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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
MEMORIAL MEETING
OF the Shawnee Co. Bar on the Death
of Wm. P. Douthitt.

Their was a large attendance at the
bar meeting held this morning in the
district court room to take action in
regard to the death of the late William
p. DOuthitt
At 9 o'clock Judge Hazen adjourned
court and placed the room at the dis
pOsaI of the bar.
John T Morton was elected chairman
and Charles F. Spencer was elected
secretary of the meeting. The follow
ing members Of the bar We're selected
as a committee to prepare suitable res
olutiOns to be presented at an adjourn
ed meeting to be held Monday, Decem-
ber 6: John T. Morton, John Martin, A.
H. Case, A. L. Williams and A. H.
Vance.
1t was agreed that the members of
the bar should meet at the late resi-
dence of the deceased at 2 O'Clock We'd
nesday afternoon to attend the funeral
in a body. 1t was decided that the bar
association should send a floral offer
ing Mr.. Douthitt was president of the
Shawnee Bar association at the time of
his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
GOVERNOR A STRANGER.
Ticket Taker at the Coates Not I'm
pressed by Greatness.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 3O.-Mrs.
Gov. Lon V. Stephens spent the day
in Kansas City yesterday shopping.
She was Joined last evening by her
husband and her brother-in-law, Paul
Moore. The governor Joined his wife
at the Midland hotel and they dined to-
gether.
Mrs. Stephens had planned a visit to
the Coates Opera House last evening.
and as she stood for moment in the
corridor of the hotel waiting for a car
riage, her beauty attracted comment.
The young man at the door did not
understand that gubernatorial party
was coming, and there was trouble in
consequence.
1t was near the close of the first act
house, and he walked clear down the
front
It happens that the rule of the house
is against seating people during an act,
however, and he was obliged to return
and take a seat in the last row, just
like an everyday patron.
Lon Hudson learned that Mrs. Steph-
ems and the governor were in the
house, and at the end of the act he sent
an usher to her, asking if the party
would not like to take a box. Things
had not gone to suit the governor,
however, and after waiting all dur
ing the intermission, he got up and
left the theater Mrs. Stephens accom-
panied him.
1.-The show is not lively enough" he
said in a loud tone, as he left the
house.
Mrs. Stephens and the governor
walked from the Coates house to the
Midland and at once retired to their
room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
BACKED BY RoTHsCHILDs.
European FinancIers Want a Slice Of
the Alaska Business.

San Francisco Nov. 30.-The Roths-
childs, through the San Francisco house
of Liebes & Co, are about to enter the
Alaska trade.
Four steamers are being built in Sec
tions by w. H. Brick & Co, the owners
of the California machine works. When
this contract is fulfilled the machinery
and timbers viii be sent to Dutch Harbor.
near Unalaska, to be set up. The firm
will then build nine barges in sections 10
follow the material for steamboat build
ing, and the barges viii likewise be put
together at Dutch Harbor-
All of this work is being done for the
Alaska Exploration Co.. which was in
corporated about four months ago with a
capital of s1.OOO.0OO.
Isaac Liebes, in speaking of this pro-
ject. said that it is proposed to have the
steamers and barges ready for business
when the ice breaks in the Yukon in june
He said that the RothschiIds are Interest,"
ed in the venture, which was arranged in
London five months ago and there is Drslc-
tically unlimited capital behind it. Besides
doing a general transportation business
the company will establish stations and
thoroughly explore the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
THE COOK RAN THE SHIP.
First Work of the Army at st. Mich.
aeIs is to Arrest a Mutineer.

Washington, Nov. 30.-William a.
k)ellman. the superintendent of the
government reindeer herds in Alaska
at the war department to advise Sec
Fetaty Alger as to the state of affairs
IN IN the territory when he left Mr.
h9eiiman sailed from st. Mfchaels Oc-
tOber 9. Before his deDartI1ra The lii
ne force of United States regular sold
leIS under Lieutenant Colonel Randall
hSio arrived and taken up their quarters
a. a. p A1lcilaels Moreover, they had
made the first arrest in the person of a
hluIlheeI, the cook of a little schooner.
VINO, with a couple of revoIvers had
completely and assumed commando of fI1a
craft The officers boarded the boat
and over-p powered him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
COULDN'T STAND DISGRACE
Mother of an Indian Who Was
Lynched Commits suiclde.

Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 30.-A report
has reached here from the Standing
Rock reservation that the mother of
Phillip Ireland, one of the young In
dams recently 1ynched at Williams
port, has committed suicide because of
the disgrace of the death of her son.
There is belief among the Indians
that any person who may be hanged
will never reach the happy hunting
ground. This is the reason that the
Indians at Standing Rock wanted the
Indians shot and not hanged.
Although the motion has been made
by States Attorney Armstrong of
Thomas county for their dismissal,
Frank Black Hawk and George De-
fender are still in the county Jail here
and will remain until General Cromsky
Of the Standing Rock reservation gets
here to take the men back to the res
erVation.
Another lynching is freely predicted
if they shall fall into the hands of EN-
mons county settlers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
CHILES' s.GOOD NAME"
It Seems That the Capital Has Ser
iousIy Damaged It

Nick ChiIes has sued the Capital for
$25, ,OOO The defendants named in ms
petition are John r. Mulvane, Dell
Keizer and Harold T. Chase.
Chiles says that on October % the
Capital printed a Ions article about
policy game being operated in his no
tel on East Seventh street and he
claims that the reputation of the place
was destroyed by the publication
ChiIes also claims that he is a person
of good character and that he has been
damaged also. He says that in the ar
ticle the statement was made that the
policy shops had been closed in Wicfi-
ia and Leavenworth and that Topeka
was the only place where they were
tolerated He says that the inference
to be drawn from that statement is
that he is morally worse than any one
in the state.
The policy shop in question was not
in the Nick Chiles building but in a
building near it. He thinks that $25, COO
is about the sum that would make good
his blasted reputation and the damage
to his hotel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
DON'T TELL THE TRUTH
Candidates are Falsifying About
Their Election Expenses.

The candidates at the recent election
are fling the statements of their cam
paign expenses 1t is evident from
very little for the law which requires
that they file a statement of what it cost
them to run for office.
After the law was passed, the state
ments of the candidates were usually rath~
er lengthy documents, but they have
dwindIed down until they seldom COM
prise anything but the assessment paid
the central committee. There were prob
ably not many candidates before the peo>
pie last fall who did not spend more or
less by loans to ward healers, but they
evidently think it is not necessary to in
clude this in the Expenses"
Following are the statements up to
date:
Sheriff R. B. Kepley-Ribbon badges.
s.; 20 placards, $2.75; cards S1225; fusion
county central comm.ttee, $50; livery, 50;
total S6s-
Porter S. Cook, Republican candidate for
sheriff, assessment county central COM
mittee. $3.50.
John P. Rodgers. Republican candidate
for surveyor, county central committee,
$40. A. Eby fusion candidate for survey
or swears that he spent nothing
John M Wright. Republican candidate
for county clerk, $50, paid to county
central committee.
F. L. Stevens, Republican candidate for
register of Deeds $3.50, paid to county CEN
trail committee.
T. P. Rodgers, Republican candidate for
county commissioner. $3.50. paid to coun-
ty central committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
RIGHTS AND LEFTS.
They Don't Constitute a Pair in the
Austrian Reichsrath

Vienna, Nov. 3O.-The Neu Erie
Presse today, discussing the political
situation in Austria-Hungary says:
The Rightists have formed a union to
oppose the new government. While
willing to vote for the provisional COM
promise (Austro- Hungarian compac)
bill, they decline to entertain any pro-
pOsal for the repeal of the language or
dinance.
The Leftist groups are united in op-
position to the Rightists; they demand
d repeal of the language ordinances
and the Withdrawal of the amended
standing orders and insist, on the
resignation of DR.. -AbrahamOvics. the
president of the lower house of the
reichSrath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
BARTLEY is DEAD IN Law
And Nebraska Cannot Recover the
$50O,oOO Which He Stole.

Omaha, Neb. Nov. 30.-A novel petit
tiOn has been filed in the district court
by ex-Treasurer Joseph Barley. under
states treasury of $500, 600. The petit
tion was an answer to the states suit
in which Barley is made co-defendant
with his bOndsmen by the state in
stolen.
The petition declares that BARLEY
cannot be sued since he is dead, hav-
ing been sentenced to the penitentiary.
His attorneys declare that under the
state law, no convict can be sued. If
this contention is held, the suit against
the bOndsmen cannot be maintained,
since the principal must be sued with
or before sureties are sued in Nebras-
ka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
LARGEST In THE WORLD
Great Ore Dock at Escanaba,
Wis, Burns.

