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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
BEcKwIrH's DALLAS RECORD
Can Pitch Good Ball When His Hair
is Parted Straight

Dallas, Texas, Nov. 15.-Warren w.
Beckwith, who is one of the principals
in the Lincoln marriage SEN
sation at Chicago, is well known in
Dallas, and in fact in most of the larger
cities of this state.
He played ball all last season with
the Dallas club of the Texas league,
having been signed as a pitcher by
Manager NIcCloskey last spring while
Beckwith was at his home in Mt.
Pleasant. Iowa. He made q good pro-
fessional record, was well behaved and
Manager McCloskey has him reserved
for next season. BeckWith was pop
ular not only with baseball patrons,
but he cut a social figure over the
sOciateS as the dude and the lady
killer" He would never go into
game to pitch without first cOmbing
and brushing his hair faultleSSly. He
always carried a pocket looking glass
and was in the habit of taking a look
al himself just before starting from the
clubhouse for the diamond.
One day when he was to pitch the
game was delayed in starting because
Beckwith was absent. Manager Nc
Closkey inquired concerning the delay
and Catcher Tub Welch explained
it with the statement:
"Oh, Beckwith's looking glass is lost.
and he can't pitch until his hair is
parted right
is one of the best athletes he has ever
seen on or off the ball field. He is
college graduate and qualified for bust
ness life. All last season BeczWith re-
ceived two or more letters each week
from Miss Jessie Lincoln. Much of
their contents he communicated to
Manager McCloskey in confidence.
They showed that the young couDle
were enga ged to be married at the end
of the baseball season. When the sea-
son ended BeckWith declined to accom-
pany the Dallas club to JOPLIN Mo
where the team was located for a
month. He told Manager McClas<ev
that he had to hasten home to prepare
for his marriage. He informed Nc
Closkey that it was useless for him to
reserve him for next season, as he
would not play ball professionally after
he was married: that his social rela-
tions would be such that he could not
afford to do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
SHOPMEN AND GROCERS.
Complaint Made About Severity of
Measures to Collect Bills.

There is talk among the Santa Fe
shop employees of bOycotting the Topeka
grOcerS who are members of the Gro
GERS association.
The shop men claim that they are
unjustly sued and garnisheed for bills
that they owe the different grOcerS who
are members of the assOciation.A num-
ber of wOrkingmen have had their
wages garnisheed by different grocers
who held bills against them and in
some cases employees of the Santa Fe
have been notified by General Manager
Frey that they must make some ar
rangements with their creditors and
pay their bills or leave the employ of
the road.
The Grocers' association was formed
for the purpose of making the working
hours of the retail grocers less and to
aid them in collecting bills. The assOci-
alton has a collector who is employed
by the Individual members to collect
their bills. The debtors claim that the
ing up the prices and that the prices on
staple articles are higher than they
would be without an association.
Vice President w. f. Weber of the
association said: THE association is
for the purpose of having a uniformity
of working hours, a general social feel
ing among the members and to aid US
in allowing credit to persons who are
good pay. We have never tried to reg
ulate prices
One well known grocer left the aSSO-
citation because the members objected
to his cutting prices. There are 95 gro
GERS out of 105 who do business who are
members.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
NORTH TOPEKA.

items Intended for this column should
be left at the Kimban Ptg. Co, before 10
o'clock in the morning.
Tablet sale, 10 and 15c tablets for &c
Cromwell & letters.
For 30 Gays we will sell 10 and 10
cent Tablets for SC.
Cromwell & Jefrers.
Bread, 2 lb. five cents. Gem Bakery.
Mrs. Miller of the New Era is on the
sick list.
Eson Johnson of Silver Lake was in
town today.
Don't miss the Millinery sale at Cost
ley & Post, N. Topeka
A new meat market viii be opened
up on the avenue shortly.
Call for the Ladies' Queen Bee shoe
at Costley & Post, n. Topeka.
25 per cent off on all Millinery goods
for the next two weeks beginning Mon
day. November Is. At Costley & Post,
n. Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
PUZZLES THE DOCTORS.
10000 Omaha Residents Suf-
fering From a Peculiar
AiIment.

