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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
FIRE TAKES ALL.
Jerome, Ariz., Wiped Off the
Face of the Earth.

Prescott, Ariz.. Sept. 13.-The fire in
Jerome was one of the greatest calaIn-
tiles in the loss of lives and destruction
of property that ever occurred in Ari-
iona.
Among those who lost their lives are
the following:
Mexican woman and her two children,
MILFORD, an undertaken; a dry goods
clerk, name unknown; two laborers,
names unknown.
The number of missing is placed at Is.
Many people familiar with Jerome,
place the loss at figures ranging from
one-haf to three or four million dol
lars. There was but little insurance,
the total aggregating less than $50 000
The loss is complete, it being stated
that not even the commonest articles of
use were saved. Much merchandise
and other valuable goods We're removed
to places on the hillside, but the heat
became so intense that nearly every
thing was destroyed in the end.
Following are some of the principal
losses: ,sr
Dave Conner hotel, value $40, 900. loss
total.
c. .O'Keefe, general merchandise. $780,
600, loss total.
Merrill Bros, general merchandise,
value $685. 00 insurance nominal.
Hoover & Gardiner, resort, value $10,-
900, insurance nominal.
Senate saloon, Sc, 900, insurance nomf-
nal.
Annex, loss $1,000.
Geo. Lanham, loss $1,000
Vim. Hook & Co. loss ST. 900.
Jos. Temborino, loss $4,000.
Mrs. Boyd, lodging house, loss $1,000.
st. Charles hotel, loss $40, 900.
Grand View hotel, loss $25 900, insur-
ance nominal
Fifty company cottages. loss 500, 900,
insurance nominal.
Also at least 200 additional places of
business, including confectionery, to-
bacco, fruit, barbershops, meat mar
kets and like places, aggregating big
sum.
Building contracts are already being
entered into and the place in a few
months will be the scene of activity
and prosperity.
The Bashford Burmister company, S.
Hill and others have sent over tents
and to this stock constant additions are
being made and money subscription is
being circulated and literally signed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
TILLMAN TALKS PLAINLY.
Tells Northern Cotton Manufacturers
What is the Matter With Them.

Manchester, N. H, Sept. 13.-While
Senator Tillman of South Carolina was
visiting the mills here he talked upon
the Industrial situation north and south
with special reference to cotton manu-
featuring, in which his state is now
largely engaged. He said that the
southern cotton mills and operatives
were prospecting.
Our machinery is modern, while that
or the north IS obsolete" he continued.
Our cotton mills are mostly segregat-
ed in the country, while the northern
mills are grouped in the cities. Our
operatives own their own homes, while
yours are crowded into tenement hous-
es Can there be any comparison be-
tween laborers thus situated. Our Ia
bOrers are satisfied; yours are not
Ours are growing rich, while yours are
growing poor. And there can be but
one outcome of all this-yOur people
must sink to the level of European la
Dor or your mills must go south. You
northern people have had a monopoly
of the cotton business for years. You
must now seek something else. We
are going to beat you at it. We have
got all the natural advantages and you
have none. You have legislated against
everybody and everything to protect
your cotton mills, but you cannot leg
1slate God out of existence nor suspend
the operations of natures benehcent
laws.
The north is not satisfied with a pro-
tect1Ve tariff that shuts out foreign
goods from this market, and has had
the nerve to introduce a bill in congress
to protect one part of the country
against another This Lowering bill
asking for a constitutional amendment
regulating the hours of labor, is a direct
blow at the constitutional rights of the
states to legislate for themselves, and
we will fight you on that all summer
and until we beat you. We won't have
legislation of that kind. The only
thing we have ever lacked in our state
capital and we are now getting that in
abundance"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
WHY so MANY.
Needless Increase of the
Number of Deputy Grain
INSPECTORS.

