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

Ransom. The case in police court was
dismissed. but Ransom Immediately filed
suit in the district court for s., 900 dam
ages, and an attachment order was is
sued. However. when the sheriff's off,
GERS reached the Midway to take charge
of the wild man, snake eater and other
things, they found Otis Hungate in pos
session. The attorney for Mundy had a
few minutes before executed a mort
gage in favor of Mr.. Mundy's father-in-
law, and was acting as his agent This
move frustrated the attachment by
making an indemnity bond necessary,
and the Oriental-American Midway was
allowed to continue in full blast
When seen today Mr.. Hungate denied
having asked Mundy for $500 for the
work already done.
Il did say that if I fought the dam
age case to a finish my bill would be
$780, said he. For the work I have al
ready done. L propose to charge Mr..
Mundy $3.50. and the Oriental-American
Midway company won't get out of town
until receive it. Besides defending the
Midway people in the police court I ex-
ecuted a mortgage which saved the
Midway from being closed and in face
of the circumstances the fee ask is on
ly reasonable
Unless some settlement of the diff
eulties is made today, the Oriental
American Midway will likely be a fea-
ture OF Topeka for some time
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FIVE DOLLARS A DAY.
Considered a Reasonable Price
at Kansas City Hotels.

Kansas City, June 2.-The sub-com-
mite Of the national Democratic com
mittee has announced a meeting in
Kansas City on Monday next to con-
slider the question of alleged exorbitant
hotel rates. ]. J. Swofford. chairman of
the local executive committee on con-
vention arrangements left for New
York last night on business. Before
leaving Mr.. Swofford said that facts
and figures regarding hotel rates that
would prove satisfactory to all con-
cerned had been compiled and would be
laid before the committee on Monday.
He declared that the charges of exorbIt-
ant rates were erroneous and cited the
fact that a rate of $1.25 a day European
plan had been offered by one local hotel
for headquarters for the entire Virginia
delegation.
At the first class hotels the average
charge, American plan asked for the
convention is IS a day, four persons to
a room.
The local bureau of information ap-
pointed to secure rooms in private
homes for the overflow from the hotels
has reported that after making a can
vass of but one-third of the city, they
have made accommodations for thirty
thousand people. These accommoda--
tions will be in the best portions of the
city and at rates per room, European
plan, of 81 a day on the average.
Washington, June 2.-As the time for
the convention draws near Senator
Jones, chairman of the Democratic na-
tional committee is receiving a number
Of vigorous complaints. from the mem
bers of the national committee and 9TH
er Democrats throughout the country
over the action of the hotel people in
Kansas City in the matter of rates.
Many of the committeeman who have
written Chairman Jones on this subject
have urgently requested that a meeting
of the committee be called with a view
to reconsidering it's action in deciding
| to hold the convention in that city.
! Chairman Jones says other members of
/ the committee have written along the
same line and that certain members
seem very determined in their efforts
| to change the location of the conven-
/ ton from Kansas City to some other
more desirable city. No action has yet
been taken in the matter by Chairman
Jones though he has it under serious
| consideration.
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extension of free admissions to people
who gave nothing in return.
MUNDY CoMPLAINs-
Midway Manager Thinks Attorney
Fees Are Excessive.

P. j. Mundy, manager of the Oriental
American Midway company, went be-
fore the Commercial club this morning
and declared he was up against hold
up game on the eve of the closing of
Topeka'S Street Fair. The hold up, he
explained, was represented by two To-
peka attorneys, Otis Hungate and W. S.
AcClintock.
Mr.. Hungate is the attorney who act
ed for the Oriental-American Midway
manager in his police court trouble with
Robert Ransom, the colored man who
had an arm broken in a fight on the
midway Sunday. Mr.. McClintock is the
lawyer who represented Ransom. Mum
dy stated that Hungate had demanded
$500 as his fee for defending him in po-
lice court and that McClintock was de-
manding $400 to settle the s., 900 damage
suit filed by Ransom as a result of the
fractured arm.
1t issQf the greatest business import
ance that the OrieEtal-American Mid
way company leave Topeka tomorrow,
and Mr.. Mundy expressed the opinion
without hesitation that the lawyers
were taking advantage of this fact. The
members Of the Commercial club con-
doled with Mr. Mundy but decided that
the organization was powerless to help
him out.
The entire trouble is the result of the
fight between the Midway people and
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PAINFUL SURPRISE.
Mother of Street Fair Bride is
Frustrated.

