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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

New YORK, April 2.-Frederick st.
George Booth-Tucker, recently APP
pointed by General Booth as com
mander of the Salvation Army in the
United States, to succeed BallinRton
Booth, arrived last night from Eng
land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

PHOENIX, Ariz, April 2.-Governor
Hughes has turned over to Secretary
Bruce the executive Office Of the terri
tory, reserving, however, any rights
he may have in the premises
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

England moves Oh the world military
ehessboard have surpassed tins automaton
stage and have reached the mysterious
Period of uncertainty England is an IN
known quantity with whom We are too
veil acquainted. Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

WAsHNeroN, April 2.-The presi-
dent has signed the act repeating the
statute prohibiting the appointment
TO the army or navy of persons who
held confederate commits sions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

Overtaken by a Freshee and Drowned.
MIDDLEs BoRo, Ky, April .. -Easter
and Allie Anderson and their three
children, together with two horses,
were drowned by the freshet in
Powells river last night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

Big Contract for Lsavenworth Man.
WAsHINeToN. April flames Nc
Gohlgle, of Leavenworth, was award
I'd q contract for constructing a
warehouse at New York city, at S4s4s
500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

There is an axiom among mining pros
pectors that while knowledge OF miner
alogy is a first necessity for man starting
out to hunt fer the precious ores, yet the
richest finds are often made by the rankesb
tenderfoot 1t is well illustrated in a re-
cent rich find near Salt Lake City. VIII
lard Weihe, a violin soIoist in the Taber-
naele, was walking in City Creek canyon,
on the outskirts of the city, when he kicked
aside some rock that struck him as being
unusual in appearance. Out of pure curl
osity he carried piece of the rock back to
town and had it assayed. 1t showed $500
in gold and $40 in silver to the ton.
Weihe was so much surprised he almost
tainted Then when he recovered he hur-
ried back to where he found the rock,
without mentioning the matter to any
one, and staked out a large number Of
claims for himself and friends. Now
considerable camp has sprung up, and the
workings bear out the promise in Weihes
chance strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

NaDraaEa Douuly LFallauFaF lLIssIngs
LINCOLN, Neb., April 2.-County
Treasurer Max Cobb is missing and
bis friends are much disturbed. 1t is
not believed that he has absconded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02
Patar OIsen IS gar1Ing al indeanite I'D

Peter Olsen is serving an indefinite and
unofficial term in the Oakland (Cal.)
county Jail from choice. His choice was
between being in Jail and being at alleged
liberty within reach of his wife. Olsen
recently served a term in Jail for assault
ing his wife. He is young, and his wife is
somewhat mature. Their married life has
been tumultuous, and they have often
been in the courts. His short experience
in jail was so sweet that a few days after
he was liberated he came back and pleaded
with the jailer to take him in and keep
him there, where his wife could not get at
him. Olsen had proved a handy man
about the Jail, being a good cook, and the
jailer offered him an asylum. Olsen
breauhed a deep sigh Of relief when the
iron door was shut between him and his
wife, and at last accounts he was still safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

One minut Cough Cure touches the
right spot IT. also touches it at the
right time if you take it when YOU
have a cough or cold. See the pOint2
Then don't cough G. w. Stansheld
632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

Chicago has in Melina Cyr, aged z,
the strong est child in the world. 1.-THE
Baby Hercules the local press proudly
calls her She is the daughter Of Lewis
Cyr, a modern Samson, % who one day
last week in public lifted, without har-
ness, 3, 674 pounds of humanity oonven-
iently arranged on a platform. Melina,
therefore. has presumably inherited his
phenomenal strength.
Melina is a pretty child, with yellow
hair and big blue eyes and slender frame
of average height for her age. The little
one can lift a go pound dumbbeu by ring
through which she passes the little finger
of her left hand, which she holds long
enough to have photograph taken. She
raises to arm IS length and then lowers to
half length a 50 pound dumbbell. She
concludes the exhibition by lifting a 3O6
pound weight from the floor a matter Of
an inch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

