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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
WALKED 5000 MILES.
Worlds Fair Visitor Comes From
Costa Rica ON Foot.

St. Louis. Mo-. July 26.-Footsore,
travel-stained and weary, Renaldo Wal
CO, British subject from San Jose,
Costa Rica, has reached the World
fair, after walk of 5000 miles only to
find that he had been deluded by
mythical prize of $4,000 which ne had
heard had been offered by the exposi-
ton company to the person who walk
ed the longest distance to attend the
Worlds fair.
Almost at the same moment that
Walco arrived another long-distance
pedestrian arrived at the Worlds fair
grounds in the person of Mauritius
Hechter of Bucharest, Roumania, VINO
had also attempted a long distance walk
and who had met with defeat
Hechter started to walk to st. Louis
from Bucharest. He undertook to reach
here by July z. He arrived many days
late and then only after giving up his
journey afoot in Washington and TAX
ing train. The prize ne was after was
one of 40. 900 francs offered by the Rou-
manian Touring club, of which Crown
Prince Ferdinand is president.
Walco had much the longer journey.
There were no oceans in his path and
every foot of the way he walked. He
left the little town of Esparta, in Costa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
NEGROES FORM A COMPANY.
To Handle Real Estate in White Dis
tricts of New York.

New York, July 26.-To combat
race prejudice against negro tenants
in white districts, the Afro-American
Realty company has started an ag-
gressive campaign.
Negro real estate operators and in
vestors organized the company recent
ly with a capital stock of $4,000
They have subscribed for 100000
The remaining 100000 is offered to
negro capitalists at $40 a share.
The company owns four five-story
flats, valued at 1925, 1000, and holds ten
other fiat houses under five year
leases. Its prospectus says:
Income property in this city when
properly managed will pay from 5 to
25 per cent on the equity; SO, with
100000 in this manner invested even
if we never resold any of our holdings
at a profit-which, of course, from the
nature of real estate in this city i5
bound to happen-taken from a rent
ing standpoint alone, would earn $751;
600 to $125,000 per year"
The Afro-American Realty company
was formed after the struggle a year
ago to Dust negro tenants of uptown
flats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
WATCHED DEATHS APPROACH.
Physician Dies a Maniac Experiment.
ing With Cocaine.

Pennington, N. J., July 26.-Ex-
periments made upon himself with
cocaine caused the death of DR.. Geo.
V. Winner, of Milford, according to
the finding of Coroner Larson, who
investigated the physicians sudden
end because of it's unusual features
The dead doctors diary was intro
duced to show that he had sat before
a mirror to note the effects of the
drug. Entries were made even on
the day of his death, some of them
being as follows:
"5 p. m.-Purchased one-eighth
ounce cocaine hydro chloride, P. D. &
Co.; one grain boiled for three min
utes produced only diaphoresiS and
local effects; slept.
"Hallucinations at end of twenty
minutes; removed one hour after in
lection. Temperature of air about
go. No forced breathing, no con-
vulsive movements of muscles; deli
rious''
This was his last entry, and that
night the attention of neighbors was
called to his apartments by the crash
of breaking glass. They forced
open his door, found him raving mad
and suffering from the hallucination
that the floor was on fire. He was
pounding on the floor with a loaded
gun and had smashed about every
piece of furniture. He was bound
and soon lapsed into inconsistencies
in which condition he remained until
death. He was a graduate of the
MedicO-Chi of Philadelphia.
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INSURE AGAINST THIEVES.
New York Companies Are Embracing
i'm New Enterprise.

New York, July Reinsurance enter
prise mas just taken up a new field in
this city, where several prominent COM
panies have made offers for the business
of retail butchers and grocers, victims
of continued thefts of horses, amount
ing to a total loss in eighteen months
of nearly $4,000 and the butchers and
grocers have decided to insure their
horses and wagons against theft.
Terms offered by the companies are
21A per cent year on all risks the min
imun to be $500 and the amount of in
sUrance to be paid at the end of thirty
days after loss by theft if the property
has not been recovered and returned to
its owner. The horses and wagons will
be insured only while in actual service
in the delivery of goods, and the horse
that is stolen from a stable will not
have the detective service of the insur-
ance companies employed for its re-
covery and it's owner may not collect
from the companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
STRUCK By FIRE ENGINE.
A Trolley Car Is Wrecked in a Col
lision in Brooklyn.

