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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-27
Horse Notes.

w. J. Andrews will have Promise,
2:1414, next season.
The Kinloch race course at st. Louis
is to be sold in January.
Joseph Ralph will build a new half
mile track at Schenectady. N. Y.
Jockey Cannon heads the list of win
ming riders at New Orleans
Ice racing win be held at Port Perry,
Ontario, on January Il and Is.
Charles Doble, Binghamton, N. Y, will
race the trotter Treble. by Expedition.
Harry Hamlin has decided that the
racing stable of the Village farm will
not be discontinued.
Highland Park Jockey club will offer
six big stake events next season, an in
crease of two.
]. Malcolm Forbes is now the owner
of the dam of Fantasy, 2:06. She viii be
bred to Arion, 2:07A.
Reina, 2:12A, and Senator L., PIP
have been the best sleighing team seen
on Boston streets this season.
Owing to the illness of his foreman
H. Steel. John E Madden will not race
a stable at New Orleans.
Cresceus will try to beat 2:18az on tbs
| ice at Ottawa. If he succeeds he viii
| hold another worlds record.
Ed Geers says the colt by Direct Hal
2:04A, out of Ella Brown, 2:11A, is likely
to be as fast as his sire.
President Roosevelt's favorite saddle
horse, 2leistein. is named after George
Bleistein, a Buffalo horseman.
A New York firm has a contract Il
supply the Barnum & Bailey circus with
300 fancy draft horses by February l.
The July and August meetings a
Readville earned $22, %, while the on,
in September was given at a loss o
/ $S,e36.54.
San Francisco horsemen are trying tt
raise $4,000 for the purpose of building
a track in that city for amateur reins
men.
Father Bilr' Daily has shipped locke.
Dreamer to New Orleans to ride Their
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Baseball Notes.

Pitcher Siever. Detroit's only southpaw,
is still unsigned.
silk" O'Laughlin is umpiring indoor
baseball at Rochester,.
Hardie Henderson and Dan Daud are
the latest to apply for situations on the
National umpire staff.
Frank Selee has made an offer to Al
Wagner to play with Chicago. Toronto
also wants the Carnegie boy.
Fred Clarke, of the Pittsburgs, has pur.
chased another farm in Kansas. He adds
one to his list every year.
1t - said that Frank B. McQuiston, ct
Pittsburg, will succeed Harry Pulliam as
secretary of the Pittsburg club.
J. Hickey, a Three-I league umpire, has
sued a couple of Davenport papers for
libel. He wants $4,000 worth of salve.
It is said that Manager .Hanlon has
made arrangements with McGraw to take
his surplus pitchers and fielders off his
hands.
Connie Mack says he believes that
PittsDurg is big enough to easily support
two major leagues-with non-confiicting
schedules.
his debut lin the National league as a
member of the Baltimore team. died re-
Gently at Wilmington, Del.
Henry Killilea, owner of the Boston
American franchise, says his team is the
most gentlemanly aggregation of ballplay
President Hart of Chicago, claims to
have paid out $4,000 for new players dur
ing the past two years, despite the alb
sence of compulsory baseball laws. And
he did not get much for his money at
that.
The Sacramento team recently lambast-
ed Jack Chesbro's slants all over the lot,
and beat the Nationals 13 to l. The Cali
fornians made seventeen hits while the
Nationals got but three off Stricklett-
During the National league meeting
John T. Brush informed the delegates
how many shares he owned in the New
York club. and convinced his hearers that
he controlled the club, and was not sim
ply Freedinanfs 1nOuthpfece.
1t did not take Jesse Burketf very long
to grab the, Sandwiches on, the St. Louis
lunch wagon saftef the Two. leagues de
clared their intention of getting. together.
Burkett was holding out for very fancy
price, and he was wise in getting under
cover as soon as he did.
+ DR.. F. c. Reisling, who will manage
the Toledo American association team
next season, is an all-round player OF
recognized ability. Besides his man
agerial duties. he will take his turn il
the box with the rest of the twirlers DR.
Reisling is married and is now practic-
ing his profession in Bristol, Conn.
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until the opening of the Bennings spring
meetinS- s4x E
Jack Kinney HorneIlsville, n. z. viii
have King Jack, 2:131z, by Jack DaW-
son.
Twenty-one head offyoung horses have
been sent from Village farm to Ed Geers
from which to select next seasons
racing string.
It is reported that the Buffalo Racing
association will secure the KenilWorLp
track and give a meeting next spring or
summer.
New York state has produced five trot-
ters with records of 2:06 or better, Cali
fornia three. Kentucky one, Ohio one
and iowa one.
At the end of the first month of racing
at Ingleside Green B. Morris heads the
list of winning owners, with upward OF
5000 to his credit.
Frank Bogash is educating about 20
two and three-year-olds by Atlantic
King, 2:093z, owned by Cenlivre Bros,
of Fort Wayne, Ind.
The race mares Belle of Lexington
FemesoIe. Meddling Mary and Lady in
Waiting have arrived at Lexington, and
will be retired to the stud.
Henry NJ. Ziexler, ex-owner of Her
mis-, has sold TO H. G. Goode. of Gin
cinnati, the 4-year-old brown FLY Har-
lem Lane. by Kingston, dam Medusa, by
Sensation.
1t is likely that the trotting mare Lau-
retta, 2:14A, by Norris, which was
brought recently by w. B. Mcdonald
OF Buffalo. will be sent abroad to Aus
TRAN parties.
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TO SOLVE A MYSTERY.
Traces of a Negro Who Disappeared
Very Strangely Three Years Ago.

