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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
VERY BUSY man.
Road Agent Wheeler Putting in
Good Time.
In Thirteen Days Has Earned
$32O.49.
HE LOSES NO TIME.
HE LOSES NO TIME
In That Time He "Examined''
Six Companies.
Amounts Paid Range From $50
to SS4.

D. W. Wheeler, road agent for the
state department Of Insurance under w.
" Church lost only one single working
DAY from July Is till August TO- That was
the day lost, Saturday, August TO- Mr..
Wheeler presented nine vouchers to the
state auditor Monday afternoon for the
amounts of his collections from the in
surance concerns inspected in that time.
Mr. Wheeler is letting no grass grow
under his feet as long as the sinecure
holds out. Governor Stanley may take a
hand any day now toward calling halt
on the practice.
From July Is until the end of the month
Mr.. Wheeler worked thirteen days in
spectlng six insurance companies. This
was fun time with the exception of the
Two Sundays His fees and expenses for
We're spent examining the Northwestern
National Insurance company at MflWau-
keei two days examining the Milwaukee
1AScHaiitcS insurance company Two days
examining the ConcOrdia Insurance COM
panY; four days examining the German
insurance company. Freeport. ILL., three
Marine, st. Paul: two days examining the
Mystic Toilers, Des A1oines.
Eight days in August yielded to the in
Spector IN fees and expenses $137.58. On
August he examined the Northwestern
Life and Savings Insurance company. The
Dill does not state where located except
by inference, since one item reads rail
road fare, Des Moines to Lincoln. 81, SO. =
On August and 3, a tWo-day examina-
tio q5s,. was made OF the brotherhood Of
and g. a hve-day examination was made
of the Farmers and Merchants Insurance
company. at Des Moines- For his work
Wheeler received $45S.0 OF
The following table shows the amounts
spected to Inspector Wheeler:
InSpec- tx
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tion. Dense. Total.
JOKE ON MULYANE.
Telephone Magnate Heard Some
Harsh Things in Kansas City.

A Kansas City paper tells the follow
ing good story on John r. Mulvane:
a few days ago Edward Wilder of
Topeka imported considerable statuary
from Italy through the Kansas City
custom house When he came down
from Topeka to import it, he brought
J. r. NIulvane to look it over with him
And both repaired to the Office of w
L. Kessinger, the collector of customs
for this port. And there Mr.. Kessinger
did the hOnOrs with all the eclat of his
genial nature.
Now Mr.. Nulvane is president of the
Missouri and Kansas Telephone COM
pany, but this fact Mr. Kessinger did
not know. Hence, when Mr. Mulvane
stepped over to the instrument on Mr..
Kessinger's desk and asked casually:
''How's your telephone service these
days ~ Mr. Kessinger, like all true
Kansas City users of the system, began
to berate it soundly.
Its rotten he exclaimed. 1.-THE old
rattletrap is out of order most of the
time You can't hear through it. and
when you can, central is so slow that it
wears man out" And more in the
same line
Mr.. AGulvane concealed his chagrin as
well as he could, and said nothing. 1t
seemed to be the proper thing to jump
on the service, as he had heard it be-
fore, though not quite in SO picturesque
and frank a fashion. But soon after he
nad leIL, MI. AeSSlnSeF was aStOnlSned
to see a gang of men. with their tools,
appear and dissect his phone, and look
at the wires, and overhaul the whole
system thoroughly Then he tried IL
and it worked beautifully.
who sent you up here?" he asked.
1.-The boss" replied the leader of the
gang.
who's the boss9 didn't complain
of this phone
"Oh, yes yer did; yer made yer spiel
to tn old man himself, and we come
hot-foot."
THE old man? I don't understand.
Who's the old MANI"
John R.Mulvane,' replied the gangs
head.
Tableau.
Kessinger says, however, that he has
the best phone service in town these
days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
THE ARIONS ENTERTAIN.
Well Known Society Celebrates Its
18th Anniversary.

