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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

A GOOD many folks will stop you to tell
you some great story, and when you have
listened little while, you find it is merely
scheme to tell something about them
selves.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

"WHAT a small mind Mrs. Venlynne has ~
IN aturally. She has given her husband so
many pieces of it. "-Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

FITS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DIR. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle 81
treatise. DIR. KLINE, 933 Arch ST., Phta, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

at is certainly wonderful how much
science can do for u.s. Eyes; Mrs Front
row has learned to hypnotic her baby, and
she didn't miss Il club meeting the whole
week. n-CleYeland Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

week later found us, mere handful
of men, hampered by the presence of
half hundred women and children,
besieged in garrison by a hundred OF
more agcncy-fed redskins, who had
obviously succeeded in heading off
ccuriers going toward the military
posts, and proposed to starve us out.
And we were in a sad way. There was
plenty of water, but provisions were
getting distressingly low, and, worse
still, our supply of ammunition could
not hold out much longer.
1t was a very detected lot of men
that gathered together that August
mornig in Higgins, which was our
fort" and discussed the situation. 1t
had come to pass that, unless help ar
rived very, very soon, we must manage
TO get courier through to the fort-an
undertaking that, more than likely.
meant death to the man attempting it.
In this emergency arose old Bill.
IN go-t'night," said he. 81 got
nobody t keer FIR me; no chick mr. child.
I'm nearly seventy years old, an not
long FIR this world, anyhow. Course,
I'm a tendcrfoot, but l en- try t git
through, anyhow"
1t must be confessed, to our everlast-
ing discredit, that we saw the logic of
Bills arguments, and the protests
against his proposition were few and in
sincere. That night, mounted on the
hest horse in camp, and heavily armed,
Bill ljams went out into the darkness,
tc give up what remained of his miscra-
BILE, mistaken life for others
He must have got lost in the hills that
right; for when the reds sighted him
heNt day he was only few miles OH mis-
way. He gave them n running fight for
several miles, but was finally hit by
stray shot and obliged to seek cover III
the rocl's. He made a good fight for his
cbbing life, as the empty cartridge
shells around the rocks where he had
sought refuge amply proved.
We found him the second day after he
left us. stark naked and horribly mutt
lated. In his tightly clenched left
hand was a scrap of paper, evidently
overlooked by his murderers. On it was
hastily written:
Boys: They've got me- and l can see
them crawling up. Good-by.-BILL p
S.--Just got one. Maybe Nisby can make
a story out of this"
There was more, but it was unde-
cipherable. I thought that, with his
eye on the enemy, he had tried to out
line another piot.-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

USUALLY when a man defends other PEG.
pie he is defending something in his owp
past eXDerienCe. -AtchisOn Globe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

ANY kind of bruise st. Jacobs Oil will
cure at any time, no matter how bad.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18
BILL, THE POTTER.
BY LESTER KETCHUM.

T seems but yes
terday that old
Bill Ijams Iurched
into the office, fell
over a chair or
two, sat himself
down upon the
edge of my table,
a II d announced,
with drunken gray
ity, that he was
the best blank
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

For years had neuralgia" You haven"
used St. Jacobs Oil to cure it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

IT may come last, but ST. Jacobs Oil is the
best to cure sprains. 1t ought to be first
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

IF stiff and sore, St Jacobs Oil will cme
you. Won't lose day. The cure is sure,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

JUST try 10c. box of Cascarets candy ca
thartic, tinestliver and bowel regulator made
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

"CAN you read French!" 'Er-not aloud"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

THE devils hardest blows are aimed at
the home.-Ram's Horn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-02-18

"CAN'T cure my rneumausmw You can,
you must use St. Jacobs Oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS.

