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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
MORE PAVING.
West Side Residents are Pushing
Street Improvements.

The people living in the vicinity of
Thirteenth and Buchanan have not
given up paving beyond Clay street.
The petitions reported favorably by
the council committee include pavement
as far Clay street, but those who live
west of Clay think that it should at
least be extended to Lincoln street, and
petitions will be circulated in few
days to ask for a continuation OF the
pavement.
The small cost of a brick pavement of
a 30-foOt roadway is proving a sufficient
inducement to property owners to pave
the roadway adjoining their property.
1t is no longer a serious problem to the
property owner for his property will
enhance in value much more than the
cost of the pavement. The people liv-
ing at Thirteenth and Buchanan streets
are the most active advocates of con-
tinuing the improvement. F. NJ. Bone
brake said today, in speaking of the
tension of the proposed pavement to
Lincoln street: 81 believe that it can
be done with little work Topeka
needs more pavements and L think the
time is at hand when we should again
commence the work of improving our
city. If a house is not taken care of it
soon gets shabby, and it is the same
way with the streets-if they are not
improved a city soon begins to look
frayed out. Kansas City is pushing
street pavement and there is no reason
why Topeka should not do some thing.'
The city engineer is receiving numer-
Gus inquiries from property owners who
want pavement. The block on Taylor
street between Sixth avenue and
Seventh street will probably be paved
this spring. A petition has been circu-
lated but it has not yet been presented
to the council.
There has been some talk of paving
West Fifth street from Topeka avenue
west, but it has taken no definite shape.
a street that should by all means be
paved next season is West Tenth street.
1t is one of the principal thoroughfares
of the city and is also one of the worst
streets in Topeka 1t is possible that the
legislature will make some change in
the paving law which will make it less
difficult to secure pavements, but even
under present conditions it is believed
that Tenth street could be paved If the
roadway is somewhat narrowed.
The next season should see more
streets paved than have been paved in
Topeka since the days of the boom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
TO HELP THE NEGRO.
Council of Southern Men in Session at
Washington to Solve Southern
Race Question.

Washington, Jan. 2-The first annual
meeting of the Afro-American council
is in session in this city. Bishop Alex
ander walters of New Jersey presiding
The council grew out of the meeting
of colored men at Rochester on Septem-
Der Is, and was called in the interest Of
the amelioration of the condition of the
Afro-American race.
The Rev. I. L. Thomas delivered the
address of welcome, to which the Rev.
J. NJ. Henderson of New York respond
ed. Bishop Walters delivered an adj
dress, in which he reviewed the condi-
ton of the negroes from the time Of the
revolution down to today.
The south, he said, must treat the ne
gro as it would have the negro treat the
south.
Bishop Walters said he could not un-
derstand the motives of those members
of the race who counsel inaction. With
the president silent in his message up
on the riots at Wilmington the time had
come for the colored man to act; to act
with firmness, calmness, and after due
elaboration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
PERRY BELMONT QUITS.
Retires From the Firm of August Bel
mont & Co.

New York Jan. 2-O1iver H. P. Bel
mont's suddenly announced retirement
from the Belmont banking firm has set
Wall street to talking
That there was some friction in the
rich company has been vaguely reported
in the street, but it was not generally
supposed that the breach was wide
enough to cause dissolution of the
firm. Now report has it that there is
even likelihood Of law suit before the
difficulties are Strengthened out
Ostensibly the reason for the parting
of the brothers is the expiration OF the
articles of agreement among the part
ners of August Belmont & Co., but as
those articles were, of course, renew
able, and had all been pleasant in the
business, it is hardly likely that the
mere expiration of the articles of part
nership between the brothers would
have parted them.
August Belmont has been head Of the
banking firm since his fathers death, a
period that saw the business, already
great, double or triple. oliver H. P.
Belmont has taken a less conspicuous
part in the affairs of the firm.
OF recent years August Belmont & Co.
have been in some tremendous enter
prises, but the biggest thing with which
the firm name is associated was the
Cleveland bond issue. The Belmonts
and J. P. Morgan formed a syndicate
that took the whole issue of these bonds
and cleared a profit of SIT ,0oU, 900 on the
deal.
1t is said that o. H. P. Belmont is
dissatisfied with what is named as his
share of the earnings of the firm, and
particularly with the manner in which
he was treated in the distribution of the
profits of the bond deal. If he does
bring suit for an accounting there are
likely to be revealed matters that the
congressional committee that investi-
gated the Cleveland bond issue was I'M
able to obtain from the financiers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
RENOUNCEs WHITE RACE.
Ida Williams of st. Louis, Declares
Herself Negro at Heart.