W. ". Culver, state grain inspector,
has had Sc deputies on the pay roll Of
his department during the past month
and placed three new ones on yester-
day.
Culver himself receives a salary of
81, 200 per year. or 800 a month. NJ. L.
Frost, chief deputy, receives $3.50 per
month. OF the other deputies fifteen
are employed at SIS per month, two at
$780, thirteen at $50, ten at $45, six at
$40 and five at $35. The salaries of the
other four range from $41.4O to S64.
During the month of August the
grain inspection department received in
fees 81, 927.35, while the salaries and
other expenses amounted to $3,587. SO,
leaving a deficit in the department Of
$3.50. So for the month.
Culver is the subject of considerable
criticism because he keeps so many
deputies and runs the expenses of his
department so far beyond its receipts.
The inspectors are located at every
grain market of any Importance in the
state and the number is increased as
the new grain comes into market. 1t
is claimed that the grain inspection de-
partment is used to reward political
workers. and Mr.. Culver's August re-
port seems to indicate that he has more
deputies than the business of the office
iustffies However, there is still a bal
ance of $4,67O97 to the credit of the
Department in the state treasury, earn
ed during the earlier months Of CulVer'S
term in Office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real estate
have been filed:
Mowry S. Thatcher to Henry DeahI,
81, 500, lots II. 13, block 2. Auburndale.
Charles c. Belden to George J. Miller.
81, 25O, part northeast quarter Z, II, II.
]. H Hunt, trustee, and wife to An
ME E. Teter, 500, lots 80, Al, block 1.
E. c. Evans first addition.
To B. Rockwell part lot 4, Is, IL, II,
part reservation 2, part southeast quar-
ter 20, IL, 16, part southwest quarter so,
IL, 16, part northwest quarter 4, II, 16,
part southeast quarter 4. r. 16.
To Frank L. Wolff. lots 81, SO, 81, 6S
North Madison street.
To c. o. Knowles, lot 34S Jefferson
street.
To L. w. Wilson, lot II Dillon street,
Thurson Place.
To Carrie c. Van Valkenburg, north
half northwest quarter II, IL, Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
THE OREGON,S MAIZE.
The iowa Will Accompany Her on
the Return to the Pacific.

Washington, Sept. 13.-The navy depart
ment is shifting some of the officers on
the battleships Oregon and Iowa prepara-
tory to their departure from New York
on their long cruise to San Francisco by
way OF the Straits of Magellan. The de-
partment has just selected from among
the fleet of golfers acquired during the
war four of the best and largest to accom-
pany the battleships on their long run.
These are the Cassius, Scandal Alexan-
der and Aberendia, and their coal capacity
is sufficient to insure a full supply for
the big battleShips well for them
selves without subjecting the fleet to the
refusal of any of the South American re-
publicS to take coal account of
the technical existence of a state of war
between the United States and Spain.
No attempt is to be made to drive the
big ships 50 as to equal the famous run
of the Oregon coming eastward, the need
for the ships on the Pacific side not being
so pressing as to warrant mourning the
risk of injuring. the boilers or machinery
by keeping up full speed. 1t is expected
that the battleships with their golfers will
be able to start from New York about
the end of this month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13

Westray Battle thinks that the point is
not clear, while DR.. FoxweH says that
acute catarrhs are probably mutual
" contagious, and that pneumonia and
coryza are generally recognized as be-
ing capable of reproducing themselves
in fresh subjects.
Because in a healthy subject a cold
gets well, it does not follow that all
colds will take that course, and every
thing should be done to prevent such
attacks, and cut short proba BILE COM
plications. If a cold habitually flies to
the chest it may be taken for granted
that there is an inherent weakness of
the lungs, and the parents of children
with such a predisposition should take
tendency, else the complaint may be-
come chronic, or tuberculous infection
NAV result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
TWO TOPEKA SOLDIERS
Who Were in the Battle of Ell Caney
are Visiting in Town.

Robert c. Wallace and G. E. Wallace,
cousins, who lived with their parents
on Harrison street in North Topeka,
enlisted in the Twentieth regiment
when the recruiting officer was in To-
peka last spring. Together they march
ed up the hill at Ell Caney.
On July % G. E. Wallace, the young
er of the two men, was taken with ma
larial fever and sent to the hospital. In
spite of the hardships he says that he
has no complaint to make of the treat
ment there but when he was started for
home he had a relapse. THAT is where
I suffered" said he in speaking of his
experience. I'VE had no doctors and no
attention on ship board and it was
pretty hard"
G. E. Wallace was sent to the hospi-
time he was Joined by his cousin, Rob
ert. Both men had malarial fever and
both received sick furlOughS a short
time ago. Robert expects to be able to
rejoin his regiment when his furlough
expires but his cousin is weak and
scarcely able to walk and it is not like
~ that he will be able to resume his
duties as a soldier for some time.
Robert Wallace has a mementO OF the
Santiago campaign which he prizes
highly. It is an ordinary silver watch
with a Spanish name engraved on the
inned lid. He got the timepiece from
a Spanish prisoner after the fall of
Santiago.
The stories told by the young men
are the same that have been retold q
thousand times, a story of American
pluck and valor. Neither is sorry that
the war is over but both say that the
were no worse than they expected to
encounter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
LEXOW LEFT OUT
Because He Failed to Obey United
States Senator Platt.

