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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
KAIULANI'S HOME COMING.
Hawaiians Cover the Princess With
Flowers.

Honolulu. Nov. 10. via San Francisco,
Nov 1.-THE arrival of Princess Kafu-
lani caused a flutter yesterday. A large
crowd of people principally natives,
greeted her at the wharf. AS the prin-
cess walked down the gang-plank the Ha-
waiians covered her with flowers. She
was driven to her home. where a recep-
tion was held last night. 1t is under
stood that Kaiulani viii remain here sew
eral months.
RumOr has it that the princess is here
to be married. The groom is said to be
George Davies. a son of T. H. Davies.
the guardian of the young woman. Geo.
Davies and his father arrived a few days
in advance of the princess. The elder Da-
vies is a very rich man and all his wealth
will go to his two sons. The Davies home
stead has been remOdeIed recently, which
is very significant to many people.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota ar
rived from Yokohama yesterday. He viii
remain here until the 18th, posting himself
on Hawaiian matters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
EXPECTS NEW ISSUES.
VIM. C. Whitney Outlines His Views
on Democracy's Future.

New York, Nov. 1.-THE Journal to-
day says:
In an interview last night, William c.
Whitney said: IF the Democracy be
true to itself, it will resume control OF
the nation in 1900.
Restoration of the Democracy to
power depends on the party itself. If
harmony comes, it will win. I should
say that the tendency of Democratic
thought is towards a restoration of
harmony. To that extent the status of
the party as a political organization is
improved
Does the complete restoration of har-
mony in the Democratic party depend
upon a change in the issues upon which
its national battle was fought last
year?"
Il believe the issues will be changed, -
replied the eX-Secretary.
Mr.. Whitney declared himself out of
politics and would go no deeper into an
analysis of election results He did not
say however. that he would not take
part in the future battles of the state
and acknowledgements he has
held alOOf from the councils of the par
ty since the campaign of 1896, his
friends understand that his interest in
its success has not Waned and that he
may resume his former share in it's
leadership when the occasion is timely
And that depends on what is done with
the silver issue. While the Democratic
platform and lines of the campaign in
Greater New York were laid down in
complete independence of the gold
Democratic faction, to which in 1896 MI.
Whitney belonged, he was understood
to have approved the strict adherence
to local issues and the waving of the
silver question by the party managers.
1t now appears that he in common with
many other party leaders, believes that
the silver question will not be the dom
inant issue in 1900 and that the party
division resulting from it in 1896 will
not exist in the next national cam
paign.
The former secretary of the navy ex-
poets the present Republican admins
tratiOn to create new issues before 1900
which will give the Democracy it's op-
pOrtunity for a more aggressive and har-
monizing campaign, than it has had on
the silver issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17

