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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
FIRST DISTRICT PRIMARIES.
Where the Fate of Curtis and Bailey
Will Be Settled.

The First congressional district coun-
ty contests will be disposed of as fol-
lows:
Jackson county-Primarie Wednes-
day; convention Saturday.
Doniphan county-Primaries last Sat
urday; convention Tuesday.
Brown county-Primaries Wednesday;
convention next Monday.
Atchison county-Primaries Wednes-
day; convention next Monday.
Jefferson county-Primaries Satur-
day; convention Monday.
Nemaha county-Primaries Saturday;
convention Monday.
LeavenWorth county-Primaries Sat
urday: convention Monday.
Shawnee county-Primaries Saturday;
convention Saturday, one week later,
March 8.
There are two calls out for the JEFF
ferson county Republicans. The Curtis
people will go into the primaries this
week, according to their arrangement
made last week. March 8 the date fixed
by the other faction of the committee,
the Curtis people expect to go to the
polls and carry those primaries In this
way they will choose two Curtis delega-
tions, they claim, and prevent the pos
sibility of a contest by the Bailey
forces.
The Doniphan county convention to-
morrow will select a Bailey delegation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
TO RUSH 1T.
Frick-Carnegie Lawsuit to Be Pushed
Vigorously.

Pittsburg, Feb. 19.-It is expected that
this will be important week in the
Frick-Carnegie controversy Word, it is
said, has been received from Andrew Car
offices that he will be in Pittsburg this
week. He is expected to personally over
see the final preparations of the answer to
Mr.. Tricks bill of particulars and make
IS filed. This will probably be done few
days after Mr.. Carnegie'S return.
After the filing . the answer, judging
from the talk now indulged in, the case
that no matter which way the decisions
of the lower courts go the suit will be ap
pealed first to the superior court of Penn
sylVania and then to the higher courts.
the statement that Mr.. Carnegie has been
informed by a telegram from the Carnegie
steel company's offices that MessrS-
Phipps, Iovejoy and Curry had refused
to join with the other defendants in ac-
cepung services of the II. C. F'rIck bill
in equity and that each of these individual
members had employed Individual counsel
in the matter. This move the attorneys
of Mr.. Carnegie regard as somewhat pc
culiar they feel the answer of three
of the defendants will be entirely different
from the Others. An acknowledgment
by these defendants to the suit that some
or all of the allegations set forth in Mr..
Frick's bill are true and consequently
they offered no defense, would certainly
complicate matters considerably and
would greatly add to the difficulty of un-
ravelng the equities of the case.
It is also expected that early this week
Phipps, jr., John Walker and other min
ority holders of the coke company stock
will be entered This suit, according to
the best of authority, will be entered in
company suit was, not in Westmoreland
county as previously reported
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
mayo DROPS DEAD
Young Actor Dies Suddenly in
Quebec.

Quebec, Feb. 19.-Edwin Mayo, of the
Puddnhead Wilson company, dropped
dead in the Chateau F'rontenac at
o'clock. Mr.. Mayo was the son of the
late Frank Mayo for whom the play
Pudd'nhead Wilson was written.
Mr.. Mayo and his wife were stopping
at the Frontenac Mayo was chatting
with Edwin Varney, manager of the
Academy of Music until about O'Clock.
When Varney started to take his leave
Mr.. Mayo arose to see him out and sud
denly fell back in his chair. He bled
profusely from the mouth and was dead
before a doctor who was called, could
get to the hotel.
A Topeka audience saw and enjoyed
Edwin Mayo in "Puddn'head wilson
at the Grand Opera House on the night
of January 6. 1t was his first appear
ance here with the play which his faith
er made famous, and those who saw
him left the theater with the hope that
he would revisit Topeka.
Edwin Mayo was the only son of
Frank Mayo, the veteran actor, who un-
til he dramatized Mark Twain's inter-
esting story was unsuccessful in his
chosen profession. He went on the stage
when young, and for several years con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
Burial of Sergeant Sheldon.

Paola, Kan, Feb. 19.-The funeral of
Sergeant Jay Sheldon, late of Company
I. Twentieth Kansas, was held here
Sunday. Three thousand people were
in attendance and the body was buried
in Pao1a cemetery. The funeral Grafton
was delivered by the Rev Mr.. Lee How
ard, of Kansas City Major Metcan
also spoke. Thirty former members of
Company I were in attendance. Ser
geant- Sheldon was Killed at the Battle
OF Caloocan. in the island of Luzor..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
TANNER CARRIES LOGAN.
Reported to Have Secured at Least 80
of the 13O Delegates.

Lincoln, Ill, Feb. 19.-The Republican
primaries in Logan county were held
Saturday. There were spirited con-
tests in East and West Lincoln, where
the Tanner Republicans defeated the
Cullom forces. The county convention
will meet here Tuesday and will con-
sist of 130 delegates. Up to Saturday
evening the Tanner faction had about
eighty delegates, sufficient to control
the convention and to prevent instruc-
tions for the congressional and state
deIeeates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
SEVENTH DISTRICT FUSION.
Committees Will Meet at Hutchinson
March 8.

The Democratic and Populist congress
sionaI committees of the Seventh dis
trict will meet at Hutchinson, March 6,
to select a date and place for holding
the conventions to nominate a con-
greSSman.
There are now only two candidates
in the field for this nomination: DR.. G.
W. Muir of Harper and Major w. L.
Brown of Kingman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
TREMRLY WINS.
Hero of Rio Grande Knocks Out Kan
sas City Politicians.

VIII Trembly, the hero of the Rio
Grande, who swan the river in the
midst of flying bullets and hitched to
the shore under the Filipino entrench-
ments the rope which pulled across the
raft on which Col Funston SWAN"
achieved a glorious victory over the
machine politicians in Kansas City Sat
urday at the primaries.
Trembly was in the race for city
clerk. He won by defeating the chair
man of the Republican central commit
tee and another candidate.
Trembly is the son of a widow and
carried papers for the Star before en-
listing in the Twentieth. His victory is
a. subject of much interest among the
politicians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
LOWE FOR GOVERNOR.
Washington County Democrat Is in
the Race.

]. C. Lowe of Washington, who was
a member of the state board Of rail-
road commissioners under Governor
MorriI1's administration, being the Dem
ocratic member appointed by the COM
mittee as a reward for his candidacy
for congress on straight Democrat tic
ticket, wants the fusion nomination for
governor.
Mr.. Lowe has announced his candida
cy and asks his friends TO go to work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
RAID ON GAMBLING HOUSE.
James Verlin Arrested by the Police
as Keeper.

The police raided a gambling place on
East Fourth street Saturday afternoon
and took nine men and the gambling
parapherna1ia to the police station.
James Verlin was booked as keeper of
the gambling house and the following
as inmates: Joe Brecker, Charles Lear,
c. A Brown, Charles Wells William
Brown, Clint Park, Frank Rose and
Jack Bradshaw. The first three pleaded
guilty and were fined $40 apiece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
Jesords Meets sharkey Tonight.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. I9.-The first
heavyweight sparring contest of the
winter will be witnessed at Light Guard
armOry tonight, When Tom Sharkey
will fight ten round go with Jim
Jeffords, of California. It is Jeffords'
first appearance against Sharkey The
bout had been arranged by the Cadii-
lac Athletic club, and all the good seats
are already sold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
PURE FOOD DELEGATES.
Governor Names Representatives to
Washington Meeting.

W
Governor Stanley has appointed the
following delegates to the Pure Food
exposition to be held at Washington
March I:
Willard Bigelow, Gardner.
W. F. Jensen, Beloit.
B. w. Woodward, Lawrence.
]. F. Greenlee, Hutchinson.
r. D. Hubbard, Kimbal1.
s. I. Danner, Newton.
w A Smith, Wilson.
G. II. Beers, Hoxie.
William Green, Topeka.
Charles F. Keffer, Atchison-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19
Weather Indications.

Chicago, Feb. 19-For Kansas:
Threatening tonight and Tuesday with
rain or snow, colder by Tuesday night;
winds shifting to northerly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-19

for him The Washington Palladium,
loves organ, contains the official an
nouncement.
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CONTINUED on Sixth PaksS
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

TITS now some years since Mary
Lease picked up her doll clothes,
declared Mr. Lease, the husband OF
her youthful days when she was $50
happy and so poor" and the father OF
her children, TO DO q very, very cruel
and heartless man. Then she hied
herself to the eilete East to lecture
for lilthv lucre and get her boy a job
under William Mckinley. Mrs. Lease
is a very remarkable person. 1t would
hardly be truth TO say she is a remark
able woman for she has no more OF
womanly instinct than the Indian maid
that adorns the front Of o CIGAR store.
except one, a love for her children, She
10 as selfish and cold blooded rs ser
pent, and the influence she has over
an audience Is the same as that a SER
pent has over sparrow when prepar-
ing it for a meal. Her control OF an
audience Is not winning, convincing, oil
inspiring, butt Is tense. Her demeanoI
betrays treachery and an Unsuitable
vanity and love of power. 1t is nc
wonder she has decided that Mr. Lease
Is very, very cruel, He isa modest
meshodical, quiet business man who
was probably the last and the least at
tracted by her stage poses. However
1t seems to be true that she has worked
hard enough, mentally and physically
to deserve some success. But hel
quarreling with her husband now thai
she has become anluent and applying
for a divorce from him who had sup
ported her in her poverty and obscurltl
Ia only in keeping with her charter
and will induce the real woman will
q heart of tenderness to pray not fo
greatness but for love, We must say
that the observation Of the course ant
career Of these public women has yer,
badly broken some Of our ideals con
cerning her usefulness in the publ,
life. Only one OF all those actively ii
public u rough the term of the last tel
years has seemed to be able to retaiI
her womanhood. If it does nothing
worse 1t destroys their usefulness il
the home. The custom has been pre-
valent of employing many women ii
the legislative sessions and 1t has beer
so frought with scandal that strong eff
forts will be made to change 1t, Thes
seem to be the practical results Of tn
woman in politics, On the other hand
as a matter Of right 1t is hard to unde
stand how men came to be created
such superior creatures that they cal
say yea and nay to their sisters as +
whether they shall vote
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06


1t Is now more than ayear ago since
Gbe war for the possession the Johan-
nesburg mines commenced, Like our
Philippine war 1t has been many times
ended, And yet the end is nor come.
The recent dispatches seem to betray
a worse state of affairs for Great Brit.
tain than for many months, The Boer
forces are operating in territory long
supposed to be for all time conquered.
New and large captures Of British
prisoners are reported along with sup
plies Of ammunition and largo guns
The Spanish reconcentradO policy
which has beeu adopted Ivy the invad-
ing army and which Is little better, ii
any, than the horrors of the Spanish
iuquisition, il arousing the Dutch of
the British possessions In Cape Colony
aud a general uprising seems to be
feared, Lord Roberts has lately called
for 5000 fresh troops and the govern,
ment is calling loudly for more money,
Already 1t has been very expensive
war 1t Ia drawing more heavily on
the resources Of Great Britain than her
friends are willing to admit, How
long the Beers can hold out is a pro-
blem but it is very safe to say tn at as
in most such cases, the English will
pay pretty dear for her stealiDgs.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06
farmers Institute.

Some Of the best teachers aud speak
ers of the State Agricultural college
will be in this city to address the farm
ers institute the sessions OF which are
to be held on Thursday and Friday,
December 18th and l4th. Experts in
the various topics will discuss dairy
ing, feeding, fruit growing, domestic
science etc. The sessions will be held
at the court house, AS this is Il time
of year when the farmers usually have
some leisure and as IL Is the farmer
who keeps best abreast OF the times
who succeeds, the same as in any other
business, they SHOULD give a good at
tendance. Following is the program
Thursday beginning at 10 a. m.
Wheat Raising"-Harvey Eisimin'
ger and VIM. Astle.
Corn Rasing"--Jas, Myers and e,
II. Bacon.
Cattle RaisinV"-A. l., Sponslel
and NJ. II. Oogswell.
1850 p. m. Cattle Feeding A, T.
johnson and A. l., Forsha.
Lecture by Prof. Waters of the Agri'
cultural college on "Gumption or Com
mon Sense on the Farm" .
"Alfalfa"-Wm. Nuckolls and j j
Measer.
Farm Dairy"--Abe Siegrist and
Chas. Bloom.
"Kafir Corn and Sorghum"-David
Taylor,
"Insect pests''-Jno no. A. Myers.
"Fruit Growing"-W. II. Penning-
ton, ID. A. Moore and W. n. Under
| wood.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06
For tho Kansas Exposition.


Mr.. l.. G. Beal Of Topeka has been
IN this city this week, working up an
interest In the proposed Kansas State
Semi Centennial Exposition to be held
ln Topeka In 1904. This is a project
that has been on foot for some months
with the most of the State Ia the APP
parent mood OF accepting the PROPOSE
ton with favor. Coming, as 1t is pro-
posed. on the iiftieth anniversary OF
the organization of the territory, 1t
brings sentimental appeal to the av-
erage citizen OF the State who has u
pride in 1t, However, the great i'm
portance that attaches to 1t will be In
Advertising the resources and capacI
ties of the State to u doubling world,
A stock company has heen formed with
a capital of $4,000 of which one'half
has been subscribed by citizens of To
peka, The other half II IS proposed
to have held by citizens Of the State
at large. An appropriation will also
be asked for from the State by the
coming legislature, and on the success
of securing this appropriation depends
largely the issue OF the agitation.
Mr.. Baal met with the commercial
club aud placed his ideas before them
asking for their assistance in organlz-
ing the work In this county. One OF
the most necessary things here Is the
selection of the right man. a good
lively, active working man for county
vice president, There are some things
some what against the success Of such
an endeavor which will be considered,
chief among which is the exposition at
st. Louis the preceding year. 1t is a
proposition which should be- considered
very carefully by our Legislators, and
in determining their action they should
have the counsel Of every interested
citizen. Therefore 1t is something
that should have the public mind. If
the exposition is to be held 1t should
be made success. The matter of the
appropriation of which the amount to
be asked will probably be in the neigh
borhood of 100000 is naturally one
which will interest the public.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

THE Topeka State Journal takes up
the conditions existing 10 the Shawnee
county jail and treating it as an ex-
ample of what is considered to be the
condition in all the jails Of the country,
arrives at the conclusion that q re-
vival of the whipping post in limited
way for certain sorts Of criminals Is
about the proper thing. This paper
will always protest against the return
TO any Of the old barbarous and brutal
punishments, The growth OF civil2a-.
Gion IS coeval with their disuse Brutal
ity begets brutality always, However
it is true that conditions do prevail
about our jail which should be cor
Tected. There is a class of men
drunkards, jointists, and buns who
have become hardened against the
shame of being cast in jail and receive
better treatment and enjoy an easier
time In jail than out side and as a con
sequence remain there most Of the win
ters and part Of the summer at State
expense, For such men change in
the punishment is needed But II
should not be to revive the whipping
post or the rack and torture, but II
should be to so change the laws as to
provide for putting such degenerates
at work Often they remain in Jail to
avoid work. If it were given to them
there in plenty it might change theil
ideas,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

name WAS Thomas Carr, He was re-
presented In the Trial by Judge Wall OF
Wichita and Howard Lewis of this
city. He stoutly denied having been
In Hutchinson for two years ana put
the man "Sllm' Butler who was also
arrested for being In the crowd and
who does not deny it, on the stand to
swear for him, claiming that Mus gins
was not present. However several
witnesses beside the police swore to
having seen him here that day and the
police identified HIM positively Ho IS
man of peculiar build and has a
broken nose which renders Identifies
ton easy. He was held for trial in
the district court for bale In the sum of
$1,000.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06
Now In the Tolls,

1t will be remembered that about a
couple of months ago the police of this
city had ian affair Of honor" with a
gang of buns at the grove in the west
end of the Santa Fe yards. The gang
were holding a big drunk as 1t is re-
ported when the people of that vincin-
ity sent for the police. Nicholson and
Drake went out and when they ap-
preached some members of the gang
opened FIRE which was returned until
the police ran out Of ammunition. While
they we're back In town after more the
men escaped, Two Of the gang were
arrested a short time afterward in
Wichita, but one seemed innocent Of
any criminal completely and was re-
leased, The leader Of the gang and
the one that opened the fire eluded all
efforts at capture till last week when
he was picked up in Wichita. Once be-
fore he has been nearly captured but
was Just missed, This time he is Sc
cure and was brought to this city by
Sheriff Long Friday. lie is abig Irish
man who goes by the name of Muggins
and no other name Is known for him
lie claims not to have been in the
shooting but the policemen claim to be
able to identify him and it seems that
the police all about this section of the
country know him intimately.
When he was arranged before Esq
Morris for his preliminary examina-
ton Saturday "Muggins" claimed his
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

THE word has been passed along
Through the dispatches that the re-
moval of Lord Roberts was comsumated
because he was too humanitarian for
the kind of warfare that must be con-
Quoted in South Africa, 1t Is likely
that Roberts was as humanitarian rs
the average of English army officers
and herhaps more so. lie appears to
Zoe a skillful military commander more
than butcher, and the above is the
best compliment that has yet been
passed upon him, The work is to be
now turned over to Lord Kitchener
who has a record ana reputation fol-
crueltieb and to compare with that Of
Weyler May the Lord help the poor
Dutchmen.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

THERE have been many changes In
the complexion of things in this west
ern country during the past twenty
years, all in the line of Improvement.
But nowhere has the change been
more happily manifest than In the
quality Of live stock. Then the horse
most utilized in the process Of clvillza-
ton was the little nee-bitten, gotch
cared, buckskin colored, stripped leg
Qed, broncho, built on the narrow
tread plan way down some where In
central or southern Texas. Now this
lection can furnish as fine horses as
any State in the Union, of any variety
from the heavy draft to the East trotter
In fact the two fastest horses on the
turf during recent years we're bred in
Kansas. one within fifty miles Of Hutch
inson. In cattle the change has been
similar. The "beef steer and his sis
ter" that were then most in evidence
In western Kansas were comprised
mostly of horns, hoofs and tail, with
the head furnishing the major part OF
the balance. They were wild as a buck
and fleet as a horse and tinted with all
the colors Of the ram bow. But year
by year the horns have been shortened
and often bred off entirely. The col
ors have been brought up to the solic
black, the deep red or the white face
while the hams have rounded anC
filled out till no longer takes two hinC
quarters to make breakfast for one
1t is true however that there has beer
as great change in the feeding as In
the breeding and is in no small part re
sponslble for the change. The SHEEP
that were brought into the country al
an early day from the South were
about on a par with thehorses and cattl
While they had fairly good sized car
cas-, it was set high upon stills and wa
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

general tone Of the message Is consei'
vatlye however, The president does
not commit himself to any OF the radl'
cal and extravaganza measures OF his
party unless 1t be the ship subsidy BILL
His policy toward the Philippines ia
rather indefinite although he takes up
large amount of space In discussing
it. lie admonishes Congress to be
good in dealing with these problems
and reiterates numerous gray Whlsk-
cred platitudes along that line which
probably he neither expects Congress
TO very closely follow or himself He In
common with most presidents who are
In and expect to stay In, has u very
cheerful way Of hoping for great and
good things to happen everywhere
and OF seeing very little that Is wrong
and should be- rIghted. He does how
ever in an apologize sort of way sug-
gest that there may be some bad trusts
and that IL there are really they should
be good, even II congress has to COM
pei them to be, OF course he makes
no mention as to the method Of pro-
cedure. He takes up very much valu'
able space In telling how well he has
managed the trouble IN China and
rather than be anIlcted with the punish
ment of reading 1t all we will agree
with him on that proposition, and let
1t 60 ut that.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

THE presidents message is now be-
fore Congress and the public. AS to
what it is Of course opinions dilIerr
mainly along political lines. A repub-
lican was heard to say it was chock full
of liberty. But the average democrat
and populist cannot see much of that
quality in it. 1t is discussion of the
foreign relations of the country mainly,
aud is as elaborate as the moral law.
To US it seems very prOsy, and in the
main merely a repetltion of much that
was discussed and brought before the
public during the campaign. The
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-06

covered with a patch Of wool as large
as a mans hand and as fine as horses
tail. To be sure sheep have not seemed
to prove as profitable In this country
as most other kinds of stock and few
are raised. The next thing we may ex'
pect In the line OF live stock improve
ment will be that some philanthropic
progreasionIst will be making au eff
fort to improve the breed of Kansas
jack rabbits by crossing with the Bel
gian hAreg.