o is f. ba sb6neS ia The v Lex f5e
Republicans of the Twenty-third Sena-
torial district, which comprises the coun-
publican. to succeed Senator Lexow for
the nomination is Louis F. GOOdseIl, as
semblyman, of Highland Fails. The edict
has gone out, Mr.. Lexows friends say,
that Mr. GOodseu must be nominated be-
cause Sena tor Lexow, as chairman of the
judiciary committee at Albany, offended
Mr.. Platt last winter, and also because
Mr.. Lexow, as a member of the commit
tee on cities, did not vote as Mr.. Plat
desired him to do certain local meas
ures Affecting the railroad situation in
New York city.
Mr.. LexoW has had a number of talks
with Mr.. Plat at the Oriental hotel Coney
Island, of late, but without avail, and As
semblyman GoOdsell of Orange, chairman
of the assembly committee on electricity
and gas in the last assembly, is to sup
plant Mr.. IlexOW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
OUR SOLDIERS NEEDLESSLY
DEAD

Weep. not for the dead who so valiantly
In battles dread carnage "mid shot and
mid SHELF
At the cali of their country from loved
And though dead they still live in the ma
tons great heart.
Their country their names will not suffer
to perish,
But with grateful emotions forever will
cherish.
From their death to the nation there
arises new glory,
To be told to the worlds latest ages in
story.
But grievously, passionately, sadly. o
For the far greater number of heroes who
sleep,
Where in graves their disease-wasted
bodies now lie,
Victims of somebody's heartless neglect.
they die.
o! woe to the day when our bravest Of
sons
Went forth to the war with their KNAPP
sacks and guns;
For more cruel the hardships they need
Iessly bore
Than the Ibayonets and balls Of the foe
men before. c.
POtWin Place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
TWENTIETH STARTS HOME
Will Return to Its Old Quarters at
Fit. LeavenwOrth.

Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point. L. I,
Sept 13.-The entire attention of the 1900
rected toward the latest developments in
regard to abandonment of the camp here
and their removal to the barracks occu-
pied by them before the commencement
General Bates orders are to get all the
troops away from here as soon as posi-
bic, but according to statement MADE by
him. he is not informed of the means OF
transportation to be provided by the
quartermas ter's department. He is un-
able to estimate the length of time that
may be necessary to remove the troops
The troops now here comprise seVeItee en-
cavalry, six batteries of light artillery,
four batteries of heavy artillery and six
camps of the signal corps.
The Third and Twentieth infantry regf-
ments expect to leave here by ran today,
the former going to Fort Smelling, Mimi,
and the latter to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Great activity is being. displayed by the
here of all patients who can possibly be
Between three and four hundred sick
were sent to New York and Brooklyn nos
pitfalls on Sunday on the steamer Shine
The army hospital boat Relief arrived
here from New York yesterday, and dur
ing the day she took aboard go sick men.
The Relief left with these patients last
night for Boston and they will be placed
in hospitals in that city. The steamer
riviny nv WednesdsV. ana viii then take
perhaps 200 more patients to New YORK
and Brooklyn hospitals. The Shinnecock
is expected and she viii take probably 200
With the departure of the Relief there
are about 500 men in the general hospital
and 200 or 800 more in the division and
regimental hospitals; The detention hos hos
pitaI has been abandoned. 1t is expected
that before the end of the week all the
patients in all the hospitals in camp will
have been removed to hospitals IN new
York and other places except, perhaps,
$50 to 200 suffering from aggravated 5. at
malaria and dysentery, whom it is con-
sidered inadvisable to remove for two or
three weeks more. They will remain in
the general hospital here as long as may
be necessary, without regard to whether
the troops in camp are removed to their
barracks or not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
FROM JEWELL CITY.
Lieut.. Alvin Miller Afflicted With In
fammatory Rheumatism.

