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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
THOUSANDS OF DEAD FISH.
Strange Pestilence Has Made Its APP
pearance at Lake Auburn.

Auburn July ia strange pesti-
lence is wreaking havoc among the
fish in Lake Auburn. When it was
first noticed the waters seemed fairly
alive with small fish, swimming close
to the shore. They now lie dead in
thousands about the edges of the lake
No one understands the cause of the
plague and the attention of the inland
fish and game commissioners has been
called to the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Cheap Rates East

The Union Pacific viii sell tickets TO
Chicago for 5000 and to ST. Louis for
$40 July 10th to 21st inclusive; also on
July 23d, 26th and 3Oth, August I'd, 9Th,
9th and 18th. Proportionately cheap
rates to all eastern points. For further
informa ton call on F. A. Lewis, City
Ticket Agent, 525 Kansas avenue, or J..
c. Fulton, Depot Agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
For Mr.. Whitnev's Zoo.

Albany, July ia shipment of IS
head of buffalo, 20 black-tan deer and
70 antelope passed through this city to-
day. They are from the Moosehead
ranch, in the Jackson's Hole country
Of Wyoming, and are on their way to
the stock farm of former Secretary
VIM. c. Whitney at LenOxrdaIe Mass
Mr.. Whitney now has the largest num-
Der of buffalo owned in the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
WEDDING DATE NAMED.
Daughter of the Late President Hayes
to Be Married September /.

Fremont, o., July 16.-Miss Frances
Hayes. the only daughter of the late
President Hayes, will be married to
Ensign Harry Eaton, U. S. N, Septem-
Der l, at the Hayes mansion, Spiegel
Grove. President and Mrs. Mckinley
will attend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
seFathsr BiIln Prostrated.

New York, July 16.-Wm. B. Father
BID Curtis, well known as an athlete
and referee in athletic sports, was
overcome by heat in his Office in this
city yesterday. Mr.. Curtis is 90 years
of age and is one of the owners of the
Spirit of the Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16

You may hunt the world over and
you will not find another medicine equal
to Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints.
1t Is pleasant, safe and reliable. For
sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Av.y.

To quit tobacco easily and forever be mag.
netic. full OF life, nerve and vigor take No-To-
Sac, the wonder-worlSer. that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New Yorlr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16

Not how cheap but how good is the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
81 4o-Topeka to St Louis-$7.4o.

Tickets sold July IS to 81, inclusive
July %, 26, 80; August 2, 6, and 13
via Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16

Large assortment of Sterling Silver
Belts at your own price at 532 Kansas
avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16

We do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Mems Clothing.

Summer Coats and Vests .. 25C
Black Alpaca Coats ..-..... SO {
Linen Pants. --...... Use
Black and Blue Flannel Coats and
Vests .........S 81. S5
Drap D'Ete Goats and Vests 90. 60
The morning times., 1897-02-14

insured to agitate for concessions in rates,
and also has led non-board companies to
make special efforts for business on a cut,
under established rates, sufficient to Sc
cure it. In some localities this has re-
suited in weakening of tariff lines, and
fears of one OF the periodical occurrences
Of rate wars have been here and there
entertained and expressed.
II is not regarded as probable that net
rates will be much below the same in
1896, at least. in Washington, although it
seems likely that underwriters may be less
unyielding in some directions than they
have been for some time before. OF course
it is to be remembered that business as
prosperous as in the years 1895 and S36
is not OF necessity to be counted upon in
the records OF 1897 and 1898, which. on
the contrary, might prove to be disas-
trous ones, even in the event OF much
improved national business situation.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
COL. PARKER IN FLORIDA.

