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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22

shipping it to the starving inhabitants
of India Mr.. Popenoe is at the Grand
Pacific hotel looking after the Chicago
edition of the newspaper which was con-
Quoted for six days by the Rev. Mr..
Sheldon. He is not so sure of any 9TH
er of Sheldon's ideas, but he acknowl-
edges the corn. He said:
I'VE have decided to send 1000, 900
bushels of Kansas corn to the starving
people of India, and we began this
morning to ask the Kansas farmers to
contribute each a wagonload. This will
mean the shipment of more than 500
carloads of corn from our state, and the
cargo will fill four ocean going ships.
The contributions will come from last
years crop, of which there are more
than 100 900, 900 bushels yet left in Kan
sas. The crop of 1899 aggregated over
2z5. .O0O, ,O0O bushels.
WILL IGNORE DETAILS OF CRIME.
In emulating the example of Mr.
Sheldon and following in his steps we
have decided also to ignore the ugly de-
tails of crime and brutal sport. It is
not yet decided whether each important
news item will be followed by an edi-
torial comment after the manner of Mr..
Sheldon, but it is possible that we will
adhere to that peculiarity also
We will carry all our advertising g
contracts as already written till they
expire, but after that we will refuse all
that seem to US dishonest, indecent or
even suggestive. Please understand
that we have dropped the word Chris
tan from the title of our paper. That
was to apply only to the Sheldon week.
1t seems too much like a religious class
ification, and we mean to print a live
daily different from most newspapers
only in the quality of being fit for ev-
cry member of any family to read.
HUDSON DECIDES TO REMAIN.
Yes, it is true that Fighting joe
Hudson was at first inclined to sneer at
the new idea, taking the ground that it
would place him in the position of a
sniveler and a hypocrite. But when we
convinced him that attempt would
be made to ran a Sure-enough religious
paper he agreed to continue as chief ed
itorial writer. The Capital will continue
as a strong Republican paper. 1 know
that was not Sheldon'S idea, but he ad-
mitted to me that partisanship was not
impossible to a Christian daily We
shall be strongly Republican, but we
will try to be fair
Mr.. Popenoe said that it was yet i'm
possible to estimate the earnings of the
Sheldon edition. He said the paper
would make enough to pay off its mort
gage and expand its facilities Since
the close of Sheldon week. said the
owner of the Capital, the normal eircu-
lation of $1,000 had been increased to
25,0 ,000, and he expected to realize a reg
uIar subscription list Of not less than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
STORY OF MoDDER RIVER.
as Told by Special Correspondent of
Morning Post.

Correspondence of Associated Press.)
London, March 14.-The war CORE
spondents with Lord Roberts appear to
have been so busy in their endeavors
to follow his rapidly moving columns
that they have been unable to send the
usual lengthy letters by mail. More
over. the main army under the com
nander in chief has assumed such large
proportions and moves in so many di-
visions and over such a large stretch
of territory that it is we'll nigh impos-
sible for any correspondent to give
detailed account of the movement as
a whole. An idea of what took place
around the Modder river camp can be
gained from a letter of H. F. Provost
Battersby, to the Morning Post. Tn
der date Of Jacobsdal, February II, he
writes.
"A harmonium stands on the 'stolp'
with a Japanned tin mug on the key
board and some bottles on the top.
Broken furniture and the sweepings of
dirty floors are piled against a corner
of the garden wall. a red flag flaps be-
fore the house. and like bees about it
the staff Of a division, mostly in shirt
sleeves, buzzes in and out of the door
way. The owners of the house have
ded. for this at last is invasion. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
BY ARBITRATION.
Two Claims of Americans Against
Nicaragua Will Be Settled.

