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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-11
FAMILIAR KANSAS NAMES.

Capt. John SchilIing of Hiawatha has
bsen granted pension.
Elk Lieutenant Governor Percy Daniels
calls his home Enlargement Farm"
Mrs. Frank T. Lynch of Leavenworth
has been very i'll recently; but is recover
ing.
w. W. Guthrie of Atchison will sum-
mer herd of cattle on his ranch in Chase
county.
W. H. Biddle, late state treasurer, is
conducting paper at EIdorado, but his
family is still in this city
Major Adams, at one time pension
agent here, has returned from Kansas
City to his old home in Manhattan.
Prof l. L. Dyche of the state univer-
sity will lecture on his trip to Greenland
at Carbondale on April 20.
Mrs. Fannie H. Rastall, who now lives
in Chicago, will lecture at various points
in Kansas during this month.
j. B. Crouch, the Democratic boss of
southwest Kansas, is reported to be with
Col Tom Moonlight in Bolivia.
Ed p Greer recited some selections
quet rendered W. P. Hackney at Win
field.
Mrs. Byron Sherry, formerly of Leav-
enworth, is conducting a school for in :
struction in the art of conversation in
Chicago
Joseph W. Ady is attorney for Bank
Commissioner Jobes in his legal contest
with John W. Breidenthal for possession
of the office.
]. NJ. Dunsmore, rival of Geo. l.
Douglass for the speakership of the
house two years ago, has been city clerk
of Thayer for twenty years.
Harry st. John, who recently shot his
wife, is said to have been responsible for
the defeat of the bill to abolish capital
punishment in Oklahoma
Web McNall is said to be the only
man who escaped conversion at the re-
vival meetings held in his town the past
winter. This is accounted for by the fact
that he was away from home all winter.
Colonel w. P Hackney has been re-
visiting his old home, Winfield, and the
citizens rendered him two banquets
While there he took the Knight Templar
degree and his brother knights presented
him handsome Masonic watch charm.
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would doubtless have suggested his re-
call had he not forestalled such an act
by resigning. His successor, Enrique
Dupuy de LONE, is a diplomat of %
years experience and will not make the
mistakes that rendered his predecessor
SO conspicuous. He has been Spanish
minister to the United States before and
is very popular in Washington and in
Chicago, where he officiated during the
Worlds fair as Spanish royal commits
sioner general and did much to make
the exhibit of Spain a conspicuous fea-
ture of the great exposition.
Senior de LONE was born in Valencia
in August, 1851, and his grandfather
was one of Napoleon generals, it is
said, and settled in Spain after his army
career closed. The minister's father
was the first man to introduce steam
machinery into Spain in connection
with silk manufacture and was a volu-
minous contributor to the literature Of
his time.
Senior de LONE began his diplomatic
career in the state department in 1869
and has since served his country in ia
pan, Belgium, France, Germany, Uru-
quay, the United States and other coun-
tries. In 1882 he was first secretary of
the Spanish legation in Washington,
and when Minister Barca committed
suicide became charge d 'affaires. In
September, 1892, he became envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentia-
ry to the United States and served his
country in this Office for eight months.
During his stay in Washington he and
his beautiful wife became very popular
in society and will be warmly welcomed
upon their return to the capital. Min
lister de LONE speaks English auently
and is described as man of great en-
ergY and nerVous force.
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KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

The Champion has been made the
official paper of Atchison county.
The Pro family lives ia Kingman coun-
ty and it is understood the Cons are not
very far of.
Some college students hung one of the
professors in ef6gy in woman's clothes at
Lawrence.
An exhibition of Chinese sacred dream
fowls at Newton is having a worse effect
than mince pies.
Nine men have already announced
themselves as candidates for Office in
johnson county this fall.
Judge Heren of Osborne spends all the
time he can get from hearing cases to
slip away to the tennis court
A company is going to manufacture
kraut at Atchison which will make 1t a
dangerous rival of Leavenworth.
Two Winfield hunters came upon a
flock of 800 pelicans and didn't know
they were not geese until they had killed
three.
Silver Wyandotte eggs are for sale BY
Smith Center man. The goose that
layed the golden eggs has been super
seeded.
An independence young man goes
down to Coffeyville so regularly SAtur-
day night that the fellows in the latter
town are going to organize against him.
Council Grove Republican: These
warm days make the school boys feel
like hunting for the old swimming hole
and posing for the "altogether."
The humorous man who puts a spool
of white thread in his pocket and lets
the end of the thread protrude for oblig-
ing friends to pick of, lives at Smith
Center.
A Populist Alma teacher who was
asked in examination to correct the SEN
tence "Mary and Ellen was at the meet
ing" wrote ''Mary Elizabeth was at the
meeting"
Smith County Pioneer: 1t beats all
how these appointments are focking to-
gether. Down at Pittsburg they have
secured six places in the penitentiary for
citizens Of that vicinity-as inmates.
Almena Plaindealer: There are en-
tirely too many fishing parties for the
Plaindealer to send a special reporter
with each so that truthful report may
be had, so we shall refuse to print any
stories
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Railroad Notes.

