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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19

tell you that he was putting them on
/ to students and clerks and that he
would have a new black suit the next
| week?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-Did the girls come back that way ?
A.-Yes, sir.
one side and say, You may be smart
but you want to listen to me about this
| thing?"
Ayes, sir.
on cross-examination Attorney SAT-
ford elected the information that Bry-
ant and Harper had trouble in front of
a Lawrence billiard hall and Harper
struck Bryant. He failed, however, to
shake the story told by the witness on
direct examination.
Charles Delahunty, another employ e
of the Lawrence Wire mill, was called.
He cOrrobOrated the story told by
Bryant.
r. S. Bloss, head tfmekeeper at the
Swift Packing company plant at St.
Joseph, was next called, on request of
the prosecution His testimony was IN
rebuttal, but was introduced this morn
ing because Mr.. Bloss was anxious to
get back to st. Joseph.
He simply testified that Joe SmOthers
was in the employ of the company from
october 4 to November is, as he swore
on the stand.
The attorneys for the defense did not
cross examine him.
To prove that the story told by
Bryant and DeIahunty was secured in
a perfectly legitimate manner, Mr..
GODDARD was asked to take the stand.
Mr.. Hayden asked him how the infOr-
nation was obtained, but Attorney SAT-
ford objected and was sustained by
Judge Hazen. Il think this is imma-
terial, gentlemen" said he. mo one is
claiming that you secured this informa-
tion in any but legitimate manner"
Mr.. GODDARD was accordingly dis
charged.
James H. Monroe, city marshal of
Lawrence, was called to impeach the
testimony of Cornelius Carter. He was
asked by Mr.. Hayden:
Had Cornelius Carter charge of any
prisoners working in the city park dur
ing the year 1882
A-NO, sir; he did not
Q.-Was he in the employ of the city
at all?
Ale might have been employed by
the street commissioner.
Q.-Who had charge of the prisoners
in the city park?
No material facts were brought out
| in the examination.
DR.. A. II. Huntoon followed Monroe.
He testified that he had known John
Collins from birth and that his rela-
| tiOns toward his father were the most
| affectionate. He said the relations of
the family were most harmonious.
Afternoon Session.
/ Grace Collins was the first witness af-
| ter the noon recess. She was called by
She was questioned about the events
| of the evening before the murder. She
| said that she went to her room soon af-
! ter the evening meal before her father
| and mother left the house.
| Q.-Was there any one in the house
besides yourself and John when your
| father and mother left?
| A.-NO sir.
Q.-What was John doing?
Ale was playing the piano In the
| parlor.
Odd you hear your father say
anything to John as he left?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19
Owe PRoPosED cHANeE
In the State Board of Charities Being
Pushed by Householder.

State Senator Householder, of Chero-
kee, will be on hand early for the special
session with his bill to change the pres
ent plan of managing the state Charit-
able institutions. This bill was written
by ex-senator H. B. Kelly, whose ex-
perience as member of the state board
of charities ena bled him to point out the
defects in the present method of man
agement. 1t was introduced in the SEN
ate two years ago and passed that body.
But the house killed it. Kelly put in a
bill to the legislature for $50 for draw
ing it up, but that, too, fell by the way
side.
In effect, the bill places all the state
charitable institutions under one board
and decreases the membership to four.
The governor is to be eX-OfficiO mem Der
and chairman of the board. The meas
ure also provides for civil service rules
governing appointments to positions at
the Institutions. This was one of the
strong points, as Householder viewed it
two years ago.
Several members of the present board
of charities will oppose the Householder
bill in the POpulist caucus They say
it proposes too many radical changes.
They will get~up a bill covering charit-
members of the board are not sufficient
the present number should be increase
to seven instead of being decreased. But
Householder will depend upon the repu-
tation of the present board to help him
out in his fight. He believes that the
legislature will do just the opposite of
what the board as now composed, will
recommend
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IS wEI1EP D1sQUAL1FIEDP
Discussion of Question Whether He
Can Hold the Chairmansh1p.

