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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
CRUSHED HER SKULL.
Negro Woman With Smallpox
Enters Church-After-
wards Killed.

Columbus. Miss, Sept. GA negro
woman named Ann Hughes, who had
been under guard and isolated, being
suspected of having contracted small
pox, escaped and later attended ne
gro church and created a panic among
the congregation. She was run out of
the church and nothing more was heard
of her until she was found dead with
her skull crushed in an open field.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
TRAIN ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Five Outlaws Captured That Held Up
the Gulf Train at Trinidad

Trinidad. Col, Sept. 6.-The posse of
men that started from this city on the
trail of the robbers who held up the
Gulf passenger train on Twin Mountain
early Saturday morning, have taken
into custody five men supposed to be
the perpetrators of the hoId-up.
They were captured today near
Springer, N. NJ. Among the prisoners
are the notorious Peenland brothers,
three in numbe Considerable stolen
goods was found in their possession
The posse is now on it's way to this
city.
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BURNED BY APPLE BUTTER
A Child Upsets Kettle of it On its
Feet.

The 9-months-old son of J. NJ. sSenter,
clerk of the state board of railroad
commissioners who lives in Oakland,
met with a peculiar accident a few
days ago. While playing on the kitch-
en- floor the little fellow upset a kettle
containing boiling apple butter which
had just been removed from the stove
by his mother.
The contents of the kettle covered the
child's feet horribly burning them. He
is now convalescing and will soon re-
cover.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
a probability" of Rain

This afternoon at o'clock on Kansas
avenue the temperature was SO degrees.
On the Columbian building it was 80 de-
grees. The minimum temperature for
the night was CT degrees Yesterday
afternoon between 2 and 3 O'Clock the
temperature on the Columbian building
was 9S degrees and on Kansas avenue
100 degrees. Mr.. Jennings says that
there is probability of rain for tonight
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
Robert Bleakiv Dead.

New Orleans, Sept. 6.-Robert Bleaklys
president of the advisory board of the
international commercial congress, which
met in Philadelphia in June, president OF
the local dock commission and ex-presi-
dent of the Commercial club, died last
night after a brief illness.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
Well Known Kansas Republican
Leader of Former Days,
Passes Away at ArmOurdale
Today of Typhoid Fever.
WAS NOT UNEXPECTED
Has Been in a Critical COndi-
tiOn Several Days.
Something About the Man and
His Life.

Kansas City, Sept. Eek Congress
man Lew Hanback,, aged 5S years, died
at his home in Armourdale, Kan, this
morning, from typhoid malaria fever.
He had been i'll but two weeks.
Congressman Hanback, was born in
Winchester, ILL.,, in 1889, and came to
Kansas in 1866. He served through the
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
Mammoth Whaie in Topeka.

Everybody in town should see the
mammoth whaIe on exhibition at Rock
Island depot for three days only, Sept.
6, Z and 8. This whale is positively gen
uine and is 90 feet long, 400 years old.
and weighs $4,000 pounds. The admis-
sion is only 10 cents; children sc. Open
from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
The newsnaper mem Saturdav defea

The newspaper men Saturday defeat
ed the state house employees at base
ball by a score of % to 20. 1t was
game full of sensational plays, and re-
markable for the number of hits and
also errors An audience of $50 as
serrbled at Athletic park to see the
game
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
PIANOFACTORYB BURNS
Mendelssohn Plant Destroyed-Loss
$4,000

Pittsburg, Sept. 6.-The mammoth plant
at Mendelssohn park, near MckeesPort
works, the Barchoff organ works and the
Dickson and Wood brick works, was de-
stroyed by fire this morning, entailing a
loss of $50 600. The SuppositiOn is that
the huildine was set afire.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06

Wanted-Two students to carry pa
pers-route hustlers. Call at Dutton
House 700 this evening.
J. Z. HANWAY.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06

Fred Austine has been arrested on
warrant sworn out in Justice Guys
court charging him with violating the
age of consent law.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06

A r. but he was too sick and remain
ed at home Death came soon after his
Wife's return-
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-06
LABOR DAY GAMES.
Cincinnati Defeats Boston and BaIti-
mora the Pin ates.

