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The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
WHEN TOPEKA WAS BORN
"reminiscences of the Fo unding
43 Years Ago Today.

This is the 43rd anniversary of the natal
day of Topeka. 1t was cold. clustering
day and the seven founders of the city
met in a log cabin that was but partly
built. The wind whistled through the
cracks. and, to say the least, it was a
dreary outlook for the city that took
its name from potatoes The cabin was
situated near the corner of what is now
First and Kansas avenue, in the midst of
woods. The cabin was built by Enoeh
Chase, who came from Massachusetts;
Milton c. Dickey and Jacob Chase from
New Hampshire. These three men ar
rived in Topeka on December 1, 1854, and
We're reinforced by the other four, who
arrived from Lawrence on December 4.
The other four were Cyrus K. Holiday
of Pennsylvania, Thomas H. Thornton
of Maine, Daniel Horn of Massachusetts
and Frye w. Giles of New Hampshire.
Frye w. Giles walked from Kansas City
to Lawrence. He left Kansas City on
December 2nd and stopped over night at
an Indian hut and breal1fasted on side
meat, coffee and corn-dodger. He slept on
a buffalo robe spread on the puncheon
floor. On the 3rd he arrived in Lawrence
and attended a meeting that was held for
the purpose of sending delegates to
place up the river called Pappan's Ferry.
Some officers from Fort Riley had passed
through Lawrence and had left word that
there were three men camped there and
that if others went a colony might be
formed. Holiday Thornton, Horn and
Giles were selected as delegates to go to
Pappan's Ferry, see what sort of farm
ing land there was and to report to the
Lawrence colony. They made the jour-
ney to the ferry. arriving there on De-
cenber 4, but they never returned to Law
renee to make their report; instead, they
founded the city of Topeka. On Mon
day, December 9th, James Hickey arrived
from Lawrence with an OK team and
load of provisions. The council chamber
Of the founders of the city was the old
sod house that was built at the corner OF
First and Kansas avenue. From that cor
ner all the surveys were made. OF the
seven men who founded Topeka but two
are living, Cyrus X. Holiday and Frye
w. Giles. Today Colonel Holiday Is in
New York attending the meeting of the
board of directors Of the Santa Fe rail-
road of which he was the founder
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
TO CURE CONSUMPTION.
Claim of New York Physician for
Electrolysis.

New York, Dec 4-Eight men who
believe that electricity has saved them
from their graves, toward which con-
sumption was hurrying them. gathered
in the office of DR.. J. Mount Bleyer, at
No. 46O Lexington avenue yesterday af-
ternOOn.
They were there by invitation of DR..
Mount Bleyer They We're to exhibit
themselves to the press of New York.
A white and brown rabbit was there
by force. He was to give his life for
the good of science, but he didn't know
that.
Prof. Mount Bleyer was assisted by
DR.. H. H. Waite, who is connected
with his work; Expert Chemist Wood
cock and Charles Marchand, a French
chemist. DR.. Miller, a German physi-
clan, was also present.
Patient Vim. Schmitt was the first
of those most deeply interested to ap-
pear. He is a bewhiskered musician
who once blew a horn, but is now in
capacitated for that profession. as one
OF his lungs is entirely gone. But the
other one is all right, said DR.. Mount
Bleyer
He also said that a sanitarium had
given this case up as hopeless. There
were 20 men in the office when the cleo
trolysis experiments We're begun. Mr..
Briggs sat IN an operating chair while
the electric current was applied over
his lung DR.. Mount Bleyer said that
the electricity was of a wavy current,
which penetrated from pole to pole
and acted directly on the parts affect
ed.
Mr.. Briggs described the treatment
as pleasant, and said that he had faith
in it's efficacy, as it had built him up
from a shadow. Mr.. Briggs is not yet
fat by any means
After this examination the great ex-
pertinent of the day was tried. The
rabbit was placed on a glass table and
electricity to the amount of 20 volts
applied to its body just behind the
neck.
The current was continued for 20
minutes. The rabbit was held in posi-
tion by two men and twice objected to
the treatment or his position, foolishly
the operators sid. The rabbit was
treated to electricity for the purpose
of steriIizing his blood, in other words
of so charging it with oxygen that it's
change would be evident.
This would also prove, it was said
that the blood Of the patients under
benefit-and oxygen is the life of the
blood.
At the end of 20 minutes Dr. Mount
Bleyer cut the rabbits throat with
razor and an attendant caught the
blood in a dish.
The blood instead of coagulating re-
manned liquid and as red as it had
flowed from the rabbit. Experiments
were made with the blood. A drop
was injected into a small glass bottle
of filtered water and it gave its color
to the water from the start.
1t was explained that had the rabbit
been killed before being charged with
electricity its blood would coaguIate
and the drop would have fallen to the
bottom of the cylinder of water like a
pellet.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04

