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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
MR.SNYDER' TROUBLES
Street Commissioner Is Show
ing Signs of Discouragement.

The last two heavy rains have given
the work of the city street department
backset from which it will take at
least two weeks to recover In every
part of town the rain caused damage
which requires immediate repair, and
the pressing work in North Topeka
must be slackened until the rest Of the
town can be given the attention it de-
mands. In Auburndale, in South To-
peka, and on the East side a lot of
small foot bridges, not gutter cross
ings, but bridges over culverts and
bitches, have been washed away; gut
ters on dirt streets have been filled with
earth and must be graded out and
every catch basin in the sewer system
must be cleaned A sewer connection
at the city jail has been stopped up.
Street Commissioner ]. F. Snyder
showed signs of discourse cement as he
reviewed the situation this morning
When sundays rain came he had Just
gotten his work in North Topeka into
shape which led him to believe that his
rush. which has been on since the flood
in June. was almost over. Since that
time he has worked constantly Sun
days and all, cleaning streets. filling
holes, opening roads through North To
peka, and keeping up the usual work
OF the street department south of the
river. After his days work was done
he has received the report of a foreman
on the South side and worked for
awhile at night keeping up the records
he has lost twenty-eight pounds in
weight and has. most of the time, been
I under the management of a physician
Snyder has borne the brunt of the pub
lie work of reclaiming North Topeka
ana his efficiency as a street commits
sloner has stood a test that is rarely
imposed on man in an official posi-
ton.
North Kansas avenue has been clean
ed uD and all the pavement besides
many of the dirt streets in North To-
peka have been restored to usefulness
This has been an immense task the de-
partment laboring under the difficulty
of too few laborers. The business of
keeping North Kansas avenue free from
dirt was one of the biggest Jobs the
street department faced For six weeks
after the flood the property owners on
Kansas avenue were daily hauling from
the cellars and dumping in the stre-t
huge piles of mud. the deposit of the
/ flood. There appeared to be no end OF
/ tiOn of il rendered North Kansas ave
department had to hustle to keep the
street cleared and to keep up it's other
work.
Now North Topeka has been pretty
well taken care of. The work is not
/ finished by any means. but the streets
are cleaned so they may be used, the
! holes in the center of town are filled
and the sewer is in working order The
/ energies of the street force can be turn
| ed to the South side for a week or two
After that Street Commissioner Snydvi
wants to take a-vacation, which he sore
/ ly needs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
WENT OFF TOO QUICK.
Leaders of Bulgarian RevoIu-
tiOn We're Not Ready for 1t.

ConstantinopIe, Aug News receiv-
ed here as to the extent of the Bulgarian
revolutionary movement in the villayet
of Monastir is conflicting. In consular
dispatches from Monastir which were
received this morning the opinion is ex-
pressed that the insurrectiOn broke out
a fortnight earlier than its chiefs in
tended and before the bands were IN
readiness, presumably because the lead
ers were disconnected by the active pre-
ventive measures adopted by the auth
critics.
The Bulgarian inhabitants in num-
Der of villages have fed to the noun
tains for refuge. The railways have ask
uuadrupled. but this would entail the
employlnent of 10000 soldiers and in
view of the impoverished treasury the
government will find it difficult to COM
ply with the request.
In spite of reports to the contrary,
it is confidently believed in well inform
ed quarters that the porte in conformity
with its formal declara tiOnS will employ
onlv regular troops in suppress the in
surrection as it is well aware how i'm
portant it is for Turkey to avoid exces-
ses such as certainly would be the out
come of the employment of the undlsc1-
plined AlbanianS or other irregular sol
diery. The diplomats here entertain no
doubt that the porte will continue Its
present policy of fighting the bands.
OF the eight battalions of infantry
dispatched to MOnastir, four will remain
at Monastir, three will occupy the
heights of Peristeri, to the westward Of
( Monastir and one will go to F'lorin. a
/ town of 1100 inhabitants II miles south
west of MOnaStir.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07