St. Louis, Jan.2-Ida Williams, tail,
well-formed white girl, with a rather
pretty face. has renowned the eau
casian race and married a negro doc
tor, Frank Williams, because she was
dispIeased with the treatment accorded
her by members of her own race. She
was married in East st. Louis by Rev.
B. M. Campbell, a negro preacher.
The story came to light through the
statement of Mrs. Annie Lane that Ida
had been kidnapped by Williams. In
vestigatiOn revealed that she had be-
come tired of suffering among her own
people and had accepted williams as
husband because he treated her with
unusual Kindness.
Il was an orphan" she said. ST was
sick and in want. The only assistance
got was from Williams. My own peo-
pie jeered at me when 1 asked them for
help. So became a martyr to my own
resolve. 1 am a negro at heart, if not
by birth, and want nothing more to do
with my own race. My husbands skin
is black, but his heart is WHITE
The couple live in humble apartments
at 716 North Sixteenth street. The girl
was born in England and is Is years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
ONE MORE PARDON WANTED
A Pleasanton Preacher Intercedes in
Behalf of an Alleged Murderer.

An effort is being made to secure
Governor Leedy's signature to a pardon
penitentiary for life for murder in the
first degree from Linn county in 1895.
Rev. A. NJ. Sedliff, of Pleasanton, a
minister of the Christian church, came
to Topeka today to urge the governor
to take action in the matter.
Mr.. Sedliff says he did not know Con-
ley till after he had been sent to the
penitentiary, and he became accidental
ly cognizant of the manner in which
his conviction was secured. He says
that James Mapes, the man whom
Conley is alleged to have killed, had
frequently made threats against Con-
ley, and on the Fourth of July, 1894,
MapeS and his brother started out with
the determination to kill Conley. They
cornered him and in the fight which
followed James MapeS was killed and
rested for the murder, but up to the day
of his trial his lawyer had only given
about fifteen minutes consideration to
the case. Mr.. Sedliff further states
some of the witnesses against Conley
were men who wanted to get rid of him
and one of them was SO drunk when he
testified that he fell off the witness
stand. The witnesses which COnley
himself had subpoenaed his attorney
refused to put on the witness stand.
Conley himself refused to go on the
witness stand because it would COM
pei him to reveal his wifes inf1delity,
which entered into the case.
After Conley was convicted a. ply
stefan told him that if he lay in the
county Jail until another term of court,
suffering from his wound, he would
die, and the best thing for him to do
was to get removed to the penitentiary
as soon as possible and trust the gov
ernor for q pardon On account of this
Conley refused to ask for a new trial,
and it is said that he is now broken in
health and on the verge of insanity.
The board of pardonS has recon-
mended that Conley be pardoned at
once,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
re torn down and cinder platform put in

