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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11
New York Uptown Gossip.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE crop situation
has not been entirely cleared up by the
monthly government report issued yester-
day after the close of business The de-
cline in condition of corn is much less
than has been expected. The average IS
placed at s7.5 against Ss.5 on July l. OF
course there has been according to some
reports a deterioration since the begin
ming of the month on account of con-
tinued drouth and heat. At l per cent. of
its growth corn needs rain, for the crop
was planted in comparatively dry ground
and therefore has been lacking in reserve
moisture to draw upon. The report
shows an important decline in the condi-
ton from last month in Kansas and Ne
braska and these two states show a Sc
rious decline from August a year ago.
Nevertheless the report places the condi-
ton of corn in Kansas at 81, while the
Kansas state agricultural department re-
port issued yesterday puts the condition
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The Wolf Dog of the North.

IF'rom Harper's Weekly-1
Neck, from head to shoulders, mass OF
bristling hair; sharp-pointed ears, long
shouted, lips snarling, fangs dripping
yelping rather than barking; wolfish OF
aspect and not nice to look upon when
in anger this is the husky. or wolf dog
of the north. Much has been said of
the Klondike, but these magnificent
brutes, which in the beginning made that
frigid Ell Dorado possible, have received
little more than passing comment Nor
has this neglect been due to their being
but the humble servants of the master.
man. They are far from humble, as their
wild ancestry atteStS. They may De
beaten into submission, but that will not
prevent them still snarling their hatred
They may be starved into apparent do
cility and then die suddenly, with teeth
fast locked in a brothers throat, torn
to pieces by their comrades. Rather, has
little attention been accorded them be-
cause the interest of man has gravltated
inexorably towards the natural, mineral
and social features of that far-northerly
land
But the husky is far from uninteresting.
AS type of endurance, no better evolved
product of natural selection need be
sought. If ever a species has been born
and bred of hard times, 1t has. Only the
fittest, in a hard struggle for existence ex-
tending through a thousand generations,
have survived. And they are well Mt
Demonstrated by the savage autochthons
of that forbidding region, they may not
only account their remote ancestors as
wild wolves, but often their Immediate
fOrebearS.
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Sounds Like a Threat.

London, Aug. 1.-THE Chinese minis
ter Sir Chen Chen Lo F'eng Luh in an
interview today said the ministers of the
powers in declining to leave Pekin had
undoubtedly complicated the situation,
adding that if the allies pushed on to the
capital it might have the effect of in
volving the southern provinces in great
trouble. Only today, the minister con-
tinued, he had received the information
that the proposed landing of Indian
troops at Shanghai had already caused
grave apprehensions and there would be
an exodus of Chinese merchants. If
these troops were landed, he pointed out
others, of course, would follow and great
conflicts would result.
The minister also said If the powers
had adopted his suggestion and opened
negotiations with Lii Hung Chang mat
ters might have been arranged.
The march of the allies on Pekin, the
Chinese diplomat further remarked
would probably endanger the foreigners
lives adding that kilograms had already
been received showing that trouble has
arisen in this connection.
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RUHLIN NEAR DEATH.
Awful Punishment Given Akron
Giant by FitzsimmOns.

New York, Ang. 11.-"Gus'' Rubin,
who was knocked out in the sixth round
by F'itzsimmons last night in the con-
test at Madison Square Garden, is the
home of Billy Madden in Brooklyn
recovering from the terrible punishment
of the fight
For several hours after he received
the knock out blow, after he had been
taken to a Turkish bath house, his con-
dition was considered so serious that
medical aid was summoned The de-
feated mans friends were so much
alarmed that they believed he was
knocked out for good Rubin had
violent hemOrrhageS in the nose and
was bleeding from the ear When the
doctor reached the patient, the latter
was unconscious and only regalned his
senses under the influence of powerful
stimulants- A short time after Rubin
fell asleep, but the attending physician
thought it best to remain with him for
several hours.
had sufficiently recovered to be able to
leave the baths and the doctor accom-
panied him, it is supposed, to Madden's
home.
After the arrival OF the physician at
the bath house this morning he admin
istered strychnine to Rubin and applied
ice bags to his head Water was dashed
into RuhllnS face, and smelling salts
were frequently applied between Rubin 5
alternate stages of collapse and revival
After an examination, the physician de-
Clafeu Lndt there were no Internal III
juries.
The blow which Rubin received in
his head when he struck the stage at
the knock out, together with the blow
in the solar plexus and the punishment
iie had received about the body. was,
the doctor declared responsible for his
condition 1t was the opinion of the at
tending physician that no serious results
will follow
At o'clock the hemorrhage had
ceased, and Rubin was resting easy.
Fitzsimmons. meanwhile was resting
quietly at the Hotel Bartholdi and while
Rubin was suffering from his blow, the
victor was ordering seller lemonade
RUHLIN WAKES UP.
AT 10 O'Clock Rubin had sufficiently
recovered to talk of his condition. He
said:
1T was the heat as much as Fitzsim-
mons body blows that weakened me.
trained too hard. I fought too soon af-
ter the strain of the Sharkey fight. I
was not fit and the heat and the punch
ing laid me out. I am as good as ever
now
F'itzsimmons said after reading of the
condition of Rubin:
Il am awfully sorry. Rubin is good
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FIVE-YEAR OLD BURGLAR.
TFron the New

