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The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

Friend.Pye just been reading your little
volume Of fugitive verses. Author-Why do
you call them fugitive verses? ?" Friend-They
escaped from your pen, didn't they?
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Mike D'New Arrived-And where air

Mike D'NeW ArriVed-And where air
We frum?
Pat-Dublin.
Mike-D'ye know Dinnis O'Lacey?
Pat-Faith, an Ofm his brother-in-
law.
Mi'le-Sure, Oh thought Oh saw a re-
zimblance.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
The EXPLANATION.

Teacher-Why did Delilah cut all the
hair from Samson's head before she
proceeded to his undoing?
Tommy-So sne could snatch him
bald-headed better-Richmond Dis
patch.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
TeuDtatiOu.

II want higher geared Wheel" said
the woman. This is only 70, and l
want an a."
"This one was an S4," said the clerk,
"but it is marked down."
'I-I'Il take t"-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
A1truisn.

"Widowhood makes a woman un-
selfish"
"Why soY"
Because she ceases to look out for
No. 1 and begins to look out for No. 2"
Brooklyn Life.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
A Difficult Problem.

"What kapes ye shtill so long, Do
Lamp inquired Mr. Rafferty,.
"Oi'm thryin to convince meself that
it's no harder to push wheelbarrow on
the level than to push me bicickle up
hill an Oh can't do it. Washington
Star.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

The phylloxera is working havoc in
the vineyards in the Sacramento and
Napa valleys in California.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
A Boy Right Through.
Ton,n,v-pa 7 want q pOny.

Pa-Why, my son, I gave you your
choice between pony and a bicycle.
Why is it that you want pony?
Tommy-Cause I've got the bicycle.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Amt it fine out here in the

Tommy-Ain't it fine out here in the
country"
Alley Salley-Yes, but when 1 go
home I'll have the spots knocked out O.
me.
Tommy-What do you mean?
Alley Salley-Why, have me freckles
removed, see?
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Reason to Be Thankful.

He had just returned from the ball
field.
Fortunately" he said, "bloomers
have gone out of fashion,
He heaved deep sigh of relief.
''It is no longer necessary for a man
with sister to lock up his baseball
suit" he added.-Chicago Post.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
IT'S NOT EXPENSIVE.

It's the quality that's high in TEA. GARDEN
DRIPs ToBoGGAN MAPLE SYRUP and PELICAN
LOUISIANA MOLAssEs. For said by first-class
grocers in cans only. Money refunded if goods
are not satisfactory. Don't accept an imitation
See that the manufacturers name is Htho-
THE PACIFIC COAST SYRUP CO.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Quick Learners.

Mr.. Hiland-I see that many Klon-
dixie miners have got enough and are
returning.
Mr.. Halket-Enough gold?
Mr.. Hiland-No; enough experience.
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

DUPTURE and PILES cured; no pay
nuntfI cured; send for book. DRs MANSFIELD
Il PoRTERFIELD, S38 Market St.. San Francisco
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Hard to Live.

"On the contrary, it's not bit easy
to get a divorce in Dakota"
'No?
"No: YOU have to live there three
months, you know. w."-Detroit Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
More Holidays.

81 hope that We'll have that Miss
Smartweed for teacher next year"
.Why do you like her SO much, Bob
bie?"
"Cause she's so sickiy."-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
Cause for THANKSGIVING,

Mrs. Hoolihan-Oi say, Mrs. John
son, have yous seen Annie's new baby?
It's a peach.
Aunty J.--No; but 1 reckon they's
mighty thankful faint a pair.-Har
per's BaZar
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25
PACIFIC COAST JOCKY CLUB
IngIeside Race Track
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Five or more Running Races daily, rain or
shine, from Nov. 1st to Nov. 18th, inclusive.
The Winslow mail., 1897-12-25

Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best
of all cough cures.-George W. Lotz, Fa-
bucher, La, August 26, 1895.
Try Schilling's Best tea and baking powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
CANON OF THE COLORADO.
New Mineral Discoveries, Especially
of Copper, Just Found in That
Section.

