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The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
Suit for Damages Against the
Rock Island
Places Two Representatives of
That Road
In A VERY BAD LIGHT.
Charged With Tampering With
Witness at Wellington.
Said to Have Paid S25 for Him
to Leave Town.

Wellington, Feb. S.-The damage suit
of Sam Palmer against the Rock Island
railroad, which was concluded in the
district court Saturday, was attended
by rather sensational incident which
places w. F. Highly and A. Graham.
of Topeka, in a bad light J. W. Hur-
ley, witness for the plaintiff, was, if
the story is true-and there is every ev-
idence that there is-approached by
w. F. Highly, one of the witnesses
for the Rock Island, and offered S25 to
leave the state and stay away while the
suit was in progress. Hurley accepted
the money, informed the attorneys for
the plaintiff of the affair, and left os-
tensibly for his home in Enid, but pur-
posely stopped off at Caldwell in order
that the sheriff might catch him and
bring him back. Hurley was OVertaken
at Caldwell and brought back to testify
in the case.
Hurley was beating his way on the
train that ran into Palmer at a cross
ing near Caldwell in 1892, and saw the
accident that resulted in the suit for
damages. Before Hurley was put on
the witness stand he was approached
by w. +. Highly, a witness for the de-
tenSe, and offered SO to go back to
Enid and remain there until the trial
was over. Hurley remarked that that
was not enough money. He was then
offered $25.
Hurley went to w. W. Sehwinn's law
office and showed the attorneys the
money and said that he was going to
start for home. but would give the Off
GERS a chance to apprehend him at
Caldwell.
Hurley was brought back to yelling
ton and testified at the trial The jury
was out from Il o'clock noon Saturday
until o'clock and brought in a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff for SO, 500.
Hurley says that Highly was in con-
slant communication with A. A. era
ham, claim agent for the Rock Island,
while the attempt to spirit him away
was being 1nada
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
STANDARD OIL METHODS.
The Concern is Charged With Bribery
and Other Crookedhess.

Cleveland Feb S.-The state senate
trust investigating committee has again
convened here. The Standard Oil peO-
pie were all absent when the committee
was in session last week and subpoenas
could not be served upon them It is
understood that the sheriff subsequent
iy succeeded in serving the papers upon
several officials of the company.
A number of witnesses were examined
but little of value was learned except
as regards the oil trust. John Teagle,
of the oil refining firm of ScOheld,
Shurmer & Teagle. which for years has
been fighting the Standard Oil COM
pany, declared that the Standard was
constantly and systematically attempt
ing to injure his firm. He said the
Standard agents endeavOred to ascer-
tain where the statesmen of his firm OBJ
tanned orders for oil. The agents would
go to these intending purchasers and
offer to cut the price if the oil was
bought of the Standard, and threatened
in case this was not done, to sell to
every other dealer in the same towns
so cheaply that the dealers refusing
could not compete with them. Mr.. Tea
gle showed letters from customers in
support of these statements. He then
briefly told of the suit which his firm
won against the Lake Shore railroad in
1884 for discriminating in freight rates
on oil against Schofeld, ,Shurmer & Tea
gle in favor of the Standard Oil COM
pany.
Mr. Teagle, who was under oath, then
testified that the Standard had at
tempted, through a middleman, to bribe
the bookkeeper of his firm. The book
keeper, he stated, was offered $50 per
month to give constant information re-
garding the shipments, the prices and
cost of manufacturing Of SchOfeld,
Shurmer & TeagIe. Mr.. Teagle testified
that the bookkeeper requested time in
which to consider the matter, then took
$25 which the agent rendered as pay in
advance and then laid the whole trans
action before his employers. The wit
ness said that he and his partner, Mr..
SchofeId, took the $25, and, going to
the office of F. B. Squire, the secretary
of the Ohio corporation of the Standard
Oil trust, laid the money on his desk
told him that they always stood ready
to give him any information which it
was proper for him to know about the
affairs of the firm.
Still under oath, Mr.. Teagle declared
that Mr.. Squire acknowledged to him
that he had caused the agent to be sent
to the bookkeeper. The witness testi-
fed that the Standard has about IS
per cent of the oil business of the coun-
try.
Secretary F. B. Squire was called as
a witness, and he denied the statement
of Mr.. TeagIe with respect to attempt to
bribe boOkkeeper.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
UNSEEN DANGERS
In Connection With the Meat Supply
of the Country.

