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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
NEGROES BARRED OUT.
PoliceStood Guard at the Alton White
Schools

Alton, Sept. 27.-The city authorities
took hand in the race war at the AL
the chief of police was instructed to
take the entire night and day force and
keep the negro children and their par
entS out of the white schools. For a
precipitate serious trouble.
Policemen were stationed at each of
the schools, and when the negroes came
with their children, as they had the
day before, the officers stood at the
doors and refused them admittance. At
the Washington school, which is in
portion of the city where the negroes
Outnumber the whites. the negroes con-
gregated upon a hillside back of the
school house and held a consultation.
They decided to attempt to put the
children into the school in spite of the
officers. and marched into the school
yard. The police held their ground and
threatened to arrest anyone who should
attempt to enter the school against or
derS. The negroes then remained at a
distance and urged the children to go
in. Some of them attempted it, but
they were set back by the police, and
none were successful save three or four
active boys who went in at the win
dows. The officers went in and dis
lodged them, and the negroes retired
house, where they remained several
hours, and then returned to their
homes.
At the Irving school, in the extreme
West End of the city, the negro men
attempted several times to get their
children into the building, but the police
barred the doorway and refused them
admittance. Then the men assumed
a treatening attitude, but cooler coun-
sci among them finally prevailed and
they retired, taking the children with
them.
At the Lincoln school the negroes did
not attempt to dislodge the police. but
several of the negro boys climbed in at
the windows and gave the officers
chase inside the building.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
FREIGHT BY THE FOOT.
Railroad Commissioners Hear of the
New Rate System With Surprise.

Some of the railroads of Kansas are
now shipping bulky freight, such as
household goods and farm implements,
at so much per cubic foot, the idea be-
ing to gradually overcome and do away
with the demand for large furniture
cars.
Today the state board of railroad
commissioners was greatly surprised at
receiving from the M, K. e T. cir
cular announcing that this system of
charging for transportation of bulky
freight had been adopted by that road
and will become effective with in thirty
days.
This plan is an entirely new one SO
far as the railroad commissioners are
concerned, and they were considerably
exercised on account of it today.
The Santa Fe has been shipping upon
this basis since last June, although the
rate applies only on west bound bus1-
ness.
Under the old system of charging, the
furniture dealers and others who were
compelled to handle bulky freight, gave
their business to the company having
the largest cars, no difference what ia
cilities for prompt service were offered
by other lines The railroad magnates
got together and discovered that this
was working a hardship against some
of them and the agreement was made
to adopt the cubic foot as the basis for
future charges.
The Santa Fe, Rock Island and
Union Pacific at once put in the new
rates. and the other Kansas lines are
gradually adopting the plan.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
CURE FOR INSANITY.
Successful Operation of Trephining in
the Case of Mrs Krause.

Chicago. Sept .27-The theory that in
sanity can be cured by the operation
of trephining was put to the test today,
when DR.. Elbert c. Fortner of the De-
tention hospital and Dr. Thomas A.
Davis laid bare the brain of Mrs. c. H.
Krause with the scalpel and saw and
removed an old scar two and a half
inches long. Mrs. Krause is the wife of
the manager of the Tivola theater in
San Francisco. She suffered from a
wound in the head, sustained years ago
dal mania.
After Mrs. Krause had lacerated her
tongue with a garter buckle and had
torn open an artery with her finger
nails, jury of experts pronounced her
insane. Her husband, however, con-
suited a friend in Chicago, and local
physicians agreed that Mrs Krause
might be saved by the operation of
trephining.
The operation today was successful
and the patient is doing nicely.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
ENGLAND WANTS GOLD.
London Capitalists After Mines in
British Columbia.

New York, Sept ga. C. Blair M.
P, minister of railways of Canada, and
Lieut.. Col. Dornville, NJ. P, of the
Eighth Hussars, st. John, N B., two
of the dominion's representatives at the
queens jubilee, were passengers on the
American liner, Paris, which arrived
from Southampton.
With them were two London finan-
ciers, who are directors in a big London
company with $4,000, 900 capital, to ac-
quire gold mines in British Columbia
They are A. T. Salisbury-JoneS of the
London firm of Jones, BidweH & Co.,
and Robert Smith.
The entire party will leave today for
Canada. Two St. Louis politicians We're
also on the steamer. They are Richard
Kerens, Jr., son of the Republican ma
tional committeeman of Missouri, and
Max Judd, former United States consul
general at Vienna.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
FOUR SHIPS FOR kLONDIKE
Vessels to Leave New York via the
Horn for Gold.

