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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
HE SCORES KIPLING.
A Pastors Fellows in the Syracuse
Association Protest in Vain.

Syracuse, March 20.-At the meeting
of the Syracuse Ministers association,
Saturday, the Rev. DR.. James =. Ken
yon, president of the Syracuse Browning
club, and pastor of the University Ave-
nue. Methodist Episcopal church, said:
'Kipling makes me tired; I would like
to have a rest from his silly nonsense.
He has no qualities of a writer"
Before the words were out of the
speakers mouth half dozen ministers
were on their feet to defend the sick
author.
Il stand by my statement most en-
phatically," Mr.. Kenyon reiterated.
MANY of Kipling's works are not worth
reading. None have any literary merit.
They are below the average of many
contributions of the daily newspapers"
Several ministers demanded holly
that for the sake of harmony DR.. Ken
yon take back his most offensive state
ments.
Il will retract nothing he Numbered.
''To be specific. Kipling's jungle stories
and barrack odes are disgusting produc-
tions. The man who wrote the Recess
SionaP is a heathen.''
The Syracuse Browning club, of which
DR.. Kenyon is president, is the most
prominent literary organization in this
part of the state. 1t is learned, aristo-
cratic and exclusive. DR.. Kenyon'S
statements concerning Kipling have
turned it upside down. Many of the
members take sides with him; others
are radically on the other side.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
THIRTY YEARS A HERMIT.
Samuel Folcome, Who Lost All in a
Tidal Wave, Visits Austin, Tex.

Austin. Tex, March 2O.-Samuel J. Fol
known the '.Indianola Hermit" who
for something over a quarter of a century
has lived alone in a rock house located on
the summit of one of the highest hills in
this county. sixteen miles northwest of
here. visited this city few days ago for
the first time since he went into the life
of secluSiOn.
He looked at the electric cars in wonder
ment. but he said nothing to indicate his
surprise. For many years he was prom
inent and prosperous citizens of Indianola,
Tex, during the time that town was an
important Gulf port of this state. He had
a beautiful wife and four children. The
great tidal wave which swept that town
years ago not only destroytN all of his
property, but also brought watery graves
his wife and children. When Mr.. Fol-
come learned of his terrible loss he wan
dered about distra cted. and finally reach
ed the high hill where he now lives. He
seemed possessed with the idea that he
could escape another tidal wave by build
ing his home elevated ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
SIMPSON. ENTERS DENIAL.
Declares He Is Not Writing a Book
Entitled eff the Devil Came
to Congress"

Medicine Lodge, Kan, March 20.-There
is a well-defined rumor in the east, and
here as well, that ex-Congressrnan Jerry
Simpson is preparing a sensational pOliti-
cal book which will shortly be issued.
Mr.. Simpson was in town today from
his ranch and was asked by correspond
ent if it were true that he was preparing
such book.
Book says-in Job, believe-about writ
ing works.
The interviewer confessed ignorance.
oh that mine enemy would write
book, - quoted Mr.. Simpson. Continuing,
he said: That's the way with the fellows
who have it in for me pOlitica1ly-they
want me to write book that might kill
me-Something like Howard of Alabama,
who wrote about Christ Coming to Con-
gress.'
Then you are not engaged in. writing
II certainly shall write no such work as
I understand the fasteners are talking
about my doing said Mr.. Simpson.
However" he continued, sit is a fact
that 1 am to get up a series of letters for
an eastern syndicate on My Observa-
lions and Experiences in Politics. or
something like that. 1 shall perhaps tell
a few things in those letters which will
be interesting. but L should prefer to say
nothing farther about it yet"
when will you commence this series of
letters?"
fright away. In fact, I have already
commenced
This is all the information that can be
obtained from the eX-congreSSman the
story that he is working on a book to be
called, IF the Devil Came to Congress-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
GENUINE ORANG-OUTANG.
Manager Bostock, of the Kansas City
Zoo, is Returning From Europe
With One.

