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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
STATE HOUSE EVENTS.

The governors Offica has been NOV
ed. That is to say the executive has
established his private room in the
large central room which was hereto
fore used as a reception room. Major
Shreve and F. W. Elliott remain IN the
north room where visitors enter and
from where they are shown to the gov
ernor. The stenographers take the
room vacated by the governor while
Mr.. Little retains the room he has been
occupying. This is the fourth move
the administration has made in the Of
fees and all now agree that the most
convenient and sensible arrangement
has been secured.
State Treasurer Hef1ebower has sold
his paper, the PaoIa Times. to J. T.
Highly, we'll known Miami county
newspaper man. The paper will be
continued as a POpulist organ. J. E
koonce, of Topeka, will edit the paper
County institute dates fixed by State
superintendent Stryker, are as follows
The first of the series will close July
/; the second, July %; and the third,
August 26. The examinations will be
held on the Monday and Tuesday fol-
given because some of the counties
have four, some a six and some a ten
weeks, term.
Each year five members of the state
board of agriculture are elected. This
year the members, as were the officers
OF 1897, were reelected for another year
Dis 1O4OWS. 1nOfnaS NJ. Potter, Tea
body; A. w Smith, Mcpherson; I. L.
Diesem, Garden City; J. H. Churchill.
Dodge City, and George w. Crane of
McGraw, Sheridan county.
William J. WinterOth of Clay Center
has brought to the supreme court a
case in which he seeks to retain pos
session of a 200 acre farm in Dickinson
which was secured from his father, the
old gentleman says, by coercion. Hen
~ WinterOth is II years old. He was
married few months ago to a young
woman with one or two children The
sons urged their father to dispose of
his property to prevent the wife from
coming into possession of it. They ar
gued that she had not helped earn the
property and was not entitled to the
profits of the labor of the remainder of
the family. The old man finally con-
sented. The father has decided that he
made a mistake and in the district
court recovered judgment for the farm.
From that court the son appeals.
The members of the state live stock
sanitary commission are in Marshall
county investigating the cancerous dis
ease which has broken out among cat
tie there. The disease is an entirely
new one and has thus far baff1ed the
it has ever been seen in Kansas and
the stockmen are at a loss to explain
it.
The Kansas quarantine regulations
for 1898 are in the hands of the printer.
The regulations are slightly different
entire state of Missouri is placed in
the safe area. Last year two counties
In the southwest corner of Missouri
were quarantined against. The entire
safe area because the state has no
quarantine regulations and no board or
veterinarian to look after the cattle
shipped out or shipped into the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
HOBART'S DINNER.
Mrs. M'Kinley Makes Her First
Appearance as a Dinner Guest.

washington, Jan. 15.-The Vice Pres
ident and Mrs. Hobart entertained the
President and Mrs. Mckinley last even
ing at a beautifully appointed dinner of
twenty covers. The drawing rooms
and library of the vice presidents
mansion, the former home of Senator
and Mrs. Cameron, were fragrant with
roses, while the tables at which the
guests were seated were superbly dec
grated with bridesmaids roses and
lighted with tiny wax tapers under sill
Yer and white shades. Mrs. HObarts
gown was of pearl grey brocade,
trimmed with rare old lace, with which
she wore ornaments of pearls and dia-
monds.
This was Mrs. McKinley's first APP
pearance as a dinner guest in Wash
ington since the Inauguration and was
consequently awaited with great inter-
est. She wore a very rich toilet of
blue satin, with diamond ornaments.
The other guests present were the Sec
rotary of the State and Mrs. Sherman,
the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Gage, Mrs. Alger, the Attorney Gen
eral and Mrs. McKenna, Postmaster
General and Mrs. Gary, the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Long, the Secre-
tary of the Interior and Mrs. Bliss the
Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. San
ford, the guest of the house, and Sena-
tor SeWell of New Jersey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
CAN'T STOP THIS JOB.
Even Speaker Reed is Powerless
Against the River and Har-
Dor Outrage.