Omaha. Neb., Nov. 15.-The physicians
of the city are considerably puzzled in
regard to the nature of an ailment that
has become epidemic in the city.
The disease develops in a small pimple
which rapidly spreads until it produces
an irritation somewhat similar to bar
ber's itch. The eruptions are not painful,
when they are let alone; neither is there
the slightest accumulation of pus. The
pimples are highly inf1amed and finally
scale off like scurvy. The disease was
first noticed about three weeks ago, and
during that time it has spread with such
rapidity that it has become general, prob>
ably 10000 persons now being affected in
Omaha
In most cases the eruption is confined
to the face, but there are hundreds Of
cases of women and children in which it
breaks out on the limbs and body
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
j. r.. Sovereign, Late General
Master Workman, X. of L.
Enters the Lists for the Presi-
Dental Nomination.
RESIGNED HIS PLACE
For the Purpose of DeVOting
His Entire Time
To an Effort to Succeed Presi-
dent Mckinley.

Louisville. Ky, NOv.15-The Courier
Journal this morning under the cap
ton:
''Sovereign's vaulting ambition, says;
''The great secret is out at last. Mr..
J. r. Sovereign, the retiring general
master workman of the Knights Of La
Dor, resigned his position in order that
he might push his candidacy for presI-
dent OF the United States in 1900.
TT was exclusively mentioned in
yesterday mornings Journal that Mr..
Sovereign would be assigned to the pO-
sition of field worker Being free
now from the responsibilities of general
master workman and having none OF
the former difficulties to contend with,
Mr.. Sovereign has a clear field before
him, and delegates to the general as
sembly openly knOwledged last night
that Mr. Sovereign is an avOwed candi-
date for the presidency of the United
States when Mr.. McKinley's term eX-
pires, and the movement of making
him field worker is the initial step of
the general assembly of the Knights of
Labor, to launch Mr.. SOvereign's boom.
While it is said that Mr.. Sovereign
and W. J. Bryan are on the friend1iest
terms, the supporters of Mr.. Sovereign
say he will make every effort to land
the prize which Mr.. Bryan seeks to Sc
cure. He spends all his spare time
disseminating his views and in the gen
eral agitation of all the principles which
the Knights of Labor advocate"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
ROUGHLY PUNISHED.
German IrOnclad Blows a New
Guinea Village to Flinders.

Victoria, B. C., Nov. 15.-The German
warship Fake, which was dispatched
from Australia on receipt of the news
there of the murder of the trader Won
Hagen, returned recently from German
New Guinea, having grinly avenged the
savagery of the natives.
The Fake steamed directly to the viii
lage in which the murderers of the late
acting governor We're known to be Sc
creted and without a word of parley open
ed fire with artillery. This SO terrified
the natives that they at once carried into
StephanspOrt, the German capital, the
two Solomon island boys wanted for the
murder. and who had broken from inn
prisonment imposed for the killing two
years ago of the German explorer, En-
lars and his party.
The Fake continued to shell the village
despite this co9ciliatory measure and left
no building standing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
STILL At Il.
Minnie Wallace Walkup in a
Familiar Role.
John B. Ketcham, Well Known
CIubman of Chicago,
Dies at Her Home ON Indiana
Avenue.
MRS. WALKUP CLAIMS
She is Ketcham's Legal Widow
and the Heir
To an Estate Of 100000 Left
by the Deceased.
hrs. WALKUP CLAIMS