Wellington. Kas.. Dec 27.--The mys-
terry surrounding the sudden disappear
ance of John Harris, a negro, from this
towns three years ago is about to be
Harris for years before he disappeared,
and who owed him small amounts IL
wages at the time OF his disappearance,
say they have information that will lead
to the establishment of the fact thar
Harris was killed and his body thrown
into well on the town site or hidden
elsewhere close BIZ.
They put a man to work today. to
search for Harris bones. and if they are
found a negro who now fills Harris
place as a chore boy, viii be made to
explain certain unexplained things
never appeared there. Splitter and Elliott
declare that he would not have gone off
not to return when they were in his
debt
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The Interurban Electric Line
North From Wichita
Is Being Pushed Rapidly by the
Interested Contractors.
is GRADED TWO MILES.
Through Valley Center, Sedg.
wick, Halstead to Mcpherson.
Will Be About ITO Miles and
to Cost About 81, 100000.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 27-President Ceyes
of the Interurban said yesterday:
1.-THE people of Wichita will wake up
some morning to find the interurban run
ming right through the CITY,"
Its advent will probably not be so sud-
den as that, but the road will undoubted-
~ be built. Almost two miles of grading
have been finished just north of the city
and the work is being pushed as rapidly
as possible. All the right of way between
Wichita and Valley Center has been Sc
cured and the balance will be secured af-
ter January l. The grading will be a
great deal of work, for instead of fol-
lowing the lay of the land, as most cleo
trio lines do, this line will be built on the
same plan as a steam road, with a view
to hauling heavy freight. In the country
seventy pound steel rails will be LAID,
while in the city the company expect to
put in eighty.pound grooved steel rails.
The route from this city north to Nc
Pherson has finally been settled upon and
will run through the following towns:
Valley Center. Sedgwick, Halstead,
Mound City, Mcpherson. Newton tried
to get the road, but the company did not
consider it practicable to run their line
there. AS soon as the grading is COM
pleted to Valley Center rails will be laid
and the company says it win be possible
to have trains running between Wichita
and Valley Center before May l, 1908. The
grading will continue north.
If the road is built from Arkansas City
to Mcpherson, as is planned, it will be
10 miles in length and the cost of building
is estimated at s1,5OO,000.
The company is having trouble in
the matter of right of way. AS a rule,
the farmers are perfectly willing to have
the road run through their farms. Be
tween Valley Center and Sedgwick the
company expects to use the old Frisco
road-bed, which was abandoned years
ago.
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" THAT'S MY RING
Young Woman Happens Along Just
After Lover Was Killed.

Scranton. Dec. PA woman's gold ring
on the mutilated and severed hsnd of a
man lying beheaded and diSmembered be-
side the Lackawanna tracks. near Taylor.
was the means of identifying the dead
her way to work in the early dawn. i'm
PEELED oy curiosity to the spot where the
lifeless body of the young man lay, pro-
tected by a railroad policeman, awaiting
the coming of an undertaken, noticed the
ring and burst into tears and cried: That 5
my ring
who is hep asked the detective, point
ing to the lifeless remains
Hes 81 Thomas of Taylor, sobbed the
girl.
Then she sank to the ground half I'M
conscious. Thomas and she were sweet
hearts and the ring was one the girl had
given him. He was returning from his
all night work when struck by the train.
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MONEY AND TICKET GONE.
Missouri Woman Becomes Hysterical
on Santa Fe Train.

