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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-22

tawatomie reserve, is under arrest by
the United States officers mere. He Will
have a hearing Saturday.
Sheriff Lucas has two or three dozen
typewriters stored in the vault of his
office in the court house, the result of
a replivin of the stock of a typewriter
agent by the Fox typewriter company.
The Barnum & Bailey circus mas been
in England and seemingly the result is
that the performance is very English in
acts, costumes. dogs. bob tailed horses,
traps, dog carts, the Durbar and so
forth.
This week has been the first time
that County Attorney Hungate has had
a chance to prosecute criminal cases
in the district court since he became
county prosecutor. Last term all pris-
oners plead guilty. This week half a
dozen entered pleas of guilty before
Judge Hazen but a few will stand
trial.
A letter addressed to Cider Smith,
City was not delivered by the Topeka
postOffice but was returned to the wri-
ter. That is not strange when it is re-
membered that a letter addressed to
Mrs. w. J. Bailey was returned by the
Topeka postoffice with the notation
that no such person could be found in
Topeka.
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ottawa-Nor1nal Game.

Emporia, Kas., Sept. 22.-The first
game the Normal will play this sea-
son will be on Saturday, when Ottawa
university and the Normal will pound
the gridiron on the Emporia field. In
preparation for this game the Normal
team is now doing secret signal prac-
tice work, and will probably have some
entirely new stunts for the Ottawa
bows. Coach Sampson, the new coach,
came from Massachusetts and will
spring a few new plays in the Kansas
game.
Captain Meek has played center
three years on the Normal eleven. A
number of last years first team are
back on duty, but will have to show
up mighty strong to beat some of the
new candidates to the first team line
up. The last-year men practicing are:
Smith, Gist, George Hensley, Craig,
Hargis, Bert Hensley, Light, and Harry
Priest.
Among the most promising of the
new men are Jenning, A. L. Decker,
Piper, H. Decker, Waldorf, Miller.
Thompson, Ha11ecy, r. King, Houska,
Davis, Staley, Troemper. Spencer,
Fridley, Covert, Brown Midley Hug
gins. Rishel Morrison, Rindom, w.
King, and Paisano. Pueblo Indian
from Haskell
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ATTACKS DARWIN.
Prof. De Vries Springs New Thing
in Science Congress.

ST. Louis, Sept. 22.-Great interest
has been aroused in the international
congress of Arts and Science by the
theory advanced by Prof. Hugo DE
Vries, professor of botany in the uni
versity~ of Amsterdam Holland, Who'
combating in the open Darwin's theory
of the origin of species, advanced
theory of his own in diametrical oppo-
sition to all ideas of former and pres
ent biologists and phylegenists. ProI-
De Vries asserts that no two of the
same species of animal, from the low
est stages to man, are alike in any I'M
portant particular. Through hered1ty
he claimed the feature or element OF
an individual is not transmitted to
the offspring of that 1ndivldual, Wnlcn
in the theory of Darwin, represents
the main principle, and who claims
that by heredity passing from gen
Grafton to generation, the pecul1ar1tles
of the primogenitor finally result IN
a new species. Professor De Vries de-
MES this and offered proof before the
scientists that an entirely new spe-
cies may be developed within one or
two generations. The deeply sc1en-
tific points advanced by Prof. De Vries
have aroused the defenders of Oar
winisrn and biologists to immediate IN
terest, and precipitated general dis
cussion among the scientists in at
tendance upon the congress.
Sectional meetings continued To-Day.
Exceptional interest is manifested IN
all the numerous meetings, and men
the world continued to arrive today
showing the great appreciation in the
scientific world of the Importance of
the present assem- bly,.
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LUCK FOOTBALL STORIES.
Washburn Not Showing Up Well
Trouble at IA. q.

