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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-08
City Treasurer's Report


c. L. Vanderpool reported $349.05 col
lected during December.
Police Judge Ensminger reported
1920 collected in fines during the month.
The totBl cost-of Operating The city
electric lights for the last month was
$1,O1S.36 or $5.53 per light
Street Commiss. ouer Naylor reported
that he had sold $47.5O worth of old
planks from the Kansas avenue bridge.
The food inspector reported $2l6,07
collected.
Dog Tax Collector J. r. Miller collect
ed $45 in dog tax and killed five dogs
during December.
The city weigher weighed $50 loads
during December and collected $4,000.
Richie & Kingsland asked permission
to erect scales on Kansas avenue near
Tenth street, and the petition went to
the committee on streets and walks.
The city engineers estimate of 500
for the building of the sewer in district
II was approved
The commissioners presented a cora-
munication agreeing to cooperate with
the city in the paving of Topeka avenue,
as before told in the JOURNAL. and the
communication was referred to the com
mittee on streets and walks
8. P. Jacobs took time by the forelock
in long petition to the council, asking
permission TO hold camp meeting in
the City park in July. for "the CONVEX
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The Assessing of the Waterw in
Topeka Township to BE InvestIg a.
ted-Ehe Petty SGuab5ie Over the
Resolution Censurins the Mayor
Renewed.
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10 per cent off on Banquet cook an d
Oak heating stoves for Christmas pres
ents ]. H FOUGHT.
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ss2 calls up the Peerless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-08

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for teething. It soothes. sofiens
he gums, allays pain, cures collie Best
remedy for diarrhRa- 20 cents bottle
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The council took up the waterworks
question last night with a vengeance,
and Councilman Bradford offered the
following resolution as told in last even
ing's JOURNAL:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-01-18
THE NEWSPAPER Ian.

l. All subscribers who d ) not
give express notice to the con-
trary are considered wishing
to continue their subscription.
,. IF subscribers order the
diccontinuancc Of their period
icais, the publisher may con-
tinue to send them until all
arrearages are paid.
). If subscribers refuse or
neglect to take their period
icals from the Office to which
they are directed, they are
responsible until they have set
tied their bills and ordered
them discontinued.
4 Subscribers moving to
other places witoout informing
the publisher, and the papers
are sent to the former address,
they are held responsible.
5 The courts have decided
that refusing to take period
Gals from the Office, or remov-
ing and leaving them uncalled
for, is primafacie lie evidence Of
intended fraud.
If subscribers pay in ad-
vance they are bound to give
notice at the end Of the time
if they do not wish to continue
takiog it; otherwise the pub
Usher is authorized to send it,
and the subscriber W II be re-
sponsible until an express
notice with all arrtarages, are
sent to the publisher.
The latest postal laws are
such that newspaper publishers
can arrestany one for fraud
who takes paper and refuses
to pay for it. Under the law
the man who allows his sub
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scription to run along some
time unpaid. ard them or
ders the postmaster to mark
it refused and have postal
card sent notifyin the pub
Usher. leaves himself liable to
arrest and fine, the same as for
theft.
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THE MGRs!HG APPEAL.

Published every morning, Monday
excepted by
=. l.. DAVIS.
A daily newspaper devoted to general
news, political and Independent
affairs.
Of1iee-Second street opposite Capitol.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
One Year by mail l............-.SS So 90
Six months ................. 90
Three months ; 90
BY carrier % cts per week.
Entered in the Postoflice at Carson
City as second class matter.
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TURF TOPICS.

Shauer, the jockey, died of gallop-
ing consumption.
Byron MoClelland will not follow
Croker and Dwyer to England.
Ed Geers will have his pacing mare
Bessie Hal bred to Direct, 2:O515.
At Belle Meade there are 80 year
Gngs, some 20 of which are by Iroquois.
Mrs. Davis, widow of the former
owner of Alcantara, has leased the old
homestead at Highlawn for summer
resort.
Saugus, Mass, will not accept any
entries which have not the pedigrees
attached, and the horses must be fully
identified.
The American bred pony Watchmak-
er Patchen, 1873 hands high, recently
trotted five miles and so yards in 1853
at Newcastle-uponTyn
The Australian horses Bruin, Temple
stowe and Tarcoola are coming to Amer
lea. Bruin is a good Splinter and Tar
coola Melbourne cup winner
M E. McHenry has formed trot-
ting association at Freeport, Ills, which
will give a race meeting at Taylor g
park July 20 to %, with $50, 600 in
purses.
George NJ. Stearns of Massachusetts,,
who died recently, by his will directed
that 81, 500 should be appropriated for
the keeping of his favorite road mare
Maud L and that she should never again
wear harness. -Horseman
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ITS DEATH KNELL.
COuncilmen Opposed to the Bicycle Or
dinRnce VIII Have 1T RecOnstdered.

