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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
ELIZA WHITES CASE.
Was Continued Until Next Monday to
Enable the Prosecution to Sc
cure Imnortant Witness

The case of the state against Eliza
White, charged with the murder of Andy
Harvey, was continued in the common
pleas court yesterday until Monday. The
case was commenced Monday and all OF
Monday and part of yesterday was devoted
in selecting a jury. Twelve suitable jur-
ors were secured yesterday and after they
had been sworn the prosecution asked that
the case be continued until Monday as one
of their most important witnesses was in
Kansas City. Mo, and service had not yet
been secured.
Judge Holt granted the continuance and
Informed all parties CONCERNED to be on
hand Monday morning when the first wit
ness will be put on the stand.
The case is attracting considerable at
tention, IS the defendant is the second
woman in the history of Wyandotte county
to be tried for murder in the first degree.
About twelve years ago a similar case was
before the district court here. A colored
woman and her lover fell out and one day
they met a the stock yards and, after hav-
ing few words, the woman drew large
knife and stabbed the man through the
heart. She was tried and acquitted. About
the only difference between the two cases
is that the White woman used revolver
in dealing out death, while a knife was
used in the other case.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
PROBABLY HEART FAILURE.
the Missouri Pacific, Found Dead
in the Cab of an Engine.

Patrick Fitzpatrick, an employe of the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company. was
roundhouse in the Cypress yards yester-
day afternoon at about 2 o'clock. The
cause of death is not yet known, but the
supposition is that the man, died of heart
failure. Coroner Todd will hold post
mortem examination this morning to as
certain the immediate cause of death.
The body was taken to Whisner & Co. s
morgue, on Minnesota avenue, where an
inquest will be held this morning. The de-
ceased is widower and resided with rela-
tives at 6O4 Cornell avenue. He was about
40 years of age and had been in the en-
ploy of the Missouri Pacific company for
about eight years.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
ARGENTINE.
Charity Concert for the Benefit of the
City's Poor to Be Given Tonight
Best Local Talent to Assist.

Several of the ladies of the city have ar
ranged for charity concert, to be given
tonight at the Nokes hall. for the benefit
OF the poor. Quite lengthy and interest
ing programme has been prepared. The
the programme:
McGeorge orchestra: Monte, DunweIl,
piano solo; Mrs Curtis Alexander, song,
recitation; Miss Jeanette Dimm, plano
solo: Miss Lottie Blatchly, music: Mr. A.
solo; Miss Lola Cashner violin solo: Mr..
Frank Pitman, piano solo; Miss Antonette
Saures. song; Miss Elsa Hofmann. piano
Arlo Daily, recitation: Mrs. j. A. Yearn-
shaw, piano solo: Joseph Landrey. Jr,.
song: Miss Eva Sauers: piano solo; Mrs. d.
G. Bliss, recitation: Miss Lille Comfy.
piano solo: quartette. consisting of the
Misses Lous Workman, Maud Alexander,
Sunshine Collinsworth and Lena Boeke;
Mr.. NJ. Hofmann, piano solo.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
WANTS $4,000 DAMAGES.
Mary j. Peterson Fell Over Rotten
Plank Against an AK Held
hY n PedeAtrfnn.

Mary ]. Peterson commenced suit in the
court of common pleas yesterday against
the city for $4,000 damages. The plaintiff
alleges in her petition that she was walk
ing along North Sixth street, between Min
nesota and Armstrong avenues, on the
morning of November 90 ard as there was
a very heavy fog she could not see more
than five feet in front of her. She stepped
on q rotten plank, which gave way and
caused her to fall. In falling, it is alleged
she fell forward ard struck her head
against an axe, which was held by some
pedestrian. and cut her face in {. frightful
/ manner The plaintiff claims she does not
Know the name of the man who held the
AK. In addition to these injuries, she al
Ieges that. from the fall. her spine was in
jureu and that she received serious inter-
nal injuries The accident occurred direct
ly in front of the city hall.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Order of Pendo Lodge.

