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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
COLOREp K. OF P. LODGE.
Elect officers at Lawrence and Trans
act Other Business

Lawrence. Kas., Aug. 1o.-The Sun
flower grand lodge Of the Knights OF
Pythias elected the following officers
Grand CHANCELLOR. z Lewis,
Grand vice ChancelIor-Wm. A.
Harvey, Lawrence
Grand Keeper Of Records and Seal
". \. Miller. Wichita
Grand Prelate-R. s. King, Weir City.
Grand Master Of Exchequer-James
Grand Lecturer-P. A DeIano. Ar
kansas City
Grand Medical Register-Dr. S. Il
Thompson, Kansas City, Kas-
Grand Master at-Arms-J- H MCGEE,
Grand Secretary of the Endowment
Department.. H Wade, Topeka.
Grand Treasurer Endowment Depart
ment-Jason 3. Moore, Lawrence.
Supreme Representatives. Haines.
Parsons
Grand Inner Guards. d. Worden.
Grand Outer Guards. ". Fleming.
Wichita
1t was voted to hold the next meeting
at Pittsburg. Kas-
ment department. and the only out
standing claim was paid this after
noon. The membership in the grand
jurisdiction Is now $50, and since
Grand Chancellor J. E Lewis, of Wich-
tia. who was reelected has been at
an increase Of lis per cent in the mem
bership, and from the present indica-
lions the men bership will reach 900 by
the time of the next annual melting at
Pittsburg-
The grand lodge treasurer has raised
s375, and all the indebtedness against
the grand lodge has been paid, with a
neat balance in the treasury
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

ing left them in such a shape that
something may yet be done
Another proposed solution was that
whereby the connecting roads would
turn over to the grain originating roads
their emptfes for loaded cars.
The Santa F'e officials declined to enter
into this arrangement, although It is
stin hoped that something can be done
with it. \ similar plan was tried last
year and worked with fair degree of
satisfaction TO the terminal lines but
proved to increase rather than decrease
the difficulties OF the Santa Fe
Under this arrangement last year.
some Of the roads unloaded about all Of
the broken down cars on their systems
on the Santa F'e. and that road had
them stored on its sidetrack SO that
they almost caused a congestion in its
yards of themselves. This was one Of
the principal reasons for opposing the
interchange of cars plan. This plan is
much favored BY all the terminal roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
EMBARGO RAISED.
However, the Santa Fe il Behind on
Its Orders For Cara

Kansas City, Aug. 1O.-The Santa Fe
has raised the embargo placed on the
Alton last week in connection with the
Maple Leaf. Memphis and Katy, and
grain is now being delivered to each OF
the four roads for transfer by the
Santa F'e.
The Kansas City yards are still
crowded however and the wheat
movement from Kansas and Oklahoma
is by no means over. The Santa Fee
Rock Island Missouri Pacific and
Union Pacific are yet behind in orders
for equipment. the Santa Fe leading
the other three IN this respect. A great
quantity Of the Kansas wheat will be
held in the state for winter feed. but
the crop IS such that Notwithstanding
the shipment of wheat VIII form BY far
the heaviest business OF the Kansas
roads for the next 60 days
A strong effort viii be made to pre-
vent another absolute grain blockade
in the local yards The transportation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
COLES TESTIMONY TAKEN.
Special Master WiIlets Overrulss OBJ
jections in Railway Tax Case

Independence. Kas.. Aug. 1O.-The
county attorney has received word
from Special Master in Chancery Percy
Wnlets that the objection of the rail-
road attorneys to the admission Of
State Auditor Coles testimony in the
St. L K & s. W. tax injunction case
has been overruled-
This is q decided victory for the
county. The railroad was believed to
base it's hopes on the showing made by
the railroad assessors returns, hoping
to prove that the railroad was not as
sessed on the usual third of it's valua-
ton, ike other personal property hold
ers. Auditor Cole testified that while
the face OF the returns did not show
this, that the road was really assessed
only one-third; that instead of putting
down the full amount of their prop
erty, the one third was taken out be-
fore making the returns. At the time
the testin ony was taken before Special
Master WilIets in Topeka the railroad
objected to Coles testimony, and VIII
lets took the matter under advisement-
This is believed to knock the railroad
out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

