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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
RESIGN INSTANTER.
A Row in the Harrison TeIe-
phone Company.
Sim Bear and A. K. Rodgers
Resign Today.
HAS BEEN TROUBLE
HAS BEEN TROUBLE
For Some Time With Simon
Greenspan and Others.
c. A. Tomlinson Buys the Stock
Of Both Men.

A. Z. Rodgers, president, and s. J..
Bear, secretary and general manager of
the Harrison Telephone company, today
resigned their positions with the com
pany, and sold their stock to C. A. Tom
linson, another member of the company
The designations ars the result of dis
agreement about the management of
the company between the officers and
Mr.. Tomlinson and Simon Greenspan,
who holds large block of the stock of
the concern.
The trouble is not of recent date
Several times before Mr. Bear has
threatened to resign but was always pre-
vailed upon to remain with the company.
However today a crisis was reached
which led to his resignation to take
effect Immediately and tomorrow he will
leave the employ of the company.
There is a difference of opinion about
the real cause of the disagreement for
the persons concerned will say nothing
except that there was a disagreement of
some kind. The truth is, however, es
gathered on the outside, that Mr.. Bear
was in favor of branching out, making
extensions and improvements whic n
Simon Greenspan opposed. This led to
the resignation of Mr.. Bear and Mr..
Rodgers The disagreement was about
a question of policy.
General Manager Bear was found in
his office at the telephone headquarters
"Yes," said he, ''it ID true that Mr..
Rodgers and l have resigned The resig
nations are tho result of disagreements
betwe en- US and Mr.. Greenspan and Mr.
Tomlinson, aud there is nothing else con-
cerned in the matter. / leave the com
pany today and have sold my stock t 0
Mr. Tomlinson. Mr.. Rodgers has also
sold his stock
II shall not leave the telephone bust
ness l intend to leave Topeka to organ
ize companies in the various cities in the
state and l shall continue in this line of
work, but my connection with this COM
pany terminates today. | have taken
great pride in it, and hate to leave it, but
it is better to go than to bo continually
quarreling, and l will not quarrel.
hope the company will continue to pros
per-"
Simon Greenspan said: This is pri-
vate matter and the public should not
know about the particulars, but it is true
that Mr. Bear and Mr Rodgers have re-
signed and we have bought their stock,
but Mr.. Rodgers will remain with
the company. The truth is
that Mr. Bear is not the man
to manage a company like this and we
had to buy his stock to get him out.
"We can not tell what will De done IN
til we can have a meeting of the direct
ors and this Will be held in fow days."
The change will not affe ct the COM
DanY in aQV WaV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
STARTS HIS BOOM.
Mr.. Allison Enters the Presi-
Dental Field AggreSsively.
He Will Work the West, Clark
son the East.
BEGINS IN CHICAGO.
A Combination With Ea stern
Reed Men is Planned.
If Reed Fails Twill be Allison
and McAlpin.

CHICAGO, Nov 12.-The Times Herald
today prints the following:
Senator VIM. B. Allison, candidate for
the Republican nomination for president
of the United States, will start his boom
in Chicago today. He enters the field
aggressivelv, asking the support of
western men, while his friend and fell
low statesman, Jas. S. Clarkson, is work.
ing for his interests in the east.
Mr.. Allison comes to Chicago in COM
pany with General Henderson of Du-
buque. leader in the house of repre-
sentatives and one of the foremost Re-
publicans in the country. General Hen
derson's appearance in Chicago with Al
lison is significant. 1t may be taken to
mean that the distinguished Iowans are
here to receive callers
Senator Allison's lieutenants, accord
ing to information received by the Times
Herald, are endeavoring to perfect a
com binaticn, of which the details are all
planned, and which may meet the favor
able attention of the Republican leaders
in the eastern states now supposedly COM
mitted to the candidacy OF Thomas B.
Reed, in the event that Reed fails to get
the nomination.
This plan. which it is said upon good
authority Clarkson is engineering, has
for its object the nomination af Allison
for president and of Gen. McAlpin of
New YORK for second place on the
ticket Iuner circles have for some
time been aware that a move of this
kind was on foot, and last month
when Gen. McAlpin was in Chicago to
attend the meeting of the executive COM
Inittee of the National league of the Re-
peblican clubs of which he was elected
president at Cleveland last summer, he
was questioned about it.
To this question he made no reply,
either to affirm or deny, and left the
curiosity seekers more convinced than
befors that there was good deal in IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
COAL COMBINE FORMING.
All Soft Coal Dealers Preparing to Con.
troll and Advance Prices.