these at the colony store they can make
desired purchases at a very silght ad-
vance over wholesale rates to the
maximum Of their credits When the
time for their departure is at hand
they are paid in cash whatever then is
due Since it's opening this colony has
had 8 600 men in charge and has found
permanent employment for 3,3OO
Originally established to provide work
for tramps and for other classes of the
unemployed and to help them into ways
of self-supporting industry, it was not
long after the esta blishing of the first
colonies until it seemed necessary to
open them to discharged prisoners.
There, as with us, many OF these are
without homes. Their Imprisonment in
part at least, robs them of the ability
to secure honest and paying labor, and
without some help they seemed DOOM
ed to fall back into criminal ways.
Hence it was thought best to open the
work colonies to them and in late years
three -fourths of the 10000 men who
each year were received have belonged
to this Glass; Many of them had been
arrested for trivial offenses.s In the
Berlin work colony, for example, 5S per
cent of the inmates had been arrested
and imprisoned, but 90 per cent of them
had been under arrest and punished for
begging. The original intention of the
colonies therefore has been somewhat
modified and enlarged and the type of
the cOlonists cOrreSpOndingly changed
since the beginning of the work in 1882.
Friends of the system point to the
fact that in Prussia since the opening
of the aid stations and work colonies
the number of arrests for crime had
decreased from 600 to 5000 u year
and say that years of experience
have proved that it is to the states
financial interest to decrease the num-
ber of criminals, it is but just that the
state treasury should help bear the eX-
pense Of maintaining these places. They
claim that this is the only reasonable
course, because it is absurd to refuse
little help to keep an unemployed army
..fr arsfr on OF nEF
the way of productive labor. caring for
them only after they have been driven
to the commission of crime, and thus
virtually Offer1ng q premium for evil
doing. These claims are SO many evil
dences that the system has proved en-
couragingly successful in Germany.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
NEWS FROM BOON COUNTY.
An Eccentric Postmaster Tells the
President All the Gossip and
Sends His Love.

Parkersburg, w. Va. Dec. 4.-The
Glenville Pathfinder publishes the fol-
lowing letter written by an obliging
postmaster:
Boon County, w. Va, November Is,
1897. Mister Bill Mckinley, President
of the United States senate
Dear Sir: Been required by the in
structiOns of the post office to report
quartily. I now fulfill that pleasant
duty by reporting as follows: We have
no harveston to do. Wheat, Oats, and
Rye is not risen in these parts. Corn
is in the yeller and will not make
moren ten busels. to the aker-The Helth
of the communities are only tOlerable.
MessiIs and collery have broken out in
bout a half a mile from here. There
are a powerful awakenin on the subject
of religion in the Potts neigh borhOod
and many soles are being made to know
their sins are forgiven. Mrs. Nancy
COalbank, a near nabOr, had twins day
before yesterday and one of them is a
poor scraggy thing and wont live half
it's days. This is about all 1 know and
have no report the present quarter
Give my love to Mrs. Mckinley and
reserve a share for yourself.
Yours truly,
"BOLIVER KENTON COLE"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
CHICAGO WATER FRAUDS.
Experts Find the City Has Lost$454,-
esp in the Last Two Years.

Chicago, Dec. Am investigation of
the books of the water office by Expert
Accountant Alexander Harper discloses
the fact that the city has been defraud-
ed out of S454, ,985 in the last two years.
A large portion of this amount was
rebated either without authority or by
the officials in charge and for no ap-
parent cause recognized by the Ordi-
nance regulating the assessment and
collection of water rates. Several of
the men who made the illegal rebates
are already under Indictment, and it is
likely a large number of employees of
the former administration will also be
indicted. Mr.. Harper's report was
made today to the water commission
ers, and it reflects on many former en-
plOyes of the water office. The COM
missioner of public works Immediately
ordered the suspension of Assessment
Clerk Howard until an investigation of
his office could be made.
The commission was appointed Octo-
Der 25 to investigate the water office
and suggest reforms in the present law
and system of operating it, so as to put
the department on a, more businesslike
basis and prevent fraud.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
NEW YORK BLUNDER-

