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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31

Some men work themselves to death
trying to keep up payments on their life
insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
WAR OVER A GIRL
Italian Ambassador Delivers an
Cltimatum to the Porte.

Constantinople, Jan. Slowing to the
refusal of the minister of justice. Abb
year-old italian girl, Sylvia Gemelia,
who has been placed in a harem of a
Turkish officer, the Italian ambassador,
Signor A Panzi, has sent an ultimatum
to the porte declaring that unless the
girl is surrendered to the Italian en-
bassy today diplomatic relations be-
tween the two governments will be
ruptured. Although the minister Of
justice contends that the girl has en-
braced Islamfsm. it is believed the porte
will yield to the ambassadors demand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
KANSAS NEWS.
A Robinson CrusOe Claims Title
to an Island
In the Missouri River, Where
He Lived For Years.
HIS DOMAIN Is TAKEN.
Wrested From Him by Armour
Packing Company.
Fisherman Howe Sues Defend
ant For Value of Land.

Kansas City, Kas., Jan. 31.-Ten
years ago s. K. Howe, an aged fisher
man located on a little island in the
middle of the Missouri river near Ar
mour's big packing house, and, like
Robinson Crusoe, built himself a house
and gathered about him such things
as would make living there comfort
able. Year after year the river re-
coded and new accretions increased the
size of the island, until it included be-
tween twenty and thirty acres of good
land, Then the river changed its
course. and what was an island be-
came a part of the shore land, which
is owned by the Armour Packing COM
pany.
Howe and his belongings were for
chilly removed two years ago and the
Armours made final claim to the prop
erty, on the ground that it was theirs
by reason Of their ownership to the
property along the bank of the river.
Now Howe is suing the company in the
district court for possession, and as
the property involved is worth about
5000. the outcome of the suit is being
watched with much interest.
HOwe's claims are based on the fact
that he had possession of the island
long enough to acquire title to the
land. and that the accretions were
made to his property and not to that
u the COA pOI 1NlOAl 4AlCAS Is Il FGAJ O04-
icate legal point at issue and a large
array Of legal talent is engaged in the
case.
During recent years several hundred
acres of accretions have formed on the
Missouri river bank between the kaW' s
mouth and the Hannibal bridge, and
the disputed land is a part of it. 1t
is considered very valuable because it
adjoins the great manufacturing dis
trict of the city and Is becoming avail
a h1a for h11i1Hinor The cha n
mel of the Missouri river is now be-
lieved to be permanently located at
this place. and with such improve
ments as the government intends ma
deemed.
The Howe case will probably occupy
several days of the courts time. It is
being tried before a jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
FOB IMPERIALISM ALONE.
Bourke Cochran II pes Bryan May
Yet Lay Aside Silver.

New York, Jan. 31.-Bourke Cochran
said last evening, discussing William J.
Bryan's statement at Pawtucket, that
he would not consent to a truce on sill
yer and that Mr. Cochran knew it well,
said: Il have never appealed to Mr..
Bryan for truce on silver, and have
little sympathy with such appeals l
said in my interview and I repeat now
that the issues of a campaign are not
made by leaders, or even by conven-
lions, but by the course of events.
Events have eliminated the silver
question from this campaign. Events
may or may not revive it as an issue
four years hence: that possibility is not
worth discussing.
Events have made imperialism the
one paramount question which can be
settled by the next election.
ITO say, therefore, that the silver
question cannot play a decisive part in
the next campaign is simply to express
a belief that the election will turn upon
the issues of 1900 and not upon the is
sues of 1896 or on those of 1904
1.-THE American people will vote this
year directly on the question of imper-
ialism and this question will be the one
decisive issue of the election, however,
much Mr.. Bryan or the lesser polite
ians who have risen to sight by clinging
to his skirts might prefer to conduct
the campaign on some other issue.
while the silver question cannot be
an issue of the election it may be made
to exercise a. powerful influence on its
results. ItS pIOJecIlOn INTO the canvass
will very likely divide the opponents of
Imperialism and thus promote the sue
cess of the Republican politicians who
openly sheer at the declaration of in
dependence and who have deliberately
undertaken to trample its principles I'M
der foot.
1T is incredible that men who regard
Imperialism as an attack on the funda-
mental principles of our constitutional
fabric, will be prevented from co-operat-
ing to defend them, except upon condi-
tons which some of them might find it
difficult if not impossible, to accept.
Il can not believe that the revolt of the
American people against an attempt to
betray the constitution can be defeated
or imperiled by Harvesting it to the am
billions of individuals or the smaller pur-
poses of political organizations.
M body knowing Mr.. Bryan can question
that he would continue in all seasons and
under all circumstances to advocate the
free coinage of silver; but it is import
ant to learn if he will accept the decision
of the convention as to whether the COM
ing election is the proper time for taking
the judgment of the American people on
the questions embodied in the Chicago
platform of 1896, or on the living issue
which has arisen during the last two
years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
AT THE AGE OF % YEARS,
A Blue Rapids Physician Continues
His Political Work.

