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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
WRITES FROM AFRICA.
A Kansas Missionary Tells of His Ex-
perience at Port Elizabeth.

Abilene, June sc. c. Cress, who is
in Africa doing missionary work, writes
home to the Reflector from Port Eliza
beth, Cape Colony, under date of May
6, as follows:
After lying in port three days at Cape
Town we again put to sea and headed
for AlgOa bay, 428 miles east, arriving
here at 10 o'clock, April 20. Through
some difficulty the steamer Baltazan,
plying between New York and the
South African ports, which is convey
ing our personal effects, had been de-
layed a week in Brooklyn and in conse-
quence had not yet arrived. AS rooms,
board and washing would cost us three
S25 per week, it was decided that my
wife and Brother Lehman proceed to
Buluwayo, eleven hundred miles inland,
and alone remain to receive and for
ward the freight. 1 telegraphed to the
mission and sent them on the next
through train. Elder Jesse Engle met
them at the station and conveyed them
to a hotel for the night, and in a couple
of days proceeded with them to the mis-
sion, which lies 80 miles eastward from
BulaWayo among the Matoppa noun
tains. They were conveyed out in an
OK cart, the team consisting of two
oxen and four mules, driven by Elder
Engle, of whom wife writes:
I'VE found J. E. enjoying perfect
health and looking much younger than
when we parted with him in Kansas
year and half ago"
I am yet in Port Elizabeth, anxiously
waiting for our goods, which are over
due now six days, but I am told by the
agents that cargo-boats often encounter
heavy seas which cause them much de-
lay owing to the heavy tonnage car
ried in vessels not built for speed, but
for strength and endurance.
This town contains about 35 900 people
who are struggling against great odds
for an ordinary living. Labor is very
cheap owing to the swarms of KaffirS
and Bushmen, who, like the Chinese in
America, work for the lowest wages
and live in absolute squalor and misery
in kraals built a mile or two out from
the city. All the necessary provisions
of food and clothing are enormously high
priced. Perhaps a few figures would
prove interesting to you.
Ordinary laboring men as hod-carri-
ers, street and railroad gausers, wharf
men, etc, receive so cents per day of
eight hours. Ordinary shop and store
clerks, 81 per day. Bookkeepers and
commercial writers of the upper class,
$1.5 per day. Board al hotels and pri-
vate house from Sc to SO a week.
have quite often attended the daily
market where produce is auctioned off
by criers instead of being sold directly
by private individuals. I will give you
a list of prices: Tomatoes, 81 per bushel;
potatoes, 81. 50 per hundred weight; cab
bage 5 cents pound; rabbits, so cents
each; small chickens, 40 cents each; tur-
keys, 81 each; eggs, so cents a dozen;
butter, so cents a pound: bran,$ a hun
dred weight; firewoOd, So to So a load :;
corn meal. Pr cents a pound; oats, SO
cents bushel; onions, $3.50 per bushel;
leaf tobacco, 1 to 6 cents a pound; -four
$3.50 hundred weight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
PLEASE PAY MY DOG TAX.
Kansas City Woman Makes Odd Re
quest of Gov. Stanley.

A letter received by Governor Stanley
from a woman in Kansas City, Kan. to-
day has been declared the prize among
all the freakish communications which
reach the state house. The woman writes
as follows:
MY. Dearest Governor:-I have heard
so much about you that 1 have really
Grown to like you very much and only
regret that 1 am so situated that I can
not visit Topeka and make your acquaint-
ance. I know we should become fast
friends
Now my dear freidn I wish you would
go over the cort house and pay my dog
tax. Or go wherever you are required to
pay the tax and do this for me- My dog
gle is now the only comfort have
The letter read to Mort Alba
chairman of the Republican state commit
tee, and he was so touched that he put
his hand in his pocket and raised the
money to pay the tax on the ''doggie."
Henry Allen wanted Mr.. Albaugh to let
him pay part of the tax, but the return
of the governor to consciousness after
having read the letter suspended the argu-
ment in favor of restoratives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
OFFICERS CHOOSE METCALF
Funston Said to Have Left Selection
of Colonel to Them.

