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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-01

June of Golfers Weekly an army of
enumerators will proceed to count the
citizens of the republic and collect a
great many other facts pertaining to
it's agricultural and manufacturing in
dustries that will De of profound inter
est not only to ourselves but to all the
inhabitants of the civilized world.
The census taken in the year of our
Lord 1900 means a great deal more, and
involves a great deal more than a sim
liar work in the year 1888. 1t is not
likely that the gentleman who acted
as superintendent of the first census
had the slightest conception of what
similar operation would mean at the
end of the nineteenth century. Origi-
nal1y the census was taken for the plIr-
pose of enumerating the inhabitants of
the country with a view of carving
into effect the constitutional enactment
requiring the appOrtiOnment, every ten
years, Of the members of the national
legislature in proportion to the number
of people contained in the federal union
AS the years have gone on, from a mere
count Of Inhabitants the census has de-
Veloped into a vast industrial and So
Geological undertaking, until today the
work placed upon this bureau has no
counterpart, Sc far as statistical enter
prise is concerned, in the civilized world.
I think it may be safely said, that no
country under the sun compares in
! thorOughreSs IN the work Of census
/ taking with the United States For ex-
ample, Germany takes its census at no
/ set period, and, beyond a complete emu
I meration attempts to tabulate but few
! additional statistics. France reserves
/ to herself a count of the people alone:
while Great Bri-in limits her statis-
/ tics to the same plan. Italy has taken
no census since 1891 owing to the finan-
ciaI straits of the government In some
/ of the South American states they do
more or less in the way Of statistic
gathering. but nothing that compares
with our own work. So it may be safely
said that the United States is far in
| advance of all other nations in many
things, even that of taking.
The plans for taking the census vary
i in all parts of the world. according tc
| circumstances. For example. in Eng
/ land they take the census in q single
night, through the medium Of registrars
Who appoint enumerators and prepare
returns within their own districts
Such a plan would. however, be thor
Ougly imoraeticable in a country Sc
sparsely settled in many parts as is thg
United States In Sweden the service.
OF the clergy are enlisted in co-opera-
ton with the civil authorities; but here
as elsewhere, schedules to be filed Out
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WORK BEGINS.
Army of Men Taking the Census
Today.
A House to House Canvass is
Commenced.
HOW 1T is DONE.
Details of the System Thor
Oughly Explained.
Director General Merriam
Writes of the Work.

Nv the assignment of the territory,f for
the sake Of convenience. Shawnee coun-
tvs census will be taken as a part of the
Fourth congressional district, the work
having commenced today. under the
general supervision of Charles S
Briggs.
The work of taking the twelfth cen
sus of the United States begins today in
all the states This is in accordance
with the act of congress providing for
the work. The expense of preparing for
this work has been so great, the build
ings necessary have cost so much, that
It is extremely probable that congress
will make the department d permanent
one and do away with the preparations
which are made for the census at the
beginning of each census period.
VIII Trapp is the only Topeka young
man who has been summoned to Wash
inston to take a position in the depart
ment there. He passed a very credita-
Bile examination, being first In the list
of Topeka applicants Capt. A. A. Row
ley has also been appointed to place
in the bureau at Washington.
The work in Shawnee county is being
done by enumerators designated by Mr.
Briggs. the supervisor for the Fourth
district under the direction Of J. E. Lar
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cables. There was some bull support, and
reports of wet weather were g help jury
vaIlced to 371zc- Local receipts were o4S
cars.
and closed firm, July 5s95zc higher at
37sz Gzsc.
OAT5The trade in oats early was light
and featureless but the tone was steac57
in sympathy with corn. July opened 1se
lower at 213s6Ac and sold to A14c- Local
receipts were AIS cars
PROVISIONS-The provisions market
was weak early despite a firm hog mar
ket. The dip caught many stop loss or
ders. July pork opened 27zc lower al 81 y
and declined to S11-0O. July lard began the
session a shade lower at $50 and soid %
S.. 7z12. and July ribs unchanged at $3.50,
declining to $6.371z. -
F'LAx-Cash: n. W., $3.50; 8. W., $1-SOs
September $1-261z; October. sl21A-
RYl522zc.
BARLEY--36ld42c.
TIMOTHY@S24 40
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Chicago, June 1.-CATTLE-Receipt
1,5O0 steers about steady butcher stock
strong. Good to prime steers, S4SoQ5-60l
poor to medium, S4-40Q4.SD. stockers and
feeders. IS. 7505.00; cows, SO. O0G449 helfers,
So 25a4 IS: Gamers, S2.25G290; bulls. $500
40: calves. $50od7.O0; Texas fed steers,
81. 0oG5.I0: Texas grass steers, s.. 75q4- 49,.
Texas bulls, 50. 15dS. S.
HOGS-Receipts, q. 900; tomorrow. 10000;
left over. 2.129- Opened shade higher.
closed weak Top, $50 Mixed and
butchers. 81 :s5l5. 171z;, good to choice Ice
light, 81. 90d515; bulk of sales, ST. II T.
SHEEP-Receipts 1000; slow to 10 cts
10 to is cents lower: good TO choice weth-
ers, $1,000. 40; fair to choice mixed, s. 4O0
4eo: western sheep. $5-09Q5-40; yearlings,
So 40d5. 80; native lambs, S50047.z5, western
lambs. SC. 0c47730; spring lambs, $5-45Qs-0O-
Official for yesterday:
RECEIPTS-Cattle, 1881 hogs, 30s5S5;
sheep, 1871
SUPERINTENDENT AIS; hogs, 6,1oss
sheep, none.
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New York Money Eaarket.