Indications are that Washburn will
put a weak team into the field Satur-
day against the Kansas City NEEDLES,
and the local rooters are not feeling
very confident over the outcome of the
game. Caldwell, half back on last
years team, has not yet come in off
the road, Griggs is unable to play be-
cause of injuries received during the
last part of the baseball season, and
some of the line positions will be play
ed by inexperienced men. Quarterback
Stewart the best field general the COL
lege ever had, is out of the game with
a sprained ankle, and his place will be
taken by new man, White, of Linds-
borg.
Coach OutIand is putting the first
team through a severe drill in forma-
lions, and is trying to improve their
defensive qualities. 1t is altogether
probable that the first game will show
some very ragged team work
There is some talk now to the effect
that Cunningham, the big tackle of
last year, will be used at fullback this
year. Cunningham weighs 1875, and is
a veteran player. A heavy man back
of the line is needed both for forming
interference and line-bucking. Last
year, especially during the latter part
of the season, Cunningham showed
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the approaches for the proposed Bran
ner street viaduct are to be as long as
those for the Sixth avenue viaduct, it is
fair to suppose that the city's bill for
damages will be approximately as large
as it was in the former case.
Nothing mas been said about the pay
ment of this bill for damages, and if
things are allowed to drift along with
out some distinct agreement, of course
the city will have to pay. This would
make the citys share of the viaduct
be about $40 900, instead of $4,000. 1t
does not look right that the city should
have to shoulder this burden wnen the
viaduct is being built primarily for the
benefit of the street railway and the
Santa Fe.
The street railway company is really
the corporation which needs the viaduct
in it's business. Without it, it is shut
off from a desirable route to Oakland.
The Santa Fe railway figures that it
can afford to invest $4,000 in order to
avoid the danger of paying damages to
people who are injured on the danger
Gus Branner street grade crossing. The
Santa EFF is liable for injuries on this
crossing, not the city
Hence from a. purely business stand
point, the proposed viaduct will not be
of much advantage to the city. Indi-
rectly it would benefit Topeka by ben
efiting Oakland, and would also be of
sible injury those citizens who are
obliged to use the Branner street cross
ing. 1t would also tend to help the east
part of town by putting car line down
Branner street.
If the people vote to build a viaduct
at Branner street, a situation almost
identical with that which arose at the
time the Sixth avenue viaduct was con-
structed will confront the city. The
following record of what happened at
that time is taken from the city
archives.
on March 26, 1888, on recommendation
of City Engineer Kingman, an ordinance
was passed establishing a new grade
on Sixth avenue east. The new grade
as established was SO feet wide in the
middle of Sixth avenue, beginning at
Jefferson street and extending to a
point 1880 feet east of the starting
point, and conforming throughout with
! the elevation of the proposed viaduct
as shown by the plans and specifica-
lions.
On the same date, three appraisers, A.
w. Knowles, Geo. w. Watson and H.
X. Rowley were appointed as apprais-
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CHINA APOLOGIES.
Makes PREPARATION for Insult to
French Officer.

Paris, Sept. 22.-1:2O p. m--The
foreign office has received a report
from the French minister at Pekin
saying that China has given the most
complete apology and reparation for
the attack of Chinese soldiers at Pelxin
upon Captain Laribe, of the French
legation guard, on Monday last. The
captain was insulted and struck with
a stick, but he was not seriously in
jured. The French minister ener-
getically protested to the general com
handing the Chinese. who wrote the
minister an abject apology, while the
Chinese captain commanding the as
sauIting soldiers made a personal
apology to Captain Laribe. The Chi
nese general condemned the five ring
leaders to punishments only one de-
gree short of death. Owing to the ac-
ton of the general the officials here
do not consider that this incident and
the assault on the Italian soldiers Sep
TENDER 15 indicate another ant1-for-
eign movement Therefore the repara-
lions have been accepted and the in
cident is closed.
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splendid form on defense and did good
line hitting as we'll
Hard luck stories of the deepest ul-
tramarine hue continue to come from
Lawrence. It's dollars to doughnutS,
however, that all the troubles will be
dissipated before many days. A Law
renee dispatch says:
1.-The hard luck of the Kansas foot
ball team continues and the situation
is growing worse daily. The training
table strike may prove a very serious
blow to football. The men who were
on the table yesterday and refused to
return for breakfast are still eating
boarding house diet, and there seems
no prospect of amicable relations be-
tween them and the managers and
steward OF the training table. He said
that if the men did not return for to-
morrow's break fast he would consider
all relations at an end. This would
go hard on the athletic manager, be
cause it is very difficult to maintain
satisfactory training quarters.
ION account of the trouble that has
arisen over the training table Captain
Hicks and Pooler were not on the field
today Mccoy was also absent, being
on the hospital list. Freshman was
also away with no reason assigned Tor
his absence. Captain Hicks and Pooler
talk as if they might leave the Kansas
team should there be a little addition
al provocation. The practice this after
noon was full of hard luck. Two of
the men were hurt and were carried
off the field"
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HIS FIRST TRUTH.
sOpen Confession of an Editor Gre
ates Amusement.

