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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
Denver Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and
Return $1,000 via Santa Fe

Tickets on sale July Z, 8, 9, 10. Is and
Aug. Is. Stopovers allowed between Pu-
eblo and Denver enabling one to stop
at Colorado Springs. Final limit of
ticket October 31st. See T. L. King,
agent, for particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07

For the best of feed and hay. at lowest
prices, try Geo. Wheaton,, at 933 KAN
sas avenue. Tel. 483.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
Call ON the Ranks

Washington, July 7.-Mr. Dawes, the
comptroller of the currency, has issued
a call for reports of the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
Friday, June 20, 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
A Degree From Oxford.

London, July 7.-Oxford has conferred
the degree of D. s. c. on Prof. Chandler
of Columbia university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
New Life

Strength begins at the stomach To
put the digestive organs in perfect work
ing order, there is nothing better than
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 1t regu-
iates the bowels. promotes secretion of
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STAMP covers the neck of the bottle
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07

are cheaper They can be cheaper only if made
from cheaper materials. Cheaper" means inferior
materials always To cheaper the cost of an
article of food at the expense of its heathfu1ness
is done in alum baking powders, is crime.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-07
HOW
ARE
YOUR
KIDNEYSp

It wouldn't be half n bad idea to ask your
self this question ever EsAy 1orning-how are
your kidneysf II the sole Of your shoe getS
wan h nave noi9 Ape ~ ars, you ssrsig ht-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
The Mills Co.
Dry Goods, Carpets and Millinery.
LAY REPRESE NTATION
Confirmed by Methodist General Con-
ference After Hot Debate.

Chicago, May Sat today's session
of the Methodist Episcopal quadrennial
conference the report of the special
commission confirming the recent ac-
ton of the general conference in grant
ing equal lay and ministerial repreSen-
tation at all general conferences, but
except under special provision, exclud-
ing laymen from all annual conferences
was adopted after a hot debate.
Bishop Warren presented the report
of the commission which was appointed
four years ago to revise the organic
law of the church.
Important changes were also made in
the method of balloting on certain
questions. The main provisions were as
follows:
The ministerial and lay delegates
shall deliberate together as one body.
They will also vote together as one
body, with the following exceptions:
(a.) On every question which pro-
poses. a change in the discipline they
shall vote separately.
(b) They shall vote separately on
any other question when requested by
one-third of either order of delegates
present and voting.
(c.) In all cases of separate voting it
shall require the concurrence of the two
orders to adopt the proposed measure,
except that for changes of the consti-
tuition a vote of two-thirds of the gen
eral conference shall be sufficient.
Article II, which refers to the adop-
ton of constitutional amendments was
altered to read as follows:
1.-The concurrent recommendation of
two-thirds of all the members of the
several annual conferences present and
voting and of two-thirds of all the mem
bers of the lay electoral conferences
present and voting, shall suffice to au-
thorize the next ensuing general con-
ference by a tWo-thirds vote to alter
or amend any of the provisions of this
constitution except section l, article 10;
and also whenever such alteration or
amendment shall have been first recon-
mended by the general conference by a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
BE GOOD TO TOPEKA.
That is Will Whites Advice to EN-
poria People.

The Kansas papers are beginning to
take considerable interest in Topeka $
coming home product exposition and
street fair The Atchison Globe remarks
that 1.-The posters indicate that the
weeks entertainment will afford ample
compensation to those who go to the
Topeka fair in preference to the Paris
exposition"
The Emporia Gazette says:
''Emporia should be good to Topeka
at the Topeka street fair this spring for
last fall Topeka was more than generous
to Emporia- Topeka brought whole
car load of people down on the big day
of Emporia's fair and did much to make
it successful. Topeka has an unusually
fine lot of attractions to offer this year
and the show will be well worth attend
ing. The men behind it are the best
men of Topeka and it will be everything
it should be. 1t would not be the hand
some thing, it would only be the fair
thing for Emporia to send a car load Of
folks to Topeka. The fair occurs the
last of May and the first of June"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
PARIS SEES GHOSTS.
The Patrie Discusses War Be-
tween Germany and the
United States.

