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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
KANSAS NEWS.
Hutchinson Tires of the State
Reformatory.
Tragedies That Make the City
Seem Tough
ARE TRACEABLE TO 1T
And Caused by People Drawn
by That Institution.
State Printer Morgan FavOrs
Its Removal.

The Hutchinson News whose editor is
w. Y. Morgan, state printer-elect, de-
sires to rid Hutchinson of the reforma-
tory. He declares it advertises the town
as a tough place. The News says:
The location of the reformatory at
Hutchinson while it has had its adj
vantages and is of considerable i'm
portance, has decidedly had it's disad-
vantageS as we'll Following the cases
which have been tried and are to be
tried in the Reno county district court
it would be quite easy to come to the
conclusion that securing the location of
the reformatory was not a very paying
investment. Hutchinson is becoming
somewhat notorious for sensational
criminal trials and most of these trials
are directly traceable to the reforma-
tory.
Jack Burrell and Harry Postlethwait
were sent to the refOrmatOry, the latter
from Wichita Mrs. Postlethwait and
her other sons at once moved here to be
near Harry and Burrel, the latter being
an intimate friend of Mrs Postleth-
waits. The family was in Strengthened
circumstances and in a short time open
ed a joint and restaurant to keep up
expenses. This joint was later the cause
and the scene of murder. The murder
caused a heavy expense to the county
in the trials which followed, and impli-
Gated a member of the Reno county
bar. 1t was altogether one of the worst
things that ever happened here, and the
chief actors would probably never have
been here, but for the reformatory
The case against Charlie Cook for at
tempting to kill Jack Gallup will come
up in the district court at the April
term. 1t will probably cost the county
a considerab BILE sum. Cook was paroled
from the reformatory here and remained
in town.
And greater than all else that has
happened is the Moore tragedy. Nit
Franklin was sent to the reformatory
from Emporia- His father moved here
to be near the son. Then John Moore
and family came here. Mrs. Moore was
a Franklin and wanted to be with the
rest of the family. Moore killed his five
children, burned the house over them
and will be in court here next term.
The Moore tragedy was read about by
people in all parts of the United States
and to many people Hutchinson will be
father murdered his children, while the
fact is that Hutchinson is a city Of hap
py homes and refined people.
The chief drawback of the reforma-
tory is not the people who are inmates,
but the people who follow them here
and are left on the outside. And an
other drawback is that the inmates are
paroled from here and many of them
remain and commit new depredations.
Many of the boys leave the institution
and lead useful lives, but there are also
many who are incurable.
And so it is that Hutchinson gets adj
directly on account of having the re-
fornatOry location. Whether the bene-
fits of the institution to the town are
great enough to offset the rawbackS
is a question to which there are two
sides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
ROUND-THE-W WORLD TICKET
From the BALTIMORE SUM

(F'rom the Baltimore SUM-
Members of the expedition which will go
to Manila for theJohns Hopkins university
will meet in Chicago tomorrow and start
on their long journey. The purpose of
the expedition is to study diseases preva-
lent in the tropics by modern methods,
clinical and pathological
From Chicago the party will go to St
Paul and there take the Canadian Pacific
railway. From st. Paul they will go to
Vancouver and take the steamer Empress
of India. Yokohama and Kobe, Japan,
and Shanghai and Hong Kong, in China,
the journey From Hong Kong the party
Investigations, will return to take up the
rest of the globe circling. -, 80,
through the China sea to Singapore, thence
through the Straits of Malacca to Penang,
on the Malay peninsula, and out into the
Ceylon. will be break in crossing the In
Arabia, before going through the Red sea
the Red sea out i into the M
and thence the route will be through the
Straits of Gibraltar into the North Allan
tic ocean, with London as an objective
point and from that city acre the At
more. completing the trip around the
There will be five in the party. and
through tickets for the trip are furnished
them on starting. In tcketing such a
the transportation interests are concerned
appears. The arrangements for the party
more agent of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way. and this is said to be the first time
ro1nd P6e void GI hVe the pa iP VIII be
DR.. Simon Flexner, professor of PATHOLOGY.
the Johns Hopkins hospital; DR.. L. F;
Barker. associate professor of anatomy and
Hopkins hospital: Joseph NJ. Flint of Chi
cago and Frederick P. Gay of Boston: who
Garrett
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
MRS. COUGARS PLAN.
Would Have a Constitutional Amend
ment to Correct Trusts

