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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1897-01-22

Special Sale for Two Weeks.
One lot Of Trimmed Hats at one-half of
regular price.
Black Tips, in bunch. for Csc.
Embroidery Silks, SC a skein, SOC a doz.
KROB'S, Ill West Exchange street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
WERNER RECEIVERsHIP.
One of the Largest Printing Concerns
in the Country Financially
En- barrassed.

Akron, O., Nov. 1.-R. P. Garvin has
been appointed receiver of the Werner
company the big printing establishment
with works here and a branch in Chicago.
The action was taken a the instance of
Paul Werner, president, and George T.
Rowland, superintendent of the Akron
plant and it is designed to protect the
company as well as the creditors. The
liabilities are given as sSO00 900 and the as
sets at 100000 the company being capt.
taIized for 49, SOC, 900
Some time since the company negotiat-
ed a loan of 81, 100000 to be paid in INSTALL
rnents Of this $500, 900 is still unpaid. and
$500 600 of that amount is due. The
other payments are to be paid in install>
nents of $500, 900 in November, December
and January, and $1O0,000 in February. The
inability of the company to meet its pa
per or secure renewals caused the appli-
cation for the receiver. The company 5
plant. in which are employed 1900 people,
will be operated without interruption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
COSTLY HALLOWEEN SPORT
Falss Alarm of Fire Causes a Siam
pede in a Hospital

Kankakee. Ill. Nov. Several nurses
tainted, one sustained a broken wrist. and
others were beaten. bruised and stamped
upon as result of Halloween exuberance
among the employees at the state insane
hospital Saturday night.
About SO ladies congregated in the music
hall to unveil their future fortune by the
methods commonly employed or Hallow-
cen. The fire department was called to
the building by false alarm. and under
the leadership of DR.. Schier, Fire Chief
DR.. King, F. S. Breen, business manager.
and other minor officials and clerks, the
door was broken down, the building en-
tered, and the ladies We're deluged with
a stream from the fire hose and several
of them knocked down. All were thor
oughly soaked with water and their APP
parel was ruined wading through the
water. A wrist of one of the women was
broken by a descending club aimed at one
of the fremen. Several women tainted
from exposure. and one of the doctors
was trampled upon until nearly uncon-
scious. Eight or ten were sent to the in
Urinary. superintendent Stearms proposes
to conduct an investigation of the affair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
INDIANS SKEEDADDLE.
Warned by the Colorado Game War
den They Retire to Their
Reservation.

Denver, Nov. IA special to the Rocky
Mountain News from Rifle, Colo, says:
Game Commissioner Swan and War
den J. T. Mclean returned here last
night from Meeker. Mr.. Swan went
from Meeker to Yellow Creek, 80 miles
west of Meeker. where he met Warden
Mclean and Sheriff WILDER, of Rio
Blanco county, who had been as far
west as the Utah line, on their return
up the river. They reported that the
Indians were getting out of the country
as fast as possible.
Warden Mclean and Sheriff WILDER
had been riding the country four days
notifying the Indians to leave and
when the officers started back to Meek
er the Indians were all moving out
These officials, as well as the settlers
along the river from Rangley to Meek
er. are satisfied that the Indians have
left for good and very little uneasi-
ness is felt on the part of the settlers.
Wardens have been stationed along
the Utah line to report the first reap
pearance of the Indians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
UNDER STATE CONTROL.
Senator Harris Says stockyards De-
c:sion Places Many Branches of
Busin ess in That Condition.