Escanaba, Wis, Nov. 30.-Ore dock
No 4 of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad, one of the largest in the
world, was burned at an early hour
this morning, together with the steam
er Nahant, which was lying along
side.
Two lives were lost, Fireman Jacob
Bossert of the Nahant and a deck hand
named Harold, both of Cleveland
The fire started in the steamer Ma
hant, partly loaded with ore, and
communicated to the lumber dock on
which a quantity of pine lumber
awaiting shipment was soon ablaze.
The Nahant was burned to the wa
ter's edge and the No. ore dock was
soon ablaze from end to end.
The estimated loss to the Chicago &
Northwestern company is about $780,
600. The loss to the Nahant is about
100000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
RIOT AT PRAGUE.
Mob Smashes Windows and is
Dispersed by a BayOnet
Charge.

Prague, Nov. 3O.-There have been
fresh disturbances and serious conflicts
with the police here. The windows of
the new German theater and the Ger
man club We're smashed. Ultimately
the disorders became so serious that
the military was ordered out to dis
perse the rioters.
The windows of the provincial muse
um were smashed by the rioters who
then gathered in front of the casino.
Here they We're charged by the mill
tary and dispersed at the point of the
bayOnet. Several persons were slight
ly wounded.
The police have made seven arrests,
among the prisoners being an anarch-
ist, Asger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
ABANDONED AND SINKING.
Fate of the British Schooner ]. w.
GeIdert.

Gloucester, Mass, Nov 3O-Tidings
of the wreck and perhaps loss of the
entire crew of the British schooner J.
w. Geldert, which left Lunenberg for
Boston more than three weeks ago.
was brought here today by the fishing
schooner Edgar Grover, the crew. of
which sighted the Geldert abandoned
and in a sinking condition, 80 miles
southeast of Canso, G. B.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
THEK. P.HAS MADE MONEY
Government Directors Submit Re-
port of Gross and Net Earnings.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-The govern
ment directors and receivers of the
Kansas Pacific railroad, which is to be
sold December Is. have submitted to
the attorney general the figures from
which the value of the property is to
be estimated.
Their figures as to earnings and in
come, while differing slightly, agree for
all practical purposes. These figures
in round numbers show the following
gross and net earnings for the years
from 1889 to 1886 inclusive: Eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, gross earn
ings, So 3055, 600; net earnings, 81. .059, 600;
1890, gross So. .040, 900; net, STA, ,437; 1891.
gross, $2,939 coo; net, $1,223,000; 1892,
gross, $3.41S,000; net, $1,501 GOO; 1898,
gross, s2,419 900; net, 1902, 600; 1894,
gross, 2,O93, 600; net S6O9, ,283; 1895,
gross, $2018,O00; net, 5000, 600. and
1896. gross, 81, ,24S, 900; net, sos, 600.
There has been little inquiry from
possible or prospective bidders, but it
is believed the road will go to the reor-
ganization committee of the Union Pa
ciffc railway. There is a legal question
as to whether the purchasers of the
road will not have certain privileges
over the Denver & Cheyenne extern
sions, which will virtually amount to
a franchise and to the measure of these
privileges, increase the value of the
road to the purchasers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
DYING IN THE DESERT.
No Trace OF 4. p. Robertson
Has Been Discovered.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 30-Some-
where out on the NGojave desert, A. p
Robertson of Joliet, H., who jumped
from a Santa Fe train on last Tuesday,
is dead or dying. Not a trace of him
has been discovered since he leapeda
from a Pullman car while suffering
from mania His father has given up
the search.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
Three nEore yukon Steamers.

Jeffersonville, Ind. Nov 30.-Captain
G. Nieuber, vice president of the Alas
ka Commercial company of San Fran
cisco with General Manager Wilson and
Superintendent Schloss of the Alaskan
department contracted today with Cap
tain E. J. Howard of this city for three
river steamers, each 30 feet long, for
use on the Yukon river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
SAID He WAS SORRY.
Negro Murderer Expresses Hope for
Divine Forgiveness While
on the Gallows.

