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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-25
New Orleans Cotton Market.

New Orleans September 24--Spot cot ton quiet and easier. Sales 1750 bales, in cluding HOO to arrive. Quotations 1-16 lower.
 Futures opened quiet and to points lower on disappointing Liverpool. The weather map was fairly good, but unfa- yorable reports concerning the crop are received every day. The week end fig ures had but little influence on prices as the bearishness of the visible supply was balanced by the bullishness of spin ners' takings. In the trading October opened B points lower at 10.50, sold up to 10.55 and finally eased off to 10.4S. The market closed quiet 9 to 12 points net lower.
 New Orleans. September 24-Cotton fu- lures barely steady; September, 1o.7o@ 10.72; October, 10. .4S910. 49; November, 1o.- 52@10 .54; December. 10.50@1O SO; January, 10. o.65@10.66 Febraury. 10.72a10.74 March. 10.s5a10 .S6.
 New Orleans, September 24.-cotton quiet; sales, 175O; ordinary, s-16c; good ordinary, 91kc; low middling, 10bc; mid ding, 10 11-16c; good middling, 1O7sc; mid ding fair, 11Sc; receipts, 6322; stock, 5s 353.
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Cash quotations were IS follows: Flour-Firm; winter patents, $5.2oq5.5o; straight, s4.s005 20; spring patents, s5- 40 @6; straight, s4.7OQ5.5O; bakers. s3. 400 3.7O
 Wheat-No. spring, s1.1S@1. 20; No. 8, s1.O5@1 IS; No. 2 red, s1.t31kQ1 .15sz. Corn-No. ?, 521k@52Zc; No. 2 yellow. 541kg54szc.
 oats-No. 2, 3ohc: No. white, s2AG S2%c; No. white, 301k@32c.
 Rye-No. 2, 75c.
 Bariey-Good feeding. 36QS7c fair to choice malting, 42051c.
 Flax seed-No. 1, s1.os; No. northwest ern, s1 .15h.
 Mess Pork-Per bbls, $11 55@11 SO. Lard-Per 100 lbs, $7.221k.
 Short Rib Sidee-Loose, $7 .621k@7 .75. Short Clear Sides-Boxed, s. .507s. .75. Whisky-Basis of high wines, s1.8. Clover-Contract grade $12.25. On the produce exchange today the butter market was steady.
 Creamery. 14Q1s1zc.
 Dairy, 13Q17c
 Eggs steady. 14G17Ac; hrsts. 1sc; prime firsts, 20c; extras, 22c.
 Cheese steady, sA@s1zc.
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The Coffee Market.

New York, September 24s--Spot Rio cof- fee steady; No ' invoice. 7Iz; mild firm; Cordova 1OQ13
 Coffee futures steady at unchanged prices, with very little for sale and con tinued quiet though later there was .
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Frisoo System.
nnntral of aaoruln Railroad.

Arrive from Depart to- Macon ...... s:46 pm Macon ..... $40 am Eava'h .12:2o pm Sayenn'h AGO pm
 All trains run by Central time. Trains marked thus e are daily except Sunday.
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ING, PRESIDENT.
 J. H. BARR, vice-President. A. R, FORSYTH, Assistant Cashier. F. Moore, E. N. Tutwller, w. s. Brown. F. D. Nsbers, :. H. Motion, Robert asslnger, Walker Percy, F. M. Jackson,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-25
New York Cotton Futures.

By Cothran & Go.
 Onan IIirh Lam C1c
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Total sales day, Shares
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-08
TO RUN SPECIAL TRAINS.
They VIII Bring Students to Topeka
for OratoricaI Coutest

In order to furnish sufficient accom-
modations for the large number of stu
dents who are expected to attend the
state oratorical contest at the auditor
ium next Friday the Santa Fe will run
several special trains into Topeka on
that date.
The Ottawa delegation is expected to
arrive in Topeka on trains No. 131 and
No. lib. Extra equipment will be added
to these trains to accommodate those
who wish to arrive early but in order
that those who do not wish to come to
Topeka until late in the afternoon may
reach here in time for the contest a
special train of Z cars will be run from
Ottawa to Topeka, leaving the former
point at o'clock on the afternoon of
March II. The delegation from Baldwin
will also arrive on this train. The
Santa Fe expects about $50 students
from each college and has made ar
engagements for both delegations to re-
turn to their respective homes on a
special train which will leave Topeka
at midnight after the contest.
The delegation from Atchison will ar
rive on train No. los to which an ex-
ira coach will be attached and the del
egations from Winfield, Wichita and
Emporia will be accommodated on
trains No. IS and No. IT.
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SIDEWALKS ON NORTH SIDE
Plan Proposed to Have Them Built
by Contract.

