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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
TO LYNCH ASBELL.

There viii Probably Be Terrible
Scene at OswegO, Kan, Tonight.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. ia special to
the Star from Oswego, Kan, says: A
heavy guard has been placed around the
county Jail to prevent the lynching of
Marion Asbell who is being charged
here with numbering his wife.
Two distinct mobs of citizens invaded
the city last night and threatened to take
Asbell from his cell and lynch him. They
desisted for the time being, but it is said
another attempt will be made tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

suspicion on both reports.
Archangel, said Gen. Greedy, is a
large and important Russian town with
| good connections with the outer world,
aud if such news had reached there, he
| saw no reason why full details were not
obtainable.
Gen. Greeley called attention to an
other point which was that if Nansen has
really emerged from the polar regions
anywhere off the Siberian coast then he
has himself disproved the correctness of
theory on which his expedition was en-
barked.
1t would show that instead of
there existing a current across the pole
there was current that swept him up
from the neighborhood of Bennett island
to the pole and then turned
back and returned him to his
starting point. General Greedy
not unnaturally thought this state
of affairs was hardly possible. Certainly
there was no scientific evidence of the
existence of such an obliging current as
this and therefore Notwithstanding the
Archangel story General Greedy stood
unshaken in his belief in the return of
Nansen as described.
Lieut.. Scheutze made the point that has
apparently escaped observation, that if
the first story from Irkutsk was true, then
Nansen was sighted or heard from off
the Lena delta away back last
summer Lieut.. Scheutze is thoroughly
familiar with that country from Irkutsk
to Yakutsk, which is the most northerly
Russian post of any significance, is a
distance of about 1000 miles and
communication is had only by
sleds. or in summer by RATS down
the river Lena, from Yakutsk
to Ust Yansk, at the mouth of the Lena,
where the Russian trader is said to have
been heard from.
Nansen is a distance of 1900 miles
through an unbroken wilderness. and the
means of communication are reindeer
or dogs. The only travel between
Yakutsk and Ust Yansk, is confined to
few half breed traders who go up to the
latter point early in the winter and stav
through until the next spring MANY
months are required for the trip. and so
any news coming from Ust Yansk of
Nansen would be very old.
Reverting to the possibility of the
same news coming also from Archanpel.
Lieutenant Scheutze said that twas ex.
tremely unlikely although it was
not entirely impossible that after
having been sighted some where
off the Lena delta, Nansen may have
worked his way westward clear to the
neigh borhood of Archangel. Liept
Scheutzs explained the difficulties that
might be encountered in the attempt to
trace such a rumor as that in question. He
said that natives who might have sighted
an Arctic explorer could not conceive the
nature of his undertaking. and owing to
their dense ignorance it would hardly be
possible for them to transmit an iutelli
gible account of the event
The natives of the Siberian isIanda
were stricken in terror at the sight of
the steamer Vega, which had a hunting
party in that region. They hid them
selves in the ice for months afterward
until it was finally explained by a half
oreed who had been fortunate enough to
have once seen a steam vessel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
OUTLAWS AT FIT. SCOTT
Murders and Outrages still Continue
atThat UnforImnate Town.


KANSAS CITY, Feb. 15.-A special to
the Star from Fort Scott, Kan; says: II.
S. Bramwell, a decrepit old man was
found lying under the Memphis rail-
road bridge this morning, moaning for
help. He was taken to the hospital
where his life is despaired Of
While crossing the bridge last night he
said, two tramps knocked him off the
trestle and he fell twenty-five feet to
the ground He sustained broken
leg and other injuries which will
probably prove fatal. A strange
coincidence is the fact that his young
wife's house was set afire last night and
she narrowly escaped with her life.
Intense Indignation prevails and
thorough search for the miscreants is be-
ing made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
j. b. bartholomew Sues for 5000.

]. B. Bartholomew is suing in the dis
trict court L II. Baker and G. F. Oliver,
trustees of the estate of Sheridan Baker,
for 5000 commission for selling lot 214
on Kansas avenue. which was a part of
the estate. The jury retired this after
noon aud soon came in with a verdict for
defendants
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
EXPLOSION IN PULLMAN.
Gasoline ExpIodes and Three Women
Cleaning the Car Are Hurt.

