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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
Irish Onnose Arbitration.

NEW YORK, Nov. 97.-A petition to
the Senator'S of the United States was
issued yesterday from the headquar-
tiers of the Irish National Alliance in
this city against the adoption of the
proposed general treaty of arbitration
with England
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
nIaxIm's New Gun.

PORTSMOUTH, Eng, Nov. 27-Hiram
Maxim's new quick-tiring gun was
tried here to-day with remarkable re.
suits. With twenty-five pounds OF
cordite it showed an effective range OF
16, 900 yards, over nine miles.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
John E. LIgcett No More.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Nov. 95.-John E.
Liggett, principal stakeholder in the
Liggett & Myers Tobacco company,
died of heart disease at his home here
last night His wealth is estimated
at SIS, 900, 900.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
TerrItIo cold on the Yukon.

OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 20. Mr.. ogil-
vie, the government surveyor, who
has just returned from years stay
on the Yukon, brings record of the
temperature in that region, showing
in January, 1886, temperature as
low as g. below zero.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
AntI-Re,ubmIs,Ion address.

TOPEKA. Kan, Nov 27.-The exec
utive committee of the State Temper
ance Union to-day issued an address
in opposition to the resubmissica of
the prohibitory law
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
R. u LeuI. In wa.hInrton.

WASHINGTON, Nov. PR E Lewis,
Republican candidate for governor of
Missouri last year, is here as an active
candidate for the United States dis
trict attorneyship for the Western
district.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
Dollar Wheat Again.

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-December wheat
sold at a dollar about 1880 yesterday.
Tie immediate cause of the jump to
81 was the buying of about $50, OOo
bushels by Councilman q Day.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

: Bicycles are going she'way that sew
ilry machines went before them. Com
petition is compelling the makers tG
sell their machines as something like
reasonable price. After little while
they will make the price actually rea-
sOnable
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

iSTke outlook ia Kansas" says an
official of the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company, sis better than for tho last
five years. The corn crop will reaco
nearly $4,000, 900 Bushels, according 70
all accounts"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

A Frenchman was convicted of kill
ing his mother-in law. When asked if
he had anything to say for himself be-
fore taking the sentence, he said:
Nothing, excepting have lived with
her twenty-one years and never did it
before"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

When man needs friends, it is usu'
ally sign that; he has been on drunk,
and found his way into the calaboosei
either that, or something elss amount
ing to the same thing.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
p.n.ion Attorner pI,barred.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Ell. 7. Lynch,
pension claim attorney of Houston,
No, was to-day disbarred from pra1-
tics, for overcharging apensioner.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03
LOWERING GUILTY.
Recommended to the Lenlency of the

Court on Account OF Good Character.
CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-The Tribune to-
day printed the following in regard to
the Captain Lowering case: 1.-The find
ing of the court martial is that tie
accused is guilty as charged in the
specifications, and that he be repri-
handed by the reviewing authority.
The court is thus lenient in view of
the good character of the accused, as
shown in the evidence.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

There is good deal to admire in
man who would rather pound dyna.
mite for a living than live off any OF
his relatives.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

At this season of the year women
count their kin to be remembered on
Christmas and wish they had been
born orphans.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

There are IN any men who want to do
things and many others who try, but
only few actually accomplish results.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

Many man who fails as q thief,
might succeed as an honest man.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

Il Hhnt chronic inactivity OF the liver gives rise
to. Bile gets into the blood and imparts yell
low tint the tongue fouls, and so does the breath.
sick headaches, pains beneath the right ribs and
shoulder blade are felt the bowels become con-
stipated and the stomach disordered The proven
remedy for this catalogue of evils is Hostetterss
Stomach Bitters, a medicine long and profession
ally recommended, and sovereign asofOr chills
and fever, nervousness and rheumatism.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that "a national bank has
no power to deal in stocks, and cannot,
therefore, acquire the stock of another
corporation except as ,incidental to its
power to lend money on personal SCI
curity."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-12-03

Every woman who owns horse usu.
ally keeps it untilit dies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
LONG DISTANCE RUNS.
Remarkable Time Made by Various
Railroads.

