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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
A LAND OF DEATH.

CTrom the Cincinnati Times-Star.)
Commander Booth-Tucker of the Saliva
ton Army during the several years he
spent in India had large opportunities to
look into the condition of the country
and of the poorer classes. and the pic
ture he draws of the state of that country
is something friShtful to contemplate
Famine is an almost perennial condition
There are districts where hunger is never
absent where cholera averages 300 00O
deaths in an ordinary year. and Starva-
ton claims at least 100000 According
70 Booth-Tucker. the official, actuarial
that is the average. The local death rate
ranges from 80 to 50 in a 1000 In other
words. without the pressure OF any spec
y coo 600 people die yearly. He quotes Sir
William Hunter, the historian of India,
OO0 people scarcely ever lose the sensation
of hunger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
Brown Reats the Government.

Pretoria, South Africa, Jan. 23.-The
high court has decided in favor of the
American engineer, R. z. Brown, who
sued the government for a declaration
of rights in his favor respecting certain
claims at Wiltantaine, or, in default
demanding the payment of 100000
pounds (S5. 900 ,o00). The suit arose from
the government proclaiming Wilfontaine
to be open for gold mining in a certain
date, whereupon Mr. Brown pegged out
large blocks of claims But, in the
meantime the government withdrew the
exclamation and afterwards proclaim
ed Milfontaine under the lottery law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
wHEw! AMT THEY MADP

Much tall talk was heard at Topeka,
Kansas, yesterday at the dnanguaa6ioa OF
Rhetoric in very high key was poured
out in great quantities BY the ReW gGN
scorn for the money-grabbing east
Hartford Times.
Kansas has been indicated in a speech
by her new Populist governor Governor
cannot be improved but he believes that
she is kind of singed cat, that looks
worse than she is.-Syracuse Post.
Under Governor Leedys generalship the
Kansas ship of state will soar quickly to
the pinnacle of flames highest temple
Philadelphia Ledger
Not in long time has there been a
better example of unconscious humor
than that furnished by the Populist gov
ernor of Kansas in his powerful inaugural
address.-New York Advertiser.
In the inaugural address of Governor
Leedy. of Kansas, the new literature OF
the west bursts into full bloom all at once.
There is nothing in it of seed time or the
tender nurture of the unfolding plant
Like the night blooming cereus it pops
open all at once, gorgeous, eblouissant.-
Buffalo Courier
1t would be difficult to conceive of a
Governor Leedy signalized his induction
to office. The 20 600 words constituting
ing but deliberate effort to stir partisan
bitterness class animosity and sectlonal
jealousy. Inc manifest purpose OIL TINS
political IShmaeI was to deride and defy
the east.-NeW York Mail and Express.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, scores some
of the big eastern cities for not having
room in their schools for all the children,
and says that his state presents no such
spectacle. The worst of it is that he is
right.-Boston Herald.
The race of freakish. Popuiist governors
cannot perish from the earth while the
new governor of Kansas is able to keep
office hours.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, says that
New York is only semi-civilized. He
ought to take a few weeks off and pay us
a visit before he writes his next message.
When he got back he would not indulge
so freely in the cheerful audacity which
he charges against other people reck-
lessly.-NeW York Evening Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

The American Newspaper Directory
each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL a guaranteed cir
cuIation. The directory for 1896
guarantees that the circulation
was larger than that of any other
Topeka daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Chicago Times Herald: "a Texan
who has 16 undivorced wives and 10
children has been discovered, and a
Lone Star contemporary demands to
know: What shall be done with this
fellow?' AS he cannot be pensioned Ie-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
Reached daily average for first six
months 1896 of Io,625.

The new STATE JOURNAL. horne is
one of the neatest and most unique
buildings in the state model
newspaper structure. Its fast web
press and It's Iinotypes are on the
the ground floor, behind plate glass,
affording a never ceasing attraction
to the passerby on the sidewalk.
The public can see and time the
printed papers and know that over
ten thousand are issued daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

The winter has proved so mild and
open that all of those volunteer com
panies to go to Cuba that We're organ
lied at the first cold snap have faded
out of existence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
KING OF CANNlBALS.
An American Who Rules a
South Sea Island.

