davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
STILL wIrH THE FRISCO.
Aldace f Walker Explains His Present
Position.

Aldace f. Walker Explains His Present
Position.
ST LOUIS. Feb 10.-Receiver AIdace
F. Walker ofthe ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco railway, who likewise occupies the
position of chairman of the board of the
new Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe rail-
way company, sent the following dis
patch to the Globe Democrat from New
York:
To the Globe Democrat, st. Louis:
Your reporter here today asked melt
had resigned as receiver of the Frisco
in view of my connection with the reor-
ganized Atchison company. / answered
no. Lest you be misled in this matter
you should also know that a majority of
the Frisco bonds secured by the mort
gage under foreclosure are held by the
Atchison committee and its friends. In
the Atlantic and Pacific case the condi-
tons were reversed. as the Atchison in
terests hold none of the bonds CONTROL :
ing the property. All indicatins point to
The harmonious reorganization of the
Frisco under the pending suit.
ALDACE +. WALKER,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
DREW PAY FOR STRAW MEN"

Arkansas City Men Arrested for Working
Frad ulent Scheme on the Santa Fe.
Officer Wiley of the Santa Fee, and
Marshal Nash of Arkansas City, have
arrested Alexander Shields upon the
charge of aiding L. .. Mckenzie, form
erly road master on the Santa Fe, in car
rying straw" men upon the pay rolls
and obtaining money. The arrest of Mr..
Shields, who is a prominent church mem
Der, was grevious surprise to his
friends at Arkansas City.
Detectives have been working for
some time on the case.
The road will attempt to prove that
Shields cashed $50 check last July at
Perry, o. T., drawn in favor of William
Shields and countersigned by l. U.
Mckenzie, roadmaster. At that time no
such person as Willi4m Shields was in
the employ of thep road. A few weeks
ago L. U. McKepzie left the employ of
the Santa Fe and went to work for the
Choctaw railway. He was arrested last
Thursday night at Shawnee. o. T., but
made his escape from the off GERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
SCHOOL FOB MONKEYS.
Ca1cuttas Novel Institution For Our
SpeechIess Relatives.

Ca1cutta's Novel Institution For Our
SpeechIess Relatives.
There has just been founded at Calcutta
an institution for the education of mon
keys. Probably the prime movers of the
affair never heard OF Professor Garner, the
celebrated A American simiologist, who has
again gone to Africa to make an exhaust
i've study of the language of monkeys, or
else they have deemed it easier to teach the
monkeys than to learn from them in
sirnian tongue. At any rate, one of the
methods employed in this strange educa-
tional institution is the following:
A young monkey is taken, and before
him is placed set of blocks on which are
painted in capitals the letters of the al
phabet. These blocks are, in fact, exactly
similar to those which children play with
in every civilized country in the world
and they are used in precisely the same
way as if tho monkey were a young speci-
men of the human race. There is one
professor fer each monkey, and the mon
key is taught by means of the blocks to
spell certain words. If the word is
''fruit,' for example, the monkey, after
having been taught to arrange the blocks
so as to spell the word quickly and with
out error, received bit of fruit as his re-
ward. The came exercise is repeated with
other words, and it is hoped that in time
the slInianS will learn how to read and
spell and understand English if they can
not speak it.
Only young animals are taken, for they
learn more quickly than old ones. There
is no danger of this queer school lacking
scholars, for there are thousands of mon
keys to be found in that part OF India
where Calcutta is situated. An effort
will also be made, it is said, to educate
these beasts SO that they may become fair
ly efficient domestic servants. The school
is SO young as yet, however, that what it
will accomplish is entirely a matter of
speculation. Its professors are enthu-
siastic about their novel work and seem
to think that a new field of usefulness will
soon be opened up for these chattering lit
tic beasts.-Paris Journal des Debats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
The n1otorman,s $500 Coat.

