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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
A BIG TURNOUT.
Nearly Fifty Whist Players Attend
the Opening Tournament Game.


Last night at the Topeka whist club
rooms the initial game in the first of
the two tournaments to be played this
winter took place. The interest in the
opening game was at a high pitch and
the attendance was a joyful surprise,
II tables being made up. A handicap
was talked of for some of the teams,
but it was decided by the club that the
best team should win, so they are all
scratch pairS.'
The ladies' tournament was arranged
for last night and the opening game
will be played Wednesday evening, No
vember 8. The tournament will be the
same as that of the Topeka whist club
and will consist of Is games, which will
carry it into the middle of April next.
Eight or ten tables are already aSSur-
ed and in point of attendance the open
ing may exceed that of the Topeka
whist club last night. They will play
every other Wednesday evening.
The following teams won their games
last night: Korn and Thrapp, Ashby
and Mum, Hurrie and Sibley, Marshall
and Pennekamp, Gill and Aston, Dav-
les and Van Valkenburg, Scott and
Armstrong, Koontz and Drum, Giles
pie and Putnam, Copeland and West
and Ryder and Lowry.
The score made by each team was as
follows:
North and south-Huling and Carr,
ISL; Heyden and Wolf 1874; Korn and
Thrapp, 1872; Washburn and Greenwood,
1856; Ashby and Mum, 191; jolly and
Merrick, 1877; Brown and Beerbohm, 176;
Hurrie and Sibley, 100; Parker and
Robbins, 1856; Marshall and Penne-
kamp. 1877; Gill and Aston, 1873; Davies
and Van Valkenburg, 1872.
East and West-Keeler and Knowles,
1872; Scott and Armstrong, 131; Faulkner
and Payne, 121; Koontz and Drum, 1913;
Gillespie and Putnam, 1913; Hills and
Thompson, liz; Mason and Troutman,
118; Copeland and West. 128; Ness and
McKirahan, 119; Allen and Noble, 1913
Ryder and Lowry, 128; Warner and
Holland. 119.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
SHE QUIT COFFEE.
And Got Well In Common Sense WI

And Got Well In Common Sense Way
''When left off coffee. it seemed that
was the thing hardest to drop. I had
been put on a diet for stomach trouble,
had a good appetite but no food would
stay on my stomach. was compelled
to leave off one thing after another, but
never suspected coffee. When 1 decided
to leave off the coffee. however, my
stomach trouble ceased entirely, also
my nervousness, and can again sleep
well. But a new trouble then arose.
How was I to get along without my
coffee? 1t was a great temptation when
saw it on the table in the morning.
One day friend who knew of my case
sent me package of Postum Cereal
Food Coffee. After it had been pre-
pared, I had great misgivings about
using it, for it looked so much like fine
coffee that feared it would have the
same effect, but I soon found it to be
free from all injurious properties and
its use has been of great benefit to me.
I have never had any taste for coffee
since using Postum Cereal Food Coffee.
MY children derive great benefit from
using Postum We all enjoy it very
much, having discarded the old fash
Toned coffee entirely" Alice Lawrence,
Bowen, Mont.
Postum Food Coffee is sold by all
drst-class grocers at 10 and % cents per
package.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
PRESIDENT ENTERTAINED.
Incident In a Wisconsin Town Re
calls Political Row Over Grants
Trip to Kansas
TFrom the New York SUM-

The ex-mayOr of Racine. Wis, under
took to sue out an injunction to re-
strain the mayor and city council from
paying the expenses incurred by the
city in it's entertainment of President
Mckinley. This is not the first time
that a western town has been stirred
up by the expenses of a presidential
call Toward the close of President
Grants administration he made a
western trip, and, after a stop in kan
sas City he was invited to visit Atch-
ison, Kan, which at that time was
challenging LeavenWOrth for the title
of Metropolis of the state" The Cen
trail Branch of the Union Pacific rail-
road extended west from Atchison to an
open prairie. There was no station,
roundhouse, or building at the termi-
nus. Work had been suspended on the
line in the expectation of a deal which
would insure the completion of the road
to a westerly connection.
President Grant and his party were
taken out to this prairie terminal be
cause AtchisOn was anxious to impress
the president with the importance of
the road, inasmuch as congressaI aid in
the extension of the line was anticipa-
ted The city council was asked to
make an appropriation to pay the ex-
pense of the jaunt and also for a dinner
and incidentals- The council was near
" evenly balanced, politically. The
Democratic newspaper of the town in
cited the aldermen of its politics to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31

Topeka City Engineer Resigns
to Go East.
City Loses One of Its Most Eff
f1cient Officials.
p. L. WISE is NAMED.
Ex-RaiIroad Man VIII Have
Charge of the Office.
Business Transacted at Meeting
of the City Council.