LFrom the New York Journa1.1
Bright girl is Freda FRANK, albeit she
is but a tot of five summers. Her faith
er, Solomon Frank, is a jeweler at Sc
Bowery. He was at the store till late
Tuesday night F'reda was there and
fell asleep among some trays of other
little gems. Her papa went home with
out her He lives at IL Canal street,
where Freda was not missed, because
Freda has great many little brothers
and sisters and no one noticed that one
of the brood was missing. Her mamma
thought Freda was with the nurse and
the nurse thought Freda was with her
mamma
Freda did not think anything about
it until o'clock Wednesday morning,
when she awoke. She did not cry when
no one replied to her call for Papa
but searched about the place for means
of exit, and, finding none, she looked for
a Ratchet instead. With the Ratchet
she did not proceed to break the big
plate glass show window, but she pried
smashed the smaller pane of glass in
the door and through that she crawled
out and went home all alone.
She forgot to take the hatchet with
her and could not effect SO easy an
entrance to her home, but long ringing
a the bell at length woke her mamma,
who then for the first time discovered
that the little one had been spending
the night out.
Freda left no one to guard the store,
which she provided with an inviting
entrance for burglars but soon after
she left Policeman Burnett of the Eliza
al once reported a burglary to the sta
ton house, and the sergeant in charge
sent a policeman to stand guard till
Mr.. Frank should arrive, and the police
man was greatly chagrined that the
housebreaking was the work of a five
year-Old.
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A BLOODY TRAIL
Left by the Kumassi Relief Col
umn Under Col. Burroughs.

Bakwai, Aug. ia column of 700 men
under Colonel Burroughs has returned
from Kumassi, having reinforced and re-
rationed the fort for two months. The
force attacked and destroyed three old
stockades after a desperate bayonet
charge, in which four officers and thirty
three killed. On the night of August
Colonel Burroughs attacked an Ashanti
war camp near KumaSSi, surprising the
camp and bayoneting the enemy. Great
numbers were slain without gun being
fired. A lieutenant was killed and two
men were wounded.
Other flying columns are going out, and
it is believed that the punishment inflicted
will not soon be forgotten, though several
defeats are still needed to clear the coun-
try south of kumassi of the rebels.
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Continued from First Page)
unable to make an estimate of the loss.
saying that until the way bills from all
stations between this city and St Louis
have been checked there is no manner
in which they can fix the amount.
The engine which was sent out on the
line early this morning in an effort TO
secure some trace of the murderers, re-
turned from a vain quest about day
light 1t is supposed there were TOUR
robbers and the country is being scour-
ed by detectives. Every suspicious
character is being picked up but II Is
not thought that the right persons have
been secured
Baggagemaster Fletcher, whose car
was next in front of the looted car, made
the following statement today:
Lane was all right at Richmond and
then again at Greenville. L saw him put
off and take on freight at Urbana- After
we left Urbana everything went well I'M
til we reached Capell, where we made
stop. remember now that I heard talk
ing sthere. When 1 first heard the
voices they appeared to be coming along
the train, there apparently being two or
three of them One man stepped on
piece Of rotten wood which attracted my
attention just before the train got I'M
der way. supposed they were passen-
gers TO board the train and thought that
they were going to get left. We stopped
at Plain City and Milford and 1 heard
no unusual sounds After we left Plain
City 1 thought 1 would wash up and
tried the door of the express car but
found that it would move only about an
inch 1 concluded that Lane had fallen
asleep. We stopped at Marble Cliff and
there 1 saw two men running toward the
train; one was an old man and the other
a young fellow. They were dressed in
dark clothes
Fletcher is able to give a sort of de-
scription Of these persons, and the pO-
lice are trying to locate them. 1t is
claimed by the detectives that the men
who committed robbery and murder
were perfectly familiar with the train
and the customs of the people on board
The bandits overlooked, or, purposely
left a large quantity of silver bullion
and a number of eaStbound packag es of
value. They seem to have been pressed
for time in their operations
After leaving Marble Cliff the train
made no stop except at the Hooking
Valley crossing in the suburbs of this
city. In addition to the two suspects ar
rested here. four men are held at Plain
City and Conductor Jerry Taylor has
gone there to endeavsor to identify Them
If he can.
Chicago. Aug. 11L-LocaI officials of
the Adams Express company here claim
TO be in possession of no facts concern
ing the robbery of the Pennsylvania
express near Columbus, o., last night
and the murder of Messenger Lane
They state that the safe was a local
one not likely to contain a large sum
and that the losses probably will not be
known until shipp ars make their claims.
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Koweit as a Railway Terminus.
London correspondence of the Birning-
1ov- DnC

