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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20

George sterns left for Jewell Junction
this morning to attend the Webster City
Association of Congregational Churches
as delegate from the church at this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20

Steamboat Rock.
Special to Times Republican.
Steamboat Rock. Sept. 2o.-John Will
hanson returned Saturday evening
from two weeks visit at Wyoming
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20
THE VETERANS REUNION.

Twenty Second, Twenty Fourth
ana Twenty -eighth Hold Encamp-
y,,e~f at Jnxvn CITY
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FENcE-pAuBTNe.

From the ROST-DlSpalcn.I
Mr.. John A. Lee, ex-president of the
Travellers Protective association, COM
menting on the wastefuIness of a GER
tain style of advertising, which has
been extensively used by some of the
industrial and commercial concerns that
have gone into the trusts, and which he
characterizas as fence-daubing, says:
Hundreds of millions of money have
been squandered in that way until a
suffering public has been nauseated
with It's obstrusiveness. We venture to
ssate that not one man or woman in ten
thousand any longer pays any attention
TO fence, barn or poster advertising be-
yond hasty glance at It, followed by
a feeling of resentment at its brazenness
of bad taste"
It might be added that the fence
daubing advertiser has absolutely no
check upon his veracity or truthworthi-
ness. If he attempted to advertise in
a reputable newspaper he would discov-
er that there was a limitation placed
upon his efforts in the line of fraudu-
lent representations. Such a newspaper
will not accept advertising which bears
prima facie evidence of an attempt to
deceive the public
But there is no one to guard the pur-
chaser from the wiles of the ubiquitous
fence-dauber- He is a defacer of the
beauties of nature. And the facts he
presents to the public may be the gros-
sest impOsitions.
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1T MAKES GOMEZ TIRED.
TO See the Way His Soldiers scram
BILE For Money.

Havana, July 27.-In an interview
with General Gomez, printed in La
Lucia, the Cuban commander was
quoted as saying:
Never has a plague more affecting
fallen upon Cuba than the So. 600 600
asked from President Mckinley for the
Cuban soldiers. The money has been
the cause of Ill will among those who,
by right and justice, should be eternally
united.
1T was thought at first that it ought
not to have been received as it was a
dishOnor to the Cubans. The aspect is
changed now and it should cause pain
to see wandering through Havana, sold
iers begging for what it was supposed
they would refuse with serenity.
1.-The formation of the supplementary
lists of persons incapacitated in the war
and the work of payment has already
cost $4,000. This money was furnished
by Governor General Brooke as the Gu
bans do not possess the ground upon
which they tread. Those who do not
know the work and the expense involved
are naturally impatient and hold re-
spOnsible some one who in no way
helped to get the money nor asked any
one to receive it.
Those whose names appear on the
supplementary lists, should not be paid
before those who are on the original
lists, so as to preserve order.
LAS the money was the gift of the
American government I am panied by
the interest shown by my soldiers, who
were trained to go hungry on their
march to liberty. The republic will pay
them, but when is uncertain. Impat-
fence will not further matters much"
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canal on it's various levels and yet not
affect the water supply of manufacture
ing concerns now using various rivers.
Mr.. Rafter plans a great dam at Car
thage, on the Black river, in Jefferson
county, making a lake covering so
square miles of land to feed the ca
nal.
From this reservoir Mr.. Rafter has 10
Gated canal nine miles long, as wide
as the Erie, to the proposed ship canal,
just west of Rome and on the way
down has planned a secondary reservoir
in the Salmon river. The commissions
work also include a similar survey for
a canal of the same character, leaving
the st. Lawrence river at the head Of
the Coteau Rapids and thence into and
through Lake Champlain.
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NARA.
(From Travel.)