The remarkable run of the Union
Pacific train from Denver to Topeka
this week recalls some other noted runs
which are given:
August, 1888, London, N. w & Gale
donia, London to Edinburgh, 400 miles
in Z hours and SO minutes; average
52.4 miles per hour
September, 1891, New York Central
New York to East Buffalo, 436 % miles
In hours 1875 minutes; average speed
1886 miles per hour
November, 1891, Pennsylvania rail-
road, Jersey City to Washington, 227
miles in 4 hours and IL minutes; aver
age speed, 81. IS miles per hour.
May, 1898, New York Central and
Lake Shore, New York to Chicago, 1854
miles in 10 hours and 81 minutes; av-
erage speed, 1920 miles per hour.
August. 1894, Plant system, Jackson
Vile to Richmond, 66l5 miles in II
hours and 81 minutes, average speed,
48 miles per hour.
August, 1895. London & Northwest
ern, London to Aberdeen, $40 miles in
hours and % minutes; average speed
63.2S miles per hour.
September. 1895. New York Central,
New York to Buffalo, 1850 miles in 6
hours and AZ minutes; average speed,
6433 miles per hour
October, 1895, Lake Shore, Chicago to
Buffalo, SO miles in hours and 1 min
ute; average, 65.7 miles per hour, ex-
elusive of stops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
WHAT CHAS. FENSKY DID.
Brings About a Reconciliation Be-
tween Husband and Wife.

Charlie Fensky, who grew up here
and after being admitted to the bar
went to st. Louis is given some promi-
hence by the POst-Dispatch, in the role
of peacemaker. The Post-Dispa tch
says:
Attorney Charles FenslKy has turned
peacemaker. Through his advice an es-
tranged husband and wife are to be re-
united The parties involved are John
NJ. Kelley and his wife, Nettie.
Several days ago Mrs. Kelley appear
ed at the office Of Lawyer Fensky to re-
late her troubles. She expressed the
belief that she was the victim of a
mock marriage. Her reason Cor so
thinking was because her husband told
her so.
She said they We're married in Texas
two years ago. Nearly one year ago
her husband left her. she said After
cOnsidera bic investigation she had To-
Gated him in this city. He was we'll
fixed financially.
The wOman's object in seeking law
yer was to bring suit for separate
maintenance portion of her husbands
wealth.
Lawyer Fensky wrote to Texas to in
vestigate~ the alleged mock marriage.
Yesterday he received official infOFma-
tion to the effect that the maria ge was
legal Mrs. Kelley was so informed.
She was happy. The lawyer advised
-TeconciIia ton. The husband was viii
ling. The wife was willing. So there
viii be no legal battle between the KEEL
IeyS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
WHAT CAUSES SUICIDES.
Preaching That There is No Hell, Says
Rev Mr.. Myers.

New York, June 1.-THE so-called
new theology is the creator of suicides
and is responsible for much of the
blackness of sin and crime"
This is the statement made by the
Rev Cortland Myers in a sermon
preached in Brooklyn Baptist temple.
At the close of the service he was seen
by a reporter. He was surrounded by
a score of members of the congregation,
who were congratulating him upon his
discourse.
Suicide" remarked Mr.. Myers, lis
increasing at an astounding rate. Take
the recent records in our big cities, and
the figures are appalling. There is
some horrible secret behind this stu
alton. The suicides are often not from
normal causes. such as sheer destitu-
ton and absolute despair. The secret
of this blood stain upon modern society
is not found SO much in circumstance
as in theology, and the so-called new
theology is the agent"
What do you mean by the new the
OlOgy?'-" Mr. Myers was asked.
The new theology" he said, "dOeS
the terrible thing of placing a discount
on Bible statements regarding future
punishment. It gives another Oppor-
tunity to people in the next world and
teaches the doctrine of a second pro-
baton. According to it a man can do
as he pIeases on this earth-nurder his
neighbOr or his own body, for example
and he will be given an opportunity
to expiate his sins after death.
"OppOsed to it is our old theology
which teaches the nOW-or-never plan of
salvation. Back of the suicide and crime
is the belief in the heart. What a man
thinks, he is When his theology in
duces him to repudiate the existence of
a hell it should be held responsible
when he commits suicide. The man
who believes in the Bible punishment
for murder will not take his own life"
What is the present status of the
new theoIogy?''
All remarked Mr. Myers, cit has
reached its limit I see signs of it
waning. The reaction is slowly but
surely coming. It has no foundations"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
SECULAR MUSIC STOPPED.
Protests of Church People Avail With
the Asbury Park Common Council

