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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
POSITIVE PIRACY.
Prof. William James of Harvard
Severely Censures the
President.

Boston, March s.-Prof. William James
of Harvard college, in a signed article
says:
''Our treatment of the AguinaIdo move
ment at Manila and at Iloilo is piracy,
positive and absolute, and the American
people appear as pirates pure and simple.
Here was a leader who, as the Spanish
lies about him drop off, appears as an
exceptionally fine specimen of the patriot
and national hero; not only daring, but
honest; not only fighter, but a governor
and organizer of extraordinary power
The inhuman callouSneSS and insult
shown at Paris and Washington to the
officially delegated mOuthpieces of the
wants and claims of the FflipinOS seem
simply abominable from any moral point
of view.
'.All the while there was horribly sus-
picious look about the performance. On
Its face it reeked of the internal adroit-
ness Of the great department store, which
has reached perfect EXPERIENCES in the art
of killing silently and with no public
squealing or commotion the neighboring
small concerns.
1T is bad, brutal piracy, Impossible to
dish up any longer in the cold pot grease
of President McKinley'S cant at the re-
cent Boston banquet-surely as shamefully
evasive a speech as can often have fallen
even from a professional politicians
Inns"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
KILLED BY SNOW PLOW.
Body Chopped up and strewn Along
the Track.

Laramie, Wyo., March 6.-Two section
men were found dead near Lookout, SO
miles west of Laramie, having been kill
ed by a snow pillow.
One body was badly crushed, but not
dismembered, and when brought to
Laramie by the coroner, was identified
Joseph Osborne of Virginia Dale. Pa
pers found on the body bore the name
of ]. H. Hayford of Laramie. The boy
had been given some clothes by Mrs.
Hayford. 1t was at first believed that
it was Mrs. Hayford's son.
The other body was torn all to pieces,
the remains being strung along the
track for three miles, and Identification
was impossible.
1t is believed that the rotary snow
pillow struck them and the swiftly fly
ing wheel chopped the body up into
the skull and other pieces were found
along the track
An inquest viii he held tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
TORNADO
Passes Over Two Counties in
Tennessee
Killing Three Persons and In
juring Many Others.
HOUSES DESTROYED
DESTROYED
HOUSES
And Great Damage Done to
Orchards and Crops.
Wires All Down and COmmuni-
cation Shut OFF.

Athens, Tenn, March ga terrific
tornado passed over portion of Madi-
sonville and Monroe county last night
with disastrous results. Early in the
evening a strong wind arose and sew
eral hours later tornado about seventy
yards wide struck a portion of Madi-
sonville, killing three persons, wounding
ten or twelve others and completely de-
stroying twelve or fifteen houses and
several barns. The killed are:
MIR. AND MRS. JACK MOSER-
ED. L. HORTON.
The wounded are Miss Willie IRVINE,
Miss Della Mason, Mrs. E. L. Horton.
Mrs. l.. A. Robinson, Mr.. L. A. Robin
son, Hobert Robinson, Miss Rodgers,
Mr.. Moser, Prof Charles Kelly.
The Horton and Robinson residences
are both complete wrecks, not one tim
Der being left above another on the
foundations. The escape of the inmates
of these two houses, eight in the Hor-
ton and three in the Robinson, seems
miraculous, some of them being blown
a distance of a hundred yards, yet es-
Gaping in some cases without a scratch.
w. F. Ervine's residence had one end
torn away; Dillon Rogers residence is
almost wrecked; Erskine Lowry's resi-
dence moved a distance of ten feet and
was almost wrenched out of shape.
Telephone and telegraph wires are
off.
The storm came up with alarming
suddenness and swept everything in its
path. 1t was accompanied by the ter
rife roar usually attending cyclones.
Frightened inhabitants rushed for their
cellars and places of safety. In the
country great damage was done to
orchards and crops by the wind and
hail. 1t is reported that further cas-
ualties resulted in outlying rural dis
trio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
NEW ABOUT JUPITER.
Prof Hough Believes the Planet Ro-
tates in Separate Envelopes.

