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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
CAN PAY BOARD.
Arrangements Made by Which
the State and Employees
Can Have Money.

Until January 1, when 5000 900 in tax
es will come into the state treasury, the
treasurer will refuse to issue warrants
upon vouchers drawn upon him because
the money in the general revenue fund
is exhausted.
The treasurer today marked $4,000
worth of vouchers mot paid for want
of funds" However, the banks of To-
peka are arranging to carry the states
expenses until the first of the year.
The First National bank has already
agreed to take care of the state institu-
tiOns, through the bOaRI of charities,
consequently no difficulty viii be ex-
perienced there, and all employees will
receive their salaries. and expenses
will be paid promptly.
These unpaid vouchers draw per
cent interest. The banks will accept
the vouchers, pay the claims, and re-
ceive for their trouble the interest
thereon
The lack of money to carry on the
business of the state is due to the fact
that Kansas counties owe the state
S350,000 delinquent taxes. January 1st
nearly one million dollars will come in
from this years levy, and the difficulty
will be at end. In the meantime the
salaries of state officers and employees
and the other expenses will be paid
through the banks as specified.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
As the Result of an Exhibition
For Charity.
NEW ATHLETIC CLUB
Opened With a Benefit for Yell
low Fever Sufferers.
Fight Between Local Men Was
One Of the Features.
Bout Lasted 15 Rounds and
Death Followed Soon.

New Orleans Oct 13-Cummings, one
of the principals in last nights prize
fight died at 4:15 this morning.
Griffin, the opponent of Cummings.
has been placed under arrest.
The new Tulane Athletic club was
opened last night with a big benefit for
the INDECENT yellow fever patients and
families in the city. An attractive
programme including boxing bouts
was arranged and among these was
a contest between Jack Cummings and
Walter Griffin. Both are local men and
both had been training to fight for some
time There was much interest in the
contest and large crowd was on hand.
Prof. Duffy was the referee.
The fight was of the fierce wind order
from start to finish and both men gave
and received much punishment. Each
was fairly clever.
Fifteen rounds were fought, but be-
fore the end of that time both of the
hghters were in an apparent state OF
exhaustion and physicians and others
had made efforts prior to the fifteenth
round 10 bring the battle to d close.
in the fifteenth round Griffin hit
Cummings a hard punch and the latter
sank to the floor, not from the effects
of the blow, but from lack of vitality
He complained that his head hurt.
asked that he be laid ON his stomach
and became unconscious. From that
time he never spoke audibly. Physi-
clans were summoned and made an ex-
animation of the man.
said the mans injuries were fatal and
he was suffering with hemorrhage Of the
brain, and possibly concussion.
An ambulance was called and the
poor fellow was taken to the Hotel
Dieu. The best of attention was gfVen
him but at 415 a. m. he died Griffin
had also been badly punished and was
taken to his home.
Policemen were sent to watch by
Griffin's bedside. When Cummings
death was announced Griffin was
placed under arrest but was not able to
be moved. Cummings was a motor
man and Griffin the son of d police Off
Ger. The former had been married but
seven months. The fatal termination
Of the fight may have an effect on the
scheme to bring the six contests off and
may prevent the McPharland-E -Everhardr
fight on Monday night
LATER: Griffin has recovered suf-
Hciently to warrant his removal to
court.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
POPULIST POINT OF VIEW.
Campaign Handbook Issued Showing
That Republican Fears Were
Grourdless.

