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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
A Suit For $I9,93O Damages
Against F. L. Gordon.
Texas Cattleman Sues Barber
County Statesman.
ROW OVER PASTURAGE
Claim Is Made That Defendant
Misrepresented Facts.
Gordon Has Been Mentioned For
the GOvernOrship.

Wichita, Jan. 81. N. Lynch, of Fort
Worth, Texas, has filed a suit in the fed
eral court here against F. L. Gordon of
Barber county for the sum of s19,930-
According to the petition, Mr.. Lynch is
engaged in the cattle business on a large
scale and wished to pasture about 1000
head of cattle in Kansas. 1t also appears
that Mr.. Gordon heard of this and repre-
scented to Mr.. Lynch that he had extern
sive pastures in Kansas and solicited the
care of the stock He said his pastures
were large enough to Craze 1000 head of
cattle and were also well watered and
wen fenced.
Mr.. Lynch alleges that relying on these
statements, he made an agreement with
1000 head of cattle to pasture, and was
to pay zoe per head per month. Accord
was to pay this amount for at least three
months, after which he was to pay 17A
cents per head per month. He was also
to furnish one man mounted to look AFTER
the cattle, and Gordon agreed to board
this man free of charge. At the time
stipulated in the contract, Lynch turned
over to Gordon ], S39 steers and 60 COWS.
The plaintiff claims that Gordon did not
comply with the terms of the contrat;
enough; that the cattle were frequently
rounded up and moved: that the range
of his cattle strayed. He says that at
one time 300 of them got away, and that
he Oynch) was obliged to pay out 500
in gathering them in and that he never
did recover forty-eight head of them.
Mr.. Lynch valued the cattle lost at $40
a head and as it was understood that the
cattle were to be fattened, considers that
the steers returned to him were dam
aged to the extent of SO per head. This
will come up for trial during the March
Gordon has been mentioned over the
governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
THR suooEssFuL PAPER.
IFrom the Wichita Eagle

LFrom the Wichita Eagle
No newspaper with purchasable
opinions ever welded any influence
worth the price paid for it, or did it
long survive as a paying investment.
Even the newspaper whose proprietor
ship or writers are guilty of demanding
campaign contributions is never worth
buying. Some one having intinated
that the Atchison Globe had been
bought to support Cy. Leland, the ed
itor Of the Emporia Gazette comes to
the front with the declaration that a
paper when successful is part Of the
EDITORS life. Nothing is truer and moth
hlmself, especially if he has devoted
years to such success. No writer whose
opinions or endorsements are purchas-
able can possibly impress himself upon
the minds, hearts or interests of his
FELLOW citizens. Though the purchase
price was delivered in the most OBJ
scure place in the darkest hour of the
night, the man or the party who does
the buying, in knowing the price Of the
transaction, will sooner or later con-
nde 1t to wings which will not fail of
carrying it and IN a convincing way. to
every individual whose good opinion is
worth having, or who is susceptible to
proper influence AS White says, ito
say that a man would debauch his
paper for money is an unspeakabIe in
suit" for only such a. man could he
thus guilty as would debauch his own
home for it is his honor, his all, in
either case. Ed. Howe publishes a sue
cessful and an influential paper. per
contra, therefore, he is not purchas-
able, nor does any man or party who
knows him for one moment believe
that he is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
CURTIS AFTER EVANS.
Kansas Congressman Criticises
Commissioner of Pensions.

Washington, Jan. 19-In the house
today Mr.. Barney (Wis-) who was in
charge of the pension bill made a gen
eral statement of it's contents. He said
the commissioner of pensions estimated
that the amount for pensions during
the coming year would largely decrease,
but that owing to the influx of claims
on account of the Spanish war he did
not deem it wise to reduce the general
appropriation this year. There was 25,-
900 Spanish war claims pending. The
commissioner thought five or six mil
lions would cover these claims.
Mr. Curtis of Kansas. criticised some
of the rulings of the commissioner of
pensions. He said he did not believe
the president approved all Commission
er Evans had done.
Mr.. Grosvenor said he knew Mr.. Ev-
ans to be a private soldier during the
war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
PAVING QUESTION REVIVED
Another Efoat Will Be Made to Pave
East Eighth Avenue.