LONDON correspondence OF Inc DAAAHS-
ham Post.1
Koweit described as the finest harbor in
the Persian Gulf, is now avoWed by the
German surveyors as the terminus OF the
Bagdad-Bussorah railway Inc place mas
been hitherto unknown-poht1cally ana
call there, nor do travellers use the natlVe
craft which alone visit the port. But, all
the same Koweit is worth having, and
may one day prove troublesome to British
ish waters. 1t is fifty miles from the
mouth of the Shat-el-Arab, through
which the combined Tigris and Eu-
pirates rivers discharge into the gull II
lies on the south shore OF q hne pay, ap-
preached by a channel broad and deep
enough for large steamers 1t is pro-
tected it's only open side to the east by
a large shoal. Dredging can make 1t the
best harbor in the gull; only the WstteT
has a considerable trade, by native dhows,
with Karachi eleven hundred miles dls-
tant, and with Bombay, fifteen hundred
miles. 1t is a center of the pearl fishery,
once so famous. It's fine breed OF horses
sells to harbors where the British 1ndla
Steam Navigation company s vesseis plck
them up. These vessels carry on a trade
with the island of SOcotra When the pearl
fishing is over %
At present the town contains only 20
600 Arabs, of whom one-fourtn are Wen
armed with Martini rifles The local shelk
used to be subsidized by the turks, put
now he claims independence he mas
never allowed British India natives TO
settle there. For a time so years ago,
British political officer was the Resident
at KoWeit. but the Turks made IT too
disagreeable for him to continue AS the
certain terminal port OF the new GERMAN
known, and may prove a serious menace
to our trade and other interests
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DOUBTS OF EARL Ii.
he is Well Known to Be No Friend
of England.

New York, Aug. IA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The appointment of Ii Hung Chang
as the Chinese plenipotentiary for the
negotiation of terms of peace has been
received with various feelings here.
Those who know the far east have deep
distrust of the old viceroy, and they
insist that his nomination can bode no
good to this country. If not hostile to
all foreigners, he is at any rate a de-
termined opponent of the British, whom
he has always disliked, Notwithstanding
his personal relations with General Cor
don and other Englishmen.
On the other hand, some Chinese ex-
pertS contend that the appointment
shows that the Manchu government, re-
alizing that the powers are in earnest,
relies on Earl Lii to arrange terms and
to patch up an accommodation as he did
after the Tien Tsin massacre in 1870.
The latest batch of cipher messag eS
received from the ministers at Pelxin
is considered to be significant, and in
some degree reasSuring. There are de-
termined skeptics and croakers, such as
those VINO were provided a month ago
circumStantia1 accounts of an alleged
wholesale butchery at the legations, but
not much attention is paid to them. The
wisdom of the ministers in declining to
leave Pekin unless adequate protection
can be secured for them is obvious to
everybody 1t is not, however, regarded
as absolutely certain that the offer to
a trap. To judge from previous exper-
fence of Chinese methods it is possible
that the Tsung Ii Yamen intends uIti-
mately to deliver the legation staffs in
safety to the allied commanders, but it
Will procrastinate and prevaricate as
long as possible and will certainly
maintain it's hold on the diplomatists
while there seems a remote prospect of
using them as hostages to extort favor
able terms of settlement Whether the
government could in any case convey
the eight hundred foreigners. including
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TRAFFIC AGREEMENT.
General Manager Nudge Goes t
Colorado to Discuss Plans.

