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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22

AT the conclusion of the sale the
band continued playing while the men
made a rush for the free Duttermilk,
biscuits and cheese, dispensed by five
west corner of the hall. The biscuits
and cheese stock was sufficient to with
stand the onslaught of the hungry hun
dreds but the buttermiIk gave out
convention of any kind always
brings out a large assortment of badg-
are wearing all of the badges secured
at each of the six annual conventions
Of the organization. also badges secured
at state conventions of sub-Organiza-
lions representing the parent body.
The Nebraska delegates present
this convention. 1t is a large, new
brass key, worn on the lapel of the
coat. Interpreted it signifies New
brasskey, as the MissOurian would say,
meaning literally, Nebraska.
The programme for the Creamery
Buttermakers' convention tonight at
Hamilton hall follows:
Song-L. G. Lombard, Omaha.
Address-W. K Boardman, Nevada,
Iowa.
Influence of Occupation"-Rev. F.
s. Blaney, Abilene.
Feeding and Development of the
Dairy Cow" illustrated by stereopticon
views-Prof. Clinton D. Smith, Michi-
gan.
There will be plenty of music at all
entertainments.
All of the exhibits will be completed
today and Is cents each will admit Wis
itors to the entertainment and machine
~ hall tonight.
Tomorrow will be buttermakers' day,
the programme for which follows, be-
ginning at 100 .. m.
Maintaining a Harmonious Coop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
At the Navy Department and Don't
Want to Know Anything.

Washington, Feb. 22.-In the navy de-
partment there were a few more Off
Gals who came down in the morning to
look over the mail and open any tele-
grams that might have been received.
Secretary Long himself spent an hour
in the office looking over his private
mail He said he had had nothing
from Havana and did not expect any
thing. The naval regulations under
which the court of inquiry was pro-
Ceeding at Havana absolutely precluded
the conveyance by any member of the
court, or the court as a body to any
person even the secretary of the navy
of any facts developed during the pro-
gress of the inquiry unless the action
of the department was necessary upon
some development to further the inVeS-
LEGATION. For this reason the secre-
tary does not expect to learn anything
officially or unofficially for several days
from any of the members of the court
and as Captain Sampson, the president
of that body has given notice at Hava-
that the proceedings would be kept
secret there the officials mere do not
see low any one can see what the court
is doing.
The naval officers assert that the re-
port to the effect that the movements
of the South Atlantic squadron now I'M
der way are with a view to the early
assembling of the vessels near Havana
is without foundation. This movement,
they say is in direct accord with the
plan outlined in December last by Cap
tain Chester of the Cincinnati in COM
mand of the squadron, and approved by
the department
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
AT THE BIG
BUTTER SHOW.


a barrel. This with dozens of. other
features makes the machinery hall at
tractive-
Above all this confusion Frank Wat
sons orchestra of six pieces may be
heard playing inspiring airs. The or
chestra played from 10 o'clock until
noon today and will play between the
same hours tomorrow. The music has
an astonishing effect, especially on
some of the older men. While moving
gaily through the Shutting Coon the
members of the orchestra We're surpris-
ed to see a Nebraska and Iowa dele
gate execute a Highland fling, while on
the other side a small cOlored boy was
"cuttin' de pigeon wing in a manner
that won several nickels from the by
ISLANDERS.
The plans for promenade concert
at Hamilton hall last night miscarried
because the hundreds of people who
We're present manifested a desire to sit
down and enjoy the music by Mar
shalPs band.
The floor was unOccupied early in the
evening except for q row of chairs
around the walls. AS the crowd cOntin-
ued to pour into the hall a dozen men
We're put to work getting the chairs in
place, after which the spectators sat
down ana enjoyed the music and the
sale of auditor um buttons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
READY FOR THE TEST.
Attorney General Boyle Completes
His Brief in the Scrip and
Screen Case.

