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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

all on themselves and mustn't blame
me-. :"
HAS anything happened?" asked the
officer, though betraying but little anxi-
city.
ssHas anything happened?'' repeated
the broad backed young man with an
early crop of freckles On his face.
swell, I should gurgle that there hadi
suppose / look sorter hay seedy, don't
I?''
..well, yes. you have a look that
way
IF you were bunko man, you'd grin
with delight at sight of me, wouldn's
you?''
81 guess ahouldi'' laughed the off,
Ger.
ssWe11, you'd make the mistake of
your life, old mani I'm from the turnip
patch, but / know all about the little
game of bunko had only left the train
when five bunko steerers tackled me-
and we hadn't gone two blocks when
six more came up. / give EN- fair
warnin. and then pitched in. Sayi That
was a tripper of row while it lasted.
''But you licked the II, I suppose?'
ST did I left 'em down here on
corner pll0Q up 41k0 50 uucu COEuWOOus
My shoulder is a leetIe lame with strik-
in, but otherwise don't feel any bad
effects. l suppose the city will bury
them that were ki11ed?''
''Oh, certainly"
''And the injured will go to the hos
pital for repairs. If you see a reporter,
give him the news. Ihave to go now. "
whats your hurry?"
"Ohi want to walk around and
have somebody take me for a soft mark
and try the three card monte game on
me- You'd take me fer sucker
wouldn t your
81 certainly should :"
''Well, you'd be climbin the wrong
gooseberry bushi I'm right on to the
games and rackets. from double headed
cent to a prize package, and can't be
fooled want TO lay out about ten other
rascals before bedtime, and if / meet
you agin III give you the particulars.
So long, old man. Don't disturb the
hayseed on my hat or ask me to get rid
of The smell of onions. for L m an inno-
cent young man who was never away
from his ma beforel''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
A -Four. Winged FROG.

The curiosity OF tropical Africa is
the wonderful flying frog, first de-
scribed by Bishon, of the Equatorial
African Expedition, which returned to
Europe in the fall of 1894. This oddly
Of the reptile family is about the size
Of a common bullfrog and resembles
other members of the order of batra-
chians in everything but its feet, each
of which is webbed and enormously en-
larged, SO much SO as to form splendid
substitutes for true wings. The crea-
ture has five toes on each of the other
two, which make four separate mem
branes on each : of its hind feet and
three on each fore foot, or fourteen in
all. In his description of it BishoF
says: Each leg terminates in a sort of
fan, and with these the little reptile
paddles the air like a locust, or like
a partially fedged bird testing its PIN
ions for the first time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Dzs MONIES, Iowa, Sept 1.-THE
United States Association Of Veter n
airy Surgeons elected officers yesterday.
They are: President, w. H Hoskins of
Philadelphia; vice presidents, T. Fl. Os-
good of Boston; R. Il. Harrison of
Atchison, Kan, and c. c. Lyford of
Minneapolis; secretary. S. Stewart of
Kansas City; treasurer. J. L. Robinson
of New York. The day was devoted
to discussions of tuberculosis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
PYTHlAN WOUNDS HEALED
Estranged Factions in the cOlored Lodges
May Reunite.

Estranged Factions in the colored Lodges
May Reunite
ST. LOUIS, No., Sept. 12.-The SUI
preme lodge. Co1ored Knights of
Pythias, continued it's session yester-
day, and elected the following officers:
Supreme chancellor, James C. Ross,
Savannah, Ga; supreme vice ehancel-
.1or, S. W. Starts, West Virginia; SUI
preme master of exchequor, DR.. j. H.
Young, Arkansas; supreme keeper of
records and seals, C. Z. Robinson of
Missouri; supreme lecturer, Il. W.
Smith, Washington, D. c.; supreme
master at arms. J. L. Tuggie of Ala
bama; supreme inner guard, w. w.
Plumb of Kansas; supreme outer
guard, G. B. Golden of ohio.
Reunion with the Mitchell faction,
which withdrew two years ago elect
ing supreme officers of its own. was
taken up at the afternoon session.
The reports of the joint committees
were received and action favoring re-
union taken. This will increase the
membership to about 1000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
BALD Is KING OF THEM ALL
He lyon the Mile Open for Glass 3 at
the Big Springfield Meet.

