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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
TO The TEETH
Porto Rico is Heavily Armed
For Defense.
TOrpedOeS Sunk Across the Har-
Dor Entrance.
SPANISH GUNBOATS
Four in Number, Guard the
Island.
Provisions ON Hand to Last Two
Months.

st. Thomas, West Indies, April Is
Porto Rican advices here today say that
four Spanish gunboats are at San Juan
de Porto Rico. They are being painted
black or possibly dark gray.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Porto Rico and it is being enforced in
a tyrannica1 manner. Crowds of people
are leaving for the interior, and the
capital is almost deserted by the civil
ian population.
The military authorities are most ac-
lively engaged in preparing for the de-
Tense of the island. Thirty-four to-
pedoes have been planted in the
main channel. In addition, an old
steamship has been sunk across the
harbor entrance, the buoys in the chan
mel have been altered and from Monday
last after the news of the blockade of
Havana reached here accompanied by
a report that the Cuban capital had
been bombarded, all the lights were or
dered to be extinguished at night.
The French residents, when these ad-
vices left San Juan were seeking ref
uge on board the French cruiser Ad-
miral RigauIt de Jenouilly.
Danger is apprehended from the in
competent and youthful volunteers of
Porto Rico. They are armed with Maui
ser rifles and are displaying considera-
BILE enthusiasm.
Areibo Bay on the west coast of the
island has been planted with torpedoes
from the signal station to a point about
one mile west of it. There are many
Spanish volunteers here and on their
way to Porto Rico.
Spanish steamers landed at Maya
guez 20 miles from San Juan, on We'd
nesday, a quantity of arms and am
munition and there was a similar land
ing of supplies at San Juan on Tues
day. Besides this about 5000 tons of
provisions were landed at San Juan on
Sunday last.
The warehouses of Porto Rico are re-
ported to be full of provisions and the
Spanish authorities say they can stand
a siege of two months.
All the coast light have now been or
dered to be extinguished.
No United States warships are known
to be in the vicinity of Porto Rico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
CUBAN CLIMATE A BOGY.
Experienced Travellers Give Interest
ing and Valuable Information.

Washington, April 2S.-Mr. William T.
Hornaday, chief naturalist of the
Smithsonian Institution, has spent
nearly ten years in East India, Borneo
and Sumatra jungleS, collecting rare
animals. birds, insects and serpents for
the Smithsonian. He is the only white
man who ever lived among the Dayak
head hunters of BorneO.
''An this talk of the danger in Cuba
of the rainy season, yellow fever, etc,
is greatly exaggerated Mr.. Hornaday
said today. Because the Spanish army
has lost so heavily, many uniformed
persons fear that the country would be
as fatal to newly arrived Americans as
it was to green Spaniards- The Span
1Sh troops I saw were wretchedly fed
and clothed, and absolutely no heed is
taken to enforce the most obvious san
itary regulations. Then the food.
clothing, medicines, everything the men
should have to live upon, is furnished
by contractors, who stand in with the
officers, and simply Starve the poor
soldiers into disease and death. The
Spanish women have a saying, When
our sons go to Cuba or the Philippines
they never return Many a Spanish
mother whose son is coming near the
army, is praying that Cuba and Porto
Rico may be lost to Spain before her
son goes away.
After five years of living in the
most malariaI jungles on earth, in the
midst of masmatic swamps, drinking
swamp water, and often having to eat
uiiaCCuSIOmeQ ana badly cooked FOOD,
I never had but one touch of jungle
: fever, and that only laid me up six or
seven days. I owe my excellent health
to two or three precautions. I never
slept on the bare ground, nor in the
rain, and always under shelter. 1 al
ways wore light fiannels next to the
skin, and never slept in damp clothes.
Whatever else might have to do
without, two changes of flannel under
wear, besides that 1 had on, were al
ways at hand. Take from six to five
grains of quinine every morning in a
cup of hot coffee if you have it; if not
then in hot water. Have your shoes to
fit you, even if you must buy them
yourself, though the United States is
furnishing its troops with an excellent
marching shoe. With these precau-
lions and a dose of some light laxative
twice each week, there need be no more
fear of fever in Cuba than there is in
Missouri
Mr.. MOrrillas, a Cuban born, and for
some years an assistant surgeon in the
United States navy, now in the Marine
hospital service in the tropics, said to-
day: THE rainy season, as it is called
out of Cuba. is to Cubans the most
charming season of the year. 1t begins
generally about the middle of May and
lasts to the middle of September 1t
usually rains in the afternoon, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
AN ADVANCE ON HAVANA
At Once is Being Arranged by the
War Department

