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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
DISGRACEFUL.
A Request Made for Old Shoes for the
Soldiers at Camp Leedy.

An appeal for footwear for the sold
iers of the Twenty second Kansas reg
iment was read at the request of the
Christian Sanitary commission in all
Topeka churches yesterday.
1t made those who heard IT feel that
Uncle Sam was by~no -naeans as big a
man as they believed he was. They re-
allied that the soldiers who had been in
the service of the United States for two
weeks were objects of charity, glad to
receive the old shoes that had been con-
signed to the scrap pile as no longer
fit for service.
1t certainly seems that the fact OF
such an appeal having to be made is an
absolute proof of gross neglect on the
part of the United States government
1t is two weeks since the authorities at
Washington were informed of the con-
ditions of the volunteers in regard to
clothing, and over week since the reg
iment was mustered into the service of
the United States, and yet nothing has
been done to provide them with ar
ticleS of wear.
Red tape is a good thing in it's place,
but it is certainly out of place when it
comes to furnishing men with some
thing to cover their nakedness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
BAGS OF GOLD AND SILVER.
Paymasters for Philippine Invaders
Named-Win Take Money With
Them

Washington, May 23.-Paymaster
General Stanton has selected an Off
cial corps of paymasters for duty with
the Philippine expedition. Three of
these officials will go to Manila They
are well tried officers who have been in
the service for long time. They are
Charles j. Mcclure, who is to be chief
paymaster and Majors Charles H.
Whipp1e of Minnesota, a son of Bishop
Whipple. and Charles E. Kilbourne. An
adequate amount of cash to pay the sol
diers for three months will be made up
entirely of gold and silver.
The Bank of California, located at
San Francisco, has offered to the gov
eminent to become its agent at the
city of Manila, but inasmuch as Manila
is not yet in our actual possession,
nothing has been done in the matter.
The designation of some reliable
financial concern as the fiscal agent of
the United States in the Philippines no
doubt will be made, as this is regarded
as absolutely essential to avoid the
actual transfer of large amounts of cash
by the government.
Somebody has suggested that the
government purchase a large cOnsign-
ment of Mexican silver dollars, two of
which can be bought for one United
States dollar, and that the troops at
Manila be paid in these coins. The
Mexican money will purchase conSid-
erably more in Manila than the Ameri-
can coin of similar denomination, and
thus the soldiers for the time being
would derive an apparent greater
amount of compensation than if paid in
United States silver. The government.
however, is not disposed to pay the
men in deprecated coin, for when the
soldiers return the Mexican dollars,
they might have saved, will be of less
value by half than a similar number of
American silver dollars. The PROPOSE
ton was never taken seriously, but is
suggested simply to show the varied
number of propositions which the Of
ffcials of the government are constantly
receiving during these times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
NICHOLSON RESIGNS.
Adjutant of the 21st Kansas Gives Up
His Post.

A telegram to the governors office to-
day from Col Thomas G. Fitch, in COM
mand of the Twenty-first Kansas regi-
ment now at Chickamauga park, Chat
tanooga, announces the resignation of
John Nicholson as adjutant of the reg
iment. The same telegram contains a
recommendation from the officers of
the regiment for the appointment of
Harry Parler, the present sergeant
major, to succeed Nicholson.
Nicholson was appointed only a few
days before the regiment left this city
to succeed w. L. Brown, who was made
junior major No reason for the resig-
nation is given.
1t is doubtful if Governor Leedy has
the authority to make the appointment
of an adjutant to succeed Nicholson as
the regiment is now in the service of
the United States. 1t is believed, how
ever, that he can at least make a rec
ommendation, which it is understood
will be acted on by the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
SOUNDS LIKE BOOM DAYS.
Spectators and Statesmen Urge
Nicaraguan Canal