Flagstaff. Ariz., June s.-Much atten-
ton is being attracted by the recent min
eral discoveries along the northern crest
of the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in
that strip of No Mans Land that
Utah has been trying to wrest from Ari-
iona for many years.
While the discoveries have included
gypsum, asbestos, gold, silver, lead and
copper, the strikes made in the last
named metal within the last few weeks
have been so extensive and remarkable in
richness as to give red copper first
place in public interest and attract the
attention of mining experts in all parts of
the country.
The deposits were first encountered on
the crest of the canon, SO miles north OF
Flagstaff where the Anita Copper Con-
solidated company has made the most ex-
tensive developments in the district. From
this point the copper can be traced in the
development work as well as by the OUT
groupings for fifteen miles to the canon
and from the brink to a depth of nearly
5000 feet into the canon itself where the
ore deposits are permanent in all the
stratified rmations of limestone, sand
stone and slate clear into the archaic
granite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
GATHERING UP CATTLE.
High Prices Causing a Stampede fol
Beef on the Hoof

Denver, June 9.-Men who have cat
tie to sell are right in the path of pros
perity these days With a movement
that first made itself manifest last
winter, prices for all varieties of kline
have gone up steadily until things have
reached boom proportions. Even the
hitherto despised cattle from Old Mex
leo are now commanding quite a re-
spectacle degree of attention and de-
mand Breeders and feeders both have
to depend almost entirely on the states
and territories south of Colorado for a
supply market, as the west and north
of cattle for breeding and feeding pur-
poses.
In the Dakotas and Minnesotas, es-
pecially, the scarcity of breeder cattle
is plainly noticeable. During the years
of dullness in the cattle business, which
lasted almost to the close of 1896, the
ranges became greatly depleted, num-
bers of cattlemen selling their entire
brands and engaging in other lines of
trade. Now. when a reaction has set
in, the men who stuck it out through
the hard times are reaping a harvest.
One result of the turn is that the cat
tlemen of the northwest are buying up
in the south all the breeders they can
find paying fancy prices for them, too.
A big deal in Arizona cattle has just
been closed in Arizona by the Mime
sofa and Dakota Cattle company, 5000
head of breeders having been purchas-
ed by the general manager of the com
pany, James Phillips of Fort Pierre, S.
D. The animals are now being ship
ped through Denver to their destina-
ton on the railroad line, where the
cowboys will take charge. of them and
drive them to the range to breed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
X. C. POLICE ROW.
Disastrous Results to the Dem ocracy
of the Appointment of Chief Vallins

Kansas City, June 9.-The appoint
ment of Thomas N. Vallins, a "Pinker-
tom to the office of chief of police of
this city, by Governor Stevens police
commissioners, promises to involve the
Democracy of the entire state in in
glorious civil war. Notwithstanding
the continuous bitter assaults and de-
nunciations of "Pinkertonisn' by every
Democratic politician throughout the
land both great and small, a Pinkerton
employe has been appointed chief of
police of this city by a Democratic po-
lice board, appointed by a Democratic
governor, who owes his election to the
votes of union labor, which is known
to be against Pinkertonism above all
things else.
The total voting strength of the com
bined labor unions in Kansas City is
between 5000 and 10000. Fully two
thirds of this vote was cast for Gov
ernOr Stephens last fall. To say that
they are sore would indeed be putting
it mildly. They are simply wild. They
have held meetings at their headquar
tiers at Industrial hall and denounced
the action and passed resolutions con-
demning the police commissioners in
the strongest language it was possible
for them to use. They have succeed
ed SO far in getting Attorney General
Crow to take the matter up, and suit
has been instituted in the supreme
court to GUST the obnoxious official. the
case being set for hearing next Tues
daV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
BOYCOTT CHEAP BEER.
Citizens of California Town Wreck a
Five Cent Joint

Oakland. June "a modest sign
bearing the legend Beer V Cents has
led to a saloon war in the unusually
quiet town of PinOle. Up to last Sat
urday night beer has been held at 10
cents per glass in the powder city The
town had four saloons, but on Saturday
morning a sign appeared on what was
billed to be saloon No. 5. and the price
of the beverage that cheers was to be
cut in two.
The four saloon men met in executive
session and decided to boycott any
brewery that would supply beer to the
newcomers, but Saturday afternoon
kegs and bottles arrived at the new
place and foaming lager was served to
customers for a time
Early Sunday morning there was an
other meeting of the saloon men, and
at the close of the session they ad-
Journed to the new saloon. A row fol-
lowed their arrival, and in the melee
the new barkeeper was bruised and
beaten and his bar was completely
wrecked.
Seventeen citizens of the town who
are charged with completely in the
wrecking of the saloon were placed IN
der arrest yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
DANGER IN SODA.
Serious Results Sometimes Follow
It's Excessive Use.

