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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-13
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MARINE INTELLIGENCE.


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.
A. E. StillweIl Grows Emphatic
on Railroad Construction.
Says a Saint From Heaven
Couldn't Get Money
For Railroad Building Now-General
Railroad News and Miscella-
neous Items.

Two weeks ago a rumOr gained cir
culation in western railroad circles to
the effect that Mr.. A. E. SLiIweI, vice
president of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf road, which is the only road in
the west now in the course Of construc-
ton, had issued an order TO lay off all
the men employed in the construction
OF the southern line September 1, and II
was limited that the present political
question had something to do with the
discharge Of the men, In Shreveport,
La, it is claimed that the order was
issued and afterwarded rescinded. The
rurnOr caused the greatest of excite
ment in Shreveport, Lake CharleS ana
northern Louisiana, and the order was
denounced as an effort on the part of
Mr.. Stillweu to coerce the voters IN
favor of Wall street and England
This week a similar rulnOr was again
circulated, and this brought forth
positive denial from Mr.. Stillwen. He
said:
4 stated that the report circulated
two weeks ago was untrue. 50 IS TINS
report. The force of men at work IS
getting less, it is true, and men are out
Of work, but that is due to the present
construction of the Hot Springs branch
being abandoned.
I'VE are working north from Port
Arthur and south from Shreveport. The
contract is let in sections. When one
section contractor gets through grad
ing he has no further use for the grad
had gone ahead with the Hot Springs
branch we could have given these men
work In ten days we have laid twelve
miles of track. We are laying one mile
a day.
IF the road had not been finished be-
fore the silver agitation began, we
would now be forced to stop That IS
why we stopped on the unfinished spur
to Hot Springs.
1T is utterly impossible to raise any
money for anything at this time" ne
declared vehemently. No one can do
it A saint from heaven couldn't do II.
A fortnight ago we were faced by a Sc
we're stringency due to the silver excite
ment There was a scare. 1t looked
like we would have to stop work. But
it passed over. A movement Of conf
dence in Major McKinley's election set
in Vermont helped to confirm it and we
were able to go ahead. do not now
apprehend any change. The Pittsburg
& Gulf railway is already financed and
will be built as fast as track can be
In his speech in this city last week
Mr. StilIwen stated that the hardest
work he had done for the past four
years was to provide employment for
600 men. He said that he often felt
like the man who had the bear by the
tail wished some one would come
along and help him let co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11

no possible chance of election and that
the campaign he is making can have
but one effect. if it has any, and that is
to disorganize the friends of the cause
which he is pretending to support.
Watson's conduct is in marked con-
trast to that of Sewan. The Maine
man has not been heard of in connec-
ton with any demand for a, division of
electors or. that Watson retire from the
ticket.
Mr.. Watson and his following can do
what thousands of other people are do
ing this year who are dissatisfied with
the action of their parties; they can
vote for the other fellows.
He is not likely to receive much en-.
couragement in Kansas. If there are
any Populists who favor the gold stand
ard they viii vote the Republican tick
ct and those favoring bimetallism will
vote the Democratic ticket regardless
of Watson or Sewall or Hobart.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
TOM WATSON OF GEoRcrA.

Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, who
insists that he is running for vice presi-
dent is making strenuous effort to in
ject partisan politics into the present
campaign, although confronted by
abundant evidence that party lines are
being ignored. The masses of the peo-
pie are caring little whether the Peo-
pies Party or any other party lives or
dies and if Mr.. Watson imagines the
contrary he is mistaken.
The people are intent on a settlement
Of the money question and are going to
vote for that party which they believe
viii settle it in accordance with their
views, regardless of what name such
party may be called. They will vo1e for
Republican electors or for Democratic
electors. What does anybody care
about the vice president? It will mat
ter little if any in the settlement of the
matter at issue whether he be Hobart.
Sewan or Watson.
1t is no time for playing politics and
it is useless to whine. There would
have been little difference in the result
if the Populists had held no national
convention. The lines of battle were
drawn before that event to which Mr
Watson seems to attach so much i'm
pOrtance, occurred.
The Populists placed the date of their
national convention, subsequent to
those of the other great parties for the
purpose of taking advantage of their
action.
They got more than they anticipated
and more than they desired. but this
Georgian seems to be the only promi-
nent member of the party who is IN
willing to swallow his medicine. He
goes about the country crying like a
child for lost toy. He knows he has
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peka newspaper woman year or more
ago and who is now employed in Kan
sas City, was married there last even
ing to Charles L. Becker of the Kansas
City Star
The only case Justice Guy has had
this week was case of forcibIe entry
pendente lite occasioned by a water
melon brought in on change of venue
from the court of Squire John Swan Of
Mission township.
A Topeka man opened his back door
carefully this morning in reply to
timid rap. It was the iceman's order
boy. He stood well away from the door
prepared to run. You don't want no
ice this morning does your he asked.
Mr. Overton of the Brush plant says
it would be impossible for him to fur
nfsh 100 arc lights for Kansas avenue
but that he has twenty which he will
put in any one block to burn four hours
five nights at the rate Of IS per light.
The Wellington band, which IS anbi-
tious, if not discreet, writes the Com
rnfttee OF Fifteen to object because
MarshalPs band is not in the Festival
band tournament. I'VE would ike
chance to wipe up the earth with 1t"
they say.
Police Commissioner A K Rodgers
says that it is the purpose of the police
department to have several of the po-
lice officers mounted on horses during
the Fall Festival They can handle
large crowds in better shape this way,
especially during the parades-
A congregational meeting of the First
PRESBYTERIAN church will be held one
week from tonight at which a commit
tee will be appointed for the purpose of
receiving applications for the passionate
of the church. The pulpit will be filed
by candidates, and a choice may not be
made for three months yet.
All the woodwork at fire department
headquarters has been reprinted, the
walls kalsomined and the lettering
touched up so that the visiting firemen
who will be here during the Fall Fes-
tival will not be disappointed with the
Topeka fire ladies (hrst and only Of
fence.)
Nearly every man in town and some
Of the women have declared their in
tention Of staying up all night when
the Kansas avenue bridge is moved to
its temporary foundation. It will be
moved in a few weeks and massive as
it is, will be moved in a few hours in
the night time.
The Flower Committee women who
spent three weeks when they started
out, in wringing their hands because
they didn't know where they would set
over $500 on hand and $500 more in sighr
this week. Who said anything about
Topeka women and finances? They are
the kind Of people that should be al
lowed to save the country.
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DECORATE.
Make Every Business House &
Pretty Sight
With Bunting, Flags, Evergreen
and Electric Lights,
During the Fall FestivaI-Begin to
Plan Your Decorations Now
Fail Festival News.

It is to be hoped that every merchant
and business man on Kansas avenue
will decorate the front of his place Of
business during the Fall Festival. Let
Topeka appear in gay colors and lots
of them. 1t will be the holiday week
in years. 1t will be the biggest gath
ering Topeka ever saw.
Do it right. Put up no few flags and
a string of bunting, but let evergreen
as well as flags and lanterns and lights
as well as bunting meet the admirtng
eyes of the visitors.
It is a duty.
The Committee of Fifteen has decid-
ed that it can do no decorating. It
hasn't the money. The ladies' Floral
Committee is in the same condition
Messrs. Titus and Rodgers of the
Committee of Fifteen called on the la
dies of the Floral Committee at their
meeting yesterday afternoon and held
forth these facts They will not even
decorate the trolley poles.
It all devolves on the business men.
Many will be equal to it. All should
be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
NORTH TOPEKA.