Boston, Sept. G.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

the mountain. After a rest of a few
minutes at this charming place the
trip is resumed, and in few
minutes the tourist views from a
height of 1892 feet a scene compared
with which the vision of Mira fades
into insignificance. To the westward
one sees sixty five miles of ocean, the
line of which extends from Point San
Pedro In the south to Point Reyes in
the north. San Francisco. to the
south, appears to be a city of toy
houses. The bay. with it's noble
islands and myriad shipping, presents
a scene never to be forgotten. Far to
the east one sees Mount Diablo and
the snow-crowned SUBMITS of the
Sierras, 155 miles away. The strangest
sight of all, perhaps, is the white sea of
fog which frequently blots out the bay
cities and towns, its surface rolling
in long undulations. Beneath this sea
of vapor a busy world struggles, while
above all is peace and sunshine. The
post wonderful spectacle to be viewed
from the summit is the sunrise in a
sea of red, orange and amber lights,
which end in a splendid sunburst of
yellow. These are few of the noble
sights which travellers over the scenic
line are privileged to enjoy.
Tickets can be bought of Thomas
Cook & Son, 621 Market street, good
for special day and train. Parties
purchasing tickets at this address may
be sure of transportation on Sundays
and holidays. Tickets for the round
trip from San Francisco to Mill Valley
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

life. The smaller towns on the coast
are unable to insure the proper care of
visitors in this respect. an important
point which no Klondike- bound tray
eler can afford to ignore.
AS regards prices it may be said
that the keen competition in the lines
OF goods most required by the miners
prevents any combination and conse-
quent rise in the price of commodities.
Prices will be found to be at bedrock.
San Francisco manufacturers and
merchants, with half a century Of ex-
perience, are thoroughly familiar with
the needs of miners. No other city in
the world has had the same facilities
for gaining this knowledge. San Fran
cisco merchants study and understand
the packing of goods for every climate.
especially for the Arctic. San Fran
cisco is the distributing center for the
whole Western coast for all California
flour, woolen goods, clothing, blan-
kets, canned goods, dried evaporated
vegetables and fruit, beans and agri-
cultural products which must form a
large portion of the miners stock of
supplies. Many Of the best goods in
these lines which are sold in other
cities are shipped from the great
warehouses Of San Francisco. Con-
densed foods of all kinds are obtain
able here. Furs, which form very
important, If not essential, item in a
miners outfit, are abundant and cheap.
as San Francisco is the Headquarters
Of the two largest Alaska fur compa-
MES in the world and the center for all
the whaling fleets.
The bureau of information of the
trade committee is located at the
ferry depot where a staff of compe-
tent courteous and painstaking men
daily furnish full and reliable infor-
nation on any subject relating to the
gold fields, the means of reaching
them, routes, arrivals and departures
OF vessels, fares, freights, duties, out
hts, prices, locations, American and
Canadian mining laws, regulations,
etc. Those who desire to obtain direct
information from men who have re-
Gently prospected in the Klondike
country, in the Copper River region
or in the Yukon Valley, will find in at
tendance at the bureau Yukon pio-
neers, prepared to give them correct
and trustworthy ideas, derived from
years Of experience. These men can
state the necessary requirements,
modes OF travel, how 20 pack animals,
ways of living, distances from given
points of the various discoveries, how
locations are made, etc.
An interesting and instructive fea-
ture of the bureau is a complete ex-
hibit of wearing apparel, food -stuffs.
tents. instruments, boats, sleds, tools,
stoves, pack saddles, medicines and
everything else deemed necessarv
either for the journey or for work at
the miners claim. This exhibit is an
object lesson. 1t saves q man asking
a thousand questions, enabling him at
a glance to see what he really wants
and what he can afford to do without.
No one contemplating going to Alaska
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corded to the new line is an emphatic
attestation of the wisdom of its pro-
jectors.
The trip from this city to the
summit of Mount Tamalpais is in
two sections-one from San Francisco
to Mill Valley and the other from the
valley to the summit. The time occu-
pied in making the trip is about two
hours. Taking the train at Sausalito
the tourist is carried to Mill Valley. a
distance of five miles, where connec-
ton with the trains of the Mill Valley
and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway
is had. The road at once enters the
romantic and heavily wooded canyon
of Blithedale. Crossing the canyon,
the road swings out upon the broad
open flank of the mountain. The as
cent to the summit then begins, and as
time passes the beauties of the scene
are gradually unfolded. Arriving at
Double Bowknot," the grand old
Pacific springs to view in the west
The panorama now expands, holding
the attention as by a spell. Mountains
appear to the view in the east and
north; the shimmering waters of the
bay catch the eye; scenes of unsur-
passed beauty and grand sublimity
spring up at every point of the com
pass. Presently the train reaches the
tavern, 30 feet below the summit of
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

