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The times., 1898-02-09
LOST IN WILLAMETTE FALLS.
BOatlOad Ot Iaborers Lose Their
hearings in a Fog.

Portland Ore, Feb. S.-Four laborers
rowing on the Willamette river to their
place of work at Oregon City this
morning lost their bearings in the
dense fog and were swept over the
Willamette falls to their death.
A rise in the river and the density
of the fog caused them to miss their
landing. There We're five in the boat
one of whom miraculousiy escaped,
and was found in a semi-conscious
state, clinging to the boat in the eddy
below. The names of the drowned are:
George Freeman. jr., George Freeman.
ST., James Freeman. l.. j. Shannon:
Henry Freeman, a third son, was res
cued
The times., 1898-02-09

There is nobility in the thought that not
only Lord Rosslyn, who is already on it,
Peel threaten to ''elevat g the STAGE The
only trouble that occurs to us is the doubt
whether any manager could induce a re-
spectacle ctor or actress to play in the
same comp with either the duke or the
baronet
The times., 1898-02-09
SPANS WAR FOOTING.
FL HeraIdo BOasts of the Kingdoms
Sea Strength

sea StFSNPtH.
Madrid, Feb. S.-El Heraldo says that
Spain, by February 90. will have on a
war footing two ironclads, one Of 1900
and the other of 1900 tons; four cruisers
OF 1000 tons each, one cruiser OF 5000
tons. two cruisers of 5000 tons, three
cruisers of /, 200 tons. five torpedo beats
and four torpedo boat destroyers, not
counting the squadron in Cuban waters.
The paper adds that the Trans-At-
lantfc Company is obliged to place its
fleet at the disposal of the government
in case of war
The times., 1898-02-09
Admiral Sica rd Is Ill.

The Navy Department has received
intelligence to the effect that Admiral
Sicard is very i'll, and unable to per-
form his duties. He has been given a
leave of absence and Capt Samson
has been ordered to the command of
the SQUADRON.
The times., 1898-02-09
Changed Her Name Thrice In a Day.
1Ero,,, tho 10 drcah St;n

from the Paducah SUM-
Ma ior Josiah Harris, a leading Kentucky
law yer. tells the following story: u had
a client not so very long ago who had
three names in one day, ana venture to
say that there are few people VINO can
boast OF three different names in a single
day. It whs simply the result OF a di-
vorce Judgment. Her name in the morn
ing was Eva Stone. In the afternoon she
was granted u divorce and restored to her
maiden name, Eva Goodnight, and thas
night marriei a man named Farris, aad
her name vas then Eva Farris''
The times., 1898-02-09
Hale COLUMBIA

When Spain gets mad and starts to
fight,
And we're filed with wars alarms,
The question is: Will Senators
Be found in Spanish arms?
Will Yankees stand like patriots bold,
And join us in the war:
Or will New England go to Spain
With Hanna, Hale and Hoar?
The times., 1898-02-09
Striking.

tFroni the Boston Traveler.)
The latest Harvard students soke-is TO
conceal large number of alarm clocks
about lectTre-roOm so that they would
burr" one after the other during an adj
dress by popular Professor The Har-
vardidea Of 1umor is wondrously dev eloped.
The times., 1898-02-09
yyeyler Had a Better Plan.
(Fro.n the Providence News. !

tFro'a tife providence News
Gen. Blanco will evidently find IL as
difficult to uppress the Cuban revolution
by bribery ns by bullets. SO far nothing
superior to TIE weyier scheme of winning
victories by typewriter has been discovered.
The times., 1898-02-09
Our Wise Forefathers.

From he Cincinnati Enquirero
The contempt OF Tom Reed and the ma
jorty of the House for the Senate or the
United States shows the wisdom OF the
fathers in providing for a deliberative
body.
The times., 1898-02-09
A Pointer for william.
(From the Boston Traveller

II GermanY does not want o ur apples she
need not hare them.lbut she might just as
we'll have sa d so pleasantly.
The times., 1898-02-09

A cargo of eighty-five head, which
recently landed in Bremen, were all in
good condition excepting a few which
stood in drafts and caught colds They
were inspected by the veterinary sur
geon, as the law requires, and receiv-
ed a clean bill of health. Some days
after they came to Bremen. and after
many had been sold and delivered, and
those with colds had greatly improv-
ed, the veterinary inspector in Bremen,
under police authority, declared close
quarantine on the ground that the ami
mails and infiuenza-a contagious dis
ease.
The American consul personally in
spected the horses and said that, bas-
ing his belief on much experience with
horses and a knowledge of medicine, he
was positive that the horses in question
did not have influenza.
The times., 1898-02-09

