davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The theory that the recent wreck near
Ogden in Riley county on the Union
Pacific was caused by train wreckers,
calls to mind the fact that the vicinity
of ogden is becoming noted for crimes
of various kinds. Not that it is always
people of that community that commit
them, but people from other places pick
that out as a handy place for their OPP
erations. At nearly every term of the
federal court some one is tried for
crime committed not far from ogden.
AT one time an organized gang OF
thieves was discovered who made q
practice of entering freight cars at Man
haitian and throwing off goods between
Ogden and Fort Riley. At another time
a gang Of counterfeiters was discovered
operating in that locality. The town of
ogden was laid out early in the ffties
by ro-slavery men in opposition to
Pawnee just a few miles west, which
was a free state town. Ogden was a
great place for desperadoes and border
ruffians in those days, but Pawnee got
the bulge on it when Governor Reeder
made it the first capital of Kansas Ter
ritory. Then Jeff Davis, at that time
secretary of war, took a hand in pro-
ceedings and wiped Pawnee off the face
of the map by extending the Fort Riley
reservation so as to take in the town
site. Ogden was a flourishing town
when Topeka had just been settled, but
it has never grown. It was noted for
having the largest brewery in the west
before the days of prohibition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
MAY BE CHICKEN POX.
Topeka's Case of Smallpox May Not
Be Smallpox.

There is some uncertainty as to
whether Clarence Scott, the sexton OF
Rochester cemetery, is sick with small
pox or chickenpox.
DR.. H. B HOgeboom, who has charge
of the case, said today: 1T is an IN
certain case and while every indication
is that the young man has smallpox yet
it may be a case of chickerpOx. The
case has not developed rapidly but l
think that by tomorrow it can be said
positively whether it is smallpox or
not
There was some controversy between
the city and county physician as to who
should quarantine the case. DR.. Peers,
the city physician, turned the case over
to DR.. Ellinger, the county physician
and he announced that he would quar-
antine the case. Later he told DR.. Peers
the city and that it was the place of the
city physician to look after the quar-
antine.
The law prescribes that the city ply
sicians shall have Jurisdiction within nVe
miles of the city. DR.. Peers thought the
case was six miles from the city limits
and DR.. Ellinger said it was not quite
five DR.. Peers called the city board of
health together Sunday morning at $3.50
and the board decided 10 employ
guards for the place where: Scott had
been taken SEX and also for the house
where he is now.
There was some disputS about the
distance to the house." said sDr- Peers,
land in order to have the proper quar-
antine the city board of health author
houses are now both under strict quar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

its delivery, asked of the preacher for
publication by the united voice of the
clergy who heard it, and in that re
quest accounted 1t a privilege to unite
The occasion was one Of exceptional
interest, for it was the ordination to the
priesthood of two men, each of whom
had won distinction in those other COM
muniOnS from which, in ripper years.
they turned to that of the church to
whose higher ministry they were to be
advanced. One of them had won equal
distinction as a pastor and preacher in
the large fellowship which sprang from
the work of John Wesley: and the other,
as q Presbyterian teacher and scholar,
was known by his writing all around
the world. They were seeking for au-
thOrity to exercise their ministry in ac-
cordance with historic precedent and
Catholic usage.
Under such circumstances, it seemed
appropriate to the preacher that the
idea of authority should be presented in
the higher reality of its essential basis,
and this task. I think he has discharged
with equal clearness and cOnclusiVeness-
There is in his words nc dispara cement
of those various expressions of the con-
ceptiOn Of authority, as these find form
in symbols, articles or other formulated
utterances all down the track of his
tory. But the time has come when the
church and its teachings must vindicate
themselves by something more than
speech, hardened into dogmatic terms.
In our age. and in a world that reads.
and compares and inquiries. because it
Z
by it's appeal to these judges of al truth,
which are the image of the divine in
mantle spiritual intuitiOns, the con-
science and the reason
ESPECIALLY is this true in the deal
ings of the church and her teachings
with holy Scripture. The Coptic church
keeps her Scriptures imprisoned in a
silver casket, which her vOtaries kiss,
and, in the same way a modern fetch
ism, which has dishonored the Bible
| by claiming to be its elect guardian, has
shut it up these many years within the
iron walls of a dreary liberalism. rob
bling it thus alike of interest and Of
power.
THE book is a 1tera ture, priceless, in
comparable and most precious; but still
a literature, and it must accept, and
those who love and reverence it must
accept for il the conditions OF its ex-
istence. one of those who have con-
/ tributed with equal reverence and equal
| learning to Vindicate its claim and to
discriminate concerning its contents was
one of those to whom this sermon was
addressed. The Christian student is in
cOmparably richer for his labors; and
those who know them will, ] think,
most cordially recognize the pertineucy
of this discourse to our dispassionate
! judgment, not only Of such labors, but
all that a higher scholarship has done
for US in our generation for the ad-
vancenent of Goodness and good learn.
| ing throughout the Christian world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