Chickamauga National Park, Ga,
April Estate last night orders were
received from Washington for the i'm
mediate shipment to Tampa, Fla, of
two of the light batteries of artillery
now stationed at Chickamauga Park.
The batteries will be loaded on the cars
at once and run through to Tampa on
passenger train time.
Taken in connection with the confer
ence held in Washington yesterday be-
tween General Miles and Senior Que
sada, Brigadier General NUM- and Lieu
tenant Artiago, representatives of the
Cuban insurgents, at which it was re-
ported plans were completed for the
immediate arming of the Cuban army,
it is taken to indicate a determination
on the part of the United States army
authorities to cooperate with the in
surgents in an immediate advance on
Havana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
SNOW IN new JERSEY.
Fall of Three Inches Followed
by Hail and Rain.

Cape May, N. J., April 2S.-The severe
northeast storm which began yesterday
has confined until it has developed into
the worst storm on the south Jersey
coast since last October. The wind
maintains a velocity of 40 miles an
hour. The rainfall has been one and
one-eighth inches for the II hours end
ing at o'clock this morning, the heav-
lest in years.
Three inches of snow fell after I
o'clock this morning followed by hail
and rain. The tides are breaking heav-
lily on the beach front trolley road and
will probably damage it before ebb tide.
The meadows between the beaches and
the mainland are massive seas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
w. d. Street Appointed.

Governor Leedy has announced the
appointment of w. D. Street of Oberlin,
Decatur county, speaker of the last
house of representatives to succeed w.
L. Brown of Kingman as a member of
the state board of charities. Street will
succeed Brown simply as a member of
the board and not as chairman. It is
understood that unless Senator H. c..
Jumper of Usage county is given a vol
unteer appointment and leaves the
state he will be named as chairman of
the board. There is no particular sig
ment, other than it is an Endorsement
by Governor Leedy of his work while
speaker of the house, about which there
was so much complaint
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

sometimes the fall is very heavy and
accompanied by such thunder and
lightning as one never knows outside
the tropics. 1t generally stops at sun
set, which is simply unspeakably grand
in its cloud effects. 1 rarely ever have
known it to rain at night. 1t is this So
called rainy season that gives life and
vigor to the growing vegetation and
makes our sugar and tobacco crops
what they are. By eating well-cooked
food, and eschewing over-indulgence in
the fruits of the country, usually so
tempting to strangers, always sleeping
under some sort of shelter, and not on
the bare ground the green Yankee
from New Hampshire hills may laugh
at the bogy of the rainy season and
the yellow fever. 1t is well for the
unacclimated man, the first three
months of his stay, to take from three
to six grains of quinine every morning,
and mild purgative, say twice a week.
You may be as wet as possible, if you
are on the move, but when you stop,
change your wet clothes for dry ones,
socks and all. You will never have this
fever if you follow these easily remem-
bered rules
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine, and I
obtained relief in a short time. In a
few months my health returned and I
was again my old self. Three years
have passed since that time during
which I have not found it necessary to
use any medicine whatever"
You run no risk in giving DR.. Miles
Remedies a trial. They have been be-
fore the public now for over twelve
years, and their constantly increasing
sale is the very best evidence that they
possess superior healing qualities.
Those in need of medical advice can
have the services of the best physi-
clans, absolutely free of charge. Val
liable book on diseases of heart and
nerves sent free on request. Address.
DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
HILLMON CASE MONDAY.
For the Sixth Time the Famous Case
Will Be Tried.

The Hillmon case will be commenced
next Monday unless something should
happen between now and that time to
prevent the trial.
Judge Foster says that he has re-
ceived no information that would indi-
cate that the case will not be tried, and
he expects the work on the sixth trial
of the case to commence on time. Judge
John F. Williams of Little Rock will
be the trial judge. He is the one man
in the United States who has the nerve
to preside at a second trial of the case.
The case was to have been tried in
February, but the serious illness of
Mrs. HiIlmon-Snith caused a postpone
ment. It was thought at the time by
many that the two insurance cOmpan-
les left in the case would make a set
tlement before the time set for the trial
at the postponement, but it is evident
that whatever efforts have been made
have not been successful.
The trial will consume about three
weeks. A new set of jurymen have
been subpoenaed, but the names are
being kept a profound secret.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Cured Him..