Common soda is all right in it's place
and indispensable in the kitchen and for
cooking and washing purposes, but it
was never intended for medicine, and
people who it as such will some day
regret it.
We refer to the common use OF soda to
relieve heartburn or sour stomach. a hab-
it which thousands of people practice al
most daily, and one which is fraught with
danger; moreover the soda only gives
temporary relief and in the end the stom-
ach trouble is worse and worse.
The soda acts as a mechanical irritant
to the walls of the stomach and bowels
and cases are on record where it accun-
ulated in the intestines, causing death by
Inflammation or peritonitis-
DR.. Harlandson recommends as the
safest and surest cure for sour stomach
(acid dyspepsia) an excellent preparation
sold by druggists under the name Of
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. These tab
lets are large 20 grain lOzenges, very
pleasant to taste and contain the natural
acids, peptones and digestive elements
essential to good digestion and when
taken after meals they digest the food
perfectly and promptly before it has
time to ferment, sour and poison the
blood and nervous system
DR.. Wuerth states that he invariably
uses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets in all
cases of stomach arrangements and finds
them a certain cure not only for stomach
but by promptly digesting the food they
create a healthy appetite, increase flesh
and strengthen the action of the heart
and liver. They are not a cathartic, but
intended only for stomach diseses and
weaknesses and will be found reliable in
any stomach trouble except cancer OF
the stomach.
All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets at Scots. per package.
A little book describing all forms of
stomach weakness and Their cure mailed
free by addressing the Stuart Co OF
Marshall, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
HANNA In POWER.
James Creelman Makes a Trip
to Ohio
To Look Over the Political
Situation.
SAYS MARK HANNA
Has Everything His Own Way
in That State.
But That the Financial De-
preston Is Worse.
THE MAYOR OFCANTON
Says Scores of Citizens Have
Become InsOlYent.
Never Anything Like 1t in Ohio
Before.
But That the Financial De-
preston Is Worse.
THE MAYOR OFCANTON
Says Scores of Citizens Have
Become InsOIYent.
Never Anything Like It in Ohio
Before.

Denver. June 9.-The News publishes a
long special from Cleveland, o., written
by James Creelman, the celebrated news
paper correspondent which purpOrts to
give the exact political situation in Ohio.
1t says in part;
It seems to be quite certain at this mo-
ment that Senator Hanna has practically
won his great fight for the dictatorship
of Ohio politics, and that before the end
of the month he will be in supreme con-
troll of the Republican state organization.
Nothing but Democratic victory at the
polls can prevent him from being the
most powerful and irresistible man in his
party since the death of Mr.. Blaine. His
friends and neutenants are carrying all
before them.
It is political miracle like the nominal
ton of Mr.. Mckinley. Senator Foraker
has been completely outgeneraled. The
influence of the president and of the Re-
publican national committee has been too
much for him, yet what a situation con-
fronts the new Warwick.
Cries of Industrial and commercial dis
tress go up from every county in Ohio.
The whole commonwealth is PROSTATE. In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
CATTLE VIA GALVESTON.
Success Means Direct Connection
With European Markets.

