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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-07

the cruiser Minneapolis, the monitor
MiantonOmah and the ram Katahdin.
In addition work was going on in the
mold loft and several FORCES were in
operation in the blacksmith shop. The
utmost reticence prevailed among the
officers, sailors and workmen at the
yard and it was impossible to obtain
any official information as to the detail
of the work going on It was evident,
however, that all work was being push
ed as rapidly as possible. The work on
the Minneapolis and MiantOnomah was
all below decks and was said to consist
OF repairs and inspection of the machin-
cry.
On the Katahdin the standards for
the rapid firing guns were being erected
and some small repairs were going on
below. The work in the mold loft con-
sisted of attention to small boats and
spars.
The immense crowds which focked to
the naval station the previous Sunday
were largely increased, but no one was
allowed to get close to the warShips
Sentries were posted at the entrance to
the Wharves and only wOrkmen and
those on business were allowed inside
the lines.
The old single turret monitors in the
back channel, relics of the late war,
were an attraction to thousands, and
their decks were crowded all day It
was reported that five of these will
be taken out of their berths as soon as
possible and tested with modern guns
aboard. The information as to the trial
of these boats came from one of their
caretakers and not an official The boats
which it is said will be tried are the
MOntauk, Jason, Manhattan, Lehigh
and Canonicus. The purpose of trial
with modern guns is to determine
whether they will maintain their cen
ter of gravity sufficiently well to be
available for use in an emergency.
1t was also reported today that the
cruiser Columbia, now in dry dock, had
1-c0 TO- frr.L
soon as possible. This could not receive
official verification. The cruiser has had
her bottom scraped and the work of
painting her will begin tomorrow.
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MELBA AIDS MISS FARRAR.
Daughter of Old Time Baseball Player
to Study Singing in Paris.

Boston, March Miss Geraldine
Farrar, the pretty and accomplished
daughter of ''SiT' Farrar. the old time
baseball player, who now lives in retire
ment in Melrose, Mass, has become a
prOtege of Nine. Melba, who will edu-
cate the girl at her own expense in
Paris and launch her as a full fedged
operate prima donna.
Miss Farrar sang for Melba here in
the Boston theater a few days ago.
The great singer was delighted with her
voice, Rugged her and prophesied great
things Mr. DamrOsch and Manager
Ellis heard Miss Farrar sing, also, and
they cOncurred in Melba's opinion.
Miss Farrar has signed a five year
contract with Mr.. Ellis. "contingently, -
whatever that may mean. She is a pre-
possessing young woman who has stud
led music for years in New York. Nor
dica has heard her and is favorably i'm
pressed with her vocal gifts.
Miss Farrar is only 16 years of age.
Her voice is a beautiful suprano.
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U. S. WAS TOO SLOW.
Spain Buys Two Warships offered to
the United States

Washington, March ITO the delay
of Messrs. Boutelle and Hale, chairmen
of the house and senate naval commit
tees, is probably due the fact that the
Amazonas and her sister ship will fly
the Spanish flag instead of that of the
United States.
Thomas F. Lane, United States agent
for NickerS, Sons & Maxim, England,
offered these two protected cruisers and
several other vessels to the United
States some time ago, but the president
hesitated to accept them without ex
press authority from congress, and in
the meantime Spain stepped in and pur-
chased them.
The president is still considering the
advisability of purchasing two battle
ships, one protected cruiser, one torpedo
gunbOat, and four torpedo destrOyers.
The Spanish government is negotiating
for these ships and unless the president
should take them for the United States
they will undoubtedly be sold to Spain
upon the production of the necessary
cash.
Before disposing of the matter one
way or the other there is reason to be-
heve that the president will again con-
suit with leaders in congress, particu-
larly Speaker Reed and the chairmen
of the senate and house naval commit
tees. Once assured that congress will
stand by the administration, 1t is be-
Heved that he will accept some of the
ships which have been offered to this
government.
In any event, it is positively known
that the president is seriously cOntem-
plating the purchase of ships, for he
recognizes that the additions just made
to the Spanish navy have increased 1t
to a point which should be overcome.
Much chagrin is expressed in admin
istration circles at the failure of this
government to secure the two cruisers.
The matter was first brought to the at
tention of the navy department several
months ago, when MI Lane of1ered TINS
government two battleships and two
armOred cruisers. There was at that
time no apparent necessity of aug
menting the United States navy and no
action was taken upon the proposition.
Since the Maine disaster, however, and
the subsequent decision of the president
to prepare for emergencies the presi-
dent and Secretary Long have cOnsid-
cred Mr.. Lanes proposition and the
builders agent was at the navy depart
ment some days ago and went over the
plans of the ships with Secretary Long.
Captain A. S. CrOWninShield, chief of
the bureau of navigation; Commodore
Richardson Glover, chief of the Office
of naval intelligence, and other officials
of the navy department and naval ex-
perts.
OF the vessels which the president is
now considering with a view to pur-
chase two are under construction for
the government of Brazil and one for
the government of Japan. The torpedo
boat and four torpedo boat destroyers
have probably been built on specula-
ton. These ships have been offered to
the United States, not at an emergency
price, but at a less rate than they could
have been built for in the United
States.
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POTTER OUT FOR ooBURN.
Thinks He Would Bring Thousands
of Votes to the Ticket.

