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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
RAILROAD NEWS.
The New Santa Fe Extension is
Incorporated.
Will Be Known as the Black
we'll & Southern Road.
CAPITAL OF $35O,OOO.
Gives the Santa Fe an Entrance
Gives the Santa Fe an Entrance
Into Blackwell
Territory Now Exclusively Trib-
utary to Rock Island.

Articles of Incorporation have been
filed in Oklahoma for the construction
of the Santa Fe extension into Black
well, Okla The new line, which will
run from the Kansas & Southeastern
terminus at Braman into Blackwell, and
then probably to connection with the
Santa Fe main line at Perry, Okla,
will be known as the Blackwell & South
ern road.
The capital stock of the line has been
placed at $3.50, 900, and the incorporatOrs
are President E. P. Ripley and General
Solicitor E. D. Kenna, and H. E. Asp,
L. c. Guss and w. H Morten of
Guthrie. Mr. Asp is the Santa Fe attor-
ney for Oklahoma
Work on the extension will be COM
menced July l, and its construction will
be pushed to completion Had it not
been for the necessity of economy in
order to improve the appearance of the
Santa Fe earnings. work on the line
would have been commenced before this
time.
The extension will give the Santa Fe
a line through a rich portion of Okla
hOma, which is now exclusively tribu-
tary to the Hutchinson & Southern road,
a connection Of the Rock Island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
BIGGER THAN CLEVELAND.
New Champion and Ex-President
Travel Together.

New York, June 12.-Grove Cleveland
and James ]. Jeffries, the new cham
pion heavyweight pugilist, were fellow
voyagers from here. Mr.. Jeffries got
all the applause.
The ex-president was on his way
back to Princeton from a fishing and
sailing trip in New England. The new
star of the fistic arena was on the way
from New York, the scene of his great
triumph over Robert FftzsimmOns, to
the quiet of Philadelphia.
Having arisen from a sound Slumber
at the Vanderbilt hotel at 10 o'clock,
Jeffries ate a hearty breakfast, unaI-
Logged by cocktails or other intoxicating
things, clambered into a coach with w.
A Brady, his manager; Tommy Ryan,
Billy Delaney and his brother Jack JEFF
fries, and was driven to the West Twen-
ty-third street ferry of the PennsyI-
Vania railroad.
There they met Grover Cleveland, but
didn't recognize him.
Everybody at the ferryhouse and on
the boat seemed to know Jeffries. and
the people crowded around him and
gave him a joyous reception, which
was kept up clear across the river. Mr.
Cleveland noticed the applause for JEFF
fries, but did not meet the star pugi-
list.
Arrived at Jersey City, the ex-presf-
dent wended his way without any hub
bub to his parlOr car. 1t was different
with Jeffries- The railroad officials and
waiting passengers rendered him an
ovation To escape the railroad men
led Jefries to the station elevator. and
then he slowly assembled, emerging
among the tracks like a solemn spirit
in a Wagner music drama, coming up
through a trap door in the stage
With an eager flock of buzzing HUI
manity at his heels, Jeffries strobe
quickly. his head high above them all
to the parlOr car Ethel
This was one of the Pennsylvania
new five-hOur trains between New York
and the national capital. and it flew
through Jersey and Pennsylvania so
fast that nobody at the way stations
got any chance to take a glance at the
champion prize fighter just entering
upon his triumphal continental tour
The news that he was aboard soon
spread through all the cars, and digni-
fed men of affairs were soon leaving
their wives on one excuse or an other
and turning their footsteps toward the
smoking staterOom to pay homage at
the shrine of the great knocker-out
He looked more like a brOnzed coll
lege boy, home for vacation than a
prize fighter. There was nothing about
his talk, or dress, or manner to indi-
cate his business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
EARNED, NOT BOUGHT.
Such Is the Reputation of the
Little Conqueror" IN Topeka.

