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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
KANSAS NEWS.
Crop of Potatoes In the KaW
Valley Not Vaiuables
Selling In the City at 10 and
90 Cents a Bushel.
MARKET is GLUTTED.
Farmers Say They Will Not Dig
Them Up
As It Costs More to Market
Them Than Is Received.
is GLUTTED.

Lawrence, July 27.-Irish potatoes,
raised in the Kaw valley, are selling at
10 cents and 20 cents per bushel in Kan
sas City, and the farmers say that
there is no profit in marketing them at
that price.
In proportion to the acreage planted,
the KaW valley probably produces more
potatoes than any other section ofeoun-
try in the world, But there has been a
tremendous yield and the market is
being glutted. As a result, prices have
constantly fallen until the figure now
offered is less than it costs to dig the
potatoes.
The farmers say that they will let
their crops rot in the ground before
they will sell them at a sacrifice, and
millions of bushels of "spuds" may be
lost in this way.
A trainload was recently sent east
highly decorated but the prices received
were discOuraging.
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BAPr1sTs TO MEET.
Co1ored Association to Convene For q
Weeks Meeting at Salina.

Salina. July 27.-The annual conven-
ton of the Central District Baptist as
ISOLATION (colored) will open in SaIina
on Wednesday, August 2, and will last
one week. The sessions will be held in
the Second Baptist church on North
Fifth street, and the public is invited
to attend. The order of exercises will
be as follows:
August 2 and SUNDAY school con-
ventiOn.
Aug Administers and deaeons' IN
ion.
August 5-Woman's Home and For
eign Missionary convention.
August 6. and S-Assoeiation work
The Introductory sermon will be
preached on Sunday, August 6, at II
o'clock, by Rev. Arlington Wilson, of
Kansas City, Kan.
Rev. A Fairfax, Of Parsons Kan.
will preach the closing sermon on Tues
day evening, August 8.
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Declares He Did Not Surrender
to Yellow Press,
But to President Mckinley =
Contradicts Minister Loomis.
WILL TELL THE STORY
OF His Resignation, Unless
False Reports
From Friends of the Admin
istration Shall Cease.

Washington, July Z7.-The reception
in Michigan which Secretary Alger is
promised will no doubt be the occasion
of eulogisttc addresses, in which there
will be plenty of opportunity for others
to say the things that Alger feels. Mem
bers of the administration are some
what sensitive over the criticisms which
have appeared on the manner in which
Ayers resignation was secured. They
will not discuss the subject, and every
effort is being made to send Alger home
in as good humor as possible. Unfortu-
nately, however, some of the friends of
the president have taken it upon them
selves to deny the story of Ayers res
ignation.
United States Minister Frank Loom
is, from Venezuela, now in Springfield,
O., is quoted in the Philadelphia Press
today in the claim that he was the only
other person present when Secretary
Alger resigned, and that he knew that
the president did not request the res
ignation. On the contrary, according
to Minister LOOMS statement, Alger
resigned because the country was
against him, and he realized that it
was necessary that he should quit the
cabinet.
This publication has not tended to
sooth Secretary Alger- He declared
before leaving for Pennsylvania, in fiat
contradiction of Mr.. LOOMS, that no
outsider was present when he handed
his resignation to the president. Mr..
LOOMS, he says, was not in the room,
and was not visible anywhere near the
room. The secretary also remarked
wickedIy:
Minister LOOMS evidently does not
know who surrendered to the yellow
press. did not. I surrendered to the
president
This is all Gen. Alger has to say at
present, but he intimates plainly that if
further false reports concerning his res
ignation appear he will be compelled to
tell the full story. with all the details
of his conversation in Vice President
Hobart's cottage at Long Branch
week ago.
AS already stated, the clamor of Sen
ator McAIillan's friends against Alger
as rival candidate, and the support
of Governor Pingree, induced the other
members of the cabinet to form an alh-
ance against him. They persuaded the
president to ask for his resignation.
But the president could not break his
word, and did not ask Alger to resign.
Attorney General Griggs was directed
to commission Vice President Hobart,
as the agent, to bring about the desired
result. The resignation was asked, not
because of any fault in the manage
ment of the war department, but be
cause Alger was a candidate for sena-
tor in alliance with Pingree, who was
no friend of the administration.
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MUCH DISTURBED.
Situation In Tranavaal Unsettled and
Still Serious.

