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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
THE KENTUCKY ToLLGATE
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(From the New Orleans Times-Democrat
The telegraph announced recently that
the opponents of the tollgates in Ken
lucky had determined to lynch all inform
ers, and there is reason to believe not
only that the story of the threat is true,
but that it will be carried out.
The papers have been filed for months
past with accounts of the violence of the
anti-toIgate mob. There have been num-
erous conflicts, some lives lost, and a
considerable amount of property de-
stroyed; and we have by no means reach
ed the end of the war.
That there is a great deal of Iawlessness
in the movement is Gndisputed; the mob
has destroyed property, and has finally
determined to adopt lynching an ar
gument On the other hand the move
rnent is a popular one. These facts ex-
plain the failure of the authorities to
take sufficiently energetic action to pro-
tect property, allowing the mob to do
pretty much as it wishes.
Early in the present century a great
Improvement and road building boom
struck Kentucky. The improvements
made and the roads constructed, however,
were by private companies, with the in
tention of making money out of the in
vestment Private turnpike companies
were chartered in great numbers, with
as much toll as the travel along these
highways could bear. There were similar
movements in Virginia. Pennsylvania and
other states; but the latter, years ago,
started in to make their highways free,
the government buying out the rights of
the turnpike companies.
This was not done in Kentucky. The
private companies continued to own and
control nearly all the highways in the
state, charging a maximum of toll for a
minimum of expenditure and little i'm
provement of the roads The owners of
this privilege put cheaply employed gate
keepers in charge of the tollgates. and
made a handsome profit out of the bust
ness. They were very much like the
medieval barons, who plundered or ex-
acted tolls from all that passed their way.
The Kentucky county authorities seldom
interfered to compel repairs. and the pub
lie was left to enjoy the privilege of pay
ing high for very poor roads. With toll
gates every four or five miles, and an
average of ten cents toll at.each, the road
rate in Kentucky averages two to three
cent a mile, about as much as the mail
roads charge for transportation, and
driving or riding has become an eXpen-
sive pleasure or business in Kentucky.
The feeling against this abuse was in
tensifed by the recent movement through
out the country in favor of better road
ways It is now universally recognized
that we need better roads, and that this
is one of the obligations the state owes
its citizens. The Kentucky people were
not only prevented from securing better
highways by their tongate system, but
were compelled to pay high tolls for the
use of very poor roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
WOMAN KILLED BY EAGLE.
Mrs. Martenson Who was Attacked
by an Eagle Last Week is Dead.

Honey Creek, Ia, June 2S.-Mrs. Jane
MarteusOn of this place, who was at
tackled by an immense eagle last week,
is dead as a result of the frightful in
juries inflicted by the great bird. She
was 20 years old and died from shock
and loss of blood. The affair occurred in
the suburbs of the town and the vic
aged eagle were heard by a number of
persons, who, however, arrived too late
to render any assistance. Mrs. Marten-
son was working in her flower garden
a bout the middle of the afternoon when
the eagle SwOOped down and fastened
its talOns in her back and neck and
spread its great wings in a desperate
man shrieked with pain and fright, and
began a desperate. fight with the huge
bird. The eagle showed no disposition
to release its hold, although the woman
hit it a number of blows with hoe
The blows only seemed to madden it,
and it buried it's beak repeatedly in her
face and neck. She finally struck the
bird on the neck and partially stunned
it and she seized the advantage she
with her hoe. She had become, how
ever, too weak from fright, exertiOn
and loss of blood to kill the eagle and
the bird few away, uttering wild cries
as it sailed upward out of sight. Mrs.
MaFtensOn fell in a dead faint and re-
NAMED there until picked up by mem
bers of her family. 1t was some time
before she recovered sufficiently to give
an account of her desperate struggle and
remained so until death. A physician
was summoned at once, but owing to
her extreme age and debiItated condi-
ton nothing could be done for her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
FARMLAND IN A PARK.
Cinderella With $50 Children
at Garfield Park
Unless the Park Management
Wants Too Big Per Cent.
A Spectacle That Will Be Unprece-
dented in the History of Topeka
Entertainments.