New York. July 26.-Running at full
speed to fire in Brooklyn last night,
the engine of company No. 127 crashed
into an open trolley car crowded with
passengers. Two members of the fire
company were injured. and the occu-
pants of the car were thrown into a
panic. Several had narrow escapes, as
the forward part of the car was almost
demolished. Both the motorman and
conductor of the car declare they did
not hear the engines bell or whistle,
which the firemen assert were constant
ly sounded.
When the engine driver saw the car
he tried to rein in his horses, but their
speed was too great and the vehicles
came together. Such was the force of
the blow that the heavy fire engine was
flung to one side and almost overturn-
ed, while the car was pushed from the
tracks. The captain and one fireman
who were on the rear part of the en-
CINE were thrown to the street and
stunned. but both quickly revived. The
driver chung to the reins, preventing
the frightened horses from running
away.
The front seats of the car were torn
out and the forward trucks We're
wrecked
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CAT POISONED FIVE TIMES.
California Feline Purrs in Gratitude
and Banks on Other -Four Lives.

Berkeley, Cal, July 26.-The-~ is a
big white stray cat out in the Mission,
and Mrs. Manuel Eagan has poisoned it
five different times The cat is still
alive, and it has four deaths coming
to it.
Mrs. Eagan lives at Sixteenth and
Valencia streets, and in spite of her
best efforts that terrible cat resides
there also. Mrs. Eagan has a very
beautiful Maltese. A pretty girl living
favorite pet. But nobody owns the big
white stray animal. Mrs. Eagan and
the pretty girl discovered that the stray
cat was eating all the food that they
determined to kill it. Locking up their
own cats, they began the campaign,
and the results up to date have been as
follows:
No. 1. An ordinary dose of rough OH
rats was placed in some meat. The
stray cat ate the meat and the poison.
Then he went aH-o- but returned at
the next noon hour. Mrs. Eagan and
prepared for rats was not the proper
thing to kill members of the cat fam
lily.
No. = They tried strychnine, making
the dose pretty large and giving bread
with the meat by way of variety. The
cat ate up the whole combination and
stayed around waiting for more.
No. 8. Arsenic was next put in the
poisons, it was all eaten. Mrs. Eagan
and the pretty girl kept watch of the
cat while it was eating the arsenic
loaded meat, expecting to see the feline
writhe in agony. Yet the feline didn
writhe.
No. 4. Mrs. Eagan and the pretty
girl prepared a double dose of poison,
trying two kinds and serving rough on
rats and arsenic with the meat. The
cat seemed to think that the best meal
yet handed out, and after it had finish
ed the meat and the two kinds of poison
it calmly washed its face and looked
up thankfully at the lady and the pref
ty girl who were watching from a win
dow.
No. 5. Strychnine, arsenic, and rough |
on ratS-aI they had left of the three |
kinds of poison-were put in the meat
this time, and the cat was hungrier
than usual that day. 1t ate all the meat
and the bread and the strychnine and |
the arsenic and the rough on rats. 1t |
liked the cooking and thought the fla |
vor reminded it of its early home at
the rear of a drug store. 1t made up
its mind to locate permanently in Mrs.
Eagans back yard.
There the cat still remains and Mrs
Eagan and the pretty girl are wonder
ing how they can kill it. But only
four of the cats lives are left, and
with persistence and gradually in
creasing doses of the poisonous COM
pounds the attempts along the line al
ready followed may be successful.
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CONTRACTORS AT 0NAGA
Civil Engineers and Contractors Strug-
Cling With Union Pacific Problem.