Asbury Park, June 14.-The band en-
ployed by the city gave a so-called sa-
cred concert on the beach front last
evening, and thousands enjoyed the
programme, which was made up of sa-
cred selections and popular melodies of
the day. The lively airs were obnox-
ious to the church Soers, however, and
at the session of the common council
the Rev. DR.. w. E Jones, prominent
summer resident, protested against the
irreligiOus character of the music rem
dered. He was followed by Mrs. Vel
lington White of New York The
church folks. they cOntended, were be-
ing driven away on account of the fail
ure of the town authorities to compel
the enforcement of the Sunday laws.
They predicted bad results in case a
halt was not called, and insisted that
the Sunday evening band concerts be
abandoned in the future
Founder Bradley, who is a member
of the common council. sided with the
proteStants, and submitted resolution,
which was adopted, directing the chair
man of the music committee to insist
that the band leader in the future avoid
secular selections on Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
REV.THOMAS DIXON AT &c.
He Says Kansas is the Nations Their
nom eter.

Kansas City, June 14-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, who came here from New York
city direct, to speak before the Fair
mount Chatauqua, expressed himself
to a reporter, regarding matters of
public interest as follows:
The Raines liquor law" said Mr..
Dixon, may not be perfect. I don't
think it is perfect, but it is the best
thing of its kind New York has had. I
believe it will win and that we shall
keep it on the statute books. Just now
we are entering an important municipal
campaign in Greater New York.
7 have been in New York city local
politics for several years Certainly
the city administration can do nothing
about the RaineS law, but it has the
power to practically annul it by the
election of men who will refuse to en-
force it.
I heartily believe that New York city
is getting better. 1t has improved
greatly since I went there in 1882 and
now 1 think it is the cleanest of the
the cleaneSt streets and the cleanest
administration Chicago has the worst.
4 understand that Mr.. Bryan is look
ed on as the logical candidate for the
presidency to lead free silver forces in
1900" he went on. 4 was in sympathy
with the Bryan party last year on eve
rything but free silver. I think the
fight on monopoly good one, and that
it should be kept up and made the issue
in the next campaign. If it is, the anti
monopoly party will be winning par
~, provided the campaign is clean and
the free silver propaganda is left out
we depend too much on politics in
the country. We expect too much of
legislation. There is a disposition in
the farmer to do his blowing with his
jawbone. During the last campaign
farmers dropped their work to talk pol
tiles. On the day after election a friend
and I were hunting in North Carolina,
when we came across an old fellow on
his farm and asked him if there were
any birds on his place. He said there
wasn't anything on his place, and
hadn't been for six months He de-
manded to know the election news. and
we told him everything had gone Re
publican. That settles it, he said
everything has gone to hell He was
a typical example of a farmer who had
quit work for six months to wait for
the election of his candidate. And vet
I am in sympathy with the farmers
though his cause is hurt by ignorant
men who look for prosperity through
legislation.
"A great deal has been said in the
east about Kansas and her freak legis-
lation. I have no doubt that much of
it is born in the brain of newspaper
men. Kansas is the nations thernon1-
eter It was so before the war, and It
has been so ever since. 1t is the bigth-
place of political agitation and political
agitation is good thing. Where you
find agitation there you will also find
progress"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
NO HARD TINES
In Arizona Where Money is Kept in
Circulation.

