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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
Latest News From the Great
Gold Fields.
Cripple Creek and Victor Are
Six Miles From Town Centers.
''WANTED TO KNOW"
"a Stranger From the Distance
East" Gets Pointers.
Difference Between Tweedledee
and Tweedledum.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Feb. IL

CRIPPLE CREEK, Feb. Ii.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
notice you always have space in the
JOURNAL devoted to "News from Cripple
Creek" and I have not yet seen a men
ton of the name of Victor in connection
with the news of our great mines. A
great many people are under the impress
sion that the Portland Bankers Union
and Mr.. STATIONS big mine, Indepen-
dence, are all in the vicinity of Cripple
Creek when in truth they are all very
close to Victor, which is rightfully called
the "City Of the Mines
Here are a few lines that illustrate
the situation:
Wanted to Know.
A stranger from the distant east,
Begrimed with travel stain,
one day got OF at Cripple town,
From an early morning train.
near hotel he quickly sought,
His hunger to ailay.
And after breakfast caught the clerk,
And talked to him this way:
For weeks and months I've read about
The Independence mine,
The wonder of its treasure vaults
The walls with gold that shine,
I'm curious now TO view it.
And think III take stroll:
Now, what direction shall take
10 reach that mineral hole?''
The sad eyed clerk with plying glance
depressed rising tear.
And answered with a faltering voice:
Its six miles east of here.
Just take the next suburban
That goes TO Victor-See?
And you'I find the Independence
In that locality
The stranger disappointed,
Was silent quite while
But broke the stiffness painful
With conundrumS of this style:
well, what about the Portland?
That's hereabouts s'spoSe?
One of your famous Cripple mines
AS everybody knows;
I'll take walk and look at that,
While I've nothing else to do
But the clerk just family murmured:
That mlne'S at, Victor, too
The stranger paused moment,
Then gave it TO him raw
''Well where's your Battle mountain,
And the hill entitled Squaw?'
The clerk turned pale and gaSped for breath,
keeled over on the floor.
And the subsequent proceedings
Interested him more.
The stranger grabbed his grip sack
And fastened to the train
The chances are ne Ii not be caught
In Cripple Creek again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
FOR RUTH AND ESTHER.

Miss Bethmann, 3 Kindergareen Teacher,
TO Instruct the Cleveland Children.
President Cleveland has selected to act
as instructor to his children, Ruth and
Esther, Miss Frieda NJ. Bethmann, a kim
dergarten instructor in the public schools
of Boston. Miss Bethmann has been Sc
lected for the position both for the high
qualifications she possesses TO ill the du-
ties required of her and also because of the
friendship which existed between her
mother and the presidents family.
Among public school officials and other
educational persons Miss Bethmann is re-
garled as one OF the brightest kindergar
ten teachers in Boston. She has had every
advantage for advancement in her work,
as her mother, Mrs Emily f. Bethmann,
is one of the foremost kindergartners in
that section of the country, and has been
employed in the schools of the city ever
since the inception Of the system.
Mrs. Cleveland is greatly interested In
kindergarten work and has taken much
interest in and greatly assisted the New
York Undergraduates. Miss Bethmann has
obtained a two months leave of absence
from the school committee. She left Bos-
ton for Washington some days since. Ev-
cry attempt has been made to hide the pur-
pose of her visit to Washington, and in
some circles she said that she intended to
spend the two months on a social visit to
ton of Mrs. Cleveland.
Miss Bethmann was born in Boston and
is of German extraction. She was edu-
Gated in the public schools of Boston, and
after graduating from the Girls High
school took special course of training at
private schools, including a special course
on kindergarten work under the noted
Kindergarten Miss Lucy H. Symonds
Miss Bethmann is about 25 years of age,
of medium height and figure, with pleas
ing face, dark complexion and black hair.
Mrs. Emily A. Fif1eld, chairman of the
kindergarten committee of the Boston
school board, confirms the story that Miss
Bethmann has gone to Washington to
teach President Cleveland's children. AS
she is directly in charge of Miss Bethmann,
her words bear weight. She said:
'fMiss Bethmann has gone to Washing
ton and will instruct Ruth and Esther,
the presidents children. The committee
thought that the opportunity was too
great to be lost to her, and did not retard
her in any way. New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
CONFIDENCE INCREASING.
But the Weather flinders Trade and
Money Is Close says Dun.