wisp. There is no Bank Of Holland"
and there is no fabulous wealth locked
up in the Golfers of the States General
of the Netherlands for distribution
among lost heirs. BY a law enacted by
the Dutch parliament in 1852 all IN
claimed inheritances are irrevocably
escheated to the state after a lapse Of
five years, and if any of the old Dutch
claims so much nOised about in the
United States ever existed they have
passed forever into the possession of
the Dutch government. The supposed
heirs of Brandt, AIetzger, Weber, Lett
ner. Van Fleet, Dubois and others are
requested by our consul to take notice
of this fact, and are assured that all
persons inviting them to spend money
IN the prosecution Of actions for the re-
covery OF supposed estates in Holland
are sWindieTs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The American Socialist, Populist, or
reforTaer OF whatsoever kind must be
regarded as a mild type of his kind
when viewed in the light of the pro-
gramme adopted by the New Zealand
labor party, which is as follow s:
The recognition by law of a minimum
wage for all workers; the statutory
prohibition of foreign labor under con
tract; all mineral wealth to be ma
tiOnalized and worked by the state:
the abolition of duties on the neces-
saries of life; the increase of the land
tax: the referendum, with the initiative
in the hands of the people; no further
sale of crown lands, and periodical
revaluatiOn of all land held under lease
from the state; the NATURALIZATION Of
all the carrying trade in New Zealand
by sea or land; reform or abolition of
the upper house; that old-age pensions
be universal; the esta blishment Of a
state bank, with the sole right of note
issue; the curtailment by the state of
individual acquisition of wealth. either
by a progressive wealth tax a progress
sive probate duty or direct legisla ton
the abolition from taxation of all i'm
pTovements; that the parliamentary
franchise be made to apply to all mu-
niciDal elections; that provision be
made whereby the majority of electors
viii be represented in parliament: free
and secular education from primary
schools to the university
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
SALE USELESS ANIMALS.
Interesting Scene In Central Park
Barnyard, New York.

New York, July 3.-An auction sale of
animals was held in Central park this
morning, and the scene in the barnyard,
just west of the big sheep pasture. where
the bidding took place, was suggestive of
nual event was called a cattle show
before the COW pens and pig sites had
been transformed into dressing rooms for
ClrcasSlan beauties, snake charnlerS ana
other attractions of the latter day Vau-
with oxen looked forward to for weeks
was the most exciting event of the festi-
Most of the animals offered for sale
were of the farm varieties or closely akin
tioneer was. about the only person pres
ent who might have suggested that the
only a stones throw away.
Nearly all the bidders were sun-brown-
their purchase money wadded up in lea
Their pouches, tied at the top with shoe
The only reason for the sale Superin-
tendent Smith of the menaSerie explained,
feed in his part of the park.
THESE animals are all good ones" he
not needed for show purposes. They are
increasing 50 fast that this is the only
About one Of the animals. however, Mr.
Smith seemed to have some personal feel
with joy when the aucUioneer got rid of
it, That was a little white jackass with
a history and a pure Partisan bray.
tendent. before the saie was boI1a6t Nv
a F'renchman in Paris for his little girl.
He was something of a jackass himself.
for he bought a pair of the animals and
paid 81, 900 for them. The little girl drove
them about Paris as a pair until one. of
them died The child felt so badly that
she refused to drive the white one alone.
and it was sent to US. It felt as badly
the little girl, probably, for it has bray
ed continually ever since its arrival. and
persons living on Fifth avenue for blocks
up and down have objected and kicked
about il and said that French jackass
was as bad as French chamber OF depu-
ties
The white iacIxass was sold today for $50
to Peter De Baum. Its most recent com
panion. an animal without a history. and
one that had never been abroad, was sold
for $50 to William Connolly As glad as
he was to get rid of the two, Mr. smith
said that he was not fully satisfied with
the price. and he recalled the last park
auction, when a S3l jackass was sold Tor
1925 a result of the competitive bidding
between a wholesale liquor dealer. who
wanted the animal for advertising pur-
poses. and the editor of a yellow newspa-
| per. who wanted it for no one knew what
The editor sent an essayist and special
commissioner TO the auction WITH 1nstruc-
| lions to get that jackass and hang the
! expense" The essayist bid 1924 and went
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
LATEST SCHEME.
Workers In Injunction Factory
Are Circulating a Petition.

The latest article produced by the
Billiard injunction factory is a scheme
to have the county attorney hiring the
Injunction suit against the new city
hall project in the name of the state.
By that means they may avoid the ex-
pense attendant upon the litigation.
Fred Fensky a North Topeka lieu
tenant of Mr.. Billiard, is circulating the
petition and it was reported this after
noon that IS men had signed it..
County Attorney Jetmore said he
would bring the suit if he found that a
large number of citizens favored it.
There is little likelihood that any
thing more viii come of this latest eff
fort except a possibility Of delaying the
accomplishment of what the people of
Topeka have said they viii have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
INTO ST. LOUIS.
Story That the Santa Fe Will Have q
Line Across Missouri.

Kansas City, No, July S.-The Star
SAYS:
A story that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway company Will build a
line from Kansas City to St. Louis with
in the next two years was told here by
a St Louis man who is in a position
to know something Of the cOmpany's
plans.
The Santa Fe now owns sixty mile
road running out of st. Louis known as
the St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado,
and the plan is said to be to extend
west from the latteT's Union. Missouri.
terminus, building on the south side of
the Missouri river south from Missouri
Pacific road and north of the St Louis
and San Francisco system and tapping
a country of heavy timber, coal lead
and zinc not now reached by rallroad >,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
GONE TO SALIVA.
Pyramid Officers Trying to Smooth
Out Trouble

The trouble which the head officers of
the Ancient Order of Pyr9mids are
having with their Salina lodge, which
charges them with fraud, is: still brew
ing. The officers claim that it is a
Matchmaking scheme on the part of 2.
few of the chronic kic1ers of that lodge,
and that it is not worth paying any at
tentiOn to. They claim that they have
had communications from Salina since
the trouble commenced and that not a
word has been said that there
was any dissatisfaction in the lodge or
that their charter would be sent back
to Topeka
left for Salina on the noon train and
will endeaVOr to find out where the
trouble lies, and if possible to adjust
matters so as to avoid any further trou-
Bile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
THE NEW AGE.
Bishop Potter on the Writings of Dr.
Charles Briggs.

New York, July 3-A sermon delivered
by the Reverend George William Doug
las at the ordination to the priesthood
in the Protestant Episcopal church of
the Reverend Charles Augustus Briggs,
member of the faculty of the Union
Theological seminary, and the Rev
erend Charles Henry Snedeker, formerly
a minister of the Methodist church, at
the pro-cathedral, in Stanton street, on
May Il, has been published in pamphlet
form. The ordination sermon has been
introduced with q predatory note written
by Bishop Potter, Bishop Potter's intro
ductiOn reads:
This sermon was, Immediately after
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
WOMAN'S NIGHTMARE.
She Shoulders When She Realizes the
Danger and Pain of Child bearing.


