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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-14
WOLF LOSES A SUIT.
Can Not Invoke Aid of Missouri
Garnishment Laws.

Judge Hazen decided this morning
that Topeka merchants can not wrong
fully invoke the laws of Missouri to
circumvent the Kansas law of eXemp-
ton in punishment cases.
The decision was given on a motion
in the suit of E. E. Banks against
Councilman c. V. Wolf of the Third
ward. Banks is employed by the San
ia F'e. Wolf claims that Banks owes
him a bill. Suit was brought by a
Kansas City collection agency, in a
justice court in Kansas City. The
claim was made that the Kansas City
agency had bought the claim Wolf held
against Banks. Banks claims that
Wolf turned the claim over to the Kan
sas City agency to eVade the redemp-
ton laws of Kansas. Banks asked that
Wolf be restrained. Judge Hazen de-
cided that such proceedings are illegal.
A similar suit of D. w. Mack against
Chris Roof comes under this decision.
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TELEPHONE TOLL.
Supreme Court Must Decide About
the Charges.

Can a telephone company be COM
PEELED to give service to people outside
of city limits is a question which is
passed up to the supreme court today
in an appeal filed from Allen county.
It is brought by Frank Y. Crouch,
president and manager of the lola
Electric railway company, and is di-
rected against the lola Telephone COM
pany.
Crouch lives Just outside the city
limits of lola. He had a telephone in
his house for about three years, using
it in running his electric line. The
smelters, brick plants. and numerous
other industries outside the city limits
also have telephone service.
Last July Crouch got into a dispute
of some kind over telephone service
just what is not clear, but it seems
that the company charged him for toll
service besides the regular yearly
rate, and as a result the company took
it's phone out of Crouch's house. He
rendered payment of $24, the yearly
rental rate,~ in advance, and demanded
that the telephone be put back, but the
company refused. Then he resorted to
the courts and brought a mandamus
action through his attorneys, Thomp-
son & Thompson, to compel the COM
pany to put the phone back, but the
district court of Allen county decided
against him. Now Crouch appeals to
the supreme court
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PLACED In THE TOMB.
Funeral Ceremonies Over the Late
Queen Dowager of Korea

Seoul, March 1.-THE funeral of the
Queen Dowager, who died in January
was held here today. The bier was
placed on catafalque at the west gate
of the city, where Minister Allen and
other diplomats gathered at $50 o'clock
this morning. 1t was a weird scene.
Thousands of lantern bearers. soldiery
and the popu1ace in white dresses gath
cred around a bonfire until daybreak.
The emperor, attired in straw colored
robes and head dress, arrived at 6
o'clock and performed his devotions
over the body within canvas pavilion.
The procession then started to the
tomb, eight miles outside of the city
the bands playing funeral dirges.
The procession was two miles long
and full of oriental color. Tt was
hemmed by native police, followed by
lantern bearers and spearmen. in f/n-
tastic attire. carrying banners and huge
pa per horses. Then came two biers,
gorgeously colored and surmounted by
dragon heads. They were borne on the
shoulders of a hundred men, there be-
ing 100 pail bearers The biers were
surrounded by eunuchs and court func-
tionaries. The first bier was empty,
being intended to cheat the devil.
The popuIace erammed the streets
and. covered the roofs to witness the
pageant After the start of the process
sion the emperor received the foreign
diplomats and the Japanese minister,
being the senior member, presented the
coincidence of the corps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-14
MARKETS TODAY.
Kansas Reports Make Wheat
Trade Firm.
We're That Little or No Snow
Had Fallen.
LIVE STOCK TRADE.
Cattle Steady-Natives Selling
at $3.50 to $5.25.
Hogs Five Cents Higher at $5.15
to $3.50.