New York. Sept. 27.-Four vessels now
in port are preparing for a trip to the
Klondike and within the next sixty days
they will set out for the land of gold
and plenty.
The Gloucester fishing schooner Nellie
C. Thurston will be the first to set sail
for the harvest land. About October Is
she will head for the south, to make her
way around Cape Horn or through the
Straits of Magellan. on her way up the
Pacific to the promised land. The hold
of the schooner has been reftted so that
she is now able to carry Is passengers
in place of the tons of fish formerly The
schooner S. A. Wood Currie is bound on
the same mission and will sail from this
port a few days after the Thurston.
One steamboat is scheduled to make her
way to the northwest. She is the City
of Columbia, formerly of the Old Domin-
ion line.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
WHERE THE COYOTE BARKS
Tenness Caused Amusement by
Forfeiting a Kansas Homestead.

Wash ngton, Sept. PA very anus
ing letter was received today by Com
missioner of the General Land Office
Hermann. The writer is a resident of
Johnson City, Tenn, who was formerly
a land holder in Kansas. He had been
notified by the department to show
cause within so days why his entry to
the Kansas land should not be forfeit
ed. Judging by his letter he had not
heard of the boom which has struck
Kansas since the rise in wheat, nor
of the consequent rise in the value of
agricultural lands. The letter is as fol-
lows:
johnson City. Tenn, September 20,
1S97.-Register United States Land Of
flee, Wa-Keeney, Kan: My Dear Sir
Answering your favor of the Sd inst,
referring to my entry No. 19, ,005, under
the homestead law, will say that have
no cause to show within the prescribed
so days (nOr 80 weeks, nor months eVe1)
why my claim should not be forfeited
to said piece of land in that arid region,
where rains are as scarce as the pro-
verbal hens teeth and as far between
as angels visits; where water is more
precious than diamonds: where the lean
and hungry coyote barks to the ma
jestic silence of the lonely and unpeo-
pied prairies; where the festive jack
rabbit wanders unmolested ,lordly mon
arch of all he surveys and mourns for
his lost companions, the Indian, buffa-
10 and settler who are not.
Il voluntarily surrender all my right,
title and interest in said land forever
ana lrreVOcaDly TO the eminent domain
of our own Uncle Sam Blessed be
his magnanimouS great heart for that
benefcent homestead law, that plants
the settler on his lonely claim 40 miles
from nowhere and out of Gods knowI-
edge, to delVe a fortune from the bosom
of mother earth, to the tune of bliz-
yards, cyclones, ,grasshoppers and chinch
bugs, and after a few short and fitful
years, full of sorrow and hard work,
to seek his last and only rest in the
bosom of mother earth, his only COM
panion in his isolation. 1 congratulate
his Excellency the President on this
magnificent addition to the public do
main. I thought it forfeited years ago.
I am yours truly, -
The letter created much amusement
in the land Office.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
ACTORS FOR KLONDIKE.
Sam'l of Posen Company Decides to
Take Up Gold Mining

M. B. Curtis and six other members of
the Saml of Posen company, including
the soubrette, Evyline Barr, have or
ganiZed a joint stock concern for the
purpose of mining in the Klondike, and
they will start for Dawson City and the
gold fields with the second steamer
leaving in the spring.
A large amount of money has already
been subscribed, though Mr.. Curtis will
furnish the greater part of the capital
and will pay all expenses of the COM
pany in going to the KlOndike. Mrs
Curtis and Miss Barr will accompany
the party and propose to take an ac-
tive hand in the mining enterprise.
Mrs. Curtis has been unanimously
selected as manager for the company
and her uniform success in former busi-
ness enterprises gives the other mem
bers great faith in the K1ondike
scheme, which was organized and
worked out by her
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
WILL BE EXEMPT.
Mexican Vessels May Enter United
States Ports Without Paying
DUTY