All news items for the State Journal
should be left at the kimban Printing
Co.. 835 Kansas avenue.
Joe Takemire of North Soldier is in
town.
Mrs Cline Of Rossville is visiting the
family of s. "A. Hayes.
Mrs. Martha Mitchell has gone to
Holiday to visit friends.
Mrs. c. B. Maxwell and Miss May
Maxwell have gone to Kansas City.
Mr.. s. J. Peterson of Kansas City was
in town yesterday.
A surprise party was given last even
ing on Guy Compton at his home north
west OF town.
Mrs. Ezra Martin and children have
returned from Indiana, where they have
been for the past month.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Martin and chill
dren returned Wednesday from
months outing in Indiana
Miss Katie Collisi returned yesterday
from WamegO, where she has been Wis
iting Misses Georgia and Bessie Trout.
The probationers and young Chris
tians of the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church will meet this evening with Rev.
and Mrs. Chandler.
Today is the tenth anniversary of Mr..
Jeffers' wedding. He says that If any
body will give him a tin horn he will
blow it when Mckinley is elected.
Grandpa Wendell, father of Mrs. T.
NJ James and Mrs. P. W. Hamilton,
was SO years old yesterday. Several
old friends spent the day with him.
Miss Lottie Beasley of Lyndon, who
has been the guest of the Misses Hough-
telin since Sunday, left yesterday for
Baldwin, where she viii attend school
this winter
Mrs W. H. Danvers and children,
who have been visiting Mrs Danvers'
father, Cyrus Kistler, for the past
month, viii leave tomorrow for their fu-
ture nome in Arkansas City.
Miss Olive woodruff. who has been
visiting the family of s. A Hayes for
the last few days, returned to her home
in Rossville last evening.
The Itany service will be said this
evening at half past at the Church
of the Good Shepherd, after which
Canon Miner will meet the cOnfirma ton
class
Lieutenant Lott of Abilene, a West
Point graduate, who has been visiting
his cousins, the Misses HOUghtelin, left
for Washington, .. c., yesterday,
where he has an appointment at Fort
Myer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

Another merry-go-round has struck
town.
People are beginning to put up their
stoves.
Festival week is only two weeks in
the future.
Capt. A. J. Hungate lost a s12 money
order yesterday.
The equinoctiaI storms are due to ap-
pear in these parts next week.
Ex-Policeman Art Wellman is con-
valescing from a severe sickness.
The SpOoner Dramatic company will
play all next week in Lincoln, Neb.
J. N. Knight has been given the con-
tract for furnishing the county collins
Chief Gardiner and Patrol Driver
Bundy attended the St. Joe races yes
terday.
The work of improving the court
house grounds has at last commenced in
earnest.
The work of preparing the asphalt
pavements was commenced in earnest
this morning.
The only thing that looks cold these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
LINE OF MARoH AeeEEp ON.
For the Floral Procession of the Fall
Festival.

At the meeting of the ladies of the
all Festival Floral Committee yester-
day afternoon the line OF march of the
parade was agreed on.
Soon after o'clock on the afternoon
of Wednesday, September 80, of Fall
Festival week, the parade will form on
Harrison street with the head at Fourth
street facing north. 1t Will move east
on Fourth street to Kansas avenue
south on Kansas avenue to Tenth
street, west on Tenth street to jackson
street, north on Jackson street to
Eighth street, west on Eighth street
to Harrison street, south on Harrison
street to Tenth street, west on Tenth
street to Topeka avenue and south on
Topeka avenue to Camp Nelson A
Miles at the fair grounds.
Since 1t has been decided that Kansas
avenue will be decorated by the nerch-
ants and business men whose places are
there situated, and not by the Commit
tee of Fifteen nor the ladies' committee
a subcommittee was appointed yester-
day consisting of Mrs. Loux, Mrs. VIII
kie, Mrs. wilcox and Mrs. Swayne to
induce people living along the line of
march to decorate their lawns and
premises for that afternoon.
Let everybody have their premises
looking at their best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
APATENT RIGHT CASE.
Suit Involving the Constitutionality
of the Statute.

