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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
FIGHT A DRAW.
SOlly Smith and White Go %
Rounds.
White the Taller But Smith the
Stronger.
FIGHTING SPIRITED.
Dan Creedon Knocked Out Will
liams Easily.
Fight Was Brief Lasting Only
Four Rounds.

New York, Jan. 13.-In the bout be-
tween Solly Smith and White the ref
cree declared the fight a draw.
1t was the best match seen in this
vicinity. White had the advantage in
height, but Solly counteracted this by
his wonderful strong and aggressive
work. He swung and jabbed with both
hands and it looked as if he would
have won twice during the mill when
he staggered White with right crosses
on the jaw. Whites cleverness aided
him very effectively in avoiding Smith s
vicious Onslaughts and he frequently
stopped the Californian with left hand
jabs on the face and neck The decis-
ion of the referee in calling the bout
draw met with approval of the 800
spectators.
The men in the principal event shook
hands at 10 o'clock. White opened the
game with right hand smash on the
wind. Then Solly Jared him with
hard left on the body.
In the twelfth Smith rushed White to
the ropes and put right hand swing
on the head.
Solly swung a right on body and jab-
put two lefts on the ear Smith upper
cut with right the stomach and
jabbed a left on the face.
SOlly opened the goth with a left
swing on the neck and right uppercut
on the body. White jabbed two lefts
on. the body Solly swung a left on the
chest and White jabbed a left on the
ear. Honors easy.
In the oath Solly swung a right on
the jaw which worried White.
Round 25.-White put right on ear.
bed three lefts on face and ear. SoIly
swung left on the wind. White plant
ed on the face, ear and nose. Solly
swung a left on the chest and sent a
right across on Whites jaw. Solly
swung a left on the body and jabbed a
left on the chin. Solly swung a left on
the body and jabbed a left on the face
at the close of the fight, just as the
gong sounded.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
MOVING WESTWARD.
Couchee Couchee Dance Now Causes
Trouble in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Jan. 13.-The police today
instituted an investigation of the cou-
chez couchee dance which was given in
all it's vulgar nakedness in the rooms
of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity in the
college building at midnight by a num-
Der of Moorish actresses in the pres
ence of college men, law students and
"chappies." The names of most of the
"a guests are known and Chief of Police
Deitsch is after evidence on which to
base a prosecution. All that prevents
the making of a number of arrests is
the fact that the young women who
danced nude, except for bracelets, were
hurried out of the state as soon as the
affair was over.
Il can sustain charges without the
persons of the dancers" said Chief
Deitsch. 81 have made an examina
ton and shall take the most vigorous
action possible. It was a filthy, beast
ly show, but it was so secretly planned
we could not adopt measures to pre-
vent it. II fact, we did not know of
it till if was over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
DANCED IN THE NUDE.
'Little Egypt Tells of the Sherry
Party in Court

New York, Jan. 13.-The trial of Po-
lice Captain Chapman was continued,
and Little Egypt" an Algerian muscle
dancer, was the star witness. Chapman
is charged with exceeding his authority
by making a midnight raid December
10 on Sherry's ball room, where Herbert
B. Seeley, a grand son of p. T. Barnum,
was entertaining a score of friends at
stag dinner with Vaudeville ac-
compartment, which Chapman claimed
was indecent.
While Chapman is technically on
trial, Seeley is an unwilling prosecutor.
The captain subpoenaed all the women
who danced at the dinner and all of
the diners. He began his defense last
Friday, by calling Anna Belle Whitford
who testified that she had been asked
to dance naked at the dinner; that she
had refused and told her father, who
notified Chapman, whence the raid.
On the witness stand Lottie MOrti-
mer, vaudeville performer, repeated
an indecent toast she offered, to which
the Seeley party drank. She also told
of the liberties the diners took with
her, and of the suggestive Christmas
presents that Minnie Renwood, another
dancer. distributed to the guests.
Today Captain Chapman went on
the stand and told his story of the raid,
narrating how he found eight women
and four men in the dressing room, the
women very much undressed.'
Little Egypt of Asheawaba, told in
broken language how she was engaged
to do a little dance and pose on pc
destal in the nude She said she did so
for the sake of art
She posed "a little at the dinner,
she said, but the raid interferred with
her giving the full performance for
which she was engaged. Her lawyers
insisted limiting her testimony to
establishing the points that she con-
tracted to dance in the nude; that she
did dance there in a semi-nude state.
The trial is not yet ended.
The district attorney has stated that
he will examine the minutes of the trial
and if the evidence justifies such action
he will lay the matter before the grand
iurV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
TOM PLATT WILL WIN.
The "Easy Boss" Certain to be Elected
to the q. S. Senate.