Paris, May S.-The Patrie, an after
noon nationalist newspaper classed as
sensational, in a dispatch from London,
today, claims to have discovered the
real reason for the friendly attitude of
Emperor William of Germany toward
Great Britain at the present juncture
which it declares is the German emper-
or's belief that war between Germany
and the United States is possible and
that in view of such a contingency he
wishes to win over Great Britain to
neutrality.
Continuing. The Patrie recalls the
friction caused by the action of the
German naval commander, Admiral
Diedrichs, at Manila and afffrms that
the opposition of the United States to
Emperor Williams dream of founding
a Greater Germany in Brazil and Ar
in the relations between the two coun-
tries.
1t concludes: ''War between America
and Germany is therefore not impossible
IN the near future, and it Is in view of
TINS war and not with hostile intentions
toward England, that Germany is making
unheard of efforts to increase her navy.
In the interval, the sole aim of German
policy is to prevent an Ang1o-American
Williams attitude, for if England believed
In a coalition of the powers against her,
she would not hesitate to conclude a
Yankee alliance The emperor, therefore,
is striving to appear at least devoted to
England in order to more surely realize
future dependencies of the German en-
Dire.f
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MAN EATERS COMING.
Usual Number of Death Dealing
Animals For Street Fair.

One of the lionesses which will be il
Topeka during the street fair with the
Hagenback wild animal show, now own
ed by the Oriental-American Midway
Carnival company, came near making
Ynince meat of her keeper a few even
ings ago, at a performance at Augusta,
Ga, where the show was stationed last
week
The lioness is called Sultana Wallace.
She has a cub only a few days old, ana
she is extremely cross. In addition to
this she has killed three men in the past
five years, so her reputation for peace
is not the best.
Her keeper is Bronco Bocicco. During
the performance at Augusta a rev eN-
enings ago the keeper entered the cage.
He was suspicious of the Honess and
kept his eye on her until he was ready
to go out. He backed to the door of the
cage, but could not get 1t open without
turning towards it. This brought his
back to the ioness, and quick as a
flash she sprung for the man. The keep
err jumped sideways through the door,
but the lioness caught his coat and tore
it from him.
Don Caesar, another lion in the show,
is not particularly amiable. In fact he
has a record which would hang man
in court. He is only four years old, but
during that time he has killed three
men. He is one of a group OF three Al
rican lions, the other two being called
Queenie and General Funston. Their
trainer is Madame Pauline, and one of
her acts is to place her head between
the mammoth Jaws of Don Caesar, and
it is no particularly enviable feat
But the lions are not all of this char
acter. One of them is a big, noble ami
NAL called Rex. after King Rex of the
New Orleans Mardi Gras. He is the
clown of the animal show and does all
sorts Of tricks, and is as affectionate
and playful as a child. His trainer is
Ricardo.
The big, black kangaroo, known as
''the boxer is another feature Of this
animal show In addition to these there
is a den of performing bears, and tigers
leopards, panthers. wolves and jaguars
1t requires twelve cars to transport
this midway, and over 100 people are
employed in it. The advance agent, M
j. Morley, is now here. laying out the
grounds and experimenting the work OF
preparing for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
WHAT PORTO R1co PAYS.

The rates of duty which the Porto
Rican viii have to pay upon articles en-
tering into his daily life if imported
from the United States are shown by a
statement just prepared by the treasury
bureau of statistics. It states in precise
terms the actual rate Of duty where the
Dingley law names a specific rate per
bushel, pound, or yard of the article
considered, while in cases where the law
makes an "ad valorem" rate of duty,
dependent upon the value Of the goods
the price named is estimated at the
wholesale or average export rates, and
while it is thus below the retail price
It states fairly the amount of duty per
pound, bushel or yard which the Porto
Rican consumer viii pay.
The following are the rates Of duty
which viii be collected under the new
law on the more important articles en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08

