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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
HARDIN LADIES'
Proposals for Coal and Stationery.


Sealed proposals will be received at
this Office until o'clock p. m, Sep
TENDER Z, 1896, for supplying the public
schools of this city for the school year
1861 with coal equal to the best
Usage City shaft coal, and for such
quantity of anthracite and Ouita coal
and coke as may be required Bids
will be considered for any kind of first
class coal, the mine being named, but
in awarding the contract the board
will take into consideration the quality
of the coal and not necessarily give the
contract to the lowest bidder. Bids will
be considered for supplying all the
schools of the city, or all the schools
north of the river, or all the schools
south of the river
All coal must be screened, and de-
lfvered in such quantities, at such
times, in the coal houses, and weighed
on such scales as the board may desig-
nate, at the expense of the contractor.
Each bid must enclose a certified
check for 800, payable to the Board of
Education, in case the successful bid
der fails to enter into contract and
furnish within three days of the time
of the award, a satisfactory bond in
the sum of $1,000 for the faithful full
fllment of the contract
The board reserves the right to re-
ject all bids.
Proposals for stationery will be re-
ceived at the same time and place for
300 reams, 1000 single sheets)
more or less, of practice pa
per of size. quality and ruling as per
sample in this Office; and 300 gross Of
No 126 pens. and 100 gross, more or
less, of No. 404 pens: and 100 gross,
more or less, of pencils. Dixon, Faber
OF Eagle, selections to be made from
samples submitted, delivered at such
times as the board may direct
The board reserves the right to re-
ject all bids.
BY order of the Board of Education.
H. w. FARNSWORTH. Sec.
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THE FOUNDER OF cREEDs.
The Famous PrOspecter Broken In Health
and Fortune.

The Famous Proprietor Broken In Health
and Fortune.
There dwells in southern California
man broken in health and fortune and
approaching the evening of life who
founded the most remarkable mining
town in America.
Yet there is nothing very remarkable
about N. @. Creede except that he made
q fortune by a lucky strike and lost it
by bad investments Creede was born
in Fort Wayne, Ind, and after serving
in the army and as a scout he prospect
ed for silver all over the state of Col
orado. He was lucky, as prospectors
count luck, and made several good
strikes.
He usually prospected on grub stakes,
days wages and an interest IN the Ioca-
tion he made. On June %, 1889, he To-
Gated the Holy Moses mine, a profitable
vein which became famous on account
Of its name. He said he named it Holy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
PULLMAN PORTERS UNITE.
First Organization of the Gentlemen
Who Shine Your Shoes at Midnight

First Organization of the Gentlem en-
Who Shine Your Shoes at Midnight
Chicago, Aug. s1.-The order of rail-
way porters of America is the latest
thing in association The colored man
who makes up berths and takes quar-
ters on palace cars has organized him
self. Hereafter the weary traveller viii
have the satisfaction of knowing that
he is in the hands of organized labor
and that the union stamp will be plac-
ed on his early morning shine.
Papers of Incorporation have been is
sued to the new order, which is to be a
benefit organization, and in no sense
labor union. 1t is modelled on the Or
der of Railway Conductors and the in
corpOrators declare that its sole object
is to provide a fund for sick porters
and to bury the dead of the order. It
Is the idea of Robert A. Caldwell, who
has been 3. porter for q years, and who
has seen many porters buried by char
ity after spending years in the service.
He decided last spring that a benefit
organization was needed to induce the
porters to save their money and the
present order is the result. About 500
porters run out of Chicago on the var
ious roads and fifty of these are al
ready members of the order. Caldwell
is grand chief of the first division and
the other officers are G. H. Wheeler,
grand secretary, and Randall Wood
ford, grand treasurer.
There is nothing in the nature of a
union about the order, as many porters
seemed to fear" said Mr.. Caldwell
TT is purely benefit order such as
the conductors have and anticipate it
will be of great value to porters who
are frequently hurt in railway wrecks
and in other ways on the road We in
tend to organize divisions all over the
country. with Chicago as headquar-
ters''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

teachers of all the rest and conserva-
tors of their interests?
If the great bankers. railroad mag
mates and the managers of trusts and
other corporate interests had always
been as solicitous for the welfare of
the laboring man as they now pretend
to be there would be no labor question
and no financial question to be settled.
Their solicitude has come so late that
is is not surprising that its sincerity is
sometimes doubted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
MOVE TO CALIFORNIA.
J. 3. Ferguson Will Establish a Breed
ing Farm at San Mateo.

