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The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
SAMOANS KILLING PIGS
And Preparing for War When the
Mariposa Left the Island.

San Francisco, Jan. 12.-The officers
of the steamer Mariposa from Australia
discredit the cable from Australia stat
ing that Mataafa had been elected king
of Samoa.
THE steamer Janiuni, by which the
news was supposed to have been carried
to the nearest cable station said Cap
tain Hayward of the Mariposa, had
left Apia a day earlier than we. Now
made. Both Mataafa and Malietoa
claimed to have been elected and the
chief Justice was to give a decision
three or four days after we left
Nv Whichever way the decision went
trouble was expected, as the followers
of each candidate vowed that they
would fight if the other chief was made
king In anticipation of trouble, United
States Consul General Osborn and the
British consul had given notice that the
person of the chief justice and his fam
lily and his private residence, as well
as the supreme court, are under the pro-
lection of the American and British
flags and any attack on them will be
considered an attack on the flags.
The natives are coming into Apia
by the thousands while the Mariposa
lay there. Mataafa had a following of
about $4,000 warriors, while Malietoa
has only about 5000. They are killing
pigs and laying in stores of provisions
as we'll as furnishing up their weapons
and getting ready for a fight The
British man-of-war Ringdove and the
German gunboat Bussard were in port
and ready for any emergency.
When we were there it looked very
much as though there would De fighting
over the kingship before it was all over
and done with
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
FIFTY IN A WELL.
Skeletons Found of Those
Thrown In to Die of
Starvation.

Havana, Jan. 12.-La Discussion de-
scribes the finding of so human skele-
tons in a well on a plantation near
Manguito. The writer of the story as
serts that these people were undoubted-
" thrown in while alive.
He says that in some cases the finger
bones are severed, and the supposition
is that this is due to the efforts of the
victims to raise themselves out of the
pit The body of Senor Pedro Alayon,
a prominent Cuban, who disappeared
mysteriously during the insurrection
has been identified. La Discussion ac-
cuses the guerrilla chief, Antonio Ries.
Sergeant Jean Peres and Vicenta Sc
lago, a school master of being the auth
ors of the terrible crime. All are said
to be in Havana.
La Discussion prints also a story
from Matanzas of the finding there of
the remains of from 100 to 200 persons
in a well near the headquarters of the
civil guard.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
THE 0JOVIAL" CLUB,
Of Berlin, Responsible for Another
Scandal and More DismissaIs
from the Army.

Berlin, Jan. 12.-Count Klaus Won
Fgloffstein, who was recently obliged to
leave the army on account of his debts.
has been arrested on the charge OF
forging bills
According to the Tageblatt, Count
Won Egloffstein was the director of the
notorious gambling club, Der Froe-
lichen. or the Jovial club, frequented
by officers of the guard, cavalry, high
government officials, bankers and mem
bers of the reichstag, which mas existed
in Berlin for some years There was a
scandal in connection with the CLUB
early in December, on account of which
several officers were dismissed from the
army.
Count Won Egloffstein is heir to an es-
tate al Arklitten. He was formerly an
officer of Uh1ans. Besides the offense
which has brought him into disgrace.
the count is charged with forging
checks
According to the Tageblatt, when
General Won Hanke, the chief of the
emperor's military cabinet, informed
his majesty as to the progress made by
the police in the investigation, the en-
peror said: Il demand that the whole
truth be established
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
S25O,OOO LOST
By Citizens of Gloucester, Mass, in
a Copper Mine.

New York, Jan. PA dispatch to the
Times from Gloucester, Mass, says:
A copper boom has burst in Clifton,
Graham county, Arizona, causing loss
of $3.50, 600 to the stockholders in this
city. About fifteen years ago a COM
pany was formed here to work mine
claims in Clifton. The mines were ex-
amined by a committee of local men
and experts, who reported that they
were fabulously rich, and the stock was
eagerly subscribed, many of the stock
holders taking as large blocks as $4,000
After while dissensions crept into
the company, and two factions sprang
up among the stockholders. Under the
mining laws of Arizona to hold claim
it must be worked to the amount of
$10o each year. Last year when the
call for assessments to hold the prop
erty was made but one stockholder re-
sponded. He put up enough money to
hold three claims, and the remaining six
claims were jumped by Arizona miners.
This year the remaining three claims
were allowed to lapse and were also
jumped by Arizona miners This is the
end of the $25O,0OO subscribed by the
stockholders. The mines are said to be
profitable if worked, and dissension
among the stockholders is given as the
cause of the collapse of the venture.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
GEN. SANGER IS STERN.
Writes a Severe Letter to the Mayor
of Cervantes, Cuba

