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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-27
Horse Notes.

Ed Abrahams will winter six good
ones at Tifin, Ohio.
Fereno, zoos u, and Ozanam, 2:07,
are in foal to MokO.
Brownie Wilton, 2:10, by Wilton
2:19H, will be sent to Europe.
William MacFarIand has over %
mares booked to Owyho, 2:O7 a.
George Spear viii race Equity
2:12A, by Heir-at-Law, next year.
Alice j., 2:09 q and Minnie Irene
have both dropped foal to Hal billiard,
2:O4sz
J. K. Newman, New York, has pur-
chased the fast young stallion Director
General.
Blake, 2.13A, by Nutwood, added
four new standard performers to his
list the past season.
North Star. a 3-year-Old gelding by
Nutwood Wilkes, won over $4,000 in
California this year.
Nance by Alcryon, 2 10, owned by
John Ray, the actor, will be on the
Grand circuit next season.
Samuel Hyde, Fail River, Mass, has
refused an offer of $4,000 for the fast
3-vear-old colt Silence, by Chimes.
Manager. 2:O6A, gained three new
$3.50 performers this year, among them
being the yearling champion, Manager
It has been decided to fire the ailing
leg of DR.. Strong, 2:05 r. at his winter
quarters, Locust Grove farm, New
Castle, Pa.
The Shetland pony mare Belle. at the
WOODBURY. farm, kentucky, foaled a
colt some time ago. although she is 80
elem Beachy, jr., has developed and
marked the following: Nancy H.,
2.O79l trial 1905; Her Grace, 2:04 q 4,
and Bellini 1904 e.
The pacing gelding Fred Stoekman,
2:18H, has been sold by Roy Moore
of Chenille, O.. to A. McChattie of
T.ivernOOI Eng
Tom Grady will give a prize for a
suitable name for the pacing FLY by
Audubon Boy, out of the mare Maxine,
2:O73z, by William c. P.
A lot of Shetland PONIES, numbering
POI head. arrived in this country re-
Gently, and was the largest importation
ever made of those animals.
Messrs. Bither and Palmer have
been offered 1000 for the young FLY
Kincaid that they bought at the recent
Fasig-Tipton sale for 500.
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PAYS HIGH PRICE.
King Edward Secured the Colt
"SynOsure7 for $4,000.
G. II. Freeman Had Honor Of
Buying an Animal for S25, 600.
TWO BEST IN ENGLAND.
There Seems nWisdOm in Pay
ing Four Figures.
But the Ambition to Own the
Winner the Main Point.
TWO BEST IN ENGLAND.

New York, December 27.-Despite the
fact that the high-priced English thor
oughbred yearlings of aacT year almost
universally failed to win anything like
their original cost, to say nothing Of the
extra expense incurred by entering shem
in valuable stakes, and other incidentals
Of a training season. the most prominent
English turfmen continue to vie with
each other for possession of the most
fashionably bred younsters Of the sea-
son.
The king has the distinction of having
purchased the second highest priced
yearIing sold in 1905. He gave more than
$4,000 for the chestnut colt SynOsure,
by Cylene (sire Of Cicero, out of Meme
moosha. This colt was bred by Lord
Londonderry. Mr.. G. H. Freeman paid
more than $4,000 for the yearling bay
colt by Flying Fox, out of Flower of
Wit, bred by Sir TattOn Sykes, WRO con
tinues to obtain very high prices for all
his yearlings each season, as for in
stance, when he sold eight at Doncaster
in September for $50. 166. an average of
$500. The Flying Fox yearling was one
Of the very few that was open to pub
lie competition, as the stallion is kept in
France and very few outside mares visit
him.
a list of % yearlings, the produce Of
the best stations in Great Britain, has
been published, with the prices realized
by their sales. These 26 brought a to-
tai $21S,600, or an average of 81, 400, and
yet there are critics in England bold
enough to say that the chances are all
against any of these ''four-hgure" year
lings winning back a reasonably large
part of their purchase money. This pre-
diction is based upon the experience of
the last p years, it being shown that
in that period 564 yearlings, which We're
sold for a total of ,119. $50, had won in
stakes and purses no more than 81 ,9O1. =
325, or only 81 per cent. Very few of
these distinguished themselves in the
stud, either.
The purpOrt of the argument seems to
be the unwisdom of paying four figures
for yearlings, and yet, as seen only a few
days ago here in New York, men will
continue to bid fortunes for what they
want-nOt with the idea of making
money out of horses, but with the hope
OF becoming the owners of classic win
ners, it being matter of little conse-
quence from a financial standpoint as to
the amount paid if the races are won by
such horses.
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INVESTIGATE PATCH's MARK.
The Former Owner of Star Pointer
Would Guard Records.