But the Weather flinders Trade and
Money Is Close says Dun.
New YORK, Feb. 14-R. G. Dun &
Co. s weekly review of trade says:
The weather still binders business
and continued closeness of money fol-
lows the prolonged inaction of Con-
gress, but confidence increases.
The demand for boots and shoes is
still disappointing. Several factories
have closed and few are working full
time, belief in lower prices still pre-
vailing, although further reductions
have been made in most lines, amount
ing, since January, to l to per cent.
Textile work shows little change,
though the cut in print cloths to 81. 70
and a general concession in brown and
whole list quoted six per cent since
January l, induced more buying which
the known accumulation of goods
ahead of demand has hindered.
Sales of wool have been small for
two weeks of February, $3.50, 700
pounds, against 1O.2on, $50 last year
and l2,5O2, $50 in 1893, but higher
prices abroad, sustained by heavy
shipments of goods to this country, in
cline holders of wool here to make the
concessions, so that manufacturers
have the more difficulty in meeting
competition.
Produce markets tend downward.
mainly because supplies exceed ex-
pectations. Wheat has declind &c,
with Western receipts 3,O22, 3O6 bush
els, against s75, 1919 last year, while
Atlantic exports for two weeks have
been only 1889, 1875 bushels, against
2, 721, 344 last year.
Corn is shade lower and both pork
and lard a little lower. Cotton re-
ceipts, at this season never large, still
indicate a supply for the current crop
year, including stocks brought over,
much IN excess of the worlds needs,
SO that the prospect of increased acre
age has the more power to depress
prices, and spot cotton has declined an
eighth for the week. Exports in Jan
uary were $3.50, 500 less than last year,
though prices were AS per cent higher.
Failures for the week have been 321
in the United States, against go last
year, and 81 in Canada against 81 last
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
WAS ONCE A CITY.
Now the TOwnsite of Cross Will Be
Used AS a Cemetery.

WICHITA, Feb. 10. A special from
Ponca City, o. T., says that the city
council has bought the TOWNSHIP of
Cross for a city cemetry. This is the
novel ending of one of the most interest
ing rival townsite fights of the west.
When the Cheokee Strip was opened to
settlement in 1892, two rival cities
Ponca City and Cross-sprang up within
a mile of each other.
The latter opened up the first day of
its existence with a population of 5000
and the former with population of O.
600 1t was war to the knife between
them from the start. and at a public
meeting at Ponca City one night the
mayor uttered these prophetic
words; "Gentlemeu this is fig hit to the
finish. If you people give me your sup
port, will carry on the fight until Cross
is cemetery"
a strong delegation was sent to Wash
ington, with Captain Stiles at its head.
who succeeded in having Ponca City
recognized as the legitimate townsite.
This was eight months ago, and Cross
gave up the tight and moved to Ponca
City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
WARNER A CANDIDATE.
Els Closest Political Friend, Major Blake

Els Closest Political Friend, Major Blake,
Says He VIII Run for Governor.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. i5.-Major
William Warner is candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor.
Major John T. Blake, who managed
his gubernatoria1 campaign four
years ago, and is perhaps his
most intimate political friend in
Missouri, said to-day that Major
Warner would not decline, if nomi-
mated, but would make the race and
carry on a fight for the party as strong
as he made in 1922. Major Blake was
selected by a number of Major Warn
er's friends at a recent meeting to
speak for them, and it is known that
Major Warmers wishes were consulted
before Mr.. Blake would consent to
make statement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
AVAG WITH ABADRECORD.
Investigation Shows That SedaIia Pris-
oner Is a Much Wanted Man

