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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
WARDEN J. L. PACE ANSWERED.
Warden Pace Denies That Jefferson
City Il a Convict Labor City.

Warden Pace Denies That Jefferson
City Is a Convict Labor City.
"Mr. ]. L. Pace, Warden Missouri Peni-
tentiary, jefferson City. Mo.
Jefferson City, NO., Oct. %. lS96.-Dear
Strive have been directed to call your
attention to the statement made by the Sc
dalls board of trade in its circular favorins
capital removal. form s, as follows:
Vote against Jefferson City, the con-
vict labor town, because the present state
CAPITOL building and most all the private
residences, hotels, shops. stores and streets
in the town have been constructed by con-
Wet labor etc.
This charge is not only designed to mis-
lead the laborng people on the capital re-
moval question. but in addition is very
serious reflection upon the state of Mis-
souri, and the enforcement of its laws. and
We would like to know from you officially
whether any convicts are employed outside
the penitentiary. Respectfully,
~. z. MURPHY, President Topographic
al Union No. 1l9.
"HENRY OSTER, President BrickIaysrs
Union No. z
FIRED PITTRoFF, President Cigar
makers Union No. ls3.'
Warden PAGES reply follows:
Jefferson City, No., Oct g. 1851. E.
Murphy. president Typographical Union
No. 119. and others, Jefferson City, Mo.
Gentlemen:-Your favor is at hand and
noted. I am glad Of the opportunity pre-
sented to say that the statement made in
the paragraph quoted is wholly untrue.
The laws of this state have for about
tN enty years forbidden the employment of
convicts outside the prison walls. 1t is
hardly necessary for me to say that this
law has been strictly enforced. Convicts
were not employed in the construction of
the $250.0OO addition to the new capitol in
1883. Very respectfully,
~. L. PACE. Warden
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
PRIZE FIGHT ON A BOAT.
Billy Fitzgerald Beat '.Professor'
Miller, of California,

Jefferson City, No., Nov. 1.-(Specfal) A
pugilistic encounter took place near here
to-day. The matter was kept very quiet
so that the officers would not attempt to
stop it, and the entire party went to the
scene of battle in boat chartered here.
Billy Fitzgerald, of St. Louis, bested Pro-
fessor J. ]. Miller. of Los Angeles, Cal. in
limited fight of five rounds. Had they
fought three more rounds Fitzgerald would
took phace five miles west Of this city.
near ClaysvilIe on a sandbar in the middle
of the Missouri river. Miller had the ad-
vantage Of Fitzgerald in weight and height
but was in no condition to fight. He was
blowing hard at the end of the fourth
round. whilst Fitzgerald had plenty of wind
and was just warming up. Fitzgerald had
the best of the fight from start to finish
and at the end of the fifth round the
referee gave the fight to him.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
BOWLING GAMES FOR THE WEEK
Inc 'nheaten Kansas Citys and Owls
VIII Come Together ON FRI
day Evening"

This weeks games in the bowling tour
nament are scheduled for the Brunswick
alleys and they promise to furnish some
great sport. The opening game this even
ing will be between the Stock Yards and
the Midnishts. and the former will have
their hands full to win. On account of the
election. there will be no game bowled on
iuesday evening. the second game of the
week being on Wednesday evening be-
tween the Pastimes and the Vikings, in
which the latter team will probably win.
On Thursday evening the Bellevues and
Acmes Will meet and this should be hot
ca-ne. as the teams. from their work thus
far. seem TO be evenly matched On Fri
day evening the Kansas Citys and the
Owls will come together for the first time.
and as these teams are now in the lead in
the race, each having won three games
and lost none, the game will be one of the
most interesting of the tournament. The
weeks bowling will close on Saturday
night with a game between the Electrics
and the Missouris.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
AFTER TWENTY LONG YEARS.
d. j. NJ. A. Jewett Charged With Rob
hing a POstOmce.