Chicago, March H.-WHEAT-Confirma
uon OF weather bureau advices stating
pracltcaily no snow mad fallen in Kansas
transformed a weak wheat market into
one of considerable strength The situa-
ton IN the southwest was the principal
factor governing the action of traders.
There was liberal selling at the start on
reports of heavy snow in Kansas and Ok
lahOma. Despite firm cables opening QUO
tations were at a loss from SatuTdav's
close, May being 1Q11zc lower, at 95@951kc.
July was a shade to 3sc lower, at 91q2l$sc.
formation claiming the drought still con-
tlnued in larger portion of the winter
wheat belt, the sentiment quickly chang
ed. Bullish flour news from the north
west also helped to create better tone.
Early sellers turned buyers, resulting in
advanced to SIC, while July sold up to &c
Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported
receipts Of GAL cars.
96zsc. After touching 921sc, July closed at
Slssggis=c, a gain Of ne
commission houses caused strength in
corn. There was very little corn on the
market and prices advanced readily on
small purchases. The opening was easier
in sympathy with wheat, May being UNI
changed to 1sc lower, at 54Q54lsc. July
was off a shade to 1se, at 515sQ51Ac. The
and July to 52c. Receipts were 227 cars.
The close was about steady, May being
h lis rowe at s. ssfa 'oS closed Hnaoe
OATS-SmaH receipts and a strong cash
market developed strength in speculative
trading in oats. May opened a shade to
1sG14c lower, at 41A@4asc. July was I'M
changed. at 39asc. Offerings were light,
and, with a fair commission house de-
mand. May advanced te ssd41a4c. July
held firm around 3915c. Receipts were 1879
cars.
PROVISIONS - Strengthening rains
caused a fair investment demand for pro-
visions resulting in firm market. There
was considerable selling of pork at the
opening and initial quotations on the pro
duct We're 10G15c lower, at S14.10M14.1 Is.
The demand was sufficient, however, to
absorb all offerings and to cause rally
to S14271a. May lard opened sc lower, at
s. 3212 and ribs were down PIC, at s.. 3212.
Later lard sold up to $7.371z, and ribs to
RYE-May. 721kc; July. 7O1kc.
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FRUITS OF THE WAR.
Sights and Incidents Along the Si-
berian Railroad.

ST. Petersburg, March 14-3:45 p. NJ
A Russian correspondent proceeding to
the front writes to the st. Petersburg
Telegraph bureau from IrkutsK. ST.
IBERIA, as follows:
Our express train travels slower
than the slowest train in European
Russia. The seat of war is still remote,
but its presence is felt. The long rows
of cars filled with soldiers, the cara
vans and the primitive sleighs, drawn
by shaggy horses, which we pass along
the way at the crowded stations, break
the monotony of the snow bound wastes
and endless forests, and the stiffness is
broken by the songs of the jolly reSerV-
lists and the bells of the village churches
sounding clear through the frosty air.
This hustle and activity amidst the
Siberian desolation Strikingly Illus
trates the Russian giant stretching his
limbs preparatory to furnishing the foe.
General Rennenkampf, who is to lead
the cossack division, is travelling on the
same train. He tells me that all these
reservists will become splendid harden
ed soldiers a fortnight after reaching
the front.
I "At Irkutsk we met the first victims
of the war, children and women trying
to get back to European Russia. ON
our entrance into the semi-darl1ness OF
the station we were greeted by the wall
ing of children issuing from the dirt
heaps and baggage encumbering the
floor Their waxen faces and blOodshot
sleepless eyes would melt a heart OF
stone. The wild, panic stricken Hight OF
their mothers from Manchuria, after
the startling outbreak of the war led
! to great sufferings. They reached this
place after untold hardships, only to
| find that they will have to wait weeks
more till there is sufficient train ac-
commodation to enable them to proceed
further.
$50 the children have been pining
sleepless and motionless in this fetid
atmosphere, because outside reigns
deathly FROST
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New york stock.

Wall Street, New York March a.
S1OChS-Opening prices of stocks today
compared with Saturday-showed mixed
on light dealings. Metropoiitan street
Railway yielded 1ss points on sale of L.
200 shares. Schloss-Sheffield Steel lost
fraction, but the preferred stock was I'M
changed.
The local stocks weakened again, espe-
clally the Metropolitan issues. The gem
eral market eased off sympatheticalIy,b but
soon recovered to above last weeks close.
pennsylvania rallied sharply. Metropoli
nue. 211 points, Metropolitan Street Rail
way rs points and Sugar. Pressed Steel
Car, Consolidated Gas and Pullman
point Covering by the shorts rallied some
transactions became quiet on the rise.
Peoples Gas advanced a point and Read
ing and Norfolk and western advanced
ties rallied "a points and Metropolitan
Street Railway and Consolidated Gas
about a point.
and strength than for many days and
reached a point or more in Pennsylvania,
Baltimore and Ohio, Reading. New York
cif1c, Delaware and Hudson, Southern
Railway preferred, Brooklyn Rapid
Transit, Amalgamated Copper and Smelt-
z points and Pump preferred IA points.
The advance was checked before noon.
Lackawanna dropped 0 points on one sale.
The report of the Northern Securities
decision against the company brought out
some heavy offerings all around the room,
nights level it became clear that protec-
tive supporting orders were in the mar
ket. The vigorous rally of Northern Sc
curities itself in the. curb market pointed
to the same conclusion. The market
thereupon recovered to a rather higher
level than before and became quiet.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT LITTLE.
Ownership of $26 Strip of Land Be-
fore Court

