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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
GOTHAM COAL FAMINE.
New York Poor Suffer Greatly
Over Sunday.

New York, Dec 15.-On Sunday over co.
600 tons of coal were delivered 1t wens to
hospitals, hotels, apartment houses, OFFICE
buildings and factories.
Three hundred and fifty prisoners in the
Tombs shivered for several hours. The
almost II o'clock before. the fires. were
again started
Sundays demand on the coal dealers had
been such that extraordinary measures had
to be taken.
Many of the big down town office build
ings which, it was feared would be with
out coal today, have received supplies.
More than half the people living in the
tenement district in the city were unabla
to get coal even by the pan and there
was consequently much suffering.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
THREE LIVES LOST.
Tenement House Fire Followed by
Usual Results

New York, Dec. 15.-Three lives were
lost in a tenement house fire in First ave-
nue. near 126th street today The dead:
MRS MARY BOND, 80 years of age.
RAYMOND BOND, Z years of age
ROSE BOND, ) years.
Edward Bond was severely burned
about the hands and face while trying to
save his family and Helen Bond, years
of age, was also severely burned.
The loss on the building and contents
was 5000
The Bonds lived on the top floor of the
tenement. which was five stories high
There were Is families in the house but
all except the Bonds got out safely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
WOLCoTT TO CONTEST.
Republican Candidate for Legislature
in Leavenworth Won't Give Up.

Leavenworth. Kan, Dee. 15.-Herbert W.
Woicott. late Republican candidate for rep
ressntative in the Seventh representative
district, late Saturday afternoon served no.
tice on J. Ross Perkins, the democratic
candidate, declared elected by the county
board of canvassers, that he intended to
contest the latters election The notice
OF contest was served on Mr.. Perkins by
Mr. Wolcott personally, the latter's artor-
ney. F. B. Dawes, being out of town. Mr..
Wolcott states many reasons why he be-
heves that he is elected to the seat in the
Legislature now claimed by Perkins. lie
alleges, among other things, that Perkins
purchased many votes: that the election
judges were. guilty of misconduct and
fraud, and that about 2I5 Illegal ballots
were counted for Perkins that should have
been thrown out. Mr.. Wolcott believes that
the legislature will seat him before the SEES
fact that the friends of Perkins are
alarmed. Perkins claims that Wolcott VIII
not be able to prove his case, but the lat
ter is positive that he will be able to set
tie in the minds of the members of the
legislature that he is rightly entitled 10
the place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
GATES MAKES A DONATION.
Gives 1896, 900 to Improve Port Ar
thur, Texas.

Beaumont, Tex, Dec. 15.-John w
Gates, who is resting at his summer
home at Port Arthur, previous to start
ing another million dollar corner in
wheat, has donated $125000 to the town
of Port Arthur for municipal improve
ments.
The donation came after Mr.. Gates
had made a speech on the necessity of
such improvements The money is to
be devoted to street paving and the lay
ing of sidewalks.
Mr.. Gates has a winter home at Port
Arthur and is socially as well as fnan-
cially interested in the town to con
siderable extent.
The citizens of Port Arthur will ada
about s1G0 coo to the Gates donation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
EVERY MAN HOLDS STOCK.
Plan of Ottumwa, Iowa, to Secure
Waterworks.

Ottumwa. Ia, Dec. 15.-Every taxpayer
in Ottumwa is to be made = stocl.hoider
in a waterWorks company il plans COW
on foot in this city are carried out 1t Is
said to be the second time in the history
of the United States that such a scheme
has ever been suggested.
Ottumwa is beyond her debt limitation
and the city desires to build a plant That
will give adequate fire protection test
case was made in the supreme court as to
whether or not levy for a waterworks
plant could be Included in the constitution
al debt limitation, the plea being made
that it was urgent necessity. The courts
held that such a levy was not part OF
the state debt
Thus the city found itself oheekmated
nut is determined to organize the whole
poration, making every taxpayer stock
holder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

A. Wardelich to L. P. Bowers, So,
part northwest quarter 23-1-16
NJ. c. Austin to ]. S. Austin. $500 lot
As Brewers subdivision.
G. w. Byera ct al to Fl, Mosley, $500,
lots 6S7 and $50, Kansas avenue, Walnut
Grove addition.
r. A. Barlow and husband to G. A.
Miller, $780, lot 361, Golden avenue, Lew
is sub division.
L. Blakeley and wife to I. S. Bowman,
81 goo, lots &c and IS, Eighth avenue,
west.
A. H. Aldrich to z. Snoddy, 81, lots 4
to IS, inc. Main street. Valencia
J. H Moss and wife to same, S17. so.
same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
SPLICE IS MADE.
Pacific Cable Is at Last Being
Laid Toward Honolulu.