The electric line company at Leaven-
the spring.
A great deal of the credit for Winches-
ter s,est victories are due to Pitcher Tayiqr,s
is hard to straighten out.
Western league managers are after Jot
Goar. Among them is Manning of Kan
sas City.
Atlanta. Ca Frank win do great work
under Sheridan's skillful management.
cincinnati, New York That's the order
of the finish for the first major league
sextet next season according to the veter-
an Mike Scanlon.
Arson will divide his practice season
between Hot Springs and Kansas City.
at the health resort boiling OUT and
two more at Kansas City practicing the
points of the game
..Trilby' TRULY to the Kansas CITY club.
TRULY is an Ironton (Ohio) boy.
Lady Violet Mrs. Belmonts great fIly
is to be bred to St Savior this year.
Clifford was fired some weeks ago, and
IS now turned out on a New Jersey farm
for the winter. Bob Rose win enter him
in the spring handicaps, but it is quite
doubtful whether he will stand training.
Tommy Cocoran. who was recently trad
ed to the Cincinnati club by the Brooklyn
mands an increase of $500 over his salary
in Brooklyn.
Manager Selee. of the Bostons. thinks
that the CleveIands will take a big drop
this year and that Cincinnati will also
occupy much lower position than it did
last year. Twelfth place is the position
he assigns to the Browns.
A Cleveland firm has just completed a
bicycle that they claim is probably the
largest ever manufactured. The dame
ter of the wheels is 9 feet 6 inches, and
to ride it a man would have to have legs
10 feet long. The gear is about $50
Members of the National Cycling union
of England are trying to prevent all mo-
tor pacing in professional races.
Captain Robinson of the Raltimores.
experimenting billiard and pool room
in a Baltimore hotel.
Dick Buckley, one of the most popu-
lar players who ever wore a St. Louis uni
form, intends going into the sand and
gravel business in Wisconsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
Everything Nicely Arranged for the
inaugural.

Now that the inaugural programme
has been arranged and each participant
is made aware of his time and place,
the only desire remaining is that eve
rything should carry out as planned
that the governors salute by Battery
3 should not be longer delayed than
ten minutes after time appointed and
that no one will faint and have to be
carried out. The committee has obtain
ed good entertainment for the occasion,
especially in the way of music, and the
audience should consider themselves
strictly invited to sing when called up
on. The committee has secured a fine
Kimban piano of Mr.. T. P. Gully, which
insures the success of the programme
so far as the piano music is concerned,
at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
a DUGoUT MESSAGE.
Evidence That Outlaw Taylor Stopped
Near Seneca December 8.

few miles southeast of Seneca, on
Tennessee creek, the gently rolling
prairie breaks into rugged bit of land
scape which would cause a denizen of
the Bald Knobs to crack his heels with
delight, thinking he had been trans
formed to his native wilds, says the
Seneca Tribune.
From the north the slope to the
stream is gentle and the soil remarlSa-
bly, fertile, but from the south bank
steep ard arid bluffs arise more or less
abruptly from the creek. On either
side the timber is heavy except upon
the brow of the embryo mountains.
whose chief product is a peculiar form
alton of rock apparently not related to
any other stone found in Kansas. The
high bluffs or hills on the south are
cut up by small, usually dry ravines,
which empty into the Tennessee.
About 200 yards distant from the
stream there opens dugOut which was
evidently first a cave, but afterward,
to judge from appearances, the earthen
roof having fallen in, trees had been
felled across the top opening, these COW
cred by fine sticks, then grasses, and
upon this was heaped earth to such a
erately dry within. An occasional rock
common to that locality, was thrown
upon the roof, perhaps to disguise the
true character of the place.
Last Saturday, however, party of
hunters CHANGED in that vicinity and
noticed the cave. Entering they found
evidence of the place having been re-
Gently occupied by human being. At
one end was an improvised fireplace,
with the smoke exit through the earth
at a slight distance. Lighting some
small sticks to illuminate the place.
they found the pelt and some bones of
q rabbit and the remains of two chick
ems, which had evidently furnished food
for a Wayfarer. On the floor too We're
the remnants of a baked potato and
some hard bread crust. An old fr,lit
can partially filed with water testi-
fed to the temperance proclivities of
the lone banQueter. Near the firenlaca
was found crumpled sheet of partially
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
FARMERS BLOW UPADAM.
It Flooded Their Farms and They
Destroyed It