Chas. A. Hageman of Grand Canon
Ariz., was in the city and registered at
the Hotel Throop Mr.. Hageman has been
proprietor of a large hotel at Grand
Canon but has sold out and will locate
in the east. In 1884 he was day clerk at
the Copeland hotel for J. c. Gordon where
he made many friends. Later, in 1887, he
was day clerk at the Hotel ThroOp. After
that he entered the employ of the Union
Pacific Eating House company.
In speaking of the financial condition of
Arizona Mr.. Hageman said to a reporter:
I'VE never hear the cry of hard times
in Arizona OF course the miners and
laborers are fighting for higher wages.
But they are all getting three square
meals a day and are living comfortably.
If they made higher wages you would see
them spending the surplus in the saloons
and gambling houses. Money is freer in
Arizona than it is in this country, and it
is spent faster. But there is no cry of
hard tines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
THERE 30 HE'LL
Declares Rev. Barton Aylesworth in
Discourse in Denver

Denver, June 14-Last evening. to a
congregation which filled the Central
Christian church to the doors. the Rev.
Barton o. Aylesworth preached a sermon
on What and Where is Help While ad-
hitting knowledge of perdition to be
somewhere imperspicuous, Rev. Ayles-
worth said he believed hell to have no
space or place; a personal devil battling
with the Almighty for the management
of the universe an absurdity. His main
line of thought tended to impugn the
holdings of the forefathers, who verify
declared the evil world a furnace of fire
and birthstone with a devil handling with
exasperating freedom a three-pronged
fork. It was one of the best sermons on
this popular subject ever delivered in
Denver church. During his remarks Rev.
AyleswOrth said;
In the universe there are two forces
working constantly against each other;
and they are attraction and repulsion.
The most learned scientist does not know
how deep they run. This much is known:
sence of things that without these forces
neither electricity, light, heat or sub
stance, nay life itself, can exist. I some
times wonder if the soul is not the issue
of this great dual strife. Man is but
copy of the universe at its highest devel-
opment, and therefore is conscious of
this same dual strife within himself.
Philosophy says it is the negative or the
not-being struggling to overcome the pos
tive or actual, that the former is al
ways yielding that the latter may be. So
that mans development is this struggle
to put away that which is not himself
not truly himself; to put away that which
is not manly, not noble, not conquering,
so that at last he may appear his true
self. The child must put away its child
ish things, the youth his folly, the mid
dle-aged man his selfish ends, and the
old man his body altogether, so that he
may in the end appear his true self"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
ELECTRIC HEADLIGHTS.
Memphis Has in Use Light That is
Powerful

Kansas City, June 14-An improved
light is now being tried on the Spring
field division Of the Memphis road and
is the same as that which the Santa Fe
railway has adopted. It differs from
the other electric headlight in being
simpler in construction, while the ar
mature is almost concealed between
the smokestack and the back of the
headlight.
AS a means of saving life and prop
erty it's value cannot be estimated.
On last Thanksgiving night a terrific
storm was raging along the Springfield
division when the Memphis express
train bowled along at the rate of so
miles an hour At a deserted way sta
ton box car had been blown squarely
across the main track. There was no
one there to warn the train of its dan
ger. The long, brilliant shaft of light
shining along the track from the loco
motives electric headlight showed the
obstruction to the engineer when the
train was more than half a mile away
lie applied the brakes and brought the
train to a stop before the pilot of the
locomotive reached the obstruction If
the locomotive had been equipped with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
Santa Fe's Large Amount of
Work in Bridge Construction.
Spends $4,000 ThisYear on
the Eastern Division.
Replacing All the Wooden Bridges
Along the Line With Permanent
Iron and Stone Structures
L W. Lewis Starts Today
to Complete 90 Con-
tracts

