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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-06
-UR JOSEPH.
Market Gossip.

Mn5aI3 IL BY East sS a9ns KS
receiver and shipper of grain
Liverpool: Wheat opened I'D lower, corn
London, Wheat cargoes quiet. options
Receipts of hogs: Chicago, 81 600; Kansas
City, 1900; Omaha, 1900. Hogs weak to
Price Current: Continued unfavorabIe-
ness has attended wheat crop. Late ad-
vices increasingly emphatic as to injury.
advent and continuance of growing wea-
co c, ura cement gen; Situation one of uncertain
ty. but not hopeless as to fair results; Clio
ward. Packing, $4,000 hogs, against 36O.-
Chicago receipts: Wheat 101 cars, graded
2 cars; corn 3S1 cars, graded 112 cars; oats
13S cars, graded II cars.
Paris: Wheat unchanged, flour 10 CEN
Chicago: Outside markets firm. Foreign
Kansas City receipts: Wheat As cars, last
oats BATS cars s last st year cars = ~'-9'
Chicago: Puts May wheat 691zc, calls
SO12c; puts May corn 34c, calls 36c, good
Paris close: Wheat, 10 centimes lower;
flour, 25Q30 centimes higher.
Indiana Missouri. Kansas ana Nebraska
Topeka cash market. II a. M: No.
hard, 50 pound test, 65G66c for best sam
MINNEAPOLIS: Cash wheat is selling, at
May R 5G to oa &c oy a aE nrte taking
Liverpool close: Wheat I'D, corn I'D
higher than yesterday.
Chicago: The relative strength of July
shows that the country is buying wheat:
Total clearances: Wheat and flour, 1000
bushels; corn 81. 900 bushels
Mnneapolis Cash wheat in fair demand
at May price to sc over. Flour sales yes
terday about 5000 barrels, half for ex-
port.
Antwerp close: Wheat, 121k centimes
lower.
Chicago: Estimated receipts for tomor-
row: Wheat. &c cars: corn, $50 cars; oats,
106 cars; hogs, N,O00 head
Kansas City cash market, noon: No.
hard wheat, So test &c; No. mixed corn.
Topeka cash market, 1:9O p. M: No. 2
hard wheat. SO test, CSC.
Minneapolis close: Wheat, cash 7o11c,
NS ST. louis close: Wheat. cash 75a4a76Ikc
April 75s4c, May 76$4c asked, July n7s@ Is
331kc July 34c; oats. cash 2S1zc, May 2S1sc
bid July 263sc asked.
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DEMAND A RAISE.
Kansas Salt Workers Send Repre-
sentative to Topeka

w. J. Blaine, of Hutchinson, is in To-
peka today to ask the Kansas Salt COM
pany, of which Joab Mulvane is pres1-
dent, for an increase in the wages OF
works at Hutchinson. There are 300
men employed in the works who will
be affected by the accession to or the
refusal of the demand by the company.
Mr. Blaine says that the employees
formerly received $3.50 per day, but
about three years ago the wages were
Mckinley should be elected they would
again be put back to $1.50. A raise of
5 cents a day has been made, but that
is all, and now the employees demand
Use to put them back to $3.50 per day.
In case the company refuses a strike is
threatened, which, it is said, may not
only affect the Kansas Salt company,
but also the entire salt industry at
Hutchinson, employing 700 men.
I'VE have had no trouble with our
employees said Mr.. MulVane today,
land know nothing of any committee
coming to Topeka to see the company.
The state of the salt market is very
low and competition is keen at present
Every week we have applications for
work from men who are willing to do
it at the present wages, so do not an
ticipate any trouble"
1t is stated that the competition in
the salt market at present is caused by
an eastern syndicate trying to get pos
session of the salt industry of Kansas.
One rumor is that the Standard Oil
company is reaching out after the salt
mines and in order to get them cheap
is forcing down the price of salt. JOY
Morton, a Chicago man who, it is
claimed, represents the syndicate, has
recently secured a footing in the salt
business in Hutchinson, and is now
placing salt on the cars at 48 and 40
cents per barrel, whereas the cost of
production is more than so cents. To
meet this condition the other plants are
operating at a loss. 1t is a question
whether they will be able to hold out
or be compelled to sell cheap in order
to keep from sacrificing all their profits.
Il know nothing whatever about the
efforts of the Standard Oil company or
any other trust in trying to get hold
of the Kansas salt industry" said Mr..
Mulvane. 1T may be true-I would not
say it is not-but if it is 1 have no
knowledge of it. 1 know there is no
salt trust in Kansas at PRESENT.
would probably be better for the salt
industry if there was. L do know, how
ever, that salt trust has been formed
! in New York and 1 understand that 80
per cent of the plants in that state are
under its control. L do not know who
is behind that trust
This would seem to indicate that the
demand of the salt workers for an in
crease in their wages will not be ac-
ceded to by the company
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QUITE A BOOM
Given Junction City by the Union Pa
cific-Change of Headquarters.

