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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26
STATE INSURANCE REPORT.
First One Issued by State Insurance Com
missioner Anthony.

First One Issued by State Insurance Com
missioner Anthony
The preliminary report of the state in
surance commissioner for the year end
ing December 3 l, 1894. has just been is
sued.
This report was in the hands of the
printer when ex Governor Anthony sue
ceeded Judge Snider as superintendent
of insurance, but the new superintendent
would not allow it to go out until he
could examine the proofs aud amend it
to suit himself.
This report shows the following insur-
ance companies admitted during the las t
year to do business in Kansas:
Northwestern Masonic Aid association,
of Chicago, ILL.,; National Benefit and
Casualty company of Milwaukee, Wis. :;
Bankers Life association, ST. Paul,
Mimi: Bankers Alliance, of Los Ange-
les, Gals American Union Life Insur-
ance company of New York; Lawye .
Surety company of New York.
The Ottawa County Farmers Mutual
Insurance company of Minneapolis,
Kansas. was organized and authorized
to do business about d year ago. The
companies which have quit doing bust
ness in Kansas are:
Bankers Life associations ST. Paul, Mimi,
Boylston, Boston, Mass, Guardian Assur
| ance, London, England, London Guaran-
tee and Accident company, London
England, Minnesota Fire, Minneapolis
Mimi, National Life. Montpelier VT,
Northwestern Live Stock, Des Moines
Iowa. Oakland Home, Oakland, Cal.
! Southern, New Orleans, La.
Thirtv-four life insurance companies
! issued 3d. 23 policies in Kansas last year
representing in money So, ,87025
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

John Temple Graves, the brilliant
Georgia orator, will talk on Uncle Toms
Last Cabin" at Hamilton hall, Friday
evening, April %. Admission fifty cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

John Temple Graves at Hamilton hall
Friday evening, April 90 Hear the
great orator talk on "Uncle Toms Lost
Cabin" Admission fifty cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Little drop of water, little sponge and
cloth, with Ne Plus Ultra Polish, make:
the tired housewife laugh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Largest assortment wall paper in the
city at Beckstrom's, SIS Jackson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Don't fail to hear John Temple Graves
tonight, He is one of the grandest lee
turers on the platform.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26
Employment at a salary.

Teachers, students and others seeking
permanent employment or for the sum-
mer should read II. W. Nixon's agents
wanted notice in another column.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup relieves
that soreness and smothering sensation
IN your lungs Safer, surer aud quicker
than any medicine on the market. Every
bottle guaranteed by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

The state irrigation board will meet in
Topeka Wednesday, May 1st, and will
open the bids for the construction of the
experiment plants to be located in Ham
ilton, Grant, Gray and sherman counties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Beggs' German salve is the most per.
feet pile remedy ever put on the market.
Cures where all others fail A positive
guarantee with every box. All druggists
keep it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Subscribe for the JOURNAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

Hear Jonn 1emple Graves tonight,
Sam Jones June 10Th. and then compare
the noted lecturerA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-26

H O. CARNEY, G. T. & p. A.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
[Sketched By a d" Call"