be torn down and cinder platform put IN
its place. 49,
struck dumb. with terror 1t is reported
wear uniforms. The employees in this city
on hearing the dread intelligence were
unable to speak for an hour afterWard,
says the Albuquerque Democrat
George A. Trent resigned his position
as yardmaster in Albuquerque and will
Ariz. where he has been given the posi-
ton of superintendent of water works for
the Santa Fee Pacific railroad George
Crews succeeds him as yardmaster-
The railroad shops in Albuquerque have
been closed the last week owing to the
1t is expected almost any day now. and
soon as it arrives work Will be re-
The employees reading room OF the
Santa Fe Pacific at The Needles has been
completed and furnished for occupancy.
1t has four bath rooms, billiard room
and card ROOM The reading room is
the largest, and is furnished comfortably
with chairs, tables etc.
Nearly a hundred men who have been
at work on the sgradlng and special inn
provement work of the Santa Fe Pacific
were discharged at Gallup last week and
were paid off.
The pump has been lowered in the big
well of the Santa Fe at Gallup and the
water supply has been considerably in
creased thereby. AS a further step the
company is having well drilled near
the roundhouse, and if the two do not
give water enough a pump will be put on
Egineers J. L. Slater and E. T. Barstow
tied on making the best fuel record on
the eastern division of the Rock Island
lines west of the Missouri river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
SAT ON BY HAY.
Secretary of State Disapproves til
Hawaiian Gable Monopoly.


Washington, Jan. "A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
Secretary Hay has disapproved the
Scrymser concession granting exclusive
cable rights to land cables in Hawaii
for 20 years to the Pacific Gable COM
pany of New York.
Secretary Hay stated to his colleagues
in the cabinet meeting yesterday that
the Hawaiian commissioners had sent
him formal letter declaring that in
their opinion control of the Hawaiian
cable should remain in the hands of the
as the commission would recommend
have monopoly in the matter. Prac-
tically the entire cabinet conceded in
this view and when the subject was
dropped it was with the understanding
that Secretary Hay would disapprove
of the concession.
Two corporations are striving for per-
San Francisco, Guam, Wake Island and
the Philippines. One is the Pacific
Gable company of New York, the other
the Pacific Gable company of New Jer-
sey. The first one owns the Scrymser
concession. It's capital stock is $40 000,-
600 and it's chief stockholders are J. P.
Morgan, ]. S. Bowdoin, J. Kennedy
Todd, J. A. Scrymser, H. S. Leroy and
ChaS. d. Wetmore. The other is under
control of Col. H. Spalding who lives
in Hawaii. Associated with him are A
S. Hewitt, D. o. Mills, Gen. G. Dodge
Gen. F. d. Grant, Gen. Wager Swayne
J. j. Hill, J. H. Brown and NJ. W.
TYLER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
BASEBALLIN CUBA.
The Kansas Colored Soldiers Play a
Fast Game With Illinois.

San Luis de Cuba, Dec. 1O.-(Special
Correspondence.)- 1.-THE Eighth Illinois
Baseball club now leads the race for the
pennant in the Cuban Military Baseball
league, going to the front today in a
skirmish with the team from the Tween
ty-third Kansas volunteers. The game
is the second played in Cuba since the
occupation.
The game was played on the drill
ground of the Twenty third Kansas, and
resulted in a hard struggle, the Illinois
men winning out in the last half of the
ninth, when Gully smashed out a two
baser and sent home the two runs
which gave Illinois the victory. The
score was 20 to 10.
There was little kicking on the UNI
work behind the bat. Sanders and G.
Whaley each made a home run.
The hitting was hard and fielding
good, considering the condition of the
parade ground.
The Kansas men went off with good
lead, scoring four runs in the first round
and two in the second, but the Chicago
men came in the third and fourth and
made six runs in each round by hard,
clean hitting.
Then George Bradford steadied, and
held the Illinois men down while the
kansanS piled up many runs. With
three needed to win, the Illinois boys
came in in the ninth. Two hits and an
error put them within reaching dis
lance; then, with one out, Gully crack
ed out a two-baser and won the game.
The lineup:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