Investigation Shows That SedaIia Pris-
oner Is a Much Wanted Man.
SEDALIA, Mo, Feb. 15.-John John
son was arrested by Constable James
Gossage for vagrancy and sentenced
to forty days imprisonment in the
County Jail by Judge flasher. When
arrested he acted in a suspicious man
ner, and the officers decided to further
investigate his case. He gave his
name as the Cleveland Sport" and
confessed to numerous rObberies;
stated that he had been convicted for
highway robbery at Palestine, Tex,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years but escaped from the guards;
also gave valuable information which
will lead to the arres' of the men who
held up freight train on the night of
January IA at Nassau, on the Missouri
Pacific. in which several watches and
money were taken from trainmen and
Conductor Tr1ckett was shot 1t is
thought that Johnson was implicated
in the robbery at Fort Scott, Kan,
January II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
THE NEW AMBASSADOR.
He Is a Trained Diplomat From a Good
School,

he As q FRAMED O1pIOan3C from 0ooo
School,
Whether it is becoming to the dignity of
a great nation to require that allowances
shall continually be made for it's repre-
sentatives as mere amateurs IN diplomacy
is question. But that question does not
arise in the case of Mr.. Uhl.
There could be no better preparat ion for
a foreign mission in the space o. three
years than to pass that time in the state
department, for there is really a continu-
Gus tradition in that department which IS
not broken by changes of administration,
and which enables an American who has
been brought into contact with it to I'M
derstand those relations with all the great
powers which are requisite in our repre-
sentative accredited to any one of them.
Mr.. Uhl has had the advantage of learn
ing, as few of our foreign ministers have
been able to learn, what these relations
are. Indeed, considering the facility of
communication and the certainty that
discreet representative will, in any impor
tant matter, wait for instructions, it may
be doubted whether his exceptional quail
fications would not be of more value to
the country in Washington than in Berlin.
New York Times.
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I Clearings Inc. | Dec.
TIGERS DEFY DISCIPLINE
Row Between the Faculty and Students
of the Missouri University.

of the Missouri University.
COLUMBIA, Mo, Feb. 15.-Thirty stu
dents of the Missouri University were
suspended Thursday and yesterday,
upon the recommendation of the dis
cipline committee, for moving side
walk. Ordinarily only a score attend
chapel, but yesterday morning a pro-
cession 400 strong marched in. Soon
as the exercises were over stu
dent jumped to his feet and
shouted: Fellow students, out
of sympathy for our friends
who are unjustly punished, we should
refuse to attend lectures to-day"
The students all left the chapel Once
outside they formed a procession and
marched through town and back to
the campus, where a meeting was
held. All pledged their word not to
attend class. not to answer any ques-
tions asked by the discipline COM
mlttee and to all stick together. If
one is expelled ali promise to go. Then
they went to their homes. It has
leaked out that the faculty will pun
ish the leaders and the students who
are in it vow they will all go together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
EDIsoN's FIRST PHoNoeRAPH.
One Famous Invention Now In an Atlanta
Lumber Room.


Stored away among the rubbish of a
ginger ale factory in Atlanta is the first
photograph constructed by Thomas A.
Edison, away back in 1875. At the Phil
adelphia exposition, 20 years ago, it at
tracted the attention of almost the entire
world and was justly regarded as one of
the greatest inventions of the age.
At the close of the exposition it was
purchased by Mr.. J. ]. Sprenger, who,
under General Grant S administration, was
attached to the United States consulate at
Vienna, and later to the consulate at
Rome. The machine, after exhibition in
several of the largest cities of this country,
was taken to Europe and found a place at
the French exposition, in 1873. Sprenger
charged small fee for a few minutes en-
tertainment and realized some 10000
francs from his speculation. He then took
it to Germany but, from a financial point
of view, the exhibition there was not a
success. The voice of the old machine Is
stilled forever, and it is slowly crumbl1ng
to Di0ceS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
No More TroubIe Witb Rabv.