Washington. Jan. 15.-If Speaker Reed
can have his way there win be no riV-
er and harbor bill passed this session.
He has for ten years or more been OPP
posed to these measures on general
principles, and has contended that mil
lions of dollars are annually sQuan-
dered on unimportant projects.
Mr.. DingleY and other house leaders
are said to agree with the presiding Of
fcer, and it is apparent they are doing
their best to sidetrack the appropria-
lions.
The average member of the house, no
matter what his politics may be, be-
neYes in the Importance of the water
ways for the country for the good that
may ensue to his own locality and dur
ing Cleveland's term the river and har-
Dor bill was passed over his Veto there
being only ten votes In the senate to
sustain the president.
1t is safe to say that the bill will be
passed this session, and, in addition to
providing for special projects which call
Tor SIC, 600, 600 or more, there will prob
ably be appropriations of from $12, 0O0,-
600 to $4,000, 900 in the regular bill.
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COWARD AND CAPTAIN.
Fight Kills One and High Resolve
Saves the Other.

A story is told of a cowardly fellow
lying behind a stump during an en-
gagement when ae bullet knocked a
chip from a stone near by
The chip struck him in the forehead
scarcely breaking the skin. The
frightened fellow cried out that he was
fatally wounded and rolled over in
faint from which he never came out.
A captain near by was found to have
eight bullet wounds and when told in
the hospital that he couldn't get well
exclaimed: Eyes I will; give me good
food and a little time to rest and by
all the powers I'll be out of here. My
little children need me and would be
a coward to die and leave them help
less" He got well and is a hale old
man today and his children haven't
forgotten him.
Mark the fact that the mind in the
towards case stopped the machinery OF
life and the mind in the captains case
kept the machinery going, when skilled
physicians said it must stop.
Man becomes a God when the nina
mounts to the altitude of high resolve,
and by some occult process ne at lhat
time takes unto himself some or inc
power of the Infinite.
Let one apply this power when aches
and ails of body threaten to overcome.
Tt is a most valuable agent for good
health One should, however, com Dlile
good food with good mind ana II aus
of any kind press their claims day py
dav heed the protests of Nature De
fore some incurable disease sets up IN
the body.
one Of the first and most important
steps to good health is to abandon the
1lse of coffee, for it saps the vitality at
the heart and stomach the most i'm
portant organs.
If coffee is hard to give up, one can
get on very handsomely with Postum
Food Coffee and win shortly find a
pronounced Improvement in health
The hapipest man or woman IS not the
richest on. most brilliant but the health
lest because such most nearly serve
cod by keeping their bodies in con-
forrnity to the beautiful, perfect Wor4@
ing model built by the Creator.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
POPULISTS MAY NOW VOTE
Referendum Applied to the Date for a
National Convention.

St. Louis, No, Jan. 15.-The Populists
concluded their work in this city by Civ
ing out the details for setting in motion
their novel plan of taking a referendum
vote of the rank and file of their party.
The questions submitted are;
What date is your choice for holding
a national convention for the nomination
of presidential candidates, Monday, July
4, 1898; Friday, May 20, 1899, or Thursday,
February o. 1902?
The ballots are similar to the Austral-
ian ticket and will be polled by the local
committees and Populist press.
Milton Park of Texas, chairman of the
national organization committee, and
George F. Washburn of Massachusetts.
member of the national executive commit
tee, were among the last to leave the city.
Both men We're highly pleased with the
prospect of unification of their party and
a prospective settlement Of a clamor for
a new party. A majority of the national
committee have expressed themselves IN
favor of an early conference for adjusting
their differences and outlining policy Tor
1900 The leaders of the middle-of-the-
road element express themselves today
a s DESTROYS that the work of reOrganiza-
ton be conducted strictly within the par
ty. so as to merit the approval of the ma
tiOnal committee
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
OUR HALF BUILT NAVY.
Nineteen Vessels Are in Various
Stages of Construction.

Washington, Jan. 15.-The report
made monthly to Chief Constructor
Hichborn showing the progress of the
work on the war ships now building
indicates that the big battIeships
KearsaFge and Kentucky at Newport
News are more than half finished the
exact figures being So per cent. The
battleship Illinois at the same place is
SO per cent advanced toward compile
ton while the Alabama at Cramps is
SO per cent and the Wisconsin at the
Union Iron works is 80 per cent along.
Only one gunboat is in the builders
hands-the Princeton, at Dialogues,
which is reported to be 80 per cent ad-
vanced towards completion. The sub
marine boat known as the PIunger at
the Columbia Iron works is reported at
66 percent completed. On three of the
30-knot torpedo boats no work at all
has been done. The contracts for these
We're awarded to Harlan & Hollings-
worth, Wolff & Zwicl1er and the Gas
Engine and Power company respect
lively. The others, II in number are
advanced from rs per cent in the case
of the Morris at EIerreshoff's to the
Rowan, SO per cent at Moran Bros
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Foresters of America.