Huron lodge, Order of Pendo. was organ
lied in this city last evening by the cleo
ton of the following officers: Past coun-
selor. A. d. Butler; counselor, j., ]. Max
well; vice counselor, H. H. LasleS; secre-
tary, Dow McClain: treasurer, l.. c. Fuller;
chaplain. A. r. Hamilton: warden, j. A.
Todd; sentinel. Z. Matthias: medical adj
wiser. H. NJ. Cornell.
The Order of Pendo is an old one, being
first organized and chartered under the
laws of California. 1t provides for life in
surance and sick benefits. Two thousand
dollars is the limit to all policies and this
is paid in monthly installments. The lodge
organized last evening is the first to be
established in this city and a number of
secret order men have become members.
The officers chosen are all well known
business men of this city.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Put Heads Together and Talked.

About a dozen members of the CONNER
cill Club drew their chairs closely togeth-
er last night and for half an hour talked
about the discrimination in freight rates,
in which this city gets the worst of it. AS
there was no quorum present, no action
was taken. The subject will be the special
order for the meeting three weeks from
last night. In the meantime the trans
portation committee will secure an array
of arguments which will be presented to
the club. showing wherein Kansas City is
being Disseminated against all along the
line.
The Benton statue committee held an in
formal meeting at 7:30 o'clock in the Oh
rectors' room. but in the absence of the
chairman and several members no action
was taken.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
WILL ENLARGE ITS PLANT.
Company Purchases Ten and
One-haIf Acres of GrouDd

The Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing
Company yesterday purchased the property
known as the Western dressed beef plant,
consisting of buildings and ten and one
half acres of ground adjoining the compa-
ny's plant i'll Armourdale, the price named
in the deed being So, 900.
The company will use the new property
for the erection of buildings. now in con-
temptation. one of which will be a glue
factory The dimensions of this building
will be 15OXl50 feet. The buildings now in
use are unable to handle the increased
business of the company and the purchase
this difficulty.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
HAD THEIR CIRCUS, ANYHOW.
SUNDAY SCHOOL BOYS TURN THEM
SELVES LOOSE PROMISCUOUsLY.
1t Came Near Breaking Up n Church
and DisruptinE Society, but 1t
Packed the Opera House in
Kansas City, kas.
And now everybody is asking, What will

And now everybody is asking, What will
the pastor do?
A part of the members of what used to
be the Central Sunday School Club. but
which, after church row, became the
Crescent Social Club, last night gave a
unique and original hurlesque on country
circus in the Fifth Street opera house,
Kansas City, Kas. 1t was burlesque that
out-burlesqued any burlesQue of modern
times. There is nothing of the burlesque,
however, about the differences which have
arisen because of the performance among
the flock of Rev. w. E. Johnson pastor of
the Central Christian church of the city
over the Kaw.
AS a part of the church organization the
Central Sunday School Club was quite a
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Two sides to the Question.

A prominent manufacturer of this city
said yesterday, in referring to the bill
passed by the Kansas house preventing
the mining of coal at the Kansas state
peniteutiary. save for state and charitable
purposes: There are two sides to this
question. While / do not believe In bring
ing convict labor into competition with the
honest wage-earner, yet l know that the
mining of coal at the penitentiary has kept
the manufactures. mills and other great
interests on the move.
''Had it not been for the penitentiary
coal mine during a recent strike all these
Industries would have been forced to the
wall and many men thereby would have
been thrown out of employment
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
AaMoURDALE DIVORCE BILL.
isIature Listens to ArEu-
men4s Pro md Con,

Topeka. Kas.. Feb. 9.-CSpecial.) The
house committee on cities of the first class
to-day listened to the arguments of the
lobby now here in the interests of the pas
sage of the bill divorcing Armourdale from
Kansas City, has. Only one man appear
ed to oppose the bill, but big delegation
Will be up Thursday to talk TO the COM
mittee against the measure.
]. p. Campbell of the South side, was
the one who appeared to-day in opposition.
He showed that the assessed valuation of
the Sixth ward. the proposed secesh dis
trict now was only $547.ST7, a decrease
since 81 of $1S0,20i The valuation of the
ward is only one-twelfth of the valuation
of the entire city. The present bonded in
debtedness of the city is S4Q9,93l. In the
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

