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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
New York Stocks.

New York, Nov. 1S.-Wall Street.-Stocks
northwest railroad settlement were de-
pressed at the opening on the threat OF
Pacific dropped IA points and st. Paul a
point, and other stocks were lower in
sympa thy, but there were points of firm
p & r. G; reached rs points; American r ai
vances of about a point each.
The Transcontinental stocks became
steadier when bull maniR T5; deyel.
pronounced in Metropolitan Street railway
Gas, which rose from l to points: The
general run of stocks, however, did not
prices reached on the rally were not long
the announcement of $4,000. 90 gold en-
gagged for export forced the market off
Sugar and New York Central declined a
point, Metropolitan Street Railway IL
and the Pacifics and Changers receded to
the lowest.
active list in the second hour on realiza-
tions and short selling, induced by IN
Quite a number of the leaders ruled be-
tween l and points under last week 5
tabe exeeptons We're ua1p the Pacic coast
stocks and General Electric, which ad-
Tamfsa IS Sc points f8 to 49, Sln'S "eS
American Express rose point and Uni
ket hardened before noon but became in
tensely dull
The pressure increased upon less prom
inent stocks and Twin City, Rapid Tran
sit, Illinois Central, Erie second preferred
Chicago, indianapolis & Louisville, Chi
ago Terminal preferred, Chicago &. Alton
and Mmnea polls & st. Louis yielded from
1 to 3 points. Prices of the leaders We're
scaled down further through midday SELL
ing being especially felt in Atchison, Mis-
souri, PACIFIC, New York Central, St. Paul.
Union Pacific. Brooklyn Transit, Peoples
Gas and Amalgamated Copper.
There was an Improvement in the tone
of the market despite additional engage
mentS of gold, bringing the total to S.
500 900. Where recoveries occurred they
did not exceed one-half per cent. but were
strongly held in the face of a later break
to par by Missouri Pacific. Other Gould
stocks became easier in sympathy, but
the general market became very dull.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
Left Them I'm a Trunk in Hotel
Bed Room.
WENT FOR A STROLL.
When He Returned Jewels and
$500 We're Missing.
door Had Been Unlocked and
: Trunk Broken Open.

Portland, Ore, Nov. 1S.-E. F. I4owen-
thai. a diamond broker of New York,
arrived here Saturday evening and reg
istered at the Portland hotel He was
assigned a room on the ground floor OF
the hotel and placed a trunk containing
diamonds valued at $4,000 and 5000 in
gold in the room. Mr.. Lowenthal states
that he left the hotel between and 10
O'Clock last evening, and that when he
returned he found the trunk broken
open and the diamonds and cash miss
ing Detectives We're Immediately sum-
moned and from hasty examination of
the premises arrived at the following
conclusion: A janitor of the hotel had a
bunch of pass keys in the pocket of a
pair of trousers, which were hanging in
a closet in the basement. This bunch
of keys is missing and the theory is
that the thief, who was evidently well
posted as to the basement story of the
hotel, secured these keys and thus eff
fected an entrance to Mr.. LowenthaPS
ROOM 1t is supposed that the robber,
after securing his plumber made his way
through a folding door to the basement
and placing a ladder against the wall
Of the hotel court on Seventh street,
made good his escape AT this hour there
Is no clue to the rObber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
YOUNKIN is MAD.
City Dog Catcher Angry Because He
Was Arrested.

M. E. Younkin, the city dog catcher,
also the day engineer of the city build
ing, who was arrested and fined 81 for
riding his bicycle on the sidewalk Is
filled with the usual rage which posses
SEES any common mortal when compell-
ed to appear before the police authori-
ties, and get a dollars worth of I'M
pleasant notoriety. But Mr.. Younkin
has mode of redress which is not pos
sessed by everyone.
II find,' said Mr.. Younkin today,
that the city owes me about $40 for
testifying in police court on various
occasions. I have never tried to collect
this, but if the city is going to go after
my dollars, I will go after theirs The
city does not have to pay it's paid po-
1icemen for testifying in police court
but am not a paid policeman I can
collect every cent of the $40 which the
city owes me-"
Mr.. Younkin says that he had no in
tention of trying to collect the $40 till
he was arrested, and then happened to
think that it would be a good way of
evening up his accounts.
Bicycle Policeman Tarvin, who ar
rested Younkin is obliged to make at
least $45 in fines every month for the
city. He is paid $45 a month by the
city, and if his receipts don't equal his
salary, he loses his head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
HEDGES TURNED OVER.
Young Man Arrested by Police is
Wanted by Uncle Sam.