How hard it often is to earn and
maintain a good reputation. and how
easy it is to lose one. AS with a mans
reputation. so it is with other things in
life. Some things achieve a reputation
which stays with them. They are
founded on intrinsic value. They face
the public backed up by honesty and
work their way quietly but thoroughly
Topeka people want no better proof of
the merit than is contained in the fol-
lowing experience OF a citizen:
Mr.. c. T. Schumacher. No. 42S Quincy
st, painter by trade, employed by D
O. Burns, No. 513 Kansas ave, says:
4 suffered with a lame back and kid
ney trouble for six months in the winter
of 1898, and was SO bad I could not
sleep Many a night I arose and sat
in = chair for the balance of the night
The pain was just like a knife going
through my back. and cannot describe
how much I suffered I tried different
kinds OF remedies. but received little
benefit until I procured DOan's Kidney
Pills at ROwley & Shows drug store.
The prompt relief they gave me was
wonderful I was cured before I had
taken all Of one box II is a pleasure
20 recommend a remedy which does all
that is claimed for it,
DOan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers. price soc. Mailed on receipt of
price by FOster-AIilburn Co. Buffalo
n. Y. sole agents for the United States
Remember the name, Deans. and take
no substitute.
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ED. LITTLE'S NICKNAME.
Lieut. Col Is Called "The Blue Shifted
and Profane."

The following paragraph taken from
a Manila. paper refers to the Fighting
Twentieth Kansas:
Say, stranger, have you heard of
the Volleys the KansanS fire? You
should have seen them as vOlley after
volley was poured into the insurrectos'
lines. You should have seen. too, Col.
Funston riding up and down the lines,
cool, calculating, brave. Then there
is our Lieut.. Col. Little, whom d tender
foot, in speaking of his conspicuous
bravery, not knowing his name, called
The blue-shirted and prOfane." With
such officers there is no wonder that
the Kansas boys are such fighters, and
with such officers and men the colonel
has such confidence.
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SOLDIERS WIVES
And Daughters Thrown Out of
Work by Sweat Shops.

Philadelphia. June 1.-THE United
Labor League of this city has taken up
the cause of the 1900 seamstresses,
mostly soldiers wives, widows and
daughters, who complain that the gov
eminent has soldiers clothing made by
contract, taking from them their means
of livelihood. 1t is said about 81, 900, 900
worth of contracts are to be given out
and if so, the seamstresses will have no
work at all
President Chance and Mrs. Devereux,
of the league, assert that the contract
work is done in filthy sweat shops. The
league proposes making a prompt ap-
peal to President Mckinley to stop the
award of the 81. 900 worth of adver-
tised contracts and let the 5000 women
do the work at the United States arsenal
here.
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WEDDING DELAYED.
New York Clubman Ignorant That a
Marriage License Was Needed

Pittsburg. Pa, June 12--with the
Church OF the Ascension filed with fash
ionable people, Bishop COrtlandt White
head and Rev Dr. George Grange waiting
TO perform the ceremony, and a fright
ened bride leaning upon the arm of her
uncle. Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers
of the United States navy, society we'd
ding was delayed over two hours today
because the groom had failed to procure
a license.
The nuptials of Miss Martha Chambers
Rodgers, daughter of Mrs. Galbraith Per-
ry Rodgers and a descendant Of COmno-
dore Perry, and ". Albert Pease. jr-.
prominent New York cIubman. We're to
have been solemniZed at noon The cere-
mony was about to proceed when Bishop
Whitehead asked for the license The
groom almost tainted as he explained that
he did not know that permit was neces-
Sary- The bishop thereupOn refused to
perform the ceremony until a license was
procured.
One of the groomsmen telephoned to tho
county register, who insisted upon the
groom appearing at his office personally
Bishop Whitehead explained the situation
to the guests the groom and one OF
his attendants jumped into a carriage and
started on a recOrd-breaking race for the
court house. four miles away. It 2
o clock before they returned.
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r. H. E.
White House Lemon Trees

The lemon and orange trees of the
White House have been put in the sun
shine for a vacation from the green
houses. These trees are of great inter-
est to the few visitors who see them
There are five or six orange trees and
three or four lemons, and they are all
bearing fruit at this time of the year.
The lemon trees produce splendid spec
linens of fruit, large and juicy. On the
largest tree is a cluster of three lemons
They are larger than any found in the
Washington markets The orange trees
are likewise doing their duty Some of
the orange trees are purely ornamental
They are not over two feet high and
bear small oranges, unfit to eat The
larger ones, the talleSt being about hVe
feet six inches, bear luscious, juicy or
anges, which are sometimes placed be-
fore the president and his wife The
largest tree is twenty years old. So is
the largest lemon tree, which is about
six feet tall. These trees have been at
the White House that number Of years.
washington Star.
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KANSAS SEA LIZARD
It Is Mounted and on Exhibition In
New York