Manila, May 6 Cby maiD.-For colonel
Lieut.. Col Little. /; Maj: Metcalf. q.
That was the result of an election of a
colonel by the line officers of the Tven-
tieth Kansas volunteers after Col Fun
StOn taken away from the regiment
to become a brigadier.
After Funston was promoted to be brig
adler meeting of the twenty-eight line
officers of the regiment was called to elect
a man to command the regiment. AL
though the appointment rested entirely
with Governor Stanley in Kansas. it was
believed that he would be Influenced by
Col Funston's recommendation. But Fun
ston did not accept this power directly
Instead he called an election of the line
officers. Possibly the little Kansas SOL
der knew the sentiment of his officers.
At any rate. twenty-seven voted to have
Maj Metcalf command. one voted for
Lieut.. Col. Little. while Maj. Whitman re-
ceived no votes. Combining all the quail
ties of a soldier and a gentleman Mai.
Metcalf has endeared himself to the en-
tire regiment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
CARNEGIE'S LATEST GIFT.
Will Donate $4,000 to Stevens In
stitute For New Laboratory.

New York. June S.-Andrew Carnegie
has promised to give $4,000 to Stevens In
stitute for a new engineering laboratory.
President Morton and the trustees had
the building of the laboratory in mind
for some time. but were unable to start
the work on account of a lack of funds.
On one occasion, not long ago. President
Morton met Mr.. Carnegie, with whom he
is well acquainted, and explained the sit
uation to him. Mr.. Carnegie listened at
tentively. but made no suggestions
Yesterday President Morton got a letter
from Mr.. Carnegie. who is in Scotland
saying that it would give him great pleas
ure to donate $50. 900 for the building of
the laboratory. President Morton was
happy when he read the letter. He said
that the plans for the new laboratory
would be prepared at once. He said that
when completed the laboratory would sur
pass those of Cornell and Columbia and
would equal that of the Massachusetts
Institute, which is said to be the best in
the country
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Women
Would Sure
N Try Mrs.
PEEsfCEsa7sSS
eEzSCEEse IF
They Only
Knew. Says
MF'S. King

and received benefit from it at once.
1 have taken it ever since and now
have no backache, no pain in my
side and my stomach and bowels are
perfectly well. I can honestly say that
there is nothing like it. If 1 could only
tell every woman how much good your
medicine has done me, they would
surely try t."-MARTHA NJ. KING, NORTH
ATTLEBoRo, MASS.
The way women trifle with health
shows a degree of Indifference that is
misunderstanding. Happiness and use
fulness depend on physical health; SO
does a good disposition. Disease makes
women nervous, irritable and snap
pish. The very effort of ailing women
to be good-natured makes them ner-
vous. Write to Mrs. Pinkham, she will
help you to health and happiness.
1t costs nothing toget Mrs. Pinkham's
advice. Her address is Lynn, Mass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
F. 4. DOLAN ARRESTED.
Santa Fe Official Held to Be In Com
tempt of Court.

Word has been received at the Santa
Fe offices in this city of the arrest of
superintendent T. T. Dolan of the Okla
homa division of the road for contempt
of court. The arrest is the result of the
trouble now going on between the Santa
Fe company and the city of Oklahoma
City.
The trouble is over a sidetrack con-
structed by the road on land acquired
by the regular condemnation proceed
ings. The question of the title of the
land was afterward raised, and Monday
a. force of men started to take up the
sidetrack. The company attorney at
Oklahoma City at once secured an in
junction in the federal court, and the
next day section men commenced to re-
lay the track taken up the day before.
The city at once retaliated by securing
a restraining order in the district court,
and work on fence about the ground
from which the track had been removed
was commenced.
To put a stop to the fence work
superintendent Dolan ordered a string
of coal cars run onto the ground. This
was done, and as a result a warrant
for the arrest of Mr. Dolan was issued
by the district judge on the ground
that he was guilty of contempt of court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
WEEK OF DEVOTION.