Lafayette, Ind, March 30.-It seems
that every man interviewed acknowl-
edges these trusts to be more powerful
than the general government, and no.
body has the authority to suppress them
and nobody knows how to create such
an authority. The helplessness of the
people in the hands OF these trust pro-
motors, as presented in these interviews,
would be pitiable if it were true, but it
is not. Send me to congress and I will
show the way out Of this national diem
ma. Lest may not get there 1 will sug-
gest my plan.
The next congress is Overwhelmingly
Republican. Let the people ask and de-
mand at it's hands constitutional
amendment prohibiting any state from
granting franchise or corporate priv
legeS to any combination for the pur-
pose of controlling production, output
that such an amendment to the national
constitution will be made an issue in
the next general election. But pardon
me, had almost forgotten that I was
only a woman citizen, a nOn-Voter,
classed with Indians, idiots, criminals
and insane in the management OF po-
Htical affairs (Soon to be further gov
erned by MalayS and KanakaS), but rs
my sex must suffer the financial de-
privations incident to these trusts, 1
venture to suggest this way out to the
poor, helpless legal male minds" that
are in such a hopeless condition, judging
from the numerous opinions expressed.
Such a constitutional amendment could
be submitted next winter, and within
one year therefrom it would be ratified
by the states, and the people will prove
mightier than the trusts.
HELEN NJ. COUGAR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
LIBBY PRISON GOES.
Relic of the Civil War to Give Place
to Vast New Building.

Chicago, March 3O.-Tonight marks
the closing of the Libby prison at Wa
bash avenue and Sixteenth street, and
a fine programme has been arranged by
the managers to celebrate the event in
proper style.
Charles F. Gunther will speak in be-
half of the museum management and
Francis A. Riddle will represent the
Grand Army of the Republic the oc-
casion. Col. George Forester will be
present to represent the Confederate
Veterans association and Judge Glib
bons will speak for the Coliseum man
agement, which has leased the ground
on which Libby prison stands and is to
begin work at once on the erection of a
mammoth coliseum. Libby prison has
occupied it's present site during the last
nine years and it's most prosperous sea-
son was during the Worlds fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
REIGNING ENGLISH BEAUTY

(From the New York Journal>
The regning beauty of England is Miss
Enid Wilson.
When she appeared at a recent great
ball in London every eye was attracted ir-
resistibly to her and every beholder was
struck with wonder and delight.
The ball was given at the Hotel Cecil,
and in aid of the Gordon Memorial college
a Khartoum. Many royalties, five Ouch
esses. three dukes, dozens of earls and all
the wealth and fashion of London attend
ed. They were people accustomed to
brilliant gatherings and to the sight of
people famed for beauty in society But
when they beheld the surprising loneliness
of Miss Wilson they forgot all the beau
ties they had ever seen, they forgot the
conventional restraints of the ball room,
and they gazed upon the fair girl with
uncontrolled and infinite admiration.
The ball was almost brought to a stand
still by her appearance. A waltz that was
in progress a the moment was forgotten.
and princesses, dukes and duchesses. lords
and ladies, American women with English
titles crowded around Miss Wilson Those
a. the back stood on tip-toe. Miss Will
sons beauty is of the kind that makes wo-
men forget to envy. More than that can
not be said.
Enid Wilson is pronounced by artists an
ideal English beauty. She is tall, with
figure full of health and grace. Her hair
is light brown and abundant it would
surely rival that of Lady Godiva. She
has a pure, dazzling red and white COM
plexion. Long lashes shade her soft
hazel brown eyes, which shine with good
nature and fun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
WHITE ST. BERNARD DOG.

