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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
ANEW HEAVENLY FLYER.
Computations Made on the Move
ments of Perrine's Comet

Lick Observatory, via San Jose, Calf,
Oct. 20.-The following elements of the
orbit of Perrine's new comet were com
puted at the Lick observatory by As
tronomers Hussey and Aitken from
Mount Hamilton observations. The
perihelion passage is December 10 1897;
distance from the node to the peri
helion Sc degrees g minutes; in
clination of the plane of the orbit, 60
degrees SO minutes; perihelion distance
123, GOO 600 miles.
Just now the comet is $1,000 900 miles
from the earth and on November / it
will be 5000, 600 miles from US. In the
intervening time its brightness will re-
main nearly constant. During the re-
mainder of the month the stranger will
be in the constellation of Chepeus and
continue moving nOrthWard until the
end of the month, at which time it will
be about degrees from the polar star,
it's course will then turn southwark.
The orbit bears no resemblance to that
of any other comet.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
JUpGE RIeGs, DECISION
Commissioner Breidenthal Explains
it as it Relates to Banks

It was announced in the dispatches
yesterday that Judge Riggs at Garnett
had rendered decision in reference to
the state banking law that was caus-
ing great excitement among the attOr-
neys there and was in itself an unus-
uaI yet new and important interpreta-
tion of the law.
Inquiry at the Office of the state bank
commissioner develops the fact that
this report gives the wrong impression
as to the facts in the case. Mr.. Brei-
denthaI says
There is nothing unusual in the de-
cision. Judge Riggs simply sustained
the law passed by the last legislature
That law provides that an individual
creditor cannot bring suit against the
stockholders of a defunct bank to re-
cover personal losses but directs the
receiver of such bank to bring suit
against the stockholders for the bene-
fit of all the creditors.
AT Garnett an individual creditor
was about to commence suit against the
stockholders of the bank which failed
to recover loss sustained by the failure
of the bank. Other creditors brought
suit in the district court to enjOin this
individual creditor from taking such
proceeding and at the same time ask
for an order directing the receiver to
bring suit to recover for the benefit of
all.
Judge Riggs granted the prayer of
the petition which merely asked that
the court compel its agent to comply
The judge simply sustained the law
The only position he could take without
declaring the new law unconstitution-
al
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
Excursion to Ft. Riley.

$500 for the round trip. On Thurs
day, Oct. 2Sth. the Union Pacific will
run special train to Fort Riley, leav-
ing Topeka at 10:14 a. m. A fine pro-
gram has been arranged for the enter
tainment of visitors. A cavalry drill
artillery drill, cavalry athletic drill in
riding hall. band contest, sham battle,
etc. Lunch, etc, can be had at post
mess and post exchange. Public build
ings can be visited by excursionists.
Guides viii be detailed to show excur-
sionists about the post and explain
when different exercises viii take place
Excursionists are especially invited
by the commander of the post to spend
the day there. Train viii leave Fort
Riley returning at 6 p. m.
F. A. LEWIS.
City ticket agent, 525 Kansas ave.
j. C. FULTON,
Depot Agent
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
FIGHT FOR JUDaEsH1Ps.
Leads to Much Bitterness in West
ern Kansas.

Ouf n the western part of the state
it is being charged that some of the
judges are attempting to hOld-up the
various counties by certifying to the
treasuTers thereof the amounts due the
court StenOgra piers.
The charge is made in the district in
which Judge Andrews seeks reelection
that he is responsible for the new con-
dition, the allegation being made that
the state treasurer should pay the stem
Ographers now as in the past
The state will resume the payment of
the stenographers in 1898 but under the
provisions of the law passed by the last
legislature the counties will pay the
stenOgraphers for the remainder of the
present year.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
OSAGE COUNTY WAIVERS.
Penitentiary Coal May Turn it Into
the Repu blican Column