their wounds in the temporary hospital
-Four of the injured died at the hospi-
tai before $50 o'clock.
When the wrecking train crews had
finished pulling to pieces the tangled
and broken cars, seventeen dead men
were lying on the grass awaiting
removal TO the mosg1e. A majority OF
them We're killsd While asleep The CIR
Gus performers were on the rear Of the
moving train and escaped injury. Wal
lace Brothers say that their loss VIII
be very heavy but have given no estl-
mate of it as yet. This is the second
wreck that the Wallace shows nave SUI
fered within a month.
Engineer Bropst, Fireman Golfer ana
Head Brakeman Benedict, who were on
the engine Of the second section al
agree that if the brakes had worked as
thew ought to have worked when the
engineer tried to use them there would
have been no collision. Fireman Golfer
and Brakeman Benedict, when they
saw that a collision could not be avert
ed jumped. Engineer Bropst remained
at his post vainly trying 10 get the
brakes to work until his train was
within less than a hundred feet of train
No. l. Then he. too jumped when he
was within but a very few seconds of
course, shaken up as was the fireman
and brakeman. but not badly. None of
the crews of either train was hurt. At
the time the crash occurred train No.
was running probably 10 miles an
hour.
General Manager F. H. McGugan of
the Grand Trunk was on his way from
Chicago to Montreal and arrived at the
scene on a passenger train at a. m.
He Immediately took charge of the
work of clearing the track and caring
for the dead and injured.
Edward York died at noon at the
temporary hospital. Fifteen of the in
jured We're taken to the Harper hospi-
tai in Detroit for trea tment.
The circus people have pitched their
tents and camped near the scene of the
wreck The dining room of Hotel Rich
lieu was used as an operating room by
The surgeons. A score of wives and
daughters of the rescuers volunteered
as nurses and worked with the surgeons
all the morning. More than 20 of the
injured were fastened and pinned down
in the wreckage so that they had to be
chopped and pried out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
FIVE WENT DOWN.
FOundering of the Barge Florrie
During a Storm.

New Bedford, Mass, Aug THE
barge Florrie in tow of the tug Bos-
well, while on her way from Norfolk
for Providence foundered early We'd
nesday morning between Barnegat and
Fire island during a heavy northeast
storm. Captain Cobb of the barge and
one of the deck hands were saved but
Mrs. Cobb. the captains wife, 10
year-old son, a boy named Jones, who
was making the trip with the captain,
the engineer and cook of the barge
whose names are not known went down
with the vessel and were lost.
When the barge began to sink Cap
tain Cobb had just time to seize the two
boys, one under each arm, who stood
beside him in the pilot house Mrs. Cobb,
the engineer and cook were all below
and were carried down with the barge.
The waves tore Captain CObb's hold
from the two boys who were swept
away Captain Cobb and the deck hand
clung to a hatch and were rescued,
nearly exhausted, in about half an hour
bV the tug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
HEAVY RAINS IN KANSAS.
Western Part of the State Soaked
Last Night.

The government forecast for Kansas
sent out today was: Partly cloudy to-
night and Saturday"
There were heavy rains in some sec
tions of the state last night. The ram
reported from Dodge City amounted TO
1.2S inches, at Macksville 2.54, at Sedan
1.22 and at Toronto 10.
Today'ss corn and wheat region bulle-
tin says:
THE weather was cloudy in the south
western counties this morning but gen
orally clear over the rest of the stats
and in western Missouri. Some heavy
rains have fallen in some southern and
southwestern counties, and light show
ers in other districts with much lower
temperatures"
The maximum and minimum temper
atures reported for the "a hours ending
this morning at o'clock were as fol-
lows
Baker 81. 56; Concordia Sc, 64; Dodge
City IS. &c: Dresden So 54: Fort Scott So,
so; Hays 50. 81; Macksville S0 30; Nc
Pherson 50, 64: Manhattan 80, so; Usage
City 81. So; Sedan 50. so; Topeka S4 g.;
Toronto 81 so: Wichita 80. e6.
The wind at noon was southest blow
ing ten miles an hour. The hourly tenn
peratures recorded by the government
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
BIG SENATOR TO WE'D.
W. B. Hepburn Will Marry His Old
Time Sweetheart