Onaga, Kan, July 26.-Engineer
Merriam and Draughtsman Scoby have
been very busy men the past week at
the Office of the Topeka & Northwest
ern railroad. the link which is to form
the Union Pacific cutoff getting their
profles in shape and ready for the
numerous contractors that have been
to Onaga to study the plans and go
over the line of the proposed road.
1t appears to be the intention of
the projectors to let the 80 miles to
one firm Whoever gets it will prob
ably sublet to smaller contractors. The
bog south of town still seems to be
the place of resistance, and all hands
have been busy finding a final route
over or through this piece of country.
The holes drilled and the shaft sunk
show but little prospect for tunneling
or even good ground for a deep cut.
So far it seems to be dirt or clay
clear down. A new line that comes
in west of town has been mapped out
this week, that saves a mile in dis
lance, gives better grade and a good
overhead crossing to cross the L., K.
& w.
Some dozen or so of grading con-
tractors have been here this week.
Among them were the Fitzpatrick
Bros, who drove from Marysville to
Topeka. This is one of the largest con-
struction firms in the world. They are
after this piece of road and the build
ing of the second u. P. track from
Topeka to Kansas CITY
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permit the distance to be tunneled, but
it is provided that the tunneling must
be carefully filed 1t is also provided
that the 45-inch sewer under the
tracks must be built of three rings,
or thfcknesses, of brick, instead of
two rings. This is to make it substan-
tial, so that the Earring of trains pass
ing over will not injure it.
The new sewer will have 40 catch
basins, IS manholes, 20 inlets and
of the Miller siphon style which were
are placed near the dead ends" of the
ment, flush the sewers every few min
utes-
1t is expected that at some future
time, the Martin & Dennis district
will want a sewer, and the Walnut
Grove sewer has been constructed with
this in view. A big 36-inch main has
been carried nearly to Topeka avenue
on Eighteenth street, and when Mar
tin & Dennis wants to connect, it will
have to build a sewer line
across the fair grounds to reach the
Sewer "a main
The construction of the sewer has
caused the eastern owners of a tract
in Walnut Grove to get their property
in shape to receive some of the bene-
fits of the Improvement This tract,
between Eighteenth and Ninteenth on
Kansas avenue, was once a plated
addition, but some years ago it was
at the request of the owners, vacat-
ed, an dasSessed as a tract. Now the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
FORTUNE AWAITS CHEF.
Japanese Youth Who Cooks for Uncle
Sam Heir to $4,000.

Philadelphia, Pa, July 26.-In an eff
fort to find Tama Yachamitsiu, a
youthful Japanese VINO has been a chef
in the United States navy, and for
whom a fortune is waiting at Toxic, his
birthplace, T. Lane Louder, a New
York attorney, visited League island.
According to the lawyer Yachamitsiu,
who comes of a prominent Toxic family,
is heir to $50, 900 in American money.
The wealth has come to the young
man who is 20 years old, through the
death of his father. lieutenant in a
japanese infantry regiment. The faith
er was killed at the outbreak of the
Russo-Japanese war.
Yachamitsiu ran away from home at
the age of Is years, coming to this
country on a trading steamer. Soon
after reaching here ne entered the
United States navy at San Francisco
as cook, and was assigned to the
cruiser Philadelphia. This was learned
through letters which he wrote home to
his parents. On several occasions
money was forwarded here to the youth
to defray his expenses home, but ne de-
clined, declaring that he was more
pleased with the United States than he
was with his native country.
After the death of the father, and
=elen the estate was settled, Attorney
Louder was requested to make a search
for YachamitSiu. Learning that there
was a possible chance of finding him at
the local navy yard, the attorney came
here in search of a clew to his where
abouts. He was unsuccessful. From
one of the Japanese cooks, however,
the lawyer learned that the missing
man was at one time at League island,
but only stayed at the island a week,
when his vessel left. He also stated
that Yacnamitsiu was now under an
assumed American name, and would
more than likely be found with some of
the ships in the South. Atlantic squad
ron. Lawyer Louder wss instructed to
make inquiries of the navy department.
at Washington.
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PROPHECY NOT CORRECT.
Fortune Teller Spells Excursion for
1000 Mill Employees.

Bloomsbury, Pa. July 26.-About
1000 residents of Bloomsbury and vi
cinity were the victims of a foolish
prophecy of a fortune teller which
came to naught. The Bloomsbury silk
mill, which for several years has run
an annual excursion of the employees,
made preparations to accommodate
the usual large crowd this year; but
a few days before the date of the out
ing one of the girls employed at the
mill visited a fortune teller. who in
formed her she was going to an affalr
in the near future in a hack, trolley
car. or railroad train, in which ter
rible accident would occur.
This story passed from one to an
other until the result was that but 5OO
of the expected 1900 people braved
fate by making the trip.
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to Powers about twenty years ago,
with no belongings except a sack on
his back. He never allows the sack
to be away from him, and when he
comes to town, about once in three
months, it is always on his back.
Everything he buys is paid for in
gold coins made thirty or forty years
ago. 1t is said that shortly before
the man came to this part of the
country there were some large train
robberies, and the people of the viii
lage connect him with these.
The man is now about 10 years of
age, and still no one has been able to
penetrate his secret.
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Turkey Red Dive Works Burn.