The Populist state committee members
who happened to be in the city ana the
state officers held a hurried conference
today TO devise ways and means whereby
they will be able to assist in the cam
palsn IN Usage county and undo the dam
age to their interests already alleged +o
have been done by the walking delegates
representing the Republican state com
mittee among the miners.
The principal interest in that febt lias
in the fact that B. F. Martin. Associate
Justice Aliens stenOgrapher. is the fusion
nominee for district judge against Judge
William Thomson, who seeks a re-elec-
ton Mr.. Martin is popular with the
administration crowd, which is lending
all the assistance possible to his cleo
tion.
The disafeetion which has been caused
Dy the Republican committee among the
Popullst miners is due to a comparison Of
the records of the Republican and Popu-
list administrations with reference to the
sale of coal at the state penitentiary. It
Is shown that the PopuIists, according to
the official reports on file in the office
of the state auditor. have sold in nine
months $4,000 more coal to the public
than the Republican warden sold during
the same length of time last year.
Armed with these facts and figures. the
Republicans have been making a hard
tight among the miners and it was re-
ported to the state house today that the
Populists would lose the county unless
something be done at once to stop the
dangerous war being waged by the Re
pubIcans or some means be adopted to
eounteract the effect of the work already
done.
The miners have had but little to do
for several weeks and after figuring up
their work for September. the average
for each man was "a for the months
work Following this condition comes
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
GOMPEKS ISSUES A CALL.
American Federation of Labor TOM eet
in Nashville in December

in Nashville in December
Washington, Oct 20.-President Sam
uel Gompers, by Frank Morrison, sec
retary, has issued call to all affiliated
unions for the seventeenth convention
of the American Federation of Labor
to be held at Nashville, Tenn, in the
hall of the House of Representatives at
10 o'clock on the morning of Decent Der
3, next. Resolutions of anv character
or propositions for changes in the con-
stitution intended for consideration by
the convention must be submitted to
the secretary at least two weeks prior
to the meeting. The call makes a
strong plea for a full attendance of
WOrkingmen at this convention and
states that no convention in recent
years has been called upon to deal with
more momentous questions than con-
front the workers of today.
The objects of this convention are,
in part, thus set out in the call: The
seventies Of the industrial stagnatiOn of
the past four years have not yet been
abated. the wrongs from which the
workers suffer have not been righted;
the injustice imposed upon our people
remains unTemedied; the OVerWOrked
large mass and the unimployed many
are still testimony to the folly of our
age; the employment of children in our
factories and workshops, and the spec
tacle is witnessed of idle men, and the
people whom we have elected are more
concerned with the privileges of the
few than the rights of the many
These rights and wrongs, and others
of equal Importance, but too numerous
for reference here, must of necessity
be considered by the forthcoming con-
vention and such action devised as
shall tend to attain the one and set
aside the other"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
TALKED CIVIL SERVICE.
The Cabinet Spends Two Hours in a
Discussion of the Subject

yesterday devoted considerable time to
a discussion of the civil service and
how to obtain the best results from the
recent order promulgated by the Presi-
dent A decision was reached that each
department should prepare and adopt
regulations to meet the requirements
of the order. While each department.
will formulate it's own regulations
there was a general sentiment that it
would be well to have them along the
lines of the general regulations issued
by the treasury department.
Secretary Gage, it will be remem-
charges were made to have a hearing
and an opportunity to answer them.
Routine matters of the departments oc-
cupied all the remainder of the cabinet
meeting which lasted about two hours.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
OFF WITH HIS HEAD.
That is the Order That is Expected
Regarding Kansas City's
Postmaster.

Kansas City. Mo. Oct 20.-Charges
of inemciency in the management OF
the Kansas City postofice have been
filed at Washington against Postmaster
Homer Reed and his assistant, c. n.
Seidlitz.
Inspector McGinnis, who was sent
on here from Washington to make an
investigation of the charges, has just
returned to the capital and will soon
make his report. It is announced that
both officials will be decapitated within
80 days.
The investigation also includes Thos.
Walker, superintendent of mails It
is not disclosed who is sponsor for the
charges.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
The Western Building & Investmen t
Company.