(F'rou Travel.)
We went through Nara beautiful old
town that was the capital of Japan ten
hundred years ago, but has now the
drowsy quiet of a sleepy cathedral city.
Every place in the world, ike every
man and every woman, has an 1ndiVldu-
atty And the individuality of Nara IS
like that of a beautiful-souled nun VINO
has grown old, yet whom the cares Of the
Wrinkled countenance has ever a serene
smile That's Nara. Civilization has not
made it conventional and shoddy. The
tourist skips it in his rambles. 1t is old
Japan in loneliness.
It was holy day in the Shinto religion
when we were there, and every enid
born that day was counted a year older
than a child born the day before or the
next day. Thousands of pilgrims had
come to visit the shrines There were
gaunt-cheeked old men in octagonal-shap-
ed hats and long gray silk robes mob
bling their STATS from temple to tenn
pie. ShaYen-headed, yellOW-robed Bud
hist priests walked with solemn mien
through the silent avenues BuncheS OF
Japanese maidens, Winsome to look upon,
hobbied on tiny clogs, their arms about
one anOther's shoulders The trees arch
ed long branches over the path, and from
the knee-deep bracken came jumping the
does, running unaffrighted and pushing
their nostrils into ones hand snifhng for
cakes. The deer live friendly with man
kind. They roam in the woods and lanes
by day. At SHUTDOWN there is bugle
call, and they come with sprightly leap
for the evenings meal and shelter IN the
StOckade-
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The safest way to pass couaterfei
money Is on the opposite side OF tn
street.
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AN EXPERT ON CYCLONES.

The year book of the department of
agriculture for 1898, which is just out,
contains an article by F. H. Bigelow,
professor of meteoroIogy in the weather
bureau on the subject of Cyclones,
Hurricanes and Tornadoes.'' There are
some portions of the United States,
Prof. Bigelow says, such as the Rocky
Mountain plateau and slope, which are
free from tornadoes, but in the central
valleys they are of annual occurrence,
and they are likely to visit almost any
Of the states east of the Mississippi
river. In the winter months they occur
only IN the gulf states, but as the
weather grows warmer they extend
northward and in the summer they are
of the greatest frequency in Nebraska,
South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota
More tornadoes occur in May and June
than in any other months of the year.
as the contrasts of temperature neces-
sary to their production are then most
frequent. There is no practical way of
warding them off. There is no probable
ity that they are more frequent now
than before the country was settled. The
average number of tornadoes which are
well-defined and destructive, Prof. Bige-
low says. is about twenty-five and their
frequency is quite uniform from year
to year. The destructive tornadoes of
great violence have been twenty-four in
eight years-that is three each year.
From 1889 to 1896, property to the value
Of S31. 600, 900 was wrecked by tornadoes,
as much as S23, OOO, O0o of this damage
being effected by three tornadOes which
passed through regions Of dense popu-
lation. These were the Louisville tor
nado of March q, 1890. which destroyed
property to the value of $4,000. o00 the
St Louis tornado of May q, 1886, from
which the loss was 81. 900; and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
AS TWEEp,s COUNSEL.
Elihu Root Was Strongly censured
by Judge Davis.
New York. JuIy 27.-The HeraId pub

New York, July 27.-The Herald pub
fishes the following;
Elihu Root is one of the most sue
cessful corporation lawyers in the city.
He first came into prominence as one
Of the counsel for William NJ Tweed in
1873, when he Joined with William
Fullerton, John Graham, Willard o.
Bartlett, William Bartlett and William
Eggleston in requesting Judge Noah
Davis to send the case to some other
judge, on the ground that their client
could not get fair trial before Judge
Davis.
Fullerton, Graham and Willard o.
Bartlett were fined $3.50 each by Judge
Davis, who, because of their youth
merely censured Root, William Bartlett
and Eggleston.
However good a thing it may be to
be known as successful and great law
yers," said Judge Davis to them at is
even better thing to be known as
honest men, and there is no incompati-
bility whatever in the possession of
these two titles
Richard Croker, in the campaign last
fall, made a savage attack upon Mr.
Root, who was advocating the re-elec-
ton of Judge Joseph F. DAILY. Mr.. Gro
ker asserted that Mr.. Root had received
from Tweed four lots in Madison ave-
nue. at a nominal consideration of $780,
600" and from Thomas H IngersoIl
who was convicted with Tweed, one lot
for nominal consideration of $40, -
When Mr.. Root was asked if he had
any reply to make he said:
MOT a word. I shall have nothing TO
say now or at any other time. I shall
ignore the whole matter"
Mr.. Root in 1885, when the senate was
investigating the Broadway franchise
steal, was counsel for G. P. FrOthing-
ham and others who had invested in
the securities of the Broadway road
The franchise had been granted illegal
~, and the question was whether it be-
! longed to the people or to the investors
The securities finally passed into the
hands of the Metropolitan Traction
company, of which Mr.. Root is the chief
| counsel.
Mr.. Root has been an Independent Re
publican in local politics, and for many
years was one of the leaders in the
! fight against the Platt machine He
| was brought into line by the Roosevelt
campaign, when he became Col. Roose-
velt's counsel and one of his advisers
! He was consulted frequently by Gov
| ernor Roosevelt when the new admin
istration began, but the governor ceased
/ to seek his advice during the fight over
| the Amsterdam avenue grab.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

