This railway will
be operated ~ cable OF electricity. The
area covered ~ the new wharyes = also
being filed in with dirt washed DOWN
from The hiIlsides by = powerful hydraulic
pump.
The "a y mill proper : a mammoth tvxo-
story building l1exkso feet ia size. fiI4t
with machinery % the latest lrn-ovei
pattern and made especially - suit the
particular needs os this mill. There are
Two log haul-0ps. tE0 double Circular
saws. two band mills, two Prescor, gang
mills, three gang edgers. two lath mills.
one double bclte-. fourteen trimmer saws
four surfacing planers for tongue ard
groove lumber, three chute onveyors OF
slabs and dust 10 the furnaces ana ina
rls0se piles OF burning refuse. ard one
fume for ioaiing frswcoi on sccws for
Seattle. Driving this machinery are eight
single and four double sagires ard two
hydraulic pumps. fe3 with steam from q
tubular boilers. and whose combined ca
p2c.ty aggregates 800 horse power To
keep tbs machinery n motion nigh. and
day "a - often done. l5; 90 gallons %
fresh water are daily converted Into
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-01

"ar- n --2I-->S@r ara strung along -.
ceilings. A. .--srv4ls Of ten faAs -
p.-gs sea4=z3 with = cs1Esgsos,rs,n -
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aa-oEs q zeoSer & va .ar 70 Descend -
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lays &zs- 1o5ayz Tie nEan, !.
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LEe tssc-Es-1g 2-so Maintains c,,n,ss.,.
machine, cla.-Aszy4tA Aga1 rkt,Ar- 80
t-.4y eslaiqEs-1 w-th .zraes. planes ap.s i
o-1er -1.s4S and AZ planes found IN 49,,
s15ps q ; similar kIa,f. The FACE ~.
1tcy -o1s = -eE cast1rgs ware resui,.s
-ss- Fsar <or repairs gives no,hs =
~ ssze AID extent g the u.aehane-v !,
re r.zEE- L grEsE Esl Is ala, pa, !.
N'1.ca . groz1Es4 al ne Feed used 4, "a.
numerous l1ggzg amps connacta x,..
re 1A.L TIE company OWES saas A.
o. 2z-. NASTY czrlteres5, has i,s am,
t1gaoA4t AMI runs q logging raslrs4
-vreg2rz ;1ve -zlileS lsrg n Mason c,,,,v
Ta- cs9EZpay s1ruzsgs=-ss eighty res.,scD.
FOR Ks married employees ard S sah,
apartment l1-lg-ag tsoE1ses for ,hose M
married. ard sor he latter it also con.
1lc-z 3 bsaryiIrs house. A large ssnsr,i
store splezs@J3ly stocked y also c,nauss..,
AMI gods can Be purchased "a cham
- q any o5@E town q is size On ,hs
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