He Rejoices in the Unromantic Name
of Hobbs, Recently Married Tail
or's Daughter in New York.
All sorts of strange things happen in
big metropolis like New York, but the
recent marriage in that city of oanni-
bal island king to tailor's daughter is
an event without precedent. The po-
tentate in question is Colonel John F.
Hobbs, an American who rounded out
series of surprising adventures by land
and sea by becoming the oumalea. or
king. Of four of the New Hebrides is
lands.
Colonel Hobbs is native of South
Carolina and a lawyer. Some years
ago he went to Australia, became
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

The STATE JOURNAL has forty
Peka and suburbs. These carriers
alone are paid over $4,000 a year
for circulating the paper in this
community.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
Famous Garden Burns.

New Orleans, Jan. 23--Schroder's
garden in Carroilton where Sullivan.
Corbett, Fftzsimmons and many other
pugilists were trained, was destroyed
by fire early this morning. Loss $500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
specialties bv enc Paieea.

Hake sisters. Harry English, Geo. w
Paige. Walter l. Potts. Lillian Paige,
Frances Florida, Rem Halze, Walter c.
Steely and others at the Crawford OPP
era House every night this week. Prices
10, 20 and 80 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

King Oscar of Sweden is hereafter to
settle all the disputes between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain. When
one misbehaves after this, the other VIII
say: 'Il tell Oscar on you"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Debs says all men have an inherent
right to work Like the women'S in
herent right to suffrage most men are
inclined to sleep on their right in this
particular
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
Breckinridge's Daught>.. a lawyer

Frankfort. Ky. Jan. 2s-Miss So
pnronia Breckenridge. daughter of Col.
w. c. P. Breckenridge. was admitted to
the bar by the court of appeals this
morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

There are bandits
nowadays as wei
as in the days OF
old. Business men
have to meet what .
are now n as
business bandits.
TIL ey m ay rot
commit violence
with knife nd
pistol, bat they re-
sort to all manner
of dishonest bust
ness methods. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

New Building = double front, three
floors. prominent corner = erected
for the exclusive use of the pubIica-
ton and business of the STATE
JOURNAL newspaper-noj Job office
or side issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

The poetry in the magazines is like
a recent description of theosophy.
Something that everybody knows and
feels and can't tell anyone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Melba's cold cost her $4,000. That's
little worse than the average person
with a cold suffers who goes to a fash
ionable doctor,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

There are no secrets about
the STATE JOURNALS
circulation. A detailed
statement, signed and
sworn to, is issued annu-
ally, showing the circu-
Iation for each day in
the year. The statement
is sent to directories and
furnished advertisers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Why not celebrate Kansas Day with
rockets and firecrackers? This is not a
paid notice by the dealers in fireworks,
but it ought to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

The appetite for office is like the ap-
petite for strong drink; it grows on one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Editor Dana is opposed to the retire
ment of the greenbacl1s. Here is where
the Wall street brokers and the bankers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Ananias is having his second time on
earth. He is a Cuban correspondent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
HOW WE GREW.

In 1855 the circulation vas. 500
January 4, 1891, were printed 3,125
Daily average for year 1884,. 1850
Daily average for year 1892 5000
Daily average for year 1893. 6,213
Daily average for year 1904. 8,A18
Daily average for year 1895. 9,217
Daily average Est 6 moRS. 80. 10. e25
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

In the fifteen months last past
these are some of the results that
have been reached:
Made a showing - sworn detailed
statement circulation exceeding
that of any other Topeka daily:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Kansas has been indicated in a speech
by her new Populist governor Governor
Leedy is not of the opinion that Kansas
cannot be improved but he believes that
she is kind of a singed cat, that looks
worse than she is.-Syracuse Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Four Linotype machines installed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Paper enlarged from six column quarto
to seven column quarto.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Under Governor Leedy's generalship the
Kansas ship of state will soar quickly to
the pinnacle of flames highest temple
Philadelphia Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

! Not in a long time has there been
better example of unconscious humor
| than that furnished by the Populist gov
| ernor of Kansas in his powerful inaugural
| address.-New York Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23