We have always pictured Lieut.. Col
Myron N. Parker as the only pebble on the
District beach. But recently Col. Parker
has been fishing in Florida, where there
are also beaches and such pebbles as Sen
ator Proctor, the Hon. Thomas C. Platt
and Matthew Stanley Quay.
Probably Colonel Parker doesn't need
any advice in business which has en-
gagged his closest attention for SO long a
time; but we submit that he had better
come home right away. There are patriots
here who want to see him. They are Will
ing to serve their country in or out
OF the District; in it or out of it,
or in it and out OF 1t both. Some are
important old timers, who were Republic
ans when 1t was dangerous. Some are
eolored Republicans, and some-a few
are off-colored Democrats They all want
recognition Immediately and ought TO
have il.
Colonel Parker can help these patriots
He bears the watermark of Hanna-the
genuine golden strawberry upon the un-
derside of his left arm.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
\ LITTLE DorBTFrL.

As the case stands tonight Mr.. Davis
cannot be confirmed. \ good many OF the
Influences secretly at work in his favor,
would. If exposed, tn5ure rather than aid
nin. and Unless greater care is taken this
result VIII follow. Again, to urge his
confirmation because the colored element
is devoted To him is not calculated to
make HIM any more staIwart friends
among the white cIement-wmch is sup
posed to predominate in the United states
Senate.
That Senator Hear favors him is a POSI-
tive detriment. We have never known
taat inefGsble Pecksniff to favor anything
that was manly or sweet smelling We
admit tlac it is little hard TO ask con-
sistent and loyal Democrats TO confirm
= man for an important office who was
so abusive Of them during a long and
heated campaign, but after all it is our
duty TO return good for evil without
measuring the size fthe respective chunks.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
THE WEATHER TODAY
DEPEN.

II used to be the fact away back in the
days when DR. Chauneey NJ. Depew was a
candidate for Lieutenant Governor OF New
York on the Greeley ticket that offices
sought the representative of all the Van
derbilts at Albany ard elsewhere. Now
Depew seeks the English mission and the
yanderbiIts are most willing to let him
go So are we. May his shadow hover
over the British metropolis until the ma
tives have heard all his jokes and learned
to comprehend them.
1t may be said in all saGreSs that the
American Journalists have built up in this
ubiquitous individual the most colossal
nuisance known to recent times. He rises
from the morning newspaper like fog
and he settles down in the evening edi-
tions Ike raI. No day passes without
some news Of him, 10 night without his
contribution to lhe swollen river of flap
doodle which goes for aftcr-dinner wit.
He talks as be breaihes, and the apple
HO-A-'A- OH 4 A4N-4 ''' ei-'ie' WIZ s'N s1SHe OA
him swept her table of fruit into the gut
ter and sent her ragged infant for pitcher
Of water but illustrated the idea which
every man and woman on Manhattan Is
land has been compelled to form Of him. AT
once factotam TO the yanderbilts and
pEncbing-bag To Conkling and Platt, the
politician among the railroads and the
railroad nagrate among the politicians,
Of words
The rest we think is silence. There is no
such cure Tor an american professional
hua-orist asa British attempt 10 understand
HIN.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
THE CLEVELAND LEGACY.

