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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-08
Seven Per Cen Rate.

Pittsburg, July 8-Checks to the amount
of $21S, $50 were mailed to preferred stock
holders of the Pressed Steel Car company
today in payment of the second dividend
of ia per cent on S12, $4,000.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The funeral of Mrs. Edgar D. Hagar
will take place Sunday morning at 8
o'clock from the home of her mother
Mrs. r. Riblet, corner of Fourth and
Quincy street.
The funeral of John FogeIquist, who
was killed Friday night by being run
over by a train, will be held from the
family residence, foot of Taylor street
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon
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GOVERNOR OF GUAM.
Captain Leary Arrives at Singapore
on the Yosemite.

Singapore, Straits Settlement, July s..
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Yosemite, from New York May II, for
Guam. one of the LadrOne islands, with
Captain Richard 2. Leary, U. s. N, the
new governor of that place and a de-
tachment of marines to garrison the
island on board, has arrived here from
Colombo. CeyIon, which port she left
JulV
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with a handsome silver inkstand with
the royal monogram and has presented
Suzanne Adams with a gold bracelet,
with the queens initials.
Owing to the shock of Augustin Daily S
death, Ada. Rehan will be unable to I'M
dertake the leading part in the Drury
Lane drama especially written for her
by Cecil Raleigh. 1t is hoped, however,
that Miss Rehan will be able to appear
at Drury Lane in a Shakespearian sea-
son next spring.
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WANTS A PAROLE.
Charles A Thompson Says BE Will
Be Good if Released From the
PenitentiarY.

Charles A Thompson of Labette county,
who is serving a sentence in the penttetl-
tiary for embezzlement, has applied 10
the governor for a conditional pardon. The
attorney who prosecuted him. the trial
judge and a large number of citizens and
business men sign the petition Tor the
pardon.
Perry c. Waldron, proprietor of a hotel
in Parsons, offers to give Thompson en-
ployment. The governor will take up the
The regular hearing, or pardon day, is
July Is.
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0sHEEP-Reeeipts. 1870; shipments. 22s
Kansas City LIVESTOCK Market.

Kansas CITY, july 3.
CATTLE Receipts. 800 Market steady.
Native steers, s4a5.30: Texas steers. s2.9on
445; Texas cows, S2.50G340; native cows
and heifers, S2.60d4-90; stockers and feed
ers So. 40GI4. IS; bulls. 81. T5G4.35-
strong, active. Bulk of sales. So. S5G13-95
heavy, IS. S5Gl4.05 packers, 50. S5GI4; mixed
So. SO63.95; light. S3-70Q3-90; workers, 1850
$50: pigs $3.60M3.75.
SHEEP-Receipts. 500 Market strong.
Lambs, $5d6.25; clipped muttons, $5.33Q5.
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speciaI Notice.

No 2, Ancient order of Pyramids will
be held at their hail Monday eve, July
TO- at p. m. Urgent business; all mem
bers are requested to be present. By
Order of Noble Prophet.
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Kansas City Produce Market

Kansas City, July g
WHEAT-september e69se, Cash; No;
re: No. 5. 66Q6Sc; No spring, 6sG67e; No.
CoRN~September so1zc Cash: No. ?
mixed, 32c; No white, 32s4c; No. 3, 31A
oATs-No. 2 white, cash. 2s1ke.
HAY-choice timothy. s7.5Oas; choice
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Chicago livestock Market.

CHICAGO, July 3.
HOGS-Estimated receipts Of hogs to-
day II 600: Monday, IS, 600; left over. 2. 239.
Market 5d10c higher, all sold. Mixed and
butchers, s.. S5d4 021a; good heavy, S.. 95G0
4.0219; rough heavy, S. 7593-s5; light, SIS
a. %.
CATTLE-Receipts 200 Market steady.
SHEEP-Receipts, 1,50O. Market steady.
HOGs-Receipts, 3o.592; shipments, $685..
CATTLE-Receipts, $3.50; shipments, p,
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Harry B. Smith Weighmaster.

