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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-02
The CYniC.

He-I wonder how he got such good
job.
She-Why, don't you know? When he
applied for it, he told them that his mar
riage the following week depended upon
his getting something to do at once
Hollow ready people are to help a man
to get into trouble, aren't they?-Chicago
Post
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Hunting Eat Folks.

'ssWhat has become of that brother of
yours who was so active in the last cam
paign? Is he still waging war on great
corporations"
HE is. He has accepted an agency for
an antifat remedy. indianapolis Jour
nal
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Not the Place.
f'Hurry

"Hurry, doctor. L think my husband
is paralyzed- p"
Madam, want you to understand that
this is not a Kelley institute. New York
Sunday Journal
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GOAL.


4 lAPITAL CITY COAL CO, S27 Kan av.,
O>phone Isl Best grades, lowest prices
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Missouri Pacific.

TOPEKA & FIT. SCOTT ACCOM- No. 2S5.
Leave Topeka Observation-Disclosures. $500 a. m
TOFEKA & FIT. SCOTT ACCOM-, No. 2Ss
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BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

0TIT - -. ---------~-0-~~----
TIE kELLAM BOOK & STATIONERY
n CO., COS Kan. Ave --latest hooks cor
rect stationery. Newest wall paper. Ar
tSttc framing.
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statesmen WANTED.

TRAVELLING statesmen for cigars; old
= reliable house; experience unnecessary:
extra Inducements to customers. SIS to
$50 per month and expenses Chas. C.
Bishop & Co, St. Louis.
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JEWELLERS.
TIN SHOPS.

7 NJ. BAIRD. hot air furnaces galvan-
y lied and tin roofing. H. phone 36S,
ZIG W. 6th.
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BICYCLES.

TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 w. 8th St
II Bicycles and sundries; bicycles and
tandems for rent; repairing of oil kinds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-02

Stock in any Topeka Bank in exchange
for good productive real estate.
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I DA C. BARNES, M d.
Office 1872 Kan Ave. Residence 18th and
Gay: once hours: a. m. to II a. m.
ana p m to p. m. Telephone 59S resi-
dence. and 16 office
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L. A RYDER. NJ D.
OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon St
-, and Central Ave. North Topeka
Phone PA. Uses the Brinkerhoff system
of Rectal treatment a successful and
painless treatment for piles. hstula. fish,
0re, liberation. etc.
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MI ONEY TO loan on real estate and per-
- sonal property A Newman lis w. 5th.
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M ONEY TO LOAN-By the Shawnee
- Building and Loan Association, room
16 Columbus building.
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HARNESS AND sADDLERy.

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GfALL on us for good goods for your
- money Prices to suit the times Re
pairing promptly DONE Worley & Cal
vert. SIS Kan. Ave.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
ACQUIRES 4 SAN JOSE ESTATE.
Mss Emma kxford Rewarded for Knd-
ness to an Eccentric
Old Man,

SAN JOSE, CAL. April 2.-An order was
made by Judge Hyland this morning Civ
ing to Miss Emma AFFORD the estate of G.
T. Schenck, an eccentric old man, who
died in this city about three years ago.
The estate has been contested in the courts
FOR the last two years.
Schenck had been possessed Of some
wealth and he made will bequeathing
his property to Miss AFFORD, who had
shown him many kindnesses. At that
time he resided in a cabin on Park avenue.
near Live Oak Park, but shortly before
his death he went to reside with A. A.
Geer and wife. Just before his death he
gave Geer several thousand dollars worth
of stocks, mortgages and jewelry. Public
Administrator Secord began an investiga-
ton and succeeded in locating about $1,000
worth of property belonging to Scnenck
and the will devising il to Miss AFFORD.
tributed, a claimant appeared in the per-
SON of Caroline SchencE, an inmate of the
Agnews Insane Asylum. 1t was said the
young woman was q daughter of Schencx,
but the evidence to establish the claim
was lacking, and some sort of com pro-
mise was made.
The estate Is valued at about $780, but
there are evidences that Schenck was in
| tcrested in valuable mines in Mexico, and
heir TO rich estate in Germany, and 1t i,
believed that moro property will be un-
earthed
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
SANTA R0sA WANTS THE LIVE.
AID Pledged to the Promoters of the
Proposed Sonoma County Etec-
frc RaHwoy.