From the Denver Republican.
There may not be much in a name, but
there Is something in initials. If the as
sistant postmaster of the Fort Stanton.
N. NJ. postoftice who is charged with
robbiDg that office of something less than
500 a week had not been blessed with his
euphonious qurtette of initials he might
have pursued the rest of his earthly ca
reer unnoticed. AS it is. his initials have
discovered him, and after twenty years Of
otscurity, of hiding from his fellow men.
he has again come to public notice and
with added opprobrium to his name.
On the I'D of the present month d. j..
NJ. y. Jewett, assistant postmaster OF the
postoffice in Stanton. n. NJ, was arrested
BY Inspector Frederick on charge of en-
beZZ!ing Sl5l.56, money order funds. The ar
rest was at once made known to Inspector
MoMechan, in this city, within whose dis
trict the postoftice named lies. Jewett was
bound over to appear before the grand jury
in Socorro during the December term. The
news of Jewett's arrest was duly published
and several of the former residents of the
two Southern states which decided the
Hayes-Tiden election, with retentve men,
ories recalled the combination of initials of
the president maker and the embezzler at
Fort Stanton. No one, in the long lapse
from 1876. had ever heard from the LOUISE
ana d. ]. NJ. A. Jewett. He might have
died. That he was out of his own state.
and states. was we'll known, since no man
saw him after his decision of the contest
ed presidential election. At the request of
Inspector McNfechen and Postmaster Jor-
dan, the latter of whom was resident of
louisiana in '76, Inspector Frederick was
asked to interview Jewett and ascertain
something about his former history. The
interview, although the details are but
meager. confirmed the suspicion enter
tained by the officials named. Jewett ad-
mitted that he was the d. j. NJ. A. Jewett
of Hayes-Tilden fame.
Jewett was chairman of the Louisiana
board. which assisted So materially in
electing the president CT the United
States in 1876. The vote of the states of
Louisiana and South Carolina was dis
puted after the election. Congress ap-
pointed commission of visiting states-
men. which included John Sherman, Sena-
tor Hoar, James A. Garfield and other well
known men, and these held a joint confer
epce with the returning boards of the two
states, to hear and settle which candidate
received the majority Of the votes cast
Jewctt cast the vote of Louisiana for
Hayes. Jewett afterward went to New
Mexico to reside. New Mexico was then
farther away than 1t is now: it was a
wilder and more remote country and ac.
cess to 1t was not as easy as it is to-day
Twenty years of progress have been made,
but with all rapid advance of civilization
westward Jewett is still $50 miles from a
railroad. He had buried himself in a fast
ness which he supposed would be safe un.
til he had run his course.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
The COAST ONE DAY NEARER
NEW ORLEANS AND FLORIDA AN
NOUNCES A NEW LIMITED.
Marks nm Era in Southern Railroad
ing-Santa Fe Pay Schedule-C.,
o. & G. to Build n Branch
Railroad Notes.

The New Orleans and Florida limited
announced by the Queen & Crescent route,
for November s. marks an era in Southern
railroading
The schedules provide for magnificent
trains, which leave Cincinnati at $50 a. m.
and run through solid to New Orleans and
Jacksonville in twenty-four hours. This
has never been surpassed by the Southern
roads.
1t includes an arrangement with the
Southern Pacific Sunset limited to the Pa
cific coast in three and a half days. Here
tofore it has taken that long to go from
Chicago to the coast SO that the East is
now one doy nearer to the West.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
Voters Asked to Read and Reflect:

to establish an extensive broom factory in
jefferson City providing a suitable location,
with other inducements asked, were graD--
ed. The Commercial Club at once offered
to this concern the very best arguments
Jefferson City ever offers to any manufact-
urinS institution seeking location there.
and that was that X they would locate in
Jefferson City they would have the adj
vantage of securing convict labor for the
manufacture of their goods. This seduct-
i've suggestion was needed at once by the
company. and thus the Commercial Club
of the penitentiary city secured to Its town
another factory, and the contract has been
made by this company with the warden of
the penitentiary for fifty men, to start
with. and a large number of others a.
soon as needed.
The following extract from the Jefferson
City Tribune, October %. tells the rest Of
the story. and shows to what extent honest
labor Is being robbed Of its just dues by
Jefferson City encouraging the employment
of convict labor in manufactures:
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
CONVICT BR1CkLAYERs.