The resignation of William H. Barnes
as city engineer was accepted at the
meeting of the council Monday night,
and Platt L. Wise of North Topeka was
appointed and confirmed as his sue
cessor.
Mr.. Barnes expects to remove to East
Hampton, New York, to reside with his
father He will leave Topeka not Ia
ter than November 10.
In his resignation, Mr.. Barnes said:
please accept the thanks of your en-
gineer for the kindly treatment your
very honorable body has at all times
accorded him. And at this time wish
also to thank the city officers and en-
ployes, the press and the public of this
city for their courteOusness, considera-
ton and fOrbearance. 1t is with feel
ings of regret that am now compelled
to close my almost eleven years of con-
tinuous service"
Mr. P l. Wise, the new city engi-
neer, has been resident of Topeka for
the past nine years. Since last March
he has been assistant engineer of the
Rock Island with headquarters in this
city, and prior to that was connected
with the engineering departments Of
the Pittsburg & Gulf, St Louis & San
Francisco and Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul roads. His application was &C =
/ companied by a number OF letters of
recommendation, among them one from
James Dun, chief engineer of the Santa
Fe and one from r. w. Day, division
engineer of the Rock Island.
City Engineer Barnes, who retires to-
day, has been a particularly valuable
man to the city during the years he has
been connected with the engineering
department. He is thoroughly efficient,
and his work has been wholly satisfac-
tory to the city council, and the citizens
of Topeka generally. This city has
been fortunate in securing the services
of several particularly competent en-
gineerS for city work in the past, but
no one of the number has been more
competent than Mr.. Barnes. Topeka
people join with the city council in re-
GREETING his departure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
mended in his first annual report in

mended in his first annual report in
1897.
The advantage of enabling banks to
issue notes against their assets under
restrictions and regulations which
would insure the absolute safety of the
notes, it is stated, is that they would
be able to put out additional circulation
at times when money was in demand
and to retire their notes as soon as the
necessity for the increased circulation
had passed. This would prevent the
great increase in interest rates which
now occurs periodically and would not
produce at times such a plethora of
money as to lead inevitably to over
speculation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
DUST CONES DOWN.
Thirty Thousand Dollars Brought
From Cooks Inlet.

Port Townsend, Wash, Oct. 31.-The
schooner General Siglin arrived last
night from Cooks Inlet bringing seven
ty-six passengers and thirty thousand
in gold dust. The Siglin left the Inlet
October Is, and sailed direct to this
port. About two hundred men viii
winter at Sunrise City, most of whom
are interested in mining claims and
they will put in the winter in prepar-
ing their claims for early spring opera
lions.
The earthquake of September 10 IVES
not felt to any great extent on the Inlet
but those who have remained there for
several years say that slight shocks
are felt continually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
IN PERFECT TRIM.
Sharkey and JefFries Each Ready
For Fridav's Battle.


New York, Oct. 31.-Reports received
from Asbury Park, N. J., are to the eff
feet that James ]. Jeffries, the cham
pion pugilist, is now resting somewhat
from the hard work of training and is
contenting himself with moderate work.
He is apparently in fine condition.
Tom Sharkey at his quarters in New
dorp, Staten Island, said he was at
any time ready to enter the ring and
could have gone on last night. He
seems in perfect condition and looks and
acts as if he had not the slightest fear
of the outcome of his bout with Jeff
ries on Friday night. He did his indoor
work Monday morning and took to the
road in the afternoon. This was partly
to avoid the curious who congregate to
see him loDe along the roads in his
regular morning practice He is now in
perfect condition and his work from
now on will be limited to keeping him
self so. On Thursday he may do lit
tie harder work and bring himself clos
er to edge. He is apparently, in no
danger of going stale, plenty Of leeway
being allowed by his handlers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
BIG ELECTION BET.