New York, Sept. 22.-Much amuse-
ment has been caused by the publica-
ton of an "open confession" by the
editor of a monthly paper posing as
a financial authority. The periodical
has been freely circulated outside of
New York since June and last Satur
day was debarred from the mails.
Postal inspectors were unable to find
the place of publication or to learn
who was responsible for the paper.
The business address was found to be
a livery stable in Washington and the
paper is supposed to have been printed
here.
In the confession the editor says
that havino held his position three
months, and owing to retirement his
conscience impelled him to state:
81 have been in charge of this pub
LEGATION in the interests of one of the
most desperate gangs of swindlers and
thieves that ever has infested any
country. Outside of this statement, no
word of truth has ever appeared in
these columns. Upright and honest
business men as well as straightfor-
ward and prosperous corporations
have been maliciously attacked with
the sole idea that money might be in
fuenced from them to the Golfers of
the gang that has given me employ
ment.
"Some of those who have been at
tackled have been ruined thereby, and
many thousands of dollars have been
lost by small investors as a result.
The editor further declared the
firms he recommended were fraud
ulent. and that country people were
thereby defrauded of thousands of
dollars.
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THEY MET THEIR MATCH.
Kansas Photographers Defeat the
Manufacturers in Baseball.

BY a score of 9 to the Kansas
photographers defeated the manufac-
turers' representatives in a spirited
baseball game at the League park
Wednesday afternoon. This is the first
time the manufacturers have been
beaten this season. The manufactur-
ers make" all the state conventions,
and a baseball game is one of the reg
ular features.
About 500 people were present to
watch the game and the other athletic
events. The winners in the other
events were as follows:
Gentlemen's 100 yard dash-First
prize, D. D. Easter; second. c. j.
Rolfe.
Ladies' SO yard dash-First prize,
Miss Edith Grondal, Lindsborg; sec
ond, Miss Helen Francis, Topeka;
third, Miss Kalin, Clay Center.
Gentlemen's potato race-Ffrst
prize, r. E. Cochran; second, G. E.
Hutchinson.
Ladies egg race-First prize, Miss
Edith Grondal; second, Miss B. KaIin,
Clay Center; third, Miss Emma Har-
per.
prize, r. w. Romig; second, A. A
Coons.
Ladies walking match-Miss Emma
Harper, first prize; Helen Francis,
second.
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FARMERS TAKE STOCK.
CoffeyviIIe VIII Prevent Gas Being
Piped Out.

CoffeyvilIe, Kan, Sept. Cit is said
that large gas company had been
formed to prevent the gas from be-
ing piped out of the country and also
to sell gas to any corporations or fac
tories that might happen to come to
Coffeyville.
The scheme is to form a large cor
poration or trust that will take all the
farmers in as stockholders and it is
not to cost the farmer a cent to be
members of the company, but 1T will cost
him the right and lease on his land for
the gas. The company has been work
ine- On the farmers in the surrounding
country for a number of months, and
now they are satisfied that they have
enough to commence to do business in
this citV
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SNAPSHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