Chicago, Nov 15.-AIrs. Minnie Estelle
Wallace at whose home on Indiana av-
enue John B. Ketcham died Saturday
and her claim that she is the widow of
the dead club man, has brought to
light her romantic history. According
to Mrs. Wallace the ceremony by which
she became the third Mrs. Ketcham
was performed in Milwaukee on Sep
tember "a, by a Methodist minister. The
latter's name she does not remember,
but says he can be easily found and
her claims to Mr.. Ketcham's estate of
$500, 900 esta blished.
Mrs. Wallace is the widow of James
r. Walkup, former mayor of EmpOria,
Kan, and wealthy. When he died in
1885, under somewhat strange circum-
stances, his youthful bride was arrested
and tried for numbering him, but she
was freed. She married him when she
was only Is years old, although he was
almost 60 She was a widow at II and
to avoid unpleasant nOtoriety she as
sumed her former name of Wallace.
She came to Chicago after spending
considerable money travelling in Europe
and purchased the residence at 3142 In
diana, which she furnished in splendid
style OF late she has been seen sew
eral times driving in company with Mr..
Ketcham, whose divorce litigation with
the second Mrs. Ketcham, the Toledo,
O., society leader, was a sensation a
few months ago. Mrs. Wallace, or Ket-
cham, declares that the certificate of
her marriage to the deceased, as we'll
as his last will and testament, leaving
all his estate to her is locked up in a
safety deposit vault down town.
John desired that I should not tell
his mother or his relatives OF the mar
riage," she said.
But his brother had been here to visit
him before he died.
John was buried in my lot in Rose
Hill cemetery where I expect to lie be-
side him, when my time cOmes.'
Mr.. Ketcham's death viii be investi-
gated by the coroner. The circumstan-
ces surrounding his illness and the
manner of his death are deemed such
as to warrant it. Today Chief Depu-
ty Coroner Mandelbaum was sent to
the residence of Mrs. Wallace, or
Ketcham, on Indiana avenue. The
deputy, it is alleged, was unable to get
any satisfaction from the servants or
from Mrs Ketcham and he advised
the coroner to order a post mOrtem ex-
animation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
REINDEER TRAIN.
600 Government Reindeer Are
Called For
To Haul Provisions to the Ice
Bound WhaIers
IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN.
The Animals Will Be in Readf-
ness to Meet the Bear
When That Vessel Reaches Nor
toms Sound.

Washington, Nov 15.-Secretary
Gage has requested the secretary of the
interior to instruct the Alaskan officials
to gather about 600 head of reindeer
from the government herds for the use
of the expedition for the relief of the
icebound whalers in the Arctic.
1t is expected that the Bear which is
now at Seattle will be ready to sail in
about ten days and within 20 days
thereafter, it is expected that she will
have reached some point on Norton's
sound where a large party will be en-
gagged for the trip overland to Point
The herd of reindeer which will be
killed for food, if needed, will be driven
overland and it is the confident eX-
pectatiOn of Captain Shoemaker, chief
of the revenue cutter service and Cap
tain Harper who is in command of the
Bering sea patrol fleet that the herd
will reach Point Barrow and the i'm
prisoned Whalers before the middle of
February. The river through which
the herd will be driven is said to abound
with moss upon which the herd will
feed and both agree that the scheme for
the relief of the WhalerS is perfectly
feasible and will be attended with little
danger. Captain Tuttle who will COM
mand the Bear is regarded as one of
the most capable and trustworthy men
in the service and no apprehension is
felt regarding the outcome of the en-
terprise.
The eight vessels now ice bound have
a combined complement of 265 men. The
Orca has 45; the Belvidere As; the
Freeman 40; the Fearless 35; the Jean
ME 25; the Rosario 25; the Wanderer
20 and the Newport 80.
The first two, the JEANNE and the
Rosario went up this spring, the New
port in 1893; the Wanderer and the
Fearless in 1894 and the Freeman in
1895 All expected to return this win
ter. The Orca, the Freeman and the
BeIvidere are fast about a half mile
ct of pa nd
mainder are about 200 miles east of
Point Barrow at the mouth of Mac
kenzie river and about 400 miles north
of the Arctic circle. 1t is believed that
the relief expedition will reach the ice
bound fleet in ample time to prevent
suffering from want of food.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
king OF THE DUDES. q"
j. WaIdier Kirk in Prison.
Charged With Shooting
to Kill.

New York, Nov. 15.-J. Waldier Kirk
known as the king of the dudes
who came here. recently from Chicago.
was today arraigned in police court on
a charge of shooting Richard Mandel-
baum last night in the Hotel Girard,
on Forty fourth street, and held in 81
500 bail for examination November
Kirk was carefully dressed. He wore
a black frOck coat, yellow waistc0at.
striped black and white trousers, red
Ascot tie with pearl pin. and patent
leather pointed CATERS. with upperS
that matched the trousers. He stood
before the bar ungloved, holding his
silk top hat in his right hand. Around
his head and chin was wound a mar
row bandage of white cotton to cover
a scalp wound on the top Of his head
His demeanOr was calm. He was
brought to court by a police captain
Mandelbaum was unable to appear and
a roundsman made the formal charge
of felOnious assault against Kirk. Man
delbaum's physician sent certificate
in which he stated that he was unable
to determine at present whether or not
the wounds would result fatally.
Il am represented by Mr. Friend"
said Kirk. I viii say nothing until
consult with him"
Counselor Friend appeared at this
juncture. There being no bOndsmen
present Kirk was locked up in the
prison attached to the court. None Of
his friends We're in court. kirk de-
clines to make any statement.
According to the police, Mandel-
baum failed to find his wife in her
room when he returned to the hotel
Saturday and went to Kinks room and
kicked in the door. Kirk is said to
have fired five times at the intruder
One. shot entered his body just above
the heart, and one struck him in the
groin.
The others went wild. Kirk said he
shot in self-defense, declaring that
Mendelbaum struck MIN with a blunt
instrument. J. WaIdier Kirk is well
known in Chicago and Denver. His
novel ideas on dress have attracted
wide attention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
MURDEROUS MISFIT.
Car Couplings That Main Thousands,
Gather in Another Victim.