Supreme court was held in Denver IN
August last, the supreme secretary re-
ported as follows: There are 1,257
courts now in the United States, and a
body has paid out during the past two
years S224 600 funeral benefits; for di-
rect sick benefits 81, 021 600; for manage
to widows and orphans, $96 324; making
an aggregate expenditure 81, $50 81.
There is a balance of 1891, 784 in the
states supreme court treasury. An
increase of S142. 1872 over balance held
two years ago. "Foresters'' is a. purely
beneficial and benevolent organization
and is established in % states of the
Union. Those seeking information for
charter membership can apply to
JOHN AIcGINNESS, D. G. r.
At Hotel Chesterfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
MASONIC INSURANCE.
Minnesota Grand Lodge Takes Action
Against the COMPANIES.

st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 15.-The Mime
sofa Grand Lodge of Masons has de-
clared that all insurance companies
operating under Masonic titles in the
state of Minnesota, are UNI Masonic and
that Masons must not insure in them.
This order will take effect March 1.
1t will afford insurance companies en-
ploying the designation Masonic an
opportunity to drop the term and also
cease the use of Masonic embIems on
their stationery.
Chicago, Jan. 15-Prominent Masons
of Chicago who were interviewed on
the action of the Minnesota. Grand
Lodge regarding Masonic insurance
companies, said they could not account
for the action of the Minnesota Grand
Lodge, save as possibly the outcome of
a local dispute.
They say there is no insurance con-
Germ employing the fraternity name
that does not compare favorably with
other insurance companies. 1t is DEEM
ed unlikely that the Grand Lodges of
other states will follow Minnesota's ex-
ample and the business of such compa-
MES will be affected only in that state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
GOLD STANDARD IN SIGHT.
India's Council of State Thinks the
Time Has Arrived

Calcutta. Jan. 15.-Sir James West
land, the finance minister of the coun-
ell at yesterdays meeting of that body
made a speech in which he said he was
unable to give a final reply to the
question of the introduction of a gold
standard. One thing was clear. he
continued. a great advance has been
made in the direction contemplated by
the authors of the policy of 1898, name
", the gold standard would become
possible. Many obscure points have
been determined by actual experience.
The disasters of 1897 had been followed
by bountiful harvest and a renewal
of the trade discussions of last autumn
had prepared the public official opinion
in England for the possible necessity
of the gold standard which might in
Volve the actual diversion for midas
purpose of a certain amount of gold
from the general available stock.
The speaker said also that he was
fully alive to the grave commercial
bearings of the subject, adding if the
legislation of 1898 had not been intro
duced, exchange might have dropped
to nine pence and the present situation
might have been far worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
TO LIGHT THE CATACOMBS.
A Pittsburg Company Has Been Civ
en- the Contract.

Pittsburg, Jan. 15.-Within IL months
the catacombs of Rome will be illumin-
ated by incandescent electric lights.
The Westinghouse company has receive
ed a cablegram from it's Rome repre-
sentative announcing that he had Sc
cured the contract for lighting the cat
acombs of St. CaIlistus, st. Agnes, St
Cyraca, ST. Demitilla, st. Priscilla and
ST. BentianuS.
Some months ago the subterranean
burial ground of St. Callistus was light
ed and the effect was so satisfactory
that the persons in charge decided to
have electricity put in all the eata-
combs of the city.
Six motors capable of supplying cur
rent for not less than $50 lamps will
be placed in the six cataco9nbs.
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DISCOVERED IN TIME.
Cy Leland Tells How the Country
Might Have Been Ruined by
a BIunder.

