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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
ADDITIONAL BRIEFS
Submitted in Case of Richard Pine
Coffin Against the Erie.

New York, Feb. 12-Additional briefs
were today submitted to Justice F'itz-
gerald in the action brought by Richard
Pine Coffin against the Erie company to
restrain the officers of the road and It's
voting trustees from carrying out an
arrangement for the purchase of the
Pennsylvania Cos1 company, the Erie
& Wyoming Valley Railroad company
and the Delaware Valley and Kingston
Railroad company for $37, 900, 600. In an
affidavit Mr. Coffin says that he lives in
Portledge, Biddeford, North Devon, Eng
land and that he is a minority stock
holder in the Erie railroad. He asserts
that he bought 100 shares Of the stock
of the road on January 20. 1901.
The plaintiff claims that ]. p. Morgan
& Co bought the roads which are feed
ers of the Erie system, for $27, 400, 900.
Mr.. Coffin also asserts that Mr.. Morgan
had also secured control of the Erie sys-
TEN.
After getting the three roads in ques-
ton the plaintiff says that Mr.. Morgan
resoId them to the Erie railroad for $37, =
100000. thus clearing $e,400. 600 Mr.
Coffin says that Mr.. Morgan gets 1872
600, 900 in bonds Of the company and
IS, 00o. 600 in preferred stock Mr. Coffin
says that he has been unsuccessful al
though he has made the utmost effort in
securing the affidavits of the then Off
GERS of the Philadelphia & Reading as
to the offer made to them to acquire the
same assets now proposed to be sold to
the Erie railroad for many millions less.
The plaintiff says that the main facts
in the suit are not seriously disputed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
Po1NTFD PARAaRApHs.

LFrom the Chicago Newal
Feeble minds WISH but great mines
win
II there were no lies there would be no
gossips-
Never judge the milk by the color of
the milkman's pump.
Whisky makes a man stagger and
chlcroform makes him limp
Ar angry person in an argument re-
sembles cripple in a foot race
The difference between hrmness ard
obsfinacy is merely matter OF sex.
Love at first sight is less substantial
than love one year after date.
If a man has wheels in his head he
must be of mechanical turn OF mind.
Men who pose as earthly angels are
very apt to disgust the ordinary mortal.
The young man who has to scratch
for living seldom sowa any wild oats.
Marriage Is a lottery-and lots Of men
wish they could dispose OF their tickets
A woman occasionally talks about
herself-if there are no other women t.
talk about
Count a hundred when you're angry:
1t will give the other fellow a chance To
sneak away
If you would retain your friends don't
ask them to turn the grindstone when
you have an ak to grind
Many an otherwise sensible woman
imagines she is a superior parsonage just
because she happened to win a progress
siva euchre prize
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
PREDICTS EXTRA SESSION.
Secretary vanderlip Says Mckinley
VIII Call Congress Together.

Chicago, Feb. 12.-F'rank H. Wander
lip, assistant secretary Of the treasury
is at his home, 5331 Madison avenue. for
a weeks visit. In discussing the proba-
bility of special session of congress
and the present financial situation, he
said: 1T is the general impression in
Was hington that the president Will call
an extra session. Not only does the Gu
ban question require attention, but on
other matters there is now before beth
houses more than they can possibly han
die in the regular session.
las to the changes in the present cab
met, that Of Attorney General Griggs is
the only one which is thought probable.
Secretary Gage Will stay.
THE department is only awaiting a
favorable market price to buy in more
bonds, but at present the price is pro-
hibitive. We have a large and growing
surplus and if the wrangle on the reve-
nue. reduction bills drawn up by both
houses continues the surplus will contin
ue to grow at an increasing rate. Some
$400, 000, 900 worth of bonds mature with
in the next seven years. and it is the
policy of the department to retire ther1
at the rate of about s50,000,000 each
year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
AsKS FOR An EXTENSION.
Consul Stowe in No Hurry to Re
turn to africa

Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 12.-Colouel
Stowe, consul geenral to South Africa,
announced today he had asked for an
extension of his leave of absence. This
is precisely the step anticipated three
weeks ago, on the return Of the consul
n was said
then he had been informed no decision
would be given in his case until young
Adelbert Hay could arrive from Pre-
toria- Colonel Stoves proclamation
that he had not been o-British went
for nothing ct the White House The
word of young Hay will be law. If the
son Of the secretary Of state has been
sufficiently anglicised to adopt the views
of Colonel Stowe. the Kansas City man
will get the assurance Of the president
that ne may return to the Cape, relying
on being permitted to remain there for
another four years. As it is, Colonel
Stowe has another year to serve, but the
trip is Z 200 miles, and is not worth tax
ing when it is considered the pay ia
onlY So 500.
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demise Of the banana trust store at
Wichita
Home talent show proceeds are build
ing sidewalks along Dunavant streets.
Two Inman pedagogues add to their
bank account by pleading cases IN }. r
courts on Saturdays
Some playful corn fed steers delayed
a. Russell county school a. half day py
chasing the lady teacher UP a tree
A Jefferson county man boldly an
nounces that he was once a member OF
Mrs. Nations Sunday school class
The report drifts in from the Central
branch that snow is up to the second
story windows. This is one story too
many.
The raiding Of Mother Haist's saloon
at HoIton exemp lidesthe theory that all
joints look alike to such wreckers as
public sentiment.
Henry Allen declares Ottawa isn't a
first class town to live In and never VIII
be-until the citizens learn TO keep their
sidewalks clean.
The Belgian hare fad at Hanover has
taken temporary lull since measiy
little tabby cat changed owners for .
$50 consideration.
A missing Neosho county man mourned
for as dead by his relatives had simply
been on a jaunt to the Transvaa1 with
a string of mules
A Smith county lass of twelve sum
mers tips the scales at 800 pounds while
her forty-tWo months old sister MARKS
up an even hundred.
An indignant Erie father quickly ter
minated a runaway marriage by spank
ing his 15-year-old daughter soundly
and then sending her to Missouri
A plain tale from the hills around
Carbonate relates how one farmer has
lost sixty young shoats favorite
poodle dog and seven bronze turkeys
since the storm, to hungry coyotes
A prolific well in Butler county not
only furnishes an abundance of stock
water but gushes forth copper dust
enough to line al the pots and kettles
on the ranch.
An Emporia grocer has established an
enduring monument of fame in the
hearts of normal boarding house keep
ers by a sudden and radical reduction
in the price of prunes.
A Leavenworth woman sues for d.
vorce upon the grounds that her erring
spouse made her milk ten cows daily
for thirty two years and in all that time
would never take her to church
A spider swung itself down from the
ceiling of a Jackson county store by its
web and attached itself to the tail of a
mouse and dragged the mouse up till
only its front feet touched the floor,
where it was held by the spider until
life was extinct.
The mails will be burdened this week
with thousands of testimonials of affec-
ton and esteem somewhat similar to
this:
You silly. senseless, gaping fiirt,
With tousled hair and scanty skirt:
Why don't you let the men alone
And get a husband of your own2
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SUBSIDY GRARBERs, rRrcK.
prom the Chicago Tribune.l

IFrom the Chicago Tribune.1
The ship subsidy bill introduced in De-
cember, 1898, contained provision that
subsidies should be granted to foreign
built ships under construction for Amer
lean citizens or corporations where
copies Of the contract were nled with
the secretary of the treasury prior to
Feb /, 1899 This bill. offered at the
short session of the last congress, did
not pass. Probably nobody seriously
expected that it would pass Neverthe-
less, SO as to be on the safe side, the
president Of the International Naviga-
tion company, prior to the date mention
ed. handed to the treasury officials
copies OF contracts for the construction
OF four foreign-built vessels The same
thing was done by a few other persons.
There was no law requiring or authoriz-
ing rneSe OE1clalS to receive formally
such documents and make them a part
OF the files OF the department. They
appear, however, to have done so
The ship subsidy bill which was in
troduced IN the present congress In
December. 1899. contained no provision
a bout Hing contracts with the secretary
or the treasury It contemplated the
granting OF subsidies to all foreign built
ships owned by Americans which were
contracted for prior to Jan. !. 1900. This
covered the vessels the contracts for
which had been filed with the secretary
on the treasury I'm February. 1893, and
should have been satisfactory to the
persons concerned.
Evidently it was not. for the amend
ments to the bill. reported last year by
the committee on commerce OF the sen
ate. cOufine subsidies to such foreign
built ships as were engaged in business
on Feb. !. 1899, and to ships then under
construction where copies OF the con-
tracts had been filed, on or before that
date. with the secretary or the treasury
These changes in the bill must have
been inspired by the men who were
smart enough to file contracts two years
ago. They wished to increase their
share Of the $9.000.000 per annum to be
given for subsidy purposes by freezing
ont other American owners OF foreign
built ships acquired or contracted for
subsequent to Feb. Z. 1889.
The committee on commerce was
&oodwinked BY these subsidy grabbers
who had in mind their own interests
and not the development OF an Amerf-
can merchant marine It is not strange
that when these facts were brought out
in the senate. ten Republican senators.
the majority OF them from the states Of
the middle west, broke away from their
colleagues They. with Senator Allison
ae their head. practically served notice
upon the supporters Or the ship subsidy
bill that they no longer consider il 4
party measure.
Nor is it, 1t is manifestly a tainted
measure for the special beueht OF Ger
tain rapacious corporations which are
Gcheming to secure the Hors'a share OF
tho subsidies II Is proposed to vote os-
Gnnnihly to promata the commarce and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
WAR ON SALOONS.
w. C. T. q. officers Urge a Wig
orOus Fight on Joints.