New York,June 1.-THE big sea lizard
dug out of Kansas chalk two years
ago has been mounted by the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History and
was on exhibition today. Every bone
lies in the original chalk in which it
was deposited Mr.. Bourne. a lawyer
of Scott City, Kan, discovered the skel-
eton while hunting for fossils in the
bad lands of the Smoky Hill river in
western Kansas. 1t was slightly less
than thirty feet in length and belong
ed to the largest and most powerful
type of sea lizards which ravaged the
great American Mediterranean sea in
the chalk period. The skull is four feet
long, the fore paddle three feet long
and the hind paddle three and a
half. It is estimated that the girth Of
the body, behind the fore paddles, was
nine feet. The jaws are armed with
powerful teeth. The back is eight feet
long, and the tail, fifteen feet in length
was evidently the great propeller of the
body,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
MAN WHO SWAN BAGBAG
Tells About It In q Letter to His
Grandparents

The Seneca Tribune prints the follow
ing letter which was received by Mr..
and Mrs James Neviu grandparents of
Ed White, the Kansas City soldier and
native Senecan, who swan the Bag
bag with Gen. Funston and threw
chunks Of mud at the F1lipinos:
Manila, P. L, April 80, 80.
Dear Mother and Folks at Home
This is the first time have been in
town for two months 1 will write you
from here 1 have written before out
on the line. I have been in eleven big
battles so far and two skirmishes and
one general cement. and have been
and Save not been hurt Sixteen men
have been killed and wounded in COM
pany B. SO you can judge what we
have been through can say with
pride that I have not missed VOueS
the company has fired. that have new
er been sick or given out, and there are
but few in the company but have allied
in some particular in these trying
marches Our boys have gone 40 miles
and fought every inch of the way. Up
wards OF two thousand of the troops
have been killed and wounded so far.
I guess YOU have read in the papers
about me swimming the river All the
papers here have been very prOfuse in
their remarks relating thereto and all
of q complimentary nature, and have
reproduced my picture in their publica-
vote a medal in recognition OF the act
l lost all my clothes, gun and eQuipage
in the river. I advanced with the firing
line just the same, my entire wardrobe
consisting only of a coat. I acted doc
tor and carried water for the wounded.
In this capacity I was frequently sub
jected to a rain Of bullets. Poor Mig
gers. so many were killed and wound
ed It wasn't long before I took a pair
of shoes from a dead man. a hat from d
niger, gun from another and then
went into it, I could write for 4 week
trying to describe the battle. Colonel
Funston went with me across the river.
Bill Trembly and me swan with the
rope Others followed in a boat. but
the boat sunk in the middle of the river
and down went our guns and every
thing We had. I swan out and saved
two men from drowning I was in the
water for an hour Will tell You all
a bout it when come home. over two
thousand men watched US swim the
river right UP to the insurgent trenches
and tie the rope before they knew it:
and then 1 thought I was gone We
swan the river just at noon: il took
- minutes. I hit niger with hunk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
BANQUET TO MARK TWAIN
London Savage Club Receives Him as
New Member.