Catherine Byrne and Mary Pasa are
ntigating over a strip of land worth $25
The case has gone through the district
court. The costs in the case are $3.50
The case may now go to the supreme
court.
The Byrne and Pasa farms adjoin.
There is a strip of land a rod wide and
$50 rods long. Mrs. Byrne claims that
she put out hedge and put it a rod
from the property line so that there
would be a rod outside the hedge for a
road some time in the future. Mrs. Pasa
claims that her property goes to the
hedge and that for many years she has
farmed that land and that she always
supposed it was hers and that anyway by
the Is year statute of limitation she owns
the land. All the neighbors and some
people from Jefferson county testified
They were about equally divided as to
whether the Byrnes or the Pasas had
farmed the land. The jury decided in IA
vor of Mrs. Byrne on the strength of the
patent she holds for the land. A new
trial was asked for and Judge Hazen this
morning denied it.
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ROBBED A POsTOFFICE.
Thieves Make Good Haul at Mound
Valley

Parson, Kan, March 14.-The Mound
Valley postofiee anu James Lear, jr,
drug store we're entered by robbers
early Saturday. Valua bles to the
amount of about $500. were taken The
robbers gained entrance by boring a
hole through the panel of the door, and
then removing the iron latch. The post
office and the drug store are in the same
building and it was easy for them to
get what valuabIes the building con-
tanned Cash to the amount of $10O05
was taken from the postoffice, and
watches. chains and solid gold rings
were taken from the drug store, to the
amount of about $500.
In speaking of the robbery. James
Lear, jr., stated that no clue had yet
been found of the robbers. but there
was some evidence against certain par
ties. 1t seems that the party or parties
who entered the stores were profession
ais, as the drug store contained many
valuable articles, but they confined their
operations to such property that could
not be easily identified.
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IN THIRD WARD.
Continued from Page one.)

Continued from Page one.)
1t seems that Mr.. wolf was not satisfied
with getting half of all the hardware
business, when he was entitled to about
1ne-tent II Of it. H. NJ Cline, we'll
known topeka hardware dealer, says
People who had orders filled at Wolf s
store were very much dissatisfied when
tneys found out what some of their neigh
bors had obtained from other stores. Wolf
put INTO his orders inferior goods; he put
in the cheapest kind of a skeleton gaso-
Inc stove, While other stores were giving
a GOOD CABINET gasoline stove; he charged
Sl-z2 Tor set of sad irons which other
1ea1efS Were selling every day for $1-O0;
ne put IN a cheaper grade of washtubs, a
cheaper grade of saucepans and cheap
er grade OF almost everything. else than
nave heard people kicking about it. as
dld, you would think that it would cer-
fanny queer Mr.. Wolf for any public Of
nee People in the Third ward ought to
know now some of those flood sufferers
were treated by this aspirant for coun-
Gilman whom they are being urged to
support on the ground of law and order.
Inc women may not be able to investi-
men can do so, and they ought to do it,
and post their wives on how to vote"
AFTER the headquarters for the distri-
putlon OF goods was removed from the
Auditorium and placed in Poor Commits
sloner Hale's office, Mr. Wolf also moved
his headquarters. He haunted Poor Com
missioner Hale and urged him to issue or
ders to Wolf Bros. & Cole. Mr.. Hale,
however, looked into the matter for him
self, and the result was that he gave
most of the business to the unfortunate
hardware men in North Topeka, who had
lost thousands of dollars in the flood.
Wolf owns a third interest in the Stur-
gis Hardware company of North Topeka
and when he found that he could not get
the business for Wolf Bros. & Cole, he
tried to swing it to the Sturgis company.
In this he seems to have been partially
successful.
Wolf does not even take enough inter-
est in Topeka to belong to the Topeka
Commercial club. and neither does his
I hac han q cl< ef6
to join that organization.
So it can not be said that the reason
Wolf got the great bulk of the hardware
business was because of his Commercial
club pull"
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Liverpool opening. cables: Wheat I'D
liverpool, 1856 p, m: Wheat and corn
I'd higher.
Liverpool s:1s p. m: Wheat and corn
sd higher.
cars: graded, 1. Corn, 227 cars; graded, 4.
Oats, 199 cars; graded. 49,
Northwest grain receipts today: Mime
apoiis, 5S4 cars; Duluth, Al cars. A week
ago: Minneapolis, 567 cars; Duluth, 43
cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, $50 cars;
Duluth, 10 cars
Liverpool closing cables: Wheat and
corn I'D higher for the day.
Estimated grain re receipts at chi Ssag to-
oats, 275 cars; hogs, 1900 head
Visible supply changes. for the week:
Wheat decreased !, 262, 600 bushels; corn in
creased $4,000 bushels; oats increased
AL. GOO bushels.
Total visible supply: Wheat, 80. AZ. 600
bushels: corn 9,S67 COO bushels; oats, 10, Ss4,-
600 bushels.
Total visible supply year ago: Wheat,
46 066, 900 bushels; corn, 10,S12000 bushels;
oats, 7,313,000 bushels.
Chicago: Privileges for tomorrow: July
wheat-PutS, 903zc calls, 923sc. July corn
Puts 51Lc; calls, 525sc.
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TORCH AND BULLET.
COIored Minister Recommends
Them to His Hearers.