Ed Q. Weilep, speaker pro tenn of the
POpuIist house of representatives, was
by Senator w. A. Harris appointed as
an assistant sergeant-at-arms of the
national congress. 1t is claimed that
the acceptance of this appointment dis
qualities Weilep and will prevent him
from holding his seat in the special ses-
sion. Weiep claims the contrary and
it is said he will be here to take his
seat. This action on his part is likely
to produce a controversy although the
Republicans would be pOWerless to pre-
vent him from so doing should the Pop
ulist majority decide to seat him.
The provision of the constitution
governing this question is as follows:
mo member of congress or officer Of
the United States shall be eligible to
seat in the legislature If any person
elected to congress or elected or ap-
pointed to any Office under the United
States, his acceptance thereof shall va
cate his seat"
It is claimed by Weilep's friends that
he is not at this time serving the Uni
ted States government in any capacity
and therefore is entitled to resume his
seat in the Kansas legislature. The con
stitutiOn says specifically that the ac-
ceptance of a, position under the federal
government Vacates the seat in the leg
iSiature.
Some of the Populists might oppose
seating Weilep from the fact that dur
ing the last session, failure on the part
of many of them to line up on the rail-
road bill caused Weilep to bitterly de-
nounce the members who were thus di-
latOry and he declared on the floor of
the house that they had been quieted
with money from the corporations.
This was one of the sensations of the
last house and created much excitement
on the floor at the time.
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the members of the board, that he had
stated that Harbaugh would require 81
per day and that there was no objection
made to the arrangement proposed by
the county attorney.
T. 2. Rodgers, another member of the
board, was called after Mr.. Kelsey was
excused. Attorney GODDARD asked him
if the board had employed Detective
Harbaugh to work in the case. Before
the witness had time to reply Attorney
Stafford was on his feet and objected to
the question May it please the court, -
said he, Mr.. Harbaugh stated on the
witness stand that he was employed by
County Attorney Jetmore, and never
stated that he was employed by the
county commissioners"
Hazen.
Mr. GODDARD then asked Commissioner
Rodgers if the board had authorized
Jetmore to employ Harbaugh, but again
Attorney Stafford objected. The Objec-
ton was again sustained and Mr..
Rodgers was excused
Lee Sanford Testifies.
Lee Sanford, a resident of Rice county
was called to the witness stand after
the county commissioners. He said that
he had known ]. S. Collins through his
connection with the order of Odd Eel
lows, and in conversation with him at
a grand lodge meeting he had told him
of the attempt made by a cOlored man
to hold him up. He said Collins told
him that the man had a knife but that
he got the better of him and marched
him out in the electric light and said to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19
AGAINST 1rs PASSAGE.
Asst Acknowledgement Opposes Anti
Private Banking Bill

