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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

If last nights audience may be taken
as a criterion, the Crawford Stock COM
pany will have a successful season at
Spokane, Wash. The company vas seen
at the Crawford thearer here in THE
Hand of Fate and every seat in the
house was taken. In addition, consider
able standing room was sold.
The Hand of Fate" is a melodrama
from the pen of Mr.. Miron Leffingwell,
the leading man of the company, and
contains many humorous passages in
addition to a number of stirring eli
makes. AS the author, Mr.. LeffingNell
had nc trouble in interpreting the part
of the villain to the apparent s~atisfac-
ton of the audience. Miss Fife Darling
made a very vivacious heroine, and
Miss Elinor Lewis and Mr.. Chas. H.
Burch worked well in supplying the
comedy. Mr.. Chauncey Southern looked
his part of a theological student, and
Miss Kitty Walsh gave the impression
of feeling at home On the stage.
During the progress of the perform
ance several songs and dances were in
troduced by different members of the
company. The applause was frequent
enough to be encouraging to the play
ers.
Tonight "a True Kentuckian' will be
the bill. The engagement will end with
The Dangers of a Great City tomor-
row night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02

There are times in a mans life when it is necessary
to act quickly, and decisively.
Times when life itself depends on the doing of the
right thing at the right time.
Times, perhaps, when disease has reached the point
where delay of even a day or week may prove fatal.
Kidney troubles are slowly but surely dragging
thousands Of men and women to the grave. 1t is
only backache at first, doesn't amount to much, they
think. Then comes headaches, dizzy spells, urinary
troubles, diabetes and then, if it isn't checked,
Bright's Disease, and Death.
But there's a way Of escape. Hundreds and hun
dreds of Topeka people have found it.
DOan's Kidney Pills never fail. Topeka people say
SO people who have been cured. Here's one in
stance:
Mr. G. T. sohumaker, No, 4s Quincy st., painter by trade, employed by
1. O. Burns, No. BIB Kansas Ave, says: ri suffered with a lame back and
kidney trouble for six months in the winter of 1885, and vas SO bad I could
not sleep Many a night I arose and sat in a chair for the balance If the
night M pain was just like a knife going through my back, and I cannot
describe how much I suffered. I tried different kinds oil remedies, but re-
eelved little benefit until 1 procured Doans Kidney Pills at Rowley & Shows
drug store. The prompt relief they gave m e was wonderful I was cured
before I had taken IL If one box. 1t is pleasure to recommend a remedy
which does all that is claimed for it,"
Doan Kidney Pills ARE for sale At all Drug Stores-5Oc a Box-Some drug
gists will try to sell you something ese-Be u you get DoANs, and
dent accept a substitute - Foster Mnburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
RoWLEY & SNOW, Druggists. 600 Kansas Avenue,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
COULDN'T KEEP IT.
Kept 1t Hid From the Children.

I'VE a not keep Grape-Nuts o in
the house. It goes so fast I have to hide
it, because the children o V it So It is
just the food I have been looking for
ever so long; something h a I do not
have to stop to prepare and still is
nourishing. Wishing you all the success
you deserve Mary Y. Margeson, 50
Lincoln St, Winthrop, Mass.
Grape-Nuts is the most scientifically
made food on the market. 1t Is perfect
ly and completely cooked at the factory
and can be served at an i~nstant's notice,
either with rich cold cream, or with hot
milk if a hot dish is desired. When milk
or water are used. a little should
be added, but when cold cream is used
alone the natural grape sugar, which
ear be seen glistening on the granules,
is sufficiently sweet to satisfy the palate.
n grape sugar is not poured over the
granules, as some people think, but ex-
udes from the g~ranules in the process Of
manufacture. when the starch of the
grains is changed from starch to grape
sugar by the process Of manufacture.
This, in effect, is the first act of diges-
ton; therefore, Grape-Nuts Food is pre-
digested and is most perfectly assimi-
lated by the very weakest stomach.
Made at the pure food factories of the
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek,
Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
PANIC IN A CIRCUS TENT.
Unruly Elephant Gives a Crowd a Big
Scare.

