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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
MARRIED A SPIRIT.
Woman in Jail at Wichita Says Hus-
band Knows Nothing.

Wichita, Oct 1O.-Mrs. California
Hunter is in the county Jail here now
awaiting transportation to the state in
sane asylum.
She is daft on the subject of spiritual
ism. 1t is nearly IA years since she
first met a medium and heard the reve-
lation of a trance. She became inter
ested in the subject at once and began
to study about the trance.
She soon got so that she talked about
the matter to her friends. Then she
left off some of her household duties to
attend spiritual meetings. In a year or
two she would often be found by the
cook stove or table in a brown study
She would stand with the coffee pot in
her hand between the table and the
stoI e studyine. She soon got to saying
that the spirits were talking to her.
Later she absented herself from the
family meals. She spent more and
more of her time attending to Spirit
ualist meetings, and the more she at
tended the worse she got. By and by
she came to think and to say that 1t
was necessary for her to follow her
spirit friend about in the night. Then
she got so she would Shrek, utter
strange cries and prayers in obeyance
to the demands of her spirit friend.
f'Why do you do these things?" asked
Judge Haymaker.
IT was obeying the spirit" she said.
did you have to obey the spirit?"
ooh yesi I am married to the spirit.
Your husband?"
yes"
isn't Mr.. Hunter there your nus
band?"
yes, but not my real husband. He
is not my guide. I cannot obey him or
follow him for he doesn't know"
when did you get married to the
spirit husband?'
about eight years ago"
Did you have any ceremony
mo. We were just present, and by
command of the spirit were married
Ever since have obeyed and followed
the spirit. It is the spirit that is talk
ing to you now. 1t isn't me. do not
do anything nor say anything. The
spirit does everything and says everT-
thing. I have not done anything nor
said anything for eight years"
why do you obey the spirit?'
'+Beca use it is my husband. I do not
obey the other spirits. There are spir-
its all around you; they are on the rim
of your hat, or your desk. There are
sorle spirits for husbands and some for
wives. but some people are not spiritual
and educated enough to see them The
world will know all these things some
day and then you will understand what
I tell you
Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter have been di-
vorced for several years. They came
from Mt. Hope.
We do all kinds of carpet work, 400
Kansas avenue. Hauhach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
TO BEAT KELSEY.
An Effort to Defeat Scott Kelsey For
Commissioner.

There is trouble in the county commits
sioner contest and an effort is being made
to defeat Scott Kelsey, the republican
nominee. The scheme is backed by Re
publicans of more or less prominence who
have some old scores to settle with Mr..
Kelsey.
The most prominent among them is
Justice of the Peace c. W. Whittemore
of Oakland, who is chairman of the Re
publican commissioner district central
committee. He has offered his services to
the fusion committee and has already
made one speech against him. Secretary
Wagner of the Populist committee says
he will bill Justice Whittemore in
several places in the district. He talks
about nothing except the commissioner
fight and. says that in politics he is
gold bug republican.
A lively fight was made on Mr.. Kelsey
for the nomination and he was declared
nominated by a narrow margin over
George A Anderson. Justice Whittemore
claimed that some votes should have been
thrown out which would have made An
derson the nominee by a majority of four
votes. The county central committee re-
fused to turn the contest over to the
district committee as demanded by Chair
man Whittemore and the contest was de-
cided in favor of Kelsey by the county
committee.
Chairman Whittemore makes his fight
on the ground that Kelsey did not secure
the nomination fairly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
CREMATED ALIVE.
Church Containing Yellow Fe-
YER Patient Set on Fire.

New Orleans, La, Oct. 1O.-The Plea
yune's Jackson, Miss, special SAYS:
An unknown white man supposed to be
yellow fever patient was burned up in
a negro church in LIE F1ore county yester-
day This news reached here last night
IN letter from Dr. T. B. Harrison, health
officer of Tallahatchie county. The man
was FOUND SICK by negroes who had gone
to prepare the church for divine services
Inc Inc &c, case was reported to Dr.. Harrison
ana ne reported him as a suspicious ca Sc
The doctor left and when he returned he
found d, the he church in ashes and found a
It is not positive that the poor fellow
IA mad yellow fever and it is not sure that
ne was dead when the church was fired
but an ungOyerned fear suggested the
DEED and Mississippi has to answer for it.
rms IS q torcible Illustration of the un-
reasonable panic now afflicting this stale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
LOCAL DRAMATIC MENTION.