Providence. r. L. July 26.-The Tur-
key Red Dye Works at Bellefont, five
miles north of this city. were destroyed
by fire this morning. The loss is con-
servatively estimated at 5000, 600. The
flames originated in the can room in
the west wing of the works and quickly
spread through the plant. In addition
to the buildings and machinery which
were valued at about $3.50, 900, stock
worth $4,000 and owned by outside
parties was burned. The Turkey Red
Dye Works were established about so
years ago and the first broadcloth made
in America was woven on looms in this
shop.
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TRAMP FIFTY MILES TO WED.
EIoping Couple Wins Race Through
Celery Swamps of Michigan.

Battle Creek, Mich, July 26.-Pursued
by an angry father and brother on
hoseback, evading them by only FIVE
minutes on the start, Rose Tobey and
Charles Shrek walked 20 miles over the
celery swamps of Kalamazoo county be-
fore they could reach the county seat
and get a marriage license.
1t was another 80 miles to this C;ty
to find a Justice to marry them, bat
they kept ahead of the old man the en-
tire distance and won out in their race
for happiness. Now dad has said he
will take them to his bosom, and job
on Tobey's big farm near Galesburg
awaits the husband.
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The total length of the sewer laterals
and all. will be about So miles. 1t will
cover all portions of Walnut Grove and
Orchard Place, win connect with sewer
No. II at a point east of the Santa Fe
tracks, and will be known as sewer No.
One Of the features of the sewer is
that nearly a mile of the entire length
to be exact, 4,S7S feet-wil probably
be built of brick. There will be 1885
feet of 45-inch sewer, and this will GER
tainly be of brick. There will also be
223 feet of 36-inch sewer, sos feet of
30-inch sewer, and 765 feet of 27-inch
sewer. which may be built either of
brick or vitrified pipe. Bids will be re-
and the city will take the cheapest
This will afford the city the advantage
of some competition between the brick
men and the tile manufacturers.
One of the important new provisions
of Mr.. McCabe's specifications is that
sill the pipe must be laid in straight cut
excavation. There must be no tunnel
ing. In the construction of sewer p, in
abe Washburn college neighborhood.
and in the construction of nearly all
the other sewers in the city, the con-
tractor has been allowed to excavate
for the sewer in lengths of about Is
feet, leaving the ground solid about 10
feet between each cut The series of
excavations were then connected by
means of tunnel just large enough to
take in the sewer pipe. This saved
moving a great deal of dirt, and was n
good thing for the contractor. The trou-
BILE came for the city later on, when the
ground had had time to settle thor
oughly. The places where the tunnels
had been driven could not be closely
filled with dirt, and consequently they
gradually caved in and settled, until
the top of the ground sank down, some
times as much as a couple of feet. 1t
still requires constant work on the part
of the city to keep the holes caused
by the sinking ground filled up, out
on the sewer % line, and this sewer has
been in two years.
over four miles of vitrified pipe will
be required to build the Fifth ward
sewer The pipe varies from to "a
Snches in diameter, with a possibility
that pipe will be used instead of brick
for the 81 80 and SO inch sewers. The
amount of pipe of the various sizes
which will be required are as follows:
s inch pipe-9.115 feet
10 inch pipe-4,036 feet.
u inch pipe-4,010 feet.
Is inch pipe-2.910 feet.
Is inch pipe-753 feet.
! 81 inch pipe-1,573 feet
Where the sewer goes under the |
railroad tracks. the city engineer will !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
WANT PROPERTY BACK.
Aged Couple Affirm Julius BrOso Has
Failed to Live Up to His Word.

Port Huron. Mich, July 26.-The
old, old story finds a repetition in
Marine City, where John Burnhams
SO, and his wife, IA, blind and help
less, have commenced suit to set aside
deed of their property given last
October to julius Broso.
The aged couple claim that Broso
agreed to take care of them during
the rest of their natural lives. in re-
turn for which he was given the deed
with a life lease reservation. They
claim he has not fulfilled his part of
the agreement, but has left them des-
titute.
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Brutality Tortured.

