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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
THEY WANT IN.
People Living Near Washburn Object
to Being Left Without Sewer.

Some of the people in the west part
of town who were not included in the
proposed college sewer dis
trict, as printed last week in the State
Journal, have made an informal pro-
test against the plan to leave them out
of the benefit district. In spoons to
these objections, City Engineer McCabe
has drawn up a new map, and is fgur-
ing on the cost of extending the pro-
posed district to include all that part
of the city between Fifteenth and Hun
toon and Lane and College avenue.
If the proposed extension in the boun-
dries of the district are made, the sewer
will , st more than double the first esti-
mate of 81, 1000. The cost will likely be
in the n~eighborhood of SIC, 900 and there
will be about 800 lots to bear the cost
The proposed extension of the sewer
will branch off the 24-fnch main which
it is proposed to build west on Piercy
street. The branch will be at West
street, from whence the proposed sewer
will go north to Thirteenth, west to Col
lege avenue and east to Lane, with
eight long laterals extending to Hun
toon street on the north and Fifteenth
street on the south.
The maps and m of the city
engineer are all preliminary, and are
being prepared for the purpose of sub
hitting them to the people in the pro-
posed sewer district at a meeting to be
called soon by those who are pushing
the project.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
THEY CLAIM THE EARTH.
Title to Chicago Real Estate Worth
Millions in Dispute.

Chicago, Dec. ia claim has been
made to practically all lake shore prop
erty lying east of the United States
survey line Of 1921. This time every
thing is included etwee the Indiana
and Wisconsin state lines. covering
property held by the Illinois Central
railroad, the Illinois Steel and
other big corporations, representing a
value of millions of dollars.
Claimants to the north shore tract are
said to be DR.. Jacob Nine. E. H. Pick
ering and M. p. Benson. Those alleg-
ing title to the south shore tract are
said to be B.. D. Marks and S.. M. Biddi-
son. both of Chicago. The north siders
assert their title rests on revolutionary
scrip secured many years ago while the
south siderS place their faith in some
other scrip obtained by DR.. Nine.
These claims were brought out today
by the filing for record of an agreement
between the two parties, which was
made on October 25, 1900. By this in
strument interests in the two tracts are
made mutual, and it is agreed that If
the whole or any part of either tract Is
disposed Of the proceeds are to be divid-
ed equally.
Claimants allege that negotiations are
pending for the sale of their title to a
corporation, but real estate men are not
disposed to consider the matter seri-
OuSly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
DATE Is FIXED.
Populist State Central Committee
Will Meet Dec. 81.

A call has been issued for a meeting
of the Populist state central committee
On Decen Der q at the National hotel.
1t will be for the purpose of discussing
the formal invitation. extended by the
Democrats to the Populists to partici-
pate in the Democratic primaries as
Democrats.
tee are in favor of accepting the invita-
ton and going into the Democratic
party, and capturing the entire Demo-
cratic machinery. Others, principally
the old-line Populists, are in of
hanging on to their own organization
and going it alone. Both John w.
Breidenthal and E. r. Ridgley, the
chairman, favor this plan.
Not all of the old-hne of the
committee are opposed to the Demo-
cratic invitation, however. Andrew
Shearer, of Marshall county, for in
stance, is n OF the founders of the
Peoples party, and before that he was
a G~reenback, but he is now in V of
going into the Democratic party. The
Democrats, however, want to nominate
him for ongress in the Fifth district
Fifth district Democraticfn opposition to
Harry Mcmillan, who is a real Demo-
crat.
If the invitation is accepted the To-
peka Democrats offer to nominate John
w. Breidenthal for the Legislature from
the Thirty-ninth representative district,
the one which has been represented by
overwhelmingly Republican, and even
so popular a man as Mr.. Breicenthal
would have a hard fight to win 1t is
no temptation to him, especially as he
is busy with his new insurance order
and doesn't want the Office anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
BUYING GOOD WILL.
How London Papers Regard the
Hay Pauncefote Treaty.