Chas. W. Hedges who was arrested
last night in a disorderly house by Off
Ger Pavey of the police force was turn
ed over to the federal authorities here
today on an indictment by the grand
jury on the charge of stealing a letter
and forging a money order
At the time the grand jury found it's
verdict recently Hedges was in the peni-
tertiary.
The circumstances of the case are
complicated. Hedges presented the
money order at a local store in payment
of goods. The order was made in favor
of Hedges, but the postoffice clerk. in
filling out the blank made a mistake in
the initials of the name of the person
to whom it was to To- paid. Hedges
signed the money order when he pre-
scented it in payment of the goods, and
signed the name on the order. He
claimed it was to a man of the same
name but different initials than the man
to whom the order really belonged
The owner of the order upon learning
of his loss reported to the postoffice Off
Gals here and when the order was pre-
scented, payment was refused.
Postoffice inspectors took up the case
and began an investigation that result
ed in the charge of stealing a letter and
forging q money order being lodged
against Hedges. The case was heard at
the recent sitting of the grand jury.
Hedges bond is placed at $780,
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TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.

Chicago, Nov 1s-WHEAT-The wheat
pit opened steady but a trif1e easier today
Saturday decline here. DECEMBER sold a
snd cd bearsh
which also Influenced a low trend of
p PRICES Mhlle the i9cal ,receipts were
terially, as had likewise the amount of
maed at ar xlsre5 sun n Mus
BY a mixed trade. prices Rugged 72c for
receipts e1 were i' 6 ca ans car " Of contract
grade Minneapolis and Duluth reported
points Of cans ag aGta t CARS as
week and 951 cars last year World s
week against Z. S96 900 bushels the week be
fore: The increase on passage was l.
Wheat fuctuated narrowly for a time,
but on the heavy increased visible supply
December dropped to 1Ac Covering for
cember closed weak and ssQ1Ac lower, at
CORN--December corn opened. AQAc
lower, at 5s7s@59ac, on lower cables. Re
celp5s Were small, Dut the WeaIneT was
bian and Argentine districts We're report
ed as shipping more than America The
trade was moderate, with more offered
than wanted at the opening. A little
brought December to Coo, but this failed
soon and prices dropped back again to
59Ac Toward the close Of the first hour
any pressure. Receipts were 112 cars.
% On liberal r., commission house selling Ra an nd
to sec, reacting somewhat on covering
and closing weak and A@Ssc lower, at
59ssd59azc.
OATS-December oats opened AQssc to
ssd3ac lower, at 39ssd3914c, on the easier
feeling in other grains. Receipts here
We're large and trade rather quiet. Of
ferings were fairly liberal and December
sold off early to 391sc. Receipts were 319
cars.
PROVISIONS-Pr were dull
good hog market: January pork opened
unchanged, at $3.50. and advanced 21sc:
January lard 212n5c up, at $8.5212d8.55. and
January ribs Unchanged, at 81 IS, and sold
up PIC.
red 7l94 a73szc; No. 2 hard winter, MA
nc: No. hard winter; 7os4 q7114c; No:
ern spring. 70a4G72c: No. 8 spring, 676171c.
CoRN-No- 2, 6Q7kd60s4c: No g 6o1sc.
OATS-NO. 2, 401@M41c: No. 8. 40IJ401ac.
FLAX--Cash: Northwestern, $1.47; No.
1, s. a; Nov, $147; DEG, 81 A; May, $1.471a.
BARLEY-Cash: 54166c
TIMOTHY-March, $6.15.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
ROOSEVELT AND THE IRISH
President Receives Visiting Hiber-
mans at White House.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-The Irish par
liamentary leaders who are touring this
country agitating the Irish cause were
given a special audience by President
Roosevelt today The party consisted
of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Redmond F.
A McHugh, Thomas O'Donnell, Miss
Dalton of Australia, a sister of Mrs
Redmond, and Mr.. and Mrs. St John
Gaffney of New York The president
received them with cordiality in the re-
ception room adjoining the cabinet
room He astonished his visitors by
the intimate knowledge of the Irish
situation which he displayed.
After greetings had been exchanged
on both sides and the president and
Mr.. Redmond had held a brief private
conversation aside from the others the
president requested the party to go into
the red parlor down stairs, in order that
he might present Mrs. Roosevelt. This
was done and ten minutes were spent
in the red parlor. The party was in
high spirits when it left the White
H0nSe-
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SIGNED.
Continued from First Page.)


