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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

July 10, 1894, and on Jan. 4. 1896,
President Cleveland issued his proclama-
ton admitting Utah to the Union.
Utah was part of the territory acquired
from Mexico in 1e48 and was settled in
1847 by Mormons, under the leadership
of Brigham Young. In March, 1849, a
provisional government for ''The State
of Deseret" was organized, but it was
superseded by the territory of Utah, or
ganized by congress Sept. 9, 1850, when
the territory had II, $3.50 inhabitants
Utah then embraced portions of Colo
RADIO, Wyoming and Nevada and had an
area of 22o, 1876 square miles, but her
present area is only about So, 900 square
miles. In 1866 the territorial legislature
framed constitution for 1.-THE State of
Deseret'' and application was made to
congress for admission to the Union as a
state, but the plea was denied, owing to
the polygamous practices Of the Nor
mons. The granting Of statehood was
also opposed by the gentiles, as the
non-Mormon element, largely in the mi
nority, was called.
One by one Utah's neighbors-Ne-
vada, Nebraska, Colorado, North Da-
kota, South Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton, Idaho and Wyoming in the order
named were admitted to statehood, but
Utah, large and powerful, remained
territory because she chung to polygamy.
Finally the government prohibited plu-
raj marriages, the Mormon church re-
pudiated them and Utah became state.
Heber NJ. Wells, the first governor of
the state, was born in Salt Lake City SO
years ago and was educated at the Uni
versity of Utah. He is a Republican and
was a member of the last two constitu-
tional conventions. He was defeated for
mayor of Salt Lake City in 1892 by r.
N. Baskin. For five years Governor
Wells has been cashier of the State Bank
of Utah. He is member of the Mormon
church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

AFTER all that is said of the president
he has q certain sort of honor. It is
what is denominated personal honor. He
owes his election to the Morgans, Bel
monts and others of their class and he is
but carrying out his part of a bargain
actual or implied. The bond holders
were certain that Mr.. Cleveland could
be depended upon TO serve their pur-
purposes or he would not have been
elected. Men familiar with the inside
workings of national politics knew per-
fectly well. months before the election
that Mr.. Cleveland was to be the choice
of the electoral college, The president
places personal honor before political
honor and duty to the people. He seems
to regard the great trust placed in his
eharge as something to be used to dis
charge his private obligations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

THE idea which has bee u suggested
by some silver meu that commission
should be appointed to determine the
proper ratio at which gold and silver
should be coined seems hardly necessa-
ry. Statistics as far as obtainable show
that there is about sixteen times as much
silver as gold in the world; hence it
would seem that 16 TO is about the
proper ratio. More than this, it is the
ratio with which large majority of the
people is satisfied
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

IT appears that the story which DR.. H.
G. Linn of Topeka tells in the Washing
ton correspondence about Kansas cam
didate for delegate to the 1884 conven-
ton who was for Edmunds for president,
shut not bad enough to get beat" was
wrongly credited to George r. Peck. It
does not affect the story, but it was an
other delegate who voted for Edmunds,
and Peck voted for Arthur. The ex-
preston was made by delegate from
the southern part of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

name of Ida Kahn. The girls are pupils
of Miss Charlotte Howe, the we'll known
Methodist missionary to China, who has
made many sacrifices to educate them
in America so that they may be fitted
for future work among their people.
The girls are senior medical students
and seem to take deep interest in the
work. They have been quite thoroughly
educated in English and speak the Ian
guage so we'll that they would not be
characterized as foreigners by a stranger
who heard them talk without seeing
their faces.
The home of these interesting new
women from China is at the Methodist
mission in Kew Kiang in the province of
Kiangsi, northwest of Canton. The
girls do not look at all alike. Miss Stone
is a large woman and Miss Kahn is
quite small and rather attractive in ap-
pearance. She is supposed to be a linea1
descendant of Confucius, or Kong Foo,
her assumed name Kahn being her own
liberal translation of her actual name,
Kong. The prefix Ida was given her by
her friend and benefactor, Miss Howe,
who prepared both girls for the medical
department of the University of Michi-
gan and even taught them the Latin they
know.
Miss Stone and Miss Kahn are both
active workers in the Students Chris
tian association of the university and
Miss Stone is secretary of the senior
medical class. She and Miss Kahn are
somewhat reserved and shy, but they are
quite popular with their fellow students,
who are much interested in their efforts
to obtain a useful knowledge of medi-
cine With the girls are two Chinese
boys, Yung Ping Cheng and Taiyin
Chico, who are also pupils of Miss Howe.
Cheng is medical student and Chico is
a sophomore in the literary department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

