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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE.
Holders of Winning icket Must Pre-
sent Them TO-day-Delivery OF
Prizes Closes Tonight.

Prizes Closes Tonight.
To-day will be the last day when the
winners of the Convention hall prizes will
be able to obtain their gifts at the head
quarters at SOC Delaware street. This de-
cision was arrived at by the management
of the hall yesterday for the reason that
almost all Of the gifts which are due Kan
sas Cityans rave been distributed. Thou-
sands of gifts are being sent to out-of-
town winners who have sent their tickets
by letter. ano these will continue to ne
filled until all are exhausted.
There will undoubtedly be thousands of
gifts which will be uncalled for. and it is
the intention of the management to hare
a sale of these probably some time the
latter part of the week. 1t is certain that
little time will now be wasted in getting
rid of everything, and all those who still
have winning tickets should present them
at once.
This sale will be in the line of those
which the express companies have. Every
thing will be wrapped up and will be sold
to the highest bidder. Some will draw
The principal gifts given out yesterday
were: .
". 8. Lucas. Cherokee. Kas.. fancy vest.
Mrs. s. G.. Moss, of Parsons. round trip
ticket to Galveston.
F. ]. Candy, of 2621 East Ninth. combi-
nation bookcase.
7. P. Mcclure. 1884 Jefferson street. grain
drill.
w. c. Ebert. ex-justice of the peace. a
parrot.
Mrs. W. P. Scott. 524 Montgall. $500 pol
icy. Modern Woodmen of sAmerica.
The last order for chairs for Convention
hall was given yesterday to the Aber-
nathy Furniture Company. the order being
for 1900. This will give the hall 1900 NOV
able chairs. The rest of the seating ca
pacity will be cared for by fixed seats.
The girls hat compose the sewing class
at the Attucks colored school, pos East
Eighteenth street. donated a silk quilt that
they had made to the Convention hall stock
of gifts. They are now wondering II theirs
Is the one that was drawn by ticket 152913,
the only one that has been listed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Court Briefs.

The damage suit Of Harry E. Milton
against the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railway was transferred from the circuit
to the federal court yesterday.
Harry lam pleaded guilty before JUS
tice Jenney yesterday to stealing several
dozen pocketknives valued at s.. He was
sentenced to thirty days in Jail.
The poolroom cases of Bliler. Bibbs, Old
ham, Argo and Hoffman. against each Of
whom two charges are pending before JUS
tice Spitz, were continued yesterday by the
state until January 16. The same men have
also several charges. exactly similar.
against them in Justice Ross court.
The cases of Or. B. c. Hyde and Janitor
Carter. of the University Medical college,
who are charged with grave robbing, were
again continued yesterday. Senator Lyon,
attorney for the defendants. is attending
the legislature in Jefferson City and JUS
tice Spitz granted one weeks continuance.
Charles Williams. colored. charged with
stealing a watch from Carrie Cook, also
colored, was sentenced to sixty days in jail
by Justice Spitz yesterday and granted a
stay of execution on the promise that he
would return the watch to its rightful
owner.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
FORGOTTEN SEWER
FOUND UNDER INTERSECTION OF
FIFTEENTH AND WALNUT.
is Fifteen FEET IN DEPTH
MIRACLE THAT DISASTROUS ACCI-
DENT DID NOT OCCUR.
Only a Thin Crust of Concrete and
Asphalt Between the Top of the
Cave and the Heavy Wag-
ons That Passed Along
the Street.
is FIFTEEN FEET IN DEPTH

Superintendent of Streets Sloan has be-
gun his annual inspection of the sewers
of the city. Almost the first result was
a discovery that fairly took away MIR.
Sloan's breath.
He found a cavern. ten feet square and
fifteen feet deep, directly under the inter-
section of Fifteenth and Walnut streets,
the roof of the cavern being the concrete
and asphalt of the pavement. Diverging in
every direction are smaller caverns and
tunnels, whose bottoms consist of liquid
mud varying from two TO ten feet in
depth.
The most remarkable feature in connec-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
READY TO ANSWER CHARGES.
Mrs. Annie HadIette Voluntarily Pre-
SCENTS Herself to the Police, Hear
ing That She Was Wanted.

