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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Fishing parties are now in order.
Already boys have been in swimming.
night.
Ed Little was down from Abilene last
evening.
Sign painters are unable to keep up with
their orders.
The old soldiers are happy today. Cause:
Pension day.
The hunters find plover plentiful along
the country roads.
The recent cool weather is the cause of
an epidemic of colds.
There viii be a special meeting of the
Commercial club tonight.
The W county Teachers asso-
citation meets tomorrow.
Mrs. Smiley, music teacher, has
moved to S21 Monroe street.
The evenings have been most too cool
recently to sit on the front porch.
The Atchison Globe says: Lee Jones,
a rich man from Topeka is in town.
DR.. H. B. Hogeboom is the medical ex-
amtner for the new Topeka militia COM
pany.
probate court for a new permit to sell
liquor.
Charles NJ. Sheldon. the Missouri Val
night
a state convention of the Kansas State
Bookkeepers' association will be held in
Topeka in the near future.
The oil painting of the Yosemite Valley
by Prof. J. Ivey, of London, will b. ex-
hibited at Library hall tonight
The state eonclave of the Knights Tenn
Wichita, and a number Of Topeka knights
will attend.
People who come in from further west
now are loaded dow with big stories of
how fine the wheat is looking all over the
wheat country.
The baseball fever has taken a strong
hold on the Topeka small boy, and near
ly every vacant lot is utilized by him for
practice purposes
James E. Larimer Indignantly denies
will not support Nichols. He SAYS he is
for the entire ticket.
The number of strawberry shortcake
faces which line up in front of the lunch
counters just now is much greater than
the number of pie faces.
The contract for furnishing the letter
the summer has been awarded to the
Hub Clothing p
There are 1900 pieces of property in
/ Clerk Squires has just finished making up
the list, and he has spent months at work
on it.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon viii deliver
the baccalaureate sermon before the High
school graduating class at the Central
Congregational church Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
\ Tyler street man uses hot water for
the nests Of wood ants which honeycomb
and destroy new lawns It is bad for
the ants for a minute or two, but it IS ef-
fectuaI and saves the lawn.
A councilman whom Mayor Drew in
vited to go to see Sapho tonight. says he
can not be at the Commercial club meet
ing tonight because his wife wants him
to go to a party with her.
The iron fence and stone coping which
have been around the old basement just
north of the federal building have beer
sold TO P. II. Gill by Postmaster Guthrie
Mr.. GilFs bid was $50. which was higher
than any other submitted
The track team of the High school
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

first street and Kansas avenue. The
subject under consideration for the af-
ternoon viii be Taxation" -
Mrs. Simpson, of Kansas City. and
Mrs. J.. J. Burns and daughter, of
Pueblo, are in the city visiting Mrs.
A. L. Williams, at her home on Fill
more street.
Miss Marie Heimke. of the City of
Mexico. will arrive next week to be
the guest of Miss Theresa RoSsingtOn.
Miss Fora Clifford, of Wilson, is spend
ing the week with Miss Maud Kimball,
at her home on Polk street.
Bert Grote, of the Santa Fe offices,
left today for Chicago, where he will
spend Sunday.
Mrs. F. J. Shubert spent a few days
in Chicago last week.
The fourth of the Chancel Chapters
series Of teas will be given Thursday
afternoon, May 10, from 3 until s, at
the bishops house. The affair will be
given by Miss Hambleton. Miss Mary
HambletOn. Miss Georgiana WATSON
and Miss Emily Elliott.
Mrs Harry Weaver returned to her
home in Kansas City Wednesday after
a several weeks visit in Topeka.
Mrs. W. B. Gibson has returned from
a two weeks visit in Olathe and Kan
sas City
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. L.. Holman enter
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. James Reeder, of Hays City, ar
rived today for a several weeks visit
with Mrs. d. II. Forbes.
Mrs. w. H. Baum, of Kansas City, is
visiting the family Of Mrs. P. c. Cham
berlain.
Miss Helen Wilson returned Thurs
day from a several weeks visit in Chi
cago.
DR.. Eva Harding will spend Sunday
in Kansas City.
Arthur HoIlander, of New York city.
is in Topeka on business.
Mrs. L P. Shoop and son spent Thurs
day in Lawrence.
Mrs. C. o. Summers, of Eureka, is
the guest of Mrs. o. b Martin at heT
home on Topeka avenue,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. futile and family
went to Kansas City the first Of the
week to live.
d.. N. B. Ward, Of Kansas City, is
visiting IN Topeka.
Miss Kate Adam. OF Cedarvale, is Wis
itine Miss d Shanklin at Bethany
college.
Dr. r. a. WATSON. of ottawa, is Wis
iting his brother, DR.. L c. WATSON
Miss Lottie Kelly is seriously i'll al
StOrmOnt hospital.
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r. R. PENSION PLAN.
To Be Submitted to Employees of the
Milwaukee.