Henry B. Smith was today commits
stoned weighmaster in the state grain
inspection department at Atchison- The
commission has been sent % Smith by
Governor Stanley.
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Sugar Market.

New York, July 8
SUGAR-RaW steady refining, 4c; cen-
trifugal So test, 41zc; molasses sugar, 37sc.
Refined firm: crushed, &c; powdered, 55sc;
CoFFEEZDuli and nominal
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The records show that since the order
was eSta blished there have been 76
its members, and there are now no
death claims due against the order nor
has the order ever contested any claim
in the courts, all deaths having been
paid promptly shortly after proof Of
death was filed. The order is proud of
it's record in the matter of prOmptneSS
in meeting its death losses. The full
claims have generally been paid, within
two or three weeks after the proof of
death was filed in the head office, al
though sixty days are allowed in which
to make payment, and many orders take
that much time to meet their death
obligations.
That the order is well thought of
locally where its working are well
known, is evidenced from the fact that
it has local membership of 300 includ-
ing among its number some of the best
citizens of Topeka, and stands high
among fraternal orders in a city which
has large number of fraternaI bene-
ficiary lodges.
Wherever there is a great amount of
prosperity, more or less friction is bound
to arise. This is one of the laws of
nature, and has been recently proven
in the Pyramids. One of those misun-
derstandings which arise in every order,
where rapid growth is made, arose be-
tween the Salina Council and the Royal
Temple of the order, with the result
that the order viii lose a greater por-
ton Of that council While this is very
much regretted by the neighboring sis
ter councils and the membership at
large, it is one of the circumstances
which must be met in orders of this
character, and one which most if not
all fraternal societies have met with
The royal finance committee has Just
audited the books for the month of
June and report the finances of the or
der in excellent condition, as shown by
the monthly statements sent to the
councils by the royal scribe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-08

Washington, July S-The president
has appointed Joseph z. Stone postmas-
ter at Caney, Kansas.
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Merchant, 112 East Fifth St, Topekas
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
New York, July S.-Foreign houses are
practically without orders on account OF
holiday. Something Of consideraPle i'm
pOrtance is going on in Missouri Pacific.
we look for the stock to sell very high.
Missouri Pacific collateral trust bonds
paying per cent are selling at the ride
ulousiy low price of 96. There should be
10 points profit on the long side Of these
to hold L. & N. A. c. o. and Rubber.
since all are destined to do better. If
Pennsylvania sells off even moderately,
get some for quite a substantial upward
movement. J. p. Morgan is a ball on
We don't see the wisdom of advising you
to go short of stocks, believing that you
will make a turn of 1 or points when
they reach the cream of speculation.
Rubber common is going to do better. The
directors are Conservative men, and in
making the DIVIDEND on 4 per cent basis
they have put Rubber common in the per
manent dividend ranks. IT is thought
that the bank statement will show a loss
of between . and 6 millions
J. APTHUR JOSEPH.
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prairie. Sc. 50.

prairie, $3.50.
BUTTER Creamery, 141AQ1s3zc; dairy
EGGS-Fresh. 1Oc.
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Topeka Markets TodaY.

CATTLE.
COWS-s2. 5063.75
VEAL CALV ES-$3.5 0Q4.75.
STEERS-S4d4.5 50.
HEIFERS-$3d4.25 LIS.
HOGS.
LIGHTS. 30d35O.
PIGS-S3. 10613.35
MEDIUM-SS3. 1913 60.
GRAIN
NO. 2 WHEAT-65c.
NO. 2 CORN-30c.
NO. 2 OATS-25q27c.
HAY-$6Q7.
PRODUCE.
EGGS-10c.
SPRING CICKENS-From $3.50 to 50
per dozen.
HENS-6Q7c per pound.
COUNTRY BUTTER-12ID13c.
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Stocks.

