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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items intended for. this column should
be left at the Kimban Pig. Co., before Ii
o'clock in the morning.
Miss Ella Olenger is visiting in OF
tawa.
Walter and William PolIum are back
from Omaha.
Stewart Henry is i'll at his home on
Mark Putnam is spending a few days
in Kansas City.
Special bargains in Shoes, Monday, at
Costley & Post.
Miss Grace Babcock is home from a
shot visit in Meriden.
Don't miss the special bargains at
Costley & Post, Monday.
Miss Eleanor Caldwell came home
yesterday from her visit to Omaha.
Mrs. Jarad Lacey of Meriden is the
guest of Mrs. J. E. Watts of Quincy
street.
Miss Ninna Mccall came down from
Hoyt yesterday and will visit her mother
over Sunday.
E. c. Arnold returned home last even
ing from his trip to Omaha, Kansas City
and St. Louis.
Miss Daisy OIegner has taken a po-
sition as cashier at Berry Bros gro
Gerry, and will begin work Monday.
Mr.. J. Stone of Burton, Kan, is the
guest of Mr.. w. Vanness of North To-
peka, and Mrs. G. Shields of Shorey.
sermon at the Church of the Good Shep-
herd tomorrow at half past seven
O'Clock.
Mr.. P. Mcpherson will preach tomor-
row morning at IL o'clock and in the
evening at 7:30 o'clock in the North
Christian church.
Mrs. Eliza Sherer and Mrs. Alaway of
Chapman arrived today and are the
guests of Mrs. Sherer'S son, Mr.. George
Sherer north of town.
Win Fuller, who travels for the Wayne
McVeagh Grocery company OF Chicago,
came in yesterday from Junction City
and will leave Sunday for Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. E. Whitman returned
to their home at Fairburg, Neb-, after
a two weeks visit with Mrs. Whitman's
mother, Mrs. G. Shields, of Shorey.
Miss Dollie Blair who has been visit
ing her brother, R. W. Blair at the IN
ion Pacific hotel for the past two weeks,
returned to her home in Netawaka yes
terday.
for ST. Joseph, where she will make an
extended visit to friends. From there
she will go to Blockton, Iowa, to visit
relatives
Miss Carrie Lowry of Salina who has
been the guest of Mrs. FrankPutnam for
mon City where she will be entertained
by Mr.. and Mrs. Dearborn.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Baird, Mrs. E. Bis
sell, Mrs. J. B. Belts and daughters,
Myrtle and Freda, S. L. Courtney, W.
NJ COstley and John Wilt, returned
from Omaha yesterday.
Mrs. Ida NJ. Blackman of Bonner
Springs and Mrs. G. NJ. Parker of New
ton, who have been visiting Mrs. Sto-
ker of 917 Quincy street and attending
the Rebekah assembly, returned to their
homes on Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
SENATOR HARRIS TONIGHT
What He Says About the Wetmore
Letter and Other Matters.

Senator w. A. Harris came to Topeka
today and will speak tonight at Lukens'
opera house in North Topeka. This
date is in the place Of one Senator Har-
ris was compelled to break some time
ago when he was called to Montauk
Point by the illness of his son. It is ex-
pected that other speakers will be pres
ent also, but Senator Harris will make
the principal speech.
In speaking of the campaign Senator
Harris said:
1T is hard for me to talk, and I
don't enjoy it very much. Besides, there
is lamenta BILE lack of interest in poll
tics this fall, and people don't care for
speeches. However, the Republicans
have just as hard time getting crowds
to their meetings as we do.
THE Populists are going to carry
Kansas this year If present indications
count for anything. AS far as am
able to judge, matters in the state
stand just about as they did two years
ago, and I look for the same result.
Neither the general conditions nor the
sentiment of the people seem to have
changed much. of course, the kind of
weather we have on election day may
figure on the size of the majority, but
am confident that we will win.
mo 1 am not afraid of the results
which win arise from the publication
of the Wetmore letter. These alleged
exposes say it with a feeling OF
shame-have become common political
tricks in Kansas, and they have no
effect on the voters. We will always
have trouble, though, as long as our
boards of charities think it is necessary
to change the management of the char
liable institutions every time new
administration gets in power. 1t is hard
to have competent officials when they
are selected for their political standing.
1t is the principle I object to, not the
officials in this particular instance. |
am not saying, by any means, that
take any stock in the Wetmore letter"
Captain A. J. Arnold, who is acting
as manager of the meeting in North To
peka tonight, says that the Democratic
Flambeau club will turn out and act
as an escort for Senator Harris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
KUNKEL CASE DRAGS.
Evidence Indicates Strange Doings
on Part of Defendant.