New York, May pa dispatch to the
World from Washington says: Con-
gress will soon be called upon to decide
the question of building a canal, con-
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Senator Davis of the senate foreign re-
lations committee, said:
The need for a connection between
the Atlantic & Pacific cannot be ques-
toned. Our interests demand it. With
canal between the two oceans in oper-
alton now, we would have nothing to
fear from an attack on the Pacific coast
AS it is, it would take US so days to
send our fleet around the Horn to the
Pacific coast cities. With the canal, we
could dispatch men of war to San Fran
cisco from New York in Ia days.
with a liberal appropriation, say
$100, 900 900, a canal could be constructed
through Nicaragua that would be of
value to the United States government
for all time to come. The Maritime
Canal company, which is endeavoring
to sell it's interests to the government,
started the canal some years ago, and
hard times of 1929 came along and
struck a death blow to the enterprise.
This company succeeded in getting
certain concessions, which it still re-
tains, and it is but right that the Uni
ted States should buy these concessions
and pay the canal company for the
work has already done. 1 do not
know just how much it accomplished,
but I am told that considerable exca-
waiting has been done on the Pacific
side of the canal. The company has
some dredges, scows, ETC., which we
could we'll afford to buy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items Of Interest About Topeka Peo-
pie and Visitors in Town.

Can communications to this department
must give the full name and address of
descriptions of social affairs viii not be
published.l
Mrs. George Bates and Mrs. Walter
Bates gave a very delightful progress
sive high five party Saturday after
noon at the home of Mrs. George Bates
on Topeka avenue.
The decorations were of palms, ferns,
carnations and roses, the same as those
used at their reception on Thursday.
A novelty in the way of score coun-
ters was tiny red, white and blue bags
which were given each guest and into
which a bean was dropped at each pro-
gression. Dainty refreshments were
served.
The invited guests were Mrs. w. H.
Davis, Mrs. A. c. Davis, Mrs L w.
Doolittle, Mrs. w. H. Eastman, Mrs.
Harry Ashby, Mrs. J. e. Allison. Mrs.
H. w. Sharp of Denver. Mrs. E. B.
Boyd, Mrs. Frank Foster Mrs. w. T.
Crosby. Mrs. f. H. Crosby Mrs. w. H.
Fernald, Mrs. Arthur Capper, Mrs.
H. L. P. Hillyer, Mrs. E. l. Copeland,
Mrs. Horace Hall, Mrs. Willard Hail.
Mrs. George w Crane, Mrs. Ira Howe,
Mrs. Ed Hindman, Mrs A. Zahner,
Mrs. J. w. F. Hughes, Mrs. James
Sproat, Mrs. J. R. Hanl1la, Mrs. Jewell,
Mrs. Edwin Lange, Mrs. J. F. FARRELL,
Mrs. Harry Williams, Mrs. F. E. Wear,
Mrs. F. G. Willard, Mrs. H. G. Lescher,
Mrs Lowry, Mrs. r. B. Kep1ey, Mrs.
George W. Vea1e, Jr., Mrs. James A
Troutman, Mrs. Thrapp, Mrs c. B.
Merriam, Mrs. A. Marburg, Mrs. Will
Martin, Mrs. Frank Manspeaker, Mrs.
Frank S. Thomas, Mrs. F. ]. Thomas,
Mrs. Ralph Squires, Mrs L. H. Mum,
Mrs VIM. Macferran, Mrs. G. J. Null
vane. Mrs. Arthur Murphy, Mrs c. f.
Spencer, Mrs. w. E. Sterne, Mrs D. O.
McCray, Mrs. Root of Kansas City,
Mrs. G. B. Reed, Mrs. Walter Noble,
Mrs. F. E. Nfpps, Mrs. w. G. Smyser,
Mrs. H. E. Overholt, Mrs. E. A Pres
colt, Mrs. George Parkhurst, Mrs. w
H. RICHTER, Miss Flora Mayo, Miss
Myrtle Jetmore, Miss Irene Horner
and Miss May Lange.
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our fleet and handicapping Rear Admit
raj Sampson seriously in his offensive
and defensive operations. Our ship
building policy has been all wrong. The
country has gone on the theory that a
defensive navy was all that was neces-
sary. The present war teaches that an
offensive navy Is absolutely required.
1.-The necessity of target practice in
time of peace is apparent when we
think of the firing of the Spaniards at
Manila, at Matanzas and San Juan up
on the American squadronS.
1--WE knew before the war began the
desirability of employing smokeless
powder, but unfortunately congress fail
ed to make the necessary recommended
ton when it was recommended several
years ago, and the department had to
fall back upon brown powder.
II think congress will now agree that
docks are the crying necessity at this
time. Although none of the battleships
is capable of greater speed than 16
knots an hour, under present foul con-
ditions they can probably not steam at
a greater rate than II or IS knots. The
divers, who have been sent down to
Key West from Norfolk, will be able to
scrape the propellers clean and thus in
crease the speed of the ships but they
will not remove the barnacles off the
bottoms of the ships to any great eX-
tent, for it is impossible for them to
do good work under water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
FOR ARMoRED CRUISERS.
Slow Vessels Will Hereafter Have No
Place in Our Navy