We are indisposed to say anything un-
kind of woman, especially OF popular
| cOlored woman who has worn a crown,
even though that crown covered a head
| inwhich hereditary canaibal instincts were
impossible of suppression, and was, per-
! haps, the most insignificant and imitation
article known to the court jewelers. trade
At the same time we must join President
| Cleveland i'll deprecating the position as
! sumed by Mrs. Lydia DoIninis In coming
| to Washington to proclaim the survival
| in her person OF royal rights, which, II she
| ever possessed them, were completely for
feited by her own acts, and her comic
! opera rule in Hawaii, forever ended by
their consequences.
The intelligent and decent people of the
| Hawaiian Islands rose and dethroned their
| female ruler, as the only means to preserve
their community, property, and liberties
| from a condition OF barbarisn and anarchy,
| and to purge their government OF its alb
horrent character OF riot, debauchery, and
rascality. In the course of accomplishing
| this reform, the colored lady in question
was put in Jail, begged off, signed off, and
was forgiven. a little later, when, to the
| everlasting shame OF America, the Cleve-
| land attempt was made to use the power
| OF this government TO restore the horrors
of a barbaric regime, and re-enslave the
worthy nhabitants of the islands, this
former penitent expressed to Mr.. Cleve-
lands envoy an ardent desire to chop off
the heads of the gallant American leaders
who had won the struggle for independence,
and founded the republic OF Hawaii.
For four years now the Hawaiian people
have been knocking at our doors for ad-
mission, and Offering us their patriotic
hearts and their rich territory. We have
| turned the cold shoulder toward them, not
witdstanding the notorious fact that nine
| tenths Of the mass Of American citizenship
is heartily in favor of and viii welcome
Hawaiian annexation. One OF the interests
which has obstructed this consunmation
Will pass away very shortly. There are
two Others which ought to be cornered
| and cluhbed to death without loss of time
One OF these is British influence, which
opposes the movement on general prin-
ciples. The other is Sordid trust in
| terest at home, which fights annexation,
| because that would terminate the Asiatic
contract labor system that still survives,
and Stripes
The morning times., 1897-02-14
INSURANCE IN 1890.

AS The Times observed some time ago,
on the basis of incomplete returns, the
insurance record of gains and losses for
the year 1896, forms an agreeable ex-
ception to the general rule OF depre1on
and discoura cement in the business world
during that politically excited and econon-
ically demoralized period
From ''Dun's Review" it appears that
1896 was an exceedingly prosperous year
for fire insurance companies. Assets were
increased, Liabilities decreased and surplus
increased. The aggregate Of losses for
companies reporting was less than il has
been in any one year since 1890. In
the same time business, measured by gross
receipts, has increased 25 per cent. The
ratio OF losses to gross premiums for the
year 1896 was sos per cent. In the
previous years it was 3D. 2 per cent Ten
years ago it was stated at 63.7 per cent;
while the average for the years 1SST-93
was over 60 per cent.
AS might have been predicted, the ex-
ce,ient showing of sound condition and
profitable business made by the companies
embraced in the comparison, profits being
estimated at over Z per cent on the entire
amount OF share capital involved, already
has created tendency on the part of the
The morning times., 1897-02-14
\ BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY.

Although this journal can afford TO ex-
tend Its sympathy to the esteemed chair
man Of the House Appropriation Com
Ia1tsee, he need not hope that anything in
the same line Will flow to him from his
feIIow-members who have fought the good
fight for their cous ituencies or favorite
measures; who, in brief, have sought the
bubble appropriation at the Cannoh's
mouth, and got there.
His grief for the fact that the present
Congress has risen away above the high
est high-water mark Of its predecessors,
in the matter Of spending public money,
is simply pathetic, and possibly it is not
without personal reason. One can UNDER
stand that, in far of Illinois, to which
antipodes the busy wire has carried the
fatal figures before now, wild and woody
organisms may be seen this day in the
very act Of sharpening butcherIy knives
for use upon the political corpse OF one
hitherto considered in the light Of a big
gun among the statesmen opponents OF
the plain people, whose home is in the
settin' SUM- There is SO much danger
that the back country may regard the
chairman Of a committee capable of piling
up appropriations amounting to 81 1,044,
463,O00, during a single Congress, as
honor sufficient for one man during the
rest OF his natural life, that we not only
sympathize with but hasten to the rescue
OF Mr Cannon.
The rescuing would be done all the more
heartily If, instead Of affecting to weep
over the difficulties and necessities Of the
occasion, Mr.. Cannon had risen to it, got
mad and profaned alittle. Why could not
he seize the opportunity to be honest and
declare with Speaker Reed that this is
billion dollar Congress, because the United
States is q billion dollar country?" There
IS no doubt that he would find that cat a
better fighting animal on the Illinois stump
OF tie future, than any number OF tears,
excuses or explanations
For it is a billion dollar country and
there is too much Of hysteria and hypocrisy
over the appropriations necessary to carry
on its bare legitimate business. If the
whining OF the average statesmaS over
public extravaganza, such as the Current
appropriation bills carry on their faces,
country store consumption during vaca-
The morning times., 1897-02-14
DEBATE HAD A WIDE RANGE
Members Talked About Tariff. Riy-
ers and Cuban Independence.
MIR. Cannon VIII Try to Have tina
sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
Passed on Monday.