increases the flow of digestive juices
and puts the lazy liver to work. 1t is
the greatest blood and nerve remedy
that medical science has yet produced.
J. w. Hill, Eureka Springs, Ark,
writes: Several years ago I suffered
severe attack of nervous prostration,
brought on by overwork mad worry. I
would go for weeks with almost no
sleep, and 1 became entirely untitled for
business. I travelled in the hope of
finding. relief and tried numerous ply
sicians. Visited a great specialist in
Washington, DC, spent several months
at sanitariums in Michigan and Wis
consin, but with no good results. After
spending several thousand dollars re-
turned home convinced that I could not
be cured. A friend induced me to try
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
FOWLER'S GIFT ACCEPTED.
Request of Kansas City Merchant for
State University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kan, April 28.-The gift OF
$500 by George Fowler of Kansas
City for the erection of machine shops
for the electrical engineering depart
ment of the state university was form
ally accepted last evening by the board
of regents. Mr.. Fowler's condition was
that the regents expend $4,000 for ed
ucationaI equipment of the building, ex-
elusive of heating, lighting, water, etc.
The plans drawn by Walker Root at
Kansas City were accepted. The build
ing will be 222 by so feet, two stories
high, with attic and a high tower. The
regents decided to place the building on
the edge of the hill, about $50 feet
southwest of Snow hall,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

When the nerves and organs of the
body are soundly nourished and the
wornout tissues and waste products
are quickly removed from the system,
a tremendous amount of hard work
can be done without serious injury.
1t is when the nerve tissues and brain
cells are used up faster than they are
replaced by new ones. when the fires
of life consume faster than the fuel
can be furnished, then brain, nerves,
and vital organs suffer-cry out with
neuralgia, heart disease, rheumatism,
nervous dyspepsia-and finally break
down. DR.. Miles Restorative Nervine
is food for the worn out brain and
wasted tissues. 1t gives a healthy
appetite; makes the stomach strong;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Turner's Resignation Accepted.

The state board of railroad commits
sioners held a short meeting last night
and accepted the resignation of r. W.
Turner as secretary of the board, eff
fective May l. James NJ. Senter, at
present clerk of the board, was at once
named as his successor. AS secretary
of the board Mr. Senter'S salary will be
81, 800 instead of $1,000, as at present.
Richard Coyle, at present stenOgrapher
in the office, was named as clerk to
succeed Mr.. Senter, and his salary will
increase from $500 to 81 ,000 Miss Ma
bel Fortney of Fort Scott, who was W.
P. billiards. stenographer while a MEM
Der of the senate, was given the posi-
ton of stenographer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

health garden of many man and woman.
The doctors call them disease germs. If
you have sense enough to distinguish them
from the flowers of health, and root them
out, you will be robust, healthy and happy
The most dangerous of all the weeds in the.
flower garden of health is that deadly
creeper consumption.
There has never been but one medicine
that would choke out this weed, root and
all. That medicine is DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. 1t acts directly on the
lungs through the blood, driving out all
impurities and disease germs, and building
up new and healthy tissue. 1t restores the
lost appetite, makes digestion and assimi-
1ation perfect, invigorates the liver, puri-
fes the blood and fills it with the 1ife-giv-
ing elements of the food and tones and
builds up the nerves. It sustains the ac-
ton of the heart and deepens the breath
ing, supplying the blood with life giving
oxygen. Medicine dealers sell it.
= A doctor, who is considered an expert on
lung troubles. told me had consumption and
could not live long. " writes Mrs. James Gat6e1d,
II Mary Street, Hamilton, Ont, Can. a. Three
bottles of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cured me completely"
Free. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Med.
ica1 Adviser. Send II one-cent stamps to
cover mailing only for paper-bound copy.
Cloth bound 81 cents. Address DR.. r. v.
Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
NO NEED TO HURRY.
Rest of q. S. Army Will Have Moved
on Cuba Before Kansas Assem- bles.

AS yet nothing has been done towards
laying out the camp ground for the
volunteers. Company M has orders to
meet at the armory at 7:30 Friday
morning and it is expected that they
will receive orders to prepare the camp
ing ground. Since the Kansas Nation
al guard has been disbanded, there is
no likelihood of the volunteers getting
together for many days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

result from an abandonment of tribal
relations and entering upon an indus
trial growth founded upon landed own
erShip. 1t is believed that the policy of
alloting lands in severalty will conduce
to their preservation as well as civil
ization.
IN notwithstanding liberal provisions
made for them in this bill there will be
a large area for cession to the United
States. After each head of family has
received $50 acres of farming land and
the same amount for grazing purposes,
nearly 100000 acres will be added to
the public domain"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
DETROIT'S GOOD EXAMPLE.
Representative Citizens Will Care for
Families of Soldiers.

Detroit, April 2S.-At a meeting Of so
representative citizens, held in the
mayors office today, the following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that we, as citizens of De-
trOit, recommend and promise that
those enlisting and going to the front
in the service of their country may go
with the assurance that those depend
ent on them at home shall be well cared
for"
Several wealthy citizens promised
heavy subscriptions toward fulfilling
the objects of the movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
MULES FOR CUBANS.
Government Issues an Order to Buy
1000 Mules.

