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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
DUO D'ORLEANS AROUSED.
Publishes a Manifesto on the Dreyfus
Case.

Paris, Sept. 2O.-The Due D'Orleans
has issued manifesto denouncing the
Dreyfusites. The manifesto begins
thus:
"At last the promoters of the Odious
plot against the honor and security of
the fatherland have thrown off their
mask. Intimated by them the ministers
have lowered themselves so far as to
become their accomplices."
The Due D'OrleanS accuses the minis
try of seeking a revision of the Drey-
fus proceedings, while convinced that
Dreyfus was guilty, under pretext of
calming the public, for their own profit.
his heart culver, and he concludes his
manifesto in these words:
"Frenchmen, we are masters of our
own country. Your servants, subject
to pernicious power presume upon the
will to which they submit under pre-
text of proving the innocence of a man
whom the military tribunals have con-
demned as a traitor. It is the army
they are trying to destroy, and France
they are striving to ruin.
''Frenchmen, we will not allow it,
The manifesto has fallen rather fiat.
The Dreyfus affair presents no new fea-
lures.
1t is stated that Gen. Chanoine, the
new minister of war, has decided to ap-
point an entirely new staff for the min
istry and to reOrganize the secret intel
Hgence department.
NJ. Presence, a leader in the Dreyfus
agitation, has been summoned to ap-
pear before a council of the legion of
honor, on the ground that he has pre-
sided at meetings at which orators have
denounced the army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
CUT DOWN HEDGES.
Shawnee County People to Vote on
the Question.

The county commissioners have de-
cided that Shawnee county should be
dressed up and they took the prelimi-
nary steps in that direction today by
entering an order for the submission
of the question of hedge trimming to
the people.
A peculiar law known as the hedge
fence law was adopted by the legisla-
ture in 1897. The law provides that the
people may vote on the question of cut
ting the hedges along highways, If they
decide that the hedge should be trim
med then the people who own property
along the roads who neglect to trim
their hedges will be compelled to see
the road Overseer do the work and the
cost will be charged on their tax bill.
Before the people can vote on this
proposition two-thirds of the township
officers in the county must petition the
county commissioners for the calling of
an election to vote on the hedge law.
County boards in the following town
ships have sent petitions to the board:
Rossville, Silver Lake, Menoken, Sol
der, Tecumseh, Mission and Auburn.
This is one of the laws that has never
been tested. No county in the state
has adopted the law or tried to adopt
it. The proposition will carry and then
the country roads will be bordered by
hedges not more than five feet in
height.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
OUR GROWING NAVY.
Three Men-of- War to Be Put in Com
mission Next Month.

New York, Sept. 2O.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says:
1t is the intention of the navy depart
ment to place three men of war in COM
mission during the month. These are
the cruisers Chicago and Atlanta which
have been undergoing repairs at the
New York navy yard for two years,
and the gunboat Yorktown, which has
been put in condition for service at the
Mare Island navy yard
The Chicago and Atlanta will be as
signed to the North Atlantic fleet until
the conclusion of the treaty of peace
with Spain, when their future stations
viii be determined. The Yorktown will
be assigned to the Asiatic station where
the need of small gunboats in the wa
ters of China and the Philippines is es-
pecially felt.
Captain P. H. Cooper has been as
signed to the command Of the Chicago
and Commander G. S. Perry, equipment
officer at the navy yard, has been se-
lected to command the Yorktown. So
fas as can be learned the Atlanta's
commanding officer has not yet been de-
termined upon.
1t will not be surprising if the Chica-
go is assigned to the European squadron,
to be formed probably in November.
The intention of the department to
relieve Commodore J. w. Philip, in com
mand of the second squadron of the
North Atlantic fleet, in the event of
continued peace, and assign him to duty
yard, is regarded as Indicative of the
intention of the authorities to send
Commodore H. L. HowisOn to sea AS
the European squadron will be the only
cOmmodOre's post which will be vacant
it would not be surprising if he were
assigned to that command.
Bids will be opened on October 1 for
contracts for the construction of four
coast defense monitors authorized by
the last naval appropriation law. It
is said at the department that four
firms will surely bid-the Union Iron
Works, Bath Iron Works, Columbian
Iron Works and Dialogue & Son. The
department has not yet awarded the
contracts for the construction of the
torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroy
ers. Considerable opposition is still
manifested by the ship builders whose
bids were not recognized by the naval
board on construction, to the assign
ment of contracts to the Hereschoffs
and John W. Trigg, of Richmond.
Commodore J. G. Watson has reported
to the navy department that he has
sailed from Guantanamo in the Newark
with two other vessels under his COM
mand for the scene of the wreck of the
Infanta Maria Teresa. Tt is the pur-
pose of Commodore Watson to assist
the wreckers in raising the Teresa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
CHARTERS FILED.