The Topeka JOURNAL is demanding a
row at Atchison. This town is entirely
too prosperous and we'll behaved to suit
Topeka people. The official records
show fewer liquor licenses in Atchison
than in Topeka, and less drunkenness.
How silly and unfair, therefore, for To-
peka papers to demand better morals at
AtchisOn!-Atchisou Globe.
So far as the "Topeka JOURNAL" is
concerned it doesn't care what Atchison
does. It isn't interested in Atchison
There may be people in Topeka who
swami a row. in Atchison, but we doubt
II. Atchison, Leavenworth and Wichita
all seem to have a mistaken notion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

NoTwIr HsTANDING the fact that the
goIdbug attaches of the national admin
istration from Carlisle down have been
telling the people that the silver craze
was dying out-was in fact on its last
legs, the senate of the United States
seems about to pass free coinage bill.
The silver question does not seem to be
"receding from public view" as told by
Secretary Carlisle; not so as one can no.
tice it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

On the gold mems theory that overpro-
duction of silver caused the decline in its
market price. why does not the greatly
increased production of gold in the past
two years lower the price of that metal?
1t is because the coinage laws sustain
the price and the gold men know it.
They also know that similar coinage laws
applied to silver would maintain its price
wherever fixed by the statute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
Why Is This Thus?

A baseball went around curve,
A bat went on a strike,
A tooth from sheer freight lost its nerve,
a pike pole lost its pike.
A football raised a mighty kick,
A needle hurt it's knee,
A sickle died from being sick,
An eyelet couldn't see.
And once a bulldog barked his shin,
A fish weighed with his scales,
A dinner made an awful din,
A nail key trimmed its nails.
A tree had just as leaf as not,
A polecat polled its votes,
A garden made garden plot
To make COATES of goats.
3 sidewalk fell and hurt its side,
A coal mine caught a cold,
A chi2mpnk ste chip and died,
A bowlder grew more bold.
A crematory made ice cream,
An "houri' told the hours,
All seams are not just what they seem,
All boomers are not flowers.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

the forty-ffth
now gra c 9 8
=" Old Glory. -
For nearly so
years polygamy
T Q t a r d Q d her
progress toward
admission to the
Union, but finally
the incubus was
removed. The ma
'tional house of
re pre- sentatives
passed the state
hood bill Dec. 10,
1898, the senate
o1D-0-al %I0 I'LL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
THE HABIT IS SPREADING.
A Steadily Increasing Demand For
Cocaine.
CASES WHERE IT Has CAUSED DEATH.
An Overdose Causes UncOnscfOusness
and Possibly Death.

HE cocaine habit is
spreading. E V e T
since the peculiar,
pain-allaying prop
critics OF this drug
became generally
known, a few
years ago, it has
been in steadily in
creasing demand,
until to-day the
sale of the medi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

The gold advocates say if free coin
age president and congress are electe d
this wear, we will be unable to find buy
ers for the only bonds authorized by ex-
listing statutes-coin bonds. This will
not matter so very much, as in that event
we shall not want to sell any bonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

IT will be a fortunate thing for the
country if pending the bond issue which
has bsen advertised, the gold shall all be
withdrawn from the treasury, It will
show how easy it is to get on without a
gold reserve. If the syndicate goes to
pieces as now GEMS possible, such re-
suit is not improbable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
A Brilliant Success.