New York Special Baltimore SUM-
The biggest bet thus far in the cam
paign was made binding this morning in
Brooklyn when a total Of $34 900 in actual
cash was handed to Arthur J. Heaney, a
former a1derman-at-large, as stakeholder.
The wager was made by Robert Furey,
contractor, who bet Joseph A. McCzarry
$40, 600 against $4,000 that the entire Dem
ocratie ticket in Kings county would be
elected this year. The money transfer
was made at the Nassau National bank.
After the large sum was drawn out ~A4r.
Furey drew 800 more and gave it to Mr.
McGarry in liquidation of side bet. also
made yesterday, that the latter would
make good on the original bet. Mr.. Nc
Garry eagerly accepted it. Should a soli-
tary Democrat on the county ticket be
defeated, It is understood that McGar-
~ takes all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
ST. LOUIS HORSESHOE
Opened Up Last Night to an I'M
mense Crowd.

st. Louis, Oct 31-The third annual
hOrseshow Of the St. Louis HOrseshOw
association began last night at the
Coliseum under the most propitious cir
cumstanees. The programme was ex-
messed such an exhibition in this city.
Duke, owned by William T. Haarstick
of st. Louis, took first prize for high
steppers. Duke and Duchess, his mate,
also carried off the blue ribbon in the
tandem class later in the evening. Aug
ust A. Busch's grey mare Odette took
the red ribbon, while John S. Bratt-
on's David Harum, captured the third
premium.
George NJ. Webb of Germantown, Pa,
carried off two first ribbons with Glenn
ME Dell and Airline Chimes. In the
gated saddle ring Highland Chief, who
captured the $1,000 Stillwen stake at
Kansas City last week. captured first
prize.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
STOP THE CARS.
Company Requested to Suspend Dur
ing Parade.

The city council today requested the
management of the city railway not to
operate cars on the following streets from
the hour of the starting of the parade up
to the conclusion of the evening fireworks
Thursday.
On Kansas avenue between Second
street and Tenth avenue; on Tenth ave-
nue. east of Topeka avenue; on West
Sixth avenue east of Jackson street; on
East sixth avenue west of Quincy street.
This is in accordance with a resolution
adopted at the meeting last night. The
resolution contemplates the suspension
of the transfer system as a natural con-
sequence. The request will undoubtedly
be honored by the city railway manage
accordingly,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
Resolution Committee.

A committee consisting of Councilmen
Warner, Burgess and Elliott were ap-
pointed by Mayor Drew to draft a suita-
bic resolution in reference to the death
of Police Judge. John L. Guy and the res
ignation of City Engineer Barnes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31

In fifteen minutes with only cake of Ivory Soap and water,
you make better cleansing paste than you buy
Ivory Soap Paste will take spots from cothng and will clean
carpets kid gloves slippers patent enamel russell leather and
Shoes leather BELTS painted woodwork and furniture The
special value of Ivory Soap this form arises from the fact that
used with damp sponge cloth many articles
that cannot be washed because they will not stand the free Pa
ton of water.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
EXTEND THE LIMITS.
City Will Soon Include All Surround
ing Tracts

Within the next week City Attorney
Bird in conference with the members of
the ways and means committee of the
city council; will prepare an ordinance
taking in all tracts and parcels of land,
not now a part of the city. but within the
corporate limits.
The acquisition will include the strip
adjoining the Keith tract on the east the
DOuthitt tract, tract of 20 acres in the
vicinity of Christ hospital and various
small tracts in different parts of the city.
This matter has been hanging fire for
some time and at the council meeting
Monday night City Attorney Bird asked
a conference with the ways and means
committee for the purpose of scheduling
the land to be taken IN. The ordinance
will be prepared at once, and submitted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
HAPGooD ousTEn.
Grewsome Dead Animal Question Is
Revived.

The contract entered into by the city
with George H. Hapgood, the veterinary
surgeon. for the disposal of dead animals
was annulled at the meeting of the coun-
Gil Monday night. It was shown by the
report of a special sanitary committee
that DR.. Hapgood had wholly failed to
keep his side of the contract.
me report and consequent action of the
COUNCIL precipitated discussion valua BILE
IN reference to the disposition of dead
animals but by no means edifying or pro-
ductiYe of pleasurable sensations. Tt was
proven by the testimony of several of
the councilmen that DR.. Hapgood has
been in the habit of burying the flesh of
dead animals, Skin deep at the old city
dump one-fourth of a mile east of the
city on the river road.
The city clerk was instructed to adver-
tise for bids for the disposition of dead
animals and garbage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
An Ill1med Joke.