General Manager Nudge of the Santa
Fe left this afternoon for Denver for
the purpose of settling the question of a
long time traffic agreement with the
Colorado & Southern officials in regard
to business between Denver and Pueblo.
A conference will be held next week,
and President Ripley will be also pres
ent.
The joint operation of the Santa Fe
and Colorado Southern tracks between
the two cities will be continued as dur
ing the past year, but a new agreement
will be signed. 1t is said that this
agreement will give the Santa Fe a
greater percentage than has been re-
ceived heretofore. The new conditions
will probably require the appointment
of a superintendent, and in this event
Mr.. r. J. Parker, superintendent of the
western division Of the Santa Fe will
be named. This would mean several
division changes on the Santa Fe.
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CHICAGO livestock Market.

Chicago, Aug. n.-CATTLE+Receip
200; nominally steady. Good to prime
steers, $54006.00; poor to medium, 81 750
535: stockers and feeders, 50. 25M4 IS: cows
s2.s0d4.3O; heifers, SO. 60a4.9O Gamers, 81 20
M2.70; bulls, sS.O0Q4.40: calves, "a. 25d6- 70;
steers. s3.35d4.25; Texas bulls, $2.5Od3.50.
HOGS-Receipts today, 10000; tomorrow
0000; left over, S,122; weak to &c lower
Top, $40; mixed and butchers, $5.O0G5.3 IS;
good to choice to heavy, IS. 10dt5. 32i2;
rough heavy, $4S065.05; light, $5.lO95.40;
bulk of sales, $5.10Q5.30.
SHEEP. Receipts; 1000; unchanged.
Good to choice % wte el. $49Oa4 Go; fair to
$4.25a4 so; Texas So, 1oa4.1O; native lambs,
$4.25M5:65; western lambs, S4.75d5. go.
Official yesterday: ReceiptS-Cattle, g.
7O3; hogs, %, 5SS; sheep, 5,56S. Shipments
Cattle, 1883; hogs, 1924; sheep, 1,522
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DANGEROUS PLACE.
Missing Bridge May Make Trouble
for Some One.

The county commissioners or township
board may have another damage suit
on their hands unless they take the nee
essary precautions to close the road run
ming east from Burnett'S Mound to the
city
About a mile and a half east of the
mound bridge over a good sized creek
IS torn away. There is a heavy growth
of trees on both sides of the road and
even on moonlight nights it is very dark
There is nothing to keep people from
driving off the bank which is a dozen
rect high. The road overseer in that dis
tr1ct should fence up the road as a pre-
caution against accidents
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MANY DEATHS.
Occur in Chicago as the Result of
Heat

Chicago, Aug I-Many deaths re-
suited today from the extreme heat
which has afflicted Chicago for the past
eight days. Up to 1 p. m. the death list
was as follows:
MRS. LYLE.
THOMAS FORD.
MILLIHAN.
GEORGE GRAHAM, committed sui
eide, crazed by heat.
WILLIAM MCMILLAN.
LEWIS F. DYRENFORTH, manager
Boot and Shoe Recorder.
Serious proStrationS:
Joseph Clifford.
Paul IeSkO.
MyrOn Lee.
foundries and manufactures were COM
PEELED to close. At the Pullman car
shops over 100 men stopped work, I'M
able to stand the fierce heat of the fur
naces and sun combined. The tempera-
ture registered % degrees.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 11.-One death and
one proStration due to intense heat were
reported here today. The temperature
registered 80 degrees.
New York, Aug. 11.-There is no sign
of a let up in the hot weather that has
been lowering over this city and vicini-
ty for the last few days. The deaths
reported up to o'clock were six and the
prostrations last night and early today
were numerous. During the night there
was not a breeze to relieve suffering
humanity and there is little to be hoped
for from the weather forecast.
At s o'clock the thermometer regis
tered 81 degrees and at IL o'clock 81.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 1.-THE worst
of the present hot spell seems to be over
in the northwest, the mercury early to-
day dropping to Sc, a heavy rain and
electric storm last night having ma
terially improved the air. For eight days
the daily maximum exceeded 80 degrees
while the minimum temperature for the
same period was 20. There have been
no deaths or prostrations from heat in
ST. Paul and but few cases throughout
the state Temperatures dropped from
2 to IA degrees in the northwest last
night and Dakota points reported from
1 to 80 degrees drop for the previous "a
hours.
Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 1.-THE temper
allure today dropped to "a degrees from
yesterdays record of 80. Clouds OBJ
scured the sun and a rain fall before
night was evident. No proStrations
were reported up to noon.
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Kansas Citv Live Stock Market