Mr.. Dingley caught a tartar in G.
w. Harris, of Louisville, who appear
ed yesterday before the subcommittee
on Ways and Means, in the interest of
Mr.. Bromwell's bll, which provides
that allowance shall be made for evap-
Grafton of whisky at any time during
the eight years of bond. Mr.. Harris
said the distillers Had paid in taxes
since the war an amount equal to the
entire national debt and asked relief
from irrational legislation. He said
whisky lost two gallons barrel year
after the fourth year, but the distill-
ers asked an allowance of only six
gallons after four years, or fifteen
gallons at the end of eight years. At
present the owner practically pays
$1.47 a gallon on eight-year- whisky.
This led Mr.. Dingley into an argument
on the ad valorem tax, in which Har-
ris showed himself at home. Mr. Har-
ris showed that by reason of the sys-
tenn Cincinnati alone had shipped
abroad whisky enough to deprive the
Government of $3.50 600 revenue in two
years. Mr.. Dingley insisted that this
was due to over production, and that
the revenue was on consumption. This
MIR. Harris denied, and said that after
the tax was paid whisky was reduced
under the law to from 100 to so and 40
per cent Thus on twenty gallons of
consumption only fifteen gallons yield
ed revenue, because of the dilution.
The times., 1898-02-09
Circulation Statement.

Communications intended Ior publication
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'rritteR and must IN all cases be accompanied
By The name and address Of ti,e 40 'tter. Re
ssecsed communications aciH ani be presoroed,
cad osa}y manuscripts Of obrjOUS importance
lCiH be returned 10 Utear authors
The times., 1898-02-09

YaverAga has been for the past two
and twenty years in absolute control
of the latter, the despotic master of the
whole feminine portion of the house
hold of the Sultan and responsible 10
the latter for the safekeeping and fideI-
ity and the discipline of every one of
the women, no matter whether Sui
tanas or mere odalisques. He was
probably the only man in the whole OF
the Ottoman Empire whom the Pa
diskah implicitly trusted, and whose
advice was usually directed against
the European powers, Yaver-Aga being
Mohammedan of the most fanatic
and bigoted type. and there is much
at Constantinople to indicate that he
was one OF the principal instigators of
the Armenian maSsacres. AS chief
eunuch of the haTem. it was his duty
TO attend to the punishment of those
women who had offended the Sultan.
and many hundreds of fair ones have.
by his directions. been sewn into sacks
and pitched under TIE cover of night
into the swift-fowing waters of the
Bosphorus.
The times., 1898-02-09

There are several hundred eunuchs
employed in the imperial seraglio. two
thirds of them coal black and the re-
mainder white. But they constitute a
form of luxury which is slowly but
surely disappearing from modern Mo
mammalian life, as is also pOlygamy,
most of the leading Turkish dignita-
ries. Pashas and Beys at CONSTANT
nop!e nowadays cOntenting then1se elves
with one Wife, by which matrimonial
rule they avoid all those harem in
trigues, jealousies and disputes that
constitute the curse of domestic life in
MoEammedan countries. The CHI EFF
eunuch of the Sultans eldest married
daughter, Princess Zekie. has been
nominated 10 succeed Yaver-Aga as
the second dignitary of the realm. va
Vers colossal fortune. part of which he
owed to the prerogative of his office OF
charging 10 per cent on everything en-
tering and leaving the seragIio and to
the costly gifts he received from native
and foreign dignitaries has been con-
hscated by the Sultan, the Aga having
left no heirs
The times., 1898-02-09

There is disagreeable sequel to the
brilliant recapture OF the Dargai Ridge
by the Gordon Highlanders and other
British troops in the recent campaign
against the Afridis. From the first there
has been a good deal of sharp criticism
Of the abandonment Of the position after
ii had been taken once without any loss
at all. Sir William Lockilart now re-
ports officially that when he odered the
withdrawal OF the troops from the Oar
gai heights he directed Gen. Yeatman
Biggs to continue work on the road over
Chagru KOtal, believing that the pres
ence of the troops there would have pre-
vented the enemy from reoccupying Oar
gal. Gen. Biggs, however answered by
heliOgraph that his men had reached
camp 80 late on the night before that
he thought il better not to adopt the plan
suggested for fear Of eXilausting them.
1t was the Ii too late for Sir William
LCCkhart to make other arrangements.
and the second dangerous and costly at
tack upon Dargai followed. Sir William.
moreover. complains that in the actual
assault his instructions were not fully
carried out by Gen. BIggs. The latter Of
ficer. unfortunately. died recently from
dysentery, brought on by exposure and
overexertiOn, and cannot defend himself.
But his friends are protesting indg-
nantly against the reflections cast upon
his military reputation.
The times., 1898-02-09