The satire in Hoyt's "a Milk White
Flag is directed against popular fads and
customs, and while it is keen and pun
gent. it is al all times of a good natured
Character and the victims usually laugh
the loudest. "A Milk White Flag of all
the Hoyt productions, is said to be at
once the most ludicrous and comical-
There is less horseplay and more spec
tacular effects than is usual in farce COM
edy and the production partakes some
what of the nature of a modern comic
opera, with its gaily cOStumed VtVandteres,
cOlOr-bearers, brass band and large chorus.
The characters are nearly all officers of
the Ransom Guards, whose colonel looks
like the great Napoleon. The regimental
band is frequently introduced and its eX-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
DON'T BEPENNY WISE
AND POUND FOOLISH.
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a
Pound of Cure.

Pound of Cure.
Don't let that backache run on until
it ends in some serious kidney
trouble Do you know what the
doing here in Topeka for back
ache? Have you noticed the state
ments of Topeka people that have been
published in the Topeka papers? We
don't have to go out of Topeka to have
people say that Kid-ne-oids cured them
of backache, nervousness and Sleep
Iessness; they are right here and are
very grateful people, though we do give
to show you how much they too value
MorroW's Kid-ne- OidS. They praise
Kid-ne-oids all over the land. Do you
suppose that people living here for the
last ten or fifteen years would tell you
that Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are beyond
doubt the best remedy to be found for
kidney complaint if it were not so?
They have said this too often after they
have used kidney pills and kidney cures.
There is nothing like MOrrOW's Kid-ne-
oids; the ingredients are the best the
market can afford. They are prepared
in Yellow Tablets in the most Scientif-
ic manner; they are easy to take and
quick to act. When at a certain stage
of life will find Kid-ne- oids very valu-
able in producing sleep and in quieting
the nerves. Kid-ne-Oids are not nerve
dullers, either, no indeed; they simply
restore the system to it's normal condi-
ton and this condition brings on nat
ura1 results.
For children with weak kidneys and
who are often scolded and whipped for
things they cannot help, like peevish-
ness, bed wetting, and lack of energy,
Kid-ne-oids will be found most valu-
able.
Kid-ne-oids are for sale by all first
class druggists and at Swift & Holli-
days drug store for so cents a box or
viii be mailed by the manufacturers on
receipt of price John Morrow & Co.,
Chemists, Springfield, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
LEAVE FOR SEAT WAR.
$50 Men of the 18th Mimi, Start for
Leech Lake Country

Minneapolis. Oct. 1O.-At 10 o'clock
this morning $50 men of the Fourteenth
Minnesota left for towns on the Foss-
ton extension of the Great Northern
road on the northern border of the
Leech lake reservation. Lieutenant
Colonel Johnston will be in command,
and Major Schaffer, Captain Holmes,
Adjutant Whine, Captain Surgeon Dor
sew Iieutenants Baker, Bris bin, Smiley,
O'Brfen and QUartermaster Coke ac-
company the expedition. The men
carried tents and 100 rounds of am
nunition and six days rations. They
are mostly from companies E and I.
They will be stationed at Farris and
Bemidji.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
HIS SKULL CRUSHED.
Bert Bartholomew the Victim of an
Accident at Parsons.