dition of things as described call was
made on John Rosenfeld, one of the Park
Commissioners.
"Why is it that the fair grounds are
still in such ruinous conditionp was
asked.
"The only reason I know is that the
Park Commissioners have not had the
money to carry on the work of putting it
into proper shape"
"But was it not agreed that the Midwin-
ter Fair administration was to restore the
grounds to at least their normal condition
after the close of the fair, removing all
buildings, foundations, etc., and was not
the railroad company to take up its
tracks?"
know nothing. | am new member of the
commission. But do know that we are
working on the proposition of getting
things into shape out there as rapidly as
we could under the circumstances, but we
are hampered bya lack of funds. Up to
the first of this month we had 100 men at
work leveling the ground and getting rid
of all unslgbtly objects. Since then we
have been compelled to reduce the force to
about ninety We have, in fact, been con-
centrating most OF our efforts since the
close of the fair to bring those grounds
into condition fit for the use of the public.
Unless we get more money we cannot Go
more than is being done now.
"There is a good reason. however, why
the railroad has its tracks now running
into the former fair site. We are filling
up the ground there with the street sweep
ings of the City, which is good fertilizing
material and which we buy from the Mer-
chants Association, and the sweepings are
hauled into the grounds by the railroad
company, the Merchants Association pay
ing the freight charges. This will account
for the three spurs. They are there with
the consent of the Park Commission"
These sweepings are hauled to the
dumps" at the foot of Sixth street by
carts, and could with little extra cost, it
would seem, be taken to the park direct.
The maintenance of these spur tracks
is considered a source of danger to the
public interests, and the longer they are
allowed to remain, whether by authority
or without, the less become the chances
of the City and park recovering what was
granted as temporary right of way. 1t is
feared that some day influence will be
brought to bear on the Board of Super
visors, and the people will wake up the
next morning to learn that the Southern
Pacific has secured permanent franchise
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

shops were closed. flags were hung at half
mast and the street lamps lighted and
draped with Grape. The whole of the in
habitants, however, treated the occasion as
u fete day, and appeared in the gayest
clothes. The funeral procession started
from the cathedral at $50 A. NJ. Three
standard bearers, with church standards
flying, preceded it, followed by about a
dozen church beadles holding lighted
gilded lanterns. Next came three town
bands playing funeral march; then boys
carrying artificial wreaths. Thirty-five
priests followed on each side, and an Off
Ger of the army holding cushion with the
Greek cross of the Savior and the Russian
crosses of st. Anne.
Then came the corpse tied to the arm
chair-stlll holding the inter and gospel
carried by priests in gorgeous vestments,
with the chief Greek officials taking the
place of pallbearers on each side. Directly
behind followed the Roman Catholic Arch
bishops and the representatives OF foreign
powers. The men of the garrison, includ-
ing the mounted battery and the crew OF q
Greek ironclad, brought up the rear. On
arrival at the cemetery the body was taken
into the church, and from there to the
grave, which was like small room. A
stone chair had been built in the middle,
on which the corpse was seated, and a
hanging oil lamp was arranged from the
arch above. When the body was lowered
and some earth thrown in, salute OF
twenty-one guns was fired from the fort,
as well as three volleys of musketry over
the grave. The bands then returned play
ing opera airs.-New York Journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
Il FINE ROAD RACE.
The Wheel Record Broken From Los
Angeles to Santa Monica.

The Wheet Record Broken From Los
angeles to Santa Monica.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, July T. The
great road race of wheelmen from Los
Angeles to Santa Monica was a success IN
every way, all previous records being
broken by Ulbricht, and an interest
aroused that will be of lasting benefit IN
encouraging bicycle races in Southern
California. Fully 1000 people gathered at
Central Park to witness the start.
Every rider made successful start with
the exception of one, who had the mis-
fortune to break pedal before he had pro-
ceeded fifty yards. As soon as the scratch
men had been given the word go, =,
Judges, referees, newspaper, men ana
scorers crowded into large bus, held IN
readiness, and were driven TO the Arcade
depot where a special train was waiting.
The trip was rapid one, the train arrlv-
ing fifteen minutes in advance OF the hrst
rider. l.. LaWton, an eight-mlnute scratch
man, was the winner. closely followed by
w. Woman, in the same class.
Ulbricht made the run IN the remarkable
time of 40 minutes seconds, record,
considering the road, that will probably
never be eQualed, making an average run
of less than three minutes per mile. AS
much of the road is sandy and part is
thickly laid with dust and several grades
are encountered, the run made by him may
well be considered a phenomenal one.
Following is the order in which the con-
testants arrived at Santa Monica: L; Law
ton, W. Woman, A. L. Tabor, E. T. Carter,
Jacob Wilsford, W. W.. Weir, w. Imbler,
Bert Nelly, H. E. Wiley, V. w. Guiercio,
Howard Suuires, E. Ulbricht, John Todd,
1. J. Manly, Willie Jones, William Martin
dale, A. J. Church, John Engel, John
Meyer, Paul FELTON,, R. S. Taylor, A. j..
Bayer, R. Ruess, J. T. Newell, w. S. Kings
bury. c. NJ. Good, W. Watts, R. D. Missey,
C. w. Stauter, a. Thompkins, w. Hill, G..
Miller, Mode Griffith, r. H. Hargrave, F.
T. Drew, W. E. Tyler, Fay Stephenson, E..
P Nelly, J. E. Sandstraw, E. Ducummun,
Earl Cole, E. D. 6. Campbell, J. w.
Masner, w. S. Savage, Will Matthewson,
F. L. Hague, D. G. Taylor, L. A. Forsythe,
V. E. Bennett, G. L. Smith, F. G. Maynard,
Charles COWan
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
SIipshod CoIeridge.

