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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
PLOTS OF LOVER.
Tried to Int1midate His Sweetheart
by Threatening to Be Sent to

Philadelphia, May 31-Elner P. Rust
is so deeply inI love that ne does not
know what he is doing. He says SO
himself He is 20 years old and an
electrician. Miss Carrie s. Dutton, Is
years old. is the girl who has smitten
Mr.. Rust's heart.
She persistentIy referred him to her
father. and Papa Rust always said
too young" Last Friday Mr.. Rust
obtained a marriage license without in
forming Miss Dutton. He showed her
the license and told her unless she be-
came his wife he would get into serious
trouble. She refused. On Tuesday he
wrote, assuring her that he would
surely be sent up the next morning for
six years for perjury if she failed to
marry him at once. He had stated she
was n years old, he wrote, when he
applied for the license, and had been
arrested, but was out on $50 bail. Miss
Dutton still refused to marry him.
Yesterday Rust visited the office of
a newspaper and said that ne was about
to be sent to Cherry Hill prison for six
years. He wanted the newspaper to
print a story that would frighten the
young lady into marrying him The
newspaper printed the story, but not
on the lines suggested by Mr.. Rust,
and today Miss DuttOn treated every
mention of his name with a naughty
disdainful air, while Mr.. Rust fears he
may be sent up in earnest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
THE TIGERS NEW DEN.
Tammany to Forsake Its Present
Quarters For a Home in the
TenderIoin.

New York. May Ex-senator Timothy
CDry Dollar) Sullivan has secured
ten year lease of the Hotel York, at
Broadway and F'ortieth street, and it
looks as If the Tammany braves Will
soon forsake the Fourteenth street wig
wan for the new resort in the Tender
lOin. Senator Dry Dollar is going to
spend $40,0 600 rejuvenating the place in
an effort to make it a fitting retreat
for politicians and sports. The Hotel
York was formerly the Hotel Gedney,
at one time a great resort for the the
atrical profession; but so many pat
rons forgot to settle their bills that the
house suffered great financial agony
and finally died. Later it became the
Hotel Warwick, and after clutching the
last straw of existence took it down
with it, Then the Hotel York blossom
ed forth, only to wfther and fade away
like the rest. Dry Dollar is not dis
heartened by the Unfortunate history of
the house. He is going to change its
face entirely. and then, when he has
gotten through furnishing things up,
he is going to invite the whole legisla-
ture and every politician of any emf
nence in the state and abroad to a
grand opening. After that he expects
they won't be able to resist the place.
1t is believed that when Tammany
takes up it's quarters in the midst of
the Tenderloin, New York will be run
ming along with a wide open throttle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
SHOCKED AT TIGHTS.
Actresses Cause a Stampede at a
Church Fair.

- Sausalito Cal, May 31-Two little ac-
tresseS, arrayed in fieshlings that set or
their figures to the best advantage posi-
BILE, have succeeded in creating a scandal
in local church circles that seems to grow
SWeeter in the mouth of Dame Grundy
with the lapse of time. For a time the
tale was Smot hered, but the details have
finally leaked out. to the keen embarrasS-
ment of a pillar of the local Congre5ati ton
al church, who has since been placed IN
the role of black sheep, though entirely
A few evenings ago ConSFeSsttio Qua
church fair was held to assist IN paying
sen. regarded as one of the pillars of the
church, who is employed in a large met
ropolitan dry goods store. took a Keen m m
terest in the affair and informed some OF
his colIea CUES in the establishment where
he is employed that he would like to en-
gage talent for the occasion, rev OF
these young gentlemen thought it would
be a good scheme to put up JOB on
their pious friend, and. telling him they
gagged the services of two young ladies'
who could be depended upon TO create a
sensation when the time arrived.
Mr.. Johansen was informed in few
days that Miss Patterson and Miss Akra-
MUS. together with one J. E Barr, would
furnish some Irish specialties az the
fair, and the delighted church member
was instrumental in having this feature
of the programme given a prominent place
took the three performers to his residence
on the evening of the entertainment and
Every thing went smoothly until the
Irish specially part of the programme
male companions marched out and did a
cakewalk. The ladies were arrayed in
tights" and executed some fancy danc Ii1ggs
on the side that would have been heartily
applauded at a vaudeville enterta 1nment-
With Johansen. whose face was the color
of boiled lobster, the ladies' present Sc
dately marched from the hall
A strenuous effort was made to Keep
the affair from reaching the general pub
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
THECARDIFF GIANT.