Blue Rapids. Jan. 31.-That the vener-
able DR.. BoyaIkin is still in the political
arena is evidenced by the appearance Of
a series of papers on national questions.
in the Blue Rapids Motor, the first of
which is expansion.
He says that the question which will
enter into and dominate all other issues
in the national campaign next fall is not
whether We shall expand and imperialize
but in so doing: Have we acted wise
"? What viii be the sequence.
The doctors papers show that he has
lost none of his old time vigor and still
Yields a facile pen. The doctor simply
can't keep out of politics and although
the froSts of ninety-three years crown
his head, he manipulates party wires as
one to the manor born.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
THIS Is HIS LAST.
Harry Corson CIarke's Final Season in
"What Happened to Jones''

Mr.. B. w. Copeland, representative
of Harry Corson Clarke and his COM
pany in What Happened to JONES' is
in Topeka today. The clever comedian
drummer Jones" probably for the last
time in this city at the Crawford the
alter next Wednesday night, as next
season he will have a new farce under
Mr.. Clarke was in Topeka on Thanks
giving day last season, and while play
ing a matinee in the afternoon received
a telegram announcing that all his pos
sessions had been destroyed in the
Baldwin hotel fire in San Francisco. AT
that time he was i'll with nervous dys-
pepsia, and would probably not now
be able to appear on the stage if he had
not hit on a peculiar diet which has
wonderfully improved his. condition. It
con~ists of milk mo1asses candy and
beef blood, and comprises the exclusive
nourishment of the comedian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
TOO PROUD TO BEG.
Former Mayor of Fort Scott Found
Half Starved.

Fort Scott, Jan. 31.-J. L. Stewart, ex-
mayor of this city, and only a few years
ago one of the prominent men of this
city, was found by the police last night
starving to death. He was completely
crazed by hunger and cold and when
restored told the police he had had
nothing to eat since last Saturday, and
that he had been gradually starving
prior to that time.
Stewart was mayor of this city twice
once in the early days and again from
1890 to 1892. He was proprietor of the
Stewart hotel and was considered rea-
sOnably we'll fixed. His hotel was lost
by fire about four years ago and he
was unable to recuperate from the loss.
Two years ago his wife left him and
he went to Denver to live with a. daugh-
ter. Six weeks ago he returned here
and took up his residence in a little
hovel on the east side of town. Last
night his rawlings attracted the neigh
bors and they called the police. His
furniture consisted solely of a lounge,
a stand a chair and a stove but there
had been no fire in the stove since Sat
urday night and he had not a cover to
protect him from the severe cold.
The officers and neighbors fed him
and within two hours his mind was re-
stored. He had chosen to starve to
death rather than to become a public
charge or ask for food. He is now be-
ing cared for by the city. The unfor-
tunate man is past go years old and is
not in good health
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
vAcc1NATE OR PAY FINE
PaoIa City Council Passes an Unusual
Ordinance

Paola, Jan. 31.-The city council
passed an ordinance at it's last meet
ing compelling all children who attend
school in the city to be vaccinated I'M
der a penalty of a fine of $50
AS a result the physicians have been
kept busy at so cents per scratch. E.
T. Ahrens, a prominent merchant, has
refused to comply and If the matter is
pushed will fight the action of the coun-
ell in the courts. He will take his chill
dren out of school, but this will not
evade the law, as the ordinance, in an
other section, covers 'taIl children of
school age" Ahren's contention is that
the city council can not force a parent
to inoculate his child with a disease
and that the facts do not warrant the
city in taking such drastic measures
There are a number of parents who
take the same view and will support
Mr.. Ahrens in his fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
THE DARK AND BLOODY
GROUND.