Hutchinson, kan, Feb. 1.-THE w. G.
T. U. Of Kansas will attack the saloon
element at the opening made by. Mrs.
Nation Mrs. E. p Hutchinson. the
state president and other officers. draft
ed a manifesto here today to be sent to
w. c. T. u unions all over the state
urging a general uprising against the
saloon.
Mass meetings to adopt resolutions
urging Governor Stanley to enforce the
prohibition law and to stir up the peO-
ple'' are urged. The manifesto, coming
on top of that adopted by the Kansas
State Temperance union will, it is be-
lieved, result in a revival in Kansas of
the enthusiastic crusade thaz resulted in
the election of John p ST. John, the
prohibition governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
Gas FIND in ILLINOIS.
Town of xadorado Greatly Excited
over Discovery on a Farm


Harrisburg. III, Feb. 12.-Eldorados
eight miles north of this city, IS IN an
uproar Of excitement over the discovery
Of natural gas in what Is believed to be
paying quantities on the farm Of q. II
Overton, northeast OF that city Eek
perts have been at work on the quiet for
some time and after a thorough investi-
cation have found that gas and oil IN
abundance can be had at a depth Of L.
200 feet, the only obstacle in the way be-
ing water, and It is believed this can cas-
lily be overcome. A stock company win
Immediately organized and shares sold
to buy the necessary machinery to work
the wells Real estate throughout Sallna
county has advanced In consequencesaiid
a number OF farmers have already re-
fused hattering offers for leases
The fact that Mr.. Overton's land con-
taiEed oil and gas was discovered about
two years ago while boring for water
The season was very dry and water was
scarce, and the we'll had to be dug to !
great depth before water was struck.
During the process a peculiar door was
noticed about the hole OF the well, and
one of the workman touched a match TO
it and a flame shot rs feet into the air.
Work was abandoned. and later Mr..
Overton put in pipes leading to his houee
and for. nearly q year used the gas ( u
lighting and heating purposes, when the
well finally, through improper attention,
became filled up and shut or the fiow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
HAD HIS COFFIN READY.
Michael Walsh Kept It For Twenty
Years

Years
New York, Feb. 12-Just as he planned
it all out twenty years ago the wake of
Michael Walsh, schoolmaster in and
about Pierpont on the Hudson for half
a century, was held and the funeral
plans were carried out as he had d.
rected.
For twenty years he lived with his
coffin and his tombstone beside him,
with the crucifix and other religious
emblems that his education had taught
him to reverence, close at hand. Two
pounds OF candles were there, too, and
several pounds of choice tobacco and
snuff for the friends that watched his
body.
Il want them to be comfortable over
my dead body" he used to say, so /
have prepared everything for them"
The gravestone had been carved. Once
he had go years. sunk in deep letters
as his age at death.
I'm be gone before that" he said to
Kate Dorr, his niece, but fourteen years
later he was still very much allVe, ana SO
he had the age routed out
Walsh was born in ireland and taught
parochfal schools there four years be-
fore coming to this country. He taught
schools about Nyack and Pierpont forty
six years. Several years ago he retired
to the SecIusion of his books In old
hut on the river bank. and there passed
the time alone
Recently he became i'll and was removed
to the poor-house at Viola where he died
a few days ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
REPEATERS RELEASED.
Man Who Hired Them Tells the
Whole Story