London, Dec. 17.-With the exception
of the Globe, the afternoon newspapers
today comment a~pprovingly on the rati-
ication of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
by the United States senate yesterday
The Globe sees in the overwhelming ma
jority for the ratification proof that the
compact is regarded by the senate as
one-sided and calculated to adversely
affect British political and commercial
interests.
Senator Teller's offensive phrase, In
her present mood clearly signifies" the
paper says, the conviction that Eng
lane has become more submissive than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
THE EARTH OPENED.
Earthquake in New Zealand
Creates a Panic.

San Francisco, Dec. 17.-New Zealand
news received by steamer gives details
of great destruction of property in the
Cheviot district by an earthquake on
November Is. In the town of Cheviot
and country damage will reach $50, 900.
Scarcely a building was left standing.
The fine homestead of Sir George Cliff
ford was wrecked.
Great assures opened in the earth and
water issued from them. In one office
a safe was thrown across the
and brick chimneys fell like toy
houses. The people are panic stricken
as the shocks still continue. At Waiian
river great cracks opened in the river
bed, into which water poured. Then
they closed and volume of water were
sem hundreds of feet into the air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
GRIMES IS GLAD.
Never Would Have Done For Him to
Be Burton's Secretary.

State Treasurer Frank Grimes, to
whom Senator Burton offered his pri-
vete secretaryship some time ago is
shaking hands with himself because he
turned down the job He didn't know it
at the time, but he has since discov-
cred that Washington is not so demo-
cratic a place as one would expect to
ind the capital of a popular government
In which the common people" are the
supposed "bulwark of the nation"
It is not much OF a snap for a man of
any spirit to be a private secretary to
a congressman in Washington. Many
OF the congressman do not amount to
much, let alone their secretaries. 1t is
a great breach Of courtesy for one con-
gresham to introduce his private sec
Rotary to another congressman, or for
q senator to recognize his secretary as
an equal In the presence of another
senator.
1t is all right for a congressman or a
senator to sit down and talk to his sec
rotary alone in a committee room, but
II another senator shoul come in con-
gress1onal courtesy requires that the
secretary get up Immediately, excuse
himself and go out Otherwise 1t would
De considered as an affront to the other
senator
IL Is against the rules Of senatorial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
ALL ABOUT A FOOT OF LAND
It Resulted In Lengthy Law Suit in
District Court

There is an extra foot of land or there
is not in the block on Kansas avenu IN
North Topeka etwee Norris and Lau-
rent streets. One survey shows an ex-
ira IL inches and the other survey
shows just enough ground.
The uncertainty about the number of
feet in the block was developed by the
suit of w. c. Little against L. c. Arnold
in the district court for $3.50 which Judge
Hazen decided Monday in favor of Lit
tie. Twenty years ago G. w. Little, the
father of w. G. Little, who is now dead,
planned to erect a building on his lot.
He had a survey mad and the
found an extra foot of land. Aletha
Craig owned the property next to Little.
He told her of the extra foot. She didn't
want it, so Little took it. Aletha Craig
sold her property to Arnold and he
erected a building and used the wall Of
the little building and claimed that as it
was on his property that he should not
pay for it. Little wanted $3.50 for it, and
claimed that the extra dozen inches
We're his. The court decided that as his
building had occupied the IL inches for
twenty years and that the matter was
understood when he erected his building
that he should nave pay for his wall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
BANQUET FOR THE LADIES.
Saturday Nighters to Entertain Their
Wives New Years Eve

Following a precedent established one
year ago, the Saturday Night club will
give it's second annual midwinter ban
quet at the National hotel on New
Years eve, Tuesday, December 81.
During two decades the members of
the Saturday Night club have ban
quoted annually, at which time it has
been the custom to allow no one to
make a speech or give a toast with any
degree of satisfaction, but the gentler
sex was never included in the invita-
tions-
Finally when il was decided that the
club should entertain the wives and
friends of the of the club, it
came to a choice between. abandoning
old customs or inaugurating a new or
separate banquet. The latter course
was adopted. The banquet was given
during the winter, and was called the
midwinter banquet.
At the banquet New Years eve the
wives and friends of the Saturday
Nighters will be entertained by the fol-
lowing programme, in addition to the
banquet:
Presidents address. Beyond the Alps
lies Italy" T. F.. Doran.
Beyond the Rhine" Anna Marie
Nellis.
Auditing the Old Years Accounts"
c. D.. WEIGH.
THE Old Year and the ex-Members,"
John Macdonald.
breaking New Resolutions" Mrs. c.
J. Evans.
The NationtaD Guard" Rev. J.. D.
Mcfarland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
1T Is I'M PoRTANT.
To Know What You are Taking When
Using Catarrh Medicines,