ing Thai She Wns
Mrs. Annie Hadlette read in The Journal
Sunday that the police of this city had
been requested by the city marshal OF
Perry, o. T., to locate her and secure pos
session of an S-year-old boy whom she has
with her. Yesterday morning she called at
police headquarters and informed Inspector
Halpin that she was ready to surrender to
the proper authorities If she was wanted,
to answer any charge. Mrs. Hadlette came
to Kansas City about two weeks ago and
she is making her home at 14Os Jefferson
street.
She told Inspector Halpin that the boy
whom she brought to this city with her Is
her son and that she Is entitled to possess
sion Of him. She says she separated from
her husband five years ago because he was
cruel to her. He had possession OF their
child from February until November last
year. She then left Perry, taking her child
with her. She declared to Inspector Hal
pin that If there was a warrant out foE>hef
she would willingly go back to Oklahoma
and face her husband in any charges he
might make. The marshal in his letter to
Chief Hayes merely. requested him to Sc.
cure possession of the child. This cannot
be done without a warrant and the police
here will not disturb Mrs. Hadlette unless
a warrant is sent for her.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
HAVE To SLOW DOWN.
Tight Slots Have Caused n Reduction
Of Speed on a Number of the
METROPOLITAN Lines.

of Speed on q Number OF the
metropolitan Lines.
Patrons of Kansas City's street railways
who like to know how far they can travel
in a certain length Of ~time-barring acci-
dents-will be interested in the following
schedule, showing the official rate of speed
for various lines of the Metropolitan COM
pany:
Holmes street, II 1-3 miles an hour.
Fifteenth street and Westport, 10 is
miles.
Walnut street, 81 miles.
Independence avenue, Troost ana East
Ninth street, 10.1 miles.
Main line of the Ninth street system. 81
miles.
East Eighteenth street. 11.6 miles.
Main street, 1912 miles.
West Twelfth street. 9 miles.
Since the trouble with tight slots began
these rates ave been somewhat reduced.
the change amounting perhaps to a difer-
ence of a mile an hour. The regular rate.
however, is well within the limits pre-
miles for some lines and 10 for others.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
SUBJECTS OF GREAT INTEREST
VIII BE Discussed at First Meeting of
the New Year at Commercial
Club Tonight.

the New Year at Commercial
Club Tonight.
The first regular meeting Of the CONNER
cial club for the new year takes place this
evening. ]. K. Durham will read a paper
upon Trade Extension" and George c.
Smith. chairman of the trade extension
committee, will also talk upon the subject,
and will bring up the matter Of an excur-
sion by the club some time this month.
Several objective points for the excursion
have been selected and the meeting will
probably decide whether an excursion will
be taken.
A report upon the Torrens bill, regarding
a system of land transfers. will also prob>
ably be made by II. L. McCune, chairman
of the committee on state and national
legislation.
There will also likely be an Informal dis
cussion of the proposed exposition cele-
brating the centennial, of the. Louisiana
purchase and Kansas City's interest In the
same.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Arrested for Searching.

Harry Grubb. a messenger boy employed
by the Kansas City Messenger Service
Company. was arrested yesterday after
noon by Officer Hamill for riding his wheel
through the streets at a reckless rate
of speed. Young Grub ran down a pedes-
TRAN at the Junction and slightly injured
him. Judge Burnham has been assessing
fines against wheelmen who make a prac-
tice of riding through " streets at a
reckless rate of speed and patrolmen have
Instructions to make arrests for violations
of the ordinances in this respect.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Y. NJ. c. A. Directors Elected.

The annual election of directors of the
Y. NJ. c.. A. yesterday resulted in the Sc
lection Of E. f. Richardson. George w.
Campbell. Professor A. E. Douglass and
b. Cotton. to serve on the board of d.
rectors for three years. The holdover men,
bers of the board are H. NJ. Beardslev,
Albert Marty, John ". Jenkins. John II.
L. E.. Baird. J. J. Swofford. F. W.
w. R. Kendall. c.. H. Kirshner
and E. D. Bigelow. The directors will meet
this evening and elect officers for the en-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Harry Gray Gets Six Months.

