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The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
BURLINGTON ROUTE.
New Through Train to Portland and
Puget Sound.

THE Burlington-Nor orthern Pacific Ex-
press a new daily through rrain
from Grand Island for Northwest Ne
braska. Black Hills, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Washington, Tacoma, Seattle,
Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon. via
Billings. Montana-the short line and
time saver to the Upper Northwest. To
Central Montana in "a hours; to the
Puget Sound in 81 hours from the Mis-
souri, river. Through coaches and chair
cars. through tourist sleepers, through
dining car service and standard Sleep
ers. This is the main Travelled road Mis-
souri, river to the Northwest
Number Is, Kansas City and st.
Joseph to Nebraska. Denver, Colorado,
Utah, Pacific Coast and the Northx est,
via Ogden; also to the Northwest
Montana, Washington, Oregon, via Lin
coin and Billings. Weekly California
excursions.
Number %. Nebraska Colorado Ex-
press" from Hastings for Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah, and Pacific Coast
To the East: Chicago and St Louis
greatly improved trains in time and
equipment.
To the North: Best trains daily to
Omaha, St. Paul. Minneapolis and the
Lake region J. G. BRAMHALL,
T. P. A, s23 Main St, Kansas City, No
L. w. WAKELEY,
Gen1 Passenger Agent, st. Louis. No
HOWARD ELLIOTT,
Gen1 Manager. St. Joseph. Mo.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12

succeeded in sharing the honors with
the established coIors. Both green and
scarlet will be conspicuous on the links
this summer.
decidedly unique and entertaining
toy for golhng is the combination of
green sunshade with a golf stick. Nat
urally the effect of combining an UNI
brella with a golf stick is not calculated
to increase the steadiness of your stroke,
but used merely as a sunshade it has
very smart look and boasts the advan-
tage Of being easily disposed of when
in the way for it can be rolled up neatly
and slipped among it's brother sticks to
increase the caddie's burden.
No QuillS or eagles feathers must
show themselves on the golf links this
season. The maccaroni style of these
plumes is quite passe and beyond recall.
Soft felt hats too, are no longer re-
spected though for convenience sake
they are still recognized.
The latest golf hat is the bamboo,
which is deliciously cool and flexible,
very much in effect of a cream straw.
but so light that its weight is scarcely
perceptible. They have wide, round
brims somewhat rolling and turned up
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12

at the rim. The crown is soft and
crushed and they are not damaged by
careless treatment any more than a soft
felt would be-then too, they are alto
gether picturesque and comfortable The
trimming is usually nothing more than
a twist of some light coarse meshed
scarf.
Mercerized piques. in golf pink-or to
use regular English-red, are brought
out for skirts and shirtwaists. They
are more in form for waists however
and are quite the thing with skirts and
white hats. They are cut on a blouse
pattern with full fronts. the sleeves are
large enough to be perfectly easy and
the turn back cuffs may be readily
turned back at the elbow to allow full
play to the forearm in welding the
stick.
The favorite corset for golfng is such
a ridiculously small affair that it seems
scarcely worth speaking about, but
upon its easy fit much of the grace and
freedom in playing depends. It scarcely
pretends to be more than a support for
the various bands about the waist and is
sometimes made of a few whalebones
strapped together with ribbons or linen
bands.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
SANTA FE JOKERS.
They Make Special Policeman Think
He Has an Important Capture.

One evening not long ago when a
number of the Santa Fe boys were
around the Office in the Santa Fe round
house, a little excitement was stirred
UP. 1t all came about in this manner:
Richard Lane and Milt Smith were
throwing paper wads at Lion Tanner"
Amos Beeler and VIII Sherman, and of
course the latter retaliated in a good
natured sort of way. This was all right
for awhile but soon the wads began to
fly faster and with more force and each
of the combatants began to throw in
earnest. Things came to a climax when
Beeler shouted:
You had better quit it Lane"
Lane paid not the slightest heed to
Beeler's words but threw another wad
harder than ever.
7 meant what said when I told you
to stop said Beeler, who was now
angry, and started for Lane.
Lane Immediately took to his heels
and started to run. He did very well,
but Beeler with all his avoirdupois
showed the onlookers that he was able
to "go some" and finally caught UP
with him at the corner of the car sheds
By this time his anger had passed and
good-natured scuff1e took place. Some
one seeing it. and not knowing but it
was fight, decided to send special po-
! liceman around to quell the disturb
ance Officer Tillotson arrived on the
scene of battle and inquired the cause
/ of the trouble. Lane spoke up and said
! He accuses me of stealing Brass
/ Beeler taking his cue from Lane said
| Yes, he has been stealing brass. Off
Ger. do your duty
The officer called on Beeler to hell
him arrest his prisoner. The trio start
/ ed back TO the roundhouse with. Beelel
holding Lanes arm and the officer fol
| lowing after. Lane hesitated about go
ing, not knowing what would develop
But the officer was behind him to gently
urge him onward with a dig now anC
then with his club.
| The procession finally arrived at the
/ roundhOuse where Reeler let loose hi:
hold on Lane. who made his escape o.
| course the officer who was ignorant o.
the first part of the fun was indignan
| at the loss after all his endeavors t.
| bring to justice this law breaker. Elk
plantations followed and everything end
| ed peacefully.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
Clumsy Shoes and Light
Stockings-The New
Bamboo Hat.