Every one who rides on the street cars
has noticed the motorman with the buffalo
robe overcoat. 1t is probably the only one
in the city, or at least one of very few.
A reporter asked him where, he got the
coat ono cold day this winter. The motor
man said he had purchased it from an
other motorman for $40. The original
owner bought the pelt and had the coat
made in the northwest. 1t may interest
the two owners of the coat to know its
probable worth is about $500. A buffalo
robe is worth that much, and coat is
equally valuable. There are very few
buffalo robes or pelts to be had, and those
who do possess them prize them highly.
The man who originally owned the coat
got it during the years when pelt could
be purchased for $1.25.-LouisvilIe Cou-
rier-JoGrnal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
LIGHT AT GRAY GABLES.
A POstofhcP, Too, May be Established for
the President.

BUzzARD's BAY, Mass, Feb. 1O.-When
President Cleveland returns to his sum-
mer haunts his mail will be sent to Gray
Gables, for project is on foot, which
bids fair of realization, to have a post
office of that name in the section of the
town where is the presidents villa.
Then, too, the president will have light
to guide HIM homeward from inland
fishing trips. The Ladies' Village I'm
provement society several winters ago
began series of entertainments in the
village hall, the proceeds of which es-
tablished a street light fund. Not
enough money for lighting the main
highway was derived. SO the entertain
ments were continued in the sum-
mer, the Jeffersons contributing to
them. Last year it was found desira-
BILE to extend the lights to Gray Gables,
SO there has been an extra hustle, a
change of the name of the society with a
Wow to increasing the interest in the
project aud two entertainments a week
the last month. The fund is now bulg-
ing the treasurer's pockets, and there
will be light at Gray Gables for sure.
The president intends to cultivate his
farm more extensively this year, and has
purchased a new farm wagon and lot
of agricultural implements. The yacht
Ruth, the presidents favOrite boat, is be-
ing hauled I'D on the WAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
AMONG THE RAILROAD MEN
Change in the Management of the
Howard Branch.
ARKANSAS CITY MAN ARRESTED

For Drawing Pay From the Santa Fe
for s'StrRW' Men.
There is rumor afoat among he Santa
Fe employees that another change is to be
made in railway circles. This time it is
the management of the Howard branch,
which runs between Emporia and Moline.
This road has always been under the
management of the eastern division of
the road, with headquarters in Topeka.
The change which is about to take place
locates headquarters at Chanute, where
the main offices of the Southern Kan
sas division are located. This will effect
this city in no way, in as much as all the
office work has been done at Topeka.
In connection with this change another
one is to take place, viz, the Panhandle
division, running from Wellington to
Panhandle, Texas, will be changed from
the Southern Kansas division to the
southern division of the Santa Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES.
List of the District visitors and
Bouudaries for the South Side.

list of the District visitors and
boundaries for the South Side.
The following are the district visitors
of the Associated Charities. They are
authorized to solicit charity for the pur-
poses for which the Associated Charities
was organized:
18th district-North of Fifth. between
Kansas avenue aud Van Buren, street,
Miss Crosby, 6O2 West Tenth street
18th district-North of Fifth, between
Van Buren, street and Topeka avenue,
Mrs. Tom Pounds, $50 Harrison street.
18th district-North of Fifth from To-
peka avenue to Western avenue, MIS-. M
F. Handy, 1875 Topeka avenue.
14th district-North of Fifth and west
OF Western avenue to West street and
Keith tract Mrs. Hardt, 1874 Greenwood
avenue.
18Th district-Potwin and Auburndale,
Mrs. Norton, 90s Topeka avenue.
10Th district-West of Buchanan, be-
tween Fifth and Tenth streets, Mrs Rip
ley, 1116 West Sixth street.
18th district-From Fifth to Tenth
and Buchanan to Western avenue, Mrs.
Dey, 1926 Tyler street.
18th district-From Fifth to Tenth,
and Topeka avenue to Western avenue
Mrs. Worthington, 504 Tyler street.
18th districl-From Kansas avenue to
Topeka avenue, between Fifth and Tenth
streets, Mrs Shellabarger, 415 Harrison
street.
2Oth district-From Tenth to Douthitt
tract and Kansas avenue to Topeka ave-
nue.. Mrs. Van Valkenburg, 1928 West
Tenth st.
21st district-From Tenth to Douthitt
tract and Topeka avenue to Western ave-
nue.. Mrs. Henry Bennett, 1888 West
ern avenue.
22nd district-From western avenue to
Buchanan street, between Tenth and
Huntoon streets. Mrs. Sim. GA Taylor
street.
23rd district-From Buchanan to Lane
between Tenth and Huntoon streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
ONE YEAR OF UTOPIA.
The Result of "Generar" RandalPs Ideal
Town In Michigan.