All Soft Coal Dealers Preparing to Con-
troll and Advance Prices.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12-Coal men in
this city confirm the report from Phila-
delphia of closely approaching COM
pletion of combination, on the tonnage
basis, of practically all the soft coal
operators of central and western Penn
sylvania.
1t is thought that possibly the combi-
nation will be followed by an interstate
agreement which will include Indiana,
Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and West
Virginia. A scarcity of bituminous coal
is reported from nearly all the districts
with strong advancing market.
The Pennsylvania district has hitherto
been regarded by the operators as the
main disturbing element in the coal sit
uation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
GOLD RESERVE MENACED
Treasury Officials Fear Another Run on
the Treasury Has Begun.

Treasury Officials Fear Another Run on
the Treasury Has Begun.
WASHINGTON, Nov. IA feeling of
disQuiet again pervades the treasury de-
partment. The unweicome intelligence
was received yesterday afternoon that
W. II. Crossman 81 Bros. had withdrawn
$1,000, 900 from the sub-treasary at New
York Tor shipment to Europe today by
the steamer Spree.
There are grave apprshensions among
the officials here that this may be but
the forerunner of other heavy exporta-
tions which may seriously reduce the
government reserve, which at best it
seems impossible to maintain at the
100000, ,00J mark. The last withdrawal
prior to this occurred on September 27,
when the reserve stood at $92, 100000
While there is Discrimination at the
treasury department to discuss the mat
ter, it is fully appazent that they appre-
ciate the gravity of the situation, the
gold reserve, under the present financial
system, being absolutely at the mercy of
exporters at any time it may suit their
convenience to make a raid upon the
treasury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
ROBBERS GET $4,000.
Tho Wells-FnrgO Ofioe at Colorado
Springs is PIiIudered.

Tho Wells-FnrgO Ofioe at Colorado
Springs is PIiludered.
COLORADO SYRINGE Colo, Nov. 12.-
The Office of the Wells Fargo Express
company at the Santa Fe depot was rob-
bed at 10 o'clock last night of 5000
The Wells-Fargo Express company
ment regarding the robbery:
Twenty thousand dollars was sent
from Denver to the First National bank
of Colorado Springs early in the after
noon. The money was in currency of
small denominations and was received
about o'clock and too late to be deliver
ed to the bank
The package containing the money
WAS placed in the depot safe and both
doors locked. There was nothing to in
dicate its value Evidently the thieves
know of its existence.
when train No. 6 came in about 9:43
there were other packages aboard with
currency to the amount of $35,000 con-
signed to the same bank.
'These packages were delivered
to the agent and placed in
the safe with the other After
the train had departed the agent.
George Krout, went to the platform to
straigh hten the trucks which were stand
ing there aud when he returned to the
office he was met at tho door by two
masked men with drawn revolvers. The
package containing the $4,000 was de-
manded and the agent was compelled to
open the safe and give it up. The agent
said nothing about the remaining pack
ages and the robbers left Immediately"
Two blood hounds were put on the
trail. and it was found the men had gone
along Pixies Peak avenne through the
heart of the city. On the theory that
they would 90 to Cripple Creek over the
Cheyenne mountain road. posse started
from that city to hessd flaen off
The depot agent was not 100 yards
away from Krout, while the robbery
was being committed, out he did not SEQ
the robbers, and knew nothing about the
matter until informed by Krout.
The express company's officials be-
lieve that the robbery was committed by
a ]. Gray alias Sam Wells, and J. G.
Stuart alias c. J. Starr who were arrested
for the theft of $4,000 from the express
wagon at Cripple Creek April II, and
who recently in company with Tom
MCCARTHY escaped from tho Jail in this
city.
R. T. Montgomery, who was prisoner
at the time OF the escape, notified the
police at Denver several days ago that
Gray and Stuart plotted when in jail to
rob the express company again.
The officials of the company believe
that the robbers had an accomplice in
the bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
SANTA FE MEETING
The Directors Assemble in New York To
day to Choose q President.