The recent threat of Germany to ex
clude importations of American horses.
as well as those of American fruit, has
drawn attention to the growth of ship
ments of horsefesh to the kaiser's 5
dominionS.
The importation of American horses
into Germany began three years ago
last month. 1t started with an expert
mental shipment from st. Louis. Since
then the trade has assumed consider
able proportions. Good American horses
have commanded in Leipsic and other
German cities from LOCO to 1.400 marks
a mark is about twenty-three cents.
Under such encouragement more than
10000 American horses were sold in
Germany the first year. The shipments
have increased rapidly, so that now
the proposition to forbid the imports is
a serious matter to the horse
trade in America. A report
from one of the American con-
suls in Germany who has had much to
do with the promotion of these imports
contains much interesting information.
1t explains the underhanded methods
resorted to in order to damage the
trade. 1t shows how baseless is the
claim now raised that American horses
are diseased.
The times., 1898-02-09
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.

Einoyieff, the Cars new ambassador
at Constantinople, has threatened the
Sublime Porte with Russian military
occupation of Armenia unless the Kur-
dish irregular cavalry of the Ottoman
army are at once Withdrawn from the
RUSSIAN border, which they are con-
tinually crossing to make brigand-like
raids into Muscovite territory. Zinc
wen previous request for the removal
or these savage hordes of Bashi-Ba-
Zouks from the frontier, and COM
plant of their depredations. were an
Swered by the Sultan increasing their
nu1lbers and comforting decorations on
their chiefs. The present demand on
the part of Russia partakes of the ma
turc oI an ultimatum.
Abdul Hamid has just sustained "a Sc
we're loss through the sudden death of
Yayer-Aga. the Kizlar Agassy or chief
of the eunuchs of the imperial straglio,
who throughout the present reign has
been one of the most influential figures
in Turkish politics, parsonage to
whose advice many of the most shrewd
and clever devices of the Sultan III
dealing with the foreign powers were
justly attributed. By virtue Of his
strange office he was entitled to be ad-
dressed as your highness. and ranked
Immediately next to the Grand ViZier,
and bsfore either the cabinet ministers
or the great military dignitaries, even
khedive Abbas of Egypt and Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the latter in his
capacity of Turkish governor general
Of Eastern Roumelia, being compelled
at Constantinople to yield the pas to
the hideously ugly monster for Yaver.
Aga was frightful to behold, being al
most feet inckes high, coal black.
with small head. narrow shoulders,
an enormous stomach and the squeaky
and shrill voice peculiar TO his class.
His official title was that of keeper of
the keys of paradise" the oriental idea
Of paradise being place peopled with
houris as lovely as thos1 of the S Iltaa's
harem.
The times., 1898-02-09
CAPITOL GOSSIP.


Mr. Settle, of Kentucky, made point
yesterday which addressed itself to the
Republicans. The gold men, he said,
Republicans and Democrats, claimed
that the silver craze" would COM
mend itself and had commended itself
to the ignorant classes. If that were
so. he asked why did il not delude the
cOlored people of the South, who were
admittedly the most ignorant, as
class, of any race or nationality in the
country. He got no answer
The Plowman-Aldrich contested cleo
ton case is stirring up lot of bad
political blood among members OF the
House. A Republican thought he had
made good point when he compared
Aidrichs acceBtingi the nomination OF
the Populist convention and repudiat-
ing the Republican nomination to the
case of Mr.. Bryan and the People
party convention Endorsement. NO,
SIR shouted a. Democrat, lin the case
of Bryan it was fusion, but in the case
of Aldrich it Was amalgamation."
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
SOME ATCHISON POLITICS
Which Affect Affairs in the First Con-
preSSiOnal District