CFrom the Syracuse Post-standard)
After long years of obnoxious Gesue-
cred" viii be put on exhibition, and, like
John BroWns spirit IS TO go b mFarchi ing
public as the greatest fraud in America.
and III not as at FIRST the greatest relic
For some fifteen twenty years the
people have heard little and seen less OF
II was Iost. The giant is not such snail
Object That it M need be wrapped in issue issue
paper and locked up to be preserved He
eleven feet of length. or swept out IN the
garbage With. his $500 pounds of weight.
- After Winning thousands sc, OF dollars for
gods" came to be despised and created
no interest He spent some time at the
to have been laid with his ancestors Sew
f STai Tam9ses aPPea1red and were shawn
interest was taken in them, for it was
the original fraud.
By some odd chance Tamus found his
way to Syracuse and was slowed away
grave. al He '' Seemed e to be Without a friends
none to do him reverence. Who his owner
still afforded him shelter and protecfion
from boys and relic hunters There was a
found that the company kept in its
From this retirement. it is now said.
management that vpuches for his identity
and shown in this city. When Tamus be-
came so popular that P T. Barnum Of
fered $50, 600 for his services for three
months. a large number of other pieces
of stone throughout the country became
Original Tamuses until the poor fellow
hardly knew whether he was Tamus 1 or
TamuS one dozen.
1t is said that the giant at the
World $ fair was not the original ''Tamus.
god of gods" Some Thought they Were
looking, at the greatest, humbug on earth
when they were told that it was Tamus
that was on exhibition at the first state
fair held on the new grounds here 1t is
now said that both of these, pieces of
handiwOrk were frauds, and that AL the
while the original fraud was slumbering
in the Central freight office.
The only birth the Cardiff Giant ever
had was in the brain of George Hull. a
Connecticut Yankee He secured the stone
near Fort Dodge and shipped it to Chi
cago. where the image was made and dis
cOlOred with acid. 1t was then shipped to
Union, near BinghamtOn. and reshipped
to Cortland From there it was carted in
the night to the farm of Stub Newell.
in Cardiff. 1t duly buried in 1868,
but without ceremony and by moonlight.
A year later Newell happened to be
digging well and much to his surprise
came across the strange image. The news
spread, and in short time thousands of
people were focking to see the ''discov-
cry" 1t is said that 81 900 was made be-
fore it was removed from where it was
buried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
SAVED HER DOLLAR

milwaukee Special Chicago Chronicle.)
These street car conductors have trouble
of their own. A conductor has to struggle
with q company rule that he must get off
his car and run ahead to see if the track
is clear at each railroad crossing and must
personally inspect every bridge before his
car crosses it. To most passengers this
rule is a familiar one, but it was not
known to dear old lady who came in
from Wauwatosa to spend the day with
her daughter. Almost Immediately after
she had boarded the crosstown car at
East Water street the conductor said,
lar. The coin had hardly dropped into his
large red paw before he gave a convulsive
start. jumped frantically from the car and
Thief. stop thief" screamed the old
lady in a panic of alarm He has got my
dollar
with an agility remarkable in one of
her years, she sprang from her seat and
scrambled from the car in hot pursuit of
the blue-eoated bell ringer. who had so
evidently robbed her. The car was not in
motion and she found him standing on
the bridge Grabbing him fiercely by the
arm she shook ii with all the strength
she could muster. crying excitedly: What
do you mean, sir2 What do you mean?
Give me back my dollar
good fellow, with a winning way about
him, but il took some time for him to
make explanations that would induce the
old lady to return to the car and even
when she had finished her trip it was evil
dent that she still had a lingering sus-
picion that she would have lost the dollaf
and the man had she not been spry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
AFTER 25 YEARS.
Two Brothers and Their Sister Meet
in q Hospital