That there has been bloodshed in
connection with the fierce political con-
test which has been waged in Kentucky
since election day last November is
matter for little surprise. Perhaps, al
most every one who has kept informed
regarding the progress Of events in the
state has expected it
Few. however. were prepared for it's
taking the form which it did when Sem
ator Goebel was shot down on the
street by a hidden assassin.
That has not been the Kentucky way
Of doing things except in the mountain
GUS districts
If some Taylor partisan had picked a
quarrel with Mr. Goebel and shot him
while the two stood face to face there
would have been nothing especially re-
markable in the occurrence. considering
that it is Kentucky, but assassination,
that was hardly to be expected.
That the shooting was the act of a
political opponent there seems scarcely
any room for doubt.
Thus Kentucky still maintains her
title Of 1.-THE Dark and Bloody Ground"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
A CLOSE CALL.
The State Convention Almost Cap
tured by Wichita.

By a vote of II to IA, Topeka was Sc
lected as the place for holding the COM
ing state convention. It was q close
margin. A change of two votes would
have lost Topeka the convention. There
is but one reason in the world why To-
peka has to fight for these things, and
that is because she has no suitable
and proper place for such gatherings.
With a good auditorium, not a vote
would have been cast against holding
the convention there. The Journal
hopes, for the good of the state, that the
Topeka newspapers will show this mat
ter to their city in the proper light, and
before another state convention is held.
Lawrence Journal
We are working mighty hard to get that
auditorium. It is going ahead now ad
astra per aspera. Topeka did have a
"close call" Mr.. Leland, it should be
made plain, in fairness. stood by Topeka
and did not srebuke Shawnee county,
as a somewhat prejudiced contemporary
asserted. Two Seventh district men,
Banta and Simpson, also voted for To-
peka.
The following committeeman voted for
Topeka: Mulvane, Cook. Smith. Gilmore.
Simpson, Kelley, Slonecker, Voc. Cald-
we'll Burrow, Lockard Banta, Valentine,
Leland, Healy, Wellington, Hannah.
The following committee voted for
Wichita: Anthony, White. Morgan, Bat
tey, Thompson, Pollock, Albaugh. Slime,
Fitzgerald, Pratt, Simmons, Watson,
Randolph, Jewett-14.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
A GOSPEL TRusT.

A trust in the dissemination of the
gospel may not be far distant. The fol-
lowing from the Cleveland Plain Dealer
points the way that we are travelling:
Services in a Boston church were con-
Quoted recently by two talking ma
chimes, one of them delivering a sermon
that was preached into it by the absent
pastor. There wasn't much personal
magnetism about the services. perhaps,
but the audience seemed to enjoy the
novelty.
When you come to think of it this is
a really dangerous precedent for the
clergy. If the talking machine can
usurp the pastors place in one church
and on one occasion. why not in many
churches and on all occasions? The
same sermon falling from gifted lips
upon the prepared cylinder. might be
ground out in a dozen churches at the
same hour. Yes, and the choir is in
danger, too. A quartet of eminent sing
ers might furnish the melodies for
twenty churches. while one organfst
could I'LL the demand for instrumental
music equally well and in the same
wholesale manner.
OF course with an instrument that
can announce that the usual collection
viii now be taken up. and the mothers
meeting will take place next Friday
afternoon, there can be little left to be
desired.
That experiment in Boston looks
ominous for the pastors and the Or
Eanists, and the choir. Let them looI
well to 1t that the talking machine /:
firmly barred from the house 0.
worship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
EFFIE ELLsLER'S BROTHER
He Is Here as Advance Agent OF
"Why Smith Left Home"

Will Ellsler, brother of Effie Ellsler,
the accomplished actress who is this
year starring as "Gloria Quayle" in
THE Christian" and son of John ELS
Ter, the veteran actor, is in Topeka to-
day. Mr. Ellsler is ahead of the Broad
hurst farce why Smith Left Home
which will be seen at the Crawford
theater next Tuesday evening.
Mr.. EIlsler has never been on the
stage. He was born in the thea trical
business and has never broken away,
but his part has always been in front
of the house or ahead on the road. The
histrionic ability of the family is rep
resented by his sister and father. as he
has brother who is also in a manager
ial capacity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
COCOA PALMS MANY USES.
[From the Journal of the Society of
Arts

Artist
There are several species of cocoa
palms growing in the Philippine archi-
pelagO, but the ordinary cocOanut trees
(CocoS nucifera) is the most important.
The Indians make use of it in a good
many ways, but only the principal ones
need be enumerated.
The kernel of the nut they use for
food. While the liquid the shell contains
makes a refreshing drink. If allowed to
stand for some time this liquid forms
very agreeable milky juice. that is
relished not only by the natives, but
by Europeans as well.
After this juice has coagulated it is
mixed with sugar and made into bon
bons, known as cocoa sugar, and also
into various other delicacieS.
According to a recent report of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, by tapping the central bud that
crowns the cocOanut a kind of wine
called tuba, of an agreeable pungent
allowed to ferment, produces vinegar.
and when distilled a kind of brandy,
that is highly relished by the natives.
From the husk of the cocoanut the
Tagals make rope and cords and
material for calking their boats. From
the woody shells they carve spoons
cups, beads for rosaries and many other
articles.
The leaves they use to cover the roofs
of their houses Roofs made in this
have the disadvantage of burning read
lily, so that in the towns and villages
where the houses are thus covered con-
f1agrations spread with great rapidity.
The veins and smaller 1ibs of the
leaves are used to make brooms the
midribs serve as fuel and the ashes are
utilized in making soap.
The trunk of the palm IS made to
serve as a pillar to support the houses
that its leaves overshadow Oil bar
rels, tuba casks and water pipes are
fashioned from hollow sections of the
trunk.
From the roots the natives extract a
red dyeing material that they
chew in place of the areca palm nuts or
bonga when the latter cannot be pro-
cured.
Large quantities of cocoanut oil are
manufactured in the Philippines. This
oil is much priced by the natives The
men and women both use it to anoint
the thick growth of hair that adorns
their heads, and it thus finds a ready
sale at remUnerative prices. 1t Is also
used in the lamps that take the place
of gas burners in the streets and in
those used by the natives and Chinese
in their houses.
Manila exports annually about $50, 600
pesos ($125, 00O) worth of cocoanuts to
China and British India, and about
$4,000 worth of cocoanut OIL to China.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
BEATEN UNTIL DEAD.
Horrible Killing of Two Georgia
Negroes For an Uncertain Theft.

Triton. Ga, Jan. 31.-Two negroes were
so badly whipped near here Sunday
that they died Saturday night an ov-
ercoat was missed from a hotel, and
Sunday morning three unknown ne
groes who had come in the previous
day were arrested. AS no evidence
could be obtained against them Marshal
Beard and several men took them into
the wood to make them confess.
The marshal is said to have beaten
one until he was tired, and then made
the victim beat the other two. AS the
negroes still denied the theft, the beat
ing was kept up nearly all day, until
one of the negroes died and a few hours
later another one died. They are also
said to have been mutilated. The third
negro is still alive. A coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict today that the de-
ceased came to their deaths at the
hands of w. W. Beard, the marshal,
and others, and that the same was
willful murder" A warrant was at
once issued for Boards arrest, but he
can not be found
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
LIST OF CASUALTIES
Covering Recent Fighting in the
Philippines.

Washington, Jan. 31.-The following
casualty report was received at the war
department from General Otis:
Casualties. Killed: Luzon, January
Is, John H. Kelly, B, Twenty-second in
fantry, near Caigan; January 27, James
e. Rowland, sergeant, E, Twenty sew
enth infantry at Morong.
Wounded: January s, NJ. J. Grady,
G, Fourth infantry. thigh, moderate,
near Bacor; January %. Second Lieu
tenant Dennis p Quinlan, Eleventh
cavalry, foot, slight, at Bulacan; Janu-
airy %, Thomas O'Rourke, E, Twenty
seventh infantry, peIvis, mortal, at Mo-
rong, Panay; January Is, Christian A.
Georgenson, K Tenth infantry, leg,
slight at Antigua. OTIS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrorn the Chicago News.1
The most promising man seldom keeps
a promise.
Men and women agree oftener in love
than in money matters.
When a man has advice to give he is
seldom stingy with it.
A bankers interest in his fellow-man
is noteworthy matter
The street vendors business is more
of a calling than trade.
The man who has nothing to be proud
Of is apt to be proud of that.
Women usually look on the bright
side of things-especia mirrors.
AS a rule the woman who is her own
dressmaker gets into many bad habits
Some men work themselves to death
trying to keep up payments on their life
insurance.
Every man owes something to him
self, but it's what he owes to other men
that causes all the trouble.
It is said that an eel can live without
water for Is days. Some pepople may
doubt this, but the true Kentuckian
fails to see anything remarkable in the
statement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
CHILE A RICH FIELD.
Valparaiso Cor. Chicago Record

Valparaiso Cor. Chicago Record
Much interest has just been aroused
by the abundance of the output of
copper in the mining field of Chuoui-
camata, about 10 miles from the town
of Calama, near the Antofagasta rail-
way. The productiveness oe this field
is not its only attraction. as the char
acter OF the mineral is quite unique.
The fields looks more like Quarries than
mines, but they are filled with small.
loose material, and no biasting is re-
CURED. There is a monte, or layer Of
metal about three miles long and about
three-quarterS of a mile wide At one
of the deepest parts a lode of pyrites
has been struck which measures five
and half feet across and yields SO per
cent of copper, indicating brilliant
prospects for the future The layer is
formed of shattered feldspac and alta
camite," with which it is inapregnated
the interstices being packed with dust
OF the same MATERIAL sort of green
1Sh powder containing about IL per cent
OF copper. The mining operations,
which a t present are primitive and out
OF all proportion to the vast scope of
the future enterprise, are carried on
by means of immense caves or tun-
nels. Each squad of miners consists
OF three men. One with pick ana
shovel dislodges quantity of the nat
urally loose material from the walls OF
the cave; the second screens it in a
manu- SIEVE VI eOOuL
! ing a heap of fine stuff, which is af-
terWard sacked for transport, while the
third wheels the refuse to the mouth
of the cave and dumps it down the hill
side. The discarded material carries
with it considerable amount of ore
but, there being no ready means Of
separating it, little attention is be-
slowed upon this wealth daily wasted.
Each man earns from IS to SIS day.
The 40 or so mule carts which daily
make two trips each are quite INSULT
cient to cope with the present produc-
ton, but it is hoped that the branch
| line now under construction from the
AntofagaSta railway, which passes out
/ side of Calama within seven miles Of
| the mines, will soon reach ChuQuica-
| nata. On the termination of the
| branch the development of this rich dis
/ trict will no doubt assume vast pro-
! portions, and the establishment of the
necessary reduction works. Even the
| production of sulphuric acid for the
| by the presence of large quantities Of
| pure sulphur in the vicinity. At pres
| ent the fine or powdery production,
| which contains from u to is per cent
| as it comes from the crude implements
| used by the miners, is exported to Eu-
/ rope in its virgin state at the rate Of
| from 1000 to 5000 tons a month As
! it can be produced at a profit while
| bearing the expenses of railway freight
| from Calama to AntOfagasta, storage
| and shipping expenses at that port and
| the steamer freight to Europe some
! idea may be formed of the results to be
expected when it is converted into a
metallic state at Calana or the mines.
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The Nebraska's rough Trip.

New York, Jan. 31.-The be1ated At
lantie line steamer City of Nebraska ar
rived from Glasgow after a most tenn
pestouS passage lasting over 10 days.
From the time the steamer left Clyde on
January II, until her arrival at the
Sandy Hook nghtship she experienced
a series of terrific gales from the west
ward with tremendous high seas and
heavy squalls of snow and hail. The
ship was unable to make much head
way owing to the weather but succeed
ed in reaching port without the slight
est damage to vessel or passengers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-31
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Shawnee county to J. w. Thurston,
$685., tax deed, lots 469. All and 473.
Lane street.
William ]. Hunt to Chas. W. Camp
bell, $40, lot 1872 and adjoining tract.
Lawrence street, Parkdale.
Edison e. Beach and wife to Eli T.
Kincaid, 2,1e0, west 20 acres of north
east quarter Is, 10, 16.
Chas. Engler to VIM. T. Engler, 81, 220.
south half southwest quarter 80, II, Is.
A. McKeever and wife to Mrs. H. NJ.
Kirkner, 50, 900, southeast quarter, Is, 10,