SANTA ROSA, CAL, April "A meet.
ing was held last night for the purp pose of
discussing ways and means for fastening
construction of the Santa Rosa and Sono-
ma County Electric Railway. The lead
ing bankers, lawyers and business men of
this city were in attendance, and all de-
clared in favor of the speedy construction
of the road.
Colonel Stone, the president of the new
corporation, delivered an address showing
the progress of the enterprise. He said
that the promoters OF the road were not
asking for donations, but Simply wanted
a guarantee of patronage sufficient to pay
interest on the bonds isSued for Two
years. n. W. GriswaId of Kenwood, one
of the new lines most active promoters,
also spoke on the roads progress. He
stated that $50 of Sonoma's foremost citl-
Zens had agreed to patronize the road to
the extent of So per month during the
first two years, and that it would 5e ne
cessary that $50 subscribers be obtained
before commencing active blilding. 1t
was the opinion of all those present that
the request was reasonable and one easily
complied with. and committees, consist
ing of w. ID. Reynolds, b. Nj. Spencer and
w. +. Russell, was appointed 10 look after
the matter.
A resolution was passed heartily indors-.
ing the project and asking the people OF
the county for their support.
]. p. Overton acted as chairman of the
meeting and w. F. Russell as secretary.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
FIRE ON THE WATER FRONT
Many Boston Wood Horking Establish
kle1ats RedMced To A1heS.

BOSTON, Mass, April 2.-The East
Boston district was visited by fire to-
night that caused about $4,000 damages
and at one time bid fair to wipe out a
large mum Der of wooden and brick build
ings along the water front. The territory
is largely occupied by ptaning- mills and
woodworking esta ADJUSTMENTS. and is
considered a dangerous one by the fire.
men. The fire started in the planning and
lumber mill OF E. T. Manson on Border
street, and before the fire was under con-
troll this building four-story brick
structure at 81 and los Border street-a
two-story frame building joining, a
four-story brick and 100 and Ill Border
street were badly damaged. Four alarms
were sounded, which served to thoroughly
arouse the whole city and as a result an
immense crowd watched the progress of
the fire. The heaviest losers are: E. T.
Manson, planning and lum Der mill, $40, 900
on building and $l0,0 600 on stock, covered
oy insurance; Phonoharp Company, on
stock 5000, on machinery $500; Frame &
McPherson. cabinet-makers, on machin-
cry and stock $3500; IL. Harris, drug
glst, stock $4,000.
Osher concerns will suffer small losses
that Will bring the total loss above $50, 600.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03

coln-street steel drawbridge, which crosses
Mormon Channel near the wooden mills,
was moved an inch to the northward yes
terday afternoon by the barge Oso. which
struck the iron piers under the structure.
The bridge had been ope ned to allow the
barge 10 pass, but the tide was going out
al the time and the current was so strong
that the heavy barge, carrying about
thirty tons of wheat. got beyond the con.
troll of the men who were aboard and it
struck with great force. 1t delivered such
powerful blow that the foundations were
moved northward at least an inch, the
cast-iron rim just below the large cogs
was broken out for space OF a foot or
more, and a heavy wrought-iron brace was
badly bent.
On the south side of the bridge were two
sets of piles. each consisting of three piles
close together and bound with wire cable.
One set stood directly under the bridge
south OF the center, aud the other about
hfteen feet further west. Bo n sets were
Knocked out of place.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
Frank Adams of Stockton
Pummeled by Frank
Gould.
Mis- understanding Arising Over
a Supposed Joke Causes
Trouble.
The Social Leader Swsars Out a
Warrant for the Arrest of
the Politician.