Jewell City, Sept. 13.-Seventeen
Jewell City boys and girls study in
Kansas schools at Lawrence, Emporia
and Salina this fall.
A fine rain began to fall Friday even
ing and continued until Tuesday, al
most necessarily. The ground is thor
oughly soaked.
Lieutenant Alvin Miller, Company D,
Twenty-first Kansas, can not return to
his company at the expiration of his
Through He is afflicted with inf1am-
rnatory rheumatism; one hand is now
useless to him and the other hand is be-
coming afflicted with the same inflam-
nation. It is probable that he will be
discharged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
Patriarchs of America Make
Changes in Constitution.
New Regulations For Members
Holding Insurance Policies.
Ii. MASON ACQUITTED.
Marion Bankers Go Free at
Florence Trial.
Wichita Prisoner Attempts
Suicide to Escape Penitentiary

Fort Scott, Sept. 13.-B. w. Martin
has returned from Parsons, where he
attended a special meeting of the Pat
riarchs of America.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of making an important change
in the constitution of the order so that
those who join and die within one year
will receive only 81, 100 instead of 81, 900.
if one dies in the second year after his
admission into the order he shall re-
ceive $1,000, and so on, 500 more being
added to the policy for each year in
which the policy is in force until one
has lived for ten years a member of the
order, when he shall in case Of death
receive the full sum of $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13

Chieago's recent school census brings
out the fact that there are more Ger
mans than Americans in the city The
totals, according to national descent,
are as follows: Germany leads the list
with 490, 542. Then comes America with
1858; Ireland .142; Sweden, III, 100;
Poland, 96,S53; Bohemia, IS, 2S0; Norway,
1880; England, 44,223; Russia, IS, 987;
Canada, S4.9O7; Africa Ccolored), %, S14;
Italy, 29,061; Scotland, %, 942; France,
21,SO0; Denmark. ISL; Holland, 1918;
Hungary, ASP; Switzerland 44O1; ;
Wales. 3.T74; China. 2,445; Belgium. 3
OIL; Greece, 1914; Lithuania, Al; Spain
66s; Mexico, 152.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS.

At the Crawford theater tonight Fitz
& Webster's eastern company will pre-
sent "a Breezy Time the musical
comedy which was seen at the hands
of an inferior company in this city late
last season. Some of the best of the
old features have been retained for the
piece this year, while a number of new
features have been added, and the indi-
vidual work of different members of the
company is said to be of a high order.
A full dress cake walk closes the per-
Torrance,
Oliver Scott's colored MINISTRIES, a
troupe that has visited Topeka several
times under the management of Al G..
Field, will be seen at the Crawford
theater tomorrow night. The company
includes a number of clever negro per-
formers, among them Allie Brown,
Marsh Craig, Billy Miller and Harry
Hart. The prices are 70, so, S5 and rs
cents.
Leopold Jordan's operate comedy,
where's Matilda?" will be seen at
Crawford theater next Friday evening
with Miss Clara ThrOpp in the principal
role. The piece is under the manage
ment of Charles Thropp, and he has as
ISOLATED with his sister a company Of
capable people all of whom have been
identified with prominent companies IN
the past. Mr. Frank M. Kendrick, who
takes the principal comedy role, was
formerly with Charles Frohman's COM
panies.
Inro Fox, Servais Leroy and Freder-
lex Powell, necrOmancers, with a com
panv of vaudeville artists, come to the
Crawford theater next Saturday even
ing The combination of mystery and
vaudeville results in a particularly en-
PERTAINING performance, ending with the
comedietta "A Magic Restaurant This
is a laughable mixture of comedy and
magic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
GLOBE SIGHTS

[From the Atchison Globe.1
The object of every good time seems to
be to get you in trouble
Every man believes he has more work
than three men ought to do.
Why don't some of the married women
look as pretty as the widows?
If you want to cause a genuine sensa-
ton, go to a church social and spend as
much as a dollar.
1t often occurs to a man that a woman
is never so able to make the best of it as
when she is left widow.
What proportion of men are honest? If
we knew how many lost pocketbooks
were returned we could tell.
We have noticed that a person who is
good at remembering dates usually hash
a lick of sense about anything else.
Nothing makes a man quite so mad as
to offer to help his wife, and then be told
that she can get along better without him.
When a tramp or a peddler rings the
front door bell, people wonder how any
one with so much gan and nerve did not
make more of a success of life.
An AtchisOn woman owns a horse and
buggy, but has never been able to drive
out in the country: the horse won't go.
When a woman's horse gets ready to go
home he turns around and goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
MASON ACQUITTED.
Marion Bankers Will Probably Be
Freed From Further Trials.