Thomas NJ. Potter of Peabody in a
letter appearing in the Marion Record,
says;
Permit ME to say to my numerous
friends throughout the state who seem
sOlicitOuS to know my position on the
gubernatOrial question, that 1 am not
a candidate for governor, either active
" or receptively. But while I decline to
stand as a candidate for this distin-
guiShed honor at the hands of the Re
publican party, have not in the least
relaxed my zeal for the great party
which has made our state and which I
believe the people are ready to entrust
with power again, provided we nOmi-
nate an able man who commands their
confidence, whose public and private
record is beyond reprOach and whose
personal interests are closely allied with
theirs"
Mr.. Potter then refers to the numer-
Gus worthy candidates in the field and
suggests that the party should nom
mate, from this array, one around
whose standard all could rally. Mr.
Potter thereupon suggests that F. D.
COburn is the man who should be nom
mated, because his name at the head of
the ticket would make it from $4,000 Is
10000 votes stronger, due to his cOnser-
vatism and excellent reputation earned
while secretary of the state board of
agriculture. In conclusion Mr.. Potter
says:
What 1 understand Secretary Co
burns declinatiOn to mean, and after
years of association with him in his
work, I think I know him we'll is that
he does not wish to and will not enter
upon the usual campaign scramble for
the nomination and that he does not
wish to be governor in name, bound up
with REORGANIZATION pledges, which
would destroy his usefulness as chief
executive in fact.
IF am correct in my conclusions,
which I believe a most thorough inves-
tigatiOn and canvass will fully substan-
tate, would it not be the part of wis
dom for the county delegations all over
the state to go to the convention at
least uninstructed, and if the Republi-
can party shall see fit to select F. D.
COburn as its standard bearer. he will
be found a most appreciative and ready
recipient of the coveted honor, a most
efficient campaigner and one who will
lead us to a glorious victory"
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APPEAL FOR SILVER.
Free Silver Republicans Issue an Ad-
dress.

R. w Turner, ]. S. Caldwell of Law
renee and J. A. Davis of Topeka have
completed the preparation of the ad-
dress which they were instructed to is
sue by the state free silver Republican
central committee which held meeting
in Topeka in February.
The address is a vOluminOus dOcu-
ment. 1t is a review of the political
history of the various parties, particu-
larry the Republican party and its
friendly attitude towards silver, cover
ing the last quarter of a century. PO-
Htica1 conditions in Kansas also receive
consideration and the following appeal
is made:
If the Republicans who favor the
use of both gold and silver will separate
themselves from all parties and unite
in Kansas this fall in demanding that
no person be returned to congress who
does not favor the restoration of silver
to our coinage. we can elect a solid
delegation favorable to the unlimited
coinage of both metals. Will you join
US for this purpose? viii you help us
to elect men who will represent old
time Republication? 1t means better
prices for your labor and its products.
Do you want them2 This country will
live; no fear for that. But the time will
come, under a gold standard, when the
children of today viii be bringing forth
children to a worse condition of poverty
and helplessness, wreJchedness and
hopeless fixedness than We're the poor
of the south.
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THE BLATANT PoPUL1sT
Who Does Not Use His Brains Will
Have No Campaign Thunder.