Counci1men Opposed to the Bicycle Or
dinRnce VIII Have it Reconstdered.
Councilman Frank Stevens will find
when the council meets again that he
made a mistake in railroading his bicy
Gle ordinance through. It was passed
over the protests of several of the mem
bers who wanted it referred to a COM
mittee. No member of the council knew
that it was to be introduced and the sus-
pension of the rules to allow its passage
on the first reading is regarded as mis-
take. If the author of the ordinance had
not been in such a hurry to secure its
passage it would probably have been
fixed up to suit the majority
of the people. AS it is, it suits
no one. Those who ride bicycles
as we'll as those who do not, are opposed
to the ordinance. The wheelmen do not
like the ''ten miles an hour" limit and
others are opposed to the provision al
lowing riders to use the sidewalks.
The following councilmen who voted
for the ordinance are now opposed to it:
Burgess of the Fourth ward, Fulton of
the Fifth and Stephenson of the Sec
| ond. These. with the three who voted
against the ordinance before are sufi
cient to secure its reconsideration and
kill it Other councilmen will probably
be with the opposition by the time the
! council meets.
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THE FASHION PLATE.

English walking gloves for spring are
of finely dressed dogskin or Swedish kid,
to wear with promenade costumes.
Pale tinted, inexpensive, but fine
quality satins are very greatly favored
for fitted blouse waists for evening wear.
The fashionable dress muff, shaped
like an hourglass, frilled on each end,
affords very little protection to the
wrists and hands
Some of the smartest skating Co.'S
tunes worn this winter are made Of
plaided or shot velvet, trimmed with
bands of seal or Alaska sable.
The beautiful rose tints in evening
dress materials this winter are given
all the speculative adjeotives by ad-
mirers of this particular color.
Rose colored chiffon, cream colored
Venetian lace and black velvet ribbon
compose a symphony of colors and a
mixture of fabrics that go to make up
the fashionable Queen Anne bertha OF
the moment.
Plain or beaded black tulle ruches
make an effective and very fashionable
trimming for dinner toilets of crepon
and of light satin or MORE. These ruohes
have the softening effect of feather
bands, but are much less expensive.
The lighter shades of Irish poplin
make most desirable smart bodices. One
of rose pink and silver shot poplin is
made with a shower of long and short
er loops of black velvet ribbon falling
from the shoulders, with belt trimmings
to correspond. York Post.
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E. BENEFITS DEEDS.
a Suit to Set Aside the Transfer of His
Property to His Wife.

a Suit to Set Aside the Transfer of His
Property to His Wife.
A suit has been filed in the United
States circuit court to set aside the deeds
to E. Benefits handsome residence, his
stables on West Eighth street and to his
farm, four miles southwest of the city.
1t is charged that the property was
transferred to Mrs. Bennett for the pur-
pose Of defrauding the Trust company of
America out of debt of 81, SOP W, upon
which judgment was secured in the
Shawnee county district court last April
The charge is made that the deeds
bore the date Jan. 8, 1898, but that they
we're not signed by Mr.. Bennett until
March ~, 1894. 1t is also charged that
there was no consideration and that the
purpose of the transfer was to defraud
the company and avoid payment of the
debt
Two mortgages were put upon the
property. One March 20, 1894. and the
other in August, 1894, one for $1,49O and
the other for $1,000. The company claims
that the execution of the mortgages was
part of the scheme to defraud it
The court is asked to set aside all the
deeds and mortgages
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vanized iron ventilating apparatus that is
being placed in the mems department.
ARREST IN A BATHHOUSF.
Philip Pickett's Place Raided by the Police
This Morning.