Governor Leedy. of Kansas, scores some
of the big eastern cities for not havinS
room in their schools for all the children,
and says that his state presents no such
spectacle. The worst of it is that he is
right.-Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18

you ask me for some biographical data
let me say that as a boy worked for my
father as a lopemaker. ] went to the
Norwich schools and made that town my
home until i came here in 1850.
II went to Cape Town and various
points along the West Coast of Africa in
1881, and rem aimed there about two years.
Before came West l followed the sea for
about seventeen years. being with the
London and Liverpool Packet Company.
/ was for long time mate of the packe I
ship Henry Clay.
81 came here as an attache of the Gus
toms service, having received my appoint
ment from Thomas Corwin.
II was married in 1874 and had three
sons and three daughters, of whom all but
two are still living. i have nineteen iineal
descendants in and about San Francisco.
l have been widower for nine years"
Mr.. Bromley is past com mander of the
California Commandery, Knights Tenn
piar. and has been an Odd Fellow since
1874
II have been a member OF the Bohemian
Club for twenty-four years." he said, land
call it my home. 1 enjoy being there,
and feel happy among the members"
Mr.. Bromley speaks modestly OF him
sell, and he neglected to say that he was
United States Consul to Tien Tsin, China,
under Garfield. He was regarded as a
charming diplomat, and those who had
business with him found him uniformly
courteous and painstaking in his work
speeches were made until late hour al
the club, and all present wished the octo-
genarian high priest of the club the re-
turn Of many birthdays.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
VICTORY FOR BERKELEY,
California Collegians Defeat the
Palo Alto Men at
Baseball.
AfIer Holly Contested Cams the
Blue and Gold Players Win Out
by Score of I5-1I.

Victory perched on the banner of the
blue and gold yesterday afternoon at Gen.
trail Park, the University of California
baseball nine having defeated the Stan
ford team in the second of the series of
three games this season by score of Is to
IL. OF the fourteen games that have been
played between the two universities in
the last five years. or since the inter-
collegiate agreement went into effect, this
is the second which Berkeley has to her
credit.
Never did Roman warrior leave the
field of Mars with lighter heart than
did the Berkeley ball-players leave the
diamond yesterday afternoon. 1t was
hard, fast game from start to finish, and
at no time was the interest at an ebb.
The grand stand and the bleachers were
well filled with lusty, leather.lunged COL
Iegians and their maidens fair. 1t was
evident from the outset that the game
WAS to be a close one, with odds in favor
of the .. c. men. Berkeley's fortune and
stanford's success were about even up
until the seventh inning. Then it was
that Berkeley's fatal number became
known. 1t was none other than sim
pie ''7.''
In the corner of the grounds the scorer
hung up on great white placards the fol-
lowing: Inning 7-Stanford z, Berkeley
z. At the end of the inning he brought
out fourth ~" ana added it to Berke-
ley's tally. 1t is peculiar coincidence
that in the seventh inning with the score
to Berkeley made seven runs, which
won the day for the blue and gold. The
names of Hoag, Wheeler, Sykes. Henne-
sey, Es:on, McLaren and Harrisburg will
go down in the history of U. G. baseball
as the men who formed the procession OF
seven base runners in the memorable
seventh inning.
The batting was heavy on both Sides
Two home runs were made, one bv
Hennesey and the other byILoughead. Not
q single error was recorded for the Cali
fornia team, while nine were charged up
against Stanford. Kaars burg pitched
throughout the game for the U. c., while
Captain Thompson of Stan ord relieved
Beckett in the eighth. McLaren of the
Berkeley team, who went to pieces in last
Saturdays game at short, com pletely re-
trieved himself to-day by putting up
star game at left field.
The Stanford team was the same as last
week. with the exception of Klauber, who
was put in at center field when Thorn pson
relieved Beckett in the box
Following is the detailed account of the
game, with the work done by each player:
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
MARCEAU UNDER
AN ATTACHMENT
His Former Wife Charges
Him With Misappro-
priation.
Part of the Fortune Left Her
Son Involved in the
Case.
He Is Alleged to Have Secured Three
Thousand Doll ars to Take
Up Note.