An old calamityite walked into John
w BreidenthaPs office few days ago
and severely criticised the bank com
missioner for his ''everlastin' talk about
prosperity
Breidentha1 is said to have said Cor
words to that effect:
You poor, ignorant, prejudiced fool
replied the bank commissioner q feel
sorry for you. Just such fellows as you
are responsible for the saying that a
POpulist is not happy unless he is mis-
cradle Now, let me give you something
to think about. One of the fundamen-
tai principles Of Populism is not to try
to deceive the people. The two old
parties do enough of that. That the
Kansas farmers are in better condition
today than ever before in their histO-
~ cannot be successfully denied. Now
why do some of you Pops keep on lying
about it?
DO you think for a moment that you
will strengthen your confidence with the
people by it? If you do, you are mis-
taken. People hate liar. If for this
and no other reason. it seems to me the
POpulists should frankly admit the i'm
proved condition of things.
Now, let US consider the matter from
a practical political standpoint" con-
tinued Breidenthal, warming up to the
subject.
Where will you fellows be in the
event we raise an enormous crop of
wheat and prices come down to so cents
a bushel this fall? You can't point to
y
have never admitted that there was
prosperity. The Republicans can show
by your own utterances that there new
er was prosperity. You will not be in
a shape to take advantage of the sit
uation. You will have to continue the
same old general howl without facts,
admitted by you, to back you up. 1 can
be consistent in the event of a decline
in prices. I can point to the high prices
and prosperity which temporarily swept
over this state the first of the year and
contrast it to conditions during the lat
ter part of the year. 1t may be that
prices will not fall this year, but you
can rest assured that they will by the
time the next national campaign rolls
around, and we can then use the matter
in our arguments to show that there
must be a reorganization of federal
governmental affairs before general and
permanent prosperity is assured.
''Why so many of the influential Pop
ulists insist on lying about the present
conditions, 1 am unable to see. 1t will
hurt the cause later. The time is com
ing when they will find out that their
course has done the POpulist party no
good -
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PAINTINGS FOR THE CUBANs.
Miss Barton is Indirectly Accused of
Smuggling.

New York, March IA dispatch
from Havana today said that Havana
custom officials claimed to have discov-
cred evidence of smuggling in the
goods consigned to Miss Clara Barton
for free distribution among the recon-
centradoS.
Japanese paintings and costly jewels
were said to have been in packages of
goods admitted free.
Chairman Barton of the Central IN
ion Cuban relief committee said that she
had not heard of any such complaint,
and did not see how such thing could
be possible.
Every article that is forwarded by the
committee is turned over to the United
States government dispatch agent, and
by him marked Consul General Lee,
Havana" and also marked property
of the United States government No
shipment is made by the Central Cuban
relief committee to any other person
than Gen. Lee.
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WICH1TA,s POSITION.
Why the Business Men Want the
Saloons to Stay.

Tiger Bill Campbell of Wichita who
made an effort, as assistant attorney
general. to drive the saloons and joints
out of Wichita. which is whisky town
has come to the conclusion that prOhi-
bition has no place in politics. To a
man suspected of conducting a saloon
Mr.. Campbell said on the streets of
Wichita Friday:
There is no use in making a political
issue of prohibition, could fire you fell
lows every one out of the saloon BUSH
ness in one month, if it were not for
revenue, public and private. The Ii
quor men hold the fort by paying reve-
nue. to the cities and making an occa-
sional donation to an official who hasn't
sense enough to keep quiet. Property
holders VIII stand by the saloon men
because they help to pay the city taxes
Then there is another feature that
favors the saloons. That is the matter
OF rents If every business in this c:tv
that is making a profit from the sale Of
liquors were driven out, rents on the
business streets of Wichita would come
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down so per cent. The saloons raise
rents They want favorable locations
and they raise the rent to get them.
1t doesn't make any difference how
many churches a man belongs to if
the saloons help to raise rents on his
buildings, he cannot be induced to fight
the saloons.
I sometimes think that time might
reverse this condition. If you were to
close all the saloons in Wichita rents
would tumble at once, but it might be
that after a few years the money saved
to the people from quitting the use of
liquor would make more business and
that rents would come back to the orig
inal standard. But you couldn't get
property-holders to agree to try that
experiment
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CITY PRIMARY.
Republicans Fix the Date for March
10 From l to P. IA.