Carlyle, Ill, May 31.-There was an
affecting scene in ST Joseph's hospital
in Breese yesterday when Leon, Fred
erick and Miss Martha Huberisch met
The former was thought to be dead
The reunion was the elimination of a
peculiar incident.
Recently Leon Huberisch,a man some
40 years of age. and a complete stranger
to the residents of Clinton county. was
dangerously wounded in a cutting af-
fray near Germantown He was re-
moved to the hospital in Breese. A let
ter addressed to him there passed
through the hands of the mother su-
perior of the sisters. Her sister had
been united in marriage to a gentleman
whose name was similar to that of the
man in the hospital, who later admitted
his identity The brother, a wealthy
citizen of New York city, was notified,
and accompanied by sister. left for
Breese. The last time they had seen
each other was twenty-five years ago,
when Leon Huberisch left a comfort
able home in Germany to seek his for
tune in America
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
DAVE HARVEY ARRESTED.
Young Man Charged With Violating
New Hotel Law

David Harvey was arrested Saturday on
warrant sworn out in the city court by
Mark Putnam, proprietor of the Union
Pacific hotel, charging him with defraud-
lnE b me notei out OF P0ard Di4 Ross
under under the new new law passed by the last
ana BOARDING HOUSE, keepers and o5 IS the
first arrest to be made in Topeka under
he new iaW Putnam bn n6t e9fm RIid that
and registered under the assumed name of
Dave Houser: He stayed at the hotel
that night and for breakfast and left Sat
urday morning without paying his bill.
Putnam knew him as David Harvey. but
out warrant in the city court and Con-
stable Ross found Harvey at Rosser $
to pay the bill of $3.50 if the case Would
be dropped. but Putnam said it was in
compromise. II. P. Howe went on Har-
veys bond for 800. and he was released
once arrested on complaint sworn out
by ]. H .Haines charging him with OBJ
senting himself The case was comprom-
ised and never came up for trial. Sew
ing worthless checks.
At another time he paid two months
stayed three weeks over the two months
and his baggage is still held there for the
A few days ago Oscar Shaffer, who runs
a barber shop on Kansas avenue between l
cut. shave, shampoo and hair tonic to the
amount of 30 cents and said, as he walk ed
out. that he would pay the bill when the
banks opened, and then did not return.
The law under Whicn harvey was ar
rested for defrauding the hotel reads as
Section !; Any person who shan OBJ
any hotel. or boarding or eating house
with the intent to defraud the owner or
demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall
be punished by tine OF not exceeding
days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
WAS ANTICIPATED.
Smelling Trust Gathers In Kansas
Concern.

The city of Argentine is the most re-
cent Kansas town to feel the disastrous
effects of trusts. Within the past two
weeks fifty men in the Argentine smell
ters have been laid off, and it is said
that more will follow. This leaves only
three forces now working.
The people in charge of the smelter
say that the reduction in the force is
due to the duh season and the low
price of silver, but the employees claim
it is because the smelter has been alb
sorbed by the great smelling trust
which was organized a few months ago.
1t is alleged that the trust intends to
restrict the output of silver bullion with
the purpose of raising it's price, and the
first move in this direction is to grad
ually cut down the force in the Argen-
tine Smelter.
Thus another Kansas institution Is
added to the already long list of those
which have been forced out of bust
ness by the organization of trusts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
MICHIGAN SUGAR MAKING
Nine New Factories to Be Started,
Encouraged by the Bounty Act

Lansing, Mich, May 31.-Beet sugar
manufacturing in Michigan promises to
become one of the leading industries OF
the state, Under the Dudley bill, enact
ed by the legislature two years ago,
providing for the payment by the state
of a bounty of 1 cent per pound on all
sugar manufactured, factory was
established at Bay City which, during
the year 1898, manufactured over $780,
600 pounds of sugar and received $685.
900 from the state in bounties.
The business is now beyond the ex-
perimental stage and capitalists have a
large number of factories projected,
nine of which will undoubtedly be built
this year. There will be three new fac
tories at Bay City and one each at
Caro-, Rochester, Kalamazoo, Benton
Harbor, Holland and Alma. These fac
tories will have an average capacity of
100000 pounds each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
Bread Baked 1900 Years Ago.
IFrnm the London NALL