Theodore c. Marceau's photograph ga.
lery and his cash at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
Bank were attached yesterday to secure
the payment of about 5000, alleged to
have been nisappropriated from the trust
fund OF ]. Allen Fiske, the son of Mrs.
Gerald Martin Fennell, the former fife of
Marceau, and from whom he was recently
divorce d.
Some time in 1894 Marceau was in sore
need of about $4,000, as the story is told by
the attorneys for young Fiske, and sought
on the strength of his note to borrow that
sum from Wells. Fargo & Co.'s Bank, but
they refused to advance such a large sum
of money without security. Marceau, the
story continued, approached his vile,
who was the guardian of Master Fiske, a
son by her first husband, and induced her
to give him an order for $4,000 on the S10,-
600 deposited to the credit of the lad in
the German Savings and Loan Society,
and also the two bankbooks of the cash
portion of the boys $50, 600 fortune left
him by his father.
ceau succeeded In negotiating the loan Of
$4,000 on his note. Eventually the note
fell due, but Marceau, it is stated, was in
the same financial condition as at the time
he obtsined the loan. In this predica-
ment he made arrangem ents with the
bank by which the latter was enabled to
cash the order on the German Bank for
$1,000.
In the action instituted yesterday by
Dunno & McPike in the name Of Mrs. Fen
nell, as the guardian of her son, it is al
legged that Marceau has uniawfully appro-
priated this sum to his own use, and has
never repaid any portion of it or paid any
interest on the amount.
1t was in connection with this suit that
the attachments were levied by the Sheriff
yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
THE INAUGURATION BALL.
Who 1t Is That Pays the Fiddlers and
All the Rest.

All the Rest.
An inquiring correspondent has asked
bow Washington pays the inauguration
bill, says Washington correspondent to
the Boston Transcript. There is a tenn pta-
ton 10 answer this question waggishly by
saving that such query betrays an igno-
rance of Washington's part in the per-
formance. This city takes in the money
instead of paying it out. The people who
come here, individually or in military or
civic organizations, pay for whatever they
get and at handsome rates. They more
thsn pay for those general undertakings
which the local public carries out. The
inaugural ball is a device for levying a
direct tribute of So per head upon all the
visitors. 1t is not ball strictly. There
is practically no dancing and people 60
to it simply to see one another.
Mrs. Senator-elect 1ceburg GOES that she
NAV suitably maintain the dignity of her
husbands S office, and the constituents of
the new Senator go that they may see the
Senator and his wife and all The other
notables on dress parade. Mr.. and Mrs
Mckinley will attend the bali because the
former will have just become President of
the United States, and in his honor the
ball is given. Mr.. Jones OF Podunk will
go to the ball that he may grasp the hand
OF the new President, and others will go
that is taking place. The Washington
public steers clear of the inaugural ball
the old resident has long since regard ed
So as figure too high for the privilege of
looking at those whom the whirl OF
fortune has suddenly brought to the top.
The ball, then. which yields from sou, 600
up in revenue, costs practically nothing,
and is paid for almost wholly by visitors
from the outside, and except by people OF
comfortable means, by those who are at
tending their first inauguration. The ball
has no deadhead list. Another source OF
income to the local committee is derived
from the outside public in the form of an
indirect tax. 1t comes through the con-
cessions which the committee sells. like
permits for the erections of reviewing
stands and permits for the sale of various
articles at prominent points. Then the
privilege of selling supper at 81 a head
at the ball is regarded by caterers as
worth many thousand dollars In all
these ways it happens that the inaugura-
tion committee raises more money than it
needs, and l think it was eight years ago
that the sum of S26, 600 was turned over
from this source to charities in the district
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18

IArE ELECTRC- MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Market, Powell Eddy Streets.
N$~1sfeHee-3 Eddy Street san Frarcsco
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
Nothing Else Like 1t Elsewhere.

