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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
A Plague TO the Farmers.

G. F. Grattan, an attorney from Nc
Pherson, is here looking up the records
in the Union Pacific land cases. He says
that 1, 500 acres of the best land in Nc
Pherson county are included in the suit.
Some of the farmers are we'll to do, but
others are poor and unable to stand the
expense and trouble which will result
from the suit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
IN POLICE COURT.
Henry Shaffer Fined $40 for Drunken
ness-Three Migrants Dismissed.

ness-Three Migrants Dismissed.
Henry Shaffer was tried in police
court this morning for drunkenness and
disturb bling the peace. The main witness
against him was Minnie Noonan in
whose house at the corner of Eleventh
and Quincy streets it happened. The
evidence showed that Shaffer was on the
defensive but had been intoxicated and
the court fined him $40 for that.
The only other cases in police court
today were those of Frank Fuller. James
Prim and Frank Williams, Migrants who
had applied at the station for lodging.
They were released upon promise that
they would leave town as soon as posi-
hla
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NEW CORPORATIONS.

Companies Organized To do Business ia
Kansas Granted Charters.
The following charters have been fled
wi III the secretary of state:
The Star Clothing company of Hutch
inson. Capital stock $4,000. Directors,
Ben Nussbaum, Ray Nuss5aum and E.
Neussbam, 0. G. Knox and L P. Hooker.
The III. E Church of Berlin. Bourbon
county. Trustees, s. J. Freemaster,
VIM. McClelland and Julia Bowers,
Buy the Light Running Domestic.
The best sewing machine in the city.
Get it at Babcock g Frost.
701 Kansas ave.
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ion in the proposed bill seems reasona

Mr. Van Gaasbeck of Jefferson, said:
81 live at Valley Falls, only short dis
lance from Topeka, and of course am
anxious to see the state house finished.
l am in favor of having it done now if
the tax will not be too heavy on the peo-
pie these hard times"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
sENArE's MIG ar SESSION.
Considerable Business Transacted by Tia
Body Last Night.

Considerable Business Transacted by That
Body Last Night.
The senate held its first night session
of the year last night There was a quo
rum Notwithstanding the blizzard that
growied and clustered on the outside.
Altogether 45 bills were passed by the
committee of the whole, which reduces
the list under the head of general or
ders" on the senate calendar very mate
rally. The bills were all of local
character. Bills were recommended
regulating the fees and salaries of the
counties of Sumner, Dickinson, Mitchell,
Butler and Republic. The treasurer of
COffey county was authorized to deposit
the money of the county in local banks.
Metsker Place addition to Topeka was
vacated as well as additions to a dozen
other Kansas towns Jefferson county
was authorized to sell her poor asylum
in order to purchase new one. Inde-
pendence was allowed to purchase water
works. The names of seven or eight
persons were changed at their own re-
quest, aud about the same number were
allowed to exercise the rights of major
ity.
Political disabilities were removed
from several persons, and these, with the
vacating of one or two cemeteries and
giving Kansas City, Kansas, authority to
levy special tax of one mill to meet it's
deficiency in the school fund, represent
ed about all the bills passed on.
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Rev. S. B. Anderson, DIR. l. Ell. Mum
and Mr. r B. WEIGH, will speak to the
public on Physical Culture, Friday even
ing from 1880 to $50, when two OF the
classes give their work to the public
The entertainment is free.
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Attention Flambeauxl

Important meeting at the Court House
fought Don't fail.
o. Z. SWAYZE, Sec.
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Prescott 6 Co. have removed to No.
118 West Eighth street
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Attentfon FIamhe.

Attention Elambeaux!
Important meeting at the Court House
tonight Don't fail.
o. Z. BWAYzE, Sec.
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Buy the Light Running q

Topeka steam Laundry
625 Jackson street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07

Ss2 calls up the Peerless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
MIR. GLENN SEES THE Journal"