"CinderelIa'' is being manufactured
at Hamilton hall. BY July 20 the beau
tiful story of Cinderella" will be prop
erly rehearsed, deliberately staged and
supplied with all the necessary spectac-
ular effect to please the large crowds
which will attend the three perform
ances at Garfield park during the week
of July 10. Every morning Mrs. E. B.
Meredith is training the little ones VINO
are to take part in the opera. 1t takes
all sorts of patience to make the chill
dren understand what is wanted OF
them and to succeed in the undertake
ing, but Mrs. Meredith has both of
these requisites and will present to To-
peka something entirely new and de-
cidedIy novel in the way of juvenile
opera.
The Iibretto is remarkably bright and
excellent.
The question which is now bothering
the management is the price to be paid
to the park management for the use of
Garfield park for the three perform
ances. Mr. Paramore, who has charge
of the park, when asked about the rent
said that he would have to have % per
cent of the gate receipts. This the
committee thought too much. If Mr..
Paramore would put in the stage and
seats for the audience,25 per cent might
be allowed.
But if Mr.. Paramore expects to be
paid this per cent for three evenings,
he is certainly not taking a public Spir-
tied interest in the Fall Festival. Ten
per cent would be a fair portion Tor
the rent of the park. It would cost
$50 to 500 to fit up the park for the
presentation of ''Cinderella.'' This will
include forty-foOt front stage which
will admit of the audience being group
ed about it on three sides, and the seat
ing for 1000 people. The lumber used
would have to be returned and the dam
age done it made good.
Mrs. Meredith is now heartily in IA
vOr of giving cinderella" at Garfield
park. To a State Journal reporter she
said: AT first 1 thought it couldn t
be given at Garfield park but now I
have arranged for it and there is no
better place. This hot weather the
park Will be cool and some of our eff
fects will be all the better in among the
trees. The rehearSalS are very good
have gotten along even faster than
had planned, and the opera will please
everybody, I'm sure. I do hope the
proper arrangement can be made fol-
Garfield park. Mr.. ParamOre should
there will be large audiences and he
It seems to me it would be the thing fol
him to give the park at a very low
per cent, for it is for the good of the
floral parade of the Fall Festival.
expect to be ready to give ''Cinderella'
in the week of July 10. 1t will be
( something which people in this city will
be delighted with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
OFTEN ENouGH NOW.

The following by f. L. GOdkin in the
June Atlantic Monthly is recommended
to Governor Leedy. who it is said is
considering the calling Of the legisla--
ture next fall or winter:
one of the faults most frequently
found in the legislatures is the fault of
doing too much. I do not think [ eX-
aggerate in saying that all the buster
states in America, in which most CAPT
tai is concentrated and most industry
carried on, witness every meeting of the
state legislature with anxiety and
alarm. L have never heard such a
meeting wished for or called for by a
serious man outside OF the political
class. It creates undisguised fear Of
some sort Of interference with industry,
some sort of legislation for the benefit
of one class OF the trial of some haz-
ardOus experiment in judicial or admin
istrative procedure, or in public educa-
tion or taxation There is no IeEiSla-
entific methods or by the opinion of
experts in Jurisprudence or political
economy Measures devised by such
men are apt to he passed with exceed
ing difficulty, while the law is rendered
more and more uncertain by the enorm-
Gus number of acts passed on all sorts
OF subjects. Nearly every state has
ger by combining the meeting of its leg
lslature to every second year 1t has
said, in other words, that it must have
less legislation. In no case that [ have
heard OF has the opposition to this
change come from any class except that
engaged in the operation of political
machinery; that is, in the nomination
or election of candidates and the filing
or places The rest of the community
as rule, halls it with delight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
TO PROTECT THE BIRDS.
Crusade Against Hat Feathers Start
ed in Washington, D. G.