J. l.. Bricker and wife. who operate a
ioinc on Cherokee street between Fifth and
Sixth streets, had preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice Bond yesterday afternoon On
the charge of keeping a gambling house.
They were arrested by Sheriff Rothen-
berger, on account Of numerous complaints
of residents in the block where the place
is located, but the evidence adduced was
not sufficient to convict and they were
discharged from custody.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
METROPOLIS MISCELLANY.

e. Hustled building.
The janitor of the Armstrong school
house reported to the police yesterday
that thieves broke into the building and
stole the clock and some school supplies.
John Schlenger. aged %. and Marie Hoff-
man. aged "A, were united in marriage last
night at the home of Probate Judge Herr.
the contracting parties are residents of
Argentine.
John Doe was fined s. in police court
yesterday morning on the charge of drunk
enness. He was arrested Monday night
while in a badly intoxicated condition and
when taken to police headquarters he re-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

she cry because you were giving her some
thing
No. sir: because I did not give her any
thing The only thing ! know was given
to her was by her mother who gave her
some castor OIL
Mrs. Mussey suggested sending the note
she had written several days before and
Alice told her she had better do so.
1t was o'clock. The prisoner-witness
looked tired and worn. Judge Wofford ev-
idenced some signs of nervousness and
everybody was heartily pleased when he
adjourned court for the day. Alice Platt
will to-day again take the stand in her
own behalf. II is probable that the state
will introduce witnesses TO rebut her tes-
timony.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Charged With Highway Robbery.

Constables Moody and Brown arrested
Ed King and Henry Dates last night on
state warrants charging them with highway
robbery. They are suspected of being the
men who held up old man Black last Sat-
urday night at the corner of Fifth street
and New Jersey avenue, and robbed him of
S. in cash. The two men were placed in the
county Jail last night and will be arraigned
before Justice of the Peace Belts to-day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

The Leavenworth County Medical So
ciety met last evening in the Office of DIR.
A. i. Yohe.
The new Populist board of directors for
the Kansas penitentiary met in monthly
session at Lansing yesterday, and will also
be iii session to-day. There is very little
business to be brought before the board at
this time.
DR. e. B. Wilder died at an early hour
yesterday morning. and will be buried at 9
a clock this afternoon. The funeral will
take place from the residence of Mr.. B. A.
Sterling. and the nterment will be at
Mount Muncie cemetery.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Water Main Bursts.

The large water main belonging to the
Argentine Water and Electric Light Com
pany. which supplies the water to the tank
on the hill south of the city, bursted last
night about o'clock. letting all the water
out and leaving the town practically dry"
Superintendent Robertson began the work
of repairing the damage at once and eX-
poets to have it completed to-day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Park Commission Discharged.

At the regular meeting of the city coun-
ell last night the park commission was dis
charged by unanimous vote of the coun-
oil. This will give the supporters of the
park bill a setback and ii is understood
that ii was done for this purpose only.
When the park commission was appointed
by the council last spring it was only sup
posed TO be temporary.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Assaulted With n Knife.

Fred Grouse was arrested last night by
Officer Walsh on the charge of assaulting
D. NJ. Culp with Il knife. 1t is understood
that a charge of assault with intent to
kill will be placed against him this morn
ing. The assault took place Monday night
on North Fifth street.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Beecham's Pills cure Sick Headache.
THE NEWS AT LEAVENWoRTH.
iff-The Penitentiary Coal cues
tfon-MisceIIsneous

Sheriff Rothenberger yesterday afternoon
raided and closed the joint of ]. H. Bill
lings known as Billings place. which is
on the pike near the Soldiers home, and
which has caused the home officials much
worry and trouble.
The wife of Billings was the complaining
witness and requested that the place be
closed up, as Billings was on a spree and
indulging in the pastime of wrecking all
the furniture in the establishment.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
TMn strcets to NE Paved.

p. Wfthers, Jr.. entertained the board
of public works yesterday morning with It
vigorous protest against the paving of
Thirtieth street from Oak to Grand. He
presented remenstrance which proved to-
he in a minority and the board recommend
ed the paving The board also approved
tie resolution for paving Twenty-second
street from Forest TO Lydia, with brick.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
foreclosure Suit.