San Francisco, Dec. 15.-''In memory of
John W. Mackay, / christen the Pacific
cable. May it always carry messages of
happiness"
With these words, Lucille Gage, the IL
year-old daughter of H. I. Gage, governor
of California. Sunday christened the trans
Pacific cable, and, breaking bottle of
champagne over the shore end, inaugurated
new era in the commercial development
Of the Pacific coast
The landing and splicing of the shore
end which is to connect the mainland with
Honolulu, was accomplished without hitch
of any kind and was witnessed by $4,000
or 10000 people. Ideal weather prevailed,
there being scarcely any surf.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
DOWIE WILL SPANK.
scolds His People-Says They Are
Growing Lazy.

Chicago, Dec. TT am tired talking
to you and trying to get you to do
what's right. You are growing lazy and
forgetful of your duties in Zion If you
don't get up earlier L propose to spank
you and make you more Jealous"
John Alexander Dowie addressed 1,500
of his chosen people in the above siren
uous language at Zion City last night
He said that many of his followers were
growing lukewarm in their duties, that
attendance at the $50 services in tbs
morning and the general gathering i'll
the Auditorium in Chicago on Sunday
was dwindling Then he hurled his
threat of applying the single unless
they reformed. at his people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
EARN SIXTEEN CENTS ADAY
Fifteen Thousand Seamstresses in a
Bad Plight

Vienna, Dec 15.-Delegates appointed by
5000 seamstresses, the majority of whom
it is alleged, earn less than 16 cents a day,
convened here this afternoon for the pur-
pose of urging the government to repeal
the act against street peddling, which
has greatly reduced the sales of factories
employing women. and girls. The crisis
in the houses of operatives is acute
1t has greatly shocked the public to
learn that the seamstresses are compelled
out of their daily pittance, to buy needles
and thread. Even the most pronounced
conservatives say that the natural fruit
of such extremity is revolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
To Train at Cincinnati.

New York. Dec. 15.-Both Young Cor
bett and Terry McGovern have decided to
train at Cincinnati fo~ their fight in De-
troit next month. McGovern has left for
Queen City. He will be trained by Charley
Mayhood and viii do his work at his old
quarters. Corbett will leave shortly for
Cincinnati. Harry Tuthill will look after
the Denver boy during his training.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
Vanderbilt Shows No Change.

New York. Dec l5-At the home of
Cornelius Vanderbilt it was said today
that there was no change in Mr.. Wander
bits condition and that unless a change
for the worse should occur no more bulle-
tins would be issued
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

Philadelphia, Dec. 15-There is no hope
for the recovery of John W. Ella, presi-
dent of the civil service reform league of
Chicago, who was stricken with apo
plexy while attending the national civil
service reform convention in this city.
The physicians at the Methodist hospital
say today that Mr.. Ella can not recover.
His wife reached the hospital this morn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

before District Attorney Chamberlain
placed under oath and forced to tell whom
they saw in the places they visited AS a
result, a number of prominent citizens are
to be. called before the grand jury to an
swer to the charge of gambling in viola
ton of the city ordinance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
MANY soldiers DROWNED.

New York. Dec 15.-Advices from Barr
anquilla confirm the report of the total
wreck Of the steamer Bogota in the Mag
dalena river recently near Ell Blanco,
says a Herald dispatch from Colon. She
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
Sewing Machines.

Rabcock & Frost have the finest line
of sewing machines in town, and they
are making special prices till the first OF
the year Call and see them. us Kan
sas avenue. Phone 1924.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

San Francisco. Cal. Dec. .15.-The former
transport Hancock under command of
Captain Frederick W. Coffin of the navy,
has sailed for Philadelphia to become re-
ceiving ship at League Island navy yard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.