S. NJ. frey and wife have decided to
w. P. frey all their rights and claims
in the estates of William frey and
John s. frey. The conveyance is a
quit claim deed and the consideration
is 81, 900. All the parties live in Roanoke,
Va.
John S. frey and William frey for
merly lived in Topeka and were well
known as eccentric characters. The for
mer died few months ago. and his es-
tate includes a large amount of Tope-
ka property.
other real estate transfers are:
Jno. G. Egan to J. J Swink $3.50, lots
SO, SO and 100, 18th street, Throop's 3rd
add
Sarah D. Wright ct al to Mrs c. H.
Green, $500, part northwest 4 25-11-15.
Alma A. Goodenow and husband to
Laura Henderson, s., 1000. lots IS and 20,
Jackson street, Weinburger's addition.
VIM N. Fisher and wife to P. NJ.
Mitchell. $3.50, lot SO and north u IS
Madison street, Cranes addition.
VIM. D. Hale as receiver. to CODE and
McKinnon, lots Ala Quincy street, Ritch-
les addition, and lots 3, 5 and T. block 1,
Golden avenue, RussePs Meadow Side
addition
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
JAYHAWKER JoTs.

Wichita has Joined the street fair
class.
Newton's carnival queen contest has
reached the exciting stage already.
Only three people in Haskell county
showed their gold watches to the as
SCISSORS.
Salina is greatly elated over the dis
covery Of a fine brick clay in that vi
cinity.
the Franklin county fair this year, with
SO, Sc and 81 prizes.
Corn is so tail in some localities this
year, that spy glass is necessary to
see If it has "tassled out"
Out at Kiowa horses are lariated in
the business streets, and some of the
citizens want an ordinance passed to
stop it.
A Wichita girl thought she had been
investigation was made the intruder
proved to be a plain, ordinary, plug
bedbug.
There is an onion patch near Law
renee where 200 boys and girls are en-
plOyed harvesting" onions and it is
said that the work viii last some time.
Just think what a delightful odor all
those onions will make!
Down in Sumner county it is said
the school boards reduced the wages of
the country school teachers AS a re-
suit the teachers went into other lines
of work and now there is a shortage of
switch wielders down there.
In addition to running a newspaper,
the versatile editor of the Cimarron
Jacksonian also runs a race horse. He
took the horse down to Meade the other
day and says ne cleaned up all the
loose change in town besides a $50
purse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
KANSAS FRUIT.
Secretary Barnes Reports rs 1858
Bearing Apple Trees.

Secretary William H. Barnes of the
State Horticultural society has issued
the following report concerning Kansas
fruit:
AppIes-Bearing trees in state 1888. =
1858; IS counties aggregating 6.931, 159 of
bearing trees report the average at 4715
per cent.
Pears-Bearing trees 1860 in the
state; 49 counties aggregatfng 1880 of
these bearing trees report an average
crop of 80 per cent.
Notwithstanding trees 4. 053, 1852 in the
state; IA counties reported, averaging
80 per cent.
Plums-Bearing trees 63S, PA in the
state; SO counties aggregating a. large
majority of these reported an average
of 40 % per cent.
Grapes-Acreage in state 1854 acres;
SO counties aggregating about q of this
area, give an average of 20 81 per cent
Trees throughout the state are making
vigorous growth and those injured but
not killed by the extreme cold weather
of February last are fast recuperating.
and bid fair to be heard from next year.
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tornado hurricane of September 29, 1896,
which Travelled from Cedar Keys to
Washington, D. c., doing damage to the
amount of $1,000. OOO The rotatory We
locity of the st. Louis tornado was 175
miles per hour To produce the effects
observed in the case of the Eads bridge
and heavy buildings which it destroyed
it must have exerted a pressure Of go to
30 pounds to the square foot. The in
ference regarding the strength of build
ings, Prof. BigelOw says. is that they
ought to be able to resist a pressure of
at least forty pounds per square foot,
applied literally; but he adds that
nothing which can be built is likely to
Withstand the vortex of tornado when
1t operates in its full power.
Eastern people and those Of the Pa
cific coast who have regarded Kansas
as the home of the cyclone will take
notice that the state is not included in
Prof. BigeloW's AREA of greatest fire.
Quency.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
INTEREST IN REUNION.
Many Applications For Privileges
Being Received.