kansas is now governed according
to the honest, well meaning mbitiOns
of her people. The prophecy of her
motto is being fulfilled"
Such are the words found in the con-
Guiding chapter of the POpulist cam
paign hand book today issued by the
executive committee of the state cen
tral committee.
The men who have gotten up this
campaign document which will be fol-
lowed by another early in the spring,
showing a comparison of the record of
the present administration and the Re
publican admins tration which preceded
it from a financial standpoint are:
Chairman Taylor Riddle, Secretary
w. T. Upton, J. NJ. Allen of Erie, G.
W. Harrington of HiaWatha, and E j.
WeStgate OF St. John.
The book contains several hundred
pages of material gathered from the
various departments of state goVdrn-
ment, including the legislature, edit
ed by J. w. MOrphy of the Topeka Ad
vocate. The work is being published al
the state printing Office and viii be
scattered through the state.
Each of the state officers wrote
piece about his department and it is
given a place in the book, but without
signature. The executive committee
assumes all responsibility for the pub
licatiOn of the document
1t is claimed that hundreds of thou
sands of dollars will be saved to the
people of the state by the Legislature
ana the economic administration OF al
fairs in the various departments, about
as follows:
From adjusted railroad rates by the
commissioners, $50 600 annually; by re-
Stricting the charges at the Kansas
City stock yards, 600 annually;
economy in the legislature, $14, 900;
stationery for six months compared
with the Morrill, administration. $336. 81;
by honesty in administration of af-
fairs at the state penitentiary, S25,-
4O5.53. Total 1919. 741.40 per year.
The comment is also made:
The Republican party cannot even
go on the stump and sustain it's proph-
ecies. A year ago they spOuted from
every forum the calamitOuS prediction
power the credit of Kansas would be
destroyed. loans would be withdrawn,
enterprise would cease, and the layAl
would go to the dogs with unparalleled
and disastrous rapidity- They We're
turned down, and what is the result?
Eastern loan companies will not ac-
cept the unmatured debts of Kansas
without an affidavit that the money
was made off the inCumbered property;
money is offered for investment in
Kansas at the lowest rate of interest
in the history of America. and Kansas
securities have the right OF way in all
the markets in the country. The credit
of the state was never more respecta-
BILE In a word Kansas has been re
deemed without the redeemers. POlit-
ical brokerage has ceased, and it is not
necessary now to give a drunk and
champagne supper to sell one of the
bonds of the state Kansas interest
people and not by the prospects of the
politicians, and the men who hold the
securities and reluctantly accept the
Indebtedness know it.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
GALVESTON FEELS BETTER
Trains are Again Leaving the City
No New Gases of Fever.

Galveston, Tex, Oct. 13.-But for Hous-
ton $ quarantine again at midnight busi-
ness would have been moving in fine
shape today. The InternationaFs through
train to st. Louis left at noon, carrying
DR.. Guiteras and only seventeen passen-
gers. Guiteras says he has been ordered
to return. No new cases here today. and
skeptical doctors still assert that the dis
ease is not yellow fever. The alleged
cases are all recovering. The new case
reported yesterday afternoon is sitting up
today. DR.. Harrison of Columbus Tex
is here and now visiting alleged cases. He
will make a report to the board of health
this evening.
A special to the Tribune from Houston
says that the people there are indignant
at the board of health for quarantining
Galveston and the city council is now in
session to take action in the matter.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
THE BAND PLAYED ON
Even After the Sheriff Had Arrested
the Whole Party.

Pittsburg, Pa. Oct. 13.-The deputy
sheriffs at the De Armitt coal mines,
made a raid on the strikers at Sandy
Creek this morning and arrested Is
men, Including the members of the brass
band The strikers were marching on
the public road and were halted by the
deputies about a quarter of a mile from
the tipple. The band refused to stop
playing and the entire party was plac-
ed under arrest without resistance.
The prisoners were brought to this
city and taken to the sheriffs office
where a hearing will be given them this
afternoon. The members of the band
took their arrest good naturedly and
played their Instruments as they were
escorted from the railroad station to
the sheriff's office. Chief Deputy Ev
ans said the men were riOtOuS and he
feared trouble. This is denied by the
strikers.
Superintendent De Armitt claims
that the three mines of the company
are now running to their fullest capac-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
TWO BIG SALES.
Valuable Properties in Topeka
Find Buyers Today.

The Bank of Topeka today sold to c.
w. Jewell for $4,000 the vacant lot on
Kansas avenue between the new Jew
ell and Hogeboom buildings. Mr.. Jew
ell says he will not build on the lot be-
fore next spring when he expects to
erect a two-story room uniform with
the one which has been built this sum
n1er.
c. w. Snyder has purchased the Ken
dali mansion on Topeka avenue of the
Kendall estate for $11. 500. This is one
of the most elegant and complete homes
in Topeka It is situated at 1857 TOpe-
ka avenue and was occupied as resi-
dence by Mr.. Q. F. Kendall before mis-
death.
Mr.. Snyder is a banker from Clifton.
He moved to Topeka two years ago
but he still has his banking interests in
Clifton
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
He BURIED $4,000.
st. Louis People Turn Up a
Park After a Hidden
Treasure.

st. Louis, Oct. 13.-In a deposition
yesterday taken before Special Com
missioner Dillon, Louis Sicher, a bank
rupt, under cross examination testified
that he had buried $4,000 in a tin box
in O'Fallon park, just north of the
city.
The newspapers published the story
and hundreds of men, women and chill
dren with all kinds of implements dug
around in the park searching for the
hidden treasure One old man with a
forked stick assfduOusly prOspected in
true mining style The best the police
could do was to keep the "KIOndikers''
from tearing up the flower beds. but
every other foot of ground was turned
up. The money is still hidden.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
DEMOCRATS Win.
They Carry indianapolis by s.
600 Majority.

