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Summer VIII Continue.

The Indian summer, which has been
in vogue for some time, viii likely con-
tinue awhile longer much TO the disap-
poiutment OF the ice men The forecast
is fair tonight and Thursday" The
rain that started yesterday morning
amounted to but three-hundredths of
an inch The few snow fakes that fell
this morning were stray ones There
was a high" IN Illinois yesterday and
z low north Of Washington and Mon
tana but they viii have no effect upon
Kansas weather
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Green Nelson. a colored man who was
indicted by a federal grand jury some
time ago for selling liquor down in
johnson county without a government
license. was brought into the federal
court today and pleaded guilty to the
charge Judge Hook fined him 500 and
costs and committed him to the county
jail Of Johnson county at OlaIhe until
he pays up.
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LEGAL


First published in the Topeka State
Journal January IT, BOD
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FoR EXCHANGE

FOR EXCHANGED great bargain in q
six room house and lot centrally located
and everything in good repair. for a small
farm near Topeka Inquire Of DR.. A.
RUpin, 1os East Sixth St. Topeka, Kan
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The funeral of Cord Shields. aged IS
years who was killed accidentally Tues
day morning was held this afternoon
at 2:3O O'Clock from the Third Presby-
terrain church Young Shields was
known as q quiet, industrious boy, NOR
al and upright and extremely kind TO
his parents
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WANTEp-AeENTs.

AGENTS WANTED-100.0 600 agents want
ed at once. TO sell Life and Work OF
Dwight L Moody Official and authentic
edition. Written by his son VIM r
Moody and Ira. D. Sankey- Liberal terms.
freight paid, credit given Outfit free.
Write today. P w ZiegIer & Co., 324
Dearborn st. Chicago. III
WANTED1HOuest man or woman to
travel for large house; salary $50 month
ly and expenses, with increase: position
permanent: inclOse self addressed envel-
ope. Manager, $50 Caxton bldg, Chicago.
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yEwEI.ERA

JAMES B HAYDEN. Jewefer and Opt
clan Complete stock Of watches. cia-
rncnds. silverware. etc. Eyes examined
and spectacIes properly fitted.
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Terry Polin. aged II months, died last
night at 1884 East Fifth street of TCU-
ban chickenpox-" The funeral viii be
held this evening
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STAMPS. SEALS AND sTENCILs

--~-----~-----------------
THE J. C DARLING CO. 7s4 KAN Az.
High Grade Rubber Stamps prompt work.
low price Catalogue free Phone y
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(First published in the Topeka State
Journal January Il. 1900
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PAVING.


THE OFFICEof the Capital City vitrided
Brick and Paving Co, has been removed
to lis West Eighth street.
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wATcHMAKER


WATCHES cleaned. 75c: clocks. Soc main
springs. &c, crystals, 10c- Cash paid for
old gold or silver All work guaranteed.
Old jeweIry exchanged for new II hard
up. see Uncle Sam, 512 Kansas avenue
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AN ORDINANCE creating a Board OF
Park Commissioners. defining their dut-
les and repeating Ordinance No 1900
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FLoRIsTz
MUSICAL

MISS FRANCES GREGG. Guitar and
mandolin Studio us W Sth st room ,
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BICYCLES

BICYCLES
L. S. CYCLE CO, us E sth St National
and Union bicycles. Sundries. repairs.
TOPEKA CYCLE CO, IL W. sth St
Bicycles and sundrfes: bicycles and tam
denls for rent; repairing Of all kinds
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Subscribe for the Journal.
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Hale DRESSING.

LADIES' HAIR DRESSING PARLOF
and Bath Rooms. go Kansas ave. un
der Central National bank Entrance Eas
Seventh street A skilled lady hair dress
er in charge
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HAIR GOODS.

HAZE GOODS
SWITCHES CHAINS Face treatments
Shampooing and hair dryed by hot air
Mrs Hattie Van Week. 20 East Fifth St
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STORAGE

TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE
Tel 1ss c. D. Skinner. LIZ East Sixth St
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ATToRNEYs-AT-LAw.
CHEMIST

J. T LOVEW ELL. Phi D. Analytical
chemist and aSsayer. 80 Kansas ave.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
HAMILTON GORMEL.

