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and some fifty persons perished. In
1914 1900 were killed and many wound
ed by an eruption. AFTER the noun
tain had become quiet the record
says. ut presented a frightful appear
ance. Its former picturesque. highly
cultivated slopes being covered with
barren sand which enveloped the CO.
coanut trees to their tops. The finest
villages of the Camarines were de-
stroyed. and the best part of the prov
ince was converted into n sandy
waste"
The heights of the Philippine vol
canoes vary from 10000 and 5000 feet
(Albay or Mazon) down to Taal, only
$50 feet high. This last and curious
one is on an islet In the middle of Lake
Bomban. south of Manila. The lake.
originally. no doubt, a vast crater, Is
separated from the China sea by a mar
row isthmus. 1t contains secondary
craters. crevasses emitting vapor and
lakelets of acid water. When Il was
In action in 1885 all the vegetation of
the island was burned up. A further
idea of the volcanic activity Of the
region may be gained from the fact
that a volcanic island emerged from
the sea on the northern coast Of Luzon
in 1856. grew to 700 feet in four years,
and is now about 500 feet high. The
earthkuake is such a common event In
Manila that 1t is always taken into ac-
count in building operations.
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in quick succession. but 1t can really
be likened to no effect produced BY hu-
man agency. Nothing ever heard from
the sky. indeed. can equal It in range
or volume. The great eruption of
Krakatoa was heard 1000 miles away!
The water wave" Is the shock trans
mitted to the sea. The largest Of these,
as a consequence Of the Krakatoa erup-
ton, on reaching the shores of Sumat-
ra and Java. rose to a height of nifty
feet above normal water level, destroy
ing 163 villages entirely and 132 partial
ly. More than $4,000 human beings
perished.
The "'froth" upon the surface Of lavas
varies greatly In character. In the
majority of cases the lavas consis, of
a mass Of crystals floating in a liquid
magma, and the distension Of such a
mass by the escape Of steam from its
midst gives rise to the formation of
the rough, cindery looking material to
which the name of "scoriae' Is ap-
piled.
DIR. Whymper relates that, while
standing on the summit Of Chimbarazo.
he witnessed an eruption Of Cotopaxi.
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lakes. that the temperature Of liquid
lava IL 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, and
that there being an increase Of one de-
gree for each nifty or sixty feet of. de-
scent the temperature at 5000 feet is
M degrees. or boiling point The
level Of the floor in a volcano like
Vesuyius may rise nearly to the brink
Of the crater. or in one like Kilauea at
least some hundreds Of feet. The erup-
tion-begins when the pressure from the
vapors generated and confined below
and from the hydrostatic pressure of
the lava column Is too great to be
withstood by the containing mountain.
The mountain, therefore breaks, the
conduit is rent open on one side or the
other and the lava runs out. II the
mountain Is too strong the lava merely
rises to the summit and overfiows. The
eruptions Of the present day are usu-
ally through assures, however. and the
vibrations which attend the rending
Of the mountain may result in the
underground rumbling and shock,
which means earthquake. So it was at
Martinique.
The volcanic sound waves is some
thing like the discharge of heavy guns
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Np in Me Dome

Going up to the dome" is the night
is the wish being expressed by other
people. For in spite of the sign limit
ing the top of the capitol building as
an observation point to p. m on
week days, the public can never be
made to understand. Consequently
hosts innumerable flock in to climb TIE
winding stairs at all hours.
So the dome and the limitations of
the visitors cause more trouble for the
janitors than myriads of dandelions
firmly and maIiciously planted on the
state house lawn.
Solid" couples attracted by the
tabled darkness and obscurity Of the
upper portions of the capitol, flock in
on Sundays. They have to be relig-
iously turned down by such janitors as
are on duty around the building. Sun
day furnishes a fitting pretext in some
cases. In others there are bold at
tempts to debauch the official by sneak
ing him a half dollar, but he must re-
main firm and he usually avoids re-
spOnsibility by the true tale of the
keys being locked up" They are.
But still he could get at them should
the capitol take fire and be in imminent
danger of burning down.
Many citizens of the state swarm to
the dome to chew tobacco and spit.
Others transform the place into a
smoker and leave their cigarette and
cigar stubs where they will be most
conspicuous.
AS the fourth of July season draws
nigh, ambitious boys sneak domewards
to toss lighted firecrackers into the
atmosphere below.
One day last summer some boys al
lowed a heavy oaken frame to slide
down one of the wires connected with
the dome. 1t caught on a post just
above the north entrance of the build
ing and dangled there for a half day
a menace to pedestrians and passersby.
Never a day passes but belated ones
try to ascend after o'clock. In such
instances it is discovered that "the
man who has the key to the dome has
Just gone home" No one seems to
know Just where ne lives. Then the
troops Of visitors file away. sadly dis
appointed.
Occasionally strangers wish a pilot.
In such instances the dome janitor''
must go up and point out the features
of the city or be rated as sulky and
sullen by those who seek his services.
Z x z
Jack-It is mighty hard to be the son
of a self-made millionaire.
Tom-Why so7
Jack-A fellow can't decide whether
to go into business and live up to his
fathers reputation, or go into society
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MAY FLY THE TRACK.
A Report That Colombia Will
Break Off Canal Negotiations.