Catarrh is the short route to consump-
ton, and the Importance of early and
judicious treatment of catarrh, whether
located in the head, throat or bronchial
sized.
The list of catarrh cures is as long
as the moral law and the forms in which
they are administered, numerous and
confusing, from sprays, inhalers, wash
eS, ointments, and salveS to powders,
liquids and ia Dlets.
The tablet form is undoubtedly the
most convenient and the most effective,
but with nearly all advertised catarrh
remedies it is almost entirely a matter
of guess work as to what you are taking
into your system, as the ~proprietors,
while making all sorts of claims a. to
their medicines viii do, always
keep it a close secret as to what they
are.
The success and popularity of the new
catarrh cure, Stuart's Catarrh Tablets,
Is largely because it not only cures
catarrh but because catarrh sufferers
who use these tablets know what they
are taking into their systems. Stuart's
Catarrh Tablets are composed of Red
Gum, Blood Root and similar valuable
and antiseptic ingredients, and are
pleasant to the taste and being dissolved
in the mouth they take immediate effect
upo the mucous lining of the throat,
nasal passages and whole respiratory
tract.
The cures that Stuart's Catarrh Tab
lets nave mpii In old chronic
cases of catarrh are little short of
remarkable, and the advantage of
knowing what you are putting into your
stomach is of paramount Importance
or morphine habit has been frequently
as the result Of using secret
catarrh remedies.
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets meet with
cordial approval from physicians, be-
their antiseptic character render
them perfectly safe for the general pub
lie to uses and their composition makes
them a common sense cure for all forms
OF catarrhal roubIes
All druggists sell them at so cts. for
full sized paSckaSeA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
COBURN AHEAD OF ALL.
Receives More Invitations to Make
Addresses Than State Officers.

1t is frequently stated that Governor
Stanley receives more Invitations to
make addresses than any other man in
Kansas, with State Superintendent
Frank Nelson a close second. This is
incorrect. The man who receives the
most invitations of this character Is
Secretary Coburn, of the state board of
agriculture. Mr.. Coburn is flooded with
them. Every mail brings them in from
all over the state, and frequently from
neighboring states.
Mr.. Coburn is rarely ever able to COM
ply with these requests, however, owing
to the vast amount of work with which
he is crowded. He has an immense
mail to look after besides looking after
the gathering of crop statistics and is
suing the reports which meet with so
much favor.
Both Governor Stanley and Superin-
tendent Nelson have more time to give
to making public addresses, and both
of them receive more requests than they
can fill. Each of them frequently
makes from three to five public adj
dresses a week. Yesterday Governor
Stanley went clear out to Lakin, on the
extreme western border of the state. to
give a lecture to a high school class.
From there he will drive forty miles to-
day to make another address at
ULYSSES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17

When the stomach is in a healthy con-
dition the feeling after a meal is one of
satisfaction and comfort. Whenever
there is discomfort after eating it is a
sign of stomach arrangement or disease.
DIR Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and other
organs Indigestion and nutrition perfectly
and permanently. The cures effected by
this medicine are almost countless
al have taken one bottle of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery for indigestion and liver COM
plaint," writes Mr. c. M. Wilson. Of Yadkiu
College, Davidson Co.. N. c. rHave had no bad
spells since I commenced taking your medicine
i'm fact have not felt like the same nan.
Before / took the Golden Medical Discovery I
could not eat anything Without awful distress,
but now I can eat anything 1 wish without hav.
ing unpleasant feelings"
Don't be fooled into trading a sub
stance for a shadow. Any substitute
offered as e just as good as ~Golden
Medical Discovery IS a shadow of that
medicine. There are cures behind every
claim made for the discovery which
no ujust as good" naedicine can show.
DIR. Picrce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse
the bowels and regulate the liver. They
produce permanent benefit and do not
react IN the system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
PERNELL MAY BE HEARD.
Judge Hazen Sets Aside Judgment
Against Him.