Spokane Wash, Aug IA romance
extending over a quarter of a century
will come to a happy climax next We'd
nesday, when Weldon Brinton Hepburn,
United States senator from Idaho, will
marry Miss Gheratine Yeatman of Ches-
ter county, Pennsylvania.
Years ago young Hepburn met Miss
Yeatman. like himself, Pennsylvania
of Quaker ancestry, and they became
friends. In 1884 the young lawyer came
west and settled in Idaho. He became
a leader of the bar, acquired wealth and
last winter became United States SEN
ator, but he did not forget the Quaker
girl.
nounced that they are to be married
next Wednesday, probably at the home
of the brides mother. A wedding trip
to Spokane and Alaska will follow.
Mr.. Hepburn is the largest man in the
United States senate. So gigantic are
he entered the senate last winter a
chair would have to be built especially
for him. He was described in the press
dispatches as "a man weighing an alb
normal total"
Mr.. Hepburn is one of the most sue
cessful mining lawyers in the far north
west He early began the study of
law, in conjunction with which he took
a full course in mining engineering,
thus thoroughly equipping himself for
his profession
He removed to LeedvilIe. Colo, when
that camp was at the zenith of its fame.
When the mines of Leadville began TO
play out his attention was attracted to
the rich strikes that were being made
in the Occur d'Alene district in north
ern Idaho. In this district within a
radius of forty miles are some of the
richest lead and silver producing mines
in the world.
Mr. Hepburn took up his residence at
Wallace Shoshone county, in the heart
of this rich section. During his residence
there of over twenty years he has been
Identified on either one side or the other
with all the big mining litigation that
has come from northern Idaho
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
A CHANGE IN BOUNDARIES.
The Quarantine in Oklahoma to Ex-
clude Parts of Four Counties.

Guthrie. Okla, Aug. 1.-THE Okla
ho1na live stock quarantine board has
directed r. H. Hahn, deputy inspector,
to assist DR.. L. j. Allen. federal in
spector, in making a thorough investi-
cation of those portions of Oklahoma.
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad and of that portion of Payne
county west of Saltwater. for the pur-
pose Of putting those portions not in
cluding Indian reservations above the
federal quarantine line, if found free
of fever infection. The territory
named has always been below the line,
vantage to cattlemen. About two
months will be required to make the
inspection. The proclamation viii not
be issued earlier than next January.
The board reported that Oklahoma was
freer from fever infection than ever
before. Only two cases of fever have
been found above the federal line this
year
The board issued a circular making
plain to cattlemen in Woodward and
Beaver counties the fact that the
mango quarantine there does not inter-
fere with the shipment to market or
pasture of cattle not affected with
mango. Only cattle having mango or
which have been exposed to it must be
ward county who are building a dipping
vat at Ivanhoe have requested that one
of their number be authorized to issue
certificates that cattle have been
dipped. The request will be granted,
the inspector to serve without pay. The
charges preferred against members of
the board by DR. z. E. BeembIossom,
cred today. but will be taken up in
two weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
new ORIENT TOWNS.
LOngdaIe and OakwO0d VIII Be
Reached Soon.

Wichita. Aug. THE Beacon says:
w. c. Edwards left last night for Car
men, Fairview and other points along
the line of the Orient road in Oklahoma
Mr.. Edwards said yesterday that the
Orient has already become an import
ant factor in the work of developing
that country and helping the people TO
get their products to market more cas-
lily and quickly 1t is largely TO MAKE
further arrangements to facilitate the
moving of the great wheat crop OF
Woodward and Dewey counties that MI
Edwards is now in that section. ne
said last night before leaving Wlcnlta
..There is an immense amount OF
wheat in Woodward and Dewey coun-
ties. much of it tribUo..f- te the orient
road and the people are anxious Tor US
to afford every possible coiiNe =. V
for the moving and marketing OF H.
We are lust as anxious 10 90 TINS dS
thew are now that we have connection
with Wichita and the east To TINS enc
we are bending every energy TO eXteuo
! the road to the North Canadian river az
rapidly as possible. The road IS gradeo
/ from FairView to Oakwood, in Dewey
| county with the exception of a two mlie
strip which will be ready before tht
/ tracklayerS reach 1t.
/ I'VE now have 40 cars of material or
the track at Fairview and the WORK "
I laying track will be pushed rapidly for
ward.
'a'The first town of Importance On the
new line south of Fairview is Long
/ dale. twelve miles distant, when i
we'll located and which will be an I'M
portant shipping point and Soo'
town. The next town south of Long
/ dale and the one at which construction
work will probably stop for the pres
ent. is Oakwood. in Dewey county
is eleven miles from Longdale and Il
also we'll located 1 expect to Visl
both of these towns before l return ant
make. what arrangements / can for tn
opening of traffic at these points as sool
as the road reaches there
This action of the Orient people II
texnendtne all their energies in Okla
homa explains why the construction
work between here and Milton is NOV
ing so slowly. At present there ar
only four small outfits at work on tn
grade this side of Milton. However
they have reached within eleven mile
of Wichita and will soon be ready t
move still farther this way. This worl
is now moving so slowly that 1t 1
doubtful if the grade will be completes
to Wichita before the first of October.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
ON CHARGE OF FORGERY.
Leavenworth Man Under Arrest for
Passing Bad Check.

