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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
AsH-CLoTH AND SACKS, HEY.

Topeka has no great auditorium; it
has no grs.at hall of any kind; Hutch
inSOn has.
What should Topeka do about it?
Swallow its wrath, build an auditorium,
quit talking about it and go to work
instead, and then not try to run the
whole state without the assistance Of
other people.
We like Topeka. In fact we are proud
of her. She is a beautiful city, but she
is slow and lacks much of the enthusi-
asm, vim and energy that Kansas wish
es her to possess. She is willing to take,
but not always to give. A little ash
cloth and repentance with consequent
good works will fix everything all right
for another Occasion.-LindsbOrg Rec
ord.
This sounds amusing after Topeka
has put up more money to entertain
soldiers reunions and Fall Festival Wis
itors than any other four cities in the
state put together. But the "ash-cloth''
is all right; that's what we want. Show
US a piece. Topeka enjoys a good laugh
at any time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
INCREASE FOR VETERANS.
Senator Baker Secures an Appropria-
ton for the Soldiers Home.

Washington March Ex-senator Ba-
ker went before the appropriations
committee of the senate and urged an
increase of SCI, coo in the appropriations
for the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.
After a full hearing the committee
agreed to the following amendments to
the sundry civil appropriation bill: For
barracks and furniture for the Leaven-
worth Soldiers Home, $4,000; for cot
tage for women nurses, $4,000; for quar-
termaster and commissary building,
$4,000. An increase in the appropria-
ton for the household expenses for ifs
cal year 1898 from $500 to $4,000.
He also secured an insertion of an
amendment directing the secretary Of
the treasury to pay William A. Grogan
S., 600 for losses sustained by settlement
improvement and occupancy under the
homestead presumption laws of the
United States of appropriated land of
public domain.
Senator Harris also appeared before
the committee in advocacy of his
amendment to the sundry civil bill ap
propriating $4,000 for the purpose of
erecting barracks, quarters and stables
for one battery of light artillery at
Fort LeaVenWOrth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
CALDwELLs ExPosTMAsTER.
Who Was Removed for Embezzling
$500 Now Thought to Be Not
Guilty.

Wellington, March Nv. A. Sturm,
the Democratic postmaster at Caldwell
was found to be $500 short by a post
office inspector and was removed on
December 8, 1897 The sureties paid
the money but he was indicted by the
United States grand jury and put into
jail at Wichita. He was released,
however, on a bond given by s. H.
HOrner of Caldwell
Strum has steadily refuse at all times
and under all circumstances to make
any explanation whatever of what be-
came of his money or how he became
short. But it is now believed that the
real facts have been learned. If this
be true, Strum never got the benefit of
a penny OF the missing money; neither
was he party to any theft of it.
Believing this to be the situation
Postoffice Inspector Cochran and Dis
trict Attorney Lambert yesterday
agreed that Strum should plead guilty
be fined SO and the costs, amounting to
$3450, and be given ninety days in
which to pay them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
WHAT Ais KANSAS2
General Clarkson Comes Down to See
Why She is Not Represented
at Omaha

General T. S. Clarkson of Omaha came
to Topeka Wednesday to find out what
know why the state is not to be repre-
Sented at the TranSmiSSiSSippi exposition
to open at Omaha next June and to urge
Governor Leedy to appoint commission
hibit
General Clarkson came here to hold a
rotary F. D. COburn of the state board of
aericulture bv which he hopes to induce
some action by which the exposition will
be recognized and arrangements started
looking toward the representation of Kan
Sas at the exposition.
1T is somewhat remarkable" said Cen
eral Clarkson, that of the "A states and
territories in the Transmississippi terri
tory. Kansas is the only state that will
not be represented at the exposition. There
is also one territory, but that is the In
dian Territory, and we did not expect
sas, the best of them all, with an eXposi-
ton of the resources of this great area
ton do not know why it is so. l lind
wherever I go in the state that there is
a very general feeling that Kansas should
be represented a the exposition.
The state can not afford to be left out,
for no state can show better agricultural,
mining and all other resources than Kan
sas / want Kansas to be represented
There will be thousands of people attend
the exposition from the east and there
will be many thousands from Kansas, and
are they to see nothing representative of
the industry and wealth OF this great
state?
to this whole Transmississippi territory.
The people who attend this eXposltlon
will 90 out over the country and visit the
states which produced what they see
there. 1t will be a great beneht TO the
whole country
appoint a commission at once They tell
ne a LeavenwOrth. Atchison, Emporla
and Kansas City that they are ready to
take hold as soon as someone is appoint
ed to whom they can report.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
COLD CURE