Major Shreve, secretary of the reun-
ion committee, is receiving many appt-
cations from different parties for priv
ileges on the reunion grounds during the
G. A. r. reunion this year. They come
from rry-go-rounds, shooting CALLER
les, shows of different kinds, and all
the different amusements that go to
make up veritable midway
Applications are also coming in from
bands that want to be engaged to play
during the reunion. These applications
are all turned over to Major Anderson,
as chairman of the committee on music.
Walter McCray, leader of the Nickerson
Normal College band, wants to bring
his band TO Topeka at the time OF the
reunion, and John Capper, manager Of
the Sons of Veterans band of Lyndon,
which played in Topeka at the last re-
union, also wants to come back this
year.
Mr. McCray of the Nickerson band,
won first prize as cornet soloist at the
Hutchinson jubilee this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
AROUND NIAGARA.
Plans For Great Ship Canal Joining
Lakes and Ocean.

Albany, N Y, July 27.-Engineer
George w. Rafter. in charge of the sur
vey for the proposed ship canal from
the great lakes to the Atlantic ocean
has completed his preliminary work
and drawn his report. The project is to
cut a canal 80 feet deep and $40 feet
wide which is three and one-third times
the depth and five times the width of
the Erie canal from Lake Erie to Lake
Ontario around Niagara Falls, leaving
Lake Onterio at Oswego, through the
Oswego river to Oneida lake thence
Hudson river. A single lock will be a
thousand feet long with walls over so
feet high.
The greatest problem has been to find
storage for water to feed this great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
THE NEWSBOYS' STRIKE.
Two New York Evening Papers Are
Being Boycotted.

New York, July 27.-The newsboys' strike
against the Evening Journal and Evening
World has been in turbulent evidence.
The small boys will not sell those pa
perS, but are pushing sales of the others,
Particularly the Evening Telegram, which
is. the afternoon edition of the Herald;
There are some Worlds and Journals on
sale in Park Row, but the vendors in
every case are big, husky young men, who
are too strong armed to be interfered with
by the youthful strikers. Not a small boy
can be seen with the boycotted papers,
however, and most of them have pinned
on the front of their caps a scrap of pa
per scrawled with. Pleas do not bye the
Journal nor the World There were sew
eraI fights in the City Hall park when
some Independent youngsters attempted to
sell the interdicted publications and frag-
ments of them were scattered about all
over the place One young gentleman of
about 13 years of age climbed on a pack
ing case opposite the postoffce and
harangued a crowd of some hundreds of
boys and men, but was moved on by an
unsympathetic POLICEMAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
STEWARDS PLAN
For Insuring the Election of United
States Senators

Washington July Ex-senator Stew
art of Nevada said today that in order
to obViate the apparent necessity of an
amendment to the constitution to insure
at all times a full representation Of
states in the United States senate at
the next session of congress he would
offer relief by legislation which the sem
ator says may prove satisfactory He
proposes that the following para graph
be added at the end OF section Is, title
2, chapter l, of the revised statutes:
IF on the third Tuesday after the
organization of the legislature no per-
son has received such majority then
on that day or any succeeding day the
person receiving the plurality of the
votes cast, a majority of all the mem
bers elected to both houses being pres
ent and voting, shall be declared
elected"
This he believes will meet the necessi-
ties of the case and insure the election
of a United States senator in every
state at the time specified by law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
ENGINEER KILLED.
Two Accidents on the Santa Fe Pacific
Railroad.