Denver. June 9.-For the past week
Morgan Jones of Fort Worth, Tex,
vice president of the Denver and Fort
Worth railway, has been in the city
comforting with Receiver Frank Trum-
bull OF the Gulf system relative to the
traffic relations of the two roads. He
brought news here concerning the
movement of TRANSPORTATION business
to the Gulf route which will interest
all westerners who want to see the
waterway solution of the trensconti-
mental freight problem worked out sue
cessfully.
This is that a new line of steamers
will shortly be established to embark
in the cattle carrying trade between
Galveston and the principal European
ports, notably Liverpool, England One
experimental shipment has already
been made, and if it proves satisfactory
thousands of western cattle will be
shipped across the Atlantic annually
from Galveston harbor.
The present intention is to commence
with live cattle, but later on beef car
cases are to be sent to the European
market, either frozen or in refrigera-
tors fitted up for that purpose on the
tlemen, whose only markets of any size
are now limited to Kansas City, Omaha
and Chicago, the latest Galveston en-
terprise will prove of the highest i'm
pOrtance Heretofore cattle and beef
intended for the European market had
to be sent to eastern seaport cities by
all-rail, at an expense that kept prof
it's at an almost prohibitory maximum.
So far as the shipping of live cattle is
concerned, the west has done next to
nothing in the European trade.
Some time ago State Veterinarian
GresWell contemplated sending a ship
ment of live cattle to Germany for the
purpose of trying to break down the
barriers set against the importation of
American cattle into that country. He
proposed to do this by giving the Ger
ma ne HaT & rat n Of 10
fact that western cattle, at, least, are
free from disease. Upon making in
quiries however, DR.. Greswell found
that rail rates to New York were so
high as to make the proposed venture
almost impossible.
With line of cattle ships running
out of Galveston harbor, this obstacle
to shipping live cattle to Europe would
be removed as the rates could be made
very low for the water portion of the
route
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09

] spite of the absolute certainty that the
| tariff bill will become a law within few
/ weeks. the times are growing worse in
| stead of better. Everybody sees that the
| new tariff will help the sugar trust and
| kindred forms of combined and rapacious
| corporate wealth, which are already pow
| erful enough to write the national laws
and dictate to the president, but nobody
| sees how the agriculture, industry or
| commerce of Ohio is to be helped.
It is impossible to exaggerate the dis
| tress in this state Farms have actually
| shrunk to half their value, and figures
actually show that ever since Mr.. McKin-
| ley's election values have shrunk not less
| than 10 per cent. The depression is SO
| terrible that the loan institutions are
holding thousands Of overdue mortgages,
which they do not dare to foreclose, be-
cause prices have sunk so low that farm
ing land frequently fails to bring the
price of the mortgage at auction. From
the figures already in my possession.
am satisfied that the list of assignments,
foreclosure and transfers of property for
debt since the beginning of this year in
Ohio averages more than half a million
dollars for each of the counties, and that
the tota' for the state is more than $780,
900. 900. I give in this dispatch the official
figures, so far as they are obtainable. for
But shocking as they may be, they are
only faint shadow of the real situation.
Wages are being cut down in all direc-
lions, factories are running only part of
the time and usually with reduced forces.
Thousands Of idle workingmen join with
the ruined farmers in the cry for the
prosperity which was promised Every
body knows it. Nobody denies it.
was at Canton today and walked
about the very spot where hundreds OF
thousands of workingmen heard Mr.. Nc
Ktnley proclaim from the wooden stage
erected in front of his house that the de-
feat of Bryan would reopen the closed
factories, raise wages, give everybody
work restore the days of plenty and Sc
curity to the farmers and give the mer-
chant a chance to live. talked with
many representative citizens, and they
all told the same story-hard times, suf-
fering. bankruptcy.
There never has been anything like
this in Ohio before" said Mayor Rice of
Canton. There are hundreds of families
in Canton today who are suffering for
want of food and clothing. Things are
getting worse. In three months this year
I have spent out of my private purse for
food and coal and clothing to give away
more than my years salary as mayor.
The factories are cutting down wages
and reducing their forces Many of them
are not operating more than three days
a week, Most of them are running with.
out profit. Farm land that has been
worth 800 acre cannot be sold for $50
an acre. 1t is almost impossible to bor-
row money on real estate because prices
sink, and sink, and sink
1.-The farmers and workingmen are de-
sorting the Republican party by the
wholesale. know of scores of men who
are insolvent and who continue business
simply because their creditors do not dare
to act.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
Musical Festival

To accommodate the Chorus and 9TH
ers attending the Musical Festival at
Ottawa on June 18th and 18th a special
train Will be run from Topeka over the
Missouri Pacific, leaving at 7:20 a. m,
and arriving at Ottawa at $3.50 a. m.
and viii return leaving Ottawa at 10 30
p. m. on Saturday, the 18th, after the
concert.
This train will be run through in
both directions without change of cars
or without making stops. A baggage
car will be attached TO carry all bag
gage needed at the ChautauQua meet
ing.
For other Information see
f. z. NIPPS,
Ticket Agent,
Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
DENVER CYCLE PATH.
Plan Provides for Two Cement Paths
to Palmer Lake.