Hutchinson, Kas., Dec. 27.-Miss Annie
L. Wilson, of Unionville, Mo, was taken
from a west-bound Santa Fe train last
night in an extremely hysterical condi-
ton. She was on her way to the bed
side of her widowed mother at Fort Col
Inns, Colo Her ticket had expired and
her money was gone. She claims that
she bought a ticket to Fort Collins and
that it was stolen or lost before she
reached TcEeka.
There she was put off the train and
spent the night in the depot. Some col
lege students returning home for the
holidays found her there and bought her
a ticket to Hutchinson and gave her
over 81 in money. She had $3.9S when
she reached here. AS soon as able TO
continue her journey she will be sent to
her mother.
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MURDER REPORT DENIED.
Three Kansas Brothers Supposed tt
Be Dead Are Still Alive.

Salina. Kas., Dec. 27.-The report OF
the murder of the three Pulestone boys.
of Hoisington, on a ranch near ..Calden
Springs" Colo. has been found to DE
false. William Pulestone. it is claimed,
wrote the letter containing the account
of the murder under fictitious. name,
as means of avoiding paying to G. H.
Walker of this city, a debt which ne
owed the latter. 1t is thought he be-
lieved that in this manner he would be
freed from meeting his obligation, so
long as Walker supposed him dead.
These facts have developed since an in
vestiEation of the case began recently.
There IS no such place as Calden
Snrip0S COlO
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sture to the rule that beauty depends on
health.
Women who see their beauty waning
rarely associate the external change
with failure of the womanly health.
They do not understand the close rela-
ton of the general physical health to
the health of the delicate wonlanly or
ganism, until after being cured of wom-
anly diseases by the use of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription they find the color
returning to the cheek and the flesh to
the body.
uFavorite Prescription establishes
regularity, dries weakening drains, heals
Inflammation and liberation and cures
female weakness.
uSeveral years ago was very poorly, y writes
Mrs Nav Kelley, of Sylvia, Kans., wso weak
could hardly walk across the floor, and at times
suffered severely took two bottles of DR..
1ferce's Favorite Prescription and got well and
bardy-gained twelve pounds in two months
and was the picture of health. Your medicines
have cured me. Almost everybody meet says.
You look so much better than you have for
several years; you look well now"
vFavorite Prescription makes weak
women strong, sick women well. Ac-
cept no substitute for the medicine
which works wonders for weak women.
DR.. Plerce's Pleasant Pellets are a
1ady's laxative. Nothing equals them
for gentleness and thoroughpess.
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SPORTING NEWS.
The American Leagues Growth
Has Been Wonderful.
Starting in a Modest Way Is
Now a Baseball Dictator.
GOTHAM FINAL GOAL.
Formerly Western League the
Circuit Quickly Expanded.
Efforts of Pres. Johnson and
SOmers Largely Responsible.