Tampa, Fla. Jan. 9-An attempt was
made TO blow up the dam of the Con-
sumers' Electric railway by an armed
body of horsemen, who used dynamite,
doing considerable damage but not sue
ceeding entirely in their work of destruc-
ton.
This company has recently constructed
a new dam and power house. five miles
north of here. at cost of $500. 000.. The
country people threatened to blow it up
and one night Summers sent an armed
posse of sixty men out to protect the dam.
This was a month ago. and since then
four armed men have guarded the proper
ty night and day
Thursday night at a late hour horsemen
reached the old dam. three miles from the
new structure While they were prepar-
ing for their work the men at the OLD
works secured all the available guns and
for half hour a fusillade of shots was
exchanged. No one of either party was
hurt, but from the bullet holes in the
house it can be seen that they had mar
row escape.
The besiegers We're driven off and the
sheriff had a posse there. Chief of Police
Burke thinks the men will be captured
The trouble is due to the rising water
which has flooded the farmers land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
SHERIFF kEPLEY's TEAM.
Stood in Front of the Court House
Till Midnight Waiting for a Driver.

A lonely team of horses hitched to
light buggy stood at the south park of
the court house lot last night until
midnight People passing the place no
ticed it, and wondered. Some investi-
gated enough to find that it was Sher-
in Kepley's team. Then they would
look up at the sheriff's office window.
But there was no light there, and again
they wondered.
People passed on the sidewalks and
in buggies, but still the team stood
hitched there. Shortly after II o'clock
trusty from the county Jail made his
way toward the team. The horses
whinneyed in a friendly manner. He
took them around to the sheriff's barn
and they were put in where they could
eat hay and be warm. The reason for
this unusual occurrence was that Dep
uty Larry Sheehan, who has charge of
the driving of this particular team was
about to take them to the barn last
evening when Under Sheriff Bert Luz
cas- asked him to leave them there as he
wished to make a short trip. Larry
did so and went home to the bosom of
his family. Lucas finished his business
in the office and went home He never
thought of the team again until this
morning. Larry says that he will new
er lend his team to Lucas again, for he
likes his horses much.
Bailif John COyne now says he is
even with Lucas and Larry for their
mean trick in springing a rubber snake
on him and disturbing his dignity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
F1TzsIMMoN's HAND.
One of Them is in Bad Condition for
Fight.

New York. Jan. Sob Fitzsimmon's
good right hand. which has laid low so
many aspirants for championship honors.
is in serious condition. The knuckle of
the index finger is swollen to double it's
normal size as result of of the
sledge-hammer blows on Sharkey'S head.
How hard a blow Fitz can deliver may
be judged from the fact that six of his
fingers have been broken, and that both
knuckles of his index fingers have been in
a serious condition before as the right
one is at present.
The knuckle of his left index finger as
q result of the Knockout blow that he
delivered to Maher in their fight. swelled
to enormous size, and was only
duced after careful treatment. The fourth
finger of his right hand was broken in his
fight with Fallon- The third was frac-
tured when he knocked Dempsey out, and
the second finger of his right hand went
by the board during his second fight with
Maher.
The knuckle has been operated on sew
eral times by a well-known physician 1t
was lanced again yesterday and found to
be in very bad condition. A quantity or
suppuration was extracted and the hand
again carefully banda ged. From the in
side of the knuckle to the top of the
swelling Fits hand measures two and
three-QUarter inches, which is more than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
HARRY NOTES LETTER.
Tells the Sporting News of Kansas
Ball Prospects