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 30.-Geo. Doug
lass, the negro who accidentally killed
Albert Grayer, at Snowden, Pa, min
ing hamlet near here, last spring, in
attempting to murder another man
with whom he had quarreled over a
game of craps, was hanged in the coun-
ty jail yard here this morning.
The accused expressed sorrow for his
crime and died in the hope OF divine
forgiveness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
Stranded on the BrsaI-v.+ar

Delaware Breakwater. Del Nov On
The British steamer GlenochfI. from
Hull, stranded on the new breal5vvafar
while passing in the capes last night.
Six feet OF her bow lies on the stone
and her bow is stove She is hard
aground with eight feet Of water in her
hold. There is little prospect that she
can be gotten of safely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
Lady nfillais Has Can Ger.

London, Nov. 30.-Lady Millais. wid-
ow of the late president of the Royal
Academy. is seriously ILL., She is suf-
fering from cancer of the throat the
same disease which caused the death
of her husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
WILL BE COLDER.
And We May Have Rain or Snow
Tomorrow.

Weather Observer T. B. Jennings to-
cay said in regard to the weather:
We are in an area of low barometer.
It may be little warmer tonight.
Tomorrow the low win have moved
toward the lakes and it will get colder
and probably rain or snow. The min
imum temperature for last night was
II degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
THE WOODEN MILL
Topeka Now Has the Only One
i'm Kansas.
The Machinery in Place, the
Boilers Making Steam.
THE OPENING DAYS.
The Looms and Spindles to Be
Started
Friday and Saturday-ApprO~
pirate EXercises-The
Public Invited.
THE OPENING DAYS.

The only woolen mill in the great
sheep growing state of Kansas viii be
formally opened and dedicated on FRI
day afternoon. December Sd. at two
o'clock
The machinery is all in place. the
boilers have been fired and tested
The weaving of cloth and the making
of yarn will begin by the opening
days. The public is cordially invited
to be present on both Friday and Sat
urday afternoons Of this week.
The dedfcatory exercises viii take
place on Friday afternoon. on which
occasion Mayor Fellows viii deliver an
address on the part of the city, A. 4.
Goddard will make a talk as a repre-
sentative of the Topeka Commercial
club and Joseph G. Waters, the prose-
laureate, viii respond on the part Of
the woolen mill, Queen Victoria and
the rest Of the earth, so far as their in
terests may appear.
This mill occupies a substantial two
story brick building erected for the
purpose The company possesses large
and successful experience in the wool
en- mill business. 1t will be able 10
manufacture the best of native cloths
and all wool blankets. One OF the most
important departments will be the
tailoring department. The concern
will not only make it's own cloth. but
will turn this cloth into trousers, Civ
ing employment to a large number Of
people.
The institution promises altogether
to be one of the most worthy and sue
cessful factories in the state. The
manager, MIR. McAfee. has gone about
this enterprise in most practical
manner. He not only deserves en-
cOuragement. but viii merit it from the
superior quality of the products he
turns out and the reasonable price for
which they will be sold.
The street railway company will put
on extra cars running to Oakland, Fri
day and Saturday afternoons, and the
occasions will be made of great inter-
est to Topeka people. who are cordial
" invited to be present, see for them-
selves the magnitude of the factory
and show their appreciation of the eu-
terprise.
The following firms and individuals
have subscribed to pay $50 or s100 each
for that amount Of cloth or blankets
out of the first products made by the
mill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-30
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.


The body of John Myers was taken
to Lawrence yesterday by his father,
and the funeral took place this after
noon. Myers came to Topeka about
two years ago and has been in the en-
pIoy of Crosby Bros. On last Saturday
afternoon he complained of having a
pain in his heart. He thought it came
from strain caused by lifting. He
was seized with a hemorrhage, and
went to his home in the Bodwen block.
Sunday night he was taken with a sec
ond hemOrrhage, and died at ten min
utes past six.
Mrs. c. V. Norman, the eldest daugh-
ter of Cyrus Leland, died Sunday morn
ing in Santa Fe, N. NJ. after a long ILL
ness. Mr. Leland had been with his
daughter for the past two weeks. Mr.
Leland accompanied the body to Troy,
where the funeral took place today.
Robert w Dwyer. aged 15 years and
9 months, died this morning at los
Quincy street, of typhoid fever The
funeral will be held tomorrow morning
at the Catholic church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-21
A Calm Thief.