Assistant Attorney General George R.
Smelling has advised against the pas
sage of a law by the POpulists at the
special session of the legislature pro-
hibiting the operation of private banks.
The object of the law is to drive all the
present private banks of Kansas into
the state system. Smelling says:
1.-The Populist party has always been
regarded as an anti-cOrpOratiOn party,
and now the spectacle is witnessed of
an effort being made to drive individ-
uals into corporations or prohibit them
from doing business altogether. The
idea of an anti-corporatiOn party say
ing to a man who is running a private
enterprise: You either become a blOat-
ed corporation or quit business That
doesn't look to me like consistency and
it will look to the masses just as it does
to me- The Populist party will make
itself the laughing stock of the nation
if such a law be adopted"
The assistant attorney general doubts
if such a law would be constitutional.
On the face it looks as though it is in
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one side when they came back a few
minutes later and say, you may be
smart but you want to listen to me
about this thing?"
A-No, sir; not me.
Ernest Bryant, an emplOye of the
Lawrence wire mill, was then called.
Odd you have conversation with
Jess Harper and Chas. Delahunty on
the northeast corner of Warren and
Massachusetts streets one evening in
the latter part of April?
A.-YeS, sir.
Odd Jess Harper pass you in COM
pany with two colored girls?
Ayes, sir.
Odd he come back in a few min
utes?
A.-Yes, sir.
Odd he point to small stone he
wore in his shirt front and say, That's
the kind of girls to have to bring dia-
monds like this around to yOu?'
A.-Yes, sir.
Odd he then, referring to the girls,
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terfering with the rights of a citizen
If a person is engaged in private bust
rose +12e+ - -. .>-<zI,st,:se7 -, -s.a 20 -
sutution or is aot contrary TO public
policy, Smelling doubts if the legislature
can drive him out Of it, or force him to
become a 'bloated corporation"
Supreme Court Reporter G.. Q.
Clemens says:
Il don't see what the state can do
about it if lot of people want to leave
their money in the custody of a man
with the understanding that he can use
it as he sees fit just so he has it when
they want it. OF course will never be
so foolish as to let some other man, or
even bloated corporation, handle my
money. I can do that myself and then
have plenty of time to attend to other
duties, but if I should get a wad some
time and change my mind and give it
to some friend to keep, would like to
see the state legislature take that right
away from me-
Attorney General Boyle has been re-
quested to give an opinion on the con-
stitutionality of such a law. He will
render an opinion before the special
session convenes. If he holds that such
a law will stand the test of the courts
then Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
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him that if he ever followed him again
he would kill him. Sanford said that at
a DreviOus grand lodge meeting Collins
he'd .=festei ~ fr:- fr1- CT cotcr-7 men,
and remarked that he wouldn't trust
any colOred man.
Jess Harper was here recalled by the
defense and examined as follows:
Odd you have a conversation with
Ernest Bryant and Chas. Delahunty on
the northeast corner of Warren and
Massachusetts streets in the latter part
of April2
Al talked to them every day.
Odd you pass the two men in com
pany with two girls and afterward
come back and tell them that those
We're the kind of girls to have to bring
around such little stone, pointing to a
diamond stud in your shirt
A-Oh, no. Not me.
Odd you ten them that you were
putting them on students and clerks
and would have new black suit next
week?
A.-NO, sir.
Did you call one of the girls to
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TO DEVELOP PUERTO RICO.
Company Organized in Brooklyn
With S1s,oOO,ooO Capital

New York, Dec.1e.-A company which
includes many Brooklyn men, will help
develop the country's new possessions
in the West Indies. The North Ameri-
can Commercial company has been in
corporated, with a capital stock of S14,-
900, 600, of which S10.OOO,OOO is preferred
stock.
The company will purchase 10000
acres in Puerto Rico and Cuba and will
IDEAL in the raw products of the United
States and the West Indies, manufac-
ture the same into articles of commerce
and transport what they manufacture -
One of the directors is Charles Border,
VINO will be the president of the COM
pany. He comes of a well-known Puerto
Rican family. and is said to be wealthy,
owning considerable land on the island
The land the new enterprise controls
is under cultivation for sugar and cof-
fee.
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TWO CENTS.

