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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
ROGUES FALL OUT.
Row in the Court Where Diss De Bar
Is Being Tried.

Dondon, Dec. I'm anticipation of
this being the last appearance in publlc
of Theodore and Laura Jackson (Ann
Odelia Diss De Barr before their COM
initial for trial at the Old Bailey, the
Marylebone police court was crowded
today, The principal witness during
the days proceedings was DIR. Mary
Adams, whose testimony the female
prisoner declared at the last hearing
would prove that the present charges
were the result of conspiracy on the
part of the promoters of a rival sect
known as the Koreshan Unity. The fe-
male prisoners cross examination OF
DR.. Adams led to several scenes, dur
ing which Mr.. Jackson denounced Dr.
Adams as the murderesS of her nus
band.
According to the evidence of DR..
Adams she left Ohio in 1899 and got
mixed up with the prisoners at Glen
Echo, a suburb of Washington She
further testified that the prisoners OBJ
tanned from her money under false pre-
fences and lured her to New York She
accompanied them to England, Paris
and Cape Town. Finding that the trend
of Dr. Adams evidence was unpalata-
BILE, the female prisoner suddenly
shouted:
Your husband died of poison. didn't
hep
NO" replied Dr. Adams.
At this point the male prisoner jump
ed to his feet.
you are a murderess," he shouted.
Mrs. Jackson Gained her husband and
then continued to cross-examine Dr.
Adams who denied that she was ever
accused of numbering her husband.
When later she was examined by
Charles w. Matthews, senior counsel
to the treasury, DR.. Adams related her
own experience with the prisoners
which resembled incidents related by
the girl victims. While at Cape Town
the Jackson establishment was so noto-
rious that the soldiers mobbed the
house.
After further testimony had been pre-
scented in regard to the male prisoners
malpractices, the prisoners both de-
nounced DIR. Adams with shouts of
liar and "perjurer."
The prisoners were committed for
trial at the Old Bailey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
LOCAL MENTION.

The report of License Collector P. H.
Forbes, for the month of November
shows that he collected $3.50. 80.
The law firm Of Harvey & Harvey,
composed of A. w and w. w. Harvey
dissolved partnership today Each will
n aintain a separate office
Collie Reed. a 15-year-old boy living
north of Soldier creek, broke his leg in
two places last Saturday evening. He
was thrown from a horse against
gate post.
The Woman's auxiliary of the Mid
winter exposition, which was to meet
Tuesday morning at the Y. w. c. A.
rooms, has postponed its meeting till
Tuesday, December 10, at 10 O'Clock
The following pay rolls OF city de-
partnents for the month of November
were filed today: Street commissioner,
$2O74.56: city engineer 1892; superin-
tendant of electric light plant, $6650S-
Mayor Hughes has written to the
mayors of rs cities in the United States
asking for a copy of their city seal and
coat of arms. A committee appointed
by the mayor is to fix up a seal for
Topeka The committee consists of f.
p MacLennan, Arthur Capper and j.
K Hudson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
DAVIS IS NAMED.
New Santa Fe Shop Foreman to
Succeed VIM. Barnes.

A. r. Davis, of Detroit, Mich, has
been appointed foreman of the Santa
F'e machine shops, taking the place left
vacant by William Barnes, who has
been sent east by the Santa Fe to in
spect engines now being built
Mr.. Davis arrived in Topeka yester-
day with his family. and is for the
present living at the Chesterfield hotel.
AT Detroit, Mr.. Davis was general
foreman for the American Blower COM
pany. He commenced his railroad work
as an apprentice in the Pennsylvania
shops in 1875. AT that time he was al
Altoona, Pa. He subsequently became
general foreman at Altoona. Mr.. DAVIS
has also served as general foreman for
the Robinson Machina company, at
Monongahela, Pa. He was for two
ment at Bermuda inspecting ships.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
POSTAL REFORMS.
A Number Recommended by the
Third Assistant p. M General.

