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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
Rev. c. N. Howard Will Discuss
Christian Politics.
Effort to BE Made to Apply
System in Topeka.
FIGHT ON SALOONS.
Will Tell Good Citizens FEEDER
alton Some Things.
How to Fight Liquor Sellers
by Mass Meetings.

c. N. Howard. the Rochester idea"
man, who is credited by friends and
foes with having done more for tenn
perance in the last two years than any
other man in the country, will be in
Topeka Friday night to speak before
the Good Citizenship Federation.
Mr.. Howard thought out the plan of
the Prohibition Union of Christian Men
about two years ago and applied it in
his home city, Rochester, N. Y. 1t was
surprisingly successful there and rapid
" spread to other large cities. In st.
Louis, for example, according to the
testimony of a prominent liquor man 1t
has already cost the liquor traffic $780,
900. The society has been organized
with great enthusiasm in New York
and Chicago. On his present trip Mr.
Howard has visited Detroit, st. Paul
and Omaha, and will start campaign
in Kansas City, Sunday.
The Prohibition Union of Christian
Men, which is in itself the celebrated
Rochester idea" is not a political or
ganization. 1t does not endorse any
candidate for a public office. Its pur-
pose" says Mr.. Howard, lis to get to-
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JURY'S NOVEL VERDICT.
It Figures the Monetary Value of a
Son at $4,000.

Anderson, Ind, June IA Madison
county jury returned a decidedly novel
verdict late last night, in which they
established the monetary value of
boy from his fourth to twenty-firs
birthday. Charles Guys 4 year old son
was drowned in an Elwood sewer two
years ago. The father brought action
against the city for $4,000. The jury
was instructed to find actual damages
and this they did by figuring the cost
and earnings of a boy each year from
his fourth to his twenty-f1rst birth
day.
on one side they figured his keeping,
his schooling and all other expenditures
and on the other side they figured his
earning power. These figureS-even
down to food-were different for each
year. Up TO his eighteenth birthday
there was a deficit, but his earnings af-
ter that point made that up and on the
II years there was a margin of $149. SO.
Guy was rendered judgment for this
amount of damages. 1t took the jury
two days to figure out their PROPOSE
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
GIRL DEFECTIVE.
17-Year-Old Newspaper Correspond
emit Does Clever Work.

San Francisco, June Bertha Sted-
man, a 17-year-old girl. has just accom-
plished a remarkable detective feat. She
was correspondent for small weekly
paper, when a wood chopper known as
French Pete mysteriously disappeared
some time ago. She believed that the
man was killed and, with the aid of her
father, followed up number of clues,
with such success that Sheriff Taylor
of Marion county, acting on her in
formation, has arrested James DER on
a charge of numbering the man. Miss
Stedman, who went into the camps of
the woodchoppers in the foothills, re-
ports that these men have a system of
justice of their own and form a sort of
Malta society which removes Objec-
tionable persons whenever it is thought
necessary. The evidence she has col
lected against DER is said to be very
strong.
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SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