STOCKTON, CAL, April 2.-Social cir.
cles are agog tonight over the story which
came out to-day in W hich Frank II. Gould
aud Frank Adams-the latter a society
leader-fgure as participants in a fight
that took place last night. Adams this
afternoon swore out a warrant for the ar
rest of Gould on a charge of battery.
According to Mr.. Adams statements to
Prosecuting Attorney Rhodes he was sit
ting reading > paper in the Yosemite
Club rooms last night when some one
struck him on the side of the jaw, knock
ing him from his chair. This blow was
followed by others aad he was dazed. His
eyes were blackened and there was an
abrasion on his face. The man who made
the UNEXPECTED assault was Frank Gould
the former chairman of the Democratic
State Central Committee. He said after
ward to Mr.. Adams:
IF you want to know what this Is for
ask Mr.. Naher."
The cause was this: Just after the
Naher party at the Imperial Hotel Adams
was chatting with number of persons
and there was considerable joking about
one thing and another and one lady re-
marked:
'On, wasn't it too bad about the runa-
way" Adams had heard of no runaway
and imagined that it was an April fool
Josh" He decided to see the joke and
90 it one better, SO he said it was really
| too bad, and then went on to give some
narrowing details of what he supposed
was a mythical runaway. He said there
was lady in the hack, and that she
| screamed and the horses took fright and
she was thrown out.
1t chanced that there really was runa-
way and that Gould was in the conveya ance
with some lady. The remarks made by
Adams sounded rather peculiar, and upon
ascertaining that there was really a runa-
way he went TO the persons with whom
he had been joking and explained matters.
Goulo evidently did not hear about the
remark until yesterday. when it was re.
peated to him, presumably by Mr.. Naher
Without stopping for an explanation he
assaulted Adams on sight.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03

its members, and Chavez's friends and
other Democrats found it convenient to
remain indoors after nightfaIL
One man, however, did some talking.
He was ex-Sheriff Chavez's ]ailer, Juan
Pablo Dominguez by name. Thirty days
after Chavez's assassination the Borrego
brothers and Alarid met him at dusk in
front of the Arch bishops residence and
Juan Pablo bit the dust, shot by frank
Borrego.
In May. 1888. Governor W. T. Thornton
became the chief executive OF New Mexi-
CO and in thirty days he had detectives at
work, both in San Miguel and Santa Fe
counties. The white-cap gang was broken
up. several of them were publicly executed
and thirty-seven members thereof are
now serving various sentences in the pc nj
tentiary. In Santa Fe County cause was
found for the removal from Office of the
District Attorney and Sheriff Conklin,
who were succeeded by District Attorney
]. Ii. Crist and Sheriff w. p. Cunningham.
a fearless Texan, and before many weeks
the law officers had secured statements
from Juan Gallegos, Frank Rivera, Luis
Gonzales and other former mem bers of the
Button gang, who had previously been
afraid to talk, and the Sheriff's Office was
notihed by the Governor to arrest the
chief conspirators.
Hipolito Vigil resisted arrest and was
shot and killed bv Chief Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Tucker; Frank Borrego. Lauri-
ano Alarid and Patricio Valencia were
soon behind the bars, and Antonio Bor-
rego m ade brave stand in one corner of
his family bedroom, but surrendered while
the officers were preparing to dynamite
the house.
District Judge E. P. Seeds was on the
bench at the preliminary trial and
promptly committed the accused without
bail. Tne formal trial took place in April.
1895. The case was appealed on writ of
error to the Territorial Supreme Court by
the attorneys for the accused. Pending
this appeal voluntary comics sions of the
crime were made by Alarid and Valencia,
but the case went on, and finally, in De-
cember last, was passed upon by the
United States Supreme Court, which de-
cided the action of the Territorial courts
regular in all respects.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
WATER POURING
THROUGH BREAKS
Alarming Situation in the
Mississippi Delta
District.
One Thousand Families at Green
vile Surrounded by Rushing
Currents
At st. Louis the RIVER Continues to
Rise and Railroad Comm unica.
ticn Is B.ing Shut Off