Washington, Dec. 2-Third Assist
ant Postmaster General Madden in his
annual report recommends the CONSOLE
dation of third and fourth class mail
matter. an increase of the limit of the
indemnity for the loss of registered
matter from SO to 500 and that postal
employees be made liable for the value
of registered matter lost through their
carelessness.
The total postal revenues for the year
from all sources were Sill. 631,1 1873 being
$3,923, 727 less than the expenditures.
This is exclusive of the cost of the
transporting the malls over the sub
sidized Pacific railroads that have not
yet settled their bonded accounts with
the government The total value of
stamped paper and stamp books is re-
garded as a successful experiment. The
4,69S,425 stamp books issued have cost
the department s4.69 per thousand to
manufacture There were 659, 614, 800
postal cards issued.
The amount of second class matter
mailed free of postage to actual sub
scribers within the county of publica-
ton constitutes practically z per cent
of the entire amount mailed.
Mr.. Madden says II is but a question
of time, If the rate of increase of second
class matter continues before it will
consume most if not all of the revenues
derived from other classes of mail mat
ter While second class mail matter,
constitutes approximately two-thirds of
the combined weight of all the four
classes of mail matter it furnishes only
slightly over per cent of the revenue
from all hostages. About so per cent of
this nominal and unsustaining rate, Mr..
Madden says is due to a construction of
the statutes which has permitted the ad-
mission of a great number of alleged
newspapers and periodicals which are
merely pretensions. The principal
abuses of the pound rate named by the
report are sample copies. bulk subscrfp-
tfong, book serials. return copies to
news agents and premiums to subsorib-
ers, the latter being characterized as
the king of abuses. The hope is ex-
pressed that the next annual report will
show the second class of mail practical
ly free from at least the larger abuses.
This reformation, the report says, may
make one cent postage practicable at no
distant date.
Another big batch of publications ex-
cluded from the second class of mail
matter under the new policy governing
that classification, was announced to-
day. Most of them are serials publish
ed in Minneapolis and Philadelphia. The
list includes several newspaper alman-
acS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02

without any delay, while the question
is still uppermost, and before 1T gets
showed to one side by the great number
of new questions being urged as SUD
jects for action by congress-
'tSince the passage of the act or March
IA, 1900, the total amount of circula-
ton which all the national banks nave
outstanding has been increased from
$254, O26, 2SO to 1859, S32, us, an increase OF
$1O5, 500. 230, or over Al per cent
1.-THE provisions of the act have also
added somewhat to the elasticity OF the
national bank currency 1t, however,
leaves much to be desired in the way
of elasticity, the lack of which is the
greatest fault of our national bank is
sues.
Congress has already had under dis
cussion and consideration various
measures for the modification of the
national bank currency. There is much
discussion of the subject by bankers
and financiers, and many plans are
urged for adoption Somewhere be-
tween the views of the ardent adVo-
Gates of asset currency and those VINO
oppose it with vehemence as unsafe
and unSOund in every respect, there
should be found safe middle ground
Most of the more enlightened countI .,es
of the world and those which have the
most satisfactory banking systems
have some kind of asset banking cur
rency. We should be able to lncor-
pOrate some features of this kind with
our national bank currency in such a
way as to in no way impair its safety
but add to its efficiency and usefulness
in other respects. Under proper laws
asset currency can be used to sup
ply an emergency circulation for which
there is a pressing need not now sup
piled by our national banks, and as our
people become more used to II ana see
its good points the use may be extend
ed. Progress in this direction should
be and will have to be SLOW The alb
solute security of our national bank
notes and the fact that no one ever
looks at a note to see by what bank
it is issued has popularized them with
our people, and there will always be
a strong sentin ent in favor of letting
well enough alone when it comes to
changing our bank notes.
~'This question is, however, becoming
pressing and immediate In the near
future it will have to be determined by
congress what shall be done with the
national banks and their circulating
notes, and what changes are to be made
in the various kinds of paper currency
no n CircnlafiOnp
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
FL. DRINKWATER DEAD
Secretary of Old United Press
Dies in Topeka.

