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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-06
NORTH TOPEKA.

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be left with the Kimban Printing COM
pany, S35 Kansas avenue
There is a case of scarlet fever at
1905 Kansas avenue.
Hello! Let us connect you with the
sewer. Phone 423. H K. Winan & Son.
Mrs. Charles Steinberger will go to
Kansas City Thursday to hear Pader-
ewski.
See our south window for bargains
in skirts. Regular SLIPS for 79c. Cost
ley & Post.
Mr.. John Anderson of Usage City is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Nystrom
of 1919 Jackson street.
Hear the splendid illustrated lecture
by the Rev. D. NJ. Fisk, d. D., at North
Congregational church tonight.
The ladies that left their names for
the New Idea Magazine can get them
by calling at our store. Costley & Post.
Miss Matte French has returned
from a visit to her sister in Peoria, Ill.
The Ladies' Guild of the Church of
the Good Shepherd will meet Wednes-
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Richard Jones on East Gordon street.
Miss Vesta Tomlinson left yesterday
for her home in Kansas City after a
visit to Mrs. George Klussman of 319
West Gordon street and other friends.
The regular monthly meeting of the
EpWOrth League will be held WedneS-
day evening at the Kansas Avenue
church instead of this evening. At this
meeting a president will be elected to
take the place of Mr.. Collum who has
recently removed to Arkansas. a short
programme will also be given.
The Broncho Mandolin club will meet
Wednesday evening at the home OF Mr.
Frank Pribble. The members are Mr..
Ed. Thomas, Mr.. Frank Pribble, Mr..
Harry Harper, Mr. Bert Kraft, Mr.
Ona Bolton, Mr.. F. Mcpherson, Mr..
Morris Mr.. G. Chapman is an honorary
member of this latest musical organiza-
ton.
The Argonaut club, after a vacation
of a month, will resume work Tuesday
evening, holding it's regular meeting at
the home of c. G. Nicholson, 919 Van
Buren, street. The programme will in
clude a paper on ''Montaigne" by Miss
Minette Loop, and on French Poetry
in the Sixteenth Century by Rev. w.
B. Hutchinson.
The Rev. w. L. Byers of Keokuk, Ia,
accompanied by his wife, will arrive in
Topeka tonight and be the guests of
Samuel Tracy for few days. Mr..
ByerS was formerly the popular pastor
and will be present at the lecture this
evening by DR.. Fisk of the First church.
Mr.. ByerS is somewhat overworked and
is on his way to Texas on a vacation.
AT the day muster yesterday of Blue
Post G. A. r. Department Commander
Coulter was present and delivered a
very interesting talk relative to matters
at Washington and soldiers interests.
Comrade w w. Martin of FIT. Scott
was also present and gave a pleasant
talk. Mr. Martin is a candidate for
department commander. Five persons
were restored to membership at this
meeting and three mustered in.
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laws and constitution of the associa-
ton be submitted to the attorney gen
eral for approval. Then procure a let
ter showing that it is not Illegal; send
the letter to the companies and thereby
show that the agents were not violating
the state law.
You have an attorney general now:
who will be in that office next year?
man might oppose it. Then what would
you do?" asked Mr.. Going.
..Dtsband said Ludlum.
You don't want to do that; you want
a permanent association" said Mr.. Go
The resolution to have the companies
pass on the merits of the association, and
Thomas amendment to have the attorney
general cOnStrue the bylaws and cOnStt-
tuition, was adopted.
A committee of three agents. in each
county will be named to solicit new
members and organize the county assoc
The association has a deficiency Of $34,GO.
Which viii be made up by the members.
The association declared an assessment
of S1.0O each upon the members to defray
the expenses OF further work
Bowman, o. L. Charlton and J. A Spald-
ing. composed the committee on resOlu-
tions. Their report was adopted as fol-
Whereas. There is no man or body of
men in the state of Kansas that desires
in, the enactment of good and equitable
laws relating to insurance of property and
the local fire insurance agent; and
Whereas, Other state offices selected
by the people of Kansas are generally
chosen by reason of fitness and Qualifica-
tons for the office to be filed, viz: A law
yer for attorney general teacher for
state superintendent of public instruction.
a financier for bank commissioner and
Whereas, The laws of Kansas require
that a man be selected for superintendent
of insurance that is well versed in the
business OF insurance, and matters relat-
ing thereto; therefore, be it
Resolved, That this association hereby
request each of the several state conVen-
lions of the various political parties, to
nominate a practical, competent and ex-
perienced man for superintendent of in
surance, and that such action on the part
of any or all of said convention will be
looked upon with favor by this associa-
ton, as being in the interests of the prop
erty owners of this state
The association thanked the officers OF
the national association for their efforts
to adjust the troubles of the recent rate
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pleasure of extending the welcome to
this society on behalf of the state. I
do not believe that it has ever been my
pleasure to welcome any organization
which has so many representatives as
are present here tonight.
NO one thing has done so much, no
potent for the good of Kansas, as or
gained labor. Every enterprise owes
It's success to labor.
I'VE r. We been developing in the past
our mi g industry. Labor has gone
into the earth and brought the ore to
the surface. Today we are operating
more trains to carry our products to
the markets than before, and labor has
a hand in their operation.
In close connection with capital, we
have labor. Capital owns and labor OPP
crates. Capital, great as it is, can not
do anything without labor. 1t can not
mine the minerals, it can not turn the
burrows; it can not raise grain; it is
dependent on labor. These two are
companions; they are inseparable in
the building up of the industries of the
state. Capital may go out into the
market and buy rails, but labor is nee
essary before they can be put down.
Capital buys the engines and cars, but
must call on labor to operate them.
Capital owns and labor operates.
This is the true status of affairs. Cap
itaI seeks a profit in investment and
labor seeks a compensation for it's SER
vices. There ought to be a most cordial
relation between these two. The diff
Guilty in the settlement of the capital
and labor question is not difficult. The
laboring man in Kansas, as in any state
in the union, must demand fairness and
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good organization and spoiled it.
I'VE must have completeness of data
in all that we do.
How shall we advance social life is
answered by finding out the facts.
1T is not the trouble of the people
that they have political economy, but
because they have not got it.
I'VE have studied everything in all
it's branches, but we have not studied
how to live and live together.
Look at the laws and see what good
they have done. Economical and So
Geological statistics have enabled this
knowledge of the world.
"The great struggle of capital and Ia
Dor is built on Ignorance and half
knowledge. It is all caused by a lack
of understanding. A lack of knowledge.
Tt all vanishes when we look at it face
to face.
Capital and labor cannot be sepa-
rated from one another.
"A hundred causes may be the cause
of one effect. Do not be deceived with
what appears on the surface. Look IN
derneath.
1--WE want the whole story, to know
the whole question of capital and labor.
We need more thorough and system
attic methods of finding out actual con-
ditions.''
At appropriate intervals in the pro-
gramme the audience was favored with
music and other selections, as follows:
Song by quartette, consisting of Fred
Borland, Jasper Watkins. Wallace
Mills and Percy Crow. Monologue and
Mills. Monologue and song, Fred Bor-
land. Song, Jasper Watkins. Fancy
tumbling, Arthur Long. Irish sketch,
ChaS Mahana
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SURPRISED THE GIRLS.