Attorney General Boyle has compile
ted his brief in the case now pending
in the court of appeals, southern diVis-
ion, over the scrip and screen laws, and
will be in readiness to go into the legal
fight when the case comes up next
month. He has given considerable time
lately to the preparation of the brief,
and it covers $50 pages.
Attorney General Boyle will go into
the fight over the scrip and screen laws
with the majority of the decisions
handed down on this question against
him He comments on this in his brief,
but holds that the decision of the dis
trict and federal courts as well of other
states have no bearing on the laws in
Kansas and that the court of last re-
sort the United States supreme court,
has never yet passed upon it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
COMMERCIAL CLUB NIGHT.
That Body Will Receive at Hamilton
Hall Tomorrow Night

Tomorrow night will be the gala ev-
ening of the week at the Creamery
Buttermakers' convention. 1t has been
set apart for the Commercial club,
which has arranged an informal recep-
ton.
There will be no speeches, but there
will be a continuous programme OF mu-
sic, furnished by Steinberg's orchestra,
the MOdOcs. the AriOn society and the
Apollo Mandolin club. Frank Weight
man viii introduce some specialties.
There viii be an ineXhaustible supply
OF buttermilk, hot biscuits and cheese
This layout and the music ought to
furnish a good time for everybody,
said Major Tom Anderson today.
If the hall is not too crowded, the
Commercial club will permit dancing
tomorrow night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
Men and Dogs Fight.

the corner of Fifth and Clay streets
which resulted from a quarrel over
dog VIII S. Buck, who used to be an
installment house proprietor, was walk
ing west on Fifth street and when near
Clay a large dog ran out at his pet can
inc. He ran at the animal and drove
it away. He was set upon by the owner
of the large dog and blows were eX-
changed freely. The owner of the
large dog, whose name is not known,
went to police station and asked Jailer
Jones what he should do Jones told
him he had better go home and forget
about the trouble. Buck was cOnsid-
erabIy bruised about the face as was
also the man who lived near Fifth and
Clay No arrests We're made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
JIMMY MICHAEL'S SALARY.
Phil Dryer Pays the Welshman &c.,
600 a Year.

st. Louis, Feb. 22.-George McLeisch.
manager of Jimmie Michael the Welsh
Rarebit, who is said to have quit the
wheel to take a position with Phil Dwyer,
the famous turfmans as jockey, IS here
with James c. Kennedy, who had charge
of the six day bicycle race in New York
In an interview Mr.. McLeisch said: Il
was afraid Michael was going to make
such q break as he has made, and ad-
vised him not TO DO it. I showed him only
last week where his earnings on the Gin
der path next season would foot up $50
900 sure, but even that did not seem TO
satisfy him. He appeared daft on the
subject of being jockey. Well, l think
he has made a great mistake. PerhapS
he has not. But time will tell.
Mr. Kennedy said: Il expected him to
go and do just what he has done spent
two or three hours arguing the point with
him at a hotel at Chicago last week. The
facts are, during visit to New York,
Michael met Phil Dwyer, the famous turf
man. Dwyer dWelt on the success of
Tod Sloane in England and pictured
only quit the cinder path for the race
track, in jest, I think, but Michael be-
ieves he was in earnest. Dryer offered
Michael a salary of $4,000 year and
pickings, and figured where the little fel-
low could clear nearly $4,000 on his sea
sons work. That proposition, bona nde
or not. turned Michaels head and ever
since his arrival in Chicago two weeks
ago he has been talking of going on east
and accepting Dryers OFFER
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ON TRIAL.
Continued from First Page,0

quota is now about 500 short and ar
engagements have been made for the
immediate enlistment OF about that
number of men. Telegraphic orders
have been sent to the recruiting officers
IN charge of the receiving ships at New
\ ork, Philadelphia and Norfolk, auth
or1zing them to enlist immediate 40 ap-
prentices, 40 landsmen, 10 shiprights, IA
machinists, second class, and 40 coal
passers:
These enlistments are in addition to
those previously authorized to COM
plete the crews of the monitors Puritan
and Terror and the dispatch boat Dol
phin.
In each case it was specified that the
recruits should be citizens of the United
States.
There will be no difficulty whatever in
securing these men, inasmuch as there
are applications on file far in excess of
the requirements of the navy for some
time to come unless congress shall i'm
mediately comply with the recommen-
dations of the department for an in
crease of a thousand men in the enlist
ed strength of the navy. Numerous let
tiers and kilograms have been received
at the department from individuals de-
string to join the navy, asking to be
enlisted Immediately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
A PERMIT REFUSED.
A RossviIle Druggists Petition Re
turned to Him.