A machine for catching flies of the
backs of cattle, and so afording the ami
mails relief and comfort, has been invented
by a farmer IN Madison county, Ky. The
fyoatoher is a kind of covered pen or pas
sageway, through which the animal must
walk to secure relief A few feet from
the entrance there is a cupola, or dome, in
the roof of the passageway, made Of glass
and arranged as a hytrap. Beyond this
the passage is darkness. The animal
walks through the machine, and just as it
passes under the dome and enters the
darkened part a set Of brushes sweeps OF
the flies, which naturally rise into the
lighted dome, and the steer passes out at
the other side free of flies. Tire flies are
retained in the dome trap. The inventor
has experimental with his machine and
finds that the animals soon learn the value
of the machine and know enough to walk
through it when the flies begin to bite.
The device has been patented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

There is considerable excitement at
Butte Mon, over the discovery that work
has been begun on an oft proposed and
largely opposed project for driving mining
tunnels in all directions under the city in
order to take out the rich copper and silver
ores known to exist there. Tt is said that
the richest copper and silver ores in the
Rocky mountain country lie under the
city. The principal vein discovered, known
as the Snokehouse lode, runs under the
heart of the city from southeast to north
west, and over it are the city hall, the
county courthouse, a big hotel and sew
eral of the largest office buildings in the
city. The purchasers Of surveyed land in
Butte have no title to the mineral under
meath, the surface title only extending to
a depth of 80 feet. When the vein under
the city was first discovered, a wealthy
mining man of Butte located almost the
whole city as mining claims and fought
his case in the courts to a successful con
clusion. Now he has formed company,
and already a shaft is being sunk near the
heart of the city, from which tunnels will
be driven IN every direction. Residents Of
Butte are greatly concerned about the
probable effect of the mining operations
on the big buildings situated over the pro
posed workings. The ore body IS said to
be larger and richer than that Of the
famous Anaconda mines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02
DEonnaa 40 DaEraea in Elezen naure.

DFopped 10 UeErees IN EIeVen Hours,
MARSHALL, No, April 2-Tuesday
night at 2 o'clock the mercury stood
at 20 degrees, yesterday morning, at
6 o'clock. at so degrees. Fruit is all
right so far. Weather dry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

KINGSTON, Jamaica. April 1T
SIMON Sam, formerly minister of war
for Hayti, has been elected president
to succeed General Hippolyte, de-
ceased Perfect tranquility prevails
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

Best and quickest shirt. collar and
cuff work i'm the state Family wash
ing better and cheaper than you can do
s. at home, at
TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY.
AnheuseF-Busch7s Malt Nutrine-the food
drink Tor sale by all druggists and grocers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02
TALES OF TEE TINES.
Some Novel and Interesting Things Il
This Land Of Ours.


This Land Of Ours.
Cincinnati has under way what viii,
when completed, be the greatest engineer
ing novelty since the Ferris wheel, in the
shape of an aerial trolley crossing the Ohio
river from the Ohio to the Kentucky shore.
The car, which wiz hold so people, viii
be suspended 100 feet above the rivers
surface.
Sedamsville. the ancient name Of a sec
ton Of the western portion of the city, and
Lagoon Park, pleasure resort on the
Kentucky shore, are to be united in this
novel manner. Two steel towers, each $50
feet high, are being built on the banks
The intervening distance is 1, 76O feet
Beneath each tower is depot and waiting
room. The car viii weigh 10 tons
The hosting and propelling apparatus
is located in the towers, go feet above the
ground. When the car is loaded, it viii be
hoisted vertically from the landing until,
by a series Of automatic clutches, it is sus-
pended to the pulleys on the four carrying
cables. Tt viii then be propelled by a sys-
tenn of tug cables to the opposite tower at
the rate Of ], 200 feet a minute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-02

snbaeELbe - tbe sTATE JoURNAL.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