Washington, June 2S.-The Audubon
society of the District of Columbia, re-
Gently organized for the protection of
birds, is growing rapidly in member
ship, and the 700 circulars and member
ship blanks that were sent out in the
past week have resulted in a gratifying
increase in the number of members of
the society.
The main work of the society will be
gin with the opening OF the public
schools in the fall. The society will
doubtless adopt some small emblem for
its members to wear, and thus promote
interest in its work and an esprit du
corps among its members. A curcular,
issued by the Audubon society of New
York, is also being distributed by the
local society, and has attracted a great
deal of attention. 1t is by Frank NJ.
ing of herons' plumes or aigrettes, and
will doubtless serve to check one of the
cost cruel practices perpetrated upon
the members of the feathered kingdom
for the purpose of self-a dOrnment.
The pamphlet says that no form of
feather adornment has been and is
more harmful in it's effects than the
wearing of aigrettes or herons' plumes
These dainty, graceful feathers, unlike
the distorted skin of some poor hum
ming bird or warbler, carry with them
no suggestion of death, and many a WO-
man on whose bonnet they are placed is
wholly ignorant of the unspeakable cru
city the taking of these feathers entails.
If each plume could tell it's own sad
history, every humane woman in the
land would raise her voice in protest
extinction one of the most beautiful of
ANNA cVea lures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
DEBS ON THE CURBSTONE
His Followers Preach the New Cos
pei on Chicago's Street Corners.

Chicago, June 2S.-Curbstone orators
preached the doctrine of Debs' Social
Democracy in the downtown streets
last night. A man with a strong pair
of lungs talked socialism to a crowd of
200 men and boys at Clark and Madison
streets for over an hour, and loudly
proclaimed himself the advance agent
of the prosperity which is to follow the
Inauguration of the cooperative COM
monwealth under the banner of Debs
& Co.
Before the week is passed this plan
of propaganda is to be tried in every
quarter of the city, and dozens of "or-
GAMERS are to be sent out to exploit
the scheme for a new Utopia
The officers at Debs' HEADQUARTERS
deny that this plan of campaign is
authorized. It is said, however, that a
secret bureau has been organized to
systema tie the work and to assign the
volunteer orators to street corners
where they will not conflict with each
other.
It is said the general plan embraces
the holding of one great open air mass
meeting each week on Saturday night
of Sunday afternoon. The speakers
are instructed to refrain from revoIu-
tionary utterances and to say nothing
to antagonize the different creeds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
Ed Howe is SkenficaI.

The Atchison Cynic won't believe in
big hailstones until one hits him. One
Will one of the these days. and then he
may be convinced. He says in his pa
per, the AtchisOn Globe: During the
furious hail storm at Topeka Thurs
day, when hailstones fell as large as
washtubs, the driver of an ice cream
wagon ran to shelter, leaving his
wagon in the road. A lot of small
boys who didn't mind hailstones as
large as elephants. Immediately sur
rounded the wagon and devoured all
the ice cream. Other pathetic incidents
are coming to light that occurred dur
ing the storm when hailstones fell as
large as court houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
TESLA. TIE JOKER

(From the New York Press.)
NikoIa Tesla is as much a joker as he
is a magician. He is Herzegovina
who can see a point as quickly as an
American commercial traveller. He was
not with Edison four years for nothing.
He is greater as a physicist than as an
electrician. His strongest champion is
Lieut.. F. Jarvis Patten, the renowned
poker player of Maria di Prato's. Pat
ten, who is small end red, always seemed
to play in the rotating magnetic field in
which Tesla submerged him; and their
must have been oscillators in the deck.
because he appeared always to benefit By
a process of luminous vibration when it
came to the draw. There We're currents
of high frequency in Patten when he
lost jackpot, the general effect being
violent molecular agitation. Tesla is sup
posed to have been responsible for all
this. He applied his multiphase system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
METHOD IN LITERARY WORK.