Washington. March 22.-Secretary Hay
and Senor Correa, the Nicaraguan min
lister, today signed a treaty providing for
the settlement by arbitration of the
claims of two American concerns against
the government of Nicaragua. One of the
claims is that of Orr and Laubenheimer
of New Orleans, for damages sustained
through the temporary seizure by the
Nicaraguan government of some tugs be-
longing to the firm at Bluefields. These
tugs were used to tow lighters laden with
bananas from the shore to vessels lying
out at sea, and in their absence a stock
of bananas accumulated for shipment,
decayed. The loss is placed at about $15,-
0O0
The other claim is that of the Post,
Glover Electric company of Cincinnati,
against the Nicaraguan government for
electric light supplies. The goods were
ordered by agent of the company at
Bluefields. The agent decamped and the
municipality seized the goods for which
the company has never been paid Their
loss is placed at 1,400.
The treaty provides for the submission
of these claims to a single arbitrator, in
this case General A. P. Alexander. of
South Carolina, the distinguished engi-
neer, who recently acted as arbitrator
in the settlement of the boundary dis
pute between Nicaragua. and Costa Rica.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
EVANS MUSEUM.
Three Million Dollars Legacy to Be-
come Available.

Phila @elphia, March 22.-The an
nouncement from Paris that a settle
ment had been made in the contest
over the estate of the late DR.. Thomas
w. Evans, who died in Paris in 1897,
leaving a large bequest to an institu-
ton bearing his name. was received
with satisfaction in this city. The
Thomas w. Evans museum was incor-
porated by this city for the purpose of
receiving the bequests and the Paris dis
patch says this museum viii secure $3,-
900 900.
City Solicitor Kinsey made this state
ment: 'If a settlement has been made,
it is impossible to say how long it will
be before the money is available for
the purposes of the museum. Much of
the property is real estate and that
portion in Paris is very valuable There
is about $500, 600 of the estate in Phila-
delphia, 100000 in New York city, and
the remainder is in the capital of
France. The estate is supposed to be
worth about $4,000, 900, and the bequests
outside of the fund for the museum
amount to about $275, ,000''
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so 900 when the new and continuous pol
icy of his paper became known.
Popenoe and ~. K.n in accord /!

EODenO6 ana ID. L.. IN accord
[From Chicago Inter-Ocean, March 21.l ]
The Topeka Capital will not be con-
tinued as a religious newspaper on the
lines laid down by the Rev. c. NJ. Shell
don 1t will be conducted as a state
newspaper on what its owners con-
slider a higher plane than that of the
average newspaper, but religion and re-
form will not supplant news as in the
six days of the Sheldon regime.
F. O. Popenoe, principal owner of the
Capital, is authority for this statement.
He passed through Chicago yesterday
en- route to washington, and VIXEN seen
at the Grand Pacific hotel he said:
1--WE all realize that the Sheldon edi-
ton of the Capital, as a newspaper, was
not a success. Mr.. Sheldon had so
much religious and reform matter
which he thought must be published
that he crowded out the real news. We
shall follow his ideas to g. certain ex-
tent, however, in handling the news. It
will be printed, but will be handled in
such a manner as to conform to a high
moral standard. The Capital will be
newspaper and not a religious journal.
The Sheldon edition has proved of last
ing benefit to the paper. OF course our
circulation throughout the country was
merely temporary, and we do not ex-
pect to hold it, but we gained thou
sands of subscribers in Topeka and
throughout Kansas that we shall hold.
"Me and Joe'' Agreed.
There is no difference between my
ideas of how the Capital should be con-
Quoted and those of Gen. J. K. Hudson,
the editor-in- chief, and Dell Keizer the
business manager. We held a stock
that all have the same idea as to the
future conduct of the paper. We be-
heve the Capital has a mission in Kan
sas-to be a Republican newspaper of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
ANYTHING GOES.
Great Britain Ready to Accept
Davis Amendment
To the Hay-PauncefOte Treaty
Regarding the Canal.
ALLOWS SAME RIGHTS
AS Those Enjoyed by England
Over the Suez Ditch.
Central American Countries Not
So Well Pleased.
ALLOWS SAME RIGHTS

New York, March PA special to the
Herald from Washington says:
There are good reasons now for be-
neving that Great Britain will accept
the Davis amendment to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, under which the
United States will have the right to
place the same safeguards around the
Nicaragua canal as the British govern
ment enjoys in respect to the Suez ca
nal.
1t was strongly intimated to your cor
respondent by a diplomat usually well
informed that Great Britain, with some
show of reluctance at first, will in the
end accept the amendment.
The informant of your correspondent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22