The Arion Singers celebrated their
eighteenth anniversary last evening at
the rooms of the society on lower Kan
sas avenue. About one thousand mem
bers and their families attended during
the evening. The Singers entertain
ed with songs throughout the even
ing sandwiched between instrumental
mum bers. The large veranda. on the sec
ond floor in the rear of the hall was
fitted out with palms and colored lights
until it looked like a veritab1e flower
garden. The veranda was the most
popular place around the club rooms
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
LEGATE AN APPLICANT.
Veteran Politician Applies For Posi-
ton on St. Louis Commission.

J. F. Legate is an applicant to Gov
ernor Stanley for appointment as a
commissioner to the St. Louis Louis
lana Purchase exposition Legate fled
his application several days ago with
the governor in a. letter written for him
by his daughter.
Legate's return to politics and as
piration for office follows his recent dis
charge from the Soldiers Home hos
pital, at Leavenworth, where he was
an inmate for treatment Of his eyes
for three months
Mr.. Legate entered the home May 1
under the order of Sidney Cooke. gen
eral manager of the home When he
was admitted to the hospital he was
totally blind in his right eye and the
vision OF the left eye was much i'm
paired After three months treatment
he was dismissed from the hospital en-
tiresy restored and can now see with
out the aid Of glasses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

a series of alphabetical blocks and inva-
riably selecting the letter number
asked for by his tutors.
when fourteen months old he began
talking distinctly in mOnOsyllables, and
at two years was a good reader from the
first reader
In the last ten months he has shown
great skill in developing Photographic
negatives and in printing and finishing
the pictures. He has a remarkable APP
and the above picture of himself was
made from a photograph taken by him
when thirty-three months old. in his
fathers studio at Medicine Lodge. He
is believed TO be the youngest artist in
the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
Topeka Markets

IOpekl, aug. 2
HOGS.
MEDIUM AND HEAVY-S5. 3O65.75.
LIGHTS. 0Otl15.55.
cattle
HEIFERS- 5003.25
COW -$2- 00d3. co.
DRY LOT CATTLE.
steel S-S4.00d4 50.
cows AND HELPERS 0064O0
VEAL CALVES.
EAVY-s2 SOFAS. 90
LIGHTS. 00d4.00.
GRAIN.
NO. ? WHEAT-60c.
NO 2 CORN-56c-
NO. > WHITE CORN-56c
NO. 2 OATS-zOc.
PRODUCE
EGGS-10c
BUTTER-16c.
HAY7S13. 00d14-00.
ALFALFA-s15.
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kansas CITY Livestock.

Kansas CITY. Mo-. Aug. 20.-CATTLFs-
Receipts, 1900 including 100 Texans:
market steady to strong. Native beef
steers, S4.s0G6OO; Texans and Indians
s. S00420, Texas cows. 81 10000. native
cows and heifers 81 50Q5.1 stockers and
feeders. 3-00d4.25; bulls. $2-50Q4-50; calves
g 59d5 %
HOGSNReceipts II. 900: market steady
Bulk of sales, s. S0d6.10; heavy. S. 1Oa6. 20;
packers So S5d6.10, mixed. S5-S0u6-10; light
s5.45d5.95; workers., 50 40d5-S5. pigs, $4,000
5-35-
Muttons. s.. 00Q3.65; lambs. $4-25Q5O0; range
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

New York Aug. 2-MONEY-Nfoney on
call firm. offered at per cent. prime
mercantile paper, 41zQ5 per cent; Sterling
exchange firm. with actual business in
bankers bills at S4.S6stQ4.S7 for demand
and a t 81. S41aQ% for 60 days; posted rates
s4.S51zG4.SS; commercial bills, $4849tQ
4S41
sILvER-Bar silver. 5sssc; Mexican dol
lars, 451zc
BONDS Government bonds. steady; re-
funding 2s reg. and coupon. 107Sl; 3s
reg. and coupon. 1osN; new As, reg and
coupon. 13T; old Is, reg. and coupon, lis.
SIS reg and coupon. 1073<.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
Pansions For Kansans.

Washington, Aug. 20.-Pensions were
granted today as follows:
Kansas-Original, Jan es Cook Valley
Falls, IS; increase, William Marshall,
Fort Dodge, $40, John Shirley, Kansas
City, So; George Shenley. Winfield, So;
widows. Elizabeth Broadgent, Erie, $12.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
Iosepns Tips
Furnished by A. G. Goodwin. Commits
sion Merchant. 601 Kansas avenue.