Havana, Jan. 12.-Francisco Valdez.
resident of Cervantes, Matanzas province,
recently complained to General Sanger,
military governor of the city or Matan-
zas. and in temporary command of the
depa rtment of Matanzas. prior to the ar
rival at Matanzas city yesterday OF MAJOR
General J. H. Wilson, that Dommlngo
Gonzales. an ex-officer. had ordered rim
to leave Cervantes and not TO return
General Sanger Immediately addressed a
communication to the mayor of Cervantes
SAYING that if Gonzales made any further
trouble he would be arrested and locked
up at Matanzas. General Sanger added
you, sir, are charged with the preSer-
vantes. Unless you can keep the peace
it will be necessary to remove you ana
appoint someone who All residents
of the islands, black white. Spanish or
Cuban, are entitled to the protection OF
the law in person and property I have
been sent here to see that they receive It,
and shall undoubtedly perform my ou-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
THE TIME IS RIPE,
Says Minister Barrett, for the Adop-
ton of Chinese Policy.

Vancouver, B. c., jan 12-Japanese
papers to hand by the Empress of
Japan, are full of interviews with Jno.
Barrett, recently United States minis
ter to Siam. on the Chinese question
Barrett thinks the time is ripe for the
adoption of an active far eastern policy
by England, Japan and the United
States, with, if possible, the co-opera-
tion of Germany.
Russia and France, whose policy an
pears to be to gain gradually the ex-
elusive control of vast areas of Chinese
territory. and to close the areas to m
restricted trade, would thus be con-
fronted by pressure impossible to resist
and would find themselves compelled to
guarantee within their spheres of inf1u-
ence the maintenance of equal trade
rights conferred by existing treaties be-
tween China and foreign powers
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Galen Nichols is an expert hand-ban
player.
The E1ks will give Romeo and Juliet
in February.
There, are. 1e patients in the Salvation
Army hospital
The weather forecast calls this threat
ening weather and lets it go at that.
Mary J. Turpip has brought suit for di-
The city Jail building would be improv-
ed with little cleaning and painting.
An incubator is billed to hatch a brood
OF chickens at the poultry show tomor-
The justice court in Oakland is held in
q room where onions are spread on the
T. F. Doran is in Kansas City on bust
ness connected with the receivership' of a
The Republican F1ambeau club head
quarters in the old court house were for
mally opened last night.
There were seven patrolmen sick with
grip last night and the night force was
reduced from twelve to five.
little hope that any safisfactory tory iDs paving ing
legislation will be secured this winter.
City Engineer Barnes and his force are
North Topeka sewer remonstrance. 1t
is an almost endless task.
dropped from the sanitary force in re-
sponse to Councilman SINNERS resolu-
ton ordering a reduction of the force.
The members of the Grain Dealers as
sociation have gone home, except those
ton.
The catalogue of the Topeka industrial
institute for colored children is out. 1t
is a neatly printed document of 80 pages
and was printed and bound by the stu
dents.
The news has reached Topeka that DR..
Cory Faulkner, who was in the hospital
corps of the Twentieth Kansas, married
a young lady of San Francisco and will
return 10 Topeka to complete his medi-
cal course.
william Kleseth. the young insane
farmer who is confined in the county Jail,
broke all the window lights out of his
| cell windows and it was necessary to
handcuff him.
| Attorney Charles Hayden is still too
| sick to appear in court and the time for
| the argument of the motion for a new
] trial in the Collins case has been post
| poned indefinitely. 1t was to have been
argued tomorrow.
| Much of the pleasure of attending a
| taken away by the house being inordin-
ately hot Can't the temperature be kept
| at a certain point. as it is in opera houses
| in other citieS-say about 20?
| Cyrus Corning, who once fiourished in
| Kansas a champion of the '-IniddIe-of-
| the-road'' movement, will address the
| Spiritualists at 406 Kansas avenue tonight
! ing tonight to arrange for refunding the
viaduct bonds.
| o. S Mcintosh, who lives in Topeka and
was formerly trumpeter of the Twentieth
! Kansas, received letter yesterday thai
( had been sent to him at San Francisco
| forwarded to Honolulu, then to the Phil
! ippines, returned to Honolulu and then
| to 'Frico, and finally reached Topeka sc
/ marked up that it was hard to recog-
| RiZe as a letter.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
FROM 2I JAILS.
A Mississippi Desperate Has
Escaped and is Again in
Custody.