There is a sequel to the public we'd
ding at the Topeka Street Fair Thurs
day night
The parents of Miss Mary Aigner. now
Mrs Ross May, had no inkling of the
contemplated action of their daughter
The first they knew of the wedding was
when the young couple called at the
parental home after the ceremony.
As a result Mrs. Aigner is i'll and con-
fined to her bed, and Mr.. Aigner is
publicly deploring the action of his
daughter and weeping briny tears
whenever he finds particularly sym
pathetic auditors.
I don't care about the girl getting
married. he said to several acquaint-
ances in a Kansas avenue store today,
but it's the publicity of the thing. If
the girl had told me she wanted to get
married, and the young man was suit
able, as I think he is. 1 would have been
only too glad to have helped them along.
But it hurts me nightly to think she
was married on exhibition"
Mr.. Aigner is employed at the Santa
F'e shops in this city.
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SHE KISSED THE JURORS
How Col. Sutton's Wife Showed
Her Gratitude.

Lansing. Mich. June 2.-Colonel Ell
Sutton, Of Detroit, regent of the Uni
versity of Michigan and a prominent
Republican politician. was acquitted to-
day of completely in the state military
clothing frauds. on account of which
various members of the state military
board and himself had been indicted.
The jury considered the case only an
hour and forty minutes. Both Sutton
and his wife burst into tears at the an
nouncement. SuttOn's counsel also Wept
and Mrs. Sutton kissed each Of the jur-
OrS.
Col. Sutton, although not a member
of the military board was closely asso-
ciated with Quartermaster General
White and Inspector General Marsh as
friend and legal adviser and he admit
ted having advised the sale of the
states goods which were afterwards
sold back to the state in a fraudulent
manner The trial of Gen Marsh for
alleged fraud and embezzlement result
ed in conviction, and he has an appeal
pending. Gen. White fed to South AZ
RIGA
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HOW THEY. FEEL.
Cape Colonists Pass Pro-Boe Resolu
finns

tions.
Cape Colony. Thursday, May 31.-The
peoples congress opened here today. OF
those present many were Dutch clergy
men, commoners and Bondites. Mr.. De
Villiers, brother of Chief Justice De
Villiers, presided.
Mr. Pretorius member of the 1egis-
lative assembly offered a resolution de-
cIaring that in the opinion of a majori-
ty of Cape Colonists the chief immediate
cause of the war was the unWarranted
intolerable interference of the ministry
in London in the internal affairs of the
South African republics. A member
speaking in support of the resolution
said it would be impossible to hold out
the hand of friendship after the war
and asked: "Can we take the English
hand that perhaps in stained with the
blood of my brother?'
The chairman advised moderation In
all the speeches. The resolution was
adopted unanimously.
Other resolutions presented affirmed
that if the republics were annexed the
peace and prosperity of the country
would be irretrievably wrecked and
that in order to insure lasting friend
ship and prosperity the settlement must
include the restoration of UNQUALIFIED
freedom and independence to the repub-
lies and the colonists he allowed a voice
in the appointment of the governor of
Cape Colony thus obviating the neces-
sity for keeping a standing army as the
republicans would be prepared to assist
! the colonists to repel any foreign in
roads in South Africa. unity would be
| insured and loyalty to Great Britain ce-
! meted.
A delegation was appointed to visit
| Great Britain. Canada and Australia tC
| explain the views of those represented
| at the congress.
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appears that the loaded bow torpedo
of the Belle Isle was discharged by the
effect of the shells of the Majestic, and
only smart maneuvering on the part of
the modern warship saved her from be-
ing blown up by the self-released pro-
jectile of the old hulk.
ROYAL RESIDENCE IN IRELAND
The fact of the Duke of Connaught
having taken Lord Francis Clinton
Hopes Castle Blayney, county Mon
Afghan, for the Season, with the option
for i've years, seems to indicate the eS-
tablishment of a royal residence in Ire
land. But whether the queen will oc-
cupy the residence which May Yoha, the
American actress, otherwise Lady Hope,
has Just vacated in order to fulfill the
atrical engagements in Australia, it is
impossible to say. But Castle Blayney
is one of the finest properties in Ire
land, and it is understood that if the
Duke and Duchess of COnnaught are
satisfied with it they will take it for a
long term. The Duke of Argyll an
nounces that Inverary castle, with its
immense domain, is for rent, and Eng
land is wondering what American mil
lionaire is likely to occupy this historic
mansion.
One of the most remarkable. though
posthumOus exposures of the lOOseness of
English life in high places, came up this
week when Mrs. BrinkwOrth sued the es-
tate of the late VIM, Beckett, former
member of parliament for continued sup
port of herself and her alleged children.
Mr. Beckett was head OF one of the
wealthiest private banking firms in Eng
land and eminently respected in parlia-
ment and in society. It now transpires
that Mrs. Brinkworth lived as his mis-
tress for many years and that the couple
amused themselves by buying children
which they passed off as their own, as
Beckett wished to use the children to
bluff his own family into cOnsenting tC
the payment of large sums to his mis-
tress. She accumulated seven children sc
adeptly that the Judge remarked: "YoU
seem to have bought babies as some peo-
pie buy puppies
Mrs. Brinkworth was non-suited.
The executor of the estate sued is Mr.
Ernest Beckett. son of the man who lived
such a double life. He is also a member
of parliament and owns one of the finest
houses in Piccadilly, where the Prince OF
Wales is often entertained He married {
few years ago Mrs. Tracey Lee. a niece
of the late w. II. Hurlbutt, since dead.
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MEN WHO DID THE WORK.