IN the decision are sustained and the
motion as to them granted and as to the
rest denied. Continuing the decision
says:
The demurrer should be sustained, because
as il stands it becomes necessary to modlfy the
pleading and bring it within the rules already
adyerted to, so that respondents may answer
direct allegations. to the end that tne issues
involved may be clearly presented to the court
upon the trial of the contest.
Particular attention is directed to the first
ground OF demurrer-that the contest mis1oins
Several causes of action. 1t is self-ev1dent that
fraud and force cannot be exercised Dy the
same person on the same person at the same
time to achieve the same END. The evidence
required to sustain the charges OF fraud and OF
duress or menace would necessarily be opposed
one to the other. Requiring different evil
dence they constitute different causes OF ac-
ton within the purview OF the code, and under
section 427, C. C. P, the grounds should be
separately stated.
The allegations throughout the contest,
amounting to a charge OF conspiracy on the
part of Daniel Sullivan and other persons I'M
known to the contestants, are plainly de-
murrable, for certainly the proponents have a
right to know the names of the conspirators.
MILLER VS.. McDermott, 81 Cal, 27l).
Demurrer sustained; ten days to amend.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

Herrick acted as spokesman. They all
denied being IN the store or knowing any
thing about the stolen articles. They
belong to respectable families and live in
the neigh ghborhood.
Burke, Dillon and l." said Herrick,
''were at the theater last night, and as II
was late when we got out we walked
around till about 2 o'clock, when we went
to the Oakland Dairy on Ash avenue. be-
tween Cough and Octavia streets, to get q
ride round the City with one of the milk
men. l had often done that before, and
used 10 drive wagon myself for John
Evans.
THE milkmen had gone and we did not
know what to do. There was a coal
wagon on the avenue with empty sacks in
1t and we slept in it till about O'clock.
I'VE met Benny Smith shortly after 6
O'Clock. He lives next door to the
grocery. We spoke about going to the
Lurline Baths to have swim if we could
get the money. Smith said there were
some demijohns in his mothers cellar
and we could get them and sell them.
1--WE got into the cellar by a hole in the
rear and thought we would have some fun
playing hide and seek. That was what
we were doing when the policeman came
and arrested US. / had piece of tobacco
in my pocket which L bought. 1t wasn't t
taken from Harris store"
Where didi you get the liquor?' was
asked of Benny Smith, who was suffering
from the effects of bis libations.
81 found soda bottle in the cellar" he
! said, with something in it and Idrank it.
l didn't know IL was whisky. Say" he
said to Dillon; "where's my hat?" Dillon
told him it was in his cell.
Little George Burke is the most iuno-
cent-looking boy of the four, but he is said
to be the toughest. While Herrick was
reeling off his story George looked at him
with admiring eyes and occasionally
nodded approval. George wore an injured
air and could only whisper that it was too
bad boys couldn't play hide and seek with
out being arrested. SIX weeks ago George
was arrested by Policeman Collins and
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

They are: George Burke, IL; Benny
Smith, IA; Patrick Dillon, 16 and Frank
Herrick, Is.
When the wife of John Harris, grocer
and saloon-keeper, 439 Grove street,
opened the store yesterday morning and
went into the saloon, she saw that some
one had been there before her. Several
bottles Of liquor, two or three boxes OF
cigars, plugs of tobacco and number OF
bottles of sarsaparilla and iron had disap-
pear ed from the shelves.
Her husband reached the store about 8
o'clock, and she told him the place had
been broken into. He notified Policeman
Fleming, and Fleming found the four boys
in the cellar underneath the store. He
had 10 drag two of them out by the feet.
Smith appeared to be the only one OF
the four that had swallowed any of the
liquor. He was considerably under the
influence" and when in the City Prison
he became sick and had hard time of it
for half an hour
A search was made Of the cellar, and a
box of cigars, some tobacco and mum ber
of empty bottles were found, which Harris
identified as having been taken from his
store.
The boys were seen in the prison, and
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