300 yards apart, are of the lightest and
most yielding sand, and the river lies
some sixty feet beneath it. Many of the
troops were on the further side and food
had to be taken at once across to them,
but the taking was a hateful sight, and
1t lasted for close on to twenty hours.
"A night march through a wild night
of thunderstorms brought on with the
Seventh division at a. m, to a second
drift of the Riet. And after two hours
sleep it was impossible to push on to the
MOdder for the first fight there, and to
take part on the second with the Sixth
division following. After that scorch-
ing fifteen hours JacObsdal had to be
reached on the 18th, to headquarters for
permission to telegraph from Modder
river station, and a return at once to
pick up the fighting on the road to
Bloemfontein. Meanwhile one lives on
pocketful of ships biscuit, and sleeps
on the veldt with a horse beside one
and a saddle under ones head and one
does not grow fat.
General KnoX's brigade thus hav-
ing pushed across Kip drift in the face
of a heavy but inaccurate fire, the OK
fOrds who were exposed to it, only los
ing two men wounded. Once we were
across the river the enemy fell back
About 1900 of his force could be seen
cantering southwark just out of range
of our rifle fire.
A couple of scouts pushed on at once
to the kOpje at Kip Krall but our
methods of reconnaissance are terribly
defective, and after the mounted men
had drawn a volley from the hill the
infantry went straight, and as it proved,
quite useless. for it
1t is reported that the burghers are
abandoing the environs of Mafeking
leaving only a sufficient number of ar
til1erists to man the big guns There
are none at Ramathlabama, where they
were supposed to have their base. Col
Plummer's scouts were at Ramathla-
bama yesterday. The usual Mafeking
DISPATCHES are over due, but no anxiety
is felt on that score.
Dynamite explosions, wrecking the
railway, are proceedings south of Lo-
batsi
The Gloucesters, who had to advance
with no protection, were allowed by the
enemy to come within 500 yards, and
then were sent to their faces by a sud
cen rattle of musketry which seemed
to come from the entire hill. A few
-ushes forward were pluckily made, but
only added to the bluder, for the men
IN the end were unable to move back
ward or forward, but lay the Whole day
in the field spread fat on their faces.
bullets sending little fiips of sand into
their faces for close on eight hours.
That with one bottle of water and a
certain fondness for life is an expert
ence no man would desire. The guns at
last got across the drift and opened fire
On the kopje, and the smoke of their
shrapnel must have been a welcome
sight to the men who were straining
their eyes to see anything to aim at,
while they lay on, hour after hour, with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22

we are in the enemy's country, after
four months fighting in our own.
''The movement began Saturday, Feb
ruary Is, a force of some 5000 mounted
infantry crossing the bridge at Orange
river and striking eastward into the
forest. General French with the cav
airy division and General Tucker with
the Seventh division crossed the border
from Honey Nest Klof and Enslin the
Eext day, and the Sixth division under
General Kelly-Kenny followed from
Gras Pan on the 18th. Radam was the
first halting place, the Riet river the
second, and through these divisions
passed. each a day ahead of the other.
the cavalry, which led the way, having
to clear the enemy from the rising
ground on the way to the river and
from the drift when they reached it, but
save poor Major Endie, shot through
the body above the drift, suffered little
from the enemy's opposition.
AT Ramdam the transport train of
the Seventh division filed the great
empty fiat bottom. It began TO move
outwards the Riet at p. m. It con-
tinued to move out until $3.50 the next
morning The evening was absolutely
clear and still, and the gray, soft smoke
of dust which every foot fall lifted
clung about the miles of wagons like a
cocoon.
THE dust was so foul, so contaminat-
ing that after an hours effort to ride
it out we pulled the cart from the ruck
and outspanned on the veldt. All night
beside us moved the cable of gray vapor
under the full moon, the smoke of it's
torment growing thicker till nothing
that moved in it could be seen. But
within it never ceased the yells of the
kaffirs, like the wild cries of beasts.
the wheep of the long whips, the squeal-
ing of the mules, the groaning wheels.
1t was gone by dawn; its track mark
ed here and there by an abandoned
wagon. by falling oxen, by a dead or
dying horse But at the Riet the worst
task was before it, for the banks, some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
ALL SETTLED.
Carnegie Frick Controversy
Brought to an End
By the Formation Of $780,
100000 Corporation.
INTERESTS COMBINED.
New Concern Includes Factories,
Mines, Railroads and Fleets.
Every Element of DiscOrd Has
Been Removed.