San Francisco, Aug. 29.-J. B. Fergu-
son, the well known starter of the Cal
ifornia Jockey club, has decided to re-
move part of his famous Kingston stud
at Lexington, Ky, to California.
4 calculate to lease the necessary
land somewhere in the vicinity of San
Mateo," said Mr.. Ferguson. My idea
is to bring out from Is to 20 brood
mares and one of the stations now at
Kingston. 1t will either be imported
St. George or Prince Royal I will
breed to sell In California as I believe
that it is now one of the best markets
In America for the sale of thorough
bred yearIings'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
CRITICISED A BISHOP
And So Minister Passmors is Expell-
ed by the Methodists.

E. conference has expelled Rev. r. F.
Passmore from the ministry because
he accused Bishop Warren of being in
league with saloon keepers and gam
blers. Mr.. Passmore takes the ground
that in voting or working for Repubu
can or Democratic tickets, a minister
of the gospel practically leagues him
self with the saloon element and his
position is against that canon of the
Methodist discipline which asserts
that the licensing of the liquor traffic
is a sin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
WHY THEY LEAVE.


The stagnation in business and feel
ing of uncertainty as to the future of
business interests which usually pre-
vail during presidential campaigns are
seldom if ever justified by the result
| If Major Mckinley shall be elected,
things will remain about as they are,
with probably a gradual and continu-
Gus decline in prices for some time to
| come. If the Democratic candidate
shall be elected and a congress in ac-
cord with his views an impetus my be
given to business and a gradual rise in
prices follow. No sudden or violent
changes are likely to result IN either
event.
The crash which came in 1893 was not
the result of the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land. It had ripened for years and was
ready to fall. Instead Of taking meas
ures to break its force, however. the
newly elected president, Cleveland,
used all the power OF his position to
make it more severe. This policy was
not in pursuance of anything which
was in the Democratic platform but
was peculiar and personal to Mr.. Cleve-
land himself.
If he had instructed his secretary of
the treasury to reverse the policy of
his predecessor and to exercise his le-
gal option Of redeeming greenbacks
and sherman notes in coin of which
ever kind was most convenient and
abudant there would have been no de-
pletion of the gold reserve and no ne
eessity or excuse for an issue Of bonds.
The panic would have been of short
duration and the country would have
been in much better shape today than
it is.
This is the first year since the war IL
which any political party has declared
in favor of the policy of it's opponents
and that only goes to the extent of OPP
posing any change. Those who believe
that it is betted to bear the ills they
have than to fly to others that they
know not of Will support this party.
Those who believe that an improve
nent is possible will join the forces of
he party favoring a change.
There is little partisanship in the
contest. The question is being decidel
" the voter on a business basis.
It is generally recognized that indus
trial affairs are not in so good con
1ition as they might be and it is a dis
appointment to many Republicans that
he party did not in its national plat
form offer a remedy instead Of asking
It's followers to accept 1t on faith and
believe that because it always haa
looked out for the country's interests
that it will continue to do SO. Many
voters would like to know how this is
to be done. They read that there is to
be no change in the financial systems
this of course means more bonds soon
or or later. Some sort of a change in the
tariff laws is suggested by the plat
form but it is well understood that
anything in that direction will be i'm
possible for some years to come, owing
to the political complexion Of the SEN
ate.
It is not surprising therefore that
many are deserving the grand old par
ty for one which at least promises
something different and possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
HE SAVED THE TREES.
They Were Historical and He Dared
the Municipality With Gun.

the municipality Win Gun.
Los Angeles, Aug. 31-"Counci1, spare
those trees,'' has been the plea of w.
Niles for some time past. So earnest
was his desire to save a couple of his
torical walnut trees on Maple avenue
that he camped under them with
shotgun and prevented the street sup
erintendent from fulfilling the speci-
hcations Of the new curb
The council acted on the much-post-
poned acceptance of the Maple avenue
street Improvement this morning. The
curb was built not in accordance with
specifications, to save those two walnut
trees. Niles, the owner Of the trees.
had remained on the curb with a shot
gun, and said q three-foot curb would
have to do if an eight-foot radius in
terfered with the trees. Councilman
Munson admitted that under these cir
cumstances one would not want to in
terfere, and the council finally denied
the protests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
chean Rates to nanunr

For the annual meeting OF the Ma
tfonaI Eisteddfod. Denver, Colo, Sept.
is, the Union Pacific will sell tickets
at rate of one fare for the round trfp.
plus 81, from points in Kansas and Ne
braska. Tickets on sale August 18th
to Sept. 1st, inclusive.
For further particulars call on
Il. A. LEWIS
City Ticket Agent, or
J. c. FULTON,
Depot Agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
Cyclists Ride With CowbelIs.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 29.-This city wit
messed a bicycle demonstration last
night that was not expected when the
council passed the bell and lamp bicycle
ordinance. Hundreds of bicycIists rode
through the streets with COW, sleigh, or
any kind of a bell and made the night
hideous. The council will enforce the or
ding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

