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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
YOU CAN VOTE
On Whether the City Should
Buy the WaterWOrks,
Whether 1t Should Build a New
Plant
Or Whether 1t Should Condemn
the Present Plant.
THE CITY COUNCIL
THE CITY COUNCIL
Passes an Ordinance to This Eff
feet Last Night.
Other Acts of the Board of Al
dermen.

The water works ordinance was pass
ed at the meeting of the city council
Monday evening and Mayor Fellows
will soon call a special election to allow
the people to vote on the proposition to
acquire a water plant.
Mayor Fellows says he will call the
election so that it may be held lust
before or just after the fall election to
avoid the expense of distributing the
election booths.
There was no opposition to the or
dinance which was the same as OUT
lined in the Journal some time ago.
1t contains three propositions: Ito
build a new plant to cost not more than
$40, 900. 2-To buy the present plant at
a price to be agreed upon. 3-To con-
denim the present plant if the owners
refuse to sell.
The proposition will be submitted in
this form so that the city will not be
compelled to do something it finds is
not satisfactory.
Every section of the ordinance was
adopted unanimously
When the section providing for the
issuance of bonds of small denonnina-
lions was reached City Clerk McFadden
inquired whether the law allowed nnu-
inequalities to issue bonds in denouina-
lions of less than $780,
councilman Drew said the law pro-
vided that the bonds should not be in
denominations greater than 5000.
When the section referring to the
purchase of the plant at the actual
cash value was reached Councilman
Skinner said:
4 would like to know how you are
going to determine what is the actual
cash value of the plant?"
Mr.. McFadden-I don't know
Mr.. Elliott thought that was to be
determined by appraisers.
Mr.. Drew-That is only in the event
that the plant is condemned We will
have to make some agreement with
the company if the other method is fol-
lowed.
Mayor FelIows-That was fully dis
cussed in our meeting the other even
ing.
Mr.. Szinner-Don't you think it would
be a good plan to have line or two
in there explaining how this actual
cash value is to be determined.
Mr.. Drew do not see any objec-
ton to saying that the value is to be
determined by expert engineers.
Mr.. Mergan-It is not necessary to do
this. Mr.. Skinner heard this matter
fully discussed at our other meeting.
Mayor F'ellows-I do not think it wise
to go to chopping up this ordinance,
especially in City Attorney Birds alb
sence.
The ordinance was then adopted in
its original form, the only amendment
being one suggested by Councilman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
MERGAN's VICTORY.
He Downs Councilman Burgess in a
Fight Over the Lake Street Bridge.

Councilman Morgan won a decided
victory in securing the passage of his
resolution for the building of a new
bridge across the Shunganunga on
Lake street.
Nearly year ago he introduced a
resolution to build a new bridge at
this place but was induced to wait until
there was more money in sight.
When his new resolution was intro
duced it was bitterly opposed by Coun-
Gilman Burgess who said that the COM
mittee on ways and means, of which
Mr.. Burgess is chairman, had not yet
reported on the plan to build
bridge. THE street commissioner has
put the bridge in repair recently said
Councilman Burgess.
I'VE don't want any repairs" re-
torted Mr.. Morgan. I'VE were prom
Used a new bridge eleven months ago
and we are going to have it or know
the reason why and Col Burgess can't
pull the wool over my eyes"
Col. Burgess-I am not trying to pull
the wool over your eyes.
Mr.. Mergan-Yes you are. When you
talk about mechanical work you touch
a tender spot for have had Il years
experience at that work and tell you
this bridge is rotten and unsafe.
On a viva voce vote the resolution
was clearly lost but Councilman Mer-
gan demanded roll call which resulted
in the adoption of the resolution by a
vote of seven to three Those who
voted against it were Councilmen Bur
CESS, El1OtU ana w warner.
ENGINEER'S ESTIMATES.
City Engineer Barnes presented the
following estimates which were ap-
proved and ordered filed:
For grading, paving and curling of
Monroe street from Fifth to Sixth
streets, SO, 73443.
For a new Corliss engine at the cleo
trio light plant and placing the same in
place, $9,006.26.
To John Richie for building new side
walks, $5,6S5.69.
TO TAP A SEWER.
Robert and W. H. Frampton were
given permission to tap the sewer at
the alley between Lincoln and Lane
streets on -Four teenth street.
FREE LICENSES.
The request of Hugh Kennedy for
permission to sell medicine free of
license was referred to the committee
on licenses. The request of I. w. New
berry to sell maple sugar was referred
to the same committee.
TROUBLESOME SWITCH.
Councilman Morgan introduced a
resolution instructing the city railway
company to take up the switch on
Adams street near the Santa F'e bridge.
The resolution was referred to the COM
nittee on streets and walks.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Freight Men Resolve to Fight
the Express Companies
For Failure to Pay the War
Revenue Tax.
RATES ARE RESTORED
No More Cheap Rides East of
Kansas City.
Santa Fe Loses Another Depot
at Garnett.
RATES ARE RESTORED