The Republican city central commit
tee completed the arrangements for the
Republican city primary at the meeting
Saturday evening.
The primary will be held Saturday af-
ternoOn, March 10, from 1 to o'clock
and by the Crawford county system.
The Women's Republican association
was given the contract for furnishing
the meals for the judges. 1t was decid-
ed that there should be two voting
places in each ward. The following rate
of assessments. was made: Consta bles,
board ST.
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OHIO WHEAT POOR.
Continued Drought Last Fall and Late
Seeding the Chief Causes.

Columbus, Ohio, March THE crop
bulletin of the state board of agricul-
ture has just been issued. The condi-
ton of wheat is about SO per cent below
average condition in March. COntin-
ued drought in September and October
and late seeding last fall are the chief
causes.
Conditions may change materially
by April 1. March is the pivotal
month for wheat and a great deal de-
ponds upon weather conditions the next
thirty days whether there will be fair
crop or not.
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seventh District MAX 5.

The Seventh district congressional
convention which probably renOminate
Chester 1. Long for congress will be
held at Hutchinson May 5. This is the
result of the meeting of the congress
MANY of the candidates for state offices,
about twenty in number, attended the
meeting of the committee and made
campaign plans with the delegates and
committeeman
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FIGHT WESTERN OUTLAWS.
Governors of Three States Planning a
Campaign of determination
Against Bandits.

Denver, March War of extermina-
ton has been declared against the, out
laws who have a fortified stronghold
known as Robbers Roost in western
Wyoming.
Although Governor Adams has not
openly announced the fact, he admits
that steps are being taken by the gov
ernors OF Colorado, Wyoming and Utah
to apprehend the murderer of Hoy. and
if possible capture the whole party of
desperadoes known as the Hole in the
Wall" gang.
Powder Springs has for several
months been the rendezvous of the
gang. Their camp has been situated
about six miles from the line of Wy
Oming and about 20 miles from the in
tersection of the Wyoming, Colorado
and Utah lines.
1t has developed that financial insti-
tutions in the infested region are ex-
tremely wary of the outlaws Banks in
some towns are open only from Is to
80 minutes daily, and then the cashiers
and paying tellers are surrounded by
armed guards. The people and the
authorities earnestly desire the sup
preston of the bandits.
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Pensions for Kansans.

Washington. March THE following
pensions have been granted for Kan
sas:
Original-Wm. Perry, Danville, So;
Charles EIaskins, Wichita, Sc; Elias P.
Ward Oronoque, IS; Adolphus Coffey,
WamegO, So; John Dunkerly, Pittsburg,
Sc; VIM. w. Fluke, Topeka, IS; Chas.
Mccoy. Kansas City, Sc; VIM. B. Mash
er, Miltonvale, IS; Snowden r. Dowell,
National Military home. Leavenworth,
IS.
Increase-James B. Hamilton, Gar
nett. Sc to $12; Leander O. Tucker.
Reading, So to $40; John M Montgom-
cry, Liberal, $14 to $17; John H. Larne,
Wilsey, IS to SO; Eli Swerdfeger, Wet
more, SO to S14; Jacob Roland, Edo
RADIO, Sc to $40; Jonas F. Hartman, Fort
Dodge. Sc to So; Albert Curtis, Topeka,
Sc to IS; Isaac Chrinman, Sedan, $14 to
S17.
rilI IOnia $12; Eva L. Brown. EldOradO,
81: Mary ]. Wells. Howard So.
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Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave, and Miller's
Pharmacy, Cor. Sixth and Topeka Ave.
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CROWDS AT THE NAVY YARDS
Sentries Keep Them OFF Vessels on
Which They Were Rushing.

Philadelphia, Pa, March 7.-Yester-
day was a repetition of last Sunday in
the general activity at League Island
navy yard.
Morkmen were busily engaged upon
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mainsprings, Use; crystals, 1oc Cas-
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anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new
If hard up, see Uncle Sam, So Kan. ave
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