London, June 12.-The Savage club
had the honor of giving the first ban
quet to Mark Twain Mr. Samuel L.
CIemens) since his return to London
1t was one of the most brilliant gath
erings given under the auspices of the
club since the famous banquet of the
Savages to Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley. The
same com binatiOns of British and
American flags were suspended above
the seat of the chairman, Mr.. Meal
lister.
The names of Queen Victoria and
President Mckinley were coupled in a
toast that was drunk with great en-
thusiaSm-
Mark Twain, in a highly humorous
response to a toast to his health, re-
ierred to the AnglO-American entente
and thanked the club for making him
its fourth honorary member, the others
being the Prince of Wales, DR.. Nansen
and Mr. Stanley.
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of mud, and you ought to have seen
him go. The colonel called for volun-
teers and no one seemed to care to go.
That was my last battle. We all think
we will soon get to come home, and
most of them want to go. Al Terry,
from Kansas City, was killed yeSter-
day. They brought him to town and
he was buried with military hOnOrs. I
other boys that day. I asked permission
to go to the front today and the doctor
says my eyes are affected and that I
had better remain in Manila for a few
days. 1 trust you are we'll and may
remain in good health until 1 come
home. and all think that We will be re-
turned in seven months if these niggers
surrender, and I think they will Just
another little reference. A bridge set
afire by the insurgents was to be saved
if possible and We had just about COM
pIeted the task when the niggers open
ed fire and % of the Kansas boys went
down all around me. didn't receive a
scratch. Five fell in company 3. We
charged them and when We quit mig
gers were piled up all around US. We
run up to their trenches and used the
bayOnets. This is only one of a dozen
fights Of the same character 1 am
certainly very fortunate. These mig
gers can't hit me. They have tried it
for four months, during which time
hardly a day has passed that We have
not been under fire. I think my old
gun has sent few niggers to roost.
I saw Roy Martin, Fred Craig and
George Swaney today. This is the first
time that I have been in Manila for
two months. am getting tired or
sleeping in water with a truSty rifle the
only covering, with the expectation of
jumping up any minute and so to
fighting Have lost mothers address,
so send this letter to grandpa and
grandma at Seneca to be forwarded.
- xx-r3rTu-
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JEFFRIES TO SHARKEY.
Offers to Meet Him In an Eighteen
Foot Ring About September 18th


Philadelphia. June 12.-William A
Brady. Jeffries' manager. has given out
the following telegram:
Mr.. Thomas Sharkey. Blowhard-
Sir: read in the press that you have
expressed your desire and willingness
to meet me in a contest for the world s
championship which now hold, having
won 1t from a man that you robbed in
San Francisco two years ago
You know in your heart that Fitz-
were a party to the contemplate scheme
that robbed him of the decision in that
battle. He knocked you out fair and
square, and you know it.
Now, Mr.. Sharkey, you say you
want to meet me. That is just what I
have been waiting for.
I whipped you once, and I can do it
again But as am now champion of
the world and you desire to meet me,
I herewith name my conditions.
JEFF. NAMES HIS CONDITIONS.
Il accepted Mr. F'ftzsimmons' condi-
lions without argument in order that 1
might meet him and win the title that I
now possess.
My conditions are as follows: 1 will
fight you on or about Sept. Is, for the
largest purse offered by any athletic
club and a $4,000 side stake. I have
deposited $500 today in the hands of
Al Smith as a guarantee of good faith.
1 stipulate that the entire purse shall
go to the winner, no side agreement or
secret arrangements considered. Fight
for all or none.
You must agree to George Siler as
referee, who has demonstrated to the
world that he is a fair man. 1 have no
wish that you should perpetrate any
Wyatt Earps on me. Also that the con-
test shall take place in an 1S-foOt ring
so you can not run away.
I understand that you have always
expressed a willingness to fight with
one hand free, each man to take care
of himself in the clincheS. So now, Mr..
Sf72r
fight for the championship of the world,
come forward and deposit your coin,
and you will be accommodated without
any argument or mud-Slinging
Yours respectfully,
JAMES J. JEFFRIES
champion of the World'
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OLD SOLDIER ACT VOID.
Pennsylvania Declares UncOnstitu-
tional the Nondischarge Law.

Harrisburg Pa, June 12.-Judge
Weiss handed down an opinion in the
Dauphin county court today declaring
unconstitutional the act of 1897 prOnib-
fting the discharge of a Union soldier
from public position without cause
4 short time ago Mayor Fritchey ap-
pointed three Democrats TO take the
place of three soldiers on the police
force. The latter refused to be re-
moved and were upheld by the Repub-
ucans in the council.
Mandamus proceedings were then
brought by the Democrats to compel
the council to take action on their nom
nations, and the case has ended in a
victory for the Democrats.
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UNDERTAKEN FINED $500.
Penalty Imposed For Permitting Per
sons to Kiss Dead Child.

Chicago, June 12.-Undertaker Adam
Griesel was fined $500 by Justice Glib
bOns for violation of the health ordi-
nance for exposing people to con-
tagious disease.
At the funeral of William A. Schnei-
der, a. 4-year-old boy who died of diph-
iberia, Griesel took the cover off the
coffin and allowed three persons to kiss
the dead boy. He admitted in court
that he knew the nature OF the disease
from which the boy died, but said the
idea of danger in permitting relatives
to kiss the dead child did not occur to
him. He paid the fine.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
WESTERN LEAGUE
AT BUFFALO.