Albany, N. Y, Jan. 13-The legis1a-
ture is to reassemble this evening The
members will tomorrow evening hold a
caucus upon the election of a successor
to United tSates Senator Hill, whose
term expires on March 4. The task is
not likely to be an arduous one, the
preliminaries being all arranged in ad-
vance so far as the majority is con-
cerned, all that remains to be done be-
ing to formally name Thomas c. Plat
for the position.
The Union League clubs delegation
in the interest of Joseph H. Choate's
candidacy reached the city this after
noon. This mission is sure to prove
futile, for the caucus will give the NOM
ination to Mr. Plat by a practically
unanimous vote. At the most the
ChOate vote will be four votes against
40. The total membership of the legis-
lature is 200. so that so far s now ap-
pears Mr.. Platt's election is assured be
You'd possibility of contest
The Democratic caucus may decide
to give Senator Hill the vain honor Of
a renomina ton. AS, however, Mr. Hill
has expressed a wish that he be not
thus distinguished, it is more probable
that the compliment of the Democratic
vote will be given to Judge Porter. who
was the party'S nominee for governor
at the recent election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
STORM WAS GENERAL.
Yesterdays Storm Extended Over a
Great Part of the Northwest

Chicago, Jan.13.-Dispatches received
from numerous towns in Nebraska,
Kansas. Colorado, Wyoming. Montana,
Iowa. Northern Illinois, Black Hills, s
D., show heavy storms ragged in those
states yesterday and last night and
many places report it still showing this
morning. In Missouri it later turned
into rain, freezing in the western por-
ton of the state, as it fell
Many places reported street car trav-
ell and traffic seriously delayed and in
some towns, blocked together on &C
count of the snow being so wet and
heavy.
Burlington, Council Bluffs and Des
MoineS, Ia, make later reports. Rail-
way companies report trains are more
or less behind time. If the storm keeps
up it is feared that much damage will
result to telephOne and telegraph wires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
yROOMAN's STRONG WORDS.
He Denounces Madden's Attempt to
Break Into the U. S. Senate.

Chicago, Jan. 13.-In the sermon de-
livered by Rev. Frank B. Vrooman at
the Peoples church, McVicker's thea
ter. on the subject of "Christ'S Poll
ties" there was a criticism of Martin
B. Madden, candidate for United States
senator, though he did not name him.
"A glance at the morning papers,
said Mr. VrOOman, would suffice to
show even stranger that modren po-
litical methods have not realized the
ideals of antiquity. This proud and
happy state is confronted with a dan
ger appalling and disastrous in its pos
sibilities. We have the startling spec
tacle of a candidate for office who, if
one-half of what the entire press of
Chicago, with probably one exception,
declares about him is true, ought to be
a candidate for the penitentiary instead
of the United States senate.
This man is a representative of sIum
politics. A ward politician of the low
est stamp, he aspires to this high office.
Christian people must assert that there
are higher principles in our political
philosophy than in making our councils
into public auction rooms. Rudyard
Kipling has said that the government
of New York is not government of the
people, by the people and for the peo-
pie but one of the alien, by the alien
and. for the alien, with occasional in
surrections on the part of decent PEG
pie.
However this may be, it is certain
that in Chicago at least the dangerous
people are not those dense minded, ig
r1orant, half-starved products of Eu-
ropean tyranny who sell their votes,
but those well educated, we'll fed, well
er0OTned sleek miSprOductiOnS of en-
lightened American institutions who
manipulate such votes toward their own
| ignoble ends. The anarchist is not the
man who denies law and order but the
man who buys laws of legislatures, YER
diets from judges and juries and era
venly hides behind his bulwarks to
wage guerilla warfare on civilization.
1.-The dangerous anarchists and the
ones we ought most to fear are those
men who divide tithes of their ill-gOtten
gains with the church they so often
use for the rights of asylum and the
lawyer for finding out how much they
can steal and keep out of states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
WEST POINT CADETS FAIL.
Thirty Students Found Deficient in
Mental Examin alton.