Kansas City, Nov. 1.-The decisions of
Judge Foster and Judge Thayer in the
stockyards case viii 1open a wide field for
legislation governing business affected by
public use, said w. A. Harris, United
States senator from Kansas, who was in
Kansas City last night. 1T is possible,
of course" he continued, that the SUI
preme court of the United States will
overrule them, but I don't believe it will.
Both are able judges and their decisions
are usually sustained. I am told that
this is particularly true of Judge Thayer,
and when both of these judges take the
same view of proposition it is almost
sure to be sustained.
This case will be a precedent that will
be important in state legislation every
where. The state can now control ele-
Vators, warehouses, telephone lines and
telegraph lines within it's own borders,
and important as anything, the gas
companies and street railways.
In southeastern Kansas the Standard
Oil company is getting control of the gas
wells and extending its operations in a
way that ought to be checked by state
legislation In cities and towns where
natural gas is abundant it charges 81 a
month for each stove furnished with gas
an outrageous price considering the
source of supply. In the city of Wash
ington gas is $3.50 a thousand. I don
beleNe there IS city IN the country
where gas cannot be furnished at 81 a
thousand at a profit.
The federal courts have decided that
q business affected by public use can be
regulated by the state legislatures, and
in the absence of action by congress, even
where there is some excuse for claim of
interstate commerce. The gas plants,
water works, street railways and other
things that the public generally uses are
on the same footing as the stockyards,
and it is a great step in advance, some
thing of value to the people when the
state steps in and says they can't charge
exorbitant prices or they must furnish
reasonable accommodations. The decision
has a value to the public outside of its
bearing on the stockyards alone and the
Judges who decided the case have done
the public service.
1.-The line between the rights of corpora
lions affected by public use to do as they
please and the right of the public, which
has no option but to use them, has never
been drawn so closely as we should like
to have it drawn. This case draws that
line in a measure at least. and recog-
nfzes the rights of the public"
Senator Harris will start to Washington
next Tuesday evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
ARMOUR HAS A CORNER.
All Cattle Room on Transatlantic
Steamers Bought Up for
Year Ahead

New York, Nov. practically all OF
the outgoing room for the transporta-
ton of cattle on the regular trans-At-
Iantic lines has been cornered by a syn
dictate composed of English cattle buy
ers and P. D. Armour of Chicago. This
means that independentc cattle shippers in
this city will be shut out of the English
markets, and that the price OF beef VIII
thereby be advanced
Contracts have been placed with the
White Star line for one year for all OF
the conpany's cattle room. Other con-
tracts have been made with the ATTAIN
tic Transport line of New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore for the same
length of time, and with the National
line for two years. The negotiations
have been carried on by William Bow
er, formerly a large cattle shipper of
this city. but who has of late been
in ENGLAND. SchwarZschild & Sulzber-
ger and Shamburg & Sons the two larg-
est shippers in this city, who are out of
the syndicate, are shut off from getting
space on any Of the vessels that ply
between here and London or Liverpool.
The only lines not contracted for are
the Wilson line to Hull and the Allan
line to Glasgow.
The prices at which the contracts
We're made provide for the carrying Of
cattle at 40 shillings a head, not in
GLIDING at this rate any insurance or
fodder. A representative of Schwarzs-
child & Sulzberger, in speaking of the
effect that the corner on shipping space
would have, said today:
LAS conservative business men we
did not feel warranted in making large
contracts in advance at 40 shillings
when competitors have been able to
obtain rates as low as IS shillings. The
new arran cement may result in our do
ing our business via other ports. which
will take the shipping of our cattle en-
tireIy out of New York"
The cornering of the cattle trade has
led to negotiations for a new line of
steamers to Iln between New York
and London.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
A BUMP on THE HEAD
Which Proved Very Serious for Lit
tie Mary Oliver.

Mary Oliver. daughter of George Oil
yer OF PA Circle street, Auburndale, was
seriously injured Saturday afternoon
while playing with some other children
The children were swinging at the end
of a rope tied to the limb of a tree.
Mary attempted to swing in a circle
around the tree. After one round the
winding of the rope around the trunk
of the tree brought the girl against the
tree with a terrible force. She was un-
conscious for some time but none of
the other children gave any alarm. She
managed to make her way home when
she regained consciousness but said
nothing to any one and
nothing to any of the family. She was
taken sick suddenly during the night
and was delirious for several hours.
Her little sister thought she was talk
ing in her sleep and said nothing about
it.
Sunday morning the little girl was
found to be unable to rise. DR.. East
man was summoned and found that
there was a serious confusion on the
back of the head. The skull was not
fractured and although the injury is
serious the child will likely recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
Won DER AHE COURT.
St Louis Baseball Magnate Sues His
Mother in Law.