The case of T. z. B. Mason and Lau-
IA A. Mason versus Alexander Nc
Leod, will soon be filed in the United
States supreme court, upon an appeal
taken by the plaintiffs from the SUI
preme court of Kansas. The trans
cript is now being prepared.
This case comes from Greenwood
county, and involves the constitutional
ity of the statute requiring the owner
of a patent right to file with the clerk
of the district court copies of the letters
patent and with them an affidavit,
showing the letters patent to be gen
uine before engaging in the sale OF
such patent rights in any county.
Mason bought territory for a patent
and afterward sued to cancel a note
given in payment. Among other Ques-
lions raised was the constitutiOnaIity
of the statute referred to. The supreme
court held it to be constitutional. Nc
Leod's attorneys will have the federal
supreme court pass on it now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
JACK KINGS DEFENSE
Of the Recent Aspersions on His
Muscular Prowess.

A few evenings ago as the night pa
trolnen we're waiting for roll call at
the police station, Jack King began tus-
sling with Patrolman Kirk Pinkston.
Pinkston warned him to be careful or
he would throw the wrestler. Pretty
soon Pinkston whirled round and in a
few seconds landed his man on the hard
pavement on his back. Both officers
have been joshed about It, and Jack
King furnishes the following statement
to the State Journal, which explains
his position, Cnot the one on his back:
To the Editor of The State Journal.
Jack King says concerning Officer
Pinkston's throwing him while they
were jOshing that if PinkstOn is to
have a reputation for throwing him,
that officers BAIL, PARCEL and others
should have as much credit, for they
have had as much success. He says
that he does not wish to be reckoned as
a bully, and prefers to be thrown rath-
er than to run any risk of hurting MS
weaker brother officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
BRITISH COMMERCE DECLIN-
ING.
TFrom the Washington Post.l


[From the Washington Post-J
In compliance with an active and long
continued demand for such a compila-
ton, the Blue Book of British trade,
from 1854 to 1895 has just been issued
Among other interesting facts shown
by this important publication is that
Great Britain's export trade, as com
pared with its import trade, is declin-
ing. In other words, its consumption
Of foreign products grows more rapidly
than the business of supplying foreign
nations with its own products. We do
not suppose there is any apprehension
Of disaster from this cause, but such
condition could not go on indefinitely
without serious results. The man whose
outlay steadily gains on his income is
becoming less prosperous, even though
he may still have a comfortable margin
between receipts and expenditures. Let
him live long enough, and the same
conditions continue, and he will cease
to have any income at all. The same
rule applies to nations.
The Blue Book shows that the maxi
mum of both exports and imports was
reached almost simultaneously, that
of the former in 1890 and that of the
latter in 1891 The value Of the exports
increased from s4s5, 900, 900 in 1854 to ST.
100, 900. 900 in 1895, and of the imports
from $780, 900 in 1854 to s.. O85. O0O. 600
in 1895. The exports in 1890, the great
trade year, amounted to s1,315, 900. 900,
while in the great import year, 1891, the
merchandise brought in was valued at
81. Us, O0O. 900.
Rich as Great Britain is. the decline
of its commerce is a serious matter. We
could help our English cousins in this
infeHcity by reducing our tariff, clos
ing our factories, and supplying our ne
cessities with British goods. A tariff
for revenue only would accomplish
that object. But we do not. and ought
not to, love our neighbor better than
ourselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
WILL TRY IT AGAIN.
The Committee of Five Will Have An
other Floral Queen Contest.

The question of who shall be Flora
in the Fail Festival Flower Parade
has not yet been decided, but will be
soon.
Miss Emma Banks, secretary of the
committee that with the Topeka club
has that in charge, says:
The question of a Flora will be de-
auspices of this committee. The nian
will be entirely different from anything
we have ever had.
In the first place we shall select and
secure five or six suitable young ladies
for the place. A polling place will be
opened and for just one day the public
will be allowed to vote. All persons
will be registered and no person will
be allowed to vote more than once.
Votes will be entirely free. No charge
will be made. Whoever receives the
largest number of votes will be Flora"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
MEASURES OF PUBLIC SAFETY.