(From the Denver Republican,
Empress is a thoroughbred, registered
ST. Bernard, and the only one of her race
in Colorado that is almost pure white.
Empress is a general pet of all the
guests at the Windsor hotel and is the de-
light of her owner, Captain w. j. Renard,
Elk and the steward and assistant
manager of the hosiery. She is Ii months
old. and weighs 12o pounds.
One brown spot on her back and a slight
marking of that color on each ear are all
that break the monotony of the beautifully
white coat of Empress. Her hair is as
curly as a Soubrette'S and as soft silk.
of royal English origin, a descendant of
the Duke of Fife and the Princess Nina,
Empress is a decided Bohemian. In the
basement of the hotel Empress slumbers
with her two old cronies, a long cared.
They are harmonious, and in the daytime.
when the weather permits, wander to-
gether around a small park in the rear of
the Windsor.
AS Captain Renard was walking up Six
teenth street with his pet the other day a
fashionably dressed woman caught sight
of Empress.
Stopping the captain she said: IT will
give you $50 this minute for that beauty"
Il would not accept $500 for the dog She
is not for sale at any price at present, =
said the captain. II am negotiating with
Frank Gould, one of the Gould heirs. who.
I am told. has offered a large sum for a
pure white ST. Bernard"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
INJURED BY X-RAYS.
Mime. Mochert's Case Against French
Doctor Heard In Court Yesterday.

Paris, March so.-Some time ago a
doctor who was treating Nine. Mochert,
a young woman, for an affection of the
thigh joint, attempted to photograph
the seat of the trouble with the Ront-
gen rays. Mime. Mochert posed three
times. The third exposure lasted over
an hour, and it was subsequently no.
ticed that stripes appeared the skin.
which was apparently burned. This
burn resulted in a wound that caused
long Illness, and Nine. Mochert sued the
doctor for 5000 francs damages.
The case was heard yesterday. One
of the witnesses, DR.. Bardet, secretary
of the Societe Therapeutique, testified
that burning would result in rare in
stances from the use of the Rontgen
rays. Everything depended on the pat
tents physical condition. He maintain
ed that if the doctors were made re-
sponsible for such accidents they would
be obliged to renounce the use of the
rays. The court reserved decision.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
COUNTESS RUSSELL COMING
She Will Take Ellaline Terriss' Place
When the Latter Joins Leder-
er'S London Forces-

London, March 3O-When Miss Ella
line Terriss leaves the Gayety theater,
which she will do shortly, she will play
in a new musical piece which is to be
inaugurated under the dual manage
ment of George Edwardes of London
and George Lederer of New York.
Countess Russell will take the place
of Miss Terriss. At the close of Coun-
tess RusselFs season here she will go
over to America for a brief tour. She is
small, slim and dark and very dainty
to look upon. She has large brown eyes
and hair of the same color. Her fea-
lures are exceedingly expressive. She
always goes about with her mother,
Lady Lena Scott, who was one of sew
eral titled ladies who once went to Hol-
loway prison rather than capitulate to
the force of legal argument. Lady Scott
chaperons her carefully.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
FAIR PLAY FOR PLAYGOERs
Pittsburg Councilman Offers an Ordi-
nance Governing Seat Sale.

Pittsburg, March 30.-Dr. George H.
Vaux, common councilman from the
Eleventh ward, today introduced an or
dinance for the protection of theater-
goers. Last week DR.. Vaux went to the
Alvin to purchase two seats for Rich
ard Mansfield's engagement. He was
refused a view of the chart showing
what seats had been sold, and in addi-
ton to having to take seats offered him
he found that prices had been raised.
He says he was informed the seats were
good ones, but when he went to the
theater he found the statement of the
ticket seller was untrue.
To prevent trouble of this kind, DR..
VauX drafted an ordinance which pro-
vides that all theaters must exhibit
charts showing what seats have been
sold, and that when prices are raised
notice must be published in all daily
papers here in advance.
Theater managers failing to obey the
law are to be fined $50, or undergo
three months imprisonment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
ON SHORT ACQUAINTANCE.
Couple Married at Independence on
the Day of First Sight
TF'rom de Independence Reporter.

IF'rom the Independence Reporter.1
A couple who had never seen each
other before, met in this city Satur-
day and were married by Rev. ]. G.
Coggins at the residence Of John Watts,
near the Santa Fe depot.
The groom was Rev. VIM. p. Evans,
Methodist minister of Ringo, I. T., So
years of age, and the bride was Jose
phine NJ. ST. Clair of PASSPORT, Maine,
aged 81. The preliminary work was
done by advertisement and correspond
ence. They were not acquaintance of
Mr.. Watts, but about nine months ago
DR.. Banta of Ringo was married under
precisely the same circumstances at
Mr.. Watts house and he recommended
the place to his friend Mr.. Evans. In
fact DR.. and Mrs. Banta accompa nied
Mr.. Evans here and supervised the ar
engagements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
ON THE FIRING LINE.
CFrOm the Kansas City WORLDLY