He Says He is Opposed to Pillorying the
Temperance Committee.
Mr. w NJ Glenn is a member of the
committee on temperance, also a mem
Der of the house of representatives of
the Kansas legislature by propitious out
come of an election contest If you visit
the house you will know Mr. Glenn is
there. You can't help it, he will impress
it upon you. The speaker is constantly
reminded that Greeley county is not IN
represented Mr.. Glenn pricks his
memory with harmless little points of
order so that he could not forget if he
would. But it was no such trifling mat
ter which disturbed the member from
Greeley yesterday. 1t was a question of
great dignity and Importance. 1t was a
thing which affected him personally. He
therefore in the midst of his numerous
risings, rose to a question of personal
privilege. His hair also stood up and
the curls Strengthened out His nous
tache bristled and every hair snapped
like fur rubbed on cold morning as he
said:
"Here is the STATE JOURNAL with big
head lines. 1t says the committee on
temperance is trying to wreck the pro-
hibitory law. want to say that is false.
The change in the law was made not tc
| wreck it but give it more force and
effect It will give it three times more
effect 'Pillory the men," read Mr..
Glenn. 81 am opposed to that" he STAN
mered, and with this revelation sal
The morning times., 1895-09-05
THE NIcARAGUA CANAL.

II is expected that the engineer com
mission recently returned from inspecting
the Nicaragua canal route VIII soon hand
in q report favorable to that project 1t
is said that the report viii include an
estimate Of the total cost Of the canal,
which sum is fixed at $4,000, 900, and
that the entire work of construction can
be completed in six or seven years. Nat
uraTy the report will be looked for with
considcrabl bl. interest, inasmuch asits recon-
mendations will largely influence Congress
sional action on bill making the Gov
ernmcnt responsible for the cost Of cou-
siruction.
When the Nicaragua canal was first
contemplated $4,000, coo was thought
TO bc sufficient to complete it, but later on
this amount was increased to 500, OO0, 600,
then to S73, coo 900, and finally to $780,
COO, 900 by The board OF consulting cngi-
neers. This last investigation seems TO
have given the estimate another boost,
and il is likely that S5O,OGO, GOO more
viii be needed 10 put the canal in sue
cessful operation if the project can be
completed a all for any sum OF money.
in his great argument in the last Con,
gress against the canal Senator Turpie
said that mo canal, with or without locks,
could be built and operated within the
region OF the tropical rain belt and its
torrent storms at any calculable cost OF
with any prospect OF commercially prof
liable returns. Nor could the earth ex.
cayated be used as in temperate climates
for banks and dams, because il would be
cracked 10y the sun and washed away by
torrents, and that the purchase and use
OF more durable material would be pro
hibited by the enormous expense"
Others have made equally as strong argu
menls against the canal from an engineer
ing standpoint, and TO say nothing Of the
rash policy Of binding a government tc
pay the debts OF a private enterprise,
there is good reason to believe that the
project will prove a failure.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
NO BASEMENT SCHOOLS.

Everybody must sympathize with and
commend the board of public school trus-
tees for cndeavoring to accommodate as
many children as possible and desiring
10 give them all a full days tuition.
Every one will also regret that there
should not be sufficient school facilities,
and OF the proper kind, for all the children
of the District without having resort to
basement rooms.
All the people, however, viii applaud
Health OFFICER Woodward for setting his
face sternly against the use OF such rooms
for school purposes. Neither ventilation
nor light is such in a basement as to
be other than detrimental 10 the health
Of pupils. Easements may do for play
rooms when the weather makes outdoor
recreation impracticable. For the pur-
pose OF teaching and being taught they
are worse than useless.
The alternative of basement rooms or
halliday sessions is not a pleasant one,
but it is infinitely preferable TO have
halliday session and have the children
breathe pure air and give them light Il a.
will not impair their eyes than 10 give
them full-day sessions and jeopa rdize
their health Defective schoolroums have
made too many invaiidS to add Ia their
number in Washington. There has been
an abundance of experience here in that
respect
Let the school board do the best it can
with the accommodations il has at its
disposal now, and when the next District
appropriation bill is before Congress an
amount ought To be put in for new school
for all children of school age at the
present time, but for at least ten years to
come That would be true economy.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
ATTAcKlNG THE TRUSTS.