Cincinnati, o., May 2.-'Queen." the
big Robinson elephant, who caused ex-
citement in Terrace park Thursday
night by getting loose and frightening
people of hat suburb, got on another
rampage, and that many were not hurt
is remarkable. Queen was led out of the
menagerie at the opening of the show,
and a keeper started with her around
h big outer ring. She had only gone
a few yards from the entrance door
when she began throwing her trunk in
the air and trumpeting. When the first
bend in the big ring was reached Queen
refused to go further Her ~trumpeting,
which could be heard for squares,
changed to roars. People in the tent
became alarmed and left their seats,
seeking safety on the uppe tiers. In the
meantime the beast swung around and
started toward the crowd near n end
of the reserve seats. There was a a
bling over the giddy footing afforded
by the seats, and women screamed and
children cried. With IN effort the ele-
plant was turned around and taken bach
to her tent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
PUBLIC DEBT GROWS.
Increase Due to the Bond Refunding
Operations.

Washington. May 2.-The monthly
statement of the public debt shows that
at the close of business April 80. 1900,
the debt less cash in the treasury
amounted to $1,124 0 2,OS5, which is an
increase of $12,5 45,727. This increase is
due to the decrease in the cash on hand
made necessary by the heavy payments
IN account of present worth of bonds
now being extended at 2 per cent in
terest. The debt is recapitulated as fol-
lows:
interest bearing debt j, 026, 1863, 400.
Debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity $1,1S2,1 10.
Total 81. APO, 919, 633.
This amount, however, does not in
clud certificates and treasury notes
outstanding which are offset by an
equal amount of cash in the treasury.
The total cash in the treasury aggre-
gates 81, 102, COS, 12S, against which there
are demand liabilities outstanding
amounting to SSO5, $50, $50, leaving a cash
balance on hand of 1926, III, 54S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
NO ONE COURSE
City officers Find That Single Layer
of Brick is Not Enough.


Topeka will have no one-layer brick
pavements. A petition is now pending
before the city council to pave Fill
more street from Sixth to Tenth ave-
nues with a single layer of brick on a
sand foundation, but it is not probable
that the council will grant it, and the
residents along Fillmore street will
probably change it to the regular brick
paving.
1t has been argued that Atchison has
successfully paved several blocks with
a single layer of brick, and that it is
much cheaper than with a double layer.
Where a double layer is used the exca-
walton must be Is inches deep. At the
bottom is laid four inches of sand, then
a layer of brick laid fiat, then two more
inches Of sand, and then the top layer
of brick on edge.
h sort of pavement costs approx
mately $l.25 per Square yard. For a
single layer of brick the excavation
would have to be only about half as
deep, there would be only one layer of
sand, and the layer of brick on edge,
and the cost would be diminished one
third. 1t was OF this basis, and on the
report that Atchison had successfully
used this kim of paving that led the
Fillmore street people to petition for it.
In order to make sure about the mat
ter before any action is taken, City
Engineer Wise and Councilman Miller,
of the First ward, went over to Atchison
on Monday to investigate the pavement
there. They discovered that the single
layer pavement which is reported as
good as the double layer, is laid on ma
adam foundation, when is in itself
more expensive than the first layer.
AtchisOn has, however, a small amount
of single layer paving on a sand fOun-
dalton, but both the city engineer and
Councilman Miller reported that the
brick in this pavement were loose, and
sagged when teams passed over it, and
the result would be that it would not
last long. 1t would be like driving
heavy Dads over a brick sidewalk.
In view of this report the council will
probably not vote for any single brick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
A PROHIBITION MOVE.
Missionaries and Clergymen Want
Whisky Traffic With Luzon Stopped.

New York, May "A meeting of the
missionaries and other clergymen of the
Ecumenical conference was held today
under the auspices OF the board of man
ayers of the Church Temperance society,
to consider the organization of a society
to be known as The American Society
for the Protection of the Native Race
From the Liquor Traffic" Right Rev.
w. Crowell Doane, bishop of Albany,
presided.
Addresses were made by Bishop
Doane, who urged that the United States
cooperate with the society represented
by DR.. Battersby, and declared nat a
special effort should be made to pre-
vent the sending of liquor to the Philip
pine islands; DR.. Battersby and Rev.
John A. Patton, a missionary from
Australia to the New Hebrides. A reso-
luton was adopted, approving the plan
to organize a similar committee to that
of Great Britain, and requesting the
chairman to consider the matter fur
Their and arrange for a subsequent meet
ing for organization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
A BRUTAL MURDER.
A Maine Servants Throat Cut and
Her Body Set Afre.