The success of the street fair is due
to the untirirg efforts of score of men
who have worked hard and faithfully for
weeks. They all deserve credit, but
some one had to be on the grounds all
the time and be in complete charge.
James S. Coe was chosen for that
work, and given the title of director
general He has been the highest in
authority. He locked up his office ten
days ago, and since then he has been
at the fair constantly. He has carried
out the wishes of the Commercial club
and has looked after the fair in an ener-
getic and businesslike manner He de-
serves credit and the thanks of the peo-
pie of Topeka During the time that
he has been at the fair he has managed
to elude those who wanted Coe by
hiding in the cage with Sultand Wal
lace. the untamable lion, and securing
a few moments needed rest with the
soft and woody neck of that ferocious
beast as a pillow He has so tanned
Sultana that she is no good any more
as a man-eating lion.
WOODMEN DRILL
Friday, night the Modern WOodmen
degree teams from Sunf1ower camp No
2S00 and Topeka camp No. O243 gave an
exhibition drill.
der except the Woodmen took part
The drill was witnessed by a large
crowd After finishing their part OF the
programme the Woodmen took in the
the insane asylum visited the fair Fri
day, and the managers of the different
shows admitted them free. A special
train from Horton arrived at 8 o'clock
in the evening with a large crowd on
board.
VISITORS SUSPICIOUS ILLNESS.
Elmer Albertson, of Kansas City,
| Kan. fell unconscious at the street fair
last night just before midnight and was
taken to Christ hospital in DeMoss d
] PeOWell'S ambulance.
/ He did not regain consciousness for
| two hours. This morning he was re-
ported improved. He says he came from
! kansas City on the $40 train and got
supper somewhere near Fifth and Kan
sas avenue. He says he can remember
nothing more. He said he had been
drinking nothing and remembers moth
/ ing after eating supper The physicians
I who attended him think he was drugged
as every symptom is that of morphine
| poisoning He is out of danger.
STREET FAIR PROCEEDS.
Director General Coe stated this after
| noon that the Commercial club will be
a little behind as a result of the street
fair unless the attendance for tonight
be very large
If the final summing up shows thai
the street fair has been a financial loss
| 1t may be charged to the abuse of the
pass privilege and the unwarrantablt
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IMPORTANT NEWS AND FEATURES.