Indianapolis, Ind, Oct 13-Thomas
Taggart CDem.) defeated w. N. Hard
ing CRep) for mayor by a plurality
that Will reach 5000 The Republicans
gave up the fight early in the evening
conceding a Democratic victory of from
5000 to 5000. The rest of the ticket,
including six councilmen at large, is
elected by 5000 to 1000
1t is hard to figure gains and losses
on account of the recent changes in
precinct boundaries. Ex-President
Harrison's precinct shows a large
Democratic gain; in fact the Democrats
made many gains in Republican strong
holds
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
ODD ST. LOUIS TURKEY.
Contained a Live Feathered Young
Turkey of Pigeons Size.

st Louis, Oct. ia local commission
merchant has brought to light a phe-
nomenon which is attracting the atten-
ton of scientists here
While one of the employees of the COM
mission house was dressing a turkey,
he was dumbfounded to find in its in
terror a live, well feathered, hearty
young turkey at large as a full grown
pigeon.
It is perfect in every way excepting
the head which was attached to the
mother and is a fatty growth.
The little turkey died as soon as it
was severed from its dead mother. 1t
was preserved in alcohol and is now in
the collection of the Missouri medical
college where it is attracting the at
tention of the medical fraternity.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
A QUICK DENIAL
Is Made of the Rumor That the Gulf
Road Will Operate the &. P.

Denver, Col, Oct. 13.-Speaking of the
report to the effect that the Gulf road
after its reorganization. intends to on
crate the Kansas Pacific road, Receiv-
er Trumbuu said:
The story is the boldest piece of fic-
ton imaginable It is absolutely with
out foundation for two reasons:
FIRST, General Dodge is not engaged
in any such deal
Second, the plan of reorganization of
the Union Pacific, which is expected to
take erect within a few months. in
cludes the Kansas Pacific. This plan of
the Union Pacific was PROMULGATED
sometime ago, and has since then been
public property"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs. W. o. Marvin. died at the resi-
dence Of J. E. Holmes, Twenty-frst and
Quincy streets, yesterday afternoon at
o'clock. The funeral viii take place
from the residence tomorrow at 1:30.
Willie Sands. the boy who drives the
mule which hauls the stone which makes
the concrete which is put into the new
bridge, sprained his ankle last evening
as he was walking the fill at the
south end of the new bridge. It was a
serious sDrafn and the boy had to be car
ried to a doctors office, where medical
aid was given him.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
THIS TIME FOR HIS LIFE.
First Train Robb3r Trial Under Mis-.
scurPs New Law.

evidence in the second trial of John
Kennedy, alleged leader of a gang that
robbed a Chicago and Alton train at
the famous Blue Cut, near here. De
cember last, was begun in the criminal
court this morning
In outlining its case. the defense in
timated that manufactured testimo-
ny is to be used in the hearing. Prose
cutOr Low promises a conviction. This
is the first case of the kind that has
come up in Jackson county since the
law was passed making train robbery
punishable by death. At a previous
trial the jury failed to agree.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
WILL MAINTAIN PEACE
IF it Takes a War to Do It-Jirga
Tribesmen Swear It

Simla, Oct. 13.-A dispatch from NAH
moud announces that the Jirga tribes
men have presented their Martini rifles
and SOlemnly sworn to maintain peace
and drive out Umra Khan's followers
The troops forming the Mahmoud
punitive expedition have destroyed 20
fortified villages and have killed many
Of the insurgent natives.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
COLORADO TO MAKE SUGAR
Arrang gements Made for Building
Factories and Refineries.

