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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-29
RAILROAD STATISTICS.
Official Reports of the Companies for
1895 on Their Operations.

Official Reports of the Companies for
1895 Their Operations.
New YORK, Aug. 29.-The 1895 edition
of "Poor's Manual of Railroads is
just out. 1t contains the official re-
ports of all railroads of the country
and shows that the number of miles
operated last year was IT'S, sos; pas
sengers carried, $50, PAT ,OO9; tons of
freight moved, 675, 1919, 747; total traffic
revenue, 1850, sos, OBS; operating ex-
penses, 1857, 765, 739; net earnings,
1922, $50, 276; total available revenue,
$419, O16, 7l9; interest on bonds, $237,
63O, 367; other interest, 81, AGA, OIL; divi-
bends, $50, PTS, Csc; rentals, tolls, etc,
$50, 9OU, asa; miscellaneous, SIS, 22O, 492;
total payments, S429, 454. 653: total liza
blities, 81, 565, 600, 2O7, and total assets,
Sill ,924 450, S84.
Gross earnings decreased, $143, 3d.
275 under 1898; S35, 946, I'll in passenger
earnings, and S1o7, OF? ,259 in freight
earnings, less 81, 966, O45 in mail, ex-
press and miscellaneous charges.
Share capital, corresponding to mile
age completed at the end of 1894,
equalied S., O75, 629, O7O, a decrease of
90 per cent. Funded debts aggregated
S., Cos, 734, 249, an increase of III per
cent on the investment, and the net
earnings 2.e per cent on the capital.
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AT BAXTER SPRINGS.
United States Senator Baker and Mrs.
Lease the Star Orators.

United States Senator Baker and Mrs.
Lease the Star Orators.
BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan, Aug. 20
The interstate reunion has reached
great proportions, many thinking the
attendance greater than last year,
when 80, 900 people were'on the ground.
United States Senator Lucien Baker
was the orator yesterday forenoon,
Mrs Mary z. Lease in the afternoon,
while an enthusiastic campfire was the
evening attraction
In conclusion Mrs. Lease said: 81
am not pessimist; I am not calam-
ity bowler; believe we have the best
government, the best flag and the best
people on earth 1 believe that the
great questions appealing to our ma
tional patriotism and our national
pride can be safely trusted to the men
who have turned back the surging
tides of secession and saved the
Union
Webster Davis, Bernard Kelly and
Attorney General Dawes speak to-day.
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He had bouquet in his hand-a bon
quet of flowers which had evidently
been thrown away on the street-and as
he encountered a policeman on Grand
River avenue at an early hour he said:
"Oficer, we should all seek to make
our fellow men more happy"
'What the matter with you?' asked
the bluecoat as he looked his man over.
ST am happy. I feel at peace with all
mankind. want to make others happy.
Officer, do you know of fellow man in
town who is discouraged and despair
ing, who feels that the world is against
him, who has no one to speak kindly to
him?''
"No, sir, do not.
81 wish you did. I would go to that
man and present him with this bouquet
and say: Fellow man, cheer upl All
is not lost Keep brave heart, and the
tide will turn for theep 1t might be
the means of saving that man from 60
ing to a suicides grave or from COM
uniting some desperate crime. So you
don't know any such mann"
''No, sir.
s'Then, officer" continued the man
as he extended the faded flowers, sal
low me to present you with this, and to
indulge in the hope
t'Now, you get on!'' exclaimed the
officer as he dourished his club.
''You won It accept, eh?''
'fNo, sir Don't try any guys on me ~
"And you don't want your life to be
pure and spotless?'
ST want you to move on, sir ~
every well, will move on. I will
carry this bouquet with me. Sooner or
later I will find fellow man to whom
1 can say, Take them, and from this
moment realize that there is one who is
willing to lend you handr And he
will take them, and I will have made
the world better, and you go to Halifax
and keep on being a copper bottomed
old sinner pm. Quad in Detroit Free
Press.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES

The treasury department has made
arrangements to supply small bills
with which. to move crops.
The National Spiritualist associa-
ton has begun a two weeks encamp-
ment at Liberal, Mo.
Ben Pillow shot and killed James
Garvin near Texarkana, Ark. The
men were looking for each other with
guns.
A farmer named Joe Liuehoss com
mitted suicide at Clinton, Mo-, because
he had been arrested for forging a S24
note.
John Brown, aged %, cut the throat
CT Miss Boone, aged 10, and then his
own, near Hillsboro, Texas.
Arkansas ex-Confederates are hav-
ing a grand time at Newport, where
they are encamped.
Jacques Nalthenius, the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas trust official ar
rested in New York for attempted
smuggling, has been released on S., 600
bail.
The comet recently discovered has
been decided by the astronomers to be
a periodic Gomez.
Special military trains have been
equipped by the Canadian Pacific for
the transportation of troops across the
continent.
Western roads will probably find it
necessary to make lower rates for the
Atlanta exposition than were proposed
at first.
At Sioux City Maud Hoyle and Dan
Berry, a pugilist, have been arrested,
charged with the murder of Max
Noack and Ora Minter, alias Hazel
Hammond.
In the Montana Methodist confer
ence the question of admitting women
to the general conference on the same
footing as men was decided in favor of
the women by vote of "a to 4.
At Grant City, Mo-, J. J. Hibbs, ex-
treasurer of Worth county, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head. He left a note stating that he
took his life to avoid shame.
The members of the New York Wine
and Beer Dealers Central association
voted "a to 40, to ratify the resolutions
reported recently by the committe on
excise to close all saloons on Sunday.
At Vienna, Prince Earnest Rohan
Guemeneo, who escaped from 1unatic
asylum recently was found dead in a
stable with bullet in his head
A New York New Jersey-St. Louis
combine is said to be trying to crib
the UncOmpah gilsonite lands
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SWIFT PUNISHMENT.
Union Pacific Train Robbers
Made a Full Confession.
Tell How the Robbery Was
Planned and Done.
GET TEN YEARS EACH.
Were Two Young Farmers Who
Wanted Riches.
GET TEN YEARS EACH.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. Aug. 29.-Hans
and Knnte Knuteson, the two young
Nebraska farmers VINO held up the
overland express on the Union Pacific
at Brady Island one week ago, were
taken to the penitentiary last evening,
with a sentence of ten years each for
the crime. They pleaded guilty. The
proof of guilt was absolute.
They said they were impelled to do
the work by the knowledge that a
great fortune might easily be made.
They said they secured less than $50
from the safe which they blew open in
the express car. The through safes,
which resisted their efforts, were
filed with treasure. The boys have
worked on farms in the sand
hills several years and were not re-
garded as desperate characters such as
their bold conduct in holding up an
express train crowded with people in
dictates them to be. They said they
had been camping near Gothenburg
for more than week previous to the
robbery, and one of them, Knute, did
considerable trading, visiting the
stores so often that he became we'll
known to several of the merchants
They took the wheels off the wagon
in which they had been sleeping, and,
together with the 'ody concealed them
in the woods near camp where they
were afterward discovered. Saddling
the two horses they rode toward
Brady Island, at which point the train
was boarded. The horses were con-
cealed in a deserted barn about two
miles east of the place where the rob-
berry afterward took place. Then they
proceeded to hold up the train in the
most apprOved STYLE
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Quite Proper.

Surely it is in measure unkind tC
laugh at one who is determined toedd
the proper thing, says Scottish Nights.
A young farmer from the upper ward
of Lanarkshire, who became Benedict
recently, took his spouse to a Glasgow
theater or their. honeymoon trip.
II see.'' said the bridegroom. con-
sulting one of the large posters display
ed outside the theater before entering,
"that there's a guild wheen different
kind o. seats. There's pit and stalls and
dress circle and family circle and gal
lery. Which should we hae, Maggie?'
''Weel, Jamie, - replied the buxom
bride, with becoming blush, "seein
that we're mairrit moo, maybe it wad
be mair proper to sit in the faim ~ CIR
Gle -
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AGAINST HOLMES.
The Trunk Has BeeD Identified and a

The Trunk Has Been Identified and
Grand Jury Is Investigating the Case.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 29.-More
evidence was secured yesterday in the
Holmes tragedy, every item showing
that the Peitzel boy was murdered in
the cottage at Irvington by H. Ii.
Holmes, and that the body was burned
in the stove at night and the charred
bones damned into the chimney hole.
1t was learned that the trunk which
mysteriously left the hotel was taken
to IrvingtOn by train, and from the
platform removed by Holmes to the
house. 1t contained the clothing of
the girls, which he wanted to dispose
of before taking them to Toronto,
where they were murdered.
Mrs. Peitzel, mother of the murdered
boy, was telegraphed at Gala, ILL.,, and
identified the trunk and the boys coat.
Other articles which belonged to him
have also been found in the chimney
hole.
The grand jury is in session and
Judge McCray ordered it to proceed at
once to taking testimony. The court
said every effort will be made to bring
Holmes here for trial.
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EXPECTATION OF BEEF.
Secretary Morton Issues an Important
Order on the Subject.