Ieavenworth. Aug. Harry Har-
wood was arrested yesterday afternoon
by Chief of Police Taylor and placed
in Jail on a charge of forgery He had
a check which had been made out to
George Wernkamp and signed by w. A;
Kelly. This he took to Doc. Crandall
and tried to get him to cash 1t. Gran
dali. however was suspicious of the
signature on the back supposed to be
the endorsement of Weinkamp. He took
If to the bank and they pronounced it
a forgery.
The police were notified and Har-
woods arrest followed. He had skip
ped out of Crandalls place when the
latter took the check to the bank. At
the station Harwood claimed to be
from Kansas City. The check, he said,
had been given him by one H. A. Hor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
HE HELD THE MAIL.
A Steamship Fireman Stands by His
Union.

Boston, Aug. John Keenan,, a steam
ship fireman who, after signing articles
to ship with the steamship Admiral Schley,
a vessel carrying mail to Port Antonio. ia
maica, declined to make the trip and in
so doing delayed the mail about three
quarters of hour Wednesday. was held
for the grand jury by United States Com
missioner Fiske today, charged with re-
tarding the United States mails
Assistant Attorney John H. Casey sum
married the case as follows:
This man disregards the rights of the
United States, disregards the law on the
statute books as to the retarding of the
United States mails. disregards the conse-
quences of his action in retarding the mails
in order to stand by his union
Keenan, refused to sail with the vessel
because he did not like the accommoda-
tions provided for the men.
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WANT NO CONVICTS.
New Caledonians Oppose That Glass
of Immigrants.

Victoria, B. c., Aug. Mail advices
were received by the steamer Aoransi
that there is strong adverse comment III
New Caledonia regarding the proposed
renewal of transportation of convicts TO
the island. Sir Henry Moore Jackson,
high commissioner of Great Britain was
refused a landing at Tonga on arriving
there on H NJ. S. Plyades. The warship
had gone to Tonga from Fiji and meas
les being epidemic the local authorities
refused the commissioner a landing The
British consul was at the time roughly
handled by a sentry when requesting
permission from the king to allow the
commissioner to land. For this an apol-
ogy was given by the king.
H NJ S Archer. which went to the
New Hebrides with the French warship
Meuthe. where a joint Anglo-F'rench
commission was to sit to investigate
grievances existing in the islands, has
returned to Noumes. owing to severe
epidemic of typhoid fever on board
A rich gold discovery has been made
in Tuena district. Australia. There has
been a big stampede
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
ALLEN IS AT WORK
rrice Raid Commissioner Will
Earn His Salary.
Says That He Was Late Because
He Was Sick.
FUSSING ABOUT CLAIMS
Senator Allen Wants a Vault
to Keep Them In.
Gave His Legislative Pay to
Flood Fund.
FUSSING ABOUT CLAIMS