PAGE.
st. Louis Strikers Again use Dynamite
English Fight Their Way to Heilbrun.
Foreign Interests Guarded in China.
IN Gratitude She Kissed the Jurors.
Total Attendance at Street Fair 40, 600.
Street Fair Brides Mother Frustrated.
Kansas City Hotel Rates Go Up.
Today's London Gable Letter,
Sporting News.
3 Railroad News.
slaughtering Filipinos.
Kansas News.
Church Announcements.
Summary of the Week
Late Telegraph and Local News.
Society and Personal News
Drug Store Liquor Sales Increase.
Queens Granddaughter in America.
U. s. Minister Merry's Mail Stolen.
Glucose Trust Destroy Competition.
Wichita Pauper Supports Himself.
North Topeka News.
omcial Find Fault With Dudley.
American Milliners Will Use No Birds.
Markets.
Wants and Miscellaneous Ads.
8 Seen on the Midway.
Snap Shots at Home News.
8 Success of Topeka Street Fair.
Kansas Girls win Missouri Medals.
Society News.
10 Where to Spend the Summer.
Dangers Around Great Britain.
Gen. Wheeler in the Philippines.
1900 Bathing Girl
IL Theatrical News.
Work of Topeka woman's Club.
Miscellany.
70 Editorial
Book Notes
Stories of The Town.
Sudden End of old Man s Romance.
IS Timely Hints For Women.
Care of the Hands.
Menus and Receipts.
Aunt Trudy's Letter.
IA The Railroad in African War.
Is To Search for. .Andree.
Englands s New Man in Africa.
Dining Ia Cairo.
Woman's Worst Enemy.
16 Salmon Fishing in Columbia River.
Humor of the Day.
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GODDARD TAKES A HAND.
Requests Railroads to Grant Lumber.
men a Conference.

Attorney General GODDARD. who ar.
cepted the invitation of the Kansas
Lumbermen's association to assist them
in making a fight for an equalization
Of the freight rates, which they claim
are extortionate, has Joined with David
Martin, the attorney for the association,
in request for a conference with the
representatives of the railroads upon the
subject.
II have hopes that something will be
accomplished by this conference" said
the attorney general today.
The railroads have not responded to
the request for a conference, but the
attorneys for the association anticipate
a favorable reply within a short time,
probably today.
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Plague Has Fled.

San Francisco, June 2-The health
authorities state that no new cases of
plague have been reported to that office
during the past "a hours. The house to
house inspection continues. and the
work of cleansing the unhealthy spots
in Chinatown is being prosecuted Wig
orously by an army of health officer en-
ployes. The health office reports that
all danger to residents outside of the
Chinese district is past and that the
quarantine will be maintained until
that section is in a perfectly healthy
state.
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The police have positive orders not to
allow any horns on the grounds and
to arrest anyone blowing them. The
street fair force will be increased to 25
men, and good order will be maintained.
Topeka's first street fair is pronounced
by those who have seen other fairs of
the kind to be the best ever held in the
west. The booths are much handsomer
than are generally seen. The people
appreciate the attractive features as
shown by the attendance. The weeks
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Fire in the Mountains.

Tuscon, Ariz., June 2-Severe forest
fires are raging in the Santa Catalina
mountains near this point The force
of men sent out by the government has
been unable to cope with the fire. It
has spread over an area of more than
twenty miles long and ten miles wide
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NEARLY 10000.
Total Attendance For Street
Fair this Week.
The Show Has Been an Unquali-
fled Success.
WILL CLOSE TONIGHT.
Gates VIII Be Locked Promptly
At Midnight.
Will CLOSE TONIGHT.
The Crowd Friday Numbered
Nearly 5000 People.

The street fair has been a success.
The total number of paid admissions
for the week up to today is SO, ,29O
Tonight, the last evening of the fair,
the largest crowd Of the week is ex-
pected, and every preparation is being
made to handle it. There has been talk
of tin horn blowing tonight, but not a
horn will be allowed in the grounds.
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Oldest odd Fellow DEAD.

Indianapolis, Ind. June 2-George P.
Anderson, widely known in the middle
west and for 80 years secretary of
Crown Hill cemetery. and the oldest
Odd Fellow in Indiana. died today aged
76 years.
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CopeRa state 3ournaI.
INDEX OF TODAYS PAPER.
SATURDAY. JUNE and, 1900.

Weather predictions for the next "a hours:
For Kansas-Partly cloudy tonight and
Sunday, with probably showers and
thunder storms; warmer in west tonight
and Sunday; easterly winds.
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Weather Indications.

Chicago, June 2.-For Kansas: Partly
cloudy tonight and Sunday, with prob
warmer in west portion tonight and
Sunday; easterly winds.
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Starr Goes to La Junta.

J. W. Starr, superintendent of Santa
Fe terminals in Kansas City, has been
transferred to La Junta, Col, at which
point he becomes agent for the system.
Mr.. Starr has been superintendent of
terminals here for several years
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Mckee bv AccIamet;on

Rushville, Ind. June 2.-The Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth congressional district
today nominated David w. Mckee, of
Connersville~ for congress by acclama-
ton.
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Japanese Cabiuet Crisis.