II is positively exhilaTadng to find an
attorney general not only willing, but
anxious to attack a trust. 1t is not, OF
course, an attorney general OF the United
States, but perhaps the example Of the lesser
may serve 10 stimulate the greater The
attorney general of New York stands boldly
forth and calls upon the tobacco trust to
show cause why the permission granted
it TO do business ia that State should not
be rcvOsed.
The tobacco trust, or, as it calls itself
somewhat more euphemisticaly, the Amerrs
ican Tobacco Association, organized under
the laws of New Jersey, is the trust OF
trusts. Those that wish 10 buy it's product
must pledge themselves in writing not 10
handle any other manufacturers goods,
under pain Of losing the trusts. This, the
New York officer holds, is iD restraint Of
trade and therefore Illegal.
If The sole aim and purpose OF trusts, on
whatever any association OF manufacturers
may be called. were only to lessen the ex-
penses of operating, there might not be
any very serious objection TO them. But
the chief object OF ali the trusts organized
in the United States is 10 KIN off competition
and hence their course is opposed TO public
policy.
The outcome of the New York proceeding
The morning times., 1895-09-05
vooDoo DOCTOR ARRESTED.
Wore a Brass Badge on His Coat.
Lapel w hen 4 Apprehended.

Wore Brass Badge on His Coat
Lapel w hen Apprehended.
A queer looking colored man, seventy
nine years of age, who gave his name as
'.Dr." William Celin Brooks, was locked up
at No 4 police station last. evening by
Policeman Bowie, on the charge Of being
suspicious character.
The old man is n sort Of vOOdOo doc
tor, and makes medicines which he claims
viii cure any disease from toothache 10
galloping consumption or paresis.
When arrested near the James Greek
canal, Brooks had a large brass badge af-
fixed to the lapel OF his coat. which was
inscribed: Brooklyn, NJ d. S. E.
Upon being asked the meaning Of the
mysterious letters, Brooks replied:
"Oh, dem's de law in de State Oh Brook
lyn, what / wuks under when dar."
1t was stated that the doctors specially
is inflammatory rheumatism, also that he
received S13 from an old oolored woman
in the northwest section To furnish her
with his remedy for that evil. The old
W oman was in a bad way and died before
Brooks returned with the medicine. The
prisoner says he makes his remedies out
in the W oods where people cannot discover
his secrets. He viii be tried in the police
court this morning under the vaGrancy act
The morning times., 1895-09-05
T RICHARDSON.
oFEfCIALLAwLE.sNI:ss.

WcHmeaniBg citizens, familiar with the
methods of some Of our District officials,
are in hearty sympathy with the efforts
OF the New York board Of police commits
sioners to enforce law as they find it on
the statutes Official lawiessncss has be
come q national abuse. 1t permcates every
branch Of national. State. and local gov
crumcul, and, Notwithstanding the pledges
OF candidates before election, they almost
invariably wink al violations of The law
as public officials.
Take cur own local government. There
are eirhty-ouc immoral plague spots assem-
bled, in violation OF the law, in the most
Important section Of This city. This com
muEiJy of sin is bounded on one side by the
most beautiful park in the District, and
on ihe other 10y our principal business
street j is nurscd ard petted by those in
authority and pointed at by them as tho
one place where their power is supreme.
il exists as a moral charnel house forpublic
dcbauchcry by the authority OF officials
sworn 10 enforce the law, and now that boy
messengers are once more allowed 10 enter
its confines it is again a destroyer Of youth,
as well as a disgraccful illustration Of
official lawlessness.
For several months the public has been
4ntertaincd with mock attempts to enforce
3he law against the overhead trolley. The
prosecution was vigorous, uErc!cnting, and
apparently sincere until a decision Of the
court made il possible to remove the trolley
poles, wheE suddenly TIE authorities lost
interest in their efforts 10 do Their duty and
The trolley poles stand as another eEampleof
official IawlrssnesS. Hardly day passes
without its record OF Official turpitude,
and a striking Illustration of one Of these
eyasions Of duty was the exemption from
punishment Of Speak-casy Hall.
The time has come when the public must
cease TO Cordone official lawIessness If
laws are necessary in one instance they are
also important in all, and there should be no
distinction or discrimination, 10 prejudice
or fayors, ard they should be enforced
against all offenders alike Those Of our
District officials who have avoided doing
their duty may feel safe in the position
they have taken as protectors OF certain
classes Of offenders, but public sentiment is
against them and very soon they VIII feel
the weight Of its censUre.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
ONLY A FIFTY-DoLLAR BET.