New York. Aug. 20.-The market win
be favorably Influenced by the heavy eX-
port movement or wheat and the cOnse-
Quent weakness in sterling exchange.
which Will tend to remove apprehension
Of dear money during the early fall The
steel strike does not receive much atten-
stocks Crop damages has been dis
counted, and the scarcity Of stocks and
the absence of any selling disposition
works in favor Of higher prices for stocks
Large railroad earnings and the very ia
VOrable annual reports now making their
appearance are a faVOraD bic influence It
is a trading market. but we look for
higher prices today. The western shorts
are becoming nervous and are covering in
the Changers Sentiment is more bullish.
and we look for further advance IN 81.
Paul Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and
Pennsylvania. The Vanderbilt stocks ara
mated Copper viii sell higher and Peo-
pies Gas will advance. Southern railway,
L. & n. and the cOalers are in line for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

Kansas City, No, Aug. 2O.-WHEAT-
Sept, 651sc; Dec, Csc; May, ne. Cash:
CORN-Sept., 57ssc: Dec, 57ssc: May.
613sNAc. Cash. No. mixed, 6S5sc No 2
white 59M1Ac.
oATs-No. 2 white, ss14@4oc.
RYE-No. 2. 5Sc-
$500
BITTER 19a1s1hc: dairy.
14d16c-
EGGS-Fresh. &c
Receipts of wheat, 156 cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

New York, Aug. 20.-The bond brokers
yesterday had one of the poorest days of
the present year. Next to nothing was
doing in their department except in the
few issues which are speculative and re-
garded in much the same light as stocks.
The feature of the stock market was the
prominence of the professional room
trader. There was SO little outside bust
ness that the main question at issue was
whether a. should lose a quarter cent
to b or ..B" relieve IA of a CORE
spending amount. This kept the market
steady all day. Whatever outbreak from
the petty trading there was, came in the
nature of an advance Nearly everyone
is agreed that the market stopped its
three days decline Immediately after the
opening. and that if prices cannot be
forced down they Will rise naturally.
Comparatively few profess to see any
thing in the market beyond this. rally
of greater or less extent is generally ex
pected, because it was shown absolutely
that prices could fall no more without
force. There is little stock for sale. and
the amount does not increase on advances
Of one two points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
SHUT THEN OUT.
27swsdealers' Postal Rates win Be
Restricted

ReSbrlcEeu.
Newsdealers who wish to have access
to the U. S. mails for the distribution
Of magazines and periodicals as second
class matter at second class rates. TO
subscribers. win have to make applica-
ton Tor that privilege the same as pub
fishers after September l.
Postmaster John Guthrie has receiv-
ed instructions to inform the news
dealers OF Topeka Of this rule. The
special form blanks to be used for this
purpose VIII arrive in a few days
There are eighteen newsdealers in To-
pexa. whom this rule viii affect.
This rule, said Mr.. Guthrie. is to
GUST those who have no right to use
the mails at rhis rate. 1t will save mil
lions to the government Under tlle.
present system there is no record kept
Of this business and it is conducted at
= great disadvantage to the postal au-
T1oriues. After the first of the month
they must all have permission just the
same as any publisher il they want to
send periodicals through the mall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
A KANSAS PRODIGY.
Boy Three Years Old Who Develops
and Prints PHOTOGRAPHS.

Medicine Lodge, the home of Jerry
Simpson and Mrs. Nation, claims another
man of the camera who takes babies pic
lures, but Orville Ray Withers, aged %
months, who takes phOtogra phs- Q. s.
Hutton is authority for the following:
when nine months old he knew the
alphabet and numbers to Is. They were
learned not as children of six years U.s.
ally learn them, but by crawling among
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

Furnished by A &C. Goodwin. Commits
lion Merchant. 601 Kansas ave.