meeting his wife and the expected we'd
ding journey.
When we came to Kansas City. Mrs.
Nye had not arrived, but there was a
telegram asking him to break the news
as gently as possible to his wife that
the children were down with some ma
Iignant fever and had been Quarantin-
ed. God! 1 can see the poor fellow
nowI
''WeH. Mrs. Nye came. and they
started back on the next train. While
the manager Cancelled dates by wire
throughout California and people there
damned Mr. Nye and said a contract
with him was worthless, the Nyes
started back to their children, not
knowing what they should find, ignor-
ant il the little ones would be alive
when they arrived. When they reach
ed home. it was the critical period of
their sickness, and the physician said
it might increase the fever disastrous
" if the children saw their parents.
They can read letters from u.s.
said the father, and the little ones, ig-
nOrant of the mails, received about eV-
cry hour letters that purported tocome
from along the route to California. In
another room Nye sat writing funny
letters to his children, while his heart
was breakingi''
Mr.. Riley is also a friend of Eugene
" Debs, the labor leader and founder
of the Social Democracy. When asked
about his acquaintance with Mr.. Debs,
he said:
''Yes,I have known Debs for Is years
and personally, I admire him very
much. When ] speak of Mr.. Debs
speak of him as a man. His ideas on
political and social matters are his
own affairs. and they do not concern
me in the least. Such things are not
in my line. and do not even try to un-
derstand them. Mr.. Debs is as gentle
and self-sacrifieing as any man have
ever known. He not only looks very
much like Bill Nye, but he has the
same generous, kind disposition. 1
might almost say that it was he who
brought me out. as it was under his di-
rection that 1 first appeared in Terre
Haute."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
MoUsrAcHE PLAYED a PART
Milwaukee Minister Says it Was a
Distinct Feature of the Wallace
Ketcham Bridegroom.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-RelativeS of the
late John E. Ketcham will contest his
will if such an instrument is in exist
ence, on the ground that he was not
only of unsOund mind at the time he
may have signed it. but for ten months
previous. Ketchams two brothers and
two sisters Will also deny that their
brother was legally married to Minnie
he was entirely incapable of making
any kind of q contract at the time of
the alleged marriage, or indeed. for
nearly a year previous
Attorney James E. Purneu, who has
charge of the case for the Ketchams'.
says he has abundant proof that John
3. Ketcham has been mentally unsOund
for almost a year and that there has
been no proof of a marriage with Mrs
Walkup offered by the alleged wife.
The attorney has already served notice
on the Illinois Trust and Savings bank
to restrain Mrs Walkup from having
access to the safety box in which the
dead club man kept his securities.
Mrs. Walkup's butler, Joe Keller.
has suddenly become a very important
factor in the pending litigation. Kel-
Ter, according to his story. accOmpa-
MED John E. Ketcham and Mrs Walk
up to Milwaukee, on September "a and
was a witness to the ceremony which
made them man and wife. Rev Mr..
Roberts of Milwaukee, who performed
the ceremony, opens up rather start
ling possibilities by saying when shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
FLOWED UP STREAM.
High Winds Drive the Waters
of the NeYa Over st.
Petersburg.

st. Petersburg, Nov. lit is esti-
mated that about 1000 persons were
rendered homeless by the rising Of the
waters of the Neva, flooding the ca
nails, suburban islands and outlying
portions of the city through the fierce
winds which drove the waters up the
stream, sweeping away several bridges
When the flood assumed grave pro-
portions, cannon at the fortress were
fired at frequent intervals in order TO
warn the inhabitants OF their dan
ger.
The police are providing lodging and
food for the homeless. a number OF
ships in the Neva were driven from
their moorings by the force Of the wind
Only the abatement of the gale last
night averted a most terrible catastro-
Dhe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
TALKS oF Bill NYE.
"reminiscences of thu Dead Hum orist
by His Poet Associate.

James Whitcomb Riley, who will en-
tertain Topeka people tonight. was last
seen here several years ago in compa-
ny with Bill Nye. Mr.. Riley evidently
cherIshes strong affection for the
dead humorist, for he never misses an
opportunity to talk about Nye and
their associations
In discussing an occasion when Mr.
Nye failed to appear. Mr.. Riley said:
i never heard of Mr.. Nye's inability
10 appear without the deepest sympa-
tny. L knew something about him
which the public did not.
All the time that 1 knew Mr.. Nve
ne was sufferer from a spinal com
pla1nU- 1t dated from an attack of
spinal meningitis many years ago in
Laramie. He often went uDOn the
stage when it was torture for him The
nfst night We ever appeared together
II was in Dayton. O.-there were two
bright red spots in his cheeks that [
ailefWard found spoke of suffering
when the doctor remained with him
until clock in the previous morn
ing he did not wish to give up be
cause 1t was our first night
our audience would not have he
HeVed he was sick if he had given uD.
Feople cannot believe that anything
can be the matter with d man who
When they see, hear or read of him is
always cheerful bright happv and
Iunny. The public is pitiless and ex-
acting. If Nye had gone before the
curtain and announced that he would
cause he had received a telegram that
his little girl had died. he would have
peen greeted with hOwls of merriment.
was the penalty he had to paw
Feople would not believe he could be
serious There must be a humorous
meaning behind everything
some things happened to that man
that were so absolutely wretched that
ne was Just as miserable as he made
people happy" he resumed. "One Of
them happened right here in this town
ana az this very hotel.
Mr and Mrs. Nye We're a perfectly
mated couple They We're married
Wnen ne was poor, and they had never
taken a wedding journey, so when We
We're going to the Pacific coast thev
planned to go together. and they called
1t their wedding trip Mr.. Nve taIe-
graphed his wife to meet him at kan
sas city, and she left her home on
Staten Island, giving their two chill
dren into the care of a niece We had
been having one of those weeks that
managers some times get one into
where we Travelled in our dress sl1its
running from the theater and tuubIin% o
into Pullman, getting up at O'Clock
in the morning and all that sort Of
thing. Nye was about down. but All
the while cheered by the thought of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
Spor tsmen Invited.