The first city in Kansas to start base
ball for '97 will be Topeka, writes Harry
Mote to the Sporting News That city
has a stock company. composed of BUSH
ness men and no doubt will have of
the strongest teams in the new league
1 will offer as a suggestion to the Topeka
club that a man be sent to all the leading
cities in the state to stir up the business
men. Then let meeting be called in one
of the central cities say Emporia. this
month. If Topeka makes this move, 9TH
will follow. EmpOria will no doubt
have a stock company. but we are handi-
capped, as we have no street car accom-
modations to our park, but such small
matters will not stop us. This is the only
town in Kansas that has had a team that
played the season through since 1887.
If the Kansas team secure either
Mr. ]. c. Elliott of Topeka, Nj E. D.
Murphy of Leavenworth, or ChaS. Ryder
of Emporia, as president, the fans of
Kansas will be satisfied. 1t is time for
Kansas to move, if we are to have
league for '97, many of the best players
of the state are being signed by eastern
teams. President Mckee, of the Pater-
son, n. J., club has secured Patterson
and Wind of Emporia, two worthy young
players Patterson is without doubt the
fastest first baSeman and catcher that
Kansas has, and it is certainty that
Patterson Will be popular among the fans
and be one of the best men President Nc
Kee will have on his payroll. Wind is in
many respects similar to Patterson in his
playing. Both young men are in the
game to win.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT,
Furnished by the Associated Press o
the State journal.

H. y
WHEAT-Opened strong this morning
at an advance of about &c over yester-
days close. The strength was altogether
due to the unexpected frmness OF Liver
pool which market showed an advance of
I'D. Notwithstanding the drop of 161l@c
on this side yesterday. being another il
lustration of the independence of the Eng
lish markets this year. In addition north
west receipts were light. Minneapolis and
Duluth reporting a total of ia cars as
against 6S4 last year Initial trs DIES in
May We're made at from Sl5sc to size At
the advance there was considerable sell
ing to take profits and a reaction to $3.50
size took place.
CORN-Was very quiet and inclined to
weakness on expectations of a heavier
country movement. Local receipts were
1913 cars. May opened unchanged at 25c
and declined to 24s4d2l7sc.
OATS-Dull and easy with corn. May
opened shade higher at 19c and eased of
to 1870.
PROFESSIONALISM but steady. follow
ing a firm hog market. May pork opened
unchanged at $7.95. May lard opened I'M
changed at S405 and advanced to S4.071s.
May ribs opened a shade lower at S4.o115
and advanced to S4-10-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
RELIC OFOyERLAND TRADE
State Historical Society Receives a
Zinc Medal From Cawl1er City.

The State Historical society has re-
ceived as an addition to its collections
a relic in the form of a medal, of zinc
or some metallic composition, upon
which are impressed upon one side
clasped hands, pipe and to-nahawl1,
with the word Friendship below, and
an obscure date; on the oppO site side
the words Missouri Quitting Com
pany." and other words which, cannot
be made out.
The relic was taken from tile Great
Spirit spring near Cawker City in
Mitchell county.
This medal is supposed to hslve been
used by some Missouri comp any en-
gagged in overland trade or fire lighting.
for intercourse with the Indians
of the plains. Secretary Adam IS, after
much inquiry, has been unable to find
out anything concerning the Missouri
Quitting company"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
CAGEN'S
CHRISTMAS.
How John w. Mackay Made One
Man Happy.
Paid Off a Mortgage on His
Comrades Farm.
THE BONANZA KING
THE BONANZA KING
And the LeayenwOrth Farmer
Mined Together.
Gagen Went East the Other
Day and Saw Mackay.