First Actor (on the Rialto)-Why,
how de do, Buskin? Where have you
been?
Second Actor-On Western tour.
First Actor-Was it a success?
Second Actor-Glorious! Immensei
Brilliant success! Why, sir, we came
back by rail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
The Wrong Man KILLED.

In the Bohmerwald, near Pilson, two
gypsies fought duel with knives for a
girl in her presence. She looked on the
fight with great interest, and without
interfering, till one stabbed the other
to the heart, when she drew a revolver
and shot the victor through the head.
She stayed by the bodies till arrested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

A NOTED Kansas Republican said to
the STATE JOURNAL the other day: "The
Populists were right, but their leaders
were a set of blanked scoundrels." Now.
perhaps our Populist friends can under
stand why their party fell to pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

IT will be a sad day for Republican
ism in Kansas if political schemers shall
succeed in turning down men like Case
Broderick. Misfortune may even over
take the man who defeats him for the
nomination if such there should be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
Largest Dam In the WORLD.

The great artificial lake situated at
Dnebar, twenty miles southeast of
Udalpur, Rajpootana, India, covers an
area of twenty-one square miles. The
main masonry dam which helps to con-
fine this immense body of water is 1000
feet long by 95 feet high. Engineers
say that it is the largest dam in the
world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

IT is reported in official circles that
unless the sultan comes down with
100000 indemnify for the destruction
of the American missions, it will be col
lected by force. How about liberating
Waller by force?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

POLITICIANS will be little wary about
joining the Mystic Brotherhood. a
number of them joined a similar organ
ization during the Click campaign and
were engaged in explaining and denying
the circumstances for years afterwards.
Tbs rolls of membership were finally
destroyed and that ended the matter as
there was no longer any proof.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

IT will now be in order for Morgan.
Cleveland & Co. to get up another panic
as an "object lesson" to brighten the
people out of attempting to bay the
bonds now being offered for sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
NO Encourage Matrimonx.

Belgium proposes to facilitate mar
rage by reducing the legal age for both
sexes to 81 years, instead of 20 for the
man and 81 for the woman, as the law is
now, and by making the consent of the
father alone necessary instead of both
parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

Ex-GovERNoR GIBBS of Texas, has
deserted the Democratic party and join
ed the Populists. OF course Texas
Democrat couldn't turn Republican, and
he says the Populists can't m axe things
worse than the Democrats have done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
Horses Brol-en bv women.

In Norway the horses are broken in
by women. They make pets of them first
feeding the colts out of their own hands,
and teaching them to follow like dogs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

Rev. E NJ. RANDALL, the Methodist
minister from Leavenworth who partici-
pated in the late prohibition convention
at Topeka, is being severely criticised
By LeavenwOrth people. He Was not au-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

EVERY man connected with one OF the
state boards appointed by Governor
Morrill,, is hustling for the election of Cy
Leland as deleg at-large to the ma
tional convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

THE president has been touched at
last He writes letter denying that he
is standing in" with the syndicate. He
even says that he has been in favor of
popular subscription all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
Menrner Indications.

CHICAGO. Jan. II. = For Kansas: =
Gene rally fair tonight and Sunday; cold
er in northwest portion tonight; much
colder Sunday; west winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

Wants your order for coal, try him, his
prices are right. his Bell Tel. mum Der is
$50, Har. Tel $50 and his place of busi-
ness is 9l8 East Fourth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
TWO CHINESE NEW WOMEN.

They Are Stndyfng Medicine at the UNI
versity of Michigan.
OF the four Chinese students at the
University of Michigan, Ann Asbor, two
are women. One of them, Maiyii SHE.
calls herself Mary Stone and the other,
Miss Kong, has assumed the English
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

Tourist Tin Oklahoma)-When you drew
your bowie and sprang at the stranger who
had called you a liar, did he lose his headf
{, Alkali Ike-Nopei Only his ear.-Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

THE Hutchinson News contains more
news than any daily published in central
Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
municipaI ownership i'm England.

