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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

The Topeka JOURNAL is Governor
Morrilrs most effective etsemy. 1t will
be remembered that The Globe recon-
mended that the governor make the
JOURNAL the official state paper. The
JOURNAL was entitled to this recognition
as a business principle. Bnt the politi-
clans favored a weekly paper lately es-
tablished in Topeka, and now there is
the Old Harry to pay. If the JOURNAL
isn't the most widely circulated paper in
Kansas, it comes mighty close to it,
Atchison Globe.
The Globe with all its insight, serious
ly misunderstands the JOURNALS mo-
tives. 1t isn't because the JOURNAL was
not given the state printing tt at it is ex-
posing Governor MorrilIs blu aders, but
the state printing wasn't given to the
JOURNAL because it did exposl Govern
or Morrill's blunders. The JOURNAL
began its criticisms of Cover aor Nor
rill's administration months Bfore the
printing was awarded. The JOURNAL
did not ask for official patronage" and
did not expect it The JOURNAL is too
independent ever to be an ofgan 1t
loves to speak the truth too we'll to suit
politicians. If the politicians loved US
we wouldn't have 10000 Subscribers nor
would we have the high regard of the
people that we now enjoy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
ALONG, LONG RIDE.
Marion Wright Bicycles From Topeka to
Des Moinss In Five Days.

Marion Wright Bicycles From Topeka to
Des Moinss In Five Days.
Marion Wright. Parkdale barber liv-
ing near the corner of Sixth and Lake
streets, started a week ago to ride his BIZ
cycle to Des Moines, Ia, where his pa
rents lived.
A letter received today by his wife
states that he made the trip safely, but
proposes to come back by rail Wright
was accompanied by his brother. Not
having any new bicycles with all mod =
ern improvements they used what they
had, two old ordinary" or high wheels.
The letter states that the trip was
made in i've days. and Wright adds that
he took four double headers" They
were fortunate in having favorable
weather the whole way. They made the
trip by way of novelty and not to break
any cycling record or to gain notoriety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

In commenting upon a report that a
new Populist daily is about to be estab-
lished in this city a country exchange
says that Breidenthal and Annie I.
Diggs will not sink their money in a
venture of that kind. Annie L Digs
financial condition is like that of the
great majority. Her money to put into
Populist daily or any other kind of a
venture would be hard to find. If she
had all that she has been promised for
her work on the platform it might be
different, but Populists all over the
United States have beaten her out of
her earnings mainly because they could,
as she would not fight for her rights. It
is we'll known among her friends that
she has never got out of q campaign
more than enough to cover her expenses
In 1892 her work in California elected
Marion Cannon, the only Populist con-
gresham elected in the state. and she
had difficulty in getting enough money
to get home on and he absolutely refused
to pay her the balance due for her ser
vices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
INGALLS, TALKS OF SILVER.
Says 1t Would Carry in Every State of the
Union.

Ex-senator John J. Ingalls, said to
Kansas City reporter on the silver Ques-
ton:
"Snce the silver question became so
prominent" he SAID, Il have been pretty
nearly all over the country and had an
opportunity of viewing the country and
learning how the people stand on the
question. | am certain that if the Ques-
ton was left today before the people of
the nation the majority of the voters in
every state of the Union would he in
favor of silver and in pretty nearly all Of
the places the vote would be pronounced.
The fact is p ain that even in the east,
where the gold bugs are supposed TO
rule, the people are in mood to make
large concessions to the silver advocates
ana It will be an easy matter in the final
settlement of the question, no dOub5, for
an honorable Compromise between ne
two elements 10 be agreed upon
in which there will be strong pronin-
ence gwen to silver.
ia the west it is the great question,
bu' 1t is also very prominent question
in ghe minds of the Eeople every place
in The land For my own part l am and
have always been a bimetailist Per
sonalIy l am very much stronger in my
belief than most of the memb ers Of my
parry and have always stood out for the
integrity Of silver It is going 10 be the
great issue In the next campaign a
great season of prosperity might cause
its present importance to be somewhai
diminished but it will still be very live
aud important matter for the considera
Iio1 of the coming national conventi rs
The ultimate settlement of the matter,
presume, will be like most of the gleai
ma ional reforms, compromise, but vii Ii
the strong CLAIMS of silver made very
Prominent"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
SOME TIN HORNISM.
Petty Business by Government Detectives
Is Again Exemplified.

