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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
BURGLAR ELLING HID.
He May Commit Another Burglary
Before He Gets Out of
the Country

The condition of Jailer Carl Lawson,
who was assaulted by F. Filling, a bur-
glar under sentence, in the county Jail
Friday morning, is slightly improved to-
day, and there is little doubt of his ul-
innate recovery. The wound on the
back of the head near the base of the
brain is proving the most serious, the
cut on the forehead being only a scalp
wound.
The searching parties who started
after Filing returned late last night
and all reported that not a trace of the
desperate burglar had been discovered.
He dropped entirely out of sight when
he ran across Van Buren, street
The burglar probably did not, travel
more than two or three blocks from the
county jail before he crawled into a
barn or some out of the way place
where he spent the day. He came out
in the night. The severe weather, the
officers think, may facilitate the capture
of Filing, for he is scantily clothed.
Filing worked on the sympathy of
Mr.. S. s. OFT and his family, whose
house he burglarized, and they took
enough interest in him to visit the coun-
ty attorney and ask that his sentence
be made as light as possible. They
were given to understand that he had
been led into wrong by Mccoy, who
feigned insanity and escaped in that
manner.
County Attorney Jetmore finally ac-
coded to the request and he said he
would allow Filing to plead guilty to
grand larceny. He also asked Judge
Hazen to make his sentence light and
he was accordingly given two years. If
he had been convicted of burglary and
larceny, and he had no defense, the
minimum sentence would have been six
years.
If Filing is caught he will be taken
to the penitentiary at once, but Jailer
Lawson says he will be on the watch
for him when he is released and he
will be brought back to Topeka to be
tried for assault with intent to kill and
iail breaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
wArERwoRKs TROUBLE
Wellington Citizens Delay Settling a
Vexed Problem.

Wellington. Jan. 28.-The inactivity of
the Commercial club and the rapidly ap-
preaching time when the city will be
without water and light and at the
mercy of heartless corporations caused
the city council to meet in extraordin-
airy session last night and pass reso-
luton urging the citizens to take the
necessary steps to procure funds to en-
able the city to construct a system of
waterWorks. The resolution is a mild
hint to the Commercial club that the
council is ready, willing and anxious
to begin the work of procuring a water
system as soon as the movement
reaches the proper stage for the council
to act.
The question of water supply is vital
one to the future welfare of Wellington
The Santa Fee railroad is holding back
contemplated improvements to the di-
visional facilities at this point on ac-
count of it. The Santa Fe authorities
are in correspondence, and have been
for some time, with the owners of the
water works plant, desiring to know
what the probabilities are for securing
water at this point after January 1, 1900
The road is at present depending upon
the water works company for water.
After next December they will look to
Wellington for a supply. The Santa Fe
at present has in contemplation the en-
largement of the round house at this
place, but is holding back, waiting the
permanent solution of the water works
question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
POTWIN TO PAVE.
Greenwood and Woodlawn Avenues
May Have Thirty-Foot
PaVemeuts

The street improvement boom has
reached Potwin and an effort is being
made to pave Greenwood and Wood
lawn avenues.
The movement is in the early stages
of development, but it has already re-
ceived considerable support. Several
plans are proposed. One is to pave the
avenues with a 30-foot roadway of vitri-
fed brick. Another is to pave a wider
roadway with asphalt. The plan also
contemplates the paving of the cross
streets with the same material used in
paving Greenwood and Woodlawn ave-
nues.
J. B. Larimer is agitating the i'm
provement, and there is already a. paw
ing and anti-paving party. That will
be the issue at the coming city election
and the result of the fight is waited with
interest by all the residents of Potwin.
Col. j. w. F. Hughes, mayor of Pot
win, is opposed to the proposed pave
ment, and other prominent property
owners are also opposed to the i'm
provement. They say that it is too
early to talk of paving the streets until
the $4,000 of sewer bonds outstanding
against the city are paid.
There is another question which may
enter into the contest, and that is
whether city of the third class, the
rank held by Potwin, can legally make
assessment against property for paving
purposes. If it should be found that
the law is against it, that would end
the paving agitation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
KANSAS NEWS.
Wamego Disposes of Its Water
works Bonds.
Sells Them For $25, 900 to a
Chicago Firm.
ARE DUE in 20 YEARS.
Wellington Having Trouble
With It's WaterWOrks.
Nay Lose Santa Fe Improve
ments by Sl0Wness.