The latest victim of the Janney coup
Ter and the old fashioned coupling is
James Delahanty, a Santa Fe switch
man employed in the cOmpany's yards
at Kansas City While switching cars
Saturday afternoon Delahanty had his
left hand caught between the couplers
and horribly mashed. The index and
middle fingers of the hand were so
badly mashed that they were ampu-
tated when he arrived at the Santa Fe
hospital in this city Saturday even
ing
The difference between the Janney
coupler and the old fashioned coupling
is probably responsible for more acci-
dents to railroad men than any other
''nisfit' in railroad appliances. The
two cOuplerS are termed the Jack
and the Jenny among railroad men
and are looked upon as man manglers
when worked together. All new San
ia F'e freight cars are equipped with
Janney couplers, and the old fashioned
coupling is being done away with as
rapidly as possible but there are hun
dreds of cars handled which are equip
ped with the old couplers, and a coup
ling with the old fashioned and Janney
couplers is always attended with dan
ger.
The road should adopt heroic meas
ures to get rid of all the couplings at
once It would save money by avoid
ang well founded damage suits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
RATHER SENSATIONAL
Alleged 'sTrue Story" of How
Officer Whitaker Was Shot.

The Populists are making another eff
fort to have Chief of Police Steele and
Commissioner Henderson removed. A
series of charges will be formulated at
a caucus of local PopuHsts and will be
presented to Governor Leedy tomor-
row.
Among the charges is one which in
wolves PatrOlman Whitaker who was
shot Festival week and has re-
Gently gone back on his beat. The en-
emies of the police say that they will be
had on a borrowed OVercOat and his
face covered with a white handkerchief
and that he and three other special Of
hcers had entered into a scheme to cap
ture the private Watchman and tie him
and leave him in the alley to be found
disgraced the private watchman system
which is used in Topeka during large
gatherings. The shooting of W Whitaker,
they claim, was the only thing that
prevented the scheme being carried out
by the police officers. This will be used
against Chief Steele and the board of
police commissioners who allowed
Whitaker'S pay for the time he was
confined to his room.
Another charge directed at Commits
SiOner Henderson and Chief Steele is
that they gave Sheriff Kepley no sup
There is no doubt in my mind that if
we had received the right kind of sup
port from the police department we
would have elected three men on our
ticket and we intend to hold the right
men responsible"
The meetings that have been held are
of the star chamber character and an
effort has been made to keep the mat
ter quiet until the charges could be
formally presented to Governor Leedy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
ACCUSES CHIEF STEELE
Of Striking Her Boy but the Chief
Seems Able to Refute It.