Florence, Sept. 13.-Harry Mason and
Harry Blume, owner and cashier, re-
spectively, of the defunct First State
bank of Marion, were tried last week on
the charge of forgery and were acquit-
ted of the charge. Other charges are
preferred against them, which will be
heard at the next term of court, but
as they are of lesser Importance it is
thought that both the men will go
clear. In the trial it was clearly shown
that the men did not try to defraud
anybody, and that both lost every dol
lar they had. The banks misfortune
was in the way it started it's career. It
succeeded another bank which was in
bad shape. Mason bought the assets
of the old bank and assumed the 1iabili-
ties. He did not realize enough out of
the assets to pay the liabilities, and
thus his fortune was wiped away
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
CANTON Has NO SALOONS.
Citizens Enforce Law by Driving the
Jointists Out of Town.

Mcpherson, Sept. 13.-The people Of
Canton have a practical solution of the
prohibition question. Not long ago a
man came there and erected a small
shanty in a hog lot just beyond the city
limits and began to sell liquor. AS soon
as the people found out what he was
doing a number of them met together
and after calling in the jointist told him
his time to stop had come or he would
suffer the penalty, which was not fully
set forth in the explanation. That
night the stock of liquor was slipped
from town, and the people were victor
ious without a law suit or the expense
of a cent. This is the second time Can
ton has rid herself of joint in this
manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
ALL DOUBTS REMOVED.
The French are Occupying Fashoda
on the White Nile.

London, Sept. 13.-The Daily Chron-
icle says this morning it has learned
that military expedition, Including
sixteen officers and On-commissioned
officers, sailed from Paullac France,
last Friday, with a view of reinforcing
the French expedition in Central Africa,
under Major Marchand. Great secrecy
the Daily Chronicle observes, is main
tanned in the matter, but the departure
of the expedition is believed to confirm
the reported arrival of the major at
Fashoda, on the White Nile, above
KhartOum.
Paris, Sept. 13.-The Temps and
Liberte say today the French govern
ment has been aware of the arrival of
the expedition under Major Marchand
at FaShoda.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
MARRIED ONLY A YEAR.
It Doesn't Take Some People Long to
Find Out Their Mistake.

Mrs. Emma Reaburn was married in
1897 to Wilbur B. Reaburn. In a short
time she says that her husband began
to suspect that she was partial to other
men and did not scrupIe to tell her so.
In his rational moments, she said, he
would admit that his accusations were
false but nevertheless he would make
them over again.
Finally Mrs. ReabuTn applied for a
divorce. The case was heard Monday
afternoon by Judge Hazen and as Mr..
Reaburn was not present and no con-
test was made, he entered a decree Civ
ing Mrs. Reaburn the divorce she asked
for. Mr.. Reaburn is a conductor on the
city railway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Kansas, suf-
fering and bleeding Kansas. has for
gotten its woes in the general prosper
fty which has struck. it. The depart
ment of agriculture says that the dairy
interest, in particular, has been won
derful in Kansas during the past year.
The output during the year was S.
049, $50, which amounts to an increase
over the preceding year of nearly ST.
100000. During the past ten years the
dairy interests of Kansas have yielded
S4g 600 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
ASSASSINATION.
It Takes the Place of Revolution in
Barbados.

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 13.-Accord-
ing to advices received here from Bar
BADGES since the death of Mr.. PHO,
speaker of the assembly, on September
2, from the effects of the recent attempt
to assassinate him, the governor and
five public officials have been anony-
mOusIy warned that a similar fate has
been decreed for them, ''as a reward
for their oppression"
The worst feature of the PHO tragedy
is that the government reward of 81, 900
for information regarding the conspira-
tors fails to induce their betrayal