New York. March Unemployment Of
the torch and bullet by the negro to
defend his rights and to stop the lynch
ing of blacks by white men has been
openly recommended in a sermon by
Rev. F. NJ. Jacobs, in an African M. E.
church of Brooklyn. He said the ne
groes of Springfield, o., where a black
man was dragged from Jail and stran-
gled to death by a mob, should carry
on a war of reprisal and burn their
enemies out of business
The sermon created a sensation.
you should contend unto death for
your rights asserted Rev. Mr.. ia
cobs. mo race has ever won anything
without the shedding of blood"
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WHEAT
Morning stock Review.


FURNISHED by A. NJ. McDermott Commits
Investment Securities. Rooms 20 and q,
702 Kansas avel
New York, March 14-STOCKSThe ex-
IRENE dullness of the stock market has
come to an end. There has followed
material results all this week at last.
Saturdays weakness was not confined to
the local stocks. The heaviest dealings
were in Pennsylvania, the price of which
yielded comparatively easy under the sell
ing. A number of specialties made new
low prices for the year. The influence of
the bank statement was. if anything, to
bring reinsurance and possibly a trifiing
rally. The influence of the chances of the
Northern Securities decision today is the
same as usual. The arrival of the de-
cision is feared rather than expected.
There are various reports afioat to ac-
count for the weakness of the local group
of stocks, none of which is at all salts
factory.
AS a reliable criterion of values, the
ticker is not frequently wrong. A few
times in a. generation the market gets all
wrong in regard to values. In long per-
iods of dullness they generally get too
low.
Nothing developed over Sunday to in
huence the speculative character of the
market and the price movement today
will be governed by the uncertainty re-
garding the decision in the Northern Sc
curities case by the supreme court. Every
calculation is contingent on this decision
being handed down. If the decision is
~. If the decision comes out it will be
well to carefully study the market before
taking a decided position on either side
of the market.
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MERGER SMASHED
BY COURT.
Continued from First Page9
IT WAS EXPECTED.
Merger Securities Advanced in Face
of the Decision.


New York, March III. J. Hill, pres
ident of the Northern Securities Co.
received news of the decision at the
company'S offices in this city. Mr. Hill
declined to discuss the matter, except
to say: There is nothing to be said at
this time. The properties of the North
ern Securities company are still there.
They are as good as ever
Mr.. Hill intimated that he might
have something to say as soon as he
got some definite scope of the decision
Mr.. Hill was in conference for some
time after the news came out with
John H. Kennedy, who is one of the
directors and largest stockholders in
the Securities company. At the offices
of J. P. Morgan & Co., no expression
regarding the decision could be had. A
member of the firm stated, however,
that he was not surprised. Colonel w.
P. Clough, fourth vice president, direc-
tor and general counsel of the North
ern Securities company, who is said to
have taken active part in drawing up
its charter, was in Washington today.
The stock market was not generally
affected by the decision. The general
list which made some improvement be-
fore noon, sold off for the most part
when news of the decision came out.
On the curb Northern Securities was
the center of interest. 1t declined u a
point from S5A to 85A on news of the
decision, rallied to S71zc and later was
quoted at SIC,
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Cbioaoo Livestock Market.

