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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
TOUGH AS THEY GET.
Nearly Three Hundred Drunken
Men in Complete Control
. at Great Wellington.

Tacoma, Feb. S.-Reports from Yelling
ton, at the western end of the Great
Northern tunnel, indicate a serious state
having been on a drunken spree since
Monday. many of them running around
with their clothes half torn off and maxi
ing night hideous with their bowls.
Eight stabbing ARRAYS are reported to
have taken place. two of the participants
being badly wounded and four men have
been arrested and are now in jail in Seat
tie.
It is hard to believe the stories brought
back by passengers on the Great North>
ern overland. If anything like the state
of affairs exists that these men claim,
Wellington is the toughest town in the
entire country. There are 25O men at
work on the tunnel and approaches. Fully
fifty hobos and tough characters are
hanging around the camp at pay day for
the purpose of robbfng the 1aborers. Three
saloons are running night and day.
Only the vilest kind of liquor is sold, but
in great quantities. There is twenty
three feet of snow on the ground, and
this has piled up around the saloons until
the doors can only be reached by tunnels
through the snow.
The saloons cannot be seen at all from
the railroad track, and the snow blanket
over them shuts out all light and keeps
in the noise made by the drunken laborers
and hObOs.
Trouble begins as soon as the laborers
are paid, and is caused chiefly by the men
out of employment. The tunnel workers
get drunk and the trouble commences. As
soon as a man shows his money the gang
of hobos in the saloon commence to fight.
his pockets are rifed and he is thrown in>
to a. convenient corner to sober up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
NOAH ALLEN PLEASED.
Thinks the st. Louis Conference Was
a Populist Harmonizer.

Galveston, Feb. "a reporter called
on Mr.. Noah Allen, chairman of the
weston county and asked him for
statement of his views concerning the
action of the recent conference in st.
Louis. In response Mr.. Allen said;
First of all I was greatly amused
at the various reports sent out to the
daily press. They were, like JOseph'S
coat, of many cOlorS, misleading in the
extreme and calculated to create wrong
and confusing impressions of the work
done. Had 1 not passed through sew
eral conflicts and been accustomed to
such misrepresentation of Populist and
other reform gatherings, might have
lost my bearings and jumped at the
conclusion that our party was split
wide open and gone up the fiume, leaV-
ing US poor Pops floating around in the
air like political orphans with no home
to go to, trying to find out in some mys-
teriOus way where we were at
THE national organization committee
was formed to promote Populism, not
to destroy, and its aim is to aid the ma
tional committee to steer clear of break
ers in the future. 1t was the aim of that
conference to inaugurate a plan for fu-
ture action, whereby every genuine
POpuliSt may have a voice in the Orga-
nizatiOn and management of the party.
calling its conventions, making its plat
forms and nominating its candidates
that our party may not be Sidetracked
and Organized on a single issue in 1900.
1t was simply a move to reunite our
forces upon the Omaha platform and
prosecute or work along the original
lines of POpuHsn, without the silver
plating, BOurbonizing influences.
There may have been some radical
men there who wanted to make war on
Senator Butler and those of the nation
al committee who agree with him in
matters of party policy, but they did
not prevail in declaring war or seeding
from the national committee. But while
the Warlike element did not prevail the
sentiment of the conference was unani-
nous in favor of an absolute divorce
from all old parties and clean cut, go
it-alone on the Omaha platform policy
in the future. believe the conference
was success and will bear good fruit"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
OVER A GYPSY'S WORDS.
A Young Girl Brooded Until She Be
came q Mental Wreck.

Aurora, Ind, Feb. "a gypsy fortune
teller is said to be responsible for the
ruined life and probable death of a bright
and beautiful girl residing with her pa
rents on a farm west of Dillsboro.
The victim is Mary Hess, aged 1S,daugh>
ter of Joshua Hess.
The beginning of her misfortune dates
back to last summer, when a band OF
gypsies camped on the land of William
H. Greene, a neighbOring farmer, and ere
ated some little excitement among the
young folks in the vicinity by the pretend.
ed wonderful gifts one of the old gypsies
possessed for revealing the future. a
number of young people visited the camp
one Sunday, Miss Hess being with the
crowd. Her constant merriment offended
the old bag, who was making money by
telling the fortunes of the visitors, and
she persisted in her determination to re-
veal the destiny of the gay and fun-lovine
girl. Yielding to the requests of her cons
panions, Miss Hess allowed her fortune
to be told
With the heartlessness of a demon the
old woman fendishly portrayed the direst
misfortunes, misery and degradation that
could possibly befaH a mortal. The ter
rible story as it came from the lips or
the torturing bag filled the young girl
with horror and blasted the joyousness
of her gentle nature. She returned home
only to brood over the appalling, fate that
awaited her as told by the gypsy. until
health failed and her mind gave way.
Broken in body and wrecked in mind, the
once happy and beautiful girl is rapidly
going to a premature grave and must be
constantly watched and guarded to pre-
vent her committing suicide. Her sad
fate fills everyone with horror who knew
her and have learned the history Of her
ruined life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
Pennsylvania Republicans De-
sire to Name Him For Gov
He is Coy and Says He Doesn't
Want Public Office.
FIGHT ON QUAY BEGUN
He is Accused of Being RespOn-
sibIe Fer Conditions
Which His Party Associates
Declare to Be Disgraceful.

Philadelphia, Feb. 3.-The anti-Quay
movement an the Republican party re-
ceived an impetus here at a conference
at which there were present about 400
representative business and party men
from all sections of the state. The con-
ference was held under the auspices of
the Business Mems league.
The conference was called to order by
Elias Demer, of Williamsport, who
stated that the meeting had been called
in behalf of Republicans of the state
who desired the election of a governor
who would administer the affairs of
the state without the dictation of any
one man.
The conference was in session about
three hours. Quite a number of speech
eS were made denunciatOry of the Unit
and particularly censuring the political
methods Of Senator Quay. The domi-
nant faction of the state legislature al
so came in for its share of reprOach.
The sentiment of nearly all the speak
ers was in favor of the nomination of
John Wanamaker as the candidate for
governor of the Republican party at
the coming fall election, although the
names of Congressman DaIzel and c.
w. Stone were frequently mentioned
and applauded.
After a lengthy discussion a resOlu-
ton was adopted urging Mr.. Wanama-
ker Ito permit the use of his name"
for the office of governor at the ap-
preaching Republican primary elections
and at the Republican state convention
Great enthusiasm was aroused in the
earlier part of the meeting by the read
ing of letter from John Wanamaker
1t was dated OssadOW Island, Georgia
Mr. Wanamalxer expressed regret that a
prior engagement has prevented his at
tendance at the meeting with the pur-
pose of which he was fully in accord.
He wanted it distinctly understood that
he did not desire public office and sug-
gested Judge John Stewart, Henry c.
Mccormick, John Dalzell, Major E. A
Hancock and Col. E A. Irwin, as names
from which could be selected a govern
or not to be owned by any one.
A committee of seven was selected to
notify Mr.. Wanamaker of the action of
the conference and ask him for permits,
sion to use his name as a candidate for
governor.
The conference adopted a lengthy
platform of principles in the form of
an address to the Republican voters of
the state. 1t declared the condition of
politics in the state to be t1isgraceful
and that this condition has been
brought about by the expenditure of
money to corrupt and debauch the vot-
ers.
The present senior United States SEN
atOr, the platform says, is understood
to desire reelection and he, more than
any other man, it says, is responsible
for the present corrupt condition of
state politics. His defeat for re-eIec-
ton is urged unOO the IrOfa1.s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
MRS. BURNETT'S BOOK.
Finishing What She Hopes Will Be
the Greatest American Novel

New York, Feb. 3-Mrs. Frances
HOdgsOn Burnett sailed for Europe on
the Campania, and will stay in London
till October, when she intends to re-
turn to this country.
The man object of my trip is the
completion of a story in which I have
been really interested for years. she
said. 1T will be, 1 think. my best
wOrk-the achievement of my life.
have always so regarded it, and yet,
strange to say, I have allowed years to
intervene between its beginning and
led The Great WillOughby Claim That
the present time. That is the name by
which the Scribners have read it and
are now urging me to complete it.
THE idea of The Great Willoughby
Claim came to me because of a discus
sion / heard about the great American
novel. The construction put upon the
term is a story that shall embody the
greatest amount of local cOlOring-that
shall show the dialect of various parts
of the country, that shall TEEN with life
as it is all over the great American con-
tinent The Great WiIlOughby Claim
begins a scene in a small aristocratic
southern town, then it shifts to the
mountains of North Carolina-a mining
region; then to a fashionable southern
resort, some such place as the White
Sulphur Springs. From there the stO-
ry goes to a manufacturing town, some
such place as Springfield or Hartford,
and from there to a small village. Then
it comes to Washington"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
IN A STRAWSTACK.
A Steer Lives Imprisoned for Ninety
DAYS.

Frederick. Feb. 3.-On October 20
last James Houck, president of the
Franklin Savings bank advertised that
a young steer had strayed from his
farm. The animal was given for lost
until Friday, when of the colored men
noticed several hens going in a hole in
a straw stack in the barnyard. Think
ing they had a nest he crawled in about
fifteen feet in search of the eggs. He
came out quicker than he had gone in,
declaring the stack was haunted, as
something had kicked him.
Another man was sent in to investi-
gate and he came out exclaiming that
something was alive in there, as he felt
a hairy leg. and it had also kicked his
hand. An investigation was made
when the missing steer was actually
found under the straw, where it had
been imprisoned for SO days without
food or water g, excepting the straw
which it had subsisted on The hands
on the place now recalled the fact that
on the second days threshing they OBJ
served the steer standing against the
stack, which had been made the first
day, and saw the straw falling over the
animal. but thought it had moved away.
When rescued it was very weak and
emaciated, but is doing very well now,
being fed on boiled bran.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
We Greatest Discovery Yet.

w. NJ. Repine. editor Tiskilwa, III,
Chief" says: we won't keep house
without DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and colds. Ex-
nerimented with many others but new
er- got the true remedy until we used
DR.. Kings New Discovery. No other
as in it we have d certain and sure
cure for Coughs, Colds, WhoOping
Cough, etc. It is idle to experiment
with other remedies, even if they are
urged on you as just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery. They are not
as good. because this remedy has a rec
ord of cures and besides is guaranteed.
II never fails to satisfy Trial bottle
free at Swift & Holidays Drug Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
ELIOT WITH ANDREWS.
Harvard President Is for Free Speech
and Action.

Boston, Feb. 3.-The Keynote of the
addresses given by Judge F. A. GaskeII.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Knowlton, and Pres
1dent Eliot, of Harvard, at the annual
dinner of the sons of Brown, here last
night, was appreciation of the action of
the alumni and the faculty of Brown
University in sustaining the stand taxi
en- by President Andrews last summer.
President Eliot said that the freedom
of speech advocated by the alumni
faculty and president of Brown Univer-
sity was fitting for an American insti-
tuition. He thanked them for what
they had done, and said it was an i'm
portant to American youth. Attorney
General KnOwltOn said that one of the
most impOrtnt duties of a college was
to teach men to think for themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
BORED FOR SO YEARS.
Has Col. johnson Been by That
TireSOme "FirSt White
Child' Story.

Another first white child born in
Kansas" has been discovered. This
time it is Col. Montgomery Bryant of
Wichita.
For nearly a half century Col. A. S.
Johnson of Topeka has been pointed out
as the first white child born in Kan
sas.
For a few years Chat is before he
could talk plain) Col. Johnson bore the
honor meel1ly, as becomes a man of
his quiet disposition, but as he older
grew and came to manhood and receiv-
ed letter after letter, asking for the eX-
act hour of his birth, and when new
claimant would spring up every few
months, the distinction of being the
first child became somewhat monoto-
nous.
It was not until a few years ago,
however that Col. Johnson began car
rying stiletto in his boot to use on
every man who started out with;
Colonel, I understand you're the
first, etc"
ing the first white child is therefore
a subject which Col Johnson does not
care to discuss. He was playing seven
I'D to the St. AnaniaS club rooms with
F p Baker. Norris L. Gage and Sam
Radges, when a reporter dropped in on
him.
The room was redolent with the odor
of boiled cabbage, which the janitOr was
preparing for his own use in the base
ment.
The play was stopped and Col john
son was handed a clipping about the
new claimant He read it and then
look of ennui overspread his usually
passive features.
YES, I have heard of this" said he.
81 have been hearing things of this kind
for so years, and 1 am tired of it. 1
am not to blame because was born in
Kansas. but I think I do deserve some
credit for staying here all these years
and being pestered with this anecdote
about my birth.
7 don't know whether 1 was the first
white child born in Kansas or not, and
7 don't care If people would only let
me alone 1 would be satisfied to let
anyone else take the honor"
When Col. Johnson was asked wheth-
er he knows the latest usurper, he re-
piled:
mo. never heard of him, but it is
possible that he was born before 1 was.
I suppose that any number of white ba-
bies were born at Fort Leavenworth be-
fore I saw the light of day, but what
does it matter? don't care when they
were born or where, and had no con-
troll over the circumstances of my own
BIRTH
Col. johnson turned and resumed
play. and in two minutes was unmer-
cifully beaten by Col. Radges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
WELL sPOUTS BLUE CLAY
Uncle Sam Has a Peculiar Freak of
Nature in South Dakota.

Chamberlain. S. D., Feb. 3.-Uncle Sam
has a freak artesian well on the lower
Brule Indian agency. 1t used to throw
a solid six inch stream of water to a
height of twenty-one feet above the top
of the well casing, with occasional fits OF
tdleness or sand spouting.
Arrivals from the agency say that, be-
ginning about three weeks ago, the well
at intervals has been forcing out appar-
emily endless quantities of blue clay. This
in itself is nothing strange, but the man>
ner in which the clay is conveyed to the
surface is out of the ordinary.
The blue clay entirely fills the six inch
piped during the eruptions and arises
slowly above the top of the casing, exact
~ as sausages emerge from sausage
machine. until the top is so high inthe air
that it becomes overbalanced; then five
or six feet of the length topples over up
on the ground. The continued upward
movement of the clay in few minutes
causes more Of the column to tOpple over.
This has continued until circular pieces
of the blue clay aggregating several hun>
dred feet in length have been deposited
on the ground in the vicinity of the weli
necessitating the employment of men to
remove the huge deposits lest the top OF
the casing become completely buried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
is A POISON FREAK.
Hot Pins and POiSOns Have No
TerrOrS for BenO-StOmach
Like an Ostrich.

Columbus, Feb. 3.-Harry Beno is in
town. Born Is years ago in Pensacola,
Fla, of an English mother and an Egyp-
tan father he has for the last 20 years
followed a life that would have killed 999
in 1000 the first "A hours. Beno is a liv-
ing defiance to all laws of chemistry as
far as they apply to the human body.
Strychnine, benadonna, mercuric chloride
birthstone are alike Indifferent to him.
Neither do pins. avis, hot-pointed instru-
ments or like matters disturb his nervous
system. That he has nervous system
seems likely from the fact that he cannot
drink alcoholic liquors without trembling
afterwards, the same as other mortaIs.
Another of his feats is to stop the beating
of his heart for six seconds at a time.
He appeared before a class at the Star
ling medical college. Before this class he
caused his heart to stop beating for six
seconds, had an awI driven an inch into
his head, and took one-half grain of bel
ladonna, one-fourth grain of strychnine,
three drops of laudanum and the brim-
stone from several matches. All this was
without giving the slightest evidence OF
pain. Tomorrow he will again appear be-
fore the class and will take any poison
in any amount up to 10 grains and will
also permit students to run redhot nails,
pins and like articles into his flesh. The
only recompense he receives from this is
a voluntary collection from the students.
Another peculiar thing about the man
is that all things taste alike to him. He
saws he cannot distinguish between ham
and beefsteak, except by looking at them
He only eats one meal a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
FIESTA AT VILLA DE SERIS
Bull Fights, Gaming and Masquerades
to Enliven the Day and Night

TO Gu14VSu the LAY anu IN 1S51G
Hermosillo, Mex, Feb. 3-In its various
features the fiesta that began today and
is to continue thirteen days in the old
Villa de Serbs, across the Sonora river
from this city, is the greatest in the his
tory of these gala occasions in this part
of Mexico. The presence of hundreds of
Americans has been the occasion for law
ish preparations. For the bull fights the
most ferocious beasts the agents of the
managers could secure were procured, and
are now in corrals waiting the espada of
the matador, who arrived from the City
of Mexico today. Managers of the games
are also present from the capital and
brought with them 100000 with which to
back monte, faro and roulette. All the
in the plaza, under the shadow of the old
mission church. and with liquor, lunch
and curio booths form a circle. There
are several gambling tables, at which the
cost of play ranges from l centavo up to
no limit From present indications the
attendance will average from 1000 to 10000
daily. Two features of the fiesta, flower
day and the great masquerade, have not
yet been given definite dates, but will be
set for probably next Saturday. The at
tendance at the masquerade will prob>
ably reach 5000 and preparations for it
are said to be the most elaborate in the
history of Hermosillo.
Flower day is also an occasion for
masking, and participants in this feature
throw flour or flowers at will It is only
at the time of the fiesta that public. gam
ing is allowed here, and at this time
everybody hazards money, limited only by
his resources.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
FEET IS INCHES LONG.
Tennessee Has a Negro Who is Eight
Feet Tall

Gallatin, Tenn, Feb. 3.-"Bud'' Ro-
gan, a negro of this place, is the great
est living wonder in the world. Bud
is eight feet tall and has a reach with
each arm extending to ninety-six inch
es, the greatest in the world, and TWEEN
ty-one inches more than Fitzsimmons'.
His hands are eighteen and One-half
inches in length, and his finger nails
are about the size of silver 25-cent piec-
es. He is almost a skeleton, yet he
weighs 1856 pounds.
But the. most peculiar features are
his feet. They are eighteen inches in
length and are as large around as an
ordinary mans leg. No shoes have ev-
er been found that he could put on, and
in consequence he has to keep them
wrapped in a blanket in cold weather.
Another strange thing connected with
him is that he cannot walk, step nor
stand upon his feet, his neither limbs
being too small and weak to support
his own weight.
Buds" condition is due to a disease
which has enlarged his bones He is
very ignorant, and though he has often
received good offers to put himself on
exhibition he has refused them through
fear that he will be Kidnapped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03
Rncklen,s Arnica saIve.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe-
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands Chill
blains, Corns and all skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per
feet satisfaction or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
SWift-Holhday Drug company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03

Can't Express Her Thanks. Scrofula
Sores, Terrible Itching, Entirely Cured,
Mrs. Emily Ford. EIdora, Hardin Co,
Iowa, writes: I can't express my
thanks for the box of Beggs German
Salve, as it has entirely cured the ter
rible itching and burning, that was in
my ankles, caused by scrofuIa sores. -
At druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-03

G. A. Van Hall. the leading Druggist
of Butler. No, writes: We are hav-
ing splendid success with Beggs Blood
Purifier and Blood Maker. 1t is one of
the best sellers we ever had and gives
satisfaction to all who have tried it.
We take pleasure in recommending it.
At druggists.