Anyone who has ever attended a ses-
sion of the United States district court
knows what desperate effort the post
office inspectors, pension inspectors, and
government detectives make to convict
any one who is charged with a crime
against the government, no matter how
trivial or technical the case may be.
These detectives work up cases on the
most fimsy pretense in order to give the
impression that they are effective officers
and then strain their utmost to convict
One of the latest victims. according to
common report. is Charles w. Dietz. OF
Harlan, Smith county.
A local paper says that man who had
some dealings with Dietz, left, owing
him some money and told Deitz there
was draft coming which he might keep
in payment of his claim. When the draft
came Deitz opened the letter and
thoughtlessly signed the other mans
name to Che draft and had it cashed, in
accordance with the other mans instruc-
tons.
1t is said that Deitz is one Of the oldest
and most reliable citizens of Smith coun-
ty, and only erred through ignorance of
the law when he drew the few dollars
which he had been told to keep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

line. Conner wisely gave him his base
on balls four times out of five.
The balloon ascension and parachute
leap advertised for p. N. did not occur
It's a popularity balloon ascensions
have. DR.. Brownfield announced that
the wind was too strong, but that it
would positively go up today. The score
by innings was as follows:
Topeka. .OOoS 1Oo1 O-5
Troy ....0 o / 90 0 1-2
Safe hits, Topeka Z, Troy Two base
hits by Beaucamp, Dunn and Faulkner.
Home run by Campbell. Struck out, by
Conner 6, by Whiting 7. Base on balls.
by Conner 8, by Whiting 8. Errors. To.
peka 5, Troy .. Double plays, Topeka 1
1rov q Left on bases, Topeka 3, 1roy IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

runs from being made. Pitcher Conner
striking out two men in that inning.
For Topeka Corners work in the box
was the best he has done this season, and
Catcher True was in excellent trim.
Close, Dunn and Reister did excellent in
field work. Cole, the new first baseman,
put up a splendid game, but was trihe
weak at the bat
Childs, the big catcher for the Troy
bows. was a terror to Notes men. He
used to catch for Dick Cooley's last team
at Topeka Childs is known as q terrific
hitter, aud he only smashed the ball
twice. Once he lined out a pretty safe
hit. and again he knocked the ball over
the left field fence, just outside the foul
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
THIS Is FUNNY(A
Rough Practical Joke Played on an Inno-
cent Country Boy.

cent country BOY
great many people imagine they can
play ball, and many a rural wight sees
through the diamond his path to fame
and glory.
When the Topeka ball team was at
Seneca last week they encountered such
young man. He was from the country
aud attended one game and it looked
very easy to him and he saw no reason
why he could not do as we'll Stories of
the fabulous salaries received by the
players had been told him.
He went to the hotel at the close of
the game Wednesday to have confer
ence with the captain. He was taken to
a room in the hotel and stripped, while
two of the players carefully smeared
him with the axel grease. Then Dunn
of the Topeka team and Chiles of the
Troys rubbed him with rough towels.
cautioning him to not cry ont unless it
hurt him very much. The would be
player exhibited no small amount of
grit, but he gave a sigh of relief when
the rubbing process was over.
Then he was taken in hand by two
more of the ball players, who dressed
him. They put nine heavy wooden
sweaters on the young man from the
country and over all a uniform Then
he was taken out and told that he must
run 10 the OepOt ana Dack, nearly mile,
and give exhibitions of his sliding ability
on the way. He returned to the hotel
putting and exhausted, but his heart gave
leap when Manager Mote told him he
would do.
II have no vacant place just now and
you will have to wait" said Mote.
what will be the salary?" asked the
young man.
81 will make it $50 month and ex-
penses to start with" replied Mote
This was satisfactory and the initiated
ball player rode home happy. He is
daily expecting a telegram from Mote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