New York. Dec. 27.-Dan Patch's
reported record of 1853, made at Mem
phis nearly a month after the legiti-
mate harness racing season ended, is
not to pass unchallenged after all.
Closely following the announcement
that the board of review of the Nation
al Trotting association has been taking
steps to safeguard the accuracy of
records made in the future comes the
news that complaints have been made
to w. H. Knight, secretary of the
American Trotting Register associa-
ton, protesting against the acceptance
of the performance as record with
out an investigation of a rumor that
a runner went ahead Of the PAGER in
such a way as to form u wind shield
for a part of the mile.
James A Murphy, the man who
owned Star Pointer (1:594) when
that horse first set the harness record
below the two minute mark, is under
stood to be the complainant in the
case. Mr.. Murphy long ago sold the
old time champion and all of his de-
soendants, and his only interest in the
matter now is a sentimental one and
desire to see that his favorite PAGER is
not dethroned without square deal
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healthy and growing stronger every
day
when I look over my outhelders-
Flick. Jackson. Bay and COngalton .
says Manager Lajoie, of the Cleveland
Maps, Il feel that the daisy patches
viii be looked after"
There will be another Young in the
National league next season. He is a
pitcher like Cy, and Young Cy, and
Will be with the st. Louis Browns He
mas already been dubbed kid Cy
Young
Jimmy Callahan will not be with
the White Sox next season. He is or
gan1zing a Chicago City league, to
clubs in the city. The league will in
clude eight teams and play Saturday
and Sunday games.
Jack O'COnnOr now says he will be
back in the game next season. He
VIII make an early trip to the West
Baden Springs. to take off about thirty
pounds he took on in the saloon bust
ness.
Tim Hurst has nothing but pity for
the man who may be selected to man
age the St. Louis Cardinals. Tim
once had the job and says if he could
nave secured Lajoie for 800 the cash
would not have been forthcoming.
President w. H. ShettSline and Sec
rotary LIE Roy Reeves were reelected
last week by the Philadelphia National
league club Shettsline is after an
other star pitcher and will claim the
pennant if he secures him.
From Princeton comes the report
that Doc Hllebrand will not be en-
gagged to coach the Tigers either in
baseball or football next season. This
will make it easier for Jake Stahl to
sign Hillebrand for the Washington
team.
Jimmy Casey will be welcomed in
Brooklyn, where he was always
favOrite- The doctors quick under
will be greeted with glee by the fans.
President Garry Hermann has
called a meeting of all the Cincin-
MATHS players to be held in that city on
January z. The caucus will be pre-
sided over by Manager Ned Hanlon.
The object of the meeting is to have
HanlOn get in touch with Ais players
at once.
President Charley Murphy has not
been handed many bouquets in Chi
cagO for making the trade by which
Sheckard becomes a member of the
Cubs. Billy Maloney alone for Sheck-
ard. the fans figure. would have been
about an even trade, with Brooklyn
getting a shade the better OF it.
Jack Hendricks, manager of the
Springfield, O., Central league team,
who once upon time was a Giant,
will give Amos Rusie a thorough try
out next season. Hendricks thinks
Rusie will be a big drawing card. If
his arm proves no good Hendricks
figures on playing the big fellow on
first base because he can hit the ball.
Here's more power to the greatest
pitcher the game ever produced.
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OBRIEN TO THE STAGE.
Has No Desire to Make Matches for
Two Months Yet.