Lawrence. Oct. 15.-The preliminary
hearing in the Kunkel case is still in
progress. Miss Addie Hill, who was an
emplOye Of Mrs. KunxeI in the dress
making business before her marriage,
testified that she nursed Birdie Coming
ore during her last illness, that she took
half a teaspOonfull of the matted milk
which was being given to Birdie and
she was sick from its effect all the next
day.
The colored house girl, Lottfe Over
street testified that she and Mrs. Kun
kel saw white powdered substance on
a dish of Oat meal which was brought
up TO BRIDES room and that she took
1t down stairs, placed it in the sink in
the Kitchen and went out
When she returned to the kitchen Mr.
kunkel was standing by the sink and
said that he was stopping leak. She
said the top of the oat meal had been
raked off and the finger marks were
very plain.
Rev. George Rogers, the family pas
tor, testified that he often called at the
kunkel residence to inquire after the
condition of Mrs. Kunkel but was new
er admitted to see her, the reason being
given by KunkeI that she was saving
some things that concerned only the
family and that he didn't want the
neighbOrs to hear them.
The next witness of Importance was
DR.. W. 7. Leonard, coroner.
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THIEVERY AS A BUSINESS
Carried on in a Systematic Manner by
q GANG of Bows

The four bows now in custody at the
county jail on the SPECIFIC charge OF hol 6i-
Festival week constitute band OF or
ganized young robbers who for the past
year have been breaking open box cars
and burglarizing farm houses from Kan
sas City as far west as Willard station
on the Rock Island road.
Sheriff Cook estimates that the boys
have in that time stolen several thousand
dollars worth of goods All their plum
der was shipped to confederates in Kan
of it for them.
The four boys are Charles Stowell, Seth
EosenPtaugh Frea Ss1e T6ad 4u HER
homes in this city. The youngest of the
quartette is not more than 10 years of age,
while the Oldest is not over ~, but accord
ing to their own confessions they have
proven competent burglars.
Since the announcement several days
ago that the boys had confessed to burg
larizing farm houses in the vicinity of
Topeka, country people have been calling
him a list of stolen articles which it is
supposed the youthful band of robbers
secured Today dozen farmers who live
in the country near Meriden visited the
sheriff office to register missing articles.
together with a number of farmers of
other localities Sheriff Cook now has
of wearing apparel from a pair of socks
and a patent egg-beater to gold watches
and solid silverware-
The credit of securing confessions from
the boys belongs to Under Sheriff Hal
Williams, who first secured a confession
from the StoWen boy and afterward from
the others. The boys in their confessions
told where part of the plumber lately ship
ped to Kansas City could be found, and
will be brought to this city. After it is
used in evidence it will be returned to
stolen by the boys has been disposed of
and the money squandered by them and
their confederates.
All the boys viii pro bably be given long
terms in the penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
MRS. LEASE COOKS WELL
And is Paid One Dollar a minute
Every Time She Talks.