State of Missouri. Pettis County, S.:
Charles NJ. Niles, being duly sworn, says
that he was an employe of the Thirty-sixth
General Assembly of the state of Missouri,
and that his duties compelled him to. pass
to and from the capitol and by the new Lii
brary building, then in course Of erection on
the capitol grounds and being an addition
to the supreme court building; that during
that time he saw many convicts in uniform
ar work in various capacities on said build
ing. laying brick, carrying hods, ETC.; that
he frequently saw the then warden of the
penitentiary, Colonel j. A. Morrison, there,
seeming to superintend or direct the work;
that said work continued for long space
Of time and came under his observation ev-
cry day. and that he verify believes that
said force of convicts performed the great
er part of the labor upon such construc-
ton. CHARLES NJ. NILES,
Sworn to and subscribed to before me
this 31st day Of October, 1896.
(SeaD P. H. LONGAN,
Clerk Of Pettis County Circuit Court.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
No Bad Postage Stamps.
From the New York Recorder.

from the New 1ork RecOrder.
CurioCsly enough, counterfeiters do not
find 1t profitable to ply their vocation in
the postal service, for. according to an Of
fcial Of the postofffce department who
has been in the service for over twenty
years. there has been no counterfeitins of
stamps during that period.
A few years ago the postmaster general
ordered a reprint of an obsolete design of
a scent stamped envelope 1t was a mis-
take on the part of the department. and
as soon as 1t was discovered all of these
envelopes, about 10000 in number, were
called in.
A stamp collector in New York in some
way learned that these envelopes We're soon
to be called in, so he bought 100 of them
before the postmaster had time TO send
them back to the department. After all the
others had been called in he had monopo-
ly of the issue, and he was selling them
freely to the stamp cranks" at s. each.
He paid but cents apiece for them, hence
his profit was enormous.
There is another incident where a stamp
collector learned that there would be a
short issue of a certain denomination put
in circulation, so he went to the contract
or and purchased $4,000 worth of the new
ISSUE
He attempted to sell them at greatly ad-
vanced prices and complaint was made to
the department. An investigation was or
dered and the result was an unlimited
number was ordered to be printed, and the
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
FROM A LOCAL LABOR MAN.
What He Thinks of warden Paee's
Evnsive Letter.

Many hundreds of Missourians will laugh
when they read the card Of Warden j. L.
Pace. of the penitentiary, in the dispatches
being sent out from Jefferson City. Mr..
Pace says that for nearly twenty years
there has been a law in Missouri prohibit
ing the employment of convicts outside OF
the prison walls: and Mr.. Pace says that
'.it is hardly necessary for me to say that
this law has been strictly enforced"
1t is not only necessary. Mr.. Pace. fer
you to say this, but it Is necessary for you
to prove it beyond the question Of doubt.
1 stand ready personally to make oath
that I have watched convicts doing the
work OF honest men on the state buildings
at Jefferson City since the beginning Of
1890, and hundreds Of others who have Wis.,
tied Jefferson have seen the Same thing.
In August. 1880. on the occasion of .
state convention, when great crowds were
at Jefferson, i stood with others at the
edge of an excavation where dozens Of the
striped fellows were at work, under guard;
and right there 1 determined that my voice
would always be heard in the meetings OF
honest laboring men in favor of taking
the capital away from the penitentiary
town.
To the laboring men of Missouri I would
say: Don't let this Pace letter fool you.
Ask the man who represented your county
or your district in the last legislature IL
1t is true. He will tell you that 1t is in
correct.
AS for the letter Of the labor men which
brought out this reply from Mr.. Pace,
have no doubt it was forced from them.
/ know personally that organized labor
has little foothold in Jefferson; and know,
too, that some of those who are SO un-
fortunate as to be in the town with fam
lilies and without the means of getting out
have recently applied to their national or
ganization for assistance.
Any workingman who votes for Jeffer.
son City with the understanding that he IL
NOT striking blow at honest labor, votes
blindly; for everybody knows that the town
is the enemy of labor. kept alive by the
profits wrung from 50-cent-a-day convict
workmen.
If what they have to say would bear the
light of investigation II would have been
said long ago. They are desperate. and VIII
resort to anything. j. j. CUND1FF,
President Sedalia Federation Of Labor.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02