Albuquerque, M, July 27-Two SER
ious accidents have just occurred on
the Santa Fe-Pacif1c. At Angel station,
the fourth section of a freight train,
coming east, ran into the third section,
and Engineer Richard Baird was in
stantly killed. His fireman jumped
just as the big engine plowed into the
cabOose of the third section and escaped
with a few bruises. At McLelland sid
ing on the San Francisco mountains,
near Williams, an engine and IL cars
jumped the track and piled up on each
other down a long embankment. Six
cars were loaded with oil tanks of the
Union Tank line, and the oil was lost.
The wreck was caused by a broken
wheel on a car next to the engine. One
of the brakemen, name unknown, was
badly hurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27

Mr.. Dean r. Low, the originator of
the scheme to give Society Circus for
the purpose of raising funds with which
to seat the new city hall, is a, promising
young man ofTopeka and is well known
both in society and business circles.
He is a graduate of Kenyon college and
came to Topeka in 1888. Mr.. Low has
originated and helped to carry to a sue
cessful ending many schemes that have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
SOMETHING Is WRONG.
Seems to Be No Place For Incorrigl-
BILE Carter Mann.

Carter Mann, the boy who was SEN
fenced to the reform school by Judge
Hazen a few days ago, has been refused
admfttance to the school by the author
tiles in charge. They claim that he is
too old to be sent there.
This is not the first time the boy has
had the same experience. Last Febru-
airy he was sentenced to the reform
school for petty thieving and was refus-
ed adTnittance by the former superin-
tendent. He was allowed to go free and
get into more mischief, and there seems
to be no place to send him this time,
either. He is not of the class that are
sent to the state reformatory, so that
there seems to be no place for him. At
present he is at large on bond.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
POOR WACLAW.
His Wife Does Not Give Him Enough
to Eat, He Says

After treading the path of life by her
side for nearly half a century, Waclaw
Fladky has concluded that he wants a
divorce from his wife, Katherine Had
ky whom he made his bride away back
in Bohemia one bright May morning in
1855.
Mr. Hladky owns farm up near
Rossville. He is 81 years old and says
that he is sick and weak, and suffers
from heart disease and other ailments.
He says in his petition that his two
boys aged 80 and 81 years, live at
home, and that they conspire with their
mother to make life miserable for him
He claims they have entire control of
his property; that they do not give him
enough to eat, and that he can no longer
live with them. For that reason he has
applied for a divorce and for a division
of his property In addition to his
Homestead, he owns lots 26S, 270 and 272
on Polk street, and lots 1855 and 157 on
Topeka avenue in North Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27

The Minneapolis Tribune takes a ros-
cate view of the unusual number Of
strikes prevailing all over the country:
Strikes are a sign of good times. There
are few strikes in hard times, because
often the employer would rather shut
down than run at a loss simply for the
sake of helping his employees to feed
and clothe their families. There are
more strikes in good times than in bad,
because in good times there is more
likely to be something in the business
to strike for.
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been a pleasure and benefit to the citi-
zens Of Topeka.
Mr.. Low is the author of several
plays and light comedies and was in
strumental in starting the Topeka ORA
matte club, of which he is now presi-
dent and business manager. He is at
present spending a great deal of his
time arranging the details of the So
ciety Circus, all of which is under his
personal supervision. Mr.. Low has
chosen law as his profession and hopes
to become one of Topeka's prominent
ATTORNEYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
Funeral Notice.

The funeral of Bro. Hiram W. Farms
dence. No. POI Topeka avenue, Friday
afternoon, July %. at o'clock. Mem
bers of Topeka lodge No. II, A F. and
A M are requested to meet promptly
at Masonic hall at p. m. All visiting
brothers, Master NIasons, are fraternal-
" invited to join with US in this final
tribute to the memory of our worthy
brother. z. w. POINDEXTER,
Acting W. NJ
CARL W. NELLIs. Secretary.
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CUT DOWN HALF.
American Consul Estimates KIondike
Output at 100000.

from the klondike up to June 20, has
reached the state department from
United States Consul McCook at Daw-
son, the consul says that ten million in
stead of twenty million in gold will
cover the gold product for the past
twelve months and adds that reports
from Alaska Indicate that more gold
will be found there than ever will come
out of the Klondike. Typhoid has
broken out six weeks earlier than last
year. and there are several hundred
destitute persons in Dawson without
means to get out The gambling fra
ternity is reaping a rich harvest.