Furnished by J. c. Goings, Commissio
Merchant 112 East Fifth street. Topeka
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain;
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ANCIENT ORDER PYRAMIDS.
Great Gains In Observation-Disclosures
Payment of Losses

One of the younger fraterna1 bene-
f1ciary orders which is rapidly forcing
it's way to the front is the Ancient Order
of the Pyramids, which has it's head
quarters in Topeka. It has moved along
so quietly that few persons outside of
its membership knew of the progress it
was making. Recently articles in the
public press brought a Journal reporter
to the office, where he learned some
thing of its workings and history.
It was organized at Springfield, Mis-
souri,, in 1895, and its second ciuncil was
established at Topeka. It's plan Of in
surance differed from the plan of frater-
nal orders which preceded it, in that it
provided for a reserve fund to guard
against the possibility of increased as
sessments later in it's history. This plan
was manifestly such a good one, that
other orders are rapidly adopting the
reserve fund features.
The order first spread over Kansas
and now there is not town in the
state of any considerable Importance
without its Pyramid council. In the
past two years it has been spreading
and now extends all the way from Illi-
nois to the extreme northwestern states.
During the past six months the
monthly gain in membership has in
creased over 100 per cent, the increase
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Furnished by J. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant, 112 East Fifth street. Topeka.
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
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Joseph's TIPS.


Furnished by ]. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant, 112 East Fifth St, Topeka
Kan. receiver and shipper of grain
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Correspondent: J.F. HARRIS, Chicago.
Member Chicago Board of Trade.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
IN HOG SIGNO.

conceived that we needed a naval station in
those far-dstant islands, caught the swell Of
this trade element, and was carried away by it.
The sequel is b1ef. Our brave soldiers are Of
fering their lives and performing deeds of valor
in the iungles and swamps of those islands in
an unholy war of conquest against rude and
unlettered people with whom we had no quar-
rel, and whom we had encouraged to believe
we were their allies and friends in their strug-
gle for independence. 1t is war stultitying
our high professions made at the beginning,
and not justified by the principles on which
our government Is founded, and contrary to the
traditions which cluster around Our history.
These people can never become homogen-
eous part of our population. They have con-
ceived the vital spark of liberty and independ-
ent government for themselves, and will fight
as the American colonies fought for their inde-
pendence We do not want them or their
territory, and it would be misfortune financial
ly, politically and socially to undertake the
government of those far-of and unwilling peo-
pie. The lives of the brave Kansans who have
won mperishable glory in this war are more
valuable than the whole Malay archipelago with
its strange and sef-civilized inhabitants. l
believe the majority of the people Of this coun-
try are opposed to the permanent annexation of
these Oriental islands, and it is time the voice
of the people was heard on this subject.
c. G.. FoSTRR.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
The Mothers Of Nebraska and the Govern
vn Inent Censorship.
c. G.. FosTRR.

OnIthe f3th inst, the women of Omaha sent
to the Thurston Rifles at Manila the following
telegram: "Boys, don't re-inlist insist on i'm
mediate discharge" On the I4th they re-
cieved reply: "Your message reached Ma
lila all right, but cannot be delivered, as it is
held py the government censor. This free
government places censor between the SOL
der's mother and her son. 1t says that she
must not advise the boy who is dearer to her
than life itself. 1t says in effect, "We have
your son, we will keep him as long as we
please, and it is none of your business" Mil
lions of brave men have lain dead OH the fields
of battle, with palid faces turned to the hot
sunshine, that were slain for opposing tyranny
no greater than this. A mother cut off from
communication with her son in order that he
may be retained little longer to slay few
more of those helpless people who have been
called half devil aud half child. The patriotic
mothers of Nebraska did not like to be 80 treat
ed by government for which their ancestors
fought and bled and died, and, therefore, they
called meeting at Lincoln to protest against
this unspeakable outrage. These women met
in sorrow and in tears, to announce their indig-
nation aud demand immediate redress of their
wrongs, but the half-baked political preacher
who presided over the meeting attempted to
pour STANDARD Oil" on the troubled waters by
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