TFrom the Indianapolis Journal
ct hear Bronze has lost that Boston
girl
yes Served him right fer springing
such an ancient gag
what was that2"
"Oh, didn't you hear about it2 Well,
she permitted him to hug her, and the
idiot, in the excess of his JOY, says:
How would you like to be the ice
man?'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31
Job Couldn't Have stood It

If he'd had Itching Piles They're ter
rEibly annoying, but Bucklen's Arnica
Salve will cure the worst case of Piles
on earth. It has cured thousands. For
Injuries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions it's
the best salve in the world. Price Csc a
box Cure guaranteed. Sold by Wagon
er, druggist, 131 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-31

to the council some time during themonth
or November.
Residents of the tracts that are to be
ta1e9 IN have been receiving the same
Dehents OF the city proper for years.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
WOLF A BIGAMIST.

And He Says 1t Isn't Anybody's Bust
ness.
Oakland-Charles l.. Wolf was held
to answer for bigamy by Justice of the
Peace Quinn, his bail being fixed at
$4,000. The prisoner took the stand in
his own behalf, and made the statement
that he did not consider it anybody's
business If he had a dozen wives. A
new defense was set up in an effort to
prove that the last ceremony was not
performed by any one who had author
ity to perform the marriage ceremony.
Mrs. Rosa Wolf remained in court
throughout the proceedings, and smiled
her satisfaction when the judge gave
his decision. She testified as to the
facts of the marriage with her in Sac
ramento and the certificate was pro-
duced in court. The defense claims
that this marriage was performed by
Sacramento cobbler.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
BANNINGs ARE IN FOR LAW SUITS

The Banning company is again
threatened with bombardment of law
suits for having declined to let yachts
men land at Catalina. Attorney John
w. Kemp is on the warpath, and will
go to law with the island owners.
Sunday morning Kemp was one of a
yachting party which went to the ISL
and and attempted to land from q
launch. They were met by the Ban
ming costabulary, and were forcibly re-
strained from landing after lively
fracas, in which Kemp had a wrestling
match with J. B. Banning, and both fell
into the water. The captain of the
launch made a formal tender of $3.50
wharfage, which was refused. The
fracas finally ended in Kemp's arrest
for disturbing the peace.
Mr.. Kemp will try to bring one ac-
tion through the attorney generals Of
flee to forfeit the right claimed by the
Bannings between the water and the
county road. Kemp claims that it Is
government tide land and held by the
company without right.
He will bring an action to enioin the
Bannings from preventing boats to
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
WASTE OF FRUIT.

Over Three Hundred Boxes Dumped
Into San Francisco Bay
San Francisco-Deputy Food Inspec-
tors George H. Ryan and ]. F. Muir
ray were at work on Jackson street
wharf, and during the day they
emptied over 300 boxes Of fruit into the
bay. There has been no improvement
in the situation of the market, and the
fruit which comes down the Sacra-
mento river in boatloads every day
usually lies on the wharf for week or
ten days before a market is found for
it. Wagon load after wagon load Of
tomatoes destined for the tomato-cat-
sup dealers were condemned by the in
spectors. A large amount of peaches
also went overheard by direction of the
officers
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
A French president, If he chooses. can