Ruth Barnes, bright faced little girl
stood watching him handle the wea'
ron. The boy advanced toward thi
girl and slowly raised the pistol to .
level with Ruth's head. at the sam,
time slowly pulling back the hamme.
and taking steady aim at her. AS h,
approached he said: Il am going ts
kill you"
The girl now realized her danger
and screamed. slowly backing into 8
corner of the room, but at this instant
Leon pulled the trigger and the SHARP
report was followed by the fall of the
little girls body to the floor, the life
blood flowing from a wound in her
temple. The parents of the Ray child
rem heard the pistol shot and rushed
into the room and found Leon calmly
surveying his victim. The sheriff was
notified of the crime, and, despite the
tender age of Leon Ray. took the lat.
ter in charge and placed him in Jail
When asked for an explanation of his
deed the boy refused to discuss it. Hi
has remained stubbornly silent, and nj
motive can be ascribed for his crime
The boy has always been cheerful ant
FIVE minutes before the crime he wal
a leading spirit in the children!
4 games.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17

A parson who occasionally breaches
in South London arrived to take the
place Of the vicar. who had been called
away on account Of some family be-
reavement, and found an old and rather
asthmatic lady struggling up the steps
which led to the front door. He cour-
teously gave her his arm to assist her
and when they reached the top the
dame asked him II he knew who was
going to preach. "Mr. So-and-So," re-
piled the parson, giving his own name.
"Oh, dear me-" exclaimed the old lady;
help me down again, If you please;
I'd rather listen to the grooming and
creaking of windmill than sit under
him." and she prepared to descend. Inc
parson gently assisted her downstairs
and sighfully remarked as he bade her
good-by: 81 wouldn't go in. either, II
weren't the preacher"
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17

from bridgeport. My mother wac
quite sure that this was myself, ami
she had masses said for me in church
believe that this Gormel was ain old
acquaintance of mine who had got
into trouble and adopted my name
am going to bring my mother ano
sisters TO my southern home. | have
all the money they will ever need, anc
am going TO make them spend the
remainder of their lives in peace and
happiness. and atone as much as
can for my former wilfulness. My
wife and four boys are on their way
here iJr a short vacation. After thai
we shall all return TO grand old Tex
as, TO remain for the rest Of our days.
Gormel's return was most dramatic
Immediately after receiving word tha'
his mother was alive he came on tc
Bridgeport. The son who went away 6
boy came back big man. They fell
into each others arms. and after the
Inevitable explanations he produced 6
check for $500.
Gormel is fully six feet high, with
heavy brown hair and large, strong
face. He has slightly aquiline nose
and regular features. He wears {
heavy mustache. and weighs 22(
hounds.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17

at rains a great deal in the Puget
sound country said the man from
that section, "and | heard OF funny
incident not long ago about it. Some
chap had come from the Missippi val
ley to take up his residence at What
com, on Bellingham bay, where there
are very high tides. When the boat
landed him at the end of the long pier
extending over the tide flats the water
was low and the new man didn't notice
anything but wide stretch of sand
between the boat and the town. 1t
was in the evening about dark and was
raining, and he went to the hotel on
the front street and stayed there, going
to bed without having gone out for a
walk The next morning when he got
up he looked out and the tide was in.
the water coming up close to the hotel.
He gazed at the widespread waters for
an instant, and, throwing up his hands
in establishment, he exclaimed, Gee
whiz, but it must have rained hard
last night Then he hurried down
stairs to the Office to find out If there
was any danger from the food. and the
clerk smiled four or five times and
gave him some much-needed informa-
ton. "-Washington Star.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17

when was about to embark from
San Francisco for the Philippines, ]
met an old friend from home, who
told me that my mother had died and
all my relations had left for unknown
parts. This news saddened me very
much. | had Just made up my mind
that after one more voyage ! would
return home. But this news caused me
to abandon the project altogether.
Since then / have wandered all over
the world. trading with natives, catch
ing gorilas, tigers and other wild
animals. and exploring the least
known parts of the globe. l have en-
tered the trackless forests of Borneo
and the darkest regions of the Dark
Continent. Nine years ago dying
shipmate asked me to carry message
from him to his poor old mother in
Dallas. Texas. He had left his mother
after quarrel three years before.
Naturally | promised to carry out his
diving wish. | went to Dallas as soon
as | could manage it. There ! became
interested In ranch on the south
eastern border of Texas. just outside of
I.agarto. not far from Corpus Christi.
I nut the few thousand dollars | had
into 1t and gave up the sea for ranch
ing. Three years later | sold it to
a syndicate of Englishmen for $780,
oOo making a great profit. l have
now another fine ranch Of my own not
far from Catulla, on the line OF the
International & Great Northern Rail-
| way.
"A few weeks ago l received ire
| mendous shock. A Bridgeport paper
fell into my hands quite accidentally.
I glanced at it, and there read that
my mother. Mrs. J. T. Gormel. was
visiting my sister. ! Immediately
wrote to them and learned at once
that they were really my mother and
sister. and both living in Bridgeport
Just as they had done when went
| away. I had been living for fourteen
| years under cruel misapprehenslon
MY mother, strange to say, was SINH
| larly mistaken as to my fate. Sh'
read FIVE years ago that Hamilton
| Cornell had died in Cleveland, Ohio
hospital. and that he came originally
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
HIGHPRICE OF PAPER.
TARIFF TAX ON WOOD PULP A
COSTLY ONE.


There are very conclusive reasons
why the present tariff tax on wood
pulp and printing paper should be re-
pealed, and there is no reason in the
interest OF American industry that
pleads for the continuance Of these
taxes. They are now simply an ele-
ment Of robbery under color OF law,
and they should be effaced from our
statutes.
The paper trust is now taxing the
newspaper and book publishers of the
country many millions, not because Of
any such actual increase in the cost Of
producing paper, but because the trust
has the power to extort from the prr-
chasers of paper UP TO the extent that
would make tariff-taxed foreign paper
and pulp cheaper than the prices de-
manded here. This trust has played its
scheme of extortion TO the uttermost,
and congress should at once remove
the tax that protects no American in
dustry and that has become only an
agent to rob the consumers.
Twe-thirds of the wood pulp used in
the manufacture OF paper for American
consumption should come from Can
ada. but it is excluded by tariff tax,
and we are now rushing headlong in
4 the destruction OF our forests, while
4 Canada, with its almost limitless sup
/ ply of timber, cannot reach our mar
/ kets because of the tax imposed by
1 the tariff.
4 The two conclusive reasons which
should make congress act promptly are
\ first, that the paper trust should be
at once halted in its rapid destruction
/ of our American forests by the admis-
4 sion of free wood pulp from Canada;
and, second, that the present extortion
practiced by the paper trust upon pub
fishers of newspapers and books shall
cease to have the protection OF the gov
eminent.
The time has come when any trust
that makes arbitrary profits by tariff
duties must cease to be protected by
the government. Where American in
dustry needs protection it is reason
able to permit it, but where alleged
protection is used only for systematic
robbery, it must be overthrown-
We can now manufacture paper as
cheaply as any country in the world.
There is no excuse whatever for tax
upon the manufactured articles and
the raw material should be free. not
only because the general principle is
correct, but because if it shall not be
done promptly our forests will be prac-
tically destroyed within few years by
tariff taxes excluding the lumber OF
Canada from our markets.
Paper and pulp must be made free
of all taxes,as the paper trust has DEM
onstrated that these taxes serve only a
single purpose-that is to invite rob-
berry under color of law.-Philadelphia
Times.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
AFTER MANY YEARS.
HAMILTON CORMEL CAME
HOME TO HIS MOTHER.
Both Believed Each Other Dead nnd
Gone--He Ama.sed Fortune aud
by Accident Discovered That She Was
btiiI Alive.


Hsriilton Gormel left his home in
Br. ttport Conn, twenty-one years
ago. he was given up for dead, and
he believed that his parents were
dead. The other day he came back
home with large fortune, fell into
the arms of his old mother and gave
her check for $500 1t all sounds
like fine, old-fashioned, whole-souled
Christmas story-one that Charles
Dickens himself could not improve
upon. Hamilton Gormel related his
own story TO the writer:
AT the age OF sixteen" he said,
Il ran away from home. with wild
desire to have adventures anl to make
fortune. ] had good home, but,
like good many other boys, | was
restless and disconnected. Often and
often afterward ! wished myself back
home again. but now at last | have
made fortune and seen all the adj
ventures that any man could wish
for.
1T was dark and gloomy night in
November twenty-one years ago when
left the old homestead. l can re-
member II as If II were today. | went
away without saying word to my
people. Ny ilrst idea was 10 enter the
navy. / did. in fact, make applica-
ton to be enlisted, but was rejected
I Then | shipped on board vessel
/ bound for China. 1t was there that
earned the first dollar that could
call my own. / exchanged some small
examples of Yankee ingenuity that
carried with me and obtained for then
Oriental goods OF far greater value.
/ returned home with quite a valuable
stock. | carried On the same bust
Z ness In Samoa, where went on my
second voyage. While ] was there
became quite intimate with Rober
Louis Stevenson Fourteen years ago
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
CHAPTER XXX.
Conference OF the Crew.

Conference Of the Grew.
Some time elapsed before the poor
boy became sanaeitntiy coherent TO be
understood. but II would seem that on
bearing the hui cry. which had
alarmed the. be fpranE out OF his
berth. which vas al the foo, OF the
compsaionway. and on looking iuto
The eahIn. be aas by the night light
which swung 10 the Ekyl!ght. the
Cubsnu. armed with a bloody knife.
rush from the captains state room
into that OF the mate. which was op-
poslts.
Another choking cry acquainted him
tha, Antonio had stabbed Hislop in ais
sleep: and fearing that his own turn
would come next. he had ercpt into an
empty essk which lay below the com
panion ladder. and remained there
trembling with dread. until be took an
opportunity of rushing on deck and
Joining US,
This terrible revelation added 10 our
dismAy
We we're nov In desperate predics-
m.nt. without a captain or mate 10
navigate the BRIG, and at the mercy OF
a vcll.armed desperate. TO whom hon.
io,de waa a pas,lme. thus, all who
hsa handled him so severely on the
n,sh, ~e crossed the line began TO feel
mo ANAL degree OF alarm for their
own sase,y. being certain that more
blood would be shed the moment he
came on deck.
All dressed themselves with the ut
most expedition, and II was resolve1
~ hold a council OF war. Lambourne
vas attn at the wheel. and to be pre-
nsrpd for any emergency. he resolved
~ reduce the cauvas on the brig. SO
ths ROYALS were taken down, AL stud
| dins-sa,ls taken In, and the topsails
vere handed; all this was done a
quietly a. possible. lest any sounc
| might arouse tho nend who seemed
now to poescAs the Eugene.
IAmbourpe venturcd to peep down
the skyliKht, when he saw Antonio
hrintins brandy from case bottle
| without trouplnH h'nsV'' :.
rlass. Then the Spaniard proceeded
so attire himself In the best clothes
NJ CAPTAIN Weston: he forced open
several iockfast places, and took from
them money and jewelry, which ns
concealed about his person. Wnu n'
ultimate object could be In perform.
Ing these acts Of plumber on the open
scs we could neither conceive MOI
d,v,ne but on CHANGING to glance up.
w.rd he caught a glimpse OF Tom
eyes pecring down. .h,n.
Their. was an explosion, erasmus
=, .,.ss and q ball from 4 revo'ver
AID upward. sraned Toms ier -,
.nd p,,rc.d the rim Of his sou -we'.s'
a. 4 hint that our cubano naa nv
,.nt,on Of being overlooked In MS %
w. heard him close the CABIN a' !.
w,th a bang, and after 'oeS .,.a -
,hrov himself on the floor behind . =
18th the Intention OF s'eep,ns p ~,
| NV but with the full rssol ,, S,.,s arb
"a one should enter without
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
DICK RODNEY; /
Or. The Adventures Of {
An tton Boy.
nv JANIS GRANT.

An tton Boy.
ny ~ GRANT.

sss and Then he leyeied his pisto. q,
the head Of Ned Carlton.
FOR moment the latter stood irres-
oiu'e. and then, seeing the bI,ck nu,
ne OF the revolver within a foo, o,
MIS- hsac. be muttered deep maledie-
Won stamped his foot with rage on IN.
deck. and saic
MI. Rodney. bear q hand With ms
20 iAuneh this murdered msn-this
poor fellow -overboArdr'
OBEY thuncsred Antonio
iAke one In a dream | bent over the
dead man, on whose pale face. xlsx.d
eyes and RELAXED Jaw the bright moon
hight Was shinler. and & my eI.
ei'emeat are bs~.ldsrmsnt | nearly
slipped and fell into the pool Of bloot
which flowed frorn his death wound
had never touched a eorpae before.
and an irreprsss!b!e shudd.r ran
through all my veins But. that emo
Ton once over. ! could have handled
doten with perhaps Indifference. and
thefe are few who. sftc. touching the
dead. have not experienced this change
Of feeling
Ned Carlton. with sound like sob
In his honest breasts sob OF mingled
rage aud COMMUNICATION raised the
yet warm body: took the feet, and
through one Of the quarter boards,
which Nss open. We launched 1, into
The great deep. and as the brig few
on. rolling before the early morning
sind. there remained 40 trace of poor
VIII Waite. bat hs blood. dark pool
upon the deck. ard the crew stood
staring at !, Aad at each other with
slAns lrreso,a,ion. horror and dlsmay
Z srprsssrt IL ali their faces.
I Empty-handea ard de,enseleas a,
40 all we're. each was afraid to speal
or act. lrst be Nigh, be III. next vie
Tim whom she ms-c.leSs cubsno wouls
shoe, dos.
VITA a Erosl o, defiance Antonl,
noS iurrsc asay. snd. hrandlshini
The revolver In teksa Of the obedleue.
he meant 10 exact. be descended slow
iy into the cabin. who're we soon hear.
him snashlas open The lockers. an,
busy sith the esfs.h9i,les 10 the stew
ards locker. or Billy the cabin boy
pantry.
lila departure seemed q relief 10 all
bn, In half minute after be Vas gon
below little Billy. o. Boy BILL" q
he vas Usually termed. ~hose sleep
Ing place Vas the s,eeraGe. rushed d
The cabin stair in bis shirt and "a
among %, sobblrK wiih fear and di,
msy.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
CHILD MURDERS CHILD.
seyen-Year-Oid Boy in Georgia
Shoots His Girl Playmate.

The people of West Point are dis.
cnssing the horrible tragedy in which
Leon Ray, aged seven, shot and killed
his playmate. Ruth Barnes. The little
girl was at the home of the boys faith
er playing with several children there.
among them Leon Ray. Brewer Ray,
leading citizen. resides few miles
away, and his home has long been a
popular one with the children of the
neighborhood, because of its cheerful
surroundings and the hospitality
shown the little ones when they visited
the place. In their games the children
romped into the sitting room of ths
house, and there Leon saw a big pistol
lying on the mantel. Without word
he climbed on a chair and got the
pistol and then climbed down again.
Seeing that he held the weapon, some
of the children became frightened ano
ran out OF the room screaming, but
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
MAIL NUISANCE

rs., Threatened to Inund.te the Faony
81 Se~ F.tas-
Al an Adelaide street residence the
..rvant went to the door. met per
.n,ring and sowing letter carrier, AND
,oot IN a hasketful OF mail 1t was
IN. third such lot OF the day, and there
h.d been a like delivery for 4 week.
Dump It into the furnace" roared the
xo,ns man who is at the head OF re
,.m,ix I'm going TO see the post
master. write the head OF the depart
msnt At washington. and get out An
,.,,c,,on I'll see II there is not
.ome way to ahatc this nuisance,
put there may be some other mall
.ometbinE that We want to read. IN
tsrposed 4 gentler and feebler voice
"r Aon't care II there is. ] don't care
., ,h.re,s a draft or a postal order In
.,srv other envelope Chuck the whole
ia, into the furnace and don't loss
-, time doing It. Whoever's work
IT, This rig on me may think he's
.m.rt good and plenty, It's the con-
s..,d.s, meanest, smallest, most I'M
..-,,rsut thing ever heard Of" But
-. only . Joke, my dear" "fll joke
80, No YOU know that we've received
o,cr a car lot of catalogues, prospec-
,u.ss and all that sort OF thing from
,.m,ic seminaries In the country
.r. over 200 in the first batch
~, was the smallest one received.
."u ,,o whole batch into the cur
p saw. Nice thing! suess not,
ma Main. M those female seminary ad-
sc n and our little girl not
VIZ ~.eks old yet You can bet that
W. 80, the thing or know the reason
-, n-Detroit Free Press
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17

kruger's and Napcleon's Little Joke
Mr.. w. Bernard writes. Your very
amusing story of an incident that took
place at one of the informal gather
ings of the leading members of the
volksraad, at which President Kruger
corrected Gen. Joubert t'No, Piet, you
are longer, not higher, than l am Is
in all respects precisely similar to one
related of Napoleon and Marshal Mac
donald, with which was familiar for
ty years ago. l am not quite sure that
1t was Macdonald. but no doubt the
recollection of some of your readers
may be clearer than mine upon this
point" 1t will be interesting II CO.
incidence should be proved. 'che story
is so characteristic of Dom Paul that
one can hardly doubt that 1t is correct
" told of him.-London Chror''e.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-17
New Method of Lighting 3

A new method Of lightin
about to be adopted in one
In Paris for an electric roo ~
lamps will be turned on aufS ~
as the train enters the tunnel 1n1 cut
on automatically as 1t energies. Inc
lights are arranged on each side On
level with the windows Of the cars, SO
that during daytime 1t will not be nee
essarry to turn on the light In the
cars. This mode has been devised by
a French inventor and doubtless VIII
be found Of great utility.