Secretary Morton Issues an Important
Order on the Subject.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2e.-An import
ant order giving full protection to
foreign consumers of American meat
products was issued by Secretary Nor
ton yesterday. 1t will prevent the ex-
portation of any beef that is not in
spected, and will cause the exporters
of horse meat to mark the packages
that the nature of the contents shall
be apparent.
The action is authorized by the act
of March 8, 1891, amended March 2,
last. The order follows:
''It is ordered that from and after
September Is, 1895, all beef offered for
expectation, whether fresh, sailed,
canned, corned or packed, shall
be accompanied by certificate
showing that the cattle from which
it was produced were found free
from disease, and the meat sound
and wholesome, by an inspector of
it may be determined whether all
beef exported has been so inspected
and found to be sound and wholesome,
it is further ordered that the meat of
all other species of animals, which for
any reason does not bear the inspec-
ton tags and stamps of this depart
ment, shall be packed in barrels, or
packages which are legibly marked in
such manner as to clearly indicate the
species of animal from which the meat
was produced. Meat which is not so
marked, and which is not accompanied
by certificate of inspection wall be
classed as uninspected beef and will
not be allowed expectation.
"Notice is hereby given to exporters
of meat, whether said meat is fresh,
sailed, canned, corned, packed or
otherwise prepared, and to owners and
agents of vessels upon which said meat
is exported, no clearance can be given
to any vessel having on board said
meat until the provisions of this order
are complied with.
81. STERLING MORTON,
''Secretary of Agriculture"
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WALLACE, Id, Aug. 29.-Osborn is
surrounded by immense forest fires
and momentarily threatened with de-
structiOn. In response to a telephone
message the fire department, with en-
tire apparatus, was loaded aboard
special train and has left to assist the
neighboring town. Osborn is situated,
like all towns in the Coure d'Alene
district, in deep canon with noun
tains on both sides, heavily timbered,
and, with this dense forest ablaze on
both sides, it is more than likely that
the town is doomed. Fears are
strengthened by the fact that COM
munication cannot be had with the
threatened town, either by telephone
or telegraph.
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He was the teacher of department
in the public schools. His charges were
out for their annual picnic, and he wat
doing double time trying to satisfy al
their desires. Finally they got him GU
in the brailing sun to umpire bal
game betwe cen opposing teams composed
Of his 14-year-old and his 16-year-olf
boys.
He had only the most dim recolleo
tions of the game as he had played it
dozen years before in Depew's back lot
At that time you threw the ball at the
base runner, and if you hit him off the
base he was supposed to be out. - A.
matter of fact, he not infrequentlJ
was so far out that he had to be re
moved from the field in his comrades
arms and pumped on till he came to
That was the time Thompson made
what we regarded as an international
fame by pitching one dozen balls int
the open end of a peck measure nailet
to post SO feet away.
'How many strikes do you take
base on?'' the teacher asked one of tn
captains.
This and other points were explained
to him, and the game proceeded. He
did fairly we'll on balls and strikes dur.
ing the first half inning, but his work
was less accurate when the opposing
team came to bat.
Zone balll' he sung out nervous1y.
The little pitcher looked disguised.
1.-TWO balls!''
The pitcher threw his cap on the
ground, planted himself firmly and
hurled the ball directly over the plate.
"Three balls!'' cried the unhappy
umpire, who had forgotten whether it
was strikes or balls that were expected
to pass over the plate.
''Why don't you come out behind the
pitcher, where you can see the ball?'
shrieked the enraged captain of the team
in the field.
''See? Him see? Our teacher see?"
said the little pitcher slowly. Eyes; he
can see boy pinch his neighbor out Of
the back of his head, but he couldn t
see a watermelon if you d throw it over
that plate. -
And a 12-year-old infant from lower
form umpired the rest of that game
without hearing a single complaint,
while the teacher went back to the task
of cutting off hunks of gingerbread for
the small boys and of angel cake for the
girls. Chicago Times Herald.
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SHE REPRINTED.
A Mother Leaves Her Fortune to Dis
obedient Son.