There was brief but engrossing in
cident in a wOman's life the other dav.
and she has not realized yet the full de-
tails Of a situation which stunned her
completely for the few minutes it lasted.
She had gone into one of the big depart
ment stores up town and was standing
at a counter waiting for the girl to at
tend to her. Then she felt a woman's
hand in her pocket. InvOluntarily she
seized her skirt and was fortunate
enough to catch the woman s hand. This
happened in a second, and none of the
women about her had noticed the Incl
dent. The pickpocket struggled to free
her hand while the other woman clung
to her wrist not with any desire to ar
rest her or even to retain her, but merely
with the feeling that she was doing
something. Neither had spoken a word
The first 10 act was the pickpocket. Her
hand was still held, and, with a pretense
of grasping the other woman s hand, she
cried out:
"This woman is trying to rob me"
Everybody turned to look at the two,
and in her establishment the woman let
go the thief's hand The thief drew her
hand suddenly out Of the pocket, and
while those about them We're gaping at
the innocent woman she darted through
and escaped. The other womn's head
swan, and there was dark shadow in
front Of her eyes for a second. But the
women about her realized the true stu
alton i'll moment, and their sympathy
was all for her They helped her to re-
cover her Composure and get into the
open air as soon as possible. New York
Sun
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-21
LONDON IN 1872.
1t Was Considered q Joke TO Turn Cattle
Into Ballroom.


Into a Ballroom.
| Can any one tell me anything of the
city assembly rooms and the assembly
rooms on the Surrey side. e., South
wark-abOut the year 1872? The social
side of the-city about that time is curl
ously difficult to get at satisfactorily.
For instance, when Catherine Hutton
went to London III 1888, being then 81
years of age, she went with a certain
Mr.. j. WOOdhouse and his mother. They
called for her at 1880 in the evening.
the gentleman being dressed in a suit
OF pale blue French silk, spotted with
pink and green, the coat lined with
pink silk, his hair in a bag, a white
feather in his hat, a sword by his side
and his ruff1e and frill of fine point lace.
This seems very splendid. At the as
sembly the men were chiefly in "'dress
coats"-meaning probably of blue or
pink silk, like that of Mr. Woodhouse.
Those who were not wore "cloth coats.
trimmed with narrow gold lace, with
Walstcoats of silver tissue" and the
hair "ln a cue, with curls flying out
on each side of the head. :"
The other ladies were covered with
diamonds. The subscription to the city
assembly is guineas. There are 200
subscribers and late nights The sub
scribers are the first people ia the city.
The rooms are lighted with wax. The
branches for the candles, the urns for
the tea ana coffee and the baskets for
the calyeC aDd ,,ocorCC,,e 49,, ~ ,:1. r
want to know more about this assem-
bly,.
AS regards the Surrey assembly, all I
can tell you about it is that the room
was on the ground fosr, and that on a
certain night-the opening night of the
season of 1772 (?)-while the dancing
was at its height some wag threw open
the front door and gave admission to a
drove of oxen, which began to run about
IN most terrifying manner. Some of
the men drew their swords valiantly,
others tumbled down. The ladies faint
ed and fell over the men. Caps. hoops
tlppets, handkerchiefs, were lying all
about the floor, and the oxen beloved
and ran about, threatening with their
horns. What would have happened one
knows not. But ''the sprightly Mrs
Hannlver"-presumably a lady con-
nected with the supper department.
coming from the Lactarium with brb
for the gentlemen" ''bub' is defined
by Webster as a strong malt drink
snatched from the master of the cere-
monies his mOpstick-did the NJ. G. on
the Surrey side carry mopstick as a
wand of ofice?-and, with so much
spirit belabored the horny tribe that
they fled monument
When the company gathered them
selves together and picked upwhat they
could, being horribly dishevelled, amid
the general wreck-hOops gone, wigs
pulled to pieces, headgear destroyed,
dresses torn-they proceeded I suspect
to refresh themselves with the sprightly
Mrs. HAMMERS stimulating bub. If
any one will tell me more about this
assembly, l shall be grateful Sir Wal
ter Besant in Queen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-21

In speaking of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm essrs. augherty Bros, of Indi-
ana, Penn, say: 1--WE know of many of
our customers who have used it for
rheumatism, and they all praise it high
ly. We sell more of it than of any other
household linlment" For sale at 25
and SOC, per bottle by Farrar & arris,
druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-04-21

A strong pressure is being brought
upon the governor to commute the SEN
tence of Mrs. Mobiles, whose execution
is set for next Friday. There is but
one thing for the governor to do, and
that is to let the law be carried out to
the letter.