The devotions being held at the
in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and preparatory to the Feast of the
Sacred Heart, on Friday, will terminate
Friday evening with the Act of Conse-
Grafton of the Sacred Heart. On Fri
day evening at 1880 Bichop Meerscaert
of Oklahoma will deliver a sermon.
Everybody invited to attend. A iridium
or three days spiritual preparation for
the Feast of the Sacred Heart is being
held during this week throughout the
whole Catholic world, at the earnest
request of the holy father, Pope Leo
XIII, for the purpose of stimulating
our love to our Redeemer and for the
spiritual regeneration of the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
NO REST FOR WICKED.
Four Convicts to Be Rearrested as
Soon as Released From Prison.

Governor Stanley today honored a
requisition from the governor of Arkan-
sas for four convicts now in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, who will be
arrested July 1, at the expiration of their
terms of sentence.
Harve Bruce, Alva Church, Dave Mil
sapS and Turner Skidmore were moon
sinners in the mountains of Arkansas.
Ben Taylor, deputy United States mar
shall, was shot and killed while attempt
ing to arrest them.
This quartette has been in the peniten-
tiary some time. Their sentences VIII ter
inmate in a few days and they will then
be arrested under the requisitiOn honored
today, returned to Little Rock and tried
for the murder of the marshal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08

that they enjoy visiting him If he asks
a blessing at the table.
We have decided that that which peo-
pie take for tremulous emotion In an
eIocutionist, is very often fright.
When a woman can't sing. at all.
friends excuse her by saying that
though her voice is not strong, it is
very sweet.
When a funeral is held on a Sunday,
a man knows that he can invent no ex-
cuse for staying away that his wire
will accept.
Nothing makes man more disguised
than to have a woman believe other
mems ten-pound fish stories, though ne
demands that she believe his own story
of a whale.
Refreshments are not served at par
ties because guests are hungry, put
eating begins, and commence to get
acquainted.
Everything depends on good sense
and good taste. If you are anxious TO
make a success in life, cultivate good
sense and good taste, rather than a
sour disposition, or gOSSipy disposition,
or a disposition to be a fool
There is a great quarrel in an Atchi-
son family The wife claims it was
her prayers which secured her husband
a certain good position. and he insists
that it was his fitness for the job. He
threatens to neglect his work, and see
if her prayers will keep. the job for him.
A card of thanks:-I wish to thank
the dear friends who so kindly SuS-
tanned me in my hour of trial at a re-
cent commencement, when my daugh-
ter Junebelle, broke down and forgot
the lines of her Grafton. Their kind
ness in tanning me, passing me the
in,
despair, until my daughter remembered
where she was and went on, will al
WAYS be remembered with emotion and
gratitude.-Mrs. Lysander John Apple
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
GOING TO LONDON.
Uncle Sam Sends William Rice on a
Especial Mission.

Fort Scott, June S.-W. NJ. Rice of
this city, who has been in the govern
ment employ for the last two years and
who has just returned from a special
mission to Japan, left today for Lon
don on another special errand. He has
been transferred from the position of
commissioner of immigration at Van
which he holds the position of special
agent, the same office he held under
President Harrison.
He will not be assigned to any par
ticular place under his new appoint
ment. He is now under the civil ser
vice regulations and will probably hold
the Office Indefinitely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08

Des Moines News: When Greek
meets Greek then comes the tug of
war. Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas
cyclone. is to speak at a spiritualistic
camp meeting at Anderson, Ind. while
Helen Cougar, the Indiana whirlwind.
is to speak at the same city for the
anti-spiritualists at the same time. The
average Andersonite has begun to pre-
pare a cyclone cellar and will retire
and plug up the hole when the merry
breeZes begin to blow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
z. o. FOOTBALL TEAM.
Makeup of the Jayhawkers For 1899
Play Nebraska in Conven-
ton Hall