committee on political action. ]. ]. Tru-
Of the federation were present.
The report recommended that move
ment be organized to place before the
voters Of San Francisco a full municipal
ticket. According to the announcement
prepared for the press and given out after
the ting adjourned this report was dis
cussed in detail and after long consider
alton of its various parts was adopted.
The following was issued as the report of
the committee:
To the President and Members Of the Ciuic
FederdtiOn-GENTLEMEN: At our last meeting
committee was appointed to inquire into the
present political situation, with a view of
formulating some practical plan through
which the taxpayers of this City may be able
at the ensuing election TO prevent repetition
of the municipal calamity now hanging over
all our fellow-citizens, and their political
preferences in National and State affairs after
mature and deliberate consideration OF the
important subject intrusted to our hands, we
feel 1t incumbent upon US TO candidly an
nounce that in our opinion those great issues
so essential to the perpetuity of our National
Government have no necessary relationship TO
the welfare and prosperity OF local govern
ments. The sad experience OF the past in
nearly every city of the United STATES has
plainly demonstratedsthe fact that municipal
administration is best subserved and greater
degree of progress reached by placing the af-
fairs of each locslity in the hands of those
who have permanent interests in the honest
management thereof regardless of party.
The contending factions of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties. now al war over
the spoils expected from the election in No
vember next, are irreconcilabe. Any settle
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
Canadian Pacific Brought to
Time by the Asso-
citation.
ITS RESIGNATION WITHDRAWN
American Railways Threatened to
Leave 1t Absolutely TO It's
Own Resources.

L. ID. Goodman, general passenger agent
OF the Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany, returned yesterday from New York
and Chicago, where he had been engaged
for some time with business of the West
ern Passenger Association.
The meetings which Mr.. Goodman
attended were of dual character, as they
com bined pleasure with work. Many of
the days during the annual gathering of
the general passenger agents were given
up exclusively to social pleasures of
varied character. Other days OF course
were devoted to business strictly. and then
questions Of vast i'm portance received the
serious consideration of the men in whose
hands lie the management and control OF
passenger traffic all over the United States.
This year, however, the subjects discussed
were not all of general Importance, rules
and internal affairs consuming most Of the
time.
"The only really interesting matter
which we considered" said Mr.. Goodman
yesterday, was the resignation of the
Canadian Pacific. l suppose that would
interest the Pacific Coast. The Canadian
Pacific sent in its resignation to the asso-
citation, claiming it wished to be free from
the binding agreement imposed upon it by
membership In the association. LII wanted
concessions and to do business inde-
pendent of our rules. The association re-
fused to accept the resignation, but as the
Canadian Pacific was iDslstent it was
brought to time when the American roads
announced that If the company withdrew
they would have no further dealings with
the main line of the Canadian Pacific.
This was too much for the Canadian line,
and the result was the resignation was
withdrawn.
Heretofore the great railway system
over the northern frontier had a clear ad-
vantage over American transcontinental
lines. These roads have been com PEELED
to operate under the interstate commerce
law. They are not aided by the Govern
ment so literally as the Canadian road is
subsidized and fostered. With consdera-
bic assistance from the Dominion Govern
ment the Canadian Pacific could afford to
| carry its on passenger or freie ht traffic at
rates much lower than those prevailing on
| the American transcon tinental lines. So
whenever that road grew weary of re-
| straint it presented documents to show
| that large differentials should be granted
in its favor. AS the association could see
no remedy it usually acceded to their de-
mands and people could travel up into
Canada, across to Vancouver, b. c., and
| thence by steamer to San Francisco, for
tritie less than the fare directly over the
| American route.
ION this occasion, however, the Ameri-
can roads submitted their plan, which was
practically boycott of the Canadian Pa
cine, and the boycott worked like a
! CHARM
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