state press. 1t takes a peculiar delight
in it and seems to regard that as legiti-
mate, journalism. The JOURNAL might
print hundreds of items like the follow
ing from the Hutchinson News (Rep.)
but il doesn't:
Joe Hudson, the ringleader of the
Cleveland Republicans in this state, is in
more trouble over his paper, the Capital,
the Stalled concern that has done more
to hurt the Republican party in Kansas
than any other one thing.
We might print lots of these things,
but we'll only print this one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
TOPEKA WON, 5 TO 2.
Result of Yesterdays Game with Troy a
Athletic Park.

Result of Yesterdays Game with Troy at
Athletic Park.
The fifteen hundred people who went
to Athletic park yesterday to see Notes
giants play Troy, saw first class ball
game.
It was by far the best game that has
been played on the Topeka diamond this
year. 1t abounded with brilliant plays
and errors were exceedingly few.
The game closed at the end of the
ninth inning with the score to in
favor of Topeka. At anytime during
the afternoon it was any body's game.
The climax was reached in the ninth in
ming. Campbell the Troy shortstop,
started out by knocking the ball over the
left field fence for home run Then
two pretty safe hits we're made and an
other Trojan got his sbass on
balls. With the bases all full
the Topeka boys. by good playing and
brilliant fielding. prevented any more
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
FAMILIAR KANSAS NAMES


The husband of Mrs. T. J. Smith of
Mcpherson is organizing bi-metalIic
leagues in Missouri
Congressman s. S. Kirkpatrick's son
Byron will enter the Q. s. naval academy
at Annapolis next fall
Mrs. Harrison Kelley is a member of a
Ladies' History club. which recently eel
ebrated its fifth anniversary at Burling-
ton.
Little Marie Cave, granddaughter of
G. w. c. Rohrer of Abilene, took first
prize at baby show in St. Louis re-
Gently.
Fred Funston is said to have cleared
$1,000 during the first three months he
spent in the lecture field with his lecture
on Alaska.
The latest rumor about Bill Hackney
is that he will return to Kansas and
enter the race for the United States sena-
torship next year.
Colonel Alexander Warner delivered
the decoration day address at Atchison
this year. His friend John Seaton is
probably responsible for this arrange
ment.
]. W. Laybourn of Usage county who
succeeded John F. Willis on the state
board of pardOns has been appointed II
recruiting officer for the National In
dustriaI legion.
Mrs. John Davis, wife of the ex-con-
gresham, recently took the affirmative
side of debate on the subject: SHOULD
Women Receive as High Pay as Men,"
at junction City.
J. K. Cubbison took the place of
Mayor Twiss in welcoming the Degree
of Honor delegates to Kansas City, Kan
A local paper describes his speech as
"brief and breezy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
WHAT THEY HAVE TO EAT.
Schedule OF the Weekly Allowance of
Each Scranton Miner.

Schedule OF the Weekly Allowance of
Each Scranton Miner.
The Scranton miners and their fami-
lies who are being helped by the hand
of charity receive supplies which are ex-
pected to last them a week at time.
A family of six which had some -four
on hand was given the following as their
weeks allowance: Three pounds of
bacon, 1 can of tomatoes, 2 pounds of
rice. pounds of beans, Q pounds of
apple butter, 1 pound of coffee, pack
age of soda, 6 pounds of sugar, l bar of
soap, and 1 pound of butter.
Almost every family has garden and
their new potatoes will soon be large
enough to eat, which will be q big help
to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

THE remarks of Senior Romero, the
Mexican minister on the workings of the
silver standard in his country are attract
ing attention everywhere. He shows
that country can exist and even prosper
on silver money. It must be a pretty
good place to do business in or so many
Americans would not go there and re-
main. Mexico's prosperity dates from
the repeal of the Bland law by the
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

SINCE the cabinet officers under Cleve-
land are no more than clerks, he might
get along during the rest of his term
without appointing a successor to Judge
Gresham, and curtail the rapidly grow
ing ire asury deficit by the amount of the
salary thus saved. This is merely q sug-
gestion offered in all kindness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