Wamego, Jan. 2s.-The city council
met this week to receive bids for the
$4,000 water works bonds. There were
four bids, and Trowbridge, Mcdonald C
Niver company of Chicago, being the
highest bidders, were awarded the
bonds.
The following is their bid:
For $25, 900 water works bonds, dated
February 1, 1899. due in twenty years,
but payable at the option of the city
after five years, at the rate Of $1,000
per year, bearing interest at the rate of
per cent per annum, payable semi
annually at the Kansas fiscal agency in
the city of New York, we will pay the
sum of S25, 900, a premium of $671 and
furnish the blank bonds"
Five hundred dollars were deposited
as a guarantee that this firm meant
business, and they were notified of the
action of the city council.
L. E. Trowbridge, president Of the
above company, came here from Chi
cago some time ago to purchase these
bonds. He was in Wamego several days
and was greatly pleased with the town.
Mr.. Trow bridge said Wamego was the
cleanest, handsomest little town he had
ever been in and that he would give
considerable more for the bonds than if
he had not seen the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
FOR THIRTY YEARS
An Emporla Constable Has Held His
Office Without Break.

lEmpOr1a GaZeIJSI
A dispute arose on the street this
morning as to how long Tiger" john
son had served in this town as consta-
BILE. To settle it a report was found.
Mr.. Johnson will have served this COM
munity without a break as constable
for thirty years next April.
Mr.. Johnson says that when he was
first elected he was employed by Geo.
Cooper, who used to be the main paint
er in town, on a job of painting the CELL
ing of the first school in town, which is
now the Stone school. Mr.. Cooper came
in in the morning and said, There is
going to be an election down town this
morning, and I am going down and run
for constable. Mr.. Johnson replied, "All
right, I know little about elections and
care less" Cooper answered. They
have got to have two constables, john
son, and believe that I'll name you for
one of them" Mr.. johnson was willing
and so the matter went. The next day
he found that he had been elected and
that Mr.. Cooper had been defeated.
Since that time Mr.. JohnSon'S nomina-
ton has been a part of the regular order
of business for every spring convention.
When the votes are cast he is always a
winner. He is one of the best known
and most respected men in the county,
and Tiger Johnson's word is as good as
his note any day. He is probably the
oldest officer in the state who has held
one job without a break.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
WILL CONTEST SETTLED.
Chicago Mother and Daughter Get
Five-rwelfths of Valuable
Kansas Estate.

Fort Scott. Jan. 2s.-What promised
to be a very sensational law suit, in
volving a large estate and the question
of the legitimacy of a child, was COM
promised here last evening. Last year
John Conallin, prominent merchant of
this city, died. Several years prior to
his death he made a will leaving every
thing to his son, and stating that a girl
in Chicago calling herself Margaret,
Conallin was not his daughter. The
son died before the father, leaving Mar
garet, II she is Conallin's daughter, the
sole heir. Conallin left surviving him
a brother and sister, who claimed the
estate. Conallin's divorced wife, Georgia
Conallin, of Chicago, and her daughter,
Margaret, filed suit, claiming to be the
legal heirs. By the terms of the COM
promise, Georgia and Margaret Conallin
get flve-twelfths of the estate and the
brother and sister the balance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
A F1vE-PoUND CATFISH
Gets Into Emporia Waterpipes and
Stops Business For a Time.

Emporia, Jan. 28.-Yesterday after
noon the New Process laundry had to
stop work on account of trouble with
the water pipes. Everything that looked
as if it might give up the secret of the
stopped water was opened up and ex
amined. Nothing was found. After the
plumbers had cut about ten pipes and
the diggers had dug up nearly the en-
tire basement, it was suggested that
they take wire and run it through the
pipe that leads to the water main. This
was done as last extreme, and, after
a little prodding in the pipe, the plum
bers succeeded in pulling out a five
pound catfish that was stuck fast. The
fish had got through the big pipes into
the reservoir and from there had been
forced into town by the pressure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
AN EARLY PRIMARY.
Candidates for Nominations Want a
Short Campaign.

