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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
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Medicine Ad.

A certain grocer of Evanston. ILL.,. had
curious experience lately. and one that
he will not readily forget. Mr.. z. H. Kles.
of Gil Dempster street. was compelled TO
call in DIR. Dakin, a well known physician
of Evanston, in order to find If possible
why he was becoming, day by day, more
dangerously Ill, and there seemed to be no
way to stop the progress of the trouble.
He reached a point where it was a critical
question whether he could recover or not.
VIXEN Dr. Dakin advised him that the syrnp-
toms Indicated that he was being slowly
poisoned by the use of coffee. II a bomb
shell had been exploded In Mr.. kles' front
room, it would not have created any more
surprise and CONSERVATION
willing to do anything the doctor adj
Eised. In order to regain health, 10 agreed
TO leave off common coffee and take -
cereal coffee. 1t seems that MIR. Kles had
Oh his shelves the original Postum Cereal
Coffee and four brands OF limitations OF
pie of each were given TO him. which were
taken home for analysis.
After careful trial Of each and thorough
analysis, the doctor recommended Postum
as the one cereal coffee that contained the
elements of nutrition needed. ana there
upon Mr.. kles at once LETT on the use OF
common coffee and took on Postum His re-
turn to health was rapid. and II is need
less to say the customers OF that grocery
store frequently hear good word from
the grocer or his clerks In regard to the
famous Postum Food Coffee.
There are hundreds OF cases. somewhat
similar to this one. In which people have
lengths Of time and have been unable to
determine the cause or the trouble 1t is 4
trouble that does not seem to yield to medi-
cnes or to treatment OF any kind. The
true remedy for generally run down con-
dltion is to abandon coffee drinking and
take on Postum Cereal Food Coffee. which
down nerve tissues throughout the humaa
bcdy.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
ion or bill can be placed before the

action or bill can be placed before the
council without the consent of the chief
Their laws do not admit of an auditor and
the people are entirely ignorant of the
condition of their finances. They say that
while the legislation has not been in line
with their wishes. they must per force of
circumstances. accept the inevitable and
ask that any disposition of moneys belong
ing 10 the ScminoleS and the mana agement
OF their schools be made with the approval
of the secretary of the interior.
The secretary is asked to reconsider the
new treaty as Il whole in regard to them
and relieve them from It's Obligation and
further. that they b" allowed TO mold their
anuS IN common. as provided for in the
treaty of 1866. In conclusion. they say:
We believe that with the assistance of
the honorable secretary of the Interior if
our request be granted and the manage
ment of our schools be left with him, that
ut no distant day our rising generation will
become fully as enlig rs their pale
face brethren. and he ready to take upon
themselves the responsibilities of United
states citizenship. Therefore. we, your
humble petitioners. wish in conclusion to
state that our faith in the wisdom and In
tegrity of the officials of the United States
remains mistaken, and that, as wards of
the great government of free and enlight-
ened men. We cannot believe that any
measure would be ratified that would be
detrimental TO our interests. With all con-
iidence in Your ability and good intents
We ask. in the name of good that YOU deal
with us as you would be done by''
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
NEW DESIGNS IN BATTLEsHIPs.
Moriz Stoehr, nm Austrian Inventor,
Submits Some Important Plans
to Navy Department.

New York, Jan. 31.-If the claims submit
ted to the navy department by Moriz
Stoehr, an Austrian inventor, are justified
many important. perhaps revolutionary.
changes will have to be made in warship
construction. For fighting purposes he di-
vides his fleet into three types-battleships,
armored cruisers and torpedo destroyers.
His lighting ship is the armored cruiser.
and he holds that a partly invisible body.
with relatively stronger armor. so disposed
and shaped as to make slight the chances
of hitting and to defy penetration. is the
type needed In modern nayies.
He finds the solution of the gun problem
in pieces of very large caliber, which.
through secret mechanism, are main
tanned at any required range, both in train
and elevation. independently of the motions
of the sea and ship. The armored turret
has an extensive latitude of motion. eSpe-
Cially in the horizontal plane, and all the
pieces can be fired without the slightest
danger of water entering through the gun
embraSureS. The entire armament can he
fired from central point. and this will
certainly enhance the precision of fire. APP
paratus located in the firing station reveals
at each moment the firing angle necessary,
the angle of deviation from the horizon,
ond the distance of the enemy.
BY another mechanism attached to each
gun any desired angle can he obtained.
either for distant or for bomb or mortar
firing, and this apparatus can be fired
only when the axis of the gun forms the
exact angle with the horizon necessary to
make the projectile reach the target. Bat
tleships are of exactly similar design.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
DIRE WANT IN NEWCAsTLE,DEL.
Six Hundred We're Found Starving
Six Hundred Idle Iron
wOrLers