New York, Nov 3.-There is said to be
great indignation among the residents
of the Isthmus owing to the Colombian
gov ernments Instructions to Minister
Concha, at Washington to suspend i'm
definitely the canal treaty negotiations,
cables the Kingston, Jamaica, CORE
spondent of the Herald.
It is even reported that the authori-
ties in Bogota are determined to break
off the negotiations altogether because
Of the United States recent policy re-
straining the transportation of Colom-
ban troops on the Panama railroad in
order to uphold strictly the treaty obli-
cations.
The United States marines, it is as
serted have not hampered the Colom
bian government On the contrary, the
Americans by protecting transit on the
Isthmus, are declared to have hindered
General Herrera from attacking Colon
and Panama, and indirectly aided the
government which would have been de-
feated after Aqua DuIce fell but for the
landing of the American marines g+sr "a
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NEW OFFICES FOR SANTA FE
A 100000 Building to Be Erected
in Chicago.

Chicago, Nov. ga modern office
building will be erected at the north
west corner of Jackson and Michigan
boulevards by the Standard Office com
pany, a new concern incorporated in
Springfield today. The structure will
cost 81 900 and will be occupied by at
least two railroad companies, one or
more steel companies. and a number of
other large corporations. 1t will be
ready for occupancy May 1. 1904
Among the tenants of the new build
ing will be the. St. Paul and Santa Fe
railroad companies; according to the
Tribune, and probably the Alton Rail-
road company.
The new building probably will be II
stories in height and will be a modern
structure. IT will be planned especially
for the large CORPORATIONS which are to
occupy it. ~
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$2.67 Kansas City and Return
via Rock Island System. Tickets on
sale November 4, 5 and 6, limited for
return November Q.
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state, don't vote for a self-confessed en-
bezzler.'f

state. don't vote for a self-confessed en-
bezzler.f
w. M. Glenn, editor of the Greeley
County Republican, who was a candi-
date before the Republican state con-
vention for lieutenant governor pub
fishes the following:
Some of the Kelly papers are MAX
ing the claim that more recent exami-
nation of his books shows that they
were mistaken in the former statement
and that the shortage is but SAB in all.
The mistake of the papers is that they
do not tell all of it. The recent exami-
nation was made all right and SAB ad-
ditional found in some wolf scalp vouch-
ers. They did not take back thing of
their former statement. The evidence is
clear that Tom Kelly duplicated war
rants and raised others by which M
ami county was robbed out of several
hundred dollars. and in none of these
can his claim that records were stolen
out of the office and fixed up have any
weight as a defense. The statement is
made that the board found several thou
sand dollars additional to what they
reported, but that the evidence was not
clear or some of the record was miss
ing and in all such cases they gave KEEL
ly the benefit of the doubt
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ROBBED OF $4,000.
Rich Indian Kept His Money in
an Outbuilding.