There is a possibility that before
year goes by the express companies of
the United States may wish they had
paid the cent war tax on receipts, in
stead of crowding the duty off onto the
shipper. This action of the express
companies has undoubtedly made them
very unpopular with the people of the
country and everybody seems to be
looking for some opening whereby
they can make things unpleasant for
the companies. The National Associa-
ton of Freight Commissioners, at its
meeting in Detroit last week, took a few
passages at the express companies by
voting to memorabilia congress at it's
next session, asking that the laws be so
changed that express companies will be
accounted common carriers and will be
amenable to the rulings and supervis-
ion of the interstate commerce commits
sion. Heretofore, the express cOmpa-
MES have been held not to be within
the Jurisdiction of the commission and
In consequence, their rates might be all
the trafnc would bear, as used to be the
rule with the railroad companies. The
Association of Freight Commissioners
also voted to enlist the support of every
commercial organization in the country
IN this matter. The intention is to
have the commercial organizations get
up petitions to congress and also work
with their own senators and representa-
t1VeS along this line.
The freight commissioners also voted
to petition congress in regard to the
parcels post, asking that the allowance
of size and weight of packages which
may be sent by mail be considerably
enlarged. At present four pounds is the
limit of weight in any one package
which may be sent by mail. In many
other countries the allowance is much
larger, and the parcel post is said to be
very successful. If packages all the
way up to fifteen, twenty or twenty
five pounds could be carried by mail,
the commissioners argue, it would be
great convenience to the public In
under the fifth rib of the express COM
panies, as a very large proportion of
express business is that of carrying
small packages of merchandise.
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DEATH RATE REDUCED.
Great Changes Wrought in Santiago
by American Methods.

Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 13-As the re-
suit of the general introduction by Cen
eral Wood, military governor of Cuba, OF
American methods of conducting munich
pal affairs, this ancient and always I'M
healthy city presents a health record to-
day which is quite extraordinary, cOnSid-
ering the conditions that existed here a
month ago. Under the present system
Santiago is divided into five divisions I'M
der five physicians, each division having
inspectors of sewers, streets, houses and
dfspensaries, with hundred street clean
Five hundred cubic yards of refuse are
burned daily, disinfectants are distributed
wherever they are needed and a heavy
failure to report unhealthful conditions
and death.
Quick proofs of the benefit of the sys-
tenn are furnished by the decrease in sick
rate of 20 a month ago has fallen to 20.
r rther evidence of the wisdom and thor
oughness of the new sanitary arrange
ments is supplied by the lessening of sick
ness among the new troops
The chief source of trouble now is the
harbor. Near the city the current is
thoroughly the muddy shadows exposed
by the tide and to protect the banks with
either stone work or piles, carrying the
present infectious sewage two miles down
The sickness among the American sol
d1erS IS principally malarial, mild form
of yellow fever, and dysentery. General
Wood expects in the course of another
the ordinary southern city in the United
States.
This week all the Spanish prisoners will
leave and the Cuban army, save the staff
officers, will disband.
Many Americans are arriving here in
search of business opportunities. They
by the commercial possibilities Of the
town.
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RATES FOR SOLDIERS.
One and one-Half Cents a Mile to Be
Made at Once.