IFrom the N. o. Times-Democrat.1
Nothing queerer or quaInter ever
happened in Dawson City than the re-
ceptiOn of the school ma ans" said Mr.
l. D. Carl the Klondike miner, who
spent day or two in New Orleans this
week.
You see, in the spring of '97 a lot of
young women, mostly from West Ore
gon, banded together to go to Dawson,
attracted by the stories of high wages.
They were nice girls, all of them, who
had been earning their own living as
clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers,
seamstresses, school teachers and so on
and they had enough good American
pluck to believe they could make their
way in any temperature. AS bad luck
would have it, however, they got snow
bound at Lake Bennett, and We're tied
up there for over two months. That
exhausted their money and enthusiasm
and when they finally set out again for
the Yukon they were as homesick and
hopeless and generally detected a crowd
as ever you saw.
Meanwhile the report reached Daw-
son that a party OF twenty-five beauti-
full school ma ans would arrive by the
next boat and great excitement pre-
vailed There was no school there at
the time, but it was instantly agreed
that several would be put up if necessary
to give the strangers occupation. What
we need, said one of the speakers at a
public meeting, is the society of real
ladies to give tone to the town, and we
must keep 'em here regardless of ex-
pense-' This met general approval, and
arrangements were made for an elab-
crate reception and banquet, the tough
element being put on notice that the
slightest disturbance might bring on a
lynching.
''The boat arrived about dusk, and the
poor, Respondent girls were amazed at
the appearance of the reception COM
mittee, who greeted them with profound
bows and escorted them to a gorgeously
decorated supper room, with q brass
band, too in the background. They
were informed by the spokesman that
Dawson was honored by their presence,
and while the town was temporarily
short on schools, that defect would be
promptly remedied. In the interim
they were to consider themselves guests
of the municipality, and quarters had
been engaged for them at the best ho-
tel. The situation gradually dawned on
the dumbfounded young women and
their spirits scared skyward. They ex-
planned that only two of the party were
really teachers, and next day they all
secured good positions. Most of them
did exceedingly well, and the majority
eventually got married. know sew
eral who are the wives of Yukon mil
Honaires.'
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6. C. Clemens Tells Labor So
ciety What 1t Would Do.
Brighten Other Parties Into
Giving Labor What it Wants.
GOVERNOR CAUTIOUS.
COunsels Moderation Between
Employer and Employees.
Now Kansas LabOring Interests
Are Cared For.