Town In Michigan.
General John II. Randall went uron
the steppes of northern Michigan to found
On ideal town. 1t was going to be unlike
anything on earth. The prospectus made
riches easy. 1t figured that each man
should be healthy, wealthy and wise; eat
terrapin for dinner, wear white shirts and
sleep on hair mattresses. People came
from all over the country to join the circle
and form part of the model community
in which cooperation was to settle all the
ills of existence. There was a common
granary, equal division of all holdings,
and all summer the general" and his
followers heralded the glories of HiaWatha.
General Randall has returned to Chi
cago. He is wiser. He learned one lesson
when he led 500 hobos in the Coxey move
ment. This is his second. There has been
the first annual division of the result of 8
years work in municipal cooperation.
Tho 80 families and the lot of single men
who hoped to find a rosy path to independ-
ence are stranded. They have 4, 600 bush
els of potatoes as the result of the sowing
and reaping among pine stumps and
braInbles. Michigan towns are sending
them clothing.
General Randall declares there is moth
ing wrong with the plan. Human nature
is not built right. His next excuse for tho
failure is the fact that Hiawatha is IA
miles from anywhere. This is the distance
which the 1000 bushels of potatoes must
be hauled. They are worth 10 cents de-
livered at the station. The thermometer
rarely gets higher than 60 degrees in the
shade, and in the winter the sociological
reformers dare not step outside to see how
low it is. 1t was averaging about % de-
grees when tho general buttoned up his
ulster and came to Chicago TO think up
some other scheme of making two and
two result in more than four.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
INGERSOLL TO DEFEND.

He May BE Mayor Matshiessen's
Counsel i'm the Sunday Closing Case
PERU, Ill, Feb 1O.-Present iudica-
uOns are that the most eminent legal tai
ent of the country will engage in the
controversy to arise out of the indict-
ment of Mayor Matthiessen for alleged
nonfeasance in office in not enforcing the
Sunday closing. laws. His trial will be
held the latter part of February. The
committee appointed by the citizsns of
La Sale to take charge of the mayors
defense has met and organized aud is
preparing to carry out the part assigned
to it.
Col. Robert G. Iugersoll is being fav-
orably considered, and may be secured
as counsel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
HE LOOKED INNOCENT,
But Was Very Smooth and Stole Mer
ric Cunnimgham's Watch.

BuI W as very SAAsOStn AnO sSEOAe meF"
ric Cunning hams Watch.
John Berry, who keeps IA boarding
house at BIG Monroe street, came to the
police station with story about how he
had been duped and one of his boarders
robbed of valuable gold watch. He
said:
"a we'll dressed stranger with an hon
est face came to my place and asked for
board, and he looked all right and took
him in. I put him in a room with Mer-
rio Cunningham who is conductor on
the Missouri Pacific. Last night that
man got up and stole Cunningham's new
gold watch that he paid $50 for, and left
my place. 1 never was so fooled in a
man in my life"
The police are looking for the stran-
ger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
PROHIBITION VS.. BEER.

Robert SchiIIinS Hos Challenged
Mrs. Cougar for a Debate.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis. Feb 10.-Robert
Schilling has challenged Mrs. Helen N.
Cougar to meet him in debate on the
question of ''Prohibition,' he taking the
Milwaukee end of the argument. Mrs.
Cougar has accepted and the pair will
meet at Lincoln hall in this city on the
evening of February ~.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
Oh, THOSE WOMEN!
They Have Decided to Favor High Heeled
Shoes Once More.