Instead of making the repairs to the
North Topeka sidewalks damaged by
the flood with the regular laboring
men employed on the street force. q
scheme will probably be proposed to
the council for the placing Of this
work in the hands of contra ctors,
in the same way new sidewalks are
constructed. The city will pay the con-
tractors out of it's general funds. and
will be reimbursed when the special
taxes are paid in.
All of the expense of grading for the
repair of damaged walks will be borne
by the city at large. There is a great
deal of repairing to do, and Street
Commissioner Snyder is of the opinion
that it can be more economically han
died by contract than by direct con-
troll. The amount of repairs done in
the front of each lot would be care
fully recorded and charged up against
the property in the form of special tax.
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POSTAL CRAFT.
Regular Thing for Members of
Congress to Work 1t.
Nothing Fraudulent and Will
Be No Prosecutions.

Washington, March 8.-A report show
ing the instance where representatives
and senators have used their influence
with postoffice department officials to
secure increases in salaries of postmas-
tiers, additional clerk hire, advantage
olSS leases on buildings. has been made
public in the house of representative
The report shows that ISL members of
congress succeeded in getting salaries
raised and additional clerks in various
offices in the United States. Several
others were implicated in securing adj
vantageous leases on postoffice build
ings.
No prosecutions will follow the publ
cation of the report. The government
has not been defrauded, and in most
all of the cases the men who violated
the law did so in a purely technical
manner and Internationally.
The report is made by the unanimous
vote of the members of Mr.. Overstreet's
committee, in response to a resolution
calling for the information, introduced
by Representative Hay of Virginia. AS
the information accompanies the Ie-
port, the committee recommends that
the resolution lie on the table.
Some of the transactions involving
members of congress recorded in the
report are held to be technics VIOLA
tions of the statutes, others are pro-
nounced by mem ers who have read
in the majority of cases it is held that
members in making their recommends
lions to the department expected moth
ing not in harmony with the rules and
practices of the department.
Three cases are set forth in which
memb ers of congress own buildings
which are leased to the government for
postoffice purposes
The details of these cases are given
bv the fourth assistant postmaster gen
Qr-fc in
to Chairman Overstreet as follows:
"Section 1888 of the revised statutes
provides:
mo member of or delegate to con-
gress shall directly or indirectly, him
self or by any other person in trust
for him, or for his use or benefit, or
on his account undertake, execute, hold
or enjoy, in whole or in part, any con-
tract or agreement made or entered in
to on behalf of the United States by
any officer or person authorized to
make contracts on behalf of the United
States.
THE statutes further provide:
"All contracts or agreements made in
violation of this section shall be void
Yet in the face of this statute, Beav-
ers has made contracts with members
of congress for the rental of premises,
either in his own use. name, the names
of their agents, or some member of
their families"
OUe VI tie Three cases ACACA4C0 ~ 10
that of Congressman Bowersock, which
is disposed of as follows:
Lawrence, Kansas.-The postoff1ce
premises at this place were leased from
J. D. Bowersock many years prior to his
election as a member of congress in
1898, at an annual rental of $500. That
lease expired April 1, 1900. December
13 1899, Mr.. Bowersock submitted a pro-
posal to renew the lease for a term of
five years at the same annual rental.
After a conference with officials at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-08
he GAVE UP SlO5.
fearful Story of Corpse in the
Baggage Car Ahead.