There is so much suffering and danger
in store for the young mother, that her
happy anticipation soon gives way to q
feeling of dread at the thought of the
pain which she must undergo. This
constant fear SO preys upon the mind of
many women that it fills them with ter
ror and makes baby's coming a source
of the greatest anxiety and dread.
All the suffering and danger of the
ordeal can be avoided by the use
of Mothers Friend ;" which prepares
the body for this important event. It
relieves morning sickness" and many
other unpleasant conditions which ex-
ist during this time. Thousands of
women praise Mothers Friend" for
bringing them safely through the most
critical period of their lives.
Every woman should send their name
and address to the Bradfield Regulator
Co., Atlanta, Georgia, and receive frees
valuable information on the subject.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.l
The man who serves his friends never
lacks employment.
You never see a lucky fisherman
sneaking up a side street.
The things we failed to do yesterday
are on tomorroW's list.
A compass has four points, while a
pair of compasses has but two.
Want Of love or the want of money
is at the bottom Of all our troubles.
Inquirers who are always inquiring
seldom learn anything worth learning.
The man who smiles if called an ego
fist will get mad if called a perfect
crank.
The man who marries an heiress evil
IDENTIFY believes in beginning with the
golden wedding
What is so rare as a day in June %
asks the poet Well there's the 29th
day Of February.
Any man who ever had any dealings
with an Indian is fully convinced that
he is a redskin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

IFrom the AtchisOn GIobe.1
This is the famine season for school
teachers.
We are. tired Of situations" that are
Critical"
In community. where every reputa-
able man works, loafing is disgraceful.
Pm right said man in discussion
with his wife. but I'm out talked"
When a circus is in town, a man who
has little children is regarded as very
lucky.
The most wretched looking sight we
know anything about is an unsuccess-
full agent"
What has become Of the old fashioned
woman who thought 1t highway rob-
| berry to take money for skim milk?
Marriage is about the only thing left
that a man can run up against these
{ days without fearing an injunction.
Some men don't seem to do anything
( but watch the thermometer and change
/ their clothing to correspond with it.
An Atchison man is in tough luck: he
{ is tired Of life, and can find no one to
i back him for an Arctic expedition.
/ A little cottage in town that was call
/ ed Eden HIP by the bridal couple
moving into it a year ago, has had its
( name changed.
! When a wife is away from home. she
/ reads her husbands letters through
| carefully to find something upon which
/ suspicion may alght.
A man is in love with his wife so long
4 as it doesn't occur to him that he is
getting nothing out of his salary but his
! board and clothes.
People talk Of others as breaking
into society" as if it were done with
dynamite and a pick, instead of with
} luncheons and prizes.
There are very few men who have
! bOils, and very few who don't have
/ trouble with their kin. The story of
/ Job should be revised.
When a man fails in business ETH
quette demands that his wife must not
/ offend his creditors by getting a new
| dress inside of ten years.
The men are always hearing that they
! should be ashamed to look their inno-
I cent children in the face. The men
/ wonder how a grown woman of sense
feels about taking a prize won at a card
I party home to her children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Those gentlemen who are look ng
forward to a presidential nomination N
1904 might learn a lesson from Colonel
Bryan about the difficulties of keeping
oneself before the public for four years.
The position is about as hard as that
of champion pugilist, who in order to
retain the belt must meet and knock
out all corners
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
FINED S4,5O4.42
And Sentenced to Work It Out at
$3.50 Per Day.