The latest political rumor relating to
affairs in the First congressional dis
trict is that G. d. Walker of Atchison
is being put forward as a candidate for
congress with the view of nominating
him for the legislature to succeed John
Seaton.
This plan is charged to a small coterie
of anti-Seaton Republicans who antici-
pate that whatever may be the result
of his aspiration for governor, he will
not be inclined to seek a denomination
for the legislature, especially when the
candidate which is proposed has been
defeated for congress.
1t is stated further that Mr. Walker
is fully cognizant of the arrangement
and entered the campaign for congress
knowing that the cards had already
been dealt to beat him in the conVen-
tion. The scheme is intended to cul-
inmate also in the appointment of J. M.
Chisham as postmaster at Atchison.
This will be accomplished by giving the
Atchison delegation, which was named
by Walker, after he receives few COM
p1imentary votes, to Mr.. Broderick. Mr..
Chisham cannot be appointed postmas-
Therefore he must deliver Atchison
county to Broderick
Some of the Atchison Republicans
tion for the Shawnee county delegation
to the state convention and thereby
help Mr. Curtis, Mr. Seaton being the
principal participant in benefits brought
about by such a deal. Mr.. Chisham and
Mr. Guthrie advise against such a trade
however, and want to stand by Broder-
iPi<
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
MORE SCARE THAN HURT.
Earthquake Did Little Damage Ex-
cept at Mare Island Navy Yard.

San Francisco, April Now that the
excitement over the earthquake has sub
sided, it is learned that very little dam
age was done in This city. The shock.
occurring so late at night, when most peo-
pie We're asleep, seemed more severe than
it really was to the frightened inhabi-
tants. The earthquake seems to have
been confined to within a radius of 100
miles of San Francisco.
The greatest damage reported is that at
Mare Island navy yard.
Another light shock was felt at Mar
San FranciScoanS are laughing over
their experiences and affairs have settled
into their normal conditions.
After the board of survey had made q
partial examination of the state of affairs
at the Mare Island navy yard, it was an
the tremble had been somewhat exagger-
ated. While the survey has not yet been
completed, the board is of opinion that
the damage will not exceed $150.0 Work
has, however, been discontinued and in all
probability will not be resumed for several
in dry dock, did not sustain any material
damage, fortunately, although all the bilge
blocks upon which she rested were dis
turbed and will have to be reset.
In Vallejo, near by, the damage was un-
precedented, but for the most part was
confined to chimneys, glass and bric-a--
brack. The city hall public schools and
ST. Vincent'S school suffered more than
any others. The home of Mr.. Levee was
completely wrecked by a chimney crash
ing through the roof. Several small fires
added to the excitement, five lamps being
overturned in one house. A guard line
has been established at Mare Island yard
throng from the overhanging walls of the
store houses.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01

The most important excretory organs
of the body are the kidneys. When they
fail to perform their work properly,
serious arrangement of all organs OF
the body is sure to follow. 1t is impos-
sible for the body to retain effete mat
ter in it's system and not become thor
ougly poisoned. Impure and impover-
ished blood which is unfit to nourish
the body, is the result, and, unless we
get rid of the poison by the prompt and
proper care of the kidneys, Bright's dis
ease or some other kidney trouble will
be induced, and eventually produce
death.
The great medical discovery, Nor
rows Kidneoids, in yellow tablet form,
are made to meet every stage of the
disease as 1T may arise, by destroying
all avenues of the diseases progress or,
when it is fully under way, to suppress
further increase and build up form
idble barrier against further advance
of the disease. No medical discovery
of the present century, not even DR..
Koch's Lymph, for the cure of con-
sumption, is doing so much for suffer-
ing humanity as MorrowS Kidneoids.
Diabetes is another mast common
kidney trouble ranking next to Bright'S
disease in it's terrible destruction. The
first symptoms, are failure of strength
and emaciation. The mouth is pasty,
skin dry and hard, the bowels are con-
stipated, vomiting is frequent, the vision
besomeS dim, memory and intellect fails
and the temper becomes irritable.
In diabetes as well as Bright's disease
no medicine compares with Morrow'S
Kidneoids. They are made especially
for healhtful action upon the kidneys,
going direct to the seat of the trouble,
making their presence felt almost i'm
1mediately after the first dose is taken.
Morrow's hIuneiods are for sale at all
dealers. Price so cents a bex, or six
boxes for $3.50. If not to be had at
your dealers, they will be sent postpaid
upon receipt of the price by the Herb
Medicine Co., Springfield, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Issues New Time
Table Effective Today
For the st. JOe-AtchiSOn Branch
Concerns Many Trains.
THE BARNARD BRANCH
May Extend Through Jewell
and Mitchell Counties.
Union Pacific Makes a Change
of Chief Surgeons.