Godfrey's band plays at Wichita to-
night.
The cherry pie is here in all its
| glory.
E. w. Hoch of the Marion Record, is
in Topeka today.
The Topeka Daily Legal News has
been issued 551 times.
Mr.. Paul Sheldon of Galveston, Tex,
is visiting relatives here.
The T. A. A. team is arranging for a
game with Scranton for Saturday.
There is a case of diphtheria in the
family of Joseph Kern, % Kaw street.
"a Twentieth Kansas gait" is the
latest way of expressing lively move
ment.
The employees of Warren M Crosby's
store will picnic in Garfield park this
evening.
The street cleaning force has come
OUT in white duck suits with brown
leggings.
The will of August Strickrott has
been probated. The widow is named as
the sole heir.
A Topeka man writes the Journal
that Godfrey's band cannot play as well
as MarShalIS.
There will be a musical recital at
Washburn this evening, given by the
undergraduates.
Sheriff Cook has returned from a trip
to southern Kansas, where he has been
looking for thieves.
to scream a little louder than usual at
Muscotah on July 4.
G. c. Clemens is long on history and
he knows how to tell it in an extreme
ly interesting manner.
Marshalrs band cleared $3.50 on the
Godfrey band concert, after all the
penses had been paid.
The Republican county central COM
mittee meets Saturday afternoon in the
old court house to organize.
Superintendent Frank Nelson is at
Lawrence today. He will deliver an
address at the state university.
Word has been received that Lasson
Whiteker, who was reported to have
died in the hospital at Manila, is alive.
The annual school census is being ta-
ken now. Every person between the
ages of five and twenty-one is counted.
A. L. Studer, the Rock Island fireman
injured in the Bonner Springs wreck,
has left the Stormont hospital in this
city.
A. C. Osmun, the Rock Island brake
man who had his right arm crushed off at
Chickasha several weeks ago, is in To-
peka.
1t is amazing how easily it rains now
adays, considering what hard time it
will have of it about the middle of
July.
Mrs. Belle Harbaugh, editor of the
Erie Experimentation is in Topeka
to visit the insane asylum and reform
school
John @. Royce, editor of the Phillips
burg Dispatch, is in Topeka booming
Dan Dyer for deputy warden of the
penitentiary.
Some of the Topeka people who are
graduates of the state university are
attending the alumni banquet at Law
renee today.
The people in the neighborhood of
Mission Center are making an effort to
secure a rural delivery route out into
that community.
General Manager Frey of the Santa
Fe went to Argentine today to attend
the opening of the Railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. building there.
The students and faculty of Wash
burn college have raised a fund for two
memorial windows in honor of Privates
Coulson and Bartlett.
The degree team of Shawnee camp,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
TO BE A CONTEST.
American and French Autom obilists
Will Race.

Chicago, June IA special to the
Times-Herald from Cleveland, Ohio,
says: The manager of Alexander Win
toms recent automobile expedition to
New York, Charles Sanks left for New
York last night with $4,000 to cover the
forfeit posted some days ago in Paris
by NJ. Charron, the French automobilist
who issued a challenge to WintOn to
race over a course of 1000 miles.
THE Cleveland autOmobilist intends
to make the Frenchman hold to his
agreement. The forfeit of "a, 900 will be
put up in New York and correspondence
at once entered into with NJ. Charron."
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Presidential Appointments.

Washington, June THE president
has made the following appointments:
Clinton T Stranahan of Lewiston,
Idaho. agent for the Indians of the Nez
Perces agency in Idaho; VIM. r. Logan
of Alhambra, Mont, agent for the In
dams of the Black Foot agency in
Montana; James F. Randlett of Cali
fornia. agent for the Indians of the
Kiowa agency in Oklahoma territory;
Peter T. Morris of Bozeman, Mont,
mineral land commissioner in the BoZe-
man land district in Montana.
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CAUCUS ON AYACHT.
Michigan congressman Will Settle
Speakership Matter.

Detroit, June ELEVEN of the twelve
members of the Michigan congressional
delegation sailed from Detroit today
aboard the yacht Grace to combine
days pleasure with a settling of the
question of the delegations attitude in
the matter of the house speakership.
1t is known that the Michigan con-
gressmen were divided in their prefer
ences for speaker, but they will doubt
less unanimously endorse Henderson.
The Grace will land the congressman
at Mount Clemens this evening where
the congressman will dine with a score
or more other Republican leaders of the
state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07