st. Louis, Feb. 12.-The twenty or more
men who are alleged to have come from
Chicago for the purpose of acting as re-
peaters at the Democratic primaries yes
terday were released from custody by the
police department today.
Assistant Chief of Police Pickel said to-
day that Maurice Fitzgerald of Chicago
was the leader of the Chicago party.
Fitzgerald. he said, corroborated the state
ment of Charles G. Brown of St. Louis
that a, member of the house OF delegates
of this city approached him last week to
go to Chicago and secure q gang of re-
peaters there.
his confession We got into Chicago
Saturday morning and went on the West
side to Burns saloon, at 544 West Madi-
son street
7 told Harry Located, bartender in that
saloon, to get a few men who had sense
enough to say anything We got a few
men through Located and came down
here Sunday morning. The delegate was
with US. 1 introduced him to all of the
men. I fixed these men with money and
planted them at the hotels Fitzgerald
and I were to meet the delegate at a sa-
loon Monday morning" This confession,
It stated, will be used before the grand
jury.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
STATIONERY AND FUEL.


IFTon1 t1e CHICAGO Hec0rd.1
Benjamin Harrison. an ancestor OF ot,r
ex-president and a signer OF the Deciar-
alton Of independence. was fond Of the
good things of this life and a high liver
While a member Of the First conrre's.s
which met in Philadelphia. on one occa-
sion he was Joined By a friend as he left
the congressional hall Wishing fo ash
his friend to join him in a bumper ne tooi
MIN 10 certain place and called for two
glasses OF brandy and water The man
IN charge replied that liquors were nof
Eressmeu ~ ~"
W hat Is it. then. that I see the r-ey~
Eng land members come here and tirirlr ~
Molasses and water. which thew haze
ensas5ssu q Stta9,Ionery, was the reply
very well, said Harrison .-rfvS y,.
brandy and water and charga N = 80 !.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
UP In MINNESOTA.
Governor Once Prevented Prize Fight
Similar to Ohio Proposed Contest

Governor OuGS EIGFGuSGu EI12G k1ZAt
Similar to Ohio Proposed Contest
st. Paul, Feb. 12.-St. Paul people are
much interested in the effort Of Cover
nor Nash to prevent the Jeffries- Rubin
prize fight next Friday at Cincinnati as
it wildly recalls a. similar situation here
in 1890 when Governor Merriam with
several companies Of militia stopped the
fight between Bob F'itzsimmons and Jim
Hail.
The mill was set for July %. Hundreds
of lovers of the fistic art were in st
Paul from all over the country. Frank
Shaw, then well known as a lover and
alder OF all kinds Of sport and the ST.
large amphitheater out on West Seventh
street at an expense of $4,000 with a
seating capacity of several thousand. On
July 20, a warrant was sworn out for
the arrest of Fitzsimmons. the city au-
thorities having announced an intention
to permit the fight.
That same night a mass meeting was
held to protest against the fight adopt
ing resolutions calling on the governor
to suppress the fight. The protest was
carried into the governor. The day fol-
lowing Governor Merriam issued a proc
lamation directing peace officers to do
laws against any such pugilistic meet
ing as had been advertised The local
military companies were assembled and
CONSERVATION filed the pugilistic ranks
as one detachment was marched to the
amphitheater and encamped at the ring
side. Hurried conferences were held be-
tween the state authorities and the fight
promoters but the governor was implac-
able and the fight was declared off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
JAYHAWKER lots

Alas what fools some mortals be-
She n1ourns fame that disappears=
Receipts up north were low, an met
Now Carrie yearns for Kansas cheers.
a. shave costs ten cents mt the Nickel
barber shop in Inman.
Wathena pretends to have the star
male quartette Of Kansas
A tonsorial war at Blue Mound has
reduced shaves to a nickel
Paoia objects to the small amount
Of gas furnished for a dollar
Too strong csmpetiti0n caused the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
A GUSHER IN INDIANA.
Remarkable Flow of Oil Reported
From Hartford City.

