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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
CHOOSE YOUR OWN HEALER
a Pointed Circular on Freedom OF
Choice Handed About.

The opponents of Hanna's proposed law
to drive heaIers and others not grad
yates of regular schools of medicine
from the state placed a circular upon
the desks of members of the legislature
this morning, from which the following
extracts are taken.
Liberty is the largest word in the
language, says Col. Ingerson.
More and more is freedom the motto
of all parties.
mo where in all the world should
there be larger liberty than in selecting
the person whom one desires to submit
his body and health to for cure in any
way.
ANY so-calIed law that restricts the
freedom of any person to employ just
whom he or she pleases for medical at
tendant is radically wrong. Any So
called law that would consign the Lord
Christ to prison for healing-because
He did not have a Latin sheep SKINS
wholly indefensible.
Think of sending st. Peter and st.
Paul to Jail for making the lame walk
because neither saint had gone to a
medical college-and you will laugh.
1.-The only justification of the tmedi-
cal bilr of Senator Hanna, or any other
like it is to prove that physicians are
infallible and immaculate. So far is
this from being true that the so-called
science of medicine is merely
'nescience,' nonsense largely, expert
ment from day to day with life.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
GRATTAN's BILL FAVORED
BY the House in Committee of the
Whole.

The house committee of the whole.
by an overwhelming vote, has recon-
mended for passage Mr.. Grattan's bill
to place all accredited educational in
situations in the state on an equal foot
ing with the state normal at Emporia
in the matter Ofg ranting teachers certi-
ficateS to their graduates.
Mr.. Grattan is chairman of the house
committee on education, and the bill
therefore had no trouble in passing that
committee. Mr.. Fairchild started the
opposition to it in committee of the
whole by moving to strike out the enact
ing clause. Both of the Lyon county
members, Mr.. Harris, Republican, and
Mr.. Wright, Populist, assisted by Fair
child, made a hard fight against the bill.
but the other side was too much for
them. Grattan, Wise, Brooke, Speaker
Osborn. BurkhOlder and GroSser, all
made speeches in support of the bill.
Speaker Osborn especially made a
strong speech and proved that if he
were not hampered by the speakership
he might distinguish himself on the
floor of the house as a legislator
Mr.. Stanley of Lincoln, and Mr.. Wise
of Reno opposed some of the minor pro-
visions of the bill, and Mr.. Stanley in
serted an amendment, but the bill was
finally recommended by a large ma
jority, although the debate lasted two
hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
THIS IS A MERE NOTHING.
The Old Settlers Point the Finger of
Scorn at Today's Record

The opinion among the old settlers is
that II below is not so cold after all,
for they have experienced much colder
weather when, instead of buildings to
break the wind, Topeka was spot on
the prairie.
A w Knowles. 1T is probably the
coolest weather we have had for five
years, but the weather has been a good
deal colder than this many times be-
FORE
Il can remember when thousands of
head of stock were frozen to DEATH -
said Postmaster John Guthrie, land it
was a great deal colder than this. In
1856 or 7 Col. S. n. Wood, member of
the Legislature, was caught in a blizzard
and one of his feet frozen so that he
could not attend the session.
c. G. Gage was sitting by the radiator
in the rooms of the ST. Ananias club.
In 1873 he said, 1.-The thermometer
stood below zero for two weeks and the
coolest point reached was % below.
I'm 1855 I heard Jim Lane speak in
Ohio about Kansas. He said It was a
land of oranges, pomegranates and figs.
1 thought 1 would go to that sort of a
country and L came in the spring of
80 The next winter / helped cut ice
in the Kansas river that was seventeen
inches thick and blue all the way
through. For six weeks we hauled saw
logs across the river from the north
side to use in building Topeka. ThouS-
ands of feet of cottonwood logs were
where Charles Curtis parents lived.
That was the way 1 found sunny Kan
sas."
A K. Rodgers said: 81 drove to Do
yer in the seventies when thermom-
eter hanging on an apple tree registered
26 below. Coming back 1 wound my
head in clothes to keep my nose and
ears from freezing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
MILLER TO STRIKE.
News of the Fall of uoilo is Expected
Soon.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Probably within
48 hours General Miller will have begun
the attempt to occupy Iloilo on the is
land of Panay. No specific orders on
this score have been sent to him since
the battle of Saturday and Sunday nor
has he been heard from recently respect
ing the matter, but it was his known
intention to make this important move
ment as soon as he felt that conditions
warranted it and statements contained
in the press reports from Manila con-
vince the officials here that General
Otis at last has authorized the land
ing.
The best indication of that determine
ton was the dispatch this morning from
Manila of the first regiment of Ten
nessee volunteer infantry for IlOilO. So
around Manila appeared to convey a
serious threat against its safety, Cen
Otis felt bound not to weaken his forces
by sending additional troops to IlOilO,
but now that he has the insurgents
demoralized he can proceed to carry out
This movement might have been made
some time ago, but for the necessity
the commanding general was under of
withdrawing the F'ifty-fir Iowa regi-
ment from before Iloi1o. These troops
had been on their transport so long that
they were really unfit for active ser
vice until they had an opportunity of
stretching themselves ashore for a few
days. The last time they had been
ashore was at Honolulu en- route from
San Francisco for Manila.
Gen. Miller has with him the Sixth
and Eighteenth infantry and battery
G, of the Sixth artillery and these will
be reinforced in the course of "a hours
by the First Tennessee regiment, max
ing a, force equal to the occupation of
IlOilO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal
Chicago. Feb. 9.