Washington, May 23.-As a result of
the maneuvering executed by the Span
1sh fleet, under the command of Admit
raj Cervera, future naval constructors
will give the armored cruiser a promi-
nent place in the types adopted for Of
fenSiVe warfare.
taught up to this time by the war with
Spain. Such is the opinion of naval ex-
perts since Admiral Cervera, with his
speedy squadron, arrived ten days ago
at Martinique.
1t marks the downfall of the theory
so strongly advocated by Captain c. F.
Goodrich, now in command Of the Yale
and formerly professor of the naval war
college, that the armored cruiser had
no place in modern naVieS.
Capt. Goodrich is now probably con-
WINGED of the value of armored cruis-
ers," said a prominent naval officer, lin
view of the fact that, as commanding
officer of the Yale he has been scouting
for the fleet since a few days before its
arrival at Martinique.
The armored cruiser is nothing more
than swift sea-going battleship. ia
pan recognizes this fact and is the only
nation that was quick to take advan-
tage of such recognition. Her lesson
was learned at Yulu, where her protect
ed cruisers of great speed and equipped
with rapid firing guns, drove from the
scene of battle the Chinese battleships
of slow speed and thick armor.
That the lesson was we'll learned is
shown by the fact that Japan immedi-
ately placed contracts with the Arm
strongs of England for the construction
of six battleships of great speed In
order to get the speed desired, Is knots
with the protection the armament spec
flied by the Mikado'S government, it
was necessary to make the ships of
great displacement. Two of them, the
Yashima and Full, which are now on
their way to Japan, are of $50 tons
displacement each. The later ships
have displacement of 1850 tons each.
On their trials the Yashima and Full
developed speeds of 1876 and 1872 knots
respectively.
These vessels are really the develop
ment of the armored cruiser type What
would we now give for such vessels I'M
der the command of Rear Admiral
Sampson? Two of them, with the New
York and Brooklyn, would be able to
destroy or drive away Admiral Cerve-
ra's squadron. This government, in
building the Iowa, obtained a type in
some respects similar to the armored
cruiser but her speed is only 16 knots,
and under present conditions is proba-
bly, but 13 or IA.
Since the war began we have been
using vessels for purposes for which |
their types unsuited them. For instance,
the Indiana and Massachusetts are
coast defense battleships. Yet they
have been sent to sea cruising for the |
enemy when they were really intended
for defensive purposes. Then we have
been employing harbor defense mont |
tors for blockading purposes and for Of |
fenSive warfare, the result being to |
cripple the maneuvering, the quality Of |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
NEW MINISTRY ACTIVE
Spain Has Renewed and Elaborated
War Preparations.

New York, May pa dispatch to the
World from Madrid says:
With the incoming of the new gov
eminent the greatest impetus has been
given to activity in the navy yards, and,
it may be added to home defenses.
Torpedoes have been laid at the en-
frances of all important harbors. The
new ministry has determined to send
out at once what is known as the re-
serve squadron; that is to say, the
armed warship Pelayo, the protected
cruisers Carlos V and Alfonso VIII, the
torpedo boat destroyers Audaz, Proser-
pima and Destructor, the dispatch boat
Giralda, the dispatch boats Rapido and
Patria and the armed Transatlantic
liner Joaquin de PieIago, Alfonso
XIII, Antonio Lopez, Ciuadad de Ca
d1z. and BuenOs Ayres. To the above
Will be added the Reina Regente, which
is being armed in Ferrol and the Leon
XIII which has already started from
Barcelona for Cadfz
This fleet is likely to start at once
and it is publicly stated that it is going
to Manila.
Significant suggestions are made as
to the possibility of the Pelayo getting
through the Suez canal, owing to her
draught, but it may be readily under
stood that the admiralty is not giving
their secrets and that the fleet will sail
under sealed orders, and that it is
quite as likely to go west as east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
TOPEKA MUST ACT
Citizens Invited to Attend Meet
ing at Club Rooms.
All Who Have Subscribed For
the Auditorium
ARE INVITED TO COME.
Also All Others Who Are In
terested i'm Actively
Helping the Project Along to
Its Completion.
ARE INVITED TO COME.