Kansas City, March 20-What is said to
be the only genuine orang-Outang ever
brought to the United States is now on it's
way to this city for exhibition in the Zoo.
1t was procured in England by Manager
Frank Bostock, who wired from Buffalo
yesterday that his charge was in excellent
spirits and fine fettle.
Captain Maitland of the Zoo says the
animal eats, drinks, dresses. sleeps and
acts like a human being. and writes with
a pencil hieroglyphics for which an inter-
prefer can only be found in the jungles of
Ceylon.
The genuine orang-outang has his home
in a treetOp. The habitat ton is matched,
ventilated and surrounded with comforts.
He is desperate fighter, a dOting hus-
band and a Watchful father. His intelli-
gence is remarkable. Many chimpanzees
have been exhibited in the United States
as orang-outangs, but there is as much
difference between them there is be-
tween the African gorilla and the ordinary
monkey of commerce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
GROWING AMERICA.
Her Exports Exceeded Those of Great
Britain Last Year For the
First Time

Washington, March 2O.-Ambassador
ChOate's recent remark that the United
States and the United Kingdom would
doubtless continue a friendly rivalry in
regard to the worlds commerce is quite
justified by the latest figures on the
commerce of the two countries as sup
piled by the treasury bureau of sta
tistics. These show that the exports
of domestic merchandise from the
United States in the eight months end
ing with February amount to SS2S, 1886, 141
and those of the United Kingdom
amount to $79S, $50, 427. In the calendar
year 1898 the domestic exports from the
United States amounted to 81, 233, 564, 1928,
while those of the United Kingdom
amounted to 81, 131, 944, 331. The year 1898
was the first in which the domestic ex-
ports from the United States exceeded
the domestic exports from the United
Kingdom. On only two occasions prior
to 1898 have the domestic exports of the
United States exceeded a billion dollars
while those of the United Kingdom have
constantly exceeded a billion dollars
during the past twenty years. The
latest year in which her exports of do
nestle merchandise fell below the bill
lion dollar line was 1879, when they
own exports of domestic merchandise
amounted to 1854, $50, 755. Thus, in the
twenty years since 1879, the figures
show an increase of but p per cent in
the domestic exports of the United
Kingdom and of 63 per cent in those of
the United States, apparently quite JUS
tifying Ambassador Choate's assertion
that the United States would continue
to be a rival, though a friendly one, of
the United Kingdom in its relations
with the commercial world.
That the rivalry has been and is a
friendly one. even to the extent of cor
diality, is shown by the fact that de-
spite our rapid increase in the supplies
which we are offering to the markets
| of the world, Great Britain continues
| to take a proportionate share of that
| increase. Our exports of domestic mer-
chandise to the United Kingdom in 1879
| amounted to $346, 4S5, SS1, and in 1898
4 were 1854, 1893. 302, an increase of "a per
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
Forming a Peanut Trust

Norfolk, Va, March 20.-The COM
bination of the peanut factories in a
trust which comprises $5,000,000 will
in thirty to sixty days. Charles E. w.
Smith, of New York, representing east
ern capitalists. has secured options upon
80 per cent of the factories preparing
for market the peanut product of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina. An expert
accountant is now in Norfolk examining
the books of the factories. The plan of
the projectors is to issue s., 000, 900 of
preferred and SO, 900, 900 of common
stock. This is declared to be under
written. and 81, 600 600 in cash to be i'm
mediately available. The trust will be
known as the American Edible Nut
company. There are factories in Gin
cinnati and Evansville, Ind, and these
are understood to be included in the
combination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
FRAUD IS ALLEGED.
Bourbon County Ranch of 1,ooo1A Acres
in Dispute.

Fort Scott, March 20-County Attor-
ney Sheppard this afternoon filed an
ejectment suit in the district court that
valuable tracts of land in Bourbon
county, namely, the old Criley ranch
of /, 900 acres near Hepler that recently
sold for $25, 000 He seeks to eject the
present tenants and recover possession
for an insane woman who originally
owned it and whose guardian claims
that she never signed the deed which
purported to convey it from her posses
sion.
The plaintiff is Annie Anthony of
Clinton Ia, guardian of Deborah Dris-
coll. who, according to the petition, has
been in an insane asylum for more than
eighteen years. The defendants are G..
E. Whitman of Hepler, agent for the
land; P. P. Orr and w. G. Orr, tenants,
and the unknown heirs of Charles H.
Peterson, who died last year somewhere
in Illinois. The land belongs to the
Peterson estate
The petition alleges that on Septem-
Der 3, 1880, Geo. w. and Mary r. Hutch
inson decided the land to Deborah Dris-
COLL who owned it in her name at the
time she was declared insane in Oconto
county, Wisconsin, on December z, 1888;
that on May 90, 1894, a deed was filed
in this county purporting to have been
executed in OcOnto county, Wisconsin,
by Deborah Driscoll and her husband,
and purpOrting to convey the land to
Lee R. and Jennie 1. Heilman; that as a
matter of fact Mrs. DriscOn never
signed the deed; that she was insane
and in the insane asylum at Independ-
of the deed in Oconto county, Wiscon-
Si
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
SIX LIVING GENERATIONS.
Grandmother Medaris, of Indiana, Has
a Great t-Great- Grandson.