Washington, Sept.27.-One of the first
acts OF the president upon his return to
washington will be to issue a procla-
nation exempting from discriminating
tonnage dues and discriminating duties
Mexican vessels arriving in ports of
the United States in ballast for the
purpose of receiving and carrying pas
sengers and mail, of loading cattle,
wood or any other national product
This proclamation will be issued un-
der the Morgan act, passed at the last
session of congress, and it will accord
to Mexican vessels in our ports the
Identical privileges granted to United
states vessels in Mexican ports.
The object of this law was to enable
Mexican steamers to carry to Mexico
from the Gulf ports of the United
States coal, iron and other products.
These vessels heretofore have gone to
Cardiff for coal because of the dis
terminating charges in United States
ports, which made it cheaper to carry
the coal across the ocean
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
OFFENDED DIGNITY.
Engineer Roper Says Caused His Dis
charge From the Reform School.

f. B. Roper, engineer at the Reform
School, has been discharged by Super
1ntendent j. NJ. Hart for alleged mis-
conduct and violations of the rules.
Mr.. Hart stated that Roper's serv-
ices had not been satisfactory, but when
pressed closely, admitted that no COM
plant was lodged against Roper's abil-
ity or Willingness to discharge the du-
ties of the position, but that he was dis
charged for misconduct
Mr.. Roper explains the action of the
superintendent by saying:
when the boys were being brought
out of the institution, Mr.. Gormly,
Major Anderson and Mr.. Douglass were
standing in front of the building. Mr..
Gornly handed me a corn tasseI, and
stuck it on Anderson's hat. Anderson
was about to confer the same favor on
Mr.. Douglass, when Mr.. Hart noticed
what was going on. He Immediately
summoned me into his office and dis
charged me with the assurance that L
had not only violated the rules but had
insulted the man who was charged
with the responsibility of managing as
we'll as enforcing discipline at the
school,"
1t was reported that both Anderson
and Gormly were discharged but Mr..
Hart says this is untrue, as both are at
work.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
TRAMP A BALLROOM.
He Demanded Money and Remained
Until Sheriff Fitzroy Yanked
Him Out.

Greenwich, Conn.,, Sept. 27.-While a
dance was in progress Saturday even
ing in the Belle Haven casino the fes-
tivities were stopped by the appearance
of a tramp. He was dirty and in rags.
He came into the ballroom and shout
ed:
II want money, I do, and somebody
has got to give it to me- See?"
Several women nearly tainted and all
hurried into other apartments. Some
of the men gave the man a few cents.
but he wasn't satisfied and planted
himself in chair until he got more.
Some of the Belle Haven young men
have been growing football hair this
summer, and pretend to be athletes, but
the tramp held possession of the ball
room.
There is a telephone in the Casino.
and someone telephoned for Deputy
Sheriff Fitzroy to come to the Casino in
a hurry. The deputy is fond of fast
horses. The Casino is three miles from
his house. but he wasn't fifteen minutes
getting there Walking up to the
tramp he touched his shoulder. All
the buster was gone, and the tramp
went away with the sheriff. In the
borough court this morning he gave his
name as John Connolly, and was sent
to Jail for thirty days. Hereafter the
doors of the Casino will be kept locked
or in charge of someone when social
entertainments are taking place.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
EMANY HORSES DYING.
A. Mysterious Sickness Has Killed l.
900 of Them on Maryland's Eas-
tern Shore.

Baltimore. Sept. 27.-Dr. A. w. Glenn
ent, state veterinarian, has returned
from visit to the eastern shore, where
there is an epidemic among horses
which has already caused the death of
over 1000 of them.
DIR. Clement says the disease threat
ems to become epidemic throughout the
state. He said today:
Il am almost certain the disease is
caused by horses eating some poison
Gus vegetable matter. This theory is
supported by the fact that the disease
is almost entirely confined to horses
which had been allowed to roam around
in pastures. The horses are suddenly
affected with the disease. They refuse
to eat, gradually grow weaker, and
are finally stricken with paralysis, and
die within 48 hours. Post mortem ex-
aminations on these horses show an
inf1amed and congested condition of
the stomach. suggestive of death by
poisoning. The disease has appeared
in the highlands of Hartford county,
where the water is of the purest quail
ity.'
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
PRAISE FOR BOISE.
Republican Candidate for Governor of
Iowa Pays Him a Compliment.