Meridian, Miss, Jan. 12.-The post
office at Enterprise, Miss, was blown
open with dynamite Monday night ana
the perpetrator escaped after obtain
ing a considerable sum Of stamps,
money orders and cash. 1t Is now SIP
posed that the robbery was committed
by Thrasher Meade, one of the most
desperate criminals in the country
Meade was arrested in Mobile and
brought here to Enterprise, but not un-
til after desperate fight with the Of
ficer. A large quantity of postage
stamps, blank money orders and $l,13S
in cash stolen from the safe at the En-
terprise postoffice were recovered.
Meade has criminal record that is
hardly second to that of Rube BURROWS
For nearly ten years he has infested
the railroads of Mississippi and Ala
bama and is known to have been inti-
mately connected with a band of negro
robbers in Chicago. Meade broke into
the postoffice at Ackermau, Miss, in
the latter part of 1896 and was arrested
and taken to the jail at Aberdeen. He
sawed his way out in December, 1896,
and was next heard of in Chicago In
1897 he was arrested at JackSOnV1lie,
Fla, and taken to Kosciusko, Miss.
While there he formed a conspiracy
with TRUSTEES who were allowed outside
of the cage and they overpowered and
choked the sheriff and escaped with six
others.
Meade is known to have been impli-
Gated in five train robberies, and the
Southern Express company has proof
that he blew open safes in their offices
at Aberdeen and Durango, Miss, during
the past year. He has escaped from
twenty-one jails and once from the Ala
bama penitentiary since he began MS
criminal career. The postoffice depart
ment and the express companies o1ered
large rewards for his arrest and the
officers who effected his capture VIII
rooaiua several thOuSan0 dollars.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
| of doing. The organized charities in
| Porto Rico are defective.
L u

Porto Rico are defective
UNCOFFINED DEAD.
Father Sherman says the system OF
burial in Porto Rico has been barbar-
Gus. In places corpses are thrown into
shallow graves, some times without box
or caSket- The cemeteries are too small
morality can be inferred from the fact
that the number of illegitimate children
exceeds that of the legitimate. Concu-
bination is said to be common and is not
sufficiently discountenanced eitherlegal-
ly or socially. The problem in Porto
Rico that is most difficult is the eradi-
cation of this great evil owing to the
mixture of races there. 1t is often as
serted that the Catholic clergy are part
ly to blame for this deplorable state of
affairs, because marriage is said to be
expensive.
In conclusion he says:
"A million people differing from us in
language, literature, tradition, customs
and manners welcome US by reason of
political sympathy and sentiment of
confidence in our desire to govern for
their good, to enlarge their liberties and
to increase the substantial blessings
they enjoy without imposing upon them
any new burdens. Porto Rico is not to
be judged by the brimming excitement
and manifold tendencies to unrest due
to a vast political and moral appeal,
nor by the acts of a few cunning ma
rauderS who avail themselves of eXcep-
tiOnal circumstances to Wreak private
vengeance or to continue in the barbar-
Gus instinct of destruction. Nor are we
to argue their political incapacity from
factional differences but remem bering
that they have cities, towns, villages
and are not waste lands as were Cali
fornia and New Mexico in 1S4S They are
highly civilized, have thousands of ed
ucated men, able LAWYERS excellent
| doctors, several merchants and manu-
facturers whose establishments aggre-
gate many millions of annual output
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following real estate transfers have
been filed:
Michael R. Ackley and wife to L. H.
Tuttle, S1Ooo. lots 694 and 696 Harrison
street, Walnut Grove subdivision.
w. A S. Bird and wife to Ent Land,
Loan and Investment company, $75. part
lot Z, section T. township II, range Is.
Geo. NJ. Noble and wife to Rec. Trust
Company of America, $50, lot 5S Kansas
avenue north, Cranes addition.
J. S. Shibley to the Bartholomew Real
Estate Investment corporation, $3.50, lots
q, 26. q, 80 and "a Chester avenue ct al,
Oakland.
Martha H. Slie and husband to same,
1854. lot 2S. Chester avenue, Oakland.
Priscilla Bruner to Lillian L. Snow ct
al, 81, lots 155 and 226 and south one-haI1
lot 2a4 Jefferson street.
J. r. Mulvane and wife to Joab Null
vane. 81, part southeast quarter section 2
township IL. range 13.
Walter Oakley ct al. by Burdge to J
f, England, guardian, 800, lots IS, 20. 2S
30 3D. a. Sc. 3S and 10, Harris avenue, Fin
lieu addition ct al.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
SWITCH TO PHELAN.
California Democrats Support San
Francisco Mayor for Senator.