Yokohama, June 2-The cabinet crisis
continues. The Marquis Ito will prob
ably be called upon to form a ministry.
Amador ledger., 1900-10-19
CALIFORNIA; Superior Display.

William H. Mills, Land Agent of the
Southern Pacific Company, who went
to Paris last spring to take charge of
the railroads exhibit there, returned
to this city last evening. Mr.. Mills is
enthusiastic on what this State has ac-
lcomplished at the big Exposition, and
says that the superior display is ad-
mired and commented upon not only by
Parlsians, but by all Nations of the
world. In only one particular did he
find that any other Nation had out
done California in respect to its natural
resources. Mr.. Mills discovered that
the Servian walnut was superior to any
of California's walnuts, and in order
that Servia should not again outdo
California, he obtained number of the
nuts and will see that they are added
to this States product hereafter.
Said Mr.. Mills: "The United States
doesn' t appear at its best in the Paris
Exposition. There, is apparently no
high intelligence 1T the head of affairs.
We had no chemical products displayed
and in this particular line we are known
to excel. We have a miserable, impov-
erished exhibition of iron and steel. !"
Mr.. Mills says he has lost faith in the
significance of gold and silver medals.
He found that out of IS, 531 exhibits
there have been AZ, 100 medals given out
in addition to so, diplomas, so it is
not always merit that is honored by
medals.
Mr.. Mills, like others who have been
to the Exposition, does not speak very
kindly of the treatment shown Ameri-
40 in ha nj frc
exorbitant up to within month ago
when the owners discovered that it
would be to their advantage to keep
the rates down. For a time the high
rates kept many people away. During
the latter part Of July and the first
part of August, the daily attendance
dwindled down to only 1OS,O 900, which
was about 300, 900 less than the daily
average anticipated by the manage
ment. California's exhibit, Mr.. Mills
says, has attracted more than the av-
erage amount of attention.-Sa Fran
cisco Call. Oct. 2.
Amador ledger., 1900-10-19
sGroh Discharged.

Richard Groh of Sutter Creek, was ex-
amined Friday, Oct. 5, before U. S. Com
missioner R. Webb, on charge of vio-
lating the postal law in having taken a
letter addressed to Clara Bakeweli be-
fore the same had been delivered to the
said Clara Bakewell, with intent to OBJ
struct the correspondence and pry into
her secrets. r. G. Bole represented
the defendant Case for the United
States was conducted by the examining
Commissioner. U. S. Marshal Shine
and Post-office Inspector Culver were
present. The evidence was very con-
fiicting. 1t seems that the letter in
question had been taken from the post
Office by a boy named Louis Socal, who
was authorized by Clara Bakewell to
receive her mail and convey it to her.
On his way home he told Groh that he
had the letter, and at Groh's request
handed the letter voluntarily to him,
Groh saying that he would take it up
to her. The complaining witness said
she has never received the letter
Groh said he gave her the letter the
following day, and he was somewhat
corro roborated by other witnesses. The
Commissioner deemed the evidence un-
sufficient to warrant holding him for
trial, and the defendant was discharged.
This is the first examination held before
the U. S. Commissioner in Amador
county.
Amador ledger., 1900-10-19
Laid to Rest.

The funeral of the late Orsini Tam,
was held in Volcano, from his late
home, last Sunday afternoon at
o'clock, under the auspices of I. o. O..
F., and A. o. U. w. The attendance
was very large, many attending from
jackson and other parts of the county,
to pay their last respects to an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Amador
county.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful, among them were the fol-
lowing: Beautiful cross, M. Christen-
sen; Eolian Harp, family of brother of
deceased; Anchor, his nephew, N. T..
Giacomini; Anchor, Luigi Delucchi;
Cross, Mrs. M. Figoni; Three Wreaths,
Miss Amelia Camicia, A. Delucchi, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Cuneo; Sheaves, Mrs.
Rossi and family; Ferns, Louisa and
Clara; Cross, Mrs. L. Poggi; Wreath.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Canvin; Ferns and
Flowers, Mrs. Goodman; Basket, Mr..
and Mrs. Mitchell; Three Links, Miss
Julia Grasso; Three Links, l. o. o. F.
of Volcano.