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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
BUFFETED BY WAVES.
Perilous Experience Of the Crew of
the MistIetoe.

Philadelphia, March S.-The British
steamer Kensington, Captain Langwell,
London for Philadelphia, arrived here
today with the crew of the British brig
Mistletoe on board. The crew consists
of the captain and seven men.
The opposition in Rio aneiro abstained
IA for Bahia, Brazil, with a cargo of
Goldfish. When two days out the vessel
encountered a stiff northeast gale and
ran into a large ice foe. She was buff
feted about for five days by the wind
and waves, and on the sixth day the ice
stove a hole in her bow. The pumps
were brought into use, but on the ninth
day she was making water at the rate
of six inches an hour 1t was then de-
cided to head her for the course of
transatlantic steamers in the hope of
being picked up.
Every night rockets were sent up in
the hope of attracting the attention of
a passing vessel Finally on the 26th
of February the steamer KensingtOn
was sighted. Signals were displayed
and the Kensington stood by while the
crew of the MistletOe lowered boat
and rOWed to the KensingtOn.
Every member of the crew suffered
badly from the cold, but with medical
attention on board the KensingtOn they
soon recovered. Before leaving the sink
ing vessel the captain set her on fire.
Captain Cave and crew will be sent
home by Captain ClippertOn, the Brit
ish consul. The crew lost everything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
UNDER THE DOME
Those WhOpping Salaries Paid
to Insurance Officials.
They Hate to Make Them Public
at McNall's Demand.
SOME ARE PAID $4,000
Others $4,000 and $4,000 a
Year For Their Services
Then Scream About $50 a Day
For McNall's Examiners.
McNalI Will Find Out Where
the "ExtOrtiOn' Comes In.
SOME ARE PAID $4,000

The war between Insurance Commits
sioner Webb NfcNau and the eastern in
surance companies over the statements
Of salaries received by the officers is
now on. Today Commissioner McNaH
sent out the first letter in which he
states that unless the amounts paid the
officers in salaries are filed with the in
surance department, the company will
be refused a license to continue bust
ness in Kansas.
The letter was to the president of the
Franklin Fire Insurance company at
Philadelphia and was in reply to a let
ter received by Commissioner McNall
some days ago in which President Jas.
W. McAllister politely refused to give
the desired information in the following
terms:
The salaries of the officers of this
company constitute a matter of person.
al confidence between them and the
board of directors who create them. AS
the amount paid them is included in the
whole sum disbursed for salaries, as
returned to you, no public end can be
served in making public the private af-
fairs or the OfncerS, and as they object
to such publicity we decline respectfully
to furnish that special information"
Commissioner McNa1ps letter is as
follows:
y. w. McAllister, President Franklin
Fire Insurance company, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Dear sir:-RepIying to yours of the
L
you have settled the proposition as to
what information you will send to this
department and what you will not
furnish; that you have decided that
you will not furnish the salaries re-
ceived by the officers of the Franklin
Fire Insurance company separately. If
this is your ultimatum upon this Ques-
ton then have to inform you that IN
til such information is furnished to this
department 1 shall decline to issue a Ii
cense to the Franklin Fire Insurance
company. Truly yours,
WEBB M'NALL,
Superintendent"
Many of the salaries paid to presi-
dents of insurance companies range
from $50, 900 to $50, 900; not only the high
officers, but the subordinates draw i'm
mense sums. These are the drain up
on the companies, that all who invest
in them should know about. Seeing that
some complaint has been made about
the fees charged by superintendent Nc
Nall for making examinations, he is de-
termined to find out whether this com
plant of "extortiOn' is bona fide or
mere buncOmbe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
lad Catarrh 30 years.

Josiah Bacon, conductor on the P. W.
& B. R. R., says. 81 had suffered with
catarrh for SO years and regarded my
case as hopeless. One day saw the
testimonial of Geo. H. Hearn in a Braz-
i1ian Balm circular. Hearn was the
engineer on my train and knew his
case was desperate. talked with Hearn
and his cure gave me hope. 1 began
the use of the Balm at once. There was
notAmuch change for the first two months
but then I began to improve and in six
months, to my inexpressib1e satisfaction,
was entirely cured"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
ALASKA RATES GO UP.
Vessels Engaged in the KIondike
Trade Must Pay Heavier Insurance.