bne AS1S SpF1ngHel0 meet
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 12.-Yes-
terday was the first day OF racing at
the Springfield Bicycle Club meeting
and 5000 people were present. The
weather could not have been better
with no breeze stirring.
A. w. Porter was the winner of the
five mile handicap in the remarkable
time of 1874 2-5, breaking the profess
sional record for that distance is sec
onds. In the one mile professional
class, Sanger won easily from Tyler,
with Coleman and Baker close to the
second man.
Bald proved himself the fastest rider
in the country. and captured the one
mile open in burst of speed that left
the pacing tandem behind. He fin
ished three lengths away from Cooper
and Cabanne, who had both passed
Gardiner in the stretch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

WHLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE
Democratic state convention adjourned
last night after making these nomina-
tions: For state treasurer, ex-Con-
gresham Benjamin r Meyers of Har-
risburg, by acclama eion; for judges of
the superior court, Harmon Yerkes of
Bucks county, J. S. Moorehead of
Westmoreland, G. e. Noyes OF Warren,
P P. Smith of Lackawanna. Oliver P.
Bectchel of Schuyl kill and Christopher
Magee of Allegheny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Lynched in Arkansas.

OscEoLA. Ark. Sept. 12.-Mrs. Rnea,
living on a farm twenty-five miles
north of here, was murdered yesterday
by two negroes. VIII Caldwell and an
old man. who were working for her,
and VI hose object was robbery. Cald
well was arrested. confessed and was
taken from the officers and hanged to
tree. The old man was also caught,
and by this time has probably been
lvuched
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Died of yellow Fever.

WASHING ToN, Sept. I2.-The state
depar tment received ca biegram last
night from Vice Consul Dawson, at
San Salvado as follows: Consul
Munchmeyer died to-day of yellow
fever; his wife attacked with same
disease" He was appointed February
last from West Virginia. His prede-
cessor, Consul Pollock, also died of
fAver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

CENTRALIA, Mo-, Sept. 12.-The trial
of the negro, Charles Marion, for at
tempted assault, was set for yesterday.
but fearing mob violence the officers
would not ssume the risk. Quite a
number of Boone and Galloway county
farmers were here, many of them
armed. and it is reported that a large
body of men are marching to Column
bia with the determination to take
Marion out of jail and hang him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

NEW YORK, Sept. I2.-Henry NJ.
Stanley, M. P, but better known as
the African explorer, arrived on the
steamer Majestic yesterday. In an in
terview he said: my only reason for
coming over at this time is to visit the
great British Northwest territory.
which have never seen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Want Cubans Recognized.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept. 1.-THE
Jacksonville board Of trade yesterday
adopted resolutions dec airing that the
time has come for the United States
government to recognize the Cuban
revolutionists as betligerents, and re-
questing the Florida senators and rep
resentatives to usa every means to
bring about such recognition as soon
as possible after the assembling Of
congress-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
re slew Eleven Bunko Men.

sAny reports of a tragedy around
here this afternoon?'' asked the broad
backed young man Of a policeman he
encountered at the corner of Jefferson
avenue and Brush street last evening.
Haven't heard of any, was the re-
ply.
tsMebbe their bodies haven't bin
found yit, but it'll probably be in the
papers in the morning. They brung it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Thonght well al Tt.

eyes, she faltered, 81 am thine. -
As she spoke the rich blood suffused
her check.
He saw it.
Rich, = ne muttered bitterly, ''but
plebeian.
Nevertheless he closed the deal.-De-
troit Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Anarchists of All Countries.