Hartford city. Ind. Feb 12.-An oil well
that may equal the famous gusher at
Beaumont, Tex, was struck in the Black
ford county oil field this forenoon The
unexpected output is not yet under con-
troll and five acres of land surrounding the
marvellous producer are inundated with
the crude oil. The well is located on
the Joseph Bird farm, in Washington
township, this county. The wen was
started by the Manhattan Oil company.
but after the sale of the company to the
Standard it was transferred to the big
trust, which now owns the well The con-
tractor of thS Eell and Earl Ross. the man
who drilled it, we're seen today in regard
to the rich strike Both state that the
well is by far the largest that they have
encountered. Two donkey pumps which
have a capacity for handling 1000 barrels
day, could not take care of the output
They claim the well is a crev1ce freak, and
the enormous output cannot be maintained
any great length Of time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
LEGISLATIYE MORGUE.
A Half Dozen Bills Are Sent to It
This Afternoon.

The house judiciary committee killed
Hogue's bill to protect ice on ponds
Seaton's bill making a death penalty for
train robbers; Remington's bill making
chicken stealing a penitentiary Offense,
Johnson's initiative and referendum;
Grosser's special legislation constitution
al amendment resolutions; McKeever's
exemption of druggists ct al from jury
service and J. B. Belts bill penalizing
the occupying, without consent, Of va
cant buildings and Willis bill defining
persons for service in railroad civil
suits
Favorable report was made on Ward 3
libel bill; DooIey's gas well improve
ment; Millar's bill allowing cities to dis
pose of railroad stock Bigham bill plac-
ing a license on peddlers and knocking
out fakirs; Snyder's bill setting a penal
y in destroying boats
The banks and banking committee re-
ported Giessler's bill regulating trus.
companies, recommended only that it
printed and put on the calendar to be
taken up in committee Of the whole.
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The British have an army OF over 200,-
600 men in South Africa The highest
estimate anybody places on the Boer
force is 5000. Yet whenever there is a
fight the English are invariably at
tackled BY a body Outnumbering them
three OF hve or seven to one. Kitchener
seems TO feel no shame in sending home
such announcements
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SIMPSONS HOME.
Ex-Congressman Finally Decides to
Locate at Wichita

Locate at Wichita
Wichita. Kan. Feb. 12.-Former Con-
gresham Jerry Simpson decided definitely
today to make his home in wichita He
is negotiating for the purchase Of resi-
dence, but does not expect to be able to
get possession of ii soon Until he does
he viii live in rented cottage near Thir-
teenth and Main streets, very close to the
bon ton quarter of the city
Il am taking absolutely no interest IN
politics now" said Mr.. Simpson, ''and viii
not until the time gets ripe for another
battle. The people are under the spell of
Mark Hanna yet and there not much
work to be done until they come to their
senses"
Mr.. Simpson takes a deep interest in
the progress Of Mrs. Nations campaign
against the rum power as he calls 1t,
and is inclined to the belief, from what
he knows of Mrs. Nation one of his
old neighbors, that she has started q
movement very much like that started in
Ohio thirty years ago and which culmin-
ated in the CIRCULATION of the w. c. 7. z.
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Roosevelt's Hunt About over.

Colorado Springs. Colo, Feb. 12-Vice
President-e elect Roosevelt will return to
Colorado Springs from his hunt in
Coyote Basin country on next Saturday
This is the date as given by Mr. Stew
art, at whose invitation Mr. Roosevelt
came to Colorado He will rest up here
for a day or two, then he will return
home and prepare for the Inauguration
at Washington. The hunt has been
quite successful. The vice president
himself has bagged several lions and
ether game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12

The army promotions of most import
ance have been settled by the president
with the assistance Of the senate. Now
for the naval business. Another effort
TO put the admiral who did the fighting
at Santiago in the rear Of the man who
did not may be confidently expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-12
TO SMASH JOINTS.
Mayors Refusal to Close Saloons
Will Cause Raid.

Arkansas City. Kan. Feb. 12.-Mayor
Hess today issued a written refusal of
the request made by a committee of
ministers last week to close the local
joints and a raid by the temperance
people is expected to result The mayor
says it is as much in the ministers
power as his to close the places.
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After all, the joints have been closed
by a manifestation Of public sentiment
and not by the officers OF the law whose
business 1t was to close them. A demon
Etration similar to that which has oc-
CURED in Topeka would close the saloons
in Wichita, Leavenworth, or any other
place where they are not sanctioned by
1au-