Sacramento Cal, Jan. 12-Senators and
assemblymen met in joint session today
to vote for United States senator. Yes
terday the houses voted separately, but
the combined vote today showed but lit
tie change, as a result of twenty-four
hours of strife on the part of the candi-
dates Mayor Phelan of San Francisco
was given a vote of "a today. being the
Democratic minority. who switched from
Stephen NJ. White to Phelan.
Grant and Burns each gained one vote.
The following is the result of the joint
ballot:
D. NJ. Burns. 25; r. N Bulla. IL; w. H.
L. Barnes, 9; Thomas R. Bard. .: NJ. NJ.
Scott. 2; c. n. FELTON,, 1; John P. Rosen-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
A CHANGE OF FLAGS
Is Made by the Vessels of Cuban
Coastwise Line.

Santiago, Jan. 12.-The Menendez line
of steamers, the most important Cuban
coastwise mail company, today trans
ferred all the vessels from the Spanish
to the American flag, celebrating the
event here at luncheon given on board
the Josefita. The heads of the various
municipal departments were present..
Several toasts were proposed, the COM
modore of the line proposing the health
of General Leonard Wood military gov
ernor Of Santiago department. The
toast was received with cheers.
In the course of his remarks the COM
modore said that under Gen Wood they
felt absolutely safe, whatever flag they
unfurled, as Gen. Wood was not a mere
politician, and he hoped that the day
would come when the military governor
of Santiago would be governor general
of Cuba, a sentiment that was enthusl-
aStically cheered
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
SHARKEY FOULED HIM,
Says Mccoy = Wants to Try Con-
clusions With the Sailor Again.

New York, Jan. 12-The Evening
World says:
Kid Mccoy, in a signed statement to-
day, intimated that his defeat by Shar-
key was the result of several foul blows
which the sailor landed on him. He
thinks he can beat Sharkey and wants
to arrange another match. If the sailor
won't fight him again, Mccoy says he
will make a match with Corbett.
Tom O'ROurke, manager of the Lenox
Athletic club, today said that the re-
ceipts of Tuesdays fight amounted to
a trife less than $4,000. Sharkey's
share of the purse is $4,000; the losers
share is s.. 900.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
SIX MINUTES PAST FOUR.
Peculiar Time for a Tariff Act to Go
Into Effect

Boston, Jan. 12-The United States court
of appeals today handed down decision
to tbs, the effect that the tariff act of July
did not go into effect until 4:05 o'clock that
day, the time the act was signed by the
president. The decision was given in the
action brought by the wool house of Stod-
dard, Richards & Co. of this city. who, in
1897. imported S07 bales of wool. the entry
having been made before the close of the
custom house at 4 o'clock July "A of
that year This was considered a test
case and the decision involves hundreds
of thousands of dollars paid in duties to
the United States by importers all over
the country.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
LAST OF NEW WORKERS
Arrive From Honolulu on the Mari
pOsa.

San Francisco, Jan. 12.-Corporal Lor-
man Lewis of company C. First New
York. with 50 men of the same regiment,
arrived today from Honolulu the Mari
posa. These are the men who were too
i'll to leave the islands the last stea raer.
All are now well or convalescent. Those
who are well enough to proceed on their
as proper clothing can be provided for
them. Twenty-Five men of the New York
pitaI in Honolulu and there are u ex-
elusive of these still at the division hospi-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
A HORSE DOCTORS LUCK.
Makes a Rich Gold Find Near Vernal,
Utah.

verna1, Utah, Jan. 12.-Considerable
excitement has been created by rich
gold discoveries twenty-five miles east
of this place in the Blue mountains,
near the Colorado line. The discovery
was made by Doc Mcdonald, a veter
mary surgeon of the Ninth cavalry. He
served in the Spanish war. and while
at New York recovering from fever, met
a man named johnson who had former
ly lived in eastern Utah, and who told
him he had found a rich float, deScr1b-
ing the location. When the Ninth cav
airy returned to FIT. Duchesne, McDOn-
aid commenced to search for the vein.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
The President Won't Do It.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE president
has decided it to be incompatible with
the public interest to comply with the
request contained in the Hoar resolu-
ton to supply the senate with the IN
structions given the American peace
commissioners. If any reasons are
given for the declination, the leading
one will be the fact that as the treaty
is subject to action in Spain, even after
ratification by the senate, its consum-
nation might be jeopardized by the
publication at this stage of the conn-
Dental instructions.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12