Mrs. Winnie Smith a colored woman
who lives at 116S Buchanan street, was
at the county attorneys Office this
morning demanding a complaint for
the arrest of Chief of Police Steele.
Mrs. Esther WoodaIl, her mother was
with her to verify her narrowing story.
Following is the story told by the
woman:
The police arrested my son, John
McCrow, Saturday evening. 1 went to
the police station and Chief Steele took
him in behind the desk 1 was kept in
the outside office. l had been there on
ly a short time when 1 heard a blow,
and I opened the door. A policeman
tried to stop me, but 1 got past, and
then I saw Chief Steele throw my boy
down upon the floor and jump onto
him with his feet Then he took hold
of him with his hands and choked him.
I said: Chief Steele. for Gods sake,
and said: Woman, you had better
keep quiet, or I'll have you behind the
bars Then they pushed me and my
mother here out of the door L got
bail for my boy last night and took
him home and called Dr. RighAer. He
is not able to get out of bed and is in
awful shape. want to know
whether policeman has a right to
pound a prisoner like that without any
reason. The only thing my boy did,
was to refuse to answer some ques-
tions about where he hired a bicy-
Gle"
LII. EtlSnIeTs VINO ATTENDED JOIn NC
Crow, said today that he found no
bruises on his body. but he had stiff
neck and sore shoulder. He says that
it might be possible that the bruises
had not had time to develop, but he is
inclined to think that the wOman's
story is greatly exaggerated.
Chief Steele being informed that the
cOlored woman had signified her inten-
tiOn of swearing to a complaint charg-
ing him with beating her son, John Nc
Crow, Saturday night, said:
L did not strike John McCrow at all.
When the patrol wagon got to Sixth
and Jackson streets with him in, I
could hear him yelling and fighting.
When they brought him in, his mother
came along and said: That is my tie
on him. 1 caught hold of him to keep
him from falling down. he was so
drunk. That is the only time I laid
hands on him. I simply caught hold of
him. I did not strike him at all and 1
have four police officers who saw the
whole thing, and they will swear that
did not offer to strike the fellow. If
Mrs. McCrOW Swears that I struck him
or beat him, she will have to prove it,
or answer to the charge of perjury"
County Attorney Jetmore has not is
sued the complaint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
SOCIETY is TIRED.
Shows a Disposition to Abandon
the New York Horse Show

New York Nov. 15.-There were few
people present in Madison garden to-
day at the hour set for the formal
opening of the thirteenth annual eXhi-
bitiOn of the National Horse Show OF
America The weather was damp and
fOgSy, all the forenoon and moreover
the programme of the first half day
was not such to attract a general
attendance. At 10 o'clock the actual
work of exhibition began with the eX-
ercising of horses in the ring under the
supervision of the ringmaster. This
went on for half an hour when the ring
was cleared for the preliminary trials
over the jumps, of horses entered in
classes 9 and 10, the animals acquittfng
themselves creditably to be allowed
to compete in the final trials set down
for a later period in the exhibition.
This occupied the time until recess.
After the forenoon session there was
a little better attendance, but still the
mum Der of visitors present was small.
There are those who regard this as
the crucial year of the show. 1t is
claimed that society that for so many
years had made the show a part of
Vanity Fair, has tired of it. 1t is
fact that the sale of boxes fell off a
good deal and people who last year
price, are this year bOx-hOlders. The
same is true of the sale of the reserved
seats in the first tier There the re-
ceipts fell off some $2S,O0 from last
year It is said that those members
of society who will grace the show with
their presence, in the main will keep
away from the boxes. The opinion
from a financial or a social standpoint
may be best judged from the fact that
boxes were sold at such q low figure
as $75 for the entire week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
EASLEY SPREADS OUT.
The Civic FederatiOnist From
Kansas Moves on New York.

New York Nov 15-Ralph NJ. Easley
of Chicago, secretary of the Civic Fed
Grafton, arrived in this city today. He
comes to make preparations for the
proposed national conference in behalf
of better primaries, to be held in New
York early in December.
He held a conference with John z.
MilhoIland, who is taking an active part
in the movement.
Mr.. Easley will establish headquart-
ers somewhere downtown and will start
at once an active campaign. with view
to insuring a large attendance at the
conference from the leading cities of
the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-15
KNIGHTS DENY IT.
Declare That Sovereign Has No De-
signs on the Presidency.


Louisville. Nov 15.-The morning ses-
sion of the general assembly of the
knights of Labor was devoted to the
discussion of the report of the commit
tee on immigration. It was the pre-
Vailing sentiment that some vigorous
steps should be taken to restrict immi-
grafton and statistics We're presented
showing that nearly ten million foreign
laborers had come to this country dur
ing the last % years, all of which it was
claimed, worked a hardship on the
American working man.
The report that Past Grand Master
Workman Sovereign had stepped down
because he desired to fix his plans for
the presidency on a labor reform tick
ct in 1900 was vigorously denied on all
sides Mr.. Sovereign has no such idea"
said one of his closest advisers this
morning And there is no truth in it.
If the presidency was offered him I
suppose he would accept it, as almost
any other man would do and the
Knights of Labor would glory in him
He has no designs on the presidential
chair. His resignation was solely for
the purpose of giving him more time
and a broader and wider field in which
TO work for the upbuilding and
strengthening of the cause in which he
IS SO greatly Interested"