LONDON, Sept. IA Berlin corre-
spondent says rumors are current that
the anarchists of all countries Will
hold meeting in London in October
and will come to an agres ment regard
ing the common agitation for fund
to support the needs of the members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept l2.-The SUI
preme court of Foresters took final
action on the question of changing
the name of the order. ard it now
stands the Order of Foresters of
America. The word ancient was
dropped because the organization is
American, and America is not ancient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
A UNIT FOR M'KINLEY.
Ohio's Delegation VIII Be Solid For the
Great Apostle of Protection.

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Sept. lathe
political sensation OF to-day is he
comments made among polite ans
upon the pronounced utterance Of
Governor Mckinley in favor of ex-
Governor Foraker for United States
senator, and his urgent plea that
special attention be given to the &C.
ton of the legislature Those who
are accustomed to reading between
the lines maintain that the Unexpected
position of Mckinley is a part of a
combination that is of national inter-
est. and that among o her things it
means that Ohio will be a unit for
Mckinley for president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept. 12.-The B.
Z. Griswold music house. at 7os Felix
street. failed last night, with liabili-
ties at ST 900 and assets of about $685.
600. The German American bank and
the Busch-Gerts Piano company are
made preferred creditors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Joke on Her.

''What are you laughing at?' asked
the holdup as he rifed the man Is
clothes.
s'Ha, hal was thinking what sur
prise my wife viii get when she goes
through my clothes tonight, y said the
amused victim. Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Received bv the Gear.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. l2.-Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor
of Germany. was given an audience by
the czar yesterday. His majesty re-
ceived the German statesman most
graciously. At the conclusion OF the
audience he czarina received Prince
Hohen1uhe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Willie Simson-Mamma is going to
give lawn party next week. Have you
been invited yet?
Mrs. Won Blumer-Not yet, dear.
What makes you ask?
Willie-She said the other day she
conldn't quite make up her mind about
it.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
PADDY Purten Funnd Guilty.

COLUMBUS, Kan, Sept. I2.-The jury
it the case of the state VS.. Paddy Pur-
tell and w R. johnson, charged with
engaging in a prize fight at Galena,
Kan, last spring, after short recess,
brought in a verdict of guilty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
National Leaeue.

At Washington Washington 10. Philadel
phia 4.
AT Pittsbur g-Pit tsburg 6. Cincinnati 2.
At Baltimore-Baltirnore z, Brooklyn B.
At New York-New York 9, Boston ).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

At Dubuqu p Dubuque ., st. Joseph 8
At Qulncy-Quincy ,, Peoria q
At Rockford-Rock ford y, Burlington 5.
at Lincoln-Lincoln Il, Des Moines IL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Navarro l. the champion.

New YoRK. Sept. 12.-Ten thousand
people saw Henry Of Navarro win the
race at Sheepshead Bay between the
cracks Of the year, Henry of Navarro,
Domino and Rey 81 Santa Anita.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
BASEBALL SCORES.
W estern League.

At Kansas C1ty-IndianapoIis II, Kansas
City 10
At St. Paul-St. Paul p Terre Haute 5.
At Milwaukee ilwaukee S. Grand Rapids O.
At polis-Detroi5 8, N. nneapolis S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12
Minrrai " alter.
Subscribe for the JOURNAL.

The finest in the west. Come and try
wv. PHILLIPS. 612 W. Eighth ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

We can keep you clean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia w. Eighth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

How in the world can you expect to be
cured of the Piles unless you get hoy
of Beggs' German Salve? SAMPLE boxas
free. Equally good for Scaids. Burns
Old Sores, etc. Sold and warranted by
ell druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Peerless SteaR laundry Peerless
Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Smoke s'Little Gen." best SC cigar made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Ask your dsaler Tor Burghart's cigars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-12