At the meeting of the Auditorium
committee, to be held at the Com
mercial clubs on Wednesday evening, a
large number of prominent citizens Will
be in attendance. There are 20 Audi
torium directors, and these, with the
citizens who are interested in seeing the
Auditorium built this summer and for
raising the necessary funds, will form
an enthusiastic assemblage.
Major T. ]. Anderson, who is presi-
dent of the Auditorium association, is
busy making the arrangements for the
meeting He said today:
we want to pack the Commercial
club rooms. Nothing can be definitely
settled until we hold that meeting.
There are lots of good suggestions for
raising the money, but we must have
the meeting so we can decide the best
course. There are those who favor the
selling of tickets for a grand entertain
ment in the new Auditorium In this
way perhaps $5,O 900 could be raised.
Then, too, there are many who favor
the holding of a midsummer fair in
Garfield park. That would be all right,
but for the expense of conducting it. 1t
will cost money to take the stuff there
and to bring it back. We want to dis
cuSS all these things and make some
plans. Then we want to hold a big
mass meeting and have a hurrah Then
the first man who gets up remon-
STRANGE against us using that coal mole
money, should be skinned alive.
1t is evident to all that money must
be raised very soon for the Auditorium
fund. Interest must not be allowed to
lag in the matter. With the start al
ready made it would be easy to raise
the money, provided the proper plans
are carried out. 1t is for this reason
that the meeting is to be held Wednes-
day evening. The mass meeting Will
simply bear out the ideas decided upon
a the committee meeting.
Once the project is put upon a sound
basis and the building is erected, even
though not completed inside, that part
of it can and will be easily provided for
by the people of Topeka who will take
part in and contribute to entertain
ments for raising additional funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
BURGLARS IN HAND.
Three of Them Turned Over to the
Custody of County officers.

When the three suspected burglars,
James Burke, Chas. Curran. and Chas.
McLain were captured Saturday morn
ing they hid from the officers after
being frightened away from Manspeak-
er's grocery house, four revolvers were
found about them.
The rumor was started that one of
the revolvers might be the missing one
which was Mr.. ]. s. Collins property
and which he always kept under his
pillow. An investigation was immedi-
ately made but it was found that none
of the revolvers answered the descrip-
ton. The officers do not suspect the
three men of any connection with the
Collins murder. The three men have
been turned over to the county officers
and they will be tried on the charges
of burglary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
Notes and Personal Mention.

The Woman's club will meet Tuesday
afternon with Mrs. ]. P. Howe at 1910
Mr.. and Mrs Frank p MacLennan re-
turned Sunday from few days in Chi
Mr.. David Bowie will leave this week for
Scotland to spend the summer.
Miss Margaret Bear and little sister
Edna went to Lawrence this morning to
Brown.
Colonel Rossington and daughter. Miss
New York city for a two or three weeks
Mrs. Stevenson and daughter Eta will
arrive next week from Neosho. Mo-, to
visit Mrs. Stevensons sister, Mrs. George
Miss Matte Jones of Leavenworth is in
the city, the guest of Miss Ollie O Brien.
day and is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Parker will be at
home to their friends Tuesday evening at
their home on Quincy street. The occa-
sion is their twenty-ffth wedding ami
Mrs T. W. Harrison and Miss Harri-
son nave issued invitations for a reception
r HSrreon or3 estern Ao aWen Ui MIS-
Mrs Root of Kansas City, who has been
the nz guest Of Mrs C. 3, Reed, went to
Mrs. Esterley before returning to her
9 Mr.; H. H. Case of Medicine Lodge spent
Miss Agnes Walsh returned the last of
he he week from a weeks visit in St Joe.
Miss Lura E. Oldham of ST. Louis is
Mrs. c.. S. Downing, on Taylor street.
Mrs. c. S. Mahoney has returned to her
hon home in HeTington after visit with
on Buchanan street
to visit her mother and sister.
Miss Fife Kester, who has been visit
ing frien9s in Topeka for couple Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-23
WHALERS ALL LOST.
Death Comes to Those Imprisoned in
the Ice at Point Barrow.