Senator James NJ. Allen, Price raid
scrip commissioner, reached Topeka
Thursday according to schedule. The
executive council had given him the
southwest room in the south wing on
the ground floor of the state house for
his office. and there Senator Allen took
his mail from the governors office and
got ready for business. The state has
furnished him large volume for in
deXing the Price raid claims. This,
with some boxes of stationery, made
up the special equipment of the office,
in addition to the regular office furni-
ture, of course.
Now Senator Allen wants an office
with vault, or at least he wants ac-
cess to a vault in which to store the
scrip which comes in to his hands.
There is in the vaults in the state audi
tors office a large amount of union
military scrip which has come in for
auditing during the past twenty years
or more. Auditor Wells wants to turn
this all over TO Senator Allen, but he
will not do so unless Allen receipts for
it. Allen will not receipt for it unless
he has d vault in which to store it. He
says he will not be responsible for it
unless he has a safe place to keep it.
This afternoon arrangements have
been made for Senator Allen to have
his headquarters in the adjutant gen
erals department, where there is a vault
with plenty of room available for his
use. AS soon as he secured satisfactory
quarters he began checking over the
scrip on file in the vault of the auditor
office. His new quarters will be easier
for those who have business with the
scrip commissioner to find as the ad-
jutant generals offices are on the main
floor of the state house near the main
entrance, while the Office which had
been assigned to Senator Allen was in
an obscure corner of the lower floor.
Senator Allen says the reasons why
he has not been in ToDeka durln% the
past month are that he has been sick
for about three weeks. and in addition
to that he has had a great deal OF
trouble in getting his household goo1s
moved from Highland to Troy.
With regard to those who have been
criticising him for not turning his pay
for the special session over to the flood
sufferers. he said:
Il see that some Topeka fellows who
I have shed tears but no money for the
| flood sufferers are jumping on to me
J for not turning my per diem and mile
age into the flood fund. They can save
their criticism for some one else, 50 fal
as [ am concerned. L not only gave
my per diem and mileage to the fiooo
sufferers but s25 besides"
! Allen says that he and r. I. Herricl1
1 formerly attorney for the Kansas Mu-
tual, are already building up a good law
practice in Kansas City. where they
have formed d law partnership. They
have learned lesson from the Kansas
] Mutual litigation and are preparing Il
I proceed against the Illinois Life the
same way the Kansas Mutual wa:
brought into litigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
PICK TILLMAN'S POCKETS.
Lost His Burlington Annual During
Debate Tour

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. benjamin
r. Tillman. United States senator from
South Carolina, now has bis name en-
rolled in the lost pass record of the
Burlington railroad. In this record he
is associated with Mayor Reed. This
morning a notice was posted in the
union depot, similar to the notice prev
iously posted concerning the annual
pass carried by Mayor Reed to the effect
that Senator Tillmans annual pass had
been lost. Tillman had his pocket pick
ed during his recent lecture tour with
Senator Burton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07

Ogden, Utah. Aug. 7.-Charles Sulli-
van, an employe of Ringing Brothers
circus, was shot twice this morning near
Hooper about six miles south of Og-
den, by a hobo whom he ordered to
leave a car, one of the bullets penetrat-
ing the lungs. The hobo escaped. Sulli-
van is from New York City, where he
has brother and a sister. and another
sister living in Buffalo N Y
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Bonds Declared Void.

Bismarck N. D., Aug. THE supreme
court has decided void the s700 900 of bonds
authorized by the last legislature for state
educational and charitable institutions.
The bonds were based on the lands of the
institutions granted by congress and the
proceeds were to be used in building neces-
sary additional buildings. State Treasurer
Mcmillan refused to comply with the or
ders of the state board of university and
school lands for the purchase of the bonds
and mandamus action brought to COM
pei him to pay over the money has been
decided against the institutions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
Trespassers Elected.

Santiago, Cuba, Aug. 7.-Some engi-
neers who were surveying a site for a
terminal of the Cuba Eastern railway
on the u. S. naval reservation at Guam
tanamo Bay, were warned off by the
American officers there but refused to
GO Admiral Coghlan thereupon noti-
fed the Cuban government and Presi-
dent Palma sent a revenue cutter which
forcibIv elected the trespassers. The
railway, having acquired the land,
claims heavy damages.
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Voyage Lasted More Than a Year.

Portland. Ore, Aug. AFTER a voyage
lasting more than a year the French bark
Grand Duchess Olga with a general mer-
chandise cargo arrived in the Columbia
river froSn Antwerp Her passage is one
of the lohgest on record and but for the
fact that she had been spoken of every
now and then her name would probably
long ago have been placed among the lost
The Olga encountered numerous storms
after leaving Antwerp, one on the Atlantic
coast of South America threatening her
with total destruction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-07
THE LOWE SPECIAL.
at Seligman, Ariz., 1t Was 4 1-2
Hours Ahead of Schedule.

Chicago, Aug. George T. Nichol-
son, passenger traffic manager of the
Santa Fe road, received word today
that the Lowe special reached Selig-
man. Ariz., at 4 o'clock this morning,
about four and one-half hours ahead
of schedule time, and about eleven
hours ahead of the regular time made
by the California Limited. At the pres
ent rate of speed the train will reach
Los Angeles about 5 o'clock tonight,
six hours ahead Of schedule time.