Sufferers from indigestion are advised
to eat bread; the staler the better, they
are told. There is in the museum of
Naples some bread which ought to be
stale enough for anybody. 1t was
baked one day in August, A D. ~, in
one of the curious ovens still to be seen
at POmpeii. More than eighteen CEN
turtles, therefore, have elapsed since it
was drawn ali hot" and indigestible
from the oven. So it may claim to be
see it in a glass case on the upper floor
of the museum. There are several
loaves of it, one still bearing the i'm
press of the bakers name.
In shape and size they resemble the
small cottage 1oaves of England. but
not in appearance, for they are as black
as charcoal. which, in fact, they closely
resemble. This was not their original
color, but they have become carbon
lied, and if eaten would probably re-
mind one of charcoal biscuits. When
new they may have weighed about a,
couple of pounds each and were most
likely raised with leaven, is most of
the bread in Oriental countries at the
present time.
destroyed by lava is a fallacious one
If lava stream had descended upon
the city the bread and everything else
in the place would have been utterly
destroyed. Pompeii was really buried
under the ashes and fine cinderS, called
by the natives lapilli. On that dread
full day in August, when the great erup-
ton of Vesuvius took place, showers
of fine ashes fell first upon the doomed
city, then showers of lapilli, then more
ashes and more lapilli, until Pompeii
was covered over to depth in places
of fifteen and even twenty feet.
Other comestibIes besides the bread were
preserved and may now be seen in the
same room in the museum There are
various kinds of grain, fruit vegetables
and even pieces of meat. Most interesting
is a dish of walnuts, some cracked ready
for eating, others whole. Though car
BOMBED like all the other eatables, they
have preserved their characteristic wrin-
kles and lines.
There are figs, too, and pears, the for
mer rather shriveled as one would ex-
pect after all these years. the latter GER
tainly longer Juicy" But perhaps
the most Interesting relic in the room is a.
hOneycomb. every cell of which can be
distinctly made out. 1t is well pre-
served that it is hard to realize that the
comb is no longer wax nor the honey
honey.
A piece of the comb seems to have been
cut out and one can imagine some youn g
Pompeiian having helped himself to it and
sitting down to eat it when he had to
help wondering what became of the piece
whether the young fellow took it with
him and ate it as he ran or whether he
left it on his plate, intending to return
for it when the eruption was over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
A CITY FEW PEOPLE VISIT.
[From Modern Mexico.l

Eight miles due east, over the noun
tains from Catorce Station, on the Mex
lean National railroad, is the city OF
that name, a city along whose steep,
winding streets neither wagon nor cart,
neither stage nor bus, nor any other
wheeled vehicle was ever known TO
pass although it has often boosted of a
population of forty thousand souls Tine
city takes its name from once being the
stronghold and the property of a band
of fourteen of the most daring ROBBERS
that ever laid tribute on roads IN Mex
leo. They discovered, and for many
years worked, the rich deposits of silver
that abound in this entire section or the
country-depOsitS the value OF winch
if current report be true, for hundreds
of years outrivaled the mythical riches
related of Ophir. Strange to relate,
every piece of machinery, every pound
of freight and every passenger to ana
from Catorce is transported today, as
of men or mules.
Catorce is one of the most interest
ing places in Mexico. Here are found
the customs of Mexico in their purity,
unaffected by the influence of the
stranger. Difficult of access, the town
can only be reached by horseback or on
foot. Catorce has seldom been visited
by any except those making business
trips. The ride up the mountains into
the town is something, once accomplish
ed, always to be remembered, partly
from It's element OF personal perm, DuI
more because of the beauty of the land
scape encountered at every turn. Glane-
ing down as you near your journey s
end, you catch a CLEAN of the white
walls of Los Catorce outlined against
the green of the mountain side.
The real Catorce is built on the side
of a ravine near the top of the range,
and has a varying population of from
5000 to 10000, as the mines are paying
we'll or poorly. Here are found all
varieties of silver ore, assaying $4,000
to the ton. Catorce has fine cathedral,
richly decorated, and a pretty plaza,
a railroad phrase, it is a combination
of cut and fill, so that to tumble into it
on one side and out on the other would
be extremely disastrous. The streets
are neatly paved, and run up and down
hill, many of them at an angle of As
degrees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
PROFESSIONAL CAKEWALK
It Was Declared a Pronounced Sue
cess by EverYone.