Denver, June "a bicycle path to
Palmer lake is one of the possibilities
of the summer. The path was planned
something over a year ago, but the
expense which would attend the work
has been a drawback, as has the fact
that there can be no assurance given
that it will receive protection and pO-
Icing after it is built. The efforts of
the men who conceived the plan have
been directed both to securing the
money necessary for construction and
to protecting the path after it is made
J. A. Mcclure of the Cycling West
has been the leading spirit in pushing
the plan.
With a path to Palmer lake, running
along the railroad, would be a 25-mile
course that would make the hour an
extremely possible accomplishment.
The railroads running south have been
about won over, and there is a pros
pect of substantial aid to make the
path a. reality
Leading citizens of Denver have
given promise of aid, both moral and
italists of Denver, whose names are not
yet public property in this connection.
have offered to contribute from 800 to
$780, The total cost will be, it is es-
timated about S15, 600 for a cement
path four feet wide. or two cement
paths two feet wide each The latter
plan is more likely to be adopted, for
several reasons, the road hog being
large one. If one large path were put
in there would be continual trouble
keeping the man with a heavy load off
it in wet weather, or even in dry
weather for that matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
SCHLATTER'S BODY.
The Rem aims of SchIatter Buried
Where They Were Found.

Wners IheY were Found.
Ell Paso, June 9.-Americans who
came in from Casa Grande, Chihuahua,
Mexico, today, say that the skeleton
and effects found 35 miles southwest
of there May % last are undoubtedly
those of Francis Schlatter, the healer
Among his effects was found an empty
envelope bearing the address, "A. NJ.
Jarrett, dated SOcorrO county, New
Mexico"
No letters of any kind were found
and the account and memorandum
books contain no writing.
The copper rod which was found ly-
ing alongside the skeleton has a plug
in the lower end which suggests that
there may be something inside of it.
The skeleton was buried under the tree
where found and the blankets and I'M
derwear were destroyed and burned.
The Bible, containing the inscription
on the inside of the front cover, given
in yesterdays dispatches, and all other
effects, are in the possession of the Jefe
Politico, of Casa Grande, and will be
sold at public auction after 80 days if
not claimed by relatives before that
time.
The prospectors who found Schlat-
ter'S camp state there was no evidence
of a campfire ever having been made,
and they believe he was killed by light
ming, because one of his spurs lying on
the ground near the copper rod, was
badly burned and the steel rachel in
the spur was half burned away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
HE BET ON BRYAN.
The Picturesque Pilgrimage ofPyth
agoras Pod.n

agOras Pod"
Council Bluffs, June 9-R. Pitcher
Woodland, en- route from New York to
San Francisco astride a donkey has
passed through Council Bluffs. Wood
ard is making the trip in this novel
way in payment of a wager on the
presidential election last fall The
wager was with Benjamin Lillard. pub
Usher of the Popular Science News,
New York, who agreed to pay Wood
ard $4,000 in the event of Bryan's cleo
ton. while Woodland, if Bryan was de-
feated, was to cross the continent on a
donkey.
The agreement provided that Wood
ard should start without a dollar, pur-
chase a donkey, and, leaving New York
city November 27, 1896, arrive at the
Palace hotel, San Francisco, by the Bird
of November, 1897. He must support
himself and steed all the way and re-
ce1Ve no aims; wear plug hat to the
Mississippi river, spectacles and Prince
Albert coat all the way, have specta-
cles on the donkey, sell photographs
entitled 1.-TWO Donkeys," and call on
Mckinley and Bryan at their resi-
dences in Canton and Lincoln respect
lively
Woodland is a New York newspaper
man and writes under the nom de
plume of PythagOras Pod. On his trip
he is laying the foundation for a book,
advance chapters of which he writes
along the road for publication in
Brooklyn and San Francisco papers.
THE Picturesque Pilgrimage of Pytha-
gOras Pod is the sOnorous title of his
forthcoming volume Woodland is ac-
companied by a courier on a bicycle,
Bernhard Menkens, who keeps town
or two in advance to announce the
coming of the peculiar traveller.