Everybody takes the JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30

In one of its arguments for free silv er,
the Topeka JOURNAL says that silver can
be bought in this country for go cents an
ounce and sold in India and Japan for
1929 an ounce. Ii the Topeka JOURNAL
really believes this, why doesn't it GO to
buying silver here and shipping it over
there?-Lawrence journal.
1t will be noticed that the Journal is
careful not to deny the statement. 1t is
not pretended that an ounce of American
silver is exchanged in the Orient for
$1.29 in gold, but it is exchanged for
1929 worth of merchandise which is in
turn sold in the gold standard European
markets while the European merchant
pockets the profit, and papers like the
Journal complain of an adverse balance
of trade. A wall has just come up from
the Pacific coast of an inability to COM
pete with these goods bought with 60
cent silver which are being unloaded in
our western ports.
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GREAT BRlTAlN'S GRAB.
Causes Which Raised the Vene-
zuela Question. .-..-.A
BOUNDARY DISPUTE REVIEWED.

Why We Are Interested In the EncrOach-
ments of England on the Territory of
South American Republic-The Monroe
Doctrine and Its Present Application.
Since the Venezuela question has devel-
oped into an International crisis between
this country and Great Britain it is inter-
estiDg to take a hasty glance at the cause
of all the trouble and briefly review the
conditions which have led up to it.
1t is not a very large tract of country
that England wants, but it is very valu-
able. There are mines there-gold mines
and the glitter of the precious metal has
often aroused the cupidity of John Bull.
The question is one of principle, how
ever, with the government and not of
value. We are not particularly interested
in the welfare of the Spanish American
republic in her disputes with adjacent ma
tive nations or in her frequent revolutions,
but we are interested in upholding the
doctrine of President James Monroe, who
declared that any attempt on the part of
tho European powers Ito extend their sys-
TEN to any portion of this hemisphere
would DO regarded by the United States
''as dangerous to our peace and safety"
and would be opposed accordingly.
Great Britain has for years had a foot
hold IN South America, gained when she
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30
A Queer Cemetery.

A correspondent of the Boston Traveller
describes the queer cemetery of the Mexi-
can city of Guanajuato. There is hardly
room in Guanajuato for the living, so it
behooves her people to exercise rigid econ
omy in the disposition of her dead. The
burial place is on the top of a steep hill,
which overlooks the city, and consists of
an area inclosed by what appears from the
outside to be a high wall, but which dis
covers itself from within to be a receptacle
for bodies, which are placed in tiers, much
as the confines of their native valleys COM
pei them to live Each apartment in the
wall is large enough to admit one coffin,
and is rented for 81 per month The poor
people are buried IN the ground without
the formality of a coffin, though one is
usually rented, in which the body is con-
veyed to the grave. AS there are not
graves enough to go around, whenever a
new one is needed previous tenant must
be disturbed, and this likewise happens
when a tenants rent is not promptly paid
IN advance. The body is then removed
from it's place in the mausoleum, or ex-
humed, as the case may be, and the bones
are thrown into the basement below.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30

an amicable, final and honorable settle
ment of the dispute. We have followed
this cOu %se On the assumption that the is
sue was one of historical fact, eminentlJ
adaptable for admitting of arbitration anc
that the territorial claims of each party
had fixed limit, the right to which would,
without difficulty, DO determined accord
ing to the evidence.
The claim now stated to have beeL
put forth by the authority of British
Guiana necessarily gives rise to grave dis.
quietude and creates an apprehension that
the territorial claim does not follow his
torical traditions or evidence, but is appar.
entity underlined.
If, indeed, it should appear that there
is no fixed limit to the British boundary
claim, our good disposition to aid in a set
Element might not only be defeated, but
be obliged to give place to a feeling OF
grave concern
Our First Proposition.
AS early as 1888, therefore, the United
States government took firm ground on
tho straightforward proposition that the
whole legitimate issue between Venezuela
and Great Britain was lone of historical
fact capable of determination only by
arbitration according to the evidence.
This view found positive repetition in the
joint venezuelan resolution of the last
congress, passed unanimously, which de-
clared that the controversy turns exclu-
sively upon simple and readily ascertain
able historical facts
Consequently Secretary Olney's dispatch
of last July is, above all other considera-
tions, an emphatic rea1irlnation of a thor
oughly established policy of state. It is
also decided extension of that policy, in
that it in terms invokes the Monroe doc
trine as applicable to the matter. The
entire practical situation may be sun5 med
up briefly as follows:
Our government completely refuses to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30