my lady of Modes" dares not demean
her rank and jeopardize her title by Iali-
ing to equip herself with the correct
golfng regalia. Summer viii see her
daily on the links, and she must look
to it that her appearance there VIII DO
credit to her up-to-dateness- Whlle the
golf season warns with the increasing
balminess Of the weather, she studies
the matter of dress, bearing 1t Well IN
mind that while her outfit must be be-
coming to her, she must, in turn, be
becoming to the landscape and rig her
self in such a way as to add pictures
que bit of color to the scene Of rolling
hummocks and shadowed wales.
Then. too. she wishes to look spruce
and distinctive-to suggest in her ap-
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
Gen1 Manager. St. Joseph. No.

In almost every neighborhood there is
some one whose life has been saved by
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea. Remedy. who has been cured of
chronic diarrhoea by the use of that n1edi-
cine Such persons make a point OF tell
ing of it whenever opportunity offers, hop
other lives. For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12

The minutes of the last preceding meet
ing were presented and partly read when
upon motion Of Councilman Roundtree,
the minutes were approved as published
Claims were presented and referred to
the committee on claims and accounts,
who reported the same back, recommend
ing payment of claims as follows:
General revenue fund ..............S 2.742 60
Fire department fund ........... 2265 "a
Police department fund general
FeNenuel ...-..-.....-.... 1,69S. -
General Improvement fund.-. 3.999 80
EaFlng fund Observation-Disclosures. Z 769. 81
Topeka avenue repaving fund. ~. i04.S7
Ienth avenue paving fund (Tyler
70 Lane sLreet) ...-................ . 054. 81
city nan fund ....-.................. 16, 0S1. 10
GarHelu street opening fund.-. 25.O0
Ss6.7n. q
Petition of ]. Weiss and others for the
paving OF Tyler street from the south
curb line of Fourth street. to the north
curb line of Fifth street, was presented,
read and referred to the committee on
streets and walks.
Tor the grading, curbing and paving of
Jefferson street from the south line of
Eourth street to the north curb line OF
fltth street, was presented, read and re-
1erred to the committee on streets and
Petition of G. c. White and others for
the construction of new sidewalks along
the sides of certain pieces Of property in
the second ward. was presented. read and
referred to the committee on staeets and
walks.
Petition of Thomas Vaughn and % 9TH
= - A'A me CONSTRUCTION or "a new SldeWalk
along the north side of Fifteenth street
from Monroe street to the Shunganunga
brldge, was presented. read and referred
10 the committee on streets and walks
Petition OF John Henrietta and others
asking that a sidewalk four feet in width
be constructed along Throop avenue of
the length Of half a block instead of the
regular six foot walk. provided by or
dinance, was read and referred to the
committee on streets and walks.
Petition Of Bennett r. Wheeler. as re-
celver OF the Investment Trust company
for the removal of a certain fence al the
foot of Monroe street. was presented. reaf
and referred to the committee on streets
and walks.
Petition Of e. S. Quinton and others
asking that a system Of parks be estab
lished in the center of Topeka avenue
from Tenth to Twelfth street. was pre-
Eented and read.
Councilman Warner moved that re
which the petition was granted at tn,
last meeting Of the council, which mo
uOn prevailed
Communication of Frank Conklin. al
secretary of the Firemen's Relief asso
citation, asking that the board of director
be authorized to pay to w. H. Wilson
the sum of 1886 for medicine furnishe,
TO ex-Captain r. L. Brown. was present
ed. read and on motion the request wa
granted.
Communication of T. J. Anderson, re
quesung the mayor to extend an invita-
ton to the grand council of the Unite'
Commercial Travellers Of Kansas, to hol
their meeting in Topeka in 1901 was pre-
gented, read and on motion the reques
was granted.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-05-12
Nearly One=half

Of business now comes to US through the
personal recommendations of people who have
used Dr. CaIdweIrs Syrup Pepsin.
THE following letter from Mr. Cadwalader dealer gro
ceries boots and Shoes general merchandise and grain,
in West Lebanon Ind will be with his many
friends and acquaintances, and given below verbatim:
wEsrL LEBANON. NIB 1869
CoAPA ANY Aonice III.
CadweTs n
o bee
upono to tax
SyrupP villa wayh in
Respect
DIR. Caldwers Syrup Pepsn is pleasant take, and in
using you risk of outlay without remuneration
it is backed up by guarantee from the manufactures
PEPSIN SYRUP COMPANY
u. A.
R W. Sques 752 Kansas Avenue A. o. Ros 10th and
Topeka Avenue Swift & Holiday Drug A.
Kane & Co, Family Drug Store, 622 North Kansas Avenue
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
The Cloth of Ceremony.

One of the Tibetans was dressed in
white, one in black, with square-cut
caps, Tartar physiognomy, very dark
compilations, and long pigtails, and
were we'll known to our people.
They approached us making many po-
lite bows, and, taking off their caps,
presented the cloth of ceremony, as
was becoming from interiors to supe.
riors. This is a form which is uni
versal in Thibet, and extends into
China, though I do not remember ever
to have heard an explanation of the
custom. The cloth we received was of
cotton, badly woven, but of fine tex
ture, about the size of small hand
kerchief, but so dirty as to show that
it had frequently performed similar
offices of civility before. The more
wealthy classes employ silk instead of
cotton cloths, the legend, "Om name
padme hum" being commonly woven
in damask at each end. The sale of
these cloths of ceremony, was given
to understand, constituted a govern
ment monopoly in this part of Thibet.
Geographical Journal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
Opticians Latin.

Hiram had returned home from col
lege, where he had won high honors
as a student of the ancient languages,
but he "fell down" one day when his
sister, demure young girl in her
teens, asked him to translate sign
she had seen in front of an opticians
office, which read thus:
''Con Sultu Sabo Utyo Urey Els"
Hiram struggled manfully with it
for several minutes, and gave it up.
cit isn't good Latin" he said. "There
are some words in it that are Latin,
but the others are either wrong ill
termination or are barbarisms from
other languages, and, taken as a
whole, it doesn't make sense"
'sThat is what I said," rejoined his
sister, ''but Keturah, out in the kitch-
en-, translates it without any trouble.
She says it means, Consult us about
your eyes"
Whereupon Hiram collapsed. =
Youths Companion.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
EARrn.S BLOSSOMS.

Oh. you husbands, when you grumble st
your wife's dressmaker's bill,
And about costly bonnet fret and
stew.
Did you ever stop to reason how this
world would take chill
If your pretty wife and daughter dressed
like you?
With your somber black cravat and your
ugly, shiny hat,
And your coat, perfect antidote for
mirth,
You are practical enough like the kitchen
garden stuff,
Bat the women are the roses of the
earth.
When crowd of men are gathered it's
sad and solemn show
It's q living, breathing spectacle Of
gloom;
E,very single fellows garments might be
patterned from a crow
That had pecked about an undertaker's
tomb,
ing Of woe
And you will see a sight that's cheap
at any price,
For mid the funeral band, blithe and ra-
diant, she'll stand
Like a flashing. cleaning bird Of para
disc.
SO we mustn't growl and grumble, though
the bills be what they please
For the satins and the other precious
stuffs,
And be happy though our trousers do
get baggy at the knees,
And we often are obliged to trim our
cuffs.
Though we labor every day so that
they may be as gay,
When we see 'en. don't we get our
moneys worth?
cr,cr1, rather
must have 'em, you and I,
For the women are the roses of the
earth.
Good Roads.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
The News Condense d.

Students of Kemper hall at kenosha,
under the auspices of the Sisters OF
ST. Mary, have raised fund and will
open girls free school in the famine
districts of Poona, India.
The birth of baby elephant at the
winter quarters of Ringing Bros cir
Gus in Baraboo created quite stir
among the employees and townspeo-
pie. 1t is the first elephant born in
the United States.
Fire destroyed the Hotel French at
Sturgeon Bay and Miss Hechardt, Of
Ahnapee, guest, was burned to
death. The hotel was crowded and
most of the inmates had to make
their escape in their night robes.
Hog cholera is doing deadly work
among hogs in the vicinity of Portage.
E. S. Baker, Of Fort Winnebago, has
lost 43 and James Mondville 33.
Searchers found the remains Of
William See, the hunter who disap-
peared from Ashland, near mo. He
had been shot through the head.
George Washington Taggart, ST.,
committed suicide in Weyadwega by
hanging himself Mr.. Taggart was in
his eighty-seventh year. His wife
died last year, aged "a years.
Capt. Levi Moore, aged SO, died at
Baraboo. He was the first to develop
Baraboo river water-power.
In. a few days Kenosha's religious
organizatio will probably be in
creased by the addition of a Mormon
church.
Smallpox has become so prevalent
among the lumber camps in northern
Wisconsin that the state board of
health has recommended that logging
crews everywhere should be vaccfna
Ted.
At the annual meeting of the Rock
county board of supervisors it was de-
cided to appropriate $4,000 to be used
for the construction of a hospital at
the county insane asylum.
The Paine Lumber companys dry
kiln at Oshkosh was burned. with a
large stock of lumber. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The home of Thomas c. Smythe ia
Their of Rev. Sydney Smythe, of ST.
Johns academy at Delafeld. was de-
stroyed by fire.
The Marinette county board of SUI
pervisors appropriated $4,000 for the
improvement of county roads.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28

But officers whose wives and children
prayed fearfully at night within the
puny wooden stockades, and listened
trembling to the bowls and tom-toms
Of the dancing Indians around the
council fires in the neighboring valleys,
wished to heaven they had left those
dear ones in safety at their eastern
homes-wished to heaven they could
send them thither now, but well knew
that it was too late. Only as single
spies, riding by night, hiding by day,
were couriers able to get through
from the Big Horn to the Platte. Of
scouts and soldiers sent at different
times since the middle of May, seven
were missing, and never, except
through vague boastings of the In
dams, were heard of again.
cit is a treacherous truce, I tell you"
said Folsom, with grave, anxious face,
to the colonel commanding Fort En-
DRY. 81 have known Red Cloud 20
years. He's only waiting a few weeks
to see if the government will be fool
enough to send them breech-loaders.
If it does, he'll be all the better able
to fight little later on. If it doesn't
he will make it his casus belli.'
It was nearly 800 miles by the wind
ing mountain road from Gate City to
Warrior Gap. Over hill and dale and
mountain pass the road ran to Frayne,
thence, fording the North Platte, the
wagon trains, heavily guarded, had to
drag over miles of dreary desert, over
shadeless slopes and divides to the dry
wash of the Powder, and by roads
deep in alkali dust and sage brush to
Cantcnment Reno, where far to the
west the grand range doomed up
against the sky-another long days
march away to the nearest foothills,
to the nearest drinkable water, and
then, 40 miles further still, in the heart
of the grand pine-covered heights, was
the rock-bound gateway to lovely
park region within, called by the
most unpronounceable syllables, which,
freely translated, gave us Warrior
Gap, and there at last accounts,
strengthened by detachments from
Frayne aid Reno, the little command
of fort builders worked away, ARK in
hand, rifle at hand, subjected every
hour to alarm from the vedettes and
pickets posted thicl1ly all about them,
pickets who were sometimes found
stone dead at their posts, transfxed
with arrows, scalped and INITIATED,
and yet not once had Indians in any
force been seen by officers or man
about the spot since the day Red
Clouds whole array passed Brooks
troop on the Reno trail. peaceably
hunting buffalo. can divil sowl in
| the outfit" said old Sergt. Shaughnes-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28

the possible fate of those little
garrisons, with their helpless charge
of women and Children, away up
in the heart of the Sioux country. But
at Laramie and Frayne and Emory, the
nearest frontier posts; at Cheyenne,
Omaha and Gate City the anxiety was
great. When John Folsom said the In
dams meant a war Of determination
people west of the Missouri said:
"Withdraw those garrisons while
there is yet time, or else send five
thousand troops to help them" But
people east of the Missouri said: "Who
the devil is John Folsom? What does
he know about it? Here's what the In
dian agent says, and that's enough"
and people east of the Missouri being
vastly in the majority, neither were
the garrisons relieved nor the reen-
forcements sent. What was worse,
John Folsom's urgent advice that they
discontinue at once all work at War
rior Gap and send the troops and Ia
borers back to Reno was pooh-poohed.
"The contracts have been let and
signed. The material is all on it's way.
We can't back out now" said the Of
fcials. "Send runners to Red Cloud and
get him to talk. Promise him lot of
presents. Yes, if he must have them,
tell him he shall have breech-loaders
and copper cartridges-to shoot buffa-
10 with, of course. Promise him pretty
much anything to be good and keep his
hands off q little longer till we get that
fort and the new agency buildings fin
ished, and then let him do what he
likes"
Such were the instructions given the
commissioners and Interpreters hurried
through Gate City and Frayne, and on
up to Reno just within the limit fixed
by Folsom Red Cloud and his chiefs
came in accordingly, arrayed in pomp,
paint and fnery, shook hands grimly
with the representatives of the Great
| Father. critically scanned the prof
fered gifts, disdainfully rejected the
muzzle-loading rifles and old dragoon
horse-pistols heaped before him. Got
| heap BETTER was his comment, and
| nothing but brand new breech-
| leaders would serve his purpose.
| Promise them and he'd see what could
be done to restrain his young men.
But they were pretty mad,' he said,
and couldn't be relied upon to keep
the peace unless sure Of getting better
arms and ammunition to help them
break it next time. It was only tenn
PORTING. 1t was only encouraging the
veteran war chief in his visions Of pow
| CT and control. The commissioners
came back beaming. Everything salts
factorily arranged. Red Cloud and his
people are only out for big hunt. y
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A Novel lawsuit,

c. W. Staeffler is s1ling the MeHasha
Wcodenware company at Appleton to
recover damages for the death of his
Wife's first husband. Mrs. Staetf1er
was formerly the wife of one Schmidt,
who was killed accidentally in the
Menasha company's works. She began
suit for damages, but married Staeffler
and died before the case was decided.
Now Staeffier. claiming to have inher-
tied the cause of action. is prosecut-
ing the suit that his wife began. The
case is said to be without precedent
in the United States.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
Heir to Vast Fortune.

Frank Wardwell, poor carpenter
living in Milwaukee, believes he is one
of the six rightful heirs to an estate
at Chamberg. France, worth no less
than $12 100000. The five other right
full heirs, according to Wardwell, are
his brothers. A son of one Of the
brothers, who resides at Waterville,
Me-, is in Paris preparing to bring
suit to establish the title of the
American claimants to the property.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
CHAPTER Y.

Mid June had come, and there was
the very devil to pay = so said the
scouts and soldiers up along the Big
Horn. But scouts and soldiers were
far removed from the states and cities
where news was manufactured, and
those were days in which our Indian
outbreaks were described in the press
long after, instead of before, their oc-
currence. Such couriers as had got
through Frayne brought dispatches
from the far-isolated posts along that
beautiful range, insisting that the
Sioux were swarming in every valley.
Such dispatches, when wired to Wash
ington and "referred' to the depart
ment of the interior and re-referred to
the head of the Indian bureau, were
scoffed at as sensational.
"Our agentsrep the Indians peace
ably assembled at their reservations.
None are missing at the weekly dis
tribution of supplies except those who
their annual hunt" The Officers
said the papers, "seem to take the real
Indian in every bush," and unpleasant
things were limited at the officers in
consequence.
Indians there certainly were in other
sections, and they were unquestion-
ably raising the devil along the
Smoky Hill and the Southern plains,
and there the interior department in
siTted that troops in strong force
should be sent. So, too, along TIE line
of the Union Pacific. Officials were still
nervous. Troops of cavalry camped at
intervals of forty miles along the line
between Kearney and Julesburg, and
even beyond. At Washington and
the great cities of the east, there
Tore. there was no anxiety as to
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-11-28
A Close Call.

Passengers on a train standing at
the station in Beloit had narrow es-
cape from death. A heavy west-bound
freight, with air brakes refusing to
work, came laundering down a steep
grade at a rate of 40 miles an hour
The passengers were notified and
scrambled madly out of the cars just
as the freight crashed into the help
less passenger train. demolishing en-
CINE and cars. Four coaches and the
baggage car were reduced to splin-
ters and the freight engine was also
wrecked