Junction City, April 6.-The Union
Pacific road has located it's headquart-
ers for building material at this point.
This mean that headquarters for all
building material for the Kansas divis-
ion of the Union Pacific will be changed
from Omaha to this point.
This change will add something to
the Union Pacific force, and will call
new sidetrack, which will be run on the
west of the ice house. The material de-
pot will be located between Eleventh
and Twelfth, down near the tracks. For
the present the repair track will be
used. AS a railroad point Junction
City will be very much more important
with this change.
A gentleman named Barber is sent
from Omaha to take charge of the new
department.
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COLORADO'S COSTLY ROAD.
[From the Washington Post.l

CFrom the Washington Post.1
1.-THE most costly road to construct
and I believe the most expensive wagon
road in the United States is that con-
Meeting the mining towns of Silverton
and Ouray, in the San Juan mining dis
trict of my state,' said Mr.. j. l.. Nc
Neil, prominent Denver (Col) railway
and mining man. zone piece of this
road is cut into the side of mountain
of solid rock for a distance of seven
miles, and to construct it four years of
hard work were consumed.
ITO begin with, there was absolutely
no foothoId from which a start could be
made, but the only practical way of
getting a road was by cutting through
start was 500 or 500 feet below the top
of the stone cliff and men were let down
in baskets suspended by ropes, and from
such shaky stations they drilled holes
charges of powder. After more than
month of blasting a ledge was cut into
the rock large enough for the men to
work on, and a splendid road, sixteen
feet in width, was constructed along
this precipitous ledge.
THE bed is a solid rock and is used
mostly by wagon trains and pack ami
mails, carrying ores and supplies to and
from the mining camps in the noun
tains. For a distance of more than 500
feet straight up is a wall of solid rock,
and over the edge is a precipitous fall
of several thousand feet, so that 1t is
necessary for the owner to have
steady footing while travelling this road.
These seven miles OF road cost all OF
$120, 900, but the tolls which have been
regulated by the state have never been
sufficient to pay the owner 1 per cent
on his investment. Several years ago
the state offered $45, 900 for the road,
which was declined, and another offer
has just been made for it which the
owner will probably accept.
This strange road is the only means OF
communication between Silverton and
Ouray, and there is no probability of
another being built, as the only avail
able route for cutting the cliff was
taken by the engineers who constructed
the remarkable stone path around the
mountain LEDGE
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Who Figured Extensively In
the Dreyfus Case
Is Now Declared to Have Been
Patty Du Clam.
EVIDENCE is PRINTED
Showing That He and Ester
haZy Were Chief Williams.
Magistrate Bertulus Tells of
Lieut.. Henry's Confession.

Paris, April 6-The Figaro today pub
fishes the evidence given by examining
Magistrate Bertulus before the court of
cessation in the Dreyful case. NJ. Ber-
tuIus, it appears, gave an interesting
account of his examination of the late
Lieut.. Henry who committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor in
August last in the military prison of
Montevalerion, after confessing to forg-
ing certain documents connected with
the affair. The examining magistrate
said that when Henry found himself
cornered he confessed that Lieut. Col
Patty Du Clam and Major Count Ester
hazy were the authors of the spurious
kilograms aiming to incriminate Lieut..
Col. Picquart whereupon NJ. BertuluS
said to Henry:
"Esterhazy and Patty Du Clam are
guilty. Let the latter blow out his
brains this evening and justice will
take its course against ESterhaZy, the
forger, who is now making charges
ears of your enemies, may lead them to
accuse you of supplying Esterhazy with
the documents"
Henry, it further appears, upon hear
ing this collapsed in his chair speech
less and then threw his arms around
the magistrate, kissed him the fore
head and cheeks, crying implOringly:
Save US! Save us! Esterhazy is a
scoundrel.'
The magistrate then pressed him for
further information against Esterhazy
but Henry begged him not to insist,
saying: The honor of the army be-
fore everything
NJ. BertuluS also expressed the belief
that the yelled lady who has figured
in the case was no other than Patty Du
Clam himself
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IN PEACE AS IN WAR.
Kansas Missionaries to Aid the Twen-
tieth Kansas in CiviIizing the
Filipinoa