Parsons, Oct. 10.-Bert Bartholomew,
foreman of a switch crew in the Katy
yards in this city, while in the act of
coupling two passenger coaches had the
misfortune to catch his head between
the bumpers of the cars Saturday,
MASKING the head very severely. He
was taken to his home on East Craw-
ford avenue and upon examination it
was found that Bartholomew skull
was crushed, but at this time it is hard
to tell whether or not the accident will
prove fatal Bartholomew has been in
the employ of the katy" the past three
Wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
SrPREME COURT SITS.
Fall Term Opens in Washington To-
dav.

washington, Oct. 1O.-The fall term
of the United States supreme court be-
gan at noon today, the justices coming
together after an extended summer
vacation. The court room was crowded
with prominent members of the federal
bar including Attorney General Griggs,
Solicitor General Richards, Assistant
Attorney General Boyd, former Attor-
ney General Garland, Senator Foraker,
Senator Mitchell of Oregon, and with
many spectators drawn by the interest
attaching to the opening day OF the
term. There was added interest in the
reassembling this year owing to the i'm
portance of some of the cases about to
be decided including the test on the
legality of the railroad traffic associa-
tons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
ONE CAMP CHOSEN
For Use of American Troops in Pinar
Del Rio.

Havana, Oct. 1O.-The special com
mission charged to select camps for the
American troops to be sent shortly Wis
tied Guanajay Mariel and other places
in Pinar del Rio yesterday. They have
decided that a camp is to be located on
the hills in the vicinity of Guanaiay
and it is reported that the first Ameri-
can troops will reach here about No
vember 10.
General Wade, Colonel Clous, Captain
Hart and Lieutenant Wade had a brief
interview this forenoon with Captain
General BlancO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
TWO SOLDIERS SHOT
By the Provost Guard at Lexington,
XIV.

Lexington, Ky, Oct. 1O-Private NJ. A.
Doucet. q young Swede belonging to Com
pany L, Twelfth New York, was shot and
killed about midnight by the provost
guard while running away to evade ar
rest. His body was first identified by
pass in his pocket as Private Hefferman
of the same company and regiment, but
Hefferman answered to roll call this
morning and inquiry developed that he
had loaned an expired pass to Doucet.
Private Bailey of the Third Engineers
was also shot by the provost guard and
is in a critical condition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
EMPTYING PORTO RICO.
Evacuation Will Be Completed Mex
Week.

Madrid, Oct. 1O-It is said here that
the evacuation of Porto Rico will be
completed next week and that the
evacuation of Cuba will be accomplish
ed by the end of November The gov
eminent is employing 81 vessels in the
repatriation of the troops. The soldiers
have received their pay for June and
on landing in Spain they will receive
two months pay, be given civilian
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
Jananese to LAND At Pekin.

Yokohama, Oct. 10.-The japanese
government has ordered the landing of
at Pekin. Kim Hong Niuk, a former
palace favorite at Seoul and the alleged
author of the recent attempt to poison
the emperor of Corea, has been placed
under arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
STAMPEDE AT BEMIDJI.
Caused by Report That Indians
Are Coming.

Minneapolis, Oct. 1O.-A Journal spec
iaI from Bemidji, Mimi, says: A ru-
NOR this morning that the Indians were
coming caused a stampede. The people
were greatly excited and massed at the
court house. The soldiers were teIe-
,1aod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
Pigg VS.. Pigg.

Judge Hazen has granted a divorce
to Rosa B. Pigg from her husband.
Clinton Pigg. Pigg is the man who
was arrested some time ago for selling
liquor A divorce was also granted to
Eliza Page from Ewing Page. The lat
ter parties are colored
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
General Breckinridge Tno1uded.

Washington, Oct. 1O.-Gen. J. c.
Breckenridge has been included in the
list of major generals to be mustered
out and will return to his duties as in
spector general with the rank OF brig
adler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
Procure the Best.

If you the best Baking Powder on earth
desire,
For "Gipsy Queen you had better IN
Quire,
Favorite with the ladies it always has
been,
Gypsy Queen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10

committee will in its own way help your
county so that you need pay no other
assessment to any other committee.
Very truly yours,
MORTON ALBAUGH.
Chairman.
The Republican state central COM
mittee does not deny the authorship of
the letter. In fact they seem rather
pleased that it fell into the hands of the
Populists.
of course we assessed the postmas-
ters," said Frank Brown, the secretary
of the committee, this morning. ''They
are the only ones that we have to as
sess, besides the few federal officers,
and they don't all pay up. We. are in
sore need of funds, and have no one else
to look to, Notwithstanding the talk of
the Populists about insurance cOmpa-
MES and the like. I hope they are sat
isfied now where we get our money"
All the state employees have been as
sessed by the Populist state central
committee. The letters sent out are
similar to the ones sent out by the Re
Dublicans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
Failed For s5.ooO.ooo.