Newcastle. Del, Jan. 31.-The cry fo-
food that has been going up from the fam
lilies of the 600 idle ironworkers for two
weeks is becoming louder every moment.
The situation is so alarming that yesterday
Rev Mr.. +. NJ. Munson, rector OF the Epis-
copal church. appealed from the pulpit for
subscriptions to buy food and fuel for the
sufferers.
To-day a special commission investigated
the situation by entering the homes of the
sufferers to ascertain their condition In
one block i'll Clayton street in the extreme
western section of the town six families
We're found ON the verge of starvation.
A woman was found this afternoon who
has been feeding her three children on the
peelinSs of potatoes found in the alley. Fiji
ty families have left the town in the past
week to escape starvation. Several store
keepers are on the verge of bankruptcy.
Eighteen hundred persons in the town are
suffering from the lack of food and fuel.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
REJ0INS HIS DESERTED WIFE.
c. j. Wynn. of Oto. Ia. Returns to
Her After Fifteen Years
Absence,

Sioux City. Ia. Jan. 31.-After fifteen
years separation from his wife, during
which the latter has been twice married
and twice DIVORCED c. J. Wynn. of Oto,
this county. has rejoined her to pass The
remainder of his days.
Wynn lived at Ida Grove in 1883. In the
spring of that year he went TO Dakota,
intending to send back after his family
as soon as he was fairly established. He
never returned or wrote to them. His
wife finally decided he must be dead and
married a resident of Marion. Ia. named
Mckay. The union was not happy one
and IL divorce was granted soon afterward
on the wife'S petition.
Last July she married Cedar Rapids
clergyman named lie Hew, with whom she
disagreed. as she had with Mckay. An
other divorce followed.
A week ago she received letter from
Wynn. asking permission to return to her.
1t was readily granted and the family is
now reunited after years Of separation.
Wynn has lived at Oto for twelve years.
He frequently mentioned the fact that he
was married. but never explained why he
left his wife. He has not done so even
yet and the reason for his long desertion
of her is a mystery. He IS 63 years old
and quite wealthy.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
YOUNG EDISON'S AIRSHIP.
Gas in the Sails. Thus Making Them
Serve as Balloons. and Also
Supply Sailing Power.

New York. Jan. 31.-Young Thomas A.
Edison. Jr. is experimenting with an air
ship, which he believes will be successful.
The ship is the invention OF Frank Sauth-
er, of Milwaukee. Wis, but Edison hit by
accident upon a gas which he believes is
the ONLY thing required to make the ship Il
practical thing. Sails were substituted in
stead of any propelling power. Mr.. Edison
says:
1T was at this point that I conceived
the really new principle. 1t struck me that
II would be a good idea to initiate the sails
with gas. thus making them serve as bal
looms as well as supplying the sailing
power. 1t would not do to make baggy bal
looms of the sails. so they Were divided in
to numerous compartments, which. when
inflated, resemble thin water bags. The
gas tube running to the balloon WAS tapped
in three places TO supply gas to the main
sail. and rubber tubes carried gas to the
two jibs. The compartments of the main
sail We're connected by narrow openings,
the gas thus flowing freely through the
entire sail.
"A rudder completed the airshp. After
many failures we We're successful. The
ship actually flew. and we succeeded in
steering ii. / believe that the inflated sail
idea is the one that is going to solve the
aerial navigation problem.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
Senate Committee Against Creating
Separate Department-Would En-
large Marine Hospital Service