Gasoline Explodes and Three Women
Cleaning the Car Are Hurt.
PITTsBURG, Feb. 15.-An explosion of
gasoline in the Pullman sleeper Wynham
about noon completely demolished the
man cars Gila and New England and
seriously injured three persons. Their
names are:
Mrs Laura Faas aged so; Sidney Con-
roy, aged 20; James Richardson, porter
of Cincinnati, aged 40.
The cars were lying in the Pennsyl-
vania yards and the women were clean
ing the carpets of the Wyndham with
gasoline By some means the gas ignited
from the stove and the explosion
followed. The conclusion wrecked the
car and damaged the other cars lying
alongside. The women and the porter
were seriously burned and cut and Mrs.
Conroy will probably die.
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Mrs. Boutwell, ASK. divorce.

Mrs. May Boutwell, has asked Judge
Hazen to separate her from V. s. Bout
well. She charges nOn-support If the
district judge looks at things in the
same light as Mrs. Cora Higgs she and
David Higgs will also become strangers.
They were married on December I. 1894,
and on February 10 following he de-
serted her, she says.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
CoRBETr SAYS, Il TOLD YOU So"
He Says He Knew All Along There Would
BE No Fight.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 15.-James J.
Corbett said today that he felt
satisfied all along that there
would be no fight between Maher
and Fitzsimmons. While he admires
Stuart aud thought he had done every
thing a man could to bring off the mill.
that at no time was Stuart assured of a
battle ground. The odds of both gov
ernments being against him were too
great to be overcome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
HE COMMITTED SUICIDE.
William Hedy Hangs Himself in the
Prison Cell.

NORTON, Feb. 15.-William Hedy, con.
victed this week of the murder of Albert
Applega ate, has committed suicide in his
cell. The sheriff went to his cell to get
Hedy to take him to the penitentiary and
found him dead, suspended from the cell
ing by cord he had taken from the mat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

At12:30 today the grand jury adjourned
tenn mporarily without returning any of the
indictments which were expected today
and which are known to have been pre-
pared
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
ASHES AND STOVEPIPE.
Cause Two Fires TOday.-One Less Cellar
Door to Slide Down.

Door to Slide Down.
A still alarm called the chemical en-
gine from engine house No to the
rear of 112 West Sixth street at 6:55 this
morning. The cellar door had caught
fire from hot ashes emptied too near it by
the proprietor of the tin shop in the
building. The damage was trif1ing.
Clothing being put too near the stove
pipe caused it TO catch on fire at the
home of L Simms, $40 Spruce street, at
$50 this morning. An alarm was turned
in from box As, but the fire was extin-
guished without loss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
GREELY DOESN'T BEL1EvE IT

Reasons Why Nansen CouIdn't BE Hard
OF at Both Arohaugel and Irkutsk.
Il WAsHINGToN. Feb. 15.-The reported
confirmation from Archangel of the re
after the north pole, does not really
amount to a confirmation in the opinion
of General Greedy and of Lieutenant
6cheutze.
Lieut. Scheutze: "This confirmation
from Archangel is as if we had a teIe-
gram from Portland. Me-, confirming a
story from Sandy Hook"
Gen. Greely took a similar view.
aSno held that it was incon-
ceIvable that the same story
should emanate from two places
% remote from each other as are Irkutsk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
st. Louis MiIIionafre Dead.

St. LOUIS, Feb. 15.-Mr. A. W. Fagin,
one of the most widely known citizens of
ST. Louis, died at his home here this
morning aged "a years. He was one of
the wealthiest men in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

The Nautilus club will meet with
Mira J. T. Lovewell Tuesday. February
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

Mr. Carl Wedding, who has been quite
i'll for a week, is better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

Grand Jury Won't Adjourn.
The grand jury will not adjourn to-
night. It will be in session next week.
Evervbody V takes the JOURNAL
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10
The Cornulent Bonrhon..