This company is organized under the
laws of Kansas and has general head
quarters at 525 Kansas avenue. It's Of
ficers are J. H. FOUGHT, president; D. c.
TiIlotson, vice president and general
attorney; w. A. Swift, secretary H.
H. Parker, treasurer, and Frank Bras
ier, general manager. Its shareholders
number some of the best men in the
state.
A paying institution is better than a
promising one. The following letter
shows that this one pays:
Emporia, Kas., Oct. 16, 1897.
Mr.. Frank Brasier. Topeka, Kan.
Dear Sir-I take pleasure in acznowI-
edging payment of the first installment
upon the stock held by me in your COM
pany. 1 can commend it for prompt
payment and fair dealing. I predict
a very successful career for this COM
pany-it deserves it.
c. L BURGE
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
10 ANNUL THE CHARTER.
quo Warranto Proceedings Against
the Atchison Bridge Company.

Quo warranto proceedings have been
brought in the supreme court to annuI
the charter of the AtchisOn Bridge com
pany which is now being managed by
eastern bOndhOlders. The city com
plains that the company has INDUCED
in frequent violations of its charter the
principal one being that the company
collects tolls for the use of the wagon
bridge annexed to the railroad bridge
for which latter purpose the company
was organized and voted $12O, 600 in
bonds by the city.
The petition sets up the claim that
the city is the only bOna-fde stockhoId-
er in the company which is capitalized
at one million dollars, the bridge it is
claimed costing originally one-haIf mil
lion dollars. OF this amount the city
Of AtchisOn furnished two issues of
bonds. The first for $10O 900 and the
second for 5000 600.
The city now brings suit to make the
wagon bridge free and to protect its
own interests in other litigation which
IS pending against the company.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
4 v1oLAToR STUCK AT LAST
c. E. Dent to be Punished for Break
ing Quarantine Law.

c. E. Dent, of Oswego, has been con-
victed in the district court of Labette
county and will in a few days be SEN
fenced for bringing infected cattle
from Texas into Kansas in violation Of
the state quarantine regulations.
The prosecution was brought at the
lnstigatiOn of the members of the state
IlVe stock sanitary commission, who
quarantined the cattle and made the
investigation which led to Dents ar
rest
Three or four other men were arrest
ed with Dent and their trials will fol-
low within a few days, the evidence be-
ing practically the same in each case.
This is the first case brought by the
commission in its aVOwed determine
ton to break up the practice of snug
Cling infected cattle across the state
line, which has been going on down
there for many years.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
FIND LAW MAKE 1T.
That is the Position Taken by Judge
Scott of Omaha

Omaha. Neb., Oct. 20-''If there is not
a law to cover this case, will make a
law is the sentence with which Judge
c. r. Scott closes a peremptOry writ of
mandamus ordering the police board to
reinstate sixteen policemen recently
dismissed.
The grounds for the dismissal was
that the city fund would not support so
large a force. Scott holds that the
board has no right to dismiss these men
for that reason. That once employed
they must be retained and paid until
removed for cause.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

has copied the following verse on one of
the pages of the registration books:
Whether it be the name of Smith, or
Jones or Brown
Tndited on this page,
A Pop or Dem or Cop, poet, saint or sage,
Twill be the name of a citizen of this
fair city ween,
And not one of those Potwin chaps
OF the Committee of Seventeen
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
NEW HOME FOR G. F. SWIFT
President of the Big Packing House
to Erect Dwelling to Cost
$4,000,

Chicago, Oct. 20-Gustavus F. Swift.
president of Swift & Co, packers. will
erect a handsome residence at Forty
ninth street and Ellis avenue, to cost
S75. 600. The new dwelling upon which
work will be started at once, will be 50
by IS feet, three stories high, and built
in old colonial style. The material will
be white pressed brick with terra Gotta
trimmings.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
Group Quickly Cured.

Mountain Glen, Ark.-Our children
were suffering with Group when we re-
ceived a bottle of Chamberlain Cough
Remedy. 1t afforded almost instant re-
lief-F. A Thornton. This celebrated
remedy is for sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
Stock Released

The live stock sanitary board has
released $50 head of cattle which have
been in quarantine in Jackson county
since early in September. The board
left this afternoon for Manhattan
where they will witness the killing of
several head of cattle afflicted with
tuberculosis.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
Town Company Chartered.