The Kansas City passenger agents at
a meeting at Secretary Davidson's Of
fee yesterday afternoon DECIDED thaI
onIv be made when the soldier was IN
uniform and upon exhibition OF his FUR
Tough papers.
The roads have been making a rate OF
H. cents per mile to soldiers in uni
form when travelling individually. No
restrictions were thrown around the
matter and there was really nothing
from getting a ticket, which he could
easily have sold to a broker at a con-
siderable advance over what 1t cost
him.
in order to secure this rate of Ia cents
per mile the soldier must not only be
in uniform, but must also show his fur
Tough papers, thus making it certain
that he actually intended using the
transportation. With this restriction
tickets will be sold at the rate Of IA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
RATES ARE RESTORED.
Kansas City Lines Abandon Cut Rates
to Chicago.

Chicago. Sept. 13.-A1I western roads
today agreed to a restoration of pas
senger rates, to go into effect Septem-
Der q. This agreement will not inter-
fere with the special reduction agreed
to by different roads on account of the
Omaha exposition.
AS the Alton has already given notice
that it will make any rate to Kansas
City which is made by other roads to
Omaha, the Kansas City rates also will
probably not be advanced until after
the close of the exposition.
The outlook for general advance of
passenger rates all over the country is
owing to the notice by the Canadian
Pacific that it will accept the recent
decision of the interstate commerce
commission and will restore rates and
not ask for a differentia1 against Amer
lean lines. The Canadian Pacifc's re-
markedly low rates clear across the
continent are what has unsettled rates
everywhere in the country and many
passenger men believe that with this
disturbing influence out of the way
rates will at once go back to normal
conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
The Atchison Statesman Protests
Against the Building of Sidewalks.

The building of sidewalks and grading
of Jefferson street at Crane street was
the occasion for a protest from John
Seaton and Mrs. S. ]. Upton.
Mr.. Seaton said that he did not desire
to stand in. the way of public improve
ment but he did not like to have the
city build a walk around his property
without being given an opportunity to
be heard.
Mrs. Upton said that she was not
able to pay for the walk and grading.
Councilman Benson said that Mr. Sea-
ton had protested before when there
was talk of building a walk at this
place HE claimed to be employing
40 men, said Mr.. Benson, "and that
he would shut down his foundry if the
walk was built The truth is he has
not employed 40 men or even 10 men in
Topeka for Is years. The council let
the matter go over then and it is about
time something is done.'
Councilman Morgan said that the
walk is needed.
The protests were ordered filed which
means that no attention will be paid to
them.
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POOR aPEG Leg
He Gets Himself into Jail and Imme-
diately Wants Out.

''Peg Leg" AIcCafferty wants out of
Jail. He is never contented when he
is out until he is sent back to Jail and
after he gets in he is not satisfied I'M
til he gets out. He presented petit
ton signed by a dozen people including
City Physician Mitchell and promised
to leave Topeka. He concluded his
petition with the forcible words RE
lease him. Release him. For God sake
release him."
The petition was referred to the COM
mittee on judiciary.
Min Saunders also asked to be re-
leased. She said she could not live
three months in jail and that the water
did not agree with her. She was fined
$40 for being drunk and disturbing the
peace.
The petition went to the committee on
judiciary.
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Required a Month to Take a Bath.

and then his head followed suit, until
1t looked more like a mass of pasty,
putrid flesh than the best part of a
man. He was the veriest Lazarus that
ever afflicted the earth, and as day sue
ceeded day his sufferings grew more in
tense, he lay back and cursed the day
he was born and prayed for death.
When all other means of relief had
failed his physician took him from the
bed, where every movement was agony,
and placed him in a bath tub, and then,
for the first time in weeks, he got a
moment of respite from his sufferingS.
When he was placed in the tub July z
the water was hot, but the temperature
was gradually lowered until when, af-
ter thirty nine days submersion, he
left his watery couch, it was at almost
the temperature at which it came from
the hydrant
"Diogones or some old fellow lived in
a tub" said Mr.. Mahoney last night,
but I fail to see where the beauty of
the proposition comes in. Perhaps they
did not go to the length of having it
filled with water, but did and I don't
relish being changed into a manner
maid, so to speak, or fish. I did rel
1sh it, too, which is a contradiction but
the truth, for when I was taken from
my bed and placed in the bath tub
had suffered until I could have stood
no more, and it was the bath that re-
Heved and finally cured me; still, thir-
ty-nine days under water, with only the
tip of your nose sticking out, is a long,
long time, and I will be a happy man
when I can get back to work -
The disease from which Mr.. Mahoney
suffered is one of the rarest known to
medicine, his case being the seven
teenth that is on record in the United
States, and has attracted widespread
attention throughout, the medical world.
That he finds himself famous through
such suffering is one of the things that
Mr.. Mahoney says he could well forego
and more fame earned at a similar
price is something that he declines to
even discuss.
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FIXED AT LAST.
Council Recedes From It's Position on
Premium Stamps.

