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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15

revealed to the audience when the e.. PIC g
tured drop curtain at the theater Is
raised.
When the painted curtain went UP
last night a magnificent red viewer cur
tain was revealed. hanging directly pe-
hind the first curtain The curtain was
drawn from the center to the sAoFs-
Such a piece Of stage equipment IS noth~
ing new. but they are carried only Dy
occasional companies of some imDort-
ance. 1t gives a tone to things, and the
audience expects much more from be-
hind a velvet curtain than from behind
q painted canvas drop The velvet was
seen before .'Eliphalet Hopper ap-
peared and some uncultured youths an
ticipated his expression with exclama-
tons of gosh"
When Mr. Haclxett appeared in the
role Of stephen Brice-" at the very
beginning of the first act. he was
greeted with an ovation. Hackett has
been here but once before as star.
That was two years ago this season
when he gave his first great success.
THE Pride of Iennico." That one pro~
duction established his reputation IN
Topeka. and when the announcement
was made that he would bring his big
production OF The Crisis here anu
that a scale of prices with 81 as the
maximum would be charged. there was
scramble for tickets. even with the
musical festival then under way.
Those who had not read the book
from which the play was constructed,
were thoroughly satisfied, as rule, with
the play AS is generally the case those
who have read the story were not per-
feetly content with the stage production,
for but small part of the story could
be transplanted to the theater & book
of three or four hundred pages is bound
to contain more than a four act play.
If many of the scenes described n the
book were to be staged the production
would be nothing short Of a tank
drama. Those who read the story found
many changes in the dramatization.
ment. In the book Brice bought the
slave by going to the auction block and
bidding and he then returned to Judge
Wnipple's law Office. In the play the
bidding for the slave girl was done from
the windows Of the law Office. In the
book Stephen Brice rides to the Carvel
country home on horseback and at the
gate is mistaken by Virginia Carvel for
her cousin and sweetheart, Clarence
Colfax. In the play Brice seats himself
on the lawn and Miss Carvel slips w
behind him, putting her hands over his
eyes before she discovers her mista Ike.
/ There are other changes made necessary
by the limitations of the stage.
Mr. Hackett makes a thoroughly sat
1 isfactory Stephen Brfce without a bit OF
make up. further than the dress Of the
period The role does not give the ac-
tor unlimited opportunities. 1t is the
role of quiet. determined young man
from the aristoeratic circles of Boston;
a Puritan and an abolitionist, trans
planted by his own volition to st
Louis, then one of the points claimed BY
the proslavery people. Young Brice
with his opposition to slavery, found
I himself almost entirely surrounded by
a people OF another belief on the ques-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15
DON'T BET on YOUR WATCH
Advice of Jeweler Who Has Had
Many Wagers to Decide.

In the windows OF nearly all the big
retail jewelry stores downtown are
chronometers. In fact, the thermometer
has become the most valuable part of
the window display.
Two prosperous looking men, after
comparing their watches the other day
with one CT these chronometers. We're
seen to go inside the store and few
minutes later to- reappear. AS they did
so one of the men passed a roll of bills
to the other. Then they laughed. shook
hands, and separated.
The jeweler stod inside and smiled
It's funny" he said TO sun repor-
ter. chow many people there are in this
world who have the betting fever and
how foollshly they risk their money.
Those two men are samples. Before
the day is over I've no doubt half a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15
To sell sheridan,s Gift.

Washington. May 15-Mrs. Irene
Rueler Sheridan. widow of the late
Gen. Phil Sheridan. and his brother,
Col Mike Sheridan, as executrix and
trustee of Gen. Sheridan's estate, have
offered for sale at public auction the ex-
pensiye and extensive Flemish tapes
tries presented to Gen. Sheridan 20 years
ago by John w. Mackay. representing q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15
HOPKINsvILLE HAPPENING