New York, April 6.-The Presbyterian
Foreign Mission society is taking meas
ures looking forward to active mission
airy work in the Philippine islands. over
81 900 has been handed to the treasurer,
though no appeal has been made, by
people who ask that their names be
withheld.
According to Rev. DR.. E. F. Ellen
wood, Rev James B. Rogers, who was
for many years a missionary in Brazil
is now on his way to Manila with his
wife and will probably arrive at Hong
Kong this week. Rev. D. S. Hubbard
and his wife, formerly of Lyndon, Kan.
have just started for Manila via San
Francisco. Others will leave in the
near future.
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mand is very slack. but that factor viii
be promptly discounted with any wide
spread damage The Price Current was
1t is still too early to know the condition
to certainty. We still favor buying on
sharp breaks.
.CORN-Corn has been steady, but mac
tive. Prices opened Nc off, but recovered
it. Western offerings continue very small;
navigation was open The large shipping
business done Wednesday, $4,000 bushels.
was on a slight concession by elevator
people who needed room. Speculation mar
row and crowd watching wheat Corn
seems low enough.
OATS+Oats have been firm; up at one
time 9sQ15c, and holding most of it. The
Price Current said the late season would
probably curtail the area The west con-
tinued to buy July on the late season
Floor traders bought literally of July
early, and then sold out later. There was
somewhat milder weather west. with
warmer weather predicted for the north
west tomorrow.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have been
steadied by grain. There has been some
influential covering in pork, Bailey taking
a line of perhaps 5000 barrels, probably
for. Swift Lard was relatively easy on
selling by a commission house, probably
for the Cudahy's. The trade continues to
be largely of a changing CHARACTER.
J. +. HARRIS.
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ZIONIST BANK MOVEMENT.
Fifteen Thousand Shares Subscribed
In the United States.

New York, April ct was said today
that the sale of Zionist bank stock had so
far proven encouraging to the promoters.
The bank is being organized to promote
the welfare of the Jews all over the world,
with a view of making Palestine their
common country under the suzerainty of
the sultan and the protection of the Euro
pean powers. It is further intended to
corralled in the Pale of Russia and to
encourage migration to the far east, where
agriculture and every legitimate occupa-
ton will be encouraged by the promoters
of the enterprise.
More than 1900 shares at 81 per share
have been subscribed in the United States
and twice that number are eventually ex-
pected to be subscribed from this coun-
try. In Chicago alone 200 shares were
taken The Russian government is not
interfering with the sale of shares in that
country.
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OUR PEACEMAKERS.
Delegates Named to Attend the Cars
Meeting.

Washington, April 6-The secretary
of state has announced the constitution
of the United States delegation to the
disarmament congress which will meet
at The Hague in the latter part of May
The delegation consists of Andrew d.
White, United States ambassador at
Berlin; Mr. Newell, United States min
Ester to the Netherlands; President Seth
Low of the Columbia university. New
York; Captain Crozier, ordnance depart
ment, u S. A, and Captain A T Ma
han, retired, U. s. n. Mr.. Frederick
Hollis of New York, will be secretary of
the delegation.
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Chicago Livestock Market.
Chicago. April 6.

HOGS-Estimated receipts of hogs to-
day, 81, 600; tomorrow, 5000; left over, p
butchers. $3.6O43. sly; good heavy, 50. 750
$50; rough heavy, $360d3.7O; light, So. COO
3S212.
CATTLE+Receipts, 1900. Market slow,
weak to 1oc l9weT o. 6eeTes $4a50 c % s5
as; stockers and feeders. $3@4: 80.
SHEEP-ReceiptS, 10, O00 Market steady.
Sheep, $3.25Q5; lambs, $4.50Gi5. 80.
Yesterdays official:
HOG+Receipts, 21163; shipments, 5,465
CATTLE-Receipts, IA 658; shipments, g.
143.
SHEEP-Receipts. 11.575; shipments, L.
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BURN EN- UP.
A Chinese Governors Way of Punish
ing Disorderly Villages.

Pekin April 6.-The governor of Kiao
Chou has given orders to burn two Chi
nese villages in the neighborhood of L
Chou a short distance from Kiao Chou,
where the German patrol was recently
fired upon. The orders, however, are
considered here to be arbitrary and I'M
necessary and are considered unlikely to
be approved by the officials of the Ger
man legation to whom the Chinese for
eign office yesterday sent mild re-
rnOnStraQce
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New York Money Market.
MONEY-Mon.