The premium stamp" ordinance was
amended by the council and the tax re-
duced from So, 900 per annum to $3.50
Chairman Roundtree of the license
committee said that the ordinance not
only taxed the premium stamp con-
Germs. but the users of the stamps.
Councilman Morgan objected to the
passage of the ordinance because he
said the courts had held that the pre-
MUM stamp business was illegal and
he did not believe in tampering with il
legal concerns or recognizing them in
any way.
Councilman Skinner said the license
was too high.
The amendm mt was adopted how
ever, in its original FORM
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Denver, Sept. 13.-There is one man
In the world who has spent thirty-nine
days in a bath tub and he lives in Den
YER 1t is, so far as is known, the cham
piOn record for a bather, and the fact
that the long term under water, or
nearly under it, was spent there be-
cause it was a case of battle or die does
not detract from the rarity of the &C.
currence.
The man who spent this time in a
bath tub is J. d. Mahoney, a clerk in
the office of the county clerk, who lives
at 3775 Franklin street. He is out of
the tub at last, having emerged last
Sunday morning, but still has to be
swathed in bandages and rubbed with
oil every dav. and the friends who knew
him as a healthy, stout man, with
brown hair and a Iuxuriant mustache,
would hardly recognize him, now that
he is thin, with little more hair than
a billiard ball, and with no mustache
at all.
The story of Mr.. Mahoney's suffer
ings and of his long siege with the wa
ter up to his chin as told by himself is
decidedly interesting and shows what a
man will suffer and stand when the
love of life is strong within him. In
January last Mr.. Mahoney was at
tackled with a skin disease known as
psoriasis, which is neither rare nor dan
gerous, but this in turn developed into
"dermatitis ex-fOliativa," skin disease
that is both rare and dangerous, and a
good deal worse than the name would
Indicate, which is saying good deal
for it.
on the 7th of last July Mr.. Mahoney
took to his bed and on the 23rd of the
same month to his bath tub. During
the first term while he was in bed, the
skin peeled from his body in great
scales. leaving the flesh raw and ten
der. so that every time he scratched,
and he did that all the time in his ag-
ony. the blood flowed in streams after
his fingers and his flesh was cut and
criss-crossed into great gashes. This
was not all. for his feet sWelled first
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
FORCE REDUCED.
General Freight Office Will Do With
q Less Number of clerks.

a Less Number of Clerks.
The fact that freight business on the
Santa Fe is not as heavy as it has
been for some time past will be respon-
sible for a reduction in the working
force Of the general freight office in
this city. Several employees of that Of
flee have been notified that their SER
vices will not be needed after October
1. These will be the first discharges
made in any department of the Santa
Fe general Offices in this city in the in
terest of economy since the wholesale
reduction which followed the advent
of the present management.
The Kansas farmers are in such
position that they can afford to wait
for better prices before shipping their
grain, and they are simply waiting.
Freight earnings of Kansas railroads
are in consequence falling off.
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GETS HIS MONEY.
"Bob" McMaster Wins Final Round of
Fight With Frank Herald.

R. B. McMaster was allowed $420, the
amount of a judgment allowed him by
the district court in his fight with
Frank Herald over four months salary
as commissioner of elections. Herald
refused to give up the office after Nc
Master was appointed and McMaster
presented a claim for the salary earned
by Herald while he was trying to get
the office away from him. Judge Ha-
zen held that McMaster was entitled to
the money.
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UNION PACIFIC FEEDERS.
The o. P, D. & G. and the D. Z. & g..
Reeeiverships to End.