Johannesburg. July PA rumor is cur
rent that the Rad at first refused to ac-
cept President Krueger's resignation only
by the chairman casting a vote Anyway
the dynamite company appears to be
alarmed at the apparent determination of
the volksraad to cancel the monopoly and
has submitted to the government propos-
ais for the reduction of the prices of dyna-
mite gelatine These are accompanied,
however, by certain stipulations, one be-
ing that the reduction should be depend
emit on the annual sale of 2500O0 cases.
The volksraad adjourned the discussion of
these proposals.
It is stated that the executive council
at Pretoria has adopted the new distri-
button proposal giving the Witwater Rand
gold fields ten members in the volksTaad
instead of four, and additional six
mem bers for KIerksdorp, Heidelberg and
PetchefStroom.
An immense meeting of outlanders held
here last night adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the franchise law as wholly in
adequate and demanding effective guar
antees and a proper distribution scheme.
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INDIAN ASPHALT LEASES.
Interested Parties Seek Government
Approval


South McAlester, I. T., July Elm
terested parties are now in Washing
ton consulting. with the Indian Office
in regard to the approval of asphalt
leases in the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Nations. Thus far no asphalt leases
have been made in either of the two
nations and it is dou btfu1 whether any
Will be. Notwithstanding the decision Of
Attorney General -Vandevanter that the
secretary clearly has an undisputed
right to approve such leases if submit
ted to the department in proper form.
Thus far IS coal leases have been
approved in the Chickasaw and Choc-
taw Nations. Thirty were secured by
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Rail
way company and eight by John F.
McMulling. Each Of these leases COM
prise $50 acres. The royalty paid to
the tribe being 10 cents per ton. Sew
eral additional applications for coal
leases have been recently received, but
have been returned for the approval of
the mineral trustees.
The figures which will be sent. in to
J. George Wright, United States Indian
inspector, who is making inquiry as to
the criminal statistics of the territory,
with the view of urgiag before the pro-
per departments the needs of a peni-
tertiary in the Indian Territory, will be
taken from the prosecuting attorney re-
ports as sent to the attorney general,
and is in part as follows: Convictions
319; committed to the penitentiary los;
the sentences ranging from one year
and one day to life
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INDIA LOSING MONEY.
It Is Being Shipped and Sold as Scrap
Metal

New York July 27.-The steamship
Cevic brought to this city 1899 bags,
or $50 tons of copper coins from India,
consigned to the Oxford Copper com
pany. The coins will be melted over for
refining purposes. as they are imported
as copper scrap. 1t is explained that
the coins are worth more as copper than
as coins with the price of copper stand
ing at or about the present value of
IS so for lake.
The statement is made that when cop
per stood at 10 cents there was a profit
IN coming for the Indian government,
prices ruling for copper. 1t is said that
the copper coins of China can also be
imported and melted into copper at a
profit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27

Downs and Cawker are pulling hair
over the Atchison ball club. Downs Of
fered 500 and expenses for game
between Atchison and Emporia at
Downs, July q. and the offer was &C
cepted. Then Cawker offered Atchison
$40 for game with the Cawker club
on July IS Figuring that the Downs
tickets could be used (Cawker is only a
few miles from Downs), the offer for
the 26th was accepted. This made
Downs jealous and the Missouri Pacific
was ordered not to deliver the tickets to
the Atchison ball club until tomorrow
morning which will be too late to start
for Cawker. Cawker was informed of
this move, and telegraphed that tickets
would be furnished if necessary; that
Cawker must have the Atchison ball
club.-AtchiSon Globe.
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IN A NEW ROLE.
"Best Citizens" Save a Negro From a
Mob

BainbFidge. Ga, July 27.-On account
of the excited state of the people here
Sheriff Patterson last night took the
negro John Williams, in Jail here, whose
life has been clamored for by a mob for
two days to Thomasville for safe keep
ing. Under guard of two companies of
militia, which arrived here in the morn
ing, between lines OF. jeering people the
negro was taken to the depot and put
on board a Plant line train. 1t is
thought the trouble is over.
The action of the leading citizens of
the town in confronting the mob as it
marched to the jail saved the life of
Williams. The lynching party. with
dynamite and telegraph poles for bat
tering rams was on its way to the jail
when Judge Bower and two other gen
tlemen stopped the mob and pleaded
with them to let the law takes its
course. Judge Bower promised a spec
ial term to try Williams and promised
speedy justice. After some replies from
members of the mob they finally dis
banded and the night was passed in
quiet.
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DUMMY WAS BURIED.
According to Claims of Insurance
People In the Case of Thomas
Chage.