London, Oct 10-The failure is an
nounced of Ernest Orger Lambert,
fnancier. His liabilities are estimated
at 1000, 900 pounds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10
Omaha and Return 81 SC.

Via the Santa Fe; tickets sold October
10, II. u and 13. Fast exposition flyers
leave Topeka 4:55 a. m. and arrive at
Omaha at noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-10

We make a specially of doing up col
ored shirts and waists and guarantee
Gng cOlOrs. Peerless Steam Laundry
The herald., 1898-03-17
JUNIOR ORDER MECHANICS
Officers Elected at the Annual Meeting
of the State Council

The annual session of the state council
of the Junior Order United American Me-
chanics which has been in session this
week, elected the following list of officers
for the ensuing year: Junior past state
councillor, II. C. Schaertzer, San Fran
cisco; state councillor, NJ. II. Bellinger. Los
Angeles; state vice councillor +. A. Tib-
belts San Francisco; state council secre-
tary, George E. Terry, San Francisco;
state council treasurer, c. n. Wilson, Los
Angeles; state council conductor, c. O..
Brown, Redondo; state council warden.
George Moenning, Berkeley; state council
chaplain. C. c. Cook, Tulare; inside senti-
mel, Ed Katzenstein. Newcastle; outside
sentinel, George Palmer, San Francisco:
national representative, J. +. Burns, Los
Angeles.
The order has been in existence only five
wears and has q membership in California
of over 1000.
Several amendments were made to laws
of the order, among which was the raising
of the minimum initiation fee from 50 to
So 1t was decided to hereafter dispense
with credential committees and the com
mittee on appeals, their work to be done
by the secretary and the board of officers.
San Jose has been selected as the next
place of meeting. After that the annual
conventions will be held permanently in
San Francisco.
The herald., 1898-03-17
HE KNOCKED HIM DOWN
OFFICER s. M. BAKER SMASHES
j. M. SHIELDS
1T WAS A PERSONAL AFFAIR
Baker Claims That Shields Had In.
suited His Mother but Shields
Denies It

Officer S. NJ. Baker Is likely to be brought
on the carpet very shortly, as he knocked
]. NJ. Shields, Main-street secondhand
furniture dealer down yesterday morning
during a personal alteration while on
duty. In justice to Mr.. Baker, it must be
said that he smashed the man because he
thought Shields had insulted his mother.
The trouble first started during the fun
eral ceremonies over the late Gen. Rose
Grams at the Cathedral. Bakers mother,
in company with others. was standing in
the doorway of Shields store at 2O9 South
Main street, watching the scene on the op-
posite side of the street. Shields gave his
version of the affair, when seen by re-
porter, as follows:
"The lady wanted to see over the heads
of the crowd, so she stepped UP on some
small gas stoves that were just inside the
doorway. 1 was afraid that she would
break them, so I went in and asked her
to step down. She turned on me and re-
piled that she would not, and added that
she had as much right in there as had,
and if l wanted her to keep out had bet
ter close my doors. AS she stood on the
stoves l placed my hand against her
shoulder and showed her gently forward.
She did not resist, but got down. She then
began to give me tongue lashing, and
after quite awhile went away, saying that
she would attend to me so / would not put
my hands on any more women. Shortly
after l went out of the store, and when
returned l saw the lady and Baker. the
police officer. standing in the back Of the
store talking to my wife. Baker was very
violent, and was shaking his fist in my
wifes face. l heard him say: Damn you
we have been too good to you 1 hurried
up and asked the cause of the troubSe,
and the lady with him said: There is the
man.. Without any further warning
Baker turned and struck me violently on
the right side of the face, knocking me
against table. He struck me second
time over the left eye and. practically set
tied me for awhile. l consider that 1t was
one of the most unprovoked and shameful
outrages ever committed upon citizen.
and have retained Mr.. Goodrich and will
prefer charges against Baker before the
commission"
Officer Baker was asked last night for
his version of the affair. He admitted the
assault, but denied having been violent to
Mrs. Shields.
There was not much to the affair" he
said. 1.-The man insulted my mother and
l knocked him down a couple of times.
cannot help what he says about 1t, but
do know that it was question of my
mothers word against his. and when she
said she had been insuited by him 7 be-
lieved her and went after him. I did not
shake my fist in his wife's face nor say
any such thing as Is claimed"
Shields swore TO . complaint charging the
officer with battery and will prosecute
this charge in addition to one before the
police commission.
The herald., 1898-03-17