Butte, Mont, Nov. "a special to the
Miner from Missoula says that one of
the most Sensa tional rObberies that has
ever taken place in the history Of west
ern Montana was enacted at Plains,
news of which has Just reached this
place. A wealthy Flathead Indian
named MatchelI was robbed of $22 900 in
and $40 gold pieces. Matchell was Wis
itor in Plains Saturday night and during
his absence at about 10 o'clock at night
a man dressed as a sQuaw visited his
home on CamaS prairie and engaged in
conversation with Matchell's squaw.
was not an Indian SQuaW but a White
man, as he could not talk good Flat
head, but she did not suspect anything
wrong at first, but finally saw two men
run from an outbuilding carrying some-
thing with them. Then it was that her
suspicious were aroused. as the wealth
had been stored in that building
The robbers jumped on their horses,
which were nearby, and the one that
had been talking to her joined them,
and the three hurried away. AS Soon
as she reached Plains with The news
several of the white citizens of that
place accompanied Matchell to his home
to find if the story was true, which was
proven on their arrival there. . A score
Of young Indians started out to try t.
Lei ate the robbers. but no clue mas been
discovered.
AIatchell is The wealthiest fullbjooi
IEd:an on tie reservation. He has large
herds of catSl2 and horses, ana was al
: avs known to have money but few
velops. however, that the old Indian
was afraid to trust his money in the
bank and kept it in an old trunk in an
outbuilding at his home.
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SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

DR.. J. P. Lewis was in Kansas City
SUNDAY.
W. R. Hazen has gone, to. Lawrence
on official business. -.ss- ..
Last nights frost nipped most of the
remaining vegetation.
Mr.. and Mrs Nelson Dyer are the
parents of a daughter born Saturday.
w. d Ford Governor Stanley's pri-
vate secretary. has gone home to Ga
lera.
Even Leavenworth was shocked with
the performance of "A Modern Mag
dalen.'
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Brander and wife
are the parents of an eight pound girl,
born last night.
E. P Collins has gone to Wellington
where he will act as agent for an ex-
press company
There will be very little legal bust
ness at the court house Tuesday on &C
count of election .ys st
The state house is about deserted to-
day. Many of the state officers and en-
ployes have gone home to vote.
The Carter Reynolds company will
open a three days engagement at the
Grand tonight in Cumberland Cap"
Nearly everybody is hoping for good
weather tomorrow. 1t isn't pleasant
standing around in the wet waiting for
retu-nz-
State Auditor Cole left last night for
Girard to vote. Every Third district
man will go home in order to help Phil
Campbell.
Rev. Samuel Frender will lecture to
night at the North Topeka Baptist
church. Mr.. F'render was formerly a
Jewish rabbi.
Most of the politicians on both sides
are getting the cobwebs out of their
threats so they Will be able to yell to-
morrow night.
Foxy CUTLER will be at the Craw.
ford tonight. If he would but stay over
until tomorrow he might apprehend
some reDeaters.
The seat sale for the Sousa band con-
cert at the auditorium opened this
morning in a manner that the agents
call ''proDitious."
State Treasurer Grimes says he will
swear in his vote at Leoti out in Wich-
ita county. if it is necessary. He pro
poses to vote there.
The weekly papers have at last ceased
to run pictures Of favoFite sons who
would like to be anything from road
overseer up to state senator.
! G. c. Clemens has sent out an appeal
! to the labor unions of the state to stand
1 by Judge DOster in the election and vote
/ for his return to the supreme bench.
"A Breezy Time at the Crawford
I proved that age does not act the same
on shows as it does on fruit cake. "A
/ Breezy Time" was bad ten years age
and this year 1t is worse.
Kansas football enthusiasts are glad
1 the Michigan team defeated Wisconsin
at Chicago Saturday. The reason is
this: Yost, who coached the Michigan
team, was coach of the K. L. team in
1899 and the football system still played
in Kansas is the style he taught the
/ jayhawkers.
The Topeka Whist club will agar
play in the old rooms tonight on account
of the new rooms in the Smith building
not being ready for occupancy. Every.
thing will be in shape by next Monday
/ night, however and the new quarter:
will be opened with a social session,
each member inviting one whist friend
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been differences between the two, and on
several occasions Miss Stone broke down
after a scene and would cry all through
the intermission.
But they continued to speak and went
to and from the theater together The
first serious outbreak came last Wsires-
day afternoon at the matinee. After one
of Miss Stones especially good scenes she
went before the curtain to respond to a
curtain call. AS she came off she was
met by Mcdowell.
Didn't I tell you about that?" he said
angrily Lam the head of this produce
ton and I.lwon't have you accepting cur
tain ca1isi"
She replied that she had received a call
and had to accept it. They continued to
quarrel as they went to their dressing
rooms and he made it very emphatic that
she was not to accept curtain calls except
when it was evident that she had to do so.
She gave him to understand that she
would do as she liked and referred to him
as a brute and a beast.
After that they were not seen to speak.
and when they left the theater they went
separate ways. For three days Miss Stone
was hysterical and could hardly go on for
the performances Just before the Satur-
day night performance she broke down
completely and it was necessary to send
out and get stimulant before shc could
compose herself She sobbed almost con-
tinually and once when she came off the
stage with Mcdowell, fell to the floor.
He walked on to his dressing room and
one of the other members of the company
had to help her to her dressing room. The
women of the company tried to quiet ner
but she would speak 20 no one. 1t ap-
peared to the remainder of the company
that Mcdowell did not even want Miss
Stone to speak to any OF the other male
members and wanted all the honors for
| himself
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TURNING BLACK.
Patrick McGrath Attacked by a Mys-
terious Disease.