A fair sized crowd beat time to cat a
Georgia Campmeeting" and Ell Captain"
and watched The Black TroubadourS go
through the intricate measures OF a cake
walk at Metropolitan hall Tuesday night
1t was nearly 10 o'clock when the affair
started. and, the Ray family played sew
eral Stringed Instruments: but the great
event. the cake walk. followed. The walk
ers were in the dressing rooms under the
balcony, and when the professor at the
kept time with his feet, the doors were
thrown open and Ben Carter and Miss
Jennie Woodley pranced into the arena.
Around they went and the applause fol-
lowed them Then two more couples, and
last, but not least, Black Diamond" and
Miss Mary Proctor Miss Proctor was
dressed in a red Grecian robe.
The first couple did every step imagin-
able and the judges awarded them first
prize. consisting of cake and Sc. Carter
and Miss Woodley probably make the best
cake walk team that ever appeared in the
city, for their repertoire of steps seemed
to unlimited
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
KILLED BY A TORNADO.
A Farmers Daughter Suffers Death
Near Malvern, Ia

Malvern, Ia, May 31.-A tornado swept
over the northwest part of Mills county
about O o'clock last night. doing much
damage to farm property. The house and
barn and outbuildings of John Rorhburg'
a farmer living two miles north OF Min
cola were totally destroyed, his little gixl
aged II years was killed, one OF his boys
had a leg broken and the balance of the
family were more or less seriously in
jured. The barn and corn cribs OF Fred
Hanson were destroyed and his harness
and farm implements scattered over the
farm and several of his cows killed.
Michael CfaSper's barn and Outbuild in gS
were destroyed and part of his dwelling
house blown away All telegraph wires
are torn down for quite a distance, and
the telegraph poles and cross arms are
broken to pieces and scattered over the
adjoining fields
No advices have been received of any
deaths and injuries outside the Rorhburg
family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
PUBLIC LIBRARY CONCERT
By the Federation of women's Clubs
at LeavenWorth.

The Federation of Women's Clubs of
Leavenworth, Kansas, is a wide-awake,
energetic organization. They realize
that to help themselves to raise money
for a public library building they must
also help others, and so have adopted
the popular concert plan. There are
only twenty thousand tickets printed
and only a small portion of them were
sent to various towns throughout the
state. The few sent to Topeka are be-
ing rapidly sold, so everyone who wants
a good thing for themselves had better
hurry and buy their tickets. For fur
Their particulars see posters at most of
the popular stores on the avenue, where
tickets may also be purchased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
TOPEKA SONG WRITER'S.
Mrs. G. s. Baker and Mrs Mary g.
Smith Doing Commendable Work

Two Topeka ladies. Mrs. c. s Baker
and Mrs. MaryG Smith. have written a
song, Alone" and intend to take up
the work of song writing.
Mrs. Baker will write the words and
Mrs. Smith will set them to music
Their first effort bids fair to be a sue
cess and already many copies have been
sold. Mrs. Baker has composed the
words to Lucille" I Love You So"
Evening Lullaby and several relig-
ious songs. Mrs. Smith is well known
in musical circles having been mem
Der of the Episcopal choir and is at
present singing in the Catholic church
choir. Mrs. Smith will set to music sew
eral songs written by Mrs. Baker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
MOUNTED CARRIERS.
Suburban West Side Residents Will
Have Mail Delivered

After July l all the territory con-
tiguous to station C of the Topeka
postoffice will be served by carrier, and
a mounted carrier at that. The terri
tory covered win be not only Potwin
and Auburndale. but all the suburban
residences out as far as the asylum, in
GLIDING the asylum itself, which at pres
ent receives it's mail direct from the
DOstOfficey
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
PINGREE's FRIEND DEAD.
Albert Pack Killed by a Surgical
Operation.

Detroit, May 31-Albert Pack, the
wen known capitalist and late Republi-
can candidate for United States sena-
tor in opposition to Senator Burrows,
died today from the effects of a surgi-
cal operation performed for the re-
mOval of gall stones.
Mr. Pack was a close friend of Gov
ernor Pingree, and hacker of the De
troit railway G cent street car Hnes).
He withdrew his candidacy for senator
before a vote was taken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-31
AMERICAN SURGEONS
Meet in Chicago in Twentieth Annual
Session.

Chicago. May 31.-Surgeons from all
states in the union gathered in Chicago
today in attendance on the twentieth
annual meeting of the American surgi-
cal association. The topics which will
be discussed at the convention cover
large field
THE Technic of Laryngotomy" was
the subject of a paper at the morning
session today by DR.. w. w. Keen of
Philadelphia, president of the associa-
ton.