Representative hall was comfortably
filed last evening with the delegates
and friends of the State Society of
Labor and Industry, which is meeting
in Topeka and which began its second
annual session at two o'clock Monday
afternoon.
The meeting last evening was made
up of addresses by well known Kan
sans, and was thoroughly interesting
and concerned subjects dwelling upon
the laboring and 1aborers' interests of
the state. The programme was inter-
spersed with music and other selec-
lions introduced between the addresses,
and those present were amply repaid
for their attendance.
w. L. a. Johnson, secretary of the
society, presided at the meeting, and
introduced Governor w. E. Stanley.
Governor Stanley said: Il have the
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are, on account of their wide fuctuation,
more attractive to the venturesome specu-
lator, but the movements of these stocks
do not exert the same influence as the
changes in the quotations for railroad Sc
curitieS- 1t is seldom that one hears OF
a standard railroad stock advancing 10
points in a couple of days or declining as
many points in a couple of hours. The
industrials do this quite often There are
many hopeful spirits in Wall street and
the speculative atmosphere has to all ap-
pearances been cleared. The opinion OF
men who represent the most influential
element agree that a, decided change for
the better has taken place National Steel,
being up with A. S. & W. If 1t keeps up
Yesterdays pace a couple more sessions
will see. it the leading wire stock. The
bulk of the buying is credited to Chicago
on the recent bulge. Offerings of wire
are quite liberal on rallies and there is
suspicion that insiders are doing most Of
the selling. There is no reason why the
stock should not sell very much higher.
fered in Ws1 Street. The pool in South-
ern Pacific viii try to make 1t sell at -.
The stock looks well and aside from pool
operations 1t ought to sell higher. Union
Pacific is another low-priced stock that
who are looking around for a good stock
for a long pull. Some of the Wealthiest
people are buying it and parties close to
the Nanderbilts say it viii sell at so be-
Tobacco, Smelling, Northern Pacific. com
mon, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, st.
Paul and Louisville & Nashville. of the
best. While there is evidence of inside
selling, Sugar and Baltimore & Ohio
bulges OF q few points is not improbable.
Rockefeller is said to be contemplating
another bull move on leather.
PRICE MCCORMICK.
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GEN. WOOD RETURNS.
Back in Havana From a Tour of In
spection.

Havana, Feb. 6.-when Governor
General Wood and party arrived on
board the ingalls, from their tour in
the eastern part of the island the gov
ernor generals salute was fired.
The weather throughout the entire
journey was excellent, and all look
much improved in health.
The results of the trip General Wood
considers will be invaluable to him
and of special service to General Rus
Rivera. secretary of agriculture and
commerce. and to Colonel Black, chief
of the sanitary department. who were
kept busy making notes. General Ri
vera says he has obtained exceedingly
valuable information and has formed
certain plans which will soon be put in
operation, notably the addition to his
department of a bureau of information
where prospective investors in Cuban
lands will be able to get information
without having recourse to the specu-
latOrS
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS

Chicago, Feb. 6.-WHEAT-Wheat open
ed weak on lower cables, the mild wealth.
er and lack of outside Interest, May 1sc
under yesterday at 6T15Q5sc. Sellers were
numerous and May sold off to 671lc, but
reacted later to 6715 Local receipts were
29 cars, none of contract grade. Mime
apolis and Duluth reported 403 cars
against 249 last week and 401 a. year ago.
The strength of corn held the wheat
market steady for some time, May after
IL o'clock pushing up to 671aH%c. There
was little demand. however, and when
corn turned easy/ wheat followed, clos
ing weak, May declining to 6T1sc and clos
ing 3s41zc under yesterday at 67lAc.
CORN-The corn market early was
quiet but firm. Heavy receipts LBS cars
here, were Offset by small country offer
ings, and firm cables. May opened un-
changed at S37s@Ae, and advanced to
Corn closed easy. May shade lower at
OATS-Oats were firm with corn, but
trade was dull. Local receipts were 314
cars. May opened unchanged at 2Sssc and
advanced to 2315c
PROVISIONS-Th provision market re-
ceived strength from hog receipts under
the estimate and better prices at the
yards. Offerings were light and the de-
mand was good. May pork opened at
SlOs5G11O0, and advanced to HOY; May
lard opened unchanged at $780, and May
ribs shade up at $3.50
FLAX-Cash: H. w. S1.6o; 8. W., SLIGO;
September. $l13.
RYE-May, 5315c.
BARLEY-Cash 35645c
TIMOTHY-February, g. SIS; March, $3.50.
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If Coffee
agrees with you
stick to it.
If not,
Postum Food Coffee
as thousands of brain
workers do.