Harry Gray, alias Harry Jones, a negro
who broke into the coal office of j. s. FL
gin, at 81 East Fifteenth street. and then
threatened the proprietor. whose unlocked
trunk which was in the office, with leaden
death if he offered any objections. was
sentenced to six months in jail yesterday.
larry, but his offer to plead guilty to petit
larceny was accepted and Justice Spitz
gave him six months in jail.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
AN UNGRATEFUL HUSBAND.
ed After She Had Nursed Him
THROUGH a Serious ulness

If the story of his wife is true. Charles
H. Landcraft. who was arraigned before
Justice Spitz yesterday on a charge of
abandonment, is a very ungrateful hus-
band. Mrs. Landcraft. who is a profess
slonal nurse, says hat about a year ago
her husband was seriously Ill and she nurs-
ed him back to health. whereupon he left
her and their two little children and has
said that the children were placed in an or
phan asylum. but her husbands father has
since taken one of them. Landcraft plead
ed not guilty and his hearing was set for
tomorrow.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
MUST MAKE NEW PLANS.
A. Van Brunt Gave Away
His Old Overcoat and His New
One Has Been Stolen.

Architect A. VanBrunt. who has an Of
fee in the Navajo building, is mourning
the loss of a new overcoat. He has been
wearing out an old coat all season, and yes
terday decided it was about time TO throw
it away n buy a new one, which he did
yesterday morning. Hanging it in his Of
flee. he spent the morning in the work.
room. When leaving the Office at noon he
discovered 1t was gone, and. having given
the old one away, he is now coatless.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
ITS FIRST REPORT.
Indictments Against Eleven Men Are
Returned by the Special
Grand Jury.

The special grand jury in session in the
county Jail building returned eleven tn
dictments yesterday, its first work. 1t will
not make another report until it has ended
its !abors. probably the end of the week.
The indictments returned yesterday were
of q minor nature, most of them being
jail cases. The true bills found were as
follows:
Thomas Jenkins, burglary and grand lar
ceny.
Alfred Taylor. burglary and grand lar
ceny.
Richard Harris, felony.
John Jeter, burglary and grand larceny.
Charles Gray, grand larceny, two counts.
w. Wilcox, obtaining money under false
pretenSes, two counts
Jack Shoemaker, Frank Petty, Bert Is
rael. robbery. first degree.
Two of the Indictments found were
against persons not under arrest, and their
names are withheld from publication.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
SILVERMAN BROS. ASSIGN.
Liabilities Placed at @2O,OOO-They
Have Been in Business for
EIDhfoen yoara

An assignment to James C.. Swift. trustee,
for the benefit of creditors. was made by
SIlverman Bros, of 1217-1219 Main street.
yesterday. The firm, which deals in gro
%ceries, boots and shoes, failed for s9O, 900.
The chief creditors are:
National Bank of Commerce..........$4, 500
Long Bros 2, 800
Ridenour-Baker Grocery Co........, $50
Silverman Bros, Alexander and Samuel,
had been in business in Kansas City for
eighteen years. Until two years ago the
were on Main street, near Sixth.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, the wife of
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, is earning
an enviable reputation as being one of the
most successful entertainers in the capi-
tai. Her husband was temporary chairman
OF the Mckinley convention at ST. Louis,
and IL the president of the Angio-American
dsh commission Mrs. Fairbanks has prov
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
TWO OF Different KINDS.
band and One Still Wanted
Hnr nivorce

The divorce suit Of Charles Owsley
against Hattie Owsley was dismissed in
Judge Slover's court yesterday. Mr.. Ows-
ley's attorney was present and announced
that they had forgiven each other, had
promised not to quarrel any more and had
gone to living together again.
Emelia E. Clarkson's suit for divorce was
dismissed in Judge Henry's court yesterday
under the rule that all docketed cases not
ant, when called. shall be dismissed. Mrs.
Clarkson's attorney rushed into court q lit
tie later and succeeded in getting the case
reinstated. She still wanted the divorce
just as badly as ever, he said, but was not
quite ready for trial yet.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Alleged Burglar. Plead Not Guilty.