Frederick L. Drinkwater died Sunday
afternoon at the home of his sister,
Mrs. A J. Dunlap at No. 1896 Taylor
street, at the age of 70 years The burial
will be on Tuesday at Cedar Point,
Kansas
Mr.. Drinkwater published weekly
newspaper at Ocean Springs, Miss, and
later the Chase County Courant at
the old United Press Association and
was one of the organizers of the pres
ent Associated Press association. He
first settled in Topeka when the log
cabin at the foot of Kansas avenue was
nearly the only building. He with his
three brothers buried a sister in the
middle of the street near the place now
occupied by the ThroOp hotel, when the
country was open prairie.
Frederick Drinkwater was one of the
pioneer settlers in Kansas, having come
here in 1855. He located in Chase
county with his brothers, o. H. and d.
F. Drinkwater, where he afterward
married. He was engaged in farming
and stock raising until some time in the
eighties, when he sold his farm in Chase
county and moved to Longton, Chau-
tauQua county, where he resided about
five years, afterward returning to Chase
county for a short time. About two
years ago his health failed, and he
gave up his newspaper business and
since then has spent most of his time
with his sisters, Mrs. ]. E Cowel and
Mrs. Samuel Fogwell, in Usage county.
He was born at Leroysville. Pa, in
February, 1928.
He leaves a son, Frank Drinkwater,
who works at DeNoss & Penwells I'M
dertaking establishment, and three sis
tiers, Mrs. A J. Dunlap, Mrs. J. E.
Cowel and Mrs. F'ogwell and a brother,
0. H. Drinkwater of Cedar Point
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
RATES WILL STAND.
Homeseekers Excursion For January
and February.

It is very probable that within short
time the Santa F'e and other western
roads will announce a continuance OF
the homeseeker excursion rates
throughout the winter and next year.
These excursions are opposed in the
traffic associations By the northern
roads which are unable to continue the
homeseeker business throughout the
winter months.
w. j. Black, general passenger agent
of the Santa Fe, was asked today con-
corning the continuance of the rates.
and said:
THE Santa Fe has suggested to the
various traffic associations that home
seeker rates from all the territory east
of the Missouri river be announced for
the first and third Tuesdays of Janu-
airy and February, 1902. This is done
in view of the continued pleasant
weather. The present limitation of
homeseeker rates is December 81. and
unless some further arrangement is
made, the rate will expire on that date.
The plan is to have the rate continued
on the old basis of one fare plus 81 for
the round trip, tickets to be sold to the
same territory in Kansas and other
western states as heretofore"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
CALDERHEAD ON PENSIONS.
Congressman Wants $50 a Month
For Totally Disabled Soldiers.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2.-Congressman
Calderhead. of Kansas, expects to in
troduce bill early in the session for
the pensioning of blind or totally dis
abled soldiers at $50 per month. His
measure will be designed to reach
worthy cases which can not be reached
under existing pension laws. and which
were not provided for with what he be-
lieves to have been sufficient liberality
in the pension bill of 1890. That meas
ure gave a limit of $12 per month for
total disability, even though the dis
ability can not be traced directly to the
line of service.
Mr. Calderhead's measure will cover
a majority of the cases which now come
before congress in the form of special
pension bills. He believes himself it
will cover so per cent of these cases. A
similar measure was offered last ses-
sion by Mr.. Calderhead and it had
many friends in the house. He believes
it has lost none of the support it had
at that time and thinks the strength of
the measure has increased. He will
probably again be a member of the in
valid pensions committee, and this will
give him an advantageous stand from
which to work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02

QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Stands to reason-the debater.
It's funny that when we're tired we
only get rest by retiring.
It's the little things that tell-espe-
cially the little brothers and sisters
When a pork packer goes in for lit
erature he should adopt a pen name
A fire could hardly be called dissi-
pated because it goes out every night
A man never labors harder than
when he undertakes to shave himself.
The small boy who plays truant to
go fishing hates his book and bats his
hook
The mint is about the only business
concern that makes money without ad-
vertising.
A peculiar nautical fact is that when
the fleets go on the cruise the crews so
on the fleets.
The tight-rope walker has troubles of
his own. After he learns the business
the rope must be taut.
The careful husband always gives his
wife an allowance so as to have some
body to borrow FROM
Your father is pretty bald" re-
marked the visitor. YES" returned the
prodigal son, Pm his only heir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
NOVEMBER WAS WARM.
Temperature Three Degrees Higher
Than the Normal.