MEASUR RES OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
LFrom the Chicago Times-Herald-l
The New York papers are seriously
agitating the question of an ordinance
requiring that all vehicles that are
driven through the parks at night be
equipped with lamps. 1t is claimed that
a great many of the serious accidents
which the papers of New York have
been called upon to chronicle resulted
directly from the inability of the
wheelmen to see the vehicles with
which they colided.
Inasmuch as the bicycles outnumber
other kinds Of vehicles at least ten to
one on the bouIevards, an ordinance
compelling owners of the four wheeled
equippages to fit them with lamps
would seem not only to be perfectly
fair and reasonable, but almost imper-
alive as a matter of public safety. It
is now pretty generally conceded that
the Chicago lamp ordinance applies on
~ to public conveyances such as cabs
and hacks, but even this is not enforced
and it is also noted that nearly every
other city and town in the United
States require all wheelmen to equip
their bikes with regular bicycle bells.
These are adjusted to the handle-bars
and are operated by a touch with the
thumb without taking the hand from
the bar. They are quite often the
means of averting serious injuries to
pedestrians who are enabled to quickly
jump aside and avoid a collision. There
is no requirement of this kind in Chi
cagO, and yet such a regulation is
needed in this thickly populated city
more than in any other town in Amer
lea
Before another cycling season opens
and over 100000 wheelmen are again
turned lose in our parks and boulevards
the council should enact some we'll
considered measures for the better pro-
lection of wheelmen and pedestrians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
CLEAR THE STREETS
And Give the Little Girls a Chance
The Living Flag.


The nearly 800 little girls that com
pose the Living Flag feature of the
Fail Festival Flower Parade are having
a good deal of trouble about a drilling
place. They constitute a body so large
when they are drilling that they are
compelled to uss the street and have
heretofore been drilling on Harrison
street near Eighth. The traffic on the
street so seriously interferes with them
that they thought seriously of giving
up the feature entirely. Many of their
parents objected because vehicles, BIZ
cycles, among them, were likely to hurt
the little girls.
Chief of Police Gardiner was visited
by Prof Hudson, however. and prom
ised to have two policemen there on
drill times hereafter to keep the street
clear.
All the girls in the Flag will drill
again tomorrow afternoon at 8: 30
O'Clock. They will meet at the corner of
Eighth and Harrison streets. The three
gentlemen who offered to assist in the
drill and whose names the ladies in
charge do not know, are asked to be
there also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
ROCKEFELLER'S TAXES.
At Tarrytown He is Assessed for a
Million Dollar House.

New York, Sept 11.-John D. Rookie
Teller has decided to bring proceedings
to compel the board of assessors of
TarrytOwn to lower the assessment on
his residence there. The property has
been assessed at $1,000. 600 which MI
Rockefeller says it five times it's value
and four times greater than the as
sessment last year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
This viii be a Sight Worth Seeing.

SIX society young Iao1es VINO VIII not
allow their names to be made public
confronted Mrs. Sutton yesterday with
a proposition that if a prize were offer
ed for that sort of display in the Fall
Festival Flower Parade they would Sc
cure Dr. McCurdy's four-in-hand and
ride in it in the parade. Further than
this they will decorate 1t till it is the
prettiest thing in Kansas To do this
they viii spend every cent they have,
they say, and Will borrow from their
friends. And they are young ladies who
have the money, too Mrs. Sutton says
she will get the prize to offer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
Funeral of. T. Beronius.

The funeral services over the remains
of J. T. BerOnius were held at the res
idence of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. a.
v. Beronius, 716 Polk street, yesterday
morning. Rev. a. E. Waggoner con
Quoted the services. Mr.. Beronius was
well known in the city, having lived
here all his life up to five years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
Floral Committee Gets the Money.

At the committee meeting yesterday
afternoon the FlOra's Float Committee
of Five resolved since the Topeka club
and Topeka float. This will give that
committee over 800 to start on. The
Topeka club will admit Of no partner
ship
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11
Cover the Cannon with Flowers.

On suggestion Of Miss Banks the Ia
dies of the Floral committee at their
meeting yesterday afternoon resolved
to donate the paper with which the
flowers will be made to decorate the
cnnnon to be used by Company 3, ar
tillery, in the Fall Festival Flower Pa
rade. The members of the battery viii
see that the flowers are made and the
cannon decorated