of President Lincoln, when he was
made solicitor of the treasurer he ar
rived on that date, and again his arriv-
al for the Inauguration of President
Harrison was on the same day.
E. H. Conger, who has been appoint
ed minister to China has returned from
Brazil, where he has been representing
this government for a year past. He
says Brazil is making as rapid progress
as it is possible under the Circumstance
es, and is destined at no distant period
to be one of the most prosperous ma
tiOns of the earth.
The Emperor of Abyssinia is six feet
in stature without shoes. He is very
dark and wears a short curly beard and
mustache. He usually wears a large
Quaker hat over a white handkerchief
which is held over his head and a gold
embroidered cloak over a profusion of
white linen underclothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
CLEARED THE OFFICIALS.
Lyon County officers Commended by
Catt1emen and Court.

Emporia, March 1.-THE suit against
County Commissioners Jacobs, Miller
and Mapes came to a hearing yesterday
in the district court. The suit was
brought to recover money expended in
a trip to Topeka to see the railroad
commissioners and protest against the
proposed change in cattle rates, and
charged up and paid by Lyon county.
stock men of Lyon county, stated that
the commissioners had started a move
ment which had resulted in saving to
the live stock men of Lyon county of
not less than $50, 900 up TO date, and not
less than half million to the live stock
shippers of the state, and that in behalf
of the live stock shippers he was au-
thorized to pay all the costs and see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

(From the Atchison GIobe.)
It is a mean man who expects his
dog to kill a skunk.
A loafer reaches the last stage when
he goes to sleep in a saloon.
of mankind, look at the average exam
pies.
Some people don't believe that they
can do business without talking in a
whisper.
The remark people make oftener than
any other: Il always get the worst of
People who are in love, stay out so
late that their voices sound as if they
had a cold during their entire engage
ment.
The doctors are kept busy rushing
around to see those who have tried to
rush spring by sitting out doors in the
evening.
A woman's mental agony at being
caught in a whirl of dust just after
she has washed her head, must be
something awful
There is a good deal said in women's
magazines about The Way to Win a
Woman" The trouble is that the men
are chased so hard they never have
time to sit down and read these arti-
cles.
+
Women are wearing so many pads
now that when they take their clothes
off, they must look like a race horse
just before he is stripped for an event.
BustIes and hip pads have been added
this year.
Men who take off their coats and
vests to do a little work around an
office, demand that a woman shall keep
her hair curled, and a stiff collar on,
while cooking in a hot kitchen. But
then the men demand lots of things
which they never get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Pensions for Kansans.

Washington, March 17-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Ernst Yoas, Lowell, Sc;
Benjamin P. Addleman, Piqua, Sc; Nor
man A. Smith, lola, S.
Havana, 81
Restoration and reissue - Theodore
BANNER, dead, Leavenworth, $12.
ncrease-Abr ham W. Rutland dead,
tiOnaI Military home, Leavenworth, Sc
to SO; David D. Beck, Scott, Sc to So.
Original widow, etc.-Sarah BANNER,
Leavenworth, So; Susannah Rutledge,
Melvern, So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
IN A WHIRLPOOL.
Winfield Man Loses His Horse and
Buggy and Almost His Own Life.