A movement has been put on foot to
have Eighth avenue east paved all the
way from Quincy street to Locust
street, which is near the cemetery. Pc
titions are now being circulated among
the property owners along the avenue,
asking the city council to have the pa
wing done, and it is not at all unlikely
that this will be among the first streets
to be paved in the spring.
The entire city is interested in get
ting Eighth avenue east paved, be-
cause it is the direct road TO the Gem
etery, and one which funeral process
sions would naturally take if not pre-
vented from doing so by muddy or
rough roads. In the past professions
have usually gone out Sixth avenue
and over the viaduct, but that way is
unpopular, because it leads over the
Santa Fe yards, and street cars have
to be met on the viaduct..
A number of the property owners
along the avenue have been anxious to
get it paved, but an active effort in
that direction has never before been
made.
If the paving is ordered it will doubt
less be only a short time before the
city will have a Melan arch bridge over
the Shunganunga, and the drive out to
the cemetery would then be one of the
prettiest in the city. The east side has
not developed so fast as the west side
and one of the principal reasons for
this has been the lack of paving on the
east side.
The distance from Quincy street to
Locust is IA blocks The petitions for
the paving call for 50-foot pavement
of vitrified brick from Quincy street to
the Shunganunga, and a 30-foot pave
ment from there east to the cemetery.
The curbing is to be of red Colorado
sandstone.
D. o. Crane, who is superintendent of
the cemetery, viii have charge of the
petitions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
FOB SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
Local Cofsyville Paper Urges Build
ing For CoIored Pupils

Coffeyville, Jan 19--The agitation for a
separate, school for colored children In
Coffeyville has been commenced again.
The Gaslight this week prints an editorial
on the question from which the follow
ing extract is taken:
s7The negro should be educated. Tt is
the only CLEAN of hope through the dark
ness of an almost impenetrable pail of
ignorance which has for ages hung over
his race. But let, If possible, a separate
and distinct school be provided where he
may receive fully as much care and at
tention as the white, where his progress
on the road to knowledge will not be
be a blessing to the negro and a relief
to the white. 1t would enable many
colored boy or girl to attend who does not
now. Provide a negro school, Mr.. Tax
payer, and enforce attendance thereto.
Relieve the overcrowded mixed rooms of
the descendants of Ham and place them
where they can more readily grow to be
Intelligent young men and women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
Tha visa RatriaL.

H NJ Wise is on trial once more in
last August. Wise was first tried last
fall but the jury failed to decide wheth-
er he was guilty or not. and now anoth-
er jury will try it. This is the case in
which Wise is accused of getting Nc
Keen, who is an elderly man, drunk last
August, and then taking him in a buggy
out to Deer Creek, east of the city,
and dumping him out in the weeds, af-
ter first extracting a large amount Of
money from McKeon's pocket. McKeon
claims he knew nothing of the transac-
ton whatever until he came to his
senses the next morning and found
himself lying on the ground by the
bank of the creek.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
AGAINST VISITATION COURT.
Judge Clark Rules Adverse to Special
Legislature Act.

Lyons, Jan. 19.-In the case of Coop
er & Plumb versus the Western Union
Telegraph company, in the Rice county
district court, Judge Clark has decided
the act subjecting the telegraph COM
pany to the control of the court of vis-
itation to be unconstitutional in so far
as it provided for penalties or forfeit
lures to be recovered at the suit of pri-
waite citizens on account of the refusal
Of the telegraph company to transmit
messages at the rate fixed by the stat
ute.
Inasmuch as such penalties were ex-
elusive of the right to recover damages
from the telegraph company the court
held that they were fines, within the
meaning of the constitution and could
not be diverted from the common school
fund. where the constitution required
them, to go to the benefit of individuals
This decision of Judge Clark's taken in
connection with the decision of Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs. H. C. Curtis, aged SIS years, died
Thursday at her home, 1913 Clay street.
She had been i'll for nearly three weeks
with pneumonia.
Mrs. Curtis leaves, besides her hus-
band, four daughters, Mrs. c. H. Net
ties, Eunice, Helen and Bessie Curtis
and two sons, George and l.. r. Curtis.
She was prominent in church and social
work and was much loved by all who
knew her. The funeral win be held at
two o'clock Saturday afternoon from
her late residence.
Joseph Borovicka, aged "a years, died
this morning at his home, 21s FOLK street.
The funeral will be held at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning from his late resi-
dence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
FREE TRADE BILL.
Introduced by Payne of New York t.
Apply to Porto Rico.

Washington, Jan 19-Representativ
Payne of New York, chairman of the
ways and means committee today in
troduced a bill in the house to extend
the custom laws of the United States
10 Porto Rico and make it customs
district. The effect of the enactment of
this bill into law would be free trade
between the United States and Porto
Rico. Mr.. Payne said he had introduced
the bill upon his own motion after lis
tening to the hearings in the insular
committee. He was satisfied that free
trade with the United States would
greatly help the island and would not
injure the industries of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
CHIEFS TAKE A HAND.
Heads of Railroad Orders Will Make
Demands For Employees.

st. Louis, Jan. 19.-The Post Dispatch
today says:
One of the most important confer
ences of railway working men since the
great strike in 1894. began at the Laclede
hotel today and is being held behind
closed doors. Its purpose IS to consider
grievances of service men. Among those
who are taking a prominent part in the
deliberations are A B. Garretson Of
Cedar Rapids, chief of the Order of
Railway Conductors; w. G.. Lee of
Cleveland, chief of Railway Trainmen;
p. NJ. Arthur chief of Locomotive En-
gineers, and P. F. Sargent, chief of Rail
way Firemen.
1t is said the conference was called to
adjust certain differences between the
railroads and other employees and to
consider the advisability of asking a
general sweeping Increase in the wages
paid to conductors, engineers, dremen
and other trainmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
ON TEN COUNTS.
Columbus Jointist to Be Given q sey
we're Sentence.

Columbus, Jan. 19.-The trial of Pat
Coggins for violating the prohibitory
law was completed yesterday evening,
and the jury after being out a short
time returned a verdict finding the de-
PENDANT guilty of violating the law on
II counts and maintaining a nuisance.
The law provides that a person convict
ed of violating the prohibitory law be
fined 800 and 80 days in Jail on each
count, so that by the verdict above, the
least sentence Coggins can get is $50
days in the county jail and 81, 100 fine
To this must be added the costs. which
in such cases are always heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

man. and the women hunt up a
preacher.
Women do not rave over dentists as
they rave over doctors, because teeth
can not be fixed without pain.
hard as they worry it would be inn
possible to throw a stone without hit
ting Vanderbilt
After a girl has taken as many as six
lessons on the piano, she begins to pro-
nounce Beethoven and Wagner in a
manner to jar her elders
When the wind blows a lot of loose
hair around a girls face, it is never as
becoming as the description sounded
in the novels she has read.
It is a common experience to call
upon a woman who is reported very ILL.,
and find that she has recovered, and
has a dress maker in the house.
There is nothing that causes a wo-
man more indignation than when a
boy throws stones at her COW, and his
mother fails to whip him for it.
It would be interesting to know how
rich and prosperous a man has to get
before he is rich and prosperous
enough to remember favors shown him
when he was poor.
If mothers whipped their boys every
time the neighbors thought it should
be done, whipping would enter into
the days programme the same as cook
ing and washing dishes.
An Atchison girl whose talents were
such that her parents and sisters dedi-
Gated her to Art when she was ten
years of age, has strolled away from
Art to fiirt with a farmer, with pros
poets Of marrying him.
A common barnyard hen can not be-
come a lark. A common barnyard hen
is worth a thousand larks, and a hen
longing to become a lark, is a ridicu-
lous proposition. Let the hen say to
herself, L am superior to the lark, "
which is a fact, and go ahead about her
business without foolish longings.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton keeps
five cows, and she is boarding up the
money made by selling milk in order
to some day have an operation per-
formed. She owns five palms, has
been abroad, has all kinds of cut glass,
and a maid in uniform to answer the
door, but is still disconnected, never
having had an operation performed.
She hasn't decided what she will have
cut out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

So it is more money, sure enough,
that the Castellanes are after. The
count, it appears. undertook to sustain
his title to membership in the Gould
family by taking a flyer in the stock
market on his own account and his
wife's money. The result was a total
loss of a sum variOusly estimated by
the Paris papers at from $500, 900 to
100000. It is regarded in the French
capital as certain that the pair are
coming over for the purpose of induc-
ing brother George to help them out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
VACANCIES FILLED.
Executive Committee of State Tenn
perance Union Completed.

What is known as the headquarters"
committee of the State Temperance IN
ion held a meeting last evening in J. W
Gleed's Office to fill the vacancies on the
executive committee of the union, and
the following were named:
Grant Harrington, Hiawatha; J. NJ.
Beecher, Jr., BelleviIle; NJ. L. Hays.
Waverly: o. o. Outcalt, Burlington,
and John Wiswell, Columbus.
The bill to create the Office of state
temperance commissioner, which is be-
kin, has been referred to the legal ad-
visory committee of the union for an
opinion as to its legality and merits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
SALE OF aALENA MILLS.
Emmons & Miller Property Goes to
Esstern Capitalists For 100000.

Galena, Jan. 19-The Emmons & Mil
Ter mills were purchased today by the
Missouri Lead and Zinc Concentration
company, principally eastern capital
lists. The consideration was 100000
The operation of these mills has been
among the most successful paying in
vestments of anything pertaining to min
ing since their invention, few years
ago, by Emmons Bros. They are the
means of saving mineral that otherwise
ers will push the enterprise more ex-
tensively in the future than it has beer
possible to do in the past. About two
years ago the demand was SO great that
with crusher. Since that time they
have done one of the largest business
of anything throughout the mining dis
trict.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
NO more commiasiona.

Chicago, Jan. 19.-The Post says: No
doubt exists as to the effectiveness of
the agreement for the abolition of rail-
way commissions. The committee of
presidents having the matter in charge
issued advices to all concerned to the
effect that the consent of all lines not
represented at the meeting at which the
agreement was adopted had been secured
and the agreement viii be effective Feb
ruary LIST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
The Shawnee Fire.

The Shawnee Fire Insurance company
is one of the states institutions which
is year by year growing stronger and
adding to its excellent record. The good
management and high standing of those
connected with its affairs enable it to
make the fine showing of it's annual
statement published in the State Jour-
nal this week. The increase in assets
is nearly $4,000; the increase in re-
insurance reserve is $35, 600. The com
pany has paid 100000 in losses and has
a large surplus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
Last Nieht of Art DisnIav.

Tonight will see the close of the Hell
man-Taylor exhibit Of pictures at Lii
brary hall. A feature of the evening
will be music by several members of the
Ladies Music club, a violin solo by
Mrs. T. H. Foster, vocal solos by Mrs
Kleinhans and Mrs. Won Dahlen and
piano solo by Miss Bundy. The Allan
teams and Spalding clubs will be in
charge Of the exhibit this evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
nc Renair . Big Bridge.

Hutchinson, Jan. lathe big bridge
across the Arkansas river will soon be
put in good condition. The board of
county commissioners have decided up
on making all necessary repairs. The
lumber has been purchased for a new
floor the entire length of the bridge
which is over one thousand feet. The
flooring to be used is oak boards three
inches thick by eight inches wide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
Fighting Bum Power.

Horton, Jan. ia. c. Rankin is here
for a weeks temperance revival He
is the best temperance lecturer that
ever visited this town. Three hundred
and thirty-five pledges were taken the
first two nights and the interest is
growing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

So long as it has been the custom of
the United States for the past century
to pick up bits of real estate here and
there when offered at q. bargain, why
should there be any hesitation regard
ing the Danish West Indies? Every
purchase yet made has proved a profit
able investment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

The plethoric condition of the United
States treasury is attracting the atten-
ton of raiders from all directions. The
present it appears, is considered a ia
vorable time for digging out those long
forgotten claims for cotton destroyed
during the war, amounting to about
81 nAn nnn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

The appointment of a park commits
sion leads to the erasonahle SUPPOSE
ton that Topeka is to have parks. It
is safe to assume that the parks estab-
Hshed and maintained by the city will
be in every way worthy of the name.
The city may be slow to act at times
but 1t has a well earned reputation of
doing thoroughly whatever it under
takes. On with the parks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

Mr.. Carnegie continues to drop sums
here and there, usually about $50 900 in
amount, in aid of public Libraries. OF
tumwa is the latest recipient of his
bounty. OF course he can hold out
long time at this rate, and apparently
there is no necessity for being in a
hurry, but still if Topeka is to have a
share of the Carnegie fortune. it might
be as well to start an effort in that d.
rectiOu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

No microscope is required to discern
the hand of Mr.. German in connection
with the action of the Maryland house
of delegates, when it refused to recog-
nize Mr.. Bryan as the party leader and
declined to invite him to speak before
that body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
Sister of Robert semnle Dead.

Robert H.Semple was called to Leav-
enworth this afternoon by the death of
his sister, Mrs. John w. Yarrall Mrs
Yarrall was at one time a resident of
Topeka, but has for several years been
in Leavenworth. Mr.. Yarran was clerk
at the penitentiary when Chase was
warden
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

Slowly but surely the sewage Of Chi
cago is escaping down the river in the
direction of St. Louis. It had reached
Peoria yesterday, and it is doubtful
now if a court could do more than issue
an Injunction and then sentence it for
ooufannDt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
0 Must Paw the Penalty.

Larned, Jan. 19.-Jack Mcbride, who
was yesterday convicted in the district
court Of criminal assault has been SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

AS soon as Great Britain has time
TO read Senator Beveridge's speech and
discovers that there is gold in the Phil
ippines she is likely to trump up some
claim to the islands if we should show
any disposition to give them up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

Hook, If the same shall be sustained in
the upper courts, leaves very little of
this famous act passed by the Popuiist
legislature at their extra session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

While the United States is demand
ing an open door in China the portal
on this side is locked and barred
against China's people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

London journals are clearly in need
of a few enterprising American news
paper men who can sit in the home
office and write war dispatches from
the front
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
Weather Indications.

Chicago, Jan. 19.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight and Saturday; continued high
temperature; southerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

The Chicago aldermen are consider
ing a proposition to offer a bounty for
the scaIps of robbers and highwaymen
caught in the act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19
GLOBE sIeHTs.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.I
Aen tell their troubles to a police
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

Monarch over pain. Burns. cuts,
sprains, stings. Instant relief. Dr.
Thomas Eclectric Oil. At any drug
store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-19

An Atchison girl whose talents were
such that her parents and sisters dedi-
Gated her to Art when she was ten
years of age, has strolled away from
Art to fiirt with a farmer, with pros
poets Of marrying him.