According to the records of the gov
eminent weather bureau office compiled
by Observer T. B. Jennings, November
was warmer than usual.
The mean temperature for the month
was 44.2, while the normal temperature
for the month was Alp. The highest
point the mercury reached was II, on
the End, and the lowest %, on the 10th.
The rainfall amounted to IS hundredths
of an inch. The normal rainfall was
1.21. The Wettest November was in 1888,
when the precipitation amounted to
2.91. The dryest was in 1899, when the
fall was but "a hundredths. The high
est temperature ever recorded in No
vember was in 1891, when the mercury
reached S3. The lowest was five degrees
below zero in 1887. The lowest mean
was recorded in 1889. and was 81. The
highest mean was 1913. in 1899. In the
November just passed there were eleven
clear days, ten partly cloudy and nine
cloudy The per cent. of sunshine was
s.. The wind was 6.925 miles during
the month. The maximum velocity was
"a miles an hour on the 10th and was
from the south.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
STILL SHORT OF COAL.
Mills Feel the Effect of the Switch
mems Strike.

Pittsburg, Dec. 2.-There was little
change in switchmen's strike today. The
situation is steadily improving on the
road and by next week the officials say
they will be in as good shape as before
the strike. Trains are moving promptly
and therei is no blockade on the Baltimore
& Ohio, Pennsylvania or Pittsburg &
Lake Erie roads,
Among the striking switchmen on the
Allegheny Valley railroad there was
rumor current today to the effect that
the company was willing to compro-
mise on addition cents per hour and
that negotiations would likely be begun
with this object in view. The rumor,
however, could not be verified All the
mills between Eleventh street and
F'ifty-fourth street are shut down on
account of their inability to obtain the
necessary fuel. 1t is estimated that
about 5000 men have been thrown idle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
PRIZES AWARDED.
Winners at the International Live
Stock Exposition.

Chicago, Dec. 2.-The committee on
Judges has named the following gen
tlemen to determine the merits of spe-
cial cattle exhibits at the big stock
show: f. a. Nave, Herefords; J. c. I'M
boden. Aberdeen-Angus, and Wallace
Estill, Shorthorns.
Prizes were awarded today as fol-
lows:
Shorthorns-Steer or spayed heifer.
two years old and under three, prizes
of $40, $50, $40 and $40. The Dutchman
lap. Jacksonville, ILL.,; Crimson Babe
second, owned by Minnesota university
experiment station; Cumberland Chunk
third, owned by T. ]. Ryan & Son,
Irwin, Ia; Junior fourth. owned by NJ.
T. Bunker, Upton, Ia.
Herefords-Steer or spayed heifer,
two years old and under three, $40, $55,
$40. and SO Apollo first, owned by
second, owned by H. T. Schneider. New
Haven, Ind; Uncle John II third,
owned by John Redhead, Des Moines.
Ia; Beau Lou (steer) fourth owned by
Maxim Bros, Lees Summit Mo.
Stear or spayed heifer one year old and
under two prizes of $70$ 55, $40, and $40.
The Woods Principal first, owned by q.
P. Henry GOodnow, ILL.,; Clipper sec
ond. owned by T. B. Solham. Chilli
cothe, Mo-: Hickory Grove third, owned
by G. p. Henry, Goodnow, ILL.,; Avalette
fourth, owned by Thomas Clark Beech
er, Ill.
Tamworth hogs-Class 81, board two
yqears old or over; first prize Is, second
prize $40. Minnesota university expert
ment station first prize.
Glass 58, boar one year old or over;
first prize SIS, second prize SO Min
nesota university experiment station
first and second prizes.
Glass 59-Boar months old and I'M
der one year: First prize $12, second
prize So. Minnesota University Expert
ment station first; r. S. Hartley, Pitts
field, Pa, second.
Glass 60-Boar under six months old.
First prize $12; second prize So. R. s.
Hartley, Pittsfeld, Pa, first; Minnesota
University Experiment station, second.
Glass 61-Sow years old or over.
First prize SIS; second prize SO. R. S.
Hartley. first; Minnesota University Ex-
pertinent station, second.
Glass 62-Sow 1 year old and under 2.
Prizes SIS and $40. r. S. Hartley, first;
Minnesota Experiment station, second.
Glass 63-Sow months old and I'M
der one year, prizes $12 and So. Mime
sofa University Experiment station
first and second.
Glass 64-Sow under months old.
Prizes s12 and S.. r. s. Hartley first
and second.
Class 65-Boar any age. Prize $40.
Minnesota Experiment station.
Sheep were exhibited from Illinois,
Iowa. Minnesota and Michigan and
many Canadian sections. Canada won
each prize in the first contest
Shropshires, fat wethers-First, Rich
ard Gibson. Delaware, Ont; second,
John Campbell, WoolVlle, Ont, third,
Richard Gibson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
CITY HAS A RIGHT.
Was Not Improper to Enjoin Vine
wood Railway.