The Jordan Valley Town company of
EIgin, Chautauqua county. has been
chartered under the laws of Kansas
and will also maintain an Office at
Cleveland, Ok. The capital is SIG, 900.
business: J. H. Hartley of FIgin, G. S.
Hartley, Arkansas City; A c. Stitch,
Independence; L. A. Weismyer, Council
Grove, and J. L. Morphis of Cleveland,
Ok.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
Yonne BismarcIz q Candidate-

Berlin. Oct. 20.-Count Herbert Bis
cellOr has been nominated as the ag-
rarian candidate for the reichstag in
the Hanoverian district, heretofore rep
resented by Herr Henningsen. Herr
Sattler, now liberal, viii be Count Her
bert's opponent.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

the Republican emissaries showing that
it is entirely due to placing of peniten-
tiary coal upon the market and in compe-
tition with free labor.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
MORRILL, NO BETTER.
The Ex-GOvernOr'S Condition
Now Considered Serious.

Hiawatha Kan, Oct. 2O.-Ex-Governor
E. N. Morrill,, who has been sick in bed
for ten days. is no better and his condi-
ton, while not dangerous. is serious.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

The opening entertainment of the
Washburn course Friday, October p,
by the Clara Schumann Ladies' Orches-
ira and Mile Henrietta Edica, soprano.
Course $3.50, single entertainments so
cents. Chart at Kellam's.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
COUNTIES Pay UP
Over six Thousand Dollars in Delin-
quent Taxes Has Come in
RaoanhIrr

While the banks Of Topeka are fur
nlshlng the money for the transaction
OF the states business some few coun-
ties are remitting to the state treasurer
the amounts which they are delinquent
in state taxes. The following counties
nave taken credit for the amounts
specified during the past two days:
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

Clara Schumann Ladies' Orchestra
and Mile Henrietta Edica at Washburn
chapel Friday evening
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

we do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

Lovely hair is the rich reward Of
those who use Ayers Hair Vigor.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20

Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-20
NORTH TOPEKA.

items intended for this column should
be left at the Kimban Pig. Co.. before 10
o'clock in the morning.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06
MUSICAL MENTION
JOHN RANDOLPH

before the close of the present season,
but l can max noe authoritative an
nouncement of this. Ii any definite
news can be had I shall publish it in
due season.
Two of Lincoln's best known pianists
are studying with great artists. Mrs.
Will Owen Jones is at present in New
Yory city studying with Josephy. She
has also the incaluculable advantage of
hearing the many concerts and recitals
which make New York one of the great
art centers of the world in musical
way Miss Emily Perkins is in Chi
cago working with Godowsky whom she
considers an ideal teacher.
The New York Sun, from which l
clip the following extract is RESPONSE
BILE for the statement that the Metro
politan Opera Company without Melba
or Eames is playing in hard luck in
Chicago. This company has certainly
not been fortunate this season. 1t will
Ue TtiuchDfIcu tlldl NdtudIlud MAI
sky who died in Hamburg last fall was
to have sung with them. Since her
death disaster after disaster has befall-
en- them. Nordaca's quarrel with de
Reszke, Melba's throat. Eames' illness,
Castlemary's death, Calves rheuma-
tism-and now this season in Chicago!
But here is the clipping:
According to the reports that come
from Chicago, the failure of the Metro
politan Opera House company's season
in Chicago has been more complete
even than was anticipated. Nothing
that the singers could do brought out
the least response from the Chicago
public. 1t was thought after the scant
attendance at the two preceding per-
fcrmances that Mile. Calves Marguer-
lite would at least draw large house.
But the house was not large, nor, was
it enthusiastic"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06
SILENCE DALES.