stating that the volunteers were in the hands of
the government, and the best the meeting could
DO was to ''adopt temperate and respectful res
olutions, petitionng the president to send the
boys home''
Mrs. S. II. King, of Lincoln, reblied to the
covardly preacher. We do not know this lady,
but from our heart we say, "God bless this no.
bic woman tor her brave words in behalf OF
justice" Just listen to her indignant eloquence:
"The mothers of Nebraska" she declared,
would have more courage than the men. If
the men afraid the mothers were not
The boys from Nebraska had not gone to the
Philippines to fight against peoples liberty.
They were being scandalously treated by the
government, and their relatives and friends
should have the courage to demand and insist
on their immediate discharge"
That heroic woman EXPRESSED the sentiment
of every soldiers mother in Nebraska, and the
opinion of the most of the people. When the
women are united and earnest, their influence
is as irresistible as an Alpine avalanche. The
president should heed the old saw In reference
to the female part of creation: "When she
will, she will; you may depend on t. When
she won't, she won't, and that's the end on ~
She is going to have that boy of hers home
again, and that right away; and if she don't,
she will raise such storm of indignant protest
that this weak. backed, beef-embalming admin
stration will be swept away like flying chat
before the destroying hurricane. Noncon-
formist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
ingalls, Doesn't Like Great Britain.

Following Is short extract from one OF John
]. Ingalls, characteristic letters, written to the
New York Journal:
"The people Of the United States have no
overweening love for Great Britain. We all
know that she is, and always has been, our on
ly political and industrial enemy among the
great powers of the earth. 1t is through no
fault or neglect of hers that the United States
was not blotted from the map. She stands
alone, detached by he1 greed and cruel rapac-
ity, without a friend among the nations. She
has waited long before making overtures. Hav-
ing failed to destroy, she now wishes to Propl-
tiate. 1t will be the morning of better day
for American diplomacy and for the dignity OF
the American people If Ambassador Choate, in
his next, and last, public appearance in Lon
don, or elsewhere In the kingdom, takes occa-
sion to say, with unimpassioned emphasis, that
the malevolent injuries of century have
been neither expiated nor forgotten, and while
we intend to maintain just and anicabe rela-
tions with England, we will neither love nor
fear her.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

The Republican party may as well face the
music. The next great political battle in this
county is going to be against the trusts, and IT
the Republican party cannot, or does not, ind
a way to check them, then the people OF this
country will put some other party in power 1t
NAV be that the issue will not be squarely made
next wear, but it will cut big figure in the
campaign, and when the Republican platform
Is made it will have to be very SPECIFIC on this
question No evasion will do; no generaities
will suffice The voters have made up their
minds that drastic measures must be used, and
they will not be satisfied with milk and water
talk.-Lawrence Journal.
II seems to us there were jnst the same kind
OF editorials in Republican 'arass-collar papers
about the silver question before they swallowed
the GOLD standard. What is the use of making
idle threats? If the Republican party takes the
aide of the trusts, 1t will be proved to the Law
,ence editor that they good thing, and
thew are properly managed and controlled in
the interests of the people.--Topeka State
Ionrual.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

HENRY CLEws has bobbed up again. He al
ways bobs up in crisis. Three years ago, he
bobbed up, and declared that this country had
to have sound money or there would be trouble.
This country has got sound money, and the
trouble is averted Recently, some wicked
people got hot at so many trusts, and Clews,
like the Swiss hero of old, who received the
spears of an Austrian regiment In his abdomen,
plunges into the tnickest of the fight. Mr..
Cews Is ready to die, if only the trusts can live.
In Mr.. Clews' opinion, the trusts, like the
Swiss republic, are great boon to the poor,
great benihcence to the unfortunate, and with.
out them the country would go to the dem
milton bow-wows Or some other hot place. The
question is now settled. We bow to benlfcenoe,
and we give Mr.. Clews great credit for defend
ing that which would shame white man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
Judge Foster Against Expansion.