New York June 1.-MONEY-MOney on
call nominally per cent. prime mercan-
tile paper. 3l4d41z per cent Sterling ex-
change steady with actual business IN
bankers bills, at S4STis for demand and
al 81 s4ILdsk for sixty days. posted rates,
81 s5la and 81 ssh; commercial bills, 1854
d4.S4.
SILVER-Silver certificates, 6e11zc; bar
silver SOC: Mexican dollars 471zc
Government bonds strong; re-
funding Is. when issued. registered, 1u51si
coupon. 1O4; Is registered. s97s; IS. regis
tered 1884 coupon, 1885; new As, regis
tered. l34z; coupon, 1872: old Is regis
tered lI42z: coupon, 1854; S. registered,
ll334; coupon, 1854.
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platform when the ceremony took place
did people know the names of the bride
and groom.
At 8 o'clock Marshans band march
ed to the National hotel. met the bridal
couple and the wedding march to the
street fair was commenced. The band
played the liveliest of marches and the
couple followed in a hack. Several thou
sand people followed the procession to
the fair.
AT the main gate the crowd was so
large that it was with difficulty that the
procession could get through The
crowd was anxious to obtain a closer
view of the couple. The groom seemed
embarrassed and even blushed but the
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inner. the special agent designated by
the department.
The enumerators for Shawnee county
are as follows:
Auburn township, A. W. Padgitt, Au-
burn; Dover township, Henry Per-
Idns, Dover; Menoken township, c. S.
Ward, Menoken; Mission township J. E.
Maus, Topeka; Monmouth township, w.
W. Tibbetts, Richland; Rossville town
ship, w c. Gilbert. Rossville: Silver
Lake township, VIM. DOel5- Silver Lake;
Soldier township, Ralph K. Ream, Kill
mer, and Thos. T. Wright, North To-
peka; Tecumseh township, NJ. T. Wat
son, TecunSeh; Topeka township, John
Carter, Oakland; John Humbert. Quin-
ton Heights: l. L Stahl. 1878 Lincoln
street; Topeka Insane asylum. not yet
named; Williamsport township. VIM.
| Crozier.
TOPEKA CITY.
First ward, Topeka-First precinct,
| George 9. Stoker 917 North Quincy
! street, and Calvin M Matthews, 1926
/ Central avenue; Second precinct, T. J
| Pearson and George NJ Hall. 1927 North
! Jefferson street: Third precinct. A. A
/ Fhley, 1918 North Madison street, and
! Mark Waldman, 621 West Gordon
| street.
Second ward-First precinct. Rufus NJ
/ precinct George w. Charles, ia Kansas
! avenue; Third precinct, Frank G. Ross
| oo4 bGanneE street, precinct NOT
man J. Burdick Veale block. Fred F
! Freeman; Fifth precinct, w. c. Pigg, 81
] Kansas avenue, and James Manahan, 81
! Kansas avenue.
Third ward-First precinct. George
| Eagle, 9O6 Quincy street: Second precinct
| John c. Langston, SIG East Eighth street
| Third precinct c. c. Clark S35 Fillmor,
street. and G. c. Finley; Fourth precinct
| Thos. p. Bone.
Fourth ward-F1rst precinct John Val
1 Vechten, 216 Tyler street; Second pre-
/ cinct, John G. Klingaman 122 West Ffftl
street: Third precinct, Randolph Whit
mer. 500 West Sixth street. Fourth pre-
cinct Leander NJ. Carter sos Clay street
and James A. Page, e23 Western avenue
Fifth ward-First precinct. VIM. Fer
relli Second precinct. Ezekiel Ridley. 30
Washington street. Third precinct Thee
| F. Orner, Twelfth and Kansas avenue.
Sixth ward-E. H. Roudebush, lao Hi
street.
MIR. MERRIAM TELLS HOW 1T I:
DONE.
The preliminary work incident t
taking the enumeration of the people 0
the United States is practically finished
and on the first of June, in accordanc
with the act under which this burea.
is orga nized, says Census Director "
X. Merriam in an article in the issue c
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TODAY,S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago. June 1.-WHEAT-July wheat
opened 1sc higher. at 67isd1zc and sold to
STA 02sc early on the light Argentine ship
nentS and the Liverpool steadiness-
While there were good rains in the north
west it was claimed that they We're not
general. The reports were conflicting
July following the opening squirt. sold off
to 66&4c but on covering by shorts. re-
acted to 667sl67c- Local receipts were IS
cars, one OF contract grade. Trade was
rather quiet
The market held quiet and steady to the
end. There was some buying for the for
eign account. July closed sc under yes
terday at 6G7k067c.
CORN-T'he corn market was rather
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cheers, the merry go-round started up,
the tom-toms on the midway made
more noise than ever and Marshall's
band played "A Hot Time
The public wedding was the feature of
the week and all previous records for
attendance were broken. There were
10, 400 tickets sold at the main gate. and
al least 1900 people admitted on passes,
making the largest attendance of the
week. All day City Clerk Squires had
been besieged by those wishing to know
the names of the couple. The guardian
of the secret refused to tell and not I'M
til the names We're pronounced on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-01
Kansas City Produce Market