The Santa Fe depot at Plevna, Kas,
was entered by thieves few nights ago,
but nothing but double barreled shot
gun was taken.
A s. Rankin, former chief clerk of
superintendent Nudge, was bound fog
California, on this afternoons train
Las Vegas Optic.
Quite a number of the Atchison loco
motives, which formerly were taken to
the shops at Topeka, are now being sent
to Fort Madison, Iowa, for repairs. Las
Vegas Optic.
]. 0. Brinkerhof, general superintend-
ent of the Union Pacific, and party, were
at the Las Vegas hot springs, yesterday,
leaving for the north, on the noon train.
Las Vegas Optic.
John McGafin, from Topeka, has ar
rived, to become chief clerk for B. F.
Caldwell, division master mechanic.
Homer Schulz, who has been the chief
clerk, will be transferred to other duties.
Las Vegas Optic.
The preliminary arrangements have
been made by the Atchison company to
build stock yards and feeding station
at Trinidad. The company has big
contract to move $4,000 head of cattle
and to turn over to the Gulf road at that
point, the destination of the cattle being
Montana
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NORTH TOPEKA.

Items of Interest from the North Side OF
the River.
7. L. Evan has gone to Kansas City to
remain q week.
M. c. Holman was reported somewhat
improved this morning.
Miss Nellie West of Argentine is Wis.,
iting the family of j. L Collisi on Jack
son street.
W. B. Wallace of Alliance. Neh, ar
rived last night to visit his brother g. II.
Wallace on Kansas avenue.
William Sherwood, the cook at the
reform school, was taken suddenly i'll at
I his home in Shorey yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Sandmire, who had his hand badly
crushed at the Santa Fe shops week
ago and is now at the company hospital
at Ottawa, writes relatives that he is
doing finely and expects to be able to
spend Sunday at home.
1 meet all competition on -four and
groceries for cash. ]. H. HELLER.
1t is stated by a man who ought to
know that there will be two weddings Of
North Topeka people within the Mex
two weeks.
If you want frst-clsss groceries call at
J. II. HELLER'a
Although Dick Miller the barber, is a
little shaver he says he does not belong
to the Junior BARRIERS union. 1t should
have been journeymen
I always keep frst-class fresh and salt
meat. ]. H. HELLER
Mrs. Mary MCLEAN, one of the SAN
ate enrolling clerks, who Mas been visit.
ing north side friends since the lamented
Legislature departed, left this afternoon
for her home in Frankfort Kas. She is
thinking some of coming back here to
reside.
The friends of Paddy Purtell. "The
Saginaw Kid" on this side have been
presented with an especially we'll done
crayon portrait of the welter- weight 1t
is about one third of the life size and
represents the kid" in full figure and
fighting trim with his dukes up. The
present ia from Jack Bells of Kansas
City.
A north side man has figured out by
the scriptures that tomorrow. being good
Friday and just SO many years from sew
eral biblical happenings, the heavens
will become dark and that the world will
return to the state it was in 1000 years
ago. This is unfortunate as several peo-
pie have planned out good days work
for tomorrow.
One of the lumber offices has the fol-
lowing schedule conspicuously dis-
played:
OUR OFFICE HOURS.
Time allowed for interviews during
huqinaza h0ura.
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CONvICTS IN OLD buds.