New 1un.J
ST have always read, and always with
interest" said the struggling young au-
thor, what literary men have to say
concerning their habits of work. In many
cases prOductiveness appears to depend
upon mood-sometimes a man can write
and sometimes he can't. A man feeling
in condition can do any sort of work, no
doubt, better than when he is out of con-
dition, but a man may be mistaken in
himself. I find that it is a good thing to
make beginning.
often the mere effort of making a be-
ginning is enough to dispel clouds that
had seemed to be heavy, but which are
shown to be mere films: and one touch of
concentration is enough to bring back
fancies that you had thought We're wan
dering far from home, but were really
loafng about right near, waiting only to
be called
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
JESSE GRANTS SCHEME.
He May Come in Contact With an
English Company.

Mexico City, Mex, June 28.-Word has
been received here that a representative
of the company in which Jesse Grant is
interested viii arrive in this city within
a few days to complete the contract
with the government for colonization
concession in Lower California.
A large tract of land is included in
the concession, and the company also
asks permission to explore the country
for minerals and hot springs. 1t is pos
sible that there may be some conflict
between the new cOncessiOnaires and
the English company which is already
in possession of a large portion of Low
er California and the islands adjacent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
HIS BACK A TOOL CHEST.
A Prisoner Conceals Saws Under
Piece of Court Plaster.

San Francisco Cal, June 28.-Half a
dozen fine steel saws, made with file
out of a watch spring, were found con-
cealed behind a court plaster on the
back of Salter D. Worden, the con-
demned train-Wrecker at Folsom
prison.
Pieces of iron as a handle for the files
were found in the sole of his slippers,
securely imbedded. A plot had been
Matched on the part of Worden and
other prisoners confined alongside and
above him to escape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

expansion, was not represented unless
the pathetic shade of Barnato rode in
visible in the pageant.
1t was a memorable display and must
live in history. 1t suggested the ma
terial glories of the reign finely and
adequately. The absence of the chief
creators of them was perhaps not a ser
ious disadvantage. One could supply
the vacancies by Imagination, and thus
fill out the procession very effectively.
One can enjoy a rainbow without neces-
sarily forgetting the forces that made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
PEOPLE YOU HEAR oE.

Emma Eames. the celebrated Ameri-
can singer. was born at Shanghai, Chi
ma, just 80 years ago.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
18th birthday in Boston by attending
in the evening the Unitarian festival in
that city. She is just three days young
er than Queen Victoria.
( Senator Quay has never been entirely
( free from the difidence that marked
his early life and when he has finished
introducing a bill he resumes his seat
as though he were glad the ordeal had
! passed.
Carroll D. Wright, chief of the ma
tiOnal bureau of labor at Washington,
was recently nominated president Of
the American Unitarian associat ton. This
position was held last year by John D.
( Long, secretary of the navy.
The gift of the Rothschilds to the
charity bazaar fund is approximately
$1,000 that of Emperor William, 81
OOO- Nothing is reported from her ma
jestly Queen Victoria, but her court
goes into mourning eleven days for the
duchess d'AlencOn.
Count Nicholas Esterhazy, who died
the other dav at his great Hungarian
I estate of TOuis, was prominent among
the members of his family for his fer
vent attachment to sport. During his
long residence in England-he was born
in LOndOn-his was familiar figure on
lar with all sorts and conditions Of men,
In recent interview Prince Bismarck
/ laughed a bout the sentimental reports
! Of his loss of interest in life. NV de-
preston he said, lis solely my great
age. Wait till you are So and see how
I you feel, especially if you have spent
nearly half a century in struggles and
anxiety. My whole life has been spent
I in playing high with other peoples
money. I could sail my ship on the
Z ST. of hut ct
It is noticeable that Secretary Long.
/ in giving Peary leave of absence to con-
! tinue his Arctic explorations, refers to
him as civil Engineer Q. E. PeaTy."
Naval officers have on occasion shown
some irritation at his being continually
: called Lieutenant Peary. One of them
said tartlY, on hearing this expression:
. Not Lieutenant Peary. Mister Peary. -
To which a somewhat astOnished audi
tor replied: Is not Mr.. Peary of the
navy?'' To which the naval officer re
/ tOrted: NO. Peary is not of the navy.
He is merely Mr.. Peary of the north
pole"
Richard Grant White was a great
I sticEler for calling spade a spade.
/ Very worthy and weIl-behaved and
7 keep bars and taverns. but if they do
F let them say so. When I see sample
. room over a door feel a respect for a
barroom, and as if I could take to my
heart a man who owns that he keeps a
/ grogshOp.'
The duke of Portland is at the head
+ Of movement in England for the abOl-
ishment Of check reins or bearing reins
/ as they are called over there, and has
B made several speeches against this ia
! miliar method of tOrtuTing horses Not
to be OutdOne, the duchess of Portland,
his wife, has lately been using her in
T huence against the use of aigrettes and
birds on womens hats, a fashion which
entails the wholesale slaughter of mil
/ lions OF birds every year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
An Immense Traction Company.