The editor Of the Seattle Times has
issued the following declaration of in
dependence: THE time has come when
30 per cent. of the fifteen million voters
Of the American republic may be able
to say: We will vote for those things
that tend to make the American repub-
lie pure and noble-sublime and great
and vote to put down political para
sites and disintegrators who never
earned an honest dollar since they were
born, but who live off their friends,
have come to think that their existence
is a part of the public life and therefore
that such parasites must continue to be
in control or no political results can be
obtained We desire to say that so far
as the Seattle Daily Times be concerned
no such man shall obtain Office, and no
such parasite shall. hold power. From
this time onward if the fusion forces of
Seattle, King county, and the state of
Washington. desire to cater to political
parasites instead of honest manhood,
they can proceed on that line, but the
Times will not follow them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
A SURPLUS OF PAPER HARDLY

From Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
When an iniquitOus trust wishes to go
further in its iniquity of crushing out
competition and bleeding the consumer
it publishes an announcement such as
the following, from yesterdays news
items:
Chicago, May An the leading book
paper mills Of the west will be closed
Monday for an indefinite period, and
within a few weeks all eastern factories
may follow the example, on account Of
overproduction
The lie in the above is the word
"overproduction." Overproduction al
ways means cut prices. Here is another
dispatch that will do to offset the false
hood of the first:
Washington, May Representative
of the American Publishers associa-
ton yesterday presented a memorial to
the senate finance committee asking
that some relief be afforded because of
the high price Of paper. The delega-
ton said the association represented
$4,000 papers.
All kinds of paper are in trusts, rag
paper as well as wood-pulp paper. The
cry that there is a paper famine does
not agree with the cry that the market
is crowded by reason of overproduction
and under consumption The paper
trust is one of the iniquities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
tering Porto Rico from the United

tering Porto Rico from the United
States:
Flour, free of duty: corn, 2Kc per
bushel; bacon, free Of duty; corn meal,
&c per bushel; rice, free of duty; oat-
meal, ~ mills per pound; oats. PIC per
bushel; pork free of duty; dried apples,
1 pound valued at &c, 3 mills; Goldfish,
free of duty; Brooms, valued at S1.20
per dozen, on each broom, 6 mills; NUT
ton, free of duty; candles, on l pound
valued at &c. IL mills; fresh beef, free
of duty; coal, bituminous, per ton, Toe;
coopers' wares and wood, cut, for MAX
ing casks for sugar or molasses, free of
duty; cotton cloth, unbleached, on 1 yard
valued at SC, mills, on 1 yard valued
at 10c, 4 mills, on 1 yard valued at 12c,
6 mills; shifting CLOTH on 1 yard valued
at 1215c, 6 mills; bags for sugar, free of
duty; machinery for making and REIN
ing sugar, free of duty; wire, Nos 1916,
per pound, 2-l0 mills; plOWs, free of
duty; nails, cut, per pound, $40 of
mill; hoes, free of duty; wire nails per
pound, IL mills; maehetes, free of duty;
steel bars, per pound, $40 of l mill; ag-
ricultural implements not MACHINERY.
free of duty; boots and shoes. on 1 pair
valued at 81, 7-10c; hatchets, free of
duty; India rubber boots and shoes on
1 pair valued at SOC, PIC; cotton thread.
on each dozen spoOlS of 200 yards valued
at. 26c, 8-10c; clocks, valued at 81, &c !;
rough lumber, free of duty; carpets,
valued at. 35c per yard, on each yard.
6-10c; modern school furniture, free of
duty; dried herring. per pound, 1 mill:
writing paper on each pound valued al
lie, mills; lard, on each pound valued
at &c, 8 mills; butter, on each pound
valued at lac. 6 mills; soap, on each
pound valued at 10c, mills; lime, free
Of duty; beans. per bushel, 7-1Oc;
household furniture, on each dollars
value, 2-1Oc; harness and saddlery, on
each dollars value. 6 7-10c; earthen-
ware, common, on each dollars value
3 7-10c; China, white, on each dollars
value, 2-10c; glassware, common, on
each dollars value, 7-1Oc.
In addition to this. the entire free list,
of course, of the Dingley law applies to
Porto Rico. except as to coffee, on which
the Porto Rican act levies a special du-
ty in the interest of the coffee growers
of the island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
A CITY HOSPITAL.
Rev. Charles N. Sheldon Pounds
One.

Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon has announced
that he will devote 81 900 of the profits of
the Sheldon edition of the Capital, which
were turned over to him for charitable
purposes, to the erection of an addition to
the present city prison for the purpose of
a detention hospital and to make suffi-
cient room so that boys who are arrested
may not be placed in jail with hardened
criminals. as is the case at present
At present there is no place to take
homeless persons who are injured in ac
cidents or who are taken suddenly ill.
Several times it has happened that in
jured men have been taken to the police
station and have lain there for hours be-
cause the city had no place for them and
the county refused to take them. This
hospital is calculated to provide an emer-
gency place for such cases as these. The
lower portion of the addition will be used
for this purpose. The upper portion will
be given over to the children who are
sometimes brought to the city Jail for
various reasons It frequently happens
that Police Matron Thorpe has children
where they will be away from the in
7uence of hardened criminals. Only few
days ago a little girl of about eight years
came crying to the station and was placed
in Mrs. Thorpe's care. Her father had
that day been released from jail and she
could find neither him nor her mother
There was nothing to do with the child
but to keep her at the jail until her par
ents could be located.
It was expected that the matter of Mr.
Sheldon's gift would be reported to the
city council last evening, but for some
reason it was not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
SHE HAD A FIT.
How Maggie James Escaped Com
pleting a Jail Sentence.

Maggie James, a colored girl who has
been serving a sentence in the county
Jail for petty larceny. was seized with
a tit Monday and the result was that
she was given her liberty. She is the
girl who was arrested two or three
months ago for stealing a family wash
ing off the clothes line in North To-
peka.
When she was seized with the fit she
became cold and rigid. The county
physician was summoned, but his efforts
to bring her to her senses were unavail-
ing, and her father was sent for. He
promised to take good care of her and
see that she gets into no more trouble
On this promise the county commission
ers released her and she was taken
away from the Jail in a hack. Her or
iginal sentence was have expired IN 10
days.
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two-thirds vote, then so soon as two
thirds of all the members of the several
annual conferences present and voting
lay electoral conferences present and
voting shall have concurred therein such
alteration or amendment shall take eff
feet and the result of the vote shall be
announced by the general superintend-
ents.''
DIR. Charles J. Little of the Garrett
Biblical institute explained that the re-
visions would be to exclude laymen from
the annual conferences, except by a
three-fourths vote of the ministers and
a two-thirds vote of the general confer
ence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
400 AGAINST 20.
Insurgents Attack American
Garrison in Panay.

Manila, May S.-A force Of rebels
May attacked 20 men Of company I
of the F'orty-fourth regiment, stationed
at Barotac, noilo province, on the island
of Panay.
Three of the Americans were killed
and seven wounded. The enemy, esti
mated to number 400 men, surrounded
Barotac and attacked the place on all
sides. After two men had been killed
and four wounded, the American COM
mander sent four men to try and get
through to communicate with the re-
mainder of the company at Dumangas.
OF the four men one was killed and
three were wounded. The latter man
aged to return to Barotac. A friendly
native finally brought news of the fight
to a company of the Twenty-sixth, who
succored the garrison of Barotac on the
night of May 8. The enemy's losses
were heavy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
LOCAL MENTION.

Minnie Jones has brought suit in the
district court asking for a divorce from
her husband, Robert Jones, on the
grounds of non-support
Ada May johnson seeks a divorce
from her husband, Edward B. Johnson,
on account of cruelty.
Angaline Thompson would like to be
separated from Joseph Thompson be-
cause he is cruel to her
Claims amounting to over thousand
dollars have been filed in the probate
court against the estate of Darius
Baker. The claims are as follows: P.
w. Griggs & Co, on a note, $3S. IS /;
SeeTy & Morton, on a note, 1855; W S.
Furman, on a note, $13S.1O; Louis Marx,
on a note, $106.6S; w. H Johnston,
groceries, S72.76; Christ hospital, for
nurses, $124.29; Mary Vowel, nursing,
$111.78; DR.. ]. c. McClintock, $500; S.
Barnum, for dry goods, s1568 IS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
MEETING OF AUDITORS.
Santa Fe Officials Are in Conference
Today.