DAY Co LhoOso PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, Nov. 12-The reorgani-
cation committee of the Atchison, To-
peka s. Santa Fe Railroad company met
in this city today to name the officers and
directors of the new company.
1t has not been decided yet who is to
be selected as president. Tho most
prominent candidates are, E. T. Jeffrey,
now president of the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad company, and D. B.
Robinson, who has been acting president
of the Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe
since the resignation of j. W. Reinhart
Mr.. jeffrey has the support of some
of the foreign interests, but Dir. Robin
son, partly on account of his many
friends and his familiarity with the sys-
tenn, is preferred by American security
holders
Mr.. Robinson was born in Vermont in
1S47 and has been in railway service since
1856. He became general manager of
the Sonora railroad in Mexico in 1850 and
since that time his service has been with
roads in the southwest part of the time
with the Atlantic 6 Pacific and the Colo
RADIO Midland. He has been first vice
president of the Atchison system since
March, 1898,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
FORCE FOR TURKEY.
Powers Have Decided No to BE MOcked
Any Longer.


Any Longer.
Copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press.I
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 12.-Each day
shows the situation of affairs here to be
growing more threatening.
The porte today replying to the identi-
cal notes of the am bassadors of Germany,
Austria and Italy, simply said that in-
formation regarding the scheme for re-
form in Armenia would be forwarded to
the representatives of the powers "with-
out delay"
In other words these three ambassa-
dors at least have obtained no satisfac-
ton at all. 1t is not yet known if the
notes of the ambassadors of Great
Britain, Russia, and France have been
replied to, but it is presumed that they
were also assured that their requests
would be complied with "without de-
lay"
The action of the sultan in sanctioning
the official note issued yesterday ex-
pressing to Abdul Hamid thanks for the
energetic measures taken by the i'm
perial authorities" in "suppressing" the
disturbances in Asia minor, looks like
mocking the ambassadors.
1t was stated this afternoon in European
official circles that joint course of ac-
ton involving a display of naval and
possibly military force has already been
decided upon.
A prominent member of the diplomatic
corps was quoted today as saying that
''the end of all this business is fast ap.
preaching"
1t is understood that the powers have
at last decided that further identical
notes" or other such communications are
useless in the case of Abdul Ramid. and
that only prompt and efficient military
action is likely to have any influence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
WHY THEY DIDN'T FIGHT.
Mayor Iugraham of Vyestport. Prevented
the Hall Purten Mill.

KANSAS CITY, No. Nov. 12.-Paddy
Purtell and Jack Hall were to have met
at FIELDS park in fifteen round go last
night, but the mayor of Westport willed
it otherwise. The managers of the fight
had been given to understand that there
would be no interference if the fight was
brought off quietly, but those who gave
assurance reckoned without consulting
Mayor Ingraham.
When the mayor heard of the assem-
bling of the crowd at the park, he at
once dispatched Marshal Morrison and
the entire police force of the city of
Westport to the scene, and when they
arrived they quickly gave the sports to
understand that there would be no battle.
The crowd of sports, numbering fully
200, hung around the pavilion for half
an hour in hope that the fight might in
some way be brought off, but at last
they were forced to give it up and re-
turn to the city. 1t is thought that the
men will arrange to meet in some more
secluded spot within the next few days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
FINAL FIGURES.
Invaluable Statistics About the
Kansas Corn Crop
Furnished by State Secretary OF
Agriculture COburn.
YIELD is 2O1,OOO,OOO
Bushels Valued at Thirty-Seven
Cents Per Bushel.
CompleteList Of KansasC Counties
and Their Yield.

The state board of agriculture Issued
today its final crop bulletin for the year,
in which the item of foremost interest is
of course that showing the yield of corn
It will be somewhat disappointing to
those who have not revised their esti-
mates made in June or early July and
largely justified by the conditions pre-
vailing at that time; also to those who
in the face of facts plain to the careful,
unbiased observer have loudly
insisted that the output would
be double what the men who
raised and who are harvesting it-and
who of all others must know-now de-
clare. This, however, need not suggest
that Kansas has not great aggregate of
corn; more with one exec ption than any
previous year Of her enormous crops and
more than ia needed to handsomely
maintain her proud position as one of the
four banner corn states of the world. The
total product is 2O1, 457. 396 bushels, an
average yield on the entire area planted
(6,394S7 acres) of twenty-four bush
els per acre. The average price OF
corn for the year is given as % cents per
bushel, and the price at which 1t Is being
sold or contracted (delivered) now in the
principal corn counties ranges from 16 to
81 cents, and averages IS cents, Thirty
three per cent of the crop is reported as
likely to be disposed of at the latter
average by the close of the present year.
The quality is reported good, with occa-
sional exception of some molding in the
shuck, attributed by correspondents to
wet weather in August
The following table shows the total
yield of corn by counties:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
MAY BE RUFUS PECkHAH
He is Said to BE CIeveland's Choice for
Supreme Court Vacancy.