This committee will probably recon-
mend the appointment of a committee
of prominent citizens to wait upon some
of the state officers and ascertain their
attitude toward the enforcement of the
prohibitory law. The principal ones
whom the federation wants to interview
are Governor Stanley and Attorney
General GODDARD. Ever since Governor
Stanley delivered his address to the
federation and told the members if they
would obey the laws themselves it was
about all they could do, they have been
anxious to find out whether he would
really do anything towards the enforce
ment of the law if it should be placed in
his power to do SO, or if he would make
some excuse to get out of it. This is
what the federation wants to find out
from the governor.
The fedora ton has hopes that it can
accomplish something through Attorney
General GODDARD. 1t is dissatisfied with
the work of County Attorney Jetmore
and the committee to be appointed will
ask Mr.. GODDARD if he will take the
proper steps for the removal of Mr..
Jetmore, provided sufficient evidence is
placed in his hands to do so.
Another thing to be decided is wheth-
er or not an independent candidate for
sheriff is to be nominated in opposition
to Sheriff Cook. A joint committee from
the Good Citizenship federation and the
committee of 200 has this question I'M
der consideration and will report it's
recommendations to the meeting Friday
evening. This committee is composed of
DR.. S. G. Stewart H. r. Hilton and
J. W. Gleed from the committee of 200,
and t E. Stephens, H w. Paige and
Guy r. Houghtelin from the Good Citi-
zenship federation.
1t is said that the committee will
probably recommend that a candidate
be nominated, but will make no sugges-
lions as to who the nominee shall be.
1t will probably suggest that the nom
ination be made either by a mass con-
ventiOn or by primaries.
j. w. Gleed will preside at the meet
ing and will make a statement of his
observations regarding the present
status of the prohibitory law in Topeka
Wichita and Return $462 Via the
Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale June 6. Z. 8; good re-
tuning June 18th. Account Christian
EndeaYor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
A S2.ooo.ooo Hotel

San Francisco, June THE Call says
that a corporation is being formed to
erect a $4,000, 900 hotel, eleven stories in
height, on the site of the old Baldwin.
1t states that $1,0OO,000 has already
been subscribed, and including the pur-
chase of the land the total amount to
be invested will be about 81, 500, 600. The
names of the capitalists interested are
not disclosed
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Scora Keener Shot.

San Francisco, June 7.-Private Julius
Crew, Company D. casual detachment,
now lies in the general hospital at the
Preside suffering from a wound that
may prove fatal He was shot in a pc
culiar manner while at target practice.
He was keeping the score when a bull
let after hitting the target, was de-
fiected. striking him under the right
shoulder blade. It passed entirely
through him, perforating on lung.
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Jones Restored to Health.

Washington, June IA letter has
been received from Senator James K.
Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the ma
tional Democratic committee who went
abroad some time ago for his health, in
which he says he has been greatly bene-
fitted He now feels better than he has
for the past ten years.
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CITY COUNCIL ENJOINED.
Court Stops Denver From Repeating
an Ordinance.

Denver, June Judge Hallett, in the
United States district court today
made permanent the injunction recently
granted on application of the Mercantile
Trust company of New York, restrain
pealing the ordinance of 1885, granting
the Denver Tramway company a
blanket franchise in perpetuity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
Pushkin's Birthday.

St Petersburg, June There is
great national celebration here today in
honor of the centenary of the birth of
Alexander Pushkin, the most renowned
of Russian poets. The government in
stitutions, schools and various associa-
lions subscribed large sums to found
commemorative scholarships for the
libraries and schools and all the news
naners unfinished appropriate articles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
a Divide on Sugar.

New York, June THE directors of
the American Sugar Refining company
have declared the regular quarterly
dividends of per cent on the common
stock and ~ per cent on the preferred
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt, Ii. D.

New York June 7.-Columbia uni
versity conferred the degree of Ii. D
on Governor Roosevelt today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07

Engraved cards and wedding invita-
tions. Adams Bros, I'll Kansas avenue
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den away in his desk. This is intended
as a hint to committees looking for
Fourth of July orators
The executive committee of the Good
Citizenship federation and the commit
tee of 200 met last evening to plan for
the mass meeting to be held at the
First Presbyterian church on Friday
night, at which it is expected that an
independent nomination will be made
for sheriff in opposition to Sheriff Cook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-07
Wichita and Return $462 Via the
n Il

Tickets on sale June 6. Z, 8; good re-
tuning June 18th. Account Christian
EndeaVor
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DENVER, COLO. SPRINGS,

And Pueblo, $4,000 For the Round
Trip.
Good for return until Oct. 31st via the
Rock Island Route ASK A NJ. Fuller
for time of Colorado Flyer, also for
reservations in Palace Sleepers.
Kansas City and Return $500 Via the
Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale June 3, 4, 5, 6, 2, 8, 81
good reIHrning June Il.
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JEW E1 GABLES FOR ENGINEE
ING SUPPLIES.
TRANSPORT sCANDIA.
Arrived at San Francisco Yesterday
From Manila.