Winfield, March IF. S. Phillips,
living west of town, lost a horse by
drowning in the Walnut river and he
barely escaped himself. It occurred at
what is known as the whirlpool below
the Tunnel mills, where the water forms
a dangerous eddy.
He drove in to wash his buggy, and
being unacquainted with the location,
he drove too near the edge of the eddy
and his horse stepped into the pool
and disappeared before he could realize
it.
He went in with the buggy, and it
was only by heroic work that he saved
himself. The horse and buggy were I'M
der the water more than an hour before
coming to the surface.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
MONSTER EAGLE SLAIN.
Bird Which Had Killed Many Calves
Meets an IngIorious End.

Kinsley Mercury: While coming to
Kinsley Tuesday morning, Mr.. ]. H.
= G mo- en- OF Pofa county, kldieu of seIy
Tatum, five miles up the river.
AS Mr.. Umbach was driving along by
the old irrigating ditch near the ranch
he saw large bird sitting in the grass,
and taking a spade which he had with
him in the wagon he attacked the bird.
The first blow did not seem to do the
found he had undertaken a tough job
After some time, however, he managed
to deal an effective blow which laid his
lordship, Mr.. Eagle, out. The bird
measured seven feet from tip to tip of
wings and the claw on one of the rear
toes measured two and seven eighths
inches. This bird has been in the vi
entity of Mr. Tatum'S ranch nearly a
year and has killed several calves for
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
PREACHER GOES INSANE.
United Brethren Pastor Becomes De
ranged Over Religious Problems.

Wichita, March 17.-Last night Rev.
Frank Tease, a local preacher of the
United Brethren church, was arrested
and placed in the city Jail on the charge
of violent insanity, preferred by Rev.
Rogers, a preacher of the same de-
nomination.
Tease went to hear Rogers preach
Sunday afternoon and returned to his
home in the country, eight miles away
Again he went to Rogers house and
began an argument on a religious QueS-
ton He walked about the place and
talked, his voice getting louder and
louder till midnight, when Rogers had
him taken to prison. Tease has been
regarded heretofore as a very sensible
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
J.E. BRANr TO LEAVE.
Well Known Methodist Minister Will
Go to Indiana

Fort Scott, March 17.-Rev. J. E.
Brant, for some years pastor of the
First NJ E. church here, and later pre-
siding elder of the district, but who has
lately been in charge of the church at
Burlington, Kansas, has announced
that he will retire from the pulpit on
account of i'll health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brant will visit among
their children, and some time in the
early fall will locate in Bloomington,
Indiana, where they will spend the re-
naming years of the life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Cubbison win Not Contest.

Wyandotte March III. K. Cubbison,
who, according to the face of the returns
of the Wyandotte Republican primaries,
was defeated for the congressional dele
cation by W. J. Buchan, will not contest
the latter'S victory. This is authentic
Mr.. CubbiSOn, at a caucus of his friends
yesterday afternoon. positively refused to
go into a contest under any conditions.
His friends insisted. but in vain. Mr.
Buchan will select his own delegation and
go to the Ottawa convention armed for
the Second district congressional nomina-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

Governor Pingree believes in publicity
as a means of making people good. He
has announced his intention of hiring
stenographers to report the speeches of
legislators at the extra session. These
speeches will be printed for free distri-
button that the people may know what
their representatives are saying and
doing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Sold whisky to a Kelley Graduate.

Mcpherson, March 17.-Wm. Myers,
convicted of selling Intoxicating liquor,
was sentenced yesterday by Judge
Simpson to 80 days in Jail and to pay
800 fine. Myers purchased whisky at
a drug store and delivered it to man
named Lancaster, who had taken the
Kelley cure, and been refused liquor at
the drug stores. Judge Simpson gave
Myers the full penalty for violating the
law, as he desired to make an example
of men purchasing liquor for others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Dragged to- Death by q Pony.