St Louis, June est is announced
that an immense traction company with
a capital of 81 500, 600 will shortly be
organized to take in the Lindeu and
Missouri street railway systems.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Billiards. Snow iniment will cure
Lame Back, Sore Throat, Wou ds,
Sprains, Bruises, Cuts. Old Sores. La
dies, it will cure your back-ache. Geo.
W. StansfeId, 632 Kan. Ave, and Mil
ler's Pharmacy, Cor. 9Th and Topeka
avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28
Special 4th of July Rates via Nilsson
ri PoafHc

One fare for the round trip between
stations within 200 miles distance. Tick
cts will be sold July g. and 5, limited
for return to July 6. Minimum rate
so cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Not how cheap but how good IS the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia West sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Carroll D. Wright, chief of the ma
tiOnal bureau of labor at Washington,
was recently nominated president of
the American Unitarian association. This
position was held last year by John D.
Long, secretary of the navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

The gift of the Rothschilds to the
charity bazaar fund is approximately
5000, 600; that of Emperor William, 3d.
600. Nothing is reported from her ma
jestly Queen Victoria, but her court
goes into mourning eleven days for the
duchess d'AlencOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Senator Quay has never been entirely
free from the difidence that marked
his early life and when he has finished
Introducing a bill he resumes his seat
as though he were glad the ordeal had
pAsSed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Count Nicholas Esterhazy, who died
the other dav at his great Hungarian
estate of Totis, was prominent among
the members of his family for his fer
vent attachment to sport. During his
long residence in England-he was born
in LOndon-his was a familiar figure on
every race course, where he was pOpU-
lar with all sorts and conditions Of men,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-28

Emma Eames. the celebrated Ameri-
can singer. was born at Shanghai, Chi
ma just 80 years ago.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
18th birthday in Boston by attending
in the evening the Unitarian festival in
that city. She is just three days young
er than Queen Victoria.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-05-15
Anniversary Celebration.

The St. Anthony Crusaders Total Alb
stinence Society will celebrate the 18th
anniversary of it's organization on Sun
day evening, May Is. No efforts are. be-
ing spared by the society to commem-
crate this event in manner worthy Of
the occasion. An interesting and at
tractive program has been arranged
and comprises some of the best talent
in musical and oratorical lines obtaina-
BILE in the Twin Cities. The principal
address of the evening will be delivered
by the well known and distinguished
colored orator from St. Paul, F. l.. Nc
Ghee, who needs no introduction in
Minneapolis. His reputation as scholar
and orator extends far beyond, the Twin
Cities. His subject on this occasion
will be NEGRO Life in the South During
Slavery Times" These who have heard
Mr.. McGhee once desire to hear him Of
ten. Those who have not heard him
have missed an oratorical treat. The
lecture and entertainment will take
place Sunday evening, May 16, in St.
Anthony Hall. Eighth avenue and Sec
ond street northeast.