Lawrence, June s.-The Kansas uni
versity football team for 1899 has been
formed and the students and alumni
are looking forward to some fast play
ing by the Jayhawkers. All the old
team will be back except Mosse and
HamiIl. Their places will be taken by
White and Beaman. White comes from
Washburn college, and Beaman is a
famous shot putter. Yost, the coach of
last years Nebraska team, will be the
coach for Kansas.
The team will be made up as fol-
lows: Wilcox, center; Woodward and
Smith, tackles; Simpson and Avery,
ends; Owens. quarterback; Tucker,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
TAKING UP CLAIMS.
Contests Filed In the Mineral Dis
tricts of Ellis and Trego.

-WaKeeney, June S-A. H Cox, an
attorney Of this place, has already
filed contests on IS claims in the Trego-
Ellis counties mining district, and the
prospects are that all the government
land in the belt will soon be covered
by homestead entries. Many Trego
county people are securing land in the
mining district.
Several cars of ore have been ship
ped to Florence, Col, where it is being
treated with what is known as the
Bean process. Opinions differ to the
richness of the mineral, and as soon as
it is definitely determined what ma
chinery will best reduce the ore, a mill
will be erected at the mines in Trego
county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
A WAY OUT.
Solution of Armor Plate Trouble
Reached by Secretary Long

Washington, June S.-Secretary Long
has passed on the armor bids recently
submitted deciding to purchase a small
quantity of armor and to let the next
congress decide what shall be done
towards securing the remainder need
ed. The armor companies having sta
ted that they could not furnish Krupp
armor of the high grade required by
the department at the price fixed by
law but that they could continue the
supply of harVeyiZed armor at $500 per
ton, the secretary has ordered the pur-
chase of some of the latter. The bu-
reau chiefs have reported that this
harVeyized armor would answer the re-
Quirements for the armor of the four
monitors to be built and also for the
diagonal plates of %he battleshiDs
Maine Missouri and Ohio now under
construction. The diagonal plates were
wrought into the ships at an early
period of the construction and the sec
retary's decision will go far towards
preventing the delay that would ensue
had it been decided to purchase no ar
NOR.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
Leonora Smallpox Scare.

Atchison, June S.-M. E. Meyer, may
or of Lenora, writes that the smallpox
is dying out at that place. There are
only eight cases, and the patients are
all out of danger. He says that DR.. c.
F. Howe's treatment preverta-
tive has not failed in a single instance
1t is the one recommended to Atchison
people at the time OF the scare here,
and consists of taking one tablespoon
full of pure cider vinegar four times q
day in two times the amount of va
ter. The local quarantine has been
lifted, and business will be resumed in
a few daVS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Fine Building Will Be Dedicated at
Coheyville June Is.

Coffeyville. June S.-There will be
June Is, one of the prettiest and best
church buildings in the county-the
new Catholic church. which is situated
in North Maple street between Sixth
and Seventh streets Rt. Rev. Bishop
Hennessy of Wichita will be here. The
new church is a well built, handsome
structure which cost, complete about
81, 500. 1t has a seating capacity of 400
persons and the dimensions of the aud
itorium are 36x75 feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
STORER IS FOUND.
Unofhcially Washington Knows
Where He Is.

San Sebastian, Spain, June 8.-The
newly appointed United States minister
to Spain, Mr. Bellany Storer, started
for Madrid today.
UNOFFICIALLY DISCOVERED.
Washington, June S.-The state de-
partment is now acquainted with the
whereabouts of Bellamy Storer as he
has been unofficially heard from.
The Spanish minister paid his first
business visit to the state department
today, the occasion being the regular
weekly diplomatic day, and spent a
quarter of an hour with Secretary Hay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
FIGHT THE TRUSTS.
Governor Stanley Favors United Ac-
ton of State Executives

Governor Stanley in reply to a letter
of inquiry from Governor Sayres of
Texas, says:
"A united movement on the part of
the governors and attorney generals of
the states of the west and south would
in my opinion result in restriction of
the growth of trusts. Were such
movement inaugurated 1 would very
gladly enter into it"
The agitation upon this subject has
resulted in a conference of these off,
Gals of the western states being called
at St Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
M'KINLEY ITINERARY.
Presidents New England Trip Will
Begin June 10.