Arthur Nelson, Robert N. Reynolds and
Henry s. Stewart. three young men arrest
ed on warrants charging them with burg
larizing the safe Of the Barber Medical
Company last Friday night. were arraign-
ed before Justice Joyce Yesterday. They
pleaded not guilty and will be tried next
Friday. The drawer, which was broken out
of the safe, has been recovered with W
money orders which We're still in it.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

a aayii t n ~in ma. Sobh. a ! soma 10 rain G ci9n1sii S an1,
nor says that the probability is against it.
There will be slight change in the tempera-
ture.
The hourly readings of the thermometer
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
VIII Build Ice House in Memphis.

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal of jan
uary s say a Kansas City syndicate has
purchased a site there and will build an
artificial leo plant. with a capacity of forty
tons per day. Ice retailed III Memphis last
year at IS per ton and was sold at whole
point.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

other fund. Several members of the coun-
Gil have gone on exploring expeditions in
the broken sewer and all are of the opinion
that 1t was little less than a miracle that
a terrible accident had not occurred before
the break was discovered.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Cloudy and Possibly Rain.
1t didn't know whether to rain or no
yesterday, although 1t was q good bet a,

least half q dozen
times during the day
that there would be
a downpour. But it
held off, and there
a pretty even
thing Of 1t all day
The tempera-
tire rose somewhat,
and it was disagree
''muggy' dur
the afternoon.
1t will be very
fla ca~
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
Half a Day Saved
PEOPLE IN SOCIETY.

BY the California Limited, Santa Fe Route,
Is lays Kansas City to Los Angeles,
New feature this season.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

a hostess she is %nonpareil. She is a really
brilliant converser. and is SO blessed with
tact and genuine kindness of heart that her
entertainments are sought by everyone.
Her dinners are already famous. and. as
she gives at least a half dozen of them
during the term, she will undoubtedly be
the most popular of senatorial wives.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

of Miss Ethel Agnes Smith during the holi-
days. has returned to her home in st.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Wedding and reception invitations engraved in cor.
rect form. Send for samples. Jaccard's. 1892 Main.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, of
Topeka, will attend the Kansas City Club
reception Friday evening.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10
LOOK FOR IMMENSE BUSINESS
Prospects for Current Year With Lo.
cal Business Houses Are Better

Kansas City jobbers confidently look for
a greater business this year than even the
extraordinary good showing made in 1893.
Manager Swan. of Bradstreet's. said to
a reporter for The Journal, yesterday:
There is not a cloud upon the business
horizon. Everything points to al immense
business for the year"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Drake and children
and the Misses May and Ruth Washburn,
Orleans. where they will sail for Progresso,
Yucatan,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Miss Margaret Summers is visiting in s
Louis.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Miss Arlie Stephens is at home after a
visit to Miss Rufina Mcdonald in st. Jo-
seph.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Mrs. st. Clair Street, has returned from
st. Joseph, where she visited her mother.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02

THE anthracite trade is being kept
in good shape by the producing in.
terests, and while there is little to
say of activity at this time, the main
thing of holding the product within
the demand is being attended to in a
manner which indicates better condi.
tions for this trade than we have
been able TO record in some years
says this weeks issue of Saward's
Coal Trade Journal. 1t is not at all
likely that we shall have any great
activity in this line Of trade until
after about six weeks have passed
away, but thereafter we do look for
about as good a condition OF affairs
as any one might wish for. We fancy
that there is going to be as full fall
trade as In former years for this favor
ite domestic fuel, and it is natural to
expect that the returns therefrom
win be in excess Of what was the case
during the fall of '98 This is likely
to be the case from the frmness with
which the supply is held.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

A 100000 monument to Admiral
Dewey is to be erected in Lincoln park,
Chicago.
Governor Jones, OF Arkansas, an
nounces himself a candidate for United
States senator.
John Lind, a Chicago coal dealer,
and his 4-monthsrold son were killed
by vicious horse.
The bimetallic convention AZ Louis
vile endorsed the Chicago platform
and William j. Bryan.
Lefty Baker, young woman of Lex
ington, KY, has become insane as q
result of faith cure teaching.
At Little Current, Ont, a boat con-
tanning Fred Willis, his wife, two chill
dren and John Griffith capsized, drown
ing Willis and both children.
It is stated that the Chicago health
department will insist upon every one
being treated by Christian scientists
10 have medical attendance also.
The German government has not
lodged a protest against the sending
of the cruiser Newark to Samoa to
take the place Of the Philadelphia
In his last will and testament Sam
T. Jack, the dead theatrical manager,
willed HIS wife to his brother, James
C. Jack, urging that they become hus-
band and wife.
Mrs, S. Jewett Of Toronto Junction,
Ont, killed her 6-months-old baby with
an ak and then drowned herself In q
small creek near by. Temporary in
sanity was the cause.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02