SAN FRANCISCO, April THE
transport Scandia arrived at quaran-
tine to-day from Manila, with sixty
four time-expired and discharged SOL
diers and the bodies of four officers
who fell fighting in the Philippines.
The remains brought back are those
of Colonel Smith of the Tennessee regi-
ment, who died of apoplexy as he was
leading his men in the attack on Ma
Mia; Captain D. S. Elliott Of the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment, killed
February Goth at Caloocan by sharp
shooters; Major McConville of the
Idaho regiment, who fell while charg-
ing at the head of his men on the
trenches before Caloocan, and Lieutep-
ant French of the First North Dakota
Regiment, who was killed at the same
place.
Lieutenant Swaze of the First Calf
fornia Regiment and Captain Murphy
Of the Fourteenth Infantry We're also
on board the transport, the former re-
turning to be mustered out, and the
latter is under orders to proceed to
Washington
The following number of men from
the regiments were on the Scandal:
Colorado 4. Nebraska A. Oregon s. Calf
fOrnia =, Minnesota ., ElSnteeiltn 1ii-
fantry 5. Hospital Corps 5, Engineer
Corps 1, Fourteenth Infantry 4, Fourth
Cavalry 4, Twenty third Infantry 5,
Idaho = Third Artillery 5, Washington
1. Signal Corps /, California Heavy
Artillery 1, Tennessee 1, Montana |.
Pennsylvania 1, U, S. S. Petrol 1, Kan
sas II, South Dakota l.
The Ohio is reported to have sailed
from Nagasaki, on the 25th of last
,,aor,tI,
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STORM IN EUROPE.
Great Damage to Craft in the
British Channel.

LONDON. April IA heavy storm
which is sweeping across the Channel is
delaying the steamboat service between
Great Britain and the Continent. A
number of fishing smacks have been
wrecked, and others are missing.
A fierce gale is also sweeping the Irish
coast, causing considerable destruction
to property The British ship John
Cooke, Captain Magee. which arrived
at Limerick ON March 9th, from Port
land Oregon, has been badly damaged
by breaking from her moorings during
a fierce hurricane ait midnight last night
and colliding with and sinking a smack,
and also damaging another vessel.
The Norwegian bark Bonita, Captain
Johnson, which left Cardiff on Janu-
airy Both for Bahia, and which put into
Baltimore, Ireland, on February 9th
waterlogged, has been driven on the
rocks in Baltimore harber and badly
damaged
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THE FOURTH NEW JERSEY.
Mustered-Out Troops Terrorize
Southern Communities.

ATLANTA (Ga.), April IA special
from Greenville, S. c., says: The
Fourth New Jersey, which was mus
tered out here yesterday, and left dur
ing the afternoon for home, terrorizad
the communities through which they
passed, firing volleys from the cars with
their revolvers and stealing all they
could lay their hands, on
At Greenville vender of army
badges and camp souvenirs had ten
watches and sixty badges stolen from
him.
At Chester the Jersey soldiers stood
off the crowd of spectators with a vol
ley of revolver shots, and then invaded
the waiting and lunch rooms.
Many men were drunk when they left
here, and the reports indicate that they
became more Intoxicated as they pro-
ceeded.
The officers of the regiment were with
the men.
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To Have New Passenger Agreement