Shoes Once AIore.
High heeled shoes have returned to favor
with women. This fact is of the most
momentous significance. 1t is announced
on the highest authority. 1t is DO fashion
of the cheap shoe stores. Women of the
most fashionable society have provided
them selves with high heeled shoes. The
very finest kinds of footwear will be made
in this way.
No announcements concerning new fash
ion is, in fact, of SO much Importance as
this. 1t means a startling change in the
personal appearance of the fair wearers of
shoes, change that will be inexplicable
to those unfamiliar with the mysteries of
fashions in women's dress.-New York
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10

All branches 1.-THE mechanical Depart
ment of the Santa Fe, with the excep-
ton of the roundhouses, at ali points
along the road were closed Saturday
afternoon, as they were the previous
Saturday. Although this has not yet
been made a permanent feature, it will
continue until the reductions in the work
ing force are completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
Al. Mooney. a prominent political

A. Fl. Mooney, a prominent political
worker and the senior member of the
plumbing firm of A II Mooney & Co.,
announces himself as a candidate for
councilman from the Fourth ward. Mr.,
Mooney lives at 619 West Fifth St. When
asked on what issue he is running, he
said: "WeIl, believe the city should
get something out of the franchises
granted and want to do all can to help
along the Fall Festivities. I don't be-
lieve we should look to Kansas City for
this kind of an entertainment for Topeka
and Kansas when we are able to carry
out a programme of our own"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
When to Marry.

What are SO many people coming to The
Sun for about the doubts and fears of
matrimony? 1t is a simple thing, this de-
Gliding whether to marry not and is all
contained in this bit of advice: Whenever
you are more miserable without the person
you love than you could possibly be with
that person, marry.-Experienced in New
York Sun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
a Rare Event In che Familz.

The wife of Joseph WellInan of West
Cape May presented him with baby
daughter the other day. She is the first
female born in his family in 100 years.
Bridgton IN. j. Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
The MikadO.

F'Give as the waves when their chan
mel is riveu.
''Givs as the free air and sunshine are
given"
Give one if not two evenings to "The
Mikado'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
IngIeaide BeneRt.

The public as well as Ingleside are
greatly indebted to Mr.. HinckIey for his
part in The Mikado," at the Grand Feb.
II and 12. Admission 70 and 80 cents,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
Ingleaide ReneRt.

Those who know say that Mr.. Over
holt was never better than in the part of
''Nanki- Poo" in "The Mikado," you
know what that means?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10
CARDINAL SATOLLT'S TOUR.
Ike VIII Extend His Journey to New
Mexico and Colorado.

MEXICO and COIOrRdO.
DENVER, Feb. I0.-Cardinal Satolli, &C.
companied by Archbishop ChapelIe, will
visit this city in March.
At present their trip through the south
is planned to terminate at New Orleans
and from that city the cardinal and arch
bishop will go direct to Santa Fe. After
brief stay at the home of the arch
bishop they will come to Denver, and
will remain the greater part of a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10

Broken edge collars repaired by Peer
less Steam Laundry, 112 and ia w. Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-10

The following are the opinions handed
down by the supreme court at its Feb
ruary sitting:
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-08-06
Reaa.y and Cash.

Truth: An ostrich one day exhibited
bad taste by twitting an alligator about
his Igliness. Gust look at the armor
plate that covers your carcass" said the
bird. "You have not single claim to
good looks, while / possess plumes OF
great worth and OF rare beauty"
The next day the alligator saw the os-
trich fit across the landscape with a
hunter in close pursuit. SIT is true that
! do not raise beautiful feathers or other
spinach on my anatomy" remarked the
saurian, "and it is equally true that my
wearing apparel will never adorn an
Easter bonnet. 1t is we'll" While the
alligator was thus throwing bouquets at
himself, another hunter slipped up and
planted bullet in his midst.
Six months later member Of New
York's 400 took coin out Of q purse
made from the hide of the alligator to
pay for plume picked from the base OF
the ostrich.
Moral--Beauty does not count In the
race for wealth,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-08-06

that she intends to return TO Yakima in
September. She says that the fruit crop
is light on account Of spring frosts, but
that those who have been unable to 90 to
the mountains or summer resorts are en-
gagged In the grain or hay fiells when
they can spare tins from discussing the
political situation.
Stanton Barney, the colored bootblack
and janitor OF the Commercial club. who
was heralded by local newspapers as the
winner Of 81, 900 damage suit through
reason Of falling through an elevator
shalt and being crippled in the legs, is
plying his old trade in Spokane just as
though he wasn't man Of wealth. 1t is
said Barney" left Yakima on account
Of pressing liabilities, and that he gave
out the statement OF his prospective
wealth in order 10 get away, bat as to
that this paper is unable to say.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-08-06
N. p. off,c,a,. v,.,, Yakima.