z F. Golden to G. P and Marie Gill
81. 500. lots sol to s37. inclusive. High
street; also 2612 to 262z, inclusive, Tenth
avenue; also eo2 to eS6. inclusive. Gold
en- avenue, East Fairview addition
Jno. Whitlow to E WhitIow, 81. 500.
e Il sw 4. 9, 13. Is
E. Whitlow to Jno. WhftIow, 500 lot
413 Quincy street, Ritchie's addition.
Prudential Investment company to
s. E Smith. $420, lots ESQ to 302 inclu-
sive. Poplar street. J. NJ Morris addi-
ton.
b d. Mileham and wife to R L Wilt.
81, 600 lots 1S5, 1877, 1S9 and 1s1 Main
street, and 1s6, 1SS, $50 and 1872 Navarro
street. McAdaTns' addition, Rossvi1le.
Julia A Stinson to NJ n Reed, 81 $50.
block q. StInson's addition, Tecumseh-
Tax deed to Jas Nell. lots 425, q and
42e Ohio avenue, JnO. Norton's second
addition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
HOW DE WITT WAS FIRED.
Kitchener Sends a Spirited Account
of the Raid.

London, Aug. 1o.-Man dispatches
from Lord Kitchener, issued today in q
parliamentary paper. say his constant
endeavor has been to improve the for
tfdcati lions along the lines of communi-
cation, thus releasing men Tor active
service The garrisons OF the railways
have mostly been withdrawn
A spirited narrative of the ejactrAent
OF General Dewitt from Cape Colony
concludes with the statement that the
raiders undoubtedly received a num-
Der OF recruits from the colonial Dutch
an an pie supply of food and timely in
formation
Lord Kitchener received certain in
formation that Dewitt intended to at
tack Cape Town. while General BOtha,
as soon as he heard the concentration
in Cape Colony was effected was to
enter Natal with 5000 picked horsemen
and make for Durham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
COLUMBIA mo- DEFEND.
VIII Sail Against the Shamrock is
Lipton's Report

New York. Aug. 1e--Reports having
been received in this city by cable
message to the effect that Sir Thomas
Upton had semi-officia1 information
that the Columbia would defend the
Americas cup against Shamrock IT, a
reporter for the Press was informed
that although the trial races between
the Constitution and the Columbia will
not be held for three weeks a majority
OF the cup committee has agreed that
unless a1terati now under way
make the Constitution a much improved
boat it would be inadvfsable to select
her as the cup defender.
T. Pierpont Morgan being asked IL
he had heard OF the cup CON mittee's
views. said: 1t is absurd to talk Of
this before the trial races. decline to
say anything further,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
To settle We salvador.

Oakland. Cal, Aug 10--To conclude
a settlement with the government OF
Salvador over q claim of $1,000 a. ".
BurrelI. president of the Salvador Com
mercfal company; John H Ellis. treas
urer, and William Laird Hill, the COM
panyss attorney. have departed for the
Central American republic The Sal
va1or Commercial company is the
principal stakeholder IN a grant made
in 1884 by the SalTadorian government
10 a corporation for the development
of Port Fl Triunfo, on the Bay OF
Jiquilisco. The company makes the
statement that in 1888 the Central
American government issued DEGREES
and took steps that practically de-
stoyed the value of the business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
ITALY SCORCHED.
No Such Heat Was Ever Before
Known.

London. Aug. 1o.-Telegrams from
Rome today say nothing like the heat
wave which is seorching all Italy has
been known within living memory The
vineyards in whole districts have been
shriveled up by the sirocco and ruined
to the very roots as though set on fire.
The air in the province OF Syracuse is
barely respirable. and the sea water is
so warm that bathing has been a-ban-
doned. The people have been forced
to sleep in the open air.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
kaiser Kissed von waldersee.

Homburg, Aug. 10-Field Marshal
Count Won Waldersee arrived here at
o'clock. He was met at the railway
station by Emperor William. Crown
Prince Frederick William. Prince Eitel
Frederick and Count Won BueIow. His
majesty's greeting of the field marshal
and the officers accompanying him
was most cordial He kissed Count Won
Waldersee on both cheeks. The en-
peror and the field marshal drove to-
gether to the castle amid the plaudfts
OF the crowd There the empress well
coined the field marshal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
What Not I'd So.

