davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily camera., 1898-01-17

]. A. Perkins, of Antiquity, o, was
for thirty years needlessly to tured BY
physicians for the cure of eczema. He
was quickly cured by using DeWitts
Witch Hazel Salve, the famous healing
salve for piles and skin dis -ases. Chas.
L. Giesick, successor to Boeck Bros,
Parlor Drug Store.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
Atthe Old Stand.

The reliable and expert jeweler and
watch and jewelry repairer, c. P. Pettin
gill, will always be found at the old stand
ready and anxious to serve his old time
friends ana customers.
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Proof of intellectually

'Is she an intellectual girl?' said
Spokes to his friend Whi1fet, who had
been raving about his tiancee.
'.Intellectual? replied Whiffet. 81
should say she was. She pronounces
ceramics as though the word were
spelled with a k'."-Louisville Courier
Journal.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
S:raaEe.y True.

''It hardly seems meet" said the
corn-fed philosopher, yet it is un-
doubtedly true that many a young
woman is willing to trust with
her heart young man that no butcher
will trust for a pound of liver. In
dianapolis JOurnat
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A Paternai Idea,

"That's fine, solid baby of yours
Middleton said friend who was ad,
miring the first baby.
DO you think he's solid?' asked Mid
dleton, rather disconsolately. SIT
seems to me as if he was all holler.'-
Tit-Bits.
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Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge. O., saws,
AFTER two doctors gave up my boy to
die. saved him from Group by using
One Minute Cough Cure" II is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat and lung
troubles. Chas. c. Giesick, successor TO
Boeck Bros, Parloi Drug Store.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
For Sale.

The Earhart house is tor sale. also the
Mcknight house together with two acres
Of ground. mostly all in different kinds
of fruit. Will be sod cheap. For terms
and price call on A. J. Macky.
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To whom 1t May Interest.

Having examined the complete Flour
Chest, represented by S J. Inglefeld, l
can say that i. is the most complete de.
vice for the purpose that has ever come
to my notice. c. w. ROWLAND.
Secretary Boulder Flouring Mills.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
Appropriate.

Molly-What flower is it that Lord
Brokeleigh always wears in his button
hole?
Dolly-Marigold.-N. Y. Journal.
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A Dangerous Critic.

won't you play something, Null
lins?" asked Kilduff, motioning toward
the piano.
81 hardly like to while Col. Gore is
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Getting 1t in Trim,

Shells your arm getting better?
He-Yes, I guess it will be able to be
around all right in a few days.-Town
Topics.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17

Hoods Pills cure nausea, sick head
ache, indigestion, biliousness. All drug
glsts. 25c.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17

''Is he severe in his criticisms?"
Eyes; and he carries pistol. .''-Har-
lem Life
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
New from
end to end

the Burlington's Vestibuled Flyer New
chair cars, New smoking cars. New
dining cars. New sleepers. Steel plat
forms. Wide vestibules. PIntsch gas
Leaves Denver at $50 D. m Arrives
Omaha four next afternoon; Chicago SIC
following morning. Equally fast time
equally good service to Kansas City anc
St. Louis.
G.. w. Val!erv, General Agent,
1890 18TH ST, Denver.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17

To Cure a Cosd in One Day
Take Laxative Brono Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fail:
t. cure. 25 cents.
Daily camera., 1898-01-17
M. A. GLOVER & CO., Props.

Regular meals 25c. Short orders at
all hours. Cleanliness, promptness, and
low prlces. Home cooking specially.
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have to tear down the door, When I
they had done, and she said: Mamma.
I am too weak but after while 1 will
tell you about Shields Then she grew
worse and DR.. Colby said: She hasn't
any blood left There's nothing to build
on She died on January Is, and the
evening before she died she told me all
about it. DR.. Embree is guilty man.
When my daughter and went to his
house he kept saying to US: Get cut,
now; go and see Lawyer WEIGH. can't
talk with you
IF he wasn't guilty, why did he pay
the money? Why did he give Lena the
so to get away with? o, sure as there
is a God in heaven, that Embree is guilty
and I will prosecute him as far as can
But that won't bring back my poor girl
She is gone forever, and the shame of 1t IS
awful And Shields and Dr. Colby win
have to suffer for it. Ten thousand dO1>
lars wouldn't have paid US for the shame
and disgrace of it. When we went to
Dr. Embrees house he said: Don't you
know that you sent me letter which is
a penitentiary offense?' I told him
we could see Lawyer Welch and what
ever he said was all right. DR.. Shields
and DR.. Colby butchered by poor daugh-
ter and they will have to take the pun
iShment."
Mamie Crith, the sister of Lena Crith.
who was present, said: I can't see now
some girls can be SO soft-headed. L WISH
it had been me working at that man 5
house. If he made break at me L
would have gotten club and beat MS
brains OUT
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DIR. PoWELL's STATEMENT.
DR.. Embree Was in Europe When
Lena Crith's Ruin Was Ac-


DR.. L. M Powell, who made a state
rnent published in Mondays Journal
concerning the age of the child found
by the police buried in the wood shed at
the Crith home, has given out the fol-
lowing written statement:
THE first information received in
regard to the serious charges against
DR. FCmbree was from the papers of last
Sunday morning. Having been his lam
ilv physician for several years, was
anxious to secure all the evidence pos
sibIe. good or bad. and it is not my
custom to distOrt facts to shield even
my pastor.
1.-THE coroner requested me to make
an examination of the human embryo
which was in possession of Chief of Po<'
lice Steele and Detective o. NJ. Capron.
In the presence of these men and Cor
one1- Westerfield I made the examina-
ton on Monday morning about ten
o'clock.
cohol for preservation took measure
1nents and made careful observations
relative to the foetal development,
which now have within my possession.
It is possible to tell the age OF the hu-
man embryo by certain well known and
distinct signs and can positively state
that this one had advanced to at least
the termination of the fifth month OF
development. 49,, 1909
CAS- the operation took place ABOUT
the 9Th day of January, it involves a
ei1nDle satisfaction of five months TO
da+arnnine the date of conception. AS
m Frobree was in Europe at the time
ard did not arrive in Topeka until nVe
weeks later it seems to me that no hu-
man being, however depfaNeo dilo VIZ 80
of moral sense, can make any inns ~
of this but bIackmail of the blacklist
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NOW SEES TIE MISTAKE.
Presiding Elder Madison Says No
Money Settlement Should
Have Been Made.

& J. r. Madison, presiding elder of the
Topeka district of the NJ. E. church, VINO
resides in North Topeka, has been out
of town and knew nothing of the fact
that the public had been apprised of the
trouble of DR.. Embree until he arrived
home Monday evening.
q have nothing to say at present ex-
cept that I call this blackman of the
blacklist character said Mr. Madison
I shall call a committee of the Meth
odist ministers and the whole matter
will be thoroughly investigated and
when that has been done we will make
&, public statement. 1 wish it distinctly
understood that I believe this to be
nothing but blackmail''
When asked if DR.. Embree did not
bring him the letter he received from
Mrs. Frank Crith, he said:
DIR. Embree brought the letter to me
and asked my advice. My advice TO
him was that the matter could be set
tied without having it made public and
that I thought that a better plan than
to allow it to come before the public in
any light but I did not suggest any
form of settlement. 1 see now a mis-
take was made. was not familiar
with the form of settlement, but under
stood that Mr.. R. B. Welch settled the
matter in some form, acting as attorney
for DR. Embree. DR.. Embree came to
me the day he received the letter which
was. [ think, December q. At present
1 have no more to say but after have
looked into the matter 1 will have
something to say.
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LOOKS BLACK FOR SHIELDS.
Apparently Has No Defense to Keep
Him Out of States Prison.

DR.. I. A. Shields, who, it is charged
performed the operation that caused
the death of Lena Crith, is having a
hard time of it. First his bOndsman, E.
7. Sim, gave him up and refused to al
low his name to remain on the bond.
Shields was in charge of an officer all
afternoon Monday working to secure
bond, and in the evening succeeded in
giving the required bond with John
Owen of North Topeka and Geo. Moss,
q fireman, as SuretieS. Now his attOr-
ney has deserted.
Shields was seen today. He is a very
dark negro of medium size. He first
prOfessed to not know who the new
SuretieS on his bond were. When asked
about the circumstances that led to
his arrest, he said:
'I have nothing to say. L don't know
a thing about it"
You attended Lena Crith, did you
"'Oh yes; I attended her professional
Iy. I did that but that is all know,
he replied in nervous manner
rs there any truth in the report that
Dr. Embree employed your
mo; 1 don't know a thing about it.
I don't know DR.. Embree. never saw
him in my life
Eyes; DR.. CoIdren called once"
The preliminary hearing of DR..
Shields was to have been held today
but was continued to March L.
DR.. E. V. Coldren, who is charged
with being connected with DR.. Shields
in the Crith case, has an office near
Seventh street on Kansas avenue 6e
is named with Dr.. Shields in the Aft
davit made by Mrs. Crith as being re-
sponsible for the death of her daughter
When seen today he said:
1.-THE only thing I know about the
case is that DR.. Shields came to me and
told me that he had bad case, and
asked me to go with him. went down
in South Topeka and made an exam1na-
ton anu gave some advice about what
should be done to relieve her.
4 was not there over ten minutes al
together and had nothing to do with
an operation, nor did advise that one
be made. A few days after that Dr..
Shields came to me and told me that
everything was all right and that the
woman was getting better.
Il did not even know the name OF the
woman and supposed all the time that
she was a married woman. She did not
talk about her condition while 1 was
there. and I know nothing whatever
about the matter except what have
| been told.'
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STEELE DEFENDS HIMSELF.
Says He Did Not Expose the Affair
Through Spite as Charged.

Chief of PoliceHenry NJ. Steeleis becon1-
ing restless under the aspersiOn cast
on him by friends of DR.. A. S. Embree,
who say that he brought the case to
light through spite and a desire to in
lure DR.. Embree who had criticized pO-
lice methods He said today: "A private
citizen came to me and reported that he
thought a girl had been murdered at
Fifteenth and Monroe streets. didn't
know a thing about the people, and of
course had never heard of DR.. Embree's
name being connected with it. sent
Capron to look after the case. After
awhile he came back and reported to
me that he thought there was some
thing wrong about the case. Then
told him 20 go to work on it, for that
was his work. He went to work, and
these things developed 1t makes me
tired for people to say that 1 took up
this case in order to get even with the
preachers I was surprised when
heard a preachers name connected with
it.
"Embree may have paid that money
wholly on advice of Mr.. WEIGH, but it
does seem queer that a man who has
had as much experience as DR. Embree
would pay 5000 on a blackmalllns
scheme And he used to be a lawyer,
too. No, I am not interested in this
matter at all except as it has to do with
my duties.
leads to the suspicion that a murder
has been committed. it is my duty to
investigate it. If it duplicates big men
/ should not pc blamed II VIII p0 re-
nnembered that in the Pickett case the
police were blamed severely for taking
the part they did in it, and all because
if it had not been settled out of court
it would have brought some mighty big
men into it. I'll tell you, wouldn't be
in Dr. Shields shoes for a good deal.
I think that when they dig up the body
of that girl at Ottawa today they Will
find that she died through criminal
! carelessnesS of the doctor The doc
tors certificate shows that she died of
quick consumption. Everybody knows
that she didn't. But it is a bad case
! and I feel sorry that it has come out.
/ However, I think I did my duty IN the
matter and I don't like the way some
of DR.. Embree's friends have blamed
/ me-
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charged with the murder Of Lena Crith,
but he withdrew from the case today
on account of his connection with the
case as attorney for. the girl.
Mrs. Albert Barton, a colored woman
who keeps a boarding house at GA Lane
street, formerly kept a restaurant on
Kansas avenue between Eighth and
Ninth streets, and J. G. Jones boarded
there, and when she moved to her pres
ent location, he moved with her and
now boards there. AS soon as a Jour
nal reporter asked her if she was Mrs.
Barton, she said: Yes; are you a
Journal .reporter?" and when the re-
porter answered yes, she seemed to
guard each word.
You kept a restaurant on Kansas
avenue?" she was asked.
yes" was the answer.
This man Jones boarded with you?"
yes; he took his meals there"
do you remember Mrs. Crith &C
cusing him in your restaurant of being
the father of Lena Crith'S chiId?''
mo; I did not hear that. I was in
and out so much, you know"
DO you know that Mrs. Crith ac-
cused him?"
mo; she did not accuse him. He new
err said anything to me about it until I
saw what was in the paper and asked
him this morning when he went to
work, and he said it was not so.
You are positive that Mrs. Crith did
not accuse him in your restaurant?'
well, not while I was there. 1 never
heard a word of it."
The members of DR.. Embree's con-
gregation have complete faith in his
innocence.
Col A. S. Johnson said today:
This is as complete a case of black
mail as I have ever seen. There is not
a single circumstance that even casts
a suspicion in the mind that DR.. En-
bree was in any way guilty.
1.-THE members of his church will
stand by him in this fight. No one be-
lieves any more than I do that he Is
guilty. I wish that we could keeI
him another year, but he has already
been here five years and it would be
against the rules for him to stay long
! err But if there was any way in which
| it could be arranged, I would be in fav-
| or of keeping him just as long as he
| cared to stay.
This is a deliberate plot to blacker
| the character of a good man, but ne
/ will come out of it all right"
| P l. BOnebrake, another prominent
| member of the church, said today:
| 7 have no doubt whatever of the in
! nocence of DR.. Embree. I was greatly
/ astonished when I heard the story, bu
| I never for a moment suspected thai
{ he is guilty. He is a man of good char
| acter, and during all his stay in Tope-
/ ka I have not heard a word agains
| him
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the directors are expected to take next
week in reERrd to sugar dividend
Receipts Of hogs; Chicago 5000; kan
sas City. $1,000; Omaha, 1000.
Northwestern receipts: This year, Min
neapolis 200 cars. Duluth 100 cars, total S05
cars; last year Minneapolis 1872 cars. Du-
luth p cars, total 1852 cars.
Bradstreets: Wheat decrease 3,516.00o
bushels.
Chicago: The sharp advance here yes
terday shows considerable vitality. We
think this will occur, for the present.
whenever the shorts get out liberal lines.
1t seems to be forgotten occasionally that
the clique have hinge paper profits at cur~
rent prices and it will be hard to dislodge
them. We think for the present wheat
sold on good bulgeS or bought on sharp
breaks viii show profit
ChicagO: Contract stocks of wheat are
now ~ 929 bushels No. red wheat and
6,430, 600 bushels NO. / northern; 9,616.O00
bushels contract wheat in all. P decrease
for the week on wheat of 317,3l5 bushels.
The contract stocks corn are 12.4l5,O50
bushels, an increase of 5000 bushels, and
the contract stocks of oats 920,363 bushels
an increase of 5000 bushels.
Liverpool 3:15 .. m: Wheat 4zd hlgner-
Chicago: The wheat shorts seem 10
have reached the conclusion that Letter IS
still the big actor and that his grip on
May is mistaken. and that his designs on
July indicated danger to shorts and hence
covering was active.
London closing: Wheat off coast firm,
Sd higher; on passage, rather hrmer' Sd
higher. Corn off coast, nothing doing; on
passage, firm.
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TO ExHUME THE BODY.
Lena Crith's Remains Buried at otta-
wa, to Be Taken Up.

Coroner J. NJ. Westerfield, Detective
Capron and DR.. Powell went TO Ottawa
Crith and make an examination
Coroner Westerf1eld said before he left
that the body would not be prouSht 70
er he got to Ottawa
The examination of the body VIII
have no bearing whatever on the con-
Dec+ion of DR. FSnbree with the case. 1t
is to secure information for use IN the
case against Dr.. Shields. 1t IS claimed
that the body was mutilated in such a
manner as to cause death and the eX-
animation will have much to do with
the case against DIR. Shields
Before Coroner Westerheld Ieft To-
0eJxa he altered his statement about the
age of the child found buried in the
woodshed at the Crith home he at
first gave it as his opinion that 1t was
three and half months old but he says
that upon a closer examination ne IS
satisfied that it is five months old rms
is more evidence in favor of the limo
cence of DR.. Embree.
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal

Chicago, March 1.
WHEAT-In wheat today the opening
buying which caused the advance yeSter-
day and the market at the start exhibit
appointing, Liverpool showing but a slight
response to the short advance here yes
for the last six days as being up to the
normal requirements. This stopped the
buying for time May opened en-, ID unc53a1 Il
clined to S1044, while July, opening 1sdAc
higher at S97sq90c, declined to $3.50
Northwestern receipts were moderate at
305 cars, against 359 a year ago. Chicago
receipts amounted to us cars, Al of which
were contract Private advices from Ar
eentfne Stating that severe injury to the
crop had been done by the recent heavy
rains We're partly responsible for the
moderate buying May moved up to $IO3
and July to 9O3sc, the latter delivery re-
even during the advance, was very small.
CORN AND OATS-COrn and oats were
exceedingly dull and both markets were
apparently guided entirely by the course
of wheat. The bulk of the trading was
confined to scalpers. May corn opened
7ad14c higher at S01sGAc,. declined to SOc
and reacted to the opening price Re-
ceipts were 1,014 cars. May oats opened
&c higher at 263sc, eased off to 2614c and
Teacted to $3.50 Receipts were 424 cars.
PROVISIONS started firm
with the steady hog market. Little sup
mort was given. however. and mOderat tie
professional selling and the closing out of
some large lines through commission
houses turned the market downward.
Selling of ribs was especially heavy, but
good support was given this product. May
ana declined to 5000 May lard opened
a shade higher at $5.15 and sold at S5,1212G
515 May ribs opened a shade lower at
'BARLEY-Cash. No. g. 33a4Oc.
RYE--Cash, 1917; May, 59sIc- eo.4o,.,,o,
n2 TfMoTHY1Cash. $780, March, $3.50
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.1O8 East Sixth St.
Telephone 425.

HERE are people in
the world-not many,
but some-who believe
that all groceries are alike,
that groceries is groceries
no matter where you find
them. Nothing could be
more erroneous; groceries
are as different as clothing
or dry goods. We always
buy the best, even if they
cost more, as they always
do. But it takes close fig
uring to sell them at the
same price some people ask
for inferior groceries, but
we always do it. You don't
have to examine the groce-
ries you buy here-they are
always the best.
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suit Over a Lost Pocketbook.

Miss Taunsie Capps dropped her pock-
etbOok as she passed over the south
approach of the Kansas avenue bridge
Monday afternoon. She did not dis
cover her loss Immediately, but when
she did she returned to the bridge A
colored man was seen by three people
to jump from his wagon as he drove
over the bridge and run and pick up the
pocketboOk. Chadwick Sims, a col
ored coal driver, was arrested by De-
tective Kesson soon afterward. He de-
MED any knowledge of it. The case was
continued in police court to Wednesday
morning. The pocketbook has not yet
been recovered
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was seen today in regard to the accusa-
ton that he was the responsible party
for Lena Crith's condition. 1t had been
rumored that he kept company with
Lena Crith He was very indignant
about the rumor. He said today:
1T is all a lie. I knew Lena Crith
simply as a society lady. She was one
of those high toned girls and she
thought herself almost white. 1 am not
guilty, and that is the truth. know
that Dr. Embree tried to prevent DR..
Shields arrest He went to Mrs. Crith
and tried to prevent his arrest. He did
not want it to come out on him.
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kansas Citv Produce Market.

Kansas City, March J.
WHEAT-Hard, active. steady. No. I
hard 89d9Oc; No 2, S61z9SS1kc: No g. $50
SIC: No. / red, 92c; No. 2, S9G91c; No. g.
86G901bc, latter for choice; No. spring,
Size: No. 8, S41zc.
CORN-Active, steady to Ac higher. NO
oATs- zSeiF794 Steady. No white, &c
RYEFirrn No. 2, acc.
HAY-Active. firm. Choice timothy,
$0 BtqTT EFF creamery. higher, Is
EGGS STEADY, receipts heavy, demand
liberal Fresh, 101ac.
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An Informal Party.

Miss Josephine Dietrich entertained a
few friends informally Saturday even
ing. The time was spent in cards and
dancing. Her guests were Miss May
Lange, Miss Martha Bradshaw, Miss
Ida Bergen, Miss Grace Jilson, Mr..
Carl Nellis, Mr.. Luther Nellis, Mr.. The
odore Guthrie of Atchison, Mr.. Edward
Everett Hogue of Grinell Iowa, and
Mr.. Ernest MedlicOtt.
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AT THE HOME OF THE cRITHs.
Violent Language by the Mother and
Sister of Lena Crith.

Mrs. Frank Crith. the mother of Lena
Crith, who lives near Fifteenth and Mon
roe. said to a reporter when told that the
charge Of blackma1 had been made
against her:
arrant hari Didn't that poor girl tell me
about him2 Don't I know that she was
good girl2 I washed for her and 2 know
she was all right. Did you suppose she
would lie to me on her deathbed2 I only
wish she were alive to tell her own story.
And to think the way those doctors butch
cred her. When they were in that room
and I heard Lena scream a white lady
and started in there. / said: If she
screams again am going in there if I
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CIicapo Livestock Market.

OnlcaRO, A1aICn l.
HOGS-Receipts. 26, 900: left over, 1900
Market fairly active, shade higher Light,
3.7504; mixed. S3.S5q405; heavy, $500
I g SAT %fii2 r 30 receipts, 1000 Steady
Beeves. So. 85d5.45; cows and heifers, $40
GAO; Texas steers, SO. 50a4.35; stockers and
feeders. SO. 40d4.40.
SHEEP~Receipts 1900 Market slow
and weak. Native sheep, $3: loG 465; west
HOGSGReceipts, 3SO37 shipments. $50.
CATTLE-Receipts, 14,222; shipments, A.
ssHEEP-Receipts, 27.SS6; shipments, A.
e Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow,
IS 0oO