chicago, Fer. y.
WHEATON, weather today and to-
morrow, talk of damage to the winter
wheat plant, together with firm cables,
gave wheat a good start. May opened
5sMAc higher al 73ss@15c and owing to
light receipts in the northwest and = good
-four demand was bid up to 1850. Chica-
go received so cars, of which only grad
ed contract. Minneapolis and Duluth got
80 cars. as compared with Ais for the cor
responding day year ago Price Cur
rent in its weekly crop summar t said 3I
creased the UNCERTAINTIES as to the fall
crop, especially the area that was sown
late in the season New York wired that
there was practically no export demand
there and as the same could be said of
the cash market here. the crowd Turned
and sold quite freely. Free buying of the
July delivery by St. Louis parties; how
eyer. checked any important break, and
May held steady at 1880.
CORN-Light receipts and firm cables
strengthened corn Traders were bulliSh
under the belief that the severe cold would
in all probability cause large quantities of
corn to be used for the feeding of live
stock. Receipts were 49S cars. May
May opened &c higher at 371sdAe and a
good business was transacted at 35HsfI31c.
OATS-Oats followed the other grains.
Receipts were rs cars. May began a
shade higher at 2s5kc and ranged between
2SAc and 2S15c.
Observation-Disclosures ruled firm, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
A WORD IN TINE.
That the Grand Opera House Be
Warm Enough Friday
and SATURDAY..

1t is only due the theater-goers of
Topeka that the Grand opera house
should be warm for the performance of
the MacLean-Tyler-H anford combina-
ton there tomorrow night and Saturday
afternoon and evening. The present
heating plant of the building is made
quate to put the house in a comforta-
BILE condition in a reasonable length of
time and the fires should be started
early tomorrow morning, if not this
evening.
There is no enjoyment in watching a
performance when the atmosphere is
cold enough to be uncomfortable, and
the Grand opera house has standing
reputation for just such atmosphere
Manager King should make an extra
effort to have the house warm tomorrow
night, and for the two following per-
formances, because of the severe cold
This is said in the interest of many
who have caught cold in that huge
structure while trying to get their
moneys worth" Another thing, the
radiators should not be allowed to hiss
all through the performance as they
do at nearly every entertainment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
WON'T ABOLISH 1T.
House Decides Not to Do Away With
Board of Pardons, But Gov
ernor VIII.