Red Oak, Ia, Sept. 27.-The Iowa Re-
publican campaign was opened here Sat
urday with Leslie NJ. Shaw, candidate for
governor, the principal speaker. Pleas
ant weather and great crowd greeted
the candidate. Short addresses were
made by Congressman Hager and Dolli-
and H. M Milliman, candidate for
lieutenant governor. Mr.. Shaw said in
part:
1.-The gold standard has been the stand
ard of this country for many years and
is to be, at least until the leading COM
mercial nations of the earth undertake
the establishment of a double standard
The last Democratic governor of Iowa
showed himself to be thinking man
when he said in his Marshalltown speech
at the opening of the campaign for the
triple alliance: I cannot bring my mind
to believe that the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold is within
the reach of it's friends, nor can 1 help
the fear that it would not be desirable
even if attainable.'
Il had the pleasure of listening to two
orators of national reputation, one from
Nebraska, claimed to be the most elo-
quent, the other from Minnesota. admit
tedly the most logical of all the advo-
Gates of binetallic theories. While these
gentlemen may not have had the author
ity to speak for the triple alliance, they
both assumed to speak for it and declared
that free silver was the issue in Iowa
politics today and that upon it Democ-
racy would either win lose; that this
issue must not be abandoned; that the
whole financial world was looking to Iowa
to see whether she would show a gain
in free silver sentiment. 1 willingly ac-
cept the challenge and propose to fight
it out on this line if it takes till Novem-
ber 2.
Personally, I believe the silver ques-
tion is fraught with more possible dam
ger than any other issue and the tariff
question fraught with more blessing than
any other. The free coinage of silver.
if adopted as now proposed, would GER
tainly revolutionize our financial system.
and L believe would practically bankrupt
us as a people. But the continuance of
the gold standard will not in itself alone
bring us that measure of prosperity which
we enjoyed in 1892
He discussed the tariff question at
length, maintaining these two PROPOSE
tions: First, in theory a protective
tariff must of necessity be beneficial to
every man, especially the producer, what
ever his product; second, historically, the
periods of greatest prosperity in this
country from it's earliest history to the
present time have corresponded exactly
with those periods embraced within the
operation of protective tariffs"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
OPENING THE FESTIVAL.

Today marks the beginning of Tope-
ka's second annual Fall Festival, and
the occasion bids fair to greatly excel
the city's first effort in this line both in
the magnificence and elaborateness of
the display and entertainment and in
the number of visitors
Topeka last year established her
claim to the position of being typical
representative of Kansas in that she
does nothing by halves. The Fall Fes-
tival of 1896 was the first attempt ever
made in the state to give the people a
whole week of pleasure and pastime
without regard to expense or profit
How well that effort succeeded was ev-
idenced by columns of praise from the
newspapers throughout the state and
is emphasized by the fact that those
who came last year are coming back
this year, bringing many more with
them.
To all friends and visitors, old and
new, the capital city of Kansas extends
a warm welcome She is proud to be
the capital of such state, proud to re-
ceive such a testimonial of her import
ance as is being rendered by the peO-
pie Of Kansas this week. proud to be
able to extend them her hospitality. 1t
will be the business and the pleasure of
every citizen of Topeka to make every
visitor during this Festival week feel
glad that he came and cause him to
want to return next year.
Nothing could have been more fitting
than that the weeks festivities should
be inaugurated by the fraternal or
ganizations. They, perhaps, represent
a larger proportion of the population
of the state than any other class of
citizens.
Though of but recent origin. with a
few exceptions, these fraternal socie-
ties have grown so rapidly that there
is scarcely a village in the state that
has not one or more lodges. This fact
presents the strongest endorsement
possible of their popularity and bene-
fits. Each one is an organization based
on the one central idea of mutual ben
efits to its members while living, and
provision for the family of the deceased
member after death, and all without
cost beyond what is absolutely neces-
sary.
The popularity of the insurance feat
ure of the fraternal orders is doubtless
due to the fact that the contributions
of the members do not disappear in
large buildings and salaries.
Another element of popularity is the
social feature. There is probably no
force at work so powerful in making us
homogeneous people as that rep
resented by the fraternal societies. The
Importance to a community of an or
ganization which brings together once
a week, the people with a common pur-
pose. cannot be over estimated. Each
meeting is a Fall Festival in a limited
way.
Had it not been for the fraterna1 So
cieties and the work they have done
in cultivating a spirit of mutual inter
est and good fellowship, it is doubtful
shat such an entertainment as is being
furnished to the people of Kansas this
seek would have been possible.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
MOUNTAINEER OBSTRUCTS.
Government Work on the Tennessee
River is Seriously Interfered With.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 27.-Major
Kingman, United States engineer. in
charge of the improvements in the Ten
nesSee river, received word today from
a force of men sent to remove obstruc-
tions from the Clinch river that a
mountaineer named Lawson had built
an obstruction in the shape of a mill
dam across the channel in the mountain
and that he defied the authorities to
remove it.
The government forces had cut way
through the dam through which to take
their fleet and he had compelled them
under threats of violence to repair the
opening.
Major Kingman has reported the case
to the department and asks for instruc-
tions, the work cannot proceed until
this matter is settled.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
CHATTEL BANK TO FORM.
St Louis Business Men to Start a
Low interest Institution.