st. Louis, Nov. 1.-Suit has been
brought in Justice Harmon's court by
Chris Won der Abe, president of the ST.
Louis base ball club, against Mrs. Mary
Wells. his mother-in-laws The amount
ostensibly involved is $50, and the cause
of action, as given in the papers of the
case, is non-payment of rent.
In truth, the $50 is a mere trife to
the luckless base ball magnate. He
says himself he is not suing for the
actual money. 1t is test suit, and the
test is Mrs. Wells devotion to her SON
in-law. If her devotion doesn't stand
the test and she and her son-in-law be-
come strangers, Chris will feel he has
won his cause.
Mr.. Won der Abe does not hesitate to
say that when he married. Miss Wells
he married the whole family" He
says he has been 1.-THE main prop of the
Wells family until he has determined to
throw off the outfit Not only his
wife's mother and her sisters, he says.
were dependent upon him, but they be-
gan running in their husbands and
sons, until he found himself with a
larger household than the most ram
pant Mormon in Utah.
1t was only a year and a half ago
that Mr.. Won der Abe married Miss
Wells, Immediately after his first wife
had secured a divorce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
GARTER HARRISON SHAFT.
Association Formed to Raise $4,000
BY PopnIar Subscr .ption.

Chicago, Nov. 1.-The Carter H. TIar-
rison Monument association has been
organized for the purpose of raising a
were elected and the Illinois Trust and
Savings bank was selected as the de-
pository for the fund. The associa-
ton will soon be Incorporated.
The work of collecting 81 subscrip-
tiOns will be commenced today. All
daily newspapers. banks, and certain
other public institutions to be selected
are authorized by the association of col
lect funds. Subscription lists will be
placed in drug stores and other places
of business all over the city and as q
genuine subscription list will will have
a certificate attached bearing the sig
nature of Chairman J. V. Clark of the
finance committee.
Each subscriber to the amount of 81
or more will be presented with a bronze
medal bearing likeness of Garter H.
Harrison the elder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
TO HANDLE CARS.
New Association for the Benefit oe
Leavenworth, Atchison and
St Joe.

A new car service association, SINH
lar to the Missouri & Kansas Car Ser
vice association and the Kansas City
Car Service association, which will in
clude AIchisOn, LeaVenWOrth and ST.
Joe is to be formed at a meeting of
representatives of the interested lines
at St. Joseph tomorrow. This will be
the accomplishment of something which
has been striven for for years by sever
al of the largest roads running into the
three points named.
The unloading and general handling
of cars at Atchison, 1eavenwOrth and
St. Joseph has never been under the
regulations of car service association,
and consequently much annoyance mas
often been experienced by the car SER
vice departments of the different roads
in getting their cars unloaded and out
of these points. Under the regulations
of a car service association cars are
unlOaded and returned promptly, doing
away with any possibility OF a blockade
of cars at any point under the Jurls-
dictiOn of the association.
1t is said that up to this time the
Burlington road has defeated the eff
forts of other lines to form an aSSOcia-
ton taking in AtchisOn, LeavenWorth
and St. Joseph by refusing to go into
the proposed agreement. Now, how
ever, satisfactory arrangements have
been made with all the interested lines
and it is practically certain that a new
association will be formed at the meet
ing tomorrow.
The lines which run into the three
points and will be interested in the
new association are:
The A. T. & S. F., Missouri Pacific,
Rock Island, Kansas City, WyandOtte
& Northwestern, Burlington & Missouri
River Kansas City & Council Bluffs,
Hannibal & ST. Joseph, St. Joseph &
Grand Island, Chicago & Great West
ern and Leavenworth, Topeka & South
western.
Fe will attend the meeting in st. JOS
eph tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
ANOTHER FOOTBALLyICTIM
a Star Player of University of Geor-
gia Dead at Atlanta.

Atlanta, Nov 1.-Von Cannon, one
of the players on the University of
Georgia football team, died Sunday
morning from injuries received in a
game between that team and the team
from the University of Virginia in this
city Saturday afternoon
Cannon never regained conscious
ness after a scrimmage at the begin
ming of the second half of the game
Saturday. He was one of the star
players of the team. His body was ta-
ken today for burial to Rome, Ca, his
former home. His death has stirred
prejudice against the game among the
members of the state legislature, which
is now in session. A number of Iegisla-
tors expressed themselves today as bit
terly opposed to the game and it is pro-
babIe that q bill will be passed in
few days making it a misdemeanor to
engage in a game of football in this
state.
The faculty of the university has de-
cided to prohibit the game in the flu
ture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
CHAReE LUMBER FRAUDS.
southern Dealers Lose MuchThrough
q Fictitious Fort Scott Concern.