our thanks are due to Mr. George
White for large cake of maple sugar
made in his own bush The taste OF It
brings back our boyhood days. when
carking care had placed no wrinkles on
our brow, and when it didn't worry US
gray headed to get wood for the office
stove
As some of our subscribers have
charged us with being extravagant in
getting a parlor organ in our house, we
wish to explain that it VIII be paid for
by advertising. We love music, and
when our wife mingles her voice with
our own. and the notes Of the organ
float upwards to that better land IN
symphony. our hired girl stands with
open mouth and tears in her eyes
We learn that there is considerable
jealousy among certain ladies because
our wife has new wire clothes line
and six dozen clothes pins. She is not
trying to be the 400 as some assert, but
the articles named We're presented to
her by her kind hearted father.
DO our delinquent subscribers inn
agine that we can live and thrive on
frozen potatoes2 Editorial work re-
auires brains, and brains can't be kept
going without good food. We have be-
come tired of pudding and milk, and we
hope that some of our dellnquentS will
call and settle next week. For heavens
sake give your editor a chance. He
would eat hay if he could and not re-
mind you of your obligations. but he
hasn't the teeth to do it. Bring US IN
money, potatoes. squashes onions-any-
thing TO keep US up in our work Of
making a metropolitan city of Hopkins
ville.-M. Quad.
Coughs and colds. down to the very
borderland Of consumption, yield to the
soothing. healing influences Of DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15

Colorado Springs. Col, May 15.-Dr. Flo
rian Cajori dean Of the school Of engineer
ing Of Colorado college and head professor
Of mathema tics, has been notified Of his
appointment as the American member ot
TIE international congress for the study Of
the history of science which will hold its
next meeting at Berlin in 1905. The ap-
4cintrnent is announced in a message from
PROF elmo I.oria dean Of the faculty Of
sciences Of the University of Genoa. italy
and secretary of the congress which mas
Just held a convention in Rome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15

group of the famous cavalry leaders
personal friends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-15

Coughs and colds. down to the very
borderland of consumption. yield to the
soothing. healing influences of DR..
Woods Norway Pine Syrup.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
MORE THAN HALF,
Suffer From Coffee Drinking.

Coffee does not set up disease with all
people using it; on the other hand it alb
solutely does create disease in thousands
and thousands of cases perfectly we'll au-
thenticated and traceabe, directly to
coffee and nothing else.
This statement may hurt the feelings
Of some coffee drinkers but the facts are
exactly what they are. -. ..a .-s.- .-,.,5
Make inquiry of some of your coffee
drinking friends and you may be certain
Of one thing, one half of them, yes, more
than half, suffer from some sort of in
3 cipient chronic disease. If you want to
prove it's the coffee, or would prefer to
prove it is not the coffee in these cases,
take coffee away from those persons for
from ten days to month, don't change
the food in any other way, but give them
Postum Food Coffee. and the proof of
whether coffee has been the trouble or
not will be placed before you in unmis-
taxable terms. t~F
A young lady in the = St. Mary's
Academy, Winnipeg, Can, says: "One
of our teachers suffered a long while from
indigestion. She was coffee drinker She.
became worse steadily and finally was re-
duced to point where the stomach did
not retain any food, then electricity was
tried but without avail. She, of course
grew weak very fast and the doctor said
theVe ease was practically incurable.
"About that time was attracted to g
statement in one Of the papers regarding
the poisonous effect of coffee and the
value of Postum Food Coffee. The state
ment was not extravagant but couched II
terms that won my confidence ant
aroused me to the belief that it was true
/ persuaded our teacher to leave off tn,
morning cup Of coffee altogether and ust
Postum Food Coffee
IA change took place. She began t.
ret better. She has now regained he
strength and is able to eat almost ever,
Kind OF food and has taken her position
as teacher again. Name given by9 Pos
tum Co, Battle Creek. Mich.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
THE MINNEAPOLIS Journal.

Northwest, '"rhe Yellowstone National
Park and '"The Columbia River, the
Great River of the Vest 1t will be
seen at a glance that this list of topics
embraces matter taken from. the broad
territory traversed by the Northern Pa
ciflc. The Father Hennepin article not
only deals with the period OF discovery,
introducing several contemporaneous
maps, but weaves in much of interest con-
cerning present conditions in the north
western country he explored.
',rhe Last of the Mandans,'' is of es-
pecially timely interest from the fact that
this tribe, so carefully studied by Lewis
and Clark, has been supposed to be ex-
tinct. Mr.. Wheelers story shows that
there are still Mandans though probably
not more than ten families of pure blood
The account of the terrible scourge which
decimated the tribe is a thrilling historical
recital derived from aged survivors and
from old publications. Present conditions
among the Mandans are we'll described
Irrigation in the Northern Pacific terri
tory is the subject of an article Of large
practical value in view of the recent
plans adopted by the federal government.
Ordinary sage brush lands have been
shown to be extraordinarily productive
when well watered artificially and results
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01