Taking into account the work that
has been completed since the season
opened, the work now in progress and
the WI rk yet to be done, the Santa Fe
company at the end of this year will
have spent in the neighborhood of $780,
000 for bridge construction on the east
ern division of the road.
Only one large contract, the con-
struction of an IRON span bridge across
the Kansas river at Bonner Springs,
is included in this amount. All of the
other work consists in replacing wood
en- bridges with permanent iron struc-
lures. Within another year all of the
wooden bridges on the eastern division
will have been replaced by iron struc-
lures, as this work has been progress
ing steadily for several years.
Last week four substantial iron
structures were completed and declared
satisfactory by the company engineers.
One spans the WakaruSa at EudOrar,
one the Delaware river at Valley Falls,
one the Marias des Cygnes river at
Reding, and one the Neosho river at
Lang.
All of these structures take the
places Of wooden treStle bridges, and
are of permanent construction.
Today Contractor Lewis of EmpOria
started on a contract for bridge con-
struction amounting to over $50, 600. The
contract calls for the construction of
is iron bridges and five stone arch
bridges across streams at different
points along the eastern division. All
OF THIS Work VIII be competed before
fall.
The false work of the bridge across
the Kansas river at Bonner Springs
has been completed and the iron work
of the structure will be taken up this
week. The track from Wilder station
to the bridge will be improved as soon
as the structure is completed. and new
steel will bealaid across the bridge.
The wooden trestle which now forms
an extension of the wagon bridge
across the Santa F'e tracks on Massa-
chusetts street in Lawrence, Kan, is
also to be replaced by an iron structure
by the Santa Fe company.
The Santa F'e road is being more ex-
tensively improved this year than prob
ably any year since it's completion.
Last December President Ripley stat
ed that 81, 500. 900 would be spent by
the company in track Improvement be
fore the coming fall and that a cOnsid-
cradle portion of this amount would be
expended for work in Kansas. Bridge
construction is being carried on on all
of the divisions throughout the state
and in some places new steel is being
laid.
Under the business-like management
of President Ripley the Santa Fe road
is being placed in a condition second
to no other road in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
CATTLE TRAFFIC. GOOD.
Movement of Cattle From New Mex
leo North Unusually Large.

The Denver Republican says:
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e and
certain other railroads have certainly
had no occasion to complain on ac-
count of lack of cattle traffic The
movement of cattle from the ranges of
New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico to
Wyoming and Montana has been un-
usually large and a big part of it has
passed through the stockyards of this
city.
The cattle thus transported are feed
ers, bred upon the ranges of the south
west, and now taken north to be pre-
pared for market. 1t represents a
phase of the cattle business which has
been evolved in the course of time as
men have discovered that the southwest
is the true breeding ground, and that
Wyoming and Montana ranges can best
be used to fatten steers for market.
A special from Santa Fee says that the
southwest has practically been ex-
hausted of feeders and that the stock
of breeding cattle is lower than at any
other time since 1881. 1t is also said that
the ranges are in excellent condition.
This makes the outlook for the cattle
business very good as far as the stock
of cattle is concerned The reduced
number of animals in the southwest will
prevent the grass from being grazed as
closely as it generally is and this will
ena BILE the ranges to recuperate. They
should, with a good season next year,
be in better than ordinary condition
and able to maintain a larger number
of cattle to be subsequently sent to
Montana and Wyoming. Possibly the
northwestern ranges will be somewhat
crowded this season, but this is becOm-
ing a matter of less and less import
ance because of the growing tendency
to feed cattle in cultivated pastures or
in stalls. During the summer months
it would be difficult to overstock the
cattle are withdrawn from the open
country to be fed by farmers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-14
CONSUMPTIVES ISOLATED.
Plan of Cincinnati Hospital Trustees
for Health.

Cincinnati. June 14-At the meeting
of the board of city hospital trustees
DR. a. 3. Thrasher again called the at
tentiOn of his collea CUES to the urgent
demand that comes from the staff to
isolate consumptives to the branch hos
pital Having himself studied the
question of isolation most thoroughly,
especially with reference to consump-
tives, DR.. Thrasher was we'll fortified
with statistics on the death rate in
large cities from this scOurge, and
called the attention of the board to the
new treatment of this class of patients,
which consists in giving them plenty
of outdoor exercise, or as much as their
condition will allow, and air and sun
light. Reiterating his former argu-
ment he earnestly advocated the use
of the branch hospital for consump-
tives. There. the doctor claimed, these
unfOrtunates might have a chance for
their lives, whereas in the hospital
proper they are certainly doomed. With
a small outlay. the doctor stated. the
branch could be arranged for the re-
ception and maintenance of the pa
tients. 1t was decided to follow this
Dlan.