SILENCE DALEs.
dreamer, with ear attuned
To catch the echoes from PARKWAY lands;
The melody eff harps, soft twanged
By unseen hands.
4 dreamer, mystery-eyed,
Moved by passion from within.
Clasping, as a lover might his love,
Thy violin.
Thy youth sits lightly on thy head;
Then whence the passion in thy strainsl
Who taught thee life,
Its ecstasies and pains!
Does Genius, mad with heavenly fire,
Like lover whisper in thine earl
Or what grand melody of whirlins worlds
Dost heart
dreamer, with ear attuned
To catch the melodies our deaf ears miss;
A priestess, interceding between that world of
And this. Gdreams
A dreamer, with ear attuned
To catch the echoes from PARKWAY lands;
The melody of harps, soft twanged
By urseen hands.
-NnLIAM REED DUSRoY.
March 2. 1897.
Xavier Scharwenka viii! give recital
in Lincoln on April 18th. He plays IN
Omaha, Denver ard Lincoln. The must
cal people Of the city are arranging to
give him brilliant welcome worthy Of
his great name. Mrs. Plank. who was a
pupil Of Schsrwenka's, is making the
preliminary arrangements.
The Matinee Musical will give pro-
gram Of English music at their meeting
on Monday. This will he preceded by a
chorus rehearsal promptly at 2:3O
o'clock, at which all the chorus is ex-
pected 10 bs present. The program
itself will begin at $50 o'clock. Only
one piano number will be given, as few
English composers Of prominence have
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

est in affairs musical in Lincoln! TnlS
week we have had the Camilla Urso
concert company although detained
! criticism of their performance is
necessarily deferred until next week.
besides several concerts by local mu-
sicians. At the Nebraska conservatory
of music there was a recital given by
the pupils of that institution, recital
| regret was unable to attend; and on
the same evening. Monday March 1, a
special choral service was given at
Holy Trinity church by the choir of
that church under the able direction of
Mr.. H. ]. w. Semark. The following
program was admirably presented:
Opening voluntary, offertoire. Bat
iste.
Magnificent and Nunc Dimitis. festi-
val in b fat, Stainer.
Selections from Gaul's Holy City,"
Solo. quartet and chorus, mo Shad-
ows Ycnder." soloist, r. o. Williams;
quartet. Misses Slade and Belts, Messrs.
, Hutchinson and futile.
Ladies' trio ut Shall Come to Pass, y
Mesdames Jansen and Watkins and
Miss Slade.
Duet and ladies' chorus, List the
Cherubic Host duet. Mrs. Jansen and
w. X. futile.
Male quartet, Remember Now Thy
Creator" Rhodes, Messrs. Williams,
Seamark, Hearn and Tuttle.
Soprano solo with violin and harp ac-
compartment, "Hark, Hank My Soul, y
Mrs. A. w. Jansen; violin. Miss Silence
Dales. and harp, Mrs. Joseph Wurz-
burg.
Full anthem. King of Kings" Sim
per.
Offertory anthem. duet and chorus,
Il Waited fer the Lord" Mendelssohn
duet. Mrs. Jansen and Mrs. Watkins.
Concluding voluntary march, Col
Inns.
hope at no very distant day to give
| some account of the history of the
choir Of this parish, which has for
sometime been under the baton of its
present chcirmaster, Mr. Seamark.
On Tuesday evening, March 2, Mrs.
Louie NJ Aliens Ideal Mandolin club
gave a concert at ST. Paul's NJ. E.
church under the auspices of the Ep-
worth league. The club was assisted
by Misses Hattie Becker. Bessie Ma
honey. Pearl limerick. and by Messrs
A. Haydn Myer and H. T. Sutton.
We are promised a recital of Piano
! forte music on April 9TH by that sterl-
ing pianist and eminent composer
Xavier Scharwenka. Mr.. Scharwenka' Z
opera ..Nataswintha' has been received
with great applause in Germany, and
his pianoforte concertos, and lighter
numbers for the same instrument are
in the repertory of many concert pian-
lists 1t is to Mrs. P. w. Plank, who is
by the way, former pupil of Scharw-
enka. that we are largely indebted fol
securing the pianist for a recital in Lin
ccln.
1t is hoped that Rosenthal, the great
est of virtuosos on that unresponsive in
stIument. the pianoforte. will be able
to play in Lincoln on his tour from
California to the east This pianist
present season has been most disas
trous. He was taken sick in Chicago
several months ago and was compelled
TO give up tour which promised grea
things financially. He was finall!
moved m California where he has on