Leavenwnrth, Jan. 9.-The happiest
man IN Kansas today is Patrick Gagen,
who has just paid off 81 coo mortgage
on his farm. 1t is not this fact, how
ever, so much as the circumstance
which led up to it.
The money was a present from John
W. Mackay, the bonanza king and null
ti-millionaire, now at the head 5of the
Mackay- Bennett Telegraph company.
The history of the acquaintance of
the two men dates back forty~six years
ago, when Patrick Gagen, a strapping
Irish six-footer, found himself stand
ing before a theater in the famed Cali
fornia mining camp, Gold Flat.
It was then that a broad hand slap
ped him on the back and hearty
voice said, well, stranger, you'd bet
ter come in and see the show with me"
John w. Mackay was the man who
introduced himself to the young Irish
gold seeker asking him to be his guest
to the theater, and from that time until
nearly two years later John Mackay
and Peter Gagen were bosom friends.
Then they dTifted apart, and the next
time G&gen heard of John Mackay he
was one of the bonanza kings who
was taking 1000, 600 a month out of the
hole known as The ComstOck lode"
Gagen came to Kansas, as many
another good man has done. He set
tied on a little farm about seventeen
miles south of Leavenworth, worked
hard and prospered. BY buying THE
joining forty and the eighty on the
south of me- he added to his farm i'm
til he possessed 800 acres of good land.
But as he grew old things began to go
wrong and ne was finally compelled to
borrow money to tide him over, put
ting a mortgage on the farm.
Last month he had occasion to go to
New York on a wild goose chase" he
said. While there he thought he would
like to see his old comrade. John
A1ackay, once more. When he came to
of the Mackay- Bennett company and
asked for Mr.. Mackay he was turned
away.
When I went to the big building
they wouldn't let me see Mr.. Mackay.
Why, he's got more guards than Queen
Victoria. So l went to the office of The
Irish World and they gave me a letter.
That took me in is the way the old
man told it.
on the eleventh floor, he stood up and
came to me and gave me both of his
hands, knowing me right away. And
what the h. are you doing out in
Kansas, where they don't have anything
but cyclones?' he says to me the very
first words
"Wen he took me out and had me
dine with him, and 1 had everything
wines and champagnes-and ne asked
me about my brother Tom, who's in
Montana now. He treated me that
way for two days, and when l left he
gave me $50 and told me to let him hear
from me If [ was in need. And at
Christmas time he sends me a Christ
mas present of $1,000"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-09
BILLY AND THE BEAN.
A Helpful Little Boy Who Was a True
Philosopher.

First.-On a bright spring day up in
New Hampshire little Billy Blowgun was
watching his papa plant the garden.
Second.-Why did little Billy Blowgun's
Old man plant the.0arden?
Third.-Because little Billy's father was
poor and had to do so, that he might be
able to furnish his numerous family with
a winters grub stake. They were so poor
that they never had any other kind of
steak. This is why little Billy helped his
pa. Every time old Billy would bore a
hole in the earth with his boot heel lfttle
Billy would steal slyly behind and drop in
a Seeding potato; then he would cover the
hole up. Oh, children, is it not u beauti-
jul thing to be able to assist our parents
as little Billy is doing?
Fourth-As Billy Blowgun put his
right hand in his pocket to rest it while he
continued to drop seeds with his left his
fingers touched two beans that were left
over from last Sundays hunt with his
little blowgun. Running to his papa, he
exclaimed in childish glee: ooh, papa,
see what 1 have foundl Two large kidney
beans. May I plant them and have the
crop for my very owney own, that may
in time become a bean merchant"
Fifth.-So old Billy gave him the de-
sired permission, and all that summer lit
tie Billy watched his bean vine grow
Quoth he: ''When I sell my beans, I shall
buy my dear mamma a new sealskin sack
and my father new clay pipe, for the old
one is strong enough to kill hem
Sixth.-One bright day in July little
bean was born.
Seventh. But, though he watched long
and earnestly, no more beans grew upon
the kidney bean vine. Resigning himself
to the Inevitable he said "Well, by
chowder, don't care anyway. This is
not evidently bean year, and am lucky
to get one bean for next years seed. 1
must hope for the best. Ma and pa,
know, will wait another year for their
presents if 1 ask them" So Billy hoped
on.
Eighth.-But one September morn, when
baby was playing in the yard, little Susie
came running to her mother, who was also
Billy's mother, and said, ooh, mamma,
baby has picked Billy's bean when wasn't
looking and put it up its dear little nose. "
Ninth.-Alas for Billy, with his only
Seeding bean in the babys nose! Did lit
tie Billy rant and curse at his i'll luck?
No. Billy was made of better stuff, and
besides he loved his little baby brother.
So he swallowed his disappointment and
felt better. He wished baby might swal-
low the bean as easy. Anyhow" he
unused later, 81 had intended the proceeds
of my bean farm for pa and ma, and baby
got 'em. It's all in the family anyway"
Try, children, and initiate little Billy
Blowgun's unsel1ish example.-New York
Sunday Journal.