The people of Rossville are making war
on the druggist Of the place, G. P. Pierce,
and they intend to prevent him from Sc
curing a permit to sell liquor, if posi-
bic.
In the same mail that brought the Pc
ton of Pierce for the renewal of his per
init was the following letter:
Judge DOlman:
Please investigate thoroughly the pc
titiOn of G. p. Pierce of this place
for a permit TO sell liquor he cannot
possibly get the number of names re-
quired within the corporation of the city
His permit last year was not legal and it
Will not be this year If granted. you will
stand in danger of being impeached.
FROM YOUR ROSSNILLE FRIENDS"
While Judge Dolman did not consider
that he was in danger of losing his Of
flee by Impeachment. he nevertheless took
the precautiOn of making an investigation
of the names on the petition, and he dis
covered that Is of the 81 names on the
petition were not citizens of ROssville. He
has consequently refused to issue the per-
init and the petition has been returned to
Pierce
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GONE PLUMB TO SLEEP
Until the Government is Walked by
Another Explosion or Atrocity.

0AObnOI G4DlCS1Ou OF AGTOClEV.
Washington, Feb. 22-The most DO
tent sign that the first and exciting
stage of the Maine disaster has been
passed was the fact that not a single
cablegram was received over night or
this morning at the navy department
relating in any manner to that event
In fact the only telegram received
since yesterday afternoon was one that
came from Admiral Sicard at Key
West, asking whether certain pieces of
metal intended to effect repairs to the
torpedo boat Porter had been shipped.
These castings are to replace a pro-
peller strut, and the department nOti-
fed the admiral that these had been
shipped from HerrOshoffs, the builders
at Bristol, r. l., on the Sth instant and
should be at Mobile now.
As this was legal holiday, very few
people were at the state or navy de-
partments. Acting Secretary Day spent
some time at his office, but he had lit
tie news to communicate. He had re-
ceived only one dispatch since yester-
day from Consul General Lee and that
related to the shipment of Cuban tobac-
co to the United States. The depart
ment has heard nothing of the reported
ing the expectation of tobacco from Gu
show that the movements are in regu-
lar progress, or at least had not been
checked up to the 9th instant.
Judge Day had received no news of
the rumored capture of the Dauntless,
and in fact Lees telegram was all he
had had from Havana in the last "A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22

for which it must assume full RESPONSE
bility, as it does not accord with the
relations actually known to exist be-
tween the Spanish and American gov
ernments. 1t is dated from New York
and reads.
Great military preparations are be
ing made. The forts are being rein
forced. Three hundred artillery men
have been sent to Sandy Hook and the
naval reserves have been ordered to
hold themselves in readiness. The gun
cotton and smOkeIess powder factories
are working night and day, and it is
generally believed that a great crisis
in the relations between the United
States and Spain is imminent"
The government has received no in
formation tending to confirm this dis
patch to the Impartial.
The Vizcaya will leave New York by
Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22

was destroyed by an outside explosion,
with the knowledge of Spanish officials,
President Mckinley will demand an in
demnity of from $1S, 600 to $15,OO0.
0OO''
This statement was made today by
an officer of the navy department who
is thoroughly conversant with the pres
ent Spanish situation.
1T was decided at a conference of
the president and several cabinet Off
GERS today" he continued, that the
Spanish government was bound to pro-
tect the vessels of a friendly nation in
one of it's harbors. and that if the
Maine was destroyed by a submarine
mine or torpedo. whether with the
knowledge of officials or not that gov
eminent must be responsible. The value
of the vessel is estimated at $4,000, 600
The rest is to be paid to relatives, Of
ficers and men who lost their lives by
the destruction of the vessel"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22