in various irrigated districts are cited to
show what opportunities await the fiume
building settler.
Columbia river and Mount Hood form
one of the most interesting chapters in
the book. The great river Is treated his
torically and descriptively in way that
holds the readers attention from the first
These articles are but the high spots
in the 1903 Wonderland. There are other
articles on a pack train trip through the
mountains, on the Yellowstone and in re-
gard to the country near the Olympia
range, all of which tell the prospective
settler or tourist many things he would
like to know.
One of the strongest features of the
work is the Illustration. The cover de-
signs and chapter headings arefrom low
relief clay modeltngs by Alfred Lenz and
are as artistic as striking. Historical
features are illustrated by some rare old
prints some being by Catlin. In addition
to these there is profusion of halftone
engravings which for artistic selection and
mechanical execution are not short of per-
| fection. In no place does Wonderland OBJ
trude the advertising idea upon the reader
for the value Of such an artistic and in
| teresting presentation of Northern Pacific
territory features is enough of itself. The
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
RAILROAD NOTES

The Great Western will make Clarion, Iowa.
q division point ..
The 500 line set to-day as the time for be-
ginning the operation of boats from Buffalo and
Cleveland.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has secured
60 900 square feet of space In the Transportation
building at the worlds fair, St. Louis and will
make an extensive exhibit showing the evolution
and development Of the worlds railways.
The Milwaukee hus made the following
changes: W. E. Tyler. division freight and pas;
senger agent at Milwaukee, assistant general
freight agent at Chicago; $. II. Vaughan, com
mercial agent at Hougton. to succeed Mr.. Tyler:
H. E. Stewart, travelling freight and passenger
agent, to succeed Mr.. Vaughan. s
The appellate court of Indiana has decided
that telegraph company has right. to con
denim for use property already appropriated fol
right of way where tie two uses are not incon
sistent. This gives the Postal Telegraph ant
Cable company authority to set it's poles tht
right of way Of the Chicago. Indianapolis &
Louisville between Hammond and Monticello.
Il. E. Macleod. chairman of the Western Pas
senger association, has issued a. statement rom
pairing the alien and citizen steerage arrival
at New York for January and February of thi
year with the number arriving for the SAM
period last year. The total alien arrivals for tn
| two months of last year was AZ 142. and tn
citizen arrivals 1903 a total of 4e,94I. For tn
| corresponding months Of 1909 the alien arrival
! numbered SO, 623 and the citizen ,45S tOta
| of ,OT6. The increase of this year over las
| amounts to 1921 per cent. ..,-s,...... ....
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
CAPITAL CULLINGs

Frank Schubert has been appointed postmaster
at Cottonwood, Lee county, Iowa.
The Merchants National bank. of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, and the Second National bank, Of Du-
buoue have been approved as" reserve agencies
for the Citizens National bank, of Austin, MINI.
The Farmers and Merchants National bank,
commence business. It's capital is $25, 900.
Thomas L. Beiseker is president and Edward
Mattson is cashier. @asx g,.-r--- II, ~. s.
The president has selected Wayne Macyeagh.
of Pittsburg, to represent the United States at
The Hague when the arbitration tribunal con.
siders the question of preferential treatment OF
the allied powers having claims against Ven
ezuela. S1gsa .
At the instance OF Senator Hanna the state
department is making earnest efforts to succor
a little band Of Cleveland men who went pros
pectng in Honduras Acting Secretary Darling
cabled Admiral Coughlan, at Puerto Cortez, tc
send relief boat. y
The overturning of a heavy piece of artillery
in the drill hall at Fort Meyer, Va, during the
| regular drill fof the Fourth battery Of field ar
| tillery, commanded by Captain Stephen H. Foot
caused the death Of one and injury of thre,
| other soldiers. The dead man is Corporal james
H. Slavin, aged 25 years. of Washington
| The officials Of the landoffce are very -mucl
surprised. at the strenuous objections that hav
nesota land districts. The action Of Representa-
/ tive Steenerson in protesting against the loca
i tion of the new office ut Cass Lake Is particu
4 larly surprising to the officials. Steenerson wa
one of the members who participated in a con
] ference at the land Office here. and at that tim
! made no objection to the new office going t
/ CaSS, ssstE s.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
TELLS OF A WONDERLAND
The Northern Pacific Book for 1908
Is Both Artistic and In
teresting.