The board Of pardons law seems des-
tined to remain on the statute books
Notwithstanding Representative Fair
child's repeated efforts to have it re-
pealed and Governor Stanley's recon-
mendations that the board be done
away with.
Mr.. Fairchild introduced a bill dur
ing the special session of the legislature
TO do away with the board, and al
though he made it his hobby, it failed
of passage. AS soon as an opportunity
was offered he reintroduced the bill in
the present session. 1t went to the
judiciary committee, and was referred
back to the house today with the recon-
mendatton that it be not passed.
1.-The reason the committee reported
the bill adversely" said Chairman Nc
Keever of the judiciary committee to
a Journal reporter lis that Governor
Stanley states that he will not appoint
a board anyway, SO there is no call for
repeating the law to abolish the board
during this administration. The COM
mittee thought better to allow the law
to remain on the statute books till it is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
TO ELIMINATE Spoilers.
Organized Labor Gets After This Glass
of Citizens With New Law.

Senator Ryan represents Crawford
county in the senate. That county has
more organized labor associations than
any county in the state. An effort to
make spotting and detective work pun
iShable under the law is being made
and Senator Ryan has introduced the
bill in the senate. 1t provides:
1T shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation employing labor to
discharge any person on the accusation
or report of any detective or person
known as 'spotters,' or special agents
without giving to such discharged en-
ploye in writing a copy of such accus-
alton or report, with the name and
pOstoffice or report, with the name and
postoffice address of such detective
spotter or other person making the
same.
IF any person, firm or corporation
shall violate the preceding section of
this act, such discharged employee may
maintain an action against such firm,
person corporation, and in such ac-
ton may recover all damages, present
or prospective, which he, has sustained
together with a reasonable attorneys
fee, to be recovered in such action
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
AFTER LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
The Senate Spends an Afternoon Dis
GUESSING Crossan's Proposed Law.

The senate Wednesday afternoon con-
sidered but did not complete Cros-
sans bill placing loan associations do
ing business in Kansas under the sup
ervision of the state bank commission
er.
An effort was made to postpone the
consideration of the bill. Senator Shell
don suggesting this, saying that he had
a bill prepared by the loan associations
which he desired to have considered,
too. Mr. Crossan opposing the consid-
Grafton of the measure, said he had
made an effort in his committee meet
ings, to bring the loan associations to
some sort of an understanding and fin
ally an agreement upon a bill, but ''
he said, they refused to do this and
convinced me that they want no legis-
lation whatever. They fear something,
1 don't know what it is and 1 insist up
on the consideration of this bill, be-
cause L am going away for the remain
der of the week and want to dispose of
it before leaving"
There was considerable rallying
among the opponents of the bill but it
was useless and it's consideration was
taken up early in the afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
HOUSE PASSES 12 BILLS.
All of Them Go Through Without
Debate.

The house this morning passed u
bills without debate. They had all run
the gauntlet of the committee of the
whole. All but three of them We're pass
ed without negative vote. They were:
Wheatley's bill providing for a spec
ial inspector of lead and zinc mines. He
is to be appointed by the governor for
a term of two years and receives sal
airy of $1,000 per year.
Mason's bill relating to injunctions
and restraining orders.
Starts bill providing for the vacation
of unimprOVed additions to town sites.
Gregory's bill to change Usage coun-
ty from the southern department of the
court of appeals to the northern depart
ment At present Usage county cases
have to go to Fort Scott for hearing,
although it is adjacent to Shawnee
county, where the eastern division OF
the northern department holds court.
MasonS bill relating to actions
brought to vacate or modify Judg-
ments.
Mason's bill permitting foreign guard
ians to be parties to suits in Kansas
courts.
Dawes bill relating to the judicial
sales of real estate.
Newman's bill to remove political dis
abilities, which gives eX-confederateS
the same rights as though they had
never taken up arms against the Union.
Heretofore it has required special acts
of the Legislature to remove such disa-
bilities, but this bill removes them all
in a bunch 1t required two-thlrdS
vote to pass it, and although there were
no negative votes a call of the house
was necessary before the bill was pass
ed. After waiting some time a ser
geant-at-arms was sent after the ways
and means committee, which was hold
ing a meeting, and with their aid the
bill passed, receiving % votes.
Brooke's bill to prohibit school chill
dren from appearing as subjects in
hypnotic exhibitions. The vote stood
SO to 6.
The hill introduced nv Adams of
Sedgwick to protect boarding house and
hotel keepers from people who leave
suddenly without paying their bills The
vote on this bill stood 68 to 9.
Seaver's bill authorizing school boards
to designate school holidays.
McKeever's bill to amend the law re-
garding the assignment of real estate
mortgages. The vote on this bill at
first stood "A to 0, but Fairchild chang
ed his vote from aye to no before the
decision was announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
HARD TWEAK.
from First Page.)