ONE evening was not enough for Ros-
well G. Horn to talk on the money ques-
ton. He wants ten days in which to
explode the theories of Mr.. Harvey.
Unless his experience shall differ great
iy from that OF Prof Laughlin, he will
find that he will require even more time
than that to tell all be doesn't know about
the subject
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

OUR sstesmed evening contemporary,
the JOURNAL, quotes about two warm
roasts d day for itself from the state press
and replies to them. If the JOURNAL. in
tends to make thorough work of this sort
Of thing it will have to print a four page
supplements about twice wesk.-Tepeka
Capital
This paper can always depend on the
Capital printing all the swarm roasts" Of
AAs JOURNAL that it can collect from the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
COL. STACEY IN TOWN.

He Has Severed His Connection With the
Parsons Independents.
Col A. G. Stacey has severed his con-
nection with the Parsons Independent
the paper which he left Topeka about q
year ago to edit.
Col Stacey is in Topeka, but says he
does not propose to locate here. He has
two business ventures in view and both
of them will take him awav from To-
nakA.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
VIII Test the Law.

Judge Earle of the Twenty-fifth Judi
cial district and Judge Martin of the
Harvey Reno district, are preparing an
agreed case for the supreme court to test
the constitutionality of the law abolish
ing the Twenty fifth district The case
will probably be considered at the June
ERIN of court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
Didu't So to Near IDA wells.

KANSAS CRY, Kan, May 31.-Ida B.
Wells, the colored snti-lynching agitator
of national notoriety. was billed to de
liver a lecture last night at the rabsr-
nacle. Az there were only twenty five
CO ored people comprising the audience
the lecture was postponed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
Circulation Growth :


CHICAGO. May 81 = For Kansas:
Tonight cooler except stationery in ex-
IRENE eastern portion; Saturday fair and
cooler, northwest winds,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

SINCE we have adopted the gold stand
ard the amount of money in the country
is limited to 1925 100000. according to
Mr. CArlisle's figures. or less than SO
per capita. Yet he talks about $24 per
capita
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

THE Democratic cuckoos marched up
to Topeka and then they marched back
again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

Ladies' waists Numbered in a first
class manner at Peerless Steam Laun-
dry. 112 and ia West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

We can keep you clean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. Eighth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

Everybody takaa the JOURNAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily Average, 9. 600.

The issues of the TOPEKA DAILY STATE
JOURNAL for the three months, viz. from the
Ist day of January. 1895. to the 31St day Of
March, 1895, inclusive. have been as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31
'''sa'0 dM5aD<>NNA<a3SS,,o~4,y1

Editor and Proprietor.
Sworn to and subscribed April . 1896
lsKALl E. VI. COCKRELL
Clerk of he District Court,
shawnee Comfy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-31

SUNDAY: no lssae
The total number of copies printed in the
three months named above. 739669. divided by
a, the number of issues shows the average to
be 0.606. This is q correct report of the issues
of the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL for
the three months as stated
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-05
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Both Lady Henry Somerset and Miss
Francis E. Willard ride. the bicycle. Miss
Willard says: think that bicycle exer-
else for the young is one of the best pre-
ventatives of alcoholic temptation that
could be thought of. 1t gives diversion
to the mind, exercise to the muscles and
healthy, wholesome influence to every
impulse. When a young man is on a
bicycle he is alive and is awake. He is
not listlessly loafng in saloon.
The expenditure of England for drinks
is estimated at 5000, 900, 900 a. year. The
consumption is undoubtedly enormous,
but not really so enormous as this, for a
good deal of the liquor which appears in
official statistics is afterwards exported.
Dr. Lannelongue, French savant, says
that rum kills more people in a month
In France than would fall in an ordinary
battle.
Sixty thousand acres OF land are devot-
ed to celery growing in the United
States.
The geatest wonder Of the antipodes is
tho celebrated glow-worm cavern, discov-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-05