Judge c. G. Foster whites the following let
ter to the Topeka Capital:
To the Editor of the Capital
That all men are created equal; that they are
endowed with certain inalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness that all governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed, are
fundamental principles of democracy. "The
divine right of kings" is humbug long since
exploded The right SO called, is usurped
power, and somewhere in the line of ancestry
this kingly power was secured by violence or
robbery 1t Is held, not by the consent OF the
governed, and every people governed by an
hereditary ruler have the natural right to re-
claim sovereignty for themselves. Every peo-
pie have the born right to voice in their gov
ern,nent and the choice of their rulers. My
sympathy goes out to every people who raise
the standard of revolt against monarchiaf gov
erninent in the interest of government by the
people, and care not whether that monarchial
government be good or bad. All monarchial
governments are bad on principle, if not in
fact So, when the people of Cuba and the
Philippine islands revolted against the Spanish
crown, was an active synpathizer in the Sue
cess of their cause. Every republic established
among the nations OF the earth strengthens and
vindicates the government of the people by and
for themselves, and we may hope that some
where in the dim future there will come time
when thrones and crowns and scepters will be
unknown. AS a people, we were shocked at
the cruelty imposed on the Cubans by the Span
ish government. The suferings of reconcen-
trados, dying from hunger and disease, was
shock to common humanity. II ostensibly
these wrongs that mpeled cur government to
forcibly interfer: between the Spanish crown
and her colonies; but deeper feeling, though
little expressed, was the recognized right OF all
people to sclf-government. This feeling ap-
piled equally to the Cubaus and the Philippines,
both struggling against hereditary ruler and
ages of oppression. We declared to the world
that our interference was not for self-aggrand-
zenlent or for territory, but was actuated by
the highest sentiments of humanity. 1t was
to relieve people dying from hunger and dis
ease, and we appealed to the world to witness
the sincerity of our motives. Thus it was that
other nations, looking on with unfriendly eyes
at our interference, especially Austria and
France, were placed at disadvantage, though
distrustng our sincerity. But while our patri-
otc people were glorifying the achievements of
Dewey at Manila which placed us among the
great naval powers of the world, there
other element at work on more material and
mercenary line. 1t was that element that puts
trade and commerce above the national honor.
There was money in the tobacco, sugar, hemp
and tropical fruits of those islands. The ad
minlstration, which, up to that time, had only
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
EilipinOS are Well Armed.

A dispatch from London says: "The Mad
rid correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "A
Spanish prisoner recently released by the FIJI
ipinos says that the insurgents have $4,000
rifles, plenty Of ammunition and 200 pieces OF
artillery, some of them the latest patterns OF
quick firing guns. According to his descrlp-
ton Of the situation, they have established two
large cartridge factories and, as it is impossible
70, the Americans to blockade such coast as
that of Luzon, the Filipuos can easily procure
from abroad everything they require. The in.
forlnant asserts that Chinese, European, and
even American merchants doing business in
China, are helping the Filipinos in this way J"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28
Jonrnal.

Were the initiative and referendum in oper-
ot;or in the United States, this would bea gov
erment of the people, by the people and for the
people, and not as it Is now-nerely an incu-
hotor for the Matching of trusts, syndicates and
-obber corporations, who dictate thel decisions
of the courts and snap their fingers in defiance
" law and justice.--Blue Mound Searchlight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

1t Is now a settled fact, and conceded by all
honest Republicans, that the beef fed to our SOL
diers in the southern camps and Cuba was rotten
actually putrid. But how about the inves-
tigating committee and the administration that
appoint them? Have you heard of the prose-
cution of the Armours, the Swifts, the Dolds,
or any of the millionaire packers who had the
meat contracts? We guess not. Those are the
true patriots-the fellows who wanted honest
dollars and contributed to the Republican cam
paign slush fund in 96-to> secure an honest
election, you know.-Blue Mound Searchlight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

session, September 1st, for the purpose of fnan-
cial legislation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-28

Ex-Governor "Dck' Oglesby, of Illinois,
is dead.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-07
loTTcn mol -coNTRAcToRs.

NOTICE. TO
Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water commissioners on
Wednesday,, April u, 1899. at 2 o'clock P NJ, in
the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall, for tha
CONSTRUCTION Of \ MAIN SEWER IN
THE HUDSON CITY DISTRICT.