Grafton Between Buttermaker and Pat
rons''-M. W. Ashby, Hazleton. Iowa.
State Aid for Dairying
Henry z. Alvord, Washington, d. c.
The use of Gasoline Engines as
Power for Creameries and Swimming
Stations''-Chas. Harding, Norfolk, Ne
braska.
one hundred of the buttermakers who
come to attend the national convention
from the east of the Mississippi river
will be given a free excursion by the
Rock Island and Santa Fe railroads.
The party viii leave Topeka Friday
night on the Rock Island and make
the run to Hutchinson, stopping there
for a few hours visit at the salt plants
and creameries. They will then be ia
ken to Wichita by the same line where
after a visit the Santa Fe will take
the crowd to Newton. A stop will be
made there and also at Emporia- The
crowd expects to return to Topeka late
Saturday night over the Santa Fe.
The reason for limiting the number
is that the buttermakers west of the
river are more or less familiar with
Kansas and the object of the trip is to
acquaint the fasteners with the re-
sources of the state.
The excursion will be personally
conducted by Representatives of the
two roads
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WILL RAISE THE MAINE.
Contract for the Work is Signed in
New York Today.


New York, Feb. 22.-The Merritt &
Chapman Derrick and Wrecking com
pany today signed contracts with the
government to raise the battleship
Maine.
Their most powerful tug, the Mon
arch, now at New York, will proceed
at once to Havana. The Monarch viii
be followed by other tugs and the
work will be begun as soon as possible
Two expert divers win accompany the
Monarch viii all the necessary appa-
ratus.
Key West, Feb. 22.-The wrecking tug
Right Arm is still here. and if not sent
to Havana will leave for the north to-
morrow with the schooner Belle O'Neil
in tow
Washington, Feb. 22-DetaiIs of the
wrecking expedition of the Maine have
been completed. The tug, Right Arm,
will proceed at once from Key West
with three divers. The wrecl1eFs under
writer's and Jones' mammoth tug Mon
mouth will follow with a total equip
ment of 900 men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
SNOW TRAIN PEOPLE.
Charged With Obtaining Money Under
False Pretensss

Seattle, Wn., Feb. 22.-J A. Smiley,
city agent of the Snow and Ice Trans
portation company, and his assistant.
Philip Hanna, have been arrested on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Mrs. Minnie Cronin claims that the
company has not carried out it's con-
tract with her.
Joseph Ladue, the wei known Alas
kan miner. today told Chief of Police
Reed that he has no connection with
the Snow and Ice Transportation COM
pany which advertises him as its pres
ident
The company advertised to take pas
sengers to Dawson for a stated amount,
by means of steam sIeds. 1t also claim
ed to have contract for the govern
ment relief expedition over the Dalton
trail
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FRED FUNSTON COMING.
The EIks Will Bring Him Here for a
Lecture on Cuba

Col Fred Funston of Cuban war fame
will lecture in Topeka early in March.
The date has not yet been fixed, but 1t
will be sometime between the 1st and
18th of the month. He will lecture I'M
der the direction of the Topeka lodge Of
EIks
The Elks have decided not to give q
circus or theatrical entertainment this
year, but Col. Funston with the Span
ish bullet in his leg and all viii be here
instead.
The Elks hope to replenish their
treasury by the lecture, but they also
hope to arouse the martial spirit in
the people of Topeka by bringing a man
here who has fought against Spain.
The lecture will probably be given in
Hamilton hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
REQUIEM MASS AT CLEVELAND
Is Celebrated for the Victims of the
Maine.

Cleveland Feb. 22.-By direction of
Bishop HortSman, a solemn requiem mass
was celebrated today in St. Johns cathe-
dral, this city, in memory of the dead
crew of the battleship Maine. The ca
thedral was deliberately draped in mourn
ing and the function was attended by
heay rector, officiated at the mass, as
sisted by the cathedral clergy, Rev Drs.
Farrell and AIylot.
After the absolution, Father Neahy de-
livered an eloquent and patriotic address,
telling of the brave victims devotion to
duty and of the debt of gratitude owed
them by the nation At his request the
entire congregation united in offering up
prayers for the repose Of the crews souls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
WAS NOT MORRISON.
Detective Haisch Returns Without
the Texas Preacher.

The Rev. @. 2. Morrison has not been
captured. The Topeka officer who went
TO Georgia TO assist in his capture has
returned but he did not bring Morrison
back with him.
The man who was sent to Georgia by
Chief Steele was John Haisch. but this
fact was kept a secret, and when Officer
Haisch was seen today he said that he
had been in New York
The person arrested by the authorities
in Georgia is said not to correspond with
the description of the wife murderer in
any respect. He was simply tramp
Chief Steele is still on the lookout for
the man who was once safe behind the
bars in the Shawnee county Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
CAN GET BOATS HERE.
United States Could Buy Half Doz-
en- Warships at Once.