Philip Pickett's Place Raided by the Police
This Morning.
An innocent appearing place indeed
was the Pickett mineral bath house on
Harrison street between Third and
Fourth streets.
1t was patronized by many respectable
people in the city and very few have
ever dreamed that they were in any
place, but the most respectable on earth,
as they took their Turkish baths there
time and again. &C.
1t was raided by the police at $50
o'clock this morning.
Officer Ellison went to the house and
arousing the inmates placed them under
arrest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Pickett, who run
the place, are colored, but Pearl E. Tob-
ing and Myrtle Pike. girls, and II. W.
Johnson, travelling man, were white.
Johnson and Miss Pike had gone there
together in a hack.
Mrs. Pickett declared that she did not
know of anything wrong, and said to
johnson and the Pike girl
"You told me you were man and wife. :"
"Its lie," yelled Johnson, you didn't
ask anything about it, and registered
H. w. johnson and lady" Sure enough
it was that way OF the register.
Myrtle Pike is one of the young wo-
men who vas driven out of the disorder
ly house opposite jackson school last
summer.
All who were in the house were taken
to the police station.
Mr. Pickett put up 800 for the APP
pearance of himself and wife, and JOHN
son put up $50. The girls were unable
to give security and went to jail.
| All cases were continued in court this
morning excepting that OF Johnson, VINO
forfeited his bond by nonappearance.
Mr.. Pickett is greatly perturbed over
the arrests made at his house. Although
he has run the bath rooms for many years
he has never heard complaint that
there was any looseness there; and he
| now protests his entire innocence of
anything that would tend to give it bad
name.
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HYMNS AND HYMN WRITERS.

"Jesus. Lover of My Soul" was
written by Charles Wesley just after
an escape from a mob
''Ye Wretched, Hungry, Starving
Poor Is one of the best hymns written
by women. The writer of this was
Anne Steele.
so Sacred Head, Now Wounded, % is a
translation of a translation. The orig
mai hymn was the "SaIve Caput," by
St Bernard.
''There Is a Fountain Filled With
Blood" is the most popular of Cowper's
hymns. It is considered one of the clas-
sic lyrics of the English language.
Nearer, My God, to Thee was the
work of Sarah Flower Adams and first
appeared in a volume of hymns and an
thems published in 1910 by Rev. W. J.
Fox.
'sAnd Are We Yet Alive?'' is by
Charles Wesley. 1t is the opening hymn
used by Methodist conferences the world
over and has been SO employed for 100
years.
''All Hail the Power of Jesus Name"
was written by Edward Perronet in
. duQ puD14ou0Q III L AO
Gospel Magazine in the following year.
All else from the pen of this writer has
been forgotten.
''My Soul, Repeat His Praise,'' is by
Isaac Watts. It is one-half of hymn
which he entitled mercy In the Midst
of Judgment " The other half is the
well known hymn beginning, ''The
pity of the Lord. -
go Might My Lot Be Cast With
These" is part of hymn by Charles
Wesley on the primitive church. 1t
had originally 80 verses. Many of Wes-
ley's hymns were very long, some hav-
ing 40 or so stanzas.
''Come, o Thou All Victorious Lord, -
is by Charles Wesley. 1t was written
for the quarrymen of Portland and con-
tanned several illusions to their bust
ness, which were readily recognized and
heartily appreciated. st Louis Globe
! Democrat
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A BOLD GAME.
Committing Murder to Get Life Insurance
Tried Once Too Often.
me.

TORONTO, Ont, Feb. Hilary Place
Hyams and Dallas Theodore Hyams.
twin brothers doing business as brokers
in this city have been arrested on charge
of having murdered WIN. c. Wells an
January 16, 1898. At the time Young
Wells was reported as having been ac-
cidentally killed in an elevator in the
Hyams warehouse. The only person in
the building at the time was Harry p.
Hyams, who had placed heavy insurance
on the life of young Wells, and to whose
sister he was engaged to marry. The
insurance was paid and recently Harry
Hyams and Miss Wells we're married.
Ten days ago Toronto paper learned
that an attempt had been made to place
| $3.50, 900 insurance on the life of the
bride. When Mrs. Hyams heard this she
| became alarmed, had detective guard
/ her, refused to return to Montreal with
her husband and asked the companies TO
cancel the policies.
The Hyams brothers were known not
to possess sufficient capital to warrant
the mourning of liability of So, 200 a
year in insurance premiums, and further
investigation has resulted in the arrest of
the two brothers for the murder of their
brother-in-law, Wella
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LOCAL MENTION.