Coleridge never recognized his own
fiuidlty of character. He inveighed against
himself with sort of ecstacy of disgust at
one moment, and uttered the most lofty
aspirations the next, in mood of almost
transcendental rapture. He is always in
that haccid state which Tennyson has so
well expressed in delineating the bohe-
mianisrn of the earlier life. In one of
Coleridge's letters during the cavalry cpl
sode, he says: 81 rode horse as young
and undisciplined as myself. After tu-
mutt and agitation of any kind the mind
and all it's affections seem to doze for a
while, and we sit shivering with chilly
feverishress, wrapt up in the ragged and
threadba cloak of mere animal enjoy
ment" That might be taken as the motto
of his whole shiftless career.
Coleridge began early that undiseiplined
career by slipping off even the academical
restraints which were the most useful, and
might have been the most effectual for
him. Then be returned and "dozed for q
while" in the university without turning
his studies to any advantage. Then he en-
barked in various friendships, from which
he slipped away at least as often as he re-
turned to them. His mind was iull of gen.
tie and tender dispositions: but he never
had enough of will to be to others the
friend those others were to him. Even as
a man of literature no one could trust him.
He was so much accustomed to slip out of
his engagements as to slip into them. He
did not even know what he himself had
done as distinguished from what he had
only intended TO do. He was slipshod in
work, slipshod as husband and father,
slipshod as friend, slipshod as poet
and with all his great genius left q name
'sto point a moral and adorn tale.n-The
Spectator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
BERKELEY.

Five members of the university faculty
will attend the National educational con-
vention which will be in session at Denver
from the Sth to the 18th inst.
Dr. Joseph lie Conte left on Wednesday
for the convention city and Professor Viii
liam Carey Jones will take passage to-day.
DR.. lie Conte will speak on scientific Gull
ture and Professor Jones will deliver an
address on secondary education. Presi-
dent Martin Kellogg was requested by the
chairman of the committee on higher edu-
cation to deliver an address on 1.-THE Rela-
ton of College Education to That in Pro-
fessional Schools" but on account of press
of duties he was not able to get away from
Berkeley, and in consequence asked Pro-
lessor Thomas r. Bacon to serve in his
stead. Professor Bacon left last week for
Colorado Springs, where he has been en-
gagged to deliver a course OF lectures dur
ing the summer, and when his turn on the
convention programme comes will go to
Denver.
Professors Brown and Bailey of the De-
partment of Pedagogy, who are now tray
cling in the East, are also expected to be IN
attendance at the convention. They, too,
will be called upon 70 give addresses.
a number of delegates from California
left on last Tuesday and within few days
a still larger aggregation will leave from
Los Angeles, it being their purpose to
boom California with the hopes of secur-
ing the '96 convention for this State.
AT the close of the Educational Congress
there will be a conference of representa-
tives from the various agricultural colleges
of the United States. mainly those, how
ever, which have received assistance from
the Morrill, aid fund, which was estab-
lished IN 1852 by act of Congress, with the
purpose of promoting scientific egricult-
uraf education. The agricultural colleges
are planning to do considerable toward the
advancement of their department of SCI
ence, and, as their representatives meet as
specialists at the close of the general con-
vention, the staff at Berkeley feels hopeful
that good results will attend their first
effort at National conference.
Professor Hilgard will leave in few
days, to represent the University of Cali
fornia at the latter convention.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
NO POLICE APPOINTMENTS,
Commissioners Waiting Till
the Supervisors Pro-
vide Funds.
CHIEF CROWLEY EXPLAINS.
City Fathers Who Would Like to
Name New PoliCemen-The
Loaves and Fishes.