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Vest, of
the senate committee on public health, to-
day made report upon the bill providing
for the creation of II department of public
health. The report is adverse to the prop
ositiOn and it recommends us Il substitute
the bill for the enlargement of the powers
of the marine hospital service. The re-
port says the first bill would deprive the
marine hospital service of its jurisdiction
over quarantine matters and that q change
so radical would be impnlitic and danger
Gus. The opinion is expressed that II a
health department is to be established it
should be gradually done, and that Il transi-
tion so sudden as that proposed would leave
the Gulf states without quarantine pro-
lection against yellow fever, for a time at
least.
The report defends the marine hospital
service against what it terms the 'vio-
lent assaults" which have been made upon
it, saying that there is no convincing evil
dence TO sustain them. The government
is advised to continue the present system
and TO enlarge the quarantine powers Of
the hospital service by giving the preSi-
dent through this service the right to re-
sort to measures to prevent the spread of
contagious diseases from one state to an
other. The committee entered into quite
an extended argument to show that such
a provision would not be unconstitutional
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
DIETED ON KEROSENE AND SALT
Inhuman Treatment of n New Jersey
Woman by Her Brutal
Husband.

New York. Jan. Sl.-Bread saturated with
kerosene and sugar mixed with salt for her
diet; a filthy shed for shelter; one skirt
and one waist to wear; beatings and lone
liness. all these things Mrs. Samuel SIM
ilovic. of Perth-Amboy. y. j.. has had to
endure at the hands of her husband.
She arrived in this country two years and
a half ago. Her husband owns barber
shop and sleeps in a comfortable room at
the rear of the shop. Out in the back yard
in little shed is Il room SX10 feet. This
was the home for the wife. Her husband
ordered that she never leave the yard.
Four children had been born to her. Two
We're given away by their father. The two
youngest are native Americans. They are
twins and were born only fourteen months
ago.
After this increase in the population of
the shed milk was supplied by the barber.
4 pint every day. In the meantime the
barber was getting fat on meat diet. He
sent the meat out to the shed for his wife
to cook and allowed her to drink the water
in which it was boiled. For the cooking
of his meat he sent ont barely enough
coal for the purpose. When the coal was
burned out the wife had no more fire until
the next day. when there was more cook
ing to be done.
A jury has found Similovic guilty of neg
lect, and he will soon be sentenced. He
is said to own property worth $500.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
EXPERIMENTS ON THE EYE.
Depend Upon Direction of I'm
age Back of Eye.

New York. Jan. 31.-Professor G. NJ
stratton. of the University of California. in
order to disprove the theory that it is
necessary in order to see objects that the
image he inverted on the retina of the
eye wore mask for eight days in which
was fixed lens which made him see every
object upside down. Writing of the result
OF this test in a local paper, he says:
The experiment on inverted vision was
suggested by a passage in one of the recent
writings of Professor Wundt. of the Leip-
zig university. where he states that in or
der to see things right side up it is nee
esSary that the image on the back of the
eye be upside down.
My own test made it extremely proba-
BILE that this view is entirely wrong and
that seeing things right side up does not
at all depend on the direction of the image
at the back of the eye. Right side up and
upside down are due to a harmony of our
senses of touch and sight. and not to the
direction of objects as they are imagined
within the eye.
The experiment thus had an important
bearing on the psychological problem of
our perception of directions in space as
We'll as on the question of the harmony of
sight and touch. The experiment showed
that no matter where or in what direction
we see objects we will also sooner or later.
feel them as lying in the same place. The
whole system of things seen was turned
over. and yet the discord between sight
and touch lasted only short time
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
Washington Notes.

Dr. NJ. W. Drown has been appointed
q pension examining surgeon at Hill City,
kas.
Senator Harris introduced a bill granting
n pension to Alfred d. Johnson, of indie
pendence. kas.
Senator Cockrell introduced n bill for the
relief of David d. johnson, a retired lieu
tenant of the United States army.
Hon. r. c. Kerens has left for West
coal interests there, and will be gone for
some time.
Senator Baker has introduced a bill
granting pension to Lawson II. Lemon:
also Il bill for the relief of Charles A. Bess
of Leavenworth.s
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Web
Ster Davis has succeeded in securing a
traders liccnSe for W. w. Correll. of Kan
sas City, Mo. at the Rosebud Indian agen-
cy, South Dakota.
Colonel james G. Stowe, consul general
to Capetown, South Africa, called upon
the president yesterday. He was intro
Secretary Webster Davis.
The following Missourians arrived YES
terday: Mayor Z. ID. Hastain. Sedalia; {;
Senator r. II. Landrum. Mount Vernon
J. w. Shiprhan. Lawrence county: Colonel
John II. Crisp. Kansas City.
Senator Turpie, of Indiana. yesterday pre-
sented IL memorial from the teachers of
Green county, O. T, in relation to certain
school funds. Mr.. Strobe. of Nebraska.
presented the same memorial to the house.
a resolution WAS introduced in the house
yesterday, requesting the secretary of the
interior not to permit the further leasing
dian reservation lands in Oklahoma Ter
ritOry.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
FEARS AN ICE FAMINE.
New York Ice Dealer Says That There
Will Not he Half Crop
Yc0r.