Trade Must Pay Heavier Insurance.
San Francisco, March 3.-Marine in
surance men at Sound ports have de-
cided to advance the rates on all YES
sells bound for Alaska. The underWrit-
ers will probably follow with an ad-
vance all along the coast line. At Vic
toria it is reported rates on drst-class
steamers will be advanced about Is per
cent. On certain vessels, such as those
which are not adapted for the passen-
ger trade. the advance will be from 80
to SO per cent.
The insurance companies claim that
too many Enthusiastically vessels are be-
ing pressed into the KlOndike trade and
they also call attention to the risk of
insuring steamers engaged in carrying
freight and passengers to southeastern
Alaska.
The following losses are cited as an
incentive to raise rates:
Steamer Williapa, $4,000; steamer
Mexico, $50 900; steamer Corona, $780,
600 and steamer Clara Nevada, $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

B2oUGHT BACK FROM THE Grave.
Last November Mr.. Joseph James,
painter, of 325 w. Pearl St, Indianapo-
lis, Ind, was at deaths door with quick
consumption. Wasted to skeleton;
his lungs a mass of liberation; his
death was hourly awaited by his doctor
and family. He was kept in a constant
stupor with opium. A friend, thinking
to relieve his terrible cough, gave him
bottle of Brazilian Balm. Seeing its
wonderful effect, the doctor advised its
continued use. Mr.. James soon after
dismissed his doctor, and depended
on the Balm alone. His recovery was
rapid and complete, and in February he
returned to work. His lungs are sound,
and his weight greater than at any time
in his life. His recovery is regarded as
almost q miracle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
EXODUS TO KLONDIKE.
a. Number of Parties of Gold Seekers
Pass Through Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo, March 3.-Sixty
men, with % dogs, passed through
Kansas City today bound for the KlOn-
dixie, via Seattle, where they will pur-
chase additional supplies. Twenty
eight men from St. Louis made up the
largest part of the number.
A party of 20 men and the same num-
Der of women and children, who arrived
today from the southern part Of Mis-
souri,, also left for the west. The wo-
men and children will remain in Mon
tana and California, the men going on
to Alaska
Another party of u from the Indian
Territory. with the same destination in
view also passed through the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

fortunes of a French Marquis, an actor
with a rich and determined aunt, there
beautiful girls, a New York stock bro
ler and baby are so thoroughly mixed
and confused that it takes three acts to
dfsentangle them, each of which is fun
nier than the other Incidental to the
play and forming part of the story
there there is considerable music and
Miss Jansen had occasion to sing sew
eral songs. Miss Jansen is supported
by Harry Beresford and a competent
company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
Are You Going to California;

If so, please bear in mind that the
Santa Fe route limited train passes
through Topeka westbound every Sun
day, Tuesday and Thursday, and runs
to Los Angeles in fffty-four hours. with
through sleepers to principal California
cities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

Marie Jansen, the clever comedienne.
who divided honOrs with Francis Will
son in ''Erminie'' and "Nadjy,'' and Ia
ter was the star of several successful
farce comedies, including "Delmonicos
at Six will be seen in her new farce
1.-The Nancy Hanks at the Crawford
afternoon. The story of this piece con-
Germs q salted gold mine in which the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
Col. Erred Funston. the Cuban her

Col. Fred Funston, the Cuban hero,
arrived in this city at noon today and
tonight will deliver his lecture THE
Cubans and Their Revolution at Ham
ilton hall. Col. Funston served in %
of the principal engagements Of the
Cuban revolution, was severely wound
ed taken prisoner, court martialed and
thrown in prison. About two months
ago he was released through the efforts
of the government Col. Funston will
tonight tell of his most thrilling adven-
lures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
aAmong the Ozarks.n

is an attractive and interesting book.
with views of South Missouri scenery
It pertains to fruit-raising in that great
fruit belt of America, the southern slope
of the Ozarks, and is of interest to fruit
growers and to every farmer and home
seeker looking for a farm and a home
Mailed free. Address,
J. z. LOCKWOOD
Kansas City Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

In consumption beware of cough mix
lures and prescriptions that co1Aain
opium. Opium PARALLELS the nerves,
and gives the comma bacillus a good
chance to destroy the lungs. It is
always fatal. Brazilian Balm does not
contain a trace of any opiate, but stimu-
1ates the nerves with new life and power,
destroys the microbe, and restores all
that is left of the diseased lungs to a
sound and healthy state which no other
remedy has ever been known to accom-
plish.
Sold by druggists. A ]. Arnold &
Son, wholesale agents, Topeka. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

What pleasure is there in life with a
headache, constipation and biliousness?
Thousands experience them who could
become perfectly healthy by using De
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. G. w. Stansfeld, 632 Kan
saS avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

Don't annoy others by your coughing
and risk your life by neglecting a cold
One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs
colds, Group, grippe and all throat and
lung troubles. G. w. Stansfeld, 632
Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
wANrED-AGENTs.