ticle concludes with advising the public
to be prepared to accept a settlement
which will substantially give us all we
want, but which outwardly will not ap-
pear to be triumph of diplomacy. By
the laundering of American statesmen.
we were put in an embarrassing posi-
ton last year, and we will show some
magnanimity If for the sake of peace
and good will we approach the new
settlement without a recollection of
that event. Let remember that we
ings with America The Behring sea
award and Venezuela treaty were both
substantially in our favor, and if we
get open water in the canal we shall
be the gamers by the loss of the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty."
The Pail Mall Gazette takes a sim
liar view of the matter and says: I'VE
never seriously think of exercising, but
which might be infringed at any mo-
ment to the serious detriment of Brit
ish dignity. On the other hand it is
understood that compensation will be
found in the absence of a heavy toll,
or tariff restrictions. The canal is ex-
pected to be thrown open to the world,
the price the British government OBJ
tanned for the abandonment of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty"
The ST. James Gazette says: 1--WE
have confidence that the American peo-
pie will recognize in the abandonme nt
of the Clayton-Bulwer treatv fur
Their sign of the value we set on their
sire to help forward their aspirations
after greatness Hearty relations be-
tween mother and daughter are more
to us than academic treaty rights
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
ssBUFFALO' JONES LEAVES.
Goes to Visit. Buffalo Herd on Texas
Ranch

Buffalo Jones is interested with
Charles Goodnight of Texas in the ex-
periments of crossing the buffalo with
Texas cattle to produce an animal that
will be of more value from the pack
ers standpoint, and left Saturday to
go to the Goodnight ranch to investi-
gate the results of his experiments
They have herd of rs buffalo, and are
producing a herd of buffalo cattle that
are about One-quarter buffalo and
three-quarters native cattle Mr. Jones
theory is that such an animal will fat
ten quicker and will be more profit
able.
Congressman Charles Curtis will ask
the approaching congress to set aside
several thousand acres in New Mexico
as buffalo preserve, for Mr.. Jones'
The plan is to conduct experiments on
an extensive scale in this direction
John F. StrickTott has also gone to
Texas for the purpose of photographing
the buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
RELIEVE THE TENSION.
Fires Started in State House
Heating Plant.

If no accident happens the state house
officers and clerks will find everything
nice and warm when they go to work
tomorrow morning. Fires have already
been started in two of the boilers in the
new state house heating plant, and
steam will be turned into the pipes this
afternoon to dry them out, and by to-
morrow morning it is expected that the
plant will be in working order.
Al Mooney and his helpers have been
at work ever since early Sunday morn
ing pushing the work on the plant. They
have stopped only half hour at meal
times, and Mr.. Mooney does not expect
to go home until the plant is entirely
ready to heat the state house
Today the state officers and the clerks
and stenographers in most of the de-
partments are shivering and some of
the officers have told their employees
they might go home until there is a
This is the reason work is being pushed
so hard Governor Stanley, who is suf-
fering from a severe cold, did not come
to the state house at all because OF the
cold, and most of the people who were
trying to work wore wraps and over
coats
Fires were started in two of the four
boilers of the new plant last Thursday,
and the plant has been drying. The
other two boilers will be started this
afternoon.
have been purchased for the state house
electric plant were started at 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon and have been run
ming continuously ever since. The two
machines are combined and are a fine
piece of mechanism. They will furnish
electricity for sixteen hundred of the
lights in the state house. The old plant
could only light about eight hundred as
a rule, although on one occasion it was
forced up to 1,030. This is the greatest
number of lights that were ever run at
one time in the state house. There are
200 lights in the building but it is never
necessary to run more than half of them
at one time, and it is seldom that there
is a demand for even that number. The
old electric plant will be removed to the
new heating plant and installed for use
in case of emergency, but the new plant
will be used most of the time.
1t will be a great relief to see the state
house when the dome is not enshrouded
and blackened with coal smoke, and it
will also be a considerable saving to the
state in the long run.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
KLONDIKE REPUBLIC.
Organization to Form Independ-
ent Government is Reported.