pear to be fitting itself for an inhab-
itant of the air, AID can have no con-
sciousness of the brilliancy of it's fu-
ture being. We are masters of the
earth, but perhaps we are the slaves
of some great and unknown being. The
fly that we crush with our finger or
feed with our viands has no knowledge
of man and no consciousness of his
superiority. We suppose that we are
acquainted with matter and all its ele-
ments; yet we cannot even guess at the
cause of electricity or explain the laws
of the formation of stones that fall
from meteors. There may be beings,
thinking beings, near or surrounding
us, which we do not perceive, which we
cannot imagine. We know very little;
but, in my opinion, we know enough to
hope for the Immortality the individ-
ual immortality, of the better part of
man.
The Certainty of Immortality: Caleb
D. Bradlee.
l believe that there has been a tele-
phonic, telegraphic and electric inf1u-
ence ever since the days OF Adam to
the present hour by which all past his
tory is present life, and every nation
seemingly dead is living again in Asia
Africa, Europe and America, so that
the races of to-day are but the great
grandchildren of the races of the past,
and you and L have something in our
bones and blood of Egypt, Assyria,
Babylonia, Judea, Phoenicia, India
and Persia, SO that nations never real
ly die, but are changed, transmitted,
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

reorganized, improved, by marriage, by
birth, by intermingling of races, by
time, by the grace of God, so that, in "a
certain philosophical sense, 1 am not
only an American but Roman, Gre
clan, Persian, part of everybody
and everything that ever has been, and
a part, by transmission, century after
century, of everybody and everything
that ever will be; and thus there is an
everlasting unity of flesh, and the
unity of God and the unity of human
lty are great and mighty and twin
realities. Do not forget the prayer of
Jesus-that those that were his might
be one with him, as he was one with
God. Once more, nature changes all
the time. Yes; but nature never dies
Do those leaves that you tread under
your feet on an October or a November
day perish? Are they annihilated? Is
their work done and is our farewell to
them finality? Oh, no! They will
go into the hungry earth, and through
many changes at last will fall into
your hands in the shape of a luscious
peach or rosy apple or juicy pear, or
else as a violet or rosebud or japonica
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should fail to see this exhibit and
know what is essential to the trip. 1t
should be borne in mind that fully
ntnetenths of the proper requirements
are either grown or manufactured in
California, and that it is to the in
terest of those who are Klondike-
bound to buy in the original market,
thus saving the cost of freight and the
middleman's profits.
The Importance of the committees
work to California in the way of in
ducing newcomers to settle here can
not be overestimated. While the COM
mittee was formed to further the in
terests of the Alaska miner, prospector
and tourist, it is convinced that many
who start for that country will event
ually locate in this more desirable one.
Opportunities are here offered to all
classes of miners and prospectors,
from the man who comes with pick
and shovel to the millionaire who
brings millions to invest. The placer
mines and the large gravel deposits
found in several sections of the State
are yielding large returns to investors,
and new ones are continually being
discovered.
The personnel of the committee is as
follows: H. II. Sherwood, f. Holland.
G. Liebes, H. A. Smith, S. Nickels-
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creased to 100000 pounds, more than
one pound to every man, woman and
chhd In these United States. During
the same period the dried fruit of the
state had increased from 54S, ,227 pounds
TO over 81, 900 pounds. In less than
twenty years following 1876 our citrus
fruits increased from 100000 pounds
to more than 160.000,O00 pounds, and our
deciduous fruits during twenty-five
years increasing from 1882, $40 pounds
to 159.905,0 900 pounds.
Since 1872 our canned goods have
increased from less than 200 900
pounds to more than SO, 900 pounds.
In beet sugar, dairy produce and in
lumber the increase has been equally
great. CUR dairy products in 1896
amounted to $12, 331 ,067. In 1886 we
made only 600 tons of sugar, While the
product in 1895 amounted to 30,000 tons
And figures furnished by Mr.. John D.
SpreckelS show that next year the
amount will exceed the consumption
of this State, being estimated at 80, 900
tons. At this rate we will soon be able
to supply the Union. In 1889 our gold
production amounted to but S11, PIP. .913.
IN 1896 it was $17, ,1S1, 562. In 1897 $19,-
100000, and soon will exceed the prod
uct of the earlier days. In 1875 our
total production of wine amounted to
but 100000 gallons, while in 1897 26,-
100000 gallons were produced. This
year our growing vines-wine, raisin
and undiscovered 157, 900 acres, while
the value of our viticultural interests is
$S5, 900 900.
We have growing 452,252 acres in
fruit and nut trees. as against 224 152
in 1892. IL prices have not been re-
munerative it is because we have not
paid proper attention to creating a
market for our products abroad. We
have expended large sums in studying
and caring for their production, a
Vo"y small fraction of which spent in
market making would have kept
prices up and insured prosperity to
the State-a State that has in one year
produced fruit enough to loa3 a train
of cars 500 miles in length, each car
holding ten tons, and which has spent
in the fifteen years following 1880 on
viticultural and horticultural commits
sions nearly $425, ,0O0
Now that the expense of supporting
these commissions has been stopped
100000 annually should be expended in
maintaining exhibits in Europe and
the East which would be of great
benefit in extending our markets and
establishing remunerative prices for
our products.
Notwithstanding our fine climate
and our abundant productions we can
not expect to reduce generally the cost
of our many institutions unless we
abolish needless ones and receive as
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19
Very important Information for
Those Going to Alaska
Next Spring.
Splendid inducements Offered by San Fran
cisco as an Quitting POint-What the
Alaska Trade Committee Is Doind