The travelling auditors of the Santa
F'e are in session with Mr.. I. S. Lauck
auditor of disbursements, Mr. c. S.
Sutton, auditor of freight receipts, and
Mr.. c. NJ. Atwood, auditor of passenger
receipts, in Topeka today. The meeting
is an annual affair, and is for the pur-
pose of discussing details of that branch
of accounting work in which the trav-
cling auditors are interested.
Mr.. A. D. Parker, auditor of the Colo
RADIO Southern railway, with head
quarters in Denver, met with the au-
ditors this afternoon. The Santa Fe
and Colorado Southern roads have a
traffic agreement between Pueblo and
Denver, and Mr.. Parker's visit is Incl
dent to the relationship of the two
roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
BABY PRIZES.
Large Number of Glasses in Street
Fair Show.

Probably the greatest aggregation of
pabies ever seen in Kansas will be
Drought together in Topeka on May %
at the home products exposition. They
VIII all be Kansas babies. No Missouri
babies need apply.
BABY boys who are entered for the
competition must be designated with
pink ribbon on the left shoulder. The
mayors Of Atchison, Leavenworth, En-
poria, Holton, Wichita, Parsons, OF
tawa, Junction City and Manhattan
have been invited to act as judges. The
following are the prizes offered:
Handsomest baby boy, not over two
years old, silver cup.
Handsomest baby boy, not over one
year old, baby carriage strap and doll.
Heaviest baby boy, not over two years
old, silver knife, fork and spoon.
Heaviest baby boy, not over one year
old, silver rattle with bells and doll.
Handsomest baby girl not over two
years old, pap bowl, spoon and plate,
and doll
Handsomest baby girl not over one
year old, art glass and silver puff box
and puff, and doll
Heaviest baby girl, not over two years
old. silver brush and comb, and doll.
Heaviest baby girl, not over one year
old, gold buttons, with turquoise set
tings, and doll.
There will also be special prizes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
PIE JORDAN ON TRIAL.
Notorious Negro Faces Three separ-
ate Charges.

''Pie" Jordan is again claiming the
undivided attention of the district
court. This time for stealing a quilt.
Monday a jury found him guilty of
stealing coal from a freight car and
sentence was suspended awaiting the
outcome of the rest of the cases against
him. The third charge is that he stole
a key of horse-shoes. Expert witnesses
were called on this morning to state
what the quilt was worth. Police Mat
ron Thorpe thought about $40 would be
a fair consideration, although the ar
ticle in question looks faded, worn and
generally dilapidated. If the price of
the quilt is determined according to the
prices quilts bring in raffies at church
fairs, Jordan will be surely tried on the
charge of grand larceny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
OPENS NEXT SUNDAY.
John Marshall Announces Beginning
of Concert Season.

John Marshall announces that the sum-
mer concert season at Garfield park will
open next Sunday afternoon. pro-
gramme. in which several late selections
have been included has been arranged.
and with suitable weather the band ex-
poets a big crowd at the opening The
be given on FRIDAY evening of next week,
although this has not yet been decided.
The casino in the park proved such
failure as a summer play house last year
that the officers of the band are seriously
considering turning it into a dancing pa
vilion This could be easily done by ex-
tending and refiooring the stage. At pres
ent the pavilion in Vinewood park offers
the only place for summer dances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
STONE CUTTERS STRIKE.
Contractor KepIey Has Trouble With
Men Setting Curb.

There is trouble over getting the curb
ing done for the Thirteenth street paw
ing. r. B. Kepley has the contract,
and he discovered today that he had
smaII-sized strike on.
Mr.. Eepley had two stone cutters and
one laborer at work on this particular
piece of curbing, and as soon as it was
finished he expected to consolidate his
employees and rush his contracts on
other streets. He is paying the stone
cutters $3.25 per day. but for some rea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-08
Ed Gallagher's jump.

Ed Gallagher. a Santa F'e shop en-
ploye, was painfully injured in jump
ing from a Santa Fe train in the yards
here Sunday night. The bones of his
right arm were fractured and his elbow
dislocated. Gallagher lives on Adams
street between Second and Third
streets, and thought to save walking
from the depot by jumping from the
ever, he failed to make the jump scien-
tifcally. and as a result was thrown vi
olently on his right side. He will be IN
able to work for several weeks.