Martinsvflle. Ind, March 20.-There was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Beeler at Friends
wood, north of here. on March 10, son,
who is the representative of the six liv-
ing. general lions of the Grandmother Ne
dariS family.
The two older genera tions are represent
ed by women-CirandmOthe Medaris of
Brooklyn, aged 100 years. June "a 1898, and
by her two daughters. aged II and 20 years.
She has thirty grandchildren, eighty-two
grea t-grandchildren. fifteen grea t-great-
grandchildren and one great-grea t-great-
grandson. OF whom she is very proud
When Mrs MedarfS sees this boy she will
have seen. to her distinct memory, nine
genera lions of her own family, she re-
members her father. grandfather and
great grandfather She now wishes to
live until next year, that she may claim to
have lived in three centuries. She is still
able to be about her house and talks. read
lily and intelligently,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
PATRICK WALSH DEAD.
Was Editor, Politician, and One of the
South's Great Men.

Augusta, Ga, March Fitzpatrick
Walsh, ex-United States senator and
mayor of Augusta, died at his residence
Sunday after three months illness, of
nervous prostration. There was little
hope in the community of his recovery,
but his death was not thought to be so
near at hand.
Mayor Walsh was one of the most
prominent men in Georgia, and had ma
tiona1 recognition as the earnest cham
pion of southern development and per-
haps the best authority on the material
resources and manufacturing products
of the south.
Mr.. Walsh came to Augusta, Ga, in
1862 and has even since been identified
with the press of the city, for 25 years
past as editor and proprietor of the Au-
gusta Chronicle. In 1870 he became
member of the city council and from
1872 to 1873 he served in the state 1egis-
lature. In 1880, 1884 and 1896 he was a
delegate to the Democratic national
conventions and served four years as
Georgia member of the national Demo-
cratic executive committee. In 1894 he
was appointed by Governor Northen
to the United States senate on the death
of Senator Colquitt. In December, 1897,
he was elected mayor of Augusta, which
office he filled at the time of his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20

spread of the disease. The only per-
son IN Missouri who is authorized to
take action in the matter as the state
veterinarian, T. E. White who is sta
toned at Columbia, Mo.
The particular case that DR.. Werner
wrote about was that of a horse at 533
Forest avenue. He was called on the
case some weeks ago while the animal
was in the first stages of the disease
and was yet being driven about the
city. The malady is now far advanced,
and all that can be done is to conf1ne
the horse to the stable, as no one in
kansas City has authority to order it
shot.
Assistant Police Surgeon Manahan
looked at the horse Thursday and pro-
nounced it the most loathesome spec
tacle he had ever seen. Chambers is
akin to smallpox and has most of it's
characteristics. DR.. Manahan was of
the opinion that there was danger of
the disease spreading, as he said that
1T could easily be contracted from a
drinking trough where an afflicted horse
had drunk.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
DEPOT FOR lola.
Missouri Pacific to Begin the Erection
of q Station at Once.

dressed to him by the president and secre-
t ty of the club on Tuesday Of last week,
wretched inadequacy of the present shanty
that is made to serve as a depot, Vice
President Warner replies as follows:
ST. Louis, Mo-, March &c. '99.
Mr.: A. l.. Taylor, President lola CONNER
cial Club, lola, Kan:
Dear Sir-Your letter of the 18th inst,
again reminding US of the depot facilities
at lola, is received.
In this connection would state the mat
ter has not been overlooked; plans have
been drawn and we expect to increase IA
cilities at lola. very soon. The delay has
been due to obtaining the best and most
economical plans. AS soon the wea Their
moderates the work will begin. Yours
truly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
q Have Made a Discovery"
Says c. L. Wilson, 1929 Madison
Street, Topeka, Kan.