The first of July has passed and still
1900 men or more Who would willingly be
nodded into seventy-fve police uniforms
are not satisfied.
The Police Commissioners have not
made the appointments and they do not
intend to name any one until the money is
appropriated by the Board of Supervisors.
The Commissioners though have had no
lack of opportunity to become acquainted
with the qualifications of many gentlemen
who would gladly fill the positions of
guardians of the rights and property of
citizens. Applications by the hundred
have been pouring in, the applicants being
backed by politicians, merchants, business
associates of the Commissioners and men
who make politics and politicians.
The ordinance drafted by the Board of
Supervisors authorizing the appointment
of seventy-five policemen was passed to
print. but there has been considerable delay
in getting it to that point. The delay is
explained by an error in the original bill
which Twas discovered by the committee.
But, as has been stated, nothing will be
done until the appointment has been made.
AS soon as it became known that the
Supervisors intended authorizing an in
crease in the force, every aspiring police
man got to work in the exercise of his
little pulp on the Commissioners. Mean
while the Supervisors stood pat. They did
not desire to name each and every one of
the new policemen, but many of them
thought they were entitled to several.
Commissioner Tobin was seen last even
ing in regard to the appointments and he
confirmed the statement that there would
be none until the appropriation was made
70 pay the men.
1.-THE Commissioners are waiting for the
Supervisors, said Mr.. Tobin. 81 do not
exactly understand why the appropriation
has not been made, as Chief Crowley is
watching the matter for US. We will not
proceed hurriedIy in the matter, but will
act with deliberation. We have received
volumes of applications and, while we
have considered many, we have acted on
none. 1t will not take very long to pick
out the men once we get started in the
matter. In the consideration of the ap
plicatlons, the names of those who recon-
mend the men are first looked at. Politics
cuts no figure in the matter, the fitness of
the man being his chief qualification. This
latter can only be determined by the
knowledge we get of the man through
those who recommend him. If the Super
visors should settle upon the ordinance
tomorrow at their meeting, and the
finance committee make the apportion-
ment, we would probably begin appoint
ing at the meeting on Wednesday night
AS have intimated there would only be a
few named at tue start and we would take
our time about appointing the remainder
in order to get good men,"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
READY WITH HIS ADVICE.
The Man who Knows just What He
Ought to Do in Summer.

The Man Who Knows just What He
Ought to Do in Summer.
The man who knows just what is necessary
for health and comfort in not weather is
around once more. He talks to us in the street
and he writes to us in the newspapers. He adj
monishes US as to food, drink and clothing.
He means well, but he is rather tedious.
We know as well as he that summer is try
ing time, even for robust people. Never do we
stand more in need of some agency to build up
and to maintain the whole system in. a work
ing state; to tone the stomach so that food is
promptly and perfectly digested, and to soothe
the exerted nerves.
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey fits the situation
exactly. 1t is Immediately refreshing, and it
corrects the feeling of heaviness in the stomach
which: sometimes follows free indulgence in
the fruits and vegetables that seem to be
wholesome enough, but contain dangerous
germs.
For the languor and depression following
even moderate labor in the summer there's
nothing to compare with stimulant of high
medicinal liabilities and that is Just what
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is.
Families who go into the country, far, per-
haps, from drugstores or groceries, take a sup
ply of this standard article, which has proved
its value so often in time of emergency. Only
one word of caution is necessary: Be sure to
refuse all substitutes for Duffy's.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
CURIOUS FUNERAL RITES.
A Greek Archbishop Carried to the
Tomb in Chair.