When you see it in the Sun it isn't
50; even the common geography of the
thing isn't so. See the following in the
New York Sun:
Mr. Robert Reed Ross, Republican
and silver Republican candidate for
district attorney in the Third Kansas
judicial district, has filed bill OF cam
paign expenses which should be studied
by the young campaigners Of the Citi-
zens' Union. Mr.. Ross expended in
Prowess county for cigars, cards, &c,
S25; in Las Animas county, for cigars,
candies, and other refreshments, $780,
1t is needless to say that the mOralist
must deplOre the sum spent by Mr.. Ross
for cards, cigars and other refresh
ments, unless ice cream and soda are
included among the sundries; but the
Introduction of candy into politics must
be received with a warm hand. A Cit
liens Union tract done up in a package
of assorted candies would be welcomed
in many households which at present
are blind to the beauties of municipal
nom partisanship. DR.. Seth Low in red
and white sugar would be a lovely idol;
and Jim Reynolds, stamped on cough
drops, would. be restful as well as
sweet
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
Flow to Prevent Pnenmonia.

At this time of the year a cold is
very easily contracted, and if let to run
its course without the aid of some reli-
able cough medicine is liable to result
in that dread disease, pneumonia. We
know of no better remedy to cure
cough or cold than Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy. We nave used it quite
extensively and it has always given en-
tire Northumberland, Ind. Ter.
Chief
This is the only remedy that is known
to be a certain preventive of pneumonia.
Among the many thousands who have
used it for colds and la grippe we have
never yet learned of a single case hav-
ing resulted in pneumonia. Persons
who have weak lungs or have reason to
fear an attack of pneumonia, should
keep the remedy at hand. The % and
so cent sizes for sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
POISONED THE MEDIUM.
Louisiana People Punish Girl for
Locating Spirits Wrongly.

Lake Charles, La, Dec. 4.-VisitOrs to
the city today from the Sabine river
country tell of a strange poisoning at
DeWitt's eddy, eight miles above Nj
blett's bluff.
A young girl named Willie Cain was
badly poisoned, and has been having
cOnVulsiOns ever since. The physician
pronOunces it strychnine poison. Dur
ing the afternoon Miss Cain went to
the patch and ate a few tomatoes from
the vines. Immediately upon her re-
turn to the house she was taken viO-
Iently i'll, and her first conscious words
were that the tomatoes were poisoned,
and to watch the children. The trouble
is said to come through the young wo-
mans SpirituaiiStic tendencies. She
has been holding SeanceS and cOnverS-
ing with various departed neighbors,
telling their relatives in more than one
Whera they shovel snow; in fact, she
told one young man that his father was
in hades. Threats had been made, and
the week before the dogs belonging to
the Stevens family were poisoned. The
girl is now better. She is said to really
have q certain power of concentrating
electrical forces, and spent last winter
in Houston studying or developing
under a spiritualist society.
The up-to-date Lunch and Short Or
der Restaurant, The Cremerie, 726 Kan
sas avenue. SCOTT & SCOTT.
We do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
A BLOW AT BOSTON.
Gloucester Fish Company Orders All
It's Vessels to Land at Home
Hereafter

Gloucester, Dec. 4.-The most import
ant move in the history of the fishing
business in this city was made today,
wnen the newly formed Gloucester Fish
company decided that hereafter all
Gloucester vessels should land here, and
nor IA Boston as before. The local men
saw THAT on account of this move this
c1Ly will he the gamer by many thous-
ands of dollars, as well as by a mater
ial increase in population.
More than 100 fishing vessels are af-
fected by the order This was expected
by some of the Boston men, but came
as a. shock to most of them. 1t is pos
sibIe that the ''I'' wharfmen will meet
the move by offering inducements to
Gloucester shippers to continue landing
in Boston. In default of this the Bos-
ton men may decide to build a fleet of
vessels of their own In this case com
petition will be so sharp that there Will
be little money in the business for any
body.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04

Glass Makers Fight Ends.