In speaking of the Ferris comedians
who are to be at the Grand opera house
this week commencing tonight, the man.
agement takes pride in stating that too
much cannot be said in favor of this pop
ular company. Mr.. Ferris has climbed
the repertoire ladder step by step, and
now stands at the top, surrounded by
one of the best companies that plays at
popular prices. Both the dramatic and
vaudeville performers are the best that
high salaries will procure. The company
numbers over twenty-five. and carries all
their own scenery. mechanical effects,
curtains, rugs, medalions, furniture, brio
a-brac, etc, using in all over a car load.
The engagement opens here tonight when
'In Dfxey Land" will be presented.
Night prices 10. 20 and 80 cents. Matinee
prices 10 and 20 cents. Ladies free to-
night under usual conditions
The date set for the appearance here
lights Frank Daniels. is not far off
and as 1T approaches interest in his
gagement increases. He is to present his
new operatic comedy success Miss Sim
plicity," at the Crawford theater Thurs
day. In spite of it's modern atmosphere,
the ensemble of the piece is said to
be entirely picturesque The locale is a
small Zenda-like kingdom on the con-
tinent and the story is more or less of a
satire or the Anthony Hope brand Of
sort Of a part to play. He is first
a trolley car conductor, later the valet
to the king of a three-acre kingdom and
still later the substitute ruler of the place
himself. 1t is in his effoe-s to assume
the regal airs of kingship that he gets
his best opportunities to be funny. Near
ly one hundred people are carried in the
Daniels company this season. among
them are Frank Turner, Douglas Flint
Grafton Baker, Mark Lane. Grace Orr
Myers MaiSI4owery. Kate TART, Florence
Holbrook and Isabelle d Armonde. Seats
for Daniels engagement will be ready
tomorrow. Prices, floor and boxes, $50:
balcony. 81 and rs cents: gallery. 50 cents.
Saturday matinee and night at the
Crawford theater will be presented
''Gideon's Colored Minstrel Carnival
Prices range from 15c to SOC. Matinee Is
q cents.
Monday evening next "Florodora'' will
be seen in Topeka for the first time.
On Christmas afternoon and night
Chas. B. Hanford and his company will
be seen at the Crawford in Tanning Of
the Shrew'' for matinee and Much Ado
about Nothing at night At the Grand
onera house on the same date '@The
Power Behind the Throne with Kath-
crime Willard in the leading role will be
given
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
Reception to Cuban Children.

San Diego Cal. Dec. ia popular re-
ception was given to the eleven Cuban
children who have arrived at he Point
Iona homestead and whose case has at
ira cted so much attention The affair was
held a the Isis theater. which was crowd
ed A number of prominent people at
tended
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

had on board large force of government
soldiers. many of whom were drowned.
The details of the disaster have been
suppressed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15
After Portland Gamblers.

Portland. Ore. Dec. 15.-Municipal Judge
H. w. Hogue and B. B. Beekman, a well
known attorney. who. on December g. made
a tour of the gambling houses and saw
the games in OPERATION, have been called
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

ing, having been summoned from Chi
cago, but her husband was too i'll to rec
ogniZe her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

Monday evening next ''Florodora' will
be seen in Topeka for the first time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-15

Saturday matinee and night at the
Crawford theater will be presented
''Gideon's Colored Minstrel Carnival .
Prices range from 15c to SOC. Matinee Is
% cents
Evening journal., 1902-07-07
NEW WSPAPER OPINION
independent Woman's RIghi