Chicago, March 6.-Prof. George w
Hough, the astronomer at the Dearporn
observatory in Evanston, has made public
a new discovery in regard to the surface
rotations of the planet Jupiter, Whlcn Is
completely at variance with the existing
belief. 1t is the general tenet Of astron-
OmerS and the statements are embodied In
the most recent text books on the science,
that the surface rotation OF the planet
Jupiter is similar to that of the sun. be-
ing quicker near the equator and slower
in the highest ATTITUDES near the poles.
Basing his conclusion upon long rec
ord of observations extending over 20
years and which he has just completed.
Prof. Hough announces his belief that the
surface of the planet Jupiter rotates upon
it's axis in separate envelopes or strata.
spots shift in longitude, as well as having
a rotary movement, and this also sup
ports the ring or strata theory, eVidencing
the great instability of the surface and
strengthening Prof. Hough's belief OF
or plastic state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
MISSOURI TOUCHY
On the Subject of Train Robbery IN
That State.

Chicago March 6.-The Tribune wired
Prosecuting Attorney James A. Reed Of
jackson county, Mo-, asking for a state
ment regarding the recent dismissal of
the cases against the train robbers who
have been doing booming business in and
around Kansas City. Here is his answer:
Kansas City, Mo-, March 5.-Editor of
the Tribune: The train robbery cases were
dismissed because the state unable
to secure the conviction of Jesse James,
against whom stronger evidence existed
than could be produced against those who
were jointly charged with him. Missour
is one of the few states which has pre-
berry, and her citizens and lawmakers are
as much opposed to the commission OF
crime as those of any other common
wealth. So long as Chicago, the moral
center. of Illinois, permits the manufac-
Kansas City and Missouri may endure
even an aggravated case of train robbing-
JAMES A. REED,
Prosecuting Attorney. Jackson County.
Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
COWARDLY AGONCILLO.
Passengers on Steamer Labrador De-
scribe the Filipino's Conduct
on the Wreck.

London, March 6.-Passengers on the
wrecked steamer Labrador returning
from Skerryvore concur in the stories
of the cowardly conduct of Agoncillo
When the ship struck he rushed from
one part of the vessel to the other
frantically carrying part of his neither
attire over his arms. While on the deck
among the other passengers going into
the third boat he kept such a firm hold
on Captain Erskine's arm he almost
pulled the captain of the vessel into the
sea. During the voyage at the table he
was difficult to please, and often re-
ferred to the sameness of the fare. IT
guess" said a passenger. che got a
change of fare at the Skerryvore When
the talk turned on his mission to
Europe he only conceded he was having
a holiday"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
WAS "THEATRICAL."
Frank Vrooman Accuses Capt "Jack"
Crawford of Being SillY.-Strange!

Chicago, March 6.-More of the in
side history of the KIondike, Yukon
and Copper River company was re-
vealed at the adjourned annual meet
ing, held in the rooms of the company
on the tenth floor of the Stock Exchange
building today. President Frank B.
Vrooman, who left the pulpit to pro-
mote the mining company, presided at
the meeting.
The additional information respected
the prospecting trip of Capt. Jack
Crawford, who set out for the Klon-
dixie last April to develop the properties
of the company. Mr.. Wallace read a
long letter from the poet-scout. claim
ing that-he had been neglected by Pres
ident VrooTnan, his help had deserted
him and helwas left stranded at Daw-
son City. Re claimed to have received
So. 200 and expended SO, 900 in the inter-
ests Of the company, and discovered
that many of the company'S claims
were on papet, and that the few claims
it did own had been jumped during the
preceding season.
President Vrooman read a letter from
DR.. T. Orville Wilkinson, who accom-
panied Crawford, accusing the poet
scout of advertising himself in the
klondike and neglecting the business of
the company He said Crawford had
domineered over his associates and
forced them to leave him and had sold
the company's stores. He said that
when Crawford heard of Dewey's vic
tory he built six scows on Lake Ben
nett, named them after the ships at
Manila, painted them white and dec
GRATED them with flags and paraded the
glory of American arms about the lake,
while other prOSpeCtOrS had pushed for
ward and secured and worked claims.
Winter caught Crawford before he had
attempted to develop the company's
properties.
Some of the members of the company
blamed Vrooman for having placed a
crack-brained, long-haired "poet-scout
at the head of a business venture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
TURN OUT OF SCHOOL AT 80
Rev. Clarence Simonton Expelled
From Lombard for Boyish Franks.