(trom the kansas City World.)
don't care how your platform stands on
Or how you say 'unholy war; when set
And doubt Il figh fanss' justihed-and you
There's others talking of the war with
- question in their tone
III bet your voice in shouts and tears
re- would blend along with mine
If we could see those Kansans down there
on the firing line.
When trouble comes our Uncle Sans not
The folks he freed, from tyrant hands will
They l9 fTst rf fTed d the DAY v,n IN
A offerin' peace and liberty to everybody
there.
The shooting at the Stars. and Stripes
stirred your blood,s well as mine,
And sent those sturdy Kansans down there
on the firing line.
sweepin' Ger the western plain.
Or watched and wondered if the skies
would never ope' to rain,
Or Sowed the fields again and waited with
some sufferin' in between,
When grasshOpperS had robbed the land
The sons Of those who've toiled and made
the Sunflower state so fine
Are shown there's some Kansans down
there on the firing line.
Kansans are there. And some have fallen
never more to rise.
More may fall-God grant not-e'er they
see tomorrow's skies.
While the news of hard won laurels ner-
its every patriots cheers,
The knowledge of the vfctory's cost
browns boastfulness in tears,
And causes to be cherished in a way al
most divine
The memory of the soldiers stricken on
the firing line.
There are anxious minds in Lawrence,
Fort Scott and Wichita,
Heartstrfngs torn in Leavenworth, and
there's grief along the Kaw;
There are mothers wonderin ever If
they'll see their boys again,
And Sweethearts thinkin' always of their
Joe, or Tom, Ben;
There are fathers tryin' to be brave, but
given every sign
Their hopes and fears are with those Kan
sans on the firing line.
D. H SPRUIIL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
PACIFIC SEALERS PLEASED
The Season Closing Has Been the
Most Successful in Years.

Victoria, B. C., March 30.-The coast
sealing season, which is now drawing
to a close, promises to be the most sue
cessful that the sealers have had in
years.
The failure during the past few years
of the coast cruise, which extends from
Lower California to the boundaries of
schooner owners to keep their schooners
in port this year, only IS or Is out of so
reaping the harvest that awaited them.
The schooners which went south off the
Carolina coast are making particularly
good catches, one crew reporting having
upward 1900 skins, with prospects of
more. This was considered a fairly
good catch, even in the palny days of
sealing. Steamers from Alaska report
great herds of seals beading for Beh-
ring Sea, and as result there is con-
siderable activity among the sealers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
THE WHITE MANS DUTY.

IFrom the London Spectator
The duty of the white man is to con-
quer and control, probably for couple
of centuries, all the dark peoples of the
world, not for his own good. but for
theirs; to give them the chance of de-
veIopment which comes with stable
and weII-ordered peace; to break for
ever, If such breaking be possible, that
strange arrest of progress which for so
many centuries has benumbed their
powers, and which leaves two-thirds
of the world such bells upon earth that
If the white man realized the truth all
the strength of the good would be alb
sorbed in one great effort to amehorate
their condition. To Asia the world owes
all the great creedS it has, yet no Ash
attic untaught by European believes
4 rea SOnable creed; while in Africa the
millions who have thought of nothing,
invented nothing, built nothing and
founded nothing live on more like evil
children or animals with human form
than like men with intellects and souls.
1t is surely the duty of the white man,
who has advanced so far that he is all
most bewildered by the rushing multi
Tude of his requirements, who has made
of himself through the favor of God a
restrained and self-controlling human
being. and who can put on at will for
any task the enchanted armorOf science.
which no barbarian force, however vast,
may pierce. to try at least whether he
cannot terminate this. arrest, and set
the whole race of man free to work
out the destiny intended for him. We
all admit that duty within our own mar
row lands. and try to perform 1t toward
our own savages. and the extension of
our work, If We can extend 1t over the
whole world, cannot but be good. Only
we must perform it in the right spirit
taking 1t up, as Mr.. Kipling sings, as
the white mans burden seeking no
profit beyond fair pay for honest work
shrinking from no accusation except
that of wilful oppression, and, above
all. expecting no gratitude from those
whom we may help to redeem.
II we fail, and we may fail vet, for
we are not yet sure that our patience
VIII hold out under the necessary self
sacrifices. the new-caught sullen peo-
pies, half devil and half child" will
curse US by all their gods; while If we
succeed. and we may succeed, for we
are slowly succeeding at home, they
viii but bid us begone unthanked, per-
haps use their new powers the dis
cipline enforced on them, the KNOWLEDGE
by degrees poured into them, to inf1ict
on us untold miseries. If Asia acquired
but half our science without ACQUIRING
our character and creed, and could lead
Africa as Arabs even now lead negroes
she could extirpate the white man and
would do IT with the glee of an evil
child as 1t tears a mouse or brushes 6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
A FINE SHOWING.
Strong Effort Being Made to Secure
Better Trade Facilities.