Florence Cole has sued her husband,
Benjamin Cole, for divorce. She alleges
abandonment and cruelty. They are
colored.
The general secretaries of the Y. III.
c. A of Kansas are holding a conference
at the rooms of the Topeka association.
This evening the secretaries will lead
the prayer meetings at the principal city
churches.
Louisa Stoehr of near Silver Lake, was
yesterday afternoon adjudged insane in
the probate court She was too i'll to at
tend She is a white girl % years old
and the complaint was made by her
brother. The cause is supposed to be a
love affair.
Count N. Sterzenski, the Russian count
who abandoned his farm in Decatur
county and came to Topeka expecting to
be able to make living teaching French
and German, has left Topeka He fail
ed to secure anything to do here and has
secured position at Hoboken, New Jer-
sey
Lotus Quartette at Hamilton's tonight
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created offices for two of his children at
the university, and said he had it on
good authority that the Snow family's
income was nearly $4,000.
Senator Scott, who is one of the re-
gents of the university, produced on short
notice figures to show that of all the uni
versities of the states in America paid the
chancellor of their university an equal
or higher salary than Kansas, except
two-poor Missouri and ancient Virginia.
He stated that Chancellor Shows son
was a capable professor and had held a
similar place in the University of Him
dis He draws the magnificent sum Of
$500 year from the state. The chan
cellor's daughter gets Sc month for
taking weather observations. This
makes the Snow income $500 instead
of $4,000. Attention was also called to
the fact that the love and confidence in
spired by Chancellor Snow had secured
a bequest of 100000 from his uncle and
an estate valued at from $75,000 to 800,
900 from Ex-Governor Charles Robinson
Senator Lands asked: els lit not a
fact that Prof. Blake has not been in
Lawrence or attended to any classes
since last spring?"
Senator Scott: 81 do not know regard
ing that"
Senator Rogers said, "Let me answer
that. Prof Blake has been away, but his
absence is at the request of the United
States government Mr.. Blake has a
great discovery, a system of telephoning
through water without wires, and the
government has so much confidence in
his ideas that it has placed two ships at
his disposal Prof. Blake can get twice
the salary we pay him any time he wants
Ito go, and it seems picayunish to me to
criticise the university on this score.
care nothing for political honors and in
this case 1 agree with the Republican
senators. A man or party which at
tempts to pull down the state educa-
tional institutions, will find itself buried
under its ruins" Applause
After a long debate the committee Of
the whole adjourned without reaching
any decision The committee "reported
progress and asked leave to sit again.
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CITY JAIL IMPROVEMENTS.
A New Tramp Room is Being Built In the
Basement-OIher Changes.

Basement-Other Changes.
There is to be a general overhauling
and cleaning up at the city Jail under the
new administration.
It has begun already. The crowded
and ill-smelling condition of the jail of
late suggested it and the new force i'm
| mediateIy got some carpenters, plumbers,
| etc, and went to work.
The woman's cell is quite comfortable
| and clean. That ia under MAtron
! Thorpe's care
The mems cell has, however, been
very crowded, poorly ventilated and gen
orally undesirable as a place of habita-
| ton.
1t has been suggested from time to
time that the jail facilities should be en-
larged by the fitting up of the basement
| but the Populists said the room was too
damp and could not be used No inves-
| tigation was ever made and the water
continued to drip in on the basement
| floor from somewhere.
/ So many tramps have applied for lodg-
ing lately that the new administration
concluded TO see what could be done.
The damp basement room was exam
ined, plumber employed and he had
all flowing water stopped in five min
utes. The room is now and will hereafter
he perfectly dry. A carpenter is at work to
day and is building big long cot or rath,
er bunk, at the east side of the wall L
will be thirty feet long and will accom-
modate from fifteen to twenty tramps fol-
lodging. Benches are also being arranged
and a stove will be put in. Two gas jets
also flicker now where was darkness be
fore, and the room will be comfortable
one. Il will be ventilated by the window
and a new door of bars will probably b.
put in the place of the solid iron ons
that now closes the thick stone arch.
The stairs will also be rebuilt and tn
long hallway in the basement will be fit
ted up and lighted and will be used as
storage room for confscated goods.
| Another improvement ia the new gal
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THEY ARE ALL OPEN.
Leavenworth ''Times' Says the SaIoOnsAre
All Running in Leavenworth.