From the Chicago Tribune.
The women suffragists of Massachu-
lsetts have labored long and fruitlessly
to convince the Legislature they should
have the right to vote. Year after year
they have invaded the domain OF the
sacred goldfish. and year after year they
have been compelled to retreat Now,
however, the Legislature has passed a
bill. so quietly that it has hardly at
Itracted notice. which gives to women
Ia lntre important right than that of
voting. and the gift has come TO them
Through the influence of a man. The
woman suffragists can claim none OF
the honor.
A lttle more than year ago a poor
.hard-working woman at Barre, Mass,
finding that her drurken husband was
about to leave her. and that he was
making preparations. to take away her
five children. was so crazed with grief
that she shot them. She had even con-
scented TO 20 to the almshouse If her
children were allowed to accompany
her. but this being impossible, she COM
mitted the awful deed The pastor VI
the Congregational Church. IN Barre.
made a thorough investigation OF all
the facts in the case and published
them, thus calling public attention to
the matter He then went to work to
secure a change in the law which gave
a father complete power over his chill
dren without any reference to his char
acter. ability. or condition. The pro-
bate Judges of the State aided him and
az last he has been successful. Both
branches of the Legislature have go
lamended the law that IL now provides
that the parents of the minor, jointly,
shall be entitled to the custody of the
person OF the minor and to the care OF
his education
This lls as it should be- Heretofore
in that State the father has had abso-
Lutte control so far as the children are
concerned. though the father is much
more likely to abuse such control
than the mother. OF course. in any
ideal home the mother would have a
large degree of control. even though it
might not be legal. and there would be
no abuse OF his power by the father;
but IL should be established by law, so
that in everv home there is Joint con-
troll. thus avoiding all possibility OF
abuse 1ne Boston Herald notes in
this connection. that Massachusetts is
the twelfth State of the Union to con-
cede this right while thirty-three still
cling to the old form under the law.
The women of Massachusetts, are TO
be congratulated that they have secured
this important right. even 4 it was
through masculine effort. It is one OF
the rights" of woman which is in
line with Justice and win be more use
lul than the right OF suffrage
Evening journal., 1902-07-07
THE pEDDLER's LIcENsE LAW

THE PEDDLER'S LICENSE LAW
Following our remarks in a recent
editorial on the peddlers' license acts
the Morning News expresses the fol-
lowing sensible opinion
The law governing peddler licenses
in this State, and enforced last week
when a poor man who sold crabs for a
living was mulcted, works great
hardship. 1t is an absurd and unneces-
sary act If applied to its full limit its
farcical character would be fully im-
pressed upon the people 1t is wrong
in theory and outrageous In practice.
Under it's provisions sitting magistrates
have not discretion save to impose the
penalty made and provided.
The way TO make bad law offensive
is TO enforce il. But the enforcement
of this particular law is obnoxious.
There are some laws which ought to be
ignored. especially when they are de-
signed to deprive very poor men of
making a living. The next General
Assembly should repeal or amend the
peddler license act It is neither fair
nor reasonable.
The Sunday Star holds similar views,
and shows where the law works a
hardship. not only to peddlers, but to
the people generally. It says:
There lis another side to this ques-
uon. The enforcement of this law prac-
tically prevents poor people from reap
ing many advantages that might be
theirs. The law applies not only to the
man who peddles crabs from a basket,
but to every peddler. In times past
whenever there was a glut in the mar
ket and clans, or oysters, or berries,
or watermelons, or other periehalble
commodities were too plentiful to be
readily disposed OF at The regularly es-
tablisned places of SALE wagons were
sent out TO all parts of the city and the
surplus was sold for whatever prices
il would bring. In this way poor pn0-
pie and others far from the centres of
trade We're enabled to procure many
things that ordinarily they would have
little opportunity to buy.
Now all this is prohibited. Only by
payment of an exCIDitant fee may any
one sell such things in the old way.
We fully realize that it is necessary
to put a check on promiscuOus peddling
to protect legitimate. taX-paying ane
law-abiding merchants from the com
petition of peripateic venders, who ar'
often swindlers. and who. were the,
mrestrained. would work much dam
age to the community. But there mus
be somewhere TO draw the line. anS
some means should be found TO pre-
vent the laws from depressing thosl
who do the public a service while bene
fitting themselves.
Evening journal., 1902-07-07
THE GAMEEOFf GAMES.
eois, Says This Writer, Involves Art,
scfcnce,nnd Ins Diration.