Judge Hazen. in the district court,
has set aside the default judgment on
the Kansas avenue building secured
against Fred Pernell by the Chrisman
estate.
The building in controversy is occu-
pied by the Topeka Cash! Dry Goods
1t was owned by Eliza Chris
man and shortly before her death she
decided it to Fred Pernel the negro
plumber, who has since left Topeka S.
S. OFT and A. S. Embree, Executors for
the estate. brought suit to have the
deed set aside and the Judgment was
rendered in their favor on accoun of
Pernell not contesting the case. A Pc
tition was filed to set aside the default
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
AL THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

Ferris, comedians opened a weeks en-
gagement at the Crawford last night
in TN the Land of the Cajuns-"
The audience which greeted the OPEN
ing perform ance of the engagement was
large and nearly every seat was taken
The play was put on in a thorough
manner, every part being taken in a
satisfactory way. Harry Mckee, as the
Yankee peddler, was especially funny
and furnished plenty of amusement.
June Swift as Marian Dean" the hero
inc, was very pleasing. The specialties
of Emily Batlo. Harry Mckee, Chauncy
Holland and the Rutherford sisters
were good. The will play "A
Daughter Of the South" tonight. The
prices are 10, 20 and 80 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17

courtesy for a senator to receive his
private secretary at social gatherings as
his equal. This sort of thing would not
set well with a man of Mr.. Grimes
spirit.
AS it is now" he said, ct can go back
to Washington and visit Senator Burton
and be received by him. but If I was his
private secretary he could not treat me
In any such manner. One of the bright
est men in Washington is Senator
Hanna's secretary, yet Mr.. Hanna does
not dare to introduce him to other SEN
ators, because Of this social barrier"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
CAUSED By TUMOR
Suspicious Regarding John Weilert
Are Allayed.

John Weilert, a shoemaker running a
little shop at 60315 North Kansas avenue,
died last Friday right. The circumstances
gave rise to a suspicion of suicide, and as
his life was insured, it was decided to
hold an autopsy so that his family would
have no trouble in collecting the Insurance
if the suspicion was -groundleSs.
The body was removed to Hogan's un-
dertaking establishment, where Drs.
Drs. Fighter and schoIle, made an
autopsy on Sunday and discovered a
abcesS on the brain which had caused
death by corning a c1ot and producing
commissions 1t was the commissions just
before his death which led his attendants
to suspect poisoning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
FORT sCOTT's NEW PAPER.
Win Be q Morning Issue and Repub-
lican in Politics

Fort Scott, Kas., Dec. IF. C. Ra-
ney, until recently editor of the Monitor,
VINO Is to start a new daily paper in
Fort Scott, says it will be issued in the
morning instead of the evening. He has
secured the room in the opera house
block formerly occupied by The Owl,
and h basement under it. When ques-
toned today about the new enterprise
Mr. Raney said:
Arrangements have been made to
make the new publication a morning
daily with full Associated Press tele-
graph report I expect to go to KAN
sas City tomorrow to purchase a new
press and complete outfit The paper
VIII be called the Republican. and will
issue both daily and weekly editions"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
Rothschilds Head Oil Trust.

st. Petersburg, Dec. ia telegram
from Baku says the meeting of naph-
tina firms m to deal with the
export question resulted in the with
drawal from the union of the firms Of
Noble and Mantascheff. Other houses,
headed by the Rothschilds, are said to
have formed q combination. which is
expected to increase export prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
WILL ENTERTAIN GROCERS.
Topeka Association to Make Expo
sition Visitors Comfortable.

The Topeka Retail and Wholesale
Grocers' association is planning to en-
terrain the delegates to the State Re
tail Grocers' association convention at
Topeka January q and %, at a banquet
and the members of the local associa-
ton will meet Tuesday evening, De-
cember II at the Commercial club
rooms to discuss plans and features for
the entertainment of the grocers of the
state
held here during the Kansas Midwinter
exposition, a number of speakers of ma
tional reputation will be present.
One of the important measures to
come before that body for considera-
tioE is a revised Kansas collection Law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
Long Grants schlsv,s Reaueat.