Thousands will stand on the streets Oh
Kansas City tomorrow night to watch the
election returns. which will be hashed on
screens by the aid of magic lanterns.
They will be there, no matter how great
the crush or inclement the weather: Inc
most comfortable way of learning the re-
suit of the great election will be to sit IN
the Auditorium and between the acts hear
the very latest reports from all sections
of the country. Manager Slocum has made
arrangements with the Western Union
Telegraph Company for special news
paper wire, which will be run into the
building to an upper private box. The re-
turns will be received by the most expert
lady operator in Kansas City, Miss F. E.
Broderick During the performance, the
orchestra, led by NJ. A. Lenge. will render
a number of national airS
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
Western Union Service on Election
Night in IA Large Number
of Places.

of Places.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
has arranged to give election returns at the
Tomorrow night:
Commercial Club, Marquette Club. George
NJ. Foley Coates House, David T. Beals,
Independence avenue, corner of Wabash !;
B. b. Joffee 1874 Tracy avenue: Progress
Club, Charles H. Nearing, 2iS1 Forest;
Elks' Club. Max WE'LL, 512 Woodland; !;
Frank w. Sears, Republican candidate for
senator: Isaacs' hall, Springfield and
Holmes; James Higdon, 9l2 East Ninth !;
John f. Higdon,. 2724 Olive: Bonaventure
hotel. Emil Scharnagel, Ills Walnut; Turn
er hall, DR.. T. ]. Morrow, Ninth and Pros
pect; Auditorium hotel; e. r. Crutcher, 3fiS
Troost avenue; F. p. Smith, 1412 Lnwood
avenue: ]. H. Emmert, Humboldt and Nc
Gee; wigwam, Eighth and Walnut; Captain
Lechtman, SIS East Fourteenth: board of
police commissioners; j. d. Seitz, 1915 Har-
rison; c. C. Christie, 1905 East Thirtysec-
ond; Walter Scott, 2704 East Ninth Wash
ington hotel Fred Doggett, 1852 Penn; Gar
diner Lathrop, Forty-siNth and Warwick
boulevard; Frank Lester, Fifteenth and
Montgall; Blossom house, +. +. Serviss,
632 Orville avenue; Frank l.. Riley. Y. NJ.
c. A; D. d. Perkins. Euclid avenue; A.
T.. Stilwell. $40 East Thirty-sixth; 1nde-
pendence Avenue NJ. E. church; w. j.
Bowes Eighth and Woodland; K. L. Bar
ton, 2520 Trcost J. o. Brinkerhoff, 1920 JEFF
ferson; Second Baptist church (colored),
Auditorium theater, George NJ. Sutton,
Forest: General Jo o. Shelby, 1888 TEoost /;
William NJ Martin, 36l5 Warwick boule-
ward: c. n. Tucker, Westport avenue;
Carr's hall, Westport: Henry Wollman, 12O
West Eleventh; ]. b. Hutchinson, Eight
eenth and Chestnut; Alonzo Burt, Sixth
and Prospect: Telephn e exchange; Third
Regiment armory; w. II. Wdnants, 5oi
Woodland avenue; Miss Lovelace, 14l9
Broadway; George F. Putnam. 2il6 East
Ninth; ST. Patrick's church, Eighth and
Cherry: Samuel Wilson. 1905 Harrison; A.
J.. o. Schueler. 625 Garfield; Linwood Ave-
nue. church, Linwood and Woodland ave-
nues: John O'Reilly, Springfield avenue
and Main: Joseph WHITMAN Troost ave-
nue.; Charles Mitchell, Twenty-third and
Kansas avenue; city assessors office; DR..
F'reyer, Ninth and Cherry; w. G. Eads. 3ls
West Eleventh: Chamber of Commerce
building, Chris Shelly, East Ninth: w. c.
Endsley, 727 Tracy avenue; Ferd Helm
Brewing Company and 1l5 saloons.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
Important Issue.