New York, Dec. 27.-The Sun says
The remarkable success of the Anleri-
can league of professional baseball
clubs which was exemplified the other
day by a complete surrender of the Ma
tional league, which has held sway over
the national game for twenty-five years,
involves a story of perseverance against
great obstacles and the interchangeable
work of young blood managers who, by
careful judgment and straightforward
dealings, have placed the new organl-
XatiOn in a position to dictate terms at
the coming peace conference to be helG
on January ;
In the summer of 1897 Grand Rapids
was dropped from the Western league
and Omaha substituted, and in 1898
Omaha gave way to Buffalo, the circuit
then being composed of Kansas City,
milwaukee, Minneapolis, St Paul, Bur
9alo. Detroit, Columbus and Indian
aDolis The same circuit obtained IN
1899 and then it was that the Western
league men, encouraged by success, con-
cluded to expand their circuit by plac-
ing a club in Chicago and changing the
name of the organization to the Amer
lean league
The American league circuit in 1900
Included Minneapolis, Chicago, Buffalo,
Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City,
Cleveland and Milwaukee. The Nation
al league meanwhile had reduced its
circuit from twelve to eight clubs leav-
ing Baltimore and Washington open
territory, and, as the American asso-
ciation's movement at that time was
very strong. the American league men
petitioned the National league for per-
mission to enter not ouly Baltimore and
Washington. but also Philadelphia,
thereby shutting out the association
clubs from those cities. The matter was
brought to a crisis in the fall of 1900,
when James A Hart left Chicago to
attend the National league meeting at
this city, Hart brought with him a
off
that the American league would oc-
cupv Baltimore and Washington, taking
the lease of the grounds in those cities
off the hands of the National league,
paving a reasonabl price for the iran
chise and improvements. to be made IN
those cities, and also agreeing to pay
for the surplus players at the rate OF
$500 a man.
Then as war measure the National
league sprung another American assocl-
alton scheme. which was intended to
place clubs in Phila delphia, Washington
and Baltimore in the east and Detroit
Indianapolis, Louisville and Cleveland
in the west. Without delay they sent
out their agents to sign American league
players, and Harry Pulliam, now thu
ceeded to sign Second Baseman Dick
Padden Of the Chicago Americans fol-
St. Louis. This was the first raid made
upon the American league, and up t
that time Johnson's organization haC
not taken a National league player. bu
the next day after johnson had received
an insulting message from the Nationa
league, the American league sent c. W
Somers to Boston. and before the weel
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TRADE WIFE FOR WATCH.
Brothers in ontario-Put Up a Unique
Deal.

Coburg, Ont, Dec. 27.-Walter Rey-
nolds came from Michigan recently to
visit his brother George. who lives in
the township of Percy. a tender affec-
ton soon arose between Walter and his
brothers wife. She is only 20 years of
age and the mother of two children.
George did not object to this friendship.
and a bargain was struck by which
Walter was to exchange his gold watch
for his brothers wife. Walter was also
to buy the household effects. The broth
ers went together to get the marriage
license, and the next day Walter and
Mrs. Reynolds went to Norwood and
were married. When the matter came
to the attention of the authorities. both
were arrested charged with bigamy. The
husband was also arrested for melting
his wife to commit bigamy. All plead
ed ignorance of the law.
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WHIPPED A FooTPAD.
Case of the Man Who Tried to Hold
Up the Wrong Person.

Wellington, Kas. Dec. 27.-Henry
Whitson, a young insurance and real
estate agent in Wellington, was stopped
near the Rock Island tracks on Eighth
street Wednesday night by man who
wore mask and carried a revolver and
who demanded that Whitson disgorge.
Whitson is husky and flew into the
would-be footpad, giving him sound
beating. He then allowed him to go, as
the man said he was playing a joke and
mistook Whitson for another man.
WhitsOn regrets now that he did not dis
arm the fellow and turn him over to
the police.
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CoRBErr STILL TRAINS.
He Fears He Will Not Get Match
With Jeffries.

Toledo. o., Dec. Thames J. Corbett,
who is with theatrical company here,
is training almost every moment of his
spare time in the hope OF. securing the
coveted match with Jeffries. He says
he was never in as good condition in
his life. He said, however, that he fear
ed his jealous training will come to
naught. He wishes to meet Jeffries
next May for the championship of the
world. He declares that he cannot in
duce Jeffries to sign articles, although
his own money is up. Corbett is rrain-
ing at the Crescent club every afternoon
and evening. After leaving the stage
today he worked at the training quar-
tiers until those about him thought that
he must be about exhausted Then he
took on Harry Calhoun, a clever boxer,
who went several fast rounds with Cor
bett. His foot work is greatly improved,
and he moves like lightning.
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RACINE I'D New orleans.

+. New Orleans. Dec. 27.-Sarella and
Potente were the winning favorites. The
stewards, after satisfactory proof that
the horses heretofore run in the name
of Hatfield & Ownby and by Hatfield,
Ownby & Co., are really the property Of
James Ownby have recommended that
Ownby be restored to all privileges as
owner and trainer. Rankin was run up
to 5000 after his race and bought by
Durnell & Herr. Miss Knickerbocker
fell at the start in the third race. broke
a leg and was destroyed. Clear and
cool; track fast.
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New Kansas Postmasters.