In anticipation of the immense rush
to the gold fields of Alaska in the com
ing spring and in order that the pub
lie might be convinced that the proper
Quitting points for prospectors and
miners is San Francisco, a committee
Is now actively engaged in furnishing
valuable information concerning
Alaska and subjects pertaining there
to to every applicant. The committee
is known as the Alaska Trade Com
mittee, and is composed of the Mer-
chants Association, Board Of Trade
and Chamber of Commerce of this city,
which organizations nave combined
for this special purpose.
The reliability and integrity of the
gentlemen composing the committee
are weIl known, and residents of any
State in the Union who desire advicee
as to how to go to Alaska, when to
go, what to take, where to get it and
what it will cost may be certain Of re
ceiving gratuitously the best possible
Information relative to those import
ant subjects.
1t is generally conceded that the
quickest route to the Yukon is via San
Francisco. This city has direct con-
nection by regular steamship lines
with St. Michael at the mouth of the
Yukon River. The open sea passa ee
is the shortest and safest route The
japanese current and the prevailing
trade winds expedite the northern
movement Of steamers. At st. Mich
aeI passengers and freight are trans
ferred to river boats. Travellers reach
the Yukon River and it's tributary
gold-Iaden streams without having to
pay any Canadian duties until Circle
City is reached. Thus far there has
been no duty collected on individual
miners outfits. San Francisco also
maintains regular and direct COM
munication by steamship lines with
Juneau, Dyea, Skaguay and other
Alaskan ports, and by making San
Francisco their starting point travel
ers will not be stranded en- route wait
ting for overcrowded steamers.
The question Of securing proper out
fits is one which the committee has to
answer more frequently than any
other. The invariable answer is to
secure outfits in San Francisco. The
supplies of our merchants are pracu-
cally inexhaustible. Those of smaller
towns on several occasions during the
rush last summer were utterly depict
ed. Merchants in those towns found
themselves unable to fill large orders
and were forced to telegraph to San
Francisco for shipments of goods by
express. In consequence prices in
those places were advanced beyond
reason, and the persons who had been
led to believe they could buy on short
notice in those towns as cheaply as in
San Francisco were compelled to pay
exorbitant prices for goods on the eve
Of sailing.
The hotel accommodations of San
Francisco are ample, and no matter
how great the rush may be every
visitor is certain of finding accommo-
dations suited to every condition in
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inmates such persons only as are ad-
mitted to similar institutions else
where, all of which I took occasion to
point out in my biennial message, as
also that comparisons by per capita
were idle, the elements of climate,
production and methods varying so
much. 1t being evident that no great
saving can be made except by methods
which Legislatures will not adopt, we
should consider how else to equaliZe
taxation.
Some claim this would be done by
eXempting entirely money and bonds
and railroads and streetcar lines and
all kinds of personal property, and
buildings and Improvements, placing
the entire burden on farming and other
lands. 1 will frankly confess 1 have
not studied this theory, which has as
its advocates some of our ablest
statesmen. My belief, of long stand
ing, is that the true theory of State
taxation consists in imposing on in
comes, by a graduated scale, a proper
tax, so that while exempting a suffi-
cient amount for maintenance, the per-
sons with the greater incomes and
hence those most protected by laws,
should proportionately bear the heav-