West Point, N. Y. Jan. 13-The result
of the January mental examinations was
announced today, and thirty members
from the various classes at the military
academy were found deficient and dis
charged. They are as f-llows-
Fourth class-Herman William Alberry.
Ohio: Franklin Ross Brown. Kansas kssrI
Greenleaf Cum Ynings. Missouri. William
Richie Gibson. Iowa; William Tyson era
ham. Pennsylvania: James Osburn Hack
enburg. Pennsylvania Carl Joseph Har-
ris. Missouri; Marshal Hill Hart Ala
bama: Morris johnson. Wisconsin, Joseph
Cornelius Way. New Jersey. George Ma
son Lee. Virginia: James Rufus McNicar-
Iowa: Allen Floyd Morrissett. Virginia;
Frederick Norton Read. Michigan: Ed
ward Winsar Robinson. New York; Frank
Robert Roth. Pennsylvania; John Pat
rick Sullivan. Louisiana; Allen M Hounge,
Missouri: Daniel Boni, Indiana
Third claSs-LeWis Brown. Jr-. Rhode
Island: Frank z. Burke. Georgia: Julius
c. Clippert Michigan; Cass c. Durham.
Minnesota; Fielding T. Marshall. V irgini9s
BENJAMIN F. SaWtelle. PennSyl vanta;
Edward NJ. Whitaker, Tennessee
Second cIaSs-Chauncey B. Humphrey,
Kansas: William L. Reed. New York;
Ira Des Reedy Indiana; Philip S ward.
New York.
Young Lee. mentioned above is a son of
Fitzhugh Lee. consul general to Havana
Sullivan was the heaviest man in the
corps and Humphrey was q prominent
member of the foot ball team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
TO KEEP SKIRTS DOWN.
Mrs. Bordine of New York, Invents
Handy Clasp.

New York, Jan. 13-Mrs. Sadie Bodine
of New York, is one of the few women
that have invented mechanical appliances
for the bicycle. Mrs. Bodine is en-
thusiastic wheelwoman In riding wheel
she found the greatest drawback to her
comfort was her inability to keep her
skirt from being blown about in the wind,
no mater how substantial the material
used how heavily it was weighted.
Her invention Is clever one. Its object
is to keep the skirt from blowing or to
ad just it's proportions and to prevent its
catching on the wheel. 1t consists of
small clasp. one end of which is cut like
fine teeth and bites the shoe, stocking
Logging.
Through the clasp runs a piece of round
elastic which revolveS on small trolley
wheel concealed in the clasp, and con-
nected with a short safety pin which is
fastened to the under side of the skirt
The harder the skirt blows the tighter
the teeth in the clasp bite, preventing
any possibility of the skirt rising above
the place where it is caught. Neither is
there any danger of the pin tearing the
movement of the leg. If the skirt is too
wide and there is danger of it's blowing
into the back wheel the clasp and pin
both may be fastened on the under side.
of the skirt, the clasp at the back and
the pin near the front breadth. This
brings the fullnesS at the sides. leaving
the back wheel as free as it would be If
divided skirts were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
AUDIENCE LIKED 1T.
Evidently Pleased With Hal Reid's
Broad Domestic Drama Last Night