The voice of Mary Elizabeth Lease
has been heard out of the wilderness of
south Dakota. She has written to a
friend in this city. enclosing a newspa-
per clipping which states that on her
appearance in Aberdeen county she was
well.
Mrs. Leases notice of the newspaper
clipping is positive proof that she is
not imperviOus to compliments on her
appearance. The clipping is as fol-
lows:
Mary Elizabeth Lease last night fin
1shed her engagement in Aberdeen and
Brown county and with her purse a
good deal heavier than when she came
took her departure this morning. Her
first thought last night was for her
elegant gown and she took precautions
against its coming in contact with any
particle OF dust that might be upon the
stage. To this end and to keep the sOleS
of her fashionably shot feet from con-
taminatiOn with the floor the hand
some spread covering the table upon
which pitcher of water stood was ta-
ken off and by her direction spread on
the floor for her to stand upon. She
stepped to the center of the table
spread, disposed the skirts of her hand
some gown so that they would escape
contamination, and was ready to begin
her talk. She stood there a moment to
allow the audience to make a proper
survey of her Worth or Redfern cos
tune in repOse. No more richly dressed
actress has ever appeared upon the
stage Of the opera house, and it is plain
~ apparent that since she has fOrsak ken
the Populists of Kansas and joined the
rich people to reside In New York she
has become a most tasteful dresser. AS
she charges well up to a dollar a minute
for her talking she can afford to crafty
the natural feminine wish to appear
we'll, and she did appear well last
night"
The last five words are underlined in
ink by Mrs. Lease. In the letter she
remarks that you will probably notice
from the enclosed clipping that am at
least looking we'll"
Mrs. Lease states that she has every
date filled up to April. 1899, under the di-
rection of the Chautauqua bureau, and
says that she is prospecting in lecture
work. reports to the contrary nOtwith-
standing. She also incidentally re-
marks that she is out of politics for
good, and will never make another po-
litical speech as long as she lives.
Mrs. Lease does not expect to visit
Kansas for some time. She now calls
New York city her home.
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IF JUDGES WOULD ACT.
State Temperance Union Points Out
Weakness of Liquor Prosecutions

The State Temperance union has is
sued a 32-page pamphlet explaining just
how the prOhibitOry law may be en-
forced. The book is designed for the
use of the people who do not know
how to get at the liquor sellers. Twen-
ty pages are devoted to the publication
OF the prOhibitory law and all the
amendments which have been adopted
In the chapter on the duties of Off
GERS the position is assumed that when
the law is not being enforced in any
city Of the first-class the governor
''shall' appoint police commissioners
and that it is a part of his duty to do
so.
A great burden is thrown upon the
shoulders of the district judge before
whom the cases come for trial. The
statement made through the pamphlet
in this connection is as follows;
1.-The influence of the judge of the dis
trict court on the enforcement or nom
enforcement of the prohibitory law is
far greater than any reading of the
statutes would suggest. The powers and
duties of judges were settled almost
before there was any such thing as
statutes, and they remain largely IN
written. If a county attorney furnish
es q sufficiently clear case Of corruption
or faVOritiSm, or determination, gen
orally not to enforce the law, the judge
may compel him to prosecute. (Sec.
S2) But he has general powers much
more far-reac ching than this. He is the
responsible head of the court as an in
stitutiOn. He is, among other things,
the presiding officer of an assembly, and
responsible for its decOrum. 1t is his
main business to see that the legal me-
chinery turns out the results that the
law intends. It is the good faith with
which ne goes about this, that makes
his court respectable and respected.
This determines the plane on which its
proceedings are conducted by lawyers
and parties and witnesses and jurors.
IF in any particular court a liquor
prosecution is a sort of a joke; if wit
nesses persistently don't know and
don't remembers; if lawyers occupy
hours or days in trying to STUFF the
court and jury with a mess of lies in
which they have coached the witnesses;
If juries brazenly return a verdict in
the face of the evidence, and this sort
Of thing goes on day after day, the
fault is with the judge. Sending one
witness to jail for contempt to refresh
his recollection, or disbarring one attOr-
ney for subornatiOn of perjury, or dis
missing one jury in disgrace and sum
SnOning another, would end it instantly
and purify the air of that court room
like an electric flash.
so for one thing. the judge can very
easily make it Understood that prosecu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
LARGEST EVER KNOWN
Worlds Wheat Crop for 1898 Breaks
All Records.