Denver, Colo. Oct. 13.-Plans contem-
plating the investment of from $500, 900
to Sl.000,O0O by eastern capitalists in
sugar factories and refneries have been
cOnsummated here and an agreement
has been signed by 100 farmers pledging
themselves to the cultivation of 1000
acres of sugar beetS for the purpose of
supplying the material to these factor
les and refneries with which to carry
on the industry.
It is expected that a sugar refining
business amounting to a million and
half a year viii be established in this
state.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Conditions Favor Rain

The wind today is blowing from the
south at a velocity of q miles an hour
At times it is greater. Weather OBJ
server T.B.Jennings says that the con-
ditions which favor a rain are taking
place. The barometer is dropping and
rain clouds are beginning to appear.
The minimum temperature for the night
was 81 degrees The temperature this
afternoon at PAS o'clock was 81 de-
grees. Mr.. Jennings says that it will
be cooler tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
CLICKS GRANDSON
Wanders Away From Home on Lin
coin Streetsand is Lost.

George w. Click. Jr., the 3-year-old son
of Fred Click. who lives at the corner
of Fifth and Lincoln streets, wandered
away from home this forenoon and had
not been found at a late hour.
The little fellow was left at home with
the servant, while Mrs. Click went to look
at a house and he soon eluded the girl
and left the house. He was seen at
Sixth and Western avenues, but no one
knows in what direction he went from
there.
The child is a grandson of Ex-Governor
Click and is a great favorite with his
grandfather.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
LovEJoY MONUMENT.
Celebration in Honor of the Man Who
Died for the Negroes.

Alton, Oct. 13.-The Lovejoy Monu-
ment association is making active
preparations for the formal dedication
of the monument on November z
which is the anniversary of the murder
of Elijah P. LOvejoy at his printing Of
fee in Alton on the night of November
Z, 1887. The association has invited a
number of men of national prominence
to make addresses at the dedication
and ex-President Benjamin Harrison
has been asked to make the address of
the day
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Presidential Appointments

Washington. Oct. 13.-The president
has made the following appointments
To be consuls of the United States
Talbot J. Albert of Maryland at Bruins
wick. Germany; VIM A. .Prickett of New
Jersey at Rheims, France. To be col
lectors of customs, John s. Bethel for
the district of Richmond, Va; Jesse w.
Elliott for the district of Newport
News. Va; VIM. b Shepperd for the
district of Apalachicola, Fla.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
Glasgow Will Have an international
Show.

London. Oct 13-Glasgow, the second
city in Great Britain, having decided
to hold an international exhibition in
1901. the citizens have already started
preliminary operations and avow their
intention of beating Chicago's record
The guarantee fund, though still in its
infancy. amounts to S450,000- 1t is ex-
pected that the total, $4,000, 900, will be
raised within six months.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
SAILED OVER CHANNEL.
Mr.. Charles Pollock Crosses From
England to France by Balloon.

Eastbourne. Eng, Oct. 13.-The bal
loon in which Mr.. Charles Pollock
started from here to cross the channel,
descended safely last evening near Do
mart, in Somme, IA miles northwest of
Amiens Mr.. Pollock telegraphs that
the trip was a great success.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
TAMMANY LEADS.
Result of the New York Journals
Mayoralty Poll.

New York. Oct 13-The Journal and
Advertisers poll of the mayOralty pref
erences of Greater New York voters in
cIudes PAS, ,959 names.
Van Wyck, the Tammany candidate,
has 79 040 votes; Henry George. Jeffer-
son Democrat. 1852; Seth Low. Citi-
zens' Union. "a, $50; Geeral Tracy, Re
r1IhIican. 81. .S5I
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
FRENCH JACK-THE-RIPPER
He Confesses to Killing Eight Men,
Women and Girls.

Lyons, France. Oct. ia shepherd
named Vacher, has been arrested at
Belley, department of Ain Al miles
from this city charged with committing
a series of sO-ca1led Jack the Ripper
murders. He has confessed to killing
three sheep herders, three girls and two
old women
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
FOLLOWS NEAL DOW.
William Daniel, Prohibition Candi-
date for Vice President in
1884, is Dead

Baltimore, Oct. 13.-WiIIiam Daniel.
one of the leaders of the Prohibitionist
party in the United States and its can
didate for the vice presidency in 1884,
died suddenly this morning at his home
in Mount Washington, q suburb of Bal
timOre.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
DANA VERY Low.
The Eminent Editors Death Expected
at Any Moment

New York, oct. 13.-At an early hour
this morning Charles a. Dana. editor
of the New York Sun, was again re-
ported as sinking rapidly. His death
at any moment is expected, though his
great vitality may carry him along for
several days.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-13
GOVERNOR MORRILL, ILL
He Has Been Sick Since Satur-
day and is in Bed.