A special train Of five coaches and q
baggage car arrived here last Friday
night and remained on the side track un.
til late Saturday morning. The train
carried Edwin w. Winter, the president
of the newly organized Northern Pacific,
and numerous other officials of the road
with their friends. They had come &C
cross the country from Duluth making
frequent stops along the road. The OBJ
jects of the trip were to secure the confir-
nation Of the sale OF the railroad proper
ty to the new company, to formally as
sumo charge of the railroad; to sell and
bid in the lands granted the old COM
pany by the government, and to examine
the line with view to it's improvement.
Accompanying President Winters were:
Special Master in Chancery Alfred L.
Carey. who was charged with the duty OF
selling all the lands of the Northern Pa
cific; G. II. Carter Of the banking firm of
j. Pierrepont Morgan & Co., New York !;
Edward d. Adams, OF New York, chair
man OF the reorganization committee of
the Northern Pacific; Receiver Il. HI. Nc
Henry Of Portland; ]. w. Kendrick of
Minneapolis, who will hereafter be the
general manager of the road; William
Nelson Cromwell of New York, counsel
for the reorganization committee; viii
liam H. Phipps of st. Paul, general land
commissioner of the Northern Pacific
George A. Theobald OF st. Paul; r. II.
Relic OF st. Paul; F. H. Anderson, st.
Paul; G. w. Bum of st. Paul, general
counsel for the eastern receivers; General
Traffic Manager =. NJ. Hannaford; Sec.
ond Vice President @. II. Prescott, Gen.
eral Manager.G. W. Dickinson, Superin-
tendent j. McCabe and small army of
clerks.
While here various members OF the
party awaited themselves OF the opportuni-
ty to see something of the country
in the vicinity of North Yakima
and were taken in carriages to vantage
points OF view near by and to some OF the
orchards. One and all expressed them
selves as delighted with the appearance
Of the country and with Yakima in gen.
eral. From members Of the party it was
learned that the present organization OF
the company is only temporary and was
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-08-06

Lewis ii. Plattor, well known attor-
ney and democratic politician OF Spoka ne,
was shot and almost instantly killed in
the corridor of the court house OF that
city on Tuesday evening, July 81, by
Henry Seiffert, prominent restaurant
proprietor. Plattor had large number
OF acquaintance and frien is in this city,
having on one or two occasions delivered
political speeches from the rostrum OF the
opera house. In 1892 he was the demo
cratic nominee for lieutenant governor.
According to published statements, the
tragedy resulted from remarks made by
Plattor in court which Seiffert construed
as reflection on his character. Seiffert
was being pressed before the court as
administrator of the estate OF Rudolph
Gorkow, rich brewer who died a week
previous. Gorkow had married variety
actress about year ago, and, the mar
riage proving an unhappy one, he brought
suit for divorce shortly before his death.
In his will he cut his wife off with a dol.
lar. She is contesting the will, and there
is struggle ever the administration oil
the estate. Plattor represented some oil
the beneficiaries OF the will, opposing
Seiffert, and it had been insinuated that
Seiffert's relations with Mrs. Gorkow
were not of proper nature.
When court adjourned the two men
met in the corridor. Seiffert claims he
offered his hand to Plattor and said
"Come on, Lew, and will show you that
you are all wrong" 1t is said by some,
though denied by others, that Platter
rejected the profered hand and struck
Seiffert with his cane. Seiffert then drew
revolver and fred the fatal shot, which
passed through the heart. Plattor was
dead in minute, never uttering a word
after he was shot. He leaves a wife, VIII
is Frustrated, and her life is despaired of
Seiffert gave himself up to the authori.
ties and is now in jail.