washington. oct. 15.-The following is
a summary of the agricultural depart
ment's report of agriculture In the 1or-
eign countries for October:
The Hungarian ministry OF agfleuI-
ture and the several commercial au-
thorities have issued their estimates OF
the worlds wheat crop of 1888. The
Beerbohm estimate is equivalent to 2
$40, 600, 900 bushels of so pounds IN the
grand total varying but little from the
Hungarian official estimate. The wheat
croD of India for 1898 as officially re-
ported amounted to 242,92l,28O bushelS,
that of 1897 to 1872, 667 483 bushels, while
the annual average for the previous hVe
years was 226, 446, 0SO.
Omcial hgures on area show an in
crease of 6S9, 112 acres IN France, OF ZlS,-
6S6 acres in the United Kingdom, 1884,
$50 in Ontario, Canada, and 147,35O in
Manitoba under wheat. The estimates
of production given in tables published
with the report make the crop OF 1898
the largest on record, but the world 5
reserve stocks had run extremely low
before harvest.
The French area under wheat was
about four and one-quarter per cent
greater in 1898 and taking wheat, rye
and maslin together, the area increase
amounted to 1913, l79 acres. The aver
age yield of wheat this year was nearly
p bushels per acre against less than 49,
in 1897.
An official estimate for Hungary puts
the wheat crop at 119. 638, 600 bushels
against SO 924 900 last year; rye So, 1874, -
900 bushels against 5,151, 900 bushels
last year; barley 81, 900 bushels
against Al, S81,00O last year. The wheat
crop of ROumania has been stated in
English papers on the authority of an
official estimate at sc, SOC, 900 bushels,
but some reports from that country
represent that this estimate is too large
by several million bushels. The offers
of wheat from ROumania and Bulgaria
are described as rather extraordinarily
restricted"
The preliminary official estimate as to
the Prussian rye crop is said to state it
at 242, 400 600 bushels against 223, POO, 600
bushels last year. The German pota-
TO crop was reported in the middle Of
September as a full average. In Aus
tr1a-Hungary the crops of wheat rye
and oats are reported as very satisfac-
tory. Barley is merely average in
quantity and deficient in quality, while
maize, on the whole, is not good crop.
Reports from Russia are quite con-
hicting. Supplies for new wheat for ex-
port come forward very sparingIv and
considerable quantities of grain are said
to be moving toward the provinces
which suffered so severely through the
failure of the crops last year. At the
beginning of September the crops in Ar
gentine were reported to be in fine
condition, but about three weeks later
they were represented as suffering for
want of rain and threatened by locusts
Accounts from Australia represent the
crop outlook there as excellent
The sowing of the fall grain crops in
Europe has been delayed by drought in
a number of countries CompIaint on
this score has been quite serious and
widespread.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
UNKNOWN MAN DIES.
May Be George Foster, but Identif-
cation is Doubtful

Wichita, Oct. 15-An unknown man,
who was first seen here last Sunday,
died last night at the Wichita hospital
The man was about so years old and
when discovered was wandering aim
lessly and helplessly around the streets
of the town. He was taken in charge
by the police, but was unable to tell
anything of himself and had nothing
in his possession to indicate who he
was or where he was from. At first he
could talk some. but his mind was gone
On Tuesday night he became uncOn-
scious and never rallied, dying at 10
O'Clock last night.
From recognition pins on his clothes
it is supposed he was a Mason, an Odd
Fellow and an old soldier. The Odd
Fellows sent him to the hospital, and
the MasOns telegraphed a number of
places in a vain effort to learn some
thing of him. There were several names
and addresse in his pockets, but it could
not be learned which was his. The most
likely name was George Foster. That
name was among those in his pockets
and he sometimes seemed to notice it
when he was addressed that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
THIS is A BAD SITUATION.
More School Room Absolutely Need
ed but No Means of Providing It.

An obstacle has been met which will
prevent the proposed enlargement of
the city school buildings at least this
season.
It was proposed at the last meeting
of the city board of education to build
additions to several of the school build
ing to accommodate the school children
and relieve the crowded condition of the
schools. It was thought than an cleo
ton might be held this fall to vote on
the proposition.
Now it appears that the bonded in
debtedness Of the board of education is
up to the limit allowed by law and that
1t will require an act of the legislature
to legalize an issue of bonds for any
purpose of the board of education. This
will put an end to this question for this
year, at least
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following real estate transfers
have been filed with the register of
deeds:
David Eckert and wife to Franklin
Eckert, 81, part southwest quarter and
part southeast quarter Is, II, Is.
SAGE to William Eckert, 81, Same.
VIM. NJ Mitchner and wife to Lima
w. Baylis, 81, 500. lots 25-7-9 and 81,
Maine street, Rossville.
Laura Douthitt Root and husband ct
al, to John J. Kinney, $500, lot II and
south half Is, Topeka avenue, Douthitt
Place.
L. A. Stebbins and wife to August
Strickrott, $500, lots 10 and 81 Van
Buren, street.
r. A. Scherer and wife to A NJ Bliss.
$50, lots 622-24-26 block 6, West street,
Martin & Dennis addition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15

lions in his court for violations of the
prohibitory law, as well as others, mean
business. Further, he can so arrange
the business of the court as to give as
speedy a. trial as possible. This is what
an innocent man always wants, and
what a guilty man in a liquor case al
ways wants to avoid. And especially,
he can demonstrate that he means bus
mess, and prevent the mOnopOlizing Of
the time of his court in trying the same
round of offenders term after term, by
awaiting himself of the discretion given
him to make the punishment fit the
crime. Giving a defiant and persistent
violatOr of the law a fine of $500 and 80
days in Jail, would leave the court free
to attend to other business for some
time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
SANTA FE TINE CARD.
Twelve Superintendents and Train
men to Begin Its Preparation
Monday