The question of an early or late prim-
airy will be settled tonight by the Re
publican city central committee. There
is a general desire among the candi-
dates for an early primary and it is
probable that the date will be fixed for
February % or March 4. This shortens
the campaign for nominations and re-
lieves the candidates of no end of worry.
So far as is known now there is no di-
vision among the candidates on the
question of an early primary.
Charles T. McCabe is chairman of the
central committee. The membership of
the committee is as follows:
First ward-At large, Geo. c. Stoker:
First precinct, H. G. Bowen; Second
precinct, E. c. Stoner; Third precinct,
NJ. S. Wins.
Second ward-At large, T. S. Williams;
First precinct, Joe Jones; Second pre-
cinct, ]. NJ. Allen; Third precinct, John
H. Imbler; Fourth precinct, J. A. Alex
ander; Fifth precinct, E. E. Lair.
Third ward-At large, Chas. T. Nc
Cabe; First precinct, Oscar K. Swayze;
Second precinct, Geo. NJ. Crawford;
Third precinct, S. w. Pasker; Fourth
precinct, NJ. c. Simpson.
Fourth ward-At large, A. A. Rodgers;
First precinct, Robert Stone; Second
precinct, j. H. Guy; Third precinct, j ohm
H. Norton; Fourth precinct, Will T.
CLANCY.
Fifth ward-At large, r. w. Squires;
First precinct, Thomas NJ. Euwer; Sec
ond precinct, Clarence Moss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28

"A bill has been introduced in the Wis
eonsin legislature abolishing free priv
feges to public officers. 1t Is modelled
directly after the New York law. The
language of the bill makes it apply to
all officers or persons elected or ap-
pointed to public offices under the laws
of that state. and prohibits them from
directly or indirectly asking, demand
Ing, accepting or receiving for their own
use or the use of another any free pass,
frank or discrimination in tranSporta-
ton, telegraph, telephone, express or
sleeping car rates, and fixes penalty
for violation of the act. The second sec
ton prohibits such corporations from
granting such favors to any public Of
ficial under penalty. A third section re-
lieves from criminal or civil liability
any witness testifying to having given
such prohibited favors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
STANDARD OIL AT lola
Has Sunk IL Wells, Which Have q
Pressure of 100000 Cubic
Feet of Gas Daily

lola, Jan. 2S.-The Standard Oil trust
has had an office at lola for four years
in charge of J. T. Beatty, and in that
wells since their development. These
wells have been plugged up and allowed
tic remain idle. A record of the COM
pany's wells is on file in the lola office
and shows that ii has sunk Is holes
which, according to actual rock pressure
can produce 100000 cubic feet of gas
daily.
These figures are given out by Mr.
Beatty who says the gas output is more
than could be consumed in Kansas City,
St. Louis, Chicago and New York. He
has no idea what the company purposes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
TO REMODEL HIS HOME.
A A. Robinson Will Make Great
Changes in His Mansion.

A. A. Robinson, president of the Mex
ican Central railway, will remodel his
beautiful mansion, which is located at
80 Tyler street, next spring. Architect
Holland is making the plans, and the
preliminary sketches have already been
submitted to Mr.. Robinson for his ap-
prevail.
The plan proposed is the construction
of a veranda of artistic design, twelve
feet wide, on three sides of the house.
On the north there will be a porte
cochere, also of fancy architecture. On
the southeast corner a dining room 20x
80 feet in dimensions will be built. over
this room there will be bedrooms and
closets. The floor of the dining room
will be inlaid, and the interior finish
will be Egyptian.
The veranda will have a floor of mo-
sale thing and it will be built of stone
Mr.. Robinson has not yet decided
whether it will be extended around the
south side of the house or not. The
improvements will probably cost some
thing like $4,000 and they will make the
Robinson mansion the handsomest in
Topeka.
President Robinson says that Topeka
will always be considered his home, and
this resolution led to the plans for the
proposed improvements to his Tyler
street residence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
Pensions for Kansans.