Ed McMullin, q. Topeka machinist. who
has been at Albuquerque for several
months, has quit work there He will go
to San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where he will
The B. of l.. F. will give a dance at
Parsons tonight
The santa Fe. ticket office at Emporia
sold over 1000 tickets at holiday rates
Dad Harris, who pulled trains out of
Las Vegas in the early sos. is now pas
senger conductor on the Colorado Mid
land. running from Colorado Springs to
Leadville.
The b: of L. F. of Emporia wiz dance
orchestra will furnish the music
Mr.. Emerson of the Postal office at
Newton has taken charge of the Emporia
office for that company Mr.. Funk. who
formerly at the Emporia office, was
transferred to the Wichita office.
The practice of employees assigning their
wages to others appointing others to
receive their earnings has caused the gem
eral manager of the Santa Fe to issue a
circular TO the effect that any employe
who does so in the future Will be dismiss
ed from the service.
The Missouri Pacific railroad at lola has
at last begun its threatened cinder laying.
The space between the tracks is being
z filed with cin6ers and before the work is
done it is reported the depot platform VIII
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
NEXT TO RUSSIA.
She Alone Has More Space Than the
United States at Paris.

New York, Jan AT the Paris ex-
position of 1900 the United States will
be second in size and completeness
among the countries outside of France"
said Major Bracket, secretary of the
United States commission of the Paris
exposition, at the New York offices to-
day. Russia" he said. will have a
little more space, but the United States
has larger allotment than either Eng
land or Germany. However, the French
commissioners will try to give equal
favors to the four great countries, the
United States, England, Russia and
Germany. So far as these nations are
concerned, the French will show no
efforts to excel all other nations at the
exposition and the United States will
find Germany its keeneSt competitor.
Ihe German government has made
liberal and generous appropriations for
their exhibits, the amount appropriated
being twice the sum which has been
provided for our commission. The Ger
mans are going to make a great fight
at Paris in 1900 for the trade OF the
world. Japan will also make a fine
display. Commissioner General Peck
has secured additional space, amount
ing to about so per cent over the orig
inal allotment. The space now given
this country is about 217, 900 square feet.
As the applications from intending ex-
hibitors even now, ask for over 100000
square feet, of course somebody will be
disappointed
This is to be an exposition of selec-
ton. The struggle for supremacy be-
tween nations will be a great one and
Commissioner General Peck will elm
mate all displays that would be other
than creditable to America. The de-
mand for space in the machinery and
electrical departments alone now
amounts to over 100000 square feet, or
say $4,000 feet more than the entire
allotment TO this country"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Every one is constantly on the verge
of being ridiculous.
When you are sick, how little the doc
tors seem to know!
A college man thinks there Is nothing
in the world important except colleges.
The only good authority on a woman s
looks is the milkman who calls an the
morning before she is curled.
''Our family reunion was a great sue
cess said a woman today. "Oniy two
of the children present got sick"
1t will usually be found that the min
lister who has the reputation of making
good prayers, makes very short prayers.
Occasionally every man wishes he
were a woman, so that he could bury
his face in a handkerchief, and have q
good cry.
A woman is so grateful that she let's
her Christmas gifts stay spread out" a
week, to show them to the friends, the
milk boy, ETC., who happen to call.
Every man on the streets today wore
a new muller or a new tie. 1t is the
cross that old tramp of a Santa Claus
marks on the front gate OF every man
he visits.
There is the usually paniclSy feeling
among the women because they receiv-
ed presents Christmas from some one to
whom they gave nothing. There is lit
tie that causes a woman more distress
than this.
''For a good many years a certain
door in my house has stuck at the top
every time it was opened, making a
good deal of trouble. I could fix it in
a minute but have put it off. Why do
I not fix that door? Why do not you
IN fIn foIl 1Xy
are you not sensible? Why it is that
no man is sensible? We are great
people when it comes to public institu-
lions, railroads. and sympathy for other
nations in distress, but in little things
Americans haven't a particle of sense"
Drake Watson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
LAWRENCE CLUB HOUSE.
Formal Opening of the Merchants
Athletic Association Building