The Christian Cooperative associa-
ton, of Clay county, was chartered this
morning. The association has a pecuI-
lar work to perform if it carries out the
objects of its organization, which are,
as stated in the charter, ito provide help
for the widows, orphans, unfortunates,
aged and infirm of its own members.
or any others whom they may see prop
er to help; to provide homes for the
homeless, build business houses, mills,
shops, and factories, for the occupancy
and use of its members; to teach
higher grade of Christian principles
than is now taught by the present
divided state of sectarianism, aiming
to get back to the principles taught by
the church during the Apostolic or New
Testament age, even to the extent of
establishing a new church organization,
if it should be thought best to do SOL
The directors of the association are D.
M. Gillespie, A. L. Wylie. w. A. Will
son and B. F. Hemphill, of Clay Center,
w. A. Stewart, of Idana, and Melvin L.
Gates of Wakefield.
The Pratt Realty company was also
chartered today within capital stock of
$4,000 It's directors are N. Thompson.
VIM. Barrett, N. r. Lyon. G. S. Cal
houn and w. H. Thompson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal
Chicago. Sept. 90.

WHEAT-A distinctly improved tone
was shown today at the opening in wheat.
Gables all showed upward tenency, and
a good foreign demand was reported for
both milling and speculative purposes.
Northwestern receipts, considering the al
most perfect weather for movement of
lis and Duluth reporting but $40 cars,
against 1.745 last week and 1924 a year
ago. Northwestern markets again showed
strength. December opened AQ3sc over
yesterdays closing figures at 6212Q9sc.
Many of the traders who sold on yester-
days decline were buyers today. There
ly for December and May. by New York
foreign houses against late aeceptances
from Europe. December gradually ad-
vanced to 627sc, where the advance was
checked by moderate selling against calls.
Trade later became very dull. with the
price holding steady at about 62Rc. Sep
opened AQ11c higher at 65465Ac and ad-
CORN-Corn was quiet and a shade
higher. Cables were higher. Shorts were
fair buyers. but trade as a whole was
light. December opened a shade higher
at 2913@5sc and held at that price.
May opened unchanged at 221sc and sold
Provisions Heavy receipts of hogs
opening and first trades Showed declines.
There was good commission house buying
later and the market became firmer. De-
advanced to SS25. December lard opened
a shade lower at $4.721a and advanced to
81. 1904. M: December ribs opened TIC
BARLEY1Cash, 8sa44c; October. 1870
RYEseptember, 47c; October, 45c; May.
FLAx-Cash northwestern. 9O1kc; Sep
TENDER. S81ac; October,S SIC; December,S11zc;
-TfidOTHY- September, $40; October,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
BRUTALIZING.
Pounding of Boys at the Reform
School Should Be Stopped.