Wichita, Kas., March 8.-J. S. Jimi-
son holds a worthless check for sos as
the result of an effort on his part to
help a man whom he though was in
trouble and without ready cash.
The old graft of "a corpse in the bag
gage coach ahead" was worked on Jim
ison by a swindler, while the two were
through this city at II o'clock last
night. The first knowledge the police
had that another swindle had been sue
cesSfully worked within a few miles of
this city and the swindler had dropped
from the train here, was on receipt of
a telegram from the conductor of the
train after the first station had been
reached out of this city.
]. S. Unison lives in the south and
is on his way to California. While on
the train he made the acquaintance of
a man who appeared to be in great
trouble. Just before this city was
reached the troubled stranger told Jim
iSOn that he was bringing the body OF
his brother to Wichita for burial The
corpse was said to be in the baggage
coach. He explained that when he
the express charges before he could
remove the body from the train.
Jimison was touched by the sad story
and gave the man $105. He was given
a check in return for the money. The
stranger said he could easily get the
money by going to the bank, but If he
had to wait to do that the train would
be gone and with it go the body of his
brother. When Wichita was reached
the stranger disappeared from the
train in a way that caused his bene-
factor to be suspicious. and inquiry into
the value of the check Unison had
taken proved it to be worthless.
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SALE OF NEW YORK Sun.
It Is Reported That Young Wanna
maker Has Gained Control.

New York, March S.-Thomas B.
Wanamaker, son of John Wanamaker,
owner of the Philadelphia North
American and other Philadelphia
papers, is reported to have secured con-
troll of the New York Sun. The name
of w. M. Laffan has disappeared from
the head of the editorial page of the
Sun within the last few days. After
the death of Charles A. Dana, in 1897,
Mr.. Laffan secured a strong hold on
the Sun. Paul Dana disposed of the
Dana interest and Mr.. Laffan became
the dominant power. 1t has been cur
rent gossip that J. Pierpont Morgan
the policy of the Sun by advancing on
it's securities In a recent suit John
Wanamaker testified that he did not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-08
KENNEDY Is SECURED.
Popular Football Coach Will Return
to Washburp.

Manager Frank Leach of the Wash
burn college football team has an
nounced that he has settled on an
agreement with DR.. Bert Kennedy by
which he will coach the Washburn
team for the coming two seasons. The
salary for the season of 1904 will be
81 800 and for the season following,
s., 200. Kennedy viii be the highest
priced coach in Kansas next year but
the arrangement is eninently satisfac-
tory to the people of the college and
Manager Leach says that with Ken
nedy in charge of the team he can
leave money in the athletic treasury at
the close of the season as he did last
year.
But one or two members of last
years team have dropped out of school
and the rest will be ready for practice
next fall. Leach has a number of new
football players in prospect and it is
expected that Griggs and Rice, who
went to the Kansas university from
Topeka last fall, will enter Washburn
next year. They will not be eligible for
games under college conference rules
until their second year. Whatever
changes may he made in the Washburn
line next fall will be for its improve
ment over last year.
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first assistant postmaster generals Of
flee Mr.. Bowersock withdrew his pro-
pOsal, submitting one from his daughter,
Mrs. Hortense B. Hill, and the lease was
executed in her name on terms before
mentioned. The record shows the title
to the premises in question was vested
in Mr.. BowerSock The annual rental is
the same that it was for many years
before Mr.. Bowersock was elected to
congress. and the postoff1ce has been To-
Gated where it now is for about thirty
The history of 1s1 cases is given in the
report, wherein members of congress fig
ure in getting authorization for clerk hire
in excess of the amount the office in
secret method employed by the depart
ment to determine the merits of the case.
Many of these increases We're only tenn
porary and have been discontinued. A
tabulated statement shows that in 81 in
stances where reductions have been made
since April. 190S SIS, $50 was being paid an
nually in excess of the amounts these Of
fees were entitled to-
Persons whose influence seemed good
with the pOStOffice department, for a time
at least. embraced in the history of these
cases included:
D. g. Meiklejohn,, Representatives BUS
sell, Sperry and Hill of Connecticut; SEN
ator Clay and Representative Griggs of
Georgia; Senator Cullom, ex-senator
Mason and Representative George w.
Smith, Rodenburg, Warner and Prince of
Illinois; Senator Beveridge and Repre-
sentatives c. B. Lands, Crumpacker,
Watson, Hemenway, Overstreet and for
mer Representative Steele of Indiana; ex-
Speaker Henderson and Representative
Cousins and W. I. Smith of Iowa; Repre-
sentativeS Miller, BOwerSOck and Calder
head of Kansas; Representative Pugh and
John W. Langley of the census office for
Kentucky; Senator McComas and Repre-
sentative Pearre and Jackson of Mary
land Four allowances in Michigan were
secured by Representative H. c. Smith,
Repr sentative Gardner was unsuccessful
in one instance and Hon. John A. Merritt
in another. H. A. Castle, ex-Represen-
tative Fletcher and Representative Nc
Cleary are the names mentioned in the
Minnesota list. R. c. Kerens, Webster
Davis, John Dougherty secured in
creases which afterward were revoked for
Missouri.
Thomas Carter appears in the list from
Montana. Ex-senator Thurston and Rep
resentative Burkett are down from Ne
braska, Representative Gardner and Will
liam johnson secured increases in New
jersey. New York is represented in the
list by Governor Odell, Representative S.
E. Payne, Sherman, Alexander, Katchem
and Vreeland and ex-Representatives Ray
and Tompkins. Ex-senator Pritchard Sc
cured an increase for clerk hire for
Greenville, n. c., from so to $3.50 per an
num- which December /, 1903, was dis
continued altogether. He also secured an
increase from $40 to $3.50 for Wakeforest
N c. which was reduced to the former
amount October 1, 1903. Senator Hans
brough appears in the list for North Da-
kOta
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Peoples Party Convention.

: Clay Center, March SD Stewart of
Clifton. chairman of the Peoples party
senatorial committee, and John a.
Lindahl of Enterprise, secretary, have
called a senatorial convention as fol-
lows: "A convention of the represen-
tatives of the Peoples party of the
Twenty-second senatorial district, COM
prising Clay and Dickinson counties.
will be held at Industry, Kan, on
Tuesday, May 8, 1904, at o'clock p. M.
for the purpose of placing in nominal
ton for the Office of state senator d
candidate. Each of the counties will be
entitled to representation of ten dele
gates"
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All Cases Nolled.

Cripple Creek, Col. March S.-An
cases against the union miners charged
with different train derailings, the Vim
dicator mine disaster and other Often
ses, have been nolled on the request of
District Attorney Trowbridge, before
Judge Lewis The case against Chas.
H. Mckinney, who confessed to COM
plicity in the attempted train wreck
ing, has not been dismissed, and will
come up March IS. He testified that
he was with Special Agent Beckman
and attempted to derail Florence 6
Cripple Creek passenger train which
was loaded with union and nonunion
men
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NEW FIRE ENGINE.
The City Council Decides to
Buy One.

These figures represent what the city
council did last night to give Topeka
better fire protection.
It was not without much agony and
nisgiying that the above result was
| brought forth; not because anybody
disapproved of the idea of getting steam
fire engines, but because nobody could
suggest any way to pay for them, with
out going into debt.
So the city decided to go into debt.
Two committees of the city council
wrestled with the problem, and each
came to the same conclusion, that To-
peka would have to get steam fire en-
gineS, cost what it might. The old en-
CINE, when rebuilt, will be practically
the same as a new one, it is said. The
action of the council is taken with the
emphatic approval of Fire Marshal G.
o. Wilmarth, and it fulfills the terms
of the resolution passed at the recent
meeting of the Commercial club, which
declared in favor of steam fire engines.
It also complies with the suggestions
of Jesse Shaw, superintendent OF the
Topeka Water company. In the face
of such a strong demand. there was
nothing much for the city to do but
get the engines, and trust to luck, or
something of that sort, to pay for them.
Pending the arrival of the two en-
gines, the American Steam Fire En-
CINE company, which will supply the
city with the equipment, will send the
city for immediate use No B fire en-
CINE which it has in stock. The NO 3
engine is smaller than the one which
the city has bought, but it will be bet
ter than nothing. The city will have to
pay the freight on this borrowed en-
gine.
The following is the report of the fire
department committee, which met
Monday afternoon with Chief VIII
marth:
I'VE respectfully recommend the pur-
chase of one new second size Metro
politan steam fire engine, with Fox
boiler, at a cost of $4,700 cash, and re-
building the old engine which the city
now owns at a cost of 1,400 cash; and
that four men be added to the fire de-
partment to enable the handling of the
new engines; that two automatic heat
ers be purchased at a cost of $500 for
the two to be attached to the two en-
for duty; that the necessary changes
and equipment be provided for the two
engines.
THE cost of maintaining the new
engines with the four additional men
and horses will be, approximately,
about $1,000 per year
&C V. WOLF.
LUTHER M NELLIS.
GEO. w. TINCHER"
With this report of the fire depart
ment committee as basis for action,
the council referred the matter to the
ways and means committee to see If
that august assembly could discover
any stray punches of bank notes which
might be used in paying the cost of the
improvement. The council took a re-
cess while the ways and means commit
tee conducted its search. When the
ways and means committee had gone
off and commiserated with each other
about the unfortunate condition of the
exchequer, it reported that it thought
the city better buy the engines. The
council then voted unanimously to do
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so. The whole proceeding was some
thing like a funeral in which the city
buried its last hope of keeping out of
debt.
One feature of the new deal is that
even after the city gets its new engines
It is going to cost So, 400 a year to keep
them in service.
IT is expected that the new engines
viii work satisfactorily with the present
hydrant system in use. The engines will
be coupled to the hydrants with a sia-
mese coupling, and take two 2-fnch
streams at once.
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Trunk line to the Pacific.
Madrid. March SKIING Alfonso has
signed DEGREES ratifying the arbitration
conventions between Spain and Great
Britain and Spain and France.
Lawton, Okla, March s-A-Tep-Pa-
Ia, aged AZ years, the fifth wife of
Geronimo, is dead at the Apache hos
the tribe is held by the government as
prisoners of war. Geronimo is 90 years
of age.
San Francisco, March S.-The supervi-
sors today appropriated $4,000 to defray
the expenses of the trial of Cordelia
Botkin, accused of numbering Mrs. Dun
ming by poison The chief item of ex-
pense is the transportation of witnesses
from Dover. Del.
Joliet, ILL.,, March 8-At the Demo-
cratic county convention contesting
delegations to the state convention were
named. All favor w. r. Hearst for
president and Mayor Harrison of Chi
cago for Illinois member of national
committee.
New York, March S.-AH pneumonia
and general death records for a decade
are shown to be broken by the health
which recorded 1900 deaths, $50 of
which were attributed to pneumonia
Kansas City. Mo, March S.-Morris
Rothschild,- retired clothing merchant,
one of the early pioneers of Leaven-
worth, Kan, is dead here of pneumonia
after a brief illness.
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Hills We're Killed.

Vanden. Miss, March SIN a fight
between Marion Stewart on one side
and w. w. Hill and two sons on the
other. the Stewards have shot and kill
ed w. w. Hill and his son John Hill,
and seriously wounded Hunter Hill. The
difficulty arose in a dispute over a
boundary line. The parties were neigh
bors living IL miles west of here.
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inflammation of the BIad-
der and Kidneys Cured.
Mr.. Michel Blandypos, Secretary
MarIowe Club, New Orleans, cured
by Warmers Safe Cure after suf-
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NO PROSECUTION.
Springfield, o., Lynchers VIII
Not Be MOIested.

Springfield. O.. March 8.-Great
crowds today visited the scene of last
nights lynching of Richard Dickerson.
There is apparently no disposition to
make an effort to discover the mob
leaders. While the Iynching is deplored,
the community is almost a unit in be-
lieving it has taught the lawless ele-
ment of the city a wholesome lesson.
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Duryea to Race Whitney Horses.

New York, March Sherman Duryea
will race the horses owned by the es-
tate of the late William c. Whitney.
A lease to that effect has been filed
at the office of the Jockey club, Harry
Payne Whitney as executor, signing
the lease. Mr.. Duryea is a partner of
Harry Payne Whitney in the owner
ship of Irish Lad and Whorler. He is
known as one of the most prominent
yachtSmen of America.
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OUR THEORY

own a dollars worth of stock in the
Philadelphia papers controlled by his
soE.
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

London, March S.-The Grand Trunk
shareholders at a meeting today ratified
the agreement with the Canadian gov
eminent for the construction of Grand
Trunk line to the Pacific.