John w. Breidenthal, who was chair
man of the Populist state central COM
mittee, last year. tells a good story on
Shortly after the election. last year.
Breidenthal says Leland met him one
day and said:
''Breidenthal if we had distributed a
certain car load of literature, which the
Republican national committee sent US
during the campaign, you fellows would
have carried Kansas by 40, 600 majority,
instead Of by only 10000"
"How's that?" asked BreidenthaI
THE national committee" replied
Leland, laughingly. in some way got
couple of cars OF campaign literature
mixed up. The committee sent US a
car intended for the workingmen of the
manufacturing districts of the east and
sent them the literature intended for
the farmers of Kansas and the west.
THE stuff we got told how free sill
yer would cause the price of farm pro-
ducts to advance. For workingmen of
the east, who were obliged to buy food
products, that kind of literature would
have been all right from a Republican
standpoint, as it would have had a
tendency to make them afraid to vote
for free silver. But with the farmers
VINO nad products to sell, that kind of
literature, coming from the national
republican committee, wouldn't have
done & thing to US.
The eastern fellows who received the
other car of literature had a similar
difficulty, only the case was reversed.
That literature showed up how free sill
yer would make money more plentiful
and indirectly lower the price Of food
products. Had that literature been
distributed there, the workingmen
would have gone head over heels into
the silver camp.
1T happened, however. that the mis-
take was luckily discovered at both
ends in time to prevent distribution
When the mistake was reported. we
were ordered to send our car east. and
the. other fellows sent their car to
u.s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
HEATH's FELLOW FEELING
Asks Congressman Loud to Mod
ify His Postal Bill.

Washington, Jan. ia letter has
been addressed by First Assistant
Postmaster General Heath to Repre-
restricting the amount of second-cIass
matter to be admitted to the mails Mr..
Heath says that his own experience as
a publisher leads him to believe that
the bill will be less hard upon legiti-
mate publishing firms if Mr.. Loud will
modify it by simply reducing the num-
Der of sample copies of papers to be
admitted instead of cutting them off al
together.
The present law allows so per cent of
a papers circulation to be mailed as
sample copies and to cut off this priYi~
lege altogether Mr.. Heath said would
work hardship upon the small country
publications.
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TO BRING BACK TEXANS.
A Denver Delegation Leaves for San
Antonio.

Denver, Jan. 15.-The delegation ap-
pointed by the National Stock Growers
association, will leave for San Antonio
Tex. today in the private car of Re-
ceiver Trumbull of the Gulf road to at
tend the annual meeting of the Texas
Live Stock association which meets
there Jan. 1921.
THOSE who compose the delegation
are Mayor McMurray, J. D. Fleming,
James Thompson. G. w. Ballantine, J.
D. Shuford, A. E. De Rickles, S. B.
Leonard and T. P. Johnson.
The party will be in charge of J. d
ShufoFd,. general live stock agent of
the Gulf road.
When the meeting at San Antonio
closes, they expect to bring back with
them 300 Texans to attend the National
Stock Growers convention in this city
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OLD RED CLOUD DYING.
Last of the Band of the Famous
Chiefs ofthe Sioux

Pine Ridge Agency, Neb., Jan. 15-Old
Red Cloud is on his way to the happy
hunting grounds. Once he was the most
bloodthirsty, treaeherous brave of the
Sioux tribe. Today, a shriveled, aged
red gnome, with a heart as full of hatred
for the whites as ever it was in the days
of his murders, he is dying in a shack
on the Ogallalla reservation.
He is the last of the band of great
Sioux chiefs which included Sitting Bull
ld-Man-Afraid-of -E4is-Horse and Spotted
Tail He was the least of these. AS cow
ardly as he was crafty, he exceIled them
in plotting mischief, but when plots ripen-
ed into war he left his associates to bear
the labOrs of war while he cOurted their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
TODAY ON KANSAS AVE.
Scenes and Incidents ofTOpeka's
Busiest Street.
Sketches Grave, Gay and Com
mOnplace, of Life
As Seen by Journal Reporters From
Daylight Till Dark.