"Wonderland' for 1903 has just been is
sued by the Northern Pacific and, like it's
worthy predecessors. it deserves it's title.
From year to year the wonder grows that
Olin D. Wheeler can bring out each sea-
son book so full Of such new and in
tensely interesting material. But he does
it without covering the same ground
twice and this years Wonderland will
not be surpassed in interest and artistic
merit by any railroad publication Of the
season. In fact there will be few if any
publications even in the field of pure lit
erary description which can make stronger
claims to attractiveness in any respect
Special subjects treated in the 1908
Wonderland are ''The Travels of Father
Hennepin, "The Mandan Indians Of the
Upper Missouri River" Irrigation in the
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
Gives Short Cut to the East.

The new owners of the Brockville,
Westport & Sault Ste. Marie Of Canada.
New York capitalists. took possession of
the property to-day. The officers, all New
York men, are as follows: John Gerken,
president: Henry w. Gennerich, treasurer;
Charles H. Holm, first vice president;
Clarence G. King. second vice president
and Carsten Heilhorn. secretary The
price paid for the property was $160,OOO
The Knickerbocker Trust company holds
mortgage for s1,125.000. H. w. Com
stock, James Cummings, w. S. Buell., Dan
iel Derbyshire. r. Bowie and w. G. Fred
enburgh of Westport are provisional di'
rectors They will go to Ottawa and re
ceive a new charter from the government
| under the name of the Brockville &
| Northwestern and the line is then to b
| extended in a northwesterly direction
from Westport to the 500. When thi
extension is completed the road. by IT
| connection at Brockville with the New
York Central, will afford the shortes
route from New York to the west.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
CHARGE OF ExTRAvAeANcE E

Made Against Control of Alton Road In a
Circular.
New York. April 1.-Stockholders Of the
Chicago Alton railroad have received cir
culars charging the interests which con.
troll the railroad with extravaganza ant
gross mismanagem The charges are
somewhat similar to those made agains
the directorate of the Southern Pacific
The attack is anonymous, but Wall stree
is inclined to connect it with the attempt:
that have been made to impeach the in
tegrity of the management of PRACTICAL,
all the Hartmann Kuhn Loeb STANDARD
OH properties.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
RESISTED ARREST
St. Paul Man stands OF offtesrs With Z
GUMS Finally Rounded

= r. a. ~ & , Il = s5sHs q.
John Struckbein, a mould who boards
at s21 Kent street. st. Paul, with gun
held three policemen and several citizens
at bay for nearly six hours yesterday.
Several times the officers came too near
the house and struckbein Aired at them.
One bullet is said to have passed uncom-
fortably near Officer Kreuowskis head.
Struckbein was arrested when he emerged
from the house to go to work.
Struckbein boards with Mrs Van Heel
and came home about midnight and lay
down upon the couch. Henry Van Heel.
a son of the landlady, came into the room
and told Struckbein that he would better
go to bed. The latter arose and struck
Van Heel. Van Heel went for an officer
and when he returned found the door bar
ricaded. Van Heel and the officers Sc
cured an az, and broke the door. AS they
did so Struckbein fired at them through
the broken panels. They beat a retreat
and watched, the house until Struckbein
was arrested. He was arraigned in court
yesterday, but his case was continued.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
RAILROADS.
The DEAL IS CLOSED
Rock Island-Santa Fe Agreement lis
Now a Fact Says Santa
Fe Director.
It Amounts to Complete Consolida-
tion of Interests, if Report
Be True.

Topeka, Kan, April 1.-The long ex-
pected merger Of the Rock Island and the
Santa Fe is now fact, according to a
statement made privately by Charles S.
Gleed. one Of the directors of the Santa
Fe. The agreement entered into by the
two roads amounts to complete consoli-
hatlon OF their interests. Mr.. Gleed re-
fuses to make any further statement
Officials of both the Santa Fe and Rock
Island here deny any knowledge of the
merger but it is known that Howard
Jones, another member of the Santa Fe
directorate, has gone to New York on
business in connection with the consolida
tion. During the present summer each
road will handle three limited trains tc
California a week. the Rock Island using
part Of the track of the Santa Fe from
this city west.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
Southern Pacific LEGAL Battle.