Kansas City, June 1-WHEAT-July.
6G1kllkc: September 61A- Cash: No. 2
hard, 6G1ac; No. ,, 5SG6oc; No red, 64a
CiORNYJuiy. slssa1kc; September. moth
ing doing Cash: No. 2 mixed, 34az a35c:
No 2 white 36aAc; No 3. 551zc.
OATS-No. 2 white, 2314 exc.
HAY-Choice timothy $1e.OOa1O.5o; choice
prairie, s6.754700
fancy, 14c.
EGGS-Fresh. SIC.
RECKIPTS-Wheat. 79 cars.
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Privileges good next week: Puts July
wheat, 651ac; calls, roc Puts, July corn.
S61zc; calls. 40c
An article appeared in the Journal last
evening wherein the representative Of the
Christie-Street Commission Co in this
city stated that all the commission houses
in Topeka would be affected should the
Chicago Board Of Trade discontinue turn-
ishing quotations to the Western Union
interested, that J. c. Goings has a leased
Postal wire. and has had for over year,
and his firm will not be affected by the
action of the Chicago Board OF Trade in
shutting out the Aeslern Union.
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Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City, June 1.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, ESQ. Market steady to strong.
Native steers, $3.2595.30: Texas steers
So 50d5. 90; Texas cows, S2.50113-15; native
cows and heifers, 81 25Q4-7e; stockers and
feeders. Sc. 1866; bulls, 1854. so.
HOGS@Receipts, II, 900; market, 5Q7i5c
higher; active. Bulk of sales. s4-S5d5. 90,
heavy, s4;s5q5; g., packers. 81, s. SO; 50;
mixed 81. 771zq4 s0; light. $3.50 q s2ls' york
ers, 81 s5d4 921z; pigs, 81 20d4-S73s-
HEEP@Receipts, 1000; market strong.
Lambs, 5.0Oa7. 40: muttons, 50 40l5.35.
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Miss Mary Aigner Becomes Mrs.
Ross May at Street Fair.
The Wedding Guests Numbered
Nearly 5000.
BRIDAL PROCESSION.
1t Reached From the National
Hotel to Fifth Street.
Attendance at the Street Fair
Reaches a Climax.