Judge Hazen in the district court this
morning decided that the city of To-
peka has the right to bring an action
in the district court seeking to secure
a forfeiture of the franchise of the
Vinewood Park railroad in Topeka.
The railroad company entered a de-
murrer to the petition of the city on the
ground that the city has no right to
bring such action and that it should be
maintained in the name of the state.
proper party to bring such proceedings
if the franchise has not been complied
with. Judge Hazen held that the in
junction suit brought against the COM
pany by the city was for the purpose
of holding the parties in statu quo
pending the decision whether the COM
pany has forfeited it's rights. The court
said that he did not think that the
city could pass an ordinance revoking
the ordinance granting the franchise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
HAZEN WANTS TO KNOW.
Judge Asks Pertinent Questions
About HurrelI Law.

Judge Hazen, in the district court,
this morning asked the attorneys on
both sides of the Matilda Parrish case,
wherein the validity of the Hurrell
liquor law is in question, to furnish
him with information regarding certain
questions.
The court asked the attorneys to cite
to him whether the state law governing
the sale of liquor by druggists provides
that druggists shall not sell liquor to
a man intoxicated or a drunkard. The
question to be determined is whether
a prollibitive ordinance can also regu-
late the sales of liquor. The court also
wanted to know if the state law, under
which the city search and seizure
dinance was drawn up, did not provide
for three months sentence and the or
dinance provide for six months SEN
tence in case of conviction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02

The senate of Georgia has passed a
bill defining anarchy and fixing pun
ishment The bill defines anarchy las
the public or private advocacy by
speech, writing. in any other mode
or means, by any person or association
of persons, the subversion and destruc-
ton by force of any and all govern
ment, or the attempt by speech, writ
ing, printing, or in any other way or
mode whatsoever, to incite or abet, pro-
mote or encourage hostility or opposi-
ton to any and all government" Under
the bill anarchy is to be punished as a
felony. The measure also fixes the pen
atty of death for assault on a public
official by reason of opposition to gov
eminent The Georgia senate passed
the bill by unanimous vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
MORE CURRENCY r1NKER1Na.

In commenting on the present system
of subtreasuries. Mr.. VIVA. B. Ridgely,
the comptroller of the currency in his
annual report calls attention to the dis
advantages and arrangements it's oper-
atoms cause in our financial matters,
and says:
There could be no better illustra-
ton of this than its operations in the
last few months The result has been
to needlessly lock up and take out of
circulation vast sums of money just
at time when it was badly needed for
moving crops and transacting the reg
ular business of the country. The re-
lief afforded by the purchase of bonds
by the secretary of the treasury only
partially and temporarily meets the
difficulty and repairs the damage done
The mistake of maintaining this sys-
tenn after the business of the govern
ment and the country has long out
grown it should be corrected and the
from its operation in ia liking money out
of circulation when most needed. If
the secretary of the treasury is given
authority so that he can arrange to
have more of the money collected bv
the government deposited with the ma
tional banks and kept there until need
ed, 1t can pc done under such regula-
tons, restrictions, and supervision as
TO insure the government against loss
and give relief from the present sys-
tenn
Referring to the criticism which has
been made of the act of March IA 1900
TO the effect that it does not properly
safeguard the gold standard but leaves
it possible for the secretary of the
treasury to practically undo the effect
of the act by departmental action and
regulation without further legislation
the comptroller says:
If the act can be made stronger by
amendments and the gold standard of
value rendered more secure from any
future uncertainty, 1t should be done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-02
NEW INSURANCE ORDER.
United Workmen Accident Associa-
ton Applies For License.

The United Workmen Accident asso-
citation is a new insurance order which
is being organized in Kansas as a
branch of the A. o. U. w. Application
was made today to W. " Church. sup
erintendent of insurance, for permission
to be chartered under the Kansas laws.
1t will do an accident business solely.
The incorporators named in the pro-
posed charter are G. w. Van De Mark
George L. RUSSO, G. F. Armstrong, Geo.
Hayes, and NJ. B Van De Mark Jr.
All of the incorporators live at Clyde
but the arcticles of incorporation state
that the principal office and AeadQuar-
ters of the association shall be MAIN
tanned at Topeka.