Washington, Jan. Extensions have
been granted as follows:
Observation-Disclosures p. Curtis, Ben
dena, Sc; Elihu ]. Fairbanks, F'arlin-
Vile, So; Thomas Evans, Chetopa, So;
Henry Belgard, Ames, So.
Additional-Charles Clearwater. Phil
lipsburg, 81 to So; Joseph T. Claudel,
Cedarville, Sc to $40.
Increase-David Gratner, Kins1ey, So
to $40; Scion NJ. Weston, Oberlin, So to
S12; Jonathan w. Van Scoyoc, Luray,
So to $12.
Observation-Disclosures Bailey, Glasco,
ST.
Original widows, etc-Martha G.
Meiser, Ost, IS; Elizabeth Hise, Geneseo,
IS; Della T. Collins, Ellis, So; minors of
Luke Blacker. Wichita. So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
JOHN M. TORRENCE SICK.
Very Ill With Paralysis and Con-
gestion of the Brain.

John M. Terrence, chief clerk in the
car service department of the Santa Fe,
is dangerously i'll with paralysis and
congestion of the brain at his home on
Van Buren, street. The physicians be-
ueve he will not recover.
Mr.. Terrence was taken al at the
office in the Santa Fe general office
building Wednesday afternoon. He
went to his home and went to bed,
thinking that he was taken with an at
tack of grippe. He steadily grew worse
and paralysis gradually set in until last
night when all feeling left his entire
right side and he lost his power of
speech. A consultation of physicians
was held and the family informed that
the worst might be expected.
Mr.. Terrence is one of the best known
Santa Fe men in this city. He has been
chief clerk in the car service depart
ment under Mr.. c. w. Kouns for sew
eral years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
HAVE A STORY TO TELL.
Discharged Santa Fe Conductors Who
Want to Square Themselves.

]. A. Judd, Joe Richley. w. M. Am
mon, c. H. Stevenson, Charles Helton
and c. H. Dascomb, six of the Santa Fe
conductors discharged from service on
the western and New Mexico divisions
because of alleged irregularities in re-
ports of fares, are in Topeka today for
the purpose of presenting their side of
the story to the Santa Fe general Off
Gals. The other four men discharged
will be here by Monday when CONSUL
tation with Assistant General Superin-
tendent Avery Turner will be held. Both
Mr. Turner and Mr.. Nudge are in Chi
cago today, but are expected to be here
Monday.
If the conductors are unable to get
satisfaction from Mr.. Turner they will
appeal to General Superintendent
Nudge If the result is unchanged on
the first appeal they will take their case
to General Manager Frey. A hearing
before Mr.. Frey is final.
The men refuse to discuss their dis
charge at this time, as they believe any
thing they would say might prejudice
their cause with the officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
AutOmObilesAre Rapidly Coming
Into Use as Cabs
And Delivery Wagons in the
French Capital.
4 TRAINING GROUND
Has Been Established For Mo-
tOrneerS.
Electricity is the Power Most
In Favor.

Washington, Jan. 2S.-Consul General
Gowdy at Paris, reports to the state de-
partment that there has been marked
increase during the past year in the use
OF automobiles in the city of Paris, not
only as pleasure vehicles but for prac-
teal application as public cabs and de-
soon there will be 100 motor cabs driven
by electricity running in the streets of
Paris and if the experiment be success
full the cabs will be increased to 1000.
With this project in view, a large plot
OF ground has been secured where the
building of works necessary for the
housing of the cabs and machinery for
the electric supply are being rapidly
completed.
The training ground also has been
made for the cab men. This is laid out
with every possible form of paving
wood, asphalt, stone, etc, including two
steep hills. Here and there are dotted
about number of dummy figures and
in and out of these the cabmen have to
vancouver under the orders of an in
structor. AS a rule in four lessons the
driver is ready to navigate Paris and
after ten lessons is considered thorough
Iy competent. Each cab is supplied
with sufficient power to be driven 80
miles at about miles an hour.
Among the systems of automobiles in
PariA there are many using petroleum
which caleld forth a most pronounced
objection from the public by reason first
of the odor following their passage; sec
Ond, the noise, and third, for the pas
sengers the extraordinary vibration. A
copSummatiOn of great value would be
a machine which would combine dura-
bility, speed and economy without
these annOyanceS and defects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
TO STOP SAN JOSE SCALE.
a Bill to Found a State Board of
Entomology.