The report that no larger wagers than
fifty dollars could be laid with the Dun
raven crowd on the supremacy of the Val
kyrie is enough to make an oyster turn in
its shen. Everybody supposed that the
ballast of the America cup Challenger
on her voyage across the ocean would be
English gold, and that it would be bet 50
freely on her taking the cup back to Eng
land that American sports would have Ia
violate the bond syndicate contract and
make run on The government treasury
TO secure money tu accept the wagerS, but
as there are only fifty dollars-Oh, my.
what a confoundcd disappointment.
There is 10 Use OF lamenung. Were we
to shout you dassent!" loud enough TO
frighten a street car those blasted Brit
ishers would keep their hands on their
pockets just the same. They know a good
ming when they see il, and their eyes have
been fixed on tie Defender ever since she
touched the water. They have seen her
skim the briHy deep like yacht that knew
something about racing, and as she skipped
from wave 10 wave they nave always felt
ike braCiug-someJhing besides the main
sheet of the VaIkyrie.
II the Defender can only break her rec
ord for mishapS, and make these cup races
without breaking snnleof her gearing, there
is every prospect that she viii not only
break the yacht racing record, but also the
bank accounts Of The people who wager
against her, and possibly the hearts OF the
Dunravcn crowd. when that is done all
the Anglo-An4erican newspapers that are
now cFoaking ab Gt The Defender VIII print
columns of Il told you so" editorials.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
SHYLOCK In A new ROLE
Now He Appears as an Insurance
Writer With Fair Exterior.
Nevertheless a Lady Who Was In
Paid 90 Per Cent Interest.

There is brand new kink in Shyl0CkIsn
as a fine art which has been discovered by
The Times Bureau Of Legal Advice. The
discovery was made through the complaint
OF lady who has been paying an exorbi-
tant tribute to what appears to be anaIeged
insurance company.
This company, which does business on
F street near Twelfth, is a money-Iending
concern in addition to the insurance
business, but the insurance is evidently
the minor consideration 1t accepts its
policies as the security for money, the loan
being made OF a low rate OF interest
Mrs. A, for instance, got insured, and,
as she was informed that money could be
borrowed on her policy. she did not observe
that the premiums she paid were four or
five times that of an ordinary Insurance
policy. When she got her money. S65, she
was made TO assign her policy 10 the mOCey-
lenders-that is. the insurance company.
As the interest on the note was at the
rate of only six per cent, she thought she
had a good thing, considering the twenty
per cent per month OF the ShyIuCEs recently
exposed in The Times.
She soon learned. however, that she was
in reality paying twenty percent per month
for the money, OF more exactly about four
teen per cent per month, excluding q fair
rate OF insurance.
She talked this matter over with some
friends, two of whom Were quite sym
pathetic, as they were in the same box.
Their policies had been assigned and their
premiums and low rate of interest were
setting them back $50 u month on their
loans.
The next step was to make an investiga-
ton and that is now in progress. One
of the ladies laid the case before The Times
bureau last week, and there will, in all
probability, be an expose, and another
public salutary lesson for these people
who take advantage of the ignorance or
| necessities of poor class of clients
The extent of this business Will also be
exposed as the one instance III the case
of Newman brought TO light hundreds OF
cases Ill which he and Others had been doing
this illegal business.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
CARRIERS CONVENTION.
Salary Question Finally Settled IL II

Salary Question Finally Settled IL the
Sat is faction of All.
Philadelphia, Sept. An the afternoon
the letter carriers convention again took up
the salary question. The Dunphy bill was
fully indorsad, the second class carriers
Withdrawing their objections.
Resolutions We're presented which prnvid-
ed for petitioning the Department to per-
nit thecarriers to wear uniform uf lighter
weight during the heated t"rm, and to
allow them $50 per year each fnr swo uni
forms
The morning times., 1895-09-05
WILL VISIT HARTFORD.

Gov. Mckinley WIN Accompany the
Cleveland Centennial Committee.
Hartford, Ct, Sept. 4.-Mayor Braincrd
received alctterfromD Director General
NJ. Day, of the Cleveland Centennial com
mitee this afternoon, announcing that Gov.
Mckinley had consented TO come to Hart
:Ord with the party ana II was probable that
the other distinguished visitors would in
clude Senators Sherman ana BriCe, Gen.
Bushnell and exGov. Campbell.
There would be about fifteen in the party,
They would reach this city on the night Of
September "a, and leave the following
night. No elaborate reception was de-
sired.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
NEW LINE To NORFOLK.
steamer City of Richmond VIII Make
Regukr Trips.