Do not say. 7 can't eat Take Hoods
Sarsa parilla and say L am hungry all
the time and food never hurts me-"
Never say to your friends that you
are as tired in the morning as at night
If they happen to be sharp they will tell
you Hoods Sarsaparilla cures that
tired feeling.
Do not say. Ny face Is full of PIN
pies" You are quite likely to be told
by some one There's no need of that,
for Hoods SarsaparilIa cures pimples. Z"
1t is improper and unnecessary to say
my health is poor and my blood is
bad Hoods Sarsaparilla will give
you good blood, and good health will
follow as a natural consequence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
WILL OPEN SUNDAY.
Beaumont Line of the Santa Fe Ready
For Business

The Santa Fe lines into Beaumont,
Tex. viii be opened Sunday. The ex-
tension Of the Gulf. Colorado & Santa
Fe from Rayburn to Silsbee. where
connection is to be made with the Kan
sas City. Beaumont & Gulf road was
completed this week and the first
through passenger train will be run
tomorrow. The Santa Fe has owned
the Kansas city Beaumont & Gulf
road for some time. but up to this time
there has been no through service All
the Santa Fe locomotives running III
and out of Beaumont will burn oil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
ZOE DEATH OF HUSBAND.
lola Woman Sues 6melter Company
For $4,000.

lola, Kas.. Aug. 10-One OF the Iarg-
est damage suits which has been filed
in Allen county for many a day was
begun in the district court Thursday
evening. when the lawyers for Mary
Moren instituted suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the Cherokee zauyon
Spelter company. OF Gas City. for the
death of her husband. November I.
1900. The suit was filed hE ". f.
Sproui and J. y. AfcErian. attorneys
from Crawford county
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
LACK OF MONEY
Prevents Turkey From Reaching
Settlement With France

Constantinople. Aug 10.-The Franco
Turkish dispute on the quay claims re-
mains unsettled Turkey persists in
the idea Of purchasing the quays from
the French company, but II is i'm pos
sible to find the money at present.
owing to the Impoverished condition of
the treasury. The porte today again
informed NJ Constans. the French am
bassador. that the French conditions
for the transfer of the quays were IN
accountable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Colin Ball One of the IncOrporatora.

Guthrie. Okla, Aug ia charter
was today granted the Kansas. Okla
homa city & Southwestern railway
company, with q capital stock OF 81
600 COO. The lncorporators are. H
Overholzer and Ed Overholzer, OF Okla
homa City; s NJ Porter. of Caney,
Kas.; c. NJ Ball. of Coneyville. Kas-;
and Frank Buscher, of Bartlesvi1le /.
T. The principal Office will be at
Oklahoma City They propose to build
a road from Cofeyville and Chetopa.
Kas., to Quanah. Tex. and from Still
water, Okla. to Okmulgee, L 7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
TWENTY NEW STATIONS.
Rock Island Gives q Valuable Con-
tract to W. r. Cannon.

Herington. Kas.. Aug. 1O.-The Rock
Island railroad has authorized and
given instructions to ". r Cannon. OF
Herington to build about twenty new
stations in oklahoma The new sta
lions VIII be located on the new line
extending from Amadarko to LaWtOl,
the extension out of Enid. and the line
from Chickasha to Granite. Now thar
the country tapped by these lines ts
opened the stations VIII be built at
once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
MRS. NATION LEAVES.
Goes to Indiana to Fill q Lecture
Date.

Date.
Mrs. Carrie Nation left Topeka on an
early morning train for Muncie, Ind,
to I'LL lecture date
This morning Under Sheriff Hal will
1ams received the papers in the di-
vorce case brought by David Nation
against Mrs. Nation. He left the papers
at the Office of the Smasher's Mail
When Mrs. Nation left town she had
about $50 in her purse, and that is
about all she has. The day before she
went to jail she satisfied the judgment
secured in the city court by Mrs. Mary
White for salary due her. The judg-
ment was for $22, and the costs were
s34 She paid in all S56. which required
about all the funds she had.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

Nineteen thousand Kansas farmers
control one Of the biggest mutual Fire
and Tornado Insurance companies or
the west The second quarterly meet
ing Of the board Of directors now in
session in this city. The report OF the
secretary and treasurer shows member
ship over 10. 900.
Carrying risks Of .......-.-....s1z,0 900 oo0
Resources ----.----- Ao'f4s|
Risks written since Jan. L. 100 eu0
Losses paid in 13 years. ..-...- Z6OOg9
The plan is mutual and furnishes in
surance at actual cost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Beers Rush a Block House.