Foreclosure proceedings were instituted
in the district court yesterday by Arthur
Simmons, administrator of the estate of
David Staiger. against the estate of j. A.
Thomas, deceased. to recover the sum of
60 OO0
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
The Goat brought Out.

The degree of Mark Master was conferr-
ed upon two candidates at the regular con-
vocation of Orient chapter, No l2, Il. A.
NJ, at Masonic hall, 913 Walnut street,
last night.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
Fifty-six Hours to Los Angeles.

Fast service, luxurious equipment an.
dining cars on The Ia carte plan.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

Why don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pills? They are a positive cure for sick
headache and all the ills produced by dis
ordered liver
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

The "Best Pill ever used" is the fire.
Quent remark of purchasers of Carter )
Little Liver Pills. When you try them You
will say the same.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

Mrs. wIusIow's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teethins. softens the gums, reduces infiam-
nation allays pains. cures wind collie. &c bottle
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
KANSAS CITY, KAS.

THE Branch Office of the Jour-
nal has removed to Room E,
Hustled building, where all adver-
tisements and items of news will
receive prompt attention. Any
complaints as to the delivery of
the paper will be speedily remedied
if notice is given.
Telephone West 73.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

The California Limited, via Santa Fe
Route. Swift, safe and luxurious.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

Santa Fe Route to Chicago and the
East,
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10

The sale of seats for the Davenport en-
gagement at the Auditorium next week will
open this morning. The repertory. will be
as follows: Monday night and Saturday
matinee Fedora Tuesday and Saturday
nights La Tosca." and Wednesday. Thurs
day and Friday nights. "Gismonda."
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
1T IS A WEIRD TALE.
Continued From First Page.

II was tired and worn out.
WAS this before Mrs. Terrence died?'
THE week before.
Who treated you?
NO one l bought some of Greene
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09
The Sliding Pole.

Firemen use the sliding poles in the
engine houses when descending from
the dormitory floors to the street floor
they do when hustling down for fire.
1t is the quickest and easiest way to
60, and naturally they go that way al
ways. To q man not a fireman, how
ever, and so unaccustomed to 1t, the
commonplace use Of the sliding pole
seems at first strange. He has seen 1t
usually, perhaps only, from below; and
the use Of it is associated in his mind
with the sound Of the gong, the pound
Ing of the horses hoofs, the swapping
of harness and the general hustle of
preparation. To see the firemen come
dropping down the sliding poles into
this scene of activity seems all right. 1t
seems like part of the general scheme.
But If one who has been accustomed
only to seeing them come down the
poles in this way should happen at
| time of quiet In the house to be on an
upper floor, and instead of seeing fire.
men shoot into view should see one sud-
denly and silently disappear, that sight
probably would at first be surprising to
him.
At first 1t seems strange to see any
man, fireman or not, slide down pole
to start for his dinner, for instance, but
that is what the fireman does, and it is
Just the same If he Is going below for
any duty in the house. He goes down
the pole habitually, because that Is the
simplest and easiest way to go. But
he doesn't go back that way; easy as 1t
is to slide down the pole, 1t would be
mighty hard work to shin up it. When
the fireman goes up, then, like every
body else, he climbs the stairs.-Nsw
York Sun. q
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09
A Fair Field fer Woman,

All we women who are active in
business or professions want is fair
field and no favor. We ask nothing on
the ground of sex. We are willing to
compete with and work with men on
their own ground and desire to be
measured by the same standards. We
demand no courtesy further than that
which prevails between gentlemen; we
expect no Difference. In business life
men and women are simply workers,
and the more the element Of sex is in
truded the greater the interference
with the success of the women.
know Of a young woman who went
into newspaper Office on a purely
business errand-to sell on article, in
fact-and was indignant because the
reporters, all of whom were busy writ
ing, did not jump to their feet to offer
her seat. They were absorbed in
their work and most of them were
probably unconscious of her presence
Perhaps twenty-five women enter the
Office of a great New York daily every
day. You can easily see how 1t would
interfere with business if the reporters
should Immediately stop writing and
pay them the little attentions they are
accustomed to in the drawing room
The woman who expects these shows
her ignorance Of business; if they arr
necessary to her peace of mind she IL
out Of place in the business world
Margaret e. Sangster, in Demorest'l
| Magazine.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09