Liverpool opening cables: Wheat and
corn. sd higher.
Northwest receipts today: Nlinneap-
oils S07 cars; Duluth. go A year aEof
Minnea polls, 211 cars: Duluth 43.
Liverpool closing cables: Wheat, I'D
higher: corn. unchanged for the day.
Bradstreet's worlds visible: Wheat de-
crea sed g.. 900 bushels
New York: Sales of stocks TO noon. 22S,-
200 shares.
Total clearances: Wheat and -four,
wheat, 453, OF bushels; corn, $4,000: oats.
10 996-
Chicago: September wheat-Puts. 69izcs
calls. 70Ac: curb. 7O1sc- December wheat
Puts 711a9ssc; calls. T3q1sc. September
corn-Puts, 563zc; calls, 5S1ac; curb, 57ss
bid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

If that mirror OF yours shows a wretch
ed. salloW complexion a jaundiced look.
moth patches and biotches o n the skin.
it's liver trouble. but DR. Kings New
Life Pills regulate the liver. purify the
blood, give clear skin. rosy cheeks, rich
complexion Only 25c at A J. Arnold &
nue..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
Topeka aldo markell.

Based on Chicago and Boston quota
lions. The following are net prices paid
in Topeka this week;
Topeka, Aug. 20.
GREEN SALT CURED, SHORT HAIR
&c.
GREEN SALT CURED BRANDs-s15c.
NO. TALLOW-41zc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
Sugar Market.

New York, Aug. 20-SUGAR-Raw dull.
Fair refining. 3 7-16c: centrifugal, So test,
4c; molasses sugar, 3-16c. Refined, bare
~ steady crushed, $50; powdered, 1915;
granulated, S5.25.
COFFEE No. Z Rio. 55sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

Galveston, Tex, Aug. 2o.-COTTON-
Firm S3sc-
cotton closed steady Afiddling upland,
8 1-16c; do. Gulf, 5-15c. Sales. SITS bales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

New York. Aug 2O-BUTTER-Stea
State dairy 1471Sc: creamery 16u20lkc:
June packed factory. 141za155hc; imitation
creamery, HOTTIE
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Kansas CITY Prodnoa.

sheep 81 O0lb2. Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

Furnished by J. E--Gar. Commissions.
Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks. Or
fec ITO West Sixth street Phone $50.
Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock
Co.. Kansas City. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20
New York Stock Letter.

Furnished by J. e. Gall, Commissions,
Grain, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks Of
flee ITO West Sixth street Phone 480.
Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock
Co.. Kansas City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

G F. MenninEer. NJ D., of1ce 727 Kan
Eas ave Tel -; residence 1851 Topeka
avA Tel IS. Once hours te D. a.
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Furnished by A. G. Goodwin, Commits
sion Merchant. Sol Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-20

Article. open High Low csoss Yes.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-23
AS TO "EXTREME ToUCHINEss. y

The extreme loneliness" which a
contemporary thinks Is exhibited by the
Deseret News when the proposed
amendment to the national Constltu-
ton is advocated Is really in that con-
temporary's own eye Why should II
be agitated over anything that the
News advances on "the other side?
II there is no necessity for the amend
ment, which that paper appears to con-
cede. why should the urgent endeavors
of people who do not understand the
situation be permitted to pass unchal-
lenged?
The proposition is a slur upon this
state. II presupposes condition OF
affairs that does not exist, and keeps
up false impression concerning Utah,
that its friends are justified in resent
ing and in endeavoring to remove,
Every sincere effort TO promote moral
ity. peace and good order In this ma
ton, will receive the support Of the
Deseret News, and Of the people whom
II represents. But when a disposition
is clearly manifest to mlsrepresent
them. the News" claims the right and
considers It its duty to state the facts,
and defend them from the falsehoods
which their enemies Industrlously cir
culate concerning them. And 1t does
not matter how much extreme touchi-
ness" Is manifested by the supporters
of their foes, at the presentation Of the
truth and the refutation Of those errors,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-23
FILIPINO TRANSFORMATION.