Hiawatha, Oct 13.-Ex-Governor Z.
N Morrill, has been Ill since Saturday
and his physicians say that he may
have to keep his bed for a fortnight.
A chill brought on an attack of a
chronic ailment
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12

since withered-and over the tops he
caught sight of the roof and upper
story of some old southern homestead,
at which he had a better peep from
the gateway farther along. A path Of
red brick led to the flight of steps,
broad and bordered by unp%retcntious
balustrades. Dingy white columns
supported the roof of a wide piazza.
Smoke was drifting from a battered
pipe projecting from the red brick
chimney at the north end, and the
morning air was family scented with a
most appetizing fragrance of broiling
ham. 1t made Lambert
Somewhere around the next bend in
the road, beyond the Woodward extrem-
ity of the old fence, he could hear the
sound of voices and asplashing of water.
fastening ON, he found himself over
looking a level "bench" surrounded
on three sides by a deep bend of the
stream and partially separated from,
the red roadway by a fringe of stunted
trees and thick, stubborn bushes; and
here, in an irregular square, Lambert
came face to face with the encampment
of the first company, outside of West
Point, it was ever his luck to join. At
that particular moment he was Just
about ready to resolve it should be the
last.
On two sides of the square, facing
each other and perhaps 20 yards
apart, We're the a. tents of the com
pany, ten on a side. AT the flank farth-
pst from fHa ,.ool ,,I ,;+obol 90, go. -
face the center of the Enclosure was a
wall tent, backed by one or two of the
smaller pattern. Nearest the road was
n second wall tent, used, possibly, by
the guard-though no guards were Wis.
ible-the white canvas cover of an army
wagon, and Il few more scattered "a"
tents. Cook-fires had been ablaze and
were now sm%ouldering about the wag-
on. Several men in gray wooden shirts
were washing their faces at the stream;
others, in light-bluc ]overcoats. were
sauntering about the tents, some of
whose occupants, as could be easily
seen, were still asleep.
Standing at the edge of the winding
road, and thinking how easy a matter
it would be to toss a hand-grenade into
the midst of the camp, Lambert paused
a moment and studied the scene. Rest
ing on his sword, still in it's chamois
case, with his cloak and satchel
thrown over his shoulder, the young
officer became suddenly aware of a man
wearing the chevrons of corporal who,
%fshing-rod in hand, was standing just
beyond a clump of bushes below and
looking ND at him with an expression
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12

on his shrewd, "Bowery-boy" face in
which impudence and interest were
about equally mingled. So soon as he
found that he was observed, the cor.
poral cooked his head on one side, and,
with arms allimbo and a quizzical grin
on his freckled phiz, patronizingly In.
quired:
well, young Teller, who made them
clothes?"
lambert considered q moment before
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-12
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-21
U1ILLL0NS DF ; At the Disposal of His Son
LETTER SENIOR Der M Wheat Deal.

CHICAGO, Dec. 20-Interest in the
big December wheatsdeal was greatly
increased today by the arrival from
Washington of Levi z. Letter, the mill
lionaire eX-merchant OF Chicago, and
the substantial admission by him that
his millions were at his sons COM
mand in his struggle with other inter-
ests. my son has plenty of money to
pay for what he has purchased said
Mr.. Letter Sr. About his wheat oper-
ations. he has informed me pretty full
ly. I have been a merchant greater
part of my life and am much pleased
that my son has broadened out into
first class merchant. Wheat is first
class commodity of universal use. The
quality of wheat which he has pur-
chased is of the highest, and am sure
will be in demand at a higher price
than he has paid for it. l am well
pleased with the situation"
George w. French, who, it is said,
has engineered the tremendous deal in
December for the Letter clique, stated
today that the bull combination Will
have at least six million bushels OF
wheat to take care Of. The tactics Of
Armour in rushing millions of bushels
to the Chicago market, he said, have
caused the Letter following to change
some of their plans very materially.
1.-The impression that we are going out
of the market as socn as we conclude
this months trading Is hardly true.