He is Said to BE Cleveland'R Choice for
Supreme Court Vacancy.
WASHINGTON, Nov 12-There was a
gathering of prominent politicians at the
office of The secretary of war yesterday
which attracted some attention here
Among the most conspicuous were Sen
ators Hill and Murphy of New
York and Gray of Delaware
with, of course, Secretary Lamont
The conference lasted for more than
an hour and was behind closed doors
Suspicion is strong that the condition of
the Democratic party throughout the
country was discussed and also the ex-
listing vacancy on the supreme bench.
The gossip now is that Judge Rufus
Peckham of the New York court OF ap-
peals will be Dir. Cleveland's probable
selection for the supreme court vacancy.
judge Peckham is a brother of Wheeler
II. Pt ok ham, who was rejected by the
senate for the supreme court last winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
IN BLACK FOR HIS CAT
Dick Wilmington With His Pup Has
Reached Chicago.

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Dick Within gton,
in black for his cat, but accompanied by
bull terrier. and trundling a wheel
barrow, reached Chicago last night.
Wilmington, whose real name is VIM
II. Bourne, left San Francisco April to
wheel a wheelbarrow around the world
within three wears on a wager, he says,
of $4,000. When he left San Francisco
he carried as companions cat and bull
terrier pup. The cat died just as the trio
reached the Kansas line.
Wilmington reached Chicago twelve
days ahead of time. He carries with him
book containing the signatures of post
masters of all towns on the route He
will leave Chicago Wednesday for Cleve-
land He expects to reach Boston in
March,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
OUR VILLAGE CUSTOM
Of Smothsring Everybody With the
Smoke of Dead Lpaves.

OF SmothsrIng Everybody With the
Smoke of Dead Lpaves.
In a shroud as of midnight the city lay buried;
In fog that made black as funeral pail;
In smoke that might come from ten thousand
volcanoes;
The city lay smothered,-and that isn't all,
In dim disk above shown the sun of the noon
day;
Peop.e with lanterns moved slowly about,
Wet sponge TO their nostrils, transacting their
business
With door tightly battened to keep the smoke
Z" This smokes simply awful, =" they said to their
neighborS;
90 But hardly surprising at this time of year y
The folks in the darkness smashed into each
other
And flushed smut from their faces with smoke
tortured tear.
You know if you ever have lived in Topeka
In autumn there's naught IN this tale that
deceiveS.
This smoke doesn't come from ten thousand
YOIcanOeS--
It's simply the autumnal urning of leaves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
Il. or L. AND P0PULIsTs.

The Attitude of the Labor Order Toward
That Party to be Discussed.
WASHINGTON, Nov. .12.-The nineteenth
annual convention of the general as
sembly Knights of Labor will begin
here today.
One of the important subjects to be
discussed at the convention will be the
attitude of members of the order toward
political parties during the next national
campaign.
While the Populists have embodied
many of the principles of the Knights
in their platform, the latter think that in
view of their voting strength, the recog-
milton should go further.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
MORMONS DRIVEN OUT.
Two Elders Ridden Out of the State in
West Virginia.

ASHLAND, Ky, Nov. IA special
from White Post. Pixies county. states
that two Mormon elders were taken from
a church Sunday and ridden out of the
state to West Virginia. The elders have
been working West Virginia for some
time, crossing the river in defiance of
the warnings of the farmers and were
exhorting a large congregation to accept
the Mormon faith when they we're as
saulted by band of men who rode them
out of the state, but subjected them to
no other indignities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12

The total yield of winter wheat
amounts to 15,512,241 bushels on the
4,056.514 acres sown. or 3,179, ,9OS bushels
more than the growers at the beginning
Of harvest estimated for the acreage
then regarded rs likely worth cutting.
This would indicate that they finally
harvested considerably more than had at
first seemed of value, which gave them
moro. wheat, although cutting the Iarge-
acreage lowered the average for all tn a
acres. OF spring wheat the yield was
4SS,S19 bushels on 115,457 acres sowp.
Only sc per cent of the wheat is re-
ported as strictly merchantable for mill
ing purposes, and the average price now
ruling at the nearest milling or shipping
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
ONE OFTHE CAPITAL SUITS
The Merriam Mortgage to lie FORMALLY
ForecIosed Previously Stated.