Galesburg, Ill, March 6-Rev. CIar-
ence Simonton, aged 80 years, a student
of Lombard university divinity school,
has been expelled on a charge of being
a ringleader in a series of mysterious
pranks which during the month past
have greatly annoyed the faculty Beer
signs have been suspended on the col
aege buildings, seats carried out bon
fires lighted and other things done that
the faculty claimed were tn1uring the
name Of the college.
few nights ago, at the banquet to
Professor Parker, a quantity Of the eat
ables were hIched. Simonton was con-
nectad with this and admitted his COM
pNcaay, but denied he tnstigated the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
WANT "REBEL" TO STAY.
Santa Fe Citizens Object to Removal
of the Word From a Monument

Santa Fe N. NJ, March 6.-Citizens of
the. enactment of the bill providing for
eli elision of the word rebel from the pub
legislatures of 1856. 1867 and 1858. in com
memoration of the victory OF the Union
forces. 1t is urged that to make the
change would be mutilation and sacrilege.
and a violation of history, and the preVa-
lence of such a policy would result in de-
molishing the most cherished mementos
and relics of the civil war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
New Models.

other mischief The faculty ascertained
that his room had been a rendezvous
for younger students.
Simonton is popular and there is talk
of the students petitioning the faculty
to reinstate him. 1t is understood that
President Nash will ask the UniVerSaliSt
convention to revoke Simonton's license
to preach and to refuse him further
financial aid on the ground that Simon
toms influence is Injurious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-06
MEXICO GROWS MODERN.
A Denver Tourists Impression-opals
Cents a Quart.

Denver March Ct. E. Fisher, gen.
eral passenger agent for the Colorado
& Southern, returned yesterday from
an extended tour of Old Mexico.
He was a member of a large party
who made the trip in a specially equip
ped train Of palace cars. Eighteen of
the party were from the west. They
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
The Strikes Are MuIflnIvinr

If there hundreds of thousands of men out Of
work. laborers drug in the market and
times hard and money would not
appear continuously the daily papers
is the increasing number of untitled the fac
the stnted supply OF help the farm which warrants
labor in demanding better pay and in many instances,
shorter hours With the greater consumption that comes
improved times there is less competition along the lines
of the handcrafsman and every day worker whether
in shop Office store field factory When consumption
has slackened and demand the manufacturer
is glad Of the strike which permits in closing I'D 70
stop expenses and reduce the his losses So the
strike is the evidence and of times If not OF
prosperity and satisfaction upon part Of him who Is
maintaining strike. for while labor as whole
personal sacrifice himself family And so the pub
lie sympahiEes with the striker and will
fees to aid him in his boycott permit officials
TO interfere when life property eopardized
While in the reaction which always seems sure 70 follow
flush times labor gets the of IT, logically in good
times should have the it. and that is the spirit
which evidently inspires the strike strike however is
not always justified They often nstgated by med
desome men who only work their jaws While there is
nothing in sight the trust inevitable COLLAPSE
threatening prosperity country with an ennr
IN crash stll, a sudden and of unex
pected incidents combined singiy The promoters Of
claiming comprehension of the limits Of
consumption that reproduction iniucal ana dan
ignore the that the an over
nsductiOn in that its interests shares are
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
Along the Kansas Nile,