San Francisco, Nov. 1S-The Call
prints an unconfirmed story from Skag-
way, Alaska, under date of November
6, telling of the discovery of what is
alleged to be a huge conspiracy exist
ing in Dawson and ramifying to Skag-
way Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle,
for the overthrow of the local govern
ment of the Northwest Territory and
the establishment of a republic. with
Dawson as its capital
According to the details of the story
arms, ammunition and provisions have
been taken in over the railroad and
cached at strategic points. Prominent
American residents of Skagway are
said to be ring leaders in the cOnSp1r-
acy. Miners to the number of 5000 are
said to await the summons to arms.
ready to fight for the independence
from Dominion rule for the gold fields,
camps and towns. The plan is to over
power the mounted police, arrest the
civil authorities and take the govern
ment into their own hands. The rigors
of the arctic winter would give the
insurgents six months immunity from
attack by Canadian or British troops
and the adventurous arch-conspirators
hope for intervention or outside assist
ance by the time the melting of ice and
snow will permit the invasion of their
isolated republic
1t is further related that a hurried
conference, lasting until midnight, was
held at SkagWay. November 5. at which
were present Captain Corrigan, of the
Northwest mounted police, who had ar
rived from across the Canadian border
late that evening. Judge Brown, of the
United States district court; United
States Marshal Shoupe, United States
Attorney Frederick and Major Hovey,
commanding the United States troops
at Skagway, attended the meeting
This was the last of several haSty con-
situations between the civil and mill
tary representa- tiveS of the two powers
portation of supplies into the interior
and rumorS of d conspiracy to lead the
miners in revolt against Canadian
government in the Northwest Terri
tory.
Those present maintained subsequent
ly the strictest silence concerning the
new evidence laid before them, and
their evident anxiety helped to confirm
the rumors of conspiracy.
Captain Corrigan took a train back
across the border the next morning,
while United States Marshal Shoup en-
parked on the first steamer for Seattle,
which port he reached several days ago.
The object of his visit was, presume bly,,
to confer by telegraph with the authori-
ties at Washington. He sailed yeSter-
day afternoon on the Dolphin, on his
way back to Skagway
Seattle, Wash, Nov. 1S-No credence
is given here to the story of the al
legged discovery at Skagway, Alaska of
a conspiracy to Overturn the Canadian
government in Alaska. United States
Marshal Shoupe, who IS credited with
having come home to communicate with
the United States government regard
ing the matter, is said to have come
only for the purpose of bringing some
United States prisoners who had been
sentenced to terms in the penitentiary
at McNeilfs island. He returned north
Yesterday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
KAISER TAKES PART.
In Debate of Society of Naval En-.
gineers.

Berlin, Nov. 18.-Emperor William
participated in the debate of the So
ciety of Naval Engineers the subject
of placing heavy guns on battleships
and its effect upon their design and con-
struction. His majesty referred to the
influence of military requirements upon
the development of ship construction
and artillery and pointed out how the
aim of Germany had always been to
allow the opinion of the officers who had
to navigate ships to have asmuch weight
and influence as possible on the ship
builder and the constructor. Germany
was also the first nation able to place
a captain still on the active list at the
head of the construction bureau He be-
lieved tht the types of vessels now be-
ing launched in German yards repre-
sented the very best needed for the pur-
poses of the country or that could be
demanded from the splendid construct
ors and ma gnificent yards of Germany.
The meeting was held in the technical
school at Charlottenburg. Admiral Tir-
pitt, secretary of the admiralty, was
present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
THIS OUR "PER CAPITER. -
Commissioner Albaugh Says That
It's Now $59 %.

Morton Albaugh, state bank commits
sioner, has compiled figures which show
that the aggregate bank deposits in
Kansas banks are $S7,1S1, 1874. This
makes S59-2S cents for every man, wo-
man and child in the state. Last May
the per capita of bank deposits was
$46.57, so that there has been an increase
since the ''drouth' of $12-71 for every
person in the state The biggest in
crease has been, of course, in the wheat
belt, but in all other parts of the state
as well the banks are flooded with
money.
Another significant fact, which shows
that banking in Kansas is paying, is
that while the aggregate capital of all
the banks in the state is SIS, 697 500. their
surplus and undivided profits amount to
Sc, O40, 159. This makes the average book
value of Kansas bank stock worth about
$140 per share of $780,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
NOTHING GAINED.
Supreme Court Decides Case After
Law Had Been Repealed.