Kansas City. No, Aug. u.-CATTLE-
Receipts. 200; market unchanged. Native
steers, IS. 00d600: stockers and feeders,
$35OG450; butchers cows and heifers. Sc. 10
$3.50: Gamers, $2.5Od3.1O; fed westerns
So 9Od5. 20: fed Texans, $3.900415; grass
Texans. SO. 2563. 80.
HOGSEReceipts, $500; market steady to
shade lower. Bulk of sales, S5O5n5.1 10;
heavy and packers, S5.05d5.15; mixed, $500
OSLO; light, S5.00N5-1215; workers, S510p
5.1215: pigs, $4.25Q5.10.
SHEEP-Receipts, 500; market steady
Lambs, $3.5OQ6.O0; muttons, s.. OO0l4.45.
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GRINSTEAD APPEAL,
Motions to Have Cases Certified Are
Filed.

Notice of a motion to have the Grin
stead cases certified to the supreme court
was given a week ago, but the actual
filing of the motions in the supreme
court did not take place until today.
The desire is to appeal the cases from
the decision of the northern department
court of appeals which reversed the de-
ciSion of the district court and restored
Grinstead to liberty.
The motions will be presented to the
supreme court by S. NJ. Brewster county
attorney for Doniphan county and A. A.
GODDARD attorney general
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Good Medicine For Children-

Through the months of June and July
our baby was teething and took run
ming off of the bowels and sickness of the
stomach" says o. p. NJ. Holiday of
Deming, Ind. His bowels would move
from five to eight times a day I had a
bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house and
gave him four drops in a teaspoonful of
water and he got better at once Sold
by all druggists.
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NOT YET ORGANIZED.
"Holliday Monument Association
Still in the Air

Mr. Edward Wilder this afternoon con-
ferred with Secretary Anderson of the
Commercial club in reference to the or
ganization of the association to look after
the erection of a monument to the late
Col c. K. Holiday Articles of incorpo-
ration will probably be filed with the sec
rotary of state early next week.
The organization will be known as 1.-THE
Holiday Monument association and the
work of securing subscriptions will be at
once taken up after the charter is OBJ
tanned. 1t is expected that the Santa Fe
railway will be one of the principal con-
frfhutOrS.
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New york MONEY market.

New York, Aug 1.-MONEY-Money on
call nominal at 1@1A per cent; prime
mercantile paper, 4n5 per cent; sterling
exchange steady, with actual business in
bankers bills at $4.S7%QB for demand and
at s4S4 for go days; posted rates, 81 S5d14
and $4.S9: commercial bills. $4S3iAU%.
SILVER Silver certificates. 61llE621zc;
bar silver, 607sc; Mexican dollars, 4S4c
BONDS-Government bonds strong; re-
funding IS. when issued. registered. 10314:
coupon, 1884; IS, registered, 100; IS. reg
istered, 10S24: coupon. 10Ss4 new Is, reg
istered, 1872; coupon, 1872; old As, registered,
11413 coupon, 11419; IS, registered. 1925;
coupon, 1125s.
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Topeka nfarketa To-day.

Topeka. Aug. II
CATTLE.
COWS AND HEIFERS-$2.5 0a3.25.
HOGS.
LIGHT-$4 7O64. IS.
MEDIUM AND HEAVY-S4.70G
GRAIN
NO. 2 WHEAT-63G63 15c.
NO. 2, MIXED CORN-3315c.
NO. 2 WHITE CORN-35c.
NO. 2 OATS-22c.
HAYS. O0Q5. so.
PRODUCE.
EGGS-9 cents.
CHICKENS-6G61z cents
BUTrER-13 cents.
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at 81 Here is a startling discrepancy, and
II would be curious if state authority
should exaggerate any condition in a line
detr1m entail to the interests of the COM
monwealth- The Washington report in
spring wheat makes the situation very
little better than it was month ago. The
average condition August l is estimated
at 56.4 against 55.2 on July 1. 1t is al
most startling to read that the reported
condition Is Zl.S beloW the mean of the