General debate on the sundry civil ap-
preparation bin in the House OF Representa-
tves yesterday gave opportunity for sew
eral speeches upon radically different topics.
ranging from tile policy of river and har-
Dor improvements to Cuban independence.
Tie House plunged at once into considera-
ton of the measure, it having beea taken I'D
for short time Friday afternoon. The
largest single item in the bill is the an
preparation for works in continuation OF
the improvement OF rivers and harbors,
| amounting 10 about Sic ,O00, 600. and the
river and harbor system naturally came IN
for large share OF discussion.
After general speeches on the bill By Mr..
! Cannon, chairman OF the Committee on
appropriations, and by Mr.. Sayres, the
leader of the minority On the committee,
MessFs. Dockery and Hepburn spoke against
the contracts ysten for niaking 2 the improve
nents and against the policy itself, and AR
CatchinGs defended both.
Messrs. McAillin and DeArnond Srlti-
! cised the Supreme Court of the United
States for its decision on the income TAX
feature OF the Wilson tariff law TIE
/ latter also made fiery speech in favor
OF Cuban independence, and expressed deep
| regret at the failure OF the present adj
m.nistration 70 respond 70 the sentimedt
OF the country upon that subject
MeSsrs. Hopkins and GroSvencr defended
the Mckinley law against the charge by
Messrs. pockery and SIcMIlin that it was
a deficit-prodUcins measure, and finally
Mr. Phney charged the responsibility for
larSely increased appropriations in late
years to the policy OF the House. which
divided the work and responsibility of he
Appropriations Committee among several
| committees Mr.. Cannon gave notice that
he would try TO pass the bill Monday under
suspension of the rules
At 5:2o the House adjourned, after five
hours of talk
The morning times., 1897-02-14

ton, that would involve a specific desire
on such statesman's part to have the vast
and complicated machinery of the govern
ment stopped; its war vessels rotting at
their wharycs for want of coal and amma-
milton; its Army, Navy, diplomatic, con-
sular and civil services left without pay;
its buildings devoted to rats and ruin;
its courts closed; its credit destroyed, and
its means of offense, defense and existence
abolished.
In any other country, at q time of ma
donal depression like the present, the
government would be stormcd with petit
tions and demands that it start public
works, build ships, dig canals, spend money
right and left to put currency in circula-
ton among the people, open avenues of
employment, ana supply stream of good
life-blood TO the starved arteries OF national
activity. Public men who advocated
that extravagance would be hailed as
saviors, and the government acceding to
Ihe uciliahu Wouiu DC dtclaiIlcu as peo-
pies benefactor.
There never was a time in the history
OF our country when the one billion and
forty-odd millions, which this Congress
will turn loose among the business inter-
ests, the manufacturing industries and
the laboring masses of the land, could or
would do half as much toward relieving
ing to Us a new era Of contentment and
prosperity as at this moment. We are
distinctly for the appropriations and every
dollar of them.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
HE SAYS HE WILL PREACH.
Pastor Lamlain Refuses TO Be Ousted
From the Church.