The Blues batted Daub for twelve sin
giles and then got the hot end OF the
game. Not only that. but after two men
were out in the last half of the ninth in,
ming. the whole outfit was arrested and
taken before. the police sergeant and re-
leased on bail.
Score by innings:
Kansas City ........-.:1 0 %
Observation-Disclosures City. Gear, Egan and
Wilson; Buffalo, Daub and Diggins.
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here last evening to visit his cousin,
Mrs Emmons, formerly of Milwaukee.
During the evening an informal recep-
ton was rendered the distinguished SOL
der.
While Gen. King was making a speech
to a serenading band he was overcome
by exhaustion and had to be carried
into the house. A physician was called,
who says no serious results will follow.
Gen King has cancelled all of his
enga gements and after recuperating
here a few days will return to San
Era nniscn
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MR. HODGE WILL ATTEND.
Goes to Virginia For the Meeting of
the Master Car Builders.

Mr. John Hodge, master car builder
of the Santa Fe, accompanied by Mrs.
Hodge, left Saturday for Old Point
Comfort, Va, to attend the thirty-third
annual convention of the Master Car
Builders association. The meeting
opens at 10 O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing and continues during the rest of
the week.
Mr. Hodge is one of the members of
the committee appointed at the last
meetingto report on the subject Trains
Parting
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WASHES OUT TRACK
Rock Island Suffers at Greensburg
and Dodge City.

Dodge City, June 1.-THE Rock ISL
and had a big washout at Dodge City
and at Greensburg during the big rain
Thursday night. At Greensburg a space
of go feet long and 20 feet deep at a
dump was washed away.
At this same place the Rock Island
has considerable trouble and damage
every year. The trains between Pratt
and Liberal were annulled yesterday
and the day before on account of the
WaShOutS
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Harry J. Agnew Dead.

San Jose, Cal, June 12-Harry J.
Agnew, one of the best known breeders
of trottinghorses on the coast is dead of
heart disease He was the owner Of
the Agnew stock farm near HillsdaIe
Deceased was 80 years of age and a
native of New York.
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AT CINCINNATI.

Score by innings:
Cincinnati ..........3 0 IS
Louisville ..-....--..0 1 0 l %
Observation-Disclosures, Breitenstine and
Wood; Louisville, Bowling, Magee and
Kittredge-
Second game:
Score by innings:
Cincinnati -......-.s 3 10
Cleveland ..........O 0 0 o.
Batteries-Cin Hahn and Vaughn;
Cleveland, Bates and Shrek.
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Breaks 2oo-MiIe Record

San Francisco, June 12.-E. Q. Krag-
ness of the Olympic club wheelmen has
broken the American 200-n1ile road rec
ord by making a double century around
San Francisco bay in IL hours and 81
minutes This is hours and Al min
utes ahead of the coast record and is
said to be four minutes better than is
credited to any rider in this country
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Three spectres that threaten baby's
life. Cholera infantum, dysentery, diar-
rhoea- Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild
Strawberry never fails to conquer them.
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AT DETROIT.
Score by innings:
p IT r

Detroit ........1 O120 400 20 10 1
Minneapolis ...-....1 0 o % II
Batteries-Detroit. Thomas. Friske and
BueIow; Minneapolis, Menefee, McNeeley
and ZearfOSS.
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AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Score by innings:


St. Paul ,......:...-.S 0 ? l-l2 IS >
Observation-Disclosures Scott. kellum,
Newton. Beville and Kahoe; St. Paul,
Fisher and Spies
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GEN. KING FAINTS.
While Making a Speech to Serenad-
ing Band

Chicago, June IA Tribune special
from Tacoma says:
Gen. Charles King who recently re-
turned from the Philippines arrived
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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.
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AT COLUMBUS.
Score by innings:
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No better equipped shop nor finer
watchmakers than at CampbelPs, 625
Kansas avenue.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
SUNDAYS GAMES.
AT CHICAGO.

Dy . :.
St. Louis ..f o Q o.
Batteries-Chicago Griffith and Chance;
St Louis, Cuppy and Criger-