United States Senator Foraker of Ohio.
F.. s. Lauterbach and E. S. Treadwell of
New York, Louis Wilson Of Louisville.
Louis Maxwell, Jr., of Cincinnati and
Judge Alexander Humphrey of Louisville
are at Nashville to-day to argue before
United States Circuit Court Judge Hall
the case of Talbot J. Taylor & Co. against
the Southern Pacific. Foraker, Lauter-
bach, Treadwel and Wilson are for the
claimants and Humphrey and Maxwell for
the defendants. The minority stockhoid
ers represented by Talbot j. Taylor & Co.
seek to enjoin the Union Pacific from
voting 100000 shares at the coming elec-
ton, alleging that the majority have con-
trolled the Southern Pacific in the interest
Of the Union Pacific and to restrain the
Union Pacific from voting the $9,000.000
stock which it holds in the Southern Pa
cifc.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
More G. NJ. Changes.

R.. A. McCandless, chief clerk in the Of
flee of the division superintendent Of the
Dakota }division of the Great, Northern
railway, has been appointed assistant di-
vision superintendent with headquarters
at: Larimore. Mr.. McCandless succeeds
G. o. jerks, who has been assigned to the
second district of the eastern division as
assistant division superintendent. Mr..
jerks will have headquarters at West Su-
peror in charge of the range lines of the
Great Northern. Mr.. McCandless is one
of the youngest division officers on the
| Great Northern, being only. "a years old. :.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
RATES ON SALT
investigated by |. c. C.-GraIn Rate In.
quiry to Be Made.


Rates granted the salt trust were in
vestigated to-day at Chicago by the inter-
state commerce commission. The case was
prosecuted by J. T. Marchand. who has
investigated the methods of the salt trust
in doing business with the railroads. The
Santa Fe. Grand Trunk Alton, Illinois
Central, st. Paul. North Western, Wa
bash, Grand Trunk, Lake Shore, Michigan
Central. Pere Marquette and the Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois steamboat line, which
is owned by the salt trust were repre-
sented also. 4
1t is the purpose Of the commission to
make searching investigation into the
method of handling and transporting
grain on both Western and Eastern rail-
roads. Members Of the commission who
arrived in Chicago to-day admitted that
information was being gathered. It has
been claimed that fragrant abuses exist
and, that matters have been so arranged
that practically one, buyer has, monop-
oily over one line of railroad.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
6. N. Said to Block Settlement.

Delay in closing the negotiations be-
!, tween the trainmen and the Northern Pa
cfic is said to be caused by the Great
Northern, which is opposed to the anti
double header agreement entered into by
other roads. The Great Northern having
no grades of note the use of double head
ers is limited. The trainmen believe that
if they make an exception in favor Of the
Great Northern it would tend to break up
the movement, which is almost universal
in the country. The Omaha settlement
will wait probably on the outcome of the
Northern Pacific negotiations.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
A SHOWDOWN NOW
Railroads to Show How They Are obey
ina EIkins Law.

ing EIkins Law.
Some railroad companies have been
notified to take into the federal courts
their books and papers showing how they
have interpreted and obeyed the Elkins
law. The notices have been issued from
the office Of Attorney General Knox. The
action is said to be part of a move in
spired by President Roosevelt to deter
minc whether old methods of technically
evading the federal laws are being con-
tinued under the new conditions for reg
ulating interstate commerce.
There is much gossip among railroad
men and shippers as to who will be caught
first and punished for disobedience. If a
shipper or consignee has accepted favors,
or even solicited them. he will be severely
punished if found guilty. 1t is the inten-
tion OF the authorities to see that the
intent Of the law is strictly followed both
In its letter and spirit. If railroad fails
to live up to the statute it will have to
pay the penalty and not the individual
employe who committed the specific Of
fenSe uncovered
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-01
$3.50 900 for Frelahthouse Site.

St.%Louis, Mo-, April 1.-The entire city
block bounded by Carr, Collins and Third
streets and Franklin avenue has been
transferred to H. Badgley in the interest
of the Wabash road, which will use the
property for a new freight depot. Nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars was
paid for the property, which Is in the
down town business section Of the city.