and furnish them with coal and bed
ding.
This is but one of many families.
Another family by the name of Fair
banks. at 1414 Chandler. lives in a
Shed-like house. The father is sick and
there is no coal or food in the house.
A family by the name of Long, trav-
cling in a rickety old wagon, drawn by
a team of almost starved horses, applied
at the police station for shelter last
night. They are going from ST. Joe
to Oklahoma. and were nearly frozen
The donation of blankets from VIM.
Green and Chas. Wolff did a great deal
of good, but have been exhausted. This
morning S. Barnum sent several blank
cts and a supply of groceries to be dis
tributed.
Poor Commissioner Hale has had a
constant stream of applicants for coal,
but there are many families that are
not reached by the commissioner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
SIMPLY A PLAIN STEAL
No Reason Why Kansas Should
Paw This $1,000.

The senate ways and means committee
has authorized Judge NJ. B. Nicholson of
Council Grove to bring suit to compel the
Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad to
remove its general offices from St. Louis
back to Kansas.
Judge Nicholson is to get $1,000, which
win be paid in the miscellaneous appro-
priation bill.
A law passed during Governor Clicks
administration requires railroad cOmpa-
mics doing business in Kansas to maintain
general offices in the state.
In 1892 Senator Farrelly brought SINH
lar suit in Neosho county but the case
was dismissed when the NJ, K. & T. erect
ed an $4,000 building in Parsons The
general headquarters of the company are
at St. Louis, however. and now this new
scheme is being worked.
Just why the attorney general is not
authorized to bring this suit and thereby
save the state Judge NichOlSon's fee, is
not explained by the committee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
MIR. CAGES GENEROSITY.
Topeka Philanthropist Gives 20 Tons
of Coal to the Poor.

G. G. Gage went to the police station
this morning and inquired of Mrs.
Thorpe if there was need of coal among
the poor people.
Mrs. Thorpe explained to him that
there are many families needing coal
who did not receive it through Poor
Commissioner Hale because of the rule
made by the county commissioners that
no family with an able bodied man at
the head of it could receive donations
OF coal Mrs. Thorpe explained that
many worthy families, with able bodied
men willing to work, did not have coal
and needed it. Mr.. Gage left and in a
short time sent Mrs. Thorpe word that
poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
SENATE PASSES BILLS.
Most of Them Local in Their Char
acter.

Washington, Feb. Sat the opening
of the senate's session the following
bills were passed: Authorizing the
Sioux City & Omaha Railway company
to construct and operate a railway
through the Omaha and Winnebago
reservation in Thurston county, Ne
braska; to restore to their original sta
tus as to promotion officers of the navy
and marine corps who lost numbers by
reason of the advancement of other OFF,
GERS for exceptional and meritorious
service during the war with Spain; au-
thorizing the Arkansas harbor terminal
railway company to construct a bridge
across the Corpus Christi channel in
Texas; and for the purchase or con-
struction of a launch for the customs
service at Astoria, Ore, to cost not
more than $3.50, 900.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill was taken up and
considera ton of it resumed. The para
graph relating to the deposit of copy
right works in the national library was
stricken out with the intention Of re-
ViSing it in conference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
ICE GORGE BELOW ST. LOUIS,
And at Shaw's Garden the Thermom-
eter Registered 10 Below.

st. Louis, Feb. 9.-Not since January
5. 1884, has the weather been so cold in
st. Louis and vicinity as today. At the
government observatory on federal
building, the lowest point touched by
the thermometer was 16 below zero, be-
tween and a. m At Shaw's Garden
in the outskirts of the city, another
government thermometer registered 10
below, while at the suburban towns of
Clayton and Ferguson the record was %
degrees below. According to the local
weather observer the present cold spell
will last several days longer.
Reports from nearby towns in Hi
nois show the following below zero rec
ords: Alton %; East ST. Louis IS;
Belleville Is and Greenup 81.
Since yesterday the river has risen
three feet, indicating a gorge at some
point below.
MAN FOUND FROZEN ON ICE.
Rockford, ILL.,, Feb. 9.-The thermom-
eter registered % below here today, the
coolest of the winter.
Thomas Keegan, night Waterman for
the Water Power company was found
frozen to death on the ice under the
Burlington bridge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
CAN'T BEAT AN OLD SETTLER
Way Back in the Fifties and Sixties
in Topeka.