San Francisco. Dec. PIT intend
TO put i'm ten weeks on the stage" said
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, as he was
awaiting a message from eastern
theatrical people, telling him to start
to fill my theatrical engagements, and
will then do some fighting. I have APP
pointed representative here and he
will make my engagements. This is
the only place for the fighting game.
] am ready to meet UP with any of
the aspirants, barring always the
blacks. I will not fight a negro"
O'Brien, who in private and bust
ness life is Joseph Hagan. the best
dressed and best hammered man in the
prize ring, admitted he was in the
fighting game for the money it offered.
'Of course, / am out for the coin"
he continued. so are the match
makers. and it. is pretty certain they
who viii draw the crowd. But they
will all have to wait until L am ready,
and that will not be before March
O'Brien is about the shiftiest prOpO-
sition in the ring today. The coast
fans have taken to him with one ac-
cord, and he viii be a prime favOrite
here at any time, although a lot of the
wise ones dropped fat punches of coin
backing Fitzsimmons against him in
the last battle. 1t is known that
O'Brien is unusually anxious for a
match with Ryan, as he wants the
middleweight hampionship title clear
engagements ne viii keep in light
training. so that there viii be little to
do but condition himself when he
makes another match
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sHEvLIN LOSES FIANCEE.
Yale Captain Breaks Engagement With
Kentucky Girl.

Louisville, Ky, Dec. 27.-After an en-
enga cement Of only forty days there is
now nothing but memory between Big
Tom Shevlin. the famous Yale left end
and pretty Elizabeth Sherley, the Ken
lucky beauty. And it all came about
because pretty Elizabeth Sherley was
fond of the homage offered her by other
men and accepted it.
The story OF the broken engagement
leaked out here today. Miss Sherley, it
appears, has been visiting in Baltimore,
and as the announcement of her en-
gagement to Tom Shevlin had gone be-
fore her. the 400" of the Maryland city,
particularly the men, set about to give
her a great time
They must have succeeded. for Shev-
lin, so the story goes. heard of the adu-
lation that was being showered upon
her and strenuOusly protested. There
was some correspondence between the
two and piff, the engagement was off.
Miss Sherley, in letter to one of her
friends in this city, announces the fact
Of the broken engagement and says sub
stantialIy that Mr.. Shevlin objected to
my receiving the attention of so many
men, and, well, we just agreed to quit
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through Sleeper to St. Paul.

through sleeping car line between
Kansas City and Des Moines. Mime
apolis and St Paul via the Wabash
and Minneapolis and st. Louis Rail-
ways has been inaugurated. taking eff
feet Sunday, December 10th.
Train leaves Union Depot Kansas
City via Wabash 500 o. m, arriving
at Des Moihes 500 a. m. Minnea polis
$50 p m. and st. Paul 1880 D. M.
next day Buffet service all the way.
All railroads sell tickets via this non
uIar line. If you are going in that
direction ask your agent for tickefs
over the Wabash and MINNEAPOLIS &.
st. Louis Railroads-and get the best
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ADMIRAL CHESTER RETURNS.
He Has Many Photographs of the Re
cent Solar Eclipse.

washington. Dec. 27.-Rear Admiral
c. NJ. Chester, the superintendent of the
naval observatory, who went to the
Mediterranean last sumer as the repre-
sentative of the observatory to witness
the August eclipse of the sun returned to
Washington last night. He said that
while many good photographs of the
eclipse had been obtained the observa-
ton of the eclipse viii not be known.
until his photographs are thoroughly
studied It will be two or three months
before much can be known about what
discoveries have been made, said the
admiral, and it will be several years be-
fore the final results can be published.
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O'Brien Challenges JeRries.

San Francisco. Dec. 27=Philadel-
phia Jack O'Brien, the pugilist who
recently defeated Fitzsimmons, just
before starting for the east authorized
the issuance of a challenge to James
J. Jeffries the retired heavyweight
champion. Any terms that Jefries
might demand he said. would be ac-
copied. O'Brien admitted that most
people would think his chances were
slim. but so, they added. they thought
of the outlook for Corbett when the
latter met John L. Sullivan.
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AIav Put IEermis on de 10.