There should be reform in the rules
that govern the state Reform school.
The old custom of pounding the chill
humanity. The old-fashiOned idea that
children must be, beaten regularly was
discarded by intelligent people long
ago and it is time that the same princi-
pies of humanity are applied to the Re
form school.
The latest complaint, which is only
one of many, was received at the Jour
nal Office today. 1t was written by a
man who lives near the school grounds
the buildings.
The correspondent says: ct think
that something ought to be looked into
at the Reform school. They whip the
poor boys ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS than
brutes.
81 have frequently heard them cry
ing and pleading for mercy and have
heard the laSheS at my house This is
an outrage and the state officials ought
to be humane enough to give it immedi,
ate attention, regardless or political
pets. These poor boys are awfully
abused.
Il am not at enmity with any of the
officers, nor employees 1 have this much
to say, that no man with any human
feeling will whip poor boy as one was
whipped last night"
The writer of the letter signs his
name in full. It is evident that the
communication was written as an out
let for righteous indignation.
The Reform school is failure as far
as reformation of the boys is concerned
and is it not possible that the inhuman-
ity of the attendants has something to
do with this failure?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real estate
have been filed:
c. w Haynes and wife to James Nc
LaIlin, $500, 239 and s Is 2S7 Taylor
street.
Sarah J. Williams and husband to
Samuel NJ. Wood, $25, lot 20 Madison
street, north Cranes addition.
F. o. Popenoe and wife to Luther G.
Bailey, 1922 lots 3O1, 3O3, SO5. BOZ Vail
avenue, DR.. Martins Place addition.
J. c. Harrington and wife to E z.
Emmens, $3.50, tract on Polk street,
North Topeka.
To L. B. Merrick lots %, 25 Forest av-
enue, Oakland sub.
To L. B. Merrick lots "a 26 Chester
avenue, Oakland sub.
To National Life Insurance company
lots 157, 159, 161, 1913, 165, 1866 Jackson
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
SUGAR PROFITS.
Will Complete Santa Fe System
to San Francisco.

San Francisco, Sept. 2O.-The Bakers
field and Los Angeles Railroad COM
pany has been incorporated by Claus
Spreckles, John D. Spreckles, A. 3.
Spreckles, Robert Watt and A. H. Pay
son to build a railroad from Bakers
field over the TETON pass to Los An
geles, a distance 200 miles.
1t will connect with the Southern Cal
ifornia railway, a branch of the Santa
F'e running from Mojave to Los An
geles, and will destroy the monopoly
which c. P. Huntington has so long
enjoyed with the Southern Pacific.
Instead of being at the mercy of this
system, the construction of the last
link, to San Francisco, by the sugar
king, will place this city in communica-
ton with large area of new terri
tory and the Santa Fe willy become the
most formidable Of transcontinentaI
lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
STATE HOUSE NOTES.

Senator Harris received a telegram
today calling him to Montauk Point,
where his son, who is in the army, is
seriously ILL The boy, WHO is not yet
out of his teens, was supposed to be
getting better, but he has suffered a
relapse.
The state board of charities reported
to the state auditor that $12270.79 was
spent on the Topeka insane asylum
during the month of August. OF this
amount $1,000 was for the new ward
building.
Private Secretary James Lewis went
to Geuda Springs today to consult with
Governor Leedy on matters of state
and to get the governors signature to
several official documents.
Every little while Attorney General
Boyle is called on for an opinion con-
corning the powers of a police court to
issue search and seizure warrants. The
latest inquiry of that nature comes
from Holton, where the city council is
thinking of passing an ordinance CIV
ing the police judge power to issue war
rants for the search of joints and the
seizure of liquors. Mr.. Boyle decided
that such ordinance would be uncon-
StitutiOnal.
The choir of Grace Cathedral will
meet for special rehearsal in the guild
room of the cathedral at 1870 this even
ing All members of the choir and
those who have kindly offered to assist
in the music for the convention of the
diocese are expected to attend.
J. c. Postlethwaite, the well-known
attorney of Jewell City, who was the
nudge in the central division of the
northern department, two years ago,
is in the city today, accompanied by his
daughter. Miss Jessie POstlethwaite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
M'KINLEY'S TOUR.
Tt Promises to Be Much More Ex-
tended Than at First Supposed.