Trouble is expected this morning at Sa-
lem Baptist Church when the Rev. F.
Geriah Lankin win attempt to preach
There are two sets of trustees to the
church ard each claims 90 have control
Preacher Lamkin, by bill in equity, at
tempted to prevent any Interference on
the part OF the then existing trustees, and
during the pendency OF the suit had a
meeting called at which the trustees were
depescd and others selected.
The church never having before been in
coFporated, the new officers secured arti-
t!cles of Incorporation and now claim
possession OF the church by authority OF
the last election. Judge Cox yesterday
refused TO grant Preacher Lamkin an in
Junction. but this will not prevent him from
attempting to hold the fort, or rather the
church.
The morning times., 1897-02-14

One Of the regular traders called me into
che National yesterday, ana actually show ed
ne 4 wad of ten 81 900 bills. he was
Aoc a Senator-was what might be called
perhaps Just an ordinary trader. who had
made this money by three or four lucky
strokes lately. It wasn't all luck, either.
because our friend-my friend, anyway
reduces this business to a science.
He tells me, by the way, that there is
more interest among the sporting men OF
the East in this FitZsimmons and Corbett
fight than there ever has been in a prize
fight before. The sports are all going
out TO Carson, and they expect. If Corbett
and Fitzsimmons ever get at each other,
it viii be the hardest battle OF the decade
The morning times., 1897-02-14
Recalling Ancient History,

(FIom the Canton, o., News Democrat.)
One OF the causes OF the great famine
in Chicago is the action OF the Illinois
Steel Company in laying off 1900 en-
ployes, throwing nearly coo human beings
into abject poverty This is the same
company that marched its men through
the streets OF Canton to the hume of the
advance agent of prosperity, where prom
ises were made from the front porch
that great prosperity would come as soon
as the advance agent thereof would be
elected
The morning times., 1897-02-14
MIR. BRYAN'S PLANS.
He VIII spend Most of His Time
in Lincoln.

Chicago, Feb. 13.-wHliarn j. Bryan
appeared in court this morning and gave
bondin the sum Of $30 goo in the injunction
suit involving MFR. Bryan's book.
In an interview concerning his future
movements, Mr.. Bryan said:
II shall continue to lecture, as occasion
requires, but shall only devote Il small
portion Of my time to this work. i shall
spend as much time as possible In Lincoln
As rule my lectures viii be given under
the auspices OF bimetal,ic leagues or SINH
lar organizations. BY lecturing 1 am
able to visit the different parts of the
country and discuss various questions con-
nected with government without being a
burden to any one and can at the same
time earn living
The morning times., 1897-02-14
Dana for Minister to Spain,
Frnm the Rochester Herald

Tie man for minister to Spain is Charles
A Dana, of New York. He is likewise
q Sc! olar in many European languages
including the Spanish; he is fully as accom-
plished in other respects as Andrew d.
White, and he is rated hy many as the
greatest living editor. Besides, he has
pronounced views on the Cuban question,
which might be helpful TO Spain. Finally,
Mr.. Dana contributed in notable amer
to the election of Mckinley.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
Spring vfstas in Advertising.

From the Philadelphia Record)
There are occasional patches of spring in
the sky, and long green ystas of spring
in the newspapers for those who read
with fancy's eye. To catch the first faint
flush of the advancing season, watch the
advertisements There the white muslin
dresses flutter first, and there the printers
ink gives forth the first fine odors OF the
budding lilacs.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
Prominent Michigan Man a Suicide

New Orleans, La, Feb. 13.-C. A. Jack
son, superintendent Of the Jackson Paper
Manufacturing Company, of Jackson, Mich,
was found dead in bathroom in the Co.'S
mopolitan Hotel this morning. He had en-
tered tie bathroom after taking morphine.
he closed all apertures, securely turned on
the gas and then laid down in the tub with
a novelin his hand. He was asphyxiated.
The morning times., 1897-02-14
Reflections of a Bachelor.

(Fron the New York press.l
You can judge a woman best by what
size cries over and man by what he
laughs at.
1t is one OF the bitter ironies CT life
that lots of poor men get fat and big
around the waist
1t isn't till a nan gets bald that he
forgets to put ON biase air when the
ballet comes OUT