Washington, June S.-The itinerary
of the presidents New England trip is
almost completed. He will leave on
Friday, June Is for Holyoke, Mass,
where he will be the guest on Saturday
and Sunday of William Whiting
On Monday the president will go to
Northampton to attend exercises at
Smith college and Tuesday he will
visit the Mount Holyoke seminary
where his niece will be one of the grad
yates. On Wednesday he will go to
Springfield and on Thursday to Adams.
Mass, where he will be the guest for
several days of w. B. Plunkett, presi-
dent of the Home Market club. The
president will be gone about ten days.
Mrs Mckinley will accompany him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
SMITH COUNTY CROPS
As Hopeful as Usual at This Season
of the Year.

Smith Center, June S.-The continued
ory weather in this section which was
beginning to alarm the farmers, is a
thing of the past A splendid rain last
friday night did much to improve con-
dlt1ons and a steady, soaking rain of
several hours dura ton Tuesday put
growing crops in splendid condition 1t
greatly improved wheat prospects and
lnsures a good start for corn. 1t is
generally agreed that crop conditions
are as hopeful as is usual at this sea-
son of the year
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To Improve Their Park.

Grainfeld. June S.-The Grainield
Driving Park association, abandoned a
few years ago, is again being put in
shape for racing and baseball sport this
summer. Money sufficient to put it in
first-class use has already been sub
scribed. At one time the Grainfield
driving park was one of the most noted
in this section of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
Mules For Fort Rilev.

Five hundred mules were received at
this post last week, $50 Thursday and
$50 Saturday, from Chickamauga Park,
where they have been kept since the
big camp there last summer. They are
brought here to be paStured on the
reservation. There were % carloads in
all with II herders.-Fort Riley Guidon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, June S.-Pensins have
been granted as follows:
Original-Wm. ]. Wilson, Powhat-
tan, IS; John Rogers, Leavenworth,
S. Nathaniel H. Shelter. Holton. S.
Restoration. reissue and Increase
William P. Courey, dead. Blue Mound.
IS to $12
Increase-Robert Miller Gordon,$6 to
so.
Original widows, etc.-Emma Courey,
Blue Mound. So; minor of Harvey w.
Gustin, Wichita, $40.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08

though L must
tell about it. A
year ago 1 was
taken very sick
Doctors could Go
me no good only
to deaden the
pain which L
had almost con-
stantly. L got
some of your
Compound and
took one bottle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08

Nothing makes a man more disguised
than to have a woman believe othel
mems ten-pound fish stories, though he
demands that she believe his own story
of a whale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
COMING HOME WITH DEWEY.
Harry Honeywell of Salina is Travel
ing With the Hero of Manila.

GF'rom the Salina Union.l
Harry Honeywell, who is a musician
on the battleship Baltimore, is now on
his way home aboard the battleship
olympia. Dewey's flagship. He will ar
rive here with the hero of Manila and
VIII witness the big demonstration in
New York harbor on Dewey's arrival.
Harry Honeywell is a son of Mrs. g.
Honeywell of this city and has been in
the navy for over two years. He wit
messed the battle of Manila Bay, May 1,
1898.
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HOGAN CAUGHT.
Suspected of Stealing Valise From
Depot Platform.

Officer Mccoy went to Kansas City
this morning after Sam Hogan suspect
ed of stealing a valise from the Santa
Fe depot platform three weeks ago.
Chief Ramsey received a message at
noon that Mccoy had found his man
and had him under arrest there waiting
for reQuiSitiOn papers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08

Statistics show that up to date about
SIS. 900, 900 of Indebtedness has been
wiped out by the new bankruptcy law
Judges who administer the law in var
ious sections of the country say that in
their opinion no undue advantage has
been taken of it by debtors.