a cordial invitation is extended to all
spOrtsmen to attend the first regular
meeting of the Topeka Sportsmen's as
soeiation at Conductors hall tonight All
members of the former West Side Gun
club are especially invited. The object
is to merge the two clubs into one. The
Magan trap has been shipped from Cleve-
land and will be here within a few days.
The committee that was appointed to so
ltcit members reports large list to be
added to the roll. Mr.. H. 5. AIOntgom-
cry. an enthusiast at the trap, says:
There is no sport that will save doctor
bills and prolong life as well trap
shooting" This reads like a patent medi-
cine advertisement. but Mr. Montgomery
says it is So
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SUICIDE WAS FROMKANSAS
His Name is r. A. Mitcheler, Trav-
cling Man From Salina.

St. Louis, Nov. 1.-THE identity of
the man who last week registered at
the Globe hotel as H May" and COM
mitted suicide, has been established.
His real name is r. A. Mitcheler. and
his home was in Salina, Kan. The de
ceased left a wife, but no children.
Mrs. Mitcheler is supposed to be in
Denver and she has brOther-in-law
in Paola. Kan. The latter has been ad-
vised of his brothers death. and the
body, which was to have been buried
in the potter's field today, will be held
for his orders
NIitcheler was formerly employed by
the Hamilton-Brown Shoe company of
this city as a travelling salesman, but
drink got the better of him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
PANIC IN A SCHOOL.
Stove Upsets Causing a SIAM
pede-FOur Pupils Hurt.

Cincinnati, Nov. IA panic was
caused in ST. Xavier school on Syca-
more street. between Fifth and Sixth
streets. today. by the upsetting of a
stove.
A cry of fire was heard, and the ut
most confusion resulted. Some of the
frightened children jumped from the
windows. while others were thrown
down by the maddened efforts of the
stronger ones to escape.
The fire and police departments re-
sponded to calls. The fire was quickly
subdued and the four seriously iniur-
ed pupils We're sent home. They are:
Charles Mulligan, Lesly Donovan. Jo-
seph Reach and Jesse Stevens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
TOLL GATE RAIDERS.
Show No Respect for

Show No Respect for Sex or Locality.
Cincinnati, Nov. 1.-THE Times-Star
special from Nicholasville, Ky, says: A
mob last night raided the toll gates in
this locality. Eight We're destroyed. One
of the gates was within the limits of the
city and kept by a woman There We're
four divisions of the mob. with about %
in each division. The keepers were all
warned to quit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
TRAIN ROLLED OVER.
Two Coaches With 60 Pass myers
Tumble Into the Ditch.

Cleveland, Nov IA passenger
train on the Cleveland, Canton and
Southern railway was wrecked this
morning. The train was derailed at
the approach to a bridge over the Pet
tibone brook Two of the passenger
coaches rolled over the embankment
into the ditch. Sixty persons were
aboard but only three were injured
Miss Grace Chapman, B S Baxter and
John Roe. all of Chagrin Falls, sus-
tanned severe injuries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
It win Crow Warmer

The government weather bureau today
announces that tonight and tomorrow will
be cloudy with warmer air. The mini
mum temperature for last night was IS
degrees, which is degrees higher than
that of the night before This afternoon
at 2:3O the temperature was SO degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
LANDSLIDE KILLS 40.
Scene of the Catastrophe is 40
Miles From Quebec.

Quebec, Nov IA landslide in the
Duchene river near St. Edouard, Lot
binere county, is reported to have kill
ed 40 persons. The place is 45 miles
northwest of Quebec.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
Todev's yellow Fever Bulletin.

New Orleans, Nov. 17.-Three new
cases and three deaths, was the yellow
fever report here up to 1 o'clock today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
Postmaster at Oswegc.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE president
has appointed W. F. McGiu postmaster
at OsWego, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17
BURIED IN A CELLAR.
II Persons Entombed by Collapse If
Vault.