Leavenworth, March 17.-Edward
Kane a boy 10 years old living at Kick
apoo, was dragged to death yesterday.
The lad was driving a pony just pur-
chased for him, when the animal ran
away and he was thrown from a wag-
on. His foot caught in a spring and he
was dragged for a mile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
function Citvss New Hall.

Junction City, March 1.-THE city
council last night awarded the contract
to Zeigler & Dalton of this city for a
new S2O, 600 opera house and city hall.
This is to replace the one destroyed by
fire TWO months ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Preachers Suit for Salary.

Kansas City, Kan, March 17.-Rev.
w. E. Johnson, the Christian preacher
who achieved notoriety while acting as
pastor of the Central church, brought
suit today in the common pleas court
against the church for 1926 back salary.
The sheriff broke into the church and
attached the chairs and other fixtures.
The trustees of the church will give
bond in order that services can be held
as usual next Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

There is a mean insinuation in the
suggestion that a regiment of Boston
girls be enlisted for the Cuban war in
order to influence the climate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Carriage Factory Opens at Newton.

Newton, March 1.-THE Newton car
rage factory was opened today. It shut
down four years ago and has not been
operated since. The Symms company
of Moline. Kan, has taken hold of the
institution and will run it with a large
force of men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
absolved

the county commissioners absolved
from all liabilities
In rendering a decision in the case
Judge Randolph stated that while legal
ly he was forced to find against the de-
PENDANTS, still he exonerated them from
all blame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Unknown Man Found Dead.

PaoIa, March 1.-THE body of an I'M
known man was found in Bucyrus, Mia
mi county. yesterday. The body was
well dressed. Nothing definite is known
as yet, but foul play is suspected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Bic KinsleY Cattle Deal

Kinsley, March IA large cattle
deal was made today by B. f. Tatum
of this city with New Mexico and Ari-
iona parties. The deal numbers from
10000 to $4,000 cattle, which will be
shipped to Kinsley and sold in small
punches to cattle buyers over the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

The Louisiana constitution makers
are having great difficulty in substitute
ing law for the shot gun in controlling
the negro vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
Court Reporter RESIGNS.

Olathe, March 17-John c. Carpenter,
court reporter for this district for the
last. eight years, rendered his resigna-
ton today because of the law which cut
his salary to $3.50 per year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

The attitude of the emperor of Ger
many much resembles that of the le-
gendary Irishman at Denny fair
who went about inviting some one to
tread on the tail of his coat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
PEoPLE you HEAR or.

A wealthy EngliShman has, it is re-
ported, offered to place his country
house at Mr.. Zola's disposal for life if
he deems it advisable to prefer exile to
ingratitude.
It gives some notion of the tremen-
dOus scale of a grand opera venture in
these days to read that Mr.. Grau has
signed concerts for next year which
Oblige him to pay out $S50000.
II
Alfred Nobel the inventor of dyna-
mite, who recently died, has been hon
ored by a beautiful monument to his
memory at Hamburg, erected by his
friend, Max A. Phillip. 1t represents
the final triumph of the humane, en-
tightening idea of peace over the rough
and bestial impulses of the world It
was NobePs greatest sorrow that the
dynamite which he invented and de-
voted to works of utility was so com
monty applied to the cruel purposes of
war and anarchy.
Representative Hepburn of Iowa has
on four important occasions chosen
Washington's birthday as the day Of
his arrival in Washington. His first
visit was made on that day; he arrived
February q to attend the inauguration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

Some people don't believe that TIL
can do business without talking in
whisper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
MUNYON'S

lungs, old colds new colds and obstinate Coles and
AL forms of grip Stops sueezing, discharges from
the nose and eyes, prevents catarrh, diphtheria,
pneumonia and all throat and lung troubles. These
pleasant little pellets absolutely harmless have
saved thousands OF lives and prevented much sick
ness. The MunyoL Remedy Company prepare q
separate cure for each disease Al all druggists
3 cents vial If you need medical advice write
Prof Munyon 15O5 Arch Street, Philadelphia. II is
,tnIxy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

When you want to form an opinion
of mankind, look at the average exam
pies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

A lOafer reaches the last stage when
he goes to sleep in a saloon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.