Bristol, Tenn, July 27.-During Feb
ruary last Thomas Chase,a farmer aged
about As and residing at AIilligan, Car
ter county, Tenn, was reported as hav-
ing died of Ia grippe, after an illness of
a few days. On the following day a
simple funeral occurred, and what was
supposed to be the remains of the farm
er were inferred in the country church.
yard at Miligan. A few days later it
was announced in the local press that
Chase's life was insured for $50, 600.
This was correct, and later the several
insurance companies in which his diff
ferent policies were written deposited
the money in the banks of Knoxville
and Johnson City, Tenn, to be paid to
the widow of the insured.
Mrs. Chase received about S., geo of
the insurance, it is stated, but the
banks have just been enjoined, through
Chancellor Smith, of Johnson City, from
paying over the balance of the funds.
In their application for an injunction
the attorneys for the insurance eompa-
MES alleged that fraud had been perpe-
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Pensions For Kannans.

Washington, July Extensions have
been granted as follows:
OriginaI-Wm. A. Irwin, Carbondale
S.; John Ingram, National Military
home, Leavenworth, Sc; Henry Schort
Parsons, SO.
Additional-samuel Beck, Gaylord,
81 to SO.
Restoration and increase-Noah w.
Lucas, F'redonia. Sc to $40; Samuel III.
Baker, Prairie View, SO to SIT.
Increase-Xm- H. Hadley. Cotton
wood Falls, IS to $40.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Grfst, Peck, IS; Da-
vid E. Moore, Coffeyville, S14.
Original widows, etc.-Christina Nj
hart, Louisville, IS; Mary A. Turner,
Urbana, IS.
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AN UNUSUAL WOMAN.
Went to Jail Rather Than Answer 8
Question Asked Her.

Wheeling. w. Va. July 27.-On July
5 the body of Louis Dittmore was found
floating in the river. Marks showed
that the man had been killed and
thrown into the water to divert sus-
picion. Two days later the authorities
arrested Joe Driller and Mrs. Parker,
two shanty boat jewellers, on suspicion
of having committed the murder. A
week ago the preliminary trial was to
have taken place. Mrs. Parker was put
on the stand, but her attorney objected
to having her testify on the ground that
she might incriminate herself. The state
asked for her dismissal. but held her
as a witness against DrilIer for the
hearing today. When she appeared on
the stand her attorney Instructed her
not to talk, and held to the court that
the state was acting in bad faith, as
she could be arrested at any time after
her testimony had been given.
The court ordered her to answer
which was refused, and in consequence
she was committed to jail. and the
state is baked in its case until such
time when Mrs. Parker Will testify
against or for DrilIer
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trated to obtain the insurance money,
and that the insured had proba bly,
been made the victim of hypnotism
on the part of some person or persons
in collision with the wife of Chase.
1t is claimed that a wax figure was
inferred and pronounced to be the body
of Chase; that the insurance had been
obtained in the first place by misrep-
seen alive in Knoxville, Tenn, two
months after his reported death.
1t was reported at the time Chase
was supposed to have died that he
showed signs of being under hypnotic
influence and that when he was being
prepared for burial he arose from the
bed and talked with those about him,
but expired a few minutes later.
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NOT A BAD THING.
Weyler Thinks Revolution Is Some
times Beneficial

