The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-15

! its manager, Mr-W. G. Glenn, has mada
complaint against the American Mir
ror company and the Pittsburg Plate
Glass company charging that they
/ have formed a mirror trust in violation
of the law. The department has been
asked to prosecute these companies I'M
der the Sherman antitrust act. The
evidence is now being secured in the
case.
Word has been received here that the
tribes of the kiowa, Comanches and
Apache Indians OF Oklahoma are send
ing d delegation to Washington to pro-
test against the carrying out =. che pro-
vision of the treaty for the opening of
their lands to settlement. The delega-
tion is expected to arrive here today
Saturday. A memorial to the press-
dent has been signed by ass adult males
of the tribe, out of a total of $50. asking
him to withhold his proclamation for
the opening of the lands. The suit re-
Gently brought by Lone Wolf against
the secretary of the interior has been
set for hearing Wednesday of next
week before Justice Bradley, in the dis
trict supreme court
Considerable of the valuable property
recently stolen from the residence OF
Prof. Willard Bigelow of Gardner. Kan,
an employe of the department of agri-
culture, has been recovered by the
detectives.
goods included solid silverware, parts
of tea sets, jewelry and other articles,
amounting in value to about $500. Some
Of the property had been disposed of at
business places here in the city, but
most of it the officers found buried in
the woods just north of lexington, a
suburb. The thief has been captured
Lawrence W. Luellen of Olathe. inven-
tor of the Luellen voting machine, was
in Washington this week consulting his
attorney about the organization of a
company to build and sell his invention
issued before taking further steps
David HehebOwer. ex-state treasurer of
Kansas, is extensively interested in the
project.
Senator ]. r. Burton OF Kansas will
arrive in Washington tonight, and re-
main for an indefinite period Tt is IN
derstood that his federal appointments
will not be announced until about the
first of August
Miss Augusta Motion DeForest Of
Ernngham, AtchiSOn county, Kansas,
daughter Of Col. Newton DeForest,
graduated the other day in the eastern
high school Of Washington with the
highest honors of the school. She was
presented with what IL known as the
four-year Kendall scholarship to Column
bia university of this city. When at the
age of Is years this bright young woman
at Topeka when graduating from the
high schools of Atchison.
Mr. E. ]. Turner of Hoxie. Sheridan
county, Kansas. formerly a representa-
tive in congress from the Sixth district,
Is IN Washington engaged in the prac-
uce of law Mr.. Turner served Kansas
in the 50th and 51st congresses as Re
publican member. Immediately upon his
retirement as a public man he took up
his residence in the capital city and has
remained here continually since. He
practices before the conversational COM
rnittees, the departments, and corpora
ton law
Col DeForest Of Effingham, Kansas,
Tor the past year or so a clerk in the |
disburSing division Of the census Office /
at a salary of 81 200 Der annurn was
this week reinstated in the treasury de-
partment, where he was formerly en- /
plOyed back in the early '70's. He was |
a relative OF Senator Pomer0y. and was |
removed from his former position by the !
Democratic administration in 1872 and
has never made an effort for reinstate-
ment until recently. Upon his request |
he was Immediately transferred to the /
pension bureau where he is now en- /
ployed as an ad5udicator of claims IN l
ton.
"A prominent wedding took place in
Washington this week when Prof /
Walter T. Swingle. of Manhattan. Kas
and Miss Lucy Rom steadt. of Alsace /
france, were united in marriage. The i
ceremony occurred at the manse on /
Maple avenue at high noon Monday. 4
and was performed by the Rev John /
Van Ness, pastor of the Takorna Pres
byterian church, in the presence of a
few invited friends of the contracting /
parties The parlors in which the cere-
mony was performed We're beautifully /
decorated with palms and cut flowers 1
the walls being entirely covered. After
the ceremony the couple left on an af-
tsrnoon train for Harper's Ferry for q
snort honeymoon Upon their return
70 the city Mr.. and Mrs. SwinRle will
reside at the Victoria, Columbia
Heights.
a hne stone building at Perry. Okla.
which has come into the possession or
the government for the sum Of S. is to
De abandoned because there are no
FUNDS available with which to make the
necessary repairs on the structure
~ men Perry awakened to the need for
q larger postof1ice, about five years ago
l. was proposed that the town authori-
ties should erect a building on plot of
srodnd known as the government
acre. The municipality offered to build
the postOffice of stone. finish and eosin
II Tor special purposes. and rent it to
the national government for 81 a year
1t was conditional also that when tha
nFe years rent had been paid the new
stone building should become the prop
erty of the national gOvern-n ent The
government mas been appraised that the
ooitolng, worth several thousand dol
lars, mas been conveyed to the Wash
lngton authorities. The building has
Deem worn q little In the past 1--WE years
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