Pittsburg, Dec. 4-The trouble in the
National Window Glass Workers asso-
citation has been amicably settled by
President Burns paying over $2S, 900 to
the cutters and flatteners and the lat
ter formally withdrawing from the as
SOciatiOn. There will be two Organiza-
tiOnS of glass workers hereafter, one
composed of the blowers and gatherers
and the other the f1atteners and cut
ters. The wage scale will now be ad-
justed and a general resumption of
work is expected before the end of the
year. The court proceedings have been
called off.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
PARSONS FAME SPREADS.
Preacher Who Married Miss Lincoln
in Demand.

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 4.-Rev. o. P.
Christian. who married Miss Jessie
Lincoln, granddaughter of Abe Lin
coin, to w w. Beckwith, when they
eloped to this city a few weeks ago,
has suddenly found himself in demand
as a matrimonial agent. His business
in this line has increased 100 per cent.
PeODIe come here from all over the
country to be married by the man who
married Abe Lincoln's granddaughter.
Charles r Christopherson and Miss
MeyIe, both Of Sioux Falls, SD, reach
ad the citv TODAY hunted up the now
famous parson, were married and re-
turned to their western home.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
ENGINEERS GAIN NOTHING
Employers Refuse to Concede Any
thing to Strikers.

London, Dec 4.-The delegates of the
striking engineers who have been con-
ferring with the representatives of the
employers, have been unable to accept
the proposals of the latter and have de-
cided to submit all the points in dispute
to the several unions. The conference
between the representatives of the en-
gineers and of the employers, will be
resumed December II.
The employers decline to recede from
their position respecting the manage
ment of their business by the unions
and emphatcally pronounce against a
reduction in the hours of labor on the
ground that such a diminution would
mean a diminished output and inability
to meet foreign competition.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
One Large Scar
Is ALI That Remains of Great
ScrOfula Sores

Neighbors Could Not Bear to Look
Upon Her-A Grand, Complete
Cure by Hoods SarsaparilIa
After Others Failed.
81 was taken with neuralgia in my
head and eyes. Not long after this, a
scrofula sore appeared on my left cheek,
extending from my upper lip to my eye.
Other sores came on my neck and on my
right arm and one of my limbs. They
were very troublesome and painful and
soon became great running sores. My
face looked so bad that some OF my
neighbors could not bear to look at me
and advised me to wear bandage, but
feared this would irritate the sore and
make it worse. Sol
Could Not Hide the Sores.
My niece, who was familiar with a case
similar to mine, which had been cured by
Hoods SarsaparilIa, urged me to try it.
Finally was persuaded to do so, and in
a short time / saw it was helping me.
The sores began to heal and the neu-
ralgia in my head was better. In a few
months the sores on my arms and limbs
all healed; those on my neck gradually
disappeared and now they are all gone.
I have never had any symptom OF serofuIa
since. One large scar on my right arm is
all the sign that remains of my terrible
affection. The neuralgia is also cured. p
MRS. J. M. HATCH, Etna, New Hampshire.
Hoods sarsaI psriiia
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoods Pills sb 5s tff Roo6y only gIIs to tHks
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
To Cur a Cold in One Dav

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L.
B. O. on each tablet
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04

Mrs NJ B. Ford, Ruddeu's, Ill. suf-
fered for eight years from dyspepsia
and chronic conStiption and was finally
cured by using DeWitt's Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for all
stomach and liver troubles. G. W.
Stansdeld, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
Min eral Water

The finest in the west. Come and try
It, J. W. PHILLIPS.
612 W. Eighth st.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04

Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered
to look like new 1ly Peerless Steam
Laundry. 112 and ia West Sth St
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-04
Weather Indications.

Chicago. Dec. 4.-FOr Kansas: Fair
tonight and Sunday; westerly winds.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29
GROWING OLD.
Our Friends and Our Enemies--0f In
terest to the Public at Large.