South Berwick, Maine, Ma Mrs.
Fannie Briggs, 30 years of age, a domes-
tic servant in the family of Samuel
Locke, at South Berwick Junction, was
murdered in the barn on the premises
Tuesday morning and up to a late hour
last night the murderer had not been
arrested. The murderer attempted to
burn the barn and conceal all evidence
of his crime. The body when found in
a smouldering mass of excelsior was en-
tirely nude, with the exception of corset
and shoes, the remainder of the clothing
having been burned. Mrs. Spriggs IN
doubtedly was acquainted with the man
who killed her. There are no evidences
of a struggle in the barn and it is be-
lieved she was struck over the head and
afterwards dragged to a horse pen,
where her throat was cut in three places,
the body then covered with excelsior
and set on fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
NOT THAT KIND OF LAW.
Prohibitionists Fighting Proposed
Temperance Commissioner Law.

Many of the most ardent prohibition
lists in Kansas are making a strong fight
commissioner bill, while others are advo-
eating it just as strongly. This is the
measure in the interest of which A. c..
Rankin has been organizing clubs all over
the state, the members of which agree
to use their influence for the passage of
The State Temperance union refused to
take sides either for or against the mea-
sure, but some of its principal members
are fighting it individually, and the re-
suit is a division Of sentiment in the
prohibition ranks. The opponents of pro-
hibition are rejoicing quietly over this
fact, because it means that no change for
the better will probably be made in the
prohibitory law by the next legislature,
if the division of sentiment among pro-
hibitionistS continues.
Mr.. Rankin organized a temperance
commissioner club when he was in To-
peka in February, but it never held more
h one or two meetings.
The latest temperance advocate to start
a fight on Mr.. Ranki idea is Major
f. T. Scott, who with his wife. has been
delivering lectures all over Kansas for
the past three years under the auspices
of the W. c. T L. Major Scott, in a
recent letter, says:
of the state temperance commissions
Measure in Kansas.
'Such a law would add one more spoke
to the political. wheel, and of such a char
acter as to open the way, if one chose to
take advantage of the opportunity, to the
most anne corruption conceivable.
Fayoritism, personal and political, in the
appointment of deputies could open the
very ~hoodgates of disaster
THE possibility of a clash between the
deputies and the c~onstabulary is appar-
emf. Envy and jealousy would engender
strife, ending perhaps in dissatisfaction
Generalization and finally in resubm.B ion
as the way out of the woods I am no
pessimist, but rather an optimist.
w are to pay no attention to North
Dakota. Kansas is our battle ground.
The conditions may be vastly different.
Kansas has machinery enough now to
enforce the law. To. say that the COVER
nor, attorney general, county and munich
pal attorneys, the sheriff and his deputies,
the constabulary force, the whole police
force of certain cities, the law-abiding
citizens. with the church universal back
ed by One who has never lost a battle,
are not competent to enforce the law,
/ statutory or constitutional, is to place
Kansas in the attitude of rebellion or an
archy-neithe of which are We ready to
admit.
Let US arouse public conscience, edu-
cate the masses, especially the young
men, on the economics of the question,
down the liquor literary bureau sending
out its cunningly contrived paragraphs
for the Gtsl friendly press to copy. and
then with the church a unit on the en-
forcement of law, we will try to get
along without this proposed temperance
commissioner law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
New Through Train to Portland and
Puget Sound.