London. Aug. ia dispatch from
Lord Kitchener. dated Pretoria. today.
says. a blockhouse near BrandfOrt
Orange River colony was rushed and
captured by the Beers after severe
fighting. the night of August Z Elliott
has captured 10 prisoners and large
quantities OF stock and wagons, which
he is sending in No details have been
received
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
supe-b servics-splendid Scenery

En- route to the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton, Niagara Fails. Muskoka and ka-
wartha Lakes. St. Lawrence River AMI
RAPIDS, Thousand Islands. White
Mountains and Atlantic seacoast re-
sorts, via the Grand Trunk Railway
system
For copies of tourist publications, APP
ply to city passenger and ticket agent,
249 Clark street, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Travel via the Lehigh vallev Railroad

if you are looking for speed and com
fort when going to New York OF Phila-
delphia- Luxuriously furnished vesti-
buled Sleeping cars, a Ia carte serv-
coaches Dining cars. a Ia carte serv-
ice Stop-over allowed at Buffalo on al
through tickets TO New York and Phil
adelphia via this line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Drowned in Klondike.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 10-Word just
received from Dawson brings news Of
the drowning Of Andrew J. Lee in the
Klondilze. His parents are in Norway
but he has 2 brother in DEBORAH, Ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

bureau and board OF trade members
are gratified over the fact that the
Santa Fe did not find opportunity 10
put into effect the threat to cease con-
signing grain to the Kansas City
market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

Parsons. kan. Aug 10-An earthquake
shock was felt here at $50 this morning.
Several houses were shaken ana a runl-
Der Of windows were broken. The shock
was felt mostly ia the southeastern por-
ton Of the city and only lasted a Few
seconds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

will give a concert tomorrow evenin
at s o'clock. at Garfield park
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

Miss Rachel McGifert entertained
six OF her girl friends at a 'slumber'
party Friday night at her home on To-
peka avenue. The girls all slept on
the floor and refreshments We're served
continuously until twelve o'clock Her
guests were. Miss Blanche O'Neii Of
Leavenrorth. Miss Julia WelIhouse,
Miss Laura Herriek. Miss Ruth Herrick.
Miss Nellie Mcfarland and Miss Jean
Campbell. Miss Julia Wellhouse VIII
entertain a number of her friends IN
the same informal way Monday evening
complimentary TO Miss Blanche O'NeiL
A Pleasant Affair.
Mrs Oscar O. Jacobs enter
tanned delightfully."- Friday afternoon at
her home on Harrison street in honor OF
her guest. Miss Lidia Jacobs of Illinois
At the close Of the afternoon which
passed all too quickly with various
amusements a delicious supper was
served
Besides the guest Of honor those
present were. Mrs VIII klemp Of Chi
caRO, Airs. Ben H0ltwick. Mrs George
Reed Mrs j. J. OConnor. Mrs Albert
Marshall Mrs r J. Early. Mrs H.
BUR. Miss Olivia BischOff, Miss Lizzie
Blumenstocz. Miss Caroline Blumen-
stock, Miss krauss. Miss Elsie Bun,
Miss Lena Bun and Miss Adele Holt
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

to scratch the bitten spot. Sixteen min
utes after that it was para1yzed complete
", and in fourteen minutes more it died..
A second turtle succumbed in forty-six
minutes. A tree snake died In thirty
minutes after being bitten. and a toad fish
was killed within ten minutes.
The sea snakes live entirely in the open
ocean. They do not even ascend rivers
Their faYorite hunting grounds are the
wide and deep arms Of the sea that sepa-
rate the islands OF the China, Indian and
South Pacific seas. They do not often
haunt the shores. but remain at some dis
lance from land. Their scale.covered
nostrils and immense lungs give them a
foremost place as highly organized pre-
daceous creatures. and there probably is
no fish that can escape them. even though
armed with spines and thorns for they
swallow their prey head first and appear
to be bothered. not at all by any amount
of spfnes andasharpE fms. Being go active
and strong, adult specimens are not taken
often and most OF the captures are lim-
tied to young ones. Russell and Sir Jo-
seph Fayer found by experiment that
oceanic snakes can live only two or three
} days. as q rule. when away from the
open sea. Even In a brackish pool. with
plenty OF food. specimens died within that
time. although they were left carefully
undistnrbed. One lived ten days, but none
3 OF the others showed such tenacfty. They
can hardly move on dry sland. and after
wriggling around bit and biting savage
s IL and blindly in all directions, they lie
still until they perish.
s. Their range is great. They are~found
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans
from Cape OF Good Hope and Madagascar
Ito the western shore of Panama, and
from New Zealand to Japan They are
especially plentiful between the South
China and the North Australian coasts,
and particularly on the Great Barrier
reefs, where they find plenty of fish, and
where. consequently. they may be seen
almost always. The waters around the
hot Andaman islands are favor1te grounds
fort hem. and they add to the delights Of
that redhot British settlement for con-
victs, where degenerat savage dwarfs lie
in the bush patiently awaiting chance
guns at any man who strays from the
{ fort while centipedes,, scorpions, land
snakes and venomons insects furnish any
thing in the lethal line that the others
S have overlooked 80 IS i. s.4s#.sssg
7. Other waters that are particularly hon
I @; ed by the oceanic serpentszwtth their
attendance are the Bay OF Bengal and
f the seas around the Nicobars,a Motucca
sfimor and New Guinea u
In all these places 1t is an unwritten
law that a sea snake must be killed
whenever possible. But as the fishermen
usually go out In extremely narrow and
6, anky shaft. they more frequently are
glad to escape alive themselves when
I they happen to find a lot OF serpents In
their nets instead OF fish, The creatures
nave been known to surround fishing
\ boats that attacked them and to XIII
every man IN them. When they are en-
ragged they appear to have no fear OF
anything She fishermen say that in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