The largest audience since the produc-
ton of the Brownies" greeted Hal Reid
In his play Human Hearts at the Grand
last night. The piece was well received
The audience was almost entirely from
out of town.
In the first half of the third act. Hal
Reid took upon himself the feat of i'm
perSonating Governor Leedy in the gov
ernor scene" This was not all He also
took upon himself wig of ancient man
ufacture to represent that portion of the
chief executives Uranium which is devoid
of hair. some billy goat whis1ers which
he affectionately dubbed the governor 3
lilies and a generous amount of cotton
batting to faithfully picture that gentle
mans rOtundity of form. The audience
applauded him when he appeared on the
stage. AS for Governor Leedy himself,
he simply took a week off and laughed.
Chas. Forester unprecedented Ed Little.
Governor Leedy's private secretary. and
when he was called down by his executive
employer near the last of the scene. the
audience thought it was a good joke on
The play will again be presented at a
matinee this afternoon and also tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
THE OREGON MOVES.
The Big Battleship Will Go to AGA
pulco.

San Francisco, Jan. 13.-The big bat
tleship Oregon will weigh her anchor
at o'clock this afternoon and move to
Sausalito preparatory to going to sea
on Thursday it is said, on a voyage
to Acapulco. There have been rumors
that the Oregon would go to sea on the
18th for several days but as great Sc
crecy has been maintained, nothing of
a definite nature could be learned. AT
any rate the big battleship has taken
aboard an enormous amount of stores
during the past few days and has
enough coal in her bunkers to carry
her on a long voyage
The only thing that seems to be
against her going on such a long voy-
age is that she has been lying at an
Choir off the Union Iron works for
months, and being a new ship. her bot
tom must be very foul In fact it has
been reported that men have recently
been at work Scraping her sides to the
waters edge in order to conceal her
filthy condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
ON THE BOWERY.
Charles Stone of Silver Lake "Will
Never Go There Any More"

Charles Stone, superintendent of the
victim of the alluring glances of a colored
girl of Smoky Row. Fannie Page, a col
dignihed with the charge of highway
robbery and is now in the county jail.
Mr. Stone is a rural appearing white
man of 40 years who knows more about
farming than of the wiles of the wicked.
Monday Mr.. Stone came to Topeka.
bringing with him something over $50 in
cash. This money belonged to two en-
ployeS of the Swinburne ranch who had
entrusted it to him for the purchase OF
some clothing and provisions for them
during his visit in the city.
He entered Smoky Row just as the
moon was due to shine on lower Kansas
avenue. Sometime afterward he ran out
of the alley Second street between
Kansas avenue and Quincy and yelled:
Il have been robbed of $780, and it WASH [
my money: policei'
A warrant was issued by Justice Grover
for the arrest of Fannie Page a colored
woman who was arrested and locked up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
COCHRAN TO SPEAK
at Big Irish Demonstration in New
York City.

New York Jan. 13.-Arrangements
are being made for a grand demonstra-
ton in New York on February at
which John Redmond and Burke Cock
ran will be the principal speakers Mr.
Redmond has made a special study OF
the subject of the manner in which r.
ish political prisoners are treated in
English jails and Mr. Cochran viii
speak on the horrors of the convict sys-
tenn which has driven so many brilliant
minds insane.
The meeting is to be in honor of the
recently arrived liberated Irish politi-
cal offenders, Gallagher and White
head. The proceeds will be devoted to
carrying on the work of securing the
release of others now confined in SINH
lar charges, and for the support %
those who have recently arrived in =
deplorable condition of mind and body
Letters of invitation will be sent to
the MEMBERS of the United States SEN
ate and house of representatives, to
governors of states and mayors of cit
les. Great efforts viii be made to
make the demonstration the greatest
affair of the kind ever seen in this
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
NO ARBITRATION FOR THEN
The British American Idea Not Like
ly to Find Favor on the Continent.


ly to Find Favor on the Continent.
London, Jan. 13-The Nord Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, according TO a
Berlin dispatch to the Standard, thinks
the European powers are not likely to
follow the example set by Great Brit
ain and the United States in the arbi-
tration treaty.
Ordinary diplomacy it says. will
suffice to settle money disputes while
territorial questions are of very different
Importance to Europe than to England
and America, who are separated by the
ocean.
THE Boursen Courier thinks that
the treaty imposes great obligation up
on America and that it should in future
not tolerate f1libustering expeditions to
Cuba.
Next to England with no great power
with France, who is ripe for a similar
arrangement with both the United
States and England
An editorial in the Morning POst(con-
servative) calls attention to article
of the treaty, which provides for the
appointment of a judicial officer of any
particular state or territory which may
be involved in a question at issue as
one of the arbitrator, of which the Post
says:
las American politics is constituted,
such a clause means that there may
always be an anti-British element 10
this tribunal on any question affecting
dominion or frontier.
Altogether the Post regards the treaty
as rather experimental
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
KLAMATH INDIAN CLAIMS.
Commission to Investigate Boundary
Lines Makes its Report.