Madrid, July 27-The discussion oPrthe
army bill in the senate led to an exciting
scene. General Weyler, arguing against
any reduction of the strength of the army
warned the government that the present
situation made a revolution highly prob
able, since it had never been so easy for
the army and the people to make common
cause. He himself, he said, had never
thought of heading a rising, but it must
be confessed that revolutions sometimes
cleared the political atmosphere and ac-
compIished the work of regeneration.
Senior Dato. minister of the Interior re-
plying, severely censured General Weyler
declaring that a general who, with 300, 900
men. had failed to suppress the Cuban re-
belIion had no right to make such threats
and that any attempt at revolution, no
matter by whom. would be proceeded
against with the utmost rigor of the law.
The senators warmly applauded Senior
Dato's speech. The army bill was adopt
ed
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aruiabi1ity to the very end.
Thousands of women fail of this for one
great prevalent reason. While they resort
to every device to preserve their beauty of
complexion by external applications and
possibly take the best care of their general
health, they are too frequently utterly neg
1ectfuI of their health in a special wornanly
way. No woman can remain beautiful at
tractive or annab1e, who suffers from weak
ness and disease ofkhe delicate and import
ant feminine organism. A woman who
suffers in this way will lose her clearness
of complexion, her eyes will BECOME dull,
worry and pain will mark her face with
wrinkles and she will become nervous
sick1y, fretfuI and Respondent There is a
sovereign remedy for all troubles of this
description. 1t is DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription.
Ny illness was caused by lack of medical at
of three years. during which my suffering was
almost indescribab1e,'' writes Mrs Edith Petty.
of Texanna. Cherokee Nat, Ind Ter. . Owing
to the injuries received-rupture, internal dis
placement, etc, became physical wreck. I
was in a constant state of pain and nervous col
Ny heart affected and I had spells of palpi-
tatiou and snothcriug- Was reduced in strength
and could take no solid food. The doctors told
that recovery was i'm POSSIBLE without a
Eica1 operation. Ny monthly periods ceased en-
tirefy. My mother bought bottle of DR.. Pierces
Thanks to an A11-wise Providence and Doctor
Pierce's medicines, the symptoms have all dis
appeared can HOW do hard days work, eat
anything and everything wish. regard nay
recovery permanent. for it is nearly two years
since stopped taking DR.. Pierces medicines"
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go CaIandar.

The Santa FTe route has Issued a hand
some six months calendar, July to De-
cember, 1899, which contains six sepa-
rate reproductions in color, ski inches
Of z. A. Burbank's celebrated portraits
of Pueblo Indians; one for each month
These are the same reproductions used
in Brush and Pencil. and cannot be
obtained separately for less than 81 So
In fact some of them already command
a high premium. The Aztec Calendar
also has an engraved cover containing
a reproduction of the ancient Aztec cal
endar stone. Obtainable for 25 cents by
applying to W. J. Black, general pass
enger agent. A.. 7. & S. +. Ry Topeka
kan. Nay be ordered by mail.
Get our prices before you have rubber
tires put on your vehicle. Rehxopf's
Carriage factory, 207-209 W. 9Th st,
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Dairy Farmers Institutes.

Abilene July 27.-The farmers of this
county have secured Secretary Coburn,
Professor willard and Professor Cot
trell to hold three institutes next
month, one each at Woodbine, Enter
prise and Navarro, devoted to cream
cry interests. Local speakers will also
have a part on the programme.
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YOODOO DANCES
Inaugurated by the Blacks at Chat
tanooga-TheY Use Tom-Toms.

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 27.-The ne
groes of Chattanooga and vicinity have
inaugurated the ancient voodoo dances
and the entire negro community has
gone wild on the subject. Negroes
have congregated from as far as Ala
bana and Mississippi to participate in
the weird exercises and worship. The
city is full of excited eolored people,
drawn here by the news which has
gone forth. Several hundred Of the
negroes started dancing to the accom-
paniment of torn-toms and other like
instruments, and will continue to do 50
until their physical strength is COM
pletely spent.
The applicants for membership in the
band take their seats in the middle Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
is 1T RIGHT
For an Editor to Recommend FRtent
Medicines
From the Sylvan ,ya4lley News, Brevrad.

FROM the sylvan Valley News, BrevTad.
It may be a question whether the editor
of q newspaper has the right to publicly
recommend any of the various proprietary
medicines which food the market. yet as
a preventive Of suffering we feel it a duty
to say a good word for Chamberlain's
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
We have known and used this medicine
in our family for twenty years and have
always found it reliable. In many cases
a dose of this remedy would save hours of
suffering while a physician is awaited. We
do not believe in depending implicitly Oh
any medicine for a cure, but We do be-
lieve that If a bottle of Chamberlain
Diarrhoea Remedy were kept on hand
and administered at the inception of an
attack much suffering might be avoided
and in very many cases the presence of a
physician would not be required At least
this has been our experience during the
last twenty years For sale by all drug
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To ExTEND ,pHoNE LINE.
a Line Will Be Built From Council
Grove to Salina.