New York. Jan. al.-Unless Jack Frost
does some tall hustling the next month
an ice famine is likely this year. The
agents of the fee companies are anXiously
watching the present cold spell. They all
say it depends on February. Represent
atives of the big ice companies who were
seen to-day did not appear to take much
stock in the present cold wave. They say
the furious winds of March make fee har-
vesting impossible, and that the tempera-
ture has been far above the normal
this winter that the ice cutting is greatly
behind. OF course. they welcome the pres
cnt cold wave but it must be a protracted
one to overcome the shortage.
From present Indications" said Man
aGer Coffman. OF the New York and New
Jersey Ice Company, there will not he
half u crop this year unless February is
much colder than usual Along the Hud-
son there has been little or no ice cut
ting Above Nyack there has been some
cutting behind dykes or in pockets. but
that is insignificant. No cutting is going
on in the open. Our agents send the same
reports from the lakes. February will
have to he very cold to enable us to have
anything like normal ice crop
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
REWARDS HER DEFENDER.
Miss Richardson. of Batticship Ken
tucky Christening Fame,
to Marry.

Lexington. Ky, Jan. @1.-Miss Harriet
Bainbridce Richardson, the young woman
who brought the new battleship Kentucky
into such fame by contending that she was
invited to christen ii by Secretary Herbert,
and that Secretary Long should respect the
wishes OF his predecessor, and further that
she would break Il bottle of Bourbon whis-
ky over the ships prov. is to be married in
June TO a young Kentucky poet, James
Tandy Ellis.
Miss Richardson and Ellis have been lov-
ers from their youth. but when she WAS
taken into society In Brooklyn she became
engaged TO Congressman Bennett and Ellis
ceased his attentions
bennett sailed for Europe last summer
and Ellis wrote an article defending her
action i'll the battleship controversy, and
their engagement was announced TODAY
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
DYINGOF STARVATION
NARROWING TALES OF DESTITUTION
IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
FISHERMEN ARE PERISHlNG.
GOVERNMENT RELIEF EXPEDITIONS
BLOCKED BY ICE.
Billiards.. Intense Cold md Fiocs of
Arctic lee Render the Situation
Along the Coast Most Dcs-
perHte-St. Johns Tn
comfortable Plight.

New York. Jan. Sf.-The Red Cross line
steamship Portia arrived to-day. four days
overdue from St. Johns, Newfoundland.
and Halifax, after Il desperate encounter
with pack ice off the Newfoundland coast.
and With 4 narrowing tale of bIzzards
there and destitution in the coast section
of that country
Hundreds of men, women and children
dead or dying from exposure and slarva-
rion. with abundance close by, and hun
dreGs more threatened with a like fate are
the brief details of the condition Of affairs
brought by the Portia.
For four days the Portia was penned in
huge Arctic foes. in plain sight of st.
Johns, unable to move. She managed to
escape by the merest accident. Many 9TH
CT craft. several of them relief vessels sent
by the Canadian government 70 sUcCor des-
titute fishermen. had 10 abandon their er-
rands OF mercy and return to st. Johns.
where they were still in the ice when TIE
fortia struggled into clear water.
Close to where the F0.s~.I lay, the big
steamship Virginia was locked tight. She
had been sent North by the Canadian gov
ernment with food for the starving fisher
men, but 4 short distance up the coast She
found the route securely blocked and WAS
forced TO return to port TO prevent being
icebound all winter. Before her departure
news mad reached ST. Johns that unless as
sistance was promptly despatched. the un-
fortunate inhabitants would soon be beyond
relief
Among the detained feet at st. Johns
were dozen or more sailing vessels load
Cd with Goldfish for England and Brazil.
The city Of st. Johns was in terrible
condition on account of the blizzard. The
streets Were rendered impossible the rail-
roads had suspended work and the poor
were suffering through hunger and cold.
Prices of food had advanced until they
were beyond the reach of the POOR.
When the Portia was working her! way
out to sea. she was closely followed by the
bark Flora, and these two vessels were
the only ones that succeeded in leaving
st. Johns.
Several miles OFF shoro. the Portia passed
the steamer Grand Lake fast in the ice
and in a perilous condition.
The steamer Virginia was released from
her perilous position after the departure
of the Portia from ST. Johns and the po-
sition of the rest of the distressed fleet
has been reported by telegraph to be re-
lieved.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
NEW DIVINE HEALER.
She Is Patronized by Many Prominent
Persons of the Great Me-
frOnOliS.