Munich Nov 1.-THE vault of the Max
imillian cellar collapsed today, buryins. u
persons. Eleven Of them have been extri-
Gated, but the others are probably dead.*
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17

True merit must succ aed! Try Prof,
Fields Worm Powders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-17

edly urged, and which offers a rational
way out of the postal deficits
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Continued on Third PageD
The herald., 1897-07-28
RETROACTIVE AFTER ALL

The treasury department must be in
great fright for revenue during the
coming year. To get the paltry sum
possible by the subterfuge the resource
full secretary has sent out orders to COL
lect new rates on all imports coming into
the country after midnight of last Fri
day.
The Dingley bill was not signed until
after sunset Saturday, when every Gus
tom house in the United States was
closed. Until the presidents signature
was put on the bill it was not the law,
nor could any person unqualifiedly claim
it would ever be the law.
All fair reasoning would lead to the
conclusion that any goods entered atthe
custom houses prior to the signing of the
bill should come in under the schedule
of the former law.
The pitfulness of the subterfuge
which extends the opera ton of the law
back a whole day before it was law
appears in the pitifulness of the gross
amount possible to save. But the treas
ury department is fully aware of the
task before it, and, like the proverbial
drowning man, grasps at straws.
The herald., 1897-07-28
Los Angeles, July 26, 1897.
Mathematical Plan

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Her
aid: There appeared in your columns
of today an article entitled "Mathemati-
cal Plan" which is so entirely mislead-
ing that l ask space in your paper to
correct the same.
Neither c. White Mortimer nor G. T.
Spowart knew anything of the inserting
of the advertisement for help and con-
sequently were not at 321 Spring street
any part of the day you refer to. l,
as a member of the jubilee committee,
and chairman of the subcommittee
having in charge the disposing of the
sewing machine, inserted two advertise
ments for help, the object being to Sc
cure all the help could to sell our tick
cts at 10 cents each to accumulate the
value of the machine. When 1 arrived
at the store on Monday morning the
numbers awaiting me in response to my
ad. We're SO many that found 1t neces-
sary to keep the door closed and admit
only a few a time. This l did, giving
ladies the preference, and to every
seeker l offered large commission upon
the sale of our tickets, which a number
were very glad to accept, and in some
cases returned in the afternoon for an
other supply Of tickets, having readily
sold what they took in the forenoon In
several cases where the work seekers
had no money with them, but gave me
references, I gave them the tickets
without a deposit. If any of those who
sought a job were as you say bitterly
sold, and are very indignant, 1 am sorry
that their expectation was greater than
their desire to work but not so great as
their ability to find fault. If our plan
OF raising funds for the Diamond Jubi-
lee Memorial did not commend itself
to my callers on Monday, it was their
fault, not mine.
A. @. ST GEORGE.
Los Angeles. July 81, 1897.
The herald., 1897-07-28
RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSES

Is the northernmost tier Of western
states stealing march upon California
IN the matter of trade with China, Korea
and Japan? 1t looks very much like it.
provided the statements written by
William E. Curtis Of the Chicago Record
are well founded.
A Montana man tells Mr.. Curtis that
the flour trade of the northwest is.being
revolutionized, and that in few years
all the wheat raised in the northern tier
of states west of the Mississippi will go
west instead of eastward. The 500, 900, 900
people in China, Korea and Japan are &C.
quiring the white bread habit. There are
now nine vessels carrying -four from
Puget sound to China and Japan. Next
year twenty-seven new ones will be add.
ed. Jim Hill is engineering the scheme,
and, Hill doesn't go into scheme to make
failure of it. These steamers bring
back tea and silks, and it is expected
to make Seattle the great tea port of the
world.
In addition to flour, the Montana man
says they are getting big market for
evaporated fruits, and the market is
growing every day.
Flour, apples, peaches, pears, prunes
and other varieties of dried fruits-Cal-
ifornia produces them all. Why isn't
California getting slice Of this big and
growing trade? Within six months foui
big mills have been erected at Seattle.
North Yakima and Spokane Falls t.
grind wheat for the Japanese trade. II
is no logger an experiment
Does San Francisco know what is 60
ing on? Southern California expects
the metropolis to be UP and doing. We
have wheat and dried fruits to sell
We can take our share of teas and
silks. These commodities can go east
by way of California as we'll as by way
of JimhillGOm.
The herald., 1897-07-28