Fort Scott, Nov &c. s. Anderson.
whose name appears on the stationery
as proprietor OF the Fort Scott Lumber
company, a fictitious concern, war ar
rested by the federal officers at Pitts
burg, Saturday, charged with a whole
sale lumber swindle in several states.
Three cars of his lumber are now tied
up in the Kansas City yards.
Anderson and man named Howard
came here two months ago and lived re-
tired They carried on an extensive
correspondence. Two weeks ago they
disappeared. taking their stenographer
Large mill owners of Arkansas and the
south meantime had complained that
the Fort Scott Lumber company had
been buying large bills of lumber in
carload lots on sixty and ninety days
and selling it to retail dealers in Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Kansas for less
than they agreed to pay for it
The authorities learned that Ander-
son was in Pittsburg sending his mail
in blank envelopes to an employee in
this place, VINO would RENAL it as a
means of having it postmarked Fort
Scott Howard, whose home is in
Jonesboro, Ark, has disappeared. An
derson is in Jail here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
WROTE TO HERSELF.
Mysterious Suicide OF Young Won
an Student at California
University

Berkeley, Cal. Nov 1.-The mystery
surrounding the suicide of Anna Blythe
RollyweIl, a member of the freshman
class at the state university, who killed
herself by taking poison on Friday
evening, is still unsOlved.
The letters and kilograms found
among her effects, which seemed to
show that a gentleman in whom she
was interested, had recently died, are
now believed to have been written by
herself. The names signed to them are
unknown to any of her friends and are
thought to be fictitious. The young
woman was in the habit of taking
morphine, and appears to have been
mentally irresponsible when she took
her own life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
eARR1soN's WRECK MYSTERY.
General Manager Toucey Still Think
Broken Machinery the Cause.

New York. Nov. General Manager
lieves that the disaster at Garrison was
caused by break in the engines ma
chinery. Mr.. Toucey said today: IF
there had been a dynamite explosion
before the train reached that place the
engine could not have passed over it
and IS feet this side, as it did,
Chief Detective Humphrey of the
New York Central railroad was asked
if the arrest of any person was contem-
plated on suspicion of having caused
the wreck He admitted that the COM
pany suspects that the roadbed was
blown out by dynamite, but refused to
divulge any information.
The diver who was at work searching
in the river for the bodies of Engineer
Foyle ard Stenographer Mckay had no
success today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01

A few weeks ago the editor was taken
with a very severe cold that caused him
10 be in most nlisera BILE condition. IT
was undoubtedly a bad case of la grippe
and recognizing it as dangerous he
took immediate steps to bring about
speedy cure. From the advertisement
of Chamberlain Cough Remedy and
the many good recommendations in
Guided therein, we concluded to make
a first trial OF the medicine. To say that
it was satisfactory in its results. is
putting it very mildly indeed 1t a ted
like magic and the result was a speedy
and permanent cure. We have no hest
fancy in recommending this excellent
Cough Remedy to anyone afflicted with
a cough or cold in any fornl-The Ban
ner of Liberty, Libertytown, Maryland
The % and 80 cent sizes for sale by all
druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
DISCUSS TRUSTS.
Bankers at Wichita Drift Into
Politics.
J. r.. Mulvane Cites a Case of
His knowledge.
mnrcmc An nuE DnOR
TRUSTS AID THE POOR
Standard Oil Combine Had Low
cred Price of Oil.
Bankers to Aid the IndianapO'
lis Monetary Convention.