Washington, Dec. 27.-The following
postmasters have been appointed for
Kansas Antelope. Marion county,
Winfield NJ. Smith, vice ]. G.. Roberts,
resigned; Cedar Point. Chase county,
William H. Grimwood. vice A. B. Emer-
son, resigned; Comiskey, Lyon county,
Ira D. Weaver, vice H. S.N Curly, re-
signed; Crothy, Coffey county, Lee H.
Heddens, vice G. Lapsley, resigned
Porterville, Bourbon county, Charles f.
Eldredge, vice H. /. Clawson, resigned
Wildeck, Marion county, Oscar E. Low
er, vice H. T. Bates, resigned.
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first time in the history of the univer-
sity. The past year, according to the
sta tement yesterday of Manager Butter
worth, was the most prosperous in the
history of the school. Football alone
totaled the sum of 1000, while track
athletics and baseball will bring this up
several thousand more. The nearest the
university athletics yielded a similar
sum was in 1899, when the post season
game with Wisconsin helped to swell
the total receipts for the year to 42.000.
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A Car of Onion Sets.

Wichita, Kas., Dec. 27.-Richard Will
son, farmer and gardener living north
west of the city, has shipped the first
car of 800 bushels of. onion sets from
Wichita Mr.. Wilson last spring plant
ed three and half acres of onion seed.
from which the sets are grown, and
that little field produced a little more
than 1000 bushels.
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His Skull was Crushed.

Hutchinson, Dec. 27.-An orphan boy.
Willie Stivers. had his skull brushed in
jumping from Santa Fe train east of
here Friday. He will die. He was try
ing to make his way back to the or
phans' home at Halstead from which he
was bound OUT
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Racing at Frisco.

San Francisco, Dec 27.-The weather
at Ingleside was fine during the greater
part of the day, but the track was very
sloppy, owing to the heavy rain of the
previous night. There were a number of
upsets, Larry Wilt being the only IA
vorite to land. The feature was the six
furlong handicap. for which Sad Sam
was a to 10 favorite.
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pinhtheria AZ McPherson.

Mcpherson, Kan, Dec. 27.-Diphthcria
has broken out at Monitor and has caused
a great deal of alarm. School has been
stopped and every precaution taken to pre-
vent the dreaded disease from spreading
A little Girl of NJ. Troyer died a few days
ago and others in the same family are
sick with it
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Itching. blind, bleeding and protruding
authorized by the manufacturers of Pazo
Ointment to refund the money where ii
of how long standing. Cures ordinary
cases in six days: the worst cases in a
DAYS One application gives ease and rest
Relieves itching Instantly. This Is new
discovery and it is the only pile remedy
sold on q positive guarantee, no cure, no
pay. Price soc.
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New Waterworks well.

The Waterworks company is now put
ting down a new well on the east side
of the dam, that is twenty feet in diam
eter and will be forty feet deep. A vein
of spring water has been struck there in
which a fourteen inch hole showed a
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He Signs on Friday.

Omaha, Dec. 27-Mike Welday. of
Leavenworth. Kan. will next season
play in the outfeld of the Omaha team.
He signed with Manager Rourke on
Friday. NVelday played last season with
Superior, Mich, and made an excellent
record. Many people who have seen him
play predict he will make a second
Stone for the Omahogs.
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flow of fifty gallons per minute The
work of putting down the well is in
charge of superintendent Frank Diss
and he has ten men at work. A new
steam pump for keeping the water out
of the we'll while digging has been re-
ceived from ago.-Horton CONNER
cial. sss
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Holidav Rates via Santa Fe.

Tickets on sale to points within 200
miles of Topeka, one fare for the round
trip, December "a, %, 81 and January 1,
return limit January 2. Rates east of
Missouri river one and one-third fare.
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Objected to Colored Players.

Concordia, Kan. Dec. 27.-The football
game between Osborne and Concordia re-
suited in Osborne leaving the field at the
end of the first half The game at that
time stood s to in favor of Concordia-
The trouble arose over Osborne wanting
to play three negroes and Concordia OBJ
iecfcd.
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Bodily pain loses its terror if you've
a bottle of DR.. Thomas Electric Oil in
burns. cuts, sprains, accidents of any
sort.
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Football Receipts ARE Good.

Chicago. Dec. 27.-Athletics at the
University of Chicago are on a firm
financial foundation, practically for the
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To Cure Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo- Quinine Tablets. This
signature GRE-~s on every O0z-s'''
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Just Say ''I'm Sick -
And Will Send You a Way
To Get>WeII.

me
Then will send you an ordergood at drug stOrOr six
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fails win
decide