WANTED-Agents to sell Nurat F4alstead's
great Cuba book; all about Cuba, Spain
and war: great excitement: everyone buys
it; one agent sold 81 in one day; another
made $13 in one hour; 500 pages; magnif-
cent Illustrations; photographs, etc; low
price; we guarantee the most liberal
terms; freight paid; 20 days credit; outfit
free; send two-cent stamps to pay post
age The Bible House, 324 Dearborn ST.,
Chicago.
AGENTS: We have invented a device
for printing signs on fences bridges,
rOcks-any rough surface. Ten cOlors at
once Any size. You can sell one in every
store. Arc Co., &c Arc St, Racine, Wis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

The richest OF E1ondike finds is Beggs
Little Giant Pills. They cure not only
constipation, sick headaches and bill
Housness. but relieves all kinds of dis
order. Take no substitutes. At drug
gistS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
BICYCLES.
JEWELLERS.

JAMES B. HAYDEN, Jeweler and OPP
tician. Complete stock of watches, dia-
monds, silVerware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacles properly fitted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
WEBB M'NALL,
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

The second performance of the melo-
drama 1.-The World Against Her. will
be given at the Crawford theater to-
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS.
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THE J. c. DARLING CO., 734 KAN. AVE.
Topeka. Phone 292. Send for catalogue.
CHAS. H. TRAPP-Maker of stamps,
seals. daters. etc. 112 w. 9TH. Tel 656.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
novelty PHOTO co
III West Sixth Street.
GOOD TIMES HAVE COME.

You can afford to indulge yourself or your
family in the luxury of a good weekly news
paper and a quarterly magazine of fction.
You can get both of these publications with
almost a library of good novels for S. per year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
WATOHMAKER.

WATCHES cleaned. 75c; clocks, SOC;
mainsprings. 75c; crystals, 10c. Cash
paid for old gold or silver. All work guar
anteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new
If hard up, see Uncle Sam, 512 Kan. ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
10 WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
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NOTICE-TO WHOM 1T MAY CON
CERN-Be it known that my petition is
on file in the office of the probate court
of Shawnee county, Kansas, asking for
permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 226
Kansas ave, in the Second ward in the
city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing
of the same is set for Tuesday, a. m.
March 18th, 1898.
CHAS. W. KOHL.
Topeka. Kan. Feb. 18th. 1898.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
TIN SHOPS

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J. NJ. BAIRD, hot air furnaces, pumps
and tin roofing. 216 w. 9Th. Tel $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

Subscribe for The State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
STORAGE.
PRINTERS.
PAVING.

FOR first class paving, sidewalk or
building brick dried by steam and
burned in down-draft kilns, the only way
good vitrif1ed brick can be made, call on
w. Edson. secretary of &. z. v Brick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
FUEL AND FEED.

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LEAVE your orders for coal. -four. feed
and seeds with Van Slyck, 500 w. 10th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

MONEY to loan on farms
SCOTT & CO..
615 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

want to make good farm
loans in eastern Kansas. Money on
hand and every accommoda ton to bor-
rover. 7. E. BOWMAN & CO..
Columbian Building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

SECRET SOCIETIES.
ORDER OF THE PYRA MIDS
@Cheops council No. 2. Every Wednes-
day, 8 p. m, T04 Kansas ave. c. W. Fow-
Ter. Scribe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
BUSINESS oPPoRrUNITIEs.

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$40 A WEEK and expenses paid men to
sell cigars on time. Experience unnec-
essary. The w. L. Kline Co., st. Louis,
Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03
MONEY.

MONEY.
$500. 900 TO LOAN farms and city
property; annual interest; lowest rates
Privilege to pay any time before due. A
Zahner, Is Columbian building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-03

FOR RENT ROOMS.
FOR RENT-Six rooms, furnished or I'M
furnished, with without board. on
the northeast corner of Ninth and Quincy.
Kansas ave.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21
WORK OF RELIEF
 WELL UNDER WAY
Money Advanced by Claus Spreckels Being Utilized to Aid Those
 in Want