Washington, Feb. S.-An important
treatise entitled, inspection of Meats
for Animal Parasites" has just been
issued by the agricultural department.
1t was prepared by DR.. c. Wardell
Stiles zOOIOgiSt under the direction of
DR.. D. E. Salmon, chief of the bureau of
animal industry.
In his letter of transmittal to Secre-
tary Wilson, DR.. Salmon says the re-
port will be found of general interest
to all sanitarians, since it treats of the
communica bility of certain parasites
from animals to man and suggests the
necessary methods of prevention and
treatment therefor.
DR.. Stiles, after mentioning that
the report is intended for meat inspec-
tors, says it contains discussions of the
various fukes and tape worms which
the bureau of inspectors are likely to
meet with on the killing floors of the
abatoirs. The more important para
sites for the American inspectors are:
The common livery fluke and the large
American fluke, which are Sc
rious dangers to the live stock; beef
measles; pork measles and hydatidS, all
of which bear an important relation to
disease in man. He calls special atten-
ton to the hydatid disease, which at
present is comparatively rare in this
country, and now he says is the time
to attack it. By proper precautions at
the abatoirs and the slaughter houses
this dangerous parasite can be totally
eradicated from the country. II these
precautions are not carried out it viii
only be question of time when this
country will take its place with Ger
many and Australia with respect to the
number of human lives sacrificed to
disease which has not yet gained much
ground with US and can now be easily
controlled.
In the general discussion of measures
for the prevention of parasitic diseases
the doctor recommends the segregation
and the sanitary supervision of slaugh-
7-ocrf119T meat inSDeCtlOn. the
exclusion of dogs and rats from slaugh-
ter houses and meat shops and the kill
ing of all stray and ownerless dogs.
This he says will prevent the spread or
q number of dangerous parasites. The
raising of hogs and other animals at
slaughter houses is, he adds, a custom
which cannot be too severely condemned
and the farmer who grants to the
butcher the privilege of slaughtering on
his farm in exchange for the use of the
offal as feed simply bids for disease.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
SANTA FE LOCAL NOTES.

Vice President E. D. Kenna and wife
Second Vice President Paul Morton and
Charles S. Gleed arrived on special car
21S attached to No. 5 from Chicago. to
attend the funeral of Thomas A. Os-
born.
Special car 21S will go into the shops
for repairs.
John Stafford, of the paint shop, is off
on account of the sickness of his wife
Way car Nc. So that was in a fire on
the Southern Kansas, is in for repairs
Jacob Cook, car inspector of the San
ia F'e, is able to be at work again after
a severe illness
Resident Engineer J. NJ Mead of the
Santa Fe has gone to Silver City, N.
M, on business.
Private car los has left the shops
ready for service.
A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion
went through to California Saturday.
Brakeman Cary Johnson acted as bag
gageman and will view 1.-The west
from side door" The excursions have
their time made out and if they lose
time anywhere on the road they will
not allow the railroad to make it up but
make them stick to the even running
time.
superintendent Thorp of the special
car service has returned from Chicago.
G w. KOuns, superintendent of car
service, leaves on the 18th to attend a
meeting of superintendents of car ser
vice in Fort Worth, Tex.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
DOLE EN- ROUTE HOME.
The Party Stops in Cleveland to See
Mrs. Dole's Brother.

Cleveland, Feb. s.-President Dole
and party arrived at the union station
at Abs o'clock this morning from Buff
falo over the Lake Shore road in the
private car Corona The car was
placed on a side track and the members
of the party did not arise until Z o'clock
when breakfast was served on the Co
roma Later Mr.. and Mrs. Dole were
driven to the home of Mr. and Mrs
Charles Cate, on Bertram street. Mrs.
Dole and Mr.. Cate are brother and sis.
ter and have not seen each other for
several years. The presidential party
expect to resume their journey west
ward this evening.
The special car will go out over the
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus, and will
then start west over the Pan Handle
to Kansas City. In an interview Pres
1dent Dole said: 4 regard my trip as
extremely satisfactory, and feel conf
dent that the Hawaiian possessions will
ultimately be annexed to the United
States. At Washington I had a long
consultation with President Mckinley
1t was most satisfactory one. I think
the presidents previous expressions
show that he faVors annexation
When shown a dispatch in which it
was hinted that the Hawaiian anneXa-
ton treaty might be abandoned for an
annexation bill, President Dole said that
this view of the matter had arisen since
he left Washington and he knew moth
ing of it
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
FLESH DROPPED OFF.
Before the Indians Burned in
Oklahoma, Flinched.