tended Than at First supposed
Washington, Sept. 2O.-The presidents
western tour promises to be much more
extended than was first planned. The
original programme mapped out for
him embraced only trip to the Omaha
exposition, with a days stay in Chicago
and perhaps a day in Kansas City. The
invitations which have been pouring in
on the president from all parts of the
west and south are likely to lead to a
change in his plans. The war situation
is now so wen IN hand and unexpected
developments are so unlikely that the
presidents friends are endeavOring to
persuade him his continued presence in
Washington is no longer necessary;
that he ought to have an extended rest
from the burdens of state, which have
weighed so heavily upon him for the
past year, and at the same time that he
is recuperating his own strength, graft
fly the earnest desire of the people of
the west and south to see him.
1t can now be stated with certainty that
unless serious and unlocked for cOmplica-
tons should arise in our international re-
latiOnS the president will. after leaving the
Omaha exposition, make tour through
in St. Louis on his way. Atlanta and
Birmingham are two of the southern cities
whose people have been most urgent in
their invitations.
as far west as Denver. Nothing has yet
been definitely decided beyond the Omaha
trip and the stop in Chicago, but the ex-
tension of the trip is now being figured on
and the persuasion being brought to bear
the president is so urgent that he viii
hardly be able to resist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
DEPEW TO NAME TEDDY.
New York Convention Will Be AL
most Unanimous for the Colonel

New York, Sept. 2O.-Dr. Chauncey
M. Depew, who is a delegate to the Re-
publican state convention from the
Twenty ninth assembly district, is to
make a speech nominating Col. TheO-
dore Roosevelt for governor. The doc
tor is a good man to arouse enthusiasm
in Republican convention, and all Re
publicans agree that he will have a
the convention is expected to resolve
itself into a shouting match and the
delegates will out-yen the rough riders.
If there is a roll call some votes will
be cast for Frank S. Black but most
of them will probably be cast with a
mental reservation, if not a verbal pro-
test. 1t is said today that somewhere
between 700 and 800 of the 971 votes in
the convention will be cast for Col.
Roosevelt on the first ballot, and then
scores of Blacks friends will be ready
to move that the nomination be made
unanimous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
SEVEN MEN SECURED
Of the Nine to Investigate the Con-
duct of the War.

washington. Sept. 20.-The president
Is making progress in the matter of pre-
paration of the commission for the in
vestigatiOn of the conduct of the war
so far as it relates to the war de-
partment and he stated to members of
the cabinet today that he had so far
completed the commission that he had
invited the members to meet him for a
conference at the White House on Sat
urday next with the view to beginning
their work next week.
Seven of the nine members of the
body have definitely indicated their ac-
ceptance of the presidents invitation
and he expressed himself today as be-
ing very confident of being able to Sc
cure the services of the other two gen
tlemen necessary to complete the in
vestigation committee by the time set
for the conference. The names of the
new men who have been invited to
serve were not given out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
LEAVES HILL OUT.
Receiver Cowan Throws Some Light
on the B. & o. Deal

Baltimore, Sept. 20.-Receiver John
K Cowen arrived in Baltimore from
Chicago early this morning In reply
to questions, Mr.. Cowen said; 1t is
true that a large interest, a very large
interest in the Baltimore & Ohio has
been purchased by Messrs- Field, Hill,
Ream and Armour. as we'll as other in
huential interests. AS to those concern
ed and the amount of their purchase the
reorganization managers only can an
swer.
1T is difficult to define a control.
The class of men who have become in
terested in the property is of char
after that would exercise dominating
influence. With them the stock of the
B. & o. is in stronger hands than ever
before in it's history. They are strong
factors in the business world and their
interest in the railroad will be decided
advantage to the property.
Anything that will improve the b.
&, o. railroad will by the very nature of
the case benefit Baltimore, as this city
is it's chief terminus. The talk of NOV
ing the general Offices and Mount Clair
shops from Baltimore is all mOonshine.
1.-THE progress of the reorganization
of the property will not be affected in
the slightest. Foreclosure proceedings
and the legal formalities will be pushed
and as soon as these are settled the or
ganization of the new company will be
completed The new interests went in
to the property on the basis of the plan
of reorganization. They looked care
fully over the field and believing the in
terest in the road to be first class in
Vestment, purchased it. The question
as to the personnel of the new directory
will be looked to hereafter and the new
interests will be largely represented.
Their purchase of the stock does not
mean any railroad combination. 1t
does not mean a transcOntine mental sys-
tenn in connection with the Great Nor
thern. What it does mean is the fullest
development of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. The road will not be tied to
any road in the northwest. but will con-
tinue to deal with all roads and take
business wherever it is found. The
policy of betterments will be carried
out and the maximum traffic aimed af-
ter by providing the best facilities for
handling the business"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Market Gossip.
Furnished by the Wickham Commissic
Co., 112 East Fifth St, Topeka, Kan