oh. would you live in Get-there town,
You'd better start today;
The pike is hard to travel on,
And footsore is the way.
a railroad runs TO Get-there Town.
It's called the G. r. Q.
But few who take the lightning train
Have ever gotten through
The beds are soft in Get-there Town
As pillows on the main.
But nearly all inhabitants
OF sleeplessneSs complain.
The tables groan in Get-there Town,
And every dish delights
But somehow those who gather round
Have lost their appetites.
The folks who move from Get-there Town
Despite its drawbacks plain,
Are born of settled residents
The others all remain
--McLandburg Wilson in the Sunday Mag
azine-
The board of county commissioners
will meet tomorrow
Major T. ]. Anderson is confined to
his home by sickness.
DR.. w. n. West, who has been sick
with tonsilities is recovering.
The balloon peddlers with the Bar
mum show are really detectives.
Guildford Dudley and C. w. Merriam
of Topeka went to Kansas City We'd.
nesday-
County Poor Commissioner Hale is
getting ready for his usual strenuous
winters work.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Bishop of 1854 Col
lege avenue. are the parents of son,
born Wednesday
The Y NJ. c. A. fall work will be
formally opened with mems social at
the rooms tonight
The pneumatic heat regulating de-
vice in the high school was completed
yesterday and is in working order.
The popular verdict was that the
Barnum & Bailey parade did not equal
the parade of the Ringing Brothers
circus
County Surveyor Rodgers has been
running the levels for the new ma
cadam road extension on west Sixth
street
Maurice ORourke. formerly with the
Throop hotel here. has taken a posi-
ton as head clerk Of the Huckins hotel
At Sedalia, Mo.
Eugene Hagan is setting a new style
by building a retaining wall about the
high parking of his place at Eleventh
and Van Buren,
Nothing now but such minor things
as football games to bother the pupils
who really want to study. Circuses,
dog shows and the fair are over.
The verdict of the court house peo-
pie who attended the b. & B. circus is
that il does not give as enjoyable a
performance as the Ringing circus.
The new quarters Of the superintend-
ent of public schools. his clerks and the
board of education in the basement of
the high school building are finished in
oak
The Barnum & Bailey performance
last night went off with a rush. The
performers and employees seemed in a
hurry to pack up for the night and go
to bed.
The barbecue and emancipation cele-
bration to have been held at the fair
grounds today will be given tonight in
the hall at Seventeenth street and To-
peka- avenue
John A. Bright is attending the G. a.
r. reunion at Gaylord, Kan, where he
was invited to participate in the four
days programme. He will return to
Topeka Saturday.
The Topeka members of the United
Commercial Travellers are preparing
TO burn red fire next Tuesday night
when the Drummer Orator speaks at
the old court house.
Cleveland Iickyter, charged with
selling LIQUOR TO the Indians on the Pot
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Most of these aggrieved property
owners perfected their appeals and
took the cases into the district court.
The only case which was pressed, how
ever, was that of T. w. Durham, who
secured a judgment for $775. an in
crease of 1875 over what the appraisers
allowed him.
The council passed ordinance No. 942
on February IL, 1889, and appropriated
money to pay the amounts allowed by
the appraisers.
It was not for a long time that Dur
ham got the balance due him, and
then only by agreeing to pay all the
costs in the case. Ordinance No. 134I
appropriated 1918 additional to settle
his claim in full, with the agreement
that he should pay the costs. BY the
time he paid his attorney fees and the
court costs he probably was not much
ahead of the appraisers allowance
The attorney for one of the claim
ants against the city, who appealed
from the decision of the appraisers,
was Charles F. Spencer, now city at
torney Mr.. Spencer wrote a tear
stained letter to the council, setting
forth the woes of his client, and this
letter is still on file at the city clerks
office.
These are facts which the city Off
Gals ought to consider in making t6elr
plans for another viaduct.
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California offers Opportunities.

California. the land of the orange,
offers boundIess opportunities to in
vestors, farmers, fruit growers, stock
men, dairymen, manufacturers. Here
is the charm of the tropics without
their perils. Everything grows, win
ters are green, summers are long, no
destructive frosts, no prostrating heat,
no storms no sunstrokes. no malaria.
wide markets, large profits Colonist
rates via Southern Pacific, September
Is to October Is, $25 from Topeka
Write for California Booklets to H. G..
Kaill. A G. F. & P. A, Fidelity Trust
Co. bldg, Kansas City, Mo.
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SLEEPERS LEFT TRACK.
Passenger Train on Santa Fe Wrecked
at Nepesta, Col.

Pueblo, Col, Sept. 22.-Santa Fe pas
senger train No. 5 eastbound was
wrecked at o'clock this morning at
Nepesta, a station east Of Pueblo. Three
sIeepers left the track but according to
REPORTS of the company only a few
persons were slightly injured. A bro
ken rail is sail to have caused the
wreck.
officials of the Santa Fe at Topeka
announce that only a few passengers
were hurt, some sustaining scratches
and slight cuts from broken glass;
The accident happened in the yards
at the station of Nepesta, and the
train was delayed but As minutes.
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GAME TO SUDDEN END.
in Lynching Trial Granted
PeremptOry Dismissal.

Indianola, Miss, Sept. 22.-The trial OF
G. q Eastland for the murder of Luther
Hoibert and his wife by causing them e
be burned at the stake has been suddenly
ended. .
After the evidence was all in, Senator
McLaurin made motion for peremptory
of the prisoners on the grounds that no
evidence tending to prove that Eastland
had been in any way party 10 the
lynching had been introduced.
District Attorney Neil asked the court
to grant Senator McLaurin's motion, The
Judge thereupon discharged Eastland.
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PASTOR DRAWS COLOR LINE.
Refuses Iowa Call Because Negroes
Attend School With Whites.

Des Moines. Ia, Sept. 22.-Because coll
ored children attend the public schools in
Red Oak, Rev. A. r. Hunt, who was re-
Dit there from Savannah, Mo-, has re-
fused to come. He was chosen at a sal
ary of 81 200 a year and accepted the
charge Then he heard about the ming
ling of white and black children and
made careful Investigation ano' learn
ing the truth, writes:
'7Dear Brothers: We can. not allow
our children to go to school where ne
srroes attend Hence when learned such
Is the case at Red Oak can not go
there"
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A FraternaI Sanitarfum.

st.Louis, Sept. 22.-The Associated
Fraternities of America held BUSH
ness meeting at the Temple of Frater-
nity A resolution for the erection of a
sanitarium in southwest New Mexico
for consumptives, to be known as the
national fraternal sanitarium, was
adopted unanimously. John H. Shively,
of Olympia, washington. addressed the
convention. --.-.-.----------
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WHO WILL PAY IT?
Question of Damages to Branner
Street Property.
No Provision Made in the Via
duct Ordinance.
FALL ON THE CITY.
In Case Of Sixth Avenue Cost
Was 1850.
What Happened in Construc-
tiOn Of the Old One.

Who will pay the damages done to
adjacent property in case the plan for
a viaduct across the Santa Fe tracks
at Branner street is carried out?
When the city built the Sixth ave-
nue. viaduct approaches, it had to pay
to property owners the sum of $4,6S0
to settle their claims for damages. AS
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This report did not suit some of the
people down there, among whom was
c. K. Holiday. father of the Charley
Holiday now in the city council. Holli-
day was one of the largest property
owners and while it appears that he
never made a claim for any specific
amount of additional damages. he filed
a formal appeal from the report OF the
appraisers. The following claims were
filed by dissatisfied property owners:
CHA IAIFlO
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A woman's never too old to be hand
some. never too old to be young again, if
she takes HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
Brings bright eyes, rosy cheeks, good
health. 50 cents. Tea or Tablets. Gatlin
Drug Ca
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EXTRAORDINARY.

St. Louis and Return $3.50 Santa Fe.
On sale daily, except Friday and Sat
1,rday. from Sept. 18th to Nov. 30th, on
any train Good days.
t. L. KING, c. P. & T. A.
Topeka
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ers to assess the damages arising from
the change of grade.
On June 8, a special meeting OF the
council was called, and the report OF the
appraisers was read. They allowed
damages as follows: