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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
PARENTS SUE THEIR SON.
Aged and Dependant Couple Charge
Fraud and Dishonor.

Fort Scott, July 13.-JOseph and Re
becca, Rogers, an aged and dependant
couple living in Rock Valley, % miles
southwest of town, have sued their son,
Joseph E. Rogers, for the cancellation
of a deed to their homestead on which
they have lived for 20 or 80 years, and
accuse him of the most unfiHa1 con-
duct.
The petition alleges that on February
Il, 1885 they being old and feeble and
desiring to make provision for their
future sustenance, agreed with their
son. Joseph E, that if he would re-
main at home and work the farm and
provide for them for the remainder Of
their natural lives, they would deed the
homestead to him. The homestead con-
sisted of 100 acres of good land, we'll
improved with orchard, etc; that short
y after the deed was delivered, their
son, who they allege, had no intention
of complying with the terms of the
agreement at the time he entered into
it, sold so acres of the land to H. F.
John for $500, and abscOnded; and that
he is now trying to sell or mortgage the
other so acres and thus turn them out
without home or means of livelihood.
They asked for an injunction restrain
ing him from selling the remainder 80
acres, and sued for a cancellation Of
the deed to this tract. Judge Simons
granted the injunction for which the
petition prayS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

open supporters of Reeder before the
BelOit convention, have come into
prominence as the fellows who are to
have the pOstOffices of their respective
towns soon as vacancies exist.
Especially in Norton since the nom
ination of Reeder, several of his active
supporters have come out for post
master. Jack Smith, the ex-register of
deeds; w. II. HOllinshead, who is serV-
ing his last quarter on a four year
term as treasurer of the county, are
open candidates for the Norton post
office.
Whether Lockard has given up the
fight or not, he has moved to his cOun-
try home, and like Judge Ellis he has
become a first rate farmer. Reeder has
been visited by many Sixth district
whom are anxious to fill offices.
The Logan and MankatO pOstOffices
are also liable to create some dissensiOn
before new postmasters come in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
CHARGED WITH FRAUD.
Hardware Man Accused of
ENLIGHTENMENT in Failure.

Holton, Kan, July 13.-W. D. Green,
the big hardware and implement dealer
here, who recently made an assign
ment, was yesterday bound over to the
district court to answer to the charge
of ENLIGHTENMENT. The suit was brought
by the Perry Manufacturing company
of Indianapolis. Ind. and the preimi-
nary hearing was held before Justice
Geo. H. Barker. Green's bail was fixed
at $500.
The grounds for the suit are that
some time before Green made an as
signment he contracted for a car load
of buggies and agreed to have his faith
er sign the note in settlement. His
father fell i'll and was not able or at
least failed to sign the note.
The buggy firm claims that the bug
gies were delivered on a contract which
allowed them to remain the owners I'M
til the terms were complied with, and
that when Green sold $3.50 worth of the
goods and appropriated the proceeds he
was guilty of embeZzlement- Mr. Green
claims he bought the buggies and had
a right to sell them
Messrs. Hayden & Hayden are assist
ing County Attorney Noble in the pros
ecution, and Green is defended by
Messrs. Lowell and Crane and D. r.
Hite of Topeka.
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should be used for the benefit of the
islands. As there has not been any
complete survey made of the Hawaiian
Islands it is not known accurately Just
how many acres the public lands of the
islands embrace. In the Olaa portion
of the Puma district alone there are
10000 acres of available coffee lands
still untaken. The policy of the Ha-
waiian government has been to divide
the land into different classes, accord
ing to it's desirability and to limit the
amount which might be acquired by
the homesteader.
The limits placed by the government
were as follows: Eight acres first class
agricultural land; sixteen acres sec
ond class agricultural land: one acre
of wet rice land; thirty acres of first
class pastoral land; sixty acres of sec
Ond class pastoral land; fOrty-five
acres of pastoral agricultural land.
Every man taking up land was obliged
before the end of two years to build
house on the land and occupy it. He
was also obliged to have in cultivation
before the end of six years from the
date of his certificate at least 10 per
cent of the land which he had taken
up. There were also certain conditions
for the planting and the protection Of
trees.
Under the general land laws of the
United States a man can take $50 acres
of land. AS the land in Hawaii is 50
very much more productive than any
Of the public lands of the United States
now open to settlement. not nearly 50
much is required there to give a man
a farm upon the products of which he
and his family can subsist There is a
belief in the interior department that
the special commission to recommend
legislation for the government of Ha-
wall will frame a land law act which
Will be largely based upon the system
in operation in Hawaii before annexa-
ton took place. One thing is certain
and that is that the land laws for Ha-
wall and Porto Rico will, in the very
II to saA 4 tool
different from the land laws which ap-
ply 10 the states and territories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
NEWS AT sALINA.
New Auditorium Talked Of - Boys
Serious Affection.

Salina, July 13.-The county commits
siuners and the fair association have
decided upon the erection of suitable
buildings to hold the exhibit of the
Saline county agricultural, mechanical
and horticultural society this fall. The
bids will be received up to noon of
Tuesday, August 9, and will involve an
expenditure of about $4,000. The date
of the fair has not been decided upon,
but it will probably be held the first
week in October.
It is now reasonably certain that Sa-
lima will have an auditorium. A petit
ton has been in circulation for some
days and the signatures of over 200 of
our leading citizens have been attached.
The building will be amply sufficient
for the accommodation of the average
Kansas crowd whether for politics, the
Chautauqua or similar gatherings and
will be erected within two blocks of the
government building.
Thomas Anderson's 15-year-old son
was operated on for the third time to-
day, his leg having been broken some
months ago by a large safe door falling
upon it. A portion of the diseased
bone and a quantity of pus was remOv-
ed. The little fellow will recover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
NEW ROAD TO CHICAGO.
English Capitalists Behind a Scheme
Involving $4,000

Anderson, Ind. July 13.-Surveyors
are at work in eastern Indiana running
a right of way for a railroad from Chi
cagO to the SeabOard.
The project was put on foot by a
syndicate of English capitalists, which
has as it's head Sir Thomas Tancered,
the most famous railroad engineer eX-
pert and builder in the British empire.
He has been at the head of companies
which have put through great railway
schemes in Australia, New Zealand and
Mexico and is now building a railway
from Skaguay to Lake Bennett, Alaska,
over the White pass.
T. c. Dichenson of Washington is the
financial agent of the company in this
country The financial backing, how
ever. all comes from England.
The line is to be 1900 miles in length
and the estimated cost is 100000 600. all
of which Tancered has or will place.
He will go over the proposed line in
August, covering every foot on horse
back
The line will enter Indiana near
Louisville and will go airline to Michi-
gan City, passing through Fortville and
Perkinsville in this county. Several
abandoned routes and rundown rail-
road properties viii be taken in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
BOUGHT PLAUDIT.
$4,000 the Reported Price For the
Great Colt.

New York, July 13-The purchase of
Plaudit, double derby winner, by Will
liam c. Whitney, has been made. The
announcement that John e. Madden,
who developed the colt, had sold Pau
dit, was made at the Brighton Beach
race track early in the afternoon.
The reported price for the horse was
$4,000 Plaudit is to go to the stable
of Sydney Paget. for whose racing es-
Enlistment Mr.. Whitney recently
bought the great two-y ear-old Jean
Beraud. With the addition of Plaudit
the Paget stable is now one of the
strongest on the American turf.
There is in training but one better
three-year-Old than Plaudit and that is
Marcus Days Hamburg, formerly
Plaudit's companion in Madden's sta
BILE. Mr.. Whitney wanted the best, but
Hamburg is not for sale. He bought
the best that money could buy. Pau
dit as a tWo-year-Old, beat the great
handicap horse Ben Brush at mile
and a mile and a sixteenth last fall. His
victories this season include the Ken
lucky and Oakley derbys.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Peoria Journal Rep0: A big fight
will be made by the people against the
express and telegraph companies over
the stamp tax matter. The people will
win in the long run, and it may be well
for these mOnopOlistic corporations to
consider that perhaps when the people
once get started after them something
more than the matter now in hand will
be won. The telegraph systems ought
to be owned by the government like
the postal system, and the express COM
panies ought to be controlled by the
government like the railroads are con-
trolled. The people are becoming dis
posed more and more every day in this
direction
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

circulated a subscription list among
themselves, as follows:
Patriotism, love and sympathy of
ones country may be demonstrated in
various ways. To emphasize our patri-
otism and sympathies with the stirring
victory at Santiago de Cuba, and con-
sequent suffering and wounded among
those in the field, the undersigned glad
~ dedicate the sums set opposite their
respective names to the Red Cross So
ciety, to assist them in their samaritan
efforts to relieve the suffering and
wounded in battle
The resulting collection was $40, which
was forwarded to Stephen Barton, New
York, treasurer of the Red Cross So
Getty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
GLoRE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchfson GIobe.1
Honey cure.- ham sounds better than
it tastes.
Some people only have vacation
when they get sick
If these are good times, we long for
the good old dull times.
The younger the boys who go call
ing, the later they stay.
There is nothing more ridiculous than
an old person trying to act young
It is a pretty safe rule to go by that
when all the papers don't refer to
man as prominent, that he is.
When a fourteen year old girl is fool
fsh her mother is abused, but after she
is seventeen, the girl is abused.
When you call on anyone and he says.
Hello, where did you come FROM" he
is not glad to see you
BY the time a man gets a few dollars
saved up for his old age, he is told that
his daughter has talents which should
be cultivated.
There is talk in town of organizing an
alumni association of the women whose
daughters have succeeded to the BUR
den of housework
Every one must do just so much
weeping; those who are spanked orten-
est when young, have least cause for
crying when grown up.
More girls should have a sweetheart
in the man in the moon. He is just the
safe distance away for girl to have
a lover unless they intend to marry.
Doctors keep a rich sick man alive
longer than a poor one, but that is the
only difference. Both die when they
get good and sick and the poor man
doctor bill is less.
An AtchisOn girl calls it "machetng
until she had married her daughter IN
several stations above her, and now the
girls father is heart broken because
he has a son-in-law who snubs him.
An Atchison girl calsl it "machetlng
the potatoes" and as she seems to en-
iov the work better under such a name,
the members Of the family lndulSenIly
smile and pass their plates for more
None of the women who are spend
ing the summer in Colorado made their
money by keeping cows. This is the
only good feature in keeping a COW: it
keeps a woman at home to attend 10 II
1t was announced recently that
former lover of an AtchisOn girl had
married in another town the next
day. fifteen of her friends called on her
to see "hOw she was taking IT, aer
enemies left her alone.
"Of course the Lord will answer the
petitions of the Americans on the out
come Of the fight at Santiago, Mrs
Ivsander John Appleton was overheard
saying on the streets today. he can |
answer the enemy's prayers, because
He doesn't understand Spanish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
BEES IN HIS BED.
Franklin County Man Has a Peculiar
Experience.

Ottawa, July 13.-Mr. Van Rouse is a
bachelor who lives out on Eight Mile
creek. Van has a girl just like other
bachelors. He lives alone but dreams
of the time when he will have a part
ner just the same. The other night aft
er being out calling on his lady friend
disrObed to retire. He had got himself
a good ready for bed when something
like the hot end of a needle hit him all
over.
The pain was excruciating and he was
not long in discovering that a swarm
of bees had taken possession of his
couch. He was compelled to retreat
and leave the bees in possession of the
house. He has since slept in the barn
with no definite plan of how to get rid
of those bees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

An idea of the present and future
cost of the war is conveyed in the of
fetal statement of appropriations by
congress for the current fiscal year
Instead of $52S, 900. 900 as in the last
government year, it will cost 1892, 50O, O0O
in round numbers, to meet Federal ex-
penses up to June 80 next; and this does
not include the outlay on military and
naval account, which is provided for
only up to December 81 next. If the
war should continue beyond that date
there would be another huge war
budget brought before congress early
In the winter session, to be added to the
appropriations already authorized
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The commission appointed by Presi-
dent Mckinley to frame a scheme of
government for Hawaii is composed en-
tirely Of men exceptionally well inform
ed in regard to the social, political and
commercial conditions existing in the
newly acquired extraterritorial domain
Of the Republic. Senators CuIlom and
Morgan and Representative Hit are
the leading members of the committees
on foreign affairs in both branches of
congress, while President Dole and
Justice Frear, who will represent Ha-
waiian interests on the commission, are
thoroughly familiar with the govern
mental methods in vogue in the islands
and with the problems presented in
adapting the territory to the require
ments and privileges OF free American
institutions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
JUDGE sK1DMoRE WINS.
Eleventh District Judge Gives Emil
nent Satisfaction.

Oswego, Kan, July 13.-The Repub-
1icans of the Eleventh judicial district,
in convention here, renominated A. H.
Skidmore of Columbus for judge by ac-
clamatiOn. The convention was largely
attended and very enthusiastic The
denomination of Judge Skidmore is
equivalent to reelection. The Eleventh
district is composed of Cherokee, La
bette and Montgomery counties. Judge
Skidmore has made a capable officer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

It is estimated that one hundred mil
lion dollars was disbursed July 1 in
dividends to stockholders in American
corporatiOns-the largest sum ever paid
out for this purpose in this country
This is more remarkable when it is re-
membered that but a year or two ago
many Of the leading railway and other
corporations were not only not paying
dividends, but were in the hands of re-
aafxraTs
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FIGHT WAS EXPENSIVE.
Mcpherson County Man Pays 500
and Goes to Jail

Mcpherson, July 13.-S. H. Calvert, a
man who was harvesting near Mound
ridge, got into trouble with a man in
NIoundridge Both had been drinking
and succeeded in starting a fight. After
all was over the one party had been
stabbed several times with a knife.
Calvert who looked as if he had
passed through a campaign in Cuba,
was arrested for using the knife and
fined 500 and sentenced to six months
in the county jail.
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SCRAMBLE FOR OFFICE.
Politicians Look to W. A Reeder for
Sixth District Prizes.

Norton. July 13-The nomination of
w. A. Reeder for congress by the Re
publicans is liable to precipitate a big
night for postmasters in several towns
in the Sixth district 1t is we known
that ex-senator Hays, of Osborne coun-
ty. and ex-senator Lockard, of Norton
county. are the choice of Judge Ellis
for postmasters of Osborne City and
Norton. Both are presidential offices.
Since the nomination of Reeder, Fred
Duvau of the Norton Courier, and Chas.
Lands, OF the Osborne City Farmer,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
AT JEWELL CITY.
Old Settlers Reunion There Early in
August

Jewell City. July 13.-The annual re-
union and picnic of the old settlers of
Jewell county will be held in Jewell
City. August Il. ]. c. POstlethwaite.
president and ]. w. Berry. secretary of
the association, promise a rich treat.
1t is the purpose of this society to get
up a program that will draw the
pioneers from Jewell and adjacent
counties Short speeches will be the or
der. and they will relate principally
to anecdotes and thrilling experiences
by the men and women who drove the
Indians from Jewell county.
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TURRETS ALL RIGHT.
Reports of Injuries on Iowa and In
diana Are Doubted.

Washington, July 13.-The navy de-
partment has received no word as to
the injuries of the forward turrets of
the battleships Iowa and Indiana, as
referred to in the press dispatches.
From this fact the officials conclude
the injuries are not at all serious as
any material disarrangement Of the
turrets would be promptly reported.
For some time there has been difficulty
in securing an acute elevation of the
big guns in the turret of the Iowa. The
lack of elevation is no disadvantage in
the general utility of the guns which
are usually fired with little or no ele-
walton.
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Open Saloons at Lincoln.

Lincoln Center, July 13.-There are
now four open saloons on the business
streets, for which the city derives a
revenue of 500 a month, it is claimed.
To meet this prosperity the commits
siOners of Lincoln county are consider
ing the proposition to issue $500 to build
a stone and iron iail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Every citizen who has bought a hun
dred-dollar bond of the new loan now
finds that he can sell it in the market
for $102.5O or SOB. And this before the
sale by the government is ended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

A physician has discovered that
whisky when put into water instantly
kills every form of animalcuIe. The
discovery loses force from the fact that
the customary order is to put water into
the whisky.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13
HALLEoK IS NAMED.
Receiver of the Defunct Kirby Bank
at Abilene.

Abilene, Kan, July 13-P H. Hal
leck was appointed receiver for the
Thomas Kirby bank. which failed two
weeks ago His bond was fixed at
100000 The liabilities are over $780,
600, and there are 700 depositors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Nebraska State Journal: The Span
ish at Santiago have some of the char
acteristics of genuine Missourians. It
has been necessary to show EN-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The government has already sent out
a man to count the Philippine Islands
1t is safe to predict that none will be
permitted to get away
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Those Spaniards who are DESTROYS of
continuing the war have never been in
the neighbOrhood of the Vesuvius when
she was in action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

This has been a hard year on lighters
a whole fleet of them went down near
Santiago besides the one in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Watson should hurry across to the
Mediterranean just to show Europe
how it is done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Gentlemen who are DESTROYS of usins
their war records in the fall campaign
are hereby reminded that time is fly
ing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

If Prince Henry has selected a nice
Philippine island for his brother VIII
he has not yet notified Admiral Dewey
Of the fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The name Sandwich Islands seems
destined to become peculiarly appro-
pirate. They lie between the United
States and the Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The next time Admiral Camara
starts to go through a canal he will
probably buy a round trip ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

John De Walt Barber and James Fui-
Ter Mckinley, nephews of the presi-
dent, who have both been guests at the
White House recently, have enlisted IN
the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Regiment as
priVateS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The promotion of Col Leonard Wood
makes them RoOseveIt's Rough Riders
In fact as well as in name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Professor Asa Gray's widow has pre-
scented to the herbarium Of Harvard
university a collection of 1000 auto
graphs of bOtanists. The collection IS
said to be second only to that OF the
British museum.
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$40 FOR THE RED CROSS.
Mound Ridge Shows It's Patriotism in
a Commendable Way.

Mound Ridge. July 13.-Instead of
purchasing fireworks for the Fourth
of July the business men of this town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

The fate of Cervera's fleet is one more
proof that the race is not always to the
swift
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Auguste Bracelet, whose little His
+oricaI Grammar of the French Lam
guage" was one of the chief instrq-,
ments in popularizing the study Of OLD
French 80 years ago, died recently at
Cannes.
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Admiral Cervera is now enjoying a
well earned and much needed rest.
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.'Beggar Student at the Leipzig Neues
theater recently. The performance was
for the benefit of the theatrical pen
sion fund, the parts being taken by the
leading opera singers.
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So Mrs. Dominis is plain citizen Of
the United States after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-13

Santa Fe Route dining cars are equip
ped with electric fans.
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r1iral Sampson recently he said: I had
orlv manages for breakfast and then,
after a pause. with a cheerful twinkle
in his eye, he added; But also had
manEoes for supper yesterday"