Washington, Jan. 13.-The report of the
Klamath boundary commission has been
submitted to Secretary Francis and will
be transmitted to congress. The commits
sion consists of W. P Coleman of St.
Louis. chairman; and Messrs R. P. Ham
mond of California, and 1. D. Applegate
of Oregon.
The issue of the investigation which
claim for land outside of the present res
ervation in Oregon on the north and east
boundaries. probably aggregating !. 25o. 600
acres The commission reports that the
survey made by the United States govern
ment in 1871 was defective and not in ac-
cordanee with the lines described by the
treaty making the reservation The COM
mission found no difficulty in harmonic
ing the testimony of the Indians and the
language of the treaty on the western
boundary where the surveyor made his
first error.
Here the Indians lost $1,000 acres The
northern boundary claimed by the In
dams is rejected. The error in the west
line caused a loss of about 1900 acres
more to the Indians on the north line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
cREEDoN DEFEATS WILLIAMS
Knocked the Utah Man Out in Four
Stiff Rounds.

Albany, N. Y. Jan. 13.-At the Myers
Athletic club last night Dan CreedOn. of
Australia. finished Tom Williams. of Salt
Lake City. in four rounds Creedon met
Williams for a purse, the middleweight
championship and the chance for $500
purse at johannesburg. South Africa
Both men stepped into the ring at about
100 pounds.
Creedon was in the better condition and
looked the heavier. Creedon forced the
fight in the early rounds and Williams
lodged. In the first neither man landed
with effect. but Creedon played for the
wind. In the second CreedOn still played
for the wind and lodged Williams right
swings. The third started with a rush
and Creedon had to clinch to avoid him.
Williams landed hard on Creedons face,
but the latter caught Williams wind
hard. In the fourth Creedons second
left hand swing knocked Williams off his
feet and a left handler inside of min
ute put him down once more: Creedon
forced the lighting and drove Williams to
the ropes and for the rest of the round
Williams merely stood up and was pun
ished until the referee gave the fight to
CreedOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
HEART DISEASE.
Some Facts Regarding the Rapid
Increase of Heart Troubles.
Do Not Be Alarmed, But Look For
the Cause.

Heart trouble, at least among Amer
leans, are certainly due to the excite
ment and worry of American business
life, it is more often the result of weak
StomachS, of poor digestion.
Real, organic heart disease is incura-
BILE; but not one case in a hundred of
heart trouble, is organic.
The close relation between heart
trouble and poor digestion is because
both organs are controlled by branches
of the same great nerves, the Sympa-
thetic and Pneumogastric.
In another way, also the heart if af-
fected by that form of poor digestion,
which causes gas and fermentation
from half digested food; there is
feeling of oppression and heavinesS in
the chest caused by pressure of the
lungs, interfering with their action;
hence arises palpitation and short
breath.
Poor digestion also poisons the blood,
makes it thin and watery. which irri-
tateS and weakenS the heart
The most sensible treatment for heart
troubles is to improve the digestion and
to insure the prompt assimilation of
food.
This can best be done by the regular
use. after meals, of some safe, pleasant
and effective digestive preparation like
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets, which may
be found at most drug stores and which
contain valuable, harmless digestive
elements, in a pleasant, convenient
form.
It is safe to say that the regular.p per
sistent use of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
let's at meal time will cure any form of
stomach trouble, except cancer of stom-
ach.
Full size packages of the Tablets sold
by most druggists at so cents or by
mail from Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.
ed free. Address Stuart Co., Marshall,
Mich.