St. Louis, April 28.-Lieut. Col. Smith,
U. S. A, in charge of the Quartermaster
department at Jefferson barracks. near
this city has received an order from the
war department, to buy 1900 small
horses; 500 wagon mules and 800 pack
mules.
The order stated that the animals
were not for use in the army and left
it to be inferred that they were to be
sent to Cuba for the insurgents. This
is born out by the fact, army officers
here say, that small horses are pre-
ferred by Cuban soldiers for cavalry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Clean Cars and Fresh Air.

The Kansas City Express leaves To-
peka at 1880 a. m. daily via Santa Fe
Route. AS the train is made up and
starts from here the cars are sure to be
clean and fresh smelling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
CHASED BY sPANIARDs.
The Alliance Successfully Eludes a
PurSuer.

New York, April 28.-A special to the
Evening World from Colon says: The
steamship Alliance, from New York, ar
rived here safely. She reports that on
Sunday last when six miles off Cape
May, a Spanish gunboat headed toward
her and gave chase.
The Alliance changed her course and
after a run the gunboat gave up the
D11rSIIit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
WAR BULLETINS I'm CHURCH
Iowa Pastor Has a Novel Plan for
Sunday Services.

Webster City, Iowa, April 28.-Rev.
Mr. Boardman, pastor of the Congrega-
tiona1 church, publicly announced today
that commencing next Sunday, to be
continued for an indefinite time, he
would read war bulletins at his Sunday
morning services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Dental House for Marysville.

Marysville, April pa dental supply
house has been established in Marysville,
the only institution of the kind in this
section of Kansas. A wholesale business
house of this kind has long been a nee
eSsity in this part of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Bishop Not a Candidate.

Washington, D. c., April 2S.-S. D.
Bishop of Lawrence, Kan, who has been
here arguing an important case in the
patent office, called on Representative
Peters of the Second district today and
assured him that he would not be a can
didate for congress in the Second district
this fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

Take the Union Pacific's new 500 a. M
train for Kansas City? Returning. you
can leave Kansas City at p. m, reach
ing Topeka at 6:10 p. M, or you can
take the Limited, leaving Kansas City
at D. m, which reaches Topeka at $3.50
n. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
Why Not

Take the Union Pacif1c's new 500 a. m,
train for Kansas City? Returning, you
can leave Kansas City at p. m, reach
take the Limited, leaving Kansas City
at p. m, which reaches Topeka at $3.50
D. n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
THE NITCHERoY TO SAIL.
Will Come North Escorted by a Bra
lillian Warship.

Paris, April 2S.-A dispatch received
here from Rio Janeiro announces that
the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy, purch-
ased by the United States, will sail
northward on Saturday next escorted
by a Brazilian Warship
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

sian army are likely to be accepted. On
the east side, a company of Russian
Aussars, numbering TO- all of them
Jews and about $50 others have signed
applications for enlistment and recruit
ing continues very lively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
HEBREWS ENLIST.
Those of the Baron Hirsch Colony
Joining the Army

New York, April 2S.-The Russian
Jewish farmers composing the Baron de
Hirsch colony of Woodbine, n. J., have
offered their services to the governor
of New Jersey for the war, and a large
number who have served in the Rus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

Since the naval forces of the United
States have fired upon Matanzas T. D.
Humphreys predicts that the fame of
the U. S. navy will spread from Gu
ba to the Philippines and from Spain
to Hades.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

Beggs' Diarrhoea Balsam, the most
wonderful medicine ever put on the
market for all stomach troubles. 1t
cures where all others fail. Fer sale by
Druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
There are

There are
weeds in every.
body's garden,
and no garden
was ever plant
ed in w b ich
weeds did not
inso1ently pre-
S emit the m
selves. They
come without
invitation and
without a well
come. If you
recognize Cnem
as weeds, and
if you have
sense enough
ito know that
weeds choke
fl ow erS, and
pull the weeds
up, root an d
b IA nch, you
will save the
flowers.
There are
-aRdo - 4L4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

The Perfect Little Pill, Beggs' Little
Giants. cures Constipation and Indi-
gestion, also Sick Headache relieved at
once. For sale by Druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

Trumpeter o. E. Mcintosh of Co
IN" is wearing service stripes to show
his three enlistments. o. S. Taylor al
so wears them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28

A dealer received a consignment of
Cuban flags yesterday and all were sold
in a half hour, some people buying a
dozen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-28
sLEEr IN WASHINGTON

Curtails the Number of White House
Visitors
Washington, April n "A downpour
of rain and sIeet effected a material di-
minution of the number of callers at
the White House today.