Two Released COnvicts Visit the Gov
ernOr and Complain of Treatment.
Two men who represented themselves
as ex-convicts from the state penitentiary
at Lansing called at the governors office
at the state house today, and told Cover
nor Morrill, a strange story.
They said they were released from the
penitentiary few days ago, but instead
of each being given a new suit of clothes
when they left that institution free men
they were given suits of old clothes
which they said were not respectable in
appearance.
They told the governor that they were
compelled to spend the money that was
given them for new clothes and had no
money left to pay their Railroad fare to
get away from Lansing.
They had, however, managed to get to
Topeka and wanted to go to Pittsburg,
where they hoped to get work in the coal
Mines
Governor Morrill, thought their story
sounded all right and he got them rail-
road passes to take them from Topeka to
Pittsburg.
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SIR CHARLES HILBERT TUPPER.

when he was a mere child he would get
up on a chair or table before his father,
Sir Charles Topper, who was later high
commissioner for Canada in England,
and deliver an address on the affairs Of
the day. He was educated at McGill
college, Montreal, and studied law at
Harvard. Shortly before his examina-
ton at Harvard he broke his leg while
wrestling, and his friends felt certain
that his chances for winning his IL B.
were over for the time being. Young
Upper, however, did not allow such a
trihe as a broken leg to stand in his
way and carried on his studies in bed.
When examination time came, his leg
was still immovable as a log in its plas-
ter cast and gave him great pain, but he
took ten days examination in bed and
secured his coveted degree.
He then returned to Nova Scotia and
began the practice of law. In 1882,
when he was only 81 years old, he was
elected to parliament He made his
mark in the house of commons and mar
ried the daughter Of Hon. James McDon-
aid, chief Justice of Nova Scotia. After
five years of notable work in the COM
mons, during which he demonstrated
Enthusiastically that he was "a chip Of
the old block, "he was made minister of
marine and fisheries by Premier Sir
John Macdonald. He was a prominent
figure in the Boring sea arbitration,
and in Septem Der, 1898, his yeoman
service for Great Britain and Canada
was rewarded by the queen, who knight
ed him. He is one Of the youngest Cana
dams ever knighted, and with the ex-
ception of the late Sir John Macdonald
is the youngest man who ever held the
Office of privy councillor. His elder
brother, Stewart Topper, is a lawyer in
Winnipeg.
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CHOLERA IN JAPAN.
The Southern Part of the Island is Threat
ened With an Epidemic.


VICTORIA, B. c., April 1L-Mail ad-
vices from the Empress of japan gave
the news of a grave danger which
threatens southern japan. Particulars
are contained in the appended extract
from a private letter received by DR..
George Duncan, health officer of this
city, from a brother professional in Yo-
kohama, whose position places him in
possession of all the facts:
"From the 9Th to the 10th of this
month" says the letter which bears the
date of March 20, 'there were eighteen
cases of genuine cholera with ten deaths
at the naval station of Moji. Southern
Japan. The disease had been imported
from China. Most active measures were
enforced by the authorities and there
have been no cases here since the 18th.
"The Japanese government has within
the last three days received official in
formation of the breaking out of the
plague at Hong Kong, though l suppose
with their usual bland policy, the
colonial officials will conceal or lie about
its presence as long as possible.
Formal quarantine against Hong
Kong has not yet been declared, though
we are most carefully inspecting"
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GOURDAIN FOUND GUILTY.
He Is Fined $500 aud Sentenced to Sixty
Days in Jail.

He Is Fined $500 and Sentenced to Sixty
Days in Jail.
l. A. Gourdain, the New Orleans man
charged with using the mails for lottery
purposes, was convicted by jury in the
federal court last evening, and this
morning Judge Foster sentenced him to
the Shawnee county Jail for sixty days
and fined him $500.
Gourdain is the man who had nearly
all the bankers in New Orleans sum
moned to testify in his case. They did
not come because no provision
had been made to pay their
way and Gourdain went to trial
without any witnesses. He insisted upon
conducting his own case though he is
not lawyer, and was frequently re-
proved by Judge Foster. When he found
that he had been convicted he employed
r. B. Welch to make an argument for a
new trial This was done this morning,
and Judge Foster Immediately overruled
the motion.
Mr.. WEIGH asked for the clemency of
the court, but Judge Foster said that the
case was not one which appealed to his
sympathy and he made the fine as large
as it could be made.
Gourdain claims that he is the victim
of the Honduras lottery and that they
are prosecuting him through the United
States court Essays that he is the man
who was responsible for driving the old
Louisiana lottery out of the state.
Gourdsin is q small man with very
dark complexion and long wavy black
moust&ehe. He wears diamonds and has
an easy, independent air. He looks like
a member of the sporting fraternity but
poses as the president of a security COM
pany. He has given no notice of appeal
and may spend some time in the county
Jail. There are other cases pending
against Gourdain.
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TAKING THEM BACK.