A case came to light that for persistent
and unmerciful torture has perhaps never.
Cal, writes: For Is years I endured IN,
sufferable pain from rheumatism ana
erything known. came across Electric
Bitters and it's the greatest medicine ~,
earth for that trouble. A few BOTTLES -
it completely relieved and cured me .
Just as good for liver and kidney fron-
bies and general debility. Only sc So
isfaction guaranteed by Arnold Drug co :
81 North Kansas ave.
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owners have decided to plat the prop
erty again, in order that one of the
sewer laterals may be built through 1t.
The map of the sewer which the
Journal prints today was prepared by
w. ]. Arnold. draughtsman in the Of
flee of the city engineer, and shows
where the sewer will run, the size of
the pipe at all points, and the loca-
ton of manholes. catch basins, etc.
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ROBBERS HUNT FOR CAVE.
Start to Find Hiding Place of Old
HerInit's Gold.

Menominee, Mich, July 26.-The
mysterious hermit who lives near
Powers, Familiarity known as General
Gordon recently received a letter
dated Detroit and signed Robert
Logan, in which Mr.. Logan warns him
to keep on the outlook, as two toughs
have started from. Detroit to rob him
of his gold. <
Gordon lives in a dug-out, and his
identity is a mystery. 1t is said that
his real name is McFadden. He came
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Group.

Is a violent Inflammation of the mucous
membrane of the wind pipe, which soma-
times extends to the larynx and brou-
chial tubes: and is one of the most dan
gerous diseases of children. 1t almost
always comes on in the night. Give fire.
quent small doses of Billiards. Horehound
Syrup and apply Billiards. Snow Liniment
externally to the throat. Csc, SOC. $1.00
Ter
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mountains, near Otisville. Samples
assayed by experts were found I'M
usually rich. The mine is believed to
be the famous Lost Gold Mine of
Mamakating, from which Indians
took large quantities of the precious
metal. The discovery was made by
contractor whose men were taking out
lead ore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-26
Push Gard Mem Surrender.

New York, July 26.-In the fight
between Street Cleaning Commissioner
Woodbury. and the push cart trust"
which has been behind all the resist
ance to the commissioners determine
ton to rid the streets of push cart
men and place them in permanent
markets, a decisive victory has been
gained by the commissioner, by the
acquiescence of the peddlers in his
nix
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Hop Crop Is Short.

Portland, Ore, July 26.-Indications
are that the Oregon hop crop will
amount to about 10000 bales, or in
the neighborhood of $4,000 bales less
than last year. The season has Deen
unfavorabie. the long dry spell which
occurred last month very nearly caus-
ing a failure. The quality of the hops
is exceptionally good, however.
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THAT new SEWER
Mr.. McCabe Completes Plans
for Its Construction.
Will Include Only Portions of
Fifth Ward.
OVER FIVE MILES LONG
Reaches Orchard Place and
Walnut Grove Additions.
Contractors Will Not Be Allow
ed to Tunnel.
OVER FIVE MILES LONG

City Engineer McCabe has completed
his specifications for the new Fifth
ward sewer. and as soon as he finishes
the work in the field. and the amount
of rock excavation to be done is ascer-
tanned. Mr.. McCabe will be ready to
give the council an estimate on the cost
81 the Job.
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Catcher BueIow to Cleveland.

Cleveland, O., July 26.-Vice Pres
ident Somers of the Cleveland Ameri-
can league baseball team has received
advices from Philadelphia that Catch
er Fred Buelow, recently of Detroit,
had been signed by the Cleveland club.
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The rarest combination of good things
ever put together is HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 1t cures pirnples, indiges-
ton, constipation, rheumatism. sick head
ache. Sc. Tea or tablets. Gatlin Drug
company.
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RIGA, on December 81. In January he
was in Nicaragua, in February he pass
ed through San Salvador and April %
he reached the City of Mexico.
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CoId Strike in New York.

MiddIetown, n. Y, July ga
strike of gold and silver in large guam
titles has been made in an old aban-
doned lead mine in the Shawangunk