Representative Brooke has bill be-
fore the house to create a state board
of entomology. 1t is to be composed of
the Secretary of State Horticultural So
ciety and the professors of entomology
in the state university and the state
agricultural college.
The board is given the power to in
spect all orchards, nursery stock and
fruit-bearing plants, and can destroy
any found to be infected with a disease
which may kill them and spread to
others. The board is to serve without
remuneration except their expenses
while making inspections
The main object of the bill is said to
be to keep out the dreaded San Jose
scale, which has been very destructive
of orchards in some parts of United
States, and whose spread can only be
prevented by killing the trees on which
it appears. The scale made it's appear
ance near Wilder, Kansas, last season.
The passage of the bill is urged by
the horticulturists of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
NEW FISH LAW
for $500 With Which to
@Plant" Fish.

The fish question is again before the
legislature. Representative Dawes to-
day introduced a bill providing for the
appointment of fish warden, with a
salary of 81, 900 per year, who has power
county upon the petition of % resident
taxpayers of the county, who shall serve
without remuneration. The warden is
to be appointed by the governor for
term of four years, and to hold his office
at the pleasure of the governor. He is
required to inspect all the principal
streams of the state and ascertain what
fish thrive best in them, and he is al
lowed $500 per year with which to
plant fish.
Fishing of all kinds for game fish is
prohibited between March Is and May
Is of each year, and at other times it
is allowed only with hook and line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
HEIR TO E1GHTEEN MILLIONS.
Insane idea of a Mcpherson Swede
Who Tried to Enforce His View
With a Revolver.

Mcpherson, Jan. 2S.-Swan Johnson
has been adjudged insane. He is a
Swede and has lived with a man by the
name of Peter Berg, five miles north
west of town. He has shown symptoms
of insanity for a number of years, and
suited from a blow on the head with a.
coupling pin when he was engaged in
the business of railroading.
Some time since he conceived that he
had fallen heir to eighteen millions of
dollars and had the idea that the money
was being kept from him by his rela-
tives. He got a revolver and gave the
impression that he intended to send
somebody to the other world If he did
not get his wealth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
WHO HIRED THIS MAN
Who Now Runs the Elevator at the
State House.

The new elevator man at the state
house is a person of great Importance
at least, that is the impression under
which he seems to be laborinG, He
gives visitors the idea that he owns
the state house. The elevator is now
run for the convenience of himself and
not for the benefit of the public. Peo-
pie who have been accustomed to the
accommodating ways of the colored boy
who formerly operated the elevator are
considerably taken aback by some of
the orders of the new operator. He
takes on passengers when it pleases
him and let's them off wherever he
thinks they ought to go. Anyone who
ventures to demonstrate is promptly re-
minded that he is running that elevator
and he proposes to run it to suit him
self. Occasionally, if the passenger is
humble enough in his requests, he will
allow him to get off at the floor he
wishes, but more generally he carries
them past floor or two.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28

Japan, and spend the balance of our
days there. In that marvellous land,
the aged and feeble are treated with
such love, veneration and respect that
people look forward to growing old
with pleasant anticipations, instead of
with the terror with which we regard
old age in this country. No old man
is neglected in Japan; no old woman is
sighted or snubbed. They are given
the same tender care and loving solicit
tude that are given the children here.
Who will join a Japan club? Fathers
and mothers who fear neglect and
Sights from children as the years creep
on: will you not join?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
lFrom the Atchison Glohe.1
There are unMritten laws that con

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
There are unwritten laws that COM
nand more respect than written ones.
A young man who has anything else
to do, can very easily find society a
nuisance.
A bald headed barber in a shop al
ways interferes with the sale of hair
restoratiyes.
The gossip that overtakes girl may
usually be traced to her appearance at
store doors, watching for a man to
pass.
+
Men have been living a long time, and
probably the most important thing they
have learned is that some things should
be kept from their wives.
i
When a woman tells a man that he is
the first man who ever kissed her he
likes her better than he likes more
honest women who tell him the truth.
An Atchison man who had a good job,
began a violent Irritation with a woman
who was not as good looking as his
wife, not as young as his wife. and not
as nice a woman in any way. Friends
of the wife complained to the husbands
employers, and he lost job he had been
years in working up to. The greatest
pity is than men haven't better sense.
~
When we get old We intend to go to