New YORK, Dec. 27.-There is
good chance that the great horse Her
mis- viii be seen on the tracks again
next season. Hermis and Stalwart are
wintering at Albert Shields Bound
Brook farm. 1t is said that both will
start training. If so, Messrs- Thomas
and Shields are to be congratulated,
for the forthcoming season does not
promise much in the matter of 4-year-
oIds and upwards. When Sysonby and
Artful are mentioned no other 4-year-
old seems able to do battle with them
et equal weights.
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Handsome Gun for Dan Patch.

Lexington Ky, December 27.-Dan
Patch is to have a handsome silver cup
for breaking the worlds record over the
Lexington track last fall. The cup is
one of the finest ever given by this as
ISOLATION in honor of performance. Sit
ting on an ebony base, it stand about
% inches tall, and on one side is en-
graved the following kentucky Trot-
ting House Breeders Association to Dan
Patch, worlds champion PAGER, 1854,
Lexington, KY. October Z, 1905"
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at Hong Kong in twenty-five hours.
There 1 will leave the Siberia for
good, and probably for worse.
incidentally it occurs to me that to-
morrow night at seven o'clock I will
have been away from home a month.
Japan has no Sunday, but two holt
tdavs per month: one on the list and
18th. The japanese do not tolerate
Christian missionaries, or submit to
being known as heathens. They re-
spect their own religions. and while
there is perfect religious freedom here,
you do not hear of missionaries in
Japan as you do in China and else
where When missionaries start
schools in Japan, where the English
language is taught, they are well pa
trOnfzed.
When left Toxic, Friday evening,
the railroad station was crowded in a
manner to suggest the union station
in St Louis during the rush hours.
An American visiting Japan soon IN IN
derstands why the Japs whipped the
Russians: they are very numerous,
very progressive, very capable, very
industrious, very simple in their nab
its, and very much in earnest IN every
thing I wonder. however, that more
than half the Japs wear WOODEN
shoes. The train platforms at To-
kio are of concrete, and the great
crowds of people gathering aiohg
these platforms. to take trains, is an
amusing sight: and it sounds funny,
besides hes Many of the people do not
wear stockings.
Before coming to Japan, learn to
eat your eggs out of the shell: the
Japs do not seem to know anything
about breaking soft boiled eggs into
a glass: they place the eggs in a hold
err break one end of the shell, ana
eat the egg very gracefully I am IN
formed that Miss Susie Donald IS the
only citizen of Atchison who eats soft
boiled eggs that way.
Kvoto was built in the old feudal
DAYS. and is entirely surrounded by
mountains. except a narrow gap al
The entrance. The men of the OLD
times were always at war: modern
men have learned peace and decency.
This is civilization. The japanese are
Deaceable and polite. but when. they
are Imposed upon. they fight hard;
when war with the Russians cou!a
not be avoided. they whipped the big
Russians to a standstiIl in such snort
time that the world is still wondering
and appiauding.
The Jap is always interesting, but
I thought him particularly interesting
this morning, when he was suffering
with the bust head Yesterday he
celebrated his victory over the Rus-'
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Walsenburg, Col. Dec. 27.-Charles
Crockett of Denver was severely burned
and IS other persons narrowly escaped
deathe in a fire which destroyed the Twin
Lakes Hotel here last night. All the
guests were forced to flee in their night
Clothes. A. defective hue is supposed
to have caused the fire which. started
in the kitchen The hotel was a large
frame building owned by the Wisconsin
Trust company and the total loss is
DIaced at IS. 600.
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to strengthen the club Moore. it is
believed, win go to the New York
Highlanders for one of their twirlers
and a bonus of $1,000 or $4,000, Clark
son probably being the pitcher in
question. Moore has been, until last
season one Of the mainstays of the
NapoleOns. but his work this year was
not satisfactory, giving the impression
that he was DESTROYS of playing in the
east When he is in condition he is
one of the best twirIers in the business.
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Lexington, Ky, Dec. 27.-James l..
Cay, Pisgah. KY, breeder of saddle
horses, has made a successful expert
ment crossing thoroughbred mares
with saddle-bred stations. At the re-
cent sale here he bought large num-
her of thoroughbred mares that are
to be bred to saddle stations, the
idea being to get a type Of horse that
is faster and quicker in action than
the Dure-b bred saddler.
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cleveland. Dec. EFT is believed
from trustworthy reports that Earl
Moore one Of the Cleveland baseball
1aarn's star pitchers, viii be the next
1lever to figure in a trade in an effort
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For the Chrlstmas and New years
holidays tickets will be sold to points
on Santa F'e lines and connecting lines
al rate of one and one-third fare.
Tickets on sale December p, %. "a
25. 80. 81 and January / Final re-
turn limit January 4, 1906
For further particulars, address
T. I. KING, c. P. & T. A,
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DoIrie Is Better.