Los Angeles, July 27, 1897.
The Derivation of Key West

To the Editor of the Los Angeles
Herald: The following item has been
circulated by English as we'll as German
papers all over the country: Key West
is the southernmost point belonging to
the United States. 1t is the key (schlues-
seD to the gulf of Mexico"
Every reader with some knowledge OF
Spanish must laugh at such forced ex-
PLANTATION of a name which is nothing
but a horrible corruption of Spanish
word with some meaning, while the
Anglicised name has indeed no meaning
at all Especially, what sense would
it have to allude by the word west" TO
the geographical situation Of place
which in reality lies eastward?
AS matter of fact the name key
West" is perverted from "Cayo HUGO
which means a sterile islet with sur
face as hard and dry as bone (hueso)
On the coast of the West Indian islands
belonging to Spain there are several of
such islete or small peninsulas that are
called in combination with some proper
noun or adjective cayos; for example,
Cayo Eacas. Cayo Romano, Cayo Largo,
etc. Yours, w. THEME.
Los Angeles, July 81, 1897.
The herald., 1897-07-28
THE GOLD FEVER is CONTAGIOUS

1t is an interesting and undeniable
fact that one event, incident or discov-
cry leads to others of the same nature.
Perhaps this holds more true with re-
spect to mining than with anything else
The development of Cripple Creek led
to the development and discovery of half
a dozen new and profitable gold camps
in Colorado. Randsburg, in Southern
California, is an offspring of the Cripple
Creek idea. The South African craze,
too. stimulated the development of gold
mining all over the world.
A curious and interesting illustration
in the Clondyke discoveries and their
influence upon mining everywhere. 1t
is scarcely two weeks since the news Of
the discoveries came from Alaska, yet
already dispatches have been printed
from various points in California and
Colorado announcing lew and rich gold
discoveries.
To be sure, these discoveries are, in a
measure, of the nature of condolences.
Perhaps, taking the cue from the Clon-
dyke region stories, they are more or
less exaggerated Nevertheless, it may
be set down as an ncontrovertible
proposition that the Clondyke dscov-
cries will greatly stimulate the mining
industry all over the country.
of surprise to nine tenths of the peo-
pie of Southern California to know the
great extent to which mining is being
carried on in this section. There are
hundreds of mining enterprises, some of
them of no small magnitude, that are
making large profits for their owners.
They are not heard of through the news
papers every day, but they are here,
nevertheless The latest development
in this line is the discovery of rich
ledge up the San Gabriel, and people Of
Azusa have worked up quite furry
over it.
| Not everybody who wants to go to
; Alaska can CO. Not everybody who can
go there wants to. Both classes would
like to make money IN mining, and they
will find their opportunities right here
at home In thie way the Clondyke dis
coveries will confer great, though in
| direct benefit upon the mining industry
of California and other precious min
| eral states of the union.
The herald., 1897-07-28

ordered 1000 carrier pigeons to be liber-
ated long distance away. the end Of
their journey to be Dusseldorf. in Rhen-
ish Prussia.
Either by accident or design the Ger
man war Office selected Dover England,
as the place where the pigeons should
be liberated. Several days afterward
| it occurred to the English soldiers,
statesmen and diplomats that it looked
very much as if Emperor William was
trying to discover the possible extent
of communication with the fatherland
in case war should break out between
the two countries and the German forces
should occupy English soil.
Occupy English soil, indeed! The very
idea was calculated to give the British
lion a stroke of apoplexy. Such impu-
dence was not to be allowed to go I'M
noticed and uncondemned. So the Eng
fish newspapers have been freeing their
minds with regard to the matter. and a
new GOODNESS is manifest between the
English and German cousins.
The incident is not one that diplomacy
may take note of, and an unofficial biting
of thumbs is all the recourse at present
to be had In the meantime it is to be
supposed that Emperor William is hav-
ing hearty laugh over the exasperat-
ing situation in which he has, unwilling
ly or otherwise, placed the right little,
tight little island.