Wichita, Nov. 1.-Some interesting pa
pers We're read at the Kansas State
Bankers association, which ended in
this city Saturday.
Government postal banks, express
rates on currency, the state redemption
law, trusts and the work of the none
tary commission at Indianapolis each
came in for share of the convention s
attention.
JD. Joseph. a banker of Whitewater,
read a paper, taking strong grounds
against the organization of government
postal banks.
He held up socialism, decentralization
and ultimate revolution as the ineVita-
BILE result of the adoption of such a
project.
Porter Sherman of Kansas City, Kan,
followed Mr.. Joseph in a scOlarly pa
per in which he asserted that trusts
were the inevitable and logical result
of high protection, to which he an
nounced himself as unalterably oppOS-
ed. In the discussion that ensued, j. K
MuIvane of Topeka spoke OF the fact
that he had been the first prospectOr to
open up active work in the Ohio oil
fields. At that time, he said, oil sold
at IS cents a gallon. Since the trust
had the oil fields there they had re-
duced the price to the present low fig
ure. Such a reduction would have been
possible only through the agency OF a
trust Mr.. MuIVane thought.
L. Wilder. treasurer Of the A, L q >
F. r. R., who has been an active partlc-
ipant in all the work of the previous
convention sessions, later asked the at
tention of the delegates to a number Of
letters he had received from H. H. Han
ma, secretary OF the monetary cOmmlS-
sion now at work with headquarters at
Indianapolis The correspondence con
tanned d request for the assistance of
the Kansas bankers in the work OF the
commission. On motion of Mr.. Null
vane the cooperation of the convention
in the work mapped out was assured
the commission.
The advisability of the passaG2 of
resolutions asking for the repeal of the
recently enacted mortgage redemption
law was suggested by delegate, but it
was voted down. A resolution asking
the repeal of the Kansas three-days- Of
grace enactment carried.
r. F. SneidikerOf Hartford had an
earnest plea for a better understanding
between capital and labor, who had no
cause for conflict, he asserted. J. NJ.
Harper of the Bank of Conway Springs
read a paper in which he analyzed. the
banking system of Canada. The con-
Guiding paper was by J. NJ. Mcdonald
of Baxter Springs, who treated of the
comparative compensation of banking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
Santa Fe to Heat Newton Shop.
With Steam.
viii Take Six Experts Sixty
Days to Finish.
WHITEWASH BY AIR
New Car Service Association to
be Formed
To Facilitate the Handling of
Cars in Three Towns.

Newton. Nov. 1.-The new system of
steam heating that the Santa F'e is
putting in to heat the back shop, black
smith shops, storehouse master me-
chanic's Office, roundhouse and bath
house is one of the most complete sys-
TENS on the road.
The work is being done by Charles
Kortz and w. T. Sexton, expert steam
filters from Topeka. The work will
take nearly two months to complete
They have four men from the machine
shops working under them.
The steam which is used is obtained
from the boilers in the back shops. The
pipe used in all the work is four inches
in diameter. The pipes win lead from
the steam dome through the backshop
and blacksmith shops Then there will
be another line to the storeroom and
offices and from there to the round
house and bathhouse The return
waste steam pipes also will be four
inches in diameter.
In the back shop the radiators will
be placed upon the walls of the build
ing except three square coil radiators
which will be placed in the center of
the building. On the sides of the build
ing Will be q eight-coil radiators Is
feet in length. This number of radia-
tors will heat the shop very nicely and
VIII make it one of the most comIOrta-
bic buildings in the yard.
The other steam line will run from
the boiIerroom to the storerooms and
offices, in both of which will be placed
radiators The roundhOuse will be
heated by the same line. The steam line
Will enter the house through the sewer.
The steam pipe will be placed al the
top OF the sewer and the return pipe at
the bottom. The radiators will be
placed in each of the pits. On each
side of the pits in the house Will be
placed q nVe-cOil radiator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-01
UNISON WEED KILLED HIM.
New York Boy Eats the Pods With
Fatal Effect.

New York, Nov. Carl Gerber, 4 years
old, is dead from what is believed to
have been the effects of eating the fruit
of the jimson weed or thorn apple. Will
liam Roth. years old, who also ate some
of the poison stuff, is in a precarious con-
dition.
The two children spent Saturday after
noon playing in Riverside park. That
evening the Gerber boy complained of
nausea after supper and was put to bed
Later he complained of pains all over the
body. A physician was summoned, who
saw that the boy was dying. Every eff
fort to save his life proved useless. Be
fore his death the child said that while in
the park he and the other boy had eaten
chestnuts from a bush. The Roth boy
was taken i'll about the same time, but a
physician was promptly summoned and
hope was entertained of his recovery.