! J. r. Burton says that the Democratic
| ticket in 1900 will be Bryan and Aguinaldo
Possibly Bryan will run on 1s to /. and
| Aguinaldo will keep right on running or
the territory In front Of the American
| troops.
| It is a Kansas legend that annually al
! this season Queen Victoria PAGES up and
down the ancestral halls of Windsor cas-
tie demanding angrily to know II heI
regular supply Of Leavenworth. Kansas
| apples have arrived yet
| Every Kansan has one plain duty. The
state - prosperous. Money Is Plentiful
| The prosperity will not go on forever
| Times will get hard again. and the Kan
sas man who does not begin saving now
| Will suffer because be does not.
Governor stanley's reward for the con-
| viction Of felony Of any Klondike joint
| Ist Is not being taken up. IT Is said to be
| regarded as impossible to find a jury in
lLeavenworth who would send a man to
the penitentiary for selling LIQUOR.
George Martin says that the National
Editorial association has reached the level
OF travelling fake. He says that in is
recent trip to the Pacific coast the rail-
roads were 50 over-burdened that some
Of the officials resolved never 10 haul
editors again
r. D. Columns damaging statement that
wichita had lost largely in population
was published everywhere. His corTsc-
ton that Wichita has gained 1,3S5-whO f.
publishing thsf7 You won't find IL In
the Topeka, the Kansas City. the Leay-
enworth or AtchIson papers.
The county commissioners Of Edwards
county. at their July meeting. paid out
$50 bounty for coyote scalps 81 81 per
scalp. This 81 at the rate Of x.4so scaips
year. 10 is charged that many Of the
coyotes were killed IN other counties and
Edwards county made TO foot the BIT.
TIE Kansas City Times Correspondent
at San Franeiseo says that nearly ever
one Of the Kansas boys who have 30 far
returned from the Philippines are anti
expa1siOniSts- But walt Gil they get their
hides full Of Kansas corn bread and .
whole lot Of them vii be sighting % go
back and get at Il again
Speaking of the snub Canada has put
upon the Kansas editors. George MARTA.
Of Kansas City. says: ''The hxzls IL The
result OF the most indifferent and con-
temptuous treatment OF their own rfoDo-
sltion BY Canadian officials. TseT sought
u and not moving for a couple Of weeks,
taey came after a. again
Al Joio. Jolo Island. PAill1psas arch
pesaeo. II J. ". Massage Of Kansas re
Il g regular. writing 20 w 81 GJezs Of
TrShuns be says: There are no women
here except the wives % thOse Chfsess
aed they never eosna cut OF even down
stairs TIE sultan has haren q 10 O.
more wives. He lives on azo;hsr part
os The island and We have Fever H@ss
bin"
J. G. johnson aad Mack Love have AZ
tempted . settle young BrOWa ~ repsOv-
ing hin for trJing 20 set % a. 0rssniza-
aSon without eonszittag 0Hck. WsGeessf.
Oxermyer and the 49, Bat Brown vii
70 F1ght ahead Ths DemscFet1e party -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
The Blind Policy Of the Boycott.
reap com

The aspect Of the boycott growing the street rail-
strike at Cleveland Ohio. becoming serious Mer
chants browbeaten others
unions attempt to fghten doctor from attendance
on the dying daughter of was IN
famous Such incidents boycotts odous which
feeling w in reactng against strikers them their
cause. The merchant who down boycott by
fusing to sell his goods any whom the strikers
object Is cutting OF his The strikers In
succeeding good such merchants Of
The person boycotted by such refusal
spirit patronizlng merchant refused
goods such a pretext the would
his patronage, send many miles for wanted and
put up inconvenience. Such merchants in
losing their best customers and profitable trade will
fail, whether the strike succeeds not When
to pass any organization party order shall have
the to prescribe who sell and buy and not
individual becomes mockery OF strike can clase
out individual. firm, company ana cripple q
orty corporations municipal corporations organized
serving general public enlist selfish inter-
ests Of such public Until boycott be legazed and
sustained by law it cannot be made eectua If
point anarchy and no need.of
law. The idea underlying strike the
it that nobody shall job
up only peril his life the imminent
property of the pale
of entitled sympathy or legal recog
nition
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08