Washington, Dec. 17.-Secretary Long
acknowledged in a formal letter the re-
ceipt of the letter from Admiral Schley
for permission to file a bill of objections.
The secretary's spoons was brief and
purely formal. 1t granted the request
and allowed until Friday next in which
to submit the bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
HELD AT
Boer Peace Meeting in Topeka Sun
day December 80.

Final arrangements fix the date of the
mass meeting in Topeka for the purpose
of passing peace resolutions bearing on
the South African situation for Sunday
afternoon. December 30, at 8 o'clock, at
the Crawford opera house.
At this meeting Sunday afternoon, De-
cember 20. Major J. K Hudson, will pre-,
side. Speeches will be made by David
Overmyer and Captain j. G. Waters.
Statistics showing the havoc wrought by
be introduced and the meeting will close
after the circulation of resolutions for the
signatures OF those present, urging the
bitration-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
HE LIVED In TOPEKA.
Lowenthal Victim in Big Portland
Diamond Robbery.

The Lowentha1 who has figured as
a victim in the Portland m rob-
berry, is a formerly of Topeka" man.
About 20 years ago Lowenthal Broth
ers, L. M. and A. F. Lowenthal, had a
large jewe1ry establishment in a build
ing where the Western Union telegraph
Office now is. A. +. Lowentha1, who was
to the Modocs. The brothers left here
to start a wholesale jewelry business. in
New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
CHICAGO sCBOOL.CHILDREN
Have Subscribed $4,000 to Mckinley
Memorial Fund.

Chicago, Dec. 17.-With 25 schools
still unheard from, the reports at the
offices of the board of education show
that 81, 300 has been subscribed to the
Mckinley national memorial fund by
children in the public schools. 1t is ex-
pected that the final totals will amount
to 81, 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17

The ook-keeper'
occupation renders
him specially liable to
stomach trouble. The
hasty breakfast, the
vquick 1unch," the
long hours spent in
STOPPING over journal
and ledger, with lack
of exercise, all tend
to the arrangement of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17

judgment and the court decided this
morning that Pernell should have pos
session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17

to stand up for her rights against the
American republic"
The Globe concludes: 1T is a sur
render. We hand over national prop
erty as purchase money for American
friendship"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-04-12
Prot. AtWatef'S l|he,oll Il 7,

Prof.. W.. g. Atwater, Who has conducted
extensive researches s. The subject 81
foode, said that variety il the food We
eat e the most important consid eration
iaSfxipg orr diet. Most people eat too
much meat. 4 certain amount al Tie
proteids found in meat are necpssary 10
Enou,ith the body, but Il is best to snip
ply part Of them from other elements.
Peae, oatmeal ], heat and beer are good
substitutes. The utm ost care should Be
taken. to get pure be,r.
0olden GralnsB elt'' beer il absolutely
pure. Lie brewed from The. best barley
malt, favored with hope, and is az ideal
tonic and food = 81 can get the strength
of tread and meat In i simple, pala-
rable,s and easily digested form. Thil
sbeer should BE is every household. o..
der from our Dearsst dealer s. q "a
doux viii suppl 81,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-04-12
llO |! ! | /

April g. John =. RafIsD..pE,alr,e ers l ba.
sold out bic mail routs &C .Josrpl,
schabel
John and Michael Bentk eweki wer,
fined each 5 and costs 81 Justice Han:
sen. for abusing : Bo hemian named Dup:
81 last Monde
chae. slongh returned home recently.
.scbae. Muck vas il ST. Cloud last week.
April 9 Mrs Gatberibss n asuuttet died
April 8 ct the home 81 her ron Jacob
Haaeer, aged nearly s. ylearp: N.thei
Hansen leaves one .ons sud eight grand.
children, to mourn her losa. ::3s
Harvey Mcbride has eold s:bis house
aud lot here to Frank Put; AMI bought
40 acres OF land three miles from town,