From the Washington Star.
What dye know about this here ray
tyo?" asked the farmer, breaking into the
corner grocery discussion. where Star re-
porter was one of the listeners. i.-
you want some points about the ray
show?" asked the village justice. 1--WE got
some idea on that myself"
1.-THE ray-she-o is the most important fea-
ture of the contest" remarked the lawyer.
"PIl be satisfied with any rah-she-o up
to 20 to J." said the other.
.If it is the rash-o you are talking
about said the new schoolmaster from
Boston, IT think can enlighten you. By
rash-o we mean"
But at this juncture the cat treed a rat
in the flour barrel and cut off the debate.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
sT0CKMAN UNDER ARREST.
Charged With Obtaining Money I'm
der False Prctenses-AmOunt Al
legged tn Re InvOIyed 1000.

der raise frctensee-AmOunt Al.
legged to BE Involved, $4,000.
W. C. Morey, a stockman, charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses, was
brought in from Kansas on requisition
last night by Deputy Marshal J. I. Stew
art. The complaint was made against
Morey by Clay Robinson & Co.. of the
stock yards, which firm ne is alleged to
have victimized o; 5000. 1t is said that he
ingratiated himself INTO the confidence of
the firm by shipping herd of cattle to 1t
from Omaha. This business transaction
seemed regular enough, and when he said
he had another herd on his ranch near
Munden, Kas., the firm believed it, and
advanced him. upon his request, 5000 to
winter the stock.
Upon investigation it developed that he
had no cattle in Kansas, and it is said
further that the herd he shipped in from
Omaha was mortgaged, but that he paid
off the incumbrance with money realized
from the sale.
Morey was arrested upon an Indictment
found against him last September. He re-
fuses to talk about the charge further than
to say he will clear himself.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
SUPPLEMENT TO PAY SCHEDULE.
How the Ghost Walks for Santa Fe
Trainmen.