New York. Jan. 31.-New York has a
strange visitor in the person of u new d.
vine healer; in fact, feminine Schlatter-
n very remarkable woman, who claims she
has cured nearly all the diseases known to
flesh-a woman who believes that she was
dead and has been resurrected.
Such is Mrs. Anna ]. Johnson, of 400
West Fifty-seventh street. Time was when
Mrs. Anna Johnson was rosy checked and
bright eyed. living in the north of Ireland.
She came to this country and married. Mr.
and Mrs. Johnson removed to Chicago and
there established the Maison Doree. and
how Mrs. Johnson processes to cure dyS-
peJrSia and gout, induced by sumptuouS
dining at the Maison Dorse or elsewhere,
by the LAYING on of hands. Joseph Jeffer-
son has long been one of her patiens.
Il feel as though l could play Rip Van
Wrinkle twice in an evening after l have
been treated by Mrs. Johnson says Mr..
jefferson.
He came to me weak. nervous and over
wrought from the tension of stage life,
and he went away WE'LL said Mrs. john
son.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, California's richest
woman. cousults Mrs. Johnson as to her
physical ills. Mrs. J. III. McVcker, widow
of the Chicago theatrical man, is claimed
to he among her patients. All day. in her
apartments at the Windermere, she Is be-
sieged by suffering humanity.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-01
SEMINOLES ENTER PROTEST..
object to the Ratification of the
Treaty Entered Into With the
Dawes Commission.

| Washington, Jan. 31.-tSpccial) The sec
| rotary of the interior sent to the senate
| to-day certain correspondence from the
! Seminole Indians protesting against ahc
ratification of the treaty negotiated with
the five civilized tribes by the Dawes COM
mission The second chief Of the nation.
Hulbuta. sent to the secretary resolutions
| alleged to have been adopted by mass
meeting of SeminoIes. The resolutions
| state that, by the laws of the Seminole
nation a two-thirds vote of all the men,
bers CT the council. forty-two in number.
| is required to iegal!Ze any action 1t is
alleged that the treaty was passed on a
! vote cf % favorng, 10 opposing and ab-
sent, not the necessary two-thirds. Not
withstanding this, and contrary to the
wishes of the populace, the treaty was
hurriedly carried to Washington for con-
gressional action.
The Seminoles state that of all the five
civilized tribes they are the least advanced
in civilization; that 1t has been but a
short time since the advent of churches
schools and other elements of civilization
among them, and a still shorter time since
entering into an ERA Of prosperity"
| therefore. any sudden change would de-
moraliZe their industries and retard their
progress.
partment deems it expedient and in justice
| to them not TO have the treaty submitted
TO popular vote. The Seminoles alleEe that
the Dawes commission. after negotiating
with the other tribes. gave them ample
time in which to consider the features of
their treaties, a favor which was not
granted them. The Indians state that the
national funds of their tribe are absorbed
by the rich, who are opposing the poor;
| that in 1889 an agreement was entered into
by the United States and the Seminoes
by which the latter relinquished to the
United States their title TO lands known
as Oklahoma for the consideration of
| 81. .s12. .942.02.
The Semnoles placed on interest with the
United States S1,J00,000. They withdrew
SD, ,647S0 eXpending this amount for vari-
Gus national purposes. There was the sum
of slal 29i.20 which never entered the treas
| ury of the United States or OF the Sem
inoles. They allege that the reply given to
them about the disposition of this money
by their authorities WAS that, during the
transfer OF these lands to the United
| States. there was lawyer who negotiated
the agreement and took that amount for
his pay. The name of the lawyer was
never mentioned and no receipt of the al
legged deal was ever shown. inc Indians
state further that they have no law reg
ulating the bond of their treasurer or chief
and. according to the Seminole law no