THOSE Democratic editors who pro-
fess to be greatly shocked because of
President McKinley's recent order
taking out of the classified list about
1900 government employees, most of
whom are private secretaries and
confidential clerks to the heads of de-
partments, forget the action of one
Grover Cleveland. He turned the
Republicans out, and put the Demo
Gratis in, and the present administra-
tion is afraid to undo the wrong.
Even if it has the inclination it has
not the nerve. When Cleveland
found that his party was cleaned out
in the McKinley-Bryan contest in
1896, he made haste to save the thous-
ands of Democrats he had placed in
Office by spreading the civil service
blanket over every Office in sight,
from the confidential chief clerk and
private secretary down to the scrub
woman and coal passer. 1t was a
clean sweep. A good deal of a hum
bug was Grover, but it cannot be said
of him that he lacked nerve
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02
THE rRANsyAAL DEFIANT.
The African Republics Curt Answe
Co a British Protest.

The African Republics Curt Answer
Go a British Protest.
Bloemfontein Orange Free State,
June 2.-Among the most important
points that President Paul Kruger of
the Transvaal republic, and Sir Alfred
Miner, governor of Cape Colony and
British high commissioner for South
Africa, will have to discuss at their
conference here in regard to the de-
mands of the Outlanders will be the
question of the dynamite monopoly,
under which the Outlanders are groan-
ing, and which the British secretary
of state for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain, has used his utmost en-
deavors to remedy. But blue book
on the subject, issued last night, shows
that matters in this connection have
practically reached a deadlock.
The blue book opens with a letter
from Mr.. Chamberlain, dated Jan. 13,
reviewing the whole question and pro
testing that the monopoly was incon-
sistent with the London convention.
To this the Transvaal government re-
piled, under date of March 8, con-
troverting the arguments of Mr.. Cham
berlain and stating that her majesty's
government was not entitled to a pro-
test.
Mr.. Chamberlain on April 21, how
ever, renewed the British protest, adj
ding that her majestys government re-
serves its rights. In answer to this
the Transvaal government replied OIL
May %, with two curt sentences, to
the effect that it abided with the view
expressed in its communication OF
March 8.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02
Burdock Blood Bitters makes pure blood
Tones and nvigorates the whole system.
Extension of Excursion Tickets

Beginning June 1 the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will extend the limit on ex
cursion tickets to the Southern New Jersey
seashore resorts from ten days to fifteen days
including date of sale. This extension coyers
Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea
Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Anglesea,
Holly Beach, Wildwood, Somers' Point, and
all other resorts on the South Jersey coast
reacked via the West Jersey & Seashore Rail.
road, and applies to tickets from Philadel
phia, Wilmington, Harrisburg, WilliamspOrt
Elmira. Wilkesbarre, Pottsville, keading
Phillipsburg, New York and intermediate
stations
This extension of limit, covering the usual
two weeks summer vacation will no doubt
receive the hearty approval of busin IS men,
and others filling clerical positions.
The limit ON excursion tickets reading
from any of the above seashore points to
Philadelphia will also be extended from ten
DAYS to fifteen days.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-02

A READER of the New York Sun
submits for an answer the following
questions 'Is sugar lower or higher
in price since organization of trust
Have the employees had their wages
raised or reduced Are there more
or less men employed ~ The editor
of the Sun, in reply, says the average
price of granulated sugar for the
nine years previous to the formation
of the Sugar Trust was 1905 cents.
The average price for the nine years
following the organization of the
trust was 5.272 cents. The Secretary
of the American Sugar Refining
Company says that wages have re.
manned about the same, and that the
number of employees has largely in.
creased. This increase in the number
of employees is due to the large in,
crease in the sugar refining business.