IotaI --..--..- .--..- SO f,ozz,ooo
The years combined product of the
metals named is the greatest in the his
tory of the countries-United States of
America and British Columbia and
Northwest TerritOry-that of gold, $78,-
461 POP, being above any previous rec
ord officially reported and the worlds
output of gold for approximately
$3.50. .00O, ,000-is amazing. The most nota-
BILE increases have been in South Africa,
s25, 600, 600; the British possessions of the
Northwest 5000 600; Australia $6000,0O
and the United States of America $3,-
O00.O OO0 The exports of silver during
1898 to Japan, China and Straits settle
ments were as follows: From London
S27, ,4O4 623: from San Francisco $5,217,-
400, making a total of $32. So, ,032. The
total for 1897 was $4S, Az, ,009.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
A Fleet for Manila

San Francisco, Jan. 12--By the end
of the month another Manila fleet will
sail out of the harbor. If the Senator
and Ohio come in on time they can be
prepared to go out at the same time
as the Scandia and Morgan City. They
can carry two or very nearly two regi-
ments, so the three regiments which ex-
pect to start for Manila via San Fran
cisco can begin their ocean voyage to-
gether about the 25th of this month.
Arrangements are being made for the
Centennial to take army freight to the
PhilipDineS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
THOUSANDS DESTITUTE
And None to Provide for Them, at
Sancti Spiritus.

New York. Jan. ia letter received
by Stephen E. Barton. chairman of the
Cuban relief committee from Mr. War
ner, recently sent to the Sancti Spiritus
district in Cuba, says that there are
1881 destitute women and children in
the town, with 1892 men to provide for
them, more than half of whom are too
sick and weak to even help themselves.
THE condition of the people in the little
villages ana country he says, lis even
worse than in the city"
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
WANTS S5,OOO,OOO.
St Louis Will Ask That Amount for
Her Worlds Fair.

st. Louis, Jan. 12.-David r. Francis
of st. Louis, secretary of the interior
under President Cleveland, was selected
as chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Louisiana purchase celebra-
tion committee, with James Cox, also
of this city, as secretary. 1t was de-
cided to ask congress for an appropria-
ton of s., ZOO, 900 with which to help
build the exposition.
Governor Francis position CORE
spends to that held by Director General
George R. Davis. of the Worlds Fair,
at Chicago
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
OUT OF RECEIVERS HANDS
Pass the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf
and the South Park Lines,
in Colorado.

Denver. Jan. 12.-At midnight last
night the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf
and the South Park lines passed out of
the receivers hands and became ''Tha
Colorado Road" being officially desis-
mated the Colorado & Southern railroad
The company will operate 1.537 miles of
road in Colorado. Wyoming, New Mex
leo and Texas. President Trumbull will
continue to act as receiver of the Jules
burg branch until its transfer to the
Union Pacific is made.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
FOURTEEN SENTENCED
Out of Gang of Thirty Criminals in
Paris.

Paris, Jan. 1.-THE assize court i'm
posed sentences today upon IA members
of a gang of thirty young criminals
known as the "neully band" convicted
of numberlesS rObberieS, holdupS and
outrages upon women and suspected
of murder. Several bodies have been
found in the Seine of late of supposed
victims of the band. The sentences
ranged from two years to life imprison-
ment at hard labor. The other members
of the band were acquitted.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12

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nothing is so gentle, soothing and eff
fective, as Beggs' Diarrhoea Balsam.
1t never fails to give relief and if taken
in time will effect a speedy cure Be
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sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
To Grow Her Own Tobacco.

Barcelona, Spain, JAN 12--El Diaro
de Barcelona urges such modification
of the customs duties as will allow RUS
sian petroleum to compete with Amer
lean 1t also insists upon the necessity
of the government aiding the develop
tment of tobacco culture in Spain, as otn-
erwise Spain will have to pay the Unl-
ted States for the tobacco she eone
sumeS-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-12
D1NGLEY WILL RECOVER.
The Crisis Has Been Successfully
Passed, and He is Improving.

Washington, Jan. 11.-Representative
Dingley, according to his physician, has
now passed the crisis, and is today con-
siderabIv improved DR. DeaIe is now
confident of his patients recovery. Last
night Mr.. Dingley gained much rest
sleeping naturally as he has been able
to do several nights, and the gain in his
condition this morning is very percep-
fihI6