Mrs. Frances Melton, the famous mag
netic healer, who arrived in Los Angeles
few days ago. is kept busy from morning
till night healing the sick She has al
ready made some wonderful cures here and
all her patients speak in the highest terms
of her treatments.
Mrs. Melton was two years in waco,
Texas The Daily Times of that city says:
"All Waco will regret to know that Mrs
Frances Melton, the healer, has decided to
leave our city. Since her wonderful cures
of Mrs. Sassaman and Captain Douglas
here two years ago, she has had all the pa
tients she could treat, and has made many
astonishing cures. People have come to
her from all parts of the state. and Waco
had begun to consider her fixture. but she
feels that she should not stay always in
one place"
or course Mrs. Melton is a genuine mag
netic healer, and her cures are permanent,
place. She comes here direct from San
Jose, Cal, where she spent the winter. A
few days after her arrival in San Jose her
wonderful power became known, and for
five months she stood at the treating
board from eight in the morning till five in
the afternoon, giving life, strength and
vitality to suffering humanity. Patients
came to her from San Francisco, Stockton
and other points, being induced to do so by
The herald., 1898-03-17
MRS. MELTON, the Magnetic Healer 5Il W. Second ST.
Between Broadway and HM

friends and relatives who had been cured
The Daily Mercury of San Jose says:
THAT Mrs. Melton possesses remark
able power cannot be doubted by any one
who comes in contact with her. and her
method Of treatment Is such as to impress
one with the success and permanency OF
the cure. That she can correctly diagnose
diseases without questioning the patient.
and then effect cure without medicine, by
simply rubbing or laying on her hands. is
no longer doubted here, as all her patients
will testify. Many Of the best families OF
San Jose and surrounding country have
now strong and healthy witnesses Of her
wonderful power
Mrs. Melton cures nervous diseases. fe-
male complaints, stomach, liver and kid
ney troubles of all kinds; catarrh, heart
disease insomnia, rheumatism, neuralgia.
paralysis and what is generally called con-
sumption. In fact, she can cure nearly
any disease II the patient is strong enough
to stand the treatment She makes no mis-
take in diagnoses.
She knows what she can cure and only
takes those she can cure. She uses no med
icine or MISUNDERSTANDING but her two
bare hands and the God-given power Of
vital magnetism, the strongest possessed
by any human being.
She has costly and neatly furnished rooms
on ground floor at 314 West Second street.
between Broadway and Hill, near the Cali
fornia Bank.
The herald., 1898-03-17
A Suspicious-Looking Fire

A fire occurred at East Los Angeles last
evening about $3.50 o'clock which TO the fire
men had ali the appearance of having been
Of incend!ary origin. 1t was at the resi-
dence of Mrs DR.. Wagstaff of 515 Downey
avenue. When chemical No. reached the
place the fire was burning in three different
rooms. In two of them the flames were
blazing among clothes in some closets.
Mrs. Wagstaff said that gasoline
stove exploding in the kitchen hal
been the cause of the fire, but Capt Eley
of the chemical company regards it as next
to impossible for the flames to have com
municated in this way to the other rooms
The house and contents are insured 70,
$500 but the damage was only $75. Mrs
Wagstam bears an excellent reputation and
while she is not in the slightest way sus-
pected of any part of the alleged incen-
diary origin the case will be investigated
by the police.