Leavenw worth "Times" Says the SaIoOnsAre
All Running in Leavenworth.
Why doesn't Governor Morrill, close up
the saloons at Leavenworth? Why ia
that town allowed to be in open rebellion
against the laws of the state?
The metropolitan police law was en-
acted in order that the governor might
enforce the laws which the local author
tiles refused to enforce, and it is the gov
errors duty to enforce the law. Why
doesn't Governor Morrill, do his duty?
In reply to a paragraph in the Kansas
City Journal, commencing Governor Nor
rill for his statement that he would en-
force the law, the Leavenworth Times
says:
"The Kansas City Journal is playing
the part of the hypocrite. That paper
knows the fact that the governor agreed
the law would not be enforced in this
city, and he has appointed commission
ers in accord with that agreement. No
attempt will be made to change the
order prevailing here for the past four
years.
sThose who sell liquor will continue
to be fined as heretofore; saloons will
be run wide open as in other first
class cities, and Governor Morrill,
will not interfere His instructions are
plain: Close up all low doggeries,
and all low places on the road between
the city and the Soldiers home as re-
quested by Governor Smith, and clean
out all policy shops and gamblers.
9sThese instructions are very plain and
explicit, and have been fully understood
since the day of election in November
| last.
''Prohibition cannot be enforced in
Leavenworth.
"The Republican party, while favoring
prohibition, have never and never will
try to enforce that law. 1t is too late tc
| attempt longer to gull the people"
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STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.

Pleasure becomes monotonous, but
happiness never.
Some men have more elbow room
than they have head room.
Cupid is a brave little footpad who
never attempts to ''hold up'' only one
victim.
Two women who would exactly please
each other wouldn't probably please
anybody else.
Cupid makes no resolutions at the
new year. The old ones answer his pur-
pose admirably.
The world would be most disagree
able place to live in if it were absolute
~ void Of deceit
If We thought of ourselves as others
think of US, we would sit up nights
wondering what we were born for
Detroit Free Press.
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FROZE THE BIRDS.
Intense Cold and Great Suffering in
the West.

Intense Cold and Great Suffering In
the West.
DENVER Feb 14-Considerable stock
has already persisted on the ranges in
Colorado, in consequence of the cold,
and it is feared the loss will be heavy
unless a change takes place soon. Many
settlers in eastern Colorado are suffering
from cold and hunger.
Julesburg reports: Extreme cold
weather has been recorded for twenty
six days last past, the thermometer rang
ing from 10 to 80 degrees below zero
during the recent blizzard. Millions of
snow birds and rabbits have been frozen
to DEATH
Denver is about at the center of the
region affected by the present cold wave,
which seems to be backing up against
the Rocky mountains, all the way from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Ell Paso, Texas
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AID FOR WESTERN SUFFERERS.

Two Carloads of Provisions to Be Sent
to Them.
Rev. A H. Harrell, pastor of the First
Christian church at Springfield, ILL.,, has
sent word to the legislature, that there is
carload of clothing and provisions for
destitute settlers in western Kansas, at
that place, which will be forwarded if
the freight is paid. The railroad com
missioners will attend to the matter.
Representative A. J. White and c. c.
Mccarthy have collected a carload of
provisions at Nortonville, to be sent to
Lana county
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silver Circulatcs.

TRINIDAD, Colo, Feb 14-An east
bound Atchison freight train was wreck
ed at the Four Miles, east of here, late
last night by a broken brake beam. Three
cars of silver bullion were dersiled and
part of the contents scattered over the
ground. None were hurt.
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Gould wedding An Fixed.

New YORK, Feb. 14-The final prep
aration for the wedding of Miss Anna
Gould to Count DeCastellane. of Paris,
were completed last night. The wed
ding has been arranged for March 4th,
and in the Gould residence on Fifth ave
nue..