Where does the Duo d Orleans get his
fat? From the Spanish and Neapolitan
Bourbons, Of whom he is unquestionably
a descendant, even though Louis Phi
lippe We're a Chiappini cannot think
Of any French Bourbons, except Louis
XVI, his sister Clotilde and Philippe
Egalite's father and the Comte de
Chambord and his sister, who were very
fat The two latter were, however, de
scended from the Nespolitan and Span
ish BOurbons. Obesity has been an oft
recurring maLady of the Spanish royal
family ever since Elizabeth Farnese
married Philip V. She was the heiress
of the fattest Italian that probably ever
lived. He WAS a prince for & Barnum
show whose legs had TO be propped up
by buckram and whalebone cases TO pre-
vent them overlapping his feet. Fatty
degeneration impaired the usefulness of
Charles III Of Spain and destroyed the
activity Of the late Queen Christina,
grandmother Of the Comtesse de Paris
Queen Isabella strongly inherits the
family failing. The Comtesse de Paris
makes brave fight against the heredi-
tary diathesis by Bantingizing at Mar
fenbad and on the Aubergne moors,
where she tires out all her gamekeep-
ere. London Truth
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AnimaIs' Illusions.

Birds arc perhaps more commonly the
victims of illusions than other animals,
their stupidity about their eggs being
quite remarkable Last year, for in
stance, hen got into the pavilion Of a
ladies' golf club and began to sit on u
golf ball in "a corner, for which it made
nest with couple of pocket handlser-
chiefs. But many quadrupeds are not
only deceived for the moment by reflec-
tions, shadows and such unrealities, but
often seem victims to illusions largely
developed by the imagination.
The horse. for instance, is one of the
bravest Of animals when face TO face
with dangers which it can understand,
such as the charge Of an elephant or a
wild boar at bay. Yet the courageous
and devoted horse, so steadfast against
the dangers he knows, is a prey to a
hundred terrors Of tho imagination due
to illusions, mainly those Of sight, for
shying, the minor effect of these illu.
sions, and "bolting, in which panic
gains complete possession Of his soul,
are caused, as n rule, by mistakes as to
what the horse sees, and not by misin-
NtIDltAdklOn VI NAlAb III ilIaAArs ~ 10 AAh~
ticed, for instance, that many horses
which shy usually start away from OBJ
jects on one side more frequently than
from objects on the other. This is prob
ably due TO defects in tho vision of one
or other eye.
In nearly all cases Of shying tho horse
takes fright at some unfamiliar object,
though this is commonly quito harm
less, such as a wheelbaTow upside
down, freshly felled log or a piece Of
paper rolling before the wind. This in
stantly becomes an illusion, is inter
preted as something else, and it is a Gu
rious question in equine neuropathy to
know what it is that the horse figures
these harmless objects to be. When
Russian ponies first began 10 be shipped
to Harwich, they usually objected tC
pass near "a donkey. This reluctance
was explained on tho hypothesis that
the ponies seldom saw donkeys in Rus-
sia and mistook them for bears. Lon
don Spectator.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10

that laws be passed OF rulca be made
to find the value Of each tract OF land
and that uniform prices be fixed Rs
near IA may be done; that persons
| leasing aehool landa have tho profer-
ence over NIL others when they comply
With the rules and regulations govern
ing the leasing Of said school laudsi
| that for ell improvement, mtde hv
lessecs Of sait school land hey qhail
be entitled 10 reasonable p0y ior he
same, or the right To moce said i'm
provements from tho land where they
I fail to release under such rules and
regulations as may be fair 20 the school
funds and the parties leasing
Seventh-That ve are opposed to the
/ appointment Of army officers as Indian
agents, and favor the appointment Of
d all Indian agents and their subordi.
mates from citizens OF Oklahoma terri.
/ tory. We also favor repeating the law
/ prohibiting half breeds OF mixed Indian
blood from equal rights Of trading and
other privileges OF the full blood In
dians; and that we favor the immedi.
ate opening TO bona 0de settlers all
unoccupied Indian lands To free home
stead settlement where treaty between
i the lndiSns and the United States has
! been made
Eighth That we condem mL the La Z
Republican legislature for its numer-
Gus acts OF vicious legislation, among
which was the repeal OF the usury law,
thus allowing rates of interest amount
/ ing TO legal robbery; also the Fegan
bill 10y which the salaries OF county
officers are nearly doubled, while wit
nesses are compelled To attend upon
/ tho court without compensation unless
they will humiliate themselves by sub
scribing TO n paupers affidavit
Ninth-That we favor fair revision
Of the laws regulating fees and salaries
to the end that public expenditures be
reduced, and at the same time allow a
fair compensation for all necessary
| public services.
Tenth-That wc condemn the anti
fusion law, prohibiting fusion by
which the name OF candidate Is not
permitted upon more than one ticket
as being a partisan measure OF the
Republican party.
! Eleveuth--WC favor the enac sment Of
ageneral law prohibiting the education
OF white and negro children In the
same schools, but we favor equal sepa-
rate educational facilities for the hill
dren Of both races.
Twelfth-Resolved. That the Demo-
cratic party OF oklahoma, in con
vention assembled, favor n coali-
tion OF the democratic and Popu-
/ list parties OF oklahoma on n candid
ate for delegate To congress- aud on II
platform consistent with the declara-
tions of the national Democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago, July Z, 1896,
and that we favor union Of the
Democratic aud Populist parties OF Ok
lahoma, and recommend the nomina-
tion Of a candidate for such delegate
TO congress- on what shall be known as
the free silver ticket" and that we
recommend that the Democrats and
Populists OF the different council and
representative districts OF Oklahoma
use all honorable means 10 perfect a
coalition OF the two parties on leRisla-
tive candidates
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10
THE OFFICIAL PLATFORM.