The contributors to the Trades excur-
sion fund met at the Commercial club
rooms today and unanimously decided
that the balance should remain in the
hands of the committee to be used at
some future time for the benefit of the
merchants in securing better trade ia
cilities.
The sense of the meeting was that
strong efforts should be expended to Sc
cure equitable freight rates instead of
the unjust ones now in force between
the Missouri river and Topeka; and eff
forts made to get better train service
into and out of Topeka in various di-
rectionS.
E. H. Crosby, as chairman of the
committee, made the gratifying show
ing that 1866 in cash was on hand after
paying all the expenses of the three ex-
curSionS.
1t was voted that any contributor
who desired to do so could withdraw his
subscription, pro rata, if he did so with
in the next two weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
How toBe Happy Though Married.

(F'rom the San Francisco Examiner.)
Young Mr.. Goode has been married only
very short time, but-or perhaps should
say therefore-he had number of theo-
ries as to how to be happy though mar
ried. One of these was that the husband
should invariably pretend to like his wife $
cooking, whether 1t was good or bad. One
evening Mrs. Goode prepared some bis
cults They, were heavy and soggy, and nd
absolutely indigestible, but her better half
tie heartily of them CThe sequel will
show why call him the better half) As
he finished the sixth one, he smiled across
the able at his wife. and said tenderly:
These biscuits are delicious, love-just
like my mother used to make"
You mean thing!" exclaimed his spouse
Grossly. IF ] couldn't make better bis
cults than your mother makes I'd live in
All of Which goes to show that woman
is. indeed, as the poet says, uncertain,
coy and ard to pleaSe.N
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
BELL TELEPHONE REPORTS
Annual Meeting of the Company-old
Directors Reelected.

Boston, March 30.-The annual meet
ing of the American Bell Telephone
company was held here today. No
change was made in the list OF direc-
tors. Secretary Charles Hubbard and
Treasurer W. r. Drover were re-elect-
ed. The annual report of the treasurer
showed the earnings for 1898 to have
been $5,54S, 7o1, as against $5.130 S44 for
1897.
The expenses for 1898 aggregates ST.
054,7 34, as against 1861, 10 for 1897; and
the net earnings were $4,S93, $3.50, as
against $4,169,674.
Regular dividends paid out in 1897
were IS. log, 356, an increase of S166, 1852
Extra dividends in 1898 were $776,5s an
increase of $50, 545.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
CHIEF OF POLICE PASTOR
Selectmen of Hampton, N. H, Choose
Him to Suppress Liquor Traffic.

Hampton, N. H, March 30.-When the
selectmen of this town meet next week
they will appoint Rev. John Bradford,
pastor of the Methodist church, chief
of police. Mr. Bradford is the leading
clergyman of the town. There is much
dissatisfaction here over the way in
which the liquor laws have been en-
forced in the past, several new places
having opened for business the past
year.
The feeling is running high through
out the town for a stricter enforcement
of the law, and the sentiment Is strong
~ in favor of the appointment of Pastor
Bradford as chief of police. He prom
Uses to do his best to suppress the traf-
fir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-30
TO GO TO ALASKA.
Senator Fairbanks and Other High
Joints Will Make the Trip.

Indianapolis, Ind, March Ex-senator
Fairbanks, president of the American
organization of the high joint commits
trip to Alaska this spring. The time
of the departure is dependent upon word
from Senator Perkins of California, who
will be a member of the party.
The plan is to go to the head Of the
Lynn canal, which is fifteen or twenty
miles from the scene of the recent riot
ing over the boundary line question. The
trip will be for the special purpose of
making an investigation of the boun-
dairy question. The senator says that
two or three membe of the commission
besides himself will make the trip.