cred in 1891 in the heart of the Tasmanian
wilderness. The cavern or caverns (there
appears to be series of such caverns in
the vicinity, each separate and distinctly,
are situated near the town Of Southport,
Tasmania, in q limestone bluff, about
four miles from Ida Bay. The
appearance of the main cavern is
that of an underground river, the entire
floor of the subterranean passage being
covered with water about foot and a
half i'll depth. These wonderful Tas-
manian caves are similar to all caverns
found in limestone formation, with the
exception that their roofs and sides liter
ally shine with the light emitted by the
Millions of glow-worms which inhabit
them.
Pompeian excavation proceeds slowly.
About one-third of the ancient city is now
uncovered. A beautiful dwelling house
is the latest to be exhumed and restored
that is to say, not rebuilt, but rehablli-
tated with respect to fallen columns and
such elements of construction as explain
the plan and decoration of the structure.
A piece of mural decoration found beside
the main doorway of this lovely house, a
picture too grossly obscene to be exposed,
indicates the temper of a people who took
their bath of ashes, cinders, and mud
none too soon. The treasures recovered
from Pompeii and Herculaneum go to
enrich the precious collections of the mu-
scum at Naples.
The heaviest man whose weight is re-
corded automatically was Miles Darden,
of Tennessee He weighed a little less
than 1000 pounds.
The largest man ever enlisted in the
British army was Lieutenant Sutherland.
His height was s feet inches and his
weight 1854 pounds.
Police Commissioner Andrews, of New
York, has discovered that many of his
patrolmen know nothing about shooting,
some not knowing even how toaload a re-
volver. He now suggests the appoint
ment of an instructor.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-05

Some facts are coming out about the
peculiar methods resorted to by the free
traders to demonstrate the virtues of the
German, Wilson tariff law. On the last
labor day a sort of semi official statement
was sent out from Washington, which
purported to give list of leading man
ufacturing establishments with the ag-
gregate number of hands employed by
them, that had increased wages during
the first year of the new tariff An an
alysis has shown that that list was nearly
two-thirds fraudulent. The method en-
ployed was to take some large manufac-
turing concern, like the Carnegie Com
pany for instance, owning and operating
9 Or 10 separate mills under distinct
names, and, first, giving the aggregate
number of men employed by the company
to afterward enumerate each OF the mills
by name and set out the number of hands
employed by each. Thus in the Illinois
Steel Company seven thousand hands are
counted once, and it's works at Joliet are
other points twice. The New England
mills were especially favored py This
free-trade compiler. The great cotton
mills at Fall River are counted four
times under different names. The Lowell
factories several of them figure three
times; the Lewiston mills, with nearly
five thousand hands, are duplicated. and
the Providence wooden mills are most OF
them included twice, and one of them
three times The proof of this falsifica-
tion of figures is clear and complete, and
the particular Free Trade Club which is
sued the falsified returns will have diff
Guilty in giving an aexplanation which
will even enable it to shelter itself be-
hind the plea Of ignorance or error and
inadvertence. The facts seem to present
case of deliberate Justification.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-05

The Tammany tiger was crippled some
what year ago, but it was by no means
killed. 1t has still enough life left in it
to make lively fight in New York this
fall, and unquestionably the Sunday
liquor question is having the effect to
make some of the elements which op-
posed it, vigorously then much more
tolerant of it's return to power. The Ger
mans especially have been rendered luke
warm in their opposition to the tiger by
this question. Mayors Strong's admins
tration also has turned out less satisfac-
tory than was expected, though it is ad-
mitted that it has done much good work,
and this will enure indirectly to Tam
1nany's advantage 1t is going to be a
hard fight, and about the only hope of
success lies in the union of all the anti
Tammany elements. With division
among them and several candidates Tam
many will almost surely slip in. AS
was the case year ago the campaign in
New York is a fight for decent and honest
administration, rather than a contest for
the supremacy Of any political party and
it ought to be conducted with this fact
clearly kept in view. When the city ad
ministration is permanently rescued from
the clutches of the Tammany gang, will