A French president, If he chooses, can
lve IKE prince. His salary is $685.
OOO, and the annual allowances for In.
cldental expenses are equally large.
Ihe Elysee Is splendidly furnished and
kept In repair as his town residence. and
the palaces Of Fontainebleau and Ram
bouillet are also maintained by the
state for his use during the summer.
There are large shooting preserves at
Marty, where he can enjoy outdoor
sport during the autumn. The late
President Faure liked ceremony. splen-
dor and stateliness. Taking the view
that the French people did not wish to
nave the presidential Office maintained
In an unpretentious way, he adopted
much Of the etiquette Of European
courts, drove about constantly in a
coach-and-six under military escort and
gave brilliant entertainments in town
and country. Generously as the state
provided for him, he expended large
share of his private wealth in keeping
up luxurious appearances and in enter
tanning guests like the czar with splen-
did pomp. President Loubet has not
been long in Office, but it Is APPARENT
that he intends to live less pretentious-
~ and In closer accord with old-fash-
Toned ideas Of republican simplicity.
In comparison with his predecessors in
office he Is a poor man, and he has the
frugal tastes Of the class of small coun-
try landholders from which he sprang.
He represents the great element of
rural France, which studies and prac-
tees economy and dislikes wasteful-
ness and luxury. Pleasure-loving Paris
laughs over the rumors of reform and
retrenchment In the kitchens and serv-
ant-halls Of the Elysee, but the presi-
dents conduct meets with hearty ap-
proval in the country towns and vii
lagos, where thrift has never ceased to
be virtue. Even the boulevard wits
were silent when the president, re-.
turning to his mothers home in Monte
limar, gave on unstudied exhibition Of
filial reverence. Catching glimpse OF
her white hair as he drove in triumph
through the town in a magnificent
coach behind an escort Of cuirassiers,
he sprang to the ground, ran toward
the platform where she was seated and
embraced her again and again, while
she was sobbing from Joy and pride. A
president who is not ashamed of his
humble peasant mother and remembers
her counsels of thrift and carefulness,
stands for the best qualities Of staid,
rural France. There is so much that
is sordid and contemplate in the pub
lie life of the republic with the strange
hurly-burly of the Dreyfus case, that
a touch Of the simplicity of earlier and
better times is welcomed.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
SWEPT AWAY.

Jacksonville, Fla.-According to
Miami dispatch to the Times-U Union
and Citizen, Captain Dillon of the
steamer Cocoa states that the town of
Red Bay on the island of Andrews,
twenty miles south of Nassau, was
swept away in the recent tropical
hurricane, and about three hundred
lives were lost.
An eyewitness of the storm esti-
mated that the loss of life in the ISL
and was fully 60O Scattered through
the wreck of houses at Red Bay, after
the storm subsided, he said were
hundreds of corpses of persons of all
ages and classes.
Captain Dillon says the wind blew
at the rate of ninety miles an hour AT
Nassau, and occasionally at 1O5 miles
an hour
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01

The sympathies Of the whole country
were aroused by the recent abduction
from New York City and the subse-
quent recovery of little Marion Clark,
a baby 20 months old. Many aspects
Of this case are worthy of study. In
earlier days 1t was comparatively
easy act to steal a child and carry 1t
where Its identity was lost, while the
bereaved parents were left without
hope of Its return. Such cases were so
common that the accidental reunion Of
parents with their long-lost children be-
came familiar feature In literature
and on the stage. The prompt recovery
OF the Clark baby shows that, while the
world is all the time growing larger, in
another sense 1T is constantly decreas-
ing in size. The growth of great mod
ern cities, and the free movement of
people from place to place, would at
Drst seem to make 1t much easier to
carry out successfully crime Of this
kind to-day than it was in the past; but
modern inventions have more than Off
set these changed conditions of society.
When this child was stolen, such a
glare OF publicity was thrown upon the
crime that no nook or corner Of this
great country could long afford the
criminal hiding g-place. The telegraph.
the steam railroad, the perfected police
system all lent their aid,t but more val
liable than all else were the services Of
photography and the newspapers. The
daily Journals SO faithfully reproduced
the babys portrait that young WON
an in a country postofice, as soon as
sne saw the strange child, said: ''Why,
that looks like Marion Clark" The
modern daily press has many faults,
but occasionally 1t performs a service
SO important as somewhat to condone
them.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-01
WAS POMMELED TO DEATH IN
THE RING.

San Francisco-The autopsy held on
the remains of Jim Franey, the pugilist,
who died after having been knocked
out by Frank Mcconnell ON Wednes-
day night, showed that his vital or
gans were diseased; that he was in no
condition to enter any ring, and prin-
cipally that he had been pommeled
and beaten to death by Mcconnell, who
was arrested on a charge of man
slaughter and is now out on bail. A
similar charge has also been placed
against J. I. Groom and HI. D. Gibbs,
promoters of the fight; Hiram Cook
the referee, and the seconds Of both
men engaged in the contest. All have
given bonds and are now at liberty.