S0N
1.-THE Burlington-Northern Pacific Ex-
press a new daily through train
from Grand Island for Northwest Ne
braska, Black Hills, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Washington, Tacoma, Seattle,
Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon, via
Billings. Montana-the short line and
time saver to the Upper Northwest. To
Central Montana in "a hours; to the
Puget Sound in 81 hours from the Mis-
souri, river. Through coaches n chair
cars, through tourist ~sleepers, through
dining car service and standard sleep
ers. This is the main travelled road Mis-
souri, river to the Northwest.
Numbe Is, Kansas City and st.
Joseph to Nebraska, Denver, Colorado,
Utah, Pacific Coast and the est,
via Ogden; also to the Northwest
Montana, Washington, Oregon, via Lin
coin and Billings. Weekly California
excursions.
Number %, 'Nebraska-C Colorado Ex-
press" from Hastings for Nebraska,
Colorado, Utah. and Pacific Coast.
To the East: Chicago and St. Louis,
greatly improved trains in time and
equipment.
To the North: Best rains daily to
Omaha, st. Paul, Minneapolis and the
Lake region J. G. BRAMHALL,
T. P. A, S23 Main st. Kansas City. No
L. w. WAKELET,
Gen1 Passenger Agent. St. Louis. No.
HOWARD ELLIOTT,
Gen1 Manager, st. Joseph, No.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
AC ROSS IN FIVE DAYS.
North German Lloyd Orders an
Ocean Record Breaker.

New York, May 2-The North German
line has just placed with the Vulcan
~Shipbuilding company of Stettin, an or
der for a vessel which is to maintain
an average speed of % knots an hour.
In the contract it is further stipulated
that this forthcoming flyer shall have
a length of 752 feet and an engine power
of $1,000 horse power.
Thus, in speed, horse power and length,
this new leviathan will exceed all 9TH
ers ahoat or being built.
The nearest approach to her in the
way or speed is the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
steamship Deutschland, which is Don
to be placed in service ntheTransatlan-
tic route and which is guaranteed by her
builder to have a sustained speed of
not less than % knots an u
But the engines which are emplaced
IN the Deutschland have an indicated
morse power OF only $4,000 as against
this racers 45, 200. The horse power of
the Deutschland, by the way, far ex-
ceeds that of any other vessel now
afioat.
In regard to size, this new product
of h German shipwright will far out
class anything afoat. The Oceanic, of
the White Star line, now holds the dis
tinction of being the biggest ship that
was eve launched; but her length over
all is 704 feet, against the new vessels
772 feet.
With all her great size the Oceanic
has no pretensions in the way OF speed.
She is content to make her way across
the Atlantic in a week' time. The
Deutschland, which is much faster, but
of less size, hopes to accomplish the
transatlantic run within five days.
The new ship will, if her builders full
fill their contract, steam into port in
the near future with all sorts of broken
records trailing behind her-that for
greatest speed in an ocean liner. and
that for greatest length and beam and
depth, being them. iii
The contract cans for the vessels COM
pletion in 1901. Before she is completed,
it is possible that the strong rivalry,
which exists between the two big German
lines, the neutrality-suspicious. and the
building of another still bigger and faster.
The construction of the record-breaking
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, of the North
German Lloyd line, brought about the
building of the Deutschland by the Ham,
burg-American The prospect
that the Deutschland will out-do the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse has in turn
led the North German Lloyd to contract
for a vessel hat will outclasS her.
The Cunard line, whose Lucania holds
the New York-Queenstown record, may
be forced to greater. exertions. The best
time made by the Lucania to the west
ward is five days, seven hours and TWEEN
ty-three minutes. If the new German
racer goes over the same route and lives
up to her contract in the way of speed,
she will accomplish the run in four days
and twenty-one hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
HOPE IN DAVIS.
Beers Look to Him to Win Help
From Uncle Sam.