CHICAGO, April 7.-Several Western
railroads have concluded that they will
have an association and a new passen-
ger agreement, whether they can have
all the roads members or not It has
been decided that a meeting be called
for an early date, at which it is pro-
posed to adopt an agreement, get as
many roads to sign it as possible and
then deal with outside lines individu-
ally later. The proposed agreement viii
cover the territory between Chicago and
Denver
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NAMES OF NEW WARSHiPS.
MCKINLEY PAYS a. COMPLI-
MENT TO THIS STATE.
California Chosen as the Name Of
Provided for by Congress.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Presi-
dent to-day named twelve warships pro-
vided by Congress as follows:
s-Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and Georgia.
Armored cruisers-West Virginia, Ne
braska, California.
Cruisers-Denver, Des Moines, Chat
tanooga, Galveston, Tacoma, Cleve-
land
Petitions by the hundreds have been
floating into the White House and Navy
Department since the new ships We're
provided for, urging the merits of vari-
Gus names. The President and Secre-
tary Long enjoyed the good-natured RI
valry, and in making the final determi-
nation consideration was given not only
to the urgency of the influence brought
to bear, but also to the several sections
of the country
! Pennsylvania petitioned through Gov
ernor Stone, Senators Quay and Pen
rose and the entire delegation in the
House Of Representatives
Georgia did not petition the Navy De-
partment, and it is believed the choice
of a Southern State was due to a desire
of the President to compliment those
with whom he visited on his recent
Southern trip.
Senator Elkins and the entire Con-
gressional delegation We're most active
for West Virginia
Representative Mercer also made it
his business to besiege the Navy De-
poartment with petitions for Nebraska
The choice of California also seems to
be a personal compliment, without the
same effort shown in other States.
The same rivalry was shown among
the cities, Mayors, City Councils, Cham
bers of Commerce, etc, joining in the
pleas
The battleships Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and, Georgia are described in the
Act authorizing them: Three seagoine
coast line battleships, carrying the
heaviest armor and most powerful ord
nance for vessels of their class upon a
trial displacement of about 13, 500 tons,
to be sheathed and coppered, and to
have the highest practicable speed and
great radius of action, and to cost, ex-
elusive of armor and armament. not ex-
ceeding S3,6O0.OO0 each.
The armored cruisers are similarly
described, except. that they are to cost
S4O00,000 each, and are to have a dis
placement of 12,000 tons.
The cruisers Denver, Cleveland and
others are described as protected
cruisers of about $500 tons displace-
ment. to be sheathed and coppered. and
to have the highest speed compatible
with good cruising qualities, great ra-
dius of action, and to carry the most
powerful ordnance suited to vessels of
their class, and to cost, exclusive Of
armament, not exceeding $1,141, 500
each.
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CABINET MEETING.
Indemnity to Spain and the Philip
pine Situation Discussed.

WASHINGTON, April THE Cabi-
nett was in session only an hour to-day
The method of making the payment OF
2O,0G0000 to Spain was talked over,
and although no conclusion was reached
it is expected that the transfer will be
made by draft on the Treasurer to be
delivered to any representative whom
the Spanish Government may desig-
nate.
The situation in the Philippines was
discussed, and a telegram was read to
the effect that Aguinaldo was reorgan-
izing his army north of his late capital.
The confidence of the Government,
however, in the ability of General Otis
forces to successfully meet the situa-
tion is not in the least disturbed.
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SACRAMENTO

burned, and parts of the legs were
missing.
At 3 o'clock the workers in the debris
found body which was identified later
as that of Mrs. Andrews.
At various other times before 5
o'clock the workers found the charred
remains of four more persons, probably
the servants. Two of them were iden-
titled as the bodies of Eva Peterson
and Marie Roth.
Mr.. ST. John arrived in New York al
O'Clock this afternoon over the Penn
sylvania Railroad. He went at once te
his home, perfectly ignorant of the rea-
sons which caused the sudden summons
to New York, and when he saw the
ruins of his house. and was told of the
horrible fate of his wife and three chill
dren, he bore up manfully, though il
was apparent that he had to summon
all his strength of will to do it.