Kingston. Jamaica, Dec. 27.-John Al
exander -Dowie Of zion City, ILL.,, arrived
at Port Antonio on the steamer Admiral
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The approach to one of the favorite
temples is a sort of 4 bazaar. hired
with shops. In one of these shops
cracker bakery is operated: little girls
bake the crackers on a, sort of griddle
and are very expert. There is moth
ing under the shining sun you cannot
buy in this bazaar which lines both
sides of a street for distance of two
blocks. Scattered about the temple
grounds are all sorts of shows: we
went into a little circus, and the
clown was the same old clown we had
seen a hundred times. before. n Iav-
ing paid an extra price Of admission
about ten cents-we were given
little stoves filed with charcoal, at
which we warmed ourselves.
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SEE AND souNn.

SAFE AND SOUND.
Safe. N its securities all first mort
cages on homes under careful an
pra1seInent, by men experienced in
real estate values. Sound in its prir-
ciples which have stood the test ot
years. Surely a safe place to inr~st
you~ money. Call or send for boss
The Capitol Building and los.
association. SS4 KaEsRs Avenue
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slams: today he had rice cake head
ache. We had the same guide and
ricl1sha men today we had yesterday,
and it was evident they had been out
celebrating last night; their bows were
not quite so low: they were a little
slower in every way. On the streets
the effects of the celebration last night
were plainly apparent this morning
The people were polite, but there was
no mistaking that they had the bust
head.
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A peculiar thing in the cities of
Japan is that In front of nearly every
little house in the crowded. narrow
streets, you will find a few chickens.
If chicken wanders a hundred feet
away from his front door, and be-
comes frightened, it lights out for
home with great energy.
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Superior Gas Stoves

THIS Stove is made in six sizes, $500 to $12
made of fanished iron with polished
brass tenders and rehectors, corner pieces
and name plate polished nickel.
Burn coal in stove you get 20 per cent of
the heat.
Burn gas in a coal stove you get about so
per cent of the heat.
Burn gas in Superior Gas Stove and
you get O5 per cent of the heat.
Come and see them in operation at
6l9 Jackson Street
w. II. FERNALD
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Among the blessings I have enjoyed
since leaving the ship was a dream
that [ was walking down North Third
street, in the morning, and met the
people I meet every morning of my
life when at home. I dreamed that
little Gertrude BIerwick came out and
smiled at me: and her mother says
Gertrude smiles at me as she smiles
at no one else. Gertrude is seven or
eight years old, and for long time
I have been saving cigar tags and
niclzeIs for her. But the course of
true love never did run smooth, for
Gertrude has moved away off to Kan
sas City, and I am in Japan.
Ny brief period Of joy is about to
end; tome rrow night. I sleep on the
ship and at midnight it sails when
I awake Sunday morning, the floor will
be coming up under me in the old
disagreeable way.
During the five days have been
running around japan, I have been
paying for my EneaIs on the ship. but
the Pacific Mail Steamship company is
welcome to them. The last thing I in
tend to do tomorrow. before embark
ing at Kobe is to eat big dinner
ashore. During Monday, we viii run
through the Inland Sea; then a day at
Nagasakf Then ran of twenty-fotlr
hours at Shanghai. then after unload
ing there, we vii set sail again, and be