Denver, Sept. 13.-The Times an
nounces that the receivershiD of the
Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf and the
Denver, Leadville & Gunnison railroads
will end December 81 next. The plan of
reorganization, it is said, will be COM
pleted this week and will be published
before September 20 in New York The
sale of the Denver, Leadville & Gun
nison, known as the South Park line,
under foreclosure has been fixed for
November II and the Gulf will be sold
about the same time.
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SANTA FEE DEPOT BURNED.
Garnett Has Two Depot Fires in Two
Months.

Garnett, Kan. Sept. 19.-The tenn
porary depot of the A, t & ,; r
company in this city was totally des-
troyed by fire last night, caused by the
explosion of a coal oil heating stove.
Some freight was saved, but all other
contents. including express and out
going mail. is a total loss. On the night
Of July IL the original depot, an old
landmark, was burned, starting from
spontaneous combustion, but all the
contents were saved. The loss is heavy
but no estimate can be made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13
FIREMEN IN Session.
1900 Delegates at Biennial Conven-
ton in Toronto.


Toronto, Ont, Sept. 13.-The sixth BIZ
enniaI convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen opened yesterday.
There were some 400 delegates present
at the opening, and many more arrived
during the day. There are 1900 dele
gates and visitors now in the city.
The convention will last ten days or
longer A number of changes in the
constitution and in the beneficiary will
be considered.
An interesting contest for the success
sor of Grand Master E. P. Sargent is
expected. It is understood the contest
viii be between Grand Secretary Arnold
and First Vice Grand Master J. ] Han
nahan.
The ladies' auxiliary held a short ses-
sion. at which Mrs. Joshua Leech, Of
Sedalia, No, grand president, pre-
sided.
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Omaha and Return $3.50 Via the
Santa Fe

Commencing at once and until further
notice the Santa F'e will sell tickets to
Omaha and return at $50. Fast expo
sitiOn train leaves Topeka 4:55 a. M
and arrives at Omaha at noon. Depot
phone No. 6S2
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MORE HEAT NEEDED.
Provision Made to Heat Fire Station
and City Prison.

Fire Marshal Wilmarth called atten-
ton to the fact that the furnace in the
North Topeka fire station is out of or
der. He submitted estimates for the
cost of repairing the old furnace and
purchasing a new one. The question
was referred to the committee on fire
department to decide whether a new
furnace is to be purchased or the old
one repaired.
The question of heating the city pris-
on was referred to the committee on
public buildings.
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FOR SALES lots near the Santa Fe
shops, So lots Twenty-frst and Madison
sts- GO lots near Shorey, 8 room house and
IL acres near city limits, 80 acres 6 miles
cash. N. Heery, 100 East Third.
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cents per mile from Kansas City to all
points; the rate to Chicago to be $3.50,
and to St. Louis 1920. Two regiments
being qUartered at Kansas City makes
it probable that there will be much of
this business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-13

Ladies' Shirt Waists 1aundried so that
the colors will not fade by Peerless
Steam Laundry.
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WANTED-sALEsMEN.


WANTED Experienced and successful
solicitors to call or write US for informa-
ton regarding our new library. Exclusive
territory and liberal contract. D. Apple
ton & Co, 1913 Walnut St, Kansas City,
No, subscription department.
WANTED-6 gentlemen to room and board
at 222 Monroe ST. Santa Fe men pre-
ferred.
SIS TO $35 a week and expenses paid men
to sell cigars on time; experience unnec-
essary. w. L. Kline Co.. St. Louis. Mo.
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MR.. sEAToN OBJECTS.

Skinner providing for the payment OF
interest semi annually.
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FOX SALE
Two properties on Madison st. between
First and Second. Houses newly papered
and finished inside and out; new roofs
houses; all in nice condition. 500 each.
A good property on West Eighth St,
five block from Kansas ave.,7 room house,
we'll, cistern and barn, all in good repair.
81, 500.
A first class property on Monroe, lots
and room house; s., 900.
A fine 80 acre farm just over the line in
Usage county; fine orchard 10 acres; good
room house stable, COW sheds. good
wells, III miles Wakarusa station.
I have a number of other good bargains
in farm and city property; also a large
list of properties for rent.
WALTER T. NOBLE,
61 Kansas ave.