Chicago, May 4.-The Chronicle
An elaborate relief and pension plan
will be submitted to the employees of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail-
road company Jun 1. The plan will
embrace all the best features of the re-
lief department of the Baltimore & Ohio
and the pension fund Of the Pennsyl-
vania company.
According to the st. Paul plan the
fund for the relief and pensioning Of
employees will be obtained by specified
installments from the men and a yearly
cash contribution from the treasury of
the company to establish a xed annual
sum of available money.
After serving a specified number OF
years employees will have an option Of
retiring or pensions when they reach
the age of sixty and none will be per-
mitted to serve after he is 20 years old.
The pensions viii be based on the sal
aries received at the time of retirement
The relief feature of the department
is intended to beneft employees who are
incapacitated temporarily for service
by reason of accident, sickness or other
cause.
The fund will be under the control of
a relief committee consisting of three
members appointed by the president of
the road, the latter being an exofficio
membe of the body and an advisory
board composed of three members rep
~resenting the employees,
The advisory board at first will be
appointed by the president of the road,
but after the department has been es-
tablished the members will De elected
by the employees.
Length of service necessary to retire
ment on a pension is the only feature of
$1,000 and $4,000 employees viii be af-
fected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
CAPT. Belts DEAD.
Twice Recognized by Foreign Rulers
For Rescues at Sea.

New York, May 4.-Captain John
Belts, twice the recipient of costly
presents from foreign powers for brave
rescues at sea, is dead of pleuro-pneu-
monia. During the Spanish-American
war he commanded the transport
Knickerbocker and never fully recover
ed from the effects of an line CON
tracted at Santiago. He was born in
WATERFOWL, Mass, on October u, 1928.
Previous to the late war he was captain
of the New Orleans. Of the Cromwell
steamship line.
oscar II of Norway and Sweden, pre-
sented Captain Belts with a magnii-
cent medallion for rescuing the crew
of the Pauline Siblian in 1877. It bore
the inscription: For a brave act"
From Emperor William 1 of Germany,
Captain Belts received a gold watch for
his gallant rescue of the crew of the
bark Onkel Alderman, 1882. The res
cue occurred $50 miles south of Cape
Hatteras. The bark had been a help
less condition fou days and several
vessels had passed it. but feared to go
to its assistance. Captain Belts set off
in a lifeboat in a heavy sea with a crew
of volunteers and brought safely back
the crew of Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
MONEY ON HAND.
Gov. Leary Of Guam Makes a Report
on Island Affairs.

Washington, May 4-Governor Leary
ha sent to the navy department an
other of his characteristic official re-
ports about affairs in Guam. including
the results Of a thorough census taken
under his direction. and a financial
statement of the first six months of
his administration which shows a
gratifying n growing surplus of Mex
lean dollars in the island treasury.
American money has not yet entered
into circulation in Guam, and the fig
ures in the balance sheet represent the
silver currency left there by b Span
iards. The amount in the local treas
ury on July 1, 1899, was $2,1T1. The re-
ceiptS from July 1 to 1 last
were S9,415, and the expenditures for
the same period were Sc, 767, leaving in
h treasury on January l, 1900, $4,S19.
The receipts will not be SO large for
the remainder of the fiscal year, Is the
tax on marriage licenses will not be 50
productive, but the expenses will be
proportionately reduced, as many of
the improvements have been completed.
The governor reports that the evapO-
rating plant is in excellent condition,
but he is still without an ice machine,
with the hot weather almost at hand.
The steam sawmill a been erected
and was ready for work. A telephone
system has been installed and was in
successful operation between Agana,
the capital, and Pitt, the port. The
officers of the Yosemite were still en-
gagged on the typographical surve of
the islands, which would have been
finished in a few N In fact, all
was well at Guam and life there would
be perfect with a refrigerating plant
and a good library. Governor Leary
explains to the department that his
request for a library did not contem-
plate a circulating affair for fiction. He
needed an encyclopedia, a set Of re-
vised statutes, some law books and
other reference works Indispensable to
his office. Some books of this sort were
in the library of the Yosemite. but that
ship wa seven miles from the capital
W. a shadeless road, and it was ex-
a-sperating to make the trip whenever
a question of local administration arose.
The tabulated enumeration of the
population of Guar has been forwarded
by the secretary of the nav to the
director of the census, to be included
in the total Of the United States. 1t
shows nat Guam a a population of
S.661 persons on January I. 1900. OF
these 5,249 lived in the capital city of
Agana. In the district Of Agana are
five villages, which with their popula-
ton are: Amiga, 146; Asan, 255; Tehun-
raj 200; Sinahana, IA; and CaroIinaS.
80. The five towns on the island out
side OF the district OF Agana, with their
totals, are: Agat, 744; Sumay, $50;
.Umatta. 236; Morizo, 491; Inarahan. 51S.
OF the total population Of the island,
3.12S are males over seven years old;
$3.50 are females over seven years old,
and 1883 are children under seven
years Governor Leary says nothing
about the state of health on the island,
but from his acquisitions for medicines
and surgical supplies, the natives are
evidently ~patronizing the naval medical
officers with an astonishing variety OF
complaints
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

take part in the Interscholastie Athletic
association meet at that city Saturday.
Kansas City. Lawrence, Athchison,
Omaha and Lincoln will be represented.
Postmaster Guthrie has received a tele-
gram from J. 7. Metcalf. superintendent
of the money order bureau of the post
office department, accepting the invita-
ton to be present at the convention of
Kansas postmasters in Topeka OF May
21st.
Three divorce suits were filed in the
district court yesterday. Minnie l. Free
land asks for a divorce from her husband,
John A. Freeland, because he is a lazy
and worthless man." Frank Megow gets
drunk SO often that arb MegOW
wishes to be divorced from him. Pearl
Lee asks for a divorce from John Lee on
the ground of neglect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
TO TAP THE TREASURY.
Establishment of a National Stand.
ardizing Bureau Proposed.

Washington, May AFTER hearing
favorable arguments from Secretary
Gage, DR.. McMurtrie, president of the
American Association of Chemists, DR..
Kennedy, of the American Electrical
Engineers association: Captain Sigsbee.
of the navy. and Prof Stratton of Chi
cage university. the house committee on
coinage weights and measures today
decided to offer an amendment to the
sundry civil appropriation bill provid-
ing fer the establishment of a national
standardizing bureau for the test of
scientific and other instruments. The
bureau will involve q present expendi-
ture of $200, 900 and an annual outlay OF
9 $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

marble and bronze altar. The edifce
was hung with sable trappings for to-
days ceremony. Owing to the size of
the chapel, only two representatives Of
each family which suffered by the dis
aster were invited. The dedication Ger
emory consisted of a low requiem mass.
There was no singing. The cardinal re-
cited De Profundis and finally blessed
the chapel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
CASTELLANES' A
To the Memory of Bazaar Fire Victims
is Dedicated.

Paris, May cardinal Richard. the
archbishop of Paris. today performed
the ceremony of the dedication of the
chapel in the Rue Jean Goujon, erected
to the memory Of the charity bazaar
victims. by Count and Countess Castel-
lane. The is enthusiastically
q fine piece of work and its s~culptural
decorations are singularly appropriate
to the role Of a commemorative chapel.
A colossal statue of the Mater Dolorosa
with face upturned and arms out-
stretched toward Heaven, stands on q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

The cases and tables second floor City
Library were made by J. Thomas Plan
ing Mill. Telephone 422-3 rings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
knights Templar Go to wichita

The Grand Commandery of Knights
Iemplar of Kansas, will hold its thirty
hrst annual conclave in Wichita on
Tuesday. May Sth. Members of Topeka
Commandery viii leave on the Santa
Fe at u;55 a. m. Monday noon, to take
part in the parade of Tuesday morning
Arrangements can be made with the
recorder. A rate of one fare for the
round trip q been obtained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

See the mahogany cases and counters
in Mills Dry Goods store. Why go out
Of Topeka to get your cabinet work
Can J. Thomas Planning Mill; Telephone
1923 rings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

Prof. Samuels. of Ills Main street.
Kansas City. No. win be at the Ma
tional hotel Saturday, May {. fo- one
day only.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
Wichita and Return, $4.62 Via the
Santa Fe.

Tickets on sale May 9TH and Sth, good
returning May 18th; account knights
Templar conclave-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04
Beauty is only Skin Deep

and if one has features ever 81 at
~tractive it goes for little if accom-
panied with a bad skin. To he fine
in texture, fresh and beautiful a sin
must be healthy, and a healthy skin
IS only found on a healthy BODY. All
the waste matter of the system-and
the amount in "a hours is enormous
must be removed by the excretorv
organs kidneys. bowels and sweat
glands II any one of them strikes
work, it lays an additional burden on
the others and renders them more
liable to disease.
The secret Of health is to maintain every
part OF the body in its normal state. and his
Is done by the use OF plain. wholesome food.
Qut-door exercise and frequent bathing. When
loI any cause the equilibrium is upset, then
sne immediate resort TO some tried and estab-
lshed remedy which will speedily remove he
olnculty is the only sensible course.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

Telephone your ice orders to s57. Peo-
pies Ice company
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-04

Bad blood and indigestion are. deadly
enemies to good health. Burdcck Blood
Bitters destroys them.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10
The Gaynors Again on Trial.

New York, July 6.-The hearing in
the case Of John F., w. T., and E. H.
Gaynor and B. D. Green, indicted for
alleged conspiracy in connection with
former Captain Oberlin NJ. Carter, was
before United States Commissioner
Shields today. The case had been be-
fore Judge Allison Brown in the Unit
ed States district court on a motion
for a warrant to remove the defend
ants from here to the jurisdiction of
the court for the southern district Of
Georgia for trial. The motion was de-
MED and the case sent back to Commits
sioner Shields to be heard today.
Savannah, Ga, July 6.-JOhn Norris,
John O'Gorman and d. K. Gatherwood,
keepers of the personal ledgers in three
here, have been Servd with sub
poenaS to appear before United States
Commissioner Shields in New York
July 18th and give testimony in the
case Of B. D.. Green and the Gaynors,
who are fighting to keep from coming
to Georgia to answer an indictment
for conspiracy in connection with the
Savannah river frauds.
It was in these banks that ex-Cap-
tain Oberlin NJ. Carter made deposits
inc the United States district attorney
wishes to use the testimony Of the per-
sonal bookkeepers to prove this fact.
One of the banks had demurred at
sending their personal bookkeeper with
the banks books without the jurisdic-
ton of the court in which the men are
indicted. Further resistance will likely
be made by the banks.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10
DEATH OF THE EDITOR OF THF
RICHMOND DISPATCA.

The Messenger regrets to see the
Richmond Dispatch in mourning. Its
managing editor, Colonel Charles
O'Brien Cowardin, is dead in the prime
of manhood. He was the son of Mr..
James A. Cowardin, the founder of
the paper, and was born in Richmond
forty-eight years ago. For a quarter
of a century he has been connected
with the Dispatch, which is probably
the best regarded and the most useful
of the papers now published in Vir-
ginia. He had fine personal traits, not
ably honesty and warm-heartedness,"
two of the best possible for any man
paper, his city, his family. his friends,
his state. Editorially the Dispatch
closes its own tribute in these words
of admiration and affection:
I'VE may safely say that the mani
festations of public interest in him
during his illness-the inquiries con-
corning his condition-the aye Of
fered for his recovery-the anxiety of
the people to be of some service to him
and his distressed family-never have
been parallelled in our observation.
The people loved Charlie Cowardin as
few men were ever loved. And we SOL
EMMY affirm our belief that their
affections could not have been bestow-
ed upon a more pure-minded, Sweetly-
disposed, and trusty man.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10

and newspapers, but they positively
know nothing of the south" We have
long ago seen this. II he south is III
the same fix as to New England IT Is
to be pitied and summed. II it is as
ignorant of New England in all re
spects-in politics. in literature, IN
history, etc-then it is time it ceased
to have opinions Of New England or
the north.
Ignorance Is the great foe to patri-
otiSm- Good men who are ignorant
and provincial will favor absurdities
thinking them wise and will perpetuate
follfes because of ignorance that rides
and possesses them. This is a vast
country indeed with many interests
involved So unless a man Is broad
gagged he is constantly running his en-
CINE on little narrow gauge roads, and
legislating for a corner when he ought
to be legislating for the United States.
Intelligence and love Of country are
great correctives of narrowness and
sectional antagonfsms and dislikes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10
Bradstreet's Report.

New York. July 6.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say: Business is usually
dull at this season, and this rear no ex-
ception to the general rule is to be re-
marked. A review Of the past six
months. however. gives no comfort 10
pessimists. NH c~learings. IL is true,
are sma.1E by o IL per cent. than
they were in the first half OF 1899. but
railway earnings are about 10 per cent.
larger and business failures, as report
ed to Bradstreet's, are the fewest re-
ported for eighteen years back, W.:
liabilities of falling raiders the smallest,
with one exception, and that last year,
since 1888.
Winter wheat has about all been har-
vested IN the southwes and the yield
there has been very large. Copious
rains in the northwest, too, have ap-
parently worked some Improvement,
judging from the more cheerful tone of
advices received thence this week.
Raw cotton has been rather irregular
this week. Some -mprovemen in crop
advices Is to be noted; but the main in
terest centers in the efforts of the over
grown shortage to cover On the old
crop deliveries.
In manufacturing line~ dizziness and
are most market IN products
of iron and steel. Talk o. an effort by
the great combinations to control prices
in the later industry b heard.
The basic material, pig iron. weakens
steadily, with some authorities predict
ing % per cent reduction from present
purely nominal prices which are not
attracting buying.
The settlement of labor troubles is
reflected in the better demand for
building materials at affected centerS
while rains in the northwest have. AL
owe white pine manufacturers to open
their works and give employment K
many thousands of men.
Southern pine prices are weak and
the market for that material is YER
dull
Business failures In the United States
Tor the week number lag, as compared
with lSs last week, 15s In this week q
in 1896.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10
A TRIBUTE

We were much interested in a recent
event in New Jersey. Rev. William ?.
Junkin, D. D., an aged and eminent
Presbyterian divine, passed away. He
was an able, conscientious, faithful.
true, heroic man. He had been pastor
Of a Presbyterian church at Montclair,
N. j., for twelve years. We had
known of him for perhaps forty years.
At his burial among northern people,
a northern minister, Rev.. Amory H.
Bradford, paid a tribute noble, kind.
admirable. 1t is too long to reproduce
and toe good to mutilate. But We
must make a selection, and it is beau
tiful and magnanimous. Mr.. Bradford
said:
HE came to this northern own
quite largely settled by New England
ers and their descendants, who repre-
sented the most extreme northern sen
timent. He came before h echoes of
the civil war had entirely died away.
He came as one who had been a sol
der in the Confederate army, a slave
holder, a friend OF Robert z. Lee, and
a brother-in-faw of Stonewall jackson.
He never obtruded his past, never in
the slightest apologized for it, and,
whenever an opportunity came, man
fully, but never extensively, defended
it, with. the result that he compelled
Us to respect his position. He helped
US to see that there other gr.
political and social principles for which
he and his friends had fought beside
the perpetuation of slavery, and that
those principles were as dear to them
as ours to us. He made US honor