New York, April 6.
MONEY-Money on call firm at 6td71z
per cent; prime mercantile paper, 31k441z
per cent; sterling exchange steady, with
actual business in bankers bills at "a 8614
az for demand and at $4.S414 az for 90
days; posted rates, $.S5Gl4. S512 and $4.S1@
4871R; commercial bills, $4.S3kG%.
SILVER = Silver certificates. 60G601zc;
bar silver, $3.50; Mexican dollars, 4712c.
BONDS-GOvernment bonds strong IS,
1077a; new As, registered, 1895; new As, cou-
pom 1895; As. registered, 11214 Is, coupon,
coupon, 113.
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REPRESENTATIVE ga:
Kansas City Produce Market

Kansas City, Apr1I D.
wHEAT-Firn. May opened 1sc lower
a 665kc, f1uctuated between 6614c and &c,
closing; around bottom Cash: No. hard,
66G6Sc: No. 3, 63d66c; No. red, loc; NO:
CORN-Ac higher. May, 3194@ 32e- Cash:
No. 2 mixed, 33c; No. white, S3z2c; No.
'oATs-Ffrm. No. white, 29q2s1zc.
RYE@Lower. No. g SIC.
HAY-Higher Choice timothy, $SGs.2
But BUTTER-Steady. Creamery, 14G2Oc;
EGGGSteady. Fresh, IOc.
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Extren Q Southern Point.

Brussels, April 6.-The Belgian geo.
graphical society has received a dis
patch stating that the extreme latitude
reached by the Antarctic expeditionary
steamer Belgica was 71.36 south, Iongi-
tude go. Much bad weather was en-
countered by the expedition but no in
tense cold except during the month of
September. Good maps were prepared
of Hughes bay and Palmer's land, south
of the South Shetland islands.
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KHARTOUM THE SEA.
Another Railroad Projected in the
Soudan.

London, April 6.-The Cairo CORES
pendent of the London Mail says:
1.-The government is considering a
scheme for a railway through the east
ern Soudan, probably from Khartoum
on the Nile, to Suakin, on the Dead sea,
by way of Kassala, in Nubia. The idea
would be to secure the Abyssinian traf-
fic.
'I understand that thirty-six engines
for the Uganda line are being built in
the United States"
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BLOOD
Gives
LIFE.

If it's pure
health. If it's
1mpure-diSeaSe
HoStetter'S
Stomach BitterS
makes the pur-
est and Richest
blood. 1t pre-
vents disease by
strengthening
the stomach : it
cures disease in
the same way.
1t has never
failed-we don't
believe it can
fail. Try it.
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It Showed in missouri.

Maryville, Mo-, April 6-Another snow
fell over northwest Missouri last night.
The continued bad weather is prevent
ing farm work and farmers are becom-
ing discouraged. The recent SHOWS and
rains have raised the 102, Nodaway ard
Platte rivers and people living along
their banks greatly fear they will suffer
heavy losses by overfloWs.
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TO AID THE POOR.
Abilene Man Will Invest $275 Won
on Election in Flour.

Abilene, April 6.-The big bets made
by D. Matteson and C. G. Hoffman are
going to have good results. Mr. Mat
teson's winnings are 1915 and he says
he will get a six-horse wagon, load it
with $275 worth of flour and distribute
it among the needy of the town.
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Sugar Market.

New York April g.
SUGAR-Raw, firm; fair refining,
15-16c; centrifugal SO test, 41ac; molasses
sugar, 13-16c. Refined firm; crushed,
53sc; powdered, SIC; granulated, Sic.
COFFEE-Steady. No. Z, 61sc.
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Joseph's TIPS.

Furnished by J. G. Golngs, Commission
Merchant. 112 East 5th St. Topeka. Kan,
receiver and shipper OF grain
New York, April 6.-Foreign houses have
scattering buying orders, especially in spe-
cialties. The persistent advances in wages
are the best indication of prosperity We
believe the time will come when even the
railroads, north, south, east and west, viii
pay their employees more literally than
they are now doing, nor will this fact be
a bear argument on any of the railroad
securities. We feel rather bullish upon
the Changers and believe 60" will look
cheap around 16O, that st. Paul will sell
at 40, Rock Island aprpoximately as high,
while Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific COM
mon and preferred, and the Northern Pa
cities, common and preferred, will go any,
where from 10 to 30 points above their cur
rent quotations.
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DRAWS ON LEAVENWORTH.
% Members of Hospital Corps Or
dered to Manila

Leavenworth, April 6.-Orders to send .
members of the hospital corps from Fort
.Ieavenworth to Manila were received at
Fort Leavenworth today from the war de-
partment. They will probably depart to-
morrow, going via San Francisco.
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ARMOUR'S LETTER
Urging the Use of Embalmed Beef
offered in Evidence by Miles.