1t is astonishing that the people who
have barely enough to eat and wear.
toll hard as they may, persist in de.
Tending a governmental system that
prevents them from getting more.
Truly, as has been said, there are mil
lions of human beings who, in intel
ligence, are like 1.-The unmatched things
in eggs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

DR.. A. P. Sawyer: I have used one
box of your Family Cure for 4 severe
pain in my side, and was cured from
all pain. Mrs. Mary Jane Marshall.
GaIesburg, III. Frank SIM Pharma-
cist. cor Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

Average partisan argument: All the
leaders of our side are paragons of
wisdom and honesty; all the leaders on
the other side are representatives of
satan. Pooh; what fools these NOR
tails be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
SANTA FE ROUTE,
THE HOME ROAD.
National Democratic Par
ty, Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 2 and
a 1895.

One fare for round trip. Tickets on
sale August 80 and 81, return limit
September 9. Enquire of Cromwell &
Jeffers, postoffice, North Topeka. or at
Santa Fe depot, foot of Fifth street.
W. c. CARNEY. AGENT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

DR.. A. p. Sawyer: think your med
fcfne one of the grandest discoveries
that was ever made for women. We
can never thank you enough. Re-
specially, Ida c. Bradshaw. Fairfield,
iii. Frank Sim. Pharmacist. 6O7 Kan.
sas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
A WOMAN FOR GOVERNOR.

1Eazs Reel Of Wyoming a Candidate FER
the Republican Nomination.
The unusual spectacle of a woman
candidate for governor may be presented
to the world when the Republicans of
Wyoming launch the campaign of 1888.
As state superintendent of public in
structiOn Miss Estelle Reel has demon
strated by a successful public record
that she is quite as capable of perform
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

Sunday; no issue
the total number of copies printed in
the six months named above. / e57 e7o
divided by 156, the mum Der Of Issues
shows the average to be 10, SOS. This Il
8 correct report OF the issues Of ar
TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOLJRNAT
Tor the six months as stated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31

Ladies' shirt waists Numbered so that
the coIors viii not fade by Peerless
Steam Laundry liz and ia W. sta.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-31
J. c. FULTON,
Depot Agent.

For bilious and mismatic diseases
Ayers Ague Cure Is 8 safe and radical
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TEMPORARY QUARTERS:
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PERMANENT HOME

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and 500 Kansas avenue corner Of
Eighth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-07
Removal Notice.

Mr. 4. l. Mitchell has removed his Palace Confectionery and Bookstore from West Second avenue to No. POS Main street, next to the Mann Tankersley Drug Co.,, where he would be pleased to see all Of his old eus- toners and as many new ones as may find it convenient to eali. In addition to his large stock of candies: cigars and eonfections. Mr. Mitchell also carries a full line of the latest newspapers, books, periodieal als and magazines. Also, all the lntest re- ligious, sporting and trade papers. A share of the general trade solicited
 s 25Atf.
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 Our Honor at Stake.

Our Revolutionary forefathers left but one blot to tarnish their bright rec ord-their continental money was not redeemed. That error we must not re- peat. Our first duty is to see to it that our country does no act to diseredit her fair name. America has vast bonded debt, incurred in expressing the rebel lion It has agreed to pay that debt, principal and interest, in a currency re- deemable ill gold. Ever since the re- sumption of specie payments we have rency of redemption. Every man at home or abroad who has purchased bond of the United States has acquired that bond with the understanding dis tinetly expressed in our statutes that it was to be paid in something equal to gold. If we propose to pay principal or interest ill anything less than that, we propose to pay in something different from the promise, ill something less val uable than that to which our national faith has been pledged.
 Governments cannot be sued. That is all the more reason why they must be true to their promises. If all individual repudiates his contracts, the courts are at hand to keep him to his obligations. But when nation repudiates, there is no remedy. Nothing but it's honor is at stake. But when we say that, we confess that yerything is at stake. America is not bankrupt asking for money from her creditors She is able to do all that she has agreed. Shame upon the man who by his vote or his conduct would repudiate her solemn undertakings This is no mere party question. Parties are but the instruments of public policy. They are the creatures of the time. The nation will outlive them. It is our country to which are due allegiance and our love, and that allegiance is worth less and that love is unfaithful if we do not cherish her good name beyond all price. William Dudley Foulke.
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Wealth of Boston.

With less than 150, ,000 citizens of voting age, Boston has property assessed this year at nearly $1, 900, 900, 900. This would make the average citizen of Boston worth in the neighborhood of S6. 900, but, as every one knows, the average citizen in Boston is as poor as he is anywhere else The immense wealth of the city is held in the hands of few men who have gained it by their mortgages on the labor of the east and the farms of the west St. Louis Post Dispatch.
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 Silver and Prices.

