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The San Francisco call., 1903-01-19
a few days ago

Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper
Elowitz was born OF Jewish stock al the
chateau Of BlOwitz. Pisen. Bohemia. on
December q. 1926. BY a decree Of May G..
lN50, he was enabled 10 assume the pres
eut form OF his name, which in France
and Germany implies noble rank. He was
engaged for some time IN the invention
of a machine for wool-carding by steam
In $50 he was naturalized as a French
man, having for many years been en-
pioyed as a teacher Of German at various
French lysees. especially that Of Tours,
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succumbs to Yellow Fever.

PANAMA Jan lS.-Lfeutenant Mitchell,
graduate Of Annapolis. who was an Off
Ger on baOrd the Colombian Government
gInbOat Bogota, died beze Saturday night
OF yellow fever Several Of the Bogota' :
officers left here for the United States
about two weeks ago Mitchell was pre-
vented from accompanying them by III
ness
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Large Contribution for Strikers.

KESWICK, Jan. 1S-The Keswick Smell.
termen's Union has received $500 in cash
for the support of the commissary of the
strikers. This Contribution will give the
strikers plenty to eat and wear for some
time to come. The men still insist that
they will win and are not discouraged by
the resolutions adopted and signed by
nearly all the business men of Keswick
and Redding, wherein the latter commend
the stand taken by the Mountain Copper
Company in the course it has pursued.
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STUDIES IRON INDUSTRY.

DIES IRON INDUSTRY.
In 1867 Mr. Hewitt was one of ten COM
missioners sent to the Paris Exposition to
study the iron industry of Europe, and
he made most careful and thorough
investigation of every branch Of It, Upon
his return to the United States he wrote
several articles embodying the results of
his observations These were Of such
high quality that they still remain au-
thorities in the iron industry and have
been translated and used by all the F,u-
ropean countries.
The Cooper & Hewitt mills contributed
largely to the union victory during the
Civil War by making gun metal and other
war munitions which they sold to the
Government at cost. The mortar bases
turned out by the firm are credited with
having made possible several victories
which might not otherwise have been
achieved
In 1875 Mr.. Hewitt was elected to Con-
gress on the Democratic ticket and ex-
cept for term he served until 1887
when he resigned to become Mayor of
New York City. defeating Henry George.
In Congress he was among the party
leaders and accomplished much for his
constituency.
During his term as Mayor he reorgan-
lied many of the municipal departments
and was one of the earliest advocates of
municipal control and ownership of public
utilities.
In 1876 he was chairman Of the National
Democratic Committee in charge of the
Tilden campaign. Mr.. Hewitt for manv
years was active in the management of
the Cooper Union founded by Peter Coop
er. This institution grew and thrived
under Mr.. Hewitt's management
Recently his political views changed
materially, and he gradually drew away
from the tenets of the Democratic plat
forms, although he always clung to his
free trade beliefs.
Mr.. Hewitt's fortune Is estimated at
several millions. One of his sons is a.
successful electric engineer.
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CHINA DELAYS REPLY
TO NOTE OF MINISTERS
Government Is Said to Be Hard
Pressed for Money to Pay the
War Indemnity

PEKING, Jan. 1&-China mas not re-
piled 10 the note signed by all the foreign
Ministers here. with the exception Of
United States Minister Conger. informing
the Chinese Government tha. the failure
t0 fulfill its obligations. in refusing to
pay the war indemnity on a gold ba sis as
provided for by the peace protocol. would
entail grave consequences. The Govern
ment undoubtedly is hard pressed for
money, although, II the provincial Off
cials collected the revenues honestly, the
Indemnity easily could be raised.
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Engines Collide, but Crews Escape.

BUTTE Mont. Jan -1S-A special to the
Miner from Livingston, Mont. says dis
astrous head-on collision occurred on the
mountain grade just west Of this city to-
Gay. when two of the largest engines Of
the Northern Pacific came together with
terrible force. The crews Of both engines
jumped, and with the exception of be-
ing badly bruised are not injured The
two engines are completely demolished.
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Railroad Car Breaks His Leg.

VALLEJO, Jan. 1s.-William O. Anderson
a member of Naval Commandery, knights
Tcmplar, of this city, while returning this
morning from a Masonic gathering at
Crockett was struck by the train near
Vallejo Junction and had leg broken in
two places and his head injured. Ander-
sons condition is serious.
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Do You See the Pointp

It's a good one if it's one of our pyrog-
raphy points, and we have everything
else in the artist material line including
skins fresh from the tanner and fancy
wood articles to burn. Sanborn, Vail &
Co., 741 Market street.
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O. z. & ~. co.

