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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
NATIONAL COUNCIL.
Representatives of Knights and Ladies
of Security Coming.

The national council of the knights
and Ladies of Security will convene
tomorrow morning in the hall at Sew
enth and Kansas avenue. Represent
tatiVeS from sixteen states will be in
attendance and to them will be pre-
scented the reports OF the different com
mittees and officers.
The council meets every two years.
but the delegates are elected for a term
of four years, as are all the national
officers.
The knights and Ladies of Security
was organized in Kansas on February
%, 1892 and is really Kansas product,
the founder. The organization is what
is termed a fraternal insurance order,
and now numbers over 80, 600 members,
fully half of them being in Kansas.
All southern states are barred on ac-
count of the high death rate in that
section.
Since it's birth the order has paid out
more than $1.000,000 on policies, which
is very creditable showing. 1t has
what is known as a reserve fund of
S215,00O, and all the mem ers consider
this as one of its strong features.
The meeting tomorrow will be called
at 1920 in the morning, but it will re-
quire two or three days to transact the
business that will come UP before the
an amendment to the constitution will
be introduced reducing the term of
the national officers from four to two
years. J. NJ. Wallace IS the present
secretary and has been for the past
seven years. He and DR.. Warner, the
present medical director, will probably
be re- elected
ing in the hall to the visiting dele
gates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11

works for use in the Indian schools.
A year ago her primer was adopted for
use in the schools of Kansas. Later
it was adopted by the Territory of New
Mexico the city of San Francisco, and
other public-school systems.
Her Reading Chart Reading
Boxes and Number Boxes are we'll
known to educators. Her primary reci-
tations have just been published, and
she has three arithmetics in the print
er's hands.
Miss Wooster is a native of Ohio.
and a descendant of Gen. David Woos-
ter of Revolutionary days. The city of
Wooster, o., and the Wooster univer-
sity were named in honor of her an
cestors. Miss Wooster is a descendant
of Edward Worcester, VINO in 1862 came
from Worcestershire, England, to Mas
sachusetts and founded the city of Wor-
cester, Mass. The family quarrelled
and a brother went to Connecticut, and
later his descendants to Ohio and New
York"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
DONE AT'LAST.
Grading of Fillmore Street Completed
For PAYERS

The grading Of Fillmore street has
at last been completed, and the work of
paving will commence at once
The new grader owned by Baker &
Bradbury. the contractors. has proved
a success, as the work on Fillmore
street will testify. The machine works
on the same lines as wheat header,
and nearly everybody in Kansas has
seen a header work. 1t will grade
that is, remove-400 yards of dirt in
an eight-hour day. 1t requires three
men and twelve horses TO operate the
grader, but it would take forty men
to DO the same amount of work with
shovels.
The contractors experienced some
trouble on Fillmore street on account OF
the telephone poles which had been set
where the curbing will be placed on
this account the machine could not De
worked in the center of the street, the
poles interfering with the elevator which
dumps the dirt The ieveler, another
labor-saving machine, will be run over
the street after the center has been
graded and then Fillmore street will be
in good shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
WOULD Help WATSON.
Kansas Soldier Who Lost Foot May
Be Transferred.

The friends Of Capt. W. J. Watson Of
Pittsburg. who lost a leg in the Philip
pines, have started a movement to have
him transferred to the department Of
law, under the judge advocate general
Watson was a lawyer when he enlisted
for service with the Twentieth He is
graduate of the Kansas university.
Should this plan fail an effort will be
made to have Watson transferred to the
regular army and retired on pay. He
was wounded in the lungs and came
home to recuperate. At the reorganiza-
ton he was commissioned as a Heuten-
ant and promoted to be captain in the
Fortieth volunteers. In a battle with
FilipinOs in Mindanao he was shot in
the ankle, the bones being shattered to
such an extent that amputation was
necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
HEBREW CHARITIES.
First Session of the National Confer.
ence Held in CHICAGO.

Chicago, June 1.-THE first session
of the national conference of Jewish
charities in the United States opened
at Sinai temple today The conferences
which Will last three days. comprises
representatives of the various Jewish
charitable organizations of the coun-
try, and was formed last year for the
purpose Of securing cooperation in eff
forts to improve the system of charity
and to curb certain evils which the
various organizations frequently have
to contend with. The discussions will
cover a wide range Of interesting sub
jects having to do with causes of pow
erty and means Of removing them and
OF aiding the needy. The first session
this morning was taken up with the
address of the president, Max Senior,
of Cincinnati, and the report Of the va
riOus committees.
At the afternoon session Prof. Morris
Loeb, Of New York, Delivered an ad-
dress on Federation versus Consoli-
dalton Of Jewish Charities in a City,"
and DR.. NJ. Reitzenstein, of New York.
spoke on Relations of Bad Housing
and Poverty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
WILL RELEASE CONNECTS.
Citizenship Pardons Issued to Num-
Der by Governor.

Governor Stanley today issued citi-
zenship pardons to the following con-
victs whose term of sentence at the
penitentiary soon expires:
Grand larceny-Sid Brseen, Chero-
kee two years; Andrew Kimball, Shaw
nee, six years; Molly Diaz, Sedgwick,
one year; William Hicks. Labette, FIVE
years; John Strauss, Shawnee, two
years; r. Randall, Charles Kimps-
bury, Joseph Hutton, Chautauqua, two
and one-half years each; Frank Aims
worth, Rice, three years.
Burglary-William Collins, Leaven-
worth, seven years; Henry Johnson,
Dickinson, two years; William Dupree,
Shawnee, five years; ]. E. Woods,Craw-
ford, two years; Charles Smith, Dick
inson, two years; Joseph Whelt and I'd
Walters, Sumner, two years each.
Forgery-Oscar Riley, Cherokee, two
years; John Adams, Shawnee, two
years.
three years.
Bigamy-Walter Brooks, Anderson,
three years.
Burglary and grand larceny-C- C.
Dunn Crawford, three years.
Larceny-Van Sprague, Wyandotte-
four years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Federation of Zionists.

New York, June 1.-THE forenoon
session of the third annual session of
the Federation of Zionists was devoted
to a discussion of the fifth article of
the constitution which imposes a tax OF
so cents for each member of the fedora
ton, half of which is paid to the Vienna
executive committee and half applied
for local propaganda. work. The ma
iority of the delegations favor the whole
tax The programme for the afternoon
contained the election of officers, the
election of II delegates to the fedora
ton congress in London, August II,
resolutions of instructions for those
delegates
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
f. w. ELLIOTT CASE.
One of Doniphan County Libel Suits
to Be Tried Tuesday.

The June term of the court of appeals
for the northern department eastern
division convenes in Topeka Tuesday
morning.
The trial docket is made up to Fri
day, June Is, with so cases on the trial
docket. The first case set for Tuesday
morning is the state Of Kansas versus
Frank w. Elliott appealed from Doni-
phan county for criminal libel. The
second case is the City of Topeka
versus Robert Pigg charged with selling
liquor. Liquor cases from Shawnee
county are seldom tried in the appellate
court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
1T WAS A GALE.
Wind Blew at Rate of SO Miles Sun
day Morning.

The wind made a record Sunday
morning about two o'clock of So miles
an hour. The rain amounted to an
even half inch.
The maximum temperature for Sun
day occurred at four o'clock in the
morning and was 50. From that the
mercury took d sudden drop to 60 and
during the day climbed back as far as
70. This morning a II o'clock the max
imum temperature was 69 and the min
imum So The wind was northeast blow
ing miles an hour. The forecast is
rain tonight and probably Tuesday.
Warmer north portion tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
emperance CONGRESS Opens.

London, June 1.-THE temperance
congress was opened today under the
presidency of Mr. Thomas Wallace
Russell, NJ. P. Delegates from all parts
OF the world were present ]. L. Bailey
OF Philadelphia was elected one of the
vice presidents. He read a paper on
The United States and South Amer
lea" by the Rev. j. 3. Dunn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
ChaIlinor in Buffalo.

John England Challinor. for whom the
position Of state accountant was created
under the Morrill, administration, is now
at Buffalo, N. z. Some time ago he was
appointed as a commissioner of deeds
for Kansas, but neglected to file his
oath of office with the governor. This
invalidated the original commission, six
months having elapsed. and the execu-
tive office was today troubled to the ex-
tent of a search through large records
to renew the commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
WISCONSIN Democrats.

Milwaukee, June I.-Wisconsin Dem
ocrats in state convention in this city
tomorrow win elect four delegates at
large to the national convention at
Kansas City and ratify the choice of
ten district delegates to be chosen by
the various district delegations prior to
the converting of the convention. Judge
James H. MCCLELLAN of Green Bay will
be the temporary chairman of the con-
Vention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
which Ticket Do You wantP

If you are going to the Republican
National Convention you may make the
trip to Philadelphia over direct Van
ia-Pennsylvania Short Lines or via
Washington at same fare. Tickets via
Washington will be good for stop-over
at National Capital. Either form may be
obtained at 100 North Fourth st. and
Union Station ticket office, st. Louis,
June 18th to 18th. inclusive. J. NJ Ches-
brough, A C. P Agt., 500 Century
Building, st. Louis, will furnish partic-
ulars upon application.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Summer Tours

The Grand Trunk Railway IS the ideal
route for summer travel reaching with its
own lines or direct connections all the
popular resorts: the Muskoka and Ka-
wartha Lakes. Lake of Bays Highlands
of Ontario), Niagara Falls. St Lawrence
River and Rapids Thousand Islands,
White Mountains and the SeacOast Re
sorts of the North Atlantic
For copies of illustrated tourist htera-
tIlre rates and full information, apply TO
J. f. Burgis 249 Clark St, corner jack
son Boulevard, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
TOPEKA MAN WON.
Gets $4,000 Plumbing Contract at
Fort LeavenWorth.

A Topeka man, Christian States, has
been awarded the contract for the
plumbing for the officers quarters and
other new buildings to be constructed
at Fort Leavenworth. The contract
price is $4,000 and it was secured in
competition with Chicago, St. Louis and
Kansas CITY firms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
WILL SEE HOW THEY LOOK.
Governor Stanley to Go Home to
Visit His Whole Family.

Governor Stanley left at noon today
for wichita to spend tomorrow with
his family
Il am going home for a little re-
union. NV family is together now for
the first time in a long while, and 1
want to see how they look" said the
governor today.
The governor will be in his Office
Wednesday morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
MISS WOOSTER PRAISED.
New York World Says She Is a
Genius.

The New York World says of Miss
Lizzie Wooster. who lives in Topeka:
Miss Lizzie & Wooster is the most
famous author of school books in this
country She has a genius for com
pressing knowledge into poems adapted
to the comprehension Of children.
THE government has just listed her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Section Men strike.

Ironton. o., June 1.-THE section men
on the Cincinnati & Hinton divisions of
the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad struck
today for higher wages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Philadelphia and Return $4,000 via
Santa Fe Route

Account Republican National conven-
ton. Tickets on sale June 14-15-16, good
returning June &c. Choice of routes
See T. L. King. agent. A. IT. & S. F. for
particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
PhiIadelphia and Return $1,000 via
Santa Fe Route.

Account Republican National conven-
ton. Tickets on sale June 14-15-16, good
returning June &C. Choice Of routes
See 7. L King, agent, a. T. & s. f. for
particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Philadelphia and Return $4,000 via
Santa Fe Route.

Account Republican National conven-
ton Tickets on sale June 14-15-16. good
returning June e. Choice of routes
See T. L. King, agent, A T. & S. F. for
particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Old Papers For Sale.

For this week only the Journal viii
sell old exchanges at five cents a hun
dred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Dress Innings (!

Have you seen Cordette, the new
Dress Lining? It viii hold your dress
in shape as long as worn, taking the
place of Hair Cloth and Canvas. Sold
only by us in this city. We carry
everything that is new and up-to- date
in Dress Innings and Trimmings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11

observation-disclosures harness.s1O K. az
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Ideu Wagner is
sued cards today announcing the mar
riage of their daughter, Winifred
Wellesl to Mr.. E. Junior Bennett, which
viii take place Wednesday evening at
their home at ABS Tyler street at 1880
Owing to the Ill health of Mr.. Wag-
ner Only the members Of the two fam
lilies will be present at the ceremony.
Enclosed are cards for q large recep-
ton which win be given for them the
same evening by Mr.. and Mrs. E. Ben
nett at their home at sol Buchanan
street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Fine Wash Goods /!

Have you seen our CSC and 75c lines
of Wash Goods ? If you want to pay
Doc yard, or sec a yard, or 25c a
yard, do not miss seeing our most
complete stock. We are showing the
best values in Colored Wash Goods
ever shown in this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
Saline FouIardsl

Choice this week of 35c goods-navy
blue and black grounds "a 10
dress for all kinds of Wear-yd. 4 81
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04
SCHURz ANSWERS GAGE.
Deadly Parallel In nm
Effective Way.

Carl Schurz has witten, under date of
Sept 10, a second open letter to Sec
retary of the Treasury Gage In rejoin-
der to the latters reply to Mr. Schurz's
first letter. In it Mr.. Schyrz remarks
that the Gage letter "only shows to
what lengths partisan zeal will go in
the attempt to frighten the people into
the belief that only Mr.. McKinley's re-
election can save them from general
ruin"
To Mr.. Cages remark that the Re-
publican congress and administration
would probably" find 1t dNiicult, owing
to possible obstructive tactics of the
minority, 10 use its power before the
Inauguration of Bryan to make 1t i'm
possible for him to put the finances on
silver basis, Mr.. Schurz answers:
There will be no trouble about this
II the Republican majority is willing
to do it. -" The Republican major
ity in congress not only can. but, II
only for its own moral salvation, will
-
you, Mr.. Secretary, then relieved of
your partisan campaign service, will, as
good citizen, be one of the first to
urge it to be done, IL you sincerely
think the currency law to be as defec-
tive as in your recent threat of disas-
ter you represent it to be-
Mr. Schurz also quotes Mr. Cages
| declaration in an interview on July 15
as an answer to the apprehension ex-
pressed by him six weeks later. 81 be-
lieve," said Mr.. Gage on July 10, that
silver will never drop below par in
gold. The crux of the proposition Is
that adequate measures have been
taken by the new law to prevent such
a contingency. %"+ In the event
| Of Mr.. Bryan's election think the gold
standard would be resolutely main
tanned so long as the law remained on
the statute book"
Mr.. Schurz declares that the secre-
tary of the treasury's letter of Aug 25
us an attempt to terrorize the Amer
lean people with a threat of business
disaster that they may be deferred
from considering any other question
and from casting vote which would
amount to a condemnation of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's imperialstic policy. l, for
one, refuse to be terrorized. ""+
am convinced that the battle for sound
money Is substantially won, and that
whatever apparent danger to the gold
standard may still arise 1t must and
can be overcome without the people
subjecting themselves to a moral thral-
dom keeping them from independent
and conscientious action upon public
questions of equal ana even superior
Importance
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04

"Call me at seven" or "Let me sleep
until noon
After he had missed a couple of
trains through Martha's forgetfulness
he tried the old eXpedient of writing
brief and mandatory notes, which he
pinned upon his chamber door, but
even this was not glittering success
because the slavey frequently failed
TO look for the notes. A week ago
while hunting for a suitable memoran-
dunn book in stationer's shop his
eve lighted on one of those cardboard
clock dials with movable hands which
LAWYERS hang upon their office doors
when going to lunch. The top was
marked Back at" and the hands were
to be moved to the proper hour and
minute. but the drummer saw how that
could be fixed
THAT'S just what / want" he said,
and he bought one and took it to his
desk. where he labored 20 minutes
with pen and ink. The next morning
when the girl glanced at the door of
her masters and mistress chamber
She nearly fell in fit, There was a
naat card labeled: "Call us at" and un-
der II was a clock dial with the hands
nointing to nine o'clock. The drum
mer has not missed train since, but
he has had to explain the thing to
seven people who have called since he
hung II up in the house.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04

clergyman. now Bishop Morris, OF
Oregon, built little wooden church
in the place, alongside of huge fiji
tree that had been broken off about
40 feet above the ground.
1t was first intended to build the
church behind the tree and cut door.
way through the trunk, thus making
the tree the entrance as well as tht
bell tower, but this plan was aban.
doncd. A belfry tipped with cross
was built upon the top of the tree, q
bell placed therein, and swung. Tc
this day the ivy-clad fir is the bell
tower of the church. A ladder runs
from the roof of the church to the
belfry. and this is used as the ap.
proach TO the bell whenever it be-
comes necessary to visit it.
The building of this church, which
was named St. Peters, was begun one
Tuesday morning in the early '70's,
lowing Sunday morning.
The ivy that clings about the tree
has crawled under the roof and into
the church, and forms delicate green
traceries along the inner walls.
The bell tower tree is many hun.
dreds of years old, and was n good.
sized tree when Columbus sailed upon
the voyage that resulted in the dis
covery of new world. Thus this
forest monarch now forms the oldest
bell tower in America.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04

More than ever before in the history
Of the Democratic party all factions
have been merged under the peerless
leadership of William Jennings Bryan
for a vigorous and righteous campaign
against the un-American and vicious
policies of imperialism, militarism, pro-
lection of the trusts and the other cry
ing evils which the Republican party
is pledged to maintain and extend.
Four years ago the party was divided
upon the issue of financial policy
and today the Democracy is once more
firmly united and is standing shoulder
to shoulder in the support of an issue
of higher and more immediate import
ance, because 1t involves the very foun-
dation principles upon which this coun-
try is established.
Everywhere throughout the country
come assurances that many prominent
men who left their party ranks in 1896
will this year march under Bryan's
banner for the maintenance of those
fundamental policies of government
which have fostered our growth into
a nation, which can rightfully boast
Of her prominent position among the
peoples of the world. The Republican
party has criminally committed itself
to the policy of land grabbing, which
has ever been foreign to the principles
of a republic such as this, and it has
become the duty of the Democratic
party to protect the nation against the
foes within. ever the most insidious
and powerful.
The Republican party cannot with
any degree of truth assert that only
a portion of the Democratic party is
holding up the hands of its standard
bearer in this campaign. 1t is not one
section of the country alone or one
section of the country more than an
other that u represented in the Demo-
cratic party for this campaign. In
every state of. the Union, including
even the recognized Republican states,
there is marked and ever increasing
adherence of the evils which go to
make up McKinleyism, which will draw
thousands of Republican votes to the
party which pledges itself to halt the
government of the United States and
drag it back from the perilous course
on which the present administration
has launched it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-10-04
CATCHES TRAINS NOW.
Chicago Travelling Mans Expe-
dient for Leaving "Time Calls"
mt His Home.

He is busy travelling man, who
spends more of his time on the road
than he does in the pretty little fiat
in which he installed his young wife
a couple of years ago. But he drops
into town at irregular and unseason-
able hours and slips away at such oGd
times and on such impossible trains
that the slavey of the little family is
kept in perpetual state of nervous
prostration trying to remember the
calls" he leaves with her. He is so
used to depending on hotel clerkswhen
out of town that he takes 1t quite as
a matter of course to tell the girl to