Washington, April Elm the army
beef court of inquiry today the letter of
Messrs Armour & Co., proposing to use
the Powell process for the preservation
of beef was submitted as evidence by
Major Lee, acting for Gen. Miles. 1t
was addressed to the commissary gen.
eral, dated at the firms Washington's
office, July Is, 1898, and read as fol-
lows:
LAS supplementary and explanatory
of our bid to supply dressed beef in
Cuba, we wish to say that we have the
exclusive control of the Powell process
for preserving fresh meats and that
this process has been tested at Tampa,
Fla, the test having been completed
with most satisfactory results.
This test was made under the super
vision of Col. John Weston of your de-
partment who has advised you of the
results. We are advised however that
he received four carcasses of beef which
we sent him from Chicago, duly refrig
Grated and treated according to the
Powell process.
Part of the carcaSSeS were enveloped
in sacks or canvas and part were not.
These carcasseS were distributed to the
Third cavalry, the Sixth cavalry, bat
teries of artillery and the medical de-
partment and were hung in the air on
the uppr deck of the transport troop
ships lying at the wharf in the hot sun
Without any DGne1lI the IT6Sn air OF
movement of the ships. The pieces that
were not wrapped fermented in less
than 70 hours, while the pieces that
were covered or wrapped kept about
100 hours.
These practical tests made under the
supervision of your own officer show
that by means of this process, wrapped
pieces or cases can be kept longer than
the y hours required by your specifica-
tions.
I'VE believe we may safely say that
these results have never before been ac-
ccmplished in the history of the fresh
meat business. In view of the tests
which we have made in the past and
of the results of the tests made under
the supervision of your own office we
believe we are absolutely safe in the
assertion that this is the only process
or method which will secure the results
required by your specifications.
Very truly yours,
ARMOUR & co.
per T. ]. O'CONNOR, Superintend-
emit
The testimony began today with DR..
w. Clifford Cox, assistant surgeon in
the volunteers of the District of Column
pia He was at Tampa and in Cuba
and testified that the command was at
tackled with diarrhoea to the extent of
an epidemic after eating refrigerator
beef at these places.
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ChicagO, AprII o.
wHEAT-wheat closed steady; shade
under yesterday. Barring cables news
was generally bullish. Foreigners bought
in New York and in this market There
was very liberal selling over 13c, probaDl
profit taking. but difficult to locate the
Source There was an increasing amount
of damage claims and it is getting to
point where the professional element is
beginning to heed them. If one-half Of
the reports are true, much higher prices
are warranted 1t is true that foreign de-
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per T. ]. O'CONNOR, Superintend-

''Give me a liver regulat IT and I can
regulate the world" said a genius. The
druggist handed him a bottle of De
Wits Little Early Risers, the famous
little pills. Geo. w. Stansfield, w. H.
Wilson. A. ]. Arnold & Son. A. J. Kane
& Co.
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You will have no more saw edges on
your collars if you will send them to
the Peerless Steam Laundry.
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New York April 6-Samuel Halter,
the Wild West show ticket seller, who
was shot through the body on Sunday
afternoon in a West Both street saloon
by William Holland, is recovering in
Roosevelt hospital.
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Range of Prices.

Furnished by ]. C. Goings. Commission
Merchant 112 East 5th St, Topeka, Kan,
receiver and shipper of grain:
Chicago, April 6.
Article. Open High Low Close Yes
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Ranges of Prices on Stock.


Furnished by ]. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant, III East 5th St, Topeka, Kan,
receiver and shipper of grain.
New York, April 6.
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Kansas City Livestock Market

Kansas City, April s.
CATTLE%Recepts, {, $50. Market steady.
Native steers So. 25d5.45; Texas steers, $50
AIS; Texas cows, 81. 50d4; native cows and
heifers, $36I4. 50; stockers and feeders, 3d.
as. 20: bulls, 81. 50Q450
HOG+Receipts, 1900. Market weak
heavy, ss.65a3 80; packers, IS. 6o@S.75; mix
ed, $S.6003. 7214; light, So. 1886; workers,
SHEEP Receipts, 5000. Market firm.