The postofice clock, which has a face
for everyone, stopped this morning at
1:31 a. m.
1t wasn't because of its west, south
and east faces that it gave up the
struggle, but on account of it's north
face.
Sleet gathered on the lower part of
the north dial. A few times the minute
hand scraped over the obstruction.
FINALLY it became too much of an OBJ
struction, and after 1 O'Clock had been
registered, the minute hand became
stuck just as it passed the Roman fig
ure six on the dial. Mr.. J. J. Harter,
engineer at the federal building, climb
ed to the tower of the postoffice build
ing this morning at o'clock, took out
the door in the north dial and removed
the sleet which had stopped the clock.
The clock is operated by weights and
IT takes a pretty strong obstruction to
stop the hands, but every winter it falls
victim to gathering sleet.
The snow which fell on Kansas ave-
nue. was three and fourth inches deep.
1t was heavy and soggy. The minimum
grees, which occurred about 8 o'clock
this morning. The sidewalks were
most all cleared of snow by o'clock.
o.
A badly frightened colored boy and
DR.. L. H. Munn'S horse Dick contrib
uted to the amusement of the store
keepers and pedestrians in the vicinity
of DR.. Munn's office. The horse has the
interesting habit of catching atpeople's
clothing with his teeth if passing near
him, and when small colored boy
backed UP towards him this afternoon
to better inspect the picture cards in a
tea store window. he took the opportu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-15
AN ACTRESS JAW BROKEN.
A Dentist Did It and Must Pay Ten
Thousand Dollars.

New York, Jan. 15.-Clarence Hackett
dentist, must pay $40, 900 for disfguring
the face of Miss Essie Abrams, a pref
" young actress.
IIacxett is the proprietor of a dental
parlOr on Thirty-fourth street Miss
Abrams, whose stage name is Essie
West, is a soubrette. She applied to
DIR. Hackett for treatment, and the
dentist in removing a tooth broke her
jaw Miss Abrams asserts that her
beauty has been impaired. her voice in
jured and her health undermined She
sued for SIS 900, and today $4,000 was
awarded by the Jury
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A CHANCE FOR WORDEN.
An Attempt Will Now Be Made to
Show That He is Insane.

San Francisco, Jan. by order Of
Gov. Budd. copies of all documents
bearing on Salter D. Worden's mental
condition are being prepared. They
will be sent to DR.. Hatch of the state
1unacy commission, DR.. Gardner of
Napa and DR.. Clark Of Stockton asy-
lum, who will make separate examina-
tions of facts set forth; they may make
personal tests to determine the condi-
ton of Worden's mind. They viii
make independent reports of the pris-
oner's mental condition now and his
probable condition at the time of the
commission of the crime of train wreck
ing.
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street there was a collision and the old
lady, struck by the horses shoulder fell
over on the slippery pavement. The
Look out there. Watch where you're
going" He drove on to the place where
he was to deliver the beer. The old
lady arose and walked away brushing
the slush from her dress.
Who would think that the time would
come in Prohibition Topeka when a la
dy would be knocked down and run
over by a beer wagon.
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TESTING THE DOW LAW.
Treasurer Restrained From Selling
Beer for Taxes.

Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 14.-Judge Taft
today in the United States court tenn
porarily restrained Harry Bristow,
ling beer, horses and wagons of a
brewing company, of Wheeling, w. Va.
and attached in Ohio to make good
a state tax imposed on manufacturers
of beer outside of the state but de-
livered within Ohio in original packag-
es The suit is to test the constitu-
tionality of the Dow law.
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NATURAL CEMENT.
A Large Deposit Discovered Near St.
Helena, Cali

st. Helena, Cal, Jan. 15.-Robert
Pithie, a bridge contractor, has discov-
cred a deposit of natural cement near
here, which he says is much superior to
the imported article and which can be
procured at a much smaller cost.
Mr.. Pithie says that the deposit is
found in large quantities and can easily
be prepared for shipment.
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Cochran to Coach U. of G. Eleven.

Oakland. Cal, Jan. 15.-Garret Coch-
ran, the famous Princeton end, will
coach the University of California foot
ball team next season. kilograms just
received announce that Cochran has
promised to come to California. 1t is
probable that Cochran will come to the
coast in the spring to take charge of
the preliminary work. Captain Percy
Hall will aid him.
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ONE WOMAN CAUGHT.
In a Police Raid on a New York
Bucket Shop.

New York, Jan. 15.-The police today
raided the Standard company, the
Public Store and Grain exchange and
also an Office kept by d. r. Holsart.
It is alleged that these concerns are all
bucket shops.
Their offices are on New street
About 25 or 80 persons were captured,
including one woman