Chicago March 14-CATTLE-Receip
today, Is, 900 head. Market steady. Good
to prime steers, S5.25G6.0o;- poor to medi-
ABS: cows 81. 6Oa4.1O; heifers, 81. 25Q450:
Gamers 81. 6GQ2. so; bulls, s2-o0Q4oo; calves,
-Hs10ssGS&Receipts today, 5000 head; esti-
mated Tuesday, 900 head. Market steady.
Mixed and butchers. s5.10Q5 40; good to
G5. 40; light, S4.S5Q5.40; bulk of sales. $3.50
5.46. o
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head
wethers. 81 6O05.O0; fair to choice mixed,
81 O064 so: western sheep. s. 50q5 90; naIive
lambs, 81 00Q15. 65; western lambs, $45oq6.oV.
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ALL is LOVELY.
Russians Are Delighted With
RoOsevelt's Proclamation
Emphasizing the Neutrality Of
the United States.
THEY SEE A CHANGE.
Newspapers Think Americans
Have Become Frightened
And Realize the Danger of Sup
porting Japan.
THEY SEE A CHANGE.

ST. Petersburg, March 14.-President
Roosevelt's recent proclamation regard
ing the observance of neutrality by all
officials and the abstinence from either
action or speech which might cause ir-
ritation to either Japanpor Russia has
produced a great impression here. The
newspapers this morning print prom
inently articles commencing the sub
stance and spirit of the proclamation
in the highest terms.
The Official Gazette accepts 1t Unre-
servedly as a complete answer to the
charges that the American government
IS hostile to Russia and declares that
hereafter despite any seemingly IN
toward incident. which may arise, it
will be considered settled only once for
all that the American government has
taken a friendly attitude towards our
aims and policies in the far east" ad-
ding;
in American sentiment, the people
there realizing the danger of support
ing Japan"
The Novosti halls the suspicious in
itiatiVe of President Roosevelt in the
interest of universal peace and good
relationship between Russia and the
United States, saying:
He Yields practically unlimited au-
lnOT1Jy Win respect TO the foreign
policy of the country, Secretary Hay
submitting to the will of the presi-
dent"
The Russ welcomes the proclamation
as convincing evidence of a more
friendly feeling on the part of Ameri-
cans for Russia.
The Boerse Gazette remarks:
Theodore Roosevelt was the first
ruler to respond to the warning cry is
sued many years ago by Emperor Will
liam against the yellow peril"
The st. Petersburg Zeitung asserts
that the proclamation leaves no further
doubt that the United States has firm
intention to observe strict neutrality
and adds:
1T bears the stamp of strong and
most distinguished personality
The papers also make a display this
morning of the denial Of the New
Chwang reports that the United States
intends to suspend the protest of the
commander of the United States gun
boat Helena against the plan of the
Russian authorities to sink junks at
the entrance of the Liam river, evident
ly considering that this puts an end to
the statement, which caused a furry
here yesterday and that further COM
ment is unnecessary.
The Alexander committee announces
that in addition to the regular army
pensions, a supplementary pension of
SIS a year will be given to the widows
and orphans of the On-commiSSiOned
officers and $24 to those of soldiers and
sailors killed in the face of the enemy.
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Kansas CITY Produce market.

-Receints today. 10 cars. Quotations
were higher May. $3.50; July. Sssc; Cash l1
No. 2 hard, S9G91c; No. hard, S6qSSc; NO.
3 red. 81 O1d1. O3; No 3 red, 94Q97c.
CORN-Market higher. May, 45Ac; Ju-
ly, 447sc Cash: No; 2 mixed, 4sg4Sszc;
No 3, 421421kc; No 2 white, 4S944c' NO.
o Sa1ss firm No. white. 42a4sc;
No 2 mixed, Haze.
H + timothy. 5000; choice prai-
' Bf;u p 2O@e2c: dairy fan
EGGs-Fresh. 15c.
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Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City, Mo-. March 14.-CATTLEe1e
Receipts today, 5000 head, including so
head of southerns Market steady. Ma
tive steers g Soa5 Is southern err. steers g 20
cows and heifsrs s. O0d4 20: stockers and
feeders, $325Q4.4 40; bulls. s2.5Oa3. Is; calves,
50 coat. so; western steers, 8. 40Q46O; west
ern cows, $2.00d3. so.
HOGS-Receipts today, 5000 head. Mar
ket SC higher. Bulk of sales; s5,l5Qo; 40;
heavy, IS. 35G5. IS: packers, $5-20a5.4o; pigs
and lights, $4.10Q51 Is.
SHEEP-Receipts today, 5000 head.
Market steady. Muttons, So 8045. 10i lambs,
S4. !5@550; range wethers, $4.20Q45o; ewes.
81. 1904 10.