The Santa Fe time card caused by the
advent of the flyer will require about
four days for completion. The train
masters and division superintendent to
the number of twelve will meet in To-
peka on Monday. the 18th, to prepare
the card. They will meet in the rooms
at the corner of Ninth street and Kan
sas avenue where a great number of
maps and charts bearing on the situa-
ton are placed on the walls.
The work of preparing a time table
is considered the most difficult as well
as tedious of any connected with rail
road work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
The Atchison City Elevator Company

The annual meeting of the stoc1I-
holders of The Atchison City Elevator
Company will be held at the general
office of The Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railway Company, in Topeka, kan
sas, on Thursday, October %, 1898, at g
o'clock P. NJ, for the election of direc-
tors and the transaction of any other
business that may legally come before
the meeting. E. Wilder, secretary. To-
neka October Ii. 1898
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
KANSAS MEN HONORED.
M. K Conlin Elected Grand Master of
Switchmen's Union.

Cleveland, O., Oct. 1.-THE convention
of the Switchmen's Union of North
America ended last night. officers were
elected as follows: Grand master, M.
K. Conlin, of Kansas City, Kan; vice
grand master, L. H. Porter, Noting
ham, o.; grand OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
John E Upton, Parsons, kan: editor
of journal NJ. J. Ford, Jr., Omaha,
Neb.; grand board of directors, NJ. r.
WEIGH of Omaha, Clint Lafrantz, Of
Kansas City, Kan, and NJ. J. Curran of
Detroit, Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
Kansas City, Emporia & Southern
Railway Company.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas City, Emporia &,
Southern Railway Company will be held
at the general office of The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
in Topeka, Kansas, on Thursday, Oc-
tober q, 1898, at o'clock P. NJ. for the
election of directors and the transaction
of any other business that may legally
come before the meeting. E. Wilder
secretary. Topeka, October Is, 1898
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
Broke Two-Year-oId Record.

Fair Grounds, Lexington, KY, Oct.
15.-Major H. c. McDowelTs FLY Ecs-
tacy broke the worlds race record for
two-year- old PAGERS in pacing .futurity
2:01h in second heat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
Begg's German salve.

is used in every house, writes one man
from a country town. Entire neighbor-
hood use it, for Piles, Cuts, Burns,
Bruises and all skin diseases. The fame
of it's cures necessarily spread from
town to town; friends tell friends what
Beggs' German Sa1ve has done, and the
whole people acknowledges it's merit,
its healing qualities and its power of
allaying pain. For sale by all drug
giSts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
Wichita & South Western Railway
Company.

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Wichita & Southwestern
Railway Company will be held at the
general Office of The Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway Company, in To-
peka, Kansas, on Thursday, October 27.
1898 at o'clock P. NJ, for the election
of directors and the transaction of any
other business that may legally come
before the meeting. E. Wilder, secre-
tary. Topeka, October Is, 1898.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
STATE HOUSE NOTES.

S. G. Wheeler of the state board of
charities, says he will spend the next
three weeks campaigning in his home
senatorial district, Cloud and Republic
counties. Senator Wheeler was the
first POpulist senator elected in Kansas
and was elected from that district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
Mrs. Lees Condition Critical

Washington, Oct. 15-Major General
Fitzhugh Lee telegraphed Major Gen
eral Greene today that the condition of
Mrs. Lee was so critical that he could
not talk business. He asked Gen. Greene
to take command of the First division
duty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-15
LOCAL MENTION.

L. E. Paul, vice president, and VIM.
Morris, treasurer, of the Rescue Mission
association of Kansas City, Mo, are
in Topeka for several weeks to look
after the work here. A mission has
been established at 1908 Kansas ave
nue., where services will be held Sunday
afternoon and evening.