New York, Nov. 3.-Patrick McGrath, an
employee of the sewer department. is be
lieved to be dying at Bellevue hospital
from mysterious disease, the cause of
which leading physicians have been IN
able to determine. MeGrath is tBrning
black. Cases of a similar nature have
been frequent in medical history but the
victims color generally turned very slow
". McGraths case is entirely new. He
was taken to the hospital on Thursday.
The discoloration began soon afterward
in his lower extremities and already has
risen to his abdomen. The doctors thus
far have been unable to afford him any
relief. He has grown steadily weaker.
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$267 Kansas City and Return
via Rock Island System. Tickets on
sale November 4, and s. limited for
return November 8.
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10-yard line. After advancing the bail
to the 25-yard line. K. U. lost it on
downs, and Griggs Immediately kicked
an easy field goal Time was called
without further scoring.
K. u kicked off in the second half. The
High school punted with the wind and
K Us full back missed the ball but re-
covered it on the 12-yard line The High
school took the ball downs on the X
U. 20-yard line. The High school lost
yards trying to get around the end. and
then Griggs kicked rather difficult field
goal from the 90yard line. This made the
score Is te.D.v
X U. kicked off with the wind. ana
then commenced a pretty struggle in High
school territory. 1t the only time in
the game when the High school goal was
lit the least endangered.
K. L. got the ball on the High school
30-yard line, a tumble being the cause
The High school played desperately, and
held K. L. for three downs. On the third
K. Y. played quarter back kick. which
the High school got on its 3-yard line.
The High school worked the ball rapidly
out to the center of the field and there
lost the ball downs. X L. was forced
to quarter back kick. and recovered the
ball on the High school 12-yard line. The
High school men went into the game for
blood, and X. U. lost ground. Another
quarterback kick hit the line. and al
though K. U. recovered the ball. it was 20
yards further away from the High school
goal. Again K. L. failed to gain, and
against its quarter back kicked the ball.
This time honey Freshman. the foot
High school captain, jumped about five
feet above the heads of the K. u players.
and caught the ball.
On the 300-yard line, the High school
lined up. On the second scrimmage, Art
Griggs again got through the line, and
ran IS yards, being downed in almost ex-
actly the same spot he was before, just
two yards from the K. U. goal This time
Rice was pushed over the line for a touch
down. and goal was kicked. The score
was % to O.
The game ended with the ball in the
possession of the High school on the K
L. 3O-yard line. but there was no more
scoring.
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Killed During Her Honeymoon.

New York Nov. 3.-Abraham Scher, a
cloak salesman, has shot and fatally
wounded the woman who was married to
him on October s. The shooting occurred
in an East side tenement. Scher declares
that his wife refused to cook his meals
and that he had eaten nothing but ba-
nanas during the day. Becoming enraged
from hunger. he told the police. he pro-
cured a revolver and seeking his wife in
the fiat occupied ny friends in another
building, he fired four shots at her, all Of
which took effect .---
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He Was Laura Keene's son-in-Law.

New York, Nov 3.-Dr. Albert Leighton
Rawson, known in this country and Eu-
rope as a writer and illustrator of Biblical
works, is dead at his home in this city at
the age of "A. He spent many years of MS
life in the Holy Land and received de
greeS from a number Of institutions Of
learning. In 1872 DR.. Rawson married the
daughter of Laura Keene. the actress, who
came into fame through being the leading
woman on the stage of Ford's theater in
Washington on the night of President Lin
coins assassination.
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NOVEMBER SALE At THE
Topeka Cash Dry Goods Go.

Ladies Black Mercerized Peicoats with double hounce
worth 81 49, sale price $l.25
FCRS-Our line of Furs second 1t all the
novelties we'll staple popular priced
Furs We show everythngom DC Scarf to $25. 90
n and let show the FURS
house regardless of former prices sale price 40
30nch wide Melton Skirtings in black and good
weight the thing for golf skirts, sale price, yd 25C
the East While they ass sale price yard s'. 39c
Al-wool Fancy Waistings, including the side band
effects, worth 49c sale 8OC
5O-inch alwool Panama excellent fabric
tailor suits $1.OO price ..........75
black regular 81 Is value sale price $50
terms eoorngour regular price I'd $3.50
weight regular SOC quality sale price garment " 39c
sale price each
Ladies ribbed and heece-lned Vest Pants in ecru
turquoise pink blue also extra gmt 25c
Childrens ribbed heecelined Vests, Pants and Drawers
Is a. sale 49, each Sc
Ladies Flanneee Gowns, full nicely made each .40c
Childrens Fanneette Sleeping Garments. ideal gar
these chilly nights worth &c. sale price each 30c
White Bowls Pitchers Chambers worth Soc reduced 5C
Special discount on Decorated Toiletware.
cuspidos. 13c. 19c. 29c. 39c and 55c
Jardniers, worth 39c reduced 2s7C
10 per reduction on all Jardineres
Kitchen Lamp complete, each
Fancy Dec English Dinner Sets worth $780, reduced SIS 20
No. Universal Food Chopper worth $780, reduced S1,1O
No Is Parafne Chopping Bowl worth 15c sale Zoe
Eagle No 100 Carpenter Square, worth S50 reduced 90
Pipe, joint 12c Elbows. each. ......1Oc
Full nickle plated Tea Kettle. Csc
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20 Miles for a Nickel.

Chicago, Nov. 3.-Beginning today trans
fers will be granted on all the lines of the
Chicago Union Traction company. Under
the new rules, the North side conductors
will give transfers good on the West side
lines, and the West side conductors viii
give slips granting the same privilege on
the North side lines 1t will be possible
for person to travel twenty miles for
nickel
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Discovered eli Yosemite Is Dead

San Francisco. Nov. S.-J. NJ. Hutchins.
who discovered the Yosemite valley and
opened it for tourists, has been killed by
his team going over the nrade on his way
into the famous valley. Mr.. Hutchings
was nearly 80 years old and until recently
spent every winter in the Yosemite
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SEEM HEARTLESS
oaRiSIAkS INDIFFERENT TO THE
DISASTER IN THE FRENCH
WEST INDIES.
70 SIGN OF PUBLIC SORROW

Feonle Continue to Flock 70 the Races
ard 20 Fiji the Theatres, the Fund
fer .re Sufferers Growing al Snail S
face-Hore lrterest in the Automo-
bic Races Than in News Of the
D saster.
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FREAKS OF THE OiSAS eH.
Dissertation Of St. Pierre After tns
Erupt or.

london. MAY l6.-rhc correspond
ont ot the London Times at Paris. NJ
do ElowitZ supplies his paner VIII
an ae,nun, ot the ST. Pierre disaster
tcleglauhcd 10 him by a lUehd ITO"
Io,i dc France. Martinique.
For three weeks Mont Pe!ce nav
ho.n vomiting clouds OF smoke. ou'
the smoke seemed produced so nor
mally that Il was permlssio1e 'u'
ove, those who were inclined To loon
on ,tc da,k side rot TO dread ealaS
,.a.hc At Fo,t de France. where VI.
a a.5.a,icn OF Mont Pelee attracted d.
II went on. much attention any anN
Iety which existed sraduaHs uieN
Gown when. May ). A violent e.ur''ol
=, nud. the no, ashes having pecl
,.,nplcd with water III the ..a'e'
whe,med Guerins works kiiiins
-, nersons. and the river in the nor"
=, Tho island. now swollen py hiuuu!
,errnrt noisily overtoWed.
"On May $. while there were sun w
uberations going on at Fort de rianes
and 81 Pierre. where the night mac
haan passod in anguish and ignorance
-. "a whether the eruption ol muu was
Tho precursor Of. or the end o. 'ns
disastcr. st. Pierre was. within ~ I'LL"
utcs. annihilated. :. ,od
nrscr,bing St. Pierre after II ha.
.aan demolished the correspondent
"A norton of the upper town wa'
razcd by cloud OF hre "h'e" '"'