 James D. Phelan, Mayor Of San Francisco: F. w. Dohrmann of the Merchants Association. and A. B. Spreckels. president of the State Board of Agriculture. met as a relief commits sion yesterday afternoon at the Palace Hotel. These gentlemen were appoint cd by Governor Budd to supervise the disbursement of $25 000 advanced by Claus Spreckels for the relief of farm CTS in Monterey and San Luis Ooispo counties. The Governor at once turned over to the commission a check from Claus Spreckels for $25, ,000
 The commission organized by elect ing F. w. Dohrmann chairman, A. B. Spreckels treasurer and L. NJ. King, su- perintendent of the Merchants Assocla- ton, secretary.
 The treasurer was authorized to de- posit the check to the credit of the re- lief commission at the Bank of Cali fornia. Checks on the fund are to be signed by the chairman and the treas urer of the commission.
 Chairman Dohrmann offered on be- half of the Merchants Association the services of its officers and attaches without charge to the commission, which offer was accepted.
 It was resolved that Secretary King and such assistants as the Merchants Association may furnish be sent to in- vestigate the conditions in the dis tressed section, MT. King was directed to advise with and ask for the cooper ation of C. Melander, of Vanderhurst. Sanborn & Co, and J. H. Besse of King City. and other business men of that community Mir. King and assistants were directed to start for King City on Friday morning.
 It was resolved that the secretary of the commission be authorized to grant relief to persons in need of immediate
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21
TO PROMOTE A WAR
 AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS
Meeting at Marlborough House, at Which the Prince of Wales
 Presided

LONDON, Dec. 20. - The Prince of Wales presided at a private meeting at Marlborough House to-day. convened by him to promote war against tubercu- losis.
 The Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Rosebery and a number of noted scien- lists and physicians spoke of the urgent necessity of educating the people in the means of preventing consumption and checking the spread of tuberculosis diseases among cattle. Special stress was laid upon the importance of erecting open air sanitaria.
 The. Prince of Wales, who promised his heartest support to the movement, said Great Britain ought to follow the good example set before her in the United States. Germany and elsewhere in the ef- fort to stamp out the disease. He men toned the fact that the Queen had or dered the destruction of thirty-six of her dairy cows which had been found to have tuberculosis. It was an example, he urged, such as the farmers ought to fol- low.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-21
.FRENz|ED WOMEN
 LEAP ID DEATH Jump From a Burning
 Residence. TERROR COSTS THREE LIVES A MAN CARRIED DOWN WITH ONE OF THE VICTIMS. Mrs. c. H. Raymond, First President of the New York Red Cross Society, Numbered Among
 the Killed.
TERROR COSTS THREE LIVES
A MAN CARRIED DOWN WITH
 ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

| NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Three women
 were killed and a man was severely in- | jured to-day owing to a fire at the resi- dence of C. H. Raymond at West End avenue and Seventy-third street. Mrs. Underwood, sister of Mrs. Raymond leaped from a second-floor window. Her head struck the sidewalk and death was instantaneous. William Doerr, in trying to rescue Mrs. Underwood, sus 1 tained fracture of the skull which will
 probably result in death. Mrs. c. H.
 Raymond followed Mrs. Underwood out
 of the window and was picked up in- sensible, dying tonight, while MT. Ray | mond was carried from the house un- conscious from smoke. After the flames were extinguished, the body of Harriet
 Fee was found on the third floor of the house. She had been overcome by the smoke.
 A superb collection of pictures and tapestries, owned by MT. Raymond, was entirely destroyed.
 The fire was discovered by some one passing in the street. When the fire men arrived they could not get into the building, as the flames burst out in such volume that the men were driven
 back. Mir. and Mrs. Raymond appeared
 at windows of the third-story front and Mrs. Underwood al a necondstory win dow.
 The firemen ran ladders to the upper
 stories, and William Doerr, a railroad conductor, volunteered to go up. Mrs. Raymond and Mrs. Underwood could be
 seen climbing out of the windows, and the firemen and crowd begged them to
 go back. Doerr was halfway up the
 ladder. when Mrs. Underwood jumped
 from the window, striking him full in
 the breast and carrying him with her to
 the street. Then the firemen bore away
 Mrs. Underwood. while others rescued
 Doerr. Mrs. Underwood was dead and
 Doerr apparently dying, their skulls
 having been crushed.
 Meantime Mrs. Raymond, who could
 not be restrained by her husband, had
 jumped out of the window, and was fatally hurt. Two firemen, who climbed ladder to the third story, rescued MT. Raymond just as he was overcome by the smoke Ferguson, the butler, es capped by the rear. His face was bad ly lacerated owing to his falling while making his escape.
 It was after the fire had been sub dued that the body of Harriet Fee was found All the clothing had been burned 1 off and the corpse was black from the l flames.
 | Mrs. Underwood had come from Ohio l to spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Raymond.
 Mrs Raymond was the first presi- dent of the New York Red Cross and was also chief patron of the Red Cross Hospital. Upon the opening of hostili- ties with Spain Mrs. Raymond volun-
 teered to go to any post to which the
 society might assign her. The flags carried by the Red Cross steamer Texas when it carried supplies to the front were the work and gift of Mrs. Raymond.