GIOA OACAO 9dAs
ST. Louis, Mo, May 2.-The CORE
spondent of the Republic writes the fol-
lowing to his paper:
Webster Davis, until recently assist
ant secretary of the interior, has re-
ceived from the United States consul
at Lorenzo Marques the following in
teresting letter, written to the consul's
wife by Mrs. Reitz, the wife of the sec
rotary of state Of the South African re-
public:
things have happened since I wrote to
you last. We did not mind losing
I-adysmith and Kimberley much, but
We were very sorry about Cronle. We
knew him to be a brave man, and we
all prayed God that it might please him
to restore him and his burgheIs to US.
The president asked the people to pra
for him on three successive nights, and
we hoped hat he might fight his way
out. Will God utterly forsake us? Per
haps He will still heal us in His own
good time. We cannot turn back now,
and we do not mean to- May GOO ave
mercy upon US.
Il see in today's paper that 81, 900
more troops are coming. The outlook is
certainly not bright now. l uppOS
you have heard that Baden-PoWell at
Mafeking threatened to send aimed
Kaffirs to invade the RuStenberg and
Marico districts if we did not withdraw
our forces before the Sd of March, and
~ -D
warned him that he would have to take
the consequences. Khama's Kaffrs are
we'll armed and cruel beyond words to
women and children. The men there
are mostly away on commando. Eng
lish officers with cannon are leading the
Kafirs. You know that hey tried this
experiment before, and how they them
selves had to acknowledge how COM
pletely the Kaffirs got out of hand. I
heard today how two women We're muir
dered there.
IF God means the English to crush
this, our poor people, I do not think
they will find many men left. We do
not fear the great number of English
-troops-they cannot shoot; but it is the
cannon we a do so little against.
"Win your people not help US? Per-
haps your government will not let them.
I pray God night and day that He may
move the heart of your president and
lay such words in the mouth of Web
ster Davis as will go home to the peo-
pie of America to make them listen to
the cries of the little child that is be-
ing made here by a big n strong man,
as our president expressed it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
SUNDAY sCHOOLTEACHERS.
Union Meeting to Be Held Friday
Afternoon.

The Primary Sunday School Teachers
union will meet at the gymnasium of
the Y. W. c. A. on Friday afternoon,
May 4, at Ais o'clock. Miss Mary Max
well will lead the devotional exercises;
Miss J. r. Clelland will give the S. S.
lessons for the 9Th and 18th. Picture
work will be given by Miss Mary Huron,
new S. s.. school music win be intro
duced by Mrs. Herbert Fairchild, and
the normal Bible lesson, THE Holy City,
History will be given by Mrs. Ida H.
Hardy.
The aim of the Primary Union is to
elevate the standard of work done in
Sunday schools of all churches regard
less of denomination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
AN ANCIENT NINE.
". S. Kale and other Topeka Men
Think They Have Found One.

W. >. Kale ana Other topeka Men
Think They Have Found One.
W. S. Kale has returned to Topeka
after a stay in southwestern Colorado.
He went there to inspect the work be-
ing done on a gold mine, which he and
the other Topeka men associated with
him, believe to be an ancient FL Dorado.
There is a romantic story connected
with this mine. Years ago a man named
Clark left his wife and children at the
Missouri river station which has since
become Kansas City and set out for the
Pacific coast. He was prevented from
returning for several years, and when
he at last got back to Kansas City he
found that his wife lar married again,
supposing him to be dead Without in
forming her to the contrary he set out
again for the west and took up with a
tribe of Indians in Colorado.
The Indians acquainted Clark with
the location of the ancient mine, but be-
fore he could to work it he
was fatally wounded in a fight. Before
his death he drew a map showing the
location of the mine, and sent 1t to his
family at Kansas City.
This map is now in possession Of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
r NOT IN EARNEST.
Delegates to State Conventions Still
Ride on Passes,

some weeks G the railroads an
nounced that there would be no passes
issued this year to delegates to CON
ventions. It was also stated that can
dldateS for office would ride on paid
tickets if they reached the conventions.
The rule did not apply to the CLAW
Center convention because a large pro-
portion of the delegates to that conven-
ton rode or passes. On one train 60
ing to Clay Center the smoking car was
we'll filled with delegates. When the
conductor arrived to do business the
car was a fiuttering mass of the little
paper passes held in the out stretched
hands of the delegates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
Declare For Fusion.

indianapolis. Ind, May 2.-The state
convention of the fusion Populists was
held here yesterday and delegates to
the national Populist convention were
named. The platform adopted declared
in strong terms against trusts, impe-
rialism and the Porto Rico tariff nact-
ment, and pronounced in favor Of fu-
sion with the Democratic party. for
free coinage of silver, for the govern
ment's issue of all money without the
Intervention Of banks, for the owner
ship by the government of railroads,
telegraph lines, and other public utili-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-02
Will Round the Horn.

Dolphin. formerly the Al Foster, which
has been fitted with two masts and rig
ged as a brig, has sailed from Hoboken
for Seattle via the Straights of Magel-
Ian. She is under command of Captain
Charles R. Peabody, OF the old Neptune
line, and carries a crew of 80 men and
will ply between Seattle and the Yukon
river in connection with the White
Pass and Yukon river railroad.