"My eyes have been opened" he said,
''to possibilities l had not dreamed of in
the realm of cheap labor. do not want
to be understood as saying that Japan is
at this moment q menace to US or TO any
highly civilized nation. but do say that
those who say people such as the Japan
ese cannot compete disastrously with
Anglo-Saxons minimize the dangers.
~ further say that the course if let
alone, the policy of free trade is suicidal.
1t reminds me of a man who takes a lion
cub into his house. At first it is as gentle
as a cat but some day its rough tongue
gets hard lick at its masters face breaks
the skin, tastes the blood, and then it de-
YOURS its foster parent. / mean to say
that trade is q civilized warfare, strug-
gle for supremacy and struggle as nerce
and merciless as the steel OF Spartan glad
iators. We must say to the Orient, Keep
your wares for your own people, or pay US
the highest tariff.
That is the opinion of practical man
OF affairs, gwen deliberately against the
theories of the boy Orator of the Platte, "
who says the A American workman ought to
be forced to compete unaided against men
of all sorts and conditions, irrespective of
race, color or servitude. But the thought
full protectionist viewing the pauper labor
OF the world, says, Never shall an Amer
ican freeman be forced to meet the labor
of hordes of overworked and underpaid
slaves in foreign climes."
1t must be borne in mind that though
Japan is more than 5000 miles away trans
portation on the ocean is phenomenally
cheap. Sail charters can be secured for
the voyage from Japan to San Francisco
at 81 90 ton, but the commercial genius
of the people is such that they are forging
ahead and will soon have great freight and
passenger lines from their principal ports
TO America.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
TO FOLLOW "oLD PARD."

Herbert FairfieId's Unsuccessful At
tempt to Commit Suicide.
Herbert Fairfield, boarder at the Va
lsncia-street Hotel, attempted to commit
suicide last night. He went to his room,
closed the door, turned on the gas and,
covering his face with piece OF carpet,
lay down on the floor to die.
William Gerken, the proprietor, noticed
the smell of escaping gas and found it
proceeded from Fairfeld's room. He
scious on the floor.
Fairfield was taken TO the City and
County Hospital. The doctors worked on
him for some time until he was brought
back to consciousness. Then he was
taken back to the hotel.
Fairfield has been assisting his brother
for some time, who is carrier for one of the
morning papers. By occupation he is
fireman. but lost his position during the
strike on the Southern Pacific two years
ago.
In explaining his reason for attempting
10 end his lie he said: 81 used to fire for
Cornwall, the Oldest engineer on the
Southern Pacific, who died on Tuesday. /
was fond of the old man and went to his
funeral yesterday.
"His death made me despondent and l
got drinking. | felt despondeat over the
old engineers death. and feeling came
over me that the best thing could do was
to follow him to the grave.
1.-The feeling was pleasant one and l
suffered no pain, but when the doctors
were bringing me back to life thsn l suf-
fered the most excruciating agony for some
time. don't think [ will try it again."
Fairfield is 80 years of age. He was
married, but divorced from his wife.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15

servation of Consul General Jernigan of
Shanghai, who said: "The steady gain
indicated by the Japanese looms may be
regarded by Western manufacturers some
what as the Hollander regards the first
leak in the dikes that protect the mead
ows of his home from overflow. The fu-
ture of Japan is evidently that OF great
manufacturing nation"
The foregoing quotations show some OF
the reasons why the friends OF protection
have for many years urged that American
factories and workmen be saved from the
ruluous competition of the growing
Orient. Against none of these evils has
remedy. Under the political ideas he loves
the United States would soon become as
bleak as the plains.
Consul-General McIvor says: Japanese
manufacturers are each year improving
the grade of their fabrics and are thus
demanding larger proportion OF Amerl-
can cotton" and each bale manufactured
there means decided loss to American
workmen.
The time is soon at hand when Japan
will entirely cease importing goods and
when she will reach out and supply the
countries she has been patroniZing so long.
All through Japan there are manifold
evidences that her stirring people. eonsti-
tuting population OF 4O, 900 600, are awake
Mills and factories are under way and
trained army of workmen will, ere an
other decade, be turning out all kinds of
goods at rates with which even the poor
est paid countries of Europe cannot COM
pete. 1t does not matter what liue of in
dustry is investigated, for the conclusion
is inevitable that Japan means to take her
place among the great manufacturing ma
tions of the earth.
1t has thus been shown by previous
article on the subject and by the facts
here presented that the only way by
which Ameri cans can escape the evils of
universal misery is by a wise protective
tariff
It will not be many years before jap
anese goods, without protection, are sure
to force themselves upon the American
market. Added to their perseve rance and
rare skill the 'Iittle brown men" work for
few cents day, the Government has no
laws against child labor, and American
workmen would suffer at every turn if
left without the benign ia1uences of a
protection so adjusted as TO insure pros
perity to all.