several weeks Mr.. Cotton's wife had
been visiting with her mother in Mis-
souri,. She came home the other day
without announcing her coming, and
when her husband was jerking baggage
out Of the car door onto a depot truck
he had no suspicion that any of it be-
longed to his family.
Heres a heavy one," said the bag
gageman, as he trundled big trunk to
the door.
II should say so," responded Cotton,
as he ,tugged at the trunk and edged 1t
along where it would slide down on the
truck. "Durn the cuss, anyhow, who
tries to put freight car load into one
piece of baggager' with which he vi
ciously toppled the trunk over and let
it fall with smash on the platform.
That night the first thing his wife
said to him after her kiss Of welcome
was: snow, Tom, make the drayman
handle my trunk awfully careful for II
is filled with fruit which mamma has
put up for u.s."
The next morning despair had its
abiding place In the Cotton family, fol
1t was discovered that the trunk which
Tom had smashed belonged to his wife
and no less than forty-two fruit Jars
had been broken and their contents
| spilled, while Mrs. Cotton's blue sill
waist, which she had taken along tt
make the Missouri girls feel envious
was nothing less than sight to behold
Kansas City Star.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09

Nov, perhaps, you understand my
fall. why work. 1 thought, when I
have nobody to work for? My literary
work was neglected. lost my situa-
ton at the Office. l have sunk deeper
and deeper, until now" he paused for
awhile, now am Rambling Robin T"
Then he came across and stood by the
fire.
But the innocent prattle of that lit
tie child of yours has brought me to
my senses. AS there is God above,
will yet make the world ring with my
name. Even If l cannot work for my
dead Flora, / can work for her mem
ory's sake. And so l will. start to-
night on the second part.of my life. In
two years / will let you know the re-
suit. l will come and see you. Good
by"
l pressed him to stop the night, but
he would not. / persuaded him, how
ever, to take the loan of few pounds,
and as he walked to the door l slipped
note into his hands.
And last Christmas eve he kept his
promise. He came to see me carrying
small parcel under his arm. 1t was
book-the book of the year. He had
written it under nom de plume. His
name now is known throughout the
English-speaking world, and the book
which made his name is dedicated
ITO my angel wife and Mabel
| James Davenport, in Tid-Bits.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09
Stood to Reason.

The great criminal lawyer was de-
Tending a man for larceny. An old feud
existed between the lawyer and the
prosecuting attorney, and they neglect
ed no opportunity to hit each other.
Gentlemen Of the jury" pleaded the
lawyer sin determining this case let
me caution you to bear this one fact in
mind. My client is poor man. While
we admit he was tempted to steal, 1t
was only when he was in the last ex-
tremity-hunger, In fact. Think what
any man might do who suddenly found
himself alone in the world and penni-
less"
The prosecuting attorney, remember
ing that the great criminal lawyer was
noted for his greed, saw his opportu
nifty and replied:
'"That is very pretty picture you
have just had drawn, gentlemen Of the
jury; but every one knows that If the
prisoner was really without a cent the
counsel for the defense would never bt
defending him."-Judge.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-09
Good Motto.

More than one boy has made his way
at the start by the exhibition Of a
bright mind and a sturdy purpose.
There was the case, for instance, of a
boy whom we will call Martin Flint.
Martin, thrown on his own resources
at the age of IA, went around big city
looking for work. Nobody seemed to
have any for him, but the oftener he
was rebuffed the more confident and
high-spirited he seemed to become;
there is nothing like good big obstacle
or bafflement to call out the healthy
snap in some matters.
BY and by Martin came to a mer-
chants door which had simply the
word push" on 1t; so he pushed the
door and went in, his hat in his hand.
An elderly man in spectacles sat at
desk.
''Well, boy, what do you want" ask
ed the merchant.
"Work, sir" said Martin.
what kind of work.
"Any kind of work, sir"
"Well," said the merchant. laughing
you've got a large speciality. What's
your motor
Same as yours, SIR" said Martin.
Same as mine? How do you know
what my motto ISL"
you've got it on your door-it's
PUSH sir"
The merchant put him to work on the
spot, and it was the beginning of
very successful business career.