The silver miners want free coinage to put up the price of their product The farmers want it to cheapen dollars.
 It cannot do both. If, as the silver miners contend, free coinage would so advance silver as to make the bullion in a silver dollar worth 100 cents, then the silver dollar would be as hard to get and as costly to the farmer as the gold dollar is now alleged to be. One or the other class of free silver advocates would be disappointed in the results of free coinage
 Again, the most numerous class of free coinage advocates consists of men who think that the so called demonetiza- tion of silver depressed the price of farm products, and therefore that free coinage would enhance such prices. New York World.
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Above the Clouds.

Mt. Neho, the cool resort of Ar kansas, located on the Iron Mountain Route, near Russellville, 2.000 feet above the sea. Pure air. cool nights, and several varieties of mineral water. Reduced railroad rates. The hotel and cottages pro vide the best of accommodations at minimum price. For pamphlets of Mt. Nebo, rates, etc, address '. A. Ballou, manager,or any ticket agent of the of the Iron Mountain Route.
 II. B. MIZELL. Tkt. Agt.
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St. Louis Exposition

At St. Louis, Mo-. September 9th to October q. For the above occasion the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets, Pine Bluff to St. Louis and return, at $15.35. Tickets on sale September s, 10, l5. r. 9. 24 and 29; October l, 6, l3, b, 20 and 9. Tickets will be limited to five days from date of sale for return passage.
 J.W. FARLLy,
 Agent.
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THE DEAR DOLLAR.
Every Glass of Labor Suffers From It-Not
 So the Money Lender.


 So the Money Lender.
 Men who work for wages should re- member that money not only buys things, but that it has to be bought
 A dollar is bought by workingman with certain amount Of work If dol lars are few and workingmen plenty, he will have to pay pretty dear in effort for his coin. Perhaps he will not even get chance to buy it at all, either be- cause there are not enough dollars to go around or because he cannot or will not pay the price. In such event the fact that the dollar he doesn't get is one of great value neither interests nor profits him.
 The shopkeeper buys his dollars with goods. Ninety mine out of every 100 of his customers, if he runs city store, work for wages, and if the dearness of the dollar destroys their power of pur- chasing he will get fewer dollars to pay clerks, and some must be discharged. fewer dollars with which to buy goods, and factories will be closed. Every class of labor thus suffers by dear dollar.
 Does the banker, the money lender, the man whose investments bringing in interest outweigh all his other sources of income. suffer from dear dollar? In no way. He does not buy dollars with work, with goods, with. produce. He lends dollar, gets back one which, un- der existing conditions, is sure to be more valuable than the one he lent, and, moreover, receives interest in money of high purchasing power. His apparent interest lies wholly on the side of dol lar which is dear today and dearer to- nserrow. We say his apparent interest beenusegin fact the present system per sisted in will be harmful to the banking classes as to others The goose that lays the golden egg may be slaughtered All securities are founded on the prosperity of the nation, and policy which com pels the distress of the people will com pei the depreciation of the bankers se- curities.
 The common people, however, will get near the core of this currency ques- tion if they remember that to get dol lar they must buy it with labor if work ingmen, with wheat and corn if farm CTS, with cloth or china if merchants. The dollar which will exchange for twice as much of these commodities as did the dollar of 80 years ago is Q dol lar that costs them dear.-New York Journal.
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The Jewish New Year.

Roshashonah, or New Year, will be celebrated tomorrow by our Jew ish citizens. This year, according to the Jewish calender, being the 5657th. Services will be held at the Temple this evening and tomorrow morning. Dr. Becker will conduct the services. The public is cordial ly invited to attend.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-07
M'kINLEYs ACCEPTANCE.
He Says It Is the Duty of the United States
 to Maintain the Gold Standard.


 The delay in the publication of MT. MeKinley's letter of acceptance is ex. plained. The country wondered why if took MT. Mckinley so long to write a letter. It did not know he was writing a book. The document is portentous, appalling in length We have had to read it in the line of duty, but we can not imagine anybody reading it without compulsion.
 The bulk of MT. Mckinley $ volume is devoted to the two subjects of money and tariff, the money question, under stringent orders from Hanna, being treated first, for which wrench to his feelings MT. Mckinley has our deepest sympathy.
 The keynote of the whole production is this one sentence, which would have been more effective if not another line had been added to it:
 Until international agreement is had it is the plain duty of the United States to maintain the gold standard. ,"
 There is no possibility of beclouding the issue any longer. It has come hard, but at last Mr. Mckinley has succeeded in shedding completely the old silver skin that he wore up to 1890, and he appears now in his new integument of gold, little tender yet to tho touch, but rich, unfecked yellow through out. New York Journal.