Washington, Nov. 1S.-Justice Harlan,
in the United States supreme court,
today handed down the opinion of the
court in the case of Dinsmore against
the Southern Express company, coming
to the court a writ of certiorari from
the circuit court of appeals for the
fifth circuit. The case involved the re-
quirement of the express company that
shippers should themselves affix the
revenue stamp on bills of lading which
were made necessary under the war
revenue act of 1898 The case originated
in Georgia, where complaint was made
before the state railroad commission on
account of the express company's reg
u1ation. That commission made an or
der requiring the express company to
supply the stamps, with which the COM
pany expressed a Willingness to COM
ply. Mr.. Dinsmore being a stakeholder
in the express company, brought suit
to enjoin the company The circuit
court of appeals decided against him,
and he brought the case into the SUI
preme court. Justice Harlan's opinion
affirmed that of the circuit court, large
ly on the ground that the amendatory
act of the last session of congress had
repealed the stamp tax on bills of
lading of the express companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
NO ATTEMPT AT FORGERY.
just Signed Other Peoples Names to
Notes.

New York, Nov. $50. B. Wheeler
Jr., charged with forging the names OF
a number of prominent business men of
Chicago to a sheaf of notes aggregating
on their face $103, 900 was committed for
trial today. 1t developed from the testi-
mony taken that there had been no at
tempt at imitation in writing the names
that had been used but that all had
been written off hand, in the same man
ner- Wheeler's counsel pleaded that tie
prisoner had been drinking was i'll and
was irresponsible. The magistrate said
he would let the higher court pass on
the responsibility of the prisoner. Bail
was fixed at $1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18

Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commits
sion Merchant, COL Kansas avenue.1
Liverpool opening cables: Wheat, I'd
lower: corn, I'd lower.
Second Liverpool cables: Wheat. sd
lower; corn, I'D higher to Ad lower.
Omaha live stock receipts: Hogs. 5000
head; market steady. Cattle, $500 head;
market steady.
Closing Liverpool cables: Wheat, sd
lower; corn, sd higher.
Kansas City grain receipts: Wheat, 1879
cars; corn. 166 cars: oats. 20 cars. Same
day year ago: Wheat, 169 cars; corn. 81
cars.
Worlds shipments wheat last week. s.
81, 900 bushels.
Northwest grain receipts today! Mime
apol1S, ,094 cars Duluth, 31S cars: total,
1,412 cars A year ago: Minneapolis. 760
cars; Duluth. LOG cars; total, S66 cars.
Visible supply for the week: Wheat in
creased 3.71S,O00 bushels; corn decreased
4S5,00O bushels; oats decreased $4,000 bush
els.
Total visible supply: Wheat. 45,6040oO
bushels: corn, i1,441,000 bushels; oats, T.
500. 600 bushels
Chicago: May wheat-Puts. 75Ac: calls.
62Q621sc; calls, 631sc; curb, 625sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-18
GOES TO PIECES.
Fruit Jar Combine Has Been
Broken Up.

Marion, Ind, Nov. 1S.-The affairs of the
fruit jar combine have been closed and
from this time every firm will be indepen-
dent J. l. McCulloch, president of the
Marion Fruit Jar and Bottle company
said: For the last two seasons the
fruit jar manufacturers of this country
have sold their entire product through one
selling agency. The scheme is a practi-
cal one if it were possible to fix an equi-
table ratio of interest between the differ
ent firms but this could not be done. Tn
der the selling agency arrangements too
many manufa cturerS in other lines of
glassware had begun to enter the fruit jar
HELD This was already having an effect
to disrupt the favorable market condi-
tions-''
From now on each manufacturer will
sell his own product at whatever price he
thinks best.
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Mrs. Diggs to Roosevelt.

Mrs. Annie L. Diggs will go to Wash
ington and make a personal appeal to
President Roosevelt for an investiga-
ton of the methods by which the Far
mers Advocate was barred from going
through the mails as second class mat
ter unless the order is reScinded within
short time. Mrs Diggs, who is editor
of the paper, believes that this would
be more effective than any other method
of procedure. She does not believe that
President Roosevelt would countenance
the suppression of reform newspapers
simply for partisan purposes, and this,
the Advocate company contends, is the
reason for the order