New York. March 22.-The Herald
says:
Under agreement just signed the con-
test between Andrew Carnegie and H.
c. Fricl1 has been closed. the law suits
are ordered stopped. and an amicabie
arrangement has been made between
the two great steel manufacturers. by
which not only are the warning ele-
ments set at rest, but great steel and
iron corporation has been formed that
will be far reaching in its influence and
have a capital of over 5000, 600. 600.
This result has been reached as the
outcome of a personal conference be-
tween Mr.. E'rick and Mr.. Carnegie
which continued for two days and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Hawaiian Royalist Dead.

Oakland. Cal, March 22-Volney V.
Ashford, formerly a prominent Ha-
waiian political agitator and revolu-
zionist, is dead at his residence in this
city He has been i'll for some time.
He was legal adviser to the Hawaiian
crown for many years. After the de-
thronement of Queen Liliuokalani he
became prominently Unidentified with
the movement to restore the monarchy
with Kaiulani on the throne He was
arrested and sentenced to one years
Imprisonment but was released before
the expiration of his term on condition
that he would leave the islands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
CHICAGO DERBY.
The Jockey Club Plans Revival of a
Noted Race.

Chicago, March 22.-The Chicago
Jockey club is planning a revival of the
Chicago derby to be run at the Haw-
thorne track on the opening day of the
summer meeting. An official announce
ment for the big stake has not yet been
made but will probbaly appear within
a short time.
Added money to the amount of $1,000
was formerly given, and it is expected
the value for this will come close to
81, 600. The conditions are such that the
stake would probably draw the entries
of many horses now scheduled in the
American derby.
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A Profitable Season.

London. March 22.-At the general
court of the Bank of England today the
governor, samuel Stewart Gladstone,
announced that the profits for the six
months ending February 2S. were 1885,
149 pounds and a dividend of 5 per cent
was declared
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Cleveland Arrives at Home.

Princeton, N J., March 22.-Former
President Cleveland has returned to
Princeton from his two weeks hunting
and fishing excursion in Florida. Mr..
Cleveland appeared to be in very good
health. His step was elastic and he
walked apparently with more ease than
when he left Princeton Mrs Cleveland
met him at the railway station
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
VOx POPULI.
Iowa House Unanimous Against
Porto Rican Tariff.

Des Moines, Iowa, March 22.-Just be-
fore the adjournment of the lower house
at noon today a resolution was intro
duced by Representative Kendall de-
claring 'that the people of Iowa are un-
alterably opposed to the Porto Rico
tariff bill passed by the lower house of
congress-
After considerable debate the resolu-
tion was adopted by unanimous vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Revenue Receints.

Washington. March 22-The monthly
statement of the collections of internal
revenue shows that for the month of
February, 1900, the total receipts from
all sources were 500. sos. 665. an increase
as compared with the same month in
1899 of 81, 16o $50. During the last eight
months the total receipts were S195,-
60S.S7S. an increase over the correspond
ing period of last year of $16.S25.1S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
FEAR THE PLAGUE.
Vessels From Honolulu Must Stand
Quarantine Inspection.

San Francisco, March 22.-The Japanese
liner Hong Kong Maru has arrived from
the Orient via Honolulu. No mails nor
passengers will be landed until the ves-
sci has been passed by the quarantine
inSpectOrS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Great SCHEMES.
POpenOe Wants Farmers to Feed
Famine Stricken India.
Has Decided to Let State Give
100000 Bushels of Corn.
He AND"FIGHTING JOE"
Now Have No Differences Be-
tween Them-Sweet Serenity.
Says They Propose to Make the
Topeka Capital
gift For Every Member of Any
Family to Read"
POpenOe Seizes Upon the Above
Herculean Tasks.
POpenOe SeizeS Upon the Above
Herculean Tasks.

[F'rom the Chicago Record March 21.1
F. o. Popenoe, proprietor and man
ager of the Topeka Daily Capital, said
last night that his newspaper would en-
deavor to perpetuate the Sheldon idea
of Journalism by collecting 1,OOO,OOO
bushels OF Kansas corn at once and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Lizzie scrensen a Total Wreck.