So far as members of the legislature
were concerned, until last night when
-S.--iszii,a. T<5.iz. aC-lSSf. ron - -
coli.1t=. L. Palenske, of NTaoaunsee, IS
here. but lie frequently runs down from
Alma on business, ano he has not come
to attend the session as yet
At the Copeland there were only two
lone Republican members, and one OF
them may not be able to hold MS seat
They were George Barker OF Lawrence,
and J. u. Brown of Greeley MT. Brown
accepted a heutenancy in the Twenty
first Kansas and it is argued by some
that this is accepting an appointment
under the United States, which Would
disuualify him from holding his seat
in the legislature.
At the state house there is nothing
to indicate that the legislature IS ABOUT
to convene except the fact that the
work on the senate chamber ana repre-
sentative hall is being pushed as rap
idly as possible. AS the new carpet for
the latter has not yet arrived parts or
six or eight other carpets have been
put down on the floor to remain until
an opportunity is given to put down the
new carpet when it arrives The resnie
was a rather ludicrous appearance, al
though it is better than it was before
Governor Leedy has not yet returned
from Lawrence and will not come Ilit
tonight His message to the Legislature
has not been written, but those who
claim to know, say that it will be brief
and Will not consume much time IN IT'S
preparation
G. c. Clemens has completed two
measures in the interest of the miners,
which he will present for the consldera-
ton of the caucus. One IS to put the
penitentiary coal mine under the con-
troll of the executive council and to en-
ploy free labor to work it, employing
the cOnvicts on the highways; the other
is to allow the miners to elect their own
,sT7n iF7E-V
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Ale started out and then came
back and told John not to leave in the
morning I1nfil he saw lt0rV ne wa
&. = 4o John consulted 4 - oisAn
that afternoon?
Ayes, sir. He brought some medi-
cine home with him and took some be-
Q.-How long did John stay in the
parlOr?
About Is minutes.
Odd he come upstairs thenE
A.-Yes, sir. He stopped at my room
and talked to me a few minutes and
then said he was going out on the bal
cOny to smoke.
Q-Did he stop as he came back?
Ale stopped for just a few minutes
and remarked that he had been in the
smoking car. Then he said good night
and went to his room and shut the door
Odd you retire soon after?
Ayes. sir, in few minutes. first
went down stairs and secured some
fruit and a glass of water and took my
little cousin, who had been out with
father and mother, upstairs. may
have stopped and said good night at the
sitting room.
Q.-When were you awakened?
A-Early in the morning.
Q.-What was it that awakened you?
A loud noise that sounded to me
like a gun. 1 was dazed for an in
slant and then I heard brother call
Whats that noise" and jump out Of
bed Then heard a, rush past my room
door going down the hall toward the
Q.-Was your door open?
A.-Yes, sir, because I always kept it
open.
Q.-Cou1d you distinguish footsteps
in the noise?
At seemed to me that some one
was rapidly going down the hall but
there was no striking sound of foot
steps on the carpet.
A-Could you say whether the per
son who made that noise had on shoes?
Al didn't hear that striking noise
that shoes would make on the carpet.
Q.-DC you know that it wasn't your
brother John who made that noise2
Al am absolutely certain that it
was not.
Q.-State why you are certain?
A.-The rush past my door was al
most simpultaneous with the noise he
made jumping out OF bed after he had
called, Whats that noise.'' I came out
of my room Immediately afterWard and
met John at the edge of the bannister
coming out of the room Then we
started down stairs and we had gone
but a few steps when mamma called.
Q.-What did she say?
A.-"COme quick, father is shot; go
for help as remember it.
Odd you go into the room where
your father was?
A.-Yes, sir; went in, and because
it was 50 dark I couldn't see I put out
my hand to touch papa I touched a
pool of blood. Then left the room and
started across the street to Mr.. Lange's
house.
Q.-Coming back from Mr.. Lange's
did you see John?
Al saw him crossing the street. He
was in his bare feet and had on his coat
and trousers.
Odd you see your mother as you
came back?
A.-She was standing on the porch
calling for help. She preceded me into
the house and into the room where
papa was.
Odd John come back soon?
A.-Almost Immediately. He came
into the room and knelt down by the
bed. He was crying and I remember
of him supporting me while I kissed
papa several times. That was before
he died
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SENATORS HERE.

Three of the Advance Guard Have
Engaged Winter Quarters
But three members of the state SEN
ate have arrived for the special session
of the legislature which begins We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. They are
as follows:
l. P. King, Cowley county.
J. c. Stone, LeaVenwOrth county.
Edward Schaffer, Bourbon county.
Mr. Stone succeeds w. A. Harris, the
present United States senator.
These gentlemen arrived today and
are busy securing locations for the
winter as they will remain for the spec
ial as we'll as the regular session which
begins early in January.
Other members will arrive today and
on tomorrow mornings early trains
The complete membership of the senate
is expected to reach Topeka by tomor-
row afternoon.
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POPULIsTs GAIN ONE.
Have Elected a Member of Legis1a-
ture in Cove County Since
the Last Session.