A Mother Leaves Her Fortune to Dis
obedient Son.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. Parker
Pearson Valentine, who was last heard
of in Colorado, is the heir to about
$1GO, 900 worth of property left him by
his mother, Lucy A. Valentine, who
died in Wisconsin recently. Valen-
tine left Minneapolis to escape arrest
for murder twenty FIVE years ago. In
the probate court yesterday the pub
lie administrator desired to secure the
administration of that part of Mrs.
Valentines estate located in this coun-
ty, valued at about $50, 900.
Young Valentin married against
the wishes of his mother. In a few
months he discovered evidences of his
wifes unfaithfulness, and killed her
lover. He obtained no sympathy from
his mother, and he left Minneapolis
never to return. She sought for him
in vain. In making her will, besides
bequeathing him all her property, she
established trust fund to be used in
searching for the missing son. If he
is not found the property all goes to
St. Johns Home in Milwaukee. The
case was continued for two weeks to
obtain necessary evidence from Wis
cOnSin
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He Passed the Contribution Box.

I was sitting on the hotel veranda
waiting for dinner, when an old colored
man came limping up the steps from
the street. He pulled of his hat and
was asking me for small contribution
to aid in finishing off the belfry of his
church building down the street, when
a young man came along and stopped
short and glared at him and demanded:
els yo'r name Ebenezer Davis, sah?''
"Of CO.'S it ar, - was the reply.
"Does yo' pass de contribushin box
in de Fust Chill Baptist church?'
''Of co'se does. What yo' drivin at,
boy? Hahn t we dun knowed each odder
fur ten y'ars?''
'No, sah-no. sab hasn't de honor
of yo'r disquaintance, sab -
"Yo' hash 't?''
Ono, sab, but I desiah to repress a
few facts upon yo'r mind, sab. 1 was
at de church last Sunday in company
wild Miss Eveline Jackson. -
"Yes I seed yo' boat dar. "
"Yo' was de pusson who passed de
box on dat occashun?'
ST was.
''Yo' stopped 'longside O. me, sab I
hadn't muffin smaller dan a quarter, but
yo' stood an stood till eberybody in de
meetin house was a-lookin at me. In
odder words, sab, yo' fo'ced me to drop
in dat quarter!''
"Hu! reckoned yo' was shown off
befo' dat gal!''
can now yo' disremember my fore
goin language!'' continued the young
man as he pointed with his finger. eff
1 cher discort Miss Eveline to yo'r
church On a frequent occashun an yo'
cum around wild dat contribushun box
as yo' did befo', shall feel justified in
disportin SIGH a G. lamity as will perpet-
uate yo'r hostility fur de next TO- weeks
Good day, sab -
And he walked off down the street.
''Fo' de Lawd But I'ze ober 60 vars
ole an nebber dun seed SIGH transparency
in diligent young man befo'l'
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SKETCHES BY M.QUAD
samuel Must Explain.

'This here 'lectricity is purity danger
GUS, amt it?' he asked of Woodward
avenue conductor on car coming down
town.
Eyes. quite dangerous, . was the re-
ply.
eff you get hold of live wire,. you
get shock, don't your"
ST guess you do"
"Just rolls you all over the road, tears
your coat up the back and shakes every
blamed cent out of your pocket, eh?"
Eyes, it makes things pretty lively.
Have you had an experience?'
''No, net exactly, but my son Sam
has He come to town one day about
two weeks ago to collect bill of $15,
and he didn't git home for two days.
When he showed up. he was the saddest
sight you ever see. y
Had he taken hold of a live wire?"
''That' what he said. He had black
eye, three teeth knocked out, hurt on
the head and his clothes was all mud
and torn to tatters.
ST see,'' smiled the conductor. 'He
grasped live wire and couldn't let
go?''
"No, he couldn't let go for about ten
hours. Wire kept playin with him and
he couldn't let go. 1t works that way,
don't it?''
Sometimes, believe. -
F'But what can't understand, :" con-
tinued the father, sis what BEGUN o.
them $15. Sam says they was consumed
by the Electricity, but that seems funny.
Do you think they was consumed"
''You can't tell what live wire will
do replied the conductor as he folded
his arms and looked wise
''No; expect not, but you kin tell
what Teller about my size will do.
was told by naybur this mornin that
a Teller of the same name as my Sam
was arrested and fined $40 for drunken
ness about the time that live wire was
gittin in its work, and I'm goin down
town to see about it. If it was some
other Teller, all right; if it was my
Sam, I'll go back home and make him
think he has live wire in each hand
and hull 'lectric plant under himl'
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AzoTE WINS.