A Number of Strikers Have Been Rein
stated at Emporia and others WIN BE.
1t still seems to be the general i'm
preston among the railroad men, says
the Emporia Gazette, that all eff the COM
petent employees who were let out en- ac-
count of the strike will eventually, and
very probably during the present year,
be reinstated At Emporia a number
have already been put to work, some
of whom were quite prominent in the
strike.
Several of the cid men have been re-
instated in the shops, and two of the
callers are back in their old places.
Switchmen Ed Combs, " i'll Robinson and
Charles Ii. Fletcher are again in the SER
vice of the Santa Fe company, and it is
understood that Charles Frisby will re-
turn to work soon
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FLUFFY HAIR GOES, SEE ?
Mattresses in San Francisco VIII Resist
the Order for Straight Hair.

mattresses In san Francisco VIII Resist
the Order for Straight Hair.
SAN FRANCIsCo, April 11-With fash
ing eyes and arms akimbo the waiter
girls in Dennett's coffee house are dis
cussing the latest order from the pro-
prietor of the many coffee houses in the
unions This order emanated from head :
quarters at Brooklyn, N. Y, and is
causing his ten Mattresses in this city no
end of worry.
1t is to the effect that all frizzes on the
side of the young women's heads must
be combed out straight and plastered
down and held by combs if inclined to
be fluffy and the hair at the back of the
head must be braided. Puff sleeves must
be abandoned.
To all this one of the mattresses in
this city replied as follows, on behalf of
herself and her companions:
''Its like this: We don't take off the
curls, not on our lives we don't. l want
to see the men that'll tell me how to
dress myself You know we're in uni
form now. We don't mind good long
prayer in the morning; we don't mind
uniform dresses and that sort of thing,
but plaster our hair down on our heads
and split in the middlei UghI Not on
his lifel
SIT takes an Eastern girl to give in to
such freak as that This is California,
where the new woman is We don't
stand no such nonsense Bangs and
fluffy hair go here for three meals.
You'll not see me without my curls-not
on your life"
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FLOODS ARE RECEDING.
All the Danger is Past at Points on the
Delaware.

All the Danger is Past at Points on the
Delaware.
BoRDENTowN, N. J., April 1.-THE
food has fallen eighteen inches since
yesterday but the railroad traffic between
here and Trenton ID still at a standstill
except by way of Jamesburg. Phila-
delphia and New York passengers are
being driven to Trenton in hacks and
private conveyances in order to reach
their destinations
No mails or newspapers have reached
the city today from either north or south.
EAsToN, Pa, April 1.-The danger
from the high water at this place has
passed The Delaware river this morn
ing had fallen eight feet since yester-
day, and the Lehigh and Bushkill river
which had overfowed their banks was
receding rapidly. The trolley system is
again in operation in all parts of the city
except from Glendon to Odenwelder-
town.
The Edison light and power station.
which has been flooded for two days,
will be in operation tonight in South
Easton and Phillipsburg.
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SPRECKELS ISLANDER CASE.
An Attempt is Made to Show Black
mail by c. A. SpreckeIs.


mail by c. A. spreckels.
SAN FRANCISCO, April lin the
SANDER case of c. A. Sprsckels against
his father Claus Spreckels, dispositions
were taken Wednesday and an effort was
made to show that the plaintiff had en-
deavored to blackmail E ]. Searles, of
the sugar trust by threats to start an
opposition refinery in Philadelphia after
his father had sold out to the trust, but
plaintiff denied he had ever made any
such statement and detailed a converse
ton he had with E. J. Searles in refer
ence to a proposition made TO the witness
by a Philadelphia who had proposed
the establishment of an opposition re-
fnery.
In reference to the insinuatiou that the
witness had not accounted for the 81, $780,
900 received for the sugar trust deal
there was offered copy of a letter sent
by ]. Glenn Uhler to Claus Spreckels
saying, as manager of the Philadelphia
refinery, he had accounted for 100000
more than Spreckels' sugar refinery was
entitled to.
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RATES MAY BE SLASHED.
Overland Passenger Fares May Go Down
Because of = Fight