I1,ssed by ,ho D@mncsatio Convention at
~ Reno.
We, the undersigned committee on
resolutions. uf the Democrats conven.
ton Of Oklahoma territory, beg leave
tu submit the following.
First-Thut we unqualinedly ap-
prove the platform adopted by the
national Democratic party In Chicago
on the sth day OF July, $780, and
heartily indorse the nominees OF said
national Democratic convention
Second-That we unsparingly con.
6emn the platform adopted by the
Butional Republican party in the city
o. ST. Louis as being a declaration Of
principles in favor of the classes and
against the masses of the people of
this great republic, rs being in the
interest Of the powerful and wealthy
at the expense OF all the producing
milliols OF our people, and as being
an American, unpatriotic and un-
worthy OF support OF any citizen who
earns his living other than by scalp
ing coupons or charging usurious in
terest
ihird---We favor the enactment Of
law by our next territorial legisla-
ture prohibiting the giving OF rail-
road passes 10 any legislative, judicial
or executive officer of this territory,
aud condemn the practice of giving or
accepting such passes by or from rail
roads or other corporations as being a
menace 10 the general welfare OF the
people OF this territory; that we also
favor the enactment of a law by
our next territorial legislature requir-
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ing railroads aud other corporations tc
pay all damages caused TO persons or
property 10y reason OF the negligence
Of such corporations, or any OF their
ageats. servants or employee
Fourth-That we favor statehood
at the earliest possible moment, but
we are opposed 10 the formation Of a
state from the territory Of Oklahoma
MS now bounded believing the creation
Of the state under the present terri
turinl lines would be n menace TO the
prosperity OF the people, and In the
future doom them 90 the burdens OF
excessive taxation We are therefore
opposed to the policy OF the Republican
party in the territory, which proposes
and urges the passage OF the Flynn
statehood bill, measure most
significantly marked with political de-
signs, as well as capital booming
schemea We look upon such bill as
the vicious outgrowth OF the most
partisan spirit. calculated IL adopted
to place the people Of the territory A.
the political mercy OF a coterie OF Re.
publican politicians, who are attempt
ing ~ 'astcn themselves irrevocably
upon the people Aud we believe the
state when formed should include
with the terrtory ot Oklahoma the
entire Indian territory.
Fifth---We favor the appropria tion
OF all government lands in the
territory OF Oklahoma 20 the estab-
lishment 81 homes 10 American citi-
zens, free Of any cost except land
Office fees. BY the term Of govern.
meut lands we mean all lands In the
territory for which patents have not
bseu ISSUED
Sixth-That we favor long leases OF
the school lands OF this territory, and
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10
ANDRES MONUMENT.
vandais Have Clipped MS Memorial II
Westminster Abbey.