eyes, have made a discovery" says
Mr.. Wilson. ct presume I am not the
first who has made it, but I am as
happy as If were. If a publication OF
what 1 have discovered will help 9TH
ers, am glad to tell what 1t Is, 1 am
sure it will, so here is what l have
found. After being treated right along
for kidney trouble and not getting any
better, was told to use Morrows Kid
ne-oids. 1 got a box at the store or
Swift & Holiday Drug Co They have
done for me what believe they will do
for anyone, and that is to Cure
For eight years have been afnicted
and used a great many of so called
sure sure cures but they never even
helped me to say nothing of curing
The disease was surely but slowly get
ting the best of me all the time
Acting under the old maxium, w hilo
there is life there is hope, took Kid
ne-oids according to directions. In two
or three days I began to be relieved.
Today all former ailment has left ma.
This Is my discovery"
am sure it will be yours IL you per-
severe and take as we direct.
All druggists, so cents. Manufactured
by John Morrow & Co.. Chemists
Springfield Ohio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
500 AMERICANS
Could Have Turned the Tide of Revo-
luton in Nicaragua

Savannah, Ca, March POI. H. Cut
ting. formerly of Boston, has arrived
here from Nicaragua. He was a lieu
tenant of the Rama Rifles in the Cen
trail Nicara guam revolution which GER
tainlv would have succeeded but for
the arrant cowardice of Reyes and
other leaders.
have gone through Zelaya'S forces like
molasses out of a garnet window" said
Cutting. "but our leaders were too
cowardly to fight. They showed the
white feather at the first approach of
danger"
Cutting says the taxation in Nicara-
qua is unbearable and that the Ameri-
can mine owners and operatives think
another revolution is but a matter OF
time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
TO SUE NEW YORK.
Warnings Widow Gets No Royalties
on Her Street Cleaning Patent.

New York, March 20.-This city is
likely to be sued for infringing upon a
patent owned by Mrs. Louise Waring,
the widow of Col George E. Warning, jr.
While Col. Warning was street cleaning
commissioner Mrs. Waring invented the
small two wheeled hand carts to which
bags are attached and in which street
bags are tied up and then deposited in
a cart for removal to the dump.
Many thousands of these vehicles are
used by the street cleaning department
in the city. While her husband was
commissioner Mrs. Warning allowed the
city to use them without the payment
of royalties.
with James Mccartney as street clean
ing commissioner. the city has con-
tinued to make use of Mrs. Warnings
invention without paying for the priv
ilege
Commissioner Mccartney announced
several months ago that the bags had
been done away with and can carriers
substituted. Arthur Won BrieSen, Mrs.
Warnings counsel, says this is an in
few can carriers have been substituted
for the bags.
Since her husbands death Mrs. War
ing has been living with relatives in the
west but Mr.. Won Briesen is looking
after her interests, and unless a COM
promise is reached he will sue the city
in the name of his client.
Mr.. Won Briesen said that the board
of estimate had made an appropriation
for 100000 bags, even since the substi-
tuition of the cans. He expects that
the courts will find that Mrs. Warning
is entitled to royalties from the city for
the use of her patent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Plan to Give q Week of Oratorio Pro
ducticns for Kansas City.

Kansas City, March 2O.-A great
spring musical festival of national I'M
portance, an event that will attract
thousands of visitors and put the CON
vention hall early to the use for which
it has been built, is within the grasp OF
Kansas City.
It is a proposition that is being laid
before the directors of Convention hall
today to organize a festival under the
direction of Theodore Thomas which Will
have for some of it's features:
The Thomas orchestra of Chicago, OF
100 pieces.
The Apollo club of Kansas City, 40
voices; the Apollo club of Chicago, 400
voices, and the Lindsborg, Kan, chorus
of 400 voices. to be heard in such grand
oratorioS as 1.-The Messiah 1.-The Gre
ation,'' Samson and Delilah," etc., on
a grand stage that will accommodate
1000 people in the greatest auditorium
in America.
Soloists-Melba, Nordica, Gadski and
any of the great operate stars who can
be secured.
In addition. concerts that will include
the appearance of Nine. Teresa Car
reno pianiste, and Willy Burmeister,
the German violinist, and other stars.
The time proposed for holding the res
tival is the week of April "a, with mat
inees Wednesday and Saturday, and in
clude Sunday, April 80, when The
Messiah will be given.
This is a bare outline of what Chas.
H Vessels, representing Miss Anna
MiIlar manager of the Theodore Thorn
as orchestra, proposes to the Convention
hall directors. The plan, of course, will
be amplified materially and many other
features added.
His advice is that the musical festival
be organized on a scale for the benef1t
of the people of the southwest, and not
of this immediate vicinity alone, and
that it should establish a precedent that
will be followed each spring. With this
object in view, the prices of admission
should range from % cents to dollar,
and the people as a whole given the ad-
vantage of hearing the greatest singers
and musical artists of the world.
The cost of such a festival he eSti-
mates would be in the neighbOrhOod of
$25 900, and he asks that a guarantee
fund of $50. 600 be raised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
LEDGES OF COPPER
OF Great Extent Have Been Found in
Alaska