Los ANGELES, Cal, April 1T is
possible that overland passenger rates
may be slsshed in consequence of the
Southern Pacific having given notice
that it will withdraw from the sale of
tickets to St Paul and Minnesota points
by way of Ell Paso, Fort Worth and Kan.
sas City and also by way of Ogden and
Kansas City.
This is direct blow at the Texas &
Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and
the Rock Island, also the Missouri Paci-
tic from Pueblo, Colo. The Santa Fe
has not shown any intention of following
the lead of the Southern Pacific, SO its
second class will remain at $479O to St.
Paul and Minnesota points, while the
Southern Pacific rate will be $54 20.
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WAS "ASSISTANT MATRON.' ;.

Charlie Leases Name in Black and White
on the Pay Roll.
The pay roll of the deaf and dumb in
stitute at Olathe is now at the governors
Office, where it is being inspected by the
chief executive.
This pay roll shows that Charles Fl.
Lease did draw pay from the state for
the month of July last for services as as
sistaut matron, and the pay roll is signed
in his own hand writing opposite the en-
try Assistant matron."
The books show that young Mr.. Lease
was also employed for two other months
as guide at this institution.
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States. was the
fact that he talk
ed too much at
an inopportune
time. When the
Allia nca was
fired upon by q
Spanish warship,
he freely criti-
cised the state
d epar tment at
W ashington and
made himself so
generally obnox-
ious that the
United States
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A CHIP Of THE OLD BLOCK.

Like His Father, Sir Charles Hilbert Tup-
per Is a Great Canadian Statesman.
Sir Charles HILBERT Upper, whose
threatened resignation as minister of
justice created such a stir in Canadian
politics a few days ago, is one of the
foremost statesmen in the Dominion.
He was born in Nova Scotia in 1866
and is a descendant of Virginia tories
who removed to Nova Scotia when the
American colonies threw off the English
yoke. He was brought up in an atmos-
phere of politics, and it is related that
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THE advantage of the states carrying
its own loans is made apparent in the
transfer this week of $36,5OO from the
general revenue fund to the state school
fund in liquidation of state bonds held
by the school fund The interest on
these bonds has all been kept within the
state. But a small percentage of the
states indebtedness is held outside our
own borders The school fund has the
most of it, and $4,000 of Shawnee
county bonds besides
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THoUeH 100000 bibles have been dis
tributed in China and 10000 in Japan
during the past four months, those
countries did not stop fighting until Ii
Hung Chang was shot.
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we1lman,s Idea In the French Navy.

Aluminium launches are to be tried
in the French navy on large scale An
order for AZ, 900 Kilograms of the met
al has been given to the aluminium
company at Neuhausen, Switzerland,
which is at present the largest manu-
facturer OF the metal in the world.
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HAVING had taste of Office holding
John Wanamaker is again hankering for
a place at the public crib. He is affected
with a desire to represent Pennsylvania
in the United States senate He will find
he has big undertaking when he tries
to displace Don Cameron. The silver
men can i'll afford to lose Senator Cam
eron
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"a Grand Junket.

Senator Armstrong with the reforma-
tory board of the Hutchinson institution
have gone for tour among the reform
atories of other states. They will visit
the Jacksonville prison in Michigan first,
aud will go from there to Elmira, New
York
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THE people of Kentucky should as
certain whether Mr.. Carlisle will en-
deavor to rectify the injury he and his
master have inflicted on the country be-
fore they elect him to the United States
eeuate
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ENRIQUE DUPUY DE LONE.

SPANS New Minister Is q Veteran Diplo-
mat Of Twenty-Five Years Experience.
The only .=euble with Senior Murua-
ga, late Spanish minister to the United
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The friends of Mrs Winnie Sperry
Wright will be panied to learn of her
death at Alpine, Cal, in the mountains 80
formerly city editor of the STATE jour
NAL Mrs. Wright had been i'll for some
time