London is following the lead of some
of the English and Scotch cities in re-
tanning control of municipal franchises.
The London authorities now stipulate
what use shall be made of the streets
by those engaged in the transportation
of passengers, what wages they shall
pay employees and the number of hours
constituting a days labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

Smooth as silk is the way our collars
feel now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112
and ia w, 9Th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
THE NEW STATE OF UTAH.

For Near1y Fifty Years Po1ygany Kept
Her q Territory.
Utah's long struggle for statehood has
at last been successful and another star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11

A movement is on foot to establish in
Burlington, VT, a large shirt factory to
employ from 200 to 900 hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-11
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily edition. delivered by carrier, 10
cents week to any part Of Topeka OF
suburbs, or at the same price in any
Kansas town where this paper has oar
1ier system.
BY mail, three months. go
By mail, one year .... $50
Weekly edition, per year ...... 80
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

There are now in the United States
,I06 national banks.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19
Two Famous Kisses.

History has taken notice of some
famous kisses. There was that which
Queen Margaret gave to Alain Char
tier, over 800 years ago, the mem
DRY of which is fresh in the minds
of men, if not on their lips. Charter
was a poet, but be was the ugliest
man personally in all ''the sunny
land of France" The queen, with
her maids, one day found him asleep,
and, bending over him, kissed his
dreaming lips. Turning to her
maids, she prettily said, Il kiss not
the man; / kiss the soul that sings"
Two centuries later Voltaire, an
other Frenchman, and also a poet,
WIS publicly kissed in the stage box
of the theater by the young and
lovely Countess de Villars, but in
his case the lady gave the kiss not
as a voluntary tribute to genius, but
in obedience to the commands of the
claque in the pit, who, mad with en-
thusiasm for the poets "Merope,"
babe her kiss him.-Boston Herald.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

The action Of various cities in closing
up police lodging houses is to be COM
mended. There ought not TO be one left.
Neither should municipal free lodging
houses be opened. They would be worse
yet. They would draw to them a horde
Of dirty tramps. Places can be provided
where every one ont Of shelter may re-
ceiye temporary food and lodging IN
condition that he take Il bath and do
work enough to pay for what he gets. II
there are those who are really needy and
entirely unable to work. they shonlG be
sent or sentenced to u charity hospital
or poorhouse. Vigorous measures like
these. in connection with the estab-
lishment of vacant city lot farms, road
building schemes and farm colonies such
as the Salvation Army proposes TO start
will in time rid this country of every
tramp and yagrant. The matter must be
taken vigorously in hand. Tramps can
not be allowed to go marauding at will,
carrying disease and contamination
wherever they pass. numbering, steal
ing and committing outrages.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19
Purifying and DIslnrsctIng Air.

In order to purify and disinfect
the air of rooms and factories u Ger.
man scientist employs platinum wire
kept red hot or incandescent by an
electric current. For sickrooms the
wires are passed backward and for
ward over insulating supports ar
ranged upon a framo while in "A fac
tory a Special form of apparatus is
employed in the chimney to effect
the deposition of smoke.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

She is an English woman and a
new domestic in a boarding house.
She was rolling a heavy barrel along
the basement hall when one of the
boarders passed her.
"What have you there, Annie?"
1.-THE hash barrel, sir"
"The what?"
1.-THE hash barrel"
"Great Scott! | knew we ate a
lot of it, but l didn't think she
bought it by the barrel. New
York Recorder.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

= Since the advent Of James q. Blaine
in the United States senate there has
been nobody to curdle the blood of that
dignified body till Senator Ben Tillman
undertook the task and succeeded prob
ably better than he had hoped to do. If
there was any man, woman or child III
this country who had not heard of SEN
ator Ben Tillman of South Carolina pre-
vious TO his recent explosion in the SEN
ate, there is no such person now.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19
WEDNESDAY. .FEBRU Try 10, 1895
Cripple Creek Gold Mines.