Trotted the Fastest Heat Ever Gone by
3 GeIding.
New YORK, Aug. 29.-The third day
of the grand circuit meeting at Fleet
wood was the best days racing that
the harness horse devotees of New
York have seen in years. The weather
was perfect for racing, the track was
in superb ordition and the attendance
quite good, there being fully 1000 peo-
pie present.
The card was a very good one, but
the chief attraction, of course, was the
great free-for-an trot for a s., 900
purse, in which the three cracks of the
year met-AzOte, the unbeaten; Ben
zetta, who trotted a fourth heat at
Buffalo in 2:O6sz, and the sterling cam
paigner, Klamath, 2:087z-
>. Azote was very properly the favor
tie, and he won, but only after trot-
ting one of the greatest races on rec
ord, Benzetta beating Klamath for sec
ond money. After a little scoring they
got away to a perfect start, Azote i'm
mediately. rushing to the front and
quickly opened up a gap of two
lengths from klamath. He passed the
half in 1903, trotting easily, and came
home jogging in 2:O935, ten lengths in
front of Klamath. The second heat
was made in 2:051z and the third in
2:O7.
After the second heat Benzetta was
bought from her owner, E. W. Ayers
of Duckers, KY, for S16, 900. by Peter
Duryea of New York, but for whom it
was not announced.
Azote, the winner of the free-for-all,
was bred by the late Senator Leland
Stanford at his Palo Alto farm.
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CIRCUS SWEPT AWAY.
A Cloud Burst and Tornado at
Bloomington, I'll.
-
Tents of a Wild West Show Go
in the Flood.
5000 PANIC STRICKEN.
The Audience is Thoroughly
5000 PANIC STRICKEN.
The Audience is Thoroughly
Drenched and Frightened.

BLooMIEeToN. Ill, Aug. ga
cloudburst, accompanied by tornado,
swept the vicinity of Bloomington yes
terday afternoon. raging torrents
filling the dry water courses in few
minutes, sweeping away trees and the
tents of the Wild West show at the
fair grounds. Five thousand people
were panic stricken and drenche ed, but
miraculously escaped injury and death.
A ravine near Miller park filed and
overlooked Morris avenue.
Mesdames Riddle and Roberts, of
Heyworth were driving home with
daug aged and years, re-
spectively, when their buggy was
swept from the. bridge by the flood.
The children were drowned and the
women rescued with diff culty. Streams
in the country have filed the valleys
so as to almost swim horses.
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OYSTERS WIN Be CHEAP.
The Crop Is Said to BE the Largest for
Years.

CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-The oyster season
has opened For the past week local
iobbers have had their hands full max
ing preparations for the opening, and to-
day hundreds of wagons will carry thou
sands and tens of thousands of the deli
cious hivalves to retail dealers. The crop
is the largest and best for years.
On account of the dullness of trade
last year, there was a comparatively
small demand made upon the beds. Dur
ing the past four months without the
"R" the spawning has multiplied mill
lionfold. and in consequence the output
will be the largest for many seasons. at
will be banner year" said local dealer
yesterday. "We have hardly ever had
an outlook more favorable. and not only
will the quantity and quality be superior,
but the prices will range as low as they
have ever been in the history of the BUSH
ness"
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The Loved Long Lived.

"NO"-
His eyes were lighted up by the fires
of an honest love that pervaded his soul
and body.
-"my angel. can never love an
other
The history of her progenitors was
ever fresh in her mind
II fancy there will be no occasion for
that, as''-
She gazed steadfastly at a crayon por-
trait on the wall
81 come of a family that is noted
for longevity
An itinerant street musician was play
ing a dreamy waltz only two doors be-
low, but he seemed unconscious of that
fact. New York World
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LAUGH BROUGHT FORTUNE
Harry Brown, Comedian, Cures a Rich
Young Man of MelanchOlia.

PORTLAND. Ore, Aug. 29. - Harry
Brown, the we'll known comic opera
comedian, whose home is in Portland,
after years of i'll luck has obtaiRed for
tune in a peculiar manner. While filling
an Improbable engagement in Cleve-
land, he cured a hitherto incnrable
melancholia patient the young son OF
wealthy parents.
The boy was afflicted with suicidal
mania and accidentally saw Brown and
laughed for the first time in his life.
Brown became young kellogg's physl-
clan and cured him. When Mrs hel-
logg died recently she bequeathed
comfortable fortune to Brown, to whom
the money is a godsend.
Brown is visiting old friends here,
after which he goes to San Francisco
and then to France where he will spend
the winter.