Liverpool: Wheat unchanged. corn 80
Second Liverpool cable: Wheat quiet,
Chicago receipts today: Wheat 2s4 cars,
grade none: corn 91S cars. grade 553 cars
oats, 53l cars, grade 90 cars. --,...-,4-
fair tonight and Wednesday. For kan
sas, generally fair tonight and Wednes-
day, warmer in west portion tonight.
Northwestern receipts: This year, Min-
neapOlis 293 cars, Duluth 52I cars, total go
cars; last year, Minneapolis 36S cars, Du-
luth 1856 cars, total 924 cars
Receipts. of hogs; Chicago, 24OO0. lower;
Kansas City, 1900 lower; Omaha, $780,
Receipts of cattle: Chicago. $500, steady;
Kansas City, 16,oOO lower; Omaha, $780,
New York: The attention of the street
has been turned from tight money to con-
sideration of the problematical effect upon
prices OF a possible further continuous de-
cline in Sugar stock. If it were not for
the professional character of the current
stock speculation, less importance Would
be attached to the influence of the va
cares OF the HaVemeyer Specl4a3IIy-. mere mere
IS nothing IN the present sltuaIlon 70 con-
stitute Sugar Refining as dominant in
huence in general speculation. It is, of
course, Impossible to make any reason
able guess as to the future movements IN
this issue. The manipulators of the stock
have broken precedents time and again
The price has gone down when every out
reached. 1t has gone up when universal
opinion was that the top had been reach
ed. sincere belief exists that the state
of affairs in the sugar trade requires a
long price contest and great depression
ditions in the United States are too broad
and varied to permit the ieda that quar-
rel in particular industry will cause
damage in other industries. Railroad earn
ings recently have generally shown an
/ tional conditions produced an unusually
large movement of grain to market TAX
ing the railroad systems of the United
States as a whole, the fiscal results in
the year just closed were highly crafty
ing, the stockholders having occasion for
criticism only because managers did not
distribute as large dividends as earnings
would have permitted
Bradstreet's: Worlds visible supply Of
wheat, increase 3, 900 bushels.
Chicago: Estimated receipts tomorrow.
Wheat, IT'S cars; corn, $50 cars; oats, 260
cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
X. X. OMAHA EXCURSION.
Mr.. McManus Goes There to See
About Inlay Start October 8.


John McManus returned today from
Omaha where he went to consult the
management about taking the Karn1Va1
Queen, Lorena III, to Omaha at the
head of a Karnival Knight excursion.
Mr.. McManus did not see the manage
ment of the exposition. He says that
he was too busy looking after the
buildings and other things on the ex-
position grounds to devote any time to
the man who ran the show. But he
did see Secretary Grief who acts as
general. manager for the Kansas de-
partment. Mr.. Grief told the Topeka
Knight that he would try to make ar
engagements in accordance with the
wishes of the Knights but he saw no
hope of making arrangements for trans
pOrtation. He said that October 8
might be selected as Topeka Day" if
there was nothing in the way.
The fact is that Secretary Grief was
not awake to the Importance of the Oc-
casion. The fact that Queen LOrena is
to be present should be sufficient incent-
i've to awaken the interest of the expo
sitiOn management, but Mr.. McManus
thinks that the Kansas department at
Omaha needs a shock of some kind to
arouse them.
The excursion has not been abandon
ed. All effort will be made to interest
the management of the exposition di-
rectly. If the Kansas authorities do
not take an interest in the project of the
knights people higher in authority
may. The excursion will be discussed
at future meetings of the Karnival
KNIGHTS