The spielers paused, the merry-go-
round stood idle, the mechanical pianos
stopped and for a. moment the 12,O0U
people at the street fair Thursday night
were quiet. Judge Dolman impressiveiy
asked the necessary questions and when
he said, Il now pronounce you man and
wife" and Ross May and Mary Aigner
were married. the crowd broke forth in
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Sugar Market.

New York, June L-SUGAR-Raw
strong; fair refining. 1 Lie. centrifugal,
IS test g-1sc: molasses sugar. 55sc; re-
fined. firm crushed, $50; powdered. S5-e
graduated, S5-50-
COFFEE-Steady: No. Rio, Sc
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Liverpool. June 1.-COTTON-Spot cot
ton quiet; prices lower; American mid
Galveston. Texas. June 1.-cOTTON-
Easy, sac.
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New York, June 1-BUTTER-Barely
steady; western, 161sG255zc; factory, l3g
Ice.
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Furnished by J. c. Goings. Commission
Merchant. 112 East Fifth street. Topeka
Kan, receiver and shipper OF grain
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DENVER, COLORADO SPRINGS,
PUEBLO AND RETURN, $24,
Via the Santa Fe.

Tickets on sale June 1st: stopover ale
lowed at Colorado common points.
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he was the only one experienced in min
ing. Price was on his way to Kadiak
over the ice by dog team, en- route to Cali
fornia"
Who Found Beaches?
If the discoverer OF the gold OF Nome
is not known. there is still more doubt as
to the finder OF the richness of the Nome
beach. 1t would take a professional
chronioler months of work 10 gather all
the claims advanced in this direction. for
nearly every vessel that arrived from Ber-
ing sea last fall brought reliable and
fully authenticated" report from persons
in a position TO know of the discoverer
of the beach, and in each case, strangely.
IL was a different man. Armed with this
report as basis each particular man add
ed to II. and in the absence OF contra
dictory evidence established his claim for
the time being.
A romantic tale of the finding of the
beach gold is told by u. r. Dwyer, as be-
ing the one given general credence on
the Yukon. He says that an aged klon-
diker. suffering with scurvy, and broken
down from the hardshps and long work
and exposure in the Yukon district, had
wandered to Nome. where creek mining
was at Its height. and one day last July
took his pan and wandered out of MS
ragged tent to the beach. For Lack Ct
something else to do he idly washed out
a little sand, and his experienced eye
at once perceived colors He washed an
other and still another, with increasing
interest and excitement as he went along.
some prospectors happening by asked him
what he was doing. Looking for gold"
he replied and, what's better. I've found
it, and so he had. 1t is said that tails
occurred In July.
A. n. Gray. OF the n. A. r. e. T. Co. rs
quoted as follows. as to the claims of No
BILE Wallingford who IL also numbered
among the 'discoverers":
II saw Mr.. walllngford on the beach Jul,
10. 1899 and knew that he was the first ma .
to discover pay gold on the Nome beach
This was near the Alaska Exploration
Company's warehouse. and Il was the news
Of his find that caused such stampede TO
those digsings"
Here il another report that IL given ure-
dence:
william Thompson che present deputy
recorder, has the honorable distinction of
being the first locator of a beach claim IN
Alaska This made at Sinook which
district was organized September q 1895
and he gave the first SO in dust taken from
his claim as the recorders fees for nllus
his notice. The cold weather coming on
nothing further was done that fall by MIR
Thompson. In the following spring he took
out So before the arrt boat came in but
did not go 10 bedrock This discovery
became known al Cape Nome and tho
beaches there were worked 10 fabulous
profit The district Of SHOOK II on the
coast twenty miles west Of Nome George
Curtis, formerly OF Seattle. was chosen re-
corder OF SHOOK
According 10 the foregoing story. the
Shook district anteisted the Nome district
by several weeks.
And so on, stu. may the question he
asked with no hope OF a correct answer
Who discovered Noms7
After all. it matters little. and summing
Il all up there seems no question but his,
the first gold was taken out by the swedes
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he met n party of white men belonging to
the schooner Falkenburg. camping close 10
the mouth of river enptying into Bering
strait I'm the neighborhood of Port Clar-
ence. These men had been up the river
prospecting at that time. and were on their
return to the schooner Being short of pro-
visions themselves. Lindbiom had TO be
contented with piece of stale bread and
some dried fish which he obtained from
them. and continued his way back to Port
Clarence. From a prospector there he Sc
cured some provisions and started out
anew In the hope of reaching the trading
station at Golovin bay, by way Of the head
waters of Fish river He walked UP the
river some thirty miles when he met
party Of twenty natives going down stream
In their big canoe. From the chief. Poma-
shack. I.indbioIn was allowed to go with
them to Goodwin bay. The next day the
Indians killed walrus. and landed in the
evening at the mouth of Shook river,
where they went fishing for a few days.
During this time Lindblom amused him
self by trying to find out IL there was gold
on the river banks. The only implement at
his disposal consisted of small frying pan
used by the natives for cooking purposes.
with this crude and greasy miners tool he
succeeded in finding some good colors,
thereby establishing. TO his own satisfac-
ton, the fact that gold was there. This
was the 18th OF July. 1905 The next day
the Indians left Shook river and sailed
along the coast to the mouth OF Snake riv-
err While stopping a few days fishing at
this place, Lindblom again tried his former
experiment with the frying pan, and found
on the banks Of Snake river some good
colors.
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Wanted TO Kno4p SNining.