Geo W. Elder sails Jan. IS. %. Feb. 7.
II. q
March T.
Only steamship Line to PORTLAND. OR.
and short rail line from Portland all points
east Through tickets to all points all rail- OF
steamship and rail at LOWEST RATES.
Steamer tickets include berth and meals.
Steamer sails foot OF Spear St at II a m d
w HITCHCOCK. Gen. Ast-. I Montgomery st.
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eighty-frst year, having been critically III
for ten days with him at the moment
of death were his wife. his three sons and
three daughters.
Mr.. Hewitt. who has been in feeble
health for some months. was attacked by
obstructive jaundice on January s and
from the first 1t was realized by his at
tending physicians that there was practl-
cally hope for the aged patients re-
covery On the following Sunday it was
believed that Mr. Hewitt could not sur
vive the night and the members of his
family were summoned to his bedside. but
his vitality kept him alive for week
longer On Thursday Mr. Hewitt rallied
so strongly that some hope was enter
tanned that he might recover. but on the
following night a relapse occurred and it
was then evident that the end was not
far off A slight Improvement was noted
on Saturday morning, but late that night
the physician notified Mr.. iewitt's
)lother, II. Cooper Hewitt, that death
was imminent and the children. Ed
ward r. Hewitt Erskine Hewitt. Mrs J.
o. Green. Miss Sarah Hewitt and Miss
Eleanor G.. Hewitt, were summoned and
with their mother remained by the bed
side until the end.
The funeral services which will be con-
Quoted by Bishop Potter will be held In
Calvary Church, of which Mr.. Hewitt was
a member, on Wednesday.
FORMER MAYORS CAREER.
Abram S. Hewitt was born in Haver-
straw, Rockland County, New York, July
81, 1922. His father was an English me-
chanic, who one of the four men sent
from England to set up the first steam en-
gine In the United States This man,
John Hewitt, settled in the United States
and continued in the business of building
and setting up steam engines Young
Hewitt worked on farm until he was old
enough to go to the public schools and
later he a scholarship in Columbia
College. where he studied with unusual
zeal. He worked at odd jobs to pay his
way while he was in college. He gradual
ed with honors and then took up the prac-
tice of law and was admitted to the bar
in 1S45
During his college career he became ac-
quainted with Edward Cooper, the son of
Peter Cooper, and eventually became his
partner in the firm of Cooper & Hewitt
Later Abram Hewitt married the only
daughter of Peter Cooper Abram Hew-
lit was active in the iron and steel busi-
ness from the beginning and induced
Peter Cooper to remove his iron works
from an improbable location in New
York City to a better one In New Jersey
Several branch concerns were established
and the Cooper mills were among the first
to make iron beams and girders for build
ing Mr.. Hewitt tried many experiments
in steel making, but was never discour-
aged by the failures he met with. The
Bessemer process and the open hearth
process found in him one of the most con-
sistent advocates. Under his direction the
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VICTORIA, B. c., Jan. 1s.-The steamer
Mineola. which stranded few days ago in
Bayness Sound, hOated to-day az high
tide after her cargo of coal had been light
cred The steamer is not injured a result
of her stranding. The steamer Tacoma. which
grounded at Nadule Point Thursday when
bound from Victoria to Tacoma, was haule1
into the drydock to-day. Her injuries are
slight.
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PEKING, Jan. 1S-Italy has proposed
to establish the Marconi system of wire
less telegraph between Peking and Taku
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s. i: s. a.: = % @ ::" =:: 4 4 !: ; 5 =::: :.: i:
experienced an attack Of apopIexy
q few daEs ago.
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The dykes of Japan cost in the ag-
gregate more than those of The Neither
lands.
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When a man barely misses the last
train he experiences a feeling of goneness.
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The penal code of thoe Chinese empire
is at least 1000 years old, and under its
provisions about 1900 are annually exc
cuted.
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LATE CONGRESSMAN AND
FORMER MAYOR OF NEW
YORK CITY.

business grew at a rapid rate. and the
Cooper & Hewitt mills were among the
first to make railway rails in this coun-
try.
Mr.. Hewitt was satisfied that the iron
business could be greatly improved by
studying new processes and methods and
he was constantly on the alert for them
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PASSING OF HENRI De BLOWITZ,
FAMED JOURNALIST AND CRITIC

Paris Correspondent of the London Times,
Whose Opinions Carried Weight in Euro
pean Capitals, Is Stricken by ApopIexy
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TIE WILSON Dfsr1LLNo CO
Baltimore, Nd.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-19
A HEALTHY COUPLE
An Old Soldier Of 90 Eiad Some Coffee
Experience.


