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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-30
KANSAS NEWS.
Many Cases of Smallpox Dis
covered Near Ottawa.
Has Existed For Weeks With
No Physicians Present.
BUT NOT ONE HAS DIED
Rev. Mr.. James of Oakley Who
lnherits Millions
BUT NOT ONE HAS DIED
Makes Donation of 100000 to
Kansas City, KS. Hospital.

Ottawa, April 3O-Dr. H. w. Wright
was called to the Delap home south
west of here yesterday and found seven
cases of smallpox and rumors of many
more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delap were taken i'll
nearly two weeks ago and were for sew
eral days almost at the point OF death.
Both are badly marked by the disease.
Two children are sick with smallpox.
During all the illness. including the
days when Mr.. and Mrs. Delap were
in delirium, they had no medical
attention. The house is off the road.
and nobody has called.
In the Bixby family, north of the
Delap home, are four sick people. Mrs.
Bixby has been quite ill, and two of the
children moderately so. All have small
pox. Neighbors reported to DR.. Wright
that a half dozen families in the vi
cinity have had the disease, but have
recoV ered.
The commissioners have given the
health officer directions to use every
means possible to keep down the spread
of the disease in the infected neigh
borhoQd.
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Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, April 30-During the
week last past Senator Baker was sue
cessful in securing the allowance of the
following pension claims of Kansans:
Fred +. Nichols, Fort Scott, additional,
IS; Calvin S. Morrison, Topeka, original,
$50; Samuel McCluskey, National Mill
tary home, increase, So; Alex Blair, Ma
tional Military home, increase, So; Sum
mers Hickman, Pleasanton, renewal, IS:
Wilmot F. Tibbetts Ellsworth, in
crease, IS; VIM. H. Makeaney, Cherry
vale, reissue, $50; Samuel Hubbard, St.
Joe, Mo, increase, IS; Mary NJ. Jacoby,
guardian, Wichita, minors, IS and 81 ad-
dftional for each of the two minor chill
dren of Simon Clark; Thee H. Denoyer,
Kansas City, increase, $50; Edmund
Yarrow, Kansas City, increase, So.
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A GIFT FROM JAMES.
Oakley Pastor Donates 100000 For a
Kansas City, Ks, Hospital

Kansas City, Kas., April 30-The six
acres of ground south of the old, Simp-
son residence, at Reynolds and Grand
view avenues has been transferred to
the Bethany hospital association,
sideration of $12, 500.
Upon this site will be built the new
800, 900 building to be occupied by Beth
any hospital and which was made pos
sible by a $4,000 subscription from the
Rev. ]. H. James, of Oakley, Kas. Mr..
James passed through Kansas City,
Kas., yesterday on his way to Eng
land, where he is to come into possess
sion of a rich legacy. AS soon as he
returns work upon the new building
will begin
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ex- cult members and the dates of the meet

and believes that he will give the ex-
champion good bout
Although Dunkhorst has fought
nearly all the big Ileavyweights, he has
never been knocked out He is noted for
the great amount of punishment he can
Withstand, and, moreover, can land
dangerous blow.
Fitzsimmons has been training quiet
ly down at Bergen beach for the bout,
and he declares that he will surely stop
his adversary before the limit. The
fight is scheduled for twenty-five
rounds. Tom Sharkey and his big spar
ring partner, Bob Armstrong, have said
that they would certainly not miss this
fight, and Sharlxey also made this very
sensational request: IF JefrieS goes
into Dunkhorst's corner I want TO go
behind FftzsimmOns. I don't think JEFF
fries can teach DunkhOrst much, but
I know everything that Jeffries does,
and I am willing to go behind fitz and
let JeffrieS and his Smart-aleck part
ner, Tommy Ryan, go behind Dunk
horst"
If the champion does go into the ring
to second his new sparring partner,
Dunkhorst, it will therefore be novel
sight, for the crowd may see FItzsiTn-
mons, Jeffries and Sharkey and the
mountainous Dunkhorst all on the
platform at once, to say nothing of the
middleweight, Tommy Ryan.
Sharkey is hard at work at his home
at Sheepshead Bay, and in his model
training quarters there ne mas Dig
tea bag, about Is times the size of
punching bag and stuffed with hair.
This cumbersome thing hangs from the
ceiling, and the sailor throws swings
and punches into it that make it
worthy the name smuggling bag" When
asked how he liked this kind of work
the sailor lad, who viii some day be the
champion of the World-So he SayS-re-
piled: Fine. This is my Dunkhorst-"
Fitzsimmons says of his fight with
Rubin:
''Ruhlin is a big, husky fellow, but he
is too slow to beat me at this game. He
has not had the ring experience that 1
have had, nor do I think he can hit as
damaging a punch as 1 can. / will use
straight left jabs at long range and
keep him away. If he mixes it I will
show him tricks of infghting that are
not in his pugilistic catechism.
THE punch I used on Corbett when I
beat him at Carson City is one from
which Rubin cannot escape if use it,
and I very probably will. You know
what it is. I block a straight left lead
for the face and stretch the arm up over
the head. This leaves the other fell
lows body exposed. and can whip in
a right smash to the wind or kidneys
that will put any Of the heavy weights
out of business.
Il will not fight Rubin as 7 fought
| Jeffries. He, like jeff. is begger than I.
/ and I'll just smash and bang him from
1 q distance, safe from hugging, and if I
/ don't jab his head off this way l don t
| know Bob Fitzsimmons that's all I
| am glad I'm going to fight him. He's
| a good man, and I am anxious to get
| into the ring"
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AGERIcAN LEAGUE sTANDING.
Cherrvvale Shooters Won.

Cherryvale, Kan. April 3o.-In the
gun club shoot which took place here
Saturday afternoon Cherryvale took
away all honors from the visiting
teams. The scores for % birds were as
follows:
Observation-Disclosures II; Moore. II;
Black, 10; Cox, 10; Butler. II. Total, &c.
Parsons-Bero. 10; Freeman, II; Bar
ton, II; Riccart, 10; Parks. 20. Total,
valeda, I. T.-Kiyitt. IS; Bunk. II;
Cola, 10; McCarty, Il; Mullenie. 16. To-
tai, 70.
offeyville-Adamson p; Kloher, II;
Landers, 10; Stubblefeld. 10; Late, 49,
Total, so.
Chanute-Thompson, II; Garrison, Is;
Bush, Il; Miller, 10; Bushart, q. Total,
So.
Cherryvale tied Parsons. and was shot
off by so shots, Cherryvale scoring 81
and Parsons 80.
In the sweepstake. Chanute won by a
score of %.
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CHARGED WITH DOUBLE CRIME
G. S. Sleitholm Must Answer to the
Charge of Forgery and Robbing
United States Mail

Kansas City, Kas., April 30-G. s.
Sleitholm was arrested yesterday by
City Detective Joe Addison and held
charged with forgery and interfering
with the United States mail.
Mrs. Caroline Newman, who lives
about six miles west on the Eeiddy
road, and who received her mail
through Sleitholm, missed a check for
$40 that had been sent to her by mail
from a firm in Wisconsin. The check
came back to the Wisconsin 1rm with
what purported to be Mrs Newman's
signature An investigation was start
ed and the check traced back to f5us gene
Gillespie, who conducts a saloon at
Ninth and Bell streets, in Kansas City,
Mo, and to Sleitholm. The prisoner
was turned over to the state and will
be tried for his double crime.
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cult members and the dates OF the meet
ings:
Coffeyville, Kan, August IA to II.
Fredonia Kan, August p to "A.
Erie, Kan, August Is to 81
Chanute, Kan, September 4 to z.
lola. Kan, September 10 to Is.
Garrett Kan, September u to Is.
Ottawa, Kan, September IS to 81
Burlington, Kan, September Is to %.
The list of stakes for the first meet at
Cofeyville, to be held by the Coffeyyille
Fair and Park association, follows:
Stake, trotting foals of 1897, eligible to
300 class, $500
Stake, trotting, 2:40 class, $500.
Stake, trotting. 2:30 class, $500.
Stake, trotting, 2:24 class, $500.
Stake, trotting, 2:1S class, $500.
Stake, pacing, foals of 1887, eligible to
800 class, 5000
Stake, pacing, 2:35 class, $500.
Stake, pacing, 2:27 class, $500.
Stake, pacing, 2:22 class $500.
Stake, pacing, 2:17 class, $500.
Stake, pacing, 2:10 class $500.
The Southeastern Kansas Fair circuit
has been arranged in such a manner that
hOrsemen will have every accommodation
in the way of shipments. The associations
comprising this circuit, have always paid
their obligation to horsemen. Each mem
Der of the circuit will give the following
races for running horses: Half mile and
repeat, IS mile dash and mile dash Purses
$50 each.
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sHARKEY-cHoYNsK1 GO.
Heavyweights Will Meet at Chicago
Next Month.

Chicago, April 30-At TattersalTs Tues
day, May s. Tom Sharkey will make his
first appearance in a contest worthy of
his acknowledged prowess since his great
twenty-five round battle with James ].
Jeffries in New York last November. His
opponent will be Joe Choynski, the vet
eran of so many gallant fights. The men
have met only twice before, once in 1895
in San Francisco, when Choynski failed to
stop the sailor boy in eight rounds. They
next met in 1898, when interference made
it necessary to call the match a draw af-
ter eight hard fought rounds.
Sharkey has practically had a settle
ment of a definite nature with all the big
fellows except Choynski. Between these
two the honors are still in the balance
TattersalTs will have a great card on
May g. with the Sharkey- Choynsd match.
Joe Hedmark, the fast Chicago feather.
will meet Walter Campbell, a speedy and
clever lad from the coast, for a purse and
a goodly side bet. Jim Hall. the Austral-
ian rniddle-Weight, who is back in the
game is matched against Tim Seaman,
the Pittsburg heavyweight.
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Schools For militia Officers.

military board having decided to hold
regimental schools for officers of the
guard the first will be that of the Sec
ond regiment, which will be held in
Newton the last week in June, prob
ably 26 to Is. That of the First regi-
ment will be held in Lawrence at a later
date. These schools will be in charge
of the regimental commanders. Morn
ing and afternoon sessions will be held
and a large part of the time devoted
to Rotations of the drill regulations
Transportation and subsistence Will be
furnished, but the appropriation does
not cover per diem.
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IS DICK COOLEY A sLAvEp
A Philadelphia Newspaper Comments
on the Ball Players Condition.
TFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer

EFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.1
Richard Cooley, American citizen, is
still prevented from following his chosen
vocation-that of a ball player. He is de-
MED the privilege accorded every Ameri-
can under the Constitutions privilege to
secure which the Fathers Of the Republic
fought and died.
1t was thought that the thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution forever
put a stop to slavery in these great
United States. But it is a mistake. There
is now possible-there is in actual exist
City of Brotherly Love-a system Of bond
age of which the slave drivers of the
south never dreamed. If he could once
get over Mason and Dixon's line the
southern slave could breathe the air of
freedom.
Butsthat privileges is denied Richard
Cooley. He may so elsewhere. not no.
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Banastar to Be Sold.

New York, April 3O.-Banastar will be
sold at public auction in the paddock at
Morris Park on the opening day, May 5.
The other thoroughbreds belonging to
the estate of w. H. Clark will be sold
at the same time. Banastar won the
Brooklyn handicap in 2:O614, the best
time ever made for the race. He is 5
years old, and is by Farandole-Bless-
ing. A full sister to Banastar is now in
training at the LatOnia track.
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lola MAKES A GIFT.
Will Present $50 Barrels of Cement
to z. G. Convention Hall.

lola, April 30.-Geo Beaton of De-
troit has notified the Kansas City con-
vention hall directors that the new ce
ment company at lola, that he has or
ganized, would begin the manufacture
of Portland cement early in May, and
had decided to present to the convention
hall management the first $50 barrels
made at the new plant.
The plant was founded by a syndi
cate of Missouri, Kansas and Michigan
capitalists organized by Mr.. Beaten.
The gift will represent about $500. The
cement will be received in time to be
used in the construction of the hall
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Unbroken Criminal Record.

Hutchinson, April 30.-"Jack'' Burrell.
who was a conspicuous character in the
Postlethwaite murder cases here last
year, has been sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary on a. charge of rob-
berry. Since the beginning of his
troubles here Burrell has lost both
hands in a railroad accident. BurrelI
is still young and was transferred from
the penitentiary to the reformatory
when it was first opened. When pa
rolled from the reformatory he went
into the joint business in Hutchinson
and has been in trouble ever since.
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HASKELL INDIANS v1cToRs.
Defeated Washburn College in Close
and Exciting Game.

Lawrence, Kan. April 30.-The Has
kell Indians scalped the Washburn
baseball team here Saturday afternoon
in a closely contested game by a score
of to z. Randolph pitched wild game
for Washburn. In the first half of the
ninth the Topeka. boys tied the score,
and in the second half Randolph made
q wild throw to second in an attempted
double play, and shortly after Miguel
singled and brought in Leslie, making
eight runs for the Indians. Score by
innings:
R.H.E.
Washburn ......2 OO11O2 III 5
Haskell -........1 2 0 1 Is g 3
Batteries-Wa shburn, Gramley and
Randolph; Haskell, Felix and Miguel.
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COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

Dangers of a Great City" will be pre-
scented by the Crawford Stock company
at the Crawford theater Tuesday night.
Ladies will be admitted free to the per-
Torrance when accompanied by holders
Of paid 30 cent tickets On Wednesday
night blue Grass" will be the bill and
''The Hand of Fate" Thursday night.
The company viii leave soon after the
engagement here for Spokane, Wash,
where it will remain during the sum-
mer. The performances here promise
to be much better than usually seen at
popular prices.
An advance notice sent out by the
management says of the production of
QUO Vadis' which will be at the Grand
Opera House Wednesday night: PLAY
goers who have read Sienliewicz's great
religious story. "Quo Vadis," will be
in a position to judge the merits of the
coming performance Of Manager Brady 5
company. The scenes, costumes, and
mechanical effects, and a strong acting
company, win serve to give the play
an almost perfect presentation"
The booking Of "Sapho" for the Craw-
ford theater Friday and Saturday night
still stands.
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business in August, 1898, the trust open
ed a house the same day and has ever
since carried on the fight at loss of
$1,000 a month. The local factory has
run continuously, declared regular div
idends semi annually and is now run
ming force of 40 people, 16 hours a day.
This is the only independent cracker
factory in the state of Kansas.
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Cyclist Miller in New York.

New York, April 30-Charles w. Miller,
the six-day bicycle champion, reached
here today from Chicago and will com
plete his training for the coming sea-
son at the Manhattan Beach track.
Miller intends to devote his riding to
middle-distance work. He is eager to
get a match with Jimmy Michael and is
not particular regarding the distance.
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where may he follow his chosen calling.
Under the rules of the National League
he is owned body and soul by the proprIe-
tors of the Philadelphia ball club.
Last year Cooley signed a contract with
the Philadelphia ball club, calling for
81, 100 salary, $500 extra in case he lived up
to certain conditions. and a further sum
for captaining the team. Not desiring his
services this season, and no other league
club appearing to want his services, the
Philadelphia club should have either Civ
en- the player his release or signed him
for the same salary as he received last
season. But the owners Of the club did
nothing of the kind. They have not only
brutal exercise of the power given them
by the National League-thes highest and
the most un-Ameriean syndicate ever
conveived-they have offered him a salary
of 1920. As an alternative he may so
hungry.
And all this in free America
On the one side are Messrs. A. J. Reach
and John 1. Rogers-rich, powerful, int1u-
On the other, Richard Cooley. plain.
everyday American citizen, whose only
capital is his ability as a ball player.
The rich, powerful and influential duo
have decreed that Cooley can not enjoy
what Jefferson called the ''unalienable
rights, the right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness"
The question is, will they be sustained
by the intelligent sentiment of this lib
erty-loving city?
No. The time has not yet arrived when
any one man or set of men shall say,
DO this, do that; our will is law"
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A Franchise to an olathe Line.

Olathe, Kas., April 30.-The board of
county commissioners of johnson
county has granted a twenty-year
franchise to F. r. Ogg, ]. L. Petty
john and James E. Tryon for their pro-
posed Olathe-Kansas City electric rail-
road The county board is to get for
the county four mills on the dollar of
the gross earnings of the line. The
promoters say they will begin work at
an early date.
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Saturdav,s Rall Came

Philadelphia 10: New York L
st. Louis 3; Chicago 1.
Brooklyn 10; Boston 1.
Cincinnati z; Pittsburg 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Buffalo u; Detroit Z.
Cleveland IA; Indianapolis z.
Minneapolis 2; Kansas City 1.
Milwaukee 5; Chicago 4.
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M,ooRMACK FLuNKEn.
Was Afraid to Meet Mccoy Ryan in
Training.

New York.April 3O-The linited-round
bout between Kid Mccoy and Jack Nc
Cormack, which was slated to be fought
at the Pennsylvania Art Athletic club
in Philadelphia tonight, has been de-
clared off for good. Mccormack de-
liberately fiunked out of the match after
having signed the articles for the fight,
he evidently fearing that he would get
too much Of a punching from the Kid.
Tommy Ryan began a rigid course of
training at the Jeffries quarters today
for his coming fight with Mccoy, which
takes place in Chicago on May %. Ryan
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SETTING Out Locust Trees.

Harry Hammond received this week
from the state forestry station at Dodge
civ 800 black locust trees which he
has set out on his farm a. few miles
north of town. The trees were furnish
ed free by the state, the only expense
to Mr.. Hammond being the transporta-
ton charges.-W ellington Journal.
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Freouent Change of Editors.

Arkansas City, Kas., April 30-The
Arkansas City Enquirer, a Republican
weekly newspaper of this city, has had
a change of editors three times in the
last month. P. B. Andrews, a well-to-
do negro farmer. is now in the edi-
torial charge, having secured a con-
trolling financial interest
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Whitney'g New mansion.

New York, April 30-William c. Whit
ney will have a magnificent private
clubhouse in which to entertain visitors
to his racing stable at Sheepshead Bay.
An old mansion which he purchased last
winter is being refurnIshed and fitted
up. It was built IN colonial days. The
house has wide grounds around it. 1t
will be ready for occupation in a week
or 10 DAYS
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PITTsBURG. s: CINCINNATI, G.

Cincinnati O., April 30-The Cincinnatis
hit hard enough to win two. games, but
errors kept the Pittsburgs in the hunt
The crowd made a ground rule necessary
and this robbed the locals of many three
baggers. Doubles by Irwin and Wood af-
ter two hands were out tied the score in
the ninth. The Reds made a single, a
double and a single in the tenth. but had
two thrown out at the plate. Score:
Cincinnati .............2 o 0 90 II / / 0 O.
Pittsburg ............2 O 0 0103 0 0 2-S
Batteries - Pittsburg Phillippi and
Schriver; Cincinnati, Breitenstine and
KahOe.
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bumped From Moving Cars.

Arkansas City. Kas., April 30.-Hovv-
ard Evans, a 12-year-old boy. jumped
from a moving fat car in the Santa
Fe yards Saturday, but fell with his
coat catching in the boxing. He was
dragged along the ties several yards.
dislocating his spine and severing an
ear from his head. The company's ply
sicians are attending him, but there is
little hope Of his life.
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Z. o. Pharrnics Defeated Medics.

Lawrence, Kan, April 30.-The Phar-
macists defeated the NEEDLES Saturday
afternoon by a score of % to 5. Two
cOlored boys, AIcCampbell and Wilson,
pitched the game. This is the third
interclass game and the druggists, IN
der Captain Hunt, stand a good chance
Of winning the championship of the I'M
iversity.
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is himself a strong trainer, having.
coached some of the best men in the
profession The famous boxer is con-
slderably over weight. but hard road
work attacks his adipose tissue quicker
than that of any man in the camp.
Ryan says he will return here immed-
lately after the Jeffries-C orbett contest
and complete his course of training.
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Princeton Won the Shoot.

Princeton, April SO.-By defeating the
University Of Pennsylvania in the Sec
ond annual shoot. Princeton won the
prize cups offered for the highest ag-
eregate score of this shoot and last
years Princeton scored 112 to Pennsyl-
vaniais 80.
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SUNDAY BAsERALL.


ST louis, 6: CHICAGO, I.
Chicago. Ill, April 30.-The St. Louis
team outplayed Chicago at all points. The
helding of the visitors was clean and their
batting was done at lust the right time.
The Chicagoans hit Sudhoff hard but
generally straight into the hands of the
Chicago ..............,....0 0 I 0 0 0 o.
St. Louis ..-.................0 2 o % 0 1-6
Batter1es-St. Louis, Sudhom and O'Con-
nor; Chicago, Menefee and Donohue.
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Stone For Convention Hall.

Cottonwood Falls, April 30-The stone
used for the new convention hall at
Kansas City will be taken from the
ouarries near this place This stone IL
considered the best in the state.
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Lawrence Man Accused Of Ellie q.

Lawrence, Kas., April 30.-John 13ud-
son, a well known Lawrence young
man, was arrested Saturday afternoon
on charge of having set the Gibson
mill on fire on Thursday morning he
could not give bond for $500 and was
sent m fail
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cRAcKER TRUST DEFEATED.
Gives Up Fight Against Independent
Concern at Independence.

Independence. April 30-The cracker
trust today gave up its fight against
the independent cracker factory here,
which has been waged for nearly two
When the local factory opened for