General Grant, according 10 published
reports. is very decidedly OF the opln-
ion that the efforts Of the American
government representatives in the
Philippines are seen in most excellent
results. The insurrection he says, IL
dead and gone. The boys over there
are now only clearing the country Of
a few ladrones and picking up a few
guns. Everything Is ready for the real
work of governing and teaching the
people
The people over there are in ever
widening circles feeling the benevo-
lence OF American influence, and set
Ting down 10 the changed conditions.
The construction Of roads, the estab-
lishment Of schools for all. the develop
ment Of Industrial enterprises. the ia
cility for work, the impartial adminls-
tratlon Of justice, and the protection Of
life and property. are powerful argu-
ments IN favor Of American principles
OF government, which are much appre-
clated In country in which all these
marks OF civilization are comparative
~ new.
One great contrast between the old
and the new regime is very striking.
The Spanlards took care that Spanish
should not be taught to the natives.
They held that II there was one Ian
guage widely understood in the Islands,
agltators would find no difficulty In
starting a general rising They con-
sldered II to the interest Of the mother
country 10 maintain the yeritable
Babylon Of tongues that prevails there,
by which one native cannot make him.
self understood except by compare
lively few Of the other natives Now
this Is changed English Is being
taught in all the schools. In the course
Of a few years, 1t will be spoken in
all the islands
The commissioners argue that II all
the natives speak and understand Eng
fish 1t will be easier for the Americans
to do business with them, to educate
them up to American standards and
TO make them understand the purposes
and the genius OF the government Of
the United States English viii be
taught in every school to be estab-
lished as It is taught in all the schools
now in operation under Americans and
this Of course comprises all the public
schools. The natives are said to have
great adaptobility and are eager to
learn, and the inference is that the
work of transforming them into good
and useful citizens will not be so for
midable az some have supposed
The difference In methods and aims
cannot but strike the intelligent Fiji
plnos favorably, Under Spanish rule
the idea was to keep the people In ig-
norance and slavery. Under the Ameri-
can regime, every effort is put forth
to give them knowledge and thus pre-
pare them for government.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-23
yMSY.hMLA. CONFERENCE

The General Conference Of the Young
Mems and Young ladies' Mutual III =
proyemert Associations Of the Churoh
Of Jesus Christ Of Iatter-day saints
win be held in salt Lake CITY on sun
dav Monday and Tuesday June 2nd'
3rd and an 1901 q,
General public meetings WIN De ne'u
IN the Tabernacle on Sunday June zhu,
At 10 A. m. and and 1880 p. No. ana
business meetings win be held on the
succeeding two days for the young
Men in the assembly hail of the new
building of the Latter-day Saints Bust
ness college, and for the Young Ladies
IN the Fourteenth ward assembly rooms
All officers and members of the assoc'-
atoms are requested TO be present al
all the meetings, and a cordial INVITA-
t,op Is extended to all the Saints to at
tend the Tabernacle meetings
LORENZO SNOW,
General Superintendent Y NJ. M. l. A.
THOMAS HULL
General Secretary Y NJ, NJ /. A.
ELMINA S, TAYLOR,
General Superintendent Y L. NJ l. A.
ANN NJ. CANNON,
General Secretary Y L. NJ l. A.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-23
MORGAN's PURCHASE
New York Journal.

The purchase by the j. Plerpont Nor
gan interests Of the control Of the Ley
land line Of steamers Is the most mo-
mentous event that has occurred in the
Held of world commerce since the Con-
federate cruisers drove the American
flag from the ocean, II means nothing
less than that American capital Is pre-
pairing to grasp that sovereignty Of the
seas which we seemed on the point OF
attaining fifty years ago. The report
that the new ships to be ordered by the
Morgan combination viii be built In the
United States Is inherently probable.
1t will be to the Interest Of the steel
trust, and Its associated shlpyards 70
have such market for their products.
BY supplying II, they assure themselves
at once a means Of tldng their works
over slack times. They create an Inn
mense new demand. that Is not affected
by foreign tariff policies.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-23
London Telegraph.

After the sweeping coup de main by
which one OF the most important Of our
merchant fleets has been transferred.
what position In the whole field Of Brit
lsh commerce can be considered secure
from the enveloping strategy OF the
organizer Of the steel trust, who, II
must be admitted has acquired q bet
ter claim to the title Of the Bonap1Ite
Of trade than any other figure of mod
ern industry? The reflection that the
British ship-owner has to look very
squarely In the face IL simple. America
has superseded our agricultur beaten
our coal output. left us far behind in
the production OF iron and steel and
has passed us at last In the total vol
ume Of exports She has only COM
menced her final onslaught on our car
rying trade, and with these beginnings
we may wonder, II such things are done
in the green tree what will be done in
the dry,