'The receipt for chggers" Charley Finch, he
wggles around to scratch in place after going
to picnic in Bismarck Grove, us fake. It consists of
mixture of and camphor It is that chigger
will go his hold until cream, but he goes
back to his work with renewed vigor camphor
only to him to go little deeper
the unpleasant odor The only get chigger
is to dig for him."
The Jewell Republican speaking Of the kissing bug and
the chigger that somebody told Emerson that
carboic acid would kill chiggers. got bottle
before going to bed night touched to each
of the several dozen chgges that helping
to the legs that he had always thought belonged him.
1t burned like all fire. but Emerson thought
in minute After he went to bed It got
better. He rolled and cussed stand It no
longer; then he up and lit the lamp what he
At every place where the stuff him was
big white blister just the size shape cork The
chiggers were too dead to skin.
To encompass the death OF this enemy which takes
refuge beneath the epidermis of its victim painless
task, whether digging acids resorted to- But the
more perpexng problem is how to restore condi
lions the adjacent tissues surrounding chiggers
corpse There are good many people world who
think they know ALL but yet meet the pro-
fessed scientist who explain wisdom or utility Of
the hea the fly the kissing bug the other bug the mos
quito or that pestilential beast, the chigger
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
A Ticket fn Vote Straight.

the duty every Republican in sedgwick county
to the Republican county ticket nominated Saturday
straight to urge his friends to vote it straight.
The convention Saturday a congregation Of rep
resenting sentiment conviction. and not and
mems aspirations.
That sentiment and conviction patriotic belief in
the everlasting glory flag faith the golden
tiny Of the American nation determination that
the American retire before foe its
standard come down before a difficult situation.
The absence Saturday fixing Of trickery,
divisions and n-feeing due to the over
whelmng domination Of this sentiment ticket
put up representation this sentiment. The
which every Republican endorses
vote that ticket. not part of it. but all of it
mixed result this fall Is an endorsement copper
single you your friend trends
1t is your duty to yourself and
vctiOns and your nation unqualifedly by
ticket, which for the flag, world wherever
American American vaIor have planted it. The
opposition ticket by Judge invites you to
against It, If you believe platform on which
Its platform pledges
for and work for the sentiments 1t enuneiates.
men the Republicans nominated are competent
by sentiments which fill you
your friends your duty by ticket
specious arguments that the men on
the Republican ticket competent the men
the aggregation statement is not
The Republican up of stronger men in
particular than those comprising the Demo-pop
ticket No stronger ever nominated in sedgwck
county than Balderston Boone Charles Sim
John Chain A. S. Marble, Marion Edwards, NJ NJ
McCallster and r. H. Mundevello.
Every man among them is capable honest and trust
worthy and above ali and qualifications they
stand for patriotic belief glory of America the
glory Of her institutions the glory of her glory
of her destiny.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-08
DaiIy agile
NM. mURDOCK, Editor.
Correction.

Correction.
F. D. cOburn secretary Of the Kansas department Of
agriculture. has issued the following slip:
In q table Of city populations published few days
sInee wichita by misPriut shown
having population when the Ocal Of
eOunty clerk record increase In the
year lam glad 60 make the cOrrectiOu
City papers and their newspaper following
which published prominently wlchitas alleged shrinkage,
publish correction at ALL IL they do will
hide bottom of column. 1t is not in Secretary
Coburns power to anything els although his pull
must be considerable for he anes Missouri
papers the hurt Of Kansas papers.
The original msprint deliberate comment that
Wichita TWENTY-FIVE which had lost popu
IatiOn viii stand as fact in the Of Kansans
wichita has received anything but injustice from the
hands Of Citycontroed Topeka ocals who pass
pampered Immediately upon induction into office to
active partisans railroads their eternal
effort dwarf and cripple wichita
city expects Justice and no remedy Of injustice
this source continued to thrive in
spite OF City Influences and doesn't consider the
matter sufficient consequence send and keep man at
Topeka watch for wichtas interest for misprints or
Misrepresentation to wichitas injury
Wichita continues to grow on spite of railroad and
City against her at Topeka and
gained population in the last year
more any city Of Kansas One addi
ton in Wichita city, and yet Wichita
gained PSI Of the which now TO
stand corrected and unpublished this is exceeded
only by Topeka that city being put down with gain OF
214 gain which not caused by growth as was WITCH
ita's. but by the annexation of suburb, Potwin-