JACKSON, Miss, April .2.-The only
/. change in the situation in the delta is for
the worse. The water is still pouring
through the breaks and encroaching upon
places heretofore thought above the
danger line. Plantations meyer before
under water are now submerged. The
streets of Greenville are now naviga bic
only by boat The food from above nav
ing met and joined forces with that from
above, nearly 1000 families in Greenville
are surrounded by water. Still, some por-
tions of the little city are dry. The levees
there still. hold, however. Thousands of
delta negroes are now homeless and will
remain 81 until the flood subsidies.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, April 2.-The river at
this point has made q new record. Within
thirty-siI hours it has risen Al and is still
upward bound, the gauge at o'clock this
evening marking 2S.7 feet. This is only
2.3 ieet below the high water OF 1898, which
was so disastrous. Protiting by the dire
experience of that flood, the people of
East St. Louis have raised the levees and
the railroads have built up their road beds.
Merchants along the shipping front. have
begun TO move their stocks to high
ground. The lumber district north of the
Eads bridge is exposed, and should the
record gauge of thirty feet be reached
there, the loss would be very heavy. Trains
are running irregul arly. The st. Louis
and San Francisco had, up to tonight the
only track that gave Western. roads an
inlet here.
ST. PAUL MINI, April 1.-THE flood in
this region and other Mississippi. points
ha Sfa+ in D,l-
serious. Tie water rose here to-day,
showing "a feet above the danger line.
NJ. Huddlason of Prescott was drowned
this morning while trying to cross the
South St. Paul Belt Line bridge. Trains
are delayed and one or two have not been
heard from. Wagon bridges are down
and dams ehave gone out, letting great
deIuges into the big river.
The river is still rising at Huron, S. D.,
a heavy. rain having fallen during the
night. The Great Northern Railway
bridgeis in danger, and no attempt is be-
ing made to move trains on the north and
west lines of the Northwestern road.
q ALTON, ILL. April 2-The Govern
ment. forecast officials at St. Louis wired
here to-day that .disa strous flood stage
will be reached by Sunday. The river has
already risen to twenty feet. above low
water mi ark, the highest point touched for
five years and this intelligence caused a
mild panic among those who have hoped
for relief. The lower levees in st. Charles
County gave way to-day and many .splen-
did wheat farms are under water. Hun
dreds of families have been compelled to
move within the past twenty-four hours,
q and several relief boats were called out
" this evening.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
IN THE DEbT< DIsrKIor
Doomed to Worse Fats Than Flooded
Re0tous Abore

Doomed to Worse Fats Than Flooded
Regions Above
The awful experiences from the food in
the Arkansas low grounds abeye Helena.
already being repeated in the Yazoo Delta
region, between. Fripes Point and Vicks-
burg, threaten TO exceed anything: ever
known before along the Mississippi. The
whole volume. of WATER which, pouring
through the several crevasses between
New Madrid and Helena, flooded the
whole Country from the Mississippi to
Crowleys. Ridge, making a stream forty
miles wide at Memphis, is coming back
o into the narrow channel between the high
ground at Helena and the strong levees
on the opposite side. Four huge cievasses
are already. pouring mighty rivers into
the low lands on the Mississippi side, and
. with sthesconStantiy increasing volumes OF
water. from above, the larger area exposed
: and the richer property interests involved,
the damage and destruction which is
bound to follow will more than double
that Of the food district above. Every
thing between Long Ridge and the river as
far down as Vicksburg is almost certainly
doomed Below Yicksburg the food
passes over to the Louisiana side.
The high embankments carrying the
beds OF the several lines of railroads
'traversing. section are playing most
important part in the matter of confining
and distributing the food waters The
various lines running north and south
between Vicksburg and Memp phis, through
the Yazoo Delta country. belong to the
fazoo and Mississippi Valley Railway
Com pany, which lately became. "a part or
the Illinois Central system. The main
line runs north from Vicksburg through
Rolling Fork. Hallandale, Leland, Lyon
and Lula, about half way between the
Mississippi and Sunfiower rivers, while
tine River Line, as it is called, leaving
the main stem at Rolling Fork, runs nearer
TO the river, through Hampton, Mayville
and Lake Lee to Greenville, and thence By
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03