Herington. July g7@The Central
Kansas Telephone company has under
consideration a line between Council
Grove and Salina, Kan, which will be
completed on or about the 18th of Aug
ust. This will connect practically all
the towns in Morris, Dickinson and Sa-
line counties.
The Harrington Telephone company,
which is owned by the Central Kansas
Telephone company, and r. s. Oakford
of Herington have IS phones in sue
cessful operation and are putting in
new ones every day. The Harrington
exchange will doubtless reach 100
phones by this fall
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THREE TRANSPORTS SAIL.
With Regulars and Recruits For
Otis ARMY

San Francisco, July .27.-Three transports
sailed for Manila early this morning They
We're the Ohio and Newport, which left
the dock shortly after midnight filled with
recruits and regulars, and the Tacoma
o'clock. The latter had been taken out
into the stream during the night
Four companies of the Nineteenth IN
fantry, comprising about 500 men, were
evenly distributed on board the Newport
and Ohio, besides several hundred re
eruits. The Tacoma took 800 horses for
the Fourth cavalry.
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Track LAYER killed.

Caney, July III. S. Palmer, a
Santa Fe track layer, fell between the
cars of a work train at Dewey, sixteen
miles south of here, Wednesday, and
was so badly injured that he died an
hour later. He and some companions
were racing to see who could get off
the train the quickest. His home was
at Corsicana. Tex
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NAIL FOR SOLDIERS.
Must Be Forwarded Rapidly and
Without Extra Charge.

Washington, July 27.-Postmaster Cen
eral Charles Emory Smith has issued an
forwarding from place to place of all mail
matter of any. kind addressed to persons
connected with the army, navy, marine
corps or other branch of the public serv-
ice, serving in or en- route to or from
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Guam or the
Philippines, or to persons in the govern
nent service in the United States whose
change of address is caused by official
orders No additional postage is to be
required, as is usually done.
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WAS GOING TO ELOPE.
Young Kentuckian Kills His wife
and Himself

Louisa, Ky, July 27.-Beeause his
wife was about to eIope Jesse Adams
last night shot and killed her and then
fatally shot himself The tragedy took
place fifteen miles southwest of here,
at their home. Adams had been Jealous
of a man named Kitchen, a former
member of the Second United States
infantry, and Just before the killing he
had eavesdropped and overheard plans
for an elopement of the woman with
Kitchen. They had been married four
years and had two children.
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Maaoagnrs Hymn to Dewey.

Rome, July ga hymn which Pietro
Mascagni, the composer Of 'Cavalleria
Rusticana," tL'Anieo Fritz" and other
Admiral Dewey was performed for the
first time at Pesaro last night. The
audience numbered 1900 persons The
victories. is generally considered very
fine
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FOUND HIM DEAD.
Sad Fate of Little Boy Playing In a
Wheat Elevator.

Solomon. July 27-David Simpson.
aged u years, son of the manager of
the Santa Fe elevator, jumped into the
wheat bin in play and was sucked I'M
der by the flow Of wheat into car.
The side of the elevator was cut out to
rescue him, spilling thousands of bush
els Of wheat, but he was dead when
found
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Fusion In Jefferson.

OskaIoosa, July 27.-The PopuIists
have named the following ticket for
county officers: Treasurer, Neil Nc
LeOd; register of deeds, Perry Brum-
stetter; sheriff, Chas. E Golden; clerk,
NJ NJ Maxwell; surveyor, G. w Steep
er: coroner, DR.. VanMeer; commits
sioner First district, BENZ. Wilson. The
Democrats have put out the same tick
af
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RECRUITS COMING FAST.
Sixty or Seventy Day Reache Leav-
enworth - Largely From Missouri.

Leavenworth, July 27.-There are now
500 recruits at Fit. Leavenworth for the
Thirty-second volunteer regiment and
they are coming in at the rate of 60 or
20 a day. Most of the recruits are from
stations established in country towns.
and Missouri is furnishing more than
half of them. Two battalions have been
formed and the recruits are put through
company drill morning and evening.