Near the center Of the south wall Of
the nave is o monument to Major Andre
Of Revolutionary note. The very long
inscription upon it begins, Sacred to
the memory Of Major John Andre, who.
raised by his merit at an early period
Of lie, TO the rank Of adjutant general
of the British forces in America, and
employed IN an important but hazardous
enterprise, fell sacrifice TO his zeal for
his king and country, on the 2d Of Oc-
tober, 1880, aged 90, universally beloved
and esteemed by the army in which he
served and lamcntod even by his foes
Ahout the base Of the monument
which is panel set against the wall,
are several small figures These project
FROM the panel, and represent the prescn-
tation Of Major Andro's letter 10 Cen
eral Washington on the night before his
execution The case with which the
heads Of these figures could be broken
off has been too great temptation to
relic hunters. and most Of the heads
have been knocked Off and stolen. That
such vandalism is not wholly modern is
shown from the fact that Charles Lamb
writes Of the defacing Of this vesy mon
ument in this way in his Essays Of
Ella - Southey, the poet when boy
was pupil at the Westminster school.
Later in life he was exceedingly sensi.
tive in regard TO his political princi-
pies, and for "a time serious quarrel
existed between himself and Lamb, be-
cause the latter, speaking in regard to
this injury to Andres monument, de-
scribed it as the "wsnton mischief of
some schoolboy, fred perhaps with
raw notions Of transatlantic freedom. T"
Then, addressing Southey, he added,
1.-The mischief was done about the time
that you were a scholar there. Do you
know anything about the unfortunate
relicY'
There is now fastened upon the wall
of the nave, above the monument,
wreath Of oak leaves which Dean Stan
ley, when he visited America, gathered
near the spot ON the bank of the Hudson
river where Andre was executed. Al
though Andre died in 1880, it was not
until 1891 that, at the request of the
Duke Of York, mis- bones were exhumed
and taken to England to be buried in
the abbey. The box in which they were
placed for the voyage is still preserved
in the oratory over st. Islip's chapel,
where the wax figures are kept Max
Bennett Thrasher in st. Nicholas.
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OId People

Old people who require medicine 70
regulate the bowels aud kidneys viii
find the true remedy ia Electric Bit
ters. This medicine does not stimu-
late and contains no whisky nor other
intoxicRnt, but acts as a tonic and
Alternative. 1t Gets mildly o. the stom-
ach and bowels. adding strength and
giving tone 10 the organs. thereby aid
ing nature 10 the performance OF the
functions. Electric Bitters Is an ex-
cellent appetizer aud aids digestion
Old people find Il just exactly what
4 " lsd. Price 50 cents aud 81 per
bottle at G r RenfrOs drug store.
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The u. S. GoV't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior TO all Others.

FOR Sale,
Two story house, 6 rooms. kitchen
and good cellar, stable. buggy. feed
aid chicken house and waterworlks.
All situated on three improved lots
with variety OF fruit Terms easy
and satisfactory 1911 r.. Noble ave.
Apply to laud office 3tf
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For Sale-By Chas. Osger, the small
two seated phaeton which took the
hrst premium at the State fair; also
the horse and harness TO match. This
Is rare chance 60 buy handsome
turnout cheap
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One good lot on North Firs {
street that originally cost 5000
for sale for $50. Clear title
and all taxes paid Addres s
III" iO2 North Second street.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10

Ibid hear that your mule was
struck by lightning, Eph?'
"Yaas, sab dar was a powahful bolt
hit de mule right aijnd his eahs y"
'Did il kill him?"
"No, sab; but il done broke up de
sto'm. "--Detroit Free Press.
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NORTH, EAST AND WEST
SOUTH. SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST.
50 hours to Los Angeles.

Free chair cars on all trains Pullman
Palace sleepers TO Kansas City and
Chicago without change. Also 10 Fort
Worth and Galveston. Connects at
ewton with Nestibule limited having
chair cars. Pullman Palace and COM
partment sleeperS and dining cars through
10 Los Angles and San Diego also with
train carrying chair cars. Pullman and
Tourist sleepers TO FL Paso, Los Angles
and san Francisco. Through railroad
and steamship tickets s9,d to all points.
continent of Eurole; also from any
por, or inland point in Europe through
to any point in the Unit States. Pre-
paid tickets paid for here will be deliv-
cred to passengers at their residence in
dId addrlss Gooron u1 ~ pa icboIsnH ciV,al Vs y" u
Chicago; w. j. Black, A. q. p. A., To-
peka, Kans., l.. r Delaney Agent,
Guthrie, Okla.
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Ono OF the nuest farms 80 Lincoln
county, we'll improved; orchard,
fenced, 100 acres cultivated. living
water aud some timber win sell for
cash for half its value or will trade
for property bringing income II you
want TO do business, explain fully by
letter. Address, Lock Box 20e, Guth-
rie, o II. 10 Gt3
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-10

Ladies' sterling silver belt buckles,
80 cents, on sale Saturday at the
Crclone