London. Feb. 22.-Six armored vessels,
six protected cruisers, thirteen torpedo
boat deStroyerS and five torpedo boats are
now building in Great Britain for foreign
governments. of which number are pur-
chasable, although Japan is supposed to
have option on several of them. The
warships which have been ordered for
South American governments are cOnsid-
cred as being for sale to the highest bid
ders.
Thompson Bros. inform the Associated
Press that Spain has arranged to man the
two remaining torpedo destroyers of the
four completed some time ago at the
Clyde Bank yards but not delivered, pre-
sumably owing to the lack of payments
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MONEY
Appropriations for Soldiers Home
and Federal Prison.

Washington, D. C. Feb. 22.-The sundry
civil appropriation bill, reported to the
full cOmmi = ee today, carries the follow
ing approximations for the Soldiers home
and penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth:
For current expenses for the home for
the next fiscal year. $4,000.
For the penitentiary for all purposes,
$14O,7 12
At the request of Congressman Curtis
erection of 200 cells, including purchase of
material and necessary labor.
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AN ACTORS mEMoR1AL.
Managers Hold a Meeting to Start a
Fund.

New York, Feb. ga number of the
atrical managers met in this city today
and appointed a committee to devise
plan to raise funds for the erection of a
memorial to the crew and officers of the
1t is proposed to have the theaters all
over the country on a certain date give
percentage of their receipts to fund
The committee consists of Augustus
Pitou of the Grand Opera House. Edwin
Knowles of the Fifth Avenue and Ru-
be another meeting here shortly.
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Madrid, Feb. 22--An official organ
says:
''The Impartial publishes a dispatch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-22
MAINE MONUMENT PROPOSED.
Bill Appropriating 100000 for the
Purpose Introduced in the House.

Washington, Feb. Representative
Cummings of New York has introduced
in the house the following resolution:
Resolved, that the sum of 100000 be.
and the same is hereby, appropriated out
Of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated. to be expended under
the direction of the secretary of the navy
for the erection of monument at Fort
Lafayette, New York harbor, in honor of
the officers, sailors and marines of the
United States war vessel, the Maine, who
lost their lives in the harbor of Havana
on the night of Tuesday, February Is,
1885
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Frank Browns Latest.

A complaint was sworn to Monday even
ing by VIII Amos. clerk in the Alliance
Exchange at Sixth and Quincy streets.
charging Frank Brown with larceny. A
warrant was issued by Police Judge
Atchison for the ex-deputy city attorney
arrest but it has not been served for the
reason that Brown has gone. He is
charge with having entered the Alliance
Exchange Saturday and stolen groceries
TO the amount of s..
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TAKING TESTIMONY.
Spain is Prosecuting an Investigation
of Her Own.

Havana. Feb. 22.-Judge Pearl of the
Spanish Admiralty court today has
been taking the dispositions of the Off
GERS of the Spanish vessels and the har-
Dor officials on the subject of the disas-
ter to the Maine Captain Sigsbee has
been suffering from the great strain to
which he was subjected. but is now
much better, having been relieved Of
some of the responsibility by the pres
ence here of the court of inquiry.
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GAY MARDI GRAS.

New Orleans, Feb. 22.-The bright
and beautiful weather marked the eel
ebration of the MaFdi Gras here to-
day except that the air was chilly. 1t
was typical carnival weather. There
were the usual scenes on the streets and
the customary large number of promis-
cuous maskers. The Rex parade was
the feature of the day The subject
chosen was Harvest Time" which was
brilliantly illustrated in a series of 20
moving cars. The king of the carnival
is Mr.. Charles A. Farwel prominently
identified with the sugar interests Of
the state
Tonight at this ball. which is a pop
ular affair. Rex viii crown his queen
The Comus parade and ball tonight
will bring the carnival festivities to a
close and the promises are the pageant
will equal the gorgeous efforts of pre-
YiOus years.
Rev. Frank Bristol in the Wasbburn
College Lecture course, Tuesday even