4. Cnder no circumstances should the Electro
ieIlcal Cure be confounded with the ordinary
ttaeStrlc treatm Mt as applied by common bat
tes or with such crude magnetic appliances
Tessttectie belts and the like. The Electro
en- PIE different in application and differ
yonna erect 1t is adapted TO the old and the
fact e. the me nervous. bilious, lymphalic; in
man systeroh each and every condition OF the hu-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18

petual High Priest" of the club, and as
such he officiates at all limitations, and
presides at the annual Jinks and other
festivities of the club.
Il have heretofore been as modest as a
girl about diyulging my age" said the
charming octogenarian yesterday. 'but
now that 1 have TWO great-grandch ldren
shall blush behind my fan no longer, so
confess that l was born at Norwich,
Conn, on April 10, 1917. and that 1 have
been growing older ever since, though
sill love life and enjoy the companion
ship of many young men and women,
feeling younger mentally and bodily than
many men of 80 and 60 years.
NV career is not one that is of any
great consequence to the public, but since
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
BOHEMIA HONORS
ITS HIGH PRIEST
A Banquet to Uncle
George" Bromley, Octo-
genarian.
The Celebration of the Birthday
of the Club and Its
Favorite Member.
TIE Doub'e Event One of the Creates I
Occasions in the History of
the c ub

The most elaborate banquet ever wit
messed at the Bohemian CLUB was ten
dered to George T. Bromley last night. the
occasion being in honor of his eightieth
birthday, which was the 18th.
The banquet, however, was also in cele-
bration of the twenty-fifth anniversary OF
the Bohemian Club, which was esteb-
lished twenty-five years ago yesterday.
Uncle George Bromley, as he is gen.
orally known, though he says no one west
of the Rockies has the legal right to call
him uncle bears the proud title of per
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, April g. 1897
Illford Il. Hill, wish to p ace record my
deep satisfaction with the treatment I have re.
ceived at the State Elecl TO Medical institute I
appleu Tor advice there January 3d. 1897. being
asuHerer for SIX years from catarrhal troubles of
walked hrisSly 1 was conscious OF ss.lmming in
the head and noises in the ear and labor ed der
oeafheSs OF the left ear. The doctors of the In
stitute subjected me to electrical trea ment ar
prescribed internal remedies and now feel hat
am perfectly well. new lease of life is granted
me, and j am rid OF all those pains and strange
feelings that troubled nay h cad
FROM tnis happv perso al experience ! can
warmly recomme nd the methods of this Instituted
ne breeze that the doctor piled upon nv head
ie whiie was seated on the platform OF his large
my head / had spent $1,000 with doctors bera
and In Illinois. ~
may be seen at the Yosemite House. lO43
1045 Market street. by any inuuirers
i. T. HILL. Yosemite House
(Mr Bll is weil-known employe of the estate
Of the late Senator stanford). e''''0
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
Stanfords. o O o o O Ali
Californias"..........3 o 3 1O7 O-lb
SUMMARY,

Earned runs-Stanfords i. Home runs-Loupb
cad, Hennesey. Two base hits-Hoag q First
base on errors-Stanfurds 5. CALIFORNIA; l. Firs,
base on called balls-oF Harrisburg II, off Beckett
a, on Thompson q Lett on bases-Caifornias g.
Beckett !. Hit by pitcher-By Kaarshurp
Double piay-From McLaren to Hennesey. VIVID
pitch-Beckett. Time Of game. hours 2 minutes
Umpires-Gagus and Donohue. l. c. Miner of.
fcial scorer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
Baron Hirsch has secured at least nna

DHrOn HIrscH mas secured at least Oue
monument more lasting than bronze.n
With the avowed object OF fcommemorating
the great benefits which the late Baron
conferred on the settlers in his Argentine
colonies, the heads OF the families there
have decided to give the name of Moses
Hirsch to every male child until the first
anniversary of his death.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-18
Home Treatment.

If you 1--we out of town and cannot visit the
Institute this need not deprive you OF the
benefits o. this wonderful treatment. 1t is
only necessary to write plain statement OF
your condition, explaining your feelings and
symptoms clearly possible, and from il
the Institute Doctors will be able to accurately
diagnose your case. 1t only costs you the
trou BILE of writing and two cents in postage to
get the opinion and advice of the Institute
doctors.