SAABIA1
They differ geologically from those
found elsewhere. The United States
geological survey has had prepared a
very thorough map and description OF
the region in which the richest deposits
have been discovered. 1t is found that
tho gold is Of volcanic origin, having
been fused in the earth and thrown up
in the o~utbursts of lava. The volcano
which vented the gold, lava and melted
rock belonged to the tertiary period.
The gold AZ found is usually mixed
with the mineral known as telluride.
Occasionally some is found pure. doubt
less left after the decay Of the telluride.
The telluride is found Embedded in
quartz and a beautiful crystal which is
called at Cripple Creek purple quartz,
bnt which biologists class as fi%uorspar,
q mineral containing lime, while quartz
is of the nature of a sand OF flint stone.
Along the cracks of the rocks the gold
bearing ore rests, and it may be found
almost anywhere in these assures.
Biologists find that the formations at
Cripple Creek are of comparatively re-
cent date-not more than "a few million
years old, that is. The character of the
soil and minerals is Of intense interest
to scientists quite apart from the inter
est they have for the mere grabbers.
l,early 1000, 900 in gold has already
been taken from the Cripple Creek
mines, and there is no sign of their
giving out.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19
VIII All ,he Elephants Be Killed?

VIII All the Elephants DO hiiled1
When we take into consideration
the large quantity of ivory import.
ed annually, it is not surprising that
those interested in it should at times
become somewhat anxious about fu-
ture supplies. An authority upon
Indian matters some few years back
was particularly struck by this
thought, and wrote:
ut is reported that England alone
imports l, 200. 900 pounds of ivory,
to obtain which 80, 900 elephants
have to be annually killed, and the
worlds supply must, it has been es-
timated, necessitate 100, 600 being
annually slaughtered. It may safe
ly be assumed that, if this rule of
destruction continues, n oompara-
lively few years will suffice to *
terminate the African species of ele-
plant
Tho assumption is, fortunately for
the world at large, quite incorrect.
AS a matter of fact, our imports av-
erage about the same year by year,
but there is a very important factor
which the Indian authority just
quoted has evidently overlooked
namely, that most of the ivory that
we receive is technically known as
dead ivory--that is, tusks which
have been taken from elephants long
since dead and stored up in the in
terror of Africa. OF live ivory, or
tusks taken from recently killed
animals, We do not receive, compare
lively speaking, a considerable guam
tity. There is no fear whatever of
the supply being exhausted during
the next two or three generations.
Chambers journal.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

Utah has n population of 247, 324. 1t
IS entitled to Il representative in the
rational house. The sisterhood of states
welcomes No. 45 warmly. But if any
{ her Mormons ever try again to SNUG
lie i'll just the least little bit of their
ormer polygamous iniquities let them
ook out. The Union is not going to
tand any nonsense.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

Mons CONTINENTAL TAILORING COMPANY OF Chcago. TINS conn
p ~ make garments to measure only; all the goods are made in there work
rooms, syshly cut and with superior trimmings They fill all orders with
nreior trimmings. They fiji all orders with careful attention to details, and
uarants A fl on eyervp men We have o view a cOmple line oil exclusive
novelties in fancy embroidered Corduroys, all the rage Just o among vel
dreser. We shall be pleased to supply yonr needs in the way OF Spring n
Summer suitings, overcoas or trousers, guaranting quality, fit and finish at a
moderated cost.
Orders filled with the I'M grace for the above house as if made in my shop.
Alterations and Express charges Free. Anticipating a early visit, and thank
ing you fr the past favprs, 1 remain, Yours Respectfully, SEYMOUR JACOBS
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-02-19

Really, it does seem as if the blind
ST, stupidest, most bigoted and most
npairiotic citizens of this republic are
, be found among some of our Ameri-
IN college professors.