Stoneville, Avondale Rosedale and Friars
Point, joins it again at Ceahoma. lis
course lies through Issaauena. Washing
ton, Baiibar and Coahoma counties, the
very richest in the whole State, and where
its embankments are unusually high and
strong.
Touching the main river leyees as it
does at Lake Lee, .Greenville, Huntingdon,
Rosedale and Friars Point, five great reser-
voirs are formed W which return the waters
that may pour in from any crevasse in
the river levee until they rise high enough
TO break over the second or railroad levee,
when they pour through into the next pool
and so on.
The various culverts ana other openings
in these en- bankments are entirely made
quate to carry off even a small fraction of
the vast volume of water which q crevasse
in the river levee will furnish, and so in
stead of being allowed to follow its natural
course and spreading gradually over the
whole country keep the depth below the
point OF danger and destruction it is con-
fined to limited area for the time, until it
is entirely drowned out and then passes
on TO do the same thing over again. This
multiplication of crevasses and the &C
com panying rush of the huge masses OF
water largely: ultiply the damage and
destruction they cause at places least pre-
pared; and everything in front is doomed
the very soil itself for hundreds of yards
around being torn out to depth OF
twenty five or thirty feet and fertile field,
and gardens turned into permanent lakes
and swamps
The planters for a long time strenu.
ously opposed the passage of the railroads
through this country on the high banks
proposed. foreseeing what the results
would be. The banks as first constructed
have been gradually raised until now they
in many places are higher and stronger
than the river .levees themselves and In
sure the worst to the unfortunate district
which they enclose. When break does
come, granted the present high water
continues any time, as it seems now GER
tain to do, the whole strip of country
from Friars Point to Vicksburg between
the main stem OF. the Illinois Central and
the Mississippi River will be covered by
water to the height OF the railroad en-
bankment:.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
Secretary Gage Strikes.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 2.-Secre-
tary Gage has struck against the impor-
tunities of office-seekers. For the short
period he has been in office little oppor-
tunity has been given him 10 attend to
Office business His room has been
crowded early and late with people who
want positions and those who have friends
who are candidates. This morning the
Secretary had no opportunity to look into
the affairs of the department before going
to the Cabinet meeting. This afternoon
he took the bit In his teeth and issued this
order: Hereafter the Secretary will re-
ceive visitors only between the hours OF 10
and o'clock on days other than Cabinet
days. On Cabinet days visitors will be re-
ceived from 8 until 1O:30 o'clock. No
visitors will be received at other hours
except on urgent official business
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
H. T. Brain foreman of the Office, which
he has filed for many years.
Currencv Circulation.

WASHINGTON. d. c., April 2.-The
monthly statement showing the amount
of gold and silver coins and certificates,
United States notes and National bank
notes in circulation on April l, issued by
the Treasury Department to-day, gives
circulation per capita as $23 OIL based on
an estimated population of y $4,000.
The gold coin in circulation on the date
named was $517 125. 757. an increase for
the month of $500 standard. silver
dollar. s54, ,5o7, S19 a decrease of Ss71. 443;
rold certificates S37,456 33S. decrease %
$SS 4S0; treasury note. 500. 24, $40, an IL
crease OF S4,69S, ,1S9; United States notes
$248. .513, $40, a decrease of $12, 220, ,976 |;
National Bank notes $222, 420 1888 an in
crease of So 1s9, $40. The total circulation
crease of So, 694, 259. The net increase in
the money and bullion in the treasury
during March was ST. s9S. .842.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
liter Aiken,s JOB,

WASHINGTON. D. c.. April 2.-An
effort to remove the office of supervising
architect of the treasury from the classi-
fed service was begun to-day by Senator'S
Platt of New York, Proctor of Vermont
and Quay and Penrose of Pennsylvania.
They had conference on the subject with
Secre tary Gage. The Senators represented
that the office was of too much i'm portance
to be subject to the civil service rules,
particularly as the duties involve the ex-
penditure of several million dollars annu-
ally. All the Senator'S have candidates
for successor TO Supervising Architect
Aiken,
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
The Public Prtnting omo..

WASHINGTON, D. c.; April 2.-Public
Printer Palmer to-day resumed charge of
The Government Printing Office after an
absence OF three years. He found hand
some bouquet OF roses on his desk from the
employees, all OF whom were clad to see
him back. He appointed W. H. Collins
TO his old place as chief c.erk, vice w. IS.
Waterbury, who served with Mr.. Bene-
dict. MI Waterbury, as are all the
employees OF the departme is under the
protection Of civil service law but his
appointment.having been a personal one
with the retiring Public Printer, he hsd
made arrangements to 60 into business
elsewhere. Mr.. Collins went into the
Government Printing Office as an appren-
tice over thirty years ago and worked him.
self up through various grades of the ser.
vice. Mr.. Palmer also reappointed CAPTAIN
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-03
Bailey Ha. No cla,rhamn.e- Coat.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April rep
resentative Bailey of Texas. the recently
elected leader of the Democratic party,
declined to attend dinner given by the
President to the Ways and Means Com
mittee and other distin guished members
of Congress tonight. He explained to the
President in advance of the dinner that
he was not the owner of a dress suit. The
Republican friends of Bailey are having
lot of fun with him. They aliege that
he has the Presidential bee in his hat and
is affecting species of Jeffersonian SIM
plicity on which he hopes to ride to the
White House.