biennial message:
The burden of taxation so easily
falls upon the material and tangible
things, the real and personal property
Of community, that the tendency is to
levy upon such property holding class
an unjust share of taxation. Another
numerous class of our people, in addi-
tion to such property, and almost ex-
elusive of it, are granted and enjoy
under our laws an extremely valuable
possession in the nature of corporate
rights, privileges and immunities. Such
corporate advantages are always bene-
fetal and often the source of great
profit.
This class of property it is very diff
hcult to assess or value, and it gene
rally fails to contribute it's just share
of revenue for the support of that
Government by the sanction of which
alone it enjoys it's existence. Our
constitution-ma5e undoubtedly con-
templated that this class should be
taxed for the benefit of the State"
This would impose upon all
corporations in this State doing bust
ness for profit graduated income tax,
so adjusted that they be required to
pay only such sums as are strictly
just and fair, and that equal justice
be done among them.''
This desirable result can only fol-
low wher the people unite in sending
to the Legislature representatives
pledged to the enactment of laws
relieving us from unequal taxation
and placing the burden where it
belongs.
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cropped upon the map Of California,
Woulu SIMPLY blot out a few of her
couhtles, and to cover the map it would
take the addition of Delaware, Yer
mont, New Hampshire, New Jersey
and Rhode Island.
1t cannot be doubted that the ad-
vent of what we are pleased to call
new era has aroused our citizens to
the knowledge of the wonderful re-
sources of the State and to better
directed action. We have grown, it is
true, but we have forgotten while
growing to sufficiently advertise that
TACT to the world and so create mar
Kets for our products. How easily
this may be done is shown by the in
crease in the demand for our dried
fruit brought about by the Hamburg
exhibit this year. Had an appropri-
alton been made for the Paris EXposi-
ton our Hamburg exhibit could have
oeen kept intact in Europe, a daily ad-
Vertisement of the State. It is to be
hoped that the next Legislature will
provide for this great exposition and
also for the maintenance abroad of a
State agency.
This movement has resulted already
in the material progress of the State,
the repeal of many bad and the enact
ment of some good laws. The favoring
of foreign products by our State insti-
tutions is now prohibited. Other laws
have found their place in the statutes
lessening the cost of constructing and
reducing that of maintaining certain
State institutions and placing them un-
der civil service rule; still others pro-
hibiting those adulterations which,
among other things, forced from the
market our own pure productions. In
addition many State expenses have been
reduced, the State being placed on q
steady cash basis for the first time in
ten years, the amount annually taken
from the people as taxes being dimin-
ished and a greater reduction rendered
probable, notwithstanding the estab-
lishment during recent years of many
new State institutions and the increase
of our population.
The good thus accomplished does
not more than equal the beneficial re-
suits of private enterprise and benevo-
lence. The construction by our citi-
zens, under the leadership of Claus
Spreckels Of a railroad down the great
San Joaquin Valley, connecting with
tide water at Stockton, has by compe-
tition given our shippers a rate for
transportation impossible to secure
through commissions and courts, and
in my opinion settled-so far as Cali
fornia is commemorative vexed trans
portation" question.
Soon, by extensions, we shall possess
greater facilities and lower rates, and
when the national Government meets