The death of the Greek Archbishop of
Corfu, which took place few days back,
afforded an opportunity of witnessing the
curious funeral rites accorded by the Greek
church to so exalted an ecclesiastic.
The Archbishop was an old man, and his
death was not unexpected. For more than
a month the cathedral had been prepared
for his "sitting in state" The breath was
hardly out of his body when the corpse was
dressed in episcopal robes, and, without
being embalmed taken to the cathedral and
placed in golden armchair, surrounded
with lighted tapers, with the inter in one
hand and the gospels in the other.
The populace thronged to the church to
view the BODY and to kiss the Archbishops
hand. The priest desired to keep the body
there for three days, but the authorities
had to interfere for the benefit of the public
health The funeral was accordingly ar
ranged for the second day. The church
bells tolled continuously, the theater and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

release its tentacles from such right of way
Despite all protest, however, the priv
lege was granted the railroad and the pro-
yiso made that the spur which was to be
laid in the park was to be removed within
two months after the fair was closed.
How careful the railroad company was
to ignore this condition can be seen to-day
by any one who will take the trouble to
pass along that portion of the middle
drive which was known as the Midway
Plaisance when the fair was in It's full
glory. He will not only see one railway
track crossing that road, but three, and
none of them adding either to the beauty
of the surroundings or the safety and COM
fort of those who use this drive On two
of these spurs were cars filled with street
sweepings, while the other was in most
ruinous condition, some of the ties rising
in the air at one end, owing to the poor
ballasting of the roadbed on which they
were laid, and there being breaks of con-
siderable lengths in the track.
These three tracks, crossing one of the
park drives most popular with wheelmen
and horsemen, are constant menace to all
who drive or ride horse or ride bicycle
along it.
In search of an explanation of the con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

removal has only served to make the
vicinity of the site they occupied more I'M
slightly, as in no case has the foundation
of cement, brick or stone been taken out or
concealed by a covering of sod.
The result is that the visitor to the
museum. which now occupies the building
formerly devoted to the art exhibits, or to
that portion of the park coterminous with
the former fair grounds, and the pleasure
seeker who takes a drive to Straw berry
Hill or to the ocean beach by way of the
middle road, has his sense of the artistic
fitness OF things most rudely shocked.
Once in siPht Of the abandoned fair
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

denbrook of San Jose Road Club, one mile,
2:12 So; one-third of mile :3S Is.
Referee, A1phonse Col, G. C. c. Judges-C. K.
Melrose, chief consul; Robert NJ WEIGH, B. C.
W; George H. osen, G. c. c.. Timers-H. NJ. n.
Spring, G. c. c.; George II. Strong r. A. c.: S.
4. smith; /. c. Hunter, 0. G.. W.; C. n. Ravlin,
G. c. G.; Jack Kitchen, r. A. c.; F. H. Kerri-
gan, B: c. W.; Dr.. d. E. Nash, G. C. c.. George
(. Wolfrom, G. c: c. Starter-Sanford Plum
s. j. R. C. Clerks-Chief, H. H. Herndon, G.
G. c.; assistant clerks, w. R. Upset, G. C. c.. !;
Hal Chase, 6. G. c. Umpires-M. NJ. Alvarez
G: {. c.; Ralph Hammond, S. J. r. c.; Jack
Weleh,' 5. J; r: c.; L. E. Whiting, G. C. c. An
nouneer1Wilbur F. Knapp. Scorer-Ed Will
ston, o. c. C.; assistant scooter, Jack Seeley,