(From the Atchison GIobe.)
It is a mean man who expects his
g to kill a skunk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

The remark people make oftener tha
it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

People who are in love, stay out 81
late that their voices sound as if they
had a cold during their entire engage
ment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

The doctors are kept busy rushin
around to see those who have tried I
rush spring by sitting out doors in tn
evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-17

A woman's mental agony at being
caught in a whirl of dust just after
she has washed her head, must be
something awful
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07
Paris Alibis.

The private postes restantes and
alibi agencies are a peculiarly Pa
risian product, and have been
brought to particular perfection
here. These concerns have agencies
in all the capitals, and for small
sum month a correspondent can
have letters addressed to him in one
name and the agency will forward
them to him in another. The other
feature of their business is that by
which person may, without leav-
ing the boulevards, have letter of
his dispatched from any town in the
world, thus setting up, if necessary,
a pretty good substitute for an alibi
Paris Messenger.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07
Preventable Diseases.

Hear what a great scientist writes
more than half a million people
die every year from diseases that
are called preventable or filth or
germ diseases. They are so called
because they could be prevented.
They are derived from filth and
they are caused by germs.
The lax sanitation of the great
cities of America causes pollution of
the water, soil and air of the land.
People drink polluted water, breathe
polluted air and live on polluted
soils. AS consequence they are
poisoned. The instructive remedy
appears to be alcohol. Sewer gas
and the general products of the pu.
trefaction of dead organic matter
poison the blood, depress the spirits,
weaken the appetite and digestion,
and the people drink alcohol.
Il believe the great cause of learn.
ing to drink is sickness and poor
sanitation and that is what makes
prohibitory laws difficult or impos.
sible. The way to secure prohibition
is to Danish disease and disease in.
lection from the earth. The disease
poisons are the constituents of King
Alcohol. If they are banished, he
will labdicate without waiting to be
prohibited. l."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07

Lord John Russell and the late
Dowager Lady Russell used to at
tend the ritualistic Church of st.
Barnabas, Pimlioo, of which the
Rev. Mr.. Bennett was pastor.
Great, therefore, was the excite
ment of the clergy and parishion-
ers, says the London Chronicle,
when Lord John, in his famous
Durham letter, after denouncing
'Popery, doubly denounced the in
sidious imitation of it by clergy
men Of our own church. To LORD
John Mr.. Bennett thereupon wrote a
letter of remonstrance, in the course
of which he quoted an entry from
his private diary: Lord and Lady
Russell at holy communion this day.
Oh, that we could make them love
the church. 1t was not argument,
but the dowager countess used to
say that this genuine expression of
feeling affected her and her husband
more than did all the public attacks
made upon him in his capacity-por-
trayed by Punch-of naughty boy
who chalked up No Popery' and ran
away"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-04-07
A Hungarian's Letter Home.

"That I will, thank God, earn Is
guldens week." dictated the Hun
garian laborer.
well, Z" asked the letter writer,
"and what else shall say2''
What .elsel Did you ever see!
A letter writer, and yet he does not
know what else to say! Who else
shall say2 Who else shall know9 I?
Am writer2"
"All right. I'll say you like
America and that it is better coun-
try than Hungary"
1.-THE devil it isr' the laborer
shouted. But you can say this
that it is awful big. Write just as
tell you, do you hear, or won't pay
you cent. America is so big!
Dear papa and mamma, and dear
wife and all, when l go to work l
ride in such wagon-car they call
it here-and it runs without horses.
May sink into the earth if there is
as much as the tail of a horse to
pull 1t, and it runs awful fast, so I
fly in it more than an hour and there
is still not bit of open field in sight
all America, America, and nothing
but America. Forty times forty vii
lagos like ours would not come UP to
this great village, America. But it's
too noisy, and nobody knows any
body else, and l feel so lonesome,
and, oh, do wish could go home.
New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.