st. Louis, Sept. 27.-A meeting will be
held in the directors room of the Mer-
chants exchange, September 29, at D.
m. to formulate plans for the establish
ment of a chattel bank, similar to the
government institution in France and
to chattel banks that are in existence
in New York, Boston and other large
eastern cities.
The proposition is to establish a loan
bank with a capital of $50, 900, with the
privilege of increasing to 100000 when
desired.
The movement in st. Louis is brought
about by the many cases of extortion-
ate interest charges that are daily re-
ported. The money lenders and pawn
brokers are charging from to 10 per
cent a month on loans on personal
property and great hardship is worked
on people who are forced by their fin
ancial difficulties to go to these sources
to raise money on personal property.
The establishment of such a bank
was authorized by law passed by the
last legislature. The bill provides for
the starting of loan banks. and fixes
the interest charges at not to exceed 1
per cent a month
Loans are to be made on all personal
property, including furniture and other
household effects.
1t is proposed that competent and ex-
pert appraisers be on hand and that it
will be their duty to fix the value of all
property offered as collateral for loans
and recommend the loan. The banks
director will then advance the money
and place the property in storage and
insure it. A small charge will be made
for insurance and recording.
A number of gentlemen are interested
in the plan and it is confidently beliey-
ed that the bank will be easily orga niz-
ed. The loan bank plan is in operation
in many of the European countries and
even in China and the experience in
those countries is that the banks have
been made to pay a handsome return
on the investment of it's stockholders.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
CLEVELAND BUYS A POND
The Ex- President Secures a Well
Stocked Fishing Preserve.

New York, Sept PA special dispatch
to the Tribune from Buzzard Bay, Mass,
says:
Ex-President Cleveland has purchased
lot of land near Elbow Pond, in the viii
lage of Cedar Swamp. The pond is well
stocked with black bass, pickerel and
perch and has been a favorite resort of
Mr.. Cleveland and his friends this sea-
son. 1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland in
tends to build a camp on the shore of
the pond and the report has been the
cause of a rise in the price of land on
the shores of other ponds in that vicin-
ity.
Elbow Pond is about six miles from
Gray Gables and is reached by a well
kept road through the woods from near
the head of the bay.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
HORSE EATS A HAT.
Gaunt Chicago Animal Seizes the
Headgear of a Woman.

Chicago, Sept. 27.-An ungainly unbri-
died and evidently hungry white horse
amused passersby at Clark and Wash
ington streets yesterday by snatching a
new and costly fall hat from the head of
a richly dressed woman who was wait
ing for car, and munching it until it
was ruined.
The animal, which had been reaching
for all of the unSeaSona BILE straw hats
which came near the curb, espied the new
confection the woman's head, and,
walking slowly up, seized the hat and
began to eat it.
The woman screamed, the crowd laugh
ed, but two or three men took hold of the
hOrSe,S head forced its teeth apart, res
cued the ruined hat and restored it to its
owner.