An old soldiers wife described her
coffee experience as follows: My hus-
band and / have been accustomed to
the use Of tea and coffee for very
great many years and we were very
fond OF the coffee.
some time ago we received from
dear friend IN st. Louis a Christmas
box that included a package of Postum
I prepared some without reading direc-
tions and my husband said: % non
sense this tastes Just like the crust wa
tor +ra+ ,-as ~ .,f 49,, ,,,,.,,,;-. +,,,,
~ va was one OF 'ne iu1uIles lney
ai'oWeu 70 lhNaiiuS 80 years ago 1heh
looked up the directions, made the
Postum as it should be made and we
both found if delicious
.1rx b,,zt,.,.,7 t..,u.- .z...,
y " -
soioler ana was a ayspepuc ana suf1er-
ed from severe headaches but from the
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DOING GOOD WORK.
Free kindergarten and Day Nurse
Is Helping.


No work of mercy. in all Topeka is
doing in the great calamity. excels III
worthiness that of the free kindergarten
and day nursery al Fourth and Jack
SON
The object of the work so heroieauy
undertaken by the Kindergarten alumni
and Froebells mothers union, are as
follows:
TO enable the parents to both work
in reestablshing their ruined homes;
to relieve sick and destitute mothers.
and to properly care for little ones who
must otherwise suffer this summer from
neglect and privation.
Mrs. June Chapman of the Central
congregational church. is the only paid
worker. She gives the work her entire
time for six days of the week. all other
service is donated. A F7roebei mother is
in attendance at the nursery every day
The nursery opens at s a. m and closes
at r. m.
The children need balls and toys and
books suited to very little people. These
should be sent at once.
The scattering of the people in tents
and rooms at a distance has somewhat
hindered the attendance. but it viii be
very large all summer. There is con-
tinued expense and any small or large
donation Will always be welcome
The children are given the noon lunch
at the rooms. and donations of cookies.
crackers, sandwiches and milk are de-
sired. The work is under control of the
Social Settlement association.
MRS. l.. e THORPE.
Police Matr0n.
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TO TEST THE LAW.
That Is the Purpose of a Suit Filed in
Bedgwick County.