Ananias Fisher, one of the oldest set
tiers in Topeka, came from Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, in the fall and winter of
1853.
'why, no. L came down town this
morning without an overcOat- This is
not to be compared to the weather we
experienced when we lived in log houses
and the wind blew the mud chinckS out
and whistled through the cabins like
young u'weSter
II never did mind cold. I used to ship
on a fishing smack out of Pawtucket
and I got so used to cold that when we
cut ice on the Kaw in the winter of
'53 I used to wear just an undershirt
to keep the sand out. The thermometer
was 80 below zero for seven weeks that
winter. Early in the mornings it was
rather cool when we went out to cut
off a piece of frozen buffalo meat. l
always cut the meat off at O'Clock in
the morning We kept the meat on the
top of the cabin, and to get it thawed
out and cooked for breakfast we had to
commence about in the morning; so
l would jump out of bed, put on my
linen buster, get the ak and go out and
chop off hunk. 1t was a little cold on
a fellows bare feet, but that linen
buster sort of broke the wind a little.
f'The coolest it got that winter was
about SO below and we put a piece of
gas pipe on the bottom of the thermom-
eter so the mercury could go down fur
Their but we only had three feet of pipe
would have gone if we had more pipe.
I'VE had great trouble in those days
keeping the stock from freezing. We
used to feed them hot tomales to keep
the blood from freezing. The ice was
pretty thick that winter. We cut out a
cake ~ feet thick and it lasted in our
water cooler till the next Thanksgiving
and would have lasted longer but at
that Thanksgiving the thermometer
was only % below and as the ice was
frozen at SO below it would not keep
when the weather was so warm.
'I've heard tell about the cold wealth
er in the Klondike but I would call that
a summer resort compared to what We
used to have right here years ago. We
never could boil water in those days it
was so cold. Water would try the best
it could not boil but it was impossible.
There is one thing certain the climate
here is getting warmer right along and
several times this winter I have been
afraid of sunstroke and have had to be
very careful and get slowly warmed
through before I went out so that the
sudden heat would not effect me. No,
my son, this is not cold weather. This
is very moderate.
CT tell you we old settlers can give
you pointers on weather"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-09
Market Gossip.

Furnished by E. NJ. Strawn Broker
age Co., Room Central National Bank
Bldg, Seventh and Kansas ave, Topeka.
Kan. Telephone No. 637.
Liverpool cable: Wheat sd higher; corn
sd higher.
Receipts of hogs: Chicago, $4,000. steady;
Kansas City, 1900 steady; Omaha 500,
Receipts of cattle: Chicago, 1000 steady;
Kansas City, 4,OO0 steady; Omaha, 1880,
steady.
Chicago: Estimated receipts of hogs for
Friday, %, 600.
Chicago receipts: Wheat, 80 cars: corn,
49S cars: oats. IFS cars.
New York: The further decline in yes
terday's early stock market carried prices
to figures which compared with the high
est points of January. The material in
crease in activity indicates that there must
have been considerable shifting of
counts and necessarily the advantage of
the technical position of the market Such
enormous pressure of realizing would
ton of our stock market. London selling
of American stocks can hardly have per-
manent influence in itself on the invest
ment situa ton here. The great advance
from the prices of year ago has gone
on in spite of constant importation of
our securities. When prices were to 10
points higher, conditions were, if anything,
less favorable than they are today. The
ratio of gain in railroad earnings is in the
ago. Many of the railroads which have
been using part of their gross revenues in
expenditures for betterments have now
completed the bulk of that work and
should be able to present a larger proper
ton of net earnings in the coming months