Our Friends and Our Enemies--Of In
terest to the Public at Large.
Our enemies (when we are old)-and
who is without them?-n longer an
noy us. Indeed they have ceased
reviling; to them we are as dead men,
"out of mind" to whom the proverb
de mortuis applies, says the Nineteenth
Century. And our friends are twice
our friends. No one who is not "laid
by" can understand the depths of hui
man sympathy. Even our acquaint-
ances become our friends, and the least
soft-hearted of visitors murmurs to
himself: Poor SOUL" or perhaps with
equal commiseration) Poor devil!'
What is most curious is the interest, If
we have in any way become known to
the public at large, complete strangers
take in our physical and mental condi-
ton. If prescriptions could cure us we
should be in rude health indeed. The
materials are sometimes little diff
cult to procure. l have seen letter
from New Zealand recommending an
old gentleman suffering from rheu-
matte govt to battle in whales. In
that island whales, it seems, are oc-
casionally thrown up on the seashore,
when rheumatic patients hasten to lie
in them during the progress of their
evisceration for purposes of commerce.
The extreme rarity of whales upon the
Thames embankment seems to have
been unknown to the writer. Some
correspondents give most excellent
sanitary advice, but too late for its
practical application. An aged poet,
who had lost the use of his limbs, was
exhorted by an admirer to
dig, "even if it were but in his back
garden" for an hour or two every
morning before breakfast; all that was
wanted, he was assured, for complete
recovery, was "profuse perspiration
followed by healthy glow"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29
shakespeare's Daughter.

Shakespeares daughter, Judith, who
was 80 when he died. survived him
forty-six years and became a Puritan.
So rigid was she that she would never
go near playhouse and was intolerant
of everything theatrical.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29
|TALMAGES SERMON.
"SINS OF THE TONGUE" SUN
DAYS SUBJECT.
From the Text; Acts v. Ito, as Fol
lows; "A Certain Man Named Ana
Mas, With Sapphire His Wife, Sold n
Possession" Etc.

WE'LL MATCHED
pair, alike in ambi-
ton and in false
hood, Ananias and
Sapphire. They
wanted a reputa-
ton for great BEN
eficence, and they
sold all their prop
erty, pretending to
put the entire pro-
ceedS in the charity
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29

She-"Did you see anything in New
York that reminded you Of Philadel-
phia?" He-"Yes; the messenger
boys."-Harlem Life.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-10-29

that an Arminian believes that man
can save himself An Arminian be-
lieves no such thing. 1t is hardly worth
your while to ask an extreme Arminian
what a Calvinist believes. He will tell
you that a Calvinist believes that God
made some men just to damn them. A
Calvinist believes no such thing. 1t Is
hardly worth your while to ask a Pc
do-Baptist what Baptist believes. He
will tell you a Baptist believes that
immersion is necessary for salvation.
A Baptist does not believe any such
thing. 1t is hardly worth your while
to ask a man, who very much hates
Presbyterians, what Presbyterian be-
lieves. He will tell you that Pres
byterian believes that there are In
fants in hell a span long, and that very
phraseology has come down from gen.
Grafton to generation in the Christian
church. There never. was Presbyte-
rian who believed that. "oh," you say
81 heard some Presbyterian minister
twenty years ago say So" You did not.
| There never was a man who believed
that, there never will be a man who
will believe that. And yet, from boy
hood, 1 have heard that particular sian
der against a Christian church going
down through the community.
Then, how often it is that there are
Misrepresentation on the part of in
dividual churches in regard to other
especially If a church comes
to great prosperity. AS long as q
church Is in poverty. and the singing
is poor, and all the surroundings are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18

Halstead fell. However, when he met
both of these men In the mile open and
again demonstrated his superiority by win
ming it was evident that it was not mere
luck that carried. him through. Up to
this time Moran hado not met Schade, and
the meeting of these two cracks was look
ed forward TOT with great expectation.
Trey came together2sat Frederick on July
3. and Jimmy came on top both times
Besides Schade he met and defeated Hal
stead and Smith and all of the best of
the Baltimore ft1era, including LIE Compile
and WtlkerSon. h July 5 he again came to
the front and captured the mile open in the
fast time of IA, which is the record for
the track in competition; also two-mile
har dicap. one-mfle team race, and ran Sec
ond in the multicycle race.
These three races made him ten consecu-
tive firsts. His ride in the two-miie handf-
cap on this day was something to be long
remembered by those who saw it. He had
just ridden a hard heat, and almost imme-
diately was called out for the finals,
Matchett and Wrenn had one hundred and
tv enty yards, and they set a terrific pace,
1t seemed worse than useless for the
scratch men to try to Overtake them. Schade
evidently thought so, for he dropped out
after the third lap. Moran. however plug
ged on and on the very last lap he shot
away from Wilson and George Smith and
PASSED man and after man, and it was only
a few yards from home that he caught
and passed Matchett 1t was a wonderful
exhibition of pluck and endurance and
was only equaled by his phenomenal ride in
the multicycle race. With handicap of
only two hundred yards he apparently
waited fer the tandem with Schade and