Chicago, July 3.-Baker George H
McGill. the former head of the Avenue
Savings bank. was fined 4,504.42 by
Judge Burke today and sentenced to
work out the fir in the house of correc-
ton. At the rate of Sit per day it will
take the eX-banker about eight and a
half years to work out the fine. Nc
GiIPs offense was receiving deposits
in his bank after It had become insoI-
vent.
Several indictments remain to be
heard against McGiIl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

a Springfield. Mass. man is said to
have placed his flag at half mast dur
ing the recent visit of the president to
that city. and the Cleveland Plain
Dealer thinks the only thing remarka-
bic about the circumstance Is the fact
that the man had a flag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Coming Nation: The inventive gen
Jus of man plays some queer pranks. It
inYents machines that take his job
away, then invents implements of war
fare to kill him off and get him out Of
the way. Thus man invents himself
out of a job and then out of the world
Why can not he invent a way to live?
Why don't somebody invent a govern
nent that would work smooth without
all this friction?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
FOR KIDNAPPING JESTER.
Information Filed Against Tecumseh
Oklahoma, Parties.

Wichita, Kan, July 3.-Information
was filed at Tecumseh, Ok, today in
the probate court by w. r. Asher, at
torney for Alexander Jester against
Sheriff Truesdale, Charles Riddle,
jailer, and County Attorney Pittman,
for contempt of court and for kidnap-
ing Jester and delivering him to the
Missouri sheriff without an order of
the court and ia failing to produce the
prisoner when ordered by the court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Omaha Bee: The Kansas sheriff who
has been enjoined by one court from
doing certain thing and mandamused
by another court of equal jurisdiction
to do the same thing must be in pref
ty tight place. The only thing that
sheriff can dc is to take to the woods
and sfaW thara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

BY way of reply to numerous recent
letters of inquiry from American heirs
to millions supposed to be awaiting
claimants in the Bank of Holland
the United States consul at The Hague
has reissued a circular of warning to all
fortune-seekers to waste no time or
money IN the pursuit of a will-o' the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
JOINTISTS PAY UP.
Two Men Arrested With Appropriate
Regularity.

The police arrested P. r. ATendorf
ana FRANK Raynor, two North. Topeka
jointists, Saturday, for selling liquor.
Both deposited and forfeited their
500 and were released. On June IS
both these men were arrested on the
same charge and their cases were set
for July at o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The small boy held it in his hand
Sing no, the cannon cracker!
He touched the match to it, and-and-
Sing no, the cannon crackerI
For parts Of him scraped from the sand
The ambulance came, fully manned,
While soft and low the distant band
ElayedI H0, the cannon cracker.
Minneapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
N. E. i Tickets

On sale at Santa Fe depot today. Sale
will continue daily to and including
July g. Round trip tickets to Los An
geles now cost only $50. 90. They're good
for stopover and are limited tc Septem-
he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

If the stories being printed about
Mrs. Lease be true, she got a lot of adj
vertising while hubugging the people,
and now she is getting a lot more Of
the same article by telling how she did
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The Kentucky Democratic convention
having adjourned, the state can now
give its entire attention to the war in
Clay county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
MORE COLORED MINERS
Arrive at Weir City and Are Taken
Behind the Stockade.

Weir City. Kan, July 3.-Another car
load of negroes was brought in today
over the Frisco road and taken to the
Kansas and Texas mine No. %. No
trouble has resulted so far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Whenever all the railroads Of the
country are consolidated in one system,
1t seems safe to predict that the Van
derbiIts will be it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03
Building and Loan CaII.

Bank Commissioner Breidenthal this
afternoon issued a call for a statement
from all building and loan associations in
Kansas, to show their condition at the
close of business on June 30. This is the
first call under the new law placing these
associations under the control of the bank
commissioner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

If horse doctors do not want to be out
of job. they should turn their atten-
ton to learning how to tinker up the
automobile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

There are no Mark Hannas in Corea.
else the drouth which Is prevailing
there would not be charged up to the
introduction Of trolley cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The 'sknocker" got in his work on
Pingree's municipal street railway
scheme in Detroit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

Cervera's fleet was sunk one year
ago today and some people are still
quarreIing about who did it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-03

The country is promised some inter
esting reading from the Philippines
when the rainy season ends.