HOW the GhOSt WALKS LOT Suhtu u
Trainmen.
Topeka. Kas., Nov. 1.-(Specfal) Gener-
al Manager j. j. Frey, of the Santa Fe
company, has issued supplement to the
pay schedule of that road, which went in
to effect April !, 1892, regulating the pay of
conductors and trainmen on the system.
The supplement has been accepted by g.
| W. Thornburg, chairman of the o. r. c.,
and r. c. Scott, chairman of the Il. of K.
T.. 1t was agreed upon, after n conference
between the Santa Fe officials and Il. h.
Clark, grand senior conductor of the y. X.
c., and p. H. Morrisey, grand chief of the
B. of R. T.. held recently. The supplement
in full follows:
First-Mileage limit of passenger crews
On ordinary passenger runs exceeding 4.VOo
miles per month, 5000 miles will be consid-
cred a months work, except between La
Junta and Albuquerque. where $500 miles
will be the limit On limited trains 1900
miles will be considered a months work.
except between La Junta and Albuquerque,
where $500 miles will be considered the
limit. In case any runs exceed the ABOVE
limits, overtime will be paid pro rata, or
the men allowed a sufficient time off eacn
month to bring the mileage within the
above limits.
Second - Western division passenger
crews. running between Dodge City and
Denver, receive the highest rate OF pay.
Th:rd-Crew on Topeka and Kansas city
local train known as the plug to receive
conductor, SIPS: brakeman. $50 per month.
Fourth-Passenger crews running be-
tween Strong City and Superior, to receive
-copductors, $125, and brakemen, $50 per
month.
Fifth-Freight runs between Topeka and
ST. Joseph to be paid on mileage basis.
Sixth-On all divisions brakemen will re-
ceiye one hour overtime for coaling en-
gipes, which shall be paid only once for
the same time. This is intended to pro-
vice if a crew is paid one hour overtime
for turning, and switching train, or for
doing work at station. and the coalins
was done within the time so paid for, they
shall not receive pay for coaling.
Seventh-It is understood that in case of
breach of trust, where the general officers
are satisfied beyond doubt that trainmen
are dishonest, they receive the right to
dismiss them from the service without
formal investigation. Should the general
or division officers of the organization of
conductors or trainmen question'the Justice
of such dismissal, the management will
erdeavor to satisfy them that such action
is justified.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
FOUGHT FIVE POLICEMEN.
At Least Officer Lillis Thought So
y Used a ShOemaker's Knife.

John Rafferty,. formerly a sailor, now a
shoemaker at 1903 Main street, engaged in
a hand to hand contest with five police
men yesterday at Fourth and Walnut. He
was drunk and had thrown stones at the
saloon at 301 Main street because the house
had refused to set up the drinks. Officer
Lillis attempted to arrest him. when Raj
ferty drew a shoe knife and cut Lllis'
hand. Then the men grappled and rolled
about on the pavement. Other officers
came to the rescue until five had gath
cred, but they could do nothing with Raj
ferty, who was an excellent type of the
wild Irishman. Lillis knocked him on the
head with his club bathing the pavement
with blood. but that only stimulated Raj
ferty to fresh exertion. The best the Of
ficers could do was to hold him until the
patrol wagon came to convey him to the
station, quarter of a block away.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
WILL RECEIVE RETURNS.

Chicago labor would build the new cap
ital. Vote NO on capital removal
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
A Natural Mistake,

What did you mean by giving me eggs
in that condition. demanded the indig-
nant citizen.
weren't they what you wanted?" asked
the grocer in surprise.
''What I wanted!' roared the citizen.
"Do you suppose I eat eggs that"
"Oh, well, why didn't you say that you
wanted them to eat?" interrupted the gro
Ger. 'T thought you wanted them for po-
litical purposes
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
Hor,c. and Carriage Injured.

At an early hour yesterday morning a
team owned by Carlat ran away on Ninth
street. The team was hitched to car
riage and was standing in front of the
Ninth Street opera house. They took fright
at the derrick car of the street railway
company and ran east on Ninth and at the
Junction plunged headlong into the huge
excavation where the workmen are putting
in a new crossing. The carriage was sadly
wrecked and both of the horses badly In
jured, one being crippled so as to incapaci-
tate it for any future service. Fortunately
the workmen We're eating lunch and were
not in the ditch at the time.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
Ed Mitchell 1. Improving.

Ed Mitchell. the Santa Fe news agent,
whose skull was fractured by a brick in
the hands of a Bryan enthusiast during
the free silver parade Saturday night, is
resting easily at ALI Saints hospital. He
is thought to be in fair way TO recover
Jesse Bishop and James Neff were ar
rested yesterday Afternoon. charged with
the assault.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-02
In The

Head is the most common form of the
disease. 1t is caused by a cold or success
sion of colds, combined with impure blood.
Its local symptoms are fullness and heat
in the forehead, dryness in the nose and
back part of the throat, and disagree
able discharge from the nose. 1t is useless
to try to cure catarrh with snuffs and local
applications. Catarrh in the