steamer CITY OF RtC CnuloIHl w III Ntdhe
Regular Trips.
After the most successful season ever
known at Colonial Beach Manager Cole
grove has decided TO iuaugurate series
OF cheap excursions to Fortress Monroe,
NorfoIk and the Capes.
After being thoroughly overhauled the
palatial steamer City of Richmond viii
be placed on this run She leaves Wash
ingtOn Saturdays at 6 p. m, arriving in
Norfolk at $50 a. m; leaving for the
Capes at 10 a. m, thereby giving the
passengers a four hours sail o n the \ Atlan-
tic. Returning via NorfoIk and Fortress
Monroe, she will arrive home by $50 a. m.
the following Monday
This viii certainly be delightful excur
sion, a nj viii dOubtlesSly be largely patron
ized. By this schedule passengers win
have an opportunity OF spending the day
at Fortress Monroe or Virgi MIA Beach and .
sail on the Attn ntic is an inducement that
no other excursion line offers.
The Richmond has nearly 100 StaterOOmS
and a n nunsurpasSable cuisine. The1ow ratio
of 50 for the round trip is reasonaIf
enough TO guara ntee the success of this tria
The morning times., 1895-09-05
OPPOSE CHEAP LABOR.

Dominion Labor Congress- Wants
Chinese Pon Tax Raised
London, Sept. 4.-The Dominion Labor
Congress, at its session to-day, passed
resolution calling on the government to
further restrict immigration Of cheap labor
from China by raising the poll 54X $500.
The present school system in Canada was
also condemned as unsatisfactory and the
congress Will petition the different provin-
cial governments to remedy the evil by
Introducing free, compulsory and non-sec-
tartan schools for all classes.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
- Q ---------
wREATHS OF REMEMBRANCE.

Germa n-A mericanS Strew Flowers
ON Sarcopiiagl of Two Emperors.
Berlin. Sept 4-The German-Amercan
veterans OF the war Of 1S7O-71 to-day
placed wreaths upon the sarcophagi OF
Emperor William l and of Emperor Fred
eriCk III
They also visited the castles and Pots
dam, where they saw the palaceInd gardens
OF Sans-Souci. with the wonderful foun
tains and the historical windmill which
its owner refused to sell TO Frederick the
Great when he was planning his pleasure
grounds
The morning times., 1895-09-05
A POINT GAINED.

The Northeast Citizens Association has
finally succeeded in compelling the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company TO guard
part Of its track crossings after 8 O'clock
at night, although the work is carelessly
done, as will be seen by our news columns.
An effort should be made to abolish the
use of street crossings to ma Ike up trains,
and if possible the company should be
obliged 10 establish a yard To do its switch
ing outside the city limits.
1t is reported that the Baltimore and
OHIO company made u contract with JEFF
ferson Council No. 100, 1. o. F. NJ, TO
carry an-eXcursion To Harpers Ferry at
reduced rates, and when the day of the
excursion arrived the company refused TO
live up TO its contract Or make any CON
cession from the regular fare. Such an
arbitrary, unfair policy can not fail to
create dissatisfaction, and some time in
the future the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
may find reason TO regret its seIfishness.
The morning times., 1895-09-05
LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION.

The Times Leads Its Contempo-
raTieS.
Last Saturday the Star announced that
its aggregate weekly circulation OF l79, 1892
was larger than the combined circulation
OF all the other Washington dailics- During
the same week The Times published and
sold 10 bona fidc purchasers 204oss news
papers. or 24.696 more copies Than were
sold by The Star Following is q sworn
statement OF The Times circulation for
last week, and If any person doubts its
geuuincress our circulation books are open
10 inspection.
District Oi Columbia, IS.
On the third day OF September, in the
wear OF our Lord one thousand elCat hundred
and ninoty-five, before me, Ernest q.
THOMPSON. notary public IN and Tor salu
District, personally appeared {. T Rich
ardson and made oath IN due form OF law
as follows.
CIRCULATION OF THE WASHINGTON
The morning times., 1895-09-05
SAILS FOR HOME.

Chinese Missionary who Barely Es-
capped the Mob Coming Back.
Boston. Sept A cablegram from Foo
Chow gives the information that Mis- Mabel.
Hartford, who barely escaped tie fury of the
recent mob at Ku Chong, sailed for America
on September /
Miss Althea Todd and Miss Miranda
Croachcr, missionaries of the n f Church,
viii start for China Monday, going by the
way of Canadian Pacific. Miss Todd is
under appointment for Ku Cheng