Tho Merr1sn m hIoFFtsass TO 10 HormaIIy
ForecIosed AS Previously Stated.
suit for foreclosure of mortgage on
the Daily Capital has been filed in the
district court The mortgage is for So
500, and was given by J. K. Hudson on
March IA, 1887, to c. W. Ament, and since
that time the interest has been paid to
March II. 1895, and So has been paid on
the principal.
The mortgage has since been trans
ferred to the Northfeld National bank,
of N orthfleld, Vermont, aud the action is
brought by E. B. Merriam. in his own
name, as agent for the bank. The petit
ton names as joint defendants and own
ers of the Capital, c. c. Baker, Mrs. P. B.
Plumb, ]. R Mulvane, and the Topeka
Capital company. The note accompany
ing the mortgage was to have been paid
in 40 days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
BUFFALO BILL A WITNESS.
subpOeuaed to Testify in the Could
ZeiIa NicoInus Case.

New YORK, Nov 12.-Counsel for
Geo. J. Gould. has served notice on coun-
sci for Mrs. Zella Nicholas Ruhman in
her $4,000 suit against Gould, that evil
dence concerning her would be taken in
Chicago on November 20. in Cincinnati
December ?, and in Wabash December
4th.
Twenty witnesses have been subpoen-
aed for these hearings. Among them
are Col. W. F. Cody, or Buffalo Bill'';
Nate Salisbury and Alfred c. Trude,
prosecutor Of the pleas OF Cook county,
Illinois.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
FLOUR WAR IN CHICAGO.
Wholesale Grocsrs Cut Prices Against
Washburn-Crosby Co.

CHICAGO, Nov IA local paper says:
"Growing out of an attempt on the
part of a majority of the wholesale
grocers in this city to form a combina-
ton with the big northwestern millers, a
-four war has broken out. Prices on the
leading brands have been cut sharply by
the local grocers.
Last week the Washburn- Crosby Co.
was approached by representatives of
a "limited price" on flour.
The Washburn- Crosby Co. refused to
go into the combination. Thereupon
the grocers who were working for the
new plan retaliated by cutting prices on
other brands of -four.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
THE NJ. S. EVANS FAILURE.
A Chicago Clothing Firm Say in Court he
Was Only Their Agent.

Was Only Their Agent.
The failure of the North side clothing
merchant M. S Evans, was up in the dis
trict court today. The Citizsns' bank of
North Topeka TOOK possession of the
stock on first mortgage OF 81, 100 last
winter. There are other mortgages and
creditors. Among them is Straus, Gla-
zer & Co.. clothing manufacturers of
Chicago.
The firm claims that most of Evans
goods which were taken under the mort
gage were simply consigned to him, that
he was selling them on commission and
remitted Immediately for all sales made
Iuasmuch as Evans did not own the
stock any mortgage which he might give
upon it would be void, thev say
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
Annual Raee BoII meeting,

NEW YORK, Nov. 12-Ihe annual fall
meeting of the national base ball league
will take place tomorrow at the Fifth
Avenue hotel Chris Won der Abe of
st. Louis reached Philadelphia last night
on his way here. He is said to be in
favor of the double umpire project. but
decidedly opposed to the proposed aboli-
ton of the coaching rules.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
WHISKY EASY TO GET.
This is the Same Kind of = Story
Every Day, Now.

Their is mother and her children in
the country looking in vain for the re-
turn of F. RappolL He can't go home
because he is in the city prison. He came
to the city yesterday, got drunk, and fell
out of his wagon last night in North
Topeka.
He was not hurt except for bruise on
his head. It happened at IL o'clock. He
was driving around trying to find road
which led out of town. His team and
wagon were put in livery stable by the
officers, and Rappold will be tried this
afternoon for drunkenness.