''The 10th Of July the party arrived at
the trading station at Golovin bay, where
Lindblom told the trader. Mr.. Dexter, and
Missionary Hultberg. about his experience
and the location OF gold. Not being a prac-
tical miner himself at that time. and eager
to obtain some knowledge concerning pros
pecting and mining in general, Lndblom
went up Fish river 10 secure work Gold
had previously been found there. he
worked AZ these mines until the sth OF Sep
TENDER. when he came down Fish river 10
the trading station. During his absence
Missionary Hultberg, with party of Ave
men. had been over to Snake river pros
pecting but pronounced Llndblom's gold
discovery a fake. and the men themselves
admitted that they had been on a Wild
goose chase.
"t.indbiom however knew there was
gold at Snake river. and induced two
Swedes Bryntesen and IinaerberS, to go
with him on a prospecting tour. They left
Golovin hay the lith ~ September. arriv-
ing az Snake river the 18th. On the 18th
they found some coarse gold on what today
r. is known as the discovery claim on Anvil
creek ON Snow guich they PANIED out
some SO The discovery Of gold was an
established fact. and the prospectors staked
out claims and returned 20 Golovin bay the
5th Of October.
I'm order so organize mining district
the prospectars told their experience 70 A
few selected ones, and as a consequence Of
this Information = party OF seven men con-
sisting Of Iindblom. Bryntesen. Under
berg Kittelseu. Price. TornAnses and
Adams. with ample tools and provisions.
left In the mission schooner on the 18th Of
October arriving az Snake river the 18th
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BtdOuDtD HISTORY.

Vt v7Ho discovered Nome? Only
w = +: +: Z; 1. ;: &: T.!
the discovcrer, when ne did
II and how II happened. are as little au-
thenticaly known as who he was. when
he did Il and how It happened In the case
Of tho discovery OF America, Tradition
underlios ali the chief facts OF the hls-
history OF this remarkable locality. and
definite and undsputed knowledge OF II
viii probably never he obtained No
fewer than a dozen explorers OF the north
claim the proud distinction % having boon
the mon who unearthed the FIRST shovel
full OF rich dirt and picked up the irst
nugget. and the same may be said of the
Nome beaches. Zach has discoveries
without number. and each discovery is
hoistcred up by the testimony Of ''re-
liable witnesses that would seem to
stamp the particular claimant as the only
dlsonvercr
Ordinarily Il would matter very little
who discovered the richness 81 the Coun-
try, bat IA this particular instance like
the discoycreF OF America. who first learn
aa that che world WAS round and moved
around the sun, there seems TO be a con
tention based ON some unknown return
and reward fer Il that causes every body
who happened 20 be near Nome about
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The Seattle Post lnislligoncer, daily ast
Sunday. sent to any address for = esass
per month. or one year. $50, six naa'lss
N.Uo
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Later, reports from these began 10 come
hack. and d then became generally known
that here was a wonderful country, where
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"A year and a half has gone
since the riches OF this now
famous district were tap
ped. and yet the name OF