A suit has been filed in the district
court of Sedgwick county by County
Attorney Otto Eckstein by direction of
Attorney General Coleman, to test the
validity of the burial insurance law
PASSED by the last legislature, legalizing
these associations and placing them un-
der the control of the superintendent of
insurance. The headquarters of the
business in Kansas is at Wichita, but
there are perhaps dozen towns where
associations have been formed
q The suit is directed against LarmOre
& Oliver of Wichita, who control the
business in Kansas as conducted under
the plan of the Harrison Mutual Burial
association. The suit is largely friend
lv ore to ascertain the standing of the
associations
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team Of horses as motive power. The
bridge is now nearly ready to have
stringers laid on it.
The man who sent the horror
Ghosts" into the theatrical field last
season isn't satisfied. He has annOunc-
ed that he Will have out a second COM
pany with Alberta CsalIatin in the lead
ing role next season.
A North Topeka woman cleaned up
her dishes which she fished out of the
mud after the flood and put them out
side to dry. When she went after them
she found that part of them had been
carried away by souvenir hunters.
The pluck shown by MarshalFs band
in pulling itself together after it's hard
losses in the recent flood is shown by
the announcement of a series of free
concerts. Now is the time that the band
most needs the encouragement Of the
town.
A party of about dozen Washburn
college boys viii leave for the harvest
fields next Tuesday. A lot of these boys
are now working in North Topeka or
upon the railroads near Topeka while
waiting for the opening of harvest hand
rates.
A South side man found curious
souvenir of the flood in North Topeka
yesterday He picked up handsomely
illustrated book in the middle of 'he
street, and it proved to be complete
history of the Galveston flood. The his
4
between the lines
one of the curious things of the
foods work was to carry a 100-foo1
shed from the Gabriel lumber yard on
Fairchild street and deposit it, almost
unbrolxen. on the opposite side of the
street AfterWard a part of the build
ing collapsed from being set upon an
uneven foundation. The lumber in it
was not dislodged.
The immediate" L S. crop report
says: ansas-Wheat fair to good,
blooming north. ripening central, har-
vest began south; bottom corn small,
weedy, being worked. improving; up
/ land corn better stand and color. oats
doing we'll heading central, apples
rsarly full crop south. light and poor
crop elsewhere; grass fine. alfalfa being
/ cut fair; upland potatoes good; kansas
river bottom farms washed out or COW
cred with sand
The emergency board of health met
Thursday night, and discussed the lay
roll of the dead animal men. The claim
of W s. Eastman. foreman, for 80 cents
an hour, was rejected, because Eastma =
i claimed to have been on duty 20 hours
| day He made some of the doctors
mad by refusing to answer their ques-
tions respectfully, and the chances are
that Mr.. Eastman viii rot get as much
money out Of the job as he expected tc
\ get
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ing Griley, Snyder Sinner. Swendson
and Tincher, and those voting against
it being Kutz, Neil Wolf, Nellis and
Weber. The report Of the committee re-
Jecting the proposed reduction in license
was also defeated by the same tie vote.
So the proposed reduction is up in the
air" When Councilman Blossom is
present. at the meeting he may break
the deadlock.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
The pay roll of 81. 800 "a for burning
dead animels and s5O9.79 for work on
the pontoon bridge, were approved
The council granted the Auditorium to
the State Poultry show for January to 10
The request asked for January 10 to IS.
but the proposition as voted upon by the
council was for January to 10.
This concession to the poultry show
knocked out the A1idwinter exposition dur
ing the month of January. The MidWin-
ter wanted the council to save January for
shipp's indoor circus was given the Au-
ditorium for the week beginning Febru-
city Treasurer Hale gave notice that on
July 1 the following bonds and interest
will become due.
Interest fund 80 UlS @
Street and alley paving fund.- 81, 81 l6
The paving bond ordinance authorizing
the issuance of 1922, 1886 in paving bonds
for 1868 was passed
The proposed franchise for a pipe line
for gas from lola was referred to the ways
and means committee
The council voted by ordinance to re-
turn to the VinewOod Park railway the S.
eco which that company has had on de-
pOsit with the city.
An ordinance was introduced to regulate
plumbing and drain laying. It was refer
red to the streets and walks committee.
The council adjourned to meet July ?,
at Whlcn time the pay rolls VIII pc passed
so that city employees can get their money
prior to July 4
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OUR MELAN BRIDGE.
Complimentary Notice by a Kansas
City Paper.

The Kansas City Journal has this to
say of the Melan arch bridge, which
according to John a. Daley of this city
is a horrible crime against society:
Kansas has an object lesson in
bridge building in the big Melan struc-
ture at Topeka, made of Portland ce-
ment and pounded rock, which stood like
the everlasting hills against the fierce
assaults of the food. Other bridges piled
against it, logs and railroad wreckage
smashed into it's piers and arose high in
the air, and the swirling waters did
their best to eat out its foundations but
it was not Injuries in the least. except
that a dirt approach at one end was
washed away. The secret of this Melan
bridge is its enormous dead weight and
deeply laid foundations. It's graceful
arches involve neither difficult architec-
ture nor great expense. To be sure, it
is rather more costly than the spider
web steel structures so common in
Kansas but it stands the floods and is
therefore the most economical type in
the long run. Where other towns and
cities have great problems on hand in
the form of needed new bridges, Topeka
had only to build new approach on
one side, which was done at very little
cost"
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THANKS JEW BATTER.
The Czar Receives a Copy of His
Book

st. Petersburg. June 19-The car. the
Novoe Vremya announces. has accept
ed a copy of a book on Bessarabia
written by NJ. Kroushevan, the editor
Of the anti-Semitic organ in Kishineff.
the Bessarabaretz, the articles in which
are held to have been largely respon-
sible for the massacre Of the Jews at
Kishineff and. it is added, has COM
manded that the author be thanked in
the name of his majesty.
1t was announced from st. Petersburg
June II that NJ. Kroushevan was at
tackled by a party of Jews in a street 1T
St Petersburg that day and was
stabbed in the neck by a former student
of the polytechnic school at Kieff The
dispatch added that the wound was
not believed TO be mortal.
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TO Boston via Lake Shore.