UNIoNTowN. Kan, Sept. %, '95.-Hand
Medicine COL got sample bottle of
DR.. Hands Collie Cure while 1 was in
Wichita. My baby was subject to wind
collie and I could find nothing which
would do him any good 1 tried the
sample and had nc more trouble with my
baby that day. The following doses
acted in a like manner. l can find no
equal to il. Mrs. Bertha Woodward"
Dr.. Hands Remedies for Children sold
by all druggists for 20 cts per bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
JOSEPHB. FORAKER.
will Present McKin1ey's Name in the
Republican, Con ven ton.

hPpUDHHCtsu Jul NUEH GAOWs
SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 15.-The name of
ex Governor VIM. Mckinley will be pre-
scented to the Republican national con-
ventiop, to be held at St. Louis, for the
nomination of president, by Senator elect
Joseph B. Foraker
This information is furn ished by none
other than Hon. J. Frank McGrew SON.
in-iaw of Governor Bushnell. When
asked if there was any truth in the re-
port hat Senator elect Foraker was OPP
posing Ex-Governor McKinley's presi-
Dental aspirations. he answered:
This talk about Foraker not being for
Mckinley for president is all rot We
are all for him, and he will go to the St.
Louis convention with a solid dele CATION
from Ohio. Why, Foraker will be in
vited to present McKiuley's name. and
he will gladly accept the invitation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
SAVANNAH BANK ROBBERY
A st. Joseph saIOOnkeeper Charged With
Completely in It.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Feb. 15.-Frank
Harris, saloonkeeper of this city,
was arrested yesterday on the charge
of completely in the robbery of the
State bank at Savannah. Harris de-
MES knowledge of the robbery. Of
fcers ransacked the Harris saloon and
found up-to-date burglar tools There
are nearly 100 different articles, in
Guiding files, drills. chisels, dark Ian
terms, explosive chemicals, powder
and various other instruments pertain
ing to the art of burglary. The tools
were neatly packed in an ordinary tel
escope valise which was found under
the saloon bar. A search of Harris
house disclosed other evidence of the
same kind,
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Shot Two others ana Himself.

CENTERvILLE, Iowa, Feb. IS
George Jones shot and killed his
sweetheart, Leah Martin, her mother,
Mrs. w. J. Martin, and then put a
bullet into his own head last evening.
The reasons for the deed are unknown,
but it is supposed that the parents of
the girl, with whom Jones had been
keeping company for two years, had
objected to their relations.
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TO pieces

Society's newest project for next sum
mer the omen air horse show in Newport,
will be seen in Freebody park, which Is
near Bellevue avenue, and just in the rear
e the Casino.
No other place in Newport appeared to
be- SO well adapted for the purposes of the
Entertainments, for the park may be made
to accommodate 8, 600 persons.
Thursday and Friday, Aug 81 and %,
have been selected as dates.-Cholly Knick-
srbooker in New York Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
ACRES OF MINES.

Eastern and Denver Parties Have Pur-
chased 100 Acres of Cripple Creek Land.
CRIPPLE CREEK. Feb. 15.-Col. A. w.
Duggan of Canon City, has completed a
sale of 100 acres of land just west of
Cripple Creek to Denver aud eastern
parties. Charles NJ. Clinton carried
through the deal. A large cash pay
ment was made, and Colonel Duggan re-
tains q share of the stock, which is to be
issued when the company is organized.
The concern is to be capitalized at So
100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
GOV. MATTHEW'S SLEPT
While Thieves Enter His House,
Smoke. Eat and be Merry.

Wh1Ie Thieves EnIeF Hts 1AUuses
Smoke, Eat and be Merry.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 15,-Governor Mat
thews, chief executive of the state, Is
vexed to his innermost soul. Some time
during the night, the mischief not being
discovered until morning, burglars en-
tered his home, visited his bed chamber
and distracted fine gold watch from
his vest They also helped themselves to
$50 in his trousers pocket. All this in
a bedroom lighted with a CRATE fire.
The burglars adjourned to the dining
room, where they helped themselves
bountifulIy to fruit on the sideboard,
lighted some of the governors cigars, as
shown by the ashes and stubs scattered
around, and then warmed themselves by
the comfortable fire left burning for the
benefit of the servants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

Judge Alexander Davis Dies at st. Louis.
ST. Louis, Mo-, Feb. Is. - Judge
Alexander Davis breathed his last at
the Baptist sauitarium yesterday, sur
rounded by members of his family and
friends. He was "a years old Judge
Davis was the jurist whose name was
immortalized by Mark Twain in
"Roughing It" The judge was then
he presided over the peoples court
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a nureIar,s Bloody Work.