Lawrence, Kan, Jan. 2.-The formal
opening of the Merchants Athletic as
ISOLATION club house in this city Friday
afternoon and evening was the culmina-
ton of efforts of members of the as
ISOLATION, begun early in the year to
secure for the organization apermanent
home. The plan seemed past the posi-
bilities of the club when it was first
talked of, but investigation proved its
feasibility, and the money was readily
raised from among the members for
the SO 900 club house that was thrown
open for inspection.
The club house is on Vermont street,
adjacent to the. business part of the
city, and on property adjoining the city
hall It is a two-story, brick veneered
structure, with bowling alley annex
starting under the main building and
running back to the alley. The bowl
ing alley portion of the club house is
only one story in height, but the walls
are built of stone, the ceilings are high
and windows admit light on both sides
of the alleys, and their entire length
At the west end of the bowling alleys
the steam heating apparatus and en-
CINE room is placed. On the first floor
of the main building are a parlor and
a large, light billiard room fitted up
with three tables. On the second floor
is the reading room, and a large ban
Quet hail. The. building has a tower
and the second and third story tower
rooms are used for card rooms, while
the tower room on the first floor is
used as an office, and is occupied by
the secretary of the association. There
are large halls on both first and second
floors, porches on which doors open
from the second and first floors and the
club house is fitted with all modern con-
venienceS.
The new clubhouse is open all day,
and late at night as the mem bers
care to stay. The guests of club mem
bers are the guests of the club, and
everything has been arranged for the
comfort and convenience of all the
tastes of various club members. The
building cost about $4,000 and is fur
nished throughout with rugs, curtains
and substantial furniture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

taking risks In business are terribly
reckless in giving credit ratings to their
wives.
Save your pennies and your wives
will take care to spend the pounds.
The longer you know a. happily mar
ried man the less you can envy him.
With a good many women their rule
about men is, deceiving is believing.
When a girl takes her married sisters
children out walking she tries to look
as if she had a lot more of them at
home.
When a woman likes a man her idea
of having him happy is not having him
belong to some other woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

The Slater Dramatic and Vaudeville
company opens weeks engagement
at popular prices at the Crawford thea
ter this afternoon. At the performance
tonight ladies will be admitted free.
There will be matinee performances on
Thursday and Saturday afternoons.
Special attention Is given to vaudeville
features.
The next attraction at the Grand
Opera House will be the romantic
drama by David Higgins, "At Piney
Ridge" Fresh from career OF sue
cess in all the large cities this southern
play will be presented with the author,
Mr. Higgins, in the role of Jack Rose,
the young mountaineer. Mr.. Higgins
has made so strong a hit as an actor
in this part that his title to "dramatist"
is somewhat overshadowed by his repu-
tation as an actor. Especially to be
mentioned in the company supporting,
and equally dividing honorS with the
star, is Miss Georgia Waldron, whose
performance of ttCindy Lane deserves
and receives the highest praise. The
company and scenic equipmen are
evening and the sale of seats opens
Wednesday morning at the Sim Drug
company's store.
The David Henderson company in
"Our Regiment and "a Scrap of
Paper on Wednesday and Thursday
evening, and Under the Red Robe on
Friday evening, follows Hoyts "A
Stranger in New York. on Tuesday
evening at the Crawford theater next
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
LINED WITH GOLD.
Wonderful Find of Returned
Klondiker-Found the Course
of Lost Stream

Seattle, Wn., Jan. 2-Dan StaTey
known as the" French Hill Bench King"
one of the luckiest of K1ondikers, is here
with a story of his latest find He says
he has discovered an ancient bed of
Ell Dorado creek near where pay dirt
runs out. 1t can be traced for a dis
lance of II claims. Staley said:
after long and difficult search the
old creek bed of Ell Dorado has been
found where it was bIotted out many
years ago by a monster slide. Pay dirt
as has long been known, ran out claim
50. The question was, what had become
of the pay streak Many prospected for
it but none were successful until my
partner and I struck extremely rich
dirt. By spring we will have followed
the streak clear through the slide, and
we expect to take out immense quaint
ties of gold.
Three hundred men were at work on
French Hill when I left took nearly
800. 600 in my last clean up