Victoria B. c., March 22.-The steam
er Cottage City, arriving from the
north today, brings news that ends the
uncertainty and anxiety felt for the
overdue schooner Lizzie Scrensen- She
is a total wreck not far from Killisnoo,
where she was caught while beating out
on the 18th inst
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
TO ADOPT A SCHEDULE.
Western Baseball League Managers
to Meet at Omaha

St Joseph. Mo, March 22.-President
Hickey of the Western baseball league
has called a meeting of the managers
of the clubs at Omaha March q, to
adopt a schedule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-22
Fell Seven Stories.

New York, March 22-One of the ele-
vators in the seven-story factory, PAT
Center street, broke its cable today and
fell seven stories injuring three of its
occupants internally. The injured; John
Podoga, II years old, elevator boy;
Bernard Katsung, Brooklyn; Arson
Schroeder Brooklyn.
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weather Publications..

Chicago. March 2Z-For Kansas: Fair
tonight with warmer in west portions;
partly cloudy: showers in south por-
tIons; southerly winds.
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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-07-13
C.S. Allison 81 Son.
~s~ ~JEWELERS, 49,
ll5 North Washington St. Owosso.
Vernon.

Mrs. Rhoda Leishman, of Cheboygan,
is visiting Miss Clarabel DeHart of this
place-Henry Clark, who is in hos
pital in Chicago, is steadily improving
Clarke and family left Monday
for Highland Park where they will
spend the summer-Mr. Henry, of
Linden is in town putting down tar
walks-Miss Belle Hopkins, who
teaches in the Cadillac schools spent
last week with her sister Mrs. F. ID.
Clark-M. McManus, who works in
Saginaw, spent the fourth with his par
ents-Mr. and Mrs. Knight, of Delray
spent Sunday with d. s. Post-Miss
Christine Pinney entertained the Chris
tian Endeavor Tuesday evening-Miss
Millie Reynolds, who has been visiting
friends in Byron and Howell, is home
again-Vernon has new blacksmith
shop-Verne Tickenor is visiting at
Deer Creek-Miss Clarabel De Hart
gave thimble party last Friday after
noon.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-07-13

In connection with the new Central
school Secretary Shattuck read the fol-
lowing report:
BUILDING AND HEATING CONTRACTS
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-07-13
Olney.

Mrs. Ann Streeter is again dangerous
ly i'll and constantly attended by her
physician-Miss May Field is home
for short. stay from Ovid-Miss Ettle
johnson is at present working for Mrs.
Julia Preston, of Elsie-Geo. Field
had quite a mishap to himself and
wheel at Ovid the 4th. 1t will be re-
membered that he won the bicycle at
Ovid last season in the race, but luck
was against him this time, and in con-
sequence he will send his wheel to the
manufacturers to have it repaired
People from this vicinity spent the 4th
at Ovid, Chesaning and New Lothrop,
most of them enjoying very good
time-C.. M. Randall made flying
visit to his cousins, Edgar Randall, at
Grand Blanc, on his wheel, the 4th-
Another dance at Smith Bros. store,
Friday evening, we understands also
races during the afternoon-Whil
moving away hay for Aaron Baker
last week Seeman Arnold was in some
queer manner buried underneath a
large hay-fork load of hay, but was
rescued in time to save a funeral ex-
pense. No bones or limbs were broken
quite number here anticipate tax
ing in Pawnee Bills show at Owosso
the 18th inst-J-, next time your best
girl takes you to Ovid to spend the 4th
with her don't get so enthused over a
giant cracker as to forget the dinner
she has so generously offered and stray,
into restaurant alone by mistake.
Such actions are apt to daunt the
courage of the average "New woman"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-07-13

Gen. Nelson A Miles, commanding the
army Of the United States. was asked dur.
ing his recent visit TO Cleveland il he had
ever met Pawnre Bill ION, yes," he
replied. 81 have met him frequently on the
frontier. Gordon w. Lille, or Pawnee
Bill as he is better known in the west, now
has large ranch in Oklahoma, at which
was once guest. He was made White
Chief of the Pawnees and commanded a
company of Pawnee scouts who did splen.
did service to the Government. After.
wards, as Maj. Lille, he was given bat
TALON or Indian police, or cavalry. The
Major is one Of the most noted characters
of the West. ."-Cleveland, O., World.
The Wild West Show will be IN Owosso
next Wednesday, July 1S.