Eastern division supplement ''F0' to
time table No. went into effect at
1905 this morning on the Santa Fe and
governs trains 121, 119, 157, 15S, 1922 1O1,
JOY, los, 106, 10S, 120 and 122 running on
the Atchison and st. Joe line.
The new time card is issued on ac-
count of the Santa Fe's change of
track. Heretofore the Santa Fe trains
from Atchison to ST. Joe have been run
ming over the Kansas City, ST. Joe and
Council Bluffs tracks from Atchison to
Rushville and from Rushville to ST.
Joe on the Rock Island tracks. The
Rock Island tracks have been built
from Rushville to Atchison and the
Santa Fe will now run on the Rock Is
land tracks from Atchison to ST. Joe,
having torn up and abandoned their
own tracks. The Santa Fe trains en-
ter the Rock Island tracks at Winthrop.
across the river from Atchison, and
from there to St. Joe the trains are gov
erned by the rules and regulations of
the Rock Island.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
END OF RECEIVERSHIP.
Kansas Pacific Passed Into the Hands
of the Union Pacific at Midnight.

Kansas racine RaSSed Into the Hands
ofthe Union Pacific at Midnight
Omaha, April 1.-The receivership of
the Kansas Pacific terminated last
night at midnight. The line will pass
Immediately to the control of the Union
Pacific. All the present officers of the
Union Pacific will have a Jurisdiction
over their respective departments in
the Kansas division on and after April
L. The officials who have been in
charge of the Kansas Pacific will all
be retained. J. o. Brinkerhof will be
general superintendent of the Kansas
division, with headquarters at Kansas
City, Mo.
w. A. Deuet will be general superin-
tendent of the Colorado division, with
headquarters at Denver. The receiv-
ership of the Denver Pacific also ter
minated at midnight last night, and
that property came under the control
of the Union Pacific.
Joseph H. Mcconnell, superintendent
of motive power and machinery, has
announced that Joseph Roberts will be
division master mechanic of the Kan
sas division, with headquarters at Arm
strong, Kans., and that u. T. Sprigy
will be division master mechanic of the
Colorado division, with headquarters at
Denver
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
A Mightv Deed Recorded.

Major J. E. Dallas, of Rossington
Smith & Dallas, has filed in the office of
the register of deeds the conveyance of
the Kansas division of the Union Pa
cific from William D. Cornish, special
master, to the Union Pacific Railway
company. The document is lengthy
describing all the property in Kansas
owned by the company. The consider
alton named in the deed is $9,000000 1t
will cost $50 to have the instrument re-
corded in Shawnee county and as much
more in every county through which the
road masses.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
CALIFORNIA TRAIN OFF.
Southern Pacific Will Run the "Sun-
set Limited" Hereafter But Once
a Week

cific announced today that during the
month of April the Sunset limited" will
run only once a week between Chicago
and San Francisco, leaving Chicago on
Tuesdays and San Francisco on Thurs
days The Sunset limited annex" be-
tween New Orleans and Ell Paso, to
connect with the Sunset limited at the
latter city, will be run also once week
during the month of April The east
pound annex" will pass through this
city on Sundays at 1925 p. m, and the
Mestbound annex" will pass here on
Wednesdays at 9:15 a. m
Ihese trains run at present twice a
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01

system goes into effect today and the
work of changing the numbers on the
yard engines will commence at once and
be completed by the 10th, when the
work of numbering the road engines
the goth.
1t takes about three hours to renum-
ber an engine and tender and the en-
gines will be numbered at different
points as they come in.
Painters will be sent from the shops
at Topeka to points where there are no
naint shops.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
ARGENTINE ICE PLANr.
To Be Improved by the Santa FeWith
Six Horse Power Gas Engine.

Mr.. G. w. Clossen, fuel contractor of
the Santa t'e, has gone to Argentine to
look over the refrigerating plant and
see what changes are necessary for the
coming year.
One of the additions that will be made
will be a SIX horse power gas engine, to
be used in raising ice from the house to
the platforms ready to fill the ice boxes
in the refrigerator cars.
Argentine is the only ice station for
refrigerator cars between La Junta and
Chicago.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
THE BARNARD BRANCH.
Santa Fe May Extend Through jew
ell and Mitchell Counties.

The inhabitants of Jewell county are
considerably worked up over the rumor
that the Santa Fe is thinking of the ad-
Visibility of extending the Barnard
branch, which runs from Manchester on
the Superior branch, to Barnard, from
there to Jewell county and through
Mitchell county.
Last year Jewell county raised more
corn to its acreage than any other eoun-
ty In Kansas, and a branch through
Mitchell and Jewell counties would
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-01
Dan Gains New Work.

An order has been issued to conduc-
tors on the Santa Fe notifying them
that Mr.. D. E. Cain, chief clerk in Gen.
era1 Manage Frey's office, has been au-
thorized to countersign all annual, trip
and time passes and freight train per-
mitS of the general managers issue,
and all conductors will be governed ac-
cOrdingly.