San Francisco, March 20.-A special
from Tacoma says:
Immense copper lodges have been dis
covered on Prince William sound, Alas
ka, between Orca, and Valdez, not far
from the mouth of Copper river. In once
instance glacial action has laid bare a
copper ledge 5000 feet long, four feet
wide, extending from tide water back in
to a high bluff
Near by other copper lodges, although
not so favorably exposed, are being
opened by men who claim that they
are working for the Standard Oil syn
dictate. An English syndicate is rep
resented there by Lewellyn Williams, a
mining expert of London, who was or
dered thither by cable from Australia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
NETHERSOLE SETS A TREE
Near the Statue of Shakespeare in
Tower Grove Park.

ST. Louis, Mo-, March 20.-Olga Meth
ersole, the actress, today visiter Tower
Henry Shaw, bequeathed to ST. Louis,
and under official auspices planted a
young English elm tree near the statue
of William Shakespeare. The spot Sc
lected was in close proximity to the
mulberry tree planted by the late AIDE
laide Nelson in 1880 and also to the
tree planted last year to the memory of
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett.
A squad of mounted policemen were in
attendance and the ceremony was wit
messed by many prominent citizens.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
A POOR HOUSE INNATE
Unexpectedly Receives Pay For Car
rying Mail Fifty Years Ago.

KOkomo. Ind, March 2O-Thonas
Millikan. an inmate of the Howard
county poor house. received notice from
the postoffice department yesterday that
sum of money amounting to about
$500 was due him as a star route mail
carrier for service done in Kentucky in
the sos.
Mr.. Milli1an drove a mail hack for
years before the civil war. but supposed
himself fully paid until receiving the
notice today. He is SO years old and
blind At one time he was financially
Wen on Five years ago he was sent
to the penitentiary for three years for
Forgery, and while serving time his wife
secured a divorce. On his return from
PRISON he went to the poor house. the
FAMILY refusing to take him in again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
EATS THE PIPES.
Dayton Sues the City Railway For
Elsctrolysis Damage.

Dayton, O., March 2O.-The City Rail-
way company is the defendant in a dam
age suit brought today by the city where
in the sum of $45. eco is asked for ac-
count of impairment and destruction of
underground water pipes from electricity
sis.
1t is claimed that through the careless
ness of the company in the management
of the electric motive power fully IS per
cent of the current used in propelling the
cars in its travels toward the power house
follows the water pipes. In consequence
electrolySiS results. 1t is claimed that if
there were no interference by unnatural
causes the pipes would last 200 years. A
similar suit was recently brought against
the Peoples Railway company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-20
THE SCORCHERS' HEAVEN.
A Cycleway For Los Angeles Wheel
men That Is Fine.

Los Angeles. March 2O.-The California
Cycleway company is to build cycleway
that will be a fioored bicycle path ten feet
wide and nine miles long, extending from
the ground from three to fifty feet, ac-
cording to grade. and inclosed on the sides
path will be practically on a level.
The steepest grade in the whole length
will be only 8 per cent. and that for dis
lance of but 1900 feet Elsewhere the
grade averages IA per cent The floor
will be smooth a cement sidewalk "a
short ride on which costs one s. in the mu-
nicipal COURT and the cycleway will be
wide enough to permit four bicyclists to
ride abreast. At night it will be brilliant
ly lighted from end to end by incandescent
electric lamps, placed 200 feet apart over
the center of the wheeling space.