Coffee used to give me the sick head
ache occasionally, and the coffee habit
was so fixed that if quit it for day.
a headache would follow. I was thus
between two fires, and it was headache
and sickness either way.
Finally 1 was pushed to a point
where I concluded to give up coffee al
together and try POSTUM Cereal Food
Coffee. For a morning or two stood
the headache caused by a lack of my
accustomed drug. but in three days I
began to get on the right road, and
since that time I have been getting
better and stronger steadily.
lone can hardly realize the pleasure
it is to feel well again, and yet I have
my delicious morning cup of Postum
regularly, which tastes like coffee, looks
like coffee and yet gives me true
strength and health. Mrs. -, sos Gro
ton So, Syracuse, N. Y, says: Postum
Food Coffee was recommended to me
for rheumatism by the physician. He
will not allow the use of common coffee,
but says that Postum is strengthening
and beneficial to a system under acute
rheumatic suffering. I find it most ex-
cellent.'
Professor Duvoll of the Syracuse
University says, I cannot drink coffee;
use Postum Food Coffee, which has a
strengthening influence for any one do
ing brain and nerve work Mr.. Will
lams says, Coffee produces dizziness,
dullness and nausea, with me. I use,
and much prefer, Postum Food Coffee,
which gives strength and a true healthy
in public" Respectfully, Mrs. E. W. L.,
Syracuse, N. Z.
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Log Filled With Coons.

Bangor OIe.) Spe. N. Y. Times.1
Farmer George Brown, of Chester
VILE went into the woods the other day
to get fuel and he got a better load
than he expected. He saw a giant pine
stub, or dead trunk, on the edge of an
icy marsh, cut it down, and began to
chop it into lengths. Soon he felt his
ak strike something soft as it broke
through the shell of the stub. Think
ing that there might be a bear inside.
Brown proceeded cautiously, using
wooden wedges to split the stub apart.
When the hollow, dry log fell in
halves there in the cavity lay eight fat
coons, snugly housed away FOR the win
ter Further up in the trunk were two
more coons, while in the stump was
fifty pounder-the biggest and latest
of the lot Brown thus got, besides a
cord of dry wood, over 200 pounds of
co6n meat and IL coon skins, and ever
since that day he has quit all other
work and goes about in the woods look
ing for more hollow stubs with coons
in them.
The best time to find these snug har-
bors for coons is Just after a snow
storm. when the warm breath of the
coons melts bare spots in the snow on
the tree trunks, thus betraying their
presence.
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Kan. receiver and shipper of grain
Liverpool: ReceiDts Of. wheat during
the past three days. I3S 600 centals, includ-
ing Il. coo American. Corn, past three
Chicago: Hogs close shade higher; ss,-
Duluth: Wheat receipts. 100 cars.
Chicago g ooo. Hogs, , 5000 open strong:
Kansas city: Hogs, 1900; cattle. 5000.
3 fT1aIaco,. Ho gEsasf zoo cattle. 800
corn unchanged from yesterday.
London: Wheat cargoes quieter; Ar
argentine cables maize crop serious dan
ger owing to drouth.
Liverpool: Futures firm, 21sd higher for
!C5hicago; Cars wheat; "a graded 0: corn.
Chicago: Nebraska, Kansas, Montana,
fair today, much colder Wednesday; cold
Minneapolis: Wheat receipts, 24s cars;
Duluth: Wheat receipts. 100 cars; last
Chicago: Does not appear to be very
much improvement to wheat market this
Paris close: Wheat unchanged to 1Oc
lower; -four; Sc to 10c lower,
Kansas City: Receipts wheat, "a cars,
oats. cars, last year, 6.
Chicago: Private elevator wheat stocks
decrease last week 421. OO0 making 5SS, 600
decrease in both public and private
Chicago: In corn today there is an alb
sence of country selling, Scalpers have
sofa some. Inc buying Is better than the
selling. Provisions firm and shade over
yesterday.
Liverpool: Cotton, IL to I'd higher
Paris: Wheat 15c lower: flour. 10c lower
Chicago: Estimate receipts, Is cars;
corn, 500 cars; oats 1856 cars
BradStreets: Wheat decreased 527 900;
corn decreased 27s. 900; oats increased, as
000
New York reports IL wheat and 20 corn
Liverpool closing cable: Wheat. I'D low.
er: corn, I'D to I'D higher.
Kansas City cash: No. 2 hard wheat
59-lbs test, 621zc; No. 2 mixed corn, 291zc:
No. 2 white corn, 291z0%c.
May 6955c; July e734,a az Corn; Febrp-
ed. Oats, February; 241sc; May, 2l1kn14c.
Duluth close: Wheat, May, 66%c bid;
MINNEAPOLIS close: Wheat, May S41kGssc
bid: July 65A07Ac.
Chicago: An English cable says Indian
wheat crop will be So per cent less than
last year.
Ciearanees: Wheat and -four, 5s1. 900;
corn, 405. 340
Primary receipts and shipments: Wheat,
receipts 410I02, against 523. 900; shipments
1o2, 500. against 203 600. Corn. receipts 9ss.-
274. against 1.042, 900; shipments. 49,, 1853,
against 273 000.
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Chicago, Feb. 6-CATTLE-Receip
$500. Native steers and Texans, about
steady. Butchers, Gamers and calves
steady to slow. Beeves, 81. GOOGLE: cows,
s.. 00a440; heifers. IS. 15d470; Gamers, 1920
GAS; stockers and feeders, $3.259490;
Texas fed beeves. $4.o0G5.15.
HOGS Receipts today, 1000; tomorrow,
5000. Active, 21a cents higher. Top $500.
choice, heavy, $4.S5@5.00; rough heavy,
$4.30@4S0; light, $4.65Q4s0; bulk of sales,
SHEEP-Receipts. 1900 Steady. Ma
tive wethers, 81. 50Q535; western wethers,
S44oQ5-25. Lambs, steady; natives, 5000
official receipts and shipments for yes
Cattle-Receipts, 1900; shipments, 47SS.
HOgS-Receipts, 80 .301: shipments, s 999.
Sheep-Eeceipts %, 46S; shipments 293.
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New york Monev Markst.