An investigation shows that the Pop
ulists have gained one representative
in the house since the last legislature
was in session. Out in Cove county
John Hickman, who was the represen-
tative in the last legislature, moved to
California just after the session closed
and left a vacancy which was filed by
the election of J. NJ. Sutcliffe. Heck
man was a. Republican and Sutcliffe is
Populist. He was overlooked when the
Populists were securing their pledges
for the railroad bill, but people who
know him claim that he will vote for
railroad legislation
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Cnbhison Won,t Come.

Representative J. K. Cubbison Of the
Ninth district in Wyandotte county will
not come to Topeka to attend the special
session of the legislature this week. In
fact there is some doubt about Mr.. Cub
bison's appearance here at all but he will
probably come to vote the important
bills He will. of course, vote against the
measures proposed by the PopuHsts, as
strict party measures.
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rheater Open All Next Week.

There is an attraction booked for
every night next week at the Crawford
theater The list is: Pulse of Greater
New York. Monday evening; "Trip to
Coontown," Tuesday; "Gaiety Girls .
Wednesday; Darkest Russia Thurs
day; boy Wanted" Friday, and Muir
ray and Mack, Saturday. Broadhurst's
latest comedy, why Smith Left
Home" is booked for early in January.
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MORT ALBAUGHs PROMISE
Is That He Shall Have Position in
Congress According to This.

Congress According to This.
Wichita, Dec. 19.-The Beacon prints
the following:
Morton Albaugh, chairman of the Re
publican state committee is a candidate
for sergeant-at-arms of the Fifty-sixth
congress. That's what Attica meetings
have been held for. When Albaugh left
hurriedly for Kansas City two weeks
ago his object was to meet a represen-
tative from the Missouri influential in
congress. He was successful. He will
have the backing of the entire Kansas
delegation and Dennis Flynn of Okla
homa He will also the support of four
or five Illinois congressman.
1t is said that Curtis and Long have
secured for him the friendship OF the
administration and that Cy Leland has
secured a promise from Mark Hanna
not to oppose him.
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NOT COMING IN YET.
Members of the Legislature Expected
to Begin Arriving by Tonight.

Very few members of the legislature
on either side have thus far arrived to
attend the special session, but it is ex-
pected that they will begin to come in
thick and fast tonight. Ed. Hackney of
Sumner. and Clem Fairchild of King
man, came last week as soon as the call
was issued, but they had no company
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Weather Indications.

Chicago, Dec. 19.-For Kansas: Partly
cloudy tonight, except rain or snow and
colder in extreme east portion; Tuesday
fair, northerly winds, shifting to west
erly Tuesday.
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R7AAfnn
NnWhUs
Nearly Complete List of Mem
bers of the House
Who Will Support Governor
Leedy's Railroad Bill
Is Obtained by a State Journal
Reporter.
SOME WILL DENY 1T,
But the List Is In the Main
Correct.
Pledges in Writing Obtained
From Many of Them.
But the List Is In the Main
Correct.
Pledges in Writing Obtained
From Many of Them.
A LIST ALSO GIVEN
Of Those Senators Who Can
Certainly Be Depended On.
Most Important Information to
All Those Concerned.

The State Journal publishes herewith
q list of the members of the Kansas
house that the state administration
counts on to pass a railroad bill and
such other measures as shall be agreed
on by a caucus of the fusion forces at
the coming special session of the legis-
lature. From these a pledge, in one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19

Your husband, your brother, or your
sweetheart would appreciate a box of
Flor De Langsdorf 10 cent cigars as
Christmas present. Buy them of Row
ley & Snow, Sixth and Kansas avenue.
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The L. s. to B. of L. F. will give a
social dance this evening at K. P. hail.
corner of Sixth and Quincy. Admission
Is cents, or 25 cents couple.