slclan was oengnred peyono measure to
detect in that muddy. trailing skirt the
presence of deadl ( microbes Under or
binary circumstances the skirt would
have been suspended from clothes peg
in the Woman.s room until the mud had
had time to- dry, and in the meantime
the microbes would hav disported them
selves in their new lodgings.
Henry Labonchere. a member Of the
British parliament. recently stated iii his
newspaper, known as Truth, that when
the British parliament reassembles, In
January g 8 bll viii he fnrr oduced having
& Tor its object the compulsory disi,1fec.
ton of the trailing skirts of women be-
I q fore heir Wearars are permitted Is en-
4 ter theaters OF other nublic places II
london the complaint IS made that most
women think it unfashionahle Is lift
their trailing dresses ard skirts when
waking watkins over muddy CT ossing. Next
d a, wonder how Trey have CAUGHT
3 colo. It is related that when the first
great 8 ass house was built nearly ffty
years ago. IN HYDE Park & London. Sir
sJosepfi Paxton was asked how he intend
ed having the enormous fioorina swent
and cleaned. He replied that 10 speclal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30
Trailing Skirt or Not1

: r B 4 E Is
For the sake of health and comfort.
crusade is now being organized in the
United States and Great Britain against
the present fashion of permitting skirts
to be worn long enough to sweep the
sroand. Lovely woman is entreated to
cease turning herself into a street-clean-.
er and disturbGr and distributor of dead
~ microbes. The crusade is meeting
with riaicule IN q norton OF Ireland be-
cause certain Irishmen treat the mat
ter as personal affront They say:
Why this everlasting agitation against
poor McRobe? What has he done that
every one is against him?'
Future historians in telling of the
wondrous days of the closing Of this
century, may !. probably describe this
age in which we live, as the nnicrobe
age. Those OF US who are outside the
pale OF bacteriology sometimes wonder
why we are not killed several times owe
by the microbes that luck in the water
we drink and the air we breathe H ii
lucky for the, race that no ptician has
as yet invented spectacles which we ,ilfi
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

he returned to his ship and he had hardly
touched the deck before his limbs became
!: una ccountably stiff and his tongue grew
50 thick that he could not make himself
understood. He took some brandy and
when that failed the ships doctor pre-
scribed medicine for him. When this pro-
duced no effect Burman sailor suggested
.that perhaps the captain had been, bitten
by sea snake. On examination the doo-
tor found that the two tiny wounds were
angry and purple, and he instituted
drastic treatment at once, but the victim
died within seVenty-one hours after being
bitten. s
Near Raine island. In the Torres Straits.
young Kanaka, while diving for pearl
shells on asreef, was bitten ir,1 the fore
finger by a banded snake that shot up
from the bottom as he plunged IN and at
tackled him without provocation. He died
within fortx-eight hours, after having
suffered torment Ing s1gavi l1arbor a
black and white banded snake bit For
tuna island boy who had leaped on a. sub
merged rock where thescreature had been
lying. The lad jumped into6the water at
once and swan ashore. to be treated by
native snake doctor. but he died before
morning.
Sir Joseph Fayer and Prof. Russell per-
| mitted fve-foot sea snake TO bite a
bird. It died In five minutes A second
bird. bitten by the same snake immedi-
ately afterward. died in ten minutes.
Another snake killed q bird within seven
minutes. Then they teased q sea snake
till It bit a sol t-shell turtle ii the mouth.
Five minutes afterward the turtle began