DALLAS, Texas. Feb. IA burglar
entered the house of Jefferson Smith
at midnight last night. Smith Crap
pied with him and was stabbed in the
back three times and is believed to be
fatally injured. His wife tried TO as
sist him and the assassin crushed her
skull with blow from an ak. She is
unconscious and cannot recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
$4,000 FIRE AT VICTOR.
Poor Water Service Makes 1t Impossible
to Check the Flames.

to Check the FLAMES.
VICTOR, Feb. 15.-At midn light fire
broke out in the row of dwelling and
boarding houses at Victor, that were To-
Gated between the two Midland tracks
above the terminal depot.
On account of the wind and the lack
of water service in that part of the city,
little could he done toward stopping the
progress of the fire.
The flames were gotten under control
at lis. The loss is $1,000 and fifteen
families are left homeless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
CRIPPLE CREEK THIEVES
They Steal a Trunk Full of Diamond
and Watches,

They Steal q Trunk Full OF Diamonds
and Watches.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Feb. ia: 7:15
last evening a couple of expert diamond
thieves broke into the jewelry store of
Sam Sonnen burg, at 3U5 Bennett ave-
nue., and deliberately carried off trunk
full of watches, diamonds, and other
articles of jewelry.
Mr.. Sonnenburg went to supper at $50
o'clock, and when he returned the back
door was open and the trunk of Jewels
missing. The value of the contents was
$4,000,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

GUTHRIE, Okla, Feb. 15.-Miss Stel-
Ia Zorne of Cooper was found dead in
her bed at her mothers home Thurs
day morning, with an empty morphine
bottle at her side Disappointment in
love was the cause of the deed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

SAN Francisco, Feb. 15.-FranlS J.
Miller, butler in the employ of J. L.
Fra nllin, shot and killed John Ander-
son, a burglar. and was himself shot
through the neck and dangerously
wounded. When the police arrived on
the scene they found Miller lying I'M
conscious on the floor with tine dead
robber lying across his feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.-The treasury
statistician's report of exports for tho
month of January makes q much m ore
favorable showing than the reports
for several months preceding. and
than that for the preceding January.
The exports of barley were ten times
those of January, 1895.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

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Munyon's Blood Cure sradicates all
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A separate cure for eacn disease. At
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disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. I5.-After a
stormy session, IN the course of which
The temperance element was turned
pver body and soul to the timetable
League. the Prohibiti0e state conven-
Jon adjourned.
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A LoveIv Head of Hair.

Is something every woman should be
proud of and is something that every
person can have if they use Beggs' Hair
Remover. A positive guarantee with
evory bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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Robbed

Ola nice head of hair just through neg
hgence. When your hair begins to fall
out, don't neglect it, but get a bottle of
Begg's Hair Remover. which will stop
its falling out and if turning gray, will
restore it's natural color. For sale by all
druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

Wichita and return by the Santa Fe
Route, one fare for the reund trip.
Ticksls sold February 10 to 10, good
to return including February "a. No
change of cara by the Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15
GRAND CENTRAL STATION.
viii Be Enlarged by the Addition of Two
StorfaE.

NEW YORK, Feb 15.-The New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad COM
pany has decided to enlarge the Grand
Central station at Forty-second street by
the addition of two full stories to the
building on the Vanderbilt avenue side
Bradford L. Guilbert, the architect, is
now drawing the plans, and it is intended
to begin work "a early in the spring as
the weather will permit The cost of the
addition is estimated at $3.50, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-15

Music, recitations, drills, court scenes
etc, at Hamilton hall. Tuesday evening,
Feb. 10. Admission fifteen cents.
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Bank ClearinxS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's, shows
the clearances at the cities named and
the percentages of increase or decrease
as compared with the corresponding
week last year: