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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
Free Medical Examination.

Each Tuesday and THURSDAY after
noon from 4 to .. m and each Friday
night from to D. m. medical exami-
nation and advice will be given free. at
the Kansas Medical college, 521 West
Twelfth street. All diseases, both acute
and chronic, treated. W. D. Stor1s,
NJ D, physician in charge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Two Alaska Miners Eight Days a
Sea Without Water.

Seattle, Wash. oct eight days at
sea in an open boat with plenty OF food
but not a drop OF fresh water Is the
painful experience OF Samuel Dutton
and John Bauer. two Alaska miners,
who started out from Nome September
Is to round the cape on a prospecting
trip. They were caught in the great
storm, were blown out to sea and left
in a helpless condition. until they were
rescued by the steamer Centennial,
which has arrived here with the unfor-
tunate miners aboard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
Rnral Free peliverv.

Washington, D. c.. Oct. 6.-Additional
free delivery service will be established
on October Is at Burlingame, Usage
county, Kansas; carrier, 5. g. Towsley;
length of route q miles; population
served, 49S.
The R. N Of A will give dance Mon
day evening, Oct. 8, at 704 Kan Ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
Nae Enir 81 Floated.

Port Said, Oct. e-The American steam
collier Emir which sank in the Suez
canal recently while on her way to Manila
with coal for the American fleet, has been
fioated and the canal is now freely open
to traffic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
GOLD FROM NOME.
Steamer Centennial at Seattle With
Dust and Passengers.

Seattle, Wash, Oct 6.-The steam
ship Centennial has arrived in port with
1926 passengers and $3.50, 900 of treasure
from Nome. She left Nome September
Nome is demanding more supplies and
from a business standpoint, 1T is said,
could scarcely be better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

Pekin, Tuesday, Oct 2.-The Ninth
Japanese brigade is leaving here. The
Twenty-first Japanese brigade will re-
main at Pekin and Tien Tsin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
Chippewa Lands to seI.

Washington, Oct. 6.-The secretary of
the interior has decided to dispose Of the
Indian lands coded to the Chippewas in
Minnesota, amounting to 74,l25 acres
They consist of pine and AGRICULTURAL
lands adjoining the White reser-
walton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

(First published in the Topeka State Jour-
nal October 6. 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

TT was almost a miracle. Burdock
Blood Bitters cured me of terrible
breaking out all over the body I am
very grateful Miss Julia Bilbridge,
West CornWell, Conn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

When you cannot sleep for coughing it
IS hardly necessary that any one should
tell you that you need a few doses OF
Chamberlain Cough Remedy to a1lay the
irritation of the throat. and make sleep
possible. It is good. Try it For sale by
all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
WhyIAmW Well

MIRA Jacob weaver Of Bushnell Ill., ex-city
weaver entirely illness which
bsdfast ofthe time for I'VE or six years past
is lived Bushnell
nearly thirty years interesting She
the oil
niue o
ITasd dow e
nothing seened
any
highly made
March, ana was oenentso
with troubles since
began the pills.
suffering
that com est to so ma
1897 o. c. HICKS Notary Public.
Record, BUSHNELL III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
HOW TO ECONOMIZE.

9: :: s: =: =:
economy to ruin garments Of value with cheap
soap powerful chemicals that eat into the fabric.
True economy uses Ivory Soap in the laundry.
is the most of pure soap that be sold for the
money. Chemically 1t is as innocent as water. Yet
it does everything you can ask of a soap. Try It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

Subscribe for the state Journal.
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Everybody reads the State Journal
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Quarterly Report

OF the secretary of the board of educa-
ton of the city of Topeka, Kansas. Of the
condition of the treasury, and Of the ac-
counts allowed by the board in the quar-
ter ending September 80. 1900:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06

/ do sOlemnly swear that the foregoing
Is true statement Of the receipts and
payments or the treasurer OF the board ol
all accounts allowed by said board in
the quarter ending September 30 40. 50
help me Cod j. =. STEWART.
Secretary Of the Board Of Education.
Sworn to and subscribed in my presence
this 9Th day Of October. 1900.
(SeaD TAUNSIE II. CAPPE,
Notary Public.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
Importance of Colonel Pitchers Victory.

Colonel Pitchers defeat Beers at Orange river
last Monday is probably the important event which
has transpired in the By strategic
movements he put fight considerable body of en-
trenched Beers the Queenslanders and
Canadians The this action does not lie prin
cipalIy in the of is an insignificant Skin
nish but first triumph of English
and the work of the the provinces.
Following this will a general hatterng expofta-
don of the English military the exclusion of
recommendation of home military bodies. The Canadians
will believe that the success of the with gal
antry of the Canadian corps Australians will insist
that it is the prowess of baby continent
that is turning the scales favor This sent
ment which viii be carefully enthusiastically encour
aged from London, will quickly provinces all
the world into staunch unity success
Such contamination has necessary to British
safety during the past The only thing which
holds Great Britain together prestige of imperial
might the feeling of provncias good to be-
long nation Successive defeats by nation con-
sidered small and insignificant meant segregation
of the several of the British empire at least
dissatisfaction which would amounted to distinct and
eventually fatal weakness the brink
Volunteering ireland today practically con-
scrption The Canada is FESTIVE Cape
Colony dangerously instruction But when the
cry the world imperial owes her
salvation provincial military provinces viii grow
pride cohesion Pitcher has taken an
which undoubtedly with similar
feats all chance Of the empires is removed
from range possibilities
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
1ai1uss gagle
NJ VI. MURDOCH. Editor.
New York's Cankering influence.


A distinct hurt life morals this nation is
the atter-day domination New York City. New York
City wicked wicked with the vices which simulate re-
speetabllty sufficiently to popularity permitted suf
GENTLY concealed bring suggestive gufawng approval
from the caloused interpreter uneasy
the which abhorrng breads conviction
prudishness.
Boston used to dominate the country with her ideals
the literary Jumbos of the located there with
New England furnishing statesmen of marked power
about, Boston, so long her
measure substantial practically nation
restraining and beneficial PurtancaI rein.
But New York is now the literary center. It's news
undoubtedly lead public sentiment and is
sensational newspapers the conservative
The other evening Union League club Brooklyn
entertainment. the below tables
and sisters above galleries good
Part Of the evenings diversion by
vile company Among the company Violet Dare, a
pink white star astounding grace beauty
limb She appeared very short skirt in black stock
pink Some of the wives and sisters
gasped little quc1ened the pace of their conversa-
ton. Violet disappeared re-appeared in still shorter
skirt, the pink fully revealed and pronounced
There applause the diners. There was sitting
quietude in the gallery. Again disappearance and
appearance the part Dare third time
with greater brevity of skirt before. Only
sap-headed applauded The gallery suddenly
dgnantly emptied and the older Kissed
You n New York columns devoted to intrigue
laisons and engagements In New theater French
Importation, Anna Held is singing song entitled q
Would Like to Have Photograph o That" in which is
related the experience of Who feeling lone
some, makes engagement through newspaper column,
and meets with fair blonde, who VEIL while
falls in fit, and Miss like to have pho
tograph Of that The raised veil was his
wife. The music of the by Reginald De
Koven, Of the leading composers The words
by leading Hbrettost
The CALLING circumstance this is that New York
dominates the country setting fashions literary
standards dramatic IDEAS and, help u.s. main
tans the largest churches in the nation.
AS Boston no longer prove equal to a mental
fruton capable of putting mystic relig
ious creed fake cure, Atknsonlan political spasm
despair of the leadership Boston
and until find another metropolis greater morality to
follow, the vigorous virtue of the United
States viii resist the cankerng influences of Gotham
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

between the northern the United
States If the people of the United States ought to
opening channel of communication it is that
Illinois river and Lake Michigan. If the various
ponts st. Louis Buffalo united by CONNER
facility population would be the immediate
consequence"
The feeling favor a canal is
pshed cropped at intervals in the most unexpected
places c. F. Hoffman, New York editor, visited Chicago
1883 writing Knckerbocker Magazine. said:
There is improvement be made. however in this
country which will greatly influence the
manent value of property in Chicago alude to canal
the Lake Michigan the head of steam navi
cation the Illinois, the route Of which has been long
since surveyed"
The first step looking towards construction Of
canal was taken away back in 1916, treaty was
negotiated Indians whereby latter ceded the
government strip of land about twenty miles wide
tending through Despaines and Illinois valleys from
Chicago Ottawa This grant containing 99E Al acres
coded for rhe the understanding with the alb
orgines that should be built and that it should
rebound greatly to their benefit few them lived
see even the old illinois Michigan canal
1926 the legislature incorporated the Illinois and
Michigan Canal association granted extraordinary
privileges When the construction the finally
assured western immigration received great impetus,
population of Illinois nearly doubled in five
years But the actual construction of the canal de-
many years. than forty acts passed
by the legislature relating to the subject The formal
opening the Illinois Michigan ship place
April D. 1S4S celebrated with much rejoicing
It's total $6537,254.
For years congress was urged practical ship
Michigan and the Mississippi and the
matter agitated in almost every in the Union
but all to effect, The representatives from Ohio and
dogs manger they taking the
project for the benefit of single state The
scheme little impetus during the civil and
bill presented authorized the construction Of ship
nd
Mississippi Lake Michigan land other pur-
poses" but nothing of it,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
Europe's Loss of Coin,

The Imperial Bank of Germany is alone in issuing
reports that show rerogresion The cables that
the stock of the bank 100000 than
year ago Nearly every bank shows similar condition
the discouragng feature them that the
is chiefly the gold while often there been
increase in holdings silver The decrease has
not been matter of development,
be the general impression contrary Euro
banks have been losing ground steadily for least
five years The Bank of France shows decrease
stock during that period of 20OOoO0 while the note
circulation increased nearly $OOOGOO0O The German
bank $7O0O000O $26
of The Italian banks their
culaon 100000 but 100000 vaults
The Austro-Hungarian increased
stocks but these exceptional cases
by conditions
the accumulation Of large by the government
for emergencies, while the capital invested the
has been much increased Even the Engands
has fallen $23 100000 with s15oOOOOO in
circulation
But the condition in America is entirely different The
banks of New York nearly $5O0G000O
specie than years ago. aggregate holdings of
the national United States has
per cent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
chicago's Great Drainage Canal.

Within few miles southwest Of Chicago is a divide
between the valley Of the Mississippi basin of Lake
Michigan Chicago 10y outlay $S20O0OGO pierced
Tuesday this divide causing the the Chicago
river which has Lake Michigan to run into a
tributary Mississippi river Hitherto Chicago has
polluted Lake Michigan from which il its drinking
by Now the sewage follows the canal
through the divide 1ississpp valley It is
be used also after while fer a ship canal
It is interesting to know that the praciicabiJy this
canal hundred years aga History gives
precedence for the suggestion Joliet In August
1874 he wroe: We easily Florida boats ana
by good navigation There would be but canal
make 10y cutting only onehalf league prairie to pass
the lake Of the Illinois Louis river And by
this he the identical that has been by the
tbs sanitary district OF Chicago The sag-
gostion hos by the time of
Joliet his is only fair to give him the credit hsviag
troaehe6 the sraject-
Ta.uaaaut ms early days Of century idea of
he.UeeH the lakes and The Mississippi, con
sia=tiy leueh. fsA4.d that the objeet al
pus rs commercial William Darby v.ote:
M doebt remains bat re cheaso and Illinois
afford by far the eligible natural connection
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04
The WAY to Settle 1t.

At last there is hope that the Schey dis
cusson will really die out Senator Wellington Mary
land Admiral Schleys staunchest friends will
agree the adoption by the of resolution giving
the thanks of congress to Rear Admiral Sampson and
Schey in the order named for the victory
Santiago When the bill revivng the grade
admiral up, the SIS will be nominated for the
grade president.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

There is nothing land that Lord Roberts is
except black We have furnished
this and if the Beers will give
word also stock them up black cats.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

The New York who shot his wife nlstaking her
burglar crazed with grief Compared to revolver
a burglar a thing have the house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

ingalls, thinks Reed was forced out Of the
speakershp. fortunate Reeds opponents that
this discovery made after beyond recall.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

the stage London che other night Lilly Langry
wept tears, being that had just
good-b bye husband who off for the The
tears being real did affect the audience
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

The British getting notion that he is
locomotive becoming feline and creeping up with
cushioned paws the Beers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Capt" Leary of Guam has found that peonage
trary the Constitution of the United States
knocked this Spanish style of slavery gaeywes Leary
a brick.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Pitcher does be Baron. Lord. or Sir
he fight Britain VIII probably reward him
by permitting him to kiss dukes hand.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

There is hardly a probability that Cornish poisoned
Mrs. Adams but he is of low mentality
bounding of his enemy AIoneux whom he hang
is a sorrowful spectacle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Professor Metchnikoff claims discovered a serum
But that nonsense. of course
still back of the home plate, waiting take all
o. us of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

D. Rockefeller bids fair sUrpass Rohtschds
The Vanderbilts and Goulds he will He is
worth 1915 and it is asserted is money
market of the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

john D Rockefeller accused Of purposely
causing Christmas panic Wall street The news
papers lAshng him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Chicago is now virtually on the Gulf Of Mexico The
gulf Wouldn't come Chicago. so Chicago cut canal
connecting with the gulf.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

IN New York Molineux trial has run 50 loag ina
must &c rapid.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Up TO date Dom Paul has returned that British gald
his ultimatura
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

It cost Chicago SIS eo0ooo 70 make the Chicago rve
rcsult
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Noticeably. the awful exhbitery powers EngHsa
hollow square rot cutting much agare inst
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-04

Colonel Pitcher cutting way through the Bosr
lines and Greas Britain happs-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-15
$ ''717''

The use OF "77" sends the
blood tingling through The
veins until II reaches the eX.
tremitieS,When the fee, warm
up and the COid Is broken.
New pocket edition of Dr. Humphreys Manual
OF ALI diseases, mailed free.
Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co, Cor
william, and John Sts., New York.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-15

rich: all she needs TO do is TO go into
the shops and select any beautiful
thing she n1oases to delight hcr friends
She doesn't have to save the pennies
from one Christmas 10 the next and
DENY herself MANY pleasures and many
little adornments for her dress or her
home in order to buy a few simple and
ineypensive gifts for others. She isn't
Obliged to work late at night TO finish
something for Christmas. She isn't
maddened daily by the lovely. dainty
and useful articles i'm the stores which
she knows would he inst the thing for
mother M husband. or child Or friend
but which are far beyond her means.''
And vet nerhaps If we could all ey-
change lists and at the same time. the
ncconnanvinr vexations and care. our
noint of vievl wo,,d he decided,v shift
ed T know a rich lady-she was not
olwovs rich and influential INT like the
moio,itv of neople in this town. has
known tho disadvantages OF narrow
means and sacrifice and worry Today
ebo riaes in T.. bandsome carria ee and
+. sbaItered from tho rougbness of 1ife
no much no tbe wealth and deviation
and horor of her husband and family
o,r sbia1d har Rut Ch,istmos time
to her is as much the subject of
thought and care MS IL she foo must
cn,mt tba nennies. Her LIST is incred-
ib,w Ions and If does NOT merely include
ths mnmhors of her household tbe
friends Win comfortoble means and
those I'm whom Christmas is largely
m oxcbano.e of Goods. Instead the
nnor nra mever forrotten. : Hundreds
NJ tbem are benetited ot her HANDS
rhe oId friends of bun,bler days ave
ron,an,harsd. the children of distant
reIotives the Girl who works for Iiv-
;ng the ,ittIa bov who looked cold ono
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-15

woman who must wait until the chill
dren are asleep before she can finish
the little piece of embroidery or the
dainty garment fashioned by her own
fingers for somebody she loves? or
who finds in her Christmas stocking
the poor little presents of the humble
environment?
Did it ever occur to you that the
majority of people are honest? Well,
they are. The writer is prepared to
prove this assertion, notwithstanding
the discrediting remarks some times
heard. The other night handsome
fur collar was lost, the owner loved
that collar as If it had been something
alive in it's soft glossy beauty. 1t was
a last years Christmas gift from the
dearest one in the world. and besides
it was loved for it's own cuddling lux
ury and comfort.
The other night she lost that collar.
Her doll was Immediately discovered to
be stuffed with sawdust and Christmas
was "a glittering, cold delusion. She
knew she never again would behold
that treasured bit of fur and straight
way it's manifold charms increased in
to encourage advertising. She did it
in thetwo morning papers and while the
day was yet very young good looking
boy-just little fellow in knicker-
bockers appeared carrying that blessed
collar in his chapped hands. He had
found it, read the advertisement, and
here he was a-smile and happy to see
anybody so manifestly rejoiced, at his
To ie,t
mas with his share of that "fnd," and
he certainly changed the view of
Christmas for some other body, most
materially. He was Il. I. A. boy,
which is also greatly to his credit
People who read advertisements for
lost articles do not realize how very
often the same are returned at once
by the finders. The other day
stranger, an Australian lost a pocket
book, containing $3.50. He did not know
a person In Scranton and was very
dubious about ever seeing his money
again, The very next morning. how
ever, man walked into this office and
returned the lost money which he had
found on Olive street and refused the
reward the grateful owner was anx-
ious to bestow. The editor of the
Scranton Times said yesterday that on
three occasions in the past month
pocket books had been recovered by
their owners after advertising
when their loss was considered
hopeless. All of which goes to
show that If this town Is infested with
thieves and the shadow of impending
second -cass legislation, 1t Is also the
abode OF a multitude OF honest pc 'ple.
Saucy Bess.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-15

We are rather apt to misjudge each
other at Christmas time, when of all
the times our'h hearts are most gener-
Gus and tender. Perhaps we say There
Is that, or the other friend who is so
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-15

severe cold which neglected. 1t de-
velored into catarrh and bronchitis
and in a short time became chronic.
II tried everything l saw adver-
tised, which did me no good I saw
the great tonic Peruna) advertised.
I bought one bottle. I found myself
so much better after taking it that I
wrote you for advice, which you kind
ly continued to give me free Of charge
for five months.
"Now j am happy to inform you
ard the public that I am perfectly
cured of catarrh and bronchitis. I
make this statement in hope that
some of my comrades will see it and
be benefited thereby"