kois, Says This Writer, Involves Art,
scfcncc,nnd 'Ins piration.
1t is true that there is point of
view from which golf maybe regarded
as an extremely simple game-the very.
simplest Of all the games with a ball
and a club, says William G.. Brown in
the June Atlantic. The players object
IS simple and single to the point Of
simple mindedness and singularity, one
might say-to put a small ball in a
small hole with the fewest possible
strokes. But so are the objects Of the
highest ambitions, the guiding stars Of
careers the most perplcxed and devil
GUS. 1t is true, likewise, that all the
countless strokes n golfer makes are
resolvable into three kinds of stroke
driving, approaching and putting But
Mr.. Evcrard, in a lecture unsurpassed
for truth and brilliancy by any in all
the extremely clever literature of golf,
has declared that to make those three
strokes aright'one must have art sci
ence and inspiration"
From the moment the ball leaves the
tee, whether it be topped, pulled or
sliced or whether, struck in. proper
fashion a trihe below the medal line
and urged forward with an exquisite
free lashing out of the wrists, it takes
fight as with wings and seeks its true
course as with a mind and purpose Of
its own until 1t drops into the cup with
a Naturalization that no louder clang
or p@an ever surpassed in its sugges-
ton Of victory and consummation,
there is 10 foreseeing what perplexity
or temptation TO carelessness or over
confidence it will present
Not twice off the tee ground and the
putting green will the possibilities and
probabilities of the stroke be quite the
same. In the lie, the wind, the dis
tance to be traversed, the obstacles to
be carried, there are variations not to
be reckoned by any known mathemat-
les.
Then, as the match approaches its
dreadfully quiet climax Of defeat or
victory, the responsibility may grow
positively appalling. The very delib-
Grafton which, impossible in most
FthlNNt 10 ~ NhhA hAaNANAAnlAN VI AAlnf nu
far from lessening the strain on ones
nerves, undoubtedly heightens it. One
has time to estimate the emergency, to
realize the crisis.
Not the fiercost rally at tennis, not
the longest and tlmeliest home run at
baseball, not the most heroic rush at
football, requires a more rigid concen-
tration of thought and energy or a
more dauntless courage than the flick
Of a putter that sends the ball crawl
ing on its last little journey across the
putting green when the put is for the
hole and the hole means the match.
There is not a quality of mind OF body
Il will not except or qualify at all
no, not one, that life itself proves ex-
cellent which a circuit Of the links will
not test
Evening journal., 1902-07-07
Drurx Inne.

Drury lane was named after the
great family of the Drurys who once
lived there, and Glare market after
Lord Clare The fame Of Drury lane
IS worldwide. Who has not heard Of
the famous pantomimss at Drury Lane
theater and Of the many famous actors
and actresses who have played there?
Who has not read Of the wild exploits
of Nell Gwynn, the flower girl, who OBJ
tained such an ascendency over the
Merrle Monarch? Pepys calls her "Pret-
ty Nelr' and records how he saw her
in Drury lane standing at her lodg-
ing's door in her smock sleeves and
bodice, a mighty pretty creature."-
Chambers Journal.
Evening journal., 1902-07-07
PENINSULA PRESS
AddIeks' Race About Run
l the snasex Renubllcan.

From the Sussex Republican.
There are signs that the Addicksites
are beginning TO wake uD to the true
condition in this county and before
they are many days older they will
find out that all those wonderful pre-
oictlons which have been made about
the condition of affairs In New Castle
county which would enable the Union
Republican ticket to win over both the
Democratic and Republican tickets ara
Ia good ways from true. The Regulars
ARE perfectly satisfied with present con-
diuons. They know that dissausfac-
.tion and disaffections exist in the
ranks of the Unions. They know that
a few leaders who have been getting
rich because of their close association
with Addicls will not be able to lead
this time and not be questioned. They
know that this talk that the Union
Republican voters want a separate
ticket so that they can beat both the
Regulars and Democrats is not true,
They know that one ticket that will re-
ceive every Republican vote is what
all Republicans want and propose to
have. that Republican success may be
sure. Addicks will not dare to stand
In the way Of this sentiment His race
is about run anyway. The tide has be-
gun to elbb. IL reached it's high water
mark last Legislature but we know
the tide has set in against him. When
ne would not allow even one United
States senator TO be elected. was tn.
beginning of the change. Republicans
did not then understand, and they
cannot now understand. why A0Oicks
would not allow even one senator Z,
be elected. There was no reason for Il
land it cannot be explained, and nevel
win be- Neither will his preventing
the election of Senator In 1895. Few
Of his friends try to defend that actor
now They are ashamed of it. FEY
of them can give any excuse for tn
failure to elect one senator. But Ad
dicks is to blame and Republican,
know 1t and they are growing tired o
this man throwing away the fruits o
Republican success. Just because i
! suits his selfish purpose TO do 50. The
+ do not propose to permit him to d
so any longer. The Addicksltes will
be compelled to agree on one ticket
They will agree 10 renominate the oil
state ticket, because the rank and N
j of Union Republicans will compel the1
}. to do so.