New York, Feb .-MONEY-Money on
call, nominally , per cent Prime mercan-
tile paper, 4G55 per cent. Sterling ex-
change, steady with actual business in
bankers bills at S4.S71RGIN for demand,
and at s4S4461R for sixty days. Posted
rates S4S5 and S4.SS1z; commercial bills.
S4S31a6T4.S3 SO.
VER-Silver certificates. 591zd60kc.
Bar silver, 59S4c. Mexican dollars, 471.c.
BONDS@GOYernme bonds strong; Is,
registered. 1929; IS. registered, 1895; cou-
pom, 1894 new IS, registered, 134; coupon.
1874; old As, registered, 114S4 coupon, 115A;
IS, Registered, 12a4; coupon, u2az.
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Sues Rethanv College.

Mcpherson; Feb. 6.-Action has been
commenced against Bethany college of
Lindsborg on a bill of recovery. Judg-
ment was obtained against the college
some time ago, and on execution be-
ing issued no property was found upon
which to realize. The present hearing
will be in the probate court. The case
was set for today, but the defendant
appeared and asked for a continuance
of ten DAYS.
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Merchant, III East Fifth street. Topeka,
Kan. receiver and shipper of grain.
New York, Feb. 6.-Foreign houses will
ing Anacondas quite freely. A new divi-
dend period is dawning, Reading, first
preferred, will begin on a 3 per cent basis,
and considering its prospects the stock
will be cheap at Co. Buying of N. & w,
common, is superb The Pennsylvania in
terests say that it is worth 45 on it's
merits. Get long of the soft coalers.
Wheeling and Lake Erie, first preferred.
will soon enter the dividend ranks on a
per cent level it will sell at 70. Keep
long of Steel stocks and the Pacifics. The
Stocks should sell very much higher Low
priced issues will undoubtedly improve.
Union Pacific and Northern Pacific are
being taken by people who know the alb
solute intrinsic value of these properties.
Don't get bearish on industria1s and do
not sell Sugar, except on spurts.
J. ARTHUR JOSEPH.
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mand, fair: prices higher; American mid
ding 4 1850.
New York, Feb 6.-COTTON-Spot cot
ton closed steady, &c advance; middling
uplandS, 1-16c; do gulf, 1-16c.