IT matters not what the private opin-
ious of Messrs. Blue and Calderhead may
be regarding the increase of the public
de BIT, they have no right to vote contrary
to the wishes and interests of the people,
whose servants they are. What would
be thought of an employee who would do
everything he could to bankrupt his en-
ployers How long would his connec-
tion with the business last? These gen.
tlemen are hired by the people at 50, 1000
year to look after the interests of the
state. They are not doing it. On the
contrary they are playing into the hands
of thoss who would make the state still
further tributary to eastern gold gam
bleEA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30

BEING an advocate of the gold stand
ard it is quite right and proper that
Congressman Calderhead should favor
Mckinley for the presidency.-STATE
JOURNAL.
And how about the JOURNAL would it
support him, if nominated? Talk don't
count; support-votes do.-Rice County
Eagle.
The JOURNAL is not bound to "sup-
port" nybody. 1t feels free to COM
msnt on anybody or anything. If it be-
lieves a man is the right person to hold
a certain office it will advise his nominal
ton; if not, it will say SO. This paper
reserves the right to say what it pleases,
when it pleases, just as any free and in
dependent American citizen does. The
JOURNAL is not an "organ."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-30

THE Council Grove Republican, In
mentioning the fact that some G. A. R.
posts in Kansas are trying to induce
General J. c. Caldwell to run for depart
ment commander, says that he deserves
something more substantial at the bands
of Kansas, and that the time will come
when the Republicans will reward him
handsomely for his able and unselfish
work The question which will nature
ally arise is: Is it the G. a. R, the Re-
publican party, or the state of Kansas
that is indebted to General Caldwell?
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e,4o7
1880
1854

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than al other Topeka dailiel
combined, only proves the neagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that Of the
STATE JoURNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation IL feS
and away ahead OF the combined circulation Of
all the other Topeka dailies.
The circulation Of the Topeka Daily sFAEB
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary &c
Topeka is very large. as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news Of the day.
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Daily Average 9. 554.

This Is the greatest showing the STATE JoUE'
NAL has ever b-en able to make for period Of
any six months Is its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached BY
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894.
The American Newspaper Directory, issued In
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894, gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1884, as only STA. These
figures were furnished by the publishers of the
Capital, to the Directory. and are guaranteed to
be correct By forfeit of $780, which will DO
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following figures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
nrst six months in 1898. 1891 and 1895. shows the
Topeka STATE JoURNAL's
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Ex-Minister scruggs' views.

William L. Scruggs, for many years
United States minister to Brazil, in a late
magazine article on the subject says:
1.-THE real issue involved in the present
phase of the controversy between England
and Venezuela is very simple. Briefly
stated, it is about this: Whether, under
pretexts afforded by the incidents of a
boundary dispute which she has persist
emily refused to settle upon any just or
reasonable basis, Great Britain shall be
permitted to dismember an American re-
public, menace the safety of others ada
cent, and thus to Indefinitely extend her
colonial system on this continent, in open
violation of public law and in total disre-
gard of the principles of the Monroe doc
trine.
''This language may seem a little
strong, coming as it does from an impair
tial source, but it will be found to be
fully justified by the facts and circum-
stances of the case. 1t is an axiom of in
ternational ethics, sanctioned by general
usage that all boundary disputes arising
from imperfect surveys, or from adverse
constructions of treaty provisions, or
which turn exclusively upon ascertainable
historical facts, or which involve questions
of prescriptive right, are, in the last resort,
properly referable to a joint commission
or to outside friendly arbitration. The
present case falls clearly within these pro-
visions and should constitute no excep-
tion."