San Francisco, May 23.-The startling
| news was received here today that the
whaling fleet stuck in the ice at Point
Barrow, away up at the north end of
Alaska, since last fall is totally de-
stroyed.
The information came in a letter by
way of Seattle. The letter, dated April
II, came to Hume Brothers from their
agent, Charles Pfaff, at Karluk. Pfaf
says news of the wreck of the fleet was
brought by a Norwegian sailor who
crossed Stelikoff straits. Pfaff gives
no details, but simply says the fleet is
a total loss. He also records the loss
of the sealing schooner Alexandria,
which was carrying supplies to northern
stations for the North American Com
mercial company.
Mr.. Hume says the meagerness of the
news given by Pfaff was probably due
to the fact that he had just had time to
catch some departing steamer.
The last news from the fleet was
brought by Third Mate Walker of the
steamer Orca, who crossed from Point
struck down through the interior to Ed
monitor, making a terrible trip of
thousands of miles over ice and snow
and undergoing great suffering. Walk
er brought news up to November last
when he left the 1856 whaIers camped
near Point Barrow. The steamer Orca
Hau OeeH cIuSIeu III the ice ana the
Freeman burned, so that the fleet re-
naming in the ice was composed of the
steamers Belvidere and Fearless, the
steam tender JEANNE and the schooner
Rosario and the bark Wanderer
All these vessels were fast in the ice
but Walker declared there should be
no difficulty in their getting out as soon
as the ice broke up in the spring.
Hume thinks that the ice must have
broken up suddenly and great foes
crushed the imprisoned vessels before
they could reach clear water. This dis
aster places the 1856 men in great peril
as. if they did not save the stores from
the ships they may run out of food be-
fore the relief expedition under Lieu
tenant Jarvis, now on it's way from st.
Michael, can reach them.
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NORTH TOPEKA.
items intended for this column should
be left at the Kjmbal Pig. Co., before 10
o'clock in the morning.

Mrs. VIII Courtright is quite Ill at her
home, S08 Topeka avenue.
w. w. Crittenden left today for the
west on a two weeks business trip.
John COPYRIGHT went to Eiawatha Sat-
urday. where he is a witness in a law
suit.
1t is said that there is a demand for a
good first class private boarding house
on this side.
Mr. William B. Small of Maple Hill is
the guest of Mrs. E. D. Small of 127 West
Gordon street
Coffeyville, where he visited his brother
Joseph Cromwell, over Sunday.
Mrs. T. F. Seymour of 800 West Gordon
street has returned from Chicago, where
she has been visiting relatives and friends.
The Baptist church is being repapered
the ladies having raised the money for
this improvement by giving socials.
The Ladies' guild of the Church of the
Good Shepherd met this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Fred lies, 1104 Monroe street.
Fl works Rud Tyr fba E6t of
headquarters at Davenport, Ia, visited
with his family over Sunday.
The Ladies' Sewing society of the Kan
sas Avenue M E: church will meet on
Mrs. Stansfield, sos Jackson street.
The Old Folks high five club closed its
series of meetings by giving a banquet
Saturday evening at the Union Pacific ho>
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Parks, 500
Quincy street, where high five was played.
The members of the club are: Mr.. and
Parks, Mr.. and Mrs. e. P. Baker. Mr. and
Mrs. William Green, Mr.. and Mrs. V. B.
KiSt1er, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Bowen, Dr.
and Mrs. T. B. Reynolds, and Mr.. and
with the exception of Mr.. William Green
whose place was filled by Mr.. John Green.
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The Apollo Club Entertains.

The Apollo club entertained their
honorary members and a number of
invited guests last Saturday evening at
Mr. Won Dahlens studio. The rooms
were tastefully decorated with palms
and cut flowers.
Little Mary Overholt and Helen Hen
derson, in pretty white swiss frocks
stood at the head of the stairs and di-
rected the guests to the par1ors.
During the evening the club sang
Miss Day and Mr.. Weightman sang So
los; Miss Tracy played several piano
selections.
Mrs. Wiley served refreshments, as
sisted by Mrs. OverhOlt, Mrs. Hender-
son, Mrs. J. w. F, Hughes, Helen Hen
derson and Mary Overholt.
The evening proved very delightful
and the club feels encouraged in it's
intention of entertaining several times
next season.