Low rates to Boston and return, in
June and July via the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railway. Tickets
viii be sold June % 26 and 27. extreme
return limit August /: and on July l, .,
2. 4 and g. extreme return limit Septem-
ber l. Stopovers allowed at Niagara
Falls and Chautauqua also at New
York on tickets via that route. Full in
formation, with rates via variable routes
viii be promptly furnished an applica-
ton to r r Lacy T. P. A, Kansas
City. or to c. F. DAILY. Chief A. G. z. A.,
Chicago.
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The Cavaliers, a fraternal order with
headquarters at lola. wishes to wind up
its affairs and go out of business 1t
has found the fraternal field already
crowded and is willing to quit. Insur-
ance superintendent Luling has had an
examination made of the concern and
finds that there are no outstanding
claims against the organization, so it
will be allowed to lduidate, but a re-
cefver will probably have to be appoint
ed before it can do so. It is said that
the only losers are the promoters of the
organization. who have put about $4,000
into it which they viii not get back.
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Washington, June 19.-The following
persons have been appointed railway
mail clerks: S J. McWilliams, Fort
Scott, kan; A. Y. Anslen, Kansas. f.
II. Marshall. Beloit kan: John A. Kep-
ler Villas, Kan; ]. ". Blackley, Fort
Scott. Kan; A. A. Wise. Peabody
Kan; L. A. Davis. Green Leaf. Kan.
Herbert H Hoffman, Salina. Kan; VIII
@. Pearson. Lawrence. Kan. A. p.
Mickey Missouri; Perry F. Maxwell
Monroe City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-19

The lower Silver Lake road is impas-
sable.
six separate gangs are at work clean
ing the streets and sewers in North To
DelSa.
The North Topeka churches We're
cleaned yesterday and services will be
held Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Converse of Wells
vile Joined the editorial excursion in
Topeka today.
Richard Golden an actor well known
in Topeka viii be the star in King
Do-do' next season
Near Menoken the country roads have
been washed out and great holes Is feet
deep have appeared
The ehildren's exercises at the First
CONGREGATIONAL church will be held Sun
day morning at II o'clock
Rural mail carriers will not have to
wcfk on July 4. Vacations for the rural
mail men are few and far between
E D. Giles & Co. owners of the To-
peka spice mills. will not charge for the
400 pounds OF coffee used for the flood
sufferers
A donation of So has been received
the relief fund from the coIored Masons
Of Winfield.
The park commissioners are doing
their best to reclaim the city park.
Foliage plants are being set out in the
sand-smeared flower beds.
Dog Tax Collector NJ. e. Younkin
wears a bad scar on the calf of one of
his legs where big First street canine
bit him recently. Younkin's features
are evidently becoming too familiar to
the dog population of Topeka for his
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sic Hotel for Neodesha.

Ncodesha. June 19.-J. L. P Arnold,
proprietor of the Commercial hotel. an
nounces that during this summer he
viii build on his present site a thor
oughly modern three story brick hotel
to cost. furnishings and all, close to
$50 600 or S25 900.
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SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS



Twas a very pretty wedding. celebrated
at the home
OF the fair brides parents" underneath
lovely floral dome
There were lavish decorations in the
sumptuous drawing room,
And although you'd scarce suspect it,
there was also one bridegroom.
Bessie Bell was maid of honor" Saunders
played the best man part,
Low. soft strains of music sounded sig
Mailing the wedding start;
Little Lizzie scattered flowers" on the
floor and everywhere
Incidentally We'll mention that scared
bridegroom WAS there
All. e"the bride looked fresh and blooming
as a newly opened rose.
And ''the bridesmaid Fannie Morris, was
q wonder, as to clothes.
white silk gauze. with point lace trim
rnings,f decked the blushing bride. so
fair
Sneaking round the building some place,
was a bridegroom, with scare
Sitting round the bridal table, were the
misses this and that,
And a lot Of Messrs. also, helped along
the table chat
Many gifts Of priceless value drew, OF
printed space, their share.
And although YOU q scarce believe 1t, one
scared bridegroom. too was there
Milwaukee Journal.
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Kansas Man for Vice President.

Chicago. June 19.-At a session of the
National Hay Association convention.
John L Dexter of Michigan. was elect
ed president Among the vice presi-
dents elected was J. A. Brubaker, of
Kansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-19
90 Dav Seed Corn

Plenty for all-and no delay. Hub.
bard Seed House. $40 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-19
The Most Stylish Low Shoes

guaranteed eate with
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