Washington. Feb. S.-The attorney gem
by Assistant United States Attorney Nc
Mechan giving the results of his investi-
cation into the recent burning of two
Seminole Indians in Oklahoma by a mob.
He says that the sentiment in the neigh
borhood of the crime is all with the mob,
and he was informed that it would not be
well for him or any other person to go in
to that locality if it was known that the
object was to locate the conspirators.
Mr.. AIcMechan's letter tells in the main
an old story. but he gives some new de-
tails. "McGisy was he says, 1.-The first
of the Indians to move muscle after the
torch was applied. and he did not move
until the flesh was beginning to drop
from his limbs and was beginning to touch
his ears.
He then gave a loud whoop and bent
over as far as the chain would allow him
and, sucking in the leaping flames, sank
down and expired without showing any
more signs of pain. Not so with Palmer
Sampson. He did not move until after
McGisy had inhaled the flames. Then he
commenced to kick with both feet. throw
ing burning pieces of wood twenty-five or
thirty feet away. 1t was with difficulty
that they succeeded in getting him burn>
ed"
Mr.. McAIechan says that a Baptist min
lister named Hiram Holt prayed for the
two Indians before their execution and
that as he knelt he held rifle in his
hand
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
FROM WELLINGTON.

J. L. Kise is repairing a relay sent
over from Oxford.
One of Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave HamePs
children is reported sick.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hamblin enter
tained in honor of Frank Highly of
Kansas City, Mo-
Trainmaster E. A. Austin is at Wood
ward on business connected with the
Santa Fe.
Machinist Jack Pepperdine, who has
been laying off on account of sickness,
has reported.
John BusweH came up from Wood
ward, o. t, and went on to Chanute to
visit a few days with his parents.
The boilermakers at the rOundhOuse
are working night and day putting
patch on the steam dome of engine 63.
The machine boys at the roundhOuse
have been working Is hours until this
week. They are now working ten
hours.
w. w. Owens came in this morning
from Kansas City. Mr.. Owens has the
contract to put up a telegraph line from
Canadian to Cheyenne, Texas, a dis
tance of $50 miles, and will begin work
at once.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
JANUARY EXPENSES
Of State Institutions as Submitted to
Auditor Morris.

The accounts of the state institutions
for the month of January, with the ex-
ception of the Topeka insane asylum
and the reform school, have been sub
mitted to State Auditor Morris for pay
ment.
The expenses of the deaf and dumb
asylum at Olathe and the imbecile asy-
lum at Winfield are greater than usual
because of necessary repairs that were
made during the month.
The accounts of the different inStitu-
tions are as follows:
Soldiers Orphans Home, Atchison-
Maintenance, $1,698.56; salaries, 1858. % ;
total, 81, ,561.S8.
Industrial school for girls at BeIoit-
Maintenance, $1,40S.38; salaries and
wages, 1852. .04; total, $1.S60.42.
Insane asylum at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tenance and repairs, 81, 85; salaries
and wages, SO, ,S117 "A; total, 11,126.59.
Deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe-
Maintenance, $1,7S5.62 salaries. $1,995.80;
boiler repairs, 81, 1,524 60; Industrial kitch-
en-, SIS; care INDECENT pupils, SLIGO; to-
tai, So, 1852.
ImbeciIe asylum at Winfield-Nain-
tenance, $762.20; salaries and wages,
S5S3.22; boiler house and new boiler,
1920. .79 total, 81, 566.21.
Blind asylum at Kansas City-Main-
tenance, $500. q; salaries, $90908; total,
81 415.29.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
M1DwINTER GARDENING.
Auditor Morris Wants to Know What
This Bill Was For.

state Auditor Morris wants to know
what kind of work gardeners perform
in the middle of winter He has writ
ten to Senator H. G. Jumper of Usage
county to find out.
1t was not altogether because Sena-
tor Jumper is a farmer that he was
supposed to be able to give satlsfac-
tory explanation, but because as a
member of the state board of charities
ne placed his 80. K.'' on a bill for $25
for gardening purposes which reached
Auditor Morris yesterday.
VIM. Callihan is the man who per
formed the services, and he holds the
position Of gardener at the deaf and
dumb asylum at Olathe. Among the
accounts of the institution was his bill
FOR sos for work during the month of
January. but Auditor Morris decided
that before he would issue warrant
for it's payment he would obtain, for
personal qualification, if for no other
reason, information as to what work
gardeners do in the winter time.
Accordingly he has written senator
Jumper, asking him to explain. Until
the explanation arrives Mr.. Callihan
Will wait for his S25.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
MONEY DRIVEN OUT.
Congressman OImstead Declares $4O,-
100000 Has Run Away Recently.

Washington, Feb. SIN the house
yesterday Mr. Olmstead said that the
continued agitation of the silver ques-
ton was the only thing that retarded
the full measure of prosperity that
would naturally flow from the DinSley
law. The threat contained in the Teller
resolution had driven $4,000. 600 to in
vestment in foreign securities
DO we want a COWaTdly money that
runs aWay?" asked Mr.. Bland, Demo-
crat. of Missouri.
Money is always timid,' replied Mr..
Olmstead. TT goes to places where it is
safest and security is the best
you don't hear of silver running
away" reiterated Mr.. Bland.
No" interpOsed Mr.. Lands, Republi-
can, of Indiana, you don't hear of sill
yer running away from Mexico"
Mexico is prosperous" shouted
voice on the Democratic side
Mr.. Landis-''You don't hear of sill
yer money running away from China"
Mr.. Ogden. Democrat, OF Louisiana
''Are you a Chinaman or an Ameri-
camp
Mr. NIiers, Democrat, of Indiana, and
Mr.. DeArmOnd, Democrat, of Missouri,
both denounced the action of the house
on the Teller bond resolution.
The whole purpose of the Republican
party in the defeat of that resolution,
Mr.. DeArmOnd declared, was to commit
the country irretrievably to the gold
standard. It has at last thrown off all
subterfuges and shams, and now had
the shameless effrOntery boldly to pro-
claim the robbery which it always Sc
cretly connived at, but never before had
the hardihood to avow.
Mr.. Low, Republican, of New York,
said it was no strange marvel that the
Democrats were bowling down the evil
dences of prosperity which confronted
them on all sides. When a Democrat
was brought face to face with prosper
ity ne shook like an aspen leaf.
Mr. Perkins, Republican, of Iowa
T7a faT- Of
wool, the high prices prevailing had
been charged to blind chance It was
said that the Republican party was the
party of good luck. If that were true
it follows that there must be a party of
bad luck. For himself, he preferred to
affiliate himself with the party which
was identified present and future with
the prosperity and happiness of the peo-
pie.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
HAND CAR EXTRA"
Four Ell Dorado Men Race to Wichita
in Less Than Three Hours.

The Walnut Valley Times says: W.
G. Lindsay, Taylor Smith, w. H. Betz
and L. D. Stewart beat the record on
handcar trip last night.
a SHOW company in Wichita sent tele-
gram yesterday that two calcium light
drums were on the afternoon local,
billed for KeOkuk, Iowa, probably sent
by mistake The message was sent by
Superintendent A. H. Webb, and he
said the company had given him $40
for anyone who would get the drums
back to Wichita by $50 in time for their
show. The section men were unwil-
ling to undertake the trip, and these
four men loaded the required articles
on a hand car and started. And if
they didn't go! The fast stock train
at TOwanda crawled off on a sidetracz
to let them go by. Every station on
the road was tagged and at every one
the show company telegraphed a raise
of IS if they got in on time, until Mr.
Webb held $50.
The yards in Wichita were cleared for
them, and they dashed into the city
like the heroes of old, victorious, tri-
umphant, just fifteen minutes after the
appointed hour! They left Ell Dorado
at $50, making the distance of 81 miles
in two hours and fifty-five minutes
They received $15, half of the money
put up by the company and but for the
fifteen minutes late would have received
the whole sum.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08

sick with appendicitis. Mr.. Round is
laying off to attend the boy.
Tom Foster, boilermaker helper. has
resumed work, the scarlet fever quar-
antine having been raised from his
house
John Cunningham of Topeka has been
employed as a boilermaker in the shop.
Master Mechanic Gavitt'S Office viii
tubes. The tubes will lead from the desk
in his private office to all parts of the
yards in his department; one will lead
to the rOundhOuse, one to the shop, one
to the blacksmith shop and one to the
carpenter shop.
Foreman Tisdale has the honor of be-
ing the foreman of the fire department
of the Santa Fe. The house for the
hose cart has been completed and the
cart installed in it with proper cere-
monies.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
10 SUCCEED T. A. OSBORN.
w. II. Rossington Likely to Be Given
the Vacant Santa Fe Directorship.

The death of Ex-Governor Thomas A
Osborn leaves a vacancy in the board
of directors of the Santa Fe railway
According to the bylaws of the road
three of the directors must be residents
of Kansas, and Governor OsbOrn's sue
cessOr will necessarily be a Kansan and
prOba bly, a Topeka man.
= Unless a special meeting is called for
the purpose, the vacancy in the board
will not be filled until the next regular
meeting, which will occur on the first
Tuesday of March.
So far but two men have been men
toned as likely to succeed Governor
Osborn on the Santa F'e board Thay
are Mr. Edward Wilder and Mr.. w. ii
Rossington. As Mr-Wilder is secretary
and treasurer of the road it is possible
that the frequent trips to New York to
attend meetings of the board would in
terfere with his official duties. and for
this reason it is probable that Mr.
Wilder would not see his way clear to
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
News of the Kansas State De-
partmentS.
An Outbreak of Mumps Among
the Country Schools
HAS CAUSED DISASTER
To Many of Them and Made
Them Close Up.
Now the Teachers are Writing
to Supt. Stryker.

Must the school teachers of Kansas
suffer because God has created young
America with strong propensities for
that delightful condition of facial con-
tortion known as ''mumps?"
This is the question that just at pres
ent is agitating the gray matter in the
brains of school marms and school mas
ters of Kansas. It has superseded all
other questions, and is now the most
important matter before them for con-
slderat1on- 1t is also agitating the
mind of superintendent William Stryk-
er, for within the past week he has re-
ceived a dozen letters, more or less,
from school teachers in different parts
OF the state, asking that question in
black and white, capitalized, underlined
and followed by half pages of interrO-
cation points.
It seems that in several school dis
tricts over the state there has lately de-
VelOped epidemics of numps, and the
spread of the disease has been so rapid
that the county health officers have
deemed it necessary for the public
health to close the schools. And right
here is the cause of the all-impOrtant
question Shall the teachers be out
their salaries because the faces of their
pupils are drawn into all manner of
picturesque expressions, and the schools
are closed for fear the picturesqueness
may spread? The teachers argue that
they are ready to perform the duties of
their calling, and should not be made to
suffer for the misfortunes of the race,
especially, they emphasize, when they
are known to be class with miSfOr-
tunes of their own.
Mr.. Stryker has replied to all letters
stating that under present conditions he
is afraid that 'mumps" and salaries
can't go together, but promises to use
his best efforts toward getting a bill
through the next legislature which will
7~ear01 1CflTT h
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
COMO RA1LRoAp BALL.
To Take Place at Hamilton Hall on
February II.

A week from Thursday on February
II, Hamilton hall will be the scene of
the second joint ball given by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
No 205 and the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen No. 4S. The decorations are
in charge of the ladies' societies of the
two brOtherhoods. What the decora-
tions will be is a secret and the public
will not know until the doors are
thrown open on the night of the 18th.
The brotherhoods in surrounding towns
have been invited to attend and En-
pOria, Argentine, Newton, Chanute and
other points will be well represented.
The music will be furnished by Wat
sons full orchestra and the railroad
men expect it to be the largest ball
ever given ON the eastern division.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
DENVER-oHIoAeo RATE.
Santa Fe and Rock Island viii Re
duce the Fare Rate War Promised.

General Passenger Agent Black of the
Santa F'e today received word from
Chicago that the placing in effect of
the reduced rate of $24.50 from Chicago
to Denver had been postponed indefn-
ltely, Mr.. Paul Morton, second vice
president of the Santa Fe who is in
charge OF all traffic matters and was
the conference of executive officiaIs.w
compelled to be in Topeka for the fun
eraI of Ex-Governor Thomas A Osborn
today, and for this reason further con-
sideratiOn of the rate question was
postponed until his return on Thursday.
Mr.. Black says that unless the Bur
Hngton and Northwestern roads con-
sent to charge extra fare on their fast
trains from Chicago to Denver that the
IS reduction in the fare will be made
by the Santa F'e and Rock Island roads
ana the rate war commence. If a rate
war is once started it will probably re-
suit in one of the bitterest fights in the
history of the western roads.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-08
TO STOP POSTOFFICE LEAK
New Order Issued to Transfer Mail
Clerks.

Washington. Feb s.-Complaint reach
es the postofice department that trans
fer clerks at railroad stations very fre-
Quently accept and forward mail mat
ter with insufficient postage. The
government by this practice is defraud-
ed, it is said of considerable revenue.
An order has been issued by General
